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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1946
Page
6
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with rain likely Friday afternoon or night. Temperature little changed. Today 3 pm high 35 low 23. Barometer 29.67 at 3 pm 29.73. Dry record last year had high 13 low 1. Warmest city yesterday Los Angeles 78 F coldest Sault Ste Marie Michigan. Almanac details sunrise 7:24 sunset 4:36.
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels including 60 acres in Jefferson and various parcels in Monroe, with names Roy Beightol, Henry Kubly trust estate, Etta E. Hamilton, Clinton D Wilke, Laura N Wilke, Mary Mather, Frank May, Emma Riedweg, Francis Hauser, James P Hyland, Bernard Poff, Orville Myers, Harold E Fill pach, Virgil Briggs, plus Tallman add. Marriage licenses show Jacob Wettach and Irma Huntley. Death Selmer T Thompson 54 Madison. Births at St Clare Hospital note Jacob Kolieer Beloit route 2 and Lawrence C vier Beloit with two infants.
St. Clare Hospital Surgical includes Mrs. William F Ratzke Edward M Share 808 17th Avenue Mrs. Fred Pfund Monroe route 5 Medical lists Arlie L Hanson South Wayne Mrs. Fred Coplicn 825 Ith Street Mrs. Lela Schleck Footville Orville C Johnson Brodhead Dismissals: James Roderick Jacob Krieg John R Riley and Mrs. Jerome J Howe.
Walter Schmidt 35, a Dane County farm hand, was found dead in a swamp near LaCrosse after a manhunt. He had a 32 caliber pistol and likely died from a head wound. He had been sought on an assault with intent to kill charge after shooting Ruth Shelstad in Mount Vernon.
Alfred S. Portwood of the Kentucky revenue department oversees taxation on gasoline and alcohol production in a note that challenges the old saying about mixing. A relief shipment to China includes fifteen vessels with 100,000 tons of food clothing and medicine marking a significant aid effort amid decades of ties with the Irish Free State and Britain.
The 1946 tax law provides a total 6 billion dollar cut to corporations and individuals to spur reconversion and peacetime production. Officials expect higher consumer purchasing power and more goods in stores as firms reinvest profits, while inflationary and deflationary effects are debated.
Washington reports Latin American governments discuss a US proposed treaty for concerted military action against aggression in the hemisphere. The proposal will be reviewed at the Rio de Janeiro conference in early spring as a partner to the Uruguayan plan for collective action and human rights safeguards. In Milwaukee three construction workers were injured yesterday when a roof section collapsed. Theodore Goldsmith died later from head and internal injuries.
Residents and visitors traverse Madison Freeport Juda Monroe and Rockford with many names appearing in local society notes. Notables include Miss Margie Blumb in Freeport Mrs. John Waell of Juda and Miss Iva Blaine visiting Madison on business.
Missouri governor had held tag No 1 for years but lost the top spot this year. President Truman submitted his application from Missouri and was granted the number by the secretary of state.
Former prime minister Winston Churchill and Mrs Churchill will depart January 9 aboard the Queen Elizabeth for an American vacation. Their daughter Sarah will join them later, the announcement stated.
Hill William Hill leaves for Ft Sheridan after a 39 day furlough with parents Mr and Mrs Walter Hill. Staley Leo Staley arrives home from Manila as civilian technician with the army transportation corps in the Philippines and plans future. Stark Clifford Stark discharged from the army at Ft Sheridan after 48 months service and 14 months in North China. Tertin Waller Tertin returns home from Ft Sheridan after discharge following two years in the China Burma India theater. Corporal Tertin, wife in Monroe, served about 20 years.
W H Eldridge of Plymouth, president of the Wisconsin Association of Fairs, announced at the group's annual meeting that a full revival of county fairs is assured for 1946. He cited postwar attractions like automobile races, farm machinery displays, and fireworks, noting 76 fairs were scheduled, including the state fair suspended last year, with many agents seeking bookings.
Prague security forces hunted a mystery man suspected to be Hermann Goering’s son. He allegedly escaped from an east-bound POW transport near Cieszyn twelve miles east of the border. Police broadcast a search claiming he resembled Goering, about 30, and the former Reichsmarschall is not known to have a son.
Mrs E B Lux and her daughter Carol travel with Mrs Luxs parents Mr and Mrs C A Krause of La Crosse to St Petersburg Florida and other Florida points over the coming weeks. Matt Marty buys 40 acres in Exeter township adjoining his farm operated by son Herman Marty. James Hardell 13 suffers a fracture of the right arm at the ice rink and later claims carrier insurance benefits. Kiwanis luncheon features Hawaii to Okinawa film scenes with Maj Harris E Keel providing commentary on overseas Air Force service.
Merrill Trees for Tomorrow Inc reports that northern Wisconsin land owners schools and communities planted 4 million new trees in 1945 valued as a potential cash crop of 2 million dollars. The non profit predicts 1 billion seedlings available annually and notes 5 million acres suited to forestry. It supplied 750 000 to 4 year old pine and spruce to farmers loggers and timber tract owners.
Funeral services were held at 2 this afternoon at Shriner Neushwander funeral home for Mrs Martha Ohl who died Tuesday. Rev C A Briggs of the Methodist church officiated and burial was in Greenwood cemetery. Pallbearers were O N Johnson Henry A Burgy Earl R Johnson Clarence Stuessy E O Evans and Roscoe Smith. Mexico Riot Kills 40 as stores shut down after political demonstration in Leon.
A second cut in gas pressure hit London as temperatures fell to 21 degrees, leaving many unable to heat or cook. Officials cited exhausted surplus supplies and a labor shortage for the reduction of up to 35 percent, affecting most of the capital.
Residents funded local taxes despite rising state and county levies while a state bulletin titled A Picture of Wisconsin outlines the state’s resources. It notes strong agriculture and industry, forests reduced from 30 million to about 17 million acres, and a plan to plant 100 million seedling trees annually to foster restoration.
More than 15 000 education seekers were turned away by Ohio State University for the winter quarter opening due to housing glassroom and teacher shortages. Enrollment may reach nearly 14 000, registrar Dr Ronald B Thompson predicted. British Pay Hikes London The British treasury announced pay increases for 600 000 government employees with basic salaries under 1 500 pounds per year effective Nov 1 1945. The raises replace the present flat 60 pound annual bonus for men and 48 pounds for women.
Harold Putz, 43, of Fond du Lac, told police he wanted to start the New Year right after confessing to throwing a rock through a police station window on Nov 15. He received six months in county jail plus $45 in damages and costs and was ordered to repay county funds used for supporting his divorced wife and family. A separate note states platinum likely reached Europe in 1741 from Cartagena carried by a Jamaican assayer.
Milwaukee press reports that Lake town residents began paying county and state taxes yesterday for the first time in 16 years. Previously the town’s share of state utility taxes from the Lakeside power plant covered the obligation, according to Town Chairman John H Kowaleski. The change followed the April annual town meeting.
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