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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1945
Page
1
Green County supervisors close annual meeting as budget of 360,079.45 is adopted an increase of 24,020.81 from last year. The plan includes 14,000 for first year operation of new county personnel. actual levy above proposal 6,965.19. Budget funds for next year take effect Jan 1, 1946 with emphasis on efficiency and service.
Monroe High School hosts Geneva in a basketball clash set for this evening at the Monroe high gym. The game was moved from Wednesday and features both first and second squads in a preseason matchup amid travel concerns.
A well dressed young man armed with a revolver was arrested as he approached President Ameraga at his residence in Montevideo. The man claimed to speak for the fatherland, a guard seized him, and the weapon was found hidden in his clothing.
Press dispatches report an imminent Nationalist seizure of Hulutao, a strategic Manchurian port, while Chinese communists claim they have captured Vencheng and Tinghesien far to the south.
Beirne arrived at union headquarters after flying from New York to discuss an Illinois Bell strike involving about 8 700 operators. He warned a national strike remains possible if conditions worsen while stating he will listen and enter talks cold. The NFTW had led a national show of strength with up to 200 000 operators quitting earlier last October.
Slushy streets froze into ice as temperatures fell to 10 degrees. Highways were cleared and dried. snow plows operated in Green County and on state highway 39 west of New Glarus. Three injuries were avoided in multiple accidents. two major crashes near Monroe caused vehicle damage but no injuries. Bus schedules were disrupted but improving toward normal.
Madison reports a clear cold spell with deep snow forecast to aid deer tracking as the five day season opens. About 100000 hunters are expected across 34 counties with a new law requiring 50 percent red clothing. Bear season runs Nov 24 28 in 25 northern counties.
American prosecutors charged 20 top Nazis including Hjalmar Schacht Gustav Krupp Wilhelm Keitel and Hermann Goering with financing and aiding Hitler's rearmament and aggression. Documents showed plans to attack Poland and use disguised troops to mask Nazi aggression as witnesses described the industrial and financial leaders' roles in supporting the regime.
Madison detective Capt. Harry Milsted and District Attorney Norris Maloney announced that Lorenzo Adair, 32, confessed he with three others participated in five armed masked robberies including a police shooting, a tavern holdup, and a Green Bay burglary. Warranted against Dwight Delaney and Clifford Pasterski for armed assault with intent to murder. other suspects in custody.
Milwaukee Sheriff George Hanley said two brothers Ernest Tobis 28 and Otto Tobis 25 would be questioned further today in connection with their brother Edward Tobis 26 who died yesterday. The fatal stabbing occurred at the Tobis relatives home in Carrollville and was investigated by local authorities.
Washington reports a sharp revision in postwar farm price policy as a Truman goal. Lower prices for cotton and wheat are planned while prices for labor intensive crops may rise. Export subsidies currently aid cotton and flour. Secretary Byrnes and Secretary of AgricultureTon outlined policies to reduce trade barriers and limit subsidies to exceptional cases. Anderson warned current goals misalign with reality and cotton risks losing markets both domestic and abroad.
Washington delegates report little hope for a solution to jurisdictional disputes at the labor management conference. Industry officials expect the issue to be sent for long term study to a semi permanent executive board favored by leaders. President Truman challenged the conference to find a substitute for jurisdictional strikes as subcommittee members took a 10 day pause and planned to reconvene.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation criticizes federal control of health facilities and compulsory health programs. It notes labor and capital disagreements disrupted a resolution and another resolution opposed federal health authority.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, newly named chief of staff, entered Ashford general hospital at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia on physician advice to prevent complications from a severe cold. Major General Howard M. Snyder said the move was precautionary and for his health.
Cordell Hull testified to investigators that he and President Roosevelt sought to gain time in the late 1941 diplomacy with Japan. He said he did not think Japan would attack Pearl Harbor and that war with Japan was anticipated before the attack.
A 1941 memorandum by Gen. George C. Marshall and Adm. Harold R. Stark warned the United States that if diplomacy failed, Japan could strike six targets including the Burma road Thailand Malaya the Netherlands East Indies the Philippines and the Russian maritime provinces. Pearl Harbor was not listed in the six potential targets.
A Senate House committee reviewed a prepared statement on negotiations with Japan before Pearl Harbor. Hull and Secretary Roosevelt aimed to avoid a showdown and rejected ultimatums. A pencil note to Roosevelt's secretary outlined a six month plan for easing tensions and limits on Japanese troop movements.
A Senate appropriations subcommittee removed a news freedom provision from a 350 million UNRRA bill and added a parity price rider. The amendment bars using funds to buy farm products without parity to producers and restricts purchases to U S parity prices. It is championed by Senator Elmer Thomas. Eisenhower praises UNRRA efforts while the acting army chief of staff appears at the committee’s holiday session.
Dr. W. B. Gnagi and his wife will travel to Washington on December 7 to receive fellowship in the International College of Surgeons. The honor surpasses what is typical in the American College of Surgeons and elevates the reputation of the Monroe surgeon and the city.
Mrs. Ernie Pyle widow of the famed war correspondent died in Albuquerque at 7 30 a m. today. She was often referred to as that girl in his column.
In the Commons Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin argued over a three year postponement of Greece’s plebiscite on the monarchy. Bevin urged a two to three year delay would be wrong and challenged any plebiscite under current conditions. He pressed great powers to state their wants to avert suspicions, and urged no UN meeting for now on the Washington atomic energy declaration.
Washington reports that all meat rations end tomorrow and all food fats become point free, with butter margarine lard and shortening freed. Sugar remains the only rationed item as of the March 29 1948 program began. About one third of meat supply became ration free since September 30.
AP reports the OPA cautions saving sugar stamp No. 38 for five pounds through December 31 while meats and fats rationing ends tomorrow and other stamps in book four become valueless. Red tokens previously used as change for meat fats coupons are noted.
The meats and fats rationing program begun March 29 1943 will end at 12 01 a m Saturday. Secretary Anderson notes no immediate sugar rationing lift and estimates civilian meat availability could rise to 165 pounds per person annually by December from 110 previously. Bowles and Anderson discussed continuing allied aid shipments and cautioned fats and oils rationing would require a new program if meat rationing ends.
The agriculture department announced the fat salvage program will continue while fat supplies are short. Housewives and consumers will still receive 4 cents a pound from participating local retailers, but there will be no red point bounty as the red point ration program ends at 12 01 a m tomorrow.
An Ameri sa project targets Chicago with a pro industry stock push. The reveal outlines a plan to boost investments, manufacturing capacity, and employment, signaling a broad market expansion for the firm in the city.
A B 25 bomber bearing Lt Gen Alexander M Patch Jr body leaves San Antonio for West Point for final rites by the Fourth Army commander who died of pneumonia at Brooke General Hospital The funeral is tentatively set for 2 30 p m Sunday at the United States Military Academy cemetery
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