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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Madison, Wisconsin Weather generally fair today and monday cooler today. The Wiscons Friy amp Tate journal a fax t f Ira Diu a political Nev political new <4 of Madison and the state and a list of the polling places in the City sch wards will be found on Page newspaper 12. Vol. 155, no. 181. 101st year Hull ired at Jap s new China Madison sunday March 31, 1940 32 pages a a Price five cents by Hobart c. Montee Washington a a Secretary of state Hull announced sat u Day in a statement reiterating this nations condemnation of acts of aggression that the United states will not recognize the new puppet chinese government the japanese have established at banking. Hull said the complexion of the new japanese sponsored government of Wang Ching Wei appeared to be no different than that of other systems Japan has set up by armed Force in Asia. He then coupled his observation with a statement that the attitude of the i United states toward use of armed Force As an instrument of National policy to Rob Peoples of their Independence was Well known. In his Broad statement Hull inferred that the circumstances of establishing the puppet government at banking constituted another violation of International Law and existing treaties. It came at a to me when japanese diplomacy was striving to improve feelings Between the two countries made acute by United states denunciation of the 1911 Trade treaty. Hull said the United states would a of course a continue to recognize the chinese National _ g verment of Generalissimo Chi j new York a a supreme arg Kai Shek whose capital now court Justice John Mcmechan re Montgomery Ward plans two Story development new state St. Store unit dooms four buildings five firms must move in 200 Block five Madison business establishments shown Here at 215-225 stale St., will be razed starting get. I for a new two Story store for Montgomery Ward and co. The Deal involving several historic old business structures was the largest real estate transaction made in Madison for years. Judge rules Russell out of n. Y. Post is at chunking As the Only legitimate government of China. Although his statement dealt exclusively with the far Eastern situation it was Broad enough in its terms regarding the a program of one country by armed Force to impose its will upon a neighbouring country a to apply As Well to Germany s aggressions in Central Europe and Poland and to soviet Russia s aggression against Finland. Hull said the United states a has ample reason for believing that the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek at Chung King still has the allegiance and support of the chinese people. The establishment of the new Windmill theft still has officer up in the a in undersheriff Elmer Ottum confessed temporary defeat late saturday in his search for a 50-foot Windmill Tower reported Friday As missing from the Herman up voted sunday the appointment of Hoff farm it. 4. Bertrand Russell British Mathe Matician and philosopher to what he called a a chair of indecency at the College of the City of new York. A i Only found the place where it was a he said gloomily. Sometime during the past to Days Ottum Learned someone Public service worked hard and rapidly to in closed today. Gas Light rates to fall $25,919 residential and commercial electricity customers and Rural Gas customers of Madison Gas and electric co. A will receive a $25,919 yearly reduction starting with Bills rendered May i the commission Dis four state St., buildings whose bricks have been weathered in years of Madison history will Tumble next october to make Way for a huge new Montgomery Ward and co. Development culminating one of the City a biggest real estate deals. Five business establishments and a number of apartment tenants will be forced to move when the historic structures Are razed. Present occupants of the stores Are the Wisconsin sporting goods co 215 state St. The Capitol liquor store 217 state St. Burns Carmel Crisp shop 219 state St Vest inc., 223 state St., and the Arenz shoe co., 225 state St. The new store also will occupy a vacant store site formerly occupied by the sporting goods firm at 221 state St. The Deal announced by tin Mcgeehan acted at the request Bolt the Tower. A few pieces were of mrs. Jean Kay Brooklyn who,1 As a taxpayer attacked russells appointment by the Board of higher education on the grounds he was a proponent of immorality and not a citizen of this country. The Justice read four Hooks written by Russell and introduced As evidence of his alleged unfitness. Then he announced the conclusion that the appointment was a an insult to the people of the Russell had been engaged left on the ground by the thieves but the rest had vanished. Ottum said the Tower was located in a Field about a mile from the owners House and had been used to pump water for cattle. Stanley c. Hanks co., also in-1 eluded Purchase of the former Ritter automobile co. Property neither the commission nor the 222 n. Henry St., for a warehouse company could give an estimate and agriculture implement Samson the number of residences or room. Firms affected. The company filed the new rates saturday and received approval after conference with the commissions rates and research department. The department con i tended the company a 1939 report i indicated excess earnings be Pond a a fair All residential electric customers who use More than 50 kilo Watt hours a month Wall get Sav Ings under the new schedules filed because the rate on the 51st the Welcome breath of Spring to 100th kilowatt hour will be upon a neighbouring country and Ous other religious leaders and drifted about again today As Cut i cent per kilowatt hour. To Block off a Large area of the american legion and taxpayers weathermen predicted generally thus a customer using too kilo world from Normal political and groups on the ground that rus fair weather for today and Mon Watt hours a month will economic relationships with the Sells often expressed views on Day with slightly lower tempera 25 cents on his Bill companion ate marriage divorce Tures coming Down from the Northwest. To banking government he said a has teach mathematics for two seasons the appearance of a further step at $8,000 a year. The appointment in a program of one country by was attacked immediately by armed Force to impose its Wall Bishop William t. Manning Vari Spring stays around for another Day save est of the Russell speechless los Angeles a a Bertrand Russell said saturday the revocation of his appointment As an instructor at the College of the City of new York left him speechless. A this sort of strikes me Between the eyes. I done to know what to think or Madison enjoyed its warmest Dav of the year saturday when the temperature climbed to 66 degrees at 2 30 p. Rn., the serological station at the Madison municipal Airport reported. That station defined the a a cooler for today As in the 40�?Ts or 50�?Ts, but said the weather generally would 22 Allied planes downed in March Germany claims Berlin a a the German j go command announced saturday 22 enemy planes had been shot Down by the German air Force since feb. 29. Seven German j a w w a a be fair. Planes were lost during the same and sexual morality in general showers were scattered in the period the announcement said. Made him a dangerous example Aroas hut the Airport station did including those since feb. 29. For youth. Not expect thundershowers around e announcement added enemy defenders of the britishers who Chicago to drench Madison or in Anc losses total 357 since the is teaching at the University of nearby. A a it of the War. German plane California in los Angeles have thousands of Birds flocked Over c a the same period totalled pointed out he was engaged to area saturday assuring the teach mathematics not morals and hiker uppers that Spring really of the 22 enemy planes shot one of them or. Henry Seidel finally is Here. O in during the past month the Canby of the saturday review of a a an command said 12 were Brit literature said the Campaign Thev ends i amp it i and to French. In addition a against Russell represented an _ incr. Captive balloon a report emergence of nazi methods in this 0/7 c census with a 0thcyadion before Mcgeehan head still unbowed was taken after All other attempts Washington a a less to have the appointment voided than three Days before the census had failed. Mrs Kay a Mother Zero hour sen. Charles w. Tobey whose children Are or soon will saturday night ended his a Little be of College age asserted rus j Blitzkrieg against the 16th decent Sells writings proved him to be Nial population count. Of the $25,919 reduction $18.-650 will be to residential electric customers $5,090 to commercial electric customers and $2,179 to Rural Gas customers. Too the state St. Properties will be razed starting oct. I it was an j bounced by the Hanks co. A two i Story Structure with basement i having a frontage of approximate j by 124 feet will be erected. The building will extend through to Henry St. Neither Stanley c. Hanks president of the real estate firm nor Carl w. Huffman manager of the Montgomery Ward co. Store now located at 102 n. Hamilton St., would give an estimate of the amount involved in the transaction. Hanks said the building prob 1 ably will be of Brick and Stone exterior. He would Only say when questioned about details of the transaction that the property involved had been a partly leased Gist. Atty. Thomas e. Dewey new York Republican presidential Cand turned on some of his a bracket Bustin Quot pressure in a speech Here saturday aft is shown above speaking from the state Capitol Steps As mrs. Dewey and ii ii Superior and Robert Caldwell. Madison far right Dewey primary Delegate look on and listen from the background. Aunt a jew i or picture on i1 a Dewey Nye flirting with see new european Deal War the reduction i the Rural Gas and partly i he world today Washington a Secretary of state Hull announces i Nitro states refusal to re Rognile new japanese controlled chinese government. Washington tells plane builders How to Deal with foreign buyers. a German press continues to blast at a War guilty of United states. Nazis claim 22 Allied planes have been shot Down in March admit loss of seven themselves. London a first Ford of the admiralty Churchill predicts great intensification of european fighting. Paris a Western front artillery fire rises to a Thunder As experts Ponder wars Speed up. A salacious immoral aphrodisiac libidinous and Lier attorneys even hear get Russell and his family were nudists in England. This charge brought an immediate denial from Russell recuperating in los Angeles from influenza. A it is too late to Stop this in. Vasion of personal liberties a said the fiery new Hampshire Republican. A my head is bloody but with a last gesture of Defiance he announced that he himself would not cooperate that he would refuse to answer the ques Mcc Koehan took the position that tons on income and his Home the philosophical and moral Opin questions which he regards As unions expressed by his constitutional. He said he was books were enough to condemn Well aware of the penalty of Refus him on the grounds that a is a eng to answer census questions a Man think eth in his heart so is maximum of 60 Days in jail Buthe was prepared to take the risk. Ile overruled arguments of. Counsel for the Board of higher moral qualifications and that Cit education that the Board had sole i Enship was not a prerequisite to authority to pass on a teachers holding a University Job. Rates will make those rates the same As in Urban areas. The new residential electric schedule provides a 60 cent monthly fixed charge plus too kilowatt hours at 2 cent and All in excess of too kilowatt hours at i i cent each. Under the old schedule the 2 j cent rate applied on the first 150 kilowatt hours used. Lost girl 3. J found Safe near Home Breeds 111. A a Helen Louise Chenoweth 3, was found late saturday three quarters of a mile from the farm Home of her parents by Deputy sheriffs and a newspaper reporter who were part of a Plasse we hich had hunted i the girl since she disappeared thursday night. Political eyes and ears of the nation were turned and tuned on Wisconsin saturday As efforts were made to swing voters toward leading Republican presidential candidates on the eve of a significant primary. Dist. Atty. Thomas e. Dewey new York the famed a bracket busting Young prosecutor brought his Campaign into the heart of the state with Hoffman said the new building would double the present space now occupied by the Madison store. Expansion was forced be air a tvs said by increasing business. He Quot said the store would have several condition same a speech blasting the new Deal. And sen. Gerald p. Nye in. A famed for his fights against War and munitions makers made a special trip to speak Over radio station i a in support of sen. Arthur h. Vandenberg Veteran Michigan Republican. Story on Page 2 delegates to the National Republican convention for both Dewey and Vandenberg will be voted upon r political observer to mate strength leading Republican decided in that vote both Dewey and Pha sized in their speeches h that the policies of presid Roosevelt and his admin St tion Are dangerously Lead the nation to the Brink of i ropes War. Tuesday feel the of the Nye is pc new departments. Hanks said the Fred Rentschler estate owned the Wisconsin sporting goods property while the balance of the state St. Property was owned by the Christian Dick estate. A the former Ritter garage on n. Henry St., which will be in the rear of the new store was held by the Ritter estate. Hanks said. J others Hurt is car the property Deal there will not affect the present Kroger co. Store facing state and by. Johnson its. Ald. Patrick h. Barry councilman from the eighth Ward critically ill after a stroke he suffered monday night remained i the a a same condition saturday night members of the family reported. Cow killed four crashes into tree face Home problems first Dewey pleads by Lawrence h. Fitzpatrick the girl was Jovial and appeared not to be hungry. Her clothes and person were clean the sheriffs officer said. Helen Louise was asleep in a Ravine in an unused pig lot on a farm less than a mile North of the Home of her parents or. And mrs. Emmett Chenoweth. A barn was Only 300 Yards from the Ravine. The girl disclosed Little about her adventure. She thought she had been gone from Home Only since Friday night Morse said. She disappeared from her modest farm Home about 6 p. In. Thursday while her Mother and brother Emmett jr., 5, were visiting he guards his Palm even unto death bravely do struck swiftly in Madi Ine circles saturday but stood out As a hero and defended a Friend to the an unidentified female Fox ter ter was struck by an unknown truck Driver near the too Block of s. Dickinson St. The dog crawled away from the Street into a vacant lot and died. Then a Yllo Imant. 81months old Fox terrier owned by i on Erickson lit of 2109 Jenifer it., who had become Friendly with the unidentified Doc in recent weeks came Over to Viand guard a he to allow n in the accompany inc picture. So staunchly did he defend his companion that e. F. Busse Dane county humane officer had difficulty m getting hold of but finally. Busse sneaked up behind got hold of a who Imant and then was Able to take him to a veterinarian when a Shoiman Quot finally was assured his female Friend would go along too. A who Imant so Friend Wras the third i a struck by autos saturday afternoon 3y$se reported too Hoffman manager of the present Montgomery Ward and co. Store Here said saturday the new building would not be really for occupancy until after next Spring. The present stores lense on the n. Hamilton St. Building which has two More years to run will have to be paid up in full nevertheless when the change to the new building is made i said. The n. Hamilton St. Building has been occupied by the present store for to years. Or. James Jack i Structure was son member of the Jackson real i built be tweet to co., which owns the building said saturday. I or. Jackson said there were i a several deals on hand for the n. Hamilton St. Store building. Blit refused to state whether a new occupant had been found. Too managers of state St. Stores affected by the transaction were undecided saturday on new locations for their businesses although All said they had several places in mind. I. T. Midland manager of the Wisconsin sporting Good co. Store said his store had been lit de Forest a a cow w a s killed and four others injured saturday night when a Large truck driven by Marshall Dixie Janesville crashed into a tree after a front tire blew out four Miles North of Deforest on Highway 51, county police reported. Diode escaped injury. Climaxing his two Day swing through the sin with a rousing reception late saturday Thomas e. Dewey hard hitting Young Cand i Ion n presidential nomination took a final i vulnerable state. Con Vine building at 223-225 state St., now housing the Arenz shoe co. And la Vest inc., will mean the disappearance of one of the oldest buildings in the City. The lid to have been 70 and 80 years ago. The building occupied by the Wisconsin sport in goods co. Was built by the late Christian Dick in 1800. It has been known successively As the Eureka bldg. And later the varsity bldg. It was occupied for years by Gaertner and re get a tavern the a three the building later was occupied by the a. E. Smith music co. Farness furniture co. And lately by the sporting Good firm. The three Story red Brick they say today a i think every one knows that when the postal receipts Are up the business of the country is on the up x w i n postmas ter general Farley Points to a $10,000,000 gain. Rage 5. A if another blight hits the potato crop in Central Europe it probably would determine the outcome of the present g. H. Rieman reminds that Russia Poland Germany together produce 95 per cent h rungs him cities h in tin Date i spot cd to rho cd t ram left nation Fly can id a t rat in final train camping a the primaries of Wisconsin Are a Clarion rail to the people of this state to Start the movement to elect a Republican administration which will give its whole attention to our difficult and distressing problems at we Farley Leddel to w Poi a Page building adjoining was built by the 200 Block on state St. For 17 Dick in 1900. The Stone years and said he planned to re building now numbered 223-225 main in the Block should a suitable location be found. Midland said his lease has a four months notice clause carrying through july. M c. Vine Arenz shoe co. Manager due med hit Lea in a state St., was said or it have been a barn then right angles to its Prest tion. Until prohibition conducted a wholesale store at 223 state St finally to placed at it Posi in my Faie fee a or 171 cd Tim or on the inside first Section it or aril i Public opinion. Rambler. Page i Art. Mum. Book Page to. Ii political a a a. Page la radio a a. Schedules. Page is motor. Fishing new Page id second is c tion society news picture. Page la. Is. Is a sport new. Page to today and tomorrow a led do Pale thin it is i no Page a Oval. In particular at eau c a fore in audience of Gray a others and fathers his plea pc aying out of eur one a trouble Ruck a responsive Cord. A i am Dewey declared a the Only Way this country can remain genuinely Neutral is for the government to give its full attention to procuring Domestic recovers and to keep its hands wholly out of the european War and out of any negotiations that May take place Between warring nations now or at any other he thus closed the door to the 03 that when Neave dries Cory the state s Aldermani ticket a dog belonging to r. C. Porter j Soh Reed or 2150 Linden ave., was 815 Emerson St., was fatally in-1 injured in an Accident on division in red on s. Park St., and an isl. The dog was treated by a vet other dog belonging to p. J. Eru run but russe was unable to learn the identity of the dead dog whom maims n in did Irli Arf min 4 next july but mid a Ould remain at his present location until razing operation commenced. W. J. Burns operator of the Burns Carmel Crisp shop expressed a like opinion while mrs. Vera Zelof and mrs. Esther Stellhorn managers of la Vest inc., clothing store said they would not move until oct. I. 1st Ward-2nd Wardell Ward-6th Ward-8th Ward loth Ward-12th Ward-14th Ward-16th Ward ill i i Douglas a. Nelson. Ted c. Boyle. Martin p. Schneider. Harry h. Nelson. James Gorry. Of. Halsey Kraege. Luke Mcsherry. Prentice a Lewis. Harry j. Alwin. Loo q hot f in it fat it arriving in Madison for a Brief Stop from 2 55 p. In. To 5 10 p. In. Saturday. 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