Waukesha Daily Freeman (Newspaper) - June 9, 1954, Waukesha, Wisconsin DAILY FREEMAN Waukesha Greatest News and Advertising Medium VOL 185 WAUKESHA WIS WEDNESDAY EVENING JUNE 9 1954 14 Pages Price Five Cents Ex-State Aide Kills Self After Florida Arrest t LAKE WALES Donnelly well known Lake Wales attorney accused of conspiring to kill three well-to-do persons shot and killed himself today A member of a prominent waukee family Donnelly was a former special assistant attorney general of Wisconsin Donnelly who was released der bond from county jail Tuesday on three charges of ting to kill fired one shotgun blast into his head Donnelly was arrested in a murder for profit plot involving two wealthy widows and an elderly calendar manufacturer Sheriff Pat Gordon said The attorney and a contractor were arrested and another person 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 day with the fake abduction of one of the wealthy widows reportedly marked for death The sheriff said he staged it to break the case Arrested on charges of acy to murder for profit were Greater Church Support For Carroll Recommended Greater financial support of roll college by individual terian churches was urged by some ministers attending the second day of a three-day annual session of the Presbyterian Synod of consin here The urging followed an annual report made by Dr Robert Steele Carroll's president The Synod is meeting in conjunction with the Woman's Synodical Missionary ciety on the Carroll campus Steele told the group the college has received from churches to date and another was re- nelly 61 and Willard Durden 35 Orlando building contractor They were accused of conspiring to kill K H Gerlach SI of Lake Wales a calendar manufacturer Mrs Byrd T Roch 51 of Lake Wales who inherited an estate about from her late band five years ago and Mrs Louise Clark Hawley who has Florida real of Orlando estate ings and an interest in a Chicago sun helmet firm Donnelly who had handled legal and financial matters for all three was released on bond late day Durden still in custody was questioned for more than two hours Monday night by Sheriff Gordon and County Solicitor Clifton M Kelly The officials declined to comment on this session but it was afler this that Gordon said he ex- more developments Donnelly took his life at his un- pretentious frame home on ed 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 County's most sensational slayings 22 years ago He was charged then with assassinating his law associate Joe H Beal but a grand jury re- fused 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 late Civil Judge Joseph Donnelly He was a special ant attorney general of Wisconsin 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 still live in Milwaukee sisters Explains Aims Of Youth Study Over 35 persons attended the meeting of the Council of Social Agencies this morning in a get acquainted session to learn about the county's community self study Ray Gladieux of Milwaukee a consultant for the division of dren and youth of the state de- of public welfare was a guest at the meeting held at the YWCA The state has offered its ices to aid in the study of the needs and problems of youth throughout Waukesha county The study which is expected to take about six months will begin in October Gladieux explained a steering committee broadly of the entire county will direct the study The steering committee it was fell should also have a proper balance between professional and lay workers The state consultant hoped that during the summer names could be offered as possible members of the steering committee and also for the tees County Board Chairman iam Zillmer will choose the com- probably in early fall dieux said The state consultant also ed copies of any previous studies or background information helpful in the study Work in other Wisconsin ties who have completed similar studies has particularly been in Several church and family life recreation and leisure time activities library service youth in trouble social welfare services schools health and community planning Gladieux pointed out that fact-finding workers will talk to ministers teachers law ment officers and judges as well as others who work with youth The state offered its free ices after the Waukesha County board had requested the survey The board took action in April owing a request by the council of social agencies in payments toward a el fund he said Carroll has received from Presbyterian The college's Operating budget totaled Student tion and fees total on the basis of in tuition and fees sessed each student After income from endowment organized activities etc has been added the college must secure in gifts and grants to ance the Steele reported Other sources of income were named as from the board of Christian Education and the Synod The Rev G Aubrey Young tor of the First Presbyterian church in Waukesha said he thought the sum contributed by churches was low and efforts should be made by ministers to provide more for Carroll college out of their individual church gets When we draw our budget each year we set aside a year per member for Carroll he said Other items reported by Steele were that dormitory facilities are becoming overcrowded to the ex- tent that some applications for en- try here must be turned down The college's enrollment was 582 in the year just completed while enrollment the previous year was 493 and the year before that 438 The college has 60 per cent more new students signed for ber's term than they had a ago at this time Steele estimated enrollment will exceed 600 in the next school year To meet the anticipated growth in student numbers Steele said the college is completing plans to con- vert a couple of homes owned by into freshmen He said 44 male students were housed in homes in Waukesha during the past school year The president also gave a down on religious affiliation of Reports Adams Linked Talk Of Schine With Probe at Fort Muskego Area To Petition for School Study McCarthy and Welch Engage In Argument WASHINGTON thy said today Special Army MUSKEGO A petition signed sel Joseph Welch of Boston had in by Muskego area residents will law a man who belonged I to the legal arm of the C Bushnell Olmsted chairman Accident Results in Hospital for Couple A Waukesha man and his wife were hospitalized early today after the wife fell and fractured her right arm They are Alvin Hagan and his wife Catherine of 323 Buena Vista ave Hagan has a heart condition which requires that he be cared for by his wife When Mrs Hagan broke her arm and had to be Hagan too had to be taken to the hospital for care Wisconsin WEATHER of the committee for self al said that the idea for the study grew out of an interest by the agencies in the council of social needs and resources of children in the county WISCONSIN Mostly cloudy showers and thunderstorms night or Thursday Warmer east turning cooler west and north Thursday Low night High Thursday northwest mid southeast Winds south to west tonight and Thursday ing west to northwest northern Thursday Minimum 55 Mean 68 Temperature range here high 84 low 53 Temperature range here a year high 75 low 54 Local Hourly Temperature Hour 2 Former Resident Dies at Beaver Dam A Waukesha county employe for 33 years Emmett William zien 62 died at Beaver Dam Tuesday June 8 He retired seven years ago due to ill health He is survived by his wife Pearl nee Kniep one daughter Mrs ty Stubbs Burlington two ers William and Harley sha two sisters Mrs Lily Healey Troy Center and Mrs Rose Duve Dousman four grandchildren one son-in-law nieces and nephews The Rev Paul Clement will at the funeral to be held day June 11 at 2 p.m at the Guequierre funeral home ago Interment will be at Oak Knoll cemetery The body will be in state after 4 p.m Thursday dents attending Carroll in Presbyterians numbered 141 erans were 125 Roman Catholics totaled 84 and the remainder were included in 16 other religious de- nominations Steele said six members of the student body had no church con- He termed this small ber as unusual More than 400 members ing the Synod this morning ed into the college's chapel in a joint session of men's and women's groups to hear Dr Sarah Bowen staff doctor on the Presbyterian supported hospital at Embudo N M report on the work of tional missions The doctor who has worked at Embudo since 1932 traced the tory of the growth of missions in New Mexico and told how funds contributed by Presbyterians have helped the hospital at Em- budo grow from a clinic The afternoon session day will hear reports from com- work on social presented to the county school com- asking that it enter into a study of a high school in the eastern part of Waukesha county The petition was presented at a meeting of 20 school tives Tuesday night at Muckey school It further requests that the county committee in collaboration with members of the Muskego dy group hold explanatory sions in various schools in the posed district Present plans call for Muskego Tess Corners Mill Valley Durham Hill Muckey Denoon and Oak Grove school districts to bp ed in the union free district Henry Hammond chairman of the county school committee who was also present at the meeting emphasized that present ies are not iron clad and do not eliminate any area that wishes to come in At Tuesday's meeting voted to have printed a pamphlet explaining the h i g h school problem in the Muskego area The pamphlet would be dis- at the annual July 1 school meetings The discussion meetings in t h e various schools would take place beginning in September Members of the study committee hope that a referendum for the school district can be presented at the fall tion nist party Welch Until this ment I fully gauged your cruelty and recklessness McCarthy named the man only as Fisher Welch naming his Fred Fisher said associate as he had never dreamed McCarthy would be so cruel and reckless as to injure that lad If voters approve the referendum the union free high school district will go into effect July 1 1955 If education and a report from tees of the administrative council Highlight of the three-day sion will be the banquet scheduled for 6 p.m at Carroll college Frank M Totton vice-president of the Chase National bank in New York city will be the principal speaker had and Local Resident 98 Dies at Her Home One of Waukesha's oldest dents Mrs Margaret Anna Kewer 98 died Tuesday at her home 818 Madison st She was born July 23 1855 in New York City She lived in Waukesha 34 years was a member of the First tist church She is survived by two sons C William Kewer Waukesha and seph Green Bay 13 grandchildren and five great grandchildren The funeral will take place Thursday at 2 p.m at the Erling Larson funeral home with Dr Dwight M Bahr officiating Burial will be at Prairie Home cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m today all goes as planned the group hopes the school would be ready for use in the fall of 1957 The four alternative methods of setting up a union free district were discussed at Tuesday's ing Action initiated by the town board or action upon petition to the town clerks were dismissed be- cause small portions of the ed district extend into the town of New Berlin and officials of that township would be involved A third in each of several contiguous school dis- voted down because a minority could overrule a ity The group then voted to go ahead with plans to have the ty school enter into and issue an order as it saw fit The organization McCarthy said Fisher belonged to is the National Lawyers Guild In accusing McCarthy of less cruelty Welch said he was afraid forgiveness of McCarthy will have to come from someone oilier than me Let's not assassinate this lad further Welch said You've done enough Have you no sense of Mr Welch here has been this McCarthy said in his side of the exchange This organization has been named the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist party which since its inception has never failed to rally to the defense of the Communist party He said that was the language of the House Un-American Activities Committee in describing the guild Frederick G Fisher a junior partner in law one time was scheduled to have come to the ings as an Assistant Counsel to Welch However he was replaced by John Kimball another junior partner A third partner James D St Clair has been active in the hearings with Welch After the exchange with thy Welch declared he would not ask Roy Cohn a single other tion Freeman Staff Photo Bennett 12 and her sister Nancy 16 of Mukwonago are just getting ready to do what a lot of you would have enjoyed doing this afternoon The picture was taken at Lower Phantom lake near Eagle Their The fine C'mon Superintendent for Brookfield Named Is This Another Fish Report Heavy Muskie Caught Temps 71 74 79 81 84 83 83 82 WAUKESHA'S ALMANAC Thursday June 10 Sunrise 4 13 Sunset p.m The moon sets Friday and Is in Apogee 251.800 miles from the tonight The star seen near it is Full moon next Thursday Mars low in southeast p.m is twice as large as the moon DULUTH Minn Iff mist George W Flaim says he weighed a muskie caught in Mid- dle Eau Claire Lake in Northern Wisconsin Sunday which tipped the scales at between 69 and 70 pounds The world record muskie caught in 1949 weighed 69 pounds 11 ounces Flaim says his scales weigh only to the pound and he couldn't certify as to the exact weight of the huge tiger muskie hauled out Circulation for the Same Period a Year Last Week Daily Net Paid by Robert Ohio Malo of Port Arthur his scale was being Flaim said tested today The fish has been consumed and only the hide and the head re- main at shop for ing Honry Baroo who operates Sportsman's Lodge on the Middle Eau Claire says he and Malo were present when weighed the fish and both got the sion it scaled 69 pounds 12 ounces That would be one ounce heavier than the world record muskie landed in 1949 in the Chippewa BROOKFIELD The Elkhorn city superintendent of schools Stanley Helms was named day night as superintendent of the newly organized town of field high school and elementary districts The appointment was made at a joint meeting of the high school and elementary school boards and is to become effective ly Helms will serve as educational supervisor of construction of the new Brookfield high school until the building is completed and is ready for use in the school year Helms will have jurisdiction er the high school district which was created by a referendum vote a year ago and also the ed elementary school district which was formed in the same vote The elementary district started with a consolidation of seven arate districts but has since been reduced to three after the other four were removed by town board action The three remaining dis- are Leland Shady Nook and Dixon Wis by Louis Spray of Rice Lake Wis Male's fish measured 51 inches with a girth of 33 inches whopper was 63 inches long with a girth of inches Malo hooked his with a sucker on a test line beached it in a swampy area and finished it off with a pistol George Cruise of Chicago handled the boat The Malo catch wasn't weighed until 12 hours after it was caught Flaim said The taxidermist said stopped for a flat tiro there always is a certain amount i and Merton ave at 8 of shrinkage in cases of this sort Car Gets Flat Tire Fire Follows Quickly HARTLAND A car which ped at a intersection morning with a flat tire caught fire as the driver got out to fix it The interior of the be- longing to the Rev A W Williams of Milwaukee was completely burned out Mr Williams pastor of the ness church in Milwaukee was driving through Hartland when he Charged With Furnishing Beer A Milwaukeean Robert Hafert 19 was charged in municipal court here today with furnishing beer to two girls and a old boy all of Milwaukee Judge Scott Lowry scheduled pre- liminary hearing for next day and fixed bail at No plea was entered It is alleged that Hafert and the Milwaukee boy chased a case of beer Tuesday night and that the of them proceeded to drink the beer in car The car was parked in a field near Sussex The four were brought to the sheriff's department after they be- came involved in a fracas with er young Milwaukee couples ing in a car In other municipal court cases to Four counts against Harold om of Elm Grove were dismissed at the request of Dist Atty James D'Amato Wixom was charged with these 1 That on Nov 23 1952 he il- legally offered to sell game to For- rest Luther of Cimarron Kans 2 That on Jan 20 1953 he made the same offer on the same date he op- a game farm a cense again on the same date he pretended to be the operator of a game bird farm and sold to er for certain game birds He did not deliver the birds nor did he operate a the com- alleged This morning D'Amato told the court that the state's principal ness Forrest Luther is a Kansas resident and is confined to his bed with a heart condition Also D'Amato said his office Three Teenagers Admit Part in Vandalism Theft Five teenagers were placed on i boys have fixed the damage to the probation to the state for one and bird bath he said in municipal court action today Sentences on all five were suspend ed until the state probation anc parole agent Mark Stoddard com pletes reports and submits them tc Judge Scott Kenneth Eichstaedt 18 of Michigan ave Richard Duston 18 Waukesha route 3 and Sinner 18 Muskego pleaded to disorderly conduct Ronald Wickert 16 and Gerald Baxter 18 both of Milwaukee pleaded guilty to maliciously defac ing and injuring a building Eichstaedt Duston and Sinner were involved in vandalism and theft at the Duane Vick residence on Hy 15 in the town of Vernon The three went to the home June to collect a newspaper route The Vicks were gone so for some unexplained reason according to Dist Atty James D'Amato Jumped on the hood of Vick's car parked in the garage The hood was dented Drove across the lawn and ed down a bird bath quarts of oil Let the air out of the tires on Vick's car Eichstaedt appeared in juvenile court last year and is now on bation to Police Sgt Clarence row Waukesha Sinner has a venile court record but his tion has been terminated D'Amato did not say whether Duston has a record The district attorney told the judge that shortly after the June 4 incidents the boys returned and re- inflated the tires The two quarts of oil have been recovered and the Judge Lowry ruled that all be held in custody until released by Stoddard In the other case Wickert and Baxter pleaded guilty to damaging the men's room at the drive-in theater in the amount o approximately The inciden occurred May 27 D'Amato said Wickert tore down chrome pipes and a water tank over one of the fixtures He anc Baxter then disconnected the pipes and carried them off in a car A third Milwaukee boy with them saw the damage but did not be- come involved D'Amato said The boys were apprehended when a Milwaukee detective that night questioned them about creating z disturbance in front of a ant He saw the chrome pipes in the car and having read about the vandalism at the drive-in theater reported the boys to the sheriff's department here Baxter was in court in Milwaukee our times last year D'Amato or reckless driving disorderly con- duct using an improper muffler and speeding Baxter has been classified by his draft board md expects to be inducted this ummer Wickert has no record D'Amato said Women Elected WASHINGTON Va Iff This ittle Rappahannock County town ikes its town councilwomen The declined to run for ion but all were re-elected way last night in a write-in ion Denies Caring If Private Was Sent Overseas 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 subcommittee's gations of Ft Monmouth N and the Army loyalty board Cohn under questioning by Army Counsel Joseph N Welch in the day of the thy hearings said Adams left an impression that what happened to Schine depended on what Adams thought Cohn insisted he didn't care whether Schine went overseas but said he thought Adams had been nasty about it Adams has testified that flew into a rage and threatened to wreck the army when told Schine probably would be sent overseas as most draftees were He quoted Cohn as saying also that Robert T Stevens would be through as secretary of the army Cohn has denied making such statements The Senate investigations sub- committee got back to the meat on the controversy between Sen McCarthy and Army officials er a renewal of the continuing clash between McCarthy and Sen Sym ington At the outset of the day of Symington offered to testify as a witness in this case if McCarthy will let a special ate committee investigate the consin senator's financial dealings There was a hot exchange in which McCarthy said he was ing but declined to sign a formal agreement proffered by ton Members of the subcommittee were still talking of a quick up of the hearings but McCarthy told reporters he probably will ask for a two weeks recess when Cohn leaves this week end for tional Guard training at Camp Kilmer That is my present Carthy said Services in Elm Grove to Continue Word ELM GROVE Police and fire calling for incorporation would protection for Elm Grovo residents asam have to go through the has the alleged violations to the U.S attorney's office for possible action Marvin Wenzel 18 Waukesha route 5 was fined and costs for driving without drivers license A charge of driving a car without having it registered drew a pended sentence Raymond E 18 waukee was fined and costs for speeding on Hy 15 May 30 Joseph G Tabat 28 North will be continued for a few days it was reported today although the future status of the village is still surrounded by uncertainty In a decision handed down the state supreme court reversed the circuit court order of last September calling for and called for a ing The village has ing business since officers were elected last December The town of Brookfield had pealed the incorporation Village officials have no nite Kneeland Godfrey ident said They plan meetings with their counsel C R Dineen courts The Elm Grove Community sociation the group which ed incorporation will hold a meeting Monday at p.m at the Leland school to discuss the situation Meanwhile Richard Cutler at- torney for the proposed new city of Brookfield said court's decision has the supreme no effect on that city Boundaries of the city as set up in the petition filed June 3 with the Brookfield towr clerk ex- clude Elm Grove and a two mile square area surrounding the lage We assume that the authorities I'll want him here Roy knows more about this case than anybody else We won't ask for any ment of Roy from training at all Cohn relating his version of Adams talk of going overseas said Adams complained hat the subcommittee was con- its investigation of mouth and was demanding mony from Army loyalty board members and Adams felt the sub- committee was not cooperating vith him Cohn added Adams asked how ve would like it if he sent Schine could be ive too Welch wanted to know If Cohn bought Adams was in charge of making overseas assignments for Cohn replied Adams had made t clear assignment would e affected because Adams didn't ke what the subcommittee was oing Cohn said he certainly bought Adams would have some on assignment Insisting he didn't care whether Schine got overseas duty Cohn said he didn't think the tion that Schine would go over- seas was nasty by itself but it was nasty in the whole con- text of the conservation Cohn said Adams warned if we keep on with the hearings and particularly with members of alty boards he would fight us in every way possible James St Clair associate Army 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 espionage potential St Clair also asked Cohn er he thought Maj Gen Kirke Law ton commander at Ft mouth was critical of Stevens in testimony before the McCarthy subcommittee on delays in getting rid of security risks Cohn replied he thought Gen Lawton reluctantly because he could not get any operation from Stevens before the McCarthy committee began its in- of Communists in the Army radar set-up St Clair quoted McCarthy as S that the McCarthy in Elm Grove will at Hy was given n suspended and also with town want to go ahead with the R a of failing to renew Godfrey said he of that gooa from drivers license I the petition which ii still to fl No 1
