Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - July 8, 1939, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Phone 2000 latin Journal City Edition FORTY-FOURTH YEAR FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE Or ASSOCIATED PRESS STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN SATURDAY JULY 8 1939 10 PAGES WPA STRIKE MOVES MAY BRING ARRESTS Propose Change in State's Direct Primary System World by Syndicate IBC All ia U part prohibited Washington D is one for the peace booklets The United States treasury is con- tributing money to finance the anese war in China A photograph of an old age check drawn by the treasurer of the United States in favor of a Jap living in Honolulu appeared re- cently in a Tokyo newspaper among listed contributions to the ese war chest It was surrounded by printed Japanese hieroglyphics announcing that farm benefit checks soil conservation payments as well as social security gratuities from the U S government were be- ing forwarded to the war fund by loyal Japanese A campaign is be- ing conducted by the Japs to get all these checks they can The paper says Thank you so much GOING THROUGH HAWAII Most of these contributions are going through Hawaii 60 per cent of the population there being anese Neither the social security nor the farm law limits payments to American citizens Social ty has distributed about to 280 beneficiaries in Hawaii and if the Japs got their 60 per cent they got around from this source Over was distributed in Hawaii in farm benefits last year but mostly to 48 large sugar com- panies Agricultural authorities here figure more than could possibly have gone to the anese tenant farming class The amount of Secretary contributions to the Jap cause are therefore not dous the check exhibited by the Tokyo newspaper called for but Mr Morgenthau will no doubt be amazed to learn he has been contributing even a pittance to aggression FURNISHING GAS FOR JAP BOMBERS The U S is also beating its breast for having stopped airplane shipments to Japan but it has been sending large quantities of gasoline to fly the Japanese bombers over Chinese ies Commerce department figures here show tremendous increases In shipments of petroleum raw and refined since the Japs started their 1937 push in China Exports for 1936 were barrels the lowing year they jumped to 000 and then last year up again to For the first quarter this year they ran off to com- pared with last year No one here contends that makes good sense Officials just ask what they can do about it The Brit- ish who are now trying to save not only their dinner jackets but their trousers from the Japs at Tientsin have been doing the same thing So have their friends the Dutch An airplane they say is an instrument of war but the gas fly it is not Furthermore airplane manufacturers not to sell to the Japs they have as much business as they can handle but west coast oil firms did not they are not getting any subsidy orders from Washington AMERICAN ENGINEERS FACTORIES Just to make the present policy seem completely topsy-turvy there is a fairly well authenticated re- port that American engineers have been employed by the Japs to build aircraft factories near yo since plane shipments were ped The munitions control board here seemed to deny It but all Chairman Joseph Green actually has said is that the board could find no evidence Aviation circles think the reports are true and in Tokyo they are accepted as fact Commerce figures disclose we have been shipping increased tities of machine tools to the Japs to build something First four months figures indicate machine tool shipments to Japan will run this year compared with only before the latest war started PERMITS CONFERENCES TO PICK NOMINEES Measure Comes Up for Committee ing on Tuesday Madison Wis July direct primary system first set up in 1903 would be revised to provide for a series of political party es to nominate slates of candidates for all offices under a uled for hearing Tuesday before the senate judiciary committee A form of indirect primary en- tailing establishment of different committees for state county con- gressional senatorial assembly city ward village and town units would be created by the measure sponsored by the tee OUTRIGHT BOYCOTT MEAN WAR This government pretended not to see the war in China so it would not be required to invoke t the arms embargo provisions of the neutrality act and thus hurt China It would make no difference on machine tools oil and aviation en- if the embargo were because these are not listed as implements of war One thin that would make a ference would be an embargo on with Japan boycott If -t Increase Party Responsibility Its intent as expressed by a pre- amble is to give effect to the right of electors having similar political beliefs to create and tain political parties increase ty responsibility and promote ty discipline as a means of ing a representative government re- sponsible to the will of the ple This would be carried out by the party conferences to name nominees and placing hurdles in the path of independents ing to buck the organization and by closing September primaries to registered electors who signified their affiliations the preceding April A skeleton outline of procedure On the first Tuesday of April 1940 and biennially thereafter an election would be held in every precinct of the state to select committeeman and a delegate for each political as any organization of voters the names of whose candidates were on the ballot at the last previous ber election Call County Conference On the third Wednesday of May 1940 and biennially thereafter a county conference of these gates of each party would be neid to elect representatives to the state conference Subsequent to this state rally but before July 15 a meeting would have to be called to ate candidates for county officers to be filled that November During the second week of June 1910 and biennially thereafter the state conference would be con- vened to choose candidates for stare offices and for the office States senator The party platform would be drawn up and adopted at this time During or after the state sions delegates from each con- gressional district would meet to designate candidates for the house of representatives Senate and sembly conferences would be re- quired between the state parley acd July 15 to pick their respective standard bearers While selection by any of these conferences automatically would place a candidate's name on the official September primary ballot provided he filed his it would not preclude anyone from filing regular nomination papers to qualify for the race Independents File Independents would have to lile not later than the third Tuesday of August preceding the primary providing circulation of papers for signature was not begun before July 15 Moreover within five days after the deadline they would have to comply with the following re- File a sworn affidavit setting forth that during the preceding two years they adhered to and ported the principles of the party seek to represent and that were not candidates for office on any other party ticket at the last preceding general tion In lieu of such an affidavit they would have to procure a cate from the state central com- of the party in question committee approval of their candidacies and authorizing their listing on the ballot The would alter the present system under which voters of one may go into the primary of another party and influence the choice of candidates As the law now stands a voter may choose any party ballot he pleases when he enters the ary polling booth but the proposed law would require that he declare his party affiliation in the April election for precinct committeeman ana this would be binding on him in September Check Discrepancies in Torso Slaying Confession at Cleveland there is anyone within officialdom who wants that he has not made himself known It would mean war just as a de- of war and no one con- siders this thinkable Legislation would be required to try it and there is not the slightest chance that it will be seriously considered So the slightly ridiculous current policy like to continue Arrest Due to Wrong Hunch of Detective o Year Ago Cleveland July Dolezal a torso murder suspect was in custody today because a hunch was wrong More than a year ago Lawrence Pat Lyons had an idea he could solve the mystery of the 12 less dead Lyons for many years a private investigator That all the murders were com- mitted in the same place by the same man or group of men That a place where 12 persons could be killed without discovery and the bodies hidden for days must be a peculiar place Hunted Place That the building must be proof must be must have storage facilities probably So he spent several months ining every building in the socalled torso belt Meanwhile he had in- Sheriff Martin L nell and was made a special deputy But he found nothing We knew he had to change our Lyons recalled so we de- to begin with what was known We looked for friends of Mrs Florence Polillo No 3 victim and Edward W Andrassy No Then Lyons made an important discovery He found a group ing in number from five to 20 met in one another's rooms to drink cheap liquor whenever one of them had 35 or 40 cents He made friends with members of this group learned Mrs Polillo and Mrs Rose Wallace No 8 Urn were close friends He foun Andrassy had frequented the dis- of ten Lyons by this time aided by two others from the sheriff's office re- checked the district A proprietor told them of a man named Frank who ed knives and had threatened friends with them They found Frank's old room learned this was Frank Dolezal They inspected the premises and found cracks in the bathroom floor and baseboard filled with a clotted substance Scrapings were examined by Lyons brother a chemist and reported to be human blood The investigators ultimately found Dolezal in a house around the corner They trailed him for weeks Lyons learned Dolezal was a friend of Mrs Polillo One mant reported seeing Mrs Polillo with Dolezal the night authorities believe she was killed Orders Arrest On this report Sheriff O'Donnell ordered arrest Knives were found in his loom the knives he was reported to like so much Blood was encrusted on the handle of one Lyons said Dolezal killed Mrs illo and I believe Lyons said If Dolezal is the torso murderer and if his apartment is the place at which most of the murders were committed the joke is on me His place would be the last I'd pick at which many murders could be com- mitted without bringing the police on the run ENGLAND STAGES AIR RAID TEST Square Mile Area to Take Port in Maneuver By the Associated Press Populous southern England but a few minutes from the continent by air interrupted normal end routine for a great air raid precaution test tonight calling for a six-hour black-out over a mile area In addition the vital London region was prepared for a ate test of precautionary measures planned to protect the vast dock region and 40 miles of the Thames river valley from enemy bombing planes In Washintgon a capital miles away but important to Eu- ropean statesmen counting re- sources for a next war two cratic senators Gillette of Iowa and George of Georgia appeared to hold the fate of the efforts to clear the way for repeal of the arms embargo vision of the neutrality act These two men hold key votes in a senate foreign relations com- set for Tuesday to pass on a motion to strike out the modified embargo which the house incorporated recently in legislation to change the indicated how he Suspect Denies Part in Death of 1 1 Other Victims Cleveland July 8 Sheriff Martin L O'Donnell renewed his questioning of a brawny bricklayer today as he sought to clear up ARMS EMBARGO REPEAL UP TO TWO SENATORS Gillette and George May Decide Fate of Legislation By JACK BELL Washington July fate of the administration's efforts in the man's story of be- to clear the wy for of the JUDGE MAKES OWN TEST OF CONTENTS OF BOTTLE IN COURT Milwaukee July 8 Con- fronted with a question as to the content of a bottle offered in evidence Judge F J Jennings made his own test in district court yesterday and concluded it was whisky Pouring a few drops from the bottle in the hollow of a bailiff's gavel block Judge Jennings plied a match The liquid burned with a blue flame The judge then sniffed the bottle If I am any judge this is he declared and fined the defendant for possessing un- stamped liquor RETIRED RAIL MAN DEES Tomahawk Wjs July Burt N Boorman 70 a retired railroad man and pioneer resident of Tomahawk died here today For 53 years he was employed on the Valley division of the waukee road Funeral services will be held Monday with burial at Toman whether Mr Roosevelt wins or loses on neutrality in the senate The Taps will go on serenely cashing Mr Morgenthau's checks using American engineers to build war to be flown with American and British gas and the Un- ted States government will ue to maintain high position of nothing to hurt China intended to vote The newspaper ABC in Warsaw reported that Danzig authorities were building coast fortifications for the free city Official Polish circles listed a four-point er of the basic elements in the Polish attitude toward Danzig which Nazis want to rejoin to the reich An Associated Press dent at the scene of fighting be- tween and forces on the border between and Outer Mongolia reported the of extension of the con- southeastward A Japanese officer said Soviet ments were in Outer Mongolia and that the Japanese had ments nearby In Madrid the last man to head republican Spain Socialist sor Julian Besteiro went on trial before a military tribunal ed with aiding rebellion Sees Dead lock On Neutrality In Congress Washington July 8 UP A deadlock between the house and senate on neutrality legislation was predicted today by Bolles Republican consin Charging that a secret ment of President Roosevelt with Great Britain and France was broken when the house passed its embargo amendment Bollea issued a statement forecasting that both house and senate would re- main firm While the question of ment U uppermost in the minds of all house and senate he said it becomes more and more apparent the White house is cracking down in both ches This is especially visible in the heading and cutting to pieces the body of Mrs Florence Polillo one of 12 victims in Cleveland's bizzare torso slaying that have baffled authorities four years O'Donnell said Frank Dolezal 52 the suspect had signed a sion to the Polillo slaying Discrepancies There are some discrepancies be- tween what Dolezal says he did and what are the known facts in the Polillo O'Donnell said We want to get a confession that will hold up in court before we place any charges against him However I have no doubt he Is the O'Donnell said Dolezal admitted the body of Mrs Polillo the No 3 torso victim and tossing the head lower legs and left arm Into Lake Erie in January 1936 The sheriff Indicated he would make nq definite attempt to link the suspect to the 11 other torso Ings until he had cleared up the Polillo case Convinced of Guilt He said I really think he's in on some of the other torso murders We think he is involved in at least two Rose Wallace 40 a negro and Edward JB He knew them matter of Gradually neutrality it becomes legislation clear that the federal government through Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull has committed itself to a coalition with England France and of course their ally Russia Passage of the embargo by a majority of 41 in the house was a terrific blow to the president and the war party With this embargo the secret agreement with Great Britain and France can not be carried out I am of the opinion had the bouse refused to pass this em- bargo we should have had a ment by the president that we were in close alliance with Great Britain and France and u I stand on the floor of the house an invitation to war He expressed confidence the senate would not agree with the house on the embargo proposal and that the house would not re- cede There are enough Democrats on the majority side who will agree with the Bolles asserted He contended the embargo vote was the mott disturbing act to the administration this session and said it threw the whole ery of foreign policy into of Meanwhile Coroner Samuel It Gerber planned to recheck all data in his files concerning the tion of the bodies presence of knife marks on joints and other laboratory information Our records show some slight differences in the manner in which Mrs body was ed and the manner In which the others Dr said but I still feel that the murderer of Mrs Polillo is responsible for all the crimes To Be Questioned Further Dolezal will be questioned further about his story of the disposal of parts of Mrs body Donnell declared He said some parts of the body Dolezal said were thrown In the lake were in reality found on a rubbish heap The ther bureau said the lake was frozen over at the point where the prisoner said he disposed of the head quoted Dolezal as ing he killed Mrs Polillo after a fight over money He gave this version of the man's She picked up a butcher knife and swung at me I took the knife away I punched her with my fist nff and then I arms embargo provision of the act appeared today to rest largely in the hands of two crats who often have opposed new deal legislation Senators of Iowa and George of Georgia Polls of the senate foreign tions committee Indicated some senators on both sides of the con- said that the tion could safely count on only Jl of 23 committee Votes for a tion to strike out the modified arms embargo which the in- recently in legislation to change the neutrality act Need Committee Approval Without committee approval these senators said there was little chance of the senate ing the house stand inasmuch as foes of the administration's al to repeal the arms embargo of the present neutrality law said yesterday 34 senators had sub- scribed to a statement opposing any change in the statute at this time Neither Gillette nor who are commitee members would eay bow he intended to vote when the issue was before the com- at a meeting scheduled next Tuesday Gillette disclosed however he had conf erred day with three cabinet Officers Secretary of State Hull He de to Identify the other two Gillette said the cabinet bers had been asked by Roosevelt to urge him to support the administration in the neutrality controversy Senator Clark Death Toll From Heat Reaches 43 By the Associated Press A heat wave in which a large part of the nation's population suffered continued today with a death toll of at least 43 Forecasters of the Chicago ther bureau said relief in the form of showers or cooling winds was moving into some middle west ureas but tomorrow was they added warmer the prospect for Democrat Then T nut cut her body Into pieces I put pieces of her body in a basket It took me three or four trips to dispose of the body x x x I went down to the lakefront about four times to make sure the head was not washed ashore Walter Fletcher of Buena Vista is Dead Walter Fletcher 17 son of Mr and Mrs Clair Fletcher of the town of Buena Vista died at 5.45 o'clock this morning at St Michael's pital He became suddenly ill day morning with lobar pneumonia and was removed immediately to the hospital The young man was born on De- cember 14 1021 in Buena Vista Since completing his education at the Pleasant Valley school in na Vista he had been employed on his father's farm Walter was an exceptionally active member of the souri one of the opposition said he bad observed signs that administration pressure was being brought to bear on some of the senators Another who asked his be published said he had definite knowledge an administration proposal for a com- promise had been rejected Expect Long Debate Although opposition forces de- nied they had any intention to pre- vent senate action by de- bate in event the administration succeeded in getting the legislation out of committee most senators agreed the resulting debate would extend for weeks A the same time house bers appeared divided on the tion of whether the house would reverse its previous stand even if the senate voted to permit sale of arms to warring nations Administration leaders have ar- gued for of the embargo on the grounds that knowledge land and France could obtain arms here would act as a restraining in- fluence on aggressor nations FIND IN LAKE AT HANCOCK Hancock Wis July 8 body of Mrs Lee Page 66 who disappeared from her here at 9 p m Friday was found at 7 o'clock this morning by searchers in shallow water at the west end of Hancock lake in the village five blocks from home Coroner George who was colled pronounced the death a cide It was reported that Mrs Page hnd threatened to end her life The body was found by Mrs Maude Runnels a niece of Mrs Page and Stilwell in from 12 to 18 inches of water It IB believed that Mrs Page waded out into the lake There were bruises on her face even those localities They foresaw no immediate general relief Midnight temperatures ed how oppressive was the heat It was 93 at Phoenix Ariz son reported 88 St Louis Mo 87 Kansas City Mo 86 Dallas Tex 84 Chicago 81 The weather bureau expected some relief today in Iowa sin lower Michigan Missouri and southern and extreme eastern Kansas La Crosse and Madison Wis and Minneapolis Minn en- joyed a cooling wind last night but the humidity remained high at Milwaukee Temperatures in the were common yesterday and the cury to 100 or higher at many points Two humans and score of mules died in Arkansas The Florida west coast had its consecutive day of rain and dren swam in the street of St Petersburg Ambitious Climbers 4-H club in Buena Vista since he was 11 years j The body was removed lo the old He won an award from the Hamilton funeral home Funeral cal club last year for beng its best member He was a junior club er Surviving are his parents nnd two brothers and two sisters They are Elwin of Waterloo Zella who is employed in Stevens Point ard of Milwaukee and Hazel who is attending school at Wausau Funeral services will be held day afternoon at 1 30 o'clock at the Fletcher home and at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church at Buena ta The body is at the Crosby al home and will be taken Sunday morning to the family home DIVORCES DECREASE Milwaukee July Figures released today by Fred J Jaeger clerk of circuit court disclosed that fewer Milwaukeeans are seeking divorces this year Di- vorce annulment and separate maintenance suits filed in the first six months of 1939 totalled 948 a decrease of 144 from the number filed in the corresponding period will be held Monday at the Hancock Federated church The time of the services had not been learned up to noon Mrs Page is survived by her band and a daughter Mrs Joseph of Wisconsin Rapids She and her husband who is partially formerly lived of cock OFFICER RELEASED Shanghai Tuly of the British steamer Changsha re- from Hankow day that the Changsha's first er Clifford Winterbottom had I after having been held ty Japanese since Thursday for in- behavior BURNS TO DEATH Sault Ste Marie Mich July Thebeault 86 a ple burned to death last night when a smudge fire kindled to keep mosquitoes away set fire to his tar paper home on Sugar New England sweltered the southwest sizzled and the south had heat An unofficial high of 109 was recorded at Altus Okla It was 101 at Kokomo Ind hottest since August 1937 Kansas City ed 106 It WM 101 at Kan and Springfield HI Heat fatalities by Iowa and Ohio 0 each Michigan and Illinois 4 each Wisconsin 3 Minnesota Indiana Arkansas New York and Missouri 2 each Kansas Oklahoma and Massachusetts 1 each and three other prostration deaths and four in New England Driver Unhurt As Truck Tips On Route 51 Ray J Nygard 309 Plover street driver of a large ily loaded with a mixed cargo caped injury early today when the conveyance ran off Highway 51 at the Brady brothers farm in Buena Vista ami struck the Brady house after turning over on its side John Langbauer who with Traffic Officer Lawrence Beier made an investigation of the accident said Nygard was driving north In the truck owned by the Moland trucking company and fell asleep at the wheel The truck ran off the right shoulder and struck a ditch on the south side of a way which the highway from tho oast throwing thr truck ward All six sets of wheels of the left the ground for a distance of at least 12 feet the of- reported The top part of the cab of the tractor hit a large box elder tree it and causing the truck to turn over on its left side It slid along the ground ripping up a large trench and struck a porch on the south side of the house A tion of the porch was demolished and the truck came to a stop with its front end against the side of thr window the officers reported The driver clambered out jured The truck was damaged but not badly Traffic Officer Beier remained at the scene of the dent to direct traffic while the truck was being unloaded and removed 104 Letters Seems Improbable If you enjoy try to pronounce the following word which it is said any in the King's can pronounce out mand It contains letters and the title of the chairman of the Finance Committee for Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Bagpipe Makers Union of Copenhagen It may be so we do not know But we do know that vacancies are ing rapidly A typical Daily Journal Summer Cottage al NICELY FURNISHED COTTAGE Lake Emily Good location Rent reasonable Inquire phone or OFFICIAL SAYS CHARGES MIGHT BE USED Talk Develops in Con- gress on Revision of New Relief Act By the Associated Press Spreading strikes and protest walkouts by skilled craftsmen on the WPA against wages and today drew an of- threat that all persons who interfered with WPA projects would be prosecuted on ges Simultaneously under strong pressure from A F of L leaders supported by rival tains in a United labor front a movement developed among some members of congress to revise the new relief act and restore ing union wage standards Workers of L officials estimated 000 WPA workers over the nation had been made idle by the mass protests against the action of con- gress In setting their at 130 hours Heretofore under the prevailing system some earned their monthly wage in as few as 90 hours although ers were required to work longer depending on the scali for their type of work WPA officials differed with un- ion leaders on the extent of the strike but in Washington Col F C Harrington work projects the work stoppage growing but not very rapidly The threat of federal prosecution was voiced in New York city by Local Administrator Col Brehon Somervell who said he had asked U 8 Attorney John T Cahill for an interpretation of section 28 of the federal relief act That make it deprive relief workers of their by fraud force threat in- or boycott The mum penalty is a fine two years in prison or both Col Somervell refusing to re- cognize the work stoppage as a strike described the situation as in- comprehensible You can't strike against he said It's fantastic Col Harrington who told of L leaders yesterday he thought it extremely doubtful the relief act could be interpreted to allow of prevailing union wage scales warned striking WPA em- ployes that absence from the job for five consecutive daya would bring dismissal Fears Precedent As the of L sent out a call to its leaders to assemble in ington July 12 for a strategy con- ference George Meany president of the New York State of Labor of L declared ly wages of skilled craftsmen on WPA projects be slashed without setting a precedent for vate employment A statement issued by the called upon congress to restore the former wage and hour provisions and termed the walkouts evidence or just resentment against the vation and WPA passed by U S Senator James E Murray Democrat Montana said in ington he would offer an ment to the relief act restoring the prevailing pay rate and preventing any reduction in monthly security wages CANDIDATE IN SEVENTH WARD Frank G Lasecke today ed his candidacy for re-election as a of the board of tion from the Seventh ward at the annual election Monday night Ha has served three terms of two years each THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sunday somewhat cooler In extreme east and extreme south tonight warmer in ex- treme east and extreme south and cooler in northwest tion Sunday afternoon Highest and lowest tures the last 24 nix 106 Seattle and stone 48 Weather outlook for the iod July 10 to Great Lakes pi and lower Missouri Generally fair moderate ature first of week warmer followed by shower period mid- dle generally fair and cooler toward close Northern and great Fair cooler In Math tion first of week la middle preceded by warmer 10 north portion generally fair to ward close cooler In north tion f
