War-Effort Advertising Totals in March Report
New figures from the Bureau of Advertising show war-effort spending in daily and Sunday newspapers for August 1, 1943, to March 31, 1944. The total war-effort advertising reaches $4,779,693, with $3,869,650 in paid ads and $484,841 donated by papers. Local sponsors contributed $2,151,310. national sponsors $1,483,340. government notices $235,000. Britain allocates 10 percent of its wartime production to the supply pool.
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Red Cross
Woman Speaks on World War Weary World at College Convocation
Hilda Yen, famed Chinese diplomat and survivor of Hong Kong and occupied China, visits La Crosse State Teachers College for a Tuesday convocation at 9:30 a.m. to lecture on global issues and propose ways to organize the globe for peace and progress.
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Hilda Yen
China
la Crosse State Teachers College
Europe
Peiping
Moscow
Paris
Ene
you _ penhagen aate
League of Nations
Institute of Pacific Relations
Canada
Hong Kong
Chocolate Brings Quiet Moment Amid Normandy War Ruins
In Caen area ruins refugees and local children find brief relief as chocolate and fruit drops pass hands from a relief worker to grateful youngsters. A Scot named Tony Wilson recounts rescuing two rabbits amid shelling, naming them wee Doch and Doris as the war’s horror lingers nearby. A separate note from Madison reports Progressive party finances with receipts $4,696 and debts $213 for 1943–44.
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Creailly
France
Cain
Granny
Caen
Tony Wilson
Kilmarnock
Tony
Doris
Wee Doch
Scotland
Normandy
Moby
Dee
Day
Progressives
Madison
Wis
Progressive Party
State Central Committee
Secretary of State
Madison rent director resigns. pension plan rejected
Roy A. Gannon has resigned as area rent director for the Madison district of the Office of Price Administration and will return to private business. The Eire agency rejected a plan to continue army pension payments to a pensioner's wife or children after death.
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Madison
Wrs
Roy A. Gannon
Office of Price Administration
Eire
4-H Club Fair Discussed by Wisconsin Group
HOLMEN Wis Special The Council Prairie 4 H club met at the Vilas McWain home and planned the Oak Point park fair set for July 31 the eve of the La Crosse Inter state Fair. An advisory committee was named and a program of talks health education entertainment and a club booth at La Crosse was arranged.
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Holmen
Wis
Council-Prairie
Vilas McWain
Amsterdam Prairie
Mmes
Carl Moen
Alfred Aspesler
Fred Mensing
Oak Point Park
la Crosse
Herman Heram
Alfred Aspeslet
Ments
Alfred Tabbert
Garfield Cas
Eleanor Rudi
Kenneth Cook
Leatris Grokowski
Ray Cook
Lila
Willard Aspeslet
Arlene Cook
Tillman Aspeslet
McWain
Josie Knudson
Raymond Grokowski
Berkeley pie contest winner aids war bond drive
Jean Elliott editor of the Daily Californian won an apricot pie in a campus pie eating contest held to stimulate war bond sales at the University of California Berkeley. Her prize was the pie itself.
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Berkeley
Calif
Jean Elliott
Daily Californian
University of California
Rosenberg to Direct Nazi Evacuation In East Prussia
The British Radio reports Allied leader Alfred Rosenberg has been put in charge of immediate evacuation of a section of East Prussia. The operation focuses on the railroad corridor from Tilsit to Insterburg as civilians flee toward Germany to escape Allied bombings.
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Allfred Rosenberg
East Prussia
Tilsit
Insterburg
Sweden
Germany
Nazi Prisoners March Through Moscow Streets
Moscow reports German prisoners marching through city streets in a Red Army offensive aftermath. About 57 600 captives moved eastward as thousands of Muscovites lined the routes with orderly silence. German generals led the first group amid Moscow cavalry guards. Ecuador has 10 seaports.
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Moscow
Red Army
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