Ludington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 6, 1954, Ludington, Michigan P ERSON TO PE RSON CLASSIFIED ADS 1 1 51 THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area WEATHER Mostly snow flurries tonight VOLUME 80 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1954 Whats Doing in The World US and State Hvasta is home again but is silent about details of his five years im prisonment by the Communists in He says he in tends to capitalize on his experi ence by writing and selling the WVA fire swept through a bunga low and claimed eight The i victims included a her four children and three neighbor chil dren temporarily in her ALASKA Bad weather is holding up rescue operations as search parties await a chance to get at an Air Force plane which crashed with 16 persons BERJ IN Gestapo agents are roaming the streets on the lookout for Germans who want free An uprising similar to one last year is believed threat as the Big Four Foreign Min meet over the issue of unit ing WASHINGTON parade of economic doctors gave a commit tee of senators and congressmen their latest reports on the nations financial got their find ings challenged in Chairman RMich of the Joint Economic Committee said administration experts pre price levels wUl remain stable for the next year and a But Douglas a committee member and former economics said thats too thinks a reces sion has already Federal Reserve Chairman Wil liam Martin testified busi ness tax cuts would counter an economic dip more than a further slash in individual income Committee Democrats contend it should be the other way that a boost in consumer buying power is needed more than a hike in rising price of a cup of Java got its share economic scrutiny A Senate Banking sub committee drew up a list of coffee traders and brokers it wants to quiz next and meanwhile a Senate Agriculture Committee okayed a to allow government supervision over trading in coffee Postal rising this time by would hit users of the federal mails is postal rate hikes amounting nearly a quar ter billion dollars a year go on the statute The House Post Of fice Committee voted the in There was much Republi can grumbling over this adminis tration backed and free predictions it would face tough sledding in the House this election shot in the arm for the Commodity Credit operator of the farm price support emerged from a conference committee after a hassle over how much the CCC really The House figure of 742 million dol lars had been chopped to 246 mil lion by the swirling word bat le over a proposed constitutional amendment on treaty powers left Ihe week in the same cloud of un certainty it Four conflict ing blocs loomed in the Senate those favoring a substitute offered by George followers of revi sions pushed by Majority Leader Knowland of 15 to 20 Senators who wanted no constitu tional amendment at and back ers of Bricker origi nal author of the amendment Beeson Ei choice for the National Labor Relations made two return trips to a Senate Labor Committee which already had voted along party 76 for his Democrats charged he still held ties with his former employer which might make him biased against particularly a pension fund to which jis em had Beeson of to sever this connection en The Weather Weather Forecast Northwestern Lower Mostly cloudy and little colder with snow flurries Partly cloudy and colder Sunday mostly cloudy wif little change in temperature and snow flurries by Winds northerly 15 to 20 diminishing and becoming west to southwest tonight and Sun High 22 to 28 low to 12 to 18 high 22 to Highest temperature 34 low Highest temperature one year ago 45 Highest temperature this date since 59 in 1938 7 In The sun sets today at and rises Sunday at The moon sets today at and rises Sunday at minimum PRICE FIVE CENTS GIVEN KEY TO Navy hospital is accepting the key to the city of Ludington from Mayor Dan at festivities which opened this noon at Hotel Resident of the Week William Charette Is Cited for Bravery Our candidate for Ludington Resident of the Week is William whom all of Ludington and Mason county are honor ing He is the young man whose acts of bravery on a Korean bat won for him the Congressional Medal of the high est honor this country can Mason county men have fought courageously in five wars the war World war II and the Korean he is the first to receive the al His home community is proud of him and is appreciative of this opportunity to show him that The Peoples Business Grapevine Fails to Show Candidates for Governor By JACK GREEN LANSING The political grape vine is more grape than vine these who love the game whos goin to run for are getting muddled this Is Williams going to go for gov ernor or senator Hows Brake holding up What do you hear from Don Leonard is Higgins serious Crash Boat Rescues Crew SAN FRANCISCO big Air Force flying radar station crashed in fogbound San Francisco Bay Friday night and a radar guided crash boat rescued all 13 Two of the men were reported one The rescue unable to return to Hamilton Air Force Base be cause of heavy landed at Baker near the northern end of the Golden Gate The Super Constella flying out of McClellan Field near plunged into the bay about two miles from the end of the Hamilton runway as it attempted a ground control ap proach radar The plane had been on a train ing mission off the Pacific coast and dense fog prevented its return to McClellan It was diverted to 30 miles north of San of bet ter blind landing A crash boat guided by radar facilities at Hamilton found the shivering They said they had decided to wait for help when the broken plane showed no sign of catching since the mud was too slippery to walk The survivors were taken by crash boat to at the northern end of the Golden Gate and transferred by lance to Army Hospital in San The modified Constellation known as an was com manded by Russell Cheever of San who served as instructor The en tire crew was learning how to op erate the The big aircraft had been modified and equipped for use as a reconnaissance What the heck is Cleary up to Where does Keyes figger The height of something or oth er was reached this week when a Democratic legislator deduced that Williams was going to run for gov ernor because he was not support ing a to buy a governors mansion Its getting so that every time Williams announces a speaking en which is 13 times a six reporters acting on a hot tip race out to cover the announcement they just know hes going to The faithful have been alerted six times for an announcement from Donald Detroit police Secretary of State Owen Cleary is so badger ed he says I havent made up my mind if you just ask him how the weather Eugene the frenetic political aspirant from is busy writing himself with copies to all his about a great guy Keyes would be in the governors Blair Moody is looking so much like a sphinx these days on you immediately peer eastward for a glimpse of the jade Cause of all this modesty and of is Wil liams refusal to punt or play Only the determined Hale Brake keeps plugging Hes running for governor while the rest of them run in The insiders have just about made up their minds that Williams intends to seek a fourth term as But they were con and with some two months ago that it was the senator ship he Hes still in position to go either although the consensus grows that he will find Senator Homer the Republican no pushover if he seeks the Senate It seems definite that George Higgins will oppose Brake for the Republi can a lot of folks think that will be the ticket right It appears to ee to Williams ad vantage to keep them guessing as long as He has been ad vised to withhold announce ment until the Legislature is through April or until it is nearly the strain of watting Stearns to give public recognition to the Korean war re cently was presented the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Navy Veteran Reaches Home NEW YORK M John came back to his mothers arms today and said it was with Gods help that he escaped from a Czech prison and eluded Red po lice for many The 26yearold Navy veteran from home for the first time in more than five at Airport and cried Thank thank thank Michael the mother tearfully hugged and kissed her son while other members of his family and officials from his home town crowded around to welcome the young wearing a loose blue appeared To he said Im glad to be Anybody thats been in the situation I have been in really knows what it feels like to be But he declined to give any de tails of his imprisonment on es charges while studying in Czechoslovakia and his subsequent his game of hide and seek with the police and his refuge in the American He said he had been scribbling his story while at the embassy and that he intended to publish I intend to repeal everything I he said an ac count of his escape experiences Please Turn to Page 3 New Bootlegging Gimmick Foiled new type of bootlegging was uncovered and ashes in Edwardsville Borough allows only cans arid glasses to be de posited at the borough But the towns people sent the cans and glasses filled with rubbish and The state and the borough stopped all this today after closing the dump several came up with a cans must be crushed Lacy Object Tells on Shoplifter i OKLAHOMA CITY UPi Police noticed a lacy object hanging from beneath the of a 52yearold man Friday and began tugging at Out came a They pulled Out came After nine pulls and nine slips they jailed the man for investigation of shop was like pulling tissue from a officers said Russ Aid Asked in Korean Talks BERLIN of State Dulles has decided to ask Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to use his influence with the Chinese Communists in an ef fort to break the Panmunjom dead lock on a Korean peace Dulles will make his move in Big Four secret talks here At that time the question of Ko rea is to be brought up among the foreign ministers in connection with a proposal for a Big Five including Commu nist The United States position dip informants is that the American government will categor ically reject any con ference which is of a char acter as to recognize the Chinese Communist regime as one of the greit But il is willing to deal with Red China on specific and limited issues which can only be handled in that A Communist crackdown on East German workers speaking out against plan for the unifi cation of Germany paralleled to days final session of the second week of the Big Four Western diplomats said that the Monday talks will be concerned with Russias proposal for a five power conference and with Rus I sian and French disarmament pro as well as when and how J tn begin negotiations on I The problem on Germany now seems to be how to fix the blame Continued on Page Column 3 RECEIVES center is shown receiv ing the Ludington Chamber of Commerce Civic Leadership award from Warren president of the at a ceremony Friday afternoon at the Morris of which Morrison has been who will move soon from the city to open a store of his was cited for outstanding service to the Chamber while in At the right is Jack president of the Retail 1 section of the organization and in the background are left to I Robert Gilbert Andersen and Festivities Started at Noon for Korean War Hero Gloom Prophets A Hacked by Ike By JACK BELL WASHINGTON Ei has advised Americans to ignore prophets of gloom and has promised them a big brother partner in the federal govern Field Office Case Studied by Department NEWBERRY A shocked State Conservation Department to day studied a grand jurors that it fire seven Upper Peninsula field including its top low enforcement chief In that Circuit Judge Donald Hol brook of sitting as a one man grand demanded that the seven men be dismissed for malfeasance and misconduct in Judge Holbrook returned no criminal Ouster was recommended for Bernard regional field administration law enforce ment chief in the Upper Penin sula Chester district field administration chief for the Baraga District John forest firo service chief at Otto De district game sor at Leslie Walstrom and Harold dis conservation officers and John officer manager of the Baraga State Conservation Director Ger ald Eddy snid the Department had no immediate comment on the The list of accusations against Bonney was thr He was accused of Using subordinates state equipment to maintain his personal cabin near King 2 Using forest fire wage vouch Intended to pay temporary fire fighters to pay garage bills and purchase equipment in violation of Reserving state owned cabin at Cisco Lake for his friends and an extensive busi ness in buying and selling new and used cars from his a similar business in horses from his many days isola ted at his private camp during the hunting season when his nates needed his subordinates to vio late their oaths of secrecy before the grand Judge Holbrook accused Stephan of using subordinates and state equipment to move a former Civilian Conservation Corps build ing to his own cabin to build access roads to it and to keep it in repair for many the judge turned the administration of jus tice into a farce by intervening in the case of John and Fran cis arrested for shining De the grand juror de bought state lands directly and indirectly since 1942 in viola tion of Walstrom charged with ac engaging in the lumber business so extensively as to inter fere with his official duty of pro timber Judge Holbrook charged Peters with illegally obtaining timber cut ting permits for his partner in the lumber Karl who was found to have trespassed on state Anguilm was declared to have allowed an employe to use state bulldozers and ers during the height of the forest Fire season to move cabins to a site Anguilm was developing as a tour ist The grand juror charged Marn ich with drawing the illegal fire vouchers on Bonneys instruction for the purchase of a battery and the repair of a The grand juror recommended the Conservation Department ob tain a legislative act clearly for bidding state employes to deal in state Existing he applies to employes of the former state land office whose duties were taken over by the Conservation De Judge Holbrook also recommend ed a law making it a crime to solicit from a grand jury witness the secret testimony he gave to the grand The grand jury was directed for the state by Nicholas Olds and Meredith Addressing a cheering throng of more than at a GOP box sup per Friday Eisenhower sail cd into Democratic predictions of hard saying The United Stales doesnt need to And he emphasized he wants to conduct the presidency under the Constitution in the same genera form as it now He spoke only 12 In that time he took on two sets o like former Presi dent Harry who say the country is now in a recession and those who have been for a constitutional that would limit the scope o treaties and give Congress more control over international agree We dont have to listen to the prophets of gloom who say we are going into this or that kind stumble or he as the crowd without mentioning by name Bricker whose constitutional amendment on treaty powers he has er said We must make certain that the genius of our Constitution and our government shall not it shall belong to those who come after us in the same genera form it has been received by The Presidents brief sally against those who predict a further economic downturn was in line with repeated statements by ad ministration and Republican party leaders that the country is under going no more than an adjustment which will run a natural course without serious echoing the expressed views of many Truman said In New York last night recession that started on the farms last spring t the city depression would do The Republicans who polished off chicken from lunch boxes they held in their laps hoard speak er after speaker lash the Demo cratic opposition with stronger words than the President Vice President Nixon said that failure to carry out the Presidents program would result in a swing by the nation to the far He said that a Republican Congress is not elected in Novem her one of the major reasons will be that the Republicans them selves arc And in International he is the best known to lead the free House Republican the GOP floor kept the Republican ball rolling with speeches at a party breakfast Knowland told the box supper crowd that the Chinese Commu should not be admitted to the United Nations nor recognized by this We are not going to consent to Far Eastern Munich or to the admission of Communist China to the United he said in a prepared ad dress that no party ever took of fice under an inherited mess of such magnitude as the Tru man administration left Four Honored by State Group EAST LANSING contributors to soil conservation work were honored at the annual banquet of the State of Soil Conservation Districts held in con with Farmers Week at Michigan State College Friday Jean editor of the Me nominee Herald was cited for outstanding area promotion in the Upper Milton Grinnell of East editor of the Michigan secretary of the Fenton soil conservation and Ray of presi dent of the Michigan Flying Farm were others Murl Spencer of Vandalia was elected president of the Michigan Cooperative Extension Advisory Alfred Sturm of Pigeon was named vice president and Peter Tack of Grand Ledge was elected CREW RESCUED MANILA un British motor ship plunged to the bot tom of the China Sea today and her crew of 36 was rescued from The crewmen were picked up by the Panamanian ship The Liberal picked its way through dan gerous reefs to within a mile of the which rip ped open its bottom on a coral reef 4 American flags were sirens blown and a crowd was out to pay him honors this noon as Wil liam Congressional Medal of Honor was wel comed back to his home town to celebrate William Charette day with citizens of Escorted by Ludington and Mason count sheriffs depart ment Charette was brought into the city and to Hotel where the key to the city was pre sented to him by Mayor Dan who recently cited for heroism in Korea by President was guest of honor this noon at luncheon in the shop of Hotel Large welcome signs were used throughout the hotel and in the main dining room decorations cen tered around a large painting of Charette done by Robert Azaleas and flags were used to decorate the tables and the speak ers table was centered with an ar rangement of red and white carna A large sign with the words Welcome served as a ban ner over the hotel Douglas secretary manager of Ludington Chamber of served as master of ceremonies at the cation was given by the Mr Erling chaplain of Ed win Ewing post Ameri can Following the official welcome by Mayor Rathsack community singing by John general chairman of the William Charette Civic Recognition which planned the celebration for the Korean war introduced members of family and other rela Among the speakers were Judge Noel Fox of who repre sented Mennen Williams at the celebration State Senator Don Vanderwerp of who introduced State Representative Kenneth Trucks of At the conclusion of the God Bless America was A parade is scheduled Mexican Towns MEXICO CITY strong earthquake wrecked four towns in the coffeegrowing state of Chiapas killed many persons and spread damage and terror over an area 50 miles ih a dispatch from Tuxtla said Mercy planes were reported fly ing medicines and other supplies to the stricken in the rugged jungle country cen tered 70 miles northeast of Tuxtla the and about 100 miles west of the Guatemalan Communications were The first word to reach Mexico City came in a delayed telegram from a newspaper correspondent in the state He offered no estimate of the total casualties or but said the towns of and Chilon were hard hit by the mid morning quake and hillsides crum Seismographs in New Bos Pasadena and else where in the United States had recorded a tremor at about CST in the area of The correspondents account gave this picture center of a sugar and fruit suffered Mar cets and other buildings in that own of were a town of 24 louses were destroyed and 90 per cent of the rest were damaged The fearful hat other quakes would led into the The town of which has was reported virtually Stores were either wrecked or abandoned in all four in that in some cases will be required among the relief Maid Employer Jailed 20yearold maid complained F r i d a y that when she tarried too long after her employer fired her he Twisted her Swatted her on the hip with a Shot bullets from a rifle nto the floor near her feet as she danced out the She went to a hospital for ment He is in The Danube
