Kefauver Crime Hearings Reach Chicago for Second Round
Senate committee investigating organized crime resumes hearings in Chicago after Philadelphia staffers depart. Senator Estes Kefauver notes ties between gangsters and politicians while identifying Harry Rosen as a crime kingpin earner. Capt. Daniel Gilbert Sidney Korshak Arthur Elrod among expected witnesses.
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Philadelphia
Ped
Senate
Mittee
Ee Ee
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Chicago
Rudolph Halsey
Richardson
Harry
Mig) Rosen
Rosen
Sidney Korshak
Arthur X. Elrod
Korshak
Jacob M. Arvey
East German Vote Declares Communist Rule With High Turnout
East Germany announced 12,088,745 votes for the Communist listed list with 51,178 invalid or opposition ballots. Interior Minister Karl Steinhoff praised the turnout while critics alleged fraud hiding over a million voters.
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Karl Steinhoff
National Front
East Germany
Railroad Worker Faces Charge of Wife Murder
MADSON Wis St Croix authorities planned to bring Paul Clark 38 a railroad worker to Hudson to face a first degree murder charge in the shooting of his wife Almade 43. Det Frank Freney said Clark admitted firing a shotgun at his sleeping wife in their New Richmond home Thursday morning. Clark a voluntary mental patient at Mendota state hospital four times since 1938.
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Madson
Wis
St. Croix
Paul Clark
Hudson
Clark
Frank Freney
Almade
Richmond
Mendota State Hospital
Vatican lists WWII Catholic missionary casualties
The Vatican congregation for the mission reports 1,360 missionaries killed in mission lands during World War II and the postwar period. Many mission buildings were destroyed or damaged, totaling about $40 million in losses, with major damage in the Far East, Africa, and Pacific islands.
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Vatican City
Atican
Congregation For the Theregation
Mission Buil
Far East
Africa
Pacific Islands
Un Group Votes Down Russ Bid For Red Rose
The economic and social council overwhelmingly rejected a Russian demand to give defeated North Korean Communists an equal voice with South Korea in drafting a UN relief and rehabilitation program for Korea. The council backed an Australian proposal as the debate ended.
Dewey backs Eisenhower for 1952 and notes personal limits
In a Meet the Press appearance Governor Dewey declares he would back General Eisenhower if drafted for the presidency and says he will not seek the 1952 nomination. He praises Eisenhower as a world figure and shares concern over party futures while Stassen remains noncommittal about a formal endorsement.
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Beatinenint’ Turer ‘Goeur
Minnesota
Dewey
Eisenhower
New York
Stassen
General Eisenhower
White House
Columbia University
Leo Egan
The
New York Times
Theeneral
Winona Livestock Prices and Chicago Grain Figures
Swift & Co report covers Buy hours from 6 a m to 4 p m through Friday and price ranges for cattle and calves in Winona with discounts for excessive fill. It also lists cattle, sheep, and calf market notes from South St Paul and Chicago grain, showing prices for feed, oats, soybeans, and corn with open, high, low, and close figures.
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Swift & Co
Chicago
La Crosse Tribune Notice From Local Paper Archive
Public notice indicating newspaper registration as second class matter and postal handling dates. Records show issuance under the 1879 Act with location listed as Home Crosse Wisconsin.
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THE
Chicago Livestock Market Prices and Movements
Chicago livestock shows early strength then steady activity as prices moved lower for many categories. Cattle and calves varied with top loads at about 20.15 per 100 pounds for select feeders, while good to choice cattle and calves traded with mixed gains and losses across weights and grades.
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South
S &T. Paul Livestock
Chicago
Banks Next in Inflation Curb Effort Says Analysts
The piece reports that Washington has moved six steps to curb inflation and hints a seventh may target banks and businessmen. Economists expect the Fed to raise banks reserve requirements, potentially locking up about 2.5 billion dollars of money for lending, shrinking consumer credit.
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New York
Washington
Ting
Federal Reserve Board
Marriner S. Eccles
Chicago
Federal Reserve Cities
Hurricane Bears Down In Florida Cuba Area
A hurricane with winds up to 125 mph threatens Florida Cuba and the Bahamas. The center sits 140 miles south-southwest of Camaguey Cuba and 480 miles south of Miami. Northeast warnings extend from Palm Beach to Key West as small craft alerts span from Palm Beach to Charleston. Gale force winds battered Miami on Sunday, easing briefly Monday.
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Miami
Fla
Oldest Newspaperman Dies in Kansas at 95
Concordia Kansas reports the death of Gomer T Davies aged 95. Davies was the state’s oldest newspaper editor and publisher and an early state representative. He began his career at Republic in 1883 and later bought the Concordia Republic weekly. He served as president of the National Editorial Association in 1.
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Concordia
Kas
Gomer T. Davies
Newspeace
Davies
Republic Ag.ee 2008
Concordia Res
National Editorial Association
High School Football Fatality Reported in Sheboygan
Wisconsin reports its first high school football death of the season as 15 year old Frederick Dick Fairchild of Sheboygan Central dies from a head injury sustained during a morning game. He died Saturday night at a hospital in Sheboygan.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Wisconsin
Frederick
Dick) Fairchild
Sheboygan Central High School
Korea Front Sees Disorder Amid Retreats and Desertions
Ships report 65,000 U N prisoners as North Korean forces retreat With MacArthur back from Wake Island a signal was expected to rally the Reds Many units deserted up to 20 percent amid scattered fighting along the front North Korean troops accused of mass executions flee toward the north and east coast while American and South Korean forces advance Panama City plans a new $660000 Christian Brothers school under construction.
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MacArthur
Wake Island
Truman
United Nations
Samchok
Yonan
Seoul
Pyongyang
Hungnam
Wonsan
Yonghung
Manchuria
State Pair Midst Ex POW Flier Group To Enjoy Japanese Feast
Two Wisconsin men Harold Schroeder Appleton and Robert H rey Wausau joined a reunion of 11 ex POW fliers who, after eight months in Omori prison near Tokyo in 1945, gathered for a Japanese feast in Chicago. Ray Halloran of Cincinnati led the recounting of their wartime hardships and their plan to honor their shared past with food and fellowship. Fifteen survivors could not attend as they remain in the armed forces in Korea.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Harold Schroeder
Appleton
Robert Hrey
Wausau
Ray Halloran
Cincinnati
Omori
Tokyo
Japan
Youth Lost 36 Hours Found Safely In Wisconsin Woods
Henry Krause 14 was missing from Saturday afternoon while hunting near Grandfather Falls between Merrill and Tomahawk. A search by posse, airplanes and dogs failed until mid Monday when he walked from the woods, saying he was hungry cold and tired but unharmed after building fires and avoiding sight of planes.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Henry Krause
Krause
Grandfather Falls
Merrill
Tomahawk
Henry, Sr
Aon Posse
Court Won’t Revisit Tidelands ruling on federal rights
The Supreme Court refused to reconsider its ruling that the federal government holds paramount rights to tidelands oil under marginal seas along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Orders denied petitions from Texas and Louisiana. Justices Jackson and Clark took no part.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Louisiana
High Court
Jackson and Clark
California
Registration Aims 5 000 To 10 000 For Medical Draft Pool
Washington plans call for a pool of five to ten thousand men to supply the medical draft with 1 522 doctors dentists and veterinarians. Draft boards registered young doctors dentists and veterinarians in the army V 12 program and those deferred from World War II to complete medical dental or veterinary degrees. Estimates place the involved number between five thousand and ten thousand.
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Washington
Congree
Navy Man Shot By Cop In Fight On Subway
Samuel S. Ellis Jr a 22 year old Navy veteran was killed by rookie officer Edward Rouch after a subway struggle in Philadelphia witnesses say Ellis attacked with a knife Rouch sustained multiple knife wounds and a bite during the confrontation Ellis died at Hahnemann Hospital about an hour after the shooting
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Philadelphia
Pasengers
Samuel S. Ellis, Jr
Hahnemann Hospital
Edward Rouch
Ellis
Rouch
Steel Union Aims 25 Cents Hour in Wage Talks
The union has set a demand of about 25 cents an hour in wage negotiations sparked by a conference requested by Murray. The current two year contract covering 1,400 companies allows wage discussions to reopen, with a potential strike if no deal is reached by January 1, 1951.
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Murray
Benefits Set By UMW For Pit Men
Miners hospital and disability benefits costing about 2 million dollars monthly were announced by the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund. The plan adds pensions for 60 year old members with 20 years service, extended hospital care for widows and dependents, and disability payments for men aged 45 to retirement with 30 a month plus supplements for spouses and children. Trustees tightened eligibility and cut some services from last year’s program under the 30 cent per ton royalty.
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Washington
Coal Indus
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
UMW
John L. Lewis
Lewis
UMWA
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