The Winona Republican-Herald from Winona, Minnesota • Page 3

AUGUST 20, 1951 Girl Bicyclist Hurt in Crash; Car Spills Two Couple Hurled into Street in Collision At Sarnia, Winona Seven-year-old Wieka, 416 Hamilton street, is receiving treatment at the Winona General hospital today for head and leg injuries suffered when her bicycle and a car collided here Saturday. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Florian Wicka, Judith was riding on Hamilton street, near East Sanborn street, when the accident occurred at 11:45 s. m. The bicycle and the front of the car collided and Judith was thrown up on the hood of the automobile before tumbling to the pavement.

Examinations were being made at the hospital this morning to de- THE WINONA IEPUILICAN-HERALD, WINONA, MINNESOTA Winona's 1951 Traffic Box Score Total accidents: Kilted: Injured: 58. 322 Stopped In Action, as it nose-dived from a 15-foot ramp, this car rolled end over end seconds after this picture was taken Sunday night at the Winona County fair. The driver of the vehicle crawled from the upside-down car, but suffered facial injuries and a possible rib fracture. The accident was planned, as part of a thrill show, but injuries to the driver came as an "extra." Republican-Herald photo termine the exact extent of her injuries, but her condition is not believed to be serious. Two persons narrowly escaped injury Sunday afternoon when they were hurled from their car which was involved in a collision at West Sarnia and Winona streets.

The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. when cars driven by LaVerne Schaller, Holmen, and Frank P. Eichman. 312 East Sanborn street, collided. OBITUARIES of Mri.

Antoinette Bittner Mrs. Antoinette Bittner, 62, Red Wing, formerly of Winona, died at 2 a.m. Sunday of a heart attack at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Christian (Lucille) Wholmes, Red Wing. Mrs.

Bittner had resided in i Red Wing the past ten years. She was born November 13, 1888, in New York city, and had resided most of her life in Winona. Sur. vivors are two daughters, Mrs Approximately 15,000 persons jammed the grounds throughout the Henry (Antoinette) Ehmcke Wi- It Was a Good Day: 75,000 Come to Fair By Al Olson Republican-Herald Area Editor St. Charles, Minn--Clouds of bad luck lifted from Winona county's 42nd annual fair here Sunday in surprising turn of events.

day to make it one of the biggest Sunday crowds in history. Following the impact, the doors A hypothetical "black cat," which many believed had crossed the of the Eichman car flew open and Mr. and Mrs. Eichman both tumbled out. Eichman, who was driving east on Sarnia street, estimated dam age to his car at $700, while Schaller, driving south on Winona street, said that $200 damage resulted to his automobile.

At 10:45 a.m. Sunday, cars driv- by Merrill Hilling, Wanamingo. and Wallace Tarras, 727 East Sanborn street, were damaged in. a collision at East King and Hamilton streets. Hilling said that $100 damage resulted to his car.

and Tarras estimated damage to his automobile at $50. Prowlers Enter Badger Foundry Police today are continuing their investigations of a break-in at the Badger Foundry Company, 62 Washington street, Sunday. The investigation has that entry to the building gained through a rear door. Inside the prowlers pried the not." sighed President Kramer, fair board's path, must have "died or moved elsewhere," exclaimed Francis Kramer, board president. "We actually were swamped with business.

what a wonderful feeling it was!" he added. He estimated total paid attendance at 25,000 for four days. Cars were lined, bumper to bumper, Sunday afternoon in two lanes from the fair's main gate, back three blocks to St. Charles' main street, and then back another three blocks to highway 14.. Two Big Crowds Every inch of available parking space was put into use to accommodate the huge crowd.

Officials estimated that 10,000 persons were on the grounds during the day and another 5,000 at night. Successful climax to the fair helped remove unpleasant memories of jinx-like events earlier in the four-day exposition's run. "We almost forgot about carnival troubles and the fact that our grandstand attraction for Saturday canceled out on us," explained Roger Anderson, (air secretary. It took a "Lucky Lott" thrill sons viewed the thrill show, watching motorcycles crash through burning walls and flaming tunnels. One driver suffered minor facial injuries as he crashed end over end from a 15-foot ramp onto a straw pile.

Although able to get out of the car, the driver was suffering from facial injuries and a possible fractured rib. The ear was one of two junk models used by the daring "demolition" crew. President Kramer released attendance estimates Sunday night showing that about 2,000 persons saw Thursday's fair, with 1,500 in i a and Mrs. Wholmes, and one son, Charles, Denver, Colo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Wednesday at St. Martin's Lutheran church, the Rev. A. L. Mennicke officiating.

The body will lie in state at the church from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the Breitlow funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Death of Earl C. Kimie Earl C. Kinzie, 62. 160 Harriet street, died suddenly of a heart attack early Sunday morning at his home. He was born October 2.

1888, in Waseca, and had resided here for 50 years, switchman for the He was a Chicago North Western Railroad. Survivors are his wife; two.daughters. Fern, at home, and Mrs. J. B.

(Pearl) the day and 500 at night. rained). Gardner, New York city; one son, Friday, 4-H day, found 2,000 on i Roy, Winnipeg, Canada: four show Sunday to bring good luck revealed i to the fair. was I "i don't know whether the name had anything to do with it or front off a cigaret machine and re-1 "but Lucky sure brought a new moved the coin box and a large lease on life to our fair." Rained Out Twice Scharmer, 626 i The thrill driver told Kramer in grounds during the day and about 1,500 at night, Kramer said; Saturday's attendance was set at 2,000 in the day and 4,000 at night. 'High Caliber Substitute' A variety revue booked at 12:30 a.m.

Saturday provided substitute entertainment of a "very high caliber," Secretary Anderson said. The show replaced Thompson's White Horse revue from Nebraska, which canceled its contract Friday night. Acts for the Saturday revue began arriving at 1 p.m. and continued right up to show time that eve- mirror. Ralph street, told police that his beat, 16 years of performances he's only I ning.

A free afternoon perform moored at Lake Winona, has been i been rained out twice. lance was given by the entertain- riddled by shots from a .22 caliber "Guess the weatherman must ers already here. One of the acts a juggler came the way from Chicago. He was notified by telephone at 1:10 a.m. Saturday and left by car for St.

Charles shortly afterward. Johnny Langton, master of ceremonies for the thrill show Sun- grandchildren. John and Richard Kinzie, Winnipeg: Richard Gardner, Chicago, and Joan Gardner, New York city, and two brothers. W. J.

and F. J. Kinzie, Winona. Mr. Kinzie was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Breitlow funeral home, the Rev. Edward Mountain officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.

today. rifle. Scharmer said that he keeps the boat on the Lake shore at Dakota street and noticed that it was damaged Saturday afternoon. have known that," exclaimed Kra- i mer, "because rain quit here early Sunday morning, skies cleared, and it actually got warm." For the first time in fair his- Daniel Janikowski. 374 Mankato tory here standing room was sold avenue, has reported the theft of a I (or' an afternoon grandstand per- rol! of tar paper from his garage.

formance. All seats in the stand uere sold out long before show iime Sunday, additional spectator room on the stage was sold and the track was lined with hundreds of persons. "I counted people six deep along the race track fence," said Kramer. "We had 2,200 in our grandstand and another thousand persons standing to see the show. This was truly a record crowd Not since a rodeo was booked at installation ceremonies at the Am- the fair have such crowds turned Legion Installs Officers Tuesday Recently-elected officers of Leon J.

Wetzel post No. 9 the American Legion will assume office at erican Legion Memorial clubrooms here Tuesday night. A dinner will be served Legionnaires and guests at p. m. preceding the post meeting.

Among the dinner guests will be out for a grandstand event At that time two afternoon performances to be scheduled to handle the attendance. Four extra ticket sellers were rushed to the grounds main Carl EspesetJi. Minneapolis, com- when the traffic tie-up began to oe- mander of the Minnesota depart- cur. ment of the Legion, who will serve Run Out of Food as installing officer later in the Concession a especially evening, and other state and dis- those selling food, were swampeti trict Legion officials. with business Sunday and ran out The dinner will be served by the of supplies.

Extra food was rushed pest auxiliary and members who i to the grounds by dealers to meet expect to attend are asked to make the demand advance reservations. Sunday night another 1,600 per- day, suffered bruises when a horse he was attempting to ride fell on him. Pint Time on Hone Langton had never been TODAY LAST DISCOUNT DAY for JULY Advertising Bills horse and asked to ride one used in farmers running races Sunday He reportedly pulled to hard on the reins and the horse reared on its hind legs, throwing Langton. Then the' animal fell, too. rolling on the master of ceremonies' leg.

Even fair directors had difficulties Sunday: They couldn't find room to watch the grandstand show, so great were the crowds. Possible legal action against the carnival company for contract failure is being discussed by board members here now. Fair directors, meanwhile, have quit worrying about the rain. for the first time in weeks. "Now it's the farmers who have the headaches about wet.

weather," sighed Francis Kramer, "and we certainly hope they get relief like we did Sunday at our fair." Burnquist Rules Two Drunk Counts Can Be Brought Caledonia, Minn. The Houston county attorney has been informed by State Attorney General J. A. A. Burnquist that a motorist who pleads guilty to a complaint of being drunk also may be charged with drunk driving.

L. L. Roerkohl, Caledonia, Houston "county attorney, had asked for the opinion. He wanted to know if a guilty plea to the first complaint would "operate as a bar" to the other charge. Drunkenness and driving and operating a motor vehicle while under the 'influence of intoxicating liquor are separate and distinct offenses," Burnquist ruled.

In another opinion, he held that primary elections in Minnesota cities of the second or third clans must be held on the date exactly two weeks before the regular charter election of city officers. Iff Death of Felix Citewski Felix Cisewski, 83, East King street, retired millworker at the Botsford Lumber Company, died at 5:35 p.m. Saturday at the Winona General hospital. Death was due to a heart attack following an illness of about a year. Mr.

Cisewski was born May 30, 1868, in Pine Creek, and had lived in this vicinity since he was nine years old. He was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Joiners of America, of the Polish National Alliance and i of St. Stanislaus church. Survivors a are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Frank (Edna) Hamernik, Winona; one son, Louis Cisewski Carr.

Rochester; one stepson, Edward Ruhnke, Newark, N. one stepdaughter, Mrs. Oscar (Blanche) Hose, Winona; 12 grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. William Speck, Owatonna. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 9 a.m.

at St. Stanislaus church, the Rev. N. F. Grulkowski officiating.

Preliminary services will be at the Borzyskowski mortuary at 8-30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 7 p.m. today and Tuesday afternoon and evening.

The rosary will be said at the mortuary at 7:30 p.m. today and Father Grulkowski will say rosary there at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral of Leo P. Theii Funeral services for Leo.

P. Theis. 517 East Wabasha Street, were conducted at 9 a.m. today at St. Joseph's church.

The solemn requiem high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Eugene Gores, assisted by the Rev. S. P. Weir as deacon and the Rev.

Edward Mountain as subdeacon. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery. pallbearers were members of St. Joseph's society, Anton Guenther, John Voelker, A.

L. Koutsky and Joseph Votruba. Active pallbearers were Leo, Albert and Andrew Theis, Leonard W. Dernek, William A. Galewski and Albert Cisewski.

Attending the services from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brischke and sons Ferdinand Theis, Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaiser, Huron, S.

D. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rinn and son and Mr. and Mrs.

George Michael, Rochester: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kronebusch, Oak Ridge, and Mrs. Fred Yarolomek, Dresbacb, Minn. Funeral of PFC SmaflHc Funeral Jervicea' for Private First James W.

Smaglik, Bluff Siding, will be Tuesday at 9 a.m. at St. Stanislaus church, the Rev. N. F.

Grulkowski officiating. Preliminary Air Reservists To Discuss Plans For Local Unit Plans for establishing an Air Reserve squadron in Winona will be discussed at a training assembly of Flight 9657th Volunteer Air Reserve Training squadron, in the administration building of the Winona Municipal airport at 7:30 o'clock tonight. If a squadron is established in Winona, headquarters will be set up and a full-time Air Force sergeant assigned to this city as noncommissioned liaison officer in charge. Forty Air Force veterans are required to form the nucleus of such a unit. This city has had an Air Reserve flight for the last four years but the squadron headquarters are located at La Crosse.

The proposed new Winona squadron will be set up under the Air Force expansion program, according to Lieutenant William T. Walters of Fort Snelling. liaison officer who is affiliated with headquarters of the Tenth Air Force at Selfridge Air Force base, Michigan. All Air Force veterans, whether members of the Reserve or not, are invited to tonight's meeting, said Major W. W.

Webb, commanding officer. At the meeting Lieutenant Robert W. Dopke will give a lecture on "Weather in the Arctic" and Air Force training films will be shown by Technical Sergeant Arthur W. Vandrey, unit instructor. Controversy In Lima, Not Durand A story carried by The Republican-Herald Saturday discussed a Catholic-Protestant issue at Durand, Wis.

I The article was reprinted from i the Milwaukee Sentinel and quoted at length from an editorial in the i August issue of the Milwaukee i Lutheran, official publication of i Lutheran Men in America of Wis' cousin. The article mistakenly cites Dui and as a "small community" with a public school containing "55 chil- ldren." Lima, Wis. not Durand is the community referred to in the 1 article prepared by the Milwaukee i religious publication. Throughout the entire article, Durand is mentioned as community in which consolidation of a public and parochial school took place. i Actually, however, the district i referred to is the nearby Lima consolidated district No.

1. A circuit court case contesting the legality of consolidation of Averill and Sacred Heart elementary schools was brought this summer at Durand. Circuit Judge Kenneth S. White, River Falls, ruled that the consolidation was legal. Under the consolidation the Sacred Heart parochial school was renamed Lima consolidated state graded school.

The editorial quoted from Milwaukee referred to a "pitiful Protestant minority" in Durand. What I was meant was the small group of residents from the former Aver- ill district who fought the consoli- i dation in court this spring. I The author of the editorial is now known by The Rcpublican- Herald. i Truck Goes Off Lake City Road Lake City, Minn. --(Special)-i A Winona Dray Line semi-truck loaded with 14 tons of steel went into the ditch on highway 61 one- half mile west of here at 2:30 p.m.

Friday to avoid hitting an auto coming from the other direction No one was injured. Driver of the truck was Robert P. Merehlewitz, 202 High Forest street. Merehlewitz told authorities he was traveling toward the Twin Qities when a car driven by Mrs. Joseph Dwelle, Lake City, entered the highway at the Boysen motor court.

Another automobile attempted to pass Mrs. Dwelle. Merehlewitz said he took to the shoulder of the road to avoid a collision and lost control of his truck. The semi-truck went into the ditch and jack-knifed leaving the semi-trailer balanced precariously on the edge of the shoulder. A spokesman for the dray line said this morning damage to the vehicle was $100 and the cost of reloading the trailer "about $50," Avoided Airplane Woman Killed En Route To Parents in St.

Charles St. Charlti, John Carey, Santa Monica, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kramer, St. Charles, died Friday at 5 p.m.

minutes after the automobile driven by her husband was. involved in an accident near Fremont, Utah, her parents were told Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Carey and their two children, a boy, 13, and a girl, 7, were en route to St.

Charles from their California home for a ten-day vacation with her parents. Mrs. Kramer had asked the Careys not to take a plane from the West coast because of the danger. Details of the accident were not known. The children were admit- Youngster Pulled From Mississippi Refuses to Talk A Winona State Teachers ted to a hospital in the Fremont area suffering shock and bruises instructor Saturday "was credited They were expected to released jth saving an unidentified young- in two days.

Mr. Carey was bruis ed. No other automobile was involv- ster from drowning at the Missiia- ippi levee here. Luther A. Arnold, 457 Main ed in the mishap, the family street a s'at the levee at about informed.

The Careys had been on the road approximately ten hours when the accident occurred. Their automobile overturned, and Mrs. Carey was understood to have been thrown into the windshield Dr. Edward Carey, Boston, brother of John Carey, flew from Boston to Utah to be with his brother and children. Funeral arrangements at St.

Charles are pending. Blondie, Dick Tracy, Tops Comics Help Readers Editor Tells T. C. Convocation Comic strip characters are known comic strip characters over among the best friends we have, well known personages in Ameri- William P. Steven, assistant ex- can history.

He also showed pic- ecutive editor of the Minneapolis tures of some of the first Ameri- Star and Tribune, told Winona State Teachers college summer school students at a convocation at 6 p.m. when the child, one of group watching a large barge ea the river, tumbled over the wall. A former swimming teacher and qualified lifesaving instructor, Arnold leaped fully-clothed into the water. When he reached 'the boy, Iht child had gone beneath the water two times. The youngster, believed to about ten years old, was taken from the water apparently nont the worse for his experience.

He refused to reveal his name, and after a few he rode away on his bicycle. George Haslerud, Rushford, Dies On Vacation Trip can comic strips and pictures of modern comic strip artists such as George McManus. Alex Ray! Somsen hall this morning. i mond and Chic Young. People like comics, said the; Blondie is the most popular I speaker, because they an es-! comic in the world today, Mr.

i cape. Newspapers publish comics i Steven said, and Dick Tracy is 1 because the readers want them next. It has been generally c-stab- Tuesday for George Haslerud, 50, and they teach children one of the' lishcd, he continued, that one bun-1 veteran Rushford barber. most useful habits of their lives-- dred and ten million persons read Mr. Haslerud died unexpectedly the habit of looking at the daily Blondie every Sunday.

newspaper. "You never forget a character William Randolph Hearst who in Dick Tracy," said Mr. Steven, died last week was described by He compared strips of today with Mr. Steven as "the father some of the early strips like the comics." It was Mr. Hearst Katzenjammer Kids (Hans and i published the first comic strip and i Fritz, later the Captain and the it was Mr.

Hears! who hired the first American comic strip artist. The early battle in the 1890's between Mr. Hearst's New York Journal and the New York World over the Yellow Kid strip was the basis for the term "yellow journal- Ruthford, Minn. --(Special)-Funeral services will be held here. at Murray hospital in Slayton, Friday night.

He had suffered a stroke while eating lunch with his wife at a park there, a short time before. They had been on a vacation trip. ism," said Mr. Steven, who scribed that feud in detail. The speaker conducted an de- Well-known in this area for hit Kids,) Buster Brown and Happy paintings as well as his profession, Hooligan.

i Mr. Haslerud had operated a have made a great her shop in Rushford the past 20 contribution, in many ways one years. might never suspect, toward per- i A number of years ago he took petuating the American system up painting in oil as a hobby and and making the American way of i gained considerable reputation for life strong and enduring for the future." The speaker was introduced by his work. His barber shop here served ai a show room for his work, and the art display drew comment from strangers in town as well as Hai- lerud's acquaintances. I ty authorities believe he was at-: He didn't discover his artistic formal "experiment" in which the Dr.

Nels Mime, president of the audience identified several well I college. tempting to refuel his outboard motor when he toppled into the water. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Wallin i noticed the Plum City man strug- i sperger disappeared beneath the water before rescuers arrived. 3 DEAD (Continued from Page 1) ing were Coroner J. P.

Nehriag, Preston; Sheriff Cook and two I brothers of one of the crash vie- I gling in the water and called for I Urns, James Howieson, Mapleton, aid. A boat was launched but Eben- i and George Howieson, Plainfield, 111. Members of the coroner's iury i are Mark Drury, Joe Meighan, Howard Gartner, Tim Grebin, Hen-iE a German Family I ry Becker and John SchwarU, all' of Preston. Early reports of the accident had indicated that Kovachs was passing a passenger bus on the highway when he collided with the Howieson car. Bus Beyond Site Flees to Sweden In Baltic Voyage Milmo, Sweden An German family who fled talents until recently, however, cording to relatives.

It wasn't until his young daughter asked for help on a school poster several years go that he reportedly began considering painting as a hobby. Later investigation has revealed, however, that the bus appar- 1 ently was well beyond the scene i Born March 4, 1901. at Albert Lea, he married Selma Olness June 12, 1828, at Peterson. He owned and operated a barber shop at Lafayette, for three years before moving to RUsfc- 1 Surviving are his wife; a daugh- I ter, Yvonne, at home, and his Mrs. Cora Haslerud.

and East his brother, Robert, both of Peter- their i son. Communist-ruled homeland in a The Rev. N. L. Otterstad will leaky boat were safe in Sweden to- officiate at services the HuSh- day.

The mother, father and of the crash when the two cars sma children frantically pumped ford Lutheran church at 2:30 p.m. four I Tuesday following services at the collided. Shortly before 1 p. the driver of the bus--who was not imme- diately identified--arrived at Preston and went to the hearing room. Presumably he will be questioned regarding the location of the two cars before the mishap, i It is believed (hat Kovachs may have been passing another auto- 1 mobile at the time of the collision.

With the exception of Howieson, each of the occupants of the two automobiles was inside the wreckage when authorities arrived. Howieson was thrown partially I out of his car. His feet were 'edged i inside the wreckage but his head i and body were on the pavement. Howieson and Miss Banyai were i killed instantly. i Body Sought I Meanwhile, a search is still under way on Lake Pepin today for the body of Ebensperger who drowned early Saturday evening, A Plum City resident who is employed by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company in St.

Paul, Ebensperger fell into 30-foot I deep water about 300 teet off- shore from Stockholm--across the lake from Lake City. Ebensperger was alone in the boat at the time and Buffalo coun- home at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be in the Lutheran cemetery here. water out of their frail craft all Saturday night and were exhausted when they were picked up by a Swedish lightship in the Baltic Sun- Andrew day morning. Funeral Tuesday The patent office in Washington says there is a patent for a cow- tail-holder, a device which is clamped to the animal's leg to keep the tail out of the farmer's face as he milks.

Driving "too fast for conditions" was the leading driver error in last year's traffic accidents in Wisconsin, the motor vehicle department reports. Records show 11,641 drivers were guilty of this violation, 9,289 failed to yield right-of- way at intersections, 3,707 failed to stay in their correct lane, 3,365 were following other vehicles too closely, and 1,866 were guilty of improper starting from parked position. Arcadia, ices will be held Tuesday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church at 9:30 a. m. for Andrew 86.

who died Saturday night at St. Joseph's hospital after an illness of several months, Gleason was born near Arcadia, June 2, 1865, and farmed near until he retired in 1929 Since that time, he has been associated wift the Western Finance Companf, Arcadia. He was a charter member of Catholic Order of Foresters. Gleason is survived by thrqje sons, Melvin, Gerald, and Clifford of Arcadie, and one daughter, Miu Gladys Gleason, also of Arcadia. The rosary will be said tonigmt I at 8 m.

at the Gleason WINONA LODGI No. 18, A. F. A. M.

Stated Communication Tuesday, Aug. 21 7:30 P. M. A. H.

McDonald, W. M. will be at the Watkowski funeral home at 8:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery.

The Cotter Mothers club will say prayers at 4 p.m. today and Father Grulkowski will lead the rosary at 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Friends may call there after 2 p.m. today.

Railroads belonging to the Confederate States at the close of the Civil War amounted to 11,600 miles of line. EAGLES NOTICE Members are requeited meet at the eluh nifht at P. M. pay final to our departed brother larl Kiniie. HINRY C.

IHMCKI Secretary mildness.