Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - December 22, 1924, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin jay at leu A CONSTRUCTIVE E W S P A P E R KM ELEVENTH 3m WISCONSIN RAPIDS WIS MONDAY DECEMBER Today Hear Chart Cruel and Unusual Wise Mr Atia ud the U S A Art bar COMB Doyle chanted from a writ r of detective stories to a more leu accurate messenger between world and the next brings from and information direct from IB the long conversations and Doyle through I lying in a North Re talked said little at WM not his custom on earth AIRPLANE MAIL CLAIMS FIRST VICTIM The substance of the long that as a spirit i to help this world The spiri as some call it ia not the place for helping people down here K you have plans for making useful don't wait until yo ome t ghost did hi irk here and did it well Very like he is back hen at this minute a gh he doesn't recognize himsel itill working A Kansas county judge say ring parents have no right i and sends the five Vicinski children from 4 to 13 years to the county detention home ne father mother and children in vain That interesting decision is based Ion Kansas law that takes children from parents who contribute to their But what about the She probably no er What about children? Does khe judge think county prison be an improvement oh a And what about the Constitution bf the United States It forbids cruel lind unusual punishment Isn't innocent children from their nother cruel unusual Why not ut the father in jail and use his money to keep the mother children COLD WAKES THREE LIVES ON EASTERN COAST NEW ENGLAND SHIPPING AT STANDSTILL FROM EFFECTS OK COLD WINDS FROM THE NORTHWEST BULLETIN By St Johns Nova Scotia Dec Three have resulted from the cold weather which has prevailed here early yesterday when sera were accompanied by a gale of 40 miles an hour At this cily and at Edmonton an extremely low temperature of 35 degrees be- low tero was recorded President Coolidge shows llom the important lem of by to Secretaries Wilbur and Veeks and Army that r jointly buy airplanes instead of aving separate and army departments What is really needed and the probably provide it in iif own way is what the British arranged a separate a fighting air fleet inde of the army aid navy in of the best man available Next to the President the most airplane defense be Department hundreds of expert fliers should be liberal oh for the flying lou who read this would render in writing to your con- and your senators on that When steam cars were new Ind asked railroad transportation of mails the was denounced as ful and premature Old-fashioned thought it much bettei In the and 01 mail Iteam engine was of an This nation ought to put into im service hundreds of machine carriers to all part If the country That's the way to go It isn't necessary that the Inice jiny expenses It loses an im- fraction of the amount we foolishly battleships fliers in ten years send our battleships to the lank pile and save their By Associated Press New York Dec fretting weather which swept into the eastern states on Saturday night on the wings of an icy northwest wind con- to hold sway today All cations wen that it would be of short duration NEW York City fared well in the cold wave but in the New England states and northern New York the coldest weather of the season was recorded Shipping Tied Up Shipping suffered although no were reported The Leviathan arrived in port 24 hours late after battling stiff gales Alone New England coast shipping mostly was at a standstill Provincetown and the tip of Cape one of this worst vapor recorded The only ship reported in distress was the which lost a propeller while bound from Boston to Havana The bast guard Tampa took her in tow or New York Ontario Tug Missing shipping also felt the ects of the cold and wintry wind n Lake Ontario two tugs were in was missing and the other became imprisoned in ice five thick inside ear Oswego Low Record For Month The lowest temperature erer re- corded in Wisconsin Rapids in the month of December in the 15 years that official records have been kept was registered early Sunday ing it is reported by George T on official observer At about 1 a n Sunday morning the mercury in Mr registered 10 degrees below zero it lower than the pre- vious official record of 27 which was recorded on De- cember 15 1919 Sunday night the mercury ped to 15 degrees rero and the cold persisted throughout the day Warmer weather is forecast for night and tomorrow however and it is believed that the extreme cold is passed for a period of several at least A F of L President Three Youths Rob Old Man At Endeavor Chief of Police R S Payne has been notified by the sheriff of county to be on the watch for three young men wearing gray over- coats and in a Ford coupe who last night entered the home of an old man at Endeavor Wis bound and gagged him and rifled the contents of a safe A check hai not been completed and the extent of the loot is mined No trace of youths has been reported as yet PROBE CAUSE OF IK WRECK DEATH TOLL IS 8 Song Latest Poison Booze Victim i Opposition Opens Drive MISS MAY OF ENS POINT LAST VICTIM IDENTIFIED INJURED WILL SURVIVE By Associated Press Chippewa Falls Wis Dec Railroad officials and the district at- office today were ting the plunge of a Soo Line com- bination cafe and observation car into the Chippewa river Saturday resulting in the death of eight sons and injury to seven The coach broke away from train which passed over a William Green secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America was unanimously chosen to succeed Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor N Prosecution Opens Attack on Story Told by McCoy Los Angeles Cal Dec iury which heard Kid McCoy er prize fighter on trial for the ing of Mors the woman died of a suicidal wound despite his efforts to save her day entered the court to hear the arguments attacking the suicide version Completion of the defense's timony Friday led to the prediction that a verdict would be returned be- fore the end of this its third There is a possibility the case may be ready for the jury of nine women and throe men before Wednesday It is that McCoy will Press Paris Dec opposition is not grass grow under its feet Former President Millerand having the opening gun last MADISON STIRRED BY SECRET RAIDS MAYOR ENFORCE MENT OUT OF HANDS OF ON TLE ITALY BOOZE DEALERS week in his campaign against the Herriot government his principal lieutenant former War Minister Maginot yesterday delivered a dia- at Epinal against the left bloc Associated Press Madison Wis Dee civic row that has been smouldering in some time promises to warfare as the re- sult of the sudden creation day night by Mayor I Milo Victims Known Here Two the Soo Line wreck at Chippewa Fulls day in which eight lives were lost were to Wisconsin Rapids people Miss May rissey of Stevens Point who was killed had many friends in this taught at one time in the schools Mrs Lysle M Spencer of Seattle Wash who suffered injuries and whose six months old daughter was was formerly ot Wis and frequently visited friends here and in Port Edwards DEATH IN STORM BULLETIN By Associated Press Now York Dec more deaths in a hospital here today brought the total to of the number of alcoholism fatalities since December 1 New York Dec A Ryan a sons writer is the latest victim of alcoholic poison which has caused 35 deaths in the district this month sons suffering from alcoholism were admitted to Bellevue hospital during the hours ending this morning and six of them weve women Patients in Bellevue hospital suf fering from bad liquor now number 100 of whith 14 are serious cases that may in death or ness Will the approach of the police and prohibition continued their efforts to dis- cover the source of the poisonous concoction Ryan the author of leveral popular songs including one now be- ing sung in a Broadway musical Ho was found in a coma on a sidewalk last night and died soon At i taken to i was 34 years of agel hospital He Stock Boom Brings Wealth to Broken ui Ulc It was the first manifestation by the son of a special law enforcement national league in the province and thirty without the at the same time a reply to Prem ier Herriot's speech three weeks agD The policy of the left bloc leaders is to start a revolution or to ize a was the keynote of the former minister's speech Tho he declared to its revolutionary allies has ed the Ruhr abandoning this im- knowledge of the district attorney's office or the police department The thirty men armed with MIGHT CASE Will 60 TO JURY SOON DECISION IN ILLINOIS DOUBLE CASE BEFORE 1 IS POSSIBLE j PROSECUTION WORRIED By Associated Press Mount Vernon 111 Dec indications that the case of Mrs Elsie and Lawrence M High former preacher who are charged with murder by poison of Wilford and Mrs Anna Might will go to the jury the day before the state ed it was worried admitting it did not like the possible appeal by the defense to the jury to show the Christmas spirit by sending Mrs bridge and was submerged in icy water with its occupants While no official statement was forthcoming today investigators said a switch bolt by the extreme cold had snapped under the weight of the train and permitted trucks of the observation car to leave the tracks Death Toll Is Eight The eight known dead today 1 By Associated Press New York Dec be convicted or acquitted in a I portent pledge for payment by eve verdict attorneys in- that the jury would not be its instructions until after the Christmas recess Mr Kenning in Washington writes tiat President Coolidge relies on co-operation in the Pacific The President he says op- loses building cruisers etc to make lur strength equal to that of Great and nearly double that of Japan because he the President be- that the United States and England Vill never again war each other They will have a cit understanding standing to etc Britain aml the United States ught to maintain peace and prob will But the United States not rely on Britain or any power in Pacific else This nation is able to caru of itself maintain its Continued on Page Two Widow Prepares to Fight Will of Samuel Gompers By Associated Washington Dec trude Gompers widow of Gompers lins retained an attorney to protect her rights in the ment of the estate of Uic late labor leader has not indicated she will contest the will which left her only the minimum allowed by the law to n widow Mr Gompers bequeathed the bulk f his estate the amount of which s not disclosed to his sons and his many without corresponding tage It had insulted those who had fought struggled for a victory j by pardoning the deserters and tra t- reinstating with promotion em- ployes who had the lic and by recognizing tha soviet it has installed bolshevism in France May Stevens Point with days election boom in stock prices which today entered upon its eighth week has billions to the quoted value of securities and has brought fortunes to ners in York itock exchange houses many of which were barely meeting expenses in the summer months Total sales since election day have been approximately 19 wd BODY OF CHARLES GILBERT RELIEF FLYER FOUND ONE- HALF MILE FROM WRECKED PLANK THIS 4 it By Associated Aurora 111 Dec bert relief air mail pilot and of the night flying Mailmen to hit life in the service of the government was killed last night in a plunge to earth it was disclosed today when his body was found near 50 miles wert of Chicago Hi parachute apparently had ed in a leap in the dark and the snow swirled down about him For months the ental air mall had carried its able freight without a dent until Gilbert vanished f rora thf night lighted overland trail Found After 15 Bow Search For IS hours of the air mall had tend about the open country near Kaneville where lights of the plane were last came upon the wrecked plane mile north of with mail plane waa sent chit from Chicago wen after which picked up the mil and started westward bound for Omaha A short time later farmm in- the search found body of Gilbert a part of a torn parachute still attached to Ui belt The body of Gilbert wai found this morning shortly after 10 o'clock half a mila from his wrecked Apparently he jumped from hit plane with his parachute but it torn from Um in the downward nib through the storm It First Fatality Since the establishment of tha transcontinental air mail last July f the cargoes with the Kenneth J Henderson of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Richard Sharp Toronto and John Dunn of New York City Heroic attempts of two youths probably saved several persons from death witnesses said The boys Payton Gonyea and Raymond ters obtained a skiff and took off several survivors from the upturned coach Pierces Thigh has been elevated to the highest level since the peak of post-war boons m 1919 warrants charging liquor i Sweetin home to her children sales swooped down on Madison's Claim Juror Winked Little Italy and arrested fifteen Prosecutors are also somewhat With bail at each seven worried it is said by reports of court room attaches because lave seen one of the smile and wink at Mrs Sweetin several times during the course of the trial An be made to prove that Hight is a moron with the released by late Sunday night and the others are being held in the lice station The creation of the special law enforcement body follows an offer by the Kuklux furnish fifty men to clean up alleged vice in said development of a Boy of 12 or Little Italy The warrant serving i Attorney Layman counsel flan Killed Son Dying Following Crossing Crash By Associated Press Zanesville 0 Dec S Smeak this city was instantly ed and his son Clinton jn 15 lably fatally injured when their auto was demolished by a Baltimore Ohio passenger train at Norwich near here The boy was removed to hospital YOUNGSTER LAND WONDERS WHAT HIDDEN IN THE CLOTH CLOSET THESE party included a number of men j Testimony to this effect will be said to be members of the klan here j presented at the inception of the Milwaukee Accident Victim Will Be Buried at Cadott A number of policemen of the night By Associated Milwaukee Dec body of Fay wa burned to death here Saturday following an explosion in her home when she at- tempted to n firo place gas log will be taken to Cadott Wis her former home for burial today She had intended spending the holidays with her parents in Cadott it be- came known The clothes of were ignited by the fire and she was so badly burned that she died in a pital here a few minutes after she was taken there She was a wright shift took part in the raid without the knowledge of the department Mayor refused to discuss the new turn in Madison events on Sunday to Policemen I am not quite ready to say thing about lie declared Judge Ole Stolen of Dane county Superior issued the rants declared that they were sued to Patrolmen Mason and Gray two of the night officers who took trial today he added Alienist Will Testify Dr C H Anderson superintendent of the state asylum for the insane at Anna III is to testify the i fense announced ami will the rest of the tests he made to determine the mental status Hight The state has alienists who have Hight and is ready to ter with testimony that Hight is sane perfectly able to distinguish bo- tween right and which is observation car driven into her thigh when the coach tumbled into the Chippewa river killing eight sons Saturday Mrs Alma Blixt Fond du Lac will recover cians stated today The stick of wood had a nail in the end of it and this made the injury more serious I than it would have been otherwise Injured Will Survive Belief that the death list in tho crash would increased by the death of any seven victims now in the local hospital was ex- pressed today by attending Resume Investigation of Alleged Aircraft Scandals By Press Washington Dec special aircraft investigation committee of house was railed today after a recess of four days In push further into the inquiry of the activities of the naval air service Rear Admiral Moffatt chief of the bureau of was asked to appear in the morning to give testimony concerning the of his bureau with special reference to the placing of aircraft end consideration given to private inventors not members of the craft manufacturers association Secretary Wilbur's presence requested by the committee this afternoon for questioning about thj general of the bureau and na Rule Crossword Puzzle Contests Break Lottery Law By Associated Press Richmond Va Dec icrs offering for the solution of crossword puzzles printed in their columns violate the federal law re- garding lotteries and should be de- of the privileges of the the department at ington notified Postmaster 7 V Stewart here today The ruling was in the cose of it Richmond paper Roof Fire Is Put Out at Milladore School f out the chimney caused a fire at the dore Graded school building day evening Principal Vernon Kelly was first to discover it and quick work in scaling the belfry stairs with a pail of water put out the con- flagration before much damage was dene Resignation of Atlanta Prison Chaplain Rumored By Associated Press Atlanta Dec that Chaplain Thomas Hayden Catholic priest at the United States penitentiary who has been under in- not who answered the telephone in the office of the warden the longer was living in the in- Chaplain Hayden was reported to bribery against the deposed warden A K Sartain arid L J Fletcher uty warden who resigned several ago The grand jury indicted Sartain and Fletcher on bribery Bodies of seven cf eight dead have Action of been shipped to where burial aj i will be made The body of old Spencer being hold here pending the recovery of her Mr and Mrs L M Spencer of Seattle Wash Those whb were hurt in thn crash ami the injuries By Associated Tress Washington Dec co gross has nude known definitely i attitude on the question of and without dent to air lighted trail and above ranges the day after day in all kinds of er without minute of delay and only minor than rniles by the air mail flyers with no other than trifling mishaps Vanished in Snow Stem Gilbert vanished in a mow between Iowa City last tf lying Throughout from Waterman and McGirr vain missing airman Wagner to where near Gilbert took off field at last utes later of f Both headed for Iowa City Wagner He saw the light of Gilbert's low him Snow falling at the time he said of Gilbert to reach Iowa City by 3 o'clock this ed air mail officials for him Every available motorcar in where Gilbert was lost was employed to traverso possible landing grounds reported that Gilbert was gliding to an emergency field or was on the ground r l i 11 no vll funds to changu the the lights plane I on capital ships the Wash part in the expedition He added that the warrants were based on liquor sales but added that be did not know to whom the liquor had been sold He said the evidence in the cases is be- ing held in his court He added that he did not know who had charge of the warrant serving expedition District Attorney Theodore Lewis declared that he had no part in the arresting procedure The police de- knew nothing of the raid until the special delegation appeared at tho station wih the men placed under arrest Chief of Police Thomas Shaughnessy refused to comment Police Force Split Thc arrests held dual interest for gossip on Sunday expressed delight over the apparent start of a Italy cleanup Most interest was centered in the sUm phase of the Thc police department hiis become divided into two factions since the administration of thc present police commission appointed by the present mayor The commission is openly op- posed to Chief Shaughnessy but lias been prevented from ousting him by the fact that it is necessary to have weighty charges to warrant removal under the police commission law Such charges are missing The Jay force of thc police ment is a unit under the chief's con- trol The night force includes many who are closer to the and the mayor than they are to the chief The night force is to in- he test imposed by Illinois law Youthful Hunter Kills Wolf Wins Bonus Birchwood Wis Dec Colenian 13 who resides on a farm Harry Jones Sioux City la irovcrnment in no vere Mrsi L M Spencer on the subject with Seattle had frosted hands and body Britain bruises Miss Marion asha Wis L M Spencer Seattle two broken rius severe and frosted hands Mrs Alma Blixt Fond du Lac leg cut by penetration of piece of feet of near Madge a few miles west of cut and bruised Vaccination Is Keeping Smallpox Down in State Madison of ing from the car John Louis negro is keeping Wisconsin porter cut about head and bruised Sam Curtis negro porter Is claiming the record of being the youngest Wisconsin lad ever to kill a wolf Besides the of the pelt and the bounty he will be paid a bonus by the state Unless the feared pneumonia sets in all victims with the possible ex- ception of Jones will recover cians stated Jones body is ed from head to foot No At U Says Goodnight Madison Vis Dec ire no evidences of fatty ition of the virile tissues S H Goodnight dean of men at the University of Wisconsin said in commenting on statements ed to him in regard to students at the university altitude of the young men and young women in charge of our campus activities is admirable much than in the days just after the Dean Goodnight said Xo millenium has arrived upon the campus There are many abuses and evils to be fought against ant there be but I see no reason for discouragement with the H cause for real pleasure in it ir his recent address be- fore tho sophomore council Dean Goodnight Widely spread publicity has free from smallpox according to Dr C A Harper state health officer A number of cases have been re- ported from and other cities Dr Harper declared that the fact that are getting ated is keeping the disease in check in the state Four Minneapolis residents who moved into died of smallpox recently Pay Day for Employes of State Early This Month Madison Wis Dec state employes numbering approximately have received their December salaries Solomon Levitan state treasurer announced today ments WES begun December 17 he said in order that all Dies of Injuries Received When Train Cuis Off Legs By Associated Press Superior Wis Dec Pant Sax Minn carpenter on the Great Northern railroad died in a hospital here day as iha result of an accident shortly after midnight in which he had both legs cut above the knees by a switch engine There were no witnesses to thn accident It is believed that Fant had spent the evening in Superior and was retaining to his position at Saunders Wis and that he was trying to crawl under or over the draw bars of a train when tho hap occurred Ho was picked up by members of the train crow aided the report that I dub would have the checks before sin The fact is 1 The state's monthly payroll forth in my talk that people outside in about of Madison arc so characterizing The greatest joy at Christmas time is the giving of ed Mr I know that many us but I went on to say that I did not believe this to be true that I saw no evidences of fatty tion of the virile tissues here lean only express regret for the publicity caused by not ing the whole story and shoulder of our stenographers and clerks would be able to get a little more of that joy if passed out their checks a little earlier and to have been glad to add tils little Wt uf 1 v i
