President Truman Sees Eisenhower as 1952 Candidate
President Truman reportedly views Dwight Eisenhower as a potential 1952 candidate though he remains undecided. Close aides say the ex general’s recent speeches align with Byrnes in criticizing the fair deal, while Truman drafts a state of the union stressing civil rights, health and social security, displaced persons, and the Brannan farm program.
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Charles G. Ross
Ross
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
New York
Byrd Proposes $7.5 Billion Cut in Federal Spending
Senator Byrd outlines a federal budget plan for the next year calling for expenses of about $36 billion, a $7.5 billion reduction from the current level. He opposes new taxes and urges a balanced budget without tax increases, detailing major cuts in domestic civilian functions, veterans benefits, foreign aid, and national defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Mr. Truman
Key West
Frank Pace
Truman
Pace
Pace Said He Was Not Aware Whether Mr. Truman
Congress
Cheddar Prices Off In Plymouth Trading
Wisconsin cheese exchange reports prices off by a quarter cent. Sales include five cars Wis. state brand cheddars at 31 14 cents, two cars at 33 1/2, one car Illinois U S No. 1 cheddars at 31. Unfilled bids include one car Wis. state brand slonghorns 33 4, one car Wis. state brand square prints 33 1/2. Trading tone barely steady to weak.
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Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Illinois U. S
Square
Governor Rennebohm Urges Bill of Rights Day Observance
Madison urged Thursday December 15 as Bill of Rights day. Gov Rennebohm said upholding sacred principles of American unity based on the Bill of Rights is the best way to show proper recognition.
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Rennebohm
General Ike Sheds No Light On Political Plans From St Josephs Island
General Dwight D. Eisenhower says he has no political ambitions while isolated on St. Josephs Island near Rockport Texas. He is guest of Sid Richardson and has not answered reporters due to lack of phone lines and island access. The sighting follows Truman aides calling Ike an active presidential candidate.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
St. Joseph’s Island
Texas
Rockport
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Houston
Galveston
Key West
Associated Press
General Eisenhower
Sid Richardson
Fort Worth
St. Joseph's
Richardson
New Universalist Minister Arrives in City
Rev. John E. MacMartin and wife arrived from Wolfeboro New Hampshire and moved into 1824 9th street parsonage. He led First Congregational Wolfeboro 1924 1944 and five years at First Christian Lake Winnepesaukee. Mrs Ruth Batchelder MacMartin, Boston native, taught rural school. They have seven children, five sons veterans.
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John E. MacMartin
Universalist Church
Wolfboro
N. H
9Th Street
MacMartins
MacMartin
First Congregational Church
Wolfeboro
First Christian Church
Lake Winnepesaukee
Boston
Bangor Theological Seminary
Bangor
Dartmouth College
Toledo
North Andover
Mansfield
Mass
Ruth Batchelder MacMartin
Newburyport
University of Washington
GAR Leader Dies at 102 in Oakland Veterans Hospital
Col. John S. Dumser longtime Grand Army of the Republic survivor died today in a veterans hospital at age 102. He enlisted in the Union Army at 16 and served through the Civil War with Company K of the 52nd Illinois infantry.
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Gar
Oakland
John S. Dumser
Grand Army of the Republic
Veterans Hospital
Dumser
52Nd
Illinois Infantry
Uranium Probe Shifts Focus to Canada in 1950 Inquiry
House investigators tracing uranium leaks to the Soviet Union shifted attention to Canada. 1,000 pounds of uranium compounds were shipped to Russia via Great Falls in 1943. The Canadian angle is being reactivated as hearings approach on December 19 with former lend-lease officials and possibly Henry A. Wallace questioned.
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Washington
House
Russia
Canada
UN- American Activities Committee
Great Falls
Mont
New York
Louis J. Russell
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Russell
Soviet Union
C. D. Howe
Ottawa
Leslie R. Groves
Atom Project
Groves
Nixon
Calif
Case
Velde
Ili
Wood
Dga
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Mrs Wyss Dies Funeral Tomorrow
Mrs Henry Wyss of Black River Falls and the Monroe vicinity native died yesterday. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Black River Falls with relatives from Monroe attending. Survived by husband and son Harold Peterson from a prior marriage. The Wysses lived near Black River Falls for 20 years and formerly farmed on the Gifford place northeast of Monroe on Highway 59.
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Henry Wyss
Black River Falls
Monroe
Albert Wyss
Theodore Wyss Jr
Ida Speich
Wyss
Monroe Vicinity
Harold Peterson
Wysses
Gifford Place
Highway 59
Australia Votes On Socialism Issue In General Election
Australia faces a pivotal general election tomorrow with Labor led by Prime Minister J B Chifley advocating government controls to stabilize the economy and maintain full employment. The opposition vows to halt nationalization as voters weigh socialism against free enterprise amid a regional leftward trend.
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Sydney
Australia
Labor Party
J. B. Chifley
New Zealand
Chiang Kai-shek plans inland guerrilla defense in reshaped China
Chiang Kai-shek arrives in the provisional capital Chungking area Sichang to organize inland guerrillas as communist forces threaten Chengtu within 60 miles. Yen Hsi-shan arrives with cabinet, reports 600000 guerrillas on the mainland. The war stretches 22 years with heavy Japanese past.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Sichang
Sikang
China
Chengtu
Japan
Yen Hsi-shan
Manchuria
Canton
Beloit College Trustees Fill Vacancy With Publisher
Warren T. Davis, president of several Chicago book publishing companies, has been elected to fill a vacancy on Beloit College board of trustees. The appointment adds a literary business perspective to the panel.
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Beloit
Warren T. Davis
Chicago
Beloit College
Briton links socialism to communism in Britain
Cecil Falmer told the National Association of Manufacturers that nationalization and social security steer Britain toward communism and describe the NHS as a socialist frameup. He called socialism the true label for nationalization and equated socialism with communism. Senator Bricker warned big government threatens American institutions and predicts state socialism.
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New York
Cecil Falmer
National Association of Manufacturers
Palmer
National Health Service
Britain
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Shower of Meteors Lights Up Skies Tonight
Washington reports a Geminid meteor shower starting at 8 p m and lasting until midnight with more than one meteor per minute. The four night event is described as spectacular by the national bureau of standards.
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Washington
National Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Standards
Swiss Colony Opens Old World Style Cheese Center
A new Swiss Colony cheese center opens at 906 17th Avenue with an old world holiday ambience. Festive Swiss cow bells, carved curios, and a large cheese fruit display greet shoppers while attendants in Swiss costumes welcome visitors. First customer was R. E. Olsen of Minneapolis. staff include Mrs. Gertrude Schwager and Miss LuAnn Brennan.
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17Th Avenue
Gertrude Schwager
LuAnn Brennan
R. E
Tiny) Olsen
Minneapolis
New Farm Parity Formula Drafted For 1950 Program
Washington reports a new standard called modern parity will begin January 1 to set farm prices fair and equitable. The formula adjusts parity for livestock higher and crops lower reflecting machinery cost reductions and wage increases. Key figures cited include George N. Peek Henry A. Wallace and Edward A. O Neal among farm leaders and lawmakers involved in parity efforts.
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Ovid A. Martin
Washington
Congress
Coolidge
McNary-Haugen
George N. Peek
Henry A. Wallace
Edward A. O’neal
The
Farm Bureau, Federation
Charles Kafer Found Dead Here
Charles Kafer 81 was found dead in his 1500 block of 20th avenue home from a gunshot wound described as personal safety related. Coroner reports no inquest. service planned Saturday at 3 30 p m at Stnessy Funeral Home with Rev Newell Mendenhall officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. He was a lifelong Monroe resident, not married, with surviving sister Mrs Peter Zimmerman and several nieces and nephews.
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Charles Kafer
20Th Avenue
Herman A. Stuessy
Mr. Kafer
Jefferson Township
John and
Maria Rote Kafer
Richland School
Monroe
Peter Zimmerman
Monticello
Stnessy Funeral
Newell Mendenhall
Greenwood Cemetery
No Planes Missing in Northern Wisconsin Michigan
Officials from the Civil Aeronautics Office report no missing planes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. A Me nomie sheriff's deputy had logged a sighting Tuesday night of a plane circling the city seeking a landing field and then departing.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Michigan
Civil Aeronautics Office
Menominee, Mich
Congressman J Parnell Thomas Gets Six to Eighteen Months
U S representative J Parnell Thomas is sentenced to six to 18 months in jail and a $10000 fine for padding his office payroll via salary kickbacks. Judge Alexander Holtzoff denounces the conduct, allows potential parole after the minimum term, and notes possible correctional placement in Danbury Connecticut. Mrs Thomas signals plans to seek her husband’s vacated congressional seat.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
Thomas
Alexander Holtzoff
House
New Jersey
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Holt
Holtzoff
McGrath
Danbury, Conn
Juror note prompts judge to discipline hotel worker in Larson murder trial
A La Crosse hotel employee, Edith Martinson, 57, was found to have written a note to influence jurors in the Arnold Larson murder case. Judge Roland Steinle warned he would dispose of the situation after trial as jurors waited for final arguments. Larson is charged with first degree murder in the McLoone slaying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Larson
la Crosse
James McLoone
Larson
Steinle
Jimmy
Edith Martinson
McLoone
Dane Judge's Auto Seized Over State Income Tax Claim
The Wisconsin Department of Taxation seized Dane County Judge Fred Evans's car for security on 1483 dollars claimed as income tax owed. Tax Commissioner Arthur Wegner called the action not unusual when collateral is uncertain, following a jeopardy assessment warrant issued after assessor Ralph Kamm noted the 1944-47 taxable income of 23235 dollars was underreported.
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Madison —A
State Department of Taxation
Dane County
Fred Evans
Arthur E. Wegner
Ralph Kamm
Madison
Evans
Judge Orders Dairies To Face Pricing Trial
Milwaukee four circuit judge Otto H. Breidenbach orders ten Milwaukee county dairies to stand trial on a charge of conspiring to fix milk prices. The state alleges simultaneous price increases in October and December 1947 following meetings, seeking charter revocation for the companies.
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Milwaukee
Otto H. Breidenbach
Milwaukee County
Breidenbach
Wisconsin
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State of the Union
Plymouth
Ike
Texas Island
Mike
Mike Rector
Casualty Hospital
Belom
Chiang
Mrs. Schwager
Austria
Kurt
Mr. Larson
Dane
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