THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

VOL. 84, No. 268. United Press — Associated Press RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 1940 TeL Jackson 600 18 PAGES—4 CENTS Coast Guards Rescue Storm Victims Willkie Offers Six Marooned Aftermath of the Big Wind . . . Vital Fat On Tiny Isles in Chewing in Berlin 5-Point Plan . . . Three Blasts. Racine Lakes I—Btf. Ve^RetfttcUi—I To Aid Nation

HE weather, which never falls Two Spend 19 Hours T very low in the standings as a Urges Loyalty and topic of conversation, is definitely On 10-Foot Bog in first place today after a wild Watchfulness; Says end windy afternoon and night, In Tichigan Lake followed by a temperature nose Unity Up to Roosevelt dive that catches our summer- Snow and freezing: tempera­ thinned blood off guard, and pro­ WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—(U-B tures clamped most of the na­ duces a bumper crop of shiver- —Wendell L. Willkie's program for tion in a wintry crip today as chased goose pimples. national unity today awaited re­ destructive sales which left publican congressional ratification at least 52 persons dead in the Having swayed violently and President Roosevelt's reaction midwest battered furiously at into Chicago on an interurban before its ultimate scope could be the eastern seaboard. when the big wind was at its determined. Winter's early invasion was biggest, and then flown, side­ The B. F. Sturtevant company suffered several hundred dol­ the most severe in decades, ways in a taxicab on the Outer Willkie outlined his program lars worth of damage when the top of a water tower was ripped causing: uncounted millions of Drive, I thought I'd have last night in a radio address from loose by the wind and slammed through the side of the factory dollars propertydamage some storm stories to tell. But New York, telling the millions building. across a broad belt of the cen­ I return to find that Racine who supported him for the presi­ tral and southern sectors in has had more than its share dency that unity depends upon addition to the heavy toll' of of thrills, excitement and administration moves to prevent human lives. damage. So bringing in any inflation and correct "some of our And the force of the storm tales about the big blow economic errors." —a terrifying: compound of would be like carrying coals Unity Up to Roosevelt. wind, snow and cold was not to Newcastle. Warning that national unity was spent. Fifty -mile-an-honr * * * up to the administration and that winds tore at property in New OR weeks, duck hunters in discord and disunity would arise England and the middle At­ lantic states as temperatures F Wisconsin have been praying from suppression of the minority, dropped to freezing: levels. for colder weather and high Willkie called upon Mr. Roosevelt Woman and Son Even the storm warning sig­ winds that would start the "big nal tower at the coast guard Icy squalls and snow pounded to take into account "the very at the Kocky Mountain region flight." Nature finally obliges, powerful opposition" which was station was not exempted from but doesn't use any judgment. for the fourth day with a reek- recorded at the polls last week. the storm. The staff at the top The whole business is overdone. Shot to Death of the tower was bent at a 45 less disregard for shelterless As result, boots and pants, with By implication, Willkie accused degree angle by the heavy wind. humanity, transportation and half frozen fellas inside of them, Mr. Roosevelt of usurpation of con­ communication. gressional powers, subjugation of are marooned on bogs and islands Bodies Found in Burn­ all over the place. the courts, concentration of enor­ Six persons were known dead in the storm which swj ft mous authority in his own hands ing Home in South- But don't think there is and warlike talk. He restated the Court Raps Act Wisconsin yesterday and rr jed anything funny about such a unabated through last night, principles upon which he con­ side Milwaukee situation, even if it doesn't ducted his campaign, asserting ravaging Lake Michigan ship- have fatal results, as reported that "my fight for those prin­ Ping and causing hundreds of in some cases today. If you ciples has just begun—I shall not MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12.—(U.R)— Of Labor Board thousands of dollars damage. have ever sat in a damp duck be silent and I hope you will not A spiritualist mother and her 8- A seventh person was miss­ blind for even a couple of be." year-old son were found shot to ing and feared dead, possibly hours, with the temperature death today by firemen who went Authority Exceeded in lying hidden beneath two below freezing and a gale Loyal Opposition Urged. to their southside Milwaukee home inches of ice covering Big blowing, you have some idea If "the administration wants na­ to put out a fire. Republic Steel Case, Muskego lake. what it would mean to be tional unity, he said, it must give Preliminary examination of the Five others have been miss­ stuck in such a place all day open minded consideration to the bodies of Mrs. Alma Katzenmiller, Justice Hughes Rules ing since they went dock and all night. recommendations of the opposition. 36, and her son, Noel, at the hunting on a Mississippi river * * * Thereby, he contended, the na­ morgue indicated that both were WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—(-

— island- on which Kenneth Jf. HERE'S nothing very funny in tional economy would thrive and shot in the head by a shotgun. The supreme court ruled today that McFarlen of Thiensville was T•the situation for insurance the national income hit the $100,- The mother apparently was gagged, the labor board did not have the found frozen to death. men, either. I mean those who 000,000,000 a year figure necessary according to the coroner. right to require a company found Rescue parties braved the handle wind storm policies. To­ to make the national defense tax Husband Arrested. guilty of violating the Wagner la­ boiling waves of Lake Michi­ day they make the well known burden bearable. Willkie coun­ Peter Katzenmiller, the husband bor act to reimburse governmental gan and inland Wisconsin one-armed paperhanger with the seled his followers to fight on as with whom Mrs. Katzenmiller was Journal-Tijnei Photos relief agencies for wages paid em­ waters to succor dozens of hives seem like an indolent loafer "the loyal opposition" toward what said to have conducted seances for A shower of bricks tumbled down on three cars when part of a wall of the Christensen Ma­ ployes held to have been deprived hunters and mariners trapped as flocks of claims come piling in he evidently regarded as a con­ pay at the home, was arrested chine company building collapased during the wind storm. An idea of the extent of the damage of their regular work. by the storm, one of the worst But all Is not so serious. siderable modification of adminis­ several hours later. Neighbors can be gained from the above view of two cars. The damaged machines, which were covered Authority Exceeded, in years. tration policies. For instance, take the case of said the two had quarreled fre­ ! by insurance, were removed this morning. Chief Justice Hughes delivered Harry Andersen, superinten­ Willkie eliminated himself from quently. the opinion which held that the Six men, including two rescuers, dent at Hamilton-Beach. He any possibility—however remote— Police records showed that he board had acted beyond its author­ were marooned on islands in Tichi­ steps out of the plant and his of joining the Roosevelt cabinet. had been brought into district ity in issuing such an order against gan and Brown's lakes by violent hat departs from his head. It He said any suggestions that the court on an assault and battery Violent Gale Causes Damage the Republic Steel corporation of squalls and mountainous ' waves doesn't leave the way hats minority join the majority by sur­ charge preferred by his wife on Cleveland, Ohio. Monday night and early this morn­ generally do in a high wind, rendering its convictions must be April 30, 1937, and again on Oct. "We do not think," the chief ing. (and as scores did yesterday), rejected utterly—"this is a totali­ 9, 1939, on charges of pointing a justice said, "that congress intend­ Racine and Kenosha coastguards twisting and turning as it tarian idea, a slave idea." gun brought by his son, Peter, Jr., ed to vest in the board a virtually gains some altitude, then div­ removed Joseph Landry and Henry "Our national unity," he said, but that both charges were dis­ In All Parts of Racine County unlimited discretion to devise puni­ ing to the ground a few hun­ Sandow, Milwaukee duck, hunters, "can not be made with words or, missed. tive measures, and thus to pre­ dred yards away, and rolling scribe penalties or fines which the from a 10-foot bog island on Tichi­ gestures. It must be forged be­ Violent gales, accompan­ on the county during the af­ property damage was re­ gan lake at 1 a. m. after the pair a few hundred more. It just ported. Trees were blown board may think would effectuate goes straight up into the air tween the ideas of the opposition Cold Weather to Stay ied by hail, snow, sleet and ternoon. In the early eve­ endured a 19% hour ordeal. Suffer­ down, roofs torn off, brick the policies of the (labor) act." and disappears, as though by and the practices and policies of rain, swept a path of de­ ning the attack was renewed The labor board had held that ing from exposure, the two men the administration." Until Next Saturday, walls caved in, steel girders were removed to a Milwaukee magic. struction in Racine county and property damage again the money it ordered reimbursed 5-Point Plan Offered. were bent, a tool repair would be deducted from the hospital. Also on the lighter side is the And with the request for con­ Says Weather Bureau Tuesday, leaving in their continued to mount. shack was carried more than amount due the employes for back Landry and Sandow were out on story about the big virile guys sideration of the principles of his CHICAGO, Nov. 12.— (^—Ex­ wake damage to hundreds Mercury Tumbles. pay. A government spokesman Tichigan. lake since 5:30 a. m., one who "shoot trouble" for the Elec­ 300 feet and scattered in own following in the shaping of tended weather forecast for the estimated that approximately in a skiff and the other in an tric company — and who send a of thousands of dollars. Re­ Temperature readings be­ pieces, wires and poles were administration policies, he said period from 6:30 p. m. CST Nov. 12 $200,000 to 5400,000 was involved outboard motorboat. truck on an emergency call to broken, schools and church there were five steps which should to 6:30 p. m. Nov. 16, inclusive. ports today told of wreck­ gan to tumble as the storm in the Republic Steel case. their homes, collecting their long Forced to Seek Refuge. be taken immediately to "counter­ Great Lakes temperature will av­ age in every community. gained momentum, making es were damaged, trucks The litigation grew out of a woolens ere they go out to brave When the storm broke, Landry act the threat of inflation and to erage considerably below normal were tipped over on the board order directing the corpora­ the elements. But don't call them The wind, screaming it difficult for repair crews was in distress as an oar in the correct some of our economic for period as a whole. Precipita­ highway, interurban service tion to reinstate 5,000 or more em­ sissies unless you have stood on a skiff broke. Sandow picked him tion light and slightly above nor­ across the county through­ from the Wisconsin Gas & ployes who participated in the 1937 pole with nothing but BVD's un­ errors:" interrupted, cars were dam. mal, mostly as light snow tonight, Electric Co., the • Wisconsin "little steel" strike. The supreme up in the outboard motorboat but der your pants, and let a high cold 1. Cut all but natinal defense out the day and most of aged by falling bricks and Wednesday and Thursday and in court previously has refused to re­ yet they were forced to seek refuge wind whistle through your rig­ expenditures to the bone, main­ Monday night, occasionally Telephone company and the tops were torn off water towers. Superior region again on Satur­ view the reinstatement order. The on the bogs one-half mile from ging, so to speak. taining work relief but with every day. reached a maximum veloc­ department of public works Transportation Interrupted. board's relief order had been up­ the east shore when, water stopped effort to substitute productive jobs. * * * to compete with the wind Trees, which fell across the held by the third federal circuit the outboard motor. 2. Encourage private capital to ity of 70 miles per hour. Av­ UT we musn't let the weather WPA QUOTA INCREASED trolley wires between Racine and court. Joseph O'NeiL operator of a provide new plants and machinery erage speed, however, was and the cold in keeping tele­ B crowd out all the other impor­ MADISON, Wis., Nov. 12.—0J.R) Kenosha, caused the Milwaukee A Bookkeeping Convenience. resort on the east shore, sighted tant news of the day. For exam­ for national defense to prevent phone and electric service —An immediate increase of 3,430 45 miles per hour. Electric Railway & Transport com­ The labor board said it regarded the pair through binoculars just ple, the fatal blasts in three dif­ (Turn to Page 17, Column 4.) in Wisconsin's WPA employment The storm struck with its and traffic lanes in condi­ pany to substitute bus service from the work relief funds received by before dark when he heard them ferent explosive plants in as many quota was announced today by the men while away from their fire shots as a signal for help. He greatest fury around noon tion. 5 p. m. Monday to the first run TJ. S. cities, all at about the same Mark Muth, state WPA adminis­ regular employment as "a sort of called' the Racine coastguards. time. Indians Announce trator. and wreaked its vengeance Every conceivable type of this morning. Bus service between windfall' which neither the cor­ Officer in Charge Paul B. Hell- You can hardly pass that off Racine and South Milwaukee was poration nor the employes should man took six men and an ice skiff as coincidence. And a safe Roger Peckinpaugh interrupted for the same reason be allowed to retain. to Tichigan lake but rescue efforts forecast seems to be that this from 5:30 p. m. to 10 p. m. Many It added that the order could be failed. The boat when launched country will see a lot more of To Succeed Vitt viewed as directing the corpora the same in the months to persons marooned in South Mil­ filled with water. Blasts in 3 Different Plants tion to reimburse the employes for Backing high winds, it took the come. CLEVELAND, Nov. 12.—W — waukee were brought home at that back pay lost but that the em­ Kenosha coastguard crew three Roger Peckinpaugh is the new time. ployes should reimburse the gov­ HILE the news from Greece manager of the Cleveland Indians. hours to transport their 26-foot Trouble shooters were out all ernment "for interim support." power surf "boat to Tichigan lake w In taking the job Peckinpaugh night between Racine and Keno­ "In this view," the board said, good to be believable (from the becomes a base­ Kill or Injure Scores of Persons (Turn to Page 6, Column 6.) standpoint of those who'd like to sha, clearing trees and limbs from "it is but a bookkeeping con­ ball rarity — N (By The United Press) five were killed, 38 injured and the three dead—had been victims. the right of way. Several trees venience for the corporation to see Mussolini take a licking), the twice manager world fastens its eyes on Berlin, Powerful explosions blew up in hospitals. The Edinburg plant makes were uprooted along the Wisconsin pay the government directly." of the same ma­ three plants in the industrial east commercial explosives only and avenue stretch, two in the 1100 where Russia's Premier Molotoff jor league club. AT SIPLES STATION—Three Missing Boy today, killing at least 11 persons it was believed the firm had no block, one at Fourteenth street CAROLE LAND1S DIVORCED chews some vital fat with Hitler. His p r e v i o us killed; a number reported injured. and injuring scores more. government orders on hand. and another in the 1300 block. It HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12.—(u.PJ— On the local front, as is of­ tenure, started The blasts occurred at the Unit­ AT EDINBURG—Three killed; The three victims were packing Blonde Carole Landis, film act­ in 1928, ended none believed injured. took the troublemen hours to saw Found Dead ten the case, the Lost and ed Railway Signal corporation, the dynamite into wrappers when .off the overhanging trunks. ress, today was granted a divorce with his dis­ Although the Woodbridge plant from Willis Hunt, Jr., yacht brok­ CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Nov. lv. Found ads tell some stories. Woodbridge, N. J.; the Trojan the blast shook, the small building. George Hanson, an employe of There's the mother who loses charge in tnid- Powder company at Siples Sta­ is a small one—made up of half a Sabotage Doubted. er. She charged cruelty. —CU.R)—Murray I) pshaw Jr., Z, ob­ season 1933. dozen scattered, one-story struc­ the .company, was marooned in his ject of a widespread search since her purse containing some tion, Pa., near Allentown, and the The Allentojvn explosion oc­ car near the Pultz road crossing, highly cherished possessions, tures—the detonation there was he disappeared last Friday, was "Peck," who American Cyanamid and Chem­ curred in the* cap plant, a one- three miles south of South Mil­ including pictures of her sol­ terrific and was felt sharply The Weather found dead today a mile and a is 49 and was ical corporation at Edinburg, Pa. story building where detonations waukee. It was several hours be­ dier son who is now far from Countryside Shaken. even at Jersey City, 20 miles WISCONSIN: Partly cloudy half back of his parents' farm once a star for blasting are made. Company fore the road could be cleared at here. Then there's the old shortstop, suc­ The three explosions, all of away. Motorists driving in Sta- officials said they "doubted" that scuth, mostly cloudy with occa­ home northeast of CartersviUtv that point. A.bus waffput through folks at the Danish home, ceeds Oscar which shook the surrounding ten Island, across Raritan bay, felt espionage was involved. Both the sional light snow - north tonight Joel Parker, farmer and one of at 10 p. m. to bring passengers in looking for their missing dog. Vitt, who was countrysides, took place at ap­ their cars jerk out of control from FBI and state police began in­ and Wednesday; colder east and more than 20# men who renewed So if yon ran across a black released after proximately the same time—be­ the concussion. quiries. The work had no con­ to Racine. south tonight the search for the boy after a cocker spaniel that barks he led the re­ tween 8 and 9 a. m. The Edinburg blast took place nection with national defense or­ Edward Millstead, manager of KACINE TEMPEBATtTKES temporary halt to allow feasible the Racine division, said there was Highest and lowest temperatures record­ kidnapers to contact the AMly. with a Danish accent, you'll bellious Tribe Federal bureau of investigation in the Burton explosives division ders and plant officials believed ed during the 34 hour* ended at « p. m. know where it belongs. into second agents were called in but there of the plant. The three workers the blast might have been acci­ no interruption in service between Halt), NM. 11. IMt. came upon the body lytns^ fee* Milwaukee and Racine on the main Maximum 51|Minlmum 21 down under a pine tree. : place this year. were no immediate indications of were killed when dynamite they dental. ' . . Temperatures alnce 4 p. m. Monday. 6,334 CIVILIANS KILLED Alva Bradley, sabotage. At least one of the were packing in the gelatin tank The Woodbridge plant makes electric line. This, he said, was Maximum 29|Mlnimum 13 Parker said the boy bore an LONDON, Nov. 12.—CU.B)—The Koeett PECKU(PAU6M the club presi- plants — United Railway — was house exploded. The 600-square small torpedoes, used chiefly as because there are few trees along At 10 a. m. M marks of physical violence. Indi­ NaT. II. OH. cating he had died of mpsenre ministry of home security said to­ dent who fired Peckinpaugh seven engaged in fulfilling government foot building was shattered. Au­ signal devices on railroad lines. the new route and. no poles were Maximum 46[Mlnlmum S3 day that 6,334 civilians were kill­ years ago, announced Peckinpaugh orders. thorities believed it miraculous It was reported that some gov­ blown down. i SDN AMD MOON /some time during- the four days Six department-of public works The mm will rise on NOT. U at nhrhts Since he off ed and 8,695 injured in air raids. signed a two-year contract to­ The known casualties: that none of the 100-odd men em­ ernment orders were on hand a. m. and will.set at • *-.» p. «u The Sgainsi Britain during October, day AT WOODBMDGE—At least ployed at the plant—apart from there* . XTura-to Face 7..Colons 3.). amnUiititi«i.a. tttt Upahtw,;