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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
11
Army and navy officials will confer tomorrow on how much political news should reach American troops. The briefing aims to set limits on material sent to service members.
The war department barred distribution of two motion pictures to armed forces at home and overseas. Wilson and Heavenly Days were deemed possibly influential on national elections, prompting debate among senators and film producers about censorship and access to political information for service members. Caledonia family notes sons in overseas service including D Day troops and assignments in New Guinea, Texas, and England.
A Dunfermline survey urges a postwar identification map for all residents under new citizen card requirements. It notes 134 people had not signed their identifications as the legal framework shifts toward universal ID.
An advertisement identifies emus and notes funding from the Donley for Governor Club with John L as secretary at 701 Wisconsin Ave. Wisconsin.
At Pearl Harbor on July 26 193? President Roosevelt arrived aboard his ship. A Honolulu paper handed to him recalls the first presidential visit ten years ago. In Honolulu July 29 the president addresses why Americans are better in jungle and atoll fighting and vows to beat Japan in any game of war or pleasure.
Edward Palmer Oines 20 earned silver wings as a flight officer at RAF training in Georgia and at George Field Illinois. Edward Jerome Noe graduated from Corpus Christi naval air training center and became an ensign in the Naval Reserve. James Thorndon serves with a signal construction unit in France after training at Camp Crowder and other posts. Judith Ann lives at 946 Division Street.
The article details graduation ceremonies at Lubbock Army Air Field for lieutenants Olsen Matejski Simones and Terry and the reception of RAF wings by John R Simones and Richard E Terry. It notes their training paths and planned leaves, with background on their high school and college histories and enlistment dates.
The report notes a traveler who saw the Pope in Cathedral through to Mussolini in the palace and visited a noted theater and Mount Vesuvius in Italy. He sent souvenirs home from Italy and the Panama Canal Zone where he stayed ten months in 1942. A brother, T. Sgt., is stationed in Oran. Block signal systems on railways today reflect modifications of the early semaphore.
The Rev. George H. McAhren was reappointed as pastor of the Viola United Church and named conference superintendent for the coming year. Other appointments span Wiscon sin districts with names including Bailey Waite Talledge Headley Davison McCormick Blackburn Huffman Hillesheim Gudgeon Outcelt Welsh Davison Ward Mower Burch Mathews Kintz Sutton Adams Warren Brice Sutton and chaplains M. W. Tanner W. L. Young. Bonin islands crops listed as sugar cane pineapples and bananas.
John Tangen, 44, a well regarded Hanover township farmer with 300 acres near Waukon, Iowa, died after swallowing strychnine in a local tavern. He told a companion of his act, was taken to a hospital, and died 30 minutes later. Survived by his wife, four children, four sisters, and both parents.
Produc tion Chief Donald M. Nelson asked the army and navy to assess munitions inventories and consider cutting production. He sent a controversial, suppressed ordnance report to the joint chiefs to guide possible procurement changes, as Allied leaders meet in Washington with Marshall King Arnold and others. In China a small village monks mold butter into gods that rule for one night each year.
A Musselburgh report from Britain's Minister of Pensions Sir Arthur Womersley states that ninety percent of those discharged from military service have found work. The total employed after medical treatment now exceeds 150000.
Ancient cats hunted birds as a norm while modern researchers explore humane training to curb predatory behavior. Programs study environmental enrichment and positive reinforcement to reduce hunting events in domestic felines.
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