High Wind and Cold Expected After Spring Day
Strong winds and rain were forecast after a bright spring day. The region faced flooding in places, with creeks and rivers swelling, while roads remained muddy and hazardous. Power and telephone services reported minor damage as storms crossed southern Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin
Burgy Flats
Highway 69
Monroe
Monticello
Pecatonica
Argyle
Milwaukee Road
Gratiot
Calamine
Browntown
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
United Telephone Co
Times
W. B. Gnagi
Raymond R. Kubly
Three Lakes
Wis
Death Narrows Labor Majority in Commons to Three
The Labour party losses a member as F A Cobb dies in a London hospital. The speaker Col Clifton Brown announced the death reducing the party’s majority to three. By elections follow, including seats won on Feb 23 by Labour MPs Adam McKinlay and a Sheffield Neepsend seat vacated for Frank Soskice.
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Onnon —Vry
Labor Party
House of Commons
F. A. Cobb
London
Col
Clifton Brown
Cobb
Adam McKinlay
Labor
West Dunbartonshire
Neepsend
Sheffield
Frank Soskice
Dust Storms Hit Five Plains States
Blinding dust storms swept the plains states with 60 mph gusts and eighty mile per hour peaks causing eight highway fatalities and about 50 injuries. Dust and fires damaged thousands of acres while Oklahoma City officials warned of hazards. Blizzard conditions struck Colorado Wyoming and nearby areas with snow drifts blocking roads and cutting power in Scottsbluff Mitchell area. A small tornado damaged Little Rock windows and toppled a radio tower in Arkansas.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Texas
Plains
Oklahoma
Missouri
New Mexico
Nebraska
Gallup
N. M
Oklahoma City
K. D. Blood
U. S. Agriculture Department
Kansas State College
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska State Highway Patrol
Panhandle
Scottsbluff
Mitchell
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Gazette
Upper Michigan
Dynamite Ship Afire Near Balboa in Panama
The American cargo ship Santa Rita carrying 4,000 cases of dynamite fought a blaze in her No 1 hold as she steamed toward Balboa Canal Zone about 220 miles offshore. The 8,297 ton vessel reported progress by radio and aimed to reach port by nightfall.
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Balboa
Canal Zone
Tito Solidifies Victory In Yugoslav Election Stand
Marshall Tito’s unopposed People's Front ticket won overwhelmingly as turnout neared 100 percent. Official communique cites Romanian border firing near Danube towns Ts dogeva and Hetina, calling it an attempt to disrupt Yugoslavia’s first general election since 1945, which failed.
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Browins
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
People's Front
Tito
Moscow
Cominform
Ministry of Information
Danube
Tsdogeva
Hetina
Peterson Charges Jury Rulings Upset
Monroe attorney Marshall L. Peterson critiqued trial jury decisions at a Green County Bar Association meeting in the circuit court room as part of his bid for the state Supreme Court seat in the April 4 election. He cited three cases and urged more court experience and elections by the people, with further talks planned in Milwaukee Racine and Kenosha.
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Marshall L. Peterson
Monroe
Circuit Court Room
Court House
Green County Bar Association
Peterson
State Supreme Court
Harold J. Lamboley
High Court
Supreme Court
Milwaukee
Racine
Kenosha
Abducted Girl 18 Found Slain Near Wind River
Police search for two men after Jo Ann Dewey, 18, was abducted from Vancouver in a black sedan. Her battered body was found in a Wind River canyon about a week after she vanished. Coroner says death occurred roughly seven days earlier. Chief Diamond says clues are scant.
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Vancouver
Jo Ann Dewey
Wind River
Harry Diamond
Clark County
Roy Spady
Strothmans Lose Trailer Home in Fire Near 17th Street
The Strothman family lost their trailer home at 914 17th Street after a small fire, started by a youth using a makeshift fireplace, ignited nearby fuel oil. Robert Strothman, 13, escaped with singed hair as fire crews prevented spread to adjacent houses. Loss estimated around 1000 dollars. this is their second fire loss in just over a year. The parents were reportedly away in Darlington when the blaze occurred.
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George Strothman
17Th’ Street
H. L. Sickinger
Robert Strothman
Monroe
Hai
Darlington
Cannon
Janesville
Strothmans
Betty
Norman
Browntown Silica Co
Sickinger
17Th Street
Strathmans
Henry Kramer
12Th Street
American Red Cross
Truman Johnson defense talks hint at NATO link
President Truman summoned Defense Secretary Johnson to Key West for defense strategy talks with emphasis on bipartisan foreign policy and upcoming NATO allied discussions in the Netherlands. Acheson faces Republican criticism as Truman defends the secretary and coordinates with congressional leaders amid a tense political backdrop.
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Key West
Johnson
Truman
Defense
State Acheson
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Netherlands
North Atlantic
Ross
Barkley
Rayburn
House
McCormack
State Department
Acheson
Senator Bridges
Bridges
Court Again Refuses Hiring Hall Decision
The court refused to rule on the legality of union hiring halls for seamen for a second time, risking a maritime strike coast to coast. The action upholds a lower court ruling that hiring halls are illegal at least for Great Lakes mariners.
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Great Lakes
Ringling Tragedy Probed By Winter Quarters Fatal Elephant Incident
Five year old Roger Schooley died at Ringling Bros. winter quarters in Sarasota after an elephant named Dolly whipped her trunk and stepped on his head while feeding peanuts. Parents Prof. and Mrs. Elmer Schooley of Las Vegas New Mexico witnessed the tragedy as the circus prepared for a New York opening. State Attorney W M Smiley investigates possible criminal negligence.
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Sarasota
Big Dolly
Roger Schooley
Elmer
Schooley
Las Vegas
N. M
Schooleys
Roger
David
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Big Top
New York
Dolly
J.D. Brown
Arthur Concello
W. M. Smiley
F Schooley
Highlands
University of Las Vegas
Ringling Art School
Supreme Court Upheld Dennis Contempt Conviction
The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, affirmed Eugene Dennis, secretary of the American Communist Party, the contempt of Congress conviction for disobeying a subpoena to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee on April 9, 1947. The trial jurors included seven federal workers. Dennis was sentenced to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. Justice Minton led the majority. Justices Black and Frankfurter dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Eugene Dennis
Communist Party
Dennis
Minton
Black
Frankfurter
Clark
Douglas
Vinson
Jackson
Reed
Burton
House un-American Activities Committee
U. S. District Court
New York
Pris
George W. Crockett Jr
Detroit
Crockett
Taft Backs Plan For Aid Checkup Seek Unpartisan Survey
Senator Taft and Senator Vandenberg urged a nonpartisan survey to assess future U S aid needs in democracies after the Marshall Plan. They suggested studying President Truman's point four concept as one option and called for an impartial commission representing all national life sectors. The plan drew support from Democrats and the State Department.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Vandenberg
Mich
Truman
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
State Department
Rep Davis Attacks Socialist Plot in Wisconsin Speech
Rep Glenn Davis of Wisconsin charged Saturday that socialists are plotting to socialize America. Speaking to the Dane County Dental Society he denounced planned employment, farming and medicine and called the Brannan plan a straight jacket for workers and a deeply dishonest political scheme.
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Mansson
Vey
America
Glenn Davis
Wisconsin
Dane County Dental Society
Two Milladore men electrocuted by power line contact
Norman Brandl age 22 and John Sefeldt age 17, both of Milladore in Wood county, were electrocuted today when a well drilling rig boom touched a 12 000 volt wire.
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FWO
Stevens Point
Norman Brandl
John Seefeldt
Milladore
Wood County
Vatican Confirms Peter Burial Belief From Excavations
Vatican sources report new details from under St. Peter's Basilica confirming the belief that St. Peter was buried there. They described a loculus in a catacomb tomb bearing early Christian inscriptions such as Ave Petre and say excavations over ten years under the basilica altar will open to the public late next month or early May with a Pope broadcast anticipated.
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Vatican City
Vatican
St. Peter’s Basilic
St. Peter
Peter
Pius XII
Russian Attacks Mrs Roosevelt at U.N. Meeting
The Soviet delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin launched a harsh verbal attack on Chairman Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and left the United Nations Human Rights Commission as she retained her chair by acclamation after the session upheld a ruling about ousting the Chinese nationalist delegation.
Official Claims McCarthy's Case Due for Collapse
Washington reports indicate Senator McCarthy's charges against Owen Lattimore as Russia's top spy are met with strong denials. Lattimore, on a United Nations mission in Afghanistan, calls the accusations pure moonshine and promises a detailed response on his return. FBI Chief Hoover and Attorney General McGrath were summoned to testify on releasing confidential files to the Senate committee.
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Bulletin
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
State Department
Owen Lattimore
McCarthy
Russia
United States
Lattimore
Associated Press
Afghanistan
United Nations
Wisconsin
Esther Caikin Brunauer
Senate Foreign’ Relations
Stephen Brunauer
Haldore Hanson
Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Page
Walter Hines Page
Johns Hopkin
Drew Pearson
Soviet Union
Pearson
J. Howard McGrath
Thailand King Prepares for Brother’s Cremation Rites
King Ananda Mahidol’s cremation rites began with rehearsal as the nation plans a funeral expected to draw up to a million people around the royal palace and parade grounds. The 1946 murder mystery remains a central memory in Thai history.
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Shugaun
Sung Phumiphon Aduldet
Ananda Mahidol
Four Die in New York Boiler Explosion at Kips Bay
Four men were scalded to death today when a boiler they were repairing exploded at the Kips Bay station of the New York Steam Corp. Witnesses described a pipe valve bursting ten feet from their work site, releasing steam at extreme temperature. All four victims died instantly.
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New York —(P
Kips Bay
New York Steam Corp
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