Marshall Urges Quick Plan For German Federal State
Marshall and Bevin urged the council of foreign ministers to start plans for a federated German nation. The session agreed to invite Austrian representatives to Moscow for talks on the Austrian treaty. Zhdanov said visas would be issued for Austrians to join discussions. Marshall pressed to end the Austrian treaty impasse and noted Britain has received reparations exceeding $91,960,000 from Germany since the war.
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Moscow
U. S
Marshall
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Olotov
Karl Gruber
Austria
Council
Council of Foreign Ministers
United Kingdom
Germany
Bevin
Struchan
U. S. Senate
House of Representatives
World War II talks mix German state plan and Austrian treaty efforts
British and American leaders push for a German federal structure and an Austrian peace pact during Moscow talks. Bevin outlines a two chamber system with a president and strong states rights as negotiators aim to finish the Austria treaty and withdraw occupation forces. In Wisconsin a veteran bonus bill proposes up to 400 dollars per claimant funded by new taxes and bond authority.
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Laender
Austria
George C. Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Marshall
Moscow
Madison
Assembly Committee On Veterans and Military Affairs
Wisconsin
Rent Rule Extension Approved by Senate Subcommittee
A Senate banking subcommittee unanimously approved extending rent controls through February 29, 1948 with no general rent increase. Chairman Buck said next it will address administration after the OPA ends June 30. Raymond Foley urged ceilings on new dwellings as well as old houses to avoid excessive rents on new construction.
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Washington —i
Senate Banking
Buck
R-Del
OPA
Raymond M. Foley
House Banking Committee
Weather forecast for La Crosse area
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with occasional light snow late tonight or early Saturday. Temperature rises through Saturday with a low of 24 tonight and a high of 45 on Saturday.
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la Crosse
UAW seeks 23 cent hourly raise for GM workers
The United Auto Workers formally asked General Motors for a 23 cent per hour wage increase for about 225000 GM production workers. The raise would lift average pay to roughly 1.56 dollars per hour and cost GM around 2.1 million dollars weekly, effective March 19 but not before May 31 without mutual consent. Walter P. Reuther presented the proposal to GM officials in Detroit. The union seeks early talks on the demands.
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Louisville
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
General Motors Corporation
UAW
Uaw-Gm
Walter P. Reuther
GM Department
Detroit
House Group Approves GOP Income Tax Cut
The House Ways and Means Committee approved 16 to 9 a Republican backed bill cutting income taxes by 30 percent for small taxpayers and 20 percent for most others. The measure heads to the floor amid Democratic opposition and a call to defer until fiscal details are clear.
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House Group
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Rep
Coughton
DNC
Kautson
R-Minn
Knutson
Sam Rayburn
Congress
Republican High Command
Salzer Church Here Disbands
Salzer Methodist church in La Crosse dissolves as a consolidation plan with Wesley Methodist Church and Longfellow school is enacted. The plan, perfected at the 1946 West Wisconsin Conference after a 1945 fire, ends 85 years of Salzer congregation history and follows a 50 year old church building.
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Salzer Methodist Church
la Crosse
Wesley Methodist Church
Longfellow School
West Wisconsin
The
Methodist Church
Salzer Church
Seventh
Ferry Streets
Salzer Church Board of Trustees
O. W. Muenster
Clarence L. Ringquist
Harold R. Cram
William Rudy
Alfred Vogel
William Koch
Elbert Dissmore
Carl Schaefer
Herman Miller
Mass Meeting Called For April 3 On Recreation Plan
About 50 local group representatives met to push forming a general citizen committee to develop the fair grounds into a downtown recreation center. Attorney George DeDakis led a motion to reopen the proposal and appoint a committee at a Vocational school meeting on April 3.
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Fair Grounds
George DeDakis
Winter’s Last Snowfall Nips in at Spring’s Door
Winter departs with a final two inch snowfall greeted by 5 13 a m. sunrise in La Crosse as meteorologists forecast light late night snow, a rise in river levels from Alma to La Crosse, and warmer temperatures by Saturday afternoon. Weather reports note snow across much of Wisconsin and surrounding states with some rain in near freezing conditions.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Alma
Genoa
Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Madison
Wausau
Land O’ Lakes
Superior
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ohio
Associated Press
Plan to Press Fair Ground Recreation Center in La Crosse
Two meetings were held in La Crosse on Thursday night at the AFL Labor temple and the Knights of Columbus club rooms to discuss the fair grounds recreation center. The Knights of Columbus session was dubbed pee BA the week before officials learned the AFL meeting had occurred.
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la Crosse
Alf Gundersen
George Hall
Leonard Kilian
John Ward
E. H. Woehrmann
Ray Nibbe
Carroll Stokke
de Dakis
Curtis Hussa
Reserve Officers’ Association
AFL Athletic Association
AFL Labor Temple
Knights of Columbus Club
Fair Grounds Recreation Center
la Crosse State Teachers College
Aquinas Booster Club
Phone Strike Vote Being Taken in Wisconsin
Milwaukee report says a strike vote is underway among Wisconsin Telephone Guild workers to decide on a possible national walkout. Arthur LeFevre, guild president, notes negotiations with Wisconsin Telephone Co continue. In La Crosse, Bell long distance employees will vote secretly.
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Milwaukee
Telephone Guild of of Wisconsin
Arthur LeFevre
LeFevre
Wisconsin Telephone Company
la Crosse
Bell Company
Truman to address AP luncheon in New York April 21
The White House announced President Truman will speak at the annual Associated Press luncheon in New York on April 21. The event draws editors reporters and industry officials from across the country.
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Washington
Truman
Associated Press
New York
White House
City Hall to Close for Comptroller Kaiser Funeral
City offices will close Saturday so city executives and employees may attend the funeral of Lambert J. Kaiser the city comptroller who died Wednesday night. Services set for 8:30 a.m. at Blaschke funeral home and 9 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic church with burial in the Catholic cemetery. Rosary is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Blaschke home.
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la Crosse
Lambert J. Kaiser
Blaschke
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Schools May Book Out Of Town Games
Local athletic leaders discuss implications of the Inter State Fair site changes for 1947 football. Funding for grading is nearly used up as the state industrial commission reviews bleachers and lighting at Swanson field.
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Commer Council
Fair Grounds
Grandstand
State Industrial Commission
Teachers College
Fair Association
la Crosse
Midwest
Swanson
Logan High School
Industrial Commission
Logan
Two Day Wisconsin Safety Clinic Probes Workmen’s Comp
The two day safety and health clinic in La Crosse sponsored by the Wisconsin Council of Safety opened with Harry Nelson of the state industrial commission conducting a mock workers compensation hearing. An injured worker was awarded 3500 dollars for inadequate safeguards, and management asked Nelson about osteopaths chiropractors and panel doctors.
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Wisconsin
Harry Nelson
Workmen's Compensation Department
State Industrial Commission
Wisconsin Council of Safety
State Safety Group
la Crosse Industrial Safety Council
Nelson
End Of A Legend Finds Body Of Aged Recluse In Mansion
New York report details the discovery of Homer Collyer dead in the cluttered Fifth Avenue mansion he shared with Langley Collyer. Police continue to search for Langley as crowds gather outside the decayed three story home noted for its vast bric a brac and many pianos.
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Manhattan
New York
Homer Collyer
Fifth Avenue
Langley
Langley Collyer
Homer
William Rodrigue
128Th Street
Collyer
Lord Dundreary
Acheson Warns on Communist Rule and Greece Turkey Aid
Under Secretary Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Communist dominated governments anywhere threaten US security. He defended Truman's request for 400 million dollars in aid and military support for Greece and Turkey to resist Communist aggression and promised to publicize background documents.
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Washington
Acheson
United States
Judd
Greece
State Department
Rep. Merrow
RNH
Stalin
Merrow
Turkey
House
Eaton
RNJ
Warren Austin
United Nations
Austin
World Organization
Capitol Hill
Truman
U. N
Trygve
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State Department of Veterans’ Affairs
State Annuity Board
Affairs’ Department
Alaska
Salzer
Frank J. Hoeschler
Raymond Plamadore
Chamber of Commerce
Tribene Pheote
Harry Worth
Emerson School
City Hall
Wisconsin Council
Turks
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