The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 8

Monday, -September 25, 1339 MINNEAPOLIS STAR-JOURNAL 1'age Eight i AT THE NEW SCHMITT MUSIC CENTER This Automatic Floyd Gibbons Dies at 52; Once Was Reporter Here STROMBERG-CARLSON RADIO-PHONOGRAPH Man Knocked Unconscious, Robbed of $3 Three Sluggings Occupy Attention of City Police Three sluggings today occupied Marine Recruit Office Is Open A new recruiting office of the United States Marine corps has been established in room 101, U. S. courthouse. The Minneapolis office is accepting qualified men for first enlistment between 18 and 30 years old, and for men who have had previous service the age limit has been set at 35. Former Marines who have been separated from the marine corps for a period of less than four years may be re-enlisted.

4 A 11 Fired From Lofcal Job, Newsman Rocketed to Fame as War Correspondent, Radio Commentator 4,1 A William li. Koth Chester Bowman 7 Mil Flnvd P. Gibbons, former Minneapolis newspaperman police attention, while a slugging suspect was returned here from who was catapulted to fame by a German torpedo in 1916 1 Grand Forks, N. to face rets, a gun and $2.50 in cash from the Roznan grocery, 719 Marshall street N. E.

From the Remington-Rand office, 631 Marquette avenue, $25 in cash was taken. Cigars, cigarets and change were taken from a cafe at 204 Tenth street S. 1 and later became Known to minions mroujm nis rapia-nre radio talks, died last night at his Cherry Vale farm home milps from Stroudsville. He was 52 years old. charges.

Iver Johnson, 50, 213 Nicollet avenue, reported two men strong- Lady Luck, who was kind to "Gib" throughout his Lifetime, failed him just as he was contemplating a trip to Europe to cover the present war. He had recovered from a recent illness and was making plans to armed him at Eighth and Washington avenues taking $1. COWLES TO TELL OF HOP John Cowles, president of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, will tell of the famous first flight of the Yankee Clipper to Europe this summer in an address before the Minneapolis Exchange club Tuesday noon at The Leamington. go abroad when he suffered the heart attack which took his life. Emil Peterson, 310 Lyndale ave nue said that on Lyndale near Old timers in the Minneapolis Sixth avenue a Negro slugged 0 i I1 il SlSo li i nolice and fire departments knew him and took $12 to $15.

Rabbi to Discuss Effects of War Rabbi David Aronson of Beth El synagogue will speak on "The Effect of the European War on Our Palestinian Homeland" at 8 p.m. today at a meeting of the Minneapolis district of the Zionist organization of America at the Dyckman "Gib" well. Though he covered the The third case was that of T. K. twlice run for an afternoon paper, Sorenson, 722 Twenty-sixth avenue "he spent most of his nights browsing through the loop, picking up found unconscious at the rear $139.95 of a school at Nineteenth avenue hotel.

and Two-and-One-half street He was the fastest talker on the air. Born in Washington, Gibbons was educated at Georgetown university and began newspaper work here in 1906. He married a Minneapolis girl but divorced her in Paris some years later. Surviving are two brothers, Don Gibbons, 4845 Fourth avenue and Edward Washington, and two sisters, Mrs. Zelda Mayer of Boston and Mrs.

Margaret Chapman of Chicago. Officers will be elected. J. G. by Mrs.

A. A. Mortensen, 19. Washington avenue S. Schwartz, chairman, will preside.

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what news he could lor tne next day. And it was this night browsing which cost him his job here and sent him on the way to fame. Working one Saturday night on the police run, "Gib" was pretty well tired from lack of sleep the night before and early in the evening he crawled up onto a table in old police reporters' room at the city hall and went to sleep. About 11 p.m. the fire alarm over his head banged out a call.

And for 10 more minutes it con Oliver Church Will Have Mission Rally The annual fall mission rally of William Raymond Roth, alias SOVIET ONLY PROTECTING RIGHT, CLAIM Russia wasn't helping Germany Oliver Presbyterian church. Bloom- lngton avenue and Twenty-seventh George (Whitey) Lewis, 33, was in city jail here to face charges in connection with robbery of Carl Stromberg, from whom $40 was taken in a slugging case in May, 1938. 'from the Air or Album, with A unequal ed Tone, can be yours with a beautiful STROMBERG CARLSON RADIO PHONOGRAPH. The low price of this distinctive Stromberg Carlson is really phenomenal. It shifts and plays 10 or 12-inch records; gives all the brilliance, all the bass of the original! It has a big 12-inch Stromberg -Carlson speaker, Electric Flash Tuning, Bi-f ocal Tuning Eye, New Slide Rule Dial, and Automatic Drift" Compensation.

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but only protecting what was "rightfully hers" when she entered Poland last week, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the Civil Liberties union executive committee said here Sunday. from Fargo, where he was arrested for allegedly threatening his wife. An altercation in a cafe at Nicol Callouses, Bunions, Sore Toes Quick Relief This New Way! Zino-pada quickly relieve pain; stop shoe friction and pressure; prevent corns, aore toes ease new or tight shoes. 630 softer than before! Separate Medications included for quickly removing corns or callouses. Cost but a trifle.

NEWM Speaking at a meeting commem began giving physical examinations to applicants for admission to the new Naval Reserve Officers' Training corps at the University of Minnesota. They will continue throughout the week. orating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Communist let and Second resulted in serious injuries for Chester Bowman, 41, party in the United States, she 1423 Mi Washington avenue S. He tinued striking In special calls and second and third alarms. Its clang could be heard throughout the building, by everyone except Gibbons.

And the blaze, a 3-11, was just a block from fire headquarters and the city hall. As firemen battled the flames, "Gib" slept peacefully on that table and his paper that Sunday contained not even a mention of the fire. The opposition carried a column on Page 1 with pictures. The Great Music Store of the Northwest CHANTERS TO REHEARSE The Chanters, mixed chorus of the University of Minnesota, will begin rehearsals Wednesday at 8:10 p.m. in room 4 of the University Music building.

Tryouts will start at 7 p.m. said since the non-aggression pact with Hitler, the Soviet government was stabbed three times in the back and several times in the chest by an unidentified, man. NEW ADDRESS: 68 So. Tenth St. NEW PONE: ATUntie 4216 Seventy-six men will be admitted to the corps at the this year, according to Lieut.

has had the upper hand in Europe. Commander H. F. Pullen, who is Three robbers who did not. get out of their car, compelled Frank in charge.

At the end of four years when the corps is completely organized it will total 200 men. yESf. having comfort for breakfast Ninneman, operator of a filling station at 4301 Cedar avenue, to hand over $17. They held a gun on him. Burglars got 40 cartons of ciga- Day in Pilot's Life Is Speech Topic Gene Shank, Northwest airlines check pilot, will speak on "A Day In the Life of a Pilot" at 12:15 p.m.

Thursday at a meeting of the Traffic club at the Northwest airlines hangar at Wold Chamberlain Held. A 21-passenger Douglas ship will also be open for inspection. Monday morning, a new po- iice reporter was on the job in Gibbons' place. Gibbons then went to Chicago, got a job on the Chicago Tribune, To Study Methods of Keeping Peace Methods for keeping the United and several months later was sent to Europe to cover the World war. States out of the European war it's swell to get an extra forty winks in the morning thanks to will be discussed tonight at a meet ine of the St.

Paul Council for EVEN BETTER IS THE WAY HOPPERS COKE SAVES MONEY OUR FUEL BILL IS MUCH LESS AND THERE'S ALMOST NO WORK Boy Is Overcome by Lack of Oxygen Peace Education at the St. Paul hotel. Carl Long, 6, 1910 Fifth street Prof. Lester B. Shippee, head of the history department at the Uni With every newspaperman In the United States praying to be aboard a liner attacked by a German sub- marine so he could write the first eye witness account of such a happening, Lady Luck stepped in again and rode with "Gib" when he booked passage for Europe on the S.

S. Laconia. HOPPERS HURRY-UP HEAT N.E., was overcome in the bathroom of his home yesterday by oxy versity of Minnesota, will speak and Prof. Milton D. McLean of Macalester will preside.

x- gen deficiency occasioned by operation of a gas heater. He was re vived by the fire department inha lator squad. Sells $1,000,000 of Insurance in Year Among 52 members of the National Association of Life Underwriters who attended the "million dollar round table" outing at French Lick, was Burton F. Vessey, Provident Mutual Life Insurance company, of Minneapolis, who qualified for membership by selling $1,000,000 worth of insurance last year. That vessel was torpedoed and sunk and to Gibbons fell the glory of writing the eye witness story that so many 4 newspapermen had hoped to write.

And a swell job of it he did. The irony of it was that the city editor who had fired Gibbons for sleeping through that 3-11 fire had to splash Gib's account of the Laconia sinking all over the first page with a by-line. And a year or two later, when Gibbons came back to Minneapolis for a visit, the man who left town "4 in One" Cnar Inl I' 'vfe 1 i nil ratidii onam- 7 j- haa anil mm 'Finger ZJM Wave Cum nip lt Hllh This Ail MUPr.KVIBKD 8'lUDKNl VVUKK 808 NICOI.I.KT, THIRD FU)()R because he was fired from his job was met at the station by the police band and escorted to his hotel by cheering thousands. Gibbons lost an eye at Bclleau Wood when he dragged a wounded soldier to safety. Ever al forward he wore a patch over the eye.

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