The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 2

PAGE 2 THE RMINELANOEft (WIS.) DA1LV NEWS Escaped Prisoners Caught Today Deserters Left City Jail Early Friday Evening -Three U. S. Coast Guardsmen, held here on suspicion of being de- seiters, escaped from the city jail early Friday night and were picked up by the Navy Shore Patrol in Milwaukee today, Chief of Police Joseph Hack said today. How the three managed to get through two heavy steel doors in the jail is a mystery but it is believed the doors had not been properly locked and they escaped by picking the lock. Chief Hack said he was tjie last officer to see the men and they were securely locked in when he left them at 5:45 p.

m. Friday. They were believed to have escaped about 7 p. m. It was not until approximately 2:30 o'clock the following afternoon that a general alarm was sent out by the Green Bay Coast Guard office.

Chief Hack said the officers on duty when the escape was made (William Nixon and William Felch) failed to make out a report on the escape and he did not know of it until after he checked with them Saturday afternoon. The chief declared that Felch told him that he (Felch) had attempted to call the chief but he was unable to reach him. Hack stated that he had been at home Friday evening and no call was received. The Coast Guardsmen, who gave their names as George Marlega and Lawrence Turnqunce, of Milwaukee, and Jay Pilabjian, Detroit, were seen by several women. Seen Running: Toward Tracks.

Mrs. Penny Drivas, wife of a police officer on leave with the Navy, observed the men running down Conro street. Another woman saw the trio running toward the North Western railroad tracks. She later met County Traffic Officer Gordon Taggart and reported the incident to him. Officer Taggart located Officer Felch and told him what the woman had related.

Taggart said he advised the city officer to check on the I incident and Felch said that he would. That was at 8 p. m. Friday. Both Officer Nixon and Felch in the police station at about 7 p.

m. Friday and observed that the prisoners were missing. Though Of- ficer Felch said he attempted to call the chief, no report was made to the sheriffs office and no general alarm was sent out. Saturday morning, a News reporter asked the chief if the men were still held in custody. He was told that they had gone and had probably been released by the men on the night shift on instructions from the Green Bay Coast Guard office.

Chief Did Not Know of Escape. At that time, the chief said the men had not escaped but he added that he would ask Officers Felch and Nixon what had happened. At noon Saturday, when The News went to press, nothing had been learned about the prisoners. Chief Hack today promised that he would make a full investigation He added that he had been in- "fprmed ty Milwaukee officers that the Coast Guard men were wanted California for deserting. An experiment conducted in the city jail today showed that the steel doors could be opened easily from the inside if the keys were in the outside lock.

If the keys were taken out, or if the keys were partially removed, the doors could not be opened. But with the keys inserted fully, the tumblers of the lock could be turned from the inside merely inserting a coin in the lock and turning it. One of the prisoners had some money with him and the three may have boarded the southbound tram Friday night. Picked up by the police at 2'30 a. m.

Friday, the men told conflicting stones and.had no identification or dog tags" issued by the Navy There were being held here while being checked by Promoted Oneida Men Enter Service in Armed Forces Ernie Wilkowski (above), who has completed 38 missions piloting B-26 medium bombers over France. Belgium and Holland, has been promoted from second to first lieutenant. A former Rhinelander Paper Company employe, Lieut. Wilkowski is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Wilkowski. formerly of Rhinelander, now living in Baraboo. Second Edition ot Service Paper Is Published Today The second edition of the "Oneida Service News," weekly paper published for mailing to men and women in the armed services, was being published today. Copies will be available at the offices of the Rhinelander News and the Rhinelander Office Supply Company tomorrow morning. The four-page tabloid newspaper made its first appearance last week.

Between 250 and 300 copies were sold. The publication is on an experimental basis and will continue for several weeks to determine the need for--lt. The second edition contains news of Oneida county men and women in service throughout the world, together with selected items of local news. Featured is a picture of the dismantling of the Thunder a landmark knowns to every boy and girl who ever lived in the community. Other pictures in the edition are of Sgt.

Benjamin R. Strong, home on furlough after completing 74 missions with the Army Air Force in England; of Lieut. Donald G. Karr, recently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; of Pfc. Edmund Kurlinski, wounded in action in France; of Lieut.

Thurston (Tug) Juday, promoted to a first lieutenancy in the Marine Corps after participation in the battle for Saipan; of Pvt. Russell Kamerud, wounded in the invasion of France, and of Lieut. James W. Leerberg, now serving in the South Pacific. Also featured are 20 items from the popular column, "With the Colors," which appears regularly in The News.

The newspaper costs five cents per copy. Mailings will be made directly from The News or Office Supply offices for purchasers who supply stamped, fully addressed envelopes. The No. 10 size envelope is best for mailing. No subscriptions are taken for the paper; purchasers who wish to send copies should arrange to call for copies weekly.

Two industrial plants have arranged for weekly purchases of the paper to send to former em- ployes now in the armed services. Any Allied airman who falls or bails out over Japan will be executed. This is the order of the day. broadcast. Names and service assignments of men who left hero last week as members of the July contingent from Oneida county were announced today by the selective service office.

The new service men. sworn into service last week, are: Army. Donajrt J. Christiansen, 525 Pelican street. Rhinelnnder.

Andrew E. Harris. Route 1, Rhinelander. John F. Trickoy, Star Route 2, Rhinelander.

William A. Dunn. Route 2, Rhinelander. Donald P. Fisher.

Star Route 1. Rhinelander. Wesley R. Clure. Route 1, Wau- sati.

Arthur G. Cook. Route 1, Rhine- lnnder. Raymond I. Bissonnette, Route 2, Rhinelander.

Amity A. Lambert, 641 Keenan street. Rhinelander. George O. Winquist, 714 Carr street.

Rhinelander. Irving F. Sandbcrg, 665 Alban street. Rhinelander. Harvey A.

Zerrenner, 325 Sutliff avenue. Rhinelander. John O. Moon. 22 W.

Davenport street. Rhinelander. Joseph Miller. 19 S. Pelham street, Rhinelander.

Arvid H. Clure. Route 1, Rhinelander. Frederick C. Wells, 414 Lennox street.

Rhinelander. Edgar G. Huebner. Heafford Junction. Maitland J.

Ruttan, Star Route 1, Rhinelander. Kenneth N. Watson, Tripoli. Donald C. Esidor, 323 Oak street, i Rhinelander.

Gerald W. Drossart, Lake Tomahawk. Eugene C. Skubal. 604 N.

Brown street, Rhinelander. Clyde D. Rodman, 317 W. Edgar street. Rhinelander (transferred from Loyal.

Melvin L. Davis, 1108 Eagle street, Rhinelander (transferred from Wausau, Navy. Lynn J. Kushman, 227 Court Park, Rhinelander. Neil W.

Buck, Woodruff. Royal H. Reik, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Kenneth W. DeNoyer, 823 Margaret street, Rhinelander.

Stanley J. Terevich, Route 1, Rhinelander. William P. Titus, Minocqua. John N.

Ames, Minocqua. Ten Tons of Paper Collected Here Almost 10 tons of paper were collected in the salvage collection Saturday, John Wells, Veterans of Foreign Wars salvage chairman, reported today. In addition, more than a half ton of rags were picked up. Exact figures on the paper collection were 19,691 pounds and on rags, 1,019 pounds. Chairman Wells reported that he was satisfied with the collection but he reminded Rhinelander residents that another salvage drive would be made soon.

"Paper continues to be a critical shortage item," Mr. Wells said. "Save it and we will be around to collect it before it piles up too high." Your Garden JULY 24,1944 Comr.ioji ragweed (left) is in seedling stage, showing its worm- vvood-likc foliagre. Giant rajwced'(right) is shown in bloom, and should i.i burned if cut during or after this staee. INSULATION EASY TERMS This is an ideal time to insulate.

Good insulation keeps your home warm in the winter cool in the summer. Saves fuel! Costs are surprisingly low. Easy payments can be arranged. NO DOWN PAYMENT UNTIL NOVEMBER 1st 36 Months to Pay Macdonald Lumber and Coal Company Formerly Sutlilt Supply fo. By HENRY L.

FREE Written for NEA The common ragweed, also known as hogweed and bitterweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), is a branching annual plant with finely incised rather attractive leaves. The flowers, which shed pollen, are green and grouped in spikes at the top. Pollen is shed during August and September and for a month or two longer around the Gulf of Mexico. Its average height is about 1 feet. The giant ragweed (A.

trifida), also called great ragweed, richweed, horseweed and kingweed, is a coarse plant 8 feet tall. Its leaves are fewer and larger than the common ragweed. The pollen is discharged from August to October. This plant is found east of the Rockies excepting Florida and parts of New England. The western ragweed (A.

psilo- stachya), is a lower growing plant than the common ragweed. Its leaves are thicker and less refined. It is a perennial plant and lives over winter to increase by its creeping rootstock. Its pollen is discharged from July to October. Its home is beyond the Mississippi River from Saskatchewan to Mexico.

Southern or lance-leaved rag- weed (A. bidentata), native to the i Ozark region, is a grayish-green, 'branchy, 3-foot plant. Its stemless leaves are inclined stiffly upward and its flowers pollinate in August and September. Prairie ragweed (Iva xanthifo- lia), inhabits the northern wheat belt as far south as Kansas. It grows feet tall and releases its yellow pollen in August and September.

It is known as burweed, marsh elder, -rag sumpweed and tall poverty weed. Control is possible only by eradication before the plants flower. Hand pulling in small areas, and mowing in large a second mowing often necessary to catch those branches which 'escaped the first often effective. If mowing is done after flowering starts, plant tops should be burned. Chemical weed-killers such as ammonium sulfamate, borax, rock salt solution and a 20 per cent solution of iron sulfate is also recommended.

For more information see "Ragweed and Its Eradication," published by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston 15, price 10 cents. Takes Wrong Road, Pays $50 Fine Henry Hedman, Shepard lake road, Sunday morning, mistook the Soo Line railroad tracks for a street and delayed the 3 o'clock passenger train which had to sidetrack to avoid hitting Hedman's truck. In county court this morning, Hedman pleaded "guilty" to drunken driving charge and was fined $50 and costs. A similar charge against Edward Sturzl, Hurley, formerly of Starks, was continued lor two weeks. Sturzl was involved in an automobile accident on County Trunk on July 4.

Robert Berger, Rhinelander, paid a fine of $1 and costs after pleading "guilty" to a charge of speeding in the city. Elmer Towne, formerly of Rhinelander but now of Burlington, pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of failing to support his wife and three minor children. Towne said he had sent his wife more than $100 on July 5. He will have a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning. Ernie Wilkowski Receives Promotion A NINTH AIR FORCE BOMBER BASE, E.

T. Delayed) promotion of Ernie W. Wilkowski, Rhinelander, from second lieutenant to first lieuten- ant has been announced by Headquarters Ninth Air Force. Lieut. Wilkowski is a first pilot with Col.

Thomas Hail's target- busting B-26 medium bomber group which has compiled an impressive record in the European Theater of Operations. A veteran of 38 combat missions, Lieut. Wilkowski has flown Marauders on attacks against enemy strongpoints in France, Belgium and Holland, in Ninth Air Force pre-invasion blows and subsequent operations in support of Allied ground forces. The group to which he is assigned has been officially commended on several occasions for outstanding examples of pin-point precision bombing TONIGHT Shows P. M.

Matinee Daily 2 P. M. PeHttt cnttrloiimtnt torn MURPHY MOORE DAVIS SC HILLY Also Selected Short Subjects Children Under 12, Matinee Adults. 36c Ed Swensen Sees Two LST's Sunk In Invasion Run Aboard LST 357 on which Ed Swensen of Rhlnelander served, War Correspondent John A. Moroso wrote a dramatic account of the' invasion battle.

The story, distributed by the Associated Press, indicated the action Swensen, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Swensen, CIS Arbutus street, went through.

The account follows: ABOARD LST 357 OFF THE FRENCH BEACHHEAD, June 9 (Delayed) arrived at this congested beachhead a few minutes ago after a frightful night which saw. two of five craft in an LST (landing ships, tanks) convoy go down in exploding flames in Channel darkness. Torpedoes struck the two ships just astern of us. The first one burned brightly for more than an hour and then settled beneath the waves. The second flared longer, exploding violently as tank ammunition magazines blew up.

Attack Laid to E-Boat. The horror of the situation was that we didn't know what was attacking us. Flares lighted the skies occasionally and we had a warning that two enemy destroyers were approaching from the northwest. We saw sporadic gunfire in that direction, and flares at four or five other points. The best theory here is that the last ship in our column dropped back with steering trouble and a furtive E-boat picked her off.

Using the light from the burning ship to silhouette the second, we believed, the E-boat then fired more torpedoes. After battle stations was sounded at 2:31 a. we stood in the cold, wet darkness, expecting to be blown Speed Up After Second Sinking. Our single escort, a British help much, so we just prayed and waited. We were like sitting ducks, due to the slowness of the convoy, but the skipper kept his course and maintained the same speed until the ships behind him went down.

Then we sped up two knots. The LSTS that went down were identified as Nos. 314 and 376. We have no information about survivors, although we could see several blobs which looked like small boats When we arrived off the beachhead we found the warships still shelling the shore, and scores upon scores of anchored ships-waiting to be unloaded. The congestion indicated that there was a serious situation ashore.

Tuscaloosa, Quincy on Hand. The cruiser Tuscaloosa was firing mgh arching shots, with the Quincy as well as three British cruisers and a number of destroyers standing by. From this viewpoint we were' a long way. fj-qm, securing the proper unloading place for our ships. Buy Your Paints Here Kern-Tone Varnish All Kinds of Paints White and Colors Bellile Electric Shop 18 W.

Rives St. Phone 46 Dcwey Smith Wounded in Action WASHINGTON. July 24 The War Department yesterday made public the names of 28 Wisconsin men wounded in action. Among them were Pfc. Dewey E.

Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wava Smith, Route 2, Rhinelander, and Pvt. Harold Quinn, husband of Doris Quinn, Antigo, both wounded in the Mediterranean theater; and Lieut. Wayne E.

Winnans, nephew of Mrs. Isabell Back- staff, Oshkosh, wounded in the European area. Boys Hit by Cars; Sutler Bruises Two Rhinelander boys escaped serious injury when they were struck by automobiles Saturday and today. While playing in, fl-ont of his hous, Richard Swearingen, age was struck by a car driven by an out-of-town doctor who stopped and examined the boy. The boy was slightly bruised.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Swearingen, 909 River street Ten-year-old Charles Sackett also slight bruises when he was struck by a car on Highway 8 near the Court Club this morning. The boy is son of Mr. and Mrs.

Al Sackett, 406 South Pelham street. H. M. Jesse, Clintonville, was the driver of the car. Tavern Men Urged To Back War Drive Tavern operators are being urged by their state association to make an eleventh-hour effort to put the Fifth War Loan Drive over the top it-was reported today by William Gilley.

The operators have received a letter from the state association suggesting that they invest the proceeds of a full day's business in war securities. The association points out that Wisconsin still has no'f met its quota the types of bonds intended for individual purchase and urges that operators make every effort to contribute to the success of the drive. With the Colors Activities of Oneida County Men "in the Armed forces Brothers Overseas. A. M.

Richard Mueller has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mueller, 223 East Rives street, that he is now stationed in the Admiralty islands.

The Muellers' younger son, Robert, who is also in the U. S. Navy, is stationed in South America. In England. Mrs.

Adolph Krummel, Alban street, has been informed that hef husband, Adolph Krummel, has arrived in England. He is with a field artillery unit. Ration Guide By the Associated Press Meats, Fats, Book Four red stamps A8 through Z8 valid indefinitely. Processed Foods: Book Four blue stamps A8 through Z8 and A-5 valid indefinitely. 1 'f Sugar: Book Four stamps 30, 31 and 32 valid indefinitely for five pounds each.

Stamp 40 good for five pounds for home canning through Feb. 28, 1945. Shoes: Book Three airplane stamps 1 and 2 valid indefinitely. Gasoline: In northeast and southeast, 10-A coupons good for three gallons through Aug. 8.

Elsewhere 12-A coupons good for three gallons through Sept. 21. B-3, B-4, C-3 and C-4 coupons good everywhere for to five gallons. Fuel Oil: Period Four and Five coupons valid in all areas through Sept. 30.

New Period One coupons may be used as soon as received from ration boards. News Paragraphs at the Sport shop today was an pound mus- kie caught by Al Bernsteeri in Boom Lake. The muskie was caught on a surf-oreno, Council city council will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the city hall. WHAT ARE ITAMINS HACKBARTH PHARMACY Prescriptions 14 W. Davenport Street H.

A. FLUEGGE OPTOMETRIST Now Located in Our New Offices SUITE 11 FORBES BUILDING Corner of Brown and Davenport Streets Scientific Visual Examinations Complete Optical Service 1 Make an Appointment Now. Phone 503-W MILWAUKEE OFFICE Suite 204 Empire Bldg. 710 N. Plankinton Ave.

DR. WM. H. FLUEGGE Optometrist Some Reasons Why Tojo Got the Boot TT (U- Signal Corps photo from NBA) Jap bodies litter Tanapag Harbor beach at Saipan after suicidal attempt to drive American invader, back into the mute witnesses whose silent testimonv was a factor i oHHT 't 0 u-23bD dead-Jap losses were many times as gl eat u. S.

forces alone buried 1 nearly 1 000 of the enemy dead. First Aid from the Underground Two exact members ol the French Underground, to whom D-D ay meant location of German defenses in Cherbourg to American officer ed infomation on gun "SS Run of New York City, I c4tl 8ucb days, even weeks. Deliverance Day, point out with aid of map. They also.