Progressive Party Seeks Real Peace at Wallace Stalin Convention
Wallace supporters push for real peace based on give and take with Stalin as Wallace and Senator Glen Taylor seek the presidential ticket. Albert J. Fitzgerald, CIO leader, is named permanent chairman and defends Truman while blasting Taft-Hartley.
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Stalin
Jack Bell
Philadelphia
New Progressive Party
Henry A. Wallace
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Lynn
Mass
Congress
Henry Wallace
Josef Stalin
United States
Fitzgerald
CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Shibe Park
Truman
Harry
Marcantonio
Secrecy on Atomic Weapons Continues
President Truman says the United States will lift secrecy on atomic energy once a workable international control system exists. The White House notes tests at Eniwetok show US position has improved and the Marshall Islands experiments produced three new and improved bombs. The Nuclear Commission says secrecy is needed for security and may persist for 20 years.
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Truman
United States
Russia
Pacific
U. S
Congress
Commission
Eniwetok
Seven Duluth Baseball Players Killed in Bus Collision
Seven members of the Duluth baseball club of the Northern League were killed and 10 others injured in a head on collision near St Paul today. Authorities reported the bus struck another vehicle, and the crash ended in deaths for seven players.
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Duluth
St. Paul
Eleanor Patterson Obituary Publisher for Washington Times Herald
Eleanor Patterson known as Cissy, 63, editor publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, died suddenly at her Marlboro Maryland home. She apparently died in her sleep and was found after missing breakfast. Patterson came from a newspaper family, granddaughter of Joseph Medill, sister of Joseph Medill Patterson, and cousin of Col. Robert McCormick.
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Eleanor Medill Patterson
Marlboro
Patterson
Cissy
Washington Times-Herald
Joseph Medill
The
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Medill Patterson
New York Daily News
Col
Robert McCormick
Power firm worker burns in village pole accident
Louis F. Blanc representing Wisconsin Power and Light Co. was injured while handling a 12 000 volt insulator pin on a pole during a village transmission upgrade. He fell unconscious briefly but reached the ground unaided and was treated in Monroe after being brought by a physician.
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Louis F. Blanc
Monticello
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
8Th Avenue
Blanc
W. S. MacDonald
Monroe
Roy Schneider
Dewitt Harmon
Belleville
Harry Walters
Troubled Waters Confront Truman Plan on Inflation
President Truman outlined proposals to curb living costs while aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburgh. Capitol Hill signals suggested a rough ride ahead as Republicans pledge careful consideration of his plan for government controls amid a filibuster threat from within his party. Senator Eastland signaled willingness to oppose civil rights measures fueling southern Democratic dissent at the Philadelphia convention.
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Washington
Truman
Potomac
Congress
Williamsburg
Capitol Hill
Eastland
D-Miss
Philadelphia
Evidence of Slaughter of Heifer Found Near Blanchardville
Sheriff Evan Chambers announced evidence that a 300 pound heifer was slaughtered in a field at the Clarence Strommen farm near Blanchardville Green county. John D. Ula had been pasturing several animals there and found a missing heifer as he searched for strays. A nearby farmer discovering the butchering tried to destroy evidence by burning. A hog slaughter was reported near the Green Lafayette county line under similar circumstances.
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Clarence Strommen
Blanchardville
Green County
Evan Chambers
John D. Ula
Strommen
Ula
Lafayette
Milk Prices Reach New Record Levels
Milk prices hit new records in early June per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Retail home-delivered standard milk averaged 20.8 cents a quart across 24 cities while the price paid to producers for class 1 milk of 3.5 percent butterfat stood at $5.15 per 100 pounds, 11 cents above June and 66 cents above July 1947.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Andre Marie New Premier of France
Andre Marie became premier of France after a confidence vote in the national assembly. He vows a stable government uniting all parties except the communists and De Gaulle loyalists. He urged focus on European recovery and worker employment amid factory closures.
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Paris
Andre Marie
France
National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Marie
Assembly
Radical Socialist Party
European Recovery Pro
Collision on Highway Damages Two Machines
Two 19 year olds are involved in a minor collision on highway 69 south of Monticello at the Rupp farm. J Frederick Rupp from Monticello turned left into a garage while Thomas A Brennan attempted to pass, striking the left front of Rupps car. No injuries reported.
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J. Frederick Rupp
Monticello
Thomas A. Brennan
15Th Avenue
Rupp
Green County
Brennan
General Motors Hikes Prices Eight Percent
General Motors Corp announced an about eight percent price increase on all passenger cars to take effect Monday. President C E Wilson cited rising wages and material costs as the cause. GM has also granted the CIO United Auto Workers an 11 cent per hour wage increase tied to living costs.
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General Motors Corp
C. E. Wilson
CIO
United Auto Workers
Hilliard Sentenced to 90 Days for Juda Fatal Crash
Shirl Hilliard 40 received a 90 day jail term, $5 fine, costs, and a one year license revocation after pleading to driving under the influence in the July Juda crash that killed Rudolph Kaderly 21 and involved Wendell Matzke 21. Judge Lamboley followed the district attorney’s request citing coroner jury findings of negligence. Hilliard admitted six to eight beers that day. his blood alcohol level read 1.63 mg per cc, below the navy’s 2.50 threshold.
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Shirl Hilliard
Route 2
Hilliard
Juda
Rudolph Kaderly
Juda Farm
Wendell Matzke
Harold J. Lamboley
Rudolph P. Regez
Regez
Kaderly
Marshall Peterson
Matzke
Nathan E. Bear
St. Clare Hospital
Bear
Navy
Peterson
George Armstrong
Highway Police
Former Wisconsin boys school head withdraws appeal
Madison reports T. R. Uthus, former superintendent of the Wisconsin school for boys at Waukesha, has withdrawn his request for an appeal before the state personnel board. Uthus was discharged after an investigation by the attorney general's department into his administration of the school.
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T. R. Uthus
Wisconsin School For Boys
Waukesha
State Personnel Board
A. J. Opstedal
Uthus
Attorney General’s Department
Unrepentant Robert Daniels Details Six Murders
Robert Daniels, 22, in a guarded Celina jail, confessed to participating in six cold blooded killings in 14 days with partner John C. West. He described luring the Niebel family in Mansfield, the killings in a corn field, and driving the victims’ clothing from the scene. West died in a gun battle. Daniels expressed two regrets.
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Robert
Mark
Daniels
John C. West
F. Ray Shaffer
van Wert
West
John E. Niebel
Mansfield Reformatory
Noranda
Phyllis
Earl C. Ambrose
Columbus
James Smith
Tiffin
Orville Taylor
Niles
Mich
Michigan
Frank Krech
General Clay outlines plan to boost Berlin airlift
General Lucius D. Clay announced a plan to double supplies flown to blockaded Berlin after talks with Truman and Marshall. He left for Berlin to begin operations as Bohlen and Douglas prepared a new note to Russia. Western bases in Germany expand to handle bombers transports and jet fighters amid ongoing Russian pressure.
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Berlin
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
U. S
Truman
Marshall
Clay
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
London
Lewis Douglas
Bohlen
Douglas
England
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Peace in Germany Depends on Stalin
Berlin observers assess Soviet aims in Germany amid stalled London talks. Moscow seeks to wreck Europe recovery and seize control, risking four power deadlock as Washington Paris and London weigh a new foreign ministers conference. Russian tactics adapt to halt Western Germany and press Berlin leverage.
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Hamburg
London
United States
Germany
Wes Gallagher
Russia
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Paris
Soviet Union
Statue of Queen Victoria Hauled Down in Dublin
A statue of Queen Victoria that stood for 40 years outside Ireland's parliament was removed this week to make way for a new automobile parking lot.
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Dublin
Eire
McCormick in Europe Tour Arrives in Paris
Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune arrived by plane from Brussels today and begins a tour of Europe.
Rennebohm Rejects Nine Day Any-Deer Season
Governor Rennebohm declined to sign an order for a nine day any-deer season, sending it back to the conservation commission for reconsideration. The plan proposed November 21 to 28 would allow hunting any deer including does bucks and fawns, and had support from the conservation congress and department. The governor cited the need for northern counties input on refuges and warned the nine day period is too long for an experimental season.
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Madison
Rennebohm
State Conservation Commission
State Conservation Congress
Conservation Department
Spt Howe’s Body To Arrive Tuesday
The flag draped casket of S/Sgt James R Howe, son of Mrs Mary Howe, killed in action April 22, 1944, will arrive in Monroe Tuesday at 12 55 PM aboard the Milwaukee railroad. Military rites are set for Wednesday at Shriner Neushwan der funeral home with Rev Paul C Kehle officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery. the American Legion post will conduct rites and two friends Misses June and Jean Schoonover will play taps.
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James R. Howe
Mary Howe
Monroe
Milwaukee Railroad
Shriner-Neushwander
Paul C. Kehle
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Greenwood Cemetery
American Legion
June
Jean Schoonover
Dewey Plans Update From Vandenberg on Berlin Crisis
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey prepared a dinner conference at his Pawling farm with Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg to obtain an up to the minute report on the Berlin crisis. Dewey had earlier hosted 75 farm editors and urged using the sharp increase in grain to counter livestock and poultry declines.
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N. Y
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Russia
Berlin
Thomas E. Dewey
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dewey
Pawling Grande Hall
Farm Families Urged to Eliminate Hazards Nationwide
Washington reports a joint campaign by the National Safety Council and the agriculture department to remove 30 million farm hazards in one week. President Truman calls on every farm family to weed out at least one accident source during National Farm Week, starting tomorrow.
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National Safety Council
Agriculture Department
Truman
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