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Green Bay Press -Gazette VOLUME XLIII, No. 123 40 PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS GREEN BAY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1957 PRICE 7c Eleal Estate iara Requests Council Oirdeir Reassessment Gein Killed Two At Least, Belief Woman Tavern Operator Who Vanished Also Was Victim, View MADISON Wi Ed Gein, 51-year-old bachelor farmer, has admitted the killings of two women near his Plainfield home during the past three years, an official statement from the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory announced today. Read by Charles Wilson, director of the laboratory, the statement said: "Mr. Gein now has admitted he is responsible for the death of Mary Hogan on Dec. 8, 1954.

and the death of Bernice Worden on Nov. 16, 1937." Shaughnessy Rumor False, Packers Say There W'no foundation to the story' that the Chicago Bears" Clark Shaughnessy will replace Lisle Black-bourn as head coach of the Packers in 1958, Acting President Dominic Olejnic-zak said today. The story appeared today in the Chicago American. "The Packer Corporation has never discussed Black-bourn's contract," he said. Blackbourn, who has been the Packers' head coach the last four years, has one year remaining on a three-year contract, a ther Packer spokesman said.

Shaughnessy has been the Bears' technical adviser since 1951 and currently is defensive coach under head coach Paddy Driscoll. A much trav Report Says Old Values Cause Inequalities in Sharing of Tax Burden Mare Council News on Page 3S The Green Bay Real Estate Board asked the City Council Tuesday night to order a reassessment of all taxable property in the city "in the interest of fairness and justice for all taxpayers" and to expand the city assessor's staff to keep valuation records current Thomson Says City Ignored Bay Land Bill Attempt To Defeat Veto To Delay Any Action Until 1959 From Press Dispatches A source close to the Wisconsin state crime laboratory disclosed today that questioning of Ed Gein thus far, in a lie detector test that began Tuesday, indicates that he killed two of the women whose partial cadavers were found on his horror farm. Gein, 51-year-old bachelor from Plainfield, has admitted the butchery killing of Mrs. Bernice Worden The Council, which Nov. 51 llissigned its advisory commit lee the lask of studying reas What Council Did Heard Green Bay Real Estate Board report support- sessmenl, heard a report ot v.

Vernon Thomson seven-member board com mil eled coach before landings said here today that his of last Saturday. The crirre lab source said the test thus far tee which has been at work since last May. fice had prepared a bill to Based on a comparison of also indicated he killed Mrs Mary Hogan, 54, who disap substitute for the controversial bav bottom land bill present assessments, apprais with the Bears. Shaughnessy led Stanford into the 1941 Rose Bowl game. Blackbourn, former Marquette University coach, took over the Green Bay helm in 1954.

ResrCwTovern NAPPANNEE, Ind. (0 Sign outside a tavern: "No radio, no television, no air conditioning just a quiet place to have a drink." als, and recorded sales prices peared nearly three years ago he vetoed last summer but for more than 500 residential from the tavern she operated properties and more than 100 wabout six miles 1 1 1 ii mi 1 in mam id jn mw 1 that the decision to try to override his veto means that any further developments on land off Diener Drive now will have to wait i n's Tuesday ing reassessment. Awarded $575,000 bond issue for three West Side school additions. Advanced ordinance for nickel for 30 minutes downtown street parking meters. Ordered meters for 100 block and two-hour parking for 200 block of S.

Madison Street. Asked for amendment to allow groceries selling beer to stay open after. 9 p.m. Protested assessments in cities for state highway improvements when no charges are levied in villages and towns. Approved appointments to boards and commissions.

"iifc. I Portage Coun- Sheriff for the 1959 Legislature. Mfl Herbert Wan "The governor's office pre I oprclri 1 pared a bill which we thought would be introduced at the fall y' I newsmen that Moss Blasts Federal Policies on Secrecy Claims Air Force Had Information on Sputnik But People Never Forewarned NEW ORLEANS The top congressional investi recognized the face of Mary Hogan session of Legislature, but apparently the policy then was to pass the bill over the governor's veto. I wasn't directing the course of action," Thomson said. Thomson outlined his action Qein among nearly a dozen human heads, or portions of heads, found in Gein's living quarters.

The frail appearing semi-recluse claimed that he dug all the heads from graves in the area, and that he Killed only business properties, a committee of the Real Estate Board reported these conclusions: 1. Owners of houses which are less than 25 years old are paying too high taxes, with greatest inequalities on new houses. 2. Changing land values make residential land assessments for part of the Southeast Side too high. 3.

Downtown business assessments, as a whole, are fair, but fringe business areas are not assessed high enough. Assessed Too High 4. West Side business areas are assessed too high, particularly when compared with new business zones on the far West Side. 5. New business and industrial buildings citywide are assessed too high, which could discourage new industry and business expansion.

6. As much as half of taxable personal property may not be on city tax rolls. at a City Hall meeting today scheduled as a discussion on Green Bay harbor develop gator of government secrecy said today the Air Force got information of Russian satellite launching plans months ahead of time but "the American people were never forewarned." Rep. Moss (D-Calif) also said Robert Cutler, President Eisenhower's adviser on national security affairs, ments. The meeting was plan imposed a "blueprint of se ned by the City Industrial Development Authority and was also attended by County Harbor Commission members, other city and county officers, and Robert Koob, director of the State Division of Industrial De Mrs.

Worden, a 58-year-old Plainfield store operator. Charles Wilson, head of the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory, said he could not detect any remorse, "just a sort of detachment." Gein, brought to Madison for U. France Agree on Plan For Tunisia WASHINGTON The United States and France reportedly have agreed to a plan for supplying Tunisia with Western arms in such 120-Foot Water Tower Felled An old 120-foot water tower that teetered dangerously, threatening some 60 nearby Philadelphia homes, is pulled over, (top) and dropped safely into vacant lot, (bottom), climaxing a seven-hour demolition operation. Police vacated 250 residents of the area during the operation. (AP Photofax) velopment.

Mayor Otto Rachals opened the meeting by saying it was Egypt Accepts More Red Aid Expect Plan Will Follow Pattern Of Syrian Pledge MOSCOW un Egypt's not called "to question your veto of the bill presented by the City of Green Bay because crecy on America missile-satellite deficiencies until Sputnik sailed across the skies." Moss, the chairman of a House subcommittee which rides herd on federal information, referred at one point to what he called "public-be-damned information policies" and said they must be eliminated. Challenged by Pentagon Moss' views were sharply challenged by the Pentagon's information chief, Asst. Secre "Our survey shows that the that is a past record." From that point on, talk about the tax burden is not being dis a way that French tempers can cool and they can patch up the Atlantic Alliance. tributed evenly on all prop New Russian Boycott .1,. Threatens Arms Talks Deadlock Follows U.

N. Rejection of Red bill monopolized the meeting, Conflicts Renewed erty, the report said. "The as The agreement was The governor also found sessments now on the tax rolls are not uniform, fair, and equalized. They do not con- reached, diplomats said, be- himseh in the middle of a re newal of the conflict of opin fnrm tn the state law, which Miss Hogan Wanserski war minister, Maj. Gen.

Abdel Hakim Amer, today is carrvin? home a npw tary of Defense Murray Snyder, who said the-eongressman Plan To Hike Commission to 25 Members ions and personalitiesof the city authority and county com requires all assessments to be equal and non-discriminatory tween Secretary of State Dul-les and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau during a three-hour talk at the State Department Tuesday. "apparently subscribes to theSoviet agreement pledging mvth that fnr snmp rpasnn mission. between different taxpayers. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

The West today had "The amount of taxes being your defense officials spend an technical as- The vetoed bill would have ceded 1,200 feet of bay bottom Dulles and Pineau covered a U. N. endorsement of its efforts to keep disarmament all their snare time knittinc fiance 10 rresiaeni IN as other topics, including north of a McDonald Lumber paid bears little relationship to actual value. Certain segments are paying taxes which are Co. tract to the city.

The city's paper curtains of secrecy around the facts of our mili ser government. Premier Bulganin an talks going, but a new Soviet boycott threat promised complete breakdown of the perennially deadlocked negotiations. France's two-year fight against Algerian rebels and President Eisenhower's pro stated purpose was to get title tary activities." to land to start development of much too high. Others are paying taxes which are much too low. The inequalities in as Both Moss and Snyder made The General Assembly gave a 60-9 vote of approval nounced the aid pledge at a Kremlin banquet Tuesday night honoring Amer, who has an outer harbor and to end title their comments in speeches de questions on the sale of to a Western plan Tuesday to increase the 12-nation interrogation in connection with the butchering of Mrs.

Bernice Worden of Plainfield, faced further questioning today. At Wautoma, Dist. Atty. Ed Kileen said he may charge Gein this afternoon with the murder of Mrs. Worden and is willing to accept the recluse farmer's insanity plea.

As Gein's grisly story was being investigated, Sheriff Herbert Wanserski of Portage County said he recognized one of the skulls found on Gein's farm near Plainfield as that of a long-missing woman. 'Found Face, Head' Wanserski told newsmen livered at the annual conven sessments have now reached a point where some remedial ac 450-foot wide bayshore strip to been conferring with Soviet the McDonald firm in 1952. tion is necessary immediately." tion of the Associated Press Managing Editors which leaders and visiting military cnester McDonald a posals to breathe new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Adlai Sits In Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, sat in on the NATO part of the talks.

Stevenson is acting as Democrat- installations. disarmament commission to 25 members. Four Communist nations and three neutrals would be included. The Assembly also rejected Sent To Committee continues through Saturday member of the lumber firm, is Bulganin gave no details of The Council sent the 10-page John Torinus, managing editor president of the Industrial De what Russia will supply report to the advisory of the Press-Gazette is attend ing the meeting. velopment Authority which arranged today's meeting.

Egypt, saying only: 38-19 a Communist proposal to enlarge the commission to 32 Aid. Matt Welles, committee Shortly before Moss and The governor's veto said a "In response to the desires of the Egyptian government Snyder appeared, Frank Eyer- Touhy's Term Is Commuted Act Clears Way For '59, Release; Served 24 Years SPRINGFIELD, 111. flf) nations, half of them Com munist or neutralist. A Rus and President Nasser, the So ly of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and president of doubt was present in the bill over whether the city could not deed the ceded bay bottom to private interests, a point disputed by the city. sian proposal to throw open that he did not believe Gein's chairman, said later that the IC consuuam on 3 committee would open its P'an wlth, British Prime study at a meeting late this Minister Harold Macmillan to month strengthen Nato in the face Aid Leonard Jahn was the of Soviet scientific-military only Council member to com- advances.

ment on the report after it was Stevenson arranged a morn- the arms talks to all 82 nations viet government has expressed its readiness to render Egypt economic and technical assistance in the development of her national economy." story that he had taken the as sortment of skulls and grisly The veto invited a new bill drew only the nine Soviet bloc votes to 46 opposing ballots. Continue Objections at the fall session of the Leg the APME defined freedom of information as "simply an assertion of the individual's right to know." Eyerly's definition came in the annual report of the APME TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 3 human remains from ceme teries. It appeared likely that a So read. He said the Real comerence loaay wun ri- islature, but the only action Soviet Deputy Foreign Min viet mission would be sent The sheriff said: "We have found the face and head of ister Vasily V. Kuznetsov de Gov.

William G. Stratton to to Cairo to work out details at the brief session was the unsuccessful attempt of Sen. Leo O'Brien to get the veto neau. He thus appeared to De taking a more active part than his announced intention to make comments but not to help- clared the Soviet Union would Board deserved praise for its research and that its findings should be implemented to become effective next year. with the Nasser regime.

This Mary Hogan among the ob day commuted the 99-year refuse to take part in any kidnap sentence of Roger (The draft the proposals Eisenhower overridden. Action Needed, Claim was the procedure followed after Syria's defense minister visited Moscow last August 'The Real Estate Board jects in Gein's farm home." He said Mrs. Hogan was a 54-year-old Portage County divorcee who disappeared in December should hp commended for thisiand Dulles will take to the Terrible) Touhy to 72 years and thus cleared the way for Rachals said the bill would and obtained an aid pledge. report. If the city had to payjNATO heads of government for such a report, it would cost! meeting Dec.

16 at Paris. more meetings of the disarmament commission unless its 32-member plan was accepted. Kuznetsov said Russia also ruled out any negotiations on the basis of the Assembly resolution last week endorsing have cleared the way for release of the ex-Chicago Presumably the Russians something which could have will give the Egyptians low- of Both Chicago Bound a considerable amount bootlegger and gangster from prison in August, 1959. been done immediately for an outer harbor including a plan I btevenson will fly with Dul- cost loans for development projects and will supply tech money," Jahn said. The last reassessment Today's Weather Furnished by U.

S. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy with no material change in temperature tonight and Thursday. Chance of a few snow flurries. Low tonight near 22. High Thursday near 34.

Moderate westerly winds. Relative humidity, 82 per cent. More Weather News Page 40 Under the commutation. the West's last arms proposa's for joint city-McDonald de TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 4 Mrs. Worden Buried Today city property was begun velopment of a slip.

fjles today to Chicago. The Illinois governor has some 'n private law business to take care of there. Dulles is making a speech tonight before the nical advisers. This is the aid that has been announced for Syria. Egypt already is trading a large part of her cotton 1942 and went into effect 1945.

Frank Halladay, an au thority- member, agreed and Touhy, who has served 24jas a starting point for future years in prison, will be eligi- negotiations. The Soviets re-ble for parole on the 99-year jected' the Western proposals kidnap term in February, at the talks which ended in 1958. London in August. Faces Another Term U. S.

Ambassador Henry Asks Citywide Study stated the McDonald develop- The committee recommend-'Chicago Council on Foreign crop her major export for Communist-bloc arms. I PLAINFIELD (IP) Thirty TURN TO PAGE 2. COLUMN 8 ed that a competent firm from relations ana win return 10 outside Green Bay be hired to wasningion inursaay. If that parole is granted help00 LodRe declared that Officials said Dulles and Pi the Assembly has emohati- makj the reassessment on a then will be required to serve neau agreed that any Western :n.n in iUn xnr1 A 1 ri i ip nfit Tiifcpmpal basis. a six-month nistitutiona Pat it-: iki Ko Anna nmi-iamis to Tunisia must be fool- Self-Styled Godson of Anastasia Charqed in Probation Violation rtllU IU IIIC OUV1CI UI11U11 anu Ilia, inc juu v.w...

i that it u-ants rfkarma mpn 1 hernusp values have reached a Proofed against their falling serving the three years re talks to continue. The Sovietx'omparative leveling point. Itjint.i the hands of rebels in maining on a 199-year prison lue cusl al Thev agreed to do this escape sentence. Cdiiuul succelUijy TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 1 Touhy would be eligible for TURN' TO PACE 8. COLUMN 5 NEW YORK Wi The federal returns.

He also received a men's Assn. and "labor con- parole on the prison escape floral wreaths surrounded the casket of Mrs. Bernice Worden, the butchery victim of recluse farmer Ed Gein. The 58-year-old widow was buried today. Nearly 100 persons relatives and neighbors attended the wake Tuesday night ot Mrs.

Worden, whose body was placed in an open casket in the community's only funeral parlor. Mrs. Worden was dressed in a dark, dusty rose knit dress. Her hair was fixed in a permanent and she wore glasses. To an unknowing visitor, she might have been a mid-dle-aeed woman who died a government has taken steps fine and a suspended sultant to the trade waste resentence in August, 1959, aft put Vincent J.

Squillante, self-i sentence. movers of Greater New York. er serving a minimum of one through close consultation among themselves, Britain and Tunisia. In the meantime, they hoped for a simmering down of what Pineau called "the great emotional reaction" among the people of France to last week's U. S.

-British shio- third of it. Medical Benefits for Aged Scored by AMA President styled godson of murderedi While Squillante squirmed replied: mobster Albert Anastasia and nervously in a chair at the! "I deny both of them, Stratton last July 31 com- reputed garbage racket king- counsel table frequently Among the known criminals; muted the 199-year sentence pin, in prison for the first timelwhispering to his he associated with, according to three years. in his career. -Irving Bush U. b.

Atty. faul to Williams, were Joey Feola, in commuting the kidnap CHICAGO UP- The Ameri- receive old age and survivors of about li0oo small arms The 5-foot-l silent witness at last week's Senate hearings on W. Williams neaieaiy 101a me. anas joey surprise, wno Kiiieajieira luuay oirauon saia Medical Assn. has an- benefits.

,0 Tunisia despites bitter ob- court Tuesday: a police officer in a holdup andjpardon board reports its strong opposition! Twelve to 13 million peoplelj0c.tions"rom tne French cov- "This man is not a small was convicted of manslaugh-'Roger Touhy has made a good t0 a bill in Congress to pay now receiving social gangster control of the garbage natural death. man. ne is repuieaiy me iiem ier, anu nan ocanse, a ma-jaujuMincriu uu inai mu yiu-hospitalization and medical payments wouia receive tnej pjneau and Dulle apparent carting industry here was hauled into Federal Court Tuesday of one of the biggest racKetsuor narcotics violator assassi-jiesi nas oeen voicea Dy me henefits to persons receiving; hospitalization and medical ly held off in announcing their Bronx fruit store'trial judge, state's attorney, or operating in New York in a (benefits under terms of the and charged with violating pro social security benefits. agreement on the plan to let complaining witnesses" in by consorting withland he is being investigated byllast June. bation known criminals and hood-! the district attorneys of Queens Squillante used the Fifth either the kidnap or prison escape cases.

and New York counties. (Amendment protection against lums. He also was accused of Dr. David a. Allman, ot At-; Dill introaucea oy Kep.

Aime French emotion cool off. By lantic AMA president, (D-RI). Forand saysisavjng t)ey were "seekmg a said in a statement Tuesdaythe bill has been endorsed thev avoided any that "this proposal is clearlyjthe AFL-CIO. hot criticism in the French par- 'sociahzed medicine' for a seg- AMA trustees have appoint- liament which might knock out ment of the American peo- ed a group of doctors to study tne Gainarcl government out pie." the health status and prob-i-. "Let us not pretend that we possible self incrimination are dealing with a poor little'more than 100 times last week man here in relation to a mere when he was before the Sen-violation of probation.

He is ate labor racketeering commit- concealing his 1956 income from the federal probation department. Federal Judge Irving R. Spotlight Put On City Nurses In Article Series The health of the general public in Green Bay is of the utmost concern to at least one municipal agency, the City Health Department. Staff reporter Harry Mai-er presents an interesting, Intensive study tonight of "The enactment of this leg-ilems of persons over 65 years The consultations are ex- TURN TO PAGE 2. COLUMN 7 Today's Features Editorials Page 6 Women's World Page 14 Regional News Page 17 Sports News Page 21 Theater-Radio-TV Page 26 Magazine Page Page 28 De Fere News Page 3i Comics Page 34 Financial News Page 36 Kaufman set Monday for a'the head of two of the biggest tee in Washington, hearing on a petition to revokejearting associations in the city, The probers pressed vainly Squillante's probation.

Bail which have been engaged in for answers to queries about was set at $10,000, which the. shaking down business people." his alleged position in the former fruit peddler posted. When the judge asked Squil-jMafia, an international secret Squillante, 40, has been on lante if he wanted to plead to mobster society of Sicilian or- islation," he added, "will per- of age, Allman said. Results mit the federal government to' of the study will be incorpo-withdraw social security taxes rated in the association's tes-on a compulsory basis fromitimony before Congress in op-almost the entire to the Forand meas- to reimburse hospitals and! The AMA has consistently Today75 Chuckle probation since 1953, when he the charges of probation vio- igin, and whether he is, as he the city nurse division of-theipleaded guilty to a 1900 gov- lation and concealing his 1956 has boasted, a godson of Ana A-local eatrrrg-tioustrfca-tures a mother-in-law sandwich cold shoulder and tongiy. ernment charge of failing to income the executive director, stasia, who was slain in mid- Obituaries Page 37 Iphysicians for services ren-jopposed any form of compul- Health Department on Page Classmed Ads Page 37 dered to all persons eligible toisury health insurance.

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