The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 1

TIME 99. No, 19. Associated Press United Press RACINE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY InUraiticmsJ Ntwa 18 PAGES 4 CENTS 4t tlfiDOO A RACINE OURNAL ja LI (D 1L Bettuee i. ffl(Pt) Ofher i I Are nvaded by Raging Streams ities in Basement Floods J. Yale Trees Still Up Political Irony j.

AFL Moggls Meet. I Bruno Mussolini of Big Bombing Planes Headed for South America Via Africa Autos and Buses River Rises 4 of Cellars All of Southern Wisconsin 4. Flight to Be Made in Three Laps Covering 6,000 Miles; Duce's So'n Hops Off After Winning I Mother's Grudging Permission. munities Report Property Loss; Scores of Homes Are Evacuated in Rockford. -t 5vave ft Sf I 11ftf i i s.

sr 1 i1-VVy2 "Water was more than four, feet deep in the subway on Lathrop bile stalled there, the driver waded through water that reached to Movie Industry Anti-Trust Suit, Is Report WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. For many years, the justice de-(Copyright 1938 by INS) The partment has received complaints Leads Trio made planes which bombed Bar-' celona and other Spanish coastal cities last fall in behalf of the Spanish nationalists. Each plane lias a five-man crew.

Purpose of the flight, aside from testing the ability of the planes, is to enable Italian aviators to study the course across the South Atlantic with the intention of establishing a tegular line between Italy and South America. 1 Bruno Starts Last. Young Mussolini was the last to take off. Col. Attilio Biseo, Pre mier Mussolini's personal pilot and commander of the expedition, was the first to take off.

was followed, by Capt. Nin Moscatelli. Bruno's father, who earlier had been reported planning to accompany him in his own plane as far as the Straits of Messina, was not at the airport. The government was represented officially i by Gen. Giuseppe Valle, under- secretary of aviation, It was understood that Bruno had had a difficult' time persuading his mother to permit him to make the flight.

He glories in his 1 father's motto, ''Live dangerously," and. was reported to have told friends: 1 "I've convinced my mother this time. She promised that she 1 would not worry too much. We will make it." 1 First Lap Hardest. The flight will be made in three laps covering approximately 6,000 miles.

The first lap, from Rome to Dakar, West Africa, is the most difficult. The distance is about 2,700 miles of which 2,000 miles" is over the Sahara desert. The second lap is from Dakar to Natal, Brazil, and the third from Natal to Rio De Janeiro. Biseo said that the planes intended to maintain a regular flying schedule like passenger planes. I UtOmODIlQ iUtTIOS in Garage Kill Pinchot's Niece OLD BROOKVILLE, N.

Jan. 24. (U.R) Clad in an evening gown and an expensive' fur coat, Rosamond Pinchot, famous actress and niece of the former governor of was found dead today in her automobile in the garage of an estate she rented here. A length of garden hose led from the exhaust pipe of the automobile through a rear window and into the body of the car. Police said the beautiful 32-year-old daughter of Amos Pinchot, widely known attorney, apparently had committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes.

Maid Finds Body. Miss Pinchot, who started theatrical career at 19 as the nun in Max Reinhardt's production "The Miracle," drove her car into the garage on the J. H. Alexandre estate late last night. Police believed the actress went to the garage about midnight, adjusted the hose and started the motor.

The motor had stopped when Ida Hannimen, a maid, found the body shortly after 7 a. m. Miss Pinchot was the wife of William Gaston, playwright. They had two children, William, born a year after their marriage in 192S, and James P. Gaston, 5.

The Weather For Wisconsin: Cloudy, snow tonight and probably east and north portions Tuesday morning; severe cold wave tonight and Tuesday; strong north to northwest winds diminishing Tuesday. KACIXE TEMTEBATCKE Highest and lowest temperatures recorded during the 34 hours ended iM p. m. Maxim am 36. Minimum ,...34 Maximum .13, Minimum Jaa.

S3. 193S. ifsxlmum 34ktinlmum 1 IS Temperature since 4 p. m. Sunday.

Maximum 40iMlnimum S3 A 14 m. 44 Precipitation S.SS lachea. Jaa. 33. 13T.

Maximum lJJiltnimum SIN AND MOON The sua will rise on Jan 3 it 1 31 av.sBd wll set at 4' p. su Tne mooa will rlu at 3 J7 a. 0) Stalled Here; Feet; Hundreds Filled With Water and Some Illinois Com- feet between 2 and 7 a. m. when the rain, which began falling Sun-; day night continued this morning BLIZZARD STRIKES Winter weather returned to western' Racine county suddenly today.

Burlington reported at 1:15 p. m. Ithat a blizzard was raging. that visibility was poor and that the temperature had dropped sharply. and established a new all-time January record.

In one instance, loss of life was suspected for a time. Th0 police were caiiea 10 uie suDway unuer the St. Paul tracks at Lathrop avenue. It was reported a man had drowned in his but investigation showed the owner had abandoned the car. The cushions were floating about in the auto.

Water Up to Arm Pits. The water was more than four feet deep at that subway. Two autos, stalled early today, were the- tlrivefST A service crew was called to pull them out and a member of the crew waded in water up to his armpits to attach a chain to one of the marooned automobiles. Traffic was interrupted in all outlying sections. Two city buses became stalled on Lathrop avenue, north of Kinzie avenue, early in the day.

The board of public works which had a crew of men working to open frozen catchbas-ins, barricaded the Lathrop avenue subway, and all traffic was routed by way of Durand avenue. The area at Twenty-first street in' I that section also was flooded and that street was impassably. Water flowed over Monfoe. avenue, south of Washington avenue, and to the north of Kinzie The greatest amount of I water, however, flowed from Lathrop avenue and territory west of the city south of Washington 'avenue, and some home owners Reported flooded cellars. Fires were not extinguished in that area, hjowever.

Rupert Boulevard Hard Hit. Rupert boulevard, extending west from Kinzie avenue, was ter which flowed from the' area to the west. The water found means of escape through catchbasins and over the walks into the creek to the south. Many basements were flooded in that area. Water was from a foot to I8 inches deep in some basements, and furnace fires were extinguished.

The creek jat that point was swollen to the top of the banks. Numerous appeals for assistance were reported from that area. To the west of that sector, in the vicinity of the Spring street bridge, the water covefed the street a foot or more. While the section north! of the city was covered with water, no alarming conditions were reported there. Camp Cottages Endangered.

Conditions upriver were more alarming than during the regular spring freshets. Joseph Horlick, who has resid ed at the dam his entire life, reported a two foot torrent Tpouring over the dam. The condition is the worst he has seen in January during all the years he pas observed floods and ice jams. From Burlington came the report that the water is two feet over the top of the ice on the Fox and White rivers, but so far there is no danger of damage resulting. Last spring the Honey Creek dam was washed out and should that dam ailto hold today there might be serious results at Burlingto.

Ice Jams In Rlver In Racine the heavy rain caused the ice to break up in sections of Jower Root river and it floated downstream and. jammed! west of Lafayette avenue bridge. The Jam prevented a free flow of water, aggravating flood conditions. The weather pbserve ar By. 7e ReynxUdl SO cpmes the flood hci emboli's.

Earlv tins morning the telc- phone Irings at this writer's The Home Secretary answers. "I want to talk to Tex Reynolds," says man's voice. VHe's busy right now," says the H. S. "Well, tell him to Come out to my place and have a look," urges the voice.

"I've got three feet of water jn my basement." "All right," agrees 'the! H. tell him, but I'm not siire he'll be interested. He's got about that much tin his own basement!" I I SO can comment sympatheti- cally from first hand expeii- ence, setting sail from the basement steps, steering a jrautloiis course through floating wjbod, ash baskets and other debris; taking careful soundings, and dropping anchor at the point where the top of the'furnace protruded swirling torrent. A But if the persona note may be 'pardoned, and since I'm one' of those confirmed "Lookers i-at the bright side of things." I'd like to point out thai the flood again demonstrates that old adage, "It's an 111 wind that doesn't blow some rood." I I Last fall I bought a pair of stream-lined rubber bqots, the very latest in what the well-dressed duck hunter should wear. There were some pointed; remarks by the H.

S. about "unnecessary expense, extravagance," I etc. But this morning the boot! earned their board and keep. "I'd certainly been out of luck without Ihem," says I. And while the didn't admit anything, neither did she have; a come-back.

An as any married man knows, thit was a moral victory. I 1 QTljLL on the local frorjt, scouts come in to report tht Christmas-trees are stillup here and there around the town. "I saw one vL-a 1 l. with all the lights going, messages correspondent. one Of course, the people's own business, and one hopes that the real Christmas spirit lingers with them, too.

t. BUT it seems as thoujgh there isn't any Santa Clau for. the loy a democrats hereabouts. At least; not in connection ypth election I jobs. The attorney general rules that such jobs are to be awarded to members oft the two parties that polled the, laf-gest vote for governor in 1936.

So election inspectors and clerks jj will be picked from among progressives and republicans I ny of Oh, the Irony of It! To be members of a party' that has been, fa power nationally for nearly six years, and not even be able to get a paying job in an; election booth! -MEN discover that Peter And ers, alias this and that, who is due to sit in the electric chair for murderous kidnaping, originally planned to kidnap Dfczy Dean. One hai a feeling that unless Anders kept Dizzy securely he'd have been wiling to do anything to get rid of him after a Very? few hours of Dizzy conversation. I But then. It seems, 'Anders abandoned Dizzy as pros-. pect, and considered seizing Lou Gehrig and Joe piMag-gie of the New York Yankees, and holding them for ransom.

Undoubtedly there are several pitchers who would have been glad to chip In and pay Anders that amount 11 he'd keep' the two out of circulation during: the baseball season. I TUT there are more serious J-J things in the day's p.ews, For example, the meeting of AFL moguls in Miami. i to decide what they'll do next about con- uuuui4 cuuu-i uic woi wivii uir; CIOf i i Strong pressure for peace Is being brought to bear. But the AFL chiefs, lending an ear to I reports that John; Lewis' organization la threatened wiiJi financial anemia, may feci that now isn't the "pay- moment" 1 tor an Their decision will ltally affect the welfare of millions of worklngmen, not to mention the nation's business, DAKAR, Senegal, Jan. 24.

(U P' Three Italian bombing planes, including one piloted by Bruno landed here at 5:10 p. m. today, averaging nearly 240 miles an hour on their flight from Rome to Rio De Janeiro. ROME. Jan.

24. Bruno Mussolini. 20-year-old son of Premier Benito Mussolini, took off with two companion pilots in three heavily-loaded bombing planes today for South America. The three planes, Savoia 79 model bombers, left Guidonia airport on the outskirts Rome at 7:25 a. m.

(12:25 a. m. CST). The planes are identical with Italian- Doctors End Dean's Fast Rev. Israel Noe Collapses, Is Hurried to Hospital.

I If' MEMPHIS, Jan. 24. OJ.R) The 10-year experiment by which Rev. Israel II Noe hoped to become immortal ended today in a hospital where medical science, without his knowledge because he was unconscious, broke his 22-day fast. The shrunken, ashen iiman was given liquid nourishment, and physicians embarked upon a three-month campaign to bring him back to health.

Noe collapsed last night and while in a deep sleep was taken in an ambulance to Baptist Memorial hospital. Had he been awake, he undoubt- euiy wuuiu nave proiestea oeius given nourishment, for he helieved i 1 1 he was entering the final stages of a battle that would make him victor forever over death. His Heart Weakening. Physicians feared, however, that he was entering the final stages of life. It will be at least SO days, if they are successful, they said, before they can repair; the ravages of a fast that has lasted since Jan.

2. What alarmed physicians was the fact his heart was weakening and that he was having spasms occasionally due to a difficulty in breathing. Yesterday he sat among the worshipers in the Cathedral of St. Mary the first time he had not occupied the pulpit in 17 years and heard a fellow priest de nounce those who preach and practice "vagaries." It was for his "vagary" of fasting that Noe was removed as dean by Bishop James M. Maxon, head of the Tennessee I Lynching Bill Gets Debate Right-of-Wpy WASHINGTON.

Jan. 24 Democratic Leader Barkley sidetracked the conference report on the administration housing bill in the senate today to give the anti-lyhching bill debate right-of-way. Anxious to dispose of the lynching 1 measure which has tied up the senate for almost three weeks, Barkley said he would not call up the privileged housing bill report, but would hold the senate to de-Bate on the 8nti-lynching bill throughout the session, today and tonight The senate was called into session an hour earlier than usual, with prospects for a continuous 11 -hour session. SEC Puts Check on Short Selling WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.

OV-The securities commission 1 adopted rules today designed to prohibit short selling in a declining securi ties market. ja. I Floods ravaged wide areas throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois this morning. Scores of homes were evacuated at Rockford as flood waters poured through the southeastern section of the city. Janesville, Beloit, Kenosha, Milwaukee and other cities in southern Wisconsin reported heavy damage and property loss.

In Racine hundreds of cellars were flooded, autos and buses were frequently stalled in ponds that formed in streets or in pools beneath viaducts. Tiny rivulets and placid little brooks became roaring torrents'; Root river rose more thar four Kidnaper Faces Hearing Today Government Hopes to Send Him to Chair. (Another Story on Page 3.) CHICAGO, Jan. 24. (U.R) The government today completed legal machinery by which it hopes to send John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, to the electric chair for the kidnap-murder of Charles S.

Ross, Chicago valentine manufacturer. U. S. Dist. Atty.

Michael L. Igoe and Inspector Earle J. Connelley, kidnap expert of the federal bureau of investigation, announced Seadlund would be taken before U. S. Commissioner Edwin K.

Walker at 4 p. m. for preliminary hearing. He will be taken before the federal grand jury "sometime this they said. Mother Visits Kidnaper.

Connelley and Daniel Ladd, head of the Chicago field' office, of the FBI, will act as complaining witnesses against Seadlund. Seadlund, the cold-eyed lumberjack who took up crime as a profession, will be tried under the Lindbergh law. In view of his complete confession the trial is expected to be short. Connelley revealed that Sead-lund's mother, Mrs. Paul Seadlund of Ironton, had visited him in his cell at FBI offices.

He said he believed she had returned to Minnesota. Reed Nomination Advances Toward Final Approval WASHINGTON Jan. 24. The senate judiciary committee unanimously approved today the nomination of Stanley F. Reed to the supreme court.

Members said no objections to the nominee, now solicitor general, were made, and the subcommittee's favorable report, also unanimous, was ordered forwarded to the senate. Reed is expected to be confirmed in time for him to take his post as associate justice when the court reconvenes a week from today. Scientist Prophet Dies in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan; 24. (INS) One i of Oklahoma's most colorful and versatile characters, Eugene Arnett, 2, was dead here today following an operation. Styled an eccentric, the recluse-scientist-prophet lived in 'a large, rambling office building' at the edge of town.

With a million dollars earned in seven years in the insurance business, Arnett retired to take up research. For years he was the subject of fantastic myths concerning his theories, 1 1 Will Face irom me inaepenaem i exnicniors by the top-flight movie firms. It is expected that the suit will be filed in one of the larger cities, possibly Los Angeles, Chicago or New York. U. S.

Investigating More Oil Firms WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Officials of the justice department said today no decisions as to court action had been reached in two other anti-trust investigations of oil companies similar to that which led to the Madison, trials. A jury convicted 16 oil companies and 30 individuals at Madison Saturday of conspiring to raise and fix gasoline prices in 18 mid-western states during 1935 and 1936. Two attorneys from the department's anti-trust division have been engaged for several, months in examination of books of major oi' companies operating on the west coast.

i An east coast investigation was said to have been limited almost entirely to examination of com- plaints received department of fices1. INJURIES ARE FATAL MT. HOREB, Jan. 24. (U.R) Claire Arneson, 26, of Blue Mounds, died in a hospital here during the weekend of injuries suffered in an automobile crash Jan.

22. day morning. Many a time we played all night and then they'd go right in their rangerette costumes. ,1 "We must have looked a wild lot, in those big hats, and clumping boots, with our makeup still on, but those Irish girls and their mother, and Willeen were just, as devout as any of the rest of them." For eight years under Miss McRae, the six had played in night clubs, i dance halls, and on the stage principally in the southwest beside one successful engagement ih Honolulu. Still Enthusiastic.

"When I last saw them," Miss McRae said, "they were just as enthusiastic as they ever were over a swell new contract, or hitting up a hot number. "They were particularly pleasod by being told they would be allowed to teach music after taking their final vows." xeuerai guvciaiueiu win .1 1 file suit against the major motion picture companies and present charges that they have violated the anti-trust laws. A high justice department official disclosed today that evidence gathered during a year-long investigation of the movie industry has been placed before Attorney General Cummings and Robert H. Jackson, chief of the anti-trust division and spearhead in the administration's drive against monopolies. Early Action The official predicted that "we may be in the courts on this matter within three months." In its suit, the government will accuse the film firms of discriminating against independent exhibitors in the distribution of motion pictures.

The government will attempt to prove that through financial control of theaters and exclusive agreements with other theater operators in many areas, the motion picture producing units are able to "freeze out" independents. In some areas, independent theater operators have no chance of leasing a so-called "first run" picture, according toi the official. Price Charges Predicted. 5 The government further will seek to show that in some cases the prices charged independents for exhibiting films is higher than the rental exacted from theaters "favored" by. the producers.

i 5 jrl-J T- JournaI-Tim Photo boulevard. When one automo- his arm-pits. 9, 1 Belief Grows Tug, Bound for Racine, Is Lost Forever Belief grew today that a. fishing tug which left St. Ignace, for hacine on Dec.

10 may be lost forever. Coastguards of the Beaver Island station expressed fear the Walter J. never will be found. The vessel, aboard which were Walter Kadeau, 40; his father, Herman, 80, both of Milwaukee, and Chester St. Onge, 40, of St.

Ignace, has been hunted in northern Lake Michigan during the' past week. A heavy snowstorm swept the upper lake today, cutting visibiilty to 500 yards and definitely suspending any further search, coastguards said. BULLETINS EMINENCE, Mo. 1NS) Douglas Shedd, 27 -year-old WPA worker, accused of the torch murders of two elderly spinster sisters, today was granted a change of venue by Circuit Judge XV. S.

D. Green. Shedd was scheduled to go on trial this morning. Douglas Shedd is charged with the slayings of Miss Lillian Gre-rory, 64, and Gertha Gregory, 67. ST.

LOUIS (INS) Three' men, described by police as members of the CIO United Automobile Workers' union, were held today in connection with acid-throwing attacks on two Ford company employes here. The UAW is conducting a strike at the local Ford plant. CANTON OJ.R) Relays of Japanese airplanes for almost nine hours today bombed the stations of the Canton-Hankow railway and the Canton-Kow-loon line connecting the Chinese port with the British crown colony of flong Kong, LOUTS (INS President Roosevelt, the country is becoming convinced, "has been cackling over china eggs," Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the former president declared in an Interview on his arrival here today. ST. LOUIS (INS) Lon Wameke, one of the ace pitchers of the St.

Louis Cardinals, today signed his 1938 contract Terms were not disclosed. Girl Orchestra Drops Swing Tunes for Psalms; Six Enter Texas Convent SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 24. (INS) From a throaty torch song to the chant of the litany; from swing tunes to psalms. Fiction boasts nothing more strange than the bridging of that gulf by six rangerettes, members of a widely known girl orchestra, who.

were settling today into the routine of the Blessed Sacrament convent here. No Sudden Decision. The irrevocable step was taken by Mrs. W. Jones and her four pretty daughters, Dorothy, Evelyn, Hazelbon and Gladys, along with Willeen Gray.

Miss Jerry McRae, left a band leaders without a band by their decision, explained today that her erstwhile followers long had planned the stepv "It was something they thought about, for years," she said. "No matter where we were playing they insisted on going to mass Sun-.