President Attacks Selfish Demands Over Government Cuts
President Truman denounces “selfish interests” urging drastic federal spending cuts and warns of jobless rise while defending a program to expand production. He faces bipartisan criticism in Congress as senators urge five to sixteen percent budget cuts and discuss public works and tax policy.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Pepper
D-Fla
Senate
McClellan
D-Ark
Bank at Brodhead Adds Two to Board
Dwight I. Pierce and G. N. Schwartz were elected directors of Green County Bank at the annual election. Re elected directors include Derning Newcomer Lehnherr Timm Roderick and Fleck. Officers re elected include Roderick Timm Swartz Dinse and Grover. Dividends declared and $5 000 added to surplus. Deposits rose by $170 000 from last year.
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Brodhead
Dwight I. Pierce
G. N. Schwartz
Green County Bank
Pierce
J. B. Pierce
Swartz
Edward Cole
John P. Derning
Dwight L. Newcomer
August O. Lehnherr
J. C. Timm
B. H. Roderick
Charles W. Fleck
Roderick
Timm
Elsie L. Dinse
Hale Grover
J H Lowe Injured On Construction Job
J H Lowe of 1414 9th Street fractured a bone above the right ankle while on a square construction job. He stepped on a rock beside a sloping ditch and was placed in a cast. He is employed by contractor Allie Holtshopple.
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J. H. Lowe
9Th Street
Lowe
Allie Holtshopple
Britain Cuts Dollar Purchases and Mobilizes Docks
Britain will import only 75 cents worth of goods for every dollar spent last year as Sir Stafford Cripps unveils a $400 million cut in total imports. The government also plans to reduce tobacco, pulp, and metals imports. Sugar rations drop, candy returns to rationing, and gold and dollar reserves fall. In London, 45 hundred soldiers and sailors move to the docks amid an 18 day strike, with 14 204 dock workers idle. The emergency powers receive parliamentary approval 412 to 4, while PM Attlee vows to finish the strike leaders.
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London
Britain
United States
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
House of Commons
America
Sterling
Royal Air Force
Dock Labor Board
George VI
Thames River
Commons
Labor Party
Clement Attlee
Sanford Severson Hurt In Fall From Windmill
Sanford Severson, 25, of Hollandale, was seriously injured when he fell thirty feet from a windmill onto a rock pile on the Edward Lunda farm near Hollandale. He suffered a fractured arm, leg and four ribs, plus a punctured kidney and internal injuries.
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Blanchardville
Sanford Severson
Hollandale
Edward Lunda
Dodgeville
Severson
Theodore Severson
Roy Anderson
Anderson
E. L. Severson
Hollanale
Yangtze River Floods Reach Historic Levels
The Yangtze valley from the river mouth 300 miles inland is submerged in the worst flood since 1931. Farm lands on both sides of the river, in some areas 40 miles wide, are underwater.
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Yangtze River
Nanking
Yangtze Valley
House Group Votes Defense Comptroller For Military Outlays
The House Armed Services Committee approved a plan 27 to 0 to create a defense comptroller with full authority over the military budget. It would place comp trollers under a central office and standardize accounting across the three services to cut costs. If enacted this section would mimic the broader unification bill's goals, with President’s reorganization order aiding implementation.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
Secretary of Defense
Central
House
Vinson
D-Ga
South Side Panels To Be Poured Next
Concrete work advances on the courthouse square with panels poured on the south side pending weather. A third panel was laid on the east side yesterday as three forms were finished this morning in preparation for afternoon pouring. The Vinton Co. and Monroe Ditch Diggers received the contract to complete the center south panel and install steel sleeves for parking metal bases. Work also began yesterday on the conduit from the 16th avenue and 10th street intersection to the courthouse.
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Court House Square
William A. Vinton Co
United Telephone Co
16Th Avenue
10Th Street
Court House
Vinton Company
Monroe Ditch Diggers
Chiang Demands War To Stop Reds
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek declared that war is the only solution to China’s communist problem and vowed to continue fighting until final victory. He spoke after arriving at the provisional capital through the central news agency and urged rallying behind Premier Yen Hsi-shan and Acting President Li-Tsung-jen.
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Canton
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Central
Yen Hsi-shan
Chiang
Yen
Li-Tsung-jen
South
Wisconsin Cheese Market Dolds Amid Trade Standstill
Madison reports the Wisconsin American cheese market barely steady with trade at a standstill. Nominal selling prices listed by state assembly show single daisies 32 to 34 cents, square prints and long horns 32 to 34 cents, midgets 34 to 35 cents.
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Madison
Wisconsin
I. c
Pope Pius XII Orders Excommunication for Militant Catholic Communists
Vatican decrees excommunicate Catholics who defend or propagate communist doctrine as the pope widens church discipline. The measure targets militants in Europe and Italy where two million Catholics hold communist views, with a grace period for some to repent.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
Alojzije Stepinac
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Catholic Action Society
Czechoslovakia
Vatican
Apostolic See
Italy
Poland
Europe
France
Hog price tops $23 mark at Chicago market
Live hog prices rose by 50 cents per hundred pounds as hogs sold at Chicago pork market, reaching a high of 23.00 dollars. This is the highest since December 27, with the peak previously reached January 5.
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Chicago
Parade to Head City Fun Days July 21
The city recreation department will host a Fun Days parade and activities at Recreation Park on July 21 with a Kiwanis youth cabin dedication. Larry Kitchen says youth committees will be chosen tomorrow afternoon to plan the event. A high school band led parade with prizes for best and worst entries, decorated bicycles and floats.
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Ecreation Park
Cooperan
KiwWanis
City Recreation Department
Larry Kitchen
Hobo
Allan F. Barnard
Kitchen
14Th Street
15Th
16Th Avenues
15Th Avenue
13Th Street
17Th Avenue
15Th Street
Recreation Park
Lincoln High Gym
Early Treaty Vote Blocked in Senate
Democratic leaders sought a Saturday vote on the North Atlantic pact in the Senate. Senator Watkins blocked the move saying no vote before next Wednesday. Senate leaders vowed to stay in session to push toward an early vote next week.
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Washington
Senate
Watkins
Utah
Lucas
Illinois
Lost Poles Delay Park Lighting In Rockford
The Monroe park board reports a tracer out on metal braces for the park lighting system. The braces shipped June 27 with other equipment remain misplaced en route. Richardson Electric Co says once braces arrive, the lighting unit can be installed and quickly connected to heavy cable, enabling the American Legion softball program to begin.
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General Electric Supply Co
Rockford
Monroe Park Board
Richardson Electric Co
Robert H. Richardson
American Legion
Insane Ohio Slayer Climbs, Then Leaves Water Tower Perch
Lima resident Raymond Jutila, a 35 year old inmate at the Lima state hospital for the criminal insane, remained aloft for nearly 29 hours in a 130 foot water tower. He descended after a messenger failed to arrive with a police chief message and cited protection for his family from released convicts as motive.
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Lima, O
Raymond Jutila
Lima State Hospital
Warren
Jutila
Governor Rennebohm vetoes crossing safety funds
Governor Rennebohm approved repeal of present speed limits at railroad crossings and let the public service commission set maximum speeds. He vetoed a plan to appropriate 250000 dollars annually for crossing safety and shared costs with railroads, noting risk to funding for flagmen at Wisconsin’s 6624 unprotected crossings. He also signed a separate 33000 dollar deer and bear damages appropriation and noted conservation funding shortfalls.
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Madison
Rennebohm
Public Service Commission
Wisconsin
Conservation Department
Emergency Board
Edgerton Man 38 Fatally Stabbed in Family Dispute
Frank Wilt tan, 38, was stabbed to death during a quarrel at a lakeside cottage on Lake Koshkonong. Sheriff H P Kerl said the Edgerton man reportedly threatened his wife Helene 35 and their 10 month old son Robert before the stabbing after he allegedly yelled at them.
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Albion
Edgerton
Lake Koshkonong
H. P. Kerl
Dane County
Kerl
Frank Wilttan
Helene
Robert
Green County Fair Horse Show Entry Lists Close July 23
Entry blanks for the seventh annual Green County fair horse show were mailed out yesterday. Ernest W. Hayes, show manager, notes entries close July 23. The event offers 32 classes with $2,590 in prize money across two days July 30 and 31 plus four afternoon classes during the races.
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Ernest W. Hayes
Wisconsin Pleasure Horse Association
Northern Illinois Horse Show Association
Temple Stephens
Moberly
Base Award Signed For Highway 11 Work
The contract with P. W. Ryan Sons for 3,116 miles of base course on highway 11 Browntown Hill relocation was signed by Gov. Rennebohm. The $36,153 contract starts at the Lafayette county line and proceeds eastward.
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P. W. Ryan Sons
Janesville
Browntown-Hill
Rennebohm
Lafayette County
Break-in Attempt At Kempfert's Pharmacy Foiled
An attempt to break into Kempfert's pharmacy on the square was stopped by a heavy interior bar after a glass cutter left a cutout in a rear door. Police collected fingerprint samples from the glass fragment.
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Kempfert
Truman Pushes Fact Finding Board Over Steel Dispute
President Truman announced a steel wage dispute plan and ordered a three man fact finding board to study the case as U S Steel Republic and Bethlehem reconsider their rejection. CIO leader Philip Murray threatened a 60 day strike unless the plan is accepted.
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Philip Murray
Center
CIO
United Steel Workers
Pittsburgh
Truman
Washington
White House
Charles Ross
United States Steel
Republic
Bethlehem
Mr. Truman
United Steel Workers Union
Taft Hartley
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Murray
U. S. Steel
Jones and Kuy Wheeling
Youngstown Steel
Heat May Come Back After Cooling Spell
The weatherman forecasts fair and cooler conditions tonight turning partly cloudy and warmer by tomorrow. Temperatures should level off near normal across most of the country. Monroe reports .06 inch rain this morning as wet and cool belts extend through Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin. Low near 64 after yesterday's high 89.
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Monroe
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Plains
Great Lakes
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