War veterans press home front in La Crosse visit
Pfc Austin Parks a Marine gunner recounts Pearl Harbor and later battles as he and two other veterans tour La Crosse plants to stress war production. James E Coghlan earns Silver Star for solo assault on Munda nests with Purple Heart, Asiatic Pacific, and other ribbons.
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Pfc
Austin Parks
Marine Corps
la Crosse
Pick Parks
Pearl Harbor
Parks
Guadalcanal
Tulage
Bougainville
Tarawa
South Pacific
James E. Coghlan
Madison
Wis
Munda
Coghlan
Arundel Island
New Zealand
States
Shick General Hospital
Clinton
Pvt
Tribune
Pic
USMC
Redioman
Jack Monroe
Peterson's Ointment Brings Fast Pile Relief Nationwide
A Buffalo druggist created a cooling soothing ointment for piles years ago. The product gained fame for quick relief and estringent action, becoming a favorite in thousands of homes. Druggists offer a 35-cent box or 60-cent tube with applicator, with money back if not delighted.
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Buffalo
Peterson
Casualty Reports Of Sparta Men In France
Sparta Wisconsin reports add to the war toll with S. Sgt. William Thurston killed June 24. Pvt. Donald Shea slightly wounded June 9. Lieut. John Laughter wounded in France. S. Sgt. Claire Ziegler wounded June 20 and off duty briefly.
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Sparta
Wis
France
William Thurston
Donald Shea
John Laughter
Camp McCoy
Caroline Andreasen
Claire Ziegler
Shea
John Shea
Ziegler
Dated turtle tale and river mischief from McGregor
Captain Jack Slyfield recalls strange river life including shooting a dated turtle with a bow and arrow on the Mississippi. He finds a 1914 turtle marked with 1944 added, then narrates coincidence of coons raiding his pond as goldfish disappear, linking a den in the rocks behind his house to the pond creatures.
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Mcgregor, Ia
Jack Slyfield
Mississippi River
McGregor
Prairie du Chien
Jack
Mississippi
Infant Geddes Dies in Readstown Funeral Held
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Buford Geddes died Sunday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Manning with Rev. Arthur Vale officiating. Burial followed in Manning cemetery.
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Readstown
Wis
Buford Geddes
Manning
Arthur Vale
Manning Cemetery
Helmer Buxengard
Caledonia
Minn
Wilmington Township
Sven Buxengard
Buena Vista
Wabasha
Buxengard
Wilmington Lutheran Church
Reque
Norewegian Lutheran Parsonage
H. J. Wein
Clara Annette Viegen
Joe Scholl
Floyd
Freddy Hayden
Winona
Sven Benson
Potter Funeral Home
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Evergreen Cemetery
Rev
C. L. Lee
Speaker Urges People's Peace For World Government
Hilda Yen, American educated Chinese woman, urged a world government of the people in a Tuesday talk at La Crosse State Teachers College. She proposed a world federation elected by Allied nations’ peoples, controlled by a world FBI, universal disarmament, and united global governance to prevent future wars.
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Whilda Yen
Training School
la Crosse State Teachers College
Yale
Smith College
Miss Yen
League of Nations
FBI
China
Hong Kong
Hilda Yen
ABCD
United Nations
United States
Asia
Europe
State General Fund Balance Tops Seventeen Million
The Wisconsin treasury reports a July 1 general fund balance of 17,078,104.91 dollars excluding 25 million invested in government bonds. June receipts reached 18,187,933,338 with disbursements of 45,585,413.76. The 12 month fiscal totals show major tax and other revenues across income taxes and various fees, plus federal aids and motor fuel refunds for 1943-44 versus 1942-43.
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Madison
Wis
John M. Smith
Treasury
Insurance Corporation
Invitation to Help China in Industrial Frontier
A speaker urged redefining China’s borders to the Pacific and called for ten and one half million technicians to organize a Chinese industrial plan over fifty years, extending a voiced invitation to Americans to join the effort and form a new frontier.
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Ica
Pacific Ocean
China
Six Nazi Officers Dead After Athens Shooting
Cairo reports six German officers were killed in a shooting affray at a German officer conference in Athens. The gathering to discuss policy degenerated into gunfire as senior officers fought. one chief administrative officer of the Peloponnesus was shot by guards while Austrian Col. Fritse, provost marshal of Athens, vanished, with reports he was executed for opposing the German command.
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Cairo
Athens
Peloponnesus
Col
Fritse
Pigeons Carry News From France To England
Carrier pigeons wheeled into action after radio transmitters failed during landings on the French coast. They carried news copy back to England, delivering reports for press use in a rapid, improvised relay.
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England
Dewey Seeks Strong U S Forces Against Postwar Weakness
Albany report says James W. Wadsworth Jr and Gov. Dewey agree the U S must stay militarily strong after World War I and avoid cuts seen in 1920-22. Wadsworth notes talks covered postwar security and party organization shaping Dewey's nationwide bid.
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Albany
N. Y
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Dewey
U. States
Wadsworth
Senate
Japan
Pacific
New York
John L. Lewis
Deaths Last Night Across Cities Affected Noted Figures
Margaret Neilson Armstrong 76 author and illustrator from a prominent New York family. Caroline Bamberger Frank Fuld 80 widow of Felix Fuld ex‑partner in L Bamberger Co of Newark and former national council of Jewish women director, born Baltimore. Frances Thacker Walker Brown New York wife of Wedard H Brown and chair of two railways boards.
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Associated Press
New York
Margaret Neilson Armstrong
David Maitland Armstrong
Papal States
United
Italy
Lake Pacid
N. Y
Caroline Bamberger
Frank Fuld
Felix Fuld
L. Bamberger and Co
Newark
N. J
National Council of Jewish Women
Baltimore
Frances Thacker Walker Brown
Wedard H. Brown
The
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Mrs. Remer Ill at Park Falls Hospital Chaseburg native
Mrs. William H. Remer formerly of Chaseburg now living at 424 South 11th Street La Crosse is a patient at Park Falls hospital after falling ill at their summer cabin in the woods. The report notes about 3,620 square miles of North Carolina’s areas are water.
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Chaseburg
Wis
William H. Remer
South 11Th Street
la Crosse
Park Falls Hospital
Park Falls
North Carolina
Ares
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St. Louis, Mo
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
Philippines
Yonkers
Wai
Philippine Island
Manila
Honolulu
Gilbert and Marshall Islands
Monroe
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Lae
Salamoa
Rabaul
Mediterranean
North Africa
Algiers
Conoco
Archer
Geddes
Teachers College
America
Russia
Amer
William H. Stevenson
Olaf Johnson
Cecilia Garvin
Elroy
Resolutions Committee
Thomas J. King
Wisconsin
Democratic
Stevens Hotel
Chicago
Ralph H. A Jewe
Main Street
Calvert
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