DAV AV Observes National Day in La Crosse
The La Crosse DAV chapter marks National Day on December 2 1945 noting Pearl Harbor’s fourth anniversary and urging adequate government benefits for disabled veterans. DAV leaders cite America’s obligation to provide pensions, compensation, security and jobs for about three million WWII disabled, with evidence that 90 percent are employable.
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DAV AV
Pearl Harbor
R. L. Kavanaugh
la Crosse
Kavanaugh
America
DAV
Millard W. Rice
National Service
Veterans Ac
Albanians Vote for Assembly Under Hoxha Front
Albanians will vote Sunday for a constituent assembly limited to candidates of Enver Hoxha's national democratic front with no negative ballots permitted.
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Tirana
Albania
Constituent Assembly
Enver Hoxha
National Democratic Front
Two War Time Setups Gain Support for Peace Time
Washington reports two Roosevelt era wartime setups rally support from both army and navy for continued peace time operation despite merger disputes. The joint chiefs of staff and a presidential staff for commander in chief would remain in place with senators hearing Admiral Leahy testify. Navy spokesmen oppose consolidation citing peacetime navy weaknesses. Navy League also objects to a single department merger.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Air Force
Willam D. Leahy
Army Reports Sharp Increase In Venereal Disease Rates
The Army Medical Department notes rising venereal disease rates among U S troops at home and overseas as combat winds down. Causes cited include post combat leisure exposure to high rate populations and perceived infection safety due to better treatments. European rates rise from 62 to 155 per 1000. Pacific from 5 to 97 per 1000. A London woman finds her radio missing with a guitar left behind.
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Washington
Army Medical Department
Army
Medical Department
Augusta Dally 83 Dies After Lingering Illness
Augusta Dally aged 83 of 1123 South Seventh Street died at home Saturday after a long illness. Survived by two daughters Margaret Lampert Reno Minn and Clara at home. four sons Rob ert Elm Dubuque Iowa Herbert Seattle Wash Arthur Janesville Wis. eight grandchildren six great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday 2 p m at home and 2 30 p m First Lutheran Church West Avenue Cameron Rev Walter A Schumann officiating. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may call at home Monday afternoon and evening.
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Margaret Lampert
Reno
First Lutheran Church
West Avenue
Cameron
Walter
A. Schumann
Woodlawn
Mrs Oline Scholberg Rites Planned At Sletten chapel
Mrs. Oline B Scholberg 79 of 1118 Liberty Street died at home Saturday afternoon born December 13 1866 in Trondheim Norway. She is survived by her husband four daughters and four sons with eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM at the Sletten McKee north chapel with Rev Robert Hilegas officiating burial in Oak Grove cemetery. Friends may call Monday evening at the chapel.
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Martin Scholberg
Liberty Street
Trondheim
Norway
Otto Fischer
William B. Johnson
Laura Phillips
la Crosse
H. J. McConnell
Sioux City
Carl
Stillwater
Minn
James
Louis
Harold Scholberg
Pedestrian Struck by Car Injures Local Resident
Adolph Hansman, 41, of 1313 Jackson Street, sustained lacerations a possible brain concussion and a possible leg fracture after being hit by a car driven by 16 year old Harlan Houghtaling of West La Crosse at Sixth and Main streets at 10 20 p m Saturday. He was walking north across the intersection and was unconscious on arrival to a hospital in a police ambulance. He regained consciousness shortly after.
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Jackson Street
Harlan Houghtaling
West la Crosse
Sixth
Main Streets
Hansman
Main
North Sixth Street
Labor leaders warn against hasty policy in four day DC session
Eric Johnston of the U S Chamber of Commerce and labor officials cautioned during a radio address about avoiding pressures that stampede into national policies. He urged voluntary action over coercion and stressed careful, well thought out measures even if some legislation is necessary.
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District of Columbia
Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Truman
Schnellenbach
Wallace
Johnston
Bond Drive Reaches Halfway to 2 Billion Goal
The bond drive extended from page one with $14,780,000 in bonds sold. E bond sales Saturday moved past the halfway point toward the $2 billion target. War finance reports individual purchases total $3,692,000,000, including $1,006,000,000 in E bonds.
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War Finance Division
Rail Facilities For Returning Vets Urgently Sought
In a San Francisco report Admiral Royal Ingersoll calls for immediate action to move returning veterans from congested west coast ports. He outlines three steps: expanding rail facilities, restricting non essential civilian travel, and delaying homecomings if needed to clear jams.
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San Francisco
West Coast
Adm
Royal Ingersoll
Western Sea Frontier
Chief of Naval Operations
Pacific
Ing Yee
Gasperi Moves to Form Italian Cabinet After Parrifall
In Rome Alcide de Gasperi begins talks to assemble a new Italian government inviting Count Carlo Sforza Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Ivanoe Bonomi. Crown Prince Umberto asked him to form a cabinet to replace Ferruccio Parri. The Liberal party warns it may abstain if leftists win key interior ministry.
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Alcide de Gasperi
Carlo Sforza
Vittorio Emanuel Orlando
Ivanoe Bonomi
de Gasperi
Umberto
Ferruccio Parri
Sforza
Orlando
Bonomi
Liberal Party
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Ministry of Interior
Goering Defends Court Fairness and Wartime Role
The transcript shows Hermann Goering defending the Nuremberg tribunal as fair though one sided, arguing for neutrals in a truly international court, and stating he would call witnesses to prove he did all he could to prevent war. He expresses horror at the concentration camp films and claims limited involvement.
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High Tribunes
War Crimes Trial Deliberations On Orders By Keitel
A wartime case recounts that Lahousen testified the order to assassinate Weygand and Grand was given verbally and that Keitel asked about the incident at a conference. The tribunal refused to allow defendants to examine witnesses except those without counsel, while 22 defendants are represented by their own attorneys.
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Keitel
Weygand
Henri Grand
Wilhelm Canaris
Fuehrer
Prissoners’ Dock
Victory Minstrels Delight La Crosse Audience
The WKBH Victory Minstrels lit up the La Crosse Vocational School auditorium Saturday night with song dance and humor. Interlocutor Walter Meiklejohn and Mr Bones performers led a lively show featuring end men Jerry Lehmeier and others. The evening closed with the Ellis Strollers and a rousing finale, while tickets tied to a bond drive were noted.
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Gal
Walter Meiklejohn
Harry Mershall
William Schroeder
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Sam Bones
Forrest Russell
Cal. Thatro
Jerry Lehmeier
al Kaulfuss
Walter Nystad
Gordon Harnwell
Roy Hefte
Walter Webster
William Wodzynski
Edward Cline
Walter Albrecht
Everett Stuber
George Bronstein
Mark Dolittle
Carl Strauss
Fred Skarbo
Robert Klawitter
Phil Bentley
Phil Schanke
Bob Johnson
Adolph Tuma
Ray Weimar
Roy Pochling
Equal Responsibility In Honolulu Rioting
The House Territories Committee was told that responsibility for the Honolulu riot on November 12 was about equal between civilians and sailors. A report for Gov. Stainback, prepared by acting attorney general Rhoda M. Lewis, cited a navy officer who urged sailors to avenge themselves on Honolulu hoodlums after four sailors were beaten. The officer, a public relations officer at the Honolulu air station, suggested allowing sailors to “clean up that gang.”
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Washington
Honolulu
House Territories Committee
J. R. Farrington
Rhoda M. Lewis
N. M. Stainback
Navy
Truman unity should continue for enduring peace
President Truman says in a letter published in the Army and Navy Journal that Allied unity winning World War II must persist to assure lasting peace. He notes the war’s costs and stresses mutual dependence, understanding, and tolerance as the basis for postwar discussions.
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Washington
Truman
Army and Navy Journal
United Nations
Wisconsin Young Republicans Rally For Growth And Roles
The Wisconsin Young Republicans gathered with Roy R. Stauff stressing veterans’ influence and early voters as priorities. Evelyn Wendt and Ann Salin were elected officers focusing on veterans affairs with Miriam Schlytter and Maj. George Fowell in key posts. Former Assemblyman Mark Catlin urged expanding the party’s base, while Thomas Coleman outlined goals to elect more Republicans to Congress and a U.S. senator.
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Roy R. Stauff
Milwaukee
Evelyn Wendt
Wausau
Ann Salin
Superior
Miriam Schlytter
Madison
Maj
George Fowell
Richland Center
Mark Catlin, Jr
Appleton
Republican Party
Thomas E. Coleman
Republican
Wisconsin
U. S
What Denomination
Fort Lewis, Washington, reports a second lieutenant seeking to buy a victory loan bond. When asked for denomination by cashier T. Edythe M. Jones of Pittsburgh, the officer quipped Protestant in a stutter.
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Fort Lewis, Wash
Fort Lewis
T. Edythe M. Jones
Pittsburgh
Woman's Body Found in Cellar Sparks Slaying Charge
In Towson Maryland a 47 year old electrician was charged with murder after officers found his missing wife buried in a shallow cellar grave at the Roessler home in Essex. Investigators located Mrs Clara Roessler 43 with a bullet wound in the skull. Magistrate T Frank Martin issued the murder warrant based on Lieut George Hohman’s complaint.
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T. Frank Martin
Frederick Emil Roessler
George Hohman
Baltimore County Police
Clara Roessler
Hohman
Roessler
Essex
Five Bodies Recovered From Sunken Chelan Bus Tragedy
In Lake Chelan Washington divers recovered the bodies of four children and bus driver Jack Randle after a bus plunged into the ice filled lake during a blizzard. Sixteen lives were lost with nine children still missing. Navy divers aided by civilian crews located the bus at 210 feet deep after a six day search.
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Wash
Jack Randle
Arthur Meyers
Whidby Island Naval Air Station
Navy
Reclamation Service
Blast near Aversa kills four and wounds thirty
ANSA reports an Allied munitions depot explosion near Aversa Friday night killed four people and wounded thirty. The incident adds to midweek European conflict related casualties and raises concern over depot safety in the area.
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Rome
ANSA
Aversa
Japan Diet postpones election reform talks
The Japanese Diet delayed discussion of election reforms until Monday as war responsibility disputes stalled progress. The election bill, aimed at preventing military cliques from dominating Nippon, was introduced Saturday, but debate on war accountability consumed the session and pushed back committee hearings on expenses.
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Japan
Nippon
Hurley Seeks Documents For Senate Hearing
Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley said he will ask U S government permission to present department papers and his own documents at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his charges against career diplomats. He resigned as ambassador to China and claims unnamed diplomats wrecked U S foreign policy. The hearing opens Wednesday.
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Patrick Hurley
State Department
Hurley
China
Department
U. S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Daubenberger Dies In Chicago
William F. Daubenberger 74 former president of the First National Bank of McGregor died in a Chicago hospital after illness during a winter trip to Florida. He lived in McGregor his entire life and is survived by his wife two daughters and a sister. His body was to be brought back to McGregor for services and burial.
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William F. Daubenberger
First National Bank of
Chicago
J. H. McGie
Minneapolis
C. L. Dalrymple
Gretchen Daubenberger
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