Wisconsin approves 45 day rent control extension
Wisconsin assembly and senate sign a 45 day extension, moving rent controls to May 15. The assembly vote was 90 to 2 with two Republicans dissenting, and the senate approved unanimously. The measure awaits approval by the governor’s office. Eviction under state law requires six months notice, unlike the federal rule.
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Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
Assembly
Squires
Mason
Raihle
Chippewa Falls
Orror
Vernon Thomson
R-Richland Center
Joint
Judiciary Committee
Wisconsin
George Smith
Rennebohm
Florida
Congress
Ident Truman
Oleo Versus Butter Contest Shifts in Congress Showdown
Washington reports two familiar rivals butter and oleo clash over repealing federal taxes on oleomargarine. The House Agriculture Committee backed a repeal while barring interstate sales of yellow oleo unless produced locally. Rep Poage plans a substitute to widen free sale with labeling, as support from Agri Aide Cooley grows.
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Butter
Congress
UW Svs
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
D-Tex
Agriculture
Aini Cooley
D-Nc
Pond Drained In Search For C 47 Victims
A Ponds drained by dynamite blasting as authorities search for bodies from a C 47 crash near Edgar Springs Missouri. Two bodies were recovered before draining. four others believed trapped in wreckage. Civilian onlookers were kept back by Army and Air Force police as crews worked. The plane struck the pond in a rainstorm and submerged in about seven feet of water. Names aboard withheld pending verification.
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Army
Kiesman
Scott Air Base
Ill
Patterson Field
Wright Field
Burvis Mace
Mace
St. Louis
Set Jackson Plea Thursday
Sparta Wis Special A new trial for James Jackson 21 will be requested Thursday night in Sparta circuit court for sentencing Jackson was convicted of first degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his father Earl January 24 at their Tomah home Attorney Quincy Hale La Crosse will present the motion Judge Bruce Beilfuss Neillsville who presided at the trial will be present and if the retrial motion is denied he is expected to impose sentence immediately The charge carried a prison term of five to 10 years
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Sparta
Wis
James Jackson
Tomah
Jackson
Quincy Hale
la Crosse
Bruce Beilfuss
Neillsville
Earl
Legislature Restores Reckless Driving Penalties in Wisconsin
Madison Wis An oversight by the 1947 legislature has been corrected and penalties for reckless driving are back in the statute books Lt Gov Smith signed a bill fixing penalties up to six months in jail or a 100 dollar fine for the first offense and up to one year and a 200 dollar fine for the second offense The measure also includes two other acts on tax dispute settlements and gasoline sulfur standards.
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Madison
Wis
Living costs to fall about ten percent next year
Philadelphia report cites a 10 percent drop in living costs possible next year barring wars and weather. Dr. Ewan Clague told the International Association of Public Services meeting that food prices may continue to ease unless disrupted by global events or climate, while wholesale prices swing less.
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U.S
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Ewan Clague
International Association of Public Services
Henry Lytton Dies Pioneer State Street Merchant at 102
Henry C. Lytton a 102 year old Chicago merchant on State street died of a heart ailment. He was hospitalized March 26 after a long career from errand boy to famed trader. He retired at 70 then returned to work 16 years later and remained at his desk daily past 100.
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Henry C. Lytton
State Street
Wesley Memorial Hospital
Lytton
Errand Boy
Rev. H. C. Wein Dies Thursday at 77
The Rev. Hans Jensen Wein, 77, retired Lutheran pastor, died at 1 p.m. Thursday in a local hospital. He served churches in Spring Grove Caledonia and Winona before retiring in 1942 and later was institutional chaplain for the Lutheran Welfare Society of Wisconsin in La Crosse. Survived by three daughters, one son, two sisters, one brother and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Born July 30 1872 on Alsen island Schleswig Germany he arrived in the United States in 1881 and pursued study at Willmar seminary Minnesota college Decorah Luther Seminary St Paul.
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Wein
Spring Grove
Caledonia
Winona
la Crosse
Lutheran Welfare Society of Wisconsin
Lutheran
St. Francis
Grand View
R. L. (Marie) Bangsberg
Joseph
Sylvia) Barnes
Rochester
Minn
Anna Wein
Renville
Hans
St. Paul
Chistina Wein
William Sampson
Bellevue
Chris Wain
Rev
Alsen Island
Schleswig
Germany
United States
Renville County
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Decorah
Luther Seminary
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Sheboygan
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Filipino Corporal Seeks State Help To Reunite Family
Cpl. Lorenzo Gamboa, backed by General MacArthur, asked the U S state department on Thursday to aid his attempt to join his wife and two children in Australia, seeking support for travel and reunion.
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Tokyo
Lorenzo Gamboa
General MacArthur
U. S. State Department
Australia
Widow seeks aid in spending $10,000 before death
Oklahoma City widow seeks advice on how to spend 10 000 before death in 12 months She wants a purposeful plan not publicity and has already provided for her daughter The article notes she lost her husband in World War I and now faces a timed fate with calm philosophy and a shift in risk attitude.
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Comtive Lux
Heart
The
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Bank official hunted as $883,660 vanished in vault theft
New York reports a search for Richard N. Crowe a 41 year old banker missing since Sunday amid a vault theft at National City Bank 195 Broadway Manhattan where 5900000 in bonds and 193660 in cash were found unguarded two days earlier police say the vault was jammed and a country club lifestyle is noted while letters indicate a spiraling manhunt with the FBI joining the pursuit.
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Florida
Richard N. Crowe
Crowe
FBI
Frank S Hogan
National City Bank
Broadway
Manhattan
Grover C. Brown
Brown
Emperor's Son-In-Law Begins New Bank Clerk Career
Moriatsu Higashikuni, 33, son-in-law of Emperor Hirohito, will start work Friday as an ordinary bank clerk. He has studied economics since the war to prepare for a business career and plans to ride to work by streetcar.
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Tokyo
Moriatsu Higashikuni
Hirohito
Churchill Speaks At MIT In Boston Event
Winston Churchill addressed a Boston audience of 13,900 at the MIT event as part of a three day mid century survey. He reflected on the 20th century, its promise and realization, recalling his Fulton Iron Curtain speech and urging unity of the British Commonwealth and the United States.
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Winston Churchill
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Fulton, Mo
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British Commonwealth of Nations
United States
Boston Garden
Massachusetts Institute
Stassen Calls UN Veto Riddled, Urges Charter Reform
Harold E. Stassen, then University of Pennsylvania president, labeled the United Nations veto riddled and urged a complete charter revision in about three years to test Soviet intentions and the alliance’s future. He spoke at Rutgers University during the model United Nations general assembly before 1,000 attendees.
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N. J
United Nations
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Soviet Union
United Nations General Assembly
Rutgers University
Tech inaugurates Killian as 10th president with Churchill to speak
The inauguration of James Rhyne Killian as Tech's 10th president features a major address on the social implications of scientific progress. Churchill will address via radio and television as one of the largest audiences ever, and Tech will honor him as an honorary lecturer. Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak Friday night. Panels with thinkers from multiple nations will discuss humanity's prospects in the atomic age.
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Mexico
Weather outlook for La Crosse area turns cooler tonight
Clearing skies bring a low around 32 degrees this evening. Friday warms with fair skies and a high near 50 degrees.
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la Crosse
Weather and war era strike linked at Milwaukee plant
Government witness Budenz testified a 1940 Milwaukee party meeting planned a 1941 Allis-Chalmers strike to block war materials. Harold Christoffel, UAW Local president, said friction between unions could trigger the stoppage. Weather chaos followed with heavy snow, rain and floods across Minnesota and Wisconsin, closing schools and delaying transport.
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Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers
Louis F. Budenz
Eugene Dennis
U. S
Budenz
Harold Christoffel
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Christoffel
Dennis
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Russia
Wisconsin
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AFL
House Labor Committee
Supreme Court
Recover Body of Man Drowned After Boat Flips
Fort Atkinson Wisconsin reports the body of Thomas F Hampel aged 34 was recovered from Lake Koskonong on Wednesday. Hampel and John Carney 33 of Janesville drowned when their fishing boat overturned. Thomas Carney survived after swimming to safety.
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Thomas F. Hampel
Lake Koskonong
Hampel
John Carney
Janesville
Thomas Carney
Man Freed From Leg After Wine Bottle Is Found
In Kittanning Pennsylvania John Myers of Clarion was jailed on a drunkenness charge. An officer spotted the top of a half empty wine bottle sticking from Myers wooden leg. He was released without the bottle after being restrained.
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Kittanning
John Myers
Myers
Clarion
Pennsylvania
Hold Hearing On McGilvray Road Routing
A state highway commission hearing is set for 2 p m Thursday at the courthouse to decide routing for McGilvray Road across the Black River bottoms between Midway and Trempealeau. The current plan places the highway on county trunk XX to New Amsterdam then west across river channels. proposed changes seek to route on state trunk and U S 53 from Midway to XA junction, XA to XX north of New Amsterdam, then across the channels to Beardsley corner.
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Midway
Trempealeau
State Highway Commission
Court House
New Amsterdam
Beardsley Corner
Paper From Grass And Straw Could Replace Wood
Scientists disclosed progress in making paper from straw and grass and creating faster growing trees. A pilot plant in Cleveland and samples of newsprint and bags show potential to produce 90 percent of U S paper from waste fibers at lower cost. A Dutch firm is building a plant in Africa, and Soraromne hybrids may end US lumber imports.
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Robert E. Geiger
Memphis
Tenn
National Farm Chemurgic Council
E. R. Timlowski
Africa
Victor Schoffelmayer
Southwest Research Center
San Antonio
United States
Timlowski
Kinsley Chemical Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Truman Defends Full European Recovery Fund Request
President Truman urged Congress to provide the full 5.58 billion dollars for the European recovery program, saying the amount is carefully worked out and should not be cut. He faced questions about Taft and Russell efforts to trim the aid, while administration forces push for appropriations to cover 15 months of aid with staged funding and contract authority.
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Truman
Congress
Taft
Rohio
Russell
Economic Cooperation Administration
Senate
Géorge
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
George
Edwin G. Nourse
Council of Economic Advisers
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Senate-House
Housing Ad Sparks Demand for Vacant Apartments
Mrs. A R Batcheller reports a desperate housing need after listing a three room basement apartment with heat private shower and toilet and furnished utilities. The paper’s publication drew immediate visitors to her door as renters seek available space and landlords call for more listings to ease the shortage.
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A. R. Batcheller
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