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I 816 Historical Society, fidtson, WEATHER FORECAST Mostly cloudy, showers and local thunderstorms tonight and 1 Sunday. Low tonight 55. High Sunday in 70's. (Two day forecant on Page Seven) ESTABLISHED 1886 William LI Breese was born in Portage at 317 W. Franklin street on June 29, 1864, the son of Llewelyn Breese and Mary Evans Breese.

He completed his high school studies in Portage and then spent four years as a student at Ripon college. His first work was in the retail lumber business. operating under the name of the Van Dusen Lumber company in Portage. It was owned by his father and he later became a partner in the business and later its president when it was known as the Consumer Lumber company. He moved to Milwaukee in 1888 where he organized the marble works of the Grant-Breese company with which he was connected until 1894 when, at his father's request, he sold his interest and returned to Portage.

In 1910 he and his father disposed of their business interests except for the bank and the 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 in which it is now housed was erected and headed the Hosiery company during the years it expanded and occupied a highly important place in the economic life of the community. In 1893 Mr. Breese married Jessie Blackman of Whitewater, Wisconsin, who died in 1917.

They reared an adopted daughter. Jullette Breese, who became the wife of H. C. Bennett of Miami. On June 12, 1928 Mr.

Breese married Zona Gale, Wisconsin's widely known author and social worker who died in 1938. They too had an adopted daughter Leslyn Breese, who became 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. Funeral on Monday Friends may call at the Pflanz Funeral home from 3:00 o'clock Sunday until 11:00 a.

m. Monday at which time he will be moved to the First Presbyterian church to lie in state until the funeral hour. Funeral services will be held from the church Monday at 2:00 p. the Reverend Lloyd DeJong and Reverend John Cochrane of Westfield will officiate. Interment will be made in the family lot in Silver Lake cemetery.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Juliette Bennett and Mrs. Robert Kate, Portage two brothers, Llewelyn and Rodney of Portage; one sister, Miss Mary Breese, Portage; three grandchildren and 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 hospital. Plow Champ Successful in Title Defense NLRB Again Refuses Kohler Co.

Request Wm. LI. Breese Dies at Hospital at Age of 90 Had Prominent Place in Life Of Community William LI. Breese, 90, retired industrialist and banker of Portage, died at 6:00 p. m.

at Divine Savior hospital Friday evening. The infirmities of advanced age and 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. He was elected president of the institution in 1929 and in recent years prior to his retirement he had devoted much of his time to the affairs of that institution. Among his other major business interests was the operation of the Portage Hosiery company, of which he served as president for many years.

Married Zona Gale He was the husband of the late Zona Gale, popular and widely loved Wisconsin author and social worker, who died in 1938. It was as a memorial to her that he gave the Zona Gale Breese memorial library to the city of Portage, giving the community one of the finest and most attractive libraries of any small city of Wisconsin. He WILLIAM L. BREESE also presented the home of Zona Gale to the Women's Civic League. MANAWA, Wis.

(UP)-Lawrence Uren, 37, Barneveld, fully defended his contour plowing crown Friday at the state open division plowing matches here. Uren edged second place winner Leo Yager of Highland by one point, scoring 83. Ervin Wolter of Princeton. was third with 81. In level land plowing, Ed A.

Rusch of Forest Junction took first prize with 79 points. Lester Nuehring of Merrill followed with 72, and Gilbert Schley of Luxemburg placed third with 64. Elmer A. Rast of Mondovi won the two-way plowing event with points and second place was taken by James Brue of Hollondale. 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 the future prosperity of the Wisconsin dairy farmer. He said he placed his hope in improved merchandising methods in a stable, peacetime economy, rather than in times made prosperous by "the artificial stimulus of war." WASHINGTON (UP) -The National Labor Relations Board has again refused the request of the strikebound Kohler Co.

of Kohler, to review the status of UAWCIO International representatives. Some 3,600 members of CIO Local 833- have been on strike at the plumbing wares firm since April 5. In its second appeal to the NLRB the company claimed that International representatives, in particular, Robert Burkart, Detroit, Mich had not filed a non-Communist affiliation affidavit as required by the Taft-Hartley Law. As in its first refusal, the board said that such affidavits were required only of officers who were listed as such in the union's constitution. The board said International representatives were not "officers" of the union as defined by Taft-Hartley.

Report Flying Missile STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UP) Defense Ministry officials today studied photographs of a flying object believed to be a robot plane or guided missile that appeared high over southern Sweden last Tuesday. Photographer Tord Olsson saw the object flying at about 19,000 feet at an exceptionally high speed trailing an orange red streak. It flew from horizon to horizon disappearing in a northerly direction within 30 seconds but he managed to snap pictures with a telephoto lens. Two Captured GI's Get Release from Czechs WAIDHAUS, Germany (UP) Two U.S. Army men seized by Communist Czechoslovakia Sept.

17 at the German-Czech border were freed here today. The two 1st Lt. Richard Dries, St. Albans, Queens, N.Y., and Pfc. George Pisk, Austin, Tex.

The Americans crossed a small stone bridge to freedom at 11:17 a.m. Their Czech captors handed them over to German border police. The Army said the two soldiers would appear at a press conference in Nuernberg Monday. They were picked up by Czech border guards near Eslarn, Bavaria, in the West Zone of Germany, and accused by Prague of espionage. The U.S.

Army said the men were on a "routine" mission in the border area when they were taken. A third man who was with them escaped and reported the capture. The U.S. Embassy in Prague had sent a note to the 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 holding the two men for 15 days, the Czechoslovaks agreed Friday to release them at this border crossing point today, Many of the 2,500 inhabitants of this border town were out to greet Daily AND DEMOCRAT PORTAGE, WISCONSIN SATURDAY, OCTOBER Wet Pavement Is Cause of Two City Accidents Friday Wet pavement contributed to two accidents reported to city police Friday night. Two persons were slightly injured in an accident on highway 51, north, around 10:10 Friday. The cars were damaged but. the total amount is not known. Mrs.

Maxwell Stevens, route three, received bruised right knee, and another Mrs. Stevens, who was a passanger in the same car, had a bruised chin. The collision occurred when cars driven by Howard B. Reader, 35, Portage, Maxwell Stevens, route three, collided. Reader was going south and attempted to pass a car ahead of him when he saw the Stevens car coming from the south.

Reader said he applied his brakes but slid on the wet pavement. The second accident involved cars driven by Richard C. Nelson, 16, route two, and Jerry D. Bosore, 16, 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 he could not stop because the road was wet and he slid into the side of the Nelson car. Slight dameg resulted. Authorities Hail Approval Of Pipe Line MILWAUKEE (UP) The ape proval by the Federal Power Commission of a 130-million-dollar pipe line which will double the natural gas supply to the state was hailed today by Wisconsin authorities. The effect of the pipe line would be to almost end restrictions on the use of gas for home heating and industrial use in the state, it was indicated by authorities.

About one hundred million cubic feet of gas daily will be delivered through the new line, tentatively slated to run some 1,300 miles from the southern fields to a point near Niles, Mich. The line, to be constructed by the American Louisiana Pipe Line Co. of Detroit, will bring gas to Michigan as well as Wisconsin. In approving construction of the line by a 3-2 vote Friday, the FPC said the company could not start construction of the line until independent natural gas producers who will supply the gas agree to come under FPC rate regulations. The new deadline set for independents to sign was for Dec.

1. The State Public Service Commission said the approval Friday "breathes new life into a project to bring added natural gas to I The announcement of approval was followed by a disclosure that the A. 0. Smith Co. would manufacture the pipe under contracts totaling more than 50-millio n- dollars.

The company said today it would make part of the pipe in its Milwaukee plant and part in plant at Houston, Tex. Eight Wisconsin utilities will be served by the new pipe line, which American Louisiana expects to complete in early 1956. State Weather Report Dreary! By UNITED PRESS Wisconsin had another dreary day like Friday today- -cloudy, cool and rainy. All weather stations in the state reported measurable amounts of rain today, except for Eau Claire and Park Falls. Milwaukee got the most, .35 inches.

The Beloit region had .32, Madison .21, Wausau, 19, Lone Rock .13, the Superior region .06, Green Bay and Grantsburg .02, and a trace at La Crosse. The highest the mercury could be squeezed Friday was 62 degrees in Beloit area. That compared to the nation's high of 104 at Gila Bend, Ariz. Milwaukee and Lone Rock had 60, Madison 58, La Crosse and Green Bay 55, Park Falls 53, Eau Claire 52, Grantsburg and Wausau 51, and 46 in the Suprior region. Low readings today ranged between 35 in the Superior area up to 59 around Beloit with these readings in between: 38 at Eau Claire and Park Falls; 41 at Wausau, 42 at Grantsburg, 50 at La Crosse and Green Bay, 52 at Lone Rock, 53 at Madison and 58 at Milwaukee.

CUT FEDERAL PAYROLL WASHINGTON (UP) The federal government dropped 2,606 workers from the payroll during August, leaving a total of 2,342,692 the Civil Service Commission reported Thursday night. TELEVISION HEARING WASHINGTON (UP) A Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee will hold public hearings here Oct. 195 on the effect of "crime" television programs on children. THE DAILY REGISTER Is Devoted to the Advancement of Portage And the Portage Area 8 Pages Today 2, 1954 5 CENTS PER SINGLE COPY 'Solution' Found for Arms Issue Deadlock Artillery Duel Shatters Quiet Off Red Coast Commies Blare Invasion to Come Before October 15 TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) -A thundering artillery duel shattered two day lull in the "little at Quemoy today, while Communist loudspeakers told Nationalist defenders the island would be in Red hands before Oct. 15.

Gen. Chang Yi-Ting, Nationalist military spokesman, said artillery fire from both sides increased sharply during the early morning hours and was continuing. Nationalist air and naval patrols were sweeping coastal waters to guard against a feared Red invasion attempt. Meanwhile, Premier 0.K. Yui called for "heightened vigilance" following new Communist threats for the "liberation" of Formosa.

The latest Communist threat came from Defense Minister Peng Teh-Huai, who told a huge crowd in Peiping Friday that the "liberation" of Formosa was the Reds "sacred task. Peng told Communist soldiers to prepare themselves for "an urgent combat mission." In the Quemoy area, General Chang said that heavy Communist truck movements had been noticed behind Amoy Island just opposite on the China mainland shore. He also revealed that ominous Communist activity had been reported in that area, with a long of lights being spotted at night. Earlier, he had said that the Reds probably were using their old Korean war trick of bringing up artillery ammunition under cover of darkness to escape aerial bombing. Chang minimized the Communist threat to seize Quemoy before Oct.

15, pointing out that the same loudspeakers previously had vowed that the island would fall before Sept. 11. Heavy Nationalist air and navy attacks, however, the apparently Communists had smashed any plan might have had at that time. In the present situation at Quemoy, the Communists were alternating threatening words and hot shells to harass the Nationalist defenders. Although heaviest activity was centered around Quemoy, military leaders watched anxiously for possible Communist moves to the north along the Chekiang Coast against either Matsu or Tachen Island.

Marquette Professor Dies From Injuries MILWAUKEE (UP) Clarence F. Whitford, S. 54. assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University, was killed in a tall from a third-floor window of Johnston Hall today. The priest, also student counselor in the Marquette medical school, was believed to have suffered a dizzy spell.

He had such spells in the past, school official said. Father Whitford fell from window in a stair well and his body was found by a fellow priest. He was a native of Denver, a graduate of Gonzaga University, Spokane, and held a doctor of philosophy degree from the Grecorian University in Rome. Pope Rests Before Talk to 5,000 Persons CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (UP) -Pope Pius rested today in preparation for a mass general audience Sunday during which he will speak to an estimated 5,000 pilgrams. Prof.

Ricardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope's physician, said that a day of rest Friday helped the 78-yearold Pontiff and ordered the Pope to rest again today. The Pontiff recently suffered recurrence of an attack of hiccoughs which last winter left him in a fatigued and run-down condition. Leaps from Golden Gate SAN FRANCISCO (UP). Charles S. Gallagher 24, leaped to his death from the Golden Gate bridge Friday night, four days after his father committed suicide by jumping from almost the same spot on the span.

A note in young Gallagher's car said: want to keep Dad company. Compromise Plan Offered to Nine Nation Assembly STOP "SEGREGATION STRIKE" VIOLENCE Baltimore (Md.) police form a path for Negro girls through a milling mob of "striking students at Southern High school where two Negro boys were attacked and a police car coming to their rescue was nearly tipped over by the demonstrators. Of the 1,780 students at the school, 900 stayled away in the "strike" against the end of segregation. (International Soundphoto) State Traffic Safety Below Par, Report MILWAUKEE (UP) -Wisconsin has been told that its traffic safety record is, below par. Safety experts told that Friday to the nearly 1,400 persons who attended Gov.

Walter Kohler's conference on highway safety at the Milwaukee Auditorium. Dr. Ned H. Dearborn of Chicago, president of the National Safety Safety," said record is not as good as you people would like to have it. "In our national traffic safety inventory, which we have been conducting for 14 years, Wisconsin ranked 38th in 1953 out of 48 Newspaperman Is Arrested for Part In French Scandal PARIS (UP)- A fugitive newspaperman who is a key figure in the sensational French spy scandal was arrested today.

Tunisian-born Andre Baranes. sought 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 red bicycle when he was picked up at a small village. The two defense council officials were arrested Friday confessed they gave secret information to Baranes, described as a nist newspaperman who worked both as police spy and Red informant.

COMPENSATIONS DOWN WASHINGTON (UP) -The Labor Department has reported that a downward trend in the number of unemployment compensation claims has resumed after a brief interruption. I states," he said. Law Enforcement Dearborn said Wisconsin also an ranked "very low" in law enforcement, in driver licensing procedures, and "in safety organizations. or He gave a "rather rating in traffic engineering and in the reporting and recording of accidents. James E.

Pryde, chief of Wash- to ington's state traffic patrol, told fill the conference that his state's traffic patrol is four times as large as Wisconsin's and that Wisconsin's death rate was twice as much. on He said his department had 275 ons trained men. Main speaker at the conference was Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, sec- retary of health, education and wel- fare in President Eisenhower's cab the inet. She said, "We are driving 1954 model cars on 1918 model roads, the and the toll of life and property damage we pay for this contradiction is appalingly the Mrs.

Hobby said this year's Federal Highway Act authorized nearly two-million-dollars to improve high- ed ways "but we need a bigger be E. CLark Woodward of Milwaukee, chairman of the Governor's 12 Highway Safety Committee, said ons "we must have more enforcement on our Patrolmen Rarely Seen He said, "'We can drive hundreds: of miles in this state without seeing a highway patrolman. While we rank general traffic safety, we rank only 43rd in highway None of the speakers mentioned the opposition of the Wisconsin Sheriff's Assn. to Kohler's plan for an enlarged State Highway Patrol. ing Kohler said that the current safe- an ty campaign has reduced the three- the month death toll by 52 as compared with last year but that the campaign must be replaced with that Mayors, lawmakers, labor and business leaders and law enforcement officers attended the conference.

Gruenther Urges Strong Tactical Air Command DENVER, Colo. (UP) Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme allied commander in Europe, said today he feared the possibility of an era of "co-extermination" between the West and Soviet and its satellites, but felt that powerful, tactical American air force would stall off an all war with the Reds. Gruenther flew here from his' headquarters in Paris for a week end meeting with President Eisenhower at the Denver White House.

Before he saw the chief executive, he told a news conference that if the Russians elected to overrun Europe "the day after tomorrow." the Soviets "ought to be able to beat us on the first "But in three or four years, they won't be able to do that, Gruenther said, basing his prospectus on Russian capability to resist the effects of German rearmament and a buildup of American air strength. Asked for an evaluation of the prospects for war or peace between East and West, Gruenther replied: "I think we are going to LONDON (UP) -A "solution has been found" on- the deadlocked arms, control issue at the ninepower conference on German rearmament, it was announced today. Belgian Foreign minister PaulHenri Spaak announced agreement on his plan based on compromise proposals offered by American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a bid 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 the optimistic atmosphere that marked it before French Premier Mendes-France's demands caused a snag Friday night.

Spaak said on leaving Lancaster House this morning after some hard bargaining among the ministers in an unusual situation limited one adviser apiece: "A solution has been found. Adenauer has made a big concession." His optimism was echoed by other diplomats leaving the conference room. Controls on Certain Weapons Spaak tossed in a proposal today suggesting the deadlock over the arms control issue be solved with agreement among the conti nental. members of the Brussels pact not to make atomic, biological chemical weapons unless pecifically authorized by. the treaty organization.

He also proposed that they manufacture weapons only to their own needs. Both were suggestions. Some of the ministers were reported oppose to this outright ban production of the "ABC' weapin all Europe. Then Adenauer made his big concession, conference sources reported. He promised that Germany would voluntarily accept on production of the "ABC and heavy weapons within borders.

This was what France wanted in first place. Dulles had proposed that the German ban on the production of "ABC weapons" be made effective for two years. compromise also suggestthat a rearmed, free Germany permitted only to produce only enough other armaments to equip divisions. The "sensitive" weapproposal would also ban Germany from importing such armaments. compromise on rearmament controls was an attempt to break conference deadlock caused by Mendes France's demand that his arms pool plan be adopted.

Dulles Stays Overtime The American secretary had planned to leave London today to return to. Washington. But followthe morning conference session aide said: "I do not see how secretary of state can leave tonight." French conference sources said Mendes France liked the American proposal and would compromise to save the conference. The "sensitive" weapons were defined in the European Defense Community treaty, killed by the French Assembly, as atomic, biological and chemical armaments. The proposal made by Dulles included the following: That the Brussels pact powers in principle to establish an agency to rationalize and control, non discrimatory basis, the manufacture of armaments by its members on the continent of EurThis is Mendes France's pool plan.

The plan should be adopted two-thirds vote of the Bruspact council. Germany Limits Production The German Federal Republic make a two year commitor a commitment until the Brussels Treaty agency is estabif that is earlier: A. Not to manufacture, imor export the so-called These weapons defined in the EDC Treaty atomic, biological and chemical. B. To limit the manufacture other armaments to that reto equip 12 divisions, taking account the military equipthat is provided by the States.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supreme commander U.S. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenwould decide what arms Germany needs for its forces Dulles' plan. The United States has said it is prepared to supply extensive mill(Continued on Page 2, Column the Americans 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 the border point shortly after 11 a.m. in a two-car Czech convoy. They were taken into the Czech border control house. German border official Karl Wenzel, who was standing on the bridge with Czech official, went to the Czech guardhouse.

A few minutes later, he emerged with the two men, and they were greeted by two U.S. Army captains. One was an intelligence officer from Nuernberg. He stood waiting with carbine in his hand. 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. Dries was in civilian clothes and Pisk in uniform, just as they were clad when captured two weeks ago. Dries appeared confident and at east, while Pisk was nervous. He chain-smoked as they crossed the gray, misty border.

After greeting the two captains, Dries started to talk. But his superiors cut him off and said, "Let's go to the car and get out of here." Newsmen covering the release were told not to question the two men pending Monday's press conference. I 1. agree on Dells Man Injured In Auto Accident A rural Wisconsin Dells man received cuts and bruises when his car tipped over on the town line road east of the Dells early this morning. Arvin Hammerly, route two, told county authorities he was going west and lost control of his car.

He went off the road, knocked over seven fence posts and tipped over The car was badly damaged. The accident occurred at 2:30 a. m. today. have peace." Must Preserve Unity But he added that "the greatest factor" in keeping the peace was "to preserve our unity" so that Russia "cannot pick us off one by one.

He considered the present Russian regime under Premier Georgi Malenkov tougher" in the ideological field of combat than under Josef Stalin. Of Malenkov, Gruenther said "he sits back chuckling" at the allied arguments over the European Defense Community and French political difficulties. "These guys are much smarter in working out the divisive propaganda," he said of Malenkov and the latter's associates. Gruenther's frank survey of the world situation included some critical observations of this country in its international relations. Discussing "American characteristics of impatience" in foreign dealings, he said the people of this country want rapid results in their international relations while.

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