Three Hurt In Iowa Accident
Three Lansing men Benny Iygaard Leonard Heiderscheid and Everett Bray were in a Dubuque county crash near Zwingle Iowa while returning from Illinois with bricks for a toy factory. Heiderscheid suffered serious injuries while Iygaard and Bray were less severely hurt. Leo Heiderscheid and factory manager John Brophy left Lansing after the accident was reported.
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Lansing
Benny John Iygaard
Leonard Heiderscheid
Everett Bray
Dubuque
Zwingle
Lanng
Illinois
Heiderscheid
Leo
John Brophy
Little Jap Career Diplomat Faces War Crimes Roster
Toyoichi Nakamura a 50 year old Japanese diplomat heads the liaison section and is tasked with rounding up allies for trial as suspected war criminals. He reads lists from Allied headquarters, notifying identified former military and political leaders to appear at Sugamo prison by set dates. He personally visits homes to deliver the grim news to accused individuals and families.
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Tokyo
Finland
Toyoichi Nakamura
Foreign Office
Sugamo
General MacArthur
Allied
Kamura
Japan
Nakamura
Massive Pearl Harbor Probe Transcripts Grow Toward 700 000 Words
The congressional Pearl Harbor investigation nears 700 000 words in spoken testimony with volume 23 covering a day of sessions. The record includes thousands of pages of exhibits and backup material as Gen Marshell is asked about logistics and vehicle needs.
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Pearl Harbor
Washington
George C. Marshell
Japan election reform advances amid postwar upheaval
In Tokyo a reform bill to double the electorate and grant women suffrage with a lowered voting age to 20 passes a house of peers vote amid wartime healing. Allied leaders push relief programs and food distribution safeguards while diet debates reforms and financing.
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Tokyo
House of Peers
Diet
MacArthur
Allied
House
Ion
Kenzo Shibusawa
House of Representatives
Japan
Bank of Japan
Styer Completes Yamashita Sentence Review
Lieut. Gen. W. D. Styer, commander of American forces in the western Pacific, said he finished reviewing Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's death sentence and forwarded his recommendations to General MacArthur in Tokyo. He gave no hint of what he recommended.
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Manila
W. D. Styer
Western Pacific
Tomoyuki Yamashita
MacArthur
Tokyo
Styer
Navy Survivor Recalls Shark Attack After raft Stranding
A survivor from a group of twelve recounts the ordeal at sea in which companions died or were eaten by sharks. After nine days a patrol plane found him, then a destroyer ferried him to safety. He suffered a fractured skull and shrapnel wounds but survived with five others paddling on a sunbaked raft.
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Vivor
Juneau
Three Cars In Front Of South Third Street Crash
Three cars were involved in a 5 03 pm accident in front of 1116 South Third Street. Helmar Skaar 1417 South Ninth Street and Rudolph Smolek R 1 drove south on Third Street. Skaar cut in too short after passing the truck, hitting Smolek left fender and then crash into a parked Lyons car causing 120 dollars in damage.
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South Third Street
Helmar Skaar
South Ninth Street
Rudolph Smolek
Third Street
Skaar
Smolek
E. W. Lyons
Police Court records from Lacrosse and real estate transfers
In Lacrosse police court records Helmer Skaar was fined 75 dollars and had his license revoked for one year for driving under the influence. Other fines include Robert Bakelars 2 dollars for a bicycle violation and Donald Iverson 15 dollars for driving without due caution. A series of traffic fines are listed with small amounts. In county court Gorgon William Scheuers pleads not guilty to breaking and entering in the nighttime. preliminary hearing set for Dec 18 with a $1,000 bond. August Magen pleads as a vagrant and the case adjourned to Dec 15 with a $250 bond. Real estate transfers list several property deeds from Oliver K and Alicia Olson, Laura Silva, Adolph H and Jeanette L Stekke, and Anne York et al to various buyers. Fire reports note a car fire on Fifth Avenue and King Street, and an insulation fire on South Seventh Street with a 7:37 p m incident.
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Lac Crosse
Helmer Skaar
South Ninth Street
Robert Bakelars
Srestestngs Street
Donald Iverson
Grantsburg
Wis
Robert L. Hanson
Onelaskie
Lyle Mason
Rue Schaefer
Willam Schulz
Travis Street
Myron Turner
South Seventh Street
W. B. Hoskins
South 20Th Street
le Crosse
Gorgon
William Scheuers
Frank Bonsack
August Magen
Ant QU
Oliver K
Alicia Olson
Harry and
Lavina Steindorf
Adams Street
State Road
21S Street
Laura Silva
Clarence
Fileen Knutson
Liberty and
Wail
Adolph H
Jeanette L. Stekke
Robert C
Dorothy E. Smith
17Th
Weston Streets
Anne York
Gledye Stofer
Fifth Avenue
Forrestal Criticizes Revealing Jap Code Secrets
Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal told the Senate Military Committee that exposing Japanese code breaking was a terrible tragedy. He urged a postwar reorganization with a single intelligence agency and opposed merging the armed forces into one organization.
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Washington
Navy
James V. Forrestal
Senate Military Committee
Navy Department
War Department
Forrestal
Wausau Man and Nephew Plead Guilty in Drug Store Holdup
Samuel E. Wood age 31 and his nephew Carl Oscar Johnson age 23 pleaded guilty in county court to armed robbery and accessory before the fact related to a Tuesday night drug store holdup in Wausau. Wood also pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm with a $2000 bond. Johnson's bond was set at $1000. Police say Johnson supplied the gun and Wood was arrested hours later on a Milwaukee Road train bound for Chicago.
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Wausau
Wis
Samuel E. Wood
Sheboygan
Ewald Schulz
Carl Oscar Johnson
Johnson
Wood
Ralph Combs
Portage County
Rooney announces La Crosse USO round table on Saturdays
John Rooney program director at the La Crosse USO reveals a new weekly round table on WKBH Saturdays at 6 45 p m. Three military personnel chosen by Rooney and Jack Finch will moderate. Discussions cover current topics and items of interest and grow from USO club groups. Beginning Saturday December 15 Sgt Frank Coughlin Corp Ned B King and Corp George Haney of the local US army recruiting station will participate.
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John Rooney
la Crosse Uso
WKBH
Jack Finch
Rooney
USO
Frank Coughlin
Ned B. King
George Haney
U. S. Army
Nesler Receives Promotion at Pearl Harbor
Earl W. Jer Nesler, AV R C 13632, promotes from seaman first class to coxswain at Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station. He joined the service in 1943 and served on USS Honolulu, torpedoed at Leyte Gulf in October 1944. He has four battle stars and has been away from home since April 1945 survivor leave.
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Alfred Nesler
Kanestreet
Earl W. Jer
Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor
Nesler
Honolulu
Leyte Bay
Third Fleet
Three Ambulance Calls Reported in City
Police ambulance attended Doerflinger's store at the Main street entrance on Wednesday at 1 20 p m to transport Mrs A Spettl 73 from St Joseph's home to a hospital. At 3 20 p m Mrs Josephine Miller 79 of 500 South Sixth street was taken to a hospital. At 6 40 p m Mrs Ed Borchman 50 of 603 North 11th street was tended at home for convulsions and transported to a hospital.
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Doerflinger
A. Spettl
St. Joseph's
Josephine Miller
South Sixth Street
Ed Borchman
North 11Th Street
Birthday Wishes for Local Residents
A birthday greeting lists Mrs Frances Morrison of 502 North Eighth Street Beverly Morrison of 719 Liberty Street and Mrs Alice Richmond of 1150 Vine Street with best wishes for the year ahead.
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Frances Morrison
North Eighth Street
Beverly Morrison
Liberty Street
Alice Richmond
Vine Street
Labor Seeks Senate Block On Labor Racketeering Bill
Organized labor hoped to stop a bill expanding the 1934 anti-racketeering act to cover union activities. Rep. Marcantonio predicted Senate victory while noting a similar House passage last Congress had died in committee. If enacted it could punish unions for robbery or extortion and remove wage exemptions tied to legitimate labor aims.
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Washington
Senate
House
Rep
Marcantonio
Amn. Lab- NY
New Yorker
Supreme Court
New York
Teamsters
House Labor
Schwellenbach
AFL
William Green
Mrs Bertha Emilson Obituary at 711 Pine Street
Bertha F Emilson 711 Pine street died Thursday morning in a local hospital. Survived by son Blaine E two sisters Ida Kaulfuss Clara Bartz and brother Fred Kowalke all of La Crosse. Husband Edward preceded in death 12 years ago. Private funeral Saturday 2 pm Dahl funeral home Rev Walter A Schumann officiating. Burial Oak Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening.
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Bertha F. Emilson
Pine Street
Blaine E
Paul
Ida) Kaulfuss
August
Clara) Bartz
Fred H. Kowalke
la Crosse
Edward Emilson
Dahl
Walter A. Schumann
Oak Grove Cemetery
Blast at Nash plant core oven injures 61
William Blinten, 61, suffered serious internal injuries in an explosion at the Nash plant foundry Thursday. The blast shattered windows across nearby houses, officials said.
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Kenosha
Wis
William Blinten
Nash
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