Twelve High Schools to Enter La Crosse Music Festival
The 1944 La Crosse District Music Festival will feature 12 area high schools on Saturday at La Crosse State Teachers College. Ontario Onalaska and Caledonia enter diverse classes with bands, orchestras, choirs and soloists. A parade through downtown La Crosse, a mixer in Burns Park, and an evening recital close the events with ensembles and soloists performing. Laura Bertelson and Helen Rynning appear as soloists with a string duet. J F Rolfe serves as district festival chairman.
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la Crosse
Girls Glee Club
M. Agnes Clare
M. al
Ng ’S
Vv 10
Burns Park
Main Street
Cosmedonia
Minn
Cashton
Ettrick
Galesville
Holmen
Sparta
Tomah
Viroqua
Westby
West Salem
Teachers College
H. C. Reuter
State Teachers College
Laura Bertelson
Helen Rynning
J. F. Rolfe
Leaves From A War Correspondent Notebook
A wartime notebook describes U S Navy base drills in England for D Day care of the wounded. Jeeps become ambulances carrying four wounded, amphibious tanks hold ten. Officials watch as wounded are loaded onto LSTs during a camouflaged shore demonstration.
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U. S. Navy
England
LST
Navy
George B. Dowlington
D. C
Minne
Exer
Marine Corps
Deaths Last Night By the Associated Press
Chicago H L Meites 68 Zionists and kin. Houston Mrs Elizbeth Jones Farthing 75 sister of Commerce Jesse H Jones. U A Keep Em Firing.
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The
Associated Press
Chicago
H. L. Meites
Houston, Tex
Elizabeth Jones Farthing
of Commerce
Jesse H. Jones
Maj. Bong's Mother To Christen A Ship
Mrs. Carl Bong of Poplar Wisconsin will christen the ocean going cargo ship at Walter Butler Shipbuilders Superior yards Sunday. The U S S Grainger will be launched with scores of Mrs Bong's upper Wisconsin rural neighbors in attendance. The ship is named after Grainger county Tennessee.
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Superior
Wis
Carl Bong
Poplar
Richard Bong
Walter Butler Shipbuilders
Superior airman dies in plane crash near Camp Gordon
Second Lieut. Lawrence H. Hansen of Superior Wisconsin was killed when a liaison plane crashed two miles from Camp Gordon near Augusta Georgia. The aircraft from the 670th Field Artillery Battalion carried two men and the other occupant also died.
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Superior
Augusta
Lawrence H. Hansen
Wis
Camp Gordon
Hansen
670Th
Ield Artillery
Twenty Million Parcels Sent to British Prisoners of War
The report notes that twenty million parcels have been mailed free to British prisoners of war since Dunkirk. It emphasizes the scale of wartime relief efforts and the support provided by mail campaigns to prisoners held abroad.
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Dunkirk
OPA Sues Meat Firm For Treble Damages
The Office of Price Administration filed a federal suit against A. F. Pope of Waupaca seeking treble damages of 7884.15 for alleged price violations. The agency also moved to require R. K. S. of Sheboygan to maintain price records under regulations.
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Milwaukee
Office of Price Administration
A. F. Pope
Waupaca
OPA
Sheboygah Furniture
Fights With Husband Bring Alarm to City Streets
A Bronx woman fled a quarrel with her husband and rang a fire alarm to summon aid. Fire units and police responded with multiple engines, ladder companies, chiefs, and patrol cars. She later paid a $25 fine for a false alarm. The piece also notes World War I era farm motive power from 26 million horses and mules.
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New York
Bronx
U. S
Radio to the Dead Seen in Future Communication
Sir Ernest Fisk of Amalgamated Wireless Australia proposes that communications with the dead may come through radio. He suggests the dead may exist in a different realm of ether and respond to distinct wavelengths. He frames consciousness as rooted in electrical energy. The piece also lists seven strategic metals: antimony chromium manganese mercury nickel tin and tungsten.
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Ernest Fisk
Amalgamated Wireless, Australasia, Ltd
Melbourne
United States
Hawaiian Island blackout lifted but curfew remains
The blackout across the Hawaiian islands is ended by Lieut. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr. effective tonight, but the 10 p.m. curfew continues for security reasons. The long blackout phase began after Pearl Harbor and was reduced to controlled lighting last July.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Pearl Harbor
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Richardson
Cotes Mae
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Fortress
Gederoe
Montgomery Ward
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Fifth Ave
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Ontgomery
Fifth Ave. South
Hawaiian Island
Fifth Avenue South
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