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ft Circulation of The Press Now Over 19,700 Copies Dally; vtE WEATHER Local thundershow-or Thursday; not in temperature. mn 135 OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE CF WISCONSIN -vr PRICE 3 CENTS 1 XXXn. NO. 169 SHEBOYGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1939 IT i i 1 I Kentucky owns Freak Siorm Whits Sheboygan Louniyl A Inundated. Alter r- emate 'Reopens Debate! Samples Of Hail Photographed Storm errific nn j- Om Monetary Quiestionj "Golf ball" Hail Cause Of Damage Western Section Of County Is Damaged By Storm Fails To Hit Sheboygan Forty-six Persons Known To Have Drowned After Cloudburst Causes Overflowing: Of Creeks In Eastern Kentucky Homes Are Swept From Their Foundations Legality Of Proposal Attacked Today As Hour Approaches For Decisive Vote Exceed 700 In Nation Death Toll State's Toll For Four Days Is Set At 19 frrpTipad Kv.

(3) Forty-six persons today were re- sorted drowned in floods that followed quickly a night nnd rivers out of their banks in the CUrSU aiiu artti. mountains of eastern Kentucky. Thirty-eight of the dead were listed here by Postmaster W. Washington. (IP) Heading into the last phase of its 1939 session, congress returned from a four day recess today for a decisive sen- ate vote on extending presidential control over the monetary system.

Traffic Accidents Cause Nine Deaths As Fourth Of July Holiday Is Observed In Wisconsin 1 E. Crutcher. ThP state board of health at Louisville said it had been in- forced at least eight were drowned when a wall of water cd down the gorge of the Ken- Western silver state senators ap- hwirv river at jacKson in These are a few of the millions of hailstones that rained on the western part of the county Tuesday afternoon. The one in the middle, as measured by the tape," is a good inch and one-half in diameter. The storm centered in Glenbeulah and Plymouth, causing heavy damage to crops, window panes and the tops of automobiles.

New York (UP) The death toll of this year's Independence Day celebration topped the 700 mark, exceeding the 1938 total by more than 100, as final figures for the nation's four-day holiday were tabulated today. A nationwide survey showed at least 720 persons were killed, compared to 595 in the three-day celebration last year. Paradoxically, the traditional and dangerous commemoration of July 4 with fireworks claimed only four lives this year as against 25 last year. Hundreds were injured, however. Heavy Traffic Toll Traffic accidents on highways congested by almost perfect motoring weather throughout the nation caused 307 deaths.

Drownings ac Towns Built On Bank Of Stream Breathitt county. Bridges, homes, stores and school buildings were swept away, the de Untold damage to crops that were cut to pieces and flattened in the fields, hundreds of shattered window panes, a dozen torn house roofs and scores of punctured automobile tops lay in the destructive path of big-as-golfball hailstones that fell in western Sheboygan county Tuesday afternoon. The storm lasted from 1:15 to 2:45 o'clock and considerable damage was reported from Plymouth, Glenbeulah, Elkhart Lake, Crystal Lake, West Bend and other communities. By the time the storm hit the city of Sheboygan it had drizzled out to a gentle rain. No persons were reported injured during the hail shower.

The huge white balls of frozen water began bouncing off streets and housetops in Plymouth about 1:15 o'clock. By 1:30 a regular torrent of hailstones was raining on the city. peared to hold the balance of power in the final test, set for late today. Senate republicans attacked the legalilty of the administration'g monetary bill today after President Roosevelt discussed with democratic leaders strategy for recover Smith Remains In Cell As Grand jury Meets ing his devaluation powers and win- partment said. Mrs.

N. L- Wells, chairman cf the Rowan county Red Cross, said the loss of life may run to 100. She also estimated there would be a thousand refuges and many requiring medi- Milwaukee. (UP) Sudden death claimed a total of 19 victims in Wisconsin and northern Michigan during the four-day Fourth of July holiday. Traffic accidents claimed nine lives, while five persons drowned.

Two persons fell victim to oppressive heat, and three deaths were due to miscellaneous causes. An uncounted number were injured, including eight in a single accident in Waukesha county. The victims since Monday, July 3, were: Jacob Alseth, 45, Orf ordville. Mrs. Gustav Schlageter, 69, Nor-walk, Ohio.

Ole Gunderson, 69, Cottage Grove. John Laurent, 65, Green Bay. Roy Williams, 19, town of Loyal, counted for 190 deaths and 223 Baton Rouge, La. (UP) The more died from miscellaneous causes including plane and train crashes, shootings, and fireworks. East Baton Rouge parish grand jury adjourned at 12:10 p.

m. today until 10 a. m. Friday without hearing Louisville, Ky. (AP) Eastern Kentucky mountain towns and villages swept by quickly-rising creeks and rivers early today are built along the banks of streams because there is so little level ground.

Morehead, scene of the largest death toll, i3 situated in a valley between two high mountains. There are many modern stores and homes. The stream which overflowed runs through the town and ordinarily i3 very small. There, as at Jackson and other communities, the streams, because of their narrow beds, are unable to carry off excess water fast enough. The mountaineers call these "flash" floods because the water comes up.

rapidly and subsides quickly. Morehead has a population of 2,500 and Jackson 2,100. Damage Is Spotty Reports from the Packing compa ning support tor neutrauiy lation. Picking up the monetary fight I where they left off Saturday raorn- ing, republican speakers told tho senate that even if the bill were! approved it would not legally re- store to the executive authority to I devalue the dollar or power to opcr-f ate the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. Two Different Views The monetary powers, contended Every state reported at least one violent death.

Nine states Call ny at Plymouth indicated that the damage was spotty, heavy in some fornia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, sections, light in others. Some far Clark county. New York, Michigan, Illinois, In diana and South Carolina account mers several miles east of Plymouth Mrs. Lilliam Van Ripper Norton ed for nearly half of the casualties 49, village of Brooklyn. cal attention, Bodies Recovered The bodies of the following had leen recovered: 1 Mrs.

George Boggess, 78. Mrs. James Tolliver, 71. Mrs. Minnie G.

Carter, 30, I and her son, Junior Bays Mrs. Curt Salyers, 28, and three children, Alberta, Bob- were hauling in hay and experienced little and light rainfall, while the vicinity of Cascade was not hard Lawrence Cochrane, 4, Superior. California, with 72 deaths, led al states. Pennsylvania had 58, Texas Senator Austin of Vermont, acting Herman Pohle, 79, Madison. hit.

49; Ohio, 41; New York, 37; Michi Lavonne Lebakken, 8, Galesville Herbert Rode, 16, Schaffer, Mich republican leader, dead." It would be contrary toi gan, 36; Illinois, 35, and Indiana STATION DAMAGED and North Carolina, 23 each. Joseph Rogers, 31, Milwaukee. Andrew Gates, 31, Joliet, 111. Fifteen persons were injured, Seven deaths were reported dur law," he said, to approve legisla-i tion designed to continue them after! they had expired. I The devaluation and stabilization fund powers died last week after seven seriously, and approximately ing the first half of the holiday.

50 were bruised and shaken last night when a wooden stand crowded with spectators at a pageant and They were James J. Gabritsch, 40, Routh 4, Plymouth; Elmer Jansen, cy, Ivan, 6. Mrs. Salyers mother, a Mrs. Eatliff and the tetter's son, Lo- 36, Cochrane; U.

J. (Sport) Her Al Miller's Guest House, a tavern and filling station on Highway 57 north of Plymouth, was damaged by the storm. Ten north side windows were shattered, the neon sign and all glass on the gasoline pumps were broken and hailstones ripped through a heavy asphalt roof on the filling station. mann, 68, Chicago; Mrs. Bruno fire-works show at Waukegon, 111., collapsed.

Police said about 2,000 Defer Action For One Week On Tax Bill her $7,500 bond, Dr. Smith said he "had a good notion to bust this thing wide open." He is charged with embezzling $100,000 of university funds but investigators believe they have only scratched the surface of his manipulations with university bonds and borrowed money. The grand jury is in charge of District Attorney Sanchez, who has seldom been in good graces with the state machine founded by the late Huey P. Long. The machine, now directed by Gov.

Earl K. Long, the late Kingfish's younger brother, has been thrown into turmoil by the L. S. U. scandal and coincidental federal WPA and income tax investigations, and Dr.

Smith's threat to shrive himself before a sympathetic grand jury was evil tidings to politicians. Crowd At Airport Dr. Smith's homecoming, in armed custody, was a holiday spectacle unequaled in Louisiana since the heyday of the assassinated Huey Long. A crowd swarmed the New Orleans airport where an Eastern Airlines plan from New York landed him, his wife. and their two guards yesterday evening.

Radio microphones and newsreel cameras were in place. The guards paused long enough to let Dr. Smith reply. (Helen) Romagnoli, Iron Mountain persons were thrown to the ground. George Lapp, 40, Merrill republicans and anu-aaminisirauon democrats had filibustered the extension bill beyond midnight, Friday.

The administration, meanwhile, came forward with the contention that later enactment of the legislation would have the effect of restoring the nowers despite the Four Fireworks Deaths Anton jvietz, 20, Milwaukee, and California, Maryland, Florida and Roy F. Schiska, 31, Madison. Struck By Automobile Texas had the fireworks fatalities. Dr. James Monroe Smith, former president of Louisiana State university charged with embezzling the school'3 funds.

Smith remained in his cell on the fourth floor of the building where the grand jury met. He has said he was determined not to be "the goat" in the financial scandals of L. S. U. He was questioned there by Clyde Strait, foreman of the grand jury, and District Attorney Dewey J.

Sanchez. Only witnesses to appear today were Leon Weiss, member of the New Orleans architectural firm of Weiss, Dreyf ous and Seif ert who previously had appeared, and W. A. Cooper, state supervisor of public funds. Investigate Smith's Income In New Orleans, United States District Attorney Rene Viosca said that a federal grand jury was investigating Smith's income and also charges that Works Progress administration funds were used by state political leaders for private construction.

A. D. Burf ord, ace investigator for the treasury department, and Arnold Raum, assistant U. S. attorney-general, have been in the state for several days.

Returned last night with his wife, who was held in jail on a charge of abetting her husband's escape until nine university professors raised Earl Hoover, 21, Los Angeles, was killed by premature explosion a I lapse. This morning President Roose-f An automobile struck and fatally injured Alseth late yesterday as he walked on Highway 13 near an Orf ordville farm where he had been The Packing company was Unable to determine how far the spread of destruction was. According to Elroy Wagner of Plymouth, his brother-in-law, Floyd Syron, Glenbeulah paint of a home-made bomb. Intense Political Battle Is Expected For Proposal Of Administration For Raising $26,360,000 Robert Grant, 18, was blown to bits at Hollywood. Fla, when a working.

Officers said they were in- xormea mat tne driver or the car keg of black powder with which he velt," Immediately after returning from his Hyde Park, N. home, conferred with Senate Majority Leader Barkley and House Majority Leader Rayburn. Barkley, before returning to the er, has orders for 200 window panes. Persons who saw them, reported hailstones as big as golfballs fell was Frank Oilman of Rockford, 111. A tire blowout on an automobile in the vicinity of Elkhart Lake.

The thrifty ones used them to cool their capitol to begin a last-minute drive beverages, but found to their dis (Continued on page 4, column 5) Convention Of (Continued on page 19, column 1) WPA Group At Milwaukee may that the stones were too large for votes, said he expected the legislation to go through, but neither side appeared highly confident. Before the senate met to begin debate, the foreign relations com to fit into large-size highball glasses Ice picks took care of that Pension Leaders Farmers reported many of their crops were torn to ribbons. Hun Is On Strike mittee decided to postpone until Saturday consideration of the isu- dreds of windows in stores and Is Held Here through a microphone, to the crowd that shouted: "Hi ya Doc." Continued on page 4, column 1) houses were shattered in the Elkhart area. Several persons said the Dr. Smith spoke only nine words but he left the crowd and everyone Approximately 800 Lay hail punctured the tops of their Forty-five members of the East ern Wisconsin association of "coun Relief Rolls (Continued on page 19, column 1) ty pension departments are In rene, 6.

Mrs. Harlin Boyd. A man named Porter. Jennie Amburgey, about 50. Marjory Amburgey, 13.

Evra Lee Amburgey, 6. Lula Mae Perry, 27. Selva Lee Perry, 17. Maggie Frances Collins, 12. Ecra Lee GoebeL 10.

Elmer Sparkman, 9. John Paul Sparkman, 6. Thelma Lee Sparkman, 4. Robert Sparkman. Car Is Overturned Mrs.

Salyers and her three children, her mother and her brother drowned as they attempted to start an automobile to flee from the onrushing Jter. The car was overturned and washed several hundred feet students of Morehead packers college, located here, ere in the flood. pfl Morthorst, a delivery J-icK driver for a Louisville "spaper, who was stranded me by the cloudburst which Preceded the flood, estimated J5. ast 4 or 50 persons" ere drowned. strict rector at Paintsville, rnues fr3in here, asking "all iA help He said, conditions worst pos- hiSnrthost said railroad and ndSes east of here ere waed out and that the Coauaaed on page 4 column .1) Sheboygan today attending the Down Their Tools In Protesting Provisions Of Appropriation Act regular meeting of the organization.

Madison, Wis. (UP) The administration tax program was put over until July 12 by the assembly today, With the understanding that all amendments offered will be considered at that time. It was learned that amendments are being drafted and have not yet been printed and that unspent appropriations in some state funds might change the state's financial picture. Assemblyman P. Bradley Mc-Intyre, co-chairman of the legislature's joint finance committee, told the United Press that the finance committee will introduce an amendment to reduce the amount to be taken from license Would Use $2,500,000 Asked how much of a diversion he proposed, Mclntyre said: "About $2,500,000 I think I'll be able to justify that," Mclntyre had just come from conference with Charles McKeown, Governor Julius P.

HeU's financial secretary. Administration spokesmen said In State Will Be Cut 4,500 wnicn is being held in fifth floor as sembly room at the courthouse. automobiles. Windows Broken At Glenbeulah the storm lasted about 40 minutes, starting at 2 o'clock. The east side window panes in virtually all the in that village were broken.

Crops in the immediate area were not badly damaged, though fruit trees suffered Electric signs were County Judge F. H. Schlichting Public To Benefit From Kettle Moraine Forest Milwaukee. (P) Approximately ana Attorney j. ifederer were scheduled to address the meeting 800 WPA workers, employed on this afternoon.

T. S. Davis. AtDle- Madison, Wis. (IP) ThUip D.i widening and deepening the Milwau kee river, dropped their tools and ton, administrator of the Outagamie Flanner, state WPA director, saidi county department, and president refused to work today as a protest today 4,500 persons would be re-l against the new federal relief ap moved this week from relief projects of the association, presided at the meeting.

broken and tops of cars pierced and punctured, though the steel tops on newer models were only dented, it was reported. Stones were said to be the size of hens' eggs at Glen to cut the state rolls to 58,000 fori The group was conducted through propriation act which requires all WPA workers to put in 130 hours a month. the month of July. I the Kohler company plant this Flanner said the reduction was cn I morning and were guests of the beulah. Sanford P.

Starks, Milwaukee dis the basis of "project operation" foI- Six airplanes participating in an company at a 1 o'clock luncheon in the American club. wwmg surveys wnicn snowea tnoi trict WPA director, said about 800 other men were willing to work, but Judge Schlichting spoke on "Aid air show at West Bend were damaged. Some of them were in the air at the time the storm broke, but all he ordered the project shut down work could be done by fewer people, Similar economies have been ordered for the past several months. to dependent children cases, where until tomorrow, rather than risk vi- father has abandoned or deserted. were landed safely.

Under the relief bill enacted in except require WPA workers to put At Crystal Lake one man report olence. Washington last week, the Works or where there is a divorce," while Attorney Federer's subject was ed he counted 27 holes in the roof Starks said he could do nothing Progress administration lost its au County Administration of Medical in 130 hours a month, because that tonomous standing and became the of his car. At Plymouth city park the outdoor light globes were Aid." Inter-department discussions regulation is written into the new Work Projects administration of the were held at 3:15 o'clock this broken. act. Federal Works agency.

Flanner ex WPA workers formerly put in 60 Richard J. Froehlich Is director to 80 hours a month at the securi plained, adding there would be no changes 1. the state administration setup. T. M.

McGuire, manager of the Plymouth Utility plant, said that apparently no damage was done to the ornamental street lights. Coun of the Sheboygan county pension de ty Tfrage scale of $60 a month for partment. Only one provision of the new law general labor, $70 for intermediate and $90 for skilled labor. would be put into effect immediate- First Drowning Flanner said. This would set Ordered To Lay Off 1,000 Starks said he received orders to ty service calls kept his plant busy, Mr.

McGuire said, until after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but no serious damage was reported. uniform monthly work limit of 1301 day to lay off 1,000 WPA workers in hours based on security wages in- Of Season Occurs Here On Tuesday stead of previous varied hourlvf Madison, Wis. (Special) The Kettle Moraine strip of land from Plymouth in Sheboygan county to Whitewater in Walworth county, extending approximately 80 miles, provides Wisconsin with a great state forest of natural beauty close to the densely populated sections of the state and was intended by nature for public rather than private use, according to an article in the current monthly bulletin of the state conservation commission. The state has already acquired 3,000 acres in the northern area and additional acquisitions will be made as rapidly as possible from the $75,000 annual appropriation set aside by the 1937 legislature for state recreational land purchases. The conservation commission has laid plans for the eventual purchase of 12,250 acres in the northern unit and of 15,000 acres in the southern unit.

Here is what the conservation commission has to say about preservation of this recreational area: "Glacial scars of an ancient catastrophe made Wisconsin a fishermen's paradise. The same ice masses that dug out our lakes dropped some of their accumulations of soil and gravel along a narrow strip from near Plymouth in Sheboygan county to Whitewater in Walworth county, a distance of more than 80 miles, and made it possible to have a great state forest in the most congested section of the state. "Well-developed farm lands surround the Kettle Moraine forest lands. The prodding plow has been inserted in some of the Kettle Moraine soil, only to show that there is no hope" for profitable agriculture. The obvious answer was forestry." "Wisconsin has an abundance of forest lands.

Millions of acres of recreational areas are available for those who can reach them, but the Kettle Moraine development is unique in that it brings a forest to the people, many of whom cannot readily go to more distant places. "Just how the Kettle Moraine lands may best serve human needs has been a matter of speculation for many years. Nature itself designed the land far public rather than for private use." "The Izaak Walton league chapter of Milwaukee owned S00 acres of the land near Moon lake, and in 1936 this property was do-, nated to the state. The next step in the acquisition program came in 1937 when the legislature provided $75,000 annually for state recreational land in southeastern Wisconsin. "Carrying on under the legislative authorization, the conservation commission laid out plans for the eventual purchase of 12,250 acres in the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, and 15,000 acres in the southern unit.

About 3,000 acres have now been acquired in on page 4, column i Report Made Oh Additional Flood Losses the Milwaukee district July 8. About 700 of those affected will be Milwaukee county WPA employes, and standards and payments related to prevailing wage schedules in differ- 4. 1 the remainder will be divided among (Continued on page 4, column 3) Chamberlain Subjected To Sharp Attack London. (UP) Opposition members taunted Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the house of commons today with demands for a decisive attitude toward Germany. Questions suggesting mobilization of the fleet or inclusion of Winston Chuchill in the cabinet to impress the reich were fired at Chamberlain.

Chamberlain's main reply was that the British government wiU take whatever steps it may deem necessary to make its attitude absolutely clear on the Danzig problem, but he still refused to say more than that Britain would fight if Poland's independence were clearly threatened by an aggressor. R. A. Butler, foreign undersecretary, in response to the hecklers, also refused to clarify whether Britain would fight if Danzig is taken by an internal nazi putsch. Butler referred his questioners to Kenosha, Racine, Ozaukee, Wauke Donations For Camp Continue To Be Received sha and Washington counties.

tut lutiiiiues. The state director declared other possible changes resulting from the act would not become effective until late summer. The provision in the new act that WPA workers who have been em ployed by the WPA for 18 months are to be laid off for 30 days prob Require New Truck I ably will cut off another 5,000 work ers, according to Starks. Starks said there were 25,000 WPA workers in the Milwaukee dis Sheboygan's only holiday fatality occurred some time Tuesday evening, when a man identified as Frederick Schlack, 40, of 306 S. Fifteenth street, was found drowned in the Sheboygan river.

His body was recovered early this morning by police, after John Jocis, of 220 S. Fifteenth street, had seen it floating in the river near the Fourteenth street bridge. He has no known relatives in this vicinity, but it is believed that he has a brother living in Oconomo-woc. He was last seen Tuesday night, about 7 o'clock, Coroner Wesley Van Zanten said that the body had been in the water since Tuesday night. Licenses July 15 Madison, Wis.

(Ip) Roland W. Dixon, head of the automotive licensing division of the secretary cf trict, including 20,000 in 'Milwaukee te today it had 30 'between 23 yFtLjf downed at Cartr county, a cloudburst there. tie dispatched men He alTf ere lost llvea apparently Cfr feUnre 111311 ven inched Coirr. one tw-hour period. were down itflJ no exPted to be cerore early evening.

county. Two more welcome donations were added to the Sheboygan Kiddies' Camp Fund today, bringing the fund over the $1,320 mark. If you are interested in this worth-while project, send your check to The Sheboygan Press now. All of the money received will be used for the camp in an effort to make it the best of its kind. Previously reported $1,312.00 Mrs.

Frank C. Ries 10.00 Business and Professional Women's Club 3.00 Protest New Schedule Chester, HLyfP) All 48 workers on a WPA swimming pool project walked out today in protest against the new work schedule provided in Ihe recent WPA revisions by state's office, said today that truck i licenses may be purchased up to July 15 without penalty. The law I fixes the deadline' on July 1, but Dixon said no action would be taken against delinquents until the grace period expires, I 1 on page 4, column 1) I f..