Evening star. [volume], May 02, 1950, Page A-5, Image 5

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Mayor Suffers Stroke
After Mock Invasion
By Reds in Wisconsin
ly th* A»ociol*d Pr»«»
M08INEE, Wis., May 2.—
Mosinee “Communists” became
loyal Americans again today, their
one-day mock revolution at an
end.
But while they went back to
preparing for belated trout fish
ing trips and other everday
activity, their Mayor lay critically
ill after suffering a stroke.
Just as the town was about to
be delivered from “Communist
dictatorship” last night. Mayor
Ralph Kronenwetter, 49, was
stricken.
Last Rites Administered.
He was rushed from Ahe village
park to his home where a priest
administered the last rites of the
Catholic church. A phjfcican
declared his condition “critical.”
He was taken to St. Mary’s Hos
pital at Wausau.
Dr. R. E. Shannon said the
mayor had suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage brought about by “a
combination of the excitement at
tendant to the May Day program
and his high blood pressure.” The
physician said it might be several
days before it would be possible to
determine whether Mayor Kron
enwetter would recover.
Mayor Kronenwetter had parti
cipated actively in the “Red in
vasion,” staged as an object lesson
by the Wisconsin Department of
the American Legion.
He was the first arrested by
Legionnaires acting as security
police troops.
Routed Out of Bed.
They routed him out of bed
early yesterday and rustled him
from the house clad in pajamas
and a bathrobe.
Mayor Kronenwetter, anxious to
co-operate, re-enacted the scene
several times for the benefit of
news photographers and newsreel
cameramen.
He has been Mayor for seven
years and planned to run this fall
for the Democratic congressional
nomination in the 7th district. He
was defeated for the post in the
general election two years ago.
The day of oppression ended
with a giant fire in the park. All
traces of yesterday’s May Day
demonstration went up in the
blaze.
nation cards Burned.
Residents, not knowing of their
Mayor s condition, threw in red
flags that had flown above munici
pal buildings, business houses and
schools. Into the flames also were
fed ration cards and credentials
that residents were “forced” to
carry.
All who took part pronounced
the mock coup a success.
Charles O. Larson of Port Wash
ington, State Legion commander,
said the day’s activity was “very
satisfactory, but a mild, demon
stration of totalitarianism.”
Joseph E. Kornfeder, a former
Communist organizer, who was the
commissar of the brief “revolu
tion,” said it was a good demon
stration of communism, but “much,
much milder than the real
“There would have been mass
killings under a real invasion,”
he said.
Bernhard Off to New York
AMSTERDAM. The Nether
lands, May 2 OP).—Prince Bern
hard left yesterday by plane for
New York en route to Philadelphia
where he will open the Holland
fair. •
ESCAPED FLAMES—Mrs. Robert H. Clark and her daughter,
Judith Carole, 7, stand in their Are-ruined home after an early
morning blaze routed them and a relative from their second
floor bedrooms.
♦
Charles Wilson, 14, who lives near the Clark home, awakened
to see fire and smoke. He ran to turn in the alarm and then
returned to play a garden hose on the fire through a kitchen
window. Here he shows how an amateur fireman does it.
(Story on Page A-l.) —Star Staff Photos.
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Peron Congress Votes
To Give Him Promotion
By the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, May 2.—The
Argentine Congress yesterday ap
proved legislation raising Presi
dent Juan D. Peron from brigadier
general to major general.
The measure now goes to Gen.
Peron for his signature. Last year
the President vetoed a similar bill
on the grounds that he was not
eligible under normal army pro
cedure.
The National Geographic Society
says Diamond Shoals, off the
North Carolina coast, is one of the
deadliest ship traps on the At
lantic seaboard.
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Gold Braid Authorized
For WAVE Officers
ly th# Associated Pros*
The Navy's women officers may
now wear expensive gold stripes
on their sleeves, just like the men
folk.
An order issued, effective today,
changes the WAVE’S present light
blue stripes to gold, and puts
them in dark blue uniforms, the
same color as those of Navy
nurses. At present gold rank in
signia are optional, but will be
compulsory after July, 1952.
Nurses will exchange their dou
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wear.
Fire
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apartment, but it was damaged by
smoke and water.
Also routed by the fire were Mr.1
and Mrs. Daniel M. Smith and
their two young daughters, who
live in another adjoining apart
ment. Fire got through sufficient
ly to char a part of the Smith
apartment and some of the furni
ture, Fire Marshal Raymond C.j
Roberts said.
The blaze apparently started
in overstuffed furniture, he said.
He said Mrs. Clark told him she
smelled smoke and then went
downstairs to find the room afire.
About this time, Charles Wilson,
14, an Evening Star carrier, who
lives across the courtyard in the
National Capital Housing Author
ity development, awoke and saw
the flames.
“I grabbed my pants and boots,
ran outside, pulled the fire alarm
and started squirting with a gar
den hose,” Charles related.
He said he stuck the hose
through a window of the Clark
home. He was still fighting the
fire when No. 25 Engine Co. ar
rived to take over.
1,284 Arrested by Nationalists
In Drive on Reds in Formosa
1/ the Associated ^rtss
TAIPEI. Formosa, May 2.—
Chinese Nationalists in a Red hunt
arrested 1.284 persons Sunday on
the big island of Formosa, author
ities disclosed today.
Reports from East Coast centers
and the Pescadores Islands, off
Southwestern Formosa, are ex-!
pec ted to swell the number.
Most were detained for entering!
Formosa illegally or lacking proper i
credentials.
In Taipei, 213 were seized. At
Kaohsiung, the naval base on
Southwest Formosa, 113 were ar
rested.
About 91.000 persons took part,
in the "census” between midnight
and 8 a.m.
The Nationalists officially con
ceded that the Reds had con
quered Hainan Island, but said
they had evacuated troops and
supplies with "better results than
expected.”
A government statement said
the last National unit was em
barked from the south coast port
of Yulin Monday. It said they
would be used in other areas
where the Communists would have
to fight under less favorable cir
cumstances (presumably Formosa!
itself and its screening islands).
The Nationalists asserted that
new Yak-21 (jet) fighters of Rus
sia's Far East Air Force are fly
ing combat missions with the
Chinese Communist air force. A
communique said "this openly
proves that Soviet Russia, in total
disregard of international faith,
has openly joined the Chinese
Communists in extending the
scope of the war.”
(The press in Hong Kong has
heard that a few Russian jet
planes were given to the Chinese
Reds. Some of these were re
ported to have been seen oper
ating over Shanghai recently.)
The Nationalists told belatedly
of small guerrilla combat actions.
They said:
The warship Yungtai Saturday
shelled Kanmen. on the east coast
of Yuhwan Island. 215 miles south
of Shanghai. A few hundred
guerrillas stormed ashore at 11
p.m., battled Communist defenders
and withdrew in two hours.
Nationalist guerrillas killed or
wounded more than 160 Reds in
raids April 11 and 15 on Yuhwan
Gag Writer Composing
Bob Hope Script Dies
•y tho Assoc iotod Pross %
LOS ANGELES, May 2.—Paul
Laven, 43. collapsed and died yes
terday while composing gags for
a Bob Hope screen script. An
autopsy will be performed.
Mr. Laven came here seven
years ago from Cleveland, where j
he was a newspaper reporter.
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