The Capital Times du lieu suivant : Madison, Wisconsin • 1

V. cr nl BOUND VOLUMN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY WKATHEU Rain or no tmight, Colder in northern Wiscomdi. Tuesday mostly fair. Somewhat colder in extreme eastern Wisconsir- uvu 7W 7 HOME EDITION Net Paid Circulation T) Tht largest net paid Dally Circulation of any newspaper Id Madison or Wla-consln, outside of Milwaukee Official Paper of the State of Wisconsin MADISON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927 NO. 15 FULL LF4SEI) WIRE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I.

Ldt TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS Today Houses For 700 Vears 1 Investigafing Science A Chaw and the Poodle Jf Mussolini Mores iimiuiiiminu lllllllllllfllllllll itiiniimmmitr Tf If IIIIIIIIIIMtf I mill itimiri oca Hip. mss Wisconsins New First Family Five Stale Heads Take Oaths Today 5,000 Persons Jam State Jiouse Rotunda For Cer-mony At Noon Blaines Start For South Zimmerman, Other New State Officers Take Over Government STATES "FIRST FAMILY At the left is Mrs. Fred It. Zimmerman, wife of the new governor. In the group are from kft to right (front row) Mrs.

Zimmerman, Gov. Zimmerman, and their youngest son, Fred Zimmerman Jr. Robert Zimmerman, their other son, is standing behind his parents. Vit'L i vv5i Gf' I I Avtvv I-i''y 'fv hi i'- A Itlllltllllllllllill Steensland Heads New Institution Savings Loan And Commercial Trust Companies Combine Paunack Vice President Will Operate From Savings Loan And Trust Co. Offices One of the largest financial mergers in the history of Madison took place this morning when the oldest trust company in Wisconsin, the Savings Loan and Trust Co.

consolidated with The Commercial Trust Co. to form a new institution The Union Trust Co. with assets 90 000USt "UTKlS agre2ating The new institution will be headed by E. B. Steensland as president and A.

O. Paunack as first vice-president. W. D. Curtis will be chairman of the board; M.

H. Conklin, second vice president; C. L. Barlow, secretary; L. D.

Atkins, trust officer; Paul Scbroeder. and A. M. Johnson assistant secie-taries. Negotiations have been under way for months, but it was not until the stockholders of the Commercial Trust Co.

and of The Savings Loan and Trust Co. voted their consent at a meeting on Friday that the merger was finally agreed upon. The consolidation was made effective Friday and the board of directors of the new company met Friday afternoon to elect officers and to formally organize. Since New Years day and Sunday intervened, the new Union Trust Co. opened its door for the firt tim fnorrniig.

Moved Over Weekend The new trust company will takeover the quarters of The SaviruT? Loan and Trust Co. Bonds, securities and cash totalling over 000 and all the records of The Commercial Trust Co. were moved from their former ocation at 23 E. Main st. over Saturday aqd Sunday and with the combined efforts of the staffs of both former institutions the New Union Trust Co.

was ready for business this morning. Mr. Steensland, who wag president of the Savings Loan and Trust Co. and Mr. Paunack.

president cf The Commercial Trust Co. and who were principally instrumental in effecting the consolidation declared this moniing that It meant much for Madison. Wo have lonT felt, said Mr. that there were too many trust companies here. WTi'le we both were making progress v.e felt that by getting together, we could make a much more suhstan tial institution, could offer a broad- 1 (Continued on page 1, Section 2) Week! Editors To Vic For Honors Next Month Front page makeup, constructive editorials and farm news -service will be tne pr-ne pal divisions in a cintest which will be held here in February for country weekly papers the tate.

In order that weeklies, published in spiall communities, will have the same advantage as the papers from Vn largetowns, the front page make-up class has been divided into three sections, the classification of which is based on the population of the town where the paper is publishe-L Is Named to State Normal Regents Board uiuibiii A 'S r' I I 1 Mrs. John A. Aylward Photo hy Defxnge Mrs. John A. Aylwaro, 414 N.

Tinck-rey was named to the state board normal school regents by the retiring governor, John J. Blaine, Satur-daj Mrs. Edwin Arthar Brisbane pIIIS is written in Ar with I Flagstaff, flourisbr? center of energy, just outs'de the car fklow. To the north a moan-id of the rock from wl ch cement made. How many housfs will ce nd out of that ston? mountain the time comes.

Arcadia, near Lo? Angeles, stands such a reck, much il'er. On its slopes men have blished grinding ung out dust of which cement is Engineers have npasured one block of California stone lgh rock dust to last TOO years, rom this car in Arina you enough such rock to supply for all the 1 ,600,000 peo- on earth. And there is enough land to feed them, yth Mater feed to it. All that is needed in tf United States power to grind stone, plow pump watr. Plenty 'fjroom and food here fora million human bei gt and iore, and enough mountan tops to e've thero all isolation if i ifh their fl.oirg machip'.

According to Vincent iarazzuri 1ahan scientist, within vears heat of Mount Aetna ill he nrnessed. and somi volcaioe3 will furnish al Europe with peroer. This moment science ail en-t'pering skill' are or.e the world's three highe-t tides, in the Bay of Fundy, and the Bri-f plan to harness another of the at the mouth of the Seern. Shading rolling r.rcuzh the country, the bed head- i is found in the Arizira Gaff'd-'. Phoenix.

1926 Passed Out, Did Several Local Citizens. North will look r.t the oryof evolution as it relates origin of man, and perhaps, mtlaw such teaching in North I -sfolina state colleges and ptTblic Vols. Fundamentalists have lawyers. They should also look into the hjory that the earth is round, and raiels with and around the sun. In a days other fundamentalists only questioned that theory, out red men alie for support irg Jf.

i i Galileo, Mho made ric Iiltlo I telescope after reading arout ho Dutchman who brought things irer with double glasses, had to down on his knees to be 'ored, abhorred and detested the ruth that he had given to the rid. Mr. Henderson says Bernard iaw is a mixture of Puck and St. i ancis of Assisi, of Teter Pan ard mripides. Quite accurate, you out St.

Francis and Euripides. Mr. Shaw is shown playing with fluffy white poodle, and that anl-Uil is as much like a black panther Shaw i3 like Euripides. Tcn res that the old Greek puts in the mth of Medea, telling King Creon ov men hate new knowledge, or a jealous womans heart, r. worth all that Shaw has rit-c But Shaw has been a useful an active image breaker, and e-uves honor and thanks.

Ml the talk about Italy mmrg "I against the French font.er, in six legions of fascists i Utk shirts massed along the border, 1,400 Fen to a legion. So the grevt massing of troops on the 5'nh border, amounts to i about one good meal for half I Wen French artillery men. Mu'solmi cer rooyes across border, be wont send black i -t. as target- for airmen. De vs.

ill send Italian fliers, or.a in. the world, and hundreds them. And they wont stop at 0 border, but go straight to the gest city. That is how the nxt will start. If it happens to start 1 unst the United States, son? fc teamen not a hundred miles from 'Washington monument will Msh.

baseball scandals promised, all the scandals could be unccv-many professionals and man-P? would be like Risberg, -v rly of the While Sox, milking b' a dairy. joke is on foolish fan3 that to ve swindled, wasting their watching others' exercise, when might be developing their own iides, or in exceptional cases, im-t'ving their minds. liami Police Capture I Alleged Confidence Man SUPERIOR. UP) Authorities fet today were awaiting word Miami, police regarding coition of Nathaniel H. Wheel-I New York, alleged confidence a ami dealer in fake mining stock was arrested in this city Sun-after a nation-wide search.

Bier is under indictment for idling a Miami widow out of 1 645.43 and has been sought (A February. PYoperations MJieeler ex-Tcdy ison, superintendent of the redYiver the U. according to ason, superintendent of the' a6Pinkerton agency, who he er is one of the most fidenre men in the U. S. cf Longest Resident Dies BY BRYN GRIFFITHS While several thousand of its citizens pushed, squirmed, inJ edged their way good naturedly to better points of vantage where thev might see the entire proceedings, the state of Wisconsin inaugurated a new governor and other hign officials shortly past the noon heur today in the state capitol.

It is estimated that more than 5,000 spectators crowded their way into the rotunda, corridors, and onto the stairways to view the ceremony. Fred R. Zimmerman, governor, was the first officer to take hi? oath of office. It was four minute1? past twelve when he was escorted by the retiring governor, John J. Blaine, to Chief Justice A.

J. Vinje who sat in the center of the ZIMMERMAN MAKES FIRST STATEMENT Gov. Zimmerman in his fifsc official statement as Wisconsins chief executive declared that he would not sacrifice the interests of the people of Wisconsin for political expediency. Retiring to the executive chambers to receive his friends, Gov, Zimmerman made the following statement. I have just taken the oath ars governor of Wisconsin.

IIv first act shall be to send a greying to the people of our good state, to wish them a happy New Year and to assure them that I have not forgotten, and shall -not forget, that they elected nm governor, not because they wanted to honor me, but because they believed I could serve them and would do so faithfully. I promise them again that I shall do my level best, that the public welfare shall alwaj receive my first consideration; that I shall not sacrifice their interests fori political expediency. form, and pledged his loyalty to the United States and the State of Wisconsin. You do solemnly swear that you will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Wisconsin in that you will faithfully discharge the duties of governor of Wisconsin? the Chief Justice asked the new governor. I will was Mr.

Zimmermans reply, and with that simple remark, the former secretary of state went into Che office that ha? for six years been occupied by Gov. Blaine who today leaves for New Orleans' for vacation he has postponed for fiive years. When Gov. Zimmerman took the oath, several camera mens flashlights flared and for a moment the spectators were blinded by the flashes. The pictures were taken in such rapid succession that no one seemed to know what was going on.

but, photographers who represented several state newspapers were away just as quickly, rushing the plates to their offices for publication at the earliest possible time. Others Take Oaths After Gov. Zimmerman had taker tho oath of office, Lieut. Governor Henry A. Huber, Stoughton; secretary of state Theodore Dammam, Milwaukee; state treasurer Solomon Levitan, Madison, and attorney general John W.

Reynolds. Green Bay, took the oath in the order mentioned. Lieut. Gov. lluber was presented by Fred L.

Holmes; John S. Donald presented Mr. Dammann; A. Paunack presented Solomon Levitan, and Herman L. Ekern presented Mr.

Reynolds. Soldiers Iad March The entire program was run cil without a At exactly 11:45 the Dokie band of Milwaukee struck up a lively march and the state of-cerg and their escorts began the march from the executive chambers to the platform in the rotunda. Company Madison, of thj Wisconsin National Guard led the pro-cessiou. Upon reaching the platform the state officers and other members of the official parties took their respective places and stood while the Dokie band, of Milwaukee, accompanied the Mozart club, the Lyric Male chorus, Madison and the audience in singing America. Rev.

II. C. llengell, St. Pauls chapel, Madison, invoked the Divh biassing, William R. Bagey, 2'adi-son attorney, master of cere monies, informed Chief Justice Vinje fiat the newly elected state officers were ready to take the oaths of their of- When all of the officers had been, sworn in, the Lyric Male Chorus of Milwaukee rendered Hallelujah (Continued on cage 12) "VT'isV1' 3i nd yM mmmsisinr Sumner 81 Johnson Hints He is After Selmas Scalp Defeated Clerk Retains Ryan As His Attorney Austin N.

Johnson, who retired today as Dane county clerk, practically admitted today that he is planning an attempt to oust M'ss Selma Fjehtad, from the office of county blerk because she is alleged to have spent more money for election campaigning than the law' requires. Mr. Johnson has retained William Ryan as his attorney in the mattei. It is understood that G. Zimmerman, who today became circuit court udge, has been approached by Atty.

Ryan with a request for an injunction to keep Mi.s Fjelsfad from assuming the title of countv clerk. Miss Fielstad is said to have spent $658.68 for campaign expenses, while the law is said to brut the amount to $600. AskWithdrawal Of U. S. From Nicaragua WASHINGTON (TP) Withdrawal of American Marines and war ships from Nicaragua was asked in a resolution introduced todoy by Sen.

Wheeler, Dem. Mont. Pyramid Club To Hear Buell Tonight The Pyramid club of the city Y. M. C.

A. will be addressed at its banquet at the tonight by L. E. Buell, Detroit, an organizer of young mens clubs. Market, Grocery Men Limit Credit 30 Days A limit of 30 day credit to customers will be instituted immediately by grocers and meat market men here, it is announced.

Plans 75th Anniversary The Maennerchor, Madisons oldest musical society, will celebrate its 75th anniversary at a date to be announced later. The event will probably be held in April. a tit, lSi 1 i A A Dane County Crime Sleuth Starts Duties F7 i 1 1 1 tV, 5W' 4 Vt' f.frS a A. J. Tiff A.

J. TafT today began his duties as Dane county ciime investigator, newly created position to which he was appointed by Sheriff Fred T. Finn last week. Abbie cards Dies at Her Home Abide M. Deards died this morning at her home, 1121 E.

Johnson st. Miss Deards was born Sept. 30, 1860. She is survived by two sister's, Mrs. J.

R. Wise, San FrancLco, Cal. and Mrs. Fred II. Lincoln, Kansas City; and by three brothers, John W.

Deards, Washington, D. Harry J. Deards, Charles City and, Walter W. Deards, Madison. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

'English Labor Regulars To Fight Communists LONDON (TP) The Daily Ex press says the most influential of Great Britains moderate labor leaders have decided to declare open war against the communists in the trade unions. The reported decision is due to the fact of the extremist minority starting a campaign to undermine the official leaders of the union, the papers added. V'A tC A jhiiv. Court Grants a Review TeapotLeases Sinclairs Request Approved; To Test Legality In Action By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Harry F. Sinclair was today granted a review by the supreme court to test out.

the legality of the Teapot Dome lease, i In announcing it would review the case, the court over-ruled a request by government counsel that the Teapot Dome proceedings be suspended until the court had decided the pending appeal in the Do-heny Elk Hills oil reserve suit. Both Doheny and Sinclair lost in the lower federal courts, which held that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases were invalid. Both of these are civil suits, having no direct connection with the criminal proceedings against Sinclair, Doheny and former interior Secretary Fall. Doheny and Fall recently were acquitted on the criminal conspiracy charge lodged against them, and Sinclair are to be brought to trial on a similar charge on Feb. 2.

Mrs. Fisher May Carry Claim Into Courts Mrs. Nellie Fisher, 712 Harrison will carry her damage demands against the city into court to determine if the city or property owner is- responsible for injuries received by falling on icy sidewalks, if the common council refuses to grant her the $800 she is asking for a fracture to one arm which she received in a recent fall on Harrison st. Hpr attorney, Lawrence W. Hall, announces he will make a test case of it in cast the council refuses to make the requested payment.

Shorewooit Club Will Hold Dinner Dance A dinner dance of the Shore wood club will be given at The Studio Wednesday night. The Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary will meet Wednesday night at 8 oclock. The dinner of the Dane County Humane Society will be held at the Capitol cafe Thursday night-at 6:15. MICHIGAN Cm', Ind. Reasons writ of habeas corpus should not be grafted F.

C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux now serving a iifu term for murder, were cited today by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom in the Superior Court here. Rumor Nagler Secretary For New Governor 3Iiss Ida Kissel Expected 'To Win. Executive Post Although official announcement must wait until after the inauguration, it was unofficially learned today that Louis B.

Naglcr, cacinfi in the secretary of states office will be Gov. Zimmermans private secretary and. Miss Dda Kissel, present assistant secretary of state will be appointed executive secretary. M.s Gladys McGuire, of Madison, will complete the staff of the governors office, it has been intimated. It is aLo understood that Clinton B.

Ballard, of Appleton, will be named superintendent of public property and Fred Dugdale, of Platicville, assistant secretary of public property. Mr. Ballard was an intimate friend of the late Sen. Robert M. La Follette ard for many sears lived at the La Follette home.

30 KilM As Sumatrans Battle Dutch Soldiers PADANG, Sumatra UP; Thirty insurrectionists, described as communists, been killed and many arrested, various clashes with Dutch forces in The Sil-oeagkar rict in lie past few dajs. Advices received here indicate that the whole Siloengkank district was in revolt. Superior Coast Guard Will Protect Fishermen DULUTH. (JP) Seven coast guardsmen commanded by Thomas G. Deegan, boatswains-mate first class, will leave here today in a power surf boat for Little Marais, 67 miles up the north shore of Lake Superior, where they will be stationed until the fishing season epds for the winter.

Soviet Doctor Must Know Fat Man Cant Dance Em MOSCOW. (TP) The American fox trot, shimmy and Charleston, were forbidden today by the soviet supreme council for physical education as unfit tor soviet Russias proletariat youth. Dr. Semashko, commissioner of health, denounced the dances as indecent products of the fat American bourgeoise. The death late Sunday afternoon of.

Mrs. Edwin Sumner, 109 W. Wilson marked ihe passing of the longest resident of Madison. Mrs. Sumner was bom in Madison 81 years ago and has spent practically all of her life in this city.

Mrs. Sumners father, Philo Dunning, was one of the earliest settlers in this community. He and hjs wife settled here in 1339. Their only child, Annette Dunning. was born September 6, 18-5.

Sept. 6, the daughter married Edward Sumner, who died six years 'ago. Since. the death of her husband Mrs. Sumner has been living with Mrs.

H. H. Van Wag-enen, on W. Wilson where her death occurred, suddenly, on Sunday. She is survived by one son, Louis D.

Sumner, of this and three grandchildren, Mrs. Edward Brittingham, Calexico. Mrs. Albert Brittingham, Los Angeles, and Josephine Sumner, a student at the university. Mrs.

Sumner is also survived by three, greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be hr Id at the home of her son 9 E. Wilson Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The pallbearers will be Dr. F.

F. Bowman, Dr. S. If. Chase, William B.

Roys, C. B. Mosely, A. G. Schmedeman and Dr.

C. Harper. Services at the gra will be private. Mrs. Sumner enjoyed the best health possible until the day of her death.

Her 81 years were passed without a day of sickness, according to her son. She was, in his words, a young old lady. The aged lady was active until her last day, when stomach trouble overpowered her. Crocker Mining: Partner Dies In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO. (TP Myron A.

Folsom, 53, nationally known mining man, and a native of Wisconsin, was found dead in his Hillsborough home south of hera Sunday. Folsom became associated with the Crocker and the D. O. Mills interests in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and was counsel for 20 years. He organized the Bunker Hill Smelting at Kellogg, Idaho operators of one of the largest smelters in the work.

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