Minstrel Show Planned at La Crosse Vocational School
La Crosse Vocational school hosts a Saturday minstrel at 8 15 p m featuring 60 De Molay and Job's Daughters members under director-interlocutor Dr Harry Marshall. The two part program includes patter and an oleo with a Cab Calloway style blackface orchestra cabaret scene. Sunaina and Marian MacLaughlin perform adagio dance and Sally Markos sings with the band. Tickets sold by members or at the Masonic temple or school per Dr Marshall.
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la Crosse Vocational School
de Molay
Job
Harry Marshall
Cab Calloway
Sunaina
Marian MacLaughlin
Sally Markos
Job's
Masonic Temple
Marshall
Black Market Sugar Sales Charged Against Bakery Salesman
Edwin J Zierfuss a 52 year old salesman for a bakery supply firm was arrested on a federal warrant charging him with black market sugar sales. At a hearing before Federal Judge F Ryan he was bonded. The report notes numerous smaller sales and quantities of sugar.
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Milwaukee
Edwin J Zierfuss
F. Ryan Y. Zierfuss
Frazer Auto Debuts New Body Lines in Kaiser-Frazer Plan
Detroit reports Kaiser-Frazer will build a new Frazer at Willow Run bomber plant. The medium priced car will feature flowing front to rear fenders, a wide seating capacity, and a 100 horsepower engine. Rear seat for four, 123 inch wheelbase, and 64 inch height. Production on parallel lines with Kaiser on the former bomber plant site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Frazer
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Bomber
Et Willow Run
Kaiser
Paige
Kaiser- Frazer
Hoyt accuses GOP committee of corrupt practices
Milwaukee 3rd ward GOP leader Hoyt charges Wisconsin voluntary Republican committee with three violations under the corrupt practices law. He asks Gov. Goodland to investigate whether party financial reports are signed by proper officers and alleges misrepresentation of party officers in official filings.
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Milwaukee
Lansing Hoyt
3Rd Ward
Republican Club
Goodland
Hoyt
State Voluntary Republican Committee
Thomas E. Coleman
Wisconsin
Republican Party of
Coleman
Republican Party of Wisconsin
More For Reduction Of Public Employes Pensions In State
Milwaukee residents launch a campaign to cut public employees pensions and create a single state wide plan. Edwin Zedler chairs the affiliated taxpayers committee urging pensions not exceed social security for private workers and limiting taxpayer contributions. The plan would include municipal and state employees and end other public pension systems except for those already enrolled.
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Milwaukee
Edwin Zedler
Affiliated
Taxpayers Committee
Zedier
Itelf
Distribution of $1.1 Million Tax Funds to Wisconsin Localities
Madison reports the distribution of 1,107,587 dollars to Wisconsin cities towns and villages for the income tax apportionment covering Sept 1 to Dec 1. Milwaukee County receives 451,254 dollars and the city of Milwaukee 341,700 dollars.
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Madison
Wis
Milwaukee County
Milwaukee
Merger Hearings Postponed to Mid-January
The congressional debate on armed forces merger resumes in mid January before the House Expenditures Committee. Rep. J Randolph of West Virginia reports the group seeks unified command and a holiday pause in the negotiations.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Rep. J . Randolph
Dwva
The
Boy and Cat Return Home From Five Day Chicago spree
Dickie Mason, 14, and his angora cat Cookie ended a five day $500 spending spree in Chicago and returned to Pekin Illinois with his mother Mildred Mason. Police had questioned him after he left home to ride trains chasing money he had taken from his grandfather Henry Gleich. He spent Christmas in a hotel and said he fled because Cookie caused friction at home. Gleich planned to consider the matter closed.
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Pekin, Ill
Angora
Chicago
Dickie Mason
Cookie
Pekin
Dickie
Mildred Mason
Henry Gleich
Gleich
Mrs. Mason
Fuel Stringency In Nation Says Ickes
Secretary Ickes warned of fuel stringency nation wide as fuel oil tightens and coal output fails to meet demand. He blamed strikes for coal shortfalls and said oil profits favor gasoline production, urging more fuel oil output to reduce gasoline reliance.
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Washington
Ickes
Lewis
Captain Julius Palen Goes On Leave From Milwaukee Post
Caledonia Minnesota reports Capt Julius Palen son of the late Mr and Mrs Frank Palen of Caledonia is on terminal leave at his Milwaukee home. He received his captaincy just before the leave date.
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Caledonia, Minn
Milwaukee
Julius Palen
Frank Palen
Caledonia
Homesick Marines in China Report Morale Crisis
The China theater edition of Stars and Stripes says U S marines in north China are cracking up as they feel like pawns in a political chess game. It notes reduced incidents yet rising casual ties from snipers to wreckers and occasional clashes with civilians.
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Shanghai
U. S
China
Stars and Stripes
China Theater
Army
Wilson
Pacific
America
Ada Taylor denies charges in furniture rental case
Mrs Ada Taylor a rental agent pleaded innocent in U S district court to an indictment alleging she required apartment hunters to buy furniture as a condition to renting. The counts name Mrs Helen Gallagher and Thomas W Cutlip and involve payments for five rooms of furniture and for furnishing prior to leasing.
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Columbus
Ada Taylor
U. S. District Court
Mell G. Underwood
Thomas W. Cutlip
European Brides Coming To States
Paris report says the army will begin sending brides of U S soldiers to the United States next month. European theater service forces headquarters notes no quota is set and the plan will not interfere with returning troops.
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Paris
U. S
United States
European Theater Service Forces
Wisconsin Association of Fairs Meet Set for Jan 2 4
The annual meeting will be held in Milwaukee on January 2, 3, and 4. Discussions will cover harness racing programs postwar problems and state fairs. President is W H Eldridge of Plymouth and secretary James Malone of Beaver Dam.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Association of Fairs
W. H. Eldridge
Plymouth
James Malone
Beaver Dam
Postmaster and Clerk Abducted by Pair in Michigan
Postmaster Horace Parrish and a female clerk were abducted by two Pontiac men, J C Vyse and Charles Townsend, who fled in the post office vehicle near Sanilac county. Parrish later freed himself and the clerk after a 15 minute struggle. both were unharmed. The abductors, 25 year olds, had just escaped from Sanilac county jail and were awaiting sentence for an armed Tyre post office robbery.
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Sandusky
Mich
Horace Parrish
Pontiac
Roland L. Meredith
Parrish
J. C. Vyse
Charles Townsend
Sanilac
Vyse
Townsend
Tyre
Parish
Miss Shillinger
Meredith
Businessmen Of City See GI Joe Separation Center At Camp McCoy
Representatives from many La Crosse groups visited Camp McCoy separation center to observe the process GI Joes go through before returning to civilian life. The tour left by McCoy bus at 10 45 a m Thursday and included members of the Chamber of Commerce Jaycees Kiwanis Rotary Lions Elks American Legion Eagles Veterans of Foreign Wars Disabled American Veterans Knights of Columbus Shriners Moose Knights of Pythias AFL Committee of Industrial Organization Odd Fellows city and county administrations and WKBH.
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Crosse
GI Joe
Camp McCoy Separation Center
John K. Rice
McCoy
Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Kiwanis
Rotary
Business Men’s Club of la Crosse
Lions, Elks
American Legion
Eagles
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Knights of Columbus
Shriners, Moose
Knights of Pythias
American Federation of Labor
Committee of Industrial Organization
Odd Fellows
WKBH
Wisconsin Sees 1120 New Corporations Formed
Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman reports 1120 new Wisconsin corporations formed between December 1, 1944 and December 1, 1945, up from 786 the prior year. Corporate fees paid reached 150,612 dollars versus 105,304 dollars previously.
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Madison
Wis
Fred R. Zimmerman
Wisconsin
Secretary of State
Dog To Be Given Boy Who Believes His Laddie Died In War
An eight year old boy, Ronnie Haskvitz, who believes his shepherd dog Laddie died in service, may get a replacement in Shiek, a 12 month old son of Flak, war dog. Mrs Rose Morrow of Washington offered the pup, with fence advice, and officials plan shipment arrangements. Ronnie remains convinced Laddie joined the K nine corps.
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Minneapolis
Army
Rose Morrow
Washington, D. C
Flak
Italy
Ronnie Haskvitz
Laddie
Christmas Day Workday Behind Coal Camps
A fragment recalls an accident along a mountain range where workers dig for trapped men. William Leath waited for news as his father McKinley Leath, a 45 year old coal loader, toiled with other trapped miners. The youth notes his father usually took holidays off but chose to work Wednesday after Christmas.
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William Leath
McKinley Leath
Delay to Freight Rate Adjustments Authorized
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted railroads permission to postpone the May 15 class rate changes. The delay aligns with a federal court injunction blocking a 10 percent rise in northern and eastern states and a corresponding drop in the south and west. The injunction was issued last Friday by a three judge federal court in Utica New York.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Utica
N. Y
Rail cars looted at Burlington yards on Wednesday evening
Thieves entered Burlington yards and removed items from rail cars. The haul included an electric switch lantern, a pair of overshoes, a raincoat, rubber leggings, and meat from the ice boxes.
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Burlington
OSS Agent Earns Iron Cross in Counter Espionage
An OSS operative assigned to counter espionage was awarded the Iron Cross of Germany for distinguished service. The award highlights covert intelligence work during a period of heightened wartime tension and German recognition of Allied counterintelligence efforts.
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OSS
Germany
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Little Linda Kindness
Richard Kindness
Missouri
New York
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Frazer Auto
Europe
GOP Committee
Grandpa
Quality Selrite Groc
State Street
I Ameneeniil Az
Paget
Zielke Selbite Grocery
Market Street
Arenz Shoe CO
Pinexeman
Nylo
Timit
IBM
Electromatic
International Business Machines Corporation
World Headquarters
N.Y
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