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Wisconsin State Journal Madison Saturday, January 13, 1945 Allies Push Germans i ti a Work-Fight Plan Hits CIO Snag RussOpen More Drives, Berlin Says (Continued From Page One) of Baranow, and sixthly, the East Prussian fighting zone. County Board Votes Survey of Personnel (Continued From Page One) the need of an "efficiency" survey as well as a personnel study. R. W. Roethlisberger, town of Verona, declared, "After this survey is made, we still won't know how much efficiency each department has.

We won't know if the department is over-manned or undermanned; and before I vote for any civil service I want to know whether we have too many or too few employes." Lancelot A. Gordon, Madison third ward, claimed that the state bureau of personnel did not make "efficiency" studies, and that the AIM iWIST XkJBil -ABREFONTAINE IfclPlllPSi Airlw I lMERSCH AKlONl II UL IK 1 Back Yank Fliers, Downed, Hide from Own Men SOMEWHERE I FRANCE NEAR GERMAN BORDER, Jan. 2 (Delayed) (U.R) It's getting to be a helluva war," the sergeant said, "when you have to start hiding out from your own troops." Sgt. Robert B. Bolin, Campbell, had just spent two hours hiding in snowy woods 10 miles inside American lines after bailing out of a stricken Fortress returning from a raid deep inside Germany.

Like other crew members, all of whom landed safely, Bolin was not certain whether the Fort had limped back over friendly territory when they had to hit the silk. The others had a few bad moments before determinings they were among friends but Bolin got an initial shock that kept him in hiding most of the afternoon. Didn't Notice Marks He landed near a road and the first vehicle that came speeding by was a German volkswagon. Bolin did not take time to note that an American star had been painted over the swastika and that it was driven by an American pilot lucky enough to have seized it. "I didn't take a second look," said Bolin, an armament gunner on the Fort.

"I just hit those woods and stayed there. By the time five or six American trucks rolled by I decided I must be inside our lines. "I admit I still was a little worried when I got out on the road and flagged the next one down. Boy, that old Yankee accent sounded good." Fired on 'Chutist Yankee accent also sounded good to tail gunner Sgt. Charles Knaus of St.

Louis, Mo. Knaus landed in an open field and he had added reason to wonder whether he was in friendly territory. Six American engineers had fired rifles at him as he was coming down, thinking he was a German parachutist. "I started running away from a road I had noticed on the way down," Knaus said. "Then I saw a vehicle racing down the road in the general direction of where I landed.

I put on more speed getting as much distance between me and the road as I could when I heard good American shouts instead of shots. Listened to Argument "That was the second best moment of my life. The first was when I landed in one piece." Engineer gunner Sgt. Chester Slomczenski, Detroit, spent half an hour in the woods until he heard a group of GI's debating whether a plane that crashed was American or German He settled the argument by stepping out of the bushes 10 feet away from them and announcing: "It was American a Fortress." 'Dry' Teacher Banks What Friends 'Liquidate' SOMMERVILLE, Mass. (U.R) for the past live years, John L.

Hayward, 73-year-old teetotaler teacher at Somerville high school. has banked sums of money equal to what friends mentioned they had spent for liquor. His "foolish economy fund," as ne cans it, amounts to $1,623. HIRAM LODGE TO MEET Hiram lodge, No. 50, will meet in the Masonic tpmnlf Mnnrfav sat 7:30 p.

m. BELGIUM Farm Income Hits New High 21 Billion Total Tops '43 by 6 WASHINGTON (U.R) Soaring war prices and a record volume of food production combined in 1944 to pad farm pocketbooks to their plumpest size in history, an agriculture department report showed today. One-seventh of the national income found its way into farmers' hands last year as agricultural cash receipts rose to the all-time peak of $21,207,000,000. This ex ceeded the previous high of 1943 by 6 per cent. Government sub sidies and direct cash payments- swelled farm income by nearly $820,000,000, the department said.

Cash returns for crops in 1944 reached $8,801,000,000, or 11 per cent above the previous year. This included a 29 per cent rise in receipts from food grains and a 25 per cent jump in tobacco income. Farmers received a total of for livestock marketings, a 2 per cent increase over 1943. However, income from poultry and eggs declined more than 7 per cent. The 1945 crop year holds little prospect for a serious drop in farm income, agricultural statisticians reported.

Cash income from sales of livestock probably will decline markedly because of a shorp drop in hog and egg production, but the general income level is not expected to decline more than 5 per cent, they said. "No substantial change in the demand for farm products is in prospect as long as fighting continues in both Europe and Asia," the department said. Some decline may follow the end of the European war but the level of farm prices still will remain much above prewar, it stated. The survey emphasized that 'demand will absorb most farm products in 1945 at prices near current levels. Woman, 35, Divorces 'Jealous' Hubby, 62 A Madison woman was granted a divorce from a man 27 years her senior by Circuit Judge Herman W.

Sachtjen Friday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. She was Erma Simonson, 35, of 620 Walton who testified that her husband, Abel E. Simonson, 62, of 112 S. Hancock had taken her to "so called" entertainment only 10 times during their 10 years of married life and that a fight had ensued on nine of those occasions "because of his jealous nature." In granting the divorce, Judge Sachtjen said that during his 17 years as divorce counsel he has noted that persons with such age variations "usually come to the end of the road," and that he was surprised that the couple's marriage had not terminated sooner. No children had been born of the marriage, though both were parents by former marriages.

District Credit Union to Meet Tuesday The annual meeting of the Madison District Credit union will be held at the Credit union office, 111 W. Main Tuesday, at 8 p. m. Election of four directors and two members to the credit committee will be held. GIRLS' PURSES STOLEN Two 18-year-old Madison girls reported to police today that their purses, containing $17, were stolen Friday night while they were drinking with a soldier at a Monona ave.

bar. VfTT I LINE OF DtEPtSI I I PENETRATION I 1 IV" 4 HOSIERS I A7E pfLf'tb SEDAN NAZI PENETRATION 1 "It must be assumed that the Soviets will still further enlarge the scenes of the fighting." The German DNB agency also reported that the Soviets had thrown at least three armies, two tank corps, and other independent units into the first of its long-awaited winter offensives, which admittedly already had breached the outer Nazi defenses before Krakow in southern Poland. Go On Offensive DNB said Russian forces at the northern end of the front had swung over to the offensive this morning along a 20-mile sector in East Prussia between Pillkallcn, 28 miles northeast of Isterburg and 10 miles from Lithuania, and Eydt-kau, on the East Prussian-Lithuanian border. Fighting also flared in the Mem-1 hriHpphpnH nn thf Baltic roast northwest of Pillkalion, the German Transocean agency said. The Soviets were "repulsed everywhere," the agency said.

Simultaneously, the Berlin radio said, Soviet forces 500 miles to the south attacked along on 80-mile front on 1 lie Hungarian-Czechoslovak bordrn between Lo-koiic (Lucenef) and point south of Kassa (Koxnicc). Jittery Berlin broadcasts said "very heavy fighling" had developed before the Red army's Sand-emierz bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula river in southern Poland, where the Soviets began their winter offensive. The bridgehead lies about 100 miles below Warsaw. Fear "Smoke Screen" There was some speculation that the Nazis might be throwing up another propaganda smoke screen similar to their recent "announcement" of great Soviet drive in Latvia which never was confirmed by Russia. Today's Soviet communique failed to mention the Polish front and centered again on the fighting in and around Budapest.

On that sector, Moscow said the, Red army beat off new Germaii counterattacks west and northwest of the Hungarian capital and mopped up another 135 enemy-held blocks inside the city. Inside Budapest, the Russians threw the full weight of their armor and infantry forces into an all-out assault to wipe out the last centers of Axis resistance on the east and west banks of the Danube river. Compressed into two narrowing pockets in Buda and the east bank of Pest, the Nazis and their Hungarian allies appeared to be cracking up rapidly under the merciless pounding of Russian guns and tanks. The entire city park in Pest was cleared of its Nazi defenders Friday and the Soviet communique said 1,270 prisoners were taken. Tropical Typhoon Sweeps 500 Sailors Into Sea to Death WITH ADMIRAL HALSEY'S THIRD FLEET, Dec.

29 (Delayed) (U.R) A swirling tropical typhoon caught a group of Third fleet vessels attempting to refuel from tankers at sea after extensive operations, swept 500 men to their death, sank three destroyers, and damaged three craft. (Loss of the destroyers was announced by the navy department in Washington Wednesday.) Only 91 officers and men survived the sinking of the destroyers, the U. S. S. Hull and the U.

S. S. Monaghan, vessels of the Farragut class, and the U. S. S.

Spence, a ship of the Fletcher class. Three officers and 24 men of the Hull, whose bodies or identification tags were recovered, were listed as dead. The remainder of the complements of more than 600 aboard the three vessels, except for 23 survivors from the Spence, 62 from the Hull, and six from the Monaghan, were listed officially as missing. Husband of Woman Suspected of Murder Leaps to His Death LOS ANGELES (U.R) Mrs. Louise Peete Judson, a paroled murderer, mourned the death of her second husband today and wondered what strange quirk of fate strikes down those who associate with her.

The latest victim of the jinx that has followed her for the past two decades was Lee Borden Judson, whom she married last May, five years after her parole from prison where she spent 18 years of a life sentence for the murder of Jacob Denton. Judson leaped to his death from a ninth-story downtown office building Friday, less than 24 hours after he had been absolved of complicity in the death of Mrs. Margaret Logan, 60, whose body was unearthed in her back yard last December, more than six months after her mysterious disappearance. Mrs. Judson has been indicted for the murder and is held in jail pending trial.

"T1 Ardennes Push Grows Seventh Army Rallies in Alsace (Continued From Page One) Rhine between Cologne and Koblenz have been rendered unserviceable and two have been damaged in recent attacks. On the southwestern facade of the salient, Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army was rapidly closing up to the important Champlon-Bastogne highway and mopped up a number of small towns east of St.

Hubert, including Amberloup. On the northern flnk, the 83rd infantry division pushed up 2,000 yards south of Langlir and was less than 2 miles from the Houf-lalize-St. Vith highway. In Alsace, U. S.

Seventh army troops, rallied to throw back a strong German armored attack on their Maginot line positions along the northern edge of the Hagenau forest. The Germans still were pulling back in the Ardennes, giving ground rapidly in the west and putting up a skillful rear guard action cast of the Bastogne-Houf-fahzc-LicEr highway. Nlitht Progress Hard fighting was in progress on the northern and southern flanks east of that road and the stubborn enemy covering action seemed likely to result in the successful escape of the bulk of the Marshal Karl Von Runstedt's re maining divisions. At the northwestern corner of the salient, American troops pushed ahead with increasing Fpeed south of Laroche and southeast on the road leading to Bastonne. Hives and Mierchamps were taken by the Yank columns, while British forces on their right flank drove into the outskirts of Cham Ion.

Armies Link lTp British Second army forces linked up with Patton's troops on the southern side of the salient above St. Hubert, which fell without a struggle. At the center of Patton's line, three American divisions chopped up Nazi stragglers in the Tar-champs-Wardin-Doncols area 3 to 5 miles southeast of Bastogne where more than 3,400 prisoners were rounded up in an American trap. On the Alsace front, a strong German armored attack in the Hatten area was beaten off by American Seventh army forces with heavy losses to the enemy, but hard fighting was reported still continuing there and in the Rit-terhofen a mile to the northwest. Indian Troops Land on Myebon Peninsula KANDY.

Troops of the 15th Indian corps, covered by a naval and air bombardment, have landed on Myebon peninsula, 22 miles southeast of Akyab on the western coast of Burma, a Southeast Asia communique said today. The Japanese pummeled the invasion forces with artillery and machine-gun fire but failed to prevent the Indian troops from establishing a bridgehead. The date or the exact location rf the landing was not disclosed. The peninsula is approximately 20 miles long and juts out in Hunters bay, just south of newly-occupied Akyab. Jewelry Disappears from Gift Shop Chicken-shaped earrings and a maple leaf lapel pin, valued at $14.

were stolen Friday from the Froemmmg gift shop, 656 State police reported today. Gale Froemming, operator of the shop, said that the jewelry disappeared from the top of a showcase while he was waiting on a customer. Two Boys, 14, Violate Curfew Two 14-year-old Madison toys were picked up by police at 11:55 p. m. Friday in front of the Or-pheum theater, 216 State for violation of the curfew ordinance.

They were released to their parents. Weather SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1945 OTFICIAL. REPORT BY UNITED Precipitation 24 Hours .1 in. Temperature or more Highest Lowest 24 hrs.

Yesterday Last Night to 7 a.m. Boston 39 35 30 27 0 0 0 CfilCSEO 40 Cleveland 41 Dubuque 34 26 14 13 15 2ft 8 54 22 21 63 22 10 35 12 47 -18 38 12 Duiutix Fargo 20 .04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .02 0 .05 Clou-dines 100 100 17 Green Bay 29 Kan City 52 La Crosse 30 l-o An'Jes 71 Mtditnn 34 M6 Aupt 29 Miaiiii 71 Milwaukee 36 29 New York 39 Park Falls 24 Sn An 'mo 64 S. Mane 22 Wash5gton 42 Wiusau 28 Winnipeg 9 -4 MADISON WEATHER Yes Tem- Rela- Wind ler per a oav ture Noon 30 7 m. 2 Today 1m in 22 Noon 2 tive Hu- Velo- midity city 85 8 79 6 S.I HI, 100 100 12 HiKtifkt temperature vesterdav 34 at 7:10 a. m.

Lowest temperature last night 22 at 6 a. m. Mean temperature yesterday 30." Normal 17. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 .15 in.

Normal .63. Sun rose al sets at 5 4. TODAY IN OTHER YEARS Warmest In 1894. 50 Coldest in 1916. -22.

Wettest in 1910. 1.21 Inches. Wisconsin Weather Cloudy tonight and Sunday with light snow this afternoon and tonight accumulating to 2 to 3 inches In central Wisconsin. Moderately strong winds early tonight. No dritj change In temperature.

Irvin Pockham, Waupun, Missing in Action WAUPUN Pfc. Irvin Peckham has been missing in action since Dec. 16 his wife was informed by the war department Friday. Pfc. Peckham entered the infantry in March, 1943, while working for a Richland Center bakery, and was sent overseas last ber.

It is known that he was in that sec tion where the Germans took many prisoners PECKHAM the middle of of war about December. Pfc. Peckham is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Peckham, Rockbridge, and his wife i the former Lura Jane Caldwell, Waupun.

The couple has three children, Lana Alan, 2, and Irvin, 5 months. William Watzke William F. Watzke, 84, of 450 W. Johnson a retired farmer of the town of Springfield, died today at a'' hospital. The body was taken to the Schroeder funeral home.

Lincoln Palmer MIAMI', Kla. (U.R) Lincoln B. Palmer, 79, for 35 years general manager of the American Newspaper Publishers' died at his home here yearly today after a brief illness. Palmer, a native of Newark, N. was an attorney before be coming associated with the pub- ushers' association shortly after the turn of the century.

He was retired six years ago because of his health. Private funeral services will be held here Tuesday. P. F. Daggett P.

F. Daggett, 74, of 401 N. Few died BYiday night at his home after a short illness. Services will be held at 2 p. m.

Monday at the Parkside Presbyterian church. The Rev. W. Clyde Wilson will officiate. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial park.

Survivors are his wife; three sons, Donald. Madison; Duane, Madison, and Keith, U. S. army; three daughters. Mrs.

John Gud-den, Madison, Mrs. Donald Gjest-son, Stoughton, and Mrs. Clarence Haug, Madison; and three grandchildren. Airs. Myrtle Rupp Mrs.

Myrtle Rupp, 64, of 343 Dayton died today at a hospital. She leaves her husband, Joseph E. Rupp, and a brother. Otto C. Rarker.

Madison. The body was taken to the Joyce funeral home. Mrs. Ida Kessler Mrs. Ida Kessler, 76, of 508 E.

Washington died Friday at a Madison hospital after a long illness. Born in Blooming Grove, she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schimming. She had lived in Madison and vicinity all her life, and was the widow of Henry Kessler.

Survivors are four sisters, Mrs. George Albright, Oshkosh; Mrs. Robert Wilke, Riverside, Mrs. W. H.

Howe and Mrs. John Reynolds, Madison, and two brothers, Albert and Herman Schimming, Madison. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p. m. in the Fraut-schi funeral home with the Rev.

Bernard B. Bartel of the First Evangelical church officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Mrs. Miller Services PORTAGE Funeral services for Mrs.

Margaret Miller, 73, of 722 Edgewater Portage, who died Thursday, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in Trinity Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. Gordon L.

Trepchler will officiate and burial will be in Oaic Grove cemetery. Survivors include her husband. Val Miller; a daughter, Mrs. Fred Jowett. and a brother, George Ochtenberg, all of Portage, and a sister, Mrs.

A. F. Kratochwill, Bos-cobel. Potosi Crash Kills Man; British Hollow Driver Surrenders LANCASTER Ed J. Menzemer, 60, Galena, 111., was killed at 5 p.

m. when the car he was driving was sideswiped by a milk truck on Highway 61, exactly 1 Vic miles south of Potosi, and three hours later Clifford Horner, British Hollow milk truck driver, surrendered at the home of the Grant county sheriff, A. M. Klaas. The milk truck sheared off the side of the car and milk cans wera scattered along the highway.

The truck appeared in Potosi with a door hanging loose, and Horner and his wife later appeared at the accident scene in their own car. An inquest was set for 1:30 p. m. today at the Potosi town hall by Coroner George narrower, Fenni-more. Dist.

Atty. George Frantz, Fennimore, and Undersheriff Mel-vin L. Gillen, Lancaster, also were investigating. The body of Menzemer, a salesman for the Vincent Monument Galena, 111., was taken to the Baumler funeral home, Potosi. S00 otbf MONARCH Foods-sW last as Cm A I 4 Ujcppgil Sgt.

Marty Burial MONTICELLO Staff Sgt. Mel-vin A. Marty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Marty, Monticello, who was killed in action on German soil on the approaches to Aachen, Germany, Sept.

20, was buried in an Amprican rpmp- tery in France, it IV- nas ueen learnea pjc by his wife, the former Mary El- len Stoll, Monroe, According to the unit chap lain, SGT. MARTY full military rites were accorded the Monticello man, first Monticello serviceman to be killed in World War II. The chaplain enclosed the Pur ple Heart award, won by Sgt. Marty, in his notification letter Charles Borcher Rites WISCONSIN DELLS Funeral services for Charles August Bor cher, 63, lifelong resident of Wisconsin Dells who died at his home Wednesday, were to be held at 2:30 p. m.

today in the Presbyter ian church. The Rev. J. Davies was to officiate, with bur ial in Spring Grove cemetery. He became an employe of the A.

C. Dixon and Son department store when 14, later buying the grocery department of the store, a drug store which he turned into an ice cream parlor, and operated a variety and several souvenir stores. He was married in 1910 to Blanche Reuterskiold. He was president and manager of the Kilbourn Cooperative creamery. Mr.

Borcher was a member and for several years chief of the Wisconsin Dells fire department; a member of the Masonic lodge; Ki-wanis club, and Chamber of Commerce; served several terms as alderman of the third ward and board of education, and for many years was an officer of the Presbyterian church board. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Michael Ruplinger, Wisconsin Dells, whose husband is serving in the Burma campaign, and two sons, Ensign Charles Borcher, naval ordnance laboratory, Washington, D. and Pfc. Arnold Boyd Borcher, serving with the signal corps intelligence.

Harvey Evans Rites RIDGEWAY Funeral services and burial for Harvey Evans, 60, former Ridgeway resident who died at Sioux City, Jan. 3, were held there, Ridgeway friends have learned. He was a railroad employe. Survivors include his widow; a son, John, in service for more than two years; two sisters, Mrs. Eta Harrington and Madge Evans, Sfpux City, and a brother, William, also in Iowa.

John Mulloney Rites EDGERTON Funeral services for John Mulloney, 82, Ed-gerton farmer who died at a Jan-esville convalescent home Thurs day after a long illness, were to be held this morning in the Jones funeral home and St. Joseph's Catholic church. The Rev. R. J.

Foren was to officiate, with bur ial in St. Joseph's cemetery. He was born in Trenton, N. and when 7 years old came to the farm home where he had lived since. Survivors include a brother, Frank, at home; two half brothers, Robert and Joseph, Janes-ville; three nephews, John Moore, Edgerton, and Frank and Emmett Moore, Madison, and two nieces, Mrs.

Robert iord, Janesville, and Mrs. Glenn Peach, Ldgerton Mrs. Wells Services PORTAGE Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas J. Wells, former Portage resident who died Thurs day in a Janesville hospital, were to be held at 2 p.

m. today in the Murison funeral home. Portage The Rev. Paul B. White of the First Methodist church was to officiate with burial in Silver Lake cemetery.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Charles Hoyle, Lombard, 111., and Mrs. Royce Dallman, Milton. West Lima Soldier Dies in Germany WEST LIMA Pfc. Leo Fanta, 23, who was reported wounded in Germany Dec.

12, died Dec, 22 in Belgium, a second telegram from the war department informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fanta, who live near West Lima. Their postoffice address is Yuba. Pfc.

Fanta was in the armored infantry, entering service Mar. 29, 1944. He went overseas in September. The oldest child and the only son in the family, he is survived by his parents; three sisters, Mrs. Harley Dvorak, Elizabethtown, N.

and Eleanor and Shirley, at home, and his grandmothers, Mrs. John Fanta, West Lima, and Mrs. Mary Stanek, Hillsboro. Maj. Bong to Return to Poplar Home Sunday CHICAGO (U.R) Maj.

Richard I. Bong, the nation's No. 1 air ace, will return to his home at Poplar, Sunday for the first time since he downed his 40th enemy plane and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. The fighter pilot will leave North Western station at 11 p. m.

tonight, arriving at Superior, at noon Sunday. From there he will drive to Poplar where he expects to arrive in time for dinner, his first home cooked meal since his visit there last August. Bong was scheduled to spend most of today rehearsing for a nationwide broadcast at 6:30 p. m. Acts AT ONCE to relieve (DUE TO COLDS) Prescribed by thousands of Doctoral Pertussin a famous herbal remedy-Is scientifically prepared not only to quickly help relieve such coughlngr.

but also It loosens and makes phlegm, easier to raise. Safe and might effective for both old and young. Inexpensive) AtvBE.nT00IU all Urueotorca, PERTUSSIN? II Jl 1 I 'Unworkable Says Union's President WASHINGTON (U.R) Pres. Roosevelt's request for "work-or-fight" legislation to force 4-Fs into war work ran into tough obstacles today with the following developments reported: ONE. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) said such a law would be "thoroughly that, in fact, no form of manpower draft was needed but that manpower problems would be worked out by management and labor conferences with the government.

TWO. Members of the house military affairs committee, currently considering the May work-or-iight bill, began to wonder if such a law would force new war workers to join unions against their will. THREE. And at the same time war production officials said the manpower crisis in industry would be greatly eased anyway if the currently reported trend of 4Fs into war work continued. The house committee has been holding hearings all week on a bill introduced by Chairman Andrew J.

May to set up special army units for men 18 to 45 who refuse to do essential war work. Friday night CIO Pres. Philip Murray told Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes in a letter that "the way to solve production problems is not through such unworkable measures" but by a conference of labor, agriculture, man agement, and government leaders. Such a conference, he said, could determine where production is lagging, where ample facilities and manpower are located, and whether, and whether increased wages would boost production.

Today Murray and spokesmen for most of the big CIO unions met with military and civilian government leaders to give specific recommendations and to list certain practices which said were wasting labor and should be corrected. Murray and Lewis G. Hines, AFL legislative representative, are scheduled to bring their stories to the house committee next week. A joint AFL-railroad brotherhood conference Friday night authorized Hines to present to the committee evidence of "flagrant wastage of manpower and money by federal government agencies and by private industries engaged in war production." oi tne senaie military. affairs committee said he thought the senate version of the May bill, introduced by Sens.

Josiah W. Bailey C), and Ralph O. Brewster (R-Me.) would be considered by his committee although he did not specify a date. Meanwhile one production official said that on the basis of newspaper reports of 4-Fs flocking to war jobs, many of the men needed in war plants might be recruited voluntarily. Capt.

Jefferson, Sparta, Missing in Action SPARTA Cant. William Jef ferson, battalion adjutant of the division, has been missing Dec. 21, the war department o-day informed his father, K. B. Jef-, lerson, Sparta, Capt.

Jefferson joined the Royal tanaaun air force May 12, 1941, later joined the British a i corps, and then was transferred to the Unitprf JEFFERSON States force. He returned to the United States in March, 1943, and went overseas again in February, 1944. lie was shot down over Romania, June 10, escaped from a Romanian prison camp, and was recaptured after five days. He was later released, again returned to America, and then again returned to action. Curtis Pays Another $75 for Tipsy Driving Tobin S.

Curtis, 212 Jackson had his day in superior court Friday, but it cost him another $75 for driving under the influ-ence'of liquor. Curtis had forfeited $100 bail on the tipsy driving charge when he failed to appear in court the day after his arrest on Oct. 16, but the court granted a trial Friday at his request. However, the $100 bail stood as forfeited. Atty.

William H. Spohn, counsel for Curtis, accused the police department and Asst. City Atty. Alton S. Heassler of "hindering the administration of justice" in superior court by refusing to allow him to see a copy of the officer's report concerning Curtis' arrest.

Spohn contended that Officer Howard Nelson had falsified the report and that the report was incomplete. Superior Judge Roy U. Proctor interrupted Spoh n's questioning of Nelson by explaining that "under my direction and the policy we (the police and Judge Proctor) have pursued here for years," the officers omit details of tipsy driving arrests. Proctor granted Curtis a five day stay of execution. 20 Germans Killed, 40 Captured in Italy IIOMK (U.R) Eighth army units killed 20 Germans and took 40 prisoners on the Commachio spit, between' the Valli di Commachio and the Adriatic, but action generally was quiet on both the Eighth and Fifth army fronts, headquarters said today.

It was reported that German troops on the Fifth front carried an order of the day from Field Marshal Albert Kesslring, who variously had been reported dead, wounded, and relieved, whfch said: "I am leading you in battle in 1945." PENSION GROUP TO MEET The United Old Age' Pension group of Wisconsin will meet in the Unitarian parish hall, 15 E. Dayton Tuesday at 2 p. m. lutith mi personnel survey was sufficient to "set salaries according to worth" to avoid another "fiasco of '39" when salary trouble brewed into a complete turnover in the county highway department. Felton Asks Survey Vice-Chairman Carl Felton, town of Madison, advocated the personnel survey now and an efficiency study alter the war "when efficient workers come back from the war." John M.

Blaska, town of Sun Prairie, insisted that salary ranges cannot be set up unless the efficiency of the workers is known. Blaska also warned the board members to be "sure you get somebody who is not acquainted in Ihe departments" to make the survey. The board set up a special survey committee last year and appropriated $1,500 to be used for a survey. The committee requested an additional $5,500 for a $7,000 "personnel, administrative, and functional" survey to be made by the Public Administration service, Chicago, but the request was voted down three times by the board. The $1,500 appropriated reverted to the county's general fund at the end of last year.

The state-made $2,500 survey approved Friday was placed under the board's civil service committee, and takes all power away from the special survey committee. Members of the civil service group are Ivor McBeath, Madison 19th ward; James L. Born, Shore-wood Hills, and Arthur Schim- ming, town of Windsor. Worth It. Says Eighmy "The survey will be well worth its cost if it stops the everlasting arguments on wage requests," Alva F.iehmv.

Madison 10th ward. claimed. "It will save a lot of board time and dissention between errmloves." Requests for salary increases are presented at almost all the county board meetings, desDite the county ordinance tht wace changes shall only be considered by the board at the July and November meetings. In other actions, the board: ONE. Approved for Ray Case, medically discharged soldier who has returned to his county trail ic officer's job, a monthly salary of $188.

which includes all automatic and emergency increases he would have received if he had not en tered the army. TWO. Placed Dane county on record as favoring free tubercu losis treatment for patients in county-owned hospitals. THREE. Approved a $3,000 appropriation for the Dane county soil conservation district to buy heavy tractor equipment from the federal government soil conservation service.

FOUR. Referred to the personal committee a request for Helen M. Emery, register of deeds clerk, to be classified as an indexer and typist. FIVE. Adjourned until 1:30 p.

Jan. 26. Council Denies Bus Co. Plea on Farley Use (Continuec1 From Page One) Kraege and the chairmen of the five standing committees. Approval was also given a resolution by the finance committee to grant leaves of absence to city workers if and when requested by the War Manpower Commission which is also to determine whether the applicants could do more effective work in war plants than in their city positions.

Employes receiving such grants would retain their seniority and pension rights. Other council actions: ONE. Adopted a resolution requesting the Madison Bus Co. to consider giving additional bus service for Dupils of West high school taking buses at S. Mills and Regent sts.

after Aid. John E. Coyne, 11th ward, explained that the youngsters sometimes must wait in cold weather from 15 to 45 minutes for a bus. TWO. Accepted the resignation of M.

P. Nilles as supervisor of the 11th ward. THREE. Referred to the license and ordinance committee petitions objecting to the issuance of a tavern license for 445 W. Main st.

FOUR. Appropriated $50 to the Boy Scout drum and bugle corps in recognition of their services on Memorial and Armistice days. FIVE. Referred to the property and purchases committee a resolution by Aid. Henry E.

Reynolds, Second ward, to give the 'Dane County Humane society permission to use the city barns on E. Dayton st. as a temporary pet hospital. The society's hospital has been damaged by fire. City Relief Load Declines in December Relief Director Thomas J.

Dor-an reported to the common council Friday night that in December his department spent $7,020.81 for relief compared to $9,780.15 in December, 1943, a decrease of During the past month 147 cases received relief. FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETII. an improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, gooey, pastv taste or feeling.

FAS-TEETH is alkaline (non-arid). Dwi not sour. Checks "platf odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug store. Adv.

Our Transports Await Signal for Luzon Attack 1 VA- Taken at dawn on Jan. 9, this first picture of American landing operations on Luzon shows landing craft waiting for H-hour to head for the Lingayen gulf beaches and the great invasion. Transports of the amphibious fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Daniel Barbey are loading men and munitions into the small boats which move about, awaiting the signal. Signal Corps Hadiophoto. 4.