Vandercook Defers Trial On Mail Fraud Charges
Chicago man Donald Vandercook 44 pleads not guilty to using the mails to defraud about 200 contractors of 39000. He seeks delay for witnesses while the case, tied to a 1943 indictment, is referred to probation with trial to start soon in front of Judge Elwyn R. Shaw.
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Chicago
Donald Vandercook
Elwyn R. Shaw
Shaw
Vandercook
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
John Zigler
Zigler
War Production Board
Sugar Beet Program Takes Shape for 1945 Harvest
Growers in talks with processors to decide if they can plant and harvest 951000 acres of sugar beets for 1945. Success hinges on War Food Coalition price support and labor guarantees. WFA plans pay about 12.50 per ton, matching last year, with government acreage over 300000 more than last year. Earl Wilson outlined proposed 1945 details to industry representatives yesterday.
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Roe
WFA
Earl Wilson
Ration guidance and price listings in mid century notices
The notice outlines ration stamps for meats fats and processed foods with validity dates and regions, plus shoe and gasoline coupon guidance. It also lists weekly price cr ilings for fruits and vegetables in Wisconsin and Minnesota including apples bananas oranges lemons and onions with specific unit prices and weights.
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Associated Press
Appies
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Texas
Florida
Idaho
Rupture Shields Demonstration by Hoffmann in La Crosse
Hy Hoffmann of Minneapolis offers his Rupture Shields in La Crosse at Hotel La Crosse on Wednesday December 13 from 10 AM to 4 PM with evening appointments. He claims ten years of service and thousands treated, warning rupture neglect causes weakness and pains. People with large ruptures or postoperative recurrences are invited. If you want it done right see Hoffmann.
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H. L. Hoffmann
Minneapolis
Minnesota
LA Crosse
Wis
Hotel LA Crosse
United States
Hoffmann
Grew Nomination Wins Okay In State Department Shakeup
Washington shows a foreign policy reshuffle as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves four state department nominations. Joseph C. Grew is named under secretary, with Archibald MacLeish, William L. Clayton, and Archibald MacLeish in senior posts, while Nelson Rockefeller serves as assistant secretary for the American republics. Some senators oppose MacLeish and Clayton on the floor.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Joseph C. Grew
Clark
D-Mo
Grew
Senate
Archibald MacLeish
Library of Congress
MacLeish
The
Missourian
Murray
D-Mont
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White
R-Me
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R-Midh
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Roosevelt
Tion
Stettinius
Cordell Hull
Boston
Japan
William L. Clayton
Texas
Clayton
Congress
White House
Office of War Information
Nelson Rockefeller
John D
Germany
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Breckinridge Long
G. Howland Shaw
Strike Averted By $5 Wages Hike For Operators
Memphis and Louisville long distance operators canceled planned strikes after AT and T agreed to a $5 weekly raise. Beginners would earn $20 and experienced $30, pending War Labor Board approval. Union leader J J Moran said workers would stay on the job despite government limits on the raise.
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Memphis
Louisville
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
War Labor Board
WLB
Dee
J.J. Moran
New York
National Federation of Long Line Operators
Monthly council committee meetings announced
Fred Kramer city clerk announced a regular monthly gathering of all council committees at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the council chambers City Hall. The meetings aim to consider all matters in the hands of the respective committees.
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Common Council
Fred Kramer
Court records from La Crosse and surrounding towns
La Crosse and Edwin Dah, of 615 South Third Street, found guilty of reckless driving on Highway 16 in Campbell. fined 10 dollars plus costs or five days in jail. Ted C. Hanson of Westby, fined 100 dollars plus costs or 60 days in county jail for drunken driving on Highway 14 in Shelby. license revoked for one year. John Zabawski of 400 South Third Street charged with towing an unregistered trailer on Highway 16. suspension contingent on registration payment.
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Edwin Dah
South Third Street
Campbell
Ted C. Hanson
Westby
Wis
Shelby
Wisconsin
John Zabawski
Highway 16
Pine
Weather Record U. S. Department of Commerce
Por Wisconsin Partly cloudy and a little colder tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Por Minnesota Partly cloudy slightly colder south and east portions tonight. pay com mostty cloudy with little change in temperature. Por Iowa partly cloudy and a little colder tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Nation wide records.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Do as you wish to be done by in democracy
A reader signs as A. Pharisee argues in a Public Debate column that rule based power harms freedom. He opposes saluting leaders and favors voluntary conduct, military training, and an armed police to preserve peace while criticizing practical ideology and pressuring groups.
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Tribune
Politics
Commerce
Labor
Supreme Court
Industry urged to probe tax loophole use by employers
Roy W. Wood argues in a Tribune letter that some employers use profits to fight organized labor and deduct these expenses from income taxes. He says legitimate costs should be deductible but excesses harm the industry and warrant government scrutiny to protect the whole sector.
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Tribune
Roy W. Wood
Farwell St
Traff Arrested In La Crosse On Wabasha Warrant
Alvin M. Traff, 26, of 1112 Winnebago Street, La Crosse, was arrested at 6 am Tuesday at his home on a warrant from Wabasha County Minnesota for breaking and entering. He is held for the Wabasha sheriff.
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Alvin M. Traff
Winnebago Street
Wabasha, Minn
Traff
Wabasha
Winona Livestock Potatoes Market Report
Chicago potatoes market summary shows total shipments 816 arrivals 110 track 234 with moderate supplies. Western stock demand food market firm. best quality northern stock demand fair market steady. fair quality stock demand slow market Gulf Idaho Russet Burbanks U S No 1 3 39 3 52 Nebraska Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 3 98 Michigan Green Mountains U S No 1 2 50 Minnesota North Dakota Bliss Triumphs Commercial 2 30 2 Cobbler Commercial 2 30a Chippewes U S No 1 washed 260 2
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Chicago
WFA
Oelling
Gulf
Idaho
U. S
Nebraska
Bliss
Michigan
Green Mountains
U.S
Minnesota
North Dakota
Bliss Triumphs
Cobbler Commercial
Wheat and grain prices steady in Chicago cash markets
Report shows mixed futures and cash bids for wheat corn oats rye and barley with No 2 red cash wheat at 11.71s per bushel and various opens highs and lows across December July and September contracts. Additional prices listed for malting feed and field seed grains per hundredweight.
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Rye
Chicago
Barney
Pigstrip Shoes Set for Rapid Production for Children
The production of ration free children shoes from pigstrip bacon rind will start within 30 days on a small scale and later reach seven to ten million pairs annually. William A. Molster, OPA shoe rationing chief, said unrationed output must sell at prices of rationed shoes and will use unrationed material likely reclaimed rubber.
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Cleveland
William A. Molster
Washington
OPA
Molster
Milwaukee hog and cattle market prices and ranges
Milwaukee market report lists hogs at top $13.90 with ranges for good to choice butchers and lights across weight classes. bulk sows $13.40-16.00, feeders and stags, boars. Cattle and calves shown with price bands for meets, yearlings, dairy bred heifers, cows, and vealers, with steady or steadying tone.
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Milwaukee
Chicago Livestock Market Report Highlights Rises and Slumps
Hog sales total about 30 000 with 10 cent gains on good and choice hogs 190 pounds and up selling around 14 to 15 dollars per hundredweight. Cattle and calves show gains on fed steers and yearlings while cows ease and stock cattle move slowly with feeders around 13 to 14 dollars. Bulls weaker and wealers steady around 15 dollars, overall market tone mixed.
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Chicago
WFA
Chicago Poultry Live Receipts Steady Prices Hold
Live poultry receipts show steady arrivals with no cars and one truck for roasters and truers at 28 cents. Butter remains firm with 190,269 receipts and market unchanged. eggs receipts reach 17,621 with prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Yanks Attack Mutzig Fortress With Dynamite Laden Trucks
American engineers loaded a truck with 7000 pounds of dynamite and drove it toward the Mutzig fortress near the Bruche river valley. Under cover of smoke and fire from machine guns, the blast opened a wall while mortars hit the truck. German defenders, about 70 to 200, held the fort for nine days as Nazi planes hovered nearby.
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Frederick Armstrong
Adams
Mass
John Heiniger
Portland
Richard Pearth
Escanaba
Mich
Howard Holbrook
Elkin
N. C
Bruche River
Vosges
Gestapo
Mutzig
Reinhart Resigns OPA Office in Green Bay
John C. Reinhart resigns as director of the Green Bay office of the Office of Price Administration and Francis L. Earpe is named his successor in Green Bay Wisconsin.
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Reinhart
OPA
Green Bay
Green Bay, Wis
John C. Reinhart
Office of Price Administration
Francis L. Earpe
Drowning Death of One-Year-Old Kuzmick Girl
In Menomonie Wisconsin a one year old child of Mr and Mrs Mike Kuzmick drowned at home after falling into a refuse jar holding about three inches of water. The tragedy occurred yesterday at the Kuzmick residence.
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Menomonie
Wis
Mike Kuzmick
Allied Bombing Cuts German Aircraft Output by Forty Percent
British authorities estimate that Allied bombardment of Europe reduced German aircraft production by 40 percent by the end of 1944, signaling a significant impact on the Luftwaffe’s war capacity.
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Europe
Wright Promoted in RAF to First Lieutenant Status
Lieut James Wright of La Crosse promoted from second to first lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. He has been transferred from Washington to Holyoke Massachusetts where he will serve as a navigation instructor with the army air forces, according to word received by his parents Mr and Mrs Ivan A Wright.
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James Wright
RAF
la Crosse
Ivan A. Wright
South Eighth Street
Wright
Washington, D. C
Holyoke
Mass
Army Air Forces
Central Eaters State Contest Sends La Crosse to Madison
La Crosse Central High School forensics team will travel to Madison Wednesday to compete in the State dramatic meet sponsored by the Wisconsin High School Forensic Association and the University of Wisconsin extension department of debating and public speaking. The district group earned an A rating at the Distrigg meet and joins Black River Falls and 11 other district teams at the state contest. Cast includes Edward Hugdahl as Anely John, Ronnie Gillmeister as Chris, Jean Dodds as Mary and Jane, and Lundberg as Martha, with Stanley E. Niebruegge as stage manager and Howard Fredricks as coach. This marks Central’s first entry in the play contest.
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Central High School
Foreng
Madison
Wisconsin High School Forensic Association
University Wisconsin Extension
la Crosse
Black River Falls
L Muscodz
Oeess
Oakwood
Milwaukee
Riverside
Loyal
Watosa
Chetek
Elkhorn
Monta
Shawano
Boston
Robert Scott Platteville
Reject Control Of Commercial Rent
Washington Senate Banking Committee rejects a bid for commercial rent control by a 10 to 7 vote. The debate centers on price regulation for business tenants and landlords. Lawmakers weighed economic impact, housing market effects, and potential market distortions.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
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