Regents meet as Hodgkins departs with board awards
The University of Wisconsin Regents postpone action on the 1944 45 budget while accepting a total of 55 350 in grants including 40 000 from the Wisconsin alumni research fund. Donations include 200 from David K Hess for the trust and loan fund. The board approves retaining over age civil service workers and authorizes contracts with the Veterans Administration for instruction of veterans at Milwaukee extension and local summer sessions.
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foan
Trust and Loan
David K. Hess
South Pacific
Clar- A. Dykstra
Dykstra
U. S. Veterans Administration
Milwaukee
Strike Abandoned as Economic Weapon by Warehousemen
The International Longshoremen's Union local 16 CIO affiliated division votes to abandon the strike as an economic weapon for wartime and postwar use. Harry Bridges advocates writ ing the no-strike pledge into future contracts and urges unity with employers to boost postwar overseas trade for San Francisco. Negotiations continue with the San Francisco distributors over a three-year contract expiring May 31.
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San Francisco
International Men's and Warehousemen’s Union
Harry Bridges
Richard Lynden
CIO
ILWU
California Cio
Association of San Francisco Distributors
Scout Troop News Covers Multiple Units And Camp Plans
The notice lists activities from Troops 8 13 13A and 22 across First Presbyterian Frontier Indian and Christ Episcopal units. It notes meetings marching drills uniforms camp planning for May 26 27 at Camp Decorah and Memorial Day parade prep with reminders to attend meetings and buy uniforms. Scouting officers are named including Senior Patrol Leader and Scribe posts.
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Frontier
New Frontier
Panthers
Tigers
Jack Steinmetz
David Anderson
Don Peterson
Bob Johnston
Dwain Rasmussen
Jack Jansky
Bob Wedeking
Scribe
Troop
Bernard Parnow
Joel Rynning
Allan Guberud
Mannstedt
Philip Olsen
Allen Guberud
Camp Decorah
Bob Magee
Navy
Harry Bangsberg
Christ Episcopal Church
Ugene Clark
Congregational Church
Frederick Lindstrom
Sixty five Carriers Now In Service With U.S. Fleet
The Navy reports sixty five aircraft carriers in active service. Artemus L. Gates, assistant Navy secretary for air, disclosed the figure and added that Navy planes of all types will total about 37,700 soon.
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Washington
Artemus L. Gates
Navy
Gates
U W Summer Session Opens Monday Morning
The University of Wisconsin bridges spring and summer terms with the summer session starting Monday after commencement ends. Regular eight week session for graduates and teachers begins June 24 with about 2500 servicemen and medical students among attendees. Fourteen educational institutes, workshops and clinics are planned.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
University
School of Education
Willkie Defends Negroes at NAACP Dinner
Wendell Willkie, in his first public appearance since quitting the Republican race, warned that baiting Negroes harms America's leadership in the fight for freedom. He spoke at a dinner for Walter White of the NAACP, joined by Mrs. Roosevelt, noting his effort to eliminate discrimination.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Willkie
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Association
America
Chaplin Denies Fatherhood in Berry Suit
Charles Chaplin replies to Joan Berry's paternity action in Los Angeles denying he is the father of her seven month old daughter. He says Berry seeks settlement out of court and requests $150 monthly support pending trial. Chaplin had paid over $15,000 under a stipulation that tests would dismiss the suit if negative.
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Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Charles Chaplin
Chaplin
Carol Ann
Miss Berry
Superior Court
Supreme Courts
Nineteen Officers Added to 304th Infantry at Camp McCoy
CAMP McCOY Wisconsin special report announces the addition of 19 officers to the 304th Infantry regiment under Regimental Commander Colonel Wallace A. Choquette. New lieutenants include John S Callahan Frank J Krutek Doyle B Downing Eldon M Jelt Frank C Belinger and others from Companies E G H K A F I B M C B I.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
304Th Infantry
Wallace A. Choquette
John S. Callahan
Frank J. Krutek
Doyle B. Downing
H. Eldon M. Jelt
Frank C. Belinger
Turks Would Fight If Supplied
Ankara reports indicate Turkey would enter World War II if asked by the United States and Britain and supplied with 300 planes and 400 tanks. Official reaction remains withheld though a well placed source says Turkey would act only if coalition air and land support is provided and Allied plans currently do not require immediate entry.
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Ankara
Turkey
United States
Britain
Churchill
U S Plan Compared to Churchill World Peace Outline
The administration reportedly drafted a postwar peace plan resembling Churchill’s vision. A world council of great powers would enforce peace, and a world assembly would include other peace loving powers, per a New York Times dispatch from Washington.
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New York
Winston Churchill
New York Times
Washington
the Times
Pastor and Father-in-Law Die in Route 66 Crash
Two killed and three injured when a car collided with a large meat trailer on Route 66 near Towanda. Victims include Rev. Robert A. Spletzer 30 pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Apostles Melrose Park Illinois and his father in law, 59, of Milwaukee.
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Bloomington
Ill
Towanda
Here
Robert A. Spletzer
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Apostles
Melrose Park
Ee Lessman
Milwaukee
Ottumwa Mayor Cleared in Ouster Proceeding
Judge H D Evans exonerates Mayor David Nevin on all maladministration charges after a 342 day hearing in an ouster case tied to a city vice probe. Nevin denied involvement in a pay off scheme linked to Police Commissioner G E Dusty Rhoads who was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to three years.
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Ottumwa
H. D. Evans
David Nevin
John OD. Moon
Vice
Nevin
G. E
Dusty) Rhoads
Rhoads
Mortgage groups to pay farmers twenty thousand dollars
Whitehall Wisconsin special report notes three counties Buffalo Jackson Trempealeau will receive a total of 20000 dollars from the Big Five National Farm Loan association. Repayments go by check to former members whose land bank loans were paid and who did not recover stock. The new plan aims to redeem all certificates at full value and strengthen local associations.
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Whitehall
Wis
Big Five National Farm Loan Association
J. E. Garaghan
Association
Buffalo
Jackson Ad Trempealeau
Garaghan
Land Bank
National Farm Associations
The
Farmers’ Credit
Milwaukee Judge Rules Volksbund Subversive Organization
Federal Judge F. Ryan Duffy ruled that the German American Volksbund and its Milwaukee unit were unAmerican and subversive and that their teachings contradicted the U S constitution The decision covers 10 of 25 German Americans in denaturalization proceedings The ruling addresses the organizations aims and activities and whether membership alone proves fraud in citizenship gains The second part will assess each defendant s participation and knowledge of the group s true purposes
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Milwaukee
F. Ryan Duffy
Volksbund
United States
Bund
America First Leader May Seek Presidency
Gerald L. K. Smith national director of the America First party says he will run for president on his party ticket if Dewey is the Republican nominee and does not correct blunders with nationalists. He plans a Chicago meeting with leaders the day before the Republican national convention to outline support and opposition criteria.
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Philadelphia
Gerald L. K. Smith
America First Party
Dewey
Smith
America First
Chicago
Ike Praises Training Of Allied Army For Invasion
Supreme Allied Headquarters reports General Eisenhower returning from inspection of British ground troops and voicing high approval of their training. He then met King George VI at Buckingham Palace. Allied vehicles are to bear the American white star, while RAF units keep their red, white and blue insignia. Dover Strait shows mist early, wind, choppy seas, and around 50 degrees at 9 a.m.
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Supreme Allied Headquarters
England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George VI
Buckingham Palace
London
RAF
North Africa
Italy
Dover Strait
Duckster or Chickguin Fowl Baffles New Kensington
Fred McKean of New Kensington Pennsylvania found a freak fowl with a rooster head and feet and a duck body. The bird walked like a penguin avoided water and made a noise new to the fowl world.
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Duckster
Chickguin
Fred McKean
New Kensington
Knife Sought In Detroit Clergy Secretary Slaying
Detroit detectives search for a sharp powerful knife believed used to stab Mrs. Jean Long, 8:30 p m Tuesday at the Twelfth Street Evangelical church. Her estranged husband Kenneth Long and Alex Simpson are being questioned. Funeral services were held and her body sent to South Fork Pennsylvania.
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Detroit
Jean Long
Twelfth Street
Kenneth Long
Alex Simpson
South Bend
Ind
Chicago
John O. Whitman
Long
Newell C. Leisemer
Simpson
Lifeguards Guard Coney Island Season Busy Beach
Normally 80 lifeguards patrol Coney Island as they oversee crowds of millions of bathers each season marking a robust safety effort at the famed resort.
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Coney Island
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