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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1944
Page
25
A religious verse from I John 3 1 is presented in the La Crosse Tribune. The note emphasizes divine sonship and grace with a biblical quotation.
Allied forces under Gen Bradley have closed on Cherbourg after landing at the Bay of the Seine, bottling up about 30,000 German troops and signaling the first phase of the second front. Rommel’s missteps in Caen aided the break through, with Rommel possibly removed from command.
The report notes that untried American soldiers performed with veteran-like leadership and aggression during the Cherbourg advance. General Marshall praised the high morale and coordinated invasion effort, stating the training in the United States and Britain proved effective and dispiriting to the enemy.
A thousand delegates gather in Chicago in June to draft a political platform and nominate candidates for president and vice president, noting they are not on the federal payroll.
A wry remark suggests Hitler's thousand year claim may leave a lasting odor, while noting a peculiar Republican convention lacks loudspeakers linked to Chicago sewers.
A witty essay questions the paradox of many cars vanishing since the war while parking spaces remain hard to find. It implies ongoing demand, idle vehicles, and urban space pressures in a postwar context.
George Gallup reports the final Institute poll shows Governor Thomas E. Dewey as the overwhelming choice of Republican voters despite a rise for Governor John W. Bricker. Dewey leads across regions, with Stassen and other candidates far behind, though Bricker could close the gap if nominated. The survey also notes Dewey remains stronger against Roosevelt than Bricker, by overall and regional margins.
AP war correspondent Larry Allen describes twenty months in Italian and German camps from Tobruk to Moosburg, detailing hunger, filth, and brutal conditions. He recounts bunkers, barbed wire, and his dramatic escape from a train near Bolzano, ending finally in Spain.
The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau offers answers to factual questions via mail for 3 cents return postage. Topics cover universities, inventors, gliders, currency, insurance, Malta, pipelines, the Appian Way, lion jumps, human body substances, Nile tributaries, electric signs, art schools, and the 1943 longest major league game.
The document lists the La Crosse Tribune masthead with publisher Burgess L. Bangsberg managing editor A W Rice city editor and notes entry as second class matter in 1904 under the 1879 act. It also mentions affiliations with the Lee Syndicate and rights to republication of dispatches.
The Saturday Evening Post assesses how the 1944 Republican campaign should target the New Deal climate of defeatism rather than its statute book gains. Stanley High argues to separate anti Roosevelt sentiment from support for social security and public works, urging a shift toward progressive leadership and a liquidating of the New Deal climate rather than current gains.
In Coffeyville Kansas a caller asked for a quiet response to a fire alarm but city regulations require a loud siren. Firefighters nevertheless sounded the siren as they arrived, apologizing for the noise.
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