Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - May 11, 1949, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE WEATHER For Fair con- cloudiness south tonight with scattered light er Thursday cooler Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 Maximum 67; minimum 37. Ifw Drive With CARE Don't Take CHANCES Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin May 11, 1949 Single Copy Five Cento Communist Plea For Mistrial Is Denied by Judge Claimed Medina Had Committed Judicial Error New York Attorneys de- fending 11 top Communists ed a mistrial today after the court told them they had consumed one- sixth of the 17-week trial with their Federal Judge Harold R. Medina promptly denied the ing the argument he had ted judicial Medina said a study of the page record of the trial had shown that pages represented ment by defense He gave the figures in reiterating a previous ruling that defense lawyers could Hot argue an objection without ob- court I want to as anyone attending this trial can the judge that I have every good reason to show for my Gives Jury Advice He then turned to the jury and repeated an admonition that the jurors should disregard col- between the bench and the Eugene general secretary bf the American Communist party and one of the 11 pre- sented the motion for He is representing An undercover worker for the FBI testified yesterday that picked trainees at a Communist school were taught that like have to do through a bath before the party achieved its Tells of Red Plan William of 0., Said at the Communist conspiracy trial yesterday that the doctrine of bloodshed was preached at a secret Red school in Chicago in 1945. Eleven defendants are on trial In federal court on charges of con- spiring to advocate forcible over- throw of the He testified that the chief George told students that before labor wins peace with American run red with as streets did in the Russian revolution of 1917. who lives in the was arrested last September on a charge of being a revolutionary and is free in bail awaiting a deportation He entered this from Russia in 1912.) a joined the Communists six years ago to work for the Believes Success Of Big 4 Talks Up To Russians Washington Secretary of State Acheson indicated today that success of the coming Big Four con- ference on Germany will hinge on how far the Russians will go along with plans already laid out by the western He told a news conference the United States intends to demand full guarantees of civil rights for the German people and will not accept any proposals which do not provide for such Whether solutions can be Acheson depends on er the Russians will make or con- sider proposals that will not retard in any way the successful ments already made by the western powers for fitting Germany into the family of free European Eagle Scout is Charged With Murder in Church BULLETIN Va. gating officers disclosed late day that Eagle Scout Lee Scott has admitted meeting 16-year-old Dana Marie Weaver at the church where her battered body was found Requests Hike State Budget To New High Madison The Wisconsin assembly was asked today to in- crease by the finance committee's executive general fund budget requests for the next bi- Requests for extra funds came in 18 amendments to the which asked for less than asked bv Governor Fourteen of the amendments were introduced by and four by Republican The was made a special order of business for Amendment requests extra for public fare more for University of Wisconsin faculty in- cr for additional state teacher college faculty more for the state dio broadcasting youth Stout ment of state university research; industrial public welfare division of alcoholic welfare department's di- vision of disabled and handicapped farm safety program and 4-H club The committee's represented a new record budget request for The total in 1947 was appropriation ever asked of the Senate bills to block Wisconsin recognition of divorce and to establish Labor day as an official state holiday were concurred in by the The highways committee mended creation of a committee to investigate traffic hazards at junction of U.S. 41 and state Highway 50 in osha Va. Lee 16-year-old Eagle Scout and church choir member today faces a charge of murder in the church slaying of Dana Marie 16-year-old Capt. Frank H. in an unprecedented press conference last announced simply that Scott had been charged in a warrant ed by Police Judge S. R. is all that I can give you at this Webb He added that he wished he could give that the case was of the worst since I have been in the Directed to Alley did tell reporters that Scott had directed police to an alley where a coffee sack missing from the church was He said Scott also told them where they could find his which police later found darkly They be- the stains are A en pop bottle was found in the fee Police said the girl had been clubbed to death with a Dana Marie's body was found Monday morning by the janitor of Christ Episcopal church in the church There were signs of a desperate struggle by the Her fingernails were broken and two pop one of them were on the Went to Join Group She had gone to the church day evening to join a young unaware that the group was on a She frequently ed the group on Sunday nights 11 Hemorrhage is Fatal to Boy William Elmer 13-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas town of died of a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage at Tuesday evening at Riverview where he was admitted at p.m. He had complained of a severe pain in his head while at school and lapsed into ness after reaching his Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church with the Rev. E. H. Walther Burial arrangements have not been The youth was born in on February 2, 1936, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer N. and was a student at the Pioneer school in the town of His ther preceded him in death in 1937. Surviving are his mother and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas one Rose Marie a half brother and nard Robert and Mary Ann all at and a Daniel town of Friends may pay their respects at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home from Thursday evening until time of DANA MARIE WEAVER Negotiations in Ford Strike Continued Detroit Negotiations for settlement of a 6-day-old strike of 65.000 Ford Motor company em- ployes continued today with no out- ward indication a trace is Ford and United Auto Workers officials recessed their peace talks for lunch at a.m. and said they would meet again late j HI NABOR My conscience don't hurt me for lying when somebody asks re something that ain't none of their Doughton is Opposed to Tax Increase Washington Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee added his powerful voice today to the chorus of congressmen singing the economy President Truman called ton to the White House to talk about taxes and other Doughton came out of the executive office saying he favors rigid omy that will make a tax increase The president has ed in new As chairman of the committee which handles tax matters for the Doughton said he hopes no new levies will be needed because they affect business He said his committee will not consider the tax request until it completes work on proposed changes in the social security That will be at least a month from he Up for debate in the senate today was a proposal to force the heads of the treasury and postoffice ments to cut expenses 5 but give them the right to say where the cuts should be The proposal was in the form of an amendment to the appropriation to those two departments for the year beginning July 1. On the other side of Capitol the house continued debate on a to permit the commodity credit cor- to acquire additional age facilities for crops on which it makes Berlin Siege Ends as Trains Line Up for Run Everybody Wants To Be The First To Reach City BY DONALD DOANE Germany trucks and biles began lining up near the Russian zone border here day for a midnight race to Midnight is the hour when the Russians have agreed to end their month blockade of Traffic is scheduled to start ing across the border one minute Unless authorities intervene to forestall fatal accidents it may turn into a mad road Everybody wants to be first into Like County Fair It was like a county fair here today as this usually border town awaited the midnight starting Traffic jammed its winding Its ancient hotels were ed. British and American which will direct the resumption of traffic were almost outnumbered by the news and photographers here to describe the It was near this spot on the Elbe river four years ago that American and Russian troops triumphantly joined hands across the defeated Germany at the end of World war Cars Start First Automobiles will break away from the barrier one minute past Trains will not get started until two hours But five passenger trains and 16 freight trains are ex- to go in the first Freight with coal and six with food and consumer goods being made up in the freight yards at nearby Brunswick and Some of the trains were garlanded with evergreen boughs and decorated with flags heralding the first trips to From the Russian barrier it is an 80-mile drive to the big traffic circle marking the perimeter of greater But it is another 20 mile drive into lin itself before the last 11 Refugees for State To Dock in New York Washington The army transport Willard A. Holbrook will dock in New York tomorrow with refugees who are headed for states and the District of Two families and two of eight members each are Wisconsin will get 13 of the Burros Will Carry Uranium Logs From Canyon to Plant Spring Valley Will Get Help To Halt Flood Spring Valley The United States government is putting its oar into the Spring Valley The word was out today that the government plans vast flood control projects to protect this tiny Pierce county village from further pages of the Eau Galle Ex- by the un- der plans of the army's division en- gineer at St. will be 700. Local interests must provide an extra Nearly seven years in the fall of 1942, Spring Valley ly was washed off the map by six The last on September 17, did the most Within three hours the village was under Ifi feet of Ninety per cent of the village property was damaged or The loss was estimated at The 973 residents then decided to act. They formed a sold worth of and made ready to move up into the hills which line the But the war was in Most of the young men went The initial to move Nothing was Now the old excitement is The chamber of commerce and the j Lions club are ready to ask approval of the The chances are ex- j it's that the necessary money can be Tn a large part of the work required bv local interests is reported completed BOY BROUGHT BACK FROM anxious parents of 4-year-old Lawrence Page of Cal. watch him breathe oxygen at two days after he apparently died from serious traffic The youngster stopped breathing for 10 minutes shortly after he was hit by a but doctors revived him with a stimulant injected into his The parents are Mr. and Mrs. cis M. Modified Veteran Pension is Given Approval by House Committee Washington A split house veterans committee day approved a modified pension adding about to ex- isting veterans benefits over the next 50 Tjie jiew in effect liberalizes and writes into law regulations of the Veterans Administration already in force for disabled and needy It is a follow-up to a billion dollar measure which failed to The final committee product con- an amendment by sentative Teague barring pensions for veterans able to work more than half As the now it pension benefits totaling proximately a billion dollars a year through the year 2000. The new which again ries the name of Chairman Rankin was put together by the committee as a to the criticism which greeted the earlier That it was much too In the latest would vide pension benefits for needy veterans of both world wars at age 65. It also would set up benefits ranging from to in cases of total the do little more than write into law ary regulations already in force in the Veterans Administration in es of connected While the falls far short of pension demands presented by some of the old line veterans committee members said vately they expected it to be well received both in congress and among organized Just what kind of reception house leaders would cord it was another Administration opposition was largely responsible for turning back the original Rankin a row margin on a motion to send it back to the Jack Frost Pays a Visit to State Again By the Associated Press Frost visited Wisconsin again last night as the mercury dipped to 32 degrees at Lake Geneva and But at temperatures were warmer than the previous said Federal Weatherman Howard J. Thompson at The state weather picture today had two skies in the south and cloudy pray in the Completing the contrast was a pre- diction of warmer day for the south Yesterday's highest temperature was 67 degrees at said Middle 40 marks are foreseen for Packard Gets Court Order To Take Dies South Motor company had a court order today for removal of seven brake dies and one million parts in the strikebound Bendix Aviation corporation It was not announced when ard would try to remove the dies from the Packard was the last of the large automobile manufacturers supplied by Bendix to seek removal of parts and dies from the Pickets of the CIO United Auto Workers resisted early efforts to re- move dies and but yielded Federal mediators seeking to end the 3-week-old strike met ly last night with company and union They issued no The meetings were the first since when mediation efforts broke down after a series of con- ferences attended by both The strike involves em- The union demanded re- instatement of 47 workers fired for an alleged elimination of an alleged speedup and dismissal of a damage suit against Bendix has charged the union with failing to follow contract provisions for settling NARCOTIC TABLETS Wausau Theft of narcotic tablets from the drug shop at St. hospital wa- reported to police The loss placed at between a I'd said the thief in through a basement State Senate Accepts On Vet Bonus Madison The Wisconsi senate suspended its rules to introduction of a The vote was 20 to 9 to permit entry of a offered by Fond which failed to survive as an amendment to a housing last It then was ruled not provides for ment in 1969 of amounts ranging from to depending upon length and location of if a veteran wished to buy or build a home he could cure up to any time before 1969. Money for the bonus would be ob- from the state liquor tax which doubled levies in 1947. An assembly measure which radio and television political advertising similarly to newspaper regulations was advanced by the the senators 22-7, to reconsider a previous action which postponed it Tn another reconsideration the senate 23-6, a viding for an annual license fee of for seed who now ate on annual A resolution providing for a con- change to have of public appointed by the governor for a six year term instead of elected for four years was killed by voice George Smith was ed in a resolution It cited the senate ing officer for his impartial and efficient manner in handling his Avert Railroad Reich Talks Are Set Berlin The Berlin brought the ast and western powers nost to the brink of o end peacefully At one minute after mid- light p. m. today he land routes to and from est Germany are to open This is the 327th day of It is the 320th day of the airlift that enabled the United Britain and France to cling to their sectors of which constituted an munist 100 miles behind Red army's Next Round Set Although the blockade and the western are in heir final the struggle be- the Soviet Union and the western Allies over Germany's will The next round starts at the scheduled four-power o r e i g n ministers conference in Paris May 23. Berlin mans this is the last day that the food on their tables and the fire in their hearths be mixed up in international power Trains are ready to roll past the old blockade Trucks and buses are gassed up to move eastward on the that Hitler built from Spree to beyond the Heads for Berlin The first train since the blockade started left scheduled to arrive at a.m. morrow p.m. It carried 100 news and radio cor- respondents and British aod ican A threatened strike of German railway workers was The leaders said their demands that the wages of those who work in east Berlin but live in west lin be paid in west marks had been The Soviet headquarters an- the electrical supply to west Berlin sian sector power plants would be and that the western areas then could have as much rent as they That means an end of the street lighting and normal electrical supply for household Soviet zone canal locks have been readied to handle barges from the 11 ASK PAY Washington The committee today j recommended that lie an a for clerk hire mid a tele- phone and vital com- ponent of man's most modern atomic will be moved from a northern Arizona canyon by pack The sure-footed donkey is the only answer to nature's challenge at House Rock in a narrow box 130 miles north of lie 200 tons of petrified even the able couldn't operate in this Maggie and Ri- ley discoverers of the rich have hired 15 burros and five Navajo Indians to move the precious ore. The burro train operation will start in 10 The animals will haul the ore over a treacherous mile and a half trail to Highway 89. I Trucks will take it from there to the i atomic energy ing plant at there is no official mate of the amount of bearing ore in the small box On the the petrified logs are estimated to weigh 200 Below the ground may be Maggie Baker hopefully figures the petrified logs may go to a depth of from 40 to 70 She and her husband have slaked out four Canyon Cliff Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Number one is the only claim on which uranium has been No. 1 is expected to yield more than Quite happy over her good for- 11 Architect to Meet With Board Friday A special meeting of the sin Rapids board of education has been scheduled for 7 o'clock Friday evening in Lincoln school at i which time 0. H. of the architectural firm of Childs and will be present to confer on the set of final plans for the new Howe school Operation of School District Suspended of the Lakeland school Wisconsin's ed again today as the result of a temporary circuit court The school district is made up of eight towns in Vilas and Oneida Demos Set Parley to Back Brannan Plan Des Moires Midwestern Democratic are planning a farm states campaign to support the controversial Brannan farm 1 gram. 1 A Democratic midwest conference 1 with the announced purpose of I organizing the farm states in be- half of the program been called for June 11 in Des Party from 11 states will at- Republican national Chairman Hugh Scott recently announced a Republican meeting will lie held in Des next fall to agricultural TURTLE IN LONDON London TV U. S. 1 bomber landed airport ing its flight from com- i the first air crossing of Atlantic 30 years Farm Home At 7 O'clock r All was in readiness today for the up of nt fieldhouse for Farm and to held Saturday and Sunday of the re- tail the Chamber of The work of for scores of scheduled for Thursday night and the ment of will be completed Friday in time for the formal ing of the show that More than 50 be showing a wide of 1 home and i farm machinery and and new automobile Five Sessions The doors are to open at 7 o'clock each of the i Friday through and I at p.m. for the Saturday and j Show to Open Friday Night Seeks Probe Of War Trials Washington Senator Carthy today demanded a probe of all army war crimes trials in As a senate armed services sub- committee continued its tion of the Malmedy massacre Carthy reported setting a of letters and telegrams making very serious charges far beyond the Malmedy He asked committee to call in top state department ami army als for testimony at a He added that unless they he will ask public if they do irreparable damage to our cies and certain Senator man of tne Malmedy investigating a reporter he pre- sent any charges or Carthy has the full committee decision and A score or more witnesses still are waiting to testify on gation thai army re brut tl in their ment of tried for the time of 512 American of war and making a total of fhe at which may i. many and en- program of arranged committee in on the and p r e r a IP s he ard a in the cop K. of ing his hilariously whacky and a dance revue presented the Lou Roy and Bruce of the j staff of and will j as of day and Sunday afternoon and evening shows will be headlined by Red master of land nis WLS Sage the 11 No Lettuce San Cal. The Simon Bolnar broucht 34 for the Loot of hack from Cocos They came home but E. in charge of the said another expedition would gel under way zold and we're back after whose con- craft took the adventurers to the tiny island 350 miles off the west coast of Costa drilled two 30 foot shafts under the ocean floor and hit a but the seas the ner excavation con- The value of the treasure is estimated at
