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AP TAIL TIM HOME EDITION Net Paid Circulation AQ AP Yesterday ifieJjJLUD The largest net paid dally circulation of any newspaper In Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee WEATHER Partly rloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday. Fresh to strong southerly winds. Details on page 6 Associated Press Telephotos NEA Telephotos Associated Press Leased Wire NEA Feature Service MADISON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 48, ISO. 97 Capital Seized; 4 Med mniMlatien-Be Armies 115 Die as Axis -Conquered Nations A Mark Ingraham Considered For Utah U.

Head Arrests Send I Hundreds to Jails, Camps Knoivlton Dam Equipmt Purchased. Dike Contract Let Prior to PSC Permit Nazis Driving Toward Kharkov; Claim Russ Losses Germans Admit Casualties al 402.865; Berlin Declares Kronstadt, Leningrad Naval Base, Has Been Silenced (By The Associated Press) ADOLF HITLERS high command reported late today that German troops have entered Kiev, the Ukraine capital and Russias third greatest city, while other Nazi forces have trapped four Russian armies and stormed within 80 miles of Kharkov. The swastika flag is waving over the Kiev citadel, the Nazi high command said, announcing the capture less than 12 hours after the Russians officially acknowledged that German troops had reached one of Kievs gates. The city, with a population of more than 850,000, had William Thiele Chief Engineer for Consolidated Water Power Tells PSC Hearing of Steps Taken to Build $2.000,000 Knoivlton Dam By CHARLES W. HOLMBURG (Of The Capital Times Staff) 4LTHOUGH it has not yet been granted a permit by the Wisconsin public service commission to build a proposed $2,000,000 power dam on the Wisconsin river near Knowlton, the Consolidated Water Power Co.

of Wisconsin Rapids has already purchased several hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment needed in the construction of the proposed dam and has let contracts for the building of a $132,000 dike, it was revealed Thursday afternoon at a hearing held by the commission in the state office building. In answer to a question by George Steinmetz, commission engineer, William Thiele of Wisconsin Rapids, chief engineer for the power company, said during the hearing proceedings: All of the equipment has been purchased and we know what it is going to cost. The contract for the dike has been let and we know what it is going to cost. Thiele also revealed that the company had put in its request for defense priorities materials needed by the dam to the federal government and expected favorable attention. He said the company expected to have the dam in operation by Sept.

1, 1942. Strike Bound Merchant Ships Seized hy U. S. 3 Boats Under Federal Requisition May Grab Bombing, Gunfire Mark Serb Resistance; Japs Face Trouble I By The Associated Press! Shots of a German' firing squad broke the quiet of a Paris dawn once more today as two mere Communists were executed in reprisal for demonstrations against the German occupying authorities in France. Paris has become in recent months a restive symbol of the changmg of a populace under authoritarian rule; there the Germans have taken the mast drastic of measures applied in the many occupied lands.

Bombs and gunfire in rebellious outbreaks in Axis-conquered lands and the answers of firing squads have taken the lives of at least 115 persons, wounded 71. and resulted in sweeping arrests of uncounted hundreds within a week. In Paris the situation was so grave the Germans ordered a curfew' imposed. for three nights in the Seine department, whose chief city is Paris, and warned that the violators would be arrested and held as hostages. Two days ago the German military command warned that an increasing number of hostages would be shot in any future attacks on Germans and that they would be drawn from all classes, I will no longer allow the lives of 90 Years Old Today.

Rebel Refuse Army More Control Overlndustry FDR Rejects Proposal, is Report; Civilians Retain Posts WASHINGTON UP) Pres. Roosevelt. informed quarters reported today, has rejected proposals that would have placed a greater degree of control over defense industry in military. instead of civilian hands. Refusing recommendations designed to extend the armys authority, Mr Roosevelt took action to insure that the civilian-dominated governmental agencies administer measures affecting the supply of raw materials, priorities, production and export control.

The presidents decision was the major development to date in what was described as a long and spirited behind-the-scenes battle for control of defense production and regulation of export trade. Disclosure of the conflict followed the president's executive order of Sept. 15 which trahsferred the export control administration to the economic defense board headed by Vice-Pres. Wallace. By that order the president not only transferred the hitherto separate, army-controlled export control administration to the vice president's board, but reduced it to a subordinate division which will be headed bv a civilian, Milo Perkins, former head cf the Commodity Credit Corp.

Relieved oi Post At the same time Russel L. Maxwell, who has acted as administrator of export control since the office was organized July 2. 1940, was relieved of that assignment and ordered back to duty in the war department. More than 100 other army officers mostly from the reserves are now on duty with the export control administration but there has been no decision yet as to their future disposition. In the behind-the-scenes conflict, informed sources said, members of one faction described the others as New Dealers and were, in turn, called Army Bureaucrats.

The so-called New Dealers charged that the Army Bureaucrats had ambitious plans even to the point of preparing proposed executive orders for the president's signature which would expand and extend the export control administration's powers until it would be in 'control of the major part of defense industries. This, the non-military faction argued. would be detriments to the best interests of American industry. Deny Ambitions The military faction denied any ambitions to control industry, asserting the export control administration's powers were clearly defined in various presidential orders and had not been overreached. The New' Dealers, they charged, were chiefly interested in placing their proteges in the considerable number of positions in the organization and utilize the emergency opportunity to experiment with reforms.

Unchallenged facts In the controversy are: After issuing a proclamation setting up the export control' administration the president, pn July 2, 1940, issued a military order as commander-inchief which stated that control of exports was essentially a military function, and designated Maxwell as administrator of export control. On Sept. 15. the president, reversing -his position that export control was essentially a military function, transferred the export control administrations functions to the economic defense board as a branch of that organization. Windsors to Go Through Citv? The Duke and'Duchess of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of England and Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore, Md may be routed through Madison on their vacation trip to the duke's Canadian ranch at Calgary, Canada.

Officials of the North Western road, both here and in Chicago, nad no definite information on the itinerary of the governor-general of Bermuda and his wife, but said it is very possible that they will be routed via Madison. The North Western road is on the- direct route from Chicago to Calgary, they said, and would permit movement of the private cars of the Windsor party on regularly scheduled trips. If the duke and duchess travel through Madison, they will probably be on the Mountaineer, a trem that stops here at 12:50 p. m. They are scheduled to arrive in Chicaco Sept.

27. and reach Calgary Sept. 30. HD been under siege for two months. Grave new threats also imperilled Russia's second biggest city, Leningrad, with the Germans reporting that the guns of the mighty Kronstadt naval base, 20 miles west of Leningrad, had been silenced.

Drive Toward Kharkov In the drive toward Kharkov, Hitler's high command reported, Nazi troops captured the key rail town of Poltava, 200 miles east of Kiev and 65 miles east of the Dnieper river. Kharkov is the chief industrial city of the Donets river basin. Nazi dispatches indicated that the resistance of Marshal Semeon Budyenny's Ukraine armies was crumbling. with German columns regaining the blitz tempo which marked their lightning smashes through Belgium, Holland and France last jear. Amid this desperate plight of the Red defenders, the head of Russia's Mohammedan administration appealed to the world's 235,000,000 Mohammedans to rise in the name of Islam against the devastation of Fascism.

The trapped Red armies, unofficail-ly estimated at 500,000 troops, wpi 1 reported caught in a steel ring 125 miles east of Kiev. 'Their annihilation is now in progress, the German high command said. Say Red Losses High More than 3,600,000 Soviet troops were declared to have been slam or captured in the three-months-old campaign. Half were killed, the Nazi high command said. On the historic ratio of three wounded to every one killed in past wars, this would mean that Red army losses totalled the staggering figure of 9,000,000 men, including some wounded.

German losses were put at only 402,865 killed, wounded and missing the first two months of tha war. Slash Around Kiev In a special bulletin. Hitler's field headquarters said German army groups under Field Marshal Gen. Gerd von Runstedt and Field Marshal Gen. Fedor von Bock, slashing around Kiev in a vast flanking movement, had met beyond the Desna river to trap the Russians.

Finnish military dispatches said huge fires were raging in Leningrad, blazing so firecely they could be seen with the naked eye in broad daylight from Finnish territory. Other Nazi reports said stuka dive bombers had silenced the guns of Kronstadt fortress, powerful island naval base 20 miles from Leningrad, thus paving the way for German warships to steam up the Gulf of Finland and, shell the old czarist capital at close range. A Red army bulletin acknowledged that the Germans had reached one of Kievs gates, but indicated that the struggle had not yet reached a decisive phase. Bitter fighting raged around the city of 850,000 inhabitants throughout the night, a late Soviet communique said. New Pressure on Odessa New- pressure was reported too, on the long-sieged Black sea port of Odessa, where the Germans said they dropped more than 220,000 pounds of bombs in a single night attack.

The German high command, releasing casualty figures on the first two months of the 90-day-old struggle, said German losses were 84.354 (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) Hes In Gov. Heil was in his office yesterday. Since Jan. 1, Gov. Heil has appeared at the executive office exactly working days In 1940 Gov Hell spent exactly 70 out ofV502 working daya In the executive office Good Afternoon Everybody Mrs.

Chynoiceth Is 90 Suffrage Leader First Woman Elder MBy WILLIAM T. EVJUEhff? ONE OF the outstanding women of Wisconsin. Mrs. Edna E. Chynoweth, 109 W.

Gilman is celebrating her 90th birthday today. The Capital Times joins with thousands of Mrs. Chvnoweth's friends in Dane county and other parts of Wisconsin sending congratulations to this remarkable woman. And Mrs. Chynoweth, alert end keen, is enjoying the.

day to the full. This noon she was the guest of honor at a luncheon given by Mrs. John A. Avlward, and this evening. Miss Ann Pitman is giving a dinner in honor of Mrs.

Chynoweth. Just think of the Wisconsin historical perspective spanned in the life of Mrs. Chynoweth which began in Sun Prairie in 1851. Her life covers all but three years of the time that Wisconsin has been a state, and covers all but 16 years of the time that has elapsed since the first white person settled in Madison. Just think of the revolution in the mode of life brought on bv education and tech- Mrs.

Edna Chynoweth nological advancement sine- thase primitive days when the pioneers out the Sun Prairie area had to set aside a whole day for a trip to Madison rickety wagons pulled by oxen. Since her girlhood days she has seen the railroads, the telephone, telegraph, automobile, concrete highway, radio, aviation and the electrical age come to Wisconsin. And today, at 90 years of age, Mrs. Chynoweth is still keenly interested the actmties of a fast moving world although she shares with others of her kind the horror oer what is happening in Europe. Mrs.

Chynoweth's life was associated with two great causes that were fought out in this country in an earlier day, woman's suffrage and prohibition. She was a happy woman when amendments to the Constitution of the United States were adopted that brought emancipation to women and gave her the right of franchise and which dealt a blow at the hated liquor traffic, an evil which bore the enmity of women to a greater degree than in the present cocktail era. Mrs. Chynoweth is still loyal to these causes and stands her ground firmly when it is alleged that prohibition was a failure and that women have failed to accept the responsibilities Of full citizenship. To the charge that jvomen fail to vote, Mrs.

Chynoweth i (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) Getting the Smell AT THE CLOSE of the public service commission hearing Thursday afternoon on the proposed $2,000,000 Knowlton power dam, William Thiele, Wisconsin Rapids engineer for the Consolidated Water Power asked a news service representative to point out the reporter that ws covering the hearing for Bill Evjues Capital Times. After The Capital Times' staff member was pointed out to him, Thiele remarked: I suppose he came over here to get the smell." The Capital Times recently remarked editorially that there are things connected with the Knowlton dam affair which are beginning to smell." The hearing on the Consolidated Water Power Co.s application for a permit to construct the Knowlton dam, held in the public service commission's main hearing room, was conducted by Adolph Kanneberg and Herbert T. Ferguson, examiners for the commission. A number of state officials, were present as spectators, including Public Service Commissioners R. Peterson and W.

F. Whitney, Col. A. H. Smith and Robert Gray of the state conservation commission.

The power company was represented by Theodore W. Brazeau, Wisconsin Rapids attorney who is also a director of the company, and by Thiele. A. Curneen appeared for the Mosinee Paper Co. but did not testify.

There were no appearances against the granting of the permit to build the dam. At the request of Brazeau, Kanneberg agreed to change the name of the proposed dam in commission re ords from Knowlton dam to Du Bay dam, Brazeau explaining that DuBay was the name of an early Wisconsin sdttler who maintained a fur trading post in Portage county on (Continued on Page 6. Column 4) Says Legion to Repay Most of $50,000 toState To Hold Out $1,800 Used to Fight Capital Times Suit, Is Word A member of the board of directors of the American Legion 1941 Convention Corporation of Milwaukee said today that the corporation would repay with interest the $50,000 appropriated to it by the 1939 legislature with the exception of $1,800 it had to pay legal fees to defend itself against a suit started by William T. Evjue, editor of The Capi-. tal Times.

The director, who asked that his name not be published, said he had conferred with most of the other 10 directors and the consensus was to withhold the $1,800 paid in legal fees in the suit brought by Evjue to prevent the state from appropriating the $50,000 to the legion. The director said that a meeting would be held in Milwaukee next week at which time official action would be taken. The 1939 legislature- appropriated $50,000 to the corporation for their use in seeking to bring the national convention to the city of Milwaukee. The convention was held there this week. Evjue, as a taxpayer, started action against State Treasurer John M.

Smith and Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman in an attempt to prevent them from distributing this money to the corporation on the grounds the appropriation was unconstitutional. Evjue maintained the corporation was using state money for private purposes. When the case got to the supreme court, that court held that the money had been appropriated for a public, patriotic purpose but that it could only be used for seeking to bring the to Milwaukee and for nothing else. Thus far, the corporation has used all but about $15,000 of the $50,000 appropriation.

Bombs Thrown atN aziEmbassy In Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES iPl Two small bombs were thrown today in front of the fashionable embassy residence of German Ambassador Edmund von Thermann, during a hostile demonstration. Von Thermann has been the ob-jt-ct of a 'congressional attack which reacheS a virtual demand for his expulsion from Argentina for alleged abuse of his diplomatic privileges. Police made one arrest and dispersed i group of about 20 persons after extra police had been called out to suppress the disturbance shortly after midnight. No damage was done the building other than stains left by a tar bomb thrown by demonstrators. Stones were also flung at the embassy, while a small fire bomb exploded about 500 feet away.

Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, formerly German consul at San Francisco, boarded the Japanese cargo boat Manila Maru to sail for the Far East this morning. Von Thermann and several members of the German embassy staff w'ent down to see him off. Von Thermann said no damage was done by last night's demonstration and "I did not even wake up. Prof.

Mark Ingraham Prof. Mark Ingraham, of the university mathematics department. is one of three men being considered by the board of regents of the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, as president of that institution, it was reported today. According to the report, the board of regents has narrowed down the field of those being considered as president" of the university to three men of which Prof. Ingraham is one.

Whether Prof. Ingraham would accept the pasition if it Is offered him is doubtful. since he has been mentioned as a successor to Dean George C. Sellery of the university college of letters and scienre who will retire next" year. Prof.

Ingraham is a prominent faculty member and w-as president of the University club in 1935. to Run Again 'If State Wants Him To' Will Seek 3rd Term If People Show They Are Satisfied Declaring that he was not a beggar this time. Gov. Julius P. Heil at a press conference late Thursday said he W'ould be a candidate for a thiid term as governor if the people showed in an affirmative way they were satisfied with his administration.

He said I may be governor in 1943. I am the servant of the state and its people and the people will have to make the decision. I am not the beggar this time. If the people feel I did a good job as governor, they ought to in an affirmative way let their feelings be known. The governor statement was made in answer to a query as to what he meant when he said in Milwaukee recently he would recommend to the 1943 legislature that the Civil war debt be paid.

Heil had made this statement after Atty. Gen. John E. Martin informed him that he could not repay the Civil war debt without specific legislative authorization. Heil had wanted to repay the debt through emergency board action.

In order to recommend anything to the 1943 legislature, Heil would have to be re-elected since the legislature doesn't meet until January 1943 and (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) spot through observatory instruments and was the probable cause of the aurora borealis. This sun-spot has been hurling put electrified particles which produce the illusion of light curtains when they strike the earths upper atmosphere. A lessgr demonstration was visible Wednesday night, but local experts said they were unable to predict whether the lights might again be visible tonight. In neighborhoods throughout Madison and the surrounding area numerous families gathered to watch the skies last night. On highways many cars w'ere parked at the side of the road as observers watched the aerial display.

Many compared the lights (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) Others NEW YORK (P) Three merchant ships of the Great Alcoa fleet were under federal requisition today and the government was ready to seize others as a dispute between seamen and owners over war bonuses threatened to burgeon into a general strike. An estimated 14 ships of six companies were reported struck last night including the three vessels seized, the Alcoa Trader, Alcoa Banner and Alcoa Scout, owned by a subsidiary of the Aluminum Co. of America. The strike was called Saturday by the Seafarers International Union (AFL) to enforce demands for increased bonuses for war-zone travel. No specific amounts were asked, except for a $60 monthly bonus for travel in the West Indies, which would thus become a war zone, as are Canadian waters, where a dollar-day bonus is paid.

Concerned over supplies for American offshore bases in the West Indies, the maritime commission set noon yesterday as the deadline for submission of the dispute to arbitration. When the union, through a spokesman, refused to arbitrate and threatened a general strike, the commission acted. Five hours after Capt. Granville Conway, district director of the commission. stepped aboard the three Alcoa freighters at Weehawken, N.

and took them over in the name of the United States, the union announced it was willing to submit the dispute to arbitration but only on condition that the arbitrators take into account the union's proposal that a $60 monthly bonus be paid to seamen plying West Indies waters. Denies Story On 135tli Regiment Mrs. Lester L. Weissmiller, 221 Clifford today denied a Capital Times news story which Thursday reported her husband, Capt. Weissmiller, had telephoned her from Louisiana that the 135th medical regiment was to sail for Egypt Dec.

10. I had no telephone call from my husband and so could not have received the message, Mrs. Weissmiller said. She denied any knowledge of future plans for movement of the medical regiment, which includes numerous officers and two companies of enlisted men from Madison. Where to Find It Comics Page 26 Radio Programs Page 19 Side Glances Page 13 Sports Pages 17, 18, 19 Theaters Page 16 Woman's Page Page 14 Society Page 15 Pollen Count The pollen count during the past 24 hours was 41 grains per cubic yard of air, of which 39 were ragweed, the Wisconsin General hospital allergy laboratory reported tndav.

The moldspore count for the period walQ. City Treated to Brilliant Sliotv hy Northern Lights German soldiers to be threatened by murderers, said Hennch von Stulpnaegel, the German commander of the occupation forces, as the latest restrictive measure, the curfew, was announced. Already 15 Frenchmen have died by the firing squad in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers. Ten of them were shot this week. The first attack on a German soldier occurred several weeks ago.

He was stabbed to death in a Paris subway. Another German was clubbed upon leaving a theater, and still later another was shot in the back on a Pans street. His subsequent death caused the grim warning that any Parisian was liable to seizure and death as a hostage. Bombings and gunfire marked the continued resistance of Serbs in the mountain hamlets of An explosion in the Zagreb, Croatia, central telephone exchange last Sunday wounded at least 12 German soldiers, one of them a major, and seven Croats. In another section of that city other Croats were attacked by four gunmen.

The four were reported captured, and one of them, still clutching a hand grenade was shot dead and left lying in the street as a warning. At Sarajevo 61 Seibs wrre reported executed for such offenses, as firing I (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) Most Beautiful Display In Years Seen Here Last Night Brilliant curtains of light flashed in the heavens for hours Thursday night to provide thousands of residents of the Madison area with the most brilliant display of northern lights seen here in years. From early evening uqtil after midnight the shimmering walls of green, yellow and sometimes pink lights danced in the skies. They were confined to no one direction, but at times seemed to create a heavenly dome topped by especially brilliant displays. Prof.

Joel Stebbins of Washburn observatory today reported a large sun.