Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 109. NO. 190. 109th YEAR SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1 9 5 4 A I WISCONSIN, SIXTEEN PAGES SIX CENTS.

to Be Completed Within Few Days Ike's Letter Removes Last Obstacle. Says Committee Head WASHINGTON (ffl-Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) today predicted the Senate Labor Commit-! tee wiU complete its Taft -Hartley revision bUl next week. Smith said in an interview a letter he received from President Ei- eenhower Friday, on the contro -l versial of states' rights in the field of labor relations, had removed the last obstacle to speedy action by his committee on a measure to offer to the Senate. It was learned that the only major White House z'ecommendation which will not be in the committee bill is the proposal for government -supervised votes to be taken when disputes reach strike stage.

All committee Democrats and a couple of Republicans have balked at that whole idea. Bestated Position The major portion of the President's letter, sent to Smith after his urgent request for White House guidance on the question of federal vs. state jurisdiction, simply restated in somewhat different language what Eisenhower already had told Congress in his Taft-Hartley message last January. The letter also proposed one change in the law not mentioned in Ihe January This would give the states freedom to act on a labor dispute involving interstate commerce, and thus within the scope of Taft-Hartley, if the National Labor Relations Board "refused to assert jurisdiction." Such a provision would wipe out what has become known as a "no- man's land" of labor disputes which the NLRB refused to handle and states could not take over. Other Fro Olher provisions known to have been accepted by a majority of the committee include these: One to ease slightly the law's' secondary boycott sections; one to allow the building and construction trades unions, and some others, to enter into pre-hire contracts vrith employers and to insist on union membership of employes after seven days on the job; extension of the non -Communist ajffidavit to employers, pending special legislation covering the question of Communist-domination of unions, and a clause tliat would allow presidential boards of inquiry In national emergency disputed to make binding recommendations for settling the dispute.

Soviet Will Return 38 Naval Boats WASHINGTON motor torpedo boats and sub chasers loaned to the Russians in World War soon wiU be back in U. S. hands. Russians agreed Friday to transfer the craft to U. S.

representatives in Istanbul, Turkey, in May and June. They are a fraction of the 186 naval crjift the United States has been trying to reclaim from the Soviets for more than five years. State Department officials said negotiations are continuing for return of the other 148 vessels in this group. The Russians have reported them to be in the Far East. Viebninh Refuse Brief Cease Fire to Aid Wounded HANOI, Indochina The French today stepped up radio pleas for a brief cease fire to permit planes to move their wounded from Dien Bien Phu.

But the Vietminh continued their constant bombardment of the besieged nortliwest ''ndochina fortress. The French High Command formally accused the Cbmmunist led rebels of flagrantly ignoring red crosses marked on transport planes flying mercy missions. French Commander in Chief Gen. Henri Navarre appealed personally in a broadcast to Vietminh commander Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap and gave assurances the red-cross marked planes would be used only for carrying out wounded.

The French kept up air attacks today on the Vietminh positions ringing Dien Bien Phu, and ground patrols thrust warily at the attackers. The Vietminh, meanwhile, brought in more fighting power and continued to dig an intricate trench system around Dien Bien Phu's barbed wire barricades. The French claimed to have destroyed a long string of foxholes- some within 200 yards of the barbed wire barricades defending the fortress and kUled 42 Vietminh soldiers. Robber Gets $2 But Misses $2,000 NEW YORK (B-Clara Gutierrez, 19-year-old clerk, was cari-ying a with $2 in it and a paperbound package when she was accosted by a robber yesterday in a Bronx hallway. The man grabbed the girl's purse and ran.

He left the package, which con- a $2,000 payroU. FAITH, HOPE AND CHABITr ARE NEOTKAL Faith, Hope and Charity triplets of Marlboro display a letter from President Eisenhower congratulating them on their 86th birthday at (Marlboro, Mass. Believed to be the oldest triplets in the nation, the sisters, all widows, are (left to right) Mrs. Annie Faith MacDonnell, Mrs. Ellen Hope Daniels and Mrs.

Nora Charity Murphy. In past years the sisters said they were Democra ts but after the nice letter from Ike they decided they were "in between" politically now. (AP wirephpto) Red Bureaucrats May Go to Work Tens of Thousands to Lose Swivel Chair Ease in Russia By TOM WIHTNEY NEW YORK new and still unpublished Kremlin decree proposed to unravel the Soviet Union's vast entanglement of red tape and send tens of tliousands of bureaucrats out to work for a living. The existence of the decree was disclosed quite casually by Com-; munist party boss Nikita Khrushchev in a report he made last month to the Central Committee. The text of that report was published a month later in Soviet newspapers which have just reached here.

Speaking of what apparently will be sweeping measures against armchair experts and the quagmire of Soviet bureaucracy, Khrushchev said: "We have to keep in mind that here we will meet stubborn resistance from bureaucrats who are used to doing business only with papers and can not live without! them. Bureaucrats and artists will not disappear from the earth simply because we have adopted a decree." Effects Are Felt And that is how the public knows the Central Committee has adopted an anti-red-tape decree. But, as in the case of many important Soviet policy documents, it appears the full contents may never be revealed. Its effects, however, already are being felt in Moscow and have been reported in the Soviet press. Tens of thousands of protesting Moscow officials, it would appear, are being shipped away from the bourgeois comforts of the capital.

Some of them are being put directly on "productive" work on farms, in machinery and tractor stations, and in factories. The luckier among them wlU keep their office jobs but their offices will be in such relatively primitive cities of Soviet Union as Novosibirsk and Irkutsk in Siberia, Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine and Archangel or mansk in the frozen north. Staffs Are Cut And some of the provisions of the decree become apparent from Khrushchev's report. Here are a few.of the things which are being done: The staffs of central government offices in Moscow and elsewhere are being cut. The officials released from their jobs are in being sent to "useful work." Measures are being taken to improve the efficiency of all gover.n- ment and party reduce paper work, to reduce delays caused by bureaucratic procedures, to reduce the amount of direct supervision from officials in Moscow over enterprises in distant parts of the land.

Entire sections of some ministries are being uprooted from AIoscow and established elsewhere to the branches of the economy they deal welfare organizations are sched -1 uled to receive bequests from the estate of Mrs. Ruth Waite Dedrick, Janesville, who died last Saturday. The will, dated May 4, of the estate is not estimated in thejEveritt, Minneapolis; $2,000 to papers filed Friday afternoon B. Dedrick, Geneseo, 111., a Rock County Court. 'brother-in-law; $3,000 each to Flora Among the bequests are Campbell, Jessie Dedrick, to the First Cbngregational Cliurchj Geneseo, sister-in-law, and Eva here; $1,000 to Mercy Hospital; $1,000 to Nortiiland College, Ashland; $1,000 to the Janesville Art League, designated for a picture; $1,000 to the Salvation Army with provision that it be for work in Janesville; $1,000 to the Indian Trails Council, Boy Scouts; $1,000 to the Janesville Council of Girl Scouts; 51,000 to the Janesville YMCA; $1,000 to the Janesville YWCA; $1,000 to the Children's Service Society of Wisconsin; $500 to the Frances Willard WCTU of; JanesviUe; and $500 to the WCTU chapter of Geneseo, HI.

Given Death Sentence TOKYO Pennsylvania sergeant who confessed strangling to death a pretty little American girl was convicted today of premeditated murder and sentenced to die. Nuittbei of Federal Jobholdeis Shiinks WASHINGTON (J) The number of federal jobholders declined 6,125 in February as compared with the preceding month, a Senate-House committee reported today. This was the 19th consecutive month the number of government workers decreased. The Joint Committee on Reduction of nonessential Federal Expenditure said there were 2,340,767 persons on the federal payroll in February as against 2,:546.892 in January. In addition, it said 413,337 foreign nationalists were working for U.

S. military agencies abroad last month. Church, Hospital, Other Organizations Share in Estate ot Mrs. Dedrick Twelve religious, charitable vandhe receiver the Dedrick home at McCarthy-Army Quarrel Hurts Party, Says Hall Dodge Quits as Director ot Budget WASHINGTON (ff) The White House today announced that Joseph M. Dodge is resigning April 15 as director of the budget to return to private business.

Dodge will resume the post of board chairman of the Detroit Bank in Detroit. He has been on leave from tliat job. He has been director of the budget since tile Eisenhower administration took over in January, 1953. The White House said no successor has been chosen. Press secretary James C.

Hagerty told reporters that Dodge took the budget job in the first place w'iOi the understanding it would be temporary. His letter of re.signation was dated Feb. 26. The President, in a letter dated March 4. accepted the resignation "only with the greatest reluctance." 1163 Columbus Circle, an interest in property in and Heniy County, 111., and all of the balance of the estate after settlement of specific bequests.

Mr. Everitt and Edwird W. Litts, 1950, provides for cash banker, are designated totalling $82,000, of which $50,0001 goes to a nephew, George Waite' Everitt, Mineapolis. The total value as co-executors. Bequests to individuals Include $5,000 to Genevieve Tautges Baptist Pastor and Editor Dies Rev.

Edgar L. Killam Served Lake Geneva Church Many Years LAKE Rev. Edgar L. Killam, 80, Lake Geneva, Dedrick Sessler, Davenport la iProminent Baptist editor and pas- sister-in-law; and tal, Elkhorn. He had been in poor More lap Boats Show Radiation from H-Blast Fishermen Escape Any Serious Harm But Are Put in Quarantine TOKYO reaction to American hydrogen bomb tests mounted anew today after two more fishing lx)ats returned from the Marshall Island area showing radiation effects.

The Japanese government officially informed the U.S. that the first boat to be effected, the Fuk- uryu Maru (Lucky 40 miles outside the prescribed test danger zone when it was showered with atomic ash March 1. The. two latest fishing boats showing radiation were quarantined. However, they apparently escaped serious harm and no fears for the crew have been expressed by Japanese officials.

One had been operating some 780 miles from the Bikini test site and the other was about 200 miles away. The Japanese government 's note handed U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison reached on "conclusions." The new developments came as government officials began ta compile the cost of the incident order to give the U.S. a bill.

The 23 crewmen oE the "Lucky Dragon" were reported improving "on the surface." An Mr Force plane was sent to Yaizu to bring 21 of the men to Tokyo for further medical care. The two most seriously burned crewmen are already in Tokyo hospitals. Stubborn Drivers Land in Court Lucille Campbell Zorger, Portland, George Campbell, Geneseo, Albert Sessler, Arlington, and Kathryn Sessler Koth, Opportunity, Wash. health for the past six months. The Rev.

Mr. Killam had been pastor of the Lake Geneva Baptist from 1925-1939 and an in- Other than the cash bequests the will mentions hand painted as the only personal property for distribution. It provides that this be divided among George B. Dedrick, Flora Dedrick Campbell, Jessie Dedrick and Eva Dedriclj Sessler. A collection of arrow-! circles as associate editor of The Standard from 1916-1920 and as managing editor of The Baptist from 1920-1924.

Bom in Chelsea, Dec. 29, 11873, he was the son of James heads and minerals willed tOi.ur„Jvm., nnH -arWo K-iUam T-TP Principal benificiary of the will, George B. Dedrick. I Matthew and Carne S. Killam.

He Mrs. Dedrick was the widow of a former Janesville grocery operator, Henry Dedrick. He was widely known in Baptist is a nephew, George Everitt, Minneapolis. In addition to the $50,000 cash bequest, the vrill provides that Unemployment Decline Noted Insurance Figures in 32 States Indicate Situation Eased WASHINGTON (ffl-The Bureau of Employment Security reports a decline in unemployment the number of those newly out of jobs going down in 32 states and the District of Columbia, increasing only in 16 states. The government report made pubhc Friday, covering the week ended March 13, said the number of insured unemployed declined for a second straight week to 2,187,100.

At the Feb. 27 peak, the total was 2,213,959. These figures do not include all the unemployed, since not all workers are covered by Federal Unemployment Insurance. The bureau said its state reports showed no large scale layoffs during the week of March 20, but scattered layoffs mixed with some recalls. It said also initial claims filed by insured workers dropped to 293,706, a decline of 16,900, during the week ended March 20.

This was the second time this year, the bureau said, that the volume of initial claims fell below 300,000. Radioactive Dust, Fully Harmless, Drifts to Midwest CHICAGO (av -Radioactive dust, completely harmless, drifted down on the Midwest after dust storms last week in the western plains, a scientist reported Friday. Radioactivity three times normal expectations was found in samples collected on Chicago's South Side by a team from the Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Edward G. Fochtman, leader of the project, said the amount of radioactivity in a two square foot sample of dust at the period of highest concentration still was only one ten-thousandth of that given off from a wristwatch with luminous hands.

Fochtman said scientists on the project, sponsored by the Midwest- em Air Pollution Prevention "drew no conclusion" on the source of the radioactivity. He said radioactive particles from the United State's March 1 hydrogen explosion in the Pacific could contaminate the dust. He added, however, that this contamination would have been expected to reach the Midwest be tween March 8 and 11. Fochtman's dust project was not started until March 15. He said the high radioactivity appeared for a few hours on March 19 and then dropped off sharply iri the dust samples that settled later.

Douglas and His Fellow Hikers Near End of Grind WASHINGTON (ffl This big question loomed today as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and a footsore band of hikers pushed toward Washington on the last leg of an 189-mile trek through roadless Maryland country: Had Douglas convinced two Washington Post and Times-Herald editorial writers that construction of a motor parkway along the abandoned Chesapeake and Ohio Canal would "utterly destroy" the lovely woodland between the capital and Cumberland, There was one sign that Douglas may not have helped his case by challenging writers Robert Estabrook and Merlo Pusey to walk the historic route with him. They had to take to horses at times because their feet gave out. As the end of the eight-day grind drew near, Douglas still was setting a brisk three-mile-an-hour pace. But the 55-year-old justice, who climbs mountains for exercise, admitted he was "pretty tired." The original party of 37 that had trudged out of Cumberland early last Sunday had dwindled to nine bona fide hikers by the time the gioup creaked into Seneca, Friday night, about 18 miles from Washington.

With the Washington monument just a few miles away, the walkers were buoyed by the promise of a truly regal a blessed rest. The National Park Service promised to send a mule- drawn sight-seeing barge up the and Canal to transport them the last five miles or so. The hike grew out of a Jan. 3 editorial in which the Post and Times-Herald backed proposals for a scenic parkway along the old and Canal. Douglas entered a vigorous dissenting opinion in a letter to the newspaper.

The justice also suggested that perhaps the editorial writers might 'change th'eir minds about disturbing the country's solitude if they joined him in a foot journey through it. received his education at Kalamazoo College and Crozer Theological Seminary in Michigan and took special study at the University of CJiicago. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1897. The Rev. Mr.

Killam'g first wife, the former Ida Mae Currier, preceded him in death. They had three sons, Edgar, Donald and Burton James, and two daughters, Gladys and Norma. He was married to a Charles April 24, 1924. The Rev. Mr, Killam held pastorates in a Williamston, Mount Pleasant and Grand Rapids, Mich.

He was secretary of the Michigan Baptist Convention from 1912-1916. In 1944 he published "The Centennial History of Wisconsin Baptists." Four years later he began work in cooperation with county superintendent of schools Sheridan Ellsworth on school consolidation problems. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Edgar and'Donald of California; two daughters, Gladys of Oshkosh and Mrs. Norma Peterson, Appleton; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Janet Lewis, Appleton; and a stepson, Harold Charles, Kansas City.

Funeral services will be at the Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Lansing, Mich. Friends may call at the Habecker and Detrick Funeral Home this evening. Controversial GI Is Graduated from MP Basic Training AUGUSTA, Ga.

With controversy still raging about him, Pvt. G. David Schine was to be graduated from a military police basic training school at Camp Gordon this morning. The former committee investigator for Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) now may get another crack at entering the criminal investigators school at Gordon, according to army officials in Washington.

He was refused admittance to the school while in training. Schine has been the center of controversy since the Army officially charged that McCarthy tried to obtain special privileges for the wealthy young New Yorker. The Augusta Herald has quoted an unidentified som-ce as saying Schine will remain at Gordon for a week in a receiving company before getting a new assignment. Dud at Banking YUMA, Ariz, Two timid burglars ransacked the First National Bank here Friday, but couldn't break open a safe or cash drawer. Police said the pair crawled back out an air duct on the roof took $600 worth of clothing from the store next door.

OKLAHOMA OTY Talk about immovable objects! Two subbom drivers played a waiting game at a busy intersection during the height of the morning rush hour, screaming at each other to yield the right of way. Neither yielded. Cars were backed up for blocks while the drivers, one male and one female, fought the eternal battle of the sexes. Both lost. Officers, reconstructing the case put it this way: Miss Stella Faye Lowe, 23, attempted to make a left turn.

Charles Arthur Looy was determined to get through the intersection before she made the turn. They met in the center of the intersection, front bumper pressed against front bumper. "We settled the argument," an officer said. "We booked both on charges of obstructing traffic." Fisher Has New Superintendent Norwood Plant Oificial Named Successor to Harry Siegel Here Two Nations Will Renew Saar Parley PARIS Foreign Minister Georges Bidault has agreed to meet again with West German Chancellor Ko.nrad Adenauer to try to reach a settlement of the explosive Saar dispute. France has demanded a definitive solution to control ot the rich coal-steel area lying between the two countries as part of her price for ratifying the European Defense Community treaties.

The area is German by language, but economically linked toi France. The two statesmen, who both favor EDC, met March 9 and agreed to work for a settlement based on Europeanization of the area. Since then talks between their deputies have broken down. Adenauer, now on a swing around the Mediterranean, wrote Bidault suggesting they get together again. Bidault has now sent off his acceptance his office announced today.

EDC would link the armed forces of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in a common unit. Only Belgium, the Netherlands and West Germany have ratified EDC. lapan Will Admit Russian Traders TOKYO Iffl-Japan will open Its doors to long-banned Russian traders ne.xt month, Kyodo News Serviced said tonight. The decision has been made by government ministers and will take effect after being approved by the Cabinet next week, Kyodo said. The unrecognized Soviet diplomatic mission has been holding talks with Japanese businessmra on barter deals.

They have been cuixious to trade coal from Sakhalin and timber for ship repairs. DOUGLAS H. CLEUUiD The appointment of Douglas H. Qeland, now Fisher superintendent at Norwood, as plant superintendent of the Janesville Fisher Body plant was announced today by V. L.

Conner, local manager. Cleland succeeds Harry Siegel, who was recently transferred to Detroit. Cleland wai bom in Detroit, where he received his high school feducation and was first employed by Fisher Body Division in 1932 at the Buffalo plarit, where he gressed from production checker in the material department to supervisor of material and stores. In 1941 he was transferred to Detroit, where he worked in the material control department as supervisor and superintendent until 1945, when he was transferred to the Norwood plant. At Norwood he was superintendent of the material control department and superintendent of the body department.

In 1953 he became plant superintendent of the Norwood plant. His family will arrive in Janesville the latter part of April to make their home at 1108 Walker St. Mr. and Mrs. Cleland have four children, Robert, 21, who has been in the Air Force the past years, and is presently stationed in British Columbia, Canada; a daughter, Beverly, 19, a student of elementary education at the- University of Cincinnati; Diane, 17, a junior in high school and Brent, 9, a Igrammar school student.

Mrs. Berg Dies Suddenly; Co-Owner of U.S. 14 Cafe More Harm Than Good Resulting, GOP Senator's Usefulness Impaired by Quarrel with Pentagon, Claim By DWIGHT MCCORSIACK OMAHA Leonard W. Hall of the Republican National Committee says. Sen.

McCarthy (R-Wis) "has done more harm than good" in his trade of verbal blows with top Army officials. As a result, said Hall, McCarthy's "Senate effectiveness has diminished in the past few weeks." Hall's statement in an interview Friday night came as one of the strongest criticisms of the Wisconsin senator yet put out by a high GOP official. Several weeks ago Hall described McCarthy as an asset to the party. MfcCarthy, chauman of the Senate Investigations subcommittee, could not be reached for immediate comment. McCarthy and subcommittee Counsel Roy Cohn have tangled with Secretary of the Army Stevens and John G.

Adams, assistant Army counsel, with: 1. An Army report alleging McCarthy and Cohn sought special treatment for a former subcommittee aide now in the Army. 2. McCarthy's counter charge that Stevens and Adams used "blackmail" tactics in efforts to block tile subcommittee's search for Reds in the Army. Army Dispute Hurts The subcommittee is now looking for an outside lawyer to help investigate the row.

Asked about the McCarthy-Army exchanges, HaD said "the dispute has hurt. Any dispute hurts." Shortly afterward he went before the Midwest and Roclcy Mountain Republican State Chairmen's Assn. and told them "There is one person who always speaks for our party and that is Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Don 't let anybody tell you that because of quarrels in Washington that there is no unity and no leadership," Hall commented in a banquet address that was recaved with enthusiasm.

Party leaders and guests numbering about 265 him. More Jobs Seen In that address. Hall said the economic situation would be a major issue in the 1954 campaign. He added, however, "when President Eisenhowe.v's program is enacted we wiU have a sound more jobs in Industry and a ttable agriculture." The national chairman said President Eisenhower has presented "a sound that we can afford. It goes far beyond electiMi day.

It goes further than to our children, it goes on our children's children." Turning to communism. Hall said President Eisenhower has recognized communism for what it a world menace. Today President Eisenhower is the resQ leader of the free people of the whole world." Mrs. Moss CcA Go Back to Army lob WASHINGTON (B -Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, who has sworn before Sen.

McCarthy's subcommittee that she was never a Communist, can go back to her Army job, at least for a while. Mrs. Moss, a middle-aged Negro, was suspended after a former woman undercover agent for the FBI testified she knew a perswj with that name as a Communist. The witness, iiowever, was unable to identify Mrs. Moss with this person.

An Army spokesman said ilii- day Mrs. Moss would return her civil service job Monday and remain at work wMle an Army loyalty board completes a of the case. Mrs. Viola M. Berg, 215 Pleasant co-proprietor of the Dinner Bell Inn on U.

S. Highway 14 north of Janesville, suffered a fatal attack at the Dinner Bell at 10:15 a.m. Saturday. She was dead before admittance to Mercy Hospital. The former Viola Pratt, ter of Henry and Carrie Lundgren Pratt, was born in Leyden and had lived in JanesvUle since childhood.

She was a Janesville High School graduate, member ot First Presbyterian Church and DAV Auxiliary. Before going into business with Harold L. Gotsick in the operation of the Dinner Bell Feb. 1 this year, she had worked at the Golden Eagle, Douglas Hardware Co. and Saxby 's.

Surviving are one son. Rush R. Berg, Beloit; one daughter, Mrs. John R. Smith, Ruger Heights; one grandson, Brett Berg; a brother, Leland Pratt, Beloit.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Overton Funeral Home, the Rev. Sidney J. Francto, Hotel Fire DeaA List Reaches 8 CBOOKSrON, Wvn. (B men today recovered the hody of the eighth victim from ihe ruina ol Northwood Inn was de- stioyed by fire Friday.

I Goraier H. E. Nelson said was of "nmian Guillings- rud, Gary, Minn, Kve other men and two women lost their lives in the fire. Two men are in hospitals for bums and other injuries. MRS.

VIOLA M. BERG First Presbyterian Chm-ch, officiating. Burial WiU be in Oak Hill Cemeterjr. Friends may caU atj the funeral.home Monday evening. THE WEATHER tkmar twlgU cieept ngbt uow CMt OTenms.

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