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70J12 n. Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser FINAL EDITION BENTON HARBOR, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1955 16 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS (7 Humility f' I St, Mil o)H o) LtqLLLf ii i -r 5 wp-fi I wr -n; 5 Pickets Leave Trucking Yard. U. S. HUDDLE IN BIG FOUR ARENA: President Eisenhower turns for a word with Charles Bohlen, U.

S. Ambassador to Russia, as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, left, listens in at the opening session of the Big Four meeting in Geneva today. The President delivered the first address at the summit meeting and called for an end of the "dreary, exercises" of the cold war. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London) Strikers EndMovctjo-R Whirlpool Shipping To Ohio Whirlpool strikers this morning1 voluntarily withdrew a picket line that had restrained the transfer of key dies from St. Joseph to another Whirlpool plant in Clyde, 6.

German Unification Gets Big 4 Priority 9miwmvnfmmnwmmi, i in i ir aium fication. He called for an end of the "dreary exercises" of the cold war and urged East-West negotiations on a unified Germany. West Offers Guarantees To afeguardRassia GENEVA, July 18-(AP)-The summit conference opened today with the Big Three Western powers laying before Soviet Russia a series of new proposals for European security, built around a unified Germany. In quick succession President Eis- enhower, French Premier Edgar Paure and British Prime Minister Eden advanced separate ideas as to how Russia could be safeguarded against a united and rearmed Germany. Eden also put forward a proposal that the Big Four seek agreement on arms ceilings for, Germany and neighboring countries, with the four powers joining in a system of control to prevent violations.

Despite the appearance of a coordinated program by the West, it was understood the leaders of the U. S. delegation were concerned about some of the proposals in Paure's speech, informed quarters said the United States would not be bound by points it had not approved. These included a proposal that arms reductions be controlled in the national budgets and Faure's call for inclusion of Germany in a general European security organization. EISENHOWER 'disclosed the West would agree to consider new guarantees for the Soviets if Russia would go along on German' reuni- ELISHA GRAY II Benton Harbor man will be top executive officer of proposed Industrial giant, Whirlpool-Seeger Co.

Quick Action By Woman Saves Train Bangor Resident Sees Obstruction On Track BANGOR, July 18 Chesapeake and Ohio station manager William Rutz credited Mrs. Leroy Markham of 204 Division street with averting a possible derailment of a fast passenger train this morning. Mrs. Markham was hanging out clothes behind her home along the C. and O.

tracks this morning, when she noticed that an angle-iron from an east-bound freight train had become embedded in a cross-tie. The iron ripped up part of the tie, but was still embedded, sticking up nearly 12 inches above the rail. Rutz said the jagged piece of metal could possibly have caused a de railment. Mrs. Markham knew that a fast passenger train was due through Bangor before 9:30 a.m., so she quickly called Rutz and warned him.

THE STATION MASTER set up a warning signal for the passenger train, which crept slowly and cautiously through Bangor, safely past the obstacle. A work gang was to have removed the iron later this morning, Rutz reported. 60 People Hurt ATHENS, Greece, July 18-(AP)- Sixty people were injured when two trains crashed into each other near Megara, 50 miles from Athens, last night: Fifty-five of the casualties were army recruits on leave. ji Stock Prices Affected By Merger Plan Stockholders Still Must Approve Deal Whirlpool corporation stock slip ped slightly on the New York Stock Exchange and Seeger Refrigerator company shares jumped briskly aft er announcement of the proposed merger between the two companies and the stove and air-conditioning division of Radio Corporation of America. Whirlpool, which has ranged between 30 and 38Vi this summer, was selling at 34 near noon today.

It opened at 34 off lYt from Friday's closing of 3654. Seeger, on the other hand, which closed last Thursday at 47 and bounded up to 56 Friday on reports of the proposed merger, opened at 57 and con-, tinued Ha, upward climb I to 58 siiMi on No particular effect is expected on RCA stock because the deal repre sents only a small part of the huge firm's activities. RCA shares have been selling at 50 plus the past week. Announcement of the proposed merger was made in a letter to stockholders mailed Saturday from Whirlpool President Elisha Gray n. Approval by of both Whirlpool and Seeger will be necessary before the merger can take place.

Completion of the move will cre ate an industrial giant to be known as Whirlpool-Seeger corporation. with total assets of approximately $130,000,000, and a net worth of about $85,000,000. According to Gray, the proposed plan is an outgrowth of consideration given over a long period of time on how best to cope with developments in the appliance indus try. IT IS GRAY'SOPINION that a more complete line of major home appliances must be offered to distributors and dealers if Whirlpool's home laundry equipment line is to retain its share of industry sales and continue to grow. The merger putting laundry equipment, electric and gas stoves, refrigerators and air-conditioners under the one Whirlpool-Seeger brand name will also open up new avenues of growth and expanded research, Gray declared, and equip the company for better operation in today's markets.

Chiefs of the new corporation are slated to be Walter G. Seeger, chairman of the board of Seeger, as chairman of the new board, and Elisha Gray," presi- dent of Whirlpool," as president and chief executive officer. Whirlpool's laundry equipment plants are located in LaPorte, Ind. ana uiyae ana Marion, onto, as well as St. Joseph.

Construction of a new $1,500,000 administration building is just beginning on US- 31 north of the twin cities. Its products have appeared for years for sale by Sears-Roebuck, (See MERGER, Page 13) OK St. Josephite For U. Of I. Post CHAMPAIGN, 111, July 18- (AP)-Frank B.

Lanham of St. Joseph, Mich, has been recommended as head of the University of Illinois agricultural engineering department Lanham, secretary of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, would succeed Prof. E. W. Leh-mann, head of the department since 1921 who is retiring.

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Elisha Gray Reassures Community Twin City jOff ice. Force Will Expand The twin cities will be the head quarters of the new home appliance industry giant to be formed by the proposed merger of Whirlpool cor poration, Seeger Refrigerator com pany and the stove and air-conditioning divisions of Radio Corpora tion of America. Elisha Gray, president of Whirl pool and prospective president of the new Whirlpool-Seeger corporation, made this statement to the News-Palladium today: "The home office of Whirlpool will be right here in the twin cities." "It will continue to be here Indefinitely," Gray added, "unless we find ourselves unwanted, or circumstance beyond enr control make a move manda- tory. And I don't look for anything like this." The executive's reference to "circumstances beyond our control" apparently referred to the chance of failure to reach a settlement with the International Association of Machinists (AFD, whose strike against Whirlpool was in its fourth day today. The union called a walkout of 2,500 production, and maintenance employes ai me si.

josepn piant late Thursday when negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new contract. The IAM Is seeking a 15 cent hour across-the-board wage increase plus fringe benefits; the company is offering a five-cent pay hike and benefits it says total 6.7 cents. In his statement, Gray said the major factor considered in agree ing to the merger was retaining In dependence of management. "This one qualification prevented us from merging into some larger company where we would lose our identity and Gray said. Present policies of management and executive development will be maintained, Gray said, and he predicted "numerous advancements up and down the line within the next year that might not have been pos sible for several years within the present scope of our organisation." "We believed the present manage ments have earned the confidence of their associates," he added, and 'we plan to start off as nearly as possible with the present line-ups." Whirlpool this spring began con struction of a $1,500400 administration building on US-31, three miles north of St.

Joseph in Benton township, which presumably will contain the home offices of the new corporation. Work on the structure has been (See GRAY, page 14) arrived, the report said. Fire Sgt. Fred Peppel and Fireman Jerry Durren, police said, took Oldham into an adjacent room and gave him oxygen tiU the ambulance arrived. And oxygen was given to Oldham on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, the report stated.

PoUce officers said they checked over Oldham's room and found a savings accounts book which they turned over to Mrs. Cousins. Lake Temperature The temperature, of Lake Michigan today is. 73 degrees. UntU further notice applications) for Withdrawals At loan frnm.tha Whirlpool Employes Federal Credit Union can be made b- charts it 379.

Checks will be available in the Bulbar Polio Fatal To Father Of Three r. -The pickets were withdrawn-at 10 a. m. from the entrance to the Fruit Belt truck lines parking lot on Industrial avenue, -The line had been established shortly after the strike of the home laundry firm started late Thursday, and union drivers of the trucking firm refused to cross the lines of Local 1918 IAM-AFL. Atty.

George S. Keller of NUes, councsel for the I AM union, called the situation "highly explosive' the union decision to allow the manufacturing dies to move. He said he had advised the strike steering committee that the Whirlpool dies were legally in the possession of the truck lines and were actually in interstate commerce. "THE UNION deserves a lot of credit for abandoning an advantage in order to avoid possible cracked heads and bloodshed," Keller declared. A company official declined to comment on a report that the company intended to get a circuit court injunction to allow shipment of the dies.

In a statement issued by the steering committee as the picket lines at the truck line parking lot were abandoned, the union stated: "The union realizes that it has a public duty to avoid rioting and bloodshed and the Issues are so serious, that. If nnlfpp wpr disnatph. ed to protect the movement of these consigned dies, an explosive situation could easily develop. "WE ARE KEENLY aware that we are citizens first and strikers second and despite the serious threat both to the strike and to the community posed by the transfer of the Whirlpool dies to assembly grounds in another state, the IAM- AFL local accordingly has voluntarily withdrawn the pickets posted against the Fruit Belt truck lines." The statement declared that the company had began the transfer of the dies and parts out of the local plant last Thursday morning while the union was still waiting a written, final proposal from the company in answer to anion contract Negotiations between the company and union had been in progress for some 10 weeks, virtually since the IAM ousted the United Electrical Workers union in a bargaining agency election. Negotiations aimed at a new contract to replace the old one between UE and Whirlpool.

More than 2,000 production workers went on strike late last Thursday in support of union demands for a 15 -cent an hour pay increase plus certain fringe benefits. Reportedly, the company's final offer was a five. cent pay boost and other benefits that a company spokesman said would amount to another 6.7 cents. Pastor Reports Attempt Made To Steal Coin Boxes Someone tried to take three coin boxes off the church waU, Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Joseph R. Byrne, pastor of St. John's Roman Catholic church, reported Saturday night, according to Benton Harbor police. Msgr.

Byrne said he did not know if someone had been locked inside the church or if someone had come in a window, police reported. Police said Msgr. Byrne would check with the church Janitor to see if the church had been locked up and if the windows had been left closed. Correction: In Saturday's News-Palladium H. H.

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basement. Adv. StevensviUe Boy Drowns Near Baroda Friends Can't Save Larry Zeilke, 15 A 15-year-old StevensviUe youth drowned late yesterday afternoon at Singer Lake, southeast of Baroda, when he walked off a steep drop off and was unable to hold himself above water. Two friends tried vainly to save the victim, Larry E. Zeilke, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ed' ward F. Zeilke, StevensviUe, Ber rien sheriff's Dep if" f' uties Art Johnson and Russ Dilavou said. Young Zeilke was swimming with Richard Boldt, 14, and Edward Reitz, 14, both of Baroda when the tragedy occurred. Reitz told deputies he was the only one of the Jl Zeilke trio able to swim.

He said he and the Boldt youth were five feet closer to shore than Zeilke. All three knew of a sharp drop-off, Reitz said. Zeilke started splashing very hard and went under, Reitz said. He told deputies he grabbed for the victim, who started to pull him under. Reitz said he momentarily broke away, made a grab for the youth but was unable to save' him, The three youths had spent part of the afternoon at Bridgman and had been swimming about two hours when the accident occurred at about 6 p.m., Reitz said.

CORONER Harding Dey was called to the scene and pronounced the drowning accidental. Zeilke's parents were summoned to the scene and called for a Boyd ambu lance. The youth's body was recovered by three boats using drag lines deputies said. The youth was born April 28, 1940, in Baroda. He was a member of St.

Paul's Lutheran church in Stevens- ville and was a graduate of St Paul's Christian Day school. He, would have been in the tenth grade at StevensviUe high school this fall. Surviving besides his parents are one sister, Joanne, at home; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Zeilke and Mr.

and Mrs. John Laus-man of Baroda. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m, at St. Paul's Lutheran church, StevensviUe. The Rev.

Harold Zink, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be made in StevensviUe cemetery. The body is now at the Boyd funeral home in Bridgman where it wiU remain until 10 a.m., Wednesday at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state until the hour of services. For children's parties: Dixie cups, popsicles, fudgesicles, ice cream bars, etc. Dry ice pack, optional.

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U- point program of action aimed at ending the dangers of atomic war, ushering in a period of atomic plenty and ringing down iron curtains all over the world. He called for a reduction of the world's "burden of costly armament" and at the same time urged cessation of the subversive activities of international Communism. A cut in the arms burden he said, "would and should insure that part of the savings would flow into the less developed areas of the world to assist their economic development." UNIFICATION OF a should be given tpp priority by the sunftnit meeting, Eisenhower said, but tha problem should be solved with proper safeguards for Russia's "legitimate security interests." Elsenhower did not make specific proposals on European security, but stated simply that the United States would be willing to consider additional safeguards if Russia thought she would be threatened by a united Germany. Faure suggested the General European pacts, along with a series of Western guarantees, and Eden proposed still other steps. Eden suggested: 1.

That Britain would be prepared to become party to a security pact including the United States, Russia, France and a united Germany. 2. That Britain would be ready to (See BIG FOUR, Page 13) AT SOUTH HAVEN Gun Toting 12 -Year -Olds Are Nabbedi SOUTH HAVEN, July 18 Two pint-sized desperados, aged 12, were picked up Saturday afternoon by South Haven city police, who gingerly relieved them of a loaded 25 calibre Mauser automatic. Police were alerted by a tip from a north side resort owner that the boys, one white and one Negro, were "acting suspiciously," in the busy resort section of the city. The youngsters were turned over to the custody of their parents, near Grand Junction, and Probate Judge William P.

Wright in Paw Paw was to be informed today. Police said the boys had more than $20 in cash, which they claimed to have gotten from their parents, and the gun, which they said they took from their uncle. One shell was in the chamber of the pistol, aid the youngsters had another box full of shells. Nobody, fortunately, had been "stuck up" by the time police took charge of the pair. Summer dress cotton clinic, Mich igan Clnrs, 186 Michigan.

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$1 tlio tJ; 'room lot. Enriera fn hftaajncAt art 1 Fair Plain Man Dies Robert Edward Beckwith, 41, Fair Plain- father of three, lost a fight for his life in combating the bulbar type polio when he died at 6:50 a. m. Sunday at Memorial hospital, St. Joseph.

Death came one week after he was admitted to the hospital and where he had been in an Iron lung all of that time. His death is the second resulting from polio this year in Berrien county. A Coloma boy, Allan Schaus, died last April. He had been a victim of polio since 1951. Mr.

Beckwith lived with his family at 2045 Colfax avenue in Fair Plain, and was active in community an airs, ne served on one committee of the Fair Plain Cub Scouts pack. He moved to Benton Harbor two 1 STRANGLING IN BATHTUB Save Aged Man From Drowning Jis ago vnxxpi. uie position jfeb. ROBERT E. BECKWITH Beckwith was a veteran of World War II, serving as a radio t.hnir(.n th.

ni He served in the European theater of operations. He was a member of St. John's Catholic church. Mr. Beckwith's body was taken to the Dey Brothers funeral home in St.

Joseph, where friends may call this evening. Early Tuesday his body will be taken to the Meyer funeral home, 6251 Dempster street, Morton Grove, EI. Funeral services will be held WednesdayVat 10 a. m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glenview, HI, and burial will be in Ridgewood cemetery therew The family suggested any expressions of condolence may be in the form of contributions to the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

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mT. 7 a uZT rT, formerly hved Glenview, I1L Previous to coming to the Whirl r. k. urvi.i pool corporation Mr. Beckwith was sales promotion manager at the Flexonics corporation at Maywood, 111.

He also Had worked as market manager at the Pheall, Manuf actur- ing company and the Hotpoint corporation in Chicago. Born July 22, 1913 in Neligh, Neb, he attended the University of Nebraska, the University of Michigan and Wayne college in Detroit, where he majored in business administration. Mr. Beckwith is survived by his wife, who before their marriage Aug. 24, 1940 in Evanston, 111, was Virginia Ross of Evanston.

Also surviving are two sons, Stephen Ross, 12, and Roger Giison, a daughter, Jane Leslie. 5, and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward. E.

Beck- with, of Neligh. Neb. Other survivors include two sisters. Mrs. Sidney L.

Parry, of Westport, Conn, and Mrs. James H. McBurney. of Guraey. HI, and A Benton Harbor man, believed to be 82 years old, was found strangling in his bathtub Saturday night by neighbors and was hauled out and oxygen given by firemen, police and firemen reported today.

He was John Oldham, 289 Pleasant street, and Mercy hospital authorities today reported him in "lair" condition. Mrs. Lovena Cousins, 289 Pleasant street, called police at 7:40 p. m. and they in turn called firemen and an ambulance, according to the police report.

The fire department report said that Lloyd Henderson and Charles Cresmeans, both of 289 Pleasant street, heard a "como-tion" in the bathroom, got wor- ried and tried to open the door which was atched from the inside. The two broke into the bathroom, the report stated, fonnd Oldham under water, uickly grabbed him and held his face above water tiU flremea scale house in front of plant from 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock Monday through Friday. Now open Moniajr Toii's. li ft brother, Philip Beckwith, of Oc-(B..