The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 2

PAGE 2 TOE RIttNELANDEn (WIS.) DAILY NEWS POSSE UNABLE TO RUSH OUT FARMCONVICT Fugitive from McNaughton Prison Still at Large; Search Cools. Where Bombs Killed Foreigners in Shanghai BULLETIN fugitive from DIP McNauffhtnn prison farm sinrp Sunday, was captured at JVHran Lake this afternoon. Slralz was taken off a southbound Chiragn and North Western freight train which he had boarded near Moniro. Stratz had been reported in Monico this morning and Sheriff Hans Rodd had directed a thorough search of the countryside. The escaped convict was being brought to Rhinelaitder late this afternoon.

Crandon Posses Disbanded. CRANDON. Aug. 19 (By Corre-1 Fpondent of The to find any trace of Jerome Stratz, fugitive from the McNaughton state prison farm near Rhinelander. who I eluded Sheriff Jesse E.

Ramsdell of Forest county after being picked up Tuesday afternoon, a posse of Forest county men today was disbanded when officers said they' wore convinced the prisoner had escaped searchers and left the vicinity of Wisconsin Junction Junction). Stratz, who walked away from the prison camp Sunday night, escaped from the sheriff by knocking him out with a rock. The blow, in addition to knocking Ramsdell unconscious lor 10 minutes, inflicted a severe gash in the Forest county official's face. The posse, composed of 50 men and deputy sheriffs, beat the woods along both sides of the Soo Line railroad tracks in the vicinity of Wisconsin Junction, three miles west of Argonne. Cars were stopped on all roads leading out of the territory, and trains were searched thoroughly by the possemen.

Aloftg Shanghai famoui Bund, or waterfront boulevard, death dropped bom the skies in a bloody shower as indiscriminate bombing and shelling from opposed Chinese and Japanese forces raked the Se nter isshown above The massive building at right is the Astor i the 6rst Americans were evacuated and where American Marines and patroled along Soochow creek. The building with the dark, pointed tower" it the Hotel 'L bombs of Chinese flyers, aimed at Japanese vessels in the Whangpoo river (fore- giound) killed scores, including three Americans, The twin-towei-ed building just to the left is the ooHr-o Hotel, similarly bombed. Public Good, Is Objective of C. C. In Civic Affairs Offers Medium for Improving Conditions in Community Life.

$50 Reward Out. Oneida county authorities, who aided in the search Tuesday night, did not join in the search yesterday and last night. They kept close watch on roads and the tracks in the region of Gagen, however. Stratz was seen in Gagen Tuesday morning. The convict, according to Mitchell Skaff, superintendent of the McNaughton camp, is described as a "very strong man." although only five feet, seven and one-half inches tall.

He weighs 168 pounds, has light blue eyes, dark brown hair, regular features and a "nice appearance." Authorities at Oshkosh, where his wife and mother reside, are on the lookout for the youth. Stratz, 22, was sentenced from La Crosse county in 1936 to a one to four year term in the state prison at Waupun. He had been placed at the McNaughton "honor" camp only a short time ago because of his good behavior at the prison. A reward of $50 has been offered for his capture. I EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is one of a series of articles, prepared for the board of directors of the Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce.

The articles discuss various phases of C. of C. activity and call for a community decision as to whether the work should go on. ROADS SAFE1T TO BE TAUGHT Messages of safety will be sounded at county fairs and teachers' institutes throughout Wisconsin during the next two months, as the state highway commission continues its educational campaign -to make streets and highways safer for motorists and pedestrians. Under a law passed during the recent legislative session the teaching of highway safety is required in all schools.

Nearly every county- teachers' institute will discuss highway safety instruction and make plans for a course to be given this winter. Must of these institutes will be addressed by representatives of the state highway commission's safety department. The Oneida county institute will be held in October, according to Miss Katherine Jole, supervisin" teacher. The exact date is not known. The state has no general course study on highway safety, so each county will have to work out its own program.

Suggestions will be ottered through the state highway commission, along with reports on courses worked out in some of the counties last year. Arrangements for safety movies and displays at several county fairs have been made through county safety councils. Reasons why you should join the Chamber of Commerce. ITS PURPOSE The Chamber of Commerce is organized to forward those public interests, civic and commercial, which have long been negle cted because "everybody's business is nobody's business." Tho sole object of the acts of the Chamber of Commerce is the public good. ITS MEMBERSHIP Because membership in the Chamber of Commerce is open to everybody without distinction of any democratic institution in the best sense of the word; the town meeting restored.

ITS. Free speech and open-handed dealing are employed on the public questions large and small, which arise in the community. in the Chamber of Commerce shows your sympathy with an organized effort to better the city, and life within it. The things that are worth doing are brought to successful issue, only through united demand and interest. RE-ACTS ON man in business is, broader and more suc- cessful when hr.

has a more active interest in municipal affairs, civic and commercial. A CHANCE TO WORK As a member of the Chamber of Commerce you are afforded an opportunity to work for the conditions you have, as a good citizen, long hoped for: You can help things happen. YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT one his best efforts he is justified In looking for results favorable to himself, material and ethical. He profits in dollars and cents through the increased prestige of his city, but best of all in personal satisfaction at having come out uf his own shell of self-interest and I broadened his horizon IN SHORT The Chamber of 'Commerce movement ought to prove a big impetus to the growth of the city in every phase of its life. Don't you want to have part in this? Credit Bureau Valuable.

Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce Rhyielander, Wisconsin. Gentlemen: The reason I belong to the ber of Commerce is because they majntain a credit bureau. i A credit bureau, to retail r- I chants who use it, is of inestimable I value. i Schooley-Forbes Hdwe. Co.

Schooley. TWO HIGHWAY FATALIHB1 JULY, REPORT Oneida County Had Eight Serious Traffic Accidents during Last Month. Only nine Wisconsin counties have reported no fatal traffic accidents so far this year, the state highway commission reveals. W.aushara. Lafayette and Ashland, counties reported their first traffic deaths in July, while Trempealeau had no fatalities in the first seven months of 1937, but already has had two deaths in August.

For July, there were 997 serious accidents reported in Wisconsin, with 61 fatalities. Reports show 9G2 persons were injured in state accidents during July, while property ago stood at 6.1.47 accidents, with 44,687 persons having been, injured. Fatal crashes in. July brought the seven months' total for Wisconsin streets and highways to 405 fatal- ities. compared with 364 at the same in 1936.

The record one year age stood at 6.147 accidents, with 14.687 persons having been injured. Two. County Deaths. There were 7G persons killed in traffic accidents in the state during July, 1936, so last month's record represents a slight decrease over the same month of last year. In Oneida county a total, of eight serious accidents was reported to.

the state highway commission last month, with two fatalities, and one i injury. Property damage only was reported in five accidents in thjs i county during July. Counties without a traffic fatality so far this year are Clark, Crawford. Door, Florence, Green Lake, Mari quette, Pepin. Polk and Washburn One Member cf Alcohol Gang Is Held for Jury Waterloo, Man Bound Over Yesterday by sau Commissioner.

Oscar Hopka. 34, of, Waterloo, one. of seven men, arrested last Friday- in a raid- on a still in a secluded woods about eight miles south of Minpcqua in Oneida county, was bound over to the federal, grand jury at Majdison yesterday by O. W. Feblhaber, U.

S. court commissioner at Wausau, following a preliminary hearing there. He was charged with violating, the federal liquor laws. The other men, who are being held, in, the Marathon county jail, will have hearings before Commissioner. Fehlhaber this week-end.

Hopka, was the only one at liberty on bond. Sylvan R. White, Chicago, agent in chacge. of the. raid, testified Hopka's car was rigged up as a "bootlegger's" car.

He testified also that Hopka. vyas friendly with Richard Cramer, 37, Milwaukee, alleged head of the gang, who is also under indictment on another count of violating the internal revenue laws in Milwaukee. White told also of a slip found in Hopka's pocket. It contained, a list of license numbers which, White said, were attached to federal agents' cars, including his own. Hopka claimed he is a salesman for a vending machine company.

The other defendants besides Hopka and Cramer, are- Samuel Lang. 34, James Butera, 41, both of Milwaukee, Norman Tresness, 27, Tomahawk, Henry Iveris, 21, and George Burns, 38, both of Chicago, NEWS PARAGRAPHS temperature i range was from a maximum of 73 degrees to a minimum of 47. The low during the night was 61, while at 8 o'clock this morning it was 63. The White house was the first i public building to be erected in Washington, D. C.

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33-year-old Milwaukee nurse, walked away from a cottage at Fivcl Risberg's Moons Park resort vanished as completely as if the earth had opened up and her. Today, on the first week's of her disappearance, SherilT Hans Rodd began to receive a number of wild "clues" from persons throughout the slate, chiefly from motorists who reported picking up lone girl hitch-hikers at various places. Each hitch-hiker, of course, "seemed to answer the description of the missing nurse." A Beaver Dam traveling wrote that he had picked up a younjj woman near Ithinelander and given her a ride to the southern part of the state. She told him she was headed for Madison and had only enougn money to buy food, (Miss Schmidt, when shfe disappeared, did not have any she left her purse on her dresser.) Other drivers who gave hitchhiking girls rides during the last week also wrote to the sheriff, some describing their passengers and others declaring the "thumber" as looking like the newspaper pictures of the nurse. Saw 'Kidnap Two Racine persons, according to a report from police there, also reported witnessing what appeared to be a "kidnap attempt." The Racine motorists, driving near Sayner last Thursday or Friday, said they came up behind a car driven by a man.

Two women were in the back seat, i the older holding her hand over the younger woman's mouth. Because the road was narrow the Racine care followed the "kidnap" car for some distance. Finally, they said, the lead car stopped and turn- ed around. As it passed the Racine car, the two witnesses declared, i the women were in the same posi- tion in the back seat. The younger women, who appeared to be strug-1 gling with the other woman, ha.d' black hair, they declared.

I Such stories, Sheriff Rodd said. were "too wild" to believe. He said i there was no indication, the nurse i was kidnaped, murdered or harmed in any way. The sheriff made his usual early morning survey of Moens lake, on. the theory that the nurse's body, if she had been drowned, would i come to the surface.

Last night he also eliminated the report of a' "fresh grave" near Moens lake from his list of possibilities. The' "grave'- 1 was found to be a place which sod had been, removed I for transplanting to a lawn. AUGUST 19, MEN AT CHIPPEWA FALLS Five Oneida county men were among the northern. Wisconsin farmers and soil conservation committeemcn at Chippewa Falls yesterday to hear Secretary Wallace's address. They were: E.

E. Webster. Harshaw; Mark Stockley, Schoepke; Clarence Meredith, Starks; Marvin Beltz, Woodboro, and. Earl Farris, chief clerk of the county soil conservation committee, Beltz is a member of the county board of supervisors. children by the second union, John and Frank.

Manitowish, W-ilbert Houghton Lake, Charles! Manitowish; three step-children George Schroeder, Lac du Flambeau, Patrick Schroedfer, Green land Mrs. Peter Kfassen, I and sixteen grandchildren, Rites Held for" Resort Owner EVERYDAY PRICES AT KRUMM'S DRUG STORE 49c 39c 19c 50c Funeral services for Abraham LaFave, 79, fffarutow.ish resort oper.a.- tor who was well known in Rhine- hinder, were held yesterday in. Hurley, followed by burial in a cemetery there. Mr. La.

Fave was born in Ottawa, Aug. 13,. 1858. When 11 years old he w.ent to Lowell, to work in the woolen mills and three years later moved to the Manitowish country where he worked in the lumber camps and drove logs on the rivers for many years. He was one of the first settlers in Manitowish to operate a summer resort which he built on.

Island lake. He was in that business for, 50 years. He was married in Hurley in November, 1895,. to Mary Fernette who died in 1896, On Nov. 27, 1898, he married Mrs.

Sarah Noonan Schroeder at Hurley. She died at Hurley. J.uly 13, 1935. Surviving art- one son by the first marriage, Thomas La Fa.ve> Indianapolis, six 75c Dextri-Msatose, No. 1, 2 orS $1 Miles OQ Nervine 60c Alka Seltzer TfSfC 60c Bromo Seltzer Large One Pound Jar KRANK'S LEMON CLEANSING CREAM ifOC 60c Sal Hepatica 50c Ipana Tooth Paste 25c Mufti Shoe White 35c Prep 3 for TONIGHT Adfft.

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