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i i i i I 'TUT 1 il iiii VOL. NO. 277. UNITED TRESS EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 21, 1 957, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pries 6 NATO Ready for Immediate iff TOKitf.m'TO; fl a ffn ft 'szzk na fl szz rj Blow at Sa SI it-r; If IT "GBl Ti SSJc- I yr-- 1 second Killing Confessed in I Madison Quiz i WAUTOMA (UP) Ed Gein, confessed killer of two women and possessor of a grisly collection of human heads, was charged today with first degree murder for the butchering of Mrs. Eer-nice Wordei.

Gein's. Oorney entered a plea of Innocent and Innocent by reason of insanity and the hollow eyed -recluse wan bound over to Circuit Court for trial. The proceeding lasted three minutes. WAUTOMA (AP) The attorney representing Ed ward vGein, admitted slayer of two said today he would seek an immediate mental test for his client, and he added VI don't see how there could be any other con elusion but that the man is in sane." William Belter, counsel for ITALIAN POLICE DEMONSTRATORS CLASH Police at Polzano, Italy, are shown wrestling with youths of the South Tyrol.PeopIe's Party who held a rally demanding Independence lor South Tyrol, a iormer Austrian' province now the northernmost part of Italy, About 20,000 German-speaking South Tyrol residents took part la the rally. (UP Telephoto) CRIME LAB SIFTS EVIDENCE -The State Crime Laboratory Wednesday began examination of these sacks and.

boxes of evidence taken from the rural Plainfield home of Ed Gein after completing lie detector tests of the mass murder suspect. All the containers were reported to hold portions of human bodies. (AP Wirephoto) xtlth 51 year old bachelorr Lawyer yms Facing Air Force, Army Coniiriue'Race1 Time Informed sources said ten Presi WASHINGTON Urgent missile spending deci sions and preparations for crucial NATO talks In i d-December will plunge 'Presi dent Elsenhower into one -of the busiest periods of his career when he returns today from1 Augusta, Ga. The President hasust a few weeks tolay out a budget for Congrress stepping tip the missile effort and cutting back non-defense programs. He also must come up with the rallying point for North Atlantic nations to meet Rus sians new-found mllitary-sci tntifle strength.

Interlaced among these two major pressing problems the President will have secondary ones -and the regular business Two Nations Talk of Turn to Red Orbit UNITED NATIONS (UP) Unlted Nations delegates to- dent Very Busy CHICAGO (AP) Secre- tary of State Dulles" says that forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would almost certainly fight back; without waiting for a declara tion of war if attacked in the field. Dulles' told newsmen Wednesday night such a deci sion would be made on the spot by field commanders. He said the attack "almost certainly 1 would Involve American troops because the NATO forces are so intermtn eled." Fire certainly' would be returned, he added. "If it were something comparable Pearl Harbor, say." THE REMARKS arose ut a question about the "time for decision." in the event of a possible atomic at tack on NATO Adlai Stevenson, the two-' time Democratic presidential candidate who has become a consultant to the Eisenhower administration on Atlantic Alliance problems, came to Chicago with Dulles. He told re porters he will do all he can to neip in nts post as consult ant to the Republican administration.

However, Stevenson added that he was "certainly not" a member of President Eisen hower's team. He said he has ndTbeen askedTo" month's big NATO meeting in Paris with Eisenhower a Dulles. "There won't be a decision on that until later," he said. Dulles said Stevenson "will be on the federal payroll a long, long time." If tha for-m Illinois governor ap proves of this country's NATO proposals, Dulles said, he has expressed a willingness to work for their adoption abroad and in this country, Dulles, in an extemporane ous speech before members of the Council on Foreign Rela tions Wednesday night, said the launching of Russian earth satellites would be a very good thing Indeed if they lead us to realize the mag nltude of our peril. THE ONLY possible means of meeting this threat, he said, was in cooperation with other free nations a policy which he said has been successful since 1950.

There has been Virtually no extension of Soviet domain since then, he said. The Russians, he said, are trying to make a deal with the United States under which the United States would drop all bans on the sale to them of strategic goods, acquiesce in the Soviet control over Eastern Europe and either demote or drop our: Western allies, This is too heavy a price to pay, he said, because no country which ever made a deal with the Russians ever got what they were promised. Union Keeps Feiv Records from Probers WASHINGTON (AP) Sen ate rackets Investigators said today they will subpoena Con vention' election reeords of Teamsters locals -in the union's Central Conference. Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel of the special Senate committee, said only a few locals in the conference head ed by James R.

Hoffa have compiled voluntarily with a committee request for. the in formation. Compliance has Seen better elsewhere, Kennedy, said, with a little over. 50 per cent" of the records received and oth ers promised; KENNEDY 8 AID tha. over 75 per cent of the delegates on whom information has been received so far were elected in violation of the union's constitution.

The records, which Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) asked by letter Tast month, deal with locals' selection of delegates to the convention which elected Hoffa president of the Teamsters. The committee contends many' of the. delegates were chosen improperly. Similar charges have been made In a Federal District Court suit challenging Hoffa's election, and he has been barred, from taking offlc: pending outcome of the suit Trial now is scheduled for Dec; 2. Kennedyjtold newsmen that among the locals which have complied are virtually all of those in the Western and Eastern- conferences of Team- He said locals In the South- ern Conference have not yet furnished the information but have agreed to do so by Jan.

1 or alter the end of the court case here on Hofia's' election Test Satellite Rocket Clos to Final Firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP)- A slender Vanguard rocket was believed ready today for a trial launching which may determine' when this nation can launch a There was no Indication whether scientists will at tairrt to test sauita vii.i iUi fir ing test. Nor was there any indication when" scientists plan to let fly with the black, white and gray missile. The mid-section, carrying the vital "brain" for its war or moonhead, has already been tested successfully on the ground. 1 THESE WAS speculation that if a test satellite is launched and goes into orbit, the remaining two scheduled test firings might be called off and an earlier attempt made to put up the actual satellite to match the Russian Newsmen, who make fre quent and often fruitless trips here when there is a hint of a "big shoot," had little to go on besides a brief unveil ing of the rocket the Air Force missile test center Wednesday, and the announce-i ment from Washington that the "brain section" of the Vanguard had undergone successful status firing at the center.

The Defense Department announcement indicated that more ground tests were need. ed before -the rocket can be sent up from its launching pad. These may or may not have already taken place. In Washington, J. Walsh, deputy director of Project Vanguard, told a news conference that the sec ond stage of" the rocket had been successfully tested on the launching pad.

The sec ond stage contains the elec tronic equipment which will guide the rocket and satellite on the flight Into space. The last Vanguard test was Oct. 23. The Defense Department announced it had shot up to 109 miles the earth, reaching a peak velocity of 4,250 miles an hour, i Rise Sharp of running the government to keep his hands full for next six weeks. Top Next Tuesday he makes his third "chins up' speech to the nation from Cleveland on the value of international co operation to U.S.

security. Heholdsa bipartisan meeting Dec. 3 with congreS' sional leaders to go over the U.S. proposals for the NATO meeting. Before NATO will con fer with Adlal EL Stevenson, who-is serving as a special consultant.

He also will confer with Republican leaders separate ly on his legislative program. AT THE SAME time gov ernment economists are gloomily predicting a four million unemployment figure by February and labor lead' ers want the government to bolster the economy. Some of the President's big gest headaches loom in deciding what shall be sacrificed domestically for defense as well as how much more money should be put into missiles. According to current esti mates defense spending may be upped one billion next year to S3 billion dollars. Budget Director Perclval F.

Brundage said Wednesday night that any shift of expend itures would have to come from government "benefit programs." He mentioned specifically farm price sup- ports, veterans allowances and Phone Company Asks Rate Boost MADISON (API The Wis consin Telephone Co. today" asked the Public Service Com mission to authorize a. local exchange rate increase totaling $3,300,000 annually. The utility, the largest in the telephone field in Wiscon sin, is seeking its second Jocal exchange increase in less than a year. In July the company was -authorized to Increase rates at local 603,000.

day weighed warnings that two Important sectors of the Eastern world may turn Communist unless their ter ritorial demands are satis- fied. Indonesian Foreign Mlnis Vter Subandrid and Saudi Arabian Minister of a Shukairy delivered the warn tags in two separate U. N. committee meetings. Wednes- farmer who has told author! ties he killed two women and robbed graves to 6btain nine other human skulls found, in his home, said a psychiatric examination could be ordered summarily.

by a judge without even waiting for a request from defense counsel or the prosecution. THE DISTRICT attorney appears to be willing to go along with me on a mental test," Belter said. "I don't doubt what the results of the examination will be." Dist. Atty. Earl Kileen of Waushara County said he planned to place a first de gree.

murder 'against Gein some time today. lie added ne would not oppose a motion for" a sanity examina tion. Under questioning at the State Crime Laboratory a Madison Gein admitted, according to Direc tor Charles Wilson, that he kKled- and butchered Mrs Bernlce Worden, 58-year-o 1 Plainfield hardware store operator, and Mrs. Mary Hogan, 54, Bancroft tavern operator who had been miss ing since Dec. 8, 1354 Until Wednesday, Gein had refused to admit knowing anything about the Hogan ease.

WE WANT to get this thing over with as quickly as possible," said -Kileen. "Our only interest is seeing that justice is done in the killing of Mrs. Worden The Chicago Tribune said in a copyrighted story today that Gein had told authorities 1 in the Crime Lab examination of a strange sex complex that motivated his sadistic ram page." The Tribune said that Gein also "divulged new and more horrifying details of his ghoulish activities. In a dispatch from the Tribune said it learned that Gein, "a shy, sly, mild mannered bachelor, had wanted to be a woman and that he said this compulsion prompted-Wnv. to women and steal other bodies from graves to get parts to wear upon his own body." Gein was returned to the Waushara County Jail await arraignment on the murder charge.

Gein was at the laboratory for a total of 10 1-2 hours, but underwent only short periods of lie detector tests. The rest of the time was spent in interviews and interrogations. Wilson said in a statement, that Gein had been cleared of any connection in the disappearances of three Wisconsin persons; They were Evelyn Hartley, 15, La Crosse, who vanished in Oc tober, 1953; Georgia Jean Weckler, who was last seen in the driveway of her farm home near Fort Atkinson in May. 1947: and Victor Travis, 51, of Adams County, vanished while hunting in No vember, 1352. 241 Deaths Blcmed on Flooding in India "NEW DELHI (AP) Re cent floods in north India killed 241 persons and destroyed crops valued at more than 27 million an official told Parliament today.

Naturally WAHPETON, N. D. UP) With refreshing candor, the Junior Chamber of Commrce described how it plans to go about extolling North Dako ta's "beautiful weather. Oa, nice days, they'll praise It. When billiard hits, "we'll shot up' until It blows tative plans call for the lead off witnesses to be Dr.

Edward Teller, recognized "fa. ther of the H-bomb, and Dr. Vannevar Bush, long time scientific adviser tctha gov crnment. EEP.MAIION (DTex), chairman of the House Mill-try rrf epilations subcom riiUtee- investigating the 1 a Irt U.H. rr.si'.a tpxiimcny so far ed no decHon i teen cn the Thor Ji controversy.

Rep. Sikes (D Fla), a com mittee member, said he was convinced that as cf now the Pentagon is planning to go ahead with both the Thor and Jupiter. He termed it an "ex cellent idea." MeElroy told the group Wednesday the United States was in "good -shape" on its IREM program and probably would speed up development of sn anti-mlsssle missile. lie also said the program for development of an intercontinental ballistics mlss'Ja was "on schedule." He gave no indication when this country might have an ICEM, It hopes to have enough IRIiMs to stock overseas bases by mld-lS9. Whistling Wolves Reduce Tax SHEFFIELD, En -land (AP) A tax valuation court has granted shapely, 31-year-old Mrs.

Mildred Barker a cut 0 2 pounds (55-60) a year in her real estate tax because of wolves. the wolves were the employes of an engineering works few yards from her home. She testified she drew wolf whistles "when I hang out the laundry, when I wash the steps and when sunbathe in She argued, and the tax court Wednesday, that this lessened -the Value of the house. Daring Thisf Grabs Opium in Courtroom SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Police today were investigat ing the disappearance of five pounds of opium from the court of Superior Judge, Wal- be evidence for a trial. Wcaff25 insCONSTN Partly cloudy and cold tonight with scattered-snow flurries.

Partly cloudy and little warmer Friday. MINNESOTA Pertly cloudy and cold tonight and Friday. Scattered snow flurries in north Friday. -I WEATHER YISTSBDay. (CAA ObMrMMn Urm.

Si Wind dlrC W-NMf Mm, tewB. 74 Wind- mpl TEMPCRATURES TODAY Low tody At mtdmgut 7 -m. 34 1 rm. 72 IS a 3 4 4JH. (noon) Right to Visit Red Nations LOS ANGELES AP) A Los Angeles attorney says he Is the first American to have a oassnort validated for trav el to Communist China and North Korea.

A. L. WIrin's passport was signed Wednesday by W. G. Nerren, acting director of the U.

S. Passport Office in Los Angeles, after a federal judge In San Francisco ruled that Wirtn had right to gather evidence and interview witnesses behind the Bamboo Curtain. The State Department at first had refused to permit Wirln to visit Red China and North Korea. But Judge Louis E. Goodman ofan Francisco ruled last Oct.

30 that unless Wirth was allowed to go he would dismiss sedition charges against WIrin's clients, John and Sylvia Powell. THE POWELLS are charged with printing sedltl ous articles in an English language newspaper they published in Shanghai. -The articles accused the United States of stalling in the Korean peace negotiations, of conducting bacterlo logical warfare and of committing aggressive acts against Red China and North Korea. Denying Wirin a Dassnort. Goodman held, would be violating the constitutional rights of the Powells to pro duce evidence and witnesses, Wirin said he intends to in terview more than 100 per sons nls tnree-montn trip.

including cnou En-lal, foreign minister of China, and Kim Sung, prime minister of North Danes Blast Ouster of Official by Russia COPENHAGEN. Denmark (UP) Denmark has i- cially protested the i explusion of the Danish agri cultural attache from Mo cow as a Russian reprisal to Denmark's ouster of a Soviet diplomat on spy charges, it was announced today. neutrals as Ceylon and Indonesia, who usually show a marked preference for Soviet ideas. A number oi usually pro- soviet delegations were deep ly disturbed by Russia ever- increasing demands during the East-West negotiations last week on enlarging "the commission. Yugoslav Communists, who played a key role in trying to bring the two sides together, became so annoyed by the So viet tactics that they divorced themselves from the deal and quit ihe sponsor's list move to enlarge the commis sion, aid not appreciate Russia's sudden rejection -of the plan after the Indians persuaded the West to go along with the compromise.

1 The. Soviets also angered Austria andFinland, who chided them in the Assembly ior placing their names on the Red list of commission candidates without telling Debate day. Shukairy, speaking in special Political Committee WASHINGTON (UP) House investigators said to day the Defense Department apparency intends to solve the controversy over i 1 rockets by producing both the Air Force's Thor and Army's Jupiter ir.lc mediate rar.ga ballistic missiles (IRBMs). Meanwhile, Senate investigators ta I a malor rci-la hc-arL" r.st Monday hva tn secrt'Jy in tervlewir i ten scter.tlsu and collecting public statements made by Fcntajran over the past three 3 ears, it was learned today. The Senate Preparedness subcommittee headed ty Sen ate Democratic laaur John- son (Tex) has advised Secre tary of Defense MeElroy and Undersecretary Donald A.

Quarles to be ready to testi fy Tuesday or Wednesday, I RapsPineau, Action in U.S. PARIS (UP) French newspapers scored Foreign Minister Christian Flneau. to day and said France came out on the short end in his talks with UJ3. Secretary of State Dulles. Three top-circulation dailies, i "Le Figaro." "Parisien Ll- bere" and "L'Aurore," all normally pro-American, said the results of the Washington conference were slim and disappointing." The leftwing "Combat" and the Socialist "Paris Journal ruefully described the agree ments reached as "limited and of, "relative BEFORE HE left here ear- Her this week Pineau said that no matter.

how successful his talks with Dulles turned -out they could not soothe French public anger over and British shipments- of arms to Tunisia. in The National Association of Manufacturers told a Sen ate-House Economic Commit tee Wednesday the nation's economy was hindered some what by government spend ing since "it is a withdrawal of manpower and other productive resources which might otherwise be used in expand' ing the The House Small Business Committee summoned Treasury Secretary Ander son, Federal Reserve Chair man William Martin and oth er lop economic experts to hearings on financ ing problems, ct small I-ness. Committee Chairman Patman (D-Tex) said Wednes day -more U. S. 1 ne firms failed in September than' in any September since 1333.

The Commerce1 "Department said the gross' national product the output of goods and services continued at steady high levels during theUuly-ScpteclKi pert Frencji Number K'Mieb8te-an-'Palestine' refugees, said the West might lose not only Saudi Arabia but the en tire Arab world to Russia 11 it maintains its present policy toward Israel. SUBANDBIO, IN the main Political (Committee's debate on West New Guinea, de clared that Indonesia might be forced to abandon Its ac tive Independent policy" 1 the Netherlands does not sur- Russ Anger Friends in U.N. Arms Tendep the disputed territory. Shukairy proposed the re turn of 900,000 Arab refugees to their Palestine homes, of Jewish immtgra. tion to Palestine, outlawing of Zionism, prohibition of Zion-' lst fund raising campaigns and creation' of a U.

N. agen-. cy to send Israel's Jews back to their original homelands. of Unemployed Likely UNITED NATIONS, N. (AP) Russia's brushoff of Western efforts to break disarmament deadlock have demonstrated her new ICBM-Sputnlk "position strength," but it also put a severe, strain on her friendship with many so-called neutral nations.

Delegates infer this the lineup in the smashing 60-9 U.N. Assembly endorse ment of the West's plan to in crease the 12-nation Disarm ament Commission to 25 mem bers; Only The Soviet voted against the proposal de- Blast ori Italiqa Ship Kills Two NAPLES, Italy (UP) A boiler exploded on an Italian freighter at dockside today, sinking that vessel, capsizing two nearby tugs and spreading terror throughout the busy port area. WASHINGTON (UP)- Gov- eminent economists predicted today that close to four million Americans will be out of work by the end of Febru ary. Labor Department forecast ers said one reason unemploy ment may shoot well beyond the present 2300,000 figure is because of the waning boom in Industrial expansion, -r AFL-CIO President George Meany, indicating labor's concern over the job 1 1 0 called on President Eisen- hower to take immediate steps to bolster, the nation economy. IN SEATTLE, top organiz ers -01 the leamsiers union met to "discuss the unem ployment situation which I increasing.

all across the country:" Outgoing Teamsters Prest- dent Dave Beck said today's meeting was one of a series called by him over the' country's econonoie conditlon. In other economic develop- -Two persons were known spite eUdia, who-origtaated dead and at least to were m- jurea, aoout ia oi memcriu-cally, It was feared that some doekworkers also may have been killed in the blast. Jha accident occurred when boiler on the 2.2S ton Annamaria Iovoli was started up rafter repairs were made on It. The blast ripped two gaping holes in the hull of the 36-year-old vessel, the two adjacent tugs and shattered windows throughout would boycott the talks unless half the. nations at the confer ence table were Communist or neutral.

THE WEST had been con fident of victory on the vote, but few had expected Syria and Egypt, who received ec onomic and military aid from Moscow, to vote for the plan. Nor had they anticipated OTHER TEMPERATURE MfnnMpoirs 37 It Crou Ouiulk Vviau ii Clouds XmQ tmi iwtiit Humxtfty ti pr cipitlo trtc rwr rising OOMTMTOWN EAU CLAIM (UJ. a i pmrttvt W4hr Cxirvr lm 71 Wmd todtf fcort- I rlM J. tv kU iiZX fx fJSl, wticiitvax it safari Xrs3 szi Ai lAtiaaia 4vtsc, port reA,.

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