Frosty Tinge to Continue Tonight Across Region
Coldest August night in generations prompts warnings of frost with temps dipping into the 30s and 40s in Wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois. Chicago forecast low 45 tonight as records threaten and residents brace for near autumn conditions.
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Monroe Ee Ee
Chicago
Middlewest
St. Cloud
Minn
Wausau
Spencer
Madison
Wisconsin
Dalton
the Falls
Blair
Darlington
Green Bay
Plymouth
la Crosse
Watertown
Menomonie
Lake Geneva
Prairie du Chien
Ellsworth
Milwaukee
Juda Union Free High School Opens Monday
Juda Union Free High School and Juda state graded schools will open at 9 Monday morning as announced by Principal HO Bizer. Registration will occur that day and students will be dismissed at noon. A large enrollment is expected in both grades and high school. WC TU organization at Evangelical church arranged by Mrs. William Schmerse with officers to be elected at 2 p.m. Friday.
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Juda Union Free High School
Juda State Graded
Prin. HO. Bizer
WC TU
Evangelical Church
William Schmerse
Will Meinert
Kilion Fined and Reprimanded for Lichfield Cruelty
Kilion Kilian former commander of the U S army replacement depot was convicted of cruel and unusual punishment of American soldiers in the depot guardhouse. A seven officer military court fined him 500 dollars and reprimanded him after a ten week trial.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
James A. Kilian
Highland Park
U. S. Army
Kilien
Boy Sees for First Time After Delicate Eye Operation
Five year old Tony Toten had cataracts in both eyes and could only see shadows. After a delicate operation, his mother Mrs Upton told him it was green like the grass as the bandages were removed, and he exclaimed Youre pretty.
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Cincinnati
Tony Toten
Tony
Government Job for LaFollette Considered by Truman
President Truman, nearing end of vacation aboard the Williamsburg, weighs senior roles for Sen. Robert M. LaFollette Jr. Possible posts include assistant secretary of the treasury, Federal Reserve board member, and federal loan administrator. LaFollette, 12 term as Republican, ends January. others on offer include White House staff and interior secretary aides.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Truman
Robert M. LaFollette Jr
Washington
Williamsburg
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
LaFollette
Jo January
Senate
Congress
the Treasury
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Federal Loan
White House
Secretay of the Interior
Civil Aeronautics Board
Federal Maritime Commissioner
Atomic Energy Commission
Hampton Roads
Chesaveake Bay
Patomic River
Monroe Sends 29 to State Guard Camp for Field Instruction
Monroe state guard Co. F. departs the armory in dress uniform for Camp Williams to receive field instruction for the rest of the week. Capt. George Armstrong and Lt. Louis R. Wolle son lead 27 enlisted men including George Wencer and Alvin Riese as they carry field packs and equipment. The unit plans to return to Monroe late Sunday.
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Monroe
Co. F
Camp Williams
George Armstrong
Louis R. Wolleson
Harold A. Blumer
George Wencer
Dahl
Leslie M.schwitz
William Niederberger
Joseph Riedwe
Frank Berk
Walter E
Humbel Chosen as New Monroe County Patrol Chief
Sam Humbel 28 former Monroe city police desk man and radio operator was named by the county board police committee to replace Wilbur E. Deininger who resigns next Sunday. Humbel held army sergeant rank, has a third class radio license, and has deputy sheriff experience. He works for Wisconsin Power and Light and lives near the south city limits with his brother and sister-in-law.
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Sam Humbel
Monroe
County Board Police Committee
Wilbur E. Deininger
Humbel
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Harry Co. Young
Leo M. Ties
Brodhead
Andrew Tschudy
Jefferson Township
Deininger
George Armstrong
Co. F
State Guard
Humber
Paul Humbel
Kesler Leaves Janesville Police for Rock County Deputy Sheriff
Captain Harry Kesler a Monroe native resigns from the Janesville police force effective September 1 to become a Rock County deputy sheriff. A World War I veteran who served in France, he joined Janesville in 1924 and rose to captain in 1942 after handling multiple roles. Mrs. Kesler, Grace Sickinger, is the daughter of Fred and Grace Sickinger.
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Harry Kesler
Monroe
Janesville
Kesler
Rock County
France
Les Terribles
Jonesville
Charles Newman
William Ford
Jasper Webb
Grace Sickinger
Fred G. Sickinger
17Th Avenue
Undated Heirens Letter Repudiates Confessing 3 Slayings
Chicago a letter from William Heirens to his parents written in jail was confiscated with two others. State's Attorney Tuohy released the notes stating Heirens claimed he confessed to three killings to avoid further grief, including the Suzanne Degnan case, though he denied committing them.
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Chicago
William Heirens
William Tuohy
Joan Slama
Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Big Four Meet to Push Pace on Paris Peace Conference
Britain Russia United States and France foreign ministers gathered in Paris to find common ground amid clashes at the peace talks. The ministers, in Bidaults office, aimed to accelerate work on hundreds of treaty amendments while a proposed Australian data subcommittee failed in the Italian frontier dispute.
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Paris
Britain
Russia
United States
France
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Bidault
Wincenty Winiewicz
Murder Charge to Be Filed in Beloit Stabbing
Beloit district attorney said he would issue a warrant charging Delorés Marie Elder, 26, with first degree murder for the slaying of a 36 year old mother of three who died after being stabbed during a quarrel between two women. Chief Det. Torrisi said Elder signed a statement admitting the stabbing of Mrs. Margaret Kemp with a 7 inch hunting knife.
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Beloit
Howard Moss
Janesville
Delorés Marie Elder
Daniel Torrisi
Miss Elder
Margaret Kemp
Highway Engineer Dies After Collision Near Sun Prairie
Madison official D. J. Minahan, 48, a division engineer for the state highway commission, was killed when his car left the road, struck a highline pole, and rolled over on Highway 151 about 10 miles north of Sun Prairie in Columbia County. He had 23 years with the commission and led highway engineering in southern Wisconsin counties since 1933.
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Madison
D. J. Minahan
State Highway Commission
Highway 151
Sun Prairie
Columbia County
Commission
Minahan
Wisconsin
Burkhard’s Jap article collection draws crowds in display
Kenneth W. Burkhard displays a Navy era collection in Wisconsin Power and Light Co windows. Items include a battle flag from Yokohama, a Jap rifle floor lamp, a P-38 model, shell art, fans, postcards, Nipponese money, and travel folders. Burkhard served 23 months in the Navy aboard the Joseph E. Wing, Lyon's Creek, and the U S S Herbert J. Thomas. he wears the battle flag as a keepsake.
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Kenneth W. Burkhard
John J. Burkhard
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Burkhard
Yokohama
Yokosuka
Nagasaki
Monroe Stamp Club
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Japan
Joseph E. Wing
Lyon’s Creek
U. S. S. Herbert
Madison Artist John Curry Dead at 48
John Steuart Curry, 48, longtime artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin, died of a heart attack. A Kansas native and member of the Benton Wood Currie circle, his work focused on rural life and history and was set for a Milwaukee exhibit next week. He painted David Schreiner of UW football and created murals in Topeka Kansas depicting Civil War hardships and figures like John Brown.
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Madison
John Steuart Curry
University of Wisconsin Department of Rural Sociology
Curry
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Institute
David Schreiner
University of Wisconsin
Okinawa
Topeka
Kas
Kansas
John Brown
Goodland Appoints Kopitzke to Agriculture Board
Governor Goodland appoints Leonard E Kopitzke of Marion Wisconsin as a member of the state board of agriculture to fill the unexpired term of the late E F Horn ending June 2 1949 Kopitzke is president of the Wisconsin Cheesemakers association and officer of other dairy groups Augustus Shawano optometry board member and Fred Schultz Racine join the state building and loan advisory committee Willis Erasmus Milwaukee named to Milwaukee county board of public welfare Confirmations by the senate required for Kopitzke Schultz appointments
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Madison
Goodland
Leonard E. Kopitzke
Marion
Wis
Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association
State Board of Agriculture
Kopitzke
E. F. Horn
Beaver Dam
Horn
Augustus Abbott Shawano
Wisconsin Board of Examiners In
Fred Schultz
Racine
State Building and Loan Advisory Committee
Willis Erasmus
Wilwaukee
County Board of Public Welfare
Milwaukee County
Schulz
Senate
Unmatched record to H O Elmer Herd Value of Testina Proved
H O Elmer of York township, a leading Holstein breeder, built a famed Green county herd. Notable peaks include 1931 when his top ten cows led the New Glarus Monticello ring, 1934 herd average 4003 pounds butterfat per cow, and 1945 herd record of 12 653 pounds milk 453 7 butterfat 3 6. home bred to boot. He began purebred buying in 1928 and embraced testing as a key improvement tool urged by Mrs Filmer and T A Hoesly.
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H. Otto Elmer
York Township
Green County
Glarus-Monticello
Elmer
Monroe
Holstein Association
Mr. Elmer
Great Lakes maritime strike near end with tentative settlements
Cleveland federal conciliator Noel Fox predicted the Great Lakes maritime strike would be substantially settled by mid next week as two companies and the CIO National Maritime union reached tentative agreements to end their differences. Thomas J. Dodd asked the Nuremberg tribunal for guilty verdicts against five Nazi affiliated bodies and linked them to the regime's crimes.
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Cleveland
Noel Fox
Great Lakes
Cio-National Maritime Union
Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
International War Crimes Tribunal
Nuernberg
Reich Cabinet
Political Leadership Corps
SS Elite Guard
SA Brown Shirts
Gestapo
Military
Commutation Ordered for Stern Gang Members in Palestine
The colonial office announced that death sentences on 18 Stern gang members convicted of bombing Haifa railroad yards in Palestine were commuted to life imprisonment.
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London
Colonial Office
Stern Gang
Haifa
Palestine
Russia blocks Ireland Portugal and Trans-Jordan UN bids
Lake Success New Jersey Soviet Russia blocked Ireland Trans-Jordan and Portugal from UN membership due to lack of diplomatic relations with each country. The move underscores Cold War tensions impacting new state recognitions at the United Nations.
McCarthy's Name Certainty on Ticket in Wisconsin
State Treasurer John Smith initially refused to certify the August 18 primary returns for the U S Senate citing that Circuit Judge Joseph R McCarthy Appleton ran unconstitutionally. He later approved the report as other board members sided with McCarthy. Smith questioned judge eligibility under the state constitution while noting a federal ruling that supersedes state rules in such cases.
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Madison
John Smith
U. S. Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Appleton
State Board of Canvassers
U. S
Robert M. LaFollette Jr
Smith
McCarthy
Robert Zimmerman
Fred R. Zimmerman
Stewart Honeck
John Martin
State Central Committee
Victor Johnston
State Voluntary Committee
U. S. Supreme Court
Grate Elected Commander in Chief of G A R
John H. Grate age 101 of Atwater Ohio a cavalry private who served under Gen Phil Sheridan was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic today in Indianapolis
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G. A. BR
Grate
Indianapolis
John H. Grate
Atwater
Phil Sheridan
Grand Army of the Republic
Price Hike Won't Boost Hog Output
Washington reports that new hog price ceilings set by Secretary Anderson rise to 16.25 per cwt Chicago basis, up from 14.85, aiming to spur pork production. Analysts note the corn hog price ratio must reach about 11.5 to justify expansion, questioning if the ceiling will be enough as corn prices fall with the new crop.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Chicago
Hare Department
Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Agriculture Department
Anderson
Meat Ceilings Restored Sept 9 After Short Delay
Washington authorities kept to the plan to restore meat price ceilings September 9 after a last minute snag delayed live animal controls for four days. The new ceilings will average about 5 cents a pound higher for beef and 2 to 3 cents a pound more for pork than June 30 levels, still below current costs.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Wisconsin Livestock Leaders Back New Cattle Import Rules
Wisconsin livestock representatives at a hearing support changes to state regulations allowing import of beef type feeder cattle under 25 months from range states with a permit and no origin test, followed by tuberculosis and Bangs disease testing within seven days of arrival.
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Madison
State Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Anderson raises live stock ceilings to spur production
Secretary Anderson directed OPA Chief Porter to raise June 30 live animal ceilings by 2.25 dollars per hundred for beef and 1.40 for pork to stimulate output. CIO critics call it a profit booster, while OPA delays enforcement to set new packer and retailer price tiers. Subsidies for slaughter resumed, and related food price increases were outlined for pancake mixes, pineapple products, salmon, syrups, and dairy prices under wartime controls.
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Clinton P. Anderson
Congress
OPA
Paul Porter
CIO
Cost of Living Committee
Anderson
John Thornton
Ees
Slauehter
Reconstruction Finance Com
Alaska
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John Curry
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H. O. Elmer Herd
Elmer Brook Dairy Farm
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J. A. Beasley
RFC
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