Labor leaders plan all-out price battle across nation
Washington reports the united labor policy committee will convene 700 local and state leaders March 20 and 21 to press for price reductions at the consumer level. CIO AFL and railroad unions claim consumers are unprotected while awaiting policy changes from Congress and defense agencies. Ford and Chrysler offer auto workers a five-cent hourly cost-of-living wage boost effective midnight, using revised BLS index.
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Washington
United Labour
Labor Committee
CIO
AFL
Philip Murray
Florida
Miami
CIO News
Congress
USPC
Charles E. Wilson
Eric Johnston
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Detroit
Ford
Chrysler
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Massacre Valley tale of harrowing Korean War retreat
An army report details a fighting withdrawal by about 2400 U.S. Marines and supporting units from Saemal to Wonju. The rout left near 300 killed and many missing in a Chinese-backed offensive northwest of Wonju. The valley showed a mile of wrecked armor and burnt guns as remnants endured relentless attacks while isolated in darkness.
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Hoengsong
Korea
Changbhon
Saemal
Wonju
Chipyong
U. S. First Marine
Pangnim
Pangnim-Wonju
U. S. Seventh Division
Changpyong
U. S
Saeral
Hongchon
San
John Randolph
Randolph
Changbong
Saema
Senate kills 18-year draft proposal amid UMTS debate
The Senate rejected Morse's 18-year-old draft amendment by a 55 to 31 vote as part of UMTS discussions. Current law covers 19 to 26, with plans to call older men first and reserve 18-year-olds as the next group. Senator Tait accused Marshall of pressuring Congress. Senator Johnson predicted the amendment would fail by a substantial margin.
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Washington
Senate
Morse
R-Ore
Tait
Ohio
Secretary of Defense
Marshall
Congress
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Umts
Senate Armed Forces Committee
Hostages Freed In Omaha Break
Two jailbreakers Dewey Battershaw and Victor Sweet escaped with three hostages after hijacking a jail break in Omaha. Clifford Battershaw aided them while Deputy Sheriff Clifford Hansen and attorney John Baldwin were among the captives. The fugitives used multiple cars and moved toward Gretna before stalling near a farm and continuing to flee.
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Omaha
Midwest
Herih
Dewey Battershaw
Victor Sweet
Hartington
Douglas County
Richard Collins
Clifford Battershaw
Dewey
Clifford Hansen
John N. Baldwin
Court House
Nave
Dyrstetane
Gretna
Neb
Otto Timm
Timm
French Support Push Hits Central Front in Korea
U S infantry with heavy artillery support rout a mountain stronghold in central Korea near Pangnim. Seventh and Second divisions with French units drive Reds to a northern line. Marines push toward Hongchon while Chinese and North Koreans prepare a large counterattack amid rugged terrain.
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Tokyo —i
U. S
omr-Nordtroitoverss
Korea
U. S. Seventh Divsion
Hongchon
Russia Proposes End of Occupation and Disputed Talks
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reportedly urged a peace plan calling for withdrawal of Allied troops from Germany and major powers' arms reductions for discussion at a potential big four meeting. The plan faced resistance as the United States Britain and France push for broader tension points on the agenda. Deputies met at the pink marble palace on Avenue Foch.
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Paris
Russia
Germany
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Britain
France
Avenue
Foch
Death of Irving N. Rothenberg, cheese broker in New York
Irving N. Rothenberg aged 60 prominent cheese broker and partner in Rothenberg and Gallagher died Saturday in New York City Funeral services were held there today He was known in Green County cheese trade for thirty years and his firm represented several regional cheese companies in past years He attended the Wengers daughter Ellyn Jane Wen ger marriage on Feb 24 in Huntington I and others.
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Ralph H. Wenger
New York City
Irving N. Rothenberg
Rothenberg and Gallagher
New York
Rothenberg
Green County
Monroe
Old Badger Cheese Co
Badger-Brodhead Co
Triangle Cheese Co
Swiss Cheese Corp. of America
Mr. Wenger
New Glarus Hosts 450 at Farmers Institute Session
A Saturday farmers institute in New Glarus drew about 450 men and women. Prof. Asher Hobson of Wisconsin warned agriculture faces postwar readjustment inflation yet expects prices to stabilize with large crops. Dr. Burr Beach and Dr. E. E. Heizer discussed disease control and dairy management. Local soil conservation and grassland farming were highlighted by Nick Calabresa and Waldo Freitag. Mrs. Ruth Davis spoke on art in the home. students Ruth Streiff and Pauline Grossenbacher led food demonstrations.
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New Glarus
Asher Hobson
University of Wisconsin
Farmers Institute
Hobson
Burr Beach
College of Agriculture
E. E. Heizer
Nick Calabresa
Green County
Walter Streiff
Melvin Streiff
Stanley Kittleson
Milton Babler
Delmar Zentner
Wisconsin
Waldo Freitag
Ruth Davis
Ruth Streiff
Pauline Grossenbacher
New Glarus High School
Mrs. Minnie Eldred 82 Albany dies
Mrs. Minnie Eldred aged 82 died at 9 15 a m yesterday at her Albany home with her son Louis present. Born March 12 1862 at Magnolia Corners Rock County she lived in Albany since the 1880s. She was married to Alfred L Eldred in 1888 and survived by Louis a sister Miss Jennie Howard and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Preceded by two sons Donald and Howard and a daughter Frances Fisher.
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Albany
Minnie Eldred
Louis
Eldred
Magnolia Corners
Rock County
Francis
Permilia Bunting Howard
Minnesota
Alfred L. Eldred
Morley
Milwaukee Road
Lanark
Ill
Elmwood Park
Chicago
Rebekah Lodge
Noble Grands Chain
Royal Neighbors
Jennie Howard
Donald
Howard
Frances Fisher
Watertown Man Severely Injured in Jefferson County Crash
Casper Kubly 54 of North Prairie suffers head and internal injuries after a Saturday collision on highway 30 three miles west of Lake Mills. He and Donald D. Donahue 43 of North Prairie were en route to Lake Mendota fishing. Donahue has a chest injury. Services set for Wednesday at Sharer funeral home with burial in Hillcrest cemetery.
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W. E. Deininger
Watertown
Casper Kubly
North Prairie
Jefferson County
Kubly
St. Mary’s Hospital
Donald D. Donahue
Lake Mendota
Highway 30
Lake Mills
University of Wisconsin
Donahue
Farley asserts leaders knew Roosevelt dying man in 1944
James A. Farley says it was widely known among political leaders that President Roosevelt was aging and dying when nominated for a fourth term in 1944. He recalled backing the 22nd Amendment and warned the presidency should be under continual review.
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Farley
Roosevelt
New York
James A. Farley
New York Times
Gilbert Volunteer Leaves with Green County Draft Group
William A. Gilbert of Brodhead has volunteered and will depart with the Green County draft group on Wednesday. Charles A. Booth, draft board clerk, announced today.
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Wiliam A. Gilbert
Brodhead
Green County
Charles A. Booth
War correspondent Graham Dies in Plane Crash at Sea
William H. Graham, aviation editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, is dead after a plane crash into the sea near Tokyo. The navy cites exposure as the cause. he was aboard the destroyer Sickle which rescued him.
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Tokyo
William H. Grahan
New York Journal of Commerce
Navy
Graham
Sickle
Wisconsin Battleship Recommissioned Returns to Duty
The battleship Wisconsin returned to active duty in Portsmouth Virginia after a 32 month mothball period. Dignitaries from Wisconsin attended as Governor Walter Goodland and lawmakers praised the recommissioning and pledged resilience against any aggressor. Captain Thomas Burrowes spoke to commit to a formidable warship ready to fight if needed.
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Portsmouth
Wisconsin
Maryland convict digs tunnel to freedom and recaptured
Joseph Holmes, a 39 year old Maryland inmate serving 20 years for burglary, spent months tunneling from his cell with a nail and chisel. After breaking through concrete and soil, he reached the yard, escaped over the fence, but was recaptured Saturday night during a failed $5 holdup.
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Baltimore
Joseph Holmes
Maryland
Freedom
Holmes
George W Keller of Browntown Dies
George W Keller 88 of Browntown died Saturday night at the home of his daughter Mrs Archie Smull Monroe route 4 after a long illness. He was born in Cadiz township December 18 1862 son of John and Katherine Keller. He married Ella Jane Michaels June 26 1889 in Cadiz. They celebrated their 61st anniversary last year. He leaves wife two sons William and George both of Browntown two daughters Mrs Harry Collicutt Warren and Mrs Smull 16 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. one son Edward preceded him in death. Services will be 2 pm tomorrow at Shriner Neuswander funeral home with Rev Ralph Kofoed officiating and burial in Cadiz Cemetery.
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George W. Keller
Browntown
Archie Smull
Monroe
Keller
Smull
Cadiz Township
John
Katherine Verley Keller
Cadiz
Ella Jane Michaels
William
George
Harry Collicutt
Warren
Small
Edward
Shriner-Neushwander
Calendar Reading For April Ninth In County Court
County Judge Harold J. Lam has a calendar on Monday April 9 at 1 30 p m. The retrial of William A Brown vs John Erb is scheduled along with a criminal action against Alfred Sulzer for a bad check charge The Brown Erb case was ordered for retrial after a state supreme court reversal of county court findings The suit involves damages from the loss of 15 Holstein cattle Brown bought as Bangs free The plaintiff alleges breach of warranty and failure to meet cattle testing requirements.
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Harold J. Lam
William A. Brown
John Erb
Alfred Sulzer
State Supreme Court
Brown
Supreme Court to Review CBS Color TV Approval
The Supreme Court agreed to review government approval of CBS color television after the FCC backed CBS plan 5 to 1 over RCA’s competing system. The Pedic Corporation of America condemned the decision as improper.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Columbia Broadcasting System
Federal Communications Commission
Pedic Corporation of America
RCA
FCC
CBS
Politician Shot Dead In Barroom Brawl
In Jersey City a politician, identified as Eugene Kenny, 36, was killed during a barroom brawl over politics. Eu gene Kenny, a democratic aide to Mayor John V. Kenny, admitted the fatal shooting after being taken into custody. The suspect is said to be part of an anti Kenny faction and is not related to the mayor.
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Jersey City
Thomas P Doyle Jr
John V. Kenny
Boyle
Eugene Kenny
Kenny
Stock Prices Slide in Moderately Active Market
In a moderately active New York market today stock prices fell with losses up to more than $1 per share. Declining issues included American Telephone Bethlehem Steel Jones and Laughlin Studebaker Chrysler Goodyear Du Pont Montgomery Ward and Youngstown Sheet and Tube.
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American—Telephone
Bethlehem Steel
Jones and Laughlin
Studebaker
Chrysler
Goodyear
du Pont
Montgomery Ward
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
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Minneapolis
Auburn
Parmpern
Werrer
St. Louis
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Norvel DeGrove
Des Plaines
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By Don Huth
Glarus
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F. L. Atkinson
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Evansville
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Harry Jacobson
Wilbur Dehmer
G. R. Phelps
Gilbert
Fighting Ship
Walter J. Konier
Thomas Burrowes
Brooklyn
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Foster B. Porter
Fred Eafton
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Byron C. Ostby
Arthur L. Peterson
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