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Friday, January 26, 1945. WISCONSIN RAPIDS DAILY TRIBUNE Page Seven Amendment to Manpower Bill for Pvt. Donald J. Kessler Saved Officer's Life Fair Practices Program Is Stricken OPA RESTORES REGULAR FOOD RATION PERIODS I if vv 1 1 i i 1 i i I 1 Mrs. Anna Liebl Dies at Home In Aiiburndale Auburndale Mrs.

Anna Liebl, 75, Route 2, Auburndale, died at her home early this morning and funeral services have been tentatively arranged for 9:30 Tuesday morning at St. Kilian's Cathoiic church in Blen-ker. The Rev. Leonard Stieber will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the Rembs Funeral Home in Marshfield.

The former Anna Linzmeier was born in Austria July 8, 1869, coming to the Blenker community in 1883. She was married to Anton Liebl in Blenker November 28, 1899. Surviving are ten children, Mrs. Paul Altman, Route 2, Auburndale; Mrs. Harry Sparks, Wisconsin Rapids; Mrs.

M. D. Lyon, Chicago; Mrs. Charles Altman, Auburndale; Frank Liebl, Milladore; Mrs. Anton Lobner, Sherry; W'illiam Liebl, Mrs.

Kurt Burger and Louis Liebl of Milwaukee; and Edward at home. She is also survived by four brothers, Joe, Charles and Frank Linzmeier of Blenker and Louis Linzmeier of Mil ladore; one sister, Mrs. Louis Kun- dinger, 27 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. WILD ROSE MAN WOUNDED Sgt. Donald R.

Ruland of Wild Rose was listed today by the war department as wounded in action in the European area. STRICTLY OLD at Eagle's in WALLACE ASKS INQUIRY OF RFC Henry A. Wallace appears before the senate commerce committee to defend himself against charges by Jesse Jones that he was "not qualified" for the dual job of commerce secretary and Reconstruction Finance head. Wallace proposed a congressional investigation of RFC lending under Jones. Wisconsin Rapids SATURDAY, January 27th Music by RED SAWGER and His Band Flaying your waltzes, schottishes, waltz quadrilles and Circular Two steps as you like to have them played.

Young folks are welcome if they obey the rules of STRICTLY OLD TIME DANCING. Strictly old time dancing every Saturday night and every holiday. Admission: 42 plus 8 tax Total 50 per Person. Ladies admitted for 30 before 9:30 if accompanied by a gent. This price pertains to local bands only.

No Dust New Wax Being Used on the Dance Floor. SERVICE MEN ADMITTED FREE Managed by Don Licensed Member of A.S.C.A.P. HURLEY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS Maj. Gen. Patrick J.

Hurley (right) presents his credentials as ambassador to China to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek (left), president of the republic, at Government House at, Chungking, China, January 7. This is a Chinese ministry of information photo. Bill Would Defer Renewal Of State Drivers9 Licenses Farmer Seeks Army Release Lincoln, Neb. (ff) A decision the habeas corpus proceedings brought by James D. Lawrence, 24, Lake county, 111., who is seeking his army release on the grounds he should have been deferred as a necessary farmer, will not be given until February 15, Federal Judge John W.

Delehant announced. Inducted December 8, 1943, Lawrence claimed he was farming 2C0 acres when drafted and that he had planned to add 400 acres to his operations last year. Pending a decision, the court ordered Lawrence to continue on duty at his base, Mo Cook (Nebr.) Army Air field. The medieval custom of putting a piece of toasted bread in a jug of ale gave us the drinking term "toast." Rialto Theatre Nckoosa, Wisconsin TONIGHT and SATURDAY Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick in MR.

WINKLE GOES TO WAR' Shows 7:00 and 8:40 P. M. COMING SUNDAYR: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in "SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD" TIME DANCE the allrooBm e3 President's Birthday Ball Saturday Night at New Miner OLD TIME MUSIC BY FRANK POXGRATZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA Benefit Infantile Paralysis Fight. Come out for a good time and help this worthy cause along! FREE SHOW SUNDAY NIGHT PLAYING "TOMBOY" Delicious, Home Made CHICKEII CHOWDER Saturday Night at the CORNER TAVERN Chestnut St. John O'Day WkWVVWVVWVWVWVWXJ 1 Come Out For jjj A A Good Time To jj Ben Emma's 2 VIAniTPT TAVERN Over the West Grand Ave.

5 Viaduct and to Your Left. 3 MEET YOUR FRIENDS 4 5 He appeared as though he'd just stepped out of a "While-U-Wait" cleaning and pressing shop. His trousers, with the leg ends neatly tucked into a pair of well-shined jump-boots, were sharply creased. His darker olive drab blouse showed careful attention during the 15-day voyage of the U. S.

army hospital ship Wisteria, bound for the Charleston, S.C., port of embarkation from an English seaport. His bearing was straight without stiffness and he talked the concise, realistic talk of the soldier. Among the bars he wore over his left breast pocket was the red, white and blue of the Silver Star award. Paratrooper Pvt. Donald J.

Kessler, 813 Oak street, Wisconsin Rapids, was ready to step onto U. S. shores for the first time in almost two years. Private Kessler was reluctant to speak about his Silver Star award. Most of the soldiers returning aboard the hospital ships of the mercy fleet would rather tell about their buddies in action, not about themselves.

From fellow combat-injured in the same ward came part of the story about this paratrooper of the 501st 'chute infantry in France and Holland. Jumps On Day Private Kessler had made two parachute jumps. One onto Cherbourg peninsula at 1 :30 in the morning of June 6 and one into Veghel, just north of Arnhem. The day after his first jump he found himself in an open field of the Normandy area. The grass was high and his unit was engaged with the enemy in "fire fighting" with small guns.

Suddenly, 100 yards to the front of Private Kessler, a signal flag emerged from the tall grass. A company commander in Kessler's regiment was out in the field, wounded, lying a scant 50 yard3 from the blazing machine guns of the German crews. Stripping down to essential equipment, Private Kessler crawled through the waving grass with Nazi slugs shearing off the long blades just above his head each time he moved. His own outfit's machine guns covered the rescuer as he slowly drew to the spot where he'd last seen the captain's flag marker. There he found the officer, badly wounded in the hip and leg.

Firmly grasping the captain by his shirt collar, Private Kessler dragged him the full 100 yards back to his company's position, with the cross fire of machine guns still singing a few inches over their heads. For his valiant action, Private Kessler was cited and presented with the Silver Star. The anticlimax to the story of his bravery occurred in England, July 15, when the young paratrooper stopped off at a U.S. army hospital and saw the officer whose life he'd saved. "He was so grateful he would hardly let me leave him that day," Private Kessler said.

But go, he did, into more action. Second Battle Jump He made his second battle jump into Veghall on September 17. Seven days later, as his regiment regarded for further advances into the north, a twin column of German tanks churned into their lines. The regiment staved off the advancing tanks with rocket-firing bazooka and rifle grenades from 7 a.m. through 4 p.m.

when a swarm of allied Typhoon fighter planes flew into the teeth of the Nazi tank force scorching their dispersal areas with armor piercing shells and rockets. Those few surviving tanks limped back to the enemy lines. About to mount the charge, the paratrooper outfit moved ahead and Cancel Plans for Hiring Soldiers At Ordnance Works Baraboo Plans for em ployment of furloughed soldiers at the Badger ordnance works were cancelled today. Major C. H.

Fru- den, commanding officer, said outlined work programs did not include servicemen, although a shortage of workers still exists. Major Pruden declined to comment on the possibility of employing soldiers on any other than a furlough basis or in construction work. It was reported here last week, without confirmation from ordnance officials, that 700 soldiers were to be furloughed from the armed forces for work at the plant and the university board of regents had approved use of CCC camp buildings at the university to house the servicemen. Former Junction City Woman Dies in Illinois Junction City Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, January 27, at the Martens Funeral home in Junction City for Mrs. Tena Johnston, 69, a resident of the community until last month, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Rose Furo in An-tioch, 111., at 5:30 Tuesday evening. The Rev. H. J. Lane of Mosince will officiate and burial will be in the Runkles cemetery, town of Eau Pleine.

Mrs. Johnston was born in Germany, December 18, 1885, came to the United States in 1889 and resided in central Wisconsin 25 years. Her husband, James Johnston, whom 6he married December 14, 1914, at Merrimac, died December 9, 1944. Eight children survive: Mrs. Furo, Antioch, Mrs.

William Koch, Wisconsin Rapids; Miss Anna Raatz, Mrs. Mary Einert and Mrs. Celia Wyss, Milwaukee; Mrs. Edna Bar-ows, Merrimac; Miss Elsa Raatz, Superior, and Arthur Raatz, Reeds-burg. There are IH grandchildren.

Washington (2P) The' house military committee disclosed today it had rejected an amendment to manpower legislation giving statutory backing to the fair employment practices committee program. The disclosure was made by Rep. Kilday a committee member, during rules consideration of procedure to be followed when the legislation reaches the house floor next week. Gilday told the rules group the FEPC amendment, which previously had been tentatively approved, was taken out along with an anti- closed shop amendment in the interest of harmony. It was the first word that the military committee had acted on the FEPC proposal, although members reflecting the views of organized labor had said they would try to write the amendment into the bill in the house.

Eliminate Hearings The senate military committee voted meanwhile to consider manpower-drafting legislation without the formality of public hearings. Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) said only three members opposed a motion by Senator Gurney (R-S. to proceed with consideration of a proposal approved Wednesday by the house military group. Thomas said the committee ap proved by a vote of about "seven or eight to about three" a motion by Senator Gurney to get last-min ute reports from military and other federal agencies, labor and other interested groups on their reaction to the bill as revised by the house committee. The effect of the FEPC amend ment which the house committee once adopted and then tossed out, Kilday said, was that no employer should be permitted to discriminate against a worker because of race, color, creed or nationality.

W7hen Rep. Smith a rules committee member, called upon the half dozen military committeeman present to defend elimination of the anti-closed shop ban no one arose to defend that action. Would Defend Committee But Lewis G. Hines, legislative representative of the American Federation of Labor, offered to defend the committee. "I'll take you like Grant took Richmond," he told the Virginian.

Hines, however, did not testify. When the rules committeemen criticized the bill because it did not prevent a man from striking al though it requires a man to work where his draft board assigns him, Chairman May (D-Ky.) declared that the committee was not attempting to write "an anti-strike bill" but was interested primarily in solving a manpower problem. Whether a striker could be punished under the bill's penal provision for not working, May said, was a matter for local draft boards to determine. Under terms of the legislation, a man between 18 and 45 must remain in or take an essential job at draft board direction unless he has a "reasonable" cause for not donig so. The boards would determine what a reasonable cause is.

The rules committee decided to let the house itself fight out all the exlosive issues in the bill by approving procedui'e calling for eight hours of general debate and permitting the offering of any amendment Luzon (Continued from Page One) the left to protect the flank. This unit reached the highway town of Magalang, 10 miles east of Clark. Two Divihinns On Move This meant the two divisions were on parallel highways which converge 15 miles to the south at San Fernando, capital of Pampanga province. From there the highway threads between two extensive marshes along the home stretch to Manila, where Filipinos are reported starving by the hundeds daily. Heaviest fighting of the Luzon campaign still was north and east of the Lingayen gulf beachhead.

Maj. Gen. Innis P. Swift's First corps had to fight for every inch of ground. The 43rd division and the 158th combat team battled into the fourteenth day for Rosario, stubbornly-defended town on the southwest approach to the Philippine summer capital at Baguio.

Today's communique said the Yanks were "maintaining heavy pressure" on the Japanese there. A few miles northwest Japanese resistance was reported crushed at Amling, east of Damortis, but to the southeast at San Manuel the 25th division fought one of the toughest battles of the campaign on Wednesday. After a full day of slugging with tanks, artillery and infantry, the Americans still could claim only partial occupation of the town. The Japanese slowly were being blusted from entrenchments. Rake Naval Base American warplanes heavily raked the Cavite naval base and Cor-regidor fortress in Manila bay to soften up the capital's defenses.

Subic bay Immediately to the north also was pounded. Two Japanese bombers Wednesday made the first attack on American shipping in Lingayen gulf in a fortnight, and one was shot down, The raid was described officially as ineffective. There was no confirmation of a radio Tokyo report that an American amphibious force had landed on the northeast coast of Mindoro island, just south of Luzon. The Yanks already control the southern, eastern and western shores. Treat Yourself to Ruby's Fine Cooking Any Time of Day or Night Dining Room Open Until 3 A.

M. on Friday, Saturday and Sun. Golden Fried Chicken Fresh Fried Fixh Tangy Barbecues Sandwiches and Soups of All Kinds! Visit Our Newly Re-Decorated Barroom! JOHNNY RUBY'S BAR South on 8th St. Washington The OPA to day reestablished a policy of definite invalidation dates for food ration stamps, with each series good roughly four months. As at present, a new series of red stamps for meat and dairy products and blue stamps for pro cessed food will be validated each month.

Instead of being good indefinitely, however, they will expire after about 16 weeks. The agency also restored its ex piration policy for sugar stamps, announcing that coupon No. 34 the only one now good may not be used after February 28. Sugar stamp No. 35, good for five pounds beginning February 1, will be valid through June 2.

Over lapping this coupon, a new stamp is due to be validated May 1, OPA said. As previously announced, the new sugar stamp will have to last three months instead of two and a half months as in the past. If supplies improve, the latter ration period will be restored and the overlap time when two stamps may be used will be increased to one and a half months, OPA said. Here is the new schedule of vali dation and expiration dates: Red stamps 05, R5 and S5, valid since December 3, good through March 31: T5, U5, V5, W5, and X5, valid since December 31, good through June 2. Blue stamps X5, Y5, Z5, A2 and valid since December 1, good through March 31; C2, D2, E2, F2, and G2, valid since January 1, good through April 28; H2, J2, K2, L2 and M2, valid February 1, good through June 2.

Sugar stamps No. 34, valid since November 16, good through February 28; No. 35, valid February 1, good through June 2. Red tokens are not affected by the new invalidation plan. They will remain in use as change for red stamps in the meats-fats program.

Eastern Front (Continued from Page One) Torun. Bydgoszcz is 69 miles northeast of Poznan and Torun is about 25 miles east of Bydgoszcz. The Russians announced the capture of Bydgoszcz three days ago. Presumably the Russian forces reported near the Brandenburg border were the same units mentioned by the German communique as driving west and northwest of Poznan. Announce Tank Battle The German high command an nounced that "a fierce tank battle developed southwest of Gleiwitz," important mining and communica' tions center in, upper Silesia now held by Russians.

In East Prussia, the German communique said, strong forces of Red infantry and tanks were beaten back in heavy fighting after trying to break across the Pregel and Deime rivers. As the German radio announced the threat to Brandenburg, the Red army newspaper Red Star asserted "we have reached the last road the road we have dreamed about for three long years." Moscow placed the Russian forces within four miles of Poznan. A Red Star dispatch reported that German defenses along the Oder river line were "cracking under iron pressure. Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkisch er Beobachter, admitted "there is no continuous line today." The Berlin publication said contact between German formations on the eastern front had been broken. A Moscow broadcast gave no details.

It said, however, that the Red army was advancing with "unabated fervor" at all sections of the front At the same time the Germans asserted that the general Soviet advance had been "slowed down but not stopped." Greatest Prize Capture of Breslau, a city with a pre-war population of more than 600,000, would be the Russians' greatest prize in Silesia. The city, center of many industries feeding the German war machine, is the capital of lower (northern) Silesia. It straddles the Oder river. A Red Star dispatch, declaring the Germans have built "three continuous lines of trenches with pillboxes and dugouts" just west of the river, said the enemy had destroyed all bridges across the stream in preparation for a last-ditch stand. The Germans have declared the Russians hold two bridgeheads across the stream, one on each side of Breslau.

A Moscow dispatch said the Red army forces had begun a massed artillery bombardment southeast of Breslau. A Russian report said the Oder was largely clear of ice. Moscow announced that Russian forces still were making progress in cleaning up Budapest, capturing another 10 blocks. To the west the Red army repelled continued German attempts to break through to the city. Badger Woman Takes New Post Rock Island, 111.

(IP) Appointment of Mrs. Myrtle I. Gunderson of Lone Rock, as a member of the board of supreme auditors of Royal Neighbors of America was announced today by the supreme office here. She fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Laura Breda of Barron, Wis.

Since June 1930, Mrs. Gunderson had served as a district deputy of the society. Buy More War Bonds! BIG DANCE At LANG'S Ballroom Sherry SUNDAY, January 28th Music by the Victorians PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31st Music by Frank Tongratz and His Orchestra PVT. DONALD KESSLER ran smack into a German parachute battalion. A vicious slugging match began on the spot at 11 o'clock that night.

The fight was still raging when a jagged chunk of mortar fragment wounded Private Kessler in the left hand and started his evacuation rearward through the medical echelons and America. After a brief stay in Charleston, Private Kessler was sent to a hospi tal in California, where he is now located. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kessler, Oak street.

Western Front (Continued from Page One) tern front, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army appeared to have brought the new German offensive in north Alsace to a standstill, JP correspondent Robert C. Wilson retiorted.

The Americans sealed off penetra tions by seven nazi divisions and slowly hammered the line back to its original positions in fighting during one or the worst snowstorms in Alsace since the war started. House Fiirhtinir Continues House fighting continued in Schil-lersdorf, 10 miles north of the Sav-erne gap, allied lifeline to imperilled Strasbourg. Wilson said the Germans were being herded into the southeast sector of the town. In the woods just west of Hagu-neau, 15 miles north of the Alsatian capital, the Americans were mopping up Germans who crossed the Moder river between Neuborg and Schwieghouse. Wilson said the Americans counterattacked before the Germans could consolidate their bridgehead, The penetration east of Haguneau was cleared and 100 Germans captured.

Fighting broke out near Bisch-willer, four miles southeast of Haguneau. The snow was 18 inches deep in places, bogging down infantry and tanks and grounding planes. Lt. Gen. William H.

(Texas Bill) Simpson's army captured only 75 prisoners in its surge forward as much as three miles from Lindern. Some of the captured Siegfried line pillboxes were more than ten feet thick; their guns had been removed. The Germans late today dropped heavy shells into Lindern and American field guns and howitzers were splattering nazi gun positions on the white slopes east of the Roer. The First and Third armies hammered the Ardennes bulge flatter. The 102nd infantry division, commanded by Maj.

Gen. Frank A. Keating, dissolved the Siegfried line strongpoints shielding Brachelen (pop: 5,000) at better than one a minute. The Rhenish Prussian town lines nine miles northwest of Julich, 14 below Munchen Gladbach and 29 west of Cologne. Had Been Inactive The Ninth army had been relatively inactive for six weeks during which it took up positions of the Roer vacated by the U.S.

First army which countered the German offensive farther south in the Ardennes. The allies captured at least 23 villages. The British took six, the French five, and the American First, Third and Ninth the rest. The easy capture of Brachelen marked the first time since allied armies invaded Germany that the nazis have given up any considerable section of the Siegfried line without a fight. Aggressive patrols found the Germans withdrawing.

A great row of pillboxes along the Wurm -river north of Brachelen fell without an artillery shot. By late morning, the Ninth army had not suffered a single casualty, Gallagher reported. The Americans were surprised to find the pillboxes abandoned. Even one or two men in each concrete and steel emplacement could have inflicted considerable casualties. The troops had to advance through fields of mines, 30,000 of them laid by the Ninth army itself.

The advance was limited to clearing the American side of the river and did not involve large numbers of American troops. d4 the legislature could review all siare spending. His position was supported by Assemblyman Arthur J. Lenroot, (R-Superior). Milwaukeean to the Measure M.

J. Cleary of Milwaukee, a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, objected to inclusion of revolving funds in the biennial budget. He declared that several years ago the legislature on its own accord had decided on revolving appropriations to save time. "Budgets for such institutions as the university would have to be made up 32 months in advance under such a plan," he said. "Many of the university departments, such as the dormitories are self-support ing, taking in as much as they spend.

It would be impossible to conduct business that way." Cleary said that the board of regents or the emergency board should have control of university appropriations, but not both. Six Support the Resolution Appearing in support of the resolution were C. B. Melby of Whitehall, of the Wisconsin citizens public expenditure survey; Gordon Strandt of Milwaukee, Edward Popp of Granville; Thilip Ott-man of Appleton; F. C.

Seidemann of Kenosha, and T. E. Lewis of Mauston. All contended that the revolvig device was a weakness, complicating the problem of determining the financial needs of the state. State Sen.

Charles Madsen (P-Luck), supoprted by Progressive legislators, said today he will introduce an amendment of the anti-lobby bill of Senators Fred Risser and Lyall Beggs, Madison Progressives, which will require all legislators to report monthly to the secretary of state all income over $5. The original bill would require lobbyists to report once a week all tht money expended by them, for whom expended and upon whom. Madsen's amendment would have legislators file "income reports listing all figures whether received as gifts, fees, dividends, interest, or any other form, together with the name or corporation from which received, the date received, and the purpose for which received." Only money received from the state would be excluded from the report. Cooperative Asks for Raise in Milk Prices Fond du Lac (IP) The pure milk products cooperative will ask the office of price administration for an increase of 24 cents a case in the ceiling price on evaporated milk, the board of directors announced yesterday. General Manager William O.

Ferude said the increase, if granted, should account for a rise of about 24 cents a hundred pounds for producers' milk. Madison Renewal of automobile drivers' licenses scheduled for September of this year would be deferred for most Wisconsin motorists under provisions of a bill introduced in the assembly today. The measure, drafted by the motor vehicle department and presented by the assembly transportation committee, sets up a license renewal plan according to the serial numbers of those registered and provides for similar renewal every four years hence. The motor vehicle department, in drafting the bill, said that it did not have the manpower to set up machinery for renewal of all licenses in Sepember as planned originally. Instead the department proposes to renew licenses numbered from 1 to 400,000 this year; 400,001 to 800,000 in 1946, and 800,001 to 1,200,000 in 1947.

Holders of license above 1,200,000 would be renewed four years after the original issue. These have been issued since the present license program was set up in 1941. Special Licenses The bill also proposes to license all drivers of school buses and provides that such drivers be 21 years of age or older. Another provision allows the owner of a vehicle to assume financial responsibility for his driver if the driver's license has been revoked. The senate today adopted and sent to the assembly a joint resolution extending to Dean E.

B. Fred "sincere congratulations" upon his election as president of the University of Wisconsin and its "best wishes for a successful administration." The resolution was sponsored by Sen. Warren P. Knowles, New Richmond, Republican floorleader. Dean Fred was named yesterday to succeed Clarence Dykstra as president of the university.

Spent $1,300 Gov. Goodland reported to the legislature that he had spent from his contingent fund during the period of January 1, 1943 January. 1, 1945. Former Governor Julius P. Heil spent In the biennium of January 1, 1941 January 1, 1943.

The fund is set up by the legislature for such expenditures as official entertainment, floral tributes and similar expenses of the office. The assembly adjourned until Tuesday morning and the senate until Tuesday night. A resolution calling for inclusion of all revolving funds in the biennial budget drew support of two legislators and various taxpayers' organizations but was oposed by the heads of state departments and boards at a finance committee hearing yesterday. Sen. Melvin Laird (R-Marsh-field), chairman of the joint interim finance committee, declared that the governor's budget for the next two years called for expenditures of $83,000,000 but actually the state would spend $243,000,000.

He proposed the legislation be enacted so DANCE At Flozellville Sunday Night January 28th Music by FRANK POXGRATZ and HIS ORCHESTRA Wedding Dance SATURDAY NIGHT, Jan. 27th. Music by the Little Bohemian Band. Meet Your Friends at Smitty' Saturday Night BIG DANCE Music by: Elwin Mehlbrech and His Orchestra ROLLER SKATING SUNDAY NIGHT Welcome To Ray Betty's HAWAIIAN BAR South on 8th St..