Britain Seeks UN Referral on Franco Spain Case
Britain proposes the U N Security Council refer the Franco Spain issue to the General Assembly without recommending any break in relations with Madrid. The Soviet Union opposes the report as the United States and several nations back it while political tension over sanctions and disarmament swirls at the U N.
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New York
Sir Alexander
United Nations Security Counci
Franco
Spain
Council
Madrid
Security Council
General Assembly
United Nations
Generalissimo
Andrei A. Gromyko
al- Betlen General Assembly
Gromyko
Wseve
Britain
British Labor Party
OPA Raises Milk Butter and Cheese Prices Nationwide
The OPA orders price increases of 11 cents a pound for butter and six cents for cheddar with immediate effect on manufacturers and retailers. A one cent rise per 14.5 ounce evaporated milk can also applies. New ceilings set for manufacturing milk and bulk cream, with regional over riding and under riding limits across zones. Bowles cites higher grain costs and congressional moves on subsidies as causes.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Midwest States
Rocky Mountain States
Pacific
Southern
Atlantic Coast
F.O.B
Col Durant and wife Leave for Germany in Jewel Case Case
Col Jack W Durant and his wife a WAC captain left from the United States to Germany under army custody. Officials say the Kronberg castle crown jewels and relics of the House of Hesse were recovered from multiple locations including a Chicago railway locker and a Chicago customs hold in a house at Hudson Wisconsin. The couple had been held in the Washington area after arrest in Chicago two weeks earlier.
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Washington
Jack W. Durant
Wac
Kronberg Castle
Army
Frankar Department
House of Hesse
Chicago
A. C. Miller
Germany
Miller
Gay
Hudson
Wis
Durant
Disclaim Authority In Court Dispute
The Senate judiciary committee decided it has no authorization or jurisdiction to act on charges brought by Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson against Justice Hugo L. Black. Chairman McCarran submitted the statement from Jackson, who is serving as prosecutor in the war crimes trials at Nurnberg.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Hugo L. Black
McCarran
D-New
Jackson
Nuernberg
Ger
Milwaukee Worker Fatally Injured in Plant Machinery Incident
John M. Scheffler aged 46 was fatally injured Monday at Brenner Manufacturing when he was caught by the machinery he was operating. The accident occurred in Milwaukee Wisconsin and authorities investigated the incident.
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Milwaukee
Wis
John M. Scheffler
Brenner Manufacturing Company
Local La Crosse Weather Promises Cooler Night and Warm Tuesday
Forecast shows a dry, fair evening with a low near 62 in La Crosse and vicinity. Tuesday should bring mostly sunny skies with daytime highs around 80 degrees and continued cool conditions.
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la Crosse
Buyer Strike Looms as Prices Rise in 1947
CHICAGO predicted mid 1947 buyer strike may occur as prices climb. Robert C. Shook of the International Statistical Bureau told controllers at the National Retail Dry Goods Association meeting that 1920 21 style disruption could repeat and urged retail management to prepare. He noted production at 60 to 65 percent above pre war levels and that dollar value of manufactured goods staying near high income.
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Chicago
Robert C. Shook
International Statistical Bureau
Monday Shook
New York City
Controllers Congress
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Tojo cites US UK role in pushing Japan to war
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Hideki Tojo says a US UK coalition chased the Japanese empire into war. He accuses the Allied powers of racial discrimination and economic blockades and argues Japan fought in self defense to preserve its existence.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
United States
Great Britain
Associated Press
Ichiro Kiyose
Tojo
Greater East Asia
China
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hokah Flood Drenches Village Amid Root River Deluge
Hokah Minnesota endures the greatest flood since 1909 as the Root River and Thompson Creek swell. Heavy rain across Minnesota and Wisconsin floods homes, farms, and businesses, with bridges, basements, and a local mill damaged. Fire crews rescue livestock and clear waterlogged buildings as lines of communication remain strained.
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Hokah
Minn
Thompson Creek
Root River
A. D. Sanial
la Crosse Weather Bureau
Houston
Midwest
Conan
la Crosse
Sanial
Houston Fire Department
Otis Gaustad
Twin Ridge
Don Redding
Harvey Bouldt
Benson Tavern
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Caledonia
Lake Como
Youth Killed In Wyeville Truck Accident
Vilas Lamb aged 18 of Wyeville died Sunday at 11 30 am after falling head first from the dump box of a Ford truck on a rural road near Wyeville. The driver Eitchener Lamb 15 lacked a license and will be questioned by the district attorney. Four others were in and around the cab at the time. Vilas was one of 12 children of Mrs Carrie Lamb. The body was taken to Nineman funeral home in Tomah. An inquest status was pending as authorities continued to probe the accident amid a weekend of Wisconsin deaths.
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Sparta
Wis
Vilas Lamb
Wyeville
Lamb
H. R. Biegel
Eitchener Lamb
Vilas
Eitchener
L. J. Goodman
Bill Wirth
Tomah
Melvin
Leon
Walter Hedding
Lee Hedding
Carrie Lamb
Roy Lamb
Ninneman
M. J. Lanham
Wisconsin
Leo McCarey Heads U.S. Top Salary List for 1944
Treasury ranking shows Leo McCarey leading 593 top earners with 1944 calendar year earnings of 1 113 035. Close behind are Charles H Sere and Charles P Skouras with 466 537 and 393 000 respectively, followed by E Wilson and Fred MacMurray. Carmen Miranda is the top paid woman at 201 458, with Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable also high. The list reflects gross compensation before taxes and includes salary plus commissions and other pay. It notes McCarey received 1 038 033 in other compensation largely from Going My Way.
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Washington
Treasury
Leo McCarey
Charles H. Sere
Los Angeles Turf Club
Charles P. Skouras
Fred MacMurray
E. Wilson
Ee Wilson
General Motors
Carmen Maranda
Paulette Goddard
Betty Grable
McCarey
Wisconsin Officials Report High Earners Across Corporations
The State Pay list shows executives and officers in Wisconsin earning over 75000 in salary or bonuses. Notable names include Harold S. Falk of The Falk Corporation Milwaukee with 94567.07 and Elmer G. Voight of Western Printing Racine at 154513.40 along with multiple Wadewitz family officers and other executives in Janesville Milwaukee Racine and Sheboygan firms.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Wisconsin
Electric Spray It Co
Sheboygan
The
Falk Corporation
Milwaukee
Harold S. Falk
Parker Pen Co
Janesville
S. L. Frederick
Western Printing and Lithographing Co
Racine
Postpone Grassland Field Day Program in Wisconsin
Rain Monday forced postponement of Grassland Field Day at the county farm to 12:30 Tuesday. The event serving Juneau Vernon La Crosse Jackson Monroe counties included hay handling machine demos pasture improvement discussion and pasture renovation demonstrations, but morning activities were halted.
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Sparta
Wis
Juneau
Vernon
la Crosse
Jackson
Monroe
Rumors of Red Army Concentrations Stir Allied Forces
A Paris based official for the American delegation dismissed newspaper claims that Russian troop concentrations in southeastern Germany triggered alerts for American and Allied forces. A New York Times dispatch notes widespread rumors about Soviet forces near Yugoslavia and says units in Germany and Italy were alerted though denials followed.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Conference
Germany
Russia
New York Times
C. L. Sulzberger
Red Army
Yugoslavia
United States
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Europe
Italy
Federal Reserve Board Urges Against General Tax Cuts
The Federal Reserve Board advised Congress not to enact further general tax cuts. It urged prudent government economy to maintain the current surplus from high tax receipts and use it to reduce the federal debt as an anti inflationary measure in its annual report to Congress.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Truman Signs Lemke Extension
President Truman signed legislation extending to March 31, 1947 the Lemke act provisions. The measure from Rep Lemke, a Republican from North Dakota, offers a form for farmers to avoid prosecution for non payment of debt if they file a petition stating insolvency or inability to meet obligations.
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Washington
Truman
Lemke
Rep
De Gaulle pushes strong executive France crisis widens
In Paris the political crisis deepens as Socialists reject the presidency of the council and the MRP backs Foreign Minister Bidault. De Gaulle, emerging from obscurity, calls for a strong executive and a two chamber Fourth Republic, with outlook uncertain until post election rounds.
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Paris —i
Council
Popular Republican Movement
George Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
MRP
Bayeux
Felix Gouin
de Gaulle
France
Engineer Killed as Erie Freight Derails After Bridge Washout
A Sunday night wreck near Creston Ohio killed Erie railroad engineer E. F. Flickenger of Marion. A freight train with 23 cars and the engine derailed when high waters washed out a small bridge three miles west of Creston. No other injuries were reported and whether Flickenger jumped or was thrown is unclear.
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Creston, O
Erie Railroad
Here
Erie
E. F. Flickenger
Marion
Waupun Escapee Surrenders in Madison Police Action
Claud A. Thompson, 26, who fled from the state prison farm near Waupun Saturday night, surrendered to Madison police and was handed to welfare officials. He had been sentenced to 1 to 3 years in state prison on August 16, 1944, for auto theft in Grant county.
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Madison
Wis
Claud A. Thompson
Waupun
State Welfare Department
Thompson
Grant County
Noon Edition La Crosse Tribune Picnic Set in Waterloo Park
The Tribune will publish at noon on Tuesday and hold its annual employee picnic in the afternoon at Waterloo Park.
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la Crosse Tribune
the Tribune
Waterloo Park
Geist Demands Labor Dept Name Anonymous Official
Walter Geist Allis Chalmers president demands the labor secretary disclose the name and possible union ties of an anonymous official who said negotiations at Allis Chalmers and J I Case plants might fail. Geist says the Washington remark is baseless and negotiations continue, urging retraction or disclosure.
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Milwaukee
Labor Department
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
J. IL. Case Co
Walter Geist
Allis ~ Chalmers
Washington
Geist
Henry county grand jury indicts for sheriff murder
Cambridge Illinois Henry county grand jury indicted 67 year old John O Morris and 72 year old Frank Morris for the murder of Sheriff Byron Pierce 45 and the two indictments were returned as courts adjourned for the sheriff s funeral John Morris a retired farmer recent release from a mental hospital did not enter a plea at the time of adjournment
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Cambridge
Ill
Henry County Grand Jury
John O. Morris
Byron Pierce
Frank Morris
John
John Morris
Pierce
Farm Laborer Killed In Wisconsin Vehicle Crash
VIROQUA Wisconsin Special Scott Hanson 43 was killed instantly about 9 pm Sunday when struck by a car driven by Claytor Carden On Alaska on highway 14 near the Smith school two miles south of Westby Hanson a farm laborer on the Marshall Deters place near Viroqua was returning there from Westby Funeral home in Viroqua to handle the body He leaves a wife and seven children Funeral arrangements have not been made.
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Viroqua
Wis
Scott Hanson
Claytor Carden
Onalaska
Smith School
Westby
Hanson
Marshall Deters
Vance Funeral
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South Fork
Tony Thhumper Gamble
Lloyd Meyer
Gene Geiwitz
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