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Eecorb-Heralb weather Wisconsin: Unsettled, probably showers tonight and Sunday, except FULL LEASED WIRE Service of ibe Associated Krcs twelvTpages generally fair; Sunday in west por- tion: 5 THREE CENTS VOLUME XVII NUMBER 248 WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924. Wau Daily SAU LOOK AFTER WALES' RANCH NO REDUCTION OF William Allen White to Hirst Announces His -o -i GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE BYTORNADO SWEEPING SOUTH Run on Anti-Klan Ticket For Governor of Kansas Support of Democrat Choice for Governor i ARMENIA DISTRICT IS "In Race to Stay and Scores Both Old 'n Parties PROHIBITION AGENTS SECURE FIVE STILLS IN WAUKESHA COUNTY Madison, Sept. 20. (By The As sociated Press.) Five illicit stills, twenty-two barrels of liquor mash fifty gallons of liquor were confiscated by state prohibition agents working with local officials at Genesee, Waukesha, county, late yesterday, the state prohibition department reported today. AVIATORSSTOP, AT SWEETWATER TO TEST PLANES U.

S. Fliers Cover Half Distance to El Paso, Re-Fuel Machines Sweetwater, Texas, Sept. 20. The round-the-world fliers hopped off the local landing field at 1:50 p. m.

central standard timo for Elpaso after refueling. ElPaso, Sept, 20. Major Leo J. Hefferan, commander of the twelfth aero squadron at Fort Bliss was advised today at noon that the world fliers had descended at Sweetwater, Texas, to test their machines and to take on fuel. Sweetwater is nearly halt the dist ance between Dallas and Elpaso.

Love FieldDallas, Sept. 20. (By The Associated Press.) With Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, flight commander in the lead, piloting the Chicago, the army world fliers took off from Love Field, Dallas, at 9:40 a. central standard time- The jump to El Paso, the next stop, is 645 miles by the right of way of the Texas and Pacific railroad.

i The Chicago was followed into the air by the Boston II and the New Orleans. Along with the fliers, Lieutenant B. Wright, advance offic er, piloting a smaller and speedier plane, rose into the air and will precede the thtree world fliers all the way to El Paso. Lieutenant Wright will "stop at Sweetwater for fuel and preparations have been made to care for the world planes 'there should necessity require. Lieutenant R.

C. Moffat, the first advance officer started for Sweetwater to make all arrangements at 7 :45 a. m. central standard time. Before leaving here more than 260 pallons of casoline were nut into each of.

the Douglas world planes, being necessary to care for the long El Paso jump. A crowd of several hundred Dallas citizens came to the field to wish the fliers God speed on their journey. Before leaving, Lieutenant bmith again expressed his appreciation of the courtesies of the Associated Press in supplying accurate weather and wind reports along the contemplated jumps. The time of the flight across the United States to Seattle has been considerably shortened by the service, he declared. CHARGE EX-MAYOR OF OSHKOSH DROVE CAR WHILE INTOXICATED Manitowoc, Sept.

20. Ex-Mayor McHenry, Oshkosh, was arrested at Sheboygan last night, charged with operating an automobile while intoxicated following a collision with the machine ot Thomas Roy, Milwaukee man on highway 42, three miles south of Sheboygan Falls. He is held in $200 bail, which was furnished. The case is to come up September 29. at Sheboygan.

No one appeared with McHenry in the accident. WOMAN IS KILLED BY CONVICT SHE HELPED Pasadena, Calif, Sept. 20. Mrs. C.

R. Hunn, sixty, said to be the wife of Clifton R. Hunn, president of a Chicago firm of ink manufacturers, was found slain on the threshold of her bungalow court apartment here last night, her skull smashed by hammer blows and a bullet wound in her heart. According to the police her assailant was Harry Conners, forty-five, a former convict whom she had befriended when he was serving a prison sentence in Illinois for robbery; whose release she had helped to obtain and whose efforts to start life over she had aided with gifts of clothes and money. REINSTATEMENT FOR GREENBAUM BROKERS ARIINTSfTIL No international Conference Unless French, English Parliaments Ratify BOTH ARlTblSTURBED England is Disturbed Over Impending Trouble With British Dominions Geneva, Sept.

30. (By the Associated Press.) No international conference on the reduction of armaments is possible unless the parliaments of both England and France ratify the proposed protocol on arbitration and security. That fact emerges clearly from the situation here in consequence or state ments made by leaders at tne league of nations assembly. The Frenchmen are proceeding on the theory that the London parliament will back up the signature of the British delegation. The Englishmen seemed disturb ed in a hypothetical way over entanglements which might possible arise between England and the British dominions under the operation of the protocol.

GRANTS NINETY- Reprieve Dated January 1 6 For Bernard Grant, Sentenced to Hang Springfield 111., Sept, 20. Governor Len Small today granted a ninety day reprieve to Bernard Grant, Chicago youth, awaiting the death penalty. The reprieve is dated to January 16. Grant Is Happy Chicago, Sept. 20.

Bernard Grant, who was sentenced to hang-on October 17, received the news that Governor Small today had granted a ninety day reprieve pending a hearing before the state board of pardons and paroles. "That's fine," be said. "That lifts ninety days of? my shoulders. My hair ought to turn back to its natural color in that Grant's hair has turned gray in front since his sentence, his attor ney, Thomas Swanson, said. Grant was convicted with Walter Krause, also under sentence of death, who has repudiated his first statement implicating Grant of killing Policeman Souder in a holdup in 1922.

NINE INDICTMENTS Arguments, Demurrers to be Heard Later, No Trial Date is Set Milwaukee, Sept 20. Demurrers filed by nine of the men indicted in the Union Food Stores company case, alleging indictments, gave insufficient cause for action were overruled by Federal Judge F. Geiger today and trial set lor Uctober 14 Those who entered pleas of not guilty will also be brought to trial at that time. Edwin W. Berry, general manager, P.

M. Knippenberg, president. Henry G. Tank, fiscal agent, Edward i Cneb, city real estate agent; E. Leslie Osborn, cashier of the American National Bank at Racine, which is no longer in business, and John G.

Hassler, bamuel L. Chapman, August Kerber and Nathan H. Schwartz demurred to the indictments. The court announced that argu ments on the demurrers would be heard later. No date for trial was set.

AUTO PLUNGES INTO RIVER, TWO DROWNED Madison, Sept. 20. The second man, drowned in the Yahara river here this morning was identified this afternoon as Harold Ellsworth, fifty-five, ol Sioux Falls, S. D. The man is survived by his wife and ten children who live at Sioux Falls, it was said.

Madison, Sept. 20. (By the Associated Press.) Two men, one unidentified were drowned here early today when the automobile In which they were driving plunged Into the Yahara river on a side road near Lake Monona. E. Christoffer- son.

thirty, laborer, was Identified. Police said the automobile driven by the drowned men probably was going at a high rate of speed when a turn was attempted and the vehicle catapulated into the river. The men were pinned under the car and were unable to escape. Police have started an Investigation to determine identity of the unknown man. Christofferson worked at a local packing plant.

The bodies were discovered by Clifford Weidner, a res-idfiftl ia ihs Yahara iivej jscon. PROTOCOL SIGNED GOVERNOR SILL DAK REPRIEVE RETURNED IN CASE ONION FOOD STORE and Missouri and Arkansas Hard Hit by "Twister," Property is Damaged BUILDINGSJDEMOLISHED Two Hotels Unroofed, Several Persons Injured, Communication Down Poplar Bluff, Sept. 20. Probably a score of persons were. Injured, none fatally, and damage estimated between $50,000 and $100,000 was caused when a tor nado struck several towns in Iron and Reynolds counties last night.

according to meagre reports receiv. ed here today over crippled tele phone wires. Probably the greatest harm was at Annapolis where thirty or forty buildings were reported damaged and several persons injured. One report said nine were hurt there. Mr.

and Mrs. Pierce Collier and their two children were in a home which was Wrecked by the wind Injuries to the children were said to be more serious than to the parents. L. L. Halter was Injured when his automobile was turned over by the wind.

The storm struck Leadanna, Hogan and Elllngtou, doing dam age, but according to early reports no one was killed. All towns In the section were cut off from, communication with the outside world for some time by the storm. St. Louis, Sept. 20.

The extent of injuries and probable toll of lives as well as the amount of damage done by a tornado that swept several towns in southeast Missouri was uncertain this morning, owing to the fact that communications were cut off by the storm. The area reported to have been struck by the tornado is centered around Annapolis, about 160 miles southwest of this city. Ellington also was reported to have been damaged. The only definite information obtainable here was to effect that physicians had been called from Bismarck to Annapolis ana tiling-ton to care for the injured. A re lief tram was made up at Poplar Bluff to rush aid to the storm strick en district.

Report as to casualties varied. While reports early in the evening indicated that' several persons had been killed in Annapolis, this re port could not be verified this morn ing. It was said, however, mat probably half a dozen residents of Annapolis and several in Ellington had been hurt. Much Damage in Arkansas Hot Springs, Sept 20. One person was injured, two buildings were demolished and several othera suffered serious damage in a tornado which struck this city late yester- dav.

Elsa Skellerin was slightly injured when Saint Lukes' Episcopal church collapsed before the twister. With the exception or the altar, which suffered only a few scratches, the church building' was wrecked A Dart of the roof of the Eastman Hotel was torn off and the interior flooded by rain. The Glenwood hotel was also unroofed. Mrs. G.

A. Bates suffered bruises when her cottage was wrecked. Passing out northeast or the city. the twister Jashed the sides ol Mot Springs mountain, uprooting trees and causing minor damage. Appar ently its force was spent against the mountain.

St. Louis, Sept. 20. Property damage from the tornado which struck Hot Springs, late yesterday was estimated at $700,000, said a report received here today by th- Southwestern Bell Telephone company from its division general manager at Little Rock, Five Persons Injured Annapolis Mo Sept. 20.

Five persons were injured, none dangerously, and severe property damage was caused by a tornado which struck this village last night. Five or six buildings were de-strovpd while thirtv or forty were unvoofed or otherwise damaged. The Charles Boltz store, the largest in town, was wrecked. Several miraculous escapes were reported. Four persons in one house which was blown away, received only scratches.

Several box cars were mown on the track and thirty or more motor cars, most of them in one garage, were badly damaged. The brunt of the storm is believed to have struck Annapolis, although heaw wind was reported at Bis- mark and other points in the sec tion. PROMINENT LODGE MAN AT MADISON MISSING FROM HOME Madison, 20. (By the As sociated Press) Madison police and county bfflclals have instituted a countywlde search for E. C.

Story, prominent Madison lodge man. who disappeared from his home Thursday after writing a let ter to his family that he was "tired of living." No trace of the miss ing man has been found since. Family members are unable to explain Story's action. The man has been secretary of the Madison Equitable Fraternal I'nlon and active In other lodge affairs in Madl- BP? iSH ft SiimeJt fiiJtSMJi Asks Friends to Vote For Martin Lueck For State Executive in November decides not to run 'After Considering Appeals of Friends, Hirst Decides Not to be Candidate Madison, Sept. 20.

(By The As sociated Press.) Arthur R. Hirst, former state highway engineer and defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate, today announced his support of Judge Martin Lueck of Beaver Dam, for governor and that he will not be a candidate on the independent ticket for the office. Mr. Hirst announcement leaves the gubernatorial race clear to Governor Blaine, seeking re-election. and Judge Lueck, the Democratic nominee.

It followed conferences during the past two week with po litical leaders in ine 6tate. In announcing his withdrawal from the race. Mr. Hirst said he is confident a legislature has been elected "that will block every Blaine move lor czansm and personal agrar.dizement at the expense of the people and of the public service." lie concludes his statement with an appeal to his. followers to throw their support to Judge Lueck.

The statement in part follows: Despite the urgent requests of hundreds of my friends and sup porters throughout Wisconsin that 1 become an independent candidate for the governorship, I have determined that I shall 'not do so. I have no means to further prosecute the contest and feel that I should not call upon my friends to make further sacrifices. Hirst's Three Objects "When I resigned as executive officer of the state highway commission and announced my candidacy for the Republican nomination for the governorship, I had three principal objects: to enable me to focus the attention of the people upon the extremely dangerous governmental policies of the present executive; to protect the state service, especially the state and county highway organizations, from further disintegration by the 1925 legisla ture at the insistence of Governor Blame; to secure the enactment of a tax on gasoline by the coming legislature so that it would be possible to proceed with the highway program necessary to protect the state and county highway investments. "The primary is over. I and my supporters conducted the most in tense educational campaign that our limited funds permitted.

Mr. Elaine is the Republican nominee by a plurality of 115,000 less than he secured in the 1922- primary. It is the opin ion of competent observers that he would have been defeated had not Senator "La Follette made a personal appeal to his followers to support Mr. Blaine for the sake of the La Follette national campaign. A legis lature has been secured that is pledged to enact a gas tax measure ind one that will block every Blaine move for czansm and personal ag randizement at the expense of the people and of the public service.

Evasive Blaine Platform "The Republican state platform, written' in its entirety by Mr. Blaine and dictated to the platform conven tion by him, is evasive and unsatis factory upon practically every state is.sue of real public interest. Sel dom has a politician recommended himself so highly or promised so little constructive performance. "On the other hand, the Demo cratic state platform pledges the candidates to an investigation of state affairs, a sane highway program, a gasoline tax, to stopping larger appropriations by the emergency board and to keeping the state (Continued on Page 10) ST Walter E. Danke Freed From Bank Holdup Charge in Court The criminal charge against Walter Edward Danke, the Neenah youth held in connection with the attempted robbery of the Rosholt bank three weeks ago, was dismissed by Judge W.

F. Owen, in county court of Stevens Point after the prelminary hearing late yesterday. A number of Winnebago county people testified as to the previous good behavior of the defendant. Marshal Ingvald Hanson of Rosholt, who Is generally credited with having killed one robber and captured the other three men, in response to, detailed questioning, told of the pursuit ot the bandit car and, of finally slaving Pepllnskl near ilevent, where Danke surrendered. He was cross-examined by Attorney D.

K. Allen of Osh- kosh. representing the defendant, to establish Danke's story that he was made no attempt to get away at the time Pepllnskl was shot and that he cautioned the marshal to "be careful" because the others who had been with Danke were dangerous men, GRIM NAL CHARGE AGAIN NEENAH 00 DISMISSED HIT BY EARTHQUAKE; MUCH DAMAGE DONE Constantinople, Sept. 20 (By the Associated Press.) Sixty deaths and destruction of three villages are given as the toll of a new earthquake reported in the Erzerum district of Armenia. Large cracks ap peared In the.

ground from which loud subterranean noises were heard. The population of the district is panic Btrlcken. The government la sending aid. BY1ELL01IRL Telephone Operator Dis plays Real Courage, bticks to Post to End Menomonee Falls, Sept. SO.

Fire caused damage estimated at close to $100,000 here early today in which two persons were injured, two buildings destroyed and four others damaged. Miss Daisy Via-snapp, telephone operator, aroused residents, summoned aid was driven from her post only when flames threatened to destroy the telephone exchange building. The origin of the Are is undetermined. 1 The injured: Henry Brinkman, chief of police, cut by glass and George Selt, fireman, overcome by smoke. The destroyed buildings house Hills' jewelry store and Alfred Caesar's paint shop.

Both were two story wooden structures. The damaged buildings included the weekly newspaper plant, the Masonic hall, the Menomonee Hotel, Helds cash store, and the Frazer block, which houses the telephone exchange. Latest Reports on Chinese War Conflicting, Each Side Claims Gains Shanghai, Sept. 20. (By The Associated Press.) Preparations were being made this morning by the Chekiang army defending Shanghai to resist an expected heavy attack by the Kiangsu force fighting for possession of the city.

The hours of darkness are busy ones behind the lines. Rainfall late yesterday afternoon checked the intensity of the gun fire for a few hours, but it re-opened moderately along the entire front, from the Yangtze coast to the rail-Way early today. Chekiang defense headquarters at Lungwha, south of here, declared this morning that position was unchanged after yesterday afternoon's fighting, following the successful Chekiang counter attack in the morning. Peking, Sept. 20.

(Bv The As sociated Press.) Official telegrams received here tonight from Quinsan field headquarters of the Kiangsu armies seeking to capture Shanghai, declared that Chekiang regimental commanders with their men were surrendering to the attacking forces. An unofficial report said the cen tral government here had received a request from the Shanghai chamber of commerce that the attack on Shanghai be stopped due to the flight from his crovincial capital. Hongchow, of Lu Yung-Hsiang, tu-chun of Chekiang. He is said to be in Shanghai at present rrom Chsoyang, near the Chihli-Manchurian border, where Chihli soldiers are on the defensive against Lhang Iso-Lins invading Manchur-ians, has received an official dispatch that one of Chang's airplants had been shot down by the defenders and the machine two pilots sent to the hospital. Wounded Chekiang soldiers arriving here this morning said the fighting was described as a major attack by the Shanghai defenders.

Push Kiangsu Troops Back Shanghai, Sept. 20. In an engagement which started at daybreak reinforced Chekiang troops on the front between the Shanghai-Nanking railway line and Kiating, pushed the invading Kiangsu forces back, strengthened their lines, and regained positions near Hwangtu, fifteeen miles west of here. Mukden, Manchuria, Sept. 20.

An engagement between the second army of Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria, and the enemy forces of the Peking government took place today near Jehol, northeast of Peking, near the Chihli border. An entire mixed brigade of the Chihli forces was declared to have been put flight bv the Manchurian troops. MEiillEE FILLS SAVED FROM FIRE GHEKIANG FORCES RALLY TO DEFEND CITYOFSHANGHA if? i BUM Prince of Wales' ranch in Alberta. and wife. The Carlyles make ntly.

COOLER WEATHER IS OUTLOOK FOR WEEK Washington, Sept. 20. Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Region of the Great Lakes: Show ers about middle of the week, cool first part and again at end. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys: Showers toward middle of the week, cool at begin ning and again at end. DISCUSS DETAILS Secretary of Navy Wilbur Denies Any Comment Made on Speeches Washington, Sept.

20. Secretary Wilbur, whose western speaking tour wag cut short when he was asked to return to Washington by President Coolidge, visited the White House today and at the termination of his interview with the president announced that a special board would be appointed to inves tigate the relative importance of air, submarine and surface crait in the navy. Appoint Board Appointment of the board was suggested by the president, Mr. Wilbur said, adding that the chief exec utive indicated he desired the mat ter to be taken up at once "with a view to adjustment of the budget in accordance with whatever conclu sion was reached by the board. Secretary Wilbur declared emphatically that the speeches he made on his tour were not brought up at the White House conference.

Only the technical details of the budget in relation to a balanced navy was considered, he said. "I did not say there were two antagonistic peoples on the Pacific but 'two opposing civilizations'," he said, "and I was not referring to the Japanese but to what might be termed the Occidental as compared with the Oriental. I made no insidious comparison between them. I might add that a Japanese consul present came up and enthu siastically thanked me after the address." A special report on the subject ot navy composition prepared by the secretary's aide. Captain Walter R.

Gherardi, was submitted to day to President Coolidge. It was prepared during the return to Washington, Mr. Wilbur said, for, while he had been advised definitely of -the subject the president desired to discuss with him, it appeared likely that It would he on navy development. The White House had announced several days ago that the president wanted to talk with the secretary on naval questions. ROAD CONDITIONS AND THE WEATHER Milwaukee Cloudy; dirt roads wet.

Appleton Cloudy, warm; roads wet, rain last night. Chippewa Falls Threatening, warmer; roads fair. Green Bay Cloudy, heavy rain last night; dirt roads fair. Ironwood Cloudy and mild; roads Janesville Cloudy, warm, roads soft. Kenosha Cloudy; roads soft.

LaCrosse Clear, warm; roads good. 1 Madison Cloudy, heavy rain last night, warm; roads fair. Manitowoc Cloudy, threatening; roads wet. Oshkosh Rain last night, partly cloudy; roads good. Racine Cloudy; roads good.

BIBLE TEAT "There are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth to his neigh- bor: execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates." Zech. 8:16. OP ill! BUDGET AT CONFERENCE KLAN IS BIG ISSUE "Free Kansas From Ku Klux Klan," Will be Cry During Campaign Topeka, Sept. 20. Petitions marine William Allen White, Erc- Iporia editor, in nomination for gov-iernor, and Carr W.

Taylor, Hutch-iinson, for lieutenant governor, on an independent ticket, were filed with the secretary oi state nere toaay. Topeka, Sept. 20. (By the Associated Press) Making his slogan "free Kansas from the Ku Klux Klan," William Allen White, In a statement issued today in connection with the filing of his Independ ent candidacy for governor, declared: "I am in the race to stay and to win." "The issue in Kansas this year is the Klan above everything." the veteran Emporia editor asserted. He attacked Ben S.

Paulen and Jonathan M. Davis, Republican and Democratic gubernatorial nomi- nees. respectively, charging that the two major parties in the state are "led in the race for governor by men who had Klan support in the primary and who will not disavow that support today." Mr. White's statement follows in, part: "I have filed my petition for governor and am in this race to It Is the largest independent petition ever filed for any office In Kan sas. Klan Is Real Issue "The issue in Kansas is the Xtt Klux Klan above everything." "The Ku Klux Klan represents a small minority of the citizenship, and it is organized for the purpose of terror.

Its terror Is directed at honest law abiding citizens, negroes. Jews Catholics. These groups in Kansas compose more than one fourth of our population. They are entitled to their full constitutional rights; their rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. They menace no one.

They are good citizens, law abiding, God. fearing, prosperous fatriotic, yet. because of their skin, or their race, or their creed, the Ku Klux Klan iif Kansas is subjecting them to ecoi nomic boycott, to social to every form of harassment, an noyance, and every terror that bigoted minority can use. "And the leaders of two major parties in this state lift no hand to defend these people. Ben Paulen, the Republican candidate for govt ernor, accepted the Ku Klux Klan Indorsement In the primary and owes his small plurality to Ka Klux Klan voters.

"The Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Jonathon M. Davis, never before the primary or since, has uttered one syllable which would offend the most ardent Klansmen. He had the Klan Indorsement la the primary. His party threw it over, but Davis has not disclaimed It. "So here are the two major parties in Kansas led in the race for governor by men who had Klan support in the primary and who will not disavow that support today.

A man who has not the courage nor does not rise to righteous indignation to denounce and defy the Ku Klux Klan in the primary and In the election is not going to oppose it seriously In the governor's chair. Scores Klan Bitterly "I want to be governor to free Kansas from the disgrace of the Ku Klux Klan. And I want to offer Kansans, afraid of the Klan and ashamed of that disgrace, a candi date who shares their fear and So I am in the race to stay and win. "Kansas, with high intelligence and pure American blood, of all states should be free of this taint of bigotry and terror. all those who are oppressed by the Ku Klux Klan.

We must have no class issue here. "It is a nation wide menace this Klan. It knows no party, it knows no country. It knows only bigotry, malice and terror. Our national government is jfounded on reason and the golden rule.

This Klan is preaching and practicing terror and force. Its only prototype is the Soviet ot Russia. So I feel that I am walking the path of duty in going into this race." DISMISSED PETITION DECLARING C0MISKEY IN CONTEMPT OF COURT Milwaukee, Sept. 20. Judge John J.

Gregory late yesterday dis missed a petition by Attorney Ray Cannon that Charles A. Comlskey, president ot the Chicago American base ball club, be held in contempt of court. Cannon is representing Oscar should 'not be made to rturft. lv2 gour i Here are the caretakers of the They are Professor W. L.

Carlyle their home on tne ranch permane PUBLIC HEALTH IS VITAL PART Members of Rural School Boards Attend Convention at High School CHARACTER BUILDING Instructive Program Under Direction of Superintendent A. R. Thiede Five hundred or more members ot Marathon county rural school boards and rural teachers were in attendance today at the convention held in the High school In this city where a program was given by eau-cational experts, board of health specialists and instructors until a late hour this afternoon. County Superintendent A. R.

Thiede opened the convention at 10:00 o'clock this morning with, a brief explanation of the purposes and aims of the meeting, and expressed appreciation for the large attendance. He said that there, are 10,000 children attending the rural schools In this county, which Upended last year $579,000 on the schools outside of Wausau, an average per child of $57.00, and that it behooved every citizen and particularly the members ot the school boards to see that eath child received the education which the taxpayers provide, by establishing adequate schools and teachers and seeing that the truants were brought in. To Preserve Health Dr. F. F.

Bowman of the state board of health said that public health was one ot the most important factors of life, and that it was particularly necessary to maintain health In children or they would be stunted and defective, losing their faculties which could make them successful in life. He described the great changes in medical knowledge, of the discovery of the causes of diseases and the means for prevention and of the responsibility put upon leaders in the communities to see that the preventive measures were carried out. "As diseases come from bacteria," he said, "and as it is known that contagious diseases spread by contact, the necessity of Isolating the sick from the well is and this was urged on the attention of the school board members. -Contagious Diseases He told of the mistaken and superstitious ideas of some, of the old idea that children had better have all the common diseases and get over them or die, and of the fallacy of this idea, as these contagious diseases' were preventable, and they all left upon the child some result, some defect which lessened that person's ability to progress in life. He said that children recovering from scarlet fever, diphtheria and other diseases could not see or hear or feel the same as before, and that many times they were stunted in intellect and ambition, making it more difficult for them to learn or work.

The Goitre Belt Dr. Bowman told of the prevalence of goitre in this lake region, in some sections amounting to forty-four per cent of the children examined, and or its cause. He described the thyroid gland and told of its important functions, it controlling the forces which en tered into every part of the body onu inaiii. The failure of this gland resulted in physical and mental failure, he said, and this could be corrected in the adolescent child by the taking (Continued on Pag Four) PADDON RETAINSTITLE Sydney, N. S.

Sept. 20. James Paddon of Australia retained the world's sculling championship today by defeating Major Good.cll. Paddon came in twelve lenirths Jahead. OFEDOCA I "Happy" Felsch, former member of Madison, Sept.

20. (By The As- the Chicago club, who is suing foe sociated Press.) The state railroad' alleged back salary. Because of commission today reinstated the indisposition of Comiskey the can, brokers certificate of Greenbaum hag been postponed and as a reft Sons Investment company, bond suit Cannon petitioned the court brokers operating in Wisconsin. The, to hold Comlskey in contempt, al-action followed an extensive leging he is not so ill as reported, gation of the firm's operations in the 1 The court declared that It was state. The license was temporarily obvious that Comiskey wan ill when revoked on complaints that the firm he testified in the Joe Jacknon -aa sold unauthorized bonds in Wiscon-jlast winter, and "if he is anywhere sin.

Fees aggregating $10,000 will near as 111 as when he was here. be paid by the company as result of uie procegaipg,.