The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 2

MOB TWO ESCANABA IHIUHI DAILY PBES8 WEDNESDAY, DEC. HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL OVER 600 Highway Accidents Claim 432; Illinois Leads Fatality List IV AMttoUi rnm) Death by violence over the 3- day Chrlstmss holidays left a toll of at least G7S surmounting last year's list of 508 In a nation at peace. Traffic once more look the greatest harvest of live? with 438 fatalities. Forty-six perished In fires. 52 died of gunshot mounds, stabbing and the like, and many a home was naddened by the death of children In roasting accidents 12 in New York state alone.

Five Navada, Rhode Island. Vermont and Wyoming-passed the 1938 Christmas holiday without fatality, but this year not a slate reported a clean record. Topping the list was Illinois with 64 dead. Including 27 In traffic accidents. 14 by trains, eight by violence, eight by suicide, and seven from miscellaneous causes.

California was second with 58 fatalities, followed by Michigan with 4 5. New York with 4 2 and Pennsylvania with 40. Garden News Harden. schools of the township closed for the holidays Friday afternoon after programs or appropriate seasonal exorcises. In the kindergarten achool.

went through eierclsea which were climaxed by a visit from Santa who was relieved for the occasion by Bruce Farley, who had just returned from Alaska. High achool students sang before they exchanged gifts from a tree beautifully decorated. Parenta were Invited to enjoy a program which waa given by the grade studenta in Miss Greene's room Friday afternoon. Due to limited accommodation the older grades were allowed to seo the program In the morning. Pupils of grades two and three, nnder the direction of Miss Greene, contributed the following Itema: Recitations by Junior Guertin and Milton Hazen.

Dialog by flvo little girls and five little boys. Tlushabye song by tho girls. Shopping Miller. Soldier drill by 11 aecond grade boys. A Christmas Secret Jackie Moran.

A Guertin. The Magic play. The by the third grade. Miss Pauline Lemirande's room, grades four and five, performed the following tems: The Spirit of our Billy Heric. Silent Night Organ Patsy Truckey.

play. Jingle all the boys. Mrs. Santa Horning. Advice to and.

It came upon the midnight clear by tho girls. Tat row. The pupils of the eighth grade gave afternoon English with Betty Kreshefske the teacher and Frank Horning the visiting swain. Mrs. Raymond Gravelle accompanied the singers on her violin.

After the exerciscs Frank Horning imperaonated Santa and distributed boxes of candy and popcorn Alaskan Traveller Bruce Farley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farley, who arrived here Tuesday from Alaska, spent months there on this his aecond trip, which taken with a view to satiatug his desire for big i-'anio hunting. He was successful in bringing down two moose, one of which weighed about 1200 rounds, and several mountain gnats and shepp. The moat of the latter he considers the most delicious of all Snow came very early to this country this year, and in consequence the mines closed earlier than usual.

4-H Party Miss Kthel Greene, leader of one of the two 4-H sewing groups entertained the members of her croup, together with the eighth grade students in her room Wednesday evening. (lames were played, after which a delicious lunch was enjoyed. Carol Singers About fifteen girls of the High School, under the direction of Miss Johnson, high school teacher. visited several of the local homes and sang ('hirstmas carols Thursday evening, after which they enjoyed a social time, with refreshments, at the high school. Mrs.

Henry Jacobsen and son Bruce of Fairport returned home Friday after spending two weeks with her parents. Mr. and Mrs Joe arley, hile her was out on the lake fishing. Farley arrived here Wednesday from the College of Mining and Tec hnology at Houghton, to spend the holidays with his parents. Miss Ruth Greene, of N.S.T.C Marquette, is visiting relatives here for the holidays.

Don Farley arrived here Friday night to spend Christmas with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Tom DesRoehera and daughter Mary Alice left Saturday to spend Christmas at the home of Mm. Frank of Escanaba.

Mrs. lleuiy Jacobbtu, Bruce Escanaba Traffic Deaths Of Holiday Week Mount To 5 CContlnued from Pare One) was driven by Wilfred Doucette, Escanaba. the sheriff's office reported. but he was not hurt. Miss Kandell was in St.

Francis hospital. Arvld Magnuson of Lake Shore Drive suffered severe cuts about tho hand when tho car In which ho was rldtig looked rront wheels near his home. Stanley Larson, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Larson.

102 7 Washington avenue, suffered a broken thigh when the toboggan on which he was sliding struck tree. He was taken to tho hospital where his leg was set. Ho will be confined there for at least six weeks. Patrick Mullin Patrick Joseph Mullin was born In Escanaba on May 14, 1917, and attended school here. He recently entered the garage business, and had completed an unique building, made entirely of discarded beer bottles, which he had collected and cemented together, to form tho building.

He Is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mullin of 121 North 19th street, and three brothers and two sisters, John, Hubert, Vincent, Mary and Kathleen, all at home. The body was taken to the Murphy Funeral Home where It Is resting In state.

Services will be held Thursday morning at nine o'clock, at a solemn requiem high inas at St. church, the Very Rgv. Fr. Thomas A. Kennedy officiating, and burial will be in St.

Joseph's cemetery. Pallbearers will bo James Van Effen, Francis Donovan, William Gregory, Wilfred Loeffler. William Farrell and Robert Desmond. Mrs. Hary WhHhead Mra.

Mury Whitehead. 65, of 305 South 12th street died at 51:30 o'clock Tuesday evening at St. Francia hospital, Death was due to injuries suffered In an tomobllo accident at tho corner of First avenuo south and South 12th street Saturday evening. She suffered a double skull fracture. Survivors include one sister, Mrs.

James Morris. Sheboygan, and two brothers, Charles Conahan, Escanaba, and John Conahan, Milwaukee. Tho body was taken to tho phy Funeral Homo to bo prepared for burial. Funeral arrangements are expected to be completed today. Torn quint Tho body of Jonaa Tornquist, 75.

victim of an automobile accl- dent near Isabella, was taken to the Anderson Funeral Homo, and arrangements for tho last rites will bo completed today. Mr. Tornquist was born August 25, 1864, at Hernosands, Sweden. He la survived by a sister. Mrs.

J. W. Ostman of Finland. and two sisters In Sweden. Woman Injured Mrs.

Marie Anderson of Escanaba was injured Monday when a car drove into a group of five persons standing around a parked car In East Klngsrord. near Iron Mountain, at the close of a wedding dance. Others Injured In the same cldent wero William Lavlone, 40, of Iron Mountain, and William Mischuud, 37, of Qulnnesec, On Farm Post Briefly Told Class of Reunion Tickets are still available, it was announced last night, for the reunion banquet of the class of 1935 of Escanaba high school at the Sherman hotel tonight. Leslie Peterson, class president, will be toastmaster and there will be music. Committee members, who have tickets, are Marge Kolb.

Edith Carlson, Allan Reck, Karl Dickson. Bill Beckfltrom, Ray Hurley and Mr. Peterson. Man On Crutches Is Purse Snatcher Atlanta. Dec.

26. startled. Mrs. F. M.

Cagle reported to police that she (1) met a man on crutches walking along a downtown street last night. (21 suddenly was tripped by one of the crutches, (3) had her purse, containing $58, snatched as she fell and 4 i watched the flee swiftly, crutches iu one hand, purse in the other. baby smothered Detroit. Dec. 26 Three- week-old Sylvia Ann Kalasz was found dead in her bed today, apparently suffocated by her bedclothes.

iHUH.wts et RMu.h Brooklyn. Dec. 26 Brooklyn Dodgers announced today they had acquired Infielder Louis (Bote) Berger on waivers from the Boston Red Sox. Berger has played every infield position but first base and he and Johnny Hudson are likely to be the chief infield replacements. and Mrs Joe Farley, sons Riuce and Myron, visited Miss Leola Farley in Escanaba Wednesday.

Wedding Dance Tonight 15c Clieiilcr Blanche (Tiare boU MAPLE GROVE Mualc By Nash Electronaders Roosevelt Will Not Run Again, Senator From Nebraska Says Washington, Dec. 26 confident prediction that Preat- dent Roosevelt would not be a candidate for a third term was made today by Senator Burke, the Nebraska Democrat who acme times opposes Roosevelt policies. At the same time Burke termed Vice President Garner the 1940 candidate who "could do the best Job of carrying on the vital part of the Roosevelt program in the next four years." Back In the capital after ft swing through his homo state, Burke said In an Interview: Roosevelt has reached his decision and In his own due time will announce his conclusion. He is convinced that It is not now true, never has been true, and never will be true that In a Dem- cracy of 130 000.000 people one person must serve as chief executive for more than eight Grover B. Hill of Amarillo, takes over his desk as assistant secretary of agriculture.

A rancher, be has been in AAA work since 1934. Babe Girl To Marry In June, Live In Ski Lodge New' York. Dec. 26 met at. a golf club where her dad, George Herman (Babe) Ruth, waa playing, and their futuro home will be a ski lodge.

So said Richard Wells Flanders, 31, and Mr. and Mrs. Ruth'a pretty daughter, Julia. 23, who plan to be married in June. For about eight months In the year, they said today, live at tho Cranmoro Mountain Lodge which Flanders owns, at Kearsarge, N.

H. a winter aports center, and also a summer vacation lodge. Lansing Boy Held For Shooting Girl Who Refused Date Hillsdale. Mich Dec. 26 Elghteen-year-old Richard Valentine of Lansing, accused of shooting the superintendent of secretary at nearby Reading laat week, demanded Justice court examination when arraigned today on a charge of assault with intent to kill.

Justice Elmer B. Hagaman set examination for Friday. Valentine, former high school football center, was unable to provide $5,000 bond and was returned to the Hillsdale county Jail. The youth Is accused of shooting Edith Baleom. 18.

when ahe allegedly refused to him and returned his f'hristmas gift. The girl was reported In "good condition" at University hospital, Ann Arbor, today. Locksmith Believed Abducted In Detroit Detroit, Dec. 26. Harry Pont, 32-year-old locksmith, returned to his home tonight after a mysterious nine-hour absence which he refused to explain to police Who had started a search for him.

answer a pointblank question as to whether he had been kidnapped." said Detective Robert Sneed of the special investigation squad. Pont had telephoned his family at 8 p. m. to say that he waa safe and on his way home. Detective Sneed conferred with him for half an hour after his return hut said the man answered questions asking others." Police had launched a search for the locksmith when he did not return to his shop after leaving shortly before noon.

KILLED BY TRAIN Ypsllantl, Dec. 26 Kenneth O. Singer, 27. of Ypsll- atiti. was instantly killed today when he was hit by a Michigan Central railroad passenger train near the depot here.

Two Plead Guilty In Alcohol Ring Detroit, Dec. 26 de fendants In the ease against an alleged mldweat- ern illicit alcohol ring pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Ernest A. today to charges of violating the internal revenue law s. The men, Clarence Dracha of Wyandotte, and Henry Skampo of Toledo, Ohio, were released on peraonal bonds pending sentence. They were among 30 accused in a secret indictment returned by a federal grand Jury here last week of defrauding the government of an estimated $100.000 In taxes.

The ring opcraled between Chi cago, Cleveland and Detroit, federal agents said, with Chicago fta headquarters. Insurance Salesman Held For Shooting Pontiac, Dec. 2d. Carl Alfsen. 54-year-old Inauranee salesman, demanded examination todav when arraigned before Municipal Judge Milton Cooney on a charge of assault with Intent to kill.

Examination waa aet for Jan. 10. Alfsen is accused of shooting Oscar Olsen. 6 2. last week in an argument over money.

Olsen is recovering at a Pontiac hospital. Dust Bowl Under Blanket Of Snow Oklahoma City. Dec. 26 OF) A 14-lnch snow blanket buried the old dust bowl tonight, disrupting traffic, stalling automobiles and relieving an early winter drought. Gordon Shankltn of Trinldld.

N. who forced the blockade between Clayton and Dea Moines. X. said he saw than 100 cars" stalled. SUGAR QUOTAS TO BE RENEWED Hoarding Scare Dies Out; Marketing Provisions Go On Jan.

1 Bullets Hit Her The common sign of greeting employed by Gulf of Mexico Indians on meeting friends is to into one ears. The Ludington Motel Invites You to the Biggest Party In Town Make Your Reservations Now For New Year's Eve. DINNER Steak or Chicken (the finest we were able to purchase) nAkiriklA Ladouceur, His UANC i Trumpet His Orch. FAVORS Horns, Hats, etc. Cl If you don't have it, it won't be our fault.

ALL FOR COUPLE Washington, Dec. 26. sugar prices down to pre-European war levels once more. President Roosevelt today re-established quota marketing provisions of the 193 7 sugar control act under which all marketing areas are assigned shares in the American market. The provisions, suspended by presidential proclamation on September 11, will become effective again on January 1.

The agriculture department expects to announce new quotus for the various marketing areas within 10 days. Inasmuch as the 1039 quotas were not re-established. producers may market freely until the new year begins. In reiniposing quotas, the president said that conditions which had prompted their suspension hnd disappeared. Those conditions.

he said, wero "extraordinary purchases" by consumers immediately after the outbreak of the war and consequent sharply Increased prices and speculative which accompanied tho consumer Restoration of the quota system January was interpreted by Senator D-Wyo. to that benefit payments to growers of sugar beets and sugar can would be made for the 1940 crop. Secretary Wallace said today benefit payments would be made If congress appropriated for them. Two Hunters Killed By Buckshot Charge While Decoying Deer Dec. 26 Intensive search by land nnd air for two missing hunters ended today with discovery of their bodies, sprayed with buckshot.

Sheriff J. A. Goolsby of Cameron county said he was satisfied tho men were victims of an Inexperienced hunter who mistook them deer and fled panic- stricken when ho found hta victims wero human. Evidently a single shotgun blast killed J. B.

White of Harlingen and John Punch, sought since they failed to return from a hunting trip Snuday, tho sheriff ndded. Ho believed the men wero rattling horns to call up deer when they were killed. A 12 gauge shotgun ahell and an overseas cap wero found near the bodies. Traffic At Straits High Over Holidays T.ansing. Dec.

26 survey by the state highway department shows an unprecedented volume of Christmas holiday traffic across the Straits of Mackinac this year. Travel reached a peak Sunday, when 289 vehicles were transported across the straits, the report aald, and on Dec. 25 the ferries carried 277 vehicles. Staff employes said arrangements are being made to accommodate a south-bound rush of holiday vacationists after the first of the year. The tabulation showed the ferries from Jan.

1 to Dec. 15 this year have transported 278,243 vehicles, exceeding the previous record of 274,673 established in 1937. Edith Ilalcom (above), 18, lay wounded in neck and back in an Ann Arbor, hospital, as her young admirer, Richard Valentine, also 18, was Jailed at Hillsdale, charged with assault with attempt to kill. Mias Ilalcom, a school secretary, was shot when she allegedly refused to give young Valentine a DRIVE COSTLY FOR RUSSIANS IN FAR NORTH (Continued from Pago One) inforcements were troops and that among the officers were some of Joseph Stalin's peraonal friends. 8talln was described as being provoked with the reverses experienced In the Arctic fighting, and as being determined upon a vigorous Initiative on that front.

The Finns they had Idetl- lled 16 Russian dlvisious confronting them on the east and north- each division consisting of about 18. uoo men. General Wallenlus was quoted as saying the general situation was such that each Finnish bst- tallon (about 600 men) faced a Russian division. But while out-numbered, the Finns found the difficulties of weather and transport in their favor. The White sea is frozen so that there ia no sea communication to Archangel or Murmansk, and the Russians' main reliance for supplies Is the Murmansk railroad, which ia supplemented In the far north by tractor-drawn cars on narrow rail lines laid on the highways.

Browder To Speak At Madison Redly Madison. Dec. 26 Earl Browder, genersl secretary of the Communist party in America. was added today to the list of speakers who will address the sixth annual convention here of the American Student Union. The Union, which convenes tomorrow, announced a symposium for tomorrow night in which Browder, Joel Seidtnan, of the League for Industrial Democracy, and Victor A.

Yakhontoff, former general in the imperialist Russian army and assistant secretary of war In the Kerensky regime, will make an appraisal of the Soviet Union. Although general sessions oi convention will be held on the University of Wisconsin campus President CInrenco A. Dykstra oi the university said today that nr official notice would be taken of the last minuto addition of Browder and the other symposium speakers. Shooting Takes 3 Lives At Ludington On Christmas Day Ludington. Dec.

26. tonight of Mrs. Christine llivley, 23. increased to three the toll of a Christmas day shooting at the farm home of her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. John Savickas, near Fountain. Savickas. 52. shot his daughter, Sheriff George L.

Coyler said, then killed his wife, Josephine, 46. and himself. Mrs. llivley, who bad come here from her Hammond. home for Christmas, was struck in the abdomen by a shotgun slug fired through a door.

She and her mother were holding the door shut against Savickas after he had fired one shot at his wife. Separate funerals had been arranged for Savickas and his wife Thursday. It was not learned tonight whether the death of the daughter would change the arrangements. Services for Mrs. Savickas had been arranged for a.

m. from St. Mary's Catholic church at Custer Village. Services for Savickas wero planned for 10:30 a. m.

the Maine day from Stephens chapel in Scott vllle, three miles away. Burial is to be side by side in Brooksido cemetery. Grandson Is Whole Show In Roosevelt Press Conference Washington. Dec. 26 Nlne-months-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, president newest grandson, stole the show at tho White House press conference today.

Dressed In a yellow romping suit, the son of John R. Boettiger, Seattle publisher, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger sat on hla father's lap behind the chief executive, smiling as he toro a newspaper to bits. The president said little John was the latest applicant for admission to the White House correspondent's association. The president remarked that in preparation for little John's entrance into the association he being trained to tell the difference between background information and off-the-record news. DELFT NO MATINEE TODAY 15c, 10c TONIGHT and Tomorrow THE COCKtrtD WORLD WILl laugh LAUGH ntovMti BROTHERS and LYNN BAM J0SIPN SCNMKtAUT STANLEY FIELDS FRITZ LEIBER SPECIAL! Actual pictures of tho Burning and Sinking of tho German Pocket Battleship.

GRAF SPREE TRAVELOGUE and NOVELTY BY HEINZERLING Helsinki. Dec. 26 Russian forces, supported by tanks, airplanes and artillery, were reported tonight to have left dead on the ice of Suvanto w'hen repulsed In a series of fierce assaults against Finnish positions on the Karelian Isthmus. The main attack, a Finnish communique said, oeurred on the eastern side of the Isthmus, where Russian columns struck simultaneously at Haitermaa. Sakkola, Krelja and Yolossula.

Finnish fire took a heavy toll of the attackers as they attempted to cross the frozen surface of l.nke Suvanto In bitter cold. The night's Finnish que said the Russians left 700 dead on Ihe battlefield. Altogether, the Finns said. 23 Russian planes were shot down In a day of fighting. The communique said the Finnish troops had captured 50 prisoners.

disabled twro tanks and taken quantities of war materials including 66 machine-guns In the l.ake Suvanto sector. Fighting continued further north, to the cast of I.ieska. from which the Finns previously had been reported driving across the Soviet frontier In the direction of the Murmansk railway. The Finns said they had destroyed 20 enemy lorries there. Activity also was reported at Suomussaaltni near the middle of the eastern frontier, where the communique said two Russian tanks had been destroyed.

(A Russian communique issued earlier said the Finns had suffered a "serious at Suomussalmi. 15 miles west of the Soviet frontier.) Elsewhere flnns the eastern front remained quiet, with the exception of patrol Bullet Blows Up Boys In Dynamite Waterford. N. Dec. 26 Two hundred pounds of dynamite, cached in a metal covered trailer and believed exploded by a rifle bullet, blasted five young hunters to bits today.

The dead are Frederick Deeb, 15: Roger Murray. 18: Russell Prescott, 14; Rentley E. Fogarty. 16 and Arthur Perras. 15, all of Cohoes.

State police, who found fragments of bodies and clothing scattered more than 100 yards front the scene, made the Identifications by hunting licenses. Thomas Quigley, a state ploye. said he saw five youths "apparently target near the djnamite magazine several minutes before the blast. The explosives, used by a contractor in deepening and widenlnc the New York state barge canal, shook houses within a radius of 20 miles and left a crater four feet deep and 30 feet wide in a vacant field. skirmishes and artillery fire north east of Lake Ladoga.

Helsinki had a 30-mlnute air raid warning when four planes were sighted. Although detonia- tiona were heard, no bombs were dropped on the city. DANCE TONIGHT and Saturday Night THE TAVERN Mualc By STAFF LeDUC roailHrl) Prohibited MICHIGAN TODAY and TOMORROW NIGHT ALL 6:45 9:15 Starting A ROARING, ROUSING DOUBLE-FEATURE PROGRAM Packed with Thrilling Hair-Trigger Action! WINGS OFTHB I inavy I GEORGE BRENT OLIVIA DiHAVILLAND JOHN PAYNE THK THRILLING STORY OF UNCLB HAM'S MIGHTY BATTLESHIPS THAT RULE THK AIR AND DAUNTLESS HAWKS THAT FLY THEM! FATHER AGAINST SON IN A SHOW-DOWN FIGHT TO UPHOLD THE LAW! Excitement that your heart skip a beat! ALSO CARTOON COMING SUNDAY 'THE UNDER-PUP".