Roy Steenberg On 21 Day Furlough In Westby
S Sgt Roy Steenberg is on a 21 day furlough in Westby after four percent absence. He enlisted July 1940 and trained at Lewiston Wash Fort Ord. He served in Africa Sicily Italy and France earning five overseas campaign stars. His brothers Milton and Kenneth are overseas. He will report to Hot Springs Ark for reassignment.
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Roy Steenberg
Steenberg
Lew O * Wash
Fort Ordoe
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
la Verne Wang
Westby
Wang
Pearl Harbor
Milton
Kenneth
Navy
South Pacific
Hot Ark
Wisconsin Men Get 30 Day Home Leaves From 3rd Army
Six Wisconsin combat veterans at a France replacement center began 30 day home leaves under the armies three R program rotation recovery and rehabilitation. The group includes Walter W. Dunse Baraboo Herbert C Steinbach Medford Milo J Flynn Suring Jack S Gerrie Ripon Francis H Metz Mukwonago and Fredrick E Bredeson Blanchardville.
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U. S
Wisconsin
Walter W. Dunse
Baraboo
Herbert C. Steinbach
Medford
Milo J. Flynn
Suring
Jack S. Gerrie
Ripon
Francis H. Metz
Mukwonago
Bredeson
Blanchard
Louis and Ruth’s Odd Voyage to Santa Land
Louis and Ruth journey from their island to Santa Land to seek help from Santa for the Magic Music Box of the Witches of Poldrex. They discover a land where ice cream grows on trees and meet a humanless City of Pigs with pig society, tea parties, and libraries, then a town of paper houses and streets.
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Louis
Cameroon
Ruth
Santa Land
Santa
You and
Magic Music Box Quest In Santa Land
Louis and Ruth travel by magical paper basket to a snow coated Santa Land with toy workshops and talking bears. They pass a paper mills tale and dream of the magic music box that may bring Ruth a smile again as they land near Santa's workshops.
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Louis
Ruth
Santa
Santa Land
Experienced Seamen Sought For U S Maritime Service
Lieut R T Sexton urges qualified seamen with 14 months ocean or inland waterway service to apply for a four month officer candidate training. Selected men earn 126 dollars monthly and receive chief petty officer status during training and licensing on duty. Vacancies exist for December and January classes. apply at Chicago or Milwaukee recruiting offices.
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Chicago
R. T. Sexton
U. S. Maritime Service
Shees
U S. Maritime Service
Mnal
U. S Maritime Service
Sexton
U. S. Service
Rush Street
Wisconsin Avenue
Miwaukee
Oil Ration Warnings Highlight 22 Percent Rule
Officials warn households not to exceed 22 percent of their fuel oil ration by a given date. The office of price administration says residents should budget fuel for the entire heating season to avoid running short before the next season.
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Office of Price
War bond buyer pays with roll of nickels in Oklahoma
Pocketful PORT SILL Okla The post office staff questioned a man named Winford H Penick after he walked in to buy a $500 war bond and presented $875 in nickels dimes quarters and half dollars revealing his method and intention.
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Port Sill
Okla
Post En Office
Winford H. Penick
U S Air Forces Claim Major November Jap Losses
The U S and S Air force reported sinking more than 30 000 tons of enemy shipping and destroying six naval vessels in November while claiming over 1 700 Japanese troops killed. The summary also noted 274 enemy small craft eliminated in the period.
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Ustair
U. S&s. Air Force
Japan
Hawaiian Filipino? Soldier Captures German Major in France
Pfc Akira Nakagawa of the 442nd Regiment captures a German major after pursuing him across an open field near a French town. Nakagawa enters the chase, corners the officer at a stone wall, and forces surrender after finding two pistols. He has earned the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Distinguished Unit Badge.
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7Th Army
France
Akira Nakagawa
Hakalau
Hawaii
Nakagawa
Jackie Coopers Honeymoon In Los Angeles
Jackie Cooper aged 22 and actress June Horne 24 are honeymooning in Los Angeles after a Wilshire Methodist Church wedding officiated by Rev Will sie Martin. Cooper must return soon for naval training at Great Lakes as an apprentice seaman. The British Home Guard counts 1 727 000 men and 31 000 women.
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Los Angeles
Jackie Cooper
June Horne
Wilshire Methodist Church
Willsie Martin
Cooper
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Walking Ducks Spell Prosperity in Lubbock Factory Rise
In Lubbock George F. Peterson rebuilt from hotel closure and wartime layoffs by joining a Pacific coast welder he met a toy duck maker. His Evan Co. now employs 85 women making walking ducks and four traveling salesmen, with sales limited only by materials and labor. After the war the business aims to grow.
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Lubbock
Tex
America
George F. Peterson
Peterson
Pacific Coast
Evan Co
Black Crown Heron Eats Birds, State Warden Reports
State Game Warden T. T. Waddell photographed and documented two instances of a black crown night heron preying on young blue herons at Colorado County Lakes. The first incident involved swallowing a 10 day old chick head first, the second drowned and consumed a larger juvenile.
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Austin
Tex
T. T. Waddell
Lower Lake
Colorado County
Waddell
War Fund Reaches Nearly Forty Thousand in La Crosse County
Nearly $40,000 has been contributed to the La Crosse county War Fund campaign per campaign director Otto Nelson. Contributions may still be sent to the war fund office room 204 Rivoli building. Donors giving $10 or more include Badger Stamping at Tool Co Swift and Co and its employees Fred E Stee and Irma Wathine Memorial Fund.
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la Crosse County
Lettuce head found inside watermelon in Belleville
In Belleville Illinois Mrs Leon Cook cut a watermelon and discovered a tiny lettuce head about an inch in diameter inside the fruit. The curious find prompted local curiosity and prompted officials to inspect the melon source for possible tampering.
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Belleville
Ill
Leon Cook
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South Third Street
la Crosse
Ely
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Damas
Canada
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