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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1945
Page
2
The Chinese high command reported capturing Ishan on June 10 and driving Japanese forces from the area as fierce fighting raged around Pingyang. Maj. Gen. Robert B. Chee said Japanese forces retook the town on June 1 but Chinese troops were pressed near the western outskirts. A Nippon counterattack and Communist radio reports from Yenan added to the conflicting updates.
Sen Taft of Ohio warned that politics would govern the world bank under Bretton Woods. Secretary Morgenthau defended the plan before the Senate Banking Committee calling Bretton Woods a religious revival and saying loans would be made by banks.
Willis of Indiana urged a congressional probe into a newsprint shortage. In a speech Butler claimed government paper usage had risen eight and a half times in four years while private publishers faced greater reductions.
Gov Goodland sought a 22.69 million building program for the University of Wisconsin and state institutions. The assembly adopted a 15.873 million package with 660 thousand for a diagnostic center at Wisconsin General Hospital. Senate amendments trimmed university funding, and 3.15 million for state teachers colleges remained unchanged. Several senators voted to override the governor, while others sustained him.
The record notes that in World War I eighteen percent of wounded soldiers died at evacuation hospitals, whereas in World War II the death rate fell to three percent, indicating improved medical care and logistics between the wars.
Harry Hopkins flew into Washington to report to President Truman on a reportedly successful mission to Moscow. He arrived at the national airport and was driven to the White House where Truman awaited him. Russ J. Bohlen and others accompanied Hopkins as reporters noted his absence of comment on his Moscow mission.
Minneapolis report says George H. Toomey urged the army to combat poultry black market activity diverting military supplies. He testified before a food investigation committee that operators hinder government needs for poultry and butter during wartime.
Henry Pamneee, widow of a Portland lumberman, married Harrison Spangler of Cedar Rapids Iowa former Republican national chairman on Tuesday.
Washington scene reports the House Rules Committee deadlocked 6-6 on sending FEPC legislation to the floor to create a permanent fair employment practices commission. The motion by Rep Delaney drew mixed party support as Sabath signaled future attempts while Cox called the bill dead. Vote occurred in executive session with several Democrats listed among those for the motion and Republicans split on the measure.
In Waukegan Illinois County Judge Perry L Persons dismissed delinquency charges against 17 year old Betty Lou Camm Dice and her 36 year old husband Harold after their marriage two weeks earlier. The mother Earl Camm had pressed a charge of contributing to delinquency of a minor but the family withdrew prosecution. The girl had gone on a hunger strike while jailed away from her husband Kage.
A Congress report cites patient mistreatment and criminal assault charges against five civilian employees tied to hospital beatings. The VFW notes investigations of 14 hospitals amid unsatisfactory care, red tape, and inadequate recreation. It calls for reorganizing the VA medical division to cope with a larger veteran population and cites staffing, morale, and pay as problems.
Gen John Milton Claypool former national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans died Monday of pneumonia at age 98 in St Louis. Bolivia's 1945 building program includes theaters schools hospitals stadiums and hotels.
An official report says the U S 2nd Armored Division will be the first American unit to reach Berlin and enter with Soviet troops within two to three weeks. The division, known as Hell on Wheels, has fought in Africa, Sicily, France, Holland and Germany under Maj Gen L D White.
Allied forces led by MacArthur and Gen. Kenney landed inland within two hours of initial landings. Morshead and other officers accompanied the assault as observers. Resistance was limited with few shots fired and casualties noted among Japanese troops amid widespread bombing and destruction of Brooketon and Victoria.
Aerial reports say about 40 planes including P-47s penetrated Kyushu area from Okinawa. Liberators from Okinawa plus 40 fighters attacked southern Japan and Hyushu airfields. Iwo Island Mustangs hit Tokyo airfields. 29 Japanese planes were destroyed in these sweeps. Major Gen. Curtis E. Lemay’s unit lists damaged cities with areas ranging from Nagoya to Kobe and Osaka.
Rudolph von Ribbentrop, son of Joachim von Ribbentrop, was found hiding in a prisoner of war pen in the 3rd army sector, announced by the 12th army group. The capture of Baldur von Schirach, former Vienna governor and Hitler Youth chief, was also announced.
The 1944 wheat crop in Eire totaled a substantial tonnage, showing an increase of 110000 tons over the prior year, signaling stronger agricultural output amid wartime conditions.
Amid wartime price controls, Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau calls a Wherry amendment to extend cost plus pricing unsound and impracticable. Senate leaders predict the measure will fail, while Biz groups press to keep wartime pricing in force and allow targeted flexing for reconversion. The Wherry plan would ban above cost pricing for all farm commodities with a reasonable profit, and the Senate defeated the amendment after a tight vote.
A Paris source says diplomacy over the Syrian dispute is at a standstill with no replies to five power conference invitations sent to Washington London Moscow and Chungking. France renews protests over British command methods in Syria.
The Blood Donor service was introduced at the urging of the surgeons general of the army and navy in 1941, marking a formal effort to organize voluntary blood donation for military needs.
The Supreme Court overturned the convictions of 24 German American Bund leaders in a war surveillance case. The majority found the government failed to prove conspiracy to resist the selective service act, a decision highlighting trial fairness amid wartime evidence concerns. Names of defendants included Kunze and Keegan among others.
Col. Charles A Lindbergh arrives quietly in Paris from Germany for a brief visit. He notes Paris is different from 18 years ago and says he has been stopped on the street only once. This marks his sixth post liberation visit to the city as he works in Europe on a civilian basis on a secret US navy technical mission with other American aeronautical experts.
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