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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1935
Page
7
Washington readers see little chance of a radical shift in party alignments amid defections and possible independent actions. Analysts note likely Democratic victory next year, while Republicans seek unity. predictions vary on how leaders like Senator Couglhlin and others will influence the campaign and outcome.
Fragmentary text hints at children, vandals, and elves. Violent or disturbing imagery appears abstractly with references to anger and recovery, but specifics are unclear due to garbled OCR.
A reader letter column discusses the public debate and editor remarks on government department initials, offering satirical acronyms and concerns about city building codes. Charles Butler suggests reforms for the city of 40,000 and notes the lack of a building code as an issue needing correction.
In Public Debate, Fanny urges La Crosse to install illuminated dials on the cathedral clock to allow full use of 24 hours. She notes white glass dials cost about 800, not floodlit, and questions why the improvement was not done earlier. She asks public-spirited locals to back the project.
News from the South Seas reports the death of Sister St. John a revered missionary aged 76 on Niafoou Island in the Tongan group. A French Canadian, she spent many years ministering to the natives and the local church.
Senator Morley G. Kelly proposes the legislature appropriate 500000 for a state receiving hospital for insane persons. The Madison site would house committed individuals for observation before transfer to other state facilities.
Britain’s unemployed total fell by 109,410 to 2,944,460 in the last month, the lowest since August 1939, wiping out the January surge of 240,000. Insured employed rose to 10,320,000, the highest on record, surpassing the 1929 figure by about 4,000.
Roosevelt advocates a strong stand against lobbyists as Congress debates New Deal measures. Chester Davis cites the American Liberty League’s extensive lobby network, including meat packers, power firms, banks, and railroads, amid claims of vast influence on policy. A separate court ruling reversed a nudist conviction in Albany, involving three New York City residents linked to a gymnasium incident.
Nineteen candidates applied to the Civil Service Commission for the entrance examination for the Eleva postmaster position created by the expiration of Ida Englesby's term on February 25 after twenty years. Names include Fred Ruseeling Adam Wold Palmer Lee Alvin Lemingson Gladys Hanson Florence Davis Jennie Hatch Lloyd Lindsay Irving Diestad Emil Martinson Mrs Oneal Adge Wichmann Edward Misa Ellen Elkinton Ole Thompson Mrs Ray Severson Harold Havenor Paul Gibson and Miss Ellen Mulvaney.
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