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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1945
Page
1
The latest killing frost on record in La Crosse territory damages tomato and bean plants and corn across farms as temperatures fall to 29 degrees at multiple sites including La Crosse and West Salem. Meteorologist A D Sanial notes nine weeks of wet weather delayed farm work and records show the latest frost dates in June.
Washington state department urged peacetime military training as a world security obligation before the House postwar military committee. Acting Secretary Joseph C. Grew championed one year of universal training for 18-year-olds, arguing it strengthens policy, education, and deterrence against aggressors. The Woodrum committee weighs the proposal amid backing from War and Navy departments and the American Legion, while education and religious groups oppose.
Washington dispatch notes the Navy needs about 24 billion dollars for the new fiscal year starting July 1. Treasury War Finance division stresses funding through the 14 billion seventh war loan to support a Navy expenditure of 30 billion annually and 80 million daily, with broader mobilization to the Pacific theater.
Fair and cool tonight with a low around 42. Clouds increase Tuesday with warmer conditions and chances of showers in the afternoon or night. highs near 70.
A Monday plea urged motorists to slow for duck crossings. Mallard and four ducklings traversed from the west marsh across the highway to the east marsh, prompting the warning to prevent collisions.
Ray Mason learns his brother Ray Mason a B 24 gunner with the 15th Air Force in Italy has been liberated from a Nazi prison camp and is en route home. The letter, written in Naples May 24, says he awaits transport and will report to Fort Sheridan for back pay and a 60 day furlough.
Prime Minister Churchill opened the Conservative campaign with a forthright denunciation of Labour socialist policy. He warned that socialism is tied to totalitarianism and the worship of the state, arguing it would require a political police and suppress free expression. He urged voters to reject what he called wartime controls and a single state arch-employer.
Reports say General Eisenhower will meet tomorrow in Berlin with Marshal Zhukov Field Marshal Montgomery and General de Gaulle to coordinate the Allied control commission.
Churchill to define British stance in Commons as Aria crisis remains volatile. Damascus reports indicate ongoing danger with British troops protecting French barracks. De Gaulle proposes international talks, drawing sharp British-French protests and foreign office silence.
London. Prime Minister Churchill holds five offices today after taking over the foreign ministry when Anthony Eden fell ill with a duodenal ulcer. He is prime minister first lord of the treasury minister of defense acting foreign minister and acting leader of the house of commons.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower will be received by a joint session of Congress on his return from Europe. Senate Majority Leader Barkley said the date had not been set and he is expected to arrive in June.
Marine 1st Lieutenant Quentin Monk Meyer former Yale football standout was killed on Okinawa Monday while rushing to aid a wounded squad member in action during the battle authorities said Delayed report confirms his death with the unit moving to assist the injured.
War information broadcasts from Saipan stress unconditional surrender does not mean enslavement. A half million pamphlets daily from Superforts accompany intensified raids. Tokyo warns against propaganda and urges action, while Japan denounces the leaflets as shallow and ignorant.
Waldo Barton of Pine Village Ind sold a truckload of chickens in Chicago for $720 then met a man calling himself Willie who offered a cigarette source. Outside a tavern Willie assaulted Barton and took the $720 chicken proceeds in the incident reported to Stanton avenue police.
Chinese forces pressed within about 28 miles of Liuchow as part of a broader offensive in Hunan and Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s troops moved within five miles of Shaoyang with another column six miles northwest, while Tsinkong fell to Chinese control. The U S 14th air force backed Liuchow operations with bombing raids on depots and anti aircraft positions.
In Ironwood Michigan two 21 year old women were killed when the car they rode in hit a steel guard rail on a bridge over the Montreal River about five miles west of Hurley Wisconsin. The victims were Mrs Louis M Haas and Elizabeth Ruditys.
Two blasts rocked the U S military government police headquarters in Bremen Germany with at least 15 dead and 80 injured including Americans and Germans. Major E Russell Kennedy Jr suggested a delayed action bomb may be to blame as casualty tallies varied in late reports.
Major Gen Roscoe Woodruff’s 24th Infantry division pursues the Davao garrison into the mountains near Mt Apo as Col Wendell Fertig’s guerrillas take Bayabas and nearby villages. Other units push west of Panacan while Col Edward Starr’s 31st Infantry drives east of Malaybalay to trap remaining Japanese forces. American landings at Luayon press the southeast Mindanao campaign. Luzon sees limited resistance as Beightler’s 37th clears toward Santa Fe. MacArthur reports 6,550 Japanese dead and 503 prisoners in the past week with 225 American killed and 657 wounded.
Tokyo radio said U S troops landed on Okinawa and naval activity increased with four new fleets around the island. Tokyo claimed a two hour kamikaze ram against a fleet but reported only one loss, while Tokyo portrayed war weariness and noted Tokyo life returning to normal.
Off Ryukus June 3 a two day strike over southern Kyushu airfields prompted the first definite Japanese air interception. Vice Adm. McCain staff reported a new type of high performance, high speed fighter entering combat. American pilots noted the Japanese were skilled and used aggressive tactics.
Reports from Domei quoted in Japanese broadcasts describe a climactic Okinawa battle. The new American landings at Kakino Hana threaten the Chinen peninsula as air and sea assaults surge. Officials warn the outcome remains uncertain with heavy enemy losses while Kamikaze attacks intensify.
The American consulate in Manila announced a 2000 calorie daily basic ration for adults costing $1.85 a week. It includes beef and gravy C ration biscuits and pilchards while shipping limits keep imports tight and a local black market thrives with beef at $4 a pound bread $1.50 a loaf sweet potatoes 35 cents each and bananas eight cents each.
Milfred Holm, 35, the head man of the fire crew, died when part of the second and third floors collapsed during a Monday blaze that destroyed the east end of the three story McFadden Lambert building in St. Paul. Eight other firefighters were injured in the incident.
American forces advance two miles in heavy rain to the southeastern Okinawa shore, sealing off Chinen peninsula. Maj Gen Archibald V Arnold leads the 7th Division into the peninsula as other elements push deeper, while disorganized Japanese troops mill nearby.
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