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tffl FTT? i Send a V. Mail Bond to Him VI THE WEATHER For Wisconsin: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday. Showers west and extreme north portion Friday afternoon. Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 a. Maximum 80; minimum 44.

Precipitation, trace. rj A TIVE jjNEWSPJVPE Single Copy Five Cents Thirty-Second Year No. 9815. Wisconsin Rapids, Thursday, June 21, 1943. Mi World Peace Charter iraawa, Steppisi 12 POLES ARE SENTENCED IN RUSSIAN COURT eady for Adoption II US niomesasia onqyer 82-Day Campaign Becomes Costliest of Pacific War 20 Changed With Meat Black Market Activity Charles H.

Cashin, United States attorney for the western district of Wisconsin, announced today that 20 criminal informations had been filed with leave of the federal court at Madison naming residents of Wood and Portage counties on charges of black market operations in meat. Mr. Cashin said that the action is the result of an intensive investigation by the enforcement division of the Green Bay district OPA office. "Warrants are being issued and will be served by Saturday," Mr. Cashin stated.

The federal prosecutor said he Mas not at liberty to announce the names until the warrants had been served. Among the group involved are said to be a hotel, a steakhouse and a producer of choice beef. The balance of the cases are believed to involve individual purchases by consumers without" points. The overall quantity of meat involved is approximately six tons. BY LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Conquest of Okinawa island officially ended today while flame-throwing tanks were still burning Japanese out of suicide pockets.

The 82-day campaign was the costliest of the Central and Western Pacific. More than 90,000 Japanese were killed or captured. Americans killed since S. total casualties of 33,116 were last announced a month ago included two generals Lt. Gen.

Simon Bolivar Buckner, Tenth army commander, and Brig. Gen. Claudius Easley of the 96th division. Increasing intensity of the air warfare against Japan was assured in the disclosure in Washington by Lt. Gen.

James H. Doolittle that his 8th air force would join the 20th in heavy bombardment of Nippon's home islands. The 8th now is being deployed from Europe to the Pacific area. Satisfactory progress was reported on all Pacific fronts though none of them matched this week's Nipponese death rate on Okinawa 3,300 a day. American troops, supported by Mexican fighter planes in their drive toward the end of the Philippines campaign, swept 30,000 Nipponese troops toward the northern tip of Luzon island and traps set by Filipino guerrillas and Igorot tribesmen.

feme--'- 3ww4yf "jWfe'fWIf. 4 I Truman Praises Parley, Denies Ickes' Removal Jt 3 1i- 'r niMn in lT ii hi w-- Auto Output Is Increased Washington (P) A few more autos than anticipated will roll oft assembly lines this year because of an increased civilian steel supply. Ten passenger car manufacturers today were assigned quotas for production of a total of 691,018 autos in the nine months starting July 1. Of these, 241,916 will be produced in 1945. This total for the latter half of this year is about 10 per cent higher than the war production board previously indicated could be produced.

The increased quota is the result of revised estimates that about instead of 500,000 tons of steel will be available for unrestricted use in the July-September 13 QUEEN MARY ARRIVES WITH 11,000 YANKS American soldiers, part of the contingent of 11,000 troops returning from Europe on the Brilinh liner Queen Mary, pack the after decks of the giant liner on her arrival in New York bay on the first voyage to New York since V-E day. This air view was made from a V. S. coast guard helicopter. (AP wirepholo from coast guard.) tome Australian units made another small landing on Brunei bay of northwest Borneo while Tokyo radio reported continued minesweeping preparations for an assault on southeast Borneo at Balikpapan.

Chinese regulars gained another 13 miles of the Asiatic coast, between Wenchow and Shanghai, and edged closer to strategic Liuchowin southeast China. American bombers patrolling the length of the Asiatic coast sank three Japanese ships, harried such ports as Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong, while Tokyo radio re ported 300 carrier aircraft were striking at Wake, U.S. island now in the hands of the enemy. Finnish Under Marine U.S. Tenth army forces finishing up the Okinawa campaign under command of marine Lt.

Gen. Roy S. Gciger had closed the Japanese into such tight pockets by last night that all artillery support was called off. They relied on demolition charges, automatic weapons and flamethrowing tanks of which the Japanese are deathly afraid. "They run," said one tank officer, "and sizzle." On the China coast, which warrants increasing attention with Stil- well return to the war against Ja pan, Chinese forces advanced 13 miles north of Wenchow and attempted to cut off the retreat of Japanese 30 miles above the port city.

Wenchow is 450 miles west of Okinawa. British forces mopping up Burma captured the village of Paukkaung. Australians landed on the north- em shore of Borneo's Brunei bay under cover of artillery fire from Labuan island, five miles offshore. It was the third landing on the day. $159,000 Available For County Road Work Nine counties, 1 including Wood, were represented at a divisional meeting of highway committees yesterday at Stevens Point, accord ing to Russell Sullivan, highway commissioner.

Under a federal aid program, Wood county is allotted $159,000 to be used for secondary roads over a 3-year period. Wood county must equal this amount in order to re ceive this benefit, Sullivan said, and the offer will be submitted to the Wood county board of supervisors for consideration. Former Resident of Rudolph Succumbs Mrs. John Bringman of Brillion, a former resident of Rudolph, died at Appleton on Wednesday. Services and burial will be at Brillion Saturday.

Survivors include two sons and three daughters, Ernest Bringham, Mrs. Max Krautsch and Mrs. George Krieck, all of Appleton, Fred Bringham, Birmingham, and Mrs. Oscar Taustian, Manitowoc, and a number of grandchil dren, several of whom reside in Wisconsin Rapids and Rudolph. 'Come in," Said the Spider to the Fly Chungking (P) A Chinese innkeeper and his accomplice were sentenced to death today for murdering and robbing 78 persons, most of whom were guests at the inn.

The inn is at Changshou, a river port about 60 miles down the Yangtze from Chungking. Liao Chang-shin, the innkeeper, and a man called Usui C'hang-shan, hU accomplice, both admitted the charges during the trial. Execution awaited approval of the sentence by garrison headquarters at I hengtu. Truman Will Bring Parley to Formal Close on Tuesday BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER San Francisco IP) A charter embracing the views of 550 United Nations was wrapped up today into a world document designed to maintain peace.

President Truman, now taking a brief holiday in Washington state, will bring the United Nations conference to a formal close with a Fpeech on international affairs Until that time the delegates of the 550 nations represented nere will be busy with a variety of technical problems and speech-making sessions. But the real work of the conference, which met April 25, is accomplished. Reaches Last Stage It reached that stage last night. A committee approved an Australi-nn-Russian compromise empowering the proposed general assembly of nations to discuss and make recommendations on any question "within the scope of the charter" written here. Thus ended a long struggle by small nations to make the assembly a "town meeting of the world" potentially capable of exerting the pressure of public opinion on the hig-power-controlled security council, even though it could exercise no control over the council directly.

The last commission session to go over a chapter of the charter was called today to receive the report of Andrade's committee. From the stage of commission action the conference will move through plenary sessions in which the four commis-fions will formally report various sections of the charter for approval. Secretary of State Stettinius announced yesterday that the charter would be signed Monday. A special room, with a huge round table, blue-covered against a background of United Nations flags, has been prepared for that ceremony. Thn Prpsidpnt will arrive Monday 5n time for the signing and will remain through "the closing session pbout 24 hours later.

Among sections of the charter Which won committee approval yesterday and last night was a chapter petting up a system of international trusteeships for government of internationally-held territories and also setting forth standards for colonial powers in the government of nil dependent peoples. Overseas Veterans Tell Kiwanians of Exciting Experiences Cpl. Charles Houston, who spent 34 months in a German prison camp And who is now home on furlough, told members of the Kiwanis club of his capture by the Nazis and rime of his experiences in the camp at the regular weekly meeting of the club at the youth lodge last evening. He was captured on the Anzio beachhead in Italy in February of 1944. He answered a number of questions for the clubmen and was high in his praise of the Red Cross.

Julian Lamboley, a telephone communications engineer with, the signal corps, stationed in Honolulu, epoke briefly on his experiences. The club voted to postpone its ladies night program which had been planned for next Wednesday until sometime in August. Local Soldier's Day Held in Weyauewega Weyauwega (IP) Residents observed Darnell Kadolph day here without any public celebration but moved to the bond windows to put the town well over its quota for the Seventh war loan. The day, named for a Weyau-wegaa army private who just returned home after escaping from a Japanese prison ship, saw $17,550 worth of bonds' purchased and of other series, moving the current total to $113,274.60. The quota was $100,000.

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mt, on. Moscow (IP) Twelve of 16 Poles accused of subversive activities behind Red army lines were convicted by a Soviet court early today and given sentences of from four months to ten years in prison. Three were acquitted and the trial of another was postponed. The heaviest sentence 10 years was imposed upon Maj. Gen.

L. Bronislaw Okulicki, commander of the underground home army after the ill-fated Warsaw uprising. Jan Jankowski, deputy prime minister of the London Polish government-in-exile and leader of the Pol ish underground movement, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment. The sentences will date from the day of arrest, March 27. (The Moscow radio, heard in London, said no appeal from the sentences would be permitted).

Gen. Okulicki showed little emotion as he heard the president of the military presidium, Col. Gen. Vassily V. Ulrich, read the verdict and the sentences.

Flood lights beat down upon the defendants standing in the wooden dock as the sentences were read. Expressions of great relief were on the faces of those acquitted Stanislaw F. Mikhailowski, J. Stemberdombrowski and K. S.

Koby- lyanski. One defendant, Anton Paidak, had been too ill to attend the trial and he will face the court later. Each of the 15 had been permitted to express his own views on what kind of government was needed in Poland and his opinions on Soviet-Polish relations. Each defendant, ad vised he was speaking under the privilege of "final statements," declared friendship between Soviet Russia and Poland was most essen tial. Pagels Given Bronze Star Sgt.

Howard W. Pagels, who was reported by the war department as killed in action May 9 on Luzon land in the Philippines, was award' ed the Bronze Star medal before his death for heroic service against the enemy, during the 38th (Cyclone) division's 16-day battle for strategic Zig Zag pass, east of Olongapo en Luzon. On February 9, during an- attack through heavy bamboo growth, Pa-gel's squad came under the murderous crossfire of enemy machine guns and was ur.able to advance. In this desperate situation, Pagels deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire in order to reconnoiter a route and lead his squad to safety. He successfully accomplished his mission at the risk of his life and the squad was able to continue its advance without the loss of a man.

Pagels, an assistant squad leader of Company 152nd infantry, was overseas 17 months and had served in Hawaii, New Guinea and Leyte. He was the son of William G. Pagels, Route 2, Wisconsin Rapids. Truckers Warned to Apply for Gasoline "Some truck owners will be disappointed when they find they will be unable to use their trucks after July 1 because they failed to cooperate with the rationing board and get their third quarter ration of truck gasoline," W. Fred Bushnell, chief clerk of the South.

Wood county war price and rationing board said today. "From today on, the board is accepting applications as they come in," he declared, "and the last ones to apply will certainly be out of luck." 'To date, the board has received less than one-half of the applications, therefore, if truck owners expect to drive after July 1, they had better get their applications in at once," Bushnell pointed out. Ball-Burton-Hatch 'industrial peace" bill. The labor organizations rallied to support the Wagner National Labor Relations act and Senator Wagner indicated he will oppose the amendments to his act which the new legislation proposed. Introduced by the three senators yesterday, the measure among other revisions would replace the NLRB and the U.

S. conciliation service and create two new boards to perform duties now handled by the war labor board. A government labor relations expert, asking anonymity, said the proposal would "sabotage a good bit of the experience we have had in the field of labor relations." Proposes Amendment In the house, Rep. Jenkins (R-Ohio) proposed a price control amendment transferring all OPA powers over fond to the agriculture See WASHINGTON 9 You Said It Hon. Fellow! By the Associated Press The Japanese home affairs ministry has decided that Nippon hauled off and built its cities too large and henceforth there shall be none on the islands with more than 3,000,000 population.

(Editor's Note: This project has the earnest cooperation of U.S. Superfortresses, which for some time have been laboring with and fire bombs to get Tokio's population dou-n to wore scemhj rropor-tions also Osakas' which likewise is over three million.) A Tokyo radio commentator said it was to he hoped that the program for reducing the population of cities would be accomplished in the "not-too-distant future." (In view of what America air generals have promised the Japanese in the wan bigger and. better air raids, it may be assumed the commentator said a mouthful.) BY ERNEST B. VACCARO Olympia, Wash. (IP) President Truman today praised the work of the San Francisco conference, promised the meat situation would be straightened out and denied reports he contemplates removing Interior Secretary Harold L.

Ickes. In his first press conference since leaving the White House the president also expressed gratification over the senate's approval of legislation extending the Reciprocal trade agreement program with further tariff lowering authority. Portland on Docket He announced he would stop over in Portland, at 11 a. m. U.

S. Casualties Total 1,023,453 Washington (JP) United States battle casualties in World War II now total 1,023,433, an increase of 6,356 from, those reported a week ago. The army casualties reported today represented the period extending through the greater part of May and the increase apparently represented mainly Pacific action. Of the total, 903,701 are army casualties and 119,752 navy. Army casualties reported this week and a week ago follow: Killed 189,294 and wounded 560,836 and 558,611 missing 39,956 and prisoners (before liberations) 113,613 and 111,262.

Garrison Estate is Valued at $92,000 Petition for probate of the will of Mrs. Celia Garrison, who died at the age of 89 last March, has been filed in county court. Orestes Garrison, 1261 Third street, a son, has been appointed executor of the estate in which personal property is valued at $92,000 and is bequeathed to two sons, two daughters and the grandchildren. Bequests of $750 each were made to Phyllis G. Vooris, Phil Garrison and Nancy Garrison, children of a son, Emile B.

Garrison, Los Angeles, Viola N. Bell, Susan N. Geig-er, Barbara N. Kull and Mary C. Nash, children of a daughter, Viola Nash, Wisconsin Rapids; Rogers E.

Garrison, son of Orestes Garrison and Agnes M. Jacobs, daughter of Caroline Mott, Evanston, 111. Orestes Garrison and Viola Nash were bequeathed $2,500. The remainder was divided into quarters among two daughters, Viola Nash and Caroline Mott, and two sons, Orestes Garrison and Emile B. Garrison.

(Pacific War time) Monday en route to San Francisco where he expects to arrive at 4 p. m. The president expressed confidence the senate will take favorable action on. the Bretton Woods agreements as well as the Reciprocal trade legislation. The latter, he said, permitting direct quotation, "places the United States squarely behind the principles of international trade cooperation." He came out flatly in favor of the postwar completion of the Alaskan highway in cooperation with British Columbia and Canada.

He said there is about COO miles of road up the trench to complete. Questions. Action "Stories have appeared in eastern papers that you are getting rid of Mr. Ickes and replacing him with Cap. Krug (J.

A. Krug, chairman of the war production board) a re porter asserted. He asked whether the president planned such action, No. the president replied, he didn't, it was the first he had heard of it, he added, and it was news to him. He hasn't discussed it with Mr.

Ickes at all, the president concluded. The president added that he had no cabinet changes immediately in mind, and that he would let the reporters know when he did. "You suggested we keep on asking you if you contemplated a change in the state department (presided over by Secretary Stettinius) and we are wondering if you have anything on that?" A reporter asked. The president said he still had nothing on that. Told of former President Herbert Hoover's assertion that food controls over meat distribution had broken down, the president said he had not seen the statement, but added that the meat situation would be straightened out as soon as Representative Clinton P.

Anderson, his new agriculture secretary and war food administrator, takes over. The administration is working on the food and meat situation, the president assured, and when Mr. Anderson takes charge the situation wil be straightened out automatically. Memorial Services For Quentin Yager Sunday Memorial services for Pvt. Quen tin Yager, who was killed in action March 24 in Germany, will be held at.

3 o'clock Sundav afternoon at the First Methodist church, the Rev. A. W. Triggs officiating. Private Yager, a paratrooper and a member of the Seventeenth air borne division, met his death during the crossing of the Rhine river.

trialists at Strasbourg, August 10, 1944, intended to make postwar plans. Documentary Evidence This document, Kilgore said, "is evidence of how German industry worked hand in hand with the Nazi party to unloose against the world a war of aggression. "Documentary material of this type shows that with the defeat of the German army and the discrediting of the Nazi party, the German cartelists are attempting to disassociate themselves from their co-conspirators. "Masquerading as 'neutral businessmen' without political allegiance, they have already conceived vicious plans for a third attempt at world conquest." Elsewhere in Washington, the AFL, CIO and United Mine Work-ers coalesced in opposition to the Vinegar Joef Is New Chief OfTenthArmy Manila (P) Gen. Joseph W.

Stilwell, switched from his post as chief of army ground forces to the Pacific, has been selected by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to command the U. S. 10th army now mopping up on Okinawa, it was announced today. The veteran Japanese fighter's transfer to the Pacific ocean area theater and his appointment to the command vacated by the death in action on Okinawa of Lt.

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, was announced from MacArthur's headquarters. The assignment culminated a series of conferences among Stilwell, MacArthur and other field commanders in the Pacific area recently, and it is assumed he will take over the Tenth army as soon as he can get there. Lt. Gen.

Roy S. Geiger, a marine general, now is serving as a stopgap commander of the Tenth army in the mopping up operations on Okinawa. The 03-year-old Stilwell, known as "Vinegar Joe," knows the enemy as do few other field commanders. After his long and distinguished service in the Burma-China theater, he was known to have been anxious to take another crack at the Japanese as a field commander. Ryans Hear Son Is Prisoner in Honshu Jap Camp Mr.

and Mrs. M. J. Ryan, 641 Ninth street south, have received word from the war department that their son, Cpl. Roliert J.

Ryan, is now in a prisoner of war camp at Fukuoka on the island of Honshu, Japan. Corpora! Ryan has been a prisoner of the Japanese for over three years, having been raptured in the fait of Bataan April 9, 1942. He was serving with the 192nd tank battalion when he was captured. Yesterday's message from the war department was the first word received by the Ryans concerning their son since last January, when the parents received a word written by Robert in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines. cations link in the Caraballo mountains in northern Luzon, the Ne koosa soldier was serving as liaison sergeant for headquarters battery, 129th Field Artillery battalion.

It was in this action that he was wounded by fragments of a Jap heavy artillery shell. Sergeant Wolfe is entitled to wear six overseas stripes (signifying 30 months of overseas duty), the Purple Heart, the American Defense ribbon, the Good Conduct medal, the Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbons with three battle stars and the Philip pine Liberation ribbon with one star. Before entering the army, Sergeant Wolfe was employed by the Nekoosa Edwards Paper company. Frank has one brother, Jacob who is a sergeant in the Alaskan theater. The mother of the two "sol diers died a month ago while the father, Frank Wolfe, died nine years ago, Neiv Sugar Cut To Hit Several Rapids Concerns A new 50 percent cut in industri al sugar, effective July 1, is going to shorten that old familiar phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it too." The new refrain will be "you can't have your cake." According to several bakery own ers and operators in Wisconsin Rapids, the new sugar slash will first affect the output of cakes and cookies and, although they will not completely disappear off the shelves, production will necessarily be lighter.

Some bakeries have partially solved the emergency by clos ing their doors one day a week in order that they may continue to provide their customers with the usual bakery Items. Soft drinks from the Rapids Bev erage company will be hit hardest and are to be' rationed beginning July 1, according to George Gibson. The outlook is not too bright, he points out, for the cut will be 50 percent of the 1941 usage "which wasn't a very good year." The use of sugar substitute aided the situation somewhat up to the present time but now this source has been cut off by the government. Prisoner, of War is Injured at Marsh Siegfried Imbuelten, 23, prisoner of war from the branch camp at the Tri-City airport, was taken to a hospital pt Camp McCoy this week following an accident when he caught his left foot in a grass cutter while working on the A. E.

Bennett and Son cranberry marsh at Cranmoor. According to Lt. Albert A. Kent, the first joint of Im-buelten's big toe was amputated. COMMITTEE TO MEET A meeting of the maintenance of way committee of the city council will be held at 7 o'clock tonight at the city hall where general business will be discussed, according to Carl Cajanus4 city engineer, Qerman Industrialists Planning for World War 111, Documents Show Nepco Employe Returning After 56 Months' Service Sgt, Frank J.

Wolfe is returning to his home at 418 Point Basse avenue, Nekoosa, under the army point-demobilization system, according to word received by the soldier's sister, Sophia, who resides at the above address. Sergeant Wolfe has accumulated a total of 112 points in his 5G months of army service. Thirty-seven of those months were spent overseas. The sergeant was inducted into Federal service with battery, Second battalion, 120th Field Artillery regiment, 32nd infantry division, a Wisconsin National guard unit, October 15, 1940. He left for overseas duty in April, 1942.

Sergeant Wolfe fought with the division at Aitape and Saidor in New Guinea, Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines. When the 32nd division was clearing the rugged Villa Verde trail, an important communi (By the Associated Press) Washington (IP) German industrialists, masquerading as neutral businessmen without political allegiance, already have conceived plans for a third World war. Chairman Kilgore said today the war mobilization subcommittee of the senate military committee has obtained secret German documents showing how the Nazis intend to "hide" in strategic industries while planning another war. "The German industrialists," Kilgore said, "are not only buying agricultural property in Germany but are placing their funds abroad, particularly in neutral countries." Kilgore said his committee will open hearings Monday "on the economic base for German aggression" and that additional facts will be brought out. His announcement contained a re port on meeting of German indus.