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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - January 15, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin To it Chewisco in journal vol. 134, no. 105. 81tt year. Madison/., thursday afternoon january 15,1920. Fourteen pages Price two cents new guilty second degree Scott urges necessity for saving economist tells Rota nans Thrift never before in history was so imperative As now n j Javk ii in the economic history of Tho country was Thrift so needed a it is now. Prof. W. A. Scott University economist emphasised in an of re before the notary club today. All our productive Effort of the pair years has been virtually blown into the air Quot he said. A we have invested All our emr a in the task of producing Mun Tiona and goods with the object of blowing Germany off the May we did not save any for increased consumption in the future. It was very necessary St the time but it was in reality nothing More than a big a consumption As a consequence we Are not producing today at Normal capacity because the savings that would Havo resulted in an increased amount of gods for today were spent. Saving imperative a we must save save As we have never saved before a prof. Scott declared a Elf we want to bring production up and prices Down to Normal. Saving Al Rof. Scott a planned Quot is i the storing up of productive equipment i a loss to Rodeo More goods in the fun j Ture and thua provide for greater enjoyment. The Only Way s nation can i save la by deferring expend Turea. By ruling savings into a form that will Fruct Ify in the future. Quot without saving and deferred consumption. The race still would be in the Stone age our roads our factories our Homes Are the result of the saving of Peee tev Iii cru8o�s theory this theory of saving is t Rem cd the Robinson Crusoe theory. Professor Scott a planned. It was by Maying food that Robinson Crusoe found time to build a House to surround himself with ail conveniences that time and materials would permit hts obtaining. Quot the condition of Success a professor Scott continued a is the ability to wive. The Man w to spends All of Bis income Van get on in the Ito Fessor Scott disproved the two fallacies that Thrift or saving is necessarily accompanied by a diminished consumption of goods and that Thrift is hoarding. Many business Man who themselves save Are Loath to encourage saving because they Are fearful that it will mean fewer Purchase by the Public and a consequent loss to them. Having does t diminish expenditures prof. Scott maintained savings what her put in a Bank or invested by the Saver Are put into business and go to make for increased production and consumption. Having is nothing but deferred spending so the greatest amount of Benefit is derived from the Dollar in the estimation of the Saver. And saving is not the Transfer of the Power of spending to someone else a might be said. For when the nation saves tha savings go into increased production of goods for delayed consumption Thrift instruction needed a you can to eat the cake and still have it a prof Weott asserted. Quot you have to begin saving by cutting Down expense. Thrift instruction is needed by the rising generation. Youths appreciation of enjoyment is keen its income la Low and its responsibility not very great a a consequence Young people Are proverbially extravagant. The Leoleon of Thrift however must be Learned in youth of it is to be Learned at the Quot consumption drunk in which some people Are indulging was scored by professor Weott. It is retarding the world readjustment to Normal he said. People must now put a larger share than Ever before of their earnings into savings if the readjustment is to he successful. Pass measure on Waterpower the Senate today passed the House Waterpower Bill 53 to is with several amendments attached. Philipp gives Thrift week endorsement governor k. U pm Tripp today issued the following proclamation endorsing a Thrift week a whereas. National Thrift week it of the Young men s Christian Ussio Chatton Jan 17-24, 1920. Which has the full support of the United states Treasury and of the leading financial commercial and civic and educational Organ lations throughout the United states is Well designed to promote the Prosperity of our citizens and of our communities my whereas it behoves every lit zen to take serious thought to Lessen foolish extravagance my waste to Abate inflation of credit to release through Intel Igent saving and investment the capital needed to finance production and employment to combat unrest and to build up a More stable prosperous and truly american population and whereas the program of econ a talc education of National Thrift week is Well devised to roster All of these desirable conditions i Emanuel i Philipp governor of the 8tate of Wisconsin to Call upon All officers of this state the mayors and county officials the Supern tenders and teachers of our Public schools my upon each and every Cut Len business establishment Industrial Plant Trade civic or other Erjantz Atlon and All employees or members thereof to exert every Effort. Individually and through their Community Thrift committees to make National Thrift week a period of constructive thought and action and of economic planing for every one within their several communities. Rioting in foe capital is renewed reinforcements ordered to Protea Berlin against mobs death toll More than two score jurors drawn in assault Case trial of girls Sio too suit against Clarence Han sen started l celebrate dry regime tonight speakers to address y. W. A. Quot Rilee in congregational Church National prohibition will be celebrated tonight at 8 o clock in the first congregational Church. A Jubilee program of songs speeches and other features will he presented under auspices of the local unions of the w. C. T. It. Among the speakers will be the revs. George e. Hunt and Edward w. Worcester with one or two out of town speakers. During the past year the w. C. T it. Has accomplished much both among the younger and older members. Among the accomplishments during 1911 Are the subscription of 9137,780 to Liberty Bonds Thrift Damps soldiers supplies and an ambulance 6,000 articles knitted 600 Hospital supplies 1.000 visits to invalids 3,000 plants and bouquet to shut ins 7.000 hours of time by red Cross workers 1,500 Hooks donated to Camps 50.000 samples of literature other than Hooks and magazines 500 essays read in schools on alcohol 350 meetings for prison Reform and rest tents maintained at fairs. Or. R. C. Howell of Madison gave 91.000 to the National Jubilee fund and among the younger workers is mis Eunice f. Baldwin Jenifer Street president of Monona Young people s Branch. Jury still out in new trial on done rioting was renewed in re Len yesterday dispatches received hero Early today mild. The military authorities have ordered additional reinforcements to protect the City. The toll of tuesday fighting in front of the reach Stag it was Semi officially announced was 42 killed and 105 wounded. Some Eye witnesses a cording to the dispatches thought the total casualties might be considerably larger. Dispatches received in official quarters Here indicated the outbreak tuesday a not revolutionary although some four was expressed that revolutionary outbreaks might develop. It was emphasized the German government must Deal carefully with the situation because of the extreme bitterness attending the various labor agitations. Particularly the railway strike. Develops suddenly tuesday s fatal rioting dispatches j showed today broke out with unus i Ual suddenness. A dispatch from the United press correspondent filed at i 1 32 p. In. Tuesday just before the a fighting started said tremendous a crowds had gathered in front of the reach Stag but were orderly. The people gathered in response to Calls from their leaders the correspondent said hut his dispatch did not i indicate fear of rioting. The reach Stag building was strongly defended by the new police Force armed with machine guns. Which the correspondent wrote a apparently will find no work to becomes shambles Quot the crowds Are remarkably he said. A most factories closed at noon the workers marching in Long lines toward the reach Stag to join in the demonstration against the workmen s councils Bill a delay. Within three hours after this dispatch was filed the same remarkably Calm crowd had turned into a mob which attempted to destroy the reach Stag. The scene of the quiet demonstration had become a shambles with Many killed and pounded. Owing to disturbed conditions in Germany brought about by the rioting and strikes the allies were seriously considering withholding of presentation of lists of German War guilty who surrender for trial by Allied tribunal will be demanded it was Learned from authoritative sources demand for the German War guilty at this time. It was said might precipitate further outbreaks increasing the danger to the present German government which the allies desire to have remain in control. Premiers Kloyd George and Clemena eau it was emphasized will not give up their plan for ultimate surrender of the German War guilty but will rot insist upon fulfilment of this Clase of the peace treaty until internal conditions in Ier Manv become firmer. Try own citizens one suggestion it was understood a that the allies abandon their plan of trying the accused germans before Allied courts martial and ask Germany to try them before her own supreme court. This scheme its adherents pointed out would have the advantage of preventing a German government crisis and at the same time would serve the Allied Pun Sise of exposing the guilt of i the former German leaders to the j world. Quot we no firm in our determination to punish the guilty germans one Lori Tosh authority declared. A their surrender is As much a part of the treaty As any other clause Clad in a Rich Brown fur coat and a Chic purple hat which made a striking contrast against the Golden ear muffs beneath miss Jessie ohnsted took her seat in circuit court this morning to press her suit for >10,000 damages against her erstwhile sweetheart Clarence Hansen manager of the Wisconsin Wagon company whom she charges with assault and Battery. Courthouse fans from Bald pates to tittering youth sat in eager expectancy during the drawing of the jury. Hansen blonde and of medium height occasionally cast glances toward the plaintiff when she was looking the other Way. She dbl likewise. Testimony was to have started at 1 30 p. A. When it was expected that All spectators would be excluded from the courtroom. Jurors drawn Are c. R. Collins Rlue Mounds John a. Himon Madison Fred Nessenfeld Black Earth James Castle Madison Arthur harried Rockdale Village i. T. Hana Rutland George Ruhlman cottage a a trove John Grimm Madison Carl Tuam Stoughton h. J. Doll Waunakee Village j. W. Lie Elroy Hun Prairie die Guttrud Rockdale. Miss Ohnstad in her complaint claims Hansen beat her almost insensible lacerating her Throat with hts hands and Nail in the office of the Wagon works. J a american clash hinted London a dispatch from Harbin today mad obscure reference to a reported clash Between japanese and american troops in Siberia. A bolshevik wireless communique from Moscow referring to the situation in Siberia said a movement had been organized by the social revolutionaries in conjunction with Tho Chi. Tha movement according to Tho bolshevik communique was a assisted by in american Fleet which left the philippine islands for Vladivostok to prevent Tho japanese from Landing fresh troops to assist Gen. John Dodge Auto maker is dead new York John f. Dodge Detroit automobile manufacturer who had Bern ill with pneumonia for a week at his apartments in the Ritz Carlton hotel Here died at 10 30 last night. For some time before the end he was unconscious Ami unable to recognize his wife and daughters. John Dodge came to new York with his brother Horace to attend the automobile show. Both became ill with pneumonia. Horace has passed the critical stage and is expected to Blout again within two weeks. Bryan on hand to push treaty Washington a. J. Bryan arrived at the capital today to take personal charge of i Campaign for treaty ratification on any possible reservation basis. Bryan at mice went into conference with senator Mckellar Tennessee one of the authors of tile me Kellar Kendrick democratic reservation. Congress denies air mail funds democrats deadlocked Over Leader caucus Breaks up after tie vote on Hitchcock and Underwood Carter Glass refused ballot Low Angeles the jury in the total of Harry 8. New accused of Frieda lesser murder was still try ing to reach a verdict today. The juror started deliberating or a of 7a1pi7v i ivc tuesday afternoon late yesterday or. la j i3 they reported they were deadlocked on Nix Rorr t r n a no n whether new was guilty of second de Tjell fit i i Latt to Gree murder or manslaughter. Judge Craig informed them they could have All the time they desired in attempting to reach an agreement. Weather unsettled weather tonight and Fri 1 Day probably Snow not quits to cold. Moderate Easterly wind. Temperature yesterday noon 8 3 p. In. 12 6 p. In. 13 9 p. In 9. Today Midnight i i a. In. 8 6 a. In. 8 9 a. In. 7. Maximum during 24 hours ending 8 a. In. 13 at 4 p. In. Minimum during 24 hours ending 9 a. In 7 it i ii. In. Mean it. Normal 16 relative humidity i p. In. 61. 7 p. In. 76. 7 a. In. 98. Precipitation during 24 hour ending 7 a. In. 65 in. Normal .05 in. Accumulated departure since Jan. I -.53 in. General strike is on in Italy is general strike of postal Telegraph and Telephone workers throughout Italy was ordered effective Lut night according to dispatches to the tin k from the italian Border. Telegraphic offices were the first to suspend service. The dispatch said. The buildings were guarded by troops. Railway workers probably will join the striker Friday it was said. La Follette ill in Washington Warmington a Cantor isl foliage Wisconsin is ill at his Home h re wit Ila had cold his condition is not serious it a said i kith at his office a a nuts Home today. New York Frank a. Munsey has bought the new York Herald the new York evening Telegram and the Paris Herald. Announcement appeared in the Herald today that Sale of these newspaper properties of the late James Gordon Bennett had been consummated Munsey refused to confirm a Rumor that the Purchase Price was about 94.666.666 Munsey is owner of the. New York Sun and evening Sun and several periodicals. Bodies of yanks washed ashore Nantes. bodies of thin american Soldier were among those washed ashore from the wrecked steamship Frique near Here each of the americana wore decorating latest estimates of the drowned still stood at about 406. The vessel was wrecked on Roche Bonne Shoal in the Bay of Biscay Early sunday. Washington funds for continuation of air plane mail service were struck from the annual Post office apr Propri Atlon Hill today on a Point of i order raised by Republican lousier Mondell. The action Inlet changed by the i Senate or subsequently reconsidered i by the House Means the ending of the air plane mail service june 30 the Post office department asked 1856.000 for continuation of the pre i ent service and 93.060,000 for new lines. Janesville has smallpox cases Washington a Senate Democrat today were deadlocked Over the Choice of a floor Leader to succeed the late senator Martin. With the vote Between senator Hitchcock and Underwood a tie a democratic caucus broke up shortly after noon with no Date set for another attempt to slept a Leader. The caucus adjourned subject to by Hitchcock and Underwood who in the meantime will try to break the deadlock. Refusal of Hoke Smith Georgia to vote for either candidate caused the deadlock. There were 43 senator inv Send with Smith refusing to vote the Hitchcock and Underwood factions each had 21 votes. Senators Walloon. Johnson of South Dakota and Smith of Arizona were absent. The caucus first voted to permit Carter Glass the new senator from Virginia to vote but later this action was reversed. Had Glass voted Underwood would have won by one vote. Glass had not yet taken i seat in the Senate although his credentials have been presented. The Underwood forc i cited precedents for letting Glass vote but in the end the caucus refused to allow oils it the caucus lasted two hours and from the first bit tar fight with Glass and his me the storm Center. There wee Many speeches. Senator by a described it As one of the bitterest fights hot Ever saw. Explains move Underwood explaining the elimination of Glass said that after the caucus. By a vote of 20 to 19, had decided to invite Glass to attend objections were raised by a few senators to his coming a i then stated a said Underwood a that i would rather not be elected Hauler than have any discord on that question and the invitation was the vote on the leadership itself was 19 to 19. Senator Underwood issued the following statement a the result of this vote does not in any Way interfere with senator Hitchcock s control and leadership in the treaty fight. He has Hail and will continue to have my Loyal Supko it and if i am eventually elected Leader or. Hitchcock will continue to Lead the fight on the treaty with my Hearty Underwood maid the next leadership Cunnis will lie called soon after gins has been sworn in which will not be until his resignation As Secretary of the Treasury has been accepted. Here s Roll Call the Roll Call for Underwood a Bankhead dial Fletcher Gey Gerry Gore Herrie Harrison Jones new Mexico Mckellar Pittman Randell Reed Shields Smith Maryland Smith South Caroline Stanley Welsh Mezz. William �?19. For h Hitchcock a a Huret chamber a Lam Culberson Henderson Kendrick King Kirby Myers Nugent Overman Phelan Pom Irene Robinson i Sheppard. Simmons Thome Trammell Welsh Mont wolcott�?19. Paired a Beckham Tor Underwood with Swanson for Hitchcock end Smith Arizona for Underwood with Owen for Hitchcock Underwood end Hitchcock. Not voting Glees Johnson South Dakota. Present end not voting a Smith Georgia. Hungarians get treaty of peace Paris the hungarian peace treaty wms handed the enemy Deli Gates at 14 10 p. M. Today. Letter has bearing on death Case off is m verdict is murdered Slayer sane los Angeles jury comes Tot decision in Case after deliberation since tuesday afternoon Janesville seventeen cases of Small pm Here have prompted health authorities to bar Allun vaccinated children from schools. Lusk evidence cause of ousting Almany n. Y evidence presented to the Lusk legislative committee and Quot other information Quot led to suspension of the five socialist i milers of tha Assembly last wednesday s leaker Sweet declared today in his first detailed statement regarding the Case. Another contributing cause he said was Quot remarks made in debate by certain members of the Assembly during the sessions of 1918 and 1919. On legislation then tending pertain ing to the successful prosecution of the w Are a oppression Berger s 9 i is Wail in 1,000 word it exclusion Milwaukee a president Wilson Secretary of labor Wilson and attorney general Palmer can Deport Radical aliens but they cannot Deport Radical idea alien or native grown said Victor l. Merger today statement about his from Congress. Merger also said a i Don t believe the Monist Russia is so alluring that it would win converts from american socialists unless our rulers make condition in America so vicious that any change would seem a change for the Berger described Hie exclusion As Quot Only one link of the immense Chain of Kkhan. Francis Mead and m. E. Obendorfer both of Chicago May throw some Light on the Case of or. J. A. Freudenberg out on 930,600 Hall on a charge of killing his Mother in Law or. Nettle ruffles the husband. Alfred ruffles is reported to have addressed the last letter he Ever wrote to Mead and had asked Freudenberg to mall it. The letter it is said pertained to his will. Contents of the will itself were to have been left in the form of Lens led memoranda with Obendorfer. It was reported late wednesday that District attorney m. J. Paul will ask District attorney w. E. Zabel Milwaukee to take charge of the prosecution of Freudenberg the county Siard adopted resolutions giving the District attorney cart Blanche in conducting Freud Enberg s prosecution this permits reasonably i unit ions expenditure of funds engagement of extra counsel and exhumation of the body of Alfred ruffles. Fruit juices and cider watched fermenting soft drinks to come under Ory ban dealers liable Washington. In on of the i broadest constructions yet placed on the Ai t for enforcing constitutional prohibition. Prohibition commissioner j Kuerner Tun ruled that fruit juices and eiders come within the dry ban if they contain More than one half of i per cent alcohol. The commissioner interpretation i of the Law a m t Forth today in a memorandum charging prohibition directors and inspectors with the added duty of examining the alcoholic con a tent of such beverages the drastic regulation goes into effect with constitutional prohibition Jan. 16, violation of it carries the j same penalties it for the manufacture or Sale of stronger liquors. Strict enforcement of the regulation j will Bolti liable dealers in fruit juices i and ciders in which the alcoholic Oon tents increase even while in storage i the department does not intend however to gauge us beverages thus 1 produced officials said but a a watch i til Eye would be kept on these Nunu a facture and dealer natural Fer mentation will offer no excuse for Cia Jow 8. New a today was found guilty of Sec owl degree murder for the killing of his sweetheart Frieda lesser in Topanga Canyon on the night of july 4. At 11 35 a. In. Jurors who had deliberated on Hica a since 4 p. In. Tuesday flied into court and announced. That they found new sane and guilty of the murder of his pretty is year old sweetheart. New gave himself up in the morning of july 6, 1919, when he drove up to a bom Angeles police station Writt the body of miss lesser in an automobile. Investigation showed mis Lessee a about to become a Mother. New in an alleged confession said a pleaded with the girl to marry him but she refused. New claimed he was the illegitimate son of United states senator Harry new of Indiana and or. Lilly Berger according to the police new said thut rather than see his child Glozr up without a Legal father he shot mis lesser. The tragedy occurred in to Pang Canyon near to Angeles on the evening of july 4, 1919. New drove to the Canyon with i leaser after they had left her Mother at Home. The defense presented evidence to show the taint of a or in the family of new Mother. Alleviate testified news mentality a that of in 11 year old child. Insanity because of worry Oer the circumstances of his birth was pleaded. New is unmoved according to Evan Lewis a member of the jury the vote had stood throughout the nearly 44 hours of deliberation 9 for acquittal on the grounds of insanity and three for second degree murder. Finally All agreeing new should a to a inst Stutton where there was or Chance of his release. Lewis said the second degree Murd or verdict was decided upon the penalty is to yearn to lire imprisonment. New sat like a Man of Stone when the jury came in and announced he had Lorn found guilty. He never took Hie Eye from the Quot no smoking sign on the desk in front of his seat on which the gaze had been axed throughout the trial. See recount in Newberry Case Washington the inquiry Ini the election of senator new Pierry Michigan a taken up today by the Senate privileges and elections committee. The committee expects to inquire into charges that Newberry Campaign managers spent Large sums of Money in both the primary and election in which Newberry beat Henry j Ford the inquiry will proceed at the name time As the fraud trial in Mich i than Federal court. Committeemen said they expected a recount of ballots would be the aral i step. Sharp Advance in paper Price new Yurk paper com Thinie is i Ped ally news print manufacturers expect a record year in 1920, Accord i ing to comment by the Dow Jones financial Agency in connection with i the quotation of International paper on the Stock it is exp a the country j 1.156.900 Tom Over 1916. This will least 990 a t sent tag a 91 i in effect the Exchange Here today a Ted the total output of for 1919 will a proximal an 8 per it ent incr sae he sold at prices of at on on an average re pre it Advance a ton on Prim greater Airt of 1919. Example of Corn Eum of the regulation it was declared. Employment of a Force of 2,560 watchmen to guard 69 600,000 gallon of liquor held in government bonded warehouse is planned by the internal Revenue Bureau to protect the liquor against thefts which Are occurring daily. Prohibition commissioner Kermer told the House appropriations committee. He asked that Congress make 92.666,0116 available immediately for establishing the guard Grain Man buys Omaha daily Bee Omaha nets ii. Updike Grain Man. Today bought the Omaha Dally ii a Fri it a Victor Rosewater. The consideration is said to a beet 9306,000. Probe detention Home at Racine of Racine a comm it it Cine county Board this aft. To it an investigation of condition detention Horn he re a the the Arr charges inmate lev of supt. Fro of ing Leone no r o Cranie a i began Iii the suit of to a. On 17, an

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