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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - January 13, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin A a birth the state journals great educational film starts tomorrow at grand weather colder Chewisco in journal vol. 134, no. 103. 81 St year. Madison wis., tuesday afternoon january 13, 1920. Twelve pages Price two cent Freudenberg freed on bail joint meet on treaty is anticipated next step expected after democrats select floor Leader free interchange of views seen w by. L. C. Martin Armington the next step in rut to negotiation to Tor a treaty rom Promise in sex pee Ted noon alter the democratic a amp tic a thursday in Hen it floor Leader in to or helped. A joint meeting of Democrat und republicans at it ii cd general Dis cuss on Hill take place probably will be called. Buch a my a a Tang already Baa Bien tentatively arranged. Krum 40 to to senators arc expected to attend. Those behind this plan believe negotiations have reached a stage we re a free interchange of views in a bipartisan conference of senators honestly seeking ratification would do much to unify the treaty a real friends. The reason the conference May be delayed until after the i democrats choose their Leader thursday is that Rome senators think that if Underwood is elected he will prove much More energetic in to half of Compromise than Benator Hitchcock Active Leader and Underwood a rival for the Honor. Hitchcock holds aloof Hitchcock has been keeping aloof from negotiations on the ground that he As president Wilson s spokesman must take the midi1 Pom ton As the president Ai it not appear to by consenting to any qualification of the treaty. Underwood at the White House today to see rec re tory Tumulty maid he believed he would be elected minority Leader at the caucus thursday. Of chosen Leader he Saki he will in Lake from Hitchcock the direction of the democratic forces in the treaty tight. He characterized the situation As hopeful and said a Compromise would in his estimation lie reported without the necessity of appointing conciliation it of Mitties. The situation today is this democrats of the groups have sent word to to Mage that they Are willing to accept the lion it reservations tin Shantung and in voting Power in the league of nations. Lodge has agreed that four Points Are a discus Sable a namely the preamble. The labor reservations coling Power and Shantung but has definitely excluded at tide ten and the Monroe let oct lne from negotiation. # the my Kedlar Kendrick group has notified Lodge they Are sure of s3 democratic votes for their reservations and that several other democrats Are sympathetic at the same time they acknowledged that not a single Democrat of the is has actually been pledged to their program. See party plot Republican irreconcilable a today said they scent a democratic a plot in the Democrat a activity for a Compromise. According to the Quot irreconcilable a View the democrats Are trying to get enough votes by Cor bin i Odessa is evacuated by Den Kine Ion done Odessa has been evacuated by general Den Ikeole troops according to advices to newspaper Here to May. Poland has rejected the bolshevik peace offer according to a Jia Patch from Cracow which a Aid the government was hasten no its preparations to meet the threatened bolshevik drive in the Spring. A dispatch to the chronicle rom Milan said Nikolai Lenina soviet Premier Hod transmitted i letter to the supreme executive of the italian socialists through an envoy who landed at Naples imploring the party a to Ibe Tain from revolutionary movements which under present donations off a Little likelihood of uleces a an upheaval in Italy at the present time would be a Saver slow to the soviet s peace negotiations with various hostile Sowers it was pointed out n.s.e.$40000flays plan hypnotism in Hole says of awards soon estate feat Are a Titt Morein . Army Quot arguments Wisconsin equity head charges $24,000 surplus carried year ago did not exist in Cash assets Complete inquiry into military medal distribution demanded in House by Massachusetts congressman i two robberies Job for police Mayers drugstore Ano Lea i ther goods company visited by thieves two robberies sunday which Haw just Brill reported to the police Are furnishing a Little a Sherlock Holmen a work in Madison. The cosh drawer in Andrew Mayer t drugstore is King Street. Ware limed of $70 when someone entered through the skylight. Between $5 and Jio a taken from the Madison leather goods company. I Iaia rotate Street. Entry qua made invitation to equity members to go Quot Back Over the files of the equity news und in the Light of the a if it Situ lion thud exists in the National Union of the society Quot determine who is to blame for its present condition was extended by j. N. Tutte More president of the Wisconsin Branch today in a published statement regarding financial condition of the National organization As disclosed following investigation of the affairs As left by the old to try in substance the state ment by Tittemore which is written As an editorial for equity news. Follows of membership had followed the advice of Tittemore and Clemmons a Board member the National would not be in the situation it is in now. $40,000 in Hole the National Union is i in the Hole. One member of inboard informs my it is As High As 170.000 in debt. It is very evident that the $24,000 surplus carried Over a year ago did not exist in washable assets the unexpired subscription Money of the Wisconsin Union is Loat. This amounts to about 7.aoft, at the National convention last j car. J. Weber Long demanded the trial of myself. Clemmons and n Lulos and yet an order had gone Forth from an official of the National Board to the Secretary of through the Back window. I Jhu National Union to destroy All Al Tif the Tittemore letters that were Ltd i in the files att they could not be workers would seize roads Lomus extremists among the Dis i sat tied railway workers today openly i advocated seizure of the Road. An agreement Between the unions i and the government appeared i prob Able. All concessions offered by the i government have been rejected. The situation has been complicated j by refusal of Post office Telephone and i Telegraph workers to accept the gov i Emmentt a offers. Coal operators agree to finding Washington Coal operators today agreed to unqualified acceptance of any award mad by president Wilson s Coal commission appointed to bring about a permanent settlement of the controversy Between miners and operators. The operators also agreed to accept Price fixing of Coal with the exception that such prices should not exist after expiration of the lever Law. In the used. Losses on Coal i would like to know How Many thousands of dollars were lost in the Coal business duri Ryt Iris and who covered it up in the surplus account. I want to know Why i it Ong and Fuller refused to give me informs lion when i. As president demanded it in writing. There is on fool a move to bring a secession of Ion tree from the slate Union. I give notice now if will not work a House divided against itself cannot stand. I want to Ray that a Man lit outa Gamin county is More at fault for this situation than any other Man in the state. Defea t Lenroot on Waterpower ing with Republican mild reservation a i Pine Vii i a me Imus. To Mak. Them a majority Oftle a f then. According to the a Tirre a Are wiped gut Senate the coalition will put to a vote the Compromise proposals agreed upon even though i it a go and his supporters should not approve them. The Ivd go and a irreconcilable a a then would prevent ratification their opposition preventing the coalition from getting a two third vote the sterno crafts could charge la wigs and his group with entire responsibility for the failure of the Senate to act. Lodge meets compromises with ass rate t esst negotiate. Some Democrat however. Insist Todge is merely Quot keeping up appearances and really is doing nothing to help ratification. Senate considering the Waterpower Bill today voted Down the conservationist group headed by senator Lenroot. Wisconsin und accepted a committee Amend intent 40 to 33, which provides that if j the terms of u renewal License offered by the government on a Waterpower i wife Are not accepted by Licensee the j original License shall automatically he renewed from year to year until the Homb several villages in the Al of Quot a a in Lar pro Pine regions have been wiped out by ,1 1 broken Len avalanches. Which followed sever i00? a Quot a a amendment con storm in that District according to i a led ii would Iii practice Grant a dispatches Here today. I pm Petal License on government in the province of Piedmont along owned Waterpower site. The Hwy Frontier. An Avalanche i smothered the Village of demonic. Void t so far had recovered six bodies the dispatch said other dispatches reported destruction of the villages of vernant and Limon but said the populations were warned and Fleet before the Avalanche struck. To the North near Costa an Ava Ancile swept Down the Valley at night burying one House in which seven people were sleeping. Fair and colder tonight. Wednesday increasing cloudiness. Light Westerly winds becoming southerly wednesday. Temperature yesterday noon 30 3 p. In. 34 a p. Rn., 34 3 p. In. 32. Today Midnight. 30 3 a. Rn., 37 a a in i i a. Rn., 19. Maximum during 24 hours ending 9 a. Rn., 33 at 4 p. In. Minimum during 24 hours ending 9 a. Rn., 19 at 9 a. In. Mean to. Normal. Relative humidity i p. Rn., 72. 7 p m. 71. A in. 76. Precipitation during 24 hours ending 7 a. Rn., 0. Normal .03 in. Accumulated departure since fan. I .4 in today in other years warmest 1894. 60 coldest 1912, 20 wettest 1910, in. Sun aet. At 4 46. F. G. Brown to be buried to Morro w the funeral of Frank g. Brown. Vice president of the first National Bank who died suddenly at Asheville n. A Jan. 5, will be conducted wednesday at 2 30 p. In. At the Home 28 Langdon Street by the Rev. James Craik Morris. Mrs. Brown. Mise Adelaide Brown a daughter and Fred m. Brown brother arrived from Asheville sunday accompanying the body. Mrs. George Graves of Milwaukee came monday. Mrs. Mary Brown Shiverick and mrs. Flea nor Brown Hayden n eyes. Have arrived fam Chi ago honorary pallbearer will be George r. Comstock Burr w j on leg. Frank w. Hoyt o. D. Brandenburg or. Reginald Jackson and w. I. Bagley. Active bearer Are or. F. F. Bowman j. B Ramsay a. G Park. A. B Morris ii i Moseley and Dudley Montgomery. Services at the cemetery wll be private. Protest Badger Corn embargo Harrisburg. A. A protest against the embargo by the state of j Wisconsin against com from Pennsylvania a been made by the state department of agriculture. The embargo against the fun nyl a Van la Cornwa placed on account of i the european Corn Quot Borer Quot which re a gently made it appearance in weat i pm new York . With the exception of a slight outbreak in Krie county. Pennsylvania is free of the Quot Korer Quot director James j. Handers of the Bureau of f Lant Industry of the agricultural department said today. Mrs. Tabor takes Back confession Paw Taw. Mich on the eve. Of the Preim in a it hearing of Joseph Virgo Mouth Bend ind., real eel ale Man and former embalmer on charge of murdering hts wife Maude Tabor Virgo mrs. A rail Tabor Mother of the victim. repudiated her Roo reunion implicating the husband. Mrs tailor it Ter Lara a her Quot confession Quot that her daughter had died from an Mega up rat Ion a groundless and said or Virgo died from in overdose of chloroform. Washington a charges that Many army medals for distinguished service were awarded unfairly were made in the House today by representative Gullivan mass., in urging a Complete investigation by the House military committee. Man Yarmy officers who never heard a shot were Given medals while scores of heroes in the a. E. F. Have not been rewarded. Galilean claimed adding that the distinguished Bervie medal a a result is now known As the Quot desk service the representative was bitter in his denunciation of to Hief of stuff March claiming that a he has not enough space Lait Ween his Belt and his Collar to display the medals received and yet did not hear a hostile shot throughout the t mire general Pershing was attacked As having Given a medal to Quot every commissioned messenger Quot scarcely a single member of the a Roulo Vard Shock troops of Chaumont and Paris failed to receive a personal glorification through the placing of a medal on his Manly cheat a said galilean. A it is believed practically every or Miter of the general at Aff Here in Washington a been awarded one of the medals regardless of the character of the service. Quot the Reading of the sum total of these citation to swivel chair officers who never left Washington certainly would impress one with the fact that the War win fought with rest Ink it mahogany desks near the Washington Monument rather than at the Argonne and it. Michtel. If a single one of these was passed Over he must feel like a Grey horse in a barnyard of mules. Quot surely the lounge lizards of the second army of the Potomac have no quarrel with their comrades the lobby lancers of the capital. 589 missing in Shipwreck Parus five Hundred and eighty nine persons were still missing today from the wreck of the Steamer afr que which Sank in the Bay of Bis a Early yesterday. They were believed to have perished. The Steamer hound from Bordeaux to Dakar carried 485 passengers and a Crew of 150. Only two lifeboats j containing 28 persons have been picked up. During a terrific Gale saturday the afro que sprang a leak and Sank 50 mibs off la Llo Chelle. Woman fights off 4 bandits new York four armed bandits j who attempted to hold up a Saloon today were lies ten anti driven off by j i mrs. A ripest in Eggren wife of the i i Saloon keeper. Mrs. Berggren prevented the rot i i Brry of to Patron and her husbands i Cash Register when the bandits Start a j de shooting. So placed herself tie j fore the Register and fought them off one by one. One Man wan shot. Supreme court decisions the w i in oar. In supreme court today 1 handed Down decisions in Tbs following cases dismissed�?102, 153. Motion doniod�?93, 33. Motion affirmed�?-51, state 5. 104, 131, 46. 94. 71, 89, 101, 56. 72. 99-100. 119, 162, 163. Judgment granting probation of will affirmed�?83. Reversed and remanded for new trial a state 3. Reversed�?73. 74. 86. 103. 76. 82. 62. Modified and affirmed�?4. Tire. L. C. Hahn. Racine will Jyl receive $83,000 a a result of a derision of the Quot Wisconsin Kun pro Rno court today. Theodore pc. Johnson deceased to eccentric Bachelor died in Racine la in i i it 17 leaving his . I or. L. C. Icahn. Or. Hahn filed a will she claimed a made by Johnson in 1896. At that time she conducted a millinery shop next to Johnsons shoe repair place. Johnson wan troubled with carbuncles and Hooks and was helped by or. Hahn. It is claimed by or. Hahn that following his recovery he asked her what he could do for her and it was suggested by a Mutual Friend that Johnson make out a will giving mrs. Hahn his possessions following his death. At that time Johnson was Worth about $1,100. A few year later Johnson traded his shop for a Small farm and gradually branched out into the real estate bunns. When taken to the Hospital a few Days before by death a Satchel we As found in his room containing More than 50 mortgages and contracts. He lived in a Small room on the third floor of an old building. The Point involved in the court action was the genuineness of the signature appended to the will which was written in a Small Cash Hook that mrs. Vlahn kept at that time. The circuit court in Racine upheld the will which action was approved in the dec i Ion handed Down today by the state supreme court. District attorney oppose application of defense would gain Frank statement by doctor s wife a a birth praised by medical men ancient sicilian feud is revived a a i Dot Hoit police tier today were1 i convinced of the revival of an ancient i sicilian feud we Alrh already has Cost i j two lives in the last 36 hour und i i promised to exact a heavier loll by i fore the week is ended within 24 j hours after Angels Russo was shot j and stabbed tit death by five unit it nil-1 fled men who drowned hts Erie for j Aid with loud singing an unidentified. Sicilian. About 26 yearn old a fouled i today shot to death in a lonely Dis i Trolet on the outskirts of the rat it governors for Leonard Wood j Chicago a Rise in Ood mock j Register on the political ticker with i the announcement Here today that four mid w Cserny governors had accepted place on the Wood National rambo sign committee. Gov. Henry Allen of Kau As gov. J. A. A. Rumquist of Minnesota gov. Peter v or Heck of South Dakota and Iov Oliver la Shoup of Colorado have signified that they arc behind the Genera candidacy tither governors have indicated their favourable attitude toward Wood it wit announced and will be added to the list within a few Duya. Social workers also urge aoult8 to View state journal film at Grano is Only picture of kind Ever made i ate official and social workers Are loud in their Prater of the new York maternity Hoe Petal film which the Wisconsin state journal will show at the grand theater beginning tomorrow. C. A. Harper state health officer believes the film carried a valuable n for the adult and those inter Jesusi in child life. Quot i should like to have Quot birth a shown i in every motion picture theater in Wisconsin because of its scientific and educational value for the adult Public a in the opinion of mrs. Mary i. Morgan director of the Bureau of child welfare and Public health nursing. Front coast to coast Quot birth has received the approval of prominent medical and social workers All of whom claim the picture to be truly a i remarkable offering und Correct in every detail. The scene were filmed in one of new Yorkus largest maternity Hospital under the personal direction of Well known medical experts showing everything in detail regarding the care of the infant. After viewing the film one can plainly see Why it is claimed that if the method shown on the screen were Fol i Lowed out in All of the Homes and to Pitula of the country that the lives of Over 3<x>, infant and Many thousands of ignorant Mother would be saved each year. As a birth to the Only picture of it kind Ever made for Public showing Aud of interest to the adult mind Only j children and Young people under the j ago of is will not he admitted. Know nothing of arms shipment Washington the state department today denied knowledge of a re port that a japanese Cruiser had escorted a Large shipment of Arm and ammunition to Mexico. Marylander is Treasury aide Washington Guy Al Allen. Somerset md., a named today As assistant treasurer of the United states by president Wilaon. Clear or. Schott of death charge lid is i ill. By it. Christopher g Schott a cleared of the charge of murdering Al Ira both Ford Griffith it Iii office assistant w Lien tilt Jefferson county grand jury refused to indict hint Iii connection with tit girls death today. Lui Ureno Gardner 13, child companion of or Schott on whose Story he relied for i Alibi testified before th1 jury late yesterday and today arid reiterated her statement that Shrott was not in i office when the killing occurred. He shot for door m Hwa us e k Al is Spitz. Maid in the Home of f. G Underwood. Was told by a burglar Quot shut tip or ill shoot a she screamed Aud he Quot shot Quot for the door Moye to return socialists fails attempt in n. Y. Assembly to Ameno rules vote Down 16 to 80 Ai Bany. N. move to Amend the Mien of the Assembly by which the entire body would become a committee of judiciary to try the five socialist members suspended was lost today 16 to 80. This was one of the moves which Hod been planned by the democrats to return the socialists to their seats pending their examination. During debate on the Resolution assemblyman Mcnut new York attacked Charles k. Hughe and some of the newspaper men present. Quot i will say for the Benefit of Charles Hughes a he said a that i have looked with suspicion on his actions for several year. I remember that when it a first thought that he had Bien elected president of the in United Blate every pro German Iii my District paraded in his turning to the newspaper men he said a these my the socialist members Are going to have a fair trial. They Are going to have a fairer trial than some of the newspapers Are giving us today. They have accused us of violating the Constitution when we have lived up to it. A Elf there is no evidence against these men. Seat them but done to let any member of this House intimate that they Are not going to get a fair paying i respects to tile Resolution of the new York mar association he added Quot i jct those great jurists of the bar association who have Rome out with their insults on you and on me Walt until the evident is Assembly Mati Theodore Roosevelt made his Maiden speech when he introduced a Resolution requiring copies of the testimony taken at the hearing of the socialists to to a furnished to each member of the Houe. This was i Tass i unanimously. I Gnu do Lac or. J. A. Freuden i Berg held in Green Lake count. Jail on charge of murdering hts wealthy Mot her in Law. This noon was ordered released on $30,000 bail by circuit judge Fowler. Fra Fparker cashier of the Markesan state Bank und administrator of the ruffles estate w As to provide the bail Imp today. Alleged hypnotism became today a dominant Factor in the . The tight in circuit court started with application for bail for the physician by his attorneys Willet in. Spooner and Leo Mann both of Milwaukee. District attorney m. J. Paul opposed the application on the theory that release of the physician would permit his return Home where he will continue to exert his will Over mrs Freudenberg a has evil Eye Paul was credited with the View Truk if Freuden Berg could be kept in jail until i arraignment Jan. 22. The prosecutor would be Able to obtain a Frank statement from his wife As to her views in charges against her husband. The taciturn Ity of or. Freuden Borg and statements by Markesan people that the a doctor a an evil were said to have strengthened the prosecutor belief that without verbal threats but by Mere suggestion the physician prevailed upon his wife to maintain a mystifying silence As to his conduct and conservation before und after the death of his wife a Mother. Move to exhume body Steps to exhume the body of Alfred ruffles husband of Nettie duffle. Were taken late yesterday by officers of the county Hoard authorising expenditure of funds for that purpose. The county Hoard will meet tomorrow to Annet ton the action. Mrs. Freudenberg. Heir to the half million Dollar estate of her Mother is reported to have said she will devote any needed part of the value of the estate in an Effort to Clear her husband. Gaining that Fortune for himself is Given by j Wop in Here As the motive of the alleged murder. The parents and father in Law of or. Ruffles besides herself and husband Are reported to have died under mysterious circumstance within four years. Badger Veteran is dead in East Stamford Conn a major Frederick Wheeler u. H. A., retired died at his Horny Here today. He was born in Merlin we. Threaten Force in rail strike hold religious meet Jan. 20-21 it Krlly the government today issued a special manifesto threatening to Quot us special precautions Quot to handle the situation brought about by the railway strike. The manifesto urge i tits workers to return to their Job Quot in the interest a conference which Ike Ling the a nation pointing out Flint a jest method of studying religious cd Uon t is 0tu� prisoner Are to it Euing sent Home from France and that lha Wink will it mile i bad in pres Tun among them Freedom of Assembly and Lite pres has been suspended Iii the areas affected by the strike which has spread into Upp i Silesia and Westphalia. Thinks malady Jsu flu hangover to it ukr a. K a ii. Or. X. Sherwood head of hic bacteriological department of Iii Kansas University was summon d to Topeka to determine the mysterious malady which has stricken nearly 10u0 victims in tile Pant two Days. Or. T. D. Tuttle Tate epidemiologist is Inch a to the theory i hat the intestinal trouble May he a belated Quot flu germ. Theio har Boea no deaths. Fatal to Guinea pigs Oklahoma City okie. Mysterious malady when h attacked 5�?~>� persons at Skiatook. Okla., his spread i to to o other cities according to reports today. Muskogee Aid Shawnee non Ara in six to Whf it several in with my oms Ber Ger of by in gi8, to Tho 1 ski -00 1 physicians at Skiatook i taif de with the diagnosis of the state to Ann department Thath discus probable was typhoid of a a a. Some do mrs advanced the theory it a a Quot hangover from the influenza polemic of last year. Additional t Sis Over. Made Tod a water taken from main at. Skiatook. Thir i it n Guinea pigs. Git is in Joe tin a of the water Dud. Neat Ion tinder present conditions is to be held in Madison Jan. 2ti und 21, l Rof. Michael n Obi Iea is the chairman. Or. Edward a Blok Mutt is Secretary. Tho conf re Nee i culled by adv j Cates for a More wholesome Wisconsin j Lifa Ami believe that training in Clig Ion will guarantee this to coining Gen j ration it is under the Ruspi a a of the religious a donation commit a of j Wisconsin federation of Church and Madison federation of Church fief. George a. Coe of the i theological Seminary of new you i to give two Addry a religious education so affected by change in the theory and a Rauco of teaching Horny of the other speakers Are urn a ident Humi Iel Plant Lawrence College 1�?Trt.s. M. A. Brannon Beloit College pres. Al ten habit. I Row Lier College. Urn in a f. C. Cope head of the religious education association of Anteri a. File suit Over j Kubly City n. socialist educational club today filed suit against Charles u. X. Of run. Comr to Sion or of Public talc to Richard tatters chief of police and three policemen asking damages because Victor Berger congressman elect of Wisconsin. Wan prevented from speaking Here Jan. 6. 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