Paris Talks Leave Yet To Prove Success
A gloomy mood hung in both British and French areas as Bevin and Molotov met amid reports the Paris talks may not succeed. Tass said the aim was to clarify the Marshall plan speech and NATO style recovery while a news blackout was agreed to avoid public debate delaying conclusions.
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Paris
Ernest Bevin
Georgesen
Russia
Molotov
Fmore
Tass
Soviet New Agency
Yard University
George C. Marshall
United States
Europe
le Parisien
Bidsult
Spain
Congress
Major Oil Firms Plan Scoped Midwest Gasoline Allocations
Socony Vacuum and Shell announce plan to limit gasoline sales in July and August across 13 states to the same quantity as last year. Socony’s president B Brewster Jennings cites supply concerns and allocates to midwest dealers in seven states per Shell’s plan.
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New York
Socony-Vacuum
Shell
Midwest
Wiscomin
Sacony-Vacuum
B Brewster Jennings
St. Louis
American delegation heads to Pyongyang for four day joint commission
An American delegation of about 80 led by Maj. Gen. Al E. Brown departs Seoul Sunday for Pyongyang. The group will attend a four day meeting of the U S U S S R joint commission with representatives from the Democratic forces and social organizations of the Russian-occupied North Korea.
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Seoul
al E. Brown
Pyongyang
North Korea
Weather outlook for La Crosse area tonight and Sunday
Partly cloudy with local thundershowers tonight and early Sunday. Warm and humid tonight with a low around 68 degrees. Sunday will be hot with a high near 88 degrees and a risk of cooler conditions later in the day.
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la Crosse
National coal strike averted through talks with Lewis
Labor officials report Secretary Schwellenbach will press John L. Lewis and soft coal operators to avert a nationwide strike set for July 8. Industry leaders U S Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidated propose raising Lewis's wage to 13.05 for an eight hour day, while UMW keeps 11.85 for nine hours.
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Washington
Labor Department
Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Say
Balkans Showdown Looms Over UN Security Council
United Nations Security Council faces a tense debate as the USSR and Western powers prepare for a showdown over the Balkans. The United States warned force could be used to halt anti Greek activities by Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania. Albania blamed Greece for the tensions and Bulgaria opposed a UN supervisory commission. Yugoslavia was to be heard next week. Greece accused its northern neighbors of trying to install a Communist dictatorship in Greece.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Balkans
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
United States
Security Council
Balkan
Nesti Kerenxhi
Nissin Nevorah
U. N. Supervisory Commission
Vassily Dendramis
Washington
Council
Maybe Russ Readers Are Easily Amused
Pravda ran a four column cartoon showing Gen. Eisenhower leading U S forces to defend a North Pole against animals and Arctic figures including an Eskimo woman and two children. The image places Eisenhower on a jeep with weapons and gear.
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Moscow
Pravda
Eisenhower
United States
North Pole
U. S
Philippines to Sign Two Aviation Treaties
Vice President Elpidio Quirino will travel to Bangkok on July 10 to sign an aviation treaty with Siam, ending a period without a formal pact that disrupted Bangkok Manila flights. A second air pact with the Netherlands East Indies is expected soon to permit direct Batavia Manila service.
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Manila
Elpidio Quirino
Bangkok
Siam
Foreign Office
Philippines
Netherlands East Indies
CIO to Challenge Taft Hartley In Courts And Elections
The CIO executive board voted to fight the Taft Hartley act in court and in the 1948 elections. They rejected a general strike and aim to overturn the law’s constitutional validity while seeking union unity with AFL and railroad groups. Murray urged mobilizing against the act and outlined steps including a legal challenge to union political contribution bans.
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Washington
CIO High Command
CIO
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
Philip Murray
Murray
William Green
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Arthur Lyon
Railroad Labor Executives Association
Lee Pressman
Chinese Forces Advance Toward Szepingkai in Manchuria
MUKDEN Manchuria Chinese government troops press toward Szepingkai after heavy fighting claiming 50 000 Communist casualties across the front while Communist reports claim 16 000 government dead or captured in 12 days of battle Szepingkai is expected to fall within 48 hours with officials denying any withdrawal from Manchuria and pledging no troop reductions.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Szepingkai
Changchun
Yu Chin-chung
Associated Press
Tu Li-ming
Formation of Interim Indonesian Government Urged
The U S state department urged Indonesia to cooperate without delay in forming an interim federal government and hinted at financial aid once established. The note warned against deadlock and stressed benefits of prompt agreement amid tensions with the Dutch.
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Batavia
Java
U. S. State Department
Republic of Indonesia
State Department
Siem Spoor
Spoor
East Indies
United States
Indonesia
Netherlands
Alma Center Gears Up For Strawberry Festival Weekend
Alma Center Wisconsin hosts hundreds for a two day strawberry festival with contests for eating hulling and egg throwing plus foot races ice cream eating teens and a water fight. A talent show concert free movie and dance cap the weekend with a high school essay prize of ten dollars for the best strawberry industry essay.
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Alma Center
Wis
Wisconsin
Truman to Decide on Rent Control Action Monday
President Truman will act next week likely Monday on the bill to extend rent controls through February 29. The White House says the measure permits voluntary rent increases up to 15 percent where leases run through the term. He has until midnight Wednesday to act, with current controls due to expire after June 30.
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Washington, D. C
Truman
White House
Japanese Courts to Try Occupation Property Cases
Tokyo reports that Japanese courts were authorized to try black market and other occupation property cases starting Saturday. Allied personnel remain under military provost court jurisdiction. Enlargement of Japanese court powers is aimed at increasing pressure on black marketeers.
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Tokyo
Hail Destroys Crops In Pigeon Falls Storm
A morning electrical storm with golf ball sized hail struck the Pigeon Falls district causing heavy farm damage. Tobacco beds and strawberry patches were ruined on Carl Klomsten’s farm along with numerous broken barn windows and downed telephone lines. Nearby farms also reported extensive damage. In Ettrick, seven Boy Scout mothers waited as their sons hiked at William Truax farm. the boys returned by 6 am soaking wet.
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Pigeon Falls
Wis
Carl Kromsten
Klomsten
Marvin Melby
Ettrick
William Truax
Frenchville
Clayton Erickson
David Twesme
John Sander
Philip Folkedahl
Vernon Arneson
Kay Hamilton
John Briggs
Keneath Truax
Victor Folkedahl
Picket Plans Surround Taft Wedding Face Local Opposition
In St Joseph Michigan CIO union group plans a picket of Lloyd Bowers Taft son of Senator Robert Taft at the First Congregational Church despite police warnings of arrests They aim to demonstrate outside if needed and may be joined by members from nearby cities Senator Taft arrived from Washington and offered no comment.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
CIO
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Gordon Colwell
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union
University of Michigan
Lloyd Bowers Taft
Virginia Stone
Charles E. Stone
First Congregational Church
Stone
Tom Gillesme
Berrien County
Joseph Killian
Colwell
Washington
Martin says decartelization of German industry will proceed
James S. Martin retiring chief of the American military government's decartelization branch said he had returned from leave in the United States with assurances from Washington that decartelization in the U S occupation zone will be carried out despite opposition from American big business representatives.
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Berlin
James S. Martin
United States
Washington
U. S
Stassen Urges Immediate Halt on Oil Shipments to Russia
Harold E. Stassen, Republican presidential hopeful, called for an immediate stop to oil steel and other industrial exports to Russia citing Yalta treaty violations. He urged joining the Paris conference to aid Ruhr revival and said a first ballot nomination in 1948 was unlikely. He avoided pledges on supporting Senator Ball for re election and praised Minnesota labor relations as a model.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Russia
Ruhr
Stassen
Minnesota
Ball
Wisconsin Proposes Five Day Deer Season Against Congress View
The Wisconsin conservation board plans a five day deer shooting season proposal for the 1947 48 code to the conservation commission next Tuesday. The move conflicts with the Wisconsin conservation congress delegates who favored sticking with the nine day buck season. The department cites overpopulated herds and an emergency cropping plan, but lacks broad public or sportsman support.
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Madison
Wis
The
Conservation Commission
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Game Board
Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Department
Congress
Hiawatha Kills Dresbach Child
Carol Jean Hill a 19 month old of Dresbach Landing Minnesota was killed instantly Friday evening after wandering onto railroad tracks and into the path of the northbound Hiawatha locomotive. Sheriff George Fort and Dr. Tweedey investigated the tragedy noting the child wandered from an embankment above the tracks. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 pm at the Elmer Hill residence in La Crosse with burial in Crucifixion Cemetery.
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Carol Jean Hill
John Hill
Dresbach Landing
Minn
Milwaukee Road
Hiawatha
John Tweedey
Winona County
Robert B. Tweedey
George Fort
Sheriff Fort
Hill
Richmond Township
Ronald
Patricia
A. Clements
Stoddare
Wis
Elmer Hill
la Crescent
la Crosse
Rev
R. Speltz
CIO Shipyard Workers Threaten Extension Of Present Walkout
The CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers threatens expanding the strike from 20 000 east coast yard workers to about 120 000 across the east and gulf coasts next Tuesday. The walkout now in its third day has closed 10 yards nine owned by Bethlehem Steel. regional director Charles A Leone said no halt to the stoppage appears likely. Bethlehem objects to a 13 cent hourly wage rise and other requested benefits.
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New York
East
Gulf
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Bethlehem Steel Company
Charles A. Leone
Bethlehem
Germans Set Clocks Back One Hour Sunday
Berlin reports Germans will set clocks back one hour at 3 a m Sunday moving from double summer time to single summer time. The change shifts Germany two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and seven hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
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Berlin
Germany
Greenwich
Contractors Endorse Plan to Cut House Building Costs
The mayor's emergency housing committee gains contractor support for a 20 percent cost reduction on homes started between July 1 1947 and July 1 1948 on the Salzer airport plat. Architects will provide several free plan sets with adjustable variations. A next meeting with banks and lenders is set for Tuesday.
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Salzer Airport
Howard Dahl
Dahl
Council For Development
State Planning Board
Minister jailed for arson at Calvary Presbyterian Church
Dr. John Lewis, a 73 year old clergy member, was sentenced to one to five years in state prison after a jury found him guilty of arson in the Calvary Presbyterian Church fire on January 25. The court stayed execution to allow an appeal and set bond at $5,000.
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Milwaukee
John Lewis
Herbert J. Steffes
God’s Vineyard
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Lewis
Steffes
Harry V. Meissner
Supreme Court
Harry Meissner
Dr. Lewis
Dist. Atty
William J. McCauley
Rennebohm Signs State Budget Bill in Madison
Acting Governor Rennebohm approved a 105 450 152 biennium budget with vetoes on sections requiring expenditures for recreational advertising and bounties from conservation funds. The budget allocates 125 000 annually for advertising with funds split among highway conservation and general sources. The governor favored adding 15 000 from the general fund. Also vetoed was a change to fund wolves and foxes bounties from conservation sources rather than the general fund. The state spent about 262 000 in the last biennium for such bounties. A separate employes pay bill was signed into law, effective next Tuesday, costing about 2 300 000 over 1947-49, with raises mainly for those earning above 200 per month and a new salary schedule through next year.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
Budget Bureau
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Marshall
By Tom Williams
Parrots
L’ Aube
Orgen
Bidault
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Socony
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Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel
George S. Humphrey
Pittsburgh Company
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
Lewis and Krug
Pennsylvania
Iing Southern
Northwest
John A. Parris, JR
Joan Roderick
Sujan Sjarhrir
Sajap_ Kiri
Sajap Kiri
Sjahrir
Tribune
Madison Bureau
Dresbach
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
McCauley
Milwaukee County
George Hanley
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