Highway Accidents Reported Across County With Several Fractures
An afternoon report lists Charles Mitchell, 64, Blanchardville, injured with leg fractures after an morning crash near Blanchardville. He is in good condition at St. Clare hospital. Jerry Kruesi, New Glarus, uninjured but car damaged in a freak crash near Exeter cheese factory. Four additional minor accidents occurred in the county, including a collision between Kreuss and Gempler near a gravel road crest and a hit and run on highway 11 near Monroe.
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Charles Mitchell
Blanchardville
St. Clare Hospital
Mitchell
Jerry Kruesi
New Glarus
Miss Gempeler
Kreuss
Earl Holcomb
Monroe
Browntown
Highway 11
Adolph Roeili
A. A. Huffman
Ludlow Hotel
Roelli
11Th Street
14Th Ave
Johnson Care
John Techete
William F. Carey
Mineral Point
16Th Avenue
Child Killed by Car In Racine
Betsy Laycock six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Roger T Laycock was killed last night when struck by an automobile car crash fatalities reported from Racine authorities said the incident occurred on a city street and the child died at the scene or en route to a hospital
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Racine
Betsy Laycock
Roger T. Laycock
Fatal Skid Crash Takes Teen Passenger
A deadly traffic accident near Gran Se ate involved Delores Hauffcut a 15 year old passenger. The vehicle skidded off the road and overturned. Her head struck a fence post driven through the car roof.
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Delores Hauffcut
Harold Hauffcut
Car Crush Kills One in Wausau Curve
A car rollover on a curve in Stevens Point Almond France 19 of Wausau was killed instantly when crushed beneath the vehicle. Lawrence Kopp of Wausau and three other passengers were injured but not seriously.
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Stevens Point
Almond
France
Wausau
Lawrence Kopp
World observance tomorrow marks Holy Communion ceremony
Worldwide communion is planned in many churches with more servicemen returning to their communities than in previous years. No mass communion services are scheduled.
Couple Leaves for Europe on Long Planned Trip
Mr and Mrs Ed Rufer of Monroe departed for Chicago and then boarded a plane to Europe. They will visit Meyringen in Berner Oberland Switzerland where Mrs Rufer lived before 1914 and will call on Herman Koenig in Zurich. The journey spans several months with a return on the Queen Elizabeth.
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Ed Rufer
Monroe
Chicago
Europe
Iceland approves U S use of airport in Reykjavik vote
Reykjavik The Iceland Al thing ratified to night an agreement with the United States for use of an Ice land airport. The vote was 32 19 with one abstaining. Manila G L Prescott former member of General Chenaults Flying Tigers was killed by a stray bullet and two Filipinos were wounded today as a gunfight raged in the lobby of the fashionable Manila hotel.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Althing
United States
Manila
G. L. Prescott
Chenault
Flying Tigers
Manila Hotel
Gifford Pinchot Dies in New York State
Gifford Pinchot, 81, former Pennsylvania governor and forest conservation leader, died last night at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York with his wife at his side. A prominent Roosevelt ally and conservation advocate, Pinchot helped found the Progressive faction and served as head of the federal conservation service under Roosevelt and Taft. He ran for the U.S. Senate three times and lost, then retired to Milford, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1865 in Simsbury Connecticut and married Cornelia Bryce. they had a son, Gifford Bryce Pinchot.
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New York
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Pinchot
Theodore Roosevelt
Federal Department of Conservation
Roosevelt
Taft
Republican Party
Senate
United States Senate
GOP
Forester
Milford
Pike County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Simsbury
Conn
Phillips Exeter Academy
Yale
Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce
Lloyd Stevens Bryce
Netherlands
Gifford Bryce Pinchot
Galapagos Islands
Pacific
National Museum
Washington
Pré
Charles G. Ross
Truman
Ross
Mead
Small Business Committee
William O'Dwyer
New York City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deer Hunter Slain Near Ironwood Michigan
Ironwood Michigan reports Reginald Selves of Iron Belt Wisconsin was wounded in the abdomen while deer hunting. District Attorney J S Raineri said Eric Kangas of Iron Belt shot him, mistaking a fight carried by Selves for a reflection from a deer's eyes. Kangas is not being held. authorities investigate.
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Ironwood
Mich
Reginald Selves
Iron Belt
Wis
Iron County
J. S. Raineri
Selves
Eric Kangas
Raineri
Kangas
Milwaukee man killed in hunting accident near Rock Lake
Jefferson County coroner C. W. Schulz reports Charles Brown age 41 of Milwaukee died today after stepping into the line of a companion s shotgun blast while duck hunting near Rock Lake. The incident was ruled accidental.
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Lake Mills
Charles Brown
Milwaukee
Rock Lake
Jefferson County
C. W. Schulz
Schulz
Brown
Rush Avoidance Poster Sparks Holiday Prep
A Monroe hardware store warns shoppers to avoid the rush and starts early Christmas preparations. Clerks dust toys received in summer while others delay until after Thanksgiving, prompting management to speed up displays and pricing.
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Monroe Hardware
Acquitted Nazi leaders face new limits and exits in Germany
Schacht Hans Fritsche and Franz von Papen were freed to come and go under guard, while US officials warned freedom could be short lived and denazification court proceedings loom. Papen remained jailed as British zones deny entry. Kaltenbrunner Speer Schirach sought clemency but many did not appeal. German bar association warning looms over Nazi defense lawyers.
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Nuernberg
Hamar Schacht
Hans Fritsche
International War Crimes Tribunal
Palace of Justice
Morris Smith
Public Safety Department
U. S
Leo Stahl
Allied Control Council
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Gestapo
Albert Speer
Armaments
Baldur von Schirach
Hitler
Frankfurt
German
Bar Association
Suddeutsche Zeitung
Munich
German proposal to try Nazis in a German court
British and American occupation officials proposed that three defendants acquitted of war crimes at Nuernberg be tried by a German court for crimes against the German people. The plan, adopted at a German unification conference, would create a four zone court to try Hijalmar Schacht Hans Fritsche and Franz von Papen. The four power tribunal had acquitted them while convicting 19 other high nazis and sentencing 12 to death.
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Nuernberg
Hijalmar Schacht
Hans Fritsche
Franz von Papen
Some Dizzy Reporting On Grid Game
Monroe fans watched a 35 to 7 victory by the Cheesemakers at Recreation Park while several outlets aired garbled scores. The morning paper misreported 28 to 7 and Madison radio and The Times sought the official count after multiple versions circulated.
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Monroe
Recreation Park
Madison
the Times
Drafts of Peace Treaties Move to Full Conference
Paris reports the peace conference commissions completed work on treaties with Bulgaria Finland Hungary Italy and Romania after long sessions. A Balkan reparations clash split Western and Slav blocs over Bulgaria’s payments to Greece and Yugoslavia as the five treaties head to the plenary for debate and speed rules are set for Monday.
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Paris
Conference For Action
Balkan Economic Commission
Bulgaria
Greece
Yugoslavia
Foreign Ministers Council
U. S
Finland
Hungary
Italy
Romania
United States
Russia
Italian Economic Commission
Ethiopia
Albania
Fire Flare At Monroe City Dump Shortens Summer Blaze
A dump fire south of Monroe flared briefly at 4 p.m. yesterday as Mrs. John J. Kundert reported the blaze. City workmen were sent to the site to contain it and prevent spread.
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Monroe City
John J. Kundert
Yugoslavs Forcibly Down British Airplane
Allied reports say a British plane was forced down in Yugoslavia amid Yugoslav action. The Rome dispatch notes uncertainty over whether ground fire or fighters caused the incident and identifies the craft as a Bari Belgrade Bucharest courier plane.
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Rome
Yugoslavia
Caserta
RAF
Bucharest
Marshal Tito
Vienna
Udine
Two Rural Youths Suffer Mild Polio Cases
Ernest and John Beutel, sons of Mr and Mrs Ernest Beutel of Monroe route 2, are confined at home with very mild polio. Their attending physician diagnosed the cases as most mild after the children fell ill about three days earlier. Both boys are able to play and around others.
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Ernest
John Beutel
Ernest Beutel
Monroe Route 2
Advertising Promoter Skips Big Monroe Wisconsin Game
Attendance at the Recreation Park football game was among the largest in history. The promoter who urged fans to attend was absent, choosing to stay home with a book as his mother handled a business meeting uptown and left Junior with Daddy as babysitter.
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Recreation Park
Monroe-Wisconsin
Dreamboat plane halfway Honolulu to Cairo Arctic flight
The Pacuuian dreamboat, a massive US Army Superfortress, travels from Honolulu toward Cairo over the Greenland icecap. At 9:30 a.m. CST the crew estimated 5,700 miles of a 10,300 mile journey, with Reykjavik as a waypoint and a top speed near 250 mph.
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London
Greenland
Honolulu
Cairo
Reykjavik
Iceland
Air Transport Command
New York
Denmark Straits
Australia
Columbus
Pacific
Alaska
British Air Ministry
Northolt
Death at 74 Claims Mrs. Charles Brecklein
Mrs. Charles Brecklein 74 died at St. Clare hospital after five weeks of illness following a stroke. She had been hospitalized three weeks and is survived by son Milton and two daughters Mrs. Ernest Keihne and Mrs. Earl Geigel, plus six grandchildren. Funeral services set for Monday at Shriner-Neushwander and Immanuel Evangelical Church with Rev. A. C. Rabehl officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Charles Brecklin
St. Clare Hospital
Dutch Hollow
Monticello
Brecklein
Monroe
Immanuel Evangelical Church
Women’s Missionary Society
Milton
Ernest Keihne
Madison
Earl Geigel
Pleasant
Herman
Henry
C. W
Shriner-Neushwander Funeral Home
A. C. Rabehl
Greenwood Cemetery
Argyle Hog Buyer Beats OPA Ceiling
Washington reports secretary Ross says meat policy under cabinet review as lawmakers press for probes into big business and meat shortages. Argyle’s H F Hawley Sons opens Green County yard to Beat OPA hog ceiling with Monday Wednesday purchases, while local cattle ceilings and scarce pork raise market concerns.
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H. F. Hawley Sons
Argyle
Green County
Highway 81
Halvey
Monroe
Cafes Win 15 Percent Meal Price Hike Approval
The OPA approved a 15 percent increase for meat meals next Thursday in restaurants. Walter F. Clark of the National Restaurant Association expects many will not apply the full raise, noting some costs have already been absorbed. The plan resets ceilings to reflect normal relationships with other meals and uses cost plus margins for pricing. Porter warns of inflation danger and urges public support for price controls as clothing prices near peak and may ease in 1947 with expanding supplies.
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Washington
OPA
Walter F. Clark
National Restaurant Affication
Clark
National Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee
Paul Porter
Porter
Newsprint Decontrol urged by House subcommittee
The Interstate Commerce subcommittee on newsprint asked President Truman to remove price controls immediately to prevent supply chaos and to allow timely production expansion. They argue decontrol won’t trigger runaway prices, noting 81 percent of U.S. newsprint is Canadian and current controls push supply abroad.
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Washington
Truman
House Interstate Commerce
United States
U.S
Canada
U. S
Milwaukee restaurant group to review 15 percent meal rise
The Wisconsin Restaurant Association plans a Milwaukee meeting Wednesday to consider the 15 percent price increase approved by the OPA yesterday. Executive secretary Elmer Conforti said the session would be followed by state sectional meetings and that a 20 percent minimum increase had been adopted as acceptable.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Restaurant Association
OPA
Elmer Conforti
Gob-fest for former navy men in Green county set
An invitational letter from the Monroe gob-fest committee invites all former Navy personnel in Green county to attend on Sunday October 27. The event promises entertainment and meals with no fees or cards, though only men may attend and admiral level attendees require approval from a boatswain’s mate. Committee members include Marshall Peterson as chair, Nathan Burgy, C. W. Matzke and Evan Chambers.
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Navy
Monroe
Green County
John Paul Jones
Marshall Peterson
Nathan Burgy
C. W. Matzke
Evan Chambers
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