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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
7
The Aquinas High School band will present a winter concert Wednesday at 8 15 p m with a varied program. Selections include The Saloon s March The Post Quartermaster and National Emblem The One Tune Band Call of the Wild and Holiday for Strings Intermission features Nav (Lyceum) and other works to please young listeners.
Four Chippewa Falls retail firms were served show cause orders why injunctions should not issue to restrain future price violations. Hearings set for Dec. 5 in Chippewa Falls circuit court before Judge Clarence E. Rin ehard. Defendants include Max Abramson store, A G Mason Co, The Waterman Co, and Segal's Style Shop with charges of failing to maintain required pricing records and over ceiling prices.
Washington reports passenger tire quotas total 2 million for the month but A card motorists may not get new tires until spring. OPA said some passenger tire facilities may divert to jeep tires and that production gains may not be realized for some time. Civilian quotas of heavy truck and bus tires may be further reduced.
Police Chief R J Contratto pondered removing a nuisance goat found downtown this week. Mayor R A Murano proposed a cross town challenge with Utah in a war bond contest featuring the animal as the prize. The losing town would surrender the goat.
A Chinese seaman in Greenock Scotland was sentenced to four months in prison after attempting to import nine pounds of rum into Britain. The judge described the amount as enough to stock a good den, reflecting the unlawful practice.
Clyde Farnsworth reports from Kunming on Japanese objectives in China amid propaganda claims. Observers doubt a clear declared goal but fear a push to choke American aid, topple Chungking, and force free China to its knees before a new U S supply drive. The strategy may seek a foothold toward Kweiyang and routes to Kunming, Chungking, and Tungting lake. The piece notes Japan’s coastal attack fears and possible deep penetration to sever supply lines.
The schedule lists NBC and CBS programs for Friday December 1 1944 including The Paul Lavalle Concert Amos and Andy Ed Wynn Comedy Gang Busters The Philadelphia Orchestra Hour It Pays To Be Ignorant and more with time slots from 6:00 PM to late night and notes an upcoming Army Navy Football Game.
The cargo ship Screven was launched at Leather D. Smith Shipbuilding yards in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. Named for a Georgia county it is the fifth of 20 freighters for the maritime commission. Mrs Harold A Roeth christened the vessel, her husband being a navy air corps lieutenant.
Joseph C. Munch of Sullivan Illinois was admitted to practice law in Illinois five days ago and has now received from Governor Dwight Green his commission as state's attorney of a county. He was elected November 7.
Aunt Het condemns a large industry being controlled by a privileged heiress who earned her fortune without honest effort. She voices strong distaste for the corporate power imbalance and the pursed lips of high society.
Movement of iron ore on the Great Lakes in 1944 totaled 81,170,538 gross tons, the third largest on record per the Lake Superior Iron Ore Association. The 1942 peak was 92,076,871 tons, with 84,404,852 tons moved in the year overall and 4,672,367 tons in November compared with 6,940,503 last year.
Herrin Illinois soldier reports traffic trouble in the Guadalcanal jungle. He was fined for speeding in a jeep, had his license revoked for one month and confined to a restricted area for one week.
Camp McCoy Wis Special program features Majors and Minors orchestra with Eugene Jacobs xylophone and Gene Newcomb baritone on Its the McCoy radio shows produced by Lieut Vance Schwartz. War bond appeals accompany broadcasts at 10 AM Sunday on WTMJ and 9 30 PM Monday on Wisconsin network. Jacobs performs Liszt Second Hungarian Rhapsody Newcomb sings It Had to Be You Could It Be You.
A hospital ship treated 284 Japanese and 384 American wounded in the same engagement. The Japanese had 14 tetanus cases, 10 fatal, while the vaccinated Americans suffered no tetanus cases.
A House of Commons member declared that America has not been fully in the war and should not take over markets essential to British export trade. Sir John Wardlaw Milne urged plain speaking and stronger British policy to protect trade and China relations, while Sir Ian Fraser pressed vigorous action to restore export markets.
In Lynn Massachusetts a letter carrier delivered a post card addressed to Harry Baker and Robert Lee at a place labeled Telephone Manhole at the corner of Oxford and Washington streets.
Dun and Bradstreet reports week before Christmas kept sales high with strong activity in gift items such as jewelry cosmetics stationery leather goods and toys. Women's and men's apparel sold well and homewares moved where stock existed though food volume lagged Thanksgiving week. Regional wholesale turnover ranged from 9 to 18 percent above prior year levels.
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