Series Of Farm Meets Planned In Wellington and Area
County Agent D Begley and Soil Conservationist Howard Haas lead a set of farm meetings across Wellington and nearby farms. Briggs Lunz and Roger Sherman join with weed control demos using sodium chlorate on creeping Jenny and Canada thistles. The program runs from June 19 at Red Brick school to a courthouse meeting June 23 evening.
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Howard Haas
Haas
Begley
Wis University
James Lacey
College of Agriculture
Ists
Reuben Meyers
Riggs
Sollee
Bill Dasse
Wellington
Glendale
Briggs
Lunz
Roger Sherman
Soil Conservation Office
Roy Algra
Conservation Office
Engineer Killed in Baraboo Highway Crash
The body of D. L. Frasier, 60, of Chicago and an engineer at the Badger Ordnance works, was found in a ditch along Highway 33 in Baraboo today, after apparently being struck by an automobile.
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Baraboo
Wis
D. L. Frasier
Chicago
Highway 33
Frasier
Badger Ordnance Works
Aleck Bauer Dies Founder of Bauer & Black
Aleck Bauer aged 81, born in Germany, founder of Bauer and Black surgical dressing manufacturers in Chicago, died last night.
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Chicago
Aleck Bauer
Bauer & Black
Germany
Retired Superior General Reaches 90th Birthday
Mother M. Seraphine Kraus of the Lis a St. Francis of St. Rose convent turns 90 on Monday. A longtime educator and author of the first Community Course, she led the Franciscan sisters as superior general from 1928 to 1940 and again from 1934 to 1940. She founded the Viterbo college museum from her birdlore hobby and remains active in community life and prayer routines.
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M. Seraphine Kraus
Lisa St. Francis of
Seraphine
M. Ludovica
Wuchang
China
Sisters of St. Rose Convent
Seraphinee
Birdlore
St. Rose
Viterbo College
Hixton Bombardier Gordon Jacobson Awarded Flying Cross
Lieut. Gordon M. N. Jacobson of Hixton Wisconsin received the Distinguished Flying Cross for achievements in the Southwest Pacific area. Gen. George C. Kenney announced the award. Jacobson is a La Crosse State Teachers College graduate who completed a 26 week Army Bombardier course at Victorville California in April 1943 and was commissioned.
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Lieut
Gordon Jacobson
Hixton Bombardier
Flying
New Guiea
Gordon M. N. Jacobson
Hixton
Wis
Southwest Pacific
George C. Kenney
Allied Air Forces
Eieut. Jacobson, Jacobson
Gordon C. Jacobson
la Crosse State
Motorist Drowned Near Eau Claire
The body of Frank March, 52, of Wabasha Minnesota, an Eau Claire war plant worker, was pulled from an automobile in the Chippewa River on highway 85 seven miles south of Eau Claire. Authorities said his car apparently swerved off the road.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Frank March
Wabasha, Minn
Chippewa River
Highway 85
Here
Ray Kuhlman
March
Stanley Lunde Bangor Soldier Killed in Italian Campaign
Bangor Wis special report: Stanley J. Lunde of the Third Marne Division patroller was killed in action in Italy. His brother Everett Lunde is missing in action. Lunde enlisted August 10 1943 trained at Fort McClellan and has been overseas since February. His father is a Bangor creamery buttermaker. A recent 5th Army dispatch described Lunde and another soldier killing five Germans and returning with 63 prisoners.
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Bangor
Wis
Pic
Stanley J. Lunde
Marne
Italy
Herbert J. Lunde
Everett Lunde
Lund
Fort McClellan
Ala
5Th Army
Lunde
Wallace Has Grandchild
A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Henry Browne Wallace in Des Moines. She is the first grandchild of Vice President and Mrs Henry A Wallace.
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Des Moines
Henry Browne Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Wisconsin Dewey delegates spark rift over GOP committee picks
Milwaukee Wis dewy pledged delegates at a Saturday caucus endorsed Assemblyman Julius Spearbraker and Mrs Blanche B Hogue for the Republican national committee contrary to the state party line which favored Cyrus L Philipp and Mrs Estelle Morrison The dispute ahead of the June 26 Chicago convention pits Dewey backers against state organizers and may reach the convention floor with Philipp seeking support.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Julius Spearbraker
Clintonville
Blanche B. Hogue
Republican National Committee
Republican State Voluntary Organization
State Central Committee
Cyrus L. Philipp
Estelle Morrison
Wausau
Spearbroker
Hogue
Fred R. Zimmerman
Dewey
Zimmerman
Chicago
Harold E. Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Heifetz Refuses Prestige to Play for Troops
Violinist Jascha Heifetz tours battle areas and plays for enlisted men after a Red Cross concert. He declines two dinner invitations from navy and army officers clubs and spends hours at an enlisted canteen chatting with G I s about music. He says he is here to play for the troops before heading to Italy.
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Algiers
Jascha Heifetz
Endan
Red Cross
Heifetz
Navy
Army
Italy
Union Hosts June 18 Mortgage Burning at Janesville Lab Temple
AFL Labor News reports a June 18 celebration at the Labor Temple association of Janesville Wisconsin to burn the mortgage two years early. Prominent speakers, a WLS Players appearance, and a dance are planned at 15 South Franklin Street with Elks Flag Day parade details and multiple union notices.
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Union Labor Temple Association
Janesville
Wis
Labor Temple
WLS
South Franklin Street
Federal Labor Union No
Trades and Labor Council
Flanders Field Of Beachhead Minefield Brought Grave Here
American dead lie on a bomb blasted Normandy beach now serving as France’s first war cemetery. German mines and Nazi fortifications once separated the beach from hilltop defenses. Grave registration officers and troops bury the fallen as another cemetery is prepared nearby for more casualties.
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France
Normandy
America
Ous
Transfer of Sgt Hiram Hanson to Lubbock Texas
Holmen Wisconsin reports Sgt Hiram Hanson recently moved from Shepard Field Texas to Lubbock Texas where he continues as an instructor in mechanical aviation.
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Holmen
Wis
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Tribene
Stanley Lunde
Wallace
London
Raddy Riba
Northern States Power Company
AFL Labor News
Court House Square
State Street
Fifth
Main
Main Street
the Park
Garment Workers’ Union No. 379
Riviera Sportswear Company
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Garment Workers’ Union No
Esther Banasik
Helen Hermanson
School For Workers, University of Wisconsin
Madison
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The
OPA
Labor Advisory Committee
Local No. 407
Oechler's Cave
George Hall
la Crosse Trades and Labor Council
AFL
Employment Service
Labor Temple Association
Mike Murphy
Lafayette
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Flanders Field
Beachhead
John A. Moroso
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