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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1944
Page
7
Washington reports growing support for William D. Leahy to succeed Knox as secretary of the navy. Some naval affairs committee members say wartime leadership should be by a professional admiral rather than a civilian, to avoid civilian interference complaints.
Followers of Aimee Semple McPherson hold day long prayer vigils at Angelus Temple for her recovery from a fever infection suffered during a trip to Mexico. Ralph McPherson announced that prayers would continue until she recovers.
FBI traced fingerprints from a murdered woman found stuffed in a trunk. The victim identified as Louise Wright alias Louise C. Myers, linked to arrests in Aug 1941 Helene Ark Baton Rouge Oct 1941 and Memphis April 1943, with possible link to a man who moved the hotel trunk on April 30 and arranged its shipment to Los Angeles.
Sparta WI reports a shipment of 15 000 pine black walnut green ash locust and other trees for windbreaks and erosion control arriving from Winona Minnesota. Monroe County farmers expect a 60 000 tree order from the Wisconsin Rapids nursery and a planting demonstration will be held at the Ray Niedfelt farm with a two bottom tractor plow and a boy planting trees three feet apart.
John L. Lewis charges that New Deal politicians wrecked efforts to reunite the United Mine Workers with the American Federation of Labor. AFL President William Green plans to return Lewis’s $60,000 deposit and seeks further talks to find a basis of accommodation.
The notice lists Legion activities including drum corps practice on Tuesdays at 7 30 p m and regular Legion meetings on Thursdays and Wednesdays May 10 11 with a dance scheduled for May 13. It notes elections in June and urges full attendance. It also covers hospitalization benefits and an upcoming conference report.
Whitehall Wisconsin special report says R C Clark price specialist from La Crosse will run a Friday meeting in Trempealeau County at the courthouse circuit court room for tavernkeepers restaurateurs and hotel dining room proprietors. The topic is rationing and price ceilings.
Capt. Norman Olson a 29 year old flight commander from Orlando Florida and leading ace at the U S Army Air Forces base in Britain was shot down today during a raid on a German airfield near Brunswick. Olson who named his plane Ma Fran after his wife had completed over 100 missions and earned the distinguished flying cross.
Rain delays grip farmers as spring planting stalls across Star Valley and nearby areas south of Warrens. H. H. Gaboner reports few workers available for hire, with some farms finishing early and others not yet seeded. The school term end may bring more help from boys to ease labor shortages. Gaboner placed two laborers Saturday.
James Mc Millan of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co reports the firemen strike on the line’s ships ended last night by order of the seafarers international union AFL. Regular schedules have been resumed.
Chairman Maury Maverick of the Small War Plants Corporation urges action to curb war production concentration. He notes plants with over 2,500 workers hold 76.8 percent of war material output and argues for policies favoring small business in civilian production and material allotments.
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