Brainerd Daily Dispatch, The (Newspaper) - February 22, 1939, Brainerd, Minnesota WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday Rising temperature THE BRAINERD DAILY DISPATCH The Complete Family Newspaper BRAINERD AUTO AND INDUSTRIAL SHOW Feb 23 24 25 In the Heart of the Lake Region Telephone Wo 74 or 75 Press Leased Wire BRAINERD MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22 1939 ITEA Service and Hews Pictures VOL 171 OPPOSE GUAM NAVAL Labor Row Closes Plymouth Plant Objects to Union Lead by Martin Oldest Building is Sought Five Thousand Workers Jobless As Union Heads Battle Over Recognition Which is the oldest building now standing in Crow Wing county in To settle a lengthy controversy over that question and for the of county historical society ords the Dispatch today under- takes to solve that question Mrs Sarah Heald secretary of the historical society has informed the Dispatch that her office re- numerous queries on the neer building in the city and county and that she would like to get the accurate information And while we're at says Mrs Heald why not discover the oldest school building the oldest church in city and And assuredly why not? Letters or personal calls giving information on the oldest tures will be of assistance in curing this data Information can be left either with the Dispatch or at the historical society office in the basement of the court house Washington DETROIT Plymouth division of Chrysler corporation shut down today in what a union official described as a repercussion of the United Automobile Workers factional battle President Leo Lemotte of mouth local 51 of the UAW said the shutdown was in protest against the policy of the management in dealing with a Homer Martin com- pany union while there is a con- tract in effect with the UAW j We demand observation of this he said Lamotte said the stoppage of work was so complete that the management itself blew the whistle halting work The UAW said it affected workers Plymouth officials said the plant closed shortly after noon The men were forced to protest because of the management's com- pany union Lamotte said We have never tolerated a com- pany union side-by-side with the f UAW and we shall not do so now This disruption of operations can be directly charged to Martin s irresponsible attitude toward both the and the management Ransom is Paid Kidnapers VOTES RECIPROCAL ate Finance Committee today re- ported favorably a House viding for reciprocal taxation of state and federal salaries The would cover salaries re- after Dec 31 1938 Sens William H King D Utah Josiah W Bailey D N C and George Radcliffe D Md voted against the measure Sens Pat Harrison D Miss Walter F George D Ga David Walsh F Mass Bennett C Clark D Mo Harry F Byrd D Va Joseph F Guffey D Pa Prentiss M Brown D Mich Clyde L ring D la Edwin C Johnson D Colo Robert M LaFollette Wis Arthur B Capper B Kan Arthur H Vandenburg R Mich James J Davis R Pa and John E Townsend B Del voted for the proposal The provides only for taxation of governmental aries It does not include dent Roosevelt's proposal for re- taxation of income from securities The securities proposal will be treated later after study Senate Majority Leader Alben W Barkley D Ky hoped to obtain end All is Ready to Open 1939 Auto Exhibit Everything was in readiness day for the opening of Brainerd's three-day Auto and Industrial Show which holds the spotlight of tion Thursday Friday and day of this week Held at the armory on 5th and Laurel street the show begins at o'clock tomorrow as the opening session of six periods of activity gets under way Afternoon and evening sessions are planned each of the three days Exhibits of 1939 automobiles and trucks feature the showing of a variety of new spring merchandise in booths arranged on the main floor and basement of the building Business houses of the city have rented space in which to exhibit their new spring stock and show guests will be able to view many of the newest designs in spring merchandise The best program ever arranged for the annual presentations has been lined up by American Legion committees in charge Featuring the entertainment of course is the first indoor circus ever to be given in Brainerd But there's enough other activity to keep a crowd with widely varied tastes pleased during each performance Eleven amateurs whose ances in the Paramount amateur show which drew 175 contestants were rated outstanding will appeal during the three nights with evening finding the No amateur of the territory given cial recognition Circus acts are planned on the afternoons and evenings of each of the three days as are the perform ances of Bruce Patterson the world's most famous banjo player dog acts a pony and monkey act and others To permit people of modes means a chance to attend admis sion prices are but 15 and 10 NEW YORK ing and subsequent release un- larmed of Michael Katz id son of a Brooklyn accountant or ransom was revealed day The boy was held two and a half lours by the kidnapers They nally demanded but agreed o the reduced figure when the ather George Katz pleaded that vas all he could pay The kidnaping was well The kidnapers lured the joy from his home in Sea Gate a private section of Brooklyn on the story that his mother Mrs Bessie Katz wanted him to see a play at public school where she teaches Entrance to the Sea Gate ment can be gained only with the of persons living there A watchman guards the gate at all hours Note Is Given Maid Police of Coney Island said that at a m Monday a phoned the Katz home and told the negro maid Lillian Beckitt that was calling at the request of Mrs Katz and directed her to take the child to public school No 100 where she teaches The maid told the caller she did not know how to get to the school He then directed her to meet him at the Coney Island theater When she arrived with the child two men were there Hello they said but the boy did not recognize them Then they told the maid they would take the child to the school gave her a note demanding the som and instructing Katz how it should be paid hustled Michael into their automobile and drove off The note demanded for the return of the child and directed Katz to have Charles Mitchell a friend act as intermediary It also instructed Katz and Mitchell to go to an address on the lower east side in New York to pay the som and recover the boy Money Is Paid Katz and Mitchell followed di- rections and arrived at the corner RANSOM Continued on page 2 both afternoons and evenings The program has been arranged so that spectators may visit the various booths at intervals between the en- given on the stage Fear It Might Force U.S Into War With Japs Kids Practice for Marble Tourney With the installation of a marble table at the building Brainerd youngsters re- of snow and cold weather today were getting in some good practice licks in preparation for the annual marble tournament sored by the Brainerd Daily Dis- patch The marble table is 30 inches wide and six feet long and serves the purposes of marble shooting un- til the ground is bare The Dispatch tournament open to all marble shooters in the city will be held late this spring BROODER CHICKS ONE CAT 2 CATS ONE DOGS Tribute is Paid to George Washington Mystery Man Controversy Raging Today His identity two days ago apparently solved l ite beliefs that his was not the face on the picture Tom Mclntyre and Brainerd's mous mystery man was still just to many pioneer were split into half a that today dents who dozen camps opposed to the belief that he was Ed as day's Dispatch announced Until further investigation the Dispatch still feels that the picture found in the old court house eral years ago and now hanging in Probate Judge L B Kinder's office is that of Mr who worked in the N P shops here in the late The picture ran in last day's Dispatch and since that time has aroused a furore of comment and controversy as pioneers racked their memories to solve the un- known man's identity Many residents who knew ny well have been found since was disclosed as the probable study for the era and several of them have John Imgrund Sr positively the picture as that of hemy Monday and since that time Willard Badeaux has joined the group holding that belief Dubious are W A M Johnstone Earle W Jenkins and F M berg who knew but think it unlikely that the picture is of him Mr Hagberg and C W lum suggest that it is of a Jerome Keeler who operated the Globe tel here years while also thinks it might be of John Bubar who was manager of the Antlers hotel County officials discount the heard suggestion that it's of Peter Mertz a law enforcement official here before the turn of the tury Carl E Taylor of man who claims a record of having run for more offices and been end for more than any other man in that it may be of Renzi who lived in Brainerd in 1892 and 1893 sor Gerrity who founded the first and only business college in erd is another nominee Mr Johnstone recalls that Miss Marie Canan formerly of Brainerd but of Crosby was employed in McCall's studio at about the time the picture must have been taken and a copy is being sent her for possible identification Another method of checking on whether or not is the man is through old photos of George Forsythe 109 Fourth Avenue Northeast Mr Forsythe's mother was a sister-in-law of Mr and he has old pictures of him in his belongings It was not certain today whether or not they checked with the one in question On and on the arguments rage the suggestions and nominees come in and the Dispatch is convinced that the late brought forth a host of handsome mustached tlemen in the city of Brainerd Child Thief Faces Life Sentence PASADENA send Davis 40 lanky church faced life imprisonment day for the of old Anne Louise Sweitzer and eral morals offenses which police said he admitted committing upon her The child stealing charge which the parents of Anne Louise filed yesterday when she and Davis were brought back from a flight across state would police said be bolstered by at least four other counts They said he had confessed he ravished the child that number of times twice in an auto- mobile court in the desert town of Indio Sunday during their flight Child stealing carries a maximum prison sentence of from 10 to 20 years and conviction on the morals counts would imprison Davis the remainder of life Police him today about other at- tacks on children in the same neighborhood in which the Sweitzer child lives Burning of Cab Said to Be Strike Retaliation MINNEAPOLIS Minn Burning of a Yellow taxi cab early today was held by police to be the second act of retaliation in the cab strike now in progress here Edward the cat driver answered a call and tried to find the party who called in an ment building When he returned the cab's interior was ablaze Police found two milk bottles out- side the cab one smashed but both smelling of gasoline The fluid had apparently been thrown inside th machine and ignited Interior of the cab was ruined and the outside badly damaged A week ago Yellow cab was stolen and an attempt wa made to run it into the river A strong fence held it par way down the bank Congress oday marked the ary of the birth of George by listening again to his inal message to the farewell address The Congressional ceremony was he central feature of exercises in he capital and at Washington's home Mt Vernon and nearby Va where he spent much ime The farewell address was read to he Senate by Sen Robert A Taft rl O Taft was selected by vice John N Garner under an arrangement whereby Democrats and Republicans alternate each year in reading the speech About 30 Senators listened to the address many of them following Taft's words from printed texts on heir desks In the House the speech was road jy Rep Fritz Lanham D Tex Only 48 Republicans 25 crats wore in the chamber when Lanham arose to speak Rep John j Rankin D raised a point f no quorum anda roll call ordered to gather in the absent members At Mt Vernon patriotic groups aid wreathes at the tomb of the irst president Maj Horace B Smith White House aide placed a wreath in the name of President Roosevelt The American Legion held monies at Washington monument md the Daughters of the American Revolution and affiliated tions conducted a program at Con- hall Start Days of Penance Today Forty days of penance during which social activities will be sharply curtailed and church ices featured began today Ash Wednesday the opening of the Lenten season In all Catholic churches this morning ashes wore placed on the foreheads of parishioners to bolize the fact that man's body will become but earth upon his death with only his soul living on Catholic and Protestant churches plan special prayer services during thn 40 days which end with Easter Sunday April 9 At St Francis Catholic church Wednesday Friday and Sunday evening services begin at o'clock throughout Lent Vesper services and special Lenten sermons are scheduled in ant churches Fasting and abstinence tions will be observed hy Catholics who will abstain from eating flesh meats on all Wednesday and days Because of the national day church officials have excused parishioners from the regulations today Special Week rites climax the period of penitence during Lent Says Business Prospects Are 30 Per Cent Better In all their startling theories and searching studies of new things under the scientists have never yet advanced the belief that maternity was contagious but E J Hanson of the Farm Service store is Back of Mr Hanson's store on Front street is the ery where everyone knows sittin hens are robbed of their just duties by brooders which hatch out chicks Several days ago a new arrival in the form of a kitten which com- posed the litter of the ment's cat accompanied a new hatch of chicks into the world Two days ago a homeless hair pup whined his way into the business house of the sympathetic Mr Hanson Fed and warmed she was placed in the hatchery for the night Next you guessed were two pups in- stead of While pondering the births and their significance if any Mr Hanson has another lem on his mind He'd like to find the owner of the dog and return interest Shannon Says Every can Boy Will Hold His Congressman ble for Action WASHINGTON B Shannon Mo a leading cratic opponent of the proposed Guam naval base told the house today the project might lead to war with Japan Shannon noted that Guam fe only a relatively short distance from miles and de- clared the United States not permit Japan to establish an base in such closa proximity to American shores To he said it seems that we are about to do the thing which we would not permit Japan to do Every American boy have a right to hold his congressman re- sponsible for his attitude on this question He will wonder why a time selected when such im- would inevitably be looked upon as an unfriendly act a time when the whole world bles lest war be in the Party lines were broken by the debate on the tion sponsored by Chairman Carl Vinson D Ga of the naval affairs committee for 11 air bases in the Pacific Alaska and continental United States Paper Mill Employe Dies When Heavy Chain Breaks INTERNATIONAL FALLS Minn Majcwski 54 veteran employe of the Minnesota and On- tario paper company died here ly today from injuries suffered at the paper mill Monday Majewski was hit at the base of the spinal column when a chain used in moving heavy cylinders broke Three other employes were in- jured in the accident CULPRIT NOT ACT IS SENTENCE BASIS vidual criminal himself rather than the crime he has committed was advocated today as the basis for sentence by Dr Burtrum C Schicle psychiatrist and assistant sor of medicine at the University of Minnesota He addressed Minnesota parole and probation officers at an tute at the university center for continuation study We should treat the criminal not punish the crime if we are to halt criminal he said Therefore the sentence should fit the individual not the crime The majority of habitual have personality disorders that frequently develop into mental Dr Schiele said in ing out the relation between mental disorder and delinquency He urged the permanent tion of criminals with hopeless or mental disorders re- of the crime they have committed Minn ness prospects for 1939 are 30 per cent better D W Northup dent of the Henry G Thompson Co of New Haven Conn told bers of the Minnesota ware dealers association in con- vention here today He said he based his prediction for increased business on ences with business leaders in 35 states Northup urged members of the hardware group to form a united front against moves to repeal or weaken the fair trade practice Jaws TAP DAING AMERICAN GIRL PLEASES HITLER Munich Shapely Marion Daniels California tap dancer Hew back to the French today after winning the enthusiastic plause of Adolf Hitler at two for which she came here in a special German airplane at the fuehrer's special request Mies Daniels a former Alameda Cal high school student did her specialty dance here two weeks ago in a performance of Lehar's Merry Widow Hitler was present and was charmed by the grace and of the 19 year old Americas girl He applauded her warmly From Munich Miss Daniels to Cannes on the to danca at the Casino There she received a telegram completely from Hitler asking her to come to Munich and dance last night in a special mardi gras performance ol the operetta She accepted and was advised that a special airplane would pick her up at Cannes It was arranged that the plane should leave Cannes yesterday and return Miss Daniels there today in time for her performance at the Casino Hitler was in the audience when action on the before the week the operetta was given last night at the Gaertner theater Miss iels came out to do her specialty during the second act Not only was Hitler himself enthusiastic at her acrobatic tap dancing but she ly stopped the show After the performance the cast of the operetta went to the big night club Again seemed to be becoming a tap dance present and again he led the applause Miss Daniels does not speak man and Hitler does not speak lish so he delivered his warm con- gratulations to her through an in- Washington Couldn't Grin MINNEAPOLIS Minn That stern look on George face in all his portraits was accounted for today He couldn't smile because his false teeth might have popped out said dentists attending the annual convention of the Minnesota State Dental association here Washington wore cumbersome ill-fitting dentures held in place by springs which caused him great Dr George Damon of Minneapolis president of the asso- explained There was always a chance they might pop out That's why he never smiled in a portrait He just could not If he were alive today modern dentistry would supply him with comfortable he'd ably smile for all the camera men
