Solons View Italy Rigors Advancing Army Report
Members of the touring house military committee after a front line trip say American newspapers may understate the hardships of the Italian campaign. They question press and public interest and note censorship limits outside military security, while reporters pursue a fuller story. Mrs Luce criticizes romantic depictions of WACs and air corps captains.
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5Th Army
Touring
House Military Committee
John E. Sheridan
D-Pa
Arthur J. McCrystal
Air Corps
Wacs
Dogs Hunt Deer Instead Of Foxes In Outagamie
APPLETON Wis Thirty five fox hunters from Outagamie County pursued more deer than foxes on public ground. Three air fox hounds chased deer for hours near Readfield then routed a fox, which escaped after a two hour tail.
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Outagamie
Appleton
Wis
Reynard
Ton
Readfield
State offers seven point plan to aid state employees
A. J. Opstedal directs the bureau of personnel as the state board backs a seven point program to improve civil service finances. It would adjust 50 salary classes, remove caps, raise minimum to ninety dollars a month, boost merit increments, drop two step increases, double cost of living bonuses, and extend the 225 bonus to salaries above that level.
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Madison
A. J. Opstedal
Directrar
Bureau of Personnel
State Board
Joint Finance Committee
Opstedal
Super Forts Press Massive Nagoya Raid From Saipan
U S air forces widen a three city Nagoya campaign as Brig Gen H S Hansell’s Super Forts from Saipan attack the Nagoya area while Maj Gen Curtis Le May’s 20th Bomber Command hits Hankow. Nagoya, a major aviation plant complex, is described as highly inflammable.
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Nagoya
H. S. Hansell
Saipan
Curtis le May
20Th Bomber Command
Hankow
Agoya
Japan
Governor OKs 5885 Acre Land Purchase in North Wisconsin
Gov. Goodland approved the conservation commission buy of 5885 acres across Bayfield Douglas Iron and Sawyer counties for 24869 dollars. The land includes hunting groves and deer yards, much of it tax delinquent children. An extra 1320 acres in Vilas and Sawyer counties was bought for state forest use and another 145 acres was added to American Legion and peninsula state parks.
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Madison
Wis
Goodland
The
Conservation Commission
Bayfield
Douglas
Iron and
Sawyer
Vilas
American Legion
Peninsula
Ram and wife fined for cement profiteering in Ferozepore
Siri Ram and his wife were sentenced in Ferozepore to a fine and three months rigorous imprisonment for profiteering in cement, a case tied to illegal gains in the local market.
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Siri Ram
Ferozepore
India
Ward Seizure Near Relief Ward Seizure Near
Washington reports both the government and Montgomery Ward preparing for a broader presidential seizure as a midnight deadline for wartime labor board compliance looms. The firm cites four points in ads denying mandatory union membership and wage increases while Davis disputes Ward claims and Sewell Avery’s statements.
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Washington
Montgomery Ward
War Labor Board
WLB
William H. Davis
Detroit Ward
Supreme Court
Wards
Davis
Sewell Avery
Churchill's Speech Plans Undecided
A Downing Street spokesman said nothing has been decided about whether Prime Minister Churchill will broadcast a review of the war and political situation in the coming days. The same spokesman had said it was possible he would speak Sunday night, but the prime minister did not go on the air.
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London
Downing Street
Churchill
Local Woman Deferred Sentence in Probation Violation Case
Madison Wisconsin judge Roy Proctor deferred the sentence of Bernice B. Sikora fifty five from La Crosse who pleaded guilty to failure to report to authorities and waived extradition to Minnesota where probation violation charges are pending against her
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Madison
Wis
Roy Proctor
Bernice B. Sikora
la Crosse
Allied airmen down 49 German planes over Silesia raid
Rome reported Allied airmen knocked down 49 of more than 100 German planes as heavy 15th Air Force bombers targeted synthetic oil plants in Silesia. Bomber gunners claimed 26 Nazi planes. escort fighters felled the rest. Lieut Norman C. Skogstad of Barron Wis shot down two more, giving eight total.
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Rome
15Th Air Force
German
Silesia
Norman C. Skogstad
Barron Wis
Wright To Attend State Traffic Meeting
Ivan A. Wright chief of the La Crosse county highway police will attend a Madison conference. He joins morning panel on traffic court administration and an afternoon panel on traffic law enforcement with judges district attorneys justices of the peace and police officers from across the state.
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Ivan A. Wright
la Crosse County
Continue Selection Of Chaplin Jury In Paternity Case
Los Angeles reports the jury selection for the Joan Berry Charlie Chaplin paternity suit extended into a third day as peremptory challenges continue. Attorneys indicated the process could take all day.
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Chaplin
Los Angeles
Patton's Third Army Breaks Siegfried Line Push
On the Western Front the 3rd Army under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton broke through the primary Siegfried line as part of a broader Allied advance. While the German counteroffensive raged, the search for remaining enemy troops continued methodically.
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George S. Patton
3Rd Army
Siegfried Line
Germans Cross Northern Luxembourg Front Near Belgium Border
Berlin said German forces crossed the northern Luxembourg front and neared the Luxembourg Belgium border. The Eindhoven radio station went off air with no explanation. A northern Luxembourg penetration would place Nazis about 50 miles from Namur and threaten links between the 1st Army and southern Allied units. Berlin claimed fast units and armored groups advanced toward Malmedy amid heavy battles and some U S tank losses.
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London
Berlin
Luxembourg
Luxembourg-Belgium
Eindhoven
Holland
Namur
1St
Malmedy
Allied Push Deepens Siegfried Line Battles Near Dillingen
The 3rd Army’s 90th division drives 300 yards to Dillingen’s eastern edge, seizing ten more blocks as the 7th Army engages the Siegfried line in the Wissenbourg gap. US forces threaten Rhine approaches with the 14th armored division within 32 miles of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen amid multiple German fortifications.
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3Rd Army
Dillingen
3Rd
7Th Army
Alexander M. Patch
Wissenbourg
Rhine
Vosges
Ober-Otterbach
Steinfeld
U. S. 14Th Armored Division
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Bitche
Strasbourg
Five Injured in Weekend City Traffic Spree
Police report five people injured in multiple weekend traffic crashes in La Crosse. A 33 year old man, Donald Kruger, suffered a possible skull fracture and loss of finger in a 16th street collision with Arthur Miller. Miller and two passengers had minor injuries. Miller faced drunken driving charges and a $100 fine.
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la Crosse
Donald Kruger
Cass Street
Kruger
16Th Street
Arthur J. Miller
R. 1
Hokah
Minn
Jackson
Miller
Robert Crawford
Andy Roroff
la Moille
Wisconsin
Richard Johnson
Sumner Street
John Lege
South 14Th Street
Henry Gilster
YMCA
10Th Streets
Albert Olson
North Ninth Street
Charles Hartung
North 10Th Street
Burns Prove Fatal To Woman After Home Blaze
Mrs. Frank Harter, 46, died at a La Crosse hospital from second degree burns suffered when pouring kerosene into a stove at her Trempealeau area home. She was treated at Galesville clinic and transported by ambulance. The couple lived four miles north of Trempealeau. no phone access. It is unclear how badly the house was damaged or if others were harmed.
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Trempealeau
Wis
Frank Harter
la Crosse
Harter
Galesville Clinic
Harters
Road To Berlin Front Distances Listed By Front
The report outlines advance distances on four fronts. Western front 301 miles from Duren, Russian front 304 miles north of Warsaw, Hungarian front 400 miles north of Sobz, Italian front 550 miles from Mezzano.
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Duren
Warsaw
Sobz
Mezzano
Hawaiians Surprise to Count 16 German Surrenders
Pfc Tamiji Tsutui of Hawaii with the 442nd Japanese American Combat Team in France helps German soldiers surrender in a village cellar. Pfc Satoshi Purya assists as fifteen more Germans come out to capitulate, bringing the total to sixteen.
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Seventh Army
France
Tamiji Tsutui
Hawaii
Honolulu
Tsutai
Tsutui
Pfc
Satoshi Puruya
Pacific War on Mindoro Wrecks Reported by Broadcast
The Mindoro operations are described as covered by wrecked sunken American ships and transports with vessels still burning. The broadcast notes two medium transports five small transports and many landing barges in flames as Japanese special attack corps intensify assaults on remnants of enemy ships. MacArthur reports minimal enemy air activity with two planes shot down over our shipping.
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Mindoro
Douglas MacArthur
Col Cochran Named Aide To Brereton
London reports Col Philip Cochran of Burma fame has been named assistant operations officer of the 1st Allied Airborne Army under Lieut General Lewis Brereton. The Erie Pennsylvania airman previously commanded the first air commandos task force in Maj Gen Charles Orde Wingate's air invasion of Burma.
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London
Philip Cochran
Burma
Allied Airborne Army
Lewis H. Brer
Erie. Pa
First Air Commands
Charles Orde Wingate
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