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OFFICIAL STATE NEWSPAPER OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER Tour Journal Carriers have sold 828,641 U. S. War Stamps Since January 10 Weather ouamal scons Much cooler tonight. Continued cool Thursday forenoon with minimum about 58. mm mmm, mm0 twspaper VOL.

125, NO. 103 104th Year THIS PAPER CONSISTS OP TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE Price Five Cents MADISON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1943 20 3 -I UUJLilJ The Wi (r'O Ms Yanks Finger Si cilian Soil 17 mm ComisAugustaFall; Yanks Push Ahead, Smash 10 Nazi Tanks By VIRGIL PINKLEY (United Press Staff Correspondent) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North American forces, supported by United States warship bombardments, smashed forward 6 to 10 miles in south Sicily and captured the important Axis base at Comiso today while British assault troops pressed up the eastern coast toward shell-pitted Catania. Axis resistance appeared to be stiffening but the Americans under Lieut Gen. George S. Patton, hammered their way into Naro, Talma, and Ponte Olivo following a junction WFA Cuts Quota of Canned Foods Civilians to Have Less WASHINGTON (LP) The War Food Administration announced today that in the next 12 months civilians will have to get along with 37 per cent less canned fruits and juices and 21 per cent less canned vegetables than in 1942.

The WFA tempered the news in the canned vegetable department by estimating that the anticipated supply for civilians will be 4 per cent greater than average annual consumption in the 1935-39 period. Under the allocation program for the year started July 1, the WFA said, civilians will receive nearly 70 per cent of the prospective supply of canned vegetables including baked beans and baby foods but only 53 per cent of canned fruits and juices. Explaining that because of their "relative non-perishability and ease in storing and shipping" canned foods are in great military demand, the WFA said that "this necessitates greater use by civilians of home-canned foods and the fresh products." A total prospective production of 262,000,000 cases of canned vegetables will be divided 70 per cent for civilians, 26 per cent for military and war services, 1.2 per cent for the country's allies, and the rest for other exports including Red Cross and foreign relief and contingency reserves. The estimated total of 61,000 cases of canned fruits and juices not counting citrus will be divided 53 per cent for civilians, 40 per cent for military and war services, less than one-half of 1 per cent for the Allies, and the IS Board Rejects Klode Proposal Won't Use Convicts to Fill State Jobs Continued discord between Public Welfare Director Frank Klode and at least two members of the public welfare board that forms the policies for his department was apparent Tuesday as Klode's suggestion that convicts be paroled to fill job vacancies at state institutions for the feebleminded fell on unreceptive ears. The new flare of tempers came as Klode and board members met with Dr.

C. C. Atherton, superintendent of the Southern Colony and Training School at Union Grove, to find some method of filling the 58 vacancies among the 176 jobs at the institution. Ordert Three Hired Klode finally ordered Atherton to hire three new field workers to supervise and assist patients who can be released from the institution. Atherton explained that "a considerable number" of patients could be released if they were given proper supervisory care.

Klode tangled twice with board members, once with Dr. Esther de Weerdt, Beloit, and once with Mrs. Lydia Wallis Pettit, both appointees of Gov. Goodland. Once, when Board Chairman Merman KloDDman.

Crivitz. com City Bus Traffic Up 601,533 in June A total of 601,533 more passenger rides during June than in the same month in 1942, was shown today in the monthly report of the Madison Bus Co. to the public service commission. Passenger revenue increased $30,077, from $45,201.62 a year ago to $75,278.35 last month. The, number of revenue passengers carried totaled 1,505,567, an average of more than 50,000 a day.

In June, 1942, the company reported 904,034 passengers carried. Buses traveled 259,255 miles last month, compared with 201,629 miles the preceding June. Bollenbeck Pay Still Unchanged Defense Corps Chief Hits Journal Editorial In a three-hour meeting blistering with strife, the Dane county civilian defense council Tuesday night regretfully watched its dirty linen washed in public, heard several versions of its history, but did nothing on the question of whether it would pay $300 monthly to Joseph Bollenbeck, commander of. the defense corps, and an unnamed assistant director of A couple of Yanks pick up some Italian soil and let it run through their fingers shortly after' they landed on the shores of Sicily. These men and other Allied troops are now pushing inland on the.

strategic island at many points. Signal Corps radiophoto. Yankees, RAF Bomb Paris Area Allies Resume Day-Night Raids LONDON (IP) Powerful formations of Flying Fortresses teamed with British light bombers today in a three-pronged assault on German air factories and installations on the outskirts of Paris and in the Amiens area. Eight bombers and four fighters were lost in the broadside bombardment of the famous Le Bourget airdrome and Villacoublay in the suburbs of Paris and the Amiens-Glisy airfield. The day raids, putting the resumed offensive against Europe back on a non-stop basis, followed a Royal, Air Force bombardment Tuesday night of the German industrial and railway center Of Aachen.

The four-motored American bombers went through stiff fer-man fighter opposition, particularly in the Paris area. Fortress gunners shot down more than 45 German fighters, incomplete reporti indicated. RAF bombers attacked German airfields at Abbeville and Tric-queville in concert with the United States raids. A joint British-American com-muniue said the targets were repair and assembly plants at Villacoublay, an aircraft factory and parking ground at Le Bourget, and the airdrome at Amiens-Glisy in northwest France. "Bombing restdts were good at all three targets," the communi-ue said.

(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Light Storm Ends Heat, Cooler Today HOURLY TUESDAY Noon 1 p. m. TEMPERATURES TODAY Its 1 a. 78 90 2 p. 75 90 3 a.

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69 82 10 a. 71 80 11 a. 72 78 Noon 74 77 1 p. 75 2 p. 76 Rebellion Sets Record in State Lawmakers Ignore Governor's Advice BULLETIN The assembly by a 52 to 42 vote late today refused to override Gov.

Goodland's veto of the income tax secrecy bill. (See "Cry for Vengeance," an editorial, Page 6.) "With a noisy and arrogant disregard of the "tolerant consideration" asked, by Gov. Goodland, the Wisconsin legislature, in sessions late Tuesday and today, overrode 17 of Goodland's vetoes in an unprecedented display of anger at the executive office Wisconsin's lawmakers thus ran to a total of 19 they had overriden two Goodland vetoes earlier this session the number of measures that they have passed over the governor's protest. It is a record-shattering performance. Goodland during the 1943 session has vetoed a total of 31 proposals, a mark surpassed by governors in 1935, 1929, and 1931.

But only 15 gubernatorial vetoes had been overridden by Wisconsin legislatures since 1848, when Wisconsin became a state, until the -1943 lawmakers vented their wrath on the 80-year-old Good-land. Only once did the GOP legislative majority stumble, and that was caused by a half-inch of fish. The assembly, by a 79 to count, overrode Goodland's veto of a bill which allows the taking of IVi inch perch in Green Bay rather than the 8 inch size limit ordered by the conservation commission. But the senate refused to overrule the commission, and the bill died in the senate, 17 to 11. New Vacation Agreed Before recessing until 1:30 p.

m. today, both houses of the legislature agreed to take another "vacation," returning to the capitol Aug. 3 to make certain that any future gubernatorial vetoes can "be taken care of." The recess plan was forwarded by Republicans who wanted to make certain that Gov. Goodland accomplished no vetoes after the lawmakers returned to their homes. But one block of assemblymen favor the recess over the special session proposed by Good-land to raise more money for postwar rehabilitation because a special session would give the chief executive control of bills that could be introduced.

Only Assemblyman William R. Foley (P-Superior) and Lyall T. Beggs (P-Madison) protested at the plan to recess until Aug. 3, with Foley denouncing it as "a waste of the taxpayers money." New Veto Arrives' The cleavage between the legislature and the executive office became even more pronounced today as Goodland, in a brief message, vetoed another minor assembly bill and returned it to the lower house. The measure changes procedure for filing vital statistics with state authorities.

But it seemed impossible that anything Goodland did could make his relations with the lawmakers any worse. His vetoes of about 20 of the legislators' pet proposals (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) War's Horrors yard been destroyed" and "is my brother, Tony, all right?" The horrors of war seem very close to these Madison Sicilian-born citizens who realize that their one-time home cities perhaps are being shelled and bombed. Lived Near Palmero There are men and women like Anthony Schiavo, 533 Regent who has three brothers and two sisters, and numerous other relatives in Sicily from whom he has not received a word for three years. Before coming to America in 1912, "Tony" lived just outside Palermo, capital city of Sicily, where he delivered fresh milk, not in bottles, but fresh from his cow which he brought into the city each day. He served with American forces in World War and returned to visit his home in Sicily in 1928.

with the Canadians at Cap tured Ragusa, and were re ported about 30 miles inland at some points. The Americans knocked out 10 Nazi tanks in repulsing counter-attacks by Italians and by the Hermann Goering division northwest and northeast of Gela. The American advance from Licata through Palma and to Naro covered about 20 airline miles and put the Allies within 10 or 12 miles of the important Axis base at Afrigento. This gain at the western end of the front, gave the Americans command of roads running north to Canicatti. The capture of Ponte Olivo, near Gela, was believed to" have been designed to eliminate the immediate threat of strong Axis coiunter blows in that sector.

The capture of Naro and Comiso was believed to have greatly improved the American position in the south, where the hardest fighting so far has centered around Gela. The Americans were thrown back but rallied to advance against Italian and German attacks. Their latest gains consolidated their grip, on the mountain roads and provided bases for thrusts north from the Comiso-Ragusa area. On the east coast, where Allied warships and air squadrons battered Catania airport, the British had not yet reported big scale enemy counter-attacks. It was said there was no fighting in or immediately around Catania, which has not been captured by the Allies.

The town of Mellili also was reported still in Axis hands, although it was by passed by the British coastal forces that captured the big naval base at Augusta early this morning. Catania airport was shelled from the sea and smothered by many tons of aerial bombs, according to today's communique, which said that disembarkation operations which previously had been unofficially reported near Catania "proceeded smoothly." The points of disembarkation were not given in the communique. While American warships smashed Axis tank columns and airfields on the south coast of Sicily, the British and Canadian drive tip the east coast toward Catania smashed an entire Italian division and boosted the estimated number of prisoners to 8,000, mostly Italians. (Axis broadcasts reported that big battles were developing in the mountains south of Catania, indicating that the Germans and Italians were making their most important stand so far.) Late reports said that the British had occupied Priolo in connection with the capture of Augusta. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) War Moves on Ser I TV the service corps.

Bollenbeck, chafing to deliver a 10-page answer to a State Journal editorial warning of politics entering the defense setup and opposing the $300 salaries, was restrained with some effort by Chairman Frank A. Stewart for the last and feature attraction of the night. As it turned out, Bol-lenbeck's 38-minute answer was at least three speeches from the "finis" curtain. There were no curtain calls as the perspiring meeting broke up and its members filed out of the courthouse. Before that, the council: ONE.

Refused to accept the resignation of Dr. C. Vingom, service corps director, but appointed Coroner Edward A. Fischer, former defense commander as his alternate. TWO.

Accepted the resignation of Grover C. Neff, council member, and heard Stewart's appointment of Edward R. Felber, vice-president of the Madison Gas and Electric to succeed him. Neff is president of the Wisconsin Power and Light Co. THREE.

Accepted Bollenbeck's report that Dr. J. S. Supernaw had resigned as chief of the emergency medical service and his appointment of Dr. Wendell H.

Marsden to replace him. FOUR. Adopted a report of the council's ration committee approving the Draper school, former site of the Army Institute, as the new home of the Dane county rationing board and offices, and heard Vern G. Zeller, ration head, ask for a $6,250 budget as compared with a $10,000 budget last year. FIVE.

Approved Mrs. Palmer Peters as alternate for Mrs. C. A. Sorenson, council member.

SIX. Approved attendance of council representatives at a state civilian defense conference at Milwaukee July 23-24. SEVEN'. Approved work of University of Wisconsin students in (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) LATEST Rogers Loses Command of Truax Field (State Journal Washington. Bureau,) WASHINGTON Col.

Roscoe C. Wriston, commanding officer at Boca Raton, has been assigned-to take command at Truax Field, Madison, it was learn- COL. OSCAR L. ROGERS ed today. Assignment for Col.

Oscar L. Rogers, commanding officer at Truax Field since its founding, is undetermined. Public relatoins officers at Truax Field had no comment today on the reported assignment of Col. Wriston to succeed Col. Rogers.

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11 p. m. Midnight A light thunderstorm accompanied by a trace of Tain broke Madison's three-day heat wave early today after the mercury had climbed to 91 at 1:30 p. Tuesday. Thermometers registered a comfortable 74 at noon today, 14 degrees cooler than the same hour Tuesday, and Eric R.

Miller, federal meteorologist, promised much cooler weather tonight and Thursday forenoon. The mercury is expected to drop to 58. While North hall thermometers registered a high of 91. Tuesday, the mercury soared to 97 at the airport weather bureau at Truax Field. It was hotter at the airport than in any section of the United States except the arid southwest, Miller reported.

The warmest day ever recorded at the North hall weather bureau occurred seven years ago today, July 14, 1936, when residents sweltered in a 107-degree reading. Relief came to the city today after a 3 a. m. storm, meteorologists said. The mean temperature Tuesday was 82, 10 degrees warmer than normal and 2 degrees warmer than Monday.

Martinique Joins United Nations Roosevelt Pledges Freedom for France WASHINGTON U.R)- Bastille day brought to millions of Frenchmen today a promise from Pres. Roosevelt of "the freedom of tomorrow," coincident with a transfer of French colonial authority which brought the strategic Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe into the United Nations. The French possessions, for the last three years potential danger spots to American security, were won over in a bloodless victory when Admiral Georges Robert, Vichyite high commander relinquished his command to the pro-Allied administration of Henri Etienne Hoppenot. American relief ships are being dispatched to Martinique and the state department is reopening diplomatic relations by returning its consul general, Marcel E. Ma- lige, to Forte de France.

Four French warships, including the aircraft carrier Beam, and 11 merchantmen and tankers will go into the service of the United Nations as soon ay they can be puf into commission. Soverelfnty Assured Pres. Roosevelt's promise of freedom to Frenchmen was made in a statement commemorating Bastille day, anniversary of the winning of liberty by the people of France. He assured the French that their own sovereignty resided with them, a statement interpreted as an indication that the United States will not help to impose a government on Frenchmen. "One of our war aims, as set forth in the Atlantic charter," said Pres.

Roosevelt, "is to restore the mastery of their destinies to the peoples now under the invaders' yoke. There must be no doubt, anywhere, of the unalterable determination of the United Nations to (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Death Car Driver Given Sentence Gerhard Christopherson, 37, Route 1, driver of a car which struck and fatally injured William Berger, 17, of 803 E. Mifflin July 7, was sentenced today by Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to 1-2 years in Waupun state prison. Christopherson was a rged with negligent homicide when tests- revealed that he was under the influence of liquor when his car struck the youth's bicycle in the 2700 block of E.

Washington ave. Dist. Atty. Norris E. Maloney recommended incarceration for Christopherson, and Proctor concurred.

Feature Finder State Newt Rlondie 13 Bridge 14 Calendar 13 Clapper 6 Notes for You Obituaries 4 Pa look a 15 Peeler 6 Radio 15 Records ...13 Roundy 16 Scrapbook 15 Society 12 Sports 16-17 Stocks 18 Uncle Rav 15 Weather Table .8 Winchell 6 Women's Pace 14 Clendeninr 14! Comics .........15 Crane 14 Dan Dunn Editorials Grin Rear It Hospital Notes Kain l.aff A Day .61 Markets 18 plained about the "continued discord," Dr. deWeerdt predicted that "this will all be straightened out as soon as we get a competent director." "I will be the director as long as the governor wants me," Klode retorted, but Mrs. Pettit pointed out that "that's a matter that by law is settled by the board." Says He Always Lacks Funds Atherton complained at one point that he had never had enough money to hire case workers to supervise released patients, and Klode demanded if Atherton "had ever asked for anything he didn't get." "That isn't fair," Mrs. Pettit interjected. "You're putting Dr.

Atherton in an embarrassing position." Oh I won't even bother to answer you," Klode replied. "That's quite satisfactory," Mrs. Pettit snapped. Neither Atherton, board members, nor Dr. W.

J. Urban, director of the division of mental hygiene, thought much of Klode's (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) INDEX TO Hen Laws of Wisconsin Chapter 40J To create B5.45 (2) (bmi, 85 47 (lm), (2m) and 4m and 85 475 of th statutes, relating to the weight limitation of certain motor ve- h'thptrr $12 To repeat 215.07 18) and 215 51 and to amend 215 01 (15), 215 07 (. 215 215.15. 215.21. 215.26 (2) and 215 312 (2) (introductory paragraph) el the statute, relating to bunding and loan aoi-UHons.

Chapter 511 To renumber chapter X3. laws of 1933 (72.75 statutes of 1941) fection 4. til (ci to be section 4. (1) id of said chapter; to create chapter 363. laws of 1933 (72.75 statutes of 1941) section 4.

(1) (c) and to create 232.495 of the statutes, relating to the release of powers of appointment. Chapter 514 To amend 315 08 and 318 06 3) and to create 313 15 (6) of the statutes, relating to allowances to minor children and conclusiveness of certificates of descent and judgment as evidence. Chapter 515 To reconcile the conflict between chapter 375 (Bill No. 347-SI. law of 1043, relating to administrative procedure and judicial review, and chapter 401 (Bill No.

416-A), laws of relating to the department of agriculture, and the conflict between said chapter and other acts of the same session, relating to those subjects, and to make clear the legislative intent. Chapter 51 To repeal 215.07 (12). 215.115. 215.134, and 215.51; and to amend 215 07 1) and (6). 215.08 (2), 215(.

215.11. 215114 (1). 215 13. 215 15, 2151:6 (1) and (2). 215.272.

215.331 (1). 21550 (10) and 215.52 111 (bl of the ttatute. relating to building and loan association. Chapter 517 To amend 197.04 (1) of the statutes, relating to discontinuance ol condemnation. Chapter 5m To create 215 31 (13) (c) and id i of the staulc.

relating to taking posnession ot the buslnenn of building and loan axuociationa by the banking commission. Chapter 419 To amend 14 71 (lm) and 16 105 (2) and to create 16 105 (2) (c) and of the statufes. relating to intermediate step increases in salary ranges. Chapter 520 To create of the statutes, relating to bonds and undertakings upon which individuals are sureties. Chapter 521 To repeal 85 08 (9), (c and 127) (a) and (bl; to repeal and recreate 85.08 25c).

and to amend 85.08 5. 16) (a). (9) (b), (16), (20) (c). (24) and id). (27) (Introductory paragraph) and (33) of the statutes, relating to motor vehicle operators' licenses.

Chapter 522 To amend 49.26 (4) of the statutes, relating to liens on real property created by grants of old-age assistance, the collection of such liens or claims and claims for certain other public aid rendered and the compromise thereof. (Text on Pate 10) Dr. Musser Wins Divorce; Record Secret The official court record was ordered" impounded and the public barred by Circuit Judge A. C. lloppmann today when he granted, a divorce to Dr.

Marc J. Musser, 33, former Madison physician, now a commissioned officer in New Guinea, from his wife, Sara 28, 2126 Chadbourne ave- The divorce was granted on grounds of cruel and inhuman, treatment, and Hoppman awarded custody of two children, 7 and 9 years old, to Musser. They will live with Musser's parents. The couple was married in Paris, 111., on Sept. 2, 1933.

entered military service Jan. 21, 1941. This Map ANZAtO ALUCO INVASION POINTS AXIS All IIlOJ tAlltOAOS Sicilians Here Watch 05ftomboli i If fjfL nthttar- filicwn nJPanf 7 C3 Soling -NCOTTA MKvU Qipm. -J UAVf GIOVANNI EE ucat r.ftVV Ajf'Cs' rTj i -y 04iCjptTZi SICILY Invasion Come Close And Mrs. Theodore Parstore, 818 Regent who came to this country from Piana dei Greci, a small mountain city south of Palermo, couldn't keep the tears from swelling in her eyes as she wished for the end of Mussolini's regime, but hoped that destruction would not be too great on the rich Sicilian soil where the "wheat grows almost 6 feet high and plants even seem to grow if you plant them on rocks." The Para-tore's son, Victor, is serving with the American army in Australia.

Then, besides scores of other Sicilian-American residents of Madison, there is Benedetto Di-Salvo, 802 Regent who before coming to America and being natualized in 1920, served 38 months with the Italian Bersag- Continued on Page 2, Column 5) 1 By JUNE DIECKMANN (State Journal Staff Writer) With all eyes turned to the Allied invasion of sunny little Sicily, Madison's own Sicilian -born Americans in Columbus park intently watch the war news with more anxiety than ordinary read ers. Many of them beam with pride and worry, of course about their sons who are serving overseas with the American forces. Perhaps their own men are marching on the land of their forefath ers, the same land where their brothers and sisters still live. Their thoughts of their former island homeland now war-torn. are almost undescribable, as if that little Wisconsin farm or small lake shore city where you were born was in the center of the fierce fighting.

Their eyes are sad as they wonder over heart-piercing questions "Is the tiny wayside shrine to the Virgin Mary near Gela un harmed?" Or "Has Capino's vine V7r- i i i Today's Sicilian campaigns show up in this wise, reading the map from left to right: AGRIGENTO area, Americans coming up from LICATA through Palma and Naro now are only 10 to 12 miles from Axis base of Agrigento; GELA area, Americans knock out 10 Nazi Tiger tanks in repelling attacks; RAGUSA area, Americans move west to take Comiso; AUGUSTA, navy-base town falls to Allies; CATANIA, Allied warships, planes bombard airfield as" troops disembark; MESSINA, Allied motor torpedo boats operate in straits between Messina and Italian mainland. Myers 14 Yesterdays 6.