Eisenhower Sees No Immediate Global Threat at Legion Meet
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower told American Legion delegates there is no immediate global war threat but urged a strong mobilizable armed force. Other leaders, including Chester Nimitz and Carl Spaatz, pressed for peacetime plans and UN strength while Bernard Baruch advocated universal service and peacetime conscription.
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New York
Ee D. Eisenhower
Army
American Legionnaires
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chester W. Nimitz
Carl A. Spaatz
Army Air Force
Forrestal
Grem
United Nations
Bernard M. Baruch
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Baruch
West Germany steel plan targets 10.7 million tons yearly
United States and Great Britain unveil a level of industry plan for western Germany to produce 10,700,000 ingot tons of steel annually. The scheme aims to raise exports 15 percent above 1936 levels to generate about $2 billion yearly while leaving 7,000,000 tons capacity for reparations after war damage.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Great Britain
U.S
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Sholto Douglas
Woolworths Pay 1900 to Settle Local Claim
Judge dismisses case after F W Woolworth Co pays $1900 to plaintiff Petra Johnson of South Wayne. The May 28 1945 incident in a store at 823 16th Avenue involved a box of potted plants falling onto an open stairway, causing painful permanent injuries.
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Harold J.en
F_ W_ Woolworth Co
Petra Johnson
South Wayne
Tts
Jeffris
Mowat, Oestreich
16Th Avenue
Gratiot Man Sentenced in Hit Run Case
Gratiot resident Arthur Engebretson received six months in county jail with hard labor after pleading guilty to hit and run and operating under the influence. The incident along highway 11 between 5th and 7th avenues involved Walter Wilde and his family. no injuries were reported.
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Highway 11
Arthur Engebretson
Gratiot
Justice L. A. Koenig
Engebretson
5Th
7Th Avenues
Dewey backs universal military training at Legion rally
Governor Dewey told the American Legion convention in New York that he supports universal peacetime military training. Senator Taft, on Canadian vacation, remains opposed to any peacetime draft. President Truman urged Congress to approve a training plan as a replacement for the wartime draft.
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Washington
Dewey
New York
Taft
Ohio
Legion
American Legion
GOP
Truman
Legion Convention
La Follette Cancels Talk On Secret Government Mission
Former Wisconsin governor Philip La Follette, now a lawyer in Madison, said he canceled a speaking engagement in Viroqua Labor Day because he is leaving the country on a secret government mission and cannot comment further.
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Madison
Philip la Follette
Viroqua Labor Day
la Follette
Scientists Develop tame Atomic Bomb at Los Alamos
Los Alamos New Mexico announces a tame atomic bomb to study fast neutron chains for power. The device, a plutonium fueled pile using fast neutrons, operates at low power and provides a steady output for experiments. Director Norris E. Bradbury says it aids understanding of best reactor types for useful energy.
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Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Norris E. Bradbury
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
New Mexico
Bradbury
Vacation Ends for Monroe Children As Schools Reopen
Monroe and Green County students head back to classes after summer break. Labor Day marks most openings with Oct. 8 mass at St Victor’s Parish School and new faculty across Monroe Public Schools.
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Monroe
Green County
East
South
North
Lincoln
Green County Normal School
County Normal Demonstration
St. Victor’s Parish
Evans
E. O. Evans
Verna J. Allen
William Amstutz
Edmund R. Anderson
Allan F. Barnard
Hilda Buchholz
Margaret Bloodgood
Werner W. Blum
Arthur T. Edwards
John C. Calder
Robert E. Davenport
Myrna McMillan
Edward M. Ensch
Agriculture For Veterans
Patricia Tobin
Lillian Gempeler
Catherine Teasdale
T. R. Holyoke
William E. Gregorich
Helen Hurd
LaVon Jones
Floyd M. Lewis
Franklin Luebchow
Lee Mitchell
Kathryn Olthafer
Virgil Potter
Nat G. Preston
Margaret Reuhl
Olga Ruth
Ruth Klinner
Grace Anderson
Fred H. Simpson
M. Corrine Swanson
Robert W. Witt
Jean Hartman
Genevieve Arensdorf
Lincoln School
Clara Zum Brunnen
Edna Mackey
Hannah Bindschaedler
South School
Kathleen Sheehan
Betty White
Viva Holmes Stauffacher
North School
Doris Messmer
Rachael Walter
Evelyn Powers
Erma Thurber
Nell Wood Cunningham
East School
Jeanette Rodger
Irene Quinn
Bernadette G. Green
Adeen C. Johnson
Phyllis J. Shea
Boniface
Cecile
Hildegarde
Rosa Lima
Cheese Exchange Te Plymouth Wisconsin Auction Summary
Wisconsin cheese exchange reports sales of five cars of cheddar at 34 percent and 38 percent bids, with two cars cheddar at 38 percent and five cars cheddar at 34 percent. Unfilled bids noted.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Exchange
U S Urges Four Power Talks On Korean Issue
United States calls for a four power conference to speed Korean independence. Washington proposes talks among the United States Britain Russia and China beginning Sept 8 in Washington to advance the Moscow agreement and address Korea’s political future.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Moscow
Korea
Britain
Russia
China
Molotov
Marshall
State Department
Robert Lovett
Decision on aid to Europe tests congress
Washington chairman Dirksen says Congress must choose next year between bolstering world freedom or focusing on domestic strength. The Dirksen led group will study military and economic Europe and the Middle East, weighing aid levels and an objective policy amid fears of Europe’s collapse and a new world war under way in ideas.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Dirksen
House
Congress
Europe
Erksen
Appropriations
Armed Services Committees
Near
Middle East
Illinois
Russia
United States
United Nations
Argentine Amendment Objected by U S at Hemisphere Talks
Sen. Vandenberg of Michigan objects to a surprise Argentine amendment in a session of the inter American conference committee on aggression. He says the move would limit the right to consult on aggression and cannot be accepted.
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Quintandinha
Hemisphere
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
U. S
Reds Reject U S Offer On Atomic Control Agency
Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko rejected the U N atomic energy agency plan as a U S monopoly and incompatible with the U N charter. The U S and six other nations on the twelve member commission approved the papers forming the second report to the Security Council due September 15.
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Lake Success
United States
Russia
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Security Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
U. S
U. N
United Nations
British Miners Strike Protests Government Coal Policy
Almost 25 000 Yorkshire coal miners from 13 pits walked out today in protest against orders of the national coal board. The strike aims to pressure labor authorities amid a drive to boost coal output for export and to earn dollars for imports.
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London
National Coal Board
Labor Administration
Karlen Sr. Dies at Monticello After Heart Attack
Fred C. Karlen Sr., 66, lifelong Green county resident and Adams township farmer, died at his Monticello home of a heart attack. He was born September 22, 1880, married Mary Wittwer in 1911, and retired to Monticello in 1928. Survived by wife, daughter Mrs. Henry Wechter, sons Herman G. and Fred C. Jr., seven grandchildren. Funeral set for Sunday at Zwingli church with burial in Hyland cemetery. calling hours begin Saturday afternoon.
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Monticello
Fred C. Karlen
Green County
Adams Township
Mr. Karlen
Gottfried
Anna Marty Karlen
Dividing Ridge
Two Hitchhikers Sought in Arlington Slayings
Omaha police pursue two unidentified hitchhikers for questioning in the slayings of Mr and Mrs R L May of Arlington Virginia. Their bodies were found in a bushes clump yesterday near Omaha.
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SEFE
Omaha
R. L. May
Arlington
State Department seeks to settle Greek authority dispute
Loy Henderson flew to Athens to mediate a possible split of control between Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight Griswold head of the American aid mission. Griswold and MacVeagh have been meeting Greek leaders as a cabinet crisis unfolds. Henderson will report to Acting Secretary Lovett on all aspects of the current situation in Greece.
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Washington
State Department
Greece
Lincoln MacVeagh
Dwight Griswold
Loy Henderson
Department
Near East
Athens
MacVeagh
Griswold
Athens Dispatches
Nebraska Govenor
Henderson
Robert A. Lovett
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Marshall
Lovett
Penney Firm Seeks Dismissal of Suit in Monroe
Attorneys for J C Penney seek dismissal of Harold L Jacobs suit to terminate a Monroe store lease. Jacobs bought the building from heirs on April 4 and aims to end the lease granted by the former owner. Lease runs to July 31 1951 with extension option to 1956. case moved from Green County to federal court.
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Madison
Harold L. Jacobs
Monroe
J. C. Penney Company
U. S. District Court
Jacobs
Green County
The
Penney Company
Pipe Intended for Beds To Be Sold to Farmers
Two senate committees announced jointly that 275000 feet of steel pipe originally for shipment to Russia will be sold as surplus to farmers in seven states including Wisconsin. The pipe, part of lend lease shipments blocked by Congress, will be handled by the War Assets Administration. WAA said on Aug 18 that 175000 feet had been obtained from surplus inventories and will be sold only for rural use.
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Washington
Senate
Russia
Wisconsin
Congress
War Assets Administration
WAA
Papers Wrong House And Tenant Suffers
Baltimore report Mrs Jean nette Smith watched as a paperhanger began redecorating her living room before being told he was in the wrong house by the landlady next door. Magistrate August Kozlovsky will hear a dispute Tuesday to settle if more paper goes up or the existing two patterns come down or Mrs Smith keeps the half and half scheme.
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Baltimore
Jeannette Smith
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Jacqueline
Walter Knearem
Shelbyville, IL
Eugene Bland
Young Knearem
Eisenhower
Woolworths
Cheese Exchange
Nareb
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Washington Real Estate Board
Justice Department
Herbert A. Nelson
Association
Washington Board
District of Columbia
Stephen Zivich
Pauline
Cleveland
Reds
Fred C. Karlen Sr
Penney Firm
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