Wisconsin GOP Delegate Poll Sparks Heated State Meeting
Wisconsin delegates gather at the University of Wisconsin stock pavilion for a noontime GOP meeting led by Thomas E. Coleman. Secret balloting will pick first second and third choices from a dozen contenders for the 1948 presidential nomination with results announced Monday. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana headlines the program as party factions clash over the intra party poll.
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Wisconsin Republicans
Thomas E. Coleman
State Voluntary Committee
Wisconsin
New York
Coleman
Harold N. Staswen
Minnesota
Dewey
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin Stassen
Newspa
University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion
Charles Halleck
Indiana
T Repetite
Blican
Halleck
Congress
Republican State Voluntary Committee
Organization
St. Louis Transit Strike Widens After Vote Rejection
St. Louis streetcars and buses remain idle as transit workers reject a return to work proposal and demand arbitration. The strike began a week ago as union members voted down the arbitration plan in two meetings.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Public Service Commission
Transit Workers Union
President Truman to Visit Brazil
President Truman accepted an invitation to visit Brazil, announced by Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins after a White House conference. Martins said the president hopes to go there as soon as possible.
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Washington
Truman
Carlos Martins
White House
Martins
Brazil
Weather forecast for La Crosse area with showers
Increasing cloudiness and milder tonight with a low around 56. Saturday will be mostly cloudy with occasional showers and a high near 72.
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la Crosse
Vehicle Tips Over Injuring Six In Highway Crash
Six local youths sustained serious abrasions and cuts when a jeep traveling on highway 35 side swiped another car and overturned near the junction with highways 14 and 35. Driver Mike Skemp, 15, faced arrest for no license while others named include Erling Fadness, 20, and Mavis Stueyland, 16, among four from La Crosse. Opposing car occupants from Festus, Missouri were uninjured. In a separate incident on the same highway, Laker Alexander, 23, of Warren Ohio suffered head and limb injuries when the Hague vehicle collided with Mrs. Holmen’s car. damage totaled about $200 and $50 respectively.
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Tribune
Erling T. Fadness
Jeep
Johnson Street
Mike Skemp
Cass Street
Lee Hodge
Onalaska Avenue
Richard Calloway
la Crosse
Mavis Stue
Fe Street
Joyce Dahle
North Eighth Street
Festus, Mo
Mich
Howard Agerm Holmen
Chalsma
Turkey
Hague
Laker Alexander, Warren, O
Chalema
France Faces Worsening Economic Strikes Across Nation
Several hundred automobile workers marched on the national assembly demanding higher pay as strikes shut banks and Paris department stores. The franc sagged while the cabinet prepared a stagging tax bill amid ongoing industrial action.
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Paris
National Assembly
Deer Avoids Collision Near Veterans Memorial Park
A doe nearly collided with a car one mile west of Veterans Memorial park on U. S. Highway 16 at 8 30 p m Thursday. Mr and Mrs A H Sanford and their daughter Eleanor 119 South 17th street were traveling toward the deer when it dashed across from the north. Brakes were applied to avoid an accident.
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Veterans Memorial Park
U. S
Summer May Bring Weather Change Here
The piece notes spring lasting into early summer 1947 with corn and strawberries responding slowly. Daylight length at 15 hours 29 minutes on Friday will extend slightly before the year's longest day, then shrink. Weather forecasts predict cool nights and a rain area moving in, with clearing expected by Sunday as summer nears.
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Summer
A. D. Sanjal
Weather Bureau
Wrong address listed in Beranek federal arraignment case
The La Crosse Tribune misidentified Frank Beranek as living at 621 Jackson Street. the defendant in the federal case actually resides at 1635 King Street. He faced a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner Charles Varco on a charge of issuing and selling counterfeit sugar stamps alleged to involve 100 sacks or 10 000 pounds of sugar in Minneapolis, and was bound over to U S district court for trial on $10 000 bail.
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U. S. District Court
U. S
Charles Varco
Jackson Street
la Crosse Tribune
King Street
Minneapolis
U. S. District Court For
Reds Smash On Peiping
Chinese Communists smashed into Szepkingkai increasing the gravity of the nationalist effort in Manchuria as observers feared the government might lose the region.
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Szepkingkai
Manchuria
May flies swarm La Crosse in early invasion
A minor pest invasion hits La Crosse as the annual May flies drift from the riverbanks. City crews haul away three-cubic-yard truckloads of dead insects near downtown while river bridge lights are shut to prevent slick surfaces.
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la Crosse
Three Rivers
Arthur Hahn
City Street
Time Magazine
Mississippi River
Truman Faces New Puzzler In Rent Bill
President Truman confronts a decision on rent controls as Senate approves an extension to February 29 1948 with a 15 percent rent increase proviso if leases extend past December 31 1948. Critics warn material shortages could worsen housing while backers call it better than no law at all and warn end of control would hurt tenants.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Poe
R. Creedon
Creedon
Sparkman
D-Ala
Taylor
Idaho
Lundy
Roscoe
Ill
Roy Cummings
Boulder
Colo
Fred Lundy
Holmdrake
Boulder Creek
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mayor Names Five Member Board on Recreation Research
Mayor Charles A. Beranek named a five member committee to study city recreation problems. The panel includes Clyde Smith E P Hartl R W Nibbe the Rev Charles Blecka and Ray Hoogenhaus. The group will survey recreational potential of the fair grounds area and advise the mayor and council on next steps including park field and pool management.
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J. J. Verdhota
Clyde Smith
Teachers College
E. P. Hartl
R. W. Nibbe
Logan High School
Charles Blecka
Aquinas High School
Ray Hoogenhaus
Citizens’ Volunteer Recreation Committee
Beranek
Fair Grounds
Copeland Park
Park Department
City Recreation Department
Soviets Withdraw From U.N. Military Committee Meeting
Soviets pull out of a United Nations military staff committee session at Lake Success after a procedural dispute. The meeting addressed an Australian request for clarification of two articles in the committee report under Security Council consideration. Gromyko indicated Russia does not intend a full boycott of such meetings.
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Lake Success
United Nations Military Staff Committee
Security Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
Distance No Barrier In Securing Tribune
Readers can have The Tribune delivered to any location in the United States by phone order. Call 3680 and provide home and vacation addresses. the circulation department handles the rest and the carrier earns credit.
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United States
Judge Finds A-C Union Guilty Of Contempt
Milwaukee circuit judge finds 26 members of local 248 UAW CIO and the union guilty of contempt over Allis Chalmers strike picketing. Three officers led by President Robert Buse receive five month house of correction terms. Local 248 fined 250 dollars for mass picketing violation. Other defendants receive three month terms or 200 dollar fines.
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Roland J. Steinle
Uaw-Cio
Allis-Chalmers
Robert Buse
House of Correction
Buse
Joseph Dombek
Fred McStroul
Steinle
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Allis- Chalmers
Arthur Richter
Union
West Allis
Seek Slayer Of 2 Sisters Near Denver
A nationwide dragnet sought Fred W. Lundy 65 for questioning in the slayings of Emily Griffith 65 a Denver educator and her invalid sister Florence 67. The sisters were found shot to death in their mountain cabin near Pinecliffe Colorado as Lundy fled toward the west.
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Colo
Far West
Emily Griffith
Denver
Florence
Donald Moore
Boulder County
Fred W. Lundy
Lundy
Griffith
Joesph Holmdrake
Quigg Newton
Emmily Griffith
Illinois
Florence Griffith
Norman Howe
Jury Selected for Overell Parental Murder Trial
In Santa Ana California a six men six women jury is chosen to hear the Louise Overell and George Gollum case. The couple face charges of killing Louise’s parents in a dynamite blast that sank their yacht in Newport harbor on March 15. Special Prosecutor Eugene D Williams will lay out the state’s case after four alternate jurors are picked. Trial expected to run to late August.
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Louise Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Walter E. Overell
Newport Harbor
Eugene D. Williams
President Truman Seeks Senators Support On Labor Veto
President Truman hosts 13 senators at a White House luncheon to press for votes to uphold his veto of the labor bill. Senator Russell D-Gay reported no clear sign of potential switch, noting he would reread the president's message before deciding to vote to override.
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Truman
Senate
White House
Russell D-Gay
Congress
Russell
Mr. Truman
Nurses Stage Two Day Homecoming Event
Alumnae nurses of St. Francis school organize a two day homecoming with committees led by Sister M Regula and Joyce Bantle. Parade forms at 3 30 p m Saturday at the hospital and proceeds through a fixed route ending back at the hospital.
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Joyce Bantle
Mary Aquin
M. Francita
Virginia Beznouz
Delores Gregoire
King
Pearl
Main
Truman grounds Taft Hartley bill on four tests
President Truman says the Taft Hartley bill fails four basic tests of public welfare. It would increase government intrusion, harm labor relations, be unworkable, and impose unfair penalties on workers. He cites nine defects including expanded strikes, restricted collective bargaining, and discriminatory emergency provisions.
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Truman
Truman veto battle over Taft Hartley split congress
Two Wisconsin lawmakers Hull and Brophy sustained President Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley act while others pushed to override. The vote propels the labor issue into the 1948 campaign and signals a break in White House congressional teamwork. AFL President Green praised the veto as a victory for freedom in industrial relations.
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Wisconsin
Hull
Brophy
Truman
Corn Hits Two Dollars on Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago traders watched as corn futures reach two dollars a bushel the first time in the Board of Trade 99 year history marking a historic price milestone for grain markets in Chicago.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Mississippi River Nears Record High in Midwest Flood Scene
Floodwaters push toward record crests as the Mississippi rises across Iowa Illinois and Missouri threatening farmland and prompting evacuations. Levees hold at key spots while Red Cross shelters prepare for hundreds left homeless and displaced residents seek safety in towns like Hull and Keokuk.
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Missouri
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Illinois
Mississippi
Pike County
Ill
Hull
Kinderhook
Red Cross
Sny Levee
Clifford Windsor
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Wapello
Iowa River
O. D. Johnson
Keokuk
Close Vote Likely In Senate Over Taft Hartley Veto
President Truman vetoed the Taft Hartley labor bill and the House approved it 331 to 83. The Senate faces a close override vote expected late today or tomorrow. Truman planned a radio address at 8 p.m. CST to argue against the bill, with Taft to follow. Senator Taft outlined counterarguments on MBs.
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Truman
Lsbor
House
Senate
Congress
White House
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Mr. Truman
MBS
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