The Daily Tribune from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin • Page 1

THE WEATHER For Wisconsin: Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Wednesday. Drive With CARE Don't Take CHANCES- mm i mm Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding a. Maximum 63; mini mam 45. HK3 EtfU CONSTRU IVE A Thirty-Fifth Year No. 10,718 Wisconsin Rapids, Tuesday, June 1, 1918 Single Copy five Cents rop Bl 110 2 Dead, crr rv S3 Ml 1 1 10 1 Mine Chief Asks Court To Dismiss New Motion ft Israel Accepts Truce Appeal From The U.

N. Lower Section Of Columbia Is Evacuated Portland, Ore. (JP) Thg Columbia river flood, which already had taken a toll of at least 20 lives and property loss of more than forced mass evacuation today of a Lewis himself attacking the south during four single flights. No fire fl -7 Jif-i 4 4 '4 -ft i 4 i i ern group and explaining why he won deal with it. The union's lawyer, Welly K.

Hopkins, contended among other things that the Taft-Hartley section under which the injunction is sought violates the constitution. Hopkins also said an injunction would impair the obligation of the parties to the 1947 soft coal agreement. Lewis said the association was created with the purpose "to thwart, delay, obstruct and prevent the making of contracts in true collective bargaining." He said the association's "hostile, arbitrary, recalcitrant, negative and adamant attitude," has been the cause of government seizure of the soft coal mines in 1943, 1945 and 1946. BREAK GROUND FOR SCHOOL Ground-breaking ceremonies were held Sunday afternoon by St. Mary's Catholic parish of this city for the new parochial school and auditorium which are planned for construction this summer at an estimated cost of $250,000.

In the above picture, taken at the building site on Tenth avenue south, the Rev. Joseph Tetzloff, pastor of St. Mary's, is shown turning the first spadeful of earth in the presence of members of the parish, clergy and acolytes. At the left is the Rev. Clair Cooney, assistant pastor of SS.

Peter Paul church. (Tribune Photo) Navy Launch Swamps on More Than 400 Killed Over Holiday Weekend Way to Ship, 22 Perish By the Associated Press Jewish bombs dropped today on Amman, where Arab leaders assembled to talk over the latest United Nations peace plea. Within hours, Israel accepted unconditionally the U.N. appeal for a four-weeks armistice during which an arms embargo would be enforced on Arabs and Jews alike. The British said the Jewish war-planes attacking Amman also bombed an RAF field nearby and that 12 persons were killed and 30 injured.

The Arabs said two children and four other civilians were killed, but that property damage was slight. Amman is the capital of Trans-Jordan, the home of warrior King Abdullah, who leads five of the seven Arab armies arrayed against Israel. About 10 bombs were dropped was the largest known loss of life in a single accident. The toll compared to 504 violent deaths over the three-day 1947 Mem orial day holiday and to 292 over a similar period in 194C. Last year's big total was boosted considerably because of two serious airline crashes in which 95 persons were killed and tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma which took the lives of 43.

An estimated 30,000,000 automobiles were on the country's highways over the three-day holiday period and more than 200 persons were killed 'fn traffic mishaps. Of the 404 violent death, 204 died in motor accidents; 92 persons drowned, and 108 others lost their lives in accidents of miscellaneous nature including plane crashes, fires, falls and other causes. The National Safety council had estimated that unless caution was exercised by motorists, 225 persons would be killed in traffic accidents Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Pennsylvania ranked first with a total of 33 dead, including 14 traffic fatalities. Illinois was second with 26, followed by New York's 25, California's 24, Ohio's 20; Texas' 19 and Michigan's 18.

Deaths by states from traffic, drownings and miscellaneous causes included: California 16 5 Illinois 17 4 Indiana 7 3 Iowa 7 13; Kentucky 11 2 Michigan 10 0 Minnesota 8 3 Ohio 11 3 6 and Wisconsin 6 3 2. American Consulate Guard is Injured Washington (IP) Another guard at the American consulate in Jerusalem has been wounded in the fighting between Jews and Arabs. The state department reported today Wayne Swedenberg, resident of Salinas, was hit by a fragment from a shell that exploded in the consulate compound yesterday. An official dispatch said he was making satisfactory progress. He was the fourth casualty at the consulate.

Washington (JP) John L. Lewis argued today that he is not required to bargain with the "hostile, arbitrary" Southern Coal Producers association. This was his reply to the govern ment's motion for a Taft-Hartley act injunction to compel his United Mine Workers to seek a contract with the association. File Motion Lewis' lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the injunction suit brought by Robert N. a general counsel of the national labor relations board.

The UMW chief emphasized he is objecting to dealings with the association as such. He said he is willing, and always has been, to negotiate with individual southern producers and local associations which signed the 1947 wage contract. That applies, he said, to bar gaining agents designated by the mine owners or the local groups. The plea for dismissal of the in junction' suit went to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsbqrough, who is scheduled to rule on it tomorrow, Goldsborough is the same judge who twice previously has fined Lewis and the UMW for contempt of court orders in coal strikes.

Refused to Bargain The Taft-Hartley law requires unions and employers to bargain in good faith with each other's chosen representatives. Lewis has refused to bargain with the southern group on the ground it did not take part in previous contract talks, and national negotiations for a new soft coal contract have collapsed as a result. The union, in moving to dismiss the a long affidavit from More Trouble Brewing Over Tariff Issue Washington (JP) The storms over tariffs, foreign broadcasts and atomic energy blew harder on Cap itol Hill today. And the house appropriation com mittee gave up trying to guess in advance how much income tax the treasury is going to have to refund next year. Hearings on a one-year extension of the reciprocal trade law opened before the senate finance committee.

Senator Taft (R-O.) immediately found himself in disagree ment with the first witness, Will Clayton, former undersecretary of state. Clayton wailts the present trade law extended three years without any changes. He opposes the house bill which would give congress a veto power over tariff cuts nego tiated by the state department which go deeper than recommended by the tariff commission. The lawmakers were still upset bv what they said were broadcasts smearing" the United States over the Voice of America overseas radio program. Two senate subcommittees, meeting jointly, to investi gate, called on Rene Borgia, the man who wrote the scripts for some of the shows.

Borgia testified that half a dozen officials of the National Broadcasting company, to which the state department farmed out. the program, were familiar with the contents. Borgia said he objected to writing the programs in "cheap comedy" form, but was ordered to do so. Senator Taft said Republicans in the senate may let the atomic energy commission appointees go unconfirmed this, session jf Democrats make any lengthy fight a- gainst a bill extending their terms two years. With congress watching the clock of a proposed June 19 adjournment, Taft said his party won't have any time to spare for a long battle over the measure to extend the commissioner's terms until 1950.

Milk, Cream Prices Increased One Cent A one-cent per quart increase in the retail price of milk, today, has been announced by a majority of the milk dealers in the Tri-City area. 'Tfie price of cream is also increased one cent per half pint. The new price for milk" is 19 cents a quart and for crea'in it is 23 cents per half pint. In, announcing the price changes, the dealers said they were necessitated by the increased costs of labor and supplies and the greater demand for milk occasioned by the government's program of buying dairy products to help combat hunger abroad, which has had a direct influence on the domestic market. Norfolk, Va.

Twenty- two men nine marines and 13 navy men perished in Hampton Roads last night when a navy launch swamped in choppy waters while returning 90 men to their ship after Memorial day liberty. Rear Admiral C. A. F. Sprague, commander of a 12-ship task force whose sailing for the Mediterranean was delayed by the tragedy, issued this statement to newsmen today Survivor of Launch Tells Of Tragedy Norfolk, Va.

() A 'survivor of a swamped navy launch that threw some 90 men overboard in Hampton Roads said today, "Everybody was trying to hold onto somebody else" in the cold, rough water. Thomas H. Rowe, 22, boatswain's mate third class, swam from the swamped launch to Pier 5 at the Norfolk naval station, a distance of approximately two miles. Rowe is the son of Mrs. Lucille Rowe, Huntington Park Cal.

Interviewed by newsmen aboard thejiaval hospital ship Consolation, where he was put to bed after hauling himself on to the pier, Rowe said he entered the launch by mistake at the naval station fleet landing last night. Rowe is attached aboard the transport Randolph and entered a launch attached to the aircraft carrier Kearsarge. "I got into the launch and went to sleep before it left the landing," he related. "When I woke up I was swimming fn the cold water. I kicked my shoes off.

Men were all around me in the water." Everybody was trying to hold onto somebody else. There were life jackets on the launch but they were not used. I never saw the launch again. I thing it swamped quickly. "The water was rough.

It was dark and foggy. It was raining. I saw a dozen or sj men go under the' water and come up again. I saw a light on a ship at a pier and started swimming toward it. I saw a tug throwing a searchlight around but they did not see me.

From the time I left the scene I did not see any other men. "I suppose I was in the water two or three hours. I swam to Pier 5 and pulled myself up on the pier. I went to the fleet landing and they sent me to the Consolation." Rowe said, "I feel fine now." Eowe is a tall, 179 pound tow-head who has been in the navy five years. He served at Saipan, Okinawa and the Phillippines on landing vessels.

was started. No air raid precautions had been taken. The Arabs demanded that Tel Aviv be bombed again in reprisal. The Arab higher committee in Cairo claimed the capture of Na-tanya, 18 miles north of Tel Aviv and cutting of the coastal road from Tel Aviv to Haifa. The claim was unconfirmed from any other source.

If true, it represented a tightening of the loose encirclement the Arabs say they are forging around Tel Aviv. To the south, the Jews said 500 armored infantry carriers had been rolled up by the Egyptian army to Isdud, 23 miles below Tel Aviv at the border of Arab-Jewish Palestine. Other Arab forces were at Lyd- da, 12 miles southeast of Tel Aviv. The place was bombed yesterday by Jewish planes. The Jews said Iraqi troops were within nine miles of Tel Aviv at another point.

Besides the air blow at Trans-Jor dan's capital, the Jews carried their pocket war into Lebanon and Syria. Haganah officers said several Lebanese villages near the frontier were bombed and that ground forces blew up several police posts on the Syrian side of the frontier. The Jews asserted they killed at least 150 Arabs by wedging into Latrun, 22 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, on the road to Jerusalem, which Arab forces surround. The Trans-Jordan legion claimed a sharp victory at Latrun, where the Jews were reported mauled in a large battle last week. Martin Named To Court Post Madison (IP) Attorney General John E.

Martin, 56, was appointed to the Wisconsin supreme court by Governor Rennebohm tday. Martin, a veteran of 10 years of state service, was chosen to succeed the late Chester A. Fowler, as a justice on Wisconsin's highest court. Justice Fowler died April 8. Assemblyman Grover Broadfoot (R-Mondovi)- was appointed to succeed Martin as attorney general.

The new justice practiced law in Green Bay and Milwaukee before being elected attorney general as a Republican in 1938 in his first bid for public office. He subsequently was reelected in 1940, 1942, 1944 and 1946. Martin was the nephew of the late Joseph Martin of Green Bay, who served on the supreme court from 1934 until his death March 19, 1946. Martin must win two elections before he can enter on the full 10 year term to which justices are chosen. Justice Fowler's unexpired term ends in January, 1952.

But as no sitting justice is up for reelection in April, 1950, the appointee will have to run then for Fowler's unexpired term. If Martin wins, he will have to run again in April, 1951, for, the ensuing full term. REV. A. W.

TRIGGS 46 years in the ministry, serving in Wood county for 13 years. His first pastorate was at Milladore, where he remained one year. DurinK his 12 years in the pulpit of the Wisconsin" Rapids church he has become a prominent figure in community life and has taken an active role in many civiti activities. 120-mile section at the lower end of the stream. The river had already caused the northwest's greatest disaster as its crest approached the rich farmlands from the Portland area to the sea.

Army engineers gave the warning to evacuate, but said many of the thousands of residents already had fled. The toll of dead will not known until waters recede. No estimate of damage throughout th area was available, but the Portland housing authority said damaga at the crumbled war-housing city of Vanport was $27,000,000. The only (Editor' rwte Pieturei from the stricken flood area appear on Page other estimate was $10,000,000 dam age in the Kelso, Woodland and Ka lama district of southwest Washing'-ton. Those were only two small areas affected.

No Estimate Before the Vanport disaster, army engineers had predicted the Columbia and its tributaries would cause a total loss of $30,000,000. The engineers now won't make any kind of. an estimate. The river, second largest in the nation in amount of water discharged, is at flood stage for 750 miles. The crest will reach the Portland area tonight or tomorrow.

Part mI Portland's downtown area, including the union station, was under water today after the Willamette river topped the seawall. The station is Portland's only railroad depot, and trains were unable to use it. Thousands Homeless In North Portland, where mor than 18,000 persons were left homeless in Sunday's Vanport disaster, the flooded area was tripled by the bursting of two more dikes. On top of these two dikes were the approaches to the Pacific highway, principal north-south route. The breaking of these dikes left three square miles under water, with houses from Vanport pouring through both gaps.

Some of them turned end-over-end, and all hopes of salvaging these was lost. No bodies have beeen recovered from Vanport. Some bodies might be swept so far they never would be found. Army engineers are investigating the "blow out" of the railroad embankment which resulted in the Vanport disaster. The rail fill was constructed 40 years ago.

Comment ing on the fate of what once was Oregon's second largest city, the Portland housing authority announced the agency "feels terribly, terribly bad that lives possibly were but all you can do is depend on the advice of competent engineers." Survivors Scattered Survivors are scattered in thousands of homes throughout the city, in schools and churches. The Red Cross has not issued an estimate of the missing. Railroad service and telephone communications north of Portland were broken at the Columbia river. Trains operating south were unable to use the union station. Airlines had to abandon their Portland bases because the Portland airport was under water, forcing them to move to nearby Salem and McMinnville.

Army engineers said that flood waters were receding upstream on the Columbia, "Easing things considerably." MUSICAL PROGRAM A musical program featuring girls' sextet from Lincoln High school and the Lowell school dancers will highlight the weekly noon luncheon of the Wisconsin Rapids Rotary club in Hotel Witter Wednesday. Bad As the Bull In a China Store Milwaukee (P) A cow reidy for the slaughter was shot to death toda.v in the basement of a furniture store. The cow escaped from a slaughter pen at a packing plant and galloped wildly through city streets for more than a mile before taking refuge in the basement of Sloane's Furniture store. A policeman finally shot her after she had wrecked an estimated worth of furniture. The cow entered the basement through a reur door opening onto an alley.

Marie Century Of Statehood, Memorial Day Centennial day and Memorial day were observed with fitting ceremonies in Wisconsin Rapids over the long holiday weekend, with fine weather encouraging a goodly attendance at both of the programs. One hundred years of Wisconsin progress, since the state's admission to the union on May 29, 1848, were reviewed by speakers at the centennial celebration held at Witter athletic field Saturday night A crowd estimated at 2,500 joined in South Wood county's commemoration of the century of statehood and was thrilled by the spectacular display of fireworks which climaxed the evening's events. Throngs Witness Parade Downtown streets were thronged for the colorful Memorial day parade Monday, morning, and. Lincoln fieldhouse was well filled for the impressive services which followed, in tribute to the community's dead, with the Rev. E.

G. Kuechle delivering the memorial address. The holiday weekend was unmar-red by" any traffic fatalities in this area, although travel was heavy. A total of nine accidents were reported by city and county authorities, none of them resulting in serious injury. Sen.

Melvin R. Laird, Marsh-field, was the principal speaker at the centennial program here Saturday night, and delivered the same address at the North Wood county observance in Marshfield Sunday evening. He traced Wisconsin history from its earliest days under French rule, through the territorial years, up to the present time, paying tribute to pioneers and men tioning by name a number of those who contributed to the early development of this section of the state. Cites State Achievements Achievements of Wisconsin in the fields of agriculture, industry and government during its first century as a state were cited by Senator Laird as a trust and a challenge passed down to present and future generations to continue the march of progress. He pointed to the state's leadership progressive legislation, and enumerated laws of great social benefit which had their origin in Wisconsin.

Other speakers on the centennial program here were Assemblyman W. W. Clark, Vesper, who commented briefly on recent legislation relating to highways and the state educational system; Mayor C. C. Knudsen, who delivered the address of welcome and traced the history and development of the city, and Supervisor Frank D.

Abel, who recounted important dates and events in the history of Wood county. Byron B. Conway, as master of ceremonies, read a list of names of descendants of pioneers who settled in Wood county a century or more ago, and introduced W. A. Uth-meier, Marshfield, chairman of the county centennial The program was' opened with the playing of the national anthem by the city band and the invocation by the Kev.

K. W. Kingdon. Several mu sical selections by the Barbershop chorus and the band's rendition of "The 32nd Division March," com posed by Theodore Steinmetz, Marshfield, provided additional mu sicai entertainment, the program See -OBSERVANCES Page 11 HI NABOR on Mill I can rememtler when I could buy a pair of good shoes, for. what It costs to have a pair half-soled now.

By the Associated Press More than 400 persons died violently during the nation's extended Memorial day holiday. Traffic accidents caused more than half of the fatalities. Accident deaths reported from 6 o'clock Friday night to midnight Monday total 404 not including the unknown number dead in the Van-port, Flood. The drowning of 22 navy and marine corps men lost when a launch capsized in Hampton Roads, Two Injured, $1,250 Loss In Accidents Two persons were injured, neither critically, and over $1,250 property damage resulted from traffic accidents in south Wood county over the Memorial day weekend. Lester Henne, 17, Nekoosa, suffer ed severe head bruises when he ap parently jumped from an auto going south on Alexander avenue in Nekoosa about 9 o'clock Sunday eve ning.

Taken to Riverview hospital by fire department ambulance, he was treated and released this morning. Driver is Questioned The driver of the car, Kenneth Johnson, 17, Route 3, was being questioned today by the sheriff's department to learn the details of the accident. The Nekoosa police department squad car was following the John son car at the time of the accident and the Nekoosa police investigated the incident with Sheriff Arthur E. Berg, who happened to be in Nekoosa when he heard the police ra dio call for an ambulance. Roy Lietzke, 21; Beloit, suffered bruises and the loss of two teeth when his car left the road a half mile south of Eight Corners on County Trunk about 11 o'clock Sunday night.

Lietzke, who did not lequire hospitalization, told Traffic Officer Donald Caylor that as he w'as driving north he applied his brakes to slow down for a stalled car. When he did so, he said, the car went out of control, left the road and hit a ditch, causing it to See ACCIDENTS Page 11 Salesman's Sample Comes In Handy, Quells Auto Fire Because a fire extinguisher sales. man was well supplied with samples, damage to Norman- Winnecheck's auto was kept at a minimum when it caught fire on the east end of the' Grand avenue bridge Sunday night. Winnecheck was visiting here from Greenwood, when his car caught fire as he was driving across the bridge. Ernest A.

Milwaukee fire extinguisher salesman who is visiting at Port Edwards, noticed the difficulty as his car stopped in the line of traffic, grabbed one of his samples and speedily put on an impromptu but effective demonstration; When Winnecheck attempted to drive away after the blaze was put out, another fire broke out, and again Maciolek was called on to extinguish 'the fire as the city fire department arrived to give professional aid if it should be needed. A peat fire caused an alarm for city firemen Saturday afternoon in rear of the E. M. McCourt residence, 631 Witter street. The fire was put out after about an hour's work.

No from his flag ship, the aircraft car rier Kearsarge: "Preliminary report of loss of life or missing personnel may be placed at 22, nine marines and 13 navy. "Reports considered accurate and includes best estimate of possible stragglers" (men absent over leave) "Further checking now in progress." The 50-foot open launch was swamped in a wind and rain storm at 8:45 as, it was returning a liberty party to the Kearsarge, anchored two miles off the Norfolk naval station. The launch, "which was at tached to the carrier, was' swamped when only 200 yards off the Rear sarge's port beam. At 2 o'clock this morning all naval tugs and small craft that had been searching the area were withdrawn, leaving two coast guard ships to continue the search. A special muster of the Kear- sarge's compliment was made.

Even such a muster will be inconclusive, how-ever, as a number of men normally are absent over leave when naval ships sail for extensive duty in foreign waters, i The Kearsarge, with three cruisers, seVen destroyers and a trans port, was scheduled to sail at o'clock today for the Mediterranean to relieve a similar force which has been on duty in that area since last winter. Abolition of Sewage Disposal Commission Before Council Again Mayor C. C. Knudsen's proposal to abolish the sewage disposal com. mission and assign its functions to the council's sanitation and water supply committee, will provide one of the more controversial matters for discussion at the June meeting of the common council at 7:30 this evening at the city hall.

mi ine mayors proposal tell one vote short of passage by a two-thirds majority when it was brought up at the May meeting without prf. or notice. Only a simple majority will be needed to adopt the proposal tonight, City Attorney H. D. Bill- meyer has ruled.

Also scheduled for consideration by the council are several proposed changes in the zoning ordinance in eluding a recommendation by the planning commission that the commercial district on East Grand avenue be' extended eastward on both sides of the street to Pepin street, CAMERA CLUB The Wisconsin Valley Camera club will meet at 7 clock Thursday eve. ning at Hagen's studio, to go on a night photography field trip. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baumbach, Route 5.

Ifc. Chester S. Secosh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cichosz, Route 2.

Others from the county whose remains are being returned to their home communities for burial are Tfc. E. Stempinski, Star route, Nekoosa; SSgt. Joseph Iiayerl, Route 1, Milladore, and six Marshfield soldier dead Cpl. Cor nelius J.

Lange, Tfc. Terry Markee, Pfc. Victor L. Michels, Sgt, Donald E. Reese, 1st Sgt.

Reuben J. Steger and SSgt. Paul F. Zet tier. The bodies of two Stevens Point soldiers are aboard the ship sched uled to arrive at San Francisco to day.

They are Pvt. Leonard Cisewski and T4 John E. Uintz. Triggs Retires From Local Pastorate; Name Successor 12 Wood County Hero Dead En Route Home For Burial The Rev. A.

W. Triggs is retiring from the pastorate of the First Methodist church, here, he announced today, and will be succeeded by the Rev. Milton C. Feldt, who will be in Wisconsin Rapid3 next Sunday to deliver his inaugural sermon. The Rev.

Mr. Feldt, who has served as pastor of the Methodist church at Niagara, the past years, was assigned to the Wisconsin Rapids pastorate at the annual Wisconsin Methodist conference held in Green Bay over the weekend. Keeps Port Pastorate The Rev. Mr. Triggs will continue as pastor of the Community church at Port Edwards, which he has served jointly with the Wisconsin Rapids church for 12 years.

The Port Edwards congregation plans construction this summer of a new edifice to replace the church destroyed by fire two years ago. Rev. and Mrs. Triggs will continue to reside in Wisconsin Rapids, in the home they recently purchased at 741 Dewey street. i The new local pastor is the son of the Rev.

Hubert C. Feldt, a veteran minister in the Wisconsin Methodist conference. Born in Al-goma 39 years ago, he was ordained in 1934. Ha and his family will establish residence here in the new parsonaRfi now nearing completion at G20 Witter street. The Kuv.

Mr. Triggs has spent Remains of 12 Wood county soldiers who lost their lives, in the Pacific theater during World war II are being returned to this country aboard a funeral transport scheduled to dock at San Francisco today. Of the 4,459 bodies on the ship, 181 ars destined for interment in their native Wisconsin They are being "repatriated from temporary mititary cemeteries in New Guinea and the Philippines. Four of the 21 Wood county hero dead are from Wisconsin Rapids. They are: Sgt.

Jack H. Matthews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Matthews, 511 Fourteenth avenue north.

SSgt Eugene W. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Smith, 320 Twelfth avenue south. Pvt.

Fred A. Baumbach, son of damage was reported..