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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1946
Page
5
La Crosse firefighters tested new equipment at Riverside park, including a deluge gun with a 2 inch stream reaching 300 feet at up to 1000 gallons per minute, and a fog nozzle for oil or gasoline fires. The display compared old hand lines, showed turret mounting, and noted more gear on order.
Washington report notes that women reaching voting age 21 are rising faster than men with 46,493,210 women and 45,231,262 men eligible on July 1, a margin of 1,171,948. The 1946 voting age population reached 91,634,472, up about 2.5 million since 1944. Georgia 18–20 year olds not yet counted.
Two people died and seven were injured in a nighttime automobile collision on Highway 59 three miles east of Waukesha Wisconsin at an intersection. Victims were Gerald Wright 16 a Waukesha high school football player and Frank Skoviak 61 a longtime resident.
In Holly Springs Mississippi chemical tests confirmed arsenic in the bodies of six Black residents who died last June. Sheriff Lawrence Tucker said J B Wooten an enslaved farm worker admitted poisoning a community well to harm his estranged wife. The six victims drank from the well and at least twenty others fell ill. Wooten awaits grand jury action in jail.
Three delegates from La Crosse travel to Grand Rapids Michigan for the third national convocation of Methodist Youth Fellowship August 24 to 29. Almost 2 000 young people ages 15 to 23 are registered from every state. The theme is The Mission of the Church.
Headlining the convocation are Dr. E Stanley Jones of India a renowned world evangelist and Norman Thomas a liberal political leader. La Crosse delegates include Miss Arlene Tank Miss Ardelle Tank and Ken Teachout.
Arkansas ranks twenty fourth among the states with a population of 1 949 387 inhabitants according to the latest figures.
Former President Herbert Hoover accuses Soviet Russia of obstructing peace progress and tightening control from the Baltic states to Manchuria. He notes alleged camps and deportations, questions Yugoslavia’s treatment of U.S. aid and airmen, and calls Yugoslav press fully Communist controlled.
Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence announced the international military tribunal aims to conclude the nine month trial of 22 German war leaders and seven Nazi organizations this weekend. Defense summations for the high command and general staff are nearing completion with next steps including Reich cabinet and S A summations followed by prosecutions from the Allied powers and final defendant statements from the dock.
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