Wisconsin Men Return From European Theater Detailing Ship Arrivals
Associated Press lists Wisconsin servicemen aboard ships due in Boston and New York on December 9 including Pfc LaVern G Robinson La Crosse on the SS Justin Morrill and four La Crosse men plus one from Cochrane aboard the SS Seii. Other local GIs sail on the Kruger and Cochrane with names from Madison Lansing to Bangor Galesville and four La Crosse men discharge from Great Lakes naval training station.
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Associated Press
Pfc
LaVern G. Robinson
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Boston
Justin Morrill
Seii
New York
Cochrane
Kruger
John H. Perry
Albert C. Danhoff
Wis
Morris M. Deck
Francis J. Cunningham
Albert
Cmi
Edward C. Hayek
Jackson Street
Sir Henry G. Hill
St. Paul Street
Charlies T. Hanson
Aviation
Walter Jacob Moe
Lansing
Caledonia liquor store robbed of 25 cases of whiskey
Caledonia Minnesota robbery reported at the local liquor store. The thief or thieves took 25 cases of whiskey Monday night by forcing a lock. Sheriff George Kelly is investigating the incident.
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Caledonia
Minn
George Kelly
Logan Center Offers Sports Arts and Fishcraft Classes
Logan community center presents a varied program with sports art and fishcraft and plans dramatics after January. Horton and Martin lead basketball with junior and senior leagues while Clarice Oren runs Saturday girls play days and teaches swimming and crafts. Dansberry heads the fishing class and Wineke directs art activities with puppet making and painting for residents north of the city.
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Logan Community Center
Charles Horton
Platteville State Teachers College
Logan
Horton
Logan Center
Rodney Martin
la Crosse
American Legion
Ripon College
University of Wisconsin
Clarice Oren
North High School
Minneapolis
la Crosse State Teachers College
North Side
Sparta men discharge from Camp McCoy and Hugo-Frank firm founder
Sparta Wisconsin discharge notices list Miles Johnson, founder of Hugo-Frank advertising with HQ in La Crosse, plus several servicemen returning home from campaigns in the Pacific and European theaters. Notables include James Davenport, David Relig, Harold Wissestad, Marlin Miller, and others with multiple battle stars and ribbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Johnson
Hugo- Frank Company
la Crosse
University of Wisconsin
DePaul University
Johnson
U. S. Employment Service
E Hugo-Frank
Exchange Building
Sparta
Wis
Sopecial) Corp
Max S. Nicol
Benton Street
Camp McCoy
Nicol
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Bismarck Archipelago
New Guinea
Philippines
Luzon
Western Pacific
James O. Davenport
76Th Infantry Division
Springfield
Davenport
David Relig
East Avenue
Air Corps
Seymour Johnson Field
N. C
Rhineland
Central
Europe
Norwegian schoolmate writes from Norway about Engelsen golden wedding
Mrs. John Engelsen of French Creek received a letter from former classmate Mrs. Mathea Bekkelund of Hadeland Norway. Bekkelund read in a Norwegian state journal about the golden wedding anniversary celebrated at the Engelsens home on July 8.
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Ettrick
Wis
John Engelsen
French Creek
Mathea Bekkelund
Hadeland
Norway
Bekkelund
Minor Accidents Reported In Sparta Wisconsin
In La Grange Bernhardt H Fischer's car on U S Highway 12 was struck by a semi driven by LeRoy Jensen of Green Bay injuring passenger Edna Fishher who was treated in Tomah Jensen said he blinded by oncoming lights. A Monroe county highway truck and a Wilton car collided on County Trunk A and State Trunk 142 south of Tomah causing front end damage to both vehicles.
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Tomah
Wis
Bernhardt H. Fischer
la Grange
LeRoy Jensen
Green Bay
Edna Fishher
Jensen
Chris Hendrickson
Monroe
Monroe County Highway Department
Jim Arity
George M. Kuderer
Wilton
Goats Outsmart Deputies in Impromptu Farm Rodeo
Two sheriff deputies failed to corral four strong gray goats that wandered into William Stark’s sheep field in Rochester New York. After a series of pulls the goats butted the deputies and the billy goat was finally wrangled into a barn as the others followed. The deputies and Stark hope the owner will call for the goats soon.
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Rochester
N. Y
William Stark
Stark
Soldier’s China meal costs shock U.S. flavor of fortune
In a letter from China Sgt. Alfred Eaton tells his mother in Ithaca that a meal cost $3,620 in Chinese dollars for ham eggs and coffee. He notes one eye costs 100 Chinese dollars about 10 cents and that the exchange makes him feel like a millionaire.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Alfred Eaton
China
Eaton
Japan's Biggest Carrier Torpedoed and Sunk in Philippine Sea
Taisho, Japan's 40 000 ton flagship, was torpedoed and blew up six hours later on June 18 during the first Philippine Sea engagement in 1944. Chokaku also fell to an American submarine as Japan's navy faded after the battle.
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Japan
U.S
Tokyo
U. S
Philippine Sea
Taisho
Chokaku
Toshikazu Ohmae
Associated Press
Ozawa
Admiral Halsey
3Rd Fleet
Alaska sealskin fur under U S government control
The government owns and operates the only fur trade in Alaska, controlling sales of sealskin.
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Alaska
U. S
La Crosse Teachers College Chorus Performs for Red Cross Patients
A 44 voice chorus from La Crosse Teachers College will present a program at the Red Cross recreation hall in Camp McCoy on Wednesday night December 12 for station hospital patients. Musicians will be invited to stay for the dance afterward.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
la Crosse Teachers College
Station Hospital
Red Cross
Ceiling On Divorces
In Indianapolis the price office reports a query on divorce ceilings. A Bicknell, Indiana woman asked if $78 charged by her lawyer violated the ceiling, saying she was told $50 is the top.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Office of Price Administration
Bicknell
Deaths from AP: Elizabeth Grandon and Others
Sterling Illinois widow Elizabeth Dakan Grandon 91, matriarch of the Grandon newspaper family. Bronxville New York William Watkins 48, DOJ antitrust aide and former Oklahoma supreme court justice. Tucson Arizona Thorne Browne 68, former Nebraska railroad commissioner. San Francisco David Davidson Franklin 106, personal cook for General Grant in Civil War.
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Sterling, Ill
Elizabeth Dakan Grandon
D. W. Grandon
Sterling Daily Gazette
Grandon Newspaper Group
Preston F. Grandon
The
Gazette
la Salle
Post Tribune
Bronxville
N. Y
William Richard Watkins
U. S. Attorney General
Antitrust
Department of Justice
Oklahoma Supreme Court
U. S
Tucson
Ariz
Thorne A. Browne
Nebraska
San Francisco
David Davidson Franklin
Personel Cook
Grant
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Gruen
Rob Caledonia
Bill Monsoor
Rinso
Pork & Beans
Boeschler’s Pharmacy Ltd
Main la Crosse, Wis
Cliff “Huck
Dansberry
Jesse Winter
Dorothy Wineke
Madison West High School
E. M. Saterbak
Shen’s Chorus
Lincoln
Trinity Lutheran Church Choir
Lyle Dusso
Onalaska
Cela Lele Li
Russell Brines
Ohmae
Zemo
Saizes
Zemio
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