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A THE WEATHER For Wisconsin: Fair tonight. Thursday mostly cloudy. Occasional light rain south portion Thursday. BOOST the WHITE SOX Opener May 16 Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 a. Maximum 72; minimum 40.

PAPER Hil Thirty-Third Year No. 10,079. Wisconsin Rapids, Wednesday, May 1, 1946. Single Copy Five Cents Dy NEWS BYRNES, M0L0T0V aros of taS.it Amdeirsooii Favors Loffiin A fif la Price GWE'O Wfc VS, A 1 "VI ft ay orid Armed Forces Are Asked to Guard Peace in World London (P) Generalissimo Stalin warned Russians celebrating their May day holiday today against forces of "international reaction" which he said are "hatching plans of a new war," and urged strengthening of the Soviet's armed forces "to guard the peace." "The armed forces of the Soviet Union our land troops, air forces and navy discharged their duty to the country in the great patriotic war," he declared in an order of the ay Lewis Calls Policy Group to Capitol, Fuller Back on Job day broadcast last mgiu Dy me I Moscow radio and recorded in Lon- ARGUE ITALIAN CONTROL SET-UP Paris (IP) Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and U.

S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes clashed in the question of the future Allied control of Italy today as the foreign ministers' 'council turned thumbs down on Austria's plea for return of the southern Tyrol by Italy. a quaimea conierence source said the Soviet minister sharply opposed Byrnes' proposal for a single general commission to supervise carrying out the Italian treaty provisions on the ground that it would be an infringement of Italian sovereignty. Byrnes Has Answer Byrnes was said to have retorted it was no more of an infringement than the treaty itself.

Molotov reversed the Soviet policy followed at last September's council meeting at which the Russians voted with their colleagues to set up only military control com missions. At this morning's session, over which he presided, Molotov came out in favor of no commission at all. Were on Last Case The ministers were discussing the last of 11 points of disagreement over the Italian treaty. The ministers decided to hold their next meeting tomorrow morning and to cancel a scheduled session this afternoon. Their deputies will meet this afternoon to set an agenda.

A conference source said both sessions tomorrow probably would be devoted to attempts to clear up minor points of difference on the Italian treaty. As We Go TRUMAN, BIDAULT TALK Paris (P) A high French offi-cial source reported today that President Truman held a trans-Atlantic phone conference with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault today which covered a wide range of topics including world politics, methods of strengthening the peace, Frances' food shortage and a projected S. loan. CALLS GOVERNOR Milwaukee (P) Walter Geist, president of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company, today advised Governor Goodland that "a state of anarchy" exists at the company's strikebound West Allis plant. Pins Hope on Crackdown of Black Markets Washington (P) Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said today during a discussion of meat shortage and black market conditions that if the situation is not cteared up in 90 days, he would favor removal of price controls on meat.

Anderson said, however, he is pinning hopes on the success of new slaughter quotas for packers and on the campaign against black market dealers in meat. "This is about the last effort see if it (meat control) will work," LOCAL DEALERS ORGANIZE About 20 Tri-City meat re- tailers met at Eagles hall last night to form an association for the purpose of studying local market conditions. Clarence Rei-land was named chairman, Frank Tavloski, treasurer, and George Ruppert, secretary. An- other meeting to perfect plana will be held in about a week and it i3 hoped that dealers throughout Central Wisconsin eventually will be included in the group. he told the senate banking committee in hearings on OPA extension.

Wants Serious Effort He added he "would hate to see" controls on meat lifted "until we have again made a serious effort." Senator Bankhead asked what Anderson would consider a reasonable period for a fair test. "We would have to do something in 90 days or abandon it," the secretary replied. Anderson' had said earlier that if meat ceilings were lifted how that pork might go to 70 cents a pound. Board Resolution The advisory board of the office of War mobilization and reconversion unanimously urged that the life of OPA be extended for a period not to exceed one year. Reconversion Director John W.

Washington (JP) John L. Lewis today summoned the United Mine Workers' 250-man policy committee to Washington next Tuesday. There was no immediate explanation for the move. Such meetings usually precede a major development of strategy in contract negotiations. Announcement of the strategy meeting came shortly after special Conciliator Paul W.

Fuller bowed Calls British Loan World WPA Project' Washington (P) Senator Brooks (R-Ill.) announced to the senate today he will vote against the $3,750,000,000 British loan, terming it a "world wide WPA pro ject that will lower our American standards of living." The Illinois senator, a veteran of World war declared in a prepared speech that he expected to be called "anti-British." "I am not pro-British," he said. "I am pro-American and I am proud of it." Brooks' criticism of the loan legislation came as opponents planned a parliamentary move which they hoped might sweep the loan legisla tion out of the senate without a vote on the bill itself. Senator Brooks told his colleagues he wa3 in "good company" opposing the loan and said these had the same views: "Jesse Jones, who loane'd more money than any individual in his tory, Leo Crowley, able administrator of the export-import bank, and Mr. (Bernard) Baruch, adviser to presidents. The parliamentary attack in the offing presented an unexpected threat to the loan bill.

school, Auburndale, Marshf ield, Pittsville, Lindsey and Vesper. There will be a Lincoln High school student council dance Friday and the same afternoon a special assembly featuring the Howell glass blowers is scheduled in the field-house. The annual Walther league talent quest of northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan will be held in the fieldhouse Sunday afternoon. May 10 is the date set for the annual Lincoln High school junior Plans ay la Jap Unions Threaten To Strike Tokyo (IP) Organized labor used its occupation won freedom to voice a May day threat of a gen eral strike to support its demand for a leftist government. Meantime, Japanese police and American forces searches for the fanatic accused of having plotted to assassinate General MacArthur at the height of today's celebration by an estimated 400,000 Japanese in front of the Imperial palace.

First in 11 Years It was Japan's first May day celebration in 11 years and it passed quietly without a single re' ported act of violence. Socialist Kanju Kato, in the bor committee conference with Premier Shidehara, said a nationwide walkout might be called if a single party cabinet was formed by the rightist liberals. The liberal party won 139 diet seats in the recent election but failed to gain a ma jority. The conference followed the assembly which the American provost marshall estimated attracted 000 Japanese. Look for Tokayama Armed American soldiers circu lated through the crowd, looking for Hideo Tokayama, accused by MacArthur's headquarters of hav ing plotted to kill him with gren ades and pistols at the height of today's celebration.

An informant now in American custody told Mac, Arthur's aides of the plot. MacArthur military secretary and officers in his counter-intelligence and criminal investigation divisions reported in mid-afternoon that there were "no developments" in the plotter search. Swancutt on Way to Final A'Bomb Tests Maj. Woodrow P. "Woodie" Swancutt, Wisconsin Rapids, will be one of four B-29 commanders participating in preliminary tests in the Pacific leading up to Operations Crossroads, the atomic bomb test on the navy's fleet at Bikini atoll in July.

The four were chosen from among many crews that have been in intensive training at Ros-well, N. for several months. One of nine, children, Major Swancutt was born at Edgar. in July, 1915, and attended schools at Stevens Point, LaCrosse and Wisconsin Rapids. He was married in 1941 to Miss Kathleen Haza of this city, and they have a daughter who will be four years old this month.

Known as Boxer Swancutt won the "Fiehtin'est Fighter" trophy in his first year at the University of Wisconsin, where he performed on the university boxing team. He went on to become national intercollegiate 155- pound champion in 1939 and 1940. Major Swancutt, who was a Dre- medic student at the university, worked his way through school as a "soda jerk." He maintained a good scholastic average, and devoted his free time to boxing. He was never knocked off his feet and lost only four bouts. Swancutt was a nonular fitrhter because of his potential knockout skill, his acknowledged ring science ana clean performances.

Piloted Mountbatten While assistant operations offi cer at Boiling field, Washington, D. Major Swancutt piloted a plane which brought Lord Louis Mount-batten, then Allied supreme commander in the southwest Pacific area, to Washington from Quebec. ASSERTSliiTLER DECEIVED REICH Nuernberg () Hialmar Srha- cht, Nazi financial genius, told the Intel-national military tribunal today that all foreign ambassadors, except those from Russia and the U. at tended Nazi party rallies, but the court blocked his efforts to testify that the attitude of foreign nations wa3 a factor in Germany's acceptance of the Hitler regime. Schacht, in his second day of direct testimony, continued an elaboration of his main defense that "Hit ler deceived the world, deceived Germany and me." Asked by conusel to explain the prosecution's charge that he sat in the front row at Nazi party rallies, Schacht said he only attend ed the earlier ones as a cabinet minister and added: "Foreign ambassadors were there too except the American and Russian and also ostentatiously in the front row." ''MeteoE'' Got Aroesid Palestine Gates Open to 100,000 Washington (IP) The explosive-packed recommendation that 100,000 persecuted Jews be admitted to Palestine at once ticked away ominously today on Britain's doorstep.

In dropping it there, the official Anglo-American committee on Palestine ld at the same time that the strife-torn Holy Land must become "neither a Jewish state nor an Arab ttate." Arabs Protest Immediate reaction to the committee's proposals for the British mandate ranged from qualified Jewish approval of the emergency immigration plan to a blistering indictment from Arab leaders. In Jerusalem, where there long have been repeated outbreaks of bloody violence, the Arab office said the report would intensify this strife and drive "the entire Middle East into the bosom of Soviet Russia." The Arab statement termed the recommendations "high treason to democracy and a grave betrayal of justice." Pledge Cooperation In London, the Jewish agoney for Palestine pledged cooperation with the plan to admit 100,000 Jews now but protested that the document left untouched the central problem of stateless Jews in Europe. The number of these has been placed by Jewish spokesmen at more than 1,000,000. The problem presented by the report which climaxed a four-month investigation is primarily one for Britain to handle because that country since 1922 has held a League of Nations mandate over Palestine. The committee's nction was taken against the immediate background of President Truman's request six months ago for emergency immigration of 100,000 homeless Jewihh victims of Axis persecution a request later rejected by Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Britain.

The two governments then formed the joint committee. Police School Has Final Class The thirteenth and final session of a police training school was attended by 38 law enforcement offi cers from the Central Wisconsin area Tuesday and was followed by an informal "get-together" in the Rose room of the Hotel Witter. Under the supervision of Tolice Chief R. J. Exner, the project training course was the first school of this type to be held in the United States, The concluding session of the school was cpent in discussing the suggestions and criticisms offered by the members of the class as an aid in improving similar schools to' bo held in the future.

The school was conducted by agents from the federal bureau of investigation and was sponsored by the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police association. Favorable comment was expressed by the officers present on the instruction and general organization of the school. The officers who attended the required number of meetings will be issued diplomas at a future date, Exner said. Hold Two Men for Alleged Auto Theft Two Sauk county men, Kenneth F. Towne, 39, and Patrick Edward McCarthy, 22, both of LaValle, were taken into custody about 9 o'clock Tuesday night when a car owned by A.

Richards, LaValle, which they had reportedly taken without the owners' permission, left the road and turned over on Highway 80 near Babcock, resulting in about $400 damage to the auto. The men escaped injury. Sheriff Henry J. Becker is holding the men in Wood county jail pending further instructions from the Sauk connty authorities. Escape Injury In Crash on Overhead Miles Fulmcr, Endeavor, and Frank Mathews, 311 Twelfth street south, escaped injury when their cars collided on the Baker drive overhead on Highway 54 about 2:30 this morning, resulting in damage estimated at Fulmer, who wts traveling east, said he was looking at a road map when his car crossed over to the left side of the highway, striking the Mathews car and swinging it around into the overhead guard, railj Central Wisconsin's celestial scorcher of Mnnd JOHN C.

CHAPPLE John Chappie, Editor, Dies Ashland (IP) John C. Chappie, 70, editor in chief of the Ashland Daily Press and veteranmember of the Wisconsin legislature, died to day. Chappie had been in failing health for the last year. Elected to the assembly as Ash land county's representative for the first time in 1909, Chappie was reelected in 1917 and 1919 and again in 1942. Chappie was connected with the Ashland newspaper for 57 years.

A collection of his writings, under the pen name of "The Squibber" was recently published in book form. WHISKY-MAKERS CUT 40 PER CENT Washington (IP) The nation's whisky-makers slashed their production schedules 40 per cent today in line with the government's newest effort to scrape up grain for-famine relief. It was the sharpest reduction im posed on the industry since peacetime distilling, was partially re sumed, but it coincided with a fresh official warning that the present world food crisis will continue into 1347. An agriculture department order cut distillers' use of grain during May from the five days production capacity allowed during the past two months to three days. The effect will be to delay still further a return of plentiful quality liquors.

But an industry spokes man in New York said there is no immediate prospect of a liquor shortage. The department said distillers' use of grain during May will not exceed 2,500,000 bushels, thus mak ing possible an estimated saving of about 1,750,000 bushels for the month. This compares with a deficit to date of about 20,000,000 bushels in relief shipments abroad. Chairman Chester C. Davis of President Truman's famine emergency committee meanwhile declared in a statement last night that every report coming before us makes it plain that the present famine is no short run emergency that ends July 1." Arabs Call National Strike in Palestine London (IP) A Rcuter's dis patch from Jerusalem reported that the Arab higher committee decided today to call a country-wide Arab general strike today in protest against the British-American re port on Palestine.

May Is May is the month which the school kids greet with blissful thought, "The last month before vacation." But before that long-awaited event comes tibout, there are many items scheduled not only on the local school docket but the Tri-City schedule as well. Traditional May basket day ushers in the month and mothers will be duly honored May 12. Straw hats will be sported on May 15 as a tribute to approaching warm Outdoor ff i -vy-- 9 to White House persuasjon and agreed to continue efforts to end the soft coal strike. Fuller withdrew the resignation he submitted to Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach last night, after conferences with Schwellenbach and White House assistant John R. Steelman.

As for the coal conferences, Fuller admitted "they are not getting anywhere. They are just talking." John L. Lewis, who earlier in the day had cleared the way for a possible anthracite shutdown by month's end, accompanied Fuller and special Mediator Edward F. McGrady to Schwellenbach's office for an hour-long conference last night. New and threatening strikes darkened the rest of the nation's labor picture at the start of the merry month of May.

A transit strike in Atlanta, inconvenienced thousands. Coal production in Illinois was at a complete shutdown by a walkout of 18,000 independent miners. A nationwide work stoppage of workers that would tie up the country's terminal elevators threatened. A transit strike in Memphis, was called off when an agreement on wagc3 was reached. CRITICIZE PLAN OF UNIFICATION Washington (IP) Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal declared today that the current proposal to merge the army and the navy into a single department of defense is "based on a major premise which is false." He told the senate naval committee that the navy is solidly behind a program of "practical improvement in the coordination of the arm ed services," but criticized sharply details of the present merger plan.

Pending legislation that the committee is considering, he said, "fails to differentiate between unified command in combat areas and the planning functions at the seat of the government which require deliberation and conference." "In other words," he continued, it fails to differentiate between single command such as is necessary in the face of the enemy, and the democratic processes and procedures which are the basis of our government at home." Cranberry Sales Co. Directors to Meet The board of directors of the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales company will meet at 10 o'clock Monday morning in the directors' room of the Wood County National bank, it was announced today by Secretary Vernon Goldsworthy. Month prom. Representatives of the high school girls athletic association will attend the G. A.

A. Play Day at Stevens Point May 11. The fieldhouse will be the scene of the annual "Pop" concert by Lincoln High school music groups May 13, and the Gamma Sigma concert is to be presented in the music room May 14. A G. A.

A. dance has been scheduled for May See MAY Page 9 Tribune I'hoto a on. "Now our armed forces are faced with a task of no less importance vigilantly to guard the peace which was won and the constructive labor of the Soviet people, to be the reliable bulwark of the interest of the Soviet Union. "The successful accomplishments of this honorable task is possible only on condition of further growth of military culture and military skill of the officers and men of our army, our navy and our aviation." Wants Higher Goal Stalin urged Russian workers to reach and even exceed the goals set in the nation's new five-year plan. "Developing peaceful Socialist construction," Stalin's order declar ed, "we should not forget for minute the intrigues of internation al reaction, which is hatching plans of a new war.

It is necessary to remember the teaching of the great Lenin to the effect that after switching over to peaceful labor, it is necessary to be constantly vigr lant, to protect as the apple of one's eye the armed forces and defensive powers of our country. "The armed forces of the Soviet Union must daily improve their military art on the basis of experi ence of war, on the basis of the progress of military science and technique. Beyond any doubt, our army, navy and our aviation will accomplish all those tasks facing them." International Holiday May day, characterized by Stalin as "the international holiday of the working people," is most widely ob served in European countries and is similar to the September Labor day observance in the United States, It was first proclaimed in 1889 by See ST A LI Pa ge 9 Rosholt Files G.O.P. Papers For Congress Madison (IP) Nomination pa pers were filed with the secretary of state today by Malcolm Rosholt of Rosholt for the Republican nomination for representative from the seventh district. Reid F.

Murray, Ogdensburg, is the incumbent. Jason Danle'iS, Oxford, filed nom ination papers for the Republican nomination for assemblyman from Adams and Marquette counties, Robert M. Long is the present as semblyman from that district. Alex Rainen, Hurley, Republican assem blyman representing Iron and Vilas counties, filed nomination papers for the nomination from his dis trict Four candidates announced they had applied for the position of senior assistant attorney general Recent appointment to the supreme court of J. Ward Rector resulted in a vacancy in the attorney gen eral's office.

Applicants are Stewart Honeck, Milwaukee, acting duputy attorney general; Harold Hanson, city at torney of Madison; and Ralph Hart-man and Douglas Nelson, Madison, both members of the public welfare department legal division. Telephone Poles Are Burned in Marsh Fire A telephone pole cross-arm and two other poles were burned at the base as a result of a marsh fire on the south side of Bonow avenue, just west of Seventeenth avenue, about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Telephone service was not disrupted by the fire. The city fire department was called for two other fires yesterday; a rubbish fire at the residence of G. II.

Halverson, 1121 Lincoln street, at noon, and at 8 o'clock a rubbish fire in a vacant lot on Spring street, just north of the Groen Bay and Western railway company tracks. No damage resulted from the rubbish fires. Olid Millar It'i easy to qit rich. Just fig ger our and put on the market some, dingus a foot oughtn't to' have and can't afford. HI NABOR had a counterpart in the Racine area for, according to an Associated Press story, a huge ball of fire was seen streaking across the sky in that part jf Wisconsin and was described variously as a shooting star, meteor, rocket and comet.

The display apparently was either of epidemic proportions or else all saw the same body at different stages for the Wausau Daily Record-Herald and the Wisconsin State Journal at Madison report similar occurrences. Persons throughout the Wisconsin Rapids region saw a flaming bluish object with a long tail and said there was a flash and an explosion which shook the ground, accompanied by a thundering rumble which was heard as far north as Biron. A local woman, Mrs. Lawrence Irwin, 351 Thirteenth street south, described it as "a great big headlight which seemed to break in two" and believed a piece fell nearby. It was considered quite low in height and was traveling on a level plane.

Yesterday morning her son, Richard, found a chunk of light, fused material around which the grass seemed to be scorched. The possible meteor fragment was submitted to Alfred Hornigold, Lincoln High school chemistry teacher, who in a cursory examination said it did not See METEOR Page 9 Truly a Merry Snyder released a resolution adopted by the board. The resolution said termination of price control must be brought about without unnecessary delay and in an orderly manner. But it added that it is "convinced that to abandon price control on June 30, 1946, would leave the nation unprotected against a dangerous rise in prices in the interval before normal economic forces are working." Housing Units Taking Shape Work on the Seventeenth avenue emergency housing project is progressing smoothly, City Engineer Carl Cajanus reported today, with the concrete block foundation completed for one building and enough panels on hand for the first floor. Additional workers have been hired by the Levering Construction company, which is erecting the family dwelling units in Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield, and a steady flow of the building panels is expected from Savannah, 111., permitting speedy construction of the apartment buildings.

City Clerk Nels M. Justeson said that about 30 prospective tenants appeared at a meeting which was held Monday night to explain rentals and other details of the emergency housing progTam. He pointed out that priority will be given to applicants with families; second, applicants without children and that persons who were not originally residents in Wisconsin Rapids but have moved here since the war will be considered last. Report Men's Suit Deliveries Held Up New York (P) Men's clothing manufacturers halted deliveries on 75 to 80 per cent of all suits being produced, industry spokesmen said today. They said conflicting office of price administration regulations niiike it impossirle for them to ship the bulk of their production without heavy penalties.

Play Goes on Ma.Tomanie Two grade school girls went on with their parts in a musical play last night, unaware that their mother, Mrs, Cyrus Jordan, 45, had suffered a fatal heart attack in the audience. Mrs. Jordan, a farm wife, was sfrieken shortly after the opening of the play, but her (laughters, Elaine and Lois, were not informed of the tragedy until the program was almost over. weather. National Music week will be observed May 5-11.

The city council gathers for a session May 7 and county court will begin May 13. A district Boy Scout camporee is scheduled for May 24, 25 and 20. Climaxing the month will be Memorial day, a national holiday. Rural Examinations Friday is the date set for county Eighth grade examinations. They will be held at the County Normal i 4 A xiL rl 1 I Zr 4 i ft i i activities beckon to followers during May after winter recess.