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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954 News and Democrat Combined 1883 Volume 98-No. 138 5c a Copy News- Democrat cloudy and continued hot toSunday. High today and to90 to 95; low tomorrow 70. 13 sunrise ...5:34 a. m.
13 sunset ........8:26 p. m. Laniel Defeated, But Is Given Choice to Remain in Office Jackson Says Cohn Promised to 'Get' Him WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. Henry M. Jackson said today Roy M.
Cohn threatened to "get" him because he poked fun at Pvt. G. David Schine's plan to fight world Communism that included the use of "pin-ups." The Washington Democrat said it was "not the first threat" Cohn had made during the Army-McCarthy hearings. Jackson said he was "one senator who is not going to be intimidated" but would continue to go after "all the facts" the row. The reported threat to Jackson came to light after a heated quarrel and near fight late Friday between Cohn, Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy's chief counsel, and Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the Democrats on the Senate Investigating Subcommittee. No Blows Struck The flareup boiled to 8. point where Cohn asked Kennedy, "do you want to fight now?" The words waxed hot.
But no blows were struck in one of the sharpest show of tempers since the hearings began. Kennedy, 28, younger brother of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) and a son of former British Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy of Boston, said Cohn approached him after the hearings recessed for the weekend to relay a message that "we're going to get Jackson Monday." The 27-year-old Cohn denied that he had "threatened" anyone.
But he said Jackson had been "very unfair" in his questioning regarding Schine, Cohn's close friend and a former McCarthy aide who is a central figure in the Army-McCarthy dispute. Schine's plan proclaimed itself (Turn to Page 2, Column 8) Glakemeier Files Petition for Rehearing SPRINGFIELD (Special) A petition for a rehearing of its decision on the April, 1953, Belleville mayoralty contest appeal was filed today with the Illinois Supreme Court for former Seventh Ward Alderman George Glakemeier Jr. The court ruled last month that Mayor H. V. Calhoun had been elected to his second term by defeating Glakemeier by 44 votes.
The petition challenges the court's interpretation of various authorities in its May decision which held that a single initial of a polling judge on a ballot, instead of all initials, did not invalidate the ballot and declared annexation of Dawn Heights to the city of Belleville was legal and proper. Glakemeier challenged the vote of Precinct No. 4, Seventh Ward, on the grounds that the judges had failed to initial properly the ballots and the vote in Precinct No. 2 of the same ward on the grounds that Dawn Heights, part of the precinct, was not contiguous to the city." On the ballot initialing, the petition said that the Supreme Court based its ruling on a Michigan case which is "not at all similar in fact" to the Belleville case. The petition said the Legislature's intent was that polling judges should indorse ballots with initials rather than a single initial.
The petition, referring to the question of Dawn Heights, said that no city of Belleville ordinance ever was passed annexing the community to Belleville. It said that in July, 1950, the city of Belleville did not have authority to annex territory by mere resolution. The Supreme Court will consider the rehearing petition at its September term. Leo F. Baer Left Estate of $55,939 The total net estate of Leo F.
Baer, local horse and mule trader who died last June 13, was listed at $55,939.44 in an inheritance tax return filed today in County Court. Three sons: Leo F. Baer Oak Park, Thomas D. Baer, 17 Fullerton Road, and Theodore A. Baer, R.
R. 4, Belleville, shared in the estate. State inheritance taxes amounted to $107.70. Partly day and morrow June June Honor 4 at THS, College High-Average Pupils Cited; Dr. Fisher Talks About Armed Forces School Facilities Honors were conferred last night four members of the graduating class when the Township High School-Junior College held its annual commencement exercises in the football stadium before a record crowd that exceeded 5000 persons.
The four are: Miss Angela Marie Cochran, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff W. Cochran, 551 Forest Avenue; George Arthur a son of Mrs. Christine Bowman, 9910 Lincoln Trail, Fairview Station; Gene R.
Richter, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Royal L. Richter, R.R. 2, Mascoutah, and Raymond L.
Hauver, who lives with his family at 213 South 37th Street. Miss Cochran was valedictorian and Bowman salutatorian for the high school class; Richter valedictorian and Hauver salutatorian for the Junior College class. Miss Cochran had a perfect grade point average during her four years of school. She had a straight average and high, her grade point was 5. She was awarded the Beta Sigma Phi scholarship to Junior College and will major in journalism.
Last years she was editor of Hy-News, the school publication, and a member of the Little Theater and Thespian Troupe. Bowman had a point average of 4.9 and was graduated from high school in years. He was co-captain of the tennis team and took part in the senior class play. He plans to attend the University of Illinois and study engineering. Richter had a point average of 4.8 and, was a member of the Engineers' Club.
He plans to continue his studies at the college of engineering, Washington Universty, St. Louis. Hauver, who attended college under Public Law 16, had a point (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) Welder Seized for Kidnaping Phoenix Woman PHOENIX, Ariz. (-A discouraged unemployed welder who posed as a prospector was identified by a well-to-do Phoenix woman as her kidnapper, and Phoenix Police Chief Charles Thomas said today "there's no doubt" that he was the person who abducted her for 000 ransom. Maricopa County Attorney William P.
Mahoney after several hours of questioning suspect Daniel Joseph Marsin, said that Marsin "would neither admit it nor deny it." But Thomas and Mahoney indicated they thought "that's our boy." There also were Indications police sought to learn if the suspect had an accomplice. Police and sheriff's officers immediately began a search to find the missing ransom money, paid off by the husband of Mrs. Evelyn Ann Smith in a contact at sundown Thursday with the masked kidnapper in the foothills of the rugged Superstition Mountains. The 5-foot, 5-inch Marsin was returned to the city jail and indications were he would not be questioned further until later today. A bedraggled, "very thirsty" Marsin was arrested by deputies early Friday morning at the Quarter-Circle-R Ranch, only miles from the payoff scene.
He claimed he had been searching for the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains. It WAS in these mountains that one of the most intense manhunts in Arizona history was concentrated Friday. Mrs. Smith, wife of Herbert Smith, an owner of Smith Pipe and Steel Co. here identified Marsin.
Robert Pulcinski, a worker at the service station where the ransom note was dropped off in a bag of golf clubs on Wednesday, also identified Marsin as the man who left the clubs with him, saying a "Mr. Smith" would call for them. MISSING PETS LISTED HERE AS A PUBLIC SERVICE There Is No Charge Call ADams 3-1000 LOST -FRONT PAGE BLUE PARAKEET, answers to the Reward. name of "Sweetie Pie', East End. ADams 3-9818.
BLACK AND WHITE male collie dog, wearing collar and chain, on Jefferson Road. Answers to name Sculley 5733 Phone ADams 3-3956-W. West. William North Belt Meek Brands Douglas Friend of Tax Collector SPRINGFIELD (UP)-Joseph T. Meek, Republican candidate for the U.S.
Senate, said today Democratic Sen. Paul is "Mr. Capital 'S' of Socialism." Meek also called his opponent "the friend of the tax collector. the spawner of the wastrel, the compounder of the five per center, corrupter the administrator, the acceptor of a foreign way of life which can only end in the loss of man's heart, mind and soul." Attacking the "tragic 20 years" of Democratic national administration, Meek said his defeat by Douglas in November would mean "to America, a disbelief" in the 1952 Republican "crusade" and the return to office "of one dedicated to the collectivist plan." "We are here, in 1954, to choose," Meek said in his prepared speech to the GOP state convention. we lose, there wil be very little to choose in 1956." Dirksen Also Appears Speechmaking, adoption of the party's 1954 state platform, and nomination of three candidates for University of Illinois trustees were the main business for the afternoon meeting at the State Armory.
Others on the speakers' platform with Meek included U.S. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Pekin), Congressman Leslie C. Arends (R- Melvin), and Gov.
William G. Stratton. Meek, former president of the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, said the GOP is "the last barrier to creeping socialism" which he termed "the porch door to communism." He called Douglas "the No. 2 Fabian socialist" who is the "enemy," not the of the "common man." Meek said he himself has record against socialism in agriculture, government, labor, business, life itself." The senatorial candidate listed Foes Fail to Muster Absolute Majority Necessary 1 to Topple Government HONOR STUDENTS of the Belleville Township High School-Junior College are congratulated by Board of Education President Elmer B. Peters and Dr.
Lowell Fisher, professor of education at the University of Illinois and the commencement speaker, before last night's graduation exercises. U.S. May Go It Alone in War in Far East: Dulles LOS ANGELES, Calif. (UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned Friday night that the United States would fight alone in Southeast Asia, if necessary, in case an Communist attack threatened security. Pens.
Dulles said the United States would "meet the issue squarely," in case of further Red Chinese aggression in Southeast Asia. He said that although military moves by the Chinese Communists would be a "deliberate threat to the United States this country would, as a matter of course, invoke United Nations procedures and consult its Allies before taking any action. "But we could not escape ultimate responsibility for decision closely touching our own security and self-defense," he declared. "This government wants peace and the American people want peace," Dulles said. "But should there be openly launched an attack that the American people would clearly recognize as a threat to our security, then right of self-preservation would demand that we-regardless of any other country--meet the issue squarely." Dulles also said that France must promise not to pull out of the fight, and certain other conditions must be met.
The secretary of state's nationally-broadcast speech, before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, was the first public U.S. statement that France could not back out of the Indochina battle if it wants American help. His remark appeared aimed at those in France who are demanding that France withdraw from Indochina. Nast Resigns as Manager of City Pool Wayne Nast, manager of the Beevie Payground and Recreation Board's Belleville Swimming Pool, has resigned his position in order to report for active duty to the Air Force at Harlingen Air Force Base, it was announced today. Nast, 22-year-old holder of an Air Force Reserve commission as a second lieutenant, has been ordered to report for a special assignment at Harlingen on June 21.
He graduated recently from Southern Illinois University where he received special recognition for high military honors as a member of the school's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. His orders for the special assignment arrived a few days ago although it had not been expected that he would be called to duty until next fall. Jack Wall, acting superintendent of activities for the board, said that a successor to Nast would be named at regular meeting of the board to be held on Tuesday night. Nast, who took over duties on May 1 after serving several years on the lifehiss guard staff and last year as assistant pool manager, has submitted his resignation effective on Wednesday. The pool officially opened for the current season on May 29.
A son of of Mr. and Mrs. Clemence Nast of 617 East Garfield Street, he has been residing with his wife, the former Ruth Harpstreith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harpstreith and their son, at 1252 Lebanon Avenue.
Left to right, are: Raymond L. Hauver, salutatorian for the Junior College; Gene R. Richter, Junior College valedictorian; Peters; Miss Angela Cochran, valedictorian for the High School; George A. Bowman, salutatorian for the High School; and Dr. Fisher.
Police Officers Stand by as Bookies Beat Up 2 Newsmen Two East St. Louis Journal employes today charged that East St. Louis police stood by idly while two men arrested in a handbook raid, assaulted them in downtown East St. Louis at 4:20 p. m.
yesterday. Charles O. Stewart, a reporter, suffered lacerations on the lower lip and Jack Sullivan, a photographer, suffered abrasions on the nose. Both were carrying cameras but their equipment was not damaged. Stewart said that John Fred Koenig, 47, a former St.
Louis Republican politician and a onetime black market operator, beat him and Sullivan said Orville Barry, 32, of 1758. Lanham Avenue, St. Louis, struck him. Koenig now lives at 3939 State Street, East St. Louis.
Police arrested Koenig and Barry in a raid at 1712 Gaty Avenue. Four police officers kicked in the front door and found a large assortment of gambling equipment. They took the pair to headquarters for booking and then started across the street to the office of Justice of the Peace William Waichel for arraignment. "Jack I were outside headquarters," said Stewart, "waiting to take some pictures. As the two defendants came outside, in custody of the police, they threw newspapers over their faces and lunged at us.
Koenig hit me and Barry knocked Sullivan down and then jumped on top of him. While this was going on, the police stood by and made no attempt to break up the melee." In the house, police found scratch sheets, racing forms and betting slips. The house was equipped with two telephones. State's Attorney Richard T. Carter announced later this morning city charges against the two men would be dropped but that County Court informations charging operation of a bookmaking establishment would be filed on Monday against Barry and Koenig and Pete Curry, the owner of the home in which the bookie was found.
Under the East St. Louis city ordinance, the maximum penalty would be a $200 fine whereas the county charge carries a maximum penalty of a $2000 fine, a year in the County Jail or both. Dolores Wagner's Funeral Monday today for Arrangements the funeral were completed of lores Ann Wagner, 25-year-old civil service worker of R. R. 2, O'Fallon, who died yesterday of injuries suffered Monday night in a traffic accident.
The funeral will be held at 8:40 o'clock Monday morning from the Renner-Geminn Funeral Home to St. Mary's Church where the pastor, Father Joseph J. Orlet, will officiate at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Shi1oh.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. The pallbearers will be Paul Fries, Paul Appel, Leo Bertelsman, Linton Weems, Abbie Landry and Charles Strube. 'Jack' Goodall Leaves Hospital James D. "Jack" Goodall, 43, sales manager for the Star-Peerless Brewery Company, yesterday was dismissed from St. Elizabeth's Hospital where he had been confined since March 23.
He went to his home at 416a North Fifth Street. Goodall was injured when his auto was struck by an Illinois Central freight train at the Seventh Street crossing. He suffered back and spine injuries in the accident. PARIS (UP)--The National Assembly defeated Premier Joseph Laniel in a vote of confidence today but the margin gave him the choice of remaining in office. The vote was 306 to 293 against the government in a vote on its Indochina policy.
Because the opposition vote was short of the absolute majority of 314 votes necessary to topple the 11 and one-half-month old government automatically, Laniel had a choice of resigning or staying in office. The premier immediately called a cabinet meeting to make the decision that in any event would leave France at one of the worst crossroads since World War II. Laniel's backers reported he was considering staying in office long enough to demand another confidence vote that would give a clearcut yes or no on his regime. It was almost unprecedented for a premier to refuse to resign after a defeat in a vote of confidence. But Laniel's supporters had urged him to stay in office rather than leave France without a government during the negotiations at Geneva seeking to end the eight- Air Force Team to Visit Site of Chautauqua ST.
LOUIS, Mo. (UP) -Aloys P. Kaufmann, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, rolled out the velvet carpet today for the air academy inspection team. The team came here to examine a proposed site at Chautauqua, for the academy.
A motorcade assembled at 8:30 a.m. to transport the team members to the site. They also were to be guests of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce at Pere Marquette State Park before the inspection tour. Afterwards, the team will return to St.
Louis for 8 dinner and an evening at Busch Stadium as guests of August A. Busch president of the St. Louis Cardinals. Sunday night the visitors will attend the Municipal Opera presentation of "'Call Me Madam' as guests of the chamber. The inspection group, headed by John P.
Huebsch, special assistant to the director of construction, headquarters, U.S. Air Force, has already visited another site proposed at Lake Geneva, Wis. After leaving here Monday they will inspect the final proposed site at Colorado Springs, Colo. A formal selection will be made by Air Secretary Harold Talbott before July 1. Friday, Kaufmann wrote to Arthur Maier, president of the New Piasa-Chautauqua Association, explaining that an "unusual combination of circ*mstances" led to the proposal of the site.
Individual association members have expressed opposition to inclusion property in the academy tract." "There are only 270 tracts of land in all the 30 square miles of the site, exclusive of residential lots," Kaufmann said. "There are no plants, institutions or costly buildings. Please note that the effort is to inconvenience just as few people as possible." Kaufmann asked Maier to assure members it was extremely unlikely (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) Man Gives Up; Says He Deserted Army in 1930 In order to clear his record so he can find a job and later qualify for old age benefits, Francis E. Roberts, 64, Portsmouth, Ohio, today surrendered to police and said he deserted the Army 24 years ago. He was turned over to Scott Air Force Base police.
Described as "perfectly sane and Roberts stopped a police car in the downtown district at 3:15 a. m. today and told Patrolmen Raymond Butzinger and George Lawrence: "I'm tired of being turned down for jobs. Every place I go they tell me that I must be fingerprinted. Then I walk away because I know that if they take my prints my record will nail me." Roberts said he has wandered about the country in recent years, trying to get job.
Describing himself as a bachelor, he said that he served four years in the infantry and deserted Fort Thomas, Ky. in 1930. Scott officials are checking Army records in Washington. ROBERT R. YOUNG Young's Group Wins Control of N.
Y. Central NEW YORK (UP)- Robert R. Young, a one-time 28-cent-an-hour powder monkey, apparently has won control of the $2,600,000,000 New York Central Railroad. Young, now a millionaire socialite, decisively defeated the railroad's management under the leadership of President William White in the biggest proxy battle in corporate history, according to authoritative sources. Young, sure of victory, has called a meeting of his new board of directors in New York City on Monday after the formal vote announcement is made at the reconvened stockholders' meeting in Albany, N.Y.
at 10 a.m., EDT. (The new board will include a native of St. Clair CountyRichard M. Moss--who maintains a legal residence at 4030 Lincoln Avenue, East St. Louis, but lives in an apartment at 265 North Union Boulevard, St.
Louis. Moss, co-developer of Country Club Place, is chairman of the board of Clinton Industries, processors of Snow Crop frozen foods, and president of Clinton Corn Refining Company.) The financier also has selected his candidate to succeed White in the presidency. He is Alfred 1 E. Perlman, executive vicepresident of the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad. Perlman is enroute to New York.
White will call the postponed stockholder meeting to order in Albany on Monday. 1 It has been postponed three times since stockholders cast their ballots on May 26. Up to now deep secrecy has been maintained on the count of proxy (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) Henry Hopfinger, Veteran Teamster, Dies at His Home Henry W. "Hank" Hopfinger, 51-year-old teamster died at his home, 628 North Second Street, at 9:30 o'clock night. Death eight months' illness.
Mr. Hopfinger, who had last worked as a collector for the city's sanitation department, had formerly been employed by the Egyptian Stationary Company and the Rosech Enamel and Manufacturing Company. He was born in Belleville on August 30, 1902, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Hopfinger, nee Barbara Ackermann, and married Lucille Isaacs at Water100 on April 6, 1935.
Surviving besides are his step-mother, Mrs. Henrietta Hopfinger, 2921 South Belt West; four children: twin daughters, Dolores, wife stadt, of and Clifford Dorothy, Wakefield, wife of ert Greenlee, Sigourney, and Edna Mae, wife of Deischer Albert, 502 Lebanon Avenue, and Seaman First Class Harold Hopfinger, 2921 South Belt West, and Charles Hopfinger, 8 Glen Grove; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Wilde, Cleveland, and Marie, wife of Frank Childers, Madison, two step-sisters, Miss Clara Hopfinger, 2921 South Belt West, and Emma, wife of Clarence Driver, 2911 South Belt West, and five grandchildren. He was a member of Local No. 50, AFL Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union.
For funeral arrangements see the obituary column on Page 13. year Indochina war. Ignores Late Appeal The hostile deputies ignored Laniel's last-minute appeal to vote confidence in his government and prevent an "Asiatic Munich." They voted down a mild government motion rejecting three opposition resolutions criticizing the government's Indochina policy, including one sponsored by the Communists. Laniel pinned the fate of Indochina and the Geneva conference on the vote in making it an issue of confidence in the government. Even if he remained in office under the constitutional technicality he would lack the majority to back up strategy decisions on Indochina.
Laniel would not be assured of the vote needed to bind the (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) these (Turn Republican, Column 6) U. of Illinois Demos Happy Will Graduate as Flanders Rips M' Carthy Class June 20 A large number of local area WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Democrats happily took to the sidelines today to watch Republican Sen. Ralph E. Flanders' bold bid to bump Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy from two powerful committee chairmanships. In the first formal attempt by a GOP senator to curb McCarthy, Flanders proposed that the Wisconsin Republican stripped of the chairmanships if fails to answer Pre questions raised about his finances by 8 Senate subcommittee two years ago. The dignified, 73-year-old Vermonter dropped his bombshell Friday in his third sharply critical floor speech against McCarthy. Two weeks ago Flanders compared McCarthy to Adolph Hitler. In the long standing tradition of the club-like Senate, few senators would comment on Flanders' speech.
Democrats were obviously satisfied to let it be an all-Republican show at this stage. Republican leaders showed little inclination to talk. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif) declined comment. So did Sen.
Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) who is pinch-hitting for McCarthy as chairman of the Wisconsin senator's investigating subcommittee. Flanders did not say how long. he will wait for McCarthy to the himself before resolution to requesting on deny McCarthy chairmanship of the investigations group and its parent Government Operations Committee. Such action would not be unprecedented.
Records show at least 10 ousters of committee chairman, but the cases are few and far between. Most of them represent concerted attempts at party discipline. Flanders' proposal offered a rather touchy tactical problem for Senate leaders. Under the parliamentary scheme adopted by Flanders he, or any other senator, can ask the Senate to consider the motion at any time. Comic Dictionary HORSE--An animal that had one advantage over the car: it had enough horse sense to be afraid of a train.
students will receive honors on June 20 at the annual commencement exercises of the University of Illinois. At least four of the 25 receiving degrees at the ceremonies in Memorial Stadium are receiving reserve commissions for service in the Reserve Officers Training Corps units. The Rev. Dr. H.
Clifford Northcott of Madison, resident bishop of the Wisconsin Area for the Methodist Church, will deliver the address at the ceremonies to be held at 2:30 p.m, In the event that rain prevents an outdoor ceremony in Memorial Stadium, the graduating class will be split and identical ceremonies will be held in Huff Gymnasium at 2.30 and 7:30 p.m. Scheduled to receive degrees are: Harold G. Baker 8 Country Club Drive, bachelor of laws; William S. Bauer, 1815 West Main Street, R. Ron Helligenstein, 133 Orchard Drive, David R.
Knollhoff, R. R. 1, Elizabeth Ann Mace, 100 Wabash Avenue; Elmer C. Hendricks, 7 Kingston Drive and Richard D. Huffer, 12 Concord Drive, all bachelor of science; Bernard N.
Borman, 415 Garden Boulevard, Douglas Koehler, 111 West Street, and Judith L. Listeman, Lindorf Drive, bachelor of arts; John 0. Mings, 700 Centreville Avenue, master of education; Jewel A. Jenne, R. R.
2, Carlyle, bachelor of science; Dorris J. Prasuhn, R. R. 3, Carlyle, bachelor of arts; Emil C. Rupprecht, Caseyville, bachelor of science; James E.
Crossley, Richard C. Fedder and Dorothy A. Figge, all of Collinsville, all bachelor of science; Donald L. Paul, Collinsville, master of science; Leroy W. Hellmann, R.
R. 1, Freeburg, bachelor of Science; Norma J. Ziegler and Joan M. Becherer, both of 0'- Fallon, both bachelor of science; Samuel G. Harding, R.
R. 1, 0'- Fallon, bachelor of arts; Robert E. Rohlfing, Red Bud, bachelor of arts; Mary L. Dearing, R. R.
2, Sparta, bachelor of science and William B. Dunhouse, R. R. 1, Sparta, bachelor of arts. The ROTC commissions will go to Borman, Hendricks, Rohlfing and Royle J.
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