Cast Shuffles for William Tell Performances Next Weekend
Village adds many cast changes for the two day William Tell event. Director Edwin Balow oversees German and English casts with dress rehearsals tonight. Rudy Burkhalter, Madison and Monroe music shop owner, will play the Alpine horn. Lila Schneider and Dorothea Widmer direct musicians. Diana Bartie handles choreography. German cast features Paul Grossenbacher as Gessler and Wilhelm Tell with a long list of involved actors.
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Ieecun
Teesumerous
William Tell
This Village
Edwin Balow
Rudy Burkhalter
Madison
Monroe
Lila Schneider
Dorothea Widmer
Diana Bartie
Contour Strip Cropping Gains Ground in Green County
Farmers praise contour farming for soil and moisture retention as drought dries fields. Kenneth Benkett and Leland Miller report green strips in corn fields, while others note erosion in non contour plots. The soil conservation office plans 30 to 40 new participants this fall as interest climbs.
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Green County
Kenneth Benkett
George Boring Leland Miller
Leland
Miller
Glenn Benkert
O. G. Kimball
Soil Conservation Office
Two day Holiday For Most of City
The city plans a two day Labor Day holiday with most offices banks and schools closed. Post offices will pause mail delivery, while emergencies will be served. Some stores stay open for emergencies and teachers meet Monday to welcome new staff before Tuesday school openings.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Commercial
First National Banks
John J. Burkhard
Supt. E. C. Evans
Memorial for Melvin Merty at Monticello
Memorial services for Melvin Merty who died in Germany in 1944 will be held at the American Legion post before the Monticello Middletown baseball game at 1 45 Sunday afternoon. Taps and a moment of silence follow. Merty played for the local baseball club from its early days in the Home Talent league through 1940. The trophy will be held by Stoudtoms 1945 team and shown in Blum's store window.
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Monticello
Melvin Merty
Germany
Ameduty-Merty
Lerion
Monticello-Middleton
Lenion Post
Merty
Bome Talent League
Ron
Stoudtom
Blum
Call Off Major Phase of Great Lakes Shipping Strike
The CIO National Maritime Union ends most of its Great Lakes walkout affecting seven firms operating 21 ships. By noon today the majority of shiplines return to work while seven firms remain blocked. The strike began fifteen days ago.
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Great Lakes
Detroit
CIO National Maritime Union
NMU
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Reported Activities Today
The Cheese Reporter notes transactions on the Wisconsin cheese exchange with no sales and bids: 10 cars cheddars at 41.5 cents, 10 cars cheddars at 41 cents, and five cars single daisies at 43 cents.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Cheese Reporter
Polio Hits Third In Green County Browntown
Polio cases rise in Green county with three Browntown victims Jo an Tree age 15 under quarantine at home and improving While Sharon Rygh and Paul Vincent are earlier Browntown cases other communities postponed school openings The state health board lists 32 polio deaths in 1946 and 458 new cases since Aug 1 with a pattern of peak in August September and leveling in October
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Green County
Browntown
Joan Tree
Norris Tree
Joan
Monroe
Sharon Rygh
Bjarne J. Rygh
Paul E. Vincent
Ross Vincent
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison
Ashland
Cumberland
Rice Lake
Kewaunee
Portage
Pardeeville
State Board of Health
H. M. Guilford
Marinette
Clark
Baron
Columbia
Racine
Chippewa
Pep
German Spy Ring Busted in Russia Smuggling Confession
American authorities announced the dismantling of a German spy ring with Soviet sympathies based in Frankfurt. The alleged ringleader confessed to providing the Russians with U S troop movement details. Four Germans are in custody, with at least one having prior work history with the American military government.
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Frankfurt
United States Forces
Allecec
President Truman Ends Bermuda Vacation Aboard Williamsburg
President Truman finished an eight day vacation in Bermuda and sailed for Washington on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. A rumor of Hungary joining the Soviet Union circulated without confirmation as whispers spread through parliament.
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President Truman
Bermuda
Washington
Williamsburg
Budapest
Hungary
Soviet Union
Milk Cow Price At Record Peak In Wisconsin
Wisconsin farm milk cows reached record July prices with an average per head of 159 dollars, the highest monthly figure in state history. Prices rose due to subsidies and price controls while farm product costs climbed. milk prices to farmers reached 3.24 dollars per 100 pounds despite subsidy reductions in June and July.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Clouds Move In as August Chill Ends
A cool front kept August record lows from being reached as clouds moved in after midnight. The low fell to 39–48 degrees in several Midwest cities, with Cincinnati 40 and Terre Haute 39, while Chicago reported a record 46.8 for August. Temperatures were set to rise slowly toward the weekend cheering corn growers.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Terre Haute
Cincinnati
Terminal Leave Pay Drive Hits Slow Start in Green County
Only a small share of an estimated 2,000 Green County veterans have filed for terminal leave pay. Service officer Theodore J. Burgy reports about 150 to 190 claims so far. Night hours and outlying-town sites are set for early September to aid applicants.
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Green County
Theodore J. Burgy
Burgy
New Glarus
Monticello
Brooklyn
Albany Legion Club
Brodhead
Juda Bank
Bank of Juda
Goetz Theater to Observe Its 15th Anniversary Week
Goetz theater marks 15 years serving Monroe with a week of special programming. The Spanish styled modern motion picture house opened Sept 2 1931 and will feature Marx brothers in A Night in Casablanca Disney cartoons and Atomic Power newsreels plus Roy Rogers Rainbow Over Texas and The Three Stooges Uncivil War Birds among other attractions.
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Monroe
Goetz
Chester Goetz
Robert
Nathan
Goetz and
Chalet
Goetz Theater
Leon
Court House Square
Goetz Brothers
Groucho
Harpo
Chico Marx
Casablanca
Late News
Unofficial Opening Dance at Monroe Youth Center Tonight
The Monroe Youth Center hosts an unofficial opening with a dance in the White Building tonight from 7 to 11 30. Miss Loraine Schumacher will direct the event with chaperones Mr and Mrs Henry Tschudy and Mr and Mrs Hollis Elmer. Games include ping pong. ice cream sandwiches only due to snack bar not finished.
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Monroe's
Loraine Schumacher
Henry Tschudy
Hollis J. Elmer
Harriet Towell
Joanne Solomon
Shirley Spaide
Evelyn Waelti
JoAnn
Nanette Elmer
Pat Nurer
Mary Durner
Mary Ellen Burkhard
Donna Thomm
Nancy Davis
Royletta Speich
Eugene Mason
Wally Weiser
Nancy Moldenhauver
Pat Knaack
Peace Hopes Rise as Chengteh Falls to Government Troops
Paris dispatches report government forces captured Chengteh the Jehol capital with little opposition as new peace talks form a five member committee to push a political solution in China. The Paris conference mood darkens with war fears and De Gaulle warns of a Russia United States clash.
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Peiping
Chengteh
Jehol
China
Shin Shenpao
Chinchow
Manchuria
Nanking
U. S
J. Leighton Stuart
Marshall
Russians indict Western interference in Greek vote clash
Molotov at the peace conference accuses the United States and Great Britain of meddling in Greece's upcoming election and of aiding a potential return of exiled King George I. He says British troops are present and American ships are en route while the conference debates the Greek Albanian border. Byrnes urges fair hearing for all governments. France backs the Slav bloc.
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Europe
Russia
United States
West
V. M. Molotov
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Greece
Ukraine
Versailles
Georges Clemenceau
Germany
David Lloyd George
de Gaulle
France
Bar-le-Duc
Great Britain
Balkan
George I
Molotov
Epirus
Albania
State Byrnes
United States Would Give the Right To Every Member To Be Heard.” Molotov
Council of Foreign Ministers
Belgium
Norway
More Families Get Aid in Wisconsin July Grants Rise
Wisconsin's Department of Public Welfare reports July aid grants reached 51,814 families, up 6.1 percent from July 1945. Total assistance disbursed last month amounted to 2,208,591 dollars.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Cyclist Killed in Highway 23 Crash near Fond du Lac
David A. Dean, 21, died when his motorcycle veered off Highway 23 seven miles west of Fond du Lac, sideswiped a fence and struck a tree. Police reported he was killed instantly and the crash remains under investigation.
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Fond du Lac
David A. Dean
Highway 23
Grocery Line Improves After Labor Day Week
After Labor Day the Monroe produce market shows few changes yet several items are due Tuesday including Concord grapes in four quart baskets though prices are expected high. New arrivals include Puerto Rican yams celery cabbage Wisconsin potatoes Pascal celery and a widening variety of vegetables and fruits with fall signs like acorn squash and homegrown melons.
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Monroe
Concord
Wisconsin
Green County
Election Influence Washington Politicians Clash Over Foreign Policy
AP reports political debate frames foreign policy as campaign leverage. Senator Hatch plans speeches claiming a GOP House would be seen abroad as repudiating the administration. Rep Clarence Brown notes Republican involvement in Paris peace talks and UN plans, questioning Byrnes and the Paris trip of Vandenberg and Austin. He also questions Soviet support for Democrats.
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Washington
Brown
Byrnes
Arthur Vandenberg
Japan Anchor of Anti Red Combine
Russell Brines argues that despite near completion of the military phase, American forces remain in Japan as an eastern anchor against the Soviet and communist influence. The piece notes Soviet propaganda and the strategic role of Japan, with occupation numbers around 138000 and a planned force reduction not imminent.
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Japan
Anti-Red
Tokyo
Korea
Council
Governor Proclaims Dick Bong Day in Wisconsin
Governor Goodland proclaimed September 12 as Dick Bong Day honoring the Poplar Wis World War II ace who died in a California crash. The Richard Ira Bong Foundation urged Wisconsin residents to honor Bong and other state service members from September 12 to 20.
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Madison
Goodland
Dick Bong
Poplar
Wis
California
Richard Ira Bong
Wasielewski Sues to Run Independent After Primary Loss
Milwaukee Democrat Thad F. Wasielewski, defeated for renomination in the Fourth district, claimed yesterday he gathered 9 200 signatures to run as an independent in the November 5 election, exceeding the 5 200 required by the county election commission.
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Milwaukee
Thaddeus F. B. Wasielewski
Wasielewski
County Election Commission
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Gessler
Jacob Kopp
Werner Freiherr von Attingheusen
Herman Feller
Rich von Rudenz
Ernest Wieland
Werner Stauffacher
Fred Ott
Itel Reding
Jacob Amacher
Konrad Hunn
Nic Kubly
Hans Auf der Mauer
Edward Vollenweider
Wilhelm Tell
Ernest Thierstein
Walter Fuerst
Melvin Streiff
Roesselman
August Fiez
Petermann
Henry Volienweider
Kuoni
Oswald Schneider
Werni
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Arnold von Meichtal
Ernest Lu
Patterson
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Richard Patterson
Marshal
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Youth Center
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