Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - November 18, 1927, Stevens Point, Wisconsin FULL LEASED SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS THIRTY-SECOND YEAR WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy tonight and Saturday no change in temp TEN PAGES STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 1927 No 273 COUNTY AGENT TWO ONLY ONE DEAD PROPERTY LOSS Path of Destruction Left by Wind Sweeping Over Washington By Press Washington Nov ern ami northeastern Washington Alexandria anil outlying towns k by -a brief tornado out of the today were emerging from their The death list miraculously stood at- only one hundred or more persons most of them in Alexandria Va five miles distant were injured the majority needed only first aic Property damage 01 more was done as the tornado swept up the Potomac through the air station region into homes southeast Washington and thei roared on to damage northeast Washington and Maryland towns Hundreds were made homeless These huddled_last at the homes of friends while police anc volunteers guarded the wreckage Bitter cold following the storm in creased suffering today The Red Cross was offering every assistance Houses that lost roofs or sides uninhabitable because all be- longings in were soaked by a terrific deluge of mm that followed the tornado Colored Woman Killed The only death recorded that of Jane Carter colored was clue to lightning rather than the tornado The woman was crossing a bridge when a bolt struck before the tornado The injured were mainly hurt by flying debris One-man Col- lins was in Providence hospital fractured leg William of Fifth pre- cinct was suffering from broken struck him as he drove a patrol wagon through the Foi the most pait the casualty lists read cuts or bruises or abrasions There were about CO hospital here and In Alexandria and 100 or more emergency treatments in andria alone Strikes Air Station The tornado came about yesterday Like a thou sand sirens shrieking or like f giant bomber firing at the city ac witnesses described it it swept In from the Potomac after hitting Alexandria and damaging 50 to and factories Striking inland here near famous Boiling air field it torr down part of the naval air station damaged nine planes including r huge Ford machine injured 10 navy men and caused sta tion damage estimated at and From the air station the stern swept on toward the southeast section It tore the navy overturned a ton crane Then it whirled nn area between Eighth and southeast unroofing houses knocking In their sides Striking St Catholic colored church it in part of a stone wall Rev Father J W Matthews and others in the were uninjured Driven Out into Rain were driven to the streets and drenched as a cloudburst lowed the tornado The tornado it- self lasted a few minutes one eye witness said it was only seconds and that he had not time enough to get into his cellar After disrupting street car and telephone traffic and spreading age in the southeast area it hurled its way to the damaging schools slightly Early reports which brought out nil ambulances and many fire ines had It that the Henry T Blow school on Bennings northeast hnd been caved in But the school escaped with only minor while a few houses nearby lost their fronts An Unusual Affair From northeast Washington the tornado bore off into George Md doing or more in the towns of Colmar Honor and Lenox Dancy Bond Case Is Turned Over To State Courts Madison Nov eases in which the Federal Life Ii surance company and the Loya American Life association t collect investments in the Dane drainage district to were toda ordered transferred from federal tlK court 01 western Wisconsin t the Marathon county circuit today by Herbert l Harry P Sinclair oil C Hale clerk of the federal court nute today withdrew his motion for of hail Tie had been SINCLAIR'S MAN DAY WITHDRAWS LOW BAH PLEA Finds It Is Interpreted as Intention to Be Washington Day The action was taken by Plande Z Luse following tion by counsel for the intereste parties The complaints were filet indor bond in with a charge of jury conspiracy following the mistrial ir n federal court April 21 1920 bu tlle conspiracy lease were not pressed Yesterday he asked the court to cu Failure of the drainage bond from tion to pay interest upon the invest Justice Daniel attorney The tornado described the States wenther bureau as caused by air ing upward and crashing with cold currents nt 3.000 or 4.000 feet unusual for this time of In Greenvale Mel about 20 es were reported caved in and one boy severely hurt under debris Lake Ship Wrecked Twenty Men Saved Sault Ste Marie Mich Nov Twenty sailors the entire crew of the stenmer Tolly Inez of Montreal were rescued bv fishing launch Rideout went on the on rue insurance on cerns subsequent to December 1917 and to retire the bonds some ot which were due for payment in -1920 provides the basis of tile after tlie press ed the motion for reduction Day according to Wright telephoned hin that New York papers undei During the orig inal motion and ci editing Day witl wanting tlie cut so he might more comforts blv and agreeably flee the insane senseless and in Wright exclaimed Certain of Contempt Almost simultaneously with Day's withdrawal of his motion United States Attorney PeytOn Gordon an his resignation from a special committee of three appointee jy Justice F L Siddons to deter mine whether contempt of court had been committed in tlie espionage upon trial jurors and the alleg ed talkativeness of one juror Edward J Kidwell Gordon said in a letter to Siddons aat he was firmly convinced existed that he could not in sit on the deliberating committee Justice Siddons in Vi regret hut added Your stance to be of use would have o be ungrudgingly and m by His Own Car Parked on Highway Peter Oscar insurance man was bruised when beneath his car and drafted along after it was struck while larked on TJ S highway 10 between Veya and Fremont by the ir by Dr of Oscar was standing in front his car fixing the lights which ad gone out when the doctor's cai mashed into it from behind it ahead 50 feet and rolled it rer into the ditch Oscar crawled ut of the mud und water when Hussell began calling to see if any le was under the car in the ditch McDill Aid and Torun Donate A subscription of was made yesterday by the McDill Ladies Aid to the Eed Cross roil call It was reported by Mrs G B Koch solicitor for that district With amounts previously reported McDill has given a good showing for that small An additional subscription of 58.50 came from Torun where tlie committee consisting of Rev I Grad Arthur and Martin Stan-czyJc the two latter ex-service men is active The total from Torun is now with a prospect of more Michigan's Governor Feared Snowbound Mich Xo word has been received early today Erom Gov Fred AV Green and hunting party believed snowbound at Kennedy near Grand Superior since Sunday There is no wire communication with the camp and tlie only road to it is an lane completely with huge snowdrifts left by the blizzard which swept this section Tuesday The camp is believed to be well stocked with provisions and little is felt for the hunters who passed Grand Marals Sunday enroute to It Indianapolis City Aldermen Indicted Indianapolis 18 The Indianapolis situation quiet since election of Slack us broke loose again today when the grand jury returned indictments charging bribery against four members of tlie city council E Negley president of lie council and mayor pro tern from the time John L Duvall resigned until Slack took office headed the ist With him was named Dr Austin H Todd former member of the majority faction ot the council The other two indicted were Walter R Dorsett and Bojnton 1 Moore who previously had been indicted on Issue Again Is Up at Waupaca The question of again employing a county agent is to come before the county board now In session A referendum in Waupaca county on the county agent issue but which was submitted to only part of the voters at town meetings does not bind the county in any way because its submission was unconstitutional W W Clark assistant county agent leader has advised interested Waupaca parties Mr Clark's advice was based on a ruling from the general The result of the partial referendum was to tlie agent position blinded by Lights He Drives to Death Madison Wis 18 Terome 39 Madison employe in the department of the Wisconsin State was killed ate last night when the sedan ic was driving crashed into a highway fence near Usher was blinded by the headlight glare from an approaching DAMAGED Firemen from and were called to to out n lire in the basement of he Son store The door was damaged and stock damaged Boy of Fourteen Crowned As Next Sultan of Fez Morocco 1 third ion of the dead Sultan was proclaimed sultan at p m today The proclamation read from minarets of mosques after wise men of tiie kingdom had met all day deciding on the successor The announcement caused surprise as it had been thought Idris tlie eldest son would bo proclaimed Tie had been groomed for tlie throne by the French government which exercises a protectorate over Morocco Funeral services for most beloved sultan In modern times were today with impressive ceremony that blended the colors of modern France and the crowds of the across the desert squatted in desolation their hands outspread chins touching the marble floor Thousands of Europeans had come o Fez from other Moroccan towns to watch the ceremony The funeral cortege emerged from the palace A band played the Moroccan anthem Viziers or ministers of state sheiks and judges bowed low and the officers of the stiffly silent troops saluted with swords was among the leaders of the funeral cortege as it proceeded through narrow tortuous streets to the bowed low and muttered prayers but otherwise were Impassive as the procession passed Only a few days ago many of them seen the sultan Storms Prevail Over Wide Area In United Stat Xow great lion of States today suffering from resut n from storms wind electric and snow people killed either in the or in due to storms lu Washington sections of city struggling to reds of a tornado which rip down houses ruined and caused heavy property dami were Injured and one wen was killed which swept capital yesterday was felt in of Maryland and Virginia are adjacent to TT Cold Wave iii Mid-West The mid-west today rip of a cold wave Snow flurrie in Chicago last night ofu today A brisk wind jie in this morning and temperatures dropped Three people were n accidents due to slippery men is One man died from expos are and was not same torn across the One air mail pilot who starto from Chicago to Cleveland last nigh was forced to return Tiie entire middle states area from the Kocky mountains east temperatures were lowering many snow lj Waters Rising Vermont just beginning to le from tlie rums of the which did great ago today again faced danger frta high waters which caused so much damage v the recent flood had risen more than two feet this morning ng hard rams The rains in Vermont ceased night giving rise to hope that tile new flood menace might be abated However officials pointed out that rainfall might seriously inter- ere with rehabilitation work which HIS been on since the food i u village was under water cr were rescued homes as the little stream out of its banks In Kew city where warm weather has existed or tiie past few days temperatures sharply following a night of airi Predictions were for colder veather for the week-end Weather bureau officials attribute many of the storms such as the wind whipped Washington to a clashing of the warm air with seasonable colder ures Storms Cause Deaths Three persons were killed in a motor car accident in Syracuse N i as result of slippery rbads a was killed at Hawthorne J when rain prevented him rom seeing approaching train iii one man was drowned in rn Pennsylvania attempting to ape from the storm Two were killed In Philadelphia Ja In accidents resulting iroin a iud and rain storm FROM LUMBER FIRM L It Anderson -10 ears associated with I he John Veek Lumber company much of his time us sales manager and of ite filling position of secretary ncl treasurer has retired from ive participation in the affairs of lie corporation turning over most f the office work lo Cluis It Jlark the auditor the Week sawmill ceased on- rations a couple of years ago this has been gradually lie wholesale market as its stock or shipment is disposed of but it as a retailer and operates ts own planing mill Mr Anderson began work in the Veek office immediately after his from the University of in the latter SO's and has there ever since Hundred and Three to Join Consistory Milwaukee Wis were conferred upon a f 108 candidates today in a ay Cession of Wisconsin consistory 2nd decree Masons Officers of he newly initiated class dent B Tones vice president John liay secretary treasurer P Mies orator laurice D Bird Marinette and Arthur tasha Enjoin Strikers Even from Song Indiana Pa Nov ing coal miners here were under a court injunction today said by attorneys for the unions to be one of the most severe ever in a labor dispute The covers such u wide field that it even forbids miners and heir from assembling and singing at the Magyar teriau church at It restrains nil picketing and forbids the United Mine ers fro Riving aid to the union men and their families which includes food money and Ing vu tiie sultan rocks of island in palace where the body of the recovered from his long Illness Huron Mist and n heavy wind sultan lay In state at the racetrack but they showed drove the Tolly Inez from its Around the bed on which the body no surprise and contented Wednesday night The be rested three of the sultan's fifteen c-s with muttering Mektoub Home for Old Folks la Called a Nuisance Milwaukee Wis ng that a home for aged persons is a nuisance when located In a district Oscar 0 Labude has filed suit in circuit court here to restrain the Hebrew Institute salvaged brothers arrived from an overnight was erecting an old folks home across the street from his residence Boy Starts Fire Cat Gives Alarm Firemen Callec Richard Oik four-year-old son o Mr and Mrs Oik 115 smith street lighted n match to n full of newspapers In the of their home at o'clock this morning and the re suiting Ablaze caused considerable and of the firemen A large Angora cat sounded the alarm sending a screetch ng wail from a far corner of the to which it had n a vain effort to escape from the i fling smoke Mrs Oik heard the and opened the kitchen door ending to the basement to he ed by u cloud of smoke She lown stairs to see what had lened discovered that part of the was in flames grabbed he cat and then returned upstairs md called the firemen When the little boy was d learned he had found a match or two lighted the of paper Then he after his c e doing some work a few min utes before It required 30 gallons of o put out the rapidly spreading lames and before the job was don firemen had to chop a hole the hardwood floor in the room to get at the fire in he flooring beneath Joists were quite badly scorched n that part of the basement to hicli the flames were confined and ie boards between them were wise blackened and charred as was coal bin The smoke the first floor rooms where ice curtains and other soot covered and soiled The residence Is owned by X S Rice but Is leased by Mr Oik is the circuit court reporter Attend Monthly Conference Tlie Central Wisconsin len's club whose membership of retail dealers In se and several neighboring es iti monthly conference at lotel Whiting on Thursday with nn of about 30 f following U noonday luncheon a eneral discussion of affairs relating the lumber business was held the direction of the club's resident L R Anderson of this ty Anticipating seasonal weather auditions the December meeting 111 be dispensed with and it is that tlie next session may postponed until February ON MEXICAN TRAIN BY REBEL ATTACK El Paso Tex Nov special spatch to El Continental Spanish today said 52 persons ere killed whan a ity train was attacked by s at Palmira yesterday Eight and four babies ere among the victims the atch said The military escort of 32 as wiped out find 38 nd the engineer and fireman were nt the report added The dispatch to El Continental said 18 of the train guards were killed when rebels opened fire six were stabbed to death later and eight who survived the Initial at- Inck were slain while defending the express and mall cars Another dispatch received by El Continental today snld nine soldiers of tlie military escort were killed and 13 passengers and two rail em- ployes Injured when an Interoceanic train was derailed 33 miles from Jalapa state of Cruz LAST DIES Charles only surviving veteran of the Civil war at wn died at the home of bis er August in that village aged 81 years ANKER RETURNS TO THE WHITING ON JANUARY 1 New Manager of der Hotel Angus Native Here Announcement was made to day Unit effective 1 11 M Anker manager of Oneida hote at will return to Ste Point to of the Hotel Whiting Angus Donald a hotel man resort owner and in the Walton league will be come manager of the Oneida At Oneida 20 Months The hotel Is operated U the Kingston Hotel company am Mr Anker was sent to the 20 when Oneida was to the months a ken over for of the Oneida and o the building of a I addition was made to Ills return to Stevens Point Is in line with plans at he time the leased McDonnell Remains W A McDonnell present iger of the Whiting will continue n the service ot the Hotel Company of this city the operating company of the Whiting to to Mr Anker vas manager here two years Native Here Mr McDonald the new manager f the is a native of and is widely known hi ern Wisconsin Is in the slate Inspection service president if the Country at ind 11 n officer of Hie Land Inc lie Is a son of the Tohn Mel n former city marshal Same Management T The Kingston Hotel ot Stevens Point -ire also stockholders of the Club Leader Hired as Aide to Agent The Marathon county board has a resolution approving the Of the boys and iris club loader as assistant to lie agent Both fields of work vlll be In the post the Lub leader been employed only art time and paid In part by funds by The rejected the plea of club employ a county nurse J Clark was reflected county ay commissioner without on The board voted for now removal and for se of equipment in snow removal fork Hop Admits Holding Up Hotel Theodore Shelbrack 20 n former ell hop at the Hotel Wausau at confessed Thursday after iR arrested to tho field up and robbed Ben clerk of hotel of 200 early Thursday morning waived preliminary 011 Thursday afternoon and was ound over to appear In circuit on Saturday In default of boll be Is in jail at he loot was recovered from under basement of the old band hull at Hancock Coloma Highway Ordered East of the Soo The dispatch was received by the from the highway commission Madison Wis Nov To the Journal Stevens Wis granted petition chunking I S Highway to thu Aide of the railroad The being er live must be approved by the county board before the same can effective Board to consider chance today WISCONSIN HIGHWAY COMMISSION A crowd which filled the court the hearing nt tonia Wednesday of the conflicting claims of the villages of and Coloma relative location S Highway 61 when It year south of Two revolvers ound in room EXPLOSION IN STOVE Firemen were called out at K Hancock and 13 F of and John Conant of West field ed Coloma Highway 61 nnw crosses tiie Soo rack from the west to side it northern edge of and was that and the business dis- of the this Ii continues ou fhe side a tulle or more It crosses fo the west side and it runs to the west elf he tracks for some leu after which It again crosses the east and moots the in county on tlie side of the Under the ilans of the commission thorp be no crossings In county The Hancock people now usk that after lie road crosses I ho trades he northern side of I own it remain m the eital side way to the county pavement 1 one crossing uf another v But as fit the west of the track that ho missed The road would within a quarter of a mile of he track on the east side of ma The Hancock petition signed 170 the Coloma petition t change of roulo was signed by 500 there was a statement from 22 of the first paper asking hat their mimes be taken off of avoiding the two by Mr lusher former Senators pointed that the old road the one In mind when the voted bond a year ifjo Hancock representative re- there had been a re- of two miles of road north if after the bond issue had carried for the old road Tlie commission reserved Its de- Should there be a In the location Its ratification by the county board will Remus Jury Filled Two Women Serve United Courtroom Cincinnati Ton men and two women will decide the fate of with he murder of his wife gene The jury nl the trial of the for- mer bootlegger was completed ut m today The I flh accepted after five days of jury selection the or those whose names were drawn In four venires to extinguish a blaze at the Vinfield Mix home started by nn WISCONSIN caused by an Mostly cloudy tonight arid f gas brought on by 11 with probably some snow not much cbnnge in ordf Denies Making Promise To Pay Lincoln Stockholders Detroit Mich orcl denied today Unit father the stockholders of the Lincoln Motor company to them for losses suffered hen be bought the firm in 1022 for making their stock We bought the assets of the old Incoln company from the receiver by the United States Ford's denial issued in con- with the cery suit filed at by M Loland former ident of the Lincoln company land's suit on behalf of the two thousand stockholders and promised verbally to make good the losses of the rict court Xo conditions were at- and that he had gone back ached to the transaction and no Ills promise gallons were Imposed upon us ay either stockholders or creditors of the old he in a formal statement A fair value was paid the re- for the property and In ad- dition we voluntarily paid all the general creditors This additional amount aggregating more than was paid purely out of and without ariy obligation whatsoever to do so In addition to this a gift of In cash waa made to Mr Henry M Leland on his ninth birthday which was the equi- valent to his investment in old SHIPYARD EXPLOSION Baltimore Md Nov man was killed and five are reported to have been Injured today In a explosion that shook the steamship Jacob while 15 men were working on It at field The being junked CARGO OP ARSIS SEIZED Kew Orleans La Nov tom officials seized rounds of rifle ammunition aboard two ers hero today They said they be- It was being sent to In BUT ONE VOTE CAST AGAINST IT IN BOARD Appropriation of Is More Than Last Time 3 The office of county agent tallied for two years and nn of voted annually for the same period by the county loard of supervisors morning A topic which four years ago had the board divided Inlo two camps and resulted in the victory of the forces by a small a warm In less than five minutes time with vote Tlie result to 1 In favor of ami the roll coll taken up this in- stead this as scheduled the board bad leurd an Illuminating report activities cultural Agent H R Noble afternoon committee had wade a recommendation in of retention of the agricultural ent n an appropriation crease last introduced Charles ot recommendation and is contained of the county in today's of the V The Call i call on the agent's c was as in Crowell Smith ca Tetter cn Frost portion owe well Lukasiewicz and presenting e made verbal statement of the Important that curried out past and accompanied his talk with and charts Mr em- thu development in use of soil buildings methods Soils Big Question More than half the farmers in the county he said with whom he come In during the vear lad relating to the the that has been uncle In relation to soil building has een the Important thing lie on were ordered and shipped nto the county 30 carloads of paper 1C coming from ut a cost of 75 cents to i ton This made a total of ons Mr Noble said Farmers gain hauled sludge from t a cost of 00 cents a cubic yard nd In Vi months yards Vere approximately tons Some hauled us far as 16 miles ne farmer in Sharon hauling to lime five acres of land If said Limestone Also Limestone has bwi Used a great leal during the year lie pointed out ind curs of it were ordered the agent's in lon lo 30 cars which were shipped n nt Almond and Bancroft making total of tons of limestone or tons of in all for the Farmers in the eastern section of he county used approximately yards of marl Mr said i is figures show Lime has not been all that the und needed it lias been shown and fertilizers have been used in arge quantities Three carloads of were shipped to Plover for In that territory y one car of that went on marsh arms Mr said and the wo on sand lands One carload was hipped into Almond making four ars In all and putting Portage in the lead over all other in the state in the use of as fertilizer Outstanding Cases During his talk Mr cited pacific instances of success in the of fertilizer but he pointed out hnf these were the in that line Some armers have not had such great he pointed out for various The John Soik farm on TJ S 10 east of Stevens Point vas cited as one example of success n use of lime potash and hato Mr Soik has limed 90 es of land and used fertilizer in Fertilized corn matured 0 days earlier than tlie unfertilized The farm of Supervisor Charles Martin of Almond was referred o as one on which experiments wore conducted showing the value of fertilizer Two strips of lover were planted one and one unfertilized A strip eight y feet in dimensions was cut rom the untreated clover and 15 of green hny resulted A strip of treated clover was ut and 67 pounds of green hny was Continued on 5
