Corn Turned Yellow In Wet Vernon County Fields
In Vernon county farmers report heavy washouts on Brinkman Ridge and flats with corn turning yellow where recently planted. Genoa area notes corn progressing with some yellowing while overall crops and pastures look fair. Weather data show above normal heating degree days in May and dry sunshine in March, cloudiness in months, and wet conditions hindering field work.
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Secion
Lester Mundstock
Hamburg
Vernon County
Brinkman Ridge
Genoa
Alois J. Malin
Roosevelt Luxury Plane Carried Truman to Yalta and May Conference
The Lockheed C-54 Skymaster used for Roosevelt and later for Truman carried the late president to Yalta and Mrs. Truman to Washington for Mother's Day. The plane seats 15, sleeps six, and features a wheelchair elevator, private stateroom, and in-cabin communications, signaling postwar comfort advances in air travel.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Yo Aircraft Company
Roosevelt
Yalta
Martha Truma
Kansas City
Washington
White House
Truman
San Francisco
Army Air Transport Command
E. Gilbert Mason
Douglas Aircraft
La Follette Fights Security Program Speech Clash
The Wisconsin state CIO council condemned Senator La Follette in a statement after his Thursday foreign policy speech. He warned the U S may head toward a truce rather than lasting peace and cautioned against reliance on peace enforcing machinery.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Council of the
CIO
la Follette
Senate
United States
Stassen To Rejoin Halsey’s Fleet After UN Conference
An American delegate at the United Nations conference said he will return to Admiral William F. Halsey’s fleet as assistant chief of staff to the commander of the 3rd Fleet. He plans to resume duties once the conference ends.
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William F
Bull) Halsey
Halsey
3Rd Fleet
Ballon Mistaken as Jap Threat Turns Into Lamp Globe
Police in Portland respond to a caller claiming a Jap balloon in the yard. Neighbors stand by as a patrolman discovers a frosted glass globe from a park lamp post bobbing in the bird bath, not a weapon or balloon.
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Portland
Ore
Nellie N. Wallace
Sailor Detained After 10 Months in Female Disguise
Wheelings deputy reports 31 year old Raymond Russell Clark hid as a woman for ten months while deserting from Little Creek naval station on June 27, 1944. He was arrested at his Wheeling home and held for arrival of authorities.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Olga
George Ter
Gonter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Raymond Russell Clark
Little Creek
Clark
Ohio County
Charge British Protect Criminal Fascists
Soviet agency accuses fascists in Carinthia of crimes against Austrian and Slovene populations under protection of the British military administration. Tito’s Yugoslav committee arrives in Ljubljana seeking protection for locals as fascists allegedly operate freely in the region.
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London
Carinthia
Tion
Thal Tito
Ljubljana
Okinawa Front Advances and Island Air Strikes Reported
Allied forces push toward Kamizato and Chinen peninsula to reopen Nakagusuku harbor. 7th Infantry captures Ogusuku and Yonabara areas as 77th clears Shuri. Thunderbolts strike Kyushu targets including Kagoshima Miyazaki and Minami Daito. Nimitz notes 63 Japanese killed and 63 captured in Iwo Saipan Tinian Guam mopups.
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7Th Infantry
Chinen Peninsula
Nakagusuku Harbor
Ogusuku Town
Yonabara
Shinazato
77Th Infantry
Shuri
Thunderbolts
Army Thunderbolts
Kyushu
3Rd Fleet
Sakishima
Ryukyus
Okinawa
Halsey
Minami Daito Island
Kagoshima
Miyazaki
Admiral Nimitz
East China Sea
Honshu
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaka
Truk
Bonins
Seventh Air Force
Carolines
Marine
Palau
Pacific
Nimitz
Iwo
Saipan
Tinian
Guam
WCTU Initiates FiveYear National Membership Drive
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union launches the first of a five year nationwide membership drive on June 12 and 13, with details announced Saturday.
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Evanston, Ill
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Straws In The Wind And Other Washington Notes
Mixed policy briefs from Washington note possible merger of social security and income taxes to reduce paperwork and ease self employment enrollment, plus postage rate shifts, Red Cross blood supply changes, postmaster reforms, war worker transport plans, and navy views on Japanese propaganda and postwar merchant marine policy.
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Washington
Congress
State Department
War Shipping Administration
Maritime Commission
U. S
Norway
Wisconsin State Fair May Be Cancelled
Milton H. Button, state director of agriculture, said a 1945 Wisconsin state fair may be cancelled per a request from the Office of Defense Transportation. A final decision awaited a Madison meeting of the state board of agriculture next Friday.
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Milwaukee
Milton H. Button
Office of Defense Transportation
State Board of Agoe
Madison
Department of Agriculture
ODT
Sisters Charged With Abducting Child
In Philadelphia two sisters Irene Jones 15 and Janet 11 were charged with abduction and theft after allegedly taking three month old Thomas V Ripley Jr from his coach and abandoning him in a vacant lot where he was found. Post mortem showed death by a broken neck.
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Philadelphia
Thomas V. Ripley, Jr
Irene Jones
Janet
Lieut
Ervin Mock
Irene
Barbara Ripley
Ripley
Changes Proposed In Surplus Disposal Act
Washington awaits proposals from the surplus property board chaired by Guy M. Gillette on changes to the surplus disposal act. Gillette, who plans to resign, declined to specify the changes or explain if the act is unworkable, citing his preference not to discuss the matter further.
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Washington
Guy M. Gillette
Surplus Property Board
Gillette
William L. Clayton
Iowa
Obituary of Mrs Peter Lehnen of La Crosse
Mrs Loeffler of 1610 Main street reports the death of her mother Mrs Peter Lehnen in Anaheim California after a long illness. Surviving daughters include Mrs Fred J Noetzel Milwaukee Mrs Charles W Osborne and Miss Elizabeth Lehnen Anaheim Mrs Herman Noll Pasadena and Mrs Loeffler. Her husband a longtime member of the La Crosse county board died twenty years ago. The Lehnen family moved to California twenty five years ago. Funeral services and burial will be in Anaheim.
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Arthur Loeffler
Main Street
Anaheim
Calif
Peter Lehnen
la Crosse
Lehnen
Fred J. Noetzel
Milwaukee
Charles W. Osborne
Elizabeth Lehnen
Herman Noll
Pasadena
Loeffler
la Crosse County
California
Caledonia Marine Pvt Melvin Jennings Killed on Okinawa
Pvt Melvin Jennings 19 son of Mr and Mrs Frank Jennings Caledonia died in action on Okinawa May 20 as a U S Marine Corps member Born Feb 28 1926 he was a 1944 Loretta high school graduate enlisted June 29 1944 went overseas Christmas day He and John Maginnis were co captains of the 1944 championship football team He had two brothers Corp Frank in the Hawaiian islands and Joseph of La Crosse
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Caledonia
Minn
Melvin Jennings
Frank Jennings
Okinawa
Red Cross
Marine Corps
Loretta High School
California Marine Camps
Jennings
John Maginnis
Corp. Frank
Hawaiian Islands
Joseph
la Crosse
Colin Kelly Wins Suburban Junior High Name Vote
In Eugene Oregon students named a new suburban junior high after the late Colin P. Kelly Jr. He narrowly defeated Douglas MacArthur 153 to 146 while Eisenhower Marshall Cooper Jefferson and McNary trailed.
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Colin Kelly Eugene
Ore
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Douglas MacArthur
Kelly
MacArthur
Eisenhower and
Marshall
James Fenimore Cooper
Charles L. McNary
Thomas Jefferson
College Group Given Awards at Publications Banquet
About 50 members of the State Teachers College Annual and Racquet staff and guests attended the publications banquet at the Cargill house Friday evening. Dorothy Roust, La Crosse Tribune sports editor, spoke on Ink In the Blood, stressing journalism informs without prejudice. Awards honored Jean White, Evelyn Dziedzic, Janice Johnson, and James Colmer for reporting, columns, features, and ideas. Keys and new editors were named for the Annual and Racquet.
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State Teachers College
Cargill House
Dorothy Roust
la Crosse Tribune
Roust
Harriet Holm
Tomah
John M. Bernd
West Salem High School
John Fleis
la Crosse
Mary Jane Jacob
Libertyville
Rexford S. Mitchell
Jean White
Maiden Rock
Evelyn Dziedzic
Milwaukee
Janice Johnson
James Colmer
Chicago
Virginia McCann
Donald Lepsche
Miss Holm
Miss Jacob
Mary Garvin
Elroy
Kathryn Greenwood
Katherine Thompson
Don Meinert
Lorraine Gustkowski
Grace Donovan
Evelyn Findley
Jean Rennebohm
Eleanore Forster
Eet
E-bond drive in last month as 47 percent reached
War Finance Director Ted R. Gamble said the seventh war loan drive is in a touch and go state with $1.87 billion in E-bond sales, 47 percent of the $4 billion goal, and $3.393 billion total sales to individuals, 48 percent of the $7 billion target. The campaign ends June 30 and corporate purchases will show in sales by June 18.
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Washington
Ted R. Gamble
Gamble
German sobs mark trial over US airman killing
In Ahrweiler Germany an eight man American military commission hears testimony in the August killing of an American airman. Defendant Peter Kohn 32 breaks into tears recalling the incident and speaking of the Speicher air raid. Other defense witnesses include Matthias Krein and the village priest. Verdict not announced for several days.
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Ahrweiler
Germany
Peter Kohn
Speicher
Kohn
Matthias Krein
Boettiger Receives Second Legion of Merit Award
Lieut. Col. John Boettiger, son-in-law of the late President Roosevelt, is honored with a second Legion of Merit for outstanding service in drafting post surrender policy to ward Germany.
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Boettiger
Washington
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
Legion of Merit
Germany
Wildlife Service Puzzled by 20 Million Waterfowl Loss
Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson of the Fish and Wildlife Service says the 1945 waterfowl inventory shows 105 million birds, down 20 million from the prior year. He cites possible overestimates, but favors wider dispersal, wintering in Canada, and an unusually broad flight as explains, with a strong breeding season possibly restoring numbers.
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Washington
Fish and Wildlife Service
Ira N. Gabrielson
Interior Department
Erielson
Aern
Opicentral
Pacific
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Gabrielson
New Jap Defense System Fails Against Osaka Raid
GUAM P N P reports American airmen describe the Osaka raid by 450 Superforts and 159 Mustang escort, with a new Japanese chain and bucket defense failing to halt the two hour daylight attack that left fires blazing in the city center and 10 Superforts missing. A heavy anti aircraft barrage and bad weather forced 36 planes to land at Iwo Jima due to fuel use to climb above storms.
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Guam
Osaka
Iwo Jima
Tinian Island
Japan
Army
Eisenhower to Visit U S After War Command Return
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower will return to the United States for a visit, arriving in Washington on June 18. A schedule lists New York June 19, Kansas City June 21, and Abilene June 21 with a ceremonial reception planned in Washington. Mayor La Guardia will proclaim Eisenhower Day in New York and the general will visit West Point from New York.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allied Expeditionary Force
United States
War Department
New York
Kansas City
Abilene
Kansas
Capitol
la Guardia
Gen. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
West Point
Dublin Funds Mass Radiology Post for Tuberculosis War
Dublin expands its tuberculosis campaign by purchasing a mass radiology outfit to screen and detect TB cases. The move aims to improve early diagnosis and curb transmission in the city.
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Dublin
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