Waukesha Daily Freeman (Newspaper) - January 26, 1950, Waukesha, Wisconsin DAILY FREEMAN One Of Midwest's Prize-Winning Newspapers VOL XXIX NO 72 WAUKESHA WIS THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 26 1950 Two Sections 18 Pages FIVE CENTS Senators Flay Acheson for Becking Hiss WASHINGTON Rain Old Sewer Flood Ave Homes Ten owners of city built houses to find his furnace out with the on Walton street were sinning controls of the heater the Muddy Waters off key today as they ladled mud out of their ments washing machine and the bottom of the stationary tubs under wa- ter threatened today to through laund l 1.1 K 4 pose any further funds for the ol lwo state department until congress furnaces and r investigates the extent of Alger influence an the ment Angered by Secretary of State Dean pledge of support for the convicted perjurer they said the secretary must explain the role Hiss placed in the formation of U.S policy Their Democratic colleagues re- mained silent Hiss a foi mer top-ranking state official was to five in prison yesterday for to a giand jury about his espionage conspiracy with Chambers the former Communist spy cornier He has appealed the conviction and is free on bond Turn My Back Acheson a close iriend of Hiss and his brother Donald was asked at his news conference yesterday if he had any comment on the case Whatever the outcome of the he said I do not intend to turn my back on Hiss I think every person who has known him has on his conscience the task of what his tude shall be Each must decide according to his own standards and principles For me there is no doubt as to these standards and principles They stated a long time ago on the Mount of Olives Some Republicans bemoaned the fact that Acheson should feel com- to pledge his support to a former department official who in effect lias been convicted of giving secrets to an agent of a foreign power Sen Karl E Mundt R S D who a leading role in in- the Hiss case as a ber of the house committee told newsmen that such a statement could have only come from Dean Acheson He said he planned to start a campaign to force all the Alger Hiss Communists out of the eral government He emphasized that he does not want to kick Mr Hiss around but said the house committee should follow in its estimation of spy rings American Trucks Bluff Way Past Berlin Blockade American army convoy of 57 trucks guarded by seven military police on cycles challenged the Soviet baby blockade of Berlin today and was allowed to pass through the stedt checkpoint without incident The Russians made no move to interfere with the American trucks but 260 German trucks waiting to pass through the Soviet checkpoint remained stranded on the western side of the zonal border by the Soviet slowdown Fur capped Russian border guards gave only a brief look at the convoy commander's travel ders The sergeant in charge then waved the commander on and the pured that it wouldn't At the home of Mr and Mrs j rest of the convoy passed through again Although the city Harold Schessler 181 Walton the the checkpoint The whole tor's department had all the water reached 10 inches and took 12 minutes ments pumped out by 9 p m last John Hughes house at 185 Carried Food for GI's feet stopping oil I every cupboard in the house which ruining clothes and i Seeling had painted the night be- fruit stored in the fore and left to dry Mrs of 10 houses towards the ing's clean laundry hung on ments Newhall avenue end of the 100 ment lines to dry had sunk into j the slime as the ropes sagged A block on Walton It was the second time that the wool sock floated at the foot houses built as a city housing of the stairs On the basement new project for veterans had been flooded Last spring water rose wall was a high water mark about feet above the water even higher in one instance 1 mg where the spring flood had most to floor level reached The recently married The repeat left re- i moved into the house last cent buyers of the city houses August and crates of canned foods Those who had been them by his mother were the spring were equally irate completely submerged insisting that they had been i Water Forces Self Up Wallace Denies Any Link With Atom Shipment to Russ Tells Probers He Didn't Even Know of Incident home owners uere still ton it was up to eight wrathful as they surveyed ruins today Washing Machine Washed Seeling said that when he got home the water was gushing up through the laundry drain He American officials said none of the convoy drivers or guards ried weapons The convoy commanded Arthur H Norwood Jr of At the Kenneth Seeling home in plugging it and then Walton the damage was was forced up through ington D C and guarded by usually heavy There was no one the stationary tubs The water seven American military police on home when the flooding started at j rose about 13 inches in 20 motorcycles was loaded with food I for the U S garrison in Berlin v i i It spent the night in the British According to City Engineer i i zone 10 miles from the Soviet ter Dick the sewer that was to 4 n t zonal border and pulled into an forestall any recurrence of the about 9 a m yesterday Seeling was called at work and came home poor befuddled SULLIVAN Ind A circuit judge pardoned by the late ident Franklin 15 Roosevelt for a forgery conviction today faced bad check and embezzlement es Judge Norval K Harris chairman with singer Paul son of a committee that protested the trial of 11 Communist leaders last summer was indicted day by his own grand jury After studying the indictment in court Harris told the grand rors that undoubtedly the re- cent publicity over my stand on civil rights had a lot to do with this Took Check Charge Prosecutor John K said the indictment charged that ris appropriated a check sent through his office as an disclosed by Chambers and by payment to a divorcee Elizabeth T The indictment charged All the people described by Harris to cover the Chambers as espionage agents j embezzlement by issuing have either died left the a for on his own ment under a cloudier fled the Jn which he funds Harris denied the charges Harris disqualified himself at T Purcell's request and the Sens William F saia he would ask the Indi Calif and Homer Ferguson R court to appoint a Mich two members of the senate appropriations committee said Forgery congress should withhold funds Democrat took office from the state department until it determines the influence Hiss TT country he said But I would like to know what has happened to the others had inside the government The committee begins hearings six-year term His Republican op- ponent Amorine Wilson filed -i 1 I L t J 1 1 1 3 on thc department's 1951 fiscal s u 11 contesting the election be- budget next Monday Acheson is thc first witness cause Harris served seven months in the federal penitentiary at O in 1932 on a charge of spring flood is not due for com- until March 1 He said that owners had been American checkpoint on the border near Helmstedt shortly before 8 The American checkpoint is one i constantly warned to keep plugs I mile short of the Russian in the basement drains when not Soviet border guards in use Owners yesterday said have a j they had been warned earlier but down on German trucks hauling assured later that the situation was under control Old Sewer Caved In The deluge yesterday resulted from work on the new sewer the frozen ground and the deluge of rain that poured down most of the day In laying the new sewer said the Qld sewer caved in It was opened up for about 25 feet ground water from the Turn to No 1 Page 10 supplies into Berlin At the American checkpoint the trucks pulled up m line for a minute inspection and instructions before going on to meet the sians Truant Scolded Kills Mother boy has admitted that he shot and killed his mother because she scolded him for playing hookey a police official announced Philip Cammack Jr admitted that he shot his mother Mrs Marie Cammack 40 mother of four other children while she was bending BACK ON THE on the city garage stopped Dec 30 because of union dis- Motorcycle police cruised up and agreements resumed today Peter Altwies of 510 Pewaukee rd a construction worker on the project down the column while the is show n loading cement into a bucket to use in laying bricks for the chimney in the background Freeman Staff Photo tion was made The Russian baby blockade was in full force when the Americans halted On the western side ing to pass through the Soviet checkpoint for Berlin was a long line of 260 German trucks halted by the Russians On the opposite side of the border were 150 more German trucks from Berlin ing to pass into western Germany through the Russian guard purchase order new Highway 41 is expected soon according to Joseph A Stransky The convoy was the first U S for m thc northeast cor- army truck column to challenge of Waukesha county for the the Soviet baby blockade since the 41 is Russians began hampering way traffic to Berlin last Saturday Western Allies Protest Baby Blockade on Berlin House Up in So Are the Owners Milwaukee couple charges in a circuit court suit that a building contractor jacked their house up in the air and left it for six months ing them damage embarrassment and inconvenience Harry and his wife said Builders Inc started putting a foundation under Milwaukee division engineer for i their house before making over a washtub doing the family Big Three ern powers protested to Russia day against the week-old Soviet baby blockade of Berlin The American British and French commandants in Berlin sent a joint protest letter to the laundry last night Chief Maurice Green of the Cook county police said The boy fired three bullets from a 22 caliber rifle into her head Green said Green said he would recommend that the boy be held for murder The boy previously had con- tended that the shooting was dental stating that one bullet struck his mother when he bumped the rifle against a door He made Milwaukee Girl Saves Youngsters From Fire 000 suit charging that MILWAUKEE Darlene Yu- son called him a Communist sten 9 rescued two younger jng thc election campaign Both ers and a baby sister from their suits later were dismissed burning home late yesterday while President Roosevelt pardoned their parents were away shopping Harris in 1941 nine years after he The girl saved thc lives of served the prison term The est Jr 3 TJ and don restored Harris rights to hold thy four weeks old I public office A lot of fire blew out of thc sudden and set fire on Morals Charge Bail was set at each for I the admission last night Green forging veterans names to r an that checks Harris countered with a said so I ried the younger ones out I wasn't scared but I was a little shivery said she carried Wayne and Ernest out of thc cottage and appearing in back after thc baby pal court on a morals charge this tried to but and thc caso bound I made him stay she said until out W St Paul avc Mrs l 111111 o r n p whole room was burning but Charged with lewd and I found Dorothy and carried her I Mrs V 106 LEWIS MAY TRY AGAIN WASHINGTON John L Lewis crack down on counsel for her defense striking coal miners today by lawyer will be appointed them to return to Sheets work Monday on thc three-day shift Thc United Mine Workers ident was said to have received White that such an order would delay at least refused but a for Mrs Cammack had been shot three times The boy told Green that his mother had reprimanded him and that they had argued about his truancy The shooting occurred in the family's home in Worth township southwest of Chicago Philip first denied implication in the shooting although he ted that he was home during most of the day AIRLINER LOSES ENGINE CHICAGO Northwest lines officials today sought to de- termine why an engine tore loose from a carrying 44 persons The engine plunged to earth near a crowded recreation hall at the 111 naval air tion The plane enroute from Minneapolis to New York landed safely at Chicago Midway airport a few minutes after it lost thc engine last night the state highway commission Purchase of the first stretch of right-of-way for the new highway between Milwaukee and Slinger has been ordered by the state commission It is the entire right-of-way through the town of Germantown in Washington ty Land cost for the three miles in Waukesha county has been essary credit investigations They claimed the contractor then abandoned the work and left the house in the air saying the couple was a poor credit risk truck traffic from western Germany to a trickle Trumans to Attend Drucie Snyder Nuptials WASHINGTON President Truman will cut short his work schedule today to attend the wedding of his daughter's hood Snyder Miss Snyder only child of of Treasury and Mrs John W Snyder weds Maj Ernest Horton a White House aide at 4 p.m CST Margaret Truman will be her maid of honor Mr and Mrs Truman head the list of distinguished guests who will attend the ceremony in the vaulted great choir of the ington cathedral Gets Traffic Convictions Nine Times in 14 Years So Judge Jails Him In his ninth traffic conviction since Walter 42 Deerfield was found guilty of be- TT rr ing drunk and driving without a between Highways 55 and the old He was sentenced in 41 E J Reichert of the cm court this morning Soviet commandant complaining at The small strip about Soviet tactics that have re- runs from thc of ways 104 and 55 northwest and kee division office said today Cost Tops Million S t r a n s k y predicted yesterday that thc commission would let contracts this year to build some of the highway and rail grade which are included in the relocation of Highway 41 in an entirely new location Thc cost of thc 18.6 miles of highway in Milwaukee Waukesha and Washington counties would be about Two double lanes divided by a boulevard strip are planned from thc intersections of present highways 45 and 41 at West to a point north of Richfield From Madison Can't Cry Dirty Thief at Him MADISON Madison's tub burglar has struck again Police said today thc obsessed thief had taken his ond bathtub in two days This time it was a tub ing in thc yard of a Madison ing co The other was lifted from thc backyard of a home Mercury Skids Heading for Sub-Zero Cold sunny weather finally temporarily intervention by ident Truman in thc soft coal wage dispute Weather Forecast WISCONSIN and vorv not so ion tow below and In in IK low fiu to 10 to 15 uro In 7 n m 12 hif Minimum Tf aim o 34 low f luro n 34 tow M a i 2 Hour 12 in 10 n a a o 11 H I January 14 a m the temperature broke through in Waukesha and thc rest of southern Wisconsin day ending a four-day period of ram drizzle fog and comparative warmth The temperature skidded to eight degrees above zero by 1 1 a drop of 47 degrees within the past 40 hours The mercury will continue T pmg according to Howard son federal weather observer in Milwaukee It is expected to go to 5 to 10 below tonight in the southeast with a low of 20 below in thc northwest Thc water utility reported that 1.08 inches of ram fell in the city yesterday including that from a sudden and ferocious rainstorm about p.m It was still above at 7 p.m but by mid- night it had fallen to 25 At 7 1 2 was the million Mars million Is now tie earth nt n ruto ot moro per Tim Is UK of which will moie thai tripled IB the two Thompson had predicted that day's temperature would he 35 Freak Slorm Causes Flood A freak storm caused a small some communication lines in the southern part of the state Highway and telephone crews were out in full force repairing damage left isy yesterday's storm A downpour of rain caused ing in Lafayette county a storm lashed Beloit and Madison had its worst rain and sleet storm in 24 years Heavy snow drifted over ern Wisconsin Land got 10 inches of snow and Wausau seven Lafayette county got 1.29 inches of rain Madison es and Milwaukee 88 inch The mercury dropped sharply Inst night Superior and Eau Claire had lows of 18 below La Crosse Park Falls and er 12 below 11 below Stevens Point 10 below ville five below Lone Rock three below Green Ray one above ison four and Milwaukee 15 Tomorrow will be fair and not so cold in western Thompson said Hood tore down trees and cut At least two deaths were caused by thc storm An Oshkosh railroad foreman went out to inspect sleet damage to thc tracks and was killed by a run driver And a Prairie du Chien youth drove his car into thc path of a streamliner Police blamed his death on thc car's dows The weather hit Lafayette ty hardest The Pecatonica river was at flood stage at Gratiot and Darlington thc city of Shullsburg was without light and power six schools were closed and telephone and electric lines were down throughout thc area The Wisconsin Power and Light co and the Wisconsin Telephone co called in extra crews to get thc lines back up Thc REA and the interstate power lines were practically all down cutting off farms and communities all the county Thc breakdown turned off all the power at Shullsburg and stopped the pumps nt nearby Cal- Turn lo No 2 Page 10 will be purchased to build a second lane in the future sky said May Buy Entire Farms Titles to property that must be taken are now being checked er that the land will be appraised and that which cannot be bought for a reasonable price will be condemned We may find it necessary to buv entire faims in some places and then sell thc remnants after construction is sky said at Oconomowoc was picked up in equa Dec 22 after driving his car through a fence Investigation showed that his license had been revoked in September for drunken He was fined find costs and given 30 days in thc county jail The heavy sentence was im- posed because of his previous ord of eight convictions Eugene Palmer 18 Nashotah was fined and costs on a charge of petty Palmer pleaded guilty to the charge that he siphoned gas from a car in the Oconomowoc city parking lot on Jan 11 ffer to Resume Talk With Lewis PITTSBURGH George H Love coal operators spokesman disclosed today that they have of- to reopen negotiations with United Mine Workers president John L Lewis Love said the negotiating com- of the National Bituminous Coal conference following a ing here yesterday sent a letter to the UMW proposing that a two- agreement ing the present high wage rate and the same hours be signed The operators proposed that the negotiations be along these basic 1 1 A stable and binding contract until June 30 1952 with neither party having the right to cancel or suspend it 2 Elimination of the willing and able provisions of the last contract and inclusion of provision binding on the union not to limit production or the use of facilities 3 Continuation of the present royalty to the ers welfare fund provided that all benefits from the fund be to employes of the uting companies Love's proposals were similar to those made by the operators ing previous negotiations with Lewis at While Sulphur Springs W Va However the proposed re- opening of negotiations was a shift in position LIBRARIES START TELETYPE exchange of books between the Racine and Milwaukee libraries has been speeded by the first library tele- type system in the country Loss of Formosa Called Significant Louis Johnson and Gen Omar N Bradley told a senate committee that the falling of Formosa into hands of an en- emy would be a matter of significance to the United States Their attitude on the strategic value of the Chinese Nationalists island redoubt was announced by Chairman Tom Connally D Tex of the senate foreign relations committee Johnson and Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff met be- hind closed doors with the com- for almost three hours RHINELANDER MAN KILLED RHINELANDER Milan 53 Rhinelander was in- stantly killed last night when he was struck by nn on a city street Ludwig Strong Crural was the driver of the car FDR SPEAKS FOR NEW Franklin D Roosevelt Jr stepped into the political spotlight as a likely candidate for governor of New York today by agreeing to substitute for ailing Mayor liam at his city stration victory dinner WASHINGTON Henry A Wallace said today he had ing to do with wartime atomic shipments to Russia and in fact didn't even know they were made The former vice president made the statement to the House activities tee in answer to charges that he actually helped in such ments Wallace said that despite his role in this country's war efforts he was neither responsible nor aware of any kind of shipping to Russia That he said was in the hands of lend-lease Didn't Even Know Name Wallace said he didn't even know the name of the wartime bomb development project was Manhattan District until May 1945 Harold Smith then director of the budget informed him of the name Wallace testified He repeatedly insisted that he knew nothing of consequence about development of the atomic energy program after Sept 23 1942 He said it passed from the scientific to the construction stage then and he assumed tion was progressing ily Wallace said his wartime role is being criticized in certain newspapers and by certain radio commentators as a means ly of attacking the Democratic party and President Roosevelt That was the only political ence in his prepared statement Accused by Newscaster Fulton Lewis Jr a radio com- has accused Wallace ot overruling Lt Gen Leslie R Groves wartime A-bomb chief in order to send uranium supplies to Russia Wallace said he wasn't aware the Russians were trying to obtain licenses to get uranium and heavy water both atomic bomb materials from this nation when the Soviets were our wartime ally In short and in Wallace said I had absolutely nothing to do with any of these licenses Wallace was chief of the board of economic warfare which sued export licenses during the first part of 1943 The committee on the trail of Soviet A-bomb small com- pounds to Rusia were licensed and made between March and June of that year Out of Country at Time Testifying under oath Wallace said he was in Latin America be- tween March 16 and April 25 1945 At that time the license question was being threshed out among government bureaus The Manhattan engineering project which made the A-bomb tried to corral all atomic supplies and ban their export With regard to the licensing of heavy water in late 1943 the shortest and most convincing an- swer is that I left BEW on July 15 Wallace said He said officials who worked under him have advised him they knew nothing of the shipments Wallace also lashed out at Groves statement that he had withheld all but one of four or five important reports on the at- project from Wallace when Wallace was vice president Groves who will be recalled by espionage has found that shipments of uranium Girl Calm as Testimony Opens in Mercy Killing BRIDGEPORT Carol Ann Paight 21 who killed sed by a bullet wound of the head with fracture of thc skull her father because and traumatic lacerations of the she felt sorry for him listened with I brain stony calm today while thc state's first witness at her murder trial testified that the fatal bullet was The pathologist said a ary diagnosis was that Paight had i cancer of thc peritoneum which fired from a distance of only be- impossible to remove Thc peritoneum is thc sac two and five feet The state's case in thc first which holds thc internal organs mercy killing trial of this New of the abdomen England manufacturing town be- gan with thc testimony of Dr John G Suavely pathologist at thc Stamford hospital He formed an autopsy on thc body of Stamford police sergeant Carl W Paight 52 soon after his daughter fired a bullet through his brain with his own service pistol A superior court jury of nine Caiol killed her father after a surgeon told her he could not be cured and had only six months to live She will plead temporary insanity A conviction on thc ond degree m u r d c r charge on which she was being would make it mandatory for presiding Judge John A Cornell to sentence her to prison for life middle-aged mothers and three Was Father's Pal middle-aged fathers was completed an hour and 40 minutes after court opened for thc third trial day Cancer Is Verified Thc jury was sworn in five utes later and then State's ney Lorin W Willis called his witness The slim golden-haired college senior whose father was her closest pal on hunting and swimming trips is charged with second degree murder She had been told a few hours before that he was riddled with thc committee made the ment to a newsman after last month Wallace said it was true Groves showed him only one re- port that ho remembered but it contained no top policy Wallace said there was no reason why Groves should have brought him any other because the top policy committee which planned the project had finished its job long before that Three County Women Are Granted Divorces Three divorces were granted in county court by Judge Allen D Young Mrs Marie 33 110 W Newhall avc won a decree from Walton 36 on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment She was awarded temporary mony of a week Edith W Stewart 35 617 coln avc was divorced on the same grounds from W Douglas 45 503 Lake rd Oconomowoc Mrs Stewart was awarded half the household goods and a month alimony Stewart is a sales en- gineer Chester W 44 boyean was granted a divorce from Muriel M 27 of Waukesha on thc grounds of cruel nnd inhuman treatment Mrs was given a settlement of said death i would die within six months cash and no alimony
