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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1947
Page
2
The Bureau of Census reports more than 60 million Americans are employed in civilian work while unemployment slightly exceeds two million. Despite higher earnings, productivity remains low and inflationary pressures persist as labor turnover stays high and demand for goods outstrips supply.
Harold F. McCormick marries opera singer Madame Donna Welska in a high society ceremony. Frank Stoldt buys half interest in the Simon hotel in Madison. Two special trains bring horses for Green County fair races. Huffman family holds first reunion at Riverview Park. Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein founder, dies in Dublin. A Staten Island tenement collapse kills at least 18.
Washington reports detail a libel suit arising from allegations about Hollywood publicist Russell Birdwell and a claim that Dietrich falsified an expense account during a publicity conference. The case centers on statements from a morning conference in Hollywood.
The National Labor Relations Board outlines a new staff structure ahead of August 22 changes. Frank M. Kleiler, 33, of Green Bay is appointed executive secretary, and Herbert Fuchs, 42, of New York City, becomes solicitor from the tribunal post.
Abby Wallace, under her tyrannical father Norman Wallace, spends a day at the Duncans with Craig Emerson and meets Barry Lambert, a Navy veteran courting Abby as Val Stanley, a famed model, watches from the shadows. Barry proclaims bold plans and charms Abby, while Abby questions her father and her future.
In a clipped dialogue, Barry boasts of medals and wounds as he prods about a former lover. The unnamed woman deflects, denying details about her past with another man referred to as Mr Anthony. The scene mingles bravado with guarded memories.
Abby and Barry Lambert share a tense bench talk revealing fear, honesty, and distant family ties. She recalls Miss Howard's Virginia schooldays, governesses, and a life of travel with little close company, while Barry probes her past.
Wisconsin motorists lost 63 people in July, raising the year to date toll to 399. The state motor vehicle department reported the July deaths include 11 pedestrians, compared with 364 deaths for January through July 1946.
A 450 worker strike at Union Stock Yards and Transit Co was postponed for one week amid new wage talks. CIO Local 44 President Frank Monaghan said the union rejected the latest offer but will keep working under the current contract. The union seeks eight cents more per hour, overtime after eight hours, a union shop and six holidays. pay now ranges from 74 cents to 1.24.
Sam Hoesly, former Times employee and gladiolus breeder, named a new seedling after his former boss. The Emery A Odell flower is not yet on the market but shown yesterday among other fine glads, with a ten bloom spike and the bottom flower seven inches across.
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