Democrats Hear Keynoter Predict November Victory
At the Wisconsin state democratic convention in Eau Claire, keynoter James E. Doyle urged delegates that Republicans at Milwaukee’s recent convention laid groundwork for a Democratic win. He credited Thomas Thompson and warned the rest is up to Democrats, while outlining platform planks opposing a state sales tax, reapportionment, and the Taft Hartley repeal, and supporting the Marshall plan and Fair Deal.
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Eau Claire
Wisconsin
James E. Doyle
Madison
Milwaukee
Doyle
Carl Thompson
Ing
Truman
Packing Plant Burns In Florida Citrus Loss
A multi million dollar fire destroyed a major citrus plant in Winter Haven Florida early this morning. Police estimate damage to the Polk Packing Association facility at over two million dollars.
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Winter Haven
Fla
Florida
Polk Packing Association
City Boy Scouts Heading to National Jamboree at Valley Forge
Monroe 11 Boy Scouts and leader depart for a 27 day trip to the national jamboree meeting 40,000 scouts. They travel 3000 miles by three buses for a $145 per man cost, camping along the Potomac and at Valley Forge then visit New York, Niagara Falls and London Ontario before returning July 15.
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Monroe
Valley Forge
Lincoln School
Rudy Burkhalter
Jerry Stauffacher
Robert Trachsel
Donald Dwyer
Keith Wilson
Burkhalter
John
Richard Brunner
Tom Hartwig
David Ruehlman
David Burt
Lowell Stuessy
Tom Wuetrich
Raphael L. Daly
U.S. Grant Council
Canyon Camp
Valley Forge, A
U. S. Grant Council
Apple River
Washington D. C
Potomac
Potomac River
Washington
Fredericksburg
Gettys-burg
Seft Sisk
David Ruehlman Jr
Rudy "Burkhalter
Madison
New York
Grant‘ Council
Staten Island
New York City
West Point
Deer Mountain
Boston
Bunker Hill
Niagara Falls
London
Ontario
Detroit
Raphael J. Daly
Richard’ Brun
Six Fined $3 600 In Freeport Raids
Six men pleaded guilty in circuit court to operating horse race bookie establishments and were fined $600 each plus costs. Nine others charged with gambling in local cigar stores pleaded innocent. trials set for July 24. Names include B E Peck Leo Heck John Wilson Larry Slade Guy Stocks Howard Deethardt Charles Boland Harry Snyder Herbert Fisher John Janicke Glenn Schaeffer Paul Anderson Harold Keister Frank Soldati Arthur Mullen.
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Freeport
B. E. Peck
Leo Heck
John Wilson
Exchange Club
Larry Slade
Guy Stocks
Howard Deethardt
Senate Cigar
RFC in Possession of Lustron Property Amid Court Fight
A U S district judge in Chicago ordered custody of Lustron Corp plant in East Columbus transferred to RFC despite an injunction. Deputy marshal seized the idle factory from Receiver Clyde Foraker after Lustron defaulted on $37.5 million in government loans. Higher court will decide if RFC remains in possession.
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Inyp
Aption Finance Corporation
Chicago
Lustron Corp
East
Columbus
RFC
U. S. District
Mell G. Underwood
U.S
Clyde M. Foraker
Philip L. Sullivan
Lustron
Woodford Mourns George Figi 75 Retired Farmer
George Figi 75 of Woodford died last evening after a long illness. Born April 1 1875 in Clarno township he married Della Trotter in Argyle August 26 1897. Surviving are his widow nine children two brothers four sisters twenty six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Services Monday at 2 at Monroe Methodist Church with burial Cadiz Cemetery.
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Woodford
George Figi
Clarno Township
Jacob
Barbara Kundert Figi
Della Trotter
Argyle
Figi
Carl
Juda
Bert
Seattle
Russell Trickel
Ralph Douglas
Harold
Janesville
Glenn
Berkeley
Calif
Edward Niffenegger
Clarance Lengacher
Chester Norton
Monroe
John
William
Barbara Meythaler
Flint
Mich
Charles Meythaler
Julia Goodrich
Lillian Mellon
South Wayne
Will Butts
Louis Ufer
Spring Green
Glenn Figi
R. K. Kofoed
Monroe Methodist Church
Cadiz Cemetery
Philip Booth Named Stoughton Principal
Philip Gardner Booth age 33 a Monroe high school 1933 graduate and son of Mrs Max G Booth 1027 13th avenue has been named principal of Stoughton high school He has served as supervising principal at Centuria Polk county and taught at River Falls Big Bend and Centuria He earned a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1949 and has a son Richard NAMED DODGE JUDGE
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Philip Booth
Stoughton
Philip Gardner Booth
Max G. Booth
13Th Avenue
Monroe High School
Stoughton High School
Associated Press
Centuria
Polk County
Platteville State Teachers’ College
Big Bend
Air Corps
Calcutta
River Falls High School
University of Wisconsin
Booth
Richard
FBI Closing Net On Wartime Atom Espionage Figures
Three American citizens face wartime espionage charges as the FBI tightens the net on Soviet atomic secrets. Key figure Klaus Fuchs led to arrests including Harry Gold and Alfred Slack and David Greenglass, with linked aliases Yakovlev and Semenov identified. Sidney Weinbaum also faces a separate communist party membership accusation.
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FBI
Washington
United States
London
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Gold
Alfred Dean Slack
Syracuse
N. Y
David Greenglass
New York City
Slack
Kingsport
Tenn
California
Sidney Weinbaum
Communist Party
Straw Saves Girl In High Barn Fall
Jeanette Jonson eight year old daughter of the David Johnsons of Orfordville sustained back injuries and several fractured ribs when she fell 28 feet from a barn rafter onto a straw strewn floor. The accident happened about 8 last evening as she climbed the rafters to glimpse a bird nest. The straw layer near a foot thick cushioned the fall, doctors report at St Clare hospital where she is being treated.
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Jeanette Jonson
David Johnsons
Orfordville
St. Clare Hospital
Dewey Declines Third Term Race in New York
Governor Thomas E. Dewey said he would not seek re election and likely return to private law practice after his term ends December 31. The 48 year old former prosecutor cited fatigue from 20 years in public life and declined to dictate the convention's choice, hinting Lt Gov Joe R Hanley could seek the governor nomination at Saratoga Springs on September 6 7.
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Albany
Dewey
Joe R. Hanley
Saratoga Springs
Tate
Capitol
New York
New York City
Reorganization Progressing New School District Elects
Thirty two electors of consolidated Valley View Dolan and Liberty schools named a new board at Normal school. Clarence Falk director for three years William Leopold treasurer for two Kendall Digman clerk for one. New district Joint 9 Monroe Jordan and Clarno. hearing set June 9 at New Glarus on Legler-New Glarus merger proposal.
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Green County
Consolidated
Valley View
Dolan and
Liberty
Normal School
Clarence Falk
William Leopold
Kendall Digman
Four Corners
Joint 9
Monroe
Jordan
Clarno
John Coryell
New Glarus
Legler
Glarus
Tax Files Opened By Truman To Aid In Gambling Inquiry
President Truman opened income tax files to a Senate crime investigation committee headed by Senator Kefauver to include income excess profits declared value capital stock estate and gift tax returns through 1949. He ordered all executive departments to cooperate fully and said he supports the committee objectives. The Kefauver panel has begun probing big time gamblers and crime syndicates.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Kefauver
Dtenn
Three Cars Crash At Cattle Crossing
At 8 this morning three cars collided on highway 1181 one mile east of Monroe after two cars stopped for cattle were rear ended by Virgil I. Waelti of Juda who failed to see the hazard in time. Anthony I. Durbin of Racine and Alvie E. North of Be were also involved and injured. The accident shattered Waelti’s car against a tele phone pole. cows were being let across the highway by Nathan Brown who could not assess injuries due to their frightened state. County highway police urged caution with cattle crossings during dawn and dusk.
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Virgil I. Waelti
Monroe
Waelti
Anthony I. Durbin
Racine
Alvie E. North
Warm Sunday Seen After Cool Evening
A cold front swept across the state lowering Monroe’s temperature from a Friday high of 86 to 44 by morning. Cold Canadian winds cooled the Midwest ending a hot mid June spell. By noon the mercury rose to 64, with Sunday forecast to be mostly cloudy and warmer and night lows between 17 and 77.
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Mercury
Monroe
Midwest
Cloway
Betwen
Three Missing In Flash Flood Near Pomeroy Washington
A flash flood from a cloud burst swelled a gulch near Pomeroy lifting a house from its foundation. Three people are missing and presumed drowned.
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Pomeroy, Wash
Hoover Warns on Deficit Economy at Jaycees Meet
Former President Herbert Hoover told Chicago Jaycees that deficit financing brings inflation and higher taxes. He warned that continued borrowing risks disaster for every cottage and urged cutting government waste and restraint to reduce deficits while advocating stability over inflation.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
U.S
Hoover
Jaycees
Hoover) Reorganization Commission
Weinbaum Loyal Superior Contends Loyalty Amid Arrest
Dr Sidney Weinbaum a Russian born scientist at Caltech is arrested by the FBI in Pasadena on charges of concealed Communist Party membership. Caltech officials and Linus Pauling defend him saying there may be a mistake in the evidence.
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Chicago
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Weinbaum
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
FBI
Pasadena
Communist Party
Institute
Linus Pauling
California School
Paris Air France reports 84 dead in two crashes this week
Paris Air France issued an official statement revealing 84 persons died in two crashes in the Persian Gulf this week. The carrier said 66 bodies have been recovered and 18 others remain missing, with no expectation of survival for the missing.
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Paris
Air France
Persian Gulf
Valley Flood Drowns Woman in Ohio Towns Swamped
A four hour cloudburst sent Moxahala and Jonathan creeks over their banks inundating Crooksville Rosville and nearby mining towns in southern Ohio. Woman Alice Adrian 55 drowned at Rose Farm five miles south. Flood damaged Acme Pottery Co plants causing a full loss and power outages. Dozens fled homes. several kilns exploded and fires spread through pottery works with 30 to 35 sheltering workers rescued.
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Crooksville
Ohio Valley
Jonathan
Rosville
Alice Adrian
State Highway Patrol
Acme Pottery Co
Harold Shower
Crooksville China Co
Ohio Power Co
Roseville
Zanesville
Newark
Lancaster
Hebron
Misco Mine Company
Majestic
Rose Farm
State High‘way Patrol
Acme Pottery Company
Ceramic Pottery Co
Black Fork Creek
Maddrell Service Set For Monday Afternoon
Services for George E. Maddrell 53 South Wayne will be Monday at 2 p m at Hanson funeral home with Rev. Charles J Swanson of South Wayne Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in Rockwell cemetery south of the village. He died yesterday morning at St Clare hospital after a Thursday evening stroke.
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South Wayne
George E. Maddrell
St. Clare Hospital
Hanson Funeral Home
Charles J. Swanson
Father's Day Plans Set in City Homes and Churches
City residents prepare for Father’s Day with family dinners and picnics. Churches will feature Rev. John E. MacMartin in a talk titled Maybe the Old Man Has Something. Local stores report increased gift shopping as pennies are spent on shirts, rods, reels, and other gifts.
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John E. MacMartin
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U. S
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Fairchild
William Sanderson
Black River Falls
U. S. Senate
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Lavern Disney
Green Bay
Daniel W. Hoan
Labor
George Haberman
Federal ‘of Labor
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City Boy Scouts
Taken
Dodge
Henry Gergen
Beaver Dam
Dodge County
Rentebohm
Gergen
William O'Connell
Richard Roe
Semen M. Semenov
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Straw
Ohio City
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