Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - February 21, 1944, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin KEEP ON WAR BONDS Wisconsin C O N S T Thirtieth 9400 Wisconsin Rapids Wis Monday February 21 1944 an you lor wrapped plies Don't let them down Save Single Copy Five Cents JAP SHIPS 201 PLANES SCORE RED GROSS WAR DRIVE MAR Ml PICK COMMITTEE The Ked Cross war fund sponsored in this community by the South Wood County chapter American Red Cross will seek a quota of in the iod from March 1 to 11 it was an- today by Dwight H Teas chairman of the drive The national quota is 000 with many communities con- their drives during the en- tire month of March Name The Red Cross war fund committee set up by Teas and announced today includes Mrs C J Randall secretary Guy O Babcock treasurer Leo J Barrette and John Krohn industries and organized bor Bennett rural ard C Brazeau commercial Frank L Steib public employes M S King clubs and lodges Harold Knudsen unclassified Lee Turley George T Frechette dio and John Bumham newspaper These committee chairmen are ex- to swing into action this week In a statement today Chairman Teas Increase Over 1943 Because the national Red Cross budget has been increased sharply over 1943 and because the local budget has been set at the committee is faced with the task of increasing both the number of contributors and the average contribution With our assault for- ces poised and ready to strike the relief facilities of the organization will be called upon to perform even more valiantly than ever before and every individual will want to share this responsibility The local share represents an increase of approximately 35 per cent over 1943 as compared with the national hudget increase of 60 per cent During the 1943 campaign a tal of 4898 memberships were ob- with total contributions of Went to See Ex-Wife Held For Knifing Appleton Walter Neenah entered a plea of guilty in municipal court today on two charges of assault with in- tent to commit murder Hoehne was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon with in- tent to commit murder and with breaking and entering a dwelling in the night time with intent to com- mit murder while armed with a dangerous weapon In pleading guilty Hoehne automatically ed preliminary hearing Police arrested Hoehne after three persons suffered knife wounds allegedly inflicted in an attack by Hoehne The victims were Mr anc Mrs Erwin Klarner both 35 and Miss Delphine Wegenke 24 Hoehne's wife from whom he had been separated and who stayed with the The three are under treatment at a hospital Klarner suffered knife wounds his wife four and Miss Wegenke was cut on the hand Hoehne told police that he hat several drinks last night and called at the home intending to pee his wife He said there was no response to his knock at the fron door and he went to the rear of the house and cut telephone wires with a pocket knife He said he then entered the house through a window and was jumped on in the dark by several Rabaul Harried by 3 More Air Allied Headquarters in the west west Pacific fortress of Rabaul has been weakened by three more aeria attacks one of which at least knocked out the airdrome southeast of the town Coming in on different levels the successive of allied planes dropped 123 tons of bombs and left both and Tobera ports devastated The attacks February IS came a few hours after United States destroyers shelled Rabaul in a daring early morning raid In other portions of the South and Southwest Pacific Japanese bases and installations were attack ed from the air and from the sea BROADCAST TAX TALK An income tax pep talk for the benefit of who have not ye filed their returns will be given over Station Wednesday a 7.05 p m by L B Huth of internal revenue for Wood county it is announced to day Supreme Nazi Push at Anzio Beach Repelled After Intense Fighting BY KENNETH L DIXON Allied Headquarters and British forces have stopped a supreme effort by man troops to wipe out the Anzio bridgehead and have thrown the enemy back two miles toward allied headquarters announced today The Naii steamroller advance aimed down the highway ast Wednesday morning toward Anzio the core of allied beachhead was halted only after all elements of allied power were called into play during 48 hours of the most in- period of the fighting Naval Units Helped Our effort was very greatly by support given by allied naval units allied air for- mations and both British and can the communique said The German offensive reached its peak before dawn Saturday Then American tanks and infantry under the cover of a heavy artillery rage began smashing forward at a m and was still rolling ahead yesterday Intensity of the enemy efforts was demonstrated by the appearance of elements of five regiments within one area Six enemy divisions threw their entire strength nto the assault Three others were in reserve An allied spokesman announced the Germans steadily swelling their armies in Italy now have 18 ions involved in the Italian actions Bystander Hit Hardest as Four Sine of these Bulk of the face the beachhead remaining divisions stand on the main Fifth army front Behind the Cassino defenses Hurled Complete Strength Throwing everything they could muster into a mighty southward staff to split the allied beachhead forces the Germans had managed to punch some yards below before their advance was hurled back Their casualties were heavy the dead piling great numbers hundreds being wounded and at least 700 falling prisoner Some of those captured said one German regiment alone had lost 60 per cent of its strength Allied air operations yesterday were devoted almost exclusively to attacks on the broken German beachhead lines heavy bombers again joined medium and light bombers in bombing and shooting up enemy concentrations The allies sent 900 sorties into the air the Germans sent up an ed 100 and the sky battles and at- tacks on both sides of the head ground battle lines were idly rising to a record peak when the weather limited further forays Three allied aircraft were lost and at least four German planes were shot down Cassino Front Quiet No major developments occurred yesterday in the Fifth army's sino front although French forces repulsed an enemy raid northeast of Terelle American troops held fast 10 Rites Tuesday For Mrs Adelaide Bahr Cars Meet Sunday A freak accident involving four automobiles and resulting in an in damage occurred early Sunday morning on Highway 13 at the Five Mite creek John Richert Route 1 Nekoosa was ing north when he with a car driven south by Anton Kauth Route 5 Wisconsin Rapids who claimed to have been blinded by lights and was therefore driving too far to the middle of the road front bumper scraped along the left side of car denting the body and causing an estimated Following the collision the Reichert car con- to move forward broke a fence and plunged over a 14 foot embankment at the side of the then plunged down the creek bed for a distance of nearly 100 yards coming to a stop right side up with the driver unhurt and only about damage having been caused to the car Less than 20 minutes later Harry Kraft of Route 3 Merrill stopped on the highway to view the car which had fallen into the creek bed His automobile was struck from be- hind by a car driven south by James of Route 1 New Rome ing about damage to Kraft's vehicle and damage to the cav Again no one was hurt JAP ARMY NAVY SHAKEUP SHOWS EFFECT OF BLOW New kyo radio acknowledged today that Japan had suffered heavy losses in the American attack on her great naval base at Truk and announced that both the chiefs of the Japanese army and navy eral staff had been relieved of their posts Premier Gen Hideki Tojo a broadcast said has personally the role of chief of the army general staff in a sweeping shakeup that seemed to be a direct result of the American assault described earlier by Admiral Chester W tz chief of the fleet as partial settlement tor the sneak attack on Pearl bor Acknowledge Losses In a short wave broadcast to the United States the Tokyo radio quoted an imperial headquarters Eniwetok Jap Garrison Is Hard Pushed BY ELMONT WAITE U S Pacific Fleet Headquarters Pearl ly to close their death trap on anese defenders of the westernmost atoll in the islands United States infantry and marine troops now are driving the enemy from Eniwetok island In a new landing yesterday Adm Chester W Nimitz said they seized half of the long island This gave United States forces possession of the entire Eniwetok atoll group except for the remaining half of the embattled island and nearby Parry island site of a anese radio station Casualties continued light said Admiral who previously had disclosed the capture of Funeral services will be held at and its Strategic airport the 10 Tuesday at the Church of main Eniwetok atoll base St John the Evangelical for Mrs j There was no information as the Adelaide Bahr 83 who died at the extent of Japanese resistance on home of her daughter Mrs Fred either or Eniwetok islands MacCarthy on Route 1 in the town but the fact that the marines took of Plover Portage county at Saturday after a lingering ness The Rev James M Johnson will officiate Burial at 2 p.m Mrs Bahr was born in Waukesha county Wis on February 20 1861 the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Cooper Besides the daughter with whom she had made her home the past four years she leaves a son Charles Fisher of Wis six grandchildren and eight grandchildren Baker and son have charge of funeral arrangements and friends may call at the funeral home until time for services Sink German Subs Near admiralty has announced that three enemy sub- marines of a pack which tried to slip through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean were de- by British planes and ships and several others were aged The pack tried for 11 days to slip through perhaps under orders to attack allied shipping around the allied beachhead below Rome Some submarines have been fairly active there allied headquarters lias said SCHILTER SERVICE The memorial service for Staff Sgt Norman J Schiller Vesper airman who was officially reported February 11 as having been killed in action will be held at Saturday at St Joseph's Catholic church in Altdorf the Rev John of Pittsville officiating it wu announced today JAP NAVAL LOSSES New has lost 306 naval ships since its at- tack on Pearl Harbor while erican losses during the same period have been only 130 an Press count based on communiques and unofficial an- show Besides heavy losses in ships Japan also has lost 968 and merchant ships Of the American naval losses 96 were listed as sunk in the Pacific only the total of Nipponese warships sent to the bottom in that area communique as acknowledging the attack on Truk had cost the nese two cruisers three destroyers 13 transports and 120 planes Another broadcast quoted an an- of the navy ministry as saying that Fleet Admiral Osami Nagano chief of the Japanese navy's general staff had been re- of his post The ment added that Emperor Hirohito had named Admiral Shigetaro Shimada navy minister to serve concurrently as chief of the naval general staff At the same time it was ed that Field Marshal Gen had been relieved of his post as chief of the army general 10 SONS OF NIPPON LOSE CLOTHES of their uniforms these Japanese prisoners are herded aboard American landing crafts to be laler transferred to transports This scene took place after invading forces had routed the Japs from pillboxes and foxholes on Kwajalein land which the Americans took during their surprise attack in the South Pacific U S coast guard photo from NBA Four Mighty Stabbing Aerial Blows Hit in 36 Hours London U S Fortresses and Liberators dealt the Nazi its fourth great aerial blow in 36 hours by bombarding northwest Germany today a few hours after the RAF had hammered Stuttgart on the southwest border Today's American force was announced as ing the size of the record armada which struck Leipzig and other key German centers day attesting the U.S air force's growing strength The bomber tion probably again approached the figure with an al thousand escorting 45 Selectees From 69 Sent Are Accepted Of the 63 men who were sent to Milwaukee last Monday by the cal selective service board for cal examinations to determine their fitness for military 45 were accepted and given certificates of fitness it was announced today Of this number were accepted for army duty 17 for the navy and one for the air corps Army List Those accepted from this city for BULLETIN the Eighth air force's im- pressive array of Thunderbolts Lightnings and Mustangs backed up by RAF Spitfires The target was not an- immediately At the same time U.S Marauder bombers hit the Coxyde airbase in Belgium 25 Per Cent Industrial Loss Gen H H Arnold chief of army declared a fourth of man fighter production was knocked the army Dick out in the Sunday attack officially ard Keith Brown Charles Bernard j described as the greatest daylight in six hours and advanced yards in one day on Eniwetok indicated that ments were effective Eniwetok island guards the broad southern entrance into the lagoon It is barely 100 yards wide and Hke other Marshall islands very flat and heavily wooded with coconut trees Parry island stilt held by the enemy stands at the eastern en trance to the long lagoon Escaped Trap Nazi Generals Insist New DNB dis- patch to European newspapers re- corded from broadcasts by U S government monitors announced day that Adolf Hitler had decorated Leon Degrelle Belgian Nazi leader and two generals for leading an cape of German troops from the trap in the Dnieper bend Degrelle was quoted as declaring of the German troops caped commander ot a Belgian SS brigade admitted ever that 12 per cent of his troops were lost Ho received Knights Cross and the Iron Cross The Russians said on Saturday that Germans were killed or captured in the pocket The other officers Lt Gen Lieb and Lt Gen Gille commander of the Viking SS armored division were awarded the oak leaves to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross Admitting for the first time lhat Gen Stemmermann commander of the encircled troops had been killed the broadcast said Gen Licb has him Senators Debate Fancy Name For Plain Milk Washington Overriding the lonesome protest of Senator Overtoil the senate passed today and sent to the White House a eliminating a federal ment that nonfat dry milk solids be labelled skim milk Overtoil marshalled only three other opposition of ators Maybank Russell D- Ga and Tunnel as the senate approved the on a 46 to 4 vote Overton said lie had called the oldest dairy in and ed: Do you have any defatted milk solids this Why no We the senator said he was told What are you talking I mean milk solids Are you by any chance talking about skim That's exactly what I was ing about Now that's what Overton says is wrong with the house urged by Senator Clark to change the pure food and druc refutations so that powered skim or is it med we don't know milk is to he labeled nonfat dry milk solids or defatted milk This coldly serious argument was waged in the senate today where Overton related this telephoning ex- Clark had his inning The word he said the sale of dried skim the word itself carries the cation of ftom the time 40 years ago when skim milk was hog feed Steward Charles W Habeck ard A Miller Arthur F Jung Donald Charles Engle bright Val Dewey Mann James H Sylvester Edward J air operation in history A count day showed enemy planes were shot down yesterday The tremendous American fleets including or more Flying For- Murgatroyd Leith M Harriett John tresses and Liberators plus fighter F John A Peters support hit at seven German air V Coleman Robert Stuart Goggins Ronald E Freiberg and Russell L Clark Those accepted for the army from the city's rural routes tin J Hartjes and Kenneth L man Route 1 William Edward Machon Route 2 Richard R der Route 3 Cyril Joe Morzinski and George Lewis Davis Route 4 and Neil William Bohmsach craft center cities and struck also at military installations in Rostock on Germany's Baltic coast in a deep westward plunge Sixty-five Nazi fighters were downed by aboard the bombers and il to corting fighters U.S ters communique declared today American losses wore 21 bombers and three fighters under the red army has broken into he streets of Krivo Kog big iron city in the and last Dnieper Bend held by Germans Moscow announced tonight A few minutes after the nique was broadcast the Russians issued a special announcement ing that 90.000 Germans had been killed during the last month of fight in jr On the northern front the sians rolled on tun ard Pskov 5 From other first announced of 22 bert Stickney Nekoosa ami four Leonard Carl Auburndale Navy Men Those accepted from this city for naval Arvid Alvin Maeder John L Vogel Alfred N daylight of air TJ 1 he American bombers the letin added Holland Quiet The ladio in Holland wont off the air today a Kenneth R bert L Harold B bpl Everett Truman Athorp don P Solie William Frank Schmidt Douglas James Clarence C and Harold L Hack Those from the rural who were accepted for the navy Maurice Donald Robert ton and Donald Ar- thur Vaughn all of Route 1 ence C Route 2 tm Charles William Engel Route -I Keith W Herrick of Applet mi was accepted for air corps service With Marsh field Crowd The following men from this vicinity who went to Milwaukee u lib the contingent for army A were to have hit in itc of a 100 in the Sunday offensive but incut A at would sent a round trip An air said was in intense left burning of oily the of the clouds lifted left a clear target for thousands of tons of out of tilt the The attack on Stuttgart last attacked mi was masked by a feint at shrine if Munich UK miles to the southeast and the loss in tin mini's st ill in- GOVERNOR GIVES LEGION ANSWER Madison Replying to criticism of pocket veto of the legislature's to consolidate all veteran agencies in one ment Governor Goodland said day the measure was rejected be- cause it was premature This explanation was contained in a lengthy statement in which the governor discussed his proval the consolidation proposal as well as bills appropriating money for wolf bounties and clerical help Attacked by Legion Criticism of the consolidation veto has been expressed by James commander of the sin department of the American sion and State Senator Milton T Murray that while he agreed the in principle the ernor added there was no urgent need for immediate action No one at ibis time knows what congress will do in providing for the he said It teems to me that Wisconsin should wait until has definitely acted before legislating It is admitted by all that the of his uar who have re- turned arc amply served and provided by the veterans TRUK DEBT OF PEARL HARBOR PARTLY BY CHARLES MC U S Pacific Fleet quarters Pearl Japanese ships sunk at least 201 planes de- and terrific damage to land installations the e today in the United Pacific fleet raid on he enemy's primary base in the entral Pacific Adm Chester W Nimitz com- mander of the fleet told the story of he destruction wrought by carrier in the raid Wednesday and Thursday and called it a partial settlement of the debt owed Japan the sneak attack on Pearl bor Nimitz made no mention of troop andings at Truk as the Tokyo radio lad announced but he said his men sank the following Two light cruisers three ers one ammunition ship one plane tender two oilers two Doats and eight cargo ships 8 More Probably Sunk One cruiser or large destroyer two oilers and four cargo ships were listed as probably sunk American fliers shot down 127 enemy aircraft in combat and de- 74 more on the ground More than 50 additional Japanese planes were damaged before they could take to the air The attackers paid for this with only 17 planes lost and moderate damage to one surface ship which Nimitz did not identify There was no air opposition the second day of the attack Nimitz said This testified to the great strength and accuracy of the first day attack which eliminated the enemy's airforce from action Hints Great Damage It also hinted at the great age that must have been done to the and ship repair air strips gun postions supply damps and other installations of the big base under blows delivered without an enemy plane in the sky to dis- pute the attack The admiral's statement that the attack was only partial settlement tor the Pearl Harbor debt indicated 10 Great Lakes Expect Early Ore Shipping Sault Ste Marie A coast guard ice survey showed today that the ore shipping season on the upper Great Lakes may open earlier in 1944 than in any recent year The mildest winter since 1932 has kept the Sault harbor open until two weeks ago the ferry between the two Saults still is in operation Whitefish Bay has only 10 es of solid ice while from White Fish Point toward Lake Superior open water is visible as far as the eye can see In the St Mary's river thickness of ice varies fiom three to eight inches ami is covered with eight inches of snow Open water exists in spots The Sault experienced its second wannest January on record and February to date has been mild with little snow Weather bureau forecasted said however that cold temperatures still are a 11 All Arc Cured For I am informed that there am from tweh c tn eighteen returned veterans listed that IMMUNIZE CITY The immunization center of the County Normal school ing on Wednesday at 9 will mod lately Officials of the that on thf Capitol Doctor Shot On Downtown Street Washington Dr E Lind senior medical officer at St Elizabeth's hospital was shot and killed today in an automobile at Eleventh and G streets a busy downtown intersection Robert I Miller criminal yer and a woman identified by police as Mrs Miller and said hy them to have been in the car at the time of the shooting were arrested and held on an open charge WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY In observance of Washington's birthday the city's banks the house and the post office windows will be closed all day Tuesday hut most of the city's stores and all of- fices in the city hall will remain open The internal revenue office and the other federal agencies in the post office building will also bo open for business all day There will be no mail delivery cither city or rural tomorrow in territory and 10 Route 4 city Lewis against other and William P hold of Those men were accepted the navy with from the field Henry f son Route 2 C Will Kenneth W Doehr Route 1 ami Carl G Olds Vesper Plainfield Man Kilted In Air Liner Crash Frank A Kennedy formerly of was of the 24 sons aboard the American Air transcontinental plane which ed ami sank in the below Memphis Tennessee ruary 10 carrying to their deaths all passengers and crew members Mr Kennedy a graduate of field high school and the University of Wisconsin was on route to zil where he was to be assistant of a dollar railroad project with headquarters at Victoria 40 miles north of Rio de Janeiro every demand made the infants and pre-school has been met and acted upon of the city of Wisconsin as well as from nearby rural areas to an ment made today by Miss Leone posed with them for a photograph Norton county nurse of the for diphtheria and tions for smallpox will be given at at time he time would sifri The plan 10 They Legion Meeting Tuesday Charles of the American Legion hold its an- father ami sons night at the armory Tuesday p tn announces Michael Andrewski post commander Lt Col Roy C Lupient field who was with the ion in the New Guinea invasion is speaker at the meeting Each member is urged to invite his son as his guest and those who have no son should borrow one from some other Andrewski urges THE WEATHER For tonight in- creasing ness Tuesday followed by light snow east and extreme south portion Tuesday after- noon and night Colder northwest portion Tuesday COLDER Today's Weather Maximum temperature for hour period ending at 7 a m 37 minimum temperature for 24-hour period ending at 7 a 5 ature at 7 a m 9
