Federal and State Aid for Improved Intersections Here
City officials announce postwar improvements to city intersections with federal and state aid. Planned changes target dangerous corners on highways 69 and 11, including multiple junctions around 6th, 20th, 16th, 11th, 13th streets and 23rd avenue. Monroe, population over 6,500, qualifies for city street aid. plans require council action and state-federal submissions, with preliminary local costs about 30,000 from state and federal partners and 9,000 from Monroe.
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Sfayer
Frank Buehler
Zenno A. Gorder
D. J. Menehan
State Highway Commission
Monroe
6Th Street
20Th Avenue
16Th Street
16Th Avenue
19Th Street
11Th Avenue
13Th Street
23Rd Avenue
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
State Commission
Federal Bureau
Taylor Resigns Post With WLB Amid Board Dispute
Dr. George W. Taylor today offered his resignation as chairman of the war bond board, in a heated session with the board over WLB plans to function autonomously. He reserved the right to enter disputes for conciliation, as in the Detroit strikes affecting production at the Ford Motor Company, tying his move to the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel situation.
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Starning
George W. Taylor
WLB
Detroit
Kelsey-Hayes
Ford Motor Company
Washington
Labor Department
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Labor Consiltation Service
Uawcio
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
UAW
Kelsey- Hayes Wheel Company
International Union
Richard T. Frankensteen
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company
Percy Llewellyn
Wheel Company
La Crosse Health Board Bans School-Age Gatherings
The La Crosse board of health imposed a ban on all gatherings of school age children except in class due to spread of a virus. A.M. Murphy, city health officer, said the order applied to dances and similar events.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Crosse
Board of Health
Velius
A.M. Murphy
Peaceful reconstruction pledge cited by Ta Kung Pao
Ta Kung Pao reports Chinese government and communist negotiators commit to peaceful reconstruction of a unified China under Washington leadership. The Senate votes to fund workers’ return home for jobs lost during the war, covering moving costs for the worker and family. Chairman Boren announces War Production Board news restrictions to be lifted by December.
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Chungking
Ta Kung Pao
China
Washington
Senate
Boren
D-Okla
House
War Production Board
Nomura Denies Knowing Pearl Harbor Plan
Nomura, Japan's ambassador to the United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, told an interview today he did not know of the Dec 7 plan when he carried a Japanese note to Secretary of State Hull on that fateful day in 1941.
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Aunyo
Richisaburo Nomura
United States
Pearl Harbor
Hull
Strikes Idle 210000 as Labor Disputes Spread
Nationwide labor unrest pushes idle workers near 210000 with new stoppages in oil refining and manufacturing. Detroit area shows calm but CIO oil workers eye 30 percent wage gains. GM warns of further layoffs amid part shortages. Washington watches newly organized labor department for possible action.
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Associated Press
Labor Front
Detroit
CIO Oil Workers
Ohio
Michigan
West Virginia
Port Arthur
Hull
Japan
Nash-Kelvinator
Kenoi
I/sha
Wildcat
New York
CIO Marine and Shipbuilding
CIO
General Motors Corporation
OPA Plans Ceilings on Building Prices Speeds Action
OPA officials moved quickly to draft a broad price control measure covering new homes and the lots they sit on with resale ceilings for existing dwellings. Price Administrator Bowles said the plan would reach Congress soon and tighten prices on building materials and contractor charges while extending rent controls in crowded cities through June 1946. A fatal plunge report from Milwaukee notes Gustave A. Radtke, 67, died when a railing on a fire escape gave way and he fell 20 feet.
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OPA
Chester Bowles
Congress
Bowles
Milwaukee
Gustave A. Radtke
Essaree
Improved City Dump Near Monroe Opens for Use
The new South Monroe garbage site along highway 69 provides a fenced pit with a gravel approach. Citizens are urged to haul cans and ashes only to the top and to avoid breaking limbs or trash. the old dump west of town is closed and will be landscaped to heal the area.
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Monroe
At -Sial
Eueee
William Rees
Rees
Soaes Oot
Ats
Jose Old
Rain and Hail Strike Wisconsin City Amid Frost Risk
Wisconsin faced heavy storms with hail and high winds causing thousands in damage across Portage, Wood, and Milwaukee counties. At General Mitchell Airport near Milwaukee winds shattered planes and hangars, while Stevens Point saw roof loss and uprooted trees. Minor crop damage reported in Monroe area and St John Evangelical Lutheran church in Milwaukee struck by lightning. The weather warned of low temperatures near frost tonight threatening corn in the region.
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Mest
Wisconsin
Monroe
Green County
Lake Michigan
Mercury
Portage
Wood
Milwaukee
General Mitchell
Stevens Point
Jacklin Supply Company
Portage County Highway Department
C. E. Nebel
Nebel
Portage County
Michael Jansen
Wisconsin Rapids
Arpin
Vesper
Jansen
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Opening duck season boosts stamp sales at Monroe Post Office
The Monroe Post Office reports 66 duck stamps sold at opening day, with Postmaster John J. Burkhard noting the figure is high for the district and remarking there may not be that many ducks to be found.
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Monroe
John J. Burkhard
Document reveals Nazi pogrom files recovered in Munich
The recovered Nazi files detail preplanned pogrom orders sent to police and party formations, include the Gestapo summary of crimes against Jews, and note secret judgments by the Nazi supreme party court. It cites the case of 13 year old Ruth Jalter and others, with indictments and lenient outcomes.
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Berlin
Gestapo
Naz Supreme Party
Storm
Franz Norgan
Heilsberg
East Prussia
Still Quarreling About Number to Remain in Japan
Reported in Tokyo and Yokohama, Allied forces plan to keep 300000 occupation troops in Japan with projections to 400000 by year end, while demobilization gains accelerate. General Tojo to be moved to Yokohama prison as 32 war crime suspects remain in custody. Japan suffers typhoon damage with 18 killed and thousands homeless.
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Japan
Tokyo
Halsey
MacArthur
Japanese Home Ministry
Kanoya
Kyushu
Shikoku
Honshu
Sea of Japan
Yokohama
Hideki Tojo
Yokohama Prefectural
Pearl Harbor
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. Fighth Army
Eighth Army
Tojo
Army
Marshall Sees Service Cuts
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles says the Japan to America non stop route will be flown both ways. He led a three B 29 flight that landed in Chicago for fuel then continued to Washington in just over two hours, describing the great circle route as the shortest and likely to be used often.
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Wwn
Barney M. Giles
Japan
America
Giles
Washington
Sapporo
Chicago
United States
Moscow
California
Egypt
Australia
Polio Fund Plea On FDR Birthday From Truman
President Truman will carry on Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio fund appeal on FDR's birthday January 30. Basil O'Connor said the drive will include memorial concerts in cities and continue the march of dimes fundraisers. Drives last January netted over 16 million.
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Washington
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Basil O'Connor
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Poland to Permit More Newspapermen To Enter Country
The Polish government has clearance to admit a substantial number of additional American press representatives. Aug. 25 clearance was granted for AP UPI and INS reporters, and 13 more American representatives, including a Milwaukee Journal correspondent and an AP photographer, have now been approved. Ambassador Bliss Lane in Warsaw notified the State Department.
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Washington
Poland
State Department
Associated Press
United Press and International News Service
Milwaukee Journal
Bliss Lane
Warsaw
Department
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