Truman reports Soviet atomic test and cabinet meeting
President Truman announced U S evidence of a recent atomic explosion in Russia and held a hour long cabinet session. He urged truly effective international control of atomic energy through the United Nations amid stalled talks with the Soviet Union.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Truman
United Nations
White House
London
Congress
Pentagon
Military Services
GOP Attacks Brannan Farm Plan at Midwest Conference
GOP leaders in Sioux City assail the Brannan plan as a labor-controlled scheme to feed government dole and dictate production. Chairman Gabrielson and Rep. Hope urge farmer input while contrasting Republican aims with Truman policy. The plan would let perishables fall to supply and demand with subsidies offsetting any price gaps.
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Sioux City
Farmers
Guy G. Gabrielson
GOP National Committee
Rep
Hope
Kansas
Brannan
Truman
Gabrielson
House Agriculture Committee
Agriculture
Washington
Des Moines
Axel J. Beck
Elk Point
S. D
Treasury
City Plans Sign Purchase For Speed Limit Markers
A Wisconsin prisoner sales representative is expected Monday to discuss orders for city limit and speed signs. City officials reviewed highway approaches and signing systems from nearby cities. The plan aims to install signs quickly. limits are 25 mph in business and residential zones, 35 mph in some outlying areas, and 15 mph past schools during class times.
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Wisconsin State Prison
Waupun
Police and Safety Committee
City Council
E. J. Norton
L. G. Forence
J. H. Schwaiger
Schwaiger
Dallas
Tex
Frank A. Buehler
Leopold Sentence Cut by Governor Stevenson
Nathan Leopold, once convicted with Richard Loeb for the 1924 Bobby Franks murder, has had his sentence reduced by Governor Stevenson from 99 to 85 years. The commutation, unanimously recommended by the state pardon board, allows parole eligibility in January 1953 for good conduct and malaria research experiments.
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Springfield
Nathan Leopold
Chicago
Bobby Franks
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Leopold
State
Richard Loeb
Loeb
British Rural Doctors Demand Large Raise in Socialized Fees
Deputation from the British Medical Association visited the Ministry of Health calling for an annual raise of 46.9 million dollars for rural practitioners. The request would boost the ministry pool to about 105.91 million dollars annually, with funds earmarked for country practices only.
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London
Britain
British Medical Association
Ministry of Health
BMA
First Day of Fall Marks Autumnal Equinox and Chilly Weather
The article notes the autumnal equinox arrived at 3 06 a m signaling equal day and night. It records a 40 degree low, a 16 degree drop between 3 and 4 pm with northwest clouds, showers in Albany and Monroe, and frost expected tonight across central and western areas.
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Albany
Monroe
Extortion Plot Seen In Mitchum Raid Case
The district attorney will re examine every phase of Robert Mitchum's narcotics case to determine if extortionists engineered it. Grand jury charges accuse a Hollywood party girl racket of taking thousands from victims. Ex Actor's agent Paul Behrmann alleges gambler Mickey Cohen led a large prostitute extortion ring.
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Los Angeles
District Attorney’s Office
Robert Mitchum
Paul Behrmann
Mickey Cohen
Pie Fire Spreads But No Damage In Kitchen Incident
Flames erupted from an oven at 2408 12th avenue around 2 30 p m today when Mrs. Stephen L Pandow opened the door. The apple pie ignited yet the pie remained undamaged and firemen arrived after the alarm. Mrs Pandow, shaken, said she was scared but relieved the firemen were there to prevent wall involvement.
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Stephen L. Pandow
12Th Avenue
Strike Picture Brightens as CIO U S Steel Talks Resume
Pittsburgh report says CIO and U S Steel officials resumed contract talks today under a third presidential strike truce. Union leader Philip Murray and John A. Stephens of U S Steel met at 12 30 pm while wildcat walkouts continued at two Pittsburgh mills.
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Pittsburgh
Big Steel
CIO
United Steel Workers
Philip Murray
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
Murray
Universal Cyclops Steel Co
Bridgeville
Superior Steel Co
Carnegie
Truman
Steel Workers Union
President Truman
Steel
Homemakers Learn Lawscaping Tips From UW Expert
George Ziegler of the University of Wisconsin spoke to Browntown homemakers and a New Glarus group about landscaping with trees as a home backdrop. He advised against oversized or impractical shrubs and noted plans to return to the county in October for more meetings led by Myron E. Jeglum, the county agricultural agent.
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George Ziegler
University of Wisconsin
Browntown
Glarus
Avery Yost
Ziegler
Myron E. Jeglum
Student Council Seats Filled by Junior Vote
Jane Anderson and Dan Teehan were elected junior class representatives to the student council during a special vote held yesterday at the senior high school. The council now includes James Forbes as president Jacquelin Treloar and Eugene Masshardt as senior representatives, Anderson and Teehan as juniors, and Mary Carol Thompson and Keith Wainwright as sophomores.
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Jane Anderson
Dan Teehan
James Forbes
Jacquelin Treloar
Eugene Masshardt
Anderson
Teehan
Mary Carol Thompson
Keith Wainwright
Officials To Hear Poll Data Tonight On Metro Parking
City officials will hear revised figures from Monroe merchants group on a postal poll in the Monroe trade area tonight at 7:30 before the police and safety committee. The survey asked about ecards shopping experience and opinions on meters on the square with initial results showing majority oppose current meters and adding more.
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Monroe
Monroe Merchants Courtesy League
Frank A. Buehler
Police and Safety Committee of Council
Clarence F. Kempfert
Merchants Group
Merchants
Gen Marshall Named Head of Red Cross
General George C. Marshall is named president and board chairman of the American Red Cross succeeding Basil O'Connor. He will assume the post on October 1. The position carries no salary and is a return to public life.
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Gen. Marshall
Red Cross
Washington
George C. Marshall
American Red Cross
Truman
Marshall
Basil O’connor
Cheddars Unchanged In Sales at Plymouth
Values were unchanged on the Wisconsin cheese exchange today. Sales include five cars cheddars 30% cents and one car Illinois U S No 1 cheddars 30. Bids unfilled: one car Illinois U S No 1 cheddars 3042. Trading tone steady.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Illinois U. S
Fading Funds To Cut Wisconsin Road Work In Half
Wisconsin highway construction will slump after 1950 as wartime surpluses vanish. State Highway Commission Chairman James R. Law said revenues will cover about 15 million dollars annually, about half the 30 million dollars needed to maintain 400 miles of yearly road work.
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Wisconsin
McLoone Slaying Inquiry Reopened in LaCrosse
Sheriff Lamp and Capt. Boma led renewed questioning of a former La Crosse man in the decades old Dr. James McLoone murder case. District Attorney Coleman and state crime lab head Charles Wilson arrived with new information about the suspect's activities on the night of the shooting near the LaCrosse city pool on November 14.
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Vernon Lamp
James McLoone
Lamp
William Boma
Dist
John Coleman
Charles Wilson
State Crime Laboratory
Coleman
Dr. McLoone
LaCrosse City
Court House Clock Ready To Resume Job
The court house clock has been reconditioned and will show the correct time later today after the motor arrives from Chicago. Wallace Jaha of Ottawa Illinois will electrify the clock under a five year county contract for care of the timepiece. He drove to Chicago to fetch the motor but it was shipped here.
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Court House
Chicago
Wallace Jaha
Ottawa
Ill
JaKa
Last Paving Slab on Square To Be Torn Up for Manhole
The final concrete slab on the square’s court area will be removed Monday to replace a missing water main manhole. George Glass and Mayor Frank A. Buehler advocate full replacement rather than patching, citing a complete job in the project timeline.
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Court House Square
George Glass
Square Paving Project
William A. Vinton
Manitowoc
Frank A. Buehler
Glass
Water Department
Z. A. Gorder
Monroe Ready Mix and Material Co
Vinton
Lewis Stays Aloof In Tieup of Mines
Miners stay on a no day work week as John L. Lewis leads a prolonged walkout that began Monday affecting 480,000 workers. Talks with operators pause until September 29 amid stalemate over pensions and welfare fund payments. A lawsuit in Washington accuses fund trustees of improper disbursements prompting calls to replace them.
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Lewis
White Sulphur Springs
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
North
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Northern and Western
Washington
G. H. Livengood
Fayette County
Ezra van Horn
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Bottle Clue Traps Six For School Vandalism
Green County sheriff's deputies rounded up six suspects aged 11 to 22 for vandalism at Davis School in Spring Grove township Wednesday night. No prosecution is planned as families agreed to pay for damages after officials traced wine sales from the empty bottles found at the scene.
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Green County Sheriff’s Department
Davis School
Spring Grove Township
Milwaukee attorney leaves estate worth over 2.7 million
George Douglas Van Dyke a retired Milwaukee attorney and early leader in Michigan iron ore development left an estate valued at 2 748 961 dollars an inventory filed in county court showed today including his long service in industry and law in Milwaukee and Michigan
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Milwaukee
George Douglas van Dyke
Michigan
Acheson Says Russian Atomic Blast No Surprise
Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated the Russian atomic explosion was long expected and not a surprise to the U S government. He added the blast was an atomic weapon and would not alter American plans, speaking at a United Nations press conference before Andrei Vishinskyaddressed the assembly.
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New York
Dean Acheson
United States
U. N. Assembly
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Acheson
Atomic fear looms as Senate debates Russia bomb threat
Senator Mae Mahon warned that if Russia possessed the atomic bomb it could be used to attack American ports and kill millions. The debate follows disclosures on US evidence, ongoing interchanges among Allied scientists, and a Finletter commission estimate that hostile powers may not mass produce bombs until after 1952.
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Capitol
MaeMahon
D-Conn
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Committee
Senate
McMahon
Russia
United States
Truman
Air Policy Commission
Thomas K. Finletter
David Brad
Five Co H Veterans Attend Stearns Event in Madison
Five members of Co. H, 127th Regiment, WWI, attended a Madison dinner honoring Rev. Gustav Stearns of Milwaukee, a 75 year old Protestant minister and 32nd Division chaplain. Monroe attendees: John J. Burkhard, Ralph Lindsay, Thomas B. Schindler, Walter H. Wenger. William Dobson of Blanchardville joined. Judge Edward J. Gehl of West Bend, toastmaster, had been assigned to Co. H during training in the south.
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Co. H
Senate Approves Overseas Arms Aid Bill Passage
The Senate voted 55 to 24 to approve an overseas arms program amid debate over potential risks. The measure, supported by leaders Connally and Vandenberg, totals about 1.314 billion with House differences likely in conference. Funds include 1 billion for NATO nations, with allocations for Greece Turkey Iran Korea and the Philippines and 450 million in equipment shipments. Wiley and McCarthy supported the bill.
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Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Vandenberg
Taft
Ohio
Russia
Congress
House
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Koregq
Philippines
China Area
U. S
Wiley and
McCarthy
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Atomic Medical Sciiatist
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Bell Aircraft
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Gop
Dole
Brannan Farm
Labor
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Chills
U. S. Steel
Cyrus Ching
U. S. Mediation Board
Standard Steel Works
Lewistown
Northwestern Steel and Wire
Waukegan
Rustless Steel
American Rolling Mills
McLoone
Bottle
Six
Stearns
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