Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - January 18, 1932, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin A P LEASED WIRE Thu paper is served by leased wire with the news report of the Associated Press Eighteenth 5680 Daily Tribune NEWS P P E R 10 PAGES TODAY Circulation Over paid copies daily the heart of Wisconsin dairy center of the world Wisconsin Rapids Wis Monday January 18 1932 Single Copy Five Cents WISCONSIN STUDENTS DEFY CAMPUS COURT Fire Loss in Wausau Business District BIG SLASH IN AG DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE PRUNES AGRICULTURE PLY TO Washington Jan keen blade of Democratic economy was exhibited today as the house from its committee a closely pruned culture department supply Carrying out the policy laid down by Chairman Byrns the committee cut the first big departmental money to for the coming fiscal year This is less than appropriations for the current year and is below the budget estimates of recommended by dent Hoover No Item Increased Not one budget item was in- creased by the committee and no single expenditure was added In addition the committee did not go into the question of reducing ries of government employees ing that back to the house The big item in the measure is for federal highway aid It is less than for this year and 000 short of the amount requested by Thomas H MacDonald chief of the bureau of public roads The committee also lopped from the appropriation for forest roads and trails leaving which is less than the current year's appropriation Early Morning Blaze Destroys 3 Buildings Wausau Wis Jan Fire destroyed three buildings in the Business section early today ng damage and loss estimated about Two families were forced to flee in their night clothes The Quality Shop suffered the loss about for stock and the building The Emerich DENY RUMOR OF BIG EMPLOYMENT CUT AT MILL REPORT THAT 75 MEN WERE LAID OFF IN SINGLE DAY AND OTHERS DISMISSED PERMANENTLY NOT TRUE SAYS MILL OFFICIAL Sound Call to Arms Fashion Shop also in the same building bears a loss of about A loss of about for stock and building was suffered by the Phillips floral shop and about damage was caused to the stock and building of the Osswald grocery store The origin of the fire had not been determined today GREGG DEF MELLON'S LOAN REPRESENTATIVE OF URY HEAD SAYS LOAN WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL DIDN'T Rumor that the Consolidated Wa- ter Power and Paper company had laid off 75 men at its local mill in one day and had altogether dis- missed from service several score of its employees was spiked today when The Tribune asked C E son of the Consolidated concern for a statement relative to the ment situation In all there has been between 35 and 40 employees laid off during the last two weeks It is not a fact that it reached 75 at one time or in total since the first of the year On Full Time Meanwhile it was noted today that all eight machines of the Edwards Paper company mills at Nekoosa and Port Edwards were in INSANITY PLEA CHIEF DEFENSE OF MRS JUDD TRUNK MURDERESS GOES ON TRIAL TOMORROW COUNSEL HAS NOT ABANDONED PLEA OF SELF DEFENSE CONSTITUTE BUSINESS ENGAGING IN A restriction was incorporated to prevent the department from fillin vacant jobs during the der of the current year except upon the written approval of the dent Other than the cut in federal highway aid the reductions were effected by slashes of on supplies and equipment for various bureaus and curtailed miscellaneous expenses for the entire department to the remainder of Increases in salaries ing the year were specifically barred In its report the committee said that by administrative action a saving of already had been effected this vear through economies and not allowing salary increases for Hyde's Office Among the important items in the was for the of- fice of Secretary which is less than this year and less than the budget timate for the weather bureau less than this year and below the for the animal industry reau less than this year Washington Jan loan by Treasury Secretary Mellon of his personal securities to the Union Gulf corporation was ed to the house judiciary committee today by the treasury head's Alexander W Gregg He said it was entirely legal Presented by Patman Representative Texas Democrat who seeks Mellon's im- on charges he was en- gaged in business in violation of law had presented the stock transaction as evidence to support his tions Gregg said Mellon had supplied part of the securities loaned to the Union Gulf corporation to be used as collateral for a bond issue It was a straight loan for a con- sideration and did not constitute en- sometime Contacting Franz bush employment manager of the company the Trib- une learned that orders sufficient to keep all machines running had been received and that as a result all men who had been laid off and those who had been working only part time were back at their full time jobs today Two of the four Port wards machines ran six days last week and three of the four at koosa produced paper for five days in the same period Several on Pension Several of those who were laid off by the Consolidated company were placed on permanent pension and several more were placed on a pension of three or four months Mr Jackson stated It is un- that some laid off have been employed by the company the mill was erected and these Two of the nation's foremost Democrats here are pictured at New York's Victory one of 60 held simultaneously throughout the country Governor Franklin D Roosevelt left sounded his party's call to arms John W Davis right Democratic standard bearer in 1924 opened the drive for funds to wipe out the party's deficit Kentucky Feuds Flare Up Pistol Fights Fatal to 9 Six Others Wounded in Feudal Strife and Family rels Reformatory Guard Kills Sheriff Ky Jan r Chairman fregg who received a pension to last as as they live Others receiving temporary ions were granted these payments to assist until they have found other gaging in Gregg said employment or until the business last Friday on the application he law to stock ownership Takes No Active Part of and below the budget The forest service received or less than for 1932 and below the get The entomology bureau was allowed a reduction of under this year the bio- logical survey or 000 less than for 1932 and the reau of chemistry and soils 000 or less than for this year Food and drug administration received less than for this year of Saving One of the big savings was lopped off for agricultural Sumners questioned conditions permit their permanent opened his argument re-engagement Running Fairly Steady Asked regarding the operating schedules of the company Mr son said that business was fair and added we are keeping the mills running fairly steady There are times when orders are insufficient to keep steady operation however It is safe to Mr Jackson added that there will be no further laying off of men employed and that we will probably not be forced to release any more men from our em- ployment from now on with few if any exceptions I think it would depend on how active the stockholder Gregg replied If he continued to run a company he would be barred er he owned 99 or one per cent of the stock Mr Mellon has not taken an active part He does not own control in any corporation Mr Mellon has never attended even a stockholders meeting of any corporation since he has been tary He has given his proxy Sumners asked Gregg whether the bank stock Mellon had disposed of when taking office was now held by any individual in one block I can't answer Gregg said I don't know but there are no strings on it Feudal strife and family quarrels flared in Kentucky over the end and a series of pistol fights left nine dead and six wounded 4 Slain at Church Meeting A church meeting at New Salem the state reformatory at fort The men for some time had been enemies in the foothills of the took four lives but left the death i break up Seeks Nomination Pierre S D Jan Loses License for Driving While Drunk Special to Tribune Adams Wis Jan ler residing near Friendship lost credits and rehabilitation and his driver's license for six months for loans to farmers in storm and drought areas The voted last year by congress for loans was not then included in the regular agriculture department appropriation and was assessed a fine of and costs by Justice of the Peace Bud Gogins of Adams today when he pleaded guilty to a charge of ing his car while intoxicated He was arrested in the city of Adams by Marshal Woodhouse this ing and arraigned later in the day Jacob S Coxey of Ohio has asked the secretary of state's office how to get his name before the South Dakota voters as a candidate for the Republican nomination as dent Coxey known as the leader of ar- mies of unemployed to Washington in and 1914 recently ed his candidacy The South kota primary will be May 3 count unchanged in a long standing feud between the Crook and son families Two brothers of the Johnson clan and two of the Crook men were slain late Saturday in a renewal of a disagreement over the sister of the Crooks Another of the Johnson men was wounded slightly and their cousin was wounded critically The dead were Homer Crook Forrest Crook Henry Johnson and Earl Johnson Willie Johnson was wounded slightly and his cousin Henry Johnson was reported dying early today in a London hospital The men fought when Willie son was accused of wronging the Crook girl Fight Duel Over Old Quarrel Over in adjoining Knox Bounty two men grasped hands and fought j a duel to settle an old quarrel One was killed and the other wounded critically They met on Cold Fork creek 18 miles back in the tains and a man named Gambrell was killed and Walter Smith was shot three times He was in a Pineville hospital unable to give any details of the duel Kills Wife Suicides Hayden McFarlin shot and killed his wife wounded his brother-in-law Harry Gregory and then committed cide at Franklin The McFarlins had been estranged At Bowling Green Jack Warren roadhouse proprietor was accused of the shotgun slaying of Gugh Beckham Authorities said Warren in an attempt to an argument between Beckham and another customer Noah Johnson and Willie May Adkins disagreed on the street at Hellier Pike county and both were shot in the pistol play that lowed Johnson was wounded Phoenix Ariz Jan Revealing the defense will concern itself chiefly with a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity at- for Winnie Ruth Judd held their final conference day on the eve of the opening of her murder trial The slender auburn-haired office worker is charged with the murder of her two former friends and roommates Agnes Le Roi and vig Samuelson whose bodies were sent in trunks to Los Angeles No Women on Jury It will be an jury to whom the story of the slayings will be told since women do not sit on juries in Arizona Attorneys for Mrs Judd wife of Dr W C Judd Los Angeles cian worked behind closed doors today They have summoned three psychiatrists in addition to several witnesses from various in Indiana and Illinois where Mrs Judd and her relatives formerly re- sided The attorneys said however they tiad not abandoned the plea of self defense as a motive for the ings and will offer testimony which will seek to show that Mrs Judd killed the two women last October to save her own life Mrs Judd's story of the slayings was that she shot the two women in self defense as the climax of an argument over social affairs Thrift Week By the Associated Press Thrift thrift Today is National Thrift Day of National Thrift Week It is the commencement of what the national thrift committee an- as a concentrated period for preachment of the gospel of frugality without parsimony and expenditure with discretion President Hoover Thrift is not hoarding It is the wise provision against future needs A year ago Calvin Coolidge Above all a wise thrift calls for the expenditure of money to save people And Benjamin Franklin whose name has long been associated with thrift It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright A man may if he knows not how to save as he gets keep his nose to the grindstone STUDENTS LEAD OPEN REBELLION DECLARE TRAFFIC COURT POINTED BY PRES UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO CARRY FIGHT TO COURT Madison Wis Jan Led by four student lawyers a ber of undergraduates at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin today were in open rebellion against the Badger campus traffic court and planned to carry their fight to the state they can raise enough money The students said they hoped the rebellion would spread to other schools where fines are collected from students for violation of pus rules ASSESSOR GIVES MECT FIGURES GERMANSON ANSWERING CRITICISM OF GALBRAITH SAYS LOCAL PERSONAL PERTY ASSESSMENT AS LOW AS Assessment of personal property Threatens To Tell Everything San Francisco Jan Dr Catton San Francisco alienist said last night that Winnie Ruth Judd had threatened to get in the city of Wisconsin Rapids is Assessor George told The Tribune this ing Never since I have been sor and that is ten years has the assessment on personal property been as low as Mr manson said The personal property assessment is on the tax roll in the possession of the city treasurer Joe Norton This assessment has been made by Mr Germanson for the year 1931 on taxes now due Mill Has To show that there could be no sible error Mr Germanson showed Claim System Illegal The four law students of Phi Delta Phi professional law fraternity today dug through law books as they collected precedents which they said uphold their position that the fine system is tional and illegal This rather unusual picture of four fraternity brothers diligently poring over books is occasioned by the recent appointment by President Glenn Frank of a court to hear cases of students accused of violating the campus automobile traffic rules The appointments were not approved by NEVER the board of regents That is Dr Frank said Six Students Fined Professors Ray S Owen and ABANDON HOPE FOR FISHERMEN DOOM OF TWO MEN LOST ON LAKE SUPERIOR SINCE BELIEVED SEALED BY HEAVY SNOW COLDER WEATHER Bayfield Wis Jan heavy fall of snow and dropping temperatures yesterday are believed to have sealed the doom of Allison Boutin 27 and his brother ning 24 Bayfield fishermen lost among Apostle Islands on Lake Superior since last Wednesday All-Day Search Fails The coast guard cutter Crawford don't the way they are planned at her trial for the slaying of her two girl friends The trial is to start Tuesday in Phoenix Ariz Dr Catton who has twice ex- Judd will act as chief state alienist Dr Catton hinted broadly that a second person mav be involved in the of Mrs Agnes Anne Le Roi and Hedvig Samuelson From all aspects of the case as I know them almost may develop Dr Catton said Didn't When Dr Catton examined Mrs Judd in the Phoenix jail he asked her he said if had severed the bodies were found bered and packed in trunks He said personal property assessment on the Consolidated Water Power and which lists wood products and office per company manufactured equipment and all personal ty assessed at over double the size of the amount asserted by Alan Galbraith assessor of incomes for the twentieth Wisconsin district as the total personal property of the entire city Galbraith Away The Tribune sought to question Mr Galbraith regarding his figures made at the Kiwanis club meeting last week but found that Mr braith was out of the city He had char d in h h y liam A Sumner and Albert F listel superintendent of buildings and groups make up the court At the court's initial session last fines were assessed against six students Those who ignored traffic tickets drew double fines The court meets again day and the law students are acting as counsel for all students who ply her reply I have never even cut chicken in my life doctor Mrs Judd told me there had been no man in her life until Dr Judd her husband came into it and no other man until about one year She has admitted tion with this other man up until the time of the murders The alienist also revealed Judd told him she was the mother of a boy who is the living image Sheriff N J Tipton of castle county a few miles away was shot to death in an argument with Hunter Burchell a guard at Conference on Rail Wages Takes Recess Firemen Respond to Chicago Jan con- ference between railway presidents and brotherhood and union leaders First Call of Year Sixteen days of 1932 elapsed be- was in recess this morning to firemen re- a that call was be- yond the city At about six o'clock last evening local fire fighters were called to a burning automobile on the Rudolph road three miles north of the city The car belonged to Wilbur Bright Port Edwards and was slightly damaged both sides more time to study the differences arising from the sion of stabilization of employment and other proposals made by the bor group Although both sides insisted ing definite had been decided tions were the managements were unfavorable to some portions of the labor program although friendly to other proposals The labor program was advanced as a counter proposal to the gestion of a voluntary ten per cent wage reduction with the implication that if the presidents agreed to it or a large part of it labor would I be willing to take the wage cut for one year The unions asked among other Taxing of Dividends Only Relief Follette of Dr Judd his father and that of Two Harbors Minn was on the rto lake all day yesterday vainly I g things that the roads promise full Jit time employment to at least a mini- for one year and a employment to amount of forces Seize Runner Boston Jan Mary reputed speedy rum runner of New Bedford was seized after a two mile chase in Dorchester Bay today and her cargo of 800 cases of liquor confiscated by coastguards It was the second seizure in Boston waters within a few hours Earlier in morning the power boat Buddy was captured with a load of liquor mated by officials to be worth 000 The crew of both boats escaped i Madison Wis Jan Governor La Follette said today that the issue between Progressives and Conservatives in the matter of financing an unemployment relief had in his opinion been boiled down to the alternatives of taxing dividends along with other incomes or accepting the Goodland proposal for 1931 surtaxes based on the three year average Throws Light on Parley The governor threw some light on the nature of the conversations he had with Senator George Blanchard of Edgerton in which Conservatives initiated a move to get opposing factions together so that the special session of the legislature might ad- journ this week The compromise negotiations had not yielded definite results so far as could be learned today but it was believed Conservative senators would meet here of the opening of tomorrow's legislative sessions to discuss their course Senator Blanchard reached at Edgerton declined to comment In a statement to newspapermen the governor said he believed a dend tax necessary to reach the higher incomes but he did not re- conversations with Senator chard he said was that the Con- ing the men who set out in a small motor boat for what was to have been a short run Coast guardsmen said swirling snow made visibility exceedingly poor On shore a foot of snow had fallen last night But de- spite handicaps coast guardsmen planned to resume the search today Think Boat Capsized Fishermen yesterday expressed opinion that the boat with the brothers undoubtedly stretched I vas when seas became rough a short time after they set out Ice forming on the canvas probably made it top the boy is now in Mexico He said he believed Mrs Judd was sane Collision Wrecks Two Cars Sleigh We have four cases for the law students said We're going to plead guilty pay each fine under protest and then in a civil action in the Dane county courts sue to get the money back Also we ex- to institute an move in circuit court to halt further operation of the court No Constitutional Authority The students maintain the court is illegally appointed that it does not have constitutional authority to levy and collect fines and that it in- fringes upon the jurisdiction of courts This body isn't even a said the law students A court is a quoted from a recent speech he j body empowered by the governor or by statute to hear evidence and de- liver judgments under law The laws always demark the limits of the judgment In this so-called court the three judges have unlimited fining ers The code which they re- operate does not set up a system of fines In fact if they wish their fines can exceed even those of the state statutes If we win our fight perhaps the students of universities where auto- mobiles are prohibited will take a tip and fight the illegal orders de- them of their automobiles said a member of the law faculty the boys are getting good legal training i system of the three largest cities un- UP a j der my jurisdiction One of his con- tentions was that much personal property escaping assessment because of the part time assessment system in vogue in Wisconsin ids He made it clear he was not criticising Assessor Germanson but was finding fault with the Get Band Tourney Data at Menasha Chairmen of the various tees in charge of arrangements for the state school band ment to he held here in May who went to Saturday to meet with chairmen who arranged last Alleged Alcohol Runner Arraigned Peter Olson alleged driver of the tournament learned from with 171 gallons of In the midst of a blinding men that the tournament which was seized at the L L storm Saturday evening at wortn for any city station on East Grand should be passed and that none of the cost should be placed on general property Discuss Financing Details Details of financing then were dis- cussed and the governor said that budget figures in his possession showed that any money taken from the general fund for 1932 local re- lief work would have to be replaced in the same year or the cash tion of the general fund would be such that a state property levy in 1933 would be legally mandatory He advised Senator Blanchard to con- sult James B Borden budget tor on this question The governor asserted that he considered the three year average basis of computing the surtaxes in the Goodland to be a harsh ture because it would hit tions hard It increases the normal income taxes of individuals and cor- 50 per cent i searchers said Deny Move to Quash Huckins Indictment Cedar Rapids la Jan motion to set aside a grand jury indictment against George E Huckins today was overruled by Judge A B Clark Huckins is charged with obtaining the money under false pretenses with specific intent to defraud in connection with a scheme that promised 26 per cent dends Huckins stood silent when given Ms chance to plead in district court today By law the court entered a plea of not in his behalf His trial County Attorney Carl Hendrickson said would begin in the next two weeks Huckins wasj returned to the Linn county jail o'clock a car driven by Fred Panter jr this city crashed into the rear end of a bob sled driven by Mann on East Grand avenue near Fourth street and caused the team of horses to become frightened and run into a sedan driven by Mrs Harlow Ebbe The Panter car was badly wreck ed about the front end the sleigh was practically demolished and the pole of the sleigh punctured the radiator of the Ebbe car None of the persons figuring in the accident was injured They reported that during the two- shortly before Christmas was day tourney year j before the United States ors were in Mena'sha j court commissioner at La Crosse The local men who attended the waived preliminary hearing conference J Winden general was Placed under bonds of chairman L P Daniels reception W W Johnson rail Tne date he De transportation A A com- a federal judge has not been A A Ritchay housing The Find Stolen Car A sedan belonging to Roy neau this city stolen from in front of his place of on Oak street sometime before midnight men who conferred with the local committeemen T C J W A Held R M Sensenbrenner and Ben Other local committee heads are expected to go to before the first of February Reelect Officers of Fruit Growers All officers and directors of the Wood County Fruit Growers were reelected at the annual i F near corners earh business meeting held Saturday this afternoon by Chief of Police at the Joseph Liska home R Payne They N H Robinson Chief Payne had the car's William Helke vice w H George treasurer Gus Kruger and Joseph scription broadcast over radio tion this noon and shortly thereafter Leo Hanifin notified authorities that the car was near his home The gasoline tank was empty but no damage to the car was noted Liska directors Various items of business were discussed and it was announced that crates and boxes are now available to fruit growers by calling W H George Weather Report Generally fair tonight and day somewhat colder tonight in east and extreme north portions Fair Today's Weather Maximum temperature for hour period ending at 7 a in 34 minimum temperature for period ending at 7 a m 11 ature at 7 a m 18 Precipitation 15 inches snowfall 1 inches
