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Garage Owner BlamedFatallyBurnedBloomerManSaidSetBlaze ACHIPPEWA FALLS fSpe-rial)- Roman Baier, 37, Bloomer trucker died of burns received in a fire and explosion he caused himself, Chippewa County authorities announced here Friday. Ilis partner, Carl Lehrer;• I DON’T THINK they've proved anything,’’ Lehrer announced. He said he is not satisfied’’ with the statement. Roman would never do a thing like that,’’ he said.The business was comingtown of Eagle Point, said, I along all don’t believe a word of It, when'had been he heard the statement.Baier was named as the incendiary in the blast at theBaier Transport Co., garage onof Bloomer at 13. He died of blast at St. Jo-rightathe south 110 am Feb.burns from thealthough there lot of union trou-j ble ”, Lehrer reported. He said that representatives of the Gen-' eral Drivers and Helpers Cnion from Flau Claire had been pestering Roman about $8,000 in back pay for the drivers. Milton Beleke, business representa-cft*steMida'mi t hihu;tursoph's Hospital here at about! tive of the union in Plan Claire.8hadp.m. the same day.District Attorney Vance Sin-j Lehrers clair, who conducted the investigation with Sheriff Pllmet Paquette, William Rohan, P7au Claire, deputy fire marshal, and the Bloomer fire and police departments, issued the following statement:We have concluded that the fire was of incendiary origin.that the ineendiarv was RomanVBaier and that gasoline was the aceellerant. Roman Baier diedas a result of burns suffered in the incident.no comment to make onstatementiU.S. Attorneysnter t r a30malt;5ft. -d et Rutofor MajorShakeupby Ikev1 rar ; vv e iciv! milbreMI PA VARIETY of rumors, half-truths, and speculation had arisen out of the blast and blazewhich brought an estimated $15,-500 damage to trucks and other property.Evidence tending to show the fire was incendiary included theabnormal burning on the trucks, the fact the fires were confined to the cabs of the trucks, andthe fact that gasoline caused the flames, officials said.Mrs. Baier told the district attorney and sheriff that she had driven her husband to the garage about midnight at his request and as she had often done in the past when he had work to do there. She then returned home.When she was called by Ida Bassette from the Knotty Pine Restaurant informing her of the fire, she drove back to the garage. Her husband came to the car and she got out to assist him but he seated himself before she could get around the car. She then took him homeand called for medical assistance.levWASHINGTON CAP) - Re-placement of three United Statesattorneys was announced PTi-day in what was reported to be the beginning of a major shake- nm up of federal prosecutors j throughout the country. j }.Also announced was the resig-j.,^ , nation of the Justice Depart- ^Vf ment's No. 2 man, Solicitor Gen- thp eral Walter J. Cummings, effec- fnlt;] tive March 1. Cummings, who! jwas appointed to the $15,500 post by former President Truman shortly before the change in administrations, has been criti- in ; cized by some senators and bar Coa associations as lacking in ex-f:st at4 Iperience.couONE OF THE.. ^ „ whfUnited States:jrorattorneys replaced by President; ^ieiEisenhower was Myles J. Lane, who has been in charge of South-, A ern New York district office n..;. since Oct. 1951. j jAs .Lane’s successor, Eisen-Iarp.nortInhower nominated J. Edward Lumbard Jr., Harvard - trained lawyer who served two hitches as assistant U. S. attorney when vvpithe office was under Republicancontrol. Lumbard was a prose-canFrocutor in the notorious New' York i=; t _____ • - - - y 1 ^ 1— A
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1953
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