Evening star., 1940-09-16
DIR. Frank and Son
Die as Car Goes Off
Road and 0verturns
Senate Candidate Killed
On Eve of Primary;
Publicity Aide Hurt
By the Associated Press.

DJ tIlt ASSOlldltu LtNS
GREENLEAF, Wis, Sept. 16-Dr
Glenn Frank, 50, Republican politica
adviser, educator and author, was
killed in an automobile accident last
night on the election eve Of his first
campaign for public Office
His son, Glenn Frank, jr., 81. a
newspaper reporter, was fatally in
jured and a publicity aide suffered
minor injuries.
DR.. Frank, chairman OF the Re-
publican partys Policy Committee
was seeking the senatorial nomina-
ton in tomorrow's Wisconsin
primary election.
9 En- route from one political gather
Ing to another, Dr.. Franks automo-
bile failed to round a curve at a
road intersection. crashed into a
sand pile and overturned.
DIR. Frank Killed Instantly.
Dr. Frank was killed instantly
His son died on the way to a hos
pital at Green Bay.
Theodore Stumpf. %. of Wauka-
nee. member of Dr. Franks cam
paign publicity staff, was burned
by acid let loose by the automobile s
campaign sound equipment.
Suffering from shock. Mr.. Stumpf
could give only a meager account of
the accident.
Il was riding in the back seat"
he told Sheriff Clifford Kellner of
Brown County. Il think Glenn, jr..
was driving but I don't know for
sure. I don't remember anything
else"
DR.. Frank had attended a political
picnic at StOughton during the aft
ernOOn and was on his way to a
Green Bay hotel for dinner with
Republican leaders when the acci-
dent occurred.
After serving II years as presi-
dent Of the University of Wisconsin.
DR.. Frank was removed by the
Board OF Regents in January, 1887
Fought Ia Folietteism."
Throughout his election campaign
DR.. Frank declared that he hoped
to rid Wisconsin of La Folletteism"
Phillip F. La Toilette, brother of
Senator La Toilette, Progressive. of
Wisconsin. was Governor when
Frank was ousted as president of
the university.
Although he had never before
sought public office, Dr.. Frank had
been active in Republican political
circles and was named Policy Com
mittee chairman two years ago.
Born in Queen City. Mo. the son
of village Schoolteacher, DR.. Frank
became an evangelist at 16 when
people told him he was a born
orator"
He was assistant to the president
OF Northwestern University from
1912 to 1916, and then editor of
Century Magazine from 1921 TO
1925, when he took the presidency
of the University Of Wisconsin.
He was married June 2, 1917, to
Mary Smith Of St. Louis, who sur
wives him. Glenn Frank, Jr., was
their only child.
Youth Was Engaged to Marry.
Young Frank. a reporter for the
Wisconsin State journal at Madi-
son, was engaged to be married De-
Cembar 7 to Mary Jane Manierre, a
junior at Milwaukee, -Downer Col
lege.
Three motorists who reached the
intersection shortly after the acci-
dent said young Frank was thrown
from the automobile. DR.. Frank
and Mr.. Stumpf were still in the
car and were removed by the mo-
toriSts.
Sheriff Kellner said that appar-
emily no one saw the crash.
In Kansas City last night Wendell
Willkie said that he was greatly
shocked" to learn of Franks death.
The recent report OF the Glenn
Frank Committee" Mr.. Willkie said,
was as constructive political
document as has appeared in years.
I am personally distressed at his
death"
DR.. Frank, for whom necessary
nomination signatures were obtained
at almost the last moment, was op-
posed by six other Republicans for
the nomination. In a speech DR..
Frank said that he had felt the
heavy fist of La Toilette dictator
ship and that he would leave no
stone unturned to rid Wisconsin for
ever of this latter-day La Toilette
ism
IF elected" Frank said, I will
stand four-square in the United
States Senate against the Hitleriza-
ton of America
Bogus Liberalism Charged.
Speaking against Senator La Fol-
1ette. the Progressive Senator who
is unopposed in his partys primary,
DR.. Frank said this La Follettism
under the two boys. has degenerated
into a bogus liberalism which, de-
spite its shouting Of all the old war
cries, is at heart Fascist.
This latter-day La FolletiSm," he
added lis just vest pocket edition
of the thinly disguised Caesarism of
the New Deal. 1t is, therefore, just
of this local Hitlerism masquerade
ing as democracy, as 10 rld the Ma
ton of New DealiSm.'
The body of Dr.. Frank and his son
were taken to the Moore mortuary
at Green Bay and will be taken to
Madison today.
Services will be held at the Frank
home in Maple Bluff at 2 pm
Wednesday and at 2:30 pm. at the
State Capitol.
DR.. Frank was the author of such
books as The Politics of Industry,
IAN American Looks at His World,
Thunder and Dawn-Studies in the
Outlook for Western Civilization,
and Americas Hour of Decision
For a time he wrote a daily syn
dicated newspaper article and CO.
authored The Stakes of War" ano
"The League of Nations, the Prln-
ciple and Practice"
Immaculate Dresser.
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