Supreme Court Begins Segregation School Case Hearings
The Supreme Court opens hearings on whether racial segregation in public schools violates the Constitution. Arguments address 4 states and the District of Columbia, with potential impact on 13 more. Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP faces John W. Davis for South Carolina, while Governors Byrnes and other state officials weigh the issue.
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Washington
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
John W. Davis
Charleston
S. C
Davis
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Virginia
Kansas
Delaware
Greub Buys Fritz Agency Site On 11th Street
The 1400 block on 11th Street property occupied by Fritz Memorial Agency, including the 56 by 120 foot lot and office building, is sold to William Greub of Badger Motors Buick. Badger Motors plans a used car lot expansion. Clifford and Raymond Fritz disclosed the sale.
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11Th Street
Fritz
William Greub
Badger Motors
Buick Agency
Clifford M
Raymond C. Fritz
Clifford M. Fritz
Raymond
Monument
Clifford Fritz
12Th Avenue
Diplomat Kohler Faces Penalty Action by U S
The State Department said disciplinary action against Diplomat Foy D. Kohler will be delayed until next week or later. Kohler, former Voice of America director and policy planning staffer, was charged with public intoxication after a weekend Virginia motor crash and said to have two secret documents in his possession, violating security rules.
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Washington
State Department
Foy D. Kohler
Kohler
Voice of America
Acheson
Virginia
Cheese market update in Madison Wisconsin stalls and supply stretches
The Madison Wisconsin cheese market shows unsettled trading with prices volatile and demand light. Listings include single daisies 42-43 percent, longhorns 43-44 percent, square prints 42-44 percent, mid at 44-44.34 percent, with ample supplies and a near standstill in activity.
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Madison
Wisconsin American Cheese Mart
I.c
Trial delay granted in rindless Swiss cheese patent case
Kraft Foods Co. seeks postponement of the rindless Swiss cheese patent suit against Walther Dairy Products Co. Judge Patrick Stone set a February trial date after delaying from January 19. Defendants challenge Kraft claims and demand pretrial information on earlier work, with no patent office updates available yet.
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Patrick Stone
Kraft Foods Co
Stone
Walther Dairy Products Co
Platteville
Kraft
Wisconsin
U. S. Patent Office
Washington
Sovers
Stores Open Tomorrow Night and Thursday In Christmas Schedule
Monroe's retail stores will be open tomorrow night and Thursday afternoon in the second week of the Christmas season. They will reopen Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon next week and again the nights of December 18 19 20 22 and 23 to accommodate Christmas shoppers.
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Monroe’s
Criticism of Foreign Service Ridiculed by Celler
U S Rep Emanuel Celler called Senator Alexander Wiley's attack on the foreign service political chatter. Celler said Wiley seeks more Republican jobs and dismissed the charges as politics. Wiley urged higher diplomatic standards and cuts in overseas staffs, while Celler defended U S information services after a European tour.
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London
U. S
Emanuel Celler
Alexander Wiley
American Foreign Service
New Yorker
House Judiciary Committee
Foreign Service
Tom Conally
Texas
Wiley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Celler
Europe
Mason H. Dobson Dies Former Beloit Daily News Editor
Mason H. Dobson 61 former editor and co-publisher of the Beloit Daily News died unexpectedly from a heart ailment. He joined the staff in 1913 became editor in 1924 and co-publisher 1940 1949 selling his interests to Walter A. Strong. He served with Red Cross in the Mediterranean and Italy during World War II and was active in Beloit civic and religious affairs. Surviving are his widow two sons Mason C. Dobson and Donald Dobson and a daughter Mrs John Ingersoll. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Beloit
Mason H. Dobson
Beloit Daily News
Dobson
Daily News
Daily News Publishing Co
Walter A. Strong
American Red Cross
Mediterranean
Red Cross
Italy
Madison Consistory
Mason C. Dobson
Walter Kohler
Donald Dobson
John Ingersoll
London Fog Thins as Calm Returns Across City
London officials report the great fog that covered the capital for four days is thinning this morning with Air Ministry weather experts predicting full clearance later today. The visibility improves as streets and transport slowly resume normal pace.
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London
Air Ministry
Wisconsin Telephone to raise pay station charge to ten cents
The Public Service Commission authorized Wisconsin Telephone to increase pay station service from five to 10 cents starting January 5, 1953. The date follows an April order allowing the company to discontinue the nickel call.
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Madison
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Administration Battles To Keep Wage Control Act in Operation
President elect Dwight D Eisenhower and his party, aboard the USS Helena, cross the International Date Line returning from Korea for talks on Far East problems. The group, including Gen Lucius Clay and George M Humphrey, skeet shoot on the fantail with perfect marks, then proceed to Pearl Harbor for further meetings with military leaders. The general will later fly to New York City.
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Don Whitehead
Uss
Helena
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Far East
Pearl Harbor
Eisenhower
Korea
Lucius Clay
George M. Humphrey
Guam
Commodore
New York City
School Project Payments Slated For Board Meeting
Final approval expected at tonight's Board of Education meeting for last payments to contractors on the school addition and modernization projects. The panel advanced $8 579 48 to L S Wagner and Son Co for East and South projects and 2 118 27 to Hyne Plumbing and Heating Co Evansville for the North school heating plant. Total project cost 264 532 33, up from original 255 899 50 after changes. North plant total 22 788 43. Repairs underway do not affect the new heating unit. a break in the old steam line to the library may be replaced.
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Board of Education
L. S. Wagner and Son Co
Hyne Plumbing and Heating Co
Evansville
State Gets 226 Seats For Inaugural Program
Wisconsin Republican headquarters announced allocation of 226 seats for the inauguration in Washington on January 20. Tickets range from 9 to 15 dollars. A special inaugural train was planned with departures from Chicago January 19 and return January 21, with reservations urged.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Washington
Chicago
Kohler Criticizes Road Tax Losses at Governors Meet
Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler told the Western Governors Conference that the federal government kept about 1.26 billion dollars in motor vehicle taxes in 1950-51, with only 400 million returned for highways. He urged abandoning five excise tax fields to restore highway funding and end federal aid.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Walter Kohler
Wisconsin
Western Governors Conference
America
Kohler
National Governors Conference
Woman Judge Vera Binks Joins Illinois Cabinet
Miss Vera Binks, 57, becomes the first woman named to the Illinois state cabinet as director of the State Registration and Education Department. Governor Stratton appointed her, marking a historic milestone in state government.
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Springfield
Ill
Vera Binks
Illinois
Erect Stratton
Miss Binks
State Registration and Education Department
Riots Push Reinforcements Into Casablanca Morocco
Casualties reported vary by source as nationalist rioting spreads through Casablanca. French officials say five Europeans and 25 Moroccans killed with about 50 wounded. Moroccan press cites eight Europeans and 12 injuries. French Legionnaires flown in from Agadir bolster police and troops amid mass arrests and evacuations of Europeans.
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Casablanca
Morocco
French Foreign Legionnaires
Agadir
Frontier City
Vishinsky Departs Amid UN Peace Critique Aboard Liberte
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky sailed home aboard the Liberte and criticized the United Nations General Assembly as not fulfilling its peace duty. He called the assembly's work unsatisfactory while aboard the luxury liner, after remarks about Christmas and New Year greetings to the public.
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New York
Andrei Vishinsky
United Nations General Assembly
U. N
Vishinsky
United Nations
Assembly
General Assembly
Andrei Gromyko
London
New York City
Lady Wonder Baffles Reporter Iniliendum Interview
Police credit Lady Wonder the talking horse with guiding them to a missing child after two years of searching. An Associated Press reporter visits the Richmond stable to learn how the animal allegedly gives clues.
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Lady Wonder
Richmond
Associated Press
Paul Duke
Lady Wonder: Can a horse truly predict and answer?
Richmond reporter chats with Lady Wonder the talking horse credited with tipping the Danny Matson case. The horse answers by moving levers to spell numbers and letters. The interviewee notes mixed accuracy, including a correct self name and a precise money figure but an incorrect school query.
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Richmond
Lady Wonder
Danny Matson
Quincy
Mass
Claudia Fonda
Mrs. Fonda
Lady
Phyllis June Ryder
Eagertsville
N. Y
Farm Bureau Chief Leads Fight To Curb Reliance on U.S. Aid
SEATTLE The American Farm Bureau Federation president Allan B. Kline denounced a get-it-from-government-for-nothing philosophy as an insidious fallacy in his convention address. He urged against price fixing and regimentation, warning they threaten rising living standards in agriculture while noting last year’s stance favored government price supports as protection against dips.
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Seattle
American Farm Bureau Federation
Allan B. Kline
Chicago
Kline
Iowa
Fair Association Re-elects Officers
The Green County Fair Association re-elected three officers and two directors and named one new director. Louis R. Wolleson will serve another term as president, Fred T. Burgy of Monticello as vice president, and William A. Brown as secretary. Conrad Stauffacher and Herman Schmitz were re-elected directors, while Harold Haworth replaces R. H. Schoonover.
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Green County Fair Association
Louis R. Wolleson
Fred T. Burgy
Monticello
William A. Brown
Conrad Stauffacher
Herman Schmitz
Harold Haworth
R. H. Schoonover
Allied Aircraft Tangle with Reds in North Korea
Allied pilots collided with Communist MIG-15 jets as the U S Fifth Air Force reported one MIG destroyed and Sabre pilots credited with the kill. The B-26 Invaders bombed supply targets as forty 14 tons of mage?
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Seoul
North Korea
U. S
Aichon Ee Eee
Leaders Hopeful Upheaval in WSB Can Be Reversed
In Washington officials vow wage controls will stay in force despite the WSB paralysis after industry members quit in protest of Truman's coal pay ruling. Fowler and Putnam seek new industry seats while labor presses for a voice in control decisions. CIO chief Reuther to press for broader relief.
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WSB
Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
Henry Fowler
Roger L. Putnam
Truman
John L. Lewis
Fowler
Putnam
Walter Reuther
CIO
Fowler- Putnam
Charles C. Killingsworth
Boston
Kansas City
Atlanta
Chicago
High Executioner Faces Deportation
Justice Department chief McGranery announced proceedings to strip Albert Anastasia of American citizenship. The New York waterfront racketeer, once dubbed lord high executioner of Murder Inc, is linked to gangster activity in the New York docks and has a contested murder conviction history.
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Washington
Attr
McGranery
Albert Anastasia
Justice Department
New York
Anastasia
Italy
New York State Crime Commission
Fort Lee
N. J
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing
Sun Breaks Through Fog With Rising Temperatures
The sun returned after dense fog in Wisconsin with temperatures reaching 45 this afternoon. Forecasts show a low near 30 tonight and a return to the 40s tomorrow as conditions clear.
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Wisconsin
Ilindis
Chishes Te
Green County
Mercury
Nto
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