Break in National Telephone Strike Emerges in Chicago and Washington
Tentative wage settlement at Illinois Bell hints strain in NFTW linked strike. In Washington AT T makes first money offer to 20,000 long‑distance workers, $2 to $4 by location, while other Bell System units resume talks. Officials report progress and cautious optimism as conciliators keep sessions ongoing.
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Washington
Bell System
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Chicago
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
NFTW
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
American Union of Telephone Workers
A. T. and T
Peter J. Manno
William N. Margolis
Manno
Margolis
Anne Benscoter
Illinois Traffic Union
Illinois Bell
Edwin P. Hackett
Richard Long
A. T
T -Controlled
Long Lines
Western Electric
Southwestern Bell
Reiterate Demands in Milwaukee Telephone Strike
The Tele phone Guild of Wisconsin reaffirmed demand for a six dollar weekly across the board pay rise in all guild represented departments as a condition to end the 27 day strike. The union rejected a Wisconsin Telephone Co offer and cited shifts in office class levels and small increases in night differential.
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Milwaukee
Telephone Guild of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Ray Dryer
Madison
South Milwaukee
Beloit
Janesville
Waukesha
Dryer
Madison and
W S C S District Convention to Meet in Monroe
The Southern Wisconsin district convention of the W S C S of the Methodist church meets Monday at the Monroe Methodist church. Miss Maxine Coleman missionary to India on furlough in this country will be the speaker. Mrs Harry C Culver Platteville is the presiding officer. Registration starts 9:30 am and the meeting closes at 4:30.
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Southern Wisconsin
W.s.cs
Methodist Church
Monroe Methodist Church
Maxine Coleman
India
Harry C. Culver
Platteville
Missing Ft Atkinson girl hunt enters third day
The search for a blonde 65 pound, 52 inch girl from Ft Atkinson continued into day three. Footprint evidence matched a shoe from the missing child and planes from the mid city airport aided observers despite rain and low clouds. A Red Cross canteen served workers at the Weckler home as deputies, neighbors, and two boys pressed on.
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C. Weckler
Oakland Center School
Perry
Ft. Atkinson
Weckler
Local Milk Prices Reduced One Cent
Milk prices in Monroe fell by one cent per quart amid a national trend to cut prices. Several local dairies have reduced prices three times this year, with one major dairy cutting on Jan 1 Feb 1 and May 2. Dealers have mostly matched the reductions and another dairy expects a cut next week. A Chicago area strike delayed milk from that region, delaying a price drop until yesterday.
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Monroe
Chicago
Wallace: America Has Resources to Break Moscow Deadlock
Henry A. Wallace told 3,000 in Cleveland that America alone can end the deadlock from the Moscow conference. He blasted President Truman's $400,000,000 anti-Soviet loan plan and urged faster action.
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Wallace
Cleveland
Henry A. Wallace
Moscow
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Europe
George C. Marshall
Arthur Vandenberg
Rmich
John Foster Dulles
Highway Department To Set Contracts At Shops Monday
Green county road work bids and lettings will be held Monday at the Green county highway shops. The event, announced by highway commissioner Herman W. Kohn, covers new construction and resurfacing on county aid roads in Adams, Brooklyn, Exe ter, Spring Grove, Jordan, Albany, Decatur, Washington, New Glarus and Monroe townships. Edward Bidlingmaier of Adams chairs the highway committee. he will conduct the all day meeting with N. C. Jensen of Brooklyn and Andrew Tschudy of Monroe serving on the panel.
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Green County
Herman W. Kohn
Adams
Brooklyn
Exeter
Spring Grove
Jordan
Albany
Decatur
Washington
New Glarus
Monroe
Edward Bidlingmaier
Teasdale Resigns as Green County Normal School Principal
Howard Teasdale resigns as principal of Green County Normal school effective at term end. He has served nine years, succeeding Fillmore C. Lam, and will be replaced by a candidate chosen by the school board. Teasdale is a former Lafayette county superintendent with degrees from Platteville State Teachers College and Northwestern University.
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Howard Teasdale
Green County Normal School
Teasdale
Lafayette County
Fillmore C. Lam
Platteville State Teachers College
Northwestern University
Monroe
Almond
Normal School Board
B. H. Roderick
Brodhead
Fred J. Bolender
Florence Wartenweiler
Marshall Warns Russia on Setting Up Korean Government
Secretary of State Marshall warned Russia that the United States will insist on consulting all Korean political elements in forming a new government. He hinted Moscow might face a boycott of the May 20 joint U S Russian commission meeting in Seoul if not included. The panel has been idle since May 8 over democracy definitions amid Korea’s 38th parallel split.
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Washington
Marshall
Russia
United States
Molotov
Seoul
Korea
Commission
Prom Night Memories Mark Annual Junior Event
About 75 couples attended the Monroe high school junior senior prom of 1947 in Candyland themed decor. Rolland Collins announced entrants and Queen Mary Lu Schillinger and King Robbert Beinema led the grand march, with post prom breakfasts and a pre prom dinner at Eugene hotel.
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Candyland
Monroe High School
Rolland Collins
T. F. Ransdell
Bob Hudson
Milton College
Ray “Spot” Young
Mary Lu _ Schillinger
Sweetpeas
Robbert Beinema
Eugene
Mary
Ellen Burkhard
John Maurer
Margaret Ann Share
Gene Davis
Gladys Gibbons
Bill Moon
Marleah Prien
Robert Ableman
Martha Dobbs
Edwin Andereck
Jeanne Eimer
Dan
Aleman Warns of Another Conflict during UN session
Mexican President Miguel Aleman told the United Nations assembly in New York that only international cooperation can prevent a new war that could erase civilization. He urged early peace treaty conclusions and said Mexico hopes the powers achieve lasting results.
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New York
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
United Sessions Assembly
Assembly
Oswaldo Aranha
Aleman
Flushing Meadow
Swiss Navy trial run on Monroe area pond
The Swiss Navy vessel and its outboard engine were tested at Freeze's pond on highway 11 west of Monroe. Theodore O. Stauffacher and Allie Holtshopple own the craft, with Holtshopple having purchased about four acres around the pond last year for such trials.
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Monroe
Holtshopple
Four Die in Rock County Car Crash
Four persons were killed in a head on collision on highway 51 about 40 miles south of Janesville. Victims are Lyle Warriner 22 Beloit Robert C Axelson 19 Sparta Thomas E Gjerseth 21 Beloit and Donald Phillips 23 Evansville. Higgins 27 Janesville and Harold Griffin 20 Sparta were seriously injured but expected to recover. Warriner and companions had been roller skating in Janesville.
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Janesville
Lyle Warriner
Beloit
Robert C. Axelson
Sparta
Thomas E. Gjerseth
Donald Phillips
Evansville
Warriner
Axelson
Gilferth
Phillips
John W. Higgins
Mercy Hospital
Higgins
Harold Griffin
Former Monroe Woman Is Dead at 94 in Janesville
Mrs. H A Palmer 94 a Monroe native died at 5 PM in Janesville. Born on a farm west of Monroe she grew to womanhood in the area. Survived by siblings G S Tochtermann and Mrs Carrie Vincent, funeral Monday at Overton Janesville with burial in East Delavan cemetery Wis.
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Monroe
H. A. Palmer
Janesville
Mary W. Tochtermann
G. S. Tochtermann
Carrie Vincent
Overton Funeral Home
East Delavan
Wis
Von Papen Sent to Nazi Labor Camp
Franz von Papen, once a Nazi figure, moved from hospital to a labor camp near Burg after German medical officials ruled he did not need hospital care. He is serving an eight year sentence for Nazism.
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von Papen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Germany
Franz von Papen
Burg
One Dead Seven Hurt In Army Prison Riot
A riot at an Army prison left one dead and seven injured. The incident prompted an Army inquiry and heightened security measures at the facility. Investigators are assessing the circumstances surrounding the clash and the identities of those involved.
U S Capital Welcomed in Mexico for Fair Profit Says Aleman
President Miguel Aleman told a Pan American Society dinner in New York that American capital willing to observe Mexican laws and share in development with fair profit shall be welcome to Mexico. He cited Roosevelt’s 1943 Monterrey pledge against resource exploitation.
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New York
Mexico
Miguel Aleman
Aleman
Pan American Society
Roosevelt
Monterrey
Car Crash Kills 19-Year-Old Robert Formiller
Robert Formiller, 19, of Green Lake Wisconsin was killed yesterday when the automobile he was driving crashed into a concrete culvert abutment near Green Lake.
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Green Lake
Wis
Robert Formiller
Here
Derby field trimmed to 13 as Bahlim withdraws under threat
At Churchill Downs thousands braved potential rain as the 73rd Kentucky Derby field was cut to 13 four hours before post after Bahlim from Mrs Murphy and Susan Kellore’s Murlee farm Evansville Indiana was scratched due to a muddy track. In New York Russia and Poland proposed giving the Jewish agency a floor voice at UN Palestine debates after the steering committee rejected hearings for non governments and recommended routing requests to the 55 nation political committee.
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Churchill Downs
Louisville
Balheim
Murleee
R. J. Murphy
New YV York
Russia
Poland
Jewish Agency
United Nations
Palestine
Assembly
Wisconsin Farm Cash Income Sets 1946 Record
Wisconsin farmers earned a record 880.973 million dollars in 1946 from cash receipts on cheese butter eggs grain and livestock with 787.963 million from livestock and its products and 93.01 million from crops. Projections show 1947 cash receipts running about 25 percent above 1946 for the first quarter with a likely continuation until June.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Agriculture Department
California
Iowa
Illinois
Texas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Narrow Escape As Queen Mary Is Pulled From Graving Dock
The Queen Mary, exceed 81000 ton liner, battled wind while seven tugs tried to move her from a grav ing deck at Southampton Enge. For over an hour gale force wind threatened to drive her against the quay wall before veering, allowing tugs to swing her to safety. The liner is to be rebuilt for Atlantic passenger service after wartime troopship duty.
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Southampton
Enge
Atlantic
Turn and Schwing Club to Enter Mid Western Meet
Monroe Turn and Schwing club members will enter the mid western meet of the Swiss American Gymnastic association in individual competition. Sebastian Laeser, secretary, announces. A charter bus will leave the day before the contests and return the day after. Fred Braw, Monroe, and John Ruef, Juda, will accompany the group and judge events.
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Monroe
Swiss-American Gymnastic Association
Sebastian Laeser
Turners
Fred Brawand
John Ruef
Juda
Rockford
Riot at Fort Leavenworth Prison Ends with Casualties and Surrender
At Fort Leavenworth Kansas a night long riot in barracks housing 250 Negro prisoners and 514 white prisoners produced one death seven injuries and many tear gas shells. Col Graeme Parks ordered surrenders after a harsh ultimatum and guards continued gas bombardment as two blocks stayed tense and air was cut off if needed. Authorities say racial trouble sparked the disturbance with white inmates opposing dining with Black inmates.
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Shee
Parks
Gerow
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas City
Colens Parks
Wheen
Revoke 1 918 Drivers Licenses This Year
Traffic violations led to revocation or suspension of 1 918 drivers licenses during the first four months of this year, the State motor vehicle department said. The department also reported 2 274 temporary suspensions under the safety responsibility law.
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Madison
State Motor Vehicle Department
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