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THE MARSHFIELD. NEWS HERALD, Marshfield, Wis. Monday, January 23, 1956 Market Prices Drop Sharply Sharp Losses Run About Four Points NEW YORK (P Heavy selling of Chrysler today unsettled the stock market. and some sharp losses were posted by early afternoon. Chrysler was in the news because of spreading layoffs and production cuts.

Chrysler was down around four points at the most, and there were frequent losses throughout the list of one to around three points. Gains were small and scattered. Trading came to more than Friday's 2.430,000 shares. American Hawaiian Steamship provided a sensation with a fall of 22 to 23 points. S.

H. Moerman, the president, said he planned to resign and said he knew of good reason for the recent price levels of the stock." Weakness in Chrysler brought fast trading for other motors at unchanged to lower prices, and the selling soon spread to steels and elsewhere. Aircrafts were down all around but not particularly active. Ford over the counter closed Friday at bid and 66 asked. It opened today at and by noon.

it had slipped to been aware that the record proE For some time Wall Street has duction pace of the motor industry couldn't be maintained, and there has been ample warning from many authoritative sources, including Henry Ford, that 1956 wouldn't measure up to 1955 for the industry. Those warnings were brought home more vividly today by the Chrysler announcement that about one third of 30,000 workers at 10 of its Plymouth plants and body plants will be laid off this week. The market has been going down since the first of the year, and one of the factors in the decline has been the uncertainty surrounding President Eisenhower's decision on a second term. U. S.

government bonds were steady, Produce CHICAGO PRODUCE POULTRY CHICAGO (P)- Butter steady; receipts wholesale buying prices unchanged; 93 score AA 57; 92 A 57; 90 56.25: 89 55.5; cars 90 56.75; 89 56.25. Eggs easy: receipts wholesale buying prices to lower; U. S. large whites per cent A's 44.5: mixed 44.5; mediums 40.5; U. S.

standards 41; dirties 38; checks 36; current receipts 39. Live poultry steady to firm on hens. weaker on caponettes and young stock; receipts in coops 894 Friday 79 coops, 25,768 lb; FOB paying prices 1 lower to 1 higher: heavy hens 24-28; light hens broilers or fryers 22-23; old roosters 14.5-15.5; caponettes under lb 24-25, over lb 28-30: hen turkeys 36. Livestock MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MIL MILWAUKEE (P)- 10:30 a. m.

report: Hogs higher; U. No. 1 butchers 200-210 lbs 13.25: S. No. 2 and 3 butchers 200-210 lbs 12.50-13.00; strong weights 11.25- 12.75; prime heavies 9.00-11.00; light butchers 160-190 lbs 10.50-12.50; light sows 10.00-10.75; heavy sows 9.00-9.75; stags 7.00-8.00; boars 5.00-5.50.

Cattle steady; yearlings, ers, prime 21.00-22.00; choice 19.00- 21.00; good 16.00-18.00; utility and commercial heifers 10.00-13.00; utility cows 10.00-11.00; canners, cutters 8.00- 10.00; commercial 13.00-13.50; utility bulls 11.00-13.00; commercials 15.50. Calves steady; choice 21.00- 23.00: good 18.00-20.00; commercials 14.00-17.00; utility and culls 8.00-13.00. Sheep, 600; steady; prime wooled lambs 18.50-19.00: good and choice native clipped lambs 17.50-18.00; fair to medium 14.00-16.00; yearlings 12.00- 13.00; ewes 4.00-6.00. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK SOUTH ST.

PAUL, Minn. (P)- Cattie 6.500; calves very slow trade on slaughter steers; scattered sales choice offerings about steady; heifers slow and about steady; beef cows steady to weak; load high choice and prime 1,190 lb slaughter steers 21.50; choice 862 lb heifers 19.00; utility and cows 9.50-11.50: few high 8.50-10.00; shelly canners 6.00-8.00: commercial 12.00: canners and cutters cutter and utility bulls 13.50-14.50; commercial and good 12.50-13.00; canners 9.00-11.00; vealers steady good and choice 18.00-24.00; high choice and prime 25.00; commercial 14.00-17.00; cull and utility 9.00-13.00. Stocker and feeder trade not established. Hogs very active; barrows and gilts 50-75 higher, spots 1.00 up; sows 75 higher; feeder pigs higher; mixed lots U. S.

1, 2 and 3 180-240 1b barrows and gilts 12.00-12.50; scattered lots mostly 2 hogs 12.75; few loads U. 1 and 2 kinds 13.00-13.25: mixed U. 2 and 3 240-280 1b 11.50-12.50; U. 3s 280-330 lbs 10.50-11.75: 140-180 mixed for weight and grade 10.00-12.50; SOWS of a wide range in weights 9.50- 10.50; good and choice feeder pigs 9.00- 9.50. Sheep trade not established.

CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO (P)- Salable hogs active, generally a full 50 higher on butchers, but trade uneven and instances up more on all weights; sows active, 25-50 higher; only fair shipping outlet but good local packer demand and good clearance; most U.S. No. 1 to 3s 190-220 lb butchers 12.00-13.00; most lots 12.75 and 13.00 comprised largely of No. 1 and 25; around 75 head mostly No. 1s at 13.25: most few No.

2 and 3s 230-250 1b a lots No. 1 and 25 230- 240 1b 12.25-12.50; most 260-330 lb 10.50- 11.50: a few lots 340-360 lb 10.25-10.50; most 350-600 lb sows in larger lots a few 300-330 lb to 10.25. Salable cattle salable calves 300; prime steers all weights and steers 1,050 lb down grading good to prime moderately active. mostly steady, spots strong; other steers slow, steady to weak; choice and prime heifers fully steady; other heifers steady to weak; cows and bulls steady to 25 higher; vealers steady; stockers and feeders slow with no early sales; a load of high lb steers 25.00; other choice and prime steers 18.00- 24.00; but high good under 1,000 1b yearlings up to 19.50 with good mature steers down to 16.00; a load of prime 1,050 lb heifers 21.75; most good and choice heifers 15.50-20.50; utility and commercial cows 10.25-12.50; canners and cutters 8.50-10.75; utility and commercial bulls 13.50-15.75; good and choice vealers 25.00-29.00: most cull to commercial grades 12.00-25.00: choice stock steers calves held above 22.00. Salable sheep active: lambs 25- 50 higher; sheep fully steady; good to prime wooled lambs 86-108 lb 18.50- 20.25; cull to low good kinds 12.25- 18.00; good to prime lambs 85-95 1b with No.

1 and fall shorn pelts 18.00- 19.25: cull to choice slaughter ewes 4.50-6.50. Mercantile Executive Dies at Green Bay GREEN BAY P- Harold V. Joannes, 63, former grocery company executive, died at his home Sunday after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, five children and two sisters. Rev.

Kehrberg Dies at Age 62 Native Son Was Pastor at Mosinee The Rev. Otto Karl Kehrberg, Mosinee, a brother of Herman Kehrberg, Marshfield, and a native of this city, died Sunday morning at a Wausau hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 27. He was 62 years old. The Rev.

Mr. Kehrberg had resided in Mosinee for 36 years and served as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, his first appointment after ordination. At the time of his death he was also secretarytreasurer of the Protestant Conference. He was born in Marshfield Jan.

26, 1893, and received his elementary education here. He studied for the ministry at Northwestern College at Watertown and at the Luseminary at Wauwatosa. therana marriage to the former Hilda Kaliebe took place on Sept. 23, 1919. at Watertown.

Surviving him are his wife, three children, Harold Kehrberg, Mosinee. Ronald Kehrberg, Dundee, and Miss Rachel Kehrberg, Milwaukee, and six grandchildren. Brothers and sisters survive, in addition to Herman, are the Rev. August Kehrberg, Frankenmuth, Eric Kehrberg, Spring Valley, Mrs. Hattie Mielke, and Mrs.

Erna Werner, both of Kenosha. He was preceded in death by his father, August Kehrberg, in 1943. and by his mother on Dec. 14 of last year. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev.

Martin Zimmerman of Burr Oak at St. John's Church in Mosinee at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will follow at Hillside cemetery in Marshfield. Beginning this evening, the body will repose at the Beste Funeral Home Mosinee. It will be taken to the church at 10:30 a.

m. Wednesday to lie in state there until time of services. Mrs. Fred Barts (By News-Herald Correspondent) COLBY-Mrs. Fred Barts died at 4 a.

m. today at the home of her son Armin in the town of Holton. She was 84 years of age. Funeral rites have been set for 2 p. m.

Friday at Zion Lutheran Church here, with the Rev. Otto Hoffmann officiating. Interment will be made in the Colby cemetery. The body is at the Lulloff Funeral Home here. The former Mary Schraff was born Germany.

Sept. 23. 1871. She came to Sheboygan with her parents at the age of 10 and was married there to Fred Barts on June 6, 1886. The couple moved to this community in 1912 and settled on a farm in the town of Frankfort.

Mr. Barts died March 18, 1945. One daughter also is deceased. Survivors include two sons, Armin and Harvey, both of Colby; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Strassburg and Mrs.

Louis Wagner, both of Sheboygan; one brother, William Schraff. Howard's Grove; 10 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchil dren. Harold Anderson Relatives here received word today of the death of Harold (Andy) Anderson, 54, 5621 N. Wayne Chicago, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 11 o'clock last night at Chicago. The body will be brought to the Rembs Funeral Home here and burial will be made at Hewitt.

Final arrangements for the funeral not been completed. Mr. Anderson was born in Holfax, Canada, on Aug. 26, 1901, and was married to the for. mer Clara Kohlbeck of Hewitt in 1934 at St.

Athanasius Catholic Church in Evanston, Ill. For the past 30 years he lived at Chicago, where he was service manager of the Mid-State Auto Electric Co. Survivors are two brothers, Clarie, Holfax, Canada, and Donald, of Washington, and three sisters, Miss Teresa Anderson, of Virginia, and Mrs. Verna Hussey and Mrs. Dorothy McKay, of Holfax.

Steffen Rites Final rites were conducted at Christ Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon for Reinhold A. Steffen, 79, who died Thursday morning at his home at 509 W. Fifth St. The Rev. T.

P. Bradtke officiated and burial took place in Hillside cemetery. At the church, Mrs. Robert Reitz sang, "Las Mich Gehen" and "Nearer My God to Thee, accompanied by Mrs. Bradtke at the organ.

Pallbearers were Frank Sommers, Richard Cliver. Clarence Mitten Sofus Nickolson, Arthur Schnell and Robert Schrage. Out-of-towners here were Mr. and Mrs. Sofus Nickolson, Colfax; Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Schnell, Bruce and Thomas Schnell, Rhinelander; Richard Weister, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. William Steffen, South Wayne; Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Steffen, Thiensville; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Spindler and Mrs. Kermit Hartle, Stratford, Mrs. John Stosick JUNCTION CITY (Special) Burial rites will be held 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday at St. Wenceslaus' Catholic cemetery in Milladore for Mrs. John Stosick, 50, who died Saturday at Watertown, where she had been living for the past 11 years. The Rev. Hugo Diers will officiate.

Funeral services will be held St. Henry's Catholic Church at tertown at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday. The body will then be brought here to lie in state at the Martens Funeral Home from 7 p.

m. Tuesday until time of burial, A rosary will be said at the funeral home at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. Mrs. Stosick, the former Agnes State Flashbulb Queen Is Named Photographers Also Elect New Officers MILWAUKEE (P- A blue-eyed, brown-haired girl representing the weekly Journal is the new Miss Wisconsin Press Photographer. Miss Beverly Jo Larson, 20, Milnight at the group's waukee, was chosen saturday: quet here.

She was runnerup in the 1955 Miss Wisconsin contest and was second year's state Miss Universe contest. The pert 5 feet 6 inch bookkeeper will represent the state in the contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers Assn. at its annual convention at Chandler, April 1-5. Miss Larson 'is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Lester K. Larson of Sister Bay, Wis. Second place in the state competition went to Miss Andra Sue Becker, 18, of Waupaca, ing the Waupaca County Post. Donald Heileman, 26, chief phostation WXIX, was elected presitographer a for Milwaukee television dent of the association. He is the youngest president the group has had.

Other new officers: Carl Turner, Waupaca County Post, first vice president; Vern Arndt, Ozaukee Press, published at Port Washington, second vice president; Kurt Pare, Columbus Journal Republican, secretary; Robert Boltz, West Bend News, treasurer, and Elmer director." Burlington Standard-Press, George P. Koshollek of the Milwaukee Journal, won the award of Newspaper Photographer of the Year. Heileman was named TV cameraman the year and Clarence Hansen of the Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. of West Allis was named Wisconsin industrial photographer of the year.

Rural School Teachers Will Meet Tuesday The second of a series of five in-service training sessions for Wood county rural teachers, will be held at the Webster School, near Marshfield, tomorrow afternoon, Jan. 24. Speakers and consultants will be Frank Brown, elementary supervisor for the State Department of Public Instruction, and Mrs. Marjorie Kerst, Central State College, Stevens Point. Teachers of the following schools will attend the meeting: Hewitt, Evergreen Hill, Sunshine, Long, Cameron's Pride, Far View, Cary Bluff, Lone Elm, Lincoln, Riverview, Shady Lane, Ebbe, Hillerest, Washington, East Rock, Golden Glow and Lindsey.

The meetings, arranged by Matt Knedle, county superintendent of schools, will feature discussions on penmanship, a study of Wood county history, and social study areas of the elementary curriculum. Insurance Men Convene Here Legislative progress in Wisconsin and the rest of the nation make life insurance one of the most favorable assets for the av. erage citien to own," was outlined for members the Central Wisconsin Life Underwriters Associa. tion at their January meeting at Hotel Charles Friday. The speaker was Sy Manix, 1 Eau Claire, vice president of the Wisconsin State Association of Life Underwriters, who also stressed the favorable position, taxwise, now held by life insurance.

Saturday's meeting was attended by Marshfield, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids underwriters, and a guest from Wausau. At the February meeting at Stevens Point, the head of the state association will address the Central Wisconsin group. Derby (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Maxwell, Wisconsin Rapids, was in charge of the canteen. Starters were Police Chief R. J.

Exner and Lee Cammach, Wisconsin Rapids. The chief also staged a fire bomb demonstration, igniting two magnesium bombs and extinguishing them with sand. Other patrols participating were: Eagle and Explorers, Methodist Troop 71. Wisconsin Rapids; Mohawk, Sacred Heart 84, Marshfield; Tomahawk. Grande Lobos, Congregational Troop 72, Wisconsin Rapids; Wolf-Eagle, Two-Mile PTA Troop 78, Wisconsin Rapids; Wapiter and Apache, First Presbyterian Troop 81, Marshfield.

Panther and Eagle, Chamber of Commerce Troop 33. Medford: Trail Blazers, American Legion Troop 123, Pittsville: Buffalo, ahawk, Apache and Black Panther. St. John's Troop 85, Marshfield; Apache, St. Lawrence Troop 76, Wisconsin Rapids; Fox, Children's Choice Troop 115, Wisconsin Rapids; Stag, Alexander High School Troop 74, Nekoosa; Flaming Arrow, Mothers' Club Troop 89, Arpin; Eagle, and Flaming Arrow, PTA Troop 86, Unity.

Cobra and Hawk, Village Troop 75, Brion; Iroquois, MethodistFaith Lutheran Troop 82, Marshfield; and Eagle, Flaming Arrow and Beaver, PTA Troop 70, Port Edwards. Plots Broken Up BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (R- The government says it has broken up two new plots in a continuing crackdown on supporters of exPresident Juan D. Perom. City Briefs CONDITION--MisS Mabel Rasmussen, 51, Veterans Administration Hospital, Tomah, is a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital.

A graduate of St. Joseph's Nursing School, Miss Rasmussen, recently, underwent the Hospital. Her condition was described as HOSPITALIZED Mrs. John Blum. 36, who lives at 1106 S.

Central is being treated at St. Joseph's Hospital an injured right shoulder suffered about 3 a. m. today in an automobile accident. of the mishap were not immediately known.

ens. 30, route 4, suffered a broken right heel late Saturday when he fell about 12 feet from a coal bin on which he was working. He is being treated at St. Joseph's Hospital. BREAKS HEEL--Clifford Steph- ROTARY LUNCHEON Miss Pushpita John, Fullbright scholar from Trivandrum, India, who is visiting the Marshfield school sysItem, addressed the Rotary Club at the Hotel Charles this noon on her country and her impressions of the United States.

Killer Still at Large, Trail Grows Colder PRINCETON, Ind. (P) search for the escaped killer lie Irvin encountered a colder today as the flood of reports about condemned man's whereabouts virtually ceased. Authorities had received reports of a man fitting Irvin's description from Missouri Ohio after the husky Evansville, pipefitter escaped from the unguarded Gibson County Jail here last Wednesday. However, checks of the reports proved fruitless, and Indiana State police said there had been no additional tips since Saturday night. The FBI bureau in Indianapolis said it had no new leads.

Irvin, 31, was to have transferred Tuesday to the State Prison at Michigan City for ecution in the electric chair June 12 for the robbery-slaying of Wesley Kerr, an Evansville filling station attendant, Irvin also had been indicted for five other killings. The cellmate. Lawrence Bryant, 57, of Palestine, told a newsman he was too frightened to call out when he saw Irvin walk out of the jail with the aid of an ingeniously fashioned paper-and-tinwas so scared I didn't foil, key. know what to do." said Bryant, who is charged with a triple killing here. "I knew he'd come back if I'd he would kill me, because he had holler.

If he came back, I knew threatened me before." Station Owner Going to Utah Roger Thomsen, 613 S. Ash was expected to leave this afternoon for Ogden, Utah, to take up his duties as co-owner of Radio Station KOPP. Thomsen has been associated with the local radio station (WDLB) for the past seven years, the last three as sales manager. His partner, Robert Hansen, also is a former sales manager of the local station, having held the position for three years prior to moving to Arizona where he was engaged in television work. The 0g- den daytime station, having an output of 1,000 watts, is already operating under the Federal Communication Commission's approval Thomsen was born June 28.

1924, at Madison, graduating from high school in Neillsville. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two wears and Carleton College, Northfield. for the same length of time. His father, Henry Thomsen, still resides in Neillsville, where he has retired as manager of the J. C.

Penney store. The younger Thomsen spent 39 months in the U. S. Air Force during World War II and was a highter pilot with the 483rd Fighter Squadron. He flew three types of aircraft P-51, P-47 and P-38 10 the South Pacific combat zones.

Thomsen's wife, Tryg, and four children, Mark, 6, Gregory, 5, Kar. in, 3, and Kristin, 1, will join him in Ogden when their home here is sold. Peiping (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for four days of discussions with Eisenhower and Dulles. While there is little concern about the Red China question, there is less optimism among administration officials about their ability to hold the line on restrictions on trade with the Communist bloc countries. Britain has been described as wanting to expand trade with Russia and the Eastern European countries and ease substantially restrictions 011 trade with China.

The United States is opposed to such moves now. American officials say most attention the conference will be devoted Middle Eastern lems. Francis J. Lee Heads E. M.

Lee Realty Firm Francis J. Lee was elected president of the E. M. Lee Realty Co. by stockholders earlier this month and not Lawrence M.

Lee, as reported by error Saturday. rence M. Lee was named vice president, Mrs. Rose Murphy, secretary, and Mrs. Virginia Hastreiter, treasurer.

About four million U. S. motor vehicles were during 1954. British Movie Producer Dies Grain Market Grain Prices Are Narrower CHICAGO (P Grains moved within a narrow price range in relatively slow dealings on the Board of Trade today. After opening steady, the market slipped during the forenoon.

Toward the finish it staged a moderate recovery. Corn led the advance, reflecting the possibility of increased feeding demand in view of cold weather in the Midwest. Wheat had an easier tone than the rest of the list most of the day. Rain and snow were received in the winter wheat belt over the weekend and additional moisture was forecast. Lard futures firmed from the start.

Loose lard also advanced. Estimated carlot receipts at cago: Wheat 43, corn 178, oats 42, rye 16, barley 93, soybeans 21. Wheat closed higher. March corn higher, March oats unchanged to higher, March rye lower to higher, March $1.20, soybeans higher, March $2.45 and lard 25 to 30 cents a hundred pounds higher, March $11.70. District Dairy Group Gathers At Abbotsford ABBOTSFORD (Special) William Weibel, Medford, manager of the Medford Cooperative Creamery, was elected chairman of the Dist.

11 committee of the American Dairy Associations at its recent annual organization meeting here. The district -includes Wood, Clark, Taylor, Marathon and Lincoln counties. Voting delegates, elected last fall at a district. meeting at Medford, met here for the first time to review ADA activities and become acquainted with their duties at the forthcoming state annual meeting in Madison, March 6 and 7. Other officers named were George Groves, Gilman, vice chairman; George Steuber, Wausau, secretary-treasurer and Archie C.

Leick, Stratford, and B. H. Crissinger, Neillsville, nominated to the state board of directors. Filling out the remaining committee positions are George Ellenbecker, Edgar, and John Wuethrich, Greenwood. Gordon Vine, Granton, area ADA fieldman, presented a complete report of the ADA promotion program.

The district's seven voting delegates are Earl Boss, Dorchester: Luther Hamrick, Medford; Paul Lemke, Marathon City; Wilbur Becker, Colby; Harold Klessig, Colby; Art Laabs, Curtiss, and O. R. Thompson, Medford. Merger (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lane, NP president. Harry C.

Mur phy, president of the Burlington, will be chairman of the joint committee. The joint statement said the com14.50-mittees would explore the possibil(ity of unification with an eye ward presenting any resulting proposal to stockholders of both roads and to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). The four lines now operate a tal of about 27,000 miles of railway in 19 states and two Canadian provinces-Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, NebrasNew Mexico, Kentucky, Wyoming and Manitoba and British Columbia. A total of about 83,000 persons are employed by the four roads, which, in 1955, had a gross operating revenue of some 732 million dollars.

Also involved in any future mer ger would be the facilities of Colorado and Southern Railway and the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Burlington. Of the four, the Burlington the largest in mileage and revenue. That road operates on 11,000 miles of track. The Great Northern 8.300 miles, the Northern Pacific 6,900 miles and the Spokane, Portland Seattle about 1,000. Holstein Breeders to Meet at Loyal Tuesday LOYAL (Special) Two U- niversity of Wisconsin College of Agriculture specialists, Dr.

N. N. Allen and Dr. E. E.

Heizer. and several other speakers will address the annual meeting of the Clark County Holstein Breeders Association at the high school gymnasium here at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Jan. 24. Dr. Allen will discuss "Cutting Costs in Feeding Dairy Cattle, and Dr.

Heizer will talk on cattle breeding. A. J. Sontag, Chilton, secretary of the Wisconsin Holstein Breeders Association, will report on state association activities, and the National Holstein Breeders Association meeting held at Milwaukee last summer. Other speakers will be Louis Wojtkiewiez, Thorp, president of the county association, and Harold Imig, one of the association directors.

All dairymen of the area are in vited to the meeting. Will Run for Mayor MILWAUKEE (R- Milton McGuire, president of the city's common council and an alderman for two decades, says he'll run for mayor this spring because he is opposed to the "socialist political philosophy" of Mayor Frank Zeidfler. Korda Was Noted for Lavish Productions LONDON (P- -Sir Alexander Korda, leading British film producer, died was 62. nate was born lavish film The Hungarian movie magproductions with which he made -and sometimes -fortunes. He made pictures, for 40 years and since thirties had been a leader in the British film industry.

Korda died as his latest epic, Sir Laurence Oliver's filming of Shakespeare's Richard III, was shooting silver haired producer back to the peak of Britain's film heap. The star-studded picture will have its American premiere oil television in March. FOUND SAFE-UNHARMED-Police a hand shake from Frank Valencia, for three days was the object of one San Diego, Calif. The girl was located were being held by Mexican police. center looking at her husband.

(AP Spranger, was born in Rudolph Jan. 9, 1906, and was married there to Mr. Stosick on Sept. 6, 1932. They left there in 1933 and resided at Marshfield and Greenwood for 12 years before moving to Watertown, where Mrs.

a Stosick was affiliated with the Christian Mothers Society of St. Henry's Church. She is survived by her husband, her father, John Spranger, and four brothers and four sisters, Leo and Donald Spranger, both of Rudolph; Harvey, Vesper; Lawrence, Milwaukee: Mrs. William Baldwin, San Francisco: Mrs. Hubert Bayerl, Sherry; Mrs.

John Mrozewski, Sigel, and Mrs. Frank Zvo. lena, Mukwonago. Former State Man Cleared Of Slaying CHICAGO (P- A former Wisconsin resident has been cleared of any implication in the slaying of three Chicago schoolboys. Police reported Saturday a lie detector test showed that William Woodrow Checota, 42.

had 10 knowledge, other than what he had read, about the deaths of the boys. The battered bodies of Robert Peterson, 14: John Schuessler, 13, and his brother. Anton, 11, were found in a northwest side forest preserve last Oct. 18. Sgt.

Michael Spiotto said Checota's record shows he served three terms for sex offenses, two terms at Wisconsin's state prison at Waupun and one in Chicago's house of correction. Spiotto said Checota came to Chicago from Oconto, in 1953. sergeant said Checota was (seized that Saturday Checota's after rented someone reroom contained six editions of a newspaper published within several days of the crime. Spiotto said Checota explained he had collected papers at the request of his mother, who had written him for more papers giving details of the slayings. Autos Collide, Two Bruised Minor bruises were suffered by.

two persons in two of three accidents which occurred in the city over the weekend, but neither required hospitalization, according to police. A mother and daughter-Mrs. Bonnie and Mary Beth Wittmanwere thrown from a car driven by the husband Lawrence A. Wittman, 403 W. Sixth Saturday a- bout 6:20 p.

m. when the auto was involved in a collision with another car The Wittman vehicle was being backed from the family driveway when the mishap occurred with a westbound auto operated by Grant Johnson 609 S. Oak Ave. Mrs. Wittman complained of a bruised hip.

The right rear fender, splash panel and bumper of the Wittman car and the right front fender and headlight of the Johnson vehicle were damaged Corey Hayes, 3, 309 W. Fourth suffered a bruised nose when a car in which he was a passenger Saturday collided with another auto about 10 a. m. at the intersection of S. Chestnut avenue and W.

Fourth street. He was in a car being driven east by Jacob Bauer, also of 309 W. Fourth when the accident happened with a southbound auto operated William F. Wenzel. route 2, Marshfield.

The left rear fender of Bauer car and the left front fender, grille and headlight of the Wenzel vehicle were damaged. As a car driven by Leilani D. Scheller, 503 N. Vine was rounding a curve on a south road in Wildwood Park Sunday about 1:30 p. it left the road and struck a tree.

Heading east, the car sustained right front fender, grille and headlight damage. Firemen Out on Two Calls Over Weekend Firemen were called to extinguish the two fires weekend. in Rio many homes over damage reported in either blaze. When a frozen pipe was being thawed out with burning paper at the home of Mrs. Marvin Schneider, 1109 St.

Joseph Sunday morning about 10:40 o'clock, other paper ignited. Fire fighters answered a call at 9:37 p. m. Saturday to the Ed home, 1414 Arlington because of a chimney fire. officer Earl Cochrane receives father of 3-year-old Frances, who of the city's largest manhunts in safe in Tijuana and two women Mrs.

Valencia is shown in the Wirephoto) McCarthy Not Yet Delegate For Knowland WASHINGTON McCarthy Wis) says he hasn't agreed (R to be a presidential delegate candidate in Wisconsin on behalf of Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif) because Knowland hasn't declared his political plans. "Bill is not a candidate." McCarthy said Sunday night when asked about the delegate reports. Knowland has said he'll wait till Feb. 15 for President Eisenhower to decide whether to seek reelection before saying anything about his own hopes for the GOP presidential nomination.

A group of Wisconsin Republicans already has started work to set up a slate of Knowland delegate candidates to appear on the ballots in Wisconsin's presidential primary April 3. Knowland-pledged delegates winning in the primary would have votes in the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Asked about reports that he didn't plan to take part in the GOP convention unless he got on the Knowland slate, McCarthy said: "That's completely untrue. I intend to be in San and take part in the convention." Wreck (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) didn't have a chance." Sparks showered as both overturned cars skidded along with a deathly screeching sound for about 200 feet on the outside of the curve. Each car contained a diesel unit and room for 88 passengers.

The accident happened inside the city limits, about four miles from Union Depot. Thousands of homebound motorists, hearing of the wreck on their car radios, drove to the scene, cre. ating a serious traffic jam and delaying some ambulances. Stunned, injured survivors lay, sat or stood along the ground. Some searched for missing relatives.

Many of the badly injured screamed in pain and panic. Santa Fe President Fred G. Gur. ley said in Chicago: "All indications are the accident was caused by undue speed." Raymond D. Shelton, general manager for Santa Fe's coast lines, said, "Engineer Frank Parrish estimated his speed at the time of the derailment at 50 m.p.h.

I think this curve would take about 40 m.p.h." Parrish, 61, of San Bernardino, who has been with the railroad 37 years, said he had slowed the train after passing a 35 m.p.h. marker and apparently blacked out. The next thing he remembered, emergency calls went out for doctors, nurses, clergy and blood. Scores of ambulances lined up at the scene. Clergymen of all faiths circulated among the dead and injured, administering final rites or giving comfort.

Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (P-Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) said today he will delay action on any independent move to put his name in the April 10 Illinois primary until he has received official notification that petitions have been filed. Knowland told newsmen he had not been previously informed of the reported plan of Mrs. Durive Treyak of Chicago to file tions at Springfield, today. PLAINFIELD, Ill.

-A Wissonsin truck driver was killed today when his trailer truck rammed into the rear of another truck on the outskirts of Plainfield. Police said papers on the body indicated the dead man was Reinhard Raft, 36. He was driving a truck owned by Carl Zartman, 1136 W. Grand Beloit. Man Dies of Burns Suffered Saturday KENOSHA (P- Alfred Walkush, 50, died early today of burns suffered Saturday in a fire that swept his combination home and cheese market on Highway 41 at the Illinois state line.

Hospital attendants said his wife, Carolyn, 55, also burned in the fire, was in good condition. Phone Your Classified Ads To 1000 2P Private Life of Henry was his first smash hit. It catapulted him to film success and a career which included such successes as "The Ghost Goes West," "Catherine The Great," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "The Fallen Idol," "The Third "The Winslow Boy" and "Tales of Hoffmann." King George VI knighted the producer in 1942. Henry VIII also gave him hts second wife. Merle Oberon, who played the unlucky Anne Boleyn.

They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1945. He and his first Hungarian, had been divorced, in 1930, while he was workbriefly in Hollywood. In 1953 he married a Canadian, Alexandra Irene Boycun. His only son, Peter, is the son of his first wife. The first producer to get worldwide distribution for British pictures, Sir Alexander was often critical of the American movie industry.

Though for a time he was one of the producer-owners of United Artists, he often complained of Hollywood's "restrictive atmosphere" and ran into trouble because, he said, he refused to be a "yes man." Bank Robbery Attempt Big Flop for 3 MARION, Ohio (P Three men who terrorized a bank official's family Sunday in a flop at being big-time robbers today pleaded guilty to kidnaping and bank robbery. The sullen young trio appeared in Municipal Court where each was bound to the grand jury under $50,000 bond. Unable to pay, they were returned to County Jail. Their "big job" failed and all surrendered meekly after trying to escape with suiteases crammed with money. Officials of the National City Bank of Marion today estimated the loot at $32,000 to $35.000.

Taken into custody were Willard Lee Ciola, 20; Duane Charles Packer, 26 and Donald Francis Kimberling, 23, all of the Marion area. Police said they held an assistant bank cashier, his wife and mother-in-law as hostages for five hours while they tried to "break the bank." Hostages were Cashier Ralph C. Hurr, his wife, Alma, each 66, and her mother, Mrs. Carolyn Sulser, 88, all imprisoned in their own home, police said. The grand jury was called into special session today to consider charges of kidnaping to extort.

conspiracy to kidnap and bank robbery against the trio. Damage Suits Nearing Close WISCONSIN RAPIDS Closing arguments by attorneys representplaintiffs seeking more than $271.000 from the Cities Service Oil as a result of the Pittsville Creamery explosion nearly two years ago, were heard in Circuit Court this morning before Judge Herbert A. Bunde and a jury composed of six men and six women. The trial, involving a dozen lawsuits, which opened two weeks ago today, is expected to be completed either this afternoon or Tuesday. A list of instructions and questions.

upon which the verdict will be based was given to the jury today, The five most important things. to be determined by the jury are whether the explosion was caused by gasoline fumes. whether these fumes originated from a leaking underground storage tank, whether Cities Service was in maintaining this tank, negligent, this negligence caused the resulting blast. or whether Ray Wadzinski, as operator, of the creamery, was negligent in maintaining the tank. $8.25 Forfeited on 2 Parking Summonses For failure to' appear in court after a communication was written that he do so to answer two parking summonses.

William D. Frank, 24, 606A S. Cherry forfeited $8.25 in municipal court this morning. He had been charged by city police with a parking meter violation Jan. 3 and all-night parking Jan.

18. One dollar fines were paid this morning by Dale Kuehn, Marshfield, and Mrs. Anton Bohman, route 1, Stratford, for parking in no-parking zones. More Predictions HONOLULU (P--Undersecretary of Commerce Walter Williams predieted today President Eisenhower will not seek reelection. He was chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower movement four years ago..

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