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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
14
On Okinawa a Japanese machine gunner killed Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley after he led a frontline group amid mortars and bullets. Easley died soon after Lieutenant General Simon Boli var Jr. was killed by shellfire on the Marine front.
Hollywood actress Jennifer Jones secured a divorce from Robert Walker after a six and a half year marriage. Jones testified they separated on November 7, 1943 after Walker left home without notice on several occasions. The couple had been married in Los Angeles.
Rep. Smith charges the OPA is provoking inflation via price fixing and bureaucratic overreach. He cites Racine complaints from workers and merchants, including a $1,200 penalty on Raley Bros for $1.96 in alleged overcharges, urging immediate congressional action.
Chinese forces converge six miles southwest of Liuchow near a rail and road junction as a second unit presses from the west about ten miles away on the Kweichow Kwangsi line. They engage in fierce battles while observers note possible Japanese withdrawal.
A memorial service at Mindoro church featured a sacred concert and prayers for service members. Candles marked each honored name as relatives lit lights beside a central candle, with Janice and Janet Ristow leading a lighted V formation. The program closed with God Be With You Till We Meet Again.
The report notes most meteorites are recorded as arriving before midnight with observers tracking incoming disruptions and fireball activity across the night sky.
Chungking reports a Chinese innkeeper and an accomplice were sentenced to death for murdering and robbing 78 guests at Changshou river port inn. The trial ended with admissions. execution awaited approval from Chengtu garrison headquarters. Also noted: in Madison, Mrs. Katherine Hass, 74, struck and killed by a railroad locomotive. declared accidental by the coroner. Mexico City theater smoking fines listed.
An electric brain is described as enabling machines to carve propeller models 700 percent faster. A tracer guides two sharp cutting tools over the surface, allowing in two days what previously took two weeks to finish.
The Petroleum Administrator for War said fuel oil supplies will stay tight for the duration of the Pacific war and may worsen. It will deny requests to convert heating equipment from coal to oil to conserve scarce fuel.
Two senators proposed legislation to protect women’s postwar job rights and bar sex based job discrimination. Senators Pepper and Morse would extend enforcement powers to the Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau to ensure equal opportunities.
London figures show lend lease supplies include 98 million chocolate bars 80 million crackers 38 million chewing gum packets 7 million pounds jam and jellies 120 million pounds sugar and 10 million pounds cocoa to American troops.
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