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The laratfft net paid Hail Cirmlatlnn nt any newspaper in Wiacanain satside ef Milwaukee Only Madison Paper With Complete Associated Press Service OFFICIAL. PAPER OP THE STATE OF WISCONSIN MADISON, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1932 VOL. 29, NO. 165 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS o- Mayor Names Committee to Study Economy Program s. Jane Quisling to Get Fortune Ordinance Asks Licenses for Pharmacy, Store Restaurants Asks Slash In Valuation Of Utilities An ordinance which would license restaurants, hotels, and other eating establishments and prohibit them from being operated in the same room where other merchandise is being sold was presented to the common rouncll Friday night by Aid.

Frank Alford and referred to the city ordinance committee. It is reported that this ordinance would require those business houses where meats are served on the same floor with other merchandise to erect a partition separating the restaurant section from the remainder of the store. The proposed ordinance was drafted by Theodore G. Lewis, city attorney, at the request of Aid. Alford.

The measure does not specify the amount of the license or penalty for violations leaving this for consideration of the committee. Aid. Alford in commenting on his measure stated that he was requested to present ordinance local restaurant proprietors. Restaurant proprietors are reported as opposed to the present system of stores opening lunch rooms and serving meals in quarters where conditions are not proper for such purposes. Attention has been called to the fact that some store have established eating places under stairways and balconies which permit people to pass over the food.

Order Woldenberg to Pay Woman Love Letters to Revealed Oh, for an hour with you tonight, was the statement in one Doctors Wife Shares in Million Dollar Estate of Chicago Man WILL IS BROKEN BY RELATIVES Moncv Was First Left to Pasailcna, Woman Mrs. Jane Hintze Quisling. 450 N. Few st wife of Dr. Abraham Quisling.

Is one of the heirs who have been awarded $200,000 each from the estate of her uncle, WilllSm Lieton Brown, Chicago, after a successful battle by relatives to break his will. The will of Mr. Brown, financier and iron ore broker, which gave most of the estate to Mrs. Harriet Seymour Carscallen, Pasadena, was declared invalid Friday by Cook county circuit court jury. Brown Held Incapable The jury held that Brown, who died in 1929 at the age of 87.

had been mentally Incapable and subjected' to undue influence. Mrs. Quisling took no share in the battle to break the will, w-hich was instigated by other of the six relatives who phare in the estate. At depression prices, the estate is estimated at more than Mrs. Quisling, a niece, Mrs.

Helen Brown Rice, a half-sister. George Drw Brown, a brother, the latter two of Chicago; and Mrs. Kate Northcutt Graves, Luray, a niece, each receive a fifth of the estate. The remaining fifth was directed by the Jury to be divided equally among two grandnieces and a grandnephew. To Appeal Verdict Attorneys for Mrs.

Carscallen and other legatees will appeal the verdict. Brown, former controlling stockholder in Picklands, Brown iron ore brokers, and former president of the Chicago Shipbuilding and director of several banks and steel companies, fell ill at Pasadena in 1919. At the time he made a will leaving his fstate to his wife with bequests to relatives and to charities. His wife died within a month, and relativrs claimed that her death was a mental shock to her husband. The relatives also claimed that drugs were given him to control the asthma from which he suffered, resulting in the weakening of his will and loss of memory.

Physicians testified that Brown was mentally incompetent at the time of his death. Mrs. Carscallen, a niece of Browns wife, according to the contesting relatives, persuaded Brown to move to her home and persuaded him to travel extensively in Europe. The relatives claimed that thLs was done to pre-(Connnued on page 2) LATEST New Record Set at High School Meet A new state record of 50.3 seconds for Class A high schools in the 440-yard run was set by George O'Shea of Milwaukee Bovs Tech, in the Wisconsin State high school track meet at Camp Randall this afternoon. The former record of 51.2 seconds was aet by Schudrowitz, Milwaukee East, in 1929.

Four Madison boys placed In the early events. Loughborough, of Wisconsin high school, was second in the shot put. while Christianson, also of Wisconsin high, placed third in the same event. Smith, of Madison Central, placed fourth in the broad jump, and Rich of Madison West was second in the 101 yard dash. CLASS A 440 YARD RUN (First Section! Won by George OShea, Milwaukee Boys Tech; second, Reed, Oshkosh; (Continued on page 12) Acts After Aldermen O.

K. Meet 28 Citizens from Various Professions Selected for Conference UNIVERSITY MEN ALSO APPOINTED No Date Yet Set for Meeting of Advisory Committee Mayor Schmedeman today in-nounced appointment of the committee which will assist the administration to effect economies In city government. Friday night the common council approved the Mayor's plan to call a conference of representative civic and business leaders for that purpose. No date has yet been set for the first meeting. Twenty-four men, representing every walk of business and professional life in Madison, were named to the advisory committee by the mayor.

Following are the appointees: The following were named: LAWYERS: H. M. Wilke, Robert Risoer, Glenn Roberts, E. J. Reynolds.

LABOR: John Butler, Fred Fas-trow, William Riggert. BANKERS: T. R. Hefty, A. O.

Paunack. Fred Suhr. MANUFACTURERS: Thomas Coleman, S. G. Soanlan, Howard Weiss, Bernard Matitz Hobart Johnson.

REALTORS: George Sayle J. M. OMalley, Stanley Hanks, John S. Main. CONTRACTORS: Milton FindorfT, C.

B. Fritz. MERCHANTS: Joseph Rothschild. H. S.

Manchester, Ed Schmitz, William Hommell, Frank Kessenich Oscar Rennebohm, A. F. Mcnges, Louis Hirsig, F. W. Karstene, George Flynn; UNIVERSITY SORS: Ford McGregor, D.

D. Lescohier, H. F. Janda, F. M.

Dawson. PRESS: William T. Evjue, A. M. Brayton.

CITIZENS: George Boissard, Robert H. R. Benson, John St. John. Walter Frautschi, Leo T.

Crowley, Frank C. Blied, and A. L. Nussbaum. Council Approves Mayor's Plan Mayor A.

G. Schmedeman's proposal to call a conference of Madison business men and civic leaders to determine economies to be practiced in city government was unanimously approved by the common council Friday night. As a result of this action Mayor Schmedeman will invite representative citizens, businessmen, heads of civic organizations, manufacturers, and others to meet with him and determine what action is advisable to reduce the cost1 of city government. In his appeal to the council Mayor Schmedeman stated that the conference will determine whether it is advisable to reduce salaries and the extent of the cut to be made, possible elimination of certain city activities, advisability of continuing made work and methods of financing this (continued on page 2) Childrens Plea Melts Ho over Father Freed as Tots Go To White House WASHINGTON C4) Impressed by their plea. President Hoover today-told three children who came to Washington seeking their father's release from jail, that he would consider the case very carefully.

He told us that we could go home cheerfully, Bernice Feagan, 13, said after pleading with the chief executive to use his power to make her father, Charles Feagan, a free man again. Feagan is in the Detroit county jail. He was arrested on a charge of driving a stolen automobile from St. Joseph, to Detroit. Bernice, her sister, Irene, 11, and Clifford, 10, all blue eyed and blonde, arrived at White House somewhat bewildered and a little scared.

Bernice made the plea for her parent. President Hoover ordered Inquiries to be made by the department of justice at once. Father Is Released DETROIT UP) Acting upon instructions from the attorney general's office at Washington. U. S.

Dist. Atty. Gregory H. Frederick today obtained the release of Charles R. Feagan.

held as a federal prisoner on a charge of driving a stolen automobile from Missouri to Michigan, Judge Dies Judge Claude Z. Luae Judge Luse Dies Today of 9 Heart Ailment Long Illness Fatal to U. S. Jurist at Age of 53 Judge Claude Z. Luse.

53, of 101 Roby U. S. Judge for the western district of Wisconsin, died at a local hospital this morning after a long illness. He was appointed a federal judge in 1921, by the late Pres. Warren G.

Harding. In 1921 Judge Luse underwent a goitre operation, from which he recovered. He was active on the bench thereafter, but late in 1929 he was rtrlcken with the heart ailment Which resulted in his being able to occupy the bench only for short periods since that time. Judge Luse succeeded the late Judge John B. Sanborn; father of John B.

and Phil Sanborn, Madison attorneys. He continued his residence in Superior for a number of years, but In May, 1928, he moved to Madison and had made this city his home since. List Survivors Surviving are the widow: a son, Russell and a daughter Katharine, both at home: and a sister, Mrs. Henry Becker, Menomonie, Wis. Since Its establishment by the federal government, Judge Luse was the judge to serve in this district.

He was preceded by Judges Sanborn, Romanzo Bunn, and James Hopkins. Judge Bunn occupied the bench for many years before Judge Sanborns appointment. Judge Luse was born at Stoughton on Feb. 23, 1879, the son of Louis K. and Ella Luse.

In 1901 he received the degree of bachelor of letters from the University of Minnesota. From Minnesota he came to Madl-(Continueq on page 2) Kocncr Quits D. A. V. Office Roy West bury Seen as New Commander JANESVILLE, Wis.

OP) Ralph Koener of Milwaukee; state comman der of the Disabled American Veterans which is holding its convention here, said before the business meeting this afternoon that he is not a candidate for re-election. The statement relieved somewhat the tension which characterized preelection politics in the organization. A large group sought to displace Koener. Roy Westbury of Madison remained the outstanding candidate for commander. He was one of the officials ousted from office by Koener recently When a demand was made that Koener make a financial accounting of relief activities.

The business meeting started wijii noisy disputes about seating cf legates. 5 Millions 1st Year mission figures showed. These receipts were less than one-fourth of the $262,726,412 disbursements for all purposes of government made by the state, the counties, cities, villages, towns, and school districts of Wisconsin in 1930. Disbursements of the state in 1930 were almost $20,000,000 less than receipts or $42,608,442, the difference being represented by state aids to localities, taxes for which are collected by the state while localities spend the money. Disbursements of the state were bc-t Con tinned on page 2) Betty Compson Hollywood, ci.

Betty Compton, actress, now said to be in Chicago, was sued here Friday by Edward Brand, attorney, who claims $10,000 as his fee for keeping Betty out of an Income tax jam with the British government. Brand sets up that Miss Compson earned $100,000 on British films, on which the British government charged her $38,000 and $12,000 interest. He says he compromised the claim favorably to Petty by paying less than $10,000, but she still owes him. E. F.

Swift CliicagoPackcr, Falls to Death Chairman of Big Firm Plunges 6 Floors from Apartment Bt The Aociat4l Prfwl CHICAGO Edward F. Swift chairman of Swift plunged to death today from the window of his sixth story apartment at 1550 North State st. His affairs are in excellent condition. Charles Swift The veteran packer had fallen from his window to the alley at the rear of the apartment. Death was instant.

Clung to Packing Business He was the son of the pioneer Chicagoan, Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the packing house that was to become the worlds largest. While other great Chicago families had relinquished their hold on the industries that made them great and that they had made great, the Swifts had clung to active leadership in their international packing business. At his death, Edward F. Swith was chairman of the Chicago house and president of Compania Swift Interactional, which does an extensive business in South America. He was 64 years old.

News Stuns Associates Louis Swift, brother of Edward, is president of Swift and and other brothers, Charles, George, and Harold, held high offices in Swifts and affiliated interests. The news of the tragedy his associates in the stock yards where he had been known since childhood. Executives of his company quickly assembled and after a conference a statement was issued by Charles Swift. It read: Edward F. Swift had been in his usual good health and spirits.

He had been attending to business as usual. His affairs are in excellent condition. Mrs. Swift was in her boudoir when the tragedy occurred. Mr.

Swift still (continued on page 3) Edgerton Bank Reopens; Waivers Are Signed EDGERTON, Wis. The First National bank of Edgerton re-opened today after a five day holiday declared by Major Vanness Green. More than 98 per cent of the depositors signed agreement deferring from six months to three years the period in which they may demand 60 per cent of their deposits. J. A.

Brulard Warns of Tactics in Keeping Rates High COMPANIES FIGHT OLD RATE BASIS Savs Utilities Must Bring Product Within Con- suniers Reach (In the boom Jays before the be ginning of Hoover prosperity 1929 when prices and property alnations were high, the big utilities Here successful in getting the courts to adopt cost of reproduction as the base upon which power, light, gas, and other utility rates charged consumers should be determined. With the drastic falls in property values and prices today, application of the of reproduction' method would mean that light, pott er, and gas rates should vr materially reduced. The big utilities, therefore, are shying from the cost of reproduction theory. Will they be able to get the courts to ret erse themselves and apply another rate base for determination of rates, probably that of historical cost, the amount supposedly invested in a utility plant? The following article by J. A.

Brulard, chairman of the board of governors of the Equitable League of New Orleans, points out the vital need for revision downward of utility rates, and discusses the means through which this must be about. Editors Note.) By J. A. BRULARD (President, Equitable League, New Orleans, La.) Thousands of idea and theories have been advanced a cure or remedies for our economic ills, by so-called geniuses, international bankers, corporation lawjcrs, demagogic-politicians, and more especially so by our utility magnates. Herbert Hoover forced congress to enact the highest tariff wall in the world most of these supposed remedies were advocated or enjeted, in spite of the superior judgment of our most noted economists.

There is only one chance remaining for the salvation of this government and that is sound economic principles, irrespective of how hard it may hit our bankers and utility magnates. Before we can build any structure, we must first place the structure upon a solid foundation. Reviews Situation Let us briefly review the present day situation. What do we And? Labor, salaries, wages, foodstuffs, clothing, manufactured products practically ail at the 1890 level. 1 Against this we And that electricity, gas, carfare, telephone, telegraph, freight, and express rates are the same as they were during the peak of inflation.

Electricity is the most important element in the cost of production in nearly all modern Industries, to say nothing of the fact that electricity has now become almost lndispensiblc in the homes of our people. Rates Affect Costs Freight and express rates affect cost of practically every commodity, (Continued on page 7) Taxes Rose In Kohlers Commission Figures Refute Political Propaganda Taxes collected by the state during the first fiscal year of former Gov. Kohlers administration were $5,015,. 475 more than In the preceding year, figures released by the Wisconsin tax commission revealed today. The ftate in the fiscal year which ended in 1930 collected $33,332,159 In taxes and had total receipts of an Increase in receipts of over the previous year, coni- arried Mans Un wedded OVE LETTERS written by a Milwaukee married man to a Madison girl who claims the man is the father of her child were introduced in the trial of Louis Machris, Milwaukee, in superior court.

The trial opened Friday before Judge S. B. Schein and a jury. Machris Ls being tried on the charge of being the father of ihe local womans year-old child. He denied the paternity charge, hut admitted writing the letters.

Machris is married. Read Letters in Court Nine letters were read to the jury by Carl Christianson, assistant district attorney. The letters bore endearing terms, and expressed wishes that the two could be together. Bishop Asks Abstain, Give Hoover Brands Ga Bill rners Gigantic Pork President Sees 2 Billion Aid Bill as Raid on Treasury fRy Th Aioriatd Press WASHINGTON An angry and disgusted denunciation by President Hoover of Speaker Garner's huge public works program, widened enor-' mously today the political rift in congress over unemployment relief. The most gigantic pork barrel ever proposed and un-N exam pled raid on the public treasury, were the words Mr.

Hoover flung at Garners list of 3,500 postoffice, road and waterway building projects carried In his $2,100,000,000 relief bill. The President spoke out thus before a large group of newspapermen late Friday. His lips were drawn to a hard, straight line and his face was pale 'toith intensity of feeling as he heaped up condemnation of the plan, as one wrecking balanced budget hopes and threatening the stability of the government. He told how many of these building plans had been discredited by congress Itself because of useless extravagance involved, and said many others had been authorized only for a distant future when natural growth (Continued on page 2) Hops Off on Ocean Flight CD N. J.

Airmen Flying to London or Paris NEW YORK (A5) Stanley Hausner of Llndon, N. hopped off at 3:05 p. m. (E. S.

today on a projected flight to Europe. He said his goal was either London or Paris. Man Stabbed in Quarrel At Pelican Lake is. RHINELANDER, Wis. (IP) H.

K. Agard. 47, Chicago business man who lives In a cottage on Pelican lake, was stabbed seven times and critically injured today after a quarrel with Oscar Flannery. A posse of officers caught Flannery, a Kentuckian, In woods near the Agard cottage. Flannery was brought to the county jail here while Agard was taken to a hospital In Antigo.

He had been stabbed seven times in the abdomen and his condition Is critical. Agard bought camp property from Flannery and they quarreled over the officers said. Agard is a furniture upholsterer. $3,258 Jilt Money Due Her Ruling H. Malcolm Woldenberg must carry out the agreement he with Miss Helen Ruthhauser, Madison, to pay her money because of his failure to marry her.

Circuit Judge A. Hopp-mann decided today. Woldenberg must pay $3,258.05. The judpe ordered that Woldenberg, former Madisonian now reported to be living in Chicago, pay MKs Rutls-hauser immediately $578.05, representing bills he promised to pay and did not. and past due installments of $40 a month which he agreed to pay.

The Judge also directed that Woldenberg make other monthly payments of $40 for six years as agreed by him last fall. Shows Agreement Miss Rutishauser showed Judge Hoppmann an agreement which Woldenberg signed last fall agreeing to pay bills sh had Incurred, and agreeing to pay her $40 per month for sIx years. The agreement was made because Woldenberg and Miss Rutishauser went, together for several years. Woldenberg since has married a Chicago girl. Woldenberg did not contest Miss Ruthishauser claim, although he had filed an admission of the service upon him of Miss Ruthishausers complaint Must Pay Costs In addition to paying the bills, and making the monthly payments, Woldenberg was directed by Judge Hoppmann to pay court costs, and expenses incurred by Miss Ruthishauser in her suit.

Miss Ruthishauser was represented in court today by Paul Griffiths of Kali, and Hall. Confesses 15 BankHoldups In Vrisconsin IPSWICH, S. D. (A3) Confessions to more than two score of bank robberies in the Middlewest in the last seven years, including 15 in Wisconsin, were in the hands of officials here today while four bandits were held in Jail under prison sentences of 30 years each. Arrest of the quartet in Minnesota after the holdup of the Bank of Ipswich last week, police said, broke up one of the nations cleverest gang of bank robbers.

Officers said the confessions were made by Phil Ray, 32, of St. Paul, and Reinhold Engel, also of St. Paul and alleged leader of the band which originally numbered 12. Five of this in addition to the four under arrest here, are either dead or in prison, and three are still at large. Ray, police said, confessed to robbing 37 banks in six states.

Engel admitted he and his gang were responsible for 11 others. Rays confession said he had held up 15 banka in Wisconsin, 11 in Minnesota, 5 in Iowa, three in North Dakota, two in California, and one in South Dakota. Engel said the band had robbed banks at Stone Lake, Grantsburg, Park River, Oconto Fails, and Cameron, Wis. LaCrosse G. O.

to Seek To Nominate Kohler LA CROSSE. Wis. P) La Crosse ounty Friday generated so much enthusiasm for the movement to draft Walter J. Kohler as a candidate for governor that they prepared for his nomination at the. state-wide Conservative convention in Madison June! 7 and 8.

Republicans here proposed that Harry Dahl of La Crosse, former Gov. Kohlers running mate in the 1930 campaign, be asked to make the speech nominating Kohler. Then ali La Crosse county delegates were instructed to support Kohler as long as there Is hope that he may be coaxed out of political retirement. Cafe Jnsty, world-famous rendezvous Of Berlin, has closed' for lack of patronage. of the letters.

The mother of the child testified that she went with Machris while she was working in a Milwaukee hospital in 1930. Didn't Know He Was Married She did not. Rt that time, know he was married, she said. She claimed the man is the father of her child. Members of the July are Arthur Batty, Charles F.

Bradley, Frank Frisch. Fred Hintz. and Emil Scheeler. all of Madison Mrs. Arisen MorhofT, Middleton; Peter Derra, town of Vienna; Jans Torie, and Oscar Ebert, town of Windsor; Peter Haak, town of Cross Plains; Mrs.

Eleanor Little, town of Montrose, and Hans Ramberg, town of Christiana. Catholics to Poor Savings Will Cite Popes Encyclical in Letter to Be Read Sunday THE popes encyclical on the depression will be brought home to Madison, Catholics Sunday morning when Archbishop Stxitch's letter for the observance of the octave of the feast of the Sacred Heart, beginning June 3, will be read to local Catholic congregations. Complying with the pope letter enjoining Catholics to a period of prayer to beg God to lift the scourge which so heavily falls on the whole human race, Archbishop Stritch has set aside the 8-day period as a term of self-denial and prayer, asking the banning of amusements. Donate to Toor He also asks that Catholics live dur- ing the period at the reduced living level of the poor, and that all money saved in this manner be given to charity. According to the Rev.

William Mahoney, pastor of St. Raphael's church, the ban on amusements will not Interfere with the Catholic schools' commencement exercises which fall within the period. We will treat the days of Sacred Heart like Lent, he explained, we shall spend those days in special prayer and self denial, and will, in some way, attempt to help to relieve the distress of the world-wide depression In honor of the Heart of Christ, symbolic of his great love. No graduation exercises will be curtailed, but we shall not ro out of our way to plan amusements, he said. Letters received by Madison priests, as well as others in the diocese, forbid social activities, and the archbishop asks, that for the 8-day period.

Catholics abstain from public amusements. reduce living customs to the level of the poor, and contribute the saving in this way to charity. The reverend fathers will encourage their peoples during these days, the bishop's letter states, to practice penances and mortifications. We hope no Catholic during these days will frequent theaters and that parties and social recreations will not be given. Forbid Tarish Events We forbid parishes or Institutions to give any sort of amusements, even the most legitimate, during these days.

Almsgiving ls always a comitant with Catholic devotion. Let therefore the saving from amusements and living expenses be given to alms to the poor. In every parish church we direct that ain' alms box be placed in a prominent place and the alms be turned over to the parish conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul society or forwarded to us for distribution to the poor. WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis Wood county's 14 delegates to the Conservative Republican state convention in Madl'on will go unin-.

true ted as to whom to support lor governor. At a meeting Friday night at which delegates were selected there was only passing reference to the draft Kohler movement. 2 Contributions Made as Kiddie Camp Drive Opens Gudritl Circle, Service Shop First to Aid Project KIDDIE CAMP FUND The Capital Times Gudrid Reading Circle 5259 Service Shop Benefit 12.41 Total $7 THE long, long pull toward the Kiddie cr.mp goal of $3,500 this year was lightened a bit by two early contributions sent to The Capital Times by the Gudrid Reading circle and the Service shop. Hard work and a complete realization of the importance of the project of bringing 50 young victims of the present economic crisis to health went into those contributions. But we need many more if those half a hundred fragile bodies are to be built into sound, healthy structures at-the Kiddie ramp this summer.

Who will be next to help Madison underprivileged children in their fight against tuberculosis? a 5 ic 'Cv jpi "vtf.