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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1944
Page
2
Final plans for the La Crosse City picnic sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the county rural affairs committee were set after a Thursday meeting. About 700 responses show strong farm-town turnout, with badges for committee members and invited farm families statewide.
Allied forces push from Caen after air strikes break German lines. Canadians move south from Caen through Ifs and Cormelles as they clash with German units near Bourguébus, five miles from Caen, securing river docks for Caen. Rommel shifts tanks to meet the new threat as overcast limits air support to patrols.
In Tokyo the new joint premier designates Gen Kuniaki Koiso and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai emerge as top leaders in Japan's military dominated government. Koiso, 64, previously Kwantung Army chief and Korea governor general, and Yonai, 64, former Combined Fleet commander, steer expansionist policy. In Chungking reports say Tojo’s resignation signals public concern over empire stability and possible strategy pivot to counter American Pacific advance.
Democratic delegates pressed for Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a fourth term while debating the vice presidential choice. Governor Kerr and Mayor Hague led party noise as Pepper and Byrd questioned convention control and racial planks. President Roosevelt was slated to accept the nomination by radio, signaling unity amid factional strains.
Merrill Hoyle Jr of Oak Bluffs snagged the season’s first inland striped bass just after 11. The fish hooked itself onto the bent pin on the end of his homemade fishing line in Pin Oak waters.
A Scouters Round Table meeting in Commerce rooms will set plans for a city wide waste paper drive. Plans call for monthly collections with specific city sections assigned to troops, next pickup scheduled for a Saturday in August, and residents urged to save waste paper for timely collection.
Dispatches report that Italians French and Yugoslavs were freed from prison camps as German forces retreat and a Nazi lieutenant was captured by Allied authorities.
A prisoner identified as Lieut. Gen. Ochsner, commander of the 31st Infantry Division, was captured by Marshal Orkossovsky’s forces in the Lithuanian salient west of the Niemen after the largest Russian assaults to date. Gerald Carlson of Shawnee can memorize entire directories. Milwaukee truck drivers strike over wage scales at Petroleum Transport, Inc.
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