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Thirty-First Year—No. 9589. Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Friday, September 29, 1944. Single Copy Five Cents REPORT HUNGARY Chinese Gloomy About TOKYO REPORTS IS SEEKING PEACE Jap Victories in South ANOTHER YANK Yanks Advance Three Miles —Recent Chi- and Liuchow ig possible within a THROUGH TURKEY nese defeats and the possibility that short period. AIR BASE TAKEN the American 14th air force may The result would be that bombing To Within Sight of Belfort Qap operations would be pushed back to BULLETIN lose additional bases in China pro- (By the Associated Press) duced an atmosphere of gloom to- the big base at Kunming, 480 miles New York—The Ankara radio west of Kweilin, where attacks .in Tokyo radio reported the capture reported this afternoon that "the day in this capital unmatched since of one of the three remaining ad- the dark days when China was shipping would be extremely diffi- capture of Belgrade has been an- cult. vanced American airfields in China nounced bj the Yugoslav patri- fighting the war alone. today as U. S. fleet carrier forces In Largest Allied Qain of Day ots." There is no doubt in Chungking, China's Array Shattered added up the most remarkable rec- that the allies will defeat Japan but Some of China's best divisions ord of ship and plane destruction of London —(/P)— Doughboys Moscow— (&)—The Red Army's the consensus of both Chinese and have been chewed up and disorgan- the Pacific war. of two American armies on the three-way offensive against Hun- Americans seems to be that the war ized by the Japanese due to the en- In an almost unopposed raid on southern end of the allied gary from Romania and Yugoslavia has been prolonged for several emy's superior training, leadership the central Philippines, sea-borne front advanced to within sight developed swiftly today while rum- months already as a result of the and better arms. fighters and bombers sank 22 Jap- of the famous Belfort pass to- ors of peace feelers by the Buda- recent reverses. The reduction in offensive anese ships, damaged about 70 other pest government indicated Hitler's In addition the prestige of the strength and the loss of air bases surface craft, and destroyed 36 day and worked forward to last important satellite may be on Chinese central government has has weakened greatly the possibili- planes. The raid, Sept 23, (U. S. within 20 to 25 miles of the the verge of deserting him. been harmed. This is important not ty of cooperation in any joint ef- time) cost the attackers ten planes four main passes through the only with respect to relations be- fort with American forces in the and eight airmen, Adm. Chester W. Vosges mountains —t French Hungary's defensive position was tween the Chinese and their allies Pacific in the event of an attempt Nimitz announced last night. windows looking across the dark as strong Russian forces, but because the reverses resulted in to seize an important China coast Rhine into Germany. pressing forward in a 100-mile arc the central government losing a port. Record Philippine Raids Twenty miles north of Aachen, the on the Romanian-Hungarian fron- certain amount of face in dealings Kecuperation from the Japanese This was the seventh day of 17. S. First army gained a mile at tier, increased their mountain sali- with the Communists in the north. blows will require months, even if sweeping raids over the invasion- Echterbosch along the German* ent and utilized Marsha! Tito's per- Significant £ vents the Japanese should be content, as threatened islands since Sept. S by Dutch border. mission to cross Yugoslav territory Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault some expect, merely to seize Kweil- the air arm of Adm. William Hal- Fighting off repeated German and strike the Hungarians and Ger- has lost several major and minor in and Liuchow and force a Chinese sey's Third fleet. Altogether they counterattacks through a chill driz- mans from the south. airdromes, from which he was able and American retreat on Kunming, have wiped out 1,014 Nipponese zle, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's The Russian war bulletin disclos- to harass Japanese forces in China pJanes and sunk or damaged SCO Country Collapsing Third army and Lt. Gen. Alexander ed that Soviet troops had fought and damage shipping along the surface craft. This mark surpasses M. Patch's Seventh army marked up their way into Lupkow pass leading coast, as well as easy access to oth- The fact that the Chinese have most monthly totals for the entire been fighting under adverse condi- advances of three to five miles—the from Poland into Czechoslovakia, er air fields. Pacific. most impressive gains of any on an taking Vydran, a Czechoslovak rail The loss of his three remaining tions since 1937, pitifully equipped, Only seven interceptors dared op- See—CHINA—Page 7 allied front bristling with menacing; station nearly three miles inside the forward bases at Kweih'n, Tanchuk pose the raiders as they wrecked offensives, frontier. shipping, defensive installations and 11 .Ililes from Belfort "thoroughly bombed and strafed" Patton's men alone knocked oat Approach Hungarian Plain airfields on Cebu, Leyte, Negros, The advance down the southern Labor Board 82 tanks yesterday in the advance, FDR DENOUNCES Mactan, and southern Luzon islands. it was announced from the field. slopes of the Ast Beskid range All seven were shot down. The along the railway leading to the Eight or 10 villages were captured meager opposition illustrated Nim- by the t\\o armies, and Belfort, at Hungarian plain has almost achiev- Asks Revision itz' statement tbat the enemy's air ed a common front between the ARGENTINE RULE (he entrance to the strategic gap, defense had been broken. Tokyo was only 11 miles away. Fourth Ukrainian army and the radio said replacements have since Slovak patriots. Washington— (.#) —P r e s i d e nt Of Little Steel A lar^e-Kcale battle was develop- A Czechoslovak government dele- Roosevelt today denounced the Ar- been flown in. ing for Rambervillers, 30 miles gentine government for what he Washington —(Jf)— President Convoy Smashed GERMANS SAY THESE ARE CAPTURED ALLIED PARATKOOPERS—Caption for this German gation, headed by Frantisefc Nemec, picture serviced by Pressens Bild, Swedish picture agency, says it shows allied parachutists captured southeast of Nancy and SO miles termed the growth of Nazi-Fascist Roosevelt's labor advisory commit- A sVip-bombing navy Catalina north of the gap, with the Ameri- is waiting near the Polish-Czecho- flying boat, from Gen. Douglas Mac- by the Germans in Holland. (AP wirephoto by radio from Stockholm.) slovak frontier to enter Czechoslo- influences developing in that coun- tee, composed of AFL and CIO cans only .Va miles south of that try at the very time when Nazi leaders, recommended to him today Artbur's air forces patrolling the center of an important web of high- vak territory as soon as a substan- southern Philippines, intercepted a tial border area is cleared of the forces are facing defeat in Ger- that the Little Steel wage formula ways and eight miles to the north many. be scrapped but got no impression convoy near Job, sank a 10,000 ton enemy. of it. Mr. Roosevelt said Argentina has from him, members said, how he transport and damaged a smaller Sgt. Wolcott FDR Indorses To the north, meanwhile, the Brit- (The American broadcasting sta- frei ghter-trans port. FATHER TRIES TO tion in Europe, quoting the Turkish repudiated a solid inter-American feels about the proposal. ish Second army closed up to the system for defense against Nazi ag- A Tokyo communique asserted Mans (Meuse) in Holland along a radio, said last night the Hungari- gression and stated, in the words ?>f The labor advisory committee is Japanese columns captured Tan- Is Killed in Hulls Peace an premier was reported to have headed by William Green of the DROWN TWO SONS 20-mile front from two or three Prime Minister Churchill of Great chuk, one of the last three U. S. miles from the German border in a asked the Turkish ambassador in Britain that every nation will be American Federation of Labor and airfields in southeast China, the re- Budapest to learn allied peace Philip Murray of the Congress of South France Coshocton, 0.— (JP) — Warren Plan for Reich bulging movement south of Kleve, judged by the parts they play in maining two—at Kweilin, 90 miles and beat off three counterattacks terms, and to act as an intermedi- the war, neutrals and belligerents Industrial Organizations, to the north arid Liuchow, about 200 Patterson, a slender 31-year-old ary in preliminary negotiations for Both men said after the meeting machinist whom prosecutor Russel (By the' Associated Press) from the Reichsfald, the forest con- alike. He said his statement today to the south—were threatened. Their Washington — (/P) — President centration center just below that Hungary's exit from the axis.) is important now because of decep- that they told Mr. Roosevelt the fall would force Maj. Gen. Claire L. E. Lyons said admitted in a signed Little Steel formula is outmoded statement that he stood on a bridge Roosevelt today ordered a speed-up Siegfried anchor. Large Russ Forces tions on the" part of Nazi radio Chennault's 14th airforce 480 miles in American plans for rendering Smash Resistance and should be revised upward. The west to Kunming. and dropped two of his four sons T (Enemy reports asserted Marshal broadcasts beamed to Argentina formula limits wartime wage in- Germany harmless after the war, In a coordinated drive the L . S. Rodion Y. Malinovsky, commanding which say allied councils are divid- Chungking conceded that the Nip- into Mohican river because he had creases to 15 per cent above Janu- no home for them, was held in jail and specifically put the job under First army smashed bitter resistance combined Russian and Romanian ed in their attitude toward Argen- ponese were converging on Tanchuk on the German-Dutch border six tina. Mr. Roosevelt described the ary, 1941, levels. and had broken into Paoching, 150 here today. state department guidance. forces, was using 30 divisions, or It is under attack now in several The order was issued in a letter mi?es northeast of Sittard. upwards of 300,000 men, in an of- broadcasts as fabrications. miles north of Kweilin. In his statement at his news con- cases pending before the war labor One of the boys, Larry, !*:>, to Leo T. Crowiey, chief of the for- The mile advance here was scored fensive that reached to within 15 board. drowned, and Lyons said he would eign economic administration, and by American cavalry. miles of Szeged, Hungary's second ference, Mr. Roosevelt said he has Green said the president asked been viewing th« Argentine situa- file a murder charge this afternoon. while it covered non-German sub- First army artillery bombarded a See—RUSSIA—Page 7 many questions during the discus- Kiwanis Club to Common pleas Judge J. C. Daug- jects in its eight points, it appar- column of 42 vehicles with 1,000 men tion "with increasing concern" in sion on relaxing wage policies but recent months. But as Secretary of herty said he would call a special ently is the outgrowth of the sharp in a woods northeast of Aachen, and "made no comments whatsoever." Observe National grand jury to meet next Monday. division in the president's postwar allied planes shot up 30 railroad gara State Hull also has done, he drew a "I," added Murray, "got no in- distinction between the Argentine The other, Raymond, 7, crawled cabinet committee over a German ami cut rail lines at 53 places. dication how he (the president) Newspaper Week Jrom the stream, wandered most of peace plan submitted by Secretary Itelov Aachen, at the lower corn- FREIGHTSMASHES government and Argentine people, feels about it. a majority of whom, he said, "have the night in a cold rain and finally Morgenthau. er of Luxembourg, the First army Mr. Roosevelt earlier told his news This division reflected a funda- also pushed the front to the German remained steadfast in their faith in conference he doubted the confer- At its weekly meeting at the was picked up by a motorist, Lyon their own, free democratic tradi- Youth lodge this week, the Kiwanis said. mental policy disagreement between border at yet another place, captur- PASSENGERTRAIN ence today would discuss the Little Secretaries Stimson and Hu!l on the ing Rcmich. tions and in their support of the Steel matter. club made arrangements for a spe- The two other boys, Gene and nations and peoples who have been cial program for its meeting next Glenn, eigM-year-old twins, were one hand and Morgenthau, who pro- Renew Calais Fight Missouri Valley, la. — (-JP)— A Mr. Roosevelt said the pending posed the virtual de-industrializa- Alone; the channel Canadians making such great sacrifices in the Little Steel cases are a detail and Wednesday at the lodge in observ- put out of their father's automobile fast freight plowed into a passen- ance of National Newspaper Week, a half mile from the bridge and tion of Germany to prevent its mak- overran the last of the big German ger train, knocked five cars on their fight against the Nazis and Fas- that his talk with the committee, cists." Wm. F, Huffman, who is observing left with a blanket under a tree. ing future wars. cross-channel guns which had boom- backs and in the wreckages cattered composed of high AFL and CIO ed at Britain from Cap Gris Nez for "The Argentine government has leaders, probably would deal with his 25th anniversary as publisher of They stayed there Ifi hours in a State Department Policy over a half a mile left nine known repudiated solemn inter-American The Daily Tribune on October 7, rainstorm before being found, the Hull and the state department, four years, and attacked anew at dead and about 100 injured, of larger policies of labor. The meet- Calais after a JO-hotir overnight lull obligations, on the basis of which ing was called, he said, because he will be honored by a testimonial prosecutor added. which had exercised unquestioned whom 47 received treatment in the nations of this hemisphere de- in appreciation of his services to the Lyons said that Patterson told direction of lon^-ran^e German in which the German commander Council Bluffs, la,, hospitals today. hasn't met with the group for a CARROLL J. WOLCOTT asked for an armistice to receive veloped a system of defense to meet long time. community. him and Sheriff Jay Abbott in the planning: until Morgenlhau won at- Two of the injured were reported tention for liis plan, have tentative- surrender terms. He was toJd that in extremely critical condition. the challenge of axis aggression," Mr, Roosevelt's news conference A motion was also made and S/Sgt. Carroll J. Wolcott, son ot statement that he intended to push he said. passed tbat the Kiwanis club spon- the twins into the river too, but ly counted on restoration of Ger- only his unconditional surrender Three soldiers were among those assertion came as public members Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wolcott, who See— GERMANY—Page 7 ''Unless we now demonstrate a of the war labor board were pre- sor a bus to take a group of blood were formerly of Nekoosa and who "hadn't the heart" to go on after many's industrial economy under who died in the crash of the two capacity to develop a tradition of ruthless allied controls. Under the Chicago and North Western line pared to recommend to him a re- donors to Stevens Point when the now reside in Butte, Montana, died dropping the first two. respect for such obligations among flaxation of war controls effective Red Cross has its blood bank project on September 9 from wounds re- The story unfolded, the sheriff president's order today this policy trains at about 7:30 p. m., CWT, nations, there can be little hope for now apparently is to prevail. Neimeyer Changes Thursday, on the outskirts of Mis- soon after victory in Europe. CIO there in October. ceived in action in France on Sep- said, after Charles Fcsslcr, an oil a system of international security, leaders view this with alarm as a M. C. Kelley has been named as tember 7, according to the war de- driller, brought Raymond Patterson, I'oint ^e\en of the president's let- Plea, Pays Fine souri Valley. theoretically created to maintain ter to Crowiey said: Seventh service command officials possible substitute for their goal chairman of the program commit- Sergeant Wolcott was a platoon 7, to Abbott's home and listened to principles for which our peoples are of a general increase now by gov- tee for next Wednesday, partment. the boy's hixzare account of bemff "You have been making studies Henry Neimeyer of Portage, Wis. today identified the soldiers as Pvt. today sacrificing to the limit of from the economic standpoint of Henry Oscar Elo, son of Mrs. Hilma ernment order. commander in an infantry company dropped into the creek along with who pleaded not ffuilty to a game their resources, both human and Relaxation of wage controls, as of the 80th division. His unit form- his infant brother. A search dis- what should he done after the sur- law \ iolation last spring in th« Elo, Lawler, Minn.; Pvt. Leo D, material." render of CiPrmany to control its Hensen, son of Frank Hensen, Wil- championed by Chairman William ed a part of General Patch's Sc\- closed the child's body, Abbott said. court of Justice Marjnrie Jacobson, After asserting that "I have been H. Davis, would mean that wage cnth army, which im adcd southern Abott said Patterson later was Sec—PE AC K—Paste 7 changed Ins plea and paid a fine of listorr, N. D., and Pvt. Steve Steen- following closely and with increas- BULLETIN hoven, husband of Mrs. Steve Steen- increases agreed to by employers France. found asleep in the rear seat of hip $h"j and costs totaling- $-!.'i.37 to the ing concern the development of the would not need approval of the war Sergeant Wolcott wa- day. Neimeyer was charged with Bluffs; Edwin Mayer, 50, Ashland, of Nazi-Fascist influence and the strike weapon until the defeat of the Moscow radio declared tonight Nebr., Ida McLarnan, Moville, la., June, 1944. Just before coing o\t?i- butt quoted the father as saving. trapping within 15 feet of a beaver increasing application of Nazi Fas- Japan. in an official statement. August, 1942 and went ovetseas in 'Hie prosecutor said J'allerson For Newsletter hole. Paul G. Spraisli, Luverne, Minn, cist methods in a country of this Moie than 30,000 Germans were and the two year old daughter of seas, he spent a furlough with Ins told him he and his wife separated hemisphere, at the very time that killed in ten days ending Sept 2C> by parents at Butte, Mont, two months ago and that the four Lodge members of the Wiscon- Mrs. Agnes Steenhoven of Hull, la. v FDR Is Not Planning those forces of oppression and ag- Argentina Will Not the Leningrad, army group of Mar- Surviving arc his parents an'hil