Truman Relaxes At Florida Base
President Truman arrives in Key West after a major speech in Washington and aims to rest for a few days. He left policy to Secretary of State Acheson in Paris while he contemplates re election and three pending messages to Congress. Churchill will not travel to Key West, Truman said.
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NAVY
Truman
Washington
Key West
William Leahy
C. C. Adell
Naval Base
Acheson
Kremlin
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Russia
United States
U. N
Vishinsky
Joseph Short
Congress
White House
Winston Churchill
Mr. Truman
Armistice Day Holiday Observed by Local Offices
Armistice day will be observed Monday with the court house banks and post office closed for the day since Nov. 11 falls on Sunday. The post office lobby opens 7 am to 6 pm for lock box patrons but no city or rural deliveries. Incoming mail will be processed though. City hall offices remain open for business as usual.
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Court House
John J. Burkhard
City Hall
Grassland Committee Wins District Honors
Green county's grassland committee won district honors at the Grassland State Meeting in Madison yesterday. The state has seven districts. Local committee members include J. B. Scherer chairman Monroe Township, Evert Green Spring Grove Township, Sam Ludwig Sylvester Township, and C. W. Loveland Washington Township chairman of the county board of supervisors.
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Green County
Grassland Committee
Madison
J. B. Scherer
Monroe Township
Evert Green
Spring Grove
Sam Ludwig
Sylvester Township
C. W. Loveland
Washington Township
County Board of Supervisors
Ten College Heads Appointed To Check On Sports Scandals
The American Council on Education named ten college presidents to form a committee to study intercollegiate sports scandals and campus athletics. Chair John A. Hannah will convene a meeting this month with members from Washington Yale Notre Dame Nebraska SMU Utah Ole Miss and more to develop remedies.
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University of Notre Dame
A. Whitney Griswold
Yale University
R. G. Gustavson
University of Nebraska
Umphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
John S. Millis
Western Reserve University
John L. Plyler
Furman University
Bert Ray Olpin
University of Utah
John D. Williams
University of Mississippi
Poppy Day Drive Set for Monroe and Surrounding Areas
The annual VFW Poppy day will be conducted in Monroe and nearby communities tomorrow with Alvin Riese and Mrs. Cloyd W. Pickett as general chairs. Poppy headquarters will be at Moose Hall run by Mrs. Don Lovelace. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and dependents, rehabilitation programs, and the Eaton Rapids Michigan home for orphans, with local aid to ill and needy veterans. Girl Scouts led by Mrs. Bruni, Mrs. Dallmann, and Mrs. Zumbach will assist.
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VFW
Monroe
Alvin Riese
Junnior Vfw
Cloyd W. Pickett
Don Lovelace
Moose Hall
Wood VA Hospital
Waukesha
Wisconsin
VFW National Home For Veterans Orphans
Eaton Rapids
Mich
John H. Bruni
Edwin C. Dallmann
Ernest Zumbach
Maennerchor to perform fall concert at New Glarus
The Maennerchor presents its annual fall concert in Wil helm Tell hall. Selections include Ab reise Fahnenlied Der Jaeger und sein Lied with a Donald Baum solo. Edel weiss Stars and a one act play directed by Ernst Thierstein. Cast includes Oswald Schneider Marie Vetterli Herman Feller Verena Grossenbacher Karl Luescher Albert Wirz. Hartwig's orchestra will play for dancing.
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Glarus
Maennerchor
Wilhelm Tell Hall
Ernst Thierstein
Oswald Schneider
Marie Vetterli
Herman Feller
Verena Grossenbacher
Karl Luescher
Albert Wirz
Hartwig
Calvin Hefty Arrives From Korea for Duty
Calvin Hefty, son of Mrs. Edna L. Hefty, arrived this week from a 14 month tour of duty in Korea with the military police. He entered the army in November 1948 and reached Japan in March 1949. He was with the 519th military police battalion at Yokohama before shipping to Korea.
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New Glarus
Calvin Hefty
Edna L. Hefty
Korea
Hefty
Japan
519Th
Military Police
Yokohama
Wisconsin Farms Aid Europe Gains
Governor Kohler told the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Co-ops banquet that Wisconsin research in hybrid seed corn and high yield grain seeds, along with Wisconsin-made machinery, is boosting Western Europe’s agriculture recovery and stabilizing its economy after a European tour. About 200 attendees approved resolutions on nondefense spending, food dollar surveys, butter quality, reapportionment, price controls, patronage refunds, and farm youth drafting.
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Madison —i
Wisconsin
Western
Europe
Kohler
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Co-ops
Congress
State Department of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
U. S. Treasury
Ammann Heads New Camera Club
Harry S. Ammann of Clarno was elected president of the Green County Camera club at the Universalist church meeting. Edward R. Einbeck was named vice president Chester Frautschy treasurer and Mrs Verna Kubly secretary. General meetings are the second Thursday each month and a sectional program on another night. Dr D E Mings named chair of miniature cameras, Robert V Chinnock for motion picture fans, print group to be named later. Motion picture films program planned for next month.
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Harry S. Ammann
Clarno
New
Green County Camera Club
Universalist Church
Edward R. Einbeck
6Th Street
Chester Frautschy
25Th Avenue
Verna Kubly
13Th Street
D. E. Mings
Robert V. Chinnock
Windows Shipped for School Additions From St Louis Plant
School officials were notified that aluminum windows for East and South school additions have been shipped by freight from a St. Louis manufacturing plant. Delivery timing is unclear due to potential traffic tieups following this week’s snowstorm, delaying completion of the two projects by several weeks.
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St. Louis
Former furniture exec sentenced for embezzlement
Fred B. Meinhardt, 43, a former furniture firm executive, received a prison term in Waupun state prison after pleading guilty in municipal court to embezzling 21 327 dollars over a two year period.
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Waupun
Milwaukee
Fred B. Meinhardt
Waupun State Prison
Meinhard
U.S. Presses Soviet for Immediate Disarmament Talks
U N delegates report stalled Panmunjom talks with a dirty tent scene in which negotiators meet tomorrow. Allied sources suspect Soviet guidance delays, while Vishinsky proposes a ten day cease fire and full withdrawal within three months. Western air forces report destroying several MiG-15s and ongoing clashes near Yonchon and Kumsong as a new Chinese unit appears south of Kum Song.
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Munsan
United Nations Command
William P. Nuckols
U. N
Vishinsky
Paris
Korea
Nuckols
Panmunjom
38Th Parallel
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Byrnes Accuses DOJ of Stymieing Tax Probe
Representative Byrnes of Wisconsin charges the Justice Department with stymieing a House Ways and Means subcommittee inquiry into Internal Revenue Service tax irregularities. He proposes taking the case to the president as the investigation stalls.
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Washington
Byrnes
Wis
House
Justice Department
Ways and Means
Internal Revenue Bureau
Four Face Federal Robbery Charges After Milwaukee Bank Heist
Four youths from Chicago and Los Angeles are charged in federal court with a split second bank robbery at the North branch of First Wisconsin National Bank in Milwaukee. The loot totaled 93 569 while a getaway car waited. Milwaukee authorities plan state armed robbery warrants with 15 to 40 year terms. Federal arraignment is set for next Wednesday. A reward distribution suggestion from Detective Captain Kraemer would divide the cash among a Milwaukee mail carrier and two Lake County deputies.
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Milwaukee
First Wisconsin National Bank
Milwaukee County
William J. McCauley
McCauley
James Joseph Leather
Chicago
Harold Dennis Nall
Glenn Dale Maroe
Los Angeles
Anne Slyder
Miss Slyder
Illinois
Adolph Kraemer
Milwaukee Mail
Lake County
Meteor Pattern Mystery Shocks Southwest Skies
Unusually large fireballs flash across seven states in 11 days puzzling experts. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of New Mexico University notes straight paths silent flashes and two meteors falling together near Cloverdale New Mexico, speculating possible nonnatural causes and hinting at Nevada atom tests.
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Albuquerque
Institute of Meteoritics
New Mexico University
Lincoln la Paz
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
la Paz
Cloverdale
N. M
Czech Diplomat Named Top Communist Spy by Senators
Senate internal security investigators described Col. Otto Bicheler a Czech military attaché as a top communist spy in the United States. Senators McCarran and O Conor said he gathered data on bacteriological warfare and atomic weapon research and coordinated operations in Mexico and Guatemala. He is said to be abroad in Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
Senate
McCarran
D-Nev
O’conor
D-Md
Otto Bicheler
Czechoslovakia
Senate Internal Security Committee
Bicheler
United States
Truman
Justice Department
State Department
State and
Justice Departments
Biheler
U. S
Carlos Paz-Tejada
Army of
Guatemala
Mexico
Taft Backs Primary Focus Against Republicans
Senator Taft signals a campaign aimed at Republicans to win the White House, urging southern anti Truman democrats to join. A Western Newspaper Union poll of 2,188 editors shows Truman leading and Eisenhower gaining personal preference, with Taft expected by 57.5 percent to be the Republican nominee. The New York Times reports Democrats courting Eisenhower in Paris for 1952 nomination.
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Taft
White House
Ohio
Western Newspaper Union
Truman
Eisenhower
New York Times
Gen
Paris
the Times
Arthur Krock
Alert Flagman Saves Milwaukee Road Train
Two wheels of a Milwaukee road coal car left the tracks one mile east of Browntown yesterday but alert flagman Thomas Murphy of Janesville applied air brakes as soon as the wheels left the rail. The train stopped before any cars derailed and the engine with two cattle boxcars were uncoupled and sent toward Mineral Point. An engine from Monroe helped push the car back and the rest of the train to Browntown. Station agent L. W. deLorimier said little damage occurred.
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Milwaukee Road
Browntown
Thomas Murphy
Janesville
Murphy
Mineral Point
Monroe
L. W. deLorimier
California Woman Revives at Morgue Miracle
A 60 year old widow named Theresa Butler was pronounced dead and was taken to the city morgue. Two hours later an assistant coroner heard a gasp when her body was being unloaded. She was revived at a hospital after oxygen, transfusions, drugs and respiration. Dr Edward McLin who had declared her dead was astonished by the recovery.
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San Francisco
City
Theresa Butler
James Leonard
Leonard
Edward McLin
Inquest Pending In Wenger Death
A coroner’s inquest into the death of George E. Wenger, 74, at St. Clare hospital may be held next week. Wenger died of post traumatic shock from injuries suffered Oct. 12 when struck by car driven by Harold J. Shonts, 1711 10th street. Coroner Stuessy will confer with District Attorney Kittelsen and police before deciding on action. Wenger’s death was the first city traffic fatality since September 1945.
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George E. Wenger
St. Clare Hospital
Herman A. Stuessy
Mr. Wenger
Harold J. Shonts
10Th Street
Stuessy
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Wenger
Snow Ereases As Warm Temperatures Return
Snow from a recent storm receded as temperatures rose to 40 degrees today the warmest reading since October 30. The weatherman expects higher temperatures tomorrow with a forecast in the high 40s after freezing tonight.
Cheddar Prices Rise in Plymouth Cheese Sales
Wisconsin cheese exchange quotes higher cheddar values in Plymouth trading with nine cars at 37 cents, four cars at 36 1/2 cents, and two cars at 46 1/2 cents. Unfilled bids include two long horns at 30 1/2 cents and one at 40 1/4 cents.
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Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Jessup Urges Prompt UN Talks On Russian Arms
U S Ambassador Philip C. Jessup urged Russia to begin immediate UN disarmament talks ahead of June next year. He accused Moscow of bypassing the UN to seek a world arms conference and warned Western allies would press for a quick UN plan for reduced armaments despite Soviet rejection. Representatives from Cuba Honduras and New Zealand backed stronger collective security and peaceful settlement measures as the UN prepared a broad security blueprint.
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Paris
United States
Russia
United Nations
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
U. N
U. N. Assembly
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Jessup
Britain
France
Vishinsky
Soviet Union
Korea
Cuba
Honduras
New Zealand
Tiburcio Carias
F. W. Doidge
Aureliano Sanchez Arango
Kiwanis Elects W S MacDonald President
W S MacDonald was elected president of Monroe Kiwanis club at a weekly luncheon at the Swiss Wheel restaurant. W C Bender was named vice president with Dr C E Baumle and Walter J Bauman as directors. Howard P Olsen becomes a board member, and holdover directors include Rev Howard L Orians Robert Tracy Rudolph P Reger and Laverne C Gallitz. Robert E Davenport spoke on his agricultural program and work.
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W. S. MacDonald
Monroe Kiwanis Club
W. C. Bender
C. E. Baumle
Walter J. Bauman
Howard P. Olsen
Howard L. Orians
Robert Tracy
Rudolph P. Reger
Laverne C. Gallitz
Robert E. Davenport
Monroe High School
Man and Woman Hunted After Armed Attempted Holdup
Police and sheriff's officers across southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois search for a couple who fled after an exchange of gunfire with a Madison officer. Detective Bennett Nason reported firing at the man as they forced cab driver Mrs. Hilda Johnson to drive them, initially toward Chicago but detouring to Sun Prairie where they paid $30.
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Wisconsin
Illinois
Madison
Sun Prairie
Bennett Nason
Hilda Johnson
Chicago
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