Additional Funds for Pool Project Boosted by Club
The community swimming pool fund sponsored by the Junior Association of Commerce rose to 286 with two new gifts. The La Crosse County Democratic Women's Club gave 310 and the Red Triangle club 25. Additional pledges are being sought as the group hosts a nautical show at Riverside Park on Aug 25 and a public dance at the Avalon, with proceeds for the pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Association of Commerce
la Crosse County
Democratic Women's Club
Red Triangle Club
Riverside Park
Avalon
WPA Allotment Lists Large Wisconsin Projects
The WPA plans continuation of Mississippi river bridge work at La Crosse and prepares more local projects for submission to the Works Allotment Board. Col Harry Williams may be sent to Washington as liaison. George Field may return Saturday. The $23 million plan covers 44 000 jobs. Major item is 10 million for farm to market roads. Local projects span Monroe Eau Claire Chippewa La Crosse Trempealeau Jackson Monona and Washington DC with numerous conservation road and public works allocations and county allocations. Two Milwaukee youths were detained for possible probation intake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page
la Crosse
Immell
Works
Dimmell
Col
Harry Williams
Wisconsin National Guard
Washington
Ee Wy
George Field
Projects Division
Wisconsin
la Follette
Monroe County
Chippewa County
Eau Claire County
Chippewa Falls
Eau Claire
Senate bill would require convicts to pay for care
Madison Wis state senate debated a bill modeled after a Michigan law to charge prisoners with funds for their maintenance. The measure proposed attaching any savings or income a prisoner has including war service bonuses, if available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
State Senate
Michigan
Kelly
Fond du Ce
Wisconsin River Plans Approved
Lieutenant Governor Thomas O Malley signed a bill outlining conditions for the Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company to acquire land for the Big and Little Eau Plaine reservoirs as part of a 15 million dollar Wisconsin river development program. The measure allows lease, purchase, or condemnation to take up to 5 percent of farm and agricultural land in the reservoir areas within two years, with condemnation value not below the past ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Thomas O’malley
Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company
Eau Plaine
Wisconsin River
La Crosse County Board debates bridge needs and salaries
La Crosse County Board amends a resolution urging construction of a new Mississippi River bridge at La Crosse and outlines plans for a five member special committee. Officials discuss Sun day airport dedication, a county service officer post, and compensation for the chairman amid finance concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naga Pre
Davis
la Crosse
la Crosse County
Wisconsin
Fritz
Schubert
Works Progress Administration
40 Hour Postal Week Bill Signed
President Roosevelt signed the 40 hour week for postal workers. The law aims to add about 10,000 permanent jobs for men on the postal substitute list. Mail carriers clerks and railway mail workers will shift to five days eight hours daily, with overtime rules easing. The bill takes effect October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Shriners To Attend Assembly Saturday
Members of the La Crosse Shrine club and friends are invited to join Saturday events at Lake Delton and Wisconsin Dells with other Shrine clubs. The Madison Shrine club hosts the annual picnic at Lake Delton with golf and lunch, followed by dinner at the Finch hotel in Wisconsin Dells and an Indian pageant at the Noble Parson grounds.
Bridge collapse costs lives as La Crosse ferry plan unfolds
Miss Marcelin Patro of Minneapolis among four occupants of a car that crashed into a bridge girder sending the vehicle into the river. Capt. Fischer Blinn was exonerated in the incident. Louis Landrieu's family conveyed bodies to New Orleans as the Citizens' Taxpayers' league backs a new La Crosse bridge project with full support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
la Crosse
Riverside
Pettibone
City Highway Department
Miss Marcelin
Patro
Minneapolis
Fischer Blinn
War Department
Trempealeau Dam
Francis Landrieu
Market Street
Galesville
New Orleans
Louis H. Landrieu
Genoa
Landrieus
Citizens’ Taxpayers’ League
Citizens’ Taxpayers' League of
Airport Dedication Plans Highlight Local Ceremony And Air Display
The airport dedication will start at 2 30 with flag raising and concerts by Veterans of Foreign Wars Boy Scouts Erickson Junior and Junior Naval Guard drum and bugle corps. At 3 30 the formal program features addresses by R W Davis and Judge Roy V Ahlstrom. Six airplanes will participate in an aerial bombardment stunt with Capitol OS planes from Madison and local ships. Traffic control and parking will be handled by county deputies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Boy Scout
Erickson
Naval Guard
R. W. Davis
County Board of Supervisors
Roy V. Ahlstrom
Madison
Capitol OS Company
Fau Claire
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Twin
French Italian Officials Confer Over East Africa Policy
Paris officials weighed war and peace programs in East Africa as Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi conferred for about an hour. Mussolini’s envoy urged disarming Ethiopia, colonial expansion, and raw materials access, while Laval argued war would jeopardize Europe’s peace and the League of Nations and threaten Anglo Italian control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
East Africa
Laval
Baron Pompeo ‘Aloisi
Italy
Mussolini
Eritrea
Somaliland
Ethiopia
Great Britain
Europe
League of Nations
Former Show Girl Held For Slaying Of Husband
Mrs. Lucille Horan 28 a former Vanities show girl was held for the grand jury after pleading innocence in the slaying of her husband Frank Horan 34 on the Hamburg lawn. An assistant district attorney said she confessed to killing him after an argument in which he became abusive and knocked her down during a drunken return home from Buffalo night clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffelo
Lucille, Horan
Grand Jury
Frank Horan
Hamburg
Horan
Jenrity
Johnn Walsh
Buffalo
Walsh
Campaign Against Faulty Headlights Prolonged County Action
The La Crosse county traffic department vows ongoing enforcement to stop vehicles with faulty headlights. Stanley Olson pledged the force to arrest drivers with poor lights. Loring Raymond and Fred Richman each paid $1 fines and $4.24 costs after Wednesday arrests on highway 53 in Onalaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trafic
la Crosse
Stanley Olson
Loring Raymond
Jackson Street
Fred Richman
Holmen
Onalaska
Local People Dine With Army Camp Guests in La Crosse
Wisconsin National Guard officers of the 120th field artillery and medical corps hosted guests from La Crosse at McCoy camp. Guests included Dr E A Gatterdam Dr Dan MacArthur John H Burns Judge Leonard Kleber and several Mrs Gatterdam and Mrs Moran along with the Appleton band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
120Th Field Artillery and Medical Corps
Wisconsin National Guard
McCoy
E. A. Gatterdam
Dan MacArthur
John H. Burns
Leonard Kleeber
Paul C. Gatterdam
John H. Gatterdam
C. J. Moran
Appleton Band
Knights Of Pythias Elects New Officers
Walwaukee Wis Concluding sessions of the annual convention of the state grand lodge the Knights of Pythias Guy Benson Racine was elected chancellor Wednesday Other new officers include Fred G Holt Edgerton vice chancellor W E Smith Cadet Master at Arms William Stremer Stoughton outer guard Howard Rhodes Lancaster grand trustee and R L Warner Sheboygan and H L Halsted Baraboo supreme representatives
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walwaukee
Wis
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Guy Benson
Racine
Fred G. Holt
Edgerton
W. E. Smith
William Stremer
Stoughton
Outer Guard
Howard Rhodes
Lancaster
Grand
R. L. Warner
Sheboygan
H. L. Halsted
Baraboo
Supreme Representatives
Madison barbers seek abeyance to test new state code
A petition filed with District Attorney Lyall T Beggs asks prosecutions under the new state barbers code be delayed until the code is tested in court. 12 Madison barbers plan a test case to challenge the code s price fixing. Aug 20 is set as the compliance deadline by the code authority. Driver Ekelled Waterford Wis Claire M Kenner 22 Milwaukee driver of bakery truck killed when vehicle left road overturned after striking a post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Lyall T. Beggs
Madiso Barbers
Ekelled
Waterford
Claire M. Kenner
Milwaukee
Here
Aunt Het On BY Robert Quillen
A humor piece by Robert Quillen recalling a college receipt scene and comments on a young clerk’s handwriting with a playful jab at the third grade. The quip reveals small town wit about education and work habits in a light, nostalgic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Quillen
Identified Transient Body Believed Son Of Houston Man
The body of a youth, initially identified as Doyle Irvin of Houston, Texas, is confirmed by A E Irwin as his son but the father cannot afford overseas shipping for burial and leaves the remains with the morgue. The man, found unconscious in Burlington railroad yards at 12 20 AM Aug 10 after an epileptic episode, likely rode No 82 and was found by railroad workers before the train departed at 1 50 AM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
City
Doyle Irvin
Houston
Texas
A. E. Irwin
Burlington Railroad
Assembly kills bill to link police radio network in Wisconsin
In Madison on Wednesday the assembly defeated the Vaughn bill to create a statewide police radio network funded by a premium tax on theft and holdup insurance. Concurrence approved up to $600 for a portrait of late John J. Blaine, former senator and governor, lacking a portrait in the capitol. Concurrence also advanced the Shenners measure reducing pension eligibility age from 70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wish
Wednesay
John J. Blaine
Robbers Take Cash and Goods From Silver Palace
Thieves entered via window at the Silver Palace on Goose Island after 2 am Thursday and stole 25 dollars in change, 35 packs of popular cigarettes, and 30 packs of various gum. Sheriff Woll’s department probes the burglary. the hall was burglarized again about a year ago for about 40 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Palace
Goose Island
O. B. Woll
Eight Men Arrested As Resort Raiders
Eight men, named by police as members of a bandit gang, were arrested for a series of raids on golf clubs and summer resorts in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. Mike Derrico and George Bougadis were seized in Melrose Park. other suspects’ names were withheld. State's Attorney Thomas Courtney said Nippersing Country Club officials would view the prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sil—i
Illinois
Wisconsin
Mike Derrico
George Bougadis
Melrose Park
Thomas Courtney
Nippersing
Genoa City
Wis
Oil Jobbers To Hold Meeting Here Aug. 23
Milwaukee Wisconsin selection of seven cities for meetings by the Wisconsin Petroleum association promotes its program against price wars and calls for a state investigation of operating costs of major firms. Eau Claire Ed Nelson Aug. 21 Wausau Sam Traitor Aug. 22 La Crosse P J Yerly Aug. 23 Oshkosh Robert Downes Aug. 27 Green Bay Dale Andrews Aug. 28 Madison A J Fiore Aug. 29 Milwaukee W P Fete Sept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin Petroleum Association
Eau Claire
Ed Nelson
Wausau
Sam Trainor
la Crosse
P. J. Yerly
Oshkosh
Robert Downes
Green Bay
Dale Andrews
Madison
A. J. Fiore
W. P. Fete
Last Man's Club To Meet Saturday
The Last Man's club founded in 1932 during the state VFW encampment in La Crosse will hold its annual meeting Saturday evening August 31 at the La Crosse hotel. Members include veterans of old Company M later Company C 121st machine gun battalion of the oat division with Captain George H. Hale as president and Arthur Kofta as secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
la Crosse
Circus transportation manager dies at 75 in Bridgeport
John A McLachlan, 75, longtime transportation manager for Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Bros. circuses, died Wednesday night in Bridgeport. Survivors include two daughters, Marguerite McLacklan of Antigs and Mrs H V Warren of Antigs, 1s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Conn
John A., McLachlan
Barnum and Bailey and
Ringling Bros. Circus
Marguerite McLacklan
H. V. Warren
Antigs
101-Pound Watermelon Sent to Beat Georgia's Weigh-In
Sumter County farmer announces sending a 101 pound watermelon to the White House as a playful challenge to Georgia's 85 pound fruit. The note includes thanks to friends and relatives for support after a death in the family, with special mentions to local organizations and helpers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Sumter
S. C
S. J. White
Sumter County
Hoosevelt
White House
Marshall
Four Die in Plane Crash in Gilmer Texas
Four persons died when a Delta Airlines tri-motor crashed and burned after circling a cotton field near Gilmer Texas. Names given include Andy Dixon of Monroe Louisiana pilot Herbert Buckley Dallas co pilot J W Thompson Atlanta and P A Ivy Birmingham Alabama. Bodies were recovered by farmers Guy Weldon and Herbert McWhorter who heard the plane overhead before the crash and attempts to reach the wreck failed. The cause of the accident was not learned immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmer
Tex
Delta Airlines
Andy Dixon
Monroe
Herbert Buckley
Dallas
J. W. Thompson
Atlanta
P. A. Ivy
Birmingham
Ala
Guy Weldon
Herbert McWhorter
McWhorter
Weldon
Lobbying by former public officials and party leaders
An article surveys ex officials now in law practice shaping lobbying in Washington. It names Mullen Kremer and Jackson as Nebraska Montana New Hampshire figures who moved after Roosevelt era pressure, representing power interests and radio and utilities clients while earning far more than the president. It notes New Deal figures and others like Gardner Tumulty Palmer Shouse Guffey among the prominent ex public servants listed as lobbyists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Kenyon
Mullen
Kremer
Jackson
Democratic National
Henry Doherty
James Eb, Hanley
Federal Radio Commission
Commission
Elmer W. Pratt
PWA
Son
National Emergency Council
National Committee
Roosevelt
Massachusetts Avenue
Niagara Hudson Power Company
Carlisle
Tougher Kremer
Robert Dollar
Farley Ocean Mail
Hermes Cummings
Department of Justice
Q. Max Gardner
North Carolina
International Mercantile Marine
Gardner
Cummings
Commerce
Roper
Wallace
Perkins
Ickes
Joseph F. Tumulty
Secr
Retary
Woodrow Wilson
Associated Gas and Electric
du Ponts
A. Mitchell Palmer
Trouett Shouse
American Liberty League
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
National Labor Board
Weirton Steel
White House
Contempt Ruling In Senate Involves Hopson And Hill
Howard C. Hopson, cited for contempt by the New York senate, has a long record in public utilities and was involved in a dispute over subpoena procedures. William A. Hill, Hopson’s attorney, appeared as his counsel as the senate postponed his trial while the house continued its action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jurney
Senate
O'Connor
Hopson
Black
Senate Lobby Committee
Hill
Herber
Burns
Representative Snell
House Committee
Moultrie Hill
Washington
Associated Gas and Electric Company
New York, N
Howard C. Hopson
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Public Service Commission
H. C. Hopson Company
Ivan Gas and Electric Corporation
Ft. Atkinson
Wis
University of Wisconsin
George Washington University
Griswold Bill Faces Senate Return With Tax Plan
The Griswold bill likely goes back to the senate with a tax plan attached as both houses remain split on solving the tax problem. The Grange bill proposes sure taxes on personal incomes over 5000 at 2 to 7 percent and earmarks revenues for school transport tuition aids and increased support to high and elementary schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
New York Police Round Up 750 Men In Park Sweep
Police press in 750th capture in a sweeping action aimed at curbing park violence in New York City. Five officers transferred for the operation led sunset to night arrests of vagrants. Magistrate Earl A. Smith handled hundreds of cases in short order and sentences were issued before a broader court schedule. Commissioner Valente ordered the roundup at Mayor LaGuardia’s demand to clear riff raff linked to killings and multiple assaults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Park
Earl A. Smith
Smith
Lewis A. Valentine
la Guaridia
Riff-Raff
Widow of Agent Sues Gangster in $100,000 Damages Suit
Mrs. Lavon C. Crowley of Salt Lake City sues John Paul Chase alleging his killing of her husband Samuel P. Crowley, a Justice Department agent, and seeks $100,000 plus a restraining order to prevent withdrawal of $1,738 held in Chase’s brother Charles and his wife’s accounts. Chase, a former Dillinger associate, is serving life at Alcatraz for the crime. The suit names gangster George Baby Face Nelson as killed in the same gun battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Calif
John Paul Chase
Dillinger
Samuel P. Crowley
Department of Justice
Sisin
Barrington
Chase
Alcata Island
San Francisco Bay
Lavon C. Crowley
Salt Lake City
George
Baby Face
Wrecked Buick Abandoned After Highway Crash
A Buick stolen from Raymond H. Dahl of Sparta was found wrecked at the foot of the Neshonoc hill on highway 16 by county traffic officers. The car, almost completely demolished, bore blood stains and had struck a telephone pole, with officers later confirming ownership after checking the automobile registry and Sparta police chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond H. Dahl
Sparta
Neshonoc Hill
Highway 16
West Salem
Jenkins of
Stairway Collapse Rescues Woman at Copeland Avenue
A stairway landing collapsed at 70232 Copeland Avenue on a Thursday morning. Mrs. John Haggerty held on as the structure gave way and firefighters from company No. 2 were called to extricate her from the precarious position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copeland Avenue
John Haggerty
Fire Department Company No. 2
Democratic Picnic Sunday Postponed Near Holmen
The Democratic picnic near Holmen has been postponed until after the Young Democrats meeting in Milwaukee on August 23 and 24. In a separate matter Judge Roy V. Ablesstrom dismissed the case against Donald Hayes of 2011 George Street on a statutory charge due to lack of evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holmen
Milwaukee
Donald Hayes
George Street
Roy V. Ablestrom
Obituary of Gregory Cina 61 in Red Mound Wisconsin
Gregory Cina 61 of Red Mound Wisconsin died at home Thursday at 3 30 am born October 12 1873 in San Nicola Da Crissa Italy came to the United States in 1912 survived by his wife and many children including Dominic Joseph Cosentine Nanty Josep Nicholas Francis Anthony Ralph Gabriel Michael Victora Katherine Phyllis Jean Merrill and two sisters in Italy Funeral services set for Saturday 9 am at St Josephs Genoa officiated by Rev Timberlian with interment in St Charles Genoa cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory Cina
Red Mound
Wis
San Nicola da Crissa
Taly
United States
Dominic
Joseph Cosentine
la Crosse
Nanty
Josep
Nicholas
Francis
Anthony
Ralph
Gabriel
Michael
Victora
Katherine
Phyllis
Jean
Merrill
Italy
St Joseph’s Church
Genoa
Timberlian
St. Charles Cemetery
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Lucille Kohn
Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Milwaukee Railroad
County Probation Department
County Board
Courty Airport
J. H. Schubert
George W. West
Tn la Crosse
West
A. C. Rice
the Legion
Committee On Finance
Way's
Means
Highway Committee
A. R. Lews
Finance, Ways and Means
Russell Gile
John and
Oliva Lair
Brinleman
WERA
FR. S. Cowie
Cowle
Highway 14
Qehler's Cave
Frank J. Davy
Baturdass
Shriners
Coperlend Park
Aloisi
Africa
Knights of Pythias
Madison Barbers Plan
Assembly
Circus
Pat Hurley
Charles Curtis
Brinkley
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Metro-Goldwyn
Aviation
James M. Doran
William P. MacCracken
Ted Clark
Coolidge
Bascom
Stemp
National
Frank Mondell
House
Oid
Bob Lucas
Republican National Committee
John Q. Tilson
Jim Watson
Indiana
George Moses
New Hampshire
Crted
William A. Hill
Attornney
Griswold Bil
Bridge Club
Gateway City
New
St. Paul
Chamber of Commerce
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