Seats Assured For Beloit Regional Tournament
Officials assure Monroe residents of seats for Thursday and Friday games in Beloit high gym. Over 400 adult and 200 student tickets sold, 50 more ordered bringing total to 450. 19 student tickets remain. Monroe, Badger Conference champion at 12-0, opens vs Janesville. Lake Geneva to play Beloit first. Janesville defeated Kenosha 69-61, Kenosha top scorer fouled out. New Glarus leads State Line League, faces Cassville. Verona defeated by New Glarus. Lake Mills to meet Wilmot in Badger Conference playoff. winners advance to Salem Central.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. R. Holyoke
Monroe Cage
Janesville
Beloit High School
Lake Geneva
Beloit
Janesville Bluebirds
Monroe
Kenosha
Lee Mitchell
Jeff Cohen
Mitchell
Racine Horlie
New Glarus
Verona
Monticello
Glazners
Cass
Monticello Youth Escapes From Waukesha Facility
A 16 year old Monticello boy who had been at the state school for boys in Waukesha for less than three weeks escaped Saturday night with two other youths. He was one of two youths taken to Waukesha on Feb 9 after pleading guilty to burglaries in Monroe Brodhead Browntown and South Wayne. Sheriff Humbel said a stolen car was reported soon after the escape and authorities believe the incidents may be linked.
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Monticello
Waukesha
Samuel F. Humbel
Monroe
Brodhead
Browntown
South Wayne
Humbel
Draft Group To Leave Armory On March 15
It was announced this morning that the March Selective Service quota will report to the Armory at sem. March 15. A group will include three induction and five for examinations.
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Armory
Sem
Mission Couple Await Tibet Adopted Sons Return
Rev and Mrs Edgar Nichols American missionaries in Hawaii await final steps to bring their Tibetan sons Reuben aged six and Andrew sixteen home from Thailand. Nichols walked across Tibet with the boys four years ago fleeing Chinese communists. James Michener advised Nichols and sent word that Thailand government has completed arrangements for the boys to come home.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Edgar Nichols
Church of Christ
Tibet
Reuben
Andrew
Reds
Thailand
Nichols
India
James Michener
Michener
Associated Press
Lydia Schultz Stricken at 86
Lydia Schultz 86 of 1204 21st street died last night in Wagner Nursing Home after a two week stay. Born October 17, 1868 in Najdorf Prussia she came to America in 1857 with parents August and Elise Schultz. She was the last of 10 siblings and survived by 21 nieces and nephews. Funeral from Shriner Neushwander to Bethel Church at 2 p.m. with Rev. Gibson officiating. burial in Dutch Hollow Cemetery.
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Lydia Schultz
21St Street
Wagner
Miss Schultz
August
Elise Manke Schultz
America
Najdorf
Prussia
Stoughton
Sylvester Township
Washington Township
Bethel Evangelical United Brethren Church
Della Stauffacher
Roy A. Schultz
Monroe
Albert Witt
John C
Fred W
Samuel A
Andrew A
Frank G
Edward A
Julia Thorp
Elizabeth Cole
Mary Klindt
Shriner-Neushwander
Bethel Church
Paul J. Gibson
Dutch Hollow
April Draft Cut To 8000 by Army
The Defense Department issued a draft call for 8000 men in April, the lowest monthly quota since Selective Service resumed in 1950. All draftees will enter the Army, with officials noting January’s high recruiting and GI education benefits changes as factors.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
G.I
Gillette Accepts Post as Special Counsel to Senate Panel
Former Senator Gillette of Iowa accepts appointment as special counsel to the internal security subcommittee of the Senate post office and civil service committee.
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Gillette
Washington
Sen
Iowa
Internal Security
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Brain Washed Couple Returns From China Spies
Two Americans Malcolm Bersohn and Adele Austin Rickett returned from Peiping to Hong Kong claiming Communist life is best and world will adopt it. Bersohn, 29, Harvard graduate, and Rickett, 35, formerly of Seattle, said they spied for the United States and were subjected to “wonderful” treatment in jail. Walter A. Rickett remains imprisoned in Peiping. Both rejected communism yet praised China’s government and peace, denouncing Wall Street and Washington as warmongers.
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Hong Kong
Red China
Malcolm Bersohn
New York City
Adele Austin Rickett
Seattle
Peiping
U. S
United States
Walter
A. Rickett
China
Bersohn
Harvard University
University of Chicago
Peiping Union Medical College
Washington
America
YWCA
Stock List Advances During Quiet Trading
New York stocks edged higher with modest gains as a handful of issues led the market. Bethlehem Steel stood out in a firmer steel group amid forecasts of booming business, while Santa Fe Railroad, New York Central, American Telephone, Consolidated Natural Gas, Southern Natural Gas, Northern Natural Gas, U S Steel, Montgomery Ward, Radio Corp, and Climax molybdenum also rose.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel
Santa Fe Railroad
New York Central
American Telephone
Consolidated Natural Gas
Southern Natural Gas
Northern Natural Gas
U. S. Steel
Montgomery Ward
Radio Corp
Climax Molybdenum
Burma Seeks U S Talks With Chou on Prisoners
Burmese Premier U Nu said Communist China Premier Chou En-lai is willing to meet an unofficial U S mission to discuss imprisoned American airmen and U S Peiping tensions. Dulles carried the note of the Rangoon talks after visiting Bangkok Laos and Saigon. The UN pressed for prisoner releases and Dag Hammarskjold pursued a diplomatic path, awaiting a suitable moment to advance the case further.
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Rangoon
Burma
U Nu
Chou En-lai
U. S
United States
Peiping
Chou
Dulles
Bangkok
Laos
Saigon
Manila
Colombo
Reds
U. N. General Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
China
State Department
U. N
Bonn Approves Rearming Pacts in Bundestag vote
Bonn Germany Western alliance moves to final ratification after Bundestag approves four interlocking pacts to end Western occupation, restore sovereignty, and admit West Germany to NATO and WEU. Saar pact and troop deployment plan trigger cabinet tensions as France readies consent.
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Bonn
Germany
Parliamenn
Bundestag
Western Alliance
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West European Military Union
NATO
Saar
Franz Bluecher
Adenauer
Bluecher
Nugent Described As Physical Mental Wreck At Hearing
At Fort Sill Oklahoma Lt Col Paul V Liles Birmingham senior POW camp officer described Maj Ambrose Nugent as a physical and mental wreck. The sixth week of Nugent court martial opened with Liles testifying that Nugent arrived emaciated and terrified while a candidate to represent prisoners at a proposed world peace council in Vienna in June 1951. His legs were extremely emaciated his hands trembled and his eyes appeared to search constantly. His face looked like a skull and he was barely able to hold a coherent conversation.
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FT. Sill
Okla
Paul V. Liles
Birmingham
Ala
Pyongyang
North Korea
Ambrose H. Nugent
Nugent
Liles
Vienna
Purinton, 56, Albany Man Dies After Stroke
Robert Burdette Purinton 56 of Albany died last night at St. Clare hospital after a stroke at home Saturday. A Brooklyn Township native born November 30 1898 he married Esther Krause January 4 1917. Survived by his wife and sister Carrie Purinton. He owned a team of horses shown across Southern Wisconsin. Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. Sharer funeral home Albany with Rev. Robert A. Boettcher officiating. Burial Hillcrest Cemetery Albany.
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Robert Burdette Purinton
Albany
St. Clare Hospital
Brooklyn Township
Mr. Purinton
Elliott
Emily Bubb Purinton
Esther Krause
Purinton
Carrie Purinton
Wisconsin
Sharer Funeral Home
Robert A. Boettcher
Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church
Brodhead
Hillcrest Cemetery
Hatoyama Democrats Sweep Japanese Elections Bold Victory
In a decisive nationwide vote conservative Ichiro Hatoyama leads the Democratic party to a near two to one victory over the Liberal party of Shigeru Yoshida. The Diet will renew Hatoyama as prime minister with 185 seats to 112 for the Liberals and 89 for the Left Socialists.
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Tokyo
Ichiro Hatoyama
Democrats
Japan
Hatoyama
House of Representatives
Shigeru Yoshida
Nists
Diet
Dangerous sleet grinds county roads to hazardous travel
Icy highways and sleet storms continued to threaten area drivers with six weekend accidents. Sheriff Humbel warned against travel unless urgent as rain turned to glaze. Warmer conditions forecast may melt the ice. several minor city incidents were reported on 11th and 16th Avenues and nearby streets.
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Samuel F. Humbel
Mishap Victim Identified in Farm Accident
Sparta Monroe County Undersheriff confirms the man killed in a farm accident Friday is Burt Wooner of rural Rochester Minnesota. Wooner, identified by relatives Sunday, was reportedly wanted on a bad check charge in Minnesota.
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Sparta
Monroe County
Roger Young
Burt Wooner
Rochester
Minn
Wooner
Minnesota
Pilot Lands Plane In Farm Field Near Monroe Airport
A 20 year old pilot Donald Voland and passenger Donald Birdsall escaped injury after a forced landing in a field south of Monroe while en route from Milwaukee to Ames. Voland, unaware of the nearby Monroe airport, said he landed to avoid bad weather at about 800 feet, smashing through a fence and hitting a railroad embankment. both were shaken but unhurt. The plane sustained nose and tail damage.
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Milwaukee
Ames
Leroy Babler
Monroe
Samuel F. Humbel
Donald Roger Voland
Route 3
Thiensville
Donald Russell Birdsall
Voland
Birdsall
Iowa State College
Humbel
Monticello
Highway 69
Humber
Randall Hanson Dies in Monroe
Randall Hanson 73 of Jordan Township died Sunday at 4 30 am in St Clare hospital where admitted as a medical patient Feb 13 He was born April 11 1881 in Jordan Township and married Cora Gordee Nov 14 1906 They farmed on the present farm most of their married life Survived by wife three daughters a son a brother and a sister Seven grandchildren preceded in death by a daughter and a son Services Wednesday at 2 pm at Jordan Norwegian Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery The body will be moved from Shriner Neushwander funeral home to the church Wednesday morning.
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Randall Hanson
Jordan Township
St. Clare Hospital
Mr. Hanson
Hans
Caroline Froisland Hanson
Mills
Woodford
Cora Gordee
Ernest Kanzig
Cadiz Township
Robert L. Kubly
Roy C. Kubly
Monroe
Russell
Henry
Jacob Elmer
Browntown
Hanson
Hazel
Russell Everett
Jordan Norwegian Lutheran Church
Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
Grove
South Wayne Oil Company
Justin H. Flak
Shriner-Neushwander
Snow maroons skiers in Sierra and Lake Tahoe region
Winter storms snap highways in Sierra County blocking two main routes and stranding hundreds of skiers around Lake Tahoe as heavy snow blankets the area.
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San Francisco
Sierra County
Lake Tahoe
Inflation fears and tax cuts stall in Senate hearing
Senator George announces voting to strike a $20 per person income tax cut from a House bill. Secretary Humphrey warns the $20 cut could spark inflation harming small taxpayers. Democrats show front, contending for a July 1 1956 effective date and 15 month extension of corporate and excise taxes. Carlson criticizes any delay, warning of unrepealable cuts amid uncertain fiscal conditions.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
House
Senate Democrats
Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Sen
Carlson
R-Kas
Congress
Haresfoot Club Announces 1955 Wisconsin Tour
The University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club announced a 1955 tour of Wisconsin for the show Meet Lafitte. All performers are men. The schedule includes Janesville April 9 Wisconsin Rapids April 11 Appleton April 12 Wausau April 13 Green Bay April 14 Milwaukee April 15 16 Beloit April 17 Madison April 19 23.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club
Wisconsin
LaFitte
Janesville
Wisconsin Rapids
Appleton
Wausau
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Beloit
Conferees Cut Pay Boost to 22500
Senate and House conferees settled on a flat 50 percent pay raise of 7500 a year. The result raises congressional pay to 22500 annually.
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Bulletin
Washington
Senate
House
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H. A. Becker
Werner Kuenzi
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Otto Puempel
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Evening Times
Treasury Chief
R.B. Purinton
Yoshida
Mercury
Richard L. Cory
17Th Avenue
Cory
Galway Farm
Kenneth Schindler
10Th Street
Harry Schindler
13Th Street
Schindler
Roger E. Kubly
11Th Avenue
Glenn L. Kubly
Orlo L. Krell
Eugene Upward
15Th Avenue
Henry Leuenberger
Leuenberger
Alma Caradine
Alvin Moritz
Verona West
16Th Avenue
Victor C. Deemer
14Th Avenue
Erwin Weisenberg
15Th Street
Haresfoot Club
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