Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-09-16 | Page 3 | Glenn Frank, Son, Killed When Car Overturns

Glenn FrankSon ran I Killed When Car Overturns GREEN BAY BAY- Wis Sept 16 UP Wisconsin UP-Wisconsin Wisconsin voters will pause an extra minute over the name Glenn Frank when they mark their primary election ballots Tuesday and many will shed a tear 4 Sudden death in a skidding automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile Sunday night cut short the career of the noted educator former former former for for- mer president of the University of Wisconsin and chairman of ol the Republican policy committee who was seeking the party's nomination for U. U S. S senator He was 52 Franks Frank's son Glenn Jr 21 driver of the car also was vas killed and Theodore Stumpf their houseman was injured The son on was a reporter reporter reporter re re- re- re porter on the Madison State Journal Jour Jour- nal Their automobile speeding to a campaign engagement failed falle 1 to take a sharp curve near here skidded skidded skidded skid skid- ded on the gravel shoulder and turned over 10 times Frank was crushed beneath the car cat and killed I Instantly His son died within a afew afew afew few minutes Election officials said printing of ballots for Tuesdays Tuesday's primary was completed and Franks Frank's name would appear against six other Republican Republican Republican lican candidates for Cor the senator nomination If his name should receive a plurality they said the state committee would name a nominee v Frank became the center of national national national na na- na- na discussion when he was ousted ousted ousted oust oust- ed as as president of ol the University of Wisconsin in 1937 after stormy hearings He blamed then Governor Gover Gover- nor Philip F. F La Follette for the ouster During the present campaign campaign campaign cam cam- Frank promised to stamp out La