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PAGE 2 THE RIHNELANDER (W1S.) NEWS 10,1948 Factory Whistle Blasts to Signal War's End The chiming of church bells throughout the city and the blasting of whistles by the Rhinelander Paper Company, the Robbins Flooring Company and the Atlas Plywood Company will hail Ihe and when the official announcement comes, of the finnl peace of World War II. The whistles proclaiming the end of the war will be signal for business places to close according 'io the following schedule proposed by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce: If the announcement comes during store hours, but before 9 a. all stores will close immediately and open the following business day. If it comes after 9 a. stores will close immediately and will remain closed the ensuing day if that day is a business day.

If the announcement comes during the night, stores will be closed the ensuing day if that day is a business day. If it comes after 9 a. m. Sunday, on a holiday, or on the second day of a holiday, stores will be open the following day. If the peace announcement comes anytime Saturday, stores will close immediately and open the following Monday as usual.

Many industrial concerns will close for 24 hours following the an- Horntt Crewmen Visiting Homes Two Rhinelander men. Roland Heise Frantz, gunner's mate first class, and Robert W. Mitchell, yeo- I man. first clas's. have returned on leave from a tour of Pacific battle i duty, aboard the Navy's storied aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet (pictured above), now undergoing i typhoon-damage repairs at a West coast naval base.

The Hornet was in operation off the coast of Okinawa when a 120" knot gale caught her, tossing her 27,000 tons upward. The ship was never damaged by the enemy, though she had Cruised more than" 150.000 miles. Yeoman Mitchell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E.

F. Swedberg, 311 Lincoln Street, and Gunner's Mate Frantz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. August Heise. 1025 River Street.

With the Colors Activities of Onelda County Men in the Armed forces Corp L. Ma; son. 639 DaVenport Street, is now at the Le Havre port of embarkation staging area in France awaiting shipment to the United States under the Army redeployment program. Corp. Mason, the son of Mrs.

Frank Mason, participated in the Germany campaign, and decorated with the Silver Star Medal, and the Pur- Six Men File Army Discharges Only six men filed discharge papers this week in the office of Agnes Verage, register of deeds, the smallest number in many weeks. Following are the names of those who filed their papers there this week: Pfc. John E. Hanson, Route 1, Rhinelander: 127th Infantry; dis- i charged at Ft. Sheridan; served i March 10, 1942, to July 22, 1945.

bins Flooring Company and Daniels Manufacturing Company. Services will be held at 7:45 on the evening of the announcement by at least eight Rhinelander churches. They are the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Trinity Lutheran Church. Congregational Church, Methodist Church, St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church, Four Square Church, and the Church of the Nazarene.

The Rhinelander Paper Company announced that the whistles indicating the peace news would be two 15 second blasts followed by five short blasts. There will be two second intervals between the blasts. Members of the Tavern Association were unable to agree on closing hours, and probably will close or remain open according to individual decisions. Rhinelander People Helped Make Bomb A large group of men and women from this locality helped make the first atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan, it was revealed today by U. S.

Employment Director Gilbert Sanborn. The Rhinelander office employed 18 men and women between November, 1943, and August, 1944, to Work on the project at the E. I. DuPont Company plant in Hanford, Wash. They were hired under con- tjitions of extreme caution and secrecy, and had no the news was released to the what they were working on.

The number hired at this office Was 98, which included construction workers, maintenance men, foremen, equipment operators, laborers, clerical workers, and three nurses. At least half of those hired were from Oneida County, the rest from Vilas and Forest Counties. There were 196 applications for the only 98 were hired after thorough investigations were conducted. the workers arrived in Washington they were told that although the government could not inform them as to exactly what they were working on, "it was a race against time with Germany" in which they were competing. Mr.

Sanborn said that although the men of the U. S. Employment Office knew that it was a project of critical importance and meaning, they were never told just what it was Sheridan; served Nov. 24, 1941, to fore he entered the Army in Aug 2 1945. 27th 1942.

and is a member of the Tank Battalion. Returning: Headquarters, 13th AAF, Lieut. Harry A. "Sorenson, 13th AAF Pacific veteran, is returning to the United Pfc. James J.

Poskie, 425 High Street, Rhinelander: 112th Infantry; discharged at Ft. Sheridan; served March 17, 1942, to July 23, 1945. Staff Sergeant Robert L. Newman, Route 1, Rhinelander; Army States after completing his first tour Command; discharged at Ft of duty as a pilot on a B-24 Libera- I Sheridan; served Oct. 15, 1940, to June 22,.

1945. Pvt. Rex F. Rowe, Three Lakes; Army: discharged at Ft. Knox, served'March 2, 1945.

to Aug. 4. 1945- Sgt. Casper J. Darr, 225 Alban Street, Rhinelander; 37th Fighter Squadron; discharged at Ft.

Sheridan: served Jan. 30, 1942, to A 1, 1945. Cities Prepare to Celebrate V-J Day tor bomber with the "Long Rangers," crack Jungle Air Force heavy bomber group. Lieut. Sorenson left the United States in December.

1944. with the rank of second lieutenant. Since then he has been promoted to his present grade and has participated on 41 combat missions with a total of 510 hours. Among the many targets he has hit are the island fortress of Corregidor, Cavite Naval Base, Grace Park in the Philippines; Balikpapan i and Tarakan on Borneo, and Saig- i while the research in progressr and work was Ration Guide By the Associated Press- Meats, fats, Four red Btamps Q2 through U2 good through Aug. 31; V2 through Sept.

through Z2 good 30; Al through El on on French Indo-China. Prior to entering the AAF, Lieut. Sorenson graduated from William Horlick High School. He holds the Air Medal with four oak leaf clus- the Philippine Liberation ribbon, and the Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon with five battle stars. Dr.

and Mrs. Milo M. Sorenson, lis parents, reside -at 339 Street. In Philippines: Manila, P. I.

By the Associated Press Wisconsin communities, tense and eager, today awaited official announcement from Washington of a Japanese surrender and made plans Marshall to keep victory celebrations with- i in reasonable bounds. 1 Officials recognized the certainly that a rollicking time would be Train Wreck in North Dakota Kills 33 Persons MICHIGAN, N. D. Aug. The death list in lastnight's collision of two westbound sections of the Grsat Northern Railway's Empire Builder rose to 33 today.

Approximately 50 were injured, 10 seriously. Twenty-nine bodies had been taken from the wreckage shortly before noon. Workmen digging into the debris said they could see at least four others, trapped in the' tangle steel. Three bodies were identified as those of Mr. L.

H. Lofthus, of Lowell, Lloyd S. Burdiofe, of Great Falls, and J. 'Person, of Chicago, porter on the combination observation-sleeper at the rear of the first s-sction which was telescoped by the following train's locomotive. A bracelet found on a woman's' body bore the name Adelaide F.

Manus, but no address. At least 15 of the recovered bodies were those of servicemen, eight those of women, including a nurse, i the porter, two male civilians, and three children. Army officers from Fort took charge of the service-' bodies and said identities, once: made, would not be annolince'd -tin-' til the next of kin had been, -noti-i fied. With a crash that shook house in this community of less than 500 population, the locomotive of the speeding second coach section plowed into the leading Pullman section which had been halted by a hot 'box on the locomotive tender shortly 'before 7 p. Th rear car of the standing train, a combination sleeper and observation car, was telescoped, its fur-; nishings and -berths jammed into compact mass at its front.

The car's steel shell remained Army to 7,000 Doctert CHICAGO, Aug. 10 tion of the Army Medical Corps by about 7,000 by May ol 19W is tcmplated by a point discharge tcm worked out by the surgeon general's office. Some details of the system were announced in the Journal of the American Medical Association In its Aug. 11 issue. The Army announcement, however, did not show how point scores, called adjusted vice ratings, were accumulated.

Russia Tells of Offer by Japs To Surrender LONDON, Aug. 10 A Tass broadcast from Moscow said today the Japanese minister of foreign affairs, Shigenori Togo, had informed the Soviet ambassador to Tokyo, Jacob A. Malik, that Japan was ready to accept the Potsdam terms, subject to maintenance of Emperor Hirohito as sovereign. The text of. the Soviet news agency broadcast: "Today (Aug.

10) a meeting of the Soviet ambassador in Malik, with the Japanese minister for foreign affairs, Togo, took Minister Togo made the following declaration to the Soviet ambassador: 'The Japanese government is ready to accept the terms -of the declaration of July 26 this year, to which the Soviet government has also adhered. 'The Japanese government understands that declaration does not comprise any dem'and which prejudices the prerogative of the Japanese emperor as sovereign of Japan. The Japanese government asks for definite information with regard to this "Minister Togo also announced that similar statements have been imposed on the locomotive of the handed to the governments of the following train. United States, Great Britain and Train attendants estimated 27 China through Sweden." persons occupied the car's twoi Under ordinary diplomatic proportions. (cedure, upon, a declaration of war, Definite check of the number Malik and his Tokyo embassy staff Pvt Lyle Daily, husband of Mrs.

ad by a wit whistles tied down, Pearl Dailey, Star Route 1, Rhine-' lander, does general medical nursing in an army general hospital here. He came overseas on dancing in the streets, parades, bells ringing and sirens shrieking. No one wanted to discourage them. Authorities asked only that prop- i fni 9v Hii.v*viiv^j.AV4.t«J L- Feb. 2, 1944.

The son of Guy Dailey erty rig hts be observed and that I8 a brother, I there be "rough stuff. MM2C Frank Dailey, in the Navy. Discharged: Pfc. Lester E. Larson, Route 2, Rhinelander, has been discharged 'from the Army at Borden General Hospital.

Chick-! iC Of aiSe asha, after two months hos- there be no "rough stuff Throughout the state, stores planned To close after the official V-J announcement. Churches of all denominations made ready to hold pitalization. Snyder Ads to Avert Coal Crisis WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (P) John. W- Snyder, director of war mobilization, announced today a program designed to avert a threatened coal shortage, including an effort to defer miners subject to military service.

Snyder asserted in a statement that output of coal "must be immediately increased" or there will have to be a sharp cut-back in both In Milwaukee, plans were made to barricade the downtown district to give the populace a place to let off steam. Chief John W. Polcyn assigned 400 police officers to the downtown area but said they would be preseni "only to help everybody have good time." At Oshkosh, Mayor George F. Oaks announced "no restrictions on V-J day within the limits of sanity." Superior's taverns will be closed for a 24-hour period following official announcement and all city offices will be closed immediately if V-J Day occurs -today. At Janesville, a 24-hour closing of stores is planned.

A Madison ordinance requires taverns to close on V-J Day and the police chief yesterday called tavernkeepers' attention t6 the law. At Fond du a committee called by the industrial and home use of the fuel, mayor yesterday agreed that citi- Snyder's proposals include: zens should observe the day with injured was difficult as they were scattered among a half dozen neighboring communities which have hospital facilities, completely lacking here. Michigan has no doctor. John Burnham, a staff cofre-. spondent for the Fargo, N.

Forum, who was at the scene, said only two men among the 'passengers on the observation car escaped. These were an unidentified sailor and soldier who saw the second section bearing down on them and jumped, the soldier suffering severe cuts in going through a window. E. Nelson, Grank Forks, N. the engineer of the second section, although suffering from shock, was pulled otherwise unhurt from his cab which was beneath the observation car shell.

The fireman, George Harris, also from Grand Forks, saw the crash coming and leaped from the cab. The Empire Builder had left Wednesday at 11:15 p. m. and the Twin Cities at 8 a. m.

Thursday, bound for Seattle. The accident was the first in which a passenger had been killed on the Great Northern since 1919, Moore said. Minocqua Man Dies in Hospital Bernard Anckhausen, of Minocqua, died early this morning in St. Mary's Hospital at the age of 74. Funeral arrangements are being made by Bolger's Funeral Home in Minocqua.

A retired engineer, he was widely known. would be interned, Just as the Russians yesterday confined Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato and his staff to the Japanese embassy in Moscow. Apparently the Japanese allowed Malik continued access to some kind of communications with" Moscow, however, and still treat him as the representative of his country instead of as an internee. Bobby-Sox Purse Thieves Caught RACINE, Aug. 10 Racine's bobby-socks purse thieves sought by police for several weeks were under arrest today and awaiting an interview with probation authorities.

Police said three girls, between 11 and 13 years of age, were taken into custody shortly after they h'ad split $70 obtained from a handbag. The detactive bureau said the girls admitted they had obtained $159 from purses stolen from store counters and at bathing beaches in recent weeks. The United States must never again repeat the mistake of throwing away its weapons while the worl'd bristles with threats of war. News. News Paragraphs 1.

Faster release of miners from the armed forces. 2. Instructions to local draft boards to defer men liable for military service who are now engaged police, in coal mining. 3. Action by the OPA to improve the food situation in coal mining "gusto but in a sane manner." Auxiliary police and firemen and the state guard company will be called upon to assist the regular good through Oct.

31; Fl through Kl good through Nov. 30. communities. 4. Top priority by the WPB to the needs of the coal industry in operating materials and equipment.

LODI, Aug. 10 Twelve Prisoners Hurt in Truck Accident 5. A Processed Four blue stamps Y2, Z2 and Al through Cl! good through Aug. 31; Dl through HI good through Sept. 30; Jl through Nl good through Oct.

31; PI through Tl good through Nov. 30. Four stamp 36 good through Aug. 31 for five pounds. Next stamp valid Sept.

1. Shoes Book Three airplane stamps 2, 3 and 4 good indefinitely. OPA says no plans to cancel any. coupons good for Bix gallons each through Sept 21 B-7, C-7, B-B and C-8 good -for five gallons each- fuel One through Five coupons good through Aug. 31.

Last year's Period Four and Five coupons also expire Aug. 31. Period One coupons for 1945-46 season now valid. program by the WMC and the Solid Fuels Administration, in co-operation with management and abor, to reduce absenteeism i the mines. 6.

Action by the Office of Defense Transportation to give priority to movement of coal cars. 7. Granting of the highest priority by the manpower commission to the coal industry for recruiting additional workers. German prisoners of war and a U. S.

Army guard were injured when the truck in which they were riding overturned on a county highway west of here late yesterday. The prisoners were returning to their camp at Lodi, in Columbia County, at the time of the accident- The men had been working with a prisoner detail. The injured were taken to the hospital at Truax Field, Madison. Pike: Two northern pike were caught by Charles Finger in Muskellunge Lake on a sucker. The and pound fish are displayed in the Sport Shop show case today.

A 2.4HQUA Day Phone 1560 Night Phone 1590-1326-W ASK FOR FRESH BREAD With Milk At Your For In Applying And 5-P-f-e-D in Drying SURFACE-NU The CUor Plastic for Wood or Yanks, Home From Europe, Cheer News NEW VORK, Anf. 10 Cheers and shouts of joy echoed over Staten Island's waterfront area today when 1,484 returning Ol's on four troop transports learned of the Japanese Dome! news agtncy broadcast that Japan was ready to surrender. Many of the troops, including; of the Ninth Air Force, were scheduled for deployment to the Pacific, they, marched jubilantly down the gangplanks, singing as they came. Prisoners Indifferent. CHICAGO, Aug.

10 prisoners of war at Camp McCoy, received news of Nippon's surrender offer with indifference, related Maj. Gen. David McCoach, head of the Sixth Service Command. This was a normal reaction for the 2,700 prisoners, who are looked upon in the homeland as "dead men" for whom funeral services already have been held, the general said. News of the atom bomb and Russian entry into the war similarly was taken by the captured Japanese without show of emotion.

Mrs. Wainwright Hopeful. SKANEATELES, N. Aug. ID Jonathan M.

Wain- Wright, wife of the lieutenant general who has been a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor, said today that she "hoped, as I have been hoping for four years," that the news of the reported Japanese surrender offer was true. Travel Curbs to Ease. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 Office of Defense Transportation indicated today that travel restrictions will be eased speedily after Japan surrenders. Col.

J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, told a reporter that "we are holding meetings right now all over Washington preparing stages of relaxation." He added, however, that "my idea is that we'll have a tough time for about 60 days" after the Japanese quit. Wounded Yanks Get News. BATTLE CREEK, Aug. 10 news of, the reported Japanese surrender offer spread through Percy Jones Hospital here, where 2,000 wounded soldiers are patients, an air of excitement prevailed in the building although many GI's stolidly insisted, "we'll believe it when it's First comment of the day came from a private tearing along the corridor, who called out, "Call me mister! Oh, boy!" "I can't very well jump up and down but I sure feel like it," laughed Staff Sergeant Glen Stocks, of Eau Claire.

who lost his left leg and injured his right one seriously at Bizerte, Africa, 27 months ago. w. SWEO Transfer Attention, All Employees, RHINELANDER PAPER COMPANY V-J DAY SHUTDOWN The plans for the V-J shutdown are as follows: 1. In the event that hostilities cease on Sunday, Monday shall be observed. 2.

The entire mill will shut down for twenty-four hours with the exception of the Steam and Power Departments and the Filter Plant. 3. Eight hours pay will be given to all employees for the shutdown period providing they report for duty on their next regular shift starting time after the shutdown. 4. the confirmed notice of peace is given during hours between 8 m.

and 4 p. 4 p. m. and 12 midnight, and 12 midnight and 8 a. the hoar shutdown will become effective of the closest starting time of the regular shift, J.

if the word at 19 a. m. the plant will immediately shut down and will resume operttions again the following day at 4 p. m. If the word is received at TO-.

the plant will resume operations at 12 midnight the following day, etc. An orderly shutdown must take place, that is the regular Sunday morning wank-up will be on the Paper Machines. The of on must be properly with pulp. flie Pigosters ami PUnt will shut down in accordance with the direction of the Sulphite Superintendent who will do everything possible bring about shutdown. 6, A the event tbrt abuMown takes place on Friday or Saturday, 4fcc milt will not fclirt up vnttt tbe regular starting time on AS FOLLOWS FOB V-J PAY: HE Second Two Second Fwwe Qm Fifteen Second Pause Wbirtfe Two Five ifeMt WWrtte Blast Maekinoe Ittand Houitf llw MACRlNAC ISLAND, Michigan, Aug.

10 The lowly fly, which plagued summer vacationists in this area for many years, was officially banished Thursday as city officials joined in an informal celebration the event. Mayor Alan F. Sawyer lighted a bonfire to hundreds of old fly-traps while State Health Commissioner William E. Dekleine reported all files have been eliminated from the area by a brief campaign in which the new insecticide, DDT, was used. Jap Prisoners Escape ot McCoy CAMP MC COY, Aug.

10 Japanese prisoners of war, identified by camp authorities as Nobumori Kikuchi, 21, and Hideo Matsuzaki, 18, escaped yesterday from the camp compound. The men were reported missing after wprking with "a detail on the north side of the camp. Both wore POW clothes. Kikuchi was described as five feet, four inches tall, weighing 130 pounds; Matsuzaki five feet, two inches, weighing 116 pounds. French Agreed On Landing Plans? PARIS, Aug.

10 (JP) Gen. Alphonse Juin, French chief of staff, declared at the Petal treason trial today that a "gentleman's agreement" existed between Robert Murphy, U. S. diplomat, and Adm. Jean Darlan stipulating French non-re- when the Allies landed in North Africa.

Navy Lists Heavy WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 Navy announced today that 107 naval vessels, including three destroyers and three submarines, have been stricken from the Navy register "because of loss or damage either as the result of enemy action or perils of the sea." The destroyers are the Parrott, Tucker, and Worden. The submarines, all old pre-war types, the S-27, S-36, and S-39. The other vessels include 46 patrol torpedo boats and various miscellaneous ships. In addition, the Navy said that 45 LCT's (landing craft tanks) have been stricken from the register but that these vessels were not included in the 107 total becayse they were not commissioned.

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