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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - June 7, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Badger weather thunderstorms this afternoon followed by fair tonight and tuesday. Warmer tonight. Light and fresh southerly winds. Thew co in i i i ppi2 e journal City edition ten pages vol. 135, no. 67. 81�t , wis., monday afternoon june 7, 1920. Price three cent prohibition Law Lega mrs. M. P. Higgins Heads mothers mum Worcester woman is president mrs. Frederic Schoff Given honorary Post at Congress Here legislative work outlined tuesdays sessions 9 a. of presidents of state branches reports of committees 1 45, music charge of prof. Dykema 2 p. Rn., address. Educational helps in promotion of child welfare Charles a. Powlison Secretary National child welfare association 3 p. Rn., address miss Jessie Burall National geographic society 3 30 p. Rn., mrs. Burr w. Jones Madison Camp fire girls p. Rn., address c. Ward Crampton m. D., Dean Normal school of physical education Battle Creek Mich. Reports of resolutions committee. 7 15 p. �?meeting in music Hall University invocation 7 30. Lecture recital on Verdi s opera Alda by prof. C. H. Mills illustrated by Madison choral Union and soloists from University school of music 8 p. Rn., address College training for Home life Abby l. Marlatt director course in Home economics. U. Of w. 8 30 p. Rn., address. Kate Waller Barrett. Our International duties 9 p. In. Post War problems message from Newton d. Baker Secretary of War by col. H. L. Jackson. Introduction of officer for 1920 23, adjournment. Mrs. Milton i. Higgins a Assn Shusett was elected president a of the National Congress of Mother Ani Parent teacher a Assoc at Lens in session Here this morning Bho succeeds mrs. Frederic Schoff of Philadelphia balloting on a slate including to i vice presidents and other officials took place in the Assembly chamber of the Capitol. The entire slate was elected. The nominee were vice presidents mrs. David wears Massachusetts mrs. Isaac Lea 11 Iii is. Iowa mrs. Fred Dick Colorado mrs. Henry Osgood Holland new York mrs. H. S. Farnsworth Montana. Mrs. Eugene Crutcher Tennessee mrs. J. L. Todd Washington mrs. A. L. Hamilton California mrs. M. P. A helps Arizona and mrs. H. S. Doster Alabama. Corresponding Secretary a mrs. George b. Chandler. Connecticut. Recording Secretary mrs. Joseph Garibaldi North Carolina. Treasurer mrs. H. N. Howell California. Auditor mrs. C. H. Remington Rhode Island. Historian mrs. Piles Rafter District of Columbia. In recognition of her in years of service As an it Ftp a of Tho National association three of which were spent a is National president mrs. Frederic Trch Olf a i Ladelphia retiring president a was unanimously elected honorary p resident uniform divorce Law a stirring report Wos Given by or. Jessie Russell California for the legislative committee. Or. Russell briefly told Tho Bills which the women should Back or oppose did stated a chief j among these the uniform divorce Law now up in Congress which does Awa it with state differences in marring Laws in a woman May be married in one i a Tate told n it another. Or. Russell a Aid mothers owed it to their children f to see that they Are bom legitimately a not Only in one but in All states. Another Bill needing backing provides for women to retain their citizenship irrespective of marriage to a foreigner. Another is Federal legislation improving conditions involving child labor Mother the she a a re Bill providing Aid for expectant mothers and the Smith Towner Hill which provides for a Secretary of education in the presidents Cabin to. Or. Maude Saunders of Denver colo., chairman of the child tailor committee urged the mothers to use Btl influence in bettering the conditions and Lawn regarding employment of t Hildren before the age of i. Miss Lida Al Gardner National organiser gave a talk on her organization work this afternoon concerned chiefly Riih the problems of Rural life. Re was followed by my. H in Woodland. New York president of the rational motion picture league who spoke on Quot letter films Quot a matter a which is creating much attention among the women of the convention. Baldwin Speaks tonight tonight a program Wilt include a address by Bird t. Baldwin director Iowa child welfare research station of the University of Iowa on helps to parents by scientific study of Normal children. Mrs. Ii. Of. Morgan will be the last speaker tonight. She is director of child welfare and Public health nursing in i constr awaken Public conscience a Val to the women of America to get behind Tho big movement for racial stun la Page 4, column i new president of mothers Organ Iza tons push on suffrage ratification Johnson and Sproul dive headlong into Battle will urge special sessions of Legislatures fight Borah for Harmony pervades in Oil re lie Badger delegation Hughto a next Choice Thompson held probable head of Wisconsin resolutions Board Milwaukee an on rampage for Job caucus tonight women admitted favors 1916 Leader if Johnson fails Lenroot name brought Forth prominently As Compromise act upheld in decision dry amendment to Constitution and statute enforcing it Given o. K. Sweeping dry Victory operation upon senator Success la Follette a condition declared Good at Mayo clinic Gall Sac removed. Rochester. Staten senator Robert of. La Follette of win j Consin was operated upon by or. W. J. J Mayo Here today. He wan on the of rating table a half hour while bin Gall Nae wan removed. The Anaesthetic had panned away at 9 15 and Hin condition at 9 45 of clock wan reported Quot Good a one Gall alone which had been causing the trouble wan found. There wire no complications it wan 1 announced. Half million gift to school Furo us Falla. . G. Harrows Haa announce a gift of 1500,000 in property and be Critien to Carlton College of Northfield. The income from the property and be Critien for 25 year in to be used for building purposes at Carleton after which the property will be turned Over to the Board to be tined an it Nee fit. Harrows Grandfather. Charles m. Goodwell founded Carleton in is fifi. Herrera will get hearing Mexico City Rudolfo Herrera in a statement following his arrival Here tonight reiterated that president it a ii a to no Carranza committed suicide after the attack by Herrera s men. The outlaw chief will be Given a hearing tomorrow. He will appear before general Obregon. Will distribute huge rail fund Washington a the inter state com mired commission today announced it will distribute the $300.-. revolving fund created by the transportation act As an Aid to the railroads. The committee authorized $15,000. Too for Purchase of Pew equipment $73 for additional equipment and betterment $50,000,000 for railroads to meet maturing obligations and $19,000,000 for Short line railroads. Of the $ 125.ti00.000 for equipments. $75,000,000 will be used for cars anti $50,000,Olio for locomotives 20,000 refrigerator cars will be purchased. Switch engines and freight engines will be bought before passenger engines. Firebug to get sentence Frida y Janesville a the Case of j. Spencer Williams confessed firebug w to at saturday s hearing implicated his partner a. C. Bellman was continued until Friday when he will he sentenced. Bellman pleaded not guilty and was released on $500 bail. Hts hearing is set for wednesday. Williams waived examination before judge h. L. Maili eld and in default of $1,000 bail went Back to jail. Bellman according to Williams knew their garage was to be set on fir and helped scatter shavings anti other material. Bellman a in fort Atkinson when the fire occurred and held this fact As hut Alibi. By Raymond Clapper c hic ago senator Hiram Johnny son and gov. William u. Sproul have pitched int the fight to. Force ratification of the woman s suffrage amendment before the november elections it win stated at National woman s party Headquarters today. Both have decided to wire the governors of Connecticut and Vermont urging them strongly to Call special sessions of their Legislatures for ratification. Officials of the National woman s party got their drive for ratification under full swing today. Johnson and Sproul expect to see Wood and Lowden later in the Day hoping to get from them additional support in forcing ratification. Women Partis workers Are canvassing delegates also urging them to bring pressure on the states it was stated. Demanding fifty hefty representation on the Natl Orgil Republican executive committee the women sent a delegation to Confer with representatives of the Republican National committee. The women headed by mrs. Medill Mccormick w a of the United states senator from Illinois carried a Resolution urging such representation. A a now is the time women must establish their political status in the party organization Quot mrs. Mccormick declared. Member of the Republican National committee designated to hear the women Are Coleman Dupont Delaware Rudolph k. Hynicka Ohio John t. Adams Iowa and r. B. Howell Nebraska. On behalf of the National association opposed to Doman suffrage a letter was addressed today to mrs. N. C. Brock of Pennsylvania and mrs. John h. Buck Connecticut to chairman Coleman Dupont requesting a hearing of their Side. Brewers Are Given warning Milwaukee the practice of some manufacturers of near Beer of indicating its alcoholic contents by the Label 23-4 is illegal. The practice of other Badger Brewers of using the word Quot lager a on their bottles of near Beer is als illegal. Ruling to this effect was received Here a turd a by Thomas a. Delaney Federal prohibition dire Tor of Wisconsin from John f. Kramer United state prohibition commissioner. Whether or not action would to taken against such Brewers. Delaney did not state. A yachts master shoots Seaman Washington copt. Stout master of the american steam yacht Dolphin while the vessel was in the it Ort of Cay a amb on May 25, shot and killed Claude Moore it Seaman j the state department has been advised from Antilla Cuba. Gave wife to cents per a y c san Franciaco Quot a Man who would attempt to limit his wife to 19 cents a Day ought to be tried for manslaughter because it could Only mean starvation and death a said judge themas Graham in granting a divorce to Elizabeth Thomas from John Thomas an ironworker. Mrs. Thomas said that during the eleven years they lived together her husband allowed her but to cents a Day to maintain herself her husband and their son. The court granted tile decree and allowed mrs. Thomas $50 a month Alimony. No convention Here june 15-16 the Wisconsin non partisan league will have its state Contention in Madison june 15 to is. Ai Turner Hall. From 50 to of delegates will participle the. A state ticket will be named and a platform drafted. I a Large mass meeting is being a ranged by senator Zumath. State or Canizer at the University gymnasium i the night of june 15. Walter Thomas j Mills one of the league leading campaigners will speak. John Handley i Secretary of the Wisconsin federation of labor a of will be invited to talk. By Hugh Baillie hic Aoda dark Horne sock soared today on the eve of the opening of the Republican National convention. The Boom in dark horses was topped a by Charles Evans Hughes. G it it. P. Standard Bear r in 1910. Incoming delegates reported much Hughes talk throughout the country. A Hughes Headquarters was opened Here and senator both Field marshal for Hiram Johnson told newspaper men tha j if Hughes would accept an Antl Lague j of nations platform Plank he would favor him is a second Choice Cand j Date provided of course Johnson s nomination was Imio i Ibie. This is in no sense an abandonment of Johnson j it was emphasized. Lenroot talked the name of Irvine i ize Root senator from Wisconsin also figured prominently in the dark horse talk. And there was a Rumor that governor 8prou-l of Pennsylvania would receive the Rei it or. Of the old guard when balloting starts at the coliseum. Home de Legates heard a convention Stampede for governor Allen was being arranged and others had information that general Pershing would be sprung if a deadlock is reached mean we Hole hoovers Hacker were Busy lining up he second Choice votes. Last minute confab the candidates who heretofore ap-1 Parent i votive led the race were conducting last minute pow wows the most met Tan car ceremony incident to this donning of War paint was ached i used for tonight when Hiram Johnson will address a mass meeting and his adherent will have their final rally. Caucuses of delegations were exp petted to Las until late tonight and i some May be held Omorrow morning a delegation of woman suffrage workers was visiting candidates asking them to use their influence to bring about ratification of the suffrage amendment before election Day. Old guard program the Quot old guard Quot was reported from several source to have finally decided j upon it program. Thia alleged plan was said to contemplate consolidation of All Quot regular support on gov. Frank izod in. Lff a deadlock develops and i a when can i not be put Over the reports had it j or. Nicholas Murray Butler would be the Quot old guard so second Choice. I fans for picketing the National re publican convention were completed by the militant suffragists today. They j announced that two aged women. Rev. I Olympia Brown. Racine wis., and mrs. Anna Kendall. Alabama would carry a Banner. Cabinet joins War on Congress Washington All Cabinet officers will join in the denunciation of the k publican Congress started by president Wilson t was made known her at the White House today the Wilson administration in it statements denouncing Congress a revealed tis majority strategy in the hit tile for the treaty of Versailles according to Well informed democrats Here today. This strut by is to attack the re., Publ hot Congress not Only for defeating the treat a but from every other conceivable Angle in hop of defeating As Many member As possible and bringing about a Complete congressional shake up. Three administration statements att amp crying Congress Alread it have be a issued. Berlin ballots to independents Berlin Complete returns for Berlin in the National elections showed that the independents led with a total of 459,900 votes. The majority socialists were second with 195.750. The total vote cast for Volk Partel candidates was 140,900. The remaining 255,100 votes recorded were divided among candidate of All other parties. Incomplete returns from provincial districts indicate the predictions based on the Berlin election results have been fulfil Loci throughout the country. The independents the Volk Partel and the nationalities have continued to show gains w Hile the majority social its and the democrats hive lost strength accordingly. The Buhr District was the Only locality in which the Cummuns leu scored. By e. R. Moak t h i c a go a Harmony talk j floated through the lobby of the Atlantic hotel where the Wisconsin g. O. P. Delegation is quartered today despite the War cries of Edwin Gross Milwaukee convention Delegate. While Gross was threatening dire things unless the badge a resolutions Board chairmanship was awarded him leaders in the delegation were emphatic in their statements that James Thompson. La Crosse would be Given the important Post and that Gross would be named As delegation chairman. National committeemen Alfred Rogers Madison seems satisfied that All will be peaceful when the delegation caucuses tonight. He has announced that the caucus would be open for the first time and the 16 women alternates from Wisconsin would to seated. Newspapermen Are Welcome or. Rogers added. Or Rogers will be re elected National committeeman from Wisconsin. Arrival of attorney general j. J. Blaine who will sit in the convention a a Delegate at Larga and news the. Gov. E. L. Pad up and Lieut. Gov. E f. Dithmar would arrive during the afternoon revived talk of a Deal for elimination of some governorship candidates to defeat state senator Roy Wilco for tha executive chair. The rumours want so far As to intimate that governor Philipp might get behind either blame or Dithmar if an agreement for the withdrawal of either could be reached. While governor Philipp would by to stay in Wisconsin politics in the Hope of reaching the United states Senate sooner or later it is known he would be willing to sacrifice his own ambitions to keep Wilcox out of the chair he now holds. Quot will you announce your candidacy for the governorship while in Chicago Quot or. Blaine was asked. �?�1 have never announced my candidacy for any office Quot was his Only comment. A a a a a both Wisconsin United states senators have requested their supporters to withhold their names during the presentation ceremonies. Quot limit the speech akm to those now prominent in the race Quot was the message of senator Irvine l. Lenroot to his Headquarters. Quot senator la Follette Hee asked that his name be not presented Quot said National comrett Beeman Alfred t. Rogers. However this does not mean they will not receive votes or Are eliminated As a dark the Wisconsin delegation will throw its vote to the senior senator on the first ballot and continue so until there is no Hope when they will switch to Johnson. Should Johnson not be Able to Muster enough strength the la Follette followers will cast their strength to senator Knox it is understood. A a a a a senator Robert m. La Follette in the Mayo Hospital at Rochester minn., issued Hie final instructions to his 24 delegates Here when he talked with Alfred Rogers or the Tong distance Telephone last j get. Or. Rogers Wilt keep the wires hot Between Here and Rochester to keep the senator posted on every move of the delegation and the is rious candidates and a dark Gompers fights for strike right opens labor convention in Montreal with rousing address on rights by Ralph f. Couch Montreal organized labor or determined not to give up the right to Ltd strike. President Samuel gom it Ere made Clear have today in opening the Fortieth annual convention of the american federation of ill it or. Quot oppo artion to the rights of labor nrn.-1 be re a aisle at All costs Quot thundered Lorn it ers recalling the criticisms of the use of the strike weapon by labor in the past year tyranny and repression of the liberties of the people have developed As an aftermath of the War period in the United stale and All countries Dom it a Ltd declared. Quot the american federation of 1 a compere said. A a is More out of 1 sympathy with the so called International than any other group of la j Takir men in the world a How to reduce living costs is to be the main subject before the Conven Hon which will Frame policies for the next 12 months for four million Ora nixed workers. A Dnise in program for government action in tha Price situation framed i by the executive committee was scheduled. With two weeks work before them the delegates to Tho convention j plunged into consideration of in Ema Tion i nation profiteering new legislation High a pay for Achill teachers and postal workers and score of other issues. See settlement of treaty Plank Compromise without floor fight believed at hand chairman to be named Chicago settlement of the differences Over th1 treaty Plank in the Republican platform without a fight in the open Convent is in sight. Senator Borah of Idaho Leader of the anti treaty fore said today. The settlement it now seems Cor j lain will be accomplished by stating in the Plank that the party adheres to the poll Lea of Washington arid Monro on International questions. That Wilt satisfy Borah and Johnson. Chairman Hays. Senator wat i 1 son. Senator Lodge and other leaders Are willing to include such a statement Viorah is not greatly concerned what i else is in the plunk he said so Long As it does not in any Way approve the Wilson league of nations. A close fight was on today for chairmanship of the Resolution commute and for permanent chairmanship of the convention. Hays is said to be hacking Kex senator Beveridge of Indiana for permanent chairman no state senator Ogden Mills of new York for resolutions chairman. Indiana political for hostile to senator Watson who until rec nil was conceded the resolutions chair Rno ship have put pressure on Hays i this report had it. The a attend chairman seems to j lie Between Beveridge and he Ria Tor Mccormick of Illinois a Compromise on senator Lodge As both temporary and Perm a net chairman a it Settle the matter. Badgers after and convention Indianapolis advertisers from All ports of the world were Here today j to attend the convention of the Ansu j dated advertising clubs of the i world. Nine delegates were discussed for. The presidency of the a. A. C. W. And three cities were conducting Active 1 campaigns for the 1921 meeting. The Hies were Milwaukee Atlanta and lies Moines. The presidential possibilities were i it Charles f dig Ham of London m. In. J i Reuben of. Donnelly of Chicago in i incumbent Thomas k. Wilson Ciu j Cago e. I it. Gibbs Akron j. La Fay j Idle Young. Jr., Des Moines i tul i Wiley of the new York times u. S. Senator Walter k. Edge of new Jer Joey i h. Firestone manufacturer j and William Wrigley chewing gum manufacturer. Meli cans mad Muche Esclay new York Oriental Zed risk words Ami Oriental list mow today i when 50 White men attempted to Board a River boat loaded with chinese picnickers. Water front polio aided travellers in repelling the attack and quelled a near riot. The White nun claimed relationship with the 50 White women who made the trip As guests of the 2, chinamen. 5 dead too Hurt in factory blast Akron o. Five Persona wore killed and More than inn injured today in an explosion at the i int of the Mason tire and rubber company at Kent. 12 mile from Here according to report received by local police. Washington a the United states supreme court today upheld constitutional prohibition. In a sweeping decision the court declared that the prohibition amendment to the Constitution is valid and held that the volstead Art enforcing it is constitutional. The court s action Means the volstead Law prohibiting the Sale of any beverage containing one half of on per a it it or More of alcohol must is enforced in every stale of the Union regardless of whether or not the stat has ratified the amendment. Stats Law providing higher alcoholic Content. Such As have been enacted in Wisconsin new Jersey and Rhode Island Are nullified. The decision dispels the Hope of the brewing interests that the properties could be used for the manufacture of Light Beer and wines and thua Minimise the losses due to National prohibition. The court s decree rendered after three months of Legal attacks on the Law by the liquor internet and the wet state i a Complete Victory for the Federal government and the prohibition Force. % settles big question it is so far reaching that it Settle once for All that National prohibition will Aland until the prohibition amendment is removed from the Constitution by action of three fourths of the states. All the contentions made by the most skillful lawyer of the wet were swept As de on the ground that it a legally ratified and that the state in so doing gave Congress Power to enact the volstead Law. Upholding the amendment the court stated prohibition is a valid subject for an addition to the Constitution and that such action Doe not conflict with other articles of that historic document the constitutionality of the volstead Law was based on the general principle Laid Down by chief Justice Marshall More than too years ago. That where state Laws conflict with Federal statutes th1 Federal Laws Are supreme a Blanket do. Is Ion was recorded by the court on seven counts. These were brought or appealed from six states Rhode Island. New Jersey Massachi a to Wisconsin Missouri and Kentucky. It Hod a Island and new Jersey As state instituted proceedings in the court to have the amendment lectured void and to enjoin the enforcement of the volstead Law within their limit. Geiger decision reversed the Appeal were on Cane instituted in lower court by Christian Feigen Span. A new Jersey brewing corporation George c. Dempsey a Boston liquor dealer the St let uis brewing inundation the Kentucky distilleries my warehouse co., Louisville and the Manitowoc products co. Milwaukee. The government won All hut the my. Waukee Ltd e in the lower courts and Onset Urrity today action affirms the Lud Menf in All the other below. The Milwaukee decision rendered by fed. A rat judge Geiger was reversed. In the new Jersey and Rhode Island state let ions the motion of the Federal government to dismiss the cases wer granted. The court s opinion took up All the contentions of the wet forces in detail my then declared there a no Legal foundation for them chief Justice White said he regretted the court had not seen at to outline Thi Steps which led up to its de a Ision. Ii indicated however that he was not dissenting from the opinion. He said Congress in the eighteenth amendment should have denied intoxicating liquors. Justice Vanderventer read the opinion of the court. Shot As Bandit in own office Chicago a Coroner s jury today fas to untangle the curious snarl of twist a a that led yesterday to the shooting of Charles c. Dietrich in his own office As a Bandit. Officers summoned by a watchman who saw Dietrich at his Safe late Hun Day evening tapped on the window to attract attention. Dietrich fearing a Bandit attack. Reached for the Light and fled As the officers ared. Liet Selve sergeant Lions dropped the Man with another a shot. Then the detectives Learned i the to mls in and rushed their victim to a Beni too late of save hts life fire destroys Oil resin Plant a j Kuza Heth. N. which i practically destroyed the Plant of the i National Ltd and resin company her i caused damage estimated of More than t fire spread to Plant of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Iron icon Tony causing damage there of Ai Iii oat $10,000. 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