Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - March 8, 1944, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin War Fund Drive FOR THE RED CROSS It Now Your Part Wisconsin A CONST Tribune paper Toor waste paper Thirtieth 9414 Wisconsin Rapids Wis Wednesday March 8 1944 Single Copy Five U.S BOMBERS DESTRUCTION Department Reports Heard Tuesday Night Pleasing to Aldermen Aldermen at common council meeting in the city hall here Tuesday night expressed complete satisfaction with reports given them by two department heads Fire Chief A C Miller and Police Chief E J Exner The police chief pointed out that squad car maintenance is held to the low figure of cents per mile He also told how modern conditions require modern ment reviewing the gangster era in which gangsters introduced REVERSE LEASE INCREASES Washington volume of reverse lend-lease aid furnished to the United States hy its allies is increasing steadily Leo T Crowley foreign economic administrator told the house foreign affairs committee today Both Are Vital The an- offensive against many and the invasion coasts of Europe have been impossible on the present scale without both lend-lease and reverse he stated in presenting this By the first of this year the United States was receiving reverse lend-lease aid from the United Kingdom Australia New Zealand and India at a rate of 000 a year compared with a little over a year for the 12 months ended June 3 1943 The British Commonwealth thus leads in reverse lend-lease supplies and sen ices but similar aid is also received hy the United States as the need arises from the French national committee Belgium the Netherlands Russia and China Supply Americans Testifying in behalf of pending legislation to extend lend-lease ations authority for the next fiscal year Crowley said approximately one-third of all supplies and ment currently forces in the United Kingdom is supplied by the British as reverse without cost to us In addition to planes guns and other items of military equipment the U- S has received over a billion and a quarter pounds of food from the United Kingdom Australia New Zealand and India plus the of numerous facilities and ices on which Crowley said no lars and cents value could be placed Quit Move to Cite Daniels For Contempt senate subcommittee today a move to cite Presidential Assistant Jonathan Daniels for con- tempt Senator Gillette said ter an executive session of the sub- committee that the proceedings were abandoned because Daniels had answered satisfactorily all questions about unsuccessful efforts to oust Harry E Slattery as rural cation administrator Marked Closed Thus the Daniels case may be officially marked closed but the subcommittee investigating the agency isn't through ing into the part the White House played in attempts to induce Slattery to resign Attorney Carroll L Beedy called upon Daniels to produce for tiny of the investigators the com- plete White House file dealing with the REA Daniels said in effect that he would see what he could do about that and let the committee know later If Daniels fails to get the file into the committee's hands Beedy said a request for it would be made to the president President Roosevelt told his press conference yesterday he hadn't heard a word about request and would have to cross that bridge when it was reached While House Assistant A reporter said the senate com- appeared to be interested also in whether Eugene Casey a White House assistant had had any connection with the efforts to get Slattery to resign and whether Casey's interest was political Casey is around here isn't be the president replied In fact he he was there right now and probably for the same reason the reporter was The reporter replied that lie was there to get tion and suggested that perhaps Casey might want to give some bat nothing came of it PLASMA TRIP POSTPONED Due to an ODT ruling the bus chartered for the blood plasma ors trip to Milwaukee sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Nekoosa cannot make the trip on March 9 as scheduled It has fore been postponed until other transportation CM bt my guns bulletproof glassed cars and similar innovations which lice departments were forced to adopt in order to cope with Wisconsin 72 miles of streets stretched over an area of nine square miles cannot patrol outlying streets with patrolmen afoot while the squad car ment into outlying residential and industrial areas carries the ment of surprise which is much more effective than presence of a patrolman whose night like round of duties could be ed by any prospective lawbreakers the chief said Combination The city bought its first squad car in 1938 set up the police radio in 1942 and with the combination of those two agencies can have an equipped and manned car to any accident scene in the city within a few moments of the occurrence and report of that accident Wartime duties have weighed heavily on the police department the chief said with checkups of aliens selective service inquiries and checkups of persons seeking work in war plants Wartime nile problems add grist to the lice mill with 33 youngsters brought into the chiefs office already in 1944 for other infractions than the routine truancy and bike stealing charges Interesting was the chief's vation that the psychological effect of the squad car cruising about pre- vents many accidents many tions of the law for we ed that most accidents result from breaking some traffic Jaw The surprisingly large number of calls made by the city and the fact that the ambulance is paying its own way as well as being an important agency of city gency brought out in Fire Chief report The ambulance is housed at the fire tion and manned by firemen 173 Calls in 1943 The ambulance in 1943 made 173 calls of which 96 were in the city 51 in adjacent areas and the ance for longer trips including calls 7 LIST 7 CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT Seven criminal are listed for the March term of circuit court for Wood county which opens here next Monday The seven cases to come Circuit Judge H J Severson include three game law cases two drunken driving cases one statutory charge and one black market violation 3 Game Law Cases Defendants in game law cases are Mike Steffek Mark Huber and liam Davis For operating an auto- mobile while tinder influence of in- toxicants are William Ress and Andrew Cwicklo Edwin O'Day is defendant in the black market case and Chris in the morals case Prosecuting the seven on behalf of the state is Dist Atty Hugh W Goggins There are three jury cases for the civil docket while the civil calendar of court cases is blank The civil cases to be heard by jury G W Webster Joseph Chapman trustees of the property of Minneapolis St Paul Saulte Ste Marie railroad versus Laona Northern Railways com- pany and the Connor Lumber Land company J W Dunegan sus Ray Johnson and Claude Helms and a corporation 7 Schedule Willkie Here On March 22nd Wisconsin Rapids will be included in the itinerary of Republican candidate Wendell Willkie according to advices received today George W Mead of this city is one of the two presidential convention candidates in the Seventh congressional district Candidate Willkie will be here March 22 probably for a luncheon meeting The stop here will be one of several in Wisconsin cities made during week's campaign in the Tribune photo TABLES everyone knows the Red Cross is an organization which is constantly sending gifts to and performing services for men in the armed forces But soldiers have a way of remembering favors shown to them and occasionally they find opportunity to return them at least in part Lt John Vick commanding officer at the Tri-City airport is shown receiving a 100 per cent poster from Mrs C J Randall Red Cross war fund secretary after he had presented her n ith a donation representing contributions from the entire personnel at the airport Shown in the picture above left to right are Dwight H Teas war fund chairman Mrs Randall Sgt Lester 31 Lt Vick and Mrs W L Trankle Denver Vote Causes Joy in GOP Camp Re- publican leaders nailed jubilantly today the victory of Dean M pief their party's candidate in a special Colorado congressional tion A Democratic spokesman made no effort to minimize party's loss but said the local factors involved in the contest made it difficult to de- tect a general trend Speaking for the house Democratic campaign committee Victor Hunt Harding the committee's executive secretary added that the heavy vote was en- and that it showed the people are thinking rather than ting elections go by default Halleck's Reaction That the American people are through with the New Deal was again yesterday in the ver election in the unmistakable languages of asserted Rep Charles A Halleck of Indiana man of the national Republican con- gressional committee Harrison E Spangler Republican national chairman said We have forecast before that the nominee of the Republican national convention will be the next president of the United States and on a basis of the recent election returns in Colorado and New York I repeat that ment Spangler's Statement What else can we read into the continued and constant voting of the people for Republican and against the New Deal whenever they get a ballot in their 7 Pacific Veteran Speaks to Elks At Supper Club Wearing the insignia denoting tion in four major battles Petty Officer Bernard Smith store er second class son of Mr and Mrs J G Smith of Wisconsin ids spoke at the regular weekly supper meeting of the Elks lodge on Tuesday night Although he spoke very seriously of the war Smith injected many humorous comments about life on shipboard and told of some of the methods used by the sailors to obtain rettes and other items which are considered luxuries Petty Officer Smith has been in the Mediterranean war area and also the Sooth Pacific where he participated m sea fights which he intimated that the Japs did not enjoy He his parents un- til March 15 and then report to an unnamed base where he has been assigned to a new destroyer Smith was interviewed by Robert who arranged the gram which also included songs by Corp Al Cordon of the radio school accompanied by Miss Muriel Waid Finns Answer Soviet Peace Terms Report The Finnish government's answer to Russian peace terms was sent to Moscow it was learned reliably night Originally reliable sources said Finland had a note prepared to de- liver to the Soviet last Friday but it was delayed apparently so that certain changes could be made in it Wisconsin Digs Out of Season's Heaviest Snowfall By the Associated Press Northern and central Wisconsin today reported opened roads though hazardous driving in some areas after digging out of the season's heaviest snowfall Heavy winds following the snow of day and Tuesday piled up big drifts and equipment came in for one of its few workouts this Temperatures generally were on the cold side in the storm area though only Superior had a zero reading -2 Park Falls reported the heaviest snow fall for the two days a total of seven inches The fall at sau amounted to six inches and Superior and Mari- nette had five Four inches fell at Marshfield LaCrosse and Green Bay Minimum temperature readings yesterday in the state Green Bay and Madison 8 Crosse 6 Park Falls 4 Wausau 2 and in the upper peninsula quette 10 Escanaba 9 and Sault Ste Marie 2 British War Output Hit By Coal Strike flow of coal from Welsh mines on which British war industries are largely dent dwindled to a trickle today as a wage strike spread steadily throughout the area and there were indications that production might be halted by Best estimates said that of out of miners in the Welsh fields already had walked out With the situation hourly ing worse the nation tully to a meeting of owners and miners in London this afternoon under the chairmanship of Fuel Minister Gwilym Lloyd George to produce some solution for the wage problem which the miners say needs a general mg The loss in daily production was estimated at tons FILM A film depicting the processes of will be shown to Ki- at their luncheon meeting Thursday at p m in the ter hotel through the courtesy of the Paper com- pany DUELS CONTINUE IN GASSING AREA Allied Headquarters mortar and grenade duels raged for the second straight night in Cassino on the main Fifth army front headquarters announced today and observers have spotted movements behind the man lines below Rome possibly in- regrouping for a fourth push against the allied head Pound Rail Station New Zealand siege guns ed at a German held rail station about a mile south of Cassino while American troops west of Cisterna on the beachhead engaged m a fierce and mortar duel with the Nazis but there was no change in positions The Germans made a concerted but futile effort to trate British positions near to on the Rome side of the head Discussing the German ments behind the lines headquarters said the Nazis appear to be on the watch for any opening in our for- ward positions Foul weather however continued to hamper the ground and the communique declared that heavy snow in the mountains and deep mud in the valleys have made all movements difficult Fly Sorties Allied planes flew about ties yesterday with heavy bombers blasting the Toulon naval base in southern France and medium ers striking at rail yards in Rome Five Nazi planes were destroyed for a loss of five allied craft The Rome radio said heavy dam age and casualties had been caused in Rome and asserted that a church and an orphanage had been hit Argentine Ban On AP Is Continued Buenos Restraints applied two ago against Press communication ties were continued today by tine authorities Measures taken against the Unit ed Press and its domestic affiliate Prensa Umda were modified to per mit UP to resume normal tion of news to Argentine new spa pers and radio stations but both UP and AP were still deprived of leased wires to Montevideo Red Cross War Total With Only 3 Days Left Is SIXTH ARMY IS LICKING NIPS ON THREE FRONTS By the Associated Press Sixth army troops in the west Pacific are filling in the details bv Gen Douglas thur's statement a week ago that the end of the Bismarck campaign is now clearly m sight Today's allied communique re- ported Sixth army units have ed control of Los Negros island in the Admiralty group have frogged up the north coast of New Britain to within 170 airline miles of Rabaul and have driven up the south coast of New to in 50 airline miles of Gasmata Have Air Umbrella Covered by an air umbrella but not by bombardment first di- vision marines attached to Lt Gen Walter Krueger's Sixth army swarmed ashore Monday at peninsula on New Britain's north coast and drove toward Talasea the miles distant where the Japanese once had an emergency landing strip Rifle fire was the only opposition to the ing Sixth army infantrymen who landed at Arawe on New Britain's south coast Dec 15 launched an of- fensive which has carried them 24 miles up the coast toward Gasmata Japanese supply and emergency air base Airdrome Ready airdrome quickly on prize of the Admiralty islands in- vasion Feb 29 has been repaired and now is ready for full-scale use by American planes MacArthur Heavy Liberator bombers split through intense anti-aircraft fire to unload 98 tons of explosives on Sunday Other planes ed ground action on New Britain IN 7 Swancutt Has Good Chance of Recovery See Pictures Page 7 Riverside jury today returned a that two girls and a policeman shot to death Sunday came to their deaths at the hands of 2nd Lt Beaufort Swancutt with homicidal intent An army medical corps nurse told the jury of seeing the young women shot to the floor in the Camp Anza Officer's cl ub by a man she said looked very much Lieutenant Swancutt 31 of LaCrosse Wis Five other persons were wounded Col Earle R Sarles the camp's commanding officer has announced that Swancutt will be tried on der charges before a military court Swancutt felled by police bullets was reported by army officials to have a pretty good chance of recovery superior officer CapL Aubrey G 27 of Preston Minn was said to an of survival 2nd Lt Harry J Light and 2nd Lt A W were reported recovering Stain in the officers club were Dorothy Douglas and each S and from Long Beach Calif Arthur Simpson A a was shot to death in suburban Arlington Slightly wounded as Swancutt ftom the club was Corp ert Sampson of Los Angeles wounded said Policeman H Cole when he resisted 7 BERLIN Huge Planes Pour Explosive Bombs On Capital Strong forces of U S Fortresses and huge fires in Berlin day on the American fourth visit to the German capital within six days More than explosive bombs blasted the city More than incendiary bombs set the fires From these officially announced figures the British association estimated that possibly heavy bombers made trip escorted by as many fighters First reports from the fighters showed they bad shot down at least iO German planes Great Flak Barrage One group of about 50 bombers at- tacked targets at the southwestern edge of Berlin while others braved a great flak barrage over the heart of Hitter's capital Light clouds which covered the bombers most of the way to Berlin opened up over the city to disclose the targets It was the American heavy eighth big assault in ten days NOT SO TOUGH A Mustang Fighter Base in fighter pilots who covered the second wave of bombers hitting Berlin today re- ported they saw only a half dozen German fighters and shot down three of these The first report of pilots at this base said the defense was not ly so intense as that in the battle of Berlin two days ago Visibility was clear over the German capital The pilots said the hardest part of their job was the six hours round trip and came after only one day's inter- val since the last heavy attack on the German capital A United States air force an- Strong forces of Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the Eighth air force escorted by large formations of AAP and RAF fighters attacked industrial targets in the Berlin district today More than incendiary bombs and more than high explosive bombs were dropped It was the fourth operation by can aircraft over the Berlin district within eight days Started Last Friday The American daylight aerial campaign against Berlin started last Friday when Lightning fighters penetrated to the capital This was 7 As the wai fund drive here enters the final stretch before its conclusion day contributions in five of the six divisions of the campaign lag al lengths behind their respective quotas with the commercial group being closest to overtaking its goal having given 97 per cent or 297.80 of its share Total con- up until noon today talled somewhat more than half the total quota of There are encouraging signs of a sprint which will save the however as several groups in the industrial and labor bracket report concerted drives to bring in the stragglers and to over take their quotas The Biron division of e Water Power and Paper com- pany for example expects to achieve a 100 per cent record of contributions sometime during the late shift tonight and several other industrial plants report that more than 75 per cent of their workers have donated The box score of contributions up until noon today Division Industries and organized labor Commercial Public employees Rural Clubs and lodges Unclassified Totals Quota Total to Date 231.00 206.25 160.50 246.05 500 350 400 550 115.100 Cars Collide On Icy Pavements Drifts and icy pavements an ermath of the big snowstorm counted for two more accidents Tuesday afternoon Arthur Davis Route 5 city was traveling south on Highway 13 ai L p m about one half from the city limits Turning out for a Uxi the car hit deep snow and left the road striking several mail boxes and a telephone Estimated amount of damage to public property and to the grill radiator and fender of the Davis car amounted to Ben Nelson employed by the low Cab company driving south on Second street collided with a car driven by Francis Bender also of this city Bender had stopped at the intersection of Second street and East Grand avenue while waiting for a stop light to change Nelson coming to a stop behind him slid into the rear of the Bender car The left front fender of the cab was dented and the metal frame of a headlight knocked out Damage was estimated at less than Funeral Services On Friday For Erickson Funeral services will be held day at 1.30 p m from the Krohn and Berard funeral home to the First English Lutheran church for Mrs Elizabeth Erickson 68 who died at her home at 231 Fifteenth street south at 5 a m Tuesday ter a lingering illness The Rev A J Hemming will officiate and will be in Forest Hill cemetery Mis Erickson was born in Wasa Finland on August 29 1875 the daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Anderson She arrived in the ed States on June 1 and had resided in central Wisconsin since that tune for the past 11 years in Wisconsin She married Eric Erickson in this city on gust 20 Seven children were born to this one preceding the mother m death Mr Erickson died in Children surviving are William of this Mrs Ina Jackson of Beaumont Calif Alfred and Oscar Erickson of Sigel Mrs Llojd Smith and Mrs Irene Sering both of this city She also leaves 20 grandchildren Friends may call at the Krohn and Berard funeral home until time lor services OUSTED BY velt Tuesday gent to the senate for confirmation the name of Timothy T Cronm Oconomowoc Wis to succeed Bert hold J Busting shown as United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin ting has been the district attorney since June 13 1933 when was appointed by the president active in Democratic politics for several years is now attorney for the Wis OPA district office Russ Rejects Latest Polish Offer Report London JP British papers said today that Russia had rejected the latest Polish ise offer to settle the Russo-Polish boundary dispute but Premier Stanislaw declared that his Polish had not been informed about it There was resentment in Polish circles over reports published by the London press and circulated by diplomats that the Soviets had rejected the plan for a temporary proposal which described as a British rather than Polish suggestion The Poles felt that their ment should have been informed Stalin had refused to agree to the plan transmitted to the Sonets by Prime Minister Churchill Anti-Soviet Elements It was understood here that in re- the the Kremlin reiterated that no under- standing can be reached unless tain allegedly anti-Soviet ments are eliminated from the ed government and the Curzon is accepted as Poland's eastern dary The compromise offer in the ish reply called for Polish tration of territories west of the 7 Service Officer Has New Marshfield Office The new branch office of ty Service Officer E 0 Anderson has been set up in Marshfield as authorized by the county board last January said here today The service officer spends each Thursday in his new office in Marshfield the rest of the time in his office in the courthouse annex here In charge of the Marshfield office located in the Telephone company building there is Mrs Dorothy Meihak wife of a World war No J veteran She maintains fulltime of- fice hours in the Marshfield office although part of her duties and part of her pay are related to office work for the North Wood county Red Cross chanter OXYGEN TANK DONORS Donors of the oxygen tank units mentioned in Tuesday's une to the and Babcock Ranger stations and the fire department were all five ters in the Wood county council of the American Legion auxiliary cording to an announcement today by Mrs Howard Amundson who was president of the council at the time the subscription drive waa held in 1943 The five chapters are those of this city Nekoosa Mile Babcock and Marshfield THE WEATHER For Fair tonight and Thursday c o cold night not quite so cold Thursday diminishing wind CLEAR today's Maximum temperature for hour period ending at 7 a no 37 minimum temperature for 24-hour period ending at 7 a m 4 tempt ature at 7 a 4 Precipitation
