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La Crosse Tribune (Newspaper) - May 28, 1950, La Crosse, Wisconsin A foe a a �r##0t Tribune volume Xvi. Number 13 Twenty six pages la Crosse Wisconsin sunday morning May 28, 1950 sunday edition men around Truman wife House taken Over by old shoe gang from. Missouri by Paul Martin third article of a series Washington the White House Butler had scarcely unpacked the Truman things when the a Missouri gang suited helping to Uke Over the government. They provided a Sharp contrast to the esoteric Well educated and often Radical planners who surrounded Roosevelt through the a new i i it was More reminiscent of Souri political Battles and helped the old shoe qualities of the helped him win the vice presi a Ohio gang in the Harding and him win the vice presidential ministration. Nomination in 1944. But ii or. Truman a Missouri named military aide friends seemed less Brilliant wifi of flt major appointment than or. Roosevelt new York was Majce John Wesley Sny a social workers and Harvard pro self styled a country Bank tees of Felix Frankfurter this Era the Fec Era loan admits Elso could be said about them. Orator and later the Treasury i a grass roots politicians Secretary. They were a saner More senator Truman previously j earthy crowd. They were As Dis had Snyder appointed manager Tinct ively american As flags of the St. Louis office of the loan waving Street parades and the Agency in 1937. Fourth of july. They weren the picked Harry Hawkins starry eyed with marxian Doc Vaughan blustering citizen-sol-1 Trine or keynesian theories. Dier to be his military aide. Some w Ere mediocre by Edu they served together in the a National or professional stand Tillery in world War i. Vaughan a Ards. None had been an out also was Secretary to senator standing Success in the business Truman for several years world. I handling White House press there were no University pres relations was turned Over to dents. Wall Street financiers Charles g. Ross former Wash big corporation executives Cul in ton correspondent of the St. Its threat of a june i strike against tured socialites or polished dip Louis Post dispatch and a Pulit to Western railroads the National third District republicans endorse Porter for Congress switch ens Union cancels strike plans Jep of says meeting negotiators make Progress toward pad National mediation Board believes strike will not be necessary now Washington a up a the switchman s Union has cancelled Komats. There were for the most part realistic a a grass roots politicians. When Harry s. Truman suddenly became president in 1945. Mediation Board said saturday Zer prize Winner in 1932. Ross promptly promised the. A fullest possible flow of news j no amp a and a every Effort to give every announcement of the Cancella body a Square tion was made by Francis a. Of president Truman named Rob Neill. Jr., chairman of the Board. It was instinctive that he should Ert e. Hannegan democratic sufficient Progress has been surround himself with old and National chairman and former made in negotiations of Neill said trusted advisers. He wanted St. Louis Ward Leader As Post in a statement to warrant the them both for counsel and com master general. Mediation Board continuing its of i pan. I Hannegan had talked Roose forts to Settle the differences be there also was the matter of veil organized labor and the tween the Union and the railroads. Paying off fiends who had big City democratic Bosses into him fought with through mis Iseff Truman. Page la City housing authority founded by aldermen editor s note this is the first of a series of articles giving background information about the Low rent housing program proposed by the la Crosse housing authority. Voters of the City will decide in a referendum election on june 6 whether the common Council shall enter into a cooperation agreement with the authority. This would permit the authority to construct 200 Low rent Homes under the Public housing administration program. The first article deals with the la Crosse housing authority and its Powers under the state Law. Mortality truancy delinquency tuberculosis and Relief cases in Day work comparison to better sections of sunday work. The Union whose full name is the switchman s Union of North America had threatened to Call out 6.000 members in vital Yard service. Most of the lines that would j have been affected Are West of Chicago. The Union is demanding a 40-hour week with the same pay now received for 48 hours. It also is seeking time and a half for Satur and double time for was rigged incumbent beaten by 214 to 12 margin by Bloomington Man Nicol is endorsed Richland Center wis. A special a third District republicans at a convention Here saturday endorsed state sen. Foster Porter Bloomington for Congress. Porter won the endorsement by a 214-12 vote Over incumbent rep. Gardner r. Withrow la Crosse who attempted to have his name withdrawn from nomination after charging the convention was endorsement also was Given the candidacies of assemblyman Alex Nicol Sparta speaker of the Assembly for the nomination for lieutenant governor and assemblyman Vernon w. Thomson Richland Center for attorney general. First to endorse it was the first District gop convention to endorse candidates for statewide offices. Several oth nearing their destination of Camp Mccoy after a 1.050-mile five Day journey from Camp Carson colo., a 227-unit army Convoy passed through la Crosse saturday afternoon. Shown leaving the Mississippi River Bridge and heading East on Cass is a part of the second battalion combat team 14th infantry. The team will furnish regular army troop support during summer training at Camp Mccoy a Tribune Phot seventeen non operating rail unions with 1,000,000 members won similar demands last september. Besides getting 48-hour pay for a 40-hour week they won a seven cents an hour pay raise. O Neill said in his statement a while the Union reserves the right to reinstate its strike order i believe no further strike Call will be negotiations looking toward a settlement of the dispute Between the Union and the railroads have the City. Appointed commissioners on Jan. 12, 1946, mayor j. J. Verchota appointed the five commissioners of the newly created authority. These members were the it. Rev. Msgr. A. N. Schuh who was elected chairman or. Carl o. Pederson mrs. Owen Jackson l. V. Weisensel and Alderman Harry Newburg. The present authority consists of msgr. Schuh. Mrs. Jackson. Been under Way Here for several atty. Frank Grover Alderman t Days. I Joel Stokke and the Rev. O. S. The to railroads that would the la Crosse housing author Paulson who recently was a have been affected by the strike to was created on Jan. La 1946. Pointed to fill the vacancy Are by action of the common Council caused by the resignation of or. I Chicago great Western Chicago under the Wisconsin housing a Pederson. Rock Island and Pacific Daven thormities Law. Powers and duties of housing port. Rock Island and North West immediate purpose was to pro authorities in the state Are out Ern Denver and Rio Grande West Side temporary accommodations lined in the Wisconsin act passed Ern great Northern Railroad for veterans and others because in the 1930�?Ts. The Law begins Minneapolis and St. Louis rail with its purpose Road Northern Pacific terminal a it is declared that there sex company of Oregon St. Paul uni on depot company Sioux City Safe dwelling accommodations terminal company and Western and that persons of Low income Pacific railway company Are forced to reside in such a Daniel p. Loomis chairman of i the Western carriers conference shortage of dwellings the Law goes on within the j Gower it president 0f the switch. State there is a shortage of ate Mcn-5 Unicy the labor Side. Or sanitary dwellings available at rents which persons of Low i income can afford. Such persons Are forced to occupy r jct ? overcrowded and congested rot gods it i to a the aforesaid conditions years yet papa says cause an increase in the spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health safety and morals of the residents of the state and impair economic values. A these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of Public funds for crime prevention and punish or the critical housing situation Long Range aim of the sponsors the Central Council of so is in the state unsanitary or in rial agencies labor and veterans groups was action on a year Long study of blighted areas in the City. This study prepared in 1938, showed the sections on maps and gave details on infant Lacrosse planning Parade. Programs on memorial Day la Crosse will observe me-1 Gram at Oak Grove cemetery Tribune offers subscribers 2 summer plans committee headed the management negotiators Here and Arthur no boy friends the la Crosse Tribune again offers two plans whereby subscribers of the newspaper Are assured of not missing any issues while they Are away on vacation. Under the a email away plan subscribers May have their Home delivered paper transferred Over from the Carrier boy to a special i Callander. Ont. A Pic the Dionne quintuplets. 16 sunday will not have boy friends for two More years says their father. The no dating Rule applies until they finish school. Papa Oliva Dionne said some people think they ought to hate More Freedom but he does no to. Annette Cecile Emelie Marie and maj. Gen. Philip b. Fleming above was named by president Truman to the newly created $17.500-a-year Post of undersecretary of Commerce for transportation. Fleming has been serving As chairman of the maritime commission which was abolished under the government reorganization plans. His new appointment requires Senate approval. Fourth of july plans outlined pageant fireworks planned in City modal Day on tuesday in its traditional custom with thousands of school children representatives of military patriotic civic and other groups participating in a Parade and appropriate programs. The Parade will leave fourth and King streets promptly at 9 a. In. Its numerous units will begin organizing at 8 30 a. In. On the Market Square and in Cameron Park. Divides at West Avenue it will go East on King to West Avenue where it will Divide. Sections one and two will go North on West Avenue and Over Forrest Avenue to Oak Grove cemetery while Section three will turn South on West Avenue to Cass and then go East on Cass to 22nd, South on 22nd to Market and East on Market to the Catholic cemetery. At to a. In. There will be a pro nation plans to Honor War dead tuesday i Washington up it a the nation will Honor its War dead tues while the Catholic cemetery will have a Field mass at la a. In. Arrangements have been made for a 10 30 a. In. Ritual service firing squad and taps by the veterans of foreign wars in Woodlawn cemetery. At la a. In. Wilson Colwell Relief Cost is no. 2 will hold services in Riverside Park the vow drum corps and other patriotic groups assisting. Because of the Riverside Park program an Appeal was made to owners of Speed and motorboats to keep them off the River for the one half hour of the services. Plan Campbell rites at 2 p. In. Tuesday there will be a Gar ritual service at Campbell cemetery conducted under the direction of the boy scouts. The vow firing squad will assist. The Parade route tuesday morning must be cleared of parked automobiles according to a police department order. Cars parked on the route will be towed away under police direct see Parade. Page 121 electrical Union pm sign 5-year pact Detroit a he a general to East German youths plan huge Parade by Thomas a. Reedy Berlin up it a a half million East German youngsters played and cheered in berlins soviet sector saturday night in the greatest ideological spectacle Here since Adolf Hitler. The Climax to the show comes sunday in a Whitsuntide Parade. East West incidents were few and isolated. A burst of harmless gunfire rattled through the carnival air once during the Day. The shooting apparently was intended to warn West Berlin police against pursuing red police who seized a West Berliner and made off with him into the soviet sector. None was reported Hurt a full round of assorted communist activities was carried out by the marching and milling youth on the eve of their big Day of obeisance to Kremlin political leadership. The a free German youth adj rally dedicated to Friendship with Russia started rolling or District meetings decided to without any show of an organized 6 Putsch against wary but quiet West Berlin. Allied Armor stood ready to Stop any mass intrusions. Violence mostly vocal violence in the Early stages was mainly vocal taunting and cat calling across the cold War front where the soviet East meets the Allied West. The Moscow East Berlin Axis pumped a human Stream of Blu shirted youth ranging from six to 24 years old into the devastated heart of the old nazi Reich with something of the precision hitlers generals once used to move armies. In the three Days since the youth demonstration began 35 policemen from the russian sector have fled to West Berlin seeking Asylum. Fourteen of these deserted saturday afternoon and turned themselves Over to West Berlin refugee centers. They were accepted As political refugees. A taunting crowd of anti communists gathered in the afternoon on the West Side of pots Damer Platzk the times Square of divided berlins and became furious when Eastern police arrested a girl and two men in a no Many a land Corner. Plan Long Parade West German police cleared a Triko a Foster Porter leave such endorsements to the state convention in Milwaukee june 9 and to. The names of Porter and Withrow were the Only ones presented at the saturday convention. State senator r. M. Schlabach la Crosse had announced several weeks ago he would seek the office but that a i am not nor will i become a candidate for their civilians out of the trouble Par a endorsement at the Richland Center caucus. I am a firm believer in the open primary and believe it to be Only proper to leave the Choice of candidates area. In East berlins to chants of a Long live Stalin a adj legions carried on a vast 12-hour program of fetes and pro soviet oratory. Before a crowd of 70,000 com to the Republican voters at the there were rumours that Wil Monist Deputy Premier Walter Yam Stevenson la Crosse Ulbricht dedicated a sports stad ormer cd a a Esfi pan 0 ml8bt cum bearing Stalin a name. A see be a candidate. There was no exin Stalin your Best Friend jul Preston at the Richland Center Bricht urged. I meetin8 More than 3,000 youngsters neither Schlabach nor Steven mailing service by Means of which Yvonne Are in Ade to and have development ration. Copies of the la Crosse Tribune pre dispatched each Day in a special individual wrapper addressed As per instructions. The Cost for this service is exactly the same As having the paper delivered to your Home by the Carrier boy. If you Are planning a trip that entails a lot of driving with no Long a Stop overs to allow the paper to catch up with you the circulation department suggests the use of the a play away the newspaper saves copies of the Tribune while you Are away and delivers them to you in a clean convenient package when you return. There is no extra Cost for this service and it is the answer for those folks who move from place to place on their vacation schedule making mail service impractical. To Avail yourself of either plan see your regular la Crosse Tribune Carrier boy or Telephone 2-8040 and ask for the whole family will enjoy a vacation for your Home town news your favorite comics articles and editorials have the la Crosse Tribune mailed or saved for you while you Are away on vacation. Fire and Accident the state Law continues that shortage of Safe and sanitary dwellings for people of Low income cannot be relieved through the operation of private Enterprise. It states that clearance replanting and reconstruction of areas in which unsafe and in two More High school years ahead. Home and abroad where american servicemen lie buried. A till i general of the army George c. A a i Marshall will be the principal reminiscent of Oldi Tim a Fea u mem0rial Day speaker at a five 3 j i by the mfr fans up hour Observance at the Arlington being planned by the la Crosse a National cemetery. President Truman will be repro Day in services at cemeteries at tors corp. Signed a five year contract saturday night with the Cio International Union of electrical radio and machine workers. The agreement is patterned traffic deaths Lead memorial weekend toll by the associated press Chilly weather kept memorial Day outings and drownings at a after the pact signed tuesday by pm with the Cio United Auto workers. ,. No Suciu it Cuic the contract non Reo enable the organization founded Pri Sente j at ceremony by Cap for five years covers about 32, a Ltd in in?8efnr in Adam Eisenhauer a White 000 workers. The Union formed Riding entertainment for t he House army aide. He will place by tha Cio last fall repro Community on the nation s birth the executives wreaths on sents employees at these plants Day anniversary and using the profits from its ventures for the development of the Myrick Park zoo last week launched a widespread membership Campaign. Sanitary housing conditions sex minimum saturday but Highway seeks memberships the Tomb of the unknown Soldier of world War i and at the monuments to the Union and Confederate dead of the civil War. Senator Bricker a Ohio will give the address at Gettysburg Frigidaire and Delco products Dayton o. Packard electric Warren o. Delco appliance Rochester n. Y., and Delco Remy Battery Plant new Brunswick n. J. Paid tribute to red army dead i a on could at the soviet War memorial in Crosse for treptow Park. Their spokesman promised a we will fight to liberate our Brothers and Sisters in the West from Anglo american colonial sundays March brings the be reached in la comment saturday night. Charges caucus a a rigged Withrow after he was nominated asked that his nomination be withdrawn because a this whole caucus has been greatest concentration with the Wayne Hood la Crosse chair half million starting to Parade maa of the caucus and state gop at 9 a. In. 2 a. Rn., Central Standard time. The Parade is expected to last eight hours. Sex assemblyman Dies Milwaukee a up a Martin m. Higgins 59, former Alderman who served in the state Assembly As a Republican in 1920, died of a heart attack at his Home saturday. Is and the providing of Safe and fatalities mounted steadily in All has carried Appeal for a from the spot where president n it a a i i n aaa a j m f 4l a Aai pm a 1�y� a i in t a i j i a. J Al sanitary dwelling a commode sections of Hie country tons for persons of Low income by late saturday night. The memberships to organizations industries wholesale and Job Are Public uses for which Public violent death toll not including Bing firms All retail establish a a when a of >1 a a. H aim Al Aap a i i at a of a a it a _ Money May be spent and Pri homicides or suicides a since 6 Vale property acquired and Are . Local time Friday had risen governmental functions of the to 112. This included 83 traffic state concern. Deaths 16 drownings and 13 deaths Powers o the housing author from miscellaneous accidents to Are Broad. I the National safety Council a housing authority can act forecast that 290 persons would be As agent for the government killed in Highway accidents by it so housing. Page 12 it tuesday Midnight. Promise Clear water monday ask residents cooperation ments adults and school children. A variety of membership classification is offered with the organizations ambition being to raise More than $2,000 through this Means before july 4 so As to be Able to underwrite ail expenses that will be incurred in the Celebration. The pageant in which numerous organizations in the Community Are participating will be Given on the grandstand Field at the inter state fair grounds at 8 p. In. On july 4. Portraying the events leading up to and culminating in t h e where to find it pages a around town column 6 business Outlook. 22 Community news.15, 16 daily records .12 editorials. 6 movies. 21 outdoor news it radio programs. 20 women a Page news. 8. 9. To sports. It. 18 la Crosse housewives will have i voir As near full As possible when cleaner water for washing and we Start using water from it ear All residents will have Clear jes signing of the declaration of in. I w j i residents of the City not to use dependence the pageant will water for drinking Early monday j water for nonessential purposes have five scenes. Participating but the extent of it depends on a this will mean that they organizations Are the american the cooperation of All persons in should Stop sprinkling lawns and legion and auxiliary veterans the City according to a joint i gardens at 6 p. In. Sunday. J of foreign wars and auxiliary statement issued by the boards a we will watch the water lev Junior chamber of Commerce of health and Public works sat e in the Reservoir monday. It la Crosse bar association urday night. J May be possible that we May be j toastmasters and Toast is a a we plan to use the water in Able to delay pumping directly tresses clubs. The Grandad Bluff Reservoir ear into the Mains until 9 a. In. Orby monday because it is less of even later. Direct pageant a actionable in color than that a we Appeal to housewives if the fireworks which already pumped directly into the Mains a they want to use cleaner water j have been contracted for by the boards said. For their household washing that the association will follow the local weather a we will delay pumping i they be through with their Wash renting into the Mains As Long ing by 9 a. In. i As we have an adequate Supply the boards indicated that if partly Cloudy and somewhat of water in the Reservoir to As the monday Experiment was warmer sunday High temperature sure safety in Case of fire. J successful it probably would be sunday afternoon 74. J a in order to have the Reser i continued each week. Pageant. The combined program will require two hours according to Albert h. Schubert association president. The pageant win be directed pm id Abraham Lincoln dedicated the Battlefield 85 years ago. The armed forces plan to place an american Flag at each grave in the National cemeteries in the United states Alaska puerto Rico and Hawaii and on Graves in foreign countries where the War dead still rest. The National cemeteries contain More than 581,000 Graves. More than 31,000 world War i dead and approximately 94,000 dead of the last War lie in burial grounds overseas. _ 0 Blossom Day crowd awaited Gays Mills wis. A special a the Gays Mills area is ready to entertain the hundreds of visitors expected to View the Apple Orchards during the annual Blossom Day Celebration this sunday. The Gays Mills High school will Greet visitors at the Orchards in the afternoon and a refreshment stand has been set up for the convenience of motorists. Large crowds from All Points of Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin Are expected this weekend. Originally the event was scheduled May 21t but was postponed because of unseasonal weather. Wiley charges High ups try to sidetrack gambling probe by Morgan Reynolds Washington a up a senators investigating crime and gambling struck on Distant fronts saturday amidst charges that a crooked big City organizations Are pressuring a High up channels to Block the probe. These were highlight developments 1. Senator Mcfarland a Ariz asked u. S. District attorney Morris Fay to Check on the possibility of filing perjury charges against two reputed Kingpins of the underworld Frank Erickson and Frank costello. The two new York figures who have been linked with gambling enterprises throughout the country testified some weeks ago before Mcfarland a Senate Commerce subcommittee which has just won clearance for a Bill to curb interstate relay of horse and dog racing information. Mcfarland said later developments have raised the question As to whether Erickson and costello gave false testimony to the committee. 2. Senator Kefauver a ten who Heads the special investigating group pressed super Sec rtt hearings which he launched without Advance notice Friday in Miami. Among the Parade of witnesses marching into the closely guarded Federal yielding at the Florida resort was the chief of the internal Revenue bureaus intelligence unit and four of his agents. Their presence bolstered speculation that the Kefauver group is hoping to use the same income tax weapon against today a gambling overlords As was used years ago to put Al Capone behind bars. 3. Senator Wiley a Wisa member of the investigating group said a certain outside influences connected with the democratic political organization a have already attempted to put the heat on in an. Effort to squelch the investigation. But Kefauver said in Miami a nobody is putting any pressure on me and i know of no attempts to sidetrack our in a speech prepared for delivery from station win Chicago Wiley did not name any individuals but he said they were a Subtle silk Glove influences the sort of thing one would expect from billion Dollar bracketing influences tied up with Shady chairman ruled that Withrow could withdraw his nomination but the caucus voted 138-93, to overrule the chairman. So Withrow a nomination stood and Porter got the overwhelming approval of the caucus. While Porter talked but one minute saying he would vote As a Republican if elected Withrow addressed the caucus for 15 minutes. Porter appealed to the convention to give Withrow More than the five minutes allowed under the rules. Withrow noted that a there Are no labor or farm organizations represented Here but there Are lawyer in a the people of Wisconsin will see top. Page 12 two Hurt at Oakdale Oakdale wis. A special Glen Johnson 26, eau Clai Reff and Galen Warden Jones 26, Colfax Are in a Sparta Hospital As the result of an Accident about 6 30 a. In. Saturday. It is not yet known yet who was driving the car in which Johnson and Jones were Riding but their car crashed with the car driven by Martin Jensen Oakdale Gas station manager9 who was coming out of an Oakdale Street onto u. S. Highway 12-16. Jensen told traffic officer Chris Hendrickson he had stopped for the arterial Stop and failed to see the oncoming car. The Johnson Jones car careened 228 feet before coming to a Stop. Both Johnson and Jones Are in a state of deep Shock. Jones it is reported has a broken right leg and other fractures. Jensen was unhurt

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