Crops Need Warm Weather Across Wisconsin
Weather and crop experts agree warm weather is essential for growth. In Wisconsin, temperatures reached 75 degrees with 40 percent corn planted in the south and 24 percent in the central. Showers were forecast for southern Wisconsin to boost early growth, while peas and other plantings progressed coast to coast.
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Wisconsin
Federal Weather Bureau
Mercury
Waukeshe
Weather Bureau
Howard J. Thompson
Despondent Milwaukee Tavern Keeper Fatally Shoots Self
A 74 year old man, Joseph Cerny of Waukesha, shot himself with a 12 gauge shotgun in the backyard of his Jefferson avenue home. Deputy Coroner Norbohm said death was self inflected and linked to health despondency. Neighbors heard the shot. he was later found dead about 11 20 pm. Funeral services will be held at Bartett funeral home in Milwaukee.
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Waukesha
Jefferson Avenue
East Limits
Herbert Norbohm
Joseph Cerny
Notahm
Peter Wagner
Cenny
Route 5
Cerny
William Skebba
Milwaukee
Suspended Milwaukee Zoo Chief Resigns Amid Allegations
Henry M. Kennan, 91, suspended Washington Park Zoo director, resigns as Milwaukee County Park Commission weighs the move. He faces a morals offense involving a 17 year old girl. Trial delayed pending judge Kleczka ruling on release petition.
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Swaukee—Or
Milwaukee County Park Commission
Henry M. Kennan
Washington Park Zoo
Kernen
John ©. Kleczka
Stassen Praised by Collier's Editor in Minneapolis
Harold E. Strassen receives candid praise as a rising Republican hopeful. William L. Chenery of Collier's Magazine calls him the hope of the party and the country and a brilliant man with large imagination and views. Chenery predicts Shipstead’s defeat with Thye and Stassen backing.
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Stassen
Collier’s
Miinneapolis
U.2
Harold E. Strassen
William L. Chenery
Colliers Magazine
Chenery
Minneapolis
Minnesota
United States
Henrik Shipstead
United Nations
Edward J. Thye
Parkway River Boulevard Plans Move Forward in City Council
The council greenlit plans for a Fox River boulevard from Broadway to Barstow to ease downtown congestion and add parking, moving to condemn riverfront properties and buy land including a $5,000 parcel from Mrs. Ethel Wilbur. Also approved Blair school expansion, considered a bus terminal, and funded a new $500 motorcycle for police traffic control.
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Fox River
Broadway
Barstow Street
Common Council
Alder
Ethel Wilbur
Madison St
Main Street
Five Points
Frame Park
Blair
Maude Blackstone
Blair School
R. F. Lewis
Board of Education
Blackstone
St. Joesph's Caihole
Msgr
E. J. Rodenkirch
Martin Street
R. T. Jones
Raps
Honor Rail Park
John W. Beatty
Beatty
Honor Bell Park
Daily Freeman
Honor Roll Park
Tteir
Memorial Hospital
Mayor’s chosen city engineer fails on council vote
In a 13 to 2 rebuff, Waukesha aldermen rejected Mayor Edwin H Honeyager’s nominee Arthur B Krohn to replace Walter E Dick as city engineer. Dick remains on a day to day basis, and Krohn, a Rhinelander sanitation engineer and former county contractor, had been a state agency engineer.
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Edwin H. Honeyager
Walter E. Dick
Arthur B. Krohn
Rhinelander
Krohn
Waukesha
Honeyager
George W. Coutts
Coutts
State Board of Health
Marquette
State Highway Commission
Krohn Dick
Mayid
Howard Newman
Theodore Wighor
Council
Olsen
Frank L. Roberts
Roberts
Frank Ruckert
John Mielke
Ald
Harry A. Franson
Franson
Eggs Boiled as Truck Burns Outside Uptown Hotel
A truck carrying 2400 eggs caught fire in front of the Uptown hotel at 11:14 am. Owner Ben Riesch watched seven cases, 200 dozen eggs, go up in flames as a crowd gathered to witness the breakfast spoilage. The 1932 model A Ford alongside the load was also lost.
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Ben Riesch
Legion and Auxiliary Plan Monday Party
The American Legion and Auxiliary announce a Monday gathering at the Elks club at 8 p.m. to honor the organization’s 200th member. Bill Trinke, state commander, will speak. after the business meeting members will move to the Legion club house for a dance with refreshments.
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Legion and Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Elk’s Club
At & P.m
al Hausgen
D. J. Mureum
Bill Trinke
American Legion
Elks Club
Legion
Haugen
Favor Food Council of 20 Nations Proposes New World Board
Washington and London announce a proposed 20 nation emergency food council to replace the Anglo American Canadian board. Members include the United States Britain Canada Russia Argentina and others to advise on food fertilizer and feed allocation during the crisis. The council would not supersede UN FAO or UN relief agencies but could send representatives to meetings and operate until 1947 with potential extension.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Britain
Canada
International Emergency Food Council
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Russia
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Braz
Chile
China
Cuba
Denmark
France
Greece
India
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Turkey
Union of South Africa
Council
United Nations
Hein Werner stock surge shocks traders in Chicago market
Hein Werner Motor Parts Corp stock, listed as Hein Werner, has surged since last week with a daily average gain of about $2.00 and a closing price around $31.50 per share. President G. G Hein attributes the rise to strong finances and rising profits, noting a $4 million backlog and a dividend increase from about $1 to $2 per share.
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Waukehike
Hein- Werner Motor Parts Corp
Chicago
Hein-Werneer
G. G Hein
Hein-Werner
Hein
Taylor Appointed Chairman of Waukesha Savings Bond Committee
Carl Taylor was named chairman of the Waukesha county agricultural advisory committee to educate farmers about the U S savings bond program. The committee will urge saving bonds for future expenditures and promote bonds as a safe place to invest while awaiting better values in consumer goods.
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Carl Taylor
Waukesha
Wy. S. Savints
Funeral services for Fred Keppen in Mukwanago
Funeral services for 76 year old Fred Keppen who died at his home in Mukwanago will be held Thursday at 2 PM from Powers funeral home. Interment will be in Oak Knoll cemetery. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Stanley Riogatt of Eagle Lake a son Herman of Mukwonage and a brother Ervin Keppen of Mukwonage.
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Fred Keppen
Mukwanago
Powers
Oak Knoll
Stanley Riogatt
Eagle Lake
Herman
Mukwonage
Ervin Keppen
Wan Kesha Motorco Declares Quarterly Dividend for 1946
The Wan kesha Motorco board of directors announced a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share for the first half of 1946. The dividend is payable June 1.
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Wankesha Motorco
Question on Iran troop withdrawal at UN
The UN Security Council kept Iran on its agenda amid doubts from Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala that all Soviet troops have left Azerbaijan and Iran. U S delegate Stettinius urged continued inquiry while Gromyko boycotted the session. Reuters reports notes from Washington cited lingering uncertainty about troop movements and possible Soviet presence in northern Iran.
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New York
United Nations Security Council
Hussein Ala
Iran
U. S
UN Action
Hussein Ata
Tran
Council
Azerbaijan
Red
Ala
Tehran
U.S
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Ahmed Ghavam Is-Sultanen
United States
Britain
Russia
Security Council
Tettintus
Andrei A. Gromyko
Alexandre Parodi
Grovernment
Centrai Biind
Washington
State Department
Juan
Lidice Butcher Hanged for Nazi Crimes at Pankrac Prison
Karl Hermann Frank, the Bohemia Moravia protector during the occupation, was executed by hanging in the yard of Pankrac prison for wholesale atrocities including Lidice destruction. His counsel’s appeal to keep him in prison was denied, and he offered no further remarks.
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Lidice
London
Prague
Karl Hermann Frank
Bohemia-Moravia
Pankyac
Lidige
Frank
Europe
Four divorces granted in Waukesha County
County Judge Allen D Young granted four divorcees to Waukesha county couples Tuesday. Harriet Carley 37 a nurse of Waukesha route 3 was granted divorce from Harry Carl with custody of their son and 30 monthly alimony. Mabelle Cook 29 of Oconomonoc was divorced from Charles 31 with 35 monthly support for son Terry Lee. Francesca N vosia 43 of 320 E Main st won a divorce from Samuel 50 after eleven years apart. Marion L Rees 42 welder of 700 Chicago ave was granted divorce from Grace 36 who has been confined in an Eau Claire institution. They had no children.
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Allen D. Young
Waukesha County
Harry Carl
Milwaukee
Harriet Carley
Waukesha
Carley
Robert
Mabelle Cook
Oconomonoc Buauty
Charles
Beechwood Ave
Terry Lee
Francesca Nicvosia
E. Main St
Samuel
E.main St
Marion L. Rees
Chicago Ave
Grace
Eau Claire
Bail Fixed at 2000 for Desertion of Wife in Milwaukee
Edward Wachal, 43, of 18 St Paul Ave, charged with deserting his wife Lucy and their year old daughter after vanishing May 8 1945. Preliminary hearing set for next Wednesday by Judge Scott Lowry. Milwaukee man Harvey L DeVall fined 50 dollars for drunken driving and had license revoked for one year.
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Jin Municipal
Edward Wachal
Lucy
St. Paul Ave
Wachal
Barron
Wis
Scott Lowry
Milwaukee
Harvey L. DeVall
State St
County Ranks Second in Cows Being Tested
Waukesha county ranks second to Washburn in the percentage of cows on test with 12.0 percent, while Washburn leads at 12.1 percent. The program, growing since the war, involves 1464 head in the county and reflects broad dairy herd testing across Wisconsin. More than 7,500 dairymen maintain milk and butterfat records, with about 153,000 cows on test as of May 1, per J. Stallard.
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Waukesha County
Washburn County
University of Wisconsin Agricultural College
Washburn Ieads
Waukesha
Wisconsin
J. &. Stallard
College of Agriculture
Martin Asks Conference on Illegal Election Case
Madison attorney general John E. Martin asked two war veterans attorneys to confer on a petition seeking leave to start a suit to force reapportionment of state senate and assembly districts. The lawyers want to block this fall’s elections until districts are reallocated per the 1940 census. Martin invited a quick, practical meeting to discuss expedient procedures and potential court action.
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Madison
John E. Martin
Charles W. Totio
John Lawton
Martin Monday
Ervin Bruner
University of Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson
Clear Lake
Polk County
Martin
State Supreme Court
Senate
Assembly
Totter
Lawton
Consti
Miners Refuse to Dig Without New Contracts
Coal miners threaten stoppage as government seizure of coal fields looms. Labor, management, and officials seek a truce with a five day window ending Thursday 4 p.m. while thousands remain idle across Pennsylvania and Illinois. John L. Lewis meets with Interior Secretary Krug to negotiate a new contract.
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United Press
Truman
Union
John BR. Steelman
Brotherhood
Contrict Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
UFL
Ilinois
UMA
Herrin
UMW
Hugh White
West Frankfort
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
Ohio
Colorado
Kansas Cuy
Lewis
J. A. Krug
Union and Operators to Meet Late Today
Washington special assistant John R. Stellman spoke with oath union and management officials in the railway dispute as a five day truce nears expiration Thursday afternoon. He said he did not know the odds for settlement and noted talk of a White House meeting later Wednesday, though no decision was made.
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Washington
John R. Stellman
Truman
Oath
Steelman
White House
Lewis and Krug Discuss Soft Coal Contract Terms
Washington report says President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Interior Secretary J. A. Krug opened negotiations on a government-union soft coal contract. They discussed possible welfare fund support for miners.
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Washington
U.P
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
J. A. Krug Wedingsday
Wisconsin Weather Forecast Mixed Clouds Warmer This Afternoon
Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon and tonight with showers in the north portion. Thursday brings showers and scattered thunderstorms, cooler in the north. Overnight low around the mid 40s to 50s. Temperature ranges yesterday and last year show highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s to 40s. Local hourly readings appear with incomplete data in the snippet.
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Wisconsin
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