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PAGE TWO ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1945 Wounded Vet On'ETrogram Cpl. McFarlaml to Take Part at Western A wounded veteran of the famous First Ranger Battalion who sprnt 14 months In a German prison ramp will assist In the Army nnd Navy Award ceremony Thursday afternoon at. Western Cartridse Co. division of Olin Industries, East Alton. The veteran is Cpl.

Robert Me- Fnrland, 20, of 204 Twelfth, Wood River, who returned here last monlh after being liberated by! Allied soldiers' from German' Sialag II-B, DanzlR. Cpl. McFarland will assist Lt. Cmdr. A.

L. Olson of St. Louis i distributing Army and Navy pins to Western employes. The Award ceremony will start at 3 p. m.

in the main plant area inhere em- ployes will assemble. Many guests will be present from St. Louis and nearby communities. A former Western employe, Cpl. McFarland participated in some of the bitterest fighting of the Italian campaign.

He received his basic training at Fort McClelland, went overseas in September, 1943. After landing in North Africa he was sent to Italy, and assigned to the First Ranger Battalion. He was wounded during the fighting at. Venafro and, after recovering from three shrapnel wounds at an army hospital In Caserta, he fought In the battle of Anzlo where he was captured by the Germans on Jan. 30, 1944.

McFarland and other Rangers were taken by the Germans to the prison camp where he was held 14 months until liberated by a unit from the Fifth Armored Division. He was liberated April 14, this Sgt. Nathan Lampe Back in the U. S. Nathan Lampe, infantryman with the 3rd Division of Gen.

Patch's Seventh Army, arrived In the and phoned his wife, Mrs. Margaret Lampe of 1107 Washington, that he expected to be at Jefferson Barracks either Saturday or Sunday. Lampe, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry W.

Lampe of Si. Louis, and nephew of Chaplain J. Heydon former pastor of College Avenue Presbyterian Church, has been overseas 32 months. He flew to the States from Salzburg, Austria. Mrs.

Lampe is receptionist In the office of Dr. Kenneth Little. Truman Seeks Continued from Page 1. today so President Truman can keep his date to close this historic United Nations meeting next Saturday. With the President already on year, and a month back in the States.

later landed Rainy Season Damages Crops Less Than Half of Ground Has Been Plowed Cpl. McFarland is spending 'his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keith McFarland, In Wood River. Next month he will report to Miami Beach for reassignment.

He wears the Purple Heart for wounds received In battle and also holds the Good Conduct medal. A native of Eldred, McFarland was educated In Wood River schools and graduated in 1942 from Roxana High. He later received vocational training in the National Youth Administration camp at LHchfleld and was ono of ten boys fqr employment In Seat- shipyard. Award wlrf be-presented to Western employes by Col. Clyde H.

Morgan, chief of the St. Louis Ordnance District, and "formal acceptance will be made by John M. Olin, president of Olln Industries. Among employes who will take part in the 30-minute ceremony tomorrow are Kenneth Veatch, 205 Grand, East Alton; Harry Seville, 3612 Berkeley, Alton; Elmer T. Cannedy, 615 Bowman, East Alton; Mrs.

Esta Meyers of Mt. Olive; and Cecil Crosnoe, 2300 Pleasant, Alton. the west coast at Olympia, and with time growing short to prepare for the projected Big Three meeting at Berlin next month, American delegates especially were hopeful that It would not be necessary to delay the closing session until early next week. But much depends on the remaining issue over the extent of discussion to be allowed a United Nations General Assembly. It was supposed to have been settled yesterday and officials said there seemed no question the time table would be thrown off if it was not settled finally today.

Russia is asking a stricter limitation of Assembly debates than Australia, as leader of a group of small nations, considers acceptable. Several efforts at a compromise have failed to produce agreement. Franco Barred Other conference work is speeding toward conclusion. Principles for the projected security league of the world organization were voted last night by a conference commission. This commission also agreed unanimously In a separate declaration that the Franco government of Spain, because of Axis support in coming to power, should never be admitted to membership.

The United States, which like many of the other nations maintains diplomatic relations with Generalissimo Francisco Franco, supported the declaration after It was advanced by Mexico and strongly backed by France. Three other commission meetings, the largest number yet for a single day, were called for today to approve other charter sections providing for the veto voting formula Security Council, for measures by which council costtd seek peaae and-for a system of International trusteeship for territories, such as League of Nations mandates and various Pacific islands, which may later be placed under It. Light Franchise At Edwardsville New State Child Labor Laiv Sent to Green for Signature Two weeks ago today the last farm work in the Alton neighborhood was done. That night a 2.25- Inch rain fell and started a period of wet weather than has continued since. The farmers were six weeks behind with their work then.

Now they are not only eight weeks behind but the season left Is to be too short for growing crops even should there be favorable weather from now on for planting and growing. The season changes tomorrow bringing the first day of summer, then the days will shorten. Less than half of the ground on farms In this locality has been plowed this year. Floods have cleaned out the low lands planted before the present wet spell started two weeks ago tonight. Many acres and clover mowed for hay the day before the heavy rain still on the fields where it was cut down, has been lost.

To make matters worse, the lost crop Is damaging the next crop growing underneath. Wet weather has kept the farmers from even attempting to take the ruined hay off the ground. The months of May and June are necessary for making the main start of a corn crop. With these two months lost, the prospect of a corn crop this year Is poor. The only hope for growing a new meat crop In the vicinity is to grow corn first.

In the bottom lands crops have been swept away by floods three years In succession. Two weeks of dry weather are needed to get rid of excess moisture In the bottoms if the rains shduld cease at once. The'growlng season will be short even though the bottoms may be seeded again this year. Many fields of soybeans sowed just ahead of the flood of two weeks ago have been lost because heavy rains sealed the ground over the beans. Farmers have been marking time during the past two weeks, waking for the rains to stop.

Fields are so saturated there will be no prospect of getting upon them for some days if the weather stays dry. Wheat has made no progress in the last two weeks, according to Employer Held For Questioning In Woman's Death reports from all crop had taken sections. so much The wet ROCKFORD, 111., June 20. Cecil Robbel, 45, who is being held on an open charge for questioning In the death of Mrs. Ruth Blanche Campbell, 38, one of his employes, will receive a hearing tomorrow on his petition for release on a writ of habeas corpus.

Taken Into custody after Mrs. Campbell's battered body was, found In an elevator of the Universal Electric Co. building Monday night, Robbel said in the petition that no charges had been placed against him. The action was filed by his attorney, Clifford Pewerson. State's Attorney Max West on said, however, that unless Robbel clears up what Weston called gaps In his accounts to police, he would be brought to Chicago today for a so-called lie detector test.

One of those "gaps," police said, centered around Robbel's description to them of how he found the woman's body in the returning to his fourth floor apartment after leaving to get some coffee. A pot of still warm coffee stood on a stove in the apartment when detectives arrived, they said, and employes of the restaurant where Robbel asserted he had gone denied he had bought coffee there. Policeman Ed Kavanaugh said Robbel, manager of the electric company, called at 11:17 p. m. Monday and reported the death.

Robbel related, Kavanaugh ed, that Mrs. Campbell, wife of a serviceman, had been in his apartment but that he left her there about 11 p. m. when he went out to a restaurant. Detective Sgt.

Roy Johnson said there were no signs of disorder in the apartment. A single strand of hair found in Mrs. Campbell's hand, he declared, has been sent to Washington for identification. Weston said police were considering the possibility that Mrs. Campbell had been caught between the elevator and shaft.

The coroner's report listed her injuries as broken left collar-bone, broken shoulder and jaw, chest abrasions and contusions over the left eye. By LOUIS .1. KRAMP SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 20, UP) new state child labor law replacing a 1903 act will become effective In Illinois six months after V-J day, if Governor Green signs a bill advanced to his desk today. Passed unanimously by the legislature, the bill pushed by the Illinois Child Labor Committee answers the governor's 1945 Inaugural request for "teeth In the child labor law" and for correction of "ambiguity which has so weakened It that unscrupulous employers have committee violations almost with Impunity." The bill prohibits employment of minors under 16 years of age during school hours in factories, and in specified hazardous occupa tlons. It limits employment' of those under 18 in other occupations to a maximum of 48 hours a week.

It strengthens enforcement provisions and Increases penalties for violations. The child Order 20,000 Back to Work Strike of 18,000 Glass Workers Looms labor committee and 39 affiliated organizatolns, including women's religious, welfare and educational groups, had complained the present minimum of 14 years was too low for ful time employment. The committee contended penalties were too light and that state standards were Inconsistent with the federal fair labor standards act. weather before the last two weeks' of rain, few are venturing any prediction as to what will happen to the wheat. It has been flattened In many places but raised again generally.

The crop should be ready to combine In another week but there has been no headway toward ripening nop filling since the last wet spell began. 'Big Russ'Dunham Continued from Page 1. tent start to pretty soon Labor Relations Bill Introduced to Change Succession Bridges Measure Would Put Speaker Second WASHINGTON, June 20 UP) Advocates of legislation placing the speaker of the house first In the succession line to President Truman moved today for consideration by Congress. early EDWARDSVILLE, June The City Council by a vote of 7-3 Tuesday night adopted a franchise ordinance granting right to Illinois Power Co. to supply municipal lighting and power service for a 50-year period.

Under the new franchise, voted after lengthy discussion, the city's saving on electric light and power service will be $3053 annually, approximately 48 percent of the present bill, or a total of $153,155 over the 50-year span. In effect, the ordinance extends the prior franchise for a 39-year period, as the latter permit until 1956. would not expire Soon after Mr. Truman recommended such a course, Senator Bidges (R-NH) introduced a bill to make the speaker instead of the secretary of state the chief executive's successor in the event of an early White House vacancy. Chairman Sumners (D-Tex) of the House judiciary committee he would follow suit at once.

In a message to Congress Mr. Truman expressed belief that the speaker is the official "whose selection next to thnt of the dent and the vice president can be most accurately said lo stem from the pnople themselves. At tlie same time the new House committee on un-American activities opened public hearings to investigate what spokesman called "a move to slur the Bible and make every Irishman a villain. OPA's New York regional office will be the first subject of Inquiry. Committee members said they have evidence indicating an em- ploye ol the New York office used his political position to disseminate material that "follows the Communist line." Rep.

Thomas of New Jersey, ranking Republican com- mltteeman, said the OPA probe Is the first in a series of inquiries he will ask the committee to make of various federal agencies. As the House opened debate on legislation extending wartime price controls, Republican Leader Martin (Mass) announced members of his party will present 15 or more amendments. The administration wants the price law extended for one year in its present form. One amendment, Martin said, will seek to limit the extension to six months. Boy Bitten By t)og Mrs, John Matkelden of 1230 Rodemeyer informed police that her Robert, 4, had been bitten by a dog.

A patrolman was sent to, trace the dog and order It kept The new franchise takes effect at once, but the city's benefits, through reduced lighting and power costs will beging as of June 1. The measure does not grant exclusive service rights to the utility. currence. There has not been a major strike on the railroad since the railroad labor act was passed." The proposed new Labor Relations Board could require disputants, failing in mediation, to submit their arguments to an arbitration board or to a fact-finding commission. Its recommendations 'parties are expected, but not required, to adopt." But where the board might determine public hardship is involved, such as disputes involving coal or milk production or continued operation of public utilities, it would have power to enforce, through judicial contempt proceedings, temporary compulsory settlements.

The bill would do a drastic rewrite job on principal sections of the present Wagner Act. For instance, the closed shop would be legal only where a union Is (1) the "freely chosen representative of 75 percent of employes Involved, (2) its agreement with management is approved by 60 percent of employes involved, (3) its membership is open to anybody'hired by management, and its members whole thing would be leaking and the officers would have to move out." 'I'll Come Back" "Big Russ" was a barometer for his buddies because if he was "sweating it out" as a lowly private and suddenly was jumped up to a technical sergeant, big things were going to happen. If a platoon leader was needed for a dangerous patrol, "Big Russ" and his boys were sent out. Sometimes his officers told him they did not believe he would come back, but his reply was, "Don't worry, I'll come back. Just give me the orders." Last Jan.

23 Russell was captured and held for eight hours by the Germans, but he shot his guard and got back to the American lines, about 12 or 14 kilometers away, after wandering around for more than 24 hours. He had taken 24 men' out on patrol. They were cut off and only three got back to headquarters on schedule. Dunham was taken to a German chateau, left outside with his guerd while the officers went inside to eat. The guard was dozing.

Dunham was able to unbutton his sweater, cock the trigger of a German police pistol he had concealed under his uniform, Sgt. Dunham whipped out his pistol, shot the guard, then made a dive for a nearby Irrigation ditch. He wait- Last year 37,472 children under 18 years of age were reported working legally in Illinois. This was eight times the 1942 total. The number of child labor violations reported to the state labor department rose from 427 in 1942 to 1431 in 1944.

In 1943 reported compensible accidents to minors under 18 years of age increased 87 percent over 1942. Last year the total was 1860, including 10 fatalities. The new bill's minimum for certified and limited vacation and part-time after-school employment is 14 years. Exemptions are provided for agriculture, domestic service, newspaper carriers and odd jobs. Thirteen other states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio, now have child labor laws prohibiting employment of those under 16 during school hours.

Among other bills receiving final legislative approval yesterday and submitted to the governor were measures which: Make defrauding of newspaper salesmen under 18 years old a misdemeanor subject to a maximum fine of $25. Raise from' 50 cents to $1 daily pay for jurors in civil cases before justices of the peace. Permit salary increases from $1500 to $4000 for downstate county clerks after December, 1946, by validating compensation fees in addition to "regular salaries fixed by county boards and commissioners. Lower from 19 to 17 the maximum age of boys who may be sentenced to the state training school at St. Charles.

The minimum remains 10 years. The Senate knocked out a House- approved proposal lo raise county marriage license fees from $1 to $3, By ASSOCIATED PRESS The government, headed by President Truman, waved big sticks at thousands of the nation's idle workers today, prodding them to go back to jobs they had left over labor disputes. More than 20,000 employes In vital war work In scattered sections of the country were the targets for directives from the President as well as from the War Labor Board and the Office of Defense Transportation. Meanwhile, an estimated 18,000 glass workers in four states threatened to stop work tomorrow. Transportation facilities in several areas appeared the hardest hit by the work stoppages in the east, south and midwest.

The WLB acted to end five strikes while President Truman ordered. army seizure of one war plant. In Chicago, some 1200 soldiers manned trucks as the ODT s6ught to restore normal operations for the 1700 government-seized truck- Ing lines. Spoedy drafting of union truck drivers remaining away from jobs, was being prepared by QDT The number Idle among the 14,000 members of the two unions Involved in the five- day old work stoppage ranged from 6000 upWard. They quit work in protest of a WLB wage-hour decision.

Tri-State Company officials in Jackson, estimated 60,000 passengers in nine states were af fected by a strike of more than 40d bus drivers and mechanics. Un ion officials were directed by the WLB to use "full authority" tn ge the strikers back to their jobs meetings were scheduled in severa cities on the Tri-State system. Th strike began here June 9 in a dis 'ranklin Insurance Co. Buy San Antonio Firm SPRINGFIELD, June 20, Jhe Franklin Life Insurance Springfield has purchased as- and business of the Great merican Life Insurance Co, Of San Antonio, Tex. About $40,000,000 of assets and 450,000 In surplus funds were added by the Franklin In the tran- action, President Charles E.

Becker of the Franklin reported. He ormerly headed the Great Amer- can. Kiwanis Hears Lt. Henderson pute over procedure wage and rates, grievance seniority, spread to Louisiana, Alabama, Mis souri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennes see, Arkansas and Texas. Army seizure and operation plants of the Diamond Alkali Co at Painesvllle, Ohio, was ordere yesterday by President Truman Company officials said workers 2000 of whom struck Friday, wer "filtering back" to their jobs.

Hearings were scheduled toda; and Thursday by the WLB in a laps on Luzon to Stani As a special officer In the Quar- Corps of the army, Lieut. Homer Henderson told of his experiences and travels in connection with his duties in the Caribbean area and Latin American countries, at a Kiwanis Club meeting Tuesday evening at the Mineral Springs. Commenting on the natives, resources and the aftny and navy Installations In that area, Henderson described his trips to points ol Interest In Trinidad, British, Dutch and the French Guiana, Aruba anc Puerto Rico. Carl A. Luer was chairman of the program and Introduced the service man guest speaker, Edward Goodman, Charles A.

Rook Lloyd Carter, Mayor Harold Wadlow, Robert Henderson, Bert Richie, and the ReY Raymonc Trlckey were guests of the effort to end strikes at two plants of the Pittsbu-gh Plate Glass Co. and to halt threatened strikes a' four of the company's other plants and four plants of the Libbey Owens-Ford Glass Co. The em ployes at the 10 plants voted to strike, effective. 6 p. Thursday after controversy over contract Is sues.

Walkouts at Chicago and De troit war plants kept idle some 8000 workers. More than 350C workers of the Ford Motor River Rouge plant were sent home after work stoppages by 500 Unit ed Automobile Workers (CIO maintenance and 400 AF1 maintenance men were off the jo' at the Packard Motor Co. In Chicago officials of the CIO United Farm Equipment Worker Union and the McCormick work of the International Harvester Co were directed to appear at a show cause meeting today if a strike between 4000 and 5000 employes i not ended. Yankfl Easily Span Caga ap. yan River MANILA, June 20, ieared unlikely today that the organized Japanese in the Cagayai valley-Luzon's breadbasket-could consolidate anywhere for a stand against the river-hopping 3 7lh Ohio Infantry Division, fast 8 preaching to within 100 milei the island's north top.

The Cagayan drive, north of Manila, constitutes the major wind. up move of the flve-months-cld -uzon campaigns, and Maj. Gen Robert S. Belghtler has the and artillery to keep it rolling The Japanese had been expected to fight to the death at Naeullan When their mortar fire opened un as Belghtler's men massed assault boats to cross the Cagayan river before the town, the barked: "I want that town wiped out Put over an air strike immediately and follow up with at least 500 artillery." The Japanese fled. The infant trymen easily crossed the river and walked into the ruined town reported Associated Press correspondent Hamilton W.

Faron, afield with the 37th. Under Belghtler's urging, engln.l eers built a bridge across the river quickly and his men poured ahead to approach Ilagan, 110 miles south of Aparri on Luzon's north tip Engineers were ready for a quick job of spanning the river at that. point. Hungry Filipinos eye the gress of the 37th, which is racing up a valley producing a big share of Luzon's staple foods, rice and corn, as well as tobacco. general! D.

A. Morgan Dies EDWARDSVILLE, June Davld A. Morgan, 70, formerly ol Edwardsville, died Tuesday morning at his home In Taylorville, lowing an exended illness. A of Wales, he located at Springfield in 1885 and was married in 1910 to Miss Emma Buhrman of Edwardsville, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, three.

sons and a son' by a former marriage. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday afternoon at Taylorville. Tuetken Baby Dies; Private Rites Thursday Jeannene K. Tuetken, Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Carl H. Tuetken of 1110 McPherson, died at 4:30 in. today in St. Joseph's Hospital. The baby was born Mny 12, 1945, in the hospital.

Surviving, In addition to her parents, are a sIster.sMrs. Roy Deem, of Yuma, a brother, Carl Tuetken, and her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J.

Tuetken of Fidelity. Private funeral rites will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a. m. In Bnuer Hoehn funeral home. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Gordon M. Rubenstcln Home Gordon M. Rubenstein, stationed at San Francisco, and his brother Stanley J. Rubenstein, former prisoner of war of the Germans, who arrived home recently had their first reun- unlon in two years Tuesday, when Seaman Rubenstein came to Alton on a 15-duy leave. They are sons of Mr.

and Mrs. A. Rubenstein. are removable from membership, only on written charges and after a fair hearing. Trial of Poles Continued from Page 1.

eminent, underground leaders agreed that he should not be Informed of their plan of action. (This testimony apparently absolved Mikolajczyk of any connection with the alleged subversive operations of the Polish underground and gave him a clean bill of health which would'permit his Inclusion in a new provisional government.) Clmrnowskl flatly contradicted a statement by Maj. Gen. Leopold Bronislaw Okulickl, commander of the Polish home army and one of the principal defendants, that Oku- lickl did not actively participate In or have knowledge of subversive activity against the Red Army. "I learned about this kind of work," Chornowskl stated, "after conversations with Okulickl." Find Huge Plane Held for Flight of Hitler to Japan TRAVEMUENDE, Germany, June 16.

(Delayed). A huge four-englned plane which carried 30,000 gallons of gasoline has been found near Travemuende and German ground crews-said they were ordered in the last weeks of the war to keep It ready lo carry Hitler non-stop to Japan. Crewmen said they had made dally lest flights of the big white and blue plane, prominently marked with the swastika. The plane landed on a special concrete strip near the Trave- muende seacost last April just as RAF planes flew in. Several holes were shot in the craft and the pilot overshot the landing slrln.

The plane pitched over on Its side and caught a wing on the ground, tearing off a Up. The war ended before It could be repaired. ed, but nothing happened and no one appeared. In a short while he got up and walked away. How He Escaped He had to go back through the village into which he had been led as a prisoner, but got out lo the countryside safely and started toward the Allied lines.

He was lost, but guided himself by the sound of a big German gun, which was shelling a group of American engineers trying to construct a bridge. "I knew the Germans wouldn't be shelling in their own territory, so the closer I got to the sound, the closer I would be to our lines." When he reached Third Division headquarters, he was greeted with open arms, especially by his brother. Ralph, who feared him dead, but was "treated like a baby" and sent to the hospital. He remained in the hospital until March, then was sen-t to a rest camp in France. He later went back to his division, but left his outfit May 9 at Salzburg, Austria, to to the United Slates.

Decorations Sgt. Dunham, thrice wounded, although he claimed credit for only two, was awarded the Congressional medal for ignoring his wounds and destroying three enemy machine gun nests, killing nine Germans, wounding seven and capturing two, last Jan, 6 in Germany. He holds the Silver Star, the Distinguished Unit Badge with one cluster, the Purple Heart with a cluster, the Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman's Badge, one silver and two bronze stars on his European theater ribbon, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Good Conduct, American Defense and American Theater ribbons and five service chevrons for overseas duty. He participated in initial assault landings at Fodala, French Morocco, Nov. 8, 1942; LlcatB, Sicily, Elmer Jahns, 52, Dies at Detroit EDWARDSVILLE, June 20.

Elmer Jahns, 52, an auditor for the U. S. died Monday night of a heart ailment at his home in Detroit, according to word received here Tuesday by his mother, Mrs. C. C.

Jahns. The body will be brought to Edwardsville for funeral services. A native of St. Louis, Jahns attended school here after the family located in Edwardsville and upon graduating from high school entered the employ of the radiator firm. He was married in September, 1919, to Miss Dorothy Brown of Edwardsville.

Surviving besides his mother and the widow Is a son, Tyler; also a sister and brother, Miss Helen Jahns and Christie Jahns, both of Edwardsville. July 10, 1943; Anzio, Italy, Jan. 22, 1944, and St. Tropez, France, last Aug. 15.

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