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Wisconsin THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL Madison Sunday, September 13, 1942 10 fice he seeks Progressive as dent of the Wesley Steel Treating Milwaukee. Cited by Mac Arthur again. These Men Seek State Nominations Surveyor Here Are Candidates in County Primaries ANDREW DAIILEN Andrew Dahlen, Dane county surveyor, candidate for Progressive reelection, holds the most (Continued from Page 1) privileged post in county offices. He never receives serious opposi sive candidate for secretary of state. Kaiser, a high school graduate, is married and has one child.

tion, and without campaigning, (Continued from Page 1) He served six years in congress and was elected each time by the largest vote of any Wisconsin Secretary of State FRED R. ZIMMERMAN Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman, 62, Milwaukee, Republican candidate for reelection to a fifth term in that office, was governor of the state in 1927-28. Zimmerman, who is married and has two sons in service, ran far ahead of the rest of the Republican ticket in 1940, polling 712,267 votes. He served two terms as secretary of state prior to his election as governor, and two more terms during the present Republican ad He was a candidate for congress leads the rest of Progressive party office-holders in the voting col Plane Missing in Mountains with 10 Aboard TUCSON, Ariz.

(U.R) Army authorities at Davis-Monthan field here announced late Saturday that a B-24 bomber with a crew of 10 abroad has been missing for more than 24 hours over the Rocky mountains in southeastern Colorado or northern New Mexico. Authorities said the plane left Omaha, at 11:37 Thursday night and had not been heard from since. The big bomber, carrying eight officers and two enlisted men, was returning to Tucson from a routine training flight, officers said. 1 The names of the crew members were not released. umn.

Dahlen rode into his onice in 1926 and has served on the state budget board and as president of the county agricultural association. trict, was president of the Sons of Norway chapter in Stoughton for 14 years, and now is judge advocate there. Formerly in the restaurant business in Stoughton, he now is a housepainter and paperhanger. He is married and the father of three daughters and three sons, two of the latter now in army service. In 1936 Stokstad ran for the assembly on the Progressive ticket.

with the Progressive landslide Nov. 6, 1934, and took the office of Philip H. Hintze, who set a precedent by previously holding i Attorney General ARTHUR SPENCE the post since the 1900's. ALBERT J. WILDE Albert J.

Wilde, 41-year-old Milwaukee real estate broker, is a Democratic candidate for governor. Wilde, who is married and has two children, had a business education and has followed the same vocation for the last 20 years. He was a Democratic candidate for the assembly in 1940. ministration in which he has been Arthur Milwaukee Assembly (1st) the top vote getter. He previously school board president, is a Pro gressive in the prosecution of county and city cases.

Always a worker, Maloney helped work his way through the University of Wisconsin with employment as a linotype operator at The Wisconsin State Journal. Two of his assistants, Henry H. and Walter M. Bjork, have gone into private law practice, and both publicly have praised Maloney for his help in their development. During his terms, Maloney has worked hard to cooperate with city and county officers and with the courts.

Considerable expense has been saved Dane county by holding to a minimum expensive jury trials through cooperation with police and sheriff officers and immediate investigation of all major crimes. Recently, Maloney has been a leader in investigation and subsequent court action at the Verona Home and asylum, prosecu represented Milwaukee county in gressive candidate for attorney general. Spence, a Milwaukee lawyer who formerly was a Repub Progressive 4 Sheriff the legislature and was sent to Spain by the president the United States after' he was governor to represent this country at the Seville exposition. LYALL T. BEGGS Lyall T.

Beggs is seeking reelection to the state assembly from the Madison (first) district, on the Progressive ticket. He formerly was district attorney for Dane county for two terms, lican candidate for, congress, left the GOP in 1938 to campaign for Philip F. LaFollette for governor. ty highway department. He was born in Barron county and has lived in Madison and Dane county since 1918, moving CAPT.

JOHN R. ARNOLD during which time he had charge Capt. John R. Arnold, head of the of the investigation of the pountv to McFarland last November. WILLIAM H.

DIETERICH William H. Dieterich, 45, justice Madison police department's de Gerry is married and the father Attorney General JOHN E. MARTIN Atty. Gen. John E.

Martin, 51, highway department. GUSTAV J. KELLER Gustave J. Keller, 44, Appleton attorney, is a Democratic candidate for governor. Keller, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin law school, is married and has three children.

Active in the liberal wing of the Democratic party organization in Wisconsin, he was its nominee for attorney general in the 1940 election, polling 257,786 votes. of five children. of the peace in the town of Hartford, Washington county, is a Progressive candidate for attorney District Attorney Milwaukee, Republican candidate for reelection to a third term, had held no previous public office prior to his first term as attorney tective bureau, a candidate for the Progressive nomination for sheriff, is one of the outstanding police officers in the state who has combined "the old reliable" of police work with new methods of crime prevention, detection, and conviction. One of Arnold's best assets is LESTER C. LEE general.

Dieterich, who is married and has one child, is a practicing attorney. He was a special assistant attorney general in 1936, a candidate for assemblyman in 1924 and for civil judge in 1932. tion at the Lake View sanatorium, For the dangerous feat of repairing the retractable landing gear of a Flying Fortress while the plane was in the air, Sgt. Billy C. Gribble, above, Scottdale, has been cited officially by Gen.

Douglas MacArthur, United Nations commander in the southwest Pacific. Sgt. Gribble hung head down for an hour to adjust the landing gear while two other crew members held him by the feet. Lester C. Lee, 4229 Wanda He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin law school in 1925 and since then has been a member of a Madison law firm, two of whose members, Howard Lowry and Gordon Dawson, reserve officers, now are in service.

Beggs long has been active in veteran and fraternal organizations. He was defeated for county judge by Fred M. Evans last spring. general of Wisconsin. Republican candidate for district and with superior court employes, Maloney, married and the fath er of three children, lives at 2726 Martin, a native of Green Bay, attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Notre Dame law school.

He is married his ability to work with all other Chamberlain ave. attorney, is a native of Cashton. Monroe county, but has lived mostly in Madison since 1924, when he entered the University of Wisconsin, from whose law school he was graduated in 1929. Maloney first learned the print JOSEPH II. CONLIN Joseph H.

Conlin, town of Burlington, Racine county, is a Democratic candidate for governor. Conlin is a concert singer who as a youth sang in the choir of St. Patrick's church in Madison and was sent to Italy for further vocal training. and has two children. mg trade his fathers Rusk During the last World war, served as a first lieutenant in county shop.

He passed the slate He then practiced law in Ocon- bar examination after only one State Treasurer ALBERT C. JOHNSON AlbeTt C. Johnson, Windsor farmer who won the Progressive party nomination for state treasurer in 1934, first year of the party's existence, is a candidate for the same post again this year. year in the University of Wiscon- Company 127th Infantry, 32nd Division, and was wounded in in law school, first student to omowoc for two years before returning to Madison. He was aso-ciated in a law firm partnership with John Boesel from 1938 to service overseas.

achieve that distinction. Air Death Toll Mounts to 12 Besides his general law prac Attorney General JAMES A. FITZPATRICK 1939, since then practicing law Assembly (2nd) CLIFFORD O. OLSON Candidate for assemblyman from Dane county's second district on the Progressive ticket, Clifford O. Olson, former treasurer of the village of Monona, is proprietor of the Monona pharmacy and a defense worker nighttimes in the Gisholt Machine Co.

tice, he has been counsel for the privately. State Treasurer JOHN M. SMITH Wisconsin Emergency Relief Ad He is married and the father or James A. Fitzpatrick, 34, attorney, is the Democratic ministration, the Wisconsin Rural four children. He served with the officials.

His appearances in court have won him the acclaim of all judges, and even the persons whom he has had to "send up" have acknowledged his fairness. Best known as "Jack," Arnold served as a jailer and deputy in Dane county, Interrupted that service to become an active over seas soldier in the first World war. Back from the war, Arnold served under the late Chief of Police Thomas Shaughnessy, the first of four chiefs under whom he has worked. From the "beat" at the North Western station, to his service as "the" motorcycle policeman for the whole city to his gradual 23-year rise in the detective bureau, Arnold relentlessly has followed a clean, fair, hard-working trail, spicing it with humaneness and humor. State Treasurer John M.

Smith, Rehabilitation served as ex U. S. naval reserve from 1924 to candidate for attorney general 71, is a Republican candidate for aminer for the state industrial commission, was counsel for 20 Fitzpatrick, who was admitted to 1928. Lee is a member of the Masons, reelection for a third term. the bar at the age of 22, is married Secretqry of State HAROLD C.

SCHULTZ Harold C. Schultz, a Progressive candidate for secretary of state in 1940, is a candidate for state treasurer on the same ticket this year. Schultz, a former legislative employe, is a resident of Wauwatosa. rural electric cooperatives, and He attended the University of Wisconsin for three years. He is Shriners, and the Sons of Norway and has one child.

He formerly was district manager and counsel Smith, who is married and has one duaghter, is a high school graduate who in his early days was was chief counsel for the rural electrification setup in Wisconsin. married and has three children. organizations. He has served as counsel for the Dane County Ex-Madisonian Sees Plane Hit Factory BUFFALO, N. Y.

(U.R) The death toll of a flaming army plane that crashed through the roof of a Curtiss-Wright airplane division plant reached 12 Saturday with for the Home Owners Loan Cor peration at Madison, was a telegraph operator and sta He served the fifth Madison EARL MULLEN ward as alderman for five years, tion agent and later a lumber company bookkeeper before he turned and was on many committees. to banking. Congress Earl Mullen, candidate for assemblyman on the Progressive ticket from the second Dane county district, is chairman of the town of Blooming Grove. He also has Secretary of State JILIt SEYFERT eieht other persons injured on "critical" lists at Buffalo hosDitals He was a bank cashier at Shell Lake from 1901 to 1925, and president of the bank thereafter. He HARRY SAUTIIOFF Coroner EDWARD FISCHER The plane, which caught fire in served as chairman of the Dane Coroner JOHN RIEDER John Rieder, Rt.

4, Madison, who won the Republican nomination for coroner two years ago with a strong vote, is a Republican candidate for the same office in Tuesday's primary. Julius Seyfert, 67, Eagle River, former sheriff of Vilas county, is the Democratic candidate for sec Rep. Harry Sauthoff, 63, Madison, congressman representing the second Wisconsin district, is the had served as president of the Wisconsin Bankers association but county delegation to the Wiscon Edward Fischer, present sheriff, sin conservation congress and has retary of state. never held public office prior to is a Progressive candidate lor coroner, a position he formerly been active in sportsmen's work. Seyfert, a college graduate, is his election in 1938.

Mullen was born in Deerfield, held. married and the father of three Arnold was born in the town of Primrose, and except for his service overseas, has lived here all his life. For five years he has been on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Policemen's Protective and now is its vice-president. Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor, who gets the cases Arnold has has lived in eastern Dane county Now, he is busy with duties in children.

most of his life, is married, and Congress He was the Democratic candi the Dane county defense council, where he is commander of the pro has two daughters. County Clerk Progressive party candidate for reelection to this posti Sauthoff, married and father of one child, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, a former teacher and athletic coach. He has served as district attorney of Dane county, private secretary to the late Gov. John J. Blaine, and is serving his third term in congress.

date for the same office in 1940 Seyfert was secretary of the Wis EDWARD J. SAMP tection division. LARS O. LEIN Edward J. Samp, 53, former Under state law, Fischer is pre Assemblyman Lars O.

Lein, chairman of the Republican state consin State Grange for six years, a high school director for 15 years, and served one term as a town vented from being a candidate for handled, Chief of Police William town of Albion, candidate for re voluntary committee, is a Republi- third consecutive term for ran candidate for congress from the H. McCormick, members of the police and fire commission, and election in the second district on the Progressive ticket, is a veteran chairman. second district. other civic leaders publicly have in the cooperative movement. Samp, married and father of five sheriff.

Last year, because of his duties, he withdrew his application for appointment as superintendent of the Verona county home and asylum. commended him. Congress FRANK M. CLARK Frank M. Clark, 510 W.

Washington Republican candidate for Dane county clerk, is conducting his first campaign for public office. Clark, an auditor, was born in Janesville, educated in Iowa, and for the last 13 years has lived at the W. Washington address. Formerly he worked for telephone companies. He sewed in the navy in the first World war.

He is married and the father of four children, and whose elder son is Capt. Arnold is married and the Republican in the navy, is a graduate of the He organized the Edgerton Farmers' Warehouse Co. before the first World war, and now is manager of the Hillside Coopera father of three children. He lives the air, smashed a 10-foot hole in the plant roof and spread flaming destruction inside the plant. Test Pilot J.

Bertrand Purnell, 34, of Buffalo, said he was forced to "bail-out" of the ship only a few minutes after he had taken it aloft Friday. "The engine caught fire," Purnell said at Meyer Memorial hospital where he was on the "critically sick" list. "I had to The flames kept coming up and hitting me in the face." A former Madison man was working about 150 feet from where the plane crashed, and saw the accident. He was unhurt, and said he thought the plant was being bombed. The man is John Larson, son of the late C.

M. Larson, 211 May-wood Madison. The federal bureau of investigation began an inquiry into the mishap. Kenneth M. Pipep, agent in charge, said today that "the FBI is making an inquiry to determine whether or not there was sabotage involved." The dead were: James E.

Collins, 50: Laverne Volker, 20; Samuel D. Shalala, 42; Martin Till, 38; Lester Glenn, University of Wisconsin a Phi Beta at 1123 Erin st. As sheriff, Fischer has been Kappa, and a member of Wiscon Governor tive creamery, and a director of noted for his wholehearted sup sin's last conference championship THOMAS R. BROOKS Thomas R. Brooks, Watertown, is a Democratic candidate for congress from the second Wisconsin district.

Brooks has been active in Democratic affairs in this district and in the state Democratic organization for several years. JOHN SEYMOUR the Tobacco Exchange bank, and football team, which won the Big port of civil service and other improvements for the department. JULIUS P. HEIL the Farmers Warehouse Co. Ten title in 1912.

John Seymour, 29 N. First Progressive candidate for sheriff, Gov. Julius P. Heil, Republican, He was vice-president and as A veteran of the first World He has been a candidate for state is a candidate for a third term. is a lifelong resident of Madison war, and long active in veterans' sistant sales manager of the Nor them Wisconsin Cooperative To The state's 66-year-old chief He is a member of the Elks lodge groups, Fischer is best known by treasurer on the Republican ticket and for the Republican nomination for U.

S. senator in a six -way race and the United Commercial bacco pool during the first 10 years of that organization. He was his nickname which also is the trademark for his sign- executive, president of a Milwaukee manufacturing firm, was endorsed by the state GOP conven in 1938. Travelers. In 1940, he ran as a sheriff candidate on the Demo born in Albion township May 17, painting shop.

1874. cratic ticket. He was salesman with the Teck- FREDERICK W. LEISSRING Frederick W. Leissring, Wau FOREST E.

MADSEN meyer Candy and later con Assembly (3rd) Forest E. Madsen, village of kesha, is a Republican candidate ducted his own candy jobbing Oregon, better known as "Steve," business. He is married and the ALBERT J. BAKER for congress from the second Wis consin district. tion at Wausau earlier this summer.

Although he purchased new furnishings for the executive mansion in Madison, he and Mrs. Heil have not resided here during his governorship. Their only son, Joseph Heil, has managed his father's business in Milwaukee when the governor was not there. father of four children. He never HENRY C.

LARSON Henry C. Larson, 68, Madison, former head of the butter division in the state dairy and food commission, is a Democratic candidate for congress from the second district. Larson, who was born on a farm near Dodgeville and was in the butter industry for 12 years after finishing high school, also served as secretary of the Wisconsin Butter Makers association for 11 years and in 1923 was elected president of the National Creamery Butter Makers association. Albert J. Baker, Mt.

Horeb farmer and officer of farm organi came into county recognition before his announcement of his candidacy for coroner on the Progres has held public office before. Register of Deeds JACOB LINGARD Jacob Lingard, Mt. Horeb. Republican candidate for register of deeds, has had long experience in the county. He formerly was a bank clerk in Mt.

Horeb, and now is in the real estate business. He was bora and reared on a farm, and although he now lives in Mt. Horeb, he still owns a farm. He is a vice-president of the Mt. Horeb Chamber of Commerce, and was active in preparing for the festival there.

His brother, the late Thomas G. Lingard, was president of the bank, and a former chairman of the Dane county board. zations, who is a Progressive can CHARLES HAWKS, JR. sive ticket. LAWRENCE O.

LARSON Charles Hawks, 43, Horicon, He was a member of the com Since Lawrence O. Larson, representative from the second didate for nomination as assemblyman from the third Dane county district, first was elected to the assembly in 1928, and served on mittee which investigated the Ve former Dane county sheriff, left Wisconsin district in the 76th con the office of sheriff two terms ago, rona county home and asylum. gress, is a Republican candidate for Madsen. a former Oregon athlete, a civil service system has been 32; Salvatore Palmeri, 27; Carlson Rauh, 45; Frank Warda, 46; Joseph Sciolino, 47; Norman Savage, 46, all of Buffalo; Francis Ryan, 25, of the town of Tonawanda, and Paul Chase, 24, of Glens Falls, N. who was rooming in Buffalo.

Plant Manager William Davey said that the accident which occurred about 5:15 p. resulted in practically no labor hours lost election again. established in that office, and the much-criticized fee system has Hawks, who attended public schools and the University of Wisconsin. is married and has two been modernized. Progressive MILTON T.

MURRAY Milton T. Murray, Republican candidate for governor, is a 44-year-old Milwaukee attorney with a long legislative record. Murray, who is married and has four children, attended Milwaukee State Teachers college, Marquette university, and the Univer Whereas, in the old days, the children. is president of Oregon, and a Dnne county board supervisor. He was born on a farm at the edge of Oregon, was graduated from Oregon high school, attended the University of Wisconsin, and for years has owned and operated a grocery store in Oregon.

the finance, taxation, and reorganization committees. The son of a former assemblyman, P. O. Baker, he was born in the town of Primrose Dec. 14, 1874, has been chairman of the town of Springdale, president of the Mt.

Horeb Creamery and served on the school board. He also has served as president of the Mt. Horeb Lutheran broth sheriff could make some $25,000, He has been active in affairs of without any definite checkup, now the American Legion and the Vet in the plant. He said employes reported for work Saturday as Us erans of Foreign Wars. the sheriff receives $4,000 annually, and the fees from serving ual.

Governor ORLAND S. LOOMIS Orland S. Loomis, 49, Mauston attorney, is the Progressive party candidate for governor. Loomis, who attended Ripon col sity of Chicago. He was a teacher and athletic coach for 10 years, and papers go to the county.

ARTHUR L. MAY Larson, a Progressive, was Fall Flowers Gc Arthur L. May, attorney in Madi erhood. sheriff before Edward Fischer son for the last 10 years, is a Republican candidate for congress who elevated from the coroner on Display Here lege and the University of Wisconsin, is married and has three County Treasurer OTTO F. LEIDEL Otto F.

Leidel, a special investigator, and former Dane county candidate for coroner, will be a write-in candidate for county treasurer. Leidel formerly was investigator for a legislative committee which studied state institutions. He has been an active worker in Community Union campaigns. post. Larson formerly had been Republican from the second district.

has been active in the American Legion. He has been a member of the state legislature for the last 12 years, serving five consecutive terms as assemblyman and then resigning to run for state senator. He was elected to fill the vacancy undersheriff and chief deputy. He children. May, graduate of the University in Franklin School Dahlias and fall flowers of manv He served as attorney general of is married and lives at 1011 Rut-ledge st.

A son went into army Sheriff Wisconsin under the last admin of Wisconsin, is married and was chief clerk of the assembly in the last Wisconsin legislature. hues went on display in Franklin service. istration of Gov. Philip F. LaFol Police reporters have described school Saturday at the flower show sponsored by the South Side Men's club and the South Central Wis EINAR J.

HESS Einar J. Hess, candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket, Larson as an official more interest He has been active in Republican fiairs in Dane cohnty and in the caused by the death of the late Sen. Oscar Morris in 1939, and was reelected in 1940. Countv Clerk AUSTIN N. JOHNSON County Clerk Austin N.

Johnson, seeking reelection on the Progressive ticket, is one of the best known officials in the county. Served as county clerk from 1925 to 1926, and from 1935 on. Johnson, who lives at 4147 Iroquois is married and has three sons, one of whom, Richard is in service in Hawaii. The veteran county clerk himself served 18 months overseas in the first World war. He attended business college and the University of Wisconsin.

lette. Prior to that, Loomis was an assemblyman, state senator, and director of the state Rural ed in fee collection than in the criminal work. Larson admittedly state Republican organization. has been a resident of Madison consin Dahlia society. The exhibits Electrification Administration.

will be open to the public from DR. J. K. ROBINSON turned the criminal work over to assistants, none of whom had necessary training or support in crim Socialist 10 a. m.

to 10 p. m. today. More than 200 ribbons were awarded for Dr. James K.

Robinson, 58, a inal detection. dahlia, gladiolus, zinnia, aster, chrysanthemum, and other entries. Milwaukee dentist born in the U. S. lighthouse at Manistee, one of 10 children of the lighthouse keeper, is a Republican WAYNE FISHER MYRTLE MEYERS Myrtle Meyers, 1910 Vilas Republican candidate for Dane county treasurer, has had long experience as secretary, bookkeeper, and treasurer.

She was born in Chicago and was educated in Oak Park, I1L, and Wheaton schools, and Madison College. Her husband, Harold K. Meyers, and she have lived at the present address for 17 years. She has been active in club work. SOLDIER ENDS FURLOUGH Wayne Fisher, Blooming Grove, candidate for governor.

POTOSI Corp. Oliver Ames, perennial partaker of a public for 22 years, is 47 years old, married, and has one daughter. Hess has been active in Boy Scout work for the last 10 years, in charge of Madison's widely known and widely traveled Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, and is now a council commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. This activity, he points out, is the most valuable kind of crime prevention work, keeping young boys from "getting off on the wrong foot." He also has been active in affairs of the Disabled American Veterans. A graduate of the University of having completed a furlough spent payroll, now drawing the taxpay Michigan, he is married and has with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Ames at their farm home, ers money as coroner, is a Pro gressive candidate for sheriff. Potosi, has returned to camp in Wayne Fisher rode into office Governor FRANK P. ZEIDLER Frank P. Zeidler, 29, former Milwaukee county surveyor and present Milwaukee school board member, is the Socialist candidate for governor.

Zeidler, who is married and has two children, is a brother of Milwaukee's Mayor Carl Zeidler. He was the Socialist candidate for state treasurer in 1940. He attended both high school and college in Milwaukee and has been active as Socialist party Louisiana. Lieutenant Governor PHILIP E. NELSON Philip E.

Nelson, 49, state senator representing Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, and Washburn counties, is a Progressive candidate for lieutenant governor. A farmer at Maple, Douglas county, Nelson has served in the legislature since 1927. For 12 years he was a member of the Douglas county board. Nelson served with the A. E.

F. in the last World war. He attended Colby high school and later was graduated from business college at Oshkosh. He has been employed as a cost accountant in automobile manufacturing in Michigan, and has operated cheese factories and a general tore in Wisconsin. not on the strength of his own name, but because voters confused years.

He was a candidate for as four children. Robinson is a former secretary of the Progressive party of Milwaukee. He broke with the Progressives in 1936, joined the Republican forces, and polled votes as a candidate against Gov. Julius P. Heil in the 1940 primaries.

it with that of the better-known semblyman also. and more popular Edward Fischer, Two terms ago, he succeeded Secretary of State Fischer, present sheriff, who now Register of Deeds ALBERT O. BARTON One of the best informed men on Dane county history is Albert O. Barton, Dane county register of deeds, who is a candidate for reelection on the Progressive ticket. A well-known Madison newspaperman and writer.

Barton formerly was city editor of The Wisconsin State journal. Barton first was elected to the register of deeds office in 1934, and has been reelected three times. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and was a member of the Dane county board for 10 years. is candidate for coroner once Assembly (1st) GROVER H. LIPPERT An architect and draftsman, Grover H.

Lippert, 621 E. Johnson is a candidate on the Republican ticket for member of the assembly from the first district. He long has been active in Dane county Republican work, and is secretary of the county JOHN O. VAN IIAZINGA again. Under state law.

Sheriff TED C. AMOTH Ted C. Amoth, Republican candidate for sheriff, is a resident of Madison's East Side, at 317 Amoth active in the East Side Business Men's and a store equipment salesman. John O. Van Hazinga, Kenosha, Fischer cannot serve another con secutive term.

the Socialist candidate for secre tary of state, probably is the youngest candidate for state of Lieutenant Governor WALTER S. GOODLAND Lieut. Gov. Walter S. Goodland, 80, Franksville, is a Republican candidate seeking reelection for a third term.

Except for the the present coroner's name is the same as the present sheriff's. Many voters failed to notice that difference in fice in Wisconsin this year. He is State Treasurer GEORGE A. NELSON 27 years old. Van Hazinga is high school graduate, a printer by George A.

Nelson, Milltown spelling. occupation, and is married. farmer and former Socialist candi Wayne Fisher is a former chair JOSEPH G. MARTIN Joseph G. Martin, 417 N.

Seventh proprietor of the Club Miami, is a Dane county Republican candidate for sheriff. Martin has been active in civic affairs, especially as a member of Goodland, former Racine newspaper editor, was a state senator date for governor, is that party's Assembly (3rd) OTTO BURMEISTER Otto Burmeister, former Dane county HENRY J. BERQUIST Assemblyman Henry J. Ber-quist. 37, Rhinelander, representing Florence, Forest, and Oneida counties, in the legislature, is a Progressive candidate for lieutenant governor.

Berquist, serving his third term man of the town of Blooming Grove and a former member of candidate for state treasurer. Nel Middleton, for eight years prior to his election Attorney General ANNA MAE DAVIS son, a leader in cooperative move supervisor as lieutenant governor in 1939, the East Side Business Men's assn. and justice of the peace in Middle and an outstanding Republican ments, is a veteran Socialist work er. Clerk of Court MYRTLE L. HANSEN Myrtle Hansen, clerk of Dane county circuit court, seeking reelection on the Progressive ticket, defeated Mrs.

Marie Ander He was a director in that organ ton, is now a candidate for as leader. in the assembly, has been active Anna Mae Davis, 46, Madison woman attorney who resides in suburban Shorewood Hills, is the Socialist candidate for attorney in forestry, pension, and conserva He now resides on and manages his farm near Racine. He is married and has four children. tion matters in the legislature. Lieutenant Governor ARTHUR C.

OCHSNER ization, served as president, and was a committee member for the group's fall festival. He also is a member of the Elks lodge and active in the Dane county conservation league. He is 42, married. He has been a labor foreman, fur farmer, and truck gardener. He general.

She is married and has one son, was national organizer and vice- son, clerk, for the Progressive nomination in 1936 while serving as deputy clerk. Miss Hansen has served as secretary of the Wis Mrs. Davis practiced law for 10 Arthur Ochsner, 58, farmer who works a 500-acre farm near the Dane county board. In both his town and on the county board, Fisher, once a socialist, has been belligerent, sometimes bullying. Of all county candidates, The Wisconsin State Journal more urgently recommends his defeat.

District Attorney NORRIS E. MALONEY In work and words, the one word which best fits Dist. Atty. Norris E. Maloney, Progressive candidate for reelection, is "aggressive." Since he first took office four years ago, MeAoney has been ag- years before she came to Wiscon president of the American Fur Growers association and cartoonist Plain, is the Socialist candidate for sin to do graduate work in econom semblyman from the third district of the county on the Republican ticket.

Burmeister has run for sheriff, and was a candidate for trustee of the Dane county home and asylum at Verona. Ten years ago, Burmeister, his son, and brother-in-law, met defeat in Middleton elections, a defeat attributed to a controversy over an alleged Middleton "speed trap," exposed by Harold E. McClelland, State Journal motor editor. consin Assn. of Clerks of Court.

for its monthly magazine. lieutenant governor. ics and obtained a Ph. D. degree CHARLES WESLEY Charles I.

Wesley, 49, Milwaukee industrialist, is a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Wesley, who is married and hag three children, has, held no previous public office. He was educated as a school Ochsner is married and has four from the University of Wisconsin children. He attended high school Secretary of State JOHN H. KAISER County Treasurer CLARENCE L.

FEMRITE HENRY A. GERRY Henry A. Gerry, 39, Rt. McFarland, Republican candidate for sheriff, has been a member of the Dane county highway police force for eight years. Before that he was employed with the Dane coun- for two years and took an agricul tural short course.

For 10 years she was associated with Prof. John R. Commons in work on labor law and theory and in 1932 went to London on a re John H. Kaiser, 67, mayor of He has served as school direc County Treas. Clarence L.

was elected in 1928 to the of- tor and as town chairman to seven Tbtt Washington, is the Progres- teacher, but now serves as presi- search fellowship..

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