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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1945
Page
3
Social events page reports toastmaster duties at a gathering led by Mrs John Ivey with Gene Buck and Sally Peck involved. Priscilla and Jane Loats contributed a purse and canned goods as gifts. Misses Stearns and Dell also appear in the notes.
Mrs. Zimmerman attended a birthday dinner at the old E. Holcomb home Sunday for her 83rd birthday. Attendees included ward and Christina, Storlie, Mrs. Earl Holcomb, Mr. and Mrs. De Holcomb and daughter Carol.
Miss Hannah Bindschaedler will present the topic Doorways to Peace at the St John’s Evangelical and Reformed church Women’s Union meeting Tuesday at 7 45 p m. She will act as the speaker and guide the discussion.
Members of the Blaine 4-H club meet with project leader Mrs. Victor Rood to work on garments. A meeting is set for July 5 with Mrs. Rood where Lillian Falk Alice Falk Helen Digman and Thelma Steiner will give demonstrations.
The Allied occupation plan to govern Germany in four zones moves toward a coordinating control council. Eisenhower, Zhukov, Munet and Tetten lead the effort to form a unified postwar administration with limited friction, aiming to bar future war while planning the future of the bandit state.
Officials ordered local boards to prioritize workers from western railroads to support deployment of large wartime troop movements. The measure aims to streamline transport logistics during mobilization and ensure smooth handling of elevated traffic across key routes.
Browntown and Cadiz guests like Miss E Leah Tomlinson and Mrs J D Bechtolt attended a farewell party for Rev and Wallace. Martha Louise Stochr traveled to camp and Leonard Drye and family were in Lincoln Friday. Mr Drye broke his glasses injuring his eye. Mrs George C Michael hosted a bridge club gathering. Joann Tree visited Mr Bast in Freeport.
Sixteen year old Elven P. Kent was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison for beating his mother to death with a skillet on February 15. Circuit Judge Murphy plans to seek placement in the Iowa state reformatory. Elven, with his father present, offered no comment. Police noted the confession cited anger over a rebuke.
Spring Grove residents Mrs Herbert Mohns and her cor. hosted gatherings at Will Meinert’s home with guests including Glen Bolender and Ruth Johnston. Beloit visitor Mrs Hazel Hawkins joined Charlie Keopp’s household for a weekend, while Merle Rosheisen of Monroe stayed with Russell Rosheisen. Rev. Fred Heckathorne visited John Robertson’s home in Rock Grove and Russell Hawkins’ family hosted Sunday guests. Charles Greene Durand received L M Hartman and Gilbert Wendler called by Saturday afternoon.
The WPB lifts production and distribution controls on cast iron bathtubs and all stationery sizes and packaging effective immediately. Mechanical closures on stationery allowed alongside adhesive flaps. An AS rating remains for distributors serving military orders and priority housing needs.
Eddie Gerber from Kansas City visits Monroe with his mother Mrs Nick Gerber. The 72 year old abstainer remains a top mixer at Price's bar in Kansas City and a former billiards talent. He wears a dark dry suit after his apartment flooded from a lightning strike and heavy rain.
Edwin Nemetz of Manitowoc was sentenced to 60 days in federal prison after pleading to 34 counts of unlawfully obtaining gasoline ration coupons. Judge F Ryan Duffy imposed the term. Nemetz admitted taking 1 012 stamps between March and October 1944 while serving as Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company transportation committee chairman. He claimed he kept stamps from distribution for one person he deemed more deserving.
Oberammergau hopes to stage the Passion Play next year though no decision is final. The village of 3000 could mobilize 1400 participants with 700 actors, while many roles require new casting due to wartime losses. The town’s woodwork schools continue as rehearsals loom, and the Lang hotel houses visitors now used as military HQ.
Washington reports a suit in district court by Mrs. Alice M. Young seeking return to 64 former owners of 18000 acres along the Mississippi in Franklin and Wilkinson counties. The case challenges government title and the 1911 Weeks act, claiming acquisition followed threatened condemnation. $86000 plus to 64 stockholders in Miss Wis Timber and Land Co. rights to minerals mostly reserved, set to expire July.
Caserta Italy reports United States Medi theater units to redeploy to the Pacific within nine months 87 percent traveling via the United States.
As early as 1879 the first interstate oil pipeline was completed, extending from Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic seaboard, marking a milestone in early petroleum infrastructure.
Marquette University awarded honorary degrees to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York and Dr. Edwin B. Fred president of the University of Wisconsin at commencement. A class of 460 graduates in 28 states Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone received diplomas in the largest since 1941.
At Ft Dix New Jersey a riot by 154 Soviet born prisoners, under Yalta exchanges, led to deaths by suicide and multiple injuries after rioters attacked American guards with improvised weapons. Seven wounded by gunfire were treated, and three officers were named in personal crisis reports found after the clash.
Washington- Treasury official Harry White testified to the Senate banking committee that Britain has a balance of 3% billion dollars in gold and securities on deposit in the United States. Taft said questions were asked and White would be recalled next Monday for further hearing after closed session.
The text describes petroleum as a complex blend of hydrocarbons and their sulfur nitrogen and oxygen derivatives. This concise formulation notes the chemical diversity present in crude oil and refined products.
Washington reports 2nd Lt. Donald E. Rudolph of Minneapolis earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for Feb 5 on Luzon. Charging pillboxes with bare hands a pick and grenades, he destroyed eight emplacements and eliminated crews, then felled a Japanese tank crew before being wounded eight days later.
Orangeville and Esther Rebekah lodges sponsor a July 19 chicken supper and program to introduce a free hospital bed program. The IOOF community service committee led by H. M. Noble, Glenn H. Geller, Cleve Dinges, John Webner, and Harry Walker coordinates, with Esther Rebekah members Mrs. R. C. Reuber and others, to address village hospital needs.
Washington reports total combat casualties for the armed forces at 1,030,679 since the war began up to today, with 908,025 Army and 122,654 Navy losses through June 21. Army figures show 190,277 killed, 564,302 wounded, 39,255 missing, and 114,191 prisoners (before liberation). Navy totals list 46,458 killed, 60,986 wounded, 10,985 missing, and 4,225 prisoners. Patterson notes 338,646 wounded back on duty.
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