Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - July 9, 1929, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin A P LEASED WIRE paper by leased wire with the news report of the Associated Press N E W S P A P E R CO 10 PAGES TODAY The net paid circulation of The Tribune is Sixteenth 4905 Wisconsin Rapids Wis Tuesday July 9 1929 Price Three Cents Today The Biggest Bank We Are Sugar Eaters Midsummer Boom How Does France Do Arthur Brisbane 1 Growth in America is rapid The Brazilian jungle along the Amazon is not more luxuriant in its way than the financial jungle along Wall street Some time ago the National City Bank then biggest in America was passed in assets by a combination of other banks Now the National City again passing all American rivals becomes biggest bank in the world except two the Midland and Lloyds both British C E Mitchell will probably set sail to overtake those world leaders In the total resources of the National City Bank were Now they are two thousand and sixty-two million In the last six months Americans have eaten more than MX ami a half billion pounds of sugar Prohibition helps that More candy is sold The country this year will use thirteen billion pounds of sugar If the tariff increase costs hut two cents a pound that will cost the lic LIGHTNING KILLS THREE NEAR KELLNER WATER AND WIND DAMAGE DURING STORM LOCAL BASEMENTS FLOODED STREETS AWASH SILOS BLOWN DOWN TREES ROOTED IN ARPIN TORY A swift summer storm ed by a heavy wind and strongly charged with electricity struck consin Rapids about four p m coming apparently from the and moving in a southeasterly direction Seldom has a greater amount of water fallen in so short a period of time and during a few moments of the storm hail fell So rapidly did the water fall that in the half hour duration of the storm the government gauge ed a total of 1.73 inches Launch Attempt to Oust Governor Basements Flooded A number of basements were This country ir enjoying a prising midsummer industrial boom rarely equalled Instead of the usual midsummer slump manufacturing has had n great boom The company has passed share equivalent to including stock bonus And all this in the al reserve that was supposed to stabilize credit and that has been using its feeble brain and groat influence In hamper and damage national business Paris reports money pite heavy half-yearly payments the money rate remained officially at throe per cent with the outside rate of three and a half Why not send some of the federal reserve schoolboy to learn how Frances does it And while they are away not discreetly inquire to what extent those gentlemen own hank stocks that have been fattened by the usurious rates up to rent Established heie the M of the federal n Tho is well ed Nobody has stood on the top of Mt parts of the been visited by white men but its face is sufficiently well known will come exploration of the interior it- heat power and mineral supplies ex- ploration of the bed of which n groat deal was onco in the light and far up exploration of our atmosphere and the be- yond the breathing point The Smithsonian Institute has dis- covered two brands of a ring of ozone eighteen to flooded in various parts of the city some caused by the insufficient size of the storm sewers it is stated this being particularly true of Third street north Other basements were because of the plugging of adjacent manholes This would appear to have been the case at Tenth and Baker streets on Third incline south between Goggins and Reedier tracts and at the corner of Oak and Second street north where the store basement collected a good 12 inches in a few minutes involving about damage to stock Arpin Region Hit The heaviest wind appears to have swept the country about four or five miles southeast of Arpin where grain was laid flat in the fields os Wore blown down or damaged on tho Charles Chris and Tom Smith farms A new barn on the Louis farm near Sheiry was moved off its dation several window panes were blown out at tho William farm and near Fisher's crossing Arthur hayrack was blown 20 feet from its wagon merous trees wore uprooted or had limbs Mown off both in the city and in tho surrounding country Rivers Out of Streets In several parts of the city water collected on the streets in such KOHLER GREETS DOCUMENT WITH SMILE SILENCE DANE COUNTY SHERIFF ES SUMMONS AND COM- PLAINT ON EXECUTIVE AT KOHLER Madison July an- swer to the summons and com- plaint served yesterday on nor Kohler in ouster proceedings instituted against him must be made within ten days by his ney Butler Madison The governor today again de- to comment on the suit de- claring he is leaving the matter entirely in the hands of counsel If a change of venue is desired from Pane county to home community in Sheboygan county a request for the change must be made within three days quantities that neighborhood children donned suits and made the most of their impromptu swimming holes until the city's workers opened the plugged manholes No damage by electricity has been re- ported from MIV other section along the path of the storm except in the Buona Vista marsh territory where three men were killed Kohler Wis July ence and a smile were the greetings of Walter J Kohler yesterday for the legal documents that his political foes hope will oust him from office as Wisconsin's governor Served With The chief executive late yesterday afternoon was served with a mons and complaint of a civil suit alleging violation of the state cor- rupt practice act in the main office of his plant here How seriously Governor Kohler took their action yesterday perhaps was demonstrated when he countered Sheriff Harold tion of the summons with a tray of sandwiches a cup of coffee and a joke The refreshments disposed of the governor and Dane county's sheriff posed for newspaper eras Charges The complaint in the present civil suit resorted to after Judge S Schein of Dane county declared that he found no evidence of criminal guilt on the part of the governor in the financing of his pre-election charges Governor Kohler with of the state's corrupt practices net insofar as he expended more than during his campaign New Secretary to Mrs Hoover Roberta I Braddock Los former secretary to the lean of women at the University f Southern California and a riend of President and Mrs er for years is Mrs Hoover's new social secretary ESTIMATE FIRE LOSS AT HENKE STORE FLAMES BREAK OUT SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT SHORT CIRCUIT IN ELECTRIC SWITCH IGIN BOX BELIEVED Fire supposed to have resulted from a short circuit in the electric switch box burst out in the Henke brick store building 182 Second street north shortly before one o'clock this morning and resulted n a considerable loss both to the and the Henke grocery and stock housed on the first floor The loss as estimated by Fire Chief Miller will not exceed about equally distributed between ng and merchandise the latter loss entirely by water Woman Gives First Alarm Mrs Glen Yeager who lives above the Joe Booze barber shop first saw smoke issuing from the front of the Henke building about and ran across the hall and woke Ben Hale who turned in the alarm The department ly went into action Chief Miller first entered the basement of the building through a front window and located the fire which by that time had broken through the main floor of the building under the SMALLER BILLS GOT INTO i stairway Two leads were at once CULATION TOMORROW put to work in the basement and HAS in approximately five minutes flames were under control A lead was taken to the second floor where fire had broken out in NEW CURRENCY MAKES DEBUT Qym Contemplated At Nekoosa Tentative plans for a new gym to cost in the of were approved at a meeting of the Nekoosa schoo board held last evening in the audi of the Alexander high school A resolution approving the plans was favorably acted upon and special election will be called soon o determine the attitude of the on the construction lect and to decide what means wili used in raising the necessary funds if the work is authorized The meeting was well attended H H Voss director whose term of has expired was unanimously hosen to succeed himself The new gymnasium would lant the one now in use at ander high school which is rapidly becoming inadequate to date crowds at basketball games and other public gatherings U-BOAT SINKS CREW TRAPPED PIECES TO MEET DEMAND Washington July The myriad ranks of money seekers morrow will become at the same time curiosity seekers For with the opening of banks for business row morning the nationwide ble will begin to acquire sonic of the new attractive unfamiliar currency which within a few months will eral spots and in a few minutes more the last of the fire which lingered on the north side of the second floor had been extinguished Made Rapid Headway At the time the alarm was ed in the flames were making rapid headway up the basement stairs which are directly below the main place the long familiar much larger stairway leading from the street paper money now in circulation throughout tho country The Curiosity Demand curiosity for Bloomer Cottage Struck A hot meeting is what the Ki- club directors term their wains one miles our around the earth Ozone highly cial form of oxygen is formed by electrical discharges in storms Doctors in days to come may send their patients up to tho ozone holt A young Gorman whose ideas are by the brilliant Kinstein nnd other scientists has invented an that could take men up there It is planned to cross Atlantic in about six hours traveling feet up to escape resistance by tho heavy lower atmosphere On Sunday Lindbergh just flown across the continent with his wife a button in Los Angolos turned on a light in York and the first Pennsylvania rail nnd air trip started across the continent Pullman car by night by day ocean to ocean in for- hours monthly meeting held at the A C cottage on Green Lake last evening In ads going meeting opened with a bang when the car driven by Glenn Bennett president of the club and occupied by W K Fairbanks Dr P E Wright and C J Randall drove into the yard and two of the men had started toward the cottage just as a bolt of lightning flashed down a large oak tree and then struck the chimney of the cottage ripping it off of the roof and tering bricks to pieces Some of the bricks wore thrown down through the chimney and emerged into the living room by way of the fireplace The New York Central with a similar flying line plans to cut that running time LITTLE JOE Frightened Korses Run Away on Grand A team of the Wisconsin Rapids Delivery company driven by Harry Lau became frightened and ran away about noon today when a bolt holding one side of the tongue onto the of wagon dropped out and tho right side ofthe tongue ped to the pavement of the bridge Raymond Bord on the wagon with Lau was thrown from the seat as the team passed the post office and Lau jumped from the wagon at the corner of Grand and Second avenues Neither of the occupants of the rig were injured The horses drew the wagon up Grand avenue at a good rate of speed just barely missing the ed cars on the south side of the nue Upon making the turn at Third avenue south heading for the com- headquarters tho wagon turned almost completely around and one of the horses slipped and foil to the pavement The horse was uninjured It citos a number of cases in which the executive then candidate is to violated tho law ingly or unknowingly and goes on to state that under the law whether Gov Kohler knew of tho violations or not he is guilty Issues Formal Statement Governor Kohler refused to cuss those charges before a largo group of newspapermen gathered for service of the complaint Ho sued a formal statement calling at- tention to tho fact that he had asked strengthening of the corrupt tices act in his message to the 1029 legislature He said people of the state know my record is clear and I do not in- tend to this latest move of my political opponents to interfere with the official business of the stato Any further comment the nor said would come from his legal counsel at Madison Urged Investigation In his message to the legislature the governor I recommend that the legislature appoint a joint committee to the methods and practices of the primary general and special election campaigns including and subsequent to the year 1024 for the purpose of discovering abuses and drafting legislation to prevent their recurrence now currency ono third smaller than the old is expected to keep up for several weeks With about 000 pieces already printed the ury is prepared to meet that demand but only to a limited extent because of tho big problem of distribution and the necessity of avoiding waste by keeping tho old currency in use as long as it is fit for exchange First Change Since 1861 This change in currency which is to bo completed in about a year is the first undertaken by the ment since and is expected to reduce the cost of materials ing storage and distribution about a year Twelve months from now treasury officials predict pieces of the old currency will be looked upon with almost as much curiosity as the new will arouse morrow to the lodge hall above A delay of only a few moments might possibly have meant the total destruction of the building As it was twelve joists just below the second floor are so badly burned as to need re- placement and a number of dows including tho south one of the three large windows in the front room on the second floor wore burst by the extreme heat The in- of a store room off the cor- ridor just outside the lodge room was badly burned and the dishes RAMMED BY SINKS IN 270 FEET OF WATER TWO MEMBERS OF CREW ARE SAVED AT TIME OF CRASH London July Brit- ish submarine with 21 of her crew believed dead or trapped in her today was sunk in 270 feet of water in St George's channel off the Pembroke coast to the west of The undersea craft was struck by the submarine a larger vessel and sank so quickly that only two of her normal crew of 23 were ed These were Lieutenant R J Gardner her commanding officer and Sidney Cleburne of Devonport telegraph operator both of whom presumably were in her conning tower The lost one man Charles Edward Bull chief signaller who is missing while Arthur Sampson a seaman was in a critical condition from injuries he suffered in the crash As soon as word of the disaster was received the dock yard tugs Resolve and Grappler hurriedly pre- BELIEVE ROME FLYERS FAR OUT OVER ATLANTIC PLANE LAST REPORTED AN HOUR AFTER TAKE-OFF FOLLOWING WINDS SHOULD AID PROGRESS New York July Up to 3 p m today about 30 hours ter the departure of the mono- plane Pathfinder from Old chard Maine on a mile flight to Rome no new word had come from the craft which ring accident should be nearing the Spanish coast New York July by following winds the monoplane Pathfinder carrying Roger Q STORM SHELTER OF 6 TEAMSTERS STRUCK BY BOLT TWO OF VICTIMS KILLED STANTLY OTHER LIVES BUT FEW MINUTES EIGHT ES ALSO MEET DEATH A cold bolt of lightning killed three men and eight horses who were sheltered in a ramshackle house on the Buena Vista marsh in the town of Grant Portage county twelve miles southeast of this at about four o'clock yesterday during one of the most were electrical storms central Wisconsin has ever experienced The dead Waif red Anderson 22 and Walter R Peterson 27 both of the town of Grant and Herman Behrend town of Saratoga Were Harvesting Grass Seed Anderson Peterson and Behrend along with more than a score of er men had been employed by the Seed company Omaha Nebraska to strip the from iams and Captain Lewis A Yancey June grass in the vicinity of the was presumed today to be well out j Buena Vista marsh near Kilmer to They started their stripping tions last Friday and expect to con- tine for about a week or ten davs over the Atlantic on its way Some Due Wednesday Morning The plane left Old Orchard Me at a m eastern standard time yesterday Yancey who is the ator estimated they would com- plete the mile flight in about 8 hours which would bring them o Rome Wednesday forenoon When last reported an hour after he the Pathfinder was about The seed strippers had been divided into four different crews working in different fields near the location of the fatal accident The accident victims together with Walter Burmeister town of Grant Andrew Timm Kellner the timekeeper of this particular crew Otto Hamann and Fred 5 miles off Portland lightship and ofu Saratoga rushed to the going fine The report was made old frame house on the edge of the y a coast guard plane which J were the flyers on when the The building the first 100 miles Follow Ship Lanes The course plotted by Yancey lay over Cape Sable N S then east southeast to the corner junction of ship lanes miles off Old Orchard then along the parallel to Cape Spain across to is a deserted house owned by liam Riggs this city Take Teams Into Building arriving at the old house Hamann and took their teams into one part of the building and Anderson's team was placed in the remaining room while son's and teams were held Bayonne France and over the by their mvners who stood ust terranean to Rome the doorway team Although the start was made to thp team of through a fog Dr James H and was held by Mr Burmeister ball meteorologist at the weather stood in the east wing of the house bureau said weather conditions over j and Timm were the ocean were favorable for the in house flight with the prospect of helping The bolt struck about ten or winds He said some cloudiness and teen minutes after the crew had en- occasional showers might be en- tered the building and worked with a flash striking the animals and the men dead almost instantly Hamann two wno stood within two feet of failures when the plane Green anc was with him countered in mid-Atlantic After Two Failures The start was made after when the plane Flash predecessor of the Pathfinder wnen the fatal bolt struck no- i j i and oTher o t s to go to sea with salvage gear i from Portsmouth Beloit Man Dazed Over Fifteen Days Beloit Wis July noon today Gny Blair injured in an automobile accident here June 24 passed his 15th unconscious day Although in a coma for more than hours his physicians still hold hope for his recovery He is taking nourishment readily The legislature has passed the authorizing he gation and appropriating for expenses and the was signed by The committee hns not yet been organized Optimistic The statement of the executive and his optimistic attitude in ing the complaint indicated his belief that he will not be removed from of- fice His statement calls attention to the fact that he is replacing the fixtures in the bathrooms of the ex- mansion at his own expense a clear indication it would seem that the governor means to make that Madison house his home for nt least the remaining year and a half of his term Circuit Court Opens Adjourned Session Circuit court convened in ed session this morning with Judge Byron B Park Stevens Point on the bench A civil action to compel the former president and secretary of the Progressive Cheese company town of to turn over the books of the company and the ey in the treasury was first on the court calendar with Goggins Braz- eau Graves representing the plaintiff stockholders The defendant officials being unrepresented the court named A J Crowns Nekoosa as their attorney and adjourned the hearing until tomorrow morning when defendant must make answer The drainage hearing brought by a group of bond holders in the several Wood county drainage districts for the levy of a final assessment was opened at 2 p m with the tion that it would continue the re- mainder of today and most of row The petitioners are represented by Attorneys M S King T W Brazcau and B R Goggins lodges which meet there were de- Tho lodge hall itself was not damaged by the flames the fire upstairs being confined to the ante- room or hall and the storage closet Covered by Insurance Don Daly present owner of the building was not able this morning to make any estimate of the loss to the structure His loss was fully covered by insurance he stated W G Henke said that he had been through his stock this morning and very little if any could be ered as salable The fire had ed through the wall on the south side of the room and had burned some dry goods and other dise stored in that vicinity the remainder of the loss being from the water which had thoroughly soaked every part of the room cording to his examination His loss he believes will be about three-quarters covered by insurance Baby in the Mother Burns Him Los Angeles Calif July JT Mrs Josephine Valenti ID has con- fessed that she had set fire to a riage in which her 8 months old Details of the circumstances un- der which the disaster took place or how badly the submarine was ed when she went down were ing in the first announcements by the admiralty It appeared however that the sank in about 270 feet of wa- ter or nearly three times that in which the American submarine sank in and considerably er than that in which the sank in 1925 Salvage operations at such was wrecked in attempting to lake i the horses and the men drop off i in their tracks and called to the The Pathfinder is a Bellanca cr for help He had not felt a equipped with a 220 shock at all it is said Burmeister power whirlwind motor Its cruising had seen his horses lunge forward speed is 90 miles an hour with a maximum speed of 135 miles The plane carried 445 gallons of fuel estimated as sufficient for the while he held the reins in his hand and had also seen the teams of erson and Behrend drop lifeless to trip At the last minute 55 gallons j were left behind to lighten the Peterson Xot Killed Instantly The limp bodies of the three men off load the flyers calculating were removed from under the horses favorable winds would reduce fuel consumption Are Veteran Airmen Both members of the crew airmen and Yancey is an a depth would be exceedingly faring expert navigator with a ship license and several years the i through a window the boarding of which was kicked out Hamann de- clares that Peterson did not die in- stantly but that he cried out Don't leave Upon removing the bodies from are cult baby Dominick lay asleep child was burned to death The Nab Neillsville Man at Fennimore Neillsville Wis July Sought for more than a week on n warrant charging him with a inal attack on a ville girl Archie 21 was arrested at Fennimore Wis yesterday by Sheriff William ford of Clark county He is to bo arraigned here today Postpone Picnic on Account of Tragedy The picnic of the Kellner vian church which was scheduled to be held tomorrow afternoon has indefinitely postponed out of respect for Waif red T Anderson a member of the church who was killed when lightning struck the shelter in which he was standing lato yesterday afternoon The An- derson funeral services will be con- ducted from the Moravian church Thursday afternoon at two o'clock Police said today the mother gave as the reason for her act her ity to afford placing the baby in a nursery while she worked She was held on a charge of murder We didn't have any money and the baby needed milk I wanted to go to police quoted the wo man and the baby was in the way I couldn't afford to put him in a nursery so I thought that was the best way out Valenti husband of the woman is employed as a laborer by a motion picture producing concern Mrs James Case Suffers Stroke Seized with a slight stroke o paralysis as she was carrying some dishes from the dining room to the hall of the Wood County Home foi the Aged about noon yesterday Mrs James Case matron of the home fell unconscious into the arms of one of the maids Medical a was promptly summoned and the stricken woman was given all pos sible care Although she is not better today physician are of the opinion that she will re- cover Yesterday was the regular y meeting date trustees for the of the board home and L Daniels Wisconsin Rapids Harry lambright Marshfield and C A Port Edwards were at the time of the seizure Baraboo's Oldest Resident Is Dead Baraboo Wis July oldest resident Mrs Martha B age 08 died at her home Monday She celebrated her birthday June 27 Sho came to this community with her husband and four small sons in 1863 Riot Call Placed by School Meeting Milwaukee July 8 It a riot at all just a meeting of the Wauwatosa school sheriff's found when responding to a call However they did save Emil Williams is a mechanical engineer and has been associated with tion since a youth when he and his brother built and flew a plane near their home in Brooklyn He is 35 the building Burmeister and Timm endeavored to start a car which was standing near the building but were unable to because of wet coils They then went to shack near the scene of the accident and finally got a car They stopped at years old and married During the j the Reinhold Timm home and tried war he served as an instructor to get a telephone call through to becoming a civilian this city for an ambulance and a tor for the Curtiss flying service in pulmotor but were unable to reach 1027 and 1928 with Clarence berlin Boys Quarrel Over Boat Cut It Up Berlin Wis July ownership and operation of a boat wasn't satisfactory so John Gosch central They then started for ner and stopped at William Witte's where they again tried the telephone and found it of no avail There they were joined by Henry G Windheim representative of the Nebraska Seed j company in charge of the stripping operations and Walter Hanneman the timekeeper of another crew who lushed to this city and obtained an ambulance and the pulmotor from 10 sawed it in two one-half j the fire station Fire Chief August Knobel treasurer from possible lence was re-elected treasurer of the district Announcement of the election result brought disorder Old officers had demanded their pay from last August to February when part of the district was annexed to Milwaukee They charged Knobel re- fused to pay them Discussion was so violent the sheriff was called They escorted to his automobile after the broke up and left the other for his pal Ardin teman 11 The boys found an skiff down Fox river For a while hey played together with it but the didn't turn out John triec o buy Ardin's interest but was re- used Ardin's offer was met arly Then John followed Solomon's I'm going to board up the ohn said when asked what he would do with half a boat Wausau Pilot Wins Eastern Air Derby Bradford Pa July Maj John Wood Wausau Wis ing a Waco tapered wing won the 25 mile race for planes equipped with air-cooled motors of 200 power or hare yesterday His time was nine minutes II The race wan staged in con- with the dedication of Emery field Bradford's new airport Miller and Dr F X re- turned to the accident scene with the Continued on Page Two Weather Report Fair tonight and Wednesday in extreme south and extreme east portions warmer in west and tral portions Wednesday Fair and warmer Today's Weather Maximum temperature for 24 hour period ending at 7 a m 85 minimum for same period 58 at 7 a 64 precipitation 1.73
