Aquinas Gives Norse Play Peer Gynt at Aquinas Theater
Aquinas players select Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt as this year's major production. The abridged Norwegian drama with Greig music promises a vivid mountain setting, with a symbolic stage design and projected scrim lighting. Casting, technical crew, and ticket details to be announced. performances April 14 and 15.
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Peer Gynt
Henrick Ibsen
Aquinas
Cryano de Bergerac
Edvard Greig
Tosen
Peer
Haegstad
Solveig
America
Richard Mansfield
Chicago
Ralph Richardson
Old Vic Company
London
Norway
Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen
Falstaff
Dane
Greig
Sister Margaret Mary
Marie Leon
Aquinar
Petroleum Demand Drives Oil Shortage in 1947 1948
The winter oil shortage surprised officials as demand for petroleum products surged. Use of oil rose to 5.7 million barrels daily, with distillates and kerosene up sharply. coal declined while diesel and aviation fuels expanded. Industry studies note conversion from coal to oil and a looming steel shortage hindering production, with imports expected to fill demand later.
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Washington
Sidney A. Swendrud
Gulf Oil Corporation
Petroeum
Toney
Interior Department
North Carolina
U. S
Secretary of the Interior
Aircastle homes eyed from Liberator bombers in Australia
In Perth local planners consider converting hundreds of Liberator bomber hulls into portable living quarters. Plans propose stripping the planes and inserting iron chimneys as part of rapid, makeshift housing. A contractor notes hulls have already served as trailers and are sturdy for temporary homes.
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Perth
Western Australia
Aquinas Plans St Patrick Fete at Aquinas High
Aquinas High School hosts a St Patrick day program in the auditorium on March 17. The show titled Rap sody in Green features the Aquinas swing band with Irish melodies and modern ballads under Wilfred Kohner. The Reveliers quartet and a vocal trio perform with an impersonation of Larry Parks in The Jolson Story by Bill Kraft. Sponsorship comes from the Aquinas council of student affairs.
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Aquinas High School
St. Patrick's
Reveliers
Audrey Hentges
Kathryn Clark
Bill Murphy
Pete Castor
Elaine Thiesen
Carol Jean Jungen
Elaine Kessel
Larry Parks
the Jolson
Bill Kraft
Aquinas Council of Student Affairs
Postpone ITU Injunction Case in Chicago
A national NLRB hearing into charges of unfair labor practices by the International Typographical Union was postponed to March 22. The case concerns alleged unfair practices in negotiations and strikes against newspapers nationwide, prompted by charges filed by the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Inland Daily Press Association.
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Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
International Typographical Union
NLRB
ITU
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Inland Daily Press Association
Suspension of TWA Flights to Palestine Announced
Air travel to Palestine suspended after a TWA plane departing Lydda was fired upon near Tel Aviv on Saturday. The incident prompted the halt in airline operations to the region.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
TWA
Lydda
Teviv
Everest Attack Mapped Plans for Two New Ascent Attempts
Two new Everest assaults are planned with Group Captain J Bandit leading one expedition funded by a Scotsman and Eric Shipton leading the other. Tibetan permits have been issued but current permission is refused. May and June expeditions will use oxygen despite the monsoon. The 1938 prewar attempt was repulsed by the monsoon.
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Everest
Mt Everest
J. Bandit
Eric Shipton
Lhasa
Cigarette Quality Linked to Fertilizer Potash
A report notes that insufficient potash in tobacco fertilizer can worsen burning quality. It also mentions a claim that Chinese spaghetti originated in China and was introduced to Italy by Marco Polo.
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China
Italy
Marco Polo
Czech Communists Buckle Down on Settled Old Scores
Prague reports the communist controlled Czechoslovak government tightening its grip with new legislation aimed at old scores. Parliament is in recess but committee meetings were called for tomorrow. The focus is on a committee to strip nationalist Socialist leader Vladimir Krajina and two other figures.
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Prague
Vladimir Krajina
Immunity Protections Highlighted for Parliament Deputies
The report notes deputies enjoy several immunities with the key protection shielding them from arrest. The article emphasizes parliamentary privilege as a core safeguard for lawmakers amid ongoing governance debates.
ROA to Hold Annual Meet and Officer Elections
ROA plans its annual meeting at the Governor's Guard armory Monday at 8 p m. Delegates for the Appleton state convention on May 8 and 9 will be chosen. Current officers up for replacement include President Lieut Col Clyde Bay Vice President Capt Andrew Esser and others. Ex servicemen press for job preference citing lack of access.
Youth Takes Girl Friend From Father's Home At Gun
A 17 year old entered the Nauvoo Illinois home of his girl friend and abducted Joann Klingenmueller 15 at gunpoint and fled in a car toward Nauvoo The couple told a Highway Patrolman they planned to marry and go to California Arnold said he did not threaten the girl directly but aimed the gun at her father The father had objected to the relationship and Arnold admitted pointing the rifle to press his case
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Arnold
Walsgang Klingenmueller
Fisk
Joann
Expensive Tenant Says Rats Cost Farm Life Hard
An estimate places the annual cost of keeping a rat on a U S farm at about four dollars. Meanwhile China reports a total electorate near two hundred seventy million with over one hundred fifty million voting in its first democratic election.
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China
Stout
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