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Final Home Edition' MONROE EVENING TIMES Associated Press Leased Wire FORTY-SEVENTH 1898. MONROE, GREEN COUNTY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Yanks to Seize Needed Jap Equipment Christ Kappeler Fatally Injured When Hit by Car Noted for Flowers And Handiwork; No Christ Kappeler, 87, was fatally injured when he was struck by an auto at 2:30 p. m. Sunday as he ivas walking to "the cemetery to place flowers on the grave of his wife. A resident of Monroe the greater part of his life, Mr.

Kappeler died at 1:30 a. m. Monday at St. Clare hospital where he was taken after being into the air by a car driven by John Wyman, New Glarus. Coroner Herman A.

Stuessy, who investigated the accident, termed the death as accidental and no inquest will be held. The fatality occurred near the Marty, home on 23rd avenue as Mr. Kappeler was walking alongside the road toward the cemetery. Death resulted from a basal skull fracture. Funeral Tomorrow Sen-ices will be held at 2 p.

m. tomorrow in Shriner-Neush- funeral home with Rev. Alvin C. Rabehl, Immanuel Evangelical pastor, officiating and burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Making his residence at 813 19th avenue, Kappeler was noted for his garden, which was well kept and his favorite flowers responded well to his pains- 'takine culture.

Neighbors said that Mr. Kappeler walked to the cemetery every Sunday afternoon with flowers from his garden. He was also noted for his fine needlework and took top honors with his entries in the Green countv fair contests for A stocky little man with beard and sparkling eyes, was-well liked for his friendliness and thoughtfulness. From Canton Bern The son of Christian Kappeler and Elizabeth Schober he was born in Wattenwyl, Canton Bern. Switzerland, Jan.

came to Monroe 10, 1858, and in 1882. Mr. Kappeler married Anna Louise Schumacher. Nov. 25.

1886, and they lived op a small farm of 5 acres, miles northeast of Clarno. which Mr. Kappeler had purchased in 1884. thev farmed they added land till they had 30 acres. Retiring Jan.

27. 1917. Mr. Kappeler moved to Monroe to his present home and had resided there since. Durine his residence he told his neighbors and friends that he must have something to do and therefore took up sewing, making rugs and quilts of original designs and stvles.

His wife died Dec. 14. 1927. and since that time he had lived alone. A son.

Christian, died in infancy and five sisters also are deceased. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Casper Yaun, New Glarus, Mrs. Leonard Baumpn, Jefferson township, and Mrs. Peter Stauffacher, Richmond.

Walworth county. There are 21 grandchildren and 15 great gran'dchildren. Equalization Meeting Town board members have been invited to meet with'the county supervisor of assessments and the county equalization committee with the county clerk'Friday at 10 o'clock, according to notices mailed by County Clerk Clarence W. Lengacher to town, viffage and city clerks. The meeting will consider matters in connection with equalization of the local assessments.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT MICROHONE President Truman sits before the microphone at the White House where he broadcast a message on the formal surrender of Japan. (AP Wirephoto) Four Minor Road Wrecks in County Highway policemen put in a busy weekend County Patrolman George W. Armstrong reported today that he had investigated four accidents, none of them resulting in extensive damage. At 11 today a car owned by Leo Lotta, Freeport, and driven by his brother, Francis Lotta, 22, struck a truck owned by the Monroe Roller Mills and driven by Calvin Bahn, 20, 2223 13th avenue, at the intersection of highway 69 and county trunk P. Lotta was going north at the intersection, coming to Monroe, and Bahn was turning left at the intersection.

Lotta's car hit the truck in the right front side. No one was injured-but damage to the Lotta car was heavy, being estimated at $250. Damage to the company truck was about $125. At 2:30 a. m.

today a car driven by John U. Steinmann, in which his wife and infant son were passengers, tipped over against a bank as Steinmann was coming west 1 mile east of junction with county trunk four miles west )r nroiiminarv of the John Hasse farm. Stein- mann told Officer Armstrong that he was not used to driving the auto owned by his father and lost control as he was driving on loose and washe'd out gravel road. No one in the auto was injured. Diane Rosa received a bump on lier head when she was a passenger in an auto driyen by her aunt, Mis's Harriet Rice, Beloit, when it struck the back erid of a pickup truck about 100 feet from i the Rice residence in Juda.

The driver of the truck was unknown. Just reported is the accident which occurred at 1:45 a. m. Thursday as Elmer Leiser, 22, Brooklyn township, was changing a tire on his car parked on the side of the road about a fourth mile west of junction and 81 near Jordan Center. A passing auto struck the young lad as he was.

inspecting the jack and cut a gash in his scalp about inches. The passing auto did not stop and Pupils Back into Class Rooms of Monroe Schools Tentative Figures Show Scant Change Local Enrollment Monroe's younger generation treked back to class rooms today, and early, tentative figures showed about the same as last year in the public schools and the county normal. St, Victor's parochial, school will open tomorrow. While grade school students had about a 2-hour session of enrollment, the senior and junior highs were busy until nearly noon. All were to return to go through the schedule of their classes during the afternoon, though much abbreviated in most cases.

As far as be determined, no veterans of World war II had returned to high school here, but it is possible under the rapid discharge of troops now that the school may such vets. First Football Session What time the pupils had off from' studies today were to be spent in picking up such incidentals as pencils, paper and workbooks. Textbooks were being handed out at either morning or afternoon sessions. Nearly three score candidates for the high school football team reported to the new coach, Howard Sharp, yesterday, morning to check out equipment. By late afternoon they were expected to be donning togs for the first practice of the season and they will have to hurry for the opening contest is scheduled here Sept.

21. Still Try for DDT There were no first day casualties among the teachers as all had reported. It was about the same story for the pupils who were as gloomy as the weather yesterday but brightened along with the sunshine this morning and were in most cases happy be back among school chums. No reports of illness of serious nature were made. Polio a threat across the Illinois line'to the south but both Supt.

E. O. and Dr. officer; A Boom Coming economist for the United States Chamber of Commerce predicted today that "a great boom is pending." Dr. Emerson Schmidt, director of the chamber's economic research department, delivered this forecast to the Senate finance committee in testifying against legislation to use federal funds to supplement state employment compensation benefits.

The basis for the boom, Schmidt said, exists in an unprecedented stored-up purchasing He said American business and individuals owned $194 billion in liquid assets last December, as compared with $66 billion in 1939. "Whether we look at the side of 'deferred consumers' demand for producers' goods and equipment, or at the picture portrayed by the money liquidity position of American business and individuals, we cannot help but conclude that a great boom is pending," he said. I am not predicting its indefinite continuation," lie added, "Although I think it 'will continue for several years. Unwise reconversion and labor policies could do much to retard it." Want Family Men To Get Releases discharge from the armed forces of almost all married men with families was urged today by Chairman Sabath (D-I11) of the rules committee. In letters to Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, Sabath said these categories should be returned to civilian life at once: 1.

Men who have families and lave been in service abroad. 2. Men with families and who lave been in uniform at least two years, regardless of place of serv- ce. 3. Students under 20 who were attending school at the time of inductipn and who will resume their schooling if discharged.

4. Owners, part owners, execu- ives and supervisors whose serv- health officer; were trying to ne Vses and their olants in retain DDT, miracle insect spray, to Businesses and the.r^plants use in the schools. At the county normal Principal Howard Teasdale reported an early enrollment figure of 17 yes- expe( ted that might ba increased during the first week. A large enrollment. 34.

had been tabulated for the "model room," much to the delight of the normal faculty. no identification was made by the victim. No More Class 2-B Washington (ff) Selective service today abolished class 2-B, the classification for occupationally deferred workers in war production. All registrants in class 2-B, as of Aug. 31, will be shifted to class 2-A, the classification for all other occupationally deferred defined as those whose jobs are "in support of the national health, safety and interest." Trams Roll Along in Ruined Hiroshima; City Flattened By Tern Haugland (ff) a rattle along the streets where not a single building stands.

A few deadpan civilians peddle slowly through the rubble. Block after block contains only a thin covering of rusting tin, a few stones and some broken bricks. The twisted frames of less than a dozen buildings stand forlornly alone in the midst of ruin that was once touted as Japan's most modernized city. That was the Hiroshima I saw today with the first -American postwar visitors to the world's first target of the atomic bomb. We landed in a B-17 at the Kure airstrip and drove in cars provided by the Japanese for the 12 miles to Hiroshima.

For its size, no city in the world was so completely wiped out by bombs as was this war- swollen metropolis of 400,000, whose heart was smashed completely by a single application of atomic power. The buildings, once jnary demolition leveled over the ground. By contrast, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin seem almost untouched. All that remains of the once impressive local palace of the emperor is a 3-foot pile of concrete very faintly resembling the 'of a building. Of the few recognizable pieces of buildings still standing, only one remains of possible service.

In it Hiroshima's banks have set up counters and there several hundred Japanese waited to do business, each in the particular section of ruin selected by his bank to set up shop. The Japanese newspapermen who had visited the city shortly after the leveling told me that the residents of Hiroshima "hate you and think you the most fiendish, cruel people on earth." Hirokuni Dadai, chief of the police prefecture, told us we might be attacked, but we were not. Pedestrians and cyclists stared blankly but docilely as our party wandered for two hours through the most modern of the Japanese ruins, photographing and empire, were simply starting in awe at the damage not split apart as from an ordi-'done by a single bomb. Reconversion Boss In Plea for Full Employment Bill Reconversion Boss 'John W. Snyder-said today the nation needs a mechanism to maintain a stable economy just as it has subscribed to one to keep the peace.

Endorsing the "full employment" bill, Snyder the Senate banking committee that the legislation won't "produce as much as a single job" in itself but does provide a method for mobilizing sources so the country's everyone can re- find work. "In the past," he-said, "we have had no machinery by which to organize in a systematic way for the prevention of depressions or of wars. We need such machinery "It has taken two catastrophic world wars to bring us into an international organization equipped with effective means of investigating and solving problems which threaten peace "I feel certain that it is not necessary to suffer another catastrophic depression to awaken us to the need of establishing a mechanism for a systematic attack on economic instability. We must take positive action to help us achieve full employment." Remove Controls On Heavy Cream, Ice Cream, Butterfat Washington The government has removed ar time controls on the sale of heavy cream and on the. use of butterfat making ice cream and other frozen' desserts.

The action was taken by the agriculture department as a result of the withdrawal of the armed services from the butter market. a result, whipping cream is again available for civilian consumption, but a shortage of sugar and some other ingredients will prevent any substantial expansion in; the production of ice'cream, officials said. conversion to civilian production." (Included would be men in professions in which manpower is short.) 5. All alimited service men except those serving in administra tive jobs in separation centers. To provide sufficient personnel and at the same time permit the discharge of those he listed, Sabath urged an intensive recruitment program with the difference in required numbers to be made up by continuing inductions of men between 20 and 26, family men excepted.

Tire, Wheel Stolen Ed Strasser reported to police that thieves had taken a newly recapped tire and wheel from his 1932 Ford coach between noon and 1 p. m. Monday. Bulletins By The Associated Press Badger Solons to Return Tomorrow To Controversies Length of Stay Depends on Mood; Face Many Vetoes legislators return to the capital tomorrow to finish the job they started in January. Whether they do it in two days, two weeks, or two months, de- gress this week, the White House Actual Occupation of Tokyo Scheduled Friday Big Job Ahead For Congressmen Washington President Truman has drafted a comprehensive message for delivery to Con- pends upon their mood.

If they buckle down to work and follow the dictates of a resolution 'they adopted when they recessed June 19, they'll go home in two days. If they permit introduction of what some believe is needed legislation, they'll be here two weeks. If they permit introduction of controversial bills, such as a re- pealer or a modifier of the Thomson anti-gambling law, they'll be here two months. Need Postwar Mills said today, and later will submit his views on disposition of the, atomic bomb in a separate communication. Press Secretary Charles G.

Ross told reporters, he would announce final plans tomorrow after a- conference between the President and Congressional leaders. Ross said he would not be able to say until then whether the messages will be sent to Capitol hill or delivered by the President in person, or what day they will be'pre- sented. Atomic Bomb Plans Most members of the assembly! Ross recalled that some time and senate are willing to abide by the recess resolution. It provided that when the legislature reconvened Sept. 5 it could act only on vetoes.tiy Gov.

Goodland and reviser's that the revisor of statutes decided needed claification. ago Mr. Truman said he would recommend to Congress the creation of a commission to decide what to do about the atomic bomb. Soon after the first peacetime Congress in almost four years meets tomorrow it will receive what Ross described as "quite a surrender of 89,000 Japanese fighting: men on New Britain island in the Bismarck archipelago was being arranged today aboard the destroyer Vendetta off Rabaul. Kandy, warships rode at anchor in the harbor of Singapore today for the first time in more than years.

Word was expected here momentarily that occupation forces had landed to tr.ke over the once mighty naval base from the surrendering Japanese. Before either house ca ntake up comprehensive message" from Mr. other bills they must get the con- Truman The President completed sent two-thirds of the mem- yesterday during a holiday bers cruise on the Potomac river aboard There has been some agitation for introduction of measures that some members believe are needed due to the surrender of Japan. Most members, however, are of the opinion that Wisconsin's war time statutes need no changes for another six months at the earliest. Among bills considered to be in the "emergency" classification are measures dealing with reciprocal agreements with other, states on truck licenses, daylinght savings bills affecting, veterans.

Conjecture Whether legislation of this time, or bills to repeal the gambling law will be offered is a matter of conjecture. There has been considerable talk about them, but no legislator has come to the drafting library for preparation of such bills. Some legislators are in favor of a bill that would repeal the Thomson law, but are wary presenting- that would do it. It is a highly controversial issue and if presented 'is likely, to draw the same kind of pressure that was present in the spring when the original measure was before the legislators. The governor vetoed 26 bills during the interim of the recess but only a few of these measures are expected to provoke much controversy.

The bills most likely to bring about oratory include a measure to increase legislator's pay $100 a month for 6 months, one that would have the state pay the administration costs for local relief and a third that would set up a minimum price scale in the liquor industry. Pension Proposal Madison A legisla- the Presidental yacht Potomac. The reassembling legislators will form the "reconversion Congress" as distinguished from the war Congresses that have been in almost continuous session since late in 1941. Facing the lawmakers returning from vacations cut short by war's end will be five administration- tagged "must" proposals dealing with: Job Measure 1. Jobs for everyone willing and able to work.

committees have been grappling with this so-called "full employment some time. They hope to work out a plan of cooperation between government, labor, industry and agriculture to create work for the millions idle or facing idleness because of the shutdown of war industries. Just how long it take to chart a plan, or how effective the plan will be, is uncertain. 2. Unemployment compensation.

Senate and House are working on proposals to pay as much as $25 weekly for 26 weeks to workers unable to find jobs. The administration is behind the plan, but Congress is cooling off Twining in Official Party Which Inspects Unrepaired Nippon Ruins landings today expanded the American occupation forces' powerful grip on the Tokyo area. General MacArthur, in a general order, gave his armies authority to requisition anything they need in Japan. First occupation of Tokyo itself, scheduled for Friday, is to be outlined in detail at a meeting of the Japanese First army command with Lt. Gen.

Robert L. Eichelberger, American Eighth army commander at Yokohama Wednesday. MacArthur instructed the Japanese to turn alt existing prisoner-of-war camps over to the highest ranking officer Interned in each, and gave him authority to demand of the Japanese whatever food and medical care is necessary for his camp. First Force Small The initial Tokyo occupation force will number only 3,350, said the Japanese government communique announcing that the entry was scheduled Friday. The communique policemen would be detailed to maintain law and order in all areas of occupation; government 'organs and public organizations would continue to function as usual, and all negotiations between American forces and Japanese authorities would be conducted by liaison officials.

MacArthur as the first foreigner ever to rule Japan evidently planned to use both the emperor and the existing government for carrying out his decrees. With, the militarists eliminated, the industrialists and politicians are expected to return, to influence-, some Japanese "intellectuals told Associated Press correspondent Russell they hoped the American occupation would give impetus to democratic tendencies. Twinlnr Sees "Mew" Three air forces generals after NO GAS TO RATION A Jap puts straw and coal into the fuel bin of a bus at Atsugi airfield. Shortage of gasoline made it necessary for Japan to use this type of fuel for vehicles in the latter stages of the war. (AP Wirephoto) Yamashifa Gives Up to Red Arrow (JP) Gen.

Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "ex-Tiger of Malaya," formally and unconditionally surrendered the remnants of his once great Philippines army low-level reconnaissance flights to liberated Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. over Tokyo, Yokohama, Shizuo- Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, ka, Hamamatsu and Nagoya de- the tamed and docile Japanese clared that "everything in Japan gave himself up to troops of the 32nd (Red Arrow) division, led by Lt. Russell Bauman, Glenbeulah, Wis.

Yamashita, accompanied by 11 Japanese, including four generals, was met on a rugged mountain trail on Luzon island by 24 picked members of the 32nd. Without Delay Bauman and Yamashita ex- is going to pot." The generals Curtis E. May, James Dodlittle and Nathan F. Twining said they found bomb damage even greater than their own estimates. "They made no attempt to repair bomb damage as the Germans did," Twining said.

"There was no indication) anywhere that they had even tried to clean up the mess." piuii, uut io tne mesa. on it. The. issue may touch off changed salutes, after which the, Preceding the occupation of with Capitol hill. 3.

Surplus property disposal. A bill to substitute a single administrator for the 3-man board now in charge of getting rid of war-born surpluses will be.ready for House action next week. There may be a fight over how much authority the administrator should have. Streamlining- 4. Reorganization of executive agencies.

Mr. Truman wants au- thority to abolish or merge many slonstls'VgrTodfy To "reel agencfes. The House expenditures ommend more liberal pension committee starts hearings today laws for state employes so 'that on the -proposal. But committee they could retire at an earlier! sentiment favors limiting, the Ull Jb, J.ilt I.VSUV.A* President Truman's first big battle American lieutenant told the fc General with Canitol hill. "Tiger:" "I have been charged to age and receive a maximum of $1,200 a year instead of $900 as at present.

Roy E. Kubis.ta, executive secretary Wisconsin State Employes association, (AFL) proposed the changes at a session of the committee at the capitol. La Follette Views to universal peacetime military conscription and support of the pending full employment bill was voiced yesterday by Sen. Robert M. LaFollette (Prog-Wis) in an address to a civic labir day gathering.

President's reorganization power and exempting such agencies as the Interstate Commerce commission, the general accounting office and the federal communications commission. 5. Termination of wartime controls and laws. Many emergency acts are nearing expiration and Congress must decide which to retain. Prospects are the second war i powers act, from which rationing with bringing you and your party through our lines without hinder- ance, delay or molestation." were to MacArthur's half-encircle the capital with new landings today, while 120 miles southwest naval forces landed at Hamamatsu and Yamashita replied through an (other landings were being teat interpreter: "I want to tell you how much I appreciate the courtesies and good treatment you have shown us." He repeated the expression several times later but received no acknowledgement.

Takusu, port city of Kyushu island, 600 miles southwest of Tokyo, and at Kanoya airfield, also on Kyushu. Led by minesweepers, two dfr- stroyers and six small troopships steamed without incident into Ka- The group hiked three miles to, goshima bay to and th eir forces at Kiangan where the Japanese were Takusu beaches The task force met by Col. Ernest A Barlow, Salt was under command of Navy Lake City, 32nd division chief of staff. What It Means One of the Nipponese generals Capt. Clyde M.

Jensen, Peru, HL Already Landing Associated Press Correspondent Robbin Coons, aboard Jensen's asked Barlow what the Red Arrow flagship radloe that American through aline meant in lanes already were Iandin at sions insignia Barlow explained Kanoa Radio Tokyo iBdicated it represented the division's I tney might have carried some Imdenburg: bornetroops war By nightfall, nearly 100,000 Americans were scheduled to be on Japanese four times that many due to be landed during "Yes," responded "and Yamashita's line in the second World war." The 32nd, one of the veteran outland priorities stem, will be kept flts of Anting In the Pacific, pur- 'on the statute books. Also it ap- ued the Japanese all the way pears that the draft act will be from Buna New Guinea to mountains of northern Luzon. It originally was formed from the Wisconsin and Michigan national guard companies. M'ARTHUR SIGNS SURRENDER PAPERS Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied commander, uses one of the five pens in signing Japanese surrender in Tokyo bay. This is a closeup of the original reaching Seattle.after first pictures had been transmitted by radio from Tokyo bay.

(AP Wirephoto) permitted to run its natural course no legislative for either to. next May 15. There will be business ready branch before next week. In fact, Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) 'said he doubted if the House could count on a majority before then. A major fight is shaping up over the draft law.

Considerable Rise In Mercury After Weekend of Chill Although autumn definitely was in the air yesterdayand early today, the mercury had zoomed up to summer areas by noon to inform the populace that fall doesn't actually begin for almost another three weeks. The mercury had bounded up to 80 at noon today from lows of 64 early today and 52 early Sunday. It was just right for the football practice starting this afternoon by Monroe high athletes at Recreation park. The forecast is for partly cloudy weather tonight and not much change in temperature. the month for a total of a half- million.

Troops of General Eiechelber- ger's army already had crossed the Tama rive, Tokyo's south bound- ary, but were careful not to. enter Torn to No. 1. Back At Least 361 Fatalities In Labor Day Accidents By The Associated Press America's first peacetime holiday since 1941 brought as well as celebration. At least 361 deaths were counted as Labor day observance came to an end.

The accident death toll jumped this year from 245 for Labor day weekend, 1944, but still was I At least 11 persons met accidental death in the 3-day Labor, day holiday weekend in Wisconsin. Authorities reported one of the largest outpourings of traffic on state highways in history as the state celebrated its first peacetime Labor day holiday in four years. The recent lifting of considerably lower than the 6261 gasoline rationing added to the for Labor day, 1941, before Pearl Harbor. Automobile accidents accounted for much of the increase over last year. At least 210 persons were killed in traffic.

There were 59 drownings and 92 fatalities from miscellaneous causes. Illinois reported the highest state toll with 36 from traffic accidents, 5 from drowning and 13 from mistjellan- eous accidents. thfongs that crowded roads in all parts of the state. George Immel, 52, Fond du Lac, was killed instantly yesterday when.he fell into a concrete mixer while he was cleaning the machine. The Wisconsin deaths were highway fatalities, 4 drowned, was struck by lightning and another, a small child, 'was accidentally scalded to death..