Nine Enlist In Service Through Local Recruitment Drive
The La Crosse recruiting station reports daily intake for the U S regular army. Inductees from La Crosse include Arthur Thomas Martin and Walter Irwin Doerre both enlisting for three years in the army air forces. Others enlist for 18 months or reenlist for three years. notes include Donald George MacLachlan Donald Leo Dillon Duane Larue Seaman Wayne Harmon Theodore Arnold Kaminsky Donald Dean Calhoun Walter Nelson and staff notes their addresses next of kin and former units with dates ranging from 1942 to 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Regular Army
la Crosse
William J. Ludwig
Ft. Sheridan
Arthur Thomas Martin
Mary N. Martin
North 21St Street
Army Air Forces
Walter Irwin Doerre
Ingerdoerre Hanson
R. 3
Donald George MacLachlan
George A. MacLachlan
Lose
Boulevard
Donald Leo Dillon
Francis L. Dillon
West Seventh Street
Richland Center
Duane Larue Seaman
Claude Seaman
R. 1
Ontario
Wayne George Harmon
George Harmon
1384 Petroleum Engineers Distributing Company
Theodore Arnold Kaminsky
Theodore D. Kamninsky
Onalaska
Donald Dean Calhoun
Clyde Calhoun
Unas
Walter Nelson
Rushford
Minn
Agnes R. Nelson
Joanne
Marlene
Roger
Nelson
Seventh Photo Group
Reconnaissance
Wire Strike Delays News Dispatches Across U S
A CIO union embargo on eight cable and wireless firms disrupts foreign news flow to the United States. The AP UP INS Reuters report the embargo, effective at 1 pm yesterday, seriously restricting international traffic in sympathy with 300 ACA strikers at Press Wireless who walked out seven days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
CIO
United States
Associated Press
United Press
International News Service
Reuters
American Communications Association
ACA
Press Wireless, Inc
Tru-Lex claims relief from gas and bloating
An advertisement featuring a testimonial from a La resident praises Tru-Lex as a formula with twelve herbs. It claims to cleanse bowels, remove gas, and improve digestion after meals, with users reporting notable waistline loss and easier meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tru-Lex
la Trulex
Hoover urges prudent restraint and unity for lasting peace
Ex president Herbert Hoover, arriving in Salt Lake City for his 72nd birthday, cautioned that fear and frustration dominate the world. He urged the United States to conserve resources, cooperate with the United Nations, and hold the atomic bomb until real cooperation for peace is achieved. He highlighted Russian designs near Manchuria and criticized Santa Claus spending of national resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
United States
United Nations
Herbert Hoover
Pioche
Nev
U. S
Hoover
Allan
Manchuria
Soviet Union
Social Security Increases Aid Under New Minimum Plan
The 79th Congress proposed a minimum program raising monthly payments for aged or blind individuals and dependent children. It also adjusts the federal share of aid and outlines new funding impacts, including Alabama's anticipated rise from about 3.95 million to 6.52 million dollars, effective October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepper
Alabama
Washington
Son Calls Here From Post In Switzerland
A long distance call from Pic Daniel Sopher in Lau samme Switzerland was received by Mrs. Josephine Sopher at 1422 South Seventh Street. Sopher, an MP guard on duty at a station hospital in Italy, is on a two week furlough in Switzerland. He entered the army June 14 1945 trained at Fort Blading and has been overseas since December 11 1945. His brother James an MP battalion private first class served in France and Belgium and returned home October 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pic
Daniel Sopher
Lausamme
Switzerland
Josephine Sopher
South Seventh Street
Sopher
Italy
Fort Blanding
Fla
Central High School
Torrance Foundry
James
France
Belgium
English War Bride Dies of Polio at Madison Hospital
Mrs Joyce Brock 20 year old English war bride of soldier Louis Brock died of poliomyelitis at Wisconsin General hospital Madison. Fond du Lac Red Cross said she was the county s first polio fatality of the year. She married in England in 1942 and joined her husband May 12 this year. A daughter Veronica born November 1943 lives with her grandmother in Tooting England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fond DU Lac
Wis
Joyce Brock
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison
Fond
Brock
Beatrice Elmes
Tooting
England
Murray is Ruled Off Airwaves in Labor Talk
CIO official charged Philip Murray was arbitrarily banned from a KGO radio program about a national labor relations board election affecting 70,000 cannery workers and thousands of growers. An ABC executive denied the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Calif
CIO
Philip Murray
American Broadcasting Company
KGO
Donald Henderson
CIO Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers’ Union
Murray
National Labor Relations Board
California
Molotov Defends Italy While Warning on Delays at Paris Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov told the Paris peace conference that Fascist Italy bears responsibility yet remains an important Mediterranean power. He praised Italy’s historic services, criticized De Gasperi for not condemning fascism, and rejected a one year postponement on Trieste arguing it would exploit Allied divergences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Italy
Mediterranean
Alcide de Gasperi
Molotov
de Gasperi
Mussolini
Trieste
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Vandalism Spreads as Teen Group Targets Property
Witnesses identify a group of youths behind multiple acts of vandalism from the municipal swimming pool area. They removed an eight foot fence at Main and King near 17th place and placed it on railroad tracks, then damaged trees and stole apples. A private fish pond was also damaged. Police vow heightened patrols and harsh penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main and
King Streets
17Th Place
Parker Pen to Open Plant in Menomonie Wisconsin
Parker Pen company of Janesville will start a branch plant in Menomonie next month. Secretary treasurer B M Jeffris said equipment from Janesville ink plant will be moved here and ink production will shift to the new site once fully operational. Several kinds of ink are planned for production at the Menomonie plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menomonie
Wis
Parker Pen Co
Janesville
B. M. Jeffris
Jeffris
Parker Concern
Election spotlight in Onalaska region wards and races
Election coverage notes two GOP assemblyman candidates in the first district and two GOP coroner candidates with three vying for the coroner post. The state race features two GOP congressmen contenders while campaigns for governor and U S senator draw local visits. Voting totals shown as of noon in wards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onalaska
U. S
Yugoslavs Silent On Occupants Of Downed U S Plane
Belgrade officials gave no word on the fate of the crew of an American C-47 after Yugoslav fighters forced it down near Ljubljana last Friday. Harold A. Shantz disclosed the Yugoslav officer would not reveal where the prisoners were held or when they might be released. No clear confirmation whether the crash resulted from aerial maneuvering or gunfire emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
U. S. State Department
Ljubljana
Harold A. Shantz
U. S
Zagreb
Shantz
Ireland and Trans-Jordan UN Bid Dodged
In New York the United Nations membership committee sidetracked Ireland and Trans-Jordan as Russia opposed them. Only Afghanistan received tentative approval from the nine applications under review with further meetings planned. Australian delegate Paul Masluck offered a mild reservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ireland
Trans-Jordan
United Nations
Security Council
Afghanistan
Paul Masluck
County Police Dispatch First Aid at County Fair
County highway police handled 47 first aid cases at the fair and six recipients were advised to see a doctor. Two ambulance cases were reported with the most serious involving a carnival worker who suffered second and third degree burns. Police and nurses distributed safety literature and polio pamphlets during fair week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan A. Wright
City council mulls police force expansion and sewer bond
Council directs City Attorney Steele to draft a resolution for nine new officers at a first year cost of 20814 dollars and says the work schedule starts next year. A bond issue over 100000 dollars for sewers is expected to pass at the September meeting as many sewer projects await funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele
Herman F. Rick
Health Department
A. M. Murphy
la Crosse
Council Public Utilities Committee
Tooth and Tonsil Removal Linked to Polio Epidemic
Kenosha Wisconsin doctors hear Dr. Philip Stimson say non paralytic polio carriers spread infection as much as diagnosed cases. He warns tooth and tonsil removal may raise paralytic risk by sixteen times during an outbreak. Dr. Randall notes DDT has not proven effective against polio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Wis
Philip Stimson
New York
Stimson
Kenosha General Hospital
Kenosha County
Albert J. Randall
Youth Admits Story Hoax in Drowning Tale
Chicago police say 17 year old Joseph Eugene Kardel of Paterson New Jersey admitted his account of strangling and drowning a girl at a nude swimming party was a hoax. He previously claimed he met the girl in Terre Haute Indiana while hitchhiking to Chicago. He confessed the note stating I killed her appeared in his notebook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Ryan
Paterson
N. J
Joseph Eugene Kardel
Ryan
Terre Haute
Ind
Kardel
MacArthur Pushes Enlarged Allied Council for Japan
General MacArthur proposes adding seven unofficial members to the allied council, to be delivered by U S delegate George C Atcheson Jr The move aims to boost council effectiveness but draws cautious reactions from Britain China and Russia with potential bloc formation against the Soviet Union and possible inclusion of Canada the Netherlands Australia France the Philippines India and New Zealand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
General MacArthur
Allied Council For Japan
U. S
Geo. C. Atcheson, Jr
MacArthur
State Byrnes
Paris
Atcheson
Council
Canada
Netherlands
Australia
France
Philippines
India
New Zealand
Conference on Chicken Disease to be Held in Madison
Newcastle disease has appeared in a dozen poultry flocks across six Wisconsin counties. The University of Wisconsin veterinary department and the state department of agriculture sponsor a two day conference in Madison with researchers and disease control leaders from the north central states. The disease prompted the cancellation of poultry exhibits at the Wisconsin state fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Veterinary Department
State Department of Agriculture
North Central States
Tomb guarded for two centuries by velvet care
In Sutton England a London merchant James Gibson lay in his tomb guarded by a robed choir boy with a velvet cushion key. Two centuries after his burial church officials again opened the tomb and found the remains undisturbed preserving a local ritual against body snatchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
England
James Gibson
London
Gibson
Veterans vote patterns stir political shifts in the South
A veteran group at Batesville accuses election irregularities and seeks removal of officials after veterans and farmers in Scottsboro Alabama seized county road machinery to begin road work. The South sees upheavals in Athens Tennessee and shifts in New Orleans and Richmond Georgia with Craker party losses. Alabama maintains a strict poll tax and exempts war veterans from paying it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Arkansas
Batesville
Scottsboro
Ala
Athens, Tenn
New Orleans
Richmont
Augusta
Georgia
Craker
Alabama
Rupture Clinic at Hotel La Crosse
A notice advertises a rupture shield clinic at the Hotel La Crosse on Friday August 16 from 10 A M to 3 P M. The ad, signed Hoffmann, promotes lifelong experience since 1928 and invites large ruptures and post surgical cases to seek treatment at 520 Masonic Temple Minneapolis Minn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel LA Crosse
United States
Hoffmann
Hoffmann’s Surgical Appliance CO
Masonic Temple
Minneapolis
Minn
Trains Circus Horse Groups In La Crosse Show
William Hever, master trainer for Ringling Bros circus, brings two famed horses Yo Yo and Starless Nite to La Crosse for performances on August 20 at 3:15 and 8:15 pm with doors at 2 and 7. The group includes his best high school and dressage horses and Yo Yo, a pensioned veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Heyer
Her Majesty’s Regiment of Guides
Netherlands Army
Yo Yo
Hever
William Hever
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
la Crosse
Solon Dies At Rochester
ROCHESTER Minn Rep William J Gallagher 71 a Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor congressman died early today at Mayo clinic Rochester after serious illness since Sunday He had been unconscious for hours and had delayed a thorough checkup until after Congress adjourned An ordinary smeeze travels two er hre feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Minn
William J. Gallagher
Minnesota
Democratic - Farmer - Labor
Gallagher
Mayo Clinic
Minneapolis
Congress
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Phil Murray
Slingerland Radio King
Terry
Friendly Dealings
Parker Pen
China
Gantert
South Third Street
la Crosees
Board of Public Works
Hyde Avenue
21St
22Nd Street
15Th Street
Barlow Street
Weston Street
Gillette Street
Anton Pederson
Cameron Avenue
10Th Street
West Avenue
21St Street
State Street
Campbell Road
Kane Street
St. Andrew Street
Island Street
East Avenue
Emerson School
Fourth Street
Pine and
Badger Streets
Loomis Street
North Salem Road
Ferry Street
Myrick Park
Weston and
13Th Streets
Burlington
Aviation Board
la Crosse Airport
Jay Street
Ways and Means
Hoople
Tooth
Dr. Stimson
Knickerbocker Hospital
National Foundation of Infan
Gen. MacArthur
H. L. Hoff. Mann
C. H. van DE Steeg
Optometry
Main Street
M. R. Kemski
la Crosse, Wis
Heyer
Netherland
Solon
Mouton Lambs
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