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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 3

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WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL SECTION 1, PAGE; 3 Madison Wisconsin muoy, April 7, 1950 by officers as one of the largest names. Police said vagrancy and narcotics law violation warrants would be sought against the two. Kropf Promoted -by Parks College. Boys Cash Grandma's Bonds, Get Jail Term KENOSHA (Jft Two 19- dope peddlers in the city. Also seized were notebooks containing Ends Phone Rate Hearing year old youths were sent to the Green Bay reformatory Thursday for forging and cashing $1,800 worth of government bonds owned by the grandmother of one of them.

Carrier Readied for Sub Work nil FOR EASTER Four- yeai terms were pro Anti-Cold Drug Freed of Blame lamp" nounced on John A. Jacob and Clifford Cleveland, both of Kenosha, bv Municipal Judge Ed PSC Winds Up 13-Day Debate $5,683,000 Request Brings Hot Battle ward J. Ruetz: The bondo belonged to Cleve land's grandmother. Milwaukee Raiders Hydrangeas Hyacinths Azaleas Lilies Ramblers Tulips Jury Rules Bride Died 'Naturally' Seize 2 Men, Narcotics MILWAUKEE (P) Police raiders nabbed two men and a quantity of narcotics Thursday afternoon in a 6th ward building. The raiders had to batter down CHICAGO U.R) A coroner's jury ruled Thursday in a case watched closely by medical circles that a young bride believed to have swallowed an overdose of anti-histamine cold tablets died of two doors to get to the rooms in a third floor attic.

One of the men was described jnatural causes. V. vi The iurv found that Mrs. Mar- EUGENE S. KROPF The Wisconsin Telephone Co.s bid for a $5,633 ear increase in phone rates ground to a close late Thursday after running for almost 13 days before the state Public Service Commission (PSC).

Attorneys for the phone company, the Municipalities Defense committee which is fighting the raise, and individual city attorneys who have interceded in an effort to "hold the line" on rates, appeared visibly relieved. Argued Conclusions The closing hours were spent by Atty. Francis J. Hart, Wisconsin Telephone Co. counsel, in a final try at undermining the earnings and rate-making conclusions in Covington.

28. Detroit, who in her honeymoon hotel room nere lasi Jan. sunerea "acute i heart failure accompanied by puru- Potted Plants Corsages Cut Flowers Home Gardens, Inc. Store and Greenhouse 1044 S. Park St.

We Deliver--Call 5-6613 University of Illinois toxicologist, ing the city to attend Parks college in 1939. His new work will include student recruiting, establishment of field contacts with students and graduates. and acting as corresponding secretary and treasurer of the Parks alumni assn. Author of "Airline Traffic Procedures," a textbook in use in more than 10 universities, Kropf is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Rotary International, Alpha Eta Rho, Alpha Pi Sigma, and the University Aviation assn. said that a chemical and biologi Eugene S.

Kropf, former Madison resident, recently was appointed assistant to the dean of Parks College of Aero-nutical Technology, St Louis university. East StrTxmis, 111., school officials announced Thursday afternoon. From 1930 to 1938, Kropf was employed in the purchasing: department of the Commonwealth Telephone Madison, and for several years was president of the Madison Tent and Awning Co. before leav- cal analysis of the body showed no trace of anti-histamine poison troduced by PSC staff experts. He hammered particularly at i ing.

The case had attracted wide spread attention and James W. Skipper, of the food and drug ad ministration here, attended the inquest as an observer. Mrs. Covington's death had Philadelphia navy yard workmen recondition a Jattery of 40-rnm anti-aircraft guns, more commonly called "pom-poms," on a turret of the navy aircraft carrier Bataan which is being pulled out of mothballs for anti-submarine duty with the Pacific fleet. The carrier, of famed Task Force 58 in World War II, is expected to be ready for reactivation by June 5.

(AP Wirephoto) stirred a dispute over whether the administration was justified in ap proving sale of the cold tablets 000000 0000H00000n00000n00000H00000003000ii without a doctor's prescription. At an earlier session of the in ED. SCHMITZ SONS quest, Dr. Thomas A. Carter of Farmers to Plant the coroner's office testified that he found an empty 15-tablet bot V.

Less Corn Wheat, 7 tle of cold pills in the victim's hotel room, and a 25-tablet bottle with eight pills missing. But More Oats, Hay the earlier testimony of George P. Steinmetz. chief PSC engineer. Steinmetz had said he felt that toll service should have twice as much "weight" in rate-making as does local exchange service.

Present formulas, drawn up three years ago by a committee of state and federal regulatory agencies, call for exchange and toll service to be considered on an even footing. Recalls Earlier Decision Hart said that the 1947 committee rejected theories along the lines advocated by Steinmetz. He said Stcinmeti cost basis would "shift- some of. the rate burden to toll service, and Stein-nets agreed. Regardless of who is to pay the bill, PSC experts and the company are close to $5,000,000 apart on their, estimates of what the company needs for a "fair return." A.

R. Colbert, chief of the PSC finance and accounts section, testified last week that 5 25 per cent would be a fair profit for the company. Wants 7 Per Cent The company is seeking close to Mrs. Covington's husband testi fied that his bride had taken some Wisconsin farmers probably will of the pills. plant less corn and spring wheat but will sow more acres in oats.

Bishops, Priests to Honor Former Dane County Man A native of prlngfield Corners, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter Pape. rector of St.

Joseph's cathedral. La Crosse, will be honored by hundreds of bishops and fellow priests at -the cathedral Tuesday. Mszr. Pape's brother, Ferdinand, 82. still lives at Springfield Corners near Madison.

A sister, Mrs. Oscar Hegerich, resides in Madison. Sixtieth Year The 84-year-old dean of the La barley, soybeans, and hay this spring. That's the opinion of Walter Eblinjr, federal-state agricultural statistician and others in the crop Jji reporting service. Ebling said Thursday that about 2.516.000 acres of corn are ex pected to be planted.

This would FOLDING COACH Get the extra "bonus" value in UDevmisMre '5 "DDescrl Tome" be about 105,000 acres or 4 per cent less than was sown last year. A decrease of 3 per cent from 1949 in the spring wheat planting Crosse diocesan clergy will observe his 60th anniversary of ordination to the priethood June 22. The celebration of the ordination 7 per cent in its current application. It was allowed 5.5 per cent in a PSC rate increase order last is expected. The oat acreage may be I per July, but costs have gone up since will be held Tuesday" because of cent larger, with about 3,060,000 the departure 29 of Bishop John P.

Treacy of La Crosse on the acres being planted to that crop. If the winter kill has not been serious, the state will" have acres of hay this yeaV, an increase of about 3 per cent over the Pis pssiiiiir'iiK Vr4 "ifV 'J 1 i.l'J. then. Colbert figured that an increase of about $1,000,000 a year would give the company the earning rale he quoted. Most of it, other PSC staff men said, would come from intrastate toll call rate Increases: only or less would need to come in exchange rate hikes.

1949 acreage but slightly below the diocesan Holy Year pilgrimage. Among the area priests who wjll aid in the celebration of a 10:30 a. m. solemn high mass in the cathedral is the Rev. Robert Agnew, New Lisbon.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis X. 10-year average.

Milk production for February, 1950, was 1.123,000,000 pounds, the service said. This was 1 per cent more than Gray, Baraboo, pastor of St. Joseph's parish, will be the toast-master at a testimonial dinner production in February, 1949, and 12 per cent above the 1939-48 average for the month. after the mass. Charles P.

Weiler, company rice-president In charge of operations, said that Steinmetz's approach to cost allocations was "hypothetical and arbitrary. Based on Line Use "We are not prepared to say that one type of service is more important or worth more than an Milk prices paid Wisconsin pro Fr. Brown to Speak The Rev. J. Howard Brown.

Po- J3 ducers in February. 1950, averaged tosi, will represent the priests of $3.15 per hundred, 10 cents below the Madison diocese as a dinner the January price but 4 cents above the February, 1949, price. speaker. lamwifeiliWiWW Prices paid for commodities pur In 1895 Msgr. Papa became pas other." Weiler said.

"We are simply saying, when we divide costs IS tor of St. Andrew's and St. Thomas' chased for farm production and family living showed a slight drop on a per-minute basis of line use. parish and mission at Potosi. Twen Ij Vi i EASTER SPECIAL! Thayer Folding Carriage.

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Cash in on the bonus values and see the Devonshire '50 "Desert Tone" gabs soon. S5(D Some with extra trousers at $18.50 us. of St. Joseph's cathedral. from January to February of this year and averaged about 5 per cent less than the same month a year ago.

Wren Reporter Isabel O'Grady closed her transcript book at 5:30 He was made a domestic prelate by Pope Pius XI Apr. 10, 1930. p.m. Friday, it marked the end of one of the longest rate cases be- it! Msgr. Pape is the last living mem ber of his seminary class.

fore the PSC In recent years. iilllllliiiig 2 WEEKS PROCLAIMED Gov. Rennebohm Thursday proclaimed the week of May 7-13 as "Be Kind to Animals Week" and "National Music Week." When It's all typed, which will formally closed last year after be another two weeks, the testi three increases totaling more than mony is expected to ran to about $11,000,000 had been granted. riNEE SHOEMAKINC I95 A CENTUkY OF iiffiif iiiiji: 5 vliUii! 1.400 pages, and contain around 400.000 words. The case opened Jan.

4. after being put off from last fall at the request of the Municipalities Defense committee. War Fund Raised The committee, representing more than 30 communities in Wis ii it.i' This Moccasin Was Sewn By 1 SJ 1 IY v.Tt 1 if OS) An Indian Chief consin, raised a defense jackpot of close to $14,000 to fight the rate increase proposed by Wisconsin Telephone Co. and by Commonwealth Telephone which has asked for $625,000 a year. City Atty.

Harold E. Hanson has represented Madison on the Wisconsin Telephone case. Atty. Maxwell Herriott. Milwaukee, is counsel for the committee.

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