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OsMtoslhi Daily Northwestern Associated Press and United Press Ninetieth Year Oshkosh, Monday Evening, November 18, 1957 22 Pages Price Six Cents tow SNOW, RAIN Heavy mow warning for west, north. Freezing rain south of Green Bay. Details on Page 2. BULLETIN I Handy Grilled Man Is by DA Wintry Storm Rips Midwest Body of Missing Plainfield Woman Discovered at Farm Home of Ed Gein PT.ATNFTFJJ) AP The Waushara flnnntv nktrirt 1 attorney said today that five 1 A 1 Traffic Snarled, Schools Closed As Heavy Snow Hits; Wisconsin in Path By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A wintry storm belted parts of the Midwest Monday, snarling highway traffic and closing some schools. The storm spread a heavy snow cover from northern Oklahoma into Wisconsin and accumulations up to a foot deep were forecast.

I nado damaged homes and build- The Midwest Storm came ings at White settlement, near On the heels of a rash Of out- Fort Worth. Three persons were of season tornadoes which ikiUed and nine injured in Alabama iouna on an lsoiaiea iarm near riainiieia, raising 10 iu tna number of cadavers discovered so far in the house wher a mild-mannered handy man lived alone. and two killed and several injured in Mississippi. Several homes and buildings were de- I i killed at least five persons in Alabama and Mississippi. Russell in north central Kansas' Dad eignt incnes ot snow on trie ground; Hill City, seven; La Crosse, five; Council Bluffs.

Iowa, nine, and the Gulf and westward through nine. Parts of Nebraska rejjissouri and southeast Kansas i ii 4 w.vli Xt ported 10 inches Many Schools Closed Scores of schools were closed in Iowa because school buses couldn't move over the snow cov-j ered roads. Highway travel was slowed in southwest Iowa. A heavy glaze warning was issued' or motorists in parts of Iowa. The U.

S. Weather Bureau at! Kansas City said snow was falling through eastern Nebraska, western and northern Iowa, Kan- 5 OS RETURNS TO MURDER SCENE toma where he said "he had something to show him" at the house where he lives. The portions of 10 bodies were found in his house. (AP Wirephoto) Ed. Gein, farmer, who is being held for questioning in connection with the death 'of 10 persons, leaves county jail handcuffed and escorted by Sheriff tyt Schley.

He is taking the sheriff to his farm at Plainfield near Wau- as and into northern Oklahoma! heavy in a band from Green Bay and that strong northerly windsjto La Crosse, with the latter city would cause considerable blow-; reporting a total of five inches on ing and drifting. the ground at 6 a.m. By mid- The mercury nosedived to 12; morning the snow there had Gunshot Six Ki Prosecutor Earl Kileen said that Edward Gein had broken a stubborn 30-hour silence and admitted that he "knew something" about the macabre collection. Kileen said that Gei told him he "might of" killed the victims, and admitted the ghastly butchering of a 58-year-old Plainfield businesswoman Saturday. Gein was asked whether, in connection with the disemboweling of Mrs.

Bernice Worden, he had intended to eat his victim. "On that point he still has a lapse of memory," the district attorney said. The five latest heads to be found were wrapped neatly in plastic bags. Shortly after 11 a.m. (CST), the 51-year-old Gein a frail looking 140-pound bachelor wearing rubber boots, and with his red cloth gloves handcuffed before him, was taken from the Waushara County Jau at Wautoma by Kileen, Sheriff Art Schley and County Judge Boyd Clark.

"He has something he wanta to show us," Kileen said. The farm scene where the grisly discoveries were made lay under a four-inch blanket, of mow today but State Crime Laboratory work 'of searching the buildings. Investigators found the remains of four women in the farm home Sunday. Law enforcement officials refused to furnish any details, but dozens of city, county and slate officers sifted the 160-acre property throughout the night But this chilled community was full of rumor of how the bedroom of Gein, a bachelor and some' time babysitter, was decorated with furniture upholstered in hu man skin. Dist, Atty.

Earl Kileen said Gein would be arraigned before County Judge Boyd Clark today on a charge of robbery. Cash Register Found Kileen, who earlier had said first degree murder warrants woCld be issued, explained that the robbery charge would involve theft of a cash register and its contents from the hardware store which Mrs. Bernice Worden, 58, Turn to BODIES on Page SELF SERVICE LONG BEACH, Calif. MP! Raymond D. Welke, 21, was pursued for two miles by police as he drove a big bus on an erratic course through town.

Officers said Welke told them he became tired of waiting for a bus and finally walked to a bus depot and helped himself to one. He was booked on suspicion of drunk driving and auto theft. Fatal Shootings in Two Days Top Total for Entire Season Last Year degrees below zero in parts of; Wyoming. Heavy rains sprayed eastern Texas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and southeastern Missouri. Dyersburg, had three inches of rain in six hours.

Large Areas Flooded Thousands of acres of farmland were inundated and many families were evacuated in' the sodden southeast Missouri boolheel. The area has been drenched by 11 inches of rain in a week. The rains ended the cotton crop for the year. Schools were closed, in Bragg City, Deering, Portage-ville and Arbyrd. Warm weather continued in tornado plagued Alabama and Mississippi.

Twisters skipped across more than a dozen communities in the two states Sunday. Another tor- stroyed or damaged Raln, Thunderstorms The thunderstorms and showers extended from Virginia southward and all of Texas except the Panhandle. Northwest of the rain and storm belt, snow fell from Iowa to the Texas Panhandle and westward fnto eastern Wyoming and Colorado. The first big blast of wintry weather, hit central and northern Wisconsin Sunday night and the weatherman says there's more to come. The snowfall was described as changed to a freezing drizzle.

Elsewhere in the state this morning, drizzle was falling in the southwestern corner, rain and Turn to WEATHER on Page 2 INTERESTED PHOENIX, Ariz. Iff Arizona Republic columnist Don Dedera recently wrote about desecration of Arizona's historical landmarks. Letters piled up from readers asking what they could do to prevent it. But one reader asked for directions to one of the old graveyards so he could "get one of those rustic headboards before they are all gone." crushed by falling timbers, hos pital attendants said. Most of the other injured in Ala bama were from the Cross Roads area.

Twisters also hit Manches ter, Pine Springs, Sulligent and Cullman. Tom Dugan, 85, and his wife, about 79, were killed when a tor-. nado flattened their home near Macon in eastern Mississippi. Another twister destroyed stores and homes in Stewart, a town of about 350 in central Mississippi. Other twisters were reported at Starkville.

Gattman, Geerbrook, Kilmichael, the Deerbrook community near Brooksville, and near Monticello. Relief workers said 13 houses and a large country store were destroyed at Cross Roads. Gein Admits Killing Woman, (ileen Reveals WAUTOMA In a statement released1 to the press at 1:45 p.m. today, Dist. Atty.

Earl F. Kileen said that Edward Gein had admitted the murder of Mrs. Ber-nice Worden. In a somewhat incoherent statement, Kileen said, Gein confessed that he recalls dragging Mrs. Wor-den across the floor of her store, loading the body Into her truck, driving it to the edge of the Tillage, walking back to the village to get his own car, and then transferring the body to his vehicle.

Gein insisted, however, that he was "hazy about many things. The only thing I'm not sure of, is that I killed her, because I didn't have a weapon with me or on my property." Dist Atty. Kileen said, however, that he had been Informed Mrs. Worden was shot to death. According to the district attorney, Gein then told how he took the body of the Plainfield merchant to his farm home, hung it by the heels, and dismembered it.

To Be Arraigned He is to be arraigned in County Court this afternoon on a robbery charge, the district attorney indicating he wanted to check with him on several points before charging him with murder. Kileen said he is satisfied that other skulls found on Gein's farm were taken from cemeteries, as Gein insisted that is what he did. Kileen, Gein, who is being held in connection with the slaying. County, Judge Boyd Clark and Sheriff Art Schley toured the Gein farm, seven miles west of Plain-field late this morning, but Kileen refused to divulge whether Gein had admitted the killing, and said a statement would be released this afternoon. Discounts Date Story Kileen has discounted a report that Gein asked Mrs.

Worden for a date to go roller skating when the two met Saturday morning at Mrs. Worden's store. Mrs. Worden, a widow, had operated the store since the death of her husband in 1931. The district attorney said he had learned the proposal to go roller skating was made jokingly, and not is seriousness.

Neighbors of Gein said the slightly-built man did not the land on his farm, but worked as a laborer and part-time odd jobs man for other farmers and in Plainfield, shoveling snow or mowing lawns. They said he had lived alone, as far as they knew, since his mother died several years ago. The number of skulls found on the farm has been placed at 10. Kileen said, however, that he "doubted very much" whether any other murders could be solved with the evidence found on the Gein farm. Gein was arrested at Hill's Grocery Store in West Plainfield Saturday evening, after Mrs.

Wor den's son, Frank, reported the disappearance of his mother to sheriff's officials. 1 more human heads have been r' A A 10 Perish In Weekend Road Mishaps By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dr. John Schindler, Monroe'i famed physician-author, headed a list of 10 weekend highway fatalities that raised Wisconsin's 1937 traffic death toll to 794 compared with 844 on this date last year. The State Motor Vehicle Department revised the total on the basis of reports of deaths attribut- aoie to accidents previously unreported. A sailor died at Manitowoc SaU urday night when he was hit by a car while standing near stalled automobile.

Authorities identified him as James E. Radl, 22, of Elroy, who was sta-tioned aboard the Destroyer Escort U.S.S. Daniel A. Joy. The craft is berthed at the Manitfiww shipyards for repairs.

The acci. dent occurred on Memorial Drivt between Manitowoc and Two Riv ers. Hits Bridge Abutment A man identified as R. E. Aren.

son, about 35, Green Bay, was killed early today when his car left a rural road 19 miles north-west Of Antigo, smashed into a concrete bridge abutment and overturned In a creek. The car landed upside down in six feet of water. Tarn to FATALS on Page Feeling High In Plainfield PLAINFIELD, Wis. (UP)Re-cluse farmer Ed Gein was the only topic of conversation along the main street of this village of 700 today. Most of the residents either knew Gein or had seen and heard about him.

"The town Is stunned and said Ed Marolla. editor of the Plainfield Sun. "No one is talking about anything else." Feelings of some citizens were reported "high" In this shopping center for farms in this area. "If the town got hold of that guy, the town'd know what to do about him all right," said one man who didn't want to be identified. However, Marolla said "nothing violent was in the wind.

No crowds are gathering." Marolla said he had known Gein for several years. "He was one of those fellows who's not too bright, but he was considered harmless. He liked to play with the kids, and even did some babysitting." "He had no criminal record of any kind. He was kind of unim-posing," said Marolla. "As far as I know, he never pestered any women," said Ma rolla.

at Lomax Thursday night. Sheriff Hugh Champion said he was baffled at what caused the trouble because "feeling between whites and Negroes has been good in our county." But he said the Incident ap- 1 I izational work of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People." By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I Six hunters perished in gunshot accidents Saturday and Sunday, the first two days of Wisconsin's nine-day deer hunting season. Two of the victims were fathers accidentally shot by' their sons. The total compares with four gunshot deaths during the entire nine-day season a year ago.

Eskie Burgess, 44, of Chicago, was killed about noon Sunday near Phillips in Price County. Au thorities said his son, Joseph, 13, accidentally fired a cocked rifle while standing about 260 feet from his father. George Schieber, 64, Stratford, suffered a fatal wound in the stomach about 7 a.m. Sunday in Jackson County. Investigators said a deer ran between Schieber and his son.

George 22, Milwaukee and a bullet from George's gun hit his father. Is Shot in Head Dixie Tornadoes Claim Five Lives Wounds Hunters Richard M. Watts. 27, Milwaukee was shot through both cheeks Sunday while hunting near Bevent in central Marathon County. Watts was in fair condition today at Wausau Memorial Hospital.

The mishap occurred as Watts and two companions shot at a fox. The sheriff's office said that Watts apparently was hit by a stray bullet. Rural Omro Farmer Dies Deer Hunting OMRO Funeral services will be held here Tuesday for Merrill James Cole, Rt. 1. Omro.

who died deer-hunting near Borth The 53-year-old farmer had been; hunting alone in a marsh near! Highway 21. His body was found; lying face down by Richard Tan-! ner, Rt. 1, Omro, who called the Winnebago County sheriff's office from a nearby farm about 3:30 p.m. He was believed to be the first heart attack fatality of the 1957 deer hunting County Coroner Dr. G.

A. Steele, who accompanied sheriff's officers to the scene, said Mr. cole appar- Dulles Gives Adlai Ideas On Fortifying NATO WASHINGTON UP-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today gave Adlai E. Stevenson some of the administrations ideas for strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and asked him to study them. Stevenson promised Dulles at a 90-minute State Department, conference to devote "as much time" as possible to the NATO preparation problem.

The two-lime Democratic presidential nominee said he will re view administration proposals ana make his comments in a way "to be as useful as possible." But he said bluntly that if he does not approve administration proposals to be laid before the Dec. 16-18 NATO summit conference at Paris, "I shall say so." Plan Is "Encouraging" This was Stevenson's first meeting with Dulles as a consultant on the forthcoming NATO meeting. He described it as extremely cordial and friendly. Asked if he hopes the arrange ment will work out, Stevenson replied "Yes. I think it is very encouraging." Stevenson was given the State Department office of G.

Frederick Reinhardt, department counselor who is coordinating administration plans for the NATO conference. Stevenson said he expects to work in Reinhardt's office the rest of today and perhaps part of Tuesday. Sees Useful Purpose n-foonuhiu Spn Alexander nf u-innein senior ReDiib- lican on the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee said the Dulles Stevenson conference could serve a useful purpose He said both bh ppniihlipsnw RhniilH lblicans si lay aside their partisanship and m. tw nnrtisanshin and" Louis Arndt, 61, Seymour, a heart attack Saturday while shot in the head while hunting in1 the Town of Popple River in For est County. Cletus Nytes, 25, Kaukauna, was shot to death Saturday while hunting near Dunbar in Marinette County.

Thomas Hanley, 28, Cudahy, was found dead beside a highway Saturday about three miles north of Fairchild in Eau Claire County. A bullet had hit him in the neck. i Henry vanaervest. t(, Luxem 6' burg. was wounded fatally Satur-jently died of a heart attack, i day about two miles from Newaldj The son of Edward Cole and the in Forest County.

Sheriff Lyle late Mrs. Cole, he was born July! Tll 'J II. no 1 Whites and Negroes Clash in Gun Battles JASPER, Ala. W) Tornadoes struck 13 rural communities in Alabama and Mississippi yesterday. Five persons died and scores of homes were battered.

A number of buildings were damaged by another twister at While settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, Tex. Alabama was hardest hit. Three persons were killed and nine injured, one critically. Two were killed in Mississippi and the state patrol said several persons were injured. Mr.

and Mrs. Wilford E. Bradford and their 14-year-old daughter Billie Lou were killed when their home was blown down at Cross Roads, six miles west of Jasper. June Speegle, 14. who was visiting the Bradford girl, was in critical condition.

Her legs were TORNADO This dramatic picture shows a salu "ellIicl" n-1'. wi, in uie mu nuMiiw u. atjHe twice owned automobile ga- runnin8 deer iust as Vender- rages and was employed for time as an engineer on construe-1 tion of the famous Alcan Highway; CLANTON. Ala. UUAn The other officers were not be-before his return to farm life andjgatlon continued today into a se- lieved seriously hurt, marriage to Edith of gunfights between Negroes There speculation that the WauDaca Aue 7 19i0 iand whlte law enforcement offi- 4.

vaupaca, Aug. iu. left'shootings might have grown out Family Survives jone egro man feaA. jof tensions caused by Ku Klux pull together as American team mates." Another GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeSen. George D.

Aiken of Ver montsaid earlier that he did not Milwaukee, told him he fired vest walked into the line of fire Several hunters were injured seriously in other gunshot accidents. In Critical Condition Charles Page 20, Adams, was hunting Sunday in Adams 0 went through the side of his ab domen. He was taken to a Ma dison hospital in critical condition. Marvin Hager, 25, Fenwood, was shot in the shoulder Sunday morning while hunting in northeastern Monroe County. Ben Mientke, 41, Wausau, was shot in the groin Saturday in an Ben Mientke, 41, Wausau, shot in the groin Saturday in an see what good would come of tne County when slugs (rom a 16 Surviving are his father; his: President's appointment Khf.t.1n njprrprj hie hand andwife: two daughters, Mrs.

Kenneth' Four sheriffs deputies were Klan activity in the county. A wounded by flying pellets in gun'cross was set afire by Klansmen DrUfnn fclknr i 1 cl iodines im.n urgm. oduuudj hours of Sunday. ana lasiea into tne eany a Judith Spiegelberg, at home; two. Loie, ai nome; a Stevenson.

Niagara Falls Fire Being Investigated NIAGARA FALLS NY (UP) City officials today investigated a sons, Richard, Milwaukee, a dj Willie Dunigan, 43-year-old farm James, at home; one brother, Ro-jhand, was fatally wounded in a land, Auburn, two gun battle with officers at his Mrs. Raymond Tilkins, Oshkosh, early yesterday; He died and Mrs. Rexford Stearns, Rt. 1, about five hours later of chest Oshkosh; and four grandchildren. iWounds.

Three sisters preceded him in; held tZTin live nuurs iaiur cu 1 tuesipeaieu iu nave ueen yiaimeu ue- fire that swept a three-story tene-Oneida county accidents i.iSui ik6iucs ikj i- ment early Saturday killing 18 Norman Pickett, 29. Milwaukee. a- i at the Chilton County jail for ques-json after they stopped three white persons and injuring eight. jwas shot in the leg Saturday just! Services will be held at 2 p.m.jfioning. jboys to check their drivers 11- Fourteen of the victims were' 10 'minutes after the season "Tuesday at the Bronson Funeral' One of them, Osie Hill, 45.

wasjeenses. children of the two Negro families Opened. He was hunting near Wis-! Home, the Rev. William Lippman-captured with the aid of blood- The sheriff said, "Some people occupying the building known asconsin Rapids. of Auroraville officiating.

Burial hounds, ending an extensive man-Jseem to think that the trouble the Moonclow Hotel I Robert Stubbe, 16, Route 4, will be in Eureka Cemetery. which followed the woundingjmight have resulted from organ- Oneida County accident. Eight Negroes were being Wausau, suffered a scalp wound while hunting near Boulder June tion in Vilaj County. I WHICH KILLED THREE PERSONS tornado as it. heavy damage as they ranged across Mississippi and Alabama.

Picture was made by an amateur photographer. (AP Wirephoto) Fire officials believed a gas furnace explosion was responsible for the blaze. Friends may call at the funeraljof Deputy Sheriff Floyd Porter, home from this afternoon until the! Porter's left arm was shattered hour of services. by a shotpn blast at close range. moved through a rural area near Jasper, where it killed a father, mother and 14-year-old daughter.

Twisters caused five deathi end.