Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 106. NO. 158. 106th YEAR JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 19 51.

FOURTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS Reds Thrown Back After Advance Fit Deeds With Peace Claims, Stalin Advised "Show European Reaction to Latest Moscow Blast London Western European nations agreed with Joseph Stalin today that war is not yet inevitable, but they asked him "to prove he means it. Italian Premier Alcide de Xtasperi said Stalin's statement would be more assuring; "if Russia would demonstrate with contributing: to a truer peace-" Russian prime minister. In a-newspaper interview broadcast by Moscow radio last night, charged the United Nations was a tool of the United States, but added "that war was not yet A British foreign office spokesman said: "We do not regard war as inevitable at all. In our view there is no problem which cannot be solved by peaceful negotiation, given good will. Certainly, on our side, such good will always has been, and always will be, forthcoming." In West Germany, a government spokesman said his country found it "sad and disheartening thai the Soviet leaders repeated the old charges of alleged aggressive intentions of the West and Russia's "firm love of peace." This was "very regrettable.

Indeed," the German spokesman said, "since everybody meanwhile has learned that it is Russia's present superior armament which compelled the West to take drastic defense measures." The French government reserved official comment, pending a study of the full text. A spokesman said, however, he did not think Stalin's remarks had materially hurt the chances for a Big Four meeting, although it may. have "slightly complicated" the situation. Some British diplomats were represented as believing that a Big Four confab now Is more urgent than ever. Stalin's lengthy comments on war, peace, Korea and the U.

N. were contained in an interview with Pravda, the official Communist party newspaper in Moscow. "This is a typical example of Soviet design to sow dissension in the free world and to exploit Hie natural desire for peace throughout the world," the British spokesman, said. The spokesman said that "as has been made clear by government spokesmen in this country, it is only in the face of the aggressive and subversive policies of-the Soviet government, backed bv the threat of overwhelming forces, that the western nations have been constrained to take steps to organize their Seek to Bring Labor Men Back into U. S.

Board NEWTV-RICH FARMER AT CHORES i- Leonard Almy, 51. and his wife. Anna, go about their usual chores on their farm in Kcvstone, the dav after learning Almv had inherited 5100,000. It was left to him by a distant New York cousin. Mrs.

Matthews Astnr Wilks. who died Feb. 5. Almy, who had never seen Mrs. Wilks.

said he thought he'd buy a farm of his own to fulfill a dream he and his wife had shared for years. At present he works state-owned farmland he leases by the year. (AP wirephoto). Postal Payroll Racket in Boston Fleeces 17. S.

oi Millions, Is Claim can a post office clerk bask in sunny Florida and sort mail in frigid Boston at the same time? That's just one of the questions puzzling postal inspectors as they dig into a payroll padding scheme which is safd to nave de, frauded the government of mil- i lions of dollars. I Tennyson Jefferson, chief post i New Delhi. India t.r> The office inspector for the New Eng- Hindustan Times said today Chiland region, will say only that 10'na's Korean adventure has strip- members of his staff are "inves- North China of gasoline and tigating the situation' at Bos strained its hospital facilities. North China Is Stripped oi Gasoline own self defense. U.N» TOOL OF AMERICAN AGGRESSION, CHARGE Minister Stalin's latest broadside against thV United Nations, which he termed a tool of "American aggression." was on every front page in the Soviet Union today.

"Repeated broadcasts on the Soviet radio echoed the Kremlin leader's most important in two the one. sixth of the world which is the U.S.S.R., and beyond. Stalin, in a lengthy interview with Pravda last night branded as "shameful" the U.N. resolution labelling Communist China as aggressor in Korea. He also declared: "If Britain and the United States reject finally the proposals made by the People's GoVernment of China, the war In Korea can only end in a defeat of the interventionists." -Do you consider a new world war inevitable? Stalin was asked.

The Kremlin leader replied: fVo. At least at the present time, it cannot be considered inevitable." diplomats here and in world capitals studied carefully the a fest authoritative statement from the head of the Soviet government looking for keys to future Soviet Western envoy's in Moscow interpreted his views on the Korean war was highly significant. It was regarded as indicating the door is not yet closed to a peaceful settlement between the U.N. and the Peiping government Same Old Stuff however, they regarded carefully worded pronouncement as a reaffirmation of what lesser Soviet spokesmen (r /mtlnop.1 on Pace 2, fat. 1) ton's big south postal annex, The probe was touched off 10 days ago when Jefferson's men swooped down on the annex, sealed all exits and found-published reports 28 work A dispatch from Hong datelined "at sea off the China coast." and written by Correspondent Arthur a visit to Peiping and said lack ers.

whose time cards were: of gasoline is Mao Tze-tung's ma- punched, were not in the build-jjor headache. MS "Ppiping and Tientsin are gas- A 0 oline-drv." Moore reported. "Only An estimated 200 employes, nrinritv militarv and were reported involved In a rack-1 I a I a et said to'work like this: I ne ma cor Pf In Instead of reporting for duty, the worker would go to his other job or just loaf. His timet card would he punched in by a fellow employe for $3 a day or a flat S10 per week. If I lie man reported for work but wished 1o, leave early, he just naid the time card falsifier $1 per day.

One clerk was reported vacationing in Florida while his card was being punched regularly. Another was said (o have amassed a $25,000 hank account, althowrh rlerlcs' salaries rapire'from S2.770 to a hit over axnuallv. When the night raiders ar- both cities there are stray charcoal taxis and buses, but men harnessed with ropes, ponies, donkeys and oxen do all the haulage." He said the shortage of motor fuel raised for the Chinese "an urgent practical question of supply. Without gas, communications will fail and neither ammunition nor food can reach the Korean front line with regularity." He gave this description of the impact of war on Red China's home front: "The war in Korea, though waged on a verv limited scale, already is somewhat of a sur- Goverament Hopes for Unity in Face of Friday Walkout Bv MAX HALL leaders groped today for ways and means of bringing labor leaders back into the wage control propram from which they walked in a rage. Industry leaders accused the labor leaders of hurting national unity and seeking a brand-new round of wage increases.

The labor leaders accused the government of serving big business and ignoring the "plain people," and they predicted "serious unrest in industry." The government's economic mobilization effort was in something very like a crisis. Eric Johnston, the economir stabilizer, sat and stared at a piece of paper on his desk. It was the wage formula adopted 1 6-3 by the wage stabilization board Thursday night, a formula, that would limit group wage and salarv increases to 10 per cent between "Jan. 15, 1950, and next July 1. Awaits Johnston's This would allow Auto Workers to get a scheduled 'Vest of I living" wage raise March I.

bui not tnerealter. It would not per; mit any raises for most woircers i in steel, coal, aluminum, cotton textiles and cotton garments. On the other hand, the great majority of American workers have not received 10 per cent since the start of 1950, and government officials said about half of them have not had any raise at all. Rut Johnston 's signature was i before the formula could take effect. This was the formula that caused the withdrawal of the union members.

Emil Rieve. Elmer E. Walker and Harry C. Bates, i Bates was nut of town and another man walked out on his Industry Statement Last night the industry members. Henry B.

Arthur. J. Ward! Keenrr and Reuben Robertson issued a statement thai said I ttes: 'The urgent need for national unity is not well served through the device of "crisis by The wage stabilization board can not function if, as the union leaders seem to desire, it exists only to rubber-stamp hunting licenses for a higher, more inflationary, sixth round of wage increases'." Earlier the united labor policy committee, which represents the AFL, CIO and rail brotherhoods, made a long and bitter attack not only on the wage formula as "unfair and unworKable." but on the price control and manpower programs and the personal leadership of defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. Public Members Join Johnston, as he studied the wage formula, had the power to sign or not to sign, or to change the formula and then sign.

He was expected to ponder the matter for a few days before acting. Meantime, in order to stay on) the job. he cancelled a speech he was to have made tonight in Portland. Ore. The three public members of the board, who joined the indus try members in approving the wage formula, are Chairman Cv- rus S.

Ching, Clark Kerr arid John Dunlcp. Spearheads Are Blunted; Flank Movement Fails Battered Chinese 41st Corps Withdrawn to Lick Its Wounds DRIVER DIES IN following a center lane crash of two haulaway trucks and a car fatally burned a Scranton, truck driver. Richard May. 27, when attempts to free him of the blazing wreckage failed at Toledo. O.

Hospitalized were: Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Wasner and their son, Edward J. 21.

Pointe Farms. occupants of the car being passed by the truck; John Seward. 33. and a brother. Charles.

25. of occupants of the second truck. Car on side at right was knocked off haulaway truck in center. Car involved in accident with the trucks is not shown. wirephoto) Chris Farberg, Stoughton.

Dies Former Gazette-WCLO Employe Succumbs; Former Fireman Demand Strike Against Packers Armour Union Charges Oh Joy, Oh Boy! Wage Stabilization flotDog! rived they are reported to have: prise to the Chinese. Casualties found one clerk with time much greater than thev an- of 10 fellow-workers in his nock- ticipated. The hospitals in Man- At least one of these suhsti- churia are uneQU al to the influx, jute card was said itals jn Pej are neavil have nicked uo S10.000 over the ded of thejr nursinR sfaffs as they have gone to the front. have nicked UD Si 0.000 over nnst year by punching in for others. Will Seek Restitution United Attorney William Garrity savs he has no official notice of the pay scheme but adds that he iVill full restitution and penalties if Jefferson 's nrobe turns up criminal offences.

Published reports have set the cost of the racket to at as much AAfl.000 since tbe end of World War IT when If is said io have started. According to some post office the onlv time some of these "workers" came to the annex was on bi-weekly paydays. The writer intimated Chinese leaders are deeply concerned over the Korean war losses. Morse, and Douglas Urged by Union Washington union publication has THE WEATHER Wisconsin: Partly- cloudy to rlontfy tonight and Sunday, maUnurd mild. Low tonlcht 57 -M.

Hlrtl Sunday 3S-44. Barometric pressure: fi p. 6 a. 29.22: 12 nnon. Sunrise.

sunset. 29.12: Soon to Mldnlthl. Feb. IC. Hour 1 2 .1.

4, 6 7, 9 10 11 12 Temp. 37 36 36 Mldnfcat fa reh. IT. Hew 1, 2, 3. A S.

6. 8, 9.10 11 12 Temp. 04 34 34 34 34 3S'35l3fii36 36 Temperature a year ago today, highest. lowest, 14. White Sidewall Tires Are Banned The government today ordered manufacturers to stop making tires with white sidewalls.

The national production authority announced this move in an order requiring manufacturers to quit putting out so many different lines of rubber products for a single purpose. By eliminating white sidewall tires. NPA officials said, the order will save 10 per cent on the amount of natural rubber that A rail proposed Sens. Wayne Morse (R-Orei and Paul Douglas (D-Ill) as possible 1952 presidential standard bearers for the two major political parties. In an editorial entitled "Wake up.

Labor." the Trainman News, official orcan of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, criticized President Truman for his recent crack about the four rail union leaders acting like a bunch of Russians. Yugoslavia Ousts Russian Woman Belgrade. Yugoslav government says it has kicked out a woman member of the Russian commercial mission here because she was smuggling money and goods for "hostile activity" towards the Tito regime. The official newspaper Borba goes into such tires. Authorities: said last night the woman, iden- said this is so because natural rubber must be used to make a white finish on any rubber product.

Black sidewalls may synthetic. tified as Helena Czerova Ivan ovna. 45. was sent across the border to Hungary and turned over to a representative of the Soviet consulate there. 7 Injured in Crash Near Darien Elkhorn At least seven persons were injured In a pile-up of six vehicles at 9 a.

m. today on the railroad overhead between Delavan and Darien on Highway 15. A preliminary report hy the Walworth county sheriff's department said seven passengers in a Greyhound bus bound for Milwaukee suffered minor injuries and were scheduled to continue to Milwaukee for treatment. The series of crashes evidently started when a car attempted to pass a coal truck. The truck was then hit by a semi truck which jackknifed.

Another semi truck hit the coal truck and ran off the road. Later two cars became involved and finally the bus. Russell Mann. East Troy, was driver of one of the trucks involved and Paul Robinson, Beloit. a car.

Neither was hurt. The damaged bus was towed to a garage in Darien. Baggageman Faces Larceny Charge A baggageman for the Chicago and North Western railroad at Neenah for the last seven years was arraigned in municipal court today on a charge of grand larceny as bailee. Alfred E. Van Harpen.

37. was accused of stealing about S200 worth of items such as cameras, rifles and watches from the Nec-t nah depot during the last three vears. Judge S. J. Luchinger set "preliminary hearing for Feb.

27 and bond at $1,000. I Evansville J. (Chris) Farberg. 51, former Janesville Gazette-WCLO employe, died at 2.30 a. m.

today in the Stoughton Community hospital. He had been in ill health for the past three years and seribusly 111 for four months. Mr. Farberg began his work for Janesville Gazette as a solicitor of rural subscriptions and also drove a motor route. He first began work at the.

Gazette in 1933 and was continuously employed until March of 1945. He also was employed at the Gazette at varying periods in 1945-46. At one time he was a member of the Janesville fire department. Mr. Farberg became well- known to WCLO listeners for hie Farm Exchange program which broadcast farm sales, market and weather reports and other farm news.

During recent years Mr. Farberg operated the Pastime cafe in Evansville and a bar in Edgerton. He retired in October, 1950. and moved to Stoughton. Mr.

Farberg was born April 21. 1R99. in the town of Rutland and spent his early life on a farm. He was married March 9. 1917.

to Martha Berg in the Lutheran parsonage at Stoughton. Surviving are his iwife; four sons. John, of Evansville. Marlow and Donald, of Janesville. and Christian now in service in Oklahoma; a daughter, Mrs.

George Keehn. Brooklyn: 12 grandchildren: his mother. Mrs. Clara Farberg, Stoughton; four sisters. Mrs.

Laura Churchill, Vancouver. Mrs. Mary McCarthy, Stoughton, Mrs. John Furseth and Mrs. Mike Boyle, both of Evansville; three nephews, and six nieces.

The funeral will be held p. m. Monday in the Roderick funeral home, Evansville, and at 2 p. m. in the Cooksville Lutheran church, the Rev.

A. M. Romstad officiating. Burial will be in Cooksville cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday afternoon and evening.

Is "Debacle" t.l'r—The nation's biggest Packinghouse Workers local, which claims a membership of 7.000. has requested an immedi- i ate strike in the meat packing industry. Leon Beverly, president of Chicago local 347 of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers, asked for the strike yesterday in a telegram to Ralph Helstein. presi- dent of the UPW. The local con Isista entirely of workers from! Armour and Co.

in Chicago. No actual strike call has beer' issued by the local or by the international union. There was no indication if or when any actual strike call would be issued. Helstein did not comment immediately on the local's request Beveriv's telegram said: "In view of the debacle of the wage stabilization board and the crying; need for a wage increase, we demand our International union call an immediate strike in the meat pacHiur A spokesman for the local said the "debacle" referred to was the apparent break-up of the board brought on by Thursday night's walkout of labor members of the WSB. The walkout came over the board's decision to limit wage increases to 10 per cent above the Jan.

15. 1950. levels. Three of the largest packers- Armour, Swift and Sunday made a joint announcement with the union of a nine cent an hour increase. At the time.

Helstein said the UPW would strike if the WSB did not agree to the wage increase. federal weather bureau looked 30 days into the future today and came up with special prediction to cheer up Wisconsin residents weary of the long, tough winter: "The outlook for the state for the next 3D days is for above normal temperatures and precipitation." Crete's Romeo Gets Two Yean Will Wait; Defies Her Irate Father Negro Boy Saves Tot from Death Decatur, and Mrs. Brent Reece and children went to the railroad station yesterday to "see relatives off on a train. The train was roaritr in when Mrs. Reece saw her son.

Lowell. 4. standing on the track in its path. Her heart went to her mouth; he was too far away to reach. But someone else Nathan Tate.

12-year-old Negro Boy seen Lowell a second earlier. He dashed out and swept the white lot from the wheels of the approaching train. Afterwards. Nathan commented surprisedlv, "Why, I saved that little boy's life." Ice Headache Moves North Travel Conditions Are Greatly Improved by Thawing Weather Skies were cloudy, it was foggy and there were still some dangerous spots on the highways this morning but the major impact of Wisconsin's ice headache had shifted from southern to northern Wisconsin today. There was one bright spot in the outlook for the severe cold is forecast.

Temperatures over the 32-degree mark, as they were most of the night, have melted ice that almost paralyzed traffic yesterday morning. The thaw also has cut Southern Wisconsin's snow cover by several inches- Yesterday the mercury climbed, to 39 in mid-afternoon and the low for last night was 32 as reported at the official weatherj station for Janesville at the Wisconsin Power and Light Co. substation. Today's noon reading was 36. The freezing rain that struck Southern Wisconsin with full force Friday morning was general over the north today.

To complicate traffic snarls, a heavy fog settled over most of the state and visibility at Green Bay was reported to be zero. Graders were out this morning, scraping the loosened ice from the highways. There were few complaints about slushy streets from Janesville residents who yesterday traveled at their own risk, both afoot or mounted, if they traveled at all in the morning. But the city has seldom appeared more dingy than it did today with its sooty snow and dreary skies. Partly cloudy to cloudy weather will continue today and Sun- dav, says the weatherman who added that it will also continue to be mild.

Canea, Crete LTi Crete's modern Romeo. Costa Kephaloy- annis. was convicted by a five- man court today of carrying arms without a permit and was sentenced to two years in jail. The fiery Costa had been accused of forming an armed band to kidnap his Juliet. 19-year-old Tassoula Petracogeorgi, daughter of a Liberal member of parliament.

The couple's families have been feuding for years. Conviction on the charge of leading an armed band would have carried the death penalty. Costa seized Tassoula on a Herakleion street last August and carried her away to storied Mount Ida. They were married at a lonely monastery and spent a honeymoon in mountain caves. The "raven haired Tassoula.

an expectant mother, was unable to attend the trial. She sent word to the court from Athens that she was ill with influenza. Informed of the court's dicision she sobbed: "It's unhaooy news. If he has to serve his term in Crete, I'll return to be near him." Tassoula's father, furious at the kidnaping, had sworn he would take legal action to have the marriage annulled. The 20th century version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was complicated by politics.

While Tassoula's father is prominent in the Liberal party. Costa's brother, Manuel, is a Populist member of parliament A five-man court presided over the trial which began last Monday. The court adjourned to consider a verdict after chief defense attorney Anthony Maris said in a final aopeal: 'Here in Crete. Sparta and the ancient Greek land it is a com-' mon practice and tradition for strong men to steal their brides." Tassoula vowed she would not give up her Romeo, despite the objection of her angry father. 'All I want is my husband back, to settle down to a quiet life with him." she told reporters.

Tokyo American infantrymen counterattacked vanguards of three Red Korean divisions today in the hills north of Chechon. where the enemy had dented Allied lines 10 miles. The American troops supported by rolling artillery barrages gained as much as two miles in some sectors. The battle still was raging across ridges and valleys at 5 p. m.

(2 a. m. C.S.T.) One Red force drove within three miles of the Chechon road hub, but South Koreans rolled the enemy back from there. A VS. 10th corps officer said the Red Korean push of Chechon had not formed into a definite pattern.

But the Reds had failed in the opening phases to turn thn Allied east flank. Accurate artillery fire and counterattacks blunted the force of the enemy punch, shifted eastward from bloodily repulsed onslaughts at Chipyong and Wonju. Only Serious Effort The smash at the east flank near the transport hub of Chechon. a mountain gateway to South Korea, was the only serious enemy effort. The Reds massed 15.000 or more men in the area, but a late field report said only spearheads had been committed.

Eastward on the coast. South Korean troops made a deep pul'- back from the 38th parallel to a new defense line, but under no enemv pressure. Westward for 70 miles to Seoul, there was scattered, small-scale fighting. Around Wonju and Chipyonr. where Chinese Reds suffered 22.128 casualties in four days but failed to break through.

Allied patrols ranged one to more than two miles north without finding Reds. Battered Foe Withdraws The chewed-up Chinese 41st corps had pulled hack the rem-' nants of four divisions for regrouping. J3ut there were signs that upwards of 150.000 Chinese Reds still might try to smash the Allied center and imperil 100.000 United Nations troops around Seoul. Three separate battles flared Friday night and Saturday around Chechon, 14 miles southeast of Wonju. Accurate U.N.

artillery quickly broke up a Red attack Friday night six miles northeast of Chechon. At the same time, a Red regiment assaulted South Korean units 10 miles northeast of the town, but the attack subsided. The third action was initiated nine miles northeast of Chechon by South Koreans against a southbound Korean column. No Breakthrough Reporting from the central front. AP Correspondent John Randolph said: "While the North Koreans penetrated the line, it was in no sense a breakthrough.

Rather the Allied forces rolled with the punch. enemy north of Chechon was believed to be the fifth North Korean corps. It seemed to be trying to slip into the Pyong- chang-YongwoI-Tanyang rnonn- tain route to the south." The fighting before Chechon was not as rough as that before Wonju and Chipyong earlier this week. Frontline Allied officers claim- (COTttmetf OB rate 2, Cat. General Counsel of UAW Suicide Washington Irving J.

Levy, 46, general counsel of the ClO-United Automobile Workers and a former associate solicitor of the labor department, yesterday plunged to his death from the Calvert street bridge. Associates in Levy's law office said he had been 'Very depressed" in recent months. Police said two witnesses saw Levy go over the rail of the bridge. A certificate of suicide was issued by the coroner. Britain Answers Russian Protest today answered Russia's protest of Jan.

20 that rearmament of Western Germany was a violation of the British-Soviet treaty of 1942. The reply, a formal note, was handed to Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin. Zarubin called at the foreign office to receive the note. The contents of the note are to be released here early Sunday, London rime.

FORMER OFFICIAL DIES George Nohl. 89. former city and county official, died today. Nohl was treasurer of the ciiy of Ashland for 12 years, a city commissioner for six years, former treasurer of the village otButternut and former diputy county clerk. Sees Again After 24-Year Darkness Chicago The world is bright and new and "people look wonderful" to 29 year old Vivian Carver, who has been' virtually blind since she was a child.

"It's grand to see again," the pretty blonde manicurist said yesterday. "I'm so grateful Everything is so new, so intriguing." A delicate corneal transplanting has restored the sighf-of- her right eye. She was operated on Nov. 30 at Passavant Memorial hospital and she saw clearly for the first time 10 days ago when the bandages' were removed. She plans to undergo a similar operation in her left eye later.

Miss Carver, at the age of five, suffered an eye ailment that caused malformation of the cornea of both'eyes..