Kefauver Confident He Can Win Nomination Over Truman
Senate contender Kefauver predicted he could win the Democratic nomination even if President Truman seeks re election. He said Truman may not want the job again and would not be offered his backing for the vice presidency. Meanwhile Taft and Oregon GOP moves loom with Eisenhower lingering on campaign strategy.
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Associated Press
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Truman
Aiken
New Hampshire
Frank McKinney
California
McKinney
Taft
Oregon
GOP
Cincinnati
Washington
Gen
Eisenhower
City collects $371979 in taxes with March and July deadlines
City Treasurer Helen Gempler reports $371,978.79 collected from January 1 to today in real estate and personal property taxes. Full payments continue through February and the second half due by July 31.
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Helen L. Gempeler
Lena Pastor Receives Call From Grace Church
A call was sent this morning to Rev. Clarence C. Warfel of Amity Lutheran Lena to become Grace Church pastor after the congregation vote yesterday. If he accepts and is released, he and his family will move to Monroe. Grace Church has been vacant since Rev. Newell A. Mendenhall left in November for Denver.
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Clarence C. Warfel
Amity Lutheran Church
Lena, Ill
Grace Lutheran Church
Warfel
Church Council
Amity Church
Monroe
Grace Church
Newell A. Mendenhall
Good Shepherd
Denver
Lena
Wisconsin Seeks Warrants in Horsemeat Sale Scandal
Six Wisconsin counties including Jefferson Racine Kenosha Waukesha Columbia and Richland face warrants for illegal sale of horsemeat misbranded as beef. Investigators traced meat sources over months with retailer unawareness of horseflesh in products as Illinois ties emerge and political actions unfold.
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Wisconsin
State Department of Agriculture
Jefferson
Racine
Kenosha
Winnebago
Columbia
Richland
Donald McDowell
Agricultural Department
Madison
J. F. Dunn
Department
Food Inspection Division
McDowell
Illinois
Dunn
Tlinois
Chicago Food Inspection Bureau
Chicago
Gustave A. Herman
Health Department
Lake County
Capone Gang
William
Smokes ) Alesio
Adlai Stevenson
FBI
Chicago Dockmen End Truck Tieops
Four thousand AFL dockmen in Chicago accepted a 31 cent per hour wage increase and will return to work immediately. Local trucking firms expect normal activity to resume and embargoes were lifted. Separately, federal mediators in Memphis moved to settle a strike involving ten thousand drivers across ten states.
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AFL
Chicago
Associated Press
Memphis
Assessment Books Returned to Office
Assessor Everett Keel has moved his index cards files and assessment books back to city hall. He previously relocated the books to the treasurer's office in the Eugene hotel annex on 11th street last month to answer questions from property owners paying taxes. The major rush is finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Keel
City Hall
Eugene Hotel
11Th Street
Kidnaper Abandons American Girl in Germany After Chase
Mamie Ruth Shelton, first postwar American kidnap victim, told investigators she was threatened with a gun by a man in U S uniform before being abandoned in a stolen car on a country road. He fled with two soldier escorts during a pistol point escape. military police rescued her near Niederdorfelden, twenty miles from Fechenheim, at 7:30 p m yesterday. Authorities said the suspect claimed he escaped from a Mannheim stockade, but officers reported no prisoner missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Mamie Ruth Shelton
Germany
U. S
Niederdorffelden
Fechenheim
Mannheim
Monroe High Debating Team Earns Sectional Berth
Monroe high school's debate squad directed by Miss Harriet Baldwin earned a sectional meet berth at Madison next Saturday after winning five of six at the Whitewater district. The four member team tied for second among 14 schools, with Wisconsin high taking first. Judith Kubly and Elaine Wolf formed the affirmative squad winning all three rounds. Negative members included Jack Marvin and Nancy Benkett. Mary Ann LaBuch was a timer.
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Monroe High School
Harriet Baldwin
Madison
Whitewater
Wisconsin High School
Monroe
Janesville
Wisconsin High
Judith Kubly
Elaine Wolf
Jack Marvin
Nancy Benkett
Mary Ann LaBuch
Ben J. Kubly
Watertown
Baraboo
Stoughton
Madison East
Edgerton
Jefferson
Whitewater College High
Johnson Creek
Beloit
Middleton
Whitewater City High
Board Session Set Tomorrow in Green County
The Green County board of supervisors begins a three day February session at 10 a m in the circuit court room. Reports from county offices proceed, with a 1 30 p m film showing Green County's Gold Swiss Cheese funded by the board. Assemblyman Louis C Romell will speak on reapportionment at 11 a m. Henry Olson of the state department of public instruction will discuss the integrated district on Wednesday at 1 30 p m.
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Green County Board of Supervisors
Circuit Court
Court House
Green County
Louis C. Romell
Adams
Marquette
Henry Olson
State Department of Public Instruction
Red Cross Bloodmobile to Visit New Glarus Tomorrow
The Red Cross bloodmobile will operate from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, collecting blood for Korea’s front lines. New Glarus hosted the drive today with 210 volunteers already scheduled for a pint. a doctor will assess donors at the armory and light refreshments will follow.
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Red Cross
Korea
New Glarus
F. Earl Lamboley
Red Cross Blood Drive
Schwaiger Returns To Police Chief Duty
Police Chief J. H. Schwaiger returns to duty after a 24 day absence due to injuries from an auto crash near Janesville on January 10. He suffered nose chest and knee injuries and was hospitalized at St. Clare. Passengers Mrs. Schwaiger and Miss Helen Hood were injured but not hospitalized. The accident occurred in dense fog when Schwaiger’s car veered into a ditch and hit a telephone pole after colliding with a second auto on a county trunk road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Schwaiger
Schwaiger
Janesville
St. Clare Hospital
Planes Surpass Red MIG-15 Amid Korean Armistice Talk
United Nations spokesmen say progress toward an armistice is possible as truce talks near final agenda item five. Allied and communist negotiators aim to conclude prisoner exchange and outline troop withdrawal while staff see minor differences remaining on coastal waters and air field access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Nuckols
U. N
R. E. Libby
C. Turner Joy
Reds
Korea
Tokyo
Power and Light Expansion Hearing Set for Feb 15
The Public Service Commission scheduled a Feb 15 hearing on Wisconsin Power and Light Co. proposed $2,206,000 transmission expansion. Plans include a 138 kV line from Janesville to Fond du Lac costing $1,442,212 a Beloit to Janesville line for $513,402 and a Rock River generating station to Janesville line for $249,400.
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Madison
Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Janesville
Fond du Lac
Beloit
Rock River
Good Neighbor Day Proclaimed as Key Club Ends Year
Monroe marks first year of the Key to the City club with a Ball of the Year dance at Knights of Columbus hall and a Good Neighbor Sunday at churches. An essay contest for high schoolers on how to be a good neighbor accompanies Brotherhood week observance and a community effort to welcome newcomers.
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Monroe
F. A. Buehler
Knights of Columbus
Key Club
Bernard J. Sullivan
E. O. Evans
Ee High School
Ministerial Association
Bitter Foe Harold Ickes Dies After Turbulent Career
Harold L. Ickes 77 longtime New Deal figure died at 5 25 p m after an 11 week illness in Washington funeral set for 1 30 p m Wednesday at All Souls church burial in Sandy Spring Md Ickes once head of the Public Works Administration and a sharp foil to Harry Hopkins his feud with Hopkins and remarks about Dewey and Willkie marked his public life He resigns citing loss of self respect and the Pauley undersecretary of the navy nomination controversy details of family provided including two marriages and children
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
New Dealer
Ickes
Truman
All Souls (Unitarian
Sandy Spring
Public Works Administration
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
New Deal
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
Wall Street
Edwin W. Pauley
Navy
Pauley
Anna Wilmarth Thompson
Raymond W. Ickes
San Francisco
Harold McEwen Ickes
Elizabeth
New Darlington Hospital Opens With Seven Adults and Two Newborns
New Darlington Memorial Hospital opens in La Fayette County with seven adults and two newborns in attendance. First patient Mrs Bennett Martin admitted Saturday. first baby Luke Francis Pink born at 9 27 am yesterday. Fourteen physicians applied for staff. hospital dedicated as a memorial on Memorial Day.
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Darlington
Lafayette County Memorial Hospital
Bennett J. Martin
Luke Francis Pink
Robert Pink
Gary Lee Gilbertson
Bernard Gilbertson
South Wayne
Gilbertson
Gratiot Bank
Thomas Murphy
Burdette Cropper
Warren
Clinton Bennett
Harold Bennett
Glenn Sweeney
Argyle
Bennett
M. Aloysius
Franciscan Sisters of
Little Falls
Minn
N. A. McGreane
E. D. McConnell
C. F. Lenkering
Loren L. Thompson
D. J. Garland
H. F. Hosley
Shullsburg
J. F. Turgeson
Belmont
H. H. Morton
Dodgeville
W. D. Hamlin
H. D. Ludden
Mineral Point
H. M. Walker
W. P. Hamilton
S. D. Marshall
Hollandale
Memorial Hospital
Barkley to be treated at Navy medical center
Vice President Barkley, age 74, will enter the Navy medical center on Wednesday for treatment of an eye disorder. He told reporters at the White House there is a minor obstruction affecting vision in the right eye that requires routine care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barkley
Washington
Navy Medical Center
White House
LaCrosse youths nabbed after armory joyride
Two 16 year olds broke into a LaCrosse national guard armory using a pickax and stole a pistol, revolvers, carbines, thousands of rounds, and a car. Police captured them after a three state theft spree ending when they were forced to curb by a neighbor.
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National Guard
Waukon
New Albin
Plamer Sieverson
Lansing
Sieverson
F A Deam Dies At Winslow Home
Frank A. Deam 77 former editor and publisher of the Winslow Register died at his Winslow home at 8 a m He was born February 9 1874 in Blanchardville married Hattie Maude Bradford February 14 1897 They observed their golden anniversary in 1947 Mrs Deam died June 25 1951 He had over thirty years with the Winslow Register He is survived by a sister in law two nephews and a niece He was a member of the Winslow Masonic lodge Services will be Wednesday at 1 30 p m at Cardascio funeral home Rev Roy G Berg officiating Burial in Rock Lily cemetery Friends may call after tomorrow noon
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Winslow
Frank A. Deam
Winslow Register
Blanchardville
Elijah
Marydesta Partridge Deam
Deam
Hattie Maude Bradford
Martintown
Sadie Strohm
Winslow Masonic Lodge
Cardascio
Roy G. Berg
Martintown Community Church
Rock Lily
Secretary Urges Full $52 Billion For Defense Need
Secretary of Defense Lovett told a congressional hearing on the proposed 52.1 billion defense budget for 1952 53 that the United States holds better fighters than Soviet MiGs but production lags behind. He warned cuts would raise calculated risks and stressed the plan would still expand toward goals for army navy marine air force while detailing force gains and the budget’s history from 71 to 52 billion.
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Washington
Defense Lovett
United States
Defense
O’mahoney
Senate Appropriations
Senate-House Economic Committee
Korea
Lovett
Senators
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Armed Services
Congress
Winnie Ruth Judd Remains at Large
The hunt for Winnie Ruth Judd, the so called tiger woman who murdered two women and dismembered them in 1931, continues as police admit they have no clues. Judd, 48, escaped from the state hospital for the insane Saturday night, marking her fifth escape from the institution.
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Phoenix
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona
L. C. Boies
Maricopa County
Winnie Ruth
State Hospital
Wisconsin Declares Defense Week Feb 12 Proclaims Flag Display
Governor Kohler proclaimed a National Defense Week starting February 12 urging Wisconsin residents to display the American flag and participate in related ceremonies.
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Madison
Kohler
Wisconsin
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Mt. Clemens
Mich
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Munsan
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Interior
Harold L Ickes
Pinks
LaCrosse
Guard Arsenal
F.A. Deam
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