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The Holland Sentinel SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS Zeelond, OJive, FonnviHe, Hamilton, East Seugotuck, Park, Centre! fmrit, Jcniwn Park, Nerth Drive, and Dirtriet FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR--NO. 124 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1953 TIN Downtown Area Teems With Activity Grand Jury May Probe Teamsters After Committee Illegal 'Kickbacks' In Union Funds Prompts Demands DETROIT (UP)--A federal grand jury today began laying the groundwork for an investigation of the AFL Teamsters union following a similar probe by a three-man House subcommittee. U. S. Dist.

Atty. Fred W. Kaess ordered the grand jury Friday during the final day of the congressional hearings. Kaess said it will investigate illegal "kickbacks" in union funds, of violence in dealings between the teamsters and officials of employing members of the union, and "other irregularities." The house subcommittee headed by Rep. Wint Smith (R-Kan.) conducted a week-long hearing into labor racketeering in the Detroit a member, said another Investigation may launched by the Internal Revenue Department.

Hoffman--who charged earlier this week that the subcommittee's hearings had been cut short by "pressure" in Washington said revenue agents may "look into" the financial activities of James R. Hoffa, head of the Michigan Teamsters and a central figure In the congressional investigation. Hoffa testified Friday that Detroit Teamsters Local 299 has an income of about $500,000 a year. KL said, however, that records covering financial dealings of the local prior to 1932 had been destroyed. This was done, Hoffa said, on the advice of the local's attorneys.

But William F. McKenna, counsel for the subcommittee, charged it was in violation of federal income tax laws. McKenna said a section of the laws provide that non profit organizations such as unions must keep their long as the contents thereof may become material in the administration of the law." Two a Department agents sat in on the final hearing and Hoffman said he would demand a "complete investigation." Witnesses testified at subcommittee hearings earlier this week that the Union Casualty and Life Insurance Co. of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., was awarded a contract to handle the union's welfare and insurance fund for 17 per cent of the totaJ amount handled.

Representatives of other insurance firms testified that their companies had submitted bids at a much lower- rate and one witness said Hoffa had a financial interest in the Mt. Vernon company. This was denied oy Hoffa, who verified, however, that the company "refunded" $200,000 to the union's trust fund. Other witnesses told of being "squeezed out" of business by the union and of being forced to make "payoffs" to teamsters officials who then guaranteed there would be no strikes against the firms. One witness said he was forced to pay so much that he eventually had to sell out his profitable trucking business for $7,000 and take a job as a janitor.

Hoffman said he had received letters and telegrams from the Midwest calling for additional congressional hearings, especially at Minneapolis, Minn. When he attempted to have the hearings widened to other areas, Hoffman said, he was told "from Washington" that this would be impossible. Smith denied that any "pressure" had been brought on his subcommittee and said the group had covered all the matters it set out to investigate. Soviets Free Germans HERLESHAUSEN, a (Up) The Soviets released 426 German war prisoners here Friday. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight, low 22.

Snow flurries Sunday, high 38. West to southwest winds 10 to 15 miles per hour becoming southerly 18 to 22 miles per hour Sunday. The sun sets tonight at 5:14 p.m. and rises tomorrow 751 a.m. Local Reported by the U.

S. Weather Bureau instruments at Hope College. The temperature at 11 a.m. today was 33. For thp 24 hours ending 5 p.m.

yesterday ttio instruments recorded the following: Maximum, 39. -Minimum, 27. Precipitation, .04 WTOWJ 1 inch on ground). Year Afo Maximum, 33. Minimum, 25.

.04 (.5 trace on ground.) A KRAGG RIFLE ballet through the head stopped this 180 pound black bear on Nor. li. Honors go to Jewel Graves, (right), of route 2. Hamilton, who was hunting about 75 miles northwest of Iron Mountain in little Jogging of Sidnaw, Graves hod been hunting all dor with his three sons, Allan, Junior and Larry, well at Cliliord Vaader folk and Abraham Moore. The bear was the first for Graves in many jears oi hunting.

Also pictured is a six point, 125 pound buci; shot by Junior Jewel Grares. The party returned to Holland last Saturday (Sentinel photo) Pay-as-You See TVGetsTryout PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UP)-Hollywood stars and executives flocked into this sunny resort town today for a milestone in entertainment history--a football game and a movie premier on pay-as-you-see television. An expected 90.000 fans were to a the Southern California- Notre Dame battle in the Los Angeles Coliseum--mostly at $5 a ticket. But 125 miles away, approximately 70 television viwers whose sets are equipped with a Telemeter coin box could watch the game I for $1.

The event was the opening of lemeter, first paid TV in actual use. The -system, operating on a "closed circuit," didn't need Federal Communications Commission permission to begin charging admission for first-run films, sports Nixon Tells U.S. Approval Of Self-Government COLOMBO. Ceylon i President Richard M. Nixon told a radio audience today the United States "firmly supports the orderly progress toward self government throughout the world." The touring American vice president added, "the United States has no imperialistic ambitions whatsoever in Asia or in any other part of the globe." He made the statement to assure those who "are apprehensive that the mounting interest of the United States in this area may be just another phase of imperialism," Nixon said.

and musical events. Tonight the first movie premiere in the home was to be staged when Telemeter offered the American premiere of "Forever Female," a Paramount picture just released. That cost the viewer S1.35 at home, or 51.20 if he preferred to see the film in a downtown theater. Two Mishaps Occur on M-21 A slippery section on M-21 between Holland and Zeeland was responsible for two accidents today while a third narrowly averted. At 9:00 a.m.

a late model auto traveling west on M-21 started to slide as it crossed the Black River bridge and went off the highway and through guard rails coming to a rest just before going over the embankment about 100 feet west of the bridge. Driver of the car, Mrs. Ivan Hartgerink of 33 South Wall Zeeland, was uninjured but a passenger, Mrs. Alice Brower, was treated in Huizinga Memorial Hospital for a dislocated shoulder. Damage to the car in this accident was not too extensive.

Minutes later a 1950 model car driven by James Dionise, 30, 134 East Main Zeeland, slid on the same stretch and crashed into the Hartgerink auto. Damage to the Dionise auto is estimated at $500 while the Hartgerink car was again damaged, this time to an estimated S700. Gerald Kuipers, also of Zeeland, told officers he was traveling in front of the Dionise car and narrowly averted sliding as he crossed the bridge. He looked in the rear view mirror and saw the Dionise auto sliding along the shoulder of the road. Six year old Al Dionise, a passenger in his father's car, was treated for facial bruises and possible fractured nose.

Deputy Nelson Lucas is ooptinu- ing the investigation. Perle En Route Home LE HAVRE, France (UP) -Mrs. Perle Mesta sailed for the United States Friday with the word that, she was "full of Thanksgiving turkey snd full of thanks to be going home." Ava Off to Europe NEW YORK (UP)--Actress Ava Gardner left for Europe Friday to make, a movie in Rome and refused to discuss reports that she will divorce crooner Frank Sinatra as soon as she Saugatuck Man Found Dead SAUGATUCK (Special) Edward Reeves, 38, Saugatuck, was found dead in his car at the Lighthouse Service Station at the nortih Hmits of Saugatuck Friday evening at 7 pjn. Coroner William Ten Brink of Hamilton was called and said death was due to carbon monoxide fumes. The car was in the garage connected to the service station.

Ten Brink ruled that the man had been dead from 10 to 12 hours. A brother, Stanley, who runs the Wheel-Inn restaurant on US- 31 three miles north of Saupatuck, found him. He apparently had faHcn asloep in the car. The body was taken to Dykstra funeral home where funeral arrangements are pending. Goes Back to Prison On Identical Charge GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

(UP)-A 62-year-old man recently freed from the Indiana state prison for altering a money order todav started a three-year prison term for the same offense. Federal Judge Raymond W. Starr sentenced Bruce M. McNeal Friday after he pleaded guilty to "lifting" a 56.73 money order to S60.72 at Mancelona, in May, 1951. In other cases, Boyett F.

Findley, Muskegon, was sentenced to I'-z years after pleading guilty to mailing a threatening letter; Leslie Barnes, Augusta. father of five children who pleaded guilty to illegally accepting $129 in railroad unemployment compensation, was given'2 years probation, and Kenneth Cunningham, Muskegon, was given 2 years probation for driving a stolen car across state Poor Woman Inherits Fortune ST. LOUIS May McKeon, (UP) Mrs. Delia a poor, 67-year-old retired stenographer, hid today from "salesmen and newspapermen" after falling heir to a 5479,730 fortune. Her son, who has made a home for his mother in a two-room slum area apartment, said she had gone into seclusion because the publicity of the case aggravated a nervous condition which forced her to quit work in 1923.

A ruling by Judge John F. Cox, at Pittsburgh, Friday declared Mrs. McKeon heiress to a share of the estate of an aunt, Mrs. Sara M. Weeller, widow of a wealthy Pittsburgh oilman.

"My mother is pretty well excited by it." the son, John Joseph Phelan said. "It will be a great help for Mom to get back on her feet." He added that she would remain in seclusion until she has undergone treatment for her nervous condition. Phelan. a 41-year-old electrician for a shirt manufacturing concern, said he has been supporting his mother since 1923. when illness forced her to give up a job as stenographer at the Union Electric Co.

Soviet Note May Meet Success in Splitting Allies U.S. Officials Startled By British Reaction To Russian Concession WASHINGTON (UP)-- President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today prepared for'their Bermuda meeting with their governments apparently split over the significance of Russia's surprise offer of Big Four talks. Diplomatic observers said the Reds may have met with some success if their proposal was designed to drive a wedge in Western ranks on the eve of the Big Three Bermuda conference which opens Dec. 4. It appeared that one of the first items of business would be to patch up the Anglo-American differences.

American diplomats were startled by the optimistic British reaction to the Soviet note proposing a Big Four foreign ministers conference at Berlin. The note was delivered to the American, British and French embassies in Moscow Thursday. A London Foreign Office spokesman described the Russian offer as a welcome "acceptance" of previous Western offers to meet with the Soviets. But the State Department took an entirely different and more pessimistic view of the Kremlin's move. The department said in a formal statement Friday that the note was "disappointing" and indicated the Russians are trying to block European unity measures and "gloss over" Moscow's previous unwillingness to ease world tensions through negotiations.

British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins appeared to agree with the State Department view. He said the note "may be designed to have a disturbing and divisive effect upon the Western Allies." But "I am sure it will be prevented from having" such an effect, he said in a television interview Friday night. reaction was less clear "thajv-that of and Britain. But French officials said the Soviet note undoubtedly would be the main job confronting Eisenhower, Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel at Bermuda. Laniel Friday managed to win a shaky vote of confidence on the question of West German rearmament, despite some speculation that the Soviet note might cause his downfall.

Injured in Fall GRAND HAVEN (Special) -Mrs. Anna De Winter, 62. of 1069 Lake Grand Rapids, was treated at Municipal Hospital Friday afternoon for a fractured right wrist after falling on the ice at her cottage at Holcomb Hills south of the city. Mrs. De Winter called her sister, Mrs.

Kate Casey, in Grand Rapids, and told her of the fall before the phone line went dead. Mrs. Casey immediately notified officers and a city police cruiser was dispatched to the cottage to take the injured woman, who was alone, to the hospital. She was released after treatment. ChmeKtt Will Be 79 LONDON (UP--Prime Minister Winston Churchill will celebrate his 79th birthday anniversary Monday with a small family dinner party at No.

10 Downing Street, followed by a reception for about 100 persons. Named Assistant WASHINGTON (UP) Arne J. Suornela, Portland, today was named assistant director of lines from Muskegon to Deposit, Interior Department's fish and N.Y. wildlife service. Truman to Talk At Chicago Rally CHICAGO (UP) President Harry S.

Truman arrived today to "speak from the heart" to an Israeli bond rally and probably discuss the Harry Dexter White case with Democratic bigwigs. Mr. Truman arrived at 7:30 a.m. former i a greeted at the Dearborn Station by a crowd of about 100 persons, led by Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Illinois National Committeeman Jacob M.

Arvey. When Mr. Truman noticed an "I Like Ike" sticker pasted to a photographer's camera, he said smilingly, "Do you think he still feels that way?" A motorcade took him to the Blackstone Hotel, where he breakfasted with Mitchell. Arvey leaders of the bond rally. and Attorney Visits Bonnie JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.

(UP)-An attorney visits Bonnie Brown Heady in her death row prison cell today for a last conference before deciding whether to appeal her death sentence in the Bobby Greenlea.se kidnaping. MRS. DONALD of J9V4 West 18th it looking forward to a reunion with her twin sons, Christopher Mori and Lynn, who were horn Nor. 12 in Holland Hospital. Miller has been home for several days, but fie babies who weighed fire pounds and two ounces and four pounds 15 ounces will remain in the hospital until they are about six pounds.

The litUe are the tint children for AHHers. Mrs. Miller is fie former Maxine Malder. (Sentinel photo) Widow of Well Known Patent Attorney Dies GRAND HAVEN (Special) -Mrs. Charles W.

Drake, former well known Grand Haven resident, died this morning in the home of a daughter, Mrs. R. D. Grant in 111., a suburb of Mrs. urake, who celebrated her birthday anniversary Nov.

7, had been visiting the George Pardee family in Spring Lake for a month before being taken to Chicago the early part of November. Her husband, a patent attorney, died about five years ago. Besides Mrs. Grant. is survived by three sons, Francis of Springfield, 111., and Henry and Charles of Chicago.

The body will be brought to the Kinkema fan-eras! in. Grand a Funeral arrangements had not been completed today. Detroit Mother Gets New Trial LANSING (UP)--A mother sentenced to 14 years in prison for embezzling money to finance the Hollywood career of her daughter has been awarded a new trial by the Michigan Supreme Court. The high court granted the new trial to Mrs. Beatrice Hollingsworth of Detroit Friday on her plea that portions of a supposedly confidential probation report in her case had been published by newspapers and broadcast by radio and television before she was sentenced.

In granting the motion, the Supreme Court overruled Detroit Recorder's Judge O. Z. Ide. who refused to allow Mrs. Hollingsworth to change her guilty plea to one of innocent before he sentenced her last February.

Mrs. Hollingsworth pleaded guilty last Jan. 24 to stealing $989.53 from her employer, the Kenneth Anderson Co. of Detroit, by forging company checks and cashing them using the money to pay the expenses of her attractive, 18-year-old daughter, Jill, who was in Hollywood at the time trying to "break into" the movies. She originally had admitted embezzling more than 525,000 to finance Jill's career but was permitted to plead the lesser forgery charge.

Judge Ide. in sentencing Mrs. Hollingsworth, lectured her sternly from the bench for openly boasting she would get probation. The 14- year sentence was the maximum for the charge. When the judge refused to allow her to change her plea a sentencing, Mrs.

HollinRSworth's attorney, James N. McNally. started the appeal. State Deer Hunters Ready for Last Big Week-End LANSING (UP)--Ilo H. Bartlett, the State Conservation Department's deer expert, said today Michigan sportsmen are enjoying "a good deer season" despite only "fair" hunting conditions.

"The deer kill looks good," Bartlett said on his return from a 10-day swing through Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. "It has been much better than was expected in most areas by local people and hunters themselves." he said. "I'm almost sure final figures will show 50,000 hurks were killed during the regular season." Michigan's regular 16-day deer season ends at 7 p.m. Monday. But on the next day a special "any deer" season wilF be held in the northern part of the Lower NOW OPEXIN'fi Christmas Savings Clubs First National Bank.

Adv. Peninsula above M55 and it will be legal lor hunters to kill bucks, does and fawn. However, any hunter who got a buck during the regular season may not hunt Tuesday. Bartlett said the kill in the Upper Peninsula especially has been better than last year despite warm weather during the first few days of the season. "I think my early prediction that 20.000 bucks would be taken in the Upper Peninsula will hold up," he said.

"The total kill may jjo even higher than that above the Straits." Bartlett said 9,413 bucks were counted on southbound cars crossing the Straits of Mackinac during the first 12 days of the season QCIARTET Calvary Reformed Church Sunday, Nov. 29, 9 P.M. Adv. compared with 8,522 during the entire 1952 season. He said final figures probably will show about 10,500 deer were carried south by hunters.

The highest number of deer ever counted crossing the Straits was 11,510 in 1946. The game division official said he visited the Gaylord. Traverse City, and Baldwin areas during his trip through the northern part of the Lower Peninsula and found "sportsmen were getting more deer than they thought were in the woods." He said many local residents in the Baldwin area, who blasted the Conservation Department last year for "slaughter" of deer during a three "any deer" season, now agree the special season was necessary to JOIN NOW Christmas Ssvingg First National Bank. trim the size of the deer herd for proper management. Bartlett said deer hunting during the final days of the season "should be much better" if snow that fell during the last two days on the ground in Northern Michigan.

He said about 100,000 sportsmen are expected north of M55 next Tuesday for the special one-day "any deer" season. "The farther north ot M55 sportsmen go next Tuesday, the better their chances will of getting a deer," Bartlett said. "Last year, most hunters stuck close to the southern boundary. As a result, most of those who went a little farther north were more successful." OPKV YOUR CHRIRTMAR saving rluh now at Adv. State Bank.

Adv. Victim's Parents Visit the Family Of Admitted Slayer CAMP AMA, Japan (UP)--The parents of murdered nine-year-old Susan Rothschild went to the yellow frame house of her slayer today to offer assistance and comfort to his wife. Col. and Mrs. Jacquard H.

Rothschild of Ch visited the wife and two adopted Japanese children of Master Sgt. Maurice L. Schick to tell her they held no againgt him. Shick confessed earlier today that he strangled Susan on Nov. 21 because he had an "uncontrollable urge to kill." "My husband and I feel that Sergeant Shick is a sick man and we have no personal feeling of revenge or bitterness about what has transpired," Mrs.

Rothschild said after leaving the house. "Mrs. Shick is a wonderful person and the two girls have obviously been brought up in a warm and loving atmosphere," Mrs. hschild added. Shick, 29, a Scoutmaster and Sunday school teacher in his off hours, told Military Police he strangled Susan and stuffed a gag in her mouth without any motive near the housing project where both families live.

"It's just that she was there," Weatherman Says Mercury WiE Drop To 22 Tonight Driving Conditions Improved in Area; Decorations Put Up Holland's downtown teemed with activity today as the first jmowfaflv of the season put residents- in shopping mood some of it Christmas presents but igood share for rubbers, boots and warm clothing. The light fluffy snow gave festive touch to the evergreen festoons which are being put on boulevard lamp poles. Colored lights and lighted ornaments will follow in short order' arid the decorating program will be pleted sometime next week. Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive Friday, Dec. 4.

Today's snowfall was pretty rather than hazardous, and motorists experienced little difficulty in driving wHereas the colder temperatures Friday morning gave all roads a coat of ice slowing traffic to a halt in some places. Predictions for Holland and vicinity called for partly cloudy tonight with a low of 22 degrees, snow flurries Sunday and a high of 38. Winds will be west to aouth-" west 10 to 15 miles per hour becoming southerly Sunday mt 18 to Grand Rapids had a low of 35 today, Detroit Ste. 22 and Houghton 20. Cadillac, as- usual, had the lowest reading with 12.

Los Angeles had a low of 60 and a high of 79. In New York City, the temperatures ranged from 37 to 47. Snowfall was mostly ooncen- trated in the Middle Atlantic states today while scattered showers fell across New England and east from the northern Rockies to North and South Dakota. A few showers drenched Gull state areas, but in most localities rain or snow was light. On-shore winds gave South Bend, six inches of snow.

There was five inches at Traverse City, and 16 inches at Mullen Pass, Mont. The weather was mostly fair over the Plains and southern half of the country with rising into the 40's and 50's in the southeastern and Gulf states while falling into the low 40's over Texas and New Mexico. Shick's confession said. Rothschild found Susan's body in a drainage ditch where Shick had left her. An Army spokesman said the Rothschild's "are anxious that all help and aid possible be given to Mrs.

Shick and her daughters." Schick described by officers and enlisted men as a "model soldier," will be given sanity tests. Schick said he met Susan on a path in a wooded area near both of iheir homes. "He talked to her for several minutes," an Army account of the confession said. "He further stated that when she started to go home he had an uncontrollable urge to kill. "He grabbed and choked her until she was unconscious, after which he dragged her to the other end of the drainage ditch where he had held her under water to make certain she was dead." Shick told Military Police he did not try to rape Susan and had "no particular reason" to kill her.

Jailed for Assault GRAND HAVEN (Special) -Herman Swift nry. 34, Ferrysburg, was sentenced by Justice Frederick J. Workman this morning to pay $10 fine. 54.50 costs and serve six days in county jail on an assault and battery charge. Arrest was by state police Friday night upon complaint of Swiftney's wife, Mildred.

Basts In Spain WASHINGTON (UP) The Navy announced Fridav that pre- lininary studies of proposed U. Naval and Air Force bases in Spain have been completed and "planning operations" will immediately. Ltroy Ranney Dies GREENVILLE, Mich. (UP -Leroy W. Ranney, 67 year eld president of Ranney Refrigerator Company, died Friday night at his home.

Ranney was University of Michigan graduate and a World War I Army captain. He was widely known a lender and industrialist, PSC Must Relent In Railroad Case LANSING (UP)--The Michigan Supreme Court reversed an Ingham Circuit Court decision Friday and ordered the Public Service Commission to permit the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Pacific Railroad to abandon its passenger service between Charming and Ontonagon in the Upper Peninsula. The railway had appealed from a commission order refusing curtailment of service on the 93 mile spur from Channing although the company maintained traffic did not warrant continuing daily round trip service. The high court agreed with railway officials that continuation of the Chippewa-Hiawatha train was too costly in view of limited revenues from the operation.

The court also reversed a Workmen's Compensation Commission award to trie widow Stuart B. White. Niles. former member of the State Public Service Commission who was killed in an auto accident near Burlington Nov. 10, 1950.

The commission awarded widow S300 in funeral expenses and compensation at the rate of S26 for 400 weeks on grounds that White still was on official business although en route home. The court vacated the award and declared: "The mere inference from the- fact that Commissioner White took work home with him would not establish that his transportation to and from Lansing was incident and a part of his employment." Two Cars Collide Police today re-ported two- car accident which oecured Thursday at 1:30 a.m. on US-31 six miles south of Holland. Involved were cars driven by Marie E. Swensen's 53, of Chicago Andrew H.

32, of 2, Fennville. Damage to 49 model car estimated at $50 and at $100 to Jager 1 '50 cw, police said. Swensen driving north and Jager south. Dean Presents flan PANMUNJOM (UP)-- voy Arthur H. Dean Communists a 12-point- plan IMF holding a Korean conference urday the "imyortant fesl Monday.

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