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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1944
Page
4
The trial featured testimony on price advertising for glasses with witnesses from Ben son Optical in La Crosse and Dr. Frederick A. Douglas. The defense urged that advertising prices for lenses and parts could be harmful if retail ads were used.
Bremerton navy yard project representative David S Hall announced pay hikes for workers. Those on 4 pm to midnight shifts gain six cents per hour and 10 percent for some, while the graveyard shift from 12 am to 8 am receives a 15 percent raise. New pay grades expand positions as more employees are hired, with Hall stationed at the U S employment service office Exchange building through May 27 to fill the quota.
A contingent of German prisoners of war will assist in pulp wood harvesting near Munising after Camp Au Train was converted to housing facilities. Commanded by H McCarty of the sixth service command, the program enhances on site operations and prisoner work placement in Wisconsin.
A jeep weighing 2368 pounds requires 784 units of materials. 85 percent of this is lumber, and the remaining 15 percent consists of moisture proof paper and other materials.
A New York group of eight art experts and volunteers are compiling a continent wide inventory of Europe's cultural treasures under fire in World War I. They map locations of museums libraries and monuments for Allied forces and plan to restore looted works after the war.
Two marines under orders landed at the Drake hotel and kept a blind date with the wives of two buddies in the south Pacific for their wedding anniversaries. The event followed dinners theater and a night club visit. Captains Mickelson Park and escorts Good Hurvieux arranged the celebration.
The German consulate in Tangier Morocco was closed and sealed as the Spanish foreign ministry announced. The move followed a May 2 agreement with the United States and Britain granting British permission for German personnel to travel by ship across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain en route to Germany.
At the Wisconsin conference of the English Evangelical Lutheran synod of the northwest the 54th annual convention reelected Rev. William Niebling of Wauwatosa as president for two years. Officers also include Rev. R. W. Groth of West Bend as secretary-treasurer and Rev. Samuel Roth of Neenah as vice-president. Rev. J. J. Schere of Richmond urged the church to aid returning servicemen.
The treasury hires writer-producer Orson Welles as a $1 consulting expert to promote a fifth war loan drive. He works in Hollywood on a one hour radio network script to launch the $16 billion effort beginning June 12.
Albert Caponetto was inducted into the army at Fort Sheridan and left his 11 month old son with relatives after explaining his wife’s spinal injury. He said he did not seek an extension, believing new regulations would apply, while his draft card kept him in active service.
The coast guard is responsible for enforcement of laws governing construction equipment manning and inspection of commercial vessels.
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