Wisconsin fair names champions in foreign type cheese butter
Niederberger wins drum Swiss and Niederberger, Reineke and Brandt top Wisconsin dairy contests. Reineke scores 97 on butter tub for governor sweepstake at the state fair. Brandt earns top cheese honors at Allis exposition. Niederberger, Monroe, takes the foreign type sweepstakes cup for Swiss cheese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Willisf Reineke
la Valle
Erhart Brandt
Kewaunee
Wisconsin
Reineke
Brandt
Allis
Wisconsin College of Agriculture Dairy Laboratories
Franz Niederberger
Monroe
Fred J. Holsman
Galesville
Perry St. McHenry
Virogua
Reuben V. Eirschele
Blair
William J
Bonduel
J. Keschak
Thorp
Anton Peters
de Pere
P. J. Thompson
Arena
Niederberger
Emil Dubach
Brodhead
Limburger
Neau
Rudolph Speich
Walter Minnig
Monticello
Carl Kueffer
Rio
E. C. Abegglen
Dalton
Factory Workers Named at Various Plants on Monroe Route
Dubech works at Advance factory south of Monroe. Gebhart to Mt. Hope factory near Brodhead. Speich at Grinnell factory on Monroe route 4. Minnig at Silver factory. Pfand Factory Niederberger on Monroe route 5.
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Pfand
Niederberger
Monroe Route 5
Dubech
Advance
Monroe
Gebhart
Mt. Hope
Brodhead
Speich
Grinnell
Monroe Route 4
Minnig
Silver
Carferry Resumes Great Lakes Trips
Great Lakes carferries resumed service after a 24 hour CIO strike. Milwaukee to Ludington and Manitowoc routes operated with ferries City of Madison Pere Marquette ships and Ann Arbor lines back in service. Frank MecMullin confirmed multiple vessels would sail from Milwaukee with a second and third ship following later.
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Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
CIO National Maritime Union. Co
H. Jens
General Freight Line
Milwaukee Toington
Mich
Ludington
Manitowoc
Pere Marquette
Ann Arbor
Load 1 000 Cars of Wheat Per Week
Senator Bushfield says approximately 1 000 carloads of grain are loaded weekly in the Midwest while over 1 200 grain elevators are full and cannot accept more. About half the grain is loaded at elevators with the rest returning empty from Minneapolis and St Paul, as railroads impose a 48 hour turnaround at each end.
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Washington
Midwest
Bushfield
R-Sd
Minneapolis
St. Paul
New Glarus Pageant Delights Crowd at Centennial Opener
The New Glarus centennial pageant written by Dr. John A. Schindler and staged at the ball park drew over 1,500 spectators for its official kickoff. The 2½ hour show mixed devout history with humor, depicting Swiss emigration to America, hardships along the Lead and Missouri scenes, and concluding with a vibrant epilogue of Helvetia presenting cantons. Ray W. Meythaler led as narrator with support from Belle Streiff and others as the production highlighted early cheese making and hopeful settlement.
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New Glarus
John A. Schindler
Monroe
New Glarus Ball Park
Gilbert Ott
Columbia
America
Helvetia
Switzerland
Market Place
Basel
Rhine
Mid- Atlantic
St. Louis
Immigration Committee
Wisconsin
Jacob Schmoker
Willard Marty
Gilbert Duerst
Ervin Truttman
Isaac Alderman
Ray W. Meythaler
Belle Streiff
Harvey Ott
Harlan Wernle
Draw Jury List For October Term
The jury list for the October term opening October 28 was released by clerk of courts Mrs. Jessie M. Holcomb. The list, 36 names, was submitted by the jury commission including Dr. A N Lawton Fred J. Marty and John D. Germann.
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Circuit Court
Jessie M. Holcomb
A. N. Lawton
Brodhead
Fred J. Marty
New Glarus
John D. Germann
Monroe
Adams Township
Melvin E. Winger
Ralph McGuire
John Flanagan
Ed Bidlingmaier
Vincent Conway
William F. Barry
Albany
John McDermott
John Crooke
Ernest Kittlesen
Fred Schneeberger
George Kittlesen
Bennie Riese
Lorna Stewart
Fred Morton
Helen Phillips
Harry Edwards
Hal Phillips
Frank W. Christopher
Brooklyn
Martin P. Flood
Arthur Swan
L. J. Baumgartner
Verne Ellis
Albert Springstead
Marion Olson
Ben Thostenson
Browntown
Roy Crago
M. E. Niffenegger
Edward Good
B. E. Maddrell
T. E. Burrington
Cadiz
John A. Hartwig
Irwin Bechtolt
Grant Allen
Frank Flannery
Herman A. Lueck
Otto Bartelt
Clarno
Thomas Thorp
Percy Lichtenwalner
Edward Brunkow
C. H. Lichtenwalner
A. E. Schroeder
Ray E. Kundert
Decatur
Ralph Jones
William Walder
Max Wyss
LaVerne Dodge
Marvin Malkow
Sterling Miller
Exeter Township
J. W. Eagen
John Mellenberger
Paul Schrepfer
Truman Considers U S Action to Admit European Refugees
President Truman announced he is weighing explicit congressional authorization to admit European refugees including Jews to the United States. A White House statement noted the U S has not proposed a Palestine plan and cited ongoing talks with Prime Minister Attlee. It stressed no Palestine settlement will satisfy all sides and called for a conciliatory approach to peace and prosperity in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
White House
Palestine
Attlee
Britain
UAW to reopen wage talks with Chrysler on Oct 16
The CIO United Automobile Workers executive board announced plans to reopen the wage agreement October 16 at Chrysler Corp and at other companies where contract terms allow. Molotov suggests UN General Assembly postpone until year end after Paris talks. Eighteen Jewish youths are sentenced to death in Haifa bombing case. four women receive life terms.
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Washington
CIO
United Automobile Workers’ Executive Board
Chrysler Corp
New York
Paris
V. M. Molotov
United Nations General Assembly
Jerusalem
Deininger resigns from Green County highway police post
Wilbur E. Deininger veteran officer and longtime member of the Green County highway police resigns his post effective Sept. 1 after losing the Republican primary for circuit court clerk by 87 votes to incumbent Jes sie M. Holcomb.
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Wilbur E. Deininger
Green County Highway Police Department
Jessie M. Holcomb
County Highway Police Committee
H. C. Young
Monroe
Andrew Tschudy
Leo M. Ties
Brodhead
Deininger
Green County Highway Police
Army
North Africa
Italy
84Th Chemical Mortar Battalion
Horned sea monster sighted on Swan Lake turns out to be cow
South Haven witnesses at dusk reported a horned sea monster in Swan Lake. The creature proved to be a black cow that swam a half mile into the lake, then returned to shore and wandered home to Carl Feris' farm.
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South Haven
Mich
Swan Lake
Carl Feris
Red Arrow Reunion Set for Milwaukee Convention
The famed 22nd Red Arrow division will hold its first postwar annual convention in the Milwaukee auditorium from August 31 to September 2. Gen. Walter Krueger, who commanded the Sixth Army in the Pacific, will be the principal speaker.
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Red Arrow
Milwaukee
22Nd
U. S
Milwaukee Auditorium
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Pioneer Woman Doctor Dies After Fall in Wilmette
Evanston reports the death of Dr. Rachel Hickey Carr a 90 year old pioneer woman physician known for rescue work during the 1889 Johnstown flood. She died Wednesday from shock after a fall in her Wilmette home.
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Evanston
Rachel Hickey Carr
Johnstown
Wilmette
Torrential Rains Drench Midwest Flooded Illinois Communities
Severe rainfall inundated East St. Louis and Belleville Illinois with 8.5 inches in 24 hours. Coastguards evacuated residents as water flooded Washington Park and nearby areas. Deaths, rail washouts, and business losses followed floodwaters damaged dairies and commerce across southern Illinois.
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Chicago
East St. Louis
Belleville
Mississippi Valley
Illinois-Missouri
Washington Park
Signal Hill
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
Mt. Vernon
Louisville & Nashville
Southern Railroad
Centralia
Rabies Quarantine Enters Jefferson County Area
The state department of agriculture announced a 90 day rabies quarantine covering nine square miles in Hebron and Jefferson townships. All dogs there must be confined or muzzled after a farm dog tested positive for rabies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Jefferson County
State Department of Agriculture
Hebron
Jefferson
Bast Named Kraft Foods Head for Monroe Operations
Ray Bast, longtime Monroe cheese veteran, is appointed head of Kraft foreign type cheese operations in the Monroe area, succeeding Ralph H. Wenger who leaves Sept. 1 James I Christophenon president of Kraft Foods Co of Wisconsin announces. A L Goodmiller leads production and William Wenger runs assembling and warehouse operations. Bast began in 1907 with Jacob Arlen & Sons and joined Badger Cheese Co in 1911 which joined Kraft in 1923. Wenger, a 40 year veteran, has directed warehouse operations for 15 years. Goodmiller joined Kraft in 1937 and rose from milk processing to leadership roles in Monroe since 1945.
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Ray T. Bast
Kraft
Monroe
Ralph H. Wenger
James I. Christopherson
Kraft Foods So
Wisconsin
A. L. Goodmiller
William Wenger
Bast
Jacob Arlen & Sons
Badger Cheese Co
Badger-Brodhead Theese Co
Edward C. Wenger
Wenger
Badger Company
Goodmiller
University of Illinois
Stockton
Jersey City
Chicago
New York State
Rome
Lowville
Kraft Pilot Swiss
Puppet Emperor of Manchuria Defends His Aid to Japan
Pu Yi testifies at war leaders trial defending his puppet throne and blames Allied inaction during Japanese conquest. He recounts a 14 year old plot that brought him to the throne and says democratic nations did not resist. he says fear for his life drove acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Henry Pu-yi
Manchuria
Pu-yi
Japan
Chicago Stock Exchange Adopts 3 Day Delivery Rule
Chicago stock exchange directors announced compliance with a New York Stock Exchange decision establishing a three day delivery rule. The plan shifts settlement days for August 29 transactions, aligning Monday trades to Thursday, Tuesday to Friday, and Wednesday to the following Monday, with holidays moving the schedule back one day.
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Chicago
Chicago Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Swiss Radio Leader Sees America Through Swiss Eyes
Tall Swiss commentator Paul A. Ladame touring American towns to record Swiss music and share views with Swiss Americans. He says New York misleads about the United States and urges seeing places like New Glarus and Monroe to understand America. Ladame notes 200000 GIs’ postwar visit boosted Swiss-American relations and admits discovering racial tensions in the U.S.
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Paul A. Ladame
New Glarus
Monroe
New York
America
United States
Hollywood
Paradise
Ladame
Switzerland
Bright Warm Weather For Centennial Start
The New Glarus centennial celebration opened with sunshine and a large crowd. Registration began this morning and a concert by the Stitzer band was held in City Park as the event continued with warm weather and no rain threats.
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New Glarus
Times
Stitzer
Wis
Centennial Food Outlook Shows Abundant Local Goods
Centennial visitors will find Green county markets stocked with canning fruits Washington Bartlett pears apricots and California Elberta peaches. Sugar shortages limit some purchases while coffee prices rise, and locals grind more than they buy. Red grapes sweet potatoes tomatoes and corn headline home grown items with meat plentiful including duck pork ham and hamburger.
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Centennial
Green County
Washington Bartlett
Colorado
Admit Need for Probe of Meat Business on Price Fixing Charge
Chicago report quotes George Dressler of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers urging a Justice Department probe into meat price fixing amid concerns a monopolistic trend among large operators could freeze out independent retailers. He notes perishability and competition complicate price setting while prices rise in some areas then fall overall.
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Chicago
George Dressler
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Department of Justice
Washington
Dressler
Plymouth Cheese Market Report Summary
The Plymouth Cheese Reporter notes no sales and unfilled bids at the Plymouth market. Forty five cars of cheddar sold at 41 cents and twenty five cars at 41 cents remain unfilled.
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Plymouth
Plymouth Cheese Reporter
McNarney contrasts East and West Germany political aims
General Joseph T. McNarney reports that the German communist party seeks to destroy capitalism and form a socialist classless state, with similar aims for the Soviet backed Socialist Unity Party in the east. He notes western allies favor economic merger and outlines economic and financial strains in the American zone, including coal and steel shortages and low export levels.
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Berlin
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S
Germany
Communist Party
McNarney
Socialist Unity Party
Social Democrats
MacNarney
Blue Stem Barbecue Draws Cattlemen To Emporia Event
In Emporia Kansas the blue stem barbecue drew about 2500 cattlemen to the Clarence Delong ranch as 60 percent of 300000 cattle in the region already sold. They awaited Washington action on meat price controls before deciding fall feeding plans amid a national beef surplus and possible OPA regulations.
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Emporia
Kas
Blue Stem
Washington
Clarence Delong
OPA
Kansas Grasslands
Monroe Chamber of Commerce Float in New Glarus Centennial Parade
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce presented a large white float trimmed with red Moonree banners. Six Monroe misses dressed in Lee's store supplied shorts decorated the float, led by Paul Baltzer and Henry Tschudy with committee help from Wesley Dodge and Harrellahan.
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Glarus
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Patricia McGinley
Mary Durner
Nancy Bishop
Doris Ann Tsehudy
Nanette Elmer
Harriet Towell
Lee
Paul Baltzer
Chamber
Henry Tschudy
Wesley Dodge
Har Rellahan
Swiss centennial parade draws 8000 to 10000 crowd in New Glarus
The 101st anniversary celebration drew an estimated 8 000 to 10 000 along the parade route as Swiss bells rang and floats representing cantons moved past. Prominent guests included Max Graessli and Swiss officials, with La Follette delivering an address contrasting Europe’s fate under fascism and communism.
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Max Graessli
Bruggman
Washington
Albert Greutert
Chicago
Lawrence Smith
Navy
Walter Schindler
John A. Schindler
Casper J. Schmid
Austin
Tex
Glarus
Switzerland
Melvin J. Olson
Harry A. Keegan
Ora R. Rice
Delavan
Robert P. Robinson
Beloit
Wisconsin
Gilbert Strickler
C. A. Hefty
Los Angeles
New Glarus
Hoesly
LaFollette
Grassli
Schindler
Strickler
Gilbert Ot
Evangelical and Reformed
Uncle Sam
Monroe
Belleville
New York
Texas
Kentucky
Ohio
North Dakota
la Follette
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Carferry
Great Lakes
Bulletin
The
Associated Press
Ray
Kraft Foods
Ralph Wenger
Foreign Type Cheese Post
Stock Exchange Ruling
Swiss Radio Leader
Monroe Kraft
Kay T. Bast
Os Kraft Foods Co
Kraft Foreign Type
Europe
Colors
Legion
Monroe Band
Englers
Fred Klassy
Embroidery
Barbers
Nic Zentner
New Glarus Feed
Alvin Ott Stock Co
Fred Ott
Royal Blue
Scott Hilton
Bank of New Glarus
Jack Erb
New Glarus Movie
Telephone Company
D-X Service
Hefty Bros
New Glarus Bakery
Hoesly- Barton
N. G. Hardware Co
Stuessy Grocery
A. Anderson
Stricklers
Uffelman
Tschudy’s
Red Cross
Stitzer Band
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