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O. A cnon a the bodv of thfi locker? I -Wisconsin State Journal MADISON Tuesday, August 6, 1946 Last Rites Held for William Weiss 'Little Story1 Blew Up Into a Big One (Continued From Page One) Condensed Text of Confession (Continued From Page One) Byrnes Blasts at Molofov Showdown Near on Voting Issue (Continued From Page One) Then I walked to lower window. When I seen the Degnan home I went to the window that was least lighted. There was a light at the back near the door. Q.

When you entered the window of the Degnan home, for what purpose did you enter? A. Burglary. Q. When you were inside the window, what happened next? A. I noticed somebody sleeping on the right hand side of the bed.

Then I went toward the door, and dizzy as I was, I may have awakened whoever it was by brushing against the bed or something that sort But anyway, Top Candidates Clash at Forum Two Would Put State in Gambling Business (Continued From Page 1) the horizon are now attempting to scuttle every attempt at international cooperation. Ame i a must be a leader not a yes man in foreign affairs. And for a while we must maintain a scientific army as insurance that our plans work." McMurray also cracked at La-Follette's foreign policy stand as one that would lead to another war, and said flatly that "nothing short of world government will be sufficient" to keep International peace. Edwin V. Knappe, Socialist senatorial candidate, suggested that suppression of monopolies and cartels would do much to preserve world peace, while Ferry Stearns, another Republican candidate, demanded that the government "get out of business," that A i i i iU- T- i their homes, and that Isew Deal buieaus be liquidated.

Raps Price ote At a question-and-answer pen- the c.on1tenert M5S aEamSt TTH1.mln1 4U uuwudi dilJeuui tin; suvciiiui- ship forum was the suggestion by i um PonnWinnn nine Ottn Werkmeister and Ralph Amoth- that the state pay a veterans'! child went limp, you released your grip? A. On her throat Q. Then what did you do? A. Then I got back picked up the body and carried it down. Q.

At the time you got to the ground with the child, what did you do a little later? Heirens Admits Three Killings Due to Rccnact Degnan Murder (Continued from Tage 1 sion guards were posted outside the district attorney's office. His parents were not present. Heirens replied, "Yes sir," when asked "on Jan. 7, 1946, early on Monday morning, did you on that date kidnap and murder Suzanne Degnan?" Asked what he did with the body, the youth replied: "That part is not clear to my memory, but it was deposited in sewers." Woke Up a Bit Heirens said an hour and a half elapsed between he time he disposed of the last part of the little girl's body and the time he threw the knife away. He said that when he disposed of the last portion of the body, an arm, the "cover fell down on my finger and it woke me up a little bit and 1 remember from there practically everything, vaguely, but everything." He apparently referred to a sewer cover.

A week ago today the youth was brought into Tuohy's office to make a full confession. He changed his mind and replied "I don't remember" to all questions. whoever was there before I had reached the door to open it, got up in bed, sat up I started talking That is where I got her I took the person, I didn't know if it was a child at this time, and I didn't know until I read it in the paper that it was a child. Then I knew it must have been a female because ofv the long hair which I seen by the flashlight. Q.

Did you have a flashlight? A. Yes. Q. Did you put it on the person in bed? A. Well, yes not directly, but I must have shone it in that direction.

Q. Then you could have seen it was a girl, couldn't you? A. A female, yes, with long hair My vision was not too good. Q. Then what did you do? A.

Then I strangled her. Q. When you say you strangled her, how did you? A. With my fingers. Q.

Around the neck? A. Yes. Q. Had the child said something to you before you did that? A. No She made utterances I do not know what they were They were too inarticulate to make out.

Q. How long did you keep your hands on her neck, you say? A. About 2 minute. Q. You squeezed as hard as you could? A.

Until everything went limp. bonus with gambling profits. hTt. i.V iT TJ Werkmeister wants the state to abok afnd started sponsor a "jingle" contest, with J6 fascmating st participants paying $1 for the lhe atm how right to enter a rhyme, and with-i! 8rew from a scientific theory a $75,000 prize each month to the lhet os destrYctlve wPon winner. Profit from that, and from had wn legalized bingo, he said, would pay Ie told us about the unbeliev-for the bonus.

Amoth wants to in- iesi at tLos crease old age pensions and pay a Aas- and how Secretary veterans bonus by "legalizing i War Henry L. Stimson flew to gambling" Germany during the Big Three Crack at Goodland i meeting to report that we were Gen Ralph Immell, the La r5 t0 us ehe Japan-trn Within a matter of 24 or 48 hours. If Your Home was built about five years ago It is Now Worth 70 More Present Replacement Value Commercial and Industrial Buildings Show a Similar Increase Have You Increased Your Insurance Proportionately? Consult with Hie Ncckermaim Agency Gay Bldg. Phone Fairchild 728 A. No, not to my knowledje.

Q. Didn't you take some rags and bass out of that locker? A. No. Q. Didn't you take some bags out of that locker and place parts of Suzanne body in the bag? A.

No, Mr. Crowley (Asst. Dist. Atty. Wilbert F.

Crowley). I would like you to understand something I am not repeating; I mean repeating some of the things I had knowledge of from the papers I shall not repeat anything just for my own Just what I know for myself to be the actual facts It will not be anything I read in the papers The actual thing is, I don't know if I broke the locker my self or took the beg out. Q. Let us go back then. How did you happen to pick out this articular house in which Suzanne legnan lived as a place to commit a crime? A.

Because of low windows. Q. How did you happen to observe those low windows? A. From passing by. Q.

When was it you passed by there that you first noticed low windows? A. About 2:45 that morning, Jan. 7. Q. Were you in an apartment of a man named Gold? A.

Yes. Q. That apartment building is just to the north of the Degnan home? A. Yes. Q.

Did you observe the Degnan home at that time? A. No. Q. Tell it in your own words. A.

I left school. We were drinking. I had about six shots. I had gone to my room. I had taken off my coat and prepared for bed.

Then it just came on me to go out and I went out. I intended to go to the El station and get on the 1. I got there all right and I fell asleep. I woke up and after getting my bearings I got off at Thorndale. I walked I went to the alley I'd say about 50 feet off the street There was a ladder laying in the back yard which I could see over the fence, and so I took it.

Then I went further into that big apartment building. Q. Carrying the ladder with you? A. Yes. Q.

Did you know where particularly you were going? A. No I entered a large apartment building there and I tried one of the windows on the first floor near the front of the building. I could not reach with the ladder because of my condition at the time so I gave up that. Q. Where was the apartment building? A.

It was a big one. I believe it is the Gold apartment. Yes, it would be the Gold apartment in the same building where the Gold apartment is. Yes. Q.

Go ahead. A. I took the ladder back because I couldn't get in that way. tbc ifrHT1 1 jPd2 and D. J.

Kenny, West Bend, Regular Republican endorsed candidate for the nomination, exchanged verbal blows and both took a crack at Gov. Goodland. Kenny ridiculed the Milwaukee Hearst newspaper as a "house organ" for the Progressive general, and said the newspaper even had refused to print his press releases. Kenny referred repeated- ly to Goodland's habit of allowing secretaries to do work that should! the time when the cover fell down on my finger, and it woke me, up a little bit. I remember from there practically everything, vaguely', but everything.

Q. After the cover fell on your finger, did you then go immediately to the Glenlake Ei station? A. No. Q. What El station? I am not too sure of this but quite sure I went directly back to the basement, because to my recollection it was in the basement.

Q. What basement did you back to? A. The one where the cutting up was supposed to have taken place. Q. When you got back to the basement, what did you do? A.

When I got back to the basement, I seen there was blood in the tub. There I had some inkling of what had happened, i realized I didn't know the exact facts of what had happened until later I read about it, and it was made known to me that way, but from what I knew I realized something terrible had happened I washed up what was there and then it dawned on me that something must have happened to the child The last thing I remembered I was with the child, and after a while after I disposed of the bag I was holding I remember like that, and while I was there, the thing was on the edge and it dropped down, and it (the manhole cover caught my finger and it woke me up to the fact Q. That is when you were putting the arms in the sewer? A. Yes. Q.

You knew you were put-tincr the arms in the sewer? A. No, I didn't know what they were. Were the arms in the bag? A. Whatever it was, it was in a bag. A.

You had made other trips to other sewers before that, and put parts of the body in other sewers? A. That is what I don't know, whether I did or not. But from what I put together, that is what happened To my knowledge, do not know anything previous to when I got that thing on my finger. Q. Do you remember writing that ransom note? A.

That was after. Q. note? A. Q. body? A.

When did you write that Tn the basement. After you disposed of the Yes. Tell how vou happened to write the ransom note. A. Tt.

came into mv head that I had done something, as I told you before, and I realized it must have been a child, and I didn't address the note because I didn't know the name of the people, so to relieve the parents in all ways possible I could, would be to give them some hope the child was alive, and that is the manner in which I vt-rnte it. Q. In what particular part of the basement were you when you wrote the ransom note. A. In the rear part.

Q. Did you have the pape: placed against anything? A. Yes sir, a broken locker door Q. Did you have more than on sheet of paper? A. No.

Q. Was that a full sheet of paper you had at the time you wrote the note? A. Yes. Did vou tear it at any time? A. No.

I had torn it before I wrntp the note. Q. What did you do with the nart of the Daoer vou tore off: A. I think I either left it there or put it back in my pocket, but it was in mv nocket for such a long time that the torn part of it trot dirtv. ana usea me ciean part, and I tore the dirty part off O.

This locker vou referred to was it a broken locker? Did you know whose locker? Q. You knew, of course, how it happened to be broken, don A. No. Q. Didn't you break into that Advertisement Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating ccri hv loose false teeth clipping, dropping or wobbling when vou eat, talk or laugh.

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be done personally by the gov- Days of suspense ernor, and he said that "although) We saw the president on deck newspapers and the gamblers are, the next day and asked if he betting on a third term, I think any word. He shrugged his that in 1946 voters have courage: shoulders and said nothing yet. and can make up their own Aug. 5-was' another day of sus-mincis- pense. The president seemed a tude and the motives of the United States." Challenges Him Byrnes said that Molotov's charges against the United States had been published by the American press today.

"I challenge him to secure or permit publication in the Soviet Union of the statement I now make," said Byrnes looking straight at Molotov. As soon as Brynes finished, Molotov after hasty consultation with his aides rose and accepted Byrnes' challenge. Accepts Dare "We accept Byrnes' suggestion that his speech be published in the Soviet press and let the Soviet people read it as we heard it." However, Molotov coupled his acceptance of the challenge with a sharp attack on the British and American press, contending that while it might be "free" it was not fair or honest. He noted that today's issue of "the New York Herald-Tribune" an apparent reference to the Paris Herald did not carry his speech of Monday but did carry criticism of it. Kenny or Immell or Goodland? (Continued From Page One) in some of the previously-visited counties.

And more people on the streets, in the meat-markets, and groceries are aware of La Follette's political hop scotching, and, when they don't violently object, at least wonder about it'. At Abbotsford, three railroad workers at a lunchcounter were waving no banners for Mr. La Follette, who always has played to the labor vote. One of them carried the "Labor" edition endorsing La Follette. "But they didn't ask me about it," he explained with a touch of bitterness.

"Me, either," added the second. "La Follette has voted wrong a few times. He's getting too rich." Three travelers waiting in the same lunchroom for a bus said they thought they were going to vote for Goodland and La Follette, but they "weren't sure yet." A farmer anxious to Ret home with a load of feed insisted he was "all through with La Follette." His helper said he was "all through with all of them." He hadn't voted "for some time." At two towns in Marathon county, though, farmers said, "Don't fool yourself. This is going to be a whale of a big vote. It doesn't make any difference how busy the farmer is this year.

He's going to drop everything and go to the polls." A crowded street of Wausau shoppers tallied, out of 25 questioned, 11 who didn't know how they were going to vote for any office, eight for Goodland, three for Immell, two for Kenny, one for Amoth, "Who's Amoth? Hmmm, you'd know in the eight for McCarthy and six for La Follette. From Shawano to Green Bay, Joe McCarthy will count a bar-relfull of friends. Shawano is his old stamping grounds. Everybody knows him and expresses' pride in him. Eleven out of eleven questioned answered in enjoyable monotony, "Why McCarthy, of course." But in Green Bay, as in La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Chippewa Falls, the surveyor hears a dis-quietingly strange and repetitive story: that "a few of the businessmen" are staying on the good side of La Follette.

They don't particularly like him, you're told, but they feel the need of a friend at court, figuring that however wrong he may vote in the senate, he can do them some favors in the capital of the mutual back-scratch outside. As one angered businessman who doesn't go along with that philosophy puts it: "They're figuring too much on what he can do for them and not how much he will do to them." Tomorrow: From Green Bay to Milwaukee 3i II on 1 11 -v WILLIAM WEISS FT. ATKINSON Funeral services for William Weiss, 75, of 711 East Ft. who died in a Madison hospital Fri day after a long illness, were held today in the Downing chapel. The Rev.

Harry Maunder officiated. Burial was in Evergreen ceme tery. Mr. Weiss, an old-time fiddler who entered contests in Madison and elsewhere in the area, was a grandfather of Howie Weiss, for mer Wisconsin star fullback. He was born in St.

Petersburg, Russia, and was married May 4, 1893, to Lizzie Fleck at Northport, Wis, He was a resident of Wiscon sin for 58 years and for the last several years was in the broom making business. Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Roy Lawrence and Mrs. Glenn Austin, both of Ft. Atkinson; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Two Convicted in Traffic Drive Three Injured in City Accidents (Continued From Page One) able at the police station, they were not brought to court by Lieut.

H. Austin White. White normally appears with only the officer's end of the violation ticket to give to Proctor. Cora G. Griffiths, 21, of 5208 In-terlake was arrested for tipsy driving after her car had collided with one driven by Wilfred B.

Russell, 42, of 1314 Williamson in the 700 block on W. Washington shortly after officers had gone there in response to a call on the Jordan hatcheting. Her sobriety test result was 2.20, with anything over 1.5 considered sufficient to put an individual un- der the influence. Again the police had no accident report available, although Officer Lawrence McCarthy who helped make the arrest, was present to testify. Miss Griffiths was fined $75 and costs or 30" days.

She paid. Beltz Dismissed In the third case, Alvin M. Beltz, 31, Lake View Heights, who summoned the police after his car collided with one driven by Keith Carter, 29, of 117 N. Hamilton st, at the intersection of Wisconsin ave. and Dayton st.

about 5 p. m. Monday, was dismissed 'after appearing on a charge of failing to yield the right of way. Proctor pointed out that the other party to the accident was not in court and dismissed the charge with the warning that there may be a civil suit to determine the responsibility for the damages involved. No accident report was presented in court.

The case was the second in two weeks In which the police arrested the man who summoned them to check an accident In the other one, Proctor changed the charge from one of unlawful operation to following too closely behind another vehicle with a resulting decrease in the amount of the penalty. Deaths Decrease July was the second consecutive month to show a decrease in traffic fatalities in Wisconsin as compared with deaths recorded last year, according to preliminary tabulations of the safety division of the state motor vehicle department. To date, 43 traffic deaths have been reported during the month of July as compared with 59 for the same month last year. Reported fatalities for the month of June totaled 41, seven less than the 48 xeported during the same month in 1945. Despite this encouraging trend, total deaths for the first seven months of 1946 show an increase over fatalities recorded during the same period last year.

Tabula tions to date show 351 deaths from traffic accidents this year, whereas in 1945 there were 303 fatalities during a like period. The safety division of the state motor vehicle department today urged state motorists to continue to exercise caution in driving in an effort to prolong the present favorable downward trend in traffic deaths. MAVIS NAMED DEPUTY Joseph A. Mavis, town of West-port, was named a special sheriff's deputy by Sheriff John R. Arnold Monday.

Complete Reliable Prescription Service Bergmann's On Th Square 102 King St. Cadger 278 panese army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more power than 2,000 times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb ever used in the history of warfare Ayers looked up at the reporters who were writing furiously. "Now the statement plains the whole thing," Ayers said.

"It is an atomic bomb, releasing atomic energy. This is the first time it has ever been done. All right, you' can go to it." It Was a Story A reporter barked as he wheeled toward the door, "It is a hell of a story." A few seconds later, news editors all over the world shared his sentiments. Aboard the heavy cruiser Augusta, however, the story of the atomic bomb had started three days earlier. Four reporters I was one of them accompanied Pres.

Truman to the Big Three conferences were forced to sit on the big secret more than 72 hours. The Augusta cleared the English cnannel Jate the afternoon of Aug. Tv, last oodbye to thJe King of Great Britain, We talked to him a few minutes about the Bi Thre? meeting. As we left his flag cabin, the president said casually that Almncl rnl Sl luc The next morning, we sat down the president around he l'Le in he the president explained, an atomic bomb would be dropped on Hiroshima. From the standpoint of the future of the world, this was a bigger, more important news story than V-F, Day.

The president regarded it as more important news to the world than a a pjn collapse. But we couldn't send the story. We were afraid to discuss it among ourselves. We put our notebooks in little worried because he had not been notified that the bomb had proved successful. The next day Aug.

6 the president had noon chow with the erdisted men in their forward mess-room. He was chatting amiably when an aide rushed into the room, and handed the president a message. Hiroshima had been bombed under perfect weather conditions, and with no opposition. "This is the greatest thing in history," the president shouted. A few minutes late another message arrived, this time from Stim-son and more optimistic than the first one.

Mr. Truman jumped from his seat and called out to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who was also in the mess hall: "It's time for us to get on home." Still standing, the president told the sailors about the bomb and what it had done. Then, clutching the messages in his hand, he almost ran to the wardroom where he surprised the officers with his announcement. The officers stood and cheered, and the reporters ran for their typewriters to describe the scene as it happened aboard the Augusta.

Back in Washington, Ayers had "a little something" to announce. Phil Aids Brother's Campaign (Continued team Page One) have spent T. Begus, Republican, $30; Dorothy R. Rail, Democrat, $31.20. Assembly, second district Roy B.

Hovel, Republican. $165; Earl Mullen, Republican, John B. Glaska, Democrat, none. Assembly, third district Rudy Roethlisberger, Republican, Howard Sebert, Democrat, none; Mary Jo Uphoff, Socialist, none. Sheriff Edward A.

Fischer, Republican, Lawrence O. Larson, Republican. Ray Case, Republican, $229.90. Coroner Dr. David Atwood, Republican, Robert F.

Shurson, Republican, Verl M. Smith, Socialist, $20. Register of deeds A. O. Barton.

Republican, George jRude, Republican, $110.50. couniy cierK yusiin i. jonn-son. Republican, $56.10. O.

Dahlen, Republican, $4.50 Buy Victory Bonds and Stamps immell charged that the Good-. land administration "looks to the past," and blamed Goodland for "providing no real leadership for veterans' housing." Immell came out flatly for a state board of education to modernize Wisconsin's educational system. Walter Uphoff, Socialist candidate for governor, warned that Wisconsin and America must accept "democratic socialism, and not Naziism or Communism." He called for revision of state laws on taxation and utilities. ingle Blow elled Veteran Eye-Witness Describes Tavern Death (Continued from Page 1) hi? booth 'in the tavern after hitting Myrvang. Tavern Visits Told Kleven's departure from the 1a vein was described by Harland Helen.

24, Route 1, who with his brother Glenn. 22, had accompanied Kipven to Homer's tavern, 2236 Winnebago and then to the Paradise. Testimony by Holen and by Joseph O. Volk, Paradise Isle bar- tender, indicated that Kleven and 1 Myrvang had. been drinking.

Volk told of helping Ellis Heddon, an- i other bartender, break up the scuffle between the two in the rest room. During that exchange, Kleven's glasses had been broken. 1 -7 At 7 Muot V'nVTs N. tred.M.rk.e. SUN TAN Mmy ill' Avian eCO' "Lloyd said he wanted a wild-' $18.

Milwaukee County Central cat fight, Volk related of the inci- Campaign Committee, George dent. It was after the disputants' I Hampel secretary, receipts $414, return to the bar room that Kleven expenses $414. followed Myrvang out onto the i sidewalk, testimony showed. skuii Fractured County Candidates Others to testify this morning e-i were Dr. D.

Murray Angevine, rile CXpenSeS University of Wisconsin pathology A11 but one of the candidates professor, who gave the cause of for the three Dane county as-ueatn as a cerebral hemorrhage sembly seats had filed a statement caused by a skull fracture; Capt. 0f their campaign expenses with Sydner Lphoff. superintendent of the countv clerk's office by noon the police identitication bureau, today, while those filing for oth-and Officer Joseph W. Holmes, ers offices were a little slower, ambulance driver who took Myr- Only three of the nine sheriff can-vang to Methodist hospital where I didates were in and neither of he was pronounced dead upon ar- the district attorney hopefuls had rival. filed.

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Becker to Speak for Assembly Tonight Stuart H. Becker, Republican candidate for nomination as assemblyman from the Madison district, will speak at 9:15 tonight over WIBA on behalf of his candidacy. Bonus OSHKOSH (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dehn today had the baby girl they had always wanted.

But they also had two more boys, bringing" the total number of children to five. Mrs. Dehn gave birth to triplets on Sunday. The first baby, boy, "was born at 9:10 p. m.

Another boy was born at 9:30. At 9:45 the girl was born. The Dehns previously had two boys, Larry, 5, and Leroy 4. Home Savings 108 N. Fairchild Street Next to Madison Harry S.Manchester, Inc..