Sheboygan Journal (Newspaper) - February 27, 1957, Sheboygan, Wisconsin VOL L NO 61 TWO SECTIONS 33 PAGES SHEBOYGAN WIS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27 1957 Star Witness In Senate Probe Gets Death Threat Claims Teamsters Union Representative Phoned Threat To Him Brother WASHINGTON threats against a star witness and his brother were reported today at a Senate rackets com- investigation of the Teamsters Union James B Elkins a racketeer who said he had conspired with the Teamsters Union to help gamblers get entrenched in Portland Ore told the tee he was personally threatened with death by Frank Brewster OFF THE CRITICAL LIST After eight months 76 general anesthesias 17 skin gratis and 25 blood transfusions Judy White 13 is taken off the critical list at the U S Naval Hospital Chelsea Mass Judy suffered third degree burns on 74 per cent of her body when her nightgown caught fire while heating milk lor her puppy last July Doctors say she one of the severest ordeals in medical history She is shown with Wave Lt Susan Berquist a physiotherapist AP Laird Offers New Dairy Price Setup By RICHARD P POWERS WASHINGTON Rep Laird said today the present dairy price support gram is costly and inefficient and should be scrapped for a system run by dairy farmers themselves Under the present system the Commodity Credit Corp buys surplus butter cheese and dried milk at fixed support level In a speech prepared for de- livery in the House Laird said this system which has been in effect during the past seven years gives the greatest to the dairy plant ators assemblers and to the dairy men instead of farmer teamsters vice president anc chairman of the union's western conference And Committee Chairman John L McClellan said the FBI had disclosed James older brother Carl a man in Phoenix Ariz received a death threat by telephone Tuesday The witness himself told the committee: I know they're going to do something to me The threat from Brewster whose headquarters are in Seattle came some time after ber 1955 the testimony ed James Elkins had become j disenchanted with the lion in Portland My Two Boys He told the committee that Brewster got red in the face and said If you embarrass my two boys you'll find yourself wading across Lake in Seattle with a pair of concrete boots Elkins identified Brewsters two boys as William M ley district attorney of mah County in which Portland is situated and Clyde C Crosby international organizer for the in Oregon Elkins quoted Brewster as I make mayors and I break mayors I make chiefs of police and I break chiefs of lice I've been in jail and I've PRICE 6 CENTS HOPING AND Mr and Mrs Frank Barker and their daughter Carol Ann 12 wait for word of four-year-old Mary Jane Barker who has been missing since Monday The child disappeared while playing near her home in Bellmawr N J The parents be- lieving the child is kidnapped have issued a plea that anyone holding their daughter please leave her at the nearest church AP Report Israel Ready To Evacuate been out that scares me There's nothing Terribly Burned Little Girl Winning Battle To Get Well CHELSEA Mass UP Little Judy White a girl with the face of an angel and nerves of steel will get a surprise birthday gift Thursday from doctors at Chelsea Naval pital For her 13th birthday they plan to take her name from the critical list It's been there last June when she third degree burns over 74 cent of her body The odds were 100 to one that she would not make it a hospital spokesman said day but she never on us Jumped Over Flame Judy was burned on the first day of summer when her caught fire as she leaned over an open gas flame in her home She was heating milk for a new puppy a pre- sent from her parents Since then she's had 17 skin graft operations and enough pain for a dozen lifetimes But it hasn't diminished her love of life or youthful enthusiasm Judy is a wonder to the tors Her case is being studied by hundreds of young internes as an example of what the human body can stand Her body was one mass of burns when they brought her the spokesman said The pain was so intense we had to give her a general anesthetic just to change bandages A team of eight doctors in every change of medication and dressing There wasn't one person here didn't love her one tor said Her courage was rific Thousands Of Letters Tho spokesman said Judy's life depended on an area of skin from her knees down all that escaped the searing flames that burned and then paralyzed her When movie actor Gregory Peck visited Judy the story of her struggle went to every cor- ner of the United States Thousands of letters poured into the hospital Peck still calls once a month Turn to page 12 column S Favors Congress Probes Of Reds Brennan Says Gunaca Key Witness In NLRB Case Hearing To Thursday Morning At Iron Mountain The marathon tional Labor Relations Board hearing into the Kohler Co strike will be reopened Thursday Iron Mountain Mich Its purpose is to give company attorneys an opportunity to elicit testimony from a Detroit ist in their defense of unfair labor practice charges The key witness will be John Gunaca 33 of Mt Mich an official of the United Auto Workers Union and a in a Kohler strike assault Costs t S Nothing It is estimated that the loss in supporting dairy products in the year ending June 30 will be 350 million dollars Laird said For the previous year it was 397 million dollars and for the year before that it was 379 lion he said Laird said the plan an amended version of the dairy program recommended last year by the National Milk Producers Federation would cost the eral government nothing With the Commodity Credit Corporation standing ready to buy top quality cheese butter and powder to remove surplus milk production from the ket place we find the real in- for most processors to sell their products in the ket place has been almost de- Laird said We have found our best ity manufactured dairy products being channeled into ment warehouses Under the present system he said there Is no real effort made case Gunaca is charged with two WASHINGTON Court Justice William J nan Jr says he favors exposure of Communists but felt in 1954 we ought to re- gain our perspective That was his reply to questions from Sen McCai thy who in 1954 wa busy investigating Reds as chair man of the Senate Investigation subcommittee But Brennan tes he had no specific inves committees in mind when he referred in speeches to witch hunts and barbarism In advance of a second public hearing called by the Senate Judiciary Committee for today Sen P Case said he was confident the would confirm Brennan's nomination by an ing McCarthy said he has a lot more questions to ask Brennan nut probably will not ask them because he said I can't see nny benefit of going over the same ground again Brennan nominated by Vnt Eisenhower last month is sitting on the court un- der a recess appointment made last fall after the retirement of Justice Sherman Minton A New Jersey Democrat Brennan heard his praises sung at Tuesday's com- hearing by the state two Republican senators Cas and H Alexander Smith Brennan testified Tuesday i answer to McCarthy's questions that he regards communism as conspiracy against the Unite States He also said he wa very very much in favor o congressional of sub activities McCarthy however said had only been strengthened in the convictions he held about Brennan and told the committee Brennan had shown an under ying hostility to attempts to expose the Com munist conspiracy The jurist said that in his speeches in 1954 and 1955 he had been talking as an can speaking his piece about a cene that was bothering me He said it is important that congressional committees he complete confidence of all f us and I just felt we ught to regain our perspective n order to do a better job of eking this thing counts of felonious assault in the July 4 1954 beating of two Kohler Co employes in a boygan Falls service station The hearing will be held at 10 f Eastern Standard Time n the Dickinson County house at Iron Mountain It is expected to be completed in one day Ignores Subpoena The NLRB two weeks ago consented to take mony at Iron Mountain after Gunaca ignored a subpoena dering him to testify in gan His attorneys have fought re- attempts to force Gunaca to return to Sheboygan because it would subject him to arrest on the assault charges to promote additional tion of dairy products since the federal government buys up the excess The present program is made to order for the middle man not the dairy farmer Laird said He gave this version of how the plan would A dairy stabilization board Turn to Page Col Brother Backs Brother Elkins had testified to a teamsters gamblers district attorney in Portland After telling about the Brewster threat Elkins I have a family I know they're going to do something to me The effort to stop Elkins through his brother began about two weeks ago Carl Elkins said in Phoenix Tuesday's caller Carl said advised him that Frank and Dave don't want him James to talk any more Carl said he assumed the was to Frank Brewster and to Dave Beck teamsters president The Phoenix Elkins a ness man and member of a teamsters local said he is 100 per cent for my brother if he helps weed out anything rotten McClellen said the caller threatened Carl Elkin's life if he testified or if bis brother James continued to testify The chairman said the FBI Missing Girl Still Alive Parents Hope B E L L M A W R N J Meager clues bolstered hopes day that a four-year-old girl i missing since Monday had g the Gulf oi Dut clause kidnaped and was still alive hitch developed in the assembly would con- It was a view shared by the between Israeli Ambassador sider sanctions if Israel parents of Mary Eban and cd on its refusal to irker who with 1 territory T I direct call for sanctions against Israel was reported ready Israel but the draft of the ay to evacuate its was understood to carry a By United Press General Dag grieving Barker who pleaded with any one holding their child to please leave her at the nearest church There was no evidence of napping no ransom note but police like the parents clung to the theory because of one a puppy that Mary Jane was playing with shortly before she disappeared Monday also is missing Dop Also Missing It may be a far-fetched but because the dog is also missing we feel that person who took Mary Jane is some one who likes children said Frank Barker the father Otherwise he would have kicked the dog aside and made off with Mary Jane alone The child was last seen day morning playing with the puppy in a neighbor's yard Tuesday despite a heavy rain over the Gaza Strip The United States hoped solve the new impasse today by introducing a in the General Assembly calling for United Nations control of TT i territory rr J Lban who broke off his talks with Hammarskjold and to rushed to Washington for a minute conference with both the Gaza Strip and the Is-'New York Sharm El Sheikh area along the Aqaba Gulf The resolution would omit tary of State John Foster Dulles was expected to sen Hammarskjold again today in To Control Milk Strike Violence YORK State storm more than 500 persons trudged through muddy fields and wooded areas but found nothing started an immediate gation He said this is not the Michigan Gov G Mennen liams has refused for almost three years to honor Wisconsin requests for extradition on grounds that Gunaca would not a fair trial in Wisconsin Gunaca has been at liberty mder bond since his ar- Sept 9 1954 at Pontiac Mich He was seized by Michigan police on a warrant issued wo months earlier by Sheboy County authorities Gunaca had been identified by he late William Bersch Sr and Turn Jo j 2 column S Snubs Red Puppet BUDAPEST Hungary S Minister Edward Wailes left Hungary today in a nal snub of Premier Janos government Legation said it was unlikely he vould return T Plane Circling Mitchell Field In Distress MILWAUKEE A Cap- ital Airlines Constellation with 21 persons aboard reported itself in distress today shortly after taking off from Gen Mitchell Field and emergency equipment was rushed to the field Capt Richard Pease the ship commander reported that the on the giant aircraft had stuck and he was unable either to extend it again or re- tract U His craft was carrying gasoline for nine hours of flying time The CAA operations office at the field said the course of tion was entirely up to the cap- tain A Capital spokesman said at p.m that we haven't de- whether to order an emergency landing or attempt airborne repairs An aircraft mechanic for the line was at- tempting to help crewmen through radio conversation The plane Flight 930 landed wre from Minneapolis this and wss bound for Detroit when it took off first such call to Carl Elkins Despite the threat James kins resumed his testimony day with this remark about his brother He's not in the rackets He's honest We call him a square James Elkins has another brother Fred who is his partner in Portland bling and pinball enterprises Challenges Work McClellen said as the tee began its second day of ings It is developing ly that the hoodlum and ster elements that have FIXD BOY'S BODY PHILADELPHIA De- today looked into the possibility that the unidentified small boy whose battered body was found in a cardboard box here may have been Steven Craig Damman kidnaped from outside a Long Island N Y supermarket in 1955 The boy's nude body covered with bruises was found Tuesday on a vacant lot Turn to pane IS col 5 troopers patrolled highways day in sections of New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania to curb further violence in a milk price strike now in its third day Reinforced stale police de- were ordered Out as the strike grew in momentum The strike thus far has been marked by sporadic outbreaks of gunfire dynamiting truck pages picketing fist fights and milk contamination There have been no serious injuries but several men have been arrested Israel's Gaza Position Israeli sources said in salem that niceties were blocking a Gaza settlement They defined these legal ties as ence that the 1949 ending the Palestine War provided for Egyptian pation of the Gaza Strip and he could nothing about it Israel's position was that it will not give Egypt control of the disputed territory because of the of Egyptian fedayeen raids launched on rael from the strip in violation of the armistice agreement Israel has insisted on such attacks and guarantees of free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba before up control of the used the Sharm El Sheikh area to blockade Israeli shipping in the Gulf of It was still not clear what of free passage had decided to give up the i st t i 11 I I I i i LM l: A thousand tons of E1 area been spilled on the tnat its otherwise destroyed as a small ships guarantee passage i ir c t of farmers pressed in Jerusalem n firio i nn demands for a higher price milk i Turn lo Pane Col S relations possibly intend to challenge the work of this committee with Turn to Page Col 4 Weather WISCONSIN Increasing cloudiness tonight and Thurs- day with occasional snow or freezing rain beginning north and possibly central portions late tonight or early Thurs- day and changing to rain Thursday Warmer northwest portion tonight and entire state Thursday Low tonight High Thursday 30s north 40s south Winds ly easterly north- west half of state and north- easterly east half this afternoon ishing and becoming easterly to southeasterly entire state tonight ly winds Thurs- day shifting to northwesterly in northwest portion on Thurs- day Tempera ture oy Hungarian Killings Soured Him On Red China Turncoat Claims HONG KONG Th youngest American turncoat o the Korean War left Red China today saying he quit the Corn munist mainland in disgust over he wanton killing by in Hungary Samuel David Hawkins ibw 23 declared he had made it plain to the Red Chinese he wanted to leave because of the Soviet Union's action in putting down the garian rebellion last fall The Oklahoma City youth told re- porters the Chinese did not try to stop him Hawkins is if it had boon found that he had served in a foreign army voted in a foreign tion or done similar things was dishonorably discharged from the Army in 1954 Hawkins said he considered the 42 months he spent in Red China pretty much wasted I I've made pretty much of a fool of he Asked by reporters if any of he 13 American servicemen still remaining with the Com- intend to return to the United States Hawkins replied perhaps the seventh to name those to whom he re- ferred Much I personally don't like Hawkins said of the Red Of 0 at S Yesterday's maximum 34 minimum 15 S temperature 21 come home of 21 U S soldiers who were captured during the Korean fighting and chose to remain with the Communists One died in China and 13 are still there The returnee came from ton to the border by train and crossed the border railroad bridge on foot He was met by U S Vice Consul S M Backe Citizenship Not Forfeited Backe questioned him and said he was satisfied the youth had not forfeited his U S Hawkins will be given a one-way passport to the United States His citizenship wou d have been forfeited auto- Perhaps they the would be much happier if they left he said but refused to Today's Index No Classified Comics 28 Conservation 24 Editorial Markets M Obituaries 12 Personals fi Radio and TV 20 Time 20 Society Snorts Time Table 28 nese regime but if the Chinese like it I have nothing to say They seem to Hawkins said there was not so much free thinking among Chinese students He added that he got his information on the Hungarian rebellion from garian students in Peiping He said he also listened to the Voice of America and other non- Communist broadcasts Hawkins termed the Chinese toward Russians in China quite good They call them big ers and go all out for them Hawkins told newsmen he peets trouble with tlv U S State Department when ho reaches the United States His departure date from Hong Kong has not been set The youth said his plans for the future depend on just what kind of work I can get He smiled affably and re- plied to most questions with as while talking with re- porters in the modest Turn to I
