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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
3
Reported Chinese claims that 1 500 were killed in a nightlong assault on Tientsin. Officials quote defense of the city while rumors swirl of Chiang Kai-shek withdrawing to Formosa and Formosa fortification plans. Shanghai businessmen join nationwide peace appeal.
Congress received a bill to authorize the president to call foreign cancer experts to the United States. The aim is a global effort with American specialists to cure and prevent cancer. Other introduced measures address bribery in inter state sports, immigrant admission caps linked to unemployment, and tax repeal on telegraphs and cables.
Rep. Frank Keefe of Wisconsin sponsors three bills to fund medical facilities with primary domiciliary care, extend old age assistance to needy residents over 65 in public institutions, and grant U.S. citizenship without discrimination to American Indians. Rep Potter of Michigan proposes $50,000 for fish hatchery construction near Saint Ignace Rogers City Charlevoix and on the Anna River in Alger County Michigan.
Aquinas High School sends four squads to the Eau Claire Leader invitational with last year's crown in mind. Senior teams feature John Seinfelder and George Pearse as affirmatives with Kenneth Erickson and James Conway as negatives. the group won team scoring at Carleton College Northwest debate.
John Wysor Davin, 57, president of the Nickel Plate railroad and chair man of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway board, died in his sleep at home in Cleveland. He began in 1910 with Chesapeake and Ohio as a night shift car checker, rose to assistant to the president in 1933, and became vice president in 1939.
Moscow quotes a Washington dispatch claiming President Truman’s state of the union message shows the United States pursues world domination and the destruction of other nations’ independence. The Soviet press says Truman presents peace and international cooperation but immediately seeks large military spending and universal military training.
Robert Marker of 504 St James Street is on furlough from the Marine Corps Air Base at Cherry Point North Carolina. He enlisted last June, trained at Parris Island South Carolina and will return to Cherry Point January 13.
W G Rogers won his honors in law in 1931. He clerked in a law office and then, with one typewriter and 40 launched out as a writer. Among his novels are Is the Schoolroom At First and The Whipping Boy, collected in a single volume Depends What You Mean by Love for American publication.
The aviation cadet program will rise from three to eight classes a year starting April 4 1949 with about 600 cadets per class. Capt John F Sills notes overall enrollment remains strong and the expansion includes new bases like Las VegasNevada while continuing at Goodfellow San Angelo Perrin Sherman Waco and other sites.
Melvin C. Larson 59 of Whitehall died at his York area home Tuesday. Funeral services today at 1 p.m. at the residence and 2 p.m. at South Reef River Lutheran Church with Rev. E B Christopherson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Survived by one son Hilman, wife Hazel Anderson Larson, sister Mrs Clarence Kaas. Ole Anderson 66 of Soldiers Grove died at his farm home north of town after years of illness. Funeral details pending at Oscar Anderson home in Readstown.
The veterans administration is going out of the surplus book business. About 2,000,000 textbooks declared surplus by the armed forces were sent to 2,036 schools and colleges for possible use by veterans under the GI bill.
Jerry Moriarity is named president for 1949 with committees listed across playground airport harbor education and more. Jan 15 reservation deadline to Simonson care of Wadham Oil La Crosse. Entertainment by Logan high school string quartet and U S Army Air Force recruiters share films at the Thursday noon meeting.
Wisconsin lawmakers convene in Madison facing a record budget with no new taxes promised. Requests total about 250 million for 1949 51, while anticipated income may reach 150 million, leaving a gap of around 100 million. The session also tackles veterans housing, education reform, taxes, and reorganizing higher education. The assembly and senate will elect leaders, with six assemblymen contending for speaker as Panzer likely to return as senate president.
Hollywood reports a baby boy born last night to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Stephen Humphrey Bogart weighs six pounds six ounces. Parents and infant are reported healthy. Bogart and Bacall wed May 21 1945.
No comments were forthcoming Friday on the status of talks between representatives of Electricians Local B-135 and local contractors over the expired contract. Union members did not work on Monday.
Victor Fleming aged 60 died of a heart attack at his cottage on Creek Ranch in Cottonwood Arizona. The Gone With The Wind director mentored Hollywood stars and won the 1939 Academy Award for best director. He also helmed Robin Hood Captain Courageous Treasure Island and Adventure among others. Born in Pasadena, he worked as a bicycle repairman and race car driver before joining the silent film industry in 1910.
In Tokyo, Vice Admiral Hisashi Ichioka testified that Admiral Soemu Toyoda ordered or allowed the killing of survivors from torpedoed Allied ships. Toyoda, chief of Japan's combined fleet after May 1944, led the Yokosuka naval district during most killings, and faces trial before an Allied occupation tribunal.
A hog was stolen from the Tooke hog farm north of Onalaska. Tracks indicate the animal was dragged about a block and loaded into a car. Sheriff Vern Lamp's department is following a lead as investigators work this case.
The foreign missions conference, the oldest and largest invited group, voted at its 55th annual meeting to stay out of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U S A. Debates lasted over six hours. The tally was 63 opposed, 51 in favor, 12 abstentions, and one invalid ballot. Canadian members abstained as the issue was deemed a U S church matter.
Portland born singer Jane Powell 20 will wed Geary Steffen 25 of Los Angeles an insurance man and former skater who taught her to ice skate Parents Mr and Mrs Paul Burce of North Hollywood announced the engagement yesterday in Hollywood California.
Ernest W. Smith, a pharmacist honored as a local hero for 48 years, died of a heart attack yesterday at the drug company where he worked. He was active in Tomahawk civic circles and supported savings bonds.
A six man crew began drilling for oil on a farm southwest of Sheboygan Falls. An 83 foot derrick marks the site as crews hope to reach 3 200 feet underground beneath a granite base. Wisconsin Oil Refining Co president Dewey Foster says the test may last two to three months. Initial drilling passes through soil and gravel then limestone and sand to the granite base. He cannot say if oil will be struck or the depth required.
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