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March of Events In News and Pictures MONROE EVENING TIMES Green County's Home Newspaper FIFTY-SIXTH 1898 MONROE, GREEN COUNTY. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE ONE EAR WAS NO Remke of East St. Louis, 111., points out the puzzling feature of this famous marble head of Abraham missing ear, at Washington.

Sightseers have wondered about it for the 46 years the work has been in the Capitol rotunda, but Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, wrote a committee of congress in 1908 that he planned it that way to emphasize the fact that "Lincoln's face was so much more developed on the right side." Robert Lincoln called the head "the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen." Miss Remke is secretary to Rep. Melvin Price (D- 111). (AP Wirephoto) Three Grandchidren Of Robert Final Link With Lincoln's Family NEW YORK Iff) The 145th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth finds only three join in celebrating the day. They are Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, and Lincoln Isham. All are grandchildren of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of the Civil War President to reach maturity.

The Beckwiths are children of Robert Todd Lincoln's daughter Jessie. Robert Beckwith was born near Chicago has lived most of his life in Vermont and in and around Washington, D. C. From his mother he inherited a farm near Washington in Virginia. His wife reported, "we are trying to farm it and not doing too good a job." Mary Lincoln Beckwith now lives in Manchester, in her grandfather's old summer home.

Unmarried and in her early 50s, she now runs the estate as a farm. She also paints in oil and watercolor and does "a 1 i 1 sculpture." Some of her- works are in private collections, none in public galleries. Lincoln Isham is the son or Robert Todd Lincoln's daughter, Mary. He lives in New York City and "Dorset, Vt. Reached at his home in Dorset, he thanked, reporters for calling but declined to talk about himself.

None of the three have children, although Robert Beckwith has several step-children. ROK Division Offered in War Seoul Also Asks Van Fleet Help SEOUL Korea said today it has offered a full army division to fight communism in Indochina and it asked for help from retired U. S. Gen. James Van Fleet.

The government information office, in a statement indirectly critical of the United States, said it had been asked to help fight the Reds in "two urgent appeals signed by the cabinet minister of the Laos government," one of the three states of Indochina. A Communist Vietminh force of 10,000 men is driving south toward Luang Prabang, capital of Laos. French Have No Word South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said in an interview that his country has offered a division of anti-Communist forces in Indochina under the French Union banner. A source in the French ministry of foreign affairs in Paris said it had no information on such an of- In a swipe at U. S.

and U. N. policy in Korea, the South Korean government declared: "From the United States we ask only that it give us the services of its "great soldier, Gen. Van Fleet, who achieved such miracles in creating the Korean Army and in fighting the Communists in Greece." Trained ROK Divisions As commander of the U. S.

8th Army until his retirement late in the Korean war. Van Fleet supervised the training of South Korea army. "Some Americans may be opposed to active intervention to. help the spread of communism in southeast Asia, but we believe that an overwhelming majority of our friends in the United States will applaud a realistic approach to the problem. Most of them know, as we do that to lose in southeast Asia is to give up to communism the whole of the Asian continent and its adjacent waters and islands." Pyun said in an interview It is quite probable" that Red China might retaliate by sending one or more of its divisions to help, the Reds there.

LaCrosse Gives Up Fluoridation Battle LA CROSSE LaCrosse City Council voted Thursday night to give up flubridation of the city's water supply and sell the equipment. Members of the council voted 192 to dispose of the equipment, but not before April 6, the date of a municipal election to name a successor for a council member who The LaCrosse League of Women voters said it plans to ask a mandatory referendum April 6. The city fluoridated the water several weeks last year without making a public announcement. When the city did make an announcement, there was a storm of opposition and the city discontinued fluoridating; 180 Americans Killed In Korea Since Truce SEOUL American soldiers still are dying to Korea some MO since Se armistice was signed seven months ago. The S.

Sth Army reported today that this toll resulted from shootings, narcotics, drowning, traffic and plane accidents and from Korea's toxsactow roads, shaky buildiais, dud ammunition and Coffee Prices Still Climb Here Coffee prices in Monroe range from 83 cents to $1.15 a pound. Tins of the coffee in the popular brands are selling for $1.03 while decaffinated coffees account for the top price per pound. Coffee packaged in bags by the chain stores have been reduced in price or maintained at the price of a month ago. At that time the average price was 99 cents a pound with some stores selling popular brands for 97 cents. Wholesale distributors attribute the rise in cost to a Brazil frost which they claim killed trees whose production will take five years to replace.

In addition, the cost of tin has risen and labor costs on the dock and processing lines has added to the expense of preparing coffee for consumption, they said. Additional consumption during "office breaks" has put a heavy'strain on available supplies. Costs of shipping produce from Chicago to Monroe at the present time is averaging 90 cents per hundredweight. Dealers predict increasing prices will continue with indications that wholesale costs will rise to $1.01 per pound on many coffee brands. Eisenhower Leaves For Quail Shooting WASHINGTON Eisenhower took off in his private olane, the Columbia, at 10:27 m.

today for a weekend of quail shoot 'ing on the south Georgia estate Secretary, of Treasury Humphrey. Flying south with the President and Humphrey as Saturday huntj ing companions were two personal friends from New York, Cliff Roberts, chairman of the board of the Augusta. National Golf dub where the President often plays, and W. Alton Jones, chairman of German Treaty Must Be Signed First, Reds Hold Molotov Demand Blocks Decision On Austrian Pact BERLIN Russia refused in effect today to give Austria its independence until a German peace treaty is signed. New Soviet proposals, submitted 1 as fhe Austrian question came before the Big Four foreign ministers, made it clear that the Austrian issue is just as dead in the Berlin conference as the German unification question.

Foreign Minister Molotov posed "certain additions" to the Austrian independence treaty which has been fought over since 1946. The major stumbling block among his "certain additions" was this: Would Retain Troops Withdrawal of troops from Austria will be postponed "pending the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany" in order to "prevent any new attempts at a new anchluss" (German-Austrian union). This meant the Soviet army has no intention of quitting Austrian soil, thus making a mockery of any pact that would be signed in the name of Austrian sovereign- ity. Molotov also demanded again that the explosive issue of Trieste be included in consideration of the i Austrian treaty. Specifically, he said the Big Four should spell out a clause that the disputed area at the head of the Adriatic be demilitarized.

It now is occupied by British, American and Yugoslav troops but the Western powers said last October they were ready to pull out and turn administration of their zone over to Italy. Yugoslavia reacted bitterly. The Russians tried once before to link Trieste with the Austrian question. The West rejected the idea then. Austria Makes Appeal Austria appealed to the Big Four to restore its independence without further delay and at the same time asked for an easing of "harsh and inequitable" economic concessions to Russia.

The appeal was laid before the conference by Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl. Figl made his appearance at a regular session late in the afternoon which followed a secret meeting on Asiatic quest-ions. He said terms of the treaty draft would benefit Russia as the treaty now stands. They provide for a payment of $150 million over a six- year period by Austria for the redemption of factories in the Soviet occupation zone which were seized as German assets. They would also give Russia the lion's share of Austrian oil production for a period of 25 to 30 years.

Meanwhile there was strong indication that if Molotov would drop his insistence on a Big Five parley including Red China, Secretary of State Dulles would be willing to reverse the previous American position that Russia should attend the proposed Korean political conference only as a partner of Red China and North Korea rather than as a non-billigerent. The western ministers made plain to Molotov in Thursday's secret session, it was understood, that they have no intention whatever of accepting his five-power conference demand, but that they are deeply interested in having the Berlin meeting break the Communist-U. N. command deadlock over Argyle Youth Killed in Crash, Brother in Critical Condition Senators Ease Attacks INTERVIEWS WUkins, plant manager for Monroe's newest enterprise, Oaktron Industries, has interviewed nearly 200 job applicants this week at the firm's offices at Pleasure Bend bowling alley. Workers, meanwhile, have been remodeling A room in preparation for the start of operations.

Another influx of applicants from Monroe and the surrounding area is expected tombrrow. Majority of the applicants have been women, Wilkins said. (Times staff photo) to take a more moderate tone" as i As for Eisenhower's plea to avoid the Lincoln Day speech-making extreme partisan Me Car- reached its peak volume on this I thy said I think he is correct in anniversary of the Civil War President's birth. arrangements for a Korean peace settlement. Fred Am Dies AfNewGlarus NEW GLARUS (Special) Fred Arn, 83, New Glarus, died at 7 this morning following a heart attack in his home.

He was a native of Switzerland and came to the united States in 1890. He was married to Emma Marty in 1898. She died on Jan. 31, 1953. He was engaged in farming and cheesemaking until 1921 retired to the village.

Mr. Arn was caretaker of Swiss Evangelical and Reformed cemetery and a member of that church. Preceding him in death was a daughter, Mrs. John Hauri, in March, 1953. He leaves a son, Robert; two daughters.

Miss AWa, at home, and Mrs. Sanford Nybroten, Argyle; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; two brothers, Adolph and Alfred, both of Monticello. Court Election Parley Proposed Justice Primary In March Cited MADISON (in A public meeting in Milwaukee to discuss how judges in the state should be selected was voted by the Wisconsin Judicial Council today. Walworth County Judge Roscoe Luce, of Elkhorn, advocated the meeting, pointing out there will be a primary next month in the nonpartisan election for justice of the Supreme Court. He said: "Only a 'corporal's guard' of voters will go to thie polls since few of them are familiar with the three candidates running.

In county last spring Atty. Perry Stearns (of Milwaukee) polled more votes than the incumbent, Justice Timothy Brown (Madison) even though few knew either of the candidates." Stearns is a candidate for the high court again, along with the incumbent. Justice Roland Steinle of Milwaukee and Atty. WSUam.H. Dieterich, Hartford.

The 1953 Legislature directed the council to study the problem of selection of judges in Wisconsin and report any changes that might seem necessary. Assemblyman Mark Catlin (R- Appleton), council member, opposed the proposal for a meeting, saying "there would just be talk, as there always was when the question of changing the method of selecting judges was discussed." Sen. Warren 'Knowles (H-New Richmond), also of the council, declared "after all was said and done would be more said than done." The council agreed to name a committee later to select a date for the meeting this spring. CCC President Quits, No Successor in Line WASHINGTON Secretary of Agriculture Benson today announced the resignation of Howard H. Gordon as administrator of the department's Commodity Stabilization Service crop control and price support the appointment of James A.

McConnell New York state farm leader, as his successor. Gordon also resigned as president of the Commodity Credit National Corn Pick Contest Will Be Held At Tracy Farm in Rock The National Mechanical 1 Corn Picking Contest will be held next fall on the Tracy and Son Farms, eight miles east of Janesville, sponsors of the contest announced today. Cooperating in planning for the event are the Rock-Walworth-Pomona Grange of Rock County and Station WEKZ. Jess Harris, master of the grange, said that Ted Walton, overseer of the grange, has been named general chairman. Special plots of corn will be planted on the 3,200 acre farms for the contest.

Grant Ritter, a a g'e of -WEKZ and a director of the national contest group since its inception six years ago, said the national contest will be held one day, with a state contest to pick the Wisconsin entry in the national event to be held the day before. He said the state contest also would be held on the Tracy and Son Farms. the department's dollar banking agency for financing price support operations. Department officials said McConnell would not be named president of the CCC. the board of the Cities 'Corp- Stock Prices Upped By Central, GE Gains NEW YORK If) Strength in a few individual leaders today sent the stock market higher.

New York Central, in the midst of a proxy fight for control, was ahead between 'two and three points at times. Thursday it was up H4 after Robert R. Young vowed a proxy fight for Control. General Electric hit a new high today with an advance of around two ion i 1 conda Copper. Lehfgh were tta- flte.

Coal and Motors. There were still plenty of accusations that past Democratic administrations had coddled m- munists, or been outsmarted by them. Nixon himself, in a speech Thursday night at New Haven, paid tribute to the way in which he said Secretary of State Dulles "has stood up to the Communists at the conference table in Berlin." In counseling Republicans against indiscriminate attacks, Nixon said: "We must remember that millions of Democrats were just as fed up with Trumanism as we were in 1952." Eisenhower told a Wednesday news conference the times are too serious for extreme partisanship. Sen. McCarthy, who had said he could not "whitewash" what he calls "20 years of treason" under John Evans, 89, Dies in Freeport John Wagner Evans, 89, Freeport, former Monroe resident, died early this morning at his home in Freeport after a long illness.

Mr. Evans was born July 4, 1864, in Stephenson County and was married Jan. 2, 1900. At the age of 4 he moved with his parents to Monroe and graduated from Monroe high school. He was a carpenter for a short time before moving to White, S.

where he was in the lumber business for 35 years and a funeral director for several Mr. Evans was a member OL the Presbyterian church at White, S. and belonged to the White Washington Masonic Lodge, Knights Ttmplar Commandary and IOOF Lodge. He leaves his wife, Anna; a daughter, Susan, at home, and a son, Thomas Evans, Sibley, la One daughter died in Services will be tomorrow at 3 p. m.

in the Walker funeral home, Freeport, Rev. George Shephard of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery, Monroe. TOKYO COFFEE HIGH TOKYO -Of Coffee high back home? Well, it's 30 cents a cup here, $2.24 a pound or $1.40 for a two-ounce jar of the instant type. If you pinch pennies, you can buy a cup of bitter, unrecognizable brew for 17 cents.

Write-in To Be Necessory Nixon Echoes Campaign Plea WASHINGTON Vice President Nixon has advised fellow Republicans to avoid "indiscriminate" attacks on the opposition on the issue of communism, while accusing Democrats of losing at the conference table victories won in war. Whether by coincidence or in line with President Eisenhower's counsel to shun extreme partisanship, Democratic administrations to help win support for parts of Eisenhower's program returned to his oft-voiced plea for a halt of trade with Red China. In a speech at Dallas, Thursday night McCarthy said "I know I don't agree with our administration on trade with Red China, but that doesn't mean I that." He had said earlier he would not change tactics because he was reciting only the facts. McCarthy also said there is no reason the two major parties should not work together to make all the world free. He said he has not been denouncing the "opposite party" but only "its leadership of the last 20 years." The administration has opposed McCarthy's calls for U.

S. action against friendly nations which carry on limited trade with m- munist China, arguing that Washington should not dictate to its allies and that some trade is beneficial to the West. McCarthy said he knows of these differences, but he added he supports Eisenhower "not because he's perfect but because his record has been so infinitely better than those in charge during the 20 years of treason there's no comparison." Mayor Will Appoint Assessor Until April Mayor Brooks J. Dunwiddie will name a city assessor Tuesday night, with council approval, to serve until the April election. The person receives the highest number of write-in votes in the election will be the citys assessor for the neVt two years.

That was the opinion handed down today by Robert D. Sundby, legal counsel for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, and confirmed by Cityi Attorney Arthur. C. Benkert. Everett Keel, who had been as? sessor since 1947, died unexpectedly Monday afternoon following a heart attack at his nomination papers had been filed for re-election and he was opposed.

Mayor Dunwiddie said today that several names had been suggested to him for appointment. He said he will ask those individuals if they would accept the appointment and also will await any other applications which may be made to him. Mayor Dunwiddie added that he will discuss the list with aldermen prior to Tuesday's meethtt to determine which persons Would be most acceptable to them. In their joint opinion, Benkert and Sundby said that the vacancy to be flOed by appointment by the aiayor suWect to confirmation by the the election in April, is their optoian that the only way that anyone who wishes to be a candidate for this office can be pUcedcei the beBot is by a write-in election." Mukwonago Ban Balks Red Cross Requests Village To Clarify Rule OCONOMOWOC A spokesman for the Waukesha County Red Cross fund drive said today he would seek clarification of a Mukwonago village ordinance which prohibits house-to-house fund solicitation except by the Mukwonago Community Welfare J. B.

Cloutier, Oconomowoc, chairman of the county Red Cross drive, which will be conducted March 1-15, said he has asked for a meeting Friday with officials of the Mukwonago community fund group. The Community Welfare Association was organized last fall by a village ordinance which contains the prohibition against door-to-door solicitation by independent welfare groups. The CWA collects funds for eight organizations, but not the Red Cross or the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The foundation's March of Dimes last month conducted mail solicitations in Mukwonago and held collections in the schools. The Walworth County March of Dimes fund drive was ordered not to conduct anything but mail solicitations in the city of Elkhorn, where a similar ordinance limits personal contact campaigning to the local community chest organization.

The March of Dimes organization appealed to the courts, which enjoined Elkhorn and its community chest organization from banning the March of Dimes. The National Foundation contended the Elkhorn ordinance was unconstitutional. Circuit Judge Alfredd Drury will study briefs on the Elkhorn case and will announce whether the temporary injunction will become permanent. Apco May Set Up At Brodhead Again BRODHEAD (Special) An officer in the Apco Manufacturing which moved from Brodhead Saturday, said yesterday he believed that after reorganization the firm probably -win set up its plant in Brodhead again; The firm will know within 60 to 90 days, he said. In the meantime, the Brodhead Building which owns the building and land which the Apco firm used, and the Brodhead Development both made up of Brodhead businessmen, have received three inquiries'from firms regarding possible sites.

One of the inquiring firms would employ men as well as women, officials said. DENIES TV BID BAN WASHINGTON munications Commission today denied a motion by the Milwaukee Area Telecasting Corp. to dismiss the competing application of the Milwaukee Channel IS television at Milwaukee. Co. 'Dull News' Evening Livens Up, Reporter Victim of Abduction NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Ufi A newspaper reporter who started home Tor supper a few minutes early because it was a. evening" wound up writing his own kidnap story after being robbed and left gagged in a lonely wooded area near here. Less than half an hour after reporter Bill Woolsey broke his bonds and called police from a farm home, two alert Nashville officers arrested two men and charged them with highway robbery. Police identified them tentatively as Perry William Moore, 33, and Joe Sicurella, 30. Moore said he escaped from Kilby Prison in Alabama in November 1953 while serving sentence for highway robbery.

However, Kilby officials said the man may be Earl Phillips, alias Oliver Earl Moore. The kidnaping occurred in the parking lot of the Nashville Printing just behind editorial and printing Woolsey, of the Nashville nessean, said he went to his auto-, mobile and "thought the two meir were a couple of passers-by whi had slipped into my car to grap a quick drink or play the ear radio. The next thing I realized was'that Moore had a gun in my ribs." Woolsey said the men robbed him of Sll and spent part of it on adhesive tape which they used to bind him up. State's Bureau Asks 82.5 Parity MADISON Secretary of Agriculture Benson was asked by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation board of directors today to reduce price supports on dairy products to 82.5 per cent of parity. If supports are dropped from 90 per cent of parity, it would move dairy surpluses into a free market, the board said in a letter, asking that compensatory payments be made to dairy plants to make up half the difference between 75 per cent of parity Xlowest point allowed by law) and 90.

If market prices dropped to 75, this would work out to an 82.5 per cent support figure, the board estimated. Benson is expected to announce a support level for dairy products In the near future. Arthur C. Murphy, of Chilton, bureau vice president, said: "Dairy farmers are wen aware of the need to end the accumulation of surpluses. Most of our output now goes into government storage.

Farmers know they will have to do something quick or suffer a complete wreck of both the farm program and farm prices." KEDS HOLD TA1X SWODE BtRLIN seven-foot-tall Swede who demanded a "peace" interview with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov is under arrest in last Berlin after a battle Jerry Nybrolen Dies Here After Accident at Wiola Two Others Rushed To Hospitals from Highway 78 Scene A 20-year-old Argyle voiith, Jer-. ry Dean Nybroten, was killed and his brother and a cousin, also of Argyle, were injured critically yesterday afternoon when the car in which they were riding careened from Highway 78 midway between Wiota and Woodford in Lafayette County. Jerry Nybroten died in St.

Clare hospital at 9:17 p. m. yesterday from multiple injuries received in the accident, according to physicians. The crash occurred at 5 p. m.

His brother, Caspar Nybroten Jr, 25, remained in "critical" condition in St. Clare hospital today. The youths are sons of Mr. onrl Mrs. Caspar Nybroten who reside on a farm near Argyle.

Johnson Believed Driving The two brothers were believed to be passengers in the car thought to be driven by their cousin, Stanley Johnson, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Johnson, Adams Township, the Lafayette County sheriff's department reported. Both Caspar Nybroten and Johnson are believed to have internal injuries.

Nybroten underwent surgery at St. Clare hospital last night and Johnson regained consciousness this morning. Johnson, however, was reported as improving at Lafayette Memorial hospital by attendants today. Lafayette County Sheriff Lawrence James said that the car apparently left the road at a curve near the Cherry Branch school and plunged into a ditch full of refuse, went through a small lane and tore down 10 fenceposts and one or two telephone poles. The poles were so splintered it was impos- I sible to tell whether one or two were knocked down, the depart' ment reported.

Thrown From Auto Jerry Nybroten apparently was the first to be thrown from the car, a distance of more than 60 feet, the officer said. His brother was thrown from the vehicle also and only the Johnson youth remained in the car. The car was a "total wreck" following the crash, Sheriff James said. He said that apparently the youths were returning home when the car left the highway. Jerry Nybroten had enlisted in the Army Friday and was awaiting word as to when he would bo called.

He graduated from Argyle high school in 1951 and had been working on his father's farm. He was born in Green County Oct. 31, 1933, a son of Caspar and Stella Johnson Nybroten. He was a member of the Argyle Lutheran church, was baptized in the Adams Lutheran church Dec. 28, 1933, and was confirmed in the Argyle church, June 27, 1948.

Services Planned Monday The jwuth leaves his parents: 'we brothers, Caspar who lives on another farm five miles west of Argyle, and Ardell, 2202 12th street, Monroe; two sisters, Mrs. Arvid Wicklund, Winslow, and Mrs. Burhette Babe, Juda. A sister preceded him in death. Services will be Monday at 1:30 p.

m. in the Argyle Lutheran church. Rev. A. T.

Anderson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the Erickson funeral home. Jerry Nybroten's death marked Lafayette County's first highway fatality of 1954. County Officer Harold Mullen investigated the accident.

royal withftedi is Albert-' a Stockholm The prison- Scotland Yard Hunts 'Lady' Menzies' Killer LONDON Scotland Yard spread a nationwide dragnet today for the' brutal strangler of a prim little great-grandmother, "Lady" Menzies, and her red-haired daughter at their sedate old folks' home. A police alert went out for two men known to have frequented -the mansion tucked away in a quiet Victorian suburb. The 69-year-old Mrs. Mary Menzies, known to the 19 aged residents of the home she ran as "Lady" Menzies, was found beaten and strangled in front of a cold hearth Thursday. The body of her daughter, Mrs.

Isobel Chesney, 42, was found submerged in an upstairs bathtub. She was undressing to bathe when the strangler struck. TWO 'BEUJCTAMT BEAVES MILWAUKEE (W-The Milwaukee admitted today they bad two reluctant regulars on their hands. Shortstop Johnny Logan and Second Baseman Jack Dittmer remained the only two starters of the 1K3 club who have not agreed to salary terms..

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