Slaughter Accepts Truman Challenge To Renomination
In Independence Missouri congressman Slaughter denounced the CIO political action committee and warned of a Democratic party drift under executive influence in a speech predicting a battle over candidate selection. He traced tension in the fifth district race with Axtell, Walsh, and other challengers, and recalled past support for Truman while asserting Congress should not blindly follow the president.
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Slaughter
CIO
Axtell
Jerome Walsh
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Independence
Truman
Senate
Congress
Pendergast
Walsh
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri
Kansas City
Washington
James Pendergast
Enos Axtell
Truman aides weigh selective campaigning for congressional races
Washington reports Democrats forecast that if President Truman tours this fall he and party leaders will target individual congressional contests rather than a country wide tour. Associates say there is no plan to imitate 1918 grand tour as in Wilson era. GOP chairman B Carroll Reece notes shift to contest focused strategy for 1946. Truman says he will help Democrats where possible and may or may not campaign in New York with Mead as potential governor candidate against Dewey.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson
Congress
B. Carroll Reece
GOP
Mr. Truman
New York
James Mead
Thomas E. Dewey
Postal Employes Withheld Pay In Monroe Area
Local authorities report postal workers in Monroe and nationwide have their pay delayed by treasury actions. The hold stems from a silver bill tied to funds, with the finance committee delaying payment until the measure clears.
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Monroe
Ar Treasury
Mands
Model Milkhouse Rising at Fairgrounds Adapts to Clean Milk
Construction progresses on a 12 by 14 foot model milkhouse beside the main stock pavilion at the fairgrounds. Virgil Stauffacher leads the free cooperative effort to showcase sanitary milk handling from milking to sale, aiding a county drive for cleaner milk.
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Fairgrounds
Virgil UT. Stauffacher
Monroe
E. O. Baker
Wisconsin
Marine Veteran Dies In Chair For Slaying Of Wisconsin Woman
Earl McFarland, marine veteran from Knoxville Tennessee, was executed in the District of Columbia jail for the rape slaying of 18 year old Dorothy Berrum of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin in October 1944. He walked to the chair with a cigarette, and seven minutes after the 9 05 a m sentence was pronounced he died. He claimed innocence in a final statement before the chamber.
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Washington
Earl McFarland
McFarland
Guadalcanal
District of Columbia
Monroe
Dorothy Berrum
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Knoxville
Tenn
Letter Pays Off Manitowoc Bet With Eisenhower Invitation
An $1 bet from 1945 yielded a personal invitation for Jacqueline Halverson, 18, to visit General Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Minocqua vacation headquarters. She and her parents will travel by car to meet the army chief of staff, escorted by a state police officer, on a date to be set. The letter from Eisenhower followed her uncle Roland Nelson’s wager while he served in Germany.
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Manitowoc
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jacqueline Halverson
Army
Minocqua
Gen. Eisenhower
Miss Halverson
Roland KR. Nelson
Manitowoc Rapids
Germany
Vilas County Lakelands Resort
C-47 Crash Near Goodland Kills 13
A C-47 military transport crashed west of Goodland Kansas, killing 10 passengers and 3 crew members. Separate dispatch from New York reports Prof H A Kramers elected chairman of a 12 nation scientific and technical committee of the United Nations atomic energy commission. The U S Senate defeated a proposal to submit an equal rights constitutional amendment to the states.
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Here
New York
H. A. Kramers
Netherlands
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Kramers
University of Leyden
Washington
Senate
Truman drops army navy merger push in current session
Washington Senator Elbert Thomas states that President Truman, following advice from congressional leaders, has abandoned his request for army navy merger legislation during this session of Congress.
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Washington
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Truman
House Adopts AEC Bill With Army Bomb-Making Provision
The house approved the military committee’s plan to allow the army to continue building atomic bombs by a 102 to 72 vote. A roll call tally may follow if requested by enough members.
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Washington
House
Military Committee
Fingerprints Key in Heirens Case With Degnan Slaying
Chicago police report fingerprints from Suzanne Degnan’s bedroom may tie William Heirens to the kidnapping and murder. Chief Walter Storms says the prints on a ransom note and a box are being tested, with results expected soon though not yet definite. Investigators have matched prints in several points to Heirens.
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Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
William Heirens
Walter Storms
FBI
Heirens
University of Chicago
Charles Wilson
Police Crime Laboratory
Police Bureau of Identification
Telephone Firms Abandon Lines in Wisconsin Counties
The state public service commission allowed seven Rock County telephone companies and one in Lafayette to abandon lines and facilities. Wisconsin Telephone Co. will provide service to their customers. Rock County firms include Union Jug Prairie August Ringhand Punphy Tierney Pleasant Prairie County Line Mutual and Liberty Creek. The Lafayette firm is Wiota Northwestern. The commission also approved Pine Lake Telephone Co. of Oneida County to sell its property to Rhinelander Telephone Co. for 3500.
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Madison
State Public Service Commission
Rock County
Lafayette
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Union
Jug Prairie
August Ringhand
Punphy - Tierney
Pleasant Prairie
County Line Mutual
Liberty Creek
Wiota Northwestern
Pine Lake Telephone Co
Oneida County
Rhinelander Telephone Company
Wisconsin Officials Offer Help to Lift Knoxville Milk Ban
A Wisconsin dairy delegation met Knoxville officials to discuss rescinding the ban on substandard milk. They asserted the milk sent to Knoxville was still good and offered state health department assistance. A next meeting with area dairymen and health officials is planned to consider ordinance changes.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Wisconsin
Oo States Public Health
Wisconsin Group
Harvey Weavers
Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture
A. E. Machler
H. T. Scott
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
U. S
USPHS
Maciler
State Health Department
W. B. Lockwood
State
Chicago Health Department
Pioneer Cheesemaker John W Schield Dies at 81
Milwaukee reports the death of John W Schield aged 81 a pioneer in Wisconsin Minnesota dairy. The Swiss native came to Wisconsin at 21 funded his education at the University of Wisconsin by operating a Windom creamery and later supervised creameries at Pabst Farms Oconomowoc and served as buttermaker at Lambrecht creameries.
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Milwaukee
John W. Schield
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Switzerland
University of Wisconsin
Windom
Minn
Pabst Tarms
Oconomowoc
Lambrecht
Committee Fails To Agree Upon OPA Revival Bill
Ashington Democratic Leader Barkley says a Senate House conference committee found no common ground on reviving price controls. A subcommittee draft to restore ceilings on major items was only in rough form, with a possible compromise shifting control to the civilian production administration. The CIO called for a national buyers strike as talks stagnated and wage increases loomed.
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Ashington
Barkley
Truman
Radcliffe
Senate
OPA
CIO
Spence
House Banking Committee
Joint Conference Committee
House
Seek Salary Increase Madison Union Demands 30 Percent Rise
Two local unions of the Wisconsin State Employees Association voted unanimously to demand a 30 percent salary increase and a 38 hour week. Local 171 at the University of Wisconsin and Local 134 at Wisconsin General Hospital gave the university board of regents 30 days to respond.
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Madison
Wisconsin State Employee Association
Roy Kubista
University of Wisconsin
AFL
Wisconsin General Hospital
University Board of Regents
Senate Probers Issue Subpoena for Rep. May
In Monroe the heat climbs to 98 as Rockford and other Illinois cities face water restrictions. City water chief George Schneider says Monroe’s deep wells, drilled in 1878 1928 and 1938, supply about a million gallons daily with no scarcity in sight and no need to curb lawn watering.
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Mercury
Monroe
Illinois
George Schneider
Schneider
Rockford
Rent Committee Probes Wisconsin Commercial Rents
Governor Goodland receives findings from a four member rent committee after statewide hearings in Eau Claire Milwaukee Appleton Superior Kenosha Madison on commercial rental trends. Committee urges no special session unless clear rent jumps emerge and notes landlords oppose rent control while tenants largely absent.
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Madison
Goodland
Capitol
Eau Claire
Prsons
Milwaukee
Appleton
Superior
Kenosha
H. T. Ferguson
State Public Service Commission
Ferguson
A. M. Jacobson
OPA
New York
Elliot Walstead
Wisconsin Real Estate Brokers’ Board
A. P. Sandal
State Planning Commission
Jacobson
One Department of Veterans’ Afairs
Grocers Feature Heat Wave Items at Monroe Stores
Shoppers find abundant summer fruits and cold cuts while supplies improve. Green tea and other warm weather goods appear in at least two Monroe grocers as prices ease on meat and butter after shortages. Bread remains scarce by noon. chicken remains common on tables.
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Monroe
California
Rankin Charges Spies At Oak Ridge Plant
Rep John E Rankin repeated his charge that foreign spies are at work in the Oak Ridge Tennessee atom bomb plant seeking to steal the secret. He added the Aberdeen proving grounds also face the same threat as five employees were released by the army. The remarks came as the house debated atomic energy control and a push grew to retain army oversight over the program.
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Washington
John E. Rankin
D-Miss
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Rankin
Aberdeen
House
Special Housing Meeting Called by City Council
A special meeting of the city council will be held in city hall this evening to act on proposed veteran's housing. The session will follow the regular meeting of the board of public works at 7 p.m.
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City Hall
Board of Public Works
Suit Filed Against Garsson Over Mining Property Sale
New York defends Murray W. Garsson in a $43,000 supreme court suit filed by Samuel Greenfield as assignee of First Pan-American Mercantile Corp. The action alleges misrepresentation in the purchase of the Green Brier mining property in West Virginia.
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New York
Murray W. Garsson
Supreme Court
Samuel Greenfield
First Pan-American Mercantile Corp
Green Brier
West Virginia
Auto Workers Seek Weekend Meat Purchase Halt
CIO UAW officials call for a weeklong embargo on meat purchases over the weekend. Walter P. Reuther says the campaign is progressing and aims to reduce meat purchases to none on Friday shopping days as momentum of the meat strike grows since Tuesday.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
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