County's Highway Deaths Hit Wisconsin Four Months
Wisconsin reports 224 traffic deaths through April with 160 on rural roads and 64 on city streets. County totals vary. Lafayette five deaths versus one last year, Dane 11 and Rock eight. No county deaths in May. statewide late week trends show weekends hardest.
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Een
Wisconsin
Motor Vehicle Department
Madison
Appleton
Fond du Lac
Kenosha
Sheboy
Wauwatosa
West Alli
Lafayette County
Dane County
Rock County
Robins Transported as Bank Construction Nest Reunites Young
Three newborn robins displaced from a bank construction site found shelter after WAUX manager Mig Figi and supervisor Jack Schomeke moved the nest to the roof. Unable to guide parents, they relocated the three chicks to a yard tree eight feet up, where a foster robin family accepted them with a worm supply.
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Wavanona
Wis
Robins
Waukesha National Bank
Robin
Mig” Figi
WAUX
Jack Schomeke
Bank
Figi
Schomake
Monroe
John Figi
Five Safety Patrol Members Named for Wisconsin Dells Trip
Brodhead youths Gary Ringen Lila Stencel Lorna Stuesky Richard Knezel and Lauren Earleywine were chosen from the local Safety Patrol Corps to attend a weekend safety session at Wisconsin Dells. The group will be escorted by Tom Richards.
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Brodhead
Wisconsin Dells
Gary Ringen
Lila Stencel
Lorna Stuessy
Richard Knezel
Lauren Earleywine
Tom Richards
Truman Blocks McKinney On Compromise over FEPC
President Truman appears to have rejected Frank E. McKinney’s bid for a compromise on civil rights, pushing for a strong FEPC plank at Chicago. Sen. Lehman vows to fight for a strong civil rights measure. Southern opposition worries that compromise may fail and trigger a Dixie walkout. McKinney’s middle-ground approach is debated as drafting committee members, including Rep. Brooks Hays, navigate a split party.
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Truman
McKinney
FEPC
Jack Bell
Washington
Frank E. McKinney
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Congress
Democratic Platform
Chicago
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Gertrude Briesemeister
Hubert Humphrey
PeThis
South Carolina
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Sen
Lister Hill
Brooks Hays
Arkansas
John J. Sparkman
Robert K. Kennon
Narket D. Murphy
Atlanta
Richard B. Russell
Honorary degrees for Chambers and Von Schuschnigg at Mount Mary College
Waynes, United States. Whittaker Chambers, former Communist Party member and government witness in the Alger Hiss case, and Kurt Von Schuschnigg, Austria’s former chancellor, will receive honorary degrees at Mount Mary College commencement on June 3. The theme is Spiritual Heroism. Dr Schuschnigg, a St Louis University government professor, was jailed after resisting Nazi pressure.
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Alu Waynes
We — Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Mount Mary College
Whittaker Chambers
Eaer
Communist
Youth Takes 1312 In Schroeder Sold Early Yesterday
A youth purchased items totaling 1312 as Schroeder auctioned off goods early yesterday. The sale drew local shoppers and included processed merchandise, with bidders from nearby neighborhoods competing for the featured lots.
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Schroeder
Billion Dollar Companies Grow Amid Inflation After War
New York reports show a slow but steady rise in billion-dollar firms led by nonfinancial giants. The Bell System tops assets near ten billion, Westinghouse passes one billion, and six oil and six railroads join the billion-dollar list as postwar inflation expands corporate wealth.
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Ford
Whittle
General Motors
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Electric
Westinghouse
Electric
du Pont and
Sears, Roebuck
New York
Bell Telephone System
Westinghouse Electric
Jersey Standard
Indiana Standard
Locmy-Vacuum
Texas, Gulf
Calfornia Standard
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
New York Central
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
Makeshift Gun Kills Couple at Milwaukee
Milwaukee police report a 67 year old man and his 58 year old wife were killed by a home made two pipe gun in their Milwaukee home. The husband Carl Palkiewicz used the weapon to shoot his wife twice then killed himself with a chest wound. The weapon used a sharpened metal file and a spring to fire a .38 caliber cartridge.
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Evening Times
Monroe
Wisconsin
el Caer Penn
Falkiewicz
Mary
Milwaukee
Carl Palkiewicz
Snakes Found Across Most Lands Except Poles and Some Islands
Despite a tropical bias most snakes inhabit diverse continents and climates. They live on nearly all landmasses except polar regions and certain isolated islands, adapting to a wide range of habitats and temperatures.
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Tropics
Poles
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Consult
Robert E. Zuercher
Zuercher & Zuercher Agency
Newport News
Hiss
Richardson Electric Company
16Th Ave
Bsa ST
Deming Jes
Browntown
Salvation Army
Crosley
17Th Avenue
Turner Hall
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