Army Ground Forces Band Delights La Crosse Crowd
The Army Ground Forces Band and chorus drew about 10 000 people to Riverside Park for a two hour concert on Thursday. Capt Chester E Whiting praised the park setting and suggested another La Crosse appearance while Capt John F Sills noted favorable chances for a return next year.
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Army Ground Forces
Riverside Park
la Crosse
New York
Riverside
Chester E. Whiting
John F. Sills
Army and Air Force
Sills
Henry J. Ahrens
Capt. Whiting
Army Round Forces
St. Paul
Community Chest aims to mobilize volunteers for yearly fundraising drive
Fowler outlines a plan to solicit volunteers so every person and business has a direct chance to contribute. Funk accepts as a privilege and supports the idea that all seven agencies can be funded in one annual push rather than seven separate campaigns. Nickel-plating history notes its first commercial use around 1870 in land.
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Fowler
Funk
Vandal youths damaged Catholic cemetery stones. police pursue
Police chased and captured two youths after extensive tombstone damage in a Catholic cemetery on Friday. A third offender was apprehended later as Patrolman Roger Schmuck and cemetery superintendent Rev. Hubert Crubel inspected wreckage with Officers Ervin Schmidt and Greg Yehle.
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Roger Schmuck
Hubert Crubel
Ervin Schmidt
Greg Yehle
Nenni Attacks Truman Comparing Him to Hitler and Napoleon
Pietro Nenni of the Italian Socialists, speaking at a Moscow peace conference, termed President Truman the gendarme of bourgeois reaction and faulted Vatican policy as socially retrogressive. He warned no government can force Italy into a third world war. The talks align with other Communist peace conferences portraying Russia as a peace guardian against Western war-mongering.
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Moscow
Pietro Nenni
Italy
Truman
Hitler
Napoleon
Russia
Nenni
Vatican
Maragon Testimony Tangles Verley Links and War-Era Posts
Congressional hearings reveal questions about Albert Verley company ties while Vaughan and Maragon allegedly sought scarce wartime materials for Tanforan track. Maragon’s bank accounts total far beyond reported income and ties to White House aides are noted. Grady calls Maragon a nuisance amid Greece mission history and the reading of a critical memorandum.
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Maragon
Frankie Costello
Frank Costello
New York
Frank Helis
Helis
Tanforan
Belline
Washington
San Antonio
Greece
Kansas City
White House
Defense
Johnson
Harry Vaughan
Vaughan
Aragon
Henry F. Grady
State Department
Grady
Memorial to House Plane World War II Plane Display
LaPole outlines Bong Memorial to enshrine a WW II plane and related pictures in a rock building. He estimates at least 50000 dollars needed and hopes dedication next Memorial Day with the aircraft seen at ground level for cockpit access.
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LaPole
Boy Struck By Car In City Intersection
Jerry Swartz fourteen suffered a skinned leg and arm after a bicycle collision with a car at Gillette and George streets Thursday evening. Police say Leo Pfaff of Mtd R 42 French Island drove east on Gillette and turned left onto George. Swartz refused hospital care. bicycle damage was about ten dollars and the car damage five dollars.
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Jerry Swartz
Loomis Street
Gillette
George Streets
Leo Pfaff
French Island
Piaff
George Street
Swartz
Notable deaths across several states and fields
The obituaries name Fannie Cook 55 of St Louis painter and author. Frank P Lockhart 68 longtime foreign service figure and ASFA official. Grace A Leathe 86 famed St Louis widow heir to substantial estate. Jacob I Baugher 60 prominent educator and churchman former Bridgewater president.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Fannie Cook
Una
St. Charles, O
Grace A. Leathe
Samuel H. Leathe
York, Pa
Jacob I. Baugher
Bridgewater
Dutch Wife Van Rijsel Dives At Cap Gris Nez Attempt
Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel a 31 year old Dutch housewife plunged into the water at Cap Gris Nez at 3 45 a m EST aiming to swim the English Channel. It was her second try this summer and she was the third swimmer to attempt the crossing this week. Philip Mickman 18 year old British boy completed the crossing in 23 hours 48 minutes while Jose Cortinas Cuban distance swimmer failed after nine hours 20 minutes in the chilly sea.
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Cap Gris Nez
France
Willi Croes van Rijsel
van Rijsel
England
Philip Mickman
Jose Cortinas
Major Bong Heroic Pilot Leaves Legacy at Poplar Farm
The ace of aces who downed 40 Japanese planes in World War II is linked to a Poplar farm life. Plans by architects Hansen and Dobberman for a building project are under review for fit with available funds. A last P-38, the air force’s final model, was donated to the Bong Foundation and moved to Poplar for preservation.
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Tos
Bong
Poplar
Major Bong
Air Force
Head of the Lakes
Bong Foundation
Size of a newborn blue whale
At birth a blue whale measures about 25 feet in length and weighs around 15 tons, according to the report.
Reward Claim Filed In Mate’s Triple Slayings In Fort Wayne
A 23 year old mother of five, Marie Click, filed a claim for a $16 500 reward for telling police first that her husband killed three Fort Wayne women Phyllis Conine Wilhelma Haaga and Anna Kuzeff The case adds to an already tangled probe as police evaluate statements from Click and her husband Franklin Click 30 The reward may be split among designated officials and is tied to the presiding mayor police chief sheriff and safety board chairman
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Marie Click
Harold F. Zeis
Click
Board of Safety
Phyllis Conine
Wilhelma Haaga
Anna Kuzeff
Miss Haaga
Miss Kuzeff
Ralph Lobaugh
Kokomo
House Members Head Home On Vacation
House members departed for a 25 day recess without Senate approval. They will not return until September 21 except for a few who stay for formal non business sessions twice weekly due to Senate refusal to grant full adjournment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Polio Compare 38 States Shows National Epidemic Rise
Dr van Riper described polio as both intensive and extensive across 38 states and noted the national foundation answered more calls for help in more states than last year. He praised medical facilities as far better today in history. A Metropolitan Life Insurance study finds polio death rates among insured children under 15 are falling slowly with the largest drops in those under 10 and particularly in infants, from 2.4 per 100 000 in last year to one fifteenth of 1916 levels.
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van Riper
National Foundation
Metropolian Life Insurance Company
Vandals damage cemetery markers forcing repairs and replacements
Two brothers among three vandals caused damage to grave markers and flower vases. some monuments toppled or broken. Markers can be repolished, but some must be replaced with costs from fifty to one hundred dollars and monuments up to three hundred. Heavy stones could not be tipped by the youths.
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Crubel
Madison firms hit by driver strike after failed talks
Eighty drivers dockmen and warehouse workers of local 442 AFL Truck Drivers union walked out against nineteen Madison moving and truck firms. Contracts expired May 1 and federal conciliator efforts failed over wages working conditions and overtime differentials.
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Madison
Wis
AFL
Thieves Damage Cookies at National Biscuit Co
Thieves tipped several boxes of cookies on the floor at the National Biscuit Co located at 124 South Front Street during a Thursday night or early Friday break in. Police report no forced entry signs and firm officials could not confirm any cookies were stolen. Stanley Spafford of 1605 Badger Street discovered the unlocked front door Friday morning.
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National Biscuit Co
South Front Street
Stanley Spafford
Badger Street
Runaway 12-year-old Arrested After Golf Ball Theft
A 12-year-old Wausau boy was arrested by police after being seen stealing golf balls from W. T. Grant Co. on Fifth Avenue South. The runaway carried a paper bag filled with goods from multiple local stores and was turned over to the probation department.
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Wausau
W. T. Grant Co
Fifth Avenue South
Flaming Oil Rouses Town
A fast freight derailed near Northeast Maryland sending flaming oil down a street and forcing 50 residents from their homes. No injuries were reported though 12 threatened houses were saved as fire crews from Baltimore to Wilmington battled three exploding oil tankers and a burning box car loaded with dynamite.
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Baltimore
Wilmington
New York-Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
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