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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 5

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Madison THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL Wisconsin Friday, February 12, 1943 A Pershing at Front Delivery of Mail Difficult Killing in Badger Leg islafxi re Shocked State 1 01 Yea rs Ag in Wartime, So ys Postmaster Complaints of lost or delayed 9 walked out of the chamber. 3 1 I 1. I If I oaf fleet postoffice through which it is handled, instead of "c-o postmaster" in San Francisco or New York. When air mail is addressed "c-o Fleet Postoffice" it may be assumed that the addressee is overseas, the department explained, and postage at 6 cents for each half ounce or fraction is required. If air mail is addressed to naval personnel within the continental United States the 6 cent rate applies for each ounce or fraction.

say something silly about his being delayed by a traffic light," sh said. Judge Harry R. Archbald thought that was cruelty and grounds for divorce. A property settlement was reached out of court. "We'll continue to work to gether until we get the top Cros ley rating," she announced.

This rating is based on samplings of listener interest in radio programs. Brooklyn Man at Texas Camp BROOKLYN Leonard H. Nes-bit, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nesbit, Brooklyn, who enlisted Jan-11, is with the coast artillery and is stationed at Camp Wallace, Tex.

Nesbit was graduated from Brooklyn high school in 1942, and was formerly employed by the Ray-O-Vac Madison. Do FALSE TEETH Rock. Slide or Slip? FASTEETH, an improved powder be sprinkled on upper or lower platen, holds false teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling.

FAS-TEETH Is alkaline (non-acid). Doe not sour. Checks "plate odor (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug store. Adv.

'alt 0 wo it tJp '4 (If Mrs. Skelton Divorces 'Red Will Manage Him HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Mrs. Marie Skelton divorced Richard "Red" Skelton, radio and screen comdian, Thursday but announcd she would cdntinue to write his scripts and manage his business affairs. She charged Skelton "stayed out late and came in early." When she demanded an explanation df his. late hours, he "would usually By IVAN CLYDE LAKE Only that morning they walked arm in arm along the corridor, laughing Before noon one of them lay dead on the floor of the council chamber while the other stood over him, the pistol in his hand cooling, the anger suddenly gone out of his face and sorrow come there instead.

"Arndt and Vineyard were good friends," someone muttered. "Why, only this It was a cold, bleak day, Feb. 11, 1842, 101 years ago this week. Inside the sandstone capitol at Madison the floors creaked, the walls cracked, while a shivering legislature convened. Tempers Hot The lawmakers thawed out erelong.

The new governor's name, inevitably spoken now and again, was like a flame that set them aboil. For there were few who approved Pres. Tyler's appointment of James Duane Doty as Wisconsin's territorial governor to replace Henry Dodge. Particularly antagonistic were representatives from the mining region, whence Dodge hailed. Take the matter th Charles C.

P. Arndt, council member from Brown county, brought up this February morning. At a session a day or so before, Gov. Doty had sent in the name of Enos S. Baker as nominee for sheriff of Grant county, to fill an unexpired term.

The nomination mail addressed to members of the armed forces indicate a wide misunderstanding of mail handling and difficulties in delivery, Postmaster W. J. Ilyland's office reported today. The Madison postoffice, like others throughout the nation, has had several requests for "tracers" on letters and packages. Complaints, however, are fewer than those received during the previous World war despite larger volumes.

The postal service loses jurisdiction over the mail after it is delivered to army and navy overseas or at embarkation points, th department explained, and delays may be caused by various factors. Mail transportation sometimes must be postponed to meet more urgent needs, personnel transfers also add to the time required for mail to catch up, and censorship, over which the postoffice department has no control, may add to delays. Many thousand letters and packages have been lost in ship sinkings. V-Mail Has Priority V-mail letters are given priority and when possible are sent by plane. The postoffice department, it was explained, can not provide addresses of soldiers, sailors and marines abroad.

When necessary they can be obtained from the office of the adjutant general, war department, Washington, the. bureau of naval personnel, navy department, or marine corps headquarters, navy department Washington. To expedite handling mail for naval personnel overseas, the navy department has requested that matter be addressed to the the county in which the crime was committed. Vineyard didn't want to be tried in Dane county. He wrote to Strong who was scheduled to preside over the special session of the legislature, "I wish most sincerly that you may not neglect to get a law passed changing venue in criminal cases, as you see the necessity of passing such a law." The law was passed.

But Vineyard's first trial was in Dane county, nevertheless. Moses M. Strong was his chief defendant. The grand jury at the May term of the district court returned an indictment for manslaughter. But that, of course, was what Vineyard had expected in Dane county.

The case, continued to the November term of the district court, was then postponed until May, 1943. By then a change of venue had been granted. The trial was scheduled to be held in October before Judge David Irwin in Monroe, Green county. Two years, lacking four months, from the time he shot Arndt, Vineyard's trial ended. Out for a short time, the jury returned, and the foreman handed the verdict to the judge.

"Not guilty," it read. "Defendant acted in self-defense." Thus ended a case that created nation-wide sensation. James R. Vineyard went free, but he was never free. Friends related that remorse dogged him until he died in California in 1863.

History says that Vineyard was always "very popular with his fellow miners." Even while his case was pending, he offered himself as a candidate for sheriff of Grant county, and was nearly elected. After his acquittal, he was elected to membership in the first constitutional convention in 1846, and three years later he had a seat in the legislature of the new state of Wisconsin. Even in California, to which he went in 1850, he served a term in the assembly. But often, friends said, he remarked with genuine feeling, "I wish I'd kept my temper. I wish I hadn't killed Charley Arndt!" had been tabled.

Arndt now asked for a reconsideration. "The member from Grant county, Baker's own county, he declared, "has given the highest testimonial of the nomin ee's character." Quarrel Begins Immediately that representative, James R. Vineyard, jumped to his feet. "That's a lie!" he shouted. Words were flung back and forth.

"Order! Order" roared 4 out Moses M. Strong, member from Iowa county. "Order! Order!" repeated the president, whacking his gavel. There was brief order, long enough to adjourn properly. Arndt rushed over to Vineyard's desk.

"Did you call me a liar?" he shouted. "I did not recommend Baker," Vineyard answered loudly. Again there were white-hot words Down whacked the president's gavel and the session was resumed. But Arndt did not return to his seat: he stepped back a little way from his opponent's desk, his back to the fireplace, his eyes fixed on Vineyard. He stood there, until adjournment.

And then. Slowly Arndt moved to Vineyard's desk. For a moment he bent over his fellow councilor. Then he cried out again, "Did you call me a liar?" Vineward jumped up, his palms raised outwardly against Arndt. "Call.it that if you please!" he answered hotly.

Fist and Pistol Lightning-like, Arndt's fist shot out, landing squarely ori" Vineyard's forehead. For a moment he was stunned but only for a moment. There was a pistol shot. Smoke puffed out, lifted. Arndt fell back into the arms of a fellow member.

Five minutes later he was dead. Vineyard stepped over to him, stood looking down while the pistol in his hand cooled, the anger suddenly gone out of his face. "I'm sorry," he muttered, and The hand of the legislature clerk trembled as he unfolded a piece of note paper which had just come by messenger from the Dane county jail. Nervously he adjusted his glasses and began to read very slowly, "Gentlemen of the Council. I hereby tender my resignation to this honora "Stop! Stop!" shouted Ebenezer Brigham of Dane county.

"I protest the reading of that!" "And too!" cried John H. Tweedy of Milwaukee. Tweedy roared on: "A most flagrant outrage been committed by a member of this body. The dignity of the council has been insulted. An indebile stigma has been cast upon the character of the territory.

"This, council, If it has any regard to decency and it own dignity, will not consider, hear, or receive any communication, of any character, from the author of the letter before us, until his connection with this body is dissolved." "Right!" surged up a chorui. "Right! Right!" "That, connection," thundered Tweedy, "She will sever in her own way not by permission to retire, but by ignorminious expulsion One by one the vote was taken: one, two, three, four and at last 12 voices were raised for Vineyard's expulsion. One councilor yet remained to express himself. "The gentleman from Iowa county?" "No!" roared out Moses M. Strong.

Here was a friend for you, this Moses M. Strong. He could be depended upon in more ways than one, Vineyard opined. There was the matter of a law that needed changing. Vineyard began working on that even before he was released under bonds from the Dane county jail.

Law Changed The law, as it stood, Insisted that a criminal trial be held in Pvt. John J. Pershing, a third cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF in World War is shown above standing at the entrance to a shelter in the Buna area of New Guinea.

W. Chase left Tuesday for Princeton, N. where he will enter a training school in the naval reserve. Lieut. Chase, who has been manager of the Chase Lumber and Fuel will be succeeded by Charles Chase.

5. YOU HAD A NECK AS LONG AS THIS FELLOW AND HAD SORE THROAT xcepf ipnally Low IUE TO COLDS waTL Prices. On "Honorbilt 1nI -jDom tftfi SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT W. Chase Leaves for Navy Training SUN PRAIRIE Lieut. Theodore Home Furnishings mm uuiLUVUiyivuiiy UW 341mdli8nim 3 Exquisite PIECES For Tour BED ROOM mirB mnB(P lWntmfln.it Handsome suite in modern waterfall styling, walnut finish high lighted.

Large 4-drawer chest. Handsome vanity with circular mirror. Full 54" bed. 3-Picce Hard Rock Maple Bedroom Suite, $69.95 -f C-rv-. Occasional Chairs Walnut finish In choice assorted coverings and colors.

Chairs and rockers as low as $500 r- l-m V. 1 I 1' III OSEO SATURDAY Occasional Tables $088 Walnut finish, six sturdy legs, scalloped edge. A special, while they last only Monday (Q) to yp.M. Pre-war Construction Living Room Suite Davenport and chair finished in mottled combination durable fabric. Choice of colors.

Wood panels in walnut finish. An exceptional value in a quality suite. To conserve on light amd heat as an aid in the war effort, many Madison stores formerly open will be closed at 8 p. m. tomorrow and every Saturday thereafter.

If you have been a Saturday night shopper because it has been inconvenient for you to shop during the day then please do your after 8 buying on Monday night until 9. The following list of stores will abide by the uniform schedule above. 11 1 Breakfast Sots $795 These Stores in the Past Have Been Closed on Saturday Nights: Olson fir Veerhusen E. W. Parker, Inc.

W. J. Rendall Genuine 5-piece White Oak Suite, including table and four chairs to match. Sturdy construction throughout. Snap up this value.

5 C. W. Anderci Co. (At the Co-op) Baron's Burdick fir Murray The Emporium Co. Fashions Furs The Hub, Clothiers Huegel Hyland Juvenile Shop Karsrens' MacNeil Moore Madison Drapery Shop Harry S.

Manchester, Inc. Edwin O. Olson (At the Co-op) Spoo and Son University Co-op Walk-Over Woldenberg's Wehrmann's Luggage Yost's (Successor to Kessenich's) See Our Big Selection MIRRORS Wide choice of styles and shape specially reduced. Oblonr Mirrors Tf Beveled Edge Circular Mirror CO Rft Gold frame, beveled edge Upright Mirror Cft lR Ex. large, beveled edges vwiwil Octagon Mirror CC AB Beveled Edge NURSERY CHAIRS (At the Co-op) W.

J. Rendall (Square Store) Simpson's RUG PRICES SLASHED ON DISCONTINUED PATTERNS $37.95 9'Xir AXMINSTER RUG Oriental pattern These Stores Have Been Open Saturday Nights But Will Close at 0 P. 90c $44.95 $32.95 $37.95 $44.95 9'xl2 AXMINSTER RUG Blue tone background 9'xir AXMINSTER RUG Wine -and brown 9'xjr AXMINSTER RUG Rose taupe 9'xl2' AXMINSTER RUG Green floral design CREST INLAID LINOLEUM Per sq. yard DELUXE INLAID LINOLEUM $1.50 Per sq. yard Sears Roebuck Co.

Speth's Clothing Store Three Sisters Wagner's College Shop C. W. Andersen, Jeweler Arenx Shoe Store Barker's Campus Record Shop. Denniston's Gill's Clothiers Goodman's Jewelry Store W. T.

Grant Co. Hill's Dry Goods Co. Hughes Kinney Shoe Store Leath fir Co. Mangel's Master Furriers Montgomery Ward Moseley Book Co. Neumode Hosiery Shop Norris Lea Furs R.

W. Nelson, Jeweler J. C. Penney Co. Is ml $1149 UP Choice several different styles.

All speefally reduced for quick selling. L. Wiemarin Co. (Pronounced 311 STATE STREET FAIRCHILD 6251 1.

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