Governor Heil Vetoes Armory Board Bill Amid Budget Rift
Madison Governor Heil vetoed a senate bill creating an armory board with borrowing power to build armories statewide. He warned the board’s unlimited authority risked state debts. The plan listed many cities for new armories and tied funding to federal aid and local land gifts. The budget fight paused further work on the revenue bill as senators eyed reconsideration and shifts in income surtax and aid levels for local relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Heil
Senate
Armory Board
Milwaukee
Sheboygan
Oshkosh
Eau Claire
Watertown
Green Bay
Baraboo
Beloit
Edgerton
Fort Atkinson
Hudson, Marinette
Mauston
Menomonie
Platteville
Portage
Rice Lake
River Falls
Stoughton
Wausau
Waupun
Whitewater
Wisconsin Rapids
Ripon
State Senate
Bernhard Gettelman
Republican
Anthony Gawronski
Gettelman
Bill in Assembly Bars Employes of State in Politics
Madison Wisconsin The Assembly Rules committee at request of William Double Republican Milwaukee introduced a bill prohibiting political activities by any state or local government employee except elective officers. Violations carry up to one year in prison or a $1000 fine. The measure also bans promising jobs to supporters and releasing relief client or pension lists. The committee also introduced a bill to repeal auto dealer and salesman licensing under the banking commission.
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Madison
Assembly Tules
William Double
Republican
Milwaukee
Congress
Rules Committee
Static Banking Commission
Youth Flees As Posse Closes In at Mineral Point
Grover Adams age 17 of Mineral Point fled last night when deputies and Police Chief George Tonkin surrounded his grandmother’s home. He had been hiding with two sisters and was apprehended with Clem ent Jackson 24 near Blue Mounds on car theft charges. He escaped from Dodgeville jail by crawling a chimney. Adams had recently escaped from the Waukesha school for boys.
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Mineral Point
Wic
Grover Adams
Iowa
Veri Pond
Clement Jackson
Blue Mounds
Lown
Dodgeville
Adams
Ait. Richards
George Tonkin
Richards
Pond
Waukesha School
Convention Funds: A Silent Confrontation in Wisconsin
Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman halted payment on state funds to the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans convention corporations after Attorney General John E. Martin advised. He found two appropriations to the emergency board for the 1941 conventions questionable as private purposes, urging no audit or payout under emergency board orders. Senator Murray proposed direct from the general fund to avoid the board issue, while Martin predicted no injunction would be necessary. The involved veterans groups supported the stance, and courts would likely refuse any further action.
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Madison
Fred Zimmerman
American Legion
Disabled American Veterans Convention
John E. Martin
Martin
William T. Evine
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Emergency Board
Milton T. Murray
Republican
Legion Convention
State General Fund
Evjue
Secretary of State
Treasury
Supreme Court
Solons Adjourn for Governor's Day at State Fair Park
Both houses of the legislature adjourned early to allow senators and assemblymen to attend Governor's Day ceremonies at State Fair Park in West Allis. No official delegations objected.
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Madixon
Goveernor
State Far Park
West Allis
Americans Urged to Stay Home Amid Europe Tension
Washington reports the state department advises Americans not to travel to war threatened Europe. Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said citizens abroad should follow diplomats' guidance, with embassies in Poland and France urging departures where advised. Berlin crowds flee as France and Britain urge exits, and travel out of Germany is jammed by fear of war. Plans to rush home under neutrality policy are being perfected.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Sumner Welles
Welles
Poland
France
U. S
Berlin
Germany
Paris
Robert Coulondre
United States
Governor’s lazy remark aimed at state employes rather than legislature
Madison report says Gov Julius P heil told a Sunday Scandinavia free fair audience that lazy “those boys” referred to state employes, not lawmakers. Sen R Fisher, Republican, recounts sitting behind him and notes the comment followed a shift from legislative talk to personnel.
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Madison
Julius Pheil
R. Fisher
Waupaca
Fate
Schafer proposes arms embargo until Europe pays debts
Representative Schafer, Republican of Wisconsin, clears his desk and urges a bill to bar sale or shipment of arms and war supplies to foreign nations in default on World War debts. He argues for action to collect more than 13 billion dollars in overdue war debts.
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Washington
Schafer
Wisconsin
Congress
Weather Summary From Milwaukee to Phoenix
Fair in the south and cloudy in the north with cooler air shifting tonight. Thursday promises fair and warmer conditions. Observations show time stamps and temperatures including Milwaukee highs and lows, with a 72 and 52 reading, precipitation 21, wind southwest, barometer readings, and comparisons to the prior year’s temperatures.
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Associated Lecal Wisconsin
Pest
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Phoenix
Bismarck
Beckstall Observatory
Germany Defies Demands and Talks Turn to Crisis
Paris reports indicate Germany will not modify demands and vital rights. France plans mobilization with 1.5 to 2 million troops, targeting Poland. London seethes with the European crisis as Hitler’s move prompts Britain to vow to fight if Poland resists. Cabinet unity grows around a possible British war posture.
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Webb Miller
United Press
London
U.P
Hitler
Poland
Britain
Great Britain
lPrance
Germany
Roosevelt orders speedy trip home from sea voyage
President Roosevelt abandoned gulf stream plans and ordered the cruiser Tuscaloosa and Lang to hasten to Sandy Hook New Jersey. The Tuscaloosa with the president aboard was expected to reach Sandy Hook Thursday morning. He would board a special train for Washington and did not reveal return plans. News noted his remark that congressional deadlock over neutrality legislation limited options to avert war.
New Jersey Floods Hit Tuckerton After 14.87 Inch Rainfall
A U.S. Weather Bureau report calls the 14-hour downpour near Tucker ton the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in New Jersey history. The storm damaged the Central Railroad of New Jersey line and derailed the Blue Comet flyer, with seventeen people killed in the incident as rain weakened the trackbed.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Weather Bureau
Tuckerton
A. E. White
New Jeresy
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Cobb Drives 368.85 Miles Hour To Set New Land-Speed Record
London broker John R. Cobb set a new world land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, achieving 368.85 mph for the measured mile with his Railton Red Lion car. He also set a kilometer record at 360.74 mph and averaged 266.97 mph on the return run, surpassing Eyston’s marks.
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John R. Cobb
London
Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
Cobb
Broker
Railton Red Lion
George E. T. Eyston
Eyston
Lost couple from dense woods near Lutson Minnesota
Dr Arthur H Curtis and Mrs Floyd H Walkrous, staying at Nelson resort, wandered from dense woods on Monday afternoon. After two days of rain they began walking east toward the lake shore and were found the same day with help of 400 searchers and an airplane search.
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Lutson
Minn
Hore Brush
Evanston
Arthur H. Curtis
Floyd H. Walkrous
Nelson
Dick Bear
Assembly approves rehabilitation program for Wisconsin
The assembly adopted a joint resolution creating an interim committee of 11 members two from each party to draft a land utilization and rehabilitation policy for Wisconsin's 28 northern counties. The committee would report to the next legislature.
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Madioon
Assembly
Iowa
Wisconsin
Belgian King Urges Open Negotiations for Peace
King Leopold of Belgium spoke for seven neutral nations calling for peace and urging world leaders to accept open negotiations to resolve differences. The 10 minute address from the palace was broadcast and relayed to the United States England France and other nations, warning that another horrible struggle could be avoided through cooperative conciliation. The conference of seven small states endorsed the plea and pledged active participation in international peace efforts.
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Tscassels
Leopold
Europe
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
The
Netherlands
Luxembrieure
United States
England
France
Albert
British Dismantle Spans to Hong Kong Amid Tense Times
British forces dismantled bridges linking Hong Kong with Chinese territory as a precaution after reports of Japanese troop movements nearby. Officials advised residents in outlying areas to move to Hong Kong island. The unease rose with four Japanese cruisers reported in Taishan bay. In Dodgeville Wisconsin a man escaped with 44 dollars from a shoe store cash drawer.
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Hongkong
Hongkong Island
Britain
Victoria
Taishan Bay
Dodgeville
Wis
Poland Must Yield or Fight Over Poland Demands
Berlin reports quote Adolf Hitler telling British ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson that Germany will not modify demands on Poland despite the British guarantee. Unconditional return of Danzig, restoration of Pommereden Belmorze and Polish Upper Silesia, and a Bohemian Moravian style reordering. Hitler warns of a new partition if Poland resists. Sir Nevile met Hitler at Berchtesgaden and conveyed London’s pledge to resist force against Poland. Controversy over courier messages and ongoing negotiations with the Soviet Union.
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Poland
Slovakia
Silesia
Pomerania
Britain
England
United States
Neville Chamberlain
John Simeon
Samuel Hoare
Thome
Hiller
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Nevile Henderson
Germany
Danzig
Reich
Pommereden
Belmorze
Polish Upper Silesia
Bohemia and Moravia
Hitler
Europe
Sir Nevile
Berchtesgaden
Kim
Chamberlain
London
Hopkins Orders Staff to Attack Unemployment
Secretary of commerce Harry L. Hopkins announced a new staff of economists will study and attack unemployment and other American business problems. The group, funded by a 160000 dollar appropriation, aims to proceed vigorously to balance the economy and raise employment, with Richard V. Gilbert of Harvard to lead the industrial economics division.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Secretary of Commerce
Congress
Hopkins
Department of Commerce
Richard V. Gilbert
Harvard University
New Motor Registration Law Passed by Legislature
The legislature sent to Governor Heil an administration bill creating a new motor vehicle department to consolidate functions from several agencies. Weighs and measures inspection remains with agriculture and markets, prospector duties stay with the treasurer, and the director’s term extends to six years with a 4500 dollar salary limit. A new department would handle meter vehicle duties from the secretary of state, industrial commission, treasurer, and public service commission.
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Madison
Jin Assembly
Senate
Heil
Department of Agriculture and Markets
Secretary of State
Industrial Commission
Pubic Service Commission
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Martg Flores
German Busch
Flores
Busch
Quintanilla
Carlos Quintanilla
Enrique Baldivieso
Interior Salinas
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Hoaspital
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