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If; FOUR THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1943. Case Co. Board Obituary Father Receives Medal For Prisoner Son "For exceptional and meritorious achievement" oa five bomber combat missions over nazi Europe. Sgt. John Townsend, son of USO Budget 1 Set at City Happenings Fall Screen Actress Gale Robbins a pretty Halloween picture.

WMC Chary in Giving War Workers Availability Permits Guy 608 Eighth street, has been awarded the air medal. Because' Sergeant Town-send is a prisoner of war in Germany, captured on his last bombing missionj.his father received" the award for him at a ceremony at Stel-fridge field, on Oct 19. Sgt. Townsend. Guy Townsend is a war worker at the Younf Radiator company.

His son has been overseas with the air forces for more than a year. Nets Tipster $5 When 9-year-oJlichard Republic avenue, found $106 and returned the money -to the owner he made $5 for a Racine resident. Judges in the weekly Journal-Times news tip contest decided that the story, submitted as a contest entry, was the most meritorious last week. Close secgnd was the return of a "prodigal" dog, missing for two years. The dog story and four others on a little, tot who packed her bag and decided to visit her father in the navy, three generations of Jensens on both sides, tribute of a girl pen pal to a dead soldier whom she never met and a 9-months-old baby that plays a harmonica were good for $1 awards.

War Bond Is Award. The weekly Journal-Times news tip contest continues. All winners, and other entries used, have been filed for judging in December for a special Christmas present a $25 war bond lo the tipster who submitted the foundation for what judges term the best story since the contest started. It is not too late to enter the contest. How good a reporter are you? News tips abound and one of them may mean not only a $5 award in the weekly contest but that $25 war bond.

A call to the city editor is all that is necessary to enter. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Oliver, 1535 Packard avenue, a daughter 26, St. Mary's hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. John Haluska, 1612 Blaine avenue, a son, Oct. 26, St. Mary's hospital.

Mrs. Aage Lafayette avenue, a daughter, Oct. 26, Alice Horlick maternity -J -1 -MM'" f. i 1 him r. 1 1 mi inn mi in nnj Honesty Story Budget of $10,933 was approved by directors of the Racine USO Tuesday night at a meeting with committee chairmen in Memorial hall.

It will be presented to' the Community Chest this week.r The 1942-43 budget was but Mrs. Lydia Wallis Pettit, presi dent: of the board, explained that this was wrren the center only was open ion weekends. Nowit oper ates on a 7-day week. Major Portion from Chest. Of the $10,933, the Community Chest will -be asked to provide $7,573 while $3,360 will be obtained from other sources.

During the past year, the center operated on a budget of $6,753 of which $3,975 was provided by the Community Chest and $2,780 by gifts. Largest donation was that of the Down town Business Men's association which gave the center proceeds of an all-American Girls' softball league exhibition game, amount ing to approximately $1,000. if Largest item in the new budget is that of, food for the canteen, set at $2,500 compared to $1,190 a year ago. iThls, it was explained, is at the rate of 15 cents a' meals Series of Parties Arranged. Miss Harriet Wratten, executive secretary, said a series of parties is planned for the holidays.

Through aid of Herbert Johnson, an orchestra has been obtained to play at the center; every weekend. I Mrs. Pettit announced that Mrs. Judson Stone will serve as chairman of the entertainment committee and that Mrs. Walter Day will be chairman of the canteen Committee.

Mrs. H. J. Cad well, who has been heading that service resigned. Regular meetings of the board will be held on the third Tuesday of each month in the Mayor Asks Police Support In Safety Drive Mayor Francis H.

Wendt today called upon the Racine police.de-partment to extend every effort to prevent accidents and thereby; insure the maximum effort of the community in the war. 1 In a letter to Police Chief Arthur Muhlke, the mayor asked the department to support "Safety week" which is being held throughout the country this "During the year and 10 months that, we have been engaged in the more people "have been killed and injured by accidents at home than: in all the branches of jthe armed forces," the -letter stated. "The result has been that man hours of labor and management have been reduced and the (war effort slowed. up "As mayor, I ask you to instruct the officers of the department to enforce the city safety ordinances, thereby preventing accidents and insuring our maximum war? effort." REAL ESTATE Paul Kt Btegar to Frank and rrancUia Holfer. part of lot and B.

Union OroT, also lots and H. Onion OrT. rrancaa Karth to Fardlnand T.i. and Marguerlt M. MuUer, lot 10, Tox Ulm park.

Helen C. Kreudenberf to Rodney C' and Ruth E. Mann. part weit of north-lit aection 34, townihlp 4 north, range 32 eaat. Alexander and Mabel Xngtl to Frank A.

and Josephine eterena, part of south of section 9. township north, range 30 east. Elisabeth Jones to Peter 1. and Helen Oik. pan of cast Vi of northeast corner, section 8.

township range 23. Joseph J. and Vlasta Otradovec to Ed-' ward H. and Gertrude B. Harms, lot 28.

block 29, Wolff third addition. i Wisconsin Electric Power Co. to John and Amanda Sustachek. northwest section 20, township 4 north, range east, Caledonia, Harry and Margaret J. Allen to! Oust and Alma Lindeli.

part of lot 7, block 1. Honey Lake subdivision. it Directors of the J. I. Case company Tuesday announced a plan to increase the company's common stock by changing each share of outstanding stock for four shares and reducing the par vahie from the present $100 to $25.

The proposal, which will be submitted for approval at the annual stockholders meeting in December, would reduce the value of the common stock from $100 to $25, change each share into four shares and increase the number of shares of authorized common stock to four times the number now authorized, the company announced. Consider Change For Years. The proposal further urges that the ipref erred stock be entitled to four votes per share rather than the present one vote per share. This Change would maintain" the proportionate voting rights of the stock as a class with the number of votes which will be allowed to the common stock as a class. The company explained that the amendment relating to the common stock has been under consideration for a number of years.

Because of the comparatively small number of shares of stock outstanding, the stock has been subject to a wide fluctuation in market price, making it less attractive in the opinion of many investors, the company asserted. Officials said that the change will tend to broaden and stabilize. the stock on the market. Similar changes have, been made by other companies in the farm equipment industry, the company said. Widow, CI aims Death Benefits From E.

B. A. Mrs. Louise J. Killberg, 2201 La-Salle street, filed summons and complaint in circuit court in a suit against the J.

I. Case Employes Benefit association late Tuesday for $1,800, alleged to be due on a death benefit- policy. Leonard Killberg was injured on Oct. 27, 1941, while driving -back from Cedar Grove and died Oct. 29.

According to the complaint, Mr. Killberg was a charter member of the benefit association, started in 1909. His wife claims he was injured and died while on duty for the Case company as he made an inspection trip to a foundry at Cedar Grove and accordingly asks double or $1,800. In their answer, officers of the benefit association, maintain that Mr. Killberg is entitled to but $900 and deny he was on company business at time of his accident.

The case is said to be before the Wisconsin Industrial commission and may be appealed "to the supreme court so the association decided to await the outcome before paying the claim. TO THE Asks Stock Spl Writer III Fred L. Holmes, one of Wisconsin's leading historical wri-tejs, is ill in Madison. Holmes wrote "Wisconsin's War Record," "Alluring Wisconsin," Badger Saints and Sinners," and several other books dealing with Wisconsin's history. School Heads Are Shifted Three changes in principalship for Racine elementary schools were approved Tuesday night by the board of education.

The shifts were made necessary by the recent resignation of B. G. Lahr, who had served as head of both Jefferson and Garfield schools. Herbert I. Von Hayden, who has been head of the English department at Washington Park high school, was named acting princi pal of the Garfield and North Racine schools.

Russell Made Principal. Harold Cripe will now serve as principal of Howell and Jefferson schools. He formerly had charge of Howell and North Racine. H. E.

Russell, who has been acting principal at Roosevelt, was named principal. Supt. W. C. Giese said that Von Hayden's successor as head of the Washington Park English department had not been selected, YMCA to Hold Parties, Parade Fpr Halloween Spooks and other Halloween characters will parade ort downtown streets at 7:15 p.

m. Saturday as part of festivities scheduled Friday and Saturday nights for more than 1,000 high school students and YMCA members. Secretaries, directors and com mittees from William Horlick and Washington Park Hi-Y clubs, and the High School Co-Recreatidn club have combined to dan a dancing party Friday in the YMCA. Fortune tellers, games, stunts, re freshments and a rf spook floor show are included in plans for the two evenings. Les Beck and his orchestra will play a dance program.

In charge of entertainment are Virginia Tiede, Margaret Prentice, Wayne Linton, Gilbert Brach, Don Jensen, Jerry Pendl and Hugh Burdick. Annual Hallowe'en party for boys will begin with the. parade, followed by a march in the YMCA gym when prizes will be awarded for the best clown, hobo, girl impersonator, couple, spirit of Halloween and fanciest costume. Seats will be reserved in the gym balcony for parents. Boys who are not 1 YMCA members may obtain admission tickets from their school principals.

THESE POPULAR STYLES Leaf i Horal Hooked Sirs. George Funeral services were held Monday in Rockford, for Mrs. George Smalley, sister of Fred E. King, 935 Huron street. She died in Chicago Friday.

Mrs. Smalley, a native of Plover, is- survived by her husband, son and daughter. She frequently visited her brother in Racine. Sophia Bundlsh. Mrs.

Sophia Bundish, 62, died Tuesday in her home, 1644 Charles street, after a long illness. Mrs. Bundish was born in Bohemia Oct. 1881. She came to Racine 31 years ago from North Dakota.

Surviving are two daughters, Mary Bundish and Mrs. John Mar-enac of Racine; one son, Pfc, John Hepdirig of Tacoma, and one AS John Marenac of Columbia, Mo. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in the Maresh funeral home with Rev.

LeRoy Christiansen officiating. Bural will be in. rGraceland cemetery. Friends -may call at the funeral home' from Thursday afternoon until service time. r.

ATrc. Waltoi Wtlltamenn Mrs SiriH T. "Williamson 52. wifeiof Walter Williamson, 108 Wisconsin, avenue, died this morning at her home. Mrs.

Williamson was born in Racine Sept. 18, 1891. Surviving are her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Doris J. Voigt of Alexandria, her mother, Mrs.

Johanna Wilson of Racine; two brothers, Edward Wilson of Kenosha and Ernest Wilson of Mip wakee and two sisters, Misss Helene and Gertrude rilson of Racine. was a member' of Racine Woman's club, American Legion auxiliary and First Presbyterian Service time has; not been announced. PeterKiehI Burial services for Peter Kiehl, 59, a former Milwaukee police ser4 geant who died Monday, will held at Mound cemetery in! Racine! at 3:45 m. Thursday. Mr.

Klehl's wife, Mabel, is the daughter of Mrs: Louise Pratt; 1312 Main street, Racine. Since his retirement from thjs Milwauke: police force in 1941, Kiehl has been chief guard the Evinrude Motor Company in Mil-waukeer Funeral services' for Mr. Kiehl wi be held at the Voth and Anf derson funeral home in Milwaukee at 2:30 p. m. Thursday, and the body will be brought to Racine, burial immediately after the icr vices.

'I CLOIITES GETlioiIN AND OUT. SILVERTON.Ore. (U.R) Fqr the first time in Silverton's history a man was arrested on it streets on charges of being inv properly clothed and then baileij himself out with clothing. After his arrest, the man telephoned his wife to bring two suits of clothes to the police statidn. One was left for bail.

i CITY CLUB members heard F. R. Starbucks publisher of the Journal-Times, give a talk on the serious and lighter aspects of the newspaper business Tuesday noon. LAST CHANCE to enroll in the ESMWT class in engineering supervision will be at the second meeting at 7 p. Thursday in the vocational school.

Prof. H. R. English Is in charge of the course. STAMP honoring Yugoslavia will be on sale at the postofi6e Thursday.

The stamp which nas the red, white and blue flag of Yugoslavia on a blue background is the ninth in a series of 12 stamps issued to commemorate the "overrun countries." They will be sold at five cents each. EIGHT new automobiles, 1941 models, have been bought by the city for police department squad cars. First three were delivered on Tuesday and are being equipped with two-way radios. The others -will be delivered and equipped, three each week. Old squad cars were traded as part of the sale.

DISCUSSION "of the work of the wage and hour division of the department of labor, in commemoration of the division's fifth anniversary, will take place over radio WRJN at 7:30 p. m. today. James A. McLaughlin, wage-hour inspector for the Racine-Kenosha area, and Loren Norman, editor of Racine Labor, will participate.

VARIETY of business will be discussed at 6:30 p. m. Monday when the Downtown Business Professional association meets at Hotel Racine. The group will discuss the problem of evenings on which stores are to open for the Christmas season; delivery restriction orders of the ODT and will hold a question and answer forum on the 48-hour week as it applies to retail merchants. RESIDENTS of the Kremer Estate Home Acres, north of Racine, called deputy sheriffs Tuesday night and reported they have made an agreement with 10 boys from that district to take them to a movie in Racine on Halloween night if no damage occurs in the neigh borhood.

Alex Hansen, spokesman for the property owners, introduced Deputy Thomas Crowe to the boys who said they will see there is no trouble in that section. It has been peaceful to date according to Hansen. EINER R. PETERSON, owner of Goat Acres on Highway 11, east of Sturtevant, is one of the incorporators of Wisconsin Goat society, a non-profit, non-stock organization with headquarters in Milwaukee. Papers were filed with Fred Zimmerman, secretary of state, by Peterson, Mrs.

Norma Shippy of West Allis and Mrs. Theresa Tetz-laff of Milwaukee as incorporators. Purpose of the society is to develop the goat Industry in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs.

Peterson, who own a herd of Toggenburg goats, won several first prizes at the 1943 Wisconsin state fair. State School Employe Found Dead in Auto MADISON (vTVWalter Staley, 58, employed at the state school for girls at Oregon, died of a heart attack Tuesday while driving his car near Brooklyn, Coroner Edward A. Fischer announced today. He was alone. His body was found about 6 m.

in the car which stopped in a MARRIAGE LICENSES Dale C. Boes, 1013 Fourteenth street; and Jane jPetrakis, 1617 Morton avenue. 9x12 Size MAY BE PURCHASED ON OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN while selections FOURTH FLOOR (Continued trouble ironed out. That works in many of the cases. "Several workers have taker jobs in other plants and even in other cities and after we talked to both employer and employe, the workers have returned I to their previous job." i Scoon cited the following case as an example of how the office handles applications for job i A worker sought a statement of availability and said that although Assistant Chief Wields Broom to Put Out Blaze When Assistant Fire Chiefs George Devine and Oscar, Olson were driving back to the central station Tuesday in the fire! chiefs car after inspecting factories in the Junction district, they discovered a fire at the home of Rev.

Stanley Witkowiak, principal of St. Catherine's high school, 1238 Park avenue. The fire, apparently caused by a lighted cigaret tossed into a pile of leaves, had spread to siding of the house on the north side. The assistant chiefs stoppedi their cat, ran to the door and asked the housekeeper for a broom with which Assistant Chief Olson put out the blaze. None of 'the occupants knew the house was on fire.

Damage was small. i The department made a run' to 1948 State street at 10:19 p.m. Tuesday when an oil stove overflowed. There was no damage. Place is owned by Dr.

Louis Fazen. I Democrats Back Flynn for First District Delegate Gerald T. Flynn, secretary of the county democratic party organization, was for the position of delegate to the national democratic convention, at a meeting in Winters hall Tuesday night. The Racine delegation to; the district meeting at Lake Geneva, Nov. 7, will support Flynn as one of the two delegates to be named from the First district, comprising Racine, Rock, Walworth, Green and Kenosha counties.

Several members indicated that they would the district conference and party officials will arrange transportation for those who wish to make the trip to Lake Geneva. Racine county is allowed 48 representatives at the meeting which will name delegates to the national convention. Plans were also discussed for county representation at the. coming state party meeting scheduled for the first part of December in Milwaukee. Scenery gets out a jack-q'-lantern to make I From Page 1.) he liked the work, ''the foreman had not spoken to him for several weeks," so he wanted to find i a new job.

The USES contacted the employer and was informed that there! was no ill feeling between the men, but foreman had probably just been busy and had "overlooked" the usual "good morning." "The employe is back on the job now; and everything is going smooth," Scoon asserted. In case the worker, or his employer, is not satisfied with the decision of the USES either may appeal to the area WMC committee, (which is composed four representatives of industry aiad fourj of" labor.1 Workers have appealed 19 cases to the area committee and in 15 cases the USES was; upheld and in four cases the WMC, a'f ter hearing additional testimony, granted the statement to the employe. No employers have appealed from a USES decision, Scoon said. 1 Racine Included In Milk Control The war food administration at Washington today extended the fluid milk control program to Milwaukee, and Racine-Kenosha, effective 1. The program requires that milk dealers sell no more fluid milk in anyj one month than they sold in June and limits the sales of cream and1 milk by-products to three-quarters of the June sales, except under special circumstances such as illness or hew members in the Name Administrator.

H. Erdman of Chicago was named to administer the program in the two Wisconsin areas. More mi and cream will be available urtder the quotas than was purchased before the war, ac, cording toxfederal representatives. The program is designed to help assure sufficient milk, for manufacturing cheese, butter, evapor ated and powdered milk required by he armed services and, civili ans, i I Rejects Application For Special Session MADISON. CU.R) Assembly man Vernon Thomson Richland Center), member of a joint senate-assembly committee on procedure, today rejected the ple of Sen.

Bernhard Gettelman, (rep4 Milwaukee), for a special state legislature session to discuss re pealing Wisconsin's tax on oleo- margarine. 1 It was Gettelman's second, rebuff for his request, made several weeks ago. Acting Gv. Walter S. Goodland refused to call a special session on the grounds that the legislature tech nically is still In Session.

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