Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - May 19, 1942, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin YOU WONT NEED A TENT IF YOU USE A TO A CONSTR Rapids NEWS P P E SOME ONE WANTS THOSE IN YOUR AD- VERTISE THEM IN THE WANT Twenty-Ninth 8861. Wisconsin May 19, 1942. Single Copy Five Cents DECORATE LEADER OF JAP RAID China Sounds Note of Alarm Convoy Lands Tens of Thousands of Fresh American Troops in Northern Ireland BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT SCORED IN PARLIAMENT London Insurgent bers of the house of commons de- manded today that Prime Minister Churchill personally appear in the house to answer charges of ness In the war Voice Angry Criticism The insurgents smashed the even tenor of a war debate with angry criticism of the opening statement by Clement R. dominions who told tne house that the possibility of opening a western front against Germany in our but that move on the board is conditioned by trans- port Clement Opposition Sir John Conservative John Me Independent and even mild-mannered Oliver Conservative and former secretary of state for joined in the clamor against the war policy of Churchill's Prime Minister Churchill did not take part in the which ranged from the battles in Soviet Russia to Australia and Burma and Says People Want Attack the people wish to know is that the government is mined to deliver a great attack on the enemy in the Arthur former minister out had The people are he in order give the Soviet union ever increasing and powerful and also take initiative against on territories overrun by his panzer may be sure that ity is in our minds and that it is in the minds of the German high Attlee Transport matter of sea transport is a constant he is no need to remind the government that this is a tender the best will in the world cannot always get the forces we to the place we desire at the time we This was particularly true in the Pacific and Indian ocean he but he reminded the house that Ceylon had been forced and declared are doing all we can to strengthen our forces in Suggests War Conference The suggestion that a round ble conference be held at by President Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin was advanced by Labor member John H. who said something would have to be done to create closer unity with Investigation of Water Lighting Commission To Open Wednesday The Wisconsin public service commission will open an in- into the operation of the Wisconsin Rapids water and commission at 9 a.m. in the city hall an inquiry ordered by the commission at the instigation of Mrs. Irma Schroeder and 108 other citizen of a petition asking that an investigation conducted in While there has been no definite indication of the scope of the f Italian Clamor or Territories Bothers re- outburst of Italian press tation for French territories as a reward for Italian participation in the war has confronted Germany with a grave political problem at a moment when she is striving to win French military cooperation and bending every energy toward the struggle on the eastern was the clamor of Fascist crowds before the but none of these claims has yet been The present insistence of the Italian press that at least some of these territories be turned over now is the strongest since the armistice was signed in 1940. Adding to Germany's problems are similar territorial squabbles be- tween Rumania and and between Spain and Foreign observers believe that formal representations already have been made by Italy and that a it will presumably be mainly with transmit ted to the commission in the form of a letter by Mrs. Schroeder under date of April 11, 1942. Amends Original Petition The letter fulfilled a commission request for more detailed informa tion than was contained in the original petition circulated by Mrs Schroeder late in and which stated only that the signers be the local commission bear In her which served as an amendment to the Mrs Schroeder listed principally as F. L. manager of the water and light department and Charles department were both members of the commission when they were under consideration as departmental em- a former alderman for both his services as an alderman and as a sion member during his George currently a ber of the likewise drew pay as a member of the com- mission and as an alderman during a period when he served on both council and Reinhard presently both alderman and drawing for services in both Another complaint by Mrs. Schroeder recites that she was told she not at a com- mission The complaint listing does not mention either Mayor William T. president of the nor Alex sion Engage Legal Counsel Mrs. Schroeder said today she would be represented at the ing by Atty. W. J. Conway and that she would testify if called upon by the She said she did not know whether other signers of the petition would make appearances as Commissioners Robert Damitz and Knuth will be sented by Atty. Hugh W. who will also appear as counsel for Atty. M. S. King will represent Manager The public service commission members are Reuben W. Robert A. Nixon and F. It was that the investigation would be conducted by an examiner for the commission and that a script of the testimony and any exhibits entered would be studied for a finding Second Hearing May 28 The hearing will be the first of two scheduled this month by the state commission in connection with affairs of the municipal The second will be held at the city hall May 28 at 9 a.m. on complaint of 55 users of electricity on the line of the local utility which serves the Kellner area east of The customers have for a reduction of electric j showdown may come within two To Fix New Wholesale Pork Price Ceiling Washington A pnt wholesale pork price ceiling will be established within 48 of- fice of price administration officials said The new schedule will replace the temporary 60-day maximum price listing which has in effect since mid-March and will tie in closely with the universal price which pegged retail pork prices at the highest March Council to Consider Buying of Ambulance A decision on the purchase of an ambulance for use by the city is among business to be brought up for discussion and possible action at the meeting of the common cil at the city hall at Other matters which are uled to come before the council this evening are a report on liability in- surance for the municipal swimming the request of the Green Bay and Western railroad for sion to put tracks across Tenth and Eleventh avenues north for a hearing on a proposed sidewalk on Thirteenth street north between Oak and Baker and action liquor license Report Vote for Discharge of MacKenzie The and the Green Bay said today that the state conservation meeting in was believed to have voted to discharge H. W. commission The newspapers said that bers of the commission declined to discuss what had taken place at the saying only that an an- would be made at the commission office in Madison at 4 o'clock this At it was reported that a group of men held a brief ing in the Hotel Raulf this and departed about William J. P. of commission and James A. of who have ported administrative officers of the returned to son early this afternoon and said there had been a meeting at Governor interviewed at denied any knowledge of action such as the commission was reported to have a human being has talked to me about Heil DRAFTEE ENDS LIFE WITH GUN 28, who resided six and a half miles west of Marshfield on Route 3, was found dead in the front seat of his car a short distance from his home at 8 a.m. shot through the right temple with a 12-gauge BELIEVE MAJOR JAP OFFENSIVE IS DEVELOPING the Associated China sounded a rare note of alarm warning that Chiang armies faced a danger in the five-year war with Japan amid signs that a major Japanese offensive against China was Reinforcements Pour In While allied warplanes slashed at the invaders on the approaches to Australia and in a Chinese government spokesman said ese reinforcements were pouring in- are middle western and north to Burma and that 500 Japanese AEF Northern Tens of thousands of fresh United States newly landed with their tanks and ar- tillery from a convoy almost as large as the greatest of 1918, reinforced earlier gents in advanced training at Ul- ster bases Clamor for New Front Equipped with millions of dollars worth of battle they arrived amid public enthusiasm in Britain for opening an allied front against Germany in western is the finest I've ever commented a veteran British officer who witnessed the Many among the sturdy youths planes were massed there on a scale of proportion with their land The spokesman said the king had come into session of an officially approved Japanese published in showing that Japan's sphere for greater east in- tended to engulf Iran and all of Russian The projected sphere's western he ran up the sian then to the Caspian sea and on to the Ural to present the next item on the Japanese gram is a major offensive against the spokesman To Destroy enemy has concentrated con- forces for an attack on Chekiang coastal province just of avowed purpose of destroying any possible springboard for an attack against the same he is sending more troops to The border of Yunnan and northern Burma will witness during the next few weeks fighting on an even larger scale than we have seen so immediate future is very Bombs Akyab With Gen. Harold Alexander's Dr. R. H. deputy stated this morning that Heckel apparently had shot himself be- 10 and 11 p.m. Monday a gun found beside him in the car which was parked on County Trunk V one-half mile from the home of lis Mr. and Mrs. Heckel was a selectee of Wood conty draft board number and was to have left today with a con- tingent from the north end of the He was not married and worked on his County authorities said they of no reason why Heckel would end his own and quoted as saying they didn't think he was bothered much about being His body was discovered in the this morning by a milk hauler who was driving along the county oad and he immediately notified he Dr. Wink said this morning that he death was undoubtedly a ide and that no inquest would be Funeral arrangements will lot be completed until frayed British forces still slowly retreating from Burma into R. A. F. warplanes again pounded the Burmese port of Akyab and at- tacked Japanese river craft in west a likely springboard for a Japanese invasion of lies only 300 air miles across the Bay of gal from the great Indian city of In the battle of Gen Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that allied fliers probably destroyed two Japanese transports in an attack on shipping at Dutch while enemy planes attacked the allied base at Port New in the heaviest raid in three 52nd Raid on Port An armada of 34 Japanese ers and 15 fighters attacked the port the 52nd raid there since the war Gen thur reported that allied ors shot down one heavy probably destroyed three and damaged three enemy Dispatches said the port was now a virtual ghost with its civilians gone and most of its houses burned or central Some already have served in the Fit and they make up the most formidable of the American forces landed here since the first arrived in Outfox Axis Submarines The convoy outfoxed axis rines on the 2.400-mile its escort delivering thunderous depth charge attacks and its gun alert for aerial onslaughts that er Observers expressed be- lief that at least one submarine could not have escaped the depth Facing its most important tic convoy job in more than five months of the U. S. navy kept intact its record of never having lost a British warcraft From the transports among them converted liners and cruise ships the debarkation was smooth and Food awaited the men at a wharf HOLD UP TAVERN Lyndon Two armed men held up the Rocky Ar- bor tavern on Highway 12 of here today and escaped with in Clarence J. owner of the said one of the men had a revolver and the other carried a pork and slices of luncheon and South Dakotan First Ashore Private Marvin who said he was Irishman from South the town of was the first enlisted man of the gent to step With O'Neal was his commanding Capt. Junior Miller of Rapid S. D. Maj. Gen. Russell P. commander of the AEF sonally greeted Private Van gan of Neve in ing one of the screened by craft guns against possible ery by German air continued by day and by The business of emptying transports and turning them around for the return trip and new loads of men and materiel was pushed to a peak of Huge Guns Unloaded Huge field guns were hoisted out of holds and rolled tion cases were shifted to trucks and trains almost as quickly as the troops Tanks were started and moved off under their own power toward in- General Hartle and Lieut. H. E. commander of British troops in Northern ed training They spent the most time at demonstrations of at- by one unit and range firing of and mortars by men of another unit under Jack Althouse of la. Canadian Tanker Is 23 Reach Port Mexico City Dispatches from Yucatan ing the local press there said 23 survivors of the torpedoed Canadian ship a 941-ton had arrived in with 21 other crew members and the captain The ship was hit by sub- marine torpedoes May 9, the dis- patches LEW AYRES FALLS Star Lew Ayres fore- reported at for induction in the army's non- combatant His first order on arrival from a conscientious camp at was to fall in line other Soviet Armies Pushing Nazis Back in Bitter Fighting for Kharkov Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's red were reported hammering the Germans into retreat in the tle of Kharkov advancing between 30 and 40 miles on a 60-mile crushing counterattacks and wiping Nazi parachute dispatches said Russian charging wildly across a pontoon bridge under an umbrella of had captured large inhabited in a ther advance on the big Ukraine steel on 24 Reach Australia After 5.Week Voyage in Open Boat from Indies PLANE CRASH KILLS 2 Lieut. Com- mander Gilbert U. S. of Iron and ert L. C. U. S. tion first were killed last night in the crash of a navy land plane at the naval air the Fifth naval district announced Both men died Melbourne Twenty-four women and among them a baby born in an open boat on the high have escaped nese internment and reached tralia from the Netherlands East Indies after five hazardous thanks to the courage and fortitude of a Dutch woman Japs Planned Deportation Toward the end of after the collapse of allied resistance in the Dutch community of one little island heard the Japanese planned to deport it to where most of the European dents of the eastern Netherlands East Indies archipelago were ed. The teacher not only resolved to make a break but to warn Euro- peans of other smaller islands of what was One dark night she left the island a few fellow countrymen and several loyal Malayans in a small For weeks the little group braved Japanese planes and the constant danger of capture by anese soldiers as they proceeded from one island to At one of the first stops the er's party was joined by another Dutch woman with a three-year-old and two Dutch soldiers who had escaped from a prison The augmented party set out in the little craft and after an ing journey in which Japanese flew over several times and they were ternately buffeted by waves or calmed out of sight they reached a group of There six Dutch adults and six children were waiting after ing a dangerous trip from a distant outpost of the East Indian One of the children was an infant only a few days born in a little boat during the There the party obtained a motor launch and the entire numbering south for the last islands on the way to At those islands the weary ellers were joined by more including Australian officers and men who also had escaped the Target of Air Attacks They set out for Australia but even with the end of the age in their worries were not In the battle where allied and Japanese planes were there were many air attacks and on one occasion the launch suffered a near miss before hazardous ad- Shoot Down Nazi Planes Soviet tanks followed the while red warplanes shot down 17 German aircraft which vainly at- tempted to break up the The unidentified locality may have been about 25 miles north of or 12 miles south of The cap- ture of cither point would create a serious flanking threat to the The dashing Cossacks were ported scouring the battle Nazi troops as they drifted down behind the More than 100 Germans were killed in a single Besides their the Cossacks are armed with and an- Tanks Attack in Waves Dispatches said German tanks were attacking in with three columns of 100, 80 and 50 panzers striking in a sector only two and one-half miles Soviet anti- tank gunners stopped the dispatches Red the Soviet army said 400 Nazi tanks had been destroyed so with the number every London military quarters said the Russian which began with a 35-mile breach through the man was now sweeping for- ward at varying depths on a 100- mile Nazis Show Signs of Strain dispatches declared sian shock troops were enemy and said the mans were already showing signs of 7 TAPER OFF WAR PLANT BUILDING venture Pedestrian Collides With Bruised A Arthur Route 3, Wisconsin was slightly bruised at 11 o'clock this morning on Eighth street south near East Grand avenue when he started to cross the street and col- with a car going south driven by Ferdinand Route 1, consin Spaiks received injuries to a hip and hand as he stepped from the curb to walk east across the according to a report by Washington A 25 per cent increase in output from present facilities was forecast today by con- gressional leaders who unanimously backed the war production decision taper off plant sions in older to accelerate the im- mediate delivery of Predict Flood of Protests Several senators predicted that the policy of channeling vital ials into tanks and guns instead of into new turing facilities would bring a flood of protests from communities pointed by the cancelling of plant But Senator Van as well as said he was prepared to support the ruling Senator George told re- porters it was his opinion that an average increase of 25 per cent might be obtained almost in the production of all types of ordnance if additional raw ials were made available to war con- As an example of what could be done by efficient Senator Taft cited one of the largest machine tool whose plant capacity had been doubled since 1939, which was producing five times as many tools as in that Hope of Victory in 1943? There was a general feeling in congress that the WPB decision to concentrate on immediate rather than production could be regarded as indicating there was some hope of ending the war iously in 1943. Pvt. Elmer Schacht Arrives in Iceland Pvt. Elmer son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles has arrived in according to word received by his who last heard from hfm on April 4. He is with an army medical Word of the arrival of Staff geant Kenneth Janz in Australia has also been JHe is the of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Janz of formerly of this FAMOUS AIRMAN TELLS OF NAGOYA ATTACKS Washington every which American fliers showered on Japan April 18 appeared to have hit its the leader Brigadier General James H. and he numbered among these such vital objectives as the navy yard south of Tokyo and an aircraft factory near The identity of the leader was disclosed today in a White House ceremony at which President Roosevelt personally decorated the already famous as Doolittle of peacetime speed with the congressional medal of 79 Others Get Medals To 79 others in the historic foray went the distinguished service salvo made a direct hit on a new cruiser or battleship under con- in the navy tle related in a and it in The aircraft plant was strewn with incendiary bombs a quarter of a of its length he Japanese planes gave the raiders little their leader and not much difficulty was tered in getting to the objectives in the sensational which threw Japan into confusion and gave a great lift to the morale of the united aside from inflicting im- portant Flew Very Low Doolittle said that his squadron of American planes came in just over the dropped bombs The low level he made it difficult to observe the results of the appeared to the flying general practically every bomb reached the target for which it was We would like to have tarried and watched the later developments of fire and ex- but even so we were nate to receive a fairly detailed re- port from the excited Japanese dio It took them several hours to calm down to deception and Saw Ball Game in Progress Doolittle said part of his party observed a ball game in progress at one point and players and tors did not start to run for cover until just as the field passed from The identity of the leader of the air raid had remained a closely guarded Just before pinning AIR 7 Lt. Col. Ferd Hirzy Arrives in England Stevens Ferdinand A. of ens former district der of the American has arrived in England for war service with American according to a cablegram to his Lieut. Col. who was well in Wisconsin American gion left Stevens Point in 1940, as and com- mander of Headquarters rfe was promoted to a major and then to lieutenant Beloit Ice Dealers Caught in Price Jam ice dealers are burning up over ng In March they engaged in a price setting prices at 20 to 30 cents a hundred for ice. Then along came the OPA order freezing prices at that Now they claim they can't do iness at that They are asking Leon the price to do thing about it. THE WEATHER For Little ture change through day forenoon ex- cept somewhat cooled in w e s t and ex- treme north tion with scattered light frost in northwest Today's Weather Maximum temperature for 24- hour period ending at 7 a. 69; minimum temperature for 24-hour period ending 7 a. 38; ature at 7 42. 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