The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

Be Very Careful Now! Stop Forest Fires By Not Starting Them THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS VOL. XXIII NO. 22. (A ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice I ESCANABA, MICI TUESDAY, APRIL 11. ITU PI PENINSI A NEAVSP FR 12 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS MENOMINEE HIT BY $1,500,008 FIRE business due 0 pe for Rain to Stop Forest Fires AnLi TO HOLD EVEN THIS SUMMER BUILDING BETTER; CAR LOADINGS INCREASE RY DAVIT) tAWRFNTK TO ABDICATE? KING ALFONSO Mil KING ALFONSO'S THRONE SHAKES (f opyrtiht 1931, by the Faransha Prraal Washington, April 13 Analysis nf the current business situation based upon official reveals the difficulty In making any detailed evaluation.

There is no certainty that sustained re-, covery is under way. in fact the slowing up in most of the basic, industries and the renewed drop in wholesale prices are taken to. mean that recovery will he slow. Most of the summaries obtain- able here emphasize the steadiness of the gains in the building i industry, the improving bond market, the relatively Liquid, po- sition of tlie bankH and the no-j ticeably better conditions These favorable factors are causing the prophets to say that such gains as have been made will he held through the summer months. Font icfnry Factors All tills is hut another way r.

saying that nobody is looking for Cabinet Will KCSlgn DllC any new bottom and that the country is rather patiently trying to bring about an improvement in general conditions only to he retarded by factors requiring the healing of time. Business in general is passing through erratic movements so often characteristic of closing of a depression and a beginning of a revival. Such receding inovetue: -rr, htt occurred have been far from general. The building industry shows a better average on contracts awarded than at any time since June 1930 and there is a wide geographical improvement. While the steel industry lias suffered a drop in production during the week, this is believed to lie a seasonal or normal recession.

The most disconcerting factor is the irregularily in price schedules and the rather negligible purchases of equipment by the railroads. The automobile trade has been buying at a reduced rate during the last three weeks but this is believed to be largely seasonal. Structural steel contracts are at high levels but purchases of line pipe are not as heavy as they have been. So the trend is distinctly confused and somewhat contradictory. More As for the automotive business, there was an increase in production last week continuing the growth of several weeks but the gains are below normal at.

this time of year. At least, one important manufacturer has cut his schedules sharply after plans early in the year now believed to have been too ambitious. Generally, however, the registration figures on automobile licenses do not indicate overproduction. The March automobile production, exclusive of Fords, was the highest in ten months and represented a gain of 26 per cent over the February output. Freight car loadings, always an indicator of business conditions.

showed an increase during the third week in March and To Election Defeats on Sunday BY CLARENCE DUBOSE (Associated Press Correspondent) (Copyright, 1931, by thr PrcMl Madrid. April 13 Fount 1 Romanones. minister of announced tonight that, the entire Spanir 'J not will resign marrow morning as the result of IF publican victories in municipal elections, and that Juan I)e I.a Fierva, present minister of public works, will attempt to form a new eonservative-momuchist cabinet. News of the impending cabinet resignations got quickly about and late tonight I lie wi.dly cheering crowds became so unruly that police unlintbered their rifles and fired their revolvers into the air. Windows in buildings downtown were barred by those inside as a precautionary measure.

Excitement Increases Fully 6.000 men were marching through the downtown streets carrying red banners and cheering the republic. excitement was increased as a rumor spread that the king had abdicated. Police were under orders to avoid violence and until the rowd became riotous they had kept the marchers moving by slapping them on the hacks and laughing with them. They did not begin firing until some men in the crowd sent bullets into the night sky. Gaston Marin, minister of education, supplementing the announcement by the Count of Romanones, said tonight: government is not trying to hide from the people its feeling that this Is a situation of extraordinary gravity.

In this difficult moment it is not considering whether Spain should be a monarchy or a republic. It is thinking only of the salvation of flie nation. "Salvation lies in maintaining order and order is the BLAZES CAUSE HEAVY LOSSES ON PENINSULA TO ASK 8100,000 FOR FIGHTING FUND (By Thf Aaiociatrd Conservation officials and fire fighters of upper and lower Mic h- igan and Wisconsin hoped for ra today to torestall a recurrence of widesptead forest fres which threatened Sunday and yesterday to make dee inroads info the dwindling supply of standing tim her. Although the fires in all areas were reported under control last night, conservation officials said unless rain falls soon the narrowly averted disaster could not long averted. because the timber is tinder dry from a shortage- of normal winter ami spring precipitation, George Hogarth.

Michigan state director eif conservation, termed forest fire grav- Prevent Fires! STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF ONSERN ATION LANSING The importance of the prevention and control of forest fires has Rained for this work the right-of-way over all other activities of the Department. Michigan will enter the out-door season for 1031 with more than a twelve-inch deficit in rain-fall. This can mean only a season of prolonged forest fire hazard, lasting from April until the snows of November. The majority of forest fires are caused by carelessness with some form of fire. The majority of forest fires are preventable While Michigan has a forest fire fighting organization as efficient as any in the United States, Michigan needs a fire-minded public Lo equal this organization.

Forest fire prevention should have the right-of-way in the minds of everyone who uses the out-doors for travel, camping, fishing or hunting. Cordially. GEORGE R. HOGARTH, Director. Dempsey Says Estelle Sent Him After Divorce $100,000 VSR FI) Lansing, April 13 A special appropriation of $100,000 to aid the state in fighting forest fires will be sought by Senator Charles W.

Richardson, of Marquette, raid tonight. He will ask the legislative finance committees to make funds available and add that amount to general fund deficiency hill. According to Senator Richardson the state is handicapped in its tight against the flames, which arc sweeping many sections in the northern part of the state, by a lack of lunds. this is significant because r. trend of that, particular week is Steamer IIS nearly always downward.

It was the highest week of 1931 but still below the corresponding Way Through Ice (Continued on Two) WEATHER LAKE MICHIGAN Winds mostly moderate northeast to southeast: mostly fair Tuesday. LOWER MICHIGAN Mostly fair, cooler in south-central por tion Tuesday: Wednesday partly clottdv and warmer. UPPER with rising temperature Tuesday; Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer, probably showers in west portion. At High Last 7 P. M.

Hours ESCANABA 43 SO Today Alpena 68 Marquette 48 Boston 70 Memphis 82 Buffalo f.8 Milwaukee 76 Calgary 60 Montreal 70 Chicago 80 New Orleans 76 Cincinnati 78 New York 66 Cleveland 76 Port Arthur 52 Denver 7 2Qunppelle 6 4 Detroit 80 St. Louis 82 Duluth 52 St. Paul Evansville 80 Lake 64 Galveston 6 8 Frisco 60 Grand Rapids 74 Soo Mich. 48 Jacksonville- 70 Tampa 80 Kansas 7S Washington 70 Los Angeles, 70 White River 52 Ludington 58 Winnipeg 60 Sault Ste, April 13. steamer Hagarty broke through the ice fields in the upper St.

Mary's river today and arrived at the Sault this af- i ternoon to join four other grain carriers which are waiting for ice conditions to permit navigation the lower river. Their mas were undecided whether to attempt to resume the trip tomorrow. The steamer iocolite, up bound tried to make its way through to the Sault today, but turned back to Detour, after encountering heavy ice near I.into Island. Demand Death for Arson Ring Members Chicago, April 13 (A in the chair will be demanded for five alleged members of an arson ring to exp ate the death of two children and the serious burning of their mother, He state announced as two of the quintet went on trial today, Joseph Rossow and Martin Borad Jury Trials. Their three co-defendants agreed to trial before Judge Joseph Sabath later.

The prosecution charges the two children and their mother were burned in a Are started by the alleged conspirators to collect $3.800 insurance on the building owned by Harry Goldvarg, butcher, one o' the defendants. est at this date of any time in history. He said 148 fires had been reported to his oflice yesterday, most of them in the upper peninsula, hut a number in Lake, Newaygo and Mason counties of the western lower peninsula. A fire fighting force of 350 wardens was mobilized into service, and constant vigilance was ordered. All along the far flung fire front, flames were reported in check last night, hut thousands of acres of timber land and game refuge were in smouldering waste.

In upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin, one town was destroyed and dozen of other buildings were razed. One man was reported missing. The damage in lower Michigan was less widespread, hut four hundred acres were in waste near White Cloud and a 1400 acre game refuge in Newaygo county was burned over. MANY FIRES IN I Practically every county in the upper peninsula was visited by forest and brush fires yesterday uecessitating the calling out ot onservation department forces before their scheduled time, whit 1 was to have been April 15. Hugh A.

MacMillan, fire warden in the Menominee-Delta dis trict, last night reported the fires in his territory pretty well under control due to the subsidence of the heavy wind that has been blowing since Sunday. The situa tion is still very serious, Mr. Mac Millan stated, and all hopes for checking the menace are being pinned on an early rain. More than 300 men in crews have been sent out from the con servation oflice to battle the fires in various parts of the district Blazes along the Escanaha ami Lake Superior railway destroyed considerable timber piled up at landings. Three flat burned at Hendricks, burning northeast across the Escanaha when the wind let 3 30 p.

a was noted. cars were A big fire is of Cornell river, but down about change to the better Mr. MacMillan was somewhat cheered by' the fact that the temperature was lowering, stating that fires do not travel so rapidly when the weather gefe colder. Fires at Hark Iliver Fires south of Bark River Sunday night and Monday burned a farm house on the property of Frank Kasper to the ground, destroying all the household furnish- and personal property of the Bugav fanvlv, occupying home. The barn on the Cy Martin farm, four miles south (Continued on Two) WELLS ESTATE WINS VERDICT Supreme Court Decides Heirs Will Not Have To Pav Taxes Washington.

April 13 (JP) The United failed in the supreme court today in its contention that, the estate of John W. Wells of Menominee. who died in 1921, was subjected to taxes on approximately $783,000 distributed among his children within two years of his death. Washington. April 13 John W.

Wells of Menominee, died August 17, 1921 at age of Within two yearsl prior to his death he transferred to liis children property valued at $782,903, approximately one-half of his estate. One of the transfers was made in December, 1919, consisting of 1 securities values at $103,808. other transfers were made in January, 1921. within eight months of death, aggregating in value $669,095. One of these transfers, amounting to $334.1 70.

was to equalize advancements made during the twenty preced ing years, so that each his five children at that time should re- eeive the same amount. Under his will all these advances were to he charged to and deducted from the respective shares of his children in tite final distribution of his estate. Deny Charges The government contended that the transfers in question had been in contemplation of death, and for the purpose of escaping the heavy inheritance taxes. It insisted that whether Wells actually thought his death was near when he made the giHs. the taxing law provided tHat all such transfers made within two years! of death should be subject to the1 estate taxes.

The executors of the estate denied that physical condition at the time of making the transfers was such as to him apprehension that death was approaching. They insisted that hp was at the time actively engaged in ip management of his property, and asserted the property had not been transferred to escape taxes hut to give his children, during his lifetime, actual training in the management, of property, some of them actively taking control and management with the benefit of his supervision. The court of claims decided against government. which appealed to the supreme court. Supreme Court Gets Rid Of 44 Cases Washington, April 13.

(TP) i The supreme court today disposed i of 4 4 of the 7 2 cases which piled up during a three weeks recess The remainder, including the attack hv Arizona on construction1 of Hoover dam, went over until i next Monday. i Reno, April 13. Jack Dempsey, former heavy weight champion pugilist, is Reno for a divorce. Dempsey it ted a yj to institute suit against his wife, Taylor of 7 films de- dared she had put er career above and her had eked: their martial ha ppines It it not heard from Fs Dempsey sjn, I left Los Angeles on March Dempsey said took my clothes and personal belongings and my fare-; well at her request. It was she who said we are He said he still lov his wife but that wanted a home, a WALLACE HIT BY $100,000 FIRE SUNDAY VILLAGE VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT BY BLAZE Wallace, Mich 13 (Special) Fire in a pile of tumps by a farmer while clearing land is believed to have vtjoped into conflagration which on Sunday afternoon tually wiped out the of Wallace, destroying 25 buildings at a loss of about lion.peu and bunting over about a thousand aerea in surrounding ferri tory, small part of the loss is covered by insurance.

The blaze is thought to have originated about two mil's south of the and fanned by a heavy gale if swept into this small community, reducing homes and business structures to ashes within brief period of' one hour. Fortunately, no one I was injured. School House I ntoiwhed All that remained in vii lage is school house dwellings of Mrs. Mar son, Herman Schuette and Jacobi Laundre, and in midst of ruins, three elevated tanks of the. Standard Oil company, containing' Fire Lines Reporter in Pujamos; Pictures bv Air April 13 now on i'm a firm believer in the super tt it ton that thirteenth is an unlucky declared one of Menominee residents who gazed out Monday afternoon over the ash covered area which day before hud been the ol the big J.

Wells Lumber company plant. When W. (Bill) Doyle, formet Escanaha resident, heard that Escanaba fire department was nun ing to help light ili. blaze, tushed mu toward city limits to reefed them over the heart of as a member of by by und them, and di best to righting the Escanaba from then on was oft flames at time. aught up a cyclonic at another 11 lifted over a fence, ami iti FIGHT Angeles, April 13 (VP) Estelle Taylor, film actress wife of Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, today an nouneed she would resist, any attempt on part to divorce her and declared he had grounds upon which to get a divorce." family family life, and declared it was against his personal wishes that he sought the divorce.

He added lie had never a and would not be now. When they married, he said, it was agreed Estelle would con tinue acting as long as actively engaged in fighting. When quit ring she was to quit the films. He said Estelle tc do this and that for the last two years they had practical!) been apart. The divorce complaint, lie in timated, probably would charge incompatability.

He said there would be no sensational charges and no bitterness on his part. Asks 4-Year Term I For Park Cornish Lansing, April 13 (A1) A bill 1 to create the Isle Rovale national park commission of live members for four year terms was submitted in the house tonight by Gus T. Hartman of Houghton The commission is authoriz'd to buy all lands within island necessary for a national park as designated by the secretary the interior. The state would turn over its lands to the com mission on the island that needed for the park. Ex President Of Tire Company Dies New York, April 13.

(A3) Sam uel Woolner, former presi dent, of the Kelly-Springfield company and the Rubber As so cation of America, today He was 65. Illness compelled him to retire two months ago from the presi dency of the tire company, a post he had held since 1920. He moved her" at that time from Peoria 111., where he was iu distilling business. thousands of gallons gasoline. The buildings destroyed are: Swedish Lutheran church, loss $5,000.

Leonard Houlotte confection store and residence, $4,000 Walter Fries garage and residence. $15,000. Anton Tap pa residence, $3,000. O. G.

Winnergrcn residence, $3,000. Gust Peterson store, $15,000. Henry Hoferman blacksmith shop, $6,000. Ed Schuette residence, $8,000. North Western railway depot and seven box cars.

Frank Mguire residence and store, $13,000. nderson a Anderson garage and fox farm, loss $3,000. Mrs. Anna Koehn creamery and residence, loss $6,000. P.

Hansen residence, $4,000. Mrs. Burch residence, occupied by Ordin Melehoir. $2,000. Wallenslager rosi William Phillips and barn.

$4,000. J. P. Melehoir. cheese factory, store and residence, $15,000.

Mrs. Dora Laundre. residence ami telephone office, $5,000. Farmlmnie During noon hour, most of the were drawn away from the village to fight a fire on the William Phillips farm. a mile away.

The house and barn destroyed there. Jumped across the and destroyed the home of Theodore Wallenslager, former Mellon township supervisor. A short time later, the brush and grass fires came sweeping into the from the south west, fanned by a heavy velocity of which was sufficient to blow in a window at the farm home of Frank Nelson Ihr frame dwellings burned tinder, the residents being forced to leave their homes without being to collect their belongings. They found to stay overnight in the homes ot friends in the neighborhood and also in the city of Menominee. Howard Melehoir.

Mrs. Ed Schuette and son. Ted, who returning from their summer resort home along the Menominee river, were caught in the blind Ing smoke a short distance. driver lost control and the car was ditched, later bursting intc flames. While escaping from fire zone, they received slight burns about the head.

One boy, who was watching the brush fires from the ton of a barn, was forced to dowr when the flames the barn. His clothing caught but the flames were hod before any injury was caused. Ingiilln The timely arrival of Stephenson fire and volunteer firemen saved village of Ingalls from the flames The was stopped at a short distance from the river, whlci just skirts the village. Pathetic scenes were enacted as villagers viewed the ruins of their homes and business establishments. To some it the loss of a lifetime of saving nd (Continued on Paire Two) meantime smTcied burns on hands While fighting fires he iost an envelope containing several.

thousand dollars worth bonds which lie had fak'it from the lie) wood Wakefield company Lloyd Loom) oflice when tire threatened that place. Someone found the envelope and bonds an houi or so later and returned them to Bill, much to his relief John Acker, city editor Herald-Leader, was in li is pajamas for a few hours when the W. lire He had ju the tire at village the A hsck and vvor in general, and was planning to write a real story of the disaster for his paper that afternoon. Then aim nf carl) morning was broken by call of sirens and Acker an red call, still in his pa jamas, with coat and trousers slipped hastily over them staved with until it wa under control, sent out bulletins to various news agencies and newspapers from a residence at the line of with sparks sai ing over the roof the only per son in the house In middle o' morning lie returned to his oflice and typew riter, ami wrote stuff" of the Menominee fire for his paper Right up to his typewriter busy, and at 4 began get ting ready to semi out photographs 'Continued on THREE MEN DIE IN TUNNEL FIRE Rescued Unconscious After Being Trapped While at Work Chcago, April 13 Over come by fire and smoke in an in- completed sewage tunnel tonight, at three men killed, an and number trapped underground and 33 rescued unconscious. Sawdust -havings at one end of the bore were believed to become ignited.

Overcome by smok workers collapsed at their posts. The first relay of firemen who attempted to bring out likewise was overcome. in an airchamber at a far end of the tunnel, which is con-j struetion to handle number of worker- were safe and capable holding out until help them. They had fresh air through pipes reaching surface. Summoned All life-saving nt and ambulances on west, side ofj tow were at tunn shaft, and emergency pita I were set up in rude con ruction shacks.

Every doctor; in district was summoned for; emergency duty Due of the two dead men believed to he a firunan, the other a worker Neither be identified In confusion which was augmented as of workers and curious motorists' Jammed the street. smoke is impenetrable down reported one lire "We see anything just had to feel our way." Battalions of firemen worked In ten-minute relays. donning gas masks. The funne'. now biecki long.

1 as an tnterre; link in the rv mi hen complete 1 it OF WELLS CO. IS DESTROYED 400 THROWN OUT 01 WORK; HOMES ARE BURNED Acres of ashes and ruins were all that remained last ni)i'ht of the -I. ells lumber com pant plant at Men on inee, leveled arly morning by a roaring inferno of fire which swept through lumber piles, log- and buildings, into the adjacent residential section of city, where it was finally halted through the oiTorts of fire departments from four cities. The damage was con.MTva- tively estimated last niyht at a million and a half. It was a catastrophe for Menominee.

throwing approximaieh Pm out of work. aim writing i final chapter in sawinil ton of Menominee, greaie-t white -hippini in i he orld. Th" I iseOVt i a. m. by Gosling who was on his of Wallace to i unis I was heli origin.

A near the barn' have been of the blaze. ills port ai of Melloni wav to tlm view ved of in- orner of to ma in siarting point Whipped a ine fj liea soni li tiro tip city in a rnonoiUs, and terror strhken to and fro to whnt they coniti to help others and protect their ovn in a Inibii ausi which to city. oliali.i I in mill ho 2 2 hors w.tiiin it ,1 row friug 50 million Wells oil i re- ra plant, hart! of i v. million mi.in* ii and at was la kilns, id shed--, ami a total of Itili rvt.l* ili -aw ioorin'- a tl "1 ibii a lia le i flan pile i pH vani. ha the tetn i liar in Without let ami Mr nieiits, that til to at ill Hal area Esca na ha at had just when a i rived th i tlo i aid oi f.re depavt- win it rcsni- -a id Id r.

11 a wirh flames as they ge of th" a wide front The fire department was 2:50 a m. Monday, ai laid heir bus Uhiet Johnson of Encanaba nf trip, accompanied lark Floyd and Nick Wagner Besides th" Wells plans, three homes were roved ami a dor- on others damaged, them homo W. F. Bill Doyle, fornnr Escanaba resident, whose garage and shed were d. Sparks were carried fot blocks after shift of the wind sunrise, and charred souvenirs of the blaze were curried to scores of yards in various parts of Menominee.

ih of 1 30 a A Wells, of the company, stood at starting point of blaze ami said; They tried to burn us out. for years. They have done if now and I tliev are satisfied. the end of the Wells company in For years the Wells plant has been threatened with fires which often were of a nature to indicate incendiarism. A fmv of these fires, stmting in the of night, caused considerable damage but usually they were caught in Just a week or so ago.

after a laptse of many months, a nich was evidently set. broke out. It started In the exact center and base of four abutting stacks, in a spot where it would be impossible for a spark to fall. It was similar to the start of numerous other fires in the yards ami was put out with considersb! difficulty. then the Wells has been taking ad precautions again.

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