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A jiurt Uf. TOURTH ROW: Asst. Coach Roy Goodlad, Nelson, Strand, Toy, Kreft, Grenier, Martinson, Badeaux, Kovacs, Soehhne, Cramer, Wagner, Schmedhen, Gilbert, Edmund, and Coach Al Barrett, Photo by Photoart Entwhistle, Borquist, Claremont, THIRD ROW: Hamlin, Kenton, Webster, Looze, lloiby, Spainc, Ellestadt, Knussman, Entwhistle, Lvnde, Kappel, Clemens, Beckman, Pollack, Frink, Felland, Gilbert, and Cnare. FRONT ROW, left to right: Norgren, Pauls, Kiilin, Strand, Busse, Rogers, Smythe, Kitson, Drulander, Malle Sutton, Hanson, Bergstrum, Longfietd, Rueter, May, Hoffman, Kurth. SECOND ROW: Horhck, Etchoff, Casper, Kendall, Sayles, Olson, Spring, Post, Bertrand, Burmeister, Sullivan, Johnson, Harrington, DeWit, rjf Zjy of East Side high school griimen is shown the a ho i picture.

Under direction of Coach Alphonse Barrett, who is starting his first year here after a successful career at Superior, the squad is expected to shape into one of the best in ytars and a good season ts expected. The men are: WEATHER Home Edition 26,306 Paid Circulation Yocrdav The Jarirt rt paH Cirrilatn 9i newspaper in nr tcnrmn nf MJrankee Inrrciwnf rloudlnm and warmer tn-niht and Saturday. Moderate winds. Official Paper of The State of Wisconsin MADISON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 Ft LL LEADED WIRF5 OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PAGES hmmI Flames 0- Board Defeats Insurance Plaril70 Trapped as 1 4M Billy Helm, Film Star, Ex-LocaljLindbergllS Byt Gets Paramount Contract) Cuba OH Wa Born, Raided in Madison; Uses Screen Long Flight VOL. 24, NO.

115 Today Another Biggest Bank. Poor Broker Sold Short. Children, Kitchen, Church. By Arthur Brisbane Opvrisht. 1929.

bv King Features Svncirate, Inc. VGAIN, the world's biggest bank makes bow, bigger than any thus far. i Charles E. Mitfhell, head of New Yorks National City bank, absorbs the Corn Exchange bank, creating an institution with resources of two thousand f.ie hundred millions of dollars. This one financial giant will have 100 branch banks New rotk The old fanned mdlion has Fenway to the, new billion i When -a ill the TRILLION be trans- fenrd from books on astronomy to th books of United States bankers? In Well Street up His story a SOI SHORT.

And. mo't strange, 4-irks short To short a bank stock, with bonks e- in; from 10 to 20 per cent for money on calls for an in lunacy. a broker has closed sad and brief, HE Ilham Foss nw 'grandeur film -'vming mo' ing and ta ing pictures on -n per. of gigantic now in Isou Yiik is a most contri-bu'ion to the motion pictuie ait and moils 1 4 iRoadliouse Over 50 TnjuiTd; Windows, Fire Escape Fail to Work; Owner Blames Disaster on Rivals S0V. -e- L-.

V- IT FW' Ci A 4 C'j i s. Vs fc WBJW TWENTY SIX Father of Zona Gale is Buried At Pori age Today for Charles F. Gale, 87, father of 'Zona Gale, novelist and writer, who died at his home here Wednesday, weie held at 2 this afternoon from the ifsidence, the Rev Ralph Hinde-man, Danville, 111, officiating. Burial was In Silver Lake cemetery. Prof.

Dudley Resigns Post At University vvr Was Director Ol visual Instruction, Librarian Prof. William H. Dudley, 1909 Regent ha resigned the two posts he held at the university. The Capital Times learned today. Prof.

Dudley was director of visual instruction in the extension division and assistant librarian at the umveislty library for many years, Zowie! Grab Scooters Today Before School Here are the names of the first -8 Nova and girls to win their WHOOPPEE SCOOTERS. All of these were quick to realize what a wonderful offer ThP Capital Times is making. Just stop and think Just one new six-month sub- scription is all jou need 3COOTER. On another page of this paper you will find a large advertisement about this offer, with a picture of the to get the i WHOOPPEE SCOOTER and full information abou it. BETTY OAKEY, 415 AVashburn pi.

RICHARD ALEXANDER. 136 N. Franklin st. ROBERT HEIN, 1013 AVilliamson st. GERROLD AAING, 313 Moulton ft.

LUCILLE LINK. 313 E. Mifflin st. -MARLENE AVATERMAN, 215 E. Mifflin st.

SAM AMATO. 70u Milton t. JAMES OCONNER, 122 S. Franklin st. 1) i i BULLETIN DETROIT UT) The death lit in the fire that early toda through the Study club, a cabaret, was increased to 17 shortly before noon with the death of an unidentified woman in receiving hospital.

The latest victim wore a ring bearing th initial L. J. Name Capt. Calvert CAPT. CALVERT brother of Mrs.

Frank W. Karstens and Mrs. H. J. Veerhu'en, has signed a five jear contract to act for the Paramount Co, it wa- learned here this morning Capt.

Calvert, whoc name in private life William Helm, was raised in Madison, and spent a summer acting stock at the Fuller Opel a Hoii'C His son William Helm, attend cd the un.versitv for two years, and is now t-i business with ills uncle Ftank VV Kaistens. Capt Calvert has been asslgred to plav 'he role of Markham, the distnct attorney, In the series of Van Dm- murder mystery talkies Those alieadv shown in Madison are The Canary Murder Case and The Greene Murder Case Billy Helm as he was known during bovhrod in Madison, was born in the home 119 Johnson st wheie the Karstens are now living He graduated from Central high school One of his appearances on the stage as an amateur in Madhon was in Piof W. A Leonard Glm of the Bv The Associated Press Detroit sixteen persons were killed and more than 50 others are in hospitals with injuries suffered in a fire which gutted the Study club, a night club on the edge of the downtown theater district, earlv this morning. One hundred and thirty patrons and 40 employes, including entertainers, were in the club when flames broke through the wall at the first floor and swept up the main stairway, cutting off the only means of egress. Tatrolman -Tames McGuire, who discovered the blaze, ran Mr fox is to b- congratulated upon an achievement most remarkable and beautiful, combining with pci feet sound, 1 ance.

sCreen that makes it possible to show placed with the Mill Owners Mutual the falls of Niagara the lapids below Fire Insurance Co through the Reitan-, id the Maid of the Mis all at one Lerdahl Co, local representatives, t.nip The vote was 5 to 2 against insuring W. Rice's motion at Thursday nights meeting that one-fifth of the expliing this year be PRICE THREE CENTS Roai to a nearby fire box, and returned to find the flames and smoke roaring up the staircase Before patrons and employes were aware of their danger, the fire was upon them. A cigaret girl was suffocated as she stood in the center of the dance floor and dropped down over her tray. Her body was found by firemen. Man'' patrnrs rirhed for rafetv imo a small crewing room.

7 bv 15 feet, in i he of the building. Tlury of them were found piled unconscious in the t.ny naie when firemen broke into the room. Several were dead. Others were badly injured. The interior of the building was ruined, but the exterior presented an almost unblemis-hed appearance save for broken windows and a fire escape which hangs useless, a mockery to those who ventured to trust it as an exit.

Police Quizz Club Owner 1 Marty Cohen, proprietor cf the club and Robert Jackson, maeter of cere-1 monies, were closeted with police thr-j morning. Cohen attributed the fire to rivals in business. The Studj- club had been operating for about ajear and i had prospered. Cohen was not in the plare at the time oi the fire. Another nisht club the Lido, had its openirg last night window openings had been covered on the inside with wall board.

As firemen and volunteer rescuers carried out virlims, taxicabs, which had been parked in a lot next to the building took them to hospitals. Squads ot ambulances arrived soon after the fire apparatus. Bodies Badly Disfigured Some of the victims were dead on arrival at the hospitals. Most of the fatalities, physicians said, resulted from suffocation. Identification ol the dead utual I 9 Wiiliarr Helm Mci nlng After his stock experience in Madison, he played with Theodore Roberts Auzona.

and for 18 years he directed, starting with the E'sanay Co. In Chicago, here he handled such stars as Francis X. Bukhman, then at the height of his popularity; Gloria Swanson, and Lenoie U.nc Committee Calls 29 Lobby Most Pernicious In History The recommendation that the attor-. ey general, John VV. Reynolds, look to violations of the legislative lobby law during 1929 session of the Wisconsin legislature was made unanimously todav by the senate committee that investigated tactics of lob-oyists.

By unanimous consent, the senate incorporated the committee report in the house record. The report was signed by all three members of the Investigating comm.t-tee, Sen. Herman J. Severson, Iola, I-rogressive, who was its chairman; Sen. Walter Polakowski, Milwaukee, Socialist, and Sen.

Robert Caldwell, Lodi, Conservative. The 1929 session was characterized ty the most extensive and pernicious lobbying known in this state, the report asserts. Incomplete a- was our Investigation, the report continues, we yet consider it wot thy of tne attention i the attorney general to determine i I Colonel, Wife, 10 Olliers Eml First Slop of. Tour South TO RETRACE HIS GOOD WILL TRIP Will Slop Tonight at tiago oil First Leg of Hop BULLFTIN In VAN Cuba (P) Bv radio to the Associated Press Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh hopped off from Havana at 12:15 for Ca Aguey, Cuba, the second stop on his 7,000 mile flight to South America. The party spent an hour in Havana where an ofTicial welcome was given. The colonel landed here at 11:20 a. m. He left Mlama at 9:05 a.

m. I By The Aftaocfated Presal MIAMI, Fla. Charles A. Llnd-oergh took off from the Pan-American ah port here at 9 05 a. on the fiist leg of his projected flight around the I air route of the Caribbean sea.

1 I The plane took the air giacefully and headed south for Havana, Its first stop, He carried seven passengers and a 1 crew of four, including himself. The 1 lane is carrying 135 pounds of spe- val mail for the coast of South menca and will be flown over the ex- America ana wm oe now over tne ex- tension of the route to Dutch Guinea. I Weather reports indicated a perfect 1 voyage and Lindbergh left in high cation at the prospect of retracing fils good will jouiney over the West Indies to South America and return- I mg through Central America, Sixteen different countries will 1 visited cn tne 20-day flight, which wi.I 1 be similar to, but a retracing of, the good will Uip Col. Lindbergh made 1 year and a half ago. He is accompanied i by his wife, the former Ann Morrov, and official of the Pan-American Ca In an interview before the start cf (continued on page 6) i FindBattered Body of Man Near Clinton CLINTON, Avis.

(P) Discovery to- day of the battered body of Marlin Michelson, 25. near the Milwaukee road railway crossing on highway 14. furnished Rock county officials with a mjstery death. Michelson's pockets had Ask Reynolds Probe Lobby Law Violations Higher Cost Cos. Kept Stock System Rjcr 3qtion Defeated i By 3 2 Vote Last Night NECKERMAN TALKS AGAINST MUTUALS Special Coniiniltee Will Probe Hurricane Protection The city board of education will continue to apportion insurance on school buildings under a pro rata based on the amount of insurance written bj each company following defeat of Prof the total amount now expiring with the Mill Owners Mutual.

The vote was follows- For insuring with the Mill Owners Mutual H. G. Rice and H. C. Schenk 2.

Opposed I. M. Kiltleson, Regina Groves, Mrs. J. IV.

Madden, Glenn W. Stephens, and John P. Butler. 5. Prof Rice In his motion asked that all the insurance evpirirg this year be placed with the mutual company and that the policy be written for three vears instead of five jears as under the existing sjstem.

He explained that the shorter term polity would result in a saving to the city as it would receive the 30 per cent divident at the er.d of the three jears peiiod Instead of waiting five vears to receive it He declared that under the mutual company policy the insurance would only cost $4 000 a jear with a possible return in dividends amounting to 200 in three jears. By Insuring with the old line companies the city is pajmg out about $8 000 a year. Defeat of this motion results in the board continuing its present system under which all insurance companies having an annual income in premiums cl not less than $1,500, or more than $54000, will be allowed a proportion ate stjare uccordlng to the amount insurance written by each company. under this plan all companies including the mutuals can secure their pru- share of the insurance, bl cording to board members. Mr.

Kittieson seconded (Continued on page 16) Rices Shipbuilders Spent $143,000 On Marine Act (Further details of hearing on page 2) Death List -pxETROiT ()' The lKt, of dead I in the fire which dcctrcved the Study club, a nisht club here, early todav. includes. MRS. FLORENCE ARKFR, UtlCT, Y. JOHN J.

KAl'FM N. 30 Detroit. LAURENCE LUTHER. 40, Highland 32 Inez Park, Mich DERRICK S. BROW 35 Detroit.

WALTER KRUEGER, Grand Rapids. MORRISON MANNING, 33 believed to have lived Grand Rapids. E. D. TCPFORD, Detroit.

WAVERLY GREEN, 36, Detroit. HAROLD B. SMITH. 38. Detroit MRS.

BERTHA KELLEY. 27. maid MISS RUBY EMERY. 30. Detroit.

JVIRS. GCSSIE KOSENBLOOM, 27, MRS. MARJORIE JAN WARD, Detroit. MISS PHYLLIS AVIESE, 22, Detroit. MISS LOCKEY MAGEE, 19, Detroit, ONE UNIDENTIFIED MAN.

ONE UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. A. E. F. Romance Conies to Grief Mrs.

Alphonsine Kartes Seeks Divorce in Local Court This new Fox moving pi tu de-' eloping motion, depth size and sound on a scale hitheito undieamed of, is most lemarkable achievement The German kai.s?r said women srou'd attend to their ihiee Ks kinder kueche, kirrhet children kitchen einirchi. He will be surpused read the statistics about working people in Among those that work from ages 5 and 50, there are 1.500 000 more than men. Britain is distrurbed because the seems to have reached the sta-1 onaiy point in population. No wonder. The same animal can ot be a good brood male and a good can hoise Sciencp savs old age is really an ill-i fss not inevitable.

Age Is called pro-iissive condensation of tissue due to of wTcr. Energy that age lacks Is located In the ductless gands. When your own giand- wear out. some of them, son of the most Impoitant can rejuvenated One pupil of Steinach in Vienna has restored vouth and th; desire to hiMIe and ing in 700 old men. London Woild League for Sexual Ueorm iv much interested in tftis.

The pi U.ce of Wales buvs his first airplane making his first flight as an ow nr. to see his father at Sandring ham It is a G. H. Gvpsy Moth, price cnlv $3,300. The prince would not buv anything not pure British The little Moth makes ninety miles an hour, is painted blight red and blue, and canies a silver plate marked H.

H. the Prince cf Wales." The little machine with aluminum nose is upholstered scarlet leather, vv hich can be Inflated avoid bumps. The horse Is following the red Indian. On Oct. 1, the New York Journal, that has used thousands of horses for delivery, closes Its stable.

Only motor trucks hereafter. The Evening Journal, having for Hartman Co. i Montgomery Ward, Merge Directors Vole to O. K. Offer of Mail Order IIoilNC IBv The AvviH-iated PreasJ CHICAGO The board of directois of the Hartman Corp.

and subsidiaries today approved an offc of Montgomery Ward and Co to acquir the concern. A meeting- of stockholders to vote upon the proposal is called for Oct. 25. Committee Split on -mr -w Fire Engine Choiec Three Reports Will Be Submitted To Common Council Sept. 27 A separate report recommending the purchase of a Seagrave pumper for the fire department will be submitted to the common council Sept.

27 by Aid. T. D. Williams when the fire and water committees report Is presented. The majority committee report will favor the purchase of a Mack fire truck and the minority report the American La France machine.

Aid. Williams today gave as his reason for favoring the Seagrave machine the fact that it is $1,500 cheaper than the other tjipes recommended and that it is the tj'pe of machine Fire Chief John Lahm favors. A war time romance in France has an( pe had gone to participate, he told come to grief with the filing in superior polire. court Thursday of a divorce action by Firemen who tried to enter the build-ihe wife. ing through windows, found that the whether there is warrant for criminal prosecutions.

With this end in view we been fractured and his ribs and nose orders to The Capital Times office be-shall transmit a copy ot all testimony broken. Coroner Lynn Whaley and fore they went to school this morning: been turned inside out. His skull had These eight winners brought their Mrs. Alphonsine Kartes, through a Milwaukee attorney, filed claims of ciuel and inhuman treatment against her husband, Fred. Kartes, a printer.

i The couple married Aug. 9, 1913. Gennevillier. France. Mrs.

Kartes maiden name was Gautier. The couple has no children. Seek Kin of Farmer Killed at Lone Ilock taken to the attorney general. The complete committee report follows: This committee was created by resolution 45, S. to investigate lobbying and the extent to which lobbying has influenced legislation during the 1929 session of the legislature This committee has been able to hold only a few hearings and has barely scratched the surfare.

It has gone into the lobbying activities only in connection with three Dist. Atty. George Carrlgan, Beloit, be- gan an investigation. It is not known If he was struck by a train, an auto- mobile, or killed following robbery, Michelsons parents believe he was slain but can give no motive for their assumption. They said he came home about 7 oclock last night and returned at 9 oclock with a man whom they did mot know.

The pair left in an automobile and nothing was heard of them until the finding of Mirhelson's body this morning. No trare of the stranger has been discovered. WASHINGTON (A.r.) American thirty years more han double the cir- shipbuilders spent $143,000 in seeking passags of the Jones-White merchant marine act of 1928. Clinton L. Bardo, president of the New York shipbuilding corporation, testified today before a senate Investigating committee.

eulation ot any other evening paper in New York, that horses were needed for frequent, short stops and starts at every corner. But no more horse. The motor can do RICHLAND CENTER, AAis OP) Coroner J. T. Barto is seeking relatives fd clothing and the disfigurement which of George Unbehaun, killed an auto- followed suffocation, mobile accident on Pghway 130 near State and city fire commissioners, in-Lone Rock, Thursday.

He was found vestigating the blaze with the -police, dead beneath his wrecked car, Unbe-1 declared this morning that they cculd haun was a iarm laborer. i iContwue oil EaSe 6 was difficult because of the badly burn everything. Japan Is said to have had no written bills and has not been able to thor-language about 286 A. (Continued on gage 6) ft mzzr -v-x tV.

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