Waukesha Freeman, The (Newspaper) - September 6, 1944, Waukesha, Wisconsin THE WAUKESHA VOL 36 WAUKESHA WIS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1944 SUBSCRIPTION SINGLE COPT 5 CENTS American Troops Cross G ARMY PLAN TO SEND SOME GI'S HOME REVEALED By REUEL S MOORE WASHINGTON The department Wednesday revealed plans based on principles of justice and impartiality laid down by G I Joe himself for gradually reducing the size of the after Germany is whipped and returning a substantial number of nonessential surplus soldiers to civilian life under an individual priority system The priority on length of service service overseas combat credit and parenthood apply to all theaters and continental United States But although military ments in Europe will be ly curtailed when Germany has been beaten the war against Japan will still be going on the war de- emphasized and that war will receive first in thing including men and the ships to move them To the Pacific To the Pacific theater the war department said will be trans- ported millions of fighting men millions of tons of landing barges guns tanks planes and food The priority system which will be used both in selecting surplus men for return to the United States and m selecting those to be dis- charged was evolved by experts who were sent into the field to obtain a cross-section of the ments of enlisted men After Germany's defeat an ted service rating card will be sued to all enlisted personnel On it will be scored four factors which will determine priority of Service Card 1 Service upon the total number of months of army service since Sept 16 1940 2 Overseas upon the number of months served over- seas 3 Combat upon the first and each additional award to the individual of the medal of honor distinguished service cross legion of merit silver star flying cross medal bronze star medal air medal purple heart and bronze service battle participation 4 Parenthood credit which gives credit for each dependent child under IS years up to a limit of three children The value of the point credits be announced after cessation of hostilities in Europe Ships to Pacific The return of surplus men to the United States will depend on the number of ships available A of going to Europe the war department said will con- on to the Pacific laden with troops and supplies for that distant campaign The readjustment and partial demobilization plan also will be applied in active theaters like the southwest Pacific Men from such theaters picked on the same vidual basis will be returned to the United States as rapidly as re- placements of the same type be- come available and the military situation The plan will apply similarly to troops stationed in the United States Although these troops will serve as the main reservoir of re- placements for overseas duty be- cause in general their priority scores will be lower than those of men who had overseas and combat Officers Jn the case of officers military necessity alone will determine which ones are n on essential the war department said tial officers be released as they can be The priority plan will work in the same way for members of the men's army corps except that the 3 More Cases of Polio in Milwaukee Three new cases of infantile paralysis were reported in kee Wednesday but the city of kesha still remained unaffected by the disease it was disclosed by Dr F M Scheele health commissioner The quarantine continues un- changed for all children under 18 of age Dr Scheele said all children under quarantine will be barred from church and Sunday school services as well as all other public places Signs appeared on many business places in Waukesha requesting children to stay out Memorial hospital and the three theaters here joined in this ban No further violations of the quarantine were by city or county of- Winston Brown county tendent of schools said all in the towns of New Berlin Delafield Lisbon nee Pewaukee Merton have been reported to him to be closed for an indefinite period He said there may be other schools closed but they have not been reported to him All village schools in the county are closed he said Joining the closing of schools was woc city where classes were to be- gin Wednesday for the quarantine to be lifted some teachers who came to Waukesha are working at the court house for the ration board When the quarantine was placed under 18 several employes of the ration board were forced to quit their jobs leaving the board with the difficult problem on their hands of issuing the new A gas ration books The teachers took the place of the pupils and got the board back on schedule A fashion show was to be held at the Elks club Monday and Tuesday of next week was cancelled in cooperation with health ties Lyle Ellis manager of department store announced Wednesday Ellis said that fully half of the show had been intended to attract girls of the high school and college age group All ticket holders may obtain a refund by calling at the store with their tickets he said ROMANIANS AND HUNGARIANS AT WAR NAZIS SAY Milwaukee now par victims while suburban wood's total remained at 26 with one suspected case Other county cases are Whitefish Bay two and the city of West Allis and the town of Wauwatosa one each Lt R G Lapenta and Ens ham Weckstein epidemiologists from Great Lakes naval center began work Wednesday with Dr Sidney D Kramer gan state polio expert in his gation of the epidemic in wood SWEDEN TO KEEP OUT POLITICAL REFUGEES will not grant asylum to war criminals Minister of Social Affairs Gustav Moeller said Wednesday Outlining his government's policy for the first time Moeller pointed out that Sweden kept her frontiers open to all seeking refuge and 000 are now in the country During this war he continued there have been com- mitted terrible deeds of such nature that hardly anybody would have thought in a world calling itself civilized Such deeds were committed above all in occupied countries Many people knowing they are responsible for actions which shocked the mind and sense of tice of ordinary people and which can not be justified by ments of war will try to escape to neutral countries in order to elude punishment i LONDON Berlin broad casts reported Wednesday tha Romania and Hungary were a war and that Russian troops ha struck into Bulgaria despite a Sofi plea for an armistice less than sev en hours after Moscow declare war The turmoil prevailing in th Balkans since the Axis satellite began abandoning the Germans was intensified according to th Berlin accounts to the point o pitting the former Hungarian an Romanian Allies against one an other A transocean news agency dis patch from Budapest quoted an of announcement that had broken out between the Ro manians and Hungarians No Surprise The announcement of war be Hungary and Romania cam surprise Their alliance un der the influence of the swastika was one of convenience No soone was it broken than they were locked in bitter recriminations ove Transylvania border province an to Hungary by Nazi agree ment Romania broke with Germany a few days ago and King Michael an that his country was cast ing its lot with the Allies Another conflict was reported go ing on directly to the south where the Nazis said Soviet forces im a declaration of war against Bulgaria had crossed the border into the country long at war with Britain and the United States but not with Russia Battle Soviets Berlin said German forces went into action with the Bulgarians and weer engaging Soviet armor in lent battles in the coastal and er areas A transocean broadcast said the opening of hostilities between gary and Romania was announced at Budapest tonight The announcement recalled the alleged penetration of Romanian troops into Hungary at the end of August and early this month as well as King Michael's tion saying that Romania did noi recognize the cession of northern Transylvania to Hungary Events provoked by Romania forced the Hungarian army com- mand to give the order for the de- fense of the country's frontiers said The statement siad Hungary de- sired free collaboration with Ro- mania but it became impossible because of the attitude of a's leaders recently and now Bulgarian capitulation to a threat of Red army invasion followed closely on Russia's declaration of war tacitly demanded Bulgarian armed support in the fight against Germany A Bulgarian delegation to the Russian legation in Sofia with a formal armistice from Premier Constantin government United Press dispatches from Moscow early today said news of he armistice appeal had not yet been published in the press or confirmed officially WEATHER Scattered Irost tonight ing and cooler with diminishing winds tonight Thursday fair Warmer and a little warmer east portions Minimum temperature here midnight to 1 a m 59 Temperature range here High 78 low 58 Temperature range here one year High low 52 Local Hourly Temperatures Hour il Men of Division Escape Trap Set for Them by Japs From the Southwest Pacific came one of the most matic stories of the war involving WAGS will be treated as a separate men of the infantry division group Moreover a WAC whose husband has been discharged will be released upon application Even though found nonessential under the plan no man who wants to stay in the army will be forced out if he can be usefully em- ployed Navy Increase WASHINGTON Even if Germany should collapse before the end of year the navy is ning on increasing its personnel strength it was learned Wednesday Present plans call for a total of men by Dec 31 with ad- authority to add more men during the first six months of 1945 Previously the navy had been authorized to bring its strength up to but that figure was surpassed last July the Navy is preparing demobilization plans it was stood that there is no chance of early release of large numbers of men However it is already the release of cers and enlisted personnel if their officers certify that re- placements will not be to which nine Waukesha men are attached According to the account which was passed by military censor the main body of the division withdrew into a jungle to allow artillery a chance to lay a barrage of fire into a Japanese concentration of troops in the foothills of northern New Guinea A small detachment was left to fight a rear guard tion The detachment was atop a small knoll and when at ten o'clock at night they received orders to withdraw they discovered that the Japanese had completely ed them Yanks Surrounded Captain Henry G Tabor son rf Mr and Mrs William B Tabor Kansas 111 commanding officer of the rear guard detachment learned of their perilous position before the call came for them to withdraw The jabbering of Jap's could be plainly heard all around the Captain Tabor realized it would be suicide to try and break through ambush in the darkness so he formed a perimeter of de- fense and awaited the attack that he was sure would come with the dawn There were no communication 10 headquarters They had a small field radio but this could only be heard by the observer in his cub plane when he was ly above them As the cub circled over them Captain Tabor ordered artillery fire placed around the knoll in hopes of blasting out the Japs However he soon had to cind this order because shrapnel from artillery shells were covering the area about his men It looked like all was Wait for Attack Captain Tabor burned his er's picture destroyed his silver bars of a captain and instructed his men to destroy or all that they did not wish to fall into the hands of Japs The men prayed silently While waiting for the Japs to attack they heard of rifles and machine guns in the valley below them At first they thought was an American patrol come to their rescue but they heard no fire from American weapons and soon Japs were fighting between themselves having en each other for American troops When the firing stopped the moaning and cursing of the Nips began A hardened private kissed the picture of his wife Men who had never prayed before found ace in prayer and fell un- ashamedly Staff Sergeant William Whelan ca Esss U Patton Prepares for SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AEF can combat troops haVe invaded German soil for the first time in history a an undisclosed point and have smashed across the Moselle river in a drive toward the Siegfried line which a staff officer said Wednesday the Allies of course can break United States patrols stabbed across the German border into the Nazi homeland and returned to France after a ing mission as Lt Gen George S Patton massed his 3rd army for coming blows at the Siegfried line Only after the Armis- tice did Americans cross the Reich borders in the last war Channel Port Battle On the opposite wing of the western front the battle of the channel ports whirled toward a climax Canadian troops reached the coast on both sides of Calais clamping a pincers on the town swarmed into the outskirts of Boulogne and struck within some 20 miles of Dunkerque United Press Correspondent Robert C Richards reported from the 3rd army front that German resistance had as the Americans burst through the Moselle river line in the Pont-A-Mousson area midway between Metz and Nancy Supreme headquarters cautioned against taking the patrol thrust into Germany to mean that the assault on the Nazi homeland had begun A headquarters broadcast to foreign workers in Germany however said that the collapse of the German armies in the west means that tles soon will be fought on German soil Can Crack Siegfried Coincident with the official tion that Patton's operations still were m the buildup stage and en- countering increased resistance a CIVIC LEADER SENT TO PRISON Carroll Werner 40 former ian defense program leader in kego Center and spiritualist preacher pleaded guilty to three morals charges Wednesday and was sentenced to not less than two years or more than ten years in state's prison at Waupun Sentence vas imposed by Municipal Judge Scott Lowry Werner was hended July 23 after he allegedly showed obscene pictures to minors and committed another immoral of- ense involving minors Werner was a Spiritualist preacher for 16 years and ears ago was ordained a st minister told authorities he lad at one time been married but hat the marriage had since been annulled Before his arrest Werner vas living at the home of his mother and step-father Werner once a commercial artist in O Since then he has been unemployed Vincent Collins attorney for the defendant entered a plea of guilty or Werner on the three charges our obscene pictures from a set f 12 and a book of obscene ures and prose was filed as exhibits and these were ordered by the to be Recommends Sentence District Attorney Leon L ler recommended a sentence of one o five years for the first two and one to five years to run with the first ence for the second charge ns told the court that since the leading to the of Werner all occurred on ne night the sentence should run The district at- orney said that all the boys Verner showed the pictures to and ie immoral offenses were under the age of 16 and hat all incidents did not take place n the same location or at the same senior staff officer made the un- equivocal Of course the Allies can break the Siegfried primary de- fense belt of Germany proper Lacking official information it was believed the American frontier crossing was made somewhere in the area of Thionville just south of Luxembourg By forcing the Moselle the hurdled the last river barrier west of trie German frontier Ahead of them was no major obstacle to interfere with a full dress push into Germany and the Siegfried defense zone Nazis Hold Out Far behind the fighting front the German garrisons of Brest and Le Havre still were holding out despite heavy bombing Another tum was delivered to the Le Havre garrsion Wednesday after Royal Air force heavy bombers saturated the force of some diehards with more than tons of bombs late Tuesday About 300 Marauders and Havocs of the U S 9th Arr force hit Brest again Wednesday attacking in 16 waves for an hour The bombers hit gun positions strong points and ammunition dumps in the fifth strike at the base since Sept 1 The Canadians reached the out- skirts of Boulogne after an advance in the face of artillery fire An Germans were man- ning the Boulogne defenses Swing Inland At the same time other Canadian swung inland round logne and reached the coast on each side of Calais It was possible that the column east of Calais would continue along the last miles of the coast road to Dunkerque Headquarters revealed that the mop-up of a big pocket southwest of Mons had yielded ers and the total might go ably higher The cleanup of the nocket was essential to the advance of the U S 1st army since it was too big to leave indefinitely The 3rd army was reported to have en prisoners and killed Germans The rout of the German armies in the low countries was in full swing as units of the American 1st and British 2nd armies linked up beyond Antwerp to drive an armored wedge deep into Holland Unconfirmed reports said the Allied columns were across the Rhine estuary within sight of Rotterdam after an advance of almost 60 miles from Antwerp Front reports said the Nazis were fleeing in wild disorder with sands surrendering daily as Allied troops cut across therr line of re- treat GI'S SEEK NAMES OF DOUGHBOY and men in France look for names of and relatives in cemetery for American dead of World War r at Belleau Wood Acme Telephoto Frame park will be enlarged if an offer of the common council to Mrs Mary 116 Wright street for six lots on Corrinna blvd is it was disclosed Tuesday night at a meeting of the common council The city is offering Mrs Ryan for the lots along the Fox Reveal Theft of 7 Coupons from Pewaukee Station The filling station of James in Pewaukee was robbed of A B and C gasoline ration coupons good for gallons last week it was revealed Wednesday by Ackley He said the thieves had smashed in a small door in the rear of tho station used in gasoline deliveries by drivers and took a GOO x 16 auto- mobile tire Skippy's a hot dog and ment stand next door to the filling station was also entered prcsumab- river adjoining Frame park on the j thc same thieves and re- moved from a contribution bottle It was suggested that a building be erected on pai t oC the aiea to be used as a stotage place for recreational and paik ment What could be clone with the remainder of the property was not decided Blair Re-elected Henry E Blair ho has served on the Waukesha water ion continuously since 1922 vss re- elected again Tuesday night by the council Blair who will be 82 years old next January is believed to be the oldest city official and one of the most prominent He was ed mayor of in 1922 and with his election became nn ex- officio member of the water de- He retired fi om the post in 1926 and was by R Butler but retained position as a water commissioner From 1926 until 1036 Blair served as chairman of the Commission a position now held by Jay G Lamg Union Scalp Wages The council Tuesday were told that wage scales suggested for the work which will be done in the subdivision where 30 war units will be built will conform with the union scale plicable to The ranging fiom to per hour were established by the of public woi ks and will be submitted to the contractor who will do the grading for cigarettes for service men it was reported Candy and tes were also stolen It was also reported that an at- tempt had been made a week be- fore to enter the stand during thu night Sheriff Martin E Fiomm re- ported that the case was being in- by deputies DRIVE TO JOIN UNITS IN FRANCE me Before sentence was pronounced Verner said I need to be punished nd I want it known that I hold no for anyone who has been with this case I throw myself on the mercy of the court FIRST RAINFALL OF MONTH HERE TUESDAY Waukesha experienced its first rainfall of September Tuesday night and early Wednesday ing- when precipitation measured 23 of an inch according to ial readings Rain fell in various of consin from one to two inches bringing a general ment in crops Frost was predicted for the ern section of Wisconsin day night but the temperature was not expected to drop below 50 de- grees rn Waukesha MANITOWOC SOLDIER KILLED MANITOWOC of two Manitowoc area youths today dis- closed they had been notified by the war department that their sons have been killed in France Pvt G Hynek 19 son of Mr and Mrs Charles HyenK Rapids died Aug 13 and Pvt Gordon B Thone of Mrs Olaf Thone Clark Mills lost his We Aug 18 ROME UP American and French forces herding the battered German 19th army up the Saone valley into the Belfort escape gap funneling into the Reich drove to within less than 65 miles of the American forces in northern France Wednesday French forces occupied 37 miles south of Dijon while Americans captured St eight miles southeast of Chalon-sur-Saone Both towns were little more than 100 Belfort but farther east the had captured Saunier 80 miles southwest of fort The advance of Lt Gen der M 7th army up the Saone valley was virtually SARAH J PLOUT OF NORTH PRAIRIE DIES Sarah Jane Plout 77 died at home in North Prairie Wednesday morning She is survived by two daughters Mrs John Johnson and Mrs Sherman two sons William Plout Jr and John Plout two two law and four services will be held Fti day at 2 p m from the Powers funeral home at Mukwonago ment will be in tnc Oak Ridge cemetery East Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday afternoon and evening and Thursday DONALD M NELSON ARRIVES IN CHINA M Nelson head of the war production board and Maj Gen Patrick J Hurley President Roosevelt's saries to China arrived Wednesday They were accompanied by Gen Joseph W commander of U S ccs rn China India and Burma Nelson's visit was the subject of much speculation It was the eral opinion that he would survey China's needs and potentialities as a postwar market with a view io creating an outlet for American heavy industry and aiding China's A large transport plane carrying the was met at a suburban by American and Chinese officials NG BEGUN ALLOW GASOLINE FOR CAMPAIGN MANAGERS W A S H I N managers of political dates for stale or federal offices will be given tion equivalent to a B book the office of price administration an- Wednesday This allowance amount to 325 miles a month on the east coast JOO miles on thp west coast and 475 miles m all other sections of the and will last only until the general election Nov 7 DULUTH fire broke out in a Tuesday 330 customers carried their food and eating utensils into the street they finished their meals calmly while watching the fight the blaze Yanks on Guam Who Dug Own Graves Bayoneted by Japs By Charles Arnof GUAM Aug natives on Guam known as underwent flogging torture and even death to set up a rude ound to posed by the Germans but actual shelter Radioman George Ray location of the foremost elements Tweed and five other U S of troops was kept secret Contact Reported Unconfirmed Swiss radio reports heard in London and a CBS cast from France said units of the 7th army and Lt Gen S Patton's 3rd army had made con- tact in an undisclosed area of central France Officially the gap between the two forces was 65 miles but elements of both armies probably were several miles beyond the points announced in communiques Fiench troops who have met most no opposition in the race up the Saone swept through the towns of Cluny and and reached the approaches of the Chalon-sur-Saone nine miles north of The drive encompassed a advance up Highway Six fiom con where the Fiench were HO northern Allied operator and rancher Limtiaco 42 garage owner and dealer and other natives formed an underground railroad with stations consisting of native homes caves woods and other hideouts Carnacho and Limtiaco said one man who hid Tweed was jailed Tweed was sent to the home of an- other who later was beaten to death by the Japanese Father Jesus n Catholic priest who knew the whereabouts of the Americans and gave them a radio he had den from the Japanese has not been RAYMOND HOEFS 34 who went into hiding when the anese invaded and captured the land The stoiy behind Tweed's game of deadly with the Japanese was told today at Third Amphibious ters by two of the natives who did most to aia him Hid Navy They to hide the navy men too But those five not have Tweed's fortune cording to the Chamorros two weir shot to death fiom ambush The three were forced to dig their own graves then were bayoneted to and pitched in They were Radioman 1C Alfred J Tyson San Diego Calif Mate 1C Yeoman 1C Chief Aerographer Anthur W Jones Fla and Chief Machinist Michael L Kiump half-drowned and fed only rice and obel N C war production board with approval Wednesday began ing out details of its reconversion program un- der which in the words of the source almost anything the public wants will return to the market six or seven months after Germany's defeat The plan which WPB itself termed was announced Tuesday night by acting chairman J A Krug who said that industry would be allowed to make ever people want after Germany surrenders with no restrictions ex- cept those necessary to bring about swift defeat of Janan Blanket Authority The Krug who was given blanket authority by dent Roosevelt less than two weeks ago to run production saw fit said the program was designed to make swift new jobs for an ated work workers who will be thrown out of employment when Germany falls Industry is to be allowed in its own way according to the ability of markets men materials and plants to do the swiftest and most effective job possible of re- storing production making ever people want and maximum employment just as quickly as Krug declared Follow Nazi Collapse But meanwhile an informed source high in government said the anticipated minimum 40 per cent cutback that will follow a German collapse should start many civilian items rolling off sembly lines in from one to seven months He pointed out that radios may be one of the first items to reach the public because a mere eight per cent cutback in the industry would free facilities and manpower to turn out the in- at levels War caused a expansion of the industry Car Production Other equally informed sources estimated that some passenger car manufacturers should be in from 90 to 120 days after the end of the war in Europe It was emphasized however that a crimp could be put in the whole civilian production program rf any unexpected ages suddenly developed while the war against Japan was in progress Mrs Harriett Wilder Dies Tuesday Night Services on Friday Mrs Harriett J Wilder age 78 years passed away at her home 910 E Broadway Tuesday evening She is survived by one son T G Wilder of Waukesha two grand- sons Perry Wilder in the army in the Pacific and Rollin Wilder of Waukesha and one ter Mrs Olive R Helmuth of cago She was the widow of Edwin M Wilder She was a member of the Methodist church and the Womens club services will be Friday at 2.30 p m from the Randle eral home Rev 0 L Merritt of the Methodist church officiating with interment in Prairie Home cemetery Friends may call at the Randle funeral home after p m dav since July 12 of this year He is hphcved to have been beheaded Arrested Beaten Camacho said the Japanese ar- rested him frequently beating him with barrel staves whips and him by the treatment in attempts to make him talk Limtiaco who also knew Tweed's whereabouts and helped to hide him was imprisoned from August to October 1942 He said he Vas beaten kicked hung by his hands and treated like a punching bag salt rn a vain effort to make Jaim DIES HERE TUESDAY Raymond Hoefs 34 Tuesday after an illnes of 20 years He is survived by his mother Mrs Hulda Hoefs of Waukesha and two ers Howard and Ervin also of Waukesha Funeral services will be held day atj 2 p m from St Luke's eran church with the Rev L Glen Cloninger officiating Burial will be in the Prairie Home cemetery Tho body will lie in stats at the Erling Larsen funeral home 7 p m Wednesday until a m Friday it will be taken to cburch
