Portage Daily Register from Portage, Wisconsin • 1

dr -r WEATHEK PRECAST Mostly cloudy showers snd local thunderstorms tonight ami Sunday Low tonight 55 High Sunday in (Twa ter tanm on Brami THE DAILY REGISTER la Devoted to the Advancement of Portaga And the Portage Area vUs AND DEMOCRAT 8 Pages Today ESTABLISHED 1888 PORTAGE WISCONSIN SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 1954 5 CENTS PER SINGLE COPY if sr -s Wm LI Bi Wet Pavement Is Cause of Two City Accidents Friday reese uies at Hospital at Age of 90 Arms: ssue 1 Had Prominent Place in Life Of Community Compromise Flan Offered to Nine 5 Nation Assembly i Artillery Duel shatters Quiet tiff Red Coast Wet pavement contributed to two accidents reported to city police Friday night Two persons were slightly injured in an accident on highway 21 north around 10:10 Friday The cars were damaged but toe total amount 1 not known Mrs Maxwell Stevens rout three bruised tight knee and another Mrs Stevens who was a passanger to the same car had a bruised chin The collision occurred when cars driven by Howard Reader 32 Portage Maxwell Stevens 44 route three collided Reader was going south and attempted to pass a car ahead of him when he saw the Stcvena car coming from toe south Reader said he applied his brakes but slid on the wet pavement The second accident involved cars driven by Richard Kelson 16 route two and Jerry Bow ore 18 Packwaukee The accident occurred at 11:45 at Adams and Pleasant streets Both cars were going north on Adams street when Nelson started to turn west on East Pleasant street Bosore said be could not stop because the road was wet and he slid into the side of the Nelson car Slight dameg resulted Commies Blare Invasion to Come Before October 15 LONDON A has been on the deadlocked arms control issue at the nine-power conference on German rearmament it was announced today Belgian Foreign minister Paul-Henri Spaak announced agreement on his plan based on compromise proposals offered by American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a Md to save the conference Spaak credited West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer with making an important concession to allay French fears over German rearmament The conference once again returned to i toe optimistic atmosphere that marked it before French Premier demands caused a snag Friday night Spaak said on leaving Lancaster House this morning after aome hard bargaining among the ministers In an unusual situation limited to one adviser apiece: VIOLENCE Baltimore (Md) police form a path for Negro girls through a milling mob of students at Southern High school where two Negro boys were attacked and a police car coming to their rescue was nearly tipped over by toe demonstrators Of the 1780 students at the school 900 atayied away In the against the end of segregation (International Soundphoto) Authorities Hail Approval Of Pipe Line WILLIAM LL BREESE State Traffic Safety Below Par Report NLRB Again Refuses Kohler Co Request Plow Champ Successful in Title Defense TAIPEI Formosa A thundering artillery duel shattered two-day lull In the war at Qusmoy today while Communist loudspeakers told Nationalist defenders toe Island would be in Red hands before Oct 15 Gen Chang YLTUtg Nationalist military spokesman said artillery fire from both aides increased sharply during the early morning hours and was continuing Nationalist sir and naval patrols were sweeping coastal waters to guard against a feared Red invasion attempt Meanwhile Premier OK Yui Called for "heightened following new Communist threats for toe of Formosa The latest Communist threat came from Defense Minister Peng Teh-Hual who told a huge crowd in Peiping Friday that the of Formosa was toe Bed sacred task Peng told Communist soldiers to prepare themselves for urgent combat In tha Quemoy area General Cheng said that heavy Communist truck movements had been noticed behind Amoy Island just opposite an the Chinn mainland shore He also revealed that ominous Communist activity had been reported In that area with long tpu- of lights "Mof spottsf night fEarher he had said that toe Reds probably were using tbeir old Korean war trick of bringing up artillery ammunition under cover of darkness to escape aerial bombing Chang minimized to Communist threat to seize Quemoy before Oct 15 pointing out toot to seme loudspeakers previously had vowed that to island would fall before Sept It Heavy Nationalist air and navy attacks however apparently had smashed any plan the Communists might have had at that tone la the present situation at Que-mey the Communists were alternating threatening words and hot shells to harass toe Nationalist defenders Although heaviest activity was centered around Quemoy military leaders watched anxiously for possible Communist moves to the north along to Chekiang Coast against either Matsu or Tschen Island MILWAUKEE (UP) has been told that its traffic safety record is below par Safety experts told that Friday to the nearly 1400 persons who attended Gov Walter conference no highway safety at toe Milwaukee Auditorium Dr Ned Dearborn of Chicago president of to National Safety Safety said record Is not as good as you people would like to have it our national traffic safety Inventory which we have been conducting for 14 years Wisconsin ranked 38th In 1953 out of 48 WASHINGTON (UP) Ns-tional Labor Relations Board has again refused toe request of the strikebound Kohler Co of Kohler Wis to review ton status of UAW-CIO International representatives Sdme 3600 members of CIO Local 833-bav been a strike at toe plumbing' wares firm since April 5 In Its second appeal to the NLRB toe company claimed that International representatives to particular Robert Burkart Detroit Mich had not filed a non-Com munist affiliation affidavit aa required by the Taft-Hartley Law Aa In its first refusal the board said that such affidavits were required only of officer who were listed as such to the constitution The board said International representatives were not of toe union aa defined by Taft-Hartley MILWAUKEE (UP) The approval by the Federal Power Commission of a 130-mi 11 ion-dollar pipe line which will double toe natural gas supply to toe state was bailed today by Wisconsin authorities -The effect of toe pipe line would be to almost end restrictions on the use of gas for home heating and industrial use in toe state it was Indicated by authorities About one hundred million cubic feet of gaa daily will be delivered through the new line tentatively slated to run soma 1300 miles from the southern fields to a point near Niles Mich Die line to be constructed by the American Louisiana Pipe line Co of Detroit will bring gas to Michigan a well as Wisconsin In approving construction of the line by 1 12 vote Friday the FPC said the company could not start construction of the tong-delayed line until independent natural gas producers who will supply the gas agree to come under FPC rata regulations The new deadline set for independents to sign was for Dee 1 The State Public Service Commission said toe approval Friday new life into a project to bring added natural gas to Wisconsin'" The announcement of approval was followed by a disclosure that the A Smith Co would manufacture the pipe under contracts totaling more than 50-m 1 1 1 i n-dollars The company said today It William Li Breese 90 retired In dustrialist and banker of Portage died at 6:06 at Divine Savior hospital Friday evening The in-firmitiei of advanced age and a heart attack brought an end to the career of a man long associated with the business and cultural life of Portage At the time of his death he held the position of chairman of the Board of the City Bank of Portage Ha was elected president of the institution In 1929 and in recent years prior to his retirement he had devoted much of his time to toe affairs of that Institution Among his other major business Interests was the operation of the' Portage Hosiery company of which he served as president tor many years Married Zena Gala Ha was tha husband of toe late Zona Gale popular and widely loved Wisconsin author and social worker who died in 1939 It was as memorial to her that he gave the Zona Gale Breese memorial library to tha city of Portage giv-1 ing tha community one of toe finest and most attractive libraries of any small city of Wisconsin He also presented toe home of Zona Gale to toe Civic League William Breese was born in Portage at SIT Franklin street on June 29 1984 the son of Llewelyn Breese and Mary Evans Breese Ha completed his high school studies in Portage and then spent four years as a student at Ripou college His first work was la tha retail lumber business operating under the name of tha Van Dusen Lum- bar company to Portage It was owned by his father and he later became -a partner to the business and later its president when it was known as the Consumer Lumber company He moved to Milwaukee to 1888 where he organized toe marble works of the Grant-Breese company with which he was connected until 1894 when at his request be sold his interest and returned to Portage In 1919 he and his father disposed of their business Interests except for the bank and toe hosiery mills These two business interests occupied much of his time and effort during the following years He was president of the bank when the fine modern structure to which it Is now housed was erected anj headed toe Hosiery company during the years it expanded and occupied a highly important place to the economic life of the commun- In 1893 Mr Breese married Jessie Blackman of Whitewater Wisconsin who died to 1917 They reared an adopted daughter Juliette Breese who became the wife of Bennett of Miami On June 12 1929 Mr Breese married Zona Gale widely known author and social worker who died to 1939 They too had an adopted daughter Leslyn Breese who be- came the wife of Robert Kaie of Saginaw Michigan Mr Breese was a member of the Presbyterian church of Portage and is also a Royal Arch Mason Fnneral ea Manday Friends may call at the Pflanz Funeral home from 1:00 Sunday until 11:00 a Monday at which time he will be moved to the First Presbyterian church to lie to state until the funeral hour Funeral services will be held from the church Manday at 2:00 the Reverend Lloyd DeJong and Reverend John Obchrane of Westfield will officiate Interment will be made to the family lot in Silver Lake cemetery Survivors are two daughters Sirs Juliette Bennett and Mrs Robert Kaie Portage two brothers Llewelyn and Rodney of Portage one sister Miss Mary Breese Portage throe grandchildren and a number of other near relatives The family has requested that friends please omit flowers but those who wish may contribute to the iron lung fund at Divine Savior hoepitaL at in the Newspaperman Is Arrested for Part In French Scandal MANAWA Wis Lawrence Uren Jr 37 Barneveld Successfully defended his' contoyr plowing crown Friday at toe state open division plowing matches hero Uren edged second place winner Leo Yager of Highland by one point scoring 83 Ervin Woiter of Princeton was third with 31 In level land plowing Ed A Rusch of Forest Junction took first prize with 79 points Lester Nueh-ring of Merrill followed with 72 and Gilbert Schley of Luxemburg placed third with 64 Elmer A Hast of Mondovi won the two-way plowing event with 80t4 points and second place was taken by James Brile of Hollon-dale Third prize went to Reuben Oldenburg of West Salem Nearly 10-thousand persons braved rains which had turned the area into a quagmire Thursday and Friday Gov Walter Kohler told the meet that bright days were ahead for the state dairy Industry Kohler told the crowd that there were encouraging signs for to future prosperity of toe Wisconsin dairy fanner He said he placed his hope in improved merchandising methods in a stable peacetime economy rather than in time made prosperous by artificial stimulus of Report Flying Missile states" he said Law Enforcement Dearborn said Wisconsin alio ranked In law enforcement in driver licensing procedures and In safety organizations He gave a rating in traffic engineering and in the reporting end recording of accidents James E- Pryde chief of state traffic patrol told the conference that his traffic patrol la four times at large as and that death rate waa twice aa much He said hi department bad 275 trained men Main speaker at the conference wa Sirs Oveta Culp Hobby secretary of health education and welfare in President Eisenhower's cab inert She said are driving 1954 model cars on 1918 model roads and the toll of life and property damage we pay for this contradiction is appahngly Mrs Hobby said this Federal Highway Act authorized nearly two-million-doilars to improve highways we need a bigger Clark Woodward of Milwaukee chairman of the Highway Safety Committee said we must have more enforcement on our Patrolmen Rarely Seen He said can drive hundreds of miles in this state without seeing a highway patrolman While we rank 38th in general traffic safety we rank only 43rd in highway None of the speakers mentioned the opposition of the Wisconsin Sheriffs Assn to Kohler's plan for an enlarged State Highway Patrol Kohler said that the current safety campaign has reduced the three-month death toll by 52 as compared with last year but that toe campaign must be replaced with permanent Mayors lawmakers labor and business leaders and law enforcement officers attended the STOCKHOLM Sweden (UP) Defense Ministry officials today studied photographs of a Hying object believed to be a robot plane or guided missile that appeared high over southern Sweden last Photographer Tord Olsson saw Jjd make part of the pipe to iu Milwaukee and PARIS A fugitive newspaperman who la a key figure in the sensational French spy scandal was arrested today Tunisian-born Andrs Baranes ought by police for 10 days as a principal witness in the case was the third person arrested so far The other two were assistants to the secretary-general of the French National Defense Council who was suspended today Baranes was headed for the Swiss border on a red bicycle when he was picked up at a small village The two defense council officials arrested Friday confessed they gave secret Information to Baranes described as a Commu nist newspaperman who worked both as a police spy and Red Informant plant part plant at Houston Tex Eight Wisconsin utilities will bf served by toe new pips lint which American Louisiana expects to complete to early 1956 Marquette Professor Dies From Injuries the object flying at about 19000 feet at an exceptionally high speed trailing aa orange red streak It flew from horizon- to horizon disappearing to a northerly direction within 30 seconds but be managed to snap pictures with a telephoto lens solution has been found Adenauer has made a big His optimism was echoed by other diplomats tearing to coo-fere nee room Ceterols ea Certain Weapons Spaak tossed In a proposal today suggesting the deadlock ever the arms control issue be solved with agreement among the carti nental members of toe Brussels pact not to make atomic biological or chemical weapons unless peci-fie ally authorized by the treaty organization He also proposed tost they agree to manufacture weapons only to fill their own needs Both were Dulles' suggestions Soma of to ministers were re- ported oppose to this outright baa on production of the weap- ons in all Europe Then Adenauer made his big concession conference source re- -ported He promised that Germany -would voluntarily accept ban ea toe production of to snd heavy weapons within Its tenders This was whet Franc wanted in -to first place Dulles had proposed that the German baa on the production of the be made effective for two years compromise also suggested that a rearmed free Germany be permitted only to produce only enough other armaments to equip 12 divisions Tbs weapons proposal would also ban Germany from importing such armaments Dulles compromise on rearmament controls was aa attempt to break a conference deadlock caused by Mendes demand that his arms pool plan be adopted Dufies Stays Overtime The American secretary hod planned to leave London today to return to Washington But following the morning conference session a aids said: do not see bow the secretary of state can leave -tonight" French conference sources said that Mendes Franc liked the American proposal and would compromise to save the conference The weapons were defined in the European Defense Community treaty killed by the French Assembly as atomic biological snd chemical The proposal mads by Dulles included tbs following: 1 That the Brussels pact powers agree in principle to establish an agency to rationalise and control on a non-disertmatory basis the manufacture of armaments by its members on tb continent of Europe This la Mendes arms pool plan 2 The plan should be adopted by two-thirds vote of the Brussels pact counciL Germany limits Praduedew 3 Dm German Federal Republic should make a two year commit- ment or a commitment until tha Brussels Treaty agency Is established If that la earlier: A Not to manufacture import or export the so-called weapons These weapons were defined in the EDC Treaty a atomic biological and chemical To limit the manufacture of other armaments to that required to equip 13 divisions taking into account the military equipment that is provided by the United (States The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supreme commander (now UK Gen Alfred Green-tber) would decide what arms -Germany needs for its forces under plan Tb United States has said it is prepared to supply extensive mill-(Continued on Page 2 Column 8) State Weather Report Dreary! Two Captured Gl's Get Release from Czechs MILWAUKEE (UP) -Rev Clarence Wfcitfard 54 icd slant professor of philosophy at Marquette University was killed In fall from a third-floor window of Johnston Hall today The priest also student counselor in to Marquette medical school was believed to have suffered dizzy spell He had such spells in toe past a school official said Father Whitford fell from window In a stair well and his body was found by a fellow priest He was native of Denver Colo a graduate of Gonzaga University Spokane Wash and held a doctor of philosophy degree from tbs Grecorian University in Rome COMPENSATIONS DOWN WASHINGTON The Labor Department ha reported that a downward trend in the number unemployment Compensation claims baa resumed after a brief interruption Gruenther Urges Strong Tactical Air Command ope Rests Before Talk to 5000 Persons By UNITED PRESS Wisconsin had another dreary day like Friday today-cloudy cool and rainy All weather stations in to state reported measurable amounts of rain today except for Eau Claire and Park Falla Milwaukee got toe mosL 35 inches The Beloit region had 32 Madison Zl Wausau -19 Lone Rock 13 the Superior region 06 Green Bay and Grantsburg 02 and a trace at La Crosse The highest toe mercury could be squeezed Friday was 62 degrees in the Beloit re That compared to the nation's high of 104 at Gila Bend Ariz Milwaukee and Lone Rock had 00 Madison 58 La Crosse and Green Bay 35 Park Falla 53 Eau Claire 52 Grantsburg and Wausau 51 and 46 in to Suprioc region Low readings today ranged between 35 in the Superior area up to 59 around Beloit with these readings in between: 39 at Eau Claire and Park Falla 41 at Wausau 43 at Grantsburg SO at La Cross and Green Bay S3 at Lone Rock S3 at Madison and 51 at Milwaukee CASTEL GANDOLFO Italy (UP) Pius rested today In preparation for mass general audiene Sunday during which hr will speak to an estimated 9000 ptignms Prof Rieeardo Gsleszzi-LUi the physician said that a day of rest Friday helped toe 76-year-old Pontiff and ordered the Pope to rest again today The Pontiff recently suffered a recurrence of so attack of hiccoughs which last winter left him in a fatigued and run-down WAIDHAUS Germany (UP) Two US Army men seized by Communist Czechoslovakia Sept 17 the Geman-Czech border were freed here today The two are 1st LL Richard Dries St Albans Queens NY and Pfc George Pisk Austin Tex The Americans crossed a small stone bridge to freedom at 11:17 am Their Czech captors handed them over to German border police The Army said the two soldiers would appear at a press conference Nuernberg Monday They were picked up by Czech border guards near Eslarn Bavaria to the West Zone of Germany and accused by Prague of espionage -The US Army said the men were on a mission to border area when they were taken A third man who wa with them escaped and reported the capture The US Embassy to Prague had sent a note to toe Czech government demanding the release of Dries and Pisk In turn the Czech Foreign Office sent a note to Washington charging that the men had taken pictures used binoculars and made notes and drawings along the border under orders to spy on Czechoslovakia After bedding toe two men for 15 days the Czechoslovak agreed Friday to release them at tola border crossing point today Many of the 2500 inhabitants of this bender town were out to greet the Americana when they came back They were strung out along the road that leads to the barbed wire fence which marks the frontier The two prisoners arrived at toe border point shortly after 11 am in a two-car Czech convoy They were taken into toe Czech border control bouse German border official Karl Wenzel who Was standing on the bridge with a Czech official went to the Czech guardhouse A few minutes later he emerged with the two men and they were greeted by two US Army captains One was aa intelligence officer from Nuernberg He stood waiting with carbine in his band The other captain was in field uniform complete with helmet and pistol Both Dries and Pisk appeared somewhat pale but otherwise looked in good shape Their pants were neatly pressed and both had recent haircuts Ikies was in civilian clothes snd Pisk in uniform just as they were clad when captured two weeks ago Dries appeared confident and at east while Pisk teas nervous He ebain-emoked at they crossed the gray misty border After greeting toe two captains Dries started to talk But bis superior cut him off and said go to the car and get out of Newsmen covering the release were told not to question toe two men pending Monday's press conference Dells Man Injured In Auto Accident DENVER Colo (UP) Gen Alfred Gruenther supreme allied commander in Europe said today he feared toe possibility of era of between toe West and Soviet Russia and its satellites but felt that a powerful tactical American air force would stall off aa all-out war with the Reds Gruenther flew here from hit headquarters in Paris for a week end meeting with President Eisenhower at the Denver White House Before be saw the chief executive he told a news conference tost if the Russians elected to overrun Europe day after the Soviets "ought to be atria to beat us on the first But in three or four years they won't be abje to do that Gruenther said basing his prospectus on Russian capability to resist to effects German rearmament and a buildup of American air strength Asked for gn evaluation of toe prospects for war or peace between East and West Gruenther: replied: think ws are going to have Must Preserve Unity But he added that greatest in keeping the peace was "to preserve our unity" so that Russia pick us off one by He considered the present Russian regime under Premier Georgl Malenkov tougher" in the ideological field of combat than under Josef Stalin Of Malenkov Gruenther (aid tits back at toe allied arguments over the European Defense Community sad French political difficulties guys are much smarter in working out the divisive he said of Malenkov and the latter's associates frank survey of toe world situation included some critical observations of this country In its international relation Discussing characteristics of in foreign dealings be said the people of this country want rapid results in their international relation while the Russians are prone to be more patient -eaps from Golden Gate CUT FEDERAL ATROLL WASHINGTON (UP) The federal government dropped 2 60S workers from to payroll during August leaving a total of 2342692 the Civil Service Commission reported Thursday night A rural Wisconsin Dells man received cuts and bruises when his car tipped over on toe town line road east of the Dells early this morning Arvto Hammeriy route two told county authorities be ares going west and tost control of his car He went off the road knocked over seven fence posts end tipped over The car was badly damaged The accident occurred at 2:20 a to- SAN FRANCISCO Charles Gallagher Jr 94 leaped to his death from to Golden Gate bridge Friday night four days after bis father committed suicide by jumping from almost the same spot on tb van A note la young Gallagher's ear said: want to keep Dsd TELEVISION HEARING WASHINGTON (UP) A Senate Juvenile delinquency subcommittee will bold public bearings here Oct 195 on the effect of television programs on children.