Drive for Boy Scouts To Boost Gateway Budget
More than 800 volunteers will canvass the city starting Monday for a week long house to house campaign to raise 14000 for the Gateway area Boy Scout operating budget under R H Pearse. Kickoff meetings with ward workers were held at Central and oo high schools with co chairmen Fawcett Schulze and Johnson. Block captains listed include Orville Blade John Schoen Hanson Harold Stathens and others.
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Gateway Area
R. H. Pearse
N. E. Schulze
R. L. Fawcett
Central High School
South Side
Clinton Johnson
Fawcett
Oo High School
North Side
Orville Blade
John Schoen
Oo. Hanson
Harold Stathens
H. A. Rasmussen
H. O. Anderson
Arthur Mickelson
Leonard M. Hetland
Ted Hendrickson
H. A. Kreuzer
Vernon Wendorf
Oliver H
Travelers Group Elects Select La Crosse Site
Herman A. Kleinhammer of Fond du Lac elected president of the Wisconsin division of the Travelers Protective Association as the two day convention ended Saturday. La Crosse awarded the 1950 state convention.
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Milwaukee
Herman A. Kleinhammer
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Travelers Protective Association
la Crosse
Purse Stolen From Car At 710 Clinton Street
Mrs Mae Retzlaff reports her purse containing $10 was taken from her auto parked in front of 710 Clinton Street. The theft occurred Thursday evening or early Friday morning.
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Clinton Street
Mae Retzlaff
Park Avenue
Vets Laud Amvets Work At La Crosse Installation
Amvets leaders praise veterans service and civic leadership as La Crosse hosts the second annual Amvet post No. 33 installation. Stephen Cheske of Racine urges unselfish cooperation while lauding local members and officials for their role in community welfare. Officers from La Crosse and Minnesota units are installed.
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Stephen Cheske
Racine
Amvets
Amvet
la Crosse
Stoddard
Cheske
William Lotzer
Milwaukee
Amversen
Leonard R. Chojnacki
Robert Kinney
Oshkosh
Eisler to face extradition hearing in London
Eisler will be taken to Bow Street magistrate court in London Sunday for extradition proceedings to the United States after a stay in Southampton. Southampton police describe a weekend jail stay at the civic center and a Monday court appearance for the removal application. Bow Street handles extradition matters under an 1870 act. the warrant was issued at U S request and bail posted by the Civil Rights Congress, labeled by the U S attorney general as subversive. American authorities had asked Scotland Yard to detain him for extradition.
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Southampton
Bow Street
Magistrate’s Court
London
United States
Eisler
Southampton Civic Center
Southampton Magistrate’s Court
Bow Street Magistrate’s Court
England
The
Civil Rights Congress
U. S
Tom Clark
Scotland Yard
Girl Hurts In Copeland Avenue Collision
Arlene Knight seventeen suffered a cut nose as two cars were damaged in a two-vehicle crash in the 300 block of Copeland avenue at 8 40 p m Saturday. Knight rode with David Hosely seventeen who lost control and collided head on with a car driven by William Storandt and R J Mindoro. Storandt’s vehicle sustained about 400 dollars in damage and Hosely’s car about 150 dollars.
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Arlene Knight
Caledonia Street
Copeland Avenue
Miss Knight
David Hosely
Kane Street
William Storandt
R. J. Mindoro
Storandt
Labor unions push pensions and wage talks across steel pits
The United Mine Workers offer $100 monthly pensions for 60 year olds with 20 years in mining, funded by coal royalties. Steelworkers notify to negotiate under 1950 contracts with a July 16 strike or lockout possibility. CIO factions head to Washington as labor tensions rise amid strikes and plant shutdowns including Bendix and Columbia Steel.
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United Mine Workers
Murray Long
CIO
Washington
Priest Garty Celebrates First Mass at St Marys
Rev Bernard McGarty son of Dr and Mrs M A McGarty of 109 South 14th street offers his first solemn high mass at St Marys Catholic church with Rt Rev Msgr Robert B Condon delivering the sermon. A testimonial dinner follows at Hotel Stoddard and a public reception caps the day.
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Bernard McGarty
M. A. McGarty
South 14Th Street
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Robert B. Condon
Robert Hansen
St. Wenceslaus
Milladore
Senan Brody
OFM
Cap
Milwaukee
Hotel Stoddard
St. Mary’s
Anthony P. Wagener
Catholic Register
la Crosse
Francis Doherty
Madison
John P. Treacy
Teachers baseball team shaken by fatal accident
Saturday's doubleheader was halted as the State Teachers College team learned of a fatal accident during a road trip. Engler was discharged from Luther hospital and returned home. Gripentrog and Benedict were key players with Benedict batting over .400. Funeral services for Benedict are set in Sparta and Haugstad will receive a military funeral in Black River Falls. Vickrey notes La Crosse will finish the 1949 schedule with St. Mary's of Winona next Thursday under Copeland field lights.
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Gripentrog
Engler
Luther Hospital
Ft. Atkinson
la Crosse
Eau Claire
Stout
Menomonie
Vickroy
Vickrey
St. Mary’s
Winona
Copeland Field
Haugstad
Benedict
Phil
St. Paul Saints
Power
Black River Falls
Roger Retzlaff
Sparta
Post Office Inefficiency Provokes Public Protest
Britons protest ongoing low efficiency of the Post Office Department noting some letters move as slowly as horse-mail in former times.
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Post Office
One Killed Five Injured In Wisconsin Illinois Crash
Devere E Bauder 27 of Harvard Illinois was killed instantly in a two car collision near the Wisconsin Illinois border Saturday. His wife was in critical condition at Beloit municipal hospital and five others were seriously injured.
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Beloit
Wis
Devere E. Bauder
Harvard
Ill
Wisconsin- Illinois
Bauder
Beloit Municipal Hospital
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