Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - May 15, 1928, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin A. P. LEASED WIRE paper is served by leased wire with the news report of the Associated Tribune v E' N E w s p R 12 PAGES TODAY The net paid circulation of The Tribune is Fifteenth 4552. Wisconsin May 15, 1928. Today Straw Hat The Band Vegetables and Listen to Lili Arthur Today men buy new straw Write this on your Ten million men in America think more earnestly about this spring's straw hat than they will about next fall's presidential Price Three Cents SIGNS FLOOD CONTROL Stevens Point Is Victim of Blaze It looks like a wagon for Secretary William M. chairman of the republican national and setts will vote for Mr. Mellon's strong indorsement of Secretary Hoover convinces nine republicans out of ten that the thing is There seems io be nothing ieft of the plan beat except the possibility that President Coolidge can be induced to change his Those who know the even a do not expect it. William owner of many says he is not trying to ALL-NIGHT FIRE BURNS A MILLION FEET OF LUMBER FIREMEN CONCENTRATE FORTS ON BUILDINGS AD- JOINING VETTER TURING SCENE OF FLAMES Goes Far to Wed Stevens May all-night fire broke out in the storage shed of the Vetter Manufacturing company de- more than a million feet of make America vegetarian by surfaced and matched ing to sell Wise causing a loss that may reach tarian nations DIP tarian nations aie usually slave Three hundred million ladies and gentlemen in India eat no meat be- cause their religion it. They drink no end to end and nothing could be done to save the A handful of Englishmen Protect Nearby Property sands of miles ay eat plenty of The Clt fire fi hti department drink plenty of But concentrated its efforts on siring n Ta Absence of f only British in wind succeeded in kee the fire A few minutes after the fire was discovered shortly after 10 o'clock last the flames were sweeping the huge a block from It took the earth millions of years to produce fertile assisted by The cow needs two 01 three to produce a beefsteak from Man in half an hour manufactures brains from the Time is meat is Lili beautiful com- ing from France bound for wood men are They want to to to act They do not interest me. I like men with The worst of that is the truth in it. The lady do not marry until I am an old She might make a film about Abraham's The lady have many princes and dukes in love with off a pile of feet of lumber which was stacked outdoors side the burning Mellon's Example Helps Small Fry to The Beverly May Did you read Mellon says is the best and has the most qualifications for the job of being But he did not want the Pennsylvania delegation instructed for He wants to go to Kansas City and wait for the best In other words he will take an inferior man if the inducements are You can't blame men like Jim Watson for wanting to have their state delegation to trade when one of our biggest men like Mellon wants to do the same thing and the poor fellow voting in the primary it and really thinks he has to do with the Carol Loses Your glands your Prof. Berman oC Columbia university can prove it. Your four small as a grain of mean more than all your A future revised version may will praise the for I am fearfully and wonderfully with my endocrines discharging mones into the blood and my parathyroids regulating the electrical condition of the lime salts of the And that is no pseudo scientific When thyroid is lacking idiocy is Glands account for genius or lack of for crime and moral The thyroid is responsible for crimes of Ninety per cent of delinquent girls have enlarged thyroid It is all frightfully Consolidated Buys Freighter for Paper A bulk the Francis L. has by the Consolidated Water Power Paper company for the transportation of newsprint paper from the Port Arthur mills to Chicago and De- and is now in the Manitowoc ship yards undergoing It will be ready for ice in about a The purchased from the Becker Steamship company of is 380 feet 50 feet wide and 28 feet deep and has a capacity of It is of steel and carries a of 21 An additional deck is now being installed and other im- including the tion of special paper handling will be This is the first boat of its kind to be put into use by the dated and will provide ex- transportation facilities be- tween the mills and the Thelma Clumeck met Bert W. attorney in San and they decided to wed. Miss Clumeck wanted to visit her parents in Re- turning from after a 000-mile she had to go a few discovered she thousand miles farther to married since the British quota was filled and her en- try was A marriage in ada was so Miss Clumeck can return to the United States as the wife of an American Seek Missing Jewelry Worth FLIERS ON PARADE AT HOME BREMEN CREW FOLLOWS PATH OF AMERICAN ACE'S TRI- RETURN FROM PUBLIC RECEPTION New May 13 Stolen and missing jewelry valued at 000 was sought Police of Nassau county were at- tempting to track clown the thief or thieves who stole in gem from the Oyster Bay home of Si St. May ing over the same route as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his tri- return from his European the Biemen fliers paraded over Lindell boulevard and downtown streets today and re- the plaudits of Lindbergh's horn JURY TO PROBE CHICAGO GRIME SPECIAL SESSION TO BE ED JUNE 4 MAY GO AS FAR BACK AS 1926 ING TERRORISM AND FRAUD May Chicago crime at last is to go under the scalpel of a special grand Chief Justice Brothers of the criminal court decided yesterday to refer the whole series of political intimidations and kidnapings to a jury to be called together June 4. Oscar attorney general of will be the probably with the sistance of two representatives of the Chicago bar which has been active in demanding a ough May Go Back to 1926 The grand jury will be ed to go back as far as the 1926 elections in its inquiry into of terrorism and It will be asked to look into all the circum- stances surrounding the bombing of Senator and Judge son's as well as the slaying of Esposito each of whom wa a candidate for ward committeeman on the Deneen ticket at the Apri Prince Carol of Rumania will play no more tennis on British for the British Home Office has de- manded that he leave the country Carol is shown here on the courts of the estate of M. Rumanian Minister Great to 2 AGED SISTERS DEATH MUTILATED BODIES OF ROAD BOOSTERS MEET THURSDAY ON IMPROVEMENT G 0 VE R N 0 R ZIM M E R M A N AMONG OVER 200 ING HERE UNDER AUSPICES OF LUCKY 13 A comprehensive program for improvement of highways in Wisconsin in order to attract the tourist trade will be adopted at a meeting of more than 200 good road boosters from all parts of the state to be held here Thursday evening under the auspices of the Lucky 13 an tion for the promotion of the state highway bearing that Officials to Attend State officials and men widely known for their efforts in lishing Wisconsin as nation's will be and many of them will appear on the Notables who have ready promised to Governor Fred R. R. C. chairman of the state highway L. B. director of Walter commissioner of A. E. secretary of the consin Good Roads of the Milwaukee nal expert on highway tions and The which will be held either at the Hotel Witter or the Battery E is open to the and L. P. president of the Lucky 13 has issued a general invitation to the people of Wisconsin Rapids and surrounding territory to The Blushed On top of this endocrine Dr. Blum of Beilin moderately addicted to alcohol are most likely to have male while the offspring of a temperate male parent are Experiments on animals prove German scientists accept it. Ashley resident director o the Cunnard while police o New York were searching for th taxicab in which Mrs. Alfred 13 Chapin of lef an overnight bag containing 000 in Mothers that want hoys will ly remember that German scientists do not use bootleg whisky in their Merely smelling alcohol male mice to produce an overwhelm ing majority of male alcohol entered Father Mouse blood through the Simone de la Chaum is woman golf champion o The British saw de 1 on Page LITTLE JOE Gardner Leads Bunion into Erie May Gardner of led the transcontinental foot race into Erie this afternoon at 1-2, eastern daylight saving completing the forty five miles from Ashtabula in six hours nine minutes and thirty Italia Off on a New Pole Attempt Kings May 15 Italia's second flight started at this It was favored by very fine sunshine and no The airship took a westward course in the di- rection of Chief Ceremonial The parade was the chief public ceremonial in honor of the three Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Captain Hermann Koehl and Major James who arrived here yesterday and will remain until row The mild spring rain had given way to sunshine before the parade Public Reception The parade ended at city hall where a public reception was The afternoon's program included a visit to the site of the new man house for a luncheon at the try home of August A. where fliers planned to remain until the i banquet at Hotel 10, primary State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe under whose regime the politico ciime conditions are alleged to have joined m the request foi the special grand He to Judge s that the tion be placed in the hands of Judges Swanson and lican and democratic candidates re- for the office of state's at- torney next Judge son won the nomination from Crowe at the primary Should Learn Their Job of these men will be the next state's Crowe told the they might as well learn what they are up against While arrangements were being made for the another angle of the situation was being heard by six criminal court sitting en ing to arguments for the removal VILLE COUPLE BED ROBBERY LIVED SION FOUND IN BELIEVED IN May The bodies of two aged beaten to death as they lay in were discovered this morning at their cottage home on Maple A trunk had been pried open and officers advanced the theory that robbery had been the motive of the ku g of Mrs. Belle 79, and Miss Kate Slain Sunday Night Dr. Roy L. said condition of the bodies indicated the two women weie slain Sunday Neighbors saw them last on Sunday evening when they church at a nearby Post examinations vill be Lived by Selves The two women lived byv The bodies were discovered iy B. Stephens of South a nephew bout 40 years He was primary purpose of the meeting is the adoption of a good roads to be submitted to the next session of the calling for a concrete route running the entire length of the and an- other through highway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi Roads Too Short main trouble with sin stated L. P. iels while discussing the booster meeting this that they don't go Mr. Daniels commended Wood county's road sys He explained that one o more paved highways across th both from the east to th west and from the north to th is the aim of the Lucky 1 association and other organization of that A chain of con crete linking the to the northern lakes region A new kind of motion picture star has come to Lili French actress chosen to be leading lady for Ronald doesn't smoke or she never has had her hair When this picture was taken upon her arrival in New she actually blushed to learn that it would appear in a SERIOUSLY SICK touris he from the criminal bench of Judges t by police but not taken into Eller and National Political Pot Boils Over as Northland Head Study Many New Developments New Rote Governor dates were in the Hoover's w I I 4--. I T. i i will increase Wisconsin's tiade and be a benefit to The program for Thursday's meeting comprises addresses by men prominent in the work of good roads in the state The coming from every along Highway 13 as we'll as on Page Charge Winnebago Fraud May Airest of at least one Winnebago county official on malfeasance in office charges will follow within a District Attorney Frank B. Keefe announced this The county prosecutor explained j national political pot was boiling 1 again today as voters went to the May T T Dan Polls leaders to conventions to Dr. Dan head of Former Red Sox Owner Falls Nine Dies New May J. former owner of the on Red Sox and present owner of Field and other Long jumped or fell to lis death from the ninth story window of a Brooklyn hotel England Will Consider Treaty Soon May louse of lords unanimously adopted resolution presented today by Reading that the proposals for ie outlawry of war presented by ew governor of the Rotary tenth City and Dr. who succeeds WE As they their names to th Wagner of Sturgeon was these voters had a lot mor Monday at the convention about than the mere chec j their favorite fo things both national an were popping in all Baseball Results I Study Mellon's Statement There was a statement by Secre National League I tary Mellon predicting Hoover woult New 4? 2. bc elected if nominated and expres I sing the opinion that the commerce 3; 3. secretary would make a good some more interpreting of the 9; 1. treasury head's Saturday statement senatorial delving into Hoover's campaign financing and re- American League 3; St. 1. the United States should have 2; I quests for extending the senate in- to a forecast of a break 0. J in the east's long of and the instructing of another New 0; 5. handful of delegates for Governor j The outstanding political event on today's calendar was the New Jersey 4; 2. primary where 31 republican and American Association 28 democratic delegates to the prompt and favorable 4; 1.1 tional are at though come Lowden delegate forces predicted a complete Supporters of Governor who picked up six delegates in the Wyoming convention had claimed all the New Jersey delegates to Interpretations Unnecessary In elaborating on his previous statement to Pennsylvania cans that Hoover seemed to him to closest to the standards we have for the tary Mellon yesterday said he did not see why should be open to various is pretty plain he after first think Hoover can win if I think he would make a good to yesterday's statement was not long Senator South pointed out that Mellon compliments Mr. but the support that is necessary at Kansas Associates of Mr. who has the of lent do not regard his en- of Hoover necessarily he had delayed in making any formal charges until he could cure one Frank a plumber working for George cher of chairman of the county at the time of the erection of the ium and nurses home several years ago by the GERMAN FOREIGN CONFINED TO CANCELS ALL ELECTION HAS WORKED TOO HARD IS BEFORE MEASURE PROVIDES FOR CURBING GIANT ER'S FLOOD ONE CONGRESS JOB May 15. President Coolidge today signed the Mississippi river flood control By affixing his signature to tha Mr. Coolidge placed upon the statute books an act which em- barks the federal government the tremendous task of curbing the flood waters of the probably one of the greatest en- undertakings ever at- tempted in Ends One of 3 Problems The same stroke of the dent's pen also completed the first of what are regarded as the three major problems up to the present The other farm re- lief and tax still are pending in legislative form at the The new flood control framed jointly by Senator chairman of the senate commerce and Chairman Keid of the house flood control committee and for the expenditure by the federal treasury of To Strengthen Levees The engineering plan for the work proposes the strengthening of the levees along the Mississippi river and the building of three flood ways and a spillway as out- lets to carry off from the mam stream the excess flood waters into the Gulf of Upon the federal government is placed the entire expense of the flood control work with the tion of the furnishing of the levee foundations on the main river to be borne by the Mississippi valley but this cost to the states is estimated only at about The new law reports over six months labor by After the house and senate had there began a series of conferences between house administration ers and supporters of the flood in an effort to revise visions to meet with house May Gustav foreign was confined to his bed seriously ill. All his scheduled election speeches have been have long that Dr. Stresemann was burning up vital rapidly by ous His Health has been in- different since he went to the Riviera in January to from an indisposition at Christmas Apparently he attended the March con- ference at On May 5, he went to Heidelberg with Jacob Gould American of them receiving honorary de- and on May 7 went to ence where he delivered his Irst speech in occupied On his fifth May 10, Dr. Stresemann took to his bed with what was then described as of The gravity of lis condition was not until lis bulletin was issued by three at- Two Fliers Stage Battle in Clouds 3 Plane Wrecks and Both Was Hit by a Hammer by One Tells May The story of a battle feet in the air between two Harry of and Clarence Frechett of an aerial which re- in the plane's crashing and in a remarkable escape from death by the was under investigai tion Both men were found seriously in- jured in the which was ished in landing on the grounds of the State hospital for the insane Anderson told police he was at- tacked by Frechett with a hammer while flying over means that the Pennsylvania gation will support In their the delegation will await at Kansas City before Bambino Hits Two Now Has 11 New May Ruth hit his tenth home run of the season in the fifth inning of the game The ball found its customary ing place in the right field Ruth was the first batter to come to the plate in the Ruth hit his second homer of the game and his eleventh for the son in the sixth inning with Smith in the box for No one was on It made the score 9 to 5 in favor of the tending Stresemann is seriously stricken by feverish like stomach or intestinal com- plicated by an infection of the neys demanding extreme care and strict confinement to his patient must refrain from all work for the Consolidated Gas Co. Votes Edison Merger New May rectors of the Consolidated Gas company of New York today voted to absorb the Brooklyn Edison E. B. Peterson Buys Brown Pool Parlor E. B. Peterson of until seven years ago a resident of this city where he had lived practically all his has purchased the liard parlor and fixtures in the block owned by Wayne and a known as Brown's Re- creation The transaction was made Mr. Peterson is quite well known in this He is a member of the American and the He will move his family here Mr. Peterson formerly operated the newstand now owned by Robert Mr. Brown will go into some er but has not announced his through provided an exchange of that seventy per cent of the Brooklyn stock is de- posited under the merger plan and subject to the approval of the state public service Weather Report House Passes on Prison Products May house by a Vote of 299 to 40, day passed the Cooper to mit states to regulate interstate rade In prison-made The now to the Immorality Charges Against Bishop Fail Kansas May Technical charges of tion and brought against Francis J. nell of Pittsburgh by the Rev. George A. Cooko of were summarily dismissed Mostly probably showers beginning tonight or slightly warmer tonight in ex- treme southeast cooler Wednesday in southwest and central Today's Weather Maximum temperature for 24 day by the quadrennial general period ending at 7 a. m 71- ference of the Methodist Episcopal minimum for same Episcopal minimum for same 50; at 7 a. 56.