Sparta School to receive $36000 for enrollment growth costs
Madison Wisconsin officials report the emergency board released $52067 from emergency appropriations. The largest grant, $36000, goes to Sparta Public School to cover added costs from enrollment growth from 170 to 325 students. Other funds go to welfare $10650, December pension grants $9700, January relief $950, Platteville IT $4550, and $847 to cover expenses from the Waupaca county DA investigation. James R Law, former Madison mayor and highways chair, says he may run for governor if Gov Goodland does not.
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Madison
Wis
State Emergency Board
Sparta
Welfare Department
Institute of Technology At
Platteville
James R. Law
Wisconsin Highways Commission
Law
Goodland
On Commission
Goodla
Jap Medical Officer Testifies At Trial
YOKOHAMA A Japanese medical officer named Ohara testified at the trial of a prison guard charged with beating an American prisoner of war to death. Ohara said he signed 20 to 30 death certificates but saw only two or three bodies. The case involves Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas of Streator Illinois, a Bataan death march survivor who died at Matsushima prison camp.
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Yokohama
Ohara
Aes Ohara
Pfc
Robert Gordon Teas
Streator
Bataan
Matsushima
Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Little Glass Eye
aWiv
Pic
Charles B. Gavord
Dem
Congress Continues Forthcoming Actions From Page One
The 79th Congress pursued extensive inquiries through committees on Pearl Harbor, China policy, food, Elliott Roosevelt finances, and veterans hospitals. A Dakotas dam dispute delays a 2.4 billion deficiency bill with 750 million for UNRRA as a second War Act extension awaits action. Senate approval also looms for Truman’s listed nominees.
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79Th Congress
Pearl Harbor
State Department
China
Elliott Roosevelt
Senate-House
Dakotas
UNRRA
Senate
House
White Senate
Mr. Truman
Draft policy shifts curb father intake amid holiday call
Selective Service halted father drafting after protests, banning men with three or more children from enlistment and delaying inductions over holidays. About 30,000 will be called this month versus 50,000 requested by the army and 1,000 for the navy, as older men were not drafted since Japan’s surrender. The Honduras government holds 20 percent of a new domestic airline.
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Army
Navy
Selective Service
Japan
Congress
Fake Polish Attack Sparks World War II Narrative
The document recounts Alfred Naujocks claiming Gestapo agents in Polish uniforms attacked a German radio station at Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939. Prosecutors cite the raid as a pretext for Germany’s invasion of Poland, with Reinhard Heydrich named as the supposed mastermind.
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Muernberg
Tonal Military Tribunal
Gestapo
Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler
Germany
Alfred Naujocks
Gieiwitz
Jary
Wisconsin Men Return Home and Receive Discharges
A Wisconsin batch of veterans is listed as returning to the U S homeland or being discharged. Names include Logan W Erickson La Crosse S Sgt Wayne L Brown Decorah IA Pfc Oscar Churchill Tomah and T Sgt Arnold Amsrud Coon Valley among others. Discharges include La Crosse Corp Robert W Voshert S Sgt Robert W Gibbons Pfc Russell A Schmidt and several more from La Crosse and nearby communities. Naval removals include MUS2c Curtis L Ramsey and four La Crosse men at Great Lakes plus Wave AMM3c Kathryn West and Lieut Carl A Robhan in Jacksonville.
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Pic
Logan W. Erickson
la Crosse
Wisconsin
New York
Cornelius Hartnett
Wayne L. Brown
Decorah
San Francisco
Santa Monica
Corp
Robert C. Smith
Arnold Amsrud
Oscar Churchill
Tomah
Thomas J. Anderson
Coon Valley
Benjamin Goodhue
Boston
Benny A. Klove
Independence
Finley Dunne
M. Set
Edwin J. Maliszerski
Winona
General Morton
Robert L. Kimball
North Seventh Street
Melvin R. Hanson
la Farge
Robert W. Voshert
Fourth Street
Robert W. Gibbons
South 17Th Street
Russell A. Schmidt
Adams Street
Jessie B. Sherrod
Cass Street
Albert E. Oleske
North Eighth Street
Fred J. Shaw
Sparta
Orrin C. Olson
Westby
Marvin W. Lowener
Galesville
Howard J. Rougers
Black River Falls
Army
Fort Sheridan
Irvin W. Gilbertson
T. Sgt
Chester I. Blades
Pfc
Joseph W. Netzer
Denton Street
Wimberly Mathews
South Second Street
Corwin F. Budde
Ontario
Harold J. Egge
Viola
Wilbur F. Bohlinger
Arcadia
Floyd A. Nedland
A. Ristow
Genoa
Merlin A. Peterson
Lyle P. Edwin
Wendell C. Stephan
Trempealeau
Gerald W. Mohring
Naval Service
Great Lakes
Curtis L. Ramsey
Charlies Street
Douglas A. Eugen
State Street
Fred W. Tischer
Liberty Street
Wallace E. Freng
North 16Th Street
Norman C. Bekkedal
Cashton
Kathryn M. West
Wood Street
Navy
Calif
Carl A. Robhan
Navy Separation Center
Jacksonville
Fla
Dispute Over Japan Occupation Involves MacArthur and Russians
San Francisco dispatch reports General MacArthur and Soviet forces disagreed on which Japanese home islands the Russians would occupy, leading to no Russian participation. Tighe quotes MacArthur threatening resignation if Russia is allowed further role. State Department says it has not heard of the disagreement or protest.
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San Francisco
American Broadcasting Company
Larry Tighe
Tokyo
MacArthur
Tighe
U. S. State Department
Russia
Washington
State Department
16 Year Old Drivers Most Dangerous on Highways
Milwaukee safety officials cite Wisconsin records showing 16-year-old drivers are involved in nine times as many traffic fatalities as 45-year-olds. R C Salisbury, safety director, urges extending high school safe driving courses to address the problem.
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Milwaukee
R. C. Salisbury
Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department
Milwauke By Safety Commission
Salisbury
Unclear fragment notes Freer two drops in nostrils
Fragmentary text mentions shrinking membranes and cautious instruction to use as directed. Details are insufficient for a full news item or named entities.
Duluth Man Dies After Fall At Camp McCoy
John W. Larrabie a 54 year old Duluth Minn carpenter with the post engineers died at 5 30 am at the station hospital from injuries suffered when he fell from a roof at Theater No 5 Wednesday afternoon He fractured his pelvis and sustained serious back injuries His wife Hedwig Larrabie had been notified and arrived after his death.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
John W. Larrabie
Duluth
New Union Pacific President Named to Succeed Jeffers
William M. Jeffers will retire as president of Union Pacific Railroad Co. effective February 1. George F. Ashby, 60, will succeed him after a directors meeting in New York. Jeffers leaves after leading the system since 1937 and serving as rubber director early in World War II. Ashby has been with Union Pacific since 1911 and was executive vice president since December 1944.
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New York
William M. Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad Co
George F. Ashby
Jeffers
Union Pacific System
Ashby
Mt. Airy
N. C
Union Pacific
Ten veterans pool 400 each for apartment project
Ten veterans from the army navy marine corps and merchant marine pool 400 each to make a down payment on a 10 family apartment building. The group expects a total cost of 28 000 dollars. Spokesman John Tierney a former marine lieutenant says they are tired of living with in laws and wanted housing.
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ST Paul, Minn
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Merchant Marine
John Tierney
Tierney
Restless Pacific Vets Begin Trek Eastward
About 125000 restless Pacific veterans stranded at west coast ports will start heading east by rail today at 25000 daily. New arrivals will replenish backlog and roughly 90000 men will spend Christmas at the ports. Navy officials note a larger railway equipment allotment will assign 40 percent of space to San Francisco and 35 percent to Portland-Seattle, with 25 percent to Los Angeles-San Diego.
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San Francisco
Army
Navy
Twelfth Naval
Portland-Seattle Area
Los Angeles
San Diego Area
Workers Vote to End Strike at 15 Plants
Milwaukee workers in 15 plants returned to work after a three month strike by a 247 to 1 vote. The carpenters district council accepted a general 15 cent per hour raise retroactive to June 1 1945 with an added five cent increase after June 1946, retroactive for skilled mechanics only.
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Milwaukee
Harvey E. Anderson
Carpenters District Council
Blanket Stolen From Car in Front of Batavian Bank
The Rev. W. F. Huxford of 322 North 21st street reported a navy plaid blanket with red markings was stolen from his car parked in front of Batavian Bank Wednesday morning.
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W. F. Huxford
North 21St Street
Batavian Bank
Cruiser Augusta Arrives for Repairs in Portsmouth
The U S cruiser Augusta reached Portsmouth early today and will be docked for repairs after damage in an Atlantic gale while transporting troops from Le Havre to the United States.
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Portsmouth
U. S
Augusta
United States
le Havre
Death by own action squadron planned by Nazi glider pilots
Hanna Breitsch said German planners discussed a death by own action squadron using a Messer schmitt 328 glider bomb to attack a 2 000 pound bomb torpedo. Tests killed pilots and Nazi leaders including Hitler Himmler and Goering dismissed the plan as unfit for the German people. Hitler reportedly opposed it in February 1944 as not yet necessary.
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Oberuresel
Germany
Hanna Breitsch
Aviatrix
Hitler
Himmler
Goering
Named customs inspector for Superior Wisconsin
Kenosha Wisconsin reports Andrew Holden former Kenosha police officer and navy veteran named customs inspector at Superior Wisconsin Holden previously held the same post in Superior in 1936 37 later served as deputy collector at Crane Lake Minnesota The note ends with a curious line about Eire possibly having a book censor.
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Kenosha
Wis
Andrew Holden
Navy
Superior
Holden
Crane Lake
Minn
Senate Extends Pearl Harbor Probe to February
The Senate extended the joint congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor to February 15, with House action pending. Adm Turner urged the Pacific fleet be dispersed rather than tied to Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as new evidence emerged about Allied wartime plans and internal disagreements among navy leaders over notice to fleet commanders.
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Senate
Pearl Harbor
Washington
Richmond Kelly Turner
Pacific
House
Barkley
D-Ky
U. S
Truk
Thomas C. Hart
Tom S. W. Phillips
William D. Mitchell
R. K. Turner
U. S. High Command
Wiley Attacks Hannegan in Senate on Pre Pearl Harbor Issue
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin denounced Postmaster General and Democratic chairman Robert E. Hannegan in the Senate, accusing him of stirring up the pre Pearl Harbor issue and smearing isolationist sentiment to confuse the public. The confrontation framed as Wiley’s reply to Hannegan’s tactics.
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Washington
Wiley
Wis
Senate Today
Robert E. Hannegan
Senate
Wisconsin
Hannegan
Pearl Harbor
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