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Wednesday Afternoon, January 2, 1952 Madison THE CAPITAL TIMES Wisconsin Home Owned Home Edited nome Read Adolfson Speaks on Human Rights Warns Discrimination in U.S. Can Hamper Foreign Policy A direct connection exists between our United practices of equality in the States and the effectiveness our foreign policy, L. H. Adolfson, director of versity extension division, asserted today in an address on station WHA. Adolfson, who is chairman of the resorts committee of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights, discussed program made by the commission talk on "The Score and What's Ahead." The program will be repeated on WHA-FM at 7 p.m.

Thursday. STATING THAT the resorts committee has been trying to inform resort owners and others about the non-discrimination laws and encourage them to adopt nona group, discriminatory Adolpson said: practices as a "While our success has not been uniform, I believe We can honestly SOFT that there is substantially less discrimination in Wisconsin resort areas now than been in the past. Moreover, virtually all discriminatory signs and advertising have disappeared "I do not believe it can be reiterated too often that there is a direct connection between our practices of equality in the United States and the effectiveness of our foreign policy in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by the problems and perplexities of peoples who represent minority groups in this country." Adolfson pointed out that the practice of non discrimination here at home is of direct practical importance to the welfare of the U. S. HE EXPLAINED THAT the commission holds almost exactly point of view expressed in a recently published pamphlet, "Outside the issued by Governor's Interracial Commission of Minnesota.

This view is stated as follows: "Within his own home, a man may be as selective as he chooses. But once he leaves his home for food, shelter, or recreation, we must respect the rights of other citizens to seek the same conveniences. Such is the American tradition." not a "vague non- discrimination job, Practising is Adolfson contended, but one that is "first in our own hearts and minds and then in our home communities and neighborhoods." "The success of rights activity depends entirely upon your willingness and to give the other fellow the normal democratic rights and considerations we expect for ourselves in our regular day-to-day work and activities," Adolfson said. HE CITED THE importance of work of various local human rights councils in Wisconsin, ineluding the "outstanding examales" of the councils in Madison, Waupun, Wisconsin Rapids, Kenosha, and Milwaukee. Emphasizing that one of the najor problems of the U.

S. is to continue the high level of producion for both peace and defense, Adolfson said: "In this endeavor we dare not waste any of our human resources, and consequently there is a direct sal producing ability of America practical relation, between the toand non-discriminatory practices employment, which enable us to nake the most effective use of all our people." Adolfson declared that accordng to a pamphlet, "Employment on Merit," Minneapolis busnessmen and industrialists have ound the "abolition of racial and religious discrimination in employment has not only worked successfully from the point of view of employe relations, but has actually improved total productiveness of their employment practices." Frank Meffert, 63, Dies At Waunakee WAUNAKEE, Meffert, 63, Waunakee, died Tuesday night at his home, He lived in the town of Springfield, where he was born, all his life until five years ago when he moved to Waunakee. Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. Peter Maier, Lodi; Mrs. Math Hensen, Sun Prairie; Mrs.

Reuben Elickson and Mrs. James Elickson, both of Waunakee; a son, Gilbert, Waunakee; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Kopp and Mrs. Math Frederick, Waunakee; two brothers, Math, Middleton, and ePter, Waunakee, and 19 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 in the Schwab funeral home and at 9:30 in St.

John's Catholic church, the Rev. N. B. Schneider, pastor, officiating. The rosary will be recited at 8 Thursday night in the funeral home.

Friends may call there after 7 tonight. Pallbearers will be six nephews, Jerome Wipperfurth, Stanley Meffert, Gerald Frederick, Ferdinand Pape, Leo and Thomas Endres. RETURNS TO IOWA U. Robert Zamastil, son of Mrs. M.

H. Zamastil, 2734 E. Johnson has returned to the University of Iowa campus following a Christmas vacation spent here with his mother. He is a senior student in the school of electrical engineering. BUY U.

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said today that Gen. Eisenhower could win the Republican presidential nomination without saying a word. "I think he could be nominated under those circumstances, but I don't believe it will happen that way," Ives told a reporter. "I am inclined to think he will speak out before the party convention (in July) and make it clear he is a candidate." Ives expressed views in the wake of a claim his, Sen. Taft's campaign manager that it "now seems a certainty" the Ohioan will be the GOP presidential nominee.

DAVID INGALLS of Cleveland forecast that Taft, an active candidate, would be nominated "on ballot." In statement Tuesday night, Ingalls added "it is far too early to talk of a bandwagon for Taft," but he said "the momentum seems irresistible." Ingalls called the opposition to Taft "thin, hesitant and Besides Taft, announced Earl Warren California and Republican candidates, are Gov. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota. Taft backers, however, are known to regard Eisenas most formidable opposition the Ohio senator might encounter. Ives, a backer of the Ike-forpresident move, said believes the general is "by far" the popular choice for the Republican nomination, "and he would have told us long ago if he were not to be available." belief that Eisenhower could remain publicly silent in advance of the convention and still win the nomination apparently isn't shared by some of the general's boosters.

SOME OF THESE strategists reportedly feel that Eisenhower will have to announce as a candidate before too long, or find himself in trouble if he eventually decides to try to round up convention delegates. That is why they are looking to a news conference here Sunday for some definite evidence that Eisenhower available. The conference has been by Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts, campaign manager of the Eisenhower Republican group, who has promised good news for the general's supporters. Lodge has declined to discuss in advancer the have been information indications he has, it might deal with plans to enter Eisenhower's name in the Mar.

11 New Hampshire presidential primary. be the first ballot box skirmish of this year's election campaign. Associates say Taft has no plans now to enter the New Hampshire contest. Taft himself has said he has "no inclination" to go into any primary outside Wisconsin. I Killed, 1 Hurt in Gunfight Over Girl lay seriously wounded and BALTIMORE- (AP) -One men: other was dead today after a gunfight over a 17-year-old The dead man, Landis Hoffman, a 33-year-old aircraft worker, been rejected by the girl, Patricia Ferns.

The wounded man was her fiance, Carmine Gianforte, 19. He was hit chest. The girl told police Hoffman opened fire outside her home when she and Gianforte returned from a New Year's party early Tuesday. She ran into the house and Gianforte hurried in a moment later. She said Gianforte told her: "Lock the doors.

I'm afraid he might follow and kill us," then added a moment later: "I've been hit." The girl called police. They found Hoffman's body lying partly in gutter, dead from several bullet in the chest. One was found in Hoffman's car, another on the Ferns' sofa. Gianforte told police he was carrying a gun because Hoffman had threatened him. Police said no charges had been filed in the case yet.

Pfc. Jacobsen Spends 13-Day Furlough Here Pfc. William Jacobsen, son of Mr. Mrs. Melvin J.

Jacobsen, 131 13-day Waubesa furlough has with been his spending parents. Jacobsen will leave Thursday for Ft. Hood, where he is stationed with the 1st armored division. He is a 1950 graduate of East high school and entered the army Mar. 29, 1951.

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water as diin package. single breath upper broncongestion and spasms! Cabby Is Artist, Too Elwyn M. "Wynn" Chamberlain, 424 N. Pinckney shown here, is perhaps Madison's only taxi driver to be represented in a major art show. The 24-year-old artist's large canvas, "Green World," cited by critics as remarkable painting superb in draftsmanship," is exhibited at Milwaukee's Layton Art gallery's current "'Holiday The painting, in egg tempera, presents a visionary world, done almost completely in an array springlike green tones a recumbent figure slumbering in a sequestered garden guarded by massive-winged seraphs.

His part-time work-day job is driving for the City Car which gives Chamberlain time to paint. Chamberlain, whose family lives at Red Wing, took his master's degree at the university here, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Idaho. He was in the navy during World War II, and briefly after taking his MA degree. Teaching, he found, was a block to his creative talents, so he turned to part-time taxidriving to supplement his earnings from his paintings. He has a large number of other canvases to his credit.

Three Hurt In Set Hearing on Dane County State Deposit Auto Accidents Insurance Plan Three persons were hurt, none seriously, in traffic accidents in Dane county, outside of Madison, late on New Year's Day. The injured are Clarence E. Goodrich, 30, Route 1, Cambridge, leg cut, and neck bruise; Gaylord Napstad, 21, Janesville, arm fracture and leg cut, and James E. White, 26, Milwau-1932 kee, nose cut. Goodrich's car left Highways 12-18, near Liberty Corners, when it skidded on ice.

He received treatment from a Cambridge physician. Mrs. Napstad was riding with her husband who stopped their car to make repairs alongside Highways 18-121, about 1 mile west of Verona. The Napstad car was struck by a car driven by Thomas E. McHattan, 23, Barneveld, stationed with the air force at Chanute field, Ill.

Mrs. Napstad was taken to Methodist hospital. White was hurt when, driving alone, he fell asleep and his car left Highways 12-18 and struck a tree about 4 miles west of Cambridge, county traffic officers reported. Lab May Provide Mystery Blast Clue MT. AIRY, N.

C. -Laboratories of the federal bureau of investigation may provide a clue to a mystery blast that killed a young agriculture teacher. Metal fragments and a tiny piece of electric cord were flown to Washington Tuesday. Police Chief Monte Boone was expected to return with the results of the exammation. Meanwhile, officers admitted that they have been unable to find any motive for the crime or any lead to the killer of 24-year-old William H.

Cochrane, of nearby White Plains. Cochrane entered his pickup truck Monday morning, touched the starter and was hurled 12 feet onto an ash heap by the explosion. He died 13 hours later. Officers believe an explosive charge had been placed under the floorboard of the truck cab and wired to the vehicle's ignition system. Investigators have been unable to determine a motive.

Although one of his legs was blown off, Cochrane remained conscious most of the time until death. He could furnish officers with no clue. 2,000 ATTEND A Almost 2,000 representatives of Wisconsin business attended sessions of the University of Wisconsin's industrial management institutes last year. The state investment commission will hold a public hearing at 10 a. Jan.

23 at the capitol on revision of payments into the state deposit insurance system. In 1925 legislature created the state deposit fund to guarantee payment of state deposits in banks which failed or closed. In the fund was expanded to include coverage of public funds on deposit by all municipalities in the state including school districts. The a state fund now totals 000,000. Under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

(FDIC) all funds up to $10,000 in banks are insured. Public agencies with funds on deposit above the $10,000 FDIC limit pay of the average deposits each year into the state fund. There has been discussion of dropping the fund because it is still too small to give considerable protection, and full protection would require a sharp increase in the rates. Woman Fan Loses TV Set to Burglar OKLAHOMA CITY, Mrs. Frances Roden grams today, all she missed her favorite television? prowasn't able to buy off an impatient burglar.

Roden said she discovered the burglar in her living room examining the TV set. He threatened her with a pistol and ordered her to give him $100 right away. If she couldn't produce, he told her, he'd take the video receiver. Jewelry worth about $30 and $15 in cash didn't satisfy the caller. He walked out with the television set.

Women's Panties Block Sewer; Man Arrested HERNE BAY, England (AP) Workmen investigating a sewer stoppage in front of Peter Addley's house found the pipe blocked with 81 pairs of women's panties. In court today, Addley, 22, admitted stealing the panties, plus 17 slips and a number of brassieres, during a series of clotheswhich began 18 months ago. He said he had acted on an "uncontrollable urge." The judge put him on probation, with orders to consult a psychiatrist. RATE HEARING SET The state public service commission will hold a hearing at 10 Jan. 30 on the application of the Wisconsin Southern Gas Lake Geneva, Walworth county, for authority to increase rates.

"Hey, Mom! What's my balance now?" "It's fun watching my savings account grow! Mommy and Daddy started my savings when I was just week old. Now they save a little every week, and you'd be surprised how much I have. They say this way they can give me college prepaid!" FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN John, W. Haley, Secretary 124 State St. 6-8311 Madison's Only FEDERAL Savings and Loan Proposal For World U.

Is Backed by NSA Student Group Opposes Section of McCarran Red Control Law Howland Awarded Trip to Mexico The U. S. National Student association (NSA) executive committee Monday at a meeting at the University of Chicago endorsed the proposal for a world university made recently by Joseph P. Cholzza, University of Wisconsin sociologist. The committee also opposed section of the McCarran Communist control law which denies visas for entry into the United States to members of foreign Fascist or Communist organizations "without reference to the attitude of the people or their governments to the U.

THE COMMITTEE SAID the visa denial section of the law "tends to embarrass U. S. citizens in their fight for the free exchange of ideas," particularly on the student level." The executive committee said this section of the law makes exchanges with students behind the iron curtain virtually impossible and is contrary to the principle of the free exchange of peoples and ideas among nations. IN ITS ENDORSEMENT of the Choizza suggestion, the executive committee said it should "provide plan for attaining an education to those students of countries having no institution of higher learning or whose universities do not provide an atmosphere conducive to academic freedom, without fear of loss of job or slander." NSA further criticized the McCarran law section for "assuming that subversive elements will be kept out of the. United States by merely denying them legal entry and failing to distinguish, for example, between a Yugoslav and a Cominform Communist." George H.

Howland, Madison area district manager for the Mutual Service Insurance has tion" Mexico for himself and his "worked end his way through a vacawife. and Mrs. Howland will leave' St. Paul, headquarters for his firm, Saturday for a 15-day vacation in Mexico, accompanied by nine other winners and their wives. was offered the top 10 Thinners in an insurance sales contest.

Arriving in Mexico City Monday, the group will establish headquarters at the Caleta hotel, at Acapulco, famous seaside resort the Mexican capital. The return trip will start from there Jan. 15. Howland joined the insurance firm as an agent in 1943. He has lived in Madison since 1930, and attended the University of Wis- consin.

'Buttonholes' Army WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Norblad (R-Ore.) asked the army today why it puts suspender buttons on uniforms and prohibits the wearing of suspenders. The button complex, Norblad said, was called to his attention by an unidentified constituent who claimed it doesn't make sense. The constituent said his son, an army man, told him about the buttons for and the ban against galluses. With an army of around two million men, Norblad said, there are approximately 12 million suspender buttons--six per pair of pants- to waste.

Norblad told newsmen he had called this to the attention of Army Sec. Pace in the hope that some small economy might be achieved. Anderson Pace, general industrial agent of the Illinois Central railroad, will speak at the meeting of the 'Madison Catholic Women's club Monday afternoon at the Catholic Community center. Speaking on "The Road Ahead," Pace will discuss many problems in government resulting from the connection between certain criminal factions and government representatives as revealed by the Kefauver committee the series of investigations last year. Pace joined Illinois Central a as general agent in 1938.

Before that he and his brother, Walter, were industrial engineers, worked closely with the railroad. brothers are regarded as authorities in their field. TO ADDRESS CLUB De Anderson Pace First Building Permit of '52 Issued to Carpenters Madison's first for 1952 was issued city building ment to R. H. and E.

The Carpenters to add an basement of a building at 2020 The cost is to be to the permit. It's Dane Dems Elect Officers on Jan. 10 CLINIC SPEAKER Fred B. Nicholson "Idea For Sale" will be discussed by Fred B. Nicholson, president of Kubin-Nicholson when he speaks before the second annual Madison Sales Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Jan.

14. During his 25 years in the publicity and advertising fields, olson has progressed from Hollywood press president the largest billboard printing firm in the country. Known for his ability to combine wit and wisdom, Nicholson has become a popular club and convention speaker. has appeared before the St. Louis, Minneapolis and Milwaukee Advertising clubs, the Milwaukee Sales Managers' association, the National Advertising convention, the National Brewers convention and has lectured on outdoor advertising several times at Notre Dame university.

Other speakers at the one-day sales clinic being sponsored jointly by the University of Wisconsin and the Madison Chamber of Commerce include: Arthur "Red" Motley, president of Parade Magazine; A. C. Van Dusen, professor univerchology at Northwestern sity; Dr. Kenneth McFarland Topeka, Philip Salisbury, general manager and Sales Management; E. Carl Sorby, vice-president of the Geo.

D. Roper and Arthur A. Hood, vicepresident of Vance Publishing Corp. Registration for the clinic will start at 9 a. m.

Space facilities limit registration to 500. A limited number of reservations are still available Madison Chamber of Commerce office. Pfc. Clausen Returns to Duty After Furlough Pfc. Paul C.

Clausen, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clausen, 1007 Spaight has returned to duty at Keesler air force base, after a 10- day furlough at the home of his parents. t. Clausen attended Muscoda high school and in the in airlistece Sept ember.

He received his basic training" at ps son air force me base see in New York state. Pfc. Clausen Suspend Governor, 3 Mayors In Philippines MANILA- Gov. Rafael Lacson and three mayors in his Negros Occidental province, all facing murder charges, were suspended from office today 24 hours after they were sworn in to new four year terms. They are accused of murdering Moises Padilla, unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Magallon, in November's elections.

Install Church Officers At Mt. Olive Lutheran Five recently-elected officers of Mt. Olive Lutheran church were installed by the Rev. William Rohlwing during services at the church on New Year's Day. They are Erwin Riedel, Martin Fiess, congregation chairman; member of the board of elders; Jack Richardson and Vilas Matthias, members of the board of trustees: and Reuben Moll, member of the board of education.

LOSES RUG IN MOVING Dino Zei, Route 5, reported to police Tuesday the loss of a large rug from a trailer while he was moving to his new home from 317 N. Frances st. Zei said he checked back over his route but was unable to find the rug. Modern mothers know you can't beat Vicks VapoRub for miseries of colds. The moment you rub it on throat, chest and back VapoRub starts right to work 2 ways at once IF THERE'S MUCH COUGHING OR get deep-action boiling relief in seconds with rected VapoRub in steam- Every 2 heaping spoonfuls relieves of Vicks VapoRub in chial vaporizer or bowl of coughing The Dane County Democratic will elect officers at meetclub Thursday, Jan.

10, at the ing YMCA, following a potluck supper. Mrs. Helene Wheeler is chairman Rosalle the Morton, secretary of supper, assisted by Mrs. the club. Nominees for the 1952 season, named by a nominating committee headed by Mrs.

Ruth Doyle, follow: Horace W. Wilkie, Madison, chairman, to succeed Stanley Prideaux; Mrs. Wheeler, vice-chairman; John Moses, Stoughton, vicechairman in charge of, organization; Robert Prideaux, Madison, vice-chairman for business; Jerome Blaska, Marshall, vice-chairman farm groups; Mrs. Gretchen Pfankuchen, Madison, membership secretary; Mrs. Marian Thompson, Stoughton, corresponding secretary, and Mrs.

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