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These People Made News This Week U. S. Resolution On Communism in West Due Monday Caracas Meeting Cools After Dulles Guatemala Feud The St. Cloud Daily Times Sat, March 6, 1954 Dope Ring Traced To Mexican Port Tampdco, Mexico (JP) Officials said today VS. and Mexican secret agents are believed to be closing in on an international dope ring they have traced to this port on the Gulf of Mexico.

lllllMilj.WBWIMWim.UUl I 1,." Obituary I 7 ,7 j-J Caracas, Venezuela JP) Ljwfjnn! i 2m -lES, NEW OFFICERS OF THE SAFETY COUNCIL elected at a meeting in the St Goud hotel Thursday noon are Donovan Clough (right), president, Vivian Krogh, secretary, and Robert Ilary, vice president. (Times photo) MARY CREAGAN, Salt Lake City, Utah, was the stewardess on the Western Air Lines transport plane that went down in Wyoming killing Miss Creagan and all eight others aboard. Missing for three days, the wreckage was sighted Sunday and ground parties reached the debris Monday. (AP photo) PFC. MARTIN S.

BELSKY, a doctor who said he has been denied an officer's commission, appeared before McCarthy's senate investigations subcommittee in Washington, March 4, in testimony almost obscured by the Stevens-McCarthy feud. Belsky refused to tell the red-hunting senator whether he is or was a communist. (AP photo) Railroad Crews Fight Huge 'Dirt Glacier ARNOLD J. STEMBER Arnold J. Stember, Los Angeles, died February 10.

He was born May 1, 1880, the son of the late Anton and Magdalene Daniel Stember. He was a carpenter-constructor and went to the coast as a young man. He had been retired for the last several years because of poor healtn. His wife, the former Catherine Gang of St. Cloud, survives with two sons, Paul and Edward, and two daughters Mrs.

Robert (Marguerite) Lilby and Mrs. Charles (Adelaide) Krueger. There are 11 grandchildren. All of his family live in the Los Angeles area. Brothers and sisters surviving are Joseph and Elizabeth Stember, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Emily and Louis of Ely; Mrs.

Andrew H. Goedert, St. Cloud. Funeral services were held February 13 at St. Raphael's church witli burial in Holy Cross cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.

JOHN FELTES John Feltes, Los Angeles, Calif, died suddenly January 4. He is survived by his wife, Mae, and his children, William and Mrs. Robert Heine. There are four grandchildren. They all live in Los Angeles.

He lived in St. Cloud until he went to California as a young man. He was a cousin of the late Andrew H. Goedert of this city Surviving is a sister, Mrs. John Bunt and two half-sisters, Mrs.

Jack Downey (Margaret) and Mrs. Bert Tuthlll. CHARLES BICV Charles (Charley) Bucy of Minneapolis died Friday morning at the age of 61 years after a short illness. Mr. Bucy has been a resident of machines have been forced to move a 600-foot stretch of track side MRS.

LOLITA LEBRON. one of four Puerto Ricans charged in the shooting of five congressmen, plead not guilty Friday to charges of attempt to kill. The dark-haired fanatic member of the nationalist party said the shooting was "my idea." In all she and three men pumped from 25 to 30 shots onto the house (AP photo) Cuban Regime Foes Arrested in Arms Raid New York (P) Police seized an arsenal in a deserted-looking Manhattan store Friday and placed two Cubans, allegel opponents of the Batista regime, under arrest. Detectives swooped into the store, on West 99Ui street, and came up with crates of mortar shells, anti tank guns, Garand rifles, grenades and a big supply of shells. Later Mario Cruz, 34, and Roberto Oscar Acevedo, 36, were taken into custody.

They were booked early today on charges of violating the weapons law. Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams described them as members of a Cuban organization opposed to the regime of Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba. Eight other persons were questioned by police and released.

The arsenal is the second discovered in the metropolitan area since Carlos Pri0 Socarras was ousted as president of Cuba by Batista in March 1952. Adams and other police officials gave these details on the latest arms seizure: Cruz, a bus boy ordered by immigration officials to leave the United States bv April 22, and Acevedo, garment cutter and resident here since 1945, rented the store for $75 a month ast November. They said it was to be used to manufacture crates. Recently trucks started unloading heavv cases out side the store, the window of which had been painted black. The Cubans contacted an employe of a stevedoring firm several lhe united States may present Monday its long-awaited resolution concerning communism in the western hemisphere.

Delegates to the 10th Inter-American confe wondered today whether it will try to pin a red label on Guatemala. An undercover feud blazed into the open Friday between U. S. Secretary of State Dulles and Guatemala's fiery young foreign minister, Guillermo Toriello. The plenary session scheduled today was canceled.

There was no explanation, but it seemed likely the conference leaders wanted time for tempers to cool. Toriello made a dramatic attack on the United States in a speech before the conference, saying his leftist. Central American nation was battling a big stick and dollar diplomacy employed by "the forces of international reaction. Dulles took up the' challenge promptly. He said Toriello had repudiated two resolutions approved by Guatemala at previous inter-ntlonal communism "as incompatible with the concept of American freedom and as a danger for the American states." He expressed confidence that this conference would adopt an even stronger stand.

The question comes up Monday before the political-Judiciary committee. To have a debate, there must be a resolution to argue about. The U. S. delegation has the weekend to draft one.

The United States won the first skirmish before the committee, its motion to put communist infiltration at the top of the agenda carried 15-3. Guatemala, Mexico and Argentina were opposed. They wanted to discuss the question of European colonies in America, which originally was the first item on the work sheet. Pie-conference sentiment was that the United States had no chance of getting approval of a resolution naming Guatemala. The opinion of many delegates still seems to be that a resolution describing Guatemala as pro-communist would not pass and consequently that the final draft would be less specific.

Speaker after speaker in the plenary sessions has emphasized a stand for no intervention in the internal affairs of other states, for really effective economic cooperation, a peaceful solution of hemispheric disputes and prompt liquidation of European territorial holdings in the Americas. So Trusty Isn't Trusted Any More Sweetwater, Tex. (p The Nolan county sheriff's office got bade a missing set of jail keys Friday. But eight pints of confiscated liquor are gone for good. A trusty found an extra set of keys in a store room and got into a locker where liquor seized In this dry county is kept.

Later, the prisoner was found in a highly convivial mood. He had downed eight pint of whisky. The keys are back in the sheriff's possession, and the trusty is serving out the rest of his term securely tucked away in a cell. He is in for bootlegging. Man Who Won Rain Bets Dies at 93 Decatur, rjl.

m-C. L. (Cal) Waggoner, who in 48 years compiled an average of .792 in betting it would rain in Decatur on May 10, died Thursday. He was 93. Waggoner, a bank auditor for more than 65 years before his retirement in 1950, started betting it would rain on May 10 in 1905.

In 48 years he made the wagers he won 38 times' and lost 10 for an average of .792 He said he could recall no reason for the date or the tradition. Waggoner's bets never were large and usually were for cigars or for cash a dollar or less. Bet He Didn't Buy It For a Song Cambridge, Mass. (Jp) Gene C. Soprano of WaltJham sold his house to Gordon K.

Bass of Newton, according to a transaction recorded in the registry of deeds here Thursday. Mrs. Bass patiently told reporters, "It's just a coincidence." ways an average of 41 feet a day to escape the moving mountain. Each time, newly-lald and then abandoned sections of roadbed were engulfed by the advancing wall of earth and boulders, despite the efforts of other crews working under floodlights at night who daily have hacked off 10 to 20 foot deep outcroppings. NWP Vice President and Gen.

manager G. L. Morrison aid he can not estimate when or if the moving mass of earth, which towers to 1,700 feet above the. railroad right of way, can be stopped. The blamed to poor drainage in giant clay bank forming the upper part of the canyon wall, existed when the rail line was built 40 years ago and has approached the tracks several times before.

In 1938, It cut the line 73 days, but was halted by an elaborate drainage system installed above the tracks to dry up the lowpr earth and create a buttress against the clay above. Exlra Session Urged for Road Fund Revision St. Paul W) The Minnesota Highway Study commission favors calling of a special legislative session this year to draw up a constitutional amendment revising the highway fund allotments. After a three-hour debate, the commission voted 13-11 in favor of such a proposal late Friday. Three members of the group all reportedly against the special session, were absent and Sen.

A. O. Sletvold, Detroit Lakes, commission chairman, did not vote. Gov. Anderson was not immediately available for comment.

But he is the only one who can issue the order for a meeting of lawmakers before their next regular session starts in January next year. The governor indicated previously he would not favor such a special session unless there was "substantial agreement" among commission members for It. The commission meets again next Friday to word its report to the legislature, with a copy expected to be sent also to the governor. Robert Morris, executive secretary of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce, said it was probable a minority report would be drawn up against the special session in view of the close commission vote. Backers of the special session, led by Hjalmer Petersen, Askov, a former governor, argued that enough facts already were on hand to warrant proposed changes in manner of distribution of motor vehicle license fees and gasoline tax receipts.

days ago with a view toward possible shipment out of the country. The stevedoring emplove tipped police. A check showed the arms were American made. A preliminary count, prior to a more detailed inventory today, revealed 27 large caliber anti-tank guns, 24 case of ammunition for them, 25 Garand rifles with four cases of bullets and 250 hand grenades. Adams said he saw no link between the arsenal and the recent Puerto Rican shooting in congress.

Gov. Fine Calls McCarthy 'Actor' San Francisco () Republican Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsylvania has described Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) as "just another actor on the stage," receiving publicity out of all proportion to his influence on American opinion.

Gov. Fine talked to a news conference In his hotel suite here. Fine said McCarthy's conduct while questioning Brig. Gen. Ralph W.

wicker recently was outrageous. Suppose Dice Game Upset the Wife? Baltimore (p When police raided the Eton Social club they found a dice game In one room, a slot machine in another and two nude women in a third room. Police testified at a hearing that an angry wife's tip led to the raid. The wife told police she didn't like her husband visiting the place. After the hearing, five men and two women were held for grand jury action.

fl 1 DC Vi lr, -ore agencieS.Tut ZS7Z he still failed to show how many out of the total were actual "sub versives." TAXES The house ways ajld means committee worked over a couple of tax bills sure to draw fire on the house floor. One, an 800-Page general overhaul measure slated for final action next Tuesday, Includes a provision sharply cutting taxes on stock dividends. The other, now reported out, would trim many excise levies to io percent but would also cancel scheduled excise reductions on a number of major items. APPROPRIATIONS-fient to the senate by the house was a money bill to run the state, justice and commerce departments and the Voice of America for the 12 months beginning July 1 a slash of $145 million below the Eisenhower request. NLRB The house labor committee in a surprise move voted 14-13 to shift hearing of unfair labor practice charges from the national labor relations board to federal courts, then decided 14-14 against reconsidering its action WARREN Eisenhower's nomination of Earl Warren to be chief justice, sent to the senate Jan.

11 finally cleared that body by voice vote. Of some 40 senators on hand no one was heard to say no. Eureka, Calif. (P Railroad crews today pitted around the clock shifts and all available mechanical equipment against millions of tons of earth in a mile-long "dirt glacier" grinding toward the Northwestern Pacific's Eel river canyon main line at 40 feet a day. The "glacier" of unstable earth and clay 6,000 feet long and 1,200 feet wide in spots began moving on the NWP's north-south main lines 60 miles southeast of here 13 days ago.

Since then, men using bulldozers, power shovels, cranes and other Charges May Be Leveled at 25 in Prison Smuggling Stillwater, Minn. (jTi If evidence warrants, criminal charges will be brought against five employees and some 20 inmates involved in T.he Stillwater prison contraband smuggling. Alvin Gillette, correctional supervisor in the state department of welfare, said late Friday evidence gathered thus far would be put into the hands of the Washington county attorney for possible prosecutions. Gillette said his office would "press these complaints with full vigor." His statement came after Warden Edwin T. Swenson reported finding that nose drops, inhai-ers and whisky had been smuggled into the prison.

Swenson said that four guards have made statements admitting they accepted leather handbags and wallets made by Inmates as compensation for the smuggled goods. Two cases of eggs and some other produce from the prison poultry farm also were used as "payments," he reported. The warden said the drugs in the drops and inhalers were of a non-prescription nature. Inmates used the drops for intravenous injections with needles smuggled into them and chewed the contents of the inhalers, he added. The warden said the investigation began 12 days ago when kit chen attendants noticed that some prisoners were acting strangely.

There was no Indication of violence but their behavior wasn't normal, due to use of tne drugs, he added. William Conley, state crime bureau agent, was called in and suspension of the five employes followed his investigation. Driver Blamed in Death of Girl St. Vincent, Minn, uv) A coroner's jury ruled Friday that an 11-year-old St. Vincent girl killed when a car ran into eignt children Wednesday, "met her death through the criminal negligence of John Slator." Slator, 59, a shoemaker instructor at the Stony Mountain penitentiary near Winnipeg, is being held in jail at Hallock without charge.

Killed In the crash was Elaine Fitzpatrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick. Of the others who were hurt, Martin Gardner, 8, still is in critical condition in a Hallock hospital. Witnesses Identified a car Slator was driving at the time or his arrest as the death car.

St. Cloud for many years having Deen employed nere as an auto mechanic. He had been an employe at the Thies-Mayman garage. Mrs. Bucy, the former Margaret Pull of this city, survives.

Three brothers, John and Kenneth of Minneapolis; and Walter of Sanborn, N.D., also survive. Friends may call at the Hein-reich and Malone mortuarv on West. Broadway in Minneapolis, until the time or tne iunerai. Funeral services will be at St. Ann's catholic church Mondav at 9 a.m Rurinl u-ill he made in Assumption cemetery here at a.m.

with Rev. John Den-ery officiating. TSCIIUMPERLIN FUNERAL Funeral services fnr Mrs ai i Tschumperlin were held Fridav morning at 11 at St. Mary's Cathed'-ral with burial in the family lot in Calvary cemetery. The honor escort from the Daiiffh.

ters of Isabella was: Mrs. Ben Wock-en, Mrs. August Inderrierien. Mm. Albert Schmidt, Mrs.

E. J. Reuge-mer, Mrs. William J. Rau and Mrs.

e. Murphy. The 4th degree of attended in body. Pallbearers were Anthony Huns-tiger, George Meinz, Peter Koll-mann, John Gruber, Sylvester Fan-del and Peter Kolling. Arrangements were made by Tschumperlin Williams Funeral home.

PAIL NOREN Paul Noren, formerly a resident of St. Cloud and recently of Tur-lock, died in Turlock this week. He is survived by his wife, Anna, a sister, Mrs. Ed Johnson, and a brother, Clarence, both of Echo, along with several nieces and nephews also survive. He was the son of the deceased Mr.

and Mrs. L. E. Noren, who lived west of the city for many years. FLOWERS BIG VALUES PHONE 12 510 ST.

OERMAE St. Cloud Floral SEX. JOSEPH McCARTIIY (R-Wis), pursuing his running fight with the army over alleged "coddling of was presumably slapped down by President Eisenhower who called for fair play In congressional investigations. But if it were so, McCarthy pursued his merry way trying to ferret out reds in the army. (AP photo) 'Distrust of Blamed for Washington (t Paul G.

Hoff man, head of the Studebacker cor poration, says the American people are "distrustful of the future" and this attitude is responsible in large part for the nation's current eco nomic troubles. Hoffman mentioned lagging auto sales as an index. He discussed the nation's economic state of mind Friday in announcing that the advertising council will open April 1 a national campaign designed to neutralize recession talk by playing up the prospects of economic growth. Hoffman is chairman of the council's public policy committee. Aa Hoffman spoke out, there were new reports of layoffs in the auto industry in his own companyand on the New York Central railroad.

But two auto makers, Chrysler and Hudson, issued back to work calls for employes they had laid off because of dropping car sales. 1 CoDtlnutd from Ptt It tense Wilson dismissed as "tommy-rot" charges the army has been coddling reds. McCarthy replied he had made no such blanket condemnation of the army, bat he insisted that "certain individuals in the army have been protecting, promoting, covering up and honorably discharging known communists." Eisenhower said Wednesday there had been a "serious error" in handling the Peress case a focal point of McCarthy's attack. Wilson told his news conference Thursday that Stevens was "technically responsible" for the way Peress' case was disposed of, since the army secretary is top man in his department. The defense chief also conceded that Stevens might have done better, but he rioted that this was a "hindsight" estimate.

In his letter of resignation, Kane an army employe seven years-held that the army "should never be subjected to politics of any kind." He said he realized Stevens had been "hurt" in his battle with McCarthy, adding "if you hadn't teen fighting, you wouldn't have been is why various other people in government have not fought before you did." Stevens is to appear before McCarthy's subcommittee in closed session, probably next week, for a discussion of the problem of disposing of subversives found in the army's uniformed or civilian corps. Sen. Lehman (D, Lib-NY) complained that administration leaders are afraid to tackle McCarthy head-on. Lehman said in a speech prepared for delivery in New York, where he is receiving the Jolin Dewey award given by the New York Teachers guild: "Here is a man (McCarthy) and a force to be reckoned with, and yet there seems to be none courageous enough in the administration to reckon with him." McCarthy had left for a weekend trip to Miami before the Kane letter was made public. He declined comment when he arrived in Florida and he wouldn't tell reporters what he might investigate in that Florida city, but he indicated it could have some influence on his subcommittee's plans for next week.

The subcommittee now is scheduled to resume on Wednesday public hearings on alleged red infiltration of the staff of the Federal Telecommunications Laboratory at Nutley, NJ. The plant does electronics research for the armed forces. On call to return for further questioning is Peter A. Gragis of Levittown, N.Y., an admitted former communist who swore Friday he belonged to a cell of reds at the big laboratory in the 1940's, but that he had no knowledge of any espionage there. DANCING EVEKT Congress This Week Future Downturn In the general employment picture, the labor department's bureau of employment security repeated Friday night the number of workers claiming unemployment compensation during the week ended Feb.

20 was 2,168.200 Just 10,200 below a week earlier when the total reached the highest level since February, 1950. The bureau also reported an easing of layoffs and some recalls of workers during the week ended Feb. 27. Only a little more than half the nation's labor force of roughly 60 million is covered by unemployment compensation. President Eisenhower has picked this month to indicate whether business will pick up or the gov ernment may have to step in and give the economy a shot in the arm.

Hoftman, former foreign aid headed in the administration and early Eisenhower supporter for the presidency, disagreed. said he would not expect any significant trends to develop until April. The Studebaker head said sur veys made last year indicated that 5,600,000 people had car buying in mind for this year, but that 1954 sales may be nearer 3,500,000. But another major auto industry leader, Henry Ford II, was more optimistic than Hoffman. He told newsmen in Louisville, that prospects are so good he believes the Ford Motor company may beat out Chevrolet in the low-priced field tills year.

Employment reports from auto production centers were somewhat checkered. Chrysler and Hudson announced in Detroit the recall of 9,800 production workers during the week. But Studebaker said it is shutting down its car production line at South Bend, at least a week, throwing 11,000 of its 12,000 workers temporarily out of work. The New York Central boosted layoffs in three states to 3.400 Fri day night. Worst-lilt was Beech Grove, an Indianapolis suburb, where the railroad's car and locomotive shops were closed, idling about 2,100.

Aiso affected are 1,050 workers in East Buffalo and West Albany, N. and 250 at Avis, Pa. A New York Central spokesman blamed the move on a "decline in business." Take Good Look! It May Be Last Canaan, N.Y. Each time deputy sheriffs stopped a speeding driver during a recent traffic check, a soft-spoken gent walked up to the offender and the dialogue went something like this: "Have you ever met one of the coroners of Columbia county?" "No." "Well, let me introduce myself. I'm Barson Johnson, county coroner, and the next time you come through this intersection speeding I'll be seeing you in an official capacity but you won't be seeing me." Last Brother of Ring Lardncr Dies Niles, Mich.

(Pi Henry Lardner only surviving brother of the late author Ring Lardner, died at his home Friday. He was 83 and had been ill six weeks. A native of Glendale, Ohio, Henry Lardner practiced law in Duluth, for a time. He moved to Niles around the turn of the century. He became Niles city treasurer and later a postal employe.

He retired In 1936. Survivors include a daughter, Ellen, of Niles; and two sons, Fred of Washington. D. and George of New York. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

SATURDAY NIGIIT" MARSH rf" 0 I 4- A CIKvU BLiLlKCm representatives Monday afternoon in the form of four Puerto Rican fanatics who said they wanted free- aom ior their country. However, this unprecedented interruption in congress' work was only momentary, and the lawmakers proceeded such as usual from the next day on. About 250 congressmen were on the house floor when the zealots opened up with a wild fusllade of pistol fire from the gallery. Five house members were liit, one seriously. Pluced on the critical list was Rep.

Alvin M. Bentley At first he was given only a 50-50 chance to live. By week's end he had bettered some, but remained seriously ill. The Puerto Rican nationalists were speedily caught and slapped into jail. They were each charged on 10 counts.

Maximum prison terms if convicted: 75 years for each assailant. They pleaded not guilty. Washington police recommended that the politically appointed special Capitol police force be replaced by career officers, and that bullet proof glass be Installed in front of the public galleries in house and senate. McCarthy The McCarthy affair rocketed right along with a new headline every day. One climax came Wednesday when President Elsenhower called for fair play by congressional Investigators and praised Brig.

Gen. Ralph Zwicker, whom Secretary of the Army Stevens had said was abused in an investigation by Sen. McCarthy McCarthy called the dispute "this silly tempest in a teapot." Meanwhile the senaior went right on with his quizzing of alleged communists, some in the army and some not. And if a final headline producer were needed, i came when he dropped his $2 million libel suit against his old foe, former Sen. William Benton tD-Conn).

SECURITY RISKS Chairman Philip Young of the Civil service commission kept going before congressional committees and raising his figures on the total of govern ment "security risks" let go last year. His original report of 1.782 was boosted to 2,247 before the senate civil service committee and to 2.429 before the house civil service committee. The outlook was for a still higher htn nn wm SUNDAY STL LOUP'S DANCING AGLf BAR Make Up A Party SATURDAY, MARCH 6 Mt'SIC BY "RACHEL" at piano "ARNIE" at drums George and Selda Maiers, Proprietors March A.M. io 7:30 P.M. Li Li L.T3 L.Z3 i.