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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
1
A municipal income tax bill was withdrawn by Assemblyman Pfennig of Kenosha after lacking support. The measure would have allowed towns villages and cities to levy income tax on residents and corporations. Pfennig said it was offered at the request of Kenosha and Milwaukee officials.
The Federal State market news service reports a weak Wisconsin American cheese market with quiet trade and very light demand. Selling prices include single daisies 32 33, longhorns 32 1 2 33 1 4, and square prims 32 33.
Sheriff Claude J. Taylor and the Van Meulebrocks Helene and Marie 26 were named in indictments pressed by a Rock Island county special grand jury. Taylor faced nonfeasance and perjury charges while the trio were charged with extortion and perjury. The jury criticized officials for a tolerant stance toward gambling and praised amateur crusaders who curbed gambling amid claims trained officers lag.
Mrs Ben Pfund 39, a farmwife from Adams township, died yesterday at St. Clare hospital after a week with acute leukemia. Born Frieda Wenger in Adams township November 6, 1909, she married Ben Pfund in 1931 and lived on farms in Washington and Adams townships before moving to Juda. Survived by husband, daughter Doris, parents Gottfried and Hulda Wenger, four brothers Am brose Gottfried Laverne Robert and a sister Mrs J Herman Elmer. Funeral arrangements at Shriner Neushwander and St John’s church with burial at Greenwood cemetery.
Green county area is among the places receiving war dead home from Europe the department of the army announced. Names listed include S Sgt Lester A Meland route 2 Belleville Pfc Edward B Simons Gratiot Pvt Edward L Coates Cuba City and T 5 Robert J Gehrt Schullsburg.
Democratic leaders pin hopes on Vice President Barkley to rule two thirds can end Senate debate at any time. Senator Lucas signals possible vote tomorrow while Eastland resists. Byrd and Knowland show mixed support. A housing bill, reciprocal trade act, and rent controls loom as stakes rise.
Clarence F Kempfert struck a patch of ice near Dixon and veered into a ditch. The Walter J Baumans, cruising toward Monroe from Florida, passed without seeing the scene. Both couples are local business operators and were returning from Florida vacations in Coral Gables and Miami. The Kempferts drove home last evening despite the slip on a 1,000 foot icy stretch.
Edward Bidlingmaier and Chester Flanagan were nominated for chairman of Adams town hall. Bidlingmaier is the incumbent on the county board of supervisors. Jonathon Moen was nominated to oppose Vincent Conway as clerk and Edwin Hanson against Dan Flannery, assessor. Nominated without opposition were Melvin Winger and Ralph McGuire as the two supervisors of the side board: John Flanagan, treasurer, Edward Grant, constable, and Martin Austead, justice of the peace.
Highway 11 at Dill, flooded by Pecatonica river waters, reopened to all traffic this morning after weekend closure. Five feet of water receded slowly while trucks and buses were allowed through yesterday.
The Hoover Commission urges closer Treasury supervision over the Reconstruction Finance Corp and the Export-Import Bank, arguing the two agencies are largely unaccountable. It calls for removing politics from Treasury appointments and reorg of field services to save costs, while transferring the narcotics bureau to the Justice Department and ending Treasury’s role as chief government buyer.
Federal grand jury indicts Judith Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev on four espionage counts. Coplon held on $20,000 bail and Gubitchev on $100,000 bail after arrest in Manhattan. Indictment favors maximum penalties of 45 years and $30,000 fines. U N immunity questioned.
Havana reports indicate Cuba plans to sever relations with the Soviet Union after two blistering notes were delivered to the Soviet embassy. The notes accuse Moscow of propaganda and totalitarian methods and say communism aims to destroy the democratic system. The government also rejected a Soviet protest over carnival masks depicting Stalin.
A New York woman listened by telephone as her daughter in London Terrace, London, was murdered by Emory Holt, who killed his wife Norma Holt and David Whittaker before killing himself. Holt, 32, called from Hollywood after threatening a love triangle. Whittaker, 32, was an executive at Universal Camera Corp. Norma Holt, 34, was secretary to the firm president Otto Githens. Holt and his wife lived in Brooklyn. The triple death is listed as double murder and self-inflicted death by the medical examiner.
Oleomargarine interests push to repeal all federal oleo taxes and block new sale restrictions. The House Agriculture Committee backed a repeal bill 24 to 3 while rejecting a Poage plan to erase taxes and allow interstate sale of colored oleo. Poage vows to present his substitute. stakes include tax amounts and dairy supply implications.
An official Trans-Jordan source said heavy fighting was taking place near the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Aqaba is occupied by British and Trans-Jordan Arab legion troops and lies just inside Trans-Jordan on the Palestine border.
Dale Ploeckelman, 31, of Chilton route 4, died at St Nicholas hospital after a farm truck overturned following a collision with a car in Manitowoc county. The crash occurred last night and the victim did not survive his injuries.
A Hawaii officer survived a swarm of bees after 600 stings thanks to calcium gluconate used at a station hospital. Medical notes say the calcium reduced venom impact, with fever easing by day three and rapid recovery after that.
City Chairman Donald W. Janke reported the Red Cross campaign near Monroe at the halfway point with $806 raised this week including gifts to the special gifts committee led by Brooks J. Dunwiddie. Collection booths and local banks serve as donation points across Green County and surrounding towns.
Don R. Knowlton, 54, wartime director of production for the Petroleum Administration for War Services, died last night in a hospital in Oklahoma City. He was a leading oil executive and wartime production leader.
Two youths armed with pistols robbed the Ambassador two miles west of Martinsburg causing injuries to chef Walter Epps and Rebecca Davis. Ramsdell and Ashton were captured in a downtown pawnshop near the White House after police pursued a tip and recovered about $1,000.
London report says the House of Lords heard that communist spies and terrorists operate in England. Lord Robert Vansittart urged the labor government to take decisive action against the conspirators.
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