Western Europe agrees on ERP fund division in first year
The OEEC council finalized a $4.875 billion ERP distribution for year one with Britain receiving $1.223 billion and France $989 million. Germany's bi zone gets $414 million, Italy $606 million, the Netherlands $496 million, and others receive smaller amounts. The complete plan awaits currency exchange terms before submission to the ECA. In Louisiana, Truman is scratched from the ballot as States' Rights Democrats seize 10 electoral votes, and Dewey eyes a westward campaign while bipartisan foreign policy is urged.
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Western Europe
Joseph E. Dynan
Paris
Western
Europe
Council of the European Economic Cooperation Organization
OEEC
American Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Council
Britain
France
Italy
Sweden
Netherlands
Germany
East Indies
Belgium
Austria
Denmark
Norway
Eire
Turkey
Trieste
Iceland
Baton Rouge
Truman
Louisiana
Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee
National Democratic Party
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Washington
Dixie
South
Thomas E. Dewey
Mr. Truman
Dewey
Des Moines
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oregon
Lash Truman
Part of New York Trucker Strike Settled
New wage agreements with 226 trucking firms return nearly 2,000 idle New York City truckers to work. Terms include a 1.72 cent hourly raise after wage concessions by 807 AFL Teamsters locals. Global labor news notes continued strikes in California and other sectors with varied responses from unions and management.
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New York City
New York
AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters
CIO
California
Oklaoma
Army Cargo
Seattle
Independent
Aeronautical Mechanics Union
Boeing Airplane Company
Unon
AFL Teamsters Union
Boeing
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Detroit
Briggs
Chrysler
Packard
Postmen Left Out of Psyche Studies Says Boston Report
A Boston based report cited by the American Psychological Association notes widespread use of psychological studies in government, but the post office department has not adopted such programs. Officials in Chicago describe a dog bite prevention project for mail carriers while denying any postman psychoanalysis plans.
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Washington
Boston
American Psychological Association
Armed Services
Post Office Department
Bill Allen
Allen
Chicago
Edward Landry
Prepare Reserves For Swift Action
The army readies its reserves for emergency use with half of potential draftees signed up. Reserve officers will join units to support combat divisions, while others are listed as military instructors. Assignments are on a stand by basis for emergency use only. The 1927 class finishes draft registration today, with 1928 youths set to register next.
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Washington
Army
Siamese Twins Born At Edward W Sparrow Hospital
Five day old Siamese twin girls joined at the abdomen thrived in an oxygen tent at Sparrow hospital Lansing. They were born at the hospital last Tuesday by normal birth and remain in good condition with the mother recovering easily.
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Lansing
Mich
Edward W. Sparrow Hospital
Former King Ferdinand Dies in Coburg at 87
Ferdinand the former king of Bu abdicated in 1918 and died in Coburg Germany at age 87. He had been a prominent monarch before the collapse of the empire and lived out his later years in exile.
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Coburg
Germany
Ferdinand
Yeste
Five Candidates Outline Views On Key Campaign Issues
Five of six contenders spoke on a Milwaukee radio forum hosted by the League of Women Voters outlining four campaign priorities each. Carroll pressed education and labor, housing and a veterans bonus, plus reform of employment peace and anti strike laws, and a broad housing program. Immell emphasized agriculture and industry, recreation, and public welfare with soil and water conservation measures.
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Governor's
Madison
League of Women Voters of
Milwaukee
Carl Thompson
William D. Carroll
Ralph Immell
Walter H. Uphoff
Henry J. Berquist
People’s Progressive
Wallace
Oscar Rennebohm
Carroll
Wisconsin
Immell
City Council Accepts Mathy Paving Bid and Sewer Work
The Bemel city council approved a $46 330 paving bid by Mathy Construction for Jackson and State streets and Cas street resurfacing. It also accepted a $39 400 bid from Peter Nelson and Son for a sewer lift station on the Causeway, while rejecting McKoskey’s $49 886 bid as too high. The council moved to re advertise for new bids and discussed fairground development limits and off street parking plans.
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Mathy Construction Company
Common Council
Jackson Street
Third Street
State Road
State Street
Fourth
West Avenue
Casstreet
Seventh
14Th Street
Nelson
Bemel
Peter Nelson and Son
George J. McKoskey
McKoskey
W. P. Roellig
McKoseky
Board of Public Works
Rexford Mitchell
Teacher's College
Fairgrounds
Mitchell
Board of Regents
Charles Bemel
Pear Street
Masonic Temple
Spence Park
Mount Vernon Street
Warren to Tour Wisconsin Stops in October Campaign
Gov. Earl Warren Republican nominee for vice president will visit Janesville Madison and La Crosse on a nationwide tour. Arrival times are Oct. 7 in Janesville at 2:45 p.m. departure 3 p.m. Madison visit 4 p.m. Oct. 7 depart 7:45 a.m. Oct. 8 arrive La Crosse 11:45 a.m. depart 12:15 p.m. for Minneapolis.
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Washington
Earl Warren
California
United States
Wisconsin
Warren
Janesville
Wis
Chicago
All Times Central Standard
Madison
la Crosse
Minneapolis
Harvest forecasts promise big 1948 crop volume and value
Washington reports official crop survey predicts bumper harvests in 1948 for wheat corn cotton tobacco peanuts and rice with total farm value around 13.338 billion dollars up from 12.288 billion last year. Corn output tops 3.53 billion bushels worth about 6.74 billion. wheat about 1.285 billion bushels valuing near 2.70 billion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Nine Day Buck Season Approved by Wisconsin Commission
The Wisconsin conservation commission ended three months of debate with a five to one vote for a nine day buck season from November 20 to 28 and a concurrent black bear season. Gov. Rennebohm is expected to sign. The decision follows clashes over deer herd management and opposition to a broader any deer season.
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Eagle River
Wis
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Rennebohm
Commission
Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Aberg
Madison
Newark Arrest Case Trails Wisconsin Warrant for Lemay
Ed mond H. Lemay, 52, arrested in Newark on a Milwaukee forgery warrant, will be extradited. He waived removal as Wisconsin Sheriff George Hanley flies East to pick him up after Lemay’s wife disappeared on June 15. Lemay’s job with American Hair and Felt was terminated. A related warrant targets Mrs Eva Clark for auto theft involving the missing woman’s car.
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Newark
N. J
Edmond H. Lemay
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Frank O'Neil
Lemay
O’neil
George Hanley
Fell
American Hair and Felt Company
William J. McCauley
Eva Clark
Clark
O'Neil
Hanley
Four Men Die In Auto Crash Near Waukesha
Four men died and a fifth was critical after a new car with 238 miles on the speedometer crashed into a tree near the east city limits of Waukesha Wisconsin. Victims Nelson Stuit George H Schultz Harold Hein John Sexsmith died at Memorial hospital. Carl Bitterbush remained in critical condition. Police say the car went out of control at high speed while rounding a curve on Highway 59.
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Waukesha
Wis
Nelson Stuit
George H. Schultz
Harold Hein
John Sexsmith
Menomonee Falls
Memorial Hospital
Carl Bitterbush
Harold T. Owens
Highway 59
Queuille forms centrist government after budget vote
Premier Queuille wins national assembly backing 351 to 196 to pursue a budget reduction program. He aims a financial policy similar to predecessors Andre Marie and Robert Schuman despite past government collapses over the same approach.
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National Assembly
Queuille
The
Nation
Andre Marie
Robert Schuman
British and U S Leaders Meet Over Berlin Crisis
In Washington British and U S officials including Senator Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles conferred on the Berlin blockade. Secretary of State Marshall and British Ambassador Oliver Franks participated as Vandenberg urged restraint and unity in policy amid talks with Russia and Dewey in New York.
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Washington
U. S
Vandenberg
Berlin
Russia
Marshall
Oliver Franks
Franks
State Department
New York
John Foster Dulles
United States
United Nations
America
Charles E. Bohlen
City Adopts New Vending Law Amid Injunction Fight
An amended ordinance regulates itinerant vendors in the city with a $120 annual license fee. Ex soldiers with 25 percent or higher disability are exempt. The city aims to deter injunctions as City Attorney Fred Steele notes readiness to fight further challenges. The change replaces a $25 daily fee and allows the clerk to refund a portion of deposits for stays under a year.
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Fred Steele
Winona
La Crosse Band to Perform at Veterans Memorial Park
The La Crosse concert band will give a Sunday concert at Veterans Memorial park in West Salem at 2 30 p m. Readers may hear Floyd Larson on bass drum Carl Selbrede and son Wilbur on cornets and Kenneth Storandt on clarinet as part of the event.
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West Salem
Wis
la Crosse
Veterans Memorial Park
Floyd Larson
Carl Selbrede
Wilbur
Kenneth Storandt
Miss America Finals Tonight in Atlantic City
Beauties from 43 states plus Hawaii Puerto Rico and Canada compete in the 55 entrant Miss America pageant in Atlantic City New Jersey. Finals will crown the winner after preliminary rounds in bathing suit evening gown and talent with Patti Anne Luer Montana taking the talent prize and Miss Atlanta winning the bathing suit segment.
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Atlantic City
N. J
South
West
Midwest
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Canada
Carmen
Montana
Patti Anne Luer
Anaconda
Mont
Miss Luer
Jerry Long
Hidden Loudspeakers Target La Crosse Jaywalking Infractions
Jaycees place loudspeakers downtown to call out pedestrians who cross against signals. Voices chide violators urging use of crosswalks and highlighting past pedestrian auto mishaps. Citizens are urged to reflect on their own habits and safety.
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la Crosse
Jaycees
Bleecker Enroute To Claim Daughter
George H. Bleecker Jr of Endicott heads to Duluth Minnesota to reclaim his four year old daughter Margaret Bleecker found last week in Minnesota. The child had been living with Everett B Carroll and his wife who disappeared with her 18 months ago. Carroll was burned in a cabin fire near Hibbing. Margaret was not harmed.
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Binghamton
N. Y
George H. Bleecker, Jr
Endicott
Duluth
Minn
Argaret Bleecker
Minnesota
Everett B. Carroll
Lake Side
Hibbing
Carroll
Margaret
Bleeckers
Carrolls
Bleecker
George Bleecker
Bice Heads Sanitorium Trustee Association
Madison Wisconsin Ray mond C Bice Republican assemblyman from La Crosse elected president of the Wisconsin Sanatorium Trustees association at its annual meeting A W Hill Fond du Lac named vice president Charles L Burnham Milwaukee secretary and A S Lerdahl Madison treasurer The group reaffirms opposition to including sanatoria in any hospital licensing plan and asks lawmakers for more funds for patient rehabilitation at sanatoria.
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Madison
Wis
Raymond C. Bice
la Crosse
Wisconsin Sanatorium Trustees Association
A. W. Hill
Fond du Lac
Charles L. Burnham
Milwaukee
A. S. Lerdahl
Whitelaw
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Rpa
80Th Congress
Martin
Pittsburgh
Associated Press
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Royall
Bell System
CIO Telephone Workers
Independent Communication Workers of America
Arthur Edson
la Crosse and Vicinity
Women Voters
City Council
Mathy
Board of Education
Lawrence Phillips, Jr
Springfield
Mass
By John Wyngaard
Tribur
Madison Bureau
J. A. Riegel
St. Croix Falls
W. J. P. Aberg
Charles F. Smith
Wausau
Arthur Molstead
John O. Moreland
Hayward
Douglas Hunt
Wautoma
Ernest Swift
Swift
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
GOP
America United
Vets Park
Bleecker Enroute
Bice Heads Sanitorium Trustee Association
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