Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - June 8, 1954, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Journal FIFTY-NINTH YEAR fin 1 EASED OF THE PRESS STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN TUESDAY JUNE 8 1954 FOURTEEN PAGES DULLES Reefs Giving Lie To Talk Of Loving Peace Washington Secretary of State Dulles said today the Com- were dragging their feet on peace negotiations at Geneva while intensifying their war fort in Indochina He said this gives the lie to their talk of ing peace Dulles told a news conference he thought developments in the discussions at Geneva on both Korea and Indochina might come to a head in the near future For that reason he said he has arranged to spend a mini- mum amount of time away from Washington on a western ing trip beginning Wednesday and may have to further curtail his travel program Dulles told reporters the ad- ministration has no present plans for asking congress for authority to intervene in Southeast Asia He said the reaction to the administration's call for a united front of allied na tions has not reached the point of general acceptance that would make an appeal to congress matter of practical politics The United States he said em- has no intention of dealing with this problem handedly unless the Chinese Communists launch a new tary aggression Dulles also said on other 1 During the six months there have been more high level defections from the Soviet Union than ever before in Soviet tory He declined to amplify this comment in any way 2 Very considerable progress in Dulles opinion has been made on narrowing differences be- tween Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste in the course of tions under way at London 3 The United States favors a special meeting of the American republics foreign ministers to consider measures to deal with the Guatemalan situation in which the government received arms from Communist Europe But Dulles said the is delaying a final deci- sion on what it will do hears from other American Mrs Tschudy Loses Her Fight To Regain Custody Of Jeffery New Soviet Proposal May Bring On Crisis Geneva Russia demanded today that the Indochina peace conference begin discussions at once on a political settlement in the war-torn territory without waiting for an end of the fighting This was expected to precipitate a crisis in the peace talks since France has insisted from the beginning that a cease-fire agreement must be reached before such questions as elections should be taken up The talks for the past three weeks have been devoted almost exclusively to the military phases of a cease-fire without any sub- stantial Molotov proposed that the political and military discussions should French Premier Again Faces Vote Of Confidence Paris Premier Joseph niel's foes returned to the al assembly attack on his Indo- china war policy today amid signs the shaky French ment may finally be forced out of office The Indochina debate which began listlessly last week with the usual assaults from the and Communists was ex- to warm up today when members of parties in own majority open fire on his conduct of the war Several ers from these groups have ed to speak Debate on the explosive issue is not expected to reach the cial stage until tomorrow For- eign Minister Georges Bidault on whom Laniel apparently is ing to turn the tide in his favor will return from the Geneva con- ference to speak then It was generally agreed that Laniel who twice in the past month had to call for votes of confidence to continue his Indo- china policy unchecked would seek another such vote at the close of the talking The balloting probably will not come before late Thursday or Friday Finn Brothers Convicted On Assault And Conspiracy Charges Los Angeles A federa court jury has convicted the Finn twins on two charges which fol lowed their citizens arrest of a federal prosecutor Charles and George Finn were tried for conspiracy and for a government official The maximum penalty would be fine and nine years imprisonment on the two counts Their counsel filed a motion for be carried on in parallel talks In the political phase the viet foreign minister proposed that priority be given to questions the sovereignty of lie three Indochinese states Viet Nam Laos and Cambodia and to the holding of free tions in those states The of foreign troops he said also should be considered in this Molotov proposed direct con- tact of representatives of both sides for discussion of political questions Such talks are now in progress between military of the French Union and the Vietminh on cease-fire lines The Soviet diplomat further suggested that discussions of tary and political questions would be rotated Bidault Reports Progress Earlier today French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said some progress has been at the Indochina peace con- ference and the results achieved show us the path of future ment In a speech obviously aimed at public opinion in France where Premier Joseph ment is fighting for its life Bi- dault laid heavy stress on what he called his effort at tion The French foreign minister led off the debate of the parley Bidault's speech was primarily a review of the proceedings to date He acknowledged that all major issues remained unsettled but expressed hope that solutions might soon be in sight Western circles believed speech was aimed as much at the French national assembly in Paris as at the Geneva gates Reiterates Stand In Opposition To Request Of The executive secretary of the Wisconsin of vation clubs has reiterated a stand in opposition to the con- struction of a reservoir on the Little river Les Woerpel of Stevens Point again made known his feelings today following the announcement Monday that the Wisconsin Valley ment company had asked the state for permission to build what woud be the second largest body of water in Wisconsin Woerpel officially made known the opposition to the project in April at the same time M W Kyler dent and general manager of the appeared here at a session of the executive council of the conservation congress Woerpel then and today again pointed out that the Little Eau Pleine is the only area in Wisconsin and one of the few in the nation that supports all types of small game native to the state He also said today that the Eau Pleine area is one of the more excellent prairie chicken ranges in the state and its loss may mean loss of the prarie chicken too Woerpel pointed out that it is the largest area in the state where acid and alkaline marshes are found and it covers a region as large as the Horicon marsh which is public land under federal and state control GROUP OF CITIZENS PROTEST AIR ACADEMY SITE Citizens of Linn township near Geneva raise their hands to indicate they had sent telegrams to Washington protesting tion of their locality as a possible site for the Air Force academy The protest meeting was held preliminary to a scheduled visit today by Air Force Secretary Talbott and Ms Inspection group AP Wirephoto Cannot Adopt Boy Supreme Court Rules Madison Mrs Dorothy Tschudy Albany widow lost her fight today to adopt her former foster son Jeffrey The Wisconsin supreme court said she could not adopt the three-year-old youngster she was forced to surrender to the state department of public welfare Nov 20 1953 The decision was unanimous It was written by Justice Roland Steinle Suspend Civi Rights In Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala's govern ment ordered a suspension of constitutional guarantees today The action was taken at an ex- session of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's Cabinet It followed three weeks of ing tension following U S tions to the delivery of a large shipment of arms from nist Poland to the Central can country Among the civil rights ed was the constitutional article establishing freedom of sion and the press The cabinet said it was sing the suspension in view of the current situation A week ago Arbenz charged a ed plot of serious proportions had been uncovered against his government New fears of trouble were aroused Monday night when a mystery plane ered leaflets over a town in western Guatemala and also flew over the capital Survey Group Expected Today At Lake Geneva Lake group of 10 military and civilian engineers from headquarters here was due to arrive here this afternoon to make an engineering inspection of a proposed site for the new air force academy The group headed by John P Huebsch special assistant to the air force director of construction was scheduled to land at Billy Mitchell field in Milwaukee about 4 p m Two-Day Visit The party is to remain at Lake Geneva about two days then ceed to the other two sites mended by Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott's site selection 111 and rado Springs Colo The group will make no confining itself to engineering surveys with the in- formation to be turned over to Talbott to help decide which of the three sites should be picked Property owners said the aca demy would destroy property values in this resort area and work a hardship on the Town of Linn by removing the academy site from its tax Notes Opposition But Edward A McCullough chairman of the Lake Geneva Chamber of Commerce board of directors said Monday the sition to the academy comes mainly from wealthy Chicagoan REBUFF Ag Committee Votes For Rigid Supports ad- ministration proposals for ible supports the house ture committee voted today to recommend continued farm price supports at the present rigid 90 per cent of parity through 1955 would apply to basic farm crops In a rebuff to Secretary of Benson who has for the flexible supports the committee voted to write the one-year extension into the omnibus farm it will present to the house Parity is a price declared by law to be fair in re- lation to the prices farmers must pay for products they buy Under existing law the flexible system of price supports ranging from 75 to 90 per cent of parity goes into effect at the end of the 1954 crop year For an extension of the present 90 per cent of ity system new legislation is re- quired Benson has said he would a presidential veto of the high fixed price level The committee's final vote came after several earlier cests on other price support proposals First the committee voted to accept a proposal by Rep Coo ley D-NC for a three-year ex- tension of the 90 per cent high support program Then it submitted for this an amendment by Rep Belcher Okla which called for 90 per cent supports next year and then a gradual reduction by not more than five per cent a year until it got down to 75 per cent of parity in 1958 This was carried but lost when a proposal was made to write it into the committee A proposal by Rep Abernethy for a permanent gram of 90 per cent price ports on basic crops lost by only one vote Finally the committee voted and adopted the amendment ing for a one-year extension No reference was made to any price support legislation for the basic crops beyond 1955 but the committee will consider tion later for supports for non- basic crops for 1955 The basic crops are wheat corn cotton peanuts rice and tobacco Mrs Tschudy was not in court to hear the decision She got the word from her at- at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs John Argue in New Glarus Justice Steinle There is no principle in law or equity by which the secured vested rights to the custody of the child They obtained none by con- tract express or implied Since the consent qf the de- was a jurisdictional re- to a valid decree of tion and the refusal of the de- consent was not sub- ject to review by the trial court the absence of such consent pre- cluded the court from validly dering its and we are to hold that the judg ment as entered was invalid and of no force The supreme court's reversal was of the judgment by County Judge Elton Morrison who had ruled that Mrs Tschudy was en- titled to have the child No Justice Tschudy was grief ease in Wisconsin court history Backed by friends who raised money to help her fight Mrs Tschudy was able to continue her fight in the state's highest tri- bunal after the state had brought it there when it lost in a lower court The baby has been in a home since leaving his foster mother The department agreed to hold off further tive efforts pending the supreme court's decision who own lake homes in Linn and not from the people of nearby Lake Geneva McCullough said Lake Geneva business men and merchants are strong in their support of the academy being established here but hesitate to speak out for fear of a business boycott by the Chicago summer residents involved in a a new trial The Finns lengthy dispute with the ment over title to a war surplus airplane arrested U S Atty Laughlin E Waters last Jan 29 handcuffed him and had him en to a police station They con- tended that Waters had violated their civil rights in connection with the plane dispute Written Arguments Only Washington The atomic energy commission has ed that Dr J Robert er can present not oral arguments for study by the commission when it reviews his security case To Open La Follette Papers June 26 Madison The papers of former U S Sen Robert M La Follette Sr sealed since his death in 1925 will be opened here June 26 at an annual ing of the Wisconsin State society Clifford Lord society director said today the opening has been awaited eagerly by scholars in the country because of ance of the papers in telling of the beginning of the Progressive movement Miss Fola La Follette ter of the former Wisconsin maker will present the papers to D C Everest Wausau society president Speakers at the meeting will include Lucius Dabney historian and Maj Gen Carl Gray former director of the veterans administration Deceiving Dallas Tex When the maid at a hotel here finally ed into the room a day after the Do not disturb sign was hung up the occupant was gone So wore the works to a tele- vision set Top Russian Player Not Coming To U S For Chess Tournament Russian chess team expected here for a ment with an American team starting June 16 will be without its No 1 player world champion Mikhail Botvinnik Harold M Phillips who ed the match reported yesterday that Botvinnik had been dropped from the team but all efforts to find out why had been fruitless Phillips president of the United States Chess federation said Bot- vinnik is a frail man and shows great tension when he plays My own belief is that health would not permit him to he said The absence he said increases American for victory Symington Advises Better Go To A Psychiatrist June Bride Eureka Steen 93 took for his June bride year-old Mrs Lillian McLean Steen who has more grandchildren than I can I married the woman who loves me Bandit Gets In Milwaukee Office Milwaukee The third waukee loan association holdup in six weeks netted day for a thin ed man wearing horn rim glasses Police said the gunman might be responsible for all three holdups The bandit wearing neat white coveralls of the type painters use held up four women em- ployes Monday in the Atlas ings and Loan association office He struck four hours after 000 from the office had been deposited in a bank Washington Sen ton told Sen McCarthy today he better go to a psychiatrist Symington tossed out that ad- vice as he and McCarthy hooked up in another angry exchange at the hearings It was touched off when Carthy insisted that Symington ought to take the witness stand Symington demanded in turn that McCarthy testify under oath in connection with 1952 charges involving McCarthy which were investigated by a senate As McCarthy referred to ington as Sanctimonious Symington broke in to say edly Senator McCarthy I re- sent that reference to my first name Symington then said McCarthy ought to consult a psychiatrist The row was a renewal of a hassle the two senators had late Monday Claims Influence McCarthy contended then that the transcript of a March 8 tele- phone talk between Symington and Secretary of the Army ens indicated that Symington and Clark Clifford once special sel to former President Truman had influenced Stevens to accuse McCarthy and his aides of ing preferential treatment for Pvt G David Schine drafted con- to McCarthy's tions subcommittee At the outset of this after- session McCarthy told the subcommittee he doubts the ate could force Symington to testify in the inquiry but that he believes the Missouri senator would be wise to do so because of public opinion Symington I have no objection of any kind to saying anything under oath that I say not under oath because I tell the truth Symington then challenged Carthy to answer under oath be- fore a senate committee questions raised by a senate rules in 1952 concerning the Wisconsin senator's financial dealings Nobody in the senate knows more how to avoid testimony than the junior senator from Symington declared McCarthy said he would be glad to take the oath and testify before the ings about all the 1952 charges if that would induce Symington also to testify Symington insisted McCarthy should appear before the rules subcommittee which investigated that the current hearings Symington asked whether Carthy would agree to an ar- rangement for them each to make a speech to the senate He asked McCarthy to state if he McCarthy will come before this committee and testify on the charges that were made against him in 1952 McCarthy called that a very attractive offer and told I'm willing to go on the stand about the old Benton es and let you or other senators question me Symington said he wasn't ing about any Benton charges but about the loan Sen William Benton tangled with McCarthy in 1952 over McCarthy's charges of Com- munist infiltration of the state department Benton was ed for re-election that fall Senate hearings also in 1952 developed that McCarthy had pr stricken Asked to comment on the high court's verdict she I feel there is no justice The decision certainly wasn't fair to Jeffrey or myself We just can't understand why the court ruled as it did Attorneys for Mrs Tschudy said there would be no further action m the case The supreme court said there is no statute which vests in a county court the authority to re- view the acts of public body in the exercise of powers granted it by the ture The decision cited sections of the law and noted they provide for review of rules and orders of certain administrative agencies of the state including those of the welfare department but the forum is restricted to the circuit court in Dane county The court further said it did not appear that the alleged two tive parent standard maintained by the department is in the form of a written rule It is asserted as a policy con- sonant with modern medical and social welfare the court said The court said the record in- there is a diversity of opinion among experts as to the merit of the application of such standard in all cases and Other Factors We are not unmindful of the department's position that it con- other factors in addition to such policy in the instant tion Strict adherence by the de- to such policy obviously would make impossible the tion by a single adult person of any child committed to the care of the department or for which it acts as guardian We are compelled however to hold that a county court in an adoption proceeding lacks to review the department's refusal of consent and that it has Cold Front Gets Lost New Season's Record Set Here The weatherman in a busting mood these days set a new season's record here Monday and appeared on his way to an- other one today The maximum Monday was 84 three degrees higher than the previous top 81 recorded May 31 At noon today it was 82 with bright sunshine continuing to nudge the mercury upward All this came about despite a prediction Monday that things were due to showers Monday afternoon and evening were going to usher out the June heat wave the man said The showers faint trace at the warmth stayed Another prediction of rain has been made for Wednesday but nothing is said about cooler weather School Committee To Meet Thursday The citizens committee on lic schools will meet Thursday evening starting at in the library at the P J Jacobs High school This will be the first meeting of the full committee since the completion two weeks ago of the work of the solution subcommittee and the holding last week of a public hearing on proposals regarding the city lic school problem Expect Heavy Vote In South Carolina Columbia S record Turnout was expected today as thousands balloted in the portant state Democratic primary in South Carolina Seeking nomination amount to election in this state candidates for governor three other state offices two con- gressional seats 132 legislative seats and scores of county and local offices not jurisdiction to adjudicate the reasonableness of a rule or policy from the Corp for a booklet on housing now defunct was ing prefabricated housing and was a heavy borrower from the government's Reconstruction nance Corp McCarthy never did testify be- fore the 1952 hearings committee He was invited to appear but no effort was made to require him to testify The committee reported there were numerous questions raised about McCarthy's financial fairs but that it was unable to give answers in the absence of testimony from the senator Back to Cohn When the scrapping was finally dropped the senate investigations went back to questioning Roy Cohn chief counsel to Carthy In the session Cohn See Hearings page alleged to it when refusing to invoked by consent It is not within our power in this proceeding to determine the reasonableness of such rule or George Keith acting director of the welfare department We asked for and got an in- of the law Keith said he and others in the department were sorry that the elements of emotion were ed in the case The case he said had been followed closely by lic and private welfare agencies in the country Little Jeffrey was bom June 6 1951 and given to the custody of the welfare department Since that time he of course has been unaware of the events centered around him and which will figure in his future The fight over his custody started in gust 1953 and the emotional in- terest it generated was unlike any The Weather Partly cloudy night and Wednesday with local showers or thunderstorms loping over most of state Warmer west and central tonight Low tonight 54-62 High Wednesday in mid SOs Southerly winds mph except easterly near Lake Michigan this after- noon becoming light variable this evening and south-southwest late tonight and Wednesday ing to 20 mph Wednesday Stevens Point Temperatures Furnished by Airport Yesterday's maximum Last night's minimum 45 Noon today 82 Precipitation trace Five day Temperatures will average degrees below normal north near normal south al maximum 74 north 85 south Normal minimum 50 north 59 south Cooler Friday warmer over week-end except warmer Wednesday and Thursday near Iowa Precipitation average inch Showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Friday
