Nazis Battle For Florence Slow Advance On City
Eighth Army on the Florence front makes slow progress against five German divisions defending the Tuscan capital. German forces including the fourth parachute division, 29th panzer grenadiers, and third panzer grenadiers are supported by Tiger tanks and deploying road booby traps as they fight a last stand. At Pisa the 5th Army observes the tower as an alleged observation post while artillery holds fire.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Alieda
Italy
Panzer Grenadiers
Panzer Egrenadiers
Tiger
5Th Army
Tower of
Pisa
Can He Do It CHICAGO Seaman trainee seeks final exam pass
At 10 o clock Bill Babber, 17, was four pounds underweight during the maritime service physical for seaman training. A second exam at 3 o clock found he passed by a pound, after eating doughnuts and coffee in the Red Cross serving line to reach the required weight for the final test.
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Chicago
Bill Babber
U. S. Maritime Service
Red Cross
Mortgage Of Tomah Church Is Burned
Tomah Wisconsin special report notes the Evangelical church held mortgage burning services to liquidate a 1940 debt. Bishop G. E. delivered the sermon. The church began in 1892 and in 1940 a new colonial gothic building was erected requiring the loan. Four years later the debt is fully paid.
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Tomah Church
Tomah
Wis
Evangelical Church
G. E
Poisonous Apples From Manchineel Trees Reported
Tropical American manchineel trees produce poisonous apples whose milky juice blisters skin and resembles carbolic acid in strength.
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America
Cadet Dalphus D. Earle Commended for Heroic Rescue
Camp McCoy Wisconsin reports Pfc Dalphus D. Earle of the 657th Engineer Topographical Battalion received a commendation from Col George M. MacMullin for jumping into the Mississippi River at La Crosse to save a civilian who attempted death by suicide. The action, on July 23, was praised as beyond duty and reflecting credit on his unit and the Army.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Mississippi River
Dalphus D. Earle
George M. MacMullin
MacMullin
Pvt
Earle
la Crosse
Scout Camping Season Closes With Merit Honors Displayed
The 1944 Gateway Area Boy Scouts season closed amid notable achievements. Three groups of 16 beginners passed tenderfoot tests in Caledonia Coon Valley and La Crosse areas, with many earning second and first class ranks. Honor Society totals reached 74. merit badges 54. special awards recognized Life Saving, swimming, first aid, star and gold palm honors. Eagle candidates include Skemp Pearse Nichols Meyn.
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Erling Hoambsal
Charles Hauge
Roland Ensrud
Claude Kremer
Caledonia
George Gjefle
Jerald
Richard Nestingen
Gery Larson
Don Tiedeman
Ted Dreves
Phillip Dahlen
Coon Valley
Robert Gilbert
John Alexander
Joe Bakalars
Donald Gienn
George Bishop
de la
Nia
Ee Ieldiomes
David Quarberg
Mondovi
Bob Nichols
Bill Meyn
Whitehall
James Pearse
Robert
Joe Skemp
la Crosse
Don Selbride
West Salem
Dick Kunes
Newell Erickson
John Sharps
Phillip Pejza
Camp Decorah
James Schipper
Robert Skemp
Robert Nichols
Billy Meyn
Gateway Area
B. W. Ingli
Gus Bohl
Ingli
Summer band practice moved to Tuesday evening
The recreational band will practice Tuesday at 7 15 PM at the Vocational school instead of Wednesday. The first summer concert under H C Amundson is set for Thursday at 8 PM at the Vocational school.
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H. C. Amundson
Coast Guard Day Proclaimed in La Crosse
The city salutes the Coast Guard and St. Louis Ninth Naval District declaring Friday, August 4, 1944 Coast Guard Day in La Crosse. Mayor J J Verdhota signed the proclamation at City Hall on July 28, 1944.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
United States Coast Guard
George Washington
Coast Guard
Revenue Cutter Service
Exiled Polish Leaders May Join Postwar Government in Moscow
In Moscow, Premier Mikolajczyk and Foreign Minister Romer of the Polish government in exile discuss roles in a new Polish setup after talks with Soviet officials. Observers see signs of progress on the Polish question as they meet with U S and British ambassadors. Separately, secrecy lifts on a mass movement of American built planes to Russia via Canada and Alaska. About 10 000 planes since 1941, with 2 000 via Edmonton and Fairbanks in early 1944, low losses and some Russian air crew participation noted.
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LA Crosse Tribune
Moscow
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Tadeus Romer
London
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Archibald Clark Kerr
Edmonton
Alta
United States
Russia
Alaska
Fairbanks
AAF Celebrates 37 Years As Flight Branch Marks Milestones
The Army Air Forces reach 37 years in service with 2.3 million officers and men and 75 000 aircraft. An Aug. 1, 1907 order created a Division of Aeronautics in the Signal Corps led by Capt. Charles Del Chandler with Edward Ward and Joseph E Barrett. Two years later the division received its first plane a 30 horsepower Wright brothers craft.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Signal Corps
Charles del. Chandler
Edward Ward
Joseph E. Barrett
Wright Brothers
Strauss Waltzes Reflect Melancholy Era Amid War
The gay Viennese waltzes of Strauss arose not in joy but in Austria's wartime gloom and economic hardship, capturing a period of national melancholy through music.
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Strauss
Austria
Pfc. Donald Scholz Missing in France
Whitehall Wisconsin report states Pfc. Donald Scholz twenty of Hale is missing in action in France since D-day June 6. A paratrooper in service since January nineteen forty three he had been overseas a few months. He was born August eighteen nineteen twenty four in Hale and moved to a farm near Eau Claire with his parents. He has two brothers Edgar and Robert and his maternal grandparents C F W Seiler and Mrs. Seiler. An aunt of Donald is Mrs Rudolph Mattson of Whitehall.
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Whitehall
Wis
C. F. W. Seiler
Hale
Pfc
Donald Scholz
Rudolph Scholz
Eau Claire
France
Scholz
Edgar
Robert
Rudolph Mattson
Donald
Bomb Jap Sub Sunk in Hong Kong Sea Sweep
U S liberators on a sea sweep off Hong Kong bombed and probably sunk a partly submerged Japanese submarine. The report was issued from Lieut Joseph W Stilwell's headquarters today.
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Chungking
U. S
Hongkong
Joseph W. Stilwell
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