Defense Rests In Lonergan Murder Trial
New York The defense of Wayne Lonergan charged with first degree murder in his heiress wife Patricia Lonergan's slaying rested after calling three witnesses. Interior decorator Mario Gabellini testified about the couple’s night out while Dr Isidore Michel corroborated Lonergan’s confession about seeking poison the night before the killing.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
Edward V. Broderick
Mario Cabellini
Lonergans
William Prendergast
Broderick
Gabellini
James G. Wallace
Peter Elser
Marine Corps
Dr. Michel
Lonergan
Toronto
Willkie and Dewey Clash Over Wisconsin Primary
The Milwaukee Sentinel editorializes for Dewey urging readers to back Gov Dewey in the Wisconsin primary. The Chicago Tribune leans against Willkie while favoring or supporting Dewey, with other GOP figures Stassen and MacArthur cited as deputy opponents. Willkie frames the race as a test for party direction at the June convention and argues the GOP must be boldly right to win.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Dewey
Hearst
Willkie
Wisconsin
Govney
Chicago Tribune
New York
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Douglas MacArthur
Staessen
Gen. MacArthur
la Crosse
Bear steals umbrellas at London Zoo in clever ploy
A polar bear at London Zoo gathered walking sticks and umbrellas by placing fish on a ledge and feigning inability to reach it. Onlookers offered to push the items closer, but the bear seized their umbrellas and canes.
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London Zoo
East London Bus Service Cuts Noon Transport
East London transport authorities decide to prolong bus life by limiting school travel to a single daily session and skipping noon pupil transport. This change affects daily routes and student commutes in the city.
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East London
South Africa
Jury Taken To Murder Scene in Eau Claire Case
In Eau Claire Wisconsin a jury is hearing first degree murder charges against Jack La Pean 39 for the shooting of Ray Robeson a WPA foreman on March 20 1938 Robeson died two days later after resisting an attempted robbery outside his home La Pean was questioned then released and later arrested in Detroit He admitted the shooting and implicated Peter Bachmeyer and Ralph Green Bachmeyer and Green face separate trials A nine man three woman jury was chosen.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Jack la Pean
Ray Robeson
Robeson
WPA
la Pean
Detroit
Carl H. Daley
Lyman Miller
Leonard Launergren
Armed Services
John D. Kaiser
Peter Bachmeyer
Ralph Green
Bachmeyer
Green
Chaplin Mann Act Case: Defense Fails to Dismiss Counts
Federal Judge J F O Connor denies a motion to dismiss two Mann act charges against Charlie Chaplin. Giesler argues acts could occur anywhere, Berry testifies Chaplin admitted intimacies in New York and Beverly Hills. Berry denies demanding 150000 cash settlement on alleged paternity of daughter Carol Ann.
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James Lindsley
Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
J. F. O'Connor
Jerry Giesler
New York
Joan Berry
Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Giesler
U. S
Charles H. Carr
Miss Berry
Tulsa
Okla
Lean
Edward Chaney
Gieslers
Carol Ann
Marrying Judge Now Wears Navy Uniform
YUMA Arizona a peace justice with 25 000 marriages in three years will join the navy. He will be succeeded by his wife after his enlistment leaving a notable record of marriages for out of state couples including celebrities.
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Yuma, Ariz
Sam
R. H. Lutes
Dan Cupid
Lutes
Judge Ahlstrom and Roy Ferguson Fly to St Joseph Visit Daughter
Judge R V Ahlstrom of the county court and Roy Ferguson returned from a trip in the judge’s plane to St Joseph Missouri to visit Ahlstrom’s daughter Mary Belle who serves in the Ferry Command at Rosecrans Field They left La Crosse last Thursday.
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R. V. Ahlstrom
County Court
Roy Ferguson
Kanestreet
St. Joseph, Mo
Mary Belle
Rosecran Field
la Crosse
Production Goals Aired At Meeting
More than a score of soil conservation specialists and county agents from western Wisconsin and Minnesota attended an all day meeting in the La Crosse county courthouse. The discussion focused on increasing production efficiently and economically with questions from farmers guiding the debates.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
la Crosse County Court House
Madison Extension Office
Soil Conservation District
Marvin Schneers
Soil Conservation Service
Orville Hays
Grandad Bluff
Gus Bohstadt
College of Agriculture
H. O. Anderson
O. R. Zeisman
Victor Burcalow
B. F. Rusy
Demo Committeeman Attacks Stand On Delegates
Milwaukee Democrat William R Callahan denounces Thomas R King a Democratic national committeeman for opposing candidates for delegates under a Stop politics and win the war slogan. Callahan a delegate at large candidate questions hurt to party unity and wartime focus.
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Milwaukee
William R. Callahan
Milwaukee Democrat
Thomas R. King
Oconomowoc
King
Callahan
Roosevelt
Portland stove priority appeal reveals family illness
The office of price administration in Portland Oregon reports a gas stove priority request with the reason My wife is sick and can no longer bring in the wood. An earthquake near Ankara Turkey uncovered the 3 mile region.
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Portland
Ore
Office of Price Administration
CIO Political Action Committee Attacked by Dies Committee
The Dies committee blasted the CIO political action committee in a 200 page report accusing it of harboring a Communist campaign to seize political power. It singles out Sidney Hillman and other leaders, noting Hillman’s alleged collaboration with Communists and forecasting a $2 million fundraising effort this year.
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Washington
CIO Political Action Committee
House Committee
Congress of the
United States
CIO
Rep. Dies
Dtex
Sidney Hillman
Earl Browder
Dies Committee
Political Action Committee
Hillman
Lee Pressman
Harry Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union of America
Dies
Navy recruits need radio technicians says Ellick
Lieut. Commander Gerald C. Ellick urged schools to cooperate as the Navy seeks new radio technicians. Men aged 17 to 30 may take the examination at the La Crosse recruiting station. passing leads to training in electronics radio and science with optional refresher classes in mathematics and physics.
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Navy
Gerald C. Ellick
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
la Crosse
Ellick
Statue of Liberty measures reveals curious facts
The article lists exaggerated measurements for Miss Liberty including 111% feet from head to heel and a 16% foot hand 13 by 10 inch fingernail and a 4% foot long nose. It closes with a spirited slogan encouraging patriotic support for the U S A.
War Worker Is Quizzed In Slaying
A war industry worker is questioned by police in connection with a fatal slaying. Authorities probe alibi and motive as investigators sift through evidence and interview colleagues at the plant.
Detroit Youth Death Traced After Missing J Joyce Raulston
Detroit detectives questioned 20 year old war worker about Joyce Raulston 14 missing since Friday. He admitted taking her to a trailer camp near Detroit but denied any contact after midnight Sunday. Raulston’s battered body was found Monday on a city dump, death from internal hemorrhages after stab wounds. A mysterious caller told Joyce’s stepfather she was married and California bound.
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Detroit
Joyce Raulston
Russell Gregory
Pete
Albert A. Hughes
Thomas Davey
Hughes
T. Walter Raulston
California
Raulston
Joyce
Scouters From City Plan Evening Roundtable
City roundtable of men from all units meets Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Vocational school. Carrol Weigel, neighborhood commissioner, leads discussions on Scout unit operation including camp ore es summer camp council first aid contest father son victory gardens and the regional meeting in Milwaukee.
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Carrol Weigel
Milwaukee
Costello outlines use of 4-F workers for essential war jobs
Costello says thousands of younger men with nonfatal disabilities could fill essential war roles and release fit men for combat. He envisions furloughs to essential industry or seasonal war work and assignments to noncombat military jobs. Hershey would seek induction of able 4-F registrants who do not materially aid the war effort. Roosevelt notes other groups such as high school students and newspapermen could assist with harvesting.
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Costello
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Armed Services
Roosevelt
Red Cross Drive Falls Short of Quota in La Crosse County
Ray mond C. Rice, chair of the 1944 Red Cross campaign, notes voluntary gifts from CIO and AFL locals have doubled last year but many divisions remain incomplete. Total reached 42 739.33 with rural areas expected to vastly exceed prior year. Holmen and Mindoro already fully reported.
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la Crosse County
Red Cross
Raymond C. Rice
CIO
AFL
Rice
City of
la Crosse
Holmen
Mindoro
Sheridan Rehabilitation Center Transferred to Camp Phillips Kas
Col. John T. Rhett announced the Fort Sheridan rehabilitation center will move to Camp Phillips Kansas combining Sixth and Seventh service command units to save staff. About five hundred prisoners have already been relocated to Kansas. The old stockade may host a few hundred POWs for work on the post.
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Chicago
Fort Sheridan
Camp Phillips
Kas
John T. Rhett
Rhett
Kansas
Congressman Judd to Speak in City for Stassen Bid
Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minneapolis will speak in the city on Friday in support of Harold E. Stassen for the Republican presidential nomination. The address at 8 p m in the Vocational School auditorium will be introduced by Dr F L Gullickson or Otto M Schlabach. Judd is praised as a brilliant dynamic speaker with years in China as a medical missionary and strong knowledge of the Pacific region.
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Walter H. Judd
Minneapolis
Harold E. Stassen
Otto M. Schlabach
la Crosse
Stassen
Judd
Wisconsin
F. L. Gullickson
West Salem
Schlabach
Gullickson
Nurse and Signal Corps Officer Wed At Front
A U S Army nurse Lieut Genevieve Clarke and Lt Thom as G Rose wed in a hospital tent at Camp Pickett August 1942 as battles raged nearby. Ceremony featured 300 nurses and soldiers, a sandbagged altar lit by candles, Capt Carl J Simon on organ, Tech Sgt Eugene Wentz singing I Love You Truly, bride in uniform.
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Naples
United States Army
Signal Corps
Camp Pickett
Thomas G. Rose
Lancaster
Genevieve Clarke
Allison Park
Carl J. Simon
Canton
Eugene Wentz
Pittsburgh
Gardenia Murder Suspect Seized in New York
Roger Lewis Gardner 25, sought by Los Angeles police for the gardenia murder last summer, was arrested after a tip from two women who had marriage proposals. Gardner alias swindler impersonator has faced grand larceny bigamy and impersonating officials. He was to be arraigned as a fugitive after obtaining 1500 dollars.
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New York
Roger Lewis Gardner
Los Angeles
Gardenia
FBI
E. F. Conroy
Conroy
Gardner
U. S
Lexington
CPA
War Department
Ora Murray
Donald Douglas
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Soil Conservation Group
Ankara
Turkey
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Arthur G. Benson
M. D
Sheridan Rehabilitation Center
Congressman Judd
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