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HOME FINAL EDITION Total Circulation Or gC Yesterday UjOUlJ Tbo lansst paid Dally Clrcalatloa af la 4T Only Madison Paper With Complete Associated Press Service aay smsayw la Wlacaatia aatsida of Milwaukee iv f1 I'V V-'" VOL. 30, NO. 149 OFFICIAL FAFBK OF T. STATE 0. WISCONSIN MADISON, WIS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS 7 VO Good Afternoon Everybody A Meteor Shower Officer, 2 Miners Slain in Ohio, Illinois Clashes New York Texes Forgotten Man.

By William T. Evjue: Plan Given Approval Of England Trail Badger Girls Slayer By Footprint Jf Because Mabel Smith, his housekeeper, threatened to leave him unless he got rid of his 8-year-oTd son. William Keehner, 49, Grant eounty farmer, stoned the boy to death, according to authorities. Miss Smith, pictured at the right, is show holding her child, Walter. Keehner has admitted being the babys father.

In the' isolated creek bottom shown at the left, Keehner murdered his son, Martin, and buried him under half a ton of rock, stone, and gravel Deputy Sheriff, Tom Manning is shown at the scene. Utilities Aim Death Blow at Heart Of Progressive Regulation Program Violet Snow CARTER, Wis. Deputy sheriffs and aroused citizens today searched in the forests of this region for Joseph Kornoski, 35, sought in the slaying of 16-year-old Violet Snow had spruned his love. Searchers had one unique clew-the tracks of a man wearing only one shoe. The man who stabbed Miss Snow to (Continued on Page 6) Blast Disables SiibmarineOff French Coast Number of Injured Is Unknown; Being Towed to Port CHERBOURG, France OP) The French submarine Persee, which sent out a call for assistance today after an explosion in the battery room, was taken in tow and was enroute to this port this afternoon escorted by number of naval and salvage vessels.

The first message for aid was sent out by Commandant Bertrand while the vessel was between Guernsey and the French coast. Details were not available Immediately. The number of injured could not be learned. The vessel is of the same type as the submarine Promethee whicn sank off Cherbourg last July with heavy loss of life. The submarine Persee is approximately 300 feet long with 30 foot beam.

The normal crew is about 65 men. Frank McKenna Is Found Dead in Bed Early Resident Here Dies Today at E. Johnson St Home Frank McKenna, 68, a resident of Madison most of his life, was found dead in bed at his home, 917 E. Johnson this noon. On July 5 Mr.

and Mrs. McKenna celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. McKenna was a horse-shoer by trade. Besides the widow and an only son, Joseph, three daughters survive: Mrs.

Herbert Prichel, Mrs. Richard Splinter, and Mrs. James Taylor. Score Hurt In Battle at Springfield Ohio Troops Called Out Following Killings at Athens, O. A police officer and two miners were slain in two desperate mine riots in Illinois and Ohio Sunday and today.

At Springfield, 111., a detective was shot dead and a score of persons wounded as members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with a rival miners union within three blocks of the governors mansion. At Athens, two men were shot and killed as the outcome of a clash in the mine fields. Gov. George White of Ohio has ordered the national guardsmen to the scene. 2 Shot Dead in Ohio; Troops Ordered Out ATHENS, O.

() Two men were shot and killed in the Hocking Valley mine field late Sunday night and early today. One of the dead was believed to have been an innocent victim of the mine warfare, while the other was killed as the outgrowth of a strike argument. The dead are: CLARMONT BAN FIELD, 18, of Hunterton. BOYD VINCENT. 45, of Luhrig, an active strike agitator.

County officials, headed by Sheriff Wayne Wmgett, rushed to the scene from this city. Gov. George White today ordered Ohio national guardsmen to proceed to Athens. Young Banfleld was believed an innocent victim of the strike troubles at the mine of the Ohio Collieries near which his home is located. The mine has refused to accept Gov.

Whites ten-point program to settle the strike and has been the scene of trouble since other mines in the region accepted the peace plan and resumed operations last week, Men am bug he in the hills near the mine had been sniping during the night and the early morning hours. As young Banfleld and his mother were preparing breakfast a shot was fired and Banfleld fell dead. He was not a miner. Vincent had attended church Sunday night at Luhrig and shortly after he left, two men near the church said they heard a shot. Investigation showed Vincent was dead.

Later Cash Tedrow, 38, who worked in the Luhrig mine, gave himself up to authorities. He claimed he shot Vincent after the latter said: Im going to get you. Vincent had been active in promoting the strike. Detective Slain in Riots at Springfield SPRINGFIELD, III. (A5) A street riot in which a police officer was killed and a score or more of other persons injured, two critically, has brought the smouldering Illinois mine war to a new phase of hostilities, The clash was the first in which the opposing factions of miners have done physical battle with each other, Heretofore outbreaks have been confined, except in isolated incidents, to melees in which peace officers and miners have been antagonists.

Jeered by Picketeers Sunday, as a group of 1 about 50 miners belonging to the United Mine Workers of America marched from (Continued on page 6) Batlser Bank Held Up; Loot $1900( Bandits Rob Turtle Lake Vaults; Force 4 to Lie On Floor TURTLE LAKE, Wis. (A5) Three young men described by the victims as rather courteous robbed the Bank of Turtle Lake of from $1,000 to $1,500 today after forcing four men and a woman to lie on the floor. One of the gunmen covered his victims while the other rifled the drawers in the cashier's cage and then helped himself to cash in the vault During the holdup. F. G.

McKenzie cashier, and James Davison, customer, came into the bank. They were or dered to lie alongside Mary Me Kenzte, bookkeeper, William Nuesse, assistant cashier and John Matyl, customer. Dog Gone! Viiinia Daggett, 8, of 2046 Rutledge is grieving over the loss her wire-haired terrier Pooch, who strayed from home Sunday. Pooch is a male, has a black spot on his tail and brown spots around ears and eyes. Virginia may reached at B.

54. Retriever Puppy Lost A valuable Chesapeake retriever puppy was lost Sunday afternoon on north shore of Lake Mendota. Capitol Fox Ranch would be grateful for Information as to its whereabouts or for its return. Chappie to Sink Senate To New Low Thomas Bids Progressives Join Socialists Big Crowd Hears Him If John B. Chappie is elected to the U.

S. senate, that long-suffering body will have reached a new low level, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, told a crowd that nearly filled sections containing 5,500 seats at the university football stadium Sunday afternoon. Devoting the major portion of his speech to Wisconsin, politics, Mr. Thomas attacked Chappie, Stalwart Republican nominee for U. S.

senator, and the Democrats with devastating wit and urged Progressives to vote the Socialist ticket. Attacks Roosevelt Calling Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for president, a man without a program, Mr. Thomas deplored information he had been given that the Progressive papers in Wisconsin are thinking of supporting Roosevelt to get revenge on Hoover. What a program! What an abuse of political power! Mr.

Thomas exclaimed. A forestry program, elimination of slums, and building of necessary public works now to provide jobs with federal relief fund6, locally administered, to aid those without work constitute the Socialist program to cope with the depression, Mr. Thomas said. Transfer of the ownership of industry peacefully from a few men to the entire public to be used for the benefit of all is the Socialist plan for solving unemployment and misery created by capitalism, he pointed out. Mr.

Thomas callei Hie- Stalwart victory in last Tuesdays Wisconsin primary the result of a contemptible appeal to fear and prejudice to get votes and charged that statements in Chappie's red-bound booklet, La Follette Socialism, concerning Thomas views were false. I used to think Wisconsin was fairly liberal, but I no longer think so at least with regard to those who voted for Chappie," Mr. Thomas declared. The speakers sallies concerning Chappie and Wisconsin politics were greeted with laughter and enthusias tic applause. Makes State Tour Mr.

Thomas speech here was the first of seven in Wisconsin. Sunday night he was at Beloit, today he speaks at noon and at night in Mil waukee, Tuesday he goes to Kenosha and Racine, and Wednesday he will speak in Superior. Prior to his speech in the stadium, Mr. Thomas gave a 15-minute nationwide broadcast over the NBC net work through WIBA, Madison, from the university fieldhouse. Eis ad dress in the stadium was broadcast ever university station.

Frank B. Metcalfe, Milwaukee, Socialist candidate for governor, who preceded Mr. Thomas on the stadium program, declared that a vote for either of the old parties was wanted because the citizen casting the ballot merely voted for what he already had. He criticized the "cut costs issue of Walter J. Kohler, Stalwart Republi can nominee for governor, and said the only issue under a capitalistic system can be bread and butter How is he (Kohler) going to cut costs? Is he going to close the public school system, is he going to quit building highways, or abandon our asylums? Mr.

Metcalfe, a former assemblyman, asked. "If you reduce taxes, you must cut out some part (Continued on Page 6) Mayor A. G. Schmedeman tmued and extended and will be continued and extended under a Democratic administration in Wisconsin. The abolition of utility regulatory (Continued on Page 6) 3 kO YOU KNOW that the earth, whirling through space, plows through meteors every day? Wisconsin Progressives evidently thought that they were in a shower of meteors last Tuesday night.

These meteors do not constitute any danger to the people on earth. Fortunately they are burned up as a result of the friction with the atmosphere surrounding the earth. Yet occasionally the earth is struck by one of these missies. There is a meteor in northern Greenland which weighs 374 tons. For years the Eskimos hae been making knives and weapons out of its iron.

Of the tax dollar collected in New Y'ork City, 72.7 per cent of the dollar comes from taxes on real estate. Some day there's going to be a real revolt in this country against the present practice of loading such an era helming share of the burden of government on one class of property. The phrase, the forgotten man, is becoming identified in the American conscience with Gov. Roosevelt did not coin this phrase. To Prof.

William Graham Sumner of Yale uniersity goes the credit for bringing the forgotten man into the American scene. Prof. Sumner was a noted opponent of Socialism and the protective tariff. He wrote a treatise in which one of the chapters was headed, "A certain man who was never thought of, and another chapter was headed, The case of the forgotten man considered. The man who killed his idiot son near Lancaster the other day was in the editorial rooms of The Capital Times Saturday.

He was on his way to prison where he will spend the remainder of his life. As we looked at the poor, dejected figure of Will Keehner, we couldnt help but contemplate what part heredity, environ-iicnt, and lack of education had in the tragedy. Keehner looked like the average farmer in southern Wisconsin. But even to a man condemned to live the balance of his life in a steel cage there are compensations. Keehner in telling of a sordid and dreary married life, said that Jus w.fe had treated him like an outcast and that many times he had to sleep in the barn.

Now at least, said Keemer, Ill have a place to sleep and three square meals a day. Herman W. Sachtjen will tell you that the federal control of prohibition enforcement was a mighty factor in the recent Wisconsin election. It was significant that immediately after the primary w. Frank Cunningham, a prohibition official unpopular with the speakeasies and the bootleggers in Milwaukee and along the lake shore, was transferred to Minneapolis.

The newspapers immediately heralded this as a great victory for Levi Bancroft, S. district attorney, just nomin a for attorney general. From now until election time there wont be much enforcement in Milwaukee and along the lake shore. Mr. Sachtjen, prohibition director under Gov.

Blaine, once told Mr. Blaine that in repealing the Wisconsin prohibition enforcement law a mighty weapon to control Wisconsin was being placed in the hands of the Old Guard Republicans. Every speakeasy in Milwaukee was plugging for the election of Kohler, Why? Despite all this, the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon league (what there is left of it) endorsed Kohler and Chappie by sending out secret letters in the last hours of the campaign. The Rev. Warren Jones will have some plausible excuse for that.

The real facts are, however, that the pious, sanctimonious sychophants in the Anti-Saloon league have always lined up on the side of privilege and wealth. Otto Christianson of Lancaster, district attorney of Grant county, was In this morning. Mr. Christianson was among those who vent down in the landslide that caught the ins. Mr.

Christianson was defeated by Heljmar Lewis, a brother of city attorney Ted Lewis of Madison. Mr. Christianson says that the spirit of discontent and revolt are in the air, that the people are liable to do anything. Lucky are the office holders over in the Dane county courthouse. They (Continued on page 4) Krenz Leaves Golf; Takes Up Football A SERIES oi graphic Football Sketches, portraying trick plays, positions, and duties of players, and pet scoring punches of various colleges, is being prepared for readers of The Capital Times by Art Krenz.

Krenz, IE A Service artist, is nationally known for his interesting series of golf articles. His football stories promise io be every bit as entertaining golf sketches, grams Illustrate the various plays. The first of the series, discussing the spinner play, will be found on todays Sport Page. of be the The Cabinet, Meeting All Night, Approves Privi leges for Lower Castes 6 DAYS HUNGER -WEAKENS LEADER Given Fruit, Goat Milk to Restore Failing Strength By The Associated Press POONA, India Mahatma Gandhi, inspired by' news that the British government at London had approved most of the compromise plan on' the privileges of Indian untouchables in legislative elections, broke his death fast of protest this afternoon. Gandhi broke his fast at 5 p.

India time 5:30 a. m. C. S. T.

He had abstained from food six days and five hours. Gandhi began his self-imposed ordeal at noon last Tuesday, as a protest against that part of the recent British communal award which proposed special constituencies for the depressed classes. Days of negotiations followed between leaders of the depressed classes and the caste Hindus. These finally ended in a compromise plan to which the Mahatma agreed. Government Accepts The British government this morning announced the acceptance of the compromise plan, with certain reservations, and Gandhi decided to take food again.

In the meantime, his physical strength had been ebbing away and early today his physicians stated his condition was becoming; serious. His physicians insisted he should first be given a small quantity of orange Juice and later some goats milk, diluted with warm water. Cabinet Meets All Night The decision of the British cabinet in London was announced early this morning after a meeting which lasted until nearly midnight last night and in which Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald participated. The news was cabled here immediately and was met with great rejoicing. It was about 4:15 oclock when they brought him news that the government in London had accepted the compromise agreement Lifted lTp by Wife The little man was so weak that his wife had to lift him up on his cot and prop his back while he read the official document very carefully.

There was a brief discussion among his friends assembled at the bedside. Then, satisfied that the conditions for ending his fast had been fulfilled, the Mahatma sank back with a low ID08J1 But before he would eat he insisted on prayers. Members of the little group sat on the ground about the cot and chanted a prayer led by Rabindranath Tagore, the famous Indian poet, who came here this morning. Gandhi was too weak to join In the chant, but his lips moved feebly as he followed the familiar words. Meanwhile a cup of musambl, a sweet lime juice concoction, had been prepared.

When the prayers were ended Mrs. Gandhi held the cup to his mouth. The mahatma sipped a lew drops slowly, then sank back exhausted upon a pillow. The governments statements noted that the agreement reached between (Continued on page 6) Schmeling Tops Walker 14 Pounds Weighs 188 For Bout Tonight; Mickey Scales 174 NEW YORK (A) Max Schmeling of Germany outweighed Mickey Walker of Rumson, N. only 14 pounds today when they weighed in at the state athletic commission for tonight's 15-round bout at Long Island City.

Schmeling scaled 1884 to Walkers 1744. Your Best Move -if you are moving to another city, or just across the street, is to move your eyes over the Movers column in Tha Capital Times Want Ads. You will find it a ready directory of reliable movers that will save time and money for you. Challenge Legality of Portion of '31 Law' on Cost Assessment Utilities in Wisconsin today struck a blow at the very heart of the Pro gressive utility regulation program by challenging the constitutionality of the portion of the 1931 strict regulation law that provides for financing general costs of the Wisconsin public service commission. The action came at a heating in the capitol today, less than a week after the Stalwart victory in last Tuesdays primary, which utilities helped to achieve.

Will Sap Funds Even if utilities lose a court action to test the laws constitutionality, they will succeed in tying up or the commissions budget, secured by assessments against utilities this year, so that the commission by April of next year will be without funds. With smug grins of satisfaction, several utility representatives at the hearing today exhibited the Kohler Cut Costs hatchets. The Wisconsin Telephone most bitter foe of regulation in Wisconsin, led the utilities in challenging the constitutionality of the assessment feature in the regulatory law, J. F. Krlzek, counsel for the company, filed a written statement challenging the, assessment clause, which permits the commission to levy its general operating bests on the utilities of the state within the limit of one-fifth of one per cent of the utilities gross revenues.

The majority of about 30 representatives of other utilities then signified orally that they joined in the Wisconsin Telephone Co.s challenge. One Hope Ramins One hope remains to the commission to stave off a hamstringing of its activity the granting by the present state emergency board of an allotment in anticipation of the to be collected under the challenged assessment clause. If the present Progressive-controlled emergency board grants such an allotment, the public sendee commission can continue its effective regulatory work at least until the end oi the present fiscal year next July 1. Prior to 1931 costs of the old railroad commission, predecessor of the Wisconsin public service commission, were borne by the taxpayers of the state. The 1931 legislature, however, under leadership of Gov.

La Follette, enacted into law the bill which Sen. Thomas M. Duncan, Milwaukee, now the governors secretary, introduced, (Continued on Page 6), George Sprecher Left Net Estate of $23,700 George Sprecher, who died in his automobile while driving along Spaight a week ago, left an estate valued at $23,700, according Girl, Brother, 2 Others Hurt As Gars Crash Irene Lovick, Stoughton, Has Fractured Skull Four persons were hurt, one of them seriously, when two cars collided on highway 51, near Lake Ke-gonsa, shortly after 10 Sunday morn-tog. The injured are: IRENE LOVICK, 14, Stoughton. RAYMOND LOVICK, Morrison-ville.

ANDREW LANGETEIG, Dane. CHRIST LANGETEIG, Dane. The girl suffered serious injuries. She sustained a possible skull fracture, and is in the Madison General hospital. Her brother, and the Lange-telg brothers, suffered lacerations for which they received treatment at the hospital.

The four were riding in a car driven by Andrew Langeteig. The machine crashed against a car driven by Gabriel Giovanoni, Beloit, as the latter turned into a driveway. The Langeteig car W'as following the Giovanoni machine, according to the report cf Oswald Larson, county motorcycle officer who investigated. Giovanoni told the officer he signalled that he was going to make the turn. Lawrence Ledvina, Manitowoc, Dead Ex-Solon Former Kelley Law Partner, Passes Away Today Lawrence W.

Ledvina. 52, Manitowoc attorney and former assembly-man, died at a Manitowoc hospital today. Mr. Ledvina was first elected to the assembly in 1904 while attending the university law school, from which he graduated in 1906. Reelected for two successive terms.

Mr. Ledvina was chairmen of the Judiciary committee in the 1909 session. Later he practiced law at Two Rivers and Manitowoc, where he was for 10 years law partner of Edward L. Kelley, now executive director of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Madison. Night Longer Than Day First Time Since Winter Night was longer than day today for the first time since last winter.

To Seek Gelosi Extradition on New Testimony Girl's Identification Be Basis of Latest Action to Dist. Atty. Fred Risser will go tack to the beginning, and start all over again in efforts to return Joe Gelosi from Elmira, N. to Madison, he announced today. Gelosi is alleged to be the boss" of the slaying here July 5 of Andrew Prestl.

After arrangements had been made for Gelcsi's extradition on a charge of removing mortgaged property when he left Madison three years ago, Ge losi's agents paid a local business house the amount owed on a radio, $140. As a result, Gelosis New York attorney is seeking a new hearing be fore Lt. Gov. Lehman of New York to have the extradition papers re voked. A warrant had been issued charging Gelosi with being an accessory to Prestis murder, but extradition papers on that charge were not approved because the warrant was issued on information and belief.

Mr. Risser now will start new extradition proceedings on the accessory charge. He will file an information in court here, basing the accessory charge on information and knowledge, he said. A copy of the information, together with affidavits of Capt. Leo J.

Kinney, Mrs. Kathryn Snahall, Janesville, and Miss Sandrea Livingston, 21, Milwaukee, eye witness to the Presti slaying, will be sent to Albany. The accessory warrant was issued while Capt. Kinney, and Mrs. Snash-all were in New York, and Mr.

Risser (Continued on page 6) Men Steal Plane; All Die in Crash Kidnaped Watchman of Rio Airport Also Killed in Weird Ride RIO DE JANEIRO () Four men were dead today after commandeering an airplane of the Pan-American Airways, which crashed and burned shortly after it left the airport. The dead were the three men who took the plane and the watchman at the field, who apparently was forced into the ship at the point of a pistol and taken on the death ride. Police said they learned Walter Voss, a German, and Joao Leal, a Sao Paulo merchant, had plotted with Ernest Cabeiroa, a Brazilian employe of the company, who was at the field all night. These three, with the watchman, were found dead in the wreeqage after the plane crashed 15 miles from here. Voss, who piloted the plane, apparently was inexperienced, they said, for the ship divei crazily into the crash.

Govt. Control of Utilities Is Urged by Schmedeman r. Backs Roosevelt Plan to Curb Greed, Abuses of Industry OMMISSION regulation of utili ties by state and nation to prevent abuses arising from private greed was advocated by Mayor A. G. Schmedeman, Democratic nominee for governor, in a statement issued here today.

The question of regulation of utilities is a state as well as a national issue, he said. Here we wish to quote Gov. Frank D. Roosevelt, candidate for president on the Democratic ticket: Quotes Roosevelt The regulating commission, my friends, must be a tribune of the people, putting its engineering, accounting aijd legal resources into the breach for the purpose of getting the facts and doing justice to both the consumers and investors in public utilities. This means positive and active protection of the people against private greed.

We are in entire sympathy with that statement of principle. Much good work has been done in Wisconsin through its regulatory commissions. This work should be con- With the sun rising at 5:50 and set- to the petition for administration of ting at 5:49, tonight will be two min-the estate filed today in Dane county utes longer than today, court. Two lighters were IMed es Showers tonight Sri the Madison heirs. Alice S.

Sprecher. Madison, area will be followed by cloudiness and Mrs. Florence Murley, Blue I and cooler weather tomorrow, the ver- i weather bureau reports. 3 vw upr ap- -A if 'Vv.