Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

NIN EWS Home Ediion The Weather Mostly Cloudy Tonight nd Thursday Scattered Showers Warmer NOSHA VOL LI NO 251 16 PAGES KENOSHA WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14 1946 16 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LaFollette Defeated by McCarthy Goodland Wins in Three-Way GoodlandrMcGarthf Victories Are Highlights of State Primary Vote UP) Sen Robert LaFollette Jr who has served In the Senate for 21 of his 51 years conceded the Wisconsin Republican nomination today to Joseph McCarthy a 37 year-old veteran of the Marine Corps The LaFollette senatorial dynasty that has existed for more than 40 years was broken by Circuit Judge McCarthy who flew as a gunner In many missions against Jap in- ft a urJ- Stallations in the Pacific GOVERNOR 83 yeaf-old Governor JWaTter Goodland hands ballot to Ted Zlrbes election board clerk in Racine WIs after casting vote'ln primacy in which he seeks renomlnatlon on ticket for thifd term Mrs Goodland looks Wirephoto) School Board Appoints Eight New Teachers The Board of Education Tuesday night at its August meeting In the run vory close in the outslate com-Adminlstration building elected munities but a 10000 vote margin eight teachers to the public schools With 61 precincts still missing Sen LaFollette who had served 21 years in the Senate in succession to his late father 'who had held a Wisconsin upper house seat for 19 years before him conceded the election arvd wired congratulations ot McCarthy Returns from 3085 precincts of 3 146 in the state gave McCarthy 203840 to 197146 a lead of 6694 votes Perry Stearns a third candidate had 29132 LaFollette and McCarthy had piled up by McCarthy pulled him GOP SENATE-GOVERNOR Joseph! McCarthy Appleton circuit Judge and a former gunner in a marine bomber squadron ended a 41-year LaFollette dynasty in Wisconsin Tuesday when he defeated Incumbent Robert LaFollette in the primary election race for the Republican senate nomination Governor Walter Goodland right was assured top on the November state Republican ticket when late returns showed him leading his nearest rival in three-way gubernatorial contest by 21325 votes Four Contests I Runge Pfennig Rasmussenand Molinaro Win Bulgarians Ask For Thrace Territory Gift (A) Bulgaria formally presented a claim to the Paris peace conference today for the present Greek territory of western Thrace and was supported by the Soviet Ukrain delegate Frankly admitting a with Germany during the war Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgl Koulishev nevertheless maintained that the Bulgarian army not fight on any front against the anti Hitlerian He 1 asked that his nation be accorded lilfN Health Director ReassuresCify In Polio Scare the status of an Allied co-belllger-ent the same as that sought yesterday by Romania another de feated German Satellite Western Thrace is a narrow strip of territory along the northern coast of the Aegean Sea Which gives Greece a common frontier with Turkey Manuilsky chief of the Ukraine delegation charged 'that I- fl JJ A -X 0 -ft Results Kenosha Gives Goodland and McCarthy Leads Governor Waiter Goodland and Capt Joseph McCarthy statewide winners In their contests for the Republican nominations for governor and United States sens tor both carried Kenosha county by narrow margins The county-vote for the GOP gubernatorial nomination was: Goodland 2917 Kenny 2544 Inf mell 1884 Werkmelster 143 Amoth 116 Delbert Kenny who carried Kenosha county Iwo years ago ran 373 votes behind Governor Good-land onTuesday but this repre-seated much more strength lhan- he showed in the state as --a' 'whole The county yote'on the Republican nomlnatTon for senator was: McCarthy 35949 LaFollette 3405 Spafng 418 Runge Leads' In County In the Republican contest for the nomination for attorney general Herman Runge of Sheboygan carried Kenosha county 'with a 2823 total against -2492 for Martin and 1425 for'Dietrich- The vote forRepubllcan candidates forjjtate offices where there was no-contest was as follows: "For lieutenant governor: Renne-bom 5848 For secretary of state: Zimmerman 6213 For state treasurer: Smith 5934 Congressman Lawrence Smith who was unopposed for the Republican nomination for re-election received a total of 5525 votes in-Kenosha county Iloan Democratic- Leader' In the Democratic primary Daniel W-Jloan carried Kenosha coun--tyby a big margin for that nomination for governor of -Wisconsin The -vote was: Hoan 3897 Fak0wski789: The onlyother contest onlhe' Democratic state ticket was for the (('tlnucS-an Pas Thrl 0 Seeks Eviction As Tenant Holds Rent Pending Bath John' hasn't ken a bath for three months He hasn't paid tils rent Ufr three either Thompson toldJudge Justin McCarthy tbaff he had no Intention sentati ve if the ytate department was made atfl meeting of the lenosha nty Conservation club Tho-'Club session was held In nion Club building and the meeting while highlighted by announcement also fea tured a series of important conservation announcements aruPfishow-ng of outdoor rnotlgnplctures One of the announcements madeby Leo Peterson of the club's game farm Oft Highway 50 disclosed that "an open house program will be conducted fbr the-JSublic next Sunday- oid that tba-furfcnt ('ininact Fin-Sttin) While the majority of the candidates for nominations fotKenosha county oflices won plates on the ballot withikit opposition in the primary election' field on Tuesday lour three for places' on the Republican ticket and one for a place on the Democrat enlivened the voting and the interest in the results Highlighting these since it was an upset of an incumbent was the ictnry of George Molinaro for the Democratic nomination for assemblyman from the Second District over Matt Siebert who has held that office for several terms won 1392to 1210 The next closest race was be-' twert Harold Rasmussen present umnty treasurer and William Stevens for the Republican nomination for treasurer with Rasmus-st emerging as the- victor The vote was Rasmussen 3711 Stevens 3171 Rasmussen was elected byJ the county board to fill outffie expired term caused by the Indicating thpir'S long sought goal resignation' of County Treasurer I of nimrodjiri Kenosha county is realized Norman Stone tentative of the state Con' servation department Tuesday evening announced a public hunting area has been established in -Kenosha countyand will bein'opera-tion for Ihe fall A- The announcement Jay' the repre- GrorgH liuer several months ago Range Defeats Lrnclonl In the contest for theRepublican fnmination for dypflct attorney William by a comfortable lead j4fer Daniel Lencl-cui with He'votexJ? tinge 4291 Len of paying his rent until he can fake a bath' and that a bath until hi bathtub is repaired Ills landlord Joseph Skusas said the tub and the rent were two different matters and he wanted Thompson evicted unless he would pay McCarthy dismissed eviction suit until the situation is cleaned up Reveal Public Hunting Area For-KtfnoshanA Ex Marine Ends Family Dynasty Of LaFollettes' Bp AssoclaUd Prcaa Senator Robert LaFollette whom Wisconsin voters sent to the Senate for 21 straight years conceded defeat today in hi effort for another six-year term as Republican Joseph McCarthy 37-year-old ex-mailne toppled LaFollette on nearly complete returns from yes republican primary elec tion Returns from 3085 precincts out of the state's 3146 gave McCarthy 203840 to LaFoUette's 197146 lead of 6694 Perry Stearns was third with 29132 The outcome means that for the first time in more than 40 years the stale will not be represented in the Senate by a LaFollette father and son i LaFollette a 21-year veteran of the Senate- had turned to the Republican party for nomination to succeed himself after 12 years under the Progressive party ban ner Opposes McMurray However the Republican state organization threw its support to McCarthy former gunner of a ma rine dive bomber squadron Me Carthy was elected senatorial nominee and will be opposed in November by Howard McMurray who was unopposed for the Demo cratic nomination 83 year-old governor Walter Goodland like 'LaFollette ran against the opposition of the state party organization How ever Goodland ran far ahead of his two opponents for Republican nomination Goodland will be opposed In November by Daniel Hoan former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee Hoan rolled to an easy victory in his race for the democratic nom ination' for governor LaFollette whose Progressive party organization voted to dls solve a year ago last March had staked his prestige on the outcome of the primary He said he would not run as an independent ifhe failed to receive the nomination LaFollette was elected as a when he ran for the-Tmexpired term of his father the late at the age of 30 In addition to seeking the ouster of LaFollette the state Republican organization had picked Delbert Kenny Investment banker and former state American Legion-Commander to run against Goodland Twp Governors Fall'-" Two thef governors Republi-canr'Mortimer Proctor of Vermont and Democrat Ransorrtc Williams of South Calorina failed to make the grade in primaries yesterday Proctor lost the nomination to Ernest Gibson former Senator and a recent army colonel by 8000 votes It was the first time in modern years Vermont had refused its chief executive a second term The republican nomination there means election in the fall William ran far behind as Strom Thurmond former army officer and Dr James a McLeod president of the State Health association finished one-two in the 11 -man field to qualify for a September 3 runoff Other returns in brief: Vermont Ralplr'E Flanders banker and Industrialist backed by the CIO-PAC won the Republican nomination- to succeed Senator Warren Austin who retired to become Representative in the Cllnd rut Twi) Meantime he called for constant striving toward international amity and understanding which he added jqiust rest on the free -exchange of "dissolve the mists of -prejudice" Secretary War Patterson and Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower sent messages of congratulation to -General Mac-Arthur InJTokyo There and throughout Japan the people of that conquered nation shared a seemingly cbmmon belief that they are better off than any hoped they would be year ago I MacArthur himself withheld a summary of the first year of his stewardship for the September 2 anniversary of the actual surrender ceremony aboard the battleship Missouri But In an order to his troops the supreme Allied commander said today is more than a day of victory "It he sald of thanksgiving on which we bow our heads In extreme humility and thank God that we of democratic faith have demonstrated to the world that peace can be gained and kept by governments established from and by the common a to through victory despite a 7000 vote edge thnt the senior Wisconsin senator had piled up in his home county of Dane Demos Aided Defeat Democratic forces were believed to have helped defeat LaFollette in Milwaukee county The state Democratic organization worked against the senator and its national chairman Robert Tehan of Ml-waukee publicly denounced him Frequently after the Progresaive dlsbandrd their party at a convention and voted to rejoin the Republicans Gov Walter Goodland who at 83 Is the nation a oldest governor won on the Republican primary despite opposition of the regulur Republican organization Goodland won in a field of five gaining a lead of more than 200(H) over" hi naarest opponent Ralph" Immell a former Pro-gressive and Adjutant General of Wisconsin for many years before ha entered the army at the start of the war Thomas Coleman chairman of the State Republican Organization a voluntary group in Wisconsin-Indicated that his group would support Goodland' despite Its repudiation of him In a state convention Supports Goodland far as Gov Goodland is he said he lives to be 100 he will still be better man than Dan Hoan at any age He deserves the support of all Republicans Hoan is the Democratic candidate He was unopposed The tabulation of votes for gov-erndr in 3075 precincts was Good-land 193513 Immell 172582 and Delbert Kenny who vtai endorsed by the State GOPi 71 407 Ralph Amoth 4404 and Otto Werk-meister 5541 McCarthy "who was elected a circuit court Judge at 30 to become the youngest Jurist ever elected to such ap -office in Wisconsin spent three years in the Marines It was his second try for the Republican senatorial nomination In 1944 he ran second to Sen Alexander Wiley in a four man race He will oppose Howard McMurray a former Democratic representative and now a political fc lccUlrer at the University of ru Iron Lungs on Way from East New York vn An emergency express shipment of six iron lungs to be used in fighting th current mid western infantile paralysis epidemic left early today aboard the New York St Louis express of the Pennsylvania railroad The shipment including eight ot pack" machines was dispatched to Des Moines Iowa whir the equipment will be assigned to areas in specific need The national foundation for infantile paralysis which sent the equipment also announced today development of a new lightweight iron lung The new device which weighs only 35 pounds was said to be as effective as the ordinary iron lung and would soon go into commercial production The portable iron lung was invented in 1944 by Henry Burns on engineer at Wright Field It consisted of two small oxygen tanks a connecting tube regulator mask and a pneumatic balance respirator staff and accepted the resignations of five others Appointed as faculty members were Donald Pollock commercial and mathematics Irving Hansen English Maurice Hannon English and Journalism Arthur Fenske English Richard Hansen science: Miss Delorls Hagcman art Miss Elsie Koch grades and Miss Carol Tostrud grades The Board also selected Miss Emily Spalding as junior clerk at Lincoln Junior High school atul promoted several maintenance personnel Nicholas Korse was moved from night to day fireman at Lincoln Junior High school Benjamin Kokier was boosted from assistant Janitor to night fireman at the same school Eugene Haney was lifted from assistant Janitor at McKinley Junior High school to fireman at Washington Junior High school and Hay Mazcrctll -was appointed public schools truck driver Protest Banquet Speaker The Board reecived letter from the Kenosha' Trades and Labor Council American Federation of Labor protesting the selection of Walter Hammond as senior high school graduating class banquet speaker in June because of his connection with the Rice-Weston school board Incident several years ago The Board declared it has never interfered with the members of the senior class and their advisors in the selection of banquet speakers The Board voted to combine the duties of kindergarten and primary supervisor with those of the director of curriculum Miss Signe Cor-neliuson Miss Jane Vernon recently retired as kindergarten and primary ipervisor The Board received a report that six additional rolling 'cots have been obtained for the Orthopedic school and that other equipment will be available at the opening of the 1948-47 school year Tank Near Completion A-Uubbard tank given theKenosha Manufacturers association and manufactured by the Specialty Brass company under the direction of William Anderson president is nearing completion The tank will be presented to the Orthopedic school The Board also received a report that at the end of the first six months of operation the budget is in satisfactory condition and that expenditures are in proportion to the time of year The Board increased the pay of the staff member in charge Kenosha High school auditorium to $25 monthly because of the increased use of the auditorium during the last two years The Board also hiked the pay of special substitute teachers to $75Q daily in all departments The pay formerly was $8 in elementary and Junior high schools and $650 dally in the senior high- scbooL Additionally the' Board ln-tCanMna Thrr countries then at war with Japan He paid Marshal Stalin knew Japan wanted to halt the war when he left Moscow to attend the Potsdam conference At an imperial conference held in the emperor's present in an air raid shelter Aug 91945 Hlrohito personally broke a 3 to 3 tie and decided that the war should be halted as soon as possible Suzuk said Members of the supreme war council were divided into two groups Favoring an end to the wr were Klichiro HIranuma president of privy council Foreign Minister Shigenorl Togo and" navy Minister Admiral MUsunasa Yonai now retired Suzuki said Hiranuma andTogo are on trial as war criminals Opposed to halting the war were War Minister Gen Korerhika Anami later a suicide Chief off cioni 2 79L Jrpdhe other contest Assembly-rjan Frederick Pfennig -who for "Several terms has represented that" district in the legislature wp-The Ji publican nomination far're-el tion defeating Lester V' Peaptstflby if entifttcd Thru) Eight new Infantile paralysis cases which were reported in Kenosha yesterday have increased the disease Incidence here to 45 Thirty-one of the total number of cases have developed in the city and 14 are reported in the county I Explaining that the majority of poliomyelitis cases which have appeared here have been Dr A Randall director of the city department of health issued a reassuring word to Ke-noshans by saying that the number of eases reported should be on the downgrade He reported that once the disease has become widespread as Is the case in Kenosha the large incidence be Ing reported is be expected? Reiterate Safeguards Dr Randall together with City Manager James Wallace acting board of health to day reiterated the polio preventive -measures which were listed by Dr Philip Stimson New York consultant and diagnostician for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis when he spoke in Kenosha Monday and Tuesday Foremost of these measures was to Dr Stimson one of the world's foremost authorities on -the treatment and diagnosis of infantile paralysis stressed the importance of leading as normal a life as possible and your shirt to avoid what is termed Avoid Chilling Fatigue I Other safeguards against the disease were to consider any minor illness as possible polio and put the person to bed at once avoid excessive chilling and fatigue: avoid tonsillectomies teeth extractions and other oral surgery avoid the use of water possibly contaminated with sewage for drinking cooking or washing cooking utensils elim-(fonttnuM lhr Greek policy from abroad-and protested against her "demands for foreign Balkan soil Saying he supported Bulgarian demands for an Aegean outlet Man-uilsky said he favored a return to the Bulgarian frontiers as provided in the treaty of Busharest of 19J3 This would give Bulgaria Western Thrace and the -present Greek harbor of Alexandroupolis IDede AgachL' roUnd Backs Request Wincenty Rzymowsky chief Polish delegate also declared Bulgaria "deserves an indulgent peace Greece swiftly dissented Her chief delegate Premier Constantin Tsaldaris accused Bulgaria of In ternational cromes and declared the drbft treaty for the country which was allied to Germany in the last two wars was light for a country which associated herself with the German Koulishev acknowledged that Bulgaria (traditional Balkan friend of Russia) had declared war on Great Britain and the United States but asserted: The Bulgarian army was merely used as an occupatlon force "(CsaUas Twi) Senator Sends Congratulations Madison Wis (UP) Sen Robert La Follette conceding defeat in his bid for Republican renomination indicated today that he will not seek reelection as an independent candidate La Follette recalled that during radio interview at Washington in March he said he would not run as an independent if he lost the Republican nomination Asked if he was reiterating that statement now he said: not reiterating it but you can refer to it and you be No Support Comment La Follette had no comment when asked whether he would support his victorious opponent Circuit Judge Joseph McCarthy in the November election He congratulated McCarthy in a telegram La Follette issued a statement expressing his disappointment at being defeated but said he had regret or Statement Quoted want the peoplo of Wisconsin know that L'deeply appreciate the opportunity they gave me to serve them during the past 21 years in the United States he said I have served -to the best of my ability during these years and have always realized that an elective office is not a vested right but rather is a temporary honor and privilege accorded by the citizens of a democracy sincerely thank all who gave me their support in this and in past Nation Obseryes'Victory Anniyersary Quietly Admiral Reveals Japan Planned-Negotiated Peace GOP Congress Madison Wis (UP) Circuit Judge Joseph McCarthy's Repub Lean nomination for senator means more in forecasting Re-publican Congress than any other state primary" Thomas Cole man- Madisop head of theGOP State Voluntary commit ixf said to-da CoUmtj 'McCarthy of a victory over Sen Robert LaFoljtte and laid It was espt-naliy trfeanmgful because MpCar-thy'lfaced tiie issues Kamel N'ewDtal abijjtes in the ad mmutration of iur McCarthy had ffie endorsement of the regular Republican organize tion tMijrU Goodland Coleman asked Republicans to siippoit Gov Walter Goodland i the November election against Daniel Hoan the Democratic noml- If Gov Goodland lives to be loo will still be a better man than Dan Hoan at any Coleman said Coleman praised Delbert Kenny West Bend party endorsed candidate for gbvrrnor who ran third behind Goodland and Ralph Im-mell as a clean and fine candi -date 'He could not overcome the ban iraps of a confused Coleman said Former Actor Dead Hoil w'otkI 4V Egon Brecber fh motion piciure actor who nncej was leadinman Gallienei cl the stage dicd lait night WithoyCformal pause the nation joyfully yet prayerfully observed the first anniversary today of victory in World War II -t5ne year to the day after the proclaimed Japan's unconditional surrender President Truman asked Americans to dedicate this first "Victory to prayer and high resolve that: "The cause of justice freedom peace and international goodwill shall be advanced wittv undiminished and unremitting efforts inspired by the valor of our heroes of the armed While military men and others were paying tribute to the men who fought and died to bring the war to its conclusion Mr Tro reconversion director tot ed up the balance sheet to seg what a year of peace has meant to the home front In a statement last bight John Steelman recalled these four objectives a year ego- and outlined the "record ot progress we have I Jobs for all those willing and able' to work: "We' have reached substantially full" employment and have created nearly five million new jobs In the process xb Now we face the task-mf consolidating these gain by ever-increasing production and employment 2 A steadily rising standard for civilian usetias'increased more than SJfiboo 0000(H) Total construction' and production of some goods has quadrupled Total payments to individuals equal br ex ceedthfe a r-timeqeak 3 Stabilization of our economy: have successfully avoided the deflation which threatened war plants closed xxx but inflation remains a constant" Increased opportunities for -farmers 6nd businessmen: "Almost a quarter of a million new businesses were established in' the last half jof 1945 aniPthere is every reason to hope that the birth of tiew businesses will continye'at a1 hlght rate xjt' Farmers are looking forward to bumper crops andcan 'sell at good prlcos 41i they 'can 'Looking to1 the future Secre-tarypf-the Navy Forrestal declared: "We must! firmly resolve to keep ourselves strqng for the tests of thej future until the United Nations' is an accomplished Tokyo (UPJ Japan was pr pared to try for a negotiated peace if she could have prevented the American landing on Okinawa Admiral Suzuki said today Suzuki who was premier of Japan at the time and also headed the Japanese government at the time of the surrender said some members of the army and navy were strongly opposed to unconditional surrender and presented Emperor Hlrohito with a plan which the emperor rejected Just before he accepted the Potsdam declaration This militaristic plan suggested that the Allies be permitted to attempt a landing in the Japanese homeland They thought they could repel a first attack and then be in a position to -negotiate more favorable surrender terms Suzuki said when the Americans successfully landed on Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945 negotiations were started with the Russians In an effort to bring a truce with the Three Former Nazis Suffer Dealh Penally Strasbourg France GTi 1 Robert Wagner former Nazi Gauleiter of -Alsace and three of Ills aides were shot to death at dawn today In a fort near Strasbourg ior1 war time atrocities Hermann Roehn former vice-Staff YoshIJiro Umezu now on 'gauleiter Walter Gaedeck and trial and the chief of naval admin Adolf Schuppel died with Wagner istration Admiral Teijiro Toyuda All were condemned recently by a retired French military tribunal.