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THE CAPITAL TIMES I HMf EDITION I (tVlltnLkM Sunday. Southwesterly winds. VOL. 22 NO. 58 MADISON, WIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928 TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS Today Thanks for Blessings Big Brains Better Big Business Better Life Held Lightly By Arthur Brisbane villages were villages wre wiped out by a tidal wave caused by a submarine earthquake.

far away, a thousand or Illty thousand, to us that do not happen. Radltch. Croatian statesman, murdered leader of peasants, is found to have a brain of abnormal, weight, 1,459 enough a billion tAo iOO.OOO.OOQ concerns. George B. Cortc'lyou, who will head Mir new eonerrn.

Is Intelligent as well as rnrrgetic. He knows that modern xreuted for murdering a man who he was supposed to protect on his wi to the bank. He took from him $4,700 and spent It all "in one night's racket." Anomcr, jeiaianowsxi. muroerea a keeper in his prison. A third.

George Apprl, killed a police lieutenant. All went to the chair smiling. Appel re Gnv. Smith is fortunate, not ii great wealth of the men that support In their ability as managers and ganizers. They are two of the at men In the United States.

Dodd, of Unive ilty of Chi publlc af atid Georgia. Ther diMi from Norfolk old from Greensboro Dr. re publican success," presumably because they tnuiK tne republican party is the "big money" party. Somebody Is making money. General discuM ine "Is Suicide number of suicides fell They wanted to read ambulance Rev.

Collins, Ex Evansville Pastor, Dead CHICAGO OP) The v. Dr. Collins was active in the. con from 1881 until his retirement 1923. For six years, from 1908 to 0 1914 he was superintendent of the Milwaukee district.

Among the pastorates he filled were at Milwaukee, Racine, Oreen Bay, Oshkosh, Beaver bam, A widow and two sou survivi, MILLIONS $5,000 Suit Against Reynolds Start Action Against The Atty.General Says He Made Overcharge In Representing Man In Prison A summons and complaint have bceri filed against John W.v Reynolds alleging that Mr. Reynolds as an attorney charged an excessive fee of $5,000 in attempting to free a man named Krucger from the penitentiary at Wau Pfn. The action has been started by Atty. Paul H. Ralrtle of Chippewa Falls in behalf of the mother of Kruegcr dd charge which she alleges was made by Mr.

Reynolds Is at prest ney general of Wisconsin. Mr. Ralhle is a former member of me legislature and la now practicing been identified with the stalwa the aftaJrs of the Ku Klux Klan Wisconsin. Mr. Reynolds could not be reached he has already intimated maD tne suit.

is political in and undertaken to Injure the candidacy Man Crushed Between Cars: Is Badly Hurt Leonard Javen, about residing on Sommers ave. injured about 2:30 this afternoon when of his ear and the front of another automobile driven by Pearl Holman. The accident occurred in front of thf filling station at Elmside and At do ting in him. pinning his between the two chines. The woman, according to Mr.

Javen was rushed to a local hos Drag Delton Lake In Hunt For Auto DELTON, Wis. A searching party composed of residents of this village were dragging Lake Delton today in an attempt to learn whether automobile may' have crashed through the guard rail at the bridge near the eastern edge lake. They had found nothing early hour this afternoon. Pear that a car had gone' into the lake was first aroused when passers bv early this morning noticed that all of uie railing on the Jake side of the bridge was torn completely away, and Dr. L.

R. Jones, 77, Randolph, Is Dead RANDOLPH, Wis. Dr. Jones, 77. of Randolph, died at his home here Friday night, following an iilness est residents.

of this village. Surviving beside his widow are daughters. Mrs. W. J.

Williams of ncapolis, and Mrs. E. W. Brandel of Jones and John O. Jones, twin broth ers, and John R.

Jones, all of Randolph. Funeral services will be held A grand daughter, Miss" Mary Bran del, Is society editor of The Capital Deny Sol Levitan Taken JU Today Levitan was taken ill at his office this morning were denied at his home today. At his home It was stated that. Mr. Levitan was "Just overtired lrom long drive," and decided to remain The state treasurer returned to his turning irom a campaign trip.

Chamberlain To Visit California End of August LONDON C4 The Evening Standard says that It has been Informed on the highest authority that Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, will leave Southampton at the end ol the month for a trie California, Denies Charge Blaine Utility Charge Denied By Prof. Hall Says He Knows of No Investigation of His Views Prof. A. B. Hall, former University of Wisconsin political economist, now president of the University of Oregon, denies in a letter to The Capital 'Times charges made by Sen.

John J. Blaine, at Moslnee and reported in this paper on July 31 that public utilities in Oregon inquired of Wisconsin utilities regarding Prof. Hail's stand on economic questions before he was given his position in the western college. His attitude on political and economic questions' "Was never raised during his negotiations with the Oregon board of regents, Prof. Hall declares.

Prof. Hall's letter lollows: "I have Just read Sen. John J. Blaine's speech at Moslnee as reported in The Capital Times of July 31, in which he says that at the time I came to Oregon the Oregon utilities inquired of public utilities in Wisconsin as to whether or not radical and that and sound slant on all questions politi "I never heard of this before. During by negotiation with the regents of the University of Oregon my attitude on political and: economic questions was "Nor cluring the time that the Oregon position was under consideration did I ever have occasion to discuss, my personal view's on the questions sug "The context of Sen.

Blaine's speech might carry the implication, although perhaps not intended by him, that I had prostituted my professional connections to carry or. propaganda for the private interest of some public utility. "Such an implication is absolutely false and groundless. My personal views are" to be found in my articles, books, and addresses, most of which were publicly reported, and which rep my ideas have, been thus Influenced by private, interest is absolutely untrue." Lancaster Man Strangled By Car LANCASTER, Wis Pinned beneath his truck when it overturned on a. rutty road near here.

Claude Martin, 25, a ittrni hand, was slowly choked to death late Friday afternoon. Martin, unaecusomed to driving the truck, struck some deep ruts at the top of a hill. The car zigzagged across the road times, then jerked and threw him into a five foot ditch. tiDDlriir and landing on top of him, part of it i examination showed the radius it the truck was defective. May Part Siamese Twins To Allow One To Wed NEW YORK W) Because one Of them is said to have fall en In love and wants to two 17 year old girls.

Joined together since birth, are under observation In a hospital here preparatory to an opertion' to sepa Mary and Margaret Gibb, the so called "Siamese twins" are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gibb ol Hotfoke, Mm. They are Joined by a cartilaginous bond at the base of the spine.

Weston, who has declined any charge of the say the proposed operation HEAR HOOVER IjScieilCe Is Called Into Crime Probe iN. W. University Aids Police In Evans ton Teacher Slaying BULLETIN I CHICAGO (P) John Burke. suspect held for tne slaying of Miss Milwaukee police say. He was also said to have been committed at one time to an Insane asylum in Wisconsin.

IBjr tk rr.Ml CHICAGO A lavender handkerchief of lace fringed silk and stains as of blood on a man's clothuig were clues pointing a solution today to the slaying of Miss Jennie Meta Constance, a school teacher, formerly of Cumberland, Wis. Scientists of Northwestern univcr mcr student, have Joined Evanston police ill the search for evidence. Dr. i of the department Gerald Wendt of Pennsylvania State college, who is lecturing at the school, sought Friday to turn their knowledge of chemistry to advantage in the search for the 42 year old teacher's'slayer. All.

the evidence the iron pipe which crushed the woman's skull, portions of clothing and even samples of the soil on which her body was lound will be examined by the chemists to see if they do not hold some clue A hair, a piece of thread, evei a grain "ol sand, it was pointed out, might prove important ev Police investigators, Sided by deputy state's attorneys and representatives ol the coroner's office, were centering their investigation today on John Burke, the single suspect still held. Blood stained garments werp found In the living quarters of the odd Jobs man, Friday. Police also reported finding a dainty lavender handkerchief in the clothing Burke wore when arrested Wednesday. The handkerchief, they said, was similar to the kind Miss Constance habitually carried. Granddaughter of Sen.

Goodland Is Drowning Victim MERRILL, Wis. P) Abigail Irene, 8 year bld. daughter' of John Goodland, Racine, and granddaughter of Sen. Walter Goodland, Racine, was drowned Friday afternoon in Buteau lake, 14 miles east of Tomahawk. Details of the drowning are not known.

The child was playing with friends and when they left and she did riot Join them, they snread the alarm. ler. ri W. T. Pugh, U.

S. Marshal Aide, Dies W. T. Pugh, veteran deputy U. S.

marshal of the western district of Wisconsin died Wednesday at his home In Cambria after a long illness, according to information, received here' today. Mr. Pugh was well known in Madison. The widow survives Mr. Pugh, who was appointed chief deputy In Madison in 1900 by U.

S. Marshall Charles Lewiston, and continued In that position until his death. Because most of his work of. late in the northern part of Wisconsin, he had not been Madison for more than a year at the Hassell May Try Again Wednesday ROCK FORD, HI. (P) A new attempt to span the Atlantic In a flight will be made Wednesday or Thursday by Pilot Bert Hassell and Parker D.

Cramer of New York. All previous attempts but one to separate "Siamese Twins" were said by surgeons to have proved unsuccessful. The lone successful operation was performed several years ago in Mexico and in that case one of the twins died. Surgeons explain that "Siamese Twins" usually' have some vital connecting link, such as a Joint circulatory system or spinal sys The Gibb twins came Into public notice last fait when one of them developed a sever cold followed by an attack of bronchitis and for a time was critically ill. The other stater did not contract Beck Gives More Electric Rate WISCONSIN Algonia 1,911 Alma 970 Alma Cen 421 Altoma 960 Amery 1,203 Antigo 8,451 Afcadia 1,418 Augusta 1,407 Baraboo 5,538 Barron 1,623 Bayfield 1,441 Beaver Dam 7,992 Berlin 4,400 B.

R. Falls 1,798 Bloomer 1,648 Boscobel 1,670 Brodhead 1.600 Burlington 3,626 1,738 Chetek 1.154 Chilton 1,833 Chippewa F. 9,130 Clintonville 3,275 CoIumbus 2,460 Colby 798 Crandon 1,632 Cuba City 1,175 Cudahy 6,725 Cumberland 1,528 Darlington 1,798 Delavan 3,016 De Pere 5,165 Dodeeville 1.896 Durand 1,517 Edgerton 2,688 Elkhorn 1,991 Elrov ,713 EvansviIle 2,209 Fennimore 1,385 Ft. Atkinson 4,915 Fountain City 880 Glenwood 779. Greenwood 761' Hartford 4,515 Hayward 1.302 Horicon 2,134 Hudson 3,014 Hurley 3,188 Jefferson 2,572 Juneau 1,159 Kaukauna 5,951 'Kewaunee 1,865 Kiel 1,599 ''Kilbourn 1,206 Cities marked ilh star Smaller Wisconsin Cities Also Pay Tribute to Power Trust, Says Beck Council Buys Campaign Lot For Park Site Refer School Site Deal To Committee For Consideration BY CALMER BROWY (Of The Capital Times Staff) With the purchase of the Mrs.

Marv Campaign property, Olin for by the, common council' at its meeting Friday night, another park will probably be established on the South Side. Possibility of a new South Side school so came a step nearer reality with le introduction of a resolution by Aid. Joseph Rupp asking purchase of the T. ,000. The resolution was referred to le finance committee.

While the council did not specify to bat use the Campaign property would put. it is known that the three acre plot being considered for park pur South Side residents and the board of education appeared here a joint meeting of the finance and Judiciary eommltte. thla week and unanimously urged purchase of the fticnmona property as ascnooi sue. Objections were made to the Cam paign property it has only three acres. The Richmond property contains about eight acres.

The Loy property, also containing about three is a third uoum euoc property hich the city already owns. For Park and Seheet schoor site, oni ground, and one Into a park, under resent piani. AM. Patrick K. Beiry alone objected purchase of the Campaign property ACwtkutd em Met i be si 2.36 2.26 2.09 2.20 2.62 1.98 1.43 1.98 2.20 2.20 1.54 1.21 1.75 1.70 1.65 1.65 1.80 1.60 1.15 1.80 3.12 4.80 4.16 3.20 4.24 2.42 1.64 3.38 3.12 3.63 2.26 1.90 3.60 3.60 3.42 2.64 2.13 2.25 4.59 2.20 3.16 1.75 1.75 1.50 1.82 1.54 1.21 1.35 1.35 1.35 1.21 1.76 2.20 3.26 1.65 5.00 4.17 3.12 3.30 2.83 4.30 1.72 3.06 3.85 5.67 2.40 3.00 1.82 4.41 4.10 1.70 1.10 1.55 1.50 1.70 .60 1.70 1.55 2.20 1.00 1.32 1.87 1.82 2.30 .72 2.32 1.87 3.22 1.21 1.38 4.55 1.93 1.60 5.31 3.42 1.92 3.12 2.10 1.35 1.20 1.65 1.49 1.43 1.43 2.84 2.60 are municipally owned.

Cites Figures Comparing Rates With Municipally Owned Plants OCONTO, Wis. "That the twenty larger cities of Wisconsin are not the only ones who charge cxtor tionage utility rates Was the declaration of Joseph D. Beet, La Pollette Progressive Republican candidate for governor. In an interview here today Mr. Beck said that he had obtained electric light hills from practically every city and village in Wisconsin and in statements here today made public tabulations, of over SO of the smaller communities whose rates he said were much larger than those for municipal Becks method ol campaigning has assumed a new attitude.

Following the tactics adopted by Senator La Fol lette over twenty five years ago when he read comparative freight rates from the stump to show that the Wisconsin rates were too high, Mr. Beck is following the same method of re tabulations to show that public utility rates are exhorbitaht. Figures released today apcar on this page. "The extortionate utility rates charged in the twenty larger cities are likewise charged in the smaller cities in Wisconsin," said Mr. Beck.

"Thus a cl Usen of Alma. using 34 k. w. h. would pay 9.75.

This would have cost $1,28 In Seattle, and in Tacoma, only $1.70. In the city of Beaverton, Ont. of about the same sire as Aim, a cltieen using 33 k. w. h.

raid only $1.12. The Alma plant is a private public utility plant. "On the other hand, the city of Altoma. with a municipal plant charged for 48 k. w.

h. only In Seattle this would have cost $2.36, in Tacoma, $1.78, and in Clinton, Ont. k. w. n.

cost only $1.81. private utility 40 k. w. h. paid $4.1 while a cttiaen of Barron, which has a municipal plant oeU only $3.30.

In Seattle this would have cost $2 20 and Clinton Beaverton Springfield Beaverton AHiston WalkerviUe Dresden Dresden Preston Durham Uxbridge Barre Leamington Acton Essex Port Durham Perth Fergus Arthur Acton Rockville Tillsonburg Elmira Hensall Essex Chippewa Smithe Palmerston Acton Whitby Mimico Palmerston Prescott Milton Tecunseh Kingsville Caledonia Ingersoll Marndale Paisley Pt. Norwich Aylmer Whitby Meaford Arthur Thorold Seaforth Exeter Harriston ON RADIO Comparisons 1,946 988 417 988 1,286 8,558 1,421 1,421 5,666 1,627 1,452 7,429 4,351 1,810 1.636 Dover 1,675 1,627 3,640 1,747 1,153 1,810 9,119 3.147 2,462 804 1,636 1,179 Falls 6,857 1,542 1,810 3,015 5,231 Humberstone 1,917 1,542 2,652 1,950 1,710 2,304 1,390 4,983, 876 775 Woodgridge 758 Colborne 4,664 1,317 2,145 3,015 Tillsonburg 3,147 2,576 1,153 5,812 1,860 1,583 1,225 1.12 1.81 1.12 1.77 3.29 1.06 1.06 2.11 1.11 1.50 1.75 1.54 2.32 1.50 1.10 1.34 1.50 1.48 2.27 1.64 1.58 1.23 1.80 3.10 1.60 1.48 1.80 1.29 2.05 1.40 John Auby Is Dead After A Brief Illness Was Connected With Dane Drainage Body For Eight Years following a brief illness. resident of Madison tor sixteen years ana jor aoout eignt years was son he was engaged in farming in Medina county Mr. Auby Is survived by two" sons, Arthur of Madison and Lawrence of St. Louis, one daughter, Gladys, Madison, two sisters, Mrs.

John Ollis of Madison and Mrs. A. O. Huseboe. Sioux Falls, S.

and by three brothers, Lewis, Lily, S. Charles, Rockford 111., and Benjamin, 8 tough ton. A third son Leonard, died In 191 and Mrs. Auby preceded her bus band in 1820. The funeral probably win be held from the Luther Memorial church, Monday afternoon.

Interment will be Dollar Day In Madison Wednesday Times will cTOti special aetteo to edverttaaamt, of iMfifrmla, who will 100,000 Will See Fete In West Today Whole Nation To Listen In' On Speech of Acceptance SCENE IS VAST BOWL Stanford Ceremony Draws Throng; Political Chiefs Arrive By JAMES WEST Associated Press Staff Writer STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cat. A new pathway, at the end which may stand the White House, was opened today to Herbert Hoover. From the far corners of the nation, men and women of great and small degree came to bid him godspeed upon the Journey routed for him by the Republican party. The setting lor his official notification and for the delivery of his first message to the voters of America was of his own choosing, here among the hills where he won the first struggles of The scene Itself was laid in a vast pleted his own school days at this pic Notification Program STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal. UP) Following I stadium, where cially of his nomination for the presidency by the republican party: 12 noon Stadium gates open.

2:30 p. m. Salvo of aerial bombs: display of dayUght fireworks; Stanford band enters and parades. 2:45 p. Official San Fraaeleca band enters, parades.

San Leandre 3:45 Speakers enter stands. 3:55 Gov. C. C. Yonng of California delivers address of welcome.

4:00 Senator George H. Moses at New Hampshire, chairman of the notification committee, delivers notification address. 4:10 Herbert Hoover delivers acceptance address. turesqueunivarsity. and affording room for a ciowd of 100,000, far exceeding similar ceremony in.

this country. Hours before the gates of the huge athletic bowl Were thrown open at me east portion of the far flung campus was swarmed with automobiles nne tne little city of Palo Alto, re splendent in its holiday dress, was over Airplanes which thundered down from the skies to the newly created landing field west of Palo Alto added the noise of their Droni llers tn ih. haust of motors and the shouts of the Is which were as enthusiastic ax any that have gathered for the great football games at Stanford. noses Brings Message brought by Sen. George H.

Moses of riampsnire, permanent chairman convention which nominated MADISON CAN TUNE IN HOOVER SPEECH AT P. M. Madison radio listeners will have ample opoprtunity to hear Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech late this afternoon, over anyone of a number of broadcasting stations. The Hoover speech will be given at about 8 p. central standard time.

Radio stations all over the country are broadcasting the ceremonies, and those most available to Madison include KYW, WGN, WMAQ, all in WOC. Davenport; WHO, Des Moines: WCCO, Minneapolis; WOW, Omaha; and KSD, St. Louis. at Kansas City nearly two months ago, and chairman of the notification committee made up of representative of every state to the union. xioover nan selected the governor oc his adopted state.

C. C. Young, a master of ceremonies. To him went the who had i eight minutes for delivery launch into his 1 Dead As Lake Steamer Sink by, the laagtrt 8s Ch..