Portage Daily Register from Portage, Wisconsin • 1

BOOST FOR PORTAGE PORTAGE DAILY REGISTER-DEMOCRAT WEATHER Snow tonight much colder ESTABLISHED 1886 PORTAGE WISCONSIN FRIDAY DECEMBER 30 1932 15c a Week Delivered Triple Tragedy Give Up Port DOMINIC COES ON STAND IN OWN DEFENSE RED CROSS TO ASSIST THIS POOR Flour Cotton Garments and Cloth Available for the Needy SEN TWO MEN MINTT ROAD AS OIK PARK FORCEHONORS SLAYER OLD EMPLOYER A I I Victim Had Confided to a Employes Present Watch to Physician an Attack by Retiring Commissioner the Pair Jay Henton Chicago Dec Two Oak -I Henton County Park men were sought yesterday In Highway Commission: for the the Investigation of the slaying of past seventeen years was pleas-Mlas Uertrude Modrow years anriy surprised last Saturday noon old who was a maid In an Oak when upon letng railed ttt the Park home Her body was found county shops at Wyocena he on Christmas morning near the found some twenty employee as-vWaA of AdfMioh two miles across sembled to express their apprecia the Cook county line in Du Page tion of hla years of service by the county Deputy Sheriff Arthur presentation of a gold watch and Unite: and Alien Meyers of the chain Du Page county The gift was a token of the high ohauf- staff said that the men under sun- regard in which Mr Henton is held picion had attacked the young wo- by Columbia County Highway Etonian on Nov 25 In an Oak Park ptoye Association and Mr apartment and feared that she was 8 Emmons chairman of the Wei goteg prosecute them fare committee of that organlza- The Investigators yesterday re- Hon made the presentation leased the three men they had un- In presenting the gift Mr Skn- i Th- American Red Cross is coming to the assistance of needy persons In Columbia county and Tty this winter with Pood clothing end shelter to augment the work being done by the county outdoor poor relief organisation and the Portage Welfare association Two carloads of flour purchased by the Red Cross have already been given away through the county poor commissioners and a thir I carload Is on the way in the two JWHMWMBMWfc Discovery of a now will of the late Clement Studekikcr Jr Chicago utility magnate wat followed by two murders and a suicide Peter Peterson (center) for thirty years Geotge Reynolds (above) one of leading bankers for many years who hae already distributed there resigned as chairman of the board of the Continental Illinois National Bank ft Trust Company of that city Mr der questioning Wednesday night expressed the sentiment that Reynolds entered the banking two of whom were brothers Joseph ibrough their years Of association field jn Iowi in his early youth the county highway employee had ad went Chicago to join learned to regard Mr Henton the Continental National Bank more as a friend and adviser ra- in 1906 from Des Moines He ther than a boss or official plani retire and tnake hk in accepting this token of es future home in California teem from the employes the recipient expressed his deep appreci Klasen of Chicago and Raymond Kiasen of Maywood The information received yesterday regarding the attack changed the theory held regarding the murder and the Kla-sen brothers were in no way Involved their questioning baying Portage Woman Dies Suddenly Today Miss Eleanor Breese passed away very suddenly at her home on McFarlane road at two o'clock this afternoon SITS DIKY FARMERS CANT EXPECY HELP the story Read Many Affidavits After the state had rested its case shortly before noon on Thursday the defense began to offer the many affidavits through which it proves that Dominic could not have been in Lodi to participate in the murder because he was in California on the same day The first affidavits more than a dozen of them told of Dominie's receiving a telegram from his brother They told how he had bought a suit to make the a spit whlch Domtnic now wears In court and how a group of friends had seen him off on the train Testimony offered Olsen Evanston by Otto 111 auditor of were 1700 bags of flour The latest relief move is to establish a Red Cross clothing depot In the Raulf Hotel building just east of the Chamber of Commerce Office Here 2000 new articles of clothing have been received and will be given out to needy families of Portage and vicinity Use Cotton Surplus The clothing is part of that nude up from the grant of 500000000 bales of cotton which was appropriated by the national congress to he made up Into clothing and distributed through the American Re! Cross The clothing depot which has been established by the Portage Red Cross chapter will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5 with women members of the board of directors in charge Mrs Ernsperger is chairman of the committee which will take care of the distribution of the clothing Other members are Mrs Alderman Mrs Frank Gra- been due to a mistake Meyers said He cooperation shown Girl's story Told to Doctor hp the mpn during the seventeen The men sought were not named hp hd lrTPd the officials would not say He feit that the present whether their identity was known I sP'udid system of roads In Co-The girl had consulted Dr Ed lum'ia unty bad been made pos-mund Brust Tillage president of eo-operatlog SLEETY ROMS IDE MENACE TO TRAFFIC Holiday President Says Little Can be Done at the Short Session Menomonee VMMa Dec SO Calling upon Wisconsin farmers to demand relief from state and national legislators and declaring wHl be no better time than TOMAH COMPANY BASKET TEAM HERE NEW YEAR'S New Ybbt' Night Dance to Follow the Games at the Armory caM mHk strtk t0 brln at)()Ut hlhfr prk MUo Reno na Melrose Park and confided to him the atory of the attack She had accepted a ride in an automobile with the two men she said and they took her to a roadhouse The girl said the attack occurred the day after Thanksgiving and it was four days later that she called upon Dr Brest One of the men was 21 years old the other 35 he saM If she named the roadhonse to which she During the many yeurs of Mr supervision of road building In this county approximately 1000 miles of road have been constructed At the lime the present commissioner took up his duties but SO mile of improved road existed in Columbia county where today over 1000 miles are to be found While expressing regret at the withdrawal of Mr Henton from active duties members of Col ton- Renders Driving Leu Treacherous There were a lot of people in the city of Portage today who found considerable difficulty in maintain- tonal president of the Farmers' Holiday association addressed a meeting of some 4000 farmers ia the Nightingale ballroom near this citly Thursday night Delivering what wws In the na The Tomah Headquarters com- ham Mrs Gregory Dempsey Crowded Courtroom Hears Accused Tell His Story in Broken English BULLETIN The Dominic preliminary hearing was this afternoon continued until January 11 to give the prosecution time to check the handwriting Of Dominie on the regNjtar ef the SL GOorgo hotel at Sfcremente Calif Victor Dam ink! today took the stand in Me own behalf In the preliminary hearing through which he hopes to gain his freedom from charge of complicity in the murder of Robert A Wilson Speaking broken English he recited the details of bin alleged trip to Sacramento Calif after he had received a telegram from his brother Tom Dominic which had asked for help because be was trouble" The court room was not yet fill-ed when Dominic took the stand Only a few affidavits of the many which had been presented by the defense remained to be read when court adjourned at 5 Thursday afternoon' As in the past few days the court room filled up completely before Dominic had gone very far In his story and the doorwayR were jammed with spectators to see and diear the defendant Bon la Italy Before telling the atory of the Sacramento trip Dominic said that he bad been born in Itafly that he had lived in Racine since lON and that he was married and had two children a boy 14 and a girl 15 Mrs Dominic was expected to take the stand later in the day to counteract the evidence which has been offered by the state through Dial Atty Ross Bennett and Special Counsel Rogers The state scored heavily on Thursday for the second consescu-tlre day when It succeeded In haring the confession of frank Tyiius who later committed suicide at the Wisconsin Dells Jail admitted in court Use Conspiracy Count ft was not until Lieut Frank Schneeberger of the Kenosha police department took the stand on Thursday and the state began to question him about the confession that the defense attorneys under-skwi why on the day before DM Atty Bennett had wanted another count added to the complaint on which Dominic la being held Then they realised that the count charged him- with conspiracy to extort money and that the confession would be admDsable if the conspiracy had not been completed before the confession was made After an argument which took more than two hours Judge Crosby who ia hearing the trial finally admitted the confession In it tells that Dominic as well as the three Kenosha Italians later released was Involved Id the murder plot against Wilson fbe confession Itself was not read in court but it was made a part of the court record Brer since the suicide of Tylhis attorneys for the state hare been plan nlng some legal method of haring the confession introduced In court The rutting of the judge indicated that they had found the method Another Identification Another point on which the state scored on Thursday was In producing another positive Identification of Dominic ss the man who was Ith Tyiius and Wilson at Lodi on the day of the murder was token the officials have con coaled It The report wa that she i CovMlr Hlffhway Employes As-didn't know the exact location of er unanimous In their the apartment to which she was that equal cooperation token while under the Influence of I WOuld ccorded new missioner George Batty at De- knrra towiuihip who takes up the work January 1st the liquor but she believed it was in Oak Park ture of a keynote speech to the subsequ-nll tnHk producers gathered to debate the calling of a milk strike next month Mr Reno denied statements made earlier In the day regarding a split between the Wisconsin Cooperative Mlik Pool group and his own organization never will be a better time to strike than right now" the Farmers' Holiday association heed declared He said a vote taken at Marshfield Win Wednesday night in favor of naming a committee to set a strike date within 20 days had been truly representative and unanimous passenger and station accounts for the Northwestern railroad showed that Dominic had purchased a ticket at Racine on Aug I eight days before the murder and had returned from California on Oct 'ar The ticket cost 9030 he testified and was used all the way through to California The state succeeded in discounting some of the Yalue of his testimony when they got him to admit that the ticket did not show who had used It but only that Dominic had bought it and someone had used it They also brought out that Dominic could have gone all the way to California and returned in plenty of time to be in Kenosha on the day that Charles Welter Kenosha contractor saw him talkingtiTTy tins and Wilson in front of a Ken- osha bank at which time Welter testified Wilson toid him about the proposed trip to Lodi with Tyllus snd Dominic I At the corner of and Mar streets big trailer truck Californians Aid Alibi twisted and slewed into another Twenty-fire affidavits of Callfor car parked at the curb at the in- Bln residents were offered during tersecnBn: the afternoon session on Thursday The county highway crews were most of them to the effect that Do- out sanding on intersections and mlnlc was seen in Sacramento on grades but the roads were in very the day of the murder bad shape At the corners the A hotel register froftt the St I city street department had also George hotel San Francisco was sanded the streets Introduced to show that Dominic a Snowfall Nnrth nf tk Ckv onowtaU North of the City lag their upright position as they walked along the sidewalks today because of the icy cooat ing which spread over the city following an early-morning rain which 1 1 ze Auto traffic was very dangerous and one truck driver reported that it had token him hours to make the trip from Mauston to Wiscou tin Dells North of the city about eight miles snow hadfalJen and the going was less treacherous Between there and Madison the roads were coated with a thin layer df ice which made driving almost Irapos- pany basketball team will play the annual New Year's baskeiball gamw thls sealon 1 It is a fast sharp-shooting aggregation which tnclud-es Knoblauch six foot-seven Inch center and Glsan Tomah high school coach Other members of the Tomah team are Stanxenhurg Grey an! Blackwood a fast bunch of forwards and Groveelein and Casper two bf the best guards Tomalt high school has ever turned out Ijisi year Portage played this team and received a 39 to 19 beating at Tomah Their watchwords this year will be The locals have been playing a very good brand of ball stringing up a number of victories They hope to add Tomah to the list In the first game at 7:10 the Bara boo and Portage DeMolay teams will clash in their annual game The two teams are evenly matched and looking for victory There will be a New Year's night dance following the game with music by Maurice Donovan and his six piece orchestra Admission for both games and the dance will be 35 cents for adults 15 cents for students and 15 cents for kids Trinitatis to End Food Products Campaign Sales The Trinitatis charch will close Its Hoffmann's Products Campaign with a sale sponsored by Sell midt A Sons grocery department on Saturday December 31 Those in charge ask that all con pons be banded in not later than January The church wishes to thank each and everyone who In any way aided them in their campaign The investigators said she told Dr Brust the two men told her they would shoot her If she ever reported the attack' to the police Consult! Doctor Again The girl called upon Dr Brust again on Dec 23 at which time her mind was set At rest regarding possible consequences of the attack She expressed her relief to the doctor and told him of her fear of being put in an institution If It were known what had happened She had been a ward of the Juvenile court due to her father's Inability to support her after her mother's death and later her sister now Mrs Otto Dannenberg supported her until she was graduated at the Proviso high school and obtained work as housemaid On Christmas eve the girld told her employer she was going to buy and Miss Harriet Coleman Because of the fact that the committee ia not acquainted with all worthy casea In the county persons desiring clothing must come in and make requisition tor the clothing and the iioard of directors will act upon the request at a meeting held each evening Have Undtrwaar Etc Among the 2000 pieces of clothing which will he distributed are: Underwear for men women and children overalls for men and boys: stockings for men women and children onting flannel to be used in garments to be made up by those receiving the material and men's trousers and boys' Other articles of clothing Including many sweaters are on the way The Red Cross has 11 branch chapters throughout the county In addition to the mother chapter in Portage These branch chapters will aleo have clothing to distribute 8lnce the recent Red Cross drive in the city was not as successful as It might have been the board is appealing to those who are not members to aid In the work by Inking a membership at the cost of one dollar Memberships may be taken at the clothing depot Alas Aid Transients Tlie distribution of clothing and flour is not the only work being carried on by the Red Cross In the city Last year and this jranr about 11000 a year haa been spent on relief for ex-service men and their families In addition much aid has been granted to World War veterans who are transients In this respect food and shelter has been provided to transient ex-service men The Red Cross is also donating $10 a month to the maintenance of the city transient depot for the Strike Vote Milwaukee Dec SO Thursday In Milwaukee milk circles It was reported the strike vote had been achieved only by the meeting and bringing about a favorable vote Should a strike be balled in Wisconsin Mr Reno said the farmers here wHl be backed by those of 28 states represented in the holiday movement cannot expect much relief from he short session of congress" Mr Reno told his hearers want the new president and congress to have ample opportunity to effect farm relief but we're sticking by our farm legislation program' Honeymoon Bride Is Defendant in Alienation Suit brother of his and another Italian had registered there on the evening of Aug 25 The attendance of Italian friends of Dominic at the trial continued through Thursday and Friday morn-1 Ing On one occasion Thursday afternoon Judge Crosby had to wprn the daughter of Dominic and an Italian girl friend of hers that whispering was out of place in a court' room Dominic bis Wife and his friends have maintained an optimistic outlook throughout the trial Indicating that they seem to be sure that he will not be bound over to circuit court to face the murder charge against him Funeral Services Saturday Morning at Home Town Lodi Funeral services for Mrs Lee 8odders who passed away at her borne at the Gunderson apartments Wednesday night at 8:50 o'clock will be held Saturday morning at Lodi at 10 Mrs Sodders passed away after a brief illness from pneumonia Funeral services will be held from the residence of the late 8 Miles Thomas an uncle of Mrs Sodders Mr and Mrs Sodders taioved here from Lodi two years ago when Mr Sodders accepted a position as a pair of shoes Her body was found the next morning on the road near Addison There were four bullet holes In the body I State's Attorney Cbauncey Reed Detroit Dec 30 Seeking $1-of Du Page county who had been Ofio000 for loss of the love of her attending a convention of the sta- divorced husband Dr Kerwln' attorneys of Illinois returned Klnard wealthy Kansas Ci'y phy-to Wheaton last night to take ac- sfeian Mr Ada Lee Porter Kln-tive charge of the search for the Hied a declaration in her suit in circuit court Wednesday charg-ii lag tile doctor had been led to the divorce courts by and blandishment" and promises of life of Xl The declaration la suit in i 1 1 which Dr present wife ai moran nome the former Mrs Gail Stephens heiress to a Michigan lumber for On Thursday evening Dec II a tune is defendant was filed coin- Friends Join in Giving Surprise Service for Rio World War Veteran Held Saturday ktliers Baby Boy Dies at Home Friday Morning Wayne Harold Ebert aged three months and 17 days infant son of Mr and Mrs Harold Ebert 623 East Cook street died at 7 Friday morning December 30 following a brief illness Surviving are the young parents and the grandparents r-kr and Mrs Fred Ebert of Fort Winnebago and Mr and Mrs Robert Nehr-llch of Portage and a number of other relatives The death ot the Tltrle one oc-eurred at the -home of Its grand-p ots Mr and Mrs Robert Nehr-llch 28 East Cook street where the body will remain until 11 o'clock Sunday forenoon when It will be removed to Murtson's chapel where funeral setyices will be held at 2 o'clock the same afternoon conducted by Rev Df-erker pastor of St Lutheran church A number of Portage veteruil plan to attend the funeral services which will he held for George Ford Rio World War vrteran which will be held in Rio Saturday morning at o'clock rrrTT a druggist at the Towpiey drug store Their many friends in the city extend their sympathy to Mr Sod ders In his bereavement County Supervising Teacher Will Soon Become a Bride salary of the caretaker The Red Cross work In the city Is directed by the board of directors made up of the following per-sona Chairman A Taylor Vit e-Chairman Mrs Bronson Treasurer Louis Breese: Secretary Miss Harriet Coleman and Ray Welsh Harold Sullivan Dr A Taylor Lelsch Mrs Ernsperger Mrs Gregory Dempsey Mrs Frank Graham and Mrs Alderman number of friends of Frank Moran cident with the disclosure that the gave him a very pleasant surprise couple had left for a honeymoon by walking in on him at 7:30 in Europe The evening was enjoyed by all The first Mrs Klnsrd charged cards Prises at cards were won her husband was "lavishly enter-by Mrs Moran first ladles talned" by Mrs Stephens who "reprise and Chris Johnson first rived an alleged courtship of ttietr gents prise Consolations were youth" won by Mrs Dunn and Following renewal of bis ac-Cook Irvle Hogan won the prise queintance with Mrs Stephens for the best speech A delicious the first wife charged the physi- lunch wee served during the even- clan told her of his love for the ing by the host sweetheart of his youth und de- Those present were Mr and Mrs manded a divorce Driven by fi Moran Mr and Mrs Chris naircial necessity she said she was Harold Heidt who underwent Johnson Mr and Mrs Dunn compelled to make a property set- minor operation at St Savior's hos Mr and Mrs Cook and Ir- tlement and then obtained a de- Mrs l-ena Qastrow mother of Harold Gtstrow who the day before had positively Identified Dominic Raid from the stand that Dominic had ben with Tyllus at her home north of the place where the Wilson body was later found at 5:30 on the afternoon of the murder and that the two men had asked for a drink of water Her bad told the same story and the defense counsel who undertook the cross-examination of loth herself and her son failed to shake 0 story In any way although ley Intimated that the son' pill I bad been made up when he tfcoul 't be could get an airplane' tft to California by telllkg Former Portige Boy is Married Friends In the city have received cards announcing the recent marriage of Harold Brown son of Mr and Mrs Brown to Elisabeth Ward The Browns are former Portage people Ruby Heaiy who has been supervising teacher in the office ot the county superintendent of schools for several years win be married soon to Loots Marqnardt oi the town of Spring vale it was revealed Thursday when the couple appUed for a marriage license at the court house Another marriage license application was made Thursday by Norris Anderson to Josephine ZJell- ner both of the town of Newport Mr and Mrs George Clem mons and Mr and Mrs Orville Clemmons returned Wednesday from Chicago where they attended the funeral of Mrs Harry Clemmons who died at a Chicago hla-pital Friday Dec 23 Martin Gedway of Milwaakee was a Portage business caller this horning Misses Evelyn Bresnehaa and Katherine McDonald are spending the weekend in Milwaukee cree vie Hogan I pital Saturday la getting along nice-I ly He attends St Francis Semin- ary near Milwaukee I BGT IT IN PORTAGE TRY A Want ad BOY IT IN rORTAOB.