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6 Home Owned Home Edited Home Read THE CAPITALTIMES Thursday Afternoon, July 21, 1938 MADISON WISCONSIN Probe of CIO Mt. Horeb Fall Frolic Will i I 5 Mail Car Robbers Get Prison Terms City-County Building is Certain, View Good Afternoon Everybody Be Held Sept. P. Brechler Is Named General Chairman for Event MT. HOREB C.

P. Brechler has been appointed general chairman of the 16 th annual Mt. Horeb fall frolic to be held Sept. 8-1'. The frolic is being sponsored by the local chamber of commerce.

Voting in the "queen contest, which annually highlights the program, will open July 25 and will close Sept. 3. Any girl of the community, over 16, is eligible to enter the contest. The queen will receive $50 and will preside over the frolic. Runners-up in their respective order will receive prizes of $25.

$15. $10 and $5. The frolic will open Sept. 8 with a queen coronation ceremony and an amateur night program. Other committee members are: Jacob Lingard, assistant chairman; Jorgen M.

Moe, secretary: B. E. Dah-len, treasurer; J. B. Johnson, Sever Martinson, Dr.

A. S. Thompson, M. A. Tollund and R.

Vasen, program committee: A. A. Austin, T. S. Thompson and Arthur Krohn.

publicity: Jacob Lingard, Oluf Smesrud, Jesse Lauderdale. John Beat. Fred Rieck and Matt Marty, tent and inside concessions; A. M. Hrubetsky, A.

M. Johnson. Stanley Himsel, Andrew Rude, Ralph Fosshage, outside concessions: Ernest Schaller, Matt Egum, Ray Kellesvig, Joe Buechner, Anton Mickelson, Werner Wuethrich, Ed Throndson, Frank British King Reviews Frances War Machine Playmates three are Michael Stephens, Barbara Mathys and Jackie Olson, who will model the latest togs for kiddies at the style show at Maple Bluff Country Club on Friday afternoon. Fashions with a Future is sponsored by Tri-Hi for the benefit of the Kiddie Camp Fund, and is open to the public. Tickets may be obtained from Miss Ruth lluegel at Badger 7205 or from the society editor at Badger 2200.

The playsuits shown here were selected by Dolly Madison, fashion editor, from the Jack and Jill Shop. Photo by University Photo Shop. Present Sheriff Deputies Freed of Civil Service iii S' 1 810 This Year 'V a. i C. P.

Brechler Eabansky. Ray Williams, Ben Mavis and Arthur Kahl, construction: Lyle Johnson. Lloyd Staub. Herbert Micka. and Carroll Robertshaw, decorations; B.

E. Dallen, H. B. Rue. Edward Goli and Ralph Dahle, finance; Tryge Thoreson.

Cliff Osmundson. Isaac Myrland, Mark Saunders, T. S. Thompson. Fred Wagner, A.

A. Babcock and Owen Sharer, queen contest; Oliver Lee, Otto Mitmoen. J. C. Fjel-stad and Sigurd Moe, policing.

Stone Made 28 Errors At Oil Trial, Is Claim (Continued from page 1) transcripts of the witnesses' grand jury testimony without showing that such transcripts were read over or examined by the witnesses at the time such testimony was reduced to writing. It is also claimed that the court erred in charging the jury that sales of gasoline by the defendants in the western court district of Wisconsin constituted overt acts in that district. Charge Improver Action Action of government counsel was also listed as a reason for appealing from the decision of the court. It is charged in the appeal that government counsel improperly examined witnesses, made improper remarks which were not supported by the evidence, and making inflammatory, abusive, and upsupported statements and appeals to prejudice the Jury. It is also claimed that government counsel raised certain issues which were not raised by the indictment.

The court also erred, it is claimed, in holding that the activities of a group having the power to control the price of gasoline were not to be judged by the rule of reason under the Sherman act. Counsel for the defendants also claims that the court erred in instructing the jury that there was no evidence of government approval of the plan to raise gasoline prices, and also erred in refusing defendants the right to show that the government to raise prices through the NRA. Hits Court Rulings The court also erred, it is alleged, in ruling that allegations in the indictment relative to fixing prices through false reports of prices inserted in trade journals were immaterial and non-essential allegations and that any combination conspiracy to raise prices is illegal. It is also claimed that the court erred in improperly restricting the scope of counsel's opening statement to the jury on behalf of the appeal-lants. Impounding of the appellants' documents and permitting their use by the government counsel is also declared an unlawful procedure in the appeal.

iSavy Plane Plunges Into San Francisco Bay SAN FRANCISCO. An eyewitness said he saw an object that might have been a man fall from a navy seaplane as it plunged into Saa Francisco bay today. Naval authorities said the craft was a seaplane from the battleship Idaho, equipped to carry two fliers. They did not know whether anyone was rescued. The witness.

R. E. Clark, said he saw the flying boat leave a four-plane formation, go into a spin and hit the water with a terrific splash. New Wage, Hour Chief Elmer F. Andrews (above) New York state industrial commissioner, has been appointed by Pres.

Roosevelt to administer the new federal wage-hour law. Cost 6 Steel Firms $75,000 (Continued from Page 1) manufacturers association through Hill and Knowlton. Payments Bared Hill testified the firm received $248,654 from August, 1933. to December. 1937.

from the Republic Steel the Xhugstown Sheet St Tube and the American iron St Steel Institute. Knowlton said the firm participated in preparing publicity releases, radio speeches and other items for the Greater Akron association to combat the series of sit-down strikes and "other tactics employed by the CIO, in Akron. Earlier in the hearing this morning officials of Republic had upheld the company's labor policies. R. J.

Wysor of Cleveland, president of the comcem, returned to the witness stand after testifying yesterday that for years Republic had a aat- factory bargaining arrangement with our employes. He insisted collective bargaining must be placed on a basis of mutual benefit for the employer and employe and not conducted "for the purpose of regimenting employes and driving them into unions. Raps Wagner Act Criticizing the Wagner act and the national labor realtions board. Wysor blamed them for an unprecedented wave of strikes, seizure of plants and breakdown of law enforcement." He urged amendment of the labor act to "make it a fair law. The committee offered evidence yesterday to show that the Republic company made unsuccessful attempts last year to influence editorial opinion in Birmingham.

Ala, newspapers. Chairman LaFoliette put into the record three letters written to Wysor fcy Wade H. Oldham and Kenneth D. Mann, Republic officials, after the Little -Steel strike ended in the summer of 1937. Oldham WTote that he found James Chappell, president and general manager of the Birmingham Age-Herald and News, and Jimmie Mills, editor of the Birmingham Post, radically inclined.

Mann gave the names of citizens he said he believed carried "personal influence with Victor Hanson, publisher of the Age-Herald and News, and urged they be persuaded to use their influence with him. Wants Explanation Oldham wrote that a committee called on Hanson, but he added, "I can not see that this did any good, however. La Follette asked about a paragraph in one of Oldham's letters describing an organization being formed with plans to put into action a movement to down the CIO and Communistic activities in the state of Alabama." Oldham explained this was a citizens league, the full name of which he could not remember, although he was a member. La Follette brought out in question-! ing Wysor that Republic had paid $1,425,696 from 1933 to 1937 to trade xxriations, community chests and other enterprises. These donations were made.

Wysor testified, in spite of the fact that Republics purse was always lean. Attend Kiddie Camp Tea and Style Revue (Continued from Page 1) direction the fashion show is being presented, has assembled an array of fashions whiefi It will do Mrs. and Miss of Madison a lot of good to see. The girls of Tri-Hi have been working hard for several weeks to learn the fine points of clothing modeling. But most of all.

when you buy your ticket, most of that money goes towards helping keep those 48 little boys and girls at the camp. It takes a lot of ways to finance a Camp and the style show is just one more way by which Kiddie Camp friends can back the camp. The benefit has already received the whole-hearted support of local people and concerns. The Blied Printing Co. ran off enough tickets to satisfy the most optimistic demand.

Tables and chairs have been donated by the Moose and Elks clubs, and the Gunderson and Schroeder funeral homes. Music will be provided by the Forbes-Meagher Co. Officials at Maple Bluff were eager to put the club at the disposal of Tri-Hi for the benefit. While the list of benefit contributors has rot been completed, the arrangements committee was meeting cooperation from Kiddie Camp friends in every direction. In Contrib Column In the contribution column today are Frank H.

Bixby, who sent in $10; the Lake View Sanatorium local 65 of the American Federation of State Municipal Employes with $5, and A Friend with $5. The children in Lake Edge Park sponsored a Kiddie Camp circus hich netted a $1.28 contribution. The Kiddies featured a trained dog in their circus and a tiger cat and her kittens. Those taking a part were Mary Lou. Dorothy, Larry and Marie Larson: Lorraine.

Patsy, and Donald Stevens. Perry Wirth. Patsy Lorey ar.d Bob Larson. Fretl II. Hefty of Belleville, Dead Retired Farmer Dies at Madison Hospital at Age 6S BELLEVILLE.

Fred H. Hefty. 66. Belleville retired farmer, died at a Madison hospital last night. He came to the United States from Switzerland at the age of 17, and lived in Green county most of his life since then.

Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Barbara Hefty; one son and three daughters by previous marriage to the former Anna Diseh. who died in 1918. The son is Fred, Albany: the daughters are Mrs. Arthur Donaldson.

Eau Claire, and Mrs. Robert Root and Mrs. A. j. Hanson, both of prooklyn.

Watertown Man anti 3 Others Also Assessed $300 Each Admonishing that It must be impressed on other railroad men that the U. S. mails cannot be robbed, Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone yesterday afternoon sentenced four railroad brakemen, one of them from Water-town, and a railway express clerk, all of them with between 21 and 28 years service, to terms in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Fa. The men.

arraigned in U. S. district court after being named in indictments returned yesterday noon by a federal grand jury, pleaded guilty to the various charges against them. They told Judge Stone they were "throwing themselves on the mercy of the court. Lose Little Time Postoffice Inspectors lost little time in bringing the men to justice.

One of them, Emanuel P. Stoll. 43, Watertown, was overpowered by a post-office agent in a speeding Milwaukee road train last Tuesday. Stoll involved the others who were taken into custody. All five had confessed by Wednesday.

Besides Stoll, the men are Merritt R. Shaw, 40, Hartford, and Burton C. Shackley, 52, George H. Fidlin, and Bernard T. McGinnis, 43, all of Milwaukee.

Sentences for each of the men follow STOLL 3 years and $300 for -ilegal possession and use of keys to U. S. mail bags, and 2 years for conspiracy to rob the mails. The sentences are concurrent. STACKLEY 3 years and $300 for theft of the U.

S. mails and 2 years for conspiracy, the sentences to run concurrently. SHAW 3 years and $300 for possession and use of keys to I. S. mail bags and 2 years for conspiracy, the sentences to run concurrently.

MCGINNIS 3 years and $300 for possession and nse of keys to the mails and 2 years for conspiracy, the sentencs to run concurrently. FIDLIN 2 years for conspiracy. Present in the courtroom were Stolls wife and five children, ranging in age from 4 to 20 years. Women relatives of the other defendants were in the courtroom and several of them wept after sentence. Shaw, the only other married man of the five defendants, is the father of four boys ranging from 7 to 21 years in age.

I want you men to know, said Judge Stone after sentence was imposed, that I could have sentenced you to 17 years each. I have taken into account, however, that several of you are married and that ail of you have had clean records. I hope these short terms will teach you that you must not rob the mails and impress on other railroad men that the U. S. mails cannot be robbed.

I have considered the tremendous loss to your families and the fact that you men may never be able to get another job with a railroad. I am sentencing you to the U. S. Northeastern penitentiary at Lewisburg. which is a penitentiary of the better type.

Overpowered in Car The government's case against the men was presented by John Boyle, U. S. district attorney, and John Streich, Minneapolis, post office agent who caught Stoll opening a mail sack in a Milwaukee road mail car. As the train sped at a 70-mile clip between Portage and New Lisbon, Streich sprang from his hiding place, grappled with Stoll and overpowered him. Streich prepared the ambush after months of investigation traced the thefts to the fast Milwaukee road mail train.

This was one of the largest mail trains in the country, said Streich. These men took advantage of a golden opportunity. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of sacks were opened on this train. "Thousands of railroad mefi have the same opportunity as these men had. The Milwaukee road looks upon this train as one of their pets.

The road had utmost confidence in these men. Streich said he could make no estimate of the total amount of the articles taken from the mails. The men were charged with but one theft. None of them would admit taking more than $100 worth. Streich said the thefts dated back to 1935.

The men told Judge Stone the stolen articles consisted of handkerchiefs, pistols, socks, overcoats, and similar items. They said they never sold any of the items, but Streich pointed out that all of the loot could not be recovered in their homes. "I stole to help my family, said Stoll. "Evcrytime I came home theyd ask me for something, but I didn't have the money to buy them things. Stoll and Shaw admitted making counterfeit keys which were used to open mail sacks.

McGinnis admitted having a key but said he got it from Stoll. Stoll denied this. Stoll accused the other men of making him the goat. "I want to make something clear, he told Judge Stone. For some unknown reason they want to make me the goaL This is not true.

Each and everyone of us is equally guilty. I sorry I transgressed the law. Ive always taken care of my family and I want to make good. This is the first time Ive ever been in trouble. Ive never even had a parking ticket.

McGinnis was an employe of the Railway Express Co. The other men were brakemen on the Milwaukee road. Robert Schmedeman Is Shaken in Fall at Hotel Robert Schmedeman, 72, Monona hotel, retired Madison merchant, was shaken up severely when he fell in a corridor of the hotel yesterday. He did not go to a hospital then but after- he told friends at the Eagles club last night that his back felt sore, the friends caused him to be taken to Madison General hospital. Attendants said he apparently suffered no serious injury.

The number of men in gainful occupations in 1930 was three and a half times the number of women. (Continued from page 1) separate and distinct, and where each unit of government would issue its own bonds to pover the cost of its own part of construction is possible. The report of the special county board committee, headed by Chairman Frank A. Stewart, was highly in favor of a Joint structure, which would meet the requirements as outlined by Chapman and Cutler. "Your committee, after investigating all sources of information and advice available, believes a dual city hall and county court house building to be feasible, the committee report read.

Must Act Separately But, the report continued, the city of Madison and the county of Dane will have to make their own separate applications for PWA grants, effect their own bond issues and keep distinct property lines between county and city property. This would necessitate a detailed definite agreement between the city and county govern ments which would have to be authorized by both governmental units. The committee reported that it had met twice with a city committee, headed by Mayor James R. Law and that information from cities and counties where joint buildings have been erected showed that in nearly every case joint structures were economical and altogether successful. While on its face the attorney general's opinion would seem to prohibit erection of a joint city-county building in Wisconsin, Dist.

Atty. Lyall T. Beggs said that the opinion only, creates additional architectural and engineering problems. The opinion, Beggs explained, was given at his request and dealt only with the question of whether the building could be constructed and operated by the two units of government as tenants in common. Loomis declared there is no Wisconsin statute authorizing counties to join with a municipality in the construction of a joint building.

He declared that express permission must be granted by the legislature before such a venture can be started. "Our conclusion may be and probably is undesirable in result but there is no other conclusion possible under Wisconsin law, Loomis ruled. The remedy, he added, is enabling legislation. Beggs said that after receiving Loomis opinion, he conferred further with Chapman and Cutler and with representatives of the attorney general's office and he was convinced that the issue raised by Loomis can be met. Suggests IMan Beggs said that the county could vote to erect a courthouse, and the city vote to erect a city hall and issue bonds for these purposes.

The two buildings could then be constructed side by side, and in reality be one building as long as the county was given title to its portion of the structure and the city given title to the other portion. The property rights of both the city and the county must be separate and distinct, but the line of demarcation between the city and county property might be an imaginary line, drawn by surveyors. The dividing line between the city and county property may be imaginary but it must be there, Beggs said. He declared that the Milwaukee Safety building and the Chicago city-county building were examples of structures that were erected under identical conditions. Architect K.

H. Sheldon, who has drawn tentative plans for a combined building, said that cost of constructing in one building a courthouse and a city hall with distinct property lines would be no more per cubic foot than if a building were planned on common property without distinguishing definite property lines. Sheldons plans call for a 12-story $1,750,000 structure to be located on Monona ave. between Doty and Wilson sts. Sheldon told board members last night that his plans provide for the central portion of the building being devoted to courts, one above another.

Need Distinct Areas If a separate and distinct property line is to be observed, Beggs said, the courts as county property would have to be placed entirely on the county side of the structure. Beggs said that Chapman and Cutler assured him that if the conditions on property lines were met the bond issues for erection of the building would be approved. Supervisor R. W. Roethlisberger, Verona, raised the only objections heard last night to erection of a city-county building.

Roethlisberger questioned Sheldon closely about the cost of the structure. "How can we be sure that the building will not cost more than you estimated? he asked. Didnt you draw up the plans for the Verona high school? Yes, Sheldon replied. Roethlisberger then charged that archtiects plans for construction of the high school called for a structure costing $64 000 but that when bids were called for the lowest bid that could be secured was for $89 000. "Youre wrong.

It was $69,000, Sheldon replied. Sheldon said that in arriving at the estimate of $1,750,000, he used good figures and good logic. He declared that the structure would have to be erected within the cost fixed by the city and county. Under provisions of the Swoboda resolution which was referred to the building committee, the committee is to study the choice of site, preparation of a PWA application, the arrangements for a bond issue and the plans, specifications and allocation of costs of a Joint structure. Paul A.

Genin, chairman of the building committee, and a member of the special committee which was headed by Stewart, said the building committee could do nothing more than the special committee had done and argued against the resolution. Gehin urged that the board go on record for or against co-operating SththecityinUonoIc- nre ana tMt o-U. could action alons the other EaS'on'an estimated cost ot Si 18-1 share about seootr .,1 sts wo estimate accordinn (Continued from Page 1) New Jersey by Pres. Roosevelt in a recent radio speech: Is a handsomely bound set of government books copies of the Congressional Record from the years 1910 to 1935, to go begging for want of some organization to accept them for library purposes? For several days The Capital Times has been running the following notice on our editorial page: Congressional Records Free! The Capital Times has a set of bound volumes of the Congressional Record of from the year 1910 to 1935 which it will be glad to donate to any public library, club, or organization that would care to have same. Applications for the bofaks may be made by letter or in person at the offices of The Capital Times.

So far, not a single organization has put in a request for the books, which would make valuable reference material for any library that could find room for them. The Capital Times is only offering to give them away because we have no more available shelf space in the building. Suit Is Step In Fight For Circus Wealth (Continued from page 1) estate by John M. Kelley, attorney for the Ringling brothers, and Charles Ringling, another uncle and owner of the circus. Kelley was recently sentenced to a federal penitentiary for defrauding the government out of income taxes owed by the circus.

The codicil to the John Ringling will, if allowed by Judge Chapman, would entirely exclude John Ringling North, current head of the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus and nephew of John Ringling, from a share in the estate. The plea for probate of the codicil, filed by Paul M. Souder, Sarasota, attorney for Mrs. Cowgill, charged that the executors of the estate of John Ringling failed to offer the codicil, dated Nov.

2, 1935, for probate. Executors of. the estate are John Ringling North and his mother, Mrs. Ida Ringling North, sister of the seven Ringling brothers. The codicil also modifies that part Of the original will giving Mrs.

North about half the estate and provides that she should receive instead an annual income of $5,000. The codicil was signed by John Ringling and witnessed by three persons, Mrs. Cowgill said. It was written in longhand. I hereby revoke, annul and make void any and all legacies and bequests in.

my last will and testament to both my nephews, John Ringling North and Henry Ringling North, for reasons good and sufficient to me, the codicil read. I have determined that neither of such nephews shall receive anything whatsoever in any form, shape or manner from my estate. The original will left the huge John and Mabel Ringling museum at Sarasota, valued at about $8,000,000 to the state of Florida. This section of the will would not be affected by the codicil. The codicil, however, would have the effect of leaving intestate for distribution to legal heirs that portion of the estate, estimated at about half, bequeathed in the original will to the North family.

The Ringling circus was formed by Al, Alf Charles, Otto and John Ringling. August and Henry Ring-ling owned the Sells-Forepaugh circus. August joined the Ringling circus two years after its organization as advertising manager. He never was an owner. It was over the estate of Otto Ringling, a bachelor who died in 1913, that Mrs.

Cowgill first went to court. Otto Ringling left no will, but his estate was valued at $339,500. Mrs. Cowgill recalled that soon after Otto's death, Kelley and Charles Ringling called on her mother at her Madison home. She said Charles bore a letter purporting to be a death-bed memorandum stating that Otto wished $60,000 to be divided among August's widow and her three daughters.

Charles produced the checks, Mrs. Cowgill recalled, and the mother and tlwee daughters signed receipts, which, they found later, waived their rights to other portions of Ottos estate. Several weeks later Kelley again came to Madison and asked August's family to sign a paper empowering Henry Ringling to act for all heirs in the matter of moving the Barnum and Bailey circus out of Connecticut. Mrs. Cowgill said that they again signed the papers, and, without realizing it, waived their rights to their share of Ottos one-fifth interest in that circus for $1 each.

It was soon afterward that Mrs. Cowgill and her sisters brought suit at Baraboo. At an adverse examination Charles Ringling said he lost the deathbed memorandum. The case was finally settled out of court with the three girls accepting a total offer of $75,000. Mrs.

Cowgill's petition to probate the codicil to the John Ringling will lists 10 heirs-at-law who would participate in a division if the codicil is accepted by the court. These heirs are: Mrs. Cowgill and her two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Burnett. 50.

Oak Park, 111., and Mrs. Alice Coerper, 48, Milwaukee: Henry Ringling 31, Baraboo, son of Henry Ringling: Robert E. Ringling. 40, E.anston, I1U and Mrs. Charles Sanford, 44, children of Charles Ringling; Paul, 17, Jane, 16, and Mabel, 14, all of White Sulphur Springs, grandchildren of Alf T.

Ringling: and Mrs. Ida Ringling North, Sarasota. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (INS) Philip C. Leow who went to sea on a wind-jammer at the age of 19 in recent years has been constructing model ships.

Recently he turned to making models of Chinese junks, and hopes in time to have models of about 30 of the most popular types of these awkward looking craft. Demonstrate to Britain Strength A vailable to Common Cause I By The Associated Prml PARIS France paraded her newest war machines for the first time today to demonstrate to King George VI of Britain the strength she can lend to their common cause. For more than an hour, infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments the flower of the French army swung by the red-carpeted reviewing stand at Versailles to the music of massed military bands. King George, in the tunic of a field marshal, and Pres. Albert LeBrun of France reviewed the colorful columns of 50,000 marching men, supported by hundreds of tanks and about 50 airplanes.

The spectacle, a highlight of King George's state visit to France, attested to the strong bonds that unite Europes great democratic powers. When King George reached Ver-sailes a 101-gun salute was started. It continued throughout the parade, one salvo each minute. The king and Pres. LeBrun were taken from the station to the reviewing stand in a bullet-proof automobile flanked by a mounted guard of colorful Spahis.

Throngs See Parade Queen Elizabeth and Mme. LeBrun arrived later by special train and were accompanied by mounted Spahis to the Versailles chateau to attend a sumptuous luncheon In the hall of mirrors where the Versailles treaty ending the World war was signed. Vast throngs lining the route of the parade saw implements of war the French army never before had shown publicly. They watched columns of trucks swiftly pulling 6-inch guns on pneu matic rubber tires and mechanized 3-inch anti-aircraft guns with trucks for ammunition. Fifty infantry trucks, each mounting two machine-guns and carrying 10 soldiers armed with repeating guns, paraded past, together with tanks ranging from tiny whippets to rolling fortresses.

Unveil New Tanks Camouflaged land battleship tanks, weighing as much as 12 tons, had 3-inch guns protruding from their snouts. Troops, including detachments from all France's colonial possessions, lined both sides of the route to the Versailles chateau and presented arms as the king and president drove past. The review assumed particular significance in the light of yesterday's secret cenference of British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet at which France sought a British promise to resist Germany's campaign against Czechoslovakia, as a guarantee of peace. It was generally considered, for once, that the official foreign office communique issued after the diplomatic conference meant just what it said France and Britain stood by the general terms of their April, agreement to act together to preserve peace and to be ready to fight together if other efforts failed.

The luncheon in the hall of mirrors rivaled those given by Louis XIV at Versailles in his Golden Age of the French monarchy (1643-1715). British Pick- a-Back Plane Hops for N. Y. (Continued from Page 1) maximum 210 miles an hour and had a cruising range of 4,000 miles. The flight was the first of 15 trans-Atlantic test trips Britain plans to make this summer.

In addition to the Mercury, two other types of experimental planes axe to be Used. One is an improved seaplane, similar to the Imperial Airways Caledonia and Cambria used in 1937, and the Albatross, a land machine. The Mercury is unique in that she uses the heavier Maia for the difficult task of getting into the air when heavily loaded. A secret lever arrangement permits the two planes to separate in the air, the larger returning to her base. For shorter hops the Mecury is cap- able of taking off by heself, as from I here to New York, back to Montreal, to Eotwood, and then home, Lift Bail On Questioning of TV A Employes (Continued from Page 1) ranging interviews through TVA officials.

In the flare-up which followed Biddle threatened to resign and Rep. Mead (D-NY) protested the Jenkins motion on grounds that utility executives or anyone else could gain access to TVA records through indiscriminate questioning of employes. Biddle asserted he was only following a rule laid down by the committee which provided for TVA records and files to clear through his office. Dr. Morgan topped off a day of sensational developments yesterday by accusing TVA counsel of seeking misrepresentative and misleading evidence for possible use in a trial in Chattanooga last winter when 18 power companies attacked the constitutionality of TVA.

The case, decided in favor of the TVA, is pending in the supreme court on appeal. Dr. Morgan said James Lawrence Fly, TVA general counsel, asked engineers and consultants to make reports which would tend to show the cost of power generation in the dam-building program was a negligible factor and that flood control and navigation predominated. This evidence, he said, never was submited after I pointed out to our counsel the injury it would cause the professional standing of our engineers." Walter Drews Is Linked with Extortion Plot MILWAUKEE. lP) Atty.

Michael M. Wittenberg, 41, was at liberty under $1,000 bond today pending a preliminary hearing Aug. 3, on a charge of attempting to extort $2,000 from Dr. Leland Trump, Milwaukee physician. Wittenberg posted bond last night after his co-defendant, Walter A.

Drews, chief investigator for the state board of medical examiners, had furnished a similar amount following their arraignment in district court. Dr. Trump charged that Wittenberg demanded the money from him after informing him Drews had knowledge of an illegal operation that might result in revocation of Dr. Trumps license. The charges against him were a despicable frameup, Drews declared.

Three Injured in Car Collision on East Side Three persons were hurt, none of them seriously, in a traffic accident at the intersection of the Sun Prairie road and Fair Oaks ave. shortly before 11:30 last night. Fred Blunck, 27, his wife, 21, and a passenger in their car, Edna Malloy, all of 526 North are the persons who were injured when the Blunck car was reported to have struck the rear of a car driven by Stanley W. Miller, Sun Prairie. Blunck was cut on the right forearm, his wfife suffered a laceration on the right' knee and Miss Malloy escaped with bruises.

Mr. and Mrs. Blunck were treated at Madison General hospital. to space required. These costs to the local units, however, would be reduced materially if a PWA grant is forthcoming.

The PWA grant, it was said, would total 45 per cent of the entire construction cost and would amout to about on a building costing $1,750,000. This would leave only $957,000 to be financed by the city and the county, and of this sum the county would have to raise about $605,000 and the city $352,500. Added to the citys cost would tfe the amount necessary to purchase the site. The city has agreed to pay the entire purchase cost of the property. (Continued from Page 1) other counties in the state.

About two years ago conditions like those that are now being uncovered in Waukesha existed here and resulted in the appointment of a special county board committee to investigate the situation. The committee questioned the sheriff and the deputies about slot machines and other gambling devices in the county, and the answer to all was that gambling was not prevalent. But when we brought in a man from Milwaukee to investigate we found slot machines in nearly every tavern, grocery store and filling station in the county. Anybody who was on the sheriff's department two years ago is not fit to be a deputy sheriff. If you pass this amendment to the civil service ordinance you may as well throw out the whole ordinance and say you want the spoils system of government here in Dane county.

Happened in Waukesha The same thing that happened in Waukesha county came pretty near happening here and Im not so sure that it didnt happen here. Look at the Albright case. Its a shame that such a case should ever arise in a Progressive county. Supervisor Raymond van Wolken-ten, Madison, chairman of the sheriff's committee, also vigorously opposed any amendment to the civil service ordinance. I feel, and I know I can speak for other members of the committee, that any present deputy who has the ability and the knowledge necessary for the position can pass a civil service examination, Van Wolkenten said.

If they cant pass an examination they are not fit to be deputies no matter how long they have served. The civil service ordinance came up because the board was not satisfied with the work of the sheriff's department. Maybe the fault rested with the sheriff and maybe it rested with the deputies. This ordinance was designed to correct conditions which existed in the department and the only means we have to correct such conditions is to put men in the department who will do the work efficiently and thoroughly. If you wish to make this ordinance void and ineffective, vote to adopt this amendment, but if you wish to see an efficient sheriff's department that will do the work it is supposed to do vote against this amendment.

Van Wolkenten charged that many persons, principally the candidates for sheriff and the present deputies, would like to see the civil service ordinance repealed if favor of a weak-kneed department. Supervisor Frank Swoboda, Madison, asserted that it was not fair to eliminate the present deputies from office because they might not be able to pass examinations of a rah rah boy character. Say Deputies Capable He said that the present deputies were capable and had a thorough knowledge of their duties, but that they might not be able to transmit that knowledge to writing. We want deputies who at least can write, Van Wolkenten exploded at this. He charged that board members supporting the resolution were playing politics with the candidates for sheriff and with the present deputies.

A three-quarters vote of the, board was required to amend the ordinance and the 61 votes cast in favor of the amendment were just enough for passage. Local Man Reports JHis Outboard Motor Stolen Edwin E. Hanson. 601 South Shore dr, reported to police yesterday that a two cylinder, outboard motor had been stolen from his boat. Practically of the jobless women in 1930 were beads of families.

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