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State Historical Society Cop Madison Wis 717 77TnTVnnTT The Fair Tonight and Saturday Slightly Colder Tonight Mild Saturday Home Edition 14 PAGES PRICE FOUR CENTS VOL NO 76 14 PAGES KENOSHA WISCONSIN FRIDAY JANUARY 211944 asts Kecoro es Rock Invasion Coas KENOSHA Hi Raid Ber I -V Woman Killed When Struck by An Automobile Pre-lnvasion Offensive At New Peak of Fury London (UR) A great fleet of Allied planes paced by American heavy bombers smashed at the French invasion coast today after the Royal air force sent a record number of night raiders atJSerlin and pounded the heart of Nazidom with more than 2300 tons of bombs at a rate of more than 100 tons a minute The bomb tonnage dropped on Berlin (more than 2578 American short tons) apparently about equalled VAPOE TRAILS MAKE FLYING FORTRESSES FANTASTIC MONS Giving Flying Fortresses of the Eighth air force the appearance of monsters from Mars vapor trails leave their marks in the sub stratosphere The curved trails leading upward were made by fighters accompanying the B-lTs on the raid Deadly 50-caliber machine guns bristling from the leading Fortress are plainly visible against the light reflected from the contrails Air forces photo (NEA Telephoto) I mmmmmmmmmmm I I Mrfi'MMuMi mil Russians Closing Trap in North French Outflank Nazis in Italy that of the raid on Nov 22 for which an identical figure of more than 2300 tons was announced United States and British war-planes boosted their pre-invasion offensive to unprecedented peaks of intensity slugging Germany and occupied territory in drumfire order by night and by day While Berlin still blazed with flames visible 150 miles through the clouds last night swarms of raiders ranging through all categories from four-motored bombers to fighters returned to the assault on the Pas De Calais area of the French coast the so-called "invasion coast" The Eighth air force threw its Fortresses Liberators medium bombers and Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters into the assault They were flanked by RAF medium bombers light and fighter bombers and Allied fighters Probably 900 Planes More British bombers than ever struck at Berlin before were understood to have carried the knockout offensive back to the Nazi capital last night The bomb' tonnage however was believed to have been short of a record 2578 tons delivered last Nov 22 The size of the previous record fleet attacking Berlin never had been announced But in a double header attack on Berlin and Lud-wigshafen on Nov 18 the British press estimated that nearly 1000 bombers were used On that basis last night's force was believed to have numbered around 900 The Royal Canadian Air Fore announced that its Units participating in the Berlin raid dropped their heaviest bombload of the war War Fronts in Brief British Units of Fifth Army Roll Up Appian Way By United Press RUSSIA Russians smash ahead on 110-mile front south and west of Leningrad massacring thousands of Germans in biggest battle of annihilation since Stalingrad WESTERN EUROPE RAF resumes blockbuster offensive against Berlin with what may have been heaviest raid against the Nazi capital lose 35 planes ITALY British advance north from Minturno on Appian way Germans reported preparing general withdrawal on Fifth army front bombers raid four Italian airfields PACIFIC Japanese believed rushing air reinforcements to threatened south Pacific strongholds British submarine sinks Japanese cruiser few hundred miles from Singapore Allied planes revealed to have sunk 10000 tons of shipping and destroyed or damaged 49 enemy planes in latest raids on Rabaul and New Guinea American Submarines Sink Twelve More Japanese Merchant Vessels Washington American submarines have sunk 12 more Japanese merchant vessels bringing to 558 the number of Japanese ships sunk probably sunk or damaged by submersibles since the war started The new report on damage inflicted by submarines ranging the distant waters of the Pacific was announced today by the navy HANDICAPPED SURGERY A army medical corps combat surgical team performs an emergency operation under a difficult setting in a dugout deep in the jungle of Bougainville island The "operating room' is dug about four feet below the surface the sides built up with sand bags and roofed with heavy logs The unidentified patient lies on a packing case The doctors are from New York and Maryland (AP Wirephoto from signal corps) London Train Crash Fatal to Corp Gaffron The United States army today announced that Corp Vernon Gaffron 34 stepson of Mr and Mrs Carl Gaffron 2900 Roosevelt road was one of ten American sol diers killed in a tram crash in sub urban London England Sunday night Eleven American fliers were injured in the same crash The news was brought to Keno sha in an Associated Press dispatch and when the Kenosha Evening News called the Gaffron residence for information it was the first they had learned of the casualty They had not yet been notified by the war department Corp Gaffron entered the army in June 1942 and trained with the Army Air Corps as a member of a bombing squadron ground crew His last letter received just a few days ago indicated he was Apparently he had received a week-end leave and was with a group of other soldiers from his base who had gone to London for the week-end The soldier had gone overseas in May 1943 after spending a short furlough in Kenosha Leaves a Wife Surviving also are his wife Mrs Mary Gaffron 7213 Thirty-fifth avenue and a brother Harold Gaf fron The train accident which brought death to the Kenosha soldier was the worst on Great Britain's rail road since 1941 Most of those killed and injured were riding in the last coach qf the leading train which was entering the station when it was struck Five coaches were demolished and thrown across the tracks Passengers praised American soldiers aboard the trains for their aid to the injured and in their rescue work An "American army doctor trapped) in one of the coaches- escaped through a broken window to aid rescue workers Five Perish in Fire Evansville Ind At least five war workers employes of the Evansville Chrysler ordnance plant died today in a fire which swept the barracks where they were sleeping Mrs William Barnes 82 of 6902 Sixteenth avenue who was return ing to her home Thursday evening after visiting at the home of her son-in-law George Drysdale was struck by an automobile as she was crossing the street She died at the Kenosha hospital three hours later The accident occurred on Seventy-fifth street near Twenty-sixth avenue police reported The car was driven by Elroy Hoegsted 29 of Route 1 who was driving west on Seventy-fifth street The woman had just left the Drysdale home at 2518 Seventy-fifth street" and was planning to board a trolley on the other side of the street She was crossing from the north side to the south side of the street when she was struck by the right front fender of the Hoegsted car That was 7:42 Hoegsted told Coroner James A Crossin later that he was going about 15 miles an hour at the time He stopped his car in the intersection He did not see the woman until a second before she was struck he said Check Car Brakes The police ambulance rushed the unconscious woman to the Kenosha hospital and other officers checked the car They first checked the brakes The car stopped in 41 feet at 20 miles an hour the officers said and it took 110 feet to stop at 30 miles an hour Hoegsted was booked at police headquarters for operating a car with faulty brakes He was also charged with having no driver's license Hoegsted insisted he had a license but that he had lost it Later the state statutes regarding brakes were checked They state that a car that can stop in 50 feet at 20 miles an hour has adequate brakes That charge- was dropped In the municipal court this morning Hoegsted was fined $1450 for having no driver's license Coroner Crossin also learned that Hoegsted has no automobile liability insurance He is employed in Kenosha as a truck driver Here Since 1894 utr-o PAiuvra names deceased was born in Newfoundland on Mah 1861 the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Wagg She spent he rearly life in her native land and received her education there She resided at Perth Ontario Canada for a number of years On Dec 19 188H sne was unixea i mmg tn William Barnes She came to Kenosha with her husband in 1894 and has made her home here since that time She was a member of the First Mfinriit church of Kenosha She was preceded in death by her hus band Movemoer 7 awz7 ana oy hoi nn Raloh Feb 29 1940 She is survived by two sisters in New foundland Second Victim Of Crash Dies miarlos Rohr 61 Bristol town ship resident became the second victim of an automobile collision that nn the evening of January 12 caused the death of his wife Mrs Lillian Rohr Kohr dieu at we jve-nosha hospital at 8:20 am today of injuries sustained in the collision The accident that claimed ine life of its second victim today occurred on West Sixtieth street a mile and a half west of Highway 41 when the car driven Dy onr wnitol huH nn with nnnthei auto operated by Merrill Davis also of Bristol township Born in New Mexico fhnrlM Hohr was born in Raton New Mexico on February 8 1887 a son of the late Mr and Mrs JBTea Rnhr He snent his early life in New Mexico and moved to Chicago in 1925 remaining as a resident of that city for two years He came to Kenosha county in 1927 and had made his home here since then In October of 1912 he was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Loudel For the past three years the de- coattorl hari been emnloved as T)TO- ducticn clerk at the Hub Market on Twenty-second avenue He was a member of the Seventh Day Ad-ventist church He is survived by three brothers Fred Rohr of El Cajon CaL John and William Rohr of San Diego fTal and three sisters Mrs David Thompson of Raton Mrs Sophia Shaw of Oklahoma city and Mrs Wood of Mena Arkansas Greek Official Escapes From Germans in Greece Cairo UP) Alexander Argyro-poulos director of economic affairs for the Greek foreign ministry has escaped from Greece after a year of solitary confinement by German occupation authorities and has arrived safely in the Middle East 4th War Bond Sales Here at $750000 Mark Kenoshans in the first three days of the Fourth War Loan campaign have purchased $750000 in Series and bonds according to the an-nounce ment made this morning by the Kenosha Coun-t War Finance committee This is the first report that has been made on the progress of the campaign The large wooden "thermometers" which have been erected one at the square at the corner of Fifty-sixth street and Sixth avenue and the other at the corner of Sixty-third street and Twenty-second avenue were marked today to indicate that this total of those bonds had been sold The Kenosha county quota for this type of bond sales for the campaign is $2550000 The entire quota is $3855500 this also including sales to industries The sale and bonds to individuals is the part of the campaign which Is being stressed in the opening period of the drive Have Far to Go The committee expressed some commendation for the early sales that have been reported but it warned that there must be in- Lcreased purchasing if the communi ty is to reach the goal set ior This report has had the impetus that is always present in the initial days of a campaign the statement declared This has unquestionably been accentuated somewhat by early purchasing encouraged by the appearance of the "It's the McCoy" servicemen show in Kenosha on next Friday at the Gateway theater admission to which can only be secured by the early purchasing of war bonds in the Fourth War Loan campaign In this connection it was stated that there are still some seats available for this performance but that they are now almost entirely -located in the relatively small blocks which are allotted for purchasers of $1000 and $500 bonds No Knowledge of Peace Talk Story Russ Tell British 9 London (UR) Soviet representatives have assured Britain that the Russian government had no knowledge of the Pravda "separate peace rumor" dispatch prior to its publication- diplomatic' sources reported today Dekanozov Soviet deputy foreign commissar was reported to have expressed surprise at the furore created by Pravda's publication of a "rumor from Cairo" that Britain and Germany had engaged in separate peace talks Dekanozov was said to have told John Balfour charge d'affaires of Great Britain at Moscow that he had heard nothing of the rumor before he read it in the newspaper British officials meanwhile were reported to be willing to drop the whole matter as merely a "regrettable incident" Kenosha program He cited the combined efforts of hundreds of volunteers working under Mrs Leo Jensen chapter blood donor service chairman Hoyt cited the request of the army and navy for 5158000 pints of blood for the year 1944 which equals all of the quotas for the three years beginning Feb 1 1941 and ending Jan 1 1944 That means 103000 pints per week for the nation Hoyt said an increase of 20 per cent over the 1943 quota Kenosha's quota of donors for the five-day period which ends tonight is 1570 and so remarkable has been the response that the physical capacity of the mobile unit equipment used at the Kenosha Youth Foundation has been (Continued a rs Thirteen) I 1 German Defense Lines Crumbling Near Leningrad Moscow (UPJ Red armies fanned out through tremendous gaps in the outflanked 110-mile Nazi defense line between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen today massacring tens of thousands of panicky Germans In the greatest battle of extermination since Stalingrad I The strongest German defenses In Europe appeared to be crumbling away as the Russians advanced with irresistible momentum south of Leningrad and west of Novgorod in twin drives to kill or capture 300000 Nazi troops on the northwestern front Thousands of Germans cut off from heir main forces in the snow-covered forests by the speed of the Soviet thrusts surrendered rather than face certain death More than 3000 submitted to capture around Novgorod which fell yesterday Nearly 45000 Slain The toll of enemy dead on the two fronts already was approaching 45000 More than 40000 were lain in the first six days of the coordinated offensives all but 15000 of them south and southwest of Leningrad Swarms of Red air force bombers fighters and attack planes Joined in the campaign of annihilation blasting and strafing strong points transport and columns of reinforcements ahead of the advancing Siberian Ural Volga and Central Russian divisions Gen Leinid A Govorovs two Leningrad columns Joined forces south of Krasnoye Selo dooming enemy troops remaining in the Gulf of Finland beachhead west of Leningrad and smashed southward in a drive that threatened momentarily to engulf Krasnog-vardeisk five-way railway Junction controlling all lines running Into Russia's second city from the southwest Captnre'Important Towns The two columns presumably met at Mikhailovka nine miles eouth of Leningrad and also captured the railroad Junction of Uritski three miles west of Leningrad Strelna seven miles south- (Centinoed a Pe Thirteen) Slav Partisans Recapture Jajce London (JF) Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) announced today that his Yugoslav partisan troops had recaptured the town of Jajce head-quarters of the patriot army in the mountains of western Bosnia which the Germans said fell on Jan 12 Smashing on to the west the partisans cleared the area between Mrkonjicgrad and Glamoc 30 miles southwest of Jajce of German troops including units of the First German Alpine division and a motorized division and drove them back toward the Dalmation coast Offensive On Other Sectors Tito's war bulletin said the partisans had gone over to the offensive r-i several other sectors of the wdely-scattered front A recapitulation of damage done to German comumnication and supply lines during the past 12 months compiled by Tito's headquarters shows that railway-wrecking units have destroyed 00 truckloads of wheat 80 locomotives 480 freight cars 15 bridges and three tanks They have killed more than 1000 enemy troops Allied Headquarters Algiers -VP) French troops crossing the Rapido river in difficult mountain fighting have captured the foot of Mt II Lago north of Cassino and are threatening to outflank the Germans' "Gustav line" of defense in Italy Allied headquarters announced today British forces of the Fifth army supported by the fire of cruisers and destroyers smashed forward along the Appian way pturing Minturno 78 miles from Rome and taking 300" prisoners They are assaulting the twin Nazi defensive villages of Castelforte and Ventosa on the slopes of 1000-foot Mt San-ti Cosma Damiano six miles inland from the Tyrrhenian (The German communique said German positions were i breached southwest of Castelforte) One potential counter-attack after Minturno was captured was crushed before it could get started when Allied artillery and planes poured a devastating fire of bombs and shells into the enemy concentrations "Worse Than Stalingrad" In weather which German prisoners described as "worse than Leningrad" American patrols of Lt Gen Mark Clark's Fifth army slashed across the river below Cassino" in probing expeditions and retired Eight army patrols likewise were active in weather that was growing colder Although the French push from captured Sant Elia north of Cassino if continued would allow them to take Cassino from the rear German prisoners said there was another German line of fortifications called the "Adolf Hitler line" six miles behind the Gustav belt which the Allies are now attacking Heavy and medium bombers again concentrated their full power on German airfields and communications in central Italy Flying Fortresses and Liberators striking damaging blows at Ciampino and Centocelle airfields near Rome for the second day in succession and blasting Guidonia airfield 14 miles northeast of Rome as well Invader dive-bombers and Marauders teamed up to attack the airfield and railroad yards at Viterbo 40 miles northwest of Rome while fighter-bombers and light bombers escorted by hun- Continned a Pre Thirteen) Swiss Intern Ciano's Wife Bern Switzerland (IP) Countess Edda Ciano daughter of Benito Mussolini and widow of the former Italian foreign minister is interned in Switzerland under strict police watch along with her three children it was officially announced today The countess took refuge in Switzerland Jan 9 the day after the trial of Count Ciano on charges of treason was started at Verona She was placed in internment immediately Her children arrived three days later when it was announced that Ciano had been executed for voting with 18 other members of the Fascist grand council to oust Mussolini from the dictatorship last July The Swiss announced that Dino Alfieri former Italian ambassador to Germany and also condemned to death in absentia at the Verona trials had crossed into Switzerland last October In ill health he is now at a clinic Other Allied air formations put assault on Adolf Hitler's Euro pean fortress back on an around-the-clock basis with daylight raids on the French invasion coast today Formations swept over one south east England town in an almost continuous procession for nearly -an hour Only a few hours before the perhaps record blow at Berlin Italian-based American Flying Fortresses and Liberators smashed at four Nazi airfields In the suburbs of Rome Swiss reports said the American bombers also pounded the Prenestina and Porta Maggiore railway marshalling yards and hit two acqueducts cutting off Rome's water supply Blast Nasi Destroyers Albacores of the British coastal command also joined in the two-front air attacking two enemy destroyers in the English Channel during the night and setting fire to one of them One Alba-core was lost (Radio Bremen in northwest Germany and radio Hilversum in Holland went off the air shortly before 11:30 a (4:30 a CST) today indicating that Allied bombers may be striking at Europe in daylight) Britain's four-engined heavyweights ending Berlin's 17-night respite from block-buster attacks touched off large conflagrations that sent smoke mushrooming high into the night sky the air ministry announced Thirty -five bombers were lost la the Berlin assault Mosquito nuis ance raids on northwest Germany and mine-laying operations th communique said The air ministry described the Berlin raid as "very heavy" and (Cantlnae FK TMrteea) Bond Drive Off To Fast Start -UP) War production must go on to new peaks and everything is "not in the bag" Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen-thau declared last night in his first speech of the Fourth War Loan drive He announced that even though 1943 production was 154 per cent of the 1942 total the goal for the coming year had been set at 180 per cent "There Is lots of work to be done and lt is going to take a lot of money" he commented Off to a Fast Start The new war loan Is oft to a fast start he reported with sales to individuals totaling $1048000000 The national goal including institutional sales is $14000000000 Morgenthau said a fifth loan would be launched in May or June He reported that despite rumors of heavy redemptions of war bonds 93 per cent of the $25500000000 worth bought since May 1 1942 still were being held including 91 per cent of the $17500000000 in bonds been definitely sent to the bottom Henry Knop 40 Ends Own Life Henry Knop 40 well-known Twin Lakes village resort operator was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his automobile this morning Discovery of the tragedy which Coroner James Crossin reported as a suicide was made by Fred Sharp a friend of the Victim In his investigation of the death Coroner Crossin found that Knop came to Twin Lakes village from Chicago sometime Thursday He spent the evening Thursday at the Twin Lakes bowling alleys and left for bis resort at 11 He apparently drove into the resort garage attached a hose to the car exhaust and sat in the auto to await death Found by Friend Shano hearine that Knop had returned to the village from his winter home in Chicago called at the resort this morning shortly after 10 o'clock to visit Sharp was unable to rouse anyone at the resort and so investigated and found the victim in the garage Kharn immediately notified au thorities and summoned Dr Charles Harris from Richmond just across the state line The physician after examining the body pronounced death due to carbon monoxide poisoning He indicated that Knop had been dead for several hours The body was removed to the Ehorn funeral home in Richmond and was to be taken to Chicago for burial later Senate Rejects Tax Amendment Washington iJP) The Senate today rejected a proposed amendment to the $2275600000 added tax bill which would have permitted corporations and individuals to lay aside up to 20 per cent of their taxes as a post-war reserve The amendment offered by Senators Truman (D-MoJ and Hatch (D-NJII) was defeated by a standing vote Finance Committee Chairman George (D-Ga) and Senators Taft (R-Ohio) and Danaher (RConn) expressed sympathy for the motive of the amendment but declared it would cause actual tax collections in war years to drop too sharply Of the 558 total 408 ships have In addition our submarines prob ably have sunk -36 Japanese vessels and have damaged 114 The navy gave no indication of where the Japanese were destroyed but American submarines have operated within Japanese coastal waters The 12 ships listed in today announcement were of the types used in moving materials and men They included seven medium freighters two small freighters a large tanker a medium cargo transport and one small transport The sinkings cut further into the badly depleted Japanese cargo fleet which has been reduced so severely that the enemy in many parts of the south Pacific has been forced to use barges in attempts to keep supplies moving 'Quake Mercy Plane Crashes Santiago Chile The gov ernment information bureau announced today that a mercy plane of the Chilean National Airlines rarrvinff dnrtnrR and nurses to the earthquake stricken inhabitants of San Juan Argentina had crasnea enroute killing its 12 occupants The dead included three doctors four nurses a soldier the two pi lots a mechanic and a representative of the Chilean Airlines First resorts said the Lockheed transport plane crashed in flames when it failed to clear trees snon-ly after taking off from the air drome at Mendoza Will Rebuild City Buenos Aires President Pedro Ramirez announced today that the Argentine nation would rebuild the city of San Juan on the site where rescue workers still arS searching through ruins for victims of last week's disastrous earthquake Ramirez said the new city would be built along- modern lines to withstand tremors such as the one which has just taken a toll of more than 3500 lives and would be underwritten by the government to the amount of $500000000 pesos ($125000000) Red Army's DriVe Frees Russia's Baltic Fleet Mnsnnw The Red army's great surge to the south from Len ingrad has virtually ireea Kussia Raltif fleet Locked in port for two years or more the Baltic neet is now iree to operate in the Bay of Kronstadt and possibly beyond Red Cross Blood Bank is Record for Kenosha Donors Kenosha's response to the plea for blood donors received the praise of the national American Red Cross today as a result of the remarkable achievement of the Kenosha county chapter this week Topping the daily accomplishment record of the Milwaukee mobile unit which services Kenosha and the rest of the state with 272 pints of blood given in a single day on Tuesday the record ranics Kenosha with the best cities in the nation in its population class according to Walter Hoyt area representative of the blood donor service with headquarters in St Louis Mo Hoyt was in Kenosha Thursday to commend Kenosha on its program and also to secure ideas which would stimulate other chapters that might emulate the.