The Capital Times from Madison, Wisconsin • 1

CFDTO cr-ra rvi uvu Home Edition Net Paid Circulation WI'AIIICI? yesterday 26,503 Th largest net paid Daily Circulation of any newspaper In Madison or Wisconsin outside of Milwaakee I Cloudy tonight and Thursday. Cooler onight. Moderate nor'brast lnd Official Paper of The State of Wisconsin I FULL LEASED WIRES OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, WIS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1929 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 24, NO. 120 Miller Huggins Dies Gm ipr all LaFollette Assails Hoover on Tariff Falhei is Near Death From Burns of Wis.

Joins SCENE OF GASOLINE BLAST -A '4 Miller Huggins This residence was the scene Tuesday night of a gasoline explosion which killed a baby and burned six other persons. The picture shows the window pane which was broken and the screen broken from the window through which Mrs. Ray Schultz threw her baby to safety. Third Local Institution In Merger Statement is Issued by Officials Here This Afternoon LEO T. CROWLEY TO REMAIN AS HEAD Sav No Change in Per-sonnel; Rraneh ALo Included The Stale Bank of Wisconsin has joined the group of Wisconsin banss headed by t.he First Wisconsin National group of Milwaukee, and now comprising, among others, the First National bank, the Commercial National bank, and ihe State Bank of Wisconsin of Madison.

The following statement was Issued bv the State Bank of Wisconsin thi? afternoon- Leo T. Crowley will remain as president of the State Bank of Wisconsin for a period of years, and the official pci sonnel of the State Bank of Wisconsin and the State Bank of Wisconsin Blanch shall remain intact. In vicw of some fe- that had been fomented, It Is expressly agreed I that the dealing Bank -f, j. Wisconsin with its customers shall carried on through the present of- ficials of the State Bank of Wtsconx; exactly as heretofoie, and there shall be no lmpii uption or alteration of tli relations between the State Bank of I Wisconsin officials and its public. The State Bank of Wisconsin de- elded upon this step after matuie eon- sideration of all the elements of bank- ing which affect the welfare of the bank, its customers, its local publir, and the commonwealth of Wisconsin.

The immense advantage 4o a growing community of ample banking resources is obvious, and tnese are provided abundantly by the new arrangement. N. Y. Yankee Manager Loses Grim Life Fight L- r. 'Winner of 3 Worhl Flag.

Sueeumhs to VTFW YORK (P) Miller Huggins. A manage: of the New York Yankee died today at St. Vincent jiitai at 2 16 m. In a ba.seball career that eoceird a quarter-century the big leagues the 1 Sicilians (aiI1 Entrance to big little man' of the Yankees, Huggins. not only became the first pilot to win six pennant in eight yeais but Gang Feared Wounded Man's Room Chain Oliver Sehw-nn Sr.

Bank Trusts Stock Needs O. Iv. of State Milwaukee Chain Ha Not Yet Applied for Permit The 300 000.000 oorpotafion which organized bv the Firt Wis- consm National bank, Milwaukee, to serve as a holding company for the chain of banks the Milwaukee institution is welding in this state, must get permission from the division 0f Wisconsin railroad commission before it can issue any stock and put the chain system into actual operation, it 1. the opinion of officials in the capitol. The securities division of the railroad commission enforces (he so-called blue sky law of this slate, the division having been created to sene as a guardian against sales of worthless or fraudulent stocks in Wisconsin.

The securities division must investigate the w'orth of the slocks before allowing the holding company to sell them. In granting permission for the sale of stocks it I the divisions custom to grade them either A or B. Grade A stock is one that is secured to at least 50 per cent of its par value by real estate or is backed bv a long record i.f steady earnings. Grade stock is speculative. No application for approal of the corporations stock has yet been filed wifh the securities division, inquiry there disclosed today.

The corporation has not yet, been Continued on jge 12 amk Takes Own Life VHty v5v- Nora Larson Local Woman es by Gas in Room i in Revive John Schmitz, Also Overcome by Gas One woman was killed and a man was overcome by gas here Tuesday. The woman took her own life, according to the coroner. The man waff overcome in the bathroom of his apartment while he wa prepaiing to take a bath, but he was found, revived, and was taken to a hospital. The dead woman 1: MISS NORA LARSON, 32, of 202 N. Pinckney st.

The man overcome iv. JOHN SCHMITZ, 24, of 112 X. Webster st. Mi. Nora Larson, 37, state eai itol employe, was found dead in her gas Riled apartment at 202 Carroll st.

late Tuesday. Although Coroner William E. Campbell returned a verdict of suicide, members of the woman's family expressed the belief that heart disease, which caused the ieath of her grand- parent and of a sister, was responsible. However, the coroner found in her purse a note which W'as dated Sept. 21, 1 and which read: I herewith bequeath mv estate to mv three sisters, Julia, Josie, and Mabel, and one brother, all to be divided equally.

Nora Larson. resident. She has ben working Mis La rs( is a former Stoughton Madison for more than 10 years and has Kncirr om nlrwtr i ctotA ramtrvl fnr been employed in state capitol for it J. I the past two years. Tuesday morning, she told her roommate, Miss Cora M.

Alford, that she did not feel well and was not going to her work. She was employed in the crop reporting service of the department of agriculture. The body was found in the doorway of the kitchinet of the apartment on the second floor of the building when the janitor. Norman Disrud, and two employes of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. sought the source of gas which was flooding the building.

The janitor was notified by Mrs. E. A. Davis, residing on the first Jfloor of the apartment building, of the presence of the gas. Mrs.

Davis declared that she detected the gas odor Tuesday morning, and that it grew stronger during the day. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the (Continued on page 12) U. Enrollment Is 400 Over Te rm With an Increase of nearly 400 in its student population over last year at this time, the Latin quarter today was astir early, streets were congested with automobile and pedestrian traffic, and restaurants were jammed In the iast minute rush before "eight o'clock. on the Hill. An enrollment of 9400 students had been recorded today, whiie the enrollment at the same time a year ago was only 9,042.

Th increase in enrollment was fn the Hreshman and graduate classes. Aboui 250 more freshmen had enrolled than last year at the same time. Decreases were recorded In the junior and senior classes. Classes will be suspended nt 11 a. in.

Friday to permit attendance at tie Varsity welcome, when freshmen are officially Inducted into the life of the university with a pageant, singing, and brief addresses by officials of the tate, university, faculty and student bodv If ycu save five cents a day from now until Christmas you will be broke Jan. l. President is Greedy of Power, View Would Keep Enormous Authority Under Tariff Act, Charge ASKS WHY SILENCE UNBROKEN BEFORE Flexible Clause Could Strangle Business, Savs Senator IB The Associated Preaal TV 4SHINGTON President Hoover's statement advocating retention In the tariff bill of the flexible provisions was attacked in the senate today by Sen. LaFollette of Wisconsin, who with other Republican independents, expected to join with many Democrats in opposition to the principle. Contending it was difficult to reason why the president had not broken silence on the tariff before in view of his action in throwing the great weight of his office against the debenture plan durvrg the debate on farm bill.

La Follette said Mr. Hoover had not spoken to indicate whether he approved the pending bill. He has not indicated whether the bill complies with his ambiguous state- I ment in his message to the special ses- I sion the Wisconsin senator averied. The Wisconsin senator said it was not difficult to understand why the ex- ecutive desires to keep the enormous power conferred upon him by the act of 1922. He added the people had seen the continual absorption of power by the president until today the framers of the constitution would not recognize that great document.

I The flexible clause, La Follette said, constituted the power cf life cr death over the institutions of business and agriculture in this country. Sen. La Follette said that in- trigue and political influenc of Presidents Harding and Coolidge had destroyed the usefulness of the i tariff commission and resulted in I tragic failure of the flexibli pro- 1 visions of the tariff law. Sen. La Follette said the tariff com-ml-acn worked with ponderous slowness, w'hich disproved the contention of the flexible provision.

being needed for rapid changes of duties. He cited that the comm boon's investigation for the purpose of equalizing costs ot production cf sugar was completed onlv after 2 1-2 years work. Hoover Comes Out for Flexible Tariff Bill WASHINGTON, I). President Hoover late Tuesday assumed the lead- i rr.chin in t.hp mnvpmpnt fnr rot pnt inn i ership in the movement for retention 41ia OaviUI. 4aiV I of the flexible tariff.

Taking direct issue with the Democrats and Progresisve Republicans who are seeking its repeal, the president laid aside so far as thLs particular issue concerned his neutrality in the senate tariff blle The president, in a statement, asserted that preservation of the syctcm under which the executive may increase or decrease duties upon the rec-c mmendation of the tariff commission is of the utmost importance in justice to the public." The flexible tariff, he declared, is a protection for the sound progress in our economic system and for the future protection of our farmers and our Industries and consumers. Opponents Fear Increase Democrats and progressive Republicans are lining up for repeal of the flexible tariff, which first was incorporated in the 1922 tariff act at the instance of President Harding. Ihe system has operated, according to the members of the Democratic-radical coalition, to permit upward boosts of tariff duties already too high. According to its defenders it permits adjustments of duties on a scientific basis during periods between Congressional tariff revisions. The president by taking the leadership of the group favoring retention oi the flexible tariff invites another test of his strength with congress such as was precipitated when he opposed the exportr debenture farm relief plan last spring.

He met defeat twice in the senate on the export debenture issue. The presl-i Continued on page 12) found when a saloon to Westport, operated by Mrs. Anna Hanson, was raided. Mrs. Hanson was to ne arraigned today.

A raid on a place at 2J5 3. Washington operated by William Collins, resulted in the seizure of six pints ot alcohol. Collins is to appear before the U. S. court commissioner todav.

Mrs. Hanson rs reported by federal prohibition officers as having been arreted ti a similar charge In the pat. I fjlv The Associated Prel NEW I ORK The top-heavy structure created bv the wild speculation of the last few month-crumbled on the New York stock exchange today under the heavy stream of liquidation which carried the prices That there are objections to group 1 of scores of stocks down to $20 a banking where the control of one state's (share. banking resides in another state Similar declines took place on the equally obvious. The State Bank of New Yoik cuib market and In the Wieonsin Is satisfied that none of (Lem I other leading srrurfiv exchanges of the applv to the situation this state.

I country', as well as in the ovrr-thr-the first place, the First WLronsin Na- country maiket. wiping out more than fional is exclusively a Viconsin group a billion dollars in quoted values, of banks, owned and lontrolled in the. While som of the bankers regarded state of Wisconsin. There is no bank- the decline as a correction of the mar- ing practice which could be employed ket's weakened technical position, many Olivrr Srhwcnn, 2, Dies in Explosion After Radio Partv OTHER CHILD IS TOSSED TO SAFETY Sun Prairie Road Home i Seme of Trapr Accident BY HFRM4V I I.OCHVER (Of The Capital Tim-s Staff) A babv was killed, and three pen. two women and another child were burned in a gasoline explosion In the tiny home of Calvin Schwenn, route 2, about 11 clock Tuesday night.

One of the mrn, the father of the baby killed the fir is in an extremely critical eondtnon All the explosion victims reide on route 2. The oeacr OLIER SCHWENN The injured are: OLIVER SCHWENN 24. ALVIN SCHWENN. 22. MRS.

CALVIN SCHWENN. RAY SCHULTZ. MRS. RAY SCHULTZ. BEVERLY SCHULTZ, 4 months.

The tragic, explosion was the after-math of a radio party at the Calvin Schwenn home on the Sun Prairie road 8bout, one mile from Madison. Held Radio Party Nine persons were in the building, which is a garage in rear of the Schultz home and is used for a home bv Calvin Schwenn. Mr. Schwenn had purchased a new radio and had m- vited hw relatives Oliver Schwenn and friends to hear it Oliver Schwenn aided his brother in cleaning a gasoline stove. Before cleaning it.

they had emptied the gasoline into a pan and had set the pad on the steve. When the work was finished, more gasoline was placed in the reservoir and a fire started. Then. Oliver sehwenn discovered that the pan of gasoline still was on the stove. He grabbed it, but spilled some of the liquid onto the stove.

An explosion followed and Mr. Schwenn rushed from the building carrying the i lazing pan. Clothing Catchm Fire The fire from the pan set his clothing afire and as he dashed into the 1 he a living torch. In the excitement of the moment. the Sehwenn child was forgotten and vss left in the buiidmg.

Then, one of the men dashed into the garage and earned the child away, but he was so severely burned that he died at 1:40 o'clock this morning. As the fire flashed In the building. Mr. Schultz threw her 4-months-old daughter through a window and then, accompanied bv her husband and Calvin Schwenn, rushed from the structure. Part of the interior of the garage caught afire, but the blaze was extinguished by blankets.

The father of the dead child suffered severe burns oe- his entire body and may die. Calvin Schwenn also suffered revpre burns, but he is expected to recover. Both men are at the Methodist hospital. The Schulz baby and Mrs. Schwenn-were burned about the arms.

Her patents suffered burns on their faces. Jack Glover Goes to Home for Feebleminded Jack Glover, 205 E. Washington ave who last week pleaded guilty In superior court to a charge of forgery, was committed this afternoon by Judge S. E. Schein to the state home for the feeble-minded at Union Grove.

Dr. H. H. Reese, psychiatrist, and Dr Mabel G. Mas ten, who examined Closer, reported that he was mentally deficient.

Glover had passed Iwo $10 cheeks in Madion, Roars Coast tropical disturbance, believed northeasi of here, moved toward the Florida coast. Hie official barometer last right was 29.74, an even .20 over today's reading. The wind last night was only 35 miles per hour from the northwest. Florida Kradv for Trouble WEST PALM BEACH. Ila.

C45)-Faeed with the possibility that the tropical disturbance which has been centered several days near the Bahamas might approach Floridas east coast, the state made ready today to receive its unwelcome visitor. All efforts were concentrated along the east coast to prevent a recurrence of the damage suffered in the storm of last year. Little sign of an approaching stono was seen along the coast. gamed fame by develomng the greatest modern national league batsmen. Rogers Hotnby, and later bv teaching a lesson the greatest c.f alt Babe Ruth discipline and a $5,000 ne.

ought the spotlight i i let Ruth and the monopolize it. i ume Battle Born nati on March 27 1 880 Huggi.i- iien as a box manifested more than an ordinary interest in playing baseball and pondering its prob-irrn In 1899 he began his career in in- organized game bv signing with Mansfield in the old inter-state l-aaup but plaved only in a few games The littlp Yankee pilot fought a came but lasing battle for hi life from the time be wa taken to the hospital iat Fridai He suffered an attack of influenza weeks ago An infection under hi left ep al set in Ervipelas de- eloped -apidlv at the time he was taken to the hospital and the infection spread He wa stricken lat ePk with an infection gowmg out of an af'ark of influenza and ervsipelas He failed to rallv after three blood ti ar.furien. His brotngr and kept an all night vigil at St Vincents hospit il where Huggins has been a patirt sinre last Fiiday. Infection Spreads Ominous charge for the vore re cured late Tuesday afternoon when Dr King announced the infection had spiead from the left side to the riglv Boon after the patient's temperature I Guard Geloso At Hospital; BY HERMAN V. I OCHNF.R (Of The Capital Times Staff) Frar of Sicilian vengeance for breaking the silence or the Bush and giving information to police has gripped Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Geloso. S16 Regent parent-, of Frank Geloso, 2. who was killed In his father's arms when an asiahsin fired upon the father Sundav night In the driveway adjacent to the Geloso home The father, wounded and lying in the Madison General hospital, where he is expected to recover, fears for his hfe for giving to police the names of two men who have been ar- rented a sispect-s. Hoepital attendants Tuejdav night asked pohre to keep a close watch over the hospital as Geloso was extremely nervon ard feared hat attempts to kill him would be made even before he left the hospital.

Enter Hospital Three Sicilians were discovered in Geloso's room at 5 oclock Tuesday morning, and hospital attendants were unable to account for their presence as they believed all doors to the building to have been locked. The presence of the men In the room caused the call for police watch Tuesday night That attempts to reach the Gelosos i alreadv lmie been marie was revealpd Tuesday bv Mrs. Geloso. Several relatives of Charles Guidera. 919 Spring st alreadv have called upon Mrs.

Geloo, but, so great is her fear of gang vengeance, that she refused to effect that, shortly after the shooting Sunday night she' saw a car speed rround the corner at Mills and Springs was to be checked today. The woman notified Undersheriff Albert M. Ophaug and he turned the (Continued on page 12) Slock Values Drop Billion in Collapse Today Score of Issues Swept Downward S3 to $20 a Share BULLETIN NEIV 10RK 0 Powerful support was thrown into the stork mirket in lie last hour of trading todav. checking a flood of liquidation which had swept down prices of scores of leading issues. Losses were generally rut in naif bv th rlose of the market, and a handful of stocks rushed up S5 to 20 above yesterday's finU quotations.

vanee f.om 8 to 10 per cent in call brokers blamed the selling on the ad- 1 monev rates, reports of an metease in Hicrnunt Tftto to- the Bank of England discount rate to l.l 4La1 rn nl morrow with the like.ihood that such action will result in a withdrawal of foreign funds loaned on call in New York, and reported recesions in steel and automobile output in the last few weeks. Whereas most margin accounts were in strong shape a few weeks ago, the steady decline of the past fortnight, which has carried many levels, has foiced the liquidation of some of thee holdings. Meanwhile, hundreds of stop los orders placed by cautious traders and investors have been touched off by the withdrawal of pool and banking sup port. The stock maiket close was steady. Sales approximated 4,800,000 share.

Bares Shearer Letter Saying: Britain Licked WASHINGTON A letter from William B. Shearer, observer for American shipbuilders at the 1927 Geneva naval limitations conference, saying "we have been able to defeat the British propaganda machine, today was read into the record of a senate committee investigating activities of the ship corporations and Shearer at the parley. The communication ras presented by Sen, Robinson, who said it had been addressed to Henry C. Hunter, counsel for the American shipbuilders. Previously, Hunter nad testified ne had served as pay-off man or the ship companies in the Geneva assignment of which Shearer, who has styled himself as a big navy advocate, received $25,000.

Hunter said he had undertaken this task as merely a personal favor to the shipbuilders. The witness also told of Shearer having been engaged by snip concerns i to represent them in Washington In 1916 for the purpose of cooperating w.th the shipping board in the formulation of a merchant marine legislative program. Shearer, he said, received $7,500 for this work from the New York Shipbuilding the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and the Newport News Ship- already alarmingly high, roe to 104 5 tell police what they said to her. How-degrees. ever, authorities fear that threats were Huggins was 49 years old last March uttered in an effort to frighten the 27.

A native of Cincinnati, he began I Geloso's so that they will not appear his major league baseball career with in court to testify against any Sicilians the Reds 1904, going to St. Louis who might be charged with the mur-m a trade 1910 and becoming man I der of the child. ager to 1013 After five year in St. In the meantime, Dist Atty. Fred ijout he wa signed by Col.

Jacob Risser, Asst, Dist. Carl Christianson, Rupert to pilot the Yankee, taking and Capt. of Detectives William H. Mc- fharge of the team in 1918. winning Cormick are trying to collect evidence --ix pennants and three world eham- in the case and to attempt to block plon-hip i defense move.

Efforts of Prof. .1. H. Mathews, of Fpjiyripi fMrcr 1 be university, to find fingerprints on P7CV the gun abandoned by the assassin in i the rear of the Geloso home failed, according Mr. Risser.

Prof. Mathews examined the gun Tuesday, but whether Farm Board Criticized; You Can Send I he found other evidence on the gun Me Home, Say Chairman was not revealed. The story of a woman residing in Concluding thg 100 on jg. Mills st. to the First Wisconsin National group to the detriment of Wisconsin interests that could not have been employed by xi I the separate banks before the group C- F' was formed.

They were not employed by the separate banks and they will be employed toy the group, for identically the same reason The group of banks of which the State Bank of Wi-consin has become a member must depend upon Wisconsin for their prosperity. Any policy ending to retard Wisconsin development would, at the same time deplete the Wisconsin re sourcs without which WLsror.sm banks. either individually or in groups, ould not be successful. The integrity and the Wisconsin public spirit of the bankers in this group have stood the test of years. Their policy of making the development and prosperity of Wisconsin their first interest is unaltered, and from the very nature of things, including their own welfare, must remain unaltered.

The step that has been taken merely means more ample and more readily available banking resources for the conduct of Wisconsin business and the development of its welfare. It is with the firm conviction that only through participation with the First Wisconsin National group of banks can the State Bank of Wisconsin render the soundest and most consistent service to the people and the community who depend upon it, that the officials of the State Bank of Wisconsin, after thorough study of every phase of the question, decided to enter the First National group. We confidently predict that with each days experience public approval of the decision will be strengthened. More Join Minn. Chain MINNEAPOLIS Affiliation of the Austin, National bank and the Austin National Co.

with the First Bank Stock was announced here today by Lyman E. Wakefield, 1 vice-president of the holding company. Town Inundated In New Mexico San Marcial Flooded as Levee lapses; Many Marooned Col- EL PASO, Tex. C43) The entire (own of San Marcial, N. was reported inundated today following the collapse of a levee protecting the city from flood waters of the Rio Dramde.

There was Near -Hu rri cane Toward Florida Menderino and Mrs. Hanson Are Nabbed by Dry Agelnts two days of testimony before the senate agriculture committee, Chairman Legge of the federal farm board said today that you can't hurt my feelings by sending me home. and added he did not demand credit for having been selected for the post he holds Legg statement wa made after Sen. Frazier. Rep N.

had said the farmers of the nation had lost, confidence in the board because of the manner in which the board had tackled the agricultural relief problem. The farm organization, Legge asserted, wanted a business man on the board and I was considered to be in as close touch with the farmer from the limited field available. I do not believe the farmer is seeking a handout or any charity, if we put this money out haphazardly, no cne would be benefited and it would soon be gone. I believe our job should be done with consideration for measures of reasonable safety. That is what 1 intend to do.

I xiould not attempt this position undr misapprehension. I WASHINGTON The weather yy bureau today issued the follow-1 ing storm warning; Tropical disturbance central this morning near southern end of Great Abaco island, Bahamas, apparently moving slowly westward with gradually increasing intensity. Winds are probably of near hurricane force close to center, Nassau reports velocity of 42 miles an hour from west. Unless course changes storm center will reach southeast Florida coast late tonight between Miami and Jupiter, Wind Is Increasing NASSAU, Bahama -frY1) By Radio) Nassaus official barometer was 29.54 this morning end the wind shifting to Ihe west had increased to 4. miles per hour as the center oflhe Federal prohibition officers staged three successful raids in Dane county Tuesday night and seized a large quantity of beer and alcohol.

Dominic Menderino, of 8 N. Murray Madison, was arrested near Hope, when he was found operating an 800 gallon still. Arraigned this morning before Frank Bentley U. court commissioner. Menderino was re- leased on $2,000 bond More than 50 pints of beer were no known loss of life tyit many persons were marooned, building and Dry Dock the three firms which sent him to Geneva..