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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
6
Washington notes a shift in national mood from calm to crisis as the president’s radio prayer signals a call for spiritual action. The piece urges leaders and citizens to convert prayer into concrete reform and resolve to prevent future wars and economic distress.
The piece argues that a Russian offensive alongside Allied landings in France and advances in Italy intensify the push against Germany. It notes liberation troops may seize Cherbourg and Le Havre as a prelude to Paris, with Rommel cautious about the main spearhead and the war entering its final phase. MacArthur also reports Biak air base capture signaling Pacific progress.
Historic YMCA text notes its 1844 British origins and 68 countries with 10 000 YMCAs. It traces George Williams’s founding of the association and the first US YMCA in Boston 1851, plus the 1869 New York building model and wartime service to American forces.
Babson argues professional reinsurance is essential for all insurers and policyholders. He notes low current profits due to high losses, calls for industry leadership, and sees potential profits as loss ratios improve after World War II. He highlights independence from agents and potential underpricing of stocks.
Rudolf Flesch, a Vienna born lawyer turned OPA writer, says his readability tests target the average reader with about eight years of schooling. He advocates sentences of at most 17 words, simple structure, and minimal prepositional phrases or dependent clauses.
La Crosse county Republicans will elect delegates to the state convention at a meeting tonight in the Hotel. Mrs. William Kennedy of St. Joseph, Missouri visits La Crosse friends. Camp Decorah postpones first session until June 24 for Boy Scouts.
The Office of Defense Transportation reports a record Great Lakes movement this season with ore totaling 13,297,099 tons from navigation start to May 22, coal at 11,209,499 tons and grain at 72,686,777 bushels, all higher than the same period last year.
Ernest Mahler executive vice president of Kimberly-Clark Corp Neenah has been elected to the board of directors of Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co President Walter Geist announced after a board meeting. He replaces R G Hutchins who retired after 31 years with Kimberly-Clark Hutchins New York.
Louis Larone, 20, of Stone Lake, drowned when a rented canoe capsized along the Superior waterfront last night. An 18-year-old companion reached shore safely.
Karl Luedtke a 76 year old city street department employee was fatally struck by a locomotive of a switch train in Oshkosh Wisconsin yesterday. The incident occurred near the yard where he was working authorities said.
Peter Edson weighs whether a vast postwar housing expansion is real or overblown. Optimists foresee up to 1.5 million new homes yearly, but a national survey suggests only about 300,000 units may be built annually in the first decade.
Wisconsin political notes trace the Communist leadership moving toward the Democrats through the CIO group while remaining at odds with the Progressive La Follette faction. The piece also covers Senate race maneuvers, petition signatures, and highway administration debates in state government.
Madison Wis The name of Capt Joseph R McCarthy of Appleton a former circuit court judge now on leave with the marine corps in the south Pacific should be entered on election ballots as a candidate for U S senator on the Republican ticket Attorney General John E Martin ruled today Secretary of State Fred R Zimmermann had inquired whether McCarthy was eligible under article 2 section 10 of the state constitution nomina tions had been filed for McCarthy.
M. W. Voye tore down an old barn in Bulger Pennsylvania and found a near century old newspaper about the siege of Sevastopol. The item notes an allied army led by the English attacking and reports two day English casualties of 38 officers and 422 privates killed.
The La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press publishes daily afternoon and Sunday morning editions from La Crosse Wisconsin with editors and publishers listed. The paper is a member and reprints credited news dispatches and local news as published.
The looming Cherbourg peninsula fight pits Rommel against Montgomery in a high stakes clash of strategy. German counterattacks begin as Rommel moves cautiously to deny an Allied thrust while Montgomery seeks to deploy enough men and equipment to seize Cherbourg and its rail and road links.
Readers sent questions to The Tribune Information Bureau covering licenses for veterans dogs and Buddha’s first sermon. The piece lists brief factual answers from Pasadena and San Mateo dog licensing to Keats age at poetry publication and Hadrian’s Africa visit.
A crossword style grid lists clues for horizontal and vertical entries related to Coast Guard topics and various common terms. The puzzle includes clues for figures like the Admiral and terms across clothing, objects, and body parts, inviting solvable word fits.
Donaghadee in Northern Ireland is the Irish port closest to Great Britain. Bolivar’s revolutions freed Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Panama Peru and Bolivia from Spanish rule. Du Bose Heyward was born in Charleston South Carolina where he met Hervey Allen and later coauthored poetry.
Information on ants moths flies cockroaches carpet beetles termites fleas centipedes silverfish crickets wasps rats mice and other household pests is compiled in a 32 page authoritative booklet. The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau offers copies postpaid for ten cents.
Postal address instruction appears to request a mailing route and city state for sending mail to Washington D C. The fragment shows typical addressing phrasing used in older notices. No additional context or event details are available.
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