Marshfield News-Herald from Marshfield, Wisconsin • 1

-REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR f. 8 PAGES MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1945 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE VOLUME 25, NUMBER 10 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS -i YOUR RED CROSS AT HIS SIDE OF JAP OBEyCENTE, SHIPBUILDING, RIPPED 300 SUPERPEANE3 The Recorder The Fober Mystery Point's Example Didn't Like Woter UNDER the headline, "Marsh-field's Peculiar the Stevens Point Journal In 1895 gave a political fiavpr to the story of Jacob Faber. Marsh field resident who left here with out revealing his destination, and whose absence was first reported In the Marshfield News of Dec. 6 ,1894. The Journal's version was reprinted this week in Alex Wal lace's historical column, "Stevens Point Through the Years." ana a copy was received by Gus, the Eau Pleine Marvel, who passed It to the Recorder with the remark that it was a "whale of a story," but would hardly fit In bis fishing column.

So here it Is: "The people of Marshfield are having an unusual and unpleasant sensation. It pears that previous to the last election one Jacob Faber is said to have made the statement that in case the Republican ticket won he would drown himself in the water works standpipe. About two weeks after election Faber disappeared and has not been heard from since. Recently Faber's alleged threat and his mysterious disappearance have been put together and out of this has grown the belief In the minds of some that he actually put his threat into execution. "So firmly is this believed that some of the patrons of the water works have refused to use the water until an investigation has been made.

The standpipe is 120 feet high and in order to carry his threat into execution Faber i Jnust have first climbed to the Elks Start Red Cross Campaign Rolling With $500 Contribution Yanks Trap Germans in RUSS CHARGING NAZI ODER LINE German Bridgehead at Stettin Reduced by Red Armored Fyces GRIEFHAGEN CAPTURED Moscow CP) Tanks and infantry of the First White Russian Army thrust forward again today against the reduced enemy bridgehead at Stettin from within four and a half miles of that vital northern gateway to Berlin. Simultaneously, the Russians were reported bringing up pontoon equipment along a three- mile stretch of the Oder River in the vicinity of captured Griefha- gen, less than 11 miles south of Stettin. The heaviest Russian pressure was exerted against the southern flank of the Nazi bridgehead. which extends along the east bank of the Oder for about 11 miles south from Stettin's eastern suburb of Altdamm, on the edge of Dammscher See. The remaining Nazi bridgehead east of the river is only one to two miles deep at some points.

Its complete seizure would be a tacti cal preparation for the Berlin of fensive second in importance only to the capture of Kuestrin early this week. Advantageous Position Fall of Griefhagen put Marshal Gregory K- Zhukov's troops into another good jumping off spot for spanning the Oder. However, the main highway bridge across the Oder's eastern arm, the Reglitz, and the Oder itself from Griefha gen toward the Stettin-Berlin Autobahn was unofficially report ed demolished before the Russians occupied the town. Meanwhile, the Third White Russian Army group, liquidating the Nazi's East Prussian frag ments, pressed closer to Brauns berg and reached the outskirts of the port of Brandenburg, which already has been cut off from Koenigsberg, 10 miles to the northwest An uneasy lull was reported. from the most crucial of all sec tors of the- eastern front the 25- mile stretch of the middle Oder due east of Berlin where both German and Russian troops con tinued to mass for an impending climactic battle.

Losses are Heavy Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army again today sustained the powerful drive aimed at splitting the Danzig-Gdynia coastal strip against the most stubborn opposition yet encountered in eastern Pomerania and the Polish corridor. In western Hungary the massive losses suffered by the Germans appeared to have enforced at least a pause in the Nazi coun-teroffensive that so far not only has failed to regain positions along the Danube south of Budapest but, by Soviet account, has cost the Nazis the best part of four Panzer divisions. FIVE ASPHYXIATED IS Investigation Launched Determine Origin and Type of Gas to Muskegon, Mich.

(JP) Five persons were asphyxiated and nine others overcome last night as fire damaged the decommissioned steamer Illinois at its dock here. State police and naval author! ties launched an investigation to determine the origin and type of gaseous fumes, which originated in the hold of the vessel and took the lives of four regular firemen anr, n.vrM Jg IltCr The dead in the tragedy, worst in the historv of the Muskeeon Harry Bolton, 42; Lt. Jay Seites ma, 41. driver John Krause, 48; pipeman William Dykema, 24 and 17-year-old Melvin Everhart a volunteer fireman. The firemen responded to small blaze found smouldering be low deck in the 250-foot passen ger-freighter formerly used be tween Muskegon, Milwaukee and Chicago.

State police and naval officers expressed a belief the blaze was started by boys playing around the boat. They were at a loss, however, to explain why the gas penetrated even a mask of the latest chemical warfare type used by the Coast Guardmen. Firemen said no chemicals were used in fighting the fire. BERLIN SOLDIER KILLED Ill mlbnAr WtUnlhbUAY Robert E. Korwirtz.

son cf Ti-' Korwitz, Berlin, was listed I 1 jurotc-iuajr uj u.ic puuut raauoos office at Morns Field as one of HE 1 MEAT RATION CUT EXPECTED Belt Tiahtenina on Home Front in Prospect of Shortage LEND-LEASE CUKTAILhu Washington UP) A new slash I in civilian meat supplies is ex pected today on the heels of President Roosevelt's projection of more belt-tightening on the home front. For the April-June quarter, the civilian meat allocation may cut to an annual rate of 118 pounds a person the lowest level since 1935 when supplies were cur tailed by a severe drought and a Government hog-production con trol program. During the first Quarter of 1945, the per capita meat supply has averaged 128 pounds per person a year. This compares with 1944 average of 147 pounds. U.

S. Asked to Share Food The reduction is in line with President Roosevelt's statement yesterday that Americans would have to share a larger portion of their food with hungry peoples In I war-liberated areas. The April-June allocation is ex- pected to carry a sharp reduction if not a temporary suspension of meats to Great Britain, pend ing a determination on whether reserves built up in the British Isles are sufficient to enable Brit- ains to carry on for a while without American supplies. The Government also is expect ed to tighten its livestock slaugh ter regulations In an effort to squeeze larger supplies' out of mid- western producing areas in order to help supply deficit areas of the east and far west. Senator Wherry (R-Neb).

re- quent critic of the Administra tion's handling of the meat prob- lem, declared the President statement demonstrates the need for a Senate investigation of food exports, imports and distribution, "Of course we are all willing to "eten owe belts but belt tighten- ing is no excuse for bad manage ment and bungling of Wherry told a reporter, 1 Sooth Complains I From Senator Eastland (D Miss), who has complained that Mississippians are unable to get salt pork, a usual item of diet, came the comment that the people of his state are willing to share out are Deing assea to ao without, you can't tae 10 per cent irom nothing, he remarked. taswana rererred to the presi- aeni 5 Iooa oiscussion at nis news conierence yesteraay. Mr. Koose- IrrF.tl110 wonu sugar shortage, but if there were, he be- Heves the American people would in I lPg I I thoroughly agree with i President Eastland said, "that we must make every sacrifice to liberated countries." A Senate food inquiry apparent ly is assured, although it probably will not take the form of an inves tigation by a special five-man committee as proposed by Wher ry. SALOONS CLOSED AS IRISH THRONG DUBLIN STREETS n.

I-1 irck 1- '7 ouawiuw- JB st Patrick.s Day that was gay All saloons were closed and citi zens who wished to "drown the: T1. Shamrk" to traditional style had to partake of a previously acquired to of a previously acquired private supply. Every flagstaff in the city bore the national colors. There were military parades and games, premier Eamon De Valera and Ln -i uie iioiiuay uirongs as uiey went to the Cathedral HUGE ICE CAKE BLOCKS R0AD.NEAR PITTSVILLE riLuhwitur i.i, i i nuf iiwxv 80 between Pittsville and Dexter villa was blocked last night when a -cake. 0f icg-is by 30 feet in nart nf an ir iATn in th v.iinw -Rivsr.

van dmM nn hirhwav bv the finnd vn Gf the stream. Wood County Highway Department employes who were engaged in blasting a way the obstruction this morning caid they expected to have the a I 1 1 1 ARDELL 0. SCHEI IS HOSPITALIZED ON WEST COAST Fellow employes at the Citizens National Bank received a telegram this morning from Pvt. Ardell O. Schei from San Francisco.

stating that he had "arrived safe ly at Letterman Hospital, Ward 2. Feeling fine. It's wonderful to be back again. Expect to be home soon. Write air mail tellinar about everyone." it vi.

ocnei, son oi Air. ana ivus. Johann Schei, Taylor, was liber ted from a Jap prison at Manila several months ago. He was inducted by the local Selective Service Board April 6, 1941, and was a member of the medical detachment of the 192nd Tank Battalion, a National Guard unit serving in the Philippines, prior to the fall of Bataan. CPLJEILI Telegram Today Informs Er nest Wendts Son Killed On March 11 Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Wendt, route 5, Marshfield, received a tel egram this morning from the War Department Informing that their son, Cpl. George P. Wendt, 20, was killed in Burma March 11 Adj. Gen.

Ulio assured them a confirming letter would follow. Cpl. Wendt, who was born at Hewitt Feb. 14. was drafted for Army service .119, 1943 while a senior student at Marsh field High School.

After training at Camp Grant and Camp Ellis, and Camp Butner. N. C. the corporal left for overseas service in March 1944. as a member of a field hos- pital unit attached to the Army Medical Corps.

Af ter-a short time in North Af rica. he spent about four months in India, and since that time had been based in the Burma-China theater. His last letter received by his parents came about three weeks ago and was written about two weeks prior to its arrival in Marshneld. Surviving besides his Barents are a twin brother and sister. Ruth and Robert, and another brother, Donald, all at home, and his erandmother.

Mrs. Anna Wendt, who makes her home with his parents. Cpl. Wendt had attended the Hewitt Public School before begin- ning classes at Marshfield High school BRITISH III BUM Troops Advance Four Miles After Overcoming Bitter Resistance Calcutta (JP) British 14th Army troops have cut the main highway due south of Mandalay and have advanced from a bridge head on the left bank of the Ir rawaddy into Fort Ava, about four miles southwest of the city, after stiff battle, the Southeast Asia command announced today. I on tne area southeast and south west of Fort Dufferin inside Man dalay.

Fighter planes struck the fort yesterday with rocket projec tiles, and repeated attacks were made on enemy positions. Build ings on tne crty outscrts were destroyed, and troops and road tnftir- vm liaviw hnmM ings on the city outsiorts were I traffic were heavily' bombed and strafed below Mandalay, Twenty-five miles south of Man dalay planes attacked enemy po sitions on the rail line to Rangoog, causine one hie exnloslon in I Causing OOC Big ezpiOSWa 111 an ammunition dump. In the Meiktila area south of Mandalay Japanese forces reacted strongly Thursday and counterattacked British troops from the but yesterday British armored col 1 Pletely. Inflicting heavy casualties i twm the communique saia. I TRAIN KILLS TWO Slaranette, Mich, (JP) John a.

Toivonen. 48. Nesraunee. and I John E. Hoiapaa, 48, Tilden Town ship, were killed last night when 1 the car in which they were riding I was struck by a Duluth south I shore and Atlantic passenger train DIES III BURMA CUT Ml HIGHWAY LARGE AREA IS LEFT 111 RUINS 12 Square Miles of Japan's 6th Largest City Blasted to Bits AIRPLANE PLANT IS HIT BY ELMONT WAITE Twenty-first Bomber Com mand, Guam square miles of Japan's greatest shipbuilding center.

Kobe, was st vr reuucea to asnes by more than 300 Superforts today. Fires were visible 100 miles. The conflagration, created bv 2,500 tons of incendiaries, was second only to Tokyo's 17-square mile holocaust in the 21st Bomber Command's intensified war nn the Japanese homeland. In only eight days, Superforts also have destroyed five square miles of industrial Osaka and two square mlies in the heart of Na-goya. That 36-square mile area of devastation in four enemv cihm (is nearly equal to the combined stotal area of Albany, N.

19 square miles, and Jersey City, N. 21. It equals 65 per cent of -iiKDurgn-s 55 square miles. factories Burning Col. W.

H. Blanch ar nn. tions officer of the 2lst Rnnh Command, who flew over Kobe rrom 4 to 6 a. m. (Japan Time) while the raid was in progress, reported that even as his observation B-2S left the target several square miles already had been reduced to ashes.

Flames were devouring more miles of factories. snipyards and other war plants. That 72 square miles represented about 75 per cent of long, narrow Kobe's total area. The 1.000,- uuu population city extends 10 miles along the inland Japanese Sea and Is one to three miles wide. Among the flaming targets were the Mitsubishi airplane plant and Kawasake locomotive plant, both fired by direct hits from the third B-29 over the city, and the dock area, set blazing by the second Superfort.

City Blacked Out Great fires immediately lirhtd up the city, which was blacked out as the raiders approached. Blanchard made his report to Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, commander of the 21st Bomber Com mand, after checking the burning sectors of densely crowded Kobe against maps held in his lap while he flew over the target.

Lemay cautioned that the report was not conclusive. He also reported that a reconnaissance plane today observed two large fires still burning in Osaka, presumably the result of Wednesday's incendiary attack on tnat city. Radio Tokyo said Osaka also was the target of B-29s aeain to day but that report was not con firmed here. Bomb-Jittery Osaka, only 15 miles from Kobe, probably screamed a false alarm as the Superforts neared its sister Industrial center. The raid, on Japan's sixth largest city, was dedicated to Brig.

Gen. La Verne (Blondie) Saunders, hero of the early Solomons aerial war and commander of the first Superfort force ever to attack Japan. Japs Are Cautious Saunders, injured in an aircraft accident, is recuperating in Walter Reed Hospital. Washington, D. C.

Lemay, his chief of staff. Brig. Gen. A. W.

Kissner, and commanders of B-29 forces based on Guam. Saipan and Tinian, all are close friends of Saunders. Japanese fighter pilots, who showed no willingness to intercept the B-29s as they devastated great sections of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, finally took to the air In strength as the first of the raiders were leaving Kobe. Although first returning pilots said 45 to 50 fighter harassed them, none of the American planes was known to have been lost. Clouds helped hide the See SUPERPLANES Pare 2 THE WEATHER mm mt mmm mmmm nvmn mr mn Wmm M'l Wisconsin Rain north and showers south portion this forenoon, followed by decreasing cloudiness this afternoon and fair fjTn i ch and Hirrulav.

Mrwl. erately strong winds today. Cooler tonight and in southeast portion Sunday. Marshfield temperatures At noon today, 35. Maximum yesterday, 45; a year ago, 33.

Minimum during the night, 35; a year ago, 26. Precipitation .09 of an Inch, rainfall. Rhine Area BY JAMES M. LONG Paris UP) IT. S.

Third Army tanks lunged to points 40 miles southeast of Coblenz today in a race down behind the Siegfried Line in the huge Saarland trian gle and were rapidly closing a trap on thousands of Germans between the Rhine and Moselle Rivers. Lt. Gen. Georee S. Patton's ar- mored spearheads burst forward another 10 to 15 miles today southeast of Simmer, 25 miles south of Coblenz and 45 from the Remagen bridgehead.

Other units drove to the Rhine south of Coblenz, isolating the city of 58,000, and pushed up the nf t.h Mnwiu fn the mjtskirts of t. nnripnt. HtdiAi ed to pocket remnants of two a ii ntr -Ah top of it. The water works company takes no stock in the story, but so fearful and squeamish have some of its patrons become that the standpipe may have to be emptied. "It might be well for the superintendent of the works at Marshfield to follow the example of Superintendent W.

O. Lamoreaux of this city. The standpipe here is 140 feet high and one of our residents who sometimes looks upon the wine when it is red and also upon the beer when it foameth has made several excursions to the top of it. "These trips were always made when he was under the Influence of liquor. The man would simply climb up the ladder, sit on the top of the pipe a short time and then come down.

But after he had at different times made a number of these excursions skywards, the exhibition became a little monotonous. "Lamoreaux didn't know what might happen, so he caused one section of the ladder, about 20 See RECORDER Page 4 Pyle Tells of Departure for Japan Coast Writer Finds Life Is Comfortable on Carrier BY ERNIE TYLE In the Pacific (Delayed) There was nothing dra matic about our start for Japan. We simply pulled anchor about Vll tliug IU1U Uil aer way. ine wnoie uiing seemea; peacetime ana routine. SSTJ rV ITS rlfeed our allies and the people of Uthmeier Voices Appeal for Support A $500 contribution from the Marshfield Elks Club started the ball rolling for the North Wood County Red Cross war fund drive today.

Exalted Ruler Prank Lawrence, in making the presenta tion, said the contribution was made with the approval of the Elks War Activities Committee. Drive Chairman W. A. Uthmei er, in lormaiiy announcing ine campaign which begins in North Wood County tomorrow, made the following statement: Again it is my duty to ask for your wholehearted support of the American Red Cross. This year we are asked to meet a quota of $17,100.

This is the largest a- mount ever to be raised for the Red Cross. I feel confident the quota will be met. The citizens of North Wood County have al ways met their quota, some years oversubscribing in gredt measure. "Privilege to Give' "When your American neighbor calls on you for your contribution to the 1945 Red Cross war fund, have your contribution ready, and be sure it's big enough, so you can look the returning war veterans in the eye and say, 'We were with you, all the way. The little you give, can mean a lot.

What wouldn't you give to be on the spot with a warming word, a helping hand when he faces his most discouraged mo ments? That's the job the Red Cross is doing for you standing by our service men and women the world over. Help them to help him. "Since the start or this war, many boys from this community 'have given their all; the least we can do is give our best. "Let him know you are with him, give now and give more. Tt's a compliment to be ask ed, and a privilege to "I know we will not fail." City Goal $11,000 Red Cross headquarters at the Hotel Charles will open at 8 a.

m. Monday, when 60 two-man teams of business professional men will canvass the business and industrial section of the city in an effort to put the drive over quick ly in Marshfieid. The city is ex pected to raise at least $114)00 Chairman Uthmeier urges any persons who are missed by the solicitors for any reason, to mail their contributions to Red Cross headquarters. The Red Cross ap peals to all employed persons to contribute at least half a day's BID SUBMITTED Washington UP) Northeast ern Boiler and Welding. of PI RANGE OF GUNS 33rd Division Yanks 8 Miles From Philippine Summer Capital BY JAMES HUTCHESON Manila (JP) The 33rd Divi sion has rolled its heavy artillery to within eight miles of Baguio and' today can drop shells into the former Philippine commonwealth's summer capital.

The 33rd a former Illinois National Guard Division has tightened its nutcracker by pushing toward the famed mountain city from both west and south. Gen. Douglas McArthur's communique reports that the 32nd Di vision is probing the mountains from the southeast. Maj. Gen.

Leonard F. Wing's 43rd Infantry Division meanwhile is delivering a smashing double- pronged blow against the Japan ese in the Shimbu Line east of Manila while an amphibious operation has been made in southern Luzon. Installations around Baguio, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's head quarters, have been bombed and shelled heavily.

As yet the city See -PHILIPPINES Page 2 ALLIED BOMBERS IN SMASHES Daylight Hammering Aimed At Finishing Destruction of Plants London (JP) A fleet of Allied bombers which stretched out 150 miles flew from England today in a resumption of daylight ham mering of the Reich. Close to 1,000 British warplanes attacked Nuernberg and Wuerz-burg as the chief targets In Ger many last night and RAF Mos quitos raided Berlin for the 25th consecutive night. The Air Min istry declared the purpose of the raids was "to destroy what re mains of the German war indus try." Nuernberg, war center and Nazi imany, has one of the largest rail- truna lines running to ail war niontc t.nv foMoc rfin uc auu producing on a reduced scale Wuerzburg, Bavarian industrial city 55 miles northwest of Nuernberg, has a large number cf engineering and textile plants. IT EW REICH Our ships were so spread OUtnre denartment. are: Cantain HE BARKEEPERS PAY FINES in COURT Arraignment Aftermath of Raids Ordered by Dist.

Atty. Kerwin Racine- -Nine defendants weref ned $100 each Municipal of guilty to 'Charges of possession of gambling equipment. Two others, facing similar charees ance to ance in nTuX The arraignment was the after- math of Thursday night's raid on 150 Kacine county taverns ana ciuDS resulting in confiscation oi fnnr tint rnorh nc onH a mimW jcua. me iouowmg paia imes: wu- nam Liggett, Alwyn J. Long Jo- SSrr jK ton; Phillip Rinke, proprietor of ifrJ1" 7STffirrZ, 'T Hoffman, of Browns Lake, who was represented by Dinty Moore.

Wallace Jones of Union Grove and Lucas Ketterer of Lafce Park each posted $100 bond for appear- 1 ance in court next Wednesday, they didn't seem as they actually were. It wasn't like the swarming, pulsing mass of ships that literally blanketed the water when we started to Sicily and to Normandy. i Once at sea our force broke up Into several prearranged units and each put some distance between itself and the next. Each was self-sufficient. Each could protect itself.

Each had battleships, carriers, cruisers and destroyers. Each was complete unto itself. The eye could easily encompass the entire formation in which you were sailing. And very dimly, far off on the horizon, you could see the silhouettes of the bigger ships on each side of you, although they seemed remote, and not like neighbors. The rest of the fleet was out of sight, far over the horizon.

Altogether the ships must have covered a hundred miles of ocean. The formations were command- i i i uy Auiuirais anu saove uiem all was Admiral Marc Mitscher. Green Bay, submitted a bid Judge Goodland made no rul-of $1,476,264 for each of four; ing on disposition of the equip-tankers, the Maritime Commission ment confiscated by sheriff's dep-announced yesterday. juties. All day and all night the air sis Army airmen killed full of conversation between nesday in the crash of a bomber See PYLE Pate 4 near Chester.

S. C. road open by noon today. near here..