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Final Home Edition Associated Press Leased Wire FORTY-EIGHTH 1898. MONROE, GREEN COUNTY, WISj MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS County Tax Rale Hiked 46 Cents; Under 2 Years Ago New Figure 7.46, But I twos 8.24 For 1944 Period A 1946 Green county tax rate increase of 46 cents per thousand dollars assessed valuation over the 1945 rate was announced today by County Clerk Clarence W. Lengacher for the 16 towns, five villages and two cities in the county. The "average county rate" for the year will be 7.46, compared an even 7 for this year but still considerably under the figure for two years ago of 8.24 cents. Comparison The city and county rate" is up from 6.56 cents to 7.07 cents in the coming year but still is considerably below the rate of 7.98 cents two years ago.

The over-all rate looking backward through the -past few years shows: 1943, 7.95; 1942, 8.99; 1941, 8.41; 1940, 8.62 and 1939, 9.45. The Monroe assessment for 1946 is 866,107.16, an increase from this vear from $53,840, but only slight- Iv above the figure two years ago of S63.234.40, and that of three years ago of $61,592.90. -By Tax Units Unit total apportionment of state and county taxes for 1946 are shown with 1945 amounts in parenthesis: Adams 14.624.81 (12,457) Albany (10,465) Brooklvn 14.369.83 (12,108) Cadiz 17,398.26 (14,828) Clarno 21.663.48 (18,541) Decatur 14,273.72 (12,152) Exeter 14,614.61 (12,170) Jefferson 23.440.76 (19,849) Monroe 16,101.51 (13,589) Mt. Pleasant 14,969.54 (12,646) New Glarus 14,051.27 (11,765) Spring Grove 18,731.81 (15,743) Sylvester 18,582.89 (13,058) Washington 15,516.83 (13,058) York 15,040.79 (12,766) Villages Albany 8,103.01 (7,707) Brooklyn 3,073.36 (2,854) Browntown 2,561.88 (2,281) Monticello 7.807.10 (6,713) New Glarus 12,767.61 (10,072) Cities Brodhead 15,040.41 (12,358) Monroe 66,107.16 (53,840) HEAD-ON TRAIN CRASH KILLS TWO BUT SOLDIERS is an aerial view after a head-on collision of a troop train (left) and a freight-train (right) on the Seaboard railroad near Hanlin, in which two enginemen were killed and two train men were injured seriously. All of the troops escaped injury except for being shaken up.

Note the car on the troop train which plowed under the locomotive tender and is jammed against the cab! (AP Wirephoto) First Test for New Fire Door in Alarm On Sunday Morning The new electrically controlled door of the fire house received its first fire test at 11:20 a. m. Sunday. George W. Field, city assessor and building inspector, was at the door giving it the first coat of paint and had to quit as the door went up in the first opportunity for demonstration during a fire alarm.

The door, operated by an overhead motor unit and button switch inside, is opened and closed by the same handy ooer- a button. It is pulled back overhead and breaks by hinged sections without contacts to smear the painting. The door moves slowly, stops accurately and locks automatically at any desired position. The fire run was to the home of Mrs. Florence Demanouske, 1213 12th avenue.

First reported as a roof blaze, it turned out to be in some bedding, which was ruined. Total damage was small. Tags Total of 436 Deer Sold Here, a New Sales Record Tip to noon today the office of County Clerk Clarence W. Lengacher "had sold 436 deer tags, a new record. Names T4r added those previously published include Edwin Weiler.

Monticello; Sanford Gilbertson, Argyle, Lawrence Blum ond Alvin R. Buredorf. New Glarus. Kenneth E. Coplien, Brodhead, and Theodore Wyss; Sam Waelti.

Chester Wyss, Robert Davenport, Arnold Mueller, Maurice Quinn, Walter D. Loertscher, Marion Mueller, Alfred Locher, Shirl Hilliard, Ernest Locher, James Share and Max Share, all of Monroe. Funds for UNRRA With Limitations and louse committees acted today to speed new funds into diminishing JNRRA treasury. Striking out all restrictive amendments, the senate appro- iriations, committee approved a i50 million dollar fund for the United Nations. relief and rehabilitation This represented the final installment on the original United States commitment of $1,350,000,000.

The House foreign affairs committee approved legislation to uthorize a second contribution of 5.1,350,000,000. Restrictive amendments re- ected by the Senate appropria- ions committee included: A requirement that nations re- eiving aid admit representatives if press and radio without restric- ions upon news reports of UNRRA activities. A motion by Acting Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn) that all UNRRA supplies bought with the 550 million dollars be given away. An amendment offered by Senator Thomas- (D-Okla) to require payment of parity prices to United States farmers for agricultural products. An amendment' offered by Senator Wherry (K-Neb) to require any nation receiving UNRRA aid to admit UNRRA accredited agents and officials for full investigations.

G. A. Collins and Everett Keel Are- Hurt in Car Wreck Gerald A. Collins and Everett Keel, both of Monroe, were injured about 6:45 a. m.

Saturday when the auto in which they were riding overturned about 20 miles from Black. River Falls. Accompanied, by Dr. Kraut, Lancaster, they were riding to deer hunting territory when their auto skidded on an icy pavement and shot into a steep embankment. The auto rolled aver, coming to a halt on its top, the men being pinned in the machine.

Authorities removed the men to the Black River Falls hospital where X-rays showed a fracture of Keel's right shoulder blade. Mr. Collins suffered a broken left hip. They were brought to Monroe and Mr. Collins is in St.

Clare hospital. All men received minor cuts and bruises. Some Privacy Washington President Truman and his family have staked out a claim to a little privacy sometimes when they go, avisiting. Mr. Truman himself was back in the White House after what began as a secret flight to Grandview, and ended with a night landing at National airport here.

He made the unheralded trip to visit his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, on her 93rd birthday anniversary. Mrs. Truman and their daughter, Margaret, meanwhile, are visiting friends in New York, the identities of their hosts a closely guarded secret. They plan to attend tonight's opening of the Metropolitan opera season.

The President, up early yesterday and noting, he said, that it was a pretty day decided suddenly on' the Grandview jaunt. Returning at 7:14 p. m. he told four reporters awaiting him at the airport: "I just took a notion to visit Grandview and see my mother on her birthday, and I did, just I used to do." Youth Found Shot In Field Near Home Charles Hibner, 15-year old son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Hibner, Sylvester township, was found dead from a gunshot wound through the heart about 10:30 a. m. Sunday in a field near the farm home. Coroner Herman A. who investigated, said the wound was from a gun found.

near the body. The young boy had borrowed the weapon earlier in the day from a neighbor for hunt-, ing purposes. The son of George and Blanche Bratley Hibner, Charles Hibner was born Dec. 5, 1929, in Cadiz township. 'He lived.in Stephenson county until coming to Sylvester township about four years ago where they had resided since.

A graduate of rural schools, he had been assisting with farming on farm homes in the neighborhood. Surviving- are his parents, two brothers, William and George, three sisters, Florence, Rose and Shirley, all at home; his grandfather, August Hibner, Monroe; and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Bratley, also of Monroe. Rev. Paul C.

Kehle, St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church, will officiate at the funeral services at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Shriner-Neushwander funeral, home. Burial will be in Cadiz cemetery.

Cancel Funds for Strike Elections to call an immediate halt to government-supervised strike elections, the House appropriations i committee today recommended that all funds for this activity be canceled at once. The recommendation, subject to approval of both the House and the Senate, was made in a $1,131,552,312 appropriation bill to meet deficiencies in funds previously app'ropriated for several score federal agencies for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Strike elections have been conducted by the national labor relations board under provisions of the Smith-Connally war labor disputes act. Separate legislation repealing, the strike-vote requirement and imposing stiff curbs on labor unions is pending in the House but will not be acted on until the supply bill approved today by the appropriations committee is disposed of, probably Wednesda3'. The commijtee estimated at $2,400,000 the cost of conducting strike elections during the next seven months.

-Noing that the strike-v provision was a wartime proposal, the committee said the need for it has passed. It added that the regular work of the which has requested repeal of the strike-vote requirement, is being held up by the elections. In. addition to denying new funds for any such elections, the committee recommended that money already appropriated for that purpose be returned to the treasury. The $1,131,552,312 recommended for the various agencies supplied by the bill was a reduction of $576,142,136 from budget estimates, representing one of the biggest percentage slashes ever proposed by the committee.

However, more than half of the reduction was made- "without prejudice" to reconsideration later. Among the "without prejudice" cuts were $24,500,000 for temporary housing for veterans, $158,320,000 for hospital and domiciliary facilities for veterans, and $128,475,000 for river and harbor and flood control projects. All these items, the committee said, should be reviewed later by committee dealing exclusively with End of Tub Ring? Washington (JP) The government came up with this good news for housewives somebody claims to have thought Tip how to make soap guaranteed to do away with "balluub ring." Alien Property Custodian James Markham announced that a patent covering the process is available for license 10 American citizens. Harl to Succeed Crowley Washington (IP) Truman today nominated Maple T. Harl, Denver, to be chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation.

The President at the same time designated William MeChesney Martin as chairman of the Export-Import bank. Harl succeeds Leo T. Crowley, as FEA administrator, as FDIC chairman. Orlando Back In Rome The aged Viltorio Emanuel Orlando, Italian premier during the first World irar, appeared certain today of forming a new government to' succeed that of resigned Premier Ferruccio Parri. Wisconsin Hydro Properties Sold To Cooperative Menomohie William E.

Owen, chairman of a joint com- jmittee representing .17 'Wisconsin Minnesota REA cooperatives, i announced today that their bid of $4,979,000 for purchase of the i Wisconsin Hydro-Electric co'm- 'pany and the i Power company ac- I cepted. The sale, which must be approved by the securities exchange commission and the Wisconsin public service commission, covers the purchase of eight hydro generating plants, one diesel generating plant, 293 miles of transmission lines and 901 miles of distribution lines, all in Wisconsin. Owen said that the sale already had been approved by majority stockholders of both companies but added that a minority objection might be expected, in which case SEC would order a hearing. Owen said that the Wisconsin share of the bid was $3,449,000 and Minnesota $1,530,000. The Minnesota properties include imiles of transmission lines and 500 miles of distribution lines.

About 8,000 Wisconsin and 5,000 Minnesota customers are served by the two. i Sale of the properties follows an SEC order which directed the (Manufacturers Trust company of New.York, the holding company controlling both, to divest itself of the electric facilities. Nazi Plotters in 1938 Plan to Kill Own Czech Envoy Plan of Conquest Fully Developed in 1937, Court Told i Nuernberg (AP) i- dence designed to show that German incited Japan to make the attack on Pearl Harbor was placed before the international, war crimes tribunal today by American prosecutors. American prosecutors pro- duced stenographic notes to talks between Hitler and Japanese Foreign Minister Ybsuke Matsuoka several months before the Pearl Harbor attack 'and asserted that "our evidence wiirshow these Nazi conspira- and kept up a force that could reasonably be expected to result in war with the United States." American prosecutors disclosed at the war crimes trial of 20 top Nazis today that Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel plotted in 1938 to assassinate their own German ambassador in Prague to create an "incident" leading to the invasion of tiny Czechoslovakia. The plot was just one step in Hitler's lawless plans to subjugate Germany's neighbors that were outlined in detail -before the international military tribunal.

Reading from Captured German documents, American prosecutors charged that detailed plans for the invasion of Czechoslovakia were made on April 21, one month after Hitler overran Aus tria and assured the world he ha no further plans for territorial ex pansion. In Carefully Guarded File Plans for the proposed assassi nation of a German diplomat an a' subsequent blitz invasion of th little country were known by th code name "case green" and wer revealed in a file carefully kep by Hitler's adjutant who wa captured by American airborn troops, Assistant Prosecutor Sid ney S. Alderman told the court. While American prosecutor proceeded to pile up evidence Hitler's. plans for aggressive war defense counsel filed lists of pros pective witnesses and desired do cuments, which included an indi cation that Rudolf Hess, No.

Nazi, will carry his insanity pie; to the court. Counsel for Hjahnar Schach disclosed that the former Reichs bank president will seek to provi that he participated in the bomb plot to kill Hitler July 20, 1944 and tried to overthrow the Naz government in 1938. In a document described American prosecutors as "Hitler's last will and testament," the fuehrer fatefully predicted he would "solve the German space problem no later than 1943-45." Two Worst Enemies Hitler was quoted as describing England and France as the reich's "two hateful enemies," and saying on Nov. 5, 1937, that "the question for Germany is where the greatest possible conquest could be made at the lowest cost." With other documents, Prosecutor Alderman answered the questions of many military and political experts as to why Hitler die not delay -his actual outbreak of war and continue his plan for gradual acquisition of territory. German records reveal, Alderman said, that Hitler wanted to strike while he was still comparatively young and physically fit to guide the war effort.

Germany was almost fully armed in 1937 Alderman said, and Hitler was afraid that further delay would "outdate equipment" and give other nations an opportunity to "catch up" in, the arms race. Hull Claims Note to Japs Misrepresented Foe Bent on War; Any Other Nation Would Have Yielded Washington Ambassador Joseph C. Grew denied today he had an army inquiry board quoted then Secretary of State Hull's Nov. 26. 1941, note touched the button that started: the war" with Japan.

Grew told the Senate-House Pearl Harbor investigating committee he had. testified before the army board that the "button was touched about the time the Hull note was but never regarded the 10-point American statement as having been the cause for the Japanese military move. GOERING TALKS IT OVER IN Goering (seated right in prisoners' dock) -chats with Lt. Gustave Gilbert (left), New York City, and Lt. Richard Nalle (second from left), Culpepper, in Nuernberg, Germany, court during recess in war crimes trial.

The MP at the right is unidentified. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Paris) Norton and Schneider To Operate Firestone Store After Jan. 1 Emmett Norton, Monroe, and Archie Schneider, South Wayne today announced they had completed arrangements for operation of a Firestone store in Monroe, opening to be shortly after Jan. 1. They will occupy the building on the south side of the squa're which formerly housed one of the Burgess Battery company plants.

Extensive remodeling is under way, a new cement floor having been laid. They will handle all kinds of auto accessories and household appliances. Emily Zinck, who foiled first attempts of City Warrant Officer T. Feltenstein (rear) to arrest her on a charge of creating a health menace, is escorted from her Brooklyn home by a policeman. After she barricaded heself in the home, police raised a ladder to a second floor bedroom window to gain entrance.

(AP Wirephoto) Officials at the Monroe Gas Division of Wisconsin Hydro-Electric said today they were informed the sale included the local property. Severe Hand Injury in Wringer Accident Mrs. Vilas J. Rundhammer, Times apartment resident, suffered a serious wringer accident in the building laundry this morning. Her right hand was lacerated as it was drawn into the rollers by a towel as she had started washing.

Saved, from fractures, her hand was otherwise severely crushed and torn. She received prompt surgery, 21. stitches being required. Mrs. Rundhammer was alone at the time but managed to free the hand and return to 'her upstairs apartment and summon help.

Mr. Rundhammer is accountant for the United Telephone company here. Ward Employes On 1-Week Strike By The Associated Press Montgomery Ward returned to Fear 16 Drown in School Bus Wreck Bruce the labor scene today as 75,000 Parkinson said today 15 or 16 pu- CIO employes of the big mail of- pils were drowned when a school der house began a 1-week "dem-; bus tne chelan highway, and' that any peaceful nation would Hull declared today that the Japanese were "hell-bent" for war in November, 1941. and rejected a 10- point American note he said any peace-seeking would harvt been "delighted- to accept." The 74-year-old former secre- tary of state, testifying before a Senate-House committee investi- i gating the Pearl Harbor disaster, I said the Nov. 26 note he handed the Japanese had been "ignoraht- ly misrepresented." Japanese propagandists later called it an American "ultimatum." The army Pearl HarBor board said in its report Hull's delivery of the note may have started the war.

Claims Misrepresentation "There has been more misinformation and more ignorant mis- no the significance of this last proposal of ours than of any move we made." Hull testified. "There was' nothing In there onstration" strike. A new move was made by thej CIO United Automobiles Workers as the General Motors Walkout, idling 200,000 went into its sixth day. A break came in the Northwest traDDed in the bus Pacific lumber tieup which has, a PP ed the bus. kept 60,000 AFL unionists- away mation from the sci from their jobs since Sept.

24. In Maine, 2,800 CIO textile workers resolved their differences with two cotton mill operators, but 7,200 employes of seven other mills re- over a 50-foot embank- into 50 feet of water in Lake Chelan. First reports said 40 students were thought to have been Later infbr- mained on strike. Telephone service from the town of Chelan, indicated most of the children had escaped. Sheriff Parkinson said "five or six" swam ashore and were rushed to hospitals.

in. Illinois! Officers were still attempting and Two northern 1 Indiana counties to piece together the fragmentary was back to normal after the reports of the tragedy while company and 8,700 operators compromised their wage disputes. Altogether, 575,000 workers were idle in labor disputes across the nation. Other major ones involved 10,000 AFL and CIO machinists in San Francisco, a strike which has kept 50,000 other workers off their jobs; 6,100 Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing company employes, Providence, R. and 4,300 Greyhound bus drivers in 26 states.

But the Ward strike occupied the center of the labor stage. Im- The sheriff said occurred during drivers were being rushed from Coulee City and Seattle. the accident a i blinding snowstorm. Highways in the district were' slippery. The bus plunged down a 50-foot embankment into the lake.

The accident occurred" shortly after 8 a.m. and at 10:15 the sheriff said it had been impossible to identify any of the victims. A big barge was floated to the scene and kept over the spot where the bus went The sheriff's office and state pa- mediately involved were members ne omce ana slale TlnitPrf Retail. Wholesale trol both sent emergency crews of the. United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes (CIO) in Chicago, Detroit, Albany and Jamaica, N.

Denver and Kansas City. Other CIO unions lave been asked to picket more 600 Ward stores and mail order outlets in 42 states. At issue are the union's demands for a closed shop, checkoff of union dues and wage increases. 'We are going out for one week and then, from time to time, might the operation," said Union President Samuel Wolchok. to the scene.

The children were en route to school at Chelan. It's worst tragedy we've had in this section," he said. Degree for Crowley (ff) Roman Atkielski, chancellor of the Milwaukee archdiocese, announced today that the honor of knight commander, with star, of the Order of Pius IX, would be conferred Leo T. Crowley Jan. 10 at Madison.

not have been, delighted to accept." Hull said the 10-point note merely brought together the general principles on which the United States had been insisting since diplomatic talks began with the Japanese six months earlier. He added that 5 of the 10 points offered direct benefits to Japan. "The only trouble with this note was that the Japanese were I hadn't noticed the presence of ladies here I'd say- hell carrying ahead their military policy," the former cabinet member said grimly. Justified in Plan Earlier the ailing secretary had testified he believed the state department was "thoroughly justified in wanting the fleet kept at Pearl Harbor in the critical days of late 1941." He said: "We felt that it would be more or less useful, especially atter the fleet was based at Pearl Harbor, that it remain there during the critical state of relations with certain other i "We were dealing with one of the worst international desperadoes within the memory of man. He was at large, on a rampage, dangerous, treacherous and uri- dependable in every way.

"It was a little more wholesome in the many matters under discussion for our navy to be standing there." Hull said that "from all tangible and intangible reactions" he had received he was convinced the state department was "thoroughly justified" in that viewpoint. Two Badger Deer Hunters Killed, Several Wounded By The Associated Press While the deer withdrew to snow-choked woods, the number of Wisconsin hunters bagged by "ellow Nimrods or by their own weapons began to rise today, with at least two shot to death and 'our others wounded by the third lay of the state's 5-day deer In addition, one hunter was stricken by a fatal heart attack and another man was killed when truck by a huntsman's car. iRobert Alton, 17, Waukesha, tvas shot and killed Saturday near 5olon Springs when he was mis- aken for a bear, a coroner's jury decided, terming the shooting ac- idental. Thomas Michalski, 42, who lived tear Merrill, was killed yesterday ivhen a loaded rifle slipped out of ts carrying case and discharged. Others Badly Wounded William Habig, 34, North kce, was shot in the left thigh near Cri'vitz yesterday and was taken to Marinette general hospital where his condition was given as good.

Herbert Long, Madison, was shot in the shoulder Saturday while hunting near Black River Falls in Jackson county. He was taken by ambulance to Madison. Travel Is Difficult Hunters were experiencing trouble getting into the wooded back areas because of heavy snow and poor road conditions and, as a result, the kill was believed considerably lighter than last year. The Wisconsin conservation commission at Madison said that few reports of kills had been received there and indications were that'the average would not be so good as last year when about one of every four hunters bagged a buck. Bulletins By The Associated Press Jerusalem Police battered with batons and tear gas today into the surrounded settlement of Shefayim.

one of three' localities surrounded yesterday after armed Jews wounded 14 officers in attacks an coast guard stations. Curfew prevailed along- a large section of the Palestine coast. 'rairie, was shot in the head yes-1 The heavy snow of last week erday while hunting near Lake I made for'good tracking, the com- 'omahawk. His condition today! mission reported, but it also ham- vas fair. pered the hunters because in HerbertX.

Chancy, 53, Milwau- many places it fell on back roads died of a heart attack Satur- that were not frozen over and ay while hunting four miles outh of Dunbar (Marinette coun- y) with Louis J. Oleynicz. 38, al- of Milwaukee. Duane Me Call, 38, editor of the )conto County Reporter, was shot the right leg Saturday near Iconto when a gun discharged vhile he and a companion, Ernest eidinger, also of Oconto, were esting. Edward Wellskopf, 20, Milwau- driving on them was hazardous.

As a result most of the hunting was confined to-areas near the main highways. Reports from scattered sections indicated that there were as many hunters in the woods as last year. Marinette, Bayfield. Vilas. Douglas, Ashland, Marathon and Wood counties were among centers that reported heavy license tag sales, equal if not above that of 1944.

lines of Indonesians were observed retreating southward out of battered Soerabajo today, the British" said, as fighting flared anew in Batavia. A British press release stated the movement or the Indonesians toward Malang, 55 miles away, indicated the native nationalists were abandoning their last stronghold in the southern section of Soerabaja. Chicago completion of bankruptcy proceedings of the Chicago. Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad company appear likely today when the federal court antaounced it saw no need for further hearings.

The proceedings have. been pending in the district court for 10 years. San broadcast from Shanghai said today at least nine American fliers lost their Jives and at least 12 planes were lost out of a flight of ZZ Mustangs when they encountered bad weather on a routine flight to Shanghai. American officials refused to reveal details..