Britain Faces U S Cold Shoulder Over British Plight
Washington reports Congress reacts coolly to Britain's dwindling gold and dollar reserves. Secretary Acheson labels cuts temporary as Britain eyes $920 million Marshall Plan aid, while Taft and Vandenberg urge limit and reevaluation of ECA support.
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Washington
Great Britain
Congress
Britain
U. S
Acheson
England
Stafford Cripps
United States
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Paul G. Hoffman
Wherry
Nebraska
ECA
Jobless Veterans To Lose U S Funds
Madison reports federal allowances to most unemployed veterans will end July 31 under current law. The program of weekly payments applies only to veterans released from service since 1947 unless extended. Unemployed veterans received $837,000 last month versus $951,000 in May. Wisconsin civilian benefits totaled $1,580,600, up $181,000 in one month.
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Madison
Industrial Commission
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Cheese Market Weak Amid Low Demand
Federal state market news reports Wisconsin cheddar demand dull and selling prices firmed at state assembly points. Cheddar categories vary with daisies at 33 34 percent, longhorns 33 34 34, square prints 34 35 percent, and midgets 35 36 percent.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Boy Scouts Endure Wet Week at Canyon Camp
Visitors from U S Grant council near Apple River Illinois watched 34 Monroe Scouts endure a rainy annual visit. A flash flood washed out the bridge abutment at the front entrance, creating a five foot gully and forcing access via the back road. Guests reported heavy water at the dam as Troops 101 115 113 and 114 prepared to depart Sunday after a soggy but spirited outing led by Rev Newell Mendenhall who notes 101 has a 100 percent wet season record on their three campouts this deluge repeats each time.
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U. S. Grant Council Canyon
Apple River
Ill
Monroe Boy Scouts
Monroe
Messrs
Mmes
Robert Stoker
Michael McQuire
Roy Davis
John Brunner
Hervey J. Hoesly
Alice Holtshopple
Raphael J. Daly
Frank J. Kundert
Newell Mendenhall
Weather Shift Ends 20 Day Wisconsin Heat Wave
Humidity remains high in Green county as temperatures fall from 79 at 1 PM to cooler evening readings with overnight cloud cover. Monroe records 92 for yesterday while southern Wisconsin reports similar warmth, and watchmakers note increased mainspring breakages due to climate conditions. Power and telephone lines recover to near normal after recent storms.
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Green County
Monroe
Wisconsin
Mail Carrier Ends 43 Years of Service
Brodhead special report notes George W. Ross retires after 43 years and 10 months as rural mail carrier from the Brodhead office. He used horses and mules before cars, starting in 1918 with his 15th Ford. When he began Sept 1, 1905 the route was 26 miles to Decatur and Spring Valley. at retirement it was 50 miles to Decatur and Spring Grove.
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Brodhead
George W. Ross
Decatur
Spring Valley
Spring Grove
Wisconsin Senate and Assembly clash over income tax surtax
Wisconsin lawmakers debate a 20 to 30 percent surtax on personal incomes to fund welfare buildings and UW. The assembly pushes 30 percent, while the senate aims 20 percent with a compromise talk on 25 or 30. Other items include a $33.5 million school aids package and a veterans housing bill offering loans and grants.
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Bulletin Madison
Assembly
Madison
Senate
Schlabach
R la Crosse
Leverich
R-Sparta
University of Wisconsin
Radio Council
la Crosse
Eau Claire
Department of Veterans Affairs
Vilage
Dulles Named New Senator by Dewey in New York
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey appoints John Foster Dulles to the U.S. Senate to fill the Wagner seat. Dulles will serve a temporary term until Dec. 1 with a special election set for Nov. 8 to complete Wagner's term through Dec. 31, 1950. Dewey says Dulles is unlikely to run in the election.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
United States Senate
Robert F. Wagner
Dulles
Wagner
Dewey
Divorces Movie Hero As Nora Eddington Flynn Wed Dick Haymes
Las Vegas reports Nora Eddington Flynn, former wife of Errol Flynn, divorces him today and plans marriage to singer Dick Haymes. The move clears the way for a remarriage in show business circles.
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Las Vegas
Nora Eddington Flynn
Errol
Dick Haymes
Compromise Farm Price Setup Cited by Senators Brannan
Pittsburgh reports extend contracts for 72 small steel plants employing about 40,000 workers with end dates tied to U S Steel. If Big Steel strikes on July 16 the smaller firms may continue operations under extensions while negotiations proceed, averting suspensions in Little Steel. The strike threat looms as U S Steel rejects wage and benefit demands, prompting a July 13 meeting and potential walkout.
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Pittsburgh
William J. Hart
District 19
CIO- United Steelworkers
U. S. Steel Corp
Hart
U.S. Steel
Support Move To Put Props Under 10 Top Crops
Washington government and farm leaders discussed an enhanced price support plan for ten major crops including cattle dairy products hogs cotton corn tobacco chickens eggs and lambs. Secretary Brannan signaled openness to combining features of the Aiken plan with administration proposals to bolster farmer incomes if market prices lag.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Aiken
R-Vi
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
White House
Wisconsin Sets Game Bird Seasons For Fall Plan
The Wisconsin Conservation Commission approved upland game bird seasons for fall with minor changes from the Conservation Congress recommendations. The southern zone pheasant season runs Oct 22 to Nov 4 with 14 days and cock only limits, northern zone from Oct 22 with nine days, Milwaukee bow and arrow pheasants Oct 22 to Dec 1, ruffed grouse in 51 counties Oct 1 to Oct 30, central area Oct 22 to Nov 4, Hungarian partridge in eight counties Oct 22 to Nov 4, bob white quail Oct 31 to Nov 4, and various closed species list banning.
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Madison
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
State Conservation Congress
Milwaukee County
Calumet
Dane
Dodge
Fond du Lac
Manitowoc
Ozaukee
Sheboygan
Washington
Buffalo
Crawford
Jackson
Juneau
la Crosse
Monroe
Pepin
Pierce
Richland
Sauk
Trempealeau
Vernon
Bishops Visit Pope Pius XII in Private Audience
Pope Pius XII received Bishops William Patrick O'Connor of Madison and Louis B. Rucera of Lincoln Neb in a private audience. The bishops are in Vatican City for their standard five year visit.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
William Patrick O’connor
Madison
Louis B. Rucera
Lincoln Neb
Money Order Service To Germany Resumed
The local post office announced the resumption of money order service to Germany as of July 1. The service covers the American British and French zones and the western sector of Berlin. Applications must include the payee's residence address with zone. Money orders are issued in dollars and cents, not by exchange.
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Germany
Berlin
Burkhard
Special Spencer Bowen Day Highlight at Green County Fair
The 95th Green County Fair sets aside Saturday July 30 for Spencer Bowen of 2263 6th Street to be guest of honor as he views his 76th consecutive fair. Bowen will appear in the stock parade and receive day and evening honors while radio transcriptions are prepared. He attended his first fair in 1873 at age seven and recalls the fair’s early layout as it evolved toward today’s displays. He aims for the 100th anniversary in five years.
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Spencer Bowen
Bowen
6Th Street
U S Housing Bill Near Final Congressional Hurdle
The administration’s vast housing bill passes a key House Senate conference step and moves to the president for signature. It aims to expand public housing, slum clearance and farm housing aid with subsidies and long term funding while facing arguments over cost and socialism.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
Raymond Foley
Suspect's Brother Confesses Hanging in Chicago
A 15-year-old boy admitted strangling three-year-old Thomas Laux, with police saying his 13-year-old brother Charles initially claimed the killing to protect him. Both Mundays remain in custody as the boy’s body was found stuffed in a basement sack after an all-night search.
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Chicago
John Trinka
Robert Munday
Thomas Laux
South Side
Mundays
Robert
Charles
Timothy O‘connor
Charles Munday
O’connor
Laux
Munday
Thomas
Kiwanis Club Sets July 21 Dedication for Youth Cabin
The Kiwanis board set July 21 for dedicating a new community youth cabin at the Mrs May L Luchsinger farm grove west of the city. Wendell R Stribling and Nat G Preston met with officials to discuss support for scouting and cabin projects with open access after registration. Three delegates and three alternates to the August Wisconsin Upper Michigan Kiwanis convention were named.
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Kiwanis Club
May L. Luchsinger
Wendell R. Stribling
U. S. Grant
Kiwanis
David D. Ruehlman
Nathan E. Bear
Charles B. Marvin
Oscar A. Moldenhauer
Herbert M. Ainsworth
Willard C. Bender
Slab Pour Advances On Court House Square Project
Concrete was poured on the south side of the court house square this morning with the fifth slab completed around 5 a.m. The north side trench by Monroe Ditch Diggers was finished, new water main connections tested, and electricians installed street light conduits as work continues with three slabs left on the south side.
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Court House Square
Monroe
Park Pool Thawing After 67 Degree Low
The recreation park swimming pool rose into the 70s after a 67 degree low recorded just after cleaning and refilling Tuesday. Over the holidays more than 1600 swimmers were reported, and Grace Anderson resumed instruction with Kenneth Davis substituting during her absence.
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Recreation Park
Larry Kitchen
Grace Anderson
Kenneth Davis
April Milk Price Declines to 2.83
A survey shows April 1948 milk deliveries to Swiss cheese factories averaged 2.83 per hundredweight, down 38 cents from March and 87 cents from April 1947. Prices on Swiss cheese grades fell across the board, while farm patron production matched March levels and net income dropped about 80,000 dollars despite 2,000,000 pounds more deliveries. Butterfat tests declined from 3.24 in March to 3.12 in April.
Train Wreck Injures Three Near Walcott Wisconsin
A northbound Chicago and North Western passenger train derailed after striking a washout near Walcott Wisconsin. Engineer Charles H Gore of Spooner was pinned in wreckage and rescued by crew members.
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Walcott
Wis
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Charles H. Gore
Spooner
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