Camp Survivor Terms Reds Worse than Nazis
Bruno H. Schrade an East Prussian native who spent 200 months in a Russian prison camp near the Black Sea described communism as ten times worse than Nazism. He recalled years of oppression, a brutal westward trek, and a diet of watery soup and bread while forced to work in coal mines and quarries.
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Bruno H. Schrade
East Prussia
Black Sea
Asiatic
Russia
Monroe Schrade
Jos
Otis Wells
Browntown
Bruno
Hitler
Germany
Koenigsberg
Insterburg
Asia
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Brannan Potato Action Draws Senate Fire In Washington
Secretary Brannan proposed selling 25 to 40 million bushels of 1949 potato surplus at one cent per hundred pounds with blue dye to keep them from normal markets. Senators McCarthy and others urged free distribution or human use while noting shifting disposal costs and impact on government losses. The $1.01 per bushel support for 1950 crops was also announced. Engraving strike in Milwaukee and Madison was averted with a wage settlement for 140 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Brennan
Yesterda
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
GOP
Aiken
R-Vi
Congress
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriulture Department
Madison Oil Strike Deluges Home
A UW Madison law student woke to three inches of oil in his apartment after an oil company deliveryman misread an air vent as a fuel tank opening. The Di Renzo residence suffered ruined rugs furniture and closets with an estimated $4000 damage. the family planned to light no fires and will seek repairs from the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Robert di Renzos
di Renzo
University of Wisconsin
di Renzos
Robert Bunyard
Navy Flier Dies In Indiana Crash
Gary Indiana sheriff reports a Navy single engine Bearcat fighter crashed in a marsh southeast of Gary about noon. The aircraft carried only a pilot. Lt William Kinsley of Glenview Naval Air Station said there were no passengers and the flight began at 10 15 a m on a local training mission.
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Gary
Ind
Sheriff's Office
Here
William Kinsley
Glenview Naval Air Station
Glenview
Kinsley
Three Feared Lost In C-54 Sea Crash
A U S air force C-47 transport plane with two officers and one enlisted man aboard wrecked into the sea off the Puerto Rico coast late last night. Rescue officials said there was little hope for survivors as the aircraft hit the water at full speed. One body was recovered this morning.
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Pan Guan
Army
Navy
Chamber Favors City Board Plan For Housing Aid
Monroe chamber of commerce backs creating a five member housing authority to seek a state veterans housing grant. Action aims to file a notice of intention by March 1, with the grant covering 10 percent of project costs and bonds financing the rest. The plan, discussed at the Monroe Clinic, would not bind the city to proceed but urges council approval.
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Veterans Housing Aid
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Monroe Clinic
Housing Authority
Chamber
Wesley L. Dodge
Chamber Legislative Committee
Frank A. Buehler
Dodge
State Council of Housing Authorities
Madison
Buehler
Veterans
Theodore J. Burgy
Burgy
Monroe
T. Roy Even
Paul Knoll
Peterson Enters State Court Race
Marshall L. Peterson filed nomination papers just before the 5 p.m. deadline in Madison to run for the Wisconsin supreme court seat to complete the term ending January 1952. He would face Justice John E. Martin, a ten year state attorney general appointee since 1948, with no primary scheduled as only two candidates filed. Peterson, 43, a former Green County judge, emphasized the court as a servant of the people and warned against political appointments influencing deliberations. He has practiced law since 1930 and served as county judge 1938 to 1943 before navy service in World War II.
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Marshall L. Peterson
Madison
Supreme Court
Peterson
John E. Martin
Martin
Chester Fowler
Green County
Marvin Rosenberry
Edward Gehl
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Hare
Peterson and Kittelsen
Navy
South Pacific
Leyte Gulf
J H Harvey Bakery Leader Dies in Wisconsin
Jesse H Harvey 74 former Marshfield and West Allis bakery operator died Friday night at the veterans administration hospital in Wood Wisconsin He was a Spanish American War veteran and a native of Darlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse H. Harvey
Marshfield
West Allis
Veterans Administration Hospital At
Wood
Darlington
Lewis Snubs Truce Plea Full Strike Seen Monday
Congressional atomic panel moves to summon FBI Director Hoover for detailed testimony Monday about Klaus Fuchs the British scientist linked to top atomic secrets. Gen Groves testified Fuchs had access to vital weapons information and was a paid Russian agent dating from 1939 in Britain.
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Washington
Congressional
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Russia
McMahon
D-Conn
Leslie R. Groves
Senate Appropriations
Hoover
Klaus Fuchs
Moscow
Groves
Fuchs
London
U. S
Tydings
England
Plot Spreads in Europe Reds Aim Sabotage Drives At American Aid Overseas
Communist sabotage is spreading across Western Europe with France as the focal point. American sources fear Italy may face the biggest drive as unions are drawn into wage demands and anti American protests. In Indochina, French forces contend with Bao Dai loyalists as sabotage disrupts unloadings and supplies to troops. Berlin reports traffic slowdowns as East German communists push for a united, Soviet aligned fatherland. In Italy, land reform protests have sparked violent riots.
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Europe
Preston Grover Paris
France
Italy
Indochina
Bao Dai
Southeast Asia
Marseille
Far East
Paris
Berlin
Another Brodhead Robbery Revealed
Police report a new breaking and entry in Brodhead tied to two prior robberies. A rear alley window was broken and $14 cash plus merchandise were stolen from Nels Olin pool hall. A description of the suspect emerges as officers from multiple counties pursue the bandit, who earlier slugged Ray Timm at his service station and fled after a gas purchase.
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Brodhead
F. M
Nels Olin
August L. Nenneman
Ray Timm
Green County
Rock County
Winnebago
Stephenson County
Timm
Bjork
Sawmill Destroyed In White Lake Fire
A three story frame Yankee Bissell Corp mill in White Lake burned down with undetermined origin. The idle 200 by 80 foot facility housed lumber on the transfer platform. Principal owner W. W. Gamble Jr. declined to estimate losses but said replacement could reach $500000.
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Yankee-Bissell Corp
W. W. Gamble Jr
Russians Permit Berlin Truck Traffic After Slowdown
Soviet frontier guards began moving stacked Berlin bound trucks through the Helmstedt post at about one per minute as they ended an icy road closure. U S transport official C A Dix noted plans for normal clearance, while East German authorities had previously pledged ten trucks per hour but kept lower limits during the weekend.
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Helmstedt Frontier Post
Soviet Zone Economic Commission
C. A. Dix
U. S
Helmstedt
Berlin
Dix
Safe burglars raid Janesville business places
Robbers targeted two Janesville businesses Friday. At Farley Feed Co they forced a rear door and carried off a 500 pound safe with about $200 cash and papers. A larger safe at Schaller and McKey Lumber Co was cracked but the combination knocked off, with no further theft.
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Janesville
Farley Feed Co
Schaller and McKey Lumber Co
Swanson
Eye injuries and death noted in local notices
Royal Karlen suffered a lime burn to both eyes while cleaning a barn on his brother Lawrence Karlen's farm in Monticello and was taken to St Clare hospital. Mrs Lamont Paulson of Blanchardville remains hospitalized at St Clare after a severe eye injury from a wood splinter. Neil Dutt, 75, founder of Appleton's first movie theater, died after a short illness.
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Royal Karlen
Royal F. Karlen
Lawrence H. Karlen
Monticello
St. Clare Hospital
Royal
Herman Karlen
Lamont Paulson
Blanchardville
Appleton
Neil Dutt
Coal Chief Rejects Truman Board Plan in Strike Stand
Masontown Pennsylvania reports John Ozanich, head of the United Mine Workers local, says miners will not return to work Monday and will strike until a new contract is reached. John L. Lewis rejects Truman's three stranger fact finding plan, preferring direct negotiations and warning of possible broader strikes.
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Masontown
United Mine Workers
John Ozanich
John L. Lewis
Truman
Ozanich
Washington
Lewis
White House
Taft
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Bruno Schrade
Milwaukee
Howard C. Wille
Milwaukee Photo Engravers’ Union
Indiana
J. H. Harvey
Gen. Groves
Milwaukee Road
Chippewa Hiawatha
Saukville
White Lake
Coal Chief
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