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Ttf Two l'RIDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1044. WATERLOO DAILY COURIER, WATERLOO. IOWA THE DAILY RECORD IN BRIEF Nazis Counterattack in Italy Fire Alarms Thursday, 7:51 To 317 Oneida. Open Savage Attack on ELAS Forces DIVISION CUT TO PIECES IN ISI ONRUSH casualty In the regrouping necessi-tated by the German breakthrough.

Checkmated at the center within four milei of the Mouse Und reeling back under the new American flanking blows, the Germans had lost t.ie initiative everywhere in the 150-mile perl -eter of their Ardennes pocket Field dispatches said the 200,000 Nazi infantrymen and hundreds of tanks that burst out of the Siegfried line two weeks ago to dip 60 miles across Belgium and Luxembourg were struggling desperately to pull back their over-extended western spearheads and form a tight defensive line. Wipe Out Panzers. At the western tip of the salient, the Germans took their first decisive beating early Thursday when American tanks, infantrymen, and Great Fleet of Bombers Pounds Western Reich London (P) Fifteen hundred S. bombers and fighters from Britain, a great fleet of RAF heavy bombers and limited numbers of continent based planes rained thousands of tons of bombs Friday between the western front and the Rhine. It was the seventh straight day of long-range attack by heavy bombers of the U.

S. Eighth air force and the RAF from Britain, and their assaults were supplemented by strikes from Italy car-rled out by the U. S. 15th air force. A half dozen road and rail junctions and bridges in the Euskir-chentrier sector were hammered by part of the U.

S. bomber fleet. Others aimed their explosives and coc- fi xSf Arrows indicate action on the Italian front (heavy line), Germans continued counterattacks along the Serchio river near the west coast, enveloping the town of Barga and forcing a Fifth army withdrawal. Eighth army troops near the east coast continued their drive toward Bologna. (AP Wirephoto Map.) Cattlemen Rail at Proposal to Put Ceilings on Livestock Kansas City, Mo.

VP) Cattle producers spoke sharply against a proposed ceiling ry ice for livestock following a conference Thursday with John J. Madigan, OPA ofifical, who described the meeting as a success. The cattlemen contended that the OFA was being stampeded into setting prices by the strike of butcher shops In the east and that price ceilings would bring an end to fattening cattle In feed lots. Their statements followed the session which was closed to newsmen. Madigan, assistant director of the food branch division of OPA, said the meeting was a success because he obtained ti backing for the program from "a substantial minor.

British Propose to Relieve "Ike" Washington' Circles, However, Assail Suggestion. ity, the intelligent minority, "The minority doesn't believe wholeheartedly in the program, but agrees that it is about the best that can be done under the circumstances," he said. Madigan observed that the cattlemen spoke their views here while at a meeting the previous day in Chicago they had remained silent. Madigan declined to discuss a report at the Chicago meeting that the proposed ceiling price was. $17.50 a hundred pounds.

Some of-the comments by rejected by Washington mil- The Weather WATERLOO: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; colder Saturday; lowest IS above zero. IOWA: Cloudy tonight, becoming partly cloudy Saturday afternoon; no decided change In temperature. Shipper' forecast: Northweat zero, northeast above aouth IS. ILLINOIS: Light freezing drizzle ln aouth and central and light anow In xtreme north portion tonight, ending early Saturday and becoming partly cloudy; warmer Saturday and ln north and central portion! tonight. WISCONSIN: Mostly cloudy with light inow tonight and In northeast portion Saturday; warmer in south and central and becoming colder in extreme north poition tonight; colder ln north and central portions Saturday; moderately atrong winds this afternoon, dl-mlniKhlng late tonight.

MINNESOTA: Snow flurries and falling temperatures late this afternoon and tonight with low temperatures near zero ln extreme northwest portions; Saturday mostly cloudy with snow flurries In northeast portion; colder ln south portion Saturday; diminishing winda. MISSOURI: Freezing rain or snow, changing to rain in central and south today, becoming partly cloudy in northwest late afternoon; somewhat warmer; light rain In east and south, partly cloudy ln northwest, slightly warmer tonight; Saturday light rain ln southeast, partly cloudy ln west and north, somewhat colder ln northwest. NEBRASKA: Partly cloudy, colder ln northwest today; tonight partly cloudy, colder in west and north; Saturday fair and colder. Sunrise Saturday, aunaet, sunrise Sunday, 8:36. WATERLOO TEMPERATURES.

Maximum Thursday (official) ...17 Minimum Thursday (official) 18 Friday, a a. m. (official) no Friday, 9 a. m. (downtown) ...20 Friday, 11 a.

m. (downtown) ..22 Friday, 1 p. m. (downtown) 25 Friday, 3 p. m.

(downtown) 26 Maximum year ago Friday 42 Minimum year ago Friday 7 Kaster, Waverly Murderer, Hanged; Dead in 16 Minutes (Continued) capture prevailed Thursday eve ning as the Bremer county sheriff read aloud to him the death warrant as prescribed by law. May Bury at Prison. No member of Raster's family was present, nor was J. P. Murpny of Sumner, his attorney.

Warden Percy A. Lainson said that his mother, Mrs. Daisy Kaster, Or lando, would be officially no tified of the execution and that if the body was not claimed it would be buried in the cemetery at the penitentiary. Rev. Paul L.

Kindschi, pastor of YYesleyan Methodist church of Waterloo, was present at the penitentiary Friday morning and offered to be with Kaster before the execution, but the prisoner refused to see him. Lone woman to witness the exe cution was Mrs. Edith Johnson, a comely blond of 22, who covered the story for the Ft. Madison Eve ning Democrat. Ninety Persons Present.

Approximately 90 persons were present, including the 12 official witnesses and six officials. Officials present were W. Hahlc, of Sumner, blind Bremer county attorney who directed the state's case against Kaster in district court; H. L. Leslie, Waverly attorney who presented the state's case in court; Judge T.

A. Beard-more, Charles City, presiding judge in the case; H. C. Richmann, Waverly, clerk of district court; Dr. R.

L. Feightner, Ft. Madison physician; Dr. F. R.

Sparks, Waver- ly physician. Official witnesses were C. B. Hutchinson, Amos P. Colburn, Burton Bolton, H.

E. Yarcho, Martin Pipho. William Ward and Ar-ben L. Young, all of Waverly; Henry Schwab, Plainfield. Wal- ter Fergemann.

Tripoli, Louis E. Barnes and Ernest P. Livingston, both of Sumner, and R. W. Bo-lin, Clarksville.

Ia. Other northeast Iowane Included W. H. Diercks and E. E.

Coonradt, both of Waverly; William Bolin, Clarksville; Ray Henry, Charles City, E. A. and R. H. Rodies, both of Manchester.

Sgt. Russell Fisher, Patrolmen Earl Immer and Clare Hoffman of the Iowa state highway patrol, who participated in the search for the slayer and were present at his capture, all of Cedar Falls, were in attendance. One of the leading figures In the search for Kaster, State Agent Max Studer, was present, in addition to law enforcement officers from a number of cities and counties throughout the state and newspaper writers and photographers. Kaster was placed under a two-man guard Thursday night when he was moved from death row to his last cell. Caught Near Clear Lake.

Kaster was captured Oct. 4, 1943, near Clear Lake, after a nine-day manhunt during which he twice eluded officers and was slightly wounded in a gun battle. A group of 200 officers, state guardsmen and volunteers, one of the largest posses in the history of the state, trapped him "near his hideout shack west of Janesville, after the slaying but he managed to escape under the cover of darkness. He made his way to Osage, where he stole a car and went to the home of an uncle, Charles Kaster, at Ventura Heights, near Clear Lake. Driven from the house by offi Cattlemen nary experts ruuay, wuu uioiow W.

A. Hopley, Atlantic, pres. terizf "a Mo.ar m6rnine ident of the Iowa beef producers quarterback group-'This is one of the most highly-placed official de-damnable things ever poked down c1 lr- the throats of cattlemen. I'm hJ Th sesUon. coming now, clined to go home and empty my remind4s me of.the sldeLnS cnt yards tonight who starts replaying a game and E.

C. Robbins. Belvldere. 1 telling everybody how it ought to will back up on have be" won- the range and become almost sea-1 Officials Vehement. sonal, like lettuce-butchered and! Hre and the.re ln Washington, Dlaced in cold storaee all at numuer oi persons oi nign home nf Virginia McGee; cause, chimney soot burning out; no damage.

Licensed to Wed Kc bert Eugene Mortensen, Kimball- ton, la I F.kn Handrup Andersen, Cedar Falls IS Charles L. McCrane, 428 Adams 22 Edna F. Brant, Waterloo 20 Divorce Petitions Filed CREES, Marie, vs. Dean: Married Sept. 20, 1941, at Bethany, separated Dec 1, 1944; charge, plaintiff siks custody of ion, Dennis.

2, support and maintenance for child, Divorces Cranted KEHE. Florence 42, from Edwin 46: Married Feb. 28. 1924, In Water, loo; separated Oct. 8, 1944; charge.

crueU ty; plaintiff awarded $2,000 as alimony, title to personal property at 923 Kern, and one-halt of all savings and war bonds in name of the plaintiff and defendant; also granted custody of minor drughter, Helen Jean, and $10 weekly child support until she reaches 18; defendant given right to visit said child at reasonable times and if daughter chooses to live at father's home weekly payments shall cease; defendant ordered to pay all Insurance premiums on poll cies of Helen Jean and Robert on now In the armed forces; defendant to have title to car and named sole owner of property at 923 Kern, plaintiff granted right to remarry at any time. Births Reported. To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Murphy, 142 Alta Vista, a girl, at St.

Francis. To Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nason, 890 Pros pect boulevard, a girl, at Allen Memorial. Wills Filed for Probate.

DUNHAM, Ceorge Died Dec. 24, 1944, in Waterloo; will dated May 13, 1837, with codicil dated June 29, 1939, bequeaths til personal effects, household goods, furniture and equipment with exception of watch and Masonic ring, to his wife, Edith E. Dunham; bequeaths to grandson, Richard Stull, and ring to son, Benson; after payment of dtbts, balance of deposit ln Perpetual Building Loan association is bequeathed ln three-fifths share to his wife, and in the event she does not survive, belance is given ln equal parts to children, Mabel Stull, Ralph Dunham, Helen Ford, Bessie Ford, and Benson E. Dunham: should any of said children not survive, then his or her part go to children of bis or hers surviving: bequeaths property at 420 Center to Helen Ford and in event she does not survive, it goes to her daughter. Anita Ford, and in event neither survives, it will be divided equally among children; all otlie-property is bequeathed in one-third share to his wife and if she does not survive, bequeaths it to children in equal parts.

Edith E. Dunham, wife, and Benson E. Dunham, son, named executors without bond. Real Estate Transfers Fred Mosher to Benjamin J. Keel-er and Marguerite lot 2, block 26, Hagerman Plate; Rev.

55c etc. John Mosher to Benjamin J. Keel, er and Marguerite lot 4, block 28, Hagerman Place; Rev. Sic let-. Herman Reams and Fern to Benjamin J.

Keeler and Marguerite lot 1, block 26, Hagerman Place; $1.10 i etc. Fred O. Meyerhoff and Annie, Leo Jl Meyerhoff and Alvina, nd Herbert C. Meyerhoff and Martha to Jean Nesblt, lot block 9, Dunkerton; Rev. $3.85 1 efe.

William B. Faunce and Harriette M. to Harry R. Prusia and Alma lot 22, block 2, Riehl's Rev. $5,50 iete waits and Euphemia C.

to D. Rlne, pt. Sec. 12-89-14; Rev. $8.80 etc T.

Waits and Euphemia C. to H. Rine, ptl lot 4, block 4. O. plat Cedar Falls 1 l0 Ruth Van Norstrand to Edna Stewart, pt.

lot 13. block 18, O. plat west j.tc Crystal Ice 4 Fuel Co. to Waterloo Bldg. Se Loan, trac.

blocks 3, 4. O. plat west: Rev. $27.50 1 etc. Eva M.

Wilson and Orvllle E. to Edith M. Cady, pt. lot 8, River Forest Rev. $1.65 1 etc cers using tear gas, Kaster again escaped as he fired four shots at officers.

Although wounded in" the heel, the hunted man stayed at liberty until the next day. when he was captured while hiding in the trunk of the stolen car. Kaster was found guilty of mur-der in the first degree by a jury which deliberated less than two hours in district court at Waverly, and he was sentenced to be hanged! Judge Thomas A. Beardmore of Charles City passing sentence. Raster's career in crime which started in 1933, when he was t-ind guilty of larceny of an automobile in Black Hawk county and sen-fenced to serve 10 years in prison.

He served a little over five years of the term before being released. Kaster was listed as a draft evader prior to his arrest for mur-der. He asserted he was a "conscientious objector." A statement given to officers after his capture admitted the slaying and said his only reason for the holdup murder of Win-chell, father of two small chil-dren, was his desire for the watchman's pistol and holster. "I took a man's life and I offer mine for it." Kaster asserted in the statement. Friday the state, of Iowa exacted payment.

Ball Bearing Plant Workmen on Strike Chicago -VP)- Sixteen hundred men of the 2,400 employed on the day shift at the International Harvester company's ball bearing plant failed to report for work Friday in the second day of a labor dispute, the company reported. Company spokesmen said the dispute concerned piece work pay on new machines installed in the plant. Charles Kellinger, international representative of the United Farm Equipment Workers, local 107, a CIO union, said the strike was unauthorized. YOUR BONDS AT Swings IKnk COMMtBUAi. time each year.

There is nothing in the program to encourage feeding." C. E. Mctzger, president of the Omaha Livestock Exchange "I think if they were going to do this, it should have been done last fall, before the feeders filled their yards. It puts cattlemen out on a limb." A. A.

Blakley, vice-president of the National Livestock Ex chance. r)pnur to v.uvut.Ak XdJ Athens (U.R) British and Greek troops launched a three-pronged offensive against rebel forces In southeast Athens at dawn Friday and four hours later the attack was reported going "according to plan." The offensive opened the second phase of a campaign to clear all southern Athens of left-wing ELAS troops. Southwest Athens already has been cleared virtually up to Omonoias square and by dusk, the British hoped to hold half the entire capital. Attacking at 7 a. one British prong drove toward the stadium area of southeast Athens, another British column pushed into the cemetery south of the stadium and a Greek force advanced from the east.

The Greeks had gained 1,000 yards, against stiff resistance by 8:30 a. m. Mortars, artillery and tanks supported the offensive. Spit-fires buzzed overhead at rooftop level, spotting enemy movements. Ardittos hill, a gray-green mound directly behind the glistening white marble stadium, was half hidden in the morning mist, but British mortar bombs glowed orange through the haze as -they burst on the slopes, a scant 1,200 yards from government headquarters in the Great Britain hotel.

Peace negotiations between Greek government leaders and representatives of the ELAS were at a standstill pending word from King George on their united demand for the Immediate establishment of regency. Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden left Greece Thursday for London in an attempt to persuade the exiled king of the wisdom of such a course. Relief agencies in central Athens Thursday distributed 350,000 meals, of which 150,000 were given out by British troops from their military liaison supplies. 10112(7 KJUlIQIlkS Fiankie in 44 Musicians Poll Chicago (V-Bing Crosby outranked Frank Sinatra in the 1944 musicians' poll, conducted annually by Down Beat magazine, on results announced Friday. Crosby was acclaimed favorite male singer (unconnected with a band) with 2,406 votes to 1.606 for Sinatra and 690 for Dick Haymes.

The poll is conducted each year among the magazine's subscribers: musicians and popular music fans, including servicemen. Duke Ellington edged out Woody Herman to win the swing band title and Charlie Spivak beat Tommy Dorsey in the sweet band division. Dinah Shore was first in the contest for best girl singer (unconnected with a band), with Helen Forrest and Jo Stafford running second and third. Veto Retains lackson Hole Memorial Plan Washington, D. C.

VP) President Roosevelt has pocket vetoed a bill to abolish the Jackson Hole National Monument in Wyoming. In a "memorandum of disapproval" made public by the White House Friday, Mr. Roosevelt said that among other things the legislation would ave deprived the people of the United States of the "benefits of an area of national significance from the standpoint of naturalistic, historic, scientific and recreational values." The monument, embracing acres adjoining Teton national park, was established by executive order last March. Private interests in Wyoming opposed its creation on the ground that it removed much land from state tax rolls and for other reasons. rCIICtl I'l OdUCe Cars for Civilians Paris (ff) French automobile manufacturers, apparently acting on the theory that the next few months may see the end of the war in Europe, are going ahead with plans to produce 25,000 civilian cars for public sale in the last half of 1945.

Military needs will continue to take precedertce in the first half of the year. The French army expects to take 50,000 trucks from French assembly lines before any materials or manpower are released for civilian production. Heart Attack Kills Jap Naval Expert thi Annmtntril I'renti Admiral Nobumass Suetsugu. 64, retired, Japanese naval strategist and former commander in chief of the combined fleet, died Friday of a heart ailment Dome! news agency reported in a broadcast intercepted by the federal communications commission. Kiwanis Officers Meeting Tonight Officers and committee chairmen of the Kiwanis club here will hold a training conference at 7:30 m.

Friday in Hotel Russell- Lamson for the purpose of discussing committee appointments and organizing the year's work. L. Bragdon, newly-elected pres ident for 1945. will be in charge 1 BRITISH LEADERS HOME. London (P) Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary i Eden arrived in Britain Friday from the conferences ln Gieece.

Germans Fought Like Crazy Drunken Men and Tanks Kept on Coming. By J. EDWARD Ml'RRAT Allied Headquarters, Paris (UP) The American retreat before the German offensive was terrible. Two weather-beaten, weary GIs who came down from their last foxholes between embattled Bastogne and Neufchateau couldnt remember Thursday all the defensive lines where they were battered and beaten and outnumbered. Memories of that noise, misery, cold and death kept flooding into their minds, interrupting their story.

But they stood, shy and unbelieving, in the safety of this headquarters press room and remembered enough to prove that war has changed for the worse since Sherman's day. Staff Sgt. James E. Williams of Harrisburg, and Pfc. Abraham Rich of Queens, N.

said their American division took the impact of the surging German attack east of Clervaux in Luxembourg, and was cut to pieces in a seven-day retreat. "We Killed Germans The refrain of Williams' slow, deliberate 45-minute talk was: "We killed Germans." His was a tragic story of defense lines dug and held and then lost during seven terrible days when his communications platoon of a headquarters company lost all but 14 of its 43 men. But the Pennsylvania sergeant was ready with a note of defiance: "I accounted for six Germans I know of and I hope to hell they are dead," he snapped. Rice's story was almost the same a story of holding as long as they could. He said his GI rifle company was virtually helpless against Tiger tanks.

Those seven days have made Williams look older than his 34 years probably because in all that time he had only one hour of sleep. "When the enemy was contacted on the afternoon of Dec. 17, our division received an order to attack," Williams related. How They Fought. "But the order was unnecessary.

We were already fighting like hell." The Germans, he said, fought like maniacs yelling, screaming, firing small arms mortars, tanks, artillery, grenades, antitank weapons and even flares everything at pointblank range, "We took it and fired back with everything we had," Williams said. "But finally German Infantry, riding on tanks, stormed our command post like a bunch of drunks all hopped up." At midrtight after the first day's fighting, the American units were surrounded. Then came the order to break up into groups of 12 or 15 men and infiltrate to the rear, crawling for what seemed endless miles on their bellies, scaling cliffs and swimming icy rivers. And always fighting off the oncoming Nazis. Tanks Kept Coming.

Rich, 26-year-old former floor manager for the Frank Rich dress-trimming firm in New York City, told of an unsuccessful attempt to form defensive lines to cover the retreat. "We did what we could, but those enemy tanks just kept coming. "When I could sf-c at least 40 enemy tanks in front of us at one time, we withdrew and on came the tanks. "It was cold and really kinda tough." Rich finally reached American-held territory by riding in a tank with three other GIs. He was in another foxhole before Neufchateau when he was told to go to Paris.

"Here I am. but I still can't believe it," he said. Oleo Sales in Iowa Are Almost Double Des Moines OP) Rationing of butter has caused oleomargarine sales to soar from 2,842,932 pounds in 1942, the last year before rationing of butter, to approximately 4,900,000 pounds this year, the state department of agriculture reported Friday. The sales records are reflected by the 5 cents a pound tax on oleo collected by the state, The tax in 1942 totaled $142,146. whereas this year it will total approximately $245,000.

TOO QUIET TURKEYS COST A CAUFORNIAN $2,150 Los Angeles, Cal. -(?) Not an alarm-sounding gobble in a truck-load of turkeys! That's what Helen Goodrich of surburban Van Nuys concluded after thieves in the night trucked away 200 birds. The turkeys, which she valued at $2,150, apparently didn't emit a single squawk. GLENWOOD HEAD UIES. Glenwood.

Ia. (INS) -Dr Thomas B. Lacey, 64, superintendent of the Glenwood state school for the feeble-minded, died early Friday at his apartment at the school. DE WITT GARAGE BURNS. De Witt, la.

(U.R) -Damage was estimated Friday at $50,000 in a fire which destroyed 20 automobiles and partially destroyed the Hi-Way Motor here Thursday. henceforth may have to be cooked Eisenhwer were given a dep-in pressure cookers to make it uty to direct all land battles. artillery units wiped out an entire Nazi panzer regiment numbering perhaps 3.000 men that had been encircled Just east of Celles. Tho Germans at Celles had made their deepest announced penetration of the First army cen- ter, coming within four miles of the Meuse river fortress of Dl-nant Headquarters announced that the regiment lost practically all its ar mo. and transport.

More than 1,000 Nazis surrendered and most of the others were believed to have been killed. The enemy spearhead was trapped when it mechanized units ran out of gasoline because of the terrific Allied aerial bombardment of supply roads, Burlington Names New Police Chief Burlington. Ia. (U.R) Joseph Baird has been appointed chief oi police of Burlington, effective Jan. 1, the Burlington city council announced Friday.

Baird, present assistant chief, will succeed Fred Macholz who Is retiring following 22 years on the force. H. B. Eland, desk sergeant, was appointed assistant chief of police by the council. FORMER SHELL ROCK MAN DIES THURSDAY (Courier Special Service) Shell Rock.

Ia. Newton Zeek, about 73, former plumber and business at Shell Rock, died Thursday afternoon at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George Goeman, Spring Valley, where he and his wife had gone last November to spend the winter. The couple came to Shell Rock about 30 years ago and he was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge here.

He leaves, besides his wife and daughter, two sons, Howard Zeek, Spring Valley, Minn, and Harold Zeek, at Cresco, and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Spring Valley Methodist church. SALESMEN PITCH IN, WORK FOR THEIR FOOD Lamed, Kan.

VP) Two salesmen walked into Mrs, R. O. Chances restaurant and asked for food. "Sorry," she said, "the help's all gone and the kitchen is full of dirty dishes. I don't know when I'll catch up." The salesmen went to the kitchen, peeled off their coats and washed the dishes.

Then they returned to the counter and ordered dinner. This time they got it NAZIS DROP DUMMIES TO DECEIVE OBSERVERS With American Troops in Belgium VP) The Nazis are dropping dummy parachutists in American front lines simultaneously with real German parachute troops, apparently to deceive observers as to the strength of their landing forces. 'They make souvenirs," a soldier commented. PLAN CORN STOCKPILE, Washington. D.

VP) The war food administration is making plans to purchase and stockpile 50,000,000 bushels of corn for use of industrial processors making war materials in the event of a corn shortage next year. DEATHS MRS. RICHARD A. ERDMAN. Mrs.

Richard A. Erdman, 56. of 1016 Bluff street. Cedar Falls, resident of Waterloo and Black Hawk county most of her life, died at 6 p. m.

Thursday at her home, following a stroke of paralysis. Born Apr. 28, 1888, in Waterloo. Alice M. Gushard, the daughter oi Samuel and Hanna Gushard, was married at Clarion, in 1923 to Richard A.

Erdman. Surviving are the husband; her mother, Mrs. Hanna Gushard, Garden avenue; two brothers, Henry Gushard, 'Ottumwa, Ia William Gushard, Garden avenue; and three sisters, Mrs. Ida Noss, 836 Fowler street, Mrs. Lydia Butler, Elk Run, and Mrs.

Rose Har-baugh, Garden avenue. The body was taken to Kearns Garden chapel here. MRS. ROBERT F. BARR, Mrs.

Robert F. Barr, 56, of 605 Harwood avenue, died at 6 a. m. Friday in St. Francis hospital, where she had been taken Wednesday.

Death was caused by carcinoma and complications. Born July 23, 1889, at Red Wing. Judith Olesen, the daughter of Olaf and Sophie Olesen, was married at Rockwell City, to Robert F. Barr. Surviving are the husband; one son, Albert, serving in the army overseas; one daughter, Lois, at home; two brothers and three sisters.

The body was taken to the Par-rott Wood funeral home. DR. W. B. SANDFOKD.

Dr. W. B. Sandford, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church here fiom 1905 to 1915, died Wednesday at his home Melbourne. according to word received here Fridoy.

He was in his lit 70's. incendiaries on rail traffic in the. Bingen-Frankfurt Aschaffenburg triangle. Soviet Drive Now 90 Miles From Vienna (Continued) dapest to win time for the defense of Austria. Twelve more of the capital's eastern suburbs fell to Malinovsky's forces Thursday In a general advance that overran the first of three defense belts guarding Pest, the eastern half of the city.

Capture Suburbs. The Russians hammered out gains of one to four miles and captured Dunakeszi, Alag, Arpad-telep, Rakosliget, and Pestszentlo-rinc among other suburban centers bordering Pest. At Pestszentlorinc, Malinovsky's troops were within six miles of a junction with Third army forces across the river in Buda which last night were reported battling for the western end of the Vasuti railway bridge. Berlin said fierce fighting was ln progress around the bridge approaches and that Russian guns and planes were pouring a terrible fire into the center of the city. Moscow also intimated that Tol-bukhin's siege guns were supporting the tank and infantry formations in the final hours of the battle.

No new gains in the street fighting were claimed ln the So-viet communique, and front dispatches described the city as a ring of smoke and flames. Battle in Hills. Heavy fighting also was continuing in the Pilis hills northwest of the capital, where thousands of cornered Axis troops were being cut to pieces by Russian guns and infantrymen. Thursday the Soviets took one of the enemy's main resistance centers inside the pocket at Pilis-szentkereszt, capturing 500 Hungarians the sole survivors of a full division entrenched there. German Planes Bomb Hospital in N.

E. Fiance With U. S. Seventh Army, Western Front (U.R) Two German planes bombed and strafed an American general hospital in northeastern France Tuesday, kill ing one civilian worker and wounding a number of patients and military personnel, a communique announced Friday. The 23rd general hospital at Mirecourt, at least 40 miles behind the battlefront, was marked plain ly with large, brilliant red crosses painted on the buildings by the Germans themselves when they used the plant for a hospital.

Among the wounded were patients awaiting surgery, the announcement of the attack said. U. S. Will Act in Free Austria Washington, L. C.

lP) The United States Friday moved toward sharing with Russia and Britain the political control of a liberated Austria. Secretary of rl3te Stettinius announced that John G. Erhardt had been designated "political adviser on Austrian affairs to the commanding goneral, United States army forces, Mediterranean theater of operations." This was the first disclosure that th ranking American general in Italy, Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, had a direct concern with Austria.

The significance of this disclosure was not immediately amplified in official quarters, however. Sioux City Merchant Jules Martin Dead Sioux City, Ia. MP) Jules T. Martin, 55, president of the T. S.

Martin Co. department store and director of the Security National bank, died early Friday at a local hospital, following a relapse brought on by a respiratory disease of long standing. Armstrong Is Made Stettinius' Adviser Washington, D. VP) Secretary Stettinius announced Friday the appointment of Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of the publication Foreign Affairs, as a special adviser to the secretary of state. His first assignment, Stettinius said, will be to advise "on international political questions," FINDSlf" LETDPIPE CINCH TO GET CICARETS Portland.

Ore VP A customer took literally the advice to "use a pipe 'during the cigaret shortage." When John R. Polioudakis told a customer he had no cigarets, I the man produced a pipe. Now Polioudakis is In the hospital with a 3-inch head laceration, It was a lead pipe. i British suggestion that a deputy to Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower be appointed to relieve him of command of land forces was vigor- official position expressed them selves freely and forcefully in opposition to the idea of splitting up Eisenhower's command. They insisted on speaking as individuals, however. The war department maintained discreet silence, and department spokesmen declined to comment officially on the proposal, which appeared as one voice in the London press. These proposals suggested that the recent reversals on the west em iront might have been avoided News Makes Point. Most emphatic was the London Evening News, whose military Gen.

Sir Doug las Brownrigg said: "It is absolutely necessary for an executive commander to be appointed over all land forces in western Europe leaving General Eisenhower free for his multifarious other duties." Ex-Soldier Held for Hollywood Bathtub Murder San Francisco, Cal. (U.R) John Lehman Sumptcr, 22-year-old ex-soldier from Cuthbert, Ga was held here Thursday for Los Angeles police after walking into the local office of the federal bureau the murder of pretty New York Heiress Georgette Bauerdorf last Oct. 12. Nat J. L.

Pieper, special agent of the FBI, said Sumpter had confessed to the slaying of Miss Bauerdorf, whose strangled body was found in the bathtub of her Hollywood apartment. Sumpter walked into the FBI office, showed agents a photograph of the murdered heiress and "stated he murdered her but was unable to give the date of the occurrence," Pieper said. Third Doctor Backs Chaplin Los Angeles, Cal. Mv-The jury in the Charlie Chaplin paternity trial Friday heard a third doctor testify that blood tests proved the movie man could not be the father of Carol Ann Barry. Dr.

Vernon L. Andrews was one of three physicians who grouped samples of the blood of Chaplin, Joan Barry, who is suing to have him declared the baby's father, and the baby. His testimony was virtually a carbon copy of that of his associates who took the tests last February The trio's report then W3S placed in evidence. Elms Apartments Sold for $19,000 Sale of the Elms apartment building, 933-35 West Third street by Mrs. Minnie J.

Miller widow of Robert D. Miller, to Mr and Mrs. Arnold D. pvle. of Ounrlv county, was revealed in a deed filed Friday in the county record- ers office.

Purchase price was $19,000. The building consists of 17 apartments. edible. The ceiling is a huge injustice, in view of the doubling of labor costs, rise ln hay prices from $8 to $18 a ton and corn moving up twice recently." Madigan said the proposed changes in the price ceiling program on live cattle would deal a "body blow to the illicit trade in meat" and that "the changes will not cause a sharp rollback in fat cattle prices," because the proposal is for an overall ceiling on beef and not a ceiling by grades. Organized Here, Women Protest OPA's Controls District OPA officials at Des Moines disclosed Friday afternoon to the Courier that a group of Waterloo women, organized as the "Housewives Food Control" group, had written a lengthy protest of rationing and food control efforts, fcautring a declaration: "We've been fooled once too often." The group, with its reported 63 members unnamed in the letter, declared they had read of the government's disposal of surplus eggs and then been forced to pay high prices for eggs here this winter.

The letter Friday said the group would organize further, with a captain for1 each 10 women joining the movement. As a protest move, the 2rouD has pledged not to buy anything not absolutely needed until Christmas. Cedar Falls Man Fined $300 Here as Drunk Driver Archie Jacob Moser, 45, 816 Walnut street, Cedar Falls, was fined $300 and costs and had his driver's license revoked for 60 days when he pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated when arraigned before District Judge William T. Evans here Friday. Upon payment of $150.

the balance of the fine was suspended. In the event the fine is not paid. Moscr was sentenced to serve 45 days in Black Hawk county jail. Moser was arrested Dec. 22 in Cedar Falls by city police there.

He was represented by Roland Mcrner. James S. Newman, assistant county attorney, prosecuted. RUTH HANNA SIMMS ILL. Chicago The condition of Mrs.

Ruth Hanna Mccormick Simms, Rockfnrd, 111., newspaper publisher and Republican leader, was reported "slightly worse" Friday at Billings Memorial hospital Mrs. Simrm recently underwent an operation for pancreatitis. NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS Since the organization of this bank, we have endeavored io conduct its business in $uch a way as to reflect credit on the institution, the directors, the per sonnel and the community. We pledge ourselves lo continue lhis policy. i-l nrl-sininji II Inl BUY, fopi fs cccpprrpn fciLLCociirrr LIT-! i Cti-KJU.