The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 1

THE WEATHER showers tonight and Friday, somewhat warmer tonlfht and Friday. THE RHINELANDER DAILY NEWS TEN PACKS TOOAV Full Leased Wire -tf The Associated Press TWENTY-FIRST 76 RHINELANDER, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1938 Cash PRICE FIVE CENTS Is Found; Kidnaper Held Car Kills Woman at Pelican Lake Today Mrs. Arthur Bigford, Wife of Station Agent, Struck Shortly before Noon. Investigate Case Mrs. Arthur Bigford, 49, of Pelican Lake, was instantly killed shortly before noon today when she was struck by an automobile driven by Tony Rapinski, of Jennings, on Highway 8 just north of the Pelican Lake village limits.

Mrs. wife of Arthur Bigford, who is station agent for the Chicago and North Western railway at Pelican Lake, was walking south along the highway when struck by the Rapinski car. She had left the house trailer she occupied with her riusuand just north of the village limits to go to the station, The News learned this afternoon. She was accompanied by her dog. Ran After Dog.

The dog darted into the highway, is reported, and she started after him. The Rapinski automobile struck and killed her instantly. The body was taken to Antigo. Sheriff Hans Rodd and Coroner 'Rudolph Carlson were called to Pelican Lake at 11:45 a. m.

today. At a late hour this afternoon they had not returned to Rhinelander, and officials here said no word had been returned to Rhinelander, and officials here said no word had been received from the two investigators. It was believed the sheriff and coroner were taking pictures of the death scene and completing their study of the accident. OFFICERS CHASE MAN WHO MURDERED WIFE DUBUQUE, June 9 search fo'r Norbert Keying, 34, sought for the slaying here Monday of his estranged wife, Irma, 30, shifted yesterday to Rickardsville, where a man answering his de- I scription was seen by a farmer. The car in which Keying fled was found Tuesday near Sageville.

I A deputy sheriff was dispatched to Rickardsville to investigate the report Keying was in the vicinity. CLERK OFFERS WAUKESHA, June 9 George municipal court clerk, today pleaded innocent to an indictment by the Waukesha county grand jury charging him with perjury and false swearing. His bond was fixed at $2,000. A plea of innocent also was entered by Reinhold H. Schott, Okauchee tavernkeeper, charged with ownership and possession of slot machines on three counts, during June, July and August of 1937.

His bond was set at $1,000. Peck was indicted, last night following testimony he gave the jurors an hour earlier in connection with a slot machine raid. The jury, after returning indictments, recessed its investigation of vice and gambling in the county. Circuit Judge C. M.

Davison an- rtounced today he would hear at 3 m. Saturday arguments of attorneys regarding the transfer of the case of Sheriff Walter Liskowitz outside the county. The case in which a change of venue is sought involves charges of malfeasance and subornation of perjury. The grand jury reported twice yesterday. Earlier in the day it had returned eight indictments, including one against Sinon A.

Murray, Chicago attorney, who was accused of attempted bribery of a former Waukesha county sheriff. PLANES BOMB RAMMONS Japs Raid Canton and Environs for Thirteenth Consecutive. Day. CANTON, June 9 airplanes ferried their cargoes of explosives and dropped them in the vicinity of Canton and neighboring railway stations for the thirteenth consecutive day. The raiders blasted three railway stations io the vicinity but dropped no on the shattered south China metropolis, where intensive anti-aircraft fire greeted them.

The stations were Hingtak'on the Canton-Hankow line, Sheklung on the Canton-Kowloon line that feeds China war supplies from the un- blpckaded British port of Hong- kong, and Shiukwan. The Sheklung bombing at 9 a. m. smashed locomotives and coaches of a train but thetcrew and passengers escaped. 6 brought their rifles: into x0 rte- of trie planes flew-' low several over Shameen, the international settlement, but the firing was without effect.

The pilots apparently suspected Chinese planes might be lurking about Canton to repel future attacks. While the war-depleted populace nervously scanned the skies for a continuation of the attacks which have dealt a staggering blow of more than 8,000 killed and wounded since May 28, it was.reported unofficially that Canton authorities in recent weeks executed 400 alleged traitors, including Formosans and Koreans. A large quantity of hand grenades was said to have been seized and an internal uprising thwarted. One theory advanced was that Japan's savage bombing attacks were the result of the thwarted plot, though military authorities viewed the raids as an effort to paralyze this south China center of rail communications and halt the flow of munitions to the Chinese front. PROPOSES NEW BRIDGE.

June 9 Senator Shipstead in- I troduccd in the senate yesterday a bill to authorize Minnesota and Wisconsin to construct a free bridge over the Mississippi river near Winona, Minn. Rep. Andresen (R- introduced a companion bill. BRITAIN SEEKS AIR PATROL TO HALTATTACKS England Alarmed over Bombing of Merchant Ships in Spanish Waters. LONDON, Juno 9 alarmed Britain, spurred by news of fresh bombings today in Spanish waters, sought a course of speedy action to end repeated ahd increasing insurgent Spanish air attacks on her shipping.

The bombing of the French freighter Brisbane at Denia, in which two of five persons killed were believed to be British, and an attack which disabled the British vessel Isadora at Castellon de la Plana heightened official British concern over mounting casualties. The government was expected to act both alone and with other nations to bring -pressure on Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the insurgent chief. Definite plans awaited reports from British diplomats at Barcelona and Burgos, the Spanish capitals. Consider Air Patrol. Britain was reported studying a proposal for an' international air patrol, similar to the naval patrol already operating and to be considering putting the question of the insurgent attacks squarely up to Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy.

London newspapers have suggested that Italian and German fliers were ignoring Franco's orders and singling out British ships for attack. Also concerned over the loss of life, the Vatican was reported to be directing "continual insistence" to General Franco against bombardment of Spanish civilians. The air patrol Britain was believed considering would enlarge the powers of the international fleet created at British instigation by the Nyon conference last autumn to crush submarine piracy in the Mediterranean. Presumably such an air patrol would be the same orders as --shppt down on sight any air raiders attacking merchant ships trading with Spain. CRATER SPEWS FLAMING ROCK MANILA, June 9 knelt in the streets of Guinobatan today and prayed that the shaking shower of stone and ash might cease pouring from Mayon volcano.

The portmaster of Legaspi report- ed the fiery mountain spewed in- i candescent rock with greater intensity than at any time during the seven-day eruption, shortly before noon today. Showers of ashes fell upon villages and plantations beyond the base of the crater, and fear was expressed that the crops on hemp and coconut plantations might be destroyed Tay ashes which were carried by the wind over four provinces of southeastern Luzon island. Refugees who fled villages and i homes were promised relief from threatened food shortage today I when the commonwealth govern- ment ordered release of sufficient I funds to provide emergency rice 1 supplies and temporary shelter. Southern Senators WillFightWageBill Hint of Satiate Filibuster Made after Caucus Early Today. A L.

Is Accused BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 9 A threat of southerners to fight a previously approved compromise forced a joint congressional committee to reopen today discussion of the pay provisions of the wage-hour bill. Armed with an ultimatum supported by 18 southern senators in a caucus this morning', Senators Ellender (D-La.) and Pepper southerners on the conference committee, told the conferees they must have wage differentials or they would make an active floor fight on the legislation. WASHINGTON, June- 9 group of southern senators served an ultimatum on wage-hour conferees today that they would not accept such. legislation without pay differentials. Seventeen senators caucusing early today decided to fight a compromise approved by a joint congressional committee yesterday.

The compromise would provide a minimum pay scale of 40 cents an hour for interstate industry in seven years, except where it would cause unemployment. The decision of the southerners carried a broad hint of a senate filibuster if conferees decline to revoke their action and lift the time limit from the pay legislation. Senator Ellender one of the conferees, said: "If they (the conferees) don't accept our plan there is going to be a lot of talking on the bill. I guarantee that." Accuses A.F.L. Ellender charged representatives of the American Federation df Labor with work qf the senate-house conference committee.

The A. F. of influence, he said, had upset a compromise by which the southerners hoped to prevent the fixing of a definite date for reaching the minimum pay goal of 40 cents an hour. As agreed on by the conference committee, the bill would put a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour into effect in all interstate industry immediately. This would advance to 30 cents an hour the next year.

At that point industrial boards would be organized to determine the minimum for each industry. At the end of seven years, however, all industries would have to advance their minima to 40 cents an hour, except in cases where the boards found that requirement would curtail opportunities for employment. Ellender said the southerners were dissatisfied with this proposal because of the seven-year clause. His southern colleague on the conference committee, Senator Pepper (D- said he had voted for the compromise in the belief it was the best that could be obtained. Pepper said he would move to reconsider adoption of the compromise in an effort to bring the industry boards into existence at once.

This would enable them to raise the wage minimum to 40 cents us quickly as feasible. MAY ADJOURN NEXT TUESDAY WASHINGTON, June 9 Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, predicted today congress would adjourn "about Tuesday." After talking with'Presi- dent Roosevelt, Barkley replied to a question about adjournment prospects: "Not a chance this week. I think we will quit about Tuesday." SPEAKER SAYS IG-Men Recover All Of $10,000 Ransom HURTINGBANKS Georgian Addresses Session of Wisconsin Bankers Convention. Crews Battle Insect Horde In Six States SPRINGER, N. June 9 Grasshoppers by the billion were on the march in the deep southwest and Rocky mountain region today, threatening farmer and stockman with ruin.

Pitted against a fantastic insect menace to millions of acres of farm and grazing lands were hundreds of men and machines, waging desperate war against seemingly relentless 'hopper hordes. National guard detachments moved into infested areas in northeastern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle today, while Oklahoma, Montana and farmers and government agencies mobilized their resources against the pest. Also in Wyoming, Montana, Utah and Idaho, the grasshopper threat was overshadowed by the Mormon i cricket, destructive and equally vie-' ious cousin of the 'hopper. Poison Plants Busy. In New Mexico, where scores of -mixing been working day and night weeks, the dreaded migratory movement of the 'hoppers was under way.

In Union county and northern Co If ax county, crawling insect armies were on the move overland as crews of weary CCC enrollees, farmers and stockmen dumped poison by the ton to check the migration. Fighting forces moved at speed against the impending zero hour when the grasshoppers cease to crawl and take wing. Once in the air, their destrucitve attack on range and crops cannot be checked. "If wfe can't lick them this week, they'll lick us," declared Gov. Clyde Tingley of New Mexico, appealing for $100,000 federal aid.

frui Ifota mm mm mm mm mmm fruit of last year's unchecked invasion, when winging clouds of 'hoppers laid in countless numbers. A repetition this year, all authorities agree, might seriously endanger the entire state of New Mexico and financially cripple ranchers and farmers. Franklin McCall, 21-Year-Old Truck Driver and Former Tenant of Cash Apartment, Confesses Part in Crime. MIAMI, June 9 body of kidnaped James Bailey Cash, was found today and G-men announced the MILWAUKEE, June 9 i recovery of the $10,000 ransom and the arrest of a suspect linm s. Elliott.

Cantonc bank- but indicated the case still was not completely solved, er, told the Wisconsin Bankers' as- "We have the kidnaper or one of the J. socintion today that "competition of Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, government-sponsored agencies is a in discussing the arrest of Franklin Pierce McCall, husky 21- maiier or grave concern." I year-old truck driver who he said admitted writing the three ransom notes and collecting the money. Hoover declined to say whether authorities were seeking possible confederates. He also turned aside questions as to whether any others were in custody. OSS ibi death sentence upon con- State Attorney George A.

i viction. Worley moved immediately, Sheriff Coleman said McCall bore however, to have a special generally a good reputation in I 11 i Princeton and Sheriff Frank Han- I grand jury called for next, cock of Jasper his birt hpiac gn "Many of these," he said, "started in the midst of depression when banuking could ill afford to carry the load. As banking has gotten back on its foot and needs loans, this competition is not essential but in many cases harmful." Elliott said the last report he saw "shows 37 government-sponsored NEENAH MAN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT MILWAUKEE, June 9 Samuel N. Pickard, president of the National Manufacturers bank of Neenah, today was elected president of the Wisconsin Bankers association. The election was held at the closing session of the association's 44th annual convention.

Pickard, who succeeds Clarence Hill of Port Washington, was vice-president last year. agencies in the banking business in one form or another and of these 14 relate to agriculture." "The various agencies of the farm credit administration had outstanding loans at the end of February, 1938, amounting to $3,283,009,000, according to recent figures," Elliott continued. "This is quite a large block of agricultural credit and included $147,000,000 loans of the production credit associations whose members used to borrow from the country bank. Bahfc Xbans Drop. "At the same time, we find in a report Oissued by the bureau of agricultural economics, U.

S. department of agriculture, that total agricultural loans of commercial banks in the United States declined from $5,317,374,000 in 1921 to 000 in June, 1937. Loans secured by farm real estate declined from sonal and collateral loans to farm- Monday to return an inclict- ment. Sheriff D. C.

Coleman said Me Call, without any show of emotion, led Hoover himself, and a squad of agents to the dense thicket where the dead boy had been loft, without an effort of burial. Little remained but the skeleton and fragments of the pajamas the five-year-old towhead wore when he was seized from his bed May 28. Will Not See Body. When it was explained what condition the body was in the boy's father decided not to look at it. Friends of the family said they planned an early, private funeral.

It was McCall who called Cash's attention to the third ransom note two nights after the abduction, saying he found it on the floor of Cash's apartment and that the kid- described the suspect as "a boy who sometimes got into mischief, but never into any real trouble." Helped in Search. James Mizell. attendant at the Cash filling station, said McCall accompanied Cash and others to the home of a negro where a ransom note was found the night of the kidnaping and was a member of various searching parties looking for the body. "We met McCall as we approached the home of Asbury Cash, where the first ransom note was found, as we were on our way to John Emanuel's home," Mizell said. "He was walking and carrying a large flashlight, which he used to wave down the car of Ishmael Cash, which was just ahead of the one in which the boy's father and I were riding.

He got in with Ishmael and went on to the place where the note naper apparently had slipped it un- i was found. der the door. I wasn't with him any more that night but I saw him in the crowd around the Cash home several times and I know he went around with the searchers for the body. "He did not seem nervous when I cause the note had been wadded into a ball, arrested McCall June 1. After questioning he was released, with G-men shadowing him.

The following day he joined the volunteer possemen hunting for clues last saw over the very ground where the ou April body and the ransom were hidden, i That night authorities picked him up again and he has been held ever since in a detention cell at the FBI office atop a downtown skyscraper. There he could be protected from violence, but Princeton received the news the case had been "broken" Mizell said McCall rented Cash's rear apartment last winter, moving from $3,869,891,000 to $726,400,000. "These figures show where a good deal of the country banker's profitable loans have gone in the last decade or so." J. M. Conway, Green Bay, president of the Wisconsin Manufac- their whereabouts were not disclosed.

Shoebox Also Found. In addition to recovering the ransom, the authorities also found the shoebox in which Cash delivered turers association, also addressed the 1,500 bills of small denomina- today's session of the bankers' forty-fourth annual convention. ELECTRICITY USE DROPS. MADISON, June 9 public service commission reported today that factory use of electricity, apparently due to the recession, has fallen on' 14 per cent so far this year as compared with the like period of 1937. WPA WORKERS STRIKE.

SHAWANO, June 9 Seventeen WPA workers went on strike today at a hospital project, in what they declared was a protest against their foreman, John Sin- towski. The men were employed digging sewer ditches, and claimed that' safely regulations were not carried out. A pile of bricks was too near the ditch, and forms were not extended far enough downward, they claimed. A Green Bay representative of the state labor relations board began an investigation. tion.

It had been torn to pieces and hidden beneath a stone in a palmetto clump. The locations of the body, the ransom and the shoebox indicated the locale of the entire crime never ranged farther than two miles from the Cash home. This circumstance apparently strengthened authorities in their belief McCall carried it out by himself. He did not own an automobile. Worley took charge of the prosecution as Hoover indicated no federal law apparently had been violated and the kidnaper should be tried in the state courts.

Whether he is charged with murder or kid- naping for ransom, he would face a OF SUCH A THING' ST. AUGUSTINE, June 9 Lily McCall, mother of Franklin Pierce McCall under arrest at Miami in connection with the James Cash, Jr. kidnaping, said today she last saw her son three months ago at his father's funeral. The elder McCall, a Nazarene minister, died Feb. 28 at Jasper, Fla.

"I never dreamed of such a thing," Mrs. McCall told reporters at the home of a daughter, Mrs. C. T. Shepherd.

"The boy had been in no trouble before in his life," she declared. Mrs. McCall learned of her son's arrest from a radio news broadcast. PERFECT BRIDGE HAND. MARSHFIELD, June 9 Mrs.

Charles A. Vedder' entered life's hall of fame last night along with those who get 300 bowling scores and holes-in-one in golf. She was dealt a perfect bridge hand of 13 hearts at a card party here last i evening. After her opponents and partner passed, she bid and made seven hearts. It was the first per- I feet hand reported in Marshfield bridge circles.

The Boy Dramatizing the Kidnaping of Five-Year-Old James Cash, Solved Today Tl 1 The 'Snatch' The Demand The Pay-Off The Search The Area On the night of May 28, Jimmy Cash, sketched above, was just the happy, five-year-old son of James Bailey Cash of Princeton, Fla. His mother put him to bed, and stepped across to a neighbor's for a moment. A shadowy figure approached a rear door of the Cash home, slit a hole in a screen door, opened the locked catch, and entered. He lifted Jimmy from his bed and quickly stole away. When Mrs.

Cash returned and saw the empty bed, she ran frantically from neighbor to neighbor, crying "Have you seen Skeegie (the boy's nickname)?" No one had. He had been kidnaped. Three notes were found. The first was pinned to the door of the home of the boy's uncle, Wilson P. Cash.

The second was given to a negro to The third was slipped under the Cash door by a man who smashed a window and fled. Three days after the kidnaping came a ray of hope. Following ransom note instructions. Cash raised $10,000, packed it in a shoe-box and drove out a lonely road at night. At an arranged spot, waiting autos blinked their headlights, and Cash tossed the money to the roadside.

He returned home to wait for promised word from the kidnapers at noun. It did not come. FILLING STATION AND HOME WHERE BOY WAS KIDNAPED SHACK WHERE NOTE WAS UEFT Convinced that the boy was dead, posses quickly organized for an inch-by-inch search of the dangerous Everglades country that surrounds the little town. While naval planes soared overhead, scrutinizing possible hiding places, divers sank into abandoned rock pits and coastal pools. A thousand frantic men, aided by Seminole Indians familiar with the ground, combed the undergrowth iii vain.

Center of the liny town I'lim-eton, 25 miles southwest of Miami, is thv Cash store and gas station. The map shows found. The kidnaper, a of the home, was arrested a He ltd federal agents to Uie boy's decomposcii body early morning. The ruuayjii uu.