Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - February 20, 1939, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Journal c I T Y EDITION YEAR FULL OF THB ASSOCIATED STEVENS FEBRUARY 20, 1939 10 PAGES SPEED ACTION ON NAVAL AIR BASE Copyright Synd by All prod act ion in full or ID part strictly D. C. The new er Joe as ted an Inside political worker Mr. Roosevelt has had ing Tommy resigned as assistant attorney The official reason was taken from the form list of c us Form No. 2 was Keenan desires to recoup his private On the officials aay righteous new Attorney General Murphy does not want in the judicial branch of hence he has no use for Mr. an's politico-judicial This sounds inspiring and until you turn over to page 5 in your daily paper and find that at the very moment were Mr. velt nominated Senator Barkley's campaign manager to be a tucky circuit Looking elsewhere for more con- vincing reasons why Mr. Keenan bowed himself you will find that he would have made a good Ohio circuit but the job was given two weeks ago to Law Dean Herschel Arend of Ohio Mr. Roosevelt promised mings the appointment for when Cummings If Mr. the man who selects judges for Mr. cannot get a particular one for ha has no way to go but out HUG TO DIFFERENCE ON Wayne Taylor resigns as ant treasury He does not use the form or any ex- but says he would be glad serve he new deal anytime In r other Aa Mr. Taylor's Job was the handling of the tion fund and the he might as well have said outright his resignation was due to a ference on policy with Treasury Secretary Morgenthau on one of two But this obvious deduction Is ob- by word passed around that their difference came over the sale of American planes to a matter entirely out of Taylor's for The Insiders know Mr. Taylor sided with the Eccles federal re- serve crowd in their differences with Morgenthau over banking A long and strong conflict has been going on about sibly the most important policy conflict of the changing new as it involves money and credit two bellows which In- or deflate FDIC AND RFC CARRYING It has been kept exceptionally but the FDIC and RFC have been shooting sharply at each other The Federal Deposit ance corporation is trying to stop the Reconstruction Finance Corp. from forcing the banks to cash their FDIC is supposed to be advising banks not to accede to RFC The whole matter of banking and credit policy is heading up into a Mr. Taylor got out before he was carried or assistant is but no one has been sent to find Commerce workers tell each other their superiors hope he will not fail to go far and remain long. He was a Roper appointee would be expected to but he is also a Jimmy Byrnes man from South and as might well remain on If his nation were not The kins ho use cleaning In while will nevertheless be and half a dozen other changes are certain EGBERT LIKELY TO POST Lawrence tary of the Important Democratic national committee by a more important social leader of the deal from 4 p. m. friend of Presidential Secretary Mr. Robert is arguing a charge In court against a Georgia legislator who said he rolling in wealth His finger in public projects all over the U. S. Washington does not know much about the The court will settle the Democrats here But you will hardly find a one who does not expect the publicity to bring Robert's resignation er from his political position or his business as head of an al and engineering The two do not fit perfectly at a time when billions are being spent by the 113 works administration But possibilities and of a single day fall by far to express the real extent to h the new order Is under There seems to be a ing feeling that after all there la likely to be less than two years of this business and a man murt look after hli own SEEK SOCIAL LEGISLATION AT Statewide Organization To Be Set Against ing of Labor Act Feb. 20 A broad program relating to social problems was adopted here y day by the Wisconsin state ence on social legislation at the closing session of a two-day The delegates decided to set up a permanent legislative office in Representatives of labor social work and co-operative women's clubs and youth organizations at- tended the week-end Outlines Plan The plan for permanent tion outlined by Assemblyman Paul vides for selection of two delegates from each congressional and one delegate from each of the and farm tions of the said a sub-committee of seven would be set up to arrange for naming the congressional dis- while the ious organizations would choose their own The conference went on record against any weakening of the tives of the national labor relations act and labor un- ions of the state declare a holiday on the day when the legislature votes on the peace sponsored by the Wisconsin council of and that the members march to Madison to op- pose It. It approved all legislation ed by the Farmers Education and Co-operative Equity union as against bills sponsored by the cil of and favored a program to promote harmony be- tween farm and labor The conference Urged the legislature to ize a committee of the university college of agriculture and of farm to investigate oly control of farm Opposed Assemblyman Maurice to limit public em- ployment of married Support Supported President Roosevelt's appointment of Thomas R. Amlie to the federal Interstate commerce Opposed any budget cuts for service In Urged the legislature to congress to pass an gency appropriation of to prevent masa on Opposed attempts to foist a sales tax on the people of whether It be disguised as a luxury tax or a tax on gross In- Supported to require the state to increase its share of old age assistance payments from 30 per cent to 40 per so that pensions may be increased without additional cost to Supported bills by Senator ter J. Assemblyman Laurie Carlson and W. Clark to extend the emergency mortgage um legislation to April 1, 1941. DISMISSES CHARGE AGAINST WAINER Feb. Judge Patrick T. Stone today dis- missed an indictment charging Henry M. Wainer of New with evading payment to the government of In income taxes in 1929. The indictment was dismissed on motion of U. S. District Atty. B. J. who said the tax case was the outgrowth of a liquor law lation charge on which Wainer was sentenced to serve six years at Leaven worth in 1935. Italy to Send New Troops to Libya Feb. Italian decision to send more to In north was announced today in the house of commons as the British ment sought approval of costly rearmament R. A. undersecretary foreign said Italy had In- formed Lord British sador to was more troops to Libya x x x to provide lor the of north African Thirty thousand troops had re- mained In Libya after reductions In the force had been effected under the Anglo-Italian accord fied laat WE FORECAST Fair tonight and mocn colder tm extreme slowly rising temperature to Mid towett the but U Unite Borah Returns to His Desk Senator William Borah Back at Ms desk following illness which kept him away two tor William of dean of the upper a lively interest in ROADS ICY AS FREEZE COMES THAW Temperature Goes Up to 39 on Minimum Today Two Above sleet and snow came down over the week-end as the ture fluctuated over a 39-degrec dropping to a minimum of above this morning after ng to 41 Saturday There was one warmer day this January 9, when was 46. Slippery roads and streets ed from the rainfall on Sunday ns the temperature stayed close to the freezing The rain froze aa t fell and an icy conditions were a little im- proved by a rough coating of sleet and Highways are still slippery In many the Portage county department warned Taking advantage of the thaw on the department sent out ts motor graders to clear remaining snow and ice down to the The work wag undone Sunday by the weather and the roads were more hazardous Sunday and today than on as a re- sult of the new formations of ice. In the county the hi Us and intersections have been ed. SPANISH WAR DIES Feb. W. 63, a past commander of J. McGrath United Spanish War died yesterday at the stratton hospital at Wis. Four Killed In Accidents In Wisconsin the Associated Four persons were killed in consin accidents over the one drowning as an automobile broke through river ice. The Louis 50, of La about 60, of Polk Mrs. Marie 68, town of Milwaukee body was recovered day night several hours after the coupe In which he was riding with Robert 23, broke through Ice over the Mississippi near La Kallenbach swam Gibbs was killed at his farm when boxing of a circular with which ho was cutting broke loose and struck Mrs. Nelson was killed Saturday and her husband critically Injured when their automobile skidded off n. highway near La over and rolled into the path of an approaching Mrs. Stuessy was killed by a truck Saturday as she crossed a Milwaukee LAY JUDGE N. Feb. Frank son of Jersey City mayor and state democratic was appointed today by ernor Harry Moore as a lay judge of the court of errors and Nrw Jersey's highest law He succeeded Thomas Glynn who resigned to be- come a common pleas judge of Hudson Blizzard Paralyzes Traffic In Northern Part of State the Associated Northern Wisconsin and the upper Michigan battled today to shake off the effects of a para- one of the severest a which brought traffic to a standstill in some localities and caused numerous The storm began Sunday At streets and ways had drifted shut by Some drifts were 10 feet es and taxi cabs were Two Great Northern excursion Tains from the Twin Cities to Duluth's winter frolic were stalled outside the Superior city A Soo Line senger train from Chicago struck a snowbank near the city and Ashland also experienced zed transportation as a northeast gale whipped snow into high All busses and trains out of the city were held up Sunday Crews the city and and the Northwestern and Soo Line roads were cutting away the drifts Highways were dotted with cars abandoned when drivers found the going too La Park Wausau and Green Bay reported Sleet was reported at Bay late while at nc Bock a freezing rain fell Sunday The ski carnival at Iron was handicapped by a stiff wind which kept all but a few competitors off Pine highest artificial ski hill in the Northern Minnesota suffered equally winds whipped freshly fallen and sealed highways with Two were re- COLD WAVE HEADS EAST tlic Associated A cold wave over the middle west headed eastward today in the wake of snow and abnormally warm The coldest point on the weather map was N. with 30 be- low Temperatures ranged ward from that mark and that eastward and southward across the Forecaster H. A. Downs of cago said sub-zero weather ed In the tern Iowa and down to He predicted weather night In and and said the basking in a February would be jolted rudely tonight and tomorrow by A area which centered over the Rocky mountains Saturday had moved to toe upper St. Lawrence valley It brought tion during the week-end to nearly every of the Northern Minnesota residents dug out of snow drifts for the third time In two weeks and counted at least one Airplane and ferry service wag resumed the Straits of Mackinac after be- ing interrupted by the week-end There wai 49 of snow on the ground Including five Inches of new It 10. below zero at St. Mich. Wisconsin minima ranged from six below at Park to IS above at with zero or below dun SEES WIDER USE OF ANNUAL Andrews Believes Fair Labor Standards Act Will Bring About Action Feb. Hour Administrator Elmer P. An- drews predicted today that use of annual contracts by seasonal industries might result from the fair labor standards act. A guaranteed annual wage con- tract is one under which employes are paid on an annual or semi- annual Under the act such employes cannot be re- quired to work more I nan hours in six months or more than hours in one Andrews based his prediction on a formal memorandum prepared by general counsel for the inter- two sections of the The memorandum was intended to Mag ruder as a to the administrator unless the courts Andrews indicated the guaranteed annual wage basis would become attractive to employers by giving them the right to step up duction in emergencies without ing employes He emphasized that from overtime only to industries whose employes worked under union con- tracts calling for specific wages and working periods over long collective bargaining agreements arrived at between a bona union and the Lie may be worked up to 12 hours a day and 56 hours a week without payment of over- Is apparent from the lative history the the memorandum by re- quiring the employe to be employed in- tended that the employe be anteed either a fixed annual wage or annual was to the attention of congress that an employer for guarantee his employes a week for 52 or a fixed annual wage of less of the number of hours an worked in any particular an employe might wolk 52 in one week and but 16 yet receive for each This plan could not br con- In effect if the employer WHS required pny time and a half for the calf of pay for nil hours in or 4-1 houis in the that the employe worked E2 hours Blood Donor PERUVIAN MINISTER TRYS TO SEIZE GOVERNMENT Feb. 20 Pre- cautionary measures were enforced today folio wing a short-lived at- tempt by Interior Minister General Antonio Rodriguez to seize the the government in the absence of his old President Oscar General Rodriguez was killed by Sergeant who challenged assertions that he was tho chief executive be- cause Benavides sailing for One police two patrolmen and a Japanese trian were reported killed and 36 persons wounded in brief fighting that The attempted coup red about 2 a. m. yesterday when the general seized the tial proclaimed himself head of the government and Issued festos explaining his plana fur reaching measures to replace the guez ordered Captain chief of the machine-gun tered at the to relinquish command to a new Ism to follow the telephoned presidential quarters for locked himself in a tower and trained guns on the palace entrance until soldiers arrived to assume Ic positions about the death at the hands of leader of the first troops to apparently ended the A few aides and re- tired Cirilo Ortega were with a ique considered one of the president's staunchest friends and escorted to Callao Saturday when a party of government officials boarded a val transport for a three-day The president back to ma when advised of the attempted and called a special cabinet Jerry Doran When Jeny 8, of Kansas gave blood for his brother and who showed symptoms oC sleeping he is believed to have set record ns youngest blood donor in U. S. He recently a similar SHAWANO HIGH WINS DEBATING TOURNEY HERE Tied by Rapids In Wins and losses but Ranks Higher on Points High school wan winner of a debating tournament held at Slate Teachers col- lege on and will Compete in finals at in the near futui B ns of the central part of I he against northern nnd southern and Wisconsin each won five and lost one nnd I he victor then wus d on a point had 2.1 points find Rapids debaters 22. Nine In district contents the Shawn and nah look part ns schools In thr Wisconsin mid t the Stevens mid the The coached by Donald Edward Robert Don Walter Roger well Roy The question the United SI ales iin with The were nine members of the college French Halt Negotiations With Franco Feb. with Generalissimo cisco Franco for peace in Spain and for recognition of his nationalist regime have been suspended The conversations struck a snag at the Burgos quarters last night when delegates ruled that only tional surrender of republican Spain or final victory for 1st arms could end the civil The French mission hod been In- to seek a promise of leniency the republican side ns well aa assurance that Spain would be rid of Italian and German as a basis of the recognition of Franco which It hoped would bring Senator Leon French emissary to nationalist de- to go to San today and cross the frontier Into France later to confer with Sir Robert M. British commercial agent in nationalist and ftak fresh instructions Saturday night in Sir Robert saw the alist foreign Count cisco Gomez Burgos and left immediately Tor the French frontier where ho was believed to have made a long report to London by f Berard with nationalist officials In what scented to be a. regular schedule of arranged with his British Thn minister to gone to Barcelona to con- sult Advices Bald there would he no furl lior talks at Burgos before diplomatic sources new he hy both French nnd British men to win gomr concession from Franco which would facilitate optimism still ex- pleased that would nnd Premier cabinet would be to ceed to formal recognition of co. The condition to establishment of diplomatic re- the pledge post-war Spain be lo been by the Boy Bicyclist Hit by Leg Is Broken Stanley 17, son of Mrs. Stanley Walesa Pt entice suffered a broken light which tured holow the when struck by a truck while riding a in block on Clark The lower IH K was riding west on Prominent State street and In dodging being thrown at him by two boys got over on the or WIK 20-- Funeral made for M. 40, Eau Claire attorney in American Legion who died in hospital Saturday tif StolU served us 11 at Giant during the World He later was lOlli District commander of the can Legion and was man of the ment convention at Eau of thn and was struck by a truck owned and driven by Tom 1321) Main cording to the police department's 18 of the The driver reported he unable lo avoid the He wafl a Claire county In he DELAY EXECUTION TO PERMIT APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT Feb. 20 Franklin Pierce hia head m for the electric today was the republican fw was granted a stay of execution un attorney losing in the eral Rose of Admits Marriage of Four Months Failed W Thrice wed Doria singer and for- mer movie admitted today her marriage less than four months ago to Albert D. wealthy advertising and nnd would be In a Nevada divorce court The statuesque 41-yar-oId blonde disclosed the marital break In n brief typewritten statement taken to newspaper officer by an em- ploye of national ing 58, was reported id he at the Mayo clinic in Minn. Iron Mountain Ski Meet Again Delayed Iron strong winds which made ski jumping dangerous forced a second postponement today of the club tournament cating the now Pinc Mountain Tho meet now is scheduled 2 p. m. About 35 of an original field of 59, They would remain for tomorrow's HI permit an appeal to the United States supreme court of his conviction in the death of year-old who WM kidnaped and killed last McCall lo have died at the state prison farm here L. F. Chapman of the said ordered ment under authority given by the denth warrant lo hold executions any day of the week set by the He said he acted after a telephone conversation with nor Fred P. The stay obtained after tives bade tearful goodbyes day to the youth who confessed the Cash child at May 26 and collecting ransom after his victim wax C. of McCall's said he would go to ington Immediately to present the case to the United States supreme Prison officials carried out plans to execute Paul Fried Bunge of Tampa at 10 a. m. Bunge was con- for the murder of his and two The governor yesterday stayed the death of Clyde of sonville for 30 days because ea had not been finally settled a- tho convicted two alleged was convicted the instigator of a holdup HOUSE DEVOTES TWO DAYS FOR CONSIDERATION F Senator Nye Seeks Curb on Foreign Sales of Airplanes Feb. 30 The naval air base sped forward in congress idence of a determination to bolster national Speaker Bank he ad nnd sentative Rayburn of the house majority announced the house would devote tomorrow and Wednesday to consideration of the They acted after the rules committee voted to aak the house to start voting after six hours of general de- Hits Plane Senator North proposed meanwhile to write Into law army and navy lations against the release of tary aircraft to foreign ments Nye Introduced In the senate a hilt designed to safeguard for the ed States any airplane or airplane appliance built under government contract according to government specifications or with the did of government funds or Chairman of the naval and Representative ranking minority said they would grant for arguments of op- of the Item for de- a seaplane harbor at Presidential hints of threatening abroad acted as a damper on congressional over American foreign but there was no doubt the Guam project would be told the rules committee the Guam Item was the only con- suction of the 11-air bait Evon he con- entering which might load to actual fortification of the wouldn't bo bore advocating de- velopment of he r It would Involve us In the The Japanese press has looked with disfavor on any proposal to strengthen this outpost of tho United States and critics in this country have declared it would be provocative to do Report Duo Thursday Majority Lender a conference report on the first ciency hill would come up nnd would begin Friday on tlie Three tor Andrews and Representatives Peterson and testified be- fore the house ways and means In of the send old pension Pensions hawed on the Townsend they would provide for old open new jobs for younger and help prevent venile crime by Keeping children in National defense was still the big lopic in although de- bate not us as it had Administration senators found support from some Republican members In the contention that ther dispute at this time should be avoided If Senator declaring his party viewpoint was secondary to his said a committee inquiry had con- him that the encouragement of French warplane purchases was not un- Austin said he believed the trans- center of the foreign policy to promote our to produce airplanes needed under the armaments Backs Senator concurred In his asserting that President Roosevelt did right in helping the French buy Douglas bombers ed for American army competition but not yet tested by the Senator everyone knew what the ate committee there would not be a person in the who would criticize the A proposal that the government construct a aircraft plant in or near go was made by Chairman of the house rules He contended that existing private are quate to meet foreign and domestic O SPORTSCASt on Inwk Walton slides In 4 to W p. m. 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