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Itn MADISON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949 DIAL 5.1611 32 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Materials Short Local. Congregation Builds Modern Church in Quonset Hut Claims Russia Is Still Without Atomic Bomb Elected Officials and Judges Gamble, Senate Told in Bingo Debate State Senate LGettelmanMakesCliarge, ipi 1 Arguing for Statewide sensenbrenner Kencuuedi vote to Permit Games i To Board of tegeHlSiMayAskloAiiicml Despite Dem Protests' s' DIES AT AGE 77 U. S. Military Writer Asserts Intelligence Dala Warrants Belief InformationSource Is Not Disclosed Gen. Robinson Declares Reds Need Years To Make Bombs, Carriers By JOSEPH L.

MYLER WASHINGTON (UP) The military has intelligence that Russia still possess no atomic bombs an army general reported today. In an article on industrial vulnerability to bombing, MaJ. Gen. K. R.

Robinson qf the army engineers disclosed that; The best intelligence indicates that our major potential enemy does not now have an atomic bomb. Others, among them Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, wartime head of the U.

S. atomic bomb project, have voiced the opinion that Russia is not prepared for atomic war. They frankly, based their opinion, however, on estimates of Russias scientific and industrial capacity. Nelson Leads Fight BlockReappointment oj Neenah Industrialist SENATE Republicans overrode vigorous objections by three Democratic senators today in confirming Gov. Oscar Rennebohms reappointment of F.

J. Sensenbrenner. Neenah industrialist, to the university board of regents. The vote was 25 to 3. Leading the attack against con firmation was Sen.

Gaylord Nelson (D-Madison). Emphasizing that he had nothing personal against Sensenbrenner, Nels pointed out that the present board of regents had no member "representing labor or the farmer and none who is particularly qualified in educational matters. THE ROLL CALL The senate roll call on the confirmation of Gov. Oscar Renne-bohm'a re-appointment of F. J.

Sensenbrenner. Neenah, to tha university board of resents follows: For Confirmation Brown, Bubos, Buchen. Busby. Downing, Gettelman. Hicks.

Kaxtan, Knowles. Krueger. La Fond, Laird. Leverlch. Mayer.

Miller, Neale. Olson, Padrutt. Panzer. Porter. Robinson.

Schla-bacb, Trlnke, Van Da Zande. Total 25. Against confirmation Nelson. Schmidt. Tehan.

Total 3. Absent or not voting Hilker, I -enroot Total 2. The other Democrats voting with Nelson in opposition to Sensenbren-ners confirmation were Robert E. Tehan. Milwaukee, and William A.

Schmidt, Milwaukee. The appointment carries a 9-year term expiring May 1, 1957, THE UNIVERSITY IS becom-more a commercial lng rnoreund A ifST V. ROBINSONS STATEMENT was. THFSF FIGHT thin-s were list-disclose how or the, "re 1 Wh The exterior of St. Lukes Episcopal chapel, a church building which was constructed last summer in the face of present day building shortages, is shown in the top picture.

Located on Lake Edge blvd. in Blooming Grove, the basic structure of the chapel is a large Quonset hut the building popularized during the late war by U. S. armed services. The altar in the spacious Interior of the chapel is pictured in the lower photograph.

The main hall of the chapel seats 300 people. By HAL J. ROCHE led for construction. Its builders rea, parishioners started with a THE modern, functional design the chapel, admittedly unique large Quonset hut a type of build-of St. Luke's Episcopal chapel in design, illustrates the relevancy mg which filled the hasty construc- tion needs of U.S.

armed forces in World War II. Considerable has been added to turn the Quonset into a religious edifice, but parishioners definitely on Lake Edge blvd. in Bloom- of the church to contemporary life ing Grove is no architectural whim, 'in its unique design. Radically different from most! St. Lukes is a branch of down-conventional church buildings, the town Grace Episcopal church, old-chapel is a religious answer to such est religious institution in Madison, modern day problems as cost, ina- 'As a solution to the religious- needs terial shortages, and time requir-lof residents of the Blooming Grove Way Ban Blass Evictions Action on Advisory Referendum Delayed Until Next Tuesday Meeting A STATE senator, arguing for an advisory referendum on legalization of bingo games, charged on the senate floor today that elected officials and judges in Wisconsin gamble with cards.

The charge was made by Sen. Bernhard Gettelman (R Milwaukee) who declared that the Ion? arm of long-haired reformers has stopped the playing of the harmless little game of bingo. But night after night in the clubs in Milwaukee and Madison, elected officials and even judges gamble with cards, Gettelman de- clared. Thats the sort of thing that should be stopped. he said.

Gettelman said the law can't touch these games. AT, THE REQUEST of Sen. Everett F. La Fond (R-Tuo Rivers), the senate laid over until Tuesday a joint resolution by LaFond and Gettelman calling for an advisory referendum on the question of the legislature taking steps to amend the constitution to permit bingo. Both Gettelman and LaFond indicated they may bring in a joint resolution Tuesday to amend the constitution to permit the plajing of bingo.

Melvin Laird (R-Marshfield) opened the attack on the bill bv describing it as confusing, and urged that a direct move be made to present the question in the form of a constitutional amendment. SEN. WARREN Knowles (New Richmond) GOP floorleader, also declared the resolution to be confusing. He and Sen. Robert E.

Tehan (D-Milwaukee) declared they would vote to submit the question to a referendum if the question was put squarely. We might just as well hit the question head-on, Knowles said. During the course of argument on the measure, Sen. Rudolph M. Schlabach (R-La Crosse), offered an amendment to the joint resolution to limit bingo to bona fide veterans, charitable, religious, and benevolent organizations.

The resolution was so amended, by a 15 to 14 vote, before further action on the matter was postponed to Tuesday. Parley Is Deadlocked In Philadelphia Strike PHILADELPHIA VP) Negotiations broke down today in Philadelphia's week-old transit strike. Pres. Michael J. Quill of the CIO Transport Workers union walked out of a negotiating meet-' ing and declared: We intend to continue this strike indefinitely.

We believe the Philadelphia Transportation Co. has been acting in bad faith. The CIO union men who operate the PTCs 1,500 miles of subway, bus and trolley lines walked out last Friday. The company carries 3,200,000 passengers a day. Negotiators are 14 cents apart on wage demands.

Two linrt Here Boy, 8, Runs Into Track, Is Injured Truman to Get Rent Control East Side For Law But In Weaker Formiave Hospital 1 Ban Politics In Postoffice, Hoover Plea Report Urges Choosing of Postmasters From List of Career Men WASHINGTON (7- The Hoover ''commission said today the postoffice department should be taken out of politics. The postmaster general, it said, should not be allowed to head a national political committee, and the postmasters throughout the country should be career men chosen from within the postal service and not subject to confirmation by the senate. These were the highlights of a report to congress by the 12-member commission congress created last year to report on organization of the executive branch of the government Former Pfes Herbert Hoover is chairman. The report on the postoffice department was the fourth of more than 15 due to reach congress by Mar. 13.

1. The administrative structure is obsolete and overcentralized. 2. A maze of outmoded laws, regulations and traditions freezes progress and stifles proper administration. 3.

The post office "lacks the freedom and flexibility essential to good business operation. 4. Rates have not kept pace with wages and other costs, and ratemaking machinery is inadequate. 5. The service is used to hide subsidies.

6. Political appointments of first, second, and third class postmasters and certain other officials produces inefficiency and militates against the incentives of promotion. 7. Methods of budgeting, accounting and appropriation gre unsuited to a business of the size and character of the post service. 8.

Recurring annual operating deficits have been caused by circumstances mostly beyond the control of the department and can be remedied only by strong and courageous action. THE COMMISSION offered these remedies to correct the faults it found: The postmaster general should continue as a cabinet member appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate, but should not be an official of a political party. (The present postmaster general, Jesse M. Donaldson, is a career postal official and is not nead of a political party. Some of his predecessors have been chairmen of the Democratic and Republican national committees.) An experienced executive, preferably chosen from the service, -ihould be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate as director of posts.

He would be the operating head of the post-office. The postmaster general would determine departmental and oublic policies. The postal service should be decentralized into 15 regions under (Continued on page 10. col. 1) Was Football Star Earl J.

fSlam Anderson 73, Dies at Hospital Earl J. Slam Anderson, 73, Williams Bay, University of Wisconsin football star of half a century ago, died today at a Madison hospital after an illness of about one month. He was admitted to the hospital Jan. 7. flayed end on Wisconsin football teams about 50 years ago and starred on the same team with Pat ODea, Wisconsin's famed fullback.

Before entering the university he was an end in teams of the old Madison high school, now Central. He was born in Madison and for many years after graduating from the university here, operated a clothing store at Stoughton. He was engaged in the antique business at Williams Bay. Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Roger Simpson, Evanston.

111., and a brother, Curtis, Charles City, la. The body will be taken to the Cummings funeral home at Stoughton where funeral services will be Saturday at 1:30 p. m. will be in Riverside cemetery 1 there. institution to the detriment of its educational Handing, Nelson A.clared.

Sen. Taylor G. Brown kosh) spoke up in favor of the present board of regents. "There were once insidious influences working to undermine our great university, Brown declared. I see no Communist clubs in activity on the campus now.

THE THREE senate Democrats also fought against confirmation of two more of Gov. Rennebohms appointees. Re-appointment of William D. McIntyre, Eau Claire, to the normal schools board of regents was passed by a 21 to 3 vote. Three Republicans, Sens.

Gordon A. Bubolz, Appleton, Clayton Hicks, Phillips, and Oscar W. Neale, Stevens Point, joined Democrats in voting against confirmation of th appointment of Mrs. Charles H. Liehe, Chippewa Falls, as a member of the state board of public welfare.

The vote was 14 to 6 favoring confirmation. Bubolz argued that the appointment of Mrs. Liehe, who succeeds her late husband on the board, should have been held up pending a legislative investigation of an intradepartmental in the department between theaivi-sion of corrections and the Youth Service division. -v A I Otto Toepfer Otto Toepfer Dies Following Long Illness Well Known Farmer; Former Legislator and County Board Member Otto Toepfer, 77. of 4141 Man-dan Crescent, Nakoma, former state legislator and county supervisor, died -today at a Madison hospital following an illness of six months.

A former town of Middle-ton resident, he moved to Madison three years ago. Mr. Toepfer was born in the town of Middleton, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Otto Toepfer, Jan.

13, 1872. He attended the rural schools there. He was a well known farmer in that community as well as in the town of Madison. He married the former Ottillie Russ, Jan. 4, A former director of a Madison bank and a Madison trust company, he started the platting of the present Westmorland area on property he owned there.

Mr. Toepfer served as an assemblyman in the 1939 session of the legislature. 4- MR. TOEPFER served 10 consecutive years on the town board pf Madison, 10 years on the Middleton town board, and 19 years on the Dane county board. He was a member of Luther Memorial church and served on its building committee when the church was built.

He was a member of the Madison Zor Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star. At one time, be was a member of the Dane County Sportsmans League. He was a director of the Dane County Agricultural society for 20 years, serving as its president for two terms. He was president of the Dane County Holstein-Friesian association for three years. MR.

TOEPFER was well known for his hobby of collecting Indian relics which began when he was a youngster on his fathers farm. He collected over 2,000 Indian knives, pipes, arrow points, and axes. He also had a large collection of guns and Civil War ammunition. Mr. Toepfer was widely recognized for his raising of Canadian wild geese.

He made many donations of animals and birds to Vilas Park zoo and the Nakoma duck bond. He was called upon many times by Middleton and Madison community residents for advice on the purchase of farm lands, construe- (Continued on page 10, col. 2) Two Badgers Held On Kidnap Count ELK CITY, Okla. (A5) The FBI today filed kidnaping charges against two Wisconsin men in connection with the abduction of a California motorist The two are Wayne Louis Sass, 22, Racine, and Donald John Klein, 20, Appleton. Charges were filed in Oklahoma City.

The victim was Thomas J. Ward, Modesto, Calif. He said the pair took his car and $36 after he gave them a ride near Albuquerque. They drove him to the home of relatives here Wednesday and then left him and his car. Sass and Klein later were captured near Elk City.

Sass was accidentally shot In a scuffle while being searched. He received a wound in the right shoulder. The hospital reported he was in sat' isfactory condition. feel that they have something (Continue on page 10, col. 6) (Dash Hopes Hi WASHINGTON (IF) Rent controls seemed sure today to be con- Small Emergency Unit Is tinued but perhaps in weaker and shorter form than Pres.

Truman has requested. A check of some leading members of the house banking committee, now considering the legislation, indicated this line of thinking: 1. Continuation of rent ceilings for 12 to 14 months. Mr. Truman has requested two years.

2. A ban on mass eviction of tenants. Some landlords have threatened to withdraw their rental property from the market if rent ceilings are extended. 3. Power for the rent administrator to sue for damages where landlords overcharge tenants.

But the administration may not get its requested authority to bring criminal action, with fine and imprisonment on conviction, against property owners who violate the rent law. Tenants now have a right to sue for rent overcharges. But the administration contends that the fear of eviction prevents them from taking their complaints to the courts. It now is uncertain whether congress will grant the administrations request for authority to extend' the areas covered by rent controls and to restore controls over several classes of rental property previously decontrolled. Tighe Woods, housing expediter, has asked the committee for tighter authority to stop a growing black market in rental charges.

Spokesmen for many landlords have assailed rent control as confiscation of property and un-American. One group said continuation of. controls for one year would be all right if rent ceilings were raised 25 over June 30, 1947 levels. Badger Rape The East Sides plea for a general hospital was virtually shelved Wednesday night at a city council hearing, but possible development of a small emergency hospital in that area was suggested instead to some 50 East Siders. Although councilmen deferred action on a request by the East Side Business Mens association for an East Side hospital, until the committee-of-the-whole meeting next week, it appeared that approval would be given to proceed with a $2,500,000 addition to the Matjison General hospital.

CITY MANAGER Leonard G. Howell, who filed a report with the council urging adoption of the Madison General hospital expansion project, suggested that the city health department be advised to check the possibility of establishing an emergency hospital unit at the citys contagious hospital, 1954 E. Washington ave. Others who spoke were John Grady, chairman of the ESBMA hospital committee; Carl Erickson, Chicago, consulting hospital architect, Dr. David C.

Atwood, county coroner; R. J. Sutherland, representing directors of the Madison General Hospital association; Dr. Stuart McCormick, and several others. We want a hospital, not for the East Side, hut on the East Side, to serve the people better where they (Continued on page 10, col.

2) Surprised At Supreme obtained Writing in The Military Engineer. a technical publication. Robinson said intelligence also indicates that even if she had the atomic bomb Russia does not possess means of delivering it any better, if as good as, our own Robinson also said that, according to the best estimates. it will be several years before that nation can produce atomic bombs in quantity and develop carriers to launch them from great distances That being the case, "any war in the immediate future wrtl probably not entail sustained bombing attacks, ato'mic or otherwise, on the continental United States. BUT ROBINSON emphasized that we cannot afford to rely on this temporary situation.

He said it would be the height of folly not to assume Russia is trjing as hard as possible to make atomic bombs. He proposed that this country get to work at once on "measures to reduce our industrial vulnerability. He proposed dispersion of plants, placing precision instrument and other sensitive industries underground, and improvement of building design to mini mize bomb damage. Whether the military is relying on traditional intelligence methods or whether it possesses some new means of getting atomic data Robinson did not disclose. It is known, however, that the military is doing research on seismic and raiiological detection ol atomic explosions.

Seismographs on Truk atoll reportedly detected at once two of three atomic test blasts set off nearly 1,000 miles away at Eniwetok last spring. THERE HAVE been unofficial reports that this country also has stations for measuring the radioactivity in the atmosphere and thus recording after the fact atomic explosions at a distance. The atomic energy commission revealed this week that it possesses instruments which, carried across a region by automobile or plane, "will automatically register radioactivity. And last Jan. 31 the commission disclosed for the first time that it has set up its own intelligence agency to correlate and evaluate information on foreign atomic en ergy developments.

Dills Pile In Longest Session In History Seen THE WISCONSIN legislature appeared headed today for its longest and busiest session in history. Howard Ohm, director of the legislative reference library, said today his office has received requests from legislators for bills, amendments, and resolutions. The number Is within 3C of the all-time high at the end of the fifth week. Ohm said. The high point was in 1933.

when 1,828 came in. Legislators had until midnight Wednesday night to request bills. After this they must be asked through committees. Olm expects the total number of all requests before the end of the session to be about 5,000, setting an all-time high. Gopher Halfback Held for Larceny MINNEAPOLIS (UP) Glen Pullens, University of Minnesota football halfback, pleaded guilty to charges of third degree larcency when arraigned in Hennepin coun ty district court today.

Judge William A. Anderson referred the case to probation officers and released Pullens to custody of his attorney. No date wag set for sentencing. Pullens admitted stealing a wrist watch from a parked car and pawning it. State Senate Tax Bill Aimed At Out-State Firms Passed 0 Senate Votes 27 to 1 For Proposal Measure Nov Goes to Assembly By a 27 to 1 vote, the senate today passed a bill which would require out-of-state corporations to report their entire income to the Wisconsin department of taxation so that the latter body can use an apportionment method of determining their Wisconsin tax bill.

The problem of obtaining Wisconsin's share of taxes from out-of-state corporations was brought to light last year in a series of stories in The Capital Times. Gov. Oscar Rennebohm recommended action on an apportionment measure fn his message to the current legislature. Some out-of-state corporations were not revealing their full income to the state tax department by maintaining a system of separate accounts, Rennebohm stated in his message. The bill, which now goes to the assembly, gives the state department of taxation the discretion of permitting interstate corporations to continue using a separate account system of 'reporting their Wisconsin business in some cases.

Tlip lone vote against the apportionment measure was cast by Sen. George A. Mayer (R-Milwaukee). In other action today, the senate passed a bill restoring reckless driving as a statutory traffic offense, another requiring motorists to come to a full stop on overtaking school buses, and a third tightening the issuance ef drivers licenses to young motorists. The latter bill would establish a suspension period of from 30 days to one year for young drivers involved in moving car violations and ban drivers from 16 to 18 years of age from driving between midnight and 4 a.

m. unless accompanied by parents or guardians. The senate also advanced to the third reading a bill which would tighten the requirements for an occupational driver's license. Where To Find It Comics Page 18 Markets Page 28 Radio Programs Page 28 Show Time Page 8 Society Pages 14, 15 Sports Pages 26. 27 Woman's Page Page 12 Court Identity Late Vague, Says Illinois Sponsor SPRINGFIELD, Wisconsins stakite barring the publication of a womans name in a rape case was characterized as vague Wednesday by an Illinois solon who has introduced a bill of similar purpose.

Rep. Vernon Reich (R-Forest Park) said he was surprised the Wisconsin law was upheld by the state supreme court. He did not elaborate. Reichs bill would provide for punishment by imprisonment or fine of anyone who publishes the identity of a female who has been raped, except as may be necessary in the institution of prosecution of any civil or criminal court proceeding. Asked to define the phrase except as may be necessary, in his Reich said: Uhn.V dont.

really know who can. at this time, define necessity for Stoddard Case In Court at LaCrosse Neal H. Stoddard. Madison realtor. will be arraigned in U.

S. district court at La Crosse next week on a charge of violating the federal fraud statute in connection with the sale of a house to a veteran here. Court sessions will open at La Crosse Monday. U. S.

Dist. Atty. Charles H. Cashin said Stoddard had agreed waive indictment by a federal 5Lp.5i Kchiid: charges that Stoddard who ran a truck and was caught under one of its wheels, was one of two persons Injured in traffic accidents here Wednesday. The injured are John D.

Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Cox. 3814 St. Clair and Mrs.

Juanita Rush, 47, of 817 Day-ton st. The boy was running for a bus at Regent and Orchard police said. He ran against the side of an oil truck driven by Roy Lantz. 54, of 2938 Milwaukee was caught under a rear wheel, and was dragged 20 feet. He suffered head cuts, possible internal injuries, bruises, and loose teeth.

He was taken to St. Marys hospital, where his condition today was reported as "good. Mrs. Rush received minor shoulder and neck injuries when a light truck she was driving was involved in a collision with a car driven by Gregory D. Blas-ka, 23.

Marshall, at Johnson and Murray sts. '1 to divulging the name of a rape victim. This phrase does not strike me as very important to the bll He said if women's names were not publicized in rape cases the jmation jeaused the Bank of Madison to a false certificate to the Vet erans Administration setting the price of a house at $6,500. whereas veteran purchaser made an ad 'ditional side payment of $300. police could get more convictions, Women shun publicity, usually, Reich Told a reporter, and, jwhen a case gets publicity and the woman and her friends see her name in newspapers, she sometimes refuses to prosecute'.