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THE WEATHER For Wisconsin: Clearing and cooler tonight, occasional rain tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, continued quite cool, lower humidity. Q) Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 a. Maximum 93 minimum 64. Thirty-Second Year No.

9881. Wisconsin Rapids, Saturday, September 8, 1945. Single Copy Five Cents ffH A CONSTRUCTIVE fcOfNEWSPAPERKM EJSiiHJM yj Commission Asks Idle GOP DEMAND IS REJECTED BY Stars oindl Stripes Are Raised Over Jap Capital Utility Crew to Use Plan ispute "u'MM'HW "innnmii 400,000 Nazis May Be Tried By War Crimes Commission Occupation Is Marked by Simple Entry By the Associated Press Tokyo General MacArthur, shunning all fanfare as a conqueror, entered Tokyo today with fully armed troops of the First Cavalry division and officially signalized the occupation of this war-wrecked city Nation's Idle Soars Around 125,000 Mark 7)f: PREVIEW OF FUTURE WEEKEND TRIPS Weekend pleasure trips by air for visits with relatives and friends hold a promising future and may become as common as trips by automobile. A preview of this future is illustrated here by Howard Jones of Moline, 111., who recently hopped 212 airline miles in 2 hours and 15 minutes in his Aeronca-65 for a weekend visit with his wife and parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Luther Rigg, at their farm home in the town of Sigel, Route 4, Wisconsin Rapids. Stopping once to refuel at an air port near Wisconsin Dells, Mr. Jones set his little 2-seater cabin plane down in a clover field beside the house. His wife and two daughters, who have been visiting her parents, drove from Moline by car. Mr.

Jones, who is merchandise manager for the Block Cool company in Moline, has made several cross-country flights, among which included visits to his parents in Missouri. He is pictured here alighting from his plane and shown beside him are his wife (center) and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Rigg. Mr, and Mrs. Rigg have a son, Ensign Lulher Rigg, who pilots a Hell Cat with a carrier force somewhere in the South Pacific.

Head Says Group Has Not Voted To Strike or Walk Out The "what'cha-ma-call-it" in which 24 maintenance employes of the Water and Light commission have engaged since Thursday morning stood about the same today after two lengthy conferences last night and this morning involv- ing principals in the 3-cor-nered affair. Members of the Electrical Workers local No. 1147 have said they wouldn't work while George Damitz, a pumper at the Sixteenth street station who had given notice that he no longer would pay union dues, was on the job but will meet Sunday afternoon to act on a request of the commission that the issue be taken up under the procedure outlined in a labor agreement between the commission and the local. A 3-man skeleton crew is being supplied and the employes have given the assurance that all emergency work I will be handled so that there will be no interruption of service and to safeguard the public against any possibility of a water or electricity shutdown. L.

C. Wipperman, president of the local, an affiliate of the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, today said that the action of the workmen is "not a strike or a walkout. There has been no such vote. It is more of a misunderstanding as the men have reported each morning and are willing to go to '-work provided this matter is -fettled." Mr. Wipperman Baid it was through agreement with F.

L. Steib, manager of the water and light plant, that the men remained off the job until the commission could meet and a reconciliation affected. Mr. Steib said at a session which occupied most of this forenoon that he had made no such agreement hut had asked the men to work pending consultation with Damitz and a meeting of the commission. Points to Agreement Mayor William T.

Nobles stated this morning that "the commission 'has not failed to live up to the contract with the union" but that the latter had "failed in every respect." He said that if the procedure outlined in the agreement had been followed, "this would never have happened. It could have been ironed out in orderly, intelligent fashion." Herman T. Koth, aldermanic member of the commission, caid he thought the trouble might have stemmed from the time that Damitz had served on the commission and that he did a better job than others when he began to work at the pumping station in 1943. "The union wouM have covered up for anybody else behind in their dues. It would have made every effort to keep him in good standing if it was anybody else but Damitz," Mr.

Koth charged. Wipperman pointed out that Damitz gave notice that he no long-fy er wanted to belong to the union -and suggested that he be "put down See DISPUTE Page 2 As We Go To SPECULATE ON FIRE Florence, S. (P) Military authorities and officials of the Eastern Air lints investigating the crash of a big l'C-3 transport which brought death to 22 persons near said today the plane might DEMOCRAT HEAD Washington (IP) Republican demands for equal representation on a congressional committee to investigate the Pearl Harbor attack drew a flat rejection today from the house Democratic leadership. "It's out of the question," said Speaker Rayburn. His statement to reporters made it just about certain that the com mittee will consist of three Demo crats and two Republicans from each branch of congress.

Republican Leader Martin wants three Democrats and three Republicans from each side. Predict Split Both Democrats and Republicans predicted the committee will split in its report next January, with six Democrats signing a majority report and four Republicans dissenting. Rayburn declared it would be impractical for the committee to be divided evenly because of the possibility of a deadlock on every impor tant move. Anyway, he said, it would be contrary to all congressional tradition for the party in numerical control not to have a majority on a commit tee. Has No Objection The speaker said he had no objection to a vote on a Republican amendment to divide the committee evenly.

Martin already has announced that such an amendment will be offered when the resolution providing for the investigation comes up Monday. There is no doubt that the house will concur with the senate in ordering the inquiry, probably without an opposing vote. The senate passed the resolution unanimously Thursday. It does not require White House approval. Part of Plan To Aid Jobless May Be Saved Washington Signs appeared today that congress might sal vage a part of President Truman's program for broadening jobless ben efits.

This may be done by blanketing some federal workers and perhaps maritime workers under the unemployment pay programs. But the house ways and means and senate finance committees seemed to have foredoomed the major provisions of the legislation, which would pay the jobless up to $25 a week for 26 weeks by federal supplementation of state programs. As the ways and means committee completed two weeks of public hearings, Kep. Knutson senior Republican member, said "there might be some merit in" extending benefits to some federal and maritime employes. A spot check in the house and senate committees, both of which probably will vote on the legislation next week, showed considerable support for this proposal.

Members particularly favored aiding wartime federal workers in arsenals, ship yards and similar war related plants. Meanwhile, backers of the president's broad program for liberalized jobless benefits organized a counter-offensive. John W. Snyder, reconversion director, sent to the congressional committees a resolution by business, agriculture and labor leaders, endorsing the president's proposals. However, there appeared to be little chance that committeemen would reverse their stands against the bill.

Special Meeting of County Board Called For September 25 A special meeting of the Wood county board of supervisors will be held at 9:30 in the morning September 25, in the courthouse according to County Clerk Jaochim Schindler. Schindler said the meeting was set ahead one week from the regular date, October 2, because circuit court woud be in session at that time, and the board would not be able to use the courtroom. Notices are being mailed today to members of the board notifying them of the change. Domei Reports Order Of U. S.

Occupation New York (P) A Domei dispatch broadcast by the Tokyo radio today and recorded by the Associated Press said it was learned that the Allied occupation forces would follow this schedule in the occupation of key Japanese areas: Aomori, October Hokkaido, October Sasebo, September 22; Nagasaki, September 26; Wakaya-ma, September 25; Yokkaichi, October 2. The broadcast said two officers of the U. S. Sixth army would leave Tokyo Sunday morning for Kyoto to prepare for the entry of American occupation forces into the ancient capital, and would return to Tokyo September 11. Pact in Scheduled U.S.

Today eral thousand Japanese already had been marked to pay for atrocities against prisoners in that area. In Singapore, British administrative officers neared completion of the documentation of a long list of atrocities against prisoners, including many tales of fiendish torture and starvation. Life Imprisonment Comdr. Winfield Scott Cunningham, commander of Wake island, told in Washington, of having been sentenced to life imprisonment after having attempted to escape from the Shanghai municipal prison. Commander Cunningham finally was released at Tcking after having been shifted to various prisons in China.

More than two-thirds of the military prisoners in Japan's central Honshu district were reported already released and either evacuated or on the way to evacuation. Army and navy officers worked for the speedy liberation of the remaining 3,800. More than 1,200 Allied prisoners were rescued from Formosa by American warships operating under the cover of American fighter planes. Tribe of Indians is Still at War With Axis Pawhuska, Okla. (JP) The Osage Indians, who sent hundreds of braves into global conflict, remained technically at war with the Axis today pending Chief Fred Lookout's formal declaration of peace.

Christmas gifts be mailed not later than October 15. Packages to all branches of service must not exceed five pounds in weight, 15 inches in length or 36 inches in girth and length combined. Each box should be of strong material and should be securely tied. They should contain sufficient cushioning material to prevent rattling and breakage. After several years of accepting packages to overseas destinations, the postal department still has trouble with packages which come insecurely wrapped and the result is, the serviceman or woman to whom the package is addressed, is often disappointed when their gifts are delivered in a damaged condition or sometimes not delivered at all during the holiday season.

1 Washington (IP) As many as 400,000 Nazis may be tried for war crimes when the Allies deal justice to the architects and terrorists of World war II, it was disclosed today. Guilty big shots probably will be hanged. The military regards shooting as "an honorable death." Small fry who get off with their skins may be given labor sentences, perhaps helping luild what they destroyed in Russia and elsewhere. Charged Collectively Hitler's terror organizations, the Gestapo and the SS (elite guard), will be charged collectively with war crimes. Conviction would mean automatic punishment of any member of either outfit who couldn't prove he was forced in.

This will be a mass trial of top culprits, like Reichsmarslial Hermann Goering. It will begin in late October or November in the city which was for years the scene of the Nazi party's annual congress. The basis for the prosecution will be the charge that the Nazi leaders committed crimes against the peace. They planned and waged aggressive war in violation of international treaties. They violated rules and customs of war.

It isn't certain yet whether the entire German general staff will be charged collectively as will the SS and Gestapo. Unofficial word is that Allied military men are not all favorably disposed. The reported reason: The German general staff just carried out orders. French Are Slow Surprisingly, in the view of some American officials, the French were slow to join the U. position that offensive war is a crime although France has been invaded thrice in a life time.

Some of the Russians wondered why any trials were necessary. To them the guilt seemed obvious. A strong segment of British opinion earlier inclined to the Russian view. The chief war crimes prosecutor for the United States is Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.

He stated the American belief thus: "If we can inculcate the idea that aggressive war making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure." October Jury List Includes 36 Wood County Residents Thirty-six persons from Wood county were named to the jury list for the October term of circuit court, according to Clerk of Circuit Court Jasper C. Johnson. Judge Herman J. Severson will preside. Included on the list from Wisconsin Rapids are Cleve Akey, II.

T. Anderson, M. C. Jacohson, Ezra Maeder, Darrold Parker, Nirk Pav-loski, L. II.

Schueneman, Rudolph Seehagen, Harold Stolp, E. Weeks and August Wese. Those listed from Marshfield include James Carey, Mildred Caw-ley, Edward Goldbnch, Harry A. Hager, Laura Raab, Howard L. Rice, Mary Schubert and Harry C.

Wcnzel. Mildred Huser and Lucy Rlran-sky were listed from Pittsville and Gwendolyn Schuren, Nekoosa. Four persons were among those listed from the town of Sigel, including Gertrude Johnson, William Knuth, Anker Pederson and Marie Yeske. Two each from the town of Port Edwards, Ed Mlsna and Hans Ncssa; from the town of Rudolph, Merit Denniston and Clifford Kors-lin; Thorvcl Mocn and Mrs. Mclvin Wunrow, town of Marshfield.

The remainder included persons from various other towns: Mamie Hank, Sherry; Lawrence Heeg, Richfield; John L. Leukel, Lincoln, and Helen Pankratz, Auburndale. Funeral Services For Conrad Witte Held Here Today Funeral services were to be held at 3:30 this afternoon at the First Moravian church for T5 Conrad Witte, 40, who died Sunday at Camp Adair, Ore. The Rev. George C.

AVestphal was to conduct the service followed by burial in Forest Hill cemetery. The body arrived here last evening and was taken under escort of Company Wisconsin State Guard, to the Baker Mortuary. Later it was removed to the Witte home on lliron Drive. Charles Hagerstrom Post No. 9, American Legion, and Company of the state guard were to join in conducting military rites at the grave, LOST LIFE IN PACIFIC T5 John Arnold Krclinke, 24, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Krehnkc, Nekoo sa died in action last February 11 in the Pacific theater of operations. He had previously been listed as missing. Prior to his entry into ser vice, he was employed by the Ne- koosa-Edwards Paper company. British May Seek U.S.

Aid Free of Cost Washington Britain is expected to try next week to obtain the United States help for her reconversion to peace virtually free of cost. The British argument will be based on the contention that a kind of postwar lend-lease arrangement would bo fully justified by the sacrifices which the British made in the war. Anglo-American economic talks will open Monday. Lord Keynes, noted economist and an advisor to the British treasury, arrived yesterday to take part in the conference. The British ambassador to the United States, Lord Halifax is due Sunday.

He will be the other principal British representative on the economic mission. Advance indications are that the British and American officials will start from widely-separated bargaining positions but with common agreement on one basic point: it is in the long range interest of the United States to help Britain hack into peacetime industry and trade as soon as possible. Warships Arrive to Take Over Jap Base BY OLKN CLEMENTS Aboard USS Panamint, Ominato A nchoraire. Japan IP Warsh ins of the U. S.

North Pacific fleet ar rived at this Japanese naval base in a driving rain and windstorm this afternoon preparatory to takinc over the establishment tomor row. Tho 00 ships of the force spent most of the dav cautiously negotia ting tho tricky Tsugaru strait be tween Honshu and Hokkaido islands. NAMED TO COMMITTEE Madison (IV) Five Wisconsin citizens were appointed today by Governor Gnodland as public members of a legislative interim committee to study county government and report their findings to the legislature. They are: Mrs. John Wise, Professor L.

H. Adolf-son and Glen McGrath, all of Madison; Miss Ruth Jeffries, Janesville, and Ieo Tiefanthaler, Milwaukee. with a 10-minute flag raising ceremony. The supreme commander of the Allied powers was stern of visage and firm of voice at the U. S.

embassy grounds with in five minutes drive of Emperor Hirohito's palace as he ordered "Have our country's flag unfurled and in Tokyo's sun let it wave in its full glory a3 a symbol of hope for oppressed and as a harbinger of victory for the right." The general and his men, covering the last mile of the long hard road from Australia, came as the first foreign victors ever to enter this heart of surrendered Japan. In their hour of triumph, they were all business. There was no parade of pomp. The word had been out that the men would march from the diet building to the embassy. Instead, they moved in so unostentatiously with their trucks, jeeps and weapons-carriers that the sight of the flag the one which flew over the capitol in Washington December 7, 1941, then in triumph over Rome and Berlin was the first notice to many Tokyo residents that the Americans had come.

Had Sign Ready Maj. Gen. William C. Chase's proud First Cavalry division had a huge sign ready, lettered "First Cavalry division first in Tokyo," aa they waited at Chofu, on the southwest outskirts. But they had to leave it hanging on a tree at the roadside.

Even guidons were removed from the armored vehicles in compliance with MacArthur's direction for a simple entrance. An attempt of a group of Texans to fly the Lone Star state flag brought a sharp reprimand from General Chase. "Get that down no flags," he said. Tanks had rolled up to the outskirts. They halted there.

MacArthur chose not to bring them in unless needed, to avoid further damaging Tokyo's streets. The raising of the flag over the embassy grounds rather than over a Japanese building such as the diet, in the gesture of an arrogant con-tpieror was impressive in its simplicity. Motored from Yokohama He arrived shortly before the 11 a. m. ceremony (9 p.

m. Friday Central War time) after motoring from Yokohama. His khaki-colored car with five stars rolled up the short incline within the embassy compound through an honor guard of the Seventh regiment, First cavalry division, with fixed bayonets. MacArthur entered the grounds accompanied by Admiral Halsey, commander of the Third fleet, and Lt. Gen.

Robert L. Eichelberger, whose Eighth army is occupying central and north Honshu, including Tokyo. tOhers in MacArthur's party at the flag raising included Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of the Far East air forces, Lt.

Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Clove3 Byers, Eich-elberger's chief of staff, and Brig.

Gen. Courtney Whitney, assistant to MacArthur. FOR CHEAPER RATE New York (IP) Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan says he is going to press congress for a reduction of domestic airmail postage from eight to five cents an ounce. What Is Latrobe, Pa.

(fP)-A flee-ing monkey, chimpanzee or whatever it is on the loose in Wildcat Hollow, was seen again last night by two boys who were walking with their dogs. And from the report they made to Game Protector William Mathews he figures the animal must be "about four feet tall and weighing 100 pounds." For several weeks residents have been reporting something cavorting in a beastly manner, but nobody could lay hands on it, or didn't want to, even when it interrupted a corn roast earlier this week by leaping into the center of things and grabbing two ears of corn. (By the Associated Press) Unrest along the country's labor front became more pronounced today as new disputes were added to an already long list and the number of idle climbed to around the 125,000 mark the highest in many months. The sharp rise in the number of workers olf their jobs because of labor controversies has occurred in less than three weeks since Japan's surrender offer was made and after the ending of the no-strike pledge following formal surrender a week ago. In war time the strike total was below the 100,000 mark most of the time.

As the strike trend headed upward, it was recalled some union officials in midsummer predicted that a wave of work stoppages would follow soon after the end of the war. An Associated Press survey disclosed approximately 40 separate wrork stoppages across the country, affecting a variety of industries and businesses. The number of idle in the struck plants ranged from 25 employes of the Central Kentucky Natural Gas company in Lexington, to 30,800 workers at the Ford Motor company plants in Detroit and other cities. Added to the 30,800 idle Ford company employes were some 13,000 other employes in Detroit motor companies, including the 4,500 at the Kelsey-IIayes Wheel company where a continuing strike resulted in the halting of production of passenger cars and trucks at the Ford plants. Officials said 22,000 workers in the Detroit area plants would be recalled to work Monday.

Edward Sharkey Dies; Hold Rites Monday Morning Edward Sharkey, 65, of the town of Port Edwards, died at 10 o'clock Thursday evening at an Oshkosh hospital following a lingering illness. He had been a resident of central Wisconsin practically all his life. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at St. Philip's Catholic church, Rudolph, with the Rev. P.

J. Wagner officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Mr. Sharkey was born May 8, 1880 in Canada, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Mose Sharkey. On December 11, 1007, he married Rose Wheeler at Ashland. She died in 11)38. Survivors are four of their five children, Ray Sharkey, California; Mrs.

II. D. Court, Superior; Mrs. Fern Gburzynski, Duluth, and George Sharkey, Th. M.

3c, with the U. S. navy; six grandchildren; a half brother, David Sharkey, Prairie du Chien, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Robbing, Oakland, Calif. The body will remain at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home until time of services.

Prayers will be said there at 7 o'clock Sunday evening. Pittsville Man Dies In Jap Prison Camp Pittsville Mr. and Mrs. Ed SchulU have received word from the war department of the death of their son, Cpl. Edward Schultz, who met death in a Japanese prison camp in the Pacific December 14, 1011.

Corporal Schultz had been taken prisoner in 1012 while serving with the United States armed forces on Corregidor. added, however, that the supply is not yet adequate to assure good distribution without rationing controls. The slaughter control program went into effect last April when the meat shortage became acute. It was designed to increase the amount of livestock slaup4itr.rf.fi in federally-inspected plants by de creasing tne slaughter of non-fedcr-ally inspected plants. Meat from non-federally inspected plants cannot bo shipped across state lines.

The objective of increasing' the slaughter of inspected plants was to increase supplies available for the armed forces and other government need3, Wainwright To Arrive in BULLETIN Hamilton Field. Calif. (P) Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the hero of Corregidor, came home today to the United States. The big Diane that bore him from Honolulu arrived at 9:20 a.

m. CWT. (By the Associated Press) General Wainwright, America's most famous prisoner of war, comes home today in the vanguard of a growing stream of Allied soldiers, sailors and civilians released from the Japanese. The hsro of Bataan and Corregidor was scheduled to reach Hamilton Field, about 1 p. m.

(central war time) en route by plane from Honolulu to Washington, D. to make an official report on his treatment by the Japanese. He will be honored in San Francisco with a victory celebration parade Sunday, which he is expected to lead. Decline to Comment In Hawaii, General Wainwright declined to comment on reports that he was slapped and beaten by his Japanese guards, but said: "I'll have plenty to say on that subject when I get to Washington officially I mean." Meanwhile, as the stream of prisoner and internee evacuations reached a full scale flood stage, Allied officials from Singapore to Tokyo and China to Washington checked and documented the increasing avalanche of prison horror reports, preparatory to war criminal prosecution of those responsible for the outrages against helpless captives. In Manila, it was reported sev Overseas Christmas Mailing Time Is Just Around Corner Slaughterers Are Given Free Rein as OPA Lifts Controls nave been aflame before it plowed into a dense swampland.

ASKS LIBERAL SYSTEM Washington (P) Chairman Walsh (D-Mass) of the senate naval affairs committee urged the navy today to liberalize its demobilization and discharge system. ARMY GOES ASHORE Jinsen, Korea (P) Elements of Lt. Gen. Hodge's 24th army corps pushed ashore on this Korean Yellow sea port at 3 p. nt.

today (1 a. m. Central War time) in the first step in occupation of 'Japan's vassal country. DRAFT OWN LIST Tokyo (Delayed) (P) Anti-militarist Japanese intellectuals are drafting their own list of war criminals and some believe it should include former Premier Hideki Tojo, two members of the present cabinet and both of the emperor's signers of the surrender document. Christmas mailing time for servicemen and women overseas is just around the corner and it must be remembered that, there are still lot of those folks who won't be able to make it home in time to receive their gifts under the family tree.

Special arrangements have again been made by the postoffice department in cooperation with the war and navy departments for the delivering of Christmas packages to those serving outside continental United States Packages for army personnel overseas must be mailed between September 15 and October 15. Since Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps personnel may receive parcels without request at any time of the year, the navy department suggests that those intended as Washington (il') The OPA to- i day removed all controls over how much livestock may bo slaughtered. The agency also dropped its "fair distribution plan," which required slaughterers to follow the same geographic distribution pattern in making Khipmcnts that they used during the first quarter of 1944. Tho two actions do not immediately affect meat rationing, but if exjiected increases in livestock marketings materialize, rationing may end fairly soon. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said there had been marked improvement in the supply of meat available to civilians recently, especially since the end of the war.

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