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32 105th Tear A fact-finding Newspaper MADISON, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1944 mm Mete Sorties Average ol Heart Attack Fatal Paul Robinson Heads Dane County Board Truck Drivers, Firm Members, Conciliafor Meet Reds Push Info Romania, Czechoslovakia Death Frees Professor from Phobic Prison 4H, 1 A j-i Ji Ily ROD VAN EVERY (State Journal Staff Writer) Clearing its decks for election of a new chairman as the first order of business this afternoon, the county board in organization session this morning: ONE. Tabled a resolution providing an open roll call on the chairman election, 47-34. (TWO. Tabled a measure abolishing the caudtis system and providing open election of all board offi errs and committer chairmen (the Lit ter by committee), 55-20. THREE.

Killed a motion to hold caucuses in the open, 53-27. FOUR. Killed a resolution providing for the rotation of the county board the Prize Winners MERLE CURTI ERNIE TYLE Merle Curti, Ernie Pyle Win Pulitzer Prizes Merle Curtl, University of Wis consin professor of history, and Ernie Pyle, roving war reporter whoso column appears daily in The Wisconsin Slate Journal, were included among the annual Pulitzer prize recipients announced Monday in New York. The awards included nine in journalism, five in letters, and one in music. Curti was honored for his history, "The Growth of American Thought," published by Harper and Brothers and described by reviewers as a "discussion and union in prose of the exterior aspects of the basic ideas that have distinguished American thinking since America first came into befiig." Pyle's award, carrying a cash prize of $500, was "for distinguished correspondence during the year, the test being for clearness and terseness of style, preference being given to fair, judicious, well-balanced, and well informed interpretive writing, which shall make clear the significance of the subject covered in (continued on page 4, column 1) Mercury Rises to New 44 High Showers and thunderstorms are in store for Madison tonight and Wednesday after Monday's summerlike temperature that reached a season high of 75, federal meteorologists reported today.

A minimum temperature of 48 was forecast for Wedneday morning compared with this morning's low of 57. The five-day extended forecast, announced today, called for temperatures averaging near normal, with colder weather through Wednesday, followed by a rising trend through Saturday. Precipitation, it said, will average moderate to heavy, occurring as showers or thunder storms today and tonight and again Saturday or fc 1, i i ft- h-Mr tr i ir-J I i 4 Xs 200 Per Hour So Far in May Allies Plaster Reich, Belgium, Paris Area, Invasion Coast LONDON (U.R) American warplanes of all types, paced by Liberator heavy bombers, ranged far over Europe today, carrying through the 16th day a record offensive which a U. S. communique now called "the aerial invasion of Germany and enemy occupied territories." The Berlin radio reported a fighter plane penetration of the skies over western Germany, indicating a renewal of widespread offensive aweeps over the conti nent.

After bad weather grounded Al lied planes for a few morning hours, a 400-plane force of Liberators and fighters plastered the bomb-pocked Pas de Calais area of the French invasion coast. No German fighter oppositoin and only light antiaircraft fire was encountered, and all planes returned safely. Bracket Paris Thunderbolt fighter bombers ot the U. S. Ninth air force bracketed Paris with attacks on the rail Junctions of Le Mans and Terg-neir, to the southwest and northeast.

Allied planes were estimated to have flown almost 6,000 sortie3 against western and southern Europe in the first 30 hours of May an average of nearly 200 per hour. Strong forces of British night bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of bombs on seven big German bases in Germany, France, and Belgium by moonlight. In the 30-hour period, about 4,500 sorties were flown from Britain and more than 1,300 by the Mediterranean air forces. German night fighters put up spasmodic resistance against the RAF fleet of almost 1,000 bombers which hit Lyon, Tours, Toulouse, and Chambly in France, Malines and St. Chislain in Belgium, and Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Liberators Set Pace Lieut. Gen. James H. Doolittle set the pace of the daylight assault by sending a striking force cf his four-motored Liberators against German military installations in northern France, on which thousands of tons of explosives have rained in the last 16 days. Attacking along a 350-mile front on the heels of a daylight assault Sunday, the RAF's night-raiding heavyweights dropped several thousand tons of block busters and fire bombs on: France Motor vehicles works at Lyon, aircraft repair works at Tours, aircraft factory and explosive works at Toulouse, and railway stores and equipment at Chambly, north of Paris.

Belgium Railway, yards and facilities at Malines. northeast of Brussels, and St. Ghislain, near Mons. Germany unidentified targets at the industrial city of Ludvsgs-haffen in the upper RhineUnd. Spain to Get Oil, Cut Reich Exports WASHINGTON (U.R) The United States, hinting that the invasion may cut off all exports from Spain to Germany, today lifted its embargo on oil shipments to Spain in return for a Spanish agreement to cut wolfram exports to Germany to 25 per cent of the 1943 total.

The United States had held out for several weeks for a total embargo on wolfram a mineral used for hardening steel but settled for 'the 75 per cent cut "on the urgent request of the British government." The agreement was negotiated by the United States and Great Britain during three months of discussions in Madrid. It also provides for: ONE. Expulsion of "designated Axis agents" from Tangier, the Spanish zone in North Africa, and from the Spanish mainland. TWO. Closing of the Gentian consulate and other Axis agencies in Tangier.

THREE. Reiease of certain Italian merchant ships now interned in Spanish waters. FOUR. Arbitration on the disposition of Italian warships also interned in Spanish waters. The Americans and British also were assured that all Spanish military forces have been withdrawn from the eastern front.

The agreement becomes effec- PROF. W. E. LEONARD Ward Case Goes to Judge He Decision Monday BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (U.PJ J.

Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), today announced that the CIO will back a major organizing -program to sign up all employes of Montgomery War and Co. CHICAGO (U.R) Arguments in the first court skirmish over the federal government's seizure of Montgomery Ward9 and Chicago plants were completed today after counsel for the mail order firm challenged the government's right to take over the business. Judge William H. Holly took the case under advisement andsaid he 1 would make a decision next Monday. In the court action, the government seeks an injunction to prevent the company's officers from interfering with government operation of the plant as stipulated in a temporary restraining order now in force.

At today's court session, Harold Smith, counsel for Montgomery Ward maintained that even in time of war the president "cannot arrogate to himself despotic powers against which free people have been protected since the days of the Magna Carta." In reply, Ally. Gen. Frnmds Middle said that in ordering the seizure for failure to comply with a War Labor board order, Pres. Roosevelt was exercising his powers as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and that there was no question of civil rights or constitutionality involved. Smith told the court that the substance of the government's case was, "that the president has the power to confiscate Ward's pn ate property because of the existence of a national emergency which invests him as commander in chief of the armed forces with an extra ordinary and terrifying power of seizure." He argued that there is no law (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) BULLETIN Supervisor Paul A.

Robinson, Sun Prairie, was elected chairman of the Dane county board on the second ballot late this afternoon. Carl Felton, Town of Madison, was second with 33 votes, followed by Robert Gerry, Madison, 3 and Walter Simon, Monona, 2. Warren Schultz Dies on Bougainville A Kv -5- SGT. WARREN SCHULTZ Sgt. Warren J.

Schultz, 23, was killed in action Mar. 29 whik fighting with the infantry on Bougainville, the war department has informed his parents and wife. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Schultz, Madison; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Jesso Schultz, Route 4, and four brothers. Pvt. Robert, Camp Carson, Pvt. Dale, sTruax Field; Reuben, Park Falls, and Harold, in California. Memorial services will be held at 3 p.

m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran church. Sgt. Schultz had been overseas since May, 1943, and served on New Hebrides and Guadalcanal before being sent to Bougainville. He entered the army in DeeemberV 1942, and had basic training at Camp Wolters, Tex.

Flood Waters Pour Over Fertile Area as Levees Crumble ST. LOUIS (U.R) The Mississippi river dropped slowly here today as levees continued to crumble and let the record flood spread over fertile farmlands where livestock already was suffering from shortage of feed. A levee collapsed Aldrldge, 111., letting the flood waters race across 51,000 acres in the Preston, Clear Creek, East Cape Girardeau, Miller Pond, and North Alexander levee districts. Army engineers prepared to send food by boat to Grand Towers, 111., which they said would be isolated by the swirling flood waters. The muddy current swept through Weir and McClure, 111.

Rain fell in the flood area again today as the crest of the river passed Chester, 111. Partisans Battle in Trieste Area LONDON (U.R) Partisan forces, striking from northwestern Yugoslavia, were reported fighting today in the vicinity of the big Adriatic port of Trieste, while other units slashed the German defenses in Hercegovina and captured Lastva in eastern Yugoslavia. "A communique from headquarters of Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz said his forces attacked the Pos-tumia-Trieste railway line at several points to disrupt communications and briefly mentioned that Partisans were fighting in the neighborhood of Trieste. Fen I re Finder rtlnndip Calendar Child Classified 9 Mver 10 5 Obituaries 4 6 Py le 6 -15 Ration Guide. 16 13 Records 9 10 Round 12 30 Radio 13 10 Society 8 9 State News 7 11 Sports 11-12 14 Comics ClendenlnK Crossword Crane Iav bv Day maftie Editorial Kolleft Rrln Si Rear It In U.

S. Service Kaln Market Scran nook 10 I'ncle Ray 6 Winchell 9 Women's Pa Re 10 Weather Table 12, Yesterdays '3 It Consider Form of Raise Application; Price Hike Possible Committees of the coal and building material concerns and of the Chaffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers' Union, No. 442, were to meet this afternoon with a representative of the U. S. Office of Conciliaton for consideration of their troubles.

The men who failed to report for work Monday are asking for an increase of 10 cents per hour in wages, retroactive to May 1. Joseph H. Kohl, union business agent, said one of the things to be discussed at the conference this afternoon was whether the wage increase should be made retroactive to May 1 or the date the. War Labor board agrees to the proposal. A meeting of the union will be held at Sehenk's hall Wednesday morning when its committee will make its report on the results of today's conference.

After a meeting held today Kohl reported there was no change in the situation. If the application is made for a pay boost the dealers are expected to ask for an increase in coal prices perhaps totalling 25 or 30 cents per ton of coal, dealers say. William II. Martin, representative of the State Coal Dealers who is acting as bargaining agent between the dealers and employes, today issued the following statement: "Employes ot coal, building material, lumber and fuel oil companies, through their tinion, are asking the employers to join with them in making application to the War Labors Board for an increase of 10 cents per hour, payable retroactively as of May 1, 1944. Their reasons are higher living costs, shortage of manpower, and consequently more valuable services.

"Since January, 1941, the dealers have paid wage increase? of 11V4 cents per hour, which is slightly over 15 per tent, out of their own pockets with few slight exceptions, the margins being frozen as of late 1941. Employers have offered to cooperate with their employes on a current basis, providing they can, secure from the OPA proper compensation to take care of the increase in expenses." Unless the trouble is settled soon, dealers declared, coal now on sidings at coal yards may be shipped elsewhre because there is no help available to unload the cars. Dealers in building supplies told The State Journal today that so far the "legal holiday" staged by the members of the union has not interfered with the war effort. The union's bargaining committee members are Tony Littel, Fred Blucher, Drew Rosen, Michael Gugel, Norbert King, and Kohl. Schenley Corp.

Accused of Black Mart Activity WASHINGTON (U.R) The department of justice announced today that Schenley Distillers Corp. of New York and 11 other defendants have been charged with conspiring to deal in a liquor black market involving 15,000 cases of liquor and with falsifying internal revenue reports. Hardwig and his wife maintained that somebody else had been given Richard Allen Hardwig and the Hardwigs had received someone else's little girl. "We love the little girl," Hardwig said, "but we don't feel she is our own." Additionally, the Hardwigs, of Catholic faith, are afraid their "son" might have been given to a non-Catholic family. Their attorneys, S.

S. Haan, W. O. Graff, and Saul Ross, charge the hospital the doctor with negligence, carelessness, and abduction. "Mrs.

Hardwig," the complaint said, "will be forever in doubt as to her true relationship to the baby girl which she now loves, but believes is not her child." Heart Attack Fatal to Famed Author of 'Locomotive God1 By MAT-MOOR TAYLOR (State Journal Staff Writer) Death today freed William El-lery Leonard, University of Wisconsin professor whose genius spanned the continents, from the phobic prison he had occupied for years. Prof. Leonard, scholar, poet, and teacher, died this morning at his home, 433 N. Murray at the age of 68. He had been chained to his self-imposed "prison," a six-block campus district, by fear cf distance induced by a roaring locomotive when he was 2.

The professor died suddenly of a heart attack. Although he had been in failing health for a month, he was able to meet with his class five days ago. Perhaps the best known of Wisconsin professors, Prof. Leonard had taught generations of students, first on the campus and in more recent years at his home. Known to Thousands His flowing Windsor tie and his distinctive grey hair were known to thousands of Madisonians and to large numbers of students who journeyed here to share the far reaches of his mind." For, although he had not left the area around the campus and Lake Mendota since his first wife died in 1911, the eccentric's writings and scholarship spanned distance to gain world renown.

With Prof. Leonard when he died was his present wife, Charlotte Charlton Gill Leonard, whom he married in 1940. He had had two other wives. The body was taken to the Fitch-Lawrence funeral home. Wrote 'Locomotive God Prof.

Leonard had been on the University of Wisconsin faculty 33 years, the last 18 as professor of English. Known for his "human" lectures, he was a poet, playwright, translator, and editor. His best known book, is hi3 autobiography, "The Locomotive God," published in 1927. The poet was born Jan. 25, 1876, at Plainfield, N.

J. He received his bachelor's degree at Boston university, his master's at Harvard in 1R99, and did further ftudy in Germany and at, Columbia university. Prof. Leonard came to the University of Wisconsin campus as an English instructor in 1906 from Lynn, where he had taught high school German and edited Lipincotfs English Dictionary. He berame assistant professor in 1909, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Plane Crash Caused Death of 'Gil' Schultz Gilbert J.

"Gil" Schultz, 42, whose death was reported Monday to his wife at Ft. Lauderdale, and to his mother, Mrs. Louis J. Schultz, 1326 Vilas and other members of his family here, was killed when a navy plane crashed 15 miles east of Flagstaff, last Friday. Eighteen other passengers also lost their lives.

Mr. Schultz was a warrant officer in the Seabees. Mr. Schultz was on his way to Madison to surprise his mother and other members of his family. He was unable to leave his post at Pearl Harbbr when his father died Apr.

12, but wrote his mother that he planned to get leave soon. Besides visiting his family here, he had planned to assist in settling his father's estate. His wife arrived today from Ft. Lauderdale where she has been living with her father since Mr. Schultz entered the service.

The two children remained with their grandfather at Ft. Lauderdale. Mr. Schultz took passage in the plane at Oakland, Calif. The body will arrive in Madison Wednesday and be taken to the Frautschi funeral home.

It is planned to hold Masonic services in the Masonic temple. Mr. Schultz was a pastmaster of Madison lodge No. 5, and also was active in the Madison Consistory and Shrine temple. He also was a member of the Madison Rotary club.

Fight Slowly Across Carpathians, Communique Reveals MOSCOW (U.R) Soviet front dispatches said today that the Rpd army is advancing slowly but steadily In dogged fighting through the Carpathian foothills On a broad front from the Czechoslovak border down into Romania. Field reports of fighting on a considerable scale in the Carpathians were the first Russian accounts of noteworthy land action since Soviet assault forces clamped a siege arc against Sevastopol on Apr. 18. Dispatches said Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov's First army of the Ukraine was pushing the Germans back on the Carpathian front despite the fact that the Germans had moved up fresh reserves, tanks, and self-propelled guns.

The fighting on 4he southern front was marked by frequent German counterthrusts, front re ports said, which generally were blunted so effectively that the Russians were able to forge ahead after dealing with them. The Red air force was reported unusually active over the sector. The Soviet aerial campaign includ ed the softening up of German strong points in the Stanislawow rceion of 3 pre-war Poland and around Brest Litovsk, east of Warsaw, to the next phases of Red army operations. Brest Litovsk, five-way rail junction, was hit Sunday night in the latest of a series of raids apparently foreshadowing a Soviet offensive on the central front. Seventeen fires, four of them particularly large, were started at the strategic junction and a number of military trains loaded with troops, ammunition, and other war supplies wrecked.

The raid was the fourth in as many nights and the 10th in 13 night3 by Soviet bombers. On the ground, the Red army killed nearly 1,000 Germans and knocked out four German tanks in repulsing German attacks southeast of Stanislawow in old, Poland in a day-long battle. Supporting airmen on this front blew up two railway trains and several amunition and fuel dumps. Eighteen German planes were shot down in aerial combat. Soviet troops north of Iasi in northeastern Romania also threw back German attacks, killing 600 of the enemy.

Action Flares Below Rome Fierce Patrol Battles Rage on Whole Front ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Na pies (U.R) Fierce patrol fight ing broke out all along the main battlefronts below Rome Monday, a communique reported today, while Allied bombers maintained their day and night offensive against enemy supply ports and rail lines in central and northern Italy. German skirmishers cut into the Fifth army forward positions on the Anzio beachhead 3 miles southwest of Aprilia, and forced a slight Allied withdrawal, while Allied combat patrols were attack ing the right flank of the beach head. One Fifth army imit launched an attack on Cerreto although with undisclosed results, and another raiding party probed the German lines 2 miles west of Littoria, withdrawing without casualties after a brief fight. A formation of 12 to 15 German planes attempted a raid on Anzio harbor Sunday night, but the raiders were forced to jettison their bombs before reaching the port area. At least four and probably six enemy planes were shot down by Fifth army antiaircraft gun ners.

On the main Fifth army front to the south, Allied troops im proved their positions along the lower Garigliano river, near Tie monsuoli. Allied and German ar tillery and mortar batteries traded heavy fire in the Cassino sector, although there were no reports of new ground action in that area. county's three assembly districts, 48-32. FIVE. Limited the number of successive years any one man can serve as chairman to two (formerly it was five).

SIX. Abolished the traffic committee, which allegedly has been operating illegally, and "automatically" placed supervision of the traffic1'' department in the highway committee. Some supervisors foresaw a seri. ous board deadlock in the chairman election this afternoon between candidates Carl Felton, town of Madison, and Paul A. Robinson, Sun Prairie.

fe Little hope was seen for the successful candidacy of Robert II. Gerry, Madison. Others whose names are expected to be submitted in nomination are Walter Simon, and "Carl Fries, Mazomnnie. Simon's candidacy was building up strength, and he was seen as a possible compromise candidate if the TRobinson-Felton deadlock can't be broken. Today's board meeting' was opened by Frank A.

Stewart, chairman for 15 years, who was defeated for reelection. Although he technically was not a member of the county board today, Stewart held the chair for reading and correction of minutes and election of George A. Solsrud, Madison, as temporary chairman. Machine 'in Good Order In his farewell address, Stewart said: "I still have that machine (the famed Stewart political machine) in good order. Do I hear any bids on it?" In his goodby, Stewart continued: "There is safety in numbers, and as long as Dane county has a large county board, the taxpayers are safe from the pressure groups.

"No member of the present board or any other board over Avhich I presided was offered preference on committee appointments, although I've read that often enough in the newspapers." Later Lancelot A. Gordon, Madison, noted that the secret election of chairman affected committee appointments. Thanked for Work Stewart walked to the sidelines amid heavy applause, and later re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) U. S. Subs Sink Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyers BULLETIN WASHINGTON (U.R) Army bombers dropped 95 tons of bombs on Wake island Sunday, encountering only moderate anti-aircraft fire, the navy announced today.

(By United Press) U. S. submarines, continuing their heavy strikes against Japanese shipping, have sunk two more destroyers, a light cruiser, and nine non-combatant vessels, the navy announced today. The nine bther vessels sunk by U. S.

undersea craft in Pacific and Far Eastern waters were one large naval auxiliary, one large tanker, two medium-sized cargo transports, and five medium-sized cargo ships. These latest sinkings bring the total of Japanese vessels hit by our submarines to 695, of which 544 have been sunk, 36 probably sunk, and 115 damaged. Of these, 45 Japanese combatant ships have been sunk, 10 probably sunk, and 14 damaged, for a total of 60. Confined entirely to submarine actions, the communique made no reference to a two-day attack on the Japanese naval bastion of Truk reported by the Tokio radio. That station reported carrier- continued on Pace, 2 Column 2) Infant 'Son' Proves to Be Girl; ParentsSuefor $500,000 LOS ANGELES (U.R) Mr.

and Mrs. Harry James Hardwig went to court today asking a half-million dollars for the shock of discovering that their six-day old son was a girl. The birth certificate said Richard Allen Hardwig; the stamp on Richard's arm said "male;" attendants at South Hotfves? Street hospital congratulated the parents on their fine son; Dr. J. M.

Andrews attended the birth and signed the certificate. But when they got Richard Allen home, they discovered that all those blue booties and things should have been pink. Hardwig rushed to the hospital, he said. They told him there must have been a mistake. He agreed.

The hospital maintained the mistake had been in the registering. Hein May Be Roads Commissioner E. C. Hein, office manager of the county highway department, was seen today by John M. Blaska, chairman of the county highway committee, as the next highway commisioner.

The resignation of Commi ssioner Odin J. Hanson was to be presented to the board today, effective June 1. I (Continued oa Page 2, Coiuxna 1).