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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
3
Enrollment for the six week summer session at La Crosse Teachers College neared a record with well over 500 registrations. The opening and start of classes on Tuesday were accompanied by planned conferences, convocations, institutes, clinics, labs, and social events. The session ends July 25. A planetary aside notes Saturn’s rings are 7,500 miles away.
La Crosse State Teachers College appeals to citizens to provide rooms for students amid a housing shortage. Deans Clyde Smith and Edith Cartwright urge help as enrollments rise and room scarcity threatens admissions. Call No 49 to offer accommodations for fall term.
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin on Lake Winnebago three young men were found dead after their sailboat capsized on June 9 The recovered victims were John Griffin 19 Eugene Griffin 23 and Eugene Schumacher 23 The previous Sunday the body of Kenneth Steinmetz 25 was also recovered confirming a four death incident on the lake All four victims are identified by name with ages and the rescue date indicates the official closing of the tragedy sequence
Soviet controlled press reports one person was killed when railroad police fired on Germans attacking a potato train near Woltersdorf, an eastern suburb of Berlin in the Russian zone. Train guards were charged with clubs before police fired warning shots and then shot at attackers.
Chicago police pursued a sedan through downtown and west and south side streets after occupants ignored an attempted stop. Detective Robert E. Gibbons was shot above the left eye, Detective Charles Malek cut by flying glass, and bystander Joseph Ippolito wounded in the wrist by a stray bullet. The car reached speeds of up to 80 mph before two suspects fled on foot near Michigan avenue and Fullerton street.
Stephen J. Knezevich, supervising principal at Spencer for three years, will become principal at Port Edwards high school. He succeeds Richard Marshall who resigned to lead Jefferson schools. Knezevich is a Milwaukee native and graduate of Milwaukee State Teachers College and previously taught at Algoma.
La Crosse county 4-H band meets at Bangor American Legion hall June 13 with 28 members. New officers are Robert Price president Delores Storandt treasurer Louise Lezibl librarian. Eleanor Jones remains band director and advisory help comes from Clifton Storandt and Erwin Nuttleman. A Wiener roast followed. invitation extended to rural youths with one year of band experience.
Thousands of Catholics from many lands assembled in Ottawa for the Marian congress. The faithful prayed to the Virgin Mary and asked her intercession with Jesus Christ for lasting world peace.
Max Konipping former head of the Vichy regime special security police was executed by firing squad at dawn in Fort de Montrouge near Paris. He died after the sentence carried out Wednesday morning following World War II collaboration charges.
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