Bipartisan clash over housing bill sparks House brawl
Republican Javits forecasts surprise votes as House Democratic leaders back President Truman’s housing measure. The plan divides lawmakers with a $7.5 to $20 billion price tag and foes decry it as socialism. A fight between Sabath and Cox erupted over strategy before they reconciled. Roosevelt Jr proposes a $6 billion cooperative housing program for moderate income families.
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Truman
Javits
Ee Gop
Rayburn
D-Tex
Rep. Sabath
Rep
Cox
Sabath
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Morning Showers Aid Crops and Lawns in Wisconsin
Morning showers help crops and lawns as two rain events bring a quarter inch in the early hours and at workday start. Breezes sweep clouds with forecast for more rain and cooler weather in eastern and southern Wisconsin tonight and Friday.
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Wisconsin
Monroe
Drouth
New England
New York State
FHA Fraud Confession Probed by FBI in Sheboygan
FBI agents questioned 53 year old Harry Petashnick after he told Sheboygan county authorities he defrauded the Federal Housing Administration of 75000 dollars. District Attorney John G. Buchen said Petashnick, general manager of Eagle Insulation and Roofing Co., appeared at the jail and said he obtained the money through false FHA loan applications at local banks.
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Sheboygan
FBI
Harry Petashnick
Sheboygan County
Federal Housing Administration
Dist. Atty
John G. Buchen
Petashnick
Eagle Insulation and Roofing Co
Cement Rush For Court House Square Paving
Monroe Ready Mix and Material Co plans 3000 cubic yards of concrete for the court house square. Bulk cement arrives from Oglesby Illinois railcars via Milwaukee Road, with sand and gravel from Janesville. The plant uses a complex batch system, weighing cement, stone, torpedo and water before dispatch. Local staff include Max Voelkli Edward Doyle Basil Walters and others.
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Court House Square
Monroe Ready Mix and Material Co
18Th Street
Max, Hugo
Roger Voelkli
Milwaukee Road
Oglesby
Janesville Sand and Gravel Co
Edward J. Doyle
Basil Walters
Lloyd A. Grinnen
Wallace R. Lindsay
Guy Hagar
Argyle
Plans To Pour Monday Concrete On City Square
William A. Vinton, general contractor, announced concrete will be poured Monday on the city square. Forms for three slabs across the southern section will be in place by tomorrow night. two slabs will be 11 feet wide and the third near the courthouse will be narrower.
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William A. Vinton
Court House
Census To Include All Monroe Children This Year
Mrs Evelyn Hartwig secretary at Monroe senior high school conducts the 1949 50 census of Monroe children from infants to high school age. Data will guide future school supplies building space and teaching staff and include preschoolers for the first time in five years. Last year s census counted 1354 children ages four to twenty. Hartwig laments long door to door rounds and a mistaken view of her as an agent, but cooperation follows once introductions are made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Hartwig
Monroe Senior High
Hartwig
Monroe
Five Convicts Hurt In Blaze At Waupun Prison
Five inmates at Waupun State Prison were hospitalized after a fire in an old tunnel during the installation of refrigeration equipment for the butcher shop. Warden John Burke said an acetylene torch used by the crew likely ignited tar in the dead end tunnel. All but one escaped. inmate Jack Lingle, serving a life term for murder, initially fled the wrong way and was removed from the tunnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waupun
John Burke
Burke
Jack Lingle
Hiss Denies Communist Ties at Perjury Trial
Alger Hiss testified in federal court that he was not a communist and did not give secret State Department papers to Whittaker Chambers. The defense sought to rebut the prosecution’s Red Charge during the perjury trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
William Gleason Named Green Bay Fire Chief
William Gleason was appointed fire chief today by the Green Bay police and fire commission, succeeding the previous chief. The commission announced the decision in a public meeting held in Green Bay.
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Green Bay
William Gleason
Convict Volunteers for Medical Tests in Malaria Fight
Sing Sing prisoner Louis Boy, 49, serving a life term for a 1931 NYC garage cashier murder, volunteered in dangerous medical tests. He took brine to test malaria weapon and later donated infected blood in a leukemia case. Doctors note his condition remains uncertain for months while his life hangs in the balance.
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N. Y
Sing Sing
Louis Boy
Boy
New York City
Roy
Jacob J Elmer 76 dies after long illness
Monticello Times Special reports Jacob J. Elmer aged 76 died yesterday at his daughter’s home two miles east of Dayton after months of illness He had lived in Monticello area for years and was hospitalized at St. Clare Monroe on several occasions His wife Lillian Disch died October 29 1944 They farmed near Monticello and memorial services are arranged by Voegeli funeral home
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Monticello
Jacob J. Elmer
Frank Mellenberger
Dayton
Vicinity
St. Clare
Monroe
Lillian Disch
Voegeli
Keeps Lemay Rings Milwaukee Case
Milwaukee County wells up in a dispute over wedding rings tied to the disappearance of Ceclia Lemay. District Attorney William J. McCauley ruled the rings are property of Mrs Lemay and will be returned only if she calls for them.
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Lemay
Milwaukee
Milwaukee County
Edmond H. Lemay
Cecelia
Dist
Atty
William J. McCauley
Peter Babler 68 Cigarmaker Die in Monroe
Peter J. Babler 68 retired cigarmaker died at 3 30 this morning in St. Clare hospital after a heart attack at 7 o clock in the business district of Monroe. A native of Switzerland he lived in Green county since age four and operated a cigar factory and tavern in Monticello and Monroe. Surviving are two sisters Mrs John Buehler and Mrs Lloyd Clark. Services will be held at 12 30 p m Saturday Stuessy funeral home with Rev A R Achtemeier officiating burial in Swiss Reformed cemetery New Glarus.
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Peter J. Babler
St. Clare Hospital
Monroe
Switzerland
Green County
Monticello
14Th Street
Peter
Anna Babler Babler
Matt
Canton Glarus
Chicago
Anna Alma Voegeli
Ida Marie Hirsbrunner
Babler
Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed Church of
John Buehler
11Th Street
Lloyd Clark
Juda
Brodhead
Stuessy Funeral Home
A. R. Achtemeier
New Glarus
14 Dead in Plane Crash Off Italy
Bari Italy A Dutch KLM Constellation crashed into the sea off Bari killing at least 24 people with 16 men five women and three children recovered among victims from the United States Turkey the Netherlands and Albania The plane was en route from Batavia to Amsterdam with no survivors confirmed and hundreds of bathers witnessed the plunge into the water.
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Bari
Italy
Dutch Airlines
KLM
Batavia
Amsterdam
Welfare and Tax Compromise Faces Final Assembly Action
A Republican caucus drafted a compromise income tax bill aimed at raising about 25.2 million in the next biemnnium to fund educational aids building programs and welfare institutions. It lowers personal exemptions, adds a 25 percent surtax, and adds a one cent cigarette tax to raise large sums, while awaiting possible senate review and July adjournment.
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Madison
Republican Caucus
Rennebohm
Knowles
Richmond
Senate
Joint Finance Committee
Madison Debates Reform of Welfare Commission Structure
A bill to abolish the state board of public welfare and reorganize the welfare department was approved by the assembly 82 to 11 and by the senate 22 to 5. It would create a nine member governor appointed board with a director, reorganize into mental hygiene and child welfare units, and set six year terms with initial three and four year appointments. The measure faces a salary cap tweak and broader legislative criticism while other bills urge college mergers and changes to labor boards and referendums.
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Madison
State Board of Public Welfare
Welfare Department
Assembly
Senate
Bureau of Alcoholic Studies
Youth Service Division
Milwaukee
Superior State Teachers Colleges
University of Wisconsin
Assembly Education Committee
Milwaukee College
University Extension Center
Labor Committee
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Industrial Commission
Double
D-Madison
Henry Kramer Hurt In Mower Accident
Henry Kramer and his son Marvin were on a tractor mower when a bump tossed Henry from the seat. He suffered a deep cut on his right arm and bled until Marvin could drive him to St. Clare hospital. Kramer had recently been released from St. Clare for a broken leg from a manure spreader accident.
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Henry Kramer
Route 2
Monroe
Marvin
St. Clare Hospital
Kramer
Gottlieb Kramer
St. Clare
Federal tax lien filed against J Herschel Hardy in Wisconsin
A federal tax lien of 220093 dollars was filed in Milwaukee court against J Herschel Hardy of Ashland. The lien covers income taxes for 1941 1944 and 1945. Hardy owns more than 70 hotels and office buildings in Wisconsin and other midwestern states.
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Milwaukee
J. Herschel Hardy
Ashland
Wisconsin
Hardy
Middle Western
Feathered Fiends Shift to South District After Blight
Monroe reports a starling and blackbird invasion shifting from the north to the south side near Milwaukee road tracks. Large flocks roost in trees along 16th Street, causing morning cleanups as residents deploy noisy deterrents. A night swarm blocked the No. 3 country club fairway before lifting north.
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Monroe
Milwaukee Road
16Th Street
Fairway
Country Club
J A Hughes Killed In Boscobel Crash
J A Hughes former band director at Monticello New Glarus and other district schools was killed when his northbound car was struck in Boscobel. Ernest Schoellig unhurt, Willard Jones injured slightly. An inquest set for this afternoon. Survived by widow two daughters and a son. Funeral home in Boscobel handling arrangements.
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J. A. Hughes
Monticello
New Glarus
Boscobel
Hughes
Ernest Schoellig
Schoellig
Willard Jones
Boscobel Telephone Co
Wisconsin
Brodhead
Albany
Milton
Brooklyn
Belleville
Monroe
Kentucky
Dubuque
Thorn and Godager
Tucker and Six Aides File Not Guilty Pleas
Preston Tucker pleaded innocent to mail fraud conspiracy and SEC violations in a federal indictment charging promotion of the Tucker automobile. Six of seven co defendants also pleaded innocent before Judge Philip L Sullivan. The 31 count indictment was returned June 10 following a grand jury probe into the venture and its $28 000 expenditure.
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Chicago
Preston T. Tucker
SEC
Philip L. Sullivan
Tucker
Wisconsin Cheese Market Signals Steady Demand
Federal State market news service reports Wisconsin cheese market remains easy to steady with demand fair. Selling prices reflect state assembly points with items including Longhorns and Square Prints in the mid thirtys and Midgets around 35 to 36 cents per pound.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Oppenheimer Urges Broader Public Atom Data
Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer says candor about civilian atomic power hinges on fuller data without harming national security. He favors releasing parts of the U S stockpile size and cautions universities on loyalty oaths while noting Japan’s strong progress in theoretical atomic research.
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Berkeley
J. Robert Oppenheimer
University of California
Oppenheimer
Institute’ For Advanced Study
Princeton University
United States
Highway Addition Proposal Approved
The senate approved a bill to add 173 miles of highway across 14 counties to the state trunk system with actual mileage to be set by the highway commission. The measure, initially for 39 miles in Forest and Ladde counties, was amended after debate and desists from further expansion after Lt. Gov. George Smith ruled it out. The assembly has also passed a liquor tax and personal property tax related measure.
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Assembly
Senate
State Education Commission
The
Legion
VFW
Supreme Court
Madison
State Highway Commission
Forest
Langlade
George Smith
Attorney General
Gettelman
Milwaukee
Prague Archbishop Isolated by Guards
Catholic priests report Czechoslovakia’s government has enclosed Archbishop Josef Beran in semi captivity. Officials say all contact with him has been broken since last weekend, creating a wall of silence around the Prague church leader.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Charles and Walcott Earn $53,857 Each in Title Fight
Chicago reports both Ezzard Charles and Joe Walcott received 53857 dollars and 857 cents each as their shares of last night’s NBA heavyweight championship bout. The totals include shares from television and radio rights.
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Chicago
Ezzard Charles
Joe Walcott
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Hunt
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D-Nc
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Massachusetts
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Cecilie
Hohenzollern
Hechingen
Clyde Harris
Amarillo
Tex
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U. S. Army
Wilhelm
Frankfurt
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