Weather Update With Cold Temps Tonight
Clearing and much colder with diminishing winds and low temperatures. Zero to 5 below west to 5 to 10 below east tonight. Thursday fair and warmer in the west.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1948
Page
8
Clearing and much colder with diminishing winds and low temperatures. Zero to 5 below west to 5 to 10 below east tonight. Thursday fair and warmer in the west.
Unregistered vehicle case with $10 fine and costs. Justice L A Koenig presiding. Defendants Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hill of 2346 16th Avenue, son. Also Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Zentner of Dakota Illinois, son, Dec. 28.
St. Clare Hospital in Rockford and surrounding areas lists several patients and dismissals. Names include Mrs. William Wunscher and Mrs. Francis Bacher with addresses or routes, plus Mrs. Thaine Elli, Orene Bert, Alban, Mrs. Ambrose Meyer, and Mrs. Leonard Bull. Dismissals include Mrs. Lloyd Ruger, Donna Eidahl, Mrs. Hilda Yaeger, Conne Helland, Roy Bowman, Mrs. Russell Moen and daughter, Mrs. Mariel Porter, and Milven Olson.
The text argues the United States should focus on building up Western Europe and other democracies rather than pursuing rapid industrialization in Latin America or India. It frames the Cold War as a global struggle between the communist world and democratic nations, stressing UN alignment, economic and military strengthening, and self-help by allied countries.
Blaha announced the county drive leadership with Adolph Levy Brooks Dunwiddie and assistants Dorothy Johnson and Lois Faubel. Branch chairmen will appoint drive chairmen for their areas, with Ben H. Roderick Brodhead and several county residents named as chapter leaders. A meeting to discuss details was set for Wednesday at 9 o clock in the court room.
The secretary of state announced that 2 019 articles of incorporation were filed in the past year with total fees of 287 280 dollars. Names and specifics of filings are listed in the report.
Wilbert J. Torpy and Mrs. Glenn Maske report multiple cars skidded off highways as western and northern areas saw heavier snow. Five inches in western counties, eight inches in La Crosse, visibility poor near Madison. One fatal crash on highway 12 18 killed Rosemary Majeski, 18, and injured Clifford Monder, 25. Authorities warn against travel.
President Truman flew into Washington aboard the Independence at 2 09 p m after weather delays for a White House conference this afternoon on administration labor proposals with CIO president Philip Murray and other CIO officials. A postponed conf with Vice President-elect Barkley and Rep Sam Rayburn likely until Friday as Barkley misses Europe arrival.
Miss Gloria Beck of Twin Grove begins secretarial duties in the county superintendent of schools office on Monday. A Monroe High School and Rockford Secretarial School graduate, she replaces Miss Ellen Speich who becomes part time with Miss Ruth Chase the county nurse.
Cpl. Vilas Rundhammer Jr. has been transferred by air from Korea to Tokyo and advised his parents by letter. The move was to be effective December 13. He has been stationed in Korea since March.
Elliott Roosevelt faced officials in Poughkeepsie amid icy roads delaying his appearance while authorities investigate his actress-wife Faye Emerson who reportedly cut her wrist in what both deny as an accident.
Fifteen passengers and three crewmen escaped injury when a Piedmont airliner made a forced landing shortly after taking off from the Tri-City airport near Johnson City Tennessee last night.
Charles W. Hamilton, 88, founder and longtime president of Milwaukee Lace Paper Co., died at his home. A Fond du Lac native, he led the firm until recently.
A compiled list shows numerous residents visiting relatives or traveling for business and social reasons. Names include Mrs August Ludwig Juda and Robert J Burkhard Milwaukee trips, along with Miss Billie Anne Wenger Chicago visits and Florence Voigt Ft Madison trips. Attendees at a joint Masonic and Eastern Star installation are invited in Juda.
A joint meeting of the Association of American Geographers and American Society for Professional Geographers called the Rock River Valley a small but significant region. The valley includes Freeport and Rockford in Illinois and Janesville Beloit Madison and Ft. Atkinson in Wisconsin due to early water power and timber development.
Swiss women gathered at the City hotel forming the Edelweiss Klub to hold monthly dinners aimed at preserving Swiss customs. Miss Ann Blum led the first meeting conducted entirely in Swiss dialect with 12 attendees including Miss Rose Zuercher and Mrs Frank Deininger who will coordinate January 24 arrangements for Swiss food and entertainment.
A plan for a New York reception for 12 rescued airmen and their rescuers emerged as plans to move the men to Manhattan for a hero welcome were disclosed at Westover Field Massachusetts. Lt Col Emil J Beaudry led the rescue from Greenland with a C 47 and the cost to the government was set near 500000 dollars.
National leaders from across China converge on Nanking for a conference urged by Chiang Kai-shek amid calls for his resignation. A government source hints a red underground group operates near the capital as Chen Cheng is named governor of Formosa and military units shift toward the island off the coast.
Washington reported former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles is in a casualty hospital after a very good night. He is treated for severe frostbite of hands and feet found unconscious in a field near his Fox Hill Maryland home early Sunday.
Baltimore dispatch reports the trial of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers in a $75,000 libel suit was postponed indefinitely as Hiss’s attorneys secured the delay. The piece notes tied to the spy probe context and cites unrelated observations on trees and presidential hat sizes.
A blaze in Chilton today caused an estimated 10 000 to 11 000 dollars in damage to stock in two adjacent stores in the business district. Fire crews investigated the scene and kept flames from spreading to nearby buildings.
The Hoover Commission will ask Congress for a 60 day extension of the January 13 deadline to submit its report on government reform. Led by former President Herbert Hoover, the commission was created to report within the first ten days of the new session beginning January 3.
U S Secretary of State Lovett called the arrest of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary a sickening shame and rejected communist labels of war criminals on Chiang Kai-shek and other nationalist leaders. He condemned Communist Europe policy at a news conference and noted Madame Chiang Kai-shek sought further American aid. The piece also clarifies a note on the word plant meaning sapling.
A U.S. army commission sentenced nine Japanese officers to hang for the beheading of 33 American fliers during World War II. Seventeen airmen died after Emperor Hirohito’s surrender speech. sixteen more received prison terms. seven were acquitted. Witnesses cited retaliatory motives linked to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The condemned include Lt Gen Isamu Yokoyama, Maj Gen Kyusaku Fukushima, Maj Gen Shojin Ito, Col Kiyoharu Tomomori, Capt Yusei Wako, Lt Hiroji Nakayama, Lt Kentaro Toji, and Probationary Officer Masahiko Muragaki.
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