Byrd Attacks Truman on Socialism in Fair Deal Debate
Senator Byrd charges President Truman with steering toward socialism through the Fair Deal, naming socialized medicine, Brannan farm subsidies, and housing as key risks. Truman defends program as not socialist, criticizes Republicans for scare tactics. Taft rebutts claims, linking policies to Britain’s labor socialist model. Event at Jefferson-Jackson dinner noted for restrained, not roaring, applause.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Truman
Virginia
Congress
Brannan
Great Britain
Taft
Assessor Calls for Review of Levies on Valuations
City Assessor Everett Keel invites property owners who believe their assessments are too high to meet with him. He notes right to appeal before the city board of review and explains the move toward 100 percent value, with tax rates applied to a chosen percent of that value to meet budget needs.
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Everett Keel
Keel
City Board of Review
Sheboygan Street Official Penalized After Snow Delay
Fred Wedemeyer, Sheboygan streets commissioner, suspended two weeks without pay for slow snow removal after Monday storm. Mayor Sonnenburg ordered temporary replacement William Muehlenberg and warned of further action. Weather caused wet, heavy snow. removal crews began Tuesday as civil service protections limited firing.
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Sheboygan
Fred Wedemeyer
Willard M. Sonnenburg
William Muehlenberg
Wedemeyer
Dr. Sonnenburg
Wisconsin Milk Output Up in 1949 Despite Lower Prices
Wisconsin farmers produced 4.7 percent more milk in 1949 than 1948 reaching 15.383 billion pounds, while prices dropped about 7.9 percent. American cheese output hit a state record 430.035 million pounds, 46 percent of U.S. production. Butter rose 23 percent to 169.59 million pounds, ranking Wisconsin third nationally.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Crop Reporting Service
Service
George DeNure Dies at 92 in South Wayne
George DeNure 92 of South Wayne died yesterday evening after an 11 week illness with strokes. Born July 7 1857 in Jordan township he married Josephine Erickson in 1889. He lived on a Wiota farm before moving to South Wayne 26 years ago. Survivors include a daughter Mrs Clifford Stixrood and two sons Harry and Charles eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Services Monday at Hanson funeral home then East Viota Lutheran Church with Rev G M Gunderson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Pallbearers are grandsons Harold George Kenneth Alvin Robert DeNure and Charles DeNure.
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South Wayne
George DeNure
Jordan Township
Peter
Jane DeNure
East Wiota
Josephine Erickson
Wiota Township
Clifford Stixrood
Harry
Charles
Gratiot Township
Hanson Funeral Home
East Viota Lutheran Church
G. M. Gunderson
Harold
George
Kenneth
Alvin
Robert DeNure
Charles DeNure
Oconto
Cooler Temperatures To Follow Mild Spell
Somewhat cooler temperatures in the mid-20s are expected this weekend as cloudy skies arrive tonight. The shifting weather ends a bright spell with melting snow and slush, after Wisconsin’s unusually cold stretch and Land O Lakes hitting 10 below zero earlier.
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Wisconsin
United States
Land O’lakes
Wisconsin Man Found Dead in Phoenix Hotel
Lyle Joseph Farris of Wisconsin was found dead in a Phoenix hotel room. Police suspected murder but did not rule out possible self harm as a cause.
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Wisconsin
Phoenix
Lyle Joseph Farris
Chinese New Year Festivities Amid Fear On Formosa
Chinese communities across Taipei celebrated the Lunar New Year as the Year of the Tiger began despite lingering fear of Soviet influence. Residents on Formosa marked the occasion with traditional rituals and public cheer as political anxiety persisted.
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Taipei
Formosa
Veterans List For Monroe Housing Project Grows
Sixteen veterans have been named to the local list for Monroe housing units as county service officer Theodore J. Burgy notes more may sign up. The housing investigation committee, appointed by Mayor F A Buehler, plans a report next Tuesday on whether a housing shortage exists to justify forming a local housing authority and seeking state funds. Committee members meet with state veterans affairs officials in Madison to learn the governing law for establishing the authority.
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Theodore J. Burgy
Monroe
Burgy
City Housing Investigation Committee
F. A. Buehler
Gordon Huseby
H. L. Gardner
State Veterans Affairs Department
Madison
Howard P. Olsen
R. W. Prien
R. W. Blaha
Rudolph P. Regez
Robert C. Dunn
Bank Robbers Take Large Sum From Capital Branch
Three men robbed an outlying Hamilton National Bank branch today and escaped with about 320000. W. T. Waller, the bank president, said one man waited in a car outside while another guarded the door and a third rounded up branch manager H. R. Bauckman and two tellers. No one was injured. Auditors had recently visited the branch near the District of Columbia boundary.
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Washington
Hamilton National Bank
W. T. Waller
H. R. Bauckman
Waller
District of Columbia Boundry
Peace Strategy Debated In Senate On World Government
Congress faces a Senate foreign relations subcommittee debate over strengthening the United Nations and moving toward world government as a path to peace amid atomic threats. Supporters include a former banker and two congressmen. opponents warn of the destruction of free America and the end of national sovereignty.
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Washington
Congress
America
Senate Foreign Relations
United Nations
Russia
Clare E. Hoffman
Rmich
Rwis
Tobey
U. N
Miss Jirina Hrazdilova speaks on unity of ideals at Kiwanis
A 17 year old Czechoslovakian student at Ripon College told Kiwanis members that despite material differences, people share the same ideals and a desire for peace. She recalled Czechoslovakia's WWII-era hardships and US support, noting her country’s constitution parallels America’s.
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Jirina Hrazdilova
Kiwanis Club
United States
Europe
America
Hitler
Island Searched For Lost Airmen
Search near Princess Royal Island focuses on five missing airmen after a B 36 crash off the British Columbia coast. Eleven survivors and one more expected to be flown out. A Yukon C 47 crash during Exercise Sweetbriar leaves one injured among four Canadians and ten Americans.
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McChord
Tacoma
Wash
Princess Royal Island
British Columbia
Coast Guard
Ketchikan
Alaska
Theodore F. Schreier
Madison
Wis
Canada
United States
Yukon
Northway
Darlington Hospital Work To Start July 1
Work is set to begin July 1 on the Darlington hospital. Vincent F. Otis, Madison director of the advisory hospital council, announced a 35 building program for Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Hospital Association annual conference in Milwaukee yesterday.
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Darlington
Darlington Hospital
Wisconsin
Vincent F. Otis
Madison
State Board of Health
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Hospital Association
Small Styles Higher In Sales at Plymouth
The trading tone was firm with prices on small styles up 4 cents today at the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange. Sales include one car cheddars at 31.5 cents, one car single daisies at 33.34, bids remaining show four cars cheddars at 31.5, two cars cheddars at 31, one car single daisies at 33.34, and one car longhorns at 33.34. All Wisconsin state brand.
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Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Wisconsin
Lewis 14 Demands For New Coal Contract Revealed
Washington reports John L. Lewis presented 14 proposals for a new coal mining contract. Key points include a $15 daily wage, 35 cent ton royalty for welfare, 200 workdays annually, 7 hour workday, extended vacation with pay, eight holidays, higher night pay, veteran protection, strip mining contract, new UMW fund board, end to damage suits, employer welfare fund payments, uniform miner pay, and guaranteed rates for day and piece workers.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
UMW Fund
Aides to Vogeler Admit Spying in Hungarian Trial
In Budapest a court heard confessions from Robert Vogeler’s aide and two Hungarians for spying for the West. British assistant Edgar Sanders testified he supplied information on Hungary’s military economic and political scene. Vogeler, ITT European representative, faces trial with Sanders and five Hungarians, including a Catholic priest and a barmaid.
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Budapest
Robert Vogeler
Vogeler
Hungary
Edgar Sanders
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
Sanders
Imre Geiger
Zoltan Rado
Geiger
I. T. and
T. Budapest
Resort pioneer dies in Florida obituary for Arthur Hahn
Manitowoc reports the death of Arthur Hahn 88 a well known singer and resort owner at English lake died this week in Tampa Florida according to word received here.
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Manitowoc
Arthur Hahn
English Lake
Tampa, Fla
President Urges Board Report On Parley Coal Talks
President Truman pressed his fact finding board to deliver a progress report by tomorrow as government officials push for a settlement of the coal dispute. The 370,000 miners continue to defy a federal court order to return to work amid talks between John L. Lewis and mine operators and a looming Taft-Hartley injunction.
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Washington
Truman
White House
David Cole
Cole
Congress
Mr. Truman
U.S
Eben Ayers
Cyrus Ching
Federal Mediation Service
John R. Steelman
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Illinois
Progressive Mine Workers
Justice Department
Richmond B. Keech
UMW
Treasury
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West Allis
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