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Page Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1945 MARSHFIELD NEWS-HERALD UBS PUT TRIBUTE WORKER 'UNHAPPY' The War At A Glance CONSUMER CREDIT BY BflTJKSJS URSEO I IS fj vmH.0Jll WESTERN Cowrhl drSry.rh ITf Motel LUX. ijlfj-- ThioiwtlleT Soorloutcrn Saotbrcke muJ a 0 MILES 20 ILi Hope'Iou" Jf- AMERICANS STORM ST. VITH The American First Army captures' St. Vith on the heels of Nazi columns fleeing the Ardennes bulge under a rain of explosives that knocked out 4,100 vehicles in the greatest one-day blitz of the war.

Third Army punches out gain of four and a half miles from point six miles south of Houf-f alize. The Seventh Army north and east of Hagenau has carried out a planned limited withdrawal to a much shortened line. Pat-ton's Third Army approaches Vlanden, one of the last German strongholds in Luxembourg. (NEA Telephoto). NAVAL RITES HELD Funeral rites for Lt.

William. F. Mus-bach, XJ.SH., who died Sunday at Washington, D. were conducted there by the Navy. According to word received today from Madison, cremation will take place at Washington, after which the ashes will be brought to Madison, where Lt.

Mus-bach's parents. Prof, and Mrs. Fred L. Musbach. were buried.

Lt. Musbach is survived by his wife, Audrey, and an infant daughter. Roxena. He entered the Navy in the spring of 1942. RtLPHlBTEIII KILLED GEiW Granton Infantryman Listed As Lost Month After Going Overseas (By News-Herald Correspondent) Granton Pvt.

Ralph Clarence Hohenstein, 20, of the Army In fantry, died Dec. 3 in Germany as the result of wounds received ta battle, accordmg to information! i Vi. I Mrs ome Poter Granton overseas only a month when the b(rn War Department reported missing in action since Nov. 26, had visited his parents during the nr onH hH nhro. month of August, and had observed his 20th birthday on Aug.

23 while at home. Surviving besides his parents are two sisters, Mrs. Martin (Gladys) Reinhart, route 2, Granton, and Mrs. Louis (Elsie) Peron, Chippe wa Falls; two brothers, Harold Hohenstein, route 3, Granton, and 40,000 American, Filipino Soldiers Buried on Luzon captives. Cpl.

Herbert Hohenstein, GERMAN ENVOY OIJ fQEE.ip.mf Franz von Papen Rumored In Madrid, British Discount Story London The Ankara radio reported from a "reliable source" today that Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey, bad arrived at Madrid at the head of a German peace mission. The Ankara report said Von Papen had the "confidence of the German Army" and that he was going to "sound the possibilities for the best possible peace terms for Germany." Similar unconfirmed reports have come from neutral capitals in the past when Nazi war for tunes were taking a turn for the worse, always without confirmation, Reports a few months ago said Von Papen was slated to become German ambassador to Madrid. A British Foreign Office com mentator said "one gets fairly accustomed to these peace rumors that come out of the Middle East nearly every week. Thi is the first we have heard of this particular rumor." While none of the previous peace reports stood tip, some diplomats are known to feel that if the German Army made a peace bid Von Papen is a possible emis sary for the generals. Von Papen is reported to harbor the private idea- that he might be the choice of the Allies to head a new German govern ment if Adolf Hitler fell.

MARKETS Livestock CHICAGO POULTRY Ac PRODVCE Chicago (Pi Live poultry llrna; re ceipts 10 trucks, no cars; prices unchanged. Eggs, receipts 10.414: unsettled: extras 38 to 40: V. S. standard 3ftii; iirrent receipts 36; dirties 34i; checks 31. Produce ST.

PAUL LIVESTOCK South St. Paul JP Cattle 3.700 firm all slaughter cattle; Instances aw 25 cents higher for week; good, and choice 1144-pound steers 15.50; sprinkling other good steers at 14 gnedlum grades 12.00-13.75; with com mons at 9.00-11.00 good heifers 14 50; mediums generally 11.00-13.00: commons 8.50-10-50; few canner and cutter steers and heifers 6.50-8.50: top cows 13.00; bulk good 11.00-12.50; com mou and medium grades 8.50-19.50; canners and cutters 6.00-8.00; few caa- nars below 6.00 of doubtful health good beef bulls 12.00-13.00; medium aad good sausage kind 10.0-11.75: cutter and common bulls 7.75-9.75; stackers and feeders in rery light supply; com nion adn medium stock steers 00-19 5): dairy cows steady. Calves 2.200; vealers steady; good and choice 13.00-14.50; common and med lum 8.00-12.50; culls 5.50-7.50. Hogs 11.400; butchers fully steady; most barrows and flits 140 pounds and above 14.45; sows fully steady: od and choice offering all weights 13.90; feeder pigs active, steady to strong; Kod and choice pound lots 14. Sheep 3.300; no early action; undertone steady to strong.

CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago fJP) Salable hogs 1L008; total 16.000; active, fully steady: good and choice 170 lb and over 14.75: few good and choice 140-160 lb 14.2S-14.C5; good and choice sows all weights 14.80; complete clearance early. Salable cattle total 13.000; salable calves 800: total 800; fed steers ud yearlings strong to 15 higher; active; fed heifers 10 to 15 up; cows strong; bulls strong to 25 higher, very scarce; veaelrs fully steady at 15.50 down: fed steers and yearlings pre-1 dominated in receipts; bulk top 17.25 on lonK yearlings; best weighty steers 17.0C; top heifers 15.10; weighty sausage bulls to 13.00; heavy fne bulls to 13.50; cutter cows 800 down; bulk beef cows 9-12 JO, outside 15 00. Salable sheep. 5.CO0: total Xlfih-er asking prices retarding trade on sloughter lambs: good and choice fed wooled westerns held 16.00 and slightly above; bidding steady load cull Md common 90-lb western ewes fully 25 higher at 6.50. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK Milwaukee UP) Hogs 1.200; steady: good to choice light lights 140 to 160 00-14 50; good to choice of packing sows 13.75-90: rough end heavy sows U.

50-65; thin and unfinished It 00-13 -S3; stags 12.0-13.75: boar 7.00-8.00. Cattle 800; steady steers and yearlings, choice to prime 16 medium to good 12.00-16X0; common to medium 8.00-12.00: dry fed yearling heifers 12.00-15.00; dairy bred heifers 7 00-11 00: good to choice cows 11 lair to good 8.25-10.00; cutters 00: canners 6.00-6.75: choice weighty bologna. bulls; 11 00-11 00; bulls- commo nto good 7.50-10 00. Calves 1.600; steady: fancy selected vealers 15.0-15.50: bulk of Tealers 12.00-14 TS; culls and threwouts 7.00-10.O. Sheep 300: steady: good to choice fed western lambs 15 00-15 50; fair medium 10.00-14.00: ewes and bucks, cull to good 4.00-6.00; culls 6.00-9.00.

MILTON MURRAY WILL SEEK BARLOW'S POST Milwaukee Milton Murray, former Republican State Senator from Milwaukee, an nounced today that he would be a candidate for election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court April 3. Murray seeks the post of Justice Elmer E. Barlow, who is a candi date to succeed himself. UNION CHURCH LADIES CIRCLE MEETS JAN. 25 (By News-Herald Correspondent) Granton Mrs.

D. S. Rausch will entertain the Ladies Circle of the Union Church at her home on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 25. FAILURE TO STOP AFTER ACCIDENT BRINGS FINE Green Bay UF John Van Vonderen, 18, Apple ton, was fined $250 and costs by Circuit Judge Henry Graass yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a chart of failure to stop his car after an ac cident.

A AFTER JOB SHIFT First Non-essential Employe Reports for Work at War Plant Allentown, Pa. The Gov ernment began a modified "labor draft" within the scope of existing manpower regulations in this critical labor shortage area today, and the first non-essential worker reporting for a war job said the forced job switch- made him "unhappy." don't want to change jobs and my wages will be lower," said the man, a middle-aged brewery worker, who declined to give his name for publication. "I don't know where the beer is coming from next summer," he added, awaiting a job interview at the United States Employment Service office. Cement Workers The "war work or no work" plan which the War Manpower Commission said may be adopted in many other areas was design ed to nil 1,000 job vacancies in 'urgent essential" industries which now have 50,000 workers. Ninety-nine brewery and soft drink plant workers were the first to be summoned.

About 200 ce ment workers will be transferred shortly and, later this week, the apparel industry also will yield workers, the WMC said. Under the plan the employment ceilings of the non-essential industries are reduced. The. workers thus released are offered war jobs. If they refuse without val id reason, the USES, by refusing fef' barshem from Transfer Membership Refusal is considered valid only if the new job would harm the worker's health, would necessitate undue travel or would fail to utilize his skills and work abilities fully.

The WMC has said that some workers transferred will earn low er wages but their unions have ac cepted the transferrals as neces sary to the conduct of the war. Dr- Prank p- Maguire, Allentown area WMC director, said union leaders have been told that A. P. L. members transferring to C.I.O.- oi plants are iree to T4 membership in the recognized ineir own decisions concerning un ions and that those opposing un ions will not be referred to closed shop plants.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) He added, however, that "momentous events" were in the offing. The American First and Third Armies pushed their pursuit of the withdrawing Germans from the Ardennes toward the orieinal line from which Field Marshal von Rundstedt started his drive almost six weeks ago. Gen. Eisenhower's communique nstea towns cap tured. Farther south, the U.

S. Seventh rTT'r L. Army "made a limited withdrawal uic Bciieitu tuca ccui ouu uui iu quarters announced, yielding most or the Haguenau Forest but no large towns." Five or six Ger Jman divisions have been exerting pressure in this section of Alsace, TTronrVi mrst. Armv nniin r.h rnimar rwirr. mm north and south below Strasbourg a front disDatch said the French advanced several kilometers north of Colmar and crossed the 111 River, a Rhine tributary, at sever al points.

A pocket of 300 sur- rounded Germans was being mop ped ud. North of Strasbourg. German 280-millimeter shells were dropping into Haguenau and Bru math, six miles southwest. The threat to northern Alsace remain Bitche salient to the west City Briefs LEG BROKEN Emil Venzke Milan, was brought to St. Jo seph's Hospital last night suffer ing from a broken right leg, sus tained when he was kicked by cow.

A cast was applied at the hospital last night. DOG OWNERS Owners and keepers were again reminded that license for dogs kept in the city must be purchased by Jan. 31. According to Mrs. L.

E. Buch miller, city treasurer, a license is required for each dog six months or more old. Tags for female dogs are 2 and for males $1. 5TH ARMY IS MEETING e-rirr bja-71 re iota nor 1 n-i ntoio i hnuc Rome UP) American Fifth. Army patrols, increasing their ac rivitv as snow ceased lauine on the Italian front, have bumped up against strong German de- fenses, particularly south of Bo logna.

Allied headquarters an- nounced today. The German Air Force, which appeared again on the Italian front yesterday, hit at supply ar- teries for the Fifth Army lines in front of Bologna. No damage or casualties were reported. Farther east on the Eighth Ar my sector enemy patrols contmu led active on the Senio River. MISSION SOCIETY WILL MEET THURSDAY, JAN.

25 (By News-Herald Correspondent) Unity The Women's Mission otty of the Lutheran Church J1 Jan. 25. at the home of Mrs. John Sorenson. an.

csoreason ana acts, ecnauer GERMA TO HOLD FUIMER Rochester Man Club's First Casualty; Servicemen Are Guests The Marshfield Lions Club paid tribute last night to the memory of Pvt. Harold T. Fulmer, 35, for mer club secretary who was kill ed in action in Belgium on Jan. 7. Pvt.

Fulmer was not a member of the club at the time of his death, having moved to Rochester. about three years ago. but as a former member, he was the club's first war casualty. Club members rose in tribute. heard a prayer for the soldier by the Rev.

C. A. Kipps. and voted to send an expression of sympathy to Mrs. Fulmer.

Native of Athens Pvt. Fulmer was born on Dec. 16, 1909, at Athens, where his parents. Mr. and Mrs.

George Fulmer, still live. He graduated from the High School there, attended the University of Wisconsin for one year, and graduated from Carroll College, in 1932. He was married to Genevieve Parman, a former Athens resident, at Baraboo in July. 1937. He was Inducted from Rochester, trained at Fort McClellan, and was sent to England a-bout six months ago, arriving in France shortly before Christmas.

Guests of the Lions Club last night at the Hotel Charles included Maj. D. J. Van Patter, former club president. TSgt.

John Christy and his brother. Victor Christy. Sgt. Willis Arnold, and Sgt. Milton Witt.

Servicemen Guests Sgts. Christy and Witt leff Marshfield as members of Company and Sgt. Arnold as a member of the 135th Medical Regiment Band, and all three have seen more than 30 months' service in the Southwest Pacific. Maj. Van Patter, who hone leave for that area soon, told of his experiences since he was in Marshfield a week ago.

Durinar the week Army business took him to New Orleans, to Florida, New York City, and Indianapolis. The club expressed satisfaction with Chairman Howard Rice's report on last Sunday's Winter Frolic and voted to extend its thanks to Recreation Director J. P. Murphy, who, Rice said, "did the work." RFC (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ordinary transportation costs on oil. coal and sugar and advances to contractors for the purchase of materials.

The War Damage Corporation is the world's largest insurance company. Its peak insurance liability has been $140,000,000,000. It has collected $223,000,000 in premiums and has paid $323,800 for losses resulting from enemy action occurring before July 1. 1942. It has issued over 6,500,000 insurance policies.

RFC's Rubber Reserve Company is the No. 1 producer of synthetic rubber. It turned out tons of synthetic last year, 47 chemical, petroleum, rubber and industrial companies operating the plants for the government. RFC's investment in these plants is over $700,000,000. Helps Little Business The RFC.

through metals reserve company, has disbursed for the purchase of strategic and critical minerals and metals. Besides being in the sugar, wool, alcohol and cotton fabrics buying business, the RFC says it has been a "good uncle" to hardup little business folk. It has made more than 19,500 individual loans to small business (loans up to $100,000) for a total disbursement of $390,000,000. Loans to business institutions, big and little, number more than 22,000 some in every state of the Union. These disbursements total $1,008,675,000.

RFC officials expect that when peace comes the demand for little business loans will be greater than ever. Much of this will come from people who want to establish new businesses, such as gasoline stations, grocery stores and restaurants. The RFC still has a sizable stake in the railroads of the country. It has lent them most of it during the depression. Some $497,000,000 has been repaid while $353,000,000 is still owed.

PILOT ROBERT HARRIMAN IS LOST OVER GERMANY Pilot Robert Harriman. 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.

Harriman. of Madison, has been reported missing in action over Germany on Dec. 24. The young aviator, who has been overseas for almost a year, files a bomber plane. His sister is Mrs.

John Copps, the former Ruth Harriman. daughter-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. L. A.

Copps, S. Vine street. Doss Constipation Ifcng On? Wbea faoetioaal eoastipeUoa symptoms fcaac oa. and task yom feel mmtnbiir, art rw ami out of sorts, and you suffer tram bad bRallt. headaches.

jaUtmUom and imdket aopatita ad Tatar stomach feels crowded bacaujs of gas and bloat tet Dr. Peter Fahraey's tioie-teatad Alpea Krauur. More tfcaa a laxative, it's alee a atomachtc tocne swliie cosspcwiided of IS af Nature's ova madirinal roots, herbs and botanicals. Cautioa: Uaa only as directed. Alpea Kraater helm expel caeasaostioa's tm mad bloat and aide ckxrcod ap, mhnapA bownta todiaat-oate araaf arattar.

wae. coaaiort yoar rtoai ach while niu9 const jpataaav Ba are ta aet ALPEN KKALTIEX tooay frost aay FaarDar Lie; Charts Ksicmkrt; Loyal; Wsofer's (By the Associated Press) Western front: British advanced toward solid Roer River line with Americans; Americans captured St. Vith as Germans fled under terrible air punishment; other Americans drove on Reich border on southern flank of Nazis retreating from the Ardennes; limited American withdrawal reported in area north of Strasbourg; offensive opened against Nazis Colmar pocket. Russian front: Red Army assault troops massed on nearly 50 miles of the Oder River; shelled west bank cities and Breslau fortifications; Berlin said they reached the outskirts of Oppeln, southern Silesian capital; other Russians closed in on Poznan. 137 miles from Eerlin; threatened to shear off all East Prussia; advanced on Konigsberg, provincial capital.

Italian front: Patrols increased activity against strong German defenses south of Bologna as snowfall stopped. Pacific front: American patrols operated near Clark Field; silenced enemy artillery on approaches to Bamban, six miles from big U. airfield; Superfortresses attacked Iwo Jima; new Allied anding made on west Burma coast southeast of Akyab. COUNTERFEIT RATION STAMPS SEIZED Family Had 6 Million Red Points; Gas Stamps for 6,000 Gallons Chicago) Dist. Atty.

J. Al bert Woll said today agents had arrested an Italian alien, his wife. and two sons, both discharged war veterans, after they found 6, 000,000 counterfeit red ration points and counterfeit coupons worth 6,000 gallons of gasoline in the family's home. Arrested were Gaetano Polito, 55, who came to the United States from Italy in 1907, his wife, Nel lie, 42, and their sons Guy, 19, and James, 20. Mrs.

Polito 'said Guy was medically discharged from the Navy and James from the Army Air Corps. Both sons are employed in war plants. U. S. Marshal William H.

Mc Donnell and agents af the OPA's currency protective division led by L. D. Edwards, went to the Polito home early today with a search warrant. In a bedroom, McDon nell said, they found eight paper bags containing the counterfeit coupons. Edwards said the OPA does not know if any previous counterfeit meat coupons have been circulat ed, but said the case was the first of its kind to be discovered in this area.

He said investigators were seek ing the press and plates from which the stamps were made. Berlin Reports 18 All ted Agen ts Tried, Executed London () -The Germans announced today the execution of 18 "Anglo-American" agents charged with being sent into Slo vakia to carry out sabotage. Text of the German statement as broadcast by Trans ocean, Nazi news agency, said: "Eighteen British and American secret agents, led by the American Green and the British Ehmer who passed himself off as a major, have been captured in the rear of the German front on Slovak soil. "Interrogation showed they had been given the task of organizing sabotage in Slovakia and engaging in economic and political espi onage in the Anglo-American in terest. "When caught the agents were wearing civilian dress.

"They were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed by shooting." SLAYING OF PUBLISHER HAS POLICE PUZZLED Minneapolis (Jf) Detective Inspector James Mullen said to day police were "pretty much up against a stone wall" in then- search for clues in the slaying of Arthur Kasherman, 43, publisher of an occasionally issued expose sheet. Study of Kasherman's papers and files is continuing, Mullen said, but thus far has yielded nothing helpful. Kasherman was shot down Monday night from a dark sedan after he and a woman companion. Miss Pearl Von Wald. 34.

emerged from a Chicago Avenue cafe. Funeral services for Kasherman will be conducted today. HARRY WOODRING URGES IMMEDIATE BIG 3 PACT Kansas City VP) Former War Secretary Harry H. Woodring urged last night an Immediate al liance with England and Russia on a plan for world peace. "I favor action by the United States Senate now." Woodring said before the South Central Business Association here.

I would join England and Russia, now, and I would do it without criticism of their actions then own spheres of influence. I remind Americans that we hare our own 'sphere of influence patterned by the Monroe Doctrine." Installment Lending in Post war Period Is Deemed Advisable Milwaukee (JPi G. Schuyler Blue, a member of the Consumer Credit Committee of the Ameri can Bankers Association, said today that banks should be prepar ed to derive an important percen tage of their income from consumer credit operations after the war. Addressing the wartime confer ence ol the Wisconsin Jtsanters Association. Blue, who is assistant vice president of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank Trust at St.

Louis, declared that more than 10.000 of 11.000 banks queried by ABA Indicated they were engaged in or would engage in some phase of consumer installment lending in the postwar period. Of these. 87 per cent were in terested in personal loans. 78 per cent in automobile loans direct to borrowers and 63 percent through dealers. Household appliance loans.

F.H.A. title loans and mod ernization plants also were of gen eral interest. Additional advice to institutions planning to engage heavily in automobile financing was advanc ed by A. C. Hall, Milwaukee deal en- Arthur R.

TJpgren, vice presi dent and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. outlined the Bretton Woods mon etary conference plan and declar ed the stake of the northwest in desirable 'postwar international monetary arrangements was the preservation of triangular trading arrangements, which if rebuilt along lines that prevailed before the 1930s, could help to restore American agricultural exports markets. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE1 dieted an early crossing of Xhe Oder, which would open the way to the heart of the Reich, and there were indications, the river was frozen enough for infantry to cross. In central Poland, the German command declared bitter fighting raged near Poznan, only 137 miles from Berlm. A late Moscow dispatch said the Germans, with their grip on Silesia and East Prussia slackening.

apparently- had staked the de fense of Berlin and the core of Germany on the Poznan salient, 46 miles from the Reich border. Marshal Gregory Zhukov's men have slashed through the German front ranks, but have not yet met the main body of Germans, it added, reporting "a big battle in the offing." Another Soviet drive below captured Krakow has battered to the Makow district, less than 40 miles from Jablunka Pass, a natural gateway to the Reich at the northeastern corner of the old Moravian frontier of Czechoslovakia, the German war bulletin added. Capital Menaced Heavy fighting raged on in East Prussia, where Russians were within 18 miles of completely sealing off the province. A Moscow dispatch said Marshal Kon-stantin Rokossovsky's men were only 10 miles from the last railway from Germany to -the Junkers homeland. Russian guns were shelling cities on the western side of the Oder, and Marshal Ivan Konev's troops menaced Breslau, capital of lower (northern) Silesia, from points 10 to 12 miles away.

Berlin said Soviet attacks east of Breslau were driven off. The capital city of 650,000 population is astride the river. Road to Berlin Berlin admitted the Russians had reached the Oder at Oppeln and at Cosel 25 miles farther south where much of the richest part of industrial Silesia, already was outflanked. Konev's push into Silesia had outflanked the industrial production cities of Hindenberg, Beuthen and Gleiwitz, with a combined population of German refugees were reported by Moscow to be clogging escape roads from Silesia. 7 Soviet broadcasts repeatedly sounded the theme, "We are on the road to Berlin." FATHER ADMITS SLAYING 5-YEAR-OLD WITH AXE Grand Rapids, Mich.

() Less than. 24 hours after he admitted to police the axe slaying of his five-year-old daughter, Carl V. Gilbert. 41, pleaded guilty yesterday to a first degree murder charge. Superior Judge Leonard D.

Ver-dier said Gilbert, a former inmate of the Kalamazoo State Hospital, would be given a sanity examination before further action is taken. The child. Jessie Pearl, described as physically deformed and mentally deficient, was found at the Gilbert home Monday night, two axe wounds in her head. She died a short' time later. CPL NICK LAND0WSKI IS MISSING IN ACTION Cpl.

Nick Landowsri, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Landowski, former Marshfield residents now living at Knewiton, has been reported missing in action in Belgium since Dec. 12. Cpl.

Landowski took his training at Fort Riley, with an armored tank divi sion. His sister, Lt. Helen, is an Army nurse in the Southwest Pa cific. RUSSIAN Haan. four stepsisters, and a stepbrother LOUIS WEISS DIES AT CTFAFMQ P0IMT Ml Ol LVLIIO lUlll I Brother of Marshfield Wo men Was 74 Years Old Word has been received here of the death of Louis B.

Weiss. 74, bara Weiss. Marshfield pioneers. o- rw which occurred Monday at his home in Stevens Point. The body is at the Crosby Funeral home "w- xauBc- ments have been announced.

Mr. Weiss was born in Austria- i iV 10 Marsnneia wiin nis parents in 1884. He entered the employ Of the Upham Furniture and la- ter went to Stevens Point to work for the Coye Furniture which aiterwara Dec am tne joerns rsro- thers Co. He was married at Stevens Point on Oct. 30.

1905, to Miss Johanna Okray, who survives him. He also leaves two daughters, Mrs. Jap Prison Camp in Ruins; Grass Grows Over Un-kept Graves BY RUSSELL BRINES (Editors' note: This story of military prison camp which the Japanese turned into a mass graveyard Is the tlrst story written by Russell Brines after his return to the Philippines where he was held for two years In a concentration camp.) Camp O'Donnell Prison Jan. 23 (Delayed) Camp, Rot- ting, burned ruins of Camp O'Donnell and' the un tended graves of thousands of heroes of Bataan is all that remains of one of the most notorious pestholes where the Japanese herded prisoners of war. A Filipino colonel who survived CDonnelTs horrors estimated ooo American ana Filipino sol-diers half of 80,000 impris oned had died of disease, malnu trition and mistreatment.

In the early days after the infamous "Death March" of Bataan several hundred died daily. The touch of those doomed, despairing men hangs heavily over this camp. rail grass grows over the graves of some 4,000 Filipinos. Scores of American bodies lie in the American cemetery about 700 yards northeast of the main buildings. Deep in the thickets of grass, I found small crosses made of unpainted laths.

Dogtags of the dead were fixed to the back of the crosses. That was all. The trail leading from the camp's administration buildings to the cemetery is thin and nearly overgrown. In the center of the cemetery stands a large white wooden cross, "in remembrance of Americans who died here erected by the imperial Japanese Army, 1942 The Filipino cemetery is reach ed by a wooden bridge over marshy ground a breeding place for mosquitoes which now is col lapsed and partially burned. The rfont part of the cemetery is labelled: "Officers Plot." In dividual graves are marked mostly with white painted unnamed crosses.

A few contained names and the words "Rest in Peace' racked out by surviving comrades, Some were printed in ink, some burned, and one hammered in tin i Crosses Burned Most of these officers died in 1942. Behind 25 rows of officers graves 15 to a row were 30 rows of larger mounds divided into let tered plots and grouped in 39 sec tions. Each grave might "have contain ed five men, or more. Much of the thick grass growing over the mounds is blackened by fire and some of the crosses are burned. In the center of the cemetery was a start white piaster monument erected "in deep remembrance of the Filipinos who died in this place.

The hearts and thoughts of friends and comrades are with them. Thick white ashes on rolling ground north of this cemetery were all that remained of the flimsy prisoners' barracks. Fresh automobile tracks told of the flight of the Japanese occu pants. Walking across the blackened and empty fields, I found three badly rusted helmets of a style used at the outbreak of the war. a few canteens, cups, U.

S. Army flashlights, and bits of shoes. In all. this barbed wire enclosure area covered perhaps 30 acres. There was no evidence that- the prisoners were allowed to maintain their own gardens.

No Torture Chamber I found only a couple of water faucets, one shower and primitive sanitary facilities among the ruins. From the prisoners' area, the trail led west a couple of miles to a small hill which was gashed in the center as if utilized as a quarry and possibly a work project for The road was blocked by the familiar movable pyramid-cover ed barbed wire on which tin cans had been tied to sound a warning when touched. Nearby buildings, evidently bar racks, had been wired for electricity but candle drippings told of the shortage of power. One warehouse was filled with empty beer and saki (wine) bottles. There was no evidence of a torture chamber.

The Japanese left little trace of occupancy. Some tune previously they had apparently removed the prisoners that survived the 30 months of ordeal. (A Bern, Switzerland, radio broadcast Tuesday night said that several thousand American pris oners of war had been transferred by the Japanese from the Philippines to Japan). Filipino civilians said the Japa nese garrison fled Jan. 21, hiking across pasturelands toward the distant blue foothills where they evidently joined other bands of Japanese holding out on the right flank of the main American advance.

They left behind only death and desolation. CHEESE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) OPA rules, he contended, adding that "this condition will not help win the war." He asserted that Wisconsin farmers are losing 3 million dollars a year through the "Plymouth-plus" provision and that the Government is "supplying brass knuckles" to the of Wisconsin cheesemakers and farmers. Out-of-state corporations are receiving as much as 1 cents per pound more for cheddar cheese than Wisconsin producers, he said. Mooney declared that the freedom of enterprise is one of the Four Freedoms for which the nation is fighting and asserted that the OPA "owes us consideration of this There is no similarity between diversion and striking, he pointed out. as producers do not plan to waste a drop of butterf at.

Fifty per cent of the' stores in the country, he contended, have not had cheese on their shelves since September, and "we are hurting no one if we make butter instead of cheese." Pres. E. W. Marten of the Central Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association opened last night's meeting. Drifting aide roads were blamed for the small attendance.

similar 'meeting will he held tonight at Thorp. WALTER COATY BUYS RADIO CAB INTEREST Plans Continued Service for Marshfield Patrons Walter Coaty. 1001 S. Cedar street, announced today the purchase of the Radio Cab Company, which he will operate here. Coaty said he has purchased four cabs.

Headquarters will be maintained at Ninth street and S. Central avenue. Coaty is also engaged in the gasoline and transport business, operating between and Kenosha, hauling vital war materials. Headquarters for the trucking firm is at Kenosha. He is married and the ather of three boys, one of whom is serving with the Navy and at present is stationed at San Diego.

Calif. Since purchasing the cab company, Coaty plans to make his headquarter in Marshfield. Pfc Tm Classified Asa Ts IMS Forest Stron of Stevens Point and ed serious, and considerable Ger-Mrs. Wade Harvey of LeadviHe, man movements were noted in the a son, Pfc. Donald Weiss of Fort Lewis.

two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Herrle, 800 W. Ar nold street, and Mrs. Julia Krall, I 110 Elm street; and eight grand children. Of interest here is the an- nouncement that MaJ.

Ryan King, serving with the tank division in Italy, has been awarded the bronze star medal for heroism in battle in Italy in Decern- ber. Major King is the hus- hand of the former MLm Freder icka Schiller, adopted daughter or Mr. ana Mrs. a. n.

Buimer. 1112 S. Cedar street. Mrs. King and their three children, Jacque- line.

juay. ana Brian, mace tneir nome ii-tossc. Robert D. Barnes, son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. C. Barnes, 115 S. vine street, nas neen awaraea tne Mariner's Medal for injuries re- ceived in action on June 6. 1944.

while participating in the D-Day invasion activties off the coast of Normandy as a member of the Merchant Marine. FORMER ARPIN RESIDENT .7.7.7.1: 15 WUUNULU IN rKAHUt Arpto-TMendj oTPrtTlUciiMd Young, a former resident of Ar-1 pin, have learned that he was wounded in France recently. Sgt. Reynold Znehlke. a nephew of Julius ZuehTke.

was reported wounded in Italy recently. 0 With The Colors I Best Inflation Br Msra Wax Boa I are the hostesses..