Businessmen Stake in Asiatic Markets and Trade Shifts
The article weighs the Asiatic stake of business leaders amid great power maneuvering. It notes Britain and Russia eye East markets, Japan restrictions on American imports, oil company protests, and the strategic Hong Kong base while U S interests shift toward the Dutch and Indonesian trade prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isshek
Moscow
Japan
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
America
Sterling
U. S
China
Britain
India
Hong Kong
United States
Indoesia
Local residents share New Year visits and gatherings
Juda By Mrs. F. J. Miller visits in town as Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Jenny of McHenry spend New Year’s Day with grandmother Minnie Mohns. Several couples host and attend Sunday dinners and visits at homes of Hartwig, Newman, Elmer, Shattum, Frey, and Brunkow while others travel or return from Chicago Milwaukee and Chicago trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Jenny
McHenry, Til
Minnie Mohns
Palmer Albright
G. B. Lahr
Ed Hartwig
Vera Helling
Delavan
Marion Newman
William Siedschlag
Rockford
Leonard Vogel
Janesville
Charles Frey
Monroe
Ralph Frey
Ira Johnson
Vivian Johnson
Chicago
McHenry
Kathryn Chambers
Milwaukee
William Chambers
Harrison Grenzow
Ora Roderick
Fred Brunkow
Elmer Whitehead
Paul Lemke
Local Social News and Military Move Entreaties
Pvt Douglas Peckham left for St. Louis after holidays with parents and kin. Mrs Ray Webb visited Rockford. Mrs Lorna Stewart hosted cards for Miss Tesla Griffen Kenosha. Mrs Frane Benkett Pepper returns Beloit. Mrs F L Buchschacher at Monroe visited Olive Hilliard. Col Dixon and grandson Johnny head to California. It is estimated that one in 35 Swiss workers join India watch industry at about 3,000,000 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Peckham
St. Louis
Yne Peckham
Ft. Riley
Kaw
Ray’ Webb
Ray Peterson
Rockford
Lorna Stewart
Tesla Griffen
Kenosha
Frane Benkett Priceas
Beloit
C. A. Gales
F. L. Buchschacher
Monroe
Olive Hilliard
Sarah Canfil
Colonel Dixon
Johnny
California
C. M. Dixon
Soquel
India
Kuhl and aides face hearing on political funds charge
A former Wisconsin internal revenue collector A J Kuhl and eight other department employees face a Saturday arraignment in Chicago on felony charges for soliciting political funds from federal workers and conspiring to commit offenses against the United States. The group, named in a second indictment, includes Milwaukee and Green Bay bureau chiefs and former officials, all tied to efforts to raise funds for the Democratic Party from colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surnamee
Ury
Irann J. Kuhl
Internal Revenue
Wisconsin
Kuhl
Michael Igoe
Chicago
United States
Internal Revenue Department
Democratic Party
Clarence J. Williamson
Milwaukee
Internal Revenue Bureau
James P. Flood
Green Bay
Jerome J. Mizkewiz
Flood
Renny W
Efficient Herds Show Way On Freer Farming Economy
Washington report argues efficiency in dairy production could reduce milk price dependence on subsidies. A study of 425 cows in a national herd-improvement program links higher output to better returns after feed costs. It notes varied dairy costs may justify price supports, but widespread efficiency gains could lessen subsidies over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovid A. Martin
Washington
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Dairy Industry
National Dairy-Herd-Improvement Association
Federal Treasury
Wisconsin Work Relief Plans Grow In State
Wisconsin communities show rising interest in work relief programs with at least ten started since World War II. Oconto County runs a reforestation project. Waukesha hires 12 relief workers for recreation and public works. Sanborn in Ashland County employs 20 on road projects. Programs, advisory only, must avoid replacing regular municipal workers and require public work like road, park improvements, building repairs, and county duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wisconsin
Public Welfare
George M. Keith
Division of Public Assistance
Oconto County
Waukesha
Sanborn
Ashland County
Ohio mine firms sue Lewis and union leaders
Five eastern Ohio coal companies filed suits in common pleas court seeking nearly 8 million dollars in damages from John L. Lewis and other United Mine Workers leaders and the union treasury. They also filed companion suits to bar leaders from enforcing Lewis’s three day work week under Ohio’s Valentine act, alleging tonnage losses of seven million tons in 1949 due to strikes and stoppages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Union Treasury
Lewis
Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Co
Warner Colleries Co
and O. Coal Co
Jefferson Coal Co
Army Sends First Detachment for Caribbean Training
The army ships the first detachment of 3,500 soldiers from Charleston to Little Creek for initial assault training starting Monday. Total 15,000 troops will be sent for amphibious staging at the base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fryeawans Vatry Sane Eeyudd
Caribbean
Charleston
S. C
Little Creek
Milwaukee Plans Demolition for Parking Lot Block
The five year old New Hampshire block at North 6th Street and West Wisconsin Avenue will be torn down to make way for a parking lot. George E. Uihlein, owner, says the four story building housing six stores and 21 apartments will be vacated February 1. One of the first large structures west of the Milwaukee River, the block marks westward expansion.
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Saunce
New Hampshire
North 6Th Street
West
Wisconsin Avenue
George E. Uihlein
Milwaukee River
Prague Charges US With Sending Spies to USSR
The Prague communist press today asserted that the United States and other Western nations are flooding the Soviet Union and European communist states with spies murderers and saboteurs as part of a broad foreign interference campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Prague
United States
Soviet Union
South Wayne Social Guests Share Holiday Visits
South Wayne residents hosted and visited relatives during the holiday period. Families from Chicago Boston Madison Monroe Beloit and Arlington joined in New Year dinners, New Year’s Eve gatherings, and Sunday visits. Guests included Mr and Mrs Charles Gerds Mrs Royal Van der Berg Mr and Mrs Ralph Moon and son Edward Capt and Mrs C B Fulton Mr and Mrs Avery Stites and others. Local hosts included Mr and Mrs T J Lacey Mr and Mrs James Green and family Mrs Barbara Germann Mr and Mrs Lester Schuldt Mrs Maynard Jones and several Homb and Livingston households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gerds
Chicago
Royal van der Berg
Maine
Mich
Ralph Moon
Edward
Menasha
Edward Chap Ihan
Harry Hart
Rockford
E. ‘Tree Home
South | Wayne
Capt
C. B. Fulton
Baltimore
Avery Stites
South Wayne
Joseph Caruolo
Boston
Mass
T. J. Lacey
Clarence Homb
James Green
Monroe
L. D. ‘Jones
Donald Livingston
Liston
Wis
William Biddict
Walders
Stuart Chambers
Barbara Germann
Harry Hanson
Fred
Nei Gerhauser
Freepot
Robert Ri
Robert Homb
Betty Elle Johnson
Madison
Raymond Homb
Clyde
Keith Homb
D. M. Howery
Women’s Society of Istian Service
Church Rd
LaCrosse
Frank Noesen
Monticello
George Strub
South
Fish study planned by Chicago Army engineers
Army engineers announce a study on winter kills of fish and wildlife in the upper Mississippi. Focus will include how winter drawdowns in navigation pools south of Rock Island affect aquatic life and ecosystems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Army
Upper
Mississippi
Rock Island
Beach Park Sold to Suburban Real Estate Development
Milwaukee Wisconsin and Pewaukee officials report that one of the state’s oldest amusements, Beach Park on Pewaukee Lake, has been sold. Harry J Koepp of Pewaukee acquired the park on Wednesday for transformation into a suburban real estate development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beach Park
Milwaukee
Waukesha Beach
Retired Johns Hopkins President Bowman Dies at 71
Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and renowned geographer, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 71. He retired as president January 1, 1949, and suffered a heart attack after being stricken at his home yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galltimore —Ory
Isaiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
Fone
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bowman
Reds Push Atheism in Soviet Education Drive
The Soviet Journal of Science and Life reports many USSR citizens still hold religious belief. It urged yesterday intensified education of the masses in the spirit of militant atheism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Journal of Science and Life
The
Ussr
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F. J. Miller
Albany
Wilam Steinhort
Young Pioneers
Joseph Stalin
Bolshoi Theater
Stalin
Connors
Connors Plumbing and Heating
11Th Street
Union
Wagner's Nursing Home
1804
10Th Street
Mrs. Harry T, Siaddrel
Harvey S. Stauffacher
White Block
Monroe Cash Market
Johns Hopkins
Ford
Les Bacuttiful
Mariins
Ran Rem
9Th Street
16Th Avenue
Monroe Sales Co
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