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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
1
The article portraits editor and wartime correspondent son of A H Voss detailing Osaka Kobe destruction scenes from atomic raids. It notes Kobe and Osaka devastation, housing rupture, and Japanese casualty reporting attitudes through January 1946 in Japan.
In fogbound Shanghai area three Chinese airliners with over 100 people total collided, killing or injuring 85. An American pilot was killed and another injured. A fourth transport with at least 10 aboard was missing. The incident marks a record night for China’s civilian aviation.
President Truman wrapped up a brief holiday visit with Missouri relatives before returning to Washington to tackle labor and other legislative issues. His aides expect three messages on legislative financial and economic deals to occupy much of the remaining time before Congress, now Republican led, convenes next month.
The U S army and military government consider a recommendation to ban private cigarette imports into Germany to crush the black market. An embargo via army post exchanges would limit supplies to official needs, removing cigarettes from barter to stabilize the German economy.
In La Crosse temperatures plunge from a 40 degree high to a 10 degree low as harsh winter snaps in. Snow flurries are forecast Friday afternoon with Thursday night easing to around 15 and Friday reaching about 26. The area remains among the coldest in the nation.
Washington news brief reports the war and navy secretaries and the coast guard commandant urging the Interstate Commerce Commission to extend reduced furlough rates beyond January 30. They request maintaining 1.25 cents per mile until carriers justify proposed rate increases. Eastern railroads had planned to tie servicemen fares to 2.2 cents per mile by December 1, 1946.
Two Catholic priests burned to death in the rectory beside St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Fayetteville Arkansas. The blaze caused the fatalities and authorities investigate the cause at the scene.
Cloudy with snow beginning tonight and changing to snow flurries Friday afternoon. Warmer tonight, low 15, turning colder Friday with a high near 26.
Butter prices dipped on the Chicago mercantile exchange to the lowest since September 3 with AA 93 scoring 74 cents per pound and 92 score at 73 ½ cents. New York prices declined 1 to 10 cents a pound on Thursday from Tuesday, marking a sharp drop in years.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon for Frank J. Liebick 56 civic leader and manufacturer who died after a four year illness in Two Rivers Wisconsin.
A potential alliance of anti Dewey Republicans and southern Democrats forms amid the bitter GOP fight for house majority leader. Contenders include Halleck with Dewey backing, and Jenkins Dirksen, with Brown signaling interest as Hoffman denounces a “small clique” dictating leadership.
Police and the district attorney pursue two new leads in the December 17 killing of Mrs. Bessie Moore at Web’s tavern northeast of La Crosse. Ballistics point to a 32 20 caliber gun possibly by Smith and Wesson, Colt, or a Spanish maker, while investigators seek a sandy haired hitchhiker seen near the crime scene. The description matches a man who tried to buy 32 caliber bullets the morning of the murder, aiding a statewide search coordinated with the sheriff and federal authorities.
HAUNTING claim from Ernie Adamson chief counsel for the House Committee on Un American Activities. A formal report citing a 1946 staff compilation warns of a Communist led plan to provoke a general strike and nationwide unrest. It accuses 17 CIO unions of Communist control and labels the Library of Congress a haven for aliens.
The Chamber of Commerce will distribute 1 505 questionnaires next Tuesday to gauge residential parking concerns. 900 are sent Friday to members and non members, with 50 per ward for car owning families. Results will be compiled by Everett H Woehrmann and presented to the city council in January.
In Berlin Wisconsin a five room frame dwelling burned to the ground Thursday. Firemen found Mrs Gustave Adams dead in the living room likely suffocated. Coroner John Boyd ordered a preliminary inquiry and sought her husband last seen Tuesday.
Edward J. Reilly, 64, a veteran criminal lawyer who unsuccessfully defended Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, died Wednesday at Kings County Hospital.
A reporter surveys Kobe Osaka and Ok ayama describing the lingering disaster effects. The text notes earthquakes and tidal waves adding odors of rotting seaweed to a scene already scarred by burnt bodies charred trees and unwashed remains.
The Wisconsin football coaching staff paid their last respects to Russell Schultz a former Central high star and 1942 1946 team member. Attendees included head coach Harry Stuhldreher and assistants, pallbearers, and friends from the university. Schultz and Helen Kessel died in a car crash on 21st and Main street. several others were injured. The coroner ruled the deaths accidental due to icy street conditions.
Secretary of State Byrnes has been invited by General MacArthur to visit Japan, but officials doubt he can travel there soon due to the upcoming Moscow conferences on the German peace treaty. The State Department released the notice on Thursday.
The Pettibone park lagoon began winter skating at 1 p.m. Thursday after warm spells delayed opening. Cold temperatures Thursday night thickened the ice to safety. Other city rinks remain closed for now.
Gov. Goodland said new taxes are necessary to cover increased state government costs and that he will back the University of Wisconsin board of regents fully in any action it takes regarding McMurray. He indicated no tax type has been decided yet and noted a proposed biennial budget of 169 million dollars, about 78 million more than expected revenue.
In Mont Joli Quebec the fifth and sixth survivors were saved from an ice floe in the St Lawrence after three days adrift. The seventh aboard is believed drowned. Pilot James Hartley and others were rescued as rescuers and a Colabee freighter aided the search.
Comedian W. C. Fields aged 66 died Christmas day at a Pasadena sanitarium after months of liver and kidney illness. Born Claude William Dukinfield in Philadelphia, Fields rose from a juggler to the Ziegfeld Follies and films. Funeral services are planned at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
Coast Guard planes and ground units renew search for a Western Airlines airliner missing since Christmas Eve with 12 aboard. Dense drizzle shrouds the last known mountainous area between Imperial Valley and San Diego, where the aircraft disappeared.
The United States rejected Russian claims that two Soviet citizens were attacked by American military police in Shanghai on Sept. 23. It blamed the Russians for the fighting after a car crash and noted no ultimatum in a Dairen port warning, effectively closing that incident.
Government quarters report Premier Alcide de Gasperi, shortly to depart for talks in the United States on Italian problems, asked former Premier Ferruccio Parri to lead a mission to Marshal Tito for Italian Yugoslav discussions.
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