Waukesha Daily Freeman (Newspaper) - December 7, 1946, Waukesha, Wisconsin DAILY FREEMAN SUPPORTER OF WAUKESHA PROGRESS FOR NEARLY A CENTURY 31 SATURDAY DECEMBER 7, 1946 Six Pages FIVE CENTS 122 Killed as Atlanta Hotel Burns Goodland Stops Appropriations to Construction Gov. Walter S. Goodland warned state agencies late yesterday that he would prove no more requests for ing appropriations until present construction funds of ely are Replying to the request of the state historical society for a 000 building in yesterday's budget Goodland ally I don't think I'll recommend any more building in the state of Wisconsin until money already is He added that while many re- quests were they sould be considered by future legislatures when materials for buildings I Program Never Started The 1945 legislature appropriated for postwar building by state educational and welfare in- in addition to set aside by the 1943 legislature for state Because of building materials and labor the state has not been able to launch postwar construction Goodland's statement was a blow to state such as teachers colleges and the that want the 1947 legislature to grant a total of more for new With Budget Director E. C. eel and Lt. Gov. Oscar Rennebohm in the governor heard 1947-49 biennium budget requests Irom 14 state agencies Insurance Commissioner Morvin plea for more money to hire additional insurance company in- highlighted the afternoon are at least 125 insurance companies in this state that have rot been examined in over 40 Duel deplorable con- and the people of this state are entitled to know how poor in- surance supervision is in the state of failure of three insurance companies which cost ers a total of alone could have been prevented with adequate annual Duel the Goodland said he would attempt to change the situation by getting the insurance commission al More Labor Troubles Ahead In a morning L. E. chairman of the sin employment relations said the gradual return of labor 1 tion functions to state government made it necessary for the board to ask for a substantial budget in- crease for 1947-49. Gooding said the board this year did almost twice as much super- vision of complaints and strike votes as in 1W5. Hearings on the budget requests J of the bureau of purchases were 1 featured by Director F. explanation that state purchases of federal surplus property had saved the state almost in the last All departments appearing for yesterday's hearings asked for In- creased 1947-49 budgets with the ex- ception of the securities Largest biennial increases were to No. 1, Page 2) EXTRA Coal Strike Ended by Order of Lewis WASHINGTON John L. Lewis today called off Ihe national coal Lewis suddenly ordered the United Mine Workers to return to work He directed that they work until March 31 under terms of the union contract with the contract that Lewis had tried to The action affects all of the soft coal mines which have been struck for 17 Lewis told a news conference thai he took the action of his own authority to give the United States supreme court time to deliberate on appeals from contempt tions from public pressure by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic Lewis and the union have been convicted of contempt In the S. district court here and fined and The case Is now before the reme Even as Lewis made his dramatic announcement the court was In secret ing whether to grant a ment petition to speed a final de- directive addressed to each union member mines In all districts will resume production of coal until 12 o'clock March 31, 1947- Each member is directed to return to work Im- mediately to their usual under the working hours and conditions of ment in existence on and before Nov. 20, 1946." The White House had no Im- mediate but it was learned that President Truman will proceed with his plans speak to the nation over all works at p.m. Waukesha time Sunday The nature of his of will be altered to fit the circumstances now Conference With Vinson reme court met In private ence today to consider a ment request for swift review of the John L. Lewis contempt This conference of the justices followed an extraordinary 75-min- ute meeting of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson with government and United Mine Workers The court may announce its de- cision on the government later If the decision is expected to be announced The meeting of the full court followed by 15 minutes the ence in Vinson's Con- included Assistant At- torney General John F. Counsel Joseph A. way and UMW Attorney Welly K. They refused to reveal what was discussed at the President directing the battle a- kept his schedule clear of appointments as he began work on the radio speech he will make to the nation tomorrow The UMW was fined and Lewis in federal dis- court Wednesday for refusing to call off the Bond in these amounts was posted Admiral Halsey Will Be Retired Adm. William F. daring of World war re- of active participation in the navy today for the first time in 46 The navy announced last night that the bluff wartime commander of the Third Pacific fleet re- orders to proceed is relieved of active pation in the the ment is not retiring inasmuch as fleet admirals may not be placed in retirement It was reported that the 64-year- old now recuperating in a New York hospital from an had himself requested the The ending the career of one of America's most colorful naval came on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl an atack Halsey helped to avenge with his rampaging Third The fleet battered the Japanese navy from the Solomon islands all the way to its own home Halsey's drive ended only by the of the anese on Since Halsey has been on special assignment in the office of Secretary of Navy James It was in this post that he answered critics of the navy's cruise nobody's business where the navy We go where we ed Halsey was named fleet admiral last year as fe listed a- mong the top of tba Harry L. Witz Dies at Hospital Rites at Pewaukee Harry L. 47, died Friday afternoon at the Memorial hospital He had been ly m since a resident of Pewaukee for eight had been employed at the Fox Dairy in Waukesha as foreman of the truck maintenance department for the past five Born at New Lisbon on Nov. 20, 1899, he is survived his and three Shirley and Other survivors are his Mr. and Mrs. liam New two Mrs. Irwin Camp and Mrs. William 111.; and two Homer of Chicago and Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the William R. Hanson funeral home at with the Rev. Glenn of St. Luke's Lutheran Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery at The body will lie in state today from 7 p.m. until time of service at the funeral Carl Taylor to Speak as WGN Guest Sunday Carl president of the Waukesha State TVill be the speaker Sunday afternoon on ion's Guest on Station The program goes on the air at p. m. who also heads new radio will speak on Makes ica He is the second consin citizen to be a guest on the program in recent former Gov. Phil LaFollette been a recent Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt also spoke on this gram two Railroads Here Curtail Service Passenger service of two roads operating through sba will be cut nearly 50 percent starting but a third will maintain its normal The soft coal strike which brought a federal order for senger service curtailment will chop the Soo Line schedule in half and drop two daily trains from the Northwestern railroad The Milwaukee road will continue The local will go into effect at a. Harry Soo line today announced the ance of daily trains between neapolis and Train No. 1, will run only on Thursdays and leaving Waukesha at its ual a. m. Train No. 2, will run on and leaving Waukesha as at p. m. H. B. Northwestern announced the ance two daily trains between Madison and The stoppage will effect Train No. 601, which leaves Waukesha at 11 a. and Train No. 510, which leaves Waukesha at 9-25 a. m. Northwestern will continue to operate two daily evening They are No. 620, which leaves Waukesha at p. and which leaves Waukesha at p. m. The streamliner Capitol 400, Train No. 609, will continue to run daily ex- cept leaving here at p. m. The Milwaukee Road will ue to run trains each way daily between Madison and Generator to Provide Christmas Tree Light The brownout blue and green lights will shine from the city Christmas tree at Honor Roll No coal will be Starting last night and scheduled to continue until power for the lights is being supplied by a army generator ed by the National Truck ment co. The gasoline driven mounted a truck parked will light the tree evening from dusk until 10 p. m. the Christmas tree lights were used twice for the Santa Claus parade on Nov. and one night this week when Santa Claus turned them on so he could see the the brownout was Weather Forecast cloudy and mild Sunday mostly cloudy with showers beginning In north Minimum midnight to 32. high 51. 32. Temperature here a year high 47, 32. Local Hour Temperature Big Four Opens Talks Today on German Treaty NEW The Big Four council of foreign ministers began their long delayed talks on a German peace treaty and the first issue to be resolved was what degree of participation should be allowed to Germany's small the Czechoslovakia and invaded and occupied and ravished by Nazi demanded formally that they be en a bigger and more decisive voice in the drafting of the man treaty than they in those for Hitler's former The decision to begin the man talks taken at last night's foreign ministers meeting after Big Four decided that ical problems would prevent their signing the treaties for Ro- mania Hungary and Finland until sometime between Feb. 1 and 15, 1947. Virtually all the main decisions have been made but problems of checking and final approval by the Big Four be- fore the formal signing ceremonies will take an estimated two Doubts Speedy Decision had hoped too op- to get the treaties ed by Christmas for presentation to the U. S. senate in re- accepted the more mistic report of the But he urged that every effort be made to speed the mechanical The decision to hold preliminary discussions on Germany here was made by the Big Four at Paris this But the absence of a new French government be- cause of the recent elections and failure of former French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to come here will limit the discussions to procedural Today's agenda called for a study of how the Big Four will proceed to tackle the German Byrnes submitted two drafts of proposed Including a suggested agenda for talks when the foreign ters meet early next year In Eur- ope to begin talking about many in Byrnes has abandoned any hope of discussing anything except He may but he doesn't expect any that Germany's frontiers be decided His procedure program Includes these 1. Creation of a special set of deputies to begin at once to pre- pare on 2. Setting a date and place sometime after the first of the year and somewhere in Europe for a full dress council meeting on 3. Decision on what kind of will be granted smaller neighbors in aration of the draft German 4. Agreement on a specific da for the forthcoming European meeting on an inclusion of a treaty for Australia In it. U. S. Backs Partition of Palestine States NEW Secretary State James F. Byrnes virtually threw the country's political and economic weight today behind ish demands for partition of estine into separate Arab and ish Ending months of silence as to American policy on the Palestine Byrnes called upon Britain to meet with Jewish and Arab leaders to discuss the partition plan free and full He made clear that such a meeting would have this country's blessing and that a U. S. observer would Claim Russia Snubbed Truman at Reception The Chicago Sun said in a dispatch from ington today that Russia has bed President Truman socially to show it is dissatisfied with this to No. 3, Page Sneok Blow on Honolulu Is Recoiled monies at Pearl Harbor today marked the fifth of the Japanese attack on this naval base which Americans will never The whose harbor still holds the battered hulks of the battleships Oklahoma and Arizona as grim reminders of Japanese observed the anniversary as another work At nearby Hickman the tered American flag which flew that fateful morning and was ed by Japanese bombs was raised by the army air forces at the moment the Japanese first struck the Concrete buildings on the field are stil pockmarked from bullets by Japanese strafing The moment of the attack five years ago was written into history by officer of the day Lieut. Charles E. whose methodically supervised raising of the checked items are Japanese pursuit and bombardment aviation attacked this field at proximately Called Day of Warning Speaking at the flag raising Gen. John E. com- manding general of armed forces of the declared Dec. 7, 1941 should be remembered a day of warning as well as a day of my that the initial losses will serve ways as a reminder to our people that they must remain physically and mentally he the vast distances that once were a complete protection to our nation are no longer a complete barrier to is my hope this remembrance will serve to keep tha education and development of our protective forces at their highest The flag that flew today was the here five years Survivor Tells of Three Hours Spent in Terror The following eyewitness count of the Winecoff hotel fire was told to the United Press by J. Reed Home of who with his wife was rescued from the top floor of the ture three hours after the fire gutted it. By J. Reed Home I can't believe that we are on the ground and The I knew there was a fire I heard people I thought it was a Then my wife woke up and we down from the Flames were shooting up from every window be- low us on the front of the We were scared but my wife had enough sense to suggest we tie some sheets together and try to get to a lower We made two ropes and climbed down but when we got to the 14th floor it was so hot we had to climb back up to our room on the 15th My wife climbed back all by It was getting hotter and and smoke was coming in so we looked around for a part of the hotel where it wasn't so We crawled out on the ledge with the aid of our bedsheets and got in another room on the same Falling Girl Hit Woman A man named Henry joined There he is over there on that He and his wife helped us to move around from room to holding on to sheets and Then he lost his Another girl jumped from the roof and hit her as she passed Both of them crashed all the way The three of us that were left kept swinging from room to room on tne 15th staying just ahead of the After what seemed a we reached a cor- ner room that the flames and smoke had passed It was thero and the firemen seemed to be getting the blaze below under Scores Perish in Plunges to Street from Fiery Rooms roared like a giant rocket blast through the packed Winecoff hotel on Peachtree street today and at least 122 persons perished in the smoke and flames or by jumping to the The latest check of hospitals and mortuaries snowed at least 122 bodies admitted and more were expected to be found in the hotel More than 100 others were It was the worst fire in Atlanta's history and the death toll was mounting toward one on the nation's most terrible catastrophes by Worst in City's History It wag the worst fire in ta's history and the toll already had far exceeded the last major fire disaster in the LaSalle hotel fire in Chicago six months ago took 61 The fire was touched had not been determined 3 and 4 a.m. among the lower ies of the 15-floor It shot upward and downward within It is now an air forces relic which was briefly by Gen. George C. Kenny at airfield near Tokyo shortly after It was brought here for the mony today by special courier from D. C. Bidders Keep Ouf Auctioneer Hopes This Will Be Last Sale auctioneer took a suspicious look today at the eager buyers who crowded about the dressed carcasses of six of the nation's choicest hogs at the Inter- national livestock He said he didn't want any more bids from bargain hunting city It was the ond time he'd tried to auction off the meat and he hoped it would be the When the meat first went on the block Mr. and Mrs. John an urbane Chicago pressed through the crowd of farmers and buying a- gents and gaped at the six huge dressed The gavel pounded an bidding It was con- a farmer of- Rupnick gasped and looked at his She nodded go she said never saw such Rupnick took the first 183-pound carcass with a He took the others with bids of 50 and The auctioneer and a stir of wonder swept the will be said the The nearly nick was standing there with in his They didn't know you buy cassea by the Exposition officials agreed to run the auction over again and Rupnick promised hefa do all his at the butcher AAA Goals Are Fixed Departing from the practice of war years when crop and livestock goals assigned by the government were rather strictly adhered the AAA in 1947 is issuing only goals to township AAA representatives were told at a conference in the circuit court here this Clarence AAA district field man from Jefferson said there will be no rigid ment goals for Wisconsin except for An important acreage cut for this crop is anticipated but the recommended production of nearly everything else will proach 1946. For barley and greatly increased acreage was The big increase In 220 per cent of this year's was asked in order to get sin back into the barley The Mueller is not much because of an excessive de- mand for barley as it is because Wisconsin production has dropped to an abnormally low The past he production 19 per cent of what it was in this state before the County Potato Goal The goal for soybeans is expected to be set at 179 per cent of this year in order to supply processing plants with the needed raw ials for oil and meal A county goal for potatoes will be set and individual acreage may be given to all growers producing acres or Thro is now hundred weight of potatoes un- der government loan In Mueller The 1946 crop was far in excess of probable The goals being Issued by the AAA for next year are largely for the information and guidance of the fieldman ure to balance plantings and duction with probable demands could result in market he are primarily for decision by farmers State Goals Set Wisconsin which will not be broken down by counties for next were announced as expressed In percentage of 1946 100; 127; 98; 98; 220; soy 179; sugar 113; truck 80; 100; hay and seed 100; beef 93; milk 98; milk 98; 101; 95; 96. The Mueller were fixed after consultation with lers and processors and a ation of probable demand for next For salu the to No. It 2) So we sat and waited two ful Finally the firemen and Red Cross got to They ware amazed to find us Third Hotel Disaster in Past Six Months By United Press The Winecoff hotel at today became the nation's third hotel fire disaster in six The Hotel fire at Chicago June 5 took -a toll of 61 Four days later fire swept the hotel at ing 19 A flurry of other hotel fires ing subsequent weeks caused fire prevention authorities throughout the nation to tighten enforcement of fire A survey taken late In June showed that eral night clubs and theatres had been closed temporarily pending elimination of alleged fire PICKS GLAMOUR QUEEN Sculptor Yucca Salamunich today decided that Ginger Rogers was wood's glamor queen of 1946, but said Hollywood glamour wasn't what it used to he were Lena Lana Lamarr and Linda He prepared to create busts of them Trapped and enveloped in the lotch were most of the 280 All the 194 rooms were Many never had a chance and a lot of them took the quick way through the Others stood at their windows and screamed until they fell back choking in the names and A few survived miraculously by swinging from window to window on bedsheets along the Upper That way they were able to get to the few rooms the fire didn't reach and wait for or reach adjoining Every piece of lire equipment and every disaster unit in Atlanta lushed into But there was little they could do for those caught in the swift onrush of the Fire Halted at 7 a.m. By 7 a.m. the flames had been But the Winecoff its stately facade across Peachtree t street Irom Atlanta's theater waa a hulk with scores of black gouges where Its windows had The bodies pouring Into Grady which also serves as the city were mostly burned or broken beyond Some were merely bones that looked like they had been through a Down on Peachtree street In front of the Winecoff the sion of bodies was continuing from the lobby as fireman and Red Cross workers brought down tims from the upper The tiny lobby was a tangle of fire hose and heaped It was under half a foot of water but still that was supposed to bo a fireproof said a fireman who had been temporarily over- come by smoke and taken to tho emergency first aid station across to think of all those people dying up And there are a lot of up there As he an ambulance crew came by the door carrying a body under a They uncovered it briefly to show the figure of what had been a His white shirt was mottled with the black of smoke and the red of his blood so that It looked grotesquely like a Many Christmas Shoppers The guests included scores ol weekend Christmas al Dec. 7 Recorded in 59 at Noon By Ted Freeman Staff Norman the water ment clerk who supplies daily re- ports on the droned off the usual statistics about wind direction and condition of the She added a personal what a beautiful That just about summed up this sunny December 7th, which felt more like the first day of spring than 15 shopping days before Garlands strung over the downtown the tall green in Honor Roll park and ta's Igloo hardly fitted the weather which enabled Christmas shoppers to stroll in thin coats or and even in shirt the noon ture of 59 degrees was an all-time record for Dec. 7 in the 11 years records have been kept at the er It was also the warmest December topping a previous mark of 57 degrees tered on Dec. 30, 1936. There was a slight breeze from the southwest and you had to look hard to find anything but blue In the The ground was but Our Reporter Waxes Poetic The day dawned with a mist left over from last night's Thursday and were beautiful It was warm last night and a moon that was full looked hazy In the sky hung buttermilk Shoppers took advantage of the mild weather to crowd the Chief Harold Owens said he doesn't remember when he saw as many people The shoppers were also mindful of fact that a coal strike and freigh embargo might soon strip the shelves of Christmas gift The temperature went to 51 de- grees yesterday and gently slid down to 32 last At 7 o'clock this if you brushed the mist off the you could see it was 40 It stayed there for an hour and then hiked Itself up to 44 degrees at 9 52 at 10 56 degrees in the next hour and 59 at All around were signs of spring Birds were chirping on Charles street and In Frame Snakes came out of the ground to sun themselves in the swampy woods back of Moor The court house sparrows were all and they flitted around in mad de- light over what seemed like an ril There was water on Fox but you couldn't do any ing because there was still a thin layer of Ice left from last week's cold Good Weather playing said bara her Norma White Rock ave. They were making sand pies in the soft ground next to the Frame park nis They said this was the best pie making weather in two Lewis had her waah out at Grand View and a wash It her six boys to No. 4, Page 2) east 50 delegates to the Georgia youth and and business The Winecoff was one of Atlanta's favorite and although comparatively small ranked among the leading hotels in the It was situated n the absolute heart of Firemen used war surplus navy from the remove some of the dead from upper A platform was built from the top floor across to the Mortgage Guarantee ng and bodies were shuttled The fire apparently started on the fifth floor and then swept ward to engulf the upper floors in orange flame within a few It was discovered by a gro elevator named who smelled smoke and fied the night Many of those In hospitals were critically The Red Cross rushed supplies of blood plasma but tors sent out an urgent appeal lor quantities of whole blood to save Ihe injured Donors were asked to leave their jobs and their and come to the emergency Among the first relatives to ar- rive here was Georgia Adjutant General Marvin Griffin of Ga. He began a search of morgues for his 14-year old Patsy who was listed tho Streets outside the hotel were littered with wearing women's Fell Screaming Early in the a an appeared at a window on tho ninth floor and let down a rope of sheets she had Firemen begged her to wait but she was with She lowered herself to a window ledge whore rescuers were placing somone else on a But just a few feet from the parted she dropped to her Another woman stepped to a dow ledge on one of tho top paused there a moment with her nightgown shining white In front of the the waa She leaped toward a safety But she missed landing instead astride over- hed power wires that broke her she in until she finally broke loose and fell to the At about a.m. when ladders were placed for rescue from the lower firemen and men on Ellis street motioned and waved frantically above tho Reassurances from the street to forestall panic for a From almost the entire wall of the fourth floor to the came a chorus of cries for As the fire raged from the third to fifth occupants began to be forced by the flames out of one window after Firemen maneuvered a net into an alley at the hotel's where rooms were first being wiped The net caught but missed Thousands Jammed Streets of persons jammed the As dawn came the ed off streets caused tremendous Jams as many street car and bus lines flow into the city along Peachtree Taxies were put Into use as em- ambulances and carried some of the dead and injured to Corridors and rooms of the fifth to be blacked ruins with plaster paper Uttering the A child's doll lay in the The hotel lobby was a half foot deep in dirty water that cascaded down stairways and elevator shafts from the upper Evidence of attempts to were found in almost every Inadequate ropes had been ed of sheets and Some had never been others were tied to or beds pushed against the Clothing and personal to No. 5, Page 2) IN FW SPA PERI
