Seven Cars, Haig, and Mons Frontline Comedy
Dewitt Mackenzie recalls urging Field Marshal Haig to supply cars for seven American AP reporters in France during the final weeks of World War I. The British command relented, seven cars arrived as Mons fell at dawn on November 11, and the second battle of Mons was reported with all machines in use.
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France
Belgium
General Headquarters
Associated Press
Field Marshal Haig
Haig
Straits
Mons
C-In-C
P. S. Yes
Standard Oil Gives Report on Indiana Earnings Plan
Standard Oil Co Indiana and subsidiaries reported first quarter 1950 earnings of about 24.7 million dollars, slightly below 1949's 25.3 million. Per share earnings were 1.61 and 1.66, with directors re-elected and officers retained. The Hammond meeting approved a unique savings and stock bonus plan for about 26,000 employees, allowing payroll deductions to buy US savings bonds and receive company stock as bonuses. The plan uses bonus units tied to a share’s book value and foresees issuing stock without extra cost to employees participating in the retirement plan.
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Hammond, Inc
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
A. W. Peake
Tors
Standard
Hammond
Whiting
Standard Oil
United States Savings
U. S
Railroader Dies On Retirement Eve
Milwaukee veteran Charles E Larson aged 66 died of a heart attack on the eve of his planned July 1 retirement after a half century with the Milwaukee road. He was chief train dispatcher in the Milwaukee division with prior posts at Portage Chicago and Malden. Fox Lake born. Production of lung nuts rose more than tenfold from 1943 to 1949.
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Milwaukee
Charles E Larson
Milwaukee Road
Larson
Milwaukee Division
Fox Lake
Ill
Portage
Wis
Chicago
Malden
Wash
Chavez Defends Solo Idea Behind Budenz Attack
Senator Chavez of New Mexico says his assault on ex Communist Louis Budenz was his own idea not driven by the Truman administration. He told reporters he would remain in the Senate longer than McCarthy and accepted full responsibility for his remarks. Budenz testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee at McCarthy’s request about McCarthy’s charges of Communist influence in the State Department.
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Washington
Chavez
D-Nm
Louis Budenz
Truman
McCarthy
R-Wis
New Mexico
Budenz
Senate
Daily
Worker
Catholic Church
Senate Foreign Relations
State Department
Red
Tydings
D-Md
Lucas
D-Ni
Retail Selling Becomes Real Event For Central Students
Central high school students in Dwaine Anderegg’s retailing class will operate J C Penney in the Hoeschler building on Fifth Avenue for S day. About 20 students from three city high schools will take customer service and managerial roles after weeks of training, with support from Penney’s managers and Tribune ad staff.
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Dwaine Anderega
Central High School
16Th
Cass Streets
J. C. Penney Co
Hoeschler
Fifth Avenue
George D. Scott
Central
Anderegg
Penney
Evangeline Malchow
Glen Bowman
Charles J. Treglawny
Tribune
Picnic Planned by UCT Council 94 at Veterans Park
United Commercial Travelers council met at Odd Fellows hall Saturday night and accepted John C. Helvig’s membership application. Entertainment chair Kermit Rudrud announced the annual picnic will be held June 18 at Veterans Memorial park.
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United Commercial Travelers
Odd Fellows Hall
John C. Helvig
Kermit Rudrud
Veterans Memorial Park
Questions and Answers From The La Crosse Tribune
A reader questions facts from history science and government with answers on topics from gopher origins to Bikini atom bomb tests and Benjamin Franklin. The page lists official sources and prices for a 25 cent booklet Children’s Favorite Songs.
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la Crosse Tribune Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington
D. C
Blood donor magistrate saves dying boy in court appeal
City Magistrate J Roland Sala urged courtroom volunteers to donate blood for a gravely ill high school student. Five police cars delivered 22 donors to the Red Cross where each gave a pint, saving the boy's life. Sala, a 43 year old former actor and art collector, has led similar drives.
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New York
J. Roland Sala
Sala
Sara
Brooklyn Red Cross
Red Cross
Dirksen Faults Truman Blunders Mismanagement in Galesburg
Former Rep. Everett M. Dirksen charged President Truman with blundering and mismanagement in a reply to Truman's Galesburg address. He urged the nation to turn to the GOP for salvation, criticizing the Marshall plan and noting the Kremlin shadow despite VE-day's five year mark. He aimed to unseat Sen. Scott Lucas in a close November race.
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Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Truman
Chicago
Dirksen
Scott Lucas
Republican National Committee
Galesburg
Ill
Kremlin
Republican Party
Cataract Gas Theft Halted Sunday Night
Three teenage youths, ages 15 17 and 19, were caught Sunday night while stealing gasoline at the Arthur Huber farm near Cataract Wisconsin. Huber reported 10 gallons had been removed and hidden in a cream can, later found and refilled with water with a trace of gasoline on top. Neighbors aided in capturing the youths who will be sent to juvenile court.
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National Bureau of Standards
U. S
United Aircraft Corp
Cataract
Wis
Arthur Huber
Hans Biegel
Huber
Moose and Caribou Dominate Canadian Game Meat
Moose and caribou stand as the principal meat producers among Canadian game animals, reflecting their prominence in harvesting and regional food supply. Data underscores their dominance in national hunting yields and cultural significance across provinces.
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Robert Affeldt
Henry Ahrens
Edward Anderson
Roy Bantley
Donna Bendel
Janice Benson
Alice Bires
Donna Blank
Judd Bowman
Betty Brague
Rita Brown
Richard Duffrin
Thelma Eckert
Bobbette Gassen
Dick Gross
Janice Hanson
Jane Harris
Carole Harris
Ronald Levendoski
James Lunde
Mary Moore
Janet Oestriech
Eugene Olsen
Jacqueline Beagles
Lois Secord
Doris Tauscher
Gail Tischer
Joan Valentine
Mary Vaughn
Stanley Voss
UCT
The
Haskin Service
Eye Street
Washington, D. C
Navy
Bikini
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy Department
Adm
Swanson
Pacific
United States
States
United Nations
UN Assembly
Warren R. Austin
Philip C. Jessup
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Benjamin V. Cohen
Charles Fahy
John D. Hickerson
Ruth Rohde
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
William
State
Lees Sd
Abe Aled
Hal Boyle
Palestine
Boyle
Chrysler
Plymouth
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