Weekes Turned Over To Army No Charge Found
Pvt. James H. Weekes was released to the Army provost marshal as AWOL with no criminal charges. The body of Donald W. Becker was mistakenly buried as Weekes after a post mortem showed Becker died of respiratory failure from a depressant drug. Weekes admitted to finding Becker in a Milwaukee hotel room but said he did not know Becker was dead and fled in fear.
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Milwaukee
James H. Weekes
Holy Cross
Adolph Kraemer
Becker
Joseph la Monte
Weekes
Camp McCoy
Chicago
Congress Asked To Study High Water Problem On Lakes
Army Engineers urged the House Public Works Committee to authorize a 1 million dollar study of the Great Lakes high water problem. Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick said surveys show high lake waters cause over 10 million dollars in shoreline property damage annually.
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Washington
Army Engineers
House Public Works Committee
Great Lakes
Larcade
D-La
Congress
Lewis A. Pick
Schmitt Signals Possible Wisconsin Senate Run
Merrill attorney and former Lincoln County district attorney Richard Schmitt said he would wage a vigorous campaign against McCarthy if he enters the race. He criticized McCarthy for a long unproven Communist charge while arguing for a method to expose and remove communists and spies from government.
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Perior State College
Schmitt
Hill
Texas
Madison
Merrill
University of Wisconsin
Lincoln County
Walter Kohler
McCarthy
Senate
Wisconsin
Hearing on Sell or Incumber Estate of George Shaw
Notice of hearing in La Crosse County Court on July 15 1952 to consider the administratrix Ethel Gunder fleck's application to sell or encumber all real estate of the late George Shaw including Lot 1 Block 12 Loseys Addition La Crosse for debts legacies and administration costs. Dated June 18 1952. By Order Judge R W Ahlstrom Jenkins Robinson attorneys. Alexandria.
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Wisconsin
la Crosse County
George Shaw
la Crosse
Ethel Gunderfleck
Losey
R. W. Ahlstrom
Jenkins & Robinson
Linker Building
Weather Forecast Centers On Western Great Lakes System
A low pressure system tracks into the western Great Lakes bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms to the region and westward to the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains including New Mexico. Temperatures expected include New York 70, Atlanta 74, Denver 56, Duluth 58, Chicago 74.
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Great Lakes
Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
New Mexico
New York
Atlanta
Denver
Duluth
Chicago
Redfield Consented To Safe Burglary Claim Shocks Jury
In Nevada court, Jeanne Michaud testified La Vere Redfield consented to stealing his 142 million dollar fortune to win her favor. Michaud, 36, faces charges of taking 147000 while claiming a financial arrangement involved a staged burglary.
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Carson City
Nev.p
Redfield
la Vere Redfield
Jeanne D’arc Michaud
Spartan Loses Eye In Gunshot Mishap
Ira Kelsey aged 58 of Sparta Wisconsin lost his right eye and fractured his right jaw in a Monday shooting accident at his home. He was cleaning a 22 caliber rifle and did not know it was loaded. The bullet entered from beneath the right jaw. his condition is described as satisfactory at a Sparta hospital.
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Sparta
Wis
Ira Kelsey
Kelsey
Camp McCoy
Roger Young
Board approves 1952 53 fuel and staff actions
The board approved low bid fuel contracts for 1952 53 including Southern Illinois Quality Circle coal at 11.44 a ton 10 67 a ton and 17 20 a ton for Pocahontas coal Also approved one month administrative assistant wage 500 and 400 for summer work 180 year cost of living increase for clerical staff plus transportation for students living far from schools and plans for vocational shop equipment and facilities.
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Southern Illinois
Quality Circle Coal
Quality Coal Company
P. G. Terpstra
Pocahontas Coal
William Spears
Chicago
Josephine Hintgen
Central High School
Jordan
Louis Sasman
Vocational Agriculture
Central Woodworking
Winona Swift Co Livestock Prices and Weekly Hours
Winona livestock prices and hours from Swift and Co. indicate market steady hogs and cattle with varying price ranges by weight and type. Hogs show steady to mixed quotes, cattle mostly steady with ranges for dry fed steers heifers cows bulls and calves, lambs and ewes priced by grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift & Co
Chicago
USDA
Eavier
South ST. Paul
Girls Urged To Take Interest In Politics
274 delegates to the Badger Girls' State heard speaker Mrs. Ruth Doyle urge women to join men in political life. She said citizens are in politics today due to problems solvable by city councils school boards state legislators and Congress. The girls organized city government and county caucuses of federalist and nationalist parties.
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Madison
Badger
Ruth Doyle
Congress
Noted Texas editor Gene Howe found dead in car
Amarillo, Tex. Gene Howe, 66, famed editor of the Texas Panhandle with the Old Tack column, was found shot in his car on the southeast outskirts of Amarillo. A .38 pistol lay in his hand. health issues cited by the Amarillo Globe-News as a despondent motive. Howe, son of Ed W. Howe, had a long newspaperman career since the century’s turn. his brother James was an AP foreign correspondent and his sister Mareel Howe Farnham lived in Connecticut.
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Amarillo
Tex
Gene Howe
Texas
Howe
Ed. W. Howe
Kans
Globe
James W. Howe
Associated Press
Walnut Creek
Calif
Mareel Howe Farnham
Connecticutt
Boy Drags In Modern Car Jumps Fence After Pressing Gadgets
In Portland Maine young Robert B Farley Jr age 2 distracts in a family car that jumped a curb and hit a fence after he pressed the ignition and starter. The car suffered some damage but the boy escaped harm.
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Portland
Robert B. Farley Jr
Robert
Bobby
Acid Attack Breaks Out Near Osaka U S General Targeted
Anti American demonstrations in Japan clash with police near Osaka as Koreans torch and attack U S facilities. U S Brig Gen Carter W Clarke is struck by acid in his car and 58 demonstrators are arrested amid widespread riots.
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Tokyo
Osaka
U.S
Itami
Bbig
Mark Clark
Far East
Japan
Suita City
Carter W. Clarke
Islands
Boat Upsets Marines Die as Boat Capsizes in Puget Sound Narrows
Pfc. Rodney N. Roznowski 18 of Green Bay Wisconsin drowned when an outboard boat overturned in Washington Narrows Puget Sound. Two fellow Marines Pfc Billie R. Armer 18 Vienna Missouri and Cpl William B. O’Keefe 28 Mount Vernon New York swam and were rescued as Roznowski sank carried away by the tide. All three were attached to the Marine barracks at Puget Sound naval shipyard.
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Bremerton
Wash
Marine Corps
Wisconsin
Washington Narrows
Puget Sound
Rodney N. Roznowski
Leo C. Roznowski
Green Bay
Wis
Roznowski
Narrows
Billie R. Armer
Vienna
William B. O’keefe
Mt. Vernon
N.Y
Armer
O’keefe
Marine Barracks
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Students Find Jobs at Southern Illinois University
Four hundred of SIU's 3,000 students found campus jobs this year. They average 71 hours a month for $40. The group formed a student wage study committee recently. The school granted a 5 cent hourly increase to help offset the high cost of living.
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Carbondale, Ill
Southern Illinois University
Wisconsin Leaders Back Buchanan for New FPC Term
Gov. Walter J. Kohler and state officials urged Sen. Wiley to back Thomas Buchanan for another term as FPC chairman. Wisconsin had argued for federal price regulation of natural gas and urged an appeal of a ruling seen as leaving consumers at the mercy of producers. Buchanan’s nomination was set for a Senate committee vote, with other Republicans urged to support.
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Kohler
Buchanan
Madison
Wis
Walter J. Kohler
Democratic National Administration
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Washington
Thomas Buchanan
Pennsylvania
Federal Power Commission
Senate
FPC
Phillips Petroleum Company
Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Company
US Senate Committee On Foreign and Interstate Commerce
Wiley
Truman
Vernon W. Thomson
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Sprice
Psychiatrist Not Required to Reveal Patient Confidence
Judge Harry M. Fisher ruled that psychiatrist Roy R. Grinker need not disclose confidential communications from patient Eleanor Binder. The decision supports the principle that psychiatry relies on patient confidence for proper treatment, blocking a deposition in a $100,000 alienation suit brought by Eleanor's husband, Dr. Samuel Binder, against attorney Nathaniel S. Ruvell.
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Chicago
Harry M. Fisher
Circuit Court
Roy R. Grinker
Eleanor Binder
Ruvell
Births Add Newborns in Wisconsin and Minnesota
June births listed for multiple families with new sons and daughters. Details include names Cheryl Lynne and Bradford Charles, parental names Norman Nelson Richard Foster and Howard Bailey Jr., and locations La Crosse Milwaukee Spring Grove Bangor Lansing and corresponding hospitals and dates June 18 19 22 23 24.
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Richard Foster
S. 29Th St
Marjorie Redig
la Crosse Hospital
Cheryl Lynne
Norman Nelson
S. Fourth St
Ruby Murray
Robert Garves
Bangor
Wis
Elaine Horstman
Lansing
Robert Fritz
Columbia Hospital
Milwaukee
Bradford Charles
Howard W. Bailey Jr
la Crosse
Spring Grove
Minn
Alfred Nelson
Opal Opsahl
New Insect Control for Stored Pulpwood Announced
University of Wisconsin entomologists R D Sheneflet E W King and W McNeel Jr report a benzene hexachloride spray can control insects in stored pulpwood if applied within 48 hours after tree cutting. Insects harm pulp quality and yield by spreading a fungus. Peeling logs costs about $3.25 per cord, while the spray costs about $1 per cord and uses less labor.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
R. D. Sheneflet
E. W. King
W. McNeel Jr
Flier Rau Called Hero After Daring Rescue Mission
Ray Rau, a World War II aviation cadet and bombardier navigator, served with the 15th Army Air Force in Italy. He flew a B-24 mission to Blechhammer, was attacked over Yugoslavia, rescued two unconscious airmen, earned the Soldier's Medal, Air Medal with oak leaves, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned home on leave in 1945 and awaited further assignments. He is survived by his wife and parents, with a brother Kenneth and sister Gwen Dolyn Eck. He entered the Army in 1940, trained at Midland and Garden City, and was stationed in Panama before overseas duty.
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Tce
England
Venice
Kenneth
Wilmer
Gwendolyn) Eck
Lancaster
Wis
Ray
Panama
United States
Midland
Tex
Colorado Springs
Colo
Garden City
Kan
Midlands
Lincoln
Neb
Yugoslavia
Italy
Rome
15Th Army Air Force
Rau
15Th Aaf
Blechhammer
Germany
Lake Balaton
Hungary
la Crosse
Santa Ana
Calif
Kefauver Attacks GOP Tax Cut Threat to Security
Sen. Estes Kefauver in New York warned that tax cuts proposed by Eisenhower and Taft amount to tinkering with national security. He argued high taxes are acceptable if spent on security and said tax cuts must wait until the budget is balanced. He noted plans to intensify raids on North Korean power plants to push truce talks forward and urged balanced reliance on diplomacy and military strength. He planned to fly to New Orleans.
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New York
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Taft
America
New Orleans
Taft campaign critique chips away at Eisenhower base
Senator Taft delivered a forceful speech challenging Truman era foreign policy and urging tougher action against communism. He argued Berlin and Korea losses under a lenient approach and asserted MacArthur's methods could have won the war. Duff warned delegates drifting toward Eisenhower.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Duff
Taft
James Duff
Truman
Stalin
Germany
Berlin
Far East
Korea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Formosa
Storm damages and outages hit Ettrick and region
The area faced widespread outages after a storm from 8 to 9 p.m. Electric service in Ettrick was down from Tuesday 11 p.m. to Wednesday 2 a.m. A Terpening grocery store plate glass window broke during a Tuesday storm. Cattle on Mey er Brothers farm near Norwa were struck and killed by lightning Monday. Widespread washing of fields and gardens followed. Police radio in Black River Falls was off air Tuesday night. Rainfall in Lanesboro marked .44 inch Tuesday night. prior weekend totals reached 1.36 inches.
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Ettrick
Terpening
Meyer Brothers
Norwa
Coulee
Black River Falls
Jackson County
Lanesboro
Minn
State payroll shows 19 768 workers in April
Madison Wisconsin reports 19 768 on the state payroll and 5 285 785 dollars in salaries for April. Employment rose 1 077 from a year ago with a payroll increase of 810 231. Of the total, 12 627 are civil service, 1 625 seasonal, and 5 516 faculty and appointive positions.
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Madison
Wisconsin
State Bureau of Personnel
Wood Structure Described as Millions of Fibrous Tubes
The passage explains wood itself comprises countless fibrous cells that form narrow tube like structures nearly as fine as human hair, highlighting the microscopic architecture of plant tissue.
Weather Record for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa
U S Department of Commerce weather bulletin reports considerable cloudiness and showers thunder storms across Wisconsin tonight and Thursday with locally severe squalls and cooler conditions. Minnesota sees storms south and east central tonight and Thursday with locally severe winds southeast today. Iowa notes local showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday with severe wind events in the north and near the Iowa border.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
River Forecast Affects Mississippi Runoff From Hastings to Guttenberg
Weather bulletin notes persistent rains increasing surface runoff and a general rise on the Mississippi for several days. Stage near Genoa dam will fall by tomorrow morning while eel Chippewa and Black Rivers remain high. La Crosse Tribune details rates and contact info for subscriptions and delivery.
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Hastings
Guttenberg
Mississippi
Genoa Dam
Call Witnesses For 11th Probe Into Gambling
A former U S congressman and several La Crosse city officials are subpoenaed to appear Wednesday afternoon at the 11th John Doe investigation hearing into ties between gamblers and the La Crosse police. Fifteen witnesses are scheduled in Judge Roy V Ahlstrom's Courthouse chambers as District Attorney Bosshard aims to finish hearings this week with more witnesses.
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U.S
John Doe
la Crosse
Roy V. Ahlstrom
John Bosshard
Bosshard
Ahlstrom
Madison
Judge’s Courthouse
Arthur Sheldon
S. 4Th St
Irvin Sheldon
Jackson St
Joe Abraham
Copeland Ave
William Smith
No. 12Th St
William Bonadurer
Bodega
Ray Storey
Sheldon’s
George Abraham
Totten’s
Pearl St
Pete Kanellakes
John Petraski
Elmer Vollmer
Frank
Jack Knife) Troyer
Jim Skaff
Ferry St
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Esther M. Domke
Inneurance Committee
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L.A. Wagner
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Pacific Northwest
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Dubuque
Galveston
Huron
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Knoxville
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ED Olsen
Spartan
Goodrich
Abbott Lab
Goodyear
Allied Chemical
Northern Iron Ore
Greyhound
UN Allied Stores
Allis-Chalmers Mfg
Hudson Motor Homestake Mining
Am Can
Am Car & Fdry
Inland Steel
Am Gas & Elec
Inspiration Copper jAm Locomotive
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Power & Ltne
Harvester
Rad. & St
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Northwest Banc
Edison Cons
Natural Gas
Trane Company
Penney J. C. Pa. R.R
No States Power
Container Corp
Cleveland Clift
Continental Can
Pepsi Cola
Continental Steel
Phelps Dodge
Philip Morris
Hamilton
Phillips Petroleum
Inter. Cellucotton
James Ya
Crane Co. Radio Corp
McQuay
Curtiss-Wright
Reo Motors
National Tool
Douglas Aircraft
Republic Steel
Minn. Ont
du Pont
Scheniey Ind
Nekoosa
Eastman Kodak
Scott Paper
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Paragon
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Bond & Sh
Kaiser-Frazer
Winona Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Arizona
California
Arizona Reds
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Chicago Poultry Chicago
Touchy Auto
Clen Clements
Osaka University
Toyonaka City
Kobe
Komatsu Manufacturing Company
Hirakata City
Tribune Madison
At Mercy of Producers
Lutheran
GOP
Weather Record
U.S. Department OF Commerce
The
la Crosse Tribune
Ed Keefe
Howard Colvin
Tribune
la [Cresse
Lan Crosse
Winona
C.P
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T.W
Dakota
Chien
Cea du Streams
Black
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