19 Nov 1946
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1946
Page
1
With 36 hours to go John Logee led a silent hand as coal strike deadline nears. Labor leaders warn of possible disruption while officials seek an agreement to avert shutdowns.
John L. Lewis faces potential jail for defying the federal no strike order while more than 68,000 soft coal workers in seven states idle as deadlines approach. An aid in Washington declines to say if troops will be sent to mines amid the developing crisis.
The article notes Attorney General Clark and the approach echoing Eugene V. Debs and the 1894 Pullman strike contempt ruling. It frames ongoing actions as in line with instructions and signals a broad strategy amid swift controversy.
Attorney Paul C Behanna and his wife returned from a movie to find a 200 pound soldier intruding in their home waving a gun. The man, nibbling leftovers, fled upstairs after Behanna’s son handed him a bow and arrow. Behanna fired an arrow at a neighbor’s window, then a second shot after no response. Police were called. the intruder and others were reportedly drinking and sought food. Behanna will pay for the broken windows.
Deer tag buyers exceed prior records as Green County reports an all time high hunter count for the opening of the season. Regulations bar hunting within 200 feet of highways and state and federal roads. Clarence Benkett leads 350 extra enforcement personnel dispatched to the north, with the season opening Saturday.
Frederic Rohner of Nestle Milk Products and R G Winter Wisconsin Nestle representative visited Monroe to explore opening cheese products operations. They cited Green county dairy resources as critical and envisioned a plant in a sizeable building with about 15 employees. Robert F Marty urged that a dairy development here would be worthwhile.
Chief of Police J. H. Schwaiger reports that by spring 16 year olds will have completed instruction and pass the road unit. Farm students with tractor experience show greater adeptness in driving tests on public property.
National observance marks the 83rd anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg Pennsylvania with a parade and ceremonies at the National Cemetery dedicated in 1863. The event honors soldiers who died for the nation as President Truman designated dedication day.
The Wisconsin supreme court ordered arguments next Tuesday on a demurrer by Local 248 UAM-CIO at Allis-Chalmers West Allis. The case challenges a Milwaukee circuit court contempt ruling against the union and 26 members for violating a Sept. 9 injunction against mass picketing at the Allis-Chalmers main plant.
Mrs Grace F Smithson aged 57 was killed instantly yesterday when struck by a street car in Milwaukee.
Budget Director James E. Webb establishes a 2 146 742 employee limit for executive departments and agencies for the three months starting Jan 1. The cut, amounting to 144 833 fewer workers, targets white collar staff about a quarter of all civil servants as Republicans push for sharper reductions with the new Congress.
Local coal is rationed with no clear hardship. No new customers at several yards, normal 10 day supplies not delivered, small allotments to those certifying supply. Cheese factories get week long rations, stoker coal scarce. Gas supply secure with a month plus coal on hand. About a ton daily used for city manufacturing. Few carloads pass through since the last strike. People call dealers to gauge their status.
Hassil E. Schenck president of the Indiana Farm Bureau told about 400 delegates at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau convention that federal debt near 260 billion dollars requires farmers to bear higher taxes. He urged running the government like a farm with debt retired in good times and deficits used in slack periods. The 3 day meeting covered farm problems with sessions for youth and adults and elections planned. Frank Keefe of Oshkosh canceled due to illness.
Robert Stocker Jr was named chairman of the Monroe fire department Thanksgiving dance in Turner Hall on November 28. Don Voegeli and his 15 piece Madison orchestra will provide music. Voegeli is director of the band and music director at the university station.
The Green County Board votes a 648224 budget up by 180000 and approves a cost of living bonus of 20 for employees with dependents and 10 for those without. The bonus begins November 1 1946 and is overseen by the county auditing committee which can adjust or terminate it as conditions change. Base pay increases are granted for the under sheriff and highway police radio desk men while the purchasing agent and retirement agent role is set at 25 per month. The service officer’s pay remains unchanged but receives the bonus.
Green County voters see 12 percent rise in assessed value while the 1947 budget reaches 648 224 65. The tax levy falls slightly despite the larger budget due to an ed surplus draw and new highway and welfare allocations. A $100 000 hospital and home for the aged funding helps inflate costs, with highways accounting for nearly half of expenses.
Monroe P T A meets tomorrow at 7 30 PM in the high school auditorium with Prof T L Torgerson of the University of Wisconsin psycho education clinic continuing his talk on Do Children Have Problems The speaker previously discussed child guidance and delinquency in the British Isles at the Oct 2 session A short business meeting will precede a musical program featuring Grade School Gremlins under Allan Barnard Jr and others Co chairs are Mrs Edwin C Dallman and Mrs Don Huddleston There is no December meeting due to holidays with the next session planned for January 15
Delores Marie Elder 26, Beloit, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Jesse Earle to 14 to 25 years in a Wisconsin state prison for women at Taycheedah after the second degree murder charge in the knife slaying of Mrs. John Kemp Beloit was reduced from first degree murder on DA Howard Moss’s recommendation. Mrs Kemp mother of three, killed Aug 28 in her apartment house, managed by her husband. Elder waived preliminary hearing Oct 11 and was held for circuit court trial.
Associated Press dispatches report a sudden strike by 80 percent Arab rail workers in Palestine paralyzing traffic to protest what they term insufficient protection against Jewish terrorism. In Greece, guerrilla forces reportedly control 100 of 104 villages in Grevena region amid ongoing clashes with government and leftist forces near the Yugoslav border.
Washington War Assets Administrator Robert M Littlejohn announced that all 16 bids to buy the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines have been rejected. The decision leaves the government with ownership and potential future sale actions for the critical wartime fuel conduits.
The Atlanta Journal reports Army will be the eastern team in the Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day. Ed Danforth cites a tip from a press source noting a day-long Berkeley session involving Pacific Coast conference and Big 9 representatives.
The BBC said in a monitored NBC broadcast that Marshall Georgi Zhukov was replaced as chief of Soviet Army ground forces by Marshal Ivan Konev. Konev previously led troops that joined Zhukov in the Berlin assault.
Atlantic City A. F. Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen attacked President Truman and tied his rise to the Pendergast machine. Whitney claimed the reins of government have fallen to the Pendergast gang and described a waning union political influence during the CIO convention.
Washington Chairman Robert E. Hannegan of the Democratic National Committee is ordered to take a two month rest following a medical checkup at Walter Reed Hospital. He entered the hospital after the election and was discharged two days ago due to high blood pressure.
The navy reported one dead ten seriously burned and eighteen others injured in an explosion in the boiler room of the carrier Antietam at Hunters Point. The incident details the casualties and location as the ship underwent shipyard work.
More than 300 Green county school board members are invited to attend the annual meeting at Goetz theater in Monroe Thursday. Each board sends three members who receive four dollars daily plus mileage. speakers include Mrs. Mary Ryan on library budget stretchers and Harry Merritt on rural education patterns.
Washington report says the house banking committee opens a January inquiry led by Rep. Wolcott to find basic faults in the veterans housing program. He calls it outrageously bad and aims for rapid remedial legislation noting only about 350,000 homes completed under the program.
Horace Russell general counsel of the U S Savings and Loan league said removing government restrictions would boost housing with cheaper prices. He noted price ceilings save money but waste from long construction delays remains a problem as delays stretch 12 to 18 months.
Greek planes back troops in a full scale operation around Archanghelos near Skra as guerrillas claim destruction of Skra. Veroia becomes a focus of roving band attacks and Trikoukia reports 38 guerrillas killed amid ongoing fighting.
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