JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE
VOL.109. NO. 47.
109th YEAR
JANESVILLE,
WISCONSIN, THURSDAY,
OCTOBER
8,
1953.
32 PAGES. 2 SECTIONS
SIXCENISL
Hunt Kidnap Accomplice in East
U. S. and Britain
Give Occupation
Zone to Italy
Trieste Area Turned
Over to Rome for
Administration
Police of Seven
Janesville Man, States
Alerted
Father of 5, Is ior 3rd Suspect
Killed on U.S. 51
Half of Ransom
Money StiU Is
Missing, Report
Mcin Resembling Marsh
Reported at Opposite
Ends of N. Y. State
Cctr-Truck Crash Fatal
Axe and Shovel, Found
at Heady Home. Are
Being Eseonuned
WASHINGTON W) - The United
to Howard Kraus, 30,
States and Britain jointly announced today they will turn over
Employed in Rockiord
their occupation zone in the Trieste
a r e a to the Italian government for
administration " a t the earliest Howard E. Kraus, 30, 236 Water
St., Janesville, a foreman at t h e
practicable date."
Rockford, 111., Ordnance Plant and
This decision was disclosed as a father of five children, Wednesday
step to halt the "recent deteriorabecame R o c k
ticKi in the relations between Italy Traffic deaths County's second
in
Rock
coun
and Yugoslavia." Both countries
October traffic
claim the entire free territory of ty since Jan.
fatality w h e n
I,
1953,
now
Trieste.
the c a r he was
total
American and British troops
driving struck
have occupied Zone A, including
a
semi-trailer
on Highway 51
the city and port of Trieste, for
about 2% miles
nearly eight years. At present some To same date
south of Janes
4,000 American and 3,000 British in 1952, the
ville. ,
troops garrison the area. Yugo n u m b e r of
NEW YORK ( a > - R e p o r t s of
BULLETIN
men resembling suspected kidnapr
KANSAS CITY w - T h e IKW
slayer Thomas John Marsh came
from opposite ends of New York
BibUlty that Cari Ansthi HaU and
State today, raising the possibility
Mrs. Baanie Brown Heady, both
that he was in the New York City
noder arrest, carried «at the
area.
kldniqi-slayhic of Bobb/ GreenThe FBI here had no comment,
leaae by themselves grew today
however, and referred querries to
as the FBI kept a close-lipped
Washington.
tUence ia the hunt for a tbiid
Police of seven states have been
alerted.
suspect
In the lower Hudson Valley local
police communications buzzed with
KANSAS CITY W - A hunt w a s
descriptions of the 37-year-old man
on today for both an ex-convict
wanted in the Bobby Greenlease
accused of being an accomplice
case.
in the kidnap-slaying of 6-year«ld
Orders went out to hold any man
Bobby Greenlease and some $300,wearing a green Army combat
000 of ransom money still missing.
jacket who answered Marsh's de
The FBI refused to answer any
Kraus d i e d
slavia occupies the remainder of traffic deaths
scription. Guards were placed on
questions about its part in the hunt
immediately
of
was 19.
the area, known as Zone B.
Hudson River crossings.
for Thomas John Marsh, 37-yearPAIR HELD IN KIDNAPING - Carl Austin HaU, 37, and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, sit old former Missouri convict, in the
h e a d injuries
In Syracuse, N. Y., a citizen re
The British and American troops
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s
t
r
i
c
t
pohce
station,
where
Uiey
were
questioned
in
the
kidnaping
and
slaysustained in the crash. His body
ported to police he saw a man who ing of Bobby Greenlease, 6, of Kansas City whose body was found buried in the yard of the house face of reports from numerous
will be withdrawn, the announce
was thrown from the car and was
HOWARD E. KRAUS
cities across the nation it had is
might have been Marsh at 8 o' where Mrs. Heady lived in St. Joseph, Mo. (AP wirephoto).
ment of the decision said.
'
found lying in the roadside ditch
sued no pick-up order.
clock Wednesday night in a parked
" I t is the firm belief of the two
was
about
to
pass
an
automobile
auto with Missouri licene plates.
governments that this step will near the automobile.
in front of his truck when Kraus'
All the F B I here would say is
' contribute to stabilization of a Driver of the semi, owned by car, ^also headed north, hit the The report said the ipan was
that there has been no federal
situation which has distributed the the Kupfer Foundry and Iron vehicle from behind. The truck wearing a green combat jacket and
complaint issued against Marsh.
Italo-Yugoslav relations during re Works of Madison, was John R. was halfway into the center lane needed a shave.
The U. S. district attorney's office
cent y e a r s , " the State Department Lybeck Jr., 23, Mafdison. Neither
Shortiy
before
midnight.
New
said
it had no comment a t this
he nor his wife. Donna, 21, a pas when struck he said.
said.
York City police boarded a subway
stage beyond saying it was in the
Went
Under
TraUer
"They trust that It will provide senger, w a s hurt.
middle of the investigation.
The automobile apparentiy went train after getting an anonymous
t h e basis for friendly and fruitful Lybeck told sheriff's deputies under the flatbed trailer of the tip that Marsh was aboard.
Meanwhile a t St. Joseph, Mo., 55
cooperation between Italy a n ' d that he was traveling north and
Their efforts were fruitless. ^
miles north of here, F B I men w e r e
(ConUnnM M Pac* U , Col. t>
Yugoslavia, which is as important
But several hours later, around PLEASANTON, Kan. ( » - A shock father was a prominent attorney.
reported minutely examining the
to the" security of V/estem Europe
l a . m. today, a Mount Vernon, wave went up and down the streets Postmaster Lawrence W. Leisure
yard and home of one of the ab
a s it is to the two countries con
N. Y., tavern patron reported to in this town of 1,200 with the an knew HaU well.
ductors held in St. Louis, 41-yearcerned."
police that a green jacketed man nouncement one of its native sons " I just can't realize Carl is a
old Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady.
A State Department spokesman
resembling Marsh had stopped by
kidnaper," Leisure said. "We don't
Twenty FBI agents were report
said the American-British decision
to ask the way to the Whitestone took part in the kidnaping of Bob raise our boys down here likej
ed even sifting garbage taken
has been communicated to Imlh
by Greenlease.
tiiat." Hall is a World War U
Bridge.
from the home in the last tKo
the Italian and Yugoslav govemMount Vernon is in Westchester There aren't many here who Marine Corps veteran.
weeks.
. ^ e n t s . He declined to report vihat
thought
Carl
Austin
Hall
would
County,
just
north
of
the
New
York
"Something just happened to that
Points Unsettled
Highest Honor Is Won
reaction came from M a r s h a l
City line. The bridge connects the amount to much but hardly any boy a long time ago and he never
The child's body was
tog
Tito's government which can be
by Janesville Herd
one ever figured he would be in came out of it," said Samuel Tuck
DELAVAN — The 4-year-old son Bronx with Long Island.
Wednesday from a shallow grave
expected to oppose the transfer to
volved
in
a
kidnaping
and
murder.
Fast
driving
could
take
a
motor
er,
president
pf
the
Pleasantcxi
in
Mrs.
Heady's
backyard
after
Owner at Waterloo
of an Air Force sergeant stationed
Italy.
ist from Syracuse to Mount Vernon "Everybody was just dumbfound Telephone Company and close
she and her boy friend, 34-year<fld
at the radar base near Elkhom was
ed," said Marsh Bradley, publish
Carl Austin HaU, were arrested a t
A national championship in the drowned this morning in Delavan in tJie time between the two re er of the Pleasanton Observer- friend of tiie HaU family. He add
ports.
ed:
St. Louis for the kidnaping, ^ e
Jersey breed came to Rock Coun Lake.
Enterprise. "They just couldn't "His Ideas were too big; he
arrests followed payment of a i«crealize
that
a
home-town
boy
had
ty Wednesday, when a n animal The victim was identified as
ord $600,000 ransom by the hoj's
wanted to have a lot of money
a
part
in
the
fiendish
crime
they
wealthy parents.
but he didn't want to earn it."
owned by Shiart Shadel. Janes Glenn Nashiro son ot S-Sgt. and
had been reading and hearing so Hall was described as an aver
Several key points in the ease
ville painting contractor and farm Mrs. Robert Nashiro. both 24, by
jmuch about."
age student in grade and high
were shrouded with uncertainly to
Walworth County Coroner Robert
er, took top hcHiors a t the Water Betzer.
In
Pleasanton,
Hall
isn't
known
school here. But some say he seem
BOBBV G B E E N I f A S E
day.
___
ST. LOUIS «>—Former President
loo Dairy Catfle Congress.
Kidnaped and Murdered
What had happened to the $30B,Walworth County authorities said Harry S. Truman speaks here to so much for himself because his ed to dislike people, did not as
family
has
been
important
in
the
000 of ransom money missing?
WASHINGTON t » —TTie United Tiie winner is Jester's Valiant the child feU Off a pier a t the Gene night and has announced he will community. HaU inherited $200,000 sociate with other boys and had
HaU told St. Louis police he plan
States sharply prodded Red China Jane, a cow undefeated in leading Fink property on South Shore have something to say about the in 1946. His parents are dead. His iUusions of making a lot <^ money
in a hurry.
ned the ransom payment alone aft
and North Korea today to say state fairs of the Midwest through Drive. His sister, Joanne, 3, saw domestic policies of the Eisenhow
er Marsh kiUed the boy a lew
«1iether and when they will be out the year. She was first named him fall and ran to tell their moth er administration.
hours after the kidnaping Sept 28
prepared to enter a political con- blue ribbon aged cow of t h e Na er. She called the sheriff's depart The occasion is a dinner In Tru
and disappeared.
ferei^ce on Korea.
tional Jersey, show, and then was ment, since Delavan Township po man's txmor at which he will re
Is »IaT8h AUve?
ceive the $1,000 annual award from
A message dispatched througji m a d e senior champion and finally lice could not be reached.
There was speculation here Diat
Sheriff's Deputies Bumise 01- the Sidney Hillmem Foundation for
the Swedish government told the grand champion. No such honor
1 Marsh himself may have been
Reds that an early reply from has been won by a Rock County sen, Joe Dorr and ? a t Welch an meritorious public service.
kUled. But tiie hunt continued a t
swered the call along with the A delayed broadcast of the 8:30
both " i s imperative" if the con breeder'for many years.
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (5) — Rlinois least on a state level;
ference recommended in the Ko Valiant J a n e was shown by Stu Delavan Inlet and city d Delavan p. m. (CST) speech will be carried
by the ABC radio network start
Negotiations by Phone
rescue squads.
is going ahead with plans to con The F B I simply w a s n t talking.
rean armistice agreement is to
vert U.S. Highway 51 between] All it would say was that no fed
take place in the time l e t in th? a r t Shadel Jr., who has been in Firemen recovered the body but ing at 10:35 p. m. (CST).
for
Boy's
Release
ch&rge of the herd on a tour of resuscittaion efforts failed.
The award was established in
Rockford and the Wisconsin line eral warrant had been issued.
armistice agreement.
Are Described
into a four-lane, divided freeway. But their agents were reported
The United States note was re state fairs. His parents and Scott The body was removed to tije memory of the late Sidney Hillto have found an axe at the Heady
Gov. Stratt<Mi said today.
leased here by the State Depart Hake, Janesville, were at the ring O'Brien and Betzer Funeral Home. man, who was president of the d O KANSAS a i Y Iff) - "We relied
home. It was covered with a sub
ment and it informed the Reds side when the purple ribbon was The Nashiro family originally Amalgamatei'. Clothing Workers of on a criminal's word. We had to.
The
heavily
traveled
road,
which
stance, resembling Wood. Also
America.
bluntly and officiaUy that efforts awarded. The cow and her owners came from Hawaii.
is 18 feet wide, is nearly 30 years found at the home was a long
But we lost."
were
featured
on
a
TV
and
radio
to have fte U. N. General Assem-1
old. The new dual slabs eacli wiU handled shovel, the kmd used \ ^
That summed up today the Rob
bly reconsider its decision against broadcast from t h e " arena. The
Foresters Ask More
grave diggers and • sewer and
be 24 feet wide.
ert C. Greenlease family reaction
grand
championship
for
bulls
went
hicluding. neutral nations in the
to a 10-day life-and-death gamble
Stratton said Highway Division trench workers. It was new but
Fire Protection Funds
conference had been rejected so to F a r m e r Brown, a bull owned by
engineers are working on designs has some particles of d o t on i t
CUMBERLAND FALLS STATE with their 6-year-old son Bobby as
that arrangements previously ap Pioneer F a r m in Connecticut, and j
the stake—a gamble that ended in
for the project and tiiat land ac Two of the boy's teeth were
PARK,
Ky.
W—The
Association
proved for a conference of the two undefeated for two years.
CHICAGO (SI — An extradition
the tragic death of the child.
quisition has started. Over-all cost missing when his body was dug up.
of
State
Foresters
wiU
ask
the
next
belligerent sides stand firm.
hearing
for
Benjamui
Hirsch
of
AlLof the principal dairy breeds
is expected to run about 3% million St.. Jos'e{di jail trusties were at the
"Our side," the United States hold their national shows in con suburban Glenview, charged with Congress to tack another two mil Robert Ledterman, a spokesman
doUars, he said in a statement. Heady home today sifting dirt in
said, "is prepared to negotiate in nection with the Waterloo Dairy bilking 52,075 from a Green Bay, lion dollars on the $9,00,000 now for the Greenlease family, gave
SOUGHT—Thomas
John
Marsh
an e&ort to find them and other
all reasonableness and good faith." Cattle Congress, which climaxes Wis., w o m a n , was wMitinued spent anually for forest, fire pro details of the fruiUess negotiations (above), 37, an ex-convict, was
clues.
carried on with the kidnapers.
tection.
Wednesday
for
one
week.
the show season. Shadel' plans to
Ledterman is a close friend and sought by police and the FBI
BnUet Not Found
It
also
will
petition
President
Ei
move his herd to Chicago for the
in the kidnaping and slaying of
Coroner Dr. H. F . Mundy said
senhower to name a committee foi business associate of the 71-year- Bobby Greenlease of Kansas
first International Dairy show,
old
father.
the bullet fired into Utfle Bobby's
research work on methods of pre
opening there on Saturda|f.
City. He was impUcated in the
head had not been found either.
venting mass fires such as might During the highly secret negotia
Other Shadel winnings at Water
case
by
two
people
arrested
in
occur under an atomic bomb a-| tions, Mrs. Greenlease twice went
Law enforcement a g e n c i e s
loo included second on bull calf,
SANTA MONICA, Calif, im
COLUMBUS, Ohio (»—Qarence tack.
St.
Louis.
(AP
wirephoto).
to the telephone to plead for assiu:NEW YORK m—A. 17-yeai>old moved in swift retribution against
Nigel Bruce, 58, veteran actor of' second on 2-year-oId bull and a H. Fields, 26, of Obetz, returned
boy, fearing he had kiUed his the two held a t St. Louis for the
Decision to take the action came ances her boy was safe.
stage and screen who was best fifth on heifet calf.
from a rat-killing expedition and Wednesday.
Ledterman said the kidnaper ap
father in an altercation, stood on kidnaping. State charges for mur
known for his portrayal of Dr.
placed his shotgun in a comer,
parentiy had no fear of being
a subway track Wednesday and der and kidnaping and federal
Watson in the Sherlock Holmes
WOULD INCLUDE BEDS
stiU loaded. .
traced through telephone caUs. He
STOP BRITISH SHIP
let a train grind him to death.
charges of extortion have been filed
movie series, died today in St. PARIS
Paris newspapers re
H i s 3-year-old son yelled,
HONG KONG « 3 ' - The 1,925- caUed frequentiy.
His father later was found un- against Mrs. Heady and Hall.
John's -Hospital.
ported today that Premier Joseph "There goes a r a t , " and blasted ton B r i t i s h freighter Admiral
Talked Every Day
[hurt from a punch thrown by the Reports from persons in scatter-"
Bom in Ensenada, Mexico, Bruce Laniel's Cabinet appears t o favor away with the'gun.
Hardy radioed today that an un " I talked to. him every day, WASHINGTON (ff) — New polio' boy.
ed areas saying they have seen
e a m e to Hollywood in 1934 and a five-power conference. Including
Fields was in a St. Francis identified warship had stopped her and sometimes 10 minutes at a cases reported over the nation Police said Gerald Rosenthal,
someone answering Marsh's de
became a top character actor.
Communist C h i . . a , to attempt Hospital bed today with a charge off the Communist Chinese port stretch," Ledterman said.
totalled 1,459 last week, compared had in a pocket a note which r e a d : scription have been received since
He played in many Sherlock setflement of issues in tiie F a r of buckshot in the back of his of Foochow but let her go 90 min T w i c e unsuccessful attempts
" I just kiUed my fatiier. I leave word went out he was wanted for
with
1,853
in
the
previous
week
Holmes movies opposite B a s i l East, especially Indochina.
were inade to turn the ransom
I lap. . *
utes later.
aU my worldly goods to m y t h ^ kidnap-slaying.
Rattbone.
money over to the kidnapers. Fi- and 3,226 in the corresponding motiier.".
The Kansas <3ity police broad
week
of
1952.
naUy the money, in accordance
The motorman of the train, who!
with instructions, was thrown over The Public Health Service an could not stop it in time, said the cast a pickup order for him, but
Form Youth Killed
insist it didn't know what, if any
a bridge in eastern Jackson
boy "covered his eyes with his thing, the F B I was doing in the
Underneath Tractor
County near Kansas a t y last Sun nounced this today and officials hand and waited."
hunt.
day night, where it was picked up. said they are now certain that this The boy had punched his father.
MARSHFIEtD (f) - W i 111 a m
"The kidnaper acknowledged in year's outbreak reached its' peak Jack Rosenthal, 47, during an ar The FBI caUed HaU the ring,
Freudenfeldt, 15, Taylor County
a telephone call that he had re during the week ended Aug. 22 gument and saw him stagger back leader hi arranging the kidnaping,
farm youth, was killed in a tractor
ceived the money.
accident Wednesday.
ward and appear to fall on a side burymg the boy's body and col
when 2,251 cases were listed.
lecting the ransom.
He died of internal injuries and
After the money finally was ex t h e r e have been 27,889 cases walk in front of then: home.
a crushed chest suffered when the
changed successfully, a telephone this year, compared witii 42,206 Notified of the boy's death, the
tractor he was driving rolled .over
caUer told the famUy to send a to this time in 1952. Last year was father, who had a small bruise,
on him. The mishap occurred
representative to Pittsburg, Kan., a record year with a total of 57,- said "He didn't hurt me. I didn't]
while Freudenfeldt was pulling
and await instructions on the re 879 cases.
fall. He didn't have to do tins."
logs on a woodlot on the farm of
turn of Bobby.
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Waited Two Days
BERLIN
(51— Angry crowds
Freudenfeldt.
Ledterman said he and another
clashed with Communist police in
business associate, Norbert O'Neil,
a t least two Russian zone d t i e s ^
stayed in Pittsburg two days hut
on the state holiday marking t h e '
lAMESVniE SOBSCRIBERS
finally gave up hope of a contact
fourth anniversary oi the E a s t
neoM Dial 33il by 5:30 p. m. it
and returned to Kansas C5ty.
yeui Gat»tta is not Mivmnd.
[German Republic Wednesday, adPolice recovered $293,992 of the KANSAS CITY (ffl—Within a few vaults, counted and placed in four cording t o t h e West Berlin newih
$600,000 when they arrested Hall minutes after the kidnaping of smciU, canvas bags.
paper Der Tag.
THE WEATHER
in St. Louis. HaU said he thought Bobby Greenlease had been an "We just wanted to have it The paper said tiie,clashes oc
WI8COK81N —MosUy fair looliht aad
he got drunk and lost another suit nounced, $100,000 was packaged instanfly available," Eisenhower curred at Erfurt, Thuringia, and
rritejr. Not M cool extreme Math
case fiUed with mraiey.
and held ready for a ransom de said today. "But, as it turned out, Dresden, Saxony, when People's
••(M. IHrainc colder over rnont of itate
FiMay. Low lonlxht 31-39 norih, 3I.45
Mrs. Heady was picked up in mand.
our estimate of the amount which Police squads were sent out to
WMtk. HUk Fridsy S56e aortk. M
a St. Louis apartment the couple Arthur B. Eisenhower, brother would be needed was far too low." remove anti-Communist slogans oii
MEtk.
was sharing. The arrests came of President Eisenhower and ex The day foUowing tiie kidnaping. government and Commiinist party
Barometric pressure: 6 p.m. 30.04; 6
after a tip from an alert taxicab ecutive vice president of the Com Robert C. Greenlease, the father, buUdings. The slogans demanded
•.m. 30.02; 12 noon 29.98.
driver who told a police lieutenant merce Trust Co. here, said he and Robert Ledterman, friend and the holding of free elections.
Sunriie. 6:02; sunset, S:28
about a man "loaded with m«iey acted on his own initiative to make business associate, went to the
Koon to mldnlilit, Oct. 1
I 1| 2| 3| 4| 51 6| 7| 8| 9|10imi2
and carrying a pistol."
Hour
the money avaUable.
C.1PTURE • JUNKS
bank and told Eisenhower the de
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Hall blamed Marsh, s a y i n g ' h e He is a friend of the Greenlease mand was $600,000.
UNCOVER BODY OF KIDNAPED BOY — While a state trooper, police, and curious townspeo
Temp.
TAIPEH, Formosa (ffi—Seiabome
ple watch, a workman uncovers the body of 6-year-oId Bobby Greenlease from its shalfow grave turned the child over to him and family.
MMnitlit to noon, Oct. 8
Arrangements were made to ob-' Chinese Nationalist guerrillas have
at tiie rear of a house at 1201 Soutii 38tti St., in St. Joseph, Mo. The child's body was encased in a later found the boy dead with a He learned of the kidnaping in tain that huge sum in the p r ( ^ r | captured nine Communist junks in
I 11 2| 3| 41 51 61 7| 81 9|10|U|12
Hour
plastic
covering
m
which
lime
had
been
placed.
The
house
was
the
residence
of
Mrs.
Bonnie
Brown
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pis'tol beside the Ixidy in the. base
Tempr
Heady wlio was arrested in S t Louis along with Cari Austin Hall who were held a s the body's kid ment of Mrs. Heady's St. Joseph] a telei*one caU from his wife and denominations and tiie money was tiie past three years, the official
Temperature a year K G today, higheit
immediately ordered that $100,000 picked up at the bank, late S^rtur- Central News Agency reported tonapers. (AP wirephoto).
'
•«= >~ug'• aiup U 0 M home.
Mi lowtM at.
be withdrawn from the bank day aftemumu
Iday.
23
HaU Wanted Big Money
Without Earning Its Say
Neighbors in Home Town
Shadel Jersey Boy, Age 4,
National Champ Is Drowned
at Delavan
Prods Reds
on Political
Conference
HST in St. Louis
for Night Speech
17. S. 51 WiU
Be 4 Lanes
to Rockiord
Mother Pleaded
With Kidnapers
Seek Extradition
in Bilking Case
Sherlock Holmes
Portrayer Dead
Thought He Had
Killed Dad; Boy
Dies Under Train
Wrong Rat
Polio Incidence
on Wane in U. S.
Red Zone Crowds
Clash With Police
Ransom Fund Ready Few
Minutes Alter Kidnaping
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