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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 8

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WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1954 DIAl 6-3111 AGE 8, SECTION 1 Miss Wisconsin in Hollywood Murder Charged in Sauk Shooting Madison News Items in Brief Suspect Questioned in Slaying Case Survey Shows DOYLE SPEAKS THU1SDAY Search Fails to Reveal Gun James Doyle, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, will talk Thursday at 8 p. m. at a public rally in the Eagles clubhouse, 1236 Jeni Parking Wants Monona Ave. Side of Square Stressed fer instead of Wednesday as reported in The State Journal v. jf-- Arraignment Set Aug.

20 Sunday. DAIRIES GET 'A RATINGS Five Madison dairy plants have been awarded semi-annual Grade A milk certificates by the state The greatest demand for park BARABOO Although the murder weapon could not be found Monday, Sauk county au Department of Agriculture, Dr C. K. Klncaid, city health com thorities charged James L. Roper, 40, Baraboo.

with first I MIS A SS degree murder in the weekend shooting of Gilbert Williams, 49, missioner, reported Monday. They are the Borden, Bancroft and Bowman companies, the Renne-bohm farms and University of Wisconsin. Minneapolis. Sheriff James VV. Gavin took Roper, an odd jobs laborer, on a tour of the shooting scene here and along the route Roper took to Necedah where he was cap-j ing facilities in the downtown area is on the Monona ave.

side of the Capitol square, according to a preliminary report presented to the Parking Utility Commission Monday by John' H. Bunch, city traffic engineer. The central area parking survey was made by Bunch at the commission's request to determine locations of future parking lots. Work on the final summary is under way and should be completed within a week, Bunch reported. The personal interviews with parkers.

which formed the foundation of the survey, were based on "where they really wanted to park." tured four hours after the mur der of Williams Saturday. Although Roper tried to point out where he had thrown the rifle after the Sheriff Gavin was unable to find it. Gavin said Monday night he POWER TOOLS STOLEN Power tools valued at $287 were stolen from the new Sears Roebuck and Co. store under construction at E. Washington ave.

and Ingersoll police reported Monday afternoon. The tools were owned by the Iowa Sheet Metal sub-contractors of the building project, and the Findorff Construction general contractors. AIDING CHURCH CAMP thought Roper was telling the, truth about "ditching the weap The greatest demand, accord Elder John W. Boyd, pastor of on, but that the rifle might have been picked up from the roadside. Gavin also said a heavy rain during the hunt made spotting the rifle difficult.

A warrant was issued by Dist. Atty. Harlan Kelley Monday. Rita Younger (left). Miss Wisconsin from Baraboo, lights a cigar for her new boss, Frank Sennes, who signed her to appear in the "Void, Paris," revue at the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood.

Miss Younger will make her professional debut this week. The young lady at the right is Barbara Randa. County Sheriff Ralph Purvis (right) after the murder suspect was picked up near Necedah. Roper confessed the shooting to Sauk County Dist. Atty.

Harlan Kelley Sunday night and the warrant was issued Monday. Lei Steele photo Jimmy Lee Roper, Baraboo, shown handcuffed above, was charged Monday with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Gilbert Williams, Minneapolis, in Baraboo Saturday afternoon. Roper is shown being questioned by Juneau Roper waived a preliminary hear ing to the graphs shown by Bunch Monday was in the Tcn-ney-First National bank area; the J. C. Penney store area; and the Chamber of Commerce block.

Mayor George Forster informed the commission that letters have been received by many business and professional men in the State ave. area urging that short time parking facilities be provided in the new Draper and State-Lake parking lots. Some meters should be provid ing in an appearance before Jus tice of the Peace Eugene Mada- the Madison Seventh-Day Ad-ventist church, is among 24 ministers who are raising a tent city of more than 100 homes and preparing the camp ground at Portage for their ten-day camp meeting which begins August 12. More than 3.000 Seventh-Day Adventists are expected for the first week-end of the encampment. NEW THEFT REPORTED FINAL CLEARANCE lon at Baraboo and was held in Sauk county jail without bond.

Kelley said he would bring Roper up for arraignment Aug. Ex-Gang Leader Roger Touhy Freed from Prison by Judge East Germany Also Needs Help, Niemoeller Says 20 before Circuit Judge Bruce Beiifuss. He said Roper asked Madison's "scteen" burglars, ed, they contended, that will not permit more than one hour or two hours of parking. who struck in three homes, a res for an attorney. Roper signed a confession Sun day night.

taurant, and a golf course during GREEN LAKE East Germany is threatened by "the envy of CHICAGO (fP) Roger (The Terrible) Touhy, prohibition era gang leader, was free from prison Monday. A federal judge dramatically ordered his immediate release Apparently the meters that em the weekend, also ransacked an Williams was visiting Mrs. Stella Anderson, Baraboo. and the rich man in the West and other West side home, police hatred of the Communists who from the penitentiary he crashed out of in 1942 in one of the na were notified Monday. make them suffer.

Dr. Martin phasize all-day parking, as in block 53, work against the interests of the short-term parkers, Forster observed. City Planning Director Walter tion's most sensational prison Men's Crew Socks House Committee Aims Bill at Bridges' Union WASHINGTON OP) The House un-American Activities committee Monday approved a bill which would let the Subversive Activities Control board deny government bargaining services to any union it believes to be Communist-dominated. Chairman Harold H. Velde CR-IH.) told a reporter the measure is "aimed chiefly at Harry Bridges and his international longshoreman's union." Velde said the bill, which he sponsored, was approved by a 5 to 1 vote.

It is similar to a bill approved earlier by the Senate Judiciary committee. He was confident the bill will win House approval later this week. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) said he cast the lone dissenting vote because the measure was "very similar" to one he helped pigeonhole in the House Judiciary committee.

The latter bill Niemoeller said here Sunday, was shot from ambush, authorities said. Williams and Mrs. Anderson planned to be married this fall, and Roper, jealous, had threatened them. Kelley said. Mr.

and Mrs. John J. Donhard. 1502 Adams reported that they arrived home about mid breaks. Federal Judge Ohio Chemical Co.

The famed German church leader, who is president of the night Saturday and found their K. Johnson proposed a study of John P. Barnes held that Touhy's Evangelical church in Hesse- Funeral services for Williams house ransacked but nothing stolen. long and short term parking needs in the Draper-Lake lots. The commission approved plans Nassau, Germany, addressed the National Missions Conference at will be held at 2 p.

m. today al the Burr Methodist church, Hills- 1933 conviction of John (Jake In all the burglaries, the Will Lay Off 40 Employes Friday Forty employes of the Ohic boro. The Rev. Raymond Warren thieves entered by cutting or re the American Baptist Assembly. Dr.

Niemoeller is in America the Barber) Factor, big time con and specifications for development of the State-Lake lot, and will officiate. Burial will be for the 1 i I of the church cemetery. moving window or door screens, police said. Their weekend loot totaled about $50 cash, $183 in fidence operator, Churches second assembly at for the metering of the Doty and Brayton lots, which will have Chemical and Surf ical EauiD wmiams was Dora in wiseon- a obtained Evanston, 111. ment Co.

here were notified jewelry, and about $250 in golf new capacities of 100 and 203 He said flatly that German Monday that they would be laid equipment. stalls. Premier Konrad Adenauers al off effective Friday, the business nn ana was employed as a garage through lies mechanic in Minneapolis. Tears stre'aked He is survived by his mother. face as MrS Cra MlnneaPlls- Barnes granted I him a writ of ha- CASH BOX LOOTED liance with the West for rearma agent of Machinists Local 140b It also: ONE.

Recommended that pro ment was not the best way to The petty cash box at the plant ndustry division office of the posed options for purchase of said Monday night. i Vernon Zitlow, business agent peace. the George H. Crandall property West Germany is going to be for union machinists in the plant, State Department of Agriculture, 315 N. Carroll st, was looted of would have authorized the board to "liquidate" any union or business group it found had been in beas corpus.

"It's like beginning life again," he said as he walked out of said the union committee had at 925 Conklin pi. and the former Stanley Mills property at $1.50, police were notified Mon filtrated by Communists. satisfied, and East Germany is in need and no one cares," Dr. Niemoeller said. Germany's hope, he said, lies in the esteem for the church that been notified last Friday of the impending layoff.

He said the men to be laid off day afternoon. Officers said they were unable to determine how TOUHY 926 W. Johnson be placed on file as "out of line." The option price on the Crandall property was Metzner, Nelson Debate Parties' National Issues High, rigid price supports for dairy products serve to rtiscotir- 2p ont-nf-statp markets fnr Wis the courthouse. the thief entered. The stocky, 55-year-old con were notified individually Monday.

has survived from Nazi times. and that on the Johnson vict, now grey haired, was sen He pointed to a recent four- st. property was $15,500. A spokesman for the company tenced in 1933 to 99 years on day church festival in Leipzig in said the firm would issue a state conviction of kidnaping Factor TWO. Directed Johnson and Bunch to investigate and report Night Crawler Hunt Foils Young Burglar the Eastern zone attended by consin Hairv farmprc Mtv rar.

and was given another 199 years ment today explaining the extent of and reasons for the lay-off. 600,000 persons. There, he said. roll Metzner declared horp' Mnn- for his part in the 1942 break Christian symbols were built in in September on the advisability of continuing the present $2.50 monthly parking rate In Law Zitlow said union membership A neighbor hunting night from the Stateville penitentiary dav night front of a large statue ot Stalin at Ohio Chemical is currently 1 rtffj crawlers frightened a youthful about 325. park, Metzner debated with Sen Gaylord Nelson (D-Madison) be.

and even East German ministers listened to the preaching. In East Germany, he said, preach burglar from a Blooming Grove home Monday night with a flash It was indicated the reason for THREE. Received and placed near Joliet, 111. Touhy led six other convicts to freedom in the prison break. FBI agents later shot two of them to death and captured the fore the University School for decrease in personnel, which Zit on file the monthly report of Fine cotton.

White, Blue Maroon. 65c Value Slightly Irregular Nationally Advertised Brand. light, a ing and church assembly is. per FIREMAN low said started in January, was Workers on the campus. Nelson pictured the EisenhoW' Police said a teen-age son of mitted, but organization is pro a federal government cutback in City Auditor John Stein showing that July receipts from parking lots and meters grossed Gordon Mather, 303 E.

Dean others. er. Administration as following a hibited. saw the young burglar as he fled Dr. Niemoeller is the former policy of tax and tax, and give mm In his 558-page decision, Judge Radiant GAS BURNER orders.

Th company manufactures hospital furniture and equipment. x. the home of Olm Jacobson, 301 submarine commander who be away and give away 688.88. Disbursements were $3, 932.74. Barnes said he did not believe Factor actually was abducted.

E. Dean who is on vacation. came a bitter anti-Nazi in 1933 The Democratic state senator Mather telephoned sheriff's and was imprisoned from 1937 is seeking the congressional seat $1.00 The jurist compared to "medieval pair for officers and police who investi- to 1945 for his outspokenness Preventive War With of Rep. Glenn R. Davis (R-Wau- Dells Drowning cruelty" the Illinois law under which Touhy was sentenced for against the Nazi regime.

Free survey, gladly mode Victim Identified the prison break. China Urged by Bullitt NEW YORK P) William C. Ben Schwartz, assistant attor WISCONSIN DELLS The gaiea. a movie camera me mirg-lar dropped in flight was recovered. Police said the burglar took the house key from its hiding place in the garage and entered the back door.

He left a box in the doorway Bullitt said Monday Russian bombs "now being prepared for body of Tadeusz Dobiesz, found in the Wisconsin river last ney general, immediately asked for a certificate of appeal to try to overturn Judge Barnes' action. kesha) in the Second district. Metzner charged that the rigid support system was maintaining "marginal'' dairy farmers in other sections of the nation, who are competing with Wisconsin's more efficient industry. Metzner. a member of the City Council from the 20th ward, is seeking the Republican nomination to the Assembly from the city's western district.

Thursday, has been further iden Touhy was required to post to hold the screen open. our annihilation might never be dropped" if the American government would organize an attack now on Communist China. tified by FBI fingerprints. Police said apparently nothing Dobiesz, 33, was born Nov. 12, $10,000 bond to guarantee his appearance in event of a government appeal.

The money was put NO MONEY DOWN UP TO 36 MOS. TO PAY 1st PAYMENT IN OCT. Midwesl Iron Fireman 740 Williamson 5-0061 Our Concern Is Saving Fuel 1920, in Belcatow, Poland, and Disney Told to Leave Birth Scene Out of Film NEW YORK II?) The state department of education told Walt Disney Monday his newest nature film would be banned in New York unless he snips out a two-minute sequence showing the birth of a buffalo. The movie, "The Vanishing Prairie," already has been approved by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency and by every The former ambassador to Rus up by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.

James Alesia. sia writes in the current issue of Look magazine that such an had recently arrived In the United States. His destination was Prairie du Chien. else was taken. The burglar fled across the Monona Golf course toward Monona dr.

He was wearing dark clothing, was about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and was of slim build. The two men defended their invasion would "swing the world Authorities believe that he balance of power" against the parties programs on tne nation- rv i i al and international scenes, but UlSpilte May UelCjy generally ignored state politics. pcc; D-cc One spectator, had more KeCeSS may have been a DP on his way to a job in Prairie du Chien and Soviet Union, and prevent her from attacking the United States. were checking to see if anyone To launch an attack on Com a passing interest in the debate. in that area was expecting him.

WASHINGTON OP! Senate other state censorship board that munist China, he said, America As yet none of his luggage or would need to provide a navy nas viewed it. But the education department can reverse the cen Republican leaders said Monday their hopes of adjourning Con papers have been found. An au He is Assemblyman Floyd Wheeler (D-Madison), who will oppose Metzner in the November elections if the latter is successful blockade of the China coast, and air forces to bomb "appropriate sors and has done so "one or gress Saturday will be blown topsy showed the man died of drowning. There was no evidence of violence. two" times in the last 25 years away if the atomic energy dispute targets in China, but only a in his bid for the GOP nomina few American ground troops, tion.

LOOK stns up another long debate. Chairman Homer Ferguson 'R-Mich.) said after a meeting It's for Sure, We're Going to Have Circus HIRAM LODGE PICNIC of the GOP Policy committee Red Radio Charges The annual picnic of Hiram Senate leaders still are aim Masonic Lodge No. 50 will be ing at Aug. 14 as the time to quit. SEIDLITZ I USE But he said if two or three UN Violated Armistice TOKYO (P) The United Nations command has been charged held from 11 a.

m. to 6 p. m. Sunday in Hoyt park. Chairman It's for sure now! First Rlngling Brothers.

Bar-num and Bailey circus wasn't coming to Madison this year. Then it was announced that they more days are required to com Paul II. McFee, 118 W. Johnson plete action on the compromise with violation of the Korean announced Monday. atomic energy bill "I don't see were coming.

Elmer Ziegler's German band armistice through the importation of arms and aircraft into an adjournment by Saturday. Latca Ri Sbi Bit Paint South Korea, the North Korean No Paint Odoi Some opponents of the measure have served warning they intend to debate it fully when it returns to the floor after having been Red radio at Pyongyang said to' day. Ban to 4 poly Drtei Id SO minute Lem W. Pickett, contracting agent, made it certain Monday when he came to Madison to obtain the license and make final arrangements foT the big circus to show here, at the Truax'Fleld grounds, on Labor Day, Sept. 6.

City Clerk A. W. Bareis will entertain from 3 to 6 p. m. LOSES PURSE, $20 Kathleen Cummings.

135 N. Hancock told police Monday night she lost her purse containing $20 while shopping on State st. The broadcast credited the charges to the Polish and Czech worked over by a House-Senate conference committee. On its first time around, the bill caused members of the Neutral Nations DORN'S 1137 CnlT. A a 13-day filibuster in the Senate Supervisory commission in a report of last January and Feb ruary.

but handed to the commission only last Friday. LIGHTER STOLEN LawTence G. Grab. 714 The report said that South Lakeside st told police Monday night that a car cigaret lighter Korea defenses were strength ened by the importation of 52 ana radio tuning knob worth $3 combat planes, grenade throwers, and 74 155-millimeter guns, as were stolen from his car parked in the 200 block of Gorham It Pays to SAVE! St. well as a quantity of munitions.

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