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EAU CLAIRE LEBEil NORTHE RN WIS CON SIN ON LY MORN I NG NEtfS PAPE VOL IXXVU NO. 273. Assocloted Press EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY 19, Unitod Press Price Six Cents, Three-Year III fug, nesses fl 77 XJ cauu-crn tt nX erea tnougw uutc tTs I VI In Daze; Graves for Heads' Crime Lab to Check on MADISON (UP) Charles Wilson, director of the State Crime Laboratory, said Monday that if human bones found in the farm home of Ed Gein came from a graveyard there will be traces of em balming fluid and we'll find them." Wilson said that the fluid would show up in the tissues and the bones if they were taken from a cemetery 'as Gein claims instead of murder victims. There's no sense going out with a pick- and shovel to check the graveyards near Flalnlield," Wilson said, "un til we have exhausted the pos- siDUlues of evidence we a I-ready have." He said that the lab would Grave Theft 4' Sentence MAEBASHI, Japan (AP) A Japanese court Monday convicted GI" William S. Girard of killing a woman brass scavenger on a "childish whim" and eave him a sus pended sentence of' three rears.

The suspension provides for four years good behavior. It permits 22 year SP3-C GlrafdT of Ottawa, HW to return to the United States if neither defense nor prosecu tion appeals witln 14 days. Either side mav appeal a vprdict in Japan. The three judge, no-Jury district court also ordered Gi ro rd tnnav witness fees of the trial It had convened In 15 intermittent sessions since Aug. 26.

The fees are expect ori to total about $20. The court sharply rejected Jnfnnco olalma that th U.S. iiriiiiri. Army not Japan, should have tried Girard because he was Derformine military duties NEITHER SIDE disclosed anneal plans immediately. There were strong signs, however, that both were satis fied with the verdict in the Jan.

30 shooting that brought a crisis in S-Japanese rela-tions last summer. Girard, facing the black robed Judges, was told by presiding Judge Ytrzo Kawachl that, he had committed "ex. cessive mischief" In a "mo mentary caprice" when he fired an empty brass-casing Into the back of Mrs. Nana Sakal, 46, from a rifle gre nade launcher. The Judge rejected Glrard's denials and accepted nv of fellow GI Victor Nickel.

Inkster, and Japanese7 witnesses that Girard exceed ed his guard duties byentlc-intr shell Dickers with hand motions and shouts. THUS, THE JUDGE said, "the accused Is sentenced to three years of Imprisonment with hard labor." But Kawachl added In the next breath, "however, the above sentence shall be sus pended for a periodLJour years from the date of thlsi ludement" Because uirara was not completely to blame Conviction could have meant a possible penalty of 2 to 15 years at hard labor. The prosecution had asked for a live-year sentenca-M The case flared Into bitter controversy on both sides of the Pacific last summer. Ja pan claimed the right to try him. under the mutual security agreement with the United States.

Japan has the right to try JU.S. soldiers for crimes committed while not ta per-formance of Girard and a buddy had reach its decision by investi-fr 1 1 Robbed Dist. Atty. Ear! KUeen with first degree, murder In the worden slaying "within day or two, as soon as the in vestigation is completed." oem was charged Monday with robbery in the theft of a cash register from the hardware store Mrs. Worden had operated for the past 26 years.

Gein was arraigned befnr County Judge Boyd Clark on the armed robbery charge. The court adjourned the ar raignment for a week to en-able Gein to obtain counsel and set bond at $10,000. He was returned to the Jail. In his statement Gein aatd he loaded the cash register into a pickup truck alone with Mrs. Worden's body last Sat urday HE SAID HE remember going into' the store to mir.

chase a half callon of anH. freeze, that he remembered Mrs. Worden pumping out the liquid for, him a quart at a time and that he remembered dragging her body from the center of her North Street store into the rear area where the truck was parked. Asked if he rememhoroil killing' her, he said, "No, that is wnat I can't remember. My memory is a little vague." It was the sale of the antifreeze which led to his arrest.

Mrs; Worden's son, Frank, noticed that the last item which she had written a sales slip before she disappeared was for antifreeze. And he recalled that Gein had said the day before that he Would come in Saturday for the solution. GEIN DETAILKTI W. drove the Worden truck to a nearby lover's lane and left panted in the trees while he walked back to town for his own car. He then drove back to the truck and loaded the body and cash register In- to-his own car.

Returning to tiie farm some miles south-west of Plalnfleld, Gein said that he hung the body from its heels and butchered it with a knife made frnm a me. That is as close as I can had been acquitted. GI taW have been rare because Japan waived the right to try 97 per cent of servicemen ac cused of violating Japanese law. Most of those tried by Japan were open and shut cases. The two acquitted were Ma rine Pfc.

Adolph W. Mehrten of East St Louis, 111., tried on aJ murder charge; and Army Set. Robert L. Ranniger of Olympia, tried in 1954 on a charge of armed roooery. Most sentences In Japanese courts have been light and often were suspended.

Of 249 Army men convicted 67 were imprisoned, 103 nnea ancr given suspended" sentences. GI deienaants in Japanese courts must pay their own fines, but the U. 5- Army, which has spent about $85,000 on this case, has said it would pay the estimated $2,778 court costs if the court assessed costs against Gi rard. Russ Reject ExpandedTalk as Unbalanced UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

(UP) Russia Monday night rejected US. approved plans to expand the United moons Disarmament Commission to 25 members, EPUTY FOREIGN Minis- ter Vasllv V. Kuznetsov said the Soviet Union "shall not participate" in a disarma ment commission with the commission with the compos! tion set forth in a six-power resolution expanding the group by 14 members. Kuznetsov told newsmen the projected composition would give the West and "countries associated with it In military alliances- total of 16 members against nine countries classified as "neutralist" associated with Moscow. "We would be interested on ly in a commission which would have halt its members from the Western; powers or countries associated with theni In maiUf'Mctt-? and the other half from the un committed countries and the Socialist countries," Kuznet sov said.

He said the same effect could be achieved by dropping from the projected expansion of the Disarmament Commis sion enoueh members to bal ance the Eist-West distribu SOV said -Russia dlkjf intend to introduce any amendments at Tuesday's General Assembly session. called to consider the 25-pow er commission plan already accepted by the West. He said Russia still favored a commission including all 82 members of the U. but would accept a balanced com mission of smaller size sucn as he aescnoea. The United States and its Western partners already had agreed to the addition of 14 members to expand the Dis armament Commission to 25 powers.

Paratroopers to Quit School Before Holiday WASHINGTON (API The Arm has nrenared orders to withdraw all remaining reg ular troops from Little Rock before Thanksgiving, and leave to National Guardsmen the enforcement of a court order for integration at the Arkansas city's Central High School. Nov. 26 is the tentative date set fdr the departure of troop ers of the 101st Airborne Di vision 6TRAP MAY BE OF HUMAN SKIN Crimev laboratory officers are shown a hand-bag which is believed to have a handle made of human skin. It was found in the farm home of Ed Gein near Plalnfleld, Wis. Adlai Joins State Department Team as Temporary Tenant' been routed through Dulles.

They also questioned whether the whole thing was designed, not merely as a bid for bipar gation without what Gein said. reliance on WILSON HAS recommend ed that Gein be brought here lor a lie detector test, but he said. the date of the test is up to local omciais at Plalnfleld. He said he has not been in formed when they plan to onng Gein here for tests. The crime lab mobile' unit is gathering evidence at Plalnfleld and was to return here laste Monday or todayi Findings of the lab will be released through officials at Plalnfleld, probably late this week or early next week.

Wilson said that detailed physical files are available at the. lab on persons who disap peared in recent years and have not been found. These files wiU be checked against bones found in Gem house. THE SEX, AGE and pecul lar physical characteristics of missing persons will checked against the bones for possible identification. Miss ing persons considered possi-bile murder victims include Evelyn Hartley, teen age Lacrosse babysitter, who has been missing since 1953: Mary Hogan, a middle aged tavern owner in the villege of i Grove near a rf Georgia Weckler, 8, of Jeffer son County, who disappeared in 1347 irom her home.

wiison said the lab bad "an ticipated something like this at the time of the disappear ances and has gathered de tailed information on the per sons' physical makeup for use In Identification Mother Charged with Killing Tot MILWAUKEE (UP) Mrs Kathleen Johnson, 22, Milwau kee, was charged with second degree murder Monday in the death of her three year-old son Michael, whom she ad mitted beating because "he got on my nerves." Mrs. Johnson was arraigned before District Judge Robert W. Hansen, who ordered her held under $10,000 bond and set a preliminary hearing for this afternoon. The child died at a Milwau kee hospital early Sunday of a brain hemorrhage. Police said Mrs.

Johnson admitted slapped Michael and beat his head against a bathroom wall Saturday when he "wouldn't sleep." been left on guar4theJlrN; tion. WAUTOMA (AP) A shv little bachelor recluse who held shaking, red 1 hands before his face. Mon day admitted that he killed a Plalnfleld widow last Satur day and butchered her in his woodshed "because I thought was dressing out a deer, Edward Gein, 51. handy man and sometime baby sit ter, also saidtfa a statement dictated to Waushara County officers, that 10 other human heads found scattered around his secluded farmhouse, were collected from cemeteries." Authorities said there was no record of grave robberies but that check would be made of cemeteries as soon as possible. They said Gein told them the heads were tak en from new graves and that would fill irf tiie graves immediately, Gein said that the killing of Mrs.

Bernice Worden, 58, and the looting of heads from cemeteries during a period of years' all had taken place when I was in kind of a daze." He said he did not re member actually killing Mrs. Worden but that he did re member hanging her from her heels and dressing out the decapitated body as he would an animal "that's' the only recollection that is in my mina Three Killers in Jailbreak CROWN POINT, Ind. (Up) Seven prisoners, three of them accused murderers es caped from 'the Lake County jail Monday in 1 the biggest mass breakout since John Dil- linger. One of the accused murder ers, Kaymond was captured hours later in the nearby Gary, Ind of his father. The others appeared to have made a clean getaway for the time being.

included George Robert Brown, 25 ac cused "Dunes killer" of two women who was to have gone on trial Monday STATEWIDE alerts were Issued throughout Indiana and Illinois, and hundreds state, county and city police in the Gary-Hammond area were enlisted, in the 'search for the escapees. Road blocks and police stakeouts were set up around the homes of relatives in Gary and across the state line. Warden George Morrison said it was the first; mass break from the jail- since March 3, 1934, when John Dil linger bluffed his way. out with a wooden jpistol. Monday's a an gered over a disciplinary "bread and water" diet im posed early Sunday, broke off a metal table-leg which had been imbedded in concrete.

They used the leg to bend back bars on a cell window and then slipped through the 12-inch opening. They o.m-pleted their escape by climb ing over a 12-foot wall and running off in the pre dawn darkness. received an Improved priority within the last week. He did not elaborate except to a that the project had not asked nor received more money; The administration put new steam behind this country's earth satellite program after Russia launched Its second dog-carrying Sputnik. Among other things, the Army has been authorized to try to launch its own -moon with the Jupiter-C rocket! A PROJECT vanguard spokesman 'said next month's test firing would be deemed a success if the three -stage launching rocket, its separa tion mechanism and the 6- inch test sphere an functioned as hoped.

This included the expectation that the test sat tellite would, get into bi around the- earth. Hagen declined to name the day next month on which this country would fire its first test sphere. As he put it, "We nave planning' dates, set scheduled dates, Among Seven remember," he said in statement "I was in a regular like and I can't swear to it" He said that shortly after-he had dressed out the bod tisan support but to stifle Democratic criticism Stevenson told reporters' his job, as he sees it, is 'to be helpful He said his first meeting with Dulles was "extremely cordial and friendly." He said he plans to work Monday and mesday on documents given him by Dulles, go to New York City and Chicago on bus iness in midweek and return for further consultation "ev-ery or so" until December. v--: HIS SAID HE HAD no plans to meet with Eisenhower. But he said he hopes thvoae the opportunity to see" Senate nmpv Itsuro Havashl.

n- nd(l the shootlne was" In Berformance of duty. U.S. authorities, in surrendering Girard to Japanese courts, decided he had exceed ed his ordersTrhe u. 5u preme Court ruled that there was n6 constitutional bar' td Girard'a beine tried-by the Japanese. r' ONLY A TEW hours before the verdict Hayashl de clared the true significance '4 v- 4 'X Democratic Leader Johnson of Texas and other party colleagues while In Washington.

Stevenson told newsmen he was still feeling his way and rwas not yet sure now he would operate. In general, he said, he will study the Eisenhower program, malio comments and-suggestions and "support actively" those' ideas with which he agrees. Where he dis agrees, he said, he will so inform Dulles. Stevenson told reporters he had little concern about a title or even how his new role might affect his political fu ture. 'T haven planned any po litical career," he said "My plans are to be of assistance here and then resume my law tice." battered central and western sections of the state with Hop- Kinsvuie, a town of about 13, 000 in the central section, flooded by the still rising wa ters from the Little River.

More than 150 families had been evacuated from low-ly. Ing sections. The city's water supply was knocked outTwo Tennessee A flash flood near Portland halted service on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad between Frank Un, Ky. and Nashville. MISSOUR Flood waters covered -some 60 per cent of seven counties In the Missouri and forced the evacuation of more than 150 families from their flooded farms.

Illinois Fog shrouded highways caused the deaths of five persons in road acci dents. neDrasica snow pued up more man a loot deep on many highways and west of Wahoo, accounted six deaths Iowa Snow-blocked high ways wcea schools to close in some sections of the state uack knifed trucks blocked traffic on many principle roads, glazed with snow and THE MIDWEST snow storm which the weather bureau listed as "large" centered n6rthern Illinois late Monday and moved northward into the Lake Superior' area. Snow continued across Iowa across Minnesota into northwest Wisconsin and upper Michigan. La Crosse, Wis-: 'reported a six inch zau with the snow continuing. of the trial would be lost un- less the court ruled that Ja nan did notliave jurisdiction.

Wind, Floods, Snow Hit in Parts of Nation WASHINGTON (AP) Ad lai E. Stevenson set up shop in the State Department Monday, apparently unruffled by some bi-partisan sniping at his decision to help president Eisenhower strengthen the At lantic Alliance, gover nor, defeated by Elsenhower ul the 1952 and 1956 presiden tial elections, met for 1 1-2 hours with Secretary of State Dulles. Stevenson pronounced the session "very encour aging." Stevenson moved In as a self described "temporary sharing the office of State Department Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt, across the hall from Dulles' office. y'-'l It was Stevenson's debut as Democratic consultant on Ei senhower's program to draw the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization closer together in the face of Russia's new.

scientific-propaganda advances. STEVENSON, said he did not know whether he would accompany Eisenhower' and Dulles to Paris to lay the pro gram before the NATO heads of government meeting Dec. 16. Some Democrats and some Republicans have been critical of Stevenson's acceptance of Eisenhower's invitation to help, and of the offer itself. Democratic critics noted the offer had jiot come directly from Eisenhower, but had all parts of the country, unanimously approved the resolution.

The insurgents called, on the union's executive board to reverse its stand and comply with directives from the AFL-CIO to eliminate Vc Influences" from the union leadership. Conway said the anti-Cross move was supported by 150 of the 292 locals in the i representing 70 per cent of the Bakers' membership. A SPOKESMAN for bakers union said that Conway and the so called integrity committee have the strength they say they have. Moon Could Be Put This he said was a which would have repercUs slons-throushout the -world where there are similar juris dictional cases. He said it was common sense to assume that the den fense would appeal to a mgu- er court unless there was an acquittal, though an appeal would depend on the decision nf Oirard and the U.S.

Army. Harv Candv Girard, the 28- year-old Japanese girl whom Girard married snoruy oeuue his trial started 2 months ago, prayed for her husband before a candle-lit altar in her rented room at nearby uizu-mi Sundav night. 'Oh. Lord Budana n.a murrv" sne saw as sue bowed repeatedly before, the tiny shrine. IN A CORNER of her room was a stack of letters which she said proved there areiots of Japanese who "believe in and have faith in me and my man." She said there had oeen reversal in Japanese feel- Ing since the defense summed ud its case.

The three judges, headed by Yuzo Kawachl, began hearing evidence Aug. 26. The -court held 15 sessions at intervals of about a week be fore it heard all the 12 Japanese and 7 American 1 their verdict last Thursday. A fellow soldier at the fir ine ranse. Victor Nickel of -Inkster.

said Girard neighbor boy and his sister stopped at the farmhouse since the death of his parents and brother many year ago. Later he went to the hnm of the youngsters for supper. it was mere mat ne was tak- uv viuiuur OalUrUaV night. 7 OFFICERS FOUND four other; human heads in Gein'e house Sunday-and six more Monday, some were neaflv wrapped in plastic baps anil some were, tossed carelessly under furniture. Thev ranted from bare skulls to shrunken heads, but Gein said in his statement that he had not "collected any for two or -three years." The digging into graves, he said, always had been done "when I was in a daze like when I killed Mrs.

Worden. the only thing, I'm not too sure I killed her, I didn't have any weapons with me or on my property." But Kileen said that a re volver and two rifles were found in Gein's house. Kleen said a preliminary pathologist's report Indicated Mrs. Worden died of a bullet wound in the head. Weather WISCONSIN: Cloudy, windy and cold Tuesday with some light snow mainly north.

High the upper 20s northwest, low 30s southeast. WEATHER MONDAY (CAA Weather Observations) Max. Temp. 31 Mln. Temp 25 Wind Direction N-NE Wind Velocity 20 mph Temperatures 2 a.m.

28 6 a.m. 27 8 a.m. 27 12 (noon) 30 3 p.m. 30 6 p.m. 30 9 p.m.

i. 31 10 p.m. 31 Humidity 88 Precipitation .17 Other Temperatures Minneapolis 24 Duluth 22' La Crosse Wausau 21 Bakery Union Rebels May Form Own Group Up Two Months Early By ASSOCIATED PRESS Slashing winds and torna does, flash floods, lightning and foot-deep snows struck at wide areas of the mid-contl nent' and the south, killing at ueast 14 persons Monday. The overall death list attrib uted to three days of bad weather was least 25. Ne braska listed six persons killed in snow-bound i h-ways over the weekend and tornadoes killed three In Alabama Sunday.

PROPERTY damage ran into the millions from devastating floods in Kentucky and Alabama and Mississippi Monday. Several hundred families were evacuated because of the flash Kentucky and Mis souri floods which followed six day of intermittent rains- National Guardsmen were called out to aid the evacuation in Kentucky. Here is the state by state picture of the affected areas: Alabama ornadoes. whipped through Birmingham and a number of rural communities, including Snead's Cross Roads, about, 50 miles north of Birmingham, Rosa, Susan Moore, Forkland and Tuscaloosa and. Marshall County.

At least three persons were killed and two others a woman and a child were missing. Three other persons killed in tornadoes which lashed parts of the state Sunday. More than a score of persons were injured. Birmingham police reported heavy property damage. KENTUCKY Floods, tor- faadoee and electrical storms WASHINGTON.

(UP) The chief, of the Navy's satellite program disclosed a speed-up irt the U. S. space program Monday that could put this country's first full-scale arti ficial moon in orbit two months ahead of schedule. The official. Dr.

John Hagen, said a fully 1 u- mented satellite might be launched in January if the planned launching of a 6-inch test sphere next month were a complete success. UNDER THE speed-up. the firing of at least two additional test spheres would be scrapped in favor of launching the instrument-packed 20-lnch satellite. The original program called for launching the satellite in March. Hagen disclosed the possi ble speed-up after a news conference at the Naval Research Laboratory.

He was clarifying earlier remarks made during the conference. Hazen also said that the S. satellite program ad WASHINGTON (UP) A rebel faction in the Bakery Workers Union, threatened in effect Monday to form a new union if the bakers were kicked out of the AFL-CIO. The 160,000 member union was suspended by the AFL-CIO Friday and faces expulsion for refusing to remove its president, James G. Cross, who was accused of misusing union A resolution containing the threatened bolt was adopted at a meeting of a self styled Integrity committee," made up of Cross' foes within the bakery union.

THE INTEGRITY commit tee said Cross was "bent upon dividing our union and caus ing brother to fight brother out of a selfish desire to save the Job he Daniel E. Conway, a' union vice president and committee secretary, said 55 officials of Bakery Workers locate from tossed out empty brass shells to lure Japanese' scrap pick we' wonder why they are notjwere ers closer and then as a joke fired a shell casing from the grenade launcher to frighten Girard's attorney called N'okel an "unmlUgated liar." -EFOUE THE Girard trial, only two' of about 450 U. S. serjioemen tried by Japan willing to take their charges to a special convention of the bakers union." 5 The union's general execu- Utive board has scheduled 'a special0 meeting for not later than June. 'V.