Waukesha Daily Freeman (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Waukesha, Wisconsin V S f DAILY FREEMAN One of the Midwest's Prize-Winning Newspapers 100 WAUKESHA WIS SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 28 1948 Eight Pages FIVE CENTS Big Air Force Secretly Given to China by U S WASHINGTON The United States Is carrying out a secret to equip nist armies In China with a air force This commitment was revealed by Air W Stuart Symington and tho state department ently in an effort to alienee lican of tho now aid Tho not Include assistance The joint was sent to the senate committee In to a request from man K H The committee made it public last night Delivered USO aid signed ing Wot id war II pledged this tiy to Chiang government with a air force of planes including heavy and Already planes have been de- livered H surplus war and presumably are In against the Communist forces in China An additional planes are for delivery They include 37 B 17 flying Foi 42 13 IMil and throe port planes All of these types were bv the L H air during thn wai but now have been what outmoded by and When thn U If will give China an air force equivalent to such powers ai Turkey lavia ami China will have a fighting air torn prised tit one and one medium four fighter groups two troops carrier and a of for Small Percentage Here aro the highlights of tho 1 The eight group program was for one calling for 18 air It said the limited of Chinese support only the smaller foice 2 The enot of supplied China Mikolajczyk Predicts France Marked Next for Communist Seizure UP lalaw former pre- mier of Poland said today that France Is the next country marked for Communist seizure Jn falling to upset the tion government of Premier ert last fall tho Com- lost a battle but not tho Mikolajczyk told tho City Club forum Onco the Communists ceed In taking over France all of Europe will be he said because Italy Greece and land will be charged that the plot to be- gan early as 1945 when the Communists started circulating rumors that Benes was ill He said tbo Communists planned to force Bones resignation because of ill health If he refused to col- labointe predicted that sia will not sign peace with Germany and Austria the Communists can op- erate only when hunger misery and uncertainty arc around but thn pi tie to Chiang ia now set at 000 3 Only about IS per cent of the equipment has actually been Hut tional shipments soon may bring Mm supplier up to BO per cent of the total figure At current prices It H that material still to be sent will between noo and 4 On last Dec 31 the U H com- a training project which vided with I pilots 365 bombai diets 192 nnd technicians It cost this Delayed by The aid was delayed by an on shipments to China the mei of until last summer of State Marshall the in u vain at- tempt to enforce a truce between the warring Nationalist and Com- Wind Rain and Snow Whip State City Escapes With Minor Damage Either Yours or Mine MADISON Wls Madison woman complained to police late yesterday that her neighbor was digging a hole in her lawn in an effort to pre- vent the high water from over- flowing on his lawn INVITE 14 TO PARLEY PARIS UD France and Great Britain have sent joint tations to 14 other European tries to take part m a Marshall plan conference on or about March 34 authoritative sources reported today Tries Suicide as Reds Start Czech Purge PRAGUE UP Dr Prokop Drtina minister of justice In the coalition cabinet ousted by Com- Premier Klement Gottwald was reported officially today to have suf feted a fractured skull in a suicide This was announced as Gottwald told delegates attending the opening of the National ant Union's congress that a com- plete of all reactionaries was necessary to tho new life In Tho Peasant congress was to meet in Prague with a mammoth review of police and the workers which aided Gottwald to power Officials continued to Impose re- on the press and ed them to Include a ban against all shortwave broadcasts by foreign correspondents Tho ministry of Information an- that 27 foreign language publications had been banned and more may be banned later whoso distribution in was prohibited wero the Baltimore Sun the Chicago nnd Time and Life forces Marshall himself Informed tho foreign relations committee on that tf 8 aid to China had been far greater than generally realized This was nn paient to the then secret details of tho air the senate foreign re- lations committee scheduled an un- usual Sunday session to determine what to follow on the new aid Theie wero strong that It may be I up with the first year's authorisation for tho European re- covery program on which senate will begin Monday Wife Charges Husband Spent Money Freely So She Wins Divorce Man led to n man who earns Iho money and will do as bo pleases with Mrs Eleanore 48 won n divorce day when Judge Roland J conducted the regular sion of circuit court In the absence of Judge Edward J Gent Tho an said Harold 41 kee was drunk once a week was moody threatened her and failed to provide for her needs They married in Chicago 111 July 6 nnd have no children Because Mrs Sylvia Armstrong MS til was associating with man her husband John n retired non- commissioned army officer won a on ft charge of adultery In lit July 27 Armstrong snld his wife be- gan going with another mnn white he was stationed at McCoy and the Milwaukee Detention racks They have no children Jealous mates weie cited In the cruel and inhuman com- plaints that won separations for Mrs Evelyn 38 woc and Mrs Elizabeth 20 of 849 Genesee st Waukesha said her husband Albert 43 had failed to her any money for years to assist Phyllis 18 and DonaM 17 was awarded a month alimony and support Mrs Mielke Clyde 31 Milwaukee had a fierce temper and continually found fault with her housekeeping was awarded custody of their child 4 It is necessary to expel without pardon all agents of and for- eign Gottwald said In his Meeting Buoys Plans or Airport Five Waukesha county men who svill play a vital roto In the future of local aviation today declared they had learned a lot about of successful ing tho second annual Wisconsin conference in keo this week Thla group they hoped to incorporate now Ideas Into tho Waukesha county field to Improve HP desirability Four of the men at the conference Vurnon M Caspar chairman of tho county board and Grover tln Chat lea Cole and Ed members of the highway committee control tho local airport They have been considering night lighting for the Hold since when it was authorized by supervisors Airlines Offer Holds Fifth of tho group Aid Harry Franson a member of tho building and grounds committee of the com- mon council said ho had taken time from tho conference to discuss tho future of aviation with of tho Wisconsin Central Airlines t was told they stand willing to fly to Waukesha and stop here any time the runways are ex- tended to feet from the ent claimed One of tho conference speakers Col Turner stressed of strong air power tho United States to ward off another war He claimed Russia Is Ing to build her air power to bring atomic bombs to us Turner vored universal military training and praised the efforts of tho late Gen Billy Mitchell of Milwaukee who advocated air power after World war I first major statement of official policy since his cabinet was in- stalled yesterday If somebody thinks that an ex- change of leaders is enough and otherwise everything may remain aa before he is mistaken On Feb 26 we closed one and began another pei iod In the life of the republic The defeat of reaction was ed Cuts Large Estates Gottwald called for Immediate legislation on land reform to bute large-sized estates among the people but promised there would bo no establishment of collective farms under his regime The attempted suicide of Drtina wan reported in a government an- which said he had been found suffering from a tured skull at under a Russian Grain Held as Threat Over Finland HELSINKI admitted today that Russia holds a powerful weapon in plies of Soviet grain which pre- would be cut off if the pact proposed by Generalissimo Josef Stalin were refused Most political leaders agree that for this reason alone if for no er Finland must send a delegation to Moscow to discuss the treaty of friendship and defense suggested by Stalin In a personal to ident Juho K Paasikivi Without Soviet wheat Finland would starve It was understood the treaty first was mentioned when a Finnish inet delegation visited Moscow last November Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov said then that such a pact was of the ance but members of the tion demurred on grounds they were not authorized to discuss it People Oppose Pact The proposed treaty is the main topic of conversation wherever Finns gather Political leaders as well as the man in the street are op- posed to a pact with Russia or any other country Newspapers in general reflect this view The Social gan that an enormous ity of Finns oppose such a pact Social Democrats ever since talks on the pact started have pointed out that a treaty is the newspaper said The conservative newspaper Uusi window of his flat in Prague Drtina was replaced yesterday as Justice minister by Communist who accused his pre- of failing to cooperate with police At today Dr Prokop Drtina former minister of justice found under tho window of his the government ment said His skull was fractured He was sent immediately to a hospital where he ia being attended Police Investigating on the spot and In the hospital found It was ed suicide He left a letter which confirmed tho attempt at suicide No More Action committees meanwhile continued to purge all phase s of Czechoslovak life Restrictions on reporting the news announced for correspondents were ex- tended to radio broadcasts Vladimir director of shortwave broadcasts for Radio Prague told foreign radio they would not bo mitted to make any new broadcasts until further notice Gottwald told the peasant gates that all property holdings of more than 50 hectares 123.554 acres would be distributed among the people We want tho constitution to tain a proviso that the land can be owned only by those who work on it so all talk of Kolchoz ive farms may be he said also opposed the treaty All political quarters except one roup emphasized the will of our people to remain outside high Uusi said In our country as well as in other countries a neutral attitude ias been considered the answer to he needs of our country as well as those of our neighbors The Independent Liberal gen It is clear cannot violate our ence and doesn't mean interfering in our internal affairs Some Finns felt it would be against the Finnish peace treaty to sign a pact with Russia even though Stalin pointed out that Finland is only one of eight Soviet bors with whom Russia does not have such a pact The Communist attitude favors the pact It is too early to discuss the ter as we do not know the a Communist representative said But what danger could to discuss a friendly Things other neighbors of the Soviet Union have done cannot be to Cardinal Attic Marks Fifth Birthday Tonight Cardinal Attic members will tho fifth birthday of the Attic tonight from to p.m In the YMCA gym The Cardinal Attic was started in by Paul Bower and Shirley Waukesha high school In cooperation with ler Rusch YMCA boys work tary Mrs Rolsted was the first hostess for the Attic Mrs Marvin Brisk has taken over her job and is now in her fourth year of work at tho Attic Committees and those who head them decorations Marlyn right publicity Dick Graf cor- sage Donna Guth stage tion nnd PA system Gordon er and Harold Frank The 48 will furnish the gram with Bob Heglund acting master of ceremonies Docs Toke Out Put In Surgery Left Towel in Her SAN MATED Cal Tho doctors thought Mm lian Arthur was joking when she complained something must been left inside of her after an operation two years ago But when they operated on the mother of six children yesterday they found a surgical towel inches in her abdominal cavity The towel boro the monogram rison Mem Hosp Bremerton Wash The towel neatly wrapped around Mrs Arthur's intestines wna found by Drs Henry Brown and Lawrence Martin who formed an exploratory operation to nnd out what was wrong with her Mrs Arthur had complained of and swelling since a operation two years when she gave birth to twins I went back to the clinic and she said and even jokingly suggested the doctor must have left his hat or his scissors in me Mrs Arthur's husband Frank threatened to sue the hospital for the mistake He said his wife had dropped from 250 to 150 pounds since the birth had submitted to scores of blood transfusions and had spent nearly in doctor bills since the caesarian was formed At Bremerton Dr Ray Schutt one of the physicians who at- tended Mrs Arthur said tori don't talk about things like this Anything can happen in an operation of this he ex- AH sponges placed in the abdominal cavity are counted But towels are so big usually don't count us Communist Minister of the rior Yrjoe Leino told an election meeting last Dec 3 that the est part of tha Finns desire an ex- tensive pact with Russia River Swells Near Flood Roads Sifted Except for suffering minor way damage Waukesha county caped almost unscathed from fury of the elements unleashed ing a change of weather conditions yesterday Mute evidence of an un- seasonable heavy rainfall however is the swollen Fox liver which is nudging the flood as it swirls through narrow gorges and spills placidly into low areas inundating gardens and farm fields Highway Commissioner Ed han said today the graveled ry roads were effected most by the torm Several places were washed away impeding but not blocking TAKES OVER DESK June terrier and one of the latest recruits at fire station No 1 is shown here all set to make an entry in the fire log Located on the desk near her are the two phones one of which registers the fire alarms and the for routine calls The phone nearest her is the one which signals the fire alarm nnd is equipped with cord Daisy June who has been with the ment nearly two years can distinguish the difference between the rings of the telephones Only when the fire alarm telephone rings will she dash foith and leap into the seat of the truck for the run Daisy June Rides fo Fires Teaches Prevention to Pup By Ferde Adams Freeman Staff Once a year the citizens in kesha and the rest of the country observe Fire Prevention week And then more often than not they quickly forget all they had been told But not so with Daisy June and Tony They have that canine in- ment manages to become serious on occasions He has evidently learned well tho lesson of carelessness even though he cannot read reports in the various fire association zines If anyone within reach lows a lighted to dangle from his fingers Tony will im- stinct to protect themselves as well mediately paw the lighted ashen Chum to Conduct Jacobson Rites Funeral services for Marcus A Jacobson 69 prominent Waukesha attorney will be held at his resi dence 109 N East ave at 2 p m Monday under the direction of the Rev Dan Williams pastor of the Presbyterian church at Wausau Interment will be made in Prairie Home cemetery Pallbearers will be six Waukesha county City Atty ard S a law partner of the deceased Diet Atty Homer J Williams John Buckley dent of the county bar association Municipal Judge Scott Lowry Richard S Hunter and Leon L Brenner The body IB being taken to the residence today under the direction of the Arthur D Gaspar funeral home and friends may call at the Jacobson home after 4 p m The body will be held in state until the time of services Williams who will officiate at the funeral was born in Wales and was a close friend of Jacobson while both attended Waukesha high school He had charge of a large church at St Petersburg Fla for many years before assuming con- trol of the Presbyterian tion at Wausau recently Numerous messages of lence are being received by the cobson family during their ment and it is expected that a host of leading lawyers and jurists from Wisconsin and adjoining states will be in for the funeral In his honor flags at the city hall and courthouse were lowered to half mast this morning and will continue to be flown hiere until Tuesday Weather Forecast WISCONSIN Snow north and cloudy south portion tonight Colder night partly cloudy colder south and east ishing winds Minimum to 7 U Temperature here M tow 29 Temperature range bert a year high low 2 LOCAL HOURLY Hour 7 I as others Daisy June is a old fox terrier of sorts and Tony is her offspring Both have become honorary members of the Waukesha fire de- Daisy June formerly owned by a veteran at hospital is a well-mannered pooch who has become one of the fixtures of the lead truck at No 1 fire station Tony meanwhile is a rapscallion pup who considers playing with a ball more worthwhile than being on duty However his friends at the fire station are not ing too much concern about Tony knowing that he will no doubt grow up one of these days so that he may take over when Daisy June ceases to be so active Lead Truck Daisy June has been in a fire department two years She was a well-trained dog but ly her master could not keep dog while hospitalized so the men adopted Daisy The terrier lost little time in catching on to the routine of the fire station Soon she noticed when the boys had to make a run The first couple of times she away from the trucks But after some coaxing she learned to on to the seat of the first truck out Only once did she leave that point of vantage at a fhe She was called on this misbehavior at once Now she will remain perched on the seat and a light of pride in her eyes as her buddies ex- the blaze After the return trip to the tion Daisy June remains on the seat until she is ordered by one of the department members to come down Can Detect Alarm Phone Daisy June is miraculous in more ways than one For instance she can determine the difference be- tween the ring of the telephone which sounds a fire alarm and that of the other telephone used for routine calls The alarm tele- phone has a red cord while the other has the conventional black cord She doesn't bother herself when the black corded telephone rings but she is up on her feet in a ment when the red corded phone shrills As firemen swing into tion Daisy June leaps onto the scat of the set for the run However it took Daisy June a little time to get used to the routine of the department in the morning hours At precisely 8 both trucks are started and tested When she first came to the department Daisy June would leap on the truck all set for the run She soon learned that this was just a part of testing equipment Now when the trucks are started at 8 o'clock she remains unperturbed The little fox terrier is an ing character She will sit at a table and paw through a telephone tory or magazine But she won't do so unless given a pair of es to Tony Snuffs Out Cigarets Her offspring Tony although a rascal forever from the cigaret and then stomp them out He will also snuff out a carelessly thrown lighted match Tony is not permitted to on he trucks at the station and the only time he will go near the two vehicles Is to retrieve his ball When an alarm is sounded and the rucks started Tony will scamper away to a corner and remain there until they return Tony's a Chow Hound Table manners of the two dogs vary too according to the nen Tony always manages to jet first choice with his aking over when her offspring is And more often than not Tony manages to consume all the food When eating out of someone's hand Tony has the nasty habit of icking one's hand or fingers But Daisy June always the lady takes he food daintily never touching fingers On the whole Daisy June chooses Lo relax under the desk where she is near the telephone while Tonj is more apt to sniffing at the locker in which his ball is always wanting someone to play with him H 19 mother and erf tat depart PLANT MANAGER KILLED KENOSHA E Long 60 general works mana ger of the Nash Motors division o Nash was killed las night and two other men were in jured when their automobil crashed into a freight train thre miles west of here Thermometer Is Stuck There was nothing difficult about keeping the official today at the water de- After registering a minimum of 33 degrees be- tween midnight and 7 the thermometer stayed at 33 de- grees for the next five hours Two main highways were flooded Highway 30 near and Highway 18 near Wales Lights were placed to warn motorists who were able to drive through the standing without danger if hey moved slowly All washouts will be repaired by county crews today and it is an- traffic will move normally as soon as have had a chance to drain their overload of water Crews remained in service ate last night in an effort to pre- vent accidents and to keep debris from clogging drainage structures Follows Rain The station of the cooperative weather observer at the Waukesha water utility reported today it ured 1.29 inches of rain yesterday 1 of an inch of rain thia morning and a coating or 5 of an inch snow before noon Starting slowly the rain reached a peak of intensity late yesterday and stopped about midnight when a dense fog shrouded this area as a warm southern wind shifted temporal ily into this aiea In the city an overloaded tary sewer serving Perkins avenue and The Strand caused water to seep into several basements It reached a depth of about three feet in the Second Ward tavern so a crew was sent to pump the cellar before the firebox of tha furnace was flooded or fixtures damaged Fox Kiver in Gardens The Fox river although greatly swollen and pouring vigorously over the dam in Frame park has not threatened residential areas around Bethesda park yet Some hold gardens are under water but basements are not affected The gate of the dam has been open for several days so the level of the river upstream has been lower than customary before the rain affected it yesterday a high wind few trees were broken and none caused age or stopped traffic The consin Telephone co said it had suffered only minor trouble because of cables being soaked and the Wisconsin Gas and Electric co said electrical wires were affected in the Arcadian avenue area only Only one accident occurred ing this strange phenomenon of weather Julius Mayer Milwaukee skidded and overturned on Highway 18 four miles west of Waukesha day He was alone and escaped in- Mayer was going west when his car left the concrete struck the soft shoulder on a curve and over- turned when it began to skid The automobile was driven from the scene after being righted by a wrecker Floods in South Snow in North Plague Citizens Flood waters swept over wide areas of central and southern consin today while in the north fierce blizzards brought as much as 21 inches of snow Turbulent weather conditions will be quieted tonight by colder ther which will foice the mercury to five degrees above zero in the north and 15 above in the south Sunday will be colder and cloudy After 24 hours of rain and snow here skies began to clear shortly before noon and the mercury ed downward Darlington Flooded Rampaging waters of the tonica river overflowed the lington business district today and residents of the Lafayette county community described it aa the worst flood since 1938 The river exceeded the 16 foot gauge mark and spread out over the community of residents Stores in the northern section of town in the business district wero filled with as much as six inches of water and employes be- gan clearing merchandise from basements yesterday afternoon Workers at feed companies also spent the night moving flour bags Garages were forced to move cars that were parked in the flood re- gion Many homes were without heat while temperatures were near freezing ground was blamed for tho rapid flood which overflowed the land because it was unable to seep into the earth Other Towns Threatened High water also threatened er communities in Greea and Iowa counties but Darlington was reported the hardest hit la Lafayette county four feet of water covered the fair grounds Highway 20 in Green county was reported closed at Dill by high water and west bound trains stopped at Juda and Hanover in the county The northern area was in the throes of a fierce blizzard that saw 21 inches of new snow fall at Park Falls and snowfall of six and seven inches at Wausau and Green Bay Blizzard with gales to 80 miles an hour proportion so lashed the state's northern tions 1.19 Inches of precipitation yesterday was tha most in a single day since last Local YMCA to Be Hosf Midwest Teen Center A two-day teen center for youths from six midwestern states will be held in Waukesha March it was announced today by Marvin Lotz YMCA boys work secretary Lotz said he believes this is the first such conference ever held Invitations have been sent to 275 youth centers In Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota North and South Dakota and Illinois to draw gates to Waukesha Purpose of conference is to establish a mini- mum set of recommendations and standards for the operation of teen centers throughout the midwest Representatives from the various centers will come to Waukesha fully intent upon setting up a youth ter code and prepared to take back ideas and youth interests exchanged in the two-day conference Seek Youth Program In stating that we're starting from Lotz the need for thia type of activity throughout the nation ao that the youth of this country will find an interesting and well-rounded gram to supply their need for activity outside of school In charge of the teen conference is the boys work headed by Russell F Lewis schools youth Scanlan Diet Atty Homer J liams and L H VanAlstine as porting members Members of the Cardinal Attic will act as hosts and registrars for the 250 youths ex- for the meeting Addresses by men outstanding in the field of youth activities are scheduled for the meetings and banquets Some of the notables are Ralph Kuhli director of the state board of health Carl Taylor ident of the Waukesha State bank Ray Vance head of the YMCA in Racine and Douglas Monahan state program secretary for the Illinois YMCA Prepare Sports Hobbies Tentative plans have been made to the banquets and meetings at the Methodist church while er activities will be held at the YWCA and YMCA Youth tees in Waukesha have been pre- paring sport and hobby programs for the incoming delegates The egates in turn will offer new ideas so that a pool of youthful inter- ests will be formed The boys work sub-committee has contacted local service Rations churches and parents of high school students to provide sleeping facilities for the most in a single September Driving Is Hazardous Warnings ware issued over the state to drivers who were told to avoid all but essential trips ways were covered with sleet and snow and heavy drifting and ing snow made driving hazardous Telephone lines were down last night In Adams and Waushara counties and heavy winds and snows in the areas disrupted communications Heavy rains yesterday sent rents of water surging across low areas in Madison and Dane ty causing heavy property damage and forcing 50 University of consin student families to evacuate their trailer camp homes Madison firemen police and Red Cross and University of Wisconsin workers evacuated about half of the families from the trailer camp after an ice jammed culvert sent flood into their community on the outskirts of the city Families were rescued by boats or carried through the water which reached depths of five feet in places The families who were quartered in downtown hotels university idence halls and with friends last night were expected to move back into their homes today The Galena river in northwestern Illinois backed into the town of Galena early today and F W chairman of the local flood control committee predicted that the town would suffer its worst flood In history Galena's main street was covered by four to five feet of water early today and said the flood still had not reached Its crest The town is a few miles from the Mississippi river County Board to Meet Briefly on March 9 The Waukesha county board of supervisors will meet Tuesday March 9 at 10 in the house according to a call issued day by Chairman Vernon M par The session will be devoted to all unfinished business and to any new matters supervisors wish to discuss This March meeting has been customary for many years It will end the official year of county board work concluding the fall sion Supervisors will be recalled again in April to begin a new year with the spring session The pending session is expected to be brief because few important matters are on the calendar Super- visors may be asked to appropriate a fund for the new county school so it fran complete an investigation of county district that was fast
