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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Rhinelander's Cold Case of 1939
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:07
	Publish Date:		2019-04-24 05:00:00
	Description:		For this week's A Northwoods Moment in History , Gary Entz tells us about a cold case that exists in Rhinelander from 1939. A cold case is a criminal case where probative investigative leads have been exhausted but could be reopened pending the discovery of new evidence. Such a cold case exists in Rhinelander’s history, and it is a grisly case of alleged murder. In early May 1939, Merrill Warren, owner of the Rathskeller on Coon Street, thought he hit on a winning idea to bring new patrons into his restaurant. In Minneapolis he found a Chinese chef who had been working in Fargo, ND, brought him to Rhinelander, and began offering Chinese cuisine. The chef’s name was George Wong. Warren advertised him heavily, and the Chinese dishes were an instant hit. Wong was an American citizen and about 38 years old in 1939. He lived in a time of intense anti-Chinese discrimination, but his reception in Rhinelander, at least for his culinary skills, seems to have been an overall positive one.
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