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Home Owned Home Edited Howie Read 3 Wisconsin THE CAPIT A I MES Madison ARENA-TYPE Tuesday Afternoon, December 11, 1951 'Plot Record Is Played Here By McCarthy Less Than 250 Turn Out To Hear Senator at GOP Meet Young PRESENT Truman Calls McKinney For Party Confab Fulbright Urges Full Airing of Profits Deal By Chairman By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (JP) Pres. TrU man arranged to talk today to Democratic Chairman Frank McKinney, who has called for a dramatic and drastic cleanup in the wake of spreading tax scandals. McKinney himself has been under fire for a stock deal in which he turned over a quick $68,000 profit on a $1,000 investment. Sen.

Fulbright (D-Ark) said today there ought to be a full public airing of the transaction for the good of the party. McKinney was put on the white house calling list for a mid-afternoon appointment. There was no announcement on the subject of their conference, but it seemed certain they would discuss conditions exposed by the house tax investigation. Presidential Sec. Joseph Short told reporters, however, it was expected that McKinney, as Democratic national chairman, would have regular conferences with Mr.

Truman each Tuesday from now on. Cairns Quits As Unitarian Minister Here jt Is Reported to Be Concerned With Emphasis On New Structure (Continued From Page 2) there. I met a thoroughly delightful group of people there last week who are, interested in doing the things I want to do. The church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Spring Green architect, for the First Unitarian society resulted in a great amount of publicity and comment. Wright gave two talks in the new church, and a dance recital by a group from the Taliesin Fellowship at Spring Green also was presented in the church.

These events were sponsored by the societys board. 4- AN OFFICIAL OF THE so ciety, who asked that he not be quoted, said Mr. Cairns had indicated he felt the congregation was too much interested in the church as a building. The official added that some members of the congregation agreed that this was a problem. Another official stated he supposed there was some dissatisfaction with Mr.

Cairns, but commented he never knew of a congregation in which there was not some dissatisfaction. Mr. Cairns preached sermons at Hamilton on Dec. 2, and last Sunday, and met members of the congregation there. Upon his return he told the societys board that he felt there was a prospect for an exciting and effective ministry there among group of enthusiastic people who are determined to build liberalism into the social structure of their community.

MR. CAIRNS CAME to Madison in May, 1949, and led the con gregation through its building program which resulted In the new meeting house. One of the outstanding features of his ministry here has been the series of radio talks each Sunday morning on the Unitarian program Religion for Today. He is greatly interested in social issues. Mr.

Cairns, his wife, and three sons are living in the parsonage adjoining the new church. Wisconsin high school students her rehearse a scene from "Papa is All, the first three-act arena-type play ever attempted at the Uni-versiy of Wisconsin high school, for presentaion in the school the-ater Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. A small audience surrounds the players to watch as Papa, played by David Brodhead, lays down the law to Mama (Kay Esch) and son Jake (John Huskins), at left. The cast also includes Don Schmidt as the police officer; Mary Jo Meyer as Emma; and Ilolly Martin as Mrs. Yoder.

(Continued From Page 1) to obtain permission of the court to leave its jurisdiction. McCarthy SAID that two oth ers at the meeting were Travis and Selly who, he said were members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union. The senator said the recording offers proof that recent Hawaiian' pineapple and sugar strikes and a Montana copper strike were Com munist-inspired. He said the meeting discussed methods of wrecking the wage stabilization and price control acts. Although each speaker had been requested to limit his speech for two minutes, McCarthy spoke for more than an hour.

IN A QUESTION period, McCarthy declared that we have already lost the Korean war." He said failure to use Formosa based Chinese Nationalist troops was a tragic mistake. The same mistake is being made, he declared, in Europe because Sec. Acheson does not want to use troops from western Germany and Spain. Another questioner asked the senator to name one Communist in the State Department without quoting from the immunity of the Congressional Record. I cant tell who is a Communist at a given moment, McCarthy answered.

If you mean has he paid his dues, I would not know; if you mean does he do things you would do if you were a member of the Communist party, then I call that man a Communist. Auto Profits (Continued From Page 1 United Motors Service Division. He explained: When General Motors sells direct to the government, it makes an average profit of 5.7. But when it sells to the government through its sales agency, GM makes an average profit of 25.9. SIIAFFER TESTIFIED that Chrysler Corp.

charged the gov ernment $51.95 for parts that cost the original manufacturer $23.34. He added that a smalls part which Electric Auto-Lite of Toledo made for 14.6 cents and sold to Chrysler for 21 cents subsequently was bought by the government for 33 cents. Studebaker assemblies reached the tank-automotive center at cost of $147.30, he said, after changing hands the first time for $106.95. Shaffer said he also found out that Timken-Detroit Axle made an item at a cost of $17.65 and sold it to the Federal Motor Truck which In turn got $26.04 when it sold it to the government. McGrath Says Truman Fired Caudle Himself Attorney, General Had Not Recommended Dismissal of Aide (Continued from vat 2) guest of a wine merchant.

Capping all that was the sensational story by Abraham Teitel-baum that two men, one of them a frequent associate of Caudle at race tracks and other places, tried to shake down Teitelbaum last April for $500,000 under threat he would have tax troubles. The Caudle friend was Frank Nathan. Teitelbaum said Nathan and Bert K. Naster of Hollywood, asked him for the half million dollars and claimed close connections with a Washington clique, including Caudle, which they said looked for "soft touches. All those named by Teitelbaum have made denials.

As McGrath testified before the investigators, Washington seethed hvith rumors that (1) Pres. Truman was about to take some dramatic action in the situation, and (2) heads of still more top officials would roll before long. Only Monday night Chairman King (D-Calif) denounced Caudle, as a public official guilty of indiscretions amounting to a breach of your public trust' while head of the departments tax fraud division. CAUDLE, WHO HAD 4been a voluble witness, admitted to indiscretions but denied any dis honesty. He sat silent as King told him: The damage you have done to your government will take a long time to repair.

Sen. Nixon (R-Calif) said meanwhile that both McGrath and Sec. of the Treasury Snyder should be fired because of the tax scandals. Caudle was fired by Pres Truman for his "outside activities. In advance of McGraths ap pearance, committee sources hint ed at possible existence of a master mind in the bizarre case of an alleged $500,000 tax shakedown attempt against Abraham Teitelbaum, wealthy Chicago lawyer, Nearing the end of its inquiry into Teitelbaums sensational story told under oath the committee still had to hear from three persons assigned obscure roles in Teitelbaums shakedown recitation1.

THE THREE ARE Bert K. Naster, a Florida electrical supply manufacturer, whom the committee heard briefly and secretly last Saturday; Charles Olipbant, who resigned last week chief counsel of the internal revenue bureau, and Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald, man-about-Wash-ington and will-o-the-wisp private investigator who has figured before in congressional investigations. Naster was expected to follow McGrath to the witness table, while Oliphant is due Wednesday. Grunewalds appearance was uncertain he is in a Washington hospital suffering severe emotional strain and gastro-intestinal disturbances. Teitelbaum accused Naster and Frank Nathan, a Florida promoter, of (1) promising him bad tax troubles unless he paid them $500,000, and (2) claiming influence with a clique of Washington officials looking for soft touches.

GRUNEWALD WAS brought into the hearing limelight Monday when Caudle told the committee he surmised that Grunewald was the man with the deep guttural German voice. Such a man, Caudle said, he was told, warned Teitelbaum in an anonymous long distance telephone call to play along in the attempted tax fix shakedown. In this air of mystery, committee sources made clear they did not consider the whole story to have been told that evidence seems to point thus far to a hit 9 P- PLAY AT SCHOOL HERE Man Killed (Continued From Page 1) Morse said the crash was accidental and no inquest will be held. MR. KOCOVSKY was an assembler at Gisholt plant.

His employment by the company for the past 17 years was his second period of work for the firm. He also had worked for Gisholt for a year and a half, 1929-1931. He formerly resided in Madison, moving to his Dunn township farm, near Oregon, six years ago. He was born in Adams May 19, 1906, and was married to Nora Pishion June 22, 1939. Mr.

Kocovsky is survived by his wife and four small children, Anna, Catherine, Robert, and Dorothy, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Anna Kocovsky, Adams; three brothers, Joseph, Madison; John, Chicago; and Jerry, Adams, and one sister, Mrs. Emily Novak, Villa Park, 111. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 at the Booth funeral home, Oregon, with the Rev. Robert Berthelsen, pastor of St.

Johns Lutheran church, Oregon, officiat ing. Burial will be in Prairie Mound cemetery there. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p. m. Wednesday.

GORDON RECEIVED LIP and knee cuts and a back injury when his car struck the rear of a car driven by Ames Austin, 46, Belleville, on Highway 69, about 1 mile west of Belleville, county traffic officers reported. Austins car was struck when he started to pull off the road after his engine began missing, officers Gordon was taken to Methodist hospital. Taylor received a neck injury when his car skidded on an icy road and overturned as Taylor swerved to avoid collision with a truck, traffic officers said. The accident occurred on Highways 13-14, about 8 miles south of Madison. Taylor was taken to Methodist hospital.

Cotage Grove Womans Suit Settled for $2,700 An award of $2,700 was made Monday to Mrs. Edith I. Coleman, Cottage Grove, in an out-of-court settlement 'of an $8,190 civil suit brought in circuit court as the result of the traffic death of her husband, Ruben. Mr. 60, was killed Oct.

15, 1950, when struck by a car as he walked along County Trunk BB near Cottage Grove. The car was driven by Thorvald Grefsheim, a Deerfield veterinarian. Open evenings Spicy Trial Tallulahs Maid May 'Tell AW (Continued From Page I) witness late today or Wednesday morning. Mrs. Cronin, formerly the stage and radio stars secretary and personal maid, was charged with stealing $4,284.60 between Oct.

8, 1948 and Apr 11, 1950, by raising the amounts of checks Miss Bank-head signed for incidental expenses. DIST. ATTY: FRANK S. Hogan, at the time of Mrs. Cronins indictment last January said the actress had been swindled out of more than $10,000 by the check kiting.

The indictment covered only the alleged larcenies taking place in New York county. Miss Bankhead and her attorney, Donald R. Seawell, said they be lieved the amount was more like $20,000 altogether. At Mrs. Cronins arraignment, her attorney said the checks for incidental expenses were used for cocaine, marihuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne, and sex.

Tallulah later retorted that her life was an open book, that every one knew she took a drink, that on her honor as a Bankhead from Alabama she didnt touch narcotics, and: I dont know what that lawyer means by sex. I dont have to buy sex. I havent slipped that far. MISS BANKHEAD, who began starring on Broadway in 1918, took London by storm in the 1920s, and at present is the glamorous, un predictable mistress of ceremonies on the radio Big Show, was in censed at the tack taken by de fense attorney Fred Morritt in picking a jury Monday. Morritt told the venirement that "certain names, foul language, profanity, perversion, and criminality may have to be brought out.

He said the defendant would testify she saw it with her own eyes, heard it with her own ears. The defendants case, Morritt said, is that what she saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted was always under the order, command, and direction of her employer. What Mrs. Cronin ever did in her life, she did because the complainant ordered her to do it. ASST.

DIST. ATTY. Jerome Kidder told the jurors to disregard the smeap technique and what is known as the big lie and reminded them that Miss Bank head was not the plaintiff. Outside court, Tallulah fumed: Thats why I wanted this thing to come to court. She thought I could ibe intimidated by vicious, black-mailing, scurrilous lies.

Tallulah was born on Jan. 31 in Huntsville, in a which Whos Who says was 1903 and some other sources have reported as 1901. Her father was the late Rep. William B. Bankhead, speaker of the house, and her grandfather John and Uncle John were U.

senators. Rev. T. S. Nelson, Once Baraboo Pastor, Dies ASHLAND, Wis.

(JP) The Rev. T. S. Nelson, 52, pastor of Salem Baptist church here, formerly of Baraboo, died today. Lv i' j- 'J Spoo I mid Sett yfcifr-rfp Iilih v'Mrti-'v tflr iViiy ftv av 18 North Carroll Street On Capitol Square Give the iWViiivu MRS.

EDWARD DILLON Funeral services for Mrs. Edward Dillon, 53, of 6 Frances ct. were held today in the Joyce funeral home. The Rev. John A.

Koelzer officiated, and burial was in Calvary cemetery. Pallbearers were Dean Leary, Harry Barker, Ben Duane, Pat Kraska, Leaman Faith, and James James Kraska. ELLEN B. KENNEDY Funeral rites for Ellen B. Kennedy, 73, of 215 N.

Pinckney st, were held today in the Joyce funeral home and in Holy Redeemer Catholic church. The Rev. Joseph abriels officiated, and burial was in St. Marys of the Lake cemetery, Westport. Pallbearers were Richard Kennedy, George Benish, Dr.

Frederick Joachim, Rodney Lynch, Halsey Kraege, and James Kennedy. Truce Talks (Continued From Page 1) equipment and (3) create a single organization to supervise the armistice. The condition was that the N. command accept the Red proposal that neutrals conduct be-hind-the-lines inspection. The Allies want joint U.

teams to do the supervising. Both subcommittees adjourned until 11 a. m. Wednesday (8 p. m.

Tuesday CST.) Allied officers who investigated Red charges that a U. N. bomber attacked the Kaesong neutral area reported an attack was made, but they were not sute of the identity of the plane. The plane bombed and strafed a highway and fields 2 Vi miles from Kaesong, former armistice site. No casualties were reported.

Negotiators have agreed that a 3V-mile area around Kaesong be free from attack. Allied Reds Renew Fight; Bag One SEOUL, Korea (P) Allied jet pilots battled Russian-made MIG-153 in MIG alley today and reported one Communist fighter probably destroyed The U. S. Fifth air force said all Allied planes returned safely. A 12-minute battle over Anju pitted 26 F-86 Sabre jets against about 50 MIGs.

The U. S. Eighth army reported only five ground contacts with, the Reds across the 145-mile front Monday. All were smalL There were few casualties. In the southern provinces.

Re public of Korea (ROK) troops pressed their campaign against, an estimated 8,000 Red guerrillas and bandits in the Chiri mountains. Thus far the ROKs have reported 1,043 reds killed and 1,580 captured. Many guerrillas have surrendered. The alleged Red chieftain, Lee Hyung Sang, still is at large. He is a former leading member of the outlawed Communist Labor party.

The government has placed a price of 1,000,000 won ($167) on his head. master mind in the plot unfolded by Teitelbaum. On the stand most of Monday at a night session, Caudle admitted he had known of the Teitelbaum shakedown story as long ago as last August but had done nothing about it because I didnt believe it. Last Tuesday, when Teitelbaum was testifying, Caudle penned a statement asserting then that no person has ever talked to me about a case involving Mr. Teitelbaum.

I from the frit irllpfl STATE AT Open Evenings a A hit mad finest toilet nice for I any wire MR. TRUMAN CUT short a Florida vacation and flew back here Sunday amid rumors that he was planning some sensational move in the tax matters. These reports said Mr. Truman might assign FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to a government-wide inquiry or might name a bi-partisan commission to investigate.

Fulbright sounded his call for an airing of the McKinney stock deal after the party leader hit back at critics of the transaction. This thing ought to be looked into, and clearly explained, Fulbright told a reporter. The Arkansas senator, who has often had differences with the Truman administration, commented that when McKinney was tapped for the party chairmanship, none of us from the South was consulted. McKinney vigorously denied at a news conference Monday that he had been in any shady venture. He said the stock deal questioned as a 67-to-l profit actually yielded a 4-to-l profit, because he put into it, altogether, $26,000.

McKINNEY CONCEDED that he got back $68,000 after 10 months on a $1,000 investment in common stock. But, he said, he had to buy $25,000 of preferred stock along with the common, and sold that back at no profit. The party chairman himself called for Pres. Truman to take dramatic and drastic steps to clean up conditions exposed by a house investigation of tax collection scandals. McKinney was commissioned by the president in October to see to it as chairman that the Democratic party is in position to show on the record that there is no basis in fact for the republican smear campaign.

McKinney said he had Invested $1,000 in Empire Tractor Corp. common stock and had received a $68,000 profit when he sold it back 10 months later, in August, 1947, to Frank Cohen. The Appalachian Way, longest continuous footpath in the world, measures 2183 miles. iv v- AiTiYJI T-Shirt (Continued From Pagj 1) fenzy, yelling death to the opposition deputies. Opposition Leader Jamal Imami, who had been threatened with death by demonstrators previously for his attacks on the Mos? sadegh government, joined with three other opposition deputies in demanding Mossadeghs resigns tion.

He called the premier a die tator, an ambitious politician and other names, amid a tumultuous uproar. Mossadegh then replied that he would remain in power. Pounding the table, he appealed to Iranians to forget their lost oil income for now and tighten their belts to hold out to -the bitter end against the British. If we cannot benefit from the oil, at least coming generations will, Mossadegh said. With British technicians ousted from the Abadan refiinery, the vast oil installations have been practically shut down.

Irans economy has been based largely on her oil. THE NATIONALIST followers of Mossadegh predominated in the crowd in Majlis square. Some were armed with sticks. No Communists were in sight among those rushing the parliament gates, nor in more hundreds loitering in the sunlit square. Some 42 oppositionists deputies, newspaper editors and actors have been in refuge inside the building during the weekend, charging they were in danger from Nationalist mobs who sacked newspaper offices and a theater during Communist-Nationalist riots last Thursday.

The refugee deputies and newsmen charged. Thursdays riot in which eight persons were killed and more than 200 were injured was fomented by government offi-James J. Yingling, 1810 N. Sher- cials to crush all opposition in adman acting as agent for Turn- vance of national elections expect-er Hall, 21 S. Butler pleaded ed to be held about Dec.

20. not guilty today in superior court to charges of selling beer to a minor and permitting a minor to loiter. Trial was set for Dec. 28 and ball of $100 was ordered. Charges against the club were brought as the result of an accident at Sherman ave.

and Erie ct. Nov. 29 in which one 18-year- old youth and two boys of 17 were involved. The three who were seriously injured failed to negotiate a curve and struck a parked trailer, light pole and then a tree. Two of the youths come from Wau-nakee and the third from De Forest.

Judge Roy H. Proctor found Donald M. Millard, operator of the Northwestern bar, 504 E. Wilson guilty of selling beer to a 17-year-old boy and imposed a fine of $50 and costs. Charges of permitting the boy to loiter were dismissed.

Millard testified that he was in the bar on the night of the alleged offense and said that he did not see the youth or a 20-year-old companion who claimed he bought the drinks. Mrs, Steen Dies Here at Age of 66 Mrs. Emma Steen, 66, of 2014 Helena died Monday night in a Madison hospital. The body was taken to the Gunderson funeral home where friends may call after Wednesday. Mrs.

Steen is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Alfred Lemke, Madison; Mrs. Marvin Bailey, Milwaukee; Mrs. James Newman, Whittlesey, Taylor county, and Mrs. Carl Mueller, Marshfield; one son, Christ, Madison; one sister, Mrs.

Anna Pagel, Medford. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 in the Gunderson funeral home. The Rev. Erling Ylvisaker, pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran church, will officiate. BOY IS KILLED EAU CLAIRE, Wis.

(JP) Jerry Phillips, 18, of Eau Claire, was killed Monday night when his car struck a patch of ice on old highway 93 one mile south of here and skidded off the road into a clump of trees. Denies Turner Hall Sale to Minors (Continued From Page 1) suit the income tax fields from the firms probably would vary widely if railroads were required to pay state income taxes. RAILROADS PAID $5,092,000 in property taxes last year, and if they had paid income taxes on top of that, their total taxes would have amounted to $6,207,000, Chapman reported. This would mean that railroads would have paid 24.70 of their incomes in total taxes in 1950, compared with the 26.62 paid by other utilities. Other utilities, he said, had a three-year average operating income of $45,829,000, paid in property taxes, and in state income taxes.

Originaly both railroads and other utilities were exempt from state income taxes, but other util ities were brought under income tax laws in 1929, leaving railroads still exempt. A colony of honeybees is composed of as many as 80,000 to 90,000 individuals, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Iran Riots IS NEAR 691 $1.19 VALUE THE END OF CLOSE Students Give Skit At VA Hospital A skit, the Flattering Word, will be presented at the Veterans administration hospital tonight by a group of students from Miss Gladys L. Borchers classes in the university speech department. The skit, to be presented over the hospital radio system, will start at 7 and will precede a program to be presented by Madison barber shop quartets.

The student players will be under the direction of Marial Puhl. Members of the cast will include John Kopischke, Joan Johnson, Stella Chang, Carol Raffman, and Milton Hedland. Mrs. Haswell Services Held at Lodi, Calif. Funeral rites for Mrs.

Ella Maud Haswell, mother of Mrs. Frank Blau, 3737 Ross were held today in the California city. Mrs. Haswell died Sunday after long illness at the home of another daughter, Mrs. Angus MacDonald, with whom she had lived for several years.

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