Vocational School Opens 9-Week Commerce Summer Courses
The Vocational School begins a nine week summer program on June 19 at 8 pm offering commerce training open to high school graduates and fourth year students. Courses cover stenography and typing refreshers with no tuition beyond supplies and potential college credit discussions with principals. Enrollment has no age limit and sessions run through late summer at the main campus room 206.
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Colemande
Coleman
Nazis May Report On RAF Officer Slavings
Berlin radio indicated a German statement may be issued soon on the reported shooting of 47 RAF officers at a prison camp near Dresden. The broadcast said the German move aims to address British press controversy and public interest in Berlin. London viewed a Nazi threat to try Allied airmen in a "people's court" as an attempt to shift attention from the incident.
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London
Berlin
Dresden
Adams Seeks New Approach To American History
Southport Connecticut author James Truslow Adams, famed historian, unveils the first volume of The Album of American History. He aims to combine vivid illustrations with historical narrative across four volumes, reflecting his life in a landmark Connecticut village and his varied career from Wall Street to military intelligence.
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John Selby Southport
Conn
James Truslow Adams
Connecticut
Just
Life Magazine
Atlantic Monthly
Mr. Adams
America
Adams
Adams Place
Nuney
England
Adamses
Adams Cook
Southport
Wall Street
Col. House
Russia
Long Island
New England
Massachusetts
Virginia
Brooklyn
Knudson Named Chairman of Holmen Poppy Drive
Mrs M C Knudson was named by the American Legion Auxiliary as chairman of the Poppy Day drive in Holmen and vicinity. Girl Scouts and Cubs will solicit in the village with rural area committees led by Mines Leo Waldenberger Clarence Moe Julius Holter Owner Lund Fred Spangler Wesley Chalsma Edward Pfafflin Gus Koch Ansel R Evenson Henry Johnson Eaner Snuggerud Alfred Ruud Elsie Wallum Adella Jostad.
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Holmen
Wis
M. C. Knudson
American Legion Auxiliary
Mines
Leo Waldenberger
Clarence Moe
Julius Holter
Owner Lund
Fred Spangler
Wesley Chalsma
Edward Pfafflin
Gus Koch
Ansel R. Evenson
Henry Johnson
Eaner
Military staffs train together at staff college in Washington
An unadvertised yet vital contribution to upcoming invasions is the army and navy staff college. It crafts joint staff officers skilled in air, sea and land operations, blending tactics from Orlando, Fort Leavenworth, and Newport into a unified system. Graduates, many veterans, head to theaters worldwide to support future operations.
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Thomas M. Johnson
Washington
NEA
Europe
Japan
Army and Navy Staff College
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United Nations
Britain
Mediterranean
Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics
Orlando
Fla
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Navy War College
Newport
R. L
War Department
Seven Seas
Continents
London tests flood of house ideas toward experimental builds
F E Towndrow controller of experimental building development in London reports over 600 ideas arriving by mail. Some 143 proposals cleared for further development including 87 for complete houses 23 for parts 33 for raw materials. Labor and materials released for experiments with 55 ideas and details are kept secret.
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F. E. Towndrow
London
Sparta Legion Juniors Sell Poppies Saturday
Sparta Wisconsin poppy sale by American Legion Junior group Saturday in the business district under Mrs Kathryn Arnold as poppy chairman. They will canvas downtown from Army Navy Masonic center with Estelle Mueller and Mrs C S Phalen overseeing. Poppies will be sold at Melvina Cataract State School and windows display space is donated by local merchants.
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Sparta
Wis
American Legion
Kathryn Arnold
Poppy
C. S. Phalen
Estelle Mueller
Army-Navy Masonic Service Center
Arnold
American Legion Auxiliary
Mabel Webster
Melvina
Ethel Smith
Cataract
M. J. Lanham
W. H. Plummer
Felland’s Shoe
J. C. Penney’s
Dodge and Davis
Music Festival Tickets In Demand May Schedule Second Performance
Demand for tickets to the La Crosse music festival at the Vocational school auditorium 7 45 p m Friday suggests a second performance may be added next week Harold Youngberg supervises the event with Central high band and Boy Scout color guard opening The program features 200 fifth grade singers 250 sixth graders a 40 piece string ensemble from fourth grade directed by Leigh Elder a string trio and a 100 piece fifth and sixth grade ensemble Butler directs a final string ensemble foreshadowing 24 cellos on stage
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Harold Youngberg
Central High Band
Boy Scout Color Guard
Youngberg
Leigh Elder
la Crosse
Elder
Helen Hale
Teachers College Training School
Burt Phillips
Jefferson
James Hogan
Webster
Butler
Francis hospital care cited in La Crosse incident
Charles Miles was taken by ambulance to St. Mary's hospital in La Crosse after suffering a heart ailment with an attack occurring about a week earlier. Francis hospital in La Crosse is mentioned as part of the related context.
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Phillips
Phillips 66
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Hoople
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Holmen Poppy Drive
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Burlington
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