FESS SAYS DEVINE MADE HIM DROP PROSECUTION OF SPORTSMEN LEAGUE MEN
Revell, Alfred
Fess Says Devine Made Him Drop Prosecution of Sportsmen League Men Warden Makes Sensational Charges Against Chief At Hearing By ALDRIC REVELL Startling charges that Barney De-vine, chief game...
...Garner, for American Legion auxiliary...
...H. G. Meigs, West Allis, were named as a committee to recommend officers for next year...
...The number of other kinds of public buildings constructed, reconstructed or improved through the use of WPA labor follows: 258 offices and administration buildings, 75 hospitals, 25 penal lnstltutloas, 61 flrehouses, 113 garages, 111 storage buildings, four armories, and 981 other public buildings not otherwise classified...
...Edward L. Parsons, California: and Miss Mary E. Woolley...
...J. E. Rueth, Milwaukee, for Wisconsin Federation of Music clubs...
...Dean said that 5,1)00 signatures are necessary to place the party on the ballot...
...The following attended the Madison meeting: Mrs...
...He said Wisconsin expected to send a delegation to the Prohibition parly national convention In Chicago May 8. The Prohibition party was removed from the ballot after the 1932 election because prohibitionists failed to poll 1 per cent of the lotal vote...
...He charged that Devine had made him drop prosecution of a couple of cases, one involving members of the Sportsmen league...
...the Rt...
...Indiana University...
...Holyoke college, vice chairmen...
...After he had convicted them...
...Miss Anna Jenkins, Madison, for Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs...
...Madison, for Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers: Miss Kohn, for Wisconsin Education association: Mrs...
...West Allis...
...Hall presented several witnesses, who worked with Fess on the commission, and pointed out that In each case these employes had to be subpoenaed because they would not testify on Fess' behalf voluntarily for fear of losing their jobs...
...he contended, "that economy measures— and they certainly are necessary—will go so far that the children will suffer and the state will eventually pay more for Its failures tli:in il now appreciates...
...auditoriums 12, gymnasiums 28, and other recreational buildings 652...
...They were discharged-Feb...
...Edward A. Ross, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, lias been elected chairman of the American Civil Liberties union, it was announced Sunday In New York city...
...He has been a member of the union's national committee for a decade...
...New York, is chairman of the board...
...Fess testified that the Sportsmen league had been seeking "to get me" because he had convicted a couple of their members for game law violations some years before...
...Both men, because of more than a score of years of service with tbe state, are now receiving pensions at half pay...
...E. O. Evans, Monroe...
...Mrs, Curtis Jacobs, Oconomowoc, Mrs...
...The author of 26 books...
...4. when he declined renomination after serving far 20 years...
...Fess also related another Incident in which a raccoon had been struck and injured by a certain individual...
...an increase of 60 per cent in 10 years...
...Fess Says Devine Made Him Drop Prosecution of Sportsmen League Men Warden Makes Sensational Charges Against Chief At Hearing By ALDRIC REVELL Startling charges that Barney De-vine, chief game warden of the conservation commission, had aided and abetted members of the Dane County Sportsmen league in their violations c2 state game laws were laid before the state board of personnel at the capitol last week...
...H. B. Nash...
...Schools account for 530 of the structures, for an average of nearly 7U per county, libraries 28...
...He then bought another raccoon and released it...
...Evans leading the discussion...
...Stewart Scrimshaw, Wau-watosa, for Wisconsin Federation of Women's dubs...
...Members of the national committee Include Dean Lloyd K. Garrison of the university law school...
...Holmes succeed Dr...
...and B. W. Huebsch, Roger N. Baldwin, Lucille B. Milner...
...Prof...
...Says Children Are Sufferers from Economy Doudna Warns That Extreme Measures Will Hurt Schools Warning that, the real sufferers from extreme economy measures will be the children of the state unless farsighted wisdom is exercised...
...Throughout Fess' testimony Atty...
...Harry F. Ward, who held the dual posts of national chairman and chairman of the board until Feb...
...Nearly half of the states high school teachers are normal school and teachers' college graduates, he said, and about 85 per cent of the elementary school teachers are graduates of the state's teacher colleges...
...These projects were in addition to the work performed on more than one-sixth of all the streets, highways, and roads of Wisconsin, and on waterfronts and conservation areas...
...Wyeth Allen, Milwaukee, for American Association of University Women...
...This number Is necessary to maintain party standing on the ballot...
...Supt...
...was published only two weeks ago...
...Warren Resh, assistant attorney general who represented the commission, asked: "Do you mean to say that an official of the conservation commission aided and abetted members of the Dane County Sportsmen league in violating the game laws...
...secretary of the state board of normal school, regents, discussed the financial situation of the teachers' colleges at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Education last we»k at the University ciub...
...Leroy Peterson and Roy T. Ragatz, of the Wisconsin Education association, and an open forum was led by Supt...
...A. C. Hough, Janesville, Mrs...
...New Age Sociology...
...Miss Almere Scott, for university extension division: Miss Elizabeth Higgins, for state department of public instruction: Mrs...
...WPA Workers Have Improved 2880 Buildings Wisconsin WPA workers have Improved 2,880 public buildings since the inception of the Works Progress administration program 4U> years ago, Philip D. Planner, state administrator, reported last week...
...Two years ago the party en I r red Its candidates In the Independent column by obtaining 1,000 signers...
...H. G. Blumcr, Monroe, were co-chairmen...
...Douglas, for Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation...
...Ross said: "I have been with the union from its beginning and glory in its record...
...In accepting the national chairmanship...
...spoke on curriculum problems of high schools, with Supt...
...Devine later categorically denied these charges, explaining that In the case of the geese, there was no proof they were wild and the federal law-provided that after four years of captivity the birds could no longer be included in the federal migratory act and the commission had no jurisdiction...
...In order to save ourselves from the clutches of the money strong, freedom of speech and of assemblage should more than ever be jealously upheld...
...Discussions on current educational legislation were offered by Dr...
...There is considerable danger...
...Jacobs, Oconomowoc, Mrs...
...The joint committee sponsored an educational conference Thursday at Monroe, for which Mrs...
...Fess Cites Cases Fess then related that in one particular case, a certain individual had some of his wild geese stolen and Fess had finally tracked down the culprits...
...former president of Mt...
...w. A. Hastings and Mrs...
...John Haynes Holmes...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, and Morris L. Ernst, New York...
...Edgar BuzzelL Delavan, Mrs...
...Ross will serve as head of the union's national committee, which act* as an advisory body to the organization's board of directors...
...Konrnd Testwulde, Sheboygan, Mrs...
...Laurence W. Hall, his attorney, made caustic and biting remarks about the inefficiency of the commission and its methods of brow-neating its employes...
...Enrollment In the nine colleges last semester was 8.100...
...George Chalterlon...
...Stanford University, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, in addition to Wisconsin...
...Fess declared he wanted to prosecute in this case but Devine advised him not to do so...
...Ross and Dr...
...Prof...
...Walter Lynn, district supervisor of the NYA, described how 15 sections of the state are providing cooperative living accommodations for youth, offering both educational opportunity and work experience through established educational institutions...
...Yes, with some of the members," Fess answered...
...R. J. Douglas...
...Free Institutions will take far more harm from muzzling them than from Seek To Place Drys On State Ballot for '40 Petitions are being circulated to place the Prohibition party on the 1940 ballot, William C. Dean, Madison, state c-hulnrv-n of the party, announced last week...
...Juda, and Mrs...
...The committee is an organization of 14 statewide groups and state agencies...
...as many believe, the preparation of teachers for the elementary schools, Doudna told the meeting...
...Prof...
...A similar conference is scheduled soon at Janesville...
...Our bill of rights Is now 150 years old and I know nothing more patriotic and American than the union's steady endeavor to see that It is not overridden or trampled upon without the facts being made known to the public...
...Ross Is Named Civil Liberties BodyChairman Dr...
...Commenting on issues of civil liberties, he said: "As we expand government...
...Miss Charlotte Kohn, Madison, extended greetings from the joint committee's officers...
...The charges were made by Edward Fess, Madison, discharged game warden, whose appeal from his ouster, along with that of John Egan, Manitowoc warden, was considered by the board...
...Charles 'Schuele, Mrs...
...Harrison Garner, Madison, and Mrs...
...The teachers' colleges will cooperate with every movement to increase efficiency and lower costs, so long as the children are assured an adequate education...
...He Is a past president of the American Sociological society...
...Conservation Director H. W. MacKenzie told him he should also prosecute the persons who bought the stolen geese...
...In this program of public building Improvement, 965 of the projects came within the category of new construction, 1,843 under reconstruction and improvement, and 72 additions...
...The Individual took the injured raccoon to a farm but it escaped...
...Prof...
...as an outgrowth of a November workshop held at Rock Prairie church, Rock county...
...Flan-ner reported that it was unlikely that any of the public buildings could have been constructed without WPA assistance...
...Devine also explained the raccoon case, asserting that injury of the animal had been unintentional and that another raccoon had been released so that where there was one before there were now two...
...He pointed to the large number of graduates who are teaching in high schools...
...His latest book...
...Ross has taught at Cornell...
...E. G. Doudna...
...The sole function of a teachers' college is not...
...Even those contending that '.social revolution to overthrow capitalism is Inevitable, should be left unmolested and their party should have its place on the official ballot...
...Fess said he had been prepared to do so but Devine made him drop the case...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
