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100th Year MADISON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938 16 PAGES Ihe Wisconsin a i im Holt Taxes 'She Loved Small Town Life Slashed, Ordered Paid ''Three Below in Madison Kid Cold Aims Second Punch Death Claims Zona Gale Wisconsin Writer, Civic Lfeader Release of funds held in es- crow for income taxes claims on Edgar C. Holt, former B. C. Buck-man and co. official, and remittance of $42.41 to the state tax 1 commission to pay Holt's delin- i quent income taxes in full, was Kid Cold cocked his fist today for a socoit.l punch at a na alreadv rlinsr from his first wintry blow.

'II ICAtiO Zona fiale Rreese, 64, novelist, playwright, ecturer, essavist, former I'niversifv of Wisconsin regent and States lodav Lowest temperatures reported in the 1 nited Wausau and also at Hemhlji, ordered today by Circuit Judge A. G. Hoppmann. rAv A reaudit, following Holt's pro- were 20 degree below zero at Minn. But freezing: tempera-j tures were recorded as far Home Given to Portage League Pulitzer prize winner, noted for her portrayals of midwestern small town life, died of pneumonia Wednesday night in Passa-vant hospital.

She came to Chicago 35 days ago from her home in Portage, for treatment of another, less serious ailment. Pneumonia developed a week ago Monday and she was taken to the hospital. Tl I SOAT Nnn 1 p. 2 p. 3 p.

I p. p. p. 3 4 9 1" 1 I li She had been receiving oxygen since last Wednesday. She died 10 minutes after she had -i -i 0 .1 I 12 1 1 It test, showed a wide variance in figures and brought the taxes owed from $1,707.62 to $42.41.

The surprisingly large reduction in taxes is due, Ragatz explained today, to allowance made too Holt in the reaudit for loss taken in his holdings of Buckman stock. The I loss was not figured into the first audit. I lloppmann's order was directed in II p. m. p.

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midnight talked with her husband, Wil ray liam h. Rreese, wealthy Port south as San Antonio, and throughout Alabama. In Madison snow and "not so Late Cloving Tablr an Page 5, Cel. 1. cold weather" were predicted for today and tonight after the first zero period of winter.

The mercury fell to a low of three below this morning before cloudiness preceded by light snow halted the downward trend. Lake Mendota froze over during the night, nine days later than its sister. Monona, which closed on Pec. 19. While clouds developed in Madi nnon p.

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ase hosierv manufacturer and banker. Funeral services, originally east of the Rocky entire nation planned for 4 p. m. Thursday at the Breese residence, have been changed to Friday at 2:30 p. m.

in the Portage Presbyterian church. Dr Glenn Frank, former president of the University of Wisconsin, will preside, assisted by the Rev. John M. Van Burger, pastor of the (nil nIlDiDP ce' 1 n3xmi Ely a Jv r. of) to the Bank of Madison, in the action of the state of Wisconsin against Holt to collect the taxes.

Holt's back taxes were' reduced drastically by a reaudit made by W. L. Ragatz, Dane county assessor of incomes, the order disclosed. On Dec. 18, 1937, the commission issued a delinquent tax warrant to Ragatz, showing $440.06 back taxes owed by Holt.

A second warrant, for $1,267.56, issued on Dec. 20, 1937. brought the total to The warrants also prevented Holt from selling property, but later were modified to permit sale of certain items, proceeds of which were deposited in escrow in the bank to take care of the delinquent taxes. mountains. Fringe of the new wave reached Montana and Lloyd said by Thursday night it would blanket the plains states and the Missouri valley.

Temperatures in the central states crept upward from zero and the cold reached the Atlantic sea-1 a where thermometers dropped to 20 above zero. The cold lost some of its severity as it moved eastward and reported minimum temperatures at 20 degrees along the Maine coast and at New York and at 22 degrees for Boston. The second cold wave will be less extensive and promises to bring zero temperatures only to the Missouri valley and plains states but will send thermometers to lower levels east of the Missis First Presbyterian church of Portage. Interment will be in Silver Lake cemetery. Her career as an author began when, at the age of seven, she "published" her first works of fiction and poetry, which she illustrated herself.

Since then she had writen more than 25 novels, plays, books of essays and short stories. Her last book, published in July, was "Frank Miller of Mission Inn," a biography. Two Daughters Survive Zona Cale and two views of her home on the Wisconsin river which she formally presented, on Sepl. 1932, lo the women of Portage as a clubhouse for the Women's Civic league. Here, in the house where she wrote most of her hooks, plays and verses, women of all organizations, residents of all Wards in Portage, meet regularly.

The. civic leag tie, which started with 500 members, has maintained a hostess and provides departments for study of art, literature, history, drama, music, philosophy and other subjects. son at about 3 a. m. to cnecK tne cold, clear skies permitted a con-j tmued drop in the northern part of the state.

Park Falls reported IB below zero. i Today's snow and that expected 1 tonight developed out of a trough! of low pressure, which centered in the Pacific ocean Tuesday and extended suddenly in front of the cold air mass, Eric R. Miller, government meteorologist, The probability is that a new low center in western Nebraska will develop a whirl of snow that 1 may be followed strong winds1 and colder weather, he said. The barometer was still high in the far northwest and cold air probably will bear down from that quarter before the end of the week. Miller expected.

The mercury dropped 10 degrees at Edmonton, to 44 below zero early today. Dawson, in the Klondike, reported 52 below and Mayo Landing, a few hundred miles south. 58 below. U. S.

Weather Forecaster J. R. Lloyd. Chicago, warned that a iieennd cold wave was sweeping down from the Arctic circle while the first wave gripped almost the ZONA GALE A camera study ttf Miss Cale snapped during the heat' ings that preceded the remoV' al of Clenn Frank as presi' dent of the University of Wisconsin. Miss Cale defended Frank and criticized Gov.

La Follelte for engineering the ouster by the regents. "Miss Lulu Bett," which in dramatized form won her the coveted Pulitzer prize in 1921, as best presenting the -potential value of the stage in raising standards of good morals, taste and manners. Her "Friendship Village" characters were small town people, and the reading public assumed that the locale in which she placed them, was Portage, her birthplace and lifetime home, but this she always protested was not true that the "Friendship Village" she pictured was not any specific place she ever knew but typical of any fsmall community. Gives Home to League Mrs. Breese was born in Port -a Friendship Village' (An Excerpt) The News Index They Say Today: She loved small town life and devoted much of her time to attempting to prove that the middle western villages were ideal locations for creative artists to live and write.

Many of her characters were drawn from her friendships sippi river. A considerable fall in tempera- tures was reported in northern Florida. Jacksonville recorded 34 degrees above zero and Tampa 40 above. Miami reported SS above but faces colder weather. At least three deaths were at- tribnted to the cold wave.

Two aged men died from heart attacks after trying to walk against a 66-i mile per hour wind at Buffalo. N. and a young factory worker i i fro7e to death in an alley at in Portage. Besides her husband she leaves two adopted daughters. Mrs.

Cecil Bennett and Leslyn Breese, 12, both of Portage. Long recognized in the political and civic, as well as literary life of Wisconsin, Mrs. Breese, more generally remembered to the I Munrie, Ind day of her death as Zona Gale, was known to the nation and world as one of America's leading authors. By ZONA GALE We are one Ions street, rambling from sun to sun. inheriting traits of Ihe parent country road which we unite.

And we are cross streets, members of the same family, properly imitative, proving our ancestorship in a primeval genius for trees, or bursting out in inexplicable weaknesses of court bouse, engine bouse, town hall, and telephone office. I'ltimately our stock dwindled out fn a slaughter house and a few detached houses of milk men. The cemetery is delicately put behind them, under a hill. There is nothing medieval in all this, one would say. Hut then see how we wear our rue 'When one of us telephones, she will scrupulously ask for the number, for it says so at the top of every page, '(ive tne 1-1," she will put it, with an impersonality as fine ns if she were calling for four figures.

And Central will answer "Well, 1 just saw Mis' llolcoinb go Yro.st the street. I'll call you, if you want, when she comes back." Or. "I don't think you better ring the Helmans just now. They were awake all night with one o' Mis' Jlelman's attacks." Or. "Doctor I line's invited lo Mi.s' Syke's for tea.

Shall 1 give him to you there?" list of the world's 100 best works of fiction." But Milton .1. Ferguson might rhange his mind in the next 10 years. Page 8. On The Inside: Little TVA' Looms in Nebraska (Story on Page 1. Part 2) Dairy Group Starts Advertising Drive (Story on Page 2, Column 6) Medical Profession Blamed for Syphilis (Story on Tage 5, Column "3) U.

W. Perfects New Vitamin Machine (Story on Page 14, Column 8) age Aug. 26, 1874, the daughter of Charles Franklin and Eliza Beers Gage, and lived with them in a beautiful home on the banks of the Wisconsin river which she gave, several years ago, to the Portage Women's Civic league as a clubhouse. Ilef literary leanings became eivdent as a student at the Uni The Miracle Man' Saved Again Death Reaches4 Out But Johnny Lives On "I remember one year when it not down to 60 below. .1 bought earmuffs then." It's 37 degrees below lero at War-road.

but. says Mayor Claude Levins, it's "nothin to get exlcited about." Page 5. "I have absolute faith that each and every one of the 21 American republics will be faithful. will strive to carry out the broad program that has been proclaimed." In the western hemisphere. Sec.

Hull points out, we can rely on "declarations" and not "treaties." Page 5. 'A new Injunction has been laid upon the spirit of man to know and understand ever more broadly and deeply." Dr. George D. Birkhoff sees intuition, reason, and faith as the basis forthe expansion of man's knowledge. Page 3.

"On the city life is a good phase of society." It is much bettei, thinks Dr. Abraham Myerson, than the rural village that "fosters stupidity and intolerance." Tage 14. "I found 'Gone With the Wind' a most readable work, and perhaps right, now I would give It a place on my She always wrote under her maiden name. Hated Typewriters While she held pronounced and fearless views in regard to war, liquor and other evils, her writings in novels, essays, verse, and drama consistently turned upon the kindly side of human nature. Most famous, probably, of all the works from her prolific pen (she hated typewriters were, her "Friendship Village" series and versity of Wisconsin, from which she was graduated in 1895.

Evidently her spark of genius was not recognized at once in her undergraduate days, because the then infant University of Wisconsin Press club "blackballed" her first application for membership. She was, admitted, however, upon her Offsets 'Fanatic Zeal of Foreign Powers9 By ARNOLD SERWER Death reached out once more frr little Johnny Battin. this time into a hole in the ice of Lake Mendota, but his mother and a playmate stood between and Death again lost Johnny. Four-year-old Johnny was res-cud Saturday from the freezing waters off Merrill Springs by his rother. Mrs.

Howard Battin, became his five-year-old playmate. Audrey Rasmussen, "his good friend." quickly summoned aid. When the lad plunged through the ic in his heavy overshoes, l-ito deep water over his head, Dah came near, forgetting how FIRST SECTION Wthr r(tr FriHorinl rf sill rat Horn I'air 1 Se rif ly Ir SECOND SECTION Rrrmrla i'Agr 0 Radio 111 Mort Tuff 1 1 nd I nmira 1.1 MarkrU II ('laaairirol Ada r(r II U. S. Starts Plan to Train 20,000 Youths Annually as Expert Pilots WASHINGTON (U.R) President Koosevelt set in motion todav a broad plan to double the arm and pull him out.

i The excited little girl yelled lustily for help, then turned and ran to the nearest house on shore. She pounded on the door until nation's civilian manpower available for wartime air service. The president and the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced a the government expects to train annually 20,000 youths, between the under which IS ami to progra ages of cften before Johnny had slipped tnrough his fingers. Johnnv slipped away Uv first I Sletteland Posts Bond, Awaits Trial be competent pilots. A $100, lr 11 000 allotment of National Youth Administration funds has been set a.side to begin the project shortly after Jan.

1. 'Good Will' Naval Cruise to Circle South America time, when he was born in New York hospital. New York City, a seven-month baby weighing just two pounds. He was the smallest infant ever born in the hospital, and when hje pulled through after tnree months in the incubator, doctors called him "The Miracle Man." What a Life! Mrs. R.

J. Malone came to find the cause of the din. Mrs. Malone and Audrey ran up the hill to the Rasmussen's home and from there word was sent to Mrs. Battin of her son's plight, and the police were summoned.

"Freej.es" for 15 Minutes Hurrying down the hill the two women were overtaken by Mrs. Battm. She ran past them and in a minute was on the lake shore. Kicking off her high heeled shoes, she walked out on the ice. Twenty feet from Johnny she lay down it al our-year-old Johnny Hat-tin is hi eathlcss as he pause-s in his count of his escape fiorn death in Mendota' icy Waters, lit plunged thiough the nf hut was saved when his playmate, Audrey lias-musen, 5, summoned aid.

7 he boy's mother rescued him. Atty. Perry A. Sletteland, Madison, charged with perjury glowing out of a federal securities find exchange commission investigation. Tuesday furnished $5,000 bond pending trial of Ins case before the federal court in Chicago.

Slettlelaud was indicted Nov. 21 and federal authorities forwarded the warrant to Madison to the attorney to post bond here instead of going to Chicago. 1 Dammann to Help Manage Milwaukee Hotel i on the ice mat, naa lauen 10 dpi WASHINGTON (U.R) The Navy department said today it plans to send a division of cruisers on a "good will" trip to South America in spring. Naval officials said details of the proposed cruise were not available but it was understood division No. 7, With the exception of the Vincennes, probably will make the trip.

Other ships in this division are The San Francisco, the Tuscaloosa, and the Quincy. It was said that the Vincennes' overhaul schedule probably would prevent her participation. West coast reports said the At four months, weighing just pounds. "The Miracle Man" was operated on for hernia, and 1 ved. At six months he contracted pneumonia, but lived.

At nine months he got chicken pox. He recovered, and was doing allnght. until he was 14 months eld, when he made another of his many trips to New York hospital, this time to have his tonsils and adenoids out. He came through that one, still "The Miracle The blond, blue-eyed little fellow, now 46 pounds of concentrated agility and curiosity, went scrambling down the hill below his home Saturday, to meet his equally blonde and blue-eyed playmate, Audrey Rasmussen, whom he calls his "good friend." Audrey Runs for Help They went out over the snow covered ice of Lake Mendota, about 150 feet, when suddenly Johnny broke through and plummeted into the icy water. He bobbed up gasping, struggling for breath and swimming the way he learned to do this summer.

"I tried to grab hold of the ice." he said Tuesday, telling the story Rosenberry to Seek Reelection the weight of the 45-pound boy, and slid toward him. She pulled him out, and slid back, dragging the boy with her. Johnny was rushed home and treated. "The Miracle Man" had been in freezing water for 15 minutes, but was living. Who's the Hero? Mrs.

Malone recalled that after The announcement preceded by I a few days the president's budget message in which he is expected to ask congress for funds to triple I military uir and bring the Combined total ot army and navy fighting units to around 12,000 planes. The CCA stated frankly that the training move is an effort to build up a reserve of men capable of defending the United States against "the vast aerial militarization programs now being pressed with fanatic zeal by foreign powers." Portions of the program beginning within the next few months were described as "tests" for the first full-scale, one-year enterprise to start later and to cost approximately $9,800,000 in one year. Training will be given in colleges and universities throughout the country. The first tests will be conducted in the University of Alabama, Purdue university, University of Minnesota, University of Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A. and and Georgia School of Technology.

CAA officials estimated the Secretary of State Theodore Dammann, defeated for reelection, will become assistant manager of the Republican hotel in Milwaukee on Jan. 3 when he retires from the state department. Dammann, veteran secretary of state, joined the Progressive party when the LaFollettes organized it in 1934. He was the Progressives party's best vote getter until November when Fred R. Zimmerman, former secretary of state, defeated him.

The Republican hotel which the Progressive will work for as assistant manager, was so named by Andrew Clybourn, the proprietor, after the Republican party was founded at Ripon, in 18S4. Charles F. Karrow, manager of the hotel, will continue in that Audrey summoned her, she kept it kept breaking off.I i stay with back and I'll go kept swimming." Audrey tried to reach the boy a WILLIAM L. BREESE Miss Cole's widower; a hanker and manufacturer at Portage. atiorf, she worked for a time as a reporter on Milwaukee newspapers, then went to the New York World, where she became particularly successful as an interviewer.

Leaves Reporting One of her assignments was a series of interviews with successful men on "how a lady should invest $100." She found them all serious and cooperative until she encountered Daniel Frohman, the producer, who counseled her to "advise the ladies to invest their $100 in a trousseau." And her experiences of the period included a visit to an aged washerwoman who had lived her lifetime in a tenement near the Battery and had never seen a railroad train or any of the modern wonders "uptown." Miss Gale delighted the old woman by taking a day off and piloting her, in a cab, over the city. She found that daily work as a reporter, however, left her too little time for other writing, and so, in 1902, at the age of 28, Miss Gale became a free lance contributor to magazines and newspapers. Johnny. I'll save him." Mrs. Battin, wife of the supervising architect on the Memorial Union's new wing, said all credit went to Audrey.

Mrs. Malone plans called for the cruise to begin in April and for the ships to sail down the east side of South America, around the Cape and back up the west side. Naval officials said that the question of what ports would be touched was "still in the study stage," and could not be revealed. grams now being pressed with fanatic zeal by foreign powers unless it is to emulate their warlike preparations." the authority said. Chief Justice Marvin B.

Rosen-berry formally announced today that he will seek reelection to his present post in the April 4 election. In announcing that his nomination papers would he placed in circulation shorlly, Chief Justice Rosenberry said: "The nature of my official duties is such that I must depend I Mrs. Battin saved Johnny. Mrs. Rasmussen thought another thing Johnny could be thankful for was that he had learned to swim.

But "The Miracle Man" who got away from Death again, didn't bother much with that angle of upon the support both for nomination and election of thei present number of licensed civilian all pilot- at 20,000, not including mili those voters who feel that my record on the supreme court entitles me lo continue in the service of the state." tary fliers. In addition, about 30,000 were enrolled as student pilots this year, but only 20 per cent of these are expected to complete courses ot instruction and become licensed pilots. War and navy department officials refused to disclose the num A New-Fancied Phone Booth' 'Curse of Civilization9 Lifted by Madison Man it. Hopping around in a lively way that made it plain he fully was recovered, his onlv comment was: "I don't like ice." A not her of the curses of modern civilization has been .1 Harold Johnson May Seek Maloney's removed by Howard F. Weiss, president of Research Prod- Rosenberry began the practice of law at Wausau in 1893 after his graduation from the University of Michigan.

He was appointed to the supreme court in 1916 by Gov. Km.unicl L. Philipp. Two yenrs later he was elected fo- the balance of the unexpired term of Justice John Barnes, whom he succeeded. He was elected again for a full 10-year term in 1919 and again in 1929.

Death of Chief Justice Aad M. Vinje in 1929 made Rosenberry City Council Seat ber of flying officers their rolls, hut unofficial estimates place the number at a maximum of The authority said the program is designed to meet "the aeronautical crisis" now facing the country and will create a reservoir of civilian airmen "surpassing anything of the sort ever before con- nets corp. He has designed and telephone boot-h in which has been granted a patent for a a person can talk in privaev and htill not smother to death. ror the first nine years after her graduation from the university she wrote and submitted to publishers scores of stories, and received many rejection slips before she became a recognized contributor. 'Romance Island' First Her subsequent novels in most cases were compilations of short stories which had appeared in the magazines.

The first was "Romance Island." published in 190fi. In 1907 followed "The Loves of Harold A. Johnson, 911 W. Johnson may seek the seat of Aid. Morris E.

Maloney, fifth ward, who will resign at the common council meeting Thursday. Maloney. will become district attorney the ranking member of the touI-1 ceived in the world." "Only by such a approach. it is The new booth, being made by the Burgess Battery has none of those jointed doors that, either imprison the would-be or suffocate him once they are closed. It is made without any doors at all.

A special sound-absorbing lining deadens all outside noises and doe not permit the phone conversation to be heard outside. Audrey has a tale to tell too, of little loh nny mishap and Monday. is bead pharma- vacancy Maloney's term Mrs. hmr she tried to save him. and then went for help.

Her mother, Albert Rasmussen, listens attentively. expires i bel icved. can the United States will be adequately safeguard itself against i the vast aeril militarization pro cist at the Quisling clinic. It is be- in April and his successor lieed the council will not fill the i elected at that time..