Brothers In Service Meet After Two Percent Years At Italian Port
Two Coon Valley brothers, Minor and Raymond Haugen, sailors in the U S Navy and RAF Service Command, reunite aboard a U S ship in an Italian port after long wartime service in North Africa and the invasion of Southern France. Raymond, Seaman First Class, and Elnor, a staff sergeant, shared furloughs and return plans as their ships faced storms on the voyage home. Both men had trained at La Crosse Vocational school and attended local high schools before enlisting.
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Minor
Raymond Haugen
Sigurd Haugen
RAF Service Command
Raymond
Seaman
6Th
Mediterranese
Elnor
North Africa
Haugen
la Crosse
AAF Service Command
Fort Denver
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Toulon
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Pope Pius VII
St. Peter's Cathedral
Capri
Sicily
Malta
Gibraltar
Raymond Com
L Tribune
Elmer
Sir Raymond Haugen
Coon Valley Brothers
Italy
Gilbertson Receives Air Medal for Meritorious Aerial Combat
T. Sgt. Lloyd A. Gilbertson of La Crosse Wisconsin earns the Air Medal for meritorious achievement while serving as an engineer gunner on a B 24 Liberator with the 467th Bomb Group based in England. He entered service in 1942 at La Crosse and attended Logan High School and the University of Wisconsin.
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England
Lloyd A. Gilbertson
la Crosse
Wis
Germany
Europe
William E.ner
Second Bombardment Division
Adams Street
467Th
Moto Meter Gauge and Equipment Co
Logan High School
University of Wisconsin
Albert J. Shower
Madison
Generals Patton Hodges Decorated For Service in France
Washington reports Lieut Generals George S. Patton and Courtney H. Hodges received oak leaf clusters to their Distinguished Service Medals. The awards honor leadership in the France campaigns last summer during World War Two. Patton previously earned a DSM in World War I and a first cluster in 1942.
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Washington
George S. Patten
Courtney H. Hodges
War Department
France
Patton
Hodges
PILES May Lead to a Fistula Clinic Ad Promote Book
An advertisement offers a 40 page pree book on piles and related rectal ailments and digestive conditions. It invites readers to Thorn ton Minor Clinic in Kansas City Missouri for a copy and urges saving time and trouble.
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Thornton & Minor Clinic
McGee St
Kansas City
Yuletide Trends and Local Sports Highlight La Crosse
Christmas mood grows as downtown shops deck out and gift stock depletes amid rising holiday bustle. Pearl Harbor Day marked three years since the attack as Allied progress toward victory boosts morale. Local sports note La Crosse State Teachers loses to St Marys navy V-12 53 20 while Aquinas beats Westby 34 14. Lieut George Irvine RAF earns local hero praise for daring rescue behind German lines amid ongoing war news.
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Doerflinger’s Department
la Crosse
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian
Japan
Thursay
la Crosse State Teachers College
St. Mary’s Navy
Winona
Aquinas
Westby High
George Irvine
Local soldiers reported casualties and letters from overseas
Five city men are listed as war casualties with details on deaths and missing in action in France Germany and the Pacific. Pvt Robert L Snodgrass and Pfc Lorenz A Pinski are among the missing, while S Sgt Orel Munson died in France on Armistice Day and Pvt Henry A Schmidt is missing in Germany. A La Crosse private describes a New Guinea posting and an extraordinary MacArthur plane visit. A deer sighting near 10th and Ferry amuses morning readers.
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Arthur F. Modica
Saipan
Orel Munson
France
Robert L. Snodgrass
Pfc
Lorenz A. Pinski
War Department
Henry A. Schmidt
Germany
New Guinea
Robert L. Jones
la Crosse
SWPA
Colun
Fellas
Pvt. Jones
MacArthur
10Th
Ferry Streets
Printing Topographical Maps By Proksch In European War
Pfc John E Proksch son of Mr and Mrs John G Proksch 1511 B4 Street is with a US Army topography unit in Europe This unit prints maps showing land contours roads and positions for infantry patrols He trained at Fort Sheridan Fort McClellan Fort Meade and AP Hill before landing in England Sept 1 1943 and moving to France in June 1944 He has been in Paris Germany Luxembourg and Belgium and now serves in Belgium Previously he worked as a compositor at Inland Printing Co in La Crosse and learning in the Vocational school from 1936 to 1939 A color Christmas card printed by his unit was received by his instructor in November
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Oouuwl Ebigur
Proksch
la Crosse
Belgium
United States
Fort Sheridan
Fort McClellan
Ala
Fort George Meade
A. P. Hill
Virginia
England
France
Paris
Germany
Luxembourg
the Inland Printing Co
CIO Labor News Weekly Meetings and District Actions
Local 395 UAWA meets Sunday at 2 p.m and Local 14 UAWA holds an executive board Monday. Tuesday covers the board of directors at the Credit union and Wednesday the La Crosse County Industrial Union council. Thursday lists total 396 UAWA stewards at North Side Hall. Pioneer Labor Hall Local 448 UCAPAWA Dolly Madison. Friday Local 396 UAWA. District council in Milwaukee voted to dissolve the council with regional office plans for quarterly educational conferences. Delegates from La Crosse include Arlie Wilson and Roy Lamb. Harold Holquist named district representative for UAW. Larry Carlson now oversees the Milwaukee-Chicago area. Labor advisory and cost-of-living committees meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. District rationing staff will discuss programs and answer questions.
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UAWA
Board of
Credit Union
la Crosse County Industrial Union Council
North Side Hall
Pioneer Labor Hall Association
Ucapawa
Dolly Madison
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Arlie Wilson
Orville Evenson
Palmer Stone
Otto Briggs
Rey Lamb
Harold Holquist
UAW
Larry Carlson
Milwaukee-Chicago
Holquist
Local 395
Local 396
Bond drive and cigarette shortage stir La Crosse County
Citizens wrestle with wartime tobacco shortages and slow E bond sales as locals consider budget tweaks and home repairs. Seemann Lumber promotes budget plans for roofing insulation paints at Gillette and California Streets with phone contact.
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Chile
Seemann Lumber & Coal Co
Gillette
Caledonia Sts
Eisenhower Proclaims End to Discriminatory Finances in Reich
Gen Eisenhower announces in a proclamation that discrimination in German financial practices will end and all people receive equal justice. Allied plans call for continued inflation controls with existing currency and new Allied military marks made legal tender on the same basis as reichsmarks.
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Eisenhower
Reich
Office of War Information
Germany
Wille
Congolese Granted Vocation Rights Under Equal Opportunity
In the Belgian Congo the constitution or policy allows every Congolese person to pursue any trade or profession and ascend to any post based on ability and choice. The rule emphasizes merit over birth or race in career advancement within the colony.
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Belgian Congo
Mortar Man Robert W. Voshart Serves in Southeast Pacific
Pfc. Robert W. Voshart of La Crosse Wisconsin serves as a mortar man in a heavy weapons company of the 40th Infantry division on an advanced island base in the tropics. He enlisted in 1943 and trained at Camp McCain Mississippi. He is a Aquinas High School graduate and has been overseas for 13 months.
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U. S. Army
Robert W. Voshart
William N. Voshar
South Fourth Street
la Crosse
Wis
40Th Infantry
Tropics
Pvt
Woshart
Trane Company
Camp McCain
Miss
Aquinas High School
Robert
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