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THREE ID and i Escort keuease buis oQciefy. unmen f. Kidnapers Cross State Lines To Bring G-Men Info Case Southwest Desperadoes Hunted as Suspects; Victims Freed Near Minneapolis; Man Slugged With Pistol Butt When Held Up Muscle Power Drives Youths 240 Miles on Allegheny River Louisiana Hurricane Kills One, Injures Another in Brief Fury Vl THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1938 Abd Sf.L llCf WO KJ Y' m' Camp Caretaker Drowns, Aged Man Fractures Hip in Fall; Wind Crushes Baseball Park And Two Airplanes; Sea Craft Come to Safety Sum. LAKE CHARLES, Aug. 15.

I Louisiana-Texas coasts several ST r. One man was killed, another injured and scores suffereed a night of terror as a tropical hurricane struck the Louisiana the time of the Jmldup late Friday-. By taking Miss Gross and Fahey state lines the kidnapers' violated the fedeial Lindbergh law! that carries the death penalty as! maximum punishment if the vie-; tuns are harmed. The men told Fahey they had i hours before it was expected, failed to live up to its expected fury. Winds of 50 miles per hour tore through giant grass of the prairies below here, and whipped up peaceful bayous into frothing i SMIJTN'EAPOLIS.

Auis. 15. G-nvn m-rleied intensive search in four tjtcs for Otis M- icflith and Couch, southwest believed to lime been the mciv. In abducted Vegay 23. St.

Loul socialite. Cox Fiiluy, her released 1hem i.ciir early Sunday. Tlw death penalty undv i the Lindbergh law Use head of the kiflnapei. The victim bo'li bore ti.e- ri. of rough handling by ahihu -tors on a wild hour i.nrle 'rom St.

Lou joc.it police mobi ized i i fede; in a conceited hunt 1'orj the pair. I.indv I.a,w Violated. Fahey 's head us cut 1 ant, bruised where op- the gunjnuii 1 "'t. jl. Mar-.

-wv BILL FA I'LL They say they'll use Next time they'll use a motorboat. decided bill Faull. 17. and Bernard Huffman. 1G.

whose muscles ached after they'd paddled homemade kayaks U40 miles down the' Allegheny to Pittsburgh. Their homes are in Smethport, Pa. DEATH REVEALS COMEBACK coast line last night and roared 1 1 I 4rt 1 1 Ucolf I cl jjdr.tr uucii ica lvj Htwu jujs.ii out in rain squalls. As the weather bureau at New Orleans ordered all storm warn- ings down along the Texas and Louisiana coasts and declared dan- ger past, the hurricane had claimed the life of Charlie Johnson, care- taker of a' camp below here. He was drowned in the Calcasieu river during the height of the blow.

Expected More. Ed Kershner. 90-year-old resident of Lake Charles, was blown from the second story stairs of his apartment and suffered a fractured hip. The hurricane, which struck the Queen Mary Tops Speed Record for Eastward Voyage CHERBOURG, France, Aug. 15.

(INS) The Queen Mary holds thc speed supremacy of thc Atlantic after a record breaking crossing from New York which shaved one hour and 27 minutes from the previous Si hou and seven minute mark held by the French liner Normandie. The British vessel docked here; last night after completing the 2.938-mile west-east passage from AmbroJe Light to. Bishop's Rock in 92 hours. 40 minutes. This feat added to her last record-breaking crossing from Europe to America in thice days, 21 hours and 48 minutes'.

The Cunard vessel on Saturday also broke the record for a single day's run on the eastward voyage by making 737 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 32.04 knots. FISH HAD FEATHERS BENTON. 111. iP) Edward Pearce cast for bass in Lake Moses and caught a loon. The bird took the hook while swimming under water after fish.

i maSC5 windows gave -way under the wind pi.cssl;re trees were uprooted and electric power in the caitern section temporarily hut off. The American Legion ball park was smashed under force of thc st0rm, its grandstand and ence giVjng away. Two planes at the airport east of the city were reportcd crushed by the wind. Boats Move In. Shrimp tmd other fishing craft which are generally out at this time of the year were called in and a rnpbilization of the fleets for safety; was made at Big lake, below when most of the Cameron, evacuated their exposed positions in favor of the comparative shelter of the inland lake.

The veather bureau had also warned against rising tides as the hurricane! advanced. Tides along the Louisiana coast before the storm were reported above normal and those in Texas were said to be 2 toi 3 feet higher than normal around; Galveston. VACATION PROTECTION Travelers Checks Safe; Deposit Boxes Letters of Credit Checking Accounts America rm UT TUT UU Main Oftirt Main at titth Baclo CUT Bank Offte I'ptairn SQUNP BANKING SERVICE Mrnber Federal Deposit ,) ILnauraoce Cerporatloa Rail Man Changed CHICAGO. Aug. 15.

elderly man collapsed on a street corner last night. He tried to. speak but couldn't. He died in the arms of a man ho had gone' to his assistance. A card in his pocket said he was George T.

Gruber. 6i the initials F. M. were tattooed on his arm. Puzled, police went to an address given on the card.

The name George T. Gruber was on the mail box. Beneath it was another name Peter F. McGovern. A woman answered the said she was Mrs.

Gruber. She Broke down when toia oi ner nusnana aeatn. His veal name was Peter! F. McGovern." she said. "We were ed at St.

Louis in 1899 while he was working for a railroad. A 'Cop-Hating' Maniac Shoots 5 At Police Memorial Services I25O Law Officers Draw Their Guns; Fleeing Madmarj Gets 20 Bullets in Head After Attack On CroWd ir New York's Central Park Tuesday-Special Feature ibducted him and Miss Gross to prevent them fiom making a report on the thctl of the automobile. Fahey said of the abductor a-1 shown him a clipping about lame 'Clyde Reed, now held on and ronoery 'charges at iseniieit. Mo. Couch and Meredith hae been Heed's associates.

They ai- v.antc?, for holdups a Kennett and Fat mington. and are believed to have been the men who last week engaged in a i unrung gun fight at Dallas. Tex. Th, search fo'r the pair has pi'-. id into the Dakotas and Wisconsin.

Radio, alarms were frequently l)roadcjs giving of the men and Fahey's car, brown icels. dan with red wire Parked on Lonely Road. They were dui iped from the car highway near here leading to ''hamplam early yesterday. After hours l.vy.s in a cornfield out ol earshot from the road. Fancy loosened his bonds sufficiently to hobble out help.

1 They had besn parked on a traveled load on. the outskirts of St. Louis, Fahey said, after attending a symphony concert Friday night, when the two gunmen sidled up to the car and caught them by surprise. Placed in the rear seat of the car they were kept under guard by one of 1 the men as the other drove. They stopped on sideroads and lept for short periods in shifts.

Early Saturday Fahey and Miss Gross attempted a break but were halted as the gunmen fired a burst ef shots over their heads. Whenever the kidnapers needed or food, they stopped out the country anci one man stayed to guard the prisoners while thc other drove on into town. Matron Drops Dead in Church As Choir Sings OGLETHORPE, Aug. 15. HNS) Funeral services were held thus afternoon for Mrs.

M. B. Cheek, Oglethorpe matron, who dropped dead in the Methodist church here last night as the choir swung into the chorus of a hymn. A physician attending the serv- ices pronounced her dead of a heart attack. The Rev.

W. V. Whaley, pastor, dismissed thc congregation without starting his sermon. Mrs. Cheek is survived by her husband and two daughters.

STORM FORCES DOCTORS TO OPERATE WITH FLASHLIGHT LAKE CHARLES, Aug. 15. INS) Electric service disrupted when 50 mile an hour winds struck this city, i surgeons at St. Patrick's hospital, were forced this morning to perform an emergency operation by flashlight. When the hurricane winds struck, the doctors Had just reached a decision to perform an operation on Benny Jones Young of Kinder, La.

The electric supply was cut off, but the operation was ordered nevertheless to be performed only by flashlight. 1 Young's condition was reported satisfactory. PWA to Slap Quotas On Loans and. Grants Washington, Aug. The public works administration soon will slap a state quota on and grants in an effort to equalize participation, in its 1938 construction program.

Officials said this was decided by Howard A. Gray acting administrator, when a recapitulation Friday disclosed the program was 15 days ahead of schedule, its funds two-thirds gone and a relatively large number of states still backward in qualifying for projects. lakeside Printing Companij JACK I1EUM 220 5th St i Jackson 3719 i i i dugged him wt'h a pi at Tammany Chief Goes on Trial Accused of Taking Cut From New York Policy Racket YORK. An. 1 people J.nr.r., J.

llines:" Hines went to trial tlVi in Room 118. ir supreme court on an indictment of I 13 counts which charges that lie became associated with Schultz and the policy racktil March, 1931, and continued 1 reeive S500 to SI. 000 wee thereafter until late in Martin Wcintraub. u' lavfyei' who once was -'oeiated with, Davis, is being tried' joinuy wim nines, uui p. attention in this case where? mui aer lurKs jn me is t(xcw on the jovial figure of Jijnes J.

Hines, so long a power in Tammany Hall. i 3Iay Finislr Case 'It is entirely possible Wein-traub'5 case will be disposed of before the day is out. tho.ili Dist. Atty.tf Thomas E. Dewey ie-fused comment.

The first business of the court was sjelection of a 'jury froth a blue ribbon panel of 300 tailer--men, a 'panel which includes sortie very well known persons, including E. Roland Harriman. Hines' lawyers fought hard to skietilack the blue ribbon panel, but Deivey won out. JACKSON 286 BAYERMANN'S sunr.iEn clothes ED Kp Cool and Fresh in Clean I Clothes by Calling Us, JPIIOXE JACKSON 1819 STAR CLEANERS 725 High St. rill give your car creased efficiency at lower' cost per mile.

Try. it today and notice the improvement CLEAN YESJ in BERNARD motors next time. 4 Name to Get Job fevy years later he broke a company regulation and was discharged. He couldn't get a job with any other railroad. "In 1907 he came to Chicago and met a man named Gruber who gave him some of his identification papers and permission to use his name.

Under his new name he obtained a job with the North Western railroad and has been there ever since." Northwestern officials said McGovern had been a good employe. He had risen, to a position as master of the company's yard at Proviso, 111. Mrs. McGovern said her husband had insisted: on having both names on the; mailbox. "He wanied to keep his real name where people could see it," she said.

marks' about them were written in the margins. Hurt by Motor Car. Police said San Filippo's relatives told of his repeated wishes -to die ever since he was injured by a motor car some 15 years ago. He formerly had been a cab driver. The wounded policemen, neither critically injured, are Lieut.

James P. McDonnell, called the "most decorated man on the force" and Patrolman Francis Lynch. Both are 38. Louis Popernick, a bystander, was the only one critically wounded. A bullet was removed from his abdomen last night 'and his condition was reported as "fair." IT'S GREAT DAY FOR CHICAGO IRISH AND FOR BERGMANS CHICAGO, Aug.

(INS) Irish day in Chicago turned out to be a great success for Edith Zentz and Walter Bergman. Nearly 30,000 attended the daylong festivities that included a tribute to Douglas Corrigan. Pretty Edith Zentz, 22, was picked as queen, qualifying as an entrant in the contest through, her mother, the former Mary Ellen Foy who married Jacob Raymond Zentz. Bergman, representing a neighborhood, athletic club, won the 10-mile marathon. Patrick Flaherty took second.

GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR Stoker, Oil Burner and Automatic Furnace INSTALLED (lee the aaast eesapiete Aatamatla Beating Display ia Bacine at HEATING CO. 210 Third St. Jackson S7S HUFFMAN TVA Inquiry MaV Be DelaVeH Committee May Wait Until After Elections; Funds Running Low KXOXV1LLE, Tcnn.Aug. 15. (INS); Possibility that a congressional committee's investigation into the famtd TVA yardstick would be postponed Until after November elections is seen here.

First indication that the committee planned to postpone hearings into this angle of the TVA came when utility company officials, who accepted invitations to appear. werJadvised that the time for their appearance was indefinite. This in contrast to the previous that they Would be called as witnesses this week. Second indication of postponement came when it was revealed Jhat the committee's funds, which aggregated S50.000, were running lo'w. Officials Advued.

Wendell Willkie. president of the Commonwealth Southern; C. F. Grosbeck, president of Electric Bond Share, and Bernard F. Weadcock.

managing director of the Edason Electric Institute, were among the utility officials advised of the possible delay, it was reported. Officially, however, the committee has made no announcement and reports of the step to defer the hearing of power company officials to a date after the fall elections brought from Rep. Charley A. Walverton (dem. N.

the assertion that he would oppose the move. Nervous, Vealt, Ankles Swollen! Much nervousness la caused by an excess ef acids and pisona due to functional Kidney and Bladter disorders which may also cause OettinS5Up Nnhts. Burning Passages. Swollen Joint. Backache, Circles Undtr.Eyes.

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Blast faraaca -asdrooaia are snare eemfertaaJe and the ejaeet fee hearable sleeping aaarters le ended. Threagh the application ef this aaper-insalatien year hoesa caa be saade asora caatfertable. apstsirs and dawn. Take adTaatage ef thia good aewa tadayt We will gladly asaka a earrey ef year heme witheat cost er obligation. The eeet Is a trifle when 'compared ta the great comfort that is secared.

Let as explain hew yea ean hare real heme comfort at small monthly payments thxeagh the Cimce Finance Flaa. Why forego the tenetta ta he derieel fHreagh properly insolating yanr heme? The additional comfort in and winter, aad the redaced fee, coats eeea rotarn the Iwreatmeat. Glmce! Keck Woo Howoo Insolation ia an addltiaw Ja heme Maforl that i ayg annual diTidende permanently. 5 "IT PAYS TO INSULATE" VEENSfiiA LUMBER SUPPLY CO." 2 1st A Phillips Jackson 4 0 6 ky nM wa 4 MM Birler Takes 2 World Titles Topples Champion From Log in 16 Seconds at Escanaba ESCANABA. Aug.

(U.Ri Jimmie He-iron, boom man, for a Kelso, lumber firm, packed up his caulked boots and two world championships and started home. Herron's prancing feet twirled Harley Foster, west coast birling champion from Aberdeen, of a slippery log; for the log rolling championship: and then car- ried him to another victory in the block turning chfimpionship. i.i Two 16-Second Falls. He toppled Fester from slithering. 16-incjii timber in minutes and l6 'seconds for the six thie first fall and then whirled him Ln.L to thc foaming wter in 16 seconds for the title.

Herron won the block turning title by revolving that timber ,77 times in the allottrd two He acquired both titles without being tipped -into the water once during the three-day roleo. Jim Running. 17-year-old Eau Claire. high school boy, took third honors in the birling contest after he was defeated by Foster fin the Running was a protege of Wilbur Marx, who held the world championship for 10 vpars before he vras defeated last year by Joe Connor, red-headed University oi Minnesota forestry course graduate5 from Cloquet, Minn. Foster eliminated Connor in the second round of the tour; nament this year.

Lumber jUI Wins. Mary Jean Mallott, 21-year-old Bloomer. jliumberjill, spun blond Cilvia Winters, Astoria, registered nurse off a log to take home thej women's birling title. Marietta Pippsr 18, of La-dysmith, and her girl friend, Arbutus Wilson, 15, also of Lady-smith, won third jand fourth place honors in the women's contest. There's a missing link in each of the following sentences.

Can 'you Supply it? 1 1. The ten original amendments to the Constitution are sometimes called )t 2. The ereater bart of India lies between the sea and the Bay of Bengali. 3. Aaron Burr! fatally wounded in a duel.

4. The present secretary of of the United States is Daniel C. Roper, (Answers on rate 10) Beloit Man Drowns In Illinois Lake DECATUR, 1111 Aug. 15. UP)-- Eugene Schultz, Beloit, was drowned off Nelson Park beach His brothers, Herman and Duane, and his cousins, Wil- liam and Wilbur Lauber, of Deca- i were unable the surface.

to bring him to The luminescence of the firefly is the "cheapest' of all known forms of light, bit man does not know how to produce it, i Fi i 1 hhVo jj i CRANIUM CRACKERS 1 16 it Vo 10) et imi To Make 68 Lucky. Tables Smart, and Attractive-Hurry mi This One! NEW YORK. 15. (A3) Police are delving into obscure phases of psychiatry attempting to determine what started Charles San Fil'PPO on the "cop-hating" career that ended in his death as the climax of a two-gun attack on 250 policemen at a Central park memorial service. Thousands of horrified Sabbath strollers saw the madman, about 40, precipitate a brief pitched battle in which five persons two of them policemen were wounded.

Wore Crude Armor. "I was going to try to kill as many cops as I could," he muttered as he lay dying with at least 20 police bullet wounds in the head. He came upon outdoor memorial almost unnoticed yesterday afternoon, packing a rifle and a shotgun, and wearing crude, bullet-proof breastplates. A speaker had finished his. eulogy after a reading of the ibll of the dead, answered by "absent" as each name was called; a light flickered out, too, at the name of each dead policeman.

Then shots from a double barrel- shot gun shattered the solemnity and in a wing most of the 250 policemen drew service revolves and poured volleys at the retreating figure, who fired the rifle as he ran. San Filippo slumped to the ground and gasped his dying hatred of cops, a hatred evidenced in two traffic summonses found in his possession, and in clippings at the family apartment in the Bronx. Some of the clippings told of the exploits of a "phantom of the Bronx" who killed two patrolmen and has fired on others in recent months. Others detailed the deaths of other policemen, Pencil marks encircled the offi cers names and derogatory re Applegate Special Wash ond $1 (JP Lubricate Car. liUU Except Friday and Saturday i F.

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