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THE CAPITAL TIMES, Saturday, Nov. 17, 1956 Rtero (DG fflsifflsrcDb i Dana Raps McCarthy U.N. Stand Alter Lights On Square For Drivers Ashs New Summit Talh Moscow Proposes Destruction Of All Nuclear Stockpiles Senator Sees No Trouble 9 Postal Complaint on Wileys Free Mail Is Expected to Die By RON MAY (Capital Times Washington Correspondent) WASHINGTON Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis) is not expecting trouble from the Post Office Department on a series of campaign folders mailed to Wisconsin voters during the month before the election. The department showed a peculiar zeal just before the Wisconsin primary in September by citing the senator for improper use of his franking privilege.

flnds Duty Army Pvt. Gary H. Ziegler, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold M.

Ziegler, 3357 Lexington recently completed the second phase of a six-month tour of active duty under the Reserve Forces Act at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Ziegler received automotive maintenance helpers training after compelling basic combat training at the fort. He was graduated from East High School this year. Britain and France Wary of Proposal LONDON SUSPICIOUS LONDON UP) Soviet Russias new disarmament proposals were viewed here today with cautious hope tempered by Harold W. Severson, son of Mrs.

Esther E. Severson, 811 Spaight has been appointed master-at- arms of his recruit company at the Great Lakes Naval Tra ining Center. As a recruit petty officer, he will wear a miniature rating in-signe as a badge of authority during the remainder of his nine weeks of Boot Severson Camp. He was chosen for the position in recognition of leadership qualities displayed while undergoing recruit training. Platoon Leader Grant J.

Tessmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Tessmann, 1664 Baker has been appointed first platoon leader of his recruit com-p a at the Great Lakes Na- val Training Center. -vV Center.

As a recruit petty officer he will wear a miniature rating in-signe as a badge of authority during the remainder of his nine weeks of 'Boot Camp. He was chosen for the position in recogni tion of leadership qualities displayed while undergoing recruit training. Six End Training Six Madison men completed recruit training Friday at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Calif. The 12-week course included instruction in all basic military subjects and the firing of all basic infantry weapons. Upon completion of training, the new Marines are assigned to Camp Pendleton, fo further infantry training, or to one of the many Marine Corps schools.

The men are: Richard A. Stockland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stockland, 520 Christianson Richard C. Walrath, son of Mrs.

Creola Walrath, 3126 Hermina L. Berg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Berg, 2342 E.

Washington Donald II. Ilackbart, grandson of Mrs. Bertha Hack-bart, 454 N. Baldwin Barry L. Mason, of 2542 Upham and Thomas W.

Ripp, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ripp, 2346 E. Mifflin St. Ellis H.

Dana, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Coun-j cil of Churches, today assailed Sen. Joseph McCarthy for his' statement that the United States should pull out of the United Nations. Dana called the U. N. Americas one great hope.

To quit the U. N. now and kick it out of the country, as some Americans demand, led by our junior senator from Wisconsin, is both foolhardy and irresponsible and will only invite catastrophe, Dana declared today, For at this moment in his tory the U. N. is man's Americas one great hope.

It is the one way open for concerted world action. If this fails, what is left? Therefore, instead of sabotaging and undermining the U. N. in this critical hour, as some misguided American lea ders would have us do, our major present efforts should be concentrated in every manner possible in directing our moral, educational, religious and political resources to support and strengthen the United Nations, as indeed our State Council has done. Dana referred to seminars on the U.

N. conducted by the State Council in communities throughout the state together with follow-up programs. Mrs. McBride Is Acquitted ORLANDO, Fla. UP) A jury last night acquitted Mrs.

Helen McBride, 49, the woman aviator, of the murder of a friend of the family at her home Feb. 29. The sister-in-law of Mary Margaret McBride, the columnist, sobbed when the verdict was read in circuit court. She said she shot Charles Richard Green, 33, in self defense when they argued about finances. Green, an unmarried airline clerk, had lived in the McBride home at Apopka from 1947 to 1955.

She described him as almost a member of the family which included her husband. Dr. T. E. McBride, 60, and the McBrides four children.

She testified she invited Green to her home on the night of the slaying and told him her husband is in bad need of some money and you owe me upward of $2,000. Green said he didnt have that kind of money, she said, and became angry when she proposed that they mortgage some apartments they jointly owned at the Apopka airport. She said Green slapped her twice across the face, grabbed her by the neck and that, she fled to the kitchen where there was a .22 caliber pistol she had taken out to clean. She told the court Green kept advancing and she fired when he disregarded a warning she would shoot. Mrs.

Day Rites At Dotlgeville Funeral services for Mrs. William M. Day, 54, of 2529 E. Johnson who died Thursday in a Madison hospital, were to be held today in the Lblloff Fu neral Home, Dodgeville. Mrs.

Day, a former Mineral Point and Dodgeville resident, moved to Madison with her family 15 years ago from Dodgeville. The Rev. Benjamin Talmadge, Mineral Point, was to officiate at the rites today. Surviving are her husband and a daughter, Nancy, both at home; another daughter, Mrs. John Jakovich Akron, Ohio; one son, William Day, Jr.2550 E.

Dayton and one grandchild. Weber Rites Funeral services for William G. Weber, 64, of 528 Wrton former owner of Webers Pastry Kitchen here, who died be held Monday at 8:30 in the Fitch-Lavrence and Ryan Funeral Home at 9 in Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. The Rev. Joseph H.

Gabriels will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 Sunday and until time of services. The rosary will be recited in the funeral home Sunday night at 8 by the Holy Name Society of Holy Redeemer Church. PARIS UNENTHUSIASTIC PARIS UP) Todays Soviet disarmament proposal was received by the French government today without much excitement or enthusiasm. The west has.

proposed that armed forces of the United States, the Soviet Union and Communist China be cut to each as a first step toward disarmament. This has been accepted by the Soviet Union at U.N. disarmament talks. Abolition of H-bomb A-bomb tests has been advocated for a long time by the Soviet Union. But both the Western powers and Russia have kept up their test explosions.

Russia has also lonj demanded that NATO give up bases in foreign countries. The Soviet statement bristled with denunciations of the British and French for the invasion of Egypt and contained familiar Soviet charges that monopolists in the United States, Britain and France were intensifying the armaments race in order to make fabulous profits. The statement referred to the situation in Hungary in this manner: Attempts are being made at fanning up a slanderous campaign against the Soviet Union in connection with the fiasco of the counter-revolutionary- conspiracy against the peoples of Hungary, which, as has now been clearly ascertained, was an integral part of the general conspiracy of the imperialists against the peace and security of the peoples both in the Near East and in Europe. It said it could be stated that the strategic situation in Western Europe now is more favorable to the Soviet army than at the end of World War II. It declared that the Soviet Union could have realized the military aims prescribed to it concerning West Europe even without utilizing present day nuclear and rockets weapons.

But the statement added that now as at the end of World War II, the U.S.S.R. has no other aim than the preservation and the strengthening of peace for which the peoples of the world are thirsting. Bulganins Message Puzzles Washington WASHINGTON OR Premier Bulganins proposal for a new summit conference to tackle the problem of disarmament was assured today as careful study by President Eisenhower and his advisors but hardly seemed likely to win unqualified American approval. Several points in the Bulganin message announced in Moscow puzzled Washington observers in initiaT reaction. They wondered whether Bulganin was really thinking of a top-level meeting or trying to make some other point.

His expressed willingness to consider President Eisenhowers open skies aerial inspection plan for the North Atlantic and Warsaw Pact countries could be a way of reversing Russias policy on this point if Bulganin now (Continued from Page 1) cepted the plan. On the nuclear weapons the Soviet Union made this proposal: To ban and A bombs, their production and use, and to destroy all stocks, with an immediate ban on tests. The Soviet Union has been plumping for a long time for an end to nuclear tests, and international agreement to ban nuclear weapons. The West has insisted that strict international control measures must be. imposed as a first consideration.

Todays Bulganin message said the Russians wanted to establish strict international control to insure that these (disarmament) proposals are carried out. Bulganins message contained blasts at the British, French and Israelis for the invasion of Egypt, and said this has resulted in a serious weakening, not only of the political but also of the military strategic positions of Britain and France in Europe, and of the entire North Atlantic Treaty Organization. These were the Soviet disarmament proposals most of them offered before in one way or another to be discussed at a summit conference in view of the failure of the United Nations disarmament commission: 1The armed forces of the U.S.S.R., the United States, and China should be reduced within two years fo V-2 million men each while the forces of Britain and France should be cut to 650,000 each and those of other nations to 100,000. to 150,000. As a first step the United States, China and the Soviet Union should cut their forces to.

2 million and Britain and France to 750,000. 2- A complete ban on atomic and hydrogen weapons of war, discontinuance of their production, complete destruction of stockpiles, and an immediate halt of all tests of nuclear 3 A reduction by one-third in 1957 of the anned forces of the United States, Britain and France in Germany. -A. considerable reduction in 1957 of the forces of the United States, France and Britain in the NATO countries and of Soviet Union forces in the Warsaw treaty countries. ft Liquidation within two years of all foreign army, navy, and air force bases in other countries.

A corresponding redue-tion in armaments expenditure, Bulganins call to a summit conference did not include Communist China. There was no explanation for the omission. But Bulganin said that if the summit conference is successful then a larger conference might be summoned, including all the NATO and Warsaw Pact tries. The Russian specified that Communist China should at-: tend the larger conference. China is not a member of the Warsaw Pact, but has been, closley associated with it.

The Warsaw organization includes all the Eastern European communist, states with the exception of Yugoslavia. They are the Soviet Union East Germany, Czechoslovakia Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. The NATO powers are the United States, Britain, France, Canada Den a West Germany Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey. The Big Four and India were Invited to a summit conference last week by Switzerland. But President Eisenhower said this, was not the time for such a.

meeting and other 'Western leaders followed Many of the disarmament pro-: posals mentioned in todays So- viet statement are not new. He for instance, that special details could be stationed at airports, ports and military bas-. es to assure compliance with a disarmament program. This had been offered before in. place of aerial inspection.

On Top Team Army Specialist Second Class James A. Cox, 22, son of Mr and Mrs. Kenneth C. Cox Route 3, Madison, was a member of the. 90th Antiaircraft Artil lery Battalion team which placed first in the recent Fort Bliss, inter-battalion touch football tournament.

Specialist Cox, a member of the battalions Battery entered the Army last January and completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. rie was graduated from Oregon High School in 1952. In Ta nfc Training Four Madison men are receiving basic tank battalion train ing with the Fourth Armored Division at Ft. Hood, Tex. They are Pvt.

Thomas A. Thorpe, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alf Thorpe, 1721 Schlimgen Pvt. Richard Faust, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gayle Holcomb of 1721 N. Sherman Pvt. James Lochner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Lochner, 1729 Vahlen and Pvt. John Lockwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Frye, 1806 Northwestern Ave. Transferred Staff Sgt.

Harold E. Hansen of the Inspector-Instructor staff of the Fourth Automatic Weapons Battery, Madisons Marine Reserve Unit, has received transfer orders to the Second Marine Division, now based at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Hansen is expected to leave Madison within a few weeks. Completes Basic Raymond C.

Cooper, 21, r. sen of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Cooper, 610 Cly-mer has completed the first phase of basic military training in the Air Force at Lackland Field, San Antonio, Tex.

Cooper is now taking part in the advanced basic training course at Lack-land, following which he will qualify for as-o Air Cooper Bosco-bel, of the Fort a three-phase program set up to train 7500 replacements for the 3d Armored Division in' Germany. The 23-year-old soldier was graduated from Boscobel High School in 1951. Madison Gas Dividend 45c Directors of Madison Gas and Electric Co. Friday declared a dividend of 45 cents per share on the common stock of the company, payable Dec. 15 to stockholders of record on Nov.

30. All of the 68,334 shares recently offered by the company in October have been sold. The company has outstanding 400,500 shares of common stock. Mary Davis Quits WIBA Position Mary Davis, 24 N. Fourth has resigned as traffic director of radio station WIBA, a position she has held for about a year.

She will be employed by the General Telephone Co. in Richland Center. She has been with WIBA for three years. Previously she was employed by Madison Newspapers, Inc. Postmaster General Arthur Summer fields legal aides charged in early September that a letter mailed free by Wiley to more than 200,000 Wisconsin constituents contained material not previously printed in the Congressional Record and therefore not eligible for postage-free mailing.

The charge came at a time when Wiley was fighting for his political life against Rep. Glenn R. Davis (R-Waukesha), who had been endorsed for the senators job by the State GOP. Davis was considered more amenable to the wishes of the Old Guard leaders of the party in Wisconsin. Wiley was informed in the first week of September by Post Office General Counsel Abe Goff that he would have to pay more than $7,000 to cover the wrongly franked letter.

The story was given first by the department to the anti-Wiley Wisconsin State Journal in a long-distance call on Sept. 7 and it seems obvious that the newspaper was aware from the start that a complaint had been filed by a letter recipient against Wiley. The primary was Sept. 11 four days later. Wiley immediately protested the ruling.

His office filed a brief stating that 75 per cent of the letter consisted of reprints from the Congressional Record and that the remaining 25 per cent contained no direct mention of the campaign. It was a letter to inform citizens of Wisconsin of important public matters, Wiley insisted. Actually, the letter was designed to put the senator in a good light as a hard-working legislator deserving of re-election. Postmaster Summerfield, an intensely political individual, has made no secret of his low regard for Wisconsins senior senator. or his admiration for Davis, who was supported by Sen.

Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) and others of the partys right wing. Summerfield is an old and close friend of Wisconsins GOP leader, Thomas Coleman, the man who engineered the partys repudiation of Wiley in favor of Davis and the man who did more than anyone to elect McGarthy in 1946. Coleman still backs McCarthy. The postmaster general is a veteran of Michigan politics and lorked closely with Coleman in the years before the Eisenhower administration took office in 1953, the year he received his cabinet appointment. Summerfield pointedly refused to mention Wiley while ad M.

Sa tlier Dies At Stoughton STOUGHTON Marthinius Sa-; ther 72, retired farmer and area! resident more than 60 years, died today at a local A native of Ringsaker, Norway, I Mr. Sather came to this country at the age of 9 with his parents and settled in the Stoughton area. He operated a farm in the ttnvn of Rutland more than 30 ears, moving to Stoughton on his retirement in 1946. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Aaron Lunde, i Stoughton, and Mrs.

Walter Vick; 5106 Maywood Ave. Monona Village; three sons, Alfred, Oregon; Melvin, 913 North Madison, and Reinhardt, Orfordville, and, 12 grandchildren. I Funeral services will be held! Monday at 2 at the First Lutheran Church, with the Rev. A. W.

Stolen, pastor officiating, Friends may call at the Holz-I huter Funeral Home after 10 a. m. Sunday. i WAT dressing the Wisconsin GOP convention last May. There is reason to believe that he urged Coleman to dump Wiley.

The Summerfield-Wiley antagonism is of long standing, and it certainly wasnt alleviated by Wileys opposition to the postmasters request that Congress raise postal rates. The meaure was defeated. After Wiley won the primary and became the official candidate for all Wisconsin Republicans, a flood of postage-free literature was issued from Wileys office. One folder offered voters 9 Good Reasons For Wileys Re-Election. Another folder was headed: Re: Would You Help In My Campaign? A postcard was enclosed for the recipient to sign and mail to a friend.

The message on the postcard was short: I hope youll support Senator Alexander Wiley, too! This gimmick w'as first used extensively in Wisconsin by McCarthy in 1946. Little if any of the printed material sent from Wileys office during the last month of the campaign was taken from the Congressional Record. Most of it asked directly for support in the election. At least one person has sent the later Wiley letters to the postmaster asking for a ruling. It is difficult to understand how the department can fail to condemn the post-primary mailings after making an issue of the first letter.

But Summerfield is expected to find a way to wriggle out of the predicament. The law is conveniently vague so that it can be manipulated according to political needs, as the postmaster apparently has been doing. The departments meddling in senatorial affairs is almost certain to result in changes to the franking law so that the Senate will have sole and complete control over its free mailing. Informed observers believe that any new law would mak? the franking rules even more loose, because senators dont like to re strict themselves. Even the vast bailing of Sen.

Thomas Martin (R-Iowa) to 13 Midwest states at a cost to the taxpayers of more than $150,000 is not enough to impel senators to tighten the rules. Wiley has told reporters that he does not expect to hear anything further from the Post Office department about the dis- puted letter. His staff does not1 expect that he will pay the 000-plus postage bill. AL LERDAHL about this question: I hear that your agency has a special Homeftwners Policy that covers a home, not only against fire' damage, but all physical loss. Does this policy also pay loss of rent, or the extra cost of living elsewhere until the home is repaired? For the answer to your insurance questions, feel free to call me at the Reitan -Lerdahl Agency.

Dial 6-2656 to 5 P.M. City Traffic Engineer John Bunch revealed Friday that the cycles on traffic lights at four Capitol Square intersections have been changed to give motorists turning onto the square a better break. Under the old light schedule, traffic on the Square began move several seconds before cars on the four side streets were allowed to begin right turns onto the Square. As a result, it was frequently difficult for motorists from the side streets to get into the heavy stream of square traffic. The new system permits side street traffic to remove onto the Square seven seconds before the square traffic gets the green light.

Bunch pointed out this prevents cars on the square from veering into the extreme right lane and clogging it for side street traffic. The intersections involved are where East Washington Avenue, West Washington Avenue, Monona Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue meet the Square. Daniel Pedersen, De Forest, Dies Daniel Pedersen, 49, Route 1, De Forest, died Friday in a Mad. ison hospital. He is survived by his wife, a daughter.

Rose Mary, at home, three brothers and four sisters. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 in the Windsor Congregational Church. The Rev. Erling Paterson will officiate. Friends may call at the Fraut-schi Funeral Home after 2 Sunday.

Friends, if they wish, may contribute to the American Sunday School Union. Wins $31,000 Crash Verdict A Black River Falls man, Wayne Muth, 31, was awarded $31,000 in damages Friday night, by a federal court jury in Madison after nine hours of deliberation. Muth had sued the Mutual Service Casualty Co. for charging that negligence by the companys client, Howard Isaacson, 21, Eau Claire, had caused an accident in May, 1954, in which Muth was injured. Neurosurgeons retained by both sides agreed that Muth suffered permanent brain injuries in the accident.

The jury found Isaacson 65 per cent negligen and Muth 35 per cent negligent in the case. Opposing attorneys had stipulated that the defendant would $500 for Muths motorcycle, smashed in the accident. Westerns Mysteries Comedies For your Week-End ENTERTAINMENT 5:00 p. m. Western Theatre Sat.

Nite Theatre 10:50 p.m. Co Chase Yourself (Lucille Ball- Jack Carson) 12:00 Midnite Nite Owl Theater Outcast of Baker Flat Van Heflin Preston Foster SUNDAY 4:30 p.m. Million Dollar Movie Three for Bedroom Cloria Swanson James Warren I 1 1 p.m, Sunday Night Theater The Meanest Cal in Town James Gleason Zazu Pitts News Weather and Sports 10:30 to 1 1 :00 p. m. CHANNEL 33 in Madison Is Gradaatcti Frederick J.

Narloch, son of Force's 43 major career fields Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. Briggs, Route 2, Madison, completed recruit training Nov. 2 at the Marine Corps Recruit depot, San Diego, Calif.

Relatives and friends of many of the new Marines were on hand to witness the graduation ceremonies. of the Isignment i) Combat Training Army Pvt. Robert G. Connely whose parents live at is receiving eight weeks basic combat training with 4th Armored Division at Hood, Tex. Connely is in the first of In Exercise Pfc.

Robert L. Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Evans, 1011 Vilas and Cpl.

Larry N. Sliffe, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Sliffe, 750 Chapman participated in AGLEX 57E during the period Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 at Camp Pendleton. The six-day AGLEX (Air Ground Landing Exercise), involving 15,000 Marines from the 1st Marine Division, was highlighted by a combined land, and air assault on aggressor territory on D-day, Nov. 2.

Squad Leader Donald J. Wagner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert H. Knapp, 4702 Turner has been appointed Completes Training Donald J.

Wagner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Knapp, 4702 Turner completed his recruit training this week at the Great Lakes Naval Training squad leader of his recruit wants to get serious work pany at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. As a recruit petty officer he will wear a miniature rating in-signe as a badge of authority during the remainder of his nine weeks of Boot Camp. going on a gram, However, it could equally well be bait to get the United States to come into the Summit conference the inspection proposal having been the spearhead of U.

S. disarmament efforts since the Geneva summit meeting in July 1955. At the same time, it could also be bait to get the big powers to agree tc tske the disarmament issue out of the United Nations entirely. The White House declined comment on the Bulganin note until it receives the official text. disarmament pro- Tomorrow, Sunday, Nov.

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