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53, NO. 139 MADISON, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1944 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ini US Subs Sink Board Defeats Pulitzer Prize To Prof. Curti Prof. William Ellery Leonard Open Roll Gall Famous Literary, Campus On Chairman Figure, Dies Today FAREWELL FAREWELL FAREWELL Vote Is 47-34; Paul A. Robinson, Sun Prairie, Elected Chairman (The following are the closing verses in the book, Two Lives, by William Ellery Leonard, famed University of Wisconsin poet and scholar who died this Editors Note).

Await yon full-moon of the night-to-be. (. far and far and far .) These are the solemn horizons of mans ways. These the horizons of solemn thought to me. Vote on Open Roll Call on Chairman Following is the vote on the roll call by which the county board voted to table a resolution for an open roll call for chairman: (O Earth-and -Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done (O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done!) And this the hill she visited, as friend; And this the hill she lingered on, as bride Down in the yellow valley is the end: They laid her in no evening Autumn tide Under fresh flowers of that May morn, beside The queens and cave-women of ancient earth.

In the brown grasses slanting with the wind. Lone as a lad whose dogs no longer near. Lone as a mother whose only child has sinned. Lone on the loved hill and below me here The thistle-down in tremulous atmosphere Along red clusters of the sumach streams; The shriveled stalks of goldenrod are sere. And crisp and white their flashing old racemes.

(. forever forever forever .) This is the lonely season of the year, This is the season of our lonely dreams. FOR TABLING Ballweg, Bruns, Christensen, Comeford, Daley vDeppe, Derr, Diederich, Esser, Evert, Felton, Frame, Fries, C. E. Halverson, W.

C. Halverson, Hanson, Hegge-stad, Hyland, Ingraham, Jacobson, Jahnke, Kuhl, Lange, Lawry, Lee, Linn, Madsen, Mather, McConnell, McCoy, Meister, Meyer, Moore, Mueller, J. C. Olson, Pierstorff, Robinson, Roethlisberger, Simon, Smith, Sutter, Swoboda, Urweider, Veum, Walsh, Wendt, Witzke 47. AGAINST TABLING Abbott, Berschens, Blaska, Bor-gerud.

Born, Bostrom, Brink, Dellinger, Fighmy, Fluckiger, Genin, Gerry, Gordon, Gugel, Harb, Helmenstine, Karnes, Kleinheinz, Lynch, McBeath, Mell, Mullen, Nilles, A. J. Olson, Palmer, Rikkers, Schimming, Siightam, Solsrud, Sorenson, Thronson, Vickers, Watzke, Witte 34. ABSENT Anderson 1. (O Earh-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done!) This is the hill and over my citys towers.

Across the world from sunset, yonder in air Shines, through its scaffoldings, a civic dome Of piled masonry, which shall be ours To give, completed, to our children there. And yonder far roof of my abandoned home Shall house new laughter. Yet I tried I tried. And, ever wistful of the doom to come, I built her many a fire for love for mirth (When snows were falling on our oaks outside. Dear, many a winter fire upon the hearth) (.

farewell farewell farewell .) We dare not think too long on those who died. While still so many yet must come to birth. The corn-shocks westward on the stubble plain Show like an Indian' village of dead days; The long smoke trails behind the crawling train, And floats atop the distant woods ablaze With orange, crimson, purple. The low haze Dims the scarped bluffs above the inland sea. Whose wide and slaty waters in cold glaze BULLETIN Paul A.

Robinson, Sun Prairie, was elected chairman of the Dane county board on the third ballot this afternoon. Robinson received 40 votes, with 33 votes going to Carl Felton, town of Madison, three to R. II. Gerry, Madison, and two for Walter Simon, Monona. The board members voted by secret ballot.

BY HERBERT JACOBS THE new Dane county board at its organization meeting today, voted down a proposal for an open roll call for chairman, 47 to 34, and then adjourned to this afternoon to select a new chairman by secret ballot. The board also rejected a proposal for rotation of the chairmanship every two years among the three assembly districts of the county, but did adopt an amendment to the I rules, limiting tenure of the chairmanship to two years, instead of the present five at S8 Heart Ailment' Is Fatal at Home PROF. WILLIAM ELLERY Leonard, 68, famous University of Wisconsin literary and campus figure, died about 5 a. m. today at his home, 433 N.

Murray of a heart ailment. Prof. Leonard had been in ill-health for the last four or five weeks, and in the last few days was confined to his bed. In recent years he had gone less and less to classes on the campus hill, and had been receiving students at his home for instruction. Failing eyesight had also plagued him recently, adding to his other difficulties.

Victim for the last 35 years of a fear of distance. Prof. Leonard had spent all of that period in Madison, unable to leave the confines of his phobic prison. Despite this handicap, however, he led an engrossing life of scholastic endeavor. Author of several books of poems, he also did many translations of poetry, ranging from Greek to old Norse, and produced numerous books of poetical criticism.

Battled for Causes Besides his scholastic work, which brought fame to him and to Wisconsin, Prof. Leonard was also a whole-hearted battler for causes where he scented injustice being done. One of his most notable fights was in defense of the late Tom Mooney, West coast labor leader who spent many years in prison before a pardon cleared him of the charge of taking part in the bombing of a San Francisco preparedness parade in 1916. Leonard and Mooney met for the first time in Madison, on Sept. 7, 1939, and talked long, comparing the barred prison of Mooney with the "phobic prison of his scholarly defender.

In an autobiography; The Locomotive God, published in 1927, Prof. Leonard traced his distance fear to fright from a locomotive wbeix he wa JS-'-Tlielcar dormant until, in his early 30s, he found it revived by the chance sight of a gaudily painted locomotive "rushing at him from a calendar. Stayed Near Home The walls of his-distance prison then began to form, and Mr. Leonard found himself violently upset if he attempted travel. He found himself able to go to his university classes, but otherwise stayed within a few blocks of his home at 433 N.

Murray st For a short time after his marriage to Grace Golden in 1935 he was able to push back the walls, of the prison, and was even able, occasionally, to walk around Capitol square. However, he was uo- able to retain this new freedom, and was soon back within the old limits. Printed mention of the distance phobia on the occasion of Mr. Leonard's birthday anniversaries brought widespread com meat throughout the country, some of which caused Leonard to declare that the commentators ought to read his books first before talking. Prof.

Leonard himself was the subject of study by psychiatrists and others interested in aiding him to overcome the phobia. He even experimented at one time with twilight sleep, a hypnoid state between sleeping and waking, to clarify his thought, but all of this concentration on the phobia seemed merely to intensify it. His first marriage was to Charlotte Freeman, on June 23. 1909, who died, a suicide, on May 1, 191(. The story of their love and marriage was set forth later by Leonard in Two Live a sonnet sequence published in 1925, which was hailed as one of the major poetical contributions made by Leonard.

Married Again in 1914 Prof. Leonard's second wife was Charlotte Charlton, whom he married in 1914, and with whom he lived until she obtained a divorce in 1934. They remarried Apr. 23, 1940, after each had been married again to another individual. The second Mrs.

Leonard, after her divorce from, the professor, married Charles A. Bert Gill, who died May 13, 1938. Prof. Leonard and Mrs. Charlotte Charlton Gill were remarried in 1940 at Mrs.

Gill's apartment in a quiet ceremony attended only by a few friends, and they went to (Continued on page 4, col. 1) Prof. Merle Curti The 1944 Pulitzer Prize for the best 1943 book on the history of the United States was awarded to Prof. Merle Curti, 113 Ely pl.t University of Wisconsin professor of American history, Monday for his work The Growth of American Thought. The book was published by Harpers, New York.

Prof. Curti was granted a leave of absence beginning Jan. 26 to write another book, The History of American Patriotism and Na-(Continued on page 4, col. 2) Spain to Slash Supply of Vital Ore For Nazis Ajrrees Also to Oust Axis Agents in 3 Areas WASHINGTON (A5) The state department today announced a compromise agreement with Spain cutting Spanish wolfram shipments to the Nazis to virtual token supplies, which, it was implied, may soon be blocked completely by Allied invasion forces in France. The United States accepted the compromise at the insistence of the British, were said to rely on Spain for certain essential war supplies.

Agree on 7 Points Points agreed to' were: 1: In. May and June Spain" tons of the vital tungsten ore to Germany monthly. 2. For the rest of 1944, not more than 40 tons monthly may be sent. 3.

Allied designated Axis agents are to be expelled from Spain, Spanish Morocco and Tangier. 4. The German consulate and other Axis agencies in Tangier are to be closed. 5. Five of seven Italian merchant ships now interned by Spain are to be released immediately; disposition of the two others and of Italian warships in Spanish waters is to be submitted to arbitration.

6. All Spanish forces have already been withdrawn from the Russian front. 7. The Anglo-American oil embargo on Spain is to be lifted immediately, with resumption of old quotas of 48,000 tons of bulk oil from the Caribbean monthly for metropolitan Spain, 13,000 for the colonies, and 15,000 tons of packaged petroleum products frbm the United States. The official announcement, made jointly with a statement by British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden In the house of commons, indicated that Germany is unlikely to receive more than allotted wolfram supplies for two or three months before Allied military operations dam up shipments completely.

Quota About l(Kfc The state department said that the settled quota equals roughly 10 per cent of what the Germans would have obtained this year under their agreement with Spain and about one-fourth of the wolfram the Germans already hold. At highest speed production, it was estimated, it takes at least four months to transform the raw ore into armor-piercing shells and tough metals. The aim of the Anglo-American negotiations with Spain, as with other European neutrals, was to block as completely as possible Germans supply to strategic (Continued on page 4, col. 4) Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyers Tanker, 7 Cargo Vessels, Navy Ship Bagged WASHINGTON (JPy Sink-v iner of a Jananese 1 Ing of a Japanese light cruiser and two Japanese destroyers by American sub-j marines operating deep in' enemy controlled waters was announced by the navy today. In addition, the navy reported, the American submersibles destroyed seven Japanese cargo vessels, one large tanker, and a large naval auxiliary on their patrols carried out in enemy territory.

The sinkings brought to 695 the number of Japanese vessels of all types sunk, probably sunk or damaged by the submersibles. That total includes 544 sent to the bottom. A breakdown of the sinkings and damage shows that of the total 69 of the Japanese vessels have been war ships. They include 45 sunk, 10 probably sunk and 14 damaged. The light cruiser destroyed in an unidentified area was the fourth of that classification sunk by American submarines.

The submersibles also have listed in their battle efforts five Japanese cruisers probable sunk and six damaged. The two destroyers brought to 25 the number of such Japanese warcraft sent to the bottom by American submarines. Pursuant to customary policy, the navy gave no information on the submarines latest hunting grounds. At times they have entered the harbors of the Japanese homeland. British Subs Sink Five Japanese Ships LONDON (AP British sub marines have sunk a Japanese destroyer and four other vessels in recent attacks on enemy supply lines in Asiatic waters, the admiralty announced today.

In addition, a communique said, two supply ships and an escort vessel were damaged by the undersea raiders, one of which also was credited with bombarding military Installations at Port Blair in the Andaman islands in the Indian smk south' orthe Andaman islands while escorting a supply ship, which also was torpedoed, the admiralty said. Another supply ship was reported sunk in the same area while traveling under strong escort. The other vessels reported sunk included a medium-sized supply ship with a deck cargo of motor transport and two smaller vessels, which were destroyed in Malacca strait between Malaya and Sumatra. The submarine which bombarded enemy positions at Port Blair engaged in a brisk duel with shore batteries and escaped unscathed, the communique said. Hits on a small escort vessel were scored by the raider during the action.

Gil Schultz Killed Tn Plane Crash Gilbert Gil Schultz. Madison, warrant officer in the Sea Bees, was killed Friday in a navy plane crash near Flagstaff, Ariz'. He was enroute here -from Pearl Harbor to pay a surprise visit to his recently widowed mother, Mrs. Louis J. Schultz, 1326 Vilas and other relatives, it was learned today when his wife arrived here from Ft.

Lauderdale, Fla. to arrange for the funeral. It was reported Monday that Mr. Schultz had died Friday at Pearl Harbor, where he was stationed with the Sea Bees. When his father died Apr.

12, Mr. Schultz was unable to come home, but wrote his mother that he would come as soon as possible. He formerly was associated with his father and brother, Raymond, in the Schultz Tire and Battery Co. on Regent st. His brother is now an army technical adviser at Camp Hale, Colo.

His wife and two children, recently, have been residing at Ft. Lauderdale. The body was to be brought here from Flagstaff. Masonic funeral services will be held in Madison under direction of the Frautschi funeral home. Douglas Anderson Kailyards Hit Hard by Yank, RAF Bombers Mighty Aerial Offensive In 18th Day LONDON UP) Swinging into the most widespread attack on German rail transport thus far, Allied air forces late today brought to more than 25 the num-ber-LoJL-bea vjMsovashes in.

a period of about 24 hours against these centers of enemy defense. Earlier, American Liberators bombed German installations in northern France, carrying the huge pre-invasion air offensive into its 18th consecutive day after 1,000 or more heavy bombers Monday night assaulted targets in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. Late announcements disclosed that American Marauder medium bombers and lighter Havocs had assaulted railway in Bu-signy, Valenciennes and Blanc-Misseron, while RAF Mitchells and Spitfires were scourging other and as yet unidentified railway targets in France and Belgium. Up to 750 heavy British and Canadian bombers flew from England through a cloudless night against German aircraft, chemical, auto and explosive factories and against the rail targets on which the enemy must depend to meet invasion, the British air ministry announced. The others rose from Italian bases.

400 Planes In Attack About 400 American planes were estimated authoritatively to have made todays attack, half of them Liberators and half Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters. Formations of Allied medium bombers and fighters crossed and recrossed the channel skies in the early afternoon, after the Liberators had returned from their mission. The Liberators encountered no German fighters and an unusually small amount of flak. tl was one of the best missions of the 13 Ive been on, commented Lieut. John Nortridge.

Freeport, 111., a pilot. When you looked out, you see fighter cover everywhere. There was no flak anywhere against our group. Thunderbolt fighter-bombers, escorted by Thunderbolt fighters, at tacked rail yards at Tergnier and LeMans, deep ip France while the Liberators were striking French soil closest to Gen. Eisenhowers invasion masses.

LeMans is one of the most important junctions in wes tern France, a funnel for traffic between Paris and big western ports such as St. Nazaire and Brest. Hit 21 Rail Objectives The fighter-bombers sweep raised to 21 the number of raliroad objectives attacked in the last 24 (Continued on page 4, col. 2) Tydings Easily In Dem Maryland Race Is Overwhelming Choice For Fourth Term BALTIMORE (JP) U. S.

Sen. Millard E. Tydings. frequent foe of the national administration who in 1938 withstood Pres. Roosevelts personal attepipt-to purge him, today was an overwhelifiLng' choice' a 1 a It Democrats for a fourth consecutive term.

Tydings decisively def a four rivals in Mondays light primary vote, and apparently will oppose a Baltimore banker, Blanchard Randall, in the November -election. His closest oppo-ent. Baltimorean Willis R. Jones, former chairman of the state correction board, had campaigned on a platform of 100 per cent support of Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term, but Tydings said he saw no evidence of anti-administration feeling in his 4-1 victory over Jones.

The Havre de Grace veteran, now in his 17th year in the senate, told the Associated Press he regarded his victory as a good augury for the November election. Unofficial figures from 1,220 of the states 1,328 polling places gave: TYDINGS -JONES CHARLES BADEN VINCENT F. LONG 1.201; STEPHEN PEDDICORD 1,396. Randall, who had the backing of State GOP Chairman Galen L. Tait and Baltimore's Mayor Theodore R.

MaKeldin, held a commanding lead over Paul Robertson, Baltimore party chairman, on the basis of fairly complete returns. The Republican campaign was purely a factional contest between rival party leaders. With 949 polling places tabulated. Randall had 9,521 votes to 7,048 for Robertson. Rives Matthews, (Continued on page 4, col.

6) Mercury at 75 or Season High The mercury rose to 75 at 6 p. m. Monday to set a record high for the season. Cooler weather is forecast for today and tonight, with showers and occasional thunderstorms. Spurred by warm sunshine, blotted out occasionally by showers and heavy clouds, the mercury passed the 70 mark for the first time this year at 2 p.

m. Lowest temperature for the night was 57 at 6 a. but by 9 it had gone up to 60 again, only 1 degree below Mondays record for the same time. Madison's high was 2 degrees warmer than Miami. Showers in the city Monday amounted to only a trace.

The airport weather station reported .02 of an inch. Hes In Sec. of State Zimmerman Was in hij office yesterdiy. Since May 1, Zimmerman has appeared at the secretary of states office exactly put working day. Dies Today Prof.

William Ellery Leonard Ward Attorhcy Challenges FR Seizure Powers Final Arjniinents Heard In Federal Court CHICAGO (P) Montgomery Ward Co. today challenged Pres. Roosevelts right to place the huge concerns Chicago plants under federal control. Harold Smith, attorney for the huge mail order and mercantile firm, told Federal Judge William H. Holly: The substance of the governments case is this the president has the power to confiscate Wards private property because of the existence of a national emergency which invests him, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, with extraordinary and terrifying power of seizure.

This position is fallacious and no law or constitutional provision confers such a power or authorizes its exercise. It is an unreasonable seizure contrary to the fourth article of the bill of rights, it deprives them (the owners) of liberty and property without due process of law, and constitutes the taking of private property for public use without just compensation in direct vi olation of article five of the bill of rights. Resuming his plea before Judge Holly in a widely watched case involving a test of the presidents power to take over plants listed as non-war facilities by their owners, Smith declared the Smith-Connally act limited such seizures to factories or mines producing materials needed for the war effort. The seizure was a thing that has not been equalled in the history of the country, he said. In dignation has resulted all over the country and in congress.

Smith argued that the law conferred seizure power upon the (Continued on page 4, col. 6) Where To Find It Comics Page Radio Programs Page Society Page Sports Pages 13, Theaters Page Page Markets .,....,4...... Page 12 12 10 14 6 8 15 years. In another action today, the board shifted, the 10 members of jurisdiction of the highway committee by abolishing the present traffic committee. Dist.

Atty. Maloney ruled that it was highly questionable whether the traffic committee setup conformed to state law. Gordon Leads Fight The short battle in favor of an open roll call for chairman, vice-chairman and sergeant-at-arms was led by Lancelot A. Gordon, Madi son, whose resolution calling for an end to the secret ballot was juggled into the graveyard by parliamentary maneuvers at the Mar. 30 meeting of the board.

Moving to amend the rules to provide an open roll call on chief officers of the board, Gordon said: One of the main arguments which have been made in the past against the open roll call for chairman is that we use the secret ballot in the fall and the spring when we go to the polling booths. But that is the people, exercising their sovereign power, But we are the representatives of the people, and the people have a right to know what we stand for and what we vote for. I admit that the secret ballot for chairman never wrecked the county but this Is a matter of showing what we stand for. Gordon said there is something to worry about in northern counties, where village constables have admitted collecting donations from slot machine owners, and he attacked an action of the Wood county board in barring the press from committee meetings. Question of Good Government As to whether supervisors were hiding in use of the secret bal lot.

Gordon added: "Ive been amazed at the fooling around some men will do to get on some committee, and this has been going on for years. Why, men have come up and told me that if there were an open roll call, the chairman would know who voted against him, and that would affect comm i 1 1 appointments. This is a fundamental question of good government. R. W.

Roethlisberger, town of Verona, tossed a monkey wrench into Gordons proposal by offering an amendment which would have also provided an open roll call for committee chairmen and for the various committees and boards, such, as the highway committee which are elected by the board Roethlisberger's amendment called for an end of the caucus system under. which some of these persons are elected. This is one of the slimiest, dirtiest tricks Ive ever seen, this attempt to get rid of the caucus system, Gordon shouted at Roethlisberger. Then he warned the board that if pushed far enough, Madison might enlarge its representation on the board by creating 40 instead of the present 20 wards. Gordon moved to strike the caucus provision out of Roethlisber-gers amendment, but his motion was defeated, 28 to 53.

However, George Solsrud. Madison, who was presiding, ruled that the caucus question was not germane anyway. so it was dropped. Says Committees Qualified George Harb. Madison, dared (hat committees were best! to choose their 'chairmen, and Roethlisberger hen de.

own By WILLIAM T. EVJUE WITH the coming of May days, the erstwhile bleak and winter-ridden Madison becomes vibrant with life and color. For days we have been watching the boulevard strip on E. Washington ave. as it has been transformed by the touch of spring into a rib bon of green stretching from Butler st.

far out to the East Side high school. Yesterday morning while on the way to work, we caught our first glimpse of this year's friendly little dandelions as they emerged with their bright yellow against the green background of the boulevard strip. Yes, the dandelion is a pesky mid-season nuisance to the householder trying to maintain a beautiful lawn. But yet we always thrill to the advent of these gay little sparrows of the horticultural realm. Is there any lovelier green ever seen than that which first appears in the shrubbery each year? The shrubbery on the capitol grounds is now taking on that delightful, lacey finery which is seen when the foliage begins to appear.

And overhead the elm, ash, oak, maple, willow, and other trees are beginning to lose their bare look as the beginnings of new leaves appear. Soon those lovely canopied streets of Madison will have their archways of green Gorham. Langdon, Spaight, West Lawn, Keyes, and many others giving that cathedral effect that one finds in a forest of tall trees. But under nature's canopy war seems indispensible among her creatures. While nature again makes ready to provide for her children, the peoples of the world are at each others throats in a hellish program of destruction.

We watched a smaller war from our porch the other morning, a battle between a bird and a squirrel. As near as we could construct the cause of the conflict, the bird had begun to build a nest in a neighboring tree. The squirtel was making excursions up and down the tree and at each trip the bird would dart at the squirrel and try to drive it away. The birds counterattacks, however, seemed futile, and the squirrel's invasion proceeded according to plan. This year, however, we missed the annual battle between the martins and the starlings for possession of the bird house in Stan Rectors yard on Castle place.

For the past two years the starlings occupied the premises early, and then ensued a fight between the starlings and the martins for the summer lease on the bird house. Each year the martins won out. This year the starlings have evidently given up the struggle because the martins are now in undisputed control. Madison yesterday was literally buzzing with signs of spring: Our golf playing friends tell of a good business at the links and many a cautious' golfer felt safe in getting his volf bag-fWn from the attic A ndersonSeeksDemocrat U. S.

Senate Nomination Charge Soldiers Lose Pay In Camp Slot Machines Douglas Anderson. Milwaukee, former member of the Wisconsin assembly from Rhinelander and for the last five years an internal revenue agent at Milwaukee, today announced hig candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator from Wisconsin. Anderson, the first Democrat to enter the contest for the seat now held by Sen. Alexander M. Wiley, Chippewa Falls Republican, pledged support to Pres.

Roosevelt and declared that the re-election of the president was the supreme issue of this years campaign. Resigning his position with the federal government recently in order to be eligible to enter this years senatorial race, Anderson stated: I believe I can best assistv in the re-election of Pres. Roosevelt a candidate for the becomiry: WASHINGTON (jP) An investigation of reports that some soldiers- are losing a large part of their pay in army camp slot machines was sought today by Sen. Bridges (R-NH). Bridges, asserting he had asked the war department whether anyone had been given permission to install slot machines at military posts, said information had reached him that the ownership and control of these machines is in the hands of a very small and select clique close to the administration.

i The request for investigation was directed to Wilton B. Persons, chief of the war department's legislative and liaison division. The complaint reaching me. Bridges said, is that the slot machines have been taking a substan- tial part of the pay of some service men, and placing them in financial difficulties. I have asked the department whether their use at the camps has been officially sanctioned and if so, (Cont-jued on page 4, col.

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