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Truckpoint.P)— Rus-GO-truck1 the So-e m lessering an-Warden Explodes Lion Storyblockade/” n guardsslowdown t to Ger-;rlin, per-pass this te for theAs Figment of Imaginationorted still other So-tesofmeom-jR. u d e region, of L Backus, or use as ^proved at Wednesdays building committee acquisition of $16,000.ransaction k and that fssion Sep-f the resi-i purposes quirements industrial n engineer l few days and make cording to ig eommit-Central Wisconsin’s lion is no more — and apparently never was.On Wednesday the area’s biggest lion hunt in years fizzled out—and Wood county authorities hope for good.For months excited residents have been besieging Sheriff Arthur E. Berg to “do something about that lion,” Dozens have reported seeing the monster.Game warden Fred Jacobson investigated seven of the reports. In three of them he found tracks that indicated that the “big yellow’ beast”was a sociable deer, in three others that the miscreant was a stray dog and in the seventh that a lonesome wolf was responsible.Wednesday morning when a farm woman reported seeing a lion two and a half miles east of Nekoosa, Undersheriff Arthur M. Boll and Jacobson enlisted the aid of hunting dogs and hit the trail.And the trail turned out to be thatof an alarmed doe.So the next fellow who say? he saw a lion and better have some claw marks to prove it.History of the fruitless hunt goes back to last March when the critter was first reported in the town of Rudolph. From then on the number and frequency of reports grew. The beast was seen in the towns of Saratoga, Cranmoor and even in neighboring Portage county.Although the statements of witnesses obviously were sincere, sev-I”WASN'T ME!”* r *eral facts east considerable doubt on the actual presence of a hon.In the first place, no livestock ever was reported missing undercircumstances which wnllt;{ indicate and his story goes on the list the lion was finding prey. Also the | mysteries solved or explained.Red Press Hits PopesExcommunication RuleHome —UP)— The pope's excom*Pres Set IIQkind of vunu'is io cc*n-[Va\ pnlubJ\ would wineout n tY\*nu\ii-tnlt;*d ♦As auilwMtn^ jku'U d out. an i\-rilnd pors.m $«■ a iUw or ooa under poor litfhl.na lt;lt;;iulilions roll'deasily be mL-dai-mu And a mau^ystray wolf bri^lm^ nl il parson or miirhi look to ^ me observes as if it wore a genuine African hon.Jacobson said that at onewolf is known to be jn the area suinh of Wisconsin Rapids .oul jI mi^ht be the animal responsible.Anlt;l so—until further and more positno proof is uncovered—the central Wisconsin lion has been buriedofBiIndiana (.Vi — rJStedworkithov ht.J t hi on iutree SIihm com strike inheie at mm unicat ion of Communists stung | the pope has used excommunication the Communist-controlled press of ito fight back at the CommunistsEurope to violent reaction today.The Vatican disclosed last night that Pope Pius XII has cut off from the sacraments and comforts of the faith all Roman Catholics “who make profession of the materialistic and anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists.”'The action was a stern warning that the church will not compromise with communism.in recent years.Previous decrees had been direct-►ed at those who tried and sentenced Archbishop Alojzijc Stepinac in Yugoslavia in 1946, at those responsible for the imprisonment of Hun- their rejectiWashingWhite Hot: IVesident steel fact-f row wheth three” pro-pressure fc with his pi Saturday.Char lee press sec this after been hear latest ruescompanies.There was io who the for the boa finding andbe decisive c millions of A have a foui wage increasQuestion FirAsking U. public and Igary’s Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and at the founders and willing members of a Separatist, government-controlled Catholic Action society in Czechoslovakia.Informed Vatican sources intermit the waj special inqui mended so hr “Surely j have your s amined in 1 While soipreted the decree’s wording to be ineffect a last warning to Catholics i and the Cl II Paese, Communist-line news pa- | ,vvn defend or follow rnmnra- 1 union a c.cen
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1949
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