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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
1
The senate confirmed Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew and five assistant secretaries. A Mead amendment to raise pay for post office staff by 400 dollars failed. The chamber adjourned without action on a rivers and harbors project. Congress approved about 182 billion and pushed the debt ceiling to 260 billion.
Washington reports a New Deal faction pressed for liberal policy adherence as six state department assistants await senate confirmation. Critics, led by Pepper and Chandler, say the department risks power politics without Atlantic Charter alignment, amid broader tax relief talks linking corporate and personal taxes to planned refunds for business recovery.
The 78th Congress closed amid talk of postwar farm policy directed by Will L. Clayton. The Texas cotton merchant, confirmed as an assistant secretary of State, would help shape future farm programs as supervisor of U S economic relations with foreign nations. Senator La Follette resisted confirming the six State Department appointees.
Paris dispatch says U S First Army halted a German drive 20 miles into Belgium at Stavelot and retook Monschau. Units clung to near St Vith while other doughboys gathered to oppose a push toward Luxembourg. Monschau was recaptured after being surrounded.
British Commander in Greece Lieutenant General R M Scobie warned Athens civilians that leftist ELAS gunfire after 9 am would be met with force including aircraft naval guns and rockets. The proclamation followed the attack on RAF headquarters and amid political turmoil with ex premier Falls and other prisoners’ fates retraced.
Weather brief notes below freezing tonight with a high cold spell continuing through Thursday. Snow flurries expected and stronger winds likely as temperatures stay well below normal.
Three Saipan based B 29s struck Tokyo before dawn with ten blasts and new fires. Two additional B 29s hit Nagoya as Valencia fell to Gen MacArthur s forces, encircling remaining Japanese units on Leyte while Mindoro airfields and multiple targets were bombed.
Army officials said the search for three airmen missing after a B 24 bomber crashed through the ice of Lake Pepin near Lake City Minnesota may not continue. Lieut Col T O Clark would decide with higher officers before sending diver F P Blair back into the lake. Blair, working under the wreckage, found a propeller but mud and darkness hindered deeper probes.
Two La Crosse men will share in a 300000 estate left by Mary E. Turner of a pioneer Cook county family. A letter of administration in probate court named Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company and Howard A. Turner as co administrators. Turner died December 9 at age 96 in Niles without a will. One third of the estate goes to the grandnephew Lang of La Crosse.
Ralph E Lang a Burlington freight brakeman living at 1421 East Avenue South worked out of St Paul Wednesday His wife told the La Crosse Tribune the family had no knowledge of any inheritance until reporters informed them They did not know Mary E Turner had died Bert I Lang Ralphs uncle lives on South 15th Street Grants Pass Ore For 14 years executors hunted for Ed S Young a Philadelphia benificiaries relieft recipient aged 72 who after hearing the news dropped dead
Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer reports Mustangs and P-51s bombed Hongkong destroying a Japanese tanker and likely sinking a destroyer and two freighters. Over Maitak airdrome two enemy fighters were shot down, three planes on the field were destroyed or damaged, and a Mustang pilot credited with additional air victories over Hankow during the Monday raid.
Confirmation from Admiral John J. Herley notes the death of Arthur Franklin Modica, son of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Gomnell of La Crosse R 2. Modica, wounded on Saipan, had served aboard an aircraft carrier after enlisting March 31 and training at Great Lakes. He went to sea June 1 and is survived by two sons, his parents, grandfather Frank P. Schumacher, and his wife who died a year ago.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that recent Japanese successes in China posed a grave menace and that everything in the power of the Allies would be done to aid their Pacific war partner.
In Havana twenty two Cuban congress members presented to the government a resolution urging breaking diplomatic relations with Spain over the undemocratic Franco regime.
The Associated Press notes distances on four fronts: Western 301 miles from near Duren, Russian 304 miles from north of Warsaw, Hungarian 400 miles from north of Szob, and Italian 550 miles from Mezzano.
A large sign in a battalion command post of the 45th division reads Six more shooting days until Christmas. The sign reminds troops of the Yale season approaching as U S Seventh Army units operate in Germany.
The Aurore dispatch from the Spanish frontier says Generalissimo Franco and Justice Minister Eduardo Amos narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Madrid. Shots were fired at Franco's car, the chauffeur was wounded, and the assailants fled.
The Montgomery Ward labor conflict nears a decision at the White House. Vinson weighs invoking economic powers over Ward for not meeting minimum wage and union security orders in Detroit Chicago and other cities. Ward objects to check off dues and requiring members to stay unionized under a labor contract.
British troops in India will receive 1 920 000 quart bottles of American beer as part of a ration. Lord Munster, undersecretary for India and Burma, announced the order in a white paper. Indian production has risen over 300 percent but still falls short of the three bottles per man per month required.
The Atlantic Charter was disclosed by President Roosevelt as not existing as a formal document. He noted the nearest original may be with radio operators who transmitted the 1941 terms from the Roosevelt Churchill meeting and said no one signed it. He reaffirmed the charter principles.
La Crosse County trails its E bond quota of 1 119 000 with 754 108 sold as of December 15. Gysbert Van Steenwyk, chairman of the county war finance organization, notes the 66 percent achievement versus a 70 percent state average. Total county bond sales reach 6 325 782 with Dec 15 figures showing 2 922 252 in individual bonds and 3 403 530 from corporations.
A Milwaukee east side housewife attempted to freshen a goldfish bowl by running both taps. A neighbor turned on cold water, nearly boiling the fish. The woman then gashed the stove and staggered the scene, while bystanders treated the fish with unguent. The fish survived and the woman was hurt.
CBS correspondent Richard C. Hottelet said from the 1st army front that German overruns in Belgium show a final act of conquest and a last desperate attempt to inflict pain and revenge on civilians.
In a renewed counterattack Hodges command reports heavier German resistance as American armor and infantry push deeper into Belgium and Luxembourg. The advance follows Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges relieved initial penetration by four thrusts of five to twenty miles, facing stiffer opposition near the front.
CBS Frontline reports the tide changing in favor of Allied forces as German spearheads push into Belgium near Liege and Stavelot. American armored units counterattack from multiple flanks while anti-aircraft crews claim over 200 German planes shot down across three days.
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