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THE LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1945 bounty Society Holds Meeting Historical Group To Convene Wednesday Two interesting discussions on early La Crosse county history are to be given at a meeting of the La Crosse County Historical Society at 8 p. m. Wednesday in the training school of the State Teachers college. The discussions will be by Frank Sisson, on the settlement of Lewis Valley, and Percy Phillips on early rifle clubs in La Crosse. Sissons talk will deal with a paper written by nis father, Olon-zo Sisson.

The account tells of the community at the time of of Frank Sissons grandfather, George Sisson, who settled in the valley in 1851. Frank Sisson will give some of his personal recollections of the community. The rifle club history to be given by Phillips begins with the Schuetzen Verein of the 1860s. It also prominently mentions the La Crosse Sharpshooters club of the 1890s, as well as numerous others. Phillips secured his data from early papers of the community as well as interviews with older residents who belonged to the organizations or were interested in them.

Numerous old guns will be on display. Many of these are the property of Phillips, while some will be from the collection of the State Teachers college. British Drive Toward Rangoon Gateway; Report Yanks Freed CALCUTTA (JP) British 14th army armored and infantry units lunged today into Pegu, gateway town to the Burmese capital of Rangoon 50 miles to the south and to Thailand on the east. (A field dispatch said approximately 100 American pilots were liberated April 30 by the British attacking Pegu. They were flown immediately to hospitals in India.

The Americans had been taken prisoner by the Japanese when they were shot down over Burma.) Buyer Goes Home; Seek To Recover Fund ANTIGO, Wis. (A5) Tom Har rold, Indianapolis produce buyer who bestowed several thousand dollars in gifts here over a mu nificent weekend, was home today with his wife. Mrs. Harrolds brother-in-law, Warren Oliver of South Bend, said yesterday We are tak ing Tom back to Indianapolis. Then we are coming back to try and recover the money he gave away.

Chief of Police Peter Krosnicki, who said he wasnt interested in the case officially, said Harrold had given $500 cashiers checks to a traveling man, a dishwasher and others and also passed out many five and ten dollar bills. Local bankers estimated that cashiers checks worth $3,500 and drawn on an Indianapolis bank had been cashed by 50.000 Yanks Gain Freedom Morale Kept High At Stalag 7 A By EDWARD D. BALL WITH THE U. S. 14TH ARMORED DIVISION (iP) In high spirits 50,000 Americans, half of them air force officers, almost mobbed 14 th armored division tankmen today in one of the wildest liberations ever witnessed in Germany.

The Americans were among 130.000 Allied prisoners including 37 high-ranking officers freed at Stalag 7A and in the towns around Moosburg where the Germans had the biggest concentration of prisoners in Germany. In contrast to the starvation conditions prevailing in the other liberated camps, the prisoners the Moosburg area for the most part were in good physical condition. This was due to the presence among the prisoners of a number of Allied officers, including many colonels. Another factor contributing to their well-being was the nearness of Switzerland, from whence the International Red Cross was able to provide food parcels without encountering too great transportation difficulties. At Stalag 7A in Moosburg, where 37,000 prisoners including 14,891 Americans were kept, there were 175,000 Red Cross food packages on hand when the camp was liberated.

Morale was kept at high pitch at Stalag 7 A by the strict discipline enforced by the camp commander, CoL Paul R. Goode of Corvallis, and his able staff. They had the camp thoroughly organized, with each man doing daily tasks. Saturday inspections were held. Each officer and man was required to turn out freshly shaved and bathed and with his hair properly cut.

Personal -cleanliness was reflected in the well kept but crowded barracks which also were closely policed under Goodes direction. Lieut. Jack Hemingway, son of the Author Ernest Hemingway, was liberated at the Moosburg prison camp yesterday. He was captured at St. Die, in France, last Oct.

28. Graziani, Nazi Call For Fascist Surrender ROME (JP) Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Pemsel, German chief of staff of the Ligurian army, announced the surrender of the Fascist Ligurian army tonight, and urged all the enemy troops to lay down their arms. The Italian Fascist army has been holding the Ligurian coast in northwestern Italy. In northeastern Italy, the British 6th armored division entered Udine, 60 miles northeast of Venice, and 29 and 33 miles from the Yugoslav and Austrian borders. Udine is 42 miles northwest of Trieste, which the Yugoslavs declared they had entered.

Americans advancing along the gulf of Genoa meanwhile occupied Savona, Sportorno, and Noli. Sgt. A. P. Funk Reported Hurt First Sgt.

Albert P. Funk is in a hospital in France with wounds received April 5 while fighting in Germany with the 12th Armored Division. Funk, whose wife and two children, Terrel and Ellin, live at 306 North Eighth street, was inducted in October, 1942, and trained at Camp Campbell, and Camp Barkeley, before going overseas in September, 1944. He Was stationed in England before fighting in France and Germany. Sgt.

Funk was wounded by strafing from a German plane and has been awarded the purple heart in addition to the expert infantrymans badge and combat infantrymans badge. He is the son of Mrs. Albert Funk, 1431 King street, and was graduated from Aquinas high school, Notre Dame university and attended Northwestern law schooL Admits Theft Of $135 From Local Residence Elmer Weaver of Pittsburgh, being held by Bellwood, 111., police for 23 confessed burglaries in various parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, is known to have committed one of the thefts in La Crosse. He admitted taking $135 and three cartons of cigarettes from a La Crosse home. No report of the theft was made to the local police at the time it occurred.

All of Weavers crimes were hrfuse burglaries. RECAPTURE YOUTHS MADISON, Wis. (iP) Six of seven youths who ran away Sunday from northern colony and training school at Chippewa Falls were taken into custody here yesterday. State authorities said the boys whose ages range from 16 to 19, were to be returned to the school today. Cirminello Quads Six Months Old By SHIRLEY MAYER PHILADELPHIA (A5) Theyre just six months old today, but the Cirminello quadruplets already are past two stiff hurdles.

The quads, first ever born in a caesarian operation, have come through their first illness a case of sniffles and have paid their first income tax. Their father, Joseph Cirrtrinello, tells about the income tax a little sadly. "People have funny ideas that weve gotten awfully rich since the quads were born, he said. But do you know I cant even deduct them from my income tax? The babies had to pay tax themselves on the money received for endorsement of a milk company. The milk companys money has come in handy, says Papa Cirminello, a corporation analyst and business economist for the securities and exchange commission.

The money pays for our nurse, Mrs. Wilkerson. You have to have someone to help when you have four babies, you know. Husband Joe is hoping to boost his income by turning insurance salesman soon. Hes going to school at night now studying the business.

While papa tries to balance the budget, and Mrs. Kathleen Cirminello, 30-year-old mother of the quads, keeps busy- preparing formulas, the babies lead a serene They perk up now when called by name, like to suck their thumbs, or whole hands if they get a chance, and try to wriggle over in their cribs. Michael, only boy of the quartet, remains the heavyweight at 12 pounds 4 ounces. Next comes Maureen at 11 pounds 4 ounces, then Eileen, 11 pounds 1 ounce. Kathleen is the lightweight at 10 pounds 7 ounces.

Dog Executed For Killing Child LOS ANGELES (JP) Woof, a Staffordshire bull terrier, has paid with his life for killing a 21-month old baby. Asphyxiation of the dog late yesterday came as a swift and dramatic climax after efforts for several weeks by a dog enthusiast, Grady Terry, to prevent by court order destruction of the pet which choked little Marguerite Derden-ger to death Feb. 13. The child was the daughter of Army Staff Sgt. Charles and Mrs, Derdenger.

WALKER COOPER ACCEPTED JEFFERSON BARRACKS, Mo. (JP) Walker Cooper, team captain and catcher for the world champion St. Louis Cardinals, was accepted for naval service at this induction center Tuesday." Approve Soft Coal Contract Anthracite Dispute Goes To WLB WASHINGTON (JP) John L. Lewis cleared the last government hurdle confronting his new soft coal contract today, but negotiations for an anthracite agreement skidded into the war labor board as a dispute. Economic Stabilizer William H.

Davis stamped a final okay on the bituminous wage agreement and in addition authorized an average 16-cent-a-ton pi'ice increase to offset its costs to the operators. The hard coal contract expired last midnight, and work stoppages in the anthracite pits were prepared for despite a WLB order to continue production under the terms of the expired agreement'. The board promised any wage agreements would be made retroactive to today. Perkins Effort Fails An 11th hour effort by Labor Secretary Perkins to persuade the miners and anthracite operators, meeting in New York, to agree to a contract she proposed failed. Miss Perkins then certified the case to the WLB.

The board summoned union and operator representatives to a 11:30 p. m. (CWT) show cause hearing. Davis approved the bituminous agreement last night, a few hours before that 30-day extension would have expired. Davis accepted the contract without changing a comma.

The war labor board likewise had approved it in its entirety. The agreement, according to WLB estimates, gives tjie average miner 81 cents a day more in take-home pay. Grant Increases The 81 cents figure was reached by WLB statisticians by striking an overall average for the 400,000 soft coal miners. The principal wage adjustment goes to the inside day miners who will receive $1.07 additional for a six-day week. Outside men get a flat increase of $L07.

Tonnage or piece workers get an increase of one-ninth of their earnings, which forces down the average increase to 81 cents. In allowing the producers price increases to take up extra payroll costs, Davis said OPA later would announce the details. The increases will range from 6 to 30 cents or more a ton, depending on producing factors. He estimated that the new contract would add more than 21 cent to the per-ton cost of producing coal but said the operators could absorb 5 cents of that. Lewis had joined with the operators in requesting a price increase.

POPE TO BROADCAST VATICAN CITY (JP) Pope Pius XII probably will make a world broadcast as soon as the end of the European war is announced it was reported unofficially Tuesday in Vatican circles. Let's Go! U. S. A. Keep Em Flying.

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LOC1INER DACHAU, Germany (JP) Every soldier, officer and war correspondent attached to the 42nd (Rainbow) division of the U. S. 7th army today had one word seared into his soul Dachau. It represents the last word In savagery, depravity, sadism and inhumanity. Here human beings were experimented on as though they were guinea pigs, werd eliminated by slow starvation and their bodies burned wholesale in a gigantic crematory.

Thirty-five railway cars loaded, with corpses emaciated literally 'to skin and bones are lined up outside the camp. No Food For 5 Days Among Dachaus 32,000 inmates are some 1,400 living corpses. These were the survivors of about 4,000 who had been shipped, according to the best information available, from Buchenwald before the Allies took that northern concentration camp. They had been squeezed like cattle into freight cars, where they were kept for 21 days, 80 to a car. According to their testimony they were left without food for five days, and thereafter given mere scraps.

In the crematory there was a stench that made the strongest men turn pale and flee to the outside for air. In two rooms of this institution were naked human bodies, bearing the signs of horrible torture and piled to the ceiling. TTie SS (elite guard) guards had been unable to complete their task of burning the emaciated bodies, though they worked in shifts of 30, two and one-half hours per shift, and kept at it day and night. Used In Experiments There was evidence that a section of the prison camp had been given over to scientific experimentation on human beings to study the effects of various types of gas, varying air pressure, degrees of cold and serums. In February 6,204 deaths were recorded officially at the camp, from execution or other causes, of these 4,007 were Jews.

Among the liberated survivors were an American major and a British lieutenant. The American had been in Dachau since Sept. 4, 1944, and the Londoner several years. They said they could give positive information concerning a considerable number of distinguished inmates, such as the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg and Former Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht.

Niemoeller behaved marvelously, they said. The SS offered to take Niemoeller from here. He declined to go. Finally, 10 days ago, when all the distinguished prisoners were carried off, presumably to the Tyrol, he was forcibly taken along. Nothing positive was known about Schacht except that he wasnt killed here.

Other celebrities said to have been carried off to unknown destinations 10 days ago were Leon Blum, former French minister of education, and his daughter; General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of the Italian patriot, and Prince Leopold Friedrich of Prussia. NAMED USES MANAGER MADISON, Wis. (JP) Esmond L. ONeil of Appleton, has been appointed manager of the Lancaster branch of the U. S.

employment service, the state office of the war manpower commission reported today. The Lancaster district services Crawford. Grant, Iowa, Lafayette and -Richland counties. Sugar Ration Cut By 25 Higher Point Values On Other Food Seen WASHINGTON OV) Ameri-were told today a "decent 2t will be maintained despite j5 per cent slash in sugar ra-tons and the prospect of higher laint values for other foodstulfs. Further civilian belt tightening wa foreshadowed when: I Samuel I.

Rosenman, food scout, recommended 7Tt the United States should a "substantial share of Civilian needs in northwest Eur-CL He acknowledged this would cut into homefront food supplies fhe inter-agency committee foreign shipments said "we halt have to make some adjustments in particular foods and hinted at higher ration points for falts and oils. At the same time mounting -ntiment was evidenced in for one-man control of all food matters, now divided among Jhe OPA. the war food administration and other agencies. Cat A Sacrifice Predicting a five to 10 per cent dump this year in the nations food production, the inter-agency committee headed by Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley termed the cut in sugar rations "a real sacrifice but said: The sacrifice will be small in comparison with the contribution it will make to the undernourished if not actually starving, peo-of the liberated countries Of the American outlook, this committee, which allocates food other supplies for overseas needs, said: A decent American diet will be maintained.

Our food supply is adequate to keep America healthy and vigorous even though we shall have to make some adjustments in particular foods." At the sharp slash in sugar rations went into effect today, the fovemment said no increase in the total supply can be expected for more than a year. As a result, the average American, who last year consumed 89 pounds of sugar, vail receive only 72.1 pounds this year. Sugar stamp 36, which became valid today for five pounds, must last until Sept. 1. pWarUon Down Tilt OPA also directed local boards to issue only up to 70 per cent as much sugar for home canning as they did last year and reduced the maximum per person to 13 pounds instead of 20.

The limit to any family for home canning was pared from 160 to 120 pounds. The Office of War Information said the reductions were necessary because of a decline in world sugar production and an Increase in military and export demands as a result of Europe's liberation and Intensification of the Pacific war. Crowley said the amount of sugar going into liberated areas would be very modest. Meanwhile, the senate received from the house legislation providing for a U. S.

membership in the United Nations food and agriculture organization. Proposed at a meeting of 44 nations at Hot Springs, Va- in 1943, the FAO proposes to raise world nutritive levels, Improve food production and distribution methods and the condition of rural populations. Merle Oberon To Divorce Korda HOLLYWOOD OP) Actress Merle Oberon was somewhere in Mexico today, after leaving here with the announced intention of divorcing Sir Alexander Korda. She did not disclose where in Mexico she would file the divorce suit. Korda, British movie producer, itarted Miss Oberon on her way to film fame several years ago in London.

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