Ice coats streets and highways in southern Wisconsin
A light drizzle froze on contact creating a dangerous ice layer over southern Wisconsin. Federal Weatherman H J Thompson predicted colder weather with light snow and freezing rain in the southeast. City and county crews worked to treat roads though officials warned of slick side streets and urged cautious travel. An early accident involved a Gardner Bakery Co truck near Argyle as temperatures hovered around freezing in the afternoon.
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Wisconsin
H. J. Thompson
Green County Highway Department
City
John Erb
Gardner Bakery Co
Argyle
Wausau
Milwaukee
Madison
Couple Escapes Injury In Highway 69 Mishap
Two people escaped injury when a car skidded on ice and frost on Highway 69 near the New Glarus Woods Park and overturned. Lionel Kuhner of Staten Island New York drove Clark Dooley's car from Monticello Route 1, with Miss Peggy Dooley aboard. The front end and left side of the Dooley car were damaged.
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New Glarus
Woods Park
Highway 69
Lionel Kuhner
Staten Island
N. Y
Clark Dooley
Route 1
Monticello
Peggy Dooley
Dooley
Swiss Women Gather for Old World Night at City Hotel
A dozen or more Swiss descent women meet at the City hotel for a "guete ziet" evening. The dinner features chalber baelali and zueribieter dessert. Conversation stays in schwyzer deutsch with likely yodeling as plans form for a Swiss order to preserve traditions.
Departure of American occupation units from Korea begins
Some American occupation forces have left Korea amid undisclosed scope. President Syngman Rhee said he was not informed but believed the move posed no threat. Reports say Seventh division units arrived in Japan as prep for shipment. An official said Washington classified the matter as secret. Rhee urged U S forces to stay until Korea can deter invasion from the north. Moscow announced withdrawal of Soviet forces from North Korea by New Year’s Day.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Syngman Rhee
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Washington
Rhee
South Korea
Young Republic
North Korea
Moscow
Ross
Eddie Jacobson
Truman
White House
Stalin
Yalta
Potsdam
United States
Traffic Mishaps Cause Car Damage in Monroe
Two traffic accidents in Monroe caused property damage with no injuries. Delbert G. Potter’s Kubly Transfer truck hit Howard Kohn’s car at 13th Avenue and 19th Street, damaging multiple parts. Kohn’s car struck a curb and a highway sign. Later Harvey Johnston’s stalled car hit Roy Roderick’s parked vehicle in the 1100 block of 19th Street.
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Monroe
Kubly Transfer Co
Delbert G. Potter
22Nd Street
Howard Kohn
23Rd Street
13Th Avenue
19Th Street
Kohn
Harvey Johnston
16Th Avenue
Roy Roderick
24Th Street
Johnston
County To Call 33 For January Draft
The Green county selective service board will call 33 men for January drafts with 11 men arriving daily from January 4 to January 6 for pre-induction examinations at Janesville. Induction is expected January 18 to cover December postponements and the current quota. Questionnaire mailing to veterans and married men does not imply induction. forms must be filed to allow classification.
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Green County Selective Service Board
Clara Ritter
Janesville
Cost of Cold War May Soar in 1949 To 21 Billion
The cost of the cold war is rising to about 21 billion dollars next year, with roughly 13.5 billion in military outlays and half the budget devoted to foreign policy. The figure, expected to be recommended by President Truman, covers security forces and foreign aid, and could climb if the conflict widens beyond China and Greece.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Truman
Congress
Russia
China
Greece
United States Military Establishment
United States
Germany
Japan
Europe
Secretary of
Plane Carrying 28 Missing Off Miami
A DC-3 charter plane with 28 aboard vanished on a San Juan to Miami flight. Coast guard air-sea rescue launched a large search after it went five hours overdue at 9 30 am CST. Last contact was 50 miles south of New Orleans at 3 13 am.
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Miami
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Coast Guard Air-Sea Rescue Service
New Orleans
Condition of Welles Reported Satisfactory
The condition of Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, was described as satisfactory today after he was found unconscious in a frozen field near his Oxon Hill Maryland home. Police dropped the case, and Mrs. Welles said there was no foul play.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Welles
Oxon Hill
Air Force Rescue on Greenland Ice Cap
A U S Air Force transport rescued twelve men stranded on the Greenland ice cap. The operation followed frigid conditions and separate reports of a flight crew securing the group and bringing them to safety.
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Air Force Transport
Greenland
Bodies of Three Soldiers Returned
The flag draped caskets of two Green County and one Cedarville World War II dead are being returned from Europe aboard the U S Army transport Barney Kirschbaum. The fallen are 2nd Lt. C Gordon Steindorf Albany 1st Lt. Kenneth J Golz route 1 Brooklyn and Pfc William D Barker Cedarville.
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Green County
Cedarville
Europe
U. S. Army
Barney Kirschbaum
Army
C. Gordon Steindorf
Albany
Kenneth J. Golz
Brooklyn
William D. Barker
Steindorf
Emil Steindorf
Germany
Air Corps
Albany High School
Pharmaceutical
University of Wisconsin
la Junta
Colo
Emil and
Doris Gillette Steindorf
Laura Shelby
Evansville
Gordon Jr
Roger
Gordon Mauermann
Robert Burdick
Golz
Herman Ludwig
17Th Avenue
France
John Golz
Rock County
Dora Louise Ludwig
Floyd Barker
Flames Sweep Three Factories in Kendall Square
Fire destroyed three sheet metal plants in Kendall Square Cambridge mass injuring no one reported as an explosion struck the area as workers arrived causing estimated damage between 75000 and 100000 dollars authorities investigated the cause of the blast and fire.
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Cambridge
Mass
Kendall Square
Western Allies Approve Ruhr Valley Control Plan
The six nation conference establishes an international Ruhr authority to bar war production, with Germany restricted to peaceful output. The plan, led by the United States Britain France and Benelux, creates an international industrial police and sets voting shares for each nation. Ownership of Ruhr industries remains unsettled with France pressing for international ownership while Britain and Germany favor different approaches.
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Ruhr Valley
London
Germany
Ruhr
United States
Britain
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Russia
International Control Board
Saad ¢ Sims
Ger
Benelux
Hitler
Kaiser Wilhelm
Monroe Chamber to Elect Officers at Dinner Meeting
Monroe chamber of commerce to elect new officers this evening at a 6:30 p m dinner in the Monroe hotel with retiring president Rodney O Kittelsen presiding. The event will also set plans for the January membership banquet and appoint a committee for the affair. New directors by mail ballot are Joseph J Benkert Wesley L Dodge Floyd A Davis Roland W Blaha and Laverne Gallitz. Retiring directors include Kittelsen Kane Benkert Einbeck and Fritz. The retail chamber group will elect its 1949 officers at a January 4 dinner. New retail directors are Ralph J Kundert Ross S Martin Richard H Bahr and Robert H Richardson.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Chamber
Josef J. Benkert
Wesley L. Dodge
Floyd A. Davis
Roland W. Blaha
Laverne Gallitz
Dwight A. Crandall
Willard Bender
Alvin H. Babler
H&rif
Retail Group
Ralph J. Kundert
Ross S. Martin
Richard H. Bahr
Robert H. Richardson
Mrs. Louisa Nolty Dies in Spring Grove Township
Mrs Louisa Anna Nolty age 70 has died at her home in Spring Grove Township of old age complications. She was born Oct 25 1877 in Spring Grove to Henry and Christina Schrader and married Oct 13 1895 to John Nolty who served on the Spring Grove town board and Green County board of supervisors for over 20 years. Survivors include two daughters one son three brothers one sister and many grandchildren great grandchildren. Services Friday at 2 pm at Everson funeral home Brodhead with Rev J W Zimmerman officiating burial in State Line cemetery.
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J. W. Zimmerman
State Line Cemetery
Rate Boosts Ordered For 4 Public Utilities
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission approved rate increases for four utilities Darlington water Cuba City Telephone Platteville Telephone and Rock River Telephone of Johnson Creek. The Monroe water utility had its increase announced a day earlier by city water superintendent Zenno A Gorder.
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Wisconsin
State Public Service Commission
Associated Press
Darlington
Cuba City Telephone Co
Platteville Telephone Co
Rock River Telephone Co
Johnson Creek
Monroe
Public Service Commission
Zenno A. Gorder
City
Albany's Polio Victim Shows Improvement in Wisconsin General
Willis Nipple a 15 year old Albany boy with bulbar polio improves at Wisconsin General Hospital Madison. He can be without the iron lung for periods and is fed mainly by intravenous fluids. His father William hopes to return to Albany soon. His brother Pvt Walter Nipple in Bermuda has emergency leave to visit.
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Willis Nipp1le
Albany
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison
William
Willis
Pvt
Walter Nipple
Army
Bermuda
Red Cross
John J. Burkhard
Nipple
J U Haldimann 80 Dies in Jordan Township
J U Haldimann 80 native of Switzerland and long time Jordan township farmer died at 4 15 am in St Clare hospital from hardening of the arteries after two years of ill health and two weeks as a hospital patient He was born July 7 1868 in Canton Bern Switzerland and married Anne Wisler in Bern Feb 6 1891 The family came to America July 15 1913 settling near Monroe He leaves three sons John Jr and Werner in Jordan township and Walter in South Wayne one daughter Mrs John Friedli Aldrich Minn several brothers in Switzerland 11 grandchildren and six great grandchildren He was predeceased by his wife on Feb 9 1929 and one son Edwin in 1930 Funeral will be at 130 Thursday at Shriner Neushwander Funeral Home with Rev P C Kehle of St John s Evangelical and Reformed Church officiating Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
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John U. Haldimann
Switzerland
Jordan Township
St. Clare Hospital
Mr. Haldimann
Canton Bern
Ulrich Haldimann
Bern
Anne Wisler
America
Monroe
Haldimann
John Jr
Werner
Walter
South Wayne
John Friedli
Aldrich
Minn
Edwin
Shriner-Neushwander
P. C. Kehle
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Legion VFW oppose U S medical merger proposal
Two major veterans groups the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars rejected the Hoover commission plan to merge all government medical and hospital activities. Col George E Ijons of the VFW urged delaying a final decision for a full study.
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Washington
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Hoover Commission
Hoover
George E. Ijons
VFW Rehabilitation
Rescued in Greenland: Twelve Men Survive Ice Cap Ordeal
An Air Force C 47 rescued twelve stranded men from a Greenland ice cap after up to three weeks. The group, originally counted as thirteen, were picked near Bluie West Eight. the Saipan carrier moves northward seeking helicopters for further aid. Lieutenant Colonel Emil G Beaudry led the rescue from Bluie West Eight.
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Washington
Greenland
Air Force
U.S.S. Saipan
Atlantic
Norfolk
Bluie West Eight
Bluie West One
Blue West Eight
Labrador
Emil G. Beaudry
Manchester
N. H
Westover
Mass.) Air Force Base
Jet assisted take off at Greenup aids ice cap rescue
The C 47 rescue plane that landed at Greenup earlier was flown in a Greenup field Dec 8 with two jet units enabling a 600 foot takeoff. Capt James Doolittle Jr piloted the test while Wright Patterson later fitted four jets for a 4 000 pound lift. The craft then carried to Dayton for skis and further testing.
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Chanute Field
Greenland
Greenup
Ill
Chanute Army Air Base
James Doolittle Jr
George Last
Wright-Patterson Field
Dayton
Wright-Patterson
Tinker Air Base
Okla
Thieves Take $65 From Hilltop Inn
Robbery at Hilltop Inn on the east edge of Monroe along Highway 1181. Between 3 20 and 7 30 this morning burglars broke a rear window and stole 65 in cash and stock from a cash register coin containers a juke box and a pinball machine Six cartons of cigarettes three pounds of butter and a ham were also taken. Marion Mueller owner son reported the theft to the sheriff's department.
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Hilltop Inn
Monroe
Sheriff's Department
Marion Mueller
Arnold Mueller
Wisconsin Cheese Market Dulls Amid Open Trade
Federal market news notes Wisconsin cheese prices easing to weak as open market trading slows. Prices listed include daisies and square prints at 37 14 40 percent, rp te 38 40 percent, and midgets at 40 43 percent.
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Charles G. Ross
Oregon
Joe
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Ottawa
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Budapest
Ministry of Interior
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Calif
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Louisa Nolty
Spring Grove
Wisconsin General
J. U. Haldimann
Jordan
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