Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - March 10, 1948, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE WEATHER For Fair tonight and Light snow extreme Continued quite Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 a. Maximum 25; minimum A C O N S T R Thirty-Fourth Join the RED CROSS March 7-13 Wisconsin March 10, 1948 Single Copy Five Cents Jan Son Of Czech Is Suicide Victim Death Takes Use Of Distinguished Name From Communists Prague Jan foreign minister in the new Communist killed himself today in a leap from his third story the government He was 61. Gen. L. V. a Czech re- sistance leader in ed: It is Masaryk was the son of Thomas founder and first president of the His death took from the Communists the use of the dis- The controlled io said Masaryk have been seriously aggrieved and wounded by the tendentious attacks made upon him by the western Officials of the foreign after a period of reluctance to con- firm the finally announced Masaryk had died at 8 The government broadcast at noon of- announced the The government delayed without ation foreign news agency telegraph circuits for 30 Looked Worried Masaryk last appeared publicly He looked gard and Even while Masaryk's body was borne from the courtyard where he Dr. Prokop who was minister of justice in the previous cabinet with was convalescing from head injuries sustained in what police said was a three-story plunge from his Czechoslovaks gathered in little knots discussing Masaryk's It was a shock to those who regarded him as a possible balance wheel for the It was a blow also to those who believed he might be ful in getting them out of the country once helped Jews escape from German occupation Tell of Illness The government said Masaryk had an coupled with and its seems probably that in a moment of vous he jumped out of a window in his official flat in the to the last he showed no sign of the announcement the con- trary he was full of lively The circumstances are being The government said Masaryk took his The for- eign minister had suffered from bronchitis Small Apartment Masaryk occupied a small and un- pretentious apartment in the lavish foreign His sister Alice Masaryk lives in a home near the Another Mrs. Olga lives in Masaryk was revered in slovakia as the son of Thomas G. founder and first president of modern His retention in the bossed cabinet after the coup was interpreted here as a Communist maneuver to make use of his His fiat endorsement several days later of close cooperation with coupled with an am with message to the army and to his and Slovak seemed to most qualified ob- servers here to mean that he had embarked on a definite course of There were two schools of thought as to what that course might Dangerous Game One felt he was playing a most dangerous double The other felt he had lent himself to the new in the sible hope that he could steer it on a middle course and bring Moscow and the west together in the peace he always insisted must be minister for Masaryk first became foreign minister for the Czech government in exile on July 8, 1940. He returned to Prague when Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Germans in 1945 and kept the foreign affairs Pleads Innocent In Adams Co. Slaying Friendship Calvin 23-year-old ed innocent today to a charge of first degree murder in the death of his County Judge Charles H. Gilman remanded Reynolds to jail pending a preliminary hearing set for April 1. Reynolds is accused of shooting Adolph 25, Waupaca potato in the latter's truck enroute from Waupaca to Reynolds was several days later in JAN MASARYK Asserts Masaryk's Death Was Method Of Warning World Chicago A personal friend of Jan Masaryk for years said today the Czech foreign ter killed himself because that the only way to warn the world of what is actually going The Rev. Jaroslav tor of the Trinity Slovak Lutheran said is not true that he took his own life because he was depressed because of what the western world thought when he was retained as foreign minister after the Communists took truth is he was into a position and words were put into his His suicide was the only way to warn the world of what is actually going Representative Sabath a native of told the Masaryk is but the spirit of freedom and democracy in Czechoslovakia is not New Hampshire Vote Termed Wisconsin Companion Tells of Russ Action in Shooting Vienna A 19-year-old Austrian her face still swollen from the blow of a Russian gun said today she underwent gruelling questioning by the Russians after her American companion was shot in the back by a Soviet Red-haired Elfriede Elias said she was seized by the Russians while trying to give first aid to Pfc. Jack 18, of the unarmed American who was beaten and shot in a scuffle with Russian soldiers Sunday She said she was taken through a back door of the Grand hotel and driven to Russian she she was questioned three times by sian officers before being released Monday Miss Elias said she had signed a Six Accidents Cause Property Loss Property damage estimated at nearly resulted from six auto accidents in Wisconsin Rapids and vicinity No injuries were A collision at the intersection of Baker drive and Washington stieet at Tuesday night caused property damage to cars driven by William P. 25, 540 Baker and Francis M. 19, 240 Tenth street Police said that as Mader was driving east on Washington he struck weiler's northbound car and rolled it over two or three At that cars driven by George W. 82, Route 3, and Emil J. 25, 240 Pepper collided at the corner of Lincoln street and Pepper causing erty Collide at Bridge Cars drn en by Mrs. Nellie Van 51, Route 2, Junction and Virgil 21, Route 2, tion collided Tuesday after- noon at the north end of a narrow bridge on County Trunk three miles northeast of Traffic Officer Arthur who gated the said the cars came together as Mrs. Van Ert was driving south and Olds was going Damage was estimated at As John G. 23, 440 East Pepper stopped for traffic while driving west on the Grand avenue his car was struck from the rear by one driven by Elliott B. 29, Route 1. age to the two vehicles was about Parked Truck Hit A parked truck owned by Frank 930 Baker ing in front of his was struck by an eastbound car driven by Lloyd 420 Twelfth street Damage was estimated at Damage was estimated at in a collision at the corner of Eleventh avenue and Fremont street between cars driven by Fabian Route 1, and Joe 340 Twelfth avenue statement dictated by the and was you tell another story to the Americans later we will find wherever you and then you will see what happens to Her story of the as told the has been con- by now recovering in the 110th Station The girl's version said the GI was shot when he attempted to inter- vene in an argument between a Russian soldier and another ican She said Pfc. Samuel Adelm of had been ordered off a sidewalk into the gutter by a sian soldier and Grunden rushed A Russian sentry ran over and a fight The sentry struck Grunden in the Miss Elias The Red Army newspaper in Oesterreichische gave the Russian version It is totally different from any of the others thus far The newspaper said the three Americans were trying to force their way into the Grand It said they the Russian try 10 feet from his and that the sentry then acted full ance with his Dewey Takes First Round In Balloting N. H. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today won the first round in the ballot box fight for the Republican presidential The New York governor swept six of the eight delegates in the New Hampshire presidential primary first in the nation in the 1948 Showing strength in both rural and urban Dewey beat back the challenge of Harold E. only other announced Republican candidate to enter a full Truman Unopposed President Truman won ment of the Democrats in their He was Dewey was generally favored in this that politicians held important from a psychological The Dewey slate captured three of the four delegates elected at Leading the way were two an Gov. ert 0. who polled votes in 282 of the 298 precincts already and Gov. Charles M. who got Wins Third The third Dewey man to win in the state-wide contest was Robert vice chairman of the Re- publican state committee with 19 837. Fourth place went to a Stassen Hampshire's present Republican national committeeman Frank Sulloway with One interesting sidelight of the primary was the small vote polled by two delegates running pledged 11 General Intends to Remain Aloof From Campaign Issues Stassen's Supporters Satisfied MacArthur said today he would not allow the presidential campaign to interfere the occupation of he intends to remain aloof from campaign His public relations officer issued a statement that announcement of availability does change in the the operations of Requests for a news conference and posed pictures were M. P. the said the general has nothing to add to which he made as private Thus it was indicated that Arthur probably not go out of his way to clarify his views on sub- other than the international topics he already has His latest statement on al policy was a recent message supporting military aid to China's official Central News agency said in a Tokyo MacArthur ly told a high Chinese official his election as president be the best thing that could happen to Chiang This official was quoted as saying the general his election be a There has been no indication of MacArthur's views on any tic United States Ob- servers said it was unlikely he would permit himself to become in- volved in domestic issues at least before he returns to the United He has not been in the states since 1937. The statement issued by Echols obviously came from It did not surprise The tone of MacArthur's original announcement indicated he would remain aloof from the presidential at least until he had more of a chance to determine American Bribe Offer by Meyers Told by Wants Czech Coup Probed Lake Dr. Jan Czechoslovak delegate to the United demanded today that the U. N. Security Council in- tne Communist coup in Dr. told a hurriedly ed news conference at U. N. quarters that he had submitted to Trygve U.N. secretary a formal demand that the security council consider the February change in the Czechoslovak Dr. was a friend of Jan who fell to his death in Prague Of said in an emphatic represented the Czechoslovak government that existed before February 20- I was never a sentative of the new I am not resigning my office slovak delegate to the United is not upon me to Dr. is upon the bers of the United Nations to decide whether they will recognize the re- gime in Prague now or recognize republic as it was before 20. But 1 wil not go out and leave the post Taft Favors 4 Billion For European Aid Calvin former GI chauffeur of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. testified today that Meyers offered him to give false testimony at the general's present federal court Meyers is being tried on charges of inducing Bleriot H. a former business to lie at the senate investigation last fall about the general's wartime profits from a plane parts Meyers is former No. 2 ing agent for the army air now a civilian student at Ohio State said Meyers paid 8100 travel expenses for him to leave school last fall and go to the general's home at Ky. Mettee related to the Meyers coached him to tell gations that a blue Cadillac automobile was a from the Aviation Electric a 0., plane parts Lamarre has testified that he was of tion Electric but that Meyers tually owned the re also has said Meyers drew 000 in wartime profits from that Mettee said that Meyers ed over and over with him answers he was to give to questions if Award Defendant Judgment In Suit In circuit court this Judge Herman Severson ed a judgment of and costs in favor of the Evald Clark in a suit which had been brought against him by Alfred Wood The judgment was made after interpretation by the court of a HI NABOR in some cases when folks go to sleep in the it's preacher that Court Wife To Try to Reform Thief little brunette promised today to keep her an automobile out of trouble by buying him his own The plan for reform outlined by Mrs. Ima C. 23, won two probation for her 32, before Federal Judge Michael L. The court him Maybe you can do more with him than the Tafti said today he will vote to deed given by Kauth to Grimsby trim the European recovery covering a farm m Clark county gram cost to but and the on the oppose efforts to cut it below Kauth m his suit had con- tended that Grimsby was not en- has set April 10 as titled to possession of a water tank get date for final passage of known as the Marshall j This if met. throw the weight of the ERP into the scales against Communism just eight days ahead of the crucial ian Taft said he hopes the senate will complete action on the proposed measure this week or early next complete action on the Taft told a reporter he thinks a cut to three or three and one-half billion urged by some Re- publican would provide too little ed at 'the He was to Mettee that Lamarre assigned the car to Meyers for the general's Lamarre has testified that ers bought the blue Cadillac car with Aviation Electric Mettee said that when he went to home at Huntington to talk with the Meyers had him register at a hotel there under a false Refrigerator Weather Sets Record Lows By the Associated Press Wisconsin along with the rest of United one big refrigerator The coldest March 10 on record since was recorded this ing at with a ature of 6 degrees Madison's r e a d i n g early this morning was one Wisconsin 9 La Crosse was 6 Green Bay was one and Lone Rock was Mid-Winter Cold The cold wave in consin is worthy of The region was 23 be- low Park Falls was 20 be- The state is expected to be cloudy tomorrow with some light snow in the extreme south and continued Temperatures of from zero to as low as 35 below extended over the north and central Rockies and the northern plains eastward to the Great Lakes The mercury dropped in some sections to the lowest of the winter Grand N. felt the sting of the frigid mass of Arctic air as thermometers dipped to 35 below zero early The sub-zero belt extended as far south as which reported a minimum of one Federal said the cold would continue tonight throughout the frost Light Snow Light snow fell throughout much of the cold extending from the central Rockies eastward through the central plains to the middle Mississippi already under a brownout to conserve will be forced by its worst drought to adopt daylight saving time The added hour of daylight will save already cui tailed 20 per cent. The state's mountain reservoirs aic at dangerously low levels and its agi pasture and range lands are Plane Trouble Delays Trip Tokyo The Reynolds ex- her wing tank arrived late tonight from Shanghai on a return flight to the United States for re- After Pilot William P. Odom plans to hop to Midway then to Pie expects to return to China in about two As Odom took off at Shanghai in the big flying a con- verted j morning at home following a ton Reynolds said the pilot She had been Mrs. Anna 86, Succumbs to Lingering FRED S. WALCH Fred Walch Managed Vesper Bank Fred S. 64, long nent in state Masonic for- mer principal of Pittsville High and until recently manager of the Vesper branch of the People's State bank of died at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of his Mrs. Albert Van in Walch managed the Vesper ing station for a number of years until he suffered a stroke last No- since which time he bad been residing at Funeral services will be ed at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Marshfield Cooperative eral with Masonic Burial will be at on At the time of his Walch was grand sentinel of the state Masonic and formerly served as grand patron of the Eastern Star in A Mason for Washington New j York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today he still packs a potent political punch by six of eight delegate votes in New i But by the remaining itwo in yesterday's first 1948 I former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota kept himself in the thick of the j race for the Republican I i Politicians thus regarded the New England result as pretty much of a They turned their eyes ward for the Wisconsin's April 6 There Dewey and Stassen take on Gen. Douglas who will be testing for the first time his appeal as a positive The New Hampshire race long had been billed by Dewey ers as an indicator of the New Yorker's strength in New Gov. Charles M. one of the six delegates labeled the outcome a ing to the Well Satisfied Stassen's supporters on the hand insisted they were well fied with collecting two phia convention ballots in an area where the was little known in 1944, when Dewey won the party They claimed aa many as five places as the drew to a One result of the New England primary was to serve notice on Sen. Robert A. Taft that Stassen is to be reckoned with in the May 4 in the Ohio senator's home The Minnesotan has announced plans to go after gates there in a number of Crucial Contest For Dewey the New Hampshire contest was one of three regarded as crucial by his The other two are Wisconsin's battle next month and Oregon's May 21 gate Barring a last-minute change in the Oregon voting will be another strictly Dewey Stassen Word from Portland is that the MacArthur camp will not try to enter the general's As for the Wisconsin politicians here say MacArthur will 35 he was a member of the have to collar more one-third Pittsville Masonic and Eastern Star the state's 27 delegates to create the Wisconsin Rapids tei of Royal Arch the Stevens Point commandery of Knights and the Con- and Tripoli Shrine temple at Born January 11, 1884 at the kind of boom his friends think would carry him along in other Walch entered the teaching i Settle Question Senator Breuster said the Wisconsin results settle it one way or the other for first coming to Wood Senator McCarthy a county in 1924 to accept the Stamen said he is glad of Pittsville High He j MacArthur has come out ia the held thin position for 10 of McCarthy then engaged in the insurance for a time before becoming don't think the general has much manager of the Vesper blanch Chance in But hig probably put on big include hi a thf campaign for Mrs. Anna 1821 Van I Friends the supreme Grand died at this a Walch of der clear indications that they expect to base a national drive on i he claim that he is the best man to deal firmly with Russia in the present tense strong hints that Mac come back to this ho 7i-n, hour for tiling federal country m the next few months and i- List He would return if he won Deadline Is Near here for 07 Funeral be m by the Rev. E. Walther at 2 r Or 1 villing to take the of th trans-Pacific mighty risky but Odom says he feela he ran make it. They'll be ready to ditch the plane any minute should fumes from the wing cause I wouldn't ride in it for Reynolds said of Mr. u The Chicago millionaire for Mrs. and married taid o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Krohn arid Runal is to be in Forest Hill 't A of h next 31< of c Is j she u i- hom November rot or if months has been planning a radar I Jacob survey of China's lofty December at on in mountains and The which de- Mr. did in and two ceded the mother in o n in at Wake island en route to Five children John China is expected to T pone the expedition three If e n r y m Reynolds said the only company which can repair the plane is m Los With Odom are flight r Carroll Sallce of a and a Chinese air force r i IH may at tbe funeral hoin noon until time of ri to ppy on t. 20 t' r tv o n' And til Hershey Says Draft and certain other A suit brought by James A. Green against P. Wisconsin was 117 I i i dismissed on its on motion I IS Voluntary of the defendant's Hugh San Francisco and the promissory Lewis B. Hershey says sin nere note involved in the was officers are such sub- to Harold E A O 1 1? rendered to Balzer without cost to as to do it quicker if we sen on a radio AutO Un State Editors Will Quiz Stassen on Air DROP BIGGEST BOMB Washington The world's biggest a 21-ton has been dropped in a penetration test at Muroc it was learned Revenue Department Defended by Snyder Washington Secretary of the Treasury Snyder today ed the internal revenue bureau from haye an atomic he added Stn for the Leads to quickly the study program election of delegates pledged to was not prompted by any port him foi the Republican T Or 1 tional The program us from the Tokyo resultant loss n. in eyes might o' in- it fur him to re- out that un commander of the of i I Democrats who have M of MacArthur th. i rebellion Ne appear to it up that Not i-o Major James 1 tl an M. The of 1'LttHi that the put before the i tu i to C J. Howard 11 Li 00 Fine Driving in CENSUS INCREASES Washington The United States population reached a new i high of at the start of enue bureau is run and it com- this year after 1947 proved the i pares more than favorably with any gest single year of growth in I business organization of comparable i u i i L v in Recalling that the selective planned for next Monday night over i Coi court vice act expired a year The 15 Wisconsin radio a vt wartime draft director said the Editors invited to participate are the infn IHV of eminent is training state selective Mason Daily Raker congressional charges of service officers to expedite a William T. Capital of inefficiencies and on the power procurement program in any Charles E. lin was re- i i boygan and for one Snyder said the The begun in State i about 6 is a voluntary said Victor A. Stassen's o'clock Tuesday evening by city Subjects include what to j consin campaign said the police he ran his car up on do at National Guard summer camps I program be completely sidewalk in the 10U block on and at weekly U. i Second street Historic Firsts of The Tri-Cities Walter mostly from the newspaper and correspondence of late 1874 The first mayor of Centralia was R. G. who took office in 1874 Centralia was
