The Capital Times from Madison, Wisconsin • 1

1 "mjr vinw fr-umwngtuE-. ommai CTZ3 Ini "Z3 uvu WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Not quite so cold Wednesday afternoon. Diminishing west ninds. k.j HOME EDITION Net Paid Circulation Ot Q1 Yesterday xjO.L 1 The large! net paid Dally Circulation eny newapape, In Maiflann W'-conaln ootalde ol Milwaukee 4 3 f- Mcial Paper of the State of Wisconsi VOL.

18, NO. 2 FULL LEASED WIRE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1926 TWENTY PACES PRICE THREE CENTS Tod ay Wc Build Targets A Job For Fathers Happy, Wall St One 3Iillionth Degree Tj ed ID) Arthur Brisbane: Is Drop of 48 Degrees in One Day No Relief In Sight For Shivering Madison Un til Tomorrow. NAVY experts tell congress that the government is spending $164,000 a year to keep in con- dition forty-one submarines, out of commission, not ready to fight. Eighty of our submarines are ready for action; the forty-one that cost $164,000 a year are kept ready, all i tut the crew. Times Bldg, in Spite of Weather by The Capital Times Staff Photographer 1 Firemen Called As School Head Forgets His Key Push Capital Photo t- yV ri rtf, i I A Reports to the house naval cof-nnttee show that Japan leads all nations in submarine construction.

For us to catch up would cost Fortunately Japan loves this country and wouldnt hurt us, so we. need not worry. We shall probably build some battleships and cruisers to provide targets for airplanes and submarines. The other nations will build the airplanes and the submarines. Thats fair.

The pope, addressing 1000 representatives of the Federation of Catholic Men, says the dress of modern women is an outrage in every sense against human and Christian dignity, and asks fathers to check their daughters and wives irreverence and corruption, as expressed in immodest clothing. Fathers will find it difficult. 'j, vv. j. Jjjri 4 I uwna and for the first floor, Tno work on the new Capital I Time? building is beinjj pushed by F.

Fritz and contractors, in 1 sflfe of adverse weather conditions. The concrete has been poured and the basement walls of the nev Capital Times building are now completed. The forms are now being erected for the basement col Patriotism? Bunk! Says U.S: Prosecutor of Doheny Another happy day in Wall street the merry yuletide approaching, prices advancing. Aware of the psychological influ- ence of gold, employers have drawn out fifteen millions -in gold coin for presents to workers. And comfort-.

jg little plus signs are scattered all down the stock list. To him tnat hath shall be given. 1 The Smithsonian institute makes marvelous instruments to measure the suns heat and generously sends them out to other institutions. For a scientific marvel consider mans power to1 measure heat to within one millionth part of a degree. That amount of heat wouldnt be important on the sun, so hot that if our earth should fall from its nicely balanced road, it woud melt and anish in gas long before it struck the surface of one star.

Broivnie Sprinkes Fairy Dust That Speeds Feet of Santas Reindeers Slot Device Cases Ruled from Cou Dismiss Three Business Men Of Gambling Charges No Gambling Evidence States Attorney Moves To Free Two After Ruling In 1 Case Three slot machine cases which were pending before Dane county circuit court were dismissed late yesterday after the trial of one of the cases had been carried to completion and Judge A. C. Hoppmann had refused to allow It to to the jury on grounds that no evidence of gambling on the machine had been offered. After the case against Charles Cartron. properitor of a pool hall at 520 E.

Wilson st, had been dismissed by the judge, the states attorneys office decided not to prosecute the cases against James Kendall, part owner of Leos and Jims restaurant, 700 block on W. Washington and Howard Grief, of Camel's pool hall, 613 University and motions were made by the states attorney for their dismissal. In none of the cases was there any evidence of actual gambling on the machines, and this was the reason for the dismissal of the case against Cartron. In this qase the state had to confine its case chiefly to the contention that the machine was easily adaptable to gambling. Stanley Slagg, assistant district attorney, contended that amusement was a thingof value and that the machine, which sometimes give? chips to pUyers, offered a chance of obtaining amusement for 'nothing.

The chips can be Used t) play the machine. The judge took no notice of this contention, however. 1 Theodore G. Lewis, Car irons attorney, contended that gambling upon the machine must be shown to be an absolute fact and cot merely a possinbility. McCormick Shows How U.

W. Is Value To City B. E. McCormick, secretary of the University of WiLco nsin Alumni association, addressed the Gyro club at its luncheon today on Opportunities and Responsibilities of Madison to the University. The name Madison is being madek nown to the world by 60,000 graduates of the University, said Mr.

McCormick in speaking on the value of the university to the city. Not only is the city receiving publicity, but it is also directly benefited in a financial way, he said. As an example of this he cited the case of La a city whose students, it is estimated, spent $100,000 annually in the city of Madison. In return for this, said Mr. McCormick.

every citizen of Madison should do all in his power to boost the university. Instead of being a knocker, everyone should turn about and let the world know about the points of the University of Wisconsin. Box Car Robber Kills Self In Green Bay Cell GREEN BAT, Wis. C43) Raymond Ducat, 23, implicated i.i several box car robberis and held under $11,500 bonds, for trial with Joe Kucheski, committed suicide in the county jail last night by hanging himself with strips of a torn bed sheet. A confession is reported to have been found on his person.

The pair were arrested Saturday on a charge of entering bex cars on the Northweatern railroad. A Trayser was fined $5 and costs in superior court today for driving a car without required license plates. i A 16 year old girl is chosen secretary of the Junior Atheist league, a branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, which organizes its junior league to remove boys and girl3 from the evil influence of the clee- gy. Its useless to answer that foolishness. But there ought to be some American association to free youth i from the evil influence of the boct- logger, the hip flask, the cabaret, and the growing lack of respect and reverence.

Audience is Saved; City Hall Burns Crowd Led Down Fire Escapes; Building Is Destroyed Total Loss Is $80,000 Fire 'Department From Dubuque Helpless To Check Flames Bv the Associated Press PLATTEVILLE, Wis. Fire swept the city hall here Monday night, doing $80,000 damage and caused 150 persons attending the Strand theater to flee down a fire escape from the third floor of the threatened structure. Dubuque and Platteville firemen made a futile attempt to save the building whose destruction left the city today without a home for its city government. The fire, believed to have originated through overheating of a furnace, had gained considerable headway when discovered and firemen were handicapped through working in five degree below zero weather. The firemen did succeed in saving nearby buildings which were threatened when the fire reached its height.

The theater is on the second floor of the building. The film was being for the second performance and the audience of 500 had dwindled to 130, when smoke trickled op the stairway and delivered an ominous warning of danger. With their escape cut off in that direction, the audience went up stair? to the balcony, led by J. H. Lewis, newspaper correspondent.

From there they climbed to safety down a fire escape. Two or three women were ocercome by smoke and fright and were carried out hut they were revived without difficulty when they reached the outdoors. The city hall was built in 1883. It housed alLthe city officers and the police department. Vote on City Manager Plan Will be Asked Women Voters League To Request Council For 1 Referendum A petition, asking the city council to approve a referendum on the city manager plan of government, will be circulated by the Dane County League of Women Voters during the next few months, it was reported The League cf Women Voters has been one of the most active or-gsmzations in the city in favor of the city manager p.an here.

The proposed petition asking the cay to give permission for the referendum has not been drawn up or sanctioned by the league as yet, but it is reported that it will be Senate Opens Doors To 33,000 Wives Of Aliens WASHINGTON. (P) The senate voted today to open the immigration gates to 35.000 wives and minor children of aliens' admitted prior to July 1, 1924, who have applied for naturalization. At a recent inquest in London it was stated that a bullet, after penetrating a mans heart, passed thron the bed on which he was lying, penetrated the floor and pierced the ceiling of the public bar briow. There it struck a barel and glanced off into the pocket of a customer, where it remained unnoticed for 20 miftutes. Chas.Hoffman III 2 Years Dies Chares Hoffman, 61, of 121 N.

Bedford died last night at a Madison hospital after an illness of two years duration. Mr. Hoffman was bom in Germany and came to Madison with his parents when he was a youth. He lived here continuously until his death. He is eurvived by his widow, wo sons, Charles of Chicago and Earl of Honolulu, and the following brothers and sisters: William, August, Mrs.

Henry Hanke and Mrs. Louis Goodman of Madison; Frank of Wausau, Philip of Verona, -and John of Raddison, Wis. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Democrats in congress, who had tplans and interesting uses prepar-. for the several hundred millions wef surplus federal income, will try get that excellent plum out of the committee.

It seems a shame to these gay times to apply that money on -the national debt. W-s- A I in an effort to have the struceuie icady for occupancy between May 1 and June 1 of next year. The above photograph shows the extent of the work to date. Francis Endres Photo by DeLonge ders ear, the leader of Santas reindeer, and blows fairy dust from his magic horn under the feet of the reindeer so that they can gallop over the house tops. Faster! Faster! calls old Santa from his seat in the sleigji and Sprinkle-spot blows more fairy dust from his magic horn, sending the rendeer along at greater speed.

U. S. Nearing Its Decadence Claims OShea Self Indulgence Of Young Cited By U. Of W. Professor By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO The tendency of American youth toward early self-indulgence is taken by Dr.

M. V. OShea, professor of education of the University of Wisconsin, to in-licate that the U. S. is nearing its decadence.

In decaying nations the growing period cf the younj 13 being continuously shortened, he told the sectional convention of the California education association here Monday. Among decadent people the young give themselves at an early period to self-indulgence. They lose interest in knowledge for its own sake. They stop growing intellectually and morally at 14 or 15. Dr.

OShea advocated extension of the compulsory education period and pleaded that the ideals of culture an chivalry be kept alive in the high schools and junior colleges. It all simmers down to the biological impulse, he said. It is to win feminine favor. "40 et 8 Changes Place Of Its. Meeting Tonight The local voiture of the 40 et 8 society will meet tonight in the Alex Drives lunchroom, 114 E.

Main to tlect officers instead of meeting at its chateau pear Middleton. The severely cold weather caused the change in Firemen from No. 4 station kept up the tradition of the fire department being a gen eral emergency organization in addition to its main business of fighting fires when they went out to 1932 West Lawn ave. and let Thomas W. Gosling, Madison superintendent of schools, into his home from which he had been locked out.

It was about 10 p. m. and the mercury was hovering around 14 below zenvwhen the firemen answered Mr. Gosling's summons. They hoisted a ladder to an upstairs window and allowed the city school superintendent to clamber into his home and unlock the front door from the inside.

Senate G.O.P. Extend Formal Bid to Frazier Conference Welcomes Ilim Back; Committee Chairmen Picked By th Associated Press WASHINGTON Banned after the 1924 election as a political undesirable in the Republican ranks, Sen. Frazier, N. insurgent, was formally welcomed hack into the fold todiiy by unanimous vote of the Republican senate conference. Sen.

Frazier was net present when the action, which will automatically invite him to all party conferences in the future, was taken. It also was voted to confirm recommendations made by the committee on commitees which puts Sen. Frazier in line for the chairmanship cf the Indian committee after March 4, ar.d reinstating him to his former place on other committees. Desigation of Sen. Norris, as chairman of the judiciary committee; McNary, as chairman of the agriculture committee; Phipps, as chairman of the irrigation committee, and Couzens, as chairman of the education and labor committees, also was approved.

The action in the Frazier case was' designed to heal the breach caused by the ejection 1 from the party councils cf those Republican insurgents who supported the late Sen. a Follette of Wisconsin, in his independent campaign for the presidency. The North Dakota senator is the only one of those deprived of his, party status now in the senate, and son after the ejection last month, w'hich reduced the Republican majority to the vanishing point, steps were taken to vr.ng him back into the party conferences. Cab Company Asks Dismissal Of Suit Though admitting that their driver was careless in his driving and was speeding when his cab collided with another car, the Yellow Cab in an answer filed in circuit court today, asks the suit for $2,000 damages for injuries brought agaii.st them by Gladys Kettelhon-be dismissed. The cab company denies on information and belief that the plaintiff was lacerated about the face, and bruised by being thrown againit the windshield of the car, and that she was made ill by the accident.

Sinclair Asks Court To Quash Oil Plot Charge WASHINGTON (JP) Harry F. Sinclair, through counsel, asked the District of Columbia supreme court today to quash the indictment charging him and Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, with conspiracy in the leasing to Sinclair of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil reserve. men for yvhite collar jobs instead of actual hard work, Mr. McCormick stated that an education is not a means of get- ting out of work, but it teaches the boy or girl that there is no job which is below his dignity.

A high school training, sain Mr. Me Cormick, is a tool or implement which equips the student to be a better job in less time, thus leaving time for the finer things of life. The mission which the schools are trying to fulfill is to discover latent ability and to develop the younger generation mentally, physically and morallyJ Mr. Me Cormick said. 14 Deaths Due To Cold 30 Below In West; Fires And Stalled Trains Add To Suffering i mbwwmmmmw A 43 degree drop in temperature, reaching a minimum of 14 below zero at 7 a.

m. today, was recorded in Madison during tho past 24 hours. Thermometers in various spots in the city registered even lower than 14 below, but the latter is the official figure reported from North hall by the U. S. weather ou-reau.

A biting wind accompanied the cold wave which swept down over the Middle West from western Canada yesterday. As the sky cleared and the wind diminished this morning, the mercury began to climb back toward the zero mark. Fair weather tonight and Wednesday will bring a moderation temperature by tomorrow afternoon, the weather bureau reports. The mark of 14 below is the record low for the season. Five Fires in Madison Madisons fire department extinguished five fires during the cold spell last night and this morning.

The damage was negligible at ech fire. Firemen from number 4 station also extinguished a fire at the home of Rev. F. J. Bloodgood, 113 Spooner st.

The fire had been started by an overheated furnace pipe. No. 4 company put out a fire in the home of J. O. Hinze, 2106 N.

Lawn it had been started by an overheated furnace. Chimney fires were put out at the home of P. B. Koltes, 1150 Williamson and of John Schim-ming, 1437 Williamson by Number 3 company. The first alarm was at 6:27 a.

m. No. 1 company put out a chimney fire at the home of J. Miller, 29 E. Dayton early this morning.

A false alarm turned In at 7:13 a. m. called fire companies No. 3 and 5 to Clemmons ave. and Winnebago st.

Bitter Cold Takes Toll i By the Associated Press CHICAGO Bitter winter swept into the eastern half of the country today from western states struggling in the grip of zero weather and deep drifted snows. Swirling winds bore the cold wave across the Mississippi valley and flung it in a broad fan that brushed the Atlantic seaboard and reached to the gulf coast. Normal life came to a virtuil standstill in the northwest, and down into the cr.tral states trains were running behind schedule, schools were closed and crippled communication told of amounting Continued on page 1, Section 2) Brought Back Here From Illinois; Deny Car Theft Paul Kramer and Carl who were brought back from Van-dalia, 111., yesterday by Detective Romaine Yqrk, were arraigned in superior court today charged with larceny of a car. Both pleaded guilty and Judge Stolen ordered them held under bonds of $500 each for hearing on Friday. Arrested, Released, Then Nabbed Again for Drink James Ford was fined $10 and costs on each of two counts of drunkenness when he was arraigned in superior court today.

Police officials arrested him yesterday, but he was not arraigned because he was under the care of a doctor. Last night he was arrested again and brought In this morning to face both charges. Fog i etated to have no appreciable effect in the death rate from respiratory diseases. THE WEATHER- Cold Goes East Temperature Moderating Under Influence of Chinook Wind The highest temperature during the past 24 hours was 34 at 7 a. m.

yesterday and the lowest wa3 14 below zero at 7:30 a. m. today. The sun sets at 4:24. A cold wave is spreading eastward across the Appalachians and southward over, the Gulf states, The greatest fall of temperature occurred in eastern Wisconsin and northeastern llli-, nois, where it is 50 degrees colder than it m-as yesterday.

The temperature is moderating under the influence of Chinook winds along front of the northern Rocky mountains from South Dakota to Alberta, but it has fallen sharply in Wyoming and Nevada. The barometer is low in the southwest and is still giving some rain ia southern Arizona. I New York has passed a law that sends men to prison for life, when they are shown to habitual criminals of a dangerous type, and police report that-this has actually diminished crime. Other states take notice. Such a law might create a large prison population, and useful, interesting work should be found, on some island, perhaps raising food for other convicts.

Riddles wLoan Alibi Argument To Jury In By the Associated Press WASHINGTON The defense began today its final attempt to oeat back the tide of prosecution argument in the Fall-poheny oil conspiracy trial. With every prospect that the case would be in the hands of the jury by sundown tomorrow, a succession of defense attorneys were a.Iotted a six hour period in which to tell the jurymen there was no taint of guilt in Edward L. Do-henys loan of $100,000 to Albert B. Fall, while Fall was in the cao-inet and before Doheny was awarded the lease to the Elk Hills oil reserve. Frank J.

Hogan, chief counsel for Doheny, denied directly Roberts charge that any wrong-doing attended the $100,000 transaction, which he described as nothing but a loan given by Doheny to his friend of 30 years standing. You have heard from the able, if not fair counsel, that there was brib'e of $100,000 in this case he continued. I ask you if you believed in your heart of hearts tnat that old gentleman (pointing to Doheny), who has dug into the earth, w.th his own bare hand3, you tel.eved, even after you Eaw him pilloried here by a Philadelphia lawyer, that the old man wouli stood to br.blng a friend of his youth in order to swindle and cneat the land he loved? WASHINGTON The govern ment today demanded full punishment of former Secretary Albert Fall and E. L. Doheny, oil operator, for their criminal and dishonest conspiiacy to defraud the nation of oil lands.

Owen J. Roberts, special oil counsel, recited to the jury, which shortly is to pass judgment, the detaiU of the oil leases which began with the loan to Fall, of and ended in Dohenys acquisition of the Elk Hills, naval oil reserves. Doheny, Roberts referred to a3 a man who used the power of his money to 'get influence brought to boar on government officials. Fl! was described as an impecunious Cabinet officer. Secretary Fall, Roberts said, had sole authority, by executive over thfe naval reserves and he was the guiding genius behind all of the Doheny leases.

Roberts read excerpts from testimony taken by the Senate investigating committee three years ago to prove that Fall and Doheny had jointly conceived the idea of procuring oil contracts leases in October, 1921 a full month before the $100,000 loan. Gentlemen. said Roberts, it is foi you to say whether or not this was a bona fide transaction between two old friends. I shall not- say a word on that, but certainly you anu I know if we were getting a loan it wouldnt be surrounded by buen maneuvers and acticia as were resorted to in this case. -Roberts ridiculed Dohenya statement that he had gone into the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, project as a patriotic duty.

The prosecutor produced a letter Doheny had written before he claims to have been told of the Japanese war scare report in which the oil man treated contract as a purely commercial proposition Patriotism Bunkl They were after the business. The competition for Pearl Harbor contract jyas illusory, Roberts said. There wasnt any competition. Also there any patriotism. Twice as many chi'dren live to growap nowadays, compared to the number 60 years ago, One Of Them Makes Trip Around World With Old Nick Do the help Santa Claus drive the reindeer on Christmas eve? asked Frances Endres, who lives at 431 W.

Johnson st. Dont think that I am saying thk just because I am a little brownie, hut I really' dont think Santa jj could jnake bis trip around tne world on Christmas eve without the help of little Brownie Sprink-lespot. If brownies grow old, le Sprinkle-snot would be an old, old brownie, because he has helped Santa foi years and years. This same little brownie rode with Santa on Christmas eve when your grand mother and your great-great-grandmother were little girls. There is many a tale that he could tell about the way they tried to peek on Christmas eve and the tricks Santa played on them.

This one little is the oly one who can help Santa on Christmas eve. He rides on Den. Deadline For P. O. Bids is Pushed Ahead Delay Opening To Jan.

7 To Give Contractors More Time Bids for the construction of the new federal building at E. Doty st. and Monona ave. will not be opened today at Washington as originally announced. Postmaster W.

A. Devine reported today. The authorities at Washington postponed the letting of the contract to Jan. 7 at the request, of contractors who declared the time too short in which to carefully study the plans and specifications. All the buildings have been completely removed from the new site of the federal building, the work of cleaning up the premises being completed today.

2 Rail Wrecks In N. Y. As Fog Enshrouds City NEW YORK (A) A dense f-g, blanketing the New York region in gloom was blamed today for two railroad wrecks, a collision of river craft, and the detention off New York Harbor of 3500 passengers aboard 25 incoming ships. Nine persons were injured in tfro railroad accidents in New Jersey last night, one a rear end collision between two express trams near New Brunswick and the other a derailment of a train near Trenton. Five persons were slightly In the Irvington, N.

J. court many shivered yesterday and were fined for violating the Sabbath bus drivers, druggists, grocers, butchers, bakers. Strict enforcement was started by moving picture exhibitors who said: If it is a crime to show pictures of things, it should also be a crime to do the things. The bible says the Sabbath was made for man; why not allow hint to enjoy it ir. any respectable way There is nothing to indicate that in leaven the angels, once in every seven days, are compelled to sit around, boring themselves.

Chicago Gets Warrant For Ormistons Arrest CHICAGO 64s) A warrant was re-frived today by Chief of Police Mor-f gan A. Collins for the arrest of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio broad-V caster sourht in California in connection with the Aimee Semple McPher-fon kidnapping: cae. U.S. Spends Eight Times More Money on Autos Than It Does on Education Says Alumni Officer Eight times more money Is spent on automobiles than on education, according to figures quoted by B.

E. Me Cormick, secretary of the Wisconsin Alumni association, before the Parent-Teacher association of East Side high school Monday night. Education -Is a human want and contributes to human needs; therefore money used for that purpose is a matter of investment not of spending, he declared. Education trains good citizens who are economically independent, and also competitors and producers. In reply to a criticism that high school education train? If you have Christmas poultry to sell list it on the classified page and receive your orders direct.

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