Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESViLLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 114. NO. 69. 114lh YEAR JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SEVEN 2 Killed in 3-Car Crash Near Edgerton; 12 Hurt Both Parties Predict Wins at State Polls Proxmire, Thomson Are Given Edge by Election Prophets By ARTHUR BYSTROM MILWAUKEE (AP) Wisconsin's candidates for political office wound up their long, and at times bitter, campaigns today and tossed them into the hands of the state's unpredictable voters.

On the eve of the elections for state, congressional and local offices, both sides predicted victory with the Democrats doing it probably a little more vociferously than the Republicans. The Democrats base their claims of victory on their unusually good showing in the September primary when for the first time they outdrew Republican candidates in some contests. In previous primaries the Democrats trailed the Republicans in the total vote but then gained as much as 25 per cent in the general election. If this trend should continue Tuesday they could sweep the state. Discount Primary Republicans, however, contend the primary can be discounted as a barometer because they had no hot contest to draw out party supporters while the Democrats had several such contests.

They also point out that the primary' drew only about 500,000 voters. The election is expected to draw about 1,200,000 of the state's estimated 2,300,000 eligible voters if it follows the pattern of other years when there was no presidential contest. The prime race is that for the six-year U. S. Senate seat between Sen.

William Proxmire, the Democratic incumbent, and Roland J. Steinle, a former state Supreme Court justice who is the Republican nominee. Proxmire is a slight favorite. The Democrats are predicting, however he will win by a substantial majority and carry other par ty candidates along with him to victory. Proxmire won the seat in a special election last year after Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) died. Republican leaders believe that Steinle has picked up considerable strength recently and that his showing, particularly in Milwaukee County, will be much better than had been anticipated eariier. The usual pattern in a general election is for the Republican candidates for top state and Senate office to win outstate and lose in Milwaukee County whids usually polls about 25 per cent of the total state vote. Thomson vs.

Nelson race between Gov. Vernon rhomson, the Republican candidate, and State Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic nominee, is rated close. Thomson is believed to have a slight edge because he is better known than Nelson and because the state has elected only one Democratic governor this century and that in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. There also are races for other top state offices but in every instance the Republican incumbent is favored.

Six Republican and three Democrats are favored to win reelec tion in the congressional races. There is one vacancy. It is in the First District where Eleanor Smith Republican, is pitted against former State Sen. Gerald Flynn. This race is rated close with Flynn a slight favorite.

Mrs. Smith is the widow of Rep. Lawrence Smith who represented the district for many years. Also at stake are 100 Assembly and 18 of the 33 State Senate seats. Reptiblicans control both houses now.

TREED election day in Cuba today, the city of Havana is literally plastered with posters and campaign signs of candidates. Here two of the leading presidential candidates share tree space with a boy and several candidates for representatives for Havana. (AP wirephoto) City Tax Boost Seems Certain NATO Troops Are Rocket-Equipped PARIS (AP) General Lauris Norstad said today the ground forces of the North Atlantic Alliance are rapidly being converted to missile warfare and will number some IflO of rocket- armed troops by 1963. Norstad, who is supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, said his command this year would include 30 battalions of missile-armed troops. May Be a Substantial One; Preview Set itr Wednesday Wight From all appearances, Janes- villa taxpayers face a substantial increase in the levy for the coming year.

Just what prospects are in the offing for 1959 will be outlined at a special meeting of the city council at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Three "prebudget preview" is open to the public and was decided upon to review the city's rather complicated financial picture created by the adverse ruling on the Milwaukee income tax claim. From what facts are already known, the tax rate would rise about $5.47 per valuation just from two higher school budget and tlie increased county budget. That is based on the $77,000,000 assessed valuation.

That does not allow for a certain increase in the general city budget. How much additional levy is in prospect probably will be learned Wednesday night. City Manager Joseph Lustig said that the "disastrous effect of the Milwaukee claim will be felt in the coming year and presents a real problem in the city's financial structure." Lustig noted that the original 1958 budget called for anticipated income tax revenues of $350,000 but the city council later upped that to $500,000 in viewing the tax picture somewhat more optimistically. Taking the total of about $293,000 revenue for 1958 as a result of the tax ruling, Jansville shows a shortage in the anticipated revenue fund of about $206,000. Janesville's 1958 tax rate is $38 per $1,000 valuation, up $3 from the 1957 levy of $35.

youth Kills Girl After Sex Attack WISCONSIN RAPIDS (AP) Dist. Atty. Morgan L. Midthun said Sunday a 16 -year- old boy signed a statement saying he raped a 14-year-old girl and killed her later because she threatened to tell. Officers accompanied the boy Saturday night to a town of Rudolph home and found the body of Bonnie Ratelle, clad in pajamas, slumped in a rocking chair.

A .22 caliber rifle bullet had struck her between the eyes. Midthun said Juvenile Court has jurisdiction over the boy and was arranging for a psychiatric examination by the State Diagnostic Onter In Madison. jQuemoys Given Heavy Shelling Biggest Bombardment in Seven Weeks Is Reported TAIPEI (AP)-Communist guns opened up on the Quemoys today with the heaviest bombardment in seven weeks. The Nationalist Defense Ministry said 36,431 shells hit the islands between noon and 6 p.m This latest figure almost tripled the one announced projectiles between noon and 5:35 p.m. For the first time Peiping radio announced the number of shells thrown at the islands.

Peiping said 12,000 shells were fired. The Communist radio said it had given a "timely warning" to islanders of bombardment on the even of the day for unrestricted shooting under the Communists' calendar for every-other-day warfare. The Nationalists said they returned the fire. The shelling started after more than 36 hours of quiet. Unofficial reports said a Nationalist convoy was eh route to Quemoy at the time of the first heavy barrage.

The Defense Ministry said only that there were no Nationalist ships on the Quemoy beach. Car Carrying Hockey Players Struck Head-on Tragedy Is Blamed to Hillsboro Driver Swerving on Road Two deaths and 12 injury cases resulted from a spectacular three- car accident just before midnight Sunday on U. S. Highway 51, miles south of Edgerton, raising the county death toll to 23 and the state toll to 675, as compared with 758 at this time last year. Irving J.

Biba 57, Hillsboro, driver of the car which caused the crash, is expected to face charges of driving while intoxicated, as a result of stories of witnesses and other evidence obtained by the sheriff's office. The accident occurred about half a mile north of deaths in Rock County since Jan. 1, 1958, now total 23 To same date in 1957, the number of traffic fatalities was 31. ACTOR IN HOSPITAL HOLLYWOOD (5')-Actor Donald O'Connor, 33, will be hospitalized several days for rest and medical tests, his physician says. Smile Jodaij.

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S. 51 and County Trunk M. Dead upon arrival at Mercy Hospital was Gerald W. Keepers, 21, of Madison, the driver of a car full of members of an ice hockey team which plays each Sunday night at the Wagon Wheel, Rockton, 111. A passenger in his car, Richara Wills, 22, Madison, died at 4 a.m.

Monday in Edgerton Hospital. Thomas Wills, Madison, a passenger in Keeper's car, is in Mercy Hospital with fracture elbow and leg. Other passengers, in Edgerton -Hospital, are Glen Hester, 23, Madison, a former University of Wisconsin football star, whiplash neck injuries, lacerations of both knees and forehead abrasions; Anthony Bruno, 21; Madison, unconscious and undetermined injuries, and Robert Kerwin, 20, Madison, possible internal injuries and injured elbows. Third Car in Pileup The Keepers' car was following a Volkswagen bus loaded, with other members of the team. They said that the bus was able to avoid the crash by going completely off' the road when the driver saw the Bilba car traveling in the wrong lane.

Keepers also swerved toward the shoulder but was only half-way off the road when the Biba car struck almost head-on, in the center of Keepers' lane, witnesses said. A car following Keepers, driven by Silas H. Calkins, 49, Humbird, skidded into the rear of the Keepers car after the crash. Calkins told deputies he was also swerving off the road to avoid the oncoming Biba car. Calkins and six passengers in his car were treated for minor injuries at Mercy Hospital and released.

Swervmg on Highway Biba was held at Mercy Hospital with head and facial lacerations and leg bruises. A blood sample was taken to determine the amount of alcohol in Biba's system. Deputies said he is assistant manager of a Chicago laundry firm. He told deputies he had no idea what happened or how, but a driver who had been following him said that Biba's Cadillac had been swerving back and forth on the highway and he (Continued on Page-2, Col. 8) Democrats See Massive Gains In Congress Campaign Focused on Fersonalities Over Any Great Issues By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (AP )-Th8 1958 battle for control of Congress tapered off today with Democrats happily predicting a massive victory and Republicans hoping and working for a last-minute upset.

Some 48 million Americans will decide at the polls Tuesday which side is right in the backwash of a campaign that focused more on personalities than on any gripping national issues. Mild the 50's and GO was the election day forecast for most of the nation. And just about every political weathervane pointed to Democratic gains. A state-by-state survey by The Associated Press, updated through Sunday, showed Democrats favored to capture 8 to 12 GOP seats in the Senate and 17 to 40 or more in the House, with a good chance to gain a couple of governorships as well. NKon in Alaska GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn repeated for a television audience Sunday his earlier prediction of "some very startling upsets" to help the Republicans.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, Vice President Nixon said the Republicans have a good chance of ousting five Democratic governors. In three other states which no 'tv have GOP governors, he said, Republican candidates are vulnerable. Paul M. Butler, the Democratic national chairman, said in a TV interview his party would pick up 3 or 4 governorships, 11 or 12 Senate seats and 47 House seats. Prospects of a strong Democratic upsurge brought President Eisenhower out fighting during the campaign.

From coast to coast he blasted the Democrats as left- wing dominated "gloomdogglers" too divided over civil rights and other issues to be able to govern effectively. Democratic Charges For the Democrats, former President Truman, Adiai E. Stevenson and other party leaders accused the Republicans of lacking leadership. Truman even accused the President of surrendering to the Communists in Korea in the armistice there. Easily the political discovery of the year is Republican NeLson Rockefeller, the glad-handing, 50- year-old multimillionaire who rocketed from a political nowhere to become a serious challenger of New York's Democratic Gov.

Av(Continued on Page 8, Col. 5) Baby-Sitter Threatened With Kniie After Being Lured to Man Held photos by Bill Watson Jr. TWO DEAD IN U. S. 51 members of a Madison hockey team traveling in the car at left were killed and four others injured shortly before, midnight Sunday whea the car.at right swerved into their lane of Highway 51 south of Edgerton.

A Volkswagen bus full of other team rhem- bers traveling just ahead of them managed to escape the crash by swerving off the road, but tha car, driven by Gerald W. Keepers, 21, Madison, was unable to miss the oncoming car, driven by Irving J. Biba 57, Hillsboro, Wis. Richard Wills, 22, Madison, a passenger in the Keepers car, died early Monday in Edgerton Hospital. Keepers was dead upon arrival at the hospital.

Biba escaped the crash with head and facial lacerations and leg bruises. Witnesses said his car was swerving back and forth before it went across the highw ay and struck the Keepers car. A third car traveling behind the Keepers car also was involved in the crash. It was driven by Silas Calkins, 48, Humbird, Wis. Rebel Plane Sabotage Fails to Deter Voters Howard L.

Torpy, 35, of 529 N. River St. was arrested for enticing a minor after luring a 16-year- old girl to his residence Saturday afternoon on the pretense of having her baby-sit. Police said the girl fled from Torpy's home after he had threatened her with a knife. When she arrived at the house for the supposed baby-sitting job, Torpy took her upstairs and showed her a crib, which had a pad rolled under a blanket to make it look like a baby was in it, he, told police in a statement.

They then went downstairs and he pointed a knife at her, telling the young girl that she could undress. She screamed, ran for the front door and found the screen door locked. Torpy said he then went over to her, unlocked the screen and let her out. She ran to a nearby house and summoned police. Torpy related that ha had obtained the giri's name from a baby-sitting list that he obtained by calling the YWCA.

He then called the girl's home and she agreed to the "sitting" job. The girl's mother drove her daughter to the Torpy address and left her. The latter action brought a stem warning from Police Chief Jasper A. Webb, who cautioned parents to check homes where Dies 8 Months After Observing 100th Birthday MILTON JUNCTION-Mrs. William Gramzow, who celebrated her 100th birthday early this year, died Saturday in the home near Grass Lake where she had lived for 72 years.

The former Phillipbina Heitz was born Feb. 6, 1858, in Jersey City, N. and lived there and in New York until she and her parents moved to a farm near Milton Junction in 1883. She was married to William Gramzow May fl, 1886. He died March 3, 1945.

Last January Mrs. Granzow suffered a heart attack and her 100th birthday was celebrated in Edgerton Memorial Hospital. Surviving are a son, William, of Rte. Milton Junction; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Huston, Dallas, four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren, four great- great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Albrecht Fu- their childreji are to be engaged for baby-sitting service. Torpy also told police that he had made numerous obscene phone calls to Janesville women over a period of time. Torpy's record shows that he served time in the state prison at Waupun from 1955 until eariy in 1057 on a similar incident to that which occurred Saturday. In Municipal Cburt this morning, Torpy's case was set over until Thursday for plea.

Judge Ralph F. Gunn set bond at $1,500. MRS. WILLL4M GRAMZOW neral Home, the Rev. Cecil Dawson officiating.

Burial will be in Milton Junction Cemetery, friends may call at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. Radio to Carry Election News Contests Expected to Attract Large Turnout of Voters With nearly all of the final pleas made by candidates in, voters are ready for election day on Tuesday, and observers were agreed that the outpouring of voters may be larger than in most off-year elections. Contests for governor and state officers, U. S. senator and member of Congress are principal matters of interest here, although Rock County also has contests for sheriff and county treasurer.

In soma other counties, however, there are county contests for all or most offices. Radio station WCLO, organizing its election news coverage, plans to be on the air about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with a first bulletin on the extent of voting in Janes- villa and Rock County, and will have other bulletins during the day. "The broadcast of election returns will start at 5:30 p.m. from the courthouse, whgre returns will be oollected by telephone at the office of Ci)unty Clerk Walter M.

Lindemann, The direct broadcasts on Rock returns will ba in connection with nationwide returns furnished by the Mutual broadcasting system, Verne Williams, station manager, said today. Bill Gargano, WCLO program director, will be in charge of the broadcasts from the studio where national election returns will be supplied by the Associated Press. The station will stay on the air after its usual midnight "sign-off (Continued on Page 20, Col. 3) Cubans Go to Polls Despite Threats of Castro Adherents HAVANA, Cuba (AP)-Cubans risked rebel threats of being shot as they voted today for a new president and congress. Balloting was light in the first few hours after the polls opened at 8 a.m.

but voting in Cuban elections usually does not really get under way until afternoon. A cry of fraud came from rebel leader Fidel Castro even before the first ballot was cast. The rebels, who have warned Cubans to boycott the election at the risk of being slain, charged in a broad cast the results have already been prepared in army barracks. Presi dent Fulgencio Batista has always had the backing of the Cuban army. The voting took place under the shadow of guns.

The nation's armed forces were mobilized, held in barracks but ready to move quickly in the event of a rebel uprising. Clusters of police armed with automatic pistols, rifles and truncheons guarded the nation's 8,521 precincts. No reports of disorder in Ha vana were heard in the eariy hours. In the easternmost Oriente, the center of the revolution, rebels intensified shooting attacks on highway and rail transport. There were some clashes with government troops.

Aguero Favored Batista's candidate for president, former Premier Andrew Rivero Aguero, was generally expected to win. The opposition is divided among three candidates- former President Ramon Grau San Martin, Carios Marquez Sterling and Alberto Salas Amaro. Suspension of constitutional guarantees curtailed campaigning. Supporifcis of Castro seeking pre-election headlines are blamed for the crash of a big Cuban turboprop airiiner Saturday night in which 17 persons were killed. One of the three survivors said four rebel gunmen commandeered the plane on the flight from Miami, telling the pilot, "This will be in all the newspapers of the world." Crashes nito Bay The survivor said despite the pilot's protests, the gunmen forced him to try a landing after dark in rebel-infested territory near Preston.

The plane missed the unlit airstrip and crashed into a bay. Sue of the dead passengers and one of the survivors were naturalized U. S. citizens bom in Cuba. The rest were Cuban citizens.

All four rebel gunmen were killed. Castro's rebels threatened to shoot any of the 10,000 candidates on sight and warned all who voted that they also risked their lives. 5 Candidates Slain They have killed five candidates, including four running for Congress. They have attacked polling places, destroyed registrations and warned that the election would be bloody in all provinces. Hunt Killer of Joliet Boy Scout SIX DAVID BENSON JOLIET, ni.

dark-corn plexioned, stockily built youngster was sought today by authorities running down leads to the Halloween night slaying of Boy Scout David Benson. Chief Deputy Sheriff Walter McKay said Sunday a search for the unidentified youth began on a tip from the last known person to see 12-year-old Benson alive, his chum, Raleigh Robinette, 13. Raleigh told authorities Benson, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benson, met the unidentified lad as he left the Robinette home about 4:30 p.m.

Friday afternoon. Raleigh said he didn't recognize him but thought he was a pupil at the Gompers school, which he and David attended. Young Benson never arrived home. His body was found Satur day in a wooded area near his home in the Ridgewood area east of Joliet. Will County Coroner Wil lard Blood said Benson died from a .38 caliber revolver wound in the head sometime between 5 and 8 p.m.

Friday. Blood said the body also had a gunshot wound in the abdomen and bore abrasions on the neck, apparently from a strangulation attempt. HUNTER IS DROWNED CRIVITZ (JP) Roland Belhumeur, 62, of Milwaukee drowned Sunday w'nen he apparently fell out of his boat while duck hunting on the Caldron Falls Flowage in Marinette County. Airline Strike Is Postponed NEW YORK (AP)-Eastem Air Lines announced today that a machinists' strike scheduled against it for midnight tonight had been postponed. An airline spokesman said the union involved had postponed the walkout to permit it to further consider the company's latest offer.

Six major airiines had agreed to share the financial burdens of a walkout hitting any one of them. They are American, Trans World Airways, Pan American, Eastern and Capital Airiines. DISASTER FUND STOLEN TORONTO blasted open a church safe here during the weekend, and stole $3,456 intended for tha SpringhiU mine disaster fund. Burglars Get $685 at Fort 3 Stores and Home Entered; Repeat of Series in May FORT ATKINSON Burglart entered three stores and a homa during the weekend, according to local police. About $685 was en.

Entered were Fort Egg and Poultry Market, 111 W. Sherman for the second tima in six months, Freiheit Electric Co. and Hill's Radio-TV Shop, both at UJ Sherman and the home of Gust (lerondale, 419 Roosevelt St Police discovered tha threa store burglaries early this morning after Bill Hartwig, owner of tha Fort Egg and Poultiy Maiw ket, called at 6:49 a and ported a break-in. He said $23 ia bills and $11 in change was taken. Whilo investigating the ry, police discovered that Freiheit Electric Co.

in an adjoining building was entered but nothing taken. A stairway leading ta the second-floor Hill's store had been unlocked. According to Raymond Hill, owner, about $10 in change was taken. Burglars took their biggest haul Friday. Gust Gerondale reported his home burglarized.with loss of about $160 in money and loot Police said two bedrooms were sacked.

Twenty-one bills were stolen from an envelope, about $80 from an envelope filled with $10 and $20 bills and two camerai valued about $30 each. Police Chief Edward Schujtz declined to comment on whether any suspects are being questioned. Still unsolved are three similar burglaries which occurred May 13. At that time, loss in money, property and damages totaling $1,485 were reported at Fort Egg and Poultry, Fort Steam Laundry, 117 W. Sherman and the National Agricultural Supply Janesville avenue.

Two of Quints Now Mothers MONTREAL (AP)-Two of the Dionne, quintuplets now are mothers. Annette, Mrs. Germain Allard, gave birth Sunday to a boy weighing 8 pounds 1 ounce, THE WEATHER JANESVULB ZONE MotUjr tmof and mad tbia afternaon and azahl day. Fair snd cool tonight. Low tonicW ti-a.

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