Balkan nations accused of aiding Greek rebels at UN council
At Lake Success United States delegate Warren R Austin charged that Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria violated UN principles by using force against Greece and urged action to curb guerrilla support as the council opened debate on the Balkan commission report. He called for UN machinery to monitor the troubled zone and allow Greece to determine its destiny as a sovereign member.
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United States
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
United Nations
Greece
Security Council
Warren R. Austin
U. S
U.N. Balkan
Austin
U.N
Council
Commission
U. N
Plane Nearly Ready for Truman as Independence Completes Test
Los Angeles reports the DC-6 transport Independence passed its first light test in a two hour session. Douglas Aircraft officials expect the aircraft to be ready for President Truman and handed to the Army Air Transport Command next Tuesday after a series of tests.
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Los Angeles
Truman
Douglas Aircraft
Army Air Transport Command
Swamp Root Remedy Promises Relief for Kidney Ailments
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root a herbal remedy claimed to ease nighttime urination aching back and acidity. It touts the product as nature made and urges readers to buy a full sized bottle from Kener Co Inc at a local drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Kener & Co., Inc
Coen
Wisconsin asks convention to consider constitutional referendum
A Madison proposal urges the state legislature to initiate a call for a constitutional convention. The measure notes recent district reapportionment debates and would place a November 1948 referendum on the ballot to advise the 1949 legislature if voters want a convention. the resolution moved to the revision committee.
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Madison
Wis
Pfennig
Revision Committee
Delegate To Luther League Meet Drowns
Donald Wessenberg an 18 year old Arlington South Dakota delegate to a Luther league convention drowned Thursday in the YMCA pool at Milwaukee. Lifeguard William Titherly 19 said no one was in the pool when he left for a washroom. Two delegates Don Wheelhouse and Bud Miller found a body in the deep end and the guard and fire department tried to revive him for 45 minutes.
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Milwaukee
Donald Wessenberg
Arlington
S D
Young Peoples’ Luther League
YMCA
William Titherly
Don Wheelhouse
Crookston
Minn
Bud Miller
Muskegon
Mich
Fire Department
Flies Plague City Traffic And Park Ballgame Crowd
The city endures a heavy flies invasion as motorists and spectators at Copeland park baseball game face a snowlike swarm. Street crews hauled away many dead flies while downtown businessmen heed the light-off and wash‑away advice from Street Superintendent Arthur Hahn to curb the infestation.
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Copeland Park
Arthur Hahn
Constructive Child Development Ideas At State College Program
The La Crosse Teachers College professional relations institute closed after a day and a half of sessions on improving child development. Rev. Frederick Hyslop urged parents to avoid overbearing practices, while a dramatization and an original skit explored parent child dynamics. Dr. Theodore Brameld summarized three key blunders in development and urged shifts from infantilism to self realization and from psychology to sociology, advocating nursery schools funded by taxes.
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la Crosse Teachers College
Frederick Hysep
First Congregational Church
la Crosse
Rev
Hyslop
Rev. Hyslop
Betty Wenzle
Miss Wenzle
Ray Staszak
Doris Warrener
Norman Schultz
William Frice
Nornele Larson
Howard Fredricks
American Association of University Women
Mary Hebberd
Grace Alexander
Elsie
Freida Bender
Fowler
Maureece
Theodore Brameld
University of Minnesota
Brameld
Mauree Applegate
Pauline Abel
Margaret Chew
Beulah
Edith Cartwright
Virginia Papenfuss
Alice de Bower
Emma Wilder
Vera Williams
Mary Jane Gordon
Valeria Kedzierski
la Verne Wierzba
Alvis Whiting
Agnes Breene
Jessie Caldwell
Maree Frisch
Esther Brossard
Marion Hommes
Rita Sutton
Margaret Morrison
Viola Jones
Thelma Thompkins
Dorothy Seismore
Mary Jane Noggle
Dena Angell
Gertrude Thurow
Myrtle Trowbridge
Marilyn Otto
Theodore Rozelle
Theodore Rovang
Walter Konrad
Leon Miller
Ernest Gershon
Hans Reuter
Emery Leamer
O. O. White
Alvida Ahlstrom
J. E. Rolfe
Olga Brewer
Rexford Mitchell
Sally Cremer
Coal Scarcity Warns as Idle Miners Rise Across States
National reports show over 250000 miners idle with Pennsylvania leading at 64200 and other states tallying ongoing declines. Steel and rail operations announce cutbacks and layoffs as coke production drops and coal supply margins shrink toward danger point.
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Bureau
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Illinois
Kentucky
Alabama
Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
Indiana
Utah
Colorado
Steel Wheeling Steel Corp
Wheeling
W. Va
East Steubenville
Sharon Steel Corp
Farrell, Pa
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Geneva Steel Co
Industry Esmen
Birmingham
Ala
Two Vehicles Damaged on Highway 16 Collision
On Thursday on highway 16 between La Crosse and West Salem a minor property damage crash occurred involving Henry A. Wick and Walter Balmer. Wick slowed to turn. Balmer could not stop and struck the Wick car’s right rear. No injuries. Balmer fined $5 and costs for inadequate brakes.
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la Crosse
West Salem
Henry A. Wick
South Fourth Street
Walter Balmer
Wick
Balmer
12 Year Old Drowns Attempting Rescue at Smiths Pond
In Waukesha Wisconsin Ralph Fosdal twelve drowns while rescuing ten year old Ralph Schirmacher who slipped from an inner tube on Smiths pond. Fosdal dived to help but disappeared and body recovered forty minutes later. Lynn Ballard thirteen helped bring Schirmacher to shore.
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Waukesha
Wis
Ralph Fosdal
Smith's Pond
Fosdal
Ralph Schirmacher
Schirmacher
Lynn Ballard
Allamakee Teacher Found Dead At Waukon
Miss Mayme Deeny a 59 year old rural school teacher in Allamakee county was found dead in her Waukon apartment. Death was due to a heart ailment. Survived by brothers and sisters in California St Paul Dubuque and a Dubuque nun sister Mercedes with an aunt in Waukon. Funeral plans not yet set.
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Waukon
Mayme Deeny
Allamakee
David
California
James
St. Paul
Bernard
Esther
Chicago
William O'Neill
Frank Crippes
Lawrence Pitt
Dubuque
Mercedes
Dubuque Convent
Thomas Ahearn
Belgrade backs US Europe recovery plan aid stance
Belgrade expressed interest on Friday in the American aid Europe plan to aid European economic rehabilitation and to be based on the principles of the United Nations Charter.
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Belgrade
Sprester Nominated For Lodge Position
Frank Ranney of Milwaukee was nominated without opposition for the state presidency of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the 45th annual state convention in Eau Claire. Also nominated were Roy Newlander as vice president chaplain Joseph Chuster Matt Dufek Harold La Crosse for several posts and three candidates for outside guard Matt Minton Neenah William Racine Racine and Frank Claire. Six trustees were named Aaron T. Mary William Stam Madison John Piekarski Berlin Walter Lenz Oshkosh Ernest Hertzfeldt Eau Claire and Fred Orth Kenosha.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Frank Ranney
Milwaukee
Order of Eagles
Schedaan
Roy Newlander
Superior
Joseph Chuster
Marshfield
Matt Dufek
Manitowoc
Harold la Crosse
Matt
Gutierrez urges UN role in world peace and unity
Gutierrez argues that the United Nations cannot enforce peace alone and that nations must create conditions for peace through their leaders. He cites the U.S. founding and ratification process as a parallel, noting common ground to avoid another war and warning that failure risks war.
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Gutierrez
Prewar Japanese Government Monoply Controls Tobacco Growth
A prewar government monopoly in Japan oversaw tobacco cultivation and distribution, shaping production and pricing policies under state control.
Mayor Curley Begins 6 18 Month Term
Danbury Connecticut report says James M. Curley began a six to 18 month sentence for mail fraud after being sent to a federal prison. Massachusetts lawmakers moved to fill his Boston mayoral office during incarceration as Curley appeals for clemency.
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Danbury
Conn
James M. Curley
Boston
Federal Correctional Institution
Massachusetts
John B. Hynes
Curley
Ashington
James M. Proctor
Proctor
Truman
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Union Circulating Company
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Pacific Northwest
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