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WAUKESHA DAILY FREEMAN VOL. XXXII---NO. 18 One of the Midwest'i Prize Winning Newspapers JI WAUKESHA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1952 Twelve Pages Fantastic Story of Capture by Two Men Budget Group Cuts Requests For Wage Hikes Officials sliced a total of $5.000 from eight proposed departmental budgets Thursday night and in so doing posed a thorny and familiar problem for the city council as a stubbs said he was forced to lie Milo Stubbs, 26, of Mukwonago village, related today the story of how two hitchhikers kidnapped him in his own car and forced him under gunpoint to travel with them as far as West Virginia where he was pushed out into a ditch. During the five-day "nightmare," which began last Friday morning, whole to consider. The reductions, which actually totaled 55,105.

were gained mainly by slicing proposed salary raises for city hall stenograpners and secretaries in half. Budget officials rejected the 10 per cent salary in- the floor in the back of the car. He also related that he was "roughed up" after an attempt to escape on a side street in Indianapolis. section of Hys. 18 anfl 100, one of the hitchhikers pulled a revolver and ordered Stubbs to turn right and drive to Chicago.

Shortly before they reached Chicago, Stubbs said, he was ordered to get out from behind the wheel and lie quietly on the floor in the back of the car. The pair, who called each other "Bud" and "John" in their conversation, abandoned Stubbs' car in Brookville, and forced him into another car. Eisenhower Announces New Treasurer a ndAtty. General creases recommended by depart- in connection with ule refrigeration ment heads and instead imposed a and air conditionin business he Stubbs, married and the father of Stubbs said they traveled at nighi, four children, picked up two young land slept in the car. hitchhikers on Hy.

18 Friday morning about 10 a m. He was driving to Milwaukee to buy some parts ed on a side street operates in Mukwonago. When the car reached the inter- five per cent pay boost. The budget committee, i consists of three aldermen a three city officials, was divided in I its opinion on the salary issue. dermen Eric Bergwall, 10th ward; and Paul Steinert, third ward voted' for the wage cuts.

The third alder-1 man, Frank Roberts, was present! for the early part of the meeting! but left before the secretarial payi issue arose. City Comptroller Charles Hughes led the fight to retain the full pay.kesha county has long been recog- increases sought in the proposed nized," Gavin McKerrow, Pewau- See Opportunity For Ag Leaders "Agricultural leadership in Wau- budgets. City- Treasur S. V. Sohaf- er agreed.

Mayor C. C. Smith at first voted to retain the full increases hut itched his vote when it was proposed the council as kee, president of the Golden Guernsey Cooperative association, said before more than 160 guests at thc county farm Thursday noon where the annual dinner for county board whole be to decide on the! members and their wives, and salarv policy. county officials and employes was i Stubbs 'Picture on page 2 Hughes argued thai if the proposed raises were cut by the commit- iw the council as a whole take this as a from the budget committee a Cooney Council Okays Higher Budget for '53 OCONOMOWOC A 1953 city budget of $283.013 was adopted by the Oconomowoc common council Thursday night following a public hearing in the city hall attended by Wm. Green AFL Chief, Dies at Home WASHINGTON (UP) AFL President William Green died today at his home at Coshocton, AFL headquarters announced.

The announcement said Green died at 12:22 p.m., c.s.t., of heart The reading of the budget He was 79 and had been City Clerk Edgar Otto and its adop-jpresident, of the AFL since 1924. tion by the council took only 201 He was the second top labor minutes. There was no opposition leader to die of a heart ailment 11 persons. to any of its provisions. The new budget is $2,828 higher within two weeks.

CIO President Philip Murray than Us 3 2 counterpart and died at gan Frandsco Nov g. 5109,328 to be raised by taxation, Green ha(J gone to his native show an increase of S4.62S, but the Coshocton Washington early tax rate here will drop by 11 cents October, per assessed valuation because this year the total assessed valuation of the city is up $731,00. The tax rate for city ROV-J eminent purposps will be 23, as! compared to $8.34 for this year. pd by Harold a The 1953 city receipts, as psti- cities, during the day. In Indianap- mated in the new budget will be iolis he tried to slide out when one' 173,685.

The largest item under a opened the car door to get receipts is the S75.000 expected i some coffee and lunch. According i from street, railway, and gas tax-: Lao UBcUc and the musi- reduced salary appointed city officials their action of las, night, Romame Schaub, TMdocl belt. Afterwards they tied arc (o get pay raises under the new pet committee members approved purchase of a new car for the city planner and approved his requested salary increase of $600 a year. The planner presently earns 53,900 given by the Rev. L.

Glenn Cloninger. hands and feet. "Tuesday at'budget. The polifp chief's (Robert about 3 'n the morning they stop- Race) salary will go up S200 per Names Stassen Chief of Mutual Security Agency NEW YORK (UP) President- elect Dwight D. Eisenhower today appointed two more nembers'4of his Cabinet.

They are George M. Humphrey, Cleveland, as secretary of treasury and Herbert Brovvnell New Yuik City, as attorney general. Eisenhower also announced he would name Harold E. Sfassen, long-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination, as director of the Mutual Security Agency, succeeding W. Averell Harriman.

Browneli was 1944 chairman of the Republican National Committee. 1948 director Of the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Gov. Thomas E. Devpy, and in the current campaign one of Eisenhower's top strategists. Humphrey is president of the Mark A.

lianna steel manu- Six-year-old Mar-'today. The girl was on her way to facturcrSi of Cleveland, and tha Weaver is comforted by Miss school at the time. Police said she hoMs posit ons on any industrial i suffered abrasions of the knee and firms He was cheboxgan. home and Loney, principal of RandaJl, ghock ghe was rcmoved to Wau- Mich and prarticed in 'sagi- ed to his bed for school after the youngster was kesha Memorial hospital in the He was in Coshocton Memorial Hospital for two days for what doctors at the time described as a "routine BY BUS checkup." he was taken, a time. struck by a city bus in front of county ambulance shortly AFL headquar-i 320 Colleeg ave at about 1 p.m.! this photo was taken.

'ters here said it, Buffered 6 a heart a a Thursday night' and that he I nspection However, a total of S850 was cutlthe institution were Mr. and Mrs. I He said he walked and hitchhiked director of public works from the plan commission budget! Robert Gall, superintendent and into Washington. where he Buchlcr) will be up S400 to So WO. with reduction of proposed expendi-jmatron of the Waukesha county 1 telegraphed his brother-in-law, Ro-.

The assessor and Hires and tho planner's and infirmary Sturgeon, 330 S. Washington bmed office salary request. The planner and'Guests were particularly impress-' ttaukesha. Hit Young Girls pod the car and pushed me into a'year to $4,400. The other poll re- Host and hostess for the official drtrh somewhere in the mountains men will pet a yearly raise of 5120., Wm.

Green Hhcnng and annual inspection West Virginia." The annual salary fo(rH sa nk rapidly during the Tt quoted doctors as saying "hisj TW(J xVaukesha girls, aged i just gave out." and ff 0 red minor injuries to- Headquarters said Green had'day in too separate accidents in' Rescue ttork been in daily touch with city. 'com Walter Krupft-r) will also get a $400 raise to make his Scouts Work On 'Crashes' p-n i i i i i i i i i i i-ii i mavor use thp samr secretary and ed with the new laundry and itsi Sturgeon flew to Washington yes; salary $5.200. The recreation ai- lerday and brought him back to, rector (Joe Conwayl was given an Waukpsha bv Grevhound bus. On annual pay raise of $300 to give rarh has requested a raise of $350 for the girl. Hpr prpsfnt salary is K.

100 equipment. "I'm going to talk about eh', a home they stopped a him a salary of 53,800. Slip" would receive $2.400 8 thinBS as salt po ar tclcv lsion in Rrookville, Ind. Stubbs re- under the proposed raises. The mayor's budget was rut $100.

which accounted for his share of the salary of the secretary shared with the ijty pi.irinrr. Kis total budget stands at $7,500. Thp rity rlerk asked $2,400 for rpcrptnrinl help and rprpived The pny roll olcrk who is included in thc city dork's budget was cut from proposed $300 a year rmsp to $105 or $2 205. The rily assessor's budget was reduced hv SI.1(55 when the committee sliced Ul 000 from (he request od salary for a consultant and $)65 from thc requested pay boost McKerrow said in his opening re-, he oily, romomhermg a marks. "I rernll turning the sau-; Iepd storp anci a garage there.

sage grinder for my grandmother i recovered Stubbs' i i i nuu 4. CO (VIA TVT "but that doesn't, by Shcriff Tarnes ix- at of van! to KO back to on Frnm SUlbbs description of his 'Dumhcck stated. The insp nf tin-nine the nav for itspll trie Iirsr descriptu Hixon said one probably- man i ssor's clptk. on the farm where 1 live anamionod car which nad been inn he continued, mean that we wan those days or those of turning thc handle on the cream separator and putting in the long hours." Sound practices on the part farmers dealing with cattle, hogvS, sheep and dairy products a made this county what it is. farm groups have attained great! heights berausp leaders have ac- cpptcd responsibilities a dis charged them, he pointed out.

While the council was still in session thc members voted, on Alderman Rowland Evans" moiion, to purchase a snow loader for the city MC instead of at thc cui bs. SS i two snuads rf Boy Fcouts in a staged auto acci- a dont in the business distuct navv. before becoming at- a ter torney for the Hanna Co. Stassen. former governor of Minnesota, has been a perennial contender for the GOP nominanon and during the recent campaign was a frequent advisor to the Eisenhower btaff.

Eisenhower headquarters announced the president-elect would leave hy tram at m. for ard a reunion of ruS C. press secre- the president-elect, said ton headquarters up to Jane Kutschenreuter, 4 of HP had been ill during the AFL Motor Hill Terrace suffered abras- lc med National Convention in New York on when she was struck hy nn TVl ri ph1 briefly after the convention and, auto di hy Lorraine Kiyo 2 7 mui.aaj then went to his Coshocton Motor Hill Terrace. Police said The "accident" occurred in front Sa iri rP sidcntial cuiar- Ftmeral services were set ne i darted out from behind a pos office scouts fiom ers a gQ Morningside Drive, New tively for Monday at Coshoc- house and was struck by the Kiyo me ag Explorer Troop York Citv. the SafcU Week program Eisenhower would neve no other anpo ntments in Washington other than thc reunion and would spend ton.

car. She was takon to Waukesha Methodist church. TT pri on roco'S counni about a prison in the South, uas lo send identification pictures to Stubbs for confirmation. Sturgeon reported to the immodiatcly i against the '52 budget. "After the council meeting was adjourned the aldermen held a board For thp past 20 years our turday stubbs was missing.

department of publie uo.ks meeting Onepom. TM gross has struggled to for the I.PO Mniiin, retired city assessor on5 the Hoovpr rommission Thp nskpd that $1,800 Imidpd thc many citizenship inrludnd in thp hudgpt to rover 1 hei which werp ronsultam's salary for nil of a over 10 na tion and rccallpd ypnr The i reduced this that he served Governor Wni- 1o SSOO. I J. Kohler bpforp hp took oath Edward Rutrhcr, and One of Eisenhower's visitors today the President-elect will bypass Japan on his forthcoming Korean trip. thp late Samuel Gomp- aoour i wnen struck The stunt was a contest betwpprj Korea a surcwdms thp Idte el by a city bus The bus was driven the two groups and it pointnd he JS to re 'resident of the federal ion i by Leo 45.

Oconomowoc up the Safety eek program Post ported Sen Alcxander Srn irh 'route 4. The accident occurred in 208 defeated the rival tioop tvvo Qne of the ranking Repub- front of 320 College ave. by a score of Lto-LA. Police said the girl anparently The AFL Executive Council was Mcmorlal hospl tal hy the driver. partJC at- nTsutessor" 16 "th Weaver 6 of 51 McCa ed in the demonstration.

Grpcn became AFL president st suffered abrasions and shock tho i-jtr. r.nmn- about 1 when she was stri: prs, one fir tion of Labor in almost three decades of growth and turbulence. Under him tho AFL maintained its place as the country's biggest and longest-established trade union organization. But he failed to prevent the schism from winch, under the orig- locate Stubbs. lers "racing" on Summit avenue The city attorney requested and received an ndditionnl $207 in his budget.

This total will cover dues 'and that later he served as chairman himself. Wiley EnterS a during the high school noon hour. McCoy Discussion SPARTA, Wis. fUP)--Sen Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) promised to- He declared that our government dny ask the Army to hold up nnd expenses for tho city to join the greatest business in a order oslnR amp McCoy national association of municipal law officers. A total of 51,205 w.is sliced from the building inspector's budget.

Of this total, S2SO was taken from the proposed $405 a year secretarial increase, $400 from the proposed $600 a year assistant inspector's salary and $300 from thc proposed $300 a year increase for the inspector. Thp city engineer. Walter i is presently paid SG.fiOO a year and he requested $7 -100. Dick pointed to salaries paid to heads of comparable departments. He said (he administrator at city owned Waukesha Memorial hospital earns $1,282 a year and the manager of the water utility is paid $7.500.

"pending thorough investigation." world but that it is not hpmg rim ike we would run the county Board's business or any individual business. "Opportunities for leaders in agriculture are tremendous," he emphasized. Many of our leaders are active in cooperatives, and vve do not have to allow our cooperatives to be harnessed down with government regulations. Contrary to the belief of many, cooperatives do pay taxes." Incentive planning which is centered around the family and church is needed, and only by planning as we have learned in thc past, a an Arm lc misrepresented can we preserve the incentive a lls explanation of the Butcher said that he felt that the Summit avenue situation was dangerous and "although once it was under control, but is now getting out of hand again Butcher said he thought havino; a policeman on loot in the high school area might help. Police Captain Clarence Nieman this school year.

Wiley made the promise after i said, "We patrol the hich school talking by telephone from New i area every noon." He added that York to members of a committee he beloved that at least eight high fighting the closing. school drivers have been arrested The group took action Nov. Inland have losr their driver's licenses after hcnrin? that Camp McCoy was among five posts to be closed down in part under an economy order. The camp will be used only for summer training of reservists and guardsmen. The Camp McCoy Community Relations Committee charged, in a telegram sent to the senator today, tions.

Green always opposed "dual unionism." and he fought bitterly with his old friend Lewis when the United Mine Workers' chieftain broke with the AFL in 1936. When Lewis left to embark on a campaign to organize on industry- wide lines the mass production workers of the country, he took a strong company of other AFL unions with him. being cooperative. order. Dulles Called 'Notorious' Spy' in Red Czech Trial WISCONSIN: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday.

A little colder southwest tonight and southeast portion Saturday. Low tonight 2328 northwest; 25-32 southeast. High Saturday 35-40. Minimum temperature to 7 a.m. 26.

Mean temperature: 35. Temperature range here yesterday: high, 38; low. 33. temperature' range here a year ago: high, 45; low, 28. Local Hourly Temperature fiSTr lOin? 2 Temps 31 42" 44 45 45 Sunrise WAUKESHA'S ALMANAC Saturday, November 22 a.m.

p.m MbWin Pwigee, fU 9M I P.m. Vlref nitArtfr NOV. pMlNENT'STAR: Aldebornn, In low in 5.0W p.m. p.m. VIENNA, Austria (UP) John Foster Dulles, newly named secretary of state in American President elect Dight D.

Eisenhower's Cabinet was named as a "notorious spy" in the indictment against 14 top Red Czechs accused of espionage and treason, it was revealed today. Thc full indictment against the former top ranking Czech Communist Party and government members was received in Vienna today. The trial. Communism's biggest since the Moscow purges of the mid-1930's, was in its second day in Prague's Pankrac Court, Bedrlch Gtmlnder, once of the Kremlin's top men in Red Czechoslovakia pleaded guilty today to charftcs of treason and espion- He followed the former lecretary- general of the Czech Communist parly, Rudolf Slansky who Thursday confessed to "crimes" ranging from treason and espionage to murder. Former Foreign Minister Vladimir Clemcntis will take the stand this afternoon before the five-man "Peoples Court" probably to plead guilty to similar charges.

Prague Radio broadcast the proceedings which were held before a dread People's Court in Prague, No Western newspaper correspondents were present they were withdrawn from Iron a i Czechoslovakia after the imprisonment as a spy of American newsman William N. Oatis. The full text of the indictment said the "band of conspirators headed by Slansky did their best to serve their imperialist masters such as the notorious spy John Foster Pewaukee Woman Couldn't Hear Radio Pewaukee woman Thursday this as one reason why she wanled a divorce from her husband: he turned off her favorite rariio programs "just to spite her." The woman is Mrs. Mayme A. Schwartz.

60. Her husband was William A. Schwartz, 66, of Hart- and, a farmer-laborer. Circuit Judge Allen D. Young granted Mrs.

Schwartz the divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Mrs. Schwartz also charged that her husband drank too much, used abusive language and had an ungovernable temper. In lieu of alimony, Mrs. Schwartz was granted the couple's house Hartland, including all furniture, furnishings and appliances, plus a settlement of $1,807.51.

The couple was married Oct 11. 1913. and has one child 26 years old. darted out from in front of a parked car and was struck by The scouts were given the follow- iing problem by Judges E. J.

Mc- fire inspector and frst aid lican members of the Senate Foreign relations committee. This was the first precise news about the Far Eastern trip of the bound bus. She was removed to i president-elect. But merely con- Waukesha Memorial hospital in the fj department and, firmed Eisenhower's intention to county ambulance. first aid instructor: make a flym? trip into the Korean i war zone and nothing more.

Smith, after talking with Eisen- Hotel "During a period of evening traffic congestion, an auto is in- U-olved in a serious accident. When at his Commodore the emergency patrol arrives at the headquarters, said he thought Eis- COnVICTGu 00165 one person is trapped in the was going to Korea be- auto and registers no signs of pulse! cause a number one item A ,1 or breathing. Two other people in vve an let dust sett any NEW YORK fUP) Federal he auto were throvvn clear ar to Judge Irving I. Kaufman today set' lvjng next to the auto, the week of Jan. 12 for the execu- The scouts went to work on the, tion of convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenbers.

now in the deathhouse at Sing Sing Prison. By tradition. New York state carries out its executions on Thurs- victims and were graded by points on the injuries they detected and the emergency treatment they provided. All treatment had to be (jcvi i i i i i A i day night so the actual death date completed within 10 Ommutes. after v- T-- tuTM- Tn whip.h time Dolice were due to'ar- New Lutheran Group Formed in Waukesha The Luthern Church Missouri Synod, will conduct worship services for the first time on Waukesha's south next Sunday, November 23.

Services will be held temporarily at Randall school. The time of the service is 10:45 a.m. Rev. Edmund Peters will be in charge of the service. It is planned to organize a Sunday school within a few weeks.

This new congregation will be $2,000 Stolen From Grocery More than $2,000 was stolen from a Mukwonago grocery store sometime during the night when burglars carted off a 400-pound safe. F. A. Lobdell, owner of Lobdell's IGA store, said he noticed the burglary when he opened the store at 7:40 a.m. today.

"I saw that the cigaret stand and other stands were messed up," Lobdell said. "Not long after, I noticed that the safe was gone." The heavy safe contained the money plus store records and a bank book. Lobdell said "the burglars were very nice" about not ransacking the store or its office, but he added that he thought they took some cigarets. The thieves broke window in (he rear door and unlocked it, Lobdell reported. "The safe was up in front of the store." he explained.

"They took it under more light than we have here in the daytime Four county deputies were at the store today taking fingerprints and investigating the scene. The Lobdell storp just opened for business last July. would be Jan. 15, if there are no further postponements. The husband and wife team rive to take over rescue work.

The first "accident" occurred at The husoana ana wire ream was 7 3Q and members of troop convicted Federal Court March I respO nded were John Smith undertook two missions to Korea himself, one in 19-19 and another in 1951. 29, 1951, for treason on charges of passing atomic secrets to Russia. They have been confined to Sing Sing since that date, while their case was appealed. Admits Taking Funds From State Bank MEDIA. Pa.

(UP)--Mrs. Thelma P. Orr, 43 will be sentenced Dec. 11 on charges of embezzling $40,050 from the Prospect Park State Bank where she was employed as an assistant cashier. Dulles Pledges Clean Bureau NEW YORK (UP)-John Foster Dulles, picked as secretary of state in the Eisenhower cabinet, announced today that "there is going "Victims' for this accident were bc R0 ta nf of susp i on about George Lemmer.

Tim Roorda the ncw stftte Department." Jack Holman. Each was marked The segj-etaj-y-designate a with scotch tape where the injury (hg announcem en in a press con- was alleged tc have been incurred. ence af Dwight D. Eisenhower's The second "accident" was re- two who responded Funk, John Engler, Lawrence Fordham and David Hamilton. ported at 8 p.m.

and members of Post 208 who responded were Bruce Peterson, Bob Boeck, Chris Mooers and Yale Mooers. "Vic- Commodore Hotel headquarters. 'The first thing I did this morning was to speak on the phone to Mr. J. Hoover, head of the iviuucrt a miu, tims" for his crash were Peter Larson, Gordon Mueller and George Boeck.

Youth Held on $1,000 Bond; Local Man Given Probation Firemen to Buy BIG BEND -(Special)- A used truck and a Heil tank will be bought by the volunteer fire depart merit here for use as tank formally organized in the coming truck. The firemen voted to buy weeks. Ithe truck at a meeting last week. A Minnesota youth was being held at the county jail here today under $1,000 bail after his arraignment in municipal court on a charge of operating an auto without the owner's consent. He is Andrew Leo Oksanen, 20, of Mountain Iron, Minn.

Oksanen is accused of stealing the car owned by Joseph Josing, 953 Greenfield on Nov. 18. Oksanen an escapee from a Minnesota prison farm who was caught with Josing's car at Sparta when deputies there threw up a road block. Judge Scott Lowry told the youth the court will appoint an attorney to represent him, and set preliminary hearing for next Wednesday. In another ease, Orval Ernsting.

28. Eagle route 1, was placed on probation to the state welfare department for a year after pleading guilty to stealing a $65 watch. He was on probation at the time of the offense for another larceny charge, but the judge told him he was being lenient for the sake of Ernsting's family. Emsting is the father of four children, one of them a week old. Floyd Day, 49, Okauchee, was freed on 5100 bail after he was charged with failing to stop after an accident.

The judge continued the case to Monday. Orley Taylor. 18, Mukwonago route 1, was fined $10 and costs for driving 70 miles an hour in a 50 mile an hour zone at Lakeland on Hy. 16. put his best men to work to investigate my life record and to report to Gen.

Eisenhower. "There is going to be no taint of suspicion about the new state department. That goes for the top, for the bottom, and for all between. That's all." Dulles is on record with expression of a firm belief that President- elect Eisenhower can end the war in Korea, and he's now in the number one position to make that belief come true. Continue Probe of Cigaret Burglary Delafield police and county deputies today continued their investigation of the theft of 25 cartons of cigarets from the John McNulty grocery store at Delafield.

Entry was gained through a dow that was broken, the sheriff's department reported today. Nothing else was touched. Thc offense was reported to the department Nov. IS..