Guy Brothers Veterans In Military Service Return Home
Two La Crosse brothers Harry and Jack Guy return from battle fronts with distinct roles. Jack, in Europe with the 368th engineers then sixth brigade, earned Croix de Guerre with palm and fourragere, plus ETO and other ribbons. Harry served with the 13th air force in the Pacific earning air medals and battle stars. Both are sons of Mrs. Lilah B. Guy and former Sparta High School students.
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Guy Brothers
Pacific
Guy
Harry
Jack
la Crosse
Lilah B. Guy
South Ninth Street
Bet Aes
Salem
Cass
France
Belgum
Germany
South Pacific
Camp McCoy
England
368Th Engineers
75Th
Seventh Armored Division
Ruhr
Black River Falls
Illinois
Harry Guy
Harlingen
Tex
Walla Walla, Co
Manila
States
Balikpapan
Pet Milk Company
Sparta
Sparta High School
la Crosse State
Tribune
Puppet Leaders of North China Arrested in Peiping
Japanese backed North China collaborators arrested in Peiping include Princess Chin of the Ching dynasty and three men who held top puppet posts. Other detained figures span education and interior officials, two former mayors, and two women tied to collaboration. Ten new airfields were opened, per reports.
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Peiping
North China
Ommsead
Chin Pei Hui
Ching Dynasty
North China Political Affairs Commission
Keh-min
Wang Ying-tai
Wang Yi-tang
Chang Hsueh-liang
China
Sian
Chiang Kai-shek
Wang
Wang Shih-ching
Federal Reserve Bank
Bank of China
Mukden
Manchuria
Wen Yuan-mou
Education Commission
Chang Chung-chih
Interior Department
Liu Yu-shu
Hsu Hsiu-chih
Tientsin
Chih Hsieh-yuan
Public Safety Commission
Hsu Shu-chiang
Special Service Section
Wen Shih-chen
Fang Jih
Princess Chin
Prince Su
Henry Pu Yi
Manchukou
Japan
Nippon
Ying Mei Bo
Bing Crosby leads Kern memorial tribute on CBS Sunday
Nine singers headlined by Bing Crosby join a memorial tribute to Jerome Kern on CBS Sunday afternoon replacing Nelson Eddy and Munsel. Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra Judy Garland Hildegarde Jack Smith and Earl Wrightson also perform with two orchestras under ASCAP auspices.
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New York
Bing Crosby
CBS
Jerome Kern
Nelson Eddy
Patrice Munsel
Eddy
Miss Munsel
Bing
Dinah Shore
Frank Sinatra
Judy Garland
Hil Gegarde
Jack Smith
Earl Wrightson
al Goodman
Robert Armbruster
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
NBC
C. A. Eaton
Justin Miller
MBS
America United
National Forum
John Charlies Thamer
One Man's Family
NBC Symphony
Mitropoulous Conducting
Gildersleeve
Jack Benny
Charlie McCarthy
Manhattan Merry
New York Philharmonic
Yehudi Menuhin
Fanny Brice
Blondie
Phil Baker
We the People
ABC
Sammy Kaye
Mary Small Revue
Hall of Fame
Eddie Cantor
Jasche Heifetz
Alfred Lunt
Ned McCobb
Pro Arte Quartette
Chaplain Jim
the Nebbs
Nick Carter
Sailor Enroute Home From Louisville with 500 Pacific Veterans
George Edward Bettin shipfitter second class USNR son of Mr and Mrs Bettin 441 South 21st Street La Crosse Wis returns with about 500 high point Pacific veterans on the USS Louisville to be discharged in the United States The Louisville a unit of the navy Magic Carpet fleet picked up passengers men of the 7th fleet at Taku China and Jinsen Korea The veterans will go directly to separation centers nearest their homes for discharge.
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Louisville
George Edward Bettin
USNR
George T. Bettin
South 21St Street
la Crosse
Wis
United States
Navy
Taku
China
Jinsen
Korea
La Crosse Man Gets Promotion
S. Sgt. Stanley W. Christopherson of La Crosse Wisconsin earned a promotion from technician fourth grade. He serves with the 21st Ord MM Co. attached to Maj. Gen. Clarkson's I corps in Sixth Army forces. He joined the Army in July 1942 and went overseas in December 1944, earning Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbons with two battle stars for New Guinea and the Philippine Islands along with the Philippine Liberation Ribbon.
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Sixth Army
Japan
Stanley W. Christopherson
R. H. Raffelson
Geraldine Christopherson
la Crosse
Wis
Christopherson
21St Ord MM Co
P. W. Clarkson
I Corps
Krueger
Sgt
Army
New Guinea
October 1945 Wisconsin independent retailers rise 13 percent
Washington Wiscon sin independent retailers regional sales climbed 13 percent in October 1945 from October 1944. J C Capt director of the census noted 1945 ten month dollar sales were five percent higher than 1944. La Crosse up 27 percent Milwaukee 19 Madison 18 Green Bay 16 and Kenosha 15 with Racine Sheboygan flat and Manitowoc down 3 percent.
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Washington
Wisconsin
J. C. Capt
Capt
la Crosse
Milwaukee
Madison
Green Bay
Kenosha
Racine
Sheboygan
Manitowoc
Hirohito Doubted Quick Victory In Southern Pacific
Kyodo reported Hirohito expressed doubt over Japan’s plan to conquer the southern Pacific in about three months if war began. The Sept 5 discussions with Prince Konoye and Gen Sugiyama are outlined with a warning that peace talks must show progress or war preparations would accelerate.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Pacific
Kyodo
Fumamaro Konoye
Japan
America
Gen
Sugiyama
You
China
Imperial Conference of
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Sixth Brigade
13Th Air Force
Fifth Bomber Barons
Iwo Jima
Michaeleen de Luxe
Fleur
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By Spencer Davis
Venezuela
WKBH
National
First Methodist Church
Mitchell and Alley
Cass Catey
Edgear Bergen
Fred Alien
Parky's
Ag Ag
Shrednik
Josh
Ed East
Polly
Ae Beatty Light
Woman of America
Ma Perkins
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Sacred Heart
Ralph H. Young
Main Street
Southern Pacific
Russell Brines
F. S. Eggleston
16Th St
Fifth Avenue South
Fourth
Jay Streets
Montgomery
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