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Green Bay Press-Gazette VOLUME XXXX No. 277 34 PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS GREEN BAY, WIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1955 GAZETTE ESTABLISHED IN FEBRUARY. 1863 FREE PRESS ESTABLISHED IN MAY, 18U PRICE 6c Banker Family Held 13 stage S-0 Valley Station on vA Air Tonight Prober Vows Full Airing Of Any Graft McCtellan Says Quiz Will Expose 'Nest' of Small Corruption Bandits Grab $85,000 Loot Two Kidnap Official While Two Others Guard Family In Daring Alabama Robbery PREMIER DIEM FCC Denies Petition By Marinette, Gives WFRV-TV Go Ahead Television Station WFRV-TV will go on the air on Channel 5 at 8 o'clock this evening, giving the Green Bay area its third VHF station. Authority for the Valley Telecasting Company to begin broadcasting was received from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D. C.

today after the commission unanimously reaffirmed its previous approval of the merger between the WASHINGTON Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) said today hit Senate investigations subcommittee intends to expose the higher-ups in "a nest of small grafters" he contends has fattened on contracts with the armed forces. He said in an interview he sees no evidence that corrup- JACKSONVILLE, Ala. Four armed white men robbed the First National Bank of Jacksonville of between $85,000 and $90,000 today, after kidnaping a bank official from his home. The bandits surprised Jesse N.

Wood, assistant vice president and cashier, at his house and forced him to accompany two! France Will Take Troops From Saigon Viet Nam Agrees on Withdrawal Accord men to the bank while the' other two guarded his wife and children. Mayor May Not Sign Checks At the bank they waited in-1 side, meeting employes as they 'Valley company and the arrived for work, tying them' up and putting them in a back1 i room. tfon in big scale buying of uniform equipment has reached very high in the procurement services. But he said further evidence will show it has reached levels higher than those shown in two days of testimony this week. The subcommittee's public hearings recessed yesterday until Tuesday after a former chief inspector for the Army admitted that he had lied under oath.

The witness, Joseph G. Por-reca of Clifton, N. testified For Lake System SAIGON, South Viet Nam France and Viet Nam have reached agreement on the withdrawal of all French forces from the capital city of Saigon, a Viet Nam official announced When a time lock opened Neenah-Menasha Broadcasting Co. The M. and M.

Broadcasting Co. at Marinette, operators of Television Station WMBV-TV, had protested the merger, but the bank vault they scooped tonight. I the protest was denied by the Tran Trung Dung, deputy FCC. defense minister in the govern- Under the merger, Valley ment of Premier Ngo DinhjTelecasting becomes a subsi- Those Different Years Memories of World War I are brought back with this Sopwith "Camel" fighter plane that was flown by American pilots against German aircraft in 1918, as it's parked alongside a modern Marine Corps Cougar jet fighter on landing strip of the Glen View, 111.. Naval Air Station.

The "Camel" is owned by Lt. Cmdr. Frank G. Tallman, USNR (in cockpit), who rebuilt the old cighter plane, and is considered the only aircraft of its type still able to fly. In the Cougar jet is Capt.

Irwin J. Burchman, a Marine reserve pilot, of Park Ridge, 111. (AP Wirephoto). he had received a home freez Diem, said details were being diary corporation of the worked out by Diem and Gen. Neenah-Menasha which up between $85,000 and "Doubt if I will sign," Mayor 000 and carried it off in a re-jOtto Rachals telegraphed Rob-possessed bank car.

Dan Andrew Brice, Green Bay Gray, bank vice president,) television commentator, made the estimate of amount stolen. He said the lossiThursday 1" "play to was covered by insurance. a. Qy whether he wou One of the two men cncks for approximately went to the bank was J0' Pymts on the with a sawed off shotgun andiLa Mlchan water system the other with a pistol. I payments, $104,413.82 Alter raiding the bank vault 0 Chape and Amundson, pipe-the robbers forced Wood l0il'ne contractors, and $90,616 -help them carry the money to Burdick and he bank car.

fhev diove himiHowson- Chlcago, consulting Paul Ely, the French commis er, meat to stock it, and some lingerie for Mrs. Porreca in 1952 from Marvin Rubin, a key sioner in Indochina. The announcement came on figure in the injuiry. formerly operated UHF station WNAM-TV in Neenah. Clayton Ewing, president of Valley, said that the station would go on the air tonight the heels of the disclosure that Calls Him 'Fixer' i T- Rnhin hucinoc.

finori'X, all' K-p mdll 1.1 1.K1U- Minor Picked rn programs between -Sen. Bender (M-Ohio) had "sked to be fi of his him a "fixer" for some firms post. 18 and 10 p.m. This temporary, Informants said the French I public service programming would move the 35,000 French, will continue until May 31, he African and Foreign Legion iSaid. The station will begin to his home, nirkpri im were approved whose products for the armed services were inspected by Parade To Be Highlight Of Armed Forces Fete Units of Armed Services Holding Open Houses; Naval Vessel from Chicago Here confederates, and fled Porreca's subordinates.

unanimously by the Water Commission at its meeting Wednesday evening. They now go to the Board of Public norrrfal programming, with Porreca admitted he had lied! r0Ps nin S.mg" The highway patrol set up road blocks around Jackson U. S. Attorney By Eisenhower to Cap St. Jacques on the coast', ville, a town of 5,000 about 70 network programs from the ABC and DuMont networks, on June 1.

At that time the in prior sworn denials to the subcommittee that he had ac-rpnteH anv of those thines miipi pt nf Rirminoham consisting of the may 50 miles south of Saigon End French Influence VpHorai tnvJiina. or. clerk and 1 1 er. lion agents joined local must "PProve, be- from Rubin. He still insisted! This would make Saigon free: broadcast schedule will be they were not gifts, but he said' of French influence for theiflom 4 to 11 p.

m. he never paid for any of them.lfirst time in 80 vears and put! WFRV-TV will televise with Armed Forces Day will be observed in traditional the checks can be issued. Edward G. Minor, promin- cers in the manhunt. lent Sturgeon Bay 1,1 reen cay saturaay.

inere will De a parade; The robbers put the monev! DeLaUbe 01 ine mayr lead- nalloW tn the, witness thp tpiiritv nf thp rnnital inilUU.UUU Watts Ot effective was nominated bv President Beginning at p. ine various components or tne Armed in a cheap black suitcase K'h againsi me IServioes will hold onpn bnnsp at thpir instnllatinns tnHaviwhich thpv hA hmniht th. la Plan was decided to de- stand four times in the course the hands of the voung Vietjradiated Per from a trans-namese National armv. mitter and antenna Inwer lo- The agreement would on Scray's Hill south- MtTnPv vZZ nivi'land Saturday, and a U. S.

Navy vessel and an Air Force' rope wtih which they bound' fe board action until after his attorney foi the Eastein w.1v..Ml lhe (the bank employes, and inl ur" York, al- of the day, stuck to his story that he had made "no payoffs" to any government workers. He said Bender was wrong in volve the regrouping of theieast.ot ue rere. ine station is sion of Wisconsin. sm Wood's bref case. couia WnnrTt hripf raw 75,000 man French expedition teasing ine iormer transmitter house and tower of WJPG-FM A Republican, Minor was named to a four year term to a'rv force in two or three em Madison, will fly over the city calling him a "fixer." Polio Program barkation points away from! from the Green Bav News- succeed Timothy T.

Cronin. A (during the parade. Ithe big cities of the south. IPaPe.r sgl will er- No one was injured in mm-holdup In hls telegram, Mayor Ra- As each emplove said he would check with Wood explained that the bank! on his return, but was being robbed and that the that he doubted if he men had promised not to in-jwou'd f3rgn- Rubin acknowledged that he sent the freezer to Porreca on Christmas eve 1952, and that Bonita Originals, which A little over a week auo tecuveiy cover an area 01 to Democrat, Cronin has beenj Largest public demonstra-serving on a temporary basis: tion will be the annual parade while the Republicans strug jthrough the downtown district Diem was reported to haveniiIes ir 81 directions, asked the French to move their facilities have also held a contract with the quar gled to settle their patronage! under Marshal George Lord forces to the 17th Darallel onbe(sn constructed in the trans- jure any one "if they didn t' BC get out of line." i Uon. followed a report from its It will form on the West Side problems and decide on an ap- termaster general, paid for it.

But he said it was not a 'take them out of the countrv. mitter building, and the stu- Marking lime Current Uncertainty Likely To Continue Until Coming Week along Walnut Street be Christmas gift, and that he hadjThe parallel roughly marks the dI0S formerly used by WNAM- Among the employes whojcnBineenng ana "nance com-were bound by the holdup statmg a wpre Mrs. arsarpt rpam a were no further legal obstacles "opntlv" tripH to rollprt its line diviriinp the South VitU in Neenah are linked with pointee. A former district attorney of Door County, Minor was born in 1898 in Washington, D. C.

where both his grandfather the transmitter by microwave relay. Eventually downtown $215 cost' from Porreca with-jNam and the Communist-ruled out success. north. A eovernment spokes- tween Chestnut and Oakland avenues. Crossing the Walnut Street bridge, it will proceed north on Washington Street to Main Street, east on Main to i re a i 1- teller; Miss Denola the Pa.V"ients, and that the Mrs.

Bett.tf Hicks, Mrs. Cath-ibank nad been instructed by in Green Bay Withdrew Inspector mfln said presence of erine Angel and Mrs. Margaretjus atlornpy to release th 81 and his father served in Con-igress. The family residence Blair, uumis upon proper voucners. 'f- WASHINGTON i.

Cur- Porreca said it was the other! "encn irooPs av nse wav around that he tried to provided ammuni pay for the freezer, but for Communist propagan-Xtate AAA Meet They were all held under Xne onIv possible block to lo rent uncertainty over when guard in a back room that is Pa.vments, tne report stat- auer pasm ule rev program of mass inocu)a. used as a lounge and kitchen. alternated between Sturgeon Bay and Washington, and he received his early education in both cities. He received his high school diploma in Sturgeon Bay in 1917. tions against polio can get into full VUMMd cubmArl ed, would be by injunction secured by opponents of the lake plan.

In this case, they might A color guard and escort, Opens Saturday T. Weller Smith, vice presi i dent, walked into the bank as Porreca acknowledged that p-'vman, mimary rtiae he had withdrawn one of his Many here believe Ely will inspectors from a Puerto Rico be replaced by two men, a A 1 1 i I the hnMnn was in nmrp De required to post a bond to rt iwu-uav uavti Pdicuc uikihui, today t0 continue at least un-ments of Air Force, Army and (j next Navy regulars stationed here, anA the whp-t rvounJ Tne Public Health Service One of the robbers made ready protect the city and the Payeps. factory represented by Rubin, 'civilian as commissioner gen sponsored bv the Wisconsin, trailuate-ol Marquette fter the business Under naaerai and a military assistant Division. American Automo- Minor did his undergraduate complained about the man. Hein command of the French ex-bile open's today at the'and law school work at Mar- to strike him, but when a wo-1 "eaa 01 me man emplove told the ater Commission, said all "he's a reasonable man and necessary documents will be in band will lead the march.

no its lowing will be Green Bav'slba announcement of Mfinnai 'iiPsday that re-clearance of em- said these also were other reas' peditionary forces. Northland. AAA travel iqueUe University, Milwaukee, counselors from most of thdand was admitted to the bar in goed batches of Salk vac will not give you anv lne ll-v Ma" Dv Monday morn-Smith was tol'd to sit down and ing at lne Iatest- iour, club's districts are expected to 1923. Following graduation he; uiin.HU LtTllU .1 ine further studv. ma.up' I set up practice in Cudahy, and served as city attorney there This means French and American representatives here will be new men.

The new U. S. ambassador, G. Frederick Reinhardt, is due next week to replace Gen. J.

Law ton Collins. (In another development to participate. Chief object of the meeting is an exchange of ideas in handling travel requests, the Raid Warning I mith said the robbers were A spokesman said poite." Thev were inursday: The best you can Especially considerate, he said, assume is that it will be nextof the women emploves and week before there are anyi.nM th.m rnD9ih, k. and as an assistant district attorney of Milwaukee County before returning to Sturgeon working out- of specific prob ons for replacing the inspector. Porreca, who said he now works for the New York Feather said Rubin complained to him in unprintable language about a "squeeze" Rubin contended another inspector was putting on him.

Porreca named that inspector as Louis Al-perstein, and said he also was called home later, but that he thinks it was at Alperstein's request. Bender asked whether Porreca had used his government lems in that field, and to ac-jBay ui (H fvu 1V.V1IJ, JU.l LH. Sirens To Be further releases." day, the British Foreign Office i have now, and you won't be nnaint u-ith latpsti Hp was plpftpH Hktrirt at- Tl. 1' me neann service aecnnecii)lurt a bit." announcea mat iNortn Viet techniques and information on torney of Door County for the io commem on tne possibility The bank officiaI sajd easl Nam had agreed to extend forjforeign and domestic travel. A uwi a tecnnicai advisory of the men nad becn in; monm tne time in wmcn r.

tinnHt uaVD riiiontnr Tried Saturday turn to QUiT-fiAiGON. pace lfiiwill attend. miltee on dosage, meeting to-jthe bank before, presumably to! day at nearby Bethesda, nH in Open Houses Set In observance of Armed Forces Day, the following service units are holding open houses today and Saturday: Army Reserve. 1168 W. Mason St.

Navy and Marines, foot of Hubbard street. National Guard Armory, 815 Chicago Air Force Reserve, 311 S. Adams St. USS PCE 845, foot of Hubaid street, tonight at 8 o'clock; Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon.

Army and Air Force Recruiting, 124 E. Walnut Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. might recommend somening the holdup." A tPst of Green Bav's air change technique which None of the four robbersVaS warm, a rens SaturdaJ would have the effect of wore a mask but nne haH nn1 V. ''llens Baturaay ih.

a.mask' but one nad on, afternoon was announced to job "to feather your nest." Por reca denied it dark glasses. ed supplies. day by John Holloway, acting county civil defense director. first time in 1944, and continued in office through 1950. Since then he has been in private practice in Sturgeon Bay.

Office in Milwaukee If the nomination is approved by the Senate, the new U. S. Attorney will be headquartered in Milwaukee. He and his wife have two children, one a dentist at Land O'Lakes, and the other a student at the University of Miami. Where he will graduate in June.

Minor's grandfather, the late Ask Opinion on Dose 'and Fred Marquardt, city elec Cleveland Drive The national conference of. trical inspector. Holloway said the purpose of the trial alarm was to test jelectrical circuits. Coverage of the city's four sirens has been state epidemiologists, meeting1- JJ in Atlanta, had asked the 'S Intended I health service for an opinion' on whether it might be possi-VUt tOWf? VOSG USMC Explains Platoon Leader Training Plan ble to reduce the current dosei pet i. hi ic horl nrenim, tA.tp ies, the city's Army, Navy andj0f one cubic centimeter for a1 CLEVELAND, O.

Busi sirens are controlled from Air Force Reserve units, and shot messmen in this hichlv indus-' E. S. Minor, is a former mayor ot Murgeon Hay, and One change in dosage was trioliited area became so con- nou served terms in the State As- nTr i i iPPrnpn river nmn th-ii tii sembly, the State Senate inon hi 3 in.e. Slrenfi 8le t0P The United States Marine 1 as a Congressman The at. INorbert and B'li npi a announce-i-; ne win man Mc Cormick Corps has announced that ef His father Stmton a La 'Catholic KU1U battalions, tne ie mi 1 ine stria urain elevator, Folle'tte Progressive served on Fire Department, and been found to be safe Reserve University.

Elmore School, and East High ruiiiui stivru un i ....1.1 The la tpr in finn nv ilaA fective July 1, 1955, high school graduates who present Jl 111 i mem a Congressional committee fori "'fin acnooi oana win consti- 'Hii .7 xnnw' any years and is now retired, tute the second division. A Part last year's trials werei" TiP.ii for many documentary evidence of ac ccptance in an accredited col mmm and th id will be composed of pa-'ven inree mjecuons eacn. c-tuma sirens at St. Mary's living in Sturgeon Bay lege or university for the next Arizona. His mother, the form academic term may be enroll ed in the platoon leaders class 9 I er Jennie Morrison of Bay Settlement, died several years ago.

officer training program. Those men enrolling in the triotic societies and curreni aasage is two School and on the AHouez wa- organizations, the DAV drum's'w's spaced few weeks and recommendation on ter lower. The Town of Ash-and bugle corps, Red with a thud booster jn.jlucing the huge annual loss waubenon also is considering Boy Scouts, the East about seven months 'n bealth and efficiency due to hiMallcition of a warning School band, a De Pere dele- n.1.v". siren. Hollowav said.

gation, and massed baton I Sen. Hill (DAla) said in an Ne is increasing every tw.rlers from the Mecca and interview, meanwhile, that he 8 8 MWith industry and Bernad.ne's Music schools. I'" call the Senate Labor jP' on' 8 1 TocflV Feat UfeS Itiftn. i platoon leaders class will re Today's Weather ceive a second lieutenant's commission in the Marine Corps Reserve immediately upon graduation from college, Fumihed by U. Weather Bureau nmmi AA Ha liaiCUillt: lll.S HdV 1 1 1 MliLTl jiEni nianes oi me win i nc maua lui i- fly nvpr thP Vitv riorina the! meet Monday to consider sev several industrial plants.

"The; Editorials Page be guaranteed a military de parade empowering the g0v-1eniand ls constantly for more Meanwhile thp tTSS prF pinment to assume control of Production, and this, naturally, Women's News Page 7 Magazine Features Page 8 Theater Times Page 14 ferment until they complete college and have complete academic freedom during the school year without any re suggested two things: Sports News Page 17 was aue io arrive mis morning: noise be reduced and that! Regional News Page 21 The highest temperature between noon Thursday and noon today was 68 degrees; low same period, 42 degrees. For Green Bay and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with a few widely scattered afternoon thundershowcrs on Saturday. Low tonight 50 and high on Saturday 80, Light and variable winds. More Weather News Page 2 Heifer on the Hoof Virinia-red Black Angus heifer, edges to the sjde of her crate as her new owner, President Eisenhower, pokes a hand through the wire screen for a friendly pat. Two top Democrats, Sen.

Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn, both of Texas, presented the heifer to the chief executive at a Washington dinner Thursday night. (AP Wirephoto). and tie up at the Naval Re serve Training Center, foot ofj Hubbard Street, where it will' be open to visitors this after i noon and Saturday. The PCEj 845 is an 8.r0 ton vessel, 18ti! Today's Chuckle Nothing works out right. In a town where you can park as long as you want to, you don't want to.

H'ol'vrisht Crnci quired courses, training, or in-' terference by the military. Further information about' the program may be obtained at the Marine Corps recruiting station on the third floor of-the Green Bay post office, I 'n something be done to make Farm Features Page 24 existing noise less damaging, Comics Page 26 The first he left up to the, De Pere News Page 28 companies themselves, and asj Radio TV Page 28 for the second, "a pair of prop-i Financial News Page 29 jerly fittcd ear plugs will do' Obituaries Page ,10 wonders 1 Classified Ads Pge 30 TO ARMF'D KORC'KS. PACK 5.