Person:Clarence Olson (4)

WAUPACA COUNTY MAN FOUND DEAD IN MILWAUKEE HOTEL MILWAUKEE, June 15, - (UP) - A post mortem examination was ordered today to determine the cause of death of Albert Lutz, 50, Farmington, Waupaca County, after police found a federal search warrant in his pocket. Lutz registered at a hotel as "A. R. Lutz, Racine," collapsed and died in his room yesterday. There were no marks on the body to indicate violence. Dr. Frank J. Schultz, coroner, reported. The warrant signed by Clarence R. Olson, a prohibition agent, bore the notation, "25 gallons of beer, one pint of whisky and two bottles of unlabeled beer; dwelling of Gil Lutz at Taylor Lake, Waupaca County." SOURCE: STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; June 15, 1933.

Clarence Olson drove to Appleton Friday to visit Sever Nelson, who is seriously ill at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Olson and Albert Olson accompanied him to Appleton. Mr. Nelson was a former Almond Resident. SOURCE: STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; December 7, 1933.

U. S. AGENTS RAID HUGE STILL NEAR DUNDEE ARREST THREE MEN DURING RAID ON ABANDONED FARM - FIND 78,000 GALLONS OF MASH MILWAUKEE - (Special) - Roy Plant, Lawrence Shepherd and John Sammers, arrested when federal agents last night seized the largest outlaw still in Eastern Wisconsin since repeal on an abandoned farm near Dundee, Fond du Lac County, today faced arraignment here on internal revenue charges. Led by Lane Moloney, Milwaukee group chief of Treasury Department Agents, the raiders were amazed to find a distillery that for size and elaborate equipment was equaled in this district only once or twice even at the height of the prohibition era liquor traffic. In a huge barn on the farm just off Highway 67 the agents found 78,000 gallons of mash in 10 vats of 7,800 gallons capacity each, 2,000 gallons of alcohol in the steel still base and 5,000 gallons more of alcohol in 2,000 and 3,000 gallon receiving tanks. There were two distilling columns 24 inches in diameter extending 45 feet from the basement to the roof of the barn. TWO HUGE BOILERS Two 75 horsepower steam boilers furnished power for the generator was used in manufacturing electricity to light the place. In a shed 50 feet from the barn was a large receiving tank into which alcohol was pumped from the barn for packaging in one and five gallon cans. A deep well 750 feet from the barn provided water pumped with electrically operated pumps. Moloney said the distillery was the largest found since a huge plant was discovered in a West Allis factory building last December on the day before repeal became effective. BRAND NEW PLANT It was a new plant, apparently having been set up during the past six or seven weeks, he said. When the agents opened the valves on the mash tanks, there was a veritable flood of mash in the barn and its surroundings. They worked all night dismantling the plant. Six federal men working out of Milwaukee on the raid with Moloney were Investigators Clarence Gelhause, Jule Lundquist, William Metzong and C. J. Wallett and Inspectors Louis Gregor, Clarence Olson and Henry Basemen. The house on the distillery farm located at the north end of Long Lake, burned down two years ago and no one was known to have been living on the place. SOURCE: SHEBOYGAN PRESS, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; May 25, 1934.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Olson of Tucson, Ariz., arrived here the first of the week to visit Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zeller, a cousin of Mr. Olson. Their son, Russell Olson, who has been touring 15 European countries since last fall came here from Canada to meet his parents. SOURCE: STEVENS POINT JOURNAL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; May 7, 1958.

Clarence Olson is now employed as a guard at the Wool-co Store in Wisconsin Rapids. SOURCE: STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; August 29, 1966. (A precursor of Wal-Mart, "guards" were employed in the stores. P.A.)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

   CLARENCE OLSON - Soc. Sec. #: 353-10-1785; Last Residence: Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona 85351; Birth: February 21, 1895; Death: August 12, 1989; State Issued: Illinois (Bef. 1951).