Flood control chiefs pledge action for Root River valley
Rushford Minnesota officials and U S Army engineers told about 350 residents that flood relief for the Root River valley is a top priority. Col Yoder outlined the survey work and promised full cooperation with the regional conservation service while stressing the need to restudy plans after damage estimates are finalized.
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Rushford
Minn
Hoot River
Co. Leverett Yoder
U. S. Army Engineers
Root River
Root
August Andriesen
Minnesota
Col Yoder
St. Paul
Rep
Andreses
Norman Berg
Elvin Humble
Root River Valley
Wittershired Fiend Courie Commlee
Hep
Andresen
Congress
War Department
Yoder
Rep. Andresen
Reoai
Salon
Col. Yoder
Vale Ley
Nated Previouse
Dl. Yoder
Fuil Conservation Service
Musser
SCS
Army Engineers
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Local Weather for La Crosse and Vicinity
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with scattered showers later tonight and Sunday afternoon. Cooler conditions expected with a low around 65 tonight and a high near 84 on Sunday. Also notes a pool water temperature of 3 degrees Saturday morning.
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la Crosse
Plane Crashes At Williams Camp Williams Flight Ends Safely
A training period closing at Camp Williams ends with a crash as Lieut. E F Schoonmaker ejects unhurt from an F 51 plane after engine failure during a left turn. He lands in a small wooded clearing 200 feet from a prior crash site. Schoonmaker is with the Fargo North Dakota fighter squadron. South Dakota Air National Guard finished training and returned to bases.
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Camp Williams
Wis
Air National Guardsmen
E. F. Schoonmaker
Lieut. Schoonmaker
Lieut. Elsham
Schoonmaker
Con
Fargo
N.D
South Dakota Air National Guard
Thieves Rob Two City Firms in La Crosse
Police investigate two La Crosse businesses Haddad Cleaners at 312 Main St and Unique barber shop at 209 North Third St, reporting cash shortages of 40 and 35 dollars. Break-ins occurred Friday night via basement grate at Haddad Cleaners and by removing a screen and air conditioner at the barber shop, with entries between 6 and 7 p.m.
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la Crosse
Haddad Cleaners
Haddad's
Bogus Check Report At Local Grocery Store
Sheriff officials report a worthless check for 45 dollars cashed Friday at a local grocery store. The passer is described as a 25 year old man with dark hair, about six feet tall, wearing overalls. The check drawn on Rushford Bank was made to John Bar and signed by James B. Marin. Store owners are urged to watch for the suspect and call with any information.
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Sheriff's
Rushford Bank
John Bar
James B. Marin
Thorny labor issues still unresolved across railroads and strikes
A wave of labor actions grips midwestern and western railroads with switchmen striking at 6 a.m. local time for a 40 hour work week without pay loss. Targeted lines include Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and Great Northern. Separate events involve a Tennessee shooting at a plant amid a CIO textile strike and ongoing milk strikes in Pittsburgh. Newspaper workers at New York World Telegram and Sun to resume talks under federal mediation. Detroit Briggs Manufacturing shows progress toward a CIO auto workers contract with tentative three-year terms.
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AMRE
Switchmen's Union of North America
AFL
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Chicago Great Western
Western Pacific
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Great Northern
Morristown
Tenn
Etruck American Enk
CIO
Tennessee
Sam K. Neal
John Paul Gregory
Jasper Jones
Miksk
Pittsburgh
David L. Lawrence
Sul
New York World- Telegram
Sun
American Newspaper Guild
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Detroit
Ty É
Emil Mazer
United Auto Workers
Practical Economy At U S Library Of Congress
Washington report shows the Library of Congress plans to reuse pencil stubs from its divisions. Staff secretaries will pass them to the supply officer who distributes them on demand to reading rooms, stack and reader service, serials division. The Spring house cleaning yielded 168 stubs.
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Washington
Library of Congress
Ional
U S and Mexico End Seven Year Trade Pact
Washington reports the United States and Mexico will cancel the seven year reciprocal trade agreement effective December 31. The move raises U S duties on many imports from Mexico and from several other nations tied to most favored nation status. Oil and iron industries face major repercussions as penalties hit a broad range of goods, with Mexico hardest hit due to heavy U S exports.
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Jack Rutledge
Washington
United States
Mexico
State Department
Foreign Office
Venezuela
Canada
Peru
Australia
Cuba
Philippines
Elkhorn Man Named President-Elect of State Bar Group
Alfred Godfrey of Elkhorn was named president-elect of the Wisconsin Bar Association at its 71st annual convention in Elkhart Lake. He will assume office at next year’s meeting as Bailey Ramsdell of Eau Claire becomes president. The event also installed officers Gilbert Glasier, C G Mathy, and judges and lawyers as members of committees. The convention urged members to adhere to ethics canons in lobbying and noted improvements needed in lobbying activities.
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Elkhart Lake
Alfred Godfrey
Elkhorn
Wisconsin Bar Association J
Godfrey
Bailey Ramsdell
Eau Claire
Gerald P. Hayes
Milwaukee
Gilson Glasier
Madison
C. G. Mathy
Arthur Kopp
Platteville
Frank P. Boesel
Wade G
AP Resumes Prague Coverage With Arrival of Oatis
The Associated Press opened its Prague bureau with American correspondent William N. Oatis arriving from London to lead the Prague bureau for the first time in 11 weeks, signaling resumed coverage from Czechoslovakia.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Associated Press
Czech
William N. Oatis
London
Storm roars near Camp Douglas wrecks farms and crops
A severe storm struck south of Camp Douglas Friday around 5:15 pm. A barn at Ernest Cook farm was torn from its foundation while Frank Green, a farmhand, was knocked unconscious. James Kroeger farm barn also collapsed. REA lines and telephone service suffered extensive damage as trees toppled and chimneys blew off. The storm lasted about 15 minutes with heavy rain and strong winds. Local weather records note the event as a derecho-like squall.
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Camp Douglas
Ernest Cook
Frank Green
James Kroeger
Rea
A_D
Sanial Legal Weather Ab
Ten Commandments Drawn Up By Wire
Chicago wife suing for separation writes a list of ten commandments for her husband to follow as Judge Daniel A Roberts attempts reconciliation for Lois Backer and Richard Backer. The commandments cover respect, location during nightlife, thrift, entertainment money, problem discussion, child consideration, marriage recovery, future savings, and goodbyes. The list will be presented when the couple appears before the judge again.
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Chicago
Daniel A. Roberts
Lois Backer
Richard Backer
Backer
Bin
Himsel
Roberts
Tribune Truck Hit By Gun Blast Friday
Vernon county authorities investigate a gun blast that struck a La Crosse Tribune truck on the upper road between Stoddard and Chaseburg at 1 40 p m. Driver Elmer Hecht reported the left side of the vehicle was struck near head level about four feet behind the seat.
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Stoddard
Wis
Vernon County
la Crosse Tribune
Chaseburg
Elmer Hecht
Two Prominent Appleton Men Die In Crash
Oscar Kunitz 68 and Aaron Zerbel 67 prominent Appleton residents died when their Cessna nose-dived into a hillside four miles north of Janesville after taking off from Rock County airport en route home from the state Eagles convention in Beloit. Zerbel was an Outagamie County board member and airport committee chair. Kunitz ran a filling station and ambulance and parking services in Appleton.
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Janesville
Wis
Appleton
Here
Oscar Kunitz
Aaron Zerbel
Beloi
Rock County
Highway 26
Zerbel
Outagamie
Kunitz
Report 9 of VW Missing Crewmen Safe
Honolulu reports nine of eleven crewmen from a Sidatey B-29 type aircraft were safe after the craft ditched in the Pacific near Guam following a simulated bombing run on Okinawa. A navy tug Munsee led a wide surface search and was headed to a lifeboat survivor as more were rescued by Guam air force units. Names aboard were not released.
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Honolulu
Pacific
EU Sidatey
Munsee
Guam
Okinawa
Mystery fireball lights up southern skies
Reports describe a brilliant fireball seen from Montgomery Alabama to Fort Worth Texas around 7 40 pm CST Friday. Sightings covered a wide area with jet plane activity over the South and astronomer Oscar Monnig tracing a southeast trajectory while most reports say westward motion. Weather officials offered theories including a comet tail or aircraft vapor trail as possible explanations.
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el Passo
Tex
Louisiana
Montgomery
Ala
Fort Worth
Galveston
Natchez
Miss
Abilene
Langley Field
el Paso
Oscar Monnig
Monroe
Jake Charles
Houston
Monnig
Lake Charles
Lake Chastes
Moisant International Airport
New Orleans
France government falls amid EU coal pact talks
Premier Georges Bidault’s cabinet loses a confidence vote 352 to 230 amid a pivotal European coal steel conference. Foreign Minister Robert Schuman could stay on, while Henri Queuille may take the premiership. The crisis could force new elections in France this year instead of 1951.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
Robert Schuman
Schuman
Gault
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Henri Queuille
Bidault
de Gaullists
City Amnesia Victim Seeks Missing Jewels After Amnesia
Mrs. Kathryn Witt 26 wife of Harold Witt of 2533 East Avenue South was hospitalized in Chicago after a seven hour amnesia episode. She reported loss of $45 and jewelry valued at $530, recalling nothing until found walking about 17 miles from a Chicago bus depot. Her husband unavailable for comment. relatives say she visited relatives in Chicago and planned to visit her mother in Cheviot Ohio. Bedford Park police hospitalized her for swollen ankles.
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Kathryn Witt
Harold Witt
East Avenue South
County Hospital
Chicago
Associated Press
Iowa
Witt
Cheviot, G
Charles J. Coughlin
Wreckage sighted as Northwest airliner still missing
Milwaukee reports oil bubbles and possible wreckage in Lake Michigan near South Milwaukee. Coast guard and Navy vessels, with Northwest Airlines officials, search the area after a four engine plane vanished Friday night from New York to Minneapolis.
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Milwaukee
Naval Reserve
Lake Michigan
Northwest
Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Coast Guard
St. Paul, Minn
Joy
George Parkinson
Daniel A. Joy
South
New York
Air Force
Parkinson
Harry MacDermaid
Fifth
MacDermaid
Edward Wischer
Wischer
Big Northwest
Defense Chiefs Return With Pacific Security Plan Notes
Defense Secretary Johnson and General Omar Bradley flew back from a 11 day Pacific tour to brief President Truman on bolstering U S security in the region. Tokyo reports say Johnson supported retaining the Yokosuka base after peace with Japan, though specifics of recommendations remain undisclosed. Bradley said fresh information from commanders in the Pacific informs their approach to a unified security picture.
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Washington
America
Japan
Truman
U.S
Pacific
Defense
Johnson
Omar Bradley
U. S
Tokyo
Yokosuka
Americcan Security
Gen. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Kas
Williams
James Moore
Raccine
Badger
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Ripon
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