Indian agricultural adviser visits La Crosse to study U.S. farming
D R Sethi, India’s agricultural adviser, toured Grandad Bluff soil stations and local farms, met with Nagindas Patel of Pashabhai Patel and Co and Allis-Chalmers reps, and outlined India’s plan to boost farm output with heavier machinery and a wider village extension program. He travels next to Peoria then west, before a UK return.
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India
D. R. Sethi
la Crosse Company
Sethi
United States
Government of India
America
Grandad Bluff
Washington, D. C
Detroit
Springfield
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Peoria
California
Washington
New Mexico
United Kingdom
Scotland
Indian Civil Service
Tribune
Allis-Chalmers
Nagindas Patel
Bombay
Norman C. Davidson
Herbert Bott
Milwauke
Truman pressures Chiang Kai-shek as China moves toward unity
President Truman outlined steps to end internal strife in China and evacuate Japanese troops. He urged a national conference of major political groups to form a unified government while preserving U S non intervention in internal affairs and stressing China’s duty to the United Nations to curb armed conflict.
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Marshall
Patrick J. Hurley
China
Truman
Chiang Kai-shek
Hurley
United States
White House
U. N
United Nations
Chile Stretching Narrow Across South America
Chile measures about 2,660 miles in length with an average width near 110 miles, forming a long slim country along the western edge of South America.
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Chile
Fugitive Alfred Cline Faces Dallas Murder Charge
Alfred Leonard Cline, 56, charged in Dallas with murder, stood mute at his San Francisco arraignment on being a fugitive from justice. His attorney sought a week for decision on extradi tion to Texas as Cline faces murder and forgery complaints. Police linking deaths of four elderly women to Cline, with estates totaling over 300000, and possible cremations across multiple states.
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San Francisco
Alfred Leonard Cline
Dallas
J. W. Ehrlich
Ehrlich
Cline
Texas
Eva Delora Krebs
Chicago
Carpenter
Bloomington
Ind
Macon
Alma Willa Carter
Krebs Cline
Isabel van Natta
Portland
Ore
Krebs
Jacksonville
Fla
Elizabeth Hannah Klein
Brown
Elizabeth Hunt Lewis
Oakland
Calif
Christmas in La Crosse a citywide carol concert series
Singing groups from Longfellow Junior High Central High St Joseph Cathedral St Pauls Lutheran Aquinas junior and senior students join a citywide Christmas concert. Harold Youngberg Harmer Root Sr M Agnes Clare and Mrs Mars A Dale lead choirs in carols and Mass hymns. Citizens urged to attend with family to share Christmas spirit.
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Longfellow Junior High School
la Crosse
Civic
Harold Youngberg
Central High School
Harmer Root
Rott
St. Joseph
Mars A. Dale
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Choir
Aquinas
Senor
Sr. M. Agnes Clare
Jaycees Nittee
Navy reports encounter with darkened ship near Pearl Harbor raid
The cruiser Boise sighted a darkened vessel on Nov 2 and again on Nov 28 1941 while escorting merchant ships to the Philippines. The navy said no Atago class cruiser joined the Pearl Harbor raid and that the Boise’s closest approach to the raiding force was about 1,400 miles.
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Philippines
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Woman admits kidnap hoax and seeks truth at hospital
Mrs. Carlan told reporters she deeply regretted the kidnapping ruse linking her to a Boston psychopathic hospital. She said fear of losing her husband and concern for her child drove the deception, insisting she never harmed the baby as she left the police station. She thanked Police Chief Charles M. Finn for understanding.
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Psychopathic Hospital
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
U N Secrecy Motion Falls Narrowly in General Assembly
Secretary Stevenson for the United States opposed a secret ballot on a UN matter, arguing secrecy undercuts openness. The vote on the secrecy motion failed 26 to 24 amid abstentions from Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Newland, Syria and the United States.
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South Africa
United Kingdom
Colombia
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Newland
Syria
United States
Stevenson
Edward R. Stettinius
U. S
United Nations Organization
Britain
France
United Nations
Doctor Receives Siren From Oban Council
Group Captain H. Ross Tilley, a Canadian doctor at a hospital in East Grinstead, vows not to forget the air raid siren named Ulysses, which sounded warnings during the war, now presented to him painted with Oban’s crest and motto. The siren weighs 300 pounds.
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H. Ross Tilley
East Grinstead
England
Ulysses
Oban Council
New Rehabilitation Methods Planned For Sightless Vets
Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley announces WWII blind veterans programs will expand to 505 WWI blind veterans in VA facilities. Army centers teach Braille reading, sound-based navigation, tools and recreation. 680 WWII blind veterans have been discharged, with many others in training. VA plan keeps nine blind instructors to aid age 50 plus WWI veterans in centers in Dayton Bronx Tuskegee Bath Bay Pines Kecoughtan Los Angeles Mountain Home Wood.
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Washington
Paul R. Hawley
Veterans Administration
Army
Old Farms Convalescent Hospital
Avon, Conn
Georget Hackenburg
Pennsylvania State Council For the Blind
Dayton, O
Bronx
N. Y
Tuskegee
Ala
Bath
Bay Pines
Fla
Kecoughtan
Los Angeles
Calif
Mountain Home
Tenn
Wood, Wis
Seed flax fuels U S cigarette paper fiber supply
Seed flax, grown mainly in Minnesota and the Dakotas, provides all fiber for cigarette papers produced in the United States.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
United States
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Kodak Data Books
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Mgr
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Main Street
By Robert Geiger
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Heilemans
Civil Air Patrol
French Island
American Legion
Hokah
Wisconsin State Guard
South Avenue Armory
Logan Pta
Logan School
Kiwanis Club
Hotel
Stoddard
JCC
Legion Hall
Beta Sigma Phi
Heileman Office
Lions Club
Hokah, Minn
4Th and King
VFW Ladies
Rotary Club
County Board
Court House
Shrine Club
Masonic Temple
Heileman
Heileman’s
G. Heileman Brewing CO
la Crosse, Wis
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