Senate backs McCarthy housing bill over TEW
The Senate passed a compromise housing bill by Sen. McCarthy to speed small home building, with no slum clearance subsidies, on a voice vote after replacing the Taft Ellender Wagner bill. House action was postponed to Saturday as leaders aim to send bills to the White House and close Congress.
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Senate
House
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Chamber
Barkley
Kentucky
Halleck
Ind
White House
Congress
Ohio Killer Pleads Innocent to Charles Mansfield
Robert M. Daniels pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to three murders in Mansfield Ohio. He is arraigned on first degree murder indictments before Judge G E Kalbfleisch and set for trial August 30. Victims include John Niebel superintendent of the Mansfield reformatory farm Mrs Niebel and daughter Phyllis 21. The killings occurred three weeks ago as part of a two week crime spree with a gunman accomplice who is now dead.
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Mansfield
Robert M. Daniels
Ohio
Daniels
Common Pleas
G. E. Kalbfleisch
John Niebel
Mansfield Reformatory Farm
FCC Warns on Prize Giveaways to Curb Radio Lotteries
The FCC proposed new rules to curb prize based broadcasts on radio claiming they verge on illegal lotteries. It targets programs offering cash travel and merchandise prizes with no purchase or listener triggers. The agency will accept comments until September 10 and seeks to preserve broadcasting’s broad purpose.
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Commission
Bermuda
Practice Fire Run Aids Traffic Control
A practice fire alarm staged at 7 20 last evening drew about half the town. The department lit a large bonfire near the east end of the fairgrounds and then conducted equipment practice. Motorists are asked to park two blocks away to allow space for water hookups and to follow the fire route with trucks directing traffic.
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Fairgrounds
Political pow wow at the White House with Democratic leaders
President Truman held a frank evening conference at the White House with current and former leaders of the Democratic National Committee. Attendees included Senator McGrath of Rhode Island and five former national chairmen, while James A. Farley was noted as en route to Europe.
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Truman
White House
Democratic Party
Charles G. Ross
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Senator McGrath
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
George White
Ohio
Robert E. Hannegan
Frank Walker
Homer S. Cummings
Edward J. Flynn
James A. Farley
Ross
Farley
Europe
Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Albany
N. Y
Herbert Brownell Jr
Dodgeville Co op Dairy Fined for Adulterated Butter
The Iowa County Co op Dairy of Dodgeville was fined 50 dollars plus costs in county court for selling butter with less than 80 percent milk fat. Judge Harold J. Lamboley presided as the state's charge cited Wisconsin law on adulterated food.
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Iowa County
William C Pinnow Dies at Farm Home
William C Pinnow 63 died at 2 30 this morning at his home on the county line road east of Brodhead after a nine month heart illness. He was born November 1 1884 in Spring Grove township and married Annie Ida Roennepurg January 22 1908 in Rock Grove. He and his wife farmed in Illinois and in Spring Grove, later moving to their Ruehlow place near Brodhead. Surviving are his widow ten children eleven including Charles in Pensacola and others at home or nearby, six brothers and five sisters and 14 grandchildren. Funeral services Sunday at 2 30 at the Evangelical United Brethren church with Rev David Melbye and Rev F W Huebner officiating. burial in Greenwood cemetery. The casket will be taken to the church at noon from Everson funeral home.
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William Charles Pinnow
County Line Road
Spring Grove Township
Henry
Hannah Nix Pinnow
Rock Grove
Annie Ida Roennepurg
Illinois
Spring Grove
Ruehlow Place
Pinnow
Trinity State Line Lutheran Church
Roy
Wauwatosa
Earl
Leslie
Monroe
Ruth Wendler
Rosie Bliss
Alfred
Charles
Navy
Pensacola
Fla
Ann
Gene
Eileen
Long Beach
Fred
John
George
Herman
Oscar
Decatur
Ella Roenneburg
Madison
John Laurie
Janesville
Arbur Marsh
Clayton Robey
Durand
Ill
Lee Hall
Congressmen Claim Uranium Sent to Russia in 1945
Rep. McDowell charges a large amount of uranium metal reached Russia in 1945, adding to 1,300 pounds in 1943. He cites wartime pressure and links to a supposed communist spy ring in high government circles. Senate hearings suspend for needed facts from the Truman administration.
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McDowell
R-Penn
Russia
House
UN American Activities Committee
Senate
Truman
Capitol
Ferguson
R-Sd
Clark
Oil Blaze Damages Milwaukee Rail Area
A spectacular fire swept the Milwaukee industrial harbor igniting an oil slick over 500 feet long. It damaged four Milwaukee Road trestles and bridges near the river east of the 27th Street viaduct, but was controlled after two hours.
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Menominee River
27Th Street
Milwaukee Road
Death by own action note linked to espionage hearing
San Francisco police ruled that a phony death by own action note and women’s clothing found on the Golden Gate Bridge were designed to discredit a witness at the Washington espionage hearing. Police Inspector Thomas Fitzpatrick, an expert on communist investigations, reported the conclusion.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Washington
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Spruance Nominated for Permanent Navy Admiral Rank
Washington reported President Truman named Admiral Raymond A. Spruance to the permanent grade of admiral in the navy. The nomination reflects high command confidence and follows Spruance’s service in key wartime naval campaigns.
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Washington
Truman
Raymond A. Spruance
Navy
Henry Johnson 80 Freeport Leader Passes in Hospital
Henry Johnson 80 longtime Freeport Gas Machine Co president died Thursday at Deaconess hospital at 11 a.m. He was born January 4 1868 in Rockford educated at the University of Nebraska moved to Freeport in 1904 and led the company with partners. He married Mary Wallace in 1895 and celebrated a golden anniversary in 1945. Surviving are his widow a daughter Mrs Robert Clarke of Peoria a son Lowry Johnson of Waterloo Iowa six grandchildren two great grandchildren and a sister. A son Wallace died in 1943. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Johnson residence with Dr Leonard Odiorne officiating burial in Monticello church cemetery. Arrangements by Voegeli funeral home.
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Henry Johnson
Freeport
Freeport Gas Machine Co
Mary Wallace
Dennis
The
Baptist Church
Mr. Johnson
Rockford
University of Nebraska
Albert Stoller
Samuel Wallace
Machine Company
Johnson
Evergreen Masonic Lodge
First Presbyterian Church
Robert K. Clarke
Peoria
Lowry Johnson
Waterloo
Ira
Wallace
Leonard Odiorne
First Federated Church of Peoria
Odiorne
Church Cemetery
Voegeli
Navy Board Probes Wreckage of Fatal Transport Plane
A navy board examined the charred wreckage of a navy transport plane in which 10 men were killed. Navy officials later denied reports of a Wave aboard, keeping the death toll at ten.
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NAVY
Miami
Fla
Navy Board of Inquiry
Pasadena diver Victoria Draves wins second Olympic title
Victoria Manalo Draves of Pasadena becomes the first woman to sweep Olympic diving honors by winning the high platform and having already captured the springboard. Bob Mathias of Tulare leads in decathlon as nations push toward track and field glory at London 1948.
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Pasadena
Calif
Victoria Manalo Draves
Bob Mathias
Tulare
Henri Erikkson
Sweden
Fannie Blankers-Koen
Holland
Draves
Vicki
America
Mathias
Collie Leads Search To Three Year Old Missing Boy
In Zanesville Ohio a three year old boy, Jerry Lee Huffman, missing since 6 to 7 p.m. yesterday, was found at 7 a.m. trapped in a wire fence near a cornfield a mile and a half from home. The collie Laddie guided rescuers to the scene after returning home at 6 a.m. The child, naked and nearly unconscious, had a foot caught in the fence and a grape vine wrapped around his neck. His father Dan Huffman and neighbor Charles Wickham located tracks and found him a short distance from Philo. Temperature was about 55 degrees.
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Zanesville
Jerry Lee Huffman
Philo
Laddie
Dan
Charles Wickham
Jerry
City to Erect Stop Signs at Park Exits
Emmett J. Norton reports the city will install stop signs at park exits within seven to ten days. The council adopted a July 20 resolution ordering placements on 22nd Avenue 22nd Avenue and the park road junction with 23rd Avenue. Earlier this week a collision at 16th Street and the 22nd Avenue entrance damaged two cars.
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Recreation Park
Emmett J. Norton
Police and Safety Committee
22Nd Avenue
Park Road
23Rd Avenue
16Th Street
Park
Army Allots Funds For Guided Missiles Center and Alaska Forts
The army allocated 3.5 million dollars for a secret guided missile center at White Sands and 40.9 million to bolster Alaska defenses hindered by housing shortages. The $612.7 million expansion plan by Secretary Royall funds 27 states and 10 overseas areas, with 118,640 for Fort Sheridan and most money for housing and base construction.
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Army
White Sands
Alaska
New Mexico
Royall
Air Force
Ft. Sheridan, II
Meat price drop forecast by trade group chief
James Elliott of Minneapolis, attending the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers convention in Chicago, predicts a sharp retail meat price break of one to five cents within the next ten days or two weeks after conversations with packers, producers, and dealers.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
James Elliott
Minneapolis
Crump's Candidate Defeated in Tennessee Primary Violence
In Tennessee's election, Crump backed candidates for U S senate and governor trailed as two died and several were wounded amid absentee ballot disputes in Polk and Copperhill Ducktown. Kefauver led Stewart for the senate nomination while Gordon Browning led McCord for governor.
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Nashville
Tenn
E. H. Crump
Memphis
Tennessee
Crump
U. S. Senate
Polk County
Copperhill
Ducktown
Tom Stewart
Estes Kefauver
U. S
Kefauver
John A. Mitchell
Stewart
Gordon Browning
Jim McCord
Cleveland
Benton
Polk
McMinn County
Athens
Carroll Reece
Republican National Committee
GOP
Turtletown
Burch Biggs Jr
Donald Sands
Edwin Shearer
Shearer
Justice of the Peace
Former Monroe Man Succumbs in Denver
Bay R. Crow of Denver Colorado, a former Monroe resident and brother in law of Louis H. Kohli, died this morning in a Denver hospital after a lingering illness. Crow was born in Monroe and worked in lumber here before moving to Denver where he also pursued lumber work for years. He passed away Monday afternoon in Denver.
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Denver
Colo
Monroe
Louis H. Kohli
17Th Avenue
Mr. Crow
Crow
Bell Telephone workers seek wage boosts for 87,000
Washington reports the Communications Workers of America plans to push wage increases for 87,000 Bell Telephone employees this month. The announcement signals a major labor drive for better pay across the telephone giant’s workforce.
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Washington
Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone
Western envoy group reports to Molotov after Berlin talks
United States Britain and France gave non-committal replies after a three hour interview with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in Moscow. Ambassadors Smith Roberts and Chataigneau left the Kremlin after discussing Berlin blockade and east west differences with Stalin plans for a new four power conference.
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Britain
France
Soviet Union
Berlin
Molotov
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Smith
Frank Roberts
Yves Chataigneau
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Stalin
Roberts
Bevin
Chataigneau
London
Foreign Ministers’ Council
National Zeitung
British
Foreign Office
Washington
Paris
Germany
Non-Stop B-29 LANDS IN MINNEAPOLIS EMERGENCY
An air force B-29 made an emergency landing at Wald-Chamberlain airport in Minneapolis due to dwindling fuel after a 4,500 mile non-stop flight from Munich. The craft carried 20 passengers and a crew of 11 and was en route to Salina, Kansas, with two other planes on a training mission.
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Wald-Chamberlain
Munich
Salina
Kas
Brooklyn Man Badly Hurt in Fall from Silo
Donald Miller 22 of Brooklyn, a silo builder for Madison Silo Co, fell 40 feet while working on the Roger Smith farm in Brodhead. He suffered fractures of the spine pelvis and both feet.
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Donald Miller
Brooklyn
Silo
Madison Silo Co
Roger Smith
Brodhead
Miller
Plummer Named Campaign Director in Wisconsin Governor Race
Madison Harold L. Plummer, former American Legion state commander, was named campaign director of the People's Committee for Rennebohm for Governor. He led the Dewey for president campaigns in Wisconsin in 1940 and 1948.
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Madison
Harold L. Plummer
People’s Committee For
Rennebohm
American Legion
Wisconsin
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