Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - June 9, 1954, Stevens Point, Wisconsin latin FIFTY-NINTH YEAR LEASED OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY JUNE 9 1954 FOURTEEN PAGES Attorney Accused In Murder Plot Takes Own Life Lake Wales Fla Emmett Donnelly well known Lake Wales attorney accused of con- spiring to kill three well-to-do persons shot and killed himself today A member of a prominent waukee family Donnelly was a assistant attorney general of Wisconsin Donnelly who was released un- der bond from county jail Tuesday on three charges of plotting to kill fired one shotgun blast into his head Donnelly was arrested in a murder for plot ing two wealthy widows and an elderly calendar manufacturer Sheriff Pat Gordon said May Arrest Another The attorney and a contractor were arrested and another son may be taken into custody the sheriff added Two more cases will be gated and there may be others he said The bizarre case broke here Monday with the fake abduction of one of the wealthy widows re- marked for death The sheriff said he staged it to break the case Arrested on charges of racy to murder for profit were Donnelly 61 and Willard den 35 Orlando building con- tractor They were accused of ing to kill K H Gerlach 81 of Lake Wales a calendar facturer Mrs Byrd T Roch 51 of Lake Wales who inherited an estate of about from her late husband five years ago and Mrs Louise Clark Hawley of lando who has Florida real tate holdings and an interest in a Chicago sun helmet firm Donnelly who had handled gal and financial matters for all three was released on bond late Tuesday Durden still in custody was questioned for more than two hours Monday night by Sheriff Gordon and County Solicitor ton M Kelly The officials ed to comment on this session but it was after this that Gordon said he expected more ments Donnelly took his life at his un- pretentious frame home t on Crooked lake about five miles from here Details of the shooting were sketchy Thus ended the life of a man who figured in one of Polk ty's most sensational slayings 22 years ago He was charged then with assassinating his law Joe H Beal but a grand jury refused to indict him and the charge was dropped Since then he has had a tive law practice here Donnelly was a member of a prominent Milwaukee family son of the late Civil Judge Joseph Donnelly He was a special ant attorney general of sin from Nov 9 1922 to Jan 1 1923 according to records on file at Madison Wis Donnelly moved to Florida more than 25 years ago but his mother and two ters still live in Milwaukee Molotov Puts Skids Un Peace Chances LOSES FOSTER SON Mrs Dorothy Tschudy 29 Albany widow who lost her state supreme court fight for custody of her former foster son gets consolation from her mother Mrs John Argue at New Glarus AP Wirephoto Rumors Everywhere In Lake Geneva Area By JACK BURKE Lake Geneva Wls This resort community of one of three sites recommended for the nation's new air academy is di- vided today over something that might not happen at all Rumors were everywhere One rumor is that if the academy comes here Lake Geneva will become a major target for enemy A-bomb attacks Another rumor is that the lection is all cut and dried it's Lake Geneva for sure No er will this be a resort town at- tourists and friends of many years Late Tuesday the air force sent 10 technicians to study the proposed site located close to the Lake Geneva lakeshore in the No In Warm Spell Hall Strikes Southern Part Of County The temperature hit 85 day to set a new season's high mark for the second day in a row Tuesday's high squeezed past the previous maximum set day by one degree Yesterday incidentally was the day when the current warm spell was posed to have breathed it last It showed no signs of tapering off today At noon the mercury stood at 82 Thundershowers predicted for today had failed to show up by early afternoon The man says they may get here night or Thursday Rain made its appearance in the southern part of the county last night though mixed in with hail The storm was reported to be severe in some areas and some crop damage is probable The Weather Mostly cloudy showers and thunderstorms night or Thursday Wanner northeast tonight turning cooler northwest and north Thursday Low tonight High day northwest mid southeast Winds mph south to southwest tonight and Thursday shifting west to west mph northern day township of Linn several miles from downtown The technicians stayed at a tel near which foes of the sal paraded bearing signs nalling their feelings Few of the technicians saw any of the because the picketing was done while the technicians dine With the city's Chamber of Commerce They received a warm greeting from Mayor Ralph Williams who told Don't let the demonstration dampen your enthusiasm for this site I hope you can do us a whole lot of good The location of the air force's West Point here is opposed by the Linn township board and the Geneva Lakes Civic association but neither participated in the demonstration The 150 or so pickets marching along the street were orderly Their signs spoke for Why This Please Keep Out Air and Please No Selfish Personal In- terest M L Bengston and Curtis Kay business operators in the town of Linn organized the The Lake Geneva Chamber of Commerce has been representing itself as the whole they said in a joint statement It is the selfish local men of the city who are resenting themselves as man for all of us Eighty per cent of the property owners all around the lake are opposed to the academy being located here Academy foes say acquisition of the site of about acres in Linn township means loss of homes and as well as loss of a great part of the town's taxable land A young insurance man old Bannister spoke in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce whose executive board voted for the academy These said Bannister don't realize that these technicians are not policy makers They haven't a voice in the choice of a site Lake Geneva businessmen are not promoters We are torn be- tween our high regard for those in Linn our own business inter- ests and our patriotic duty ward our country A Lake Geneva roofer told of an experience he had Tuesday which illustrated the division of opinion in city and township He said he was halfway through the job of putting on a roof in Linn when the owners approached and asked him if he was a Chamber of Commerce member The roofer said yes and was Get the hell out of here Subpoena Gore To Produce All Signed Petitions Baraboo A subpoena was issued today requiring Leroy Gore Sauk City editor to duce all signed petitions ing the recall of Senator Testifies Adams Linked Schine With Efforts To Halt Probe Washington Roy Cohn testified today army Counselor John G Adams coupled talk of sending Pvt G David Schine overseas with efforts to halt the McCarthy investigations of Ft Monmouth N and he army loyalty board Cohn under questioning by army Counsel Joseph N Welch n the day of the hearings said Adams eft an impression that what happened to Schine depended m what Adams thought Cohn insisted he didn't care whether Schine went overseas but aid he thought Adams had been nasty about it Adams has testified that Cohn lew into a rage and threatened o wreck the army when told Schine probably would be sent overseas as most draftees were He quoted Cohn as saying also hat Robert T Stevens would be hrough as secretary of the ar- my Cohn has denied making such statements The senate investigations sub- committee got back to the meat of the between Sen and army officials thy Justice of the Peace John bilcox issued the subpoena at the request of Dist Atty Harlan W Kelley It directs Gore founder of the Joe Must Go club to pro duce the petitions June 16 before the court inquiry into the recall movement Kelley that if Gore does not produce the petitions he will ask that the editor be held in con tempt of court Gore said day in announcing that insuffi cient signatures for a recall elec tion had been obtained that the petitions were being taken out oj the state some to Chicago and some to Minneapolis I don't care if the petitions are in Timbuctoo or South Kelley said Gore has to bring them in It is my duty to find out what he is hiding Gore had expressed a determin ation to protect the signers anc circulators from pseudolegal because he could not get any operation from Stevens before the McCarthy began its investigation of Communists in the army radar set-up Farm Wife Readies Treats For Emperor St Paid made cookies and lemonade were all But a Minnesota farm wife was worrying today about how much an African emperor could eat or drink of them on a stop uled for just 20 minutes And are he and his party going to like the Mrs Edwin Doty who helps her husband farm in southern Minnesota made the preparations when Haile Selassie ruler of Ethiopia said he wanted to view a typical farm during his one-day visit to Minnesota Mrs Doty was hoping she had enough of her and her husband's St Clair quoted McCarthy as favorite looking Husband And Wife Seized By FBI In Zerk Robbery Chicago A husband anc wife have been seized by FBI agents on a of harboring a fugitive wanted in the robbery at the home of Oscar U Zerk Kenosha Wis inventor Mrs Alice 30-year old attractive brunette was seiz ed today in a near North Side apartment Agent seized a rapid firing automatic 45 calibe burp gun in the place and alsc charged her with possessing an unregistered machine gun Her husband James R wa seized Tuesday in Panama City Fla They are accused of harboring Nick one of three mer wanted in the Zerk robbery las February Most of the loot principally art j er Schine got duty objects was recovered by March 1 in a Chicago area er a renewal of the continuing clash between McCarthy and Sen Symington At the outset of the day of hearings Symington offered to testify as a witness in this case if McCarthy will let a cial senate committee investigate the Wisconsin senator's financial dealings There was a hot exchange in which McCarthy said he was willing but declined to sign formal agreement preferred by Symington May Ask Recess Members of the subcommittee were still talking of a quick windup of the hearings but Carthy told reporters he bly will ask for a two weeks re- cess when Cohn leaves this end for national guard training at Camp Kilmer N J That is my present Carthy said I'll want him here Roy knows more about this case than body else We won't ask for any deferment of Roy from ing at all Cohn 27 is chief counsel to McCarthy's investigations sub committee and was named by the army along with McCarthy in the army's charges of per pressures to get preferential treatment for Schine wealthy New Yorker who was an unpaid consultant to the subcommittee until drafted last fall Cohn relating his version of Adams talk of going overseas said Adams complained that the subcommittee was con- its investigation of mouth and was demanding mony from army loyalty board members and Adams felt the subcommittee was not ing with Cohn added Adams asked how we would like it if he sent Schine could be ative too Welch wanted to know if Cohn thought Adams was in charge of making overseas assignments for soldiers Made It Clear Cohn replied Adams had made it clear would be affected assignment because Adams didn't like what the sub- committee was doing Cohn said he certainly thought Adams would have some influence on assignment Insisting he didn't care Stevens Point Temperatures Furnished by Airport Yesterday's maximum 85 Last night's minimum 55 Noon today 82 Oshkosh Boy Killed By Auto Oshkosh Dennis Schimke five son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Schimke of Oshkosh was struck and killed by an automobile Tuesday while playing with a group of children near an inter- section on the city's south side ing housing a plumbing concern At Panama City authorities said would be ed to Chicago to face the charge was taken to Mari- anna Fla today for a removal hearing before a U S Sheriff M J Daffin said was in an automobile when his deputies acting on a tip stopped him Daffin said he believed and two or three other people were hiding out here with and escaped while nella was being arrested They had been staying at a tourist court in Panama City Injuries Fatal New Mrs Envin Teus 54 Fremont died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an auto- mobile accident June 3 ohn said he didn't think the suggestion that Schine would go overseas was nasty by itself but it was nasty in the whole context of the conversation Cohn said Adams warned if we keep on with the hearings and particularly with members of loyalty boards he would fight us in every way possible James St Clair associate ar- my counsel sought to draw from Cohn an admission there was no espionage at Ft Monmouth after Stevens took office Cohn said there was a very dangerous that had a high age potential St Clair also asked Cohn whe ther he thought Maj Gen Kirke Lawton commander at Ft mouth was critical of Stevens in testimony before the subcommittee on delays in ting rid of security risks Cohn replied he thought Gen Lawton was reluctantly saying Dec S that the McCarthy subcommittee was getting what I consider good co-operation from the army Cohn said McCarthy's statement was correct The very next day Cohn said he and McCarthy indicated to Adams instances where we felt he was not with the committee St Clair then quoted McCarthy as saying Dec 15 that his sub- committee had been receiving full co-operation St Clair also undertook to knock down the McCarthy camp's contention that Stevens ered removing Gen Lawton from command at Monmouth because of the general's co-operation with the subcommittee St Clair brought out that a Carthy camp memo picturing vens as incensed about ton's testimony the Oct 14 St Clair also brought out that the first Cohn heard about the possibility of removing Lawton was on Nov 24 Slow Reaction St Clair suggested Stevens tainly was slow to anger if it took him 40 days after Lawton's testimony to decide to remove Lawton Questioning also developed that 1 Cohn heard about the of Lawton's removal only after Lawton had made some Speeches criticizing some sities and 2 Cohn had not heard anything about Lawton's removal before these speeches Stevens contends these es chiefly caused him to con- sider Lawton's removal Lawton eventually was retained ever Cohn insisted there was not the slightest doubt in my mind that there was an effort to re- move Lawton because Lawton had co-operated with McCarthy He said he based that mostly on Adams made to him to McCarthy and to Francis P Carr another McCarthy aide Sen Jackson pressed Tohn with a series of questions n which the senator sought an- swers on why the McCarthy com- had held off its probe of the army until after the imminent induction of Schine Cohn denied that tary career had anything to do with the committee investigation He said a lot of preliminary work had been done long before Schine was called to duty In response to questions Cohn said the unnamed informant who tipped McCarthy about the 35 subversives at Ft mouth had passed along in- formation in March or April of 1953 Jackson wanted to know why Stevens wasn't told of this at once Wouldn't this have been the logical thing to Jackson asked askance at an official party ng enough persons to fiU eight autos The entourage was starting the day with religious devotions and breakfast here at Christ Lutheran church followed by a tour of St Paul and Minneapolis At the state capitol Gov C mer Anderson was greeting the royal guests before the caravan departed for Rochester and a morning tour of the world-famed Mayo Clinic Seven miles south of Rochester comes the stop at the Dotys Oh I guess we were picked just because we happened to be handy right on Highway said Mrs Doty as she pondered last minute preparations for the regal visitor She said she was being buoyed up somewhat by the fact a luncheon is slated at Austin only 55 minutes after the motorcade departs from her home Though they can't eat so very much and I ought to have enough of she concluded The Dotys principally livestock farmers were happy that the fields along the emperor's path were green with sprouted corn In Austin Selassie will tour the Geo A Hormel Co meat packing plant after being guest of that firm for luncheon The caravan returns here for a 6 p m press conference Following tea the ruler will sip with President Clemens M of St Olaf college at Northfield The Minnesota day ends with Selassie talking on Ethiopian farming as compared to can methods at a dinner on the University of Minnesota campus The party tomorrow for Spokane Wash Arouses Resentment Of Western Envoys By MAX HARRELSON Geneva Western diplomats said glumly today Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov had all but killed chances of peace in war-torn Indochina by his latest policy statement Outlining his peace terms late yesterday to the party Indochina conference Molotov not only raised new issues but leveled charges which aroused western resentment Western leaders prepared to voice their reaction formally at another Indochina session today A U S spokesman called the Molotov speech purely destructive A British spokesman said it contained nothing helpful The French called it extremely sive and said it contained provocative terms Hostile Remarks Western delegates were as much disturbed by the hostile remarks in Molotov's speech as by his actual proposals Boy Electrocuted Prairie du Grebe two son of Mr and Mrs Robert Grebe was electrocuted Tuesday when he touched a power wire while playing on the tin roof of a shed attached to the farm house where he lived He accused the United States of masterminding a plan to under- mine the Geneva conference and extend the Indochina war He criticized the policies of Pre- mier Joseph government which is now facing a severe test in national assembly French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hastened to Paris ately after Molotov's speech to take part this afternoon in the as sembly debate on Indochina A U S spokesman declared Molotov's speech was designed to have an unfavorable impact on public opinion which threatens to overturn the Laniel government Western hopes received biggest jolt when Molotov down to the Communist terms for an Indochina peace Got Tougher Some quarters had expected him to make important conces sions but instead he toughened his stand and raised new issues He proposed that the confer ence begin discussions immediate ly on a political settlement in In without waiting for agreement to end the fighting Other delegates thought they had gotten around this difficulty when the Communists agreed three weeks ago to give priority to the discussions tov however said the time had now come to begin parallel talks on both military and political perhaps rotating from one phase to the other on nate days Molotov also reiterated the Red position that the problem of the three Indochinese states of Viet Nam Laos and Cambodia are identical and should be taken up together Delegates from Laos and bodia have threatened to walk out of the conference if their problem is lumped with that of Viet Nam Backed by the tern nations they contend there is civil war in Viet Nam but that their own territories have been invaded by minh troops They demanded withdrawal of the Communists Molotov also called for ions on the sovereignty of the hree Indochinese states even hough they all claim to be pendent He called for withdrawal of all foreign troops meaning French forces before elections could be held Holds To Demands At the same time he stuck to lis demands that supervision of the armistice agreements be by a mixed commission of Communist and non-Communist nations made up of Poland Switzerland and den The west already has ed the Communist supervision plan British Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden advanced his own posal yesterday that policing of the armistice be placed in the hands of the Asian nations whose premiers recently met at Colombo Ceylon They are India Pakistan Ceylon Burma and In- donesia U S Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith supported Eden's proposals These statements after more than six weeks of intense debate left the conference still tightly deadlocked on every major point The same was true of the rean question which is being con- by a group here Van Fleet On Way Back To Far East Honolulu Retired Gen James A Van Fleet arrived at Hickam air base last night on the way back to the Far East to resume his interrupted survey of military assistance needs of U S allies He had been called back to Washington from Formosa He planned to leave tomorrow for Tokyo after conferences with Adm Felix B Stump Pacific fleet commander Van Fleet said We ought to back Asian troops with American sea and air power He declined to comment on the Indochina crisis except to say It looks bad out there Democratic Vote Surprise In California James Roosevelt Wins Nomination Cohn said it would not that the informant had told McCarthy the army knew all about the tion and hadn't done anything about it On the same line Welch called it really dramatic to see how these Communist hunters sat on this document and let month ter month go by without going to the army secretary with the in- formation and saying Sic em Stevens Protest Cohn protested that Welch was creating an erroneous impression McCarthy jumped in also ing Welch of trying to create a false impression Welch asked whether Cohn did not regard it as See Hearings page By MORRIE LANDSBERG San Francisco California's unique cal system was shaken by a prising Democratic vote in day's primary election The Democratic surge overrode national party criticism of James Roosevelt and helped the eldest son of the late New Deal dent win nomination for congress from heavily Democratic Los An- geles He'll oppose Republican Theodore Ted Owings in No- Both men by ran in both party races Owings is city clerk of Culver City He was running fourth in the Democratic race But velt who captured his own party race by a margin of about over his closest rival was ning second to Owings in the GOP column In 349 out of 901 precincts Roosevelt had votes His chief opponent newspaper lisher Ned Redding had In the Republican contest ings polled and Roosevelt 431 also in 349 precincts Rep Robert L Condon D- also renounced by cratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell was renominated and will face John F Baldwin Jr the Republican he defeated in 1952 And right on down the line Democrats nominated Democrats j for national and state offices j in sharp contrast to previous tions when many Republicans ing or both tickets won both and thus were elected in the primary Democratic voters obviously paid no need to charges of ity against Roosevelt by his wife and to the listing of Condon as a security risk by the atomic energy commission velt called his wife's accusations untrue Condon testified he was never a Communist member or sympathizer Gov Goodwin J Knight easily won his own Republican tion for that office but trailed Richard P Graves on the cratic ticket A registered lican until December the old Graves was a political un- known until he entered the Knight 57 twice was elected lieutenant governor He succeeded Chief Justice Earl ren as governor last fall Rep Samuel W Yorty D- whom Roosevelt seeks to succeed in the house maintained a Democratic lead over as H Kuchel Warren appointed Kuchel when Richard M Nixon became vice president Knight and Kuchel built huge majorities for their awn GOP nominations Veteran a state officials consistent two- party winners in the past also were forced into runoffs The returns all added up to a repudiation of the double tion tradition in California and a reawakening of partisan voting And three little letters probably had a lot to do with it The Democratic trend came in an election in which candidates continued the system of running on both tickets But for the first time in 40 years the ballot identified them by party The abbreviation Dem or Rep followed the names The Democrats for years outnumbered Republicans by 760.000 for yesterday's election but under the party labels Republican bents usually won in both tickets Only Atty Gen Edmund G Brown among state officials was assured of election And he is the only Democrat holding a job He defeated former Re- publican Atty Gen Fred N Howser of Los Angeles OR the GOP ticket by a lopsided vote Graves for 20 years executive director of the League of nia Cities and once Warren's civil defense chief claimed on the Democratic ticket in a ment declaring Knight has shot his bolt
