The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 1

THE WEATHER Possibly showers In cast tonight; cooler in southeast; Saturday lair, rising temperature. THE RHINELANDER DAILY NEWS TEN PAGES TODAY Leased Wife of The Associated Press EIGHTEENTH 87 RHINELANBER, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS I ill" Ivill II vU IV111 Roper Accuses MitchM In Charges BUREAU WORK Commerce Department Head Makes Sweeping Defense before Committee. PRESSING HIS CHARGES OF GRAFT WORKS BILL IS Tells of Dismissal WASHINGTON, June 21 Making a sweeping defense of the commerce department against charges of his ousted assistant, Ewing Y. MitcheK, Secretary Roper in accused Mitchell of pursuing obstructive tactics which created a "log jam" of business in the department. The cabinet member appeared before the senate commerce committee personally to answer the deposed assistant secretary's accusations of inefficiency and graft in the department.

Reading from a prepared statement he described Mitchell as a man of "exceedingly suspicious temperament" who was "prone lo treat every rumor of unsupported statement as true." Committee members listened sym- contrast to their critical attitude toward Mitchell in his appearance on the Secretary Roper earnestly declared that he had investigated all charges of "irregularities" in his department and taken action where it was justified. Mitchell was dismissed from his post by President Roosevelt a few days ago after refusing to resign. He had just concluded, three days of. testimony before the committee, which was called to investigate his charges, when the secretary was given an opportunity to answer him. Roper denied that President Roosevelt had anything to do with the retirement from service of the United States liner Leviathan, shipping board permission for which was said by Mitchell to have resulted in a government "gift" of $1,725,000 to the United States Lines.

The secretary said this action was taken because fears were felt for its safety and because the company had agreed to put a new ship into service. "The president did not initiate my action in laying up the Leviathan," he declared. The cabinet member denied also that "outside influences" were responsible for Mitchell's removal. Instead, he said, repeated complaints of Mitchell's "inactivity" impelled him to obtain a better qualified man as assistant secretary. TROOPSLEAVE OMAHATODAY Governor Demobilizes Force after Settlement of Street Car Strike.

OMAHA, June 21 of the Nebraska national guard combat force of 1,800 men who occupied Omaha last Saturday under martial law after three nights of rioting in which two men were killed, was ordered today by Gov. R. L. Cochran as a result of the settlement reached in the bitter Omaha street car strike late yesterday. The guardsmen will begin leaving the city by noon and Adj.

Gen. H. J. Paul, jntard commander, said he hoped to have his force out of the city by p. m.

and to lift the martial law order at that hour. Meanwhile the 268 strikers were ready for work with the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company after being out on strike for two months. All were placed on the payroll and began drawing wages at the same rate they were receiving when they walked out. The higher wages demand of the men will be arbitrated by the governor's committee of Sam Reynolds, Ernest Bowerman and John Ledwith. The committee will also arbitrate the shorter hours demand.

The closed shop and re-employment questions were believed solved, reliable reports being that the union had dropped the closed shop question and that the company had dropped objection to re-employment of certain strikers. YOUTH KILLED MILWAUKEE, June 21 UP) Frank Benkowski, 17, was killed instantly yesterday when struck by a Milwaukee Road passenger train as he walked across the tracks with a group of companions in South Milwaukee. PEUESTRAIN KILLED MADISON. June 21 when struck by a car while he was walking across a street, Nelson Johnson, Madison, died in a hospital today. Willard Clark, driver of the car, was accused by police of operating a car without proper brakes.

53T036VOTE Assembly to Take Final Vote Monday; Most Amendments Dropped. While the senate commerce committee listened avidly, Ewing Y. Mitchell, deposed assistant secretary of commerce, outlined in detail his charges that the department was shot through with "graft" and "corruption" in connection with shipping. He's shown here while "testifying" at a press conference prior to the senate inquiry. to Explain Rosenberg Parole BRUNO AWAITS PLEAMCISiON Begins New Ordeal of Inactivity; Judges Ponder Defense Contentions.

TRENTON, N. June 21 Bruno Richard Hauptman began a new ordeal of waiting today while 14 judges pondered his plea for a new Lindbergh kidnaping trial. Not until late September or early October will the court of errors and appeals, the stale's highest, give its answer to the defense charge that the state secured Hauptinann's conviction by means of "legal gymnas- reversed, tics." The writ was directed at Col. Even if the court upholds Attor- John Hannan and Katharine Sul- ney General David T. Wilentz in membcrs of the board, his claim that the evidence against n-antPd Mav 25 Hauptmann was "overwhelming Gtanted May and unanswerable" there remains Rosenberg, former president of the last appeal to the United States the Liberty State bank, was grant- supreme court which defense at- a parole May 25.

One of the torneys have said they will surely con ditions of the parole was that Control Body Ordered to Show Cause for Action. MADISON June 21 The state board of control today was notified to appear before Circuit Judge A. G. Zimmerman next Wednesday at 9 a. m.

to show cause why its parole of Isaac J. Rosenberg, Milwaukee banker, should not be declared void and Rosenberg returned to the state prison. According to the request of William A. Zabel, district attorney of Milwaukee county, Judge Zimmerman issued a writ of certiorari directing the board of control to turn over to the court all records in the parole case and to show cause why the board's action should not be take. These are some of the major defense contentions upon which the court will rule: 1.

That Wilentz confused the jury by introducing a "last minute theory" that the Lindbergh baby was slain as he lay in his crib. 2. That the trial should have been conducted in Mercer county where the body was found and not in Hunterdon county where the child was kidnaped. 3. That the as charged by the state of the child's clothing did not constitute a burglary because the clothing was of slight value and the theft was not premeditated.

(Under New Jersey law, death occurring in commission of a felony, is first degree murder.) 4. That Wilentz made "inflammatory" statements and "bulldozed" witnesses and jury. The state replied that the "alternate theory" of the child's death was not offered by Justice Thomas W. Trenchard in his charge to the jury, that the state proved that the child received fatal injuries in or near his home and that the mere act of breaking and entering the Lindbergh home was a burglary aside from the technical theft of the clothing. ELKHORN MAN HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER ELKHORN.

June 21 Patsy Curbett, 68, today was held without bail on a fourth degree manslaughter charge after his arrest in Delavan late yesterday in connection with the death of Jack Thompson, 70. Elkhorn, earlier in the day. District Attorney William of Walworth county said Corbett was accused of striking Thompson with his fist during an altercation at Thompson's home Monday night. he aid in liquidation of Ihc bank. The parole was attacked by District Attorney Zabel on the ground that he had not been notified the board was to hold a parole hearing.

Unsuccessful in an attempt to induce the state supreme court to take original jurisdiction, Zabel petitioned the Dane county circuit court for a writ of cerliorari. The district attorney contended the board of control acted beyond its authority in granting a parole without notifying him. His petition stated Rosenberg is now at liberty without bond and is under no re-' strictons to remain within the jurisdiction of the state of Wisconsin. In granting the parole, the petition said, the board "openly flaunted and violated the mandatory provisions of the statutes" and inflicted an "injury and wrong to the state of Wisconsin." Rosenberg was indicted by a grand jury in March, 1933, on a charge of publishing false statements of the condition of the Liberty State bank. He was convicted in May and sentenced by Judge Gustave Gehrz to one to live years in prison.

The conviction was sustained by the state supreme court Sept. 12, 1933 and after the United States supreme court refused to take jurisdiction on appeal. Rosenberg entered the prison Oct. 20, 1933. He made application for parole April 24, 1935.

Progressives Win MADISON, June 21 two days of debate in which the bill shed nearly all of a dc-vnpour of 30 amendments, Gov. La Follette's $209,000,000 work prpgram was engrossed in the assembly last night, 53 to 36. The Progressive majority had narrow squeaks in fending off some unwanted changes. The passage vote probably will come Monday. The bill will be before a senate which last week trounced it by power of a Republican-Democratic majority when it was offered along with budget balancing tax proposals.

Interest in the legislative fight on the executive's proposal to use a state corporation, the Wisconsin finance authority, as a credit agency to expand a $100,000,000 federal fund into a much larger relief work program, now lies in discovery of how much strength the governor may have gained in the senate by stumping the districts of opposition members and by splitting the bill in two parts. The second bill, which embraces budget balancing taxes, will be taken up promptly by the assembly as its next order of business. Involved Much Oratory Assembly action on the works bill involved hours of oratory. Opponents obtained insertion of a provision which they said would assure no scrip or warrant issuance by WFA. Another clause provides prevailing wages if federal rules do not conflict.

After the senate defeat, the governor announced he was dropping the scrip idea, but assembly Democrats and Republicans insisted that the switch in plans be written into the bill. Sales tax and "turnover tax" proposals were refused places in the bill late yesterday as the lower house prepared to shut off amendments by an engrossing roll call. Progressive Floor Leader Paul Alfonsi said the bill was the state's only means to give jobs to its relief rolls and borderline poor and to avoid federal red tape. Opponents termed the bill "an atrocity" and the plan a "dictatorship." Senate Votes to Seat Rush Today WASHINGTON, June 21 Thirty-year-old Rush D. Holt was seated today as senator from West Virginia.

The senate, adopted a resolution by its elections committee favoring that action after rejecting a motion, 62 to 17, to declare the scat vacant. It approved seating the young; Wcs Virginian b'y the same vote, 62 to 17. His right to a seat was challenged on the ground that his election was void because he had not attained the age of 30 years, set by the constitution for senate membership, at the start or his term. Genius Will Aid Science Mechanical Heart and Lungs Perfected by Aviator Reaches Goal. AWAITWALEYS' PIIASJNCOURT Ex-Convict, JVife Expected to Enter Guilty Pleas in Kid- naping Case.

APPROVE TARIFF BILL. MADISON, June 21 VJ 1 The senate yesterday concurred in the Sweeney resolution memorializing Wisconsin congressional members to introduce legislation increasing the tariff on farm fats and oils used in oleomargarine manufacture. TACOMA, June 21 The federal government, accuser of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon M.

Waley as George Weyerhaeuser's abductors, awaited their pleas to federal kid- naping charges today as the next step in closing the $200,000 snatch case. Arraigned in federal court here yesterday and furnished with counsel by the court, the confident, husky-voiced ex-convict and his young wife were ordered back at 2 p. m. (4 p. m.

C. S. today to enter pleas. In actions of the couple yesterday, some observers saw their intention to plead guilty and face sentences which might put them in prison for life under the stringent Lindbergh kidnaping law. Tne unanticipated appointment, however, of Attorney Stephen J.

O'Brien as their counsel after questions asked the court by Waley, left unanswered the query of what course the couple would Meantime, their co-defendant, William Mahan, charged as William Dainard and last seen in still was at large. Waley and his wife, brought here yesterday from the Thurston county jail in Olympia, repeatedly rejected Judge E. E. Coshman's efforts to give them counsel before hearing their pleas. The couple, arrested in Salt Lake City after allegedly endeavoring to pass some of the $200,000 extorted from George's father, J.

P. Weyerhaeuser said they had no money for legal advice. Outside, in the corridor, as they were led toward the courtroom, a man yelled "You rats!" and Mrs. Waley, face buried in her brown and white checked coat, flinched. DIES IN TANK CAR MARQUETTE, June 21 Cardoni, 37, employe of a chemical company, was suffocated yesterday by fumes from a tank car which he was cleaning.

His body was found by another employe, John Shrandt. NEW YORK, June 21 mechanical genius of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, switched to science, inaugurates a new cycle in medical progress announced today. He has perfected a new mechanical heart and lungs at the Rockefeller Institute, where he has been working for several years in seclusion of his own choosing.

It enables surgeons to remove a whole organ, such as kidneys, heart, spleen or glands from an animal's body, and keep it alive, indefinitely, growing independently, in an artificial chamber. The mechanical heart furnishes artificial blood. It revives organs an hour after death of the animal from which they came. This reaches a goal medicine has sought 123 years. Col.

Lindbergh The goal is to make whole parts of the body live in glass chambers where scientists could see them and learn at first hand how they fight disease and how they secrete sinews of health. Heretofore the handicap has been that the removed organs caught bacterial infections just like a person. Lindbergh's new apparatus has wiped out the infections. His part of contribution is the mechanical side. He teamed with Dr.

Alexis Carrel, and with him signed the announcement made in Science. Dr. Carrel won the Nobel science. Dr. Carrel won the Nobel prize for achievements in keeping tissues alive outside the body.

But this new work is in no sense the old tissue culture. BEFORE SENATE PHIL ASKS FOR PUBLIC OPINION ON WORKS BILL Urges Oshkosh Audience to Convey Wishes, 'Pro or Con'. 'Employe's Report' OSHKOSH. Juno 21 lie viewed his mission as that of "an employe reporting on his work to his employers." Guv. Phil F.

La Follctte in the fourth of his public addresses on his $209,000,000 work relief program last night declared the depression was and man must cure it." The governor criticized those who would let the state and nation grope for its own path to recovery and urged his audencc to convey their opinions of his works program, whether "pro or con." to their legislators. "If you do not advise them of your wishes," he said, "do not blame them if the ultimate result is contrary to what you desired. You yourselves will be to blame, for your representatives will be left to act only on their own judgment." i Audience Demonstrates The audience demonstrated at the mention of the name of Senator Pierce Morrissey, (D), Rush Lake, in the roll call of the senate foes of program, and at the governor's reference to Assemblyman Ray Novotny, (D), Oshkosh. Tracing what occurred prior to his submission of his program to the legislature, Gov. La Follette said that when he and Senator La Follette conferred with President Roosevelt they differed with the general principle of the federal works plan.

The governor said he believed a state program would be better since it could place other than those on relief lists in profitable employment and could choose projects of more permanence. REDUCTIONS IN FUNDS WOULD BE 'HARMFUL' Senate Adjourns for Week- End without Reaching Agreement. Need Swift Action PRESIDENT GLENN FRANK Will Present Substitute in Works Relief Griswold Drafts Amendment to Revise Phil's Measure in Senate. Dismiss Suit to Remove Governor Minnesota Governor Wins Motion after Four Days of Testimony. MINNEAPOLIS, June 21 Holding that a cause of action had not been'established, Dist.

Judge H. D. Dickinson late yesterday dismissed a suit to oust Gov. Floyd B. Olson from office.

Judge Dickinson sustained a motion for dismissal made by the governor's attorney after four days of testimony on the ouster petition, signed by 29 Hennepin county voters. Gov. Olson was accused by the petitioners of having violated the state's corrupt practices act by a'c- cepting ppace in a Farmer-Labor newspaper and time on radio stations for talks without accounting for them in his campaign expense reports as required by law. MADISON, June 21 substitute amendment, drastically revising Governor La Follettc's 000,000 work relief bill but retaining the principle of state supervision of work projects will be offered in the senate when it receives the administration measure rrom the assembly. The substitute will be introduced by Senator Harry Griswold, of West Salem, a Republican.

The assembly engrossed the governor's bill last night and is expected to pass 'it either Monday or Tuesday. Makes New Setup. The Griswold substitute, now being drafted, makes an entirely different setup of the Wisconsin finance authority, the private corporation created by the governor to handle the financing of works projects. Instead of permitting the chief executive to appoint the directors of this corporation and to exercise control over it the substitute amendment will require the corporation management to be composed of a board representing the various political parties. This board of directors would consist of nine members, no more than three of whom could represent any one political party.

It would include Secretary of State Theodore Dammann, a Progressive, State Treasurer Robert K. Henry, a Democrat, and the senate and assembly chairman of the legislative finance committee. One of the chairmen is Sen. E. F.

Brunette of Green Bay, a Democrat. The other is Assemblyman C. A. Beggs, of Rice Lake, a Progressive. The administration bill provides for a recovery tax on corporate income of five per cent.

The substitute will substantially increase the corporate tax but as an inducement to return the jobless to private employment it will allow any business or manufacturing firm an offset against the recovery tax for each additional person employed Curing tne next two years. This offset, or exemption, is expected to be $1,000 per additional employe. Shouting Crowd Delays Democratic Meeting in First Counter Attack on Phil Opponents to Work Relief Program Unable to Quiet Crowd. MILWAUKEE, June 21 While a shouting crowd that had been ejected from the South side armory by police hooted and howled outside. Democratic opponents of the La Follette $209,000,000 works relief program last night staged their first counter attack on the governor's speaking tour of eastern Wisconsin.

For an hour and a half, speakers endeavored to address the audience in the same hall where Gov. Philip F. La Follctte made the opening address of his tour last Monday night, but the jeers, boos and shouts drowned their voices. Special police arrived and removed the persistent booers from the audience and the meeting began with Assemblyman Kaiser, Milwaukee, giving the first address. On the platform with him were State Senators Morley G.

Kelly, (D), Fond du Lac, and Arthur L. Zimny and Max Milwaukee, Demicrats. Din Muffles Voices. Before the police arrived, the scheduled speakers and prominent South side Democratic leaders endeavored to quiet the crowd, but Police Remove Booers from Audience; Senators Among Speakers. MAX J.

GALASINSKI their appeals could not be heard. Some pointed to the American flag, but the din muffled their references to civil rights of speech and assembly. After the program, the speakers were led through the large crowd milling iu front of the historic building by police. None was molested. "We arc not ready yet in this state to accept a Huey Kaiser declared.

Richard Lehmann, president of the United Taxpayers' league, next took the platform to assert: "When a man like the the governor has to resort to tactics like Monday night, it is an indictment of the American intelligence." Challenge 'Hoodlums'. Lehmann challenged the "hoodlums" to break up an anti-La Follette meeting in the armory under league auspices next Tuesday night. The charge that Progressives from all parts of Milwaukee were ordered out to break up the meeting was raised by Zimny. who added: "But they can't scare me. I'll stand by my vote against the La Follette program and I'll vote against it until I believe it's for the best interests of the people I repre- i sent." One of those endeavoring to quiet the throng early in the meeting was Assemblywoman Mary O.

Milwaukee. she shouted finally after 10 minutes of trying to persuade them to heed her ap- i peals for order. "They won't let us talk. Now it's certain that 1 won't vote for this bill. They can't 'cow us i into submission!" MADISON.

June 21 adjournment of the senate without reaching agreement upon University of Wisconsin allotments and other large features today indicated that work upon the biennial budget bill will have to be pushed at top speed next week in order to pass it before present appropriations expire July 1, only a few days away. Changes will have to go to the assembly. The senate heard President Glenn Frank warn some members that their reduction proposals Would drop the university to the status of a fourth rate institution. It did not act upon the Nelson amendment to give the university amount allotted by the joint finance committee, but it killed Nelson's move to give university regents $123,000 with which to restore faculty pay cuts. When the senate reconvenes 10 Tuesday morning, it will question members of the board of control about the institutional budgets.

A Progressive amendment proposes the board get $1,100,000 for the establishment of an 8-hour day for workers in prisons and hospitals and to meet rising prices. The Carroll amendment allots the board $700,000 for the same purposes. May Ask New Change Another factor of uncertainty was the announcement of senator Oscar Morris, (R), Milwaukee, that he would ask the old age pensions appropriations be separated" from the main budget bill. He said he was not opposed to pensions but felt that the proposition should "stand upon its own feet." The budget bill as amended now totals about $52,000,000, only slightly more than the finance group proposed. Six amendments remain undisposed of.

Amendments approved today would give the state department 70 cents per auto license plate instead of a sum sufficient, add $40,000 per year to county normal schools, substitute correspondence courses for the regular university summer session, and allot $5,000 per year for a pharmaceutical experiment station at the university. HOLDP1CKET? INMILKSTRIKE Six Men Arrested after Milk Truck Is Turned Over in City. MILWAUKEE, June 21 5 men were arrested on the east side today shortly after a Gridley milk truck had been turned over in a renewal of violence in Milwaukee's milk strike. Police said the driver, who was out making deliveries but who saw some of the men pushing over his truck, had identified two of the men arrested. Officials at the Gridley company, largest of the three where strikes are in progress, said the situation was "improving daily" with more than 80 per cent of their deliveries being made.

At the conclusion of the trial of two milk strike cases in the Wauwatosa police court last night, I. E. Goldberg, labor attorney with Joseph A. Padway, general counsel for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, was sentenced to two days in the house of correction for contempt of court. Goldberg Apologizes.

After being held at the police station for an hour, Goldberg apologized to Justice Edgar Bark, who ordered his release and entered a permanent stay of the sentence. Goldberg had defended Edmonri Freisleben and Earl De Keysur, strike sympathizers. Freisleben wsjs fiiu-d $15 for asasult and battery and De Keser $50 tor malicious destruction of property. While walking from the courtroom. Goldberg turned to his two clients and said: "Well, there are you.

labor has lo have fair and impartial everywhere if it ever expects to £ft anywhere. It's up to labor to teo4 to those mutters at election tinuj. LI slice Bark called Goldberg back and sentenced him. I am not prejudiced againtt workers." Justice Bark said "I with them, but I have a duty to perform as judge of community. This violence tu stop and the only way we uui it is to impose tines wJurii lb are apprehended".