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Sty CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SE VIC TO THE COULEE REGION VOLUME L. NUMBER 112 TWENTY PAGES LACROSSE, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1954 BTN AL HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS N. Trane, Industrialist, Dies Shooting Incident Before U.N. NHS President Elsenhower is shown ushering in a new phase of the tom ie age Monday at Denver by waving an electronic wand to start construction of the first full-scale atomic power plant in Shippingport, Pa- 'The chief executive signaled start of the construction of the 46 million dollar plant by touching a special rod to a metal Under atop a cabinet crammed full of electronic devices. Action set in motion a power shovel, which scooped the first shovelful of earth from the 400-acre plant site some 2,000 miles from Denver.

(Unifax) Ike Holds Door Open To Reds In Developing Peaceful Atom By JOHN HIGHTOWER jsurprise move. He telephoned his WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower held the door open to- request for tile council meeting dav for Soviet cooperation in a new Allied undertaking to spread hist night to Franc isco I rrutia of Columbia, the ll-nation peaceful benefit, of atomic energy to many prescient far Seplemt-r. A diplomatic authority said behavior toward the United Aides on (hr U.S. delegation said States and particularly the rejection of a previous would follow up with a formal hewer proposal that it join in an international atomic pool appeared request by letter today. to rule out any move to join latest project.

I Reds Down Navy Bomber Off Siberia united nations WI The United States put its latest cold war brush with Russia before the United Nations today. The Navy plane was the sixth U.S. military aircraft shot down by the Soviets either in Europe or over tht Pacific, but this was the first the United States has brought such an ulent before Security Council. U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot lodge Jr.

asked for an of the Security Council to take up the shooting down of a U.S. Navy plane off Silreria Saturday by Soviet jet fighters. Lodge returned unexpectedly to York. from a holiday at Im i Beverly, home to make the USAP To 7 Rotate' In Europe Capt, Eugene Snntienherg (right) cf Air I Ground Command, Elgin Air Base, la presented with the Thompson trophy by J. G.

Wright of Thompson Products at Dayton, Ohio, Copt. Son ne tier flew the IOO kilometer course at a speed of 602.823 miles per hour Monday at the National Aircraft Show, (llnifax) to provide benefits for friendly, in a brief statement from his free nations. He said the intent of headquarters. Lodge Nevertheless, the dec ision the nations joining in the under-1 he had asked the council flounced by the President yester- taking is to share atomic tech- mg consider tho situation aria-1 oology others of good ing from the unprovoked at- tacit bv aircraft of the Soviet Other noncommunist countries Union over i nrt a ti a I may join the project shortly. It i- waters known that there have bean ne go-1 Nine of IO crewmen with Belgium, which con-1 aboard the two-engine Neptune trols one of the great trot bomber were unhnrm- cranium producing areas in the cd after drifting all night on a loft.

Belgian Congo. South Africa anc! One man, Ens. Roger Henry Reid in the chiv to go ahead without Russia on en international atomic agency plan would to put the Soviet somewhat on the spot since they have so far indicated no in forest in sharing their own energy know-how and with anybody else, OOO What Eisenhower disclosed was apparently Dewey To Tell His Political Plans Tonight ALBANY, Y. I Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey of New I York vv ill imi the long speculation England or on ewer his land a hi 'he will Instead, according to the source, WASHINGTON American air power in will Iv in -1 creased under a plan announced today to rotate tactical Air Force units tor tem tours of duty on the Continent. The program, starting in the next few weeks, will send squadrons of Air Force fighter-hombers, which; used for the support of ground forces, and troop carrier outfits overseas under a schedule similar to that which has been In use for several years by the Strategic Air force of long range bombers. The official! announcement said the rotation plan was to test the mobility of fighter-bom ber and troop carrier units and to crew the opportunity to obtain valuable experience and indoctrination in tactical Air Force in the European Air Force say so, but the presence of additional ions uniter a schedule which will keep several on the scene at all times also means a net increase for air strength in Europe. At present, the Air Force has approximately It wings of various Ironed categories based permanently Reuben N. Trane, founder of The Trane Co died in a local hospital Sunday, SE ATO Pact May Be Ready By Wednesday Founded Firm Growing Into World Business Death came Sunday to Reuben N.

Trane, 67, founder and former president and chairman oi the hi of directors of the Co, Burial was to in Oak Grove Cemetery Tuesday afternoon following funeral services at 2:30 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church with the lies. Robert Vinter officiating. Mr. Trane, one of outstanding industrialists, had confined to a hospital for more than a year.

He was an eminent gineer, Inventor and business ex- jeeutlvo who developed an blea for improving on the cast Iron radl- into a manufacturing prise ranking today MANH.A Two more of a proposed Southeast. Asia seeu-j, rity treaty were approved in negotiations here today, amt a re liable source said foreign ministers of eight nations hav really tor noting by Wednesday. One more article was provisionally approved I ay, the source said. Tile Biggest controversy still to out Involves military to made by the Continent os United Klans, Britain, polit leal plans tonight, I part ot the Western Europe an dean roe close to the governor I lense system. These include inter I ti ceptor outfits as well as the Jet annoum emttt will tv mat I Mghter-liomlvr wings, will not run for a fourth let ln two wings of Strate In addition, gic Air Command Australia are in the project Alameda, i producing countries.

The down with tile plane, that I nited States government survivors said they were on states, Britain and Canada are in hue am in. with atomic lttiii.si.v a routine patrol mission well off, record rn th. General Elect! Ma). John I-. mist rom: was kilh-tl Sunday when his FH6H Saber crashed near Dayton Airport as he was preparing to attempt to break his own world I i expected to endorse Sen.

(from bases in planes operate Europe ami North agreed with other nations to up an agency to the in (to Russia. a strongly wonted note 'monies for the nation's first atomic, ere Britain, France, Canada, South: power generation plant, near Pitts- Africa and Australia. I Eisenhower expressed hope that nation will long r-tand from i ri rut nmrvut I inn no rn miw Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen a protest harging that the OOO Its delivery, howev. Ti the burgh.

six-nation agreement which MlttrprtR. This ITesldent dittoed Is an out-. elearlv to the der for ic the United Nations last Dec. Ku-sian cooperation. I For time the but wlth substantial dent mmle clear, the project aims 1 on-.

In announcing the earlier propos- Eisenhower said the it. The Russian note said the States was iling to contribute in a Red Pilots were forced to open 1 1,1 joint undertaking with other atom- 'fire in return. accident ic including1 a 1. Ike To Bestow Medals On 2 Korean Vets DENVER Ewen- av ti- ai ranged to award the I unacceptable: (I) that Red China Medal of Honor today to two army! vrouw Join'ln formal talks to create heroes of the Korean War. remonies for presentation cf tin top award at U.S.

plane had flown within the Soviet frontiers and opened fire on: two Soviet fighters wha h- 19 Killed In Wisconsin Over Weekend I Irving M. Ive fur Republican I gut amatorial nomination. The office announced Hurt De we.v I reveal hi intentions in statewide television and ants. from New City, I will cai ried over a CBS leievi-j Lion network 8 to 8:15 p.m., I MT, and rebroadcast Over CBS I radio ft oui 10:13 to 10:30 p.m., EDT. It the governor call it a day, he is ex Hated to say that he will return to law practice in Manhattan after has completed his third on Dec.

Si. Dewey, twice defeated in bldr for presidency, was elected under the rotational Africa gram. The schedule for these latter units is two or three months overseas, with another unit taking up Australia, New Zealand, I flatland, Pakistan and a OOO Thailand were reported holding out an My agreement under which all Would come instantly of any member of the world's largest In the fields of air conditioning, heating, ventilating and heal transfer equipment. articles I OOO By pioneering In many ays, Mr. I Trane expanded the small manu- company he formed in 1013 Into a concern whose are sold and used in almost every a paGllpnrt or the world.

Sales of Co. have grown from the $50,000 ot 1913 to more than in 1953 and were running 20 cent ahead of that rate at half-way mark In Much of this growth was credited to way Mr. Trane built ibis company to thrive and endure hsr organizing a strong of voting engineers as its none. Realizing that vigorous engineering Initiative would produce a contain flow of new and improved products, Mr. Trane often voiced this business the choice were mine, ather lose my business but keep my engineers is arguing for' This philosophy of engi- t-och liecame fitmly rooted would react to on attack on an a tradition of the Trane which station as soon as one to within own constitutional he headed as president from 1916 return home.

Presumably, the twirl framework. to 1951 and nerved as chairman of tour for the tactical ami Delegates Unlay adopted an ar Hoard from 1951 to January, tick tn Gle tacketi. United Rtntes a pact under which seas Tier units will similar. 535 Dead In U.S. During Holiday Period the a noetic rd I governor in 1942 ami was Labor Day weekend in Win-j by largo majoritli holiday for 19 Russia.

ti Negotiations were held with Rus- on the earlier proposal, but Soviet insisted on two (joints which ithis country considered hordes.sly Because asked for an meeting than an session, it was ted that Urrutia would not call the council to meet liefore next week ISM U.N,, Page JI burn 6 p.m. Friday showed: killed 'n the Summer White House the pool, and (2) that the States should, as a first step, join in outlawing the use of weapons. The President new plan pri- Acheduled to start shortly after thejmarily can achieve two things: It return from an over-can demonstrate inter- night slav at Fitzsimons Army est in atomic developments for Hospital here. peace to build up power es Eisenhower enterml the hospital in power-short areas. Also, it cai! for what an aide described as an provide a a1 enterprise in i inual al checkup a I nited States and its of hours after completing a na- Principal ullles work together tioiiwide television and radio ad create something new and better ore Mondav morning.

world. James C. Hagerty, presidential Eisenhower said atomic material, -ecretarv, told newsmen will be set aside for projects spon- pre Where To Find It Page Birth- 12 Classified Adv is and 19 Comics 8 Community News 14 Daily Records ......................12 Notices ...................12 Editorials 4 Hal Boyle 5 Local News 13 2 Radio Log 8 15, 16 and 17 Theaters 9 Tri state Weather Map 2 News IO and ll Bitter Sage 9 Monday Th trie SIX IHT on dn traffic 1953 Lid sir Dav Three per-otis death ount lo midnight on the state a th ti ce indrawn Monday lh It to about Eisenhower's hospital. just want to point out there I- nothing wrong with Presi-j I lager tv aid. is jut his yearly checkup.

Hagerty added that Elsenhower has Ix-en getting such an examination many years at least the last ami that he insistent on Eisenhower came to Aug, 21 for a wink and play va non, but so far there has been more work than play. The Medals of Honor being rwarded bv Eisenhower today git to Infantry 1st Lt. Benjamin Wilson, 33, of Vashon, am) Medical Corps Master Sgt Mize, 23, of Gadsden, Ala. theisored by the proposed agency. I The United States is going ahead; with the atomic pool under the authority of the new atomic energy law the President signed a week and ooler tonight.

Wednesday ego, That law permits sharing of and pleasant. Low tonight, it certain atomic secrets with allies, high Wednesday, 76, night in two motorboat accident Ion lake in county. Weinberger, 39, a Butter-J I nut farmer, drowned in Butternut I Lake Park Falls from a as a companion I started tho motor. it if ti Clifford Katerman, 38 of Silencer, and Denny lYtretti, 15, Mil-! Waukee, drowned in Lr.ke IO miles southeast o( Park; Falls. Autliorities saki Katermani tell into the and the Petretts dived in to help him, leaving Hie motor to Is1 run by his brother, Dale, 8.

The younger boy told authorities Ives ha (hies want to run for governor but friend- say that he will I available if Dewey out. Possibility Of Murder Investigated fHy during the long in 1946 and Qgy weekend killed more than 5 ou Americans but the traffic toll was paid repeatedly that he the smallest In six years. New tabulations today showed that traffic deaths numbered, 360, drownings 92 and ellaneou fatalities 83, The total was 535, The traffic toll was lowest for the Day holiday since 1948, when It fell under the predicted total of 390 I although It was somewhat higher than the UH al ber a recent non- holiday weekend. The over all total the lest for the Labor Day period HMH, when 407 accidental deaths vary causes were counted. The holiday this year and it I ti it nations by means of continuon and effective, jp.

in I.a Crosse ell In ip and imitii.it ald will jssq, the only son of the late til in mid develop their Individual A. and Mary Miller lYane, ami collective capacity to re ist attended pubis schools here, ai rued attack and to prevent and graduating from what is now overcome subversive activity (ii (nil High School in 1905. After reded from without against tin ti making a year, he entered the Unt- tenitorial integi tty and politicailvrr nv of W) cousin and enrolled in department of engineering. The Informed said ap While at Wisconsin he became pro val after Thailand alum active in extracurricular affairs, toned demands to Include with a small group of fellow Cir dis remains of a man in Juneaui can at 6 p.m. Friday afternoon could at nc.dnight Monday.

Local Weather For La Crosse and vkinit it back hut nu Unions Unite For City's Largest Labor Day Event I age to pi Up the 1 WI i) so he went) to shore for his father Roy, When fa the to the his soc and Kau I an could riot tx- found. I Lester Crandall, ut xiut Vt, Eau Claire, (I.rose tied Mont lay in Blummer Lai alout nor'h 'of Bloor in Chipj ewa county. 111 and hH VMI xw i mining arrie im a and at vv I v. Th re bt ted it Ola Mississippi Plans How To Dodge Ban Miss, A hi dor special son of the Mi--isslp gtslature was called today to the foundation for dodging the Organized labor In La Ct osie Joined fortes Monday to present1 one of the largest Labor Day pa fades in the history. It also was the first ALF-CJO parade to be held here, and it was sparked vvith riders and floats.

Even weatherman cooperated with blue skies, soft breezes and a bright sun. ti ti ti Circuit Judge oil) Neprud ltohmantr and daughter Mary led the long rented. Cite firemen, nattv in their nav and mart bed direc tly b- hind labor banners aud they, turn, were followed by their chief, engine 5 and trucks and the department quad vehicle. hers, in ir capt and aprons, marched ahead of yen Turley Co, tracks. or cl trig fries a nr- group in a float Meat also was Fif-d Pe he was drivi i on Ian.

A byp ti dei rtii-n nut ti Mr MAUSTON, (Special surrounding covery of the a root cellar in County Monday disprove that man was murdered, Atty. John Arm bong told The La Crosse Tribune Tuentlay morning, A bole through the top of kull may have been (Mused bv a bullet, no shell fragments Shave he said. The txHly, with its arms at Its pie, was wrapjs-d in a blanket with an old hooked rug. No eof ton was found al scene Although the have not en positively identified, it is h- heved to tx; that of Mike atxtut 47. Use Of NG Personnel Helped Cut Traffic Toll In State: Kohler rn activity within a nation as wall av outride ll- v.

hr ti ti also reportedly agreed to general terms In I which economic clause of proftosed draft treaty was written. ill provides for cooperation I ti othet in ut fif economic measures designed mote economic stability social vv bdng. Asian nations hail out tor a to what will done to devetofi economk' stability and social well provisionallv ap an article ulling for It Pre the ful Ila' I. tProv cn-atton of a Asia Im tv Ch ganizatiog coutuil which was preceded tty a plea from, any time mix I sident Eisenhower. He motorists to tr ti ti and challenged them to The the State expert who had it is willing ti iv b-ing formed, 'Tflt- I 'oiled Stat- rig fiat lot ig" i mn I tar 390 vehl( fatalities, lfrotn the pl I National guardsmen reinforced fsilice in pat coling highways Uj(.

ur against in Michigan, Wisconsin arui Ten I Ned Is arborn, preside IR National Safely Council, term'd I the national toll but found I' be hr, w. cause ii a downward tbe negotiatois trend in traffic deaths. ixihi not straight holiday ame form of traffic toll wa not only wellhither (below pre holiday estimate do cot lait was lowest for those hob- -ion days in recent he Mated sion tudants helped organize Student Union, for which the university is famous, to provide a campus community enter. Ile was graduated with bachelor ot degree in mechanical engineering iii HUO. Mr, Trane had worked for his tother a a plumber's helper for a I year after high hoot graduation, earning money to help obtain his engineering education.

A 1 tin- univ i i it he rowed on the (re ihman crew which won the twte mile race at, Poughkeepsie! be rowed three years on the varsity and captained Rte Clew as a senior. ti it it I putt gradual ion Mr. firvt worked years as a sales i t' with a Milwaukee machine tool firm, then returned to La in 1913, and with his father 'incorporated the Trane Go. to man- steam v. I and traps father had Invented in lion with a vapor heating syw Three years later Reuben Trane had en ti Identifying uinh in.

Of State John quoted a treats re rv at US telling St alec without mi from assumed com dividing his new products, rn vising the whole. By 1919 he potential ahead Pig part of pi int ny pre tad ween devising trketing them auri busine a xplaining lee iiny ai Cornu that ins' ai Hr. At Oi MADISON Vh The use of st ions I Guard military police to patrol Wir' onsin highways leg the Day weekend re in mg deaths vide rn thy, said J. Edgar Was Angry Wine hell 'Doesn't Know' Who Gave Him Copy Of Document 2nd and it up 5 when Ki mark. about this Die ba tor, at: s-or to th r.

In lfi'26 tor pulih enixigh Irusir JU tifv Cl ent Trane to. anterorv Ave, more addn i roll ne. He ans is! old Mr (lea he ast 7 Iron urged it a ane a -I Mi tim fratl enabled extensive the stale in Win- rt on gregatieo in public riels s. bi The key proposal wan a constitutional amendment empowering me Legislature to abolish publit mtlawing presentation of organized s. I.

St. Cf the 2, c.untie I I towel nook ms. It tewide, Legisli icai op and i I to I and dt- two methods: two-thirds vote lion, with individual distrk tx-itig ibolLh their public up prlVfHte t-efore thousands of watchers. The olors of the country we re borne ars by two employe- of the Erick on the binal! fry Bakery and were followed by the clad marcher official color guard of the and boa can Legion. Boy The Legion drum and bugle In its blue, gray and gold uniforms offered the first music of ihr- procession, There was the blue it ti ti I and Cement Work-1 interested one of for a tiny, while- carried the trowel of his adult workers, Scout Drum and Bugle Uv Point, Sc I Hu in la columnist Mn el rn Bi Corps, Sponsored by the El Its Club of La Croj-se brtwght the uv tai applause frran the watchers a its rhythms bounced through aud gold banner of the AFL and mom streets of the I AW ar purple and gold insignia of the curs and flags and manhers cam CIO.

i rsKADfc 2i Mishk Ante killed First Cl Min, Sui military pi it'-1 ii lost enforcement, at level that haw ever exist con-rn over Dav I presented Kohler said, a result traffic hearings. deaths were cut considerably The newspaper Hpite iiicrt-as'-d automoifde traffic as a at hearing- by the a his ial committee weigh Kohler said that while there wa- mg nsure charge! against Mc a nationwide improvement In earthy. I weekend fatalities, Wisc im- ti ti pavement won greater tfian Sen. Flanders nationa the wet indicate at) WASHINGTON Uh Waller Win- mgs that he had hell testified today not of document, know who him a copy the VS hen first questioned 2Vt page d'x'ument McCarthy at today's ing, Winched at the earthy-Army fu-ed tell who gave hun He said ho would was disclose his news sources. it it ti But Sen.

Watkins (Il-Utaht, ch. man of the special, six-mem committee, pressed him fur! and asked him if he knew Vt) has gave him the document, average abided that harged that McCarthy's and do not Winched rid lf af fie death record hell's jxx of the document, plied. ain not sure this was the safest a summary of confidential FBI in- Somewhat Impatient Ben not Mi ann undi at rn the unit for a ton ce at the de pres- Trane Uh ther tu'W tinning which ut a third of in fir i a by i ing inn any introduced a ct ai ohm Hut mtput. is the fiinp bt centrifugal compressor tu lu ally sealed motor, the time Mr, Trane was up from the presidency to unship of the board in 1951, that Hoi (Mer HEATHS, ii Walk weekend since 1949 when seven formation prepared for the Army, that Winched could hi died There were JU highway fa involved violation of the saved time it he had sold that this weekend compared espionage law. the first place dth iii.in 1953, 28 In 15 ta! Winched wrote in column; Edward WUdanis, chtef cot (during the Earthy-Army 1951 18 i and 16 in 19' ii.

tact CKN6UKE, PNK 3) his company had incor jxirated further engineering knowledge gained iii Trane laboratories into crea- Kin of what Is as the n) which starts, stops and THANE, 31.

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