Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 11

KILLS SELF T0 END WIFE'S TROUBLES Man Returns After 17 Years [ to Find Mate Married to Another. Most Popular WINS TITLE FROM 2,000 UNI- VERSITY GIRLS. @peclal Dispatch to The Star. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 1 (NA. N.A).—Theodore Mahnke did not peer through a window like Enoch Arden and learn that his wife, thinking him | dead, had been married to another. | ‘When Mahnke returned to Sheboy- | gan, Wis, three weeks ago after 17 years' absence, he revealed himself be- fore he discovered that Mrs. Mahnke had become the wife of John Michels, | a Kohler carpenter, and was about to bear Michels a child. Unable to turn silently away, like the man in Ten- nyson’s poem, ‘and let his wife's new | life on, he, went. to. Chicago and kil himsélf Monday afternoon by | turning on the gas jet in a rooming house. He was 53, a veteran of botn the Spanish-American and the World Wars. The Mahnkes were. married 26 years 2go in Chicago and went to Sheboygen to live. Later they moved to New Holstein, Wis. They had six children. Only Rumor in 17 Years. Mahnke vanished in June, 1914, | without a word to his wife. Mrs. | Mahnke took the children back to | Sheboygan, where she had friends. The only thing she heard concerning her missing husband in 17 years was & rumor during the World War that he had gone overseas with the Army. She thought that he was dead. Mrs. Mahnke met Michels and in November, 1928, they were married. When Mahnke reappeared in She- | boygan three weeks ago his wife's life | fell about her in chaos. She left her | second husband at once. and took quar- | ters in Sheboygan to live apart from bim. She was driven almost insane with anxiety. Her religion forbids di- wvorce, She could hot longer be Michels’ wife. She could not take Mahnke back. Pinally, in despair, she sought attor- neys’ advice and decided to seek an snnulment of her marriage to Michels and live with neither. The attorneys were about to file the necessary papers Tuesday when they learned of Mahnke's death. Knew of Wife's Worry. Mahnke knew of his wif:'s worry, for ‘e remained in Sheboygan about a week wvisiting his children, all grown now, ‘ and his relatives. He knew thai his return had broken up-a happy home. He knew that his wife was desperately seeking a way out of the tangle. In reraorse over the havoc he had wrought he went back to Chicago and solved the for her. Before he took his life he tried to make reparation. He wrote to Charles M. Pearsall, gov- ernor of the National Soldiers’ Home, begging Col. Pearsall to obtain a sol- dier's bonus or a pension for his| deserted wife. ‘The letter to Col. Pearsall revealed | that Mahnke had served in the war as Thomas J. Criss. Until last Fall he lived at the Soldiers’ Home as Criss. To make sure that the confusion in his identity would not prevent his wife | from recelving anything du: to him as| Criss, Mahnke addressed a note to the Chicago police asking them to take his fingerprints for comparison with the | Army record of Thomas J. Criss. After he left Sh-boygan 17 years ago, Mahnke worked in Chicago and Detroit under the alias he had taken—Thomas J. Criss. He enlisted for the World ‘War under that name at D:troit, Mich., January 13, 1918, accordirg to the serv- iee records in possession of Col. Pearsall at the home. He served in the 19th Company, 20th Englneers For:stry, and wis discharged April 12, 1918, at St.| Algnan Moyers, France. (Copyright, 1931.) 4 L ) 15 FOUR GET COMMISSIONS Washington Men Become Officers | in Reserve Corps of Army Commis€ions in the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Department to Warren E. Emley, 3004 Fulton street, and Iler J. Fair- child, 3707 Thirty-fourth street, as ma- jors and speclalists; to Joseph J. Dob- kin, 141 Uhland Terrace northeast, as & first lleutenant in the Medical Corps, sad to Arta H. Hadfield, Bureau of Lighthouses, Department of Commerce, :n;ynmmmmcmmemu Ar- . John Escritt, 85, and Miss Amelia Ann Jackson, 75, were married recently st Hull, Engiand. Easter is a time when his very best. And so footwear problem by Adelaide Hunter, 20, a junior in the School of Education, was chosen the most' popular. HERE are about 2,000 girls at the University of Pittsburgh and BOOSTER CARNIVAL PLANS DISCUSSED Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens Would Add Prestige to Section. Business Body to Be Formed. Tentative plans for a “bookter” car- nival to give the community added prestige were discussed at & meeting of the Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens’ As- sociation last night. At the same time plans were inaugurated to form a neigh- borhood business men's association to work in co-operation with the citizens’ group. The time and place of the carnival are yet undecided, but it is thought the affair will be held Negotiations are under way to have the St. John's College Band play. A committee was appointed to confer with the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations with regard to the assoclation’s participation in the George Wi Bicentennial Celebration M. A to attend the joint meeting of the fed- eration on the discussion of parks and highways, A resolution was adopted indorsing Busipess High School as a permanent meeting piace for the Americanization School of the District. It was sug- gested that the Business High School be turned over for this purpose when the new Roosevelt High School, at ‘Thirteenth and Upshur streets, is com- pleted. Tae meeting, which held 1y the Northminster ~ Presb; fan Cturch, Eleventh street and Rhode Island ave- nue, was presided over by Mrs. Ella M. Thompson, president. STIMSON IN NEW YORK Secretary of State Stimson has gone to New York on personal and will not return to this eity until Mon- day morning. Assistant Secretary Wil liam R. Castle, jr., promoted to succeed the late Joseph P, Cotton as Under- secretary, has been called to San Fran- cisco by the serious illness of his sister and will not assume his new duties until he returns to this city. Ia the meantime, Wilbur J. Carr, the senior Assistant Secretary, is in charge of t{m foteign affairs of the Govern- ment. Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Bunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 1% cents per days and § cents Sunday. The DEVON One of many styles in Black or Tan Calf a man wants to look Nettleton aids in the offering a handsome collection of fine shoes that will look as well on Easter morn as' they do later. Specially selected shades of color fashion. leathers and new in typical Nettleton Priced $13.50 to $20 in the near future.! THE E IROTHAFEL IS MAYOR': OF BROADCAST CITY Work Begun on Gotham Site Razing for $250,000,000 Three-Block Buildings. Special Dispatch to The Sta: NEW YORK, April 1—8, F. Rothafel, |radio and faudeville impresario, today becomes mayor of “Rockefeller City,’ the projected $250,000,000 radio and television center in New York. The old brownstone front houses, be- tween Fifth and Sixth avenues and north, of Forty-eighth street, 240 of which will be torn down, are already being toppled over. Work on the huge buildings, which will employ 25,000 men, will begin about June 1 and will require two years for completion. About 125 speakeasies will take fight as the pickaxes sink into the old walls which once sheltered New York’s elite. A mild public controversy has arisen over what some critics assail as a de- cided overdose ultra-modernistic architecture in the three stark, white central buildings and the oval “hat- box” among them—tall, slab-like strus tures, denuded of cornices and all orna- mental detail, and crashing into thé sky line like triumphant brasses in a Wagnerian opera. Hood Defends Plans. While New York has been hospitable to the modernists among the architects, the “growing public clamor,” as one newspaper calls it, has brought forth an explanation, if mot a defense, from Ray- mond Hood, cne of the architects. Mr. Hood insists that the sound utility which governed the drawing of the plans will blossom into enchanting beauty, once the bufidings are finished, with mass and line serving adequately all esthetic needs. A things stand now, the “city” will be completed as de- ed. B K Since the public display of the plaster | model several weeks ago, mid-town civic associations have been at work on am- bitious plans for adjustment to traffic distribution and other problems arising from the sudden concentration of addi- tional thousands of pebple in three city blocks. The central building alone, of the three structures, will include 2,000,- 000 square feet of flcor space, larger by | 150,000 squ re feet than the space of the Empire State Building. Sixty-eight stortes high, it will be the largest, but not the tallest, bullding in the world. Labyrinth Underground. The Fifth Avenue Association will meet April 8 to consider plans, already drawn, for extending the underground labyrinths of Rockefeller City southeast- ward about one-fourth of a mile to the Grand Central Station. The plans call for shops, arcades, promenades and parking space. i ‘This new underground ecity would " | connect with two other submerged cities, | [TCHING ENDS WHEN 7EMO TOUCHES SKIN —thousands say. It's wonderful the way soothing, cooling Zemo brings relief to skin which itches and burns. Even in most severe cases, itching disappears almost as soon as Zemo touches the tender and inflamed sur- face. To draw out local infection and help to clear away unsightly blem- ishes, we know of nothing better than invisible, Zemo. Always keep this family afitiseptic on hand. Use it freely. It’s safe as can be. 35c, 60c and $1.00.. All dealers. FOR SKIN IRRITATIONS STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, the 17-foot and the other at the 34- foot level, housing stores, garages and traffic lanes. & plunge undergroun: It is - parent that, at last, New York is to h:ge a cave town bigger than a fair-sized vil- lage and costing a lot more to build. Studios to Hang on Wires. center, each of the 30 broadcasting and television studios will be hung by wires, like a bird cage, in- side another room. Between the walls of the suspended room and ‘the fixed walls around it will be thick layers of rubber and felt. Leaden doors will be 215 inches thick. In the largest, cen- tral building, there will be no windows in the first 15 stories, Workmen_are leveling their crowbars at the old Kane residence, designed by Stanford White and assessed last year at $1,800,000. Over one store, which refuses to surrender its lease, the cen- tral building’will be so constructed that the encysted structure can be nearly obliterated and the scar healed by new steel and stone when its lease expires, five years hence. Space has been re- served in the center for the Metropolitan Opera, but whether it will accept the site has not yet been decided. (Copyright, 1931.) PRINCE THEFT VICTIM Report Says Wales’ Brother Was Robbed of Jewelry. BUENOS AIRES, April 1 (#).—The newspaper Critica said. yesterday that the bed room of Prince George at the embassy was ransacked on the night of March 14 and personal jewelry of con- siderable value stolen. Since Prince George and the Prince of Wales left Brazil, the newspaper said, police have recovered the valuables and identified the thief. His name was not divulged, but he was said to be a prom- inent young Argentine who had been so friendly with the royal visitors that his resence at the embassy was not con- sidered suspicious. ‘The Prince of Wales will receive the freedom of Inverness, Scotland, in Why? ARE YOU FORTABLE IN THE NEW GRA SIXES AND EIGHTS Roomier Bodies— Rubber- Cushioned Springs Deeper Cushions — Unequaled Adjustability ASK YOUR NEAREST GRAHAM DEALER TO Prices, at the foctory, $845 up for the Sixes; $1155 Hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Ame the Graham Edgar A. Guest. TWO-PARTY SYSTEM Holds It Is Surest Cure for Eco- nomic Ills, in Radio Broadcast. The two-party system is the surest cure for the economic ills of the United | States, according to Senator Dickinson | of Towa, who spoke yesterday over the network of the Columbia Broadcast- ing Co. “A depression such as we are now | passing _through always produces hys- teria,” Senator Dickinson said. “Every conceivable proposal will be presented. Most will be heralded from the hous tops, but they prove impossible of en- actment and hopeless of execution when analyzed. “It is my belief that public servants and citizens can materially assist by working within one of the two dominant parties.” The speaker pointed out that several European countries have experienced the “paralyzing effect of bloc control. We should never permit our country,” he sald, “to transfer authority from political parties to economic or polit- ical blocs.” | Senator Dickinson advised the voter to rely on “representatives selected on a certain party platform who will ad- | here to and help maintain party con- trol and party responsibility.” The address, in which Senator Dick- inson defended Republican tariff and Farm Board policies, was given under auspices of the National Student Fed- eration. kg S Pensioners Aid Italy. | ROME () —Ttallan war veterans | have reduced the nation's public debt by nearly $300,000 through renuncia- tion of pensions and insurance and by turning in government bonds. ‘The | National ~ Association of Combatants contributed $21,000 in January. e — —— SO COM- RAM ' SHOW YOUu up for the Eights. a’s beloved poet, adio Hour—every Sunday Evening at 9:30 P.M., over WMAL, EASTER ICE CREAM SPECIALS Br WEDNESDAY, APRIT 1, 1931, waades,| DICKINSON URGES IDLING WORKERS FAIL 2,000 London Freight Handlers End “Slow Motion” Strike. LONDON, April 1 (#).—Freight hand- lers in London railway terminals, who during the past few days have looked like actors ih a slow-motion picture, resumed work at their regular speed today. In protest against wage reductions ordered by the National Railway Wages Board, approximately 2,000 laborers adopted & “go slow” policy, working strictly ' according to saf Tules, The “go slow” protest failed, how- ever, when it did not result in a suf- ficiently slow movement of perishable freight. After a night-long meeting they decided to abandon the policy and to try to make up for the difference in wages by earning the bonuses offered for faster work. Passports ;;md. ATHENS (/) —Forged passports have become so numerous that the ministry of foreign affairs has warned emi- grants to the United States that Ameri- can courts recently sentenced the holder of such a document to five years' imprisonment, to be followed by deportation. THE VERY LATEST 1931 MODEL IN LARGE WALNUT CABINET. W.B. 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