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Sv W/ANT ADS WEATHER ^kJ\j Get results! Your ad will Partly cloudy nnA w* vr- W w• 7person*wir * dally.""*" '""T" colder tonight, Wed- "" * ^^ i' ncsda r fair , con- ' I , t inned eold. 1 -HISTORICAL socifc. i —nSTTF Hunters Tra pped by Storm , Seven Die , Let-Up in Rescuers , Rescued Reach Fountai n City Fear Three Othe rs Stor m by Drowned in River; Night Seen M any Schools Man y Still Missing Closed , Drifts Block Roads. Five Taken to Winona General BULLETIN. Hospital With Frozen Hands , Minneapolis—(#")—Nine duck ' Jtuntcrs were known to have " perished in the severe snow- Feet; Rescue Efforts Continuing. storm that swept tht Midwest' yesterday and at least 16 others The death toll of the Armistice day blizzard in this area prob- - still were missing this afternoon, ably will be at least 11, a survey of dead arid missing hunters some of them probably dead. made at 2 p. m. today revealed. \ Other storm victims, some of " AL that hour there were seven known dead , all identified, and ' them frozen to death in stalled reports of at least 'two or three more whose bodies rescuers reported automobiles, ' brought the total seeing but which have not yet been brought to shore for for this area to 20. • Typical of many such rescues of duck hunters from the Missis- identification. Minneapolis— {if)— High winds In addition to this, three St. Paul hunters, whose overturned sippi river bottomlands following a quickly developed blizzard Mon- , driving sncw continued theii day afternoon are these pictures taken shortly before noon today boat was found this morning in Robinson lake near Wabasha and drowned by Wabasha rescue parties now combing tho paralyzing grip on Minnesota to- at the Fountain City, Wis., boatyards. The large picture in the are believed upper left hand corner is that of the United States Engineers' bottomlands. day while highway crews prepar- launch, Chippewa, one of the rescue vessels, just before four Wi- It will be several days before a full check of the death toll ed for a counter-attack as; soon nonans and a Minneapolis man disembarked after .being picked up. of the storm can be definitely established. There are still several as the assault showed signs of a In the background, is the Dlesef tug, Joseph Throckmorton, another unclaimed automobiles parked in different parts of the area. letup, probably late this after- rescue craft. The upper view at the right is that of Raymond The known dead are as follows: Sherin, 14, being carried off the Chippewa in the arms of iPollce Fred Nylcs, 50 years old, 71T noon. , Captain Stanley Duncanson. The lower picture at the left is that Some indications of relief were Main si reel, department man- of Raymond in the boatyards just before he was taken to the ager at II. Choatc & Compnny. seen in reports of clearing weather Winona General hospital for treatment of frozen legs. With him Herman Paprel, 51 years old, conditions in North Dakota, to the is his father, Torge . Sherin, 1004. West Mark street. The lower Hun ters Tell 969 Westv Howard street. Mr. westward, but the Weather bureau right picture is that of Preston Duncanson, 18, son of Captain Dun- Page), a bookkeeper for the Bots- forecast continued high' winds even canson, and his hunting companion, Carleton Boeke of Minneapolis. iences fortl Lumber Company, was a after the snowfall ceased¦ , and the Captain Duncanson and the elder Sherin set out from Minnesota Exper prominent member of the Ma- highway crews planned no imme- City Monday night to find their sons. sonic lodge.^ diate move. With Storm Carl W. Tarras, 43, Minnesota Meanwhile all highway, air and ty road, and his son Ray bus transportation remained either Ci hampered because Tarras, 1C. halted or badly 37 Storm 'Waves Awful / Herbert Jucnemann, 38 years of the driving storm which some Willkie Asks pioneers in the St. *Cloud area de- 'Night Terrif ying/ old, Wabasha, barber, who scribed as the worst in their mem- drowned when his boat 'capsiz- ory during 72 years of residence in Deaths They Say. ed below Wabasha at 5 p. m. the state. Construct ive Monday. of an unidentified duck Harrowing experiences were relat- The body In Nation ed today by duck hunters safely Theodore Henry Gclger, 30 hunter was found near Red Wing. years old , Kail Claire, Wis., f roz- Besides smashing at the commu- home again after a night in the Mis- en. Body found near Alma at 10 nications systems and isolating Oppos ition Snow and Germans Help sissippi river bottoms where the p. in. Monday. ' some communities, the blustering High Wind s 34 yea s old approximately a foot of Russia Pr ospect fiercest November storm in the mem- Clyde J. Deli a, r , storm, with Support F. R., Eau Claire, Win., frozen , body snow in some areas and wind that Cause Damage. Rumanians in ory of many old residents caught and vej ocity of 60 miles an found near that of Gelgcr , about reached a But Be Alert , By The Associated Press. held them Armistice day afternoon seven miles north of Alma at hour, brought death to at least seven Freezing weather and night and well Into today. 10:15 p. ni. Monday. persons, marooned hundreds of per- He Cautions. overspread the p Rescue Work Middle West today in For Pa rtne rshi Mr. Tarras and his two sons Ray the wake ol Many came in with frost-bitten feons, ditched or stalled thousands ' * of automobiles and caused heavy New. York —(£»)— Asserting a furious gales that battered the mid- fingerB and toes, but only three were and Gerald and William Wernocke, livestock and poultry "strong, alert and watchful opposi- continent, causing death ; or injurj Bodies Recovered at.the.hospital today for -treatment. a •fiSMlfeflC , g»i ,the Minnesota City losses to to scores of persons . and extensive road , went out 'at 8 a. m. Monday. $ipn.?.;wdsj a. vltaLelement 4n,the., bal- "" From Wreckage. Cherished guns, bonts, decoys and BoVl'e'hefaiy remaThM^i&sel property damage. In Axis Setup The Werneckc family expressed ^^ other hunting equipment apparent- today, especially in central Minne- anced operation of a democracy, The mercury sank below zero" in After Quake. fears this afternoon that, Mr. Wer- Wendell L. Willkie night the Dakotas, Montana and Wyo- ly counted for nothing In what be- necke was dead sota where hundreds of students Monday By Robert St , but were not cer- to spend the night away told his followers: ming, while subfreezing tempera- Moloto ff Reaches Berlin for Talks . John. came a fight of many hunters to tain. we.'e forced, tures were general from the Rockies Bucharest, Rumania —(A>)— The save their lives. Boats and guns 1.) "Your function during the ' next Tarraa and his son Roy died of (Continued on Page 13, Column four years is that of the loyal op- bo beyond the Mississippi. With Hitler , Other Alliance Leaders. German army 's preparation of mili- were abandoned all over the area exposure, -according to Gerald Tar- NORTHWEST ' Atsgleast 37 deaths were attributed and much of the equipment will position." tary bases in Rumania was abandon- ras. The latter said he thought that He spoke of President Roosevelt to the violent wind, rain and snow- By The Associated Press. never be recovered. Wernecke, who wns in the party, whs as "your President" and "my Pres- storms that swept eastward yester- Adolf Hitler today received Premier-Foreign Commissar ed temporarily today as Nazi troops Huge bonfires were lighted by also dead , and said that when he The Weather ident" and said: day from the Rocky mountains. Vyacheslaff Molotoff of Soviet Russia— once the target of Hitler's did rescue work among the ruins some parties, and one group which last saw Wernecke about 2 a. m. FEDERAL FORECAST. "We will support him with our Property damage was reckoned In of homes, shops and factories razed could not find anything but grass Wernecke appeared to be frozen to and vicinity — Partly the hundreds of thousands. bitter scorn—amid indications that Russia would be asked to join and green willows to burn used out- Winona best efforts for our country." by Sunday's devastating earthquake. death. cloudy and colder tonight with low- The gale raced across the north- the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis for board gasoline and oil to set flre to Mr. Tarras worked at the Froed- No 'Mixed Cabinet.' qunke-wrench- est zero to slightly below; Wednes- Willkie said suggestions that op- ern tier of states with guests at- building a "new world order." Reports from the and burn about $40 worth of decoys. tert Grain & Malting Company day generally fair and continued taining a velocity of 80 miles in Presumably, Hitler was bargaining ed oil fields' indicated dnmage to Other hunters, coming into the plant and had lived on the Minne- position party leaders become mem- Wisconsin , 67 in Elmir, N. Y., 65 in cold. Diminishing northwest winds. bers of the government, as some do Three Found refineries was widespread, but welcome haven of woods, shot dry sota City road eight years. , Chicago, 63 at St. Louis and 54 in with Molotoff for a Russian "hands Wisconsin: Partly cloudy south in Britain, were based on "a false enough oil remained in undamaged limbs off trees to feed flames of bon- The bodies of Nytes and Pagel mostly' cloudy with occasional light Cleveland. \ off" policy in the Balkans and Near fires built behind shelter of over- were brought to the Minnesota City conception of our government." The violent winds uprooted trees, reservoirs to assure undimlnlshed snow north tonight and Wednes- - WlUkie said: Frozen Dead in East.