Stassen urges UN reform at Beloit speech in 1950 call
Harold Stassen, Republican presidential hopeful, urged calling a United Nations convention around 1950 to amend the veto provision and other weaknesses. At Beloit College he criticized appeasement of Russia, condemned aid shipments to the Soviet Union, and defended a firm military stance to deter war.
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Beloit
Wis
United Nation
Harold Stassen
Stassen
Minnesota
U. S
San Francisco
Beloit College
Russia
England
France
United Nations
Red Cross Drives for $29500 in La Crosse County
The American Red Cross plans a four hour county drive Sunday from 1 to 5 PM across La Crosse County to meet a $29500 quota. Chapter officials urge residents to be at home for volunteer calls or leave contributions with neighbors. Workers will issue official receipts and distribute lapel pins and window stickers.
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la Crosse County
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Denton Street
Farley Predicts Wallace May Garner Five Million Votes
Former Postmaster General James A. Farley sees Henry Wallace winning about 5,000,000 votes in the coming election with New York delivering up to a million. Farley says Wallace is a bigger risk to the Democrats than party leaders realize and that he is not a candidate in 1948. He forecasts Truman as the likely Democratic nominee and names possible veep choices including Tydings Forrestal Hariman Douglas and Marshall.
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New York
James A. Farley
Henry A. Wallace
White House
Wallace
Mutual
Meet the Press
Truman
Farley
Sen
Millard E. Tydings
Maryland
Defense Forrestal
Commerce Harrimen
Supreme Court
Wiliam O. Douglas
Marshall
Reynolds Faces Charge Today
Calvin Reynolds aged 23 is to be arraigned today on a first degree murder charge. He has been jailed in Portage Wisconsin since Tuesday after being returned from Chicago where he was arrested in a vice raid. Reynolds says the shooting of Adolph Miller a 26 year old potato dealer from Waupaca occurred in Adams county during a robbery on February 24 he says he placed the body in Miller's truck and abandoned the vehicle in Portage where the body was found two days later.
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Friendship
Wis
Calvin Reynolds
Adams County
Fulton Collip
Reynolds
Portage
Chicago
Adolph Miller
Waupaca
Miller
Royal Family to Tour Australia and New Zealand in 1949
London reports King George VI will visit Australia and New Zealand early in 1949 with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. Palace spokesman Buckingham disclosed the plans last night.
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London
King George VI
Australia
New Zealand
Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Palace
Buckingham
Manitowoc Man Dies After Christmas Eve Injury
Frank Coubal aged 86 died at Holy Family hospital after being struck by a car in Manitowoc Wisconsin last Christmas Eve. He had earlier assisted his wife to the hospital for a broken hip treatment.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Frank Coubsal
Holy Family Hospital
Coubal
Snow Likely in La Crosse Tonight Into Sunday
Light to occasionally moderate snow is forecast for La Crosse and vicinity tonight and Sunday with little change expected in conditions.
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la Crosse and
Vicinty
Truman Faces Four GOP Hopefuls In Wisconsin Primary
Wisconsin voters will name delegates to the national conventions on April 6 with President Truman facing four Republican contenders. Nomination papers were filed by 84 Republican candidates for 27 GOP seats, while 43 Democrats seek state delegate slots. Most GOP candidates pledge to Stassen Dewey or MacArthur, with one Vandenberg supporter and one uninstructed delegate.
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Madison
Wis
President Truman
Wisconsin
Yestern
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Truman
GOP
Ephriam Fontaine
Sheboygan
Arnold
Dewey
Stassen
MacArthur
For Rent Maginot Line Sections In French Pasture Lands
The French government offers for rent sections of the Maginot Line land as pasture. The parcels lie near Thionville Aumetz Audun Le Tiche and Bouzonville with views of some fortifications from the highway.
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Paris
Thionville
Aumetz
Audun-Le-Tiche
Bouzonville
Winter Weather Hits Region With Snow And Cold
The forecast calls for light to moderate snow tonight and Sunday in La Crosse and vicinity. Temperatures dip to a low of 22 tonight and 32 Sunday, with recent lows around 21 at the airport and 23 citywide and a high near 31 today.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Wisconsin Weather Outlook Says Rain Sleet Snow Across Regions
The forecast notes rain or sleet in the south and snow in the north for Sunday. A previous cold wave has moved out with mild conditions tonight and tomorrow. Light snow was reported in Lone Rock La Crosse Beloit and Madison while overcast skies were seen at Superior and Milwaukee.
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Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Lone Rock
la Crosse
Beloit
Madison
Superior
Albany
N. Y
New England
Texas
Georgia
Missouri
Dakotas
Southwest
Western powers back international Ruhr control plan
The United States, Britain and France agreed on international control of the Ruhr and close cooperation to mobilize Western Germany for the Marshall plan. They endorsed a federal form of government, sought to unite zones, and planned future decisions to be reviewed by capitals ahead of a 16 nation conference in Paris on March 15.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Ruhr
Germany
Western Germany
Russia
Paris
Belgium
The
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Pose
Thompson calls for laws to end Ku Klux Klan meetings
Georgia Governor M E Thompson denounces the Ku Klux Klan as a threat to the South and urges new state laws to curb its intimidation. He reiterates opposition to federal anti lynch legislation while citing Klan actions in east central Georgia and calls on ministers and citizens to back stronger court powers. He also transfers four prisoners to local authorities to preempt criticism of state protections.
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Atlanta
M. E. Thompson
Georgia
South
Truman
Thompson
Klan
Arab artillery units move into Palestine from Syria
Damascus reports two batteries of Arab heavy artillery have moved into Palestine. Observers think the French made 7 mm guns were retooled in Syria. About 125 Muslim Brotherhood volunteers march in Damascus heading for Palestine. Fawzi Bey Al Kankji, commander of the Arab volunteer army, has established headquarters near Nablus in northern Palestine.
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Damascus
Syria
Palestine
Fawzi Bey al Kankji
Arab Volunteer Army
Nablus
Housing Problem Mother Of 14 Welcomes Triplet Girls
In Duluth Minnesota Mrs Adolph Erickson 43 gave birth to triplets all girls weighing three and a half four and five and a half pounds They were placed in an incubator and mother and babies were reported doing well The Erickson home is a four room one bedroom house Seven of their children live elsewhere The oldest is 22 Erickson is a steel plant worker.
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Duluth
Minn
Adolph Erickson
Erickson
Wheat pact sets five year ceiling and minimums for 36 nations
A five year international wheat pact by 36 nations fixes a $2 a bushel maximum price for exports from the United States Canada and Australia with a rising minimum from $1.50 in 1948 49 to $1.10 by 1952. Canada US and Australia pledged to ship large quantities while Russia and Argentina abstained. Congress must ratify.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Australia
International Wheat Council
U. S
Congress
Russia
Argentina
Europe
Leslie A. Wheeler
Council
N. R. Dodd
Senate
House
London
Wheeler
Hear Conflicting Views on Radio Editorials
The FCC heard 35 witnesses on allowing radio editorials with some proposing a compromise. AFL economist Borris Shiskin urged networks broadcast editorials but offer full and equal opportunity for opposing views. Networks and stations seek complete freedom, while others accuse discrimination against newspapers.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
American Federation of Labor
Wayne Coy
AFL
Borris Shiskin
FCC
Russians Build Plane Like U S B 29 in Moscow Ban
Boeing magazine reports Russia produced a 72 passenger aircraft copied from interned B 29 Superforts. The TU 70 allegedly includes at least twenty exact duplicate parts, identified by Boeing designers in a London newsreel. A Berlin paper claimed factories in the Ural region were producing copies.
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Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Company
Russia
Boeing
London
Berlin
Bridges Ousted as Northern California CIO Director
The CIO removed Harry Bridges from his post as northern California regional director for defying national policy by backing Wallace and opposing the Marshall Plan. Tim Flynn was named Bridges' successor. A federal inquiry sought evidence for a third deportation attempt, while officials said the Bridges case was not reopened.
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San Francisco
CIO
Harry Bridges
Northern California
Washington
Tom Clark
Bridges
National Cio
Wallace
Europe
CIO Executive Committee
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
CIO Council
Tim Flynn
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
California
Justice Department
Australia
U. S
Truman
West Coast
Capture Man Robbing Store in City Police Chase
Albert Scott of 2302 South 20th Street is jailed on a $1000 bond after a late night robbery chase that began at 1 36 a m on Saturday. Officers Norton, Frick, and Baker pursued a fleeing suspect through Third Street and adjacent blocks, shots fired, and the suspect ultimately escaped capture on the corner of Third and Jay streets.
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Albert Scott
South 20Th Street
Edwin Norton
Marlin Frick
Third Street
Main
Third Streets
Norton
Frick
Third
Pearl
Fourth
Branson Plumbing Company
Richard Baker
Front
Second
Baker
Jay Street
Jay
Jay Streets
High School Boys Form Human Chain To Save Child From Icy Waters
Four junior high students in Kenosha Wisconsin rescued kindergartner Charles Anderson Jr after he fell through Lincoln Park lagoon ice. Donald Lucas 14 spotted him crying for help then crawled 13 feet onto thin ice, connected to shore by Richard Jackson 14 James Volk 14 and James Schmidt 13 forming a human chain.
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Kenosha
Wis
Charles Anderson, Jr
Lincoln Park Lagoon
Donald Lucas
Lucas
Richard Jackson
James Volk
James Schmidt
Bulgarian minister quits over regime clash with will of people
Sofia reports Bulgarian minister to Belgium Vas sil Youroukoff has been dismissed. In a Brussels letter he says he resigned because he could no longer represent a regime established by violence against the will of the people.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Vassil Youroukoff
Belgium
Youroukoff
Brussels
UN Security Council Fails To Form Palestine Policy
The Security Council after two weeks of debate did not back the UN assembly plan to partition Palestine. The US and USSR were urged to work out a method, with Britain abstaining on the partition proposal and China and France holding cautious stances. Seven votes were needed, five supported it with six abstentions. Abba Hillel Silver urged proceeding toward a Jewish state regardless of UN action. Bible study, Wednesday, 17:30 m.
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Holy Land
Washington
Moscow
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Warren R. Austin
Palestine
Dean Rusk
Rusk
George C. Marshall
Austin
U. S
Britain
Os Mandatory
London
Council
UN Assembly
China
Syria
Canada
Colombia
Argentina
Abba Hillel Silver
Jewish Agency
Councilman Charged With Assaulting Reporter in Wisconsin
John H. Koch Two Rivers city councilman faced a criminal warrant in Manitowoc charging assault and battery after Raymond Orlowski reporter for the Two Rivers Reporter said Koch grabbed his neck and pushed him against a wall in the council chambers last Monday night over a misquote.
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Manitowoc
Wis
John H. Koch
Two Rivers
Osuld T. Bredesen
Raymond Orlowski
Koch
Orlowski
Burma government accuses KNU of plotting rebellion
Rangoon reported the Burma union government charges the Karen National Union with plotting an armed rebellion to set up a parallel government in defiance of recognized authority. The KNU denied the charges.
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Rangoon
Burma
Burma Union
Karen National Union
KNU
Saigon Dalat convoy attack leaves ten missing
French information officials said ten persons remain missing after Monday guerrilla attack near Saigon Dalat in French Indo China. The incident highlights ongoing Viet Namese guerrilla activity in the region.
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Saigon
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