Flag Day Program Highlighted by William ONeill Address
Riverside Park hosts a Flag Day event Wednesday at 7 30 p m with William ONeill Milwaukee Elks past exalted ruler delivering the address. A parade from Court House Square features Brownie Beck on horseback, Wacs from Camp McCoy, State Guard units, and Legion color guards, followed by an induction ceremony for new recruits.
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William O'Neill
Milwaukee
Elks’ Lodge
Wisconsin Elkdom
Riverside Park
Court House Square
Wac
Camp McCoy
R. V. Ahlstrom
Court House
Knights of Columbus
Elks
Men of Co
Riverside
German Held War Contract At Pearl Harbor Probe
A House Military Committee report accuses Col Theodore Wyman Jr and Hans Roh l of mismanagement in Hawaii defense work. It questions Rohl a German alien who became naturalized shortly before Pearl Harbor and notes social ties with officials and officials in Los Angeles. The panel urges further explanation from the Army on why Rohl’s Hawaiian Constructors won key contracts and delays hindered aircraft warning systems. The report, approved by the committee, notes Rohl’s stockholding in the contractor JV with big Hawaii contracts.
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Washington
Congressional
Pearl Harbor
Army
Hawaii
War Department
House Military Committee
Theodore Wyman Jr
Hans Wilhelm Rohl
United States
Pacific Bastion
Rohl
Wyman
Los Angeles
Tong
May
D-Ky
War
Stimson
H. Ralph Burton
Costello
Calif
Sparkman
Ala
Fenton
Roh
Hawaiian Constructors
Alaska
South Pacific
Hawaiian
Department
Allied Navy Shells Le Havre Reported by Berlin Radio
Berlin radio claimed heavy and super heavy Allied naval guns shelled Le Havre today but there was no Allied confirmation. Le Havre lies about 20 miles north of the eastern edge of the Normandy beachhead at which German broadcasts say a land drive may be planned.
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London
Berlin
le Havre
Seine River
Normandy
Russian Tanks Move Toward Viipuri Front
Moscow dispatches say Russian tanks and heavy artillery advance on the Viipuri front within 30 miles of the Finnish garrison. Pravda notes a large battle while Red Star describes forest warfare and ambushes as Shanmiaki falls to Russian forces. Finnish communiques report continued attacks on the Karelian isthmus with Arctic-area offensives noted.
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Moscow
Viipuri
Pravda
Mustamiaki
Lenin
Red Star
Shanmiaki
Arctic Circle
Petsamo
Murmansk
Narva
Estonia
Barents Sea
Romania
Boost Payroll Bonds Drive For 76th Division In La Crosse
La Crosse industrial committee launches a million dollar war bonds drive to aid the 76th Division at McCoy. Maj. Gen. William R. Altman accepts the plan with full support. Burns Township reports strong early pledges with $13,304 from $33,000 goal as Ralph Miller and Milton Schwier are named joint bond leaders.
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Industrial Workers of la
McCoy
la Crosse
van Steenwyk
Burns
Steenwyk
Ralph Miller
Milton Schwier
Edna Meinke
Campbell
Henry Brei
Keppel
Warning To Fishermen in Europe Extended
New York broadcast from Allied supreme command urges fishermen along Europe's coast to stay in ports for another full week to avoid hindering Allied operations. The warning covers Belgium Netherlands Norway Denmark and northern coastal waters.
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New York
Alled
Supreme Command
Europe
Redecorating Starts on City Council Room
The long awaited repainting and wash of the city council chamber began on Wednesday as crews moved in to refresh the room. Local officials expect the project to brighten the space and improve its appearance for meetings.
Missouri man admits killings in Macon farm slayings
Macon Missouri police report Captain J F Shaw says Raymond Patrick 20 of Monroe City confessed to the triple murder of Mr and Mrs Foltz and their son Lad Foltz on a farm near Newell.
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Macon
J. F. Shaw
State Highway Patrol
Raymond
Patrick
Monroe City
al- Foltz
Lad Foltz
Newell
Local Weather Update Indicates Fair Tonight
A weather brief notes fair conditions overnight with slightly warmer temperatures. No precipitation expected and humidity moderate.
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Ally Fair
La Crosse Concert Band to Play After Flag Day Program
A concert follows the Flag Day festivities at River side Park with Alf Modahi soloing on clarinet. The program features multiple civic and youth groups, the Central band, Trane Glee club, and a series of addresses and awards including scholarship presentations and WAC inductions.
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la Crosse
Riverside Park
Alf Modahi
Wilson-Colwell
Service
Navy
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Red Cross
CIO
AFL
Knights of Columbus
Trane Glee Club
Elks
Heileman Brewing Company
Aquinas
Central
Boy Scout
VFW
Holsum
Ellis
Albert C. Wolfe
B. W. Ingli
Gateway Area Council
Carl M. Halmstad
Logan High School
O'Neill
Mark F. Esch
Lodge
Wac
Turkey Halts Nazi Ship at Dardanelles
London reports Turkey detained a German vessel attempting to pass through the Dardanelles following British protests. Prime Minister Ismet Inonu pledged a full re examination of the incident.
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London
Turkey
Dardanelles
Ismet Inonu
Anthony Eden
Commons
City Opens Swimming Pool At Fair Grounds
La Crosse opens municipal pool at the fair grounds to relieve heat. Park department cleaned the pool and filled it with water. Free admission for children under 16 on all days except Sunday. Other times five cents for children and 15 cents for adults, towels five cents, suits extra. Hours 9 am to 12 noon and 1 to 9:30 pm daily.
AGT Associates Readying Island Airport Project Work
J R Griffith of AGT Associates told the La Crosse Tribune the firm expects to start the French island municipal airport project about 10 days after a Civil Aeronautics Administration go order. The firm is finishing a 500 000 cubic yard grading job at Badger Ord nance Works Baraboo and will move equipment from Baraboo to La Crosse once orders arrive. The airport project had been suspended pending a re survey after the April 10 government order.
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AGT
French Island
Civil Aeronautics Administration
la Crosse Tribune
J. R. Griffith
Griffith
Badger Ordnance Works
Baraboo
la Crosse
CAA
AGT Associates
Chicago
Washington
Allied landings reported deep in France near Limoges
Border reports from Port Bou indicate Allied troops including commandos and rangers landed on airfields prepared by French partisans deep inside France. Plateau Millevaches, 45 miles southeast of Limoges and 80 miles southwest of Vichy, was cited as a landing area with no official Allied confirmation.
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Port Bou
Spain
France
Plateau Millevaches
Limoges
Vichy
WPB Priorities Expert To Visit La Crosse Friday
Richard P. Lund, priority expert from the Eau Claire war production board, will meet with the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce in its office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
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WPB
Richard P. Lund
Eau Claire War Production Board
la Crosse Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Churchill Postpones Action on De Gaulle Issue in Commons
In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill secured a postponement of a full dress debate on British American relations with the French committee of national liberation. Four of France’s neighbors Poland Belgium Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg recognized de Gaulle’s provisional government. The French committee in Algiers warned Allies to respect its authority and named civil and military administrators for Normandy.
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Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Bernard L. Montgomery
Normandy
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Churchill
Montgomery
Jan C. Smuts
South Africa
Ernest King
Navy
George C. Marshall
Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alan G. Kirk
U. S
London
Commons
French Committee of National Liberation
de Gaulle Committee
United States
Britain
de Gaulle
France
Committee of National Liberation
Poland
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Luxembourg
United Nations
Algiers
Washington
Roosevelt
Parity Amendment Moves in House On Price Controls
The House approved a parity requirement for farm commodities with penalties for noncompliant processors as the Bankhead Brown cotton textile amendment failed 87 to 191. The plan would let processors charge up to 90 percent of OPA ceilings unless they paid parity, mainly impacting cotton. Roosevelt warned of a veto if the amendment stayed.
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Washington
House
Administration
Rep. Pave
D-Ga
McCormack
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
OPA
Chester Bowles
Seek Ban On Spain's Shipments To Reich
Washington reports Sweden agrees to curb ball bearing exports to Germany. the United States now seeks a Spanish ban on war vital exports to the Axis. Ambassador Carlton Hayes will request Spain to halt all such exports including tungsten olive oil hides skins and wool.
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Washington
Sweden
Germany
United States
Spain
Carlton Hayes
No Merchant Seamen Lost In Invasion
SHAEF reported that no American merchant seaman is known to have been lost in the French invasion as merchant ships conducted cross channel shuttle operations. Several ships have been lost, but none of the American merchant fleet losses were confirmed.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Shaef
Wickard Sees Wartime Wood Uses Progress in Madison
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, touring the U S forest products laboratory with forestry officials, said he was highly gratified by progress in adapting wood to wartime uses and noted the program has large peacetime potentialities.
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Madison
Wis
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
U. S Forest Products Laboratory
Lam resigns treasurer post to chair Gov G committee
A. A. Lam resigns Wednesday from the Republican state central committee treasurer role to accept the chairmanship of the People for Gov. G committee in Kiel Wisconsin.
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Kiel
Wis
A. A. Lam
Republican State Central Committee
People For Gov. G
Allied push in Italy nears Rome as 8th Army presses up Tiber
Fifth army units sweep around Orbetello and seize junction of highways No 1 and 74, four and a half miles beyond the town. Eighth Army advances north of Rome, closes on Narni, and drives up the Tiber valley under heavy shell fire from hillside observers. Demolitions and minefields slow German defense as Rome falls to the 5th Army including the first armored, 85th and 88th divisions.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Orbetello
8Th Army
Lake Bolsena
Narni
Sever
Terni
Eighth Army
Tiber Valley
Magliano
5Th Army
Man Dies After Runaway Horse Incident in Ridgeway
M. S. Keane, 72, Ridgeway filling station operator, died in a hospital Wednesday from injuries suffered Tuesday when struck by a car while trying to stop a runaway team of horses.
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Dodgeville
Wis
M. S. Keane
Ridgeway
Allied and German Armored Clashes Near Caen and Troarn
Allied and German forces clash along a 100 mile Normandy front with four Nazi armored divisions deployed around Caen and Caumont. Montebourg Troarn and Carentan see back and forth fighting as Montgomery drives south of Caen and U S. forces push toward Cherbourg peninsula.
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Normandy
Montebourg
Troarn
Earier
Carentan
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caumont
U. S
Cherbourg
Rodney
Ramillies
U. S. Es
Nazibourg
Berlin
Supreme Command
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Bayeux
Villers-Bocage
Bombers Hit France Germany and Allies Strike Oil Refineries
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE says 1,500 U S heavy bombers joined up to strike France and Germany with up to 750 American heavies targeting oil lifelines. The Med force hit refineries in Hungary and Yugoslavia while Britain based units attacked bridges and air bases. In seven days of invasion FHQ reports 56 000 individual flights.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
France
Germany
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Italy
Hitler
Britain
Emerich
Shell
Budapest
Belgium
Allied air offensive reaches 400000 tons of bombs
The RAF has dropped 400000 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs since the war began with more than 275000 tons hitting targets in Germany. The first 100000 tons were dropped between 1940 and spring 1943 and the second in seven months.
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
RAF
Germany
Allied air forces press large bombing campaign across Europe
Allied air forces flew about 1,500 bombers and fighters in attacks from Paris to Eindhoven with 42 000 tons of bombs dropped. The Eighth led with 16 000 sorties, the Ninth with 15 500, targeting Le Bourget Creil Etampes-Mondesir Chateaudun Brussels Melsbroek and Eindhoven. A separate Italian-initiated force struck Munich area as weather aided the rounds in a booming air campaign.
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Eighth Air Force
Ninth
le Bourget
Creil
Paris
Etampes-Mondesir
Chateaudun
France
Brussels-Melsbroeck
Eindhoven
Belgium
Italy
Hitler
Europe
Munich
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Reich
GOP
Tiber River
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AEF
Balkans
Gladwin Hill
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