Wash Day Blues Stop at Camp McCoy Laundry
Camp McCoy Wisconsin special reports morale-boosting music at the laundries one of the state’s largest. A system of thirty-two loudspeakers and a central control panel delivers daily music and news broadcasts to relax the staff and improve efficiency. Capt. Louis Day oversees the program, with plans for new entertainment and radio content, reflecting positive early results among troops and families.
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LA Crosse
Camp Mccoy
Wis
Louis Day
Day
Lorenz
Women Keep VFW Membership Ban At National En Campment
At the Chicago VFW national encampment on August 24 1944 members voted 2848 to 1946 to bar women including WACs and nurses from regular membership and to push peacetime compulsory military training. Proposals for a separate women’s organization or leaving the decision to service members failed. The encampment urged a year of youth service, backed postwar peace participation with force as needed, and warned against charitable commitments without limits.
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Chicago
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Wacs
United States
Sulfa Drugs Saving Animals Reported By Vets
At the American veterinary medical convention in Chicago Dr W T S Thorp of Pennsylvania State College reports sulfa drugs save thousands of farm animals. Sulfathalidene shows favorable results in 75 calf scours cases and sulfathiazine aids swine enteritis, with guidance from a veterinary physician emphasized.
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Chicago
American Veterinary Medical Convention
W. T. S. Thorp
Pennsylvania State College
Cali
Wilson Stuns WPB Officials After Resignation
Wilson urged Nelson to force critics to stop attacks on WPB members. The action surprised WPB leaders as Nelson and Wilson addressed a closed staff meeting minutes after the White House resignation. A cheer rose inside the auditorium as the meeting ended, and Wilson quipped he might be glad to leave the post. Nelson said a new top leader would be chosen in Nelson's absence.
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Nelson
WPB
Wilson
White House
Social service job vacancies estimated at 40 009 of 100 000
The estimate places 40 009 vacant social service positions nationwide with 59 991 filled. The data highlights shortages in public welfare and related agencies across the United States.
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Ttte
United States
Nazis Claim New Allied Landing Move Near Biarritz
Berlin radio said Allied forces conducted a small landing operation south of Biarritz, ambiguous whether this matches yesterday's St. Jean de Luz landing. St. Jean de Luz lies about ten miles south of Biarritz on France's southeast coast.
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London
Allied
Biarritz
St. Jean de Luz
Berlin
France
French Uprising Sparks General Strikes and Armistice Talks
Koenig's communique describes August 19 escalation with German tanks on streets and civilian deaths. Guerrilla fighting ensued, heavy tanks destroyed, and over 1,000 prisoners captured as anti-tank weapons were used. Germans began negotiating an armistice and recognizing the FFI as combatants.
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Koenig
Guerrila
FFI
Genoa Pilot Wins Air Medal for Meritorious Achievement
Second Lieut. Russell J. Gebler, 24, of Genoa receives the air medal for meritorious achievement during sustained night operations in the Mediterranean theater. He serves as a pilot with the Allied Coastal Air Force night fighter squadron flying Beaufighters. Gebler recalls a close shave passing through a bomber group and an early morning dog fight with a JU 88, and plans a postwar career in commercial aviation.
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12Th Fighter Command
Russell J. Gebler
Augusta Gebler
RFC No. 2
Box 27
Genoa
Mediterranean
Gebler
Lieut
Russel J. Gebler
Air Medal
County Farm Bureau Eyes Log Sale Cooperative Plan
La Crosse county Farm Bureau directors met at West Salem to consider forming a cooperative to handle selling logs from farm woodlots. District officials explained yarding and marketing benefits for farmers with small log quantities and said the cooperative would load, market, and pool timber for larger sales. Visitors cited a Menomonie model, and officials expect many farmers to use the facilities for higher returns. a note corrects Tribune price reports citing No 1 veneer white pine at 33 per 1000 board feet and OPA ceiling prices at 26 for Norway and Jack pine.
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la Crosse
Farm Bureau Cooperative
Schomberg
Schams
Roberts
Menomonie Cooperative
the Tribune
OPA
Norway
Top cattle prices set on South St. Paul market
The market recorded the highest price for a carload of cattle on Thursday with 14 animals fed by George Per receiving $18.25 per cwt. The cattle averaged about 1,200 pounds. This surpasses the World War I top of $17.50 and the 1927 4-H prize at University Farm of $18.00.
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South ST. Paul
Minn
George
University Farm
Sergeant Wilkerson Receives Bravery Medal for French Action
Sergeant William L. Wilkerson was promoted from staff sergeant to technical sergeant after braving shrapnel wounds in France and earning the Purple Heart. He sent the medal to his wife Betty Schroeder in Paris Texas and also earned a Bronze Star for bravery. He enlisted January 5 1941 and trained at Fort Sam Houston before serving with the Second Division at Camp McCoy.
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France
William L. Wilkerson
England
Wilkerson
Betty Jayne Schroeder
Loomis Street
S. Sgt
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Camp McCoy
Paris
Women Rescued From Locked Dance Studio
Paula Dreiling and Helen Kirk were rescued from a second floor dance studio in Kansas City after being locked inside. Firemen, who had just freed them, returned to retrieve the women’s purses left behind during the incident.
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Kansas City
Paula Dreiling
Helen Kirk
Destroy 45 Nazi Planes Over Central Europe
The U.S. 15th air force reported destroying 45 Luftwaffe planes in raids across central Europe including Vienna. In two days Nazi losses climbed to at least 102 planes, with 29 aircraft lost yesterday and three last night, as air battles intensified alongside recent Hungarian and Yugoslav raids.
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Rome
U. S
15Th Air Force
Luftwaffe
Europe
Vienna
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Ked
A C Buys Radiator Plant At Springfield
Springfield, Ill. Allis Chalmers bought the government owned American Radiator plant in Springfield for 203 547 dollars. A quit claim deed was filed Thursday in Sangamon county recorder's offices. Allis Chalmers has operated the property since it was taken over by the government in 1942 after lying idle ten years. The radiator plant was erected after World War I by Montgomery Ward and Company.
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Springfield
Ill
Allis- Chalmers Paracheing Company
Sangamon County Recorder
Allis-Chalmers
Montgomery Ward and Company
Rancher Awarded Interterritory Divorce Over Radio Tastes
Fresno California reports Mrs. Eula C. Ray received an interterritory divorce decree from rancher Steel Ray. She testified he would not let her listen to anything but religious radio programs.
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Fresno
Calif
Eula C. Ray
Steel Ray
Warrants Issued to Allamakee County Schools
Twenty five standard schools in Allamakee county received state warrants this week totaling 1164.44. Dorchester led with 90.70, Lycurgus 46.81, Hanover No 3 43.89, Hanover No 4 46.81, per Superintendent M H Goode.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
M. H. Goode
Hanover No
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