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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1944
Page
6
The article notes a sharp rise in the National Debt as World War II costs surge. It details 1943 war expenditures near 86 billion dollars, debt around 170 billion, and daily war costs about 300 million. It discusses tax proposals, new taxes, and projected deficits into 1944.
Congress plans careful review of the $100 billion budget amid war-time concerns. Lawmakers cite wasteful spending and tax-raising pressures while watching for signs of peacetime conversion and battlefield developments that could curtail appropriations.
David Lawrence argues universal service would force total control of profits, tying labor and management to state socialism. He faults Roosevelt for shrewdly steering the issue, urges strengthening the Smith Connally act and retooling the war labor board instead of adopting universal service.
Major Alexander P. de Seversky argues jet and rocket propulsion will boost speed and short flights, enable rapid intercepts, extended range, and deck start from carriers. He envisions future high performance planes possibly wingless, with reverse thrust and hover, transforming warfare and aviation.
In Washington the debate on freezing the social security payroll tax at 1 percent covers who pays for pensions and whether noncovered workers will be taxed. Reports detail trust fund balances, interest costs, and the option to substitute a general tax subsidy. Senators argue both for restraint and for inflation control, with House action pending.
Department Commander John J. Burkhard of Monroe Wisconsin will be the guest of honor and one of two speakers at the annual American Legion banquet Thursday night. Miss E R Rutherford of Huron South Carolina visited here with friends yesterday. A beauty culture style show was held at Hotel Stoddard during the northwest operators’ annual gathering Tuesday evening.
The piece warns of widespread cutbacks and layoffs as wartime production winds down. It cites aluminum plants with a potential 40 percent capacity reduction, union leadership facing pay cuts, and uncertain plans from unions and the War Production Board for reconversion and job safety. It notes immediate layoffs occurred where orders vanished and that broader plans remain unsettled.
Five hundred exhausted infantrymen, 59 days on the front, arrive at a Naples rest camp. They receive five days of rest with rules banning women and liquor, access to clean clothes, meals, and a day room with games and writing space.
Forty years ago A J Newman, famed steward of the La Crosse Golf Club, becomes manager of the Merchants Hotel in Lanesboro Minnesota. A pasteurizing machine costing two thousand dollars is bought by West Salem creamery. Judge Brindley will judge the Iowa Minnesota universities joint debate in Minneapolis in February.
The nation covers about five percent of the world’s area yet houses nearly one third of the world’s railroad mileage reflecting a high density of rail transport.
La Crosse Tribune and Leader Press publishes afternoons and Sunday mornings. Details include publisher W. T. Burgess and editors R. L. Bangsberg E. H. Hoffman A. W. Rice, with June 23 1904 post matter. Associated Press connection noted.
The Pravda report raises questions about a rumored meeting between two English officials and von Ribbentrop in a Pyrenees coast city and its implications for Anglo American strategy. Allied diplomacy faces Russo Polish tensions while Churchill de Gaulle talks shape France’s role in the coming invasion and a provisional government.
A reader asks about the meanings of the Three Wise Men names the origin of the balalaika and whether Britain was ruled by Rome. Answers note Gaspar meaning white, Melchior light, Balthasar treasure. six Magdalene volumes exist. Rome occupied Britain 400 years. horses can beat men in short sprints. Suez remained open though attacked. balalaika origins Slavic and linked to Russian jesters.
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