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Leased Wire Press MONROE EVENING TIMES MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS FORTY-NINTH YEAR- -ESTABLISHED 1898. MONROE, GREEN COUNTY, Fine Dairy League $25,000 and Four Officials $1,000 Enter Guilty Pleas To Manipulation of New York Butter New York-(P) -Federal Judge Alfred C. Cove imposed a fine of $25,000 against the Dairymen's League Cooperative association today after they entered guilty to a criminal information charging manipulation of the New York butter market to -fix the January, 1947, milk price. The individuals named were Henry Rathbun, president of the association. and three members of the executive committee of its board of directors, Leon H.

Chapin, Hedley Benson and Herbert Seeley. Theodore Kiendl, defense attorney. said the action of the association in buying large quantities of butter on the New York mercantile exchane on Dec. 18, 19, 20. 23 and 24 last.

was for the dual purpose of protecting the producers in the New York milk shed on the January price and to prevent a shortage in the New York "market because of a higher price effective during January in the Boston area. He said the defendants acted in good faith, had no criminal intent and were without knowledge that their action violated the commocity exchange act. U. S. Attorney John F.

X. McGohey said the offense was serious and had the effect of increasing the price of butter to New York consumers. He said records of the New York mercantile exchange indicated that during the five days mentioned the league purchases. aggregated 97 per cent of all butter offered for sale. Tobey Hits GOP 'Favorite Sons' Washington -(A)- Senator Tobey (R-NH) called today for "fewer favorite sons" in the ReAt the same time, however, he publican oranization.

denied that he is kicking over party traces with any intent to upset GOP control of the senate:" The gray-haired New Hampshire senator -vocal defender of an unsuccessful Democratic battie last week to halt continuation of the war investigating and small business committees -told a reporter he is going along with the Republicans when he thinks times. they are right -but not at other Tobey was one of four Republicans who voted against the two committees. Tobey was one of four Republicans who voted against the two committees. "I've been a said. Republican "I'm for nearly 45 years." he no bolter.

But I'm jealous of my party. I want it to be as clean as a whistle. I want it to deserve the commendation of the country for its forthrightness." In this connection, Tobey said he thinks there are "too many favorite sons" in the present GOP senate organization. He repeated charges he made on the floor last week that the two special committees had been set up primarily to give chairmanshiDs to Senators Brewster (R- Mel. on the war investicating group and Wherry (R-Neb).

on the small business committee. Both of the latter denied this. Siding with the Democrats who claimed the Republicans were chiseling away the congressional reorganization act by setting up special committees. Tobey told his colleagues during debate that GOP leaders had been "running the train off the tracks" and were demanding that party members become "yes men." He named Senators Taft (R-O), Vandenberg (R-Mich), and White (R-Me) as the leaders invoved. Delay Judament in Case on OPA Sugar.

Washington-(P)-Federal District Judge F. Dickinson Letts todav delayed indgment until on the Moberly (Mo.) Milk Products Co. case in which he has ruled informally that OPA's "historical use" basis for the industrial rationing of sugar is illegal. Attornevs for OPA asked that the court's findings state clearly whether all use of the "historical" basis rationing based on the volume of sugar consumed by a company in past years is in violation of the war mobilization and reconversion act. "This affects very deeply the whole sugar rationing program," said Carl A.

Auerbach, general counsel for OPA. "We would like to know that court's interpretation of the act. so we will know what to do from now on." Auerbach contended the Droposed iudgment. as prepared by counsel for the condensed milk companv for the court's signature, does not make it clear whether the entire rationing pattern is illegal or whether the Moberly firm merely suffered discrimination under the procedure, Dimes Really March Green county opened its heart and pocketbook Saturday for the annual March of Dimes campaixn which was eminently successful in all of the cilles and villages where held. New Glarus quickly disposed of all its tags and Monroe did likewise by midafternoon.

Brodhead's tags were lost in the shuffle and more were dispatched there. High school age girls started the campaign with good collections in Monroe in the morning, young matrons tock over in the afternoon and the girls returned for an evening foray, grand total of which was $799.50. A feature, the wishing well on, the cast side of the square, drew in $36.10 and provided a good deal of entertainment for the city's large crowds. during the day. Letters of solicitation were mailed today to 4,000 persons 35 part of the advance drive for sale of tickets to the March of Dimes climax, dance Thursday night at Turner hall.

CIO Union Wins West Allis Test Milwaukee- E. Petersen, 1 president of the Independent Workers of Chalmers, the union which lost to the UAW-CIO in a collective bargaining election yesterday among workers of strikebound Allis-Chalmers, charged today that Wisconsin law forbids the company's bargaining with. a unit which represents less than majority of employes. Milwaukee United -(P)-Local 248 Workers of the CIO Auto union--on strike at Allis-Chalmers since April 29, 1946 today retained its bargaining rights at the giant plant in West Allis, despite failure to gain a majority in an election held by the Wisconsin employment relations board. The election was ordered on a petition of the Independent Workers of Allis-Chalmers for a new bargaining election.

The UAW polled 4,122 votes, the independ-. ent union 4,014 and 116 workers voted for no union, the Wisconsin employment relations board chal- announced. Fifty ballots were lenged. spokesman for the board said the CIO local, certified as bargaining agent by the national labor relations board in 1938, retained its rights because the "burproof" was on the. Independent union.

R. J. Thomas, UAM international vice president, called the results a "victory" and said they "show that workers want ment of the strike on their terms, and not company terms." "Allis-Chalmers workers and their chosen union demand diate resumption of, negotiations by the company with the union and a speedy settlement of the strike," Thomas said. Walter E. Peterson, chairman, of the independent union, he would petition the board for a new election.

Bulletins By The Associated Press London Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the commons today that negotiations for revision of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty had broken down on the Egyptian demand for permanent union with the Suda. In a simultaneous announcement to the chamber of deputies in Cairo, Prime Minister rashi Pasha said that Egypt's demands for evacuation ish troops and unity of the Nile valley would be submitted to the United Nations. Jerusalem--Two kidnapings of Britons resulted in the placing of 90,000 Palestine Jews under house arrest today, and British military forces postponed the hanging scheduled tomorrow of an alleged Jewish underground terrorist, Carrollton, teen striking AFL Electrical Workers convicted of riotous acts in an assault on employes of the Illinois Rural Electric Co. "proportion- were fined $50 each and ate costs" today by Greene County Judge Julian Hutchens. Judge Hutchens denied a new.

trial for the 14 defendants, who were convicted by county court jury Jan. 9. Washington- The justice department today asked the Supreme court. to reverse a decision holding unconstitutional the Lea act sometimes referred to as "the anti-Petrillo law." An appeal filed with the high tribunal by' George T. Washington, acting solicitor general, urged the court to review inmediately the findings by Judge Walter J.

La Boy of the U. S. district court in Chicago. Pittsburgh--The U. S.

Steel submitting counter pro-' posals to the CIO United Steel Workers in contract. tions today, announced it was insisting on the employe's fundamental rights to determine for himself" whether he should be a member of the union. Housing Shortage Whipped Soon, Say Builders Problem Is Being Attacked From All Angles, Is Claim try spokesmen predicting the Washington-(P)-With indushousing shortage will be whipped this year, a group of senate Republicans offered a higher-rent measure as one way to speed' the licking. Extension of rent control to the end of 1947 with a 15 per cent increase in rent ceilings was proposed by. Senator Hawkes (NJ) and three GOP colleagues- -McCarthy (Wis), Cain (Wash), and Malone (Nev).

Hawkes said the proposal was being prepared for introduction shortly. Under the senator's plan no ceiling would apply on newlybuilt or accommodations which have not been rented in the past year. To Avoid Red Tape The later provision, Hawkes predicted to reporters, would induce many people to rent living Housing Spur Fond du Lac (AP)-A recommendation to the legislature that new apartment units be made Lax-free for five years was approved by the state department of the American Legion at the annual' midwinter conference. over the weekend. John O'Melia, Rhinelander, chairman of the Legion's state housing committee, said, "there must be some incentive for contractors to turn their 'efforts to the erection of dwelling for private citizens." He added that the proposed exemption would apply not only to real estate taxes but to state income taxes in income received from rentals.

quarters in. their homes which they have hesitated to open up "because they didn't want to bother with the red tape of government control." Hawkes' announcement capped a weekend in which National Housing Administrator Ramond M. Foley and Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon, in an official policy statement declared that private industry is "practically on its own again" and must shoulder the major responsibility of meeting the housing shortage. Private industry spokesmen gave quick response.

In statements and interviews, they forecast that the emergency will end this year and that a "buyers' market" will replace current inflated prices on existing houses. Forecast These were among the predictions: From Herbert Nelson, tive vice Association president of of Real the Estate NationBoards "If we can get 1 million new homes in 1947 and a lifting of rent control, the housing shortage will be a thing of the past." The National Lumber Manufacturers general, the lumber shortage is now ended. Construction lumber is in ample supply." The association's statement added that such things as flooring are scarce in certain areas but the "only real problem is distribution" and this is rapidly The CIO, attacking Hawkes' 15 adjusting itself. per cent rent Increase plan, contended that it is being pushed by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, for which Nelson is the Washington spokesman. The CIO denounced the proposal and called on all CIO unions to fight it.

First Household Goods Moved into Veterans' Project Over Weekend The first of 14 veterans and their families awarded housing at the veterans housing project on Monroe's south, side began moving household 'goods over the weekend into the six apartments that are ready for occupancy. The remaining eight apartments are expected to be ready for occupancy this week, City Clerk G. S. said. Qualified veterans were chosen from a list of 35 applicants by the city's selection committee, which based their selections on need for temporary housing.

Gen. Clay Says Hope To Democratize Nazi Setup Remains High -A statement by the international committee for the study of European questions to the effect that few Germans were responding democracy was labeled a "prematurely drawn conclusion" yesterday by Lt. Gen Lucius D. Clay, deputy U. 'S.

military governor. said the process of conversion "would take a great many years." "We never claimed it could be done quickly," said clay. "All that one can fairly do now is to assess our success in approximately two years and there from attempt to gauge our. chance of success over the long Plane Crash Kills Two West of Argyle; Two Die as Train Hits Car in Brooklyn Fatal Weekend (By The Associated Press) Automobile and airplane crashes brought death to at least 11 persons in Wisconsin over the weekend, which also saw airplane wrecks throughout the world claiming a total of 54 lives. Two Brodhead youths died in a -train collision net Brookiyn, a Monroe man and an Argyle man died in an airplane crash near Lamont in Lafayette county, two 16-year-old girls and a man were killed as car skidded on 'icy pavement near Menomonie a four others died in as many car crashes.

The airplane wrecks, including that near Lamont, were the crash of the craft at Copenhagen killing Grace Moore and Prince Gustaf of Sweden, as well as 20 others; a Chinese national plane with a 2 million dollar cargo of gold, killing four; 3 crash near Lebanon, killing five; crashes in Tipton, Taneytown, and Westmoreland, killing two each, and crashes killing one each near Rochester, Wales Center, N. and Conway, S. C. Argentine-U. S.

Agreement Near Washington -(AP)- Prospects, for holding the long postponed inter-American defense conference at Rio de Janeiro appear brighter, the today past 15 than at months. any time The reason for this is evidence that the United States and Argentina are nearing a settlement of their differences over Nazi influences in the South American republic. The conference originally. was scheduled for October, 1945, to negotiate a mutual defense treaty within the framework of the United Nations charter. Repeated contentions that Argentina had not fulfilled demands finally led to indefinite postponement of the conference, But this impasse began to break over the weekend in a rapid series of events.

First the that Argentina government announced It was taking over control of 60 prominent German firms. Then Ambassador George S. Messersmith-who returned home last month for a showdown in his fight with Assistant Secretary of Turn to No. 1, Back Page Seek Killer of Woman Found in Indiana Swamp Gary, (AP). Detectives from this city planned to go to Chicago today in a hunt for the strangler of attractive Mrs.

Irene Shawsky whose bound body was found Sunday in a swamp on the western outskirts of Gary. Coroner J. Doty said the body of the 30-year-old woman had been identified by her father, John Wiebrecht, and her husband, Frank Shawsky, both of Chicago. The coroner said the woman had been strangled with a piece of twine and that her ankles also had been bound with twine. Mrs.

Shawsky's husband, a war veteran, told police that since his discharge from the service he and his wife had been unable to find housing accommodations and she had been living with her parents and had made his home with his stepfather and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Larson. Riemer, Monroe, Johnson, Argyle, Air Wreck Victims Unlicensed Craft, Unlicensed Pilot In Flaming Tragedy Frederick Riemer, 32, Monroe, and' Vernon Johnson, 19, Argyle, were killed about 2:30 Sunday afternoon when Riemer's plane crashed and burned in timber on the Larson Brothers farm, one mile north of Lamont, seven miles west -of Argyle.

The plane, a 40-horsepower Continental Cub, was owned by unlicensed pilot who taught himself to fly and had a hobby of working with old planes, repairing them and flying them. The Cub had been stored on a farm in Jordan ter and Riemer is believed to have taken off there yesterday to give Johnson a ride. Apparent Power Failure Evidence indicates that, after a possible power failure, the plane stalled out of a down-wind turn and crashed into the woodland. Workers or the Larson farm reported seeing the plane zooming earthward and immediately upon landing burst into flames, The men ran to the plant to try to rescue the occupants but were forced back by heat and possibility of an explosion. Officials of the Lafayette county sheriff's department and coroner's office investigated the accident and today representatives of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Milwaukee, were en route to the scene to look into the cause.

The bodies were identified pieces of charred papers, Riemer's billfold being badly burned but contents well intact. Frederick W. Riemer, son Benjamin and Grace Riemer, was born in Clarno township Nov. 1914. He attended Clarno township grade schools and night school in Monroe.

Since moving in 1943 to Monroe, he and his mother had resided at 20151 21st street and Riemer did me- Father chanical Killed work. in 1922 'A flying enthusiast, he had two other planes on which he experimented. Riemer also enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting and! fishing. Surviving are his mother; one sister, Mrs. Robert gan, on the home farm near Clar- i no.

His father was electrocuted at Martintown in 1922. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 in Stuessy funeral home with Rev. Alvin C. Rabehl, pastor of Immanuel Evangelical church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.

Navy Dischargee Vernon Eugene Johnson was born in the town of Argyle Dec. 18, 1927, the son of Eugene and Hazel Hendrickson. Johnson. He was discharged recently from the navy and had been at home. Johnson was a member of stone Lutheran church.

His parents survive, as do a half brother, Harold Nelson, and four sisters, Shirley and Nancy, at home, Mrs. Harlow Larson, Argyle, and Mrs. Russell Venable, Rockford. A sister, Wilma Jean, is deceased. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 in Erickson funeral home and at 2 in Yellowstone Lutheran church with George C.

Strum, being assisted by members of the Argyle American Legion post. Burial will be in the church cemletery. WITH TASK FORCE FRIGID, ALASKA Medium tanks, heading for the first mock battle in the army's arctic maneuvers, roll across the Tanana river neap Fairbanks on an improvised bridge built by placing logs inslayers on the 'ice and pumping water on them until they freeze into a solid mass. This bridge is 60 inches thick. (AP Wirephoto) NORWAY SCOTLAND Stockholm SWEDEN North Sea DEN.

ENGLAND COPENHAGEN London NETHER Amsterdam POLAND BELG. GERMANY Paris CZECH. Vienna? FRANCE SWITZ. C. AUST.

HUNG. Trieste. 250 ITALYS YUGO. STATUTE MILES SCENE OF DUTCH PLANE -A Dutch KLM airliner, en route from Amsterdam to Stockholm, crashed at the Kastrup airfield, just south of Copenhagen, as it took off on the last leg of its flight. It exploded and burned.

Among the dead are Brodhead Youths Crossing Victims; Third Badly Hurt Lehnherr, 20, Bandt, 21, Die; Rindy, 22, In Stoughton Hospital Grace Moore, American singer, and Prince Gustaf Adolf of ison via state highway 104 to reSweden. (AP Wirephoto Map) sume Monday morning classes. Lehnherr apparently was the driver. Two Brodhead University of Wisconsin students were instantly killed and a third was seriously injured when their car was struck at Brooklyn late yesterday afternoon by a fast southbound Northwestern railroad passenger train. The dead: William Lehnherr, 20, Brodhead.

Harvey T. Bandt, 21, Brodhead. The injured: Phillip J. Rindy, 22, Brodhead: taken to Stoughton Community hospital where X-rays were planned to determine the extent of his injuries. Often a Wreck Scene The accident occurred at about 5:25 last evening on the county line crossing just east of the Brooklyn depot, a narrow, high grade crossing that has been the scene of several recent accidents, including one last week.

The young men, home for the weekend, were en route to Mad- Grace Moore and Swedish Prince Die in Air Crash Copenhagen-(AP)-Royal Airlines officials hastened today to Copenhagen to investigate a disastrous plane crash which terday claimed the lives of American soprano Grace Moore, Sweder's Prince Gustaf Adolf and 20 other persons. Officials of the line issued a communique at the Hague indicating belief that the crash Two Girls Hurt in Car Fall Down Bank Two 17-year-old Monroe girls were injured shortly after Saturday midnight when the car in which they were passengers went into a skid on a downhill curve, broke through a guard rail and plunged down an embankment on county trunk seven miles southwest of New Glarus. The injured: Miss Betty Blum, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Monroe route 4, badly bruised hip and other slight bruises; treatment re-! at leased after medical St.

Clare hospital. Miss Violet Altman, 17, ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.

Altman, Monroe, head lacerations and knee bruises; released after medical treatment at St. Clare. William E. Crotty, South. Wayne route 1, driver of the car, and Russell Hexom, South another passenger, were unhurt.

Damage to the car was estimated at $300 by county highway police, who investigated. The accident occurred near the Blumer brothers farm on a downhill curve the covered with frost to skid, and ice. When auto began it struck the guard traveled along it for some distance, finally broke through and plunged down the embankment, tossing out Hexom and Miss Blum, passengers in back seat. The auto turned over at least once before it came to rest on its wheels at the bottom of the embankment, highway police said. In the only weekend traffic accident reported in Monroe, a car driven by Edward F.

Hoban, Argyle, struck the rear end of an' auto operated by Gerald Hauser, Monroe route 2, when it stopped in front of him in the 1100 block of 9th street. Hoban's car then caromed across the street and was struck by an auto driven by Elmer Foulker, Browntown, proaching from the opposite direc-, tion, before it came to rest against a tree. I Hoban was arrested by city. police on a charge of reckless, driving. Damage to all three cars was slight, police reported.

State Medic Society Wants Peace With Milwaukee Group Milwaukee- (AP) -The council of the Wisconsin Medical society was on record today favoring tlement of the state group's battle, with the Milwaukee County Med- ical society by the American Medicad association's council on social, Passenger train No. 522, bound from Madison to Chicago, arrived at Brooklyn approximately on schedule, it was reported. The train locomotive struck the car fat the dangerous crossing, but did have been caused by mechanical failure, but added that the reason might be hard to ascertain, so completely was the plane destroyed. Miss Moore, who began her singing career in a Tennessee choir and won fame as a star in musical comedy, the opera and; the movies, was the only American in the ill-fated plane. The singer had just completed a 1 concert engagement in Copenhag-1 en and was en route to another in Sweden.

Valentin Parera, husband of the 45-year-old soprano, heard the news of her death at Mougins, France, where he was convaleseing from an illness. The DC-3 transport plane, with 16 passengers and a crew of six aboard, crashed on the airstrip just after taking off for Stockholm. The liner immediately broke into flames and blazed so fiercely there was no chance for anyone to escape. The bulletin issued by Dutch Airlines said the plane "took off normally under good weather conditions" but "immediately after the takeoff rose steeply wards in a very unusual way, becoming unnavigable." The only body recognized in the wreckage of the plane, airport officials said, was that of Prince bits of the plane were found Miss Gustaf Adolf. Among the charred Moore's portfolio containing her diary and music.

Reject Partition Plan in Palestine rejected partition today as a tion of the Palestine problem and warned that creation of a Jewish state there would be a "permanent source of trouble in the Middle East." A fresh outbreak of anti-British violence in Palestine by the Jewish underground dimmed hopes for a satisfactory settlement. Husseini spoke to the British-Arabian Palestine conference, which resumed its sessions despite the continued absence of Jews, a principal party to any conclusion. A British judge, Ralph Windham, was kidnaped from a Tel Aviv court room by 10 Jews today, Jerusalem police reported. Four men and a woman, described by police as members of the Jewish underground, last ap-'night kidnaped H. I Collins, British bank director in Jerusalem and disappeared with him into the I mazes of an ancient Moslem cemetery, defying pursuit by 600 British troops which quickly surrounded the area.

British authorities said Collins -former British army majorapparently was seized by Irgun Zvai Leumi in retaliation for the death sentence pronounced recently on a member of the mist organization, who is uled to die tomorrow for an tack on a Palestine police station, in which several persons were killed. The development cast a shadow of pessimism over the resumption of the talks which British and Arab officials began here last Sept. 9 and which were adjourned Oct. 2 without any notable progress being achieved. Dr.

Jamal Eftendi Husseini, vice chairman of the Palestine Arab higher executive, not carry it along the track. Double Investigation Lehnherr and Bandt were killed instantly, and Rindy, seriously injured, was rushed to the hospital. Dane county authorities investigated the accident, and Northwestern railroad officials were expected to begin an investigation today. William Edward Lehnherr was born Nov. 27, 1926, in Blanchardville, son of August and Clara Flueckiger Lehnherr.

He was graduated from Brodhead high school before entering the navy during World war II. He was in service for 18 months and spent 10 months at Honolulu, as a a a a a a a a fireman first class. Studying Soil Conservation After his return from service he entered the University of Wiconin, where he was studying soil conservation. He was a member of the Brodhead Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are his parents: one sister, Elizabeth.

Carroll college, Waukesha: both grandfathers, Rudy Lehnherr Blanchardville, and Jacob Flueckiger, Brodhead: and several aunts and uncles. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 in Brodhead Evangelical United Brethren church, Rev. Peter Retzlaff of Juda Evangelical church officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery, Brodhead. The body will be removed from the Everson funeral home, Brodhead, to the church at noon Wednesday.

Harvey T. Bandt was born Jan. 5, 1926, at Sturgeon Bay, a son of Rev. Harvey T. and Hazel Rappe Bandt.

He was graduated from Brillion high school and attended North Central college, Naperville. before entering the army in World war II. Served in Europe Bandt was in the armed forces for 25 months and saw action in the European theater of operations with headquarters company, 12th armored group. Since returning from service, Bandt had lived with his parents in Brodhead and was attending the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of Brodhead Evangelical United Brethren church, of which his father last fall became pastor, Surviving are his parents and one brother, Myron, Brodhead.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Rev. W. L. King of the Menomonie, Evangelical church officiating." Further funeral arrangements are pending at the Everson funeral home, Brodhead. Filipino President Would Preserve Hookup With U.

S. Manila-(AP)-President Manuel Roxas, in a state of the nation address before a joint session of the first Phillppine congress, declared today "we must preserve at all costs our intimate relationship" with the United States. He disclosed that the United States recently expressed willingness to withdraw all military forces from the Philippines. He said "present plans, however, provide a much less ambitious schedule of bases than originally contemplated.".