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luakemp MPITAL Tm HOME EDITION 30,354 WEATHER Fair and much colder this after noon and tonight, with a cold wave. Lowest temperature 5 to 12 degrees above aero. Net Faid Circulation Yesterday The largest net paid dally circulation of anv newspaper In Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee Associated Press' Telephotos TiEA Telephotos i Associated Press Leased Wire IEA Feature Service VOL. 49, NO. 31 MADISON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1942 THIRTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS iS.Tiih Cpneentratioim (Camp Nelsoiou Prodecttiomi 6(CzarQ9 Hints Wavell, Aides in Indies Allies Strike Back First Prisoners Due At Camp Soon, Hint; To Face Heavy Guard Wisconsin Highway Signs Tell The Stranger Whos Governor Czar of War Production in Shakeup Hint Dutch Troops Battle Japs At Sarawak; U.

S. Bombers Batter Foes Electrified Fences and Watch Towers Surround 20-Acre Area On Canip McCoy Military Reservation All ies, Invaders Also Clash on Celebes Island British Continue to Retreat In Malaya Struggle By The Associated Press "EN. SIR ARCHIBALD P. WAVELL, commander-in-chief of WISCONSIN JULIUS P. HEIL GOVERNOR the new Allied Far East command, has arrived in the Dutch East Indies and already launched a series of dynamic counter-blows against Japanese invasion forces, military dispatches said today.

Dutch troops were reported moving into action on the border of the White Rajah kingdom of Sarawak, where Japanese troops had seized the capital, Kuching, and most of the northern territory. Gen. Wavells second in command, George H. Brett, former chief of the U. S.

army air corps, arrived at the same time to help direct strategy for the Indies fighting de- ense. An N. E. I. communique said MJL Reprint From GOV.

Julius P. Heil may not spend much time at his desk in the state capitol fulfilling the duties of his office, but he believes in making sure that strangers entering Wisconsin by automobile know who is governor of this state. The stale highway commission, at Gov. Hells order, has recently completed the job of erecting 39 large signs of the type shown above at 39 major highway of entry to Wisconsin. The signs, 3i by 51i feet in size, bear the legend: WELCOME TO WISCONSIN, JULIUS P.

HEIL, GOVERNOR. The highway divisions that have called for the markers and the ll 7 00,000 Neiv Cars Will Be Rationed: Henderson 18 Japanese were killed in preliminary skirmishes on the Sarawak frontier, with the loss of only one Dutch soldier. Dutch Indies soldiers were also reported battling hand-to-hand v.h Japanese invaders near Lake Tondano, on the northeast tip of Celebes island. A Tokyo broadcast said Tuesday that Japanese forces had captured Kakas airdrome at Menatio, chief port in Mmahassa peninsula. Celebes island, across the Celebes sea from Borneo.

Bomb Seized Island Simultaneously, Dutch warplanes bombed Japanese-occupied Tarakan island, off the coast of Dutch Ncrth Borneo, and a Japanese base in the southern The Philippine base was presumably Davao, on Mindanao island, 600 miles south of Manila, which the Japanese were believed using as a jumping-off place for the invasion of the Dutch Indies. A U. S. army bulletin said three American bombers, fighting with the Dutch Indies forces, attacked Japanese warships near Tarakan and destroyed at least two enemy lighters. The American planes returned to their undisclosed base undamaged, the communique said.

Beat Off 2 Attack, On the Philippine battlefield, Gen. Douglas MacArthurs American and Filipino defense forces were reported to have beaten off two new Japanese attacks, with the invaders suffering heavy losses. Army Communique No. 58, based on reports up to 8:30 a. m.

CST, said that the Japanese made two determined attacks well supported by artillery and aircraft, but that Gen. MacArthurs badly out numbered troops hurled them back and suffered only comparatively small casualties. Reports received from Mindanao and Jolo indicate that the Japanese are establishing advance bases in these islands from which to support attacks on Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, the communique added. Across the South China sea, British jungle fighters in a new withdrawal were apparently maneuvering today to defend an 80-mile front only 90 miles north of Singapore as demolition engineers blew up tunnels, bridges and roads to impede the advance of Jap-(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4) Nelson Dec lares Any Changes Needed Wilt Be Made to Win ASHING TON (A5) Americas new war production boss, Donald M.

Nelson, told the army, navy and OPM today that he was ready to shake up the entire defense setup if necessary to lick Hitler and the Japs. Any organizational changes that have to be made in order to do this job will be made, Nelson declared in a letter to William S. Knuden, OPM director general; Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and Undersecretary of the Navy James F. Forrest al.

The letter marked Nelsons first official act since his selection Tuesday by Pres. Roosevelt as the one man head of the nation's entire war production and procurement machinery. Job Is To Win In Hurry We have Just one job to do to make enough war material to Uck Hitler and the Japs, and to do it in the shortest possible time, the letter said. Any organizational changes that have to be made in order to do this job will be made. The present organization must and will evolve into the most effective possible instrument to do it.

Everyone connected with production and procurement, in all agencies of the government, must carry on with the utmost devotion and energy. It will be Nelsons Job to duplicate, if not surpass, the masterly economic generalship which wrung tribute from Field Marshal von Hindenburg after the last conflict, and ihe grudging acknowledgement: They understood war. The creation of one-man production control a step long urged on Mr. Roosevelt by his friends and critics alike momentarily distracted the capital's attention from the Pacific war fronts. It promised initiative in the production field where lies the Allied hope for ultimate victory.

Adverse Situation The situation in the Far East continued adverse, for the most part. There was a quiet elation over the way Gen. MacArthur smashed the heavy Japanese attack in the Philippines Tuesday, but this was tempered by realization that the enemy had overwhelming forces available for new assaults, whereas the defenders losses, however small, were irreplac-able. Advices from the Malayan and Netherland Indies fronts indicated that the tempo of the Japanese advances might be slackening somewhat, but the capital could not ignore the fact that the enemy still was making progress, and that temporary superiority in materiel was making this progress possible. It was wdth high interest, therefore, that Washington received Pres.

Roosevelt's surprise announcement Tuesday night, investing Nelson, former mail order executive, with (Continued on Page 4, Col. 6) Odell Rents Home On Campbell St. Howard Odell, new backfield coach at the University of Wisconsin, has rented a home at 310 Campbell st. Others in the family, are Mrs. Odell and two children.

Mrs. Laura Hefty of John C. Haley Sons was the realtor in the rental of the Where to Find It Answers to Questions 26 Comics Page 27 Markets 28 Radio Programs Page 13 Side Glances Page 26 Society Page 14 Sports 15, 16. 26 Theaters Page 13 Woman's Page Page 12 announcement that the utility planned to ask a rate revision upward because of allegedly low profits. He also indicated that the company would ask a general revision of the Madison base rate area, to remove irregularities.

Other company representatives present at the hearing today were Frank M. McEniry, Milwaukee, general commercial manager, and T. J. Murphy, Madison, district commercial manager. Westmorland was represented by Atty.

Anthony E. OBrien and Herbert (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) By CEDRIC PARKER (Of The Capital Times Staff) AMP McCOY, Wis. Construction of a concentration camp for 1,250 war-time prisoners is being rushed to completion on 20 acres of the Camp McCoy military reservation, near Sparta. Work on the electrified fences, guard towers, and other protective apparatus for the' camp was started about two weeks ago, and 200 WPA workers have been employed for the past week to finish the job.

Prisoners of war and dangerous enemy'1 aliens will be confined in this camp, it was reported here. The speed with which the construction work has been carried out indicates that the government plans to bring the first prisoners to the camp within the very near future. No Panty-Waists In Camp Col. Fred M. Distelhorst, Camp McCoy commander, said here Tuesday that he is not in a position to disclose the type of prisoners to be kept in the camp.

Col. Distelhorst home is in Madison. I can tell you one thing though there wont be any panty-waists here, Col. Distelhorst asserted. For housing facilities, the concentration camp will use buildings constructed two years ago as a discharge and reception center for the civilian conservation corps (CCC).

The buildings include completely equipped kitchens, bath houses, mess halls, and barracks, with a maximum capacity of 1,250 men. Around these buildings, and enclosing 20 acres of land, two 8-foot electrified fences have been constructed. Each of these barriers is made of heavy steel wire mesh fencing, topped by three strands of barbed wire. The mesh fence is 7 feet high, with barbed wire rising a foot above that. Both fences will be electrified at a high Voltage.

Build Underground Barrier The two fences, completely surrounding the 20-acre rectangular area, are 30 feet apart. The barbed wire on top of the Inner fence is tilted inward, and outward on the outer barrier. As an added safeguard, an underground barrier is being constructed outside the outer fence. This consists of heavy steel mesh fencing buried in a trench 5 2 feet deep, surrounding the entire area at a distance of from 10 to 20 feet outside the outer fence. At the four corners and at two points along the longer sides of the rectangle, six guard towers have been constructed.

Each tower, equipped with powerful is high enough to command a view of the entire area. These towers will be manned by soldier sharpshooters, heavily armed. To Be Escape-Proof Construction officials at the camp asserted that it will be as nearly escape-proof as any concentration center can be made. They pointed out that there are only four methods of escape from such a camp: 1. By climbing over the fences.

2. By cutting through the fences. 3. By tunneling under the fences. 4.

By collusion with or bribery of guards or other per- sonnel. Of these four methods, the last is considered the least likely, because the concentration camp will be guarded by companies of military police, specially selected for trustworthiness and experience. Climbing over the fences would be virtually impossible and certainly fatal if attempted, it was pointed out. Even if a prisoner or group of prisoners succeeded in cutting the power line which supplies electrification to the fences, to climb over the two 8-foot barriers would in itself be an athletic feat. It would have to be accomplished in full view of at least two guard towers, from which soldiers could mow down the prisoners with machine guns and high-powered rifles.

To escape by cutting through the two fences assuming that cutters could be obtained would be even more difficult than climbing over, and would subject the escaping prisoners to the same danger of gunfire from the guard towers. Like Digging Subway Breaking out of this camp by the tunnel method would be a project comparable to digging the Chicago subway. The shortest possible tunnel providing a means of escape would have to be at least 32 feet long beginning just inside the inner fence and coming to the surface just outside the outer fence. That would bring the prisoner up at a point where he would be in full view of the guard towers. If an escaping prisoner attempted to tunnel any distance beyond the outer fence, his first obstacle would be the heavy steel mesh fence, embedded to a depth of $y2 feet.

This would either force the prisoner to come to the surface at a maxi-mum distance of 20 feet from the outer fence still in view of the guard towers or tunnel deeply beneath the underground barrier. Any talk about getting out of here through a tunnel is just speculation, and idle speculation at that, a construction expert at the camp said. The soil around here is all sand, the expert explained. Any tunnel which might be attempted would cave in before it had gone 10 feet. Even when the ground Is frozen on the surface, this sand is tricky stuff, and any extensive tunneling through it is absolutely impossible.

-No Prisoners There Yet Rumors that war prisoners already are being kept at Camp McCoy were denied emphatically by the camp commander. I cant tell you a thing about the future, Col. Distelhorst Ronald M. NeUon FDR Demands Likelv to Alter Price Measure Special Concessions 3Iade to Farmers May Be Abandoned WASHINGTON (A3) Pres. Roosevelt's indictment of ihe senate piice control bill as the direct road to inflation was expected today to force congress to abandon at least one of its two special concessions to fanners.

Some of the 11 senators and house members who will draft the final form of the wartime measure said privately that they probably would recommend to the two chambers the elimination of a provision linking farm pa.ity piices the yardstick fer fixing farm ceilings directly to industrial wages. Departing from his usual custom of withholding ccmment on pending legislation, the president told a press conference that this provision, sponsored by Sen. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo)- would start a spiral of rising prices ccstly to the farmers and everyone else in the nation. He said pointedly that such a formula would do more than anything else to saddle a huge debt on this and later generations and would encourage labor to demand higher wages to meet increased costs of living. With equal force, Mr.

Roosevelt condemned an amendment by Sen. Bank-head (D-Ala) which would give Sec. of Agriculture Wickard veto power over any farm pi ice ceilings the price administrator might set. He said he considered it thoroughly unsound to give one agent of the government powTer to make a decision and another the power to veto it. The senate bill would forbid the fixing of a farm price ceiling at less than the 1919-1929 level, the market price on last Dec.

1 or Dec. 15. or below the level besed on industrial wages. Tire house bill contained three-sep-rrate floors, the 10-year average, the Dec. 1 market price and an additicnal level of 110 pfr cent of parity.

Parity prices are those designed to yield farm income equal to that of 1909 to 1514. Groups Agree OnLaGuardia In Defense Job WASHINGTON (P) Senate and house conferees agreed today on legislation to vest control of the civilian defense program in Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City and to give him $100,000,000 for the work. Chairman May (D-Ky) of the house military committee said the house conferees had abandoned their position that the program should be administered by the war department and that the senate conferees had agreed to the house-imposed limitation on the appropriation authorization. BREAKS ANKLE IN FALL Mrs.

H. E. Brickson. 825 Hiawatha broke her ankle when she fell at the corner of State and N. Fair-child sts.

here today. She was taken to the Madison General hospital. Don't Let The RED CROSS DOWN ONLY 1 RED CROSS IWARl fund! MORE DAY: To Raise $50,000 sL- The Milwaukee Journal number erected by each are: Milwaukee Green Bay La Crosse Eau Claire Rhinelander Superior and Lancaster 5. The signs with their message of welcome from Wisconsin's Republican governor are white W'ith large black lettering. A glance tehs the motorists where he is and who the governor is.

The Heil welcome signs make the name Heil one of those most frequently seen on state highways, almost in a class with Burma Shave and Coca Cola. On many Wisconsin highways, particularly in the Milwaukee area, are signs advertising Jhe Heil Co. of which the governor is president. Pan-American Meet to Face Two Obstacles Argentina Balks at Pact; Peru Wants Border Row Settled By ALBURN WEST RIO DE JANEIRO JP) Twenty-four hours before its first official session, the Pan-American conference of foreign ministers appeared to have struck two obstacles today Argentina's reluctance to commit herself to any military alliances or acts of pre-belligerency, and Ecuador's determination to settle her 100-year old boundary dispute with Peru before entering into any general discussions. In the behind-the-scenes diplomacy aimed at creating a united western hemisphere front against the Axis, Argentina was consideied the chief obstacle.

It policy was reaffirmed at Buenos Aires Tuesday night by Pres. Ramon S. Castillo, who said his government could not assent to any "measures of belligerency" which might come before the conference, and earlier had been laid down along the same lines by Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu. Pres. Castillo made his statement in rejecting opposition leaders requests for a special session of congress, which they sought when Ruiz Guinazu declared he could make no commitments without congressional approval.

(Private advices from Buenos Aires have indicated that the Castillo government is under strong popular and political pressure to change its Isolationist attitude. Argentine sources in the United States say the government might even face a coup if it (Continued on Page 4. Col. 7) today has been filed by 44 residents of University Park, directly north of Sunset Village. After a recess to permit the three public service commissioners rule on the motion.

Examiner H. T. Ferguson announced that the two hearings would be consolidated, and set Feb. 5 at 10 ajn. at the commission offices, 1 W.

Wilson for the combined hearing. The hearing was then adjourned without taking of testimony. Atty. Francis T. Hart.

Milwaukee, counsel for the company, made the Good Afternoon Everybody Archbishop's Remarks On Higher Education IkSlot Machine Ruling (By WILLIAM T. EVJUE rjYH: I bishop Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago as saying to a Holy Name gathering last Sunday: In many endowed and tax supported institutions of higher learning, we find teachings of a godless philosophy. This filters down and might become the rule of action in the world of tomorrow'. We dare not cast away our heritage by standing by complacently while materialism achieves a wider dominance." Added weight was given to the archbishops remarks because he was speaking into microphones which carried his words over two radio networks to millions of people throughout the country.

tE CHICAGO SUN quotes Arch- The statement made by Archbishop Stritch last Sunday is not an isolated one, it represents an indictment of tax supported universities that has been made over recent years by highly placed representatives of the Catholic hierarchy. It has assumed the proportions of a preconceived and studied propaganda. The same criticism has been directed against our own University of Wisconsin by lesser Catlm lie spokesmen. Unfortunately, these clerical critics seldom particularize. They continue to talk of godlessness in our university without defining what they mean by godlessness.

They fail to define the materialism which they deplore. Until these critics are willing to be more specific, millions will be inclined to interpret this criticism as an attempt to undermine the confidence of the American people in the system of public higher education and as an attempt to gain an advantage for the higher education that is under religious auspices. The difficulty that Is encountered in wiping out the blighting and corrupting influence of the slot machine in Wisconsin is illustrated again by two stories which have appeared in the news in the last few days. In this column on Nov. 8, 1937, there appeared this statement: What Waukesha county needs is a sweeping grand jury investigation.

Waukesha is one of the most corrupt counties in the state. Why is there no law enforcement in Waukesha county? A grand jury might dig up some interesting information. This paragraph in The Capital Timps started the movement in Waukesha county for a grand jury investigation which later resulted in the indictment of a number of individuals. A judge and a sheriff were given prison sentences and served their terms while operators of slot machines were also given prison sentences. But yesterday the Wisconsin supreme court handed down a decision under which eight Waukesha county slot machine operators sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Milwaukee county house of correction back in 1939, will now go free.

It is the same old story, these eight slot machine operators who were given work house terms back in the early part of 1939 are not escaping prison terms because the supreme court believed that they were improperly convicted or that they are not guilty. They are being released on the ever present technicality, the decision said that Wisconsin courts have no power to stay an execution of sen-(Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) Balance Produced This Month To Be Held For Future Ireeds WASHINGTON (JP) Price Administrator Leon Henderson told the house small business committee today plans have been made for the rationing of between 600,000 and 700,000 new automobiles, and that new cars produced the balance of this month would be held for at least one year to meet future needs. Henderson refused to say whether present plans called for rationing of used cars and flatly denied the government has any intention of taking over private automobiles. He admitted, however, that orders placing a price ceiling on used car sales, whether by dealers or individuals, have been drafted for use if it became necessary.

New car production the balance of this month, he said, is estimated at 130.000-to 140,000 units. Of the cars to be rationed, some 550.000 to 600,000 are new ones which were in stock on Jan. 1, when the present freezing went into effect, and 65.000 to 75,000 are cars produced to date this month. The OPM, meanwhile, announced preliminary details of the automobile rationing plan. The rationing will be modelled along the lines of the tire rationing program and be administered through the same local boards.

Eligible buyers of rationed automobiles will Include phyisicians, surgeons, visiting nurses, farm veterinarians, fire and police departments, other agencies engaged in law enforcement and protection of public health and safety, mail trucks, and Piersons who had purchased, as of Jan. 2, new cars than in the hands of dealers. All of these eligible buyers must obtain purchase certificates and OPA said it was hoped that government agencies included in the group would (Continued on Page 4, Col. 5) Morton Melnik Is Given Pardon The governors office announced this afternoon that Gov. Heil had granted Morton F.

Melnick, former Madison attorney, a pardon. Melnick was sentenced to Waupun state prison Mar. 4, 1941 from Dane county superior court to three concurrent terms of I year for embezzlement. Hs term expired Jan. 7, but he had been paroled before 'Christmas.

The pardon board recommended granting the pardon. In applying for a pardon, Melnick said he wanted to enlist in the army. The pardon restores his civil rights, making him eligible for military service. Hes In Gov. Heil was in his office yesterday.

Since Jan. 1, Gov. Heil has appeared at the executive office exactly 2 out A working of 1U days In 1941 Gov. Hell spent exactly 77 out of 301 working days in tbe executive office in Madison In 1940 Gov Heil spent exactlv 70 nut of 303 working days in the executive office. Phone Co.

to Seek Madison Area Rate Boost As Suburbs Petition For Cut Announcement that the Wisconsin Telephone Co. probably would ask soon for a boost in telephone rates in the Madison area was made this morning at a state public service commission hearing on the petition of Westmorland and Sunset Village residents for a reduction in rates by extension of the Madison base rate to Include the two suburbs. The company at the outset of the hearing today moved to consolidate the Westmoriand-Sunset hearing with a new petition, which it was revealed A 4 (Continued on Pafe 4, 2) A 1 V- 'a s. A 4 -4 S'. -I -y, T'.

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