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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1949
Page
1
The Chinese government heads southward toward Canton with ministries already relocating. Red patrols near Nanking’s north bank signal ongoing withdrawal as Li Tsungjen’s peace delegation seeks talks in Peiping once the city is liberated.
Milk price delivered to Swiss cheese factories in Monroe area averaged 3.85 per cwt in October, up from 3.75 in September. Net farm income declined about 28 percent from October 1947 levels as production dropped by about 500000 pounds versus 1947. Butterfat averaged 3.51 in October, up from 3.30.
The public service commission heard E. V. Johnson testify on abandoning service between Green Bay and Winona. The last unused ticket from two years ago and the retirement of 75 percent of service frame the petition, a historic end to a line dating back to December 18, 1873.
Moscow announces a council of economic mutual assistance by the USSR and five Eastern Bloc nations Bulgaria Hungary Poland Romania and Czechoslovakia. The aim is broader economic cooperation and mutual aid in raw materials food and machinery with open membership. Finland may join while Marshall Plan members can participate only if they renounce Marshall aid. Yugoslavia and Albania not included.
Witnessstestified Mildred E Gillars earned between 2000 and 3000 marks monthly from Nazi wartime broadcasts while the top overseas director made 3000 marks. Prosecution labeled her a traitor. defense argued loyalty. Jury seated quickly with six men and six women as trial opened.
William Melvin Strothman aged 20 of 12th Street Trailer Camp Monroe was found guilty of petty larceny in Lafayette County Court and sentenced to 60 days in county jail. He allegedly stole a car battery from a Woodford garage and was picked up by Monroe police for Lafayette authorities.
Washington officials said eight ongoing economic surveys will fit into the Truman plan to develop backward areas. The studies will help decide needed outside assistance and may lead Congress to consider up to 1 billion dollars. Turkey Peru India and Colombia are among sites examined by World Bank missions.
Miss Florence Wartenweiler county superintendent of rural schools announces her bid for re election at the April polls. A Monroe native, she has served one four year term and holds a BE in rural education from Whitewater state teachers college while pursuing a masters. She taught in Green county rural schools and later in New Glarus and Footville. Nomination papers circulate across Green county precincts except Monroe and Brodhead wards where she cannot be voted.
Miss Mary Louise Timm daughter of Mr and Mrs W G Timm route 5 named Wisconsin girl nominee for the Holstein 4-H national championship award She is a North Central college sophomore in Naperville MI with nine years 4-H and eight years dairy work She began with poultry first and has exhibited and judged dairy cattle Robert G Kopplin Reeseville named Wisconsin boy entry He has twelve years of club activity ten years in dairying The Holstein-Friesian Association of America sponsors the contest.
Washington reports a bill to repeal the Taft Hartley labor law moves toward stormy senate action. Democrats push a one step repeal replacing Taft Hartley with a Wagner act in one package while Republicans threaten to rewrite on the floor. Debate centers on hearings set for February 10 and the scope of amendments to the Wagner act.
A Monroe trailer camp unit housing Mr and Mrs George Strathman and family burned out at noon after an oil stove overheated. Neighbors alerted firefighters at 11 55 a m as flames rose 20 feet high. The Volvo(volunteer) department contained the fire with $400 trailer value and unknown contents. The Strathmans formerly lived west of Monroe on Highway 11.
Otto E. Bontly Monticello treasurer has advanced 10 000 of the 1948 tax collections to Emanuel G. Stauffacher county treasurer. He is the sixth county treasurer to make such an advance.
In Ely Nevada the U S air force dropped alfalfa hay to stranded livestock within a 200 mile radius, delivering to 10 000 sheep across three ranches. Seventeen C 82 planes based at McChord field aided the operation from Fallon Nevada, with roads opened after air drops. Stockmen estimate as many as 45 000 cattle and 135 000 sheep face starvation without continued relief as winds threaten new drifts and water remains scarce.
British and American informants say Britain intends to purchase 150 to 180 B-29 Superfortress bombers to unify RAF and USAF bomber commands. Negotiations began in London last week with no final decision. Funding may come from the Marshall Plan via ECA and a peacetime lend lease using British labor on U S bases.
George Watkins 60 Blanchardville died yesterday morning at St. Clare hospital from a liver ailment after more than a year of ill health. Born February 18, 1888, son of Riley and Elizabeth Watkins, he married Ella Johnson in Argyle in 1921. He lived in Argyle, Adams township, and Blanchardville, survived by his widow, his mother, a daughter Mrs. George Torkelson, a son Vernus, two brothers, four sisters, a granddaughter, and many nieces and nephews. Dobson Johnson Legion Post led military rites with services Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Saether funeral home and 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Blanchardville. burial at Graceland Cemetery.
Rev. Peter Marshall, 46, chaplain of the U S Senate, died of a heart attack at George Washington University Hospital after being stricken at his home earlier today officials said He had served as chaplain since 1947 and was a prominent religious broadcaster emeritus president of his church family and the nation mourn his passing
Eugene Ellingson aged 16 son of Mr and Mrs Ivan Ellingson of Browntown slipped on the ice and fractured his right ankle. He was dismissed today from St Clare hospital after treatment.
A split cold front spared Wisconsin from extreme lows, with Monroe reporting 14 above and northern areas near zero. Snow hit only the Superior region, while Green County saw trace amounts. Emergency aid flowed to western plains as airlift hay missions aided stranded cattle and sheep.
A Monroe city wide committee acts to circulate petitions to place a council manager government referendum on the April 4 election ballot. Rodney O. Kittelsen is elected permanent chair with John A. Becker as vice chair and Russell W. Prien as secretary treasurer.
Walter Gieseking the German pianist left the United States for Paris by plane after immigration officials canceled his Carnegie Hall recital. His attorney said he departed voluntarily amid protests by Jewish groups over his prior performances in Nazi Germany. he denied being a Nazi.
The Green County Democratic Committee will be reorganized at a Sunday meeting in Turner Hall. Max Armstrong of Albany, com ac chairman, announced the plan. The committee has been inactive since 1946.
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