Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - July 16, 1938, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Over 4.000 Central Wisconsin are bers of The Secka t a r y II m w k 1 n Hare your dren Jollied T Daily E w s p E RING THE GONG With A Tribune They Are HARD 7676. Wisconsin July 16, 1938. Single Copy Five Cents DROPS DEAD IN PARIS SUDWAY TRAIN Wives Greet Crew is the family angle to the end of the most spectacular flight id the world which was completed in New Shown here le adventurous party left the 1. Howard 2. r LaGuardia of New who welcomed the 3. Richard radio 4. Thomas 5. Mrs. 6. Mrs. 7. Mrs. 8. Harry P. 9. Ed Lund's fiancee collapsed from nervous strain before the plane e Men Confess Series of Mail Car Thefts July series of post back to 1936 has been solved with the confessions of one of whom was captured in a hand-to-hand battle jeeding mail Postal Inspector John Streich of St. Paul an- 1 here last of the men implicated in the thefts were Milwaukee road em- while the other worked Iway express All of between 21 and 28 Streich in Battle first man was captured last y by who had con- himself behind some mail a mail car on a train bound to Wis. He vered a man who let himself 3 car while the train was g at a 70-mile-an-hour clip i New Lisbon and mation given by the man led of the other all n were seized at their homes ought to a downtown hotel keys to mail cars were n the possession of three of i and large quantities of the goods were found at the af Streich ents Concealed in Cars ts had been concealed in the us for ic thefts had been traced to cular train running between and the had begun in 1936 with two the others joining postal and de- and special agents of the kee road and the railway ex- in the final ch said the men would be to before a giand jury in session INVESTIGATE SHERRY DEATH COUNTY AUTHORITIES DECIDE FARM WOMAN'S DEATH DUE TO NATURAL THER FOUND BODY IN Stella B. 66, Monday Stella 66, Third who did private many years until forced to up because of ill died p. m. Friday after a several illness with arthritis and In failing health since she had been ir home continuously ral which will be 2 o'clock Monday at the Baker and Son be conducted by the Rev. Interment will be i Forest Hill 1 Bell Smith was born at December 14, ic daughter of Charles and In December 1803, she Dan and lived on a Continued on Page PREFECT DIES an July prefect of of the council and red one of the most learned s of the sacred died f uremia after several He 71, A heart possibly induced by working in Friday's warm was held responsible by county authorities today for the death sometime last night of Helen 35, at the farm home in the town of Sherry of her Bert Plan No Inquest Undersheriff Cliff Bluett and Deputy O. A. Backus were called to the farm this morning to PERFORM POST MORTEM Deputy Coroner 0. A. Backus said this afternoon that a post mortem examination of the body of Helen Paul revealed the cause of death to have been a kidney Dr. Backus said death occurred at mid- night or shortly investigate after the brother had re- turned from doing morning chores to find the body of his sister in her The undersheriff said no in- quest will be According to information given the Miss Paul had worked yesterday about the Her returning to the house about seven said she was feeding chickens at that he went to Sherry to shop ing about 10 When he ed for the he said she was Came from Chicago This morning he rose early to do the farm chores and when his ter did not make an he went to her room and discovered her The undersheriff said she had come from Chicago some time in May to keep house for her Two other sisters live in the officer The body was brought to the Krohn and funeral home Funeral ar- rangements had not been completed this but the body will be taken to the Paul home in Sunday Labor Blacklists 40 Congressmen ACTION BASED ON POSITIONS C. I. NON- PARTISAN LEAGUE MARKS CONGRESSMEN FOR AIMS AT RULES July Labor's N o n-P artisan headed by C. I. 0. Chieftain John L. put 40-odd congress members on a today and marked them for The it was Avas based chiefly on the stand on the hour The list included a of the house rules tee which kept that measure holed for many It was this which spiked attempt to force through congress in the closing hours of last session a contractor Reprisals at Polls The C. I. O. leader went to the capitol twice to exert personal sure for passage of the measure asserted angrily that there would be reprisals at the The list accentuated also the politically as well as on unionization between the Committee for Industrial Organization and the erican Federation of It included names of several men whom the A. F. of L. has Among these were Senators Adams Sumners and Lamneck Rated According to Views The spokesmen has rated congressmen and according to their bor E. L. executive said the following rules com- members were put in the which he described as the category for those to whom the organization is unalterably Representatives Cox of Driver of Smith of Clark of North Dies of Texas and Lewis of Martin of Mapes of Taylor of Tennessee and McLean of New The name of Chairman O'Connor was not but er said he did not very with the The American labor on Page Farley Leaves for in Alaska July ter General Farley laid his political chores aside today and sailed for Alaska with his two The liner which left at a. m. will dock at first Alaska day Award Contract for Point Sewage Plant Stevens council last night selected the firm of Con- Townsend kee engineering to construct the disposal plant which will be built here as a PWA project ing about The firm will re- 5 per cent of the cost as its Early beginning of the tion was seen as the council a group to discuss the plans with the state board of health which las ordered disposal plants in all Wisconsin valley cities by the end of 1940. The council likewise approved slans to take care of the complete treatment of the sewage after a representative of the firm said the full treatment could be done in a plant which could be built for the proposed Although the state has asked that only the mary treatment be taken care the council felt it to be only a matter of until complete disposal would County Safety Group Ends Plaque Picks Display Place The Wood County Safety council at meeting last night in the city hall here unanimously voted to display the safety plaque on a bulletin board to be erected at the west end of the Grand avenue The plaque has been a center of controversy for two the point at issue between Chief of Battle 200 Fires Raging in Pacific Northwest Forests of Police R. S. president of the and Ray dale supervisor and chairman of the traffic of the being where the plaque should Reject Courthouse Site Action of the council last in. voting for display of the tablet on a board with safety posters and other safety was seen as a repudiation of Mr. con- tention that the plaque should hang in the county It is at present in possession of Chief Payne after a brief stay in the A discussion of the part which county funds made available for safety work played in the financing of the council's program brought out if had been for the 1938 membership in the al Safety council by the it had been done so without the Expenditure Unauthorized Chief Payne told the group last night that the expenditure had been made without authorization from the His statement referred to one made by Mr. Brayback June 30 that the county board had expended thus far in 1938 in behalf of the council's Chief Payne said a committee had appointed earlier this year to study the desirability of joining the national Discussion last night brought expressions from the com- members that the ure was not considered worthwhile because the money could be used to better advantage County records showed today that the payment had been made to the national group for the 1938 membership on recognition of the county traffic committee at the last committee at county board meeting of the March 8. Seek State Meeting The council discussed at length a proposal to bring the state safety meeting to Wisconsin Rapids in 1939. The suggestion will be ed up by the council and will be dis- cussed further at the division safety picnic which will be held at paca on August 17. The council proved the August 17 date for the picnic which will be attended by of safety groups in highway division No. 4. Walch GOP Candidate for Clerk of Court Fred former principal of the Pittsville high school and teacher last jear near last night announced his for Wood county clerk of court on the Republican ticket at a party rally held at the Pittsville The announcement completed a full Republican slate of county all of were present at rally last County man A. D. Hill reported between 200 and 300 attended the rally and free dance which was staged after the business Mr. Hill announced a rally to be ield at the Richfield town hall next the date to be set LIGHTNING STARTS FIRES San July Lightning started more than 250 fires in California the U. S. forest service Hughes in Seclusion to Rest Up from Receptions New July ard fatigued from a round the world flight and a round of re- got away from it all and left no forwarding Visiting Miss Checking out of the Hotel Drake by phone shortly before Hughes was variously reported to have gone to N. and for the It is at Saybrook that Katharine an actress has a mer The modern Magellan and his four Thomas Edward Harry P. M. Connor and Richard had little rest since landing at Floyd Bennett field New York's traditional a parade up Broadway under a shower of torn ed with a city hall reception and a kept the flying quintet Before Hughes estimated that about would cover ex- penses of the ship cost me only the flier gasoline was furnished and the Wright people gave me the I'm going to keep Anxious for Correction Hughes said ho anxious to correct reports that expenses of the trip ran as high as lest er fliers seeking to lower his girdling mark might be discouraged such a staggering July than 2.000 men fighting 200 Pacific west forest fires today were ened by forecasts of cooler weather and increasing In most instances the fires were the result of a heat wave and Washington state was hit especially western Washington's Wooded slopes and valleys where the majority of the state's 100 fires were other fires burned forest in southern Seventy-three in the Siskiyou Oregon and northern and and the remainder were scattered through northwestern northern Idaho and in British lumbia north of Vancouver and The largest fire in the area ed uncontrolled wood blaze in Lumber holdings which in a week and a half has burned over State Forester T. S. battling the peninsula fire in the scenic Hood canal district but that the Ryderwood fire still was ning despite the efforts of more than RAIDERS LOOT UNION OFFICE FACTION OF WEST ALLTS IT. A. W. LOCAL LOYAL TO MARTIN SEIZES UNION'S RECORDS AND July score of men invaded the ters of the Allis-Chalmers Co. local of the United Automobile Workers union in ban West Allis today and seized the records and The group was led by George president of the UAW dis- council Reads Martin's Orders Before taking Kiebler read written orders signed by er UAW international appointing him administrator of the local union and empowering him to take over the The orders were read to Gertrude a sister of Harold president of the and Marge office charged several of the men repulsed efforts of the girls to halt the Kiebler said the girls became but were not molested and were permitted to go in and out of the headquarters at Kiebler said he and two other UAW representatives went into the office while 18 others remained out- He described his companions as opponents of Christoffel's Tie Up Bank Deposit Kiebler said that in addition to taking over the records and cash which the girls said con- steps were taken to tie up in union funds on deposit in the West Allis State Kiebler said the international un- ion had received complaints from members of the who had ed that Martin step in. Police were called as the records were loaded on a Thomas chief of the West Allis dispatched a squad car to the scene but gave orders not to inter- fere unless disorder The removal was carried out he and the officers merely stood PRESIDENT CALLS FOR RE-ELECTION OF MC ENDORSEMENT OF NIA SENATOR WITH CHEERS BY GELES GREETED LOS Los July President Roosevelt told a cheering crowd at the Los Angeles central station today that he hoped Senator McAdoo of California would be re- The with McAdoo and J. F. T. candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial spoke briefly from the rear platform of his special train just be- fore departing by motor for San The special arrived here at 9 a. m. from El Calif. Prevail on Him to Run Mr. Roosevelt asserted that last there was some question about McAdoo seeking a new wrote and told the dent I hoped very he would run for the senate and by that I meant I hoped he get Motor cars waited at Los Angeles to carry Mr. to at San where the heavy cruiser Houston was ready to weigh anchor with the presidential The a fast ship in spite of its will take Mr. Roosevelt to the haunts of en- barracudas and down where the Heads Home in August The president will drop anchor wherever his navy fishermen ors suggest that a 300-pounder might He will not head home until just in time to reach the Pan- ama canal on August 5. A four day sail from there will land him back in the United States at Fla The chief executive will remain in what he described as minute with Washington by Mail pouches also will be sent to the president's ship bv navy plane and but White House aides indicated that only the most important matters would be laid on Mr. Roosevelt's ship No Newsmen on Voyage Stephen T. White House press secretary who will accompany Mr. Roosevelt on the will nish a daily radio dispatch to papers and No newsmen will be on the destroyer that panies the as there usually are when the president leaves the As a preliminary to today's de- Mr. Roosevelt announced last night the appointment of Elmer New York state labor com- as administrator of the act. The setting of that El entrance to mite was far removed from smoky industrial where the wage hour act is most In the on a auto- mobile the president had for companions Senator and Mrs. Dies Suddenly FORMER UTILITY CZAR VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK FATALLY STRICKEN WHILE ON PLEASURE TRIP FIRST REPORTED KILLED Samuel onetime head of a vast midwestern utility collapse of which involved him in charges of fraud and em- on which he won fell dead in a subway train a few days after his arrival in thr French capital to visit his Death attributed to a heart ARREST 40 IN RACE RIOTING ORDER RESTORED BY POLICE AFTER STREET FIGHTING BE- TWEEN NEGROES IN Martial Law Ordered In Arizona Prison Runyan Defeats Snead for PGA Golf Crown July Paul Runyan of White N. made a hollow show of the malch for the tional P. G. A. championship by shellacking erratic Sam Snead of White Sulphur W. 8 and 7, to win the title for the ond July National guardsmen armed with chine guns moved on Florence today to establish martial law at badly overcrowded state prison under ders of Gov. R. C. Eighteen convicts have from the prison since June 7, Warden John G. Eager told ford in appealing for including one life term still are July restored order early today in turbulent northside after a second wild night of street rioting between races that resulted in the wounding by gunfire of detective and a Negro and the arrest of at least 40 Those under arrest were held for hearings today on charges of ing to Man's Skull Fractured In another outbreak in the West police say the ill feeling between the whites and Negroes arose during the mer over use of recreational man's skull was City Detective Verner 40, was shot in a leg as he and other detectives leaped from a police scout car to break up a mob of both Wounded in the same melee James Lee 21, who was shot 111 both Numerous Clashes The smoldering ill feeling broke out Wednesday night in sporadic street Thursday night roving bands of white and Negro youths i earned the district and in numerous clashes eight were injured and 17 Detective Inspector Walter who was placed in charge and who ordered all his available men to the scene to aid heavy details of uniformed said that the ill feeling in a swimming pool in West park and has grown little by Police Lieut. John Joyce said the disorders resulted from a long dis- pute over use of recreational ties in the Mother Loses in Race With Son Dies July The mother of Jack champion Olympic ice lost a race with death across an ocean and a ent heie by plane only a few hours after her son Mrs. Marguerita Dunn's left a week ago Dunn died last night of a rare by on the day he was uled to start his first Double Mishap Mars Local Family's Vacation Trip Nancy Ann year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tenth enue was in the Marshfield hospital today with severe cuts and bruises suffered when she tumbled out of the Shymanski car near about this While her parents were returning her to Marshfield for treatment at the their car figured in a head-on collision with another car at Abbotsford in which of the Shymanski family were injured but two North Dakota people ed The and their three Nancy Luanne 5, and Francis 4t had set out early today for Grand to visit relatives over Near Nancy Ann mistook the door handle for the handle raising the the door opened and she fell to the At the Marshfield physicians said she had ed no The collision at Abbotsford was with a car driven by DeWayne N. D. A cousin of the Betty Jean and his Mrs. Andrew suffered cuts and Mrs. Ness may also have sustained a Mrs. Shymanski brought Nancy Ann Marshfield in another the family returning home after re- pairs had been made to their car at July uel 78, fallen ruler of midwest ties died suddenly early this Officials said he collapsed from a heart attack in a sub- way Insull was taken by employees to the nearby emergency tal in the Etoile Wife Near Collapse Mrs. in a state of collapse when she reached the said that when she left their hotel ment at noon the aging magnate told her he was going to write a few ters and then go to had told him never to take a subway because it was bad for his she said First reports when the Financier's body was brought to said he had been killed in the street by a hit-and-run said a heart ment from which he had for several years had proved Sends Cable to Son After collapsing when she saw the Mrs. Insull received tives and then at once sent a cable to her in 111., notifying him of his father's Insull only last Monday reached Paris which four years ago was first stop on his dramatic ope flight to evade embezzlement charges growing out of collapse of his utilities empire in 1932. This time he was on a pleasure trip to visit Mrs. died suddenly said Mrs. Insull's message to her Soon after Insull was brought in to the hospital Dr. Edmund L. chief of the medical staff of the American hospital in was called to the Emergency Dead Upon Arrival Hospital authorities said Insull was dead upon Mrs. Insull confirmed that the heart seizure occurred on a subway all alone she said weeping as she told of his Mrs. Insull was visiting friends in a short distance north of when she received word of the Later she said she had friends to take charge of rangements for Alert despite his Insull gave proof of his sprightliness four years ago when he eluded to slip away from a on Page Police Uncover Clues v In Wimbledon Murder July Scotland Yard late today made a second identification of the clad woman's body found iously slain in a shadow lane next to Wimbledon's world famous tennis Authorities said Mrs. Rose Atkins was the victim of the ter court mystery Changing a previous identification of the battered police were to have made progress ward solution of the crime when questioned the victim's ACCIDENT INJURIES FATAL July Paul 82, died yesterday from injuries suffered Sunday when an automobile in which he was overturned a mile south of THE WEATHER For Generally fair night and except sibly showers this or night in extreme south slightly cooler in west and north tonight and in southeast and ex- treme east Today's Weather Maximum temperature for hour period ending at 7 80J minimum temperature for period ending at 7 a. at 7 m. 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