Sears Store in Oshkosh Ravaged by Fire
A Sears Roebuck retail store in Oshkosh Wisconsin was gutted by a six hour blaze. Fire Chief George Revland estimated losses at about 100000. Four firefighters were injured one seriously when a wall collapsed. The fire began on the first floor near the automotive department and several explosions occurred.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Sears, Roebuck & Company
George Rewland
Revland
Harry Zingler
Mercy Hospital
Sears
Nobel Prize Winners Honored on American Soil
President Roosevelt and King Gustav V saluted five Americans and one Dane for 1943–44 science prizes awarded in New York due to wartime travel limits. Recipients include Erlanger, Gasser, Rabi, Stern, Dam, and Daisy, each receiving about 30 000 dollars for discoveries in physiology, medicine, physics, and vitamin K research.
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New York
Roosevelt
Gustav V
Sweden
Alfred Nobel
Joseph Erlanger
Washington University
St. Louis
Herbert S. Gasser
Rockefeller Institute
Isidor I. Rabi
Columbia University
Otto Stern
Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Edward A. Daisy
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Henrik Dam
Copenhagen Institute of Technology
Dr. Dam
University of Rochester
N. Y
Erlanger
Gasser
Rabi
Stern
Dam
Daisy
Willmar F. Bostroem
Poms
Trempealeau County Board Refuses Off-Farm Releases Under 26
Trempealeau County selective service board in Whitehall will not grant off-farm job releases to registrants under 26. Those over 26 with employer releases may be considered. Approved off-farm placements last until March 15, 1945, with return to agricultural work required or risk reclassification. Under-26 workers spared by employers should contact county agricultural agent Arnold Woches for possible farm placement, to return after release ends.
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Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County
Arnold Woches
Farmers in Sparta Sign Up for Artificial Breeding Service
Vernon County Artificial Breeding Association reports 35 area farmers joined the program with about 500 cattle enrolled. The group hopes to base service availability on at least 700 cattle and may move one of two West Salem veterinarians to Sparta.
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Sparta
Wis
A. D. Begley
Vernon County
West Salem
Begley
50th Annual Roll Call Held
Local Rebekahs and Oddfellows met for the 50th annual roll call at the Odd Fellow Temple in Viroqua Wisconsin. Mrs. Harry Mallett and Jesse Sands led the roll. Judge Lincoln Neprud spoke, with Mrs. R. E. Wolfgram, Mrs. Ray Huschka, Mrs. Emma Cunningham, and Eugene Vance performing. A humorous skit titled Two Faced was staged by eight members. The group sang America after names were read. Mrs. William Atkins of Madison sent greetings by telephone. She is linked to the charter members, 52 years ago in Viroqua.
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Iiroqua
Wis
Oddfellows
Harry Mallett
Jesse Sands
Lincoln Neprud
R. E. Wolfgram
Ray Huschka
Emma Cunningham
Eugene Vance
Odd Fellows
America
William Atkins
Madison
Amy Carmachael
E. A. Wiganowsky
Rebekah Order
Viroqua
New York Meat Dealers Plan Holiday Protest
About 3,500 New York City meat dealers voted a Christmas day start for a business holiday that will last until the office of price administration regs are eased. They will close 10,000 butcher shops handling most of the city meat trade, citing OPA rules as making business nearly impossible.
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New York
Office of Price Administration
New York City
OPA
Re-Elect Officers of Whitehall Fraternity
Whitehall Wisconsin special report notes Scandinavian American Fraternity re elects officers at Friday meeting at Oscar Olson home. Officers include President Mrs Melvin Annas and Secretary Miss Mayme Hallingstad with trustees Albin Hanevold and Goodwin Everson among others. Installation planned for the second Friday in January.
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Whitehall
Wis
Oscar Olson
Melvin Annas
Fred Guse
Albin Hanevold
Mayme Hallingstad
Ole Hallingstad
Karsten Linnerud
Sigvald Knutson
Vatican Representative Visits Nagoya Prison Camp
The Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, says Msgr. Paolo Marella, apostolic delegate to Tokyo, visited the Nagoya camp housing American, Canadian and British POWs. He reported the camp in a salubrious zone aiding prisoners' condition and was received with honors on November 28. He met with prisoner representatives and heard their conditions and care details.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Osservatore Romano
Msgr
Paolo Marella
Tokyo
Nagoya
Notable Obituaries From Across the Nation
Death notices list Dr Mawice L Blatt 65 chief of children s diseases Cook County Hospital Elwood Kirkwood 87 oldest U S weather observer 64 years service William Hatton 80 founder Eagle Ottawa Leather Sydney Towell 48 VP treasurer Twentieth Century Fox Arthur P Hirose 42 promotion and research Newsweek Alexander K Sloan 62 US diplomat service J Arthur Swat McCabe 62 former baseball player 1909 1910 Reds
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Chicago
Mawice L. Blatt
Department of Children’s Diseases
Cook County Hospital
Rushville
Ind
Elwood Kirkwood
U. S
Grand Haven, Mich
William Hatton
The
Eagle Ottawa Leather Company
Bristol. Conn
Dr Herbert S Gasser’s wartime medical leadership noted
Dr Herbert S Gasser, 56, born in Platteville Wisconsin, is featured as a leading medical figure. The piece highlights his Nobel prize for pioneering work distinguishing nerve types and speeds, and his role directing the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York where war work occupies his time.
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Herbert S Gasser
Platteville
Wis
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York
Gasser
Wais
Johns Hopkins
University of Wisconsin
Hearing Sought In Kidnapping Case
Dubuque Iowa reports a habeas corpus writ for Lester Thoman 40 of Farre n Wisconsin extradition to face a kidnapping charge in Milwaukee for taking 6 year old Richard Bahl. Thoman's attorney requests an immediate district court hearing after an extradition ruling by Governor Hickenlooper last week.
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Dubuque
Lester Thoman
Farean
Wisconsin
J. J. Kintzinger
Thoman
Richard Bahl
Milwaukee
B. B. Hickenlooper
Improved Packaging Protects War Goods
Two ordnance department officials told a Forrest Products Laboratory conference that better packaging now protects ammunitions tanks aircraft trucks and other war supplies reaching fighting fronts. Lieut. Col. E Van stationed in Great Britain and A L Whiton in Washington said earlier packaging was inadequate to guard contents from rust decay and hazards.
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Madison
Wis
Ordnance Department
Forrest Products Laboratory
E. van
Great Britain
A. L. Whiton
Ordnancement
Washington
Division of Materiel Containeers
Lend Leases to Australians Continue Through War Gap
Acting Prime Minister Francis E. For announced that the United States and Australia will extend lend-lease during the period between the end of war in Europe and Japan's defeat. The accord maintains substantial aid as the war shifts theaters and schedules.
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Canberra
Francis E. For
United States
Europe
Japan
Names of three killed in Claremore plane crash announced
At the Frederick army air station the names of three persons killed when an army training plane crashed near Claremore were released. The victims included Thomas E. Crows of Racine and two others unnamed in the report.
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Okla
Frederick
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