Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - November 15, 1927, Stevens Point, Wisconsin FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS mnt THIRTY-SECOND YEAR WEATHER FORECAST Snow and colder tonight snow colder windy TEN PAGES STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15 1927 No 270 PROGRESSIVES REPUDIATE ZIMMERMAN FOURTH TIME AS CHAIRMAN 0 A Crowell Named Vice- Director of Board Both Unanimous For the fourth consecutive year M T member of tlie board of supervisors from the Fifth ward Stevens Point was elected chairman of the Portage county hoard at the opening of the full session at the court house this morning His election was unanimous There were no other nominations for the office O A Crowell of Almond village who has been vice-chairman each of the years Mr Mersch has presided as chairman was also unanimously reelected No other nominations were made j Dineen Succeeds Brady Charles Dineen town clerk of Vista and a leading figure in Tista government years has been chosen to take the place in the county board made vacant by the death of Charles Sr for twenty years the chairman The county board was notified of Mr election to fill the un- expired term of Mr Brady as I Hundreds Come for Booster Day Events Donahue Starts It with 25 Bucks First good-sized local sub- scription to the Red Cross an- roll call was reported to j Mrs II J Bidwell general chairman today by Mrs Frank J Blood chairman of the First precinct of the Third j ward John M Donahue 1022 Normal gave a check to Mrs Ben W Moran soliciting on his street J man in a communication from L E Wentworth Buena Tista Mr Dineen was elected to his office by the town clerk and Lewis Precourt and R C Bennett side supervisors Mersch Makes Speech I appreciate the honor you have bestowed said Mr Mersch following his election and I will do the best I can in the office I am sorry that two of the best bers the board ever had are not with us today Carl Betker of Alban and Charles Brady of Buena Vista I am sorry to report also that our clerk is at the hospital and it will be get along without her but If we work together and do the best we can I guess we can get along On motion of Supervisor V P of the Third ward Stevens the old rules of procedure governing meetings of the board were adopted for the present session He also asked that the rules be printed on the reverse side of the cards the various committee assignments adopted This suggestion was Ira Danks representing the Home and Aid Society of Wisconsin made a brief talk ing the work this society does an- in Wisconsin It has been tlie custom of the board in past years to make an appropriation to this organization Supervisor Frost of wood asked Mr Danks if the county paid the society for any aid it gave to the children Mr Danks replied that no charge was made to the county and Portage county never was charged any fee by the society for any work it had done in this county During past year Mr Danks said the society took one and had two aid cases To Attend Program County Agent II R spoke briefly to the supervisors inviting them to attend the Farmers Booster day program today At ment time the board accepted hir Citizens Back Up Seifert May Oust Board Cudahy AVis Nov ment of Supt Edward C Seifert day is demanded of the school board which dismissed him by a citizens mass meeting seeking to end the strike of high school pupils Approximately 300 of tiie 430 dents walked out Thursday after the board had dismissed Seifert for in- subordination Dorothy Miller strike leader told last night's assemblage that the strikers would stay out un- til Seifert was restored to The citizens meeting adopted a resolution requesting the board to reinstate the superintendent and ask the pupils to return to classes while a citizens committee ed to settle the differences between the board and Seifert Another resolution demanding tlie resignation of tlie board was ed also It will not be presented unless the first one is ignored An- other meeting is scheduled for night invitation postponing Its usual afternoon program to Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock in order that tlie supervisors might attend this afternoon Peter of Alban was ed to membership on the county committee taking the place left vacant by Charles Brady Mr the death ni nominated by Supervisor who suggested that lie be piven Mr Brady's In order that thr northern part of the county be rep resented Heretofore only the south evn and central sections had In this committee Mr pointed out Brady On suggestion of Supervisor K II Rossier of town the hoard stood In silence for a moment in memory of Mr Brady Following action in recognition Brady's long membership of in Mr the board a committee consisting of Mr Crowell Mr Rossier and Bnker of Sharon was appointed to draw up a resolution of condolence Prohibition an Issue of Colorado Ballots United Denver Colo Nov tion was the chief issue as voters wont to tho polls here today in n special congressional election to fiT the vacancy created by the death of William S Harrison White former justice of the stato supreme court tin hnu ly supported modification of the Volstead act State Senator Francis J Republican opposes any change in the Volstead act GAS TAX RECEIPTS MILLION AND HALF ABOVE THOSE Madison Wis Nov of what the gasoline tax means to the revenues of the state may be gleaned from the October Financial report just issued by State Treasurer Sol tan There has been a steady increase month by month this year which to make tlie total receipts or 3027 fully a million and a half dollars greater than the gas revenue During the oline tax amounted to to statement This growing increase is shown in the for the four months this year which are in the October re- port of the treasurer The figures are as 3920 1927 June tax fuly tax Aug tax Sept tax Labor Planning Ways to Aid the Strikers By Pittsburgh Pa Nov lation for a program of action by a sub-committee was the chief ness of the American Federation of Labor called to aid the striking coal miners of western vania Personal inspection of some of mining villages which have in the grip of the strike since April t was another plan John L Lewis international pros ident of the Mine Workers America declared that the demand for cheaper coal was one reason why coal companies like fhe Pittsburgh Coal company tried to force down the price of labor Former Governor Gifford Pi made a plea for impartial ad- ministration of justice in industrial William Green president of life federation referred to the tion granted against the Mine Workers by Federal Judge t Schoonmaker in the suit of Plttsburgh Terminal Coal tion That injunction is sweeping broad and comprehensive Green Labor must find a legal way out for we will never submit ly to government by i Shoots Man in a Raid Leaves CLUB MEMBERS GIVEN AWARDS Spirited Program Carried Out at Parish House for Boys Girls Hundreds of Portage county boy and girls and their parents anr other residents of the county pait Stevens Point a visit today to the second annual farmers day program Rainy weather ap had no effect upon the at tendance and the Parish house was crowded for the morning program 4-H achievement pins were pre- sented just before noon to 110 boys and girls members of 4-H clubs in the county who completed their 1927 work successfully A number of in- dividual awards also were made Honor Mr and Mrs Orrin Clendenning leaders of the Meelian 4-H club were given u rocker for their did leadership and 100 per cent ord Mr led a group of 11 boys in potato club work ami Mrs led a group of 10 girls Both groups were present this morning and were called upor to arise during the presentation ceremonies by AV McNeel state club leader Gift for Mrs Weise Mrs George Weise was presented a sewing cabinet foi meritorious leadership of a club which took first place in booth exhibit at the Stevens Point fair Earlier in the morning Mrs Weise had been called upon to tell the value of club work as seen by a mother and she value of useful work and cooperation The final individual award a trip to the national club congress in cago wenc to Ruth of the town of Dewey who completed her program of club work without a leader She was called upon and told of her activities State Champ Parades Miss Olive Van Vuren champion m tlie state 4-H style show ed on the stage in a dress she had made and later in a party gown in a style show demonstration ing to show tlie girls what can be accomplished in their field of club work at comparatively small cost She is from Shawano county and has done club leadership work there and in Outagamie county The morning program opened with the singing of 4-H club led by Mr McNeel Girls from the Double Ten club of Amherst then entertained with a song A model club meeting was conducted by Meehan club whose members wore the model green uniforms Miss Bannach Speaks The morning meeting furnished new evidence of what tlie people of Portage county think of education said Miss Marion Bannach county superintendent in a talk in which she pointed to the large attendance She then spoke of Hie of community club work and mothers club work and predicted that this year more Iban 300 boys and girls will be graduated from the county's eighth grades She referred to tlie fact that or 30 per cent of last year's graduates were continuing their education and urged that this percentage be raised Miss nach briefly explained the new law in its relation to ral schools in her closing remarks Boys of the Rosholt Booster club dressed in overalls sang the ing Song and lon was called upon to toll why er boys and girls should become club members She said that the taken up are useful that is voluntary that cooperation is ob- lained and that social activities keep up the 4-H club yells were led by ton Hotvedt Rosholt who proved himself to lie a peppy and capable cheer leader The club entertained by singing the 4-H ry Song Urges High Ideals Tn the main address of the ing Mr McNeel tlie stale flub er said that the I fast in youth must be challenged and that club work is closely linked to tlie three mental things in society the school aken to the morgue six were re- ported to be in a huge tank of it the scene of the explosion am arly today rescuers said they ound 20 more bodies in 10 feet of vater in basement beneath the plant of the Pittsburgh Hay Pot company Debris of twisted steel beams ant imbers hindered the recovery o ho bodies Seventeen bodies morgue been identified The list of missing mounted ranged in estimate from ten o forty An accurate check of the Injured was impossible Hundreds who re- minor injuries were given at hospitals and d Others received first aid from private doctors and at first aid stands Six hospitals reported 102 still in wards and more than 00 treated the home and the church He urged that the boys and girls of teen age lie kept in touch with high ideals said that the presidents of the Ul future would not be found among f Press Wis Nov William Petroff during a raid John Beyer a police operative left the wounded man It- ing in a pool of blood while he corted John Kay a employe to the South Beloit police station After Beyer reached the with Ray Chief Moody rushed the scene of the shooting and troff was taken to a hospital His the boys in the city pool rooms day County Record Mr McNeel declared that only 102 out of every eighth grade on school and he praised Portage county for ing a record much better than the country's average Only 23 of the to thousand go college he stated The problem today said the High Balloon Record Given to Dead Man Washington thorne Gray set a new world's altitude record on the recent balloon flight that cost him his life the National Aeronautic association an- today The Belleville 111..-balloonist who was found dead in his deflated loon wear Sparta Tenn had gone un 42.470 feet before he accidently cut the oxygen tube keeping him alive The previous record feet was set by Suring and Berson Germans June SO 1901 DEAD NUMBER 50 IN PITTSBURGH PA 600 ARE HURT By ROSS DOWNING Press SHUT Correspondent Pittsburgh Pa Nov relief army struggled lay with tlie task of rescue am in the demoralized manufacturing district From reports of squads lave penetrated the ruin caused he explosion of two large storage anks of the Equitable Gas com pany it was believed the death lisi night reach Twenty-four bodies have been loin Him Sometime There's No Hurry By United Press New York Nov 15 Ruth Ulder American girl aviator to Cew York today to say good bye to er husband Lyle Wornack ill sail for Panama on tho liner Cristobal this afternoon Miss Elder said she planned to oin her husband some time bus bad ot decided when NELSONVILLE GETS BEQUEST Will of the late Ole Roc of ille was proved and admitted to robate at a heaving before Judge F in the probate branch f county court at the court house u's morning A L Roe of Sea lavia the petitioner was confirmed s executor under bond of The estate of the late Mr Roe as valued in the petition for ng at not more than in property and with real estate aving an annual income of not lore than The will bequeaths to the Lutheran congregation Hat tie Roe of Staples Minn Is ft Rena Hogan of Sioux alls S D a sister is given nd the balance is divided Into four arts with shares going Anna Barry Wadena Minn ena Hogan Sioux Falls and Ruth a neice of Clarissa Minn nd the remaining quarter to share and share alike Snow Storm Hits North Wisconsin In Soo Although this section was visl by a heavy downpour of rain al last night continuing most of weather conditions here were mik compared wilh western and north ern Wisconsin At Mellon the thermometer regist ered 20 degrees above awro eary this morning and snow storn prevailed The district along the Soo west from Ladysmith covered with from six io eight inches of snow during the night and the Hakes were still coming fast during the forenoon hours Blizzard Around Ashland Ashland Wls Nov midwinter ferocity a blinding zard has-been blowing over ern Wisconsin for the past 24 hours blocking all traffic delaying trains and laying a blanket of snow waist high A heavy northeast wind is ing off Lake Superior today piling enormous drifts of snow in many sections School officials in Ashland have declared a holiday for students ty plows attempting to open roads gave up when the snow drifted back as fast as it was cleared The blizzard was reported to have extended over most of the northern Michigan peninsula Hunters whc were in the north for the opening ol deer season found it impossible to get through to-day Reports from Superior said that all was tied up and were running behind schedule and boats in Superior harbor were ing difficulty in reaching All of the available snow plows put in use in tlie region V but little headway being made according to reports and tlie city was rapidly becoming snowbound The temperature dropped to 16 and 20 degrees in most places the blizzard swept over the land Tin snow had stopped falling in mosl sections late today but a high wine was piling up huge drifts SENT UP FOR LIFE STAYS WHERE HE IS BRUTAL CRIME STIRS PORTAGE FURY Not a Trace of Slayer Who Killed Girl Within Sound of Her Friends By United Portage Wis Nov was started early today for tlie gun with which Helen Lang 15 was villed near her home here Sunday light Scores of citizens united with officials in an effort to ind some definite clue to the crime Post mortem examination d that she had been the victim of vicious assault Several suspects been but nothing has been revealed o connect any of them with the Sheriff J D Niemann and Chief Police Tliomas P Curry have abandoned the thought that the girl's assailant was a hobo or other although the crime was near a camping place occupied by such men Finding of a man's handkerchief by acid and of traces of oil in the clothing convinced minorities that the man they seek s a machine worker Fatal Shot Heard Helen was shot at about United Press Baton Rouge La an estimated 12 years to live Payton negro leper today be- gan serving a ten-year sentence for milling Lloyd Richardson fellow In- mate at the federal leprosarium at Darville La Payton's trial which opened In court here yesterday was the first murder trial of u eper ever held in continental ed States Spectators crowded udge Louis H Burns court despite he fatal malady afflicting the de- endant A plea of guilty second degree was accepted by Judge Jurns who gave Payton the sentence He will be held in solitary confinement at the mong Emma a arid Alfred and Richard Roe Nephews 11 of Jackson Minn Iks and rivet attention on the people to see that they get roper information on making the a better place in which to live Larsen Presents Pins The president of the lent pins was made by Leo Larsen resident of the Portage County ankers association who spoke of the friendly cooperation the banks and the rs Dinner was served at the Parish ouse during the noon hour d by an afternoon program at the theatre featuring the of Hiram on a charge of the soil County Agent II R Noble who to bring about an sponsored the booster day presided Mistaken for Deer Hunter Shot Dead By United Ishpeming Mich Nov body of B J Howard 42 of Port Huron Mich was found between the Big and Little rivers He was killed by a soft nose bullet flred from a high ered rifle Sunday afternoon or evening by an unknown hunter Howard had come to the upper insula to enjoy two weeks deer hunting with his two sons Stricken with a heart attack a Mr Hancock of Stanton Mich died near his camp on a hunting trip about two miles from Autrain Durant May Merge Seven Car New York Nov of automobile companies under tlie guidance of William C Durant president of Motors and of the present General ors corporations was rumored in Wall street today According to the rumors the combination will result in a organization of tho Moon Motor Chandler Motor Gardner Motor Tordon Motor and Star Motor companies condition is considered critical ment between the older and younger at this meeting GIRL OPERATED Florence Schmidt daughter of Alderman Jesse C Schmidt of the Sixth ward tion for appendicitis at St hospital this She is a High school student Refuses to Arrest for Turkey Raffle Oshkosh Wis Nov of District Attorney Frank Keefe to prosecute a county farmer for f Ing a poultry raffle today has resulted in the dropping of tlie charges preferred by the consin Retail Market Dealers association pointed out that churches ami lodges have con- ducted similar raffles without molestation Drag Devils Lake To Find the Bodies Or Discover a Hoax By United Wis Nov Devil's lake for the bodies of Otis F Fry and Helena Miller reported missing Milwaukeeans whose ly owned automobile was found deserted on the bank of the lake ast Tuesday was being delayed oday by Chief of Police Otto r pending word from Milwaukee verifying the disappearance of tlie couple Fry is rumored to ho sought in connection with a shortage detected by a Milwaukee concern v u 19 remarked shortly be- Sunday afternoon The time was lore given by three men who heard the shot and by lune Helen's who had left her five utes before the tragedy occurred One man Grossman who ives near the scene and near tlie lome of Helen's parents car and drove up side road whore Helen was killed but no traces of anyone The suld they thought tlie sound only he backfire of a car or a tire lowing out She was killed by from t shotgun fired from ai of approximately 30 Vads from the shell were discovered the road 30 feet from tho girl's body and were identified asi rom a gun The spread if the shot and the lack of powder indicated the distance It is believed that the girl did instantly from the effects of the hot Blood spots and the waddings vere found beside the road about 30 eet from the spot at which the ned suicide hut Milwaukee police had neither report today Devil's lake some parts of which are considered deep to drag thoroughly Is comparatively low at the point near which tho car was found and It 1s generally ex- a search of that Section may disclose the bodies of Credence wus also given the theory couple may have sought to establish suicide as an tion of their disappearance to end further search following the alleged GAL IS A DARLING AND LINDY A RUTH ELDER THINKS Washington Nov convention next Portage Milwaukee also were ed for this post this state's allotted number Their names will appear next April as the accepted candidates a of Conservation gate candidates Keep Up Third Party Senator LaFollette urged sin's Progressive forces to maintain cause as a national political Movement For the past 20 years Wisconsin ins been rep resented at every Re- national convention by a fighting Progressive said in each successive the platform presented the Wisconsin delegation has been re- eel ed often with hisses and nit the specific propositions in those platforms have been by the people threshed out n congress and finally enacted into aw Of tho 40 or more vc planks advanced by Wisconsin's progressive Ives 32 have been written upon the books This is a record of achievement f which every Progressive in onsin and In the nation is proud t is a part of our history It lol be gainsaid With the record lack of us we go forward sure of ur ground and confident of our Have Balance of Power Progressives hold the balance of lower In the senate in the coming ess I on and will exercise that power or the advancement of Progressive said f Blaine Valsh and others and the defeat of enroot Butler Wadsworth and marked a great advance in he Progressive movement he d out The Teapot Dome and Elk Hills 11 scandals are a consistent 3r In the history of declared Monopolization f electric power he pictured as a challenging the Progressive and offering the for service to the people in thorn from encroachment f power interests any attempt to outline definite platform upon which to vage the fight for election of delegates next April d the foreign policy of the United toward Nicaragua Mexico nd China as one of the vital issues mentioned by him were 1 of relief to agriculture uro of huge sums to secure seats in lie senate and public ownership nd operation of water power in this defeated in the 1027 ure Bob Ignores Beer Issue Senator LaFollette maintained his wn position as a dry in contrast to senator John J Elaine's outstanding vet attitude by failing to mention lie subject In bis exhortation of the Progressives Oov Fred R Zimmerman who rode into office as a LaFollette was soundly denounced by the speaker whose name is a part of that party nn of Liberal the nations together more a ans called by the committee of Y bwn two tho fliers were disbanding the re- l ff trill TV OI Ot t 1 le committee except some who stayed for a U tax National Aeronautic association luncheon 1 w Li ICl 111 ody was iound and at which the Washington turned to more obviously occurred pursuits today after a fights Until Death in the presence of tho a book Helen was known greatest fliers o be carrying was found some 20 There were certain high eet from a direct line between the PS that remained from the visit wo points believe that she here of 35 oceanic aviators ought her assailant until she be- ing Charles Lindbergh and Ruth ame exhausted or died Although Elder er face was badly scratched it Those sentences included ot show signs of blows rather Well ave the appearance of having here suppose we go ragged over tlie rough earth Parts With Friend when the White tho fliers gathered at w house for yesterday's Here is the story of lie affair as lunch And Miss Elder's reply as early as it can be reconstructed took the president's Information from I'or- That's good I'm hungry myse'f ge Helen Leng accompanied by her Hither Mrs Harry Leng on ay afternoon went through the Also to was tho of the king find of be air Lindbergh Yun very girl mid Miss You inspired the flight unn street viaduct which connects le district where the tiie main portion of the city to But the event that probably led tc R W Moran home close friends t the resident n f the Leng family and Lindbergh n peach While there Helen and June look place last night at the nn decided to attend a matinee and where In the presence of eft the house That was the last me Helen's mother saw her alive O Lindbergh highest officialdom Mr The two girls attended tho Coolidge presented the er and later wont to tho Moran Geographic society's ome Then Helen persuaded June nl to the young colonel who made walk to the south end of the flight across the net where they parted June up the street and Helen The president speaking almost through the viaduct paternally 1 the stairs waving to June and opened up such aviation activity tiling good night This was tlie he hesitated to predict the air ist glimpse June had of her strides that Irl pal Five minutes later the next year Lindbergh did this not tot was heard Conservative G O P but by his lecture tour and character which stood the his SENATOR BOB LEADS ATTACK ON GOVERNOR La Follette Blaine Gale Kronshage for Delegates at Large By SMITH Press Milwaukee Wis Nov attack on the administration if Oov Fred R Zimmerman who was repudiated as a Insistence that all is larmony within despite rumors to the con- rary and endorsement of to the Republican National convention marked a state ence of Progressive forces here lay Senators Robert M LaFollette Tr and John J Blaine were tlie principal the former citing he shortcomings of- the present administration from a standpoint and the er emphasising that all are in Senators La and Blaine vere Indorsed as candidates for to the Republican summer fest of hero worshiping Meeting on Dec 15 Mr said brief thanks in- Milwaukee Wis Nov ates at large from the conservative radio of the state to the national convention will bf In the near we will lie Ing over practically every corner boson in Milwaukee December of tht will Attending Eastern Conference M II Montross local lie Wisconsin Valley Electric any is spending this week at Pa going east in company vith Grant Ford of Wausau the chief engineer to attend conference of officials of the Interests which recently purchased the local utility MILWAUKEE PLANT DAMAGED Milwaukee WK Nov age of was done one man wni Injured and two families driven from their homes In a fire at the plant of the Schroeder Lumber here to take ation out of politics As governor he has ducked tiie tax Issue and WISCONSIN FORECAST Snow and colder tonight has proved a backslider In the cause of said La Follette Wisconsin has seldom if ever witnessed a more complete betrayal of a campaign promise than Gov Zimmerman's action In the matter of conservation The last session of the legislature enacted a law ing a new conservation commission with broad powers amply supplied day cloudy with snow flurries and with money The commissioners colder in east portion shifting gale Continued on page 3
