By the end of the year, it will employ 40 men. The council accepts the petition without action. In an effort to stop gasoline price wars, Wisconsin establishes a minimum price of 16 cents per gallon. Under the direction of Chief Dan Torrisi, who as a Beloit detective broke the Palmero murder case in Janesville in 1916, Beloit cops raid 12 taverns and seize 17 slot machines. The sky was dark and dirty all morning, sometimes exhibiting peculiar green or yellow colors.
Spring Valley is the only Rock County township to vote to stay dry, prohibit alcohol sales.
City of Janesville drops its case against George Kay, operator of the Blue Bird tavern, for serving a woman a drink at the bar, instead of a table as required by local ordinance. Similar offenses warranted warnings, not arrests, city attorney Robert J. Cunningham says. Clay Weatherly, who moved to Janesville from Rhinelander and played fullback for Janesville High football team in 1927, is killed when his racecar careens over a wall at 110 mph during the Indianapolis 500. At this time, mechanics ride with drivers in the Indy 500, and Weatherly's mechanic, Edwin Bradburn of Los Angeles, suffers a broke back. GM officials visit their Janesville operations as part of a national tour in the wake of widespread strikes to ascertain work rules and procedures.