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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
1
John L. Lewis ordered soft coal miners east of the Mississippi to work a three day week starting next Tuesday. He cited ending the no contract no work policy and extended the pattern for the weeks ahead. The Taft Hartley contract runs until Thursday night with no set end date for the new schedule.
The UMW chief Lewis extends a three day week plan to eastern operations including Southern Coal Producers and U S Steel while urging local unions to report non cooperating coal firms. He says the move buys time for a new agreement though some operators oppose legally and on principle.
Attorney General Tom Clark filed a Sherman and Clayton anti trust suit in Chicago seeking to break up the E I du Pont de Nemours Co unit from General Motors and to require the du Pont family to divest holdings in U S Rubber. The suit names multiple Du Pont family members and related holding companies, citing combined assets near 4.26 billion dollars and annual sales over 5 billion with net income of 429 million in 1947. It argues the trio forms the largest concentration of industrial power and aims to reopen markets to smaller manufacturers.
La Crosse swelters with a 93 degree afternoon and 79 at 7 am. By noon the heat peaked at 91 with beaches crowded. Forecaster A. D. Sanial predicts thundershowers then clearing and a run to 85 Friday night. Cooler air moves in from the northern Rockies.
Fair and warm night with local thundershowers. Cooling trend and lower temperatures expected Friday with low around 70 and high near 85.
The Wisconsin senate approved a bill mandating pasteurization of all fluid milk effective January 1, 1950. It also funded $40,000 for two years of vocational rehabilitation for disabled persons, increasing total allocations by $120,000 over the prior biennium. The body adopted higher juror fees and travel payments, rejected a hospital licensing board, and failed to advance a banking election-day opening measure. A tax committee was named to resolve state tax issues amid talk of surtaxes and cigarette levies, with potential compromise discussed to ease adjournment.
Judith Coplon, a former Justice Department analyst, was convicted on two counts of espionage for Russia. The jury returned guilty verdicts after about 27 hours of deliberation, facing up to 13 years in prison and a $12,000 fine. The case also involves co-defendant Valentine Gubitchev in New York.
A four week strike at Consolidated Badger Cooperative may extend to 28 other Wisconsin dairy cooperatives. Union official George Behling said strike notices will target plants whose contracts expire July 1 and that logging through other facilities has occurred. Strike actions target wage gains of 10 cents per hour and six paid holidays.
The House discovered it had passed a housing bill for 1 050 000 public housing units by mistake while aiming for 810 000. Speaker Rayburn said a House Senate conference will trim to 810 000 after clerks untangled parliamentary steps from the Wednesday vote 228 to 185.
A Moscow Literary Gazette letter recounts V. Konstantinov's faulty Red October piano from Leningrad. Poor fit, cracked wood, sticky keys, and lacquer flaws followed delivery. A return card asks for defect reports as the Gazette campaigns against poor goods.
The Senate approved Taft's labor measure 51 to 42 with 17 Democrats backing and 34 Republicans. The plan preserves core Taft-Hartley provisions, setting up a possible Truman veto and a House vote in a tense labor-political clash.
Eighteen regular army paratroopers will drop from three C 82 Flying Boxcars at 4 30 p m Friday in a public airborne operation demonstration at Camp McCoy Wisconsin. ROTC cadets and locals are invited to witness the three phase drop simulating an invasion.
Chicago police seek to solve the brutal killing of 11 year old Joan Coward and the poisoning of her fiancé Arthur Marino 28. Marino claims two unidentified men forced them to halt in a lover's lane and injured him while robbing them. Authorities report Coward died from a skull fracture and choking with possible blunt force trauma. Marino is hospitalized under guard and to undergo a lie detector test as investigators press for motive and suspects.
Pettibone park roads will be open for picnickers during the Fourth of July holiday. Officials of the Pettibone park commission announced the reopening after a stoppage last Friday for resurfacing prep by city crews. Work has awaited oil for the asphalt mix.
Chicago reports Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 19, who shot baseball star Eddie Waitkus, was declared sane and committed to Kankakee State Hospital after appearing in felony court. She was bound over to the grand jury following preliminary pleadings.
In Madison the Wisconsin Senate again rejected a pension bill for supreme and circuit court judges. The proposal would have retired judges after 10 years on half pay, with 5 percent salary contributions, but failed 8 to 20 after earlier votes of 12 to 15 and 13 to 16. Senator Schlabach argued the plan mirrors federal judges, while opponents noted recent salary increases rendering pensions unnecessary.
The House approved the housing bill by 228 to 185 on Wednesday. Republicans Biemiller Zablocki Hull OKonski and Withrow voted in support, while Byrnes Davis Keefe Murray and Smith opposed the measure.
Seven boys aged 14 to 16 admitted to police that they entered a stock car at the A J Sweet Co warehouse on Green Bay Street Tuesday night and stole 10 to 20 watermelons from about 800 melons in the car. They entered through a vent and were arrested Wednesday and Thursday and will be turned over to the probation department.
Local classified promotes a Chrysler Royal 4-door in A-1 condition with heater radio overdrive and wheel shields. Seller Harvey Strand lists contact at 505 Badger Street and urges buyers to call 3680 for fast results and low rates for 4 and 7 day ads.
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