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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Asks for an Army
to Build Balfouria
Bernard Rosenblatt Sounds Call for
Volunteers to Raise Homes in
Jewish Homeland.
fBy Associated Press. J

Jerusalem-Ten thousand volunteers,
chosen from veterans of the world war,
the Jewish Legion and skilled work
men, to enlist at once for eighteen
months service in Jewish industrial
army in Palestine, are necessary for
the basic reconstruction work Of the
Jewish National Homeland, according
to Bernard A. Rosenblatt, president
Of the American Aian Commonwealth,
who is now in Palestine in the inter
ests of "Balfouria," the colony of the
American Zion Commonwealth.
Mr.. Rosenblatt recommends a regu-
lar army organization with general
staff of three which, as a Jewish In
dustrial Commission, will supervise the
work of the Jewish and labor army in
rebuilding the Holy Land.
"Our biggest task, once the call is
issued for volunteers, will be in sift-
ing out the applicants and determin-
ing upon the 10000 to co. he said.
"They could all be occupied in the one
task Of building houses for future inn
migrations. The army should work
only on land belonging to the Jewish
nation, lands secured from the Pales-
tine government, from the Jewish Ma
tional Fund, the American Zion Com
monwealth or other agencies of the
Zionist organization"
In addition to the construction of
houses, he points out that such an
army would be busted in preparing
land for immediate settlement, irri-
cation, afforestration, sanitation and
engineering works necessary for the
development Of industry and commerce.
"The nucleus for such an industrial
army is already in Palestine in the CO.
operative groups, working on the lands
of the Jewish National Fund and in
the group that is developing Bal
fouria, the first colony of the Ameri-
can Zion Commonwealth" he conelud-
ed, Il am convinced after two visits
to Palestine that only through such
a huge disciplined Jewish labor army,
will we be able to reconquer the land
of our forefathers."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12

be issued by the district attorney on
his return from Milwaukee.
Rain Halted SchoIey Raids.
John S. Scholey, constable from the
third ward, had planned to make a
visit to several of the resorts of the
county on Saturday night and had
plans to have the aid of local deputies
but the raids were delayed on account
of the conditions of the roads. Scholey
has declared that he is willing to let up
on his raiding work if the govern
ment officials will take charge of
these places and have them declared
nuisances and closed.
State Enforcement Officer Bloodgood
was in conference with the district at
torney on Saturday. He declared that
little was to be gained by spasmodic
raids on the places and he asserted
that he had plenty of evidence to
show that liquor was being sold at
these resorts.
These fellows will pay the fine as
sessed and go right ahead selling
liquor" declared Bloogood, "and the
only way to make and final clean
up is to have the places declared a
nuisance and clamp down the lid on
them so it will stay clamped"
Fisher in Complete Accord.
The district attorney declared that
he was in complete accord with the
ideas of the state and federal officials
and that he was now concerned mostly
in the methods to be followed in get
ting action. "What we want is to put
an end to these complaints against GER
tain places in the county," said the
district attorney. "There is no doubt
but that they are violating the law
and we have evidence of it. We have
fined them for gambling operations and
some of them for selling liquor and
we want to make clean up of it this
time. We are not DESTROYS of having
these continued complaints against
people in Kenosha county"
1t is expected that some formal ac-
ton will be taken in court on Tuesday
or that the matter will be taken into
the United States court in Milwaukee
during the week
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Here s Real Dope
on Communication

The Communication tickets, traditional
in Kenosha, are going to be hit just
the same as other passenger rates by
the new order of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the changes
planned have been made public by the
heads of the railways. Frenzied buy
ers Of Communication tickets who have
laid in supply since the new rates
were announced, are destined to dis
appointment. The tickets will be good
only until August goth at which time
they will be recalled and the unused
portions paid for at the rate at which
they were purchased. Monthly tickets
for August will be good for the re-
mainder of the month and ten ride
tickets will be honored for their stated
period provided they were purchased
before the first of August. All such
tickets bought after August 1st will
be good only until the Goth and then
they can be cashed in at the value Of
purchase, for unused portions
Round trip excursion tickets sold at
the old rate previous to August Goth
will be honored for the return trip and
this is about the only concession made
to the excursionists. The new rates
for Pullman fares will go into effect
promptly and they will not be changed
under any circumstances.
1t is said that the new rate for the
Communication tickets, regardless of the
nature of these tickets, will show an
increase of fifteen per cent over the
prevailing rates.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Five Gamblers
Fined i'm Court

The gambling squad Of the. Kenosha
police department is in action again
and as result of raid made on
Sunday afternoon on a place over on
North Main street five men were ar
raigned before Judge Taylor in the
municipal court this morning charged
with violations of the gambling laws.
Michael Hovrzwick charged with being
the keeper of the place, paid fine of
a hundred dollars and the costs Of the
action and fines of ten dollars and
costs each were assessed against Alois
Hyden, Clarence Latin, Joseph Zabon
and H. Bloom, who were alleged to
have been inmates of the place. All of
the men entererd pleas Of guilty"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Runaway Team
Causes Excitement

Residents along West Division street
had an exciting few minutes on Sat
urday afternoon just after two o'clock
when. team of horses driven by a
farmer from the town of Somers and
hitched to light wagon, ran away.
One of the wheels of the wagon broke
and the horses became excited. The
farmer could not KEEP them under con-
troll and the horses dragged the wagon
for several yards and across the Divi-
sion street crossing of the North
Western railroad. One Of the occu-
pants of the wagon, daughter Of the
farmer, was thrown from the wagon
and was painfully but not seriously
bruised. The horses were Quoted
finally after they had torn down Divi-
sion street for some distance. The
farmer and his daughter refused to
give out their names for publication.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
SOLDIER DIES
FROM WOUND
Charles WiIburn, Former
Soldier, Dies This Morn
ing After Long Illness.
THROWN FROM HORSE

Another name was added to Keno
sha's list of honored dead from the
great war this morning when Charles
Wilburn, formerly member of Com
pany G., 150th Infantry, died at the
home of E. F. Markham, 816 Sheridan
road, from an illness developed from
an injury received while in the service
of Old Glory. While in training at
Camp Macarthur, the deceased was
thrown from a cavalry horse and suf
fered injuries to his spine from which
he had never entirely recovered.
Sunday he was apparently in as good
health as he had been since he re-
turned from the service. This morn
ing just before six o'clock he was TAX
en- with commissions and died short
time later. The attending physician
said that his death was caused by the
injury which he received while at
Camp Macarthur.
Volunteered for Service.
Young WiIburn, when the war broke
out, volunteered for service. He en-
listed at Paramount, West Virginia, on
July 81, 1917, in the National Guard
of that state and was sent to a south
ern training camp He was an exem-
plary soldier, according to the ranking
on his honorable discharge papers, and
was discharged because of his injuries
in March, 1918.
For many months after his dis
charge firm the service he was inca
pacitated for any work whatever and
had been eligible and granted compen-
sation for his disabilities. He had
lived in Kenosha for several months
and had made many friends here. He
had been employed at several factories
here, having been last an inspector at
the G. NJ. Hall Lamp company, where
he worked last week.
Parents in Pennsylvania.
The deceased had been reticent
about telling of his past to his friends
in Kenosha and little is known regard
ing his family. He is known to have
parents somewhere in Pennsylvania
and to have brother, Albert Wilburn
in Lorain, Ohio.
EHOTL were DGlIIS Adu0 CIllS mOTH-
ing to get into communication with
his family and it is probable that the
remains will be shipped to Pennsyl-
vania for burial later in the week.
In Kenosha, Charles Wilburn was q
m member of the local post of the Amer
lean Legion and had taken an active
part in its activities. He was also a
member of the Kenosha lodge of
Moose.
A Scholar and Musician.
Friends of the dead soldier declared
this morning that he had been both a
scholar and a musician.> In the time
which he had lived in Kenosha he had
studied a great deal, having taken adj
vantage of the vocational training law
passed by the federal government. He
was the author of the words for
song "Ohio is Best of ALL" which he
published with E. S. Huntington, the
composer of the music. This song, it
is said, had been very popular in sew
eral army units and copyright privil-
eyes had been secured for it.
The Kenosha post of the American
Legion will probably have charge Of
the arrangem ents for the funeral serv-
ices which will be held here before the
remains are sent to the east for inter-
ment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
American "Reds'
Work for Soviets
(By Associated Press.l

New York-Alexander Berkman and
Emma Goldman, two of the radicals
deported on the famous soviet ark,
"Buford," are now serving the Rus
sian soviet in official capacities, ac-
cording to the word sent here 10
friends of the latter in a letter from
Petrograd. Both of the former Ameri-
cans are now touring Russia as mem
bers of a commission which is to
gather data for an historical account
of the soviet revolution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Irish Planned to
Play Politics

London "The Evening Standard"
claims it has documentary evidence
that the Sim Fem conference author
lied cannon de Valera, president of
the Irish Republic, to expend $780,
900 in connection with the coming
presidential campaign in the United
States of America. Tt is also said
that an expenditure of 100000 was
authorized to secure the recognition
of Irish independence by France and
the United States.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Lure of LimehOuse
Gets White Girls
London officers Wrestle With Prob
lem of Saving White Women from
Yellow and Black Lovers.


Londoa4 London magistrates are per-
picked over the. problem of young girls
infatuated with the yellow and black
men who have their residence around
Limehouse.
Miss Lee, property owner and the
guide, philosopher and friend of her
Chinese tenants, says that in her ex-
perience the Cinnamon, while they GER
taiRly do regard the wife as chattle,
are not cruel to her and quite num-
Der of them are exceedingly chival-
rous. "The men, she said, "do not go
out Of this district to look for the
women. The women come here"
A woman missionary, after convers-
ing with some Of the young and pretty
girls who have taken up permanent
residence in Limehouse, says that in
her opinion most of them go among
the cOlored men in. search of adventure
after reading sensational literature or
seeing Chinese films. A few Of these
girls are of an educated and refined
type. and many of them pretty.
There are many white wives in
Chinatown" she said. Heaps more
today than in times past. One girl
brings another. They are attracted
by the strangeness and unfamiliar
quality of the Oriental. The Chinese
giev no trouble, but the black men do.
They have no such ideas Of chivalry
as the Cinnamon have"
Recently at the Thames police court,
Magistrate Cairns, said this extraor-
binary infatuation was the greatest
problem he had to deal with.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Street Car HurIs
Woman to Death
fBy Associated 90

Marinette, Wis.--Mrs. Joseph Benoit,
aged 65, was killed Sunday evening
when she was run down BY street
car on the Pierce avenue line. She
had accompanied friend to the car
line and walked across the rails in
front Of an approaching car which
threw her about so feet and killed her
instantly. Whether she failed to hear
the car or just why she should have
walked into the Path of the rapidly
approaching car, is unfamothable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
LINER
TO STOP HERE
Art Hickox Brings Word
that City Will Be, Sta
ton on Airline.
MEETING THIS EVENING

"Kenosha will be regular stop on
the Lawson air line between Mime
apolis and Chicago"
This was the positive statement
brought to Kenosha today by Art
Hickox, formerly with the Curtis com
pany in Buffalo but now an official of
the Lawson concern at Milwaukee. He
is here arranging an air station for
the liner as well as informing local
stockholders Of the company's success
and prospects. A meeting of Kenosha
investors and others interested in COM
mercial aeronautics will be held in his
Offices at 265 Main street at eight o.
clock this evening.
"Kenosha is decidedly on the map of
the Lawson line," he said today. ct
have just come from a conference with
Mr.. Lawson himself and can say posi-
lively that station will be located in
this city"
New Liner a Winner.
Mr.. Hickox, who is nationally famous
as an airman, is enthusiastic about the
new Lawson liner now nearing com
pletion in Milwaukee. He insists that
its launching will mark an epoch in
the history of commercial aeronautics
because it will inaugurate passenger
air service in the United States.
The giant plane, as he describes it,
is "bona fde" in every respect. A
thirty passenger ship, it has triple
motor engine with a fuel capacity of
1900 gallons, 1000 for supply and 1000
for reserve. It's berths suggest the
luxury and comfort of Pullman car
and are equipped with every safety
device known to modern aviation. It
will be ready to "take the air" by Sep
TENDER 10th, when it will embark on a
demonstration tour over the middle
west and the Berkshires enroute to
"lil' OF Manhattan"
Kenosha On Virgin Voyage.
Kenosha will be included, Mr.. Hick-
OK says, on the itinerary of the maiden
voyage of the liner. Starting from
Milwaukee, the plane with its party of
notables will fly to Chicago via this
city. From there it will continue to
Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester,
Syracuse, Albany and New York.
In the three cities last named spe-
cial receptions will be rendered to Mr..
Hickox, who is as widely known there
as Babe" Ruth is in Boston or most
anywhere on the diamond circuits.
In discussing the liners prospects
today the aviator invited not only the
stockholders in the company but all
persons financially interested in null
tiple passenger planes to be present
at this evenings meeting in his offices
on Main street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
WAGE-AWARDs FOR ExPREssMEN
(Iiv tinted Press !

~ GTfIe0 PreSSst
Chicago The Railway Labor Board
announced today that wage awards for
10000 American Railway Express en-
ployees would be made public Tuesday.
They have been decided upon by the
Board since its action of similar ma
ture with regard to railway employees.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
GERMAN WARsHIps HERE

New York-Five former German
warshins were off port today. They
will be docked in the Hudson River
for two days where they may be Wis
tied by the public. They will then be
taken to other Atlantic ports to be
shown before they are DESTROYED in
keeping with the terms Of the treaty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Strikers Ready to
Return to Work
(By Associated press J

Denver - The executive committee
of the tramway workers union APP
pointed a committee of three members
today to call on Fred w. Hid, presi-
dent Of the street railway system here
and inform him that the strikers were
ready to return to work without any
restrictions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Bolsheviks Busy
Establishing Soviets
fRy Associated Pressl

London Bolsheviki military au
thorities are establishing soviets in all
parts of eastern Galicia which has
fallen into their hands according to
the reports reaching here today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Bulgarian Treaty
Becomes Effective
nv Associated Pressl

Paris-The peace treaty with Bull
garia was made formally effective by
the exchange on ratification among the
powers party to the pact, which oc-
CURED today. The treaty was signed
at Neuilly, November 81, 1919, and
was ratified by the Bulgarian Sobranje
January IL of this year. Frances
ratification of the treaty was com
pleted by the favorable action of her
Senate, July 81.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12

Boston.-An Involuntary petition in
bankruptcy was filed today against
Charles Ponzi in the federal court by
Charles Cantwell, James Fernald and
Harry Farrell, who hold notes against
the defendant for more than $3.50.
Bank Commissioner J. c. Allen today
ordered the Hanover Trust company
to pay no more checks oh Ponzi or his
agents.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Many Week End Motor Car
Mishaps Reported to City
and County Officials.
MANY CARS WRECKED
Frank Palmer and Members of
His Family Have Close Call
on Wilmot Road.

The call Of the "open road" about
Kenosha was beset with a lot of dan
gers on Saturday afternoon and Sunday
and the usual number of motor car
accident were reported to the city and
county officials this morning.
The most serious accident of the
weekend took place on the Wilmot
road at a culvert just east of the road
leading to Bristol where motor cars
belonging to Frank Palmer, Prairie
avenue, and George Falls, Garden
street, were wrecked in collision.
Mr.. Palmer and the members of his
family, five in number, were driving
west to attend picnic at one of the
lakes and the Falls ear, driven by
William Fogarty and containing five
men, was coming east. There was a
narrow road at the culvert and Fogarty
in an effort to avoid striking the steel
rail of the culvert banged into the
Palmer car. Fortunately no one was
seriously injured in the accident, but
Mr.. Palmer was badly cut on the chin
by flying glass. The two automobiles
were badly damaged and they were
towed to local garages Sunday night.
# was said that efforts were being
made to settle the matter out of
courts and no arrests were made in
connection with the collision.
Ignatz Pluto, 1873 North Lyman
avenue and five of his men friends,
had narrowing experience just after
midnight Sunday morning when the
Ford automobile in which they were
driving "went dead" on the tracks Of
the Chicago, North Shore and MiIwau-
kee road at the Birch crossing north
west of the city. The men leaped out
of the car just in time to save them
selves as a minute later car on the
electric line struck the automobile and
reduced it to kindling wood. The
wreckage of the car was found by
Deputy Sheriff Frank Chiapetta early
Sunday morning and he reported the
case to the local officials. A consid-
cradle blood was found about the place
where the collision took place and the
officials declared that they believed
the motoman of the electric car
had been cut. No report of any seri-
GUS injury to him was made.
Little Girl Injured.
Josephine Andes, a little girl who
was member of an automobile party
in car driven by Paul Mako, 709
JENNIE street, was badly bruised and
cut when the automobile col1ided with
an automobile driven by Harold Erick-
son at the crossing of the Burlington
and Rowland avenue roads on Sunday
Five other members of
the Mako party escaped uninjured.
Erickson was arrested on charge
of reckless driving.
A big Mitchell touring car, said to
belong to a Racine man, turned turtle
out on the west end of the Wilmot
road on Sunday afternoon and one
woman passenger in the car was
slightly cut about the head and face.
The names of the driver of the car
and the passengers were not secured
and it was said that the accident was
not serious one.
Two automobiles of the Medinah
Motor club squad mixed on South
Sheridan road Sunday morning with
the net result of one of the cars. going
into the ditch with broken tenders.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
MANITowoc HAS 1853.

Washington The city Of Manitowoc
Wisconsin, has population Of 1868
according to the report issued by the
census bureau today. This is an in
crease of 4,536 over the population of
1910, the increase being 34.85 per cent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
COOP. COMPANY
FOR BASSETT
Non Partisan League Plan
Is Followed by Farmers
in Organizing Co.
HAS CAPITAL OF $4,000

The cooperative buying and selling
company which has been the keystone
on which the non partisan, leage has
grown to affluence and influence, made
its first showing in Kenosha county
today when state charter for the
organization of the Bassett Farm Pro-
duce company was filed for record in
the office of the register of deeds. The
company is formed by number Of
men residing in the farming districts
about the village of Bassett station
and that village is named as the head
quarters of the company. The or
ganizers of the company are Ferd
Jahns, A. C. Stoxen, William Kline,
Ben H. Lohaus and Charles Rasch.
Several of these men have been very
prominent in the non-partisan league
organization in Kenosha county and
A. C. Stoxen is the candidate Of the
organization for member Of the assem-
bly, in the county. It is declared that
the organization at Bassett Station
is the first of series to be organized
and that later on similar organizations
are to be formed at all of the prin-
cipal shipping points of the county.
Efforts are now under way for the
of similar company at
the village of Woodwork.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Follows League Plan.

1t is declared that the cooperative
companies will closely follow the plan
worked out by the league members in
North Dakota. 1t is certain that the
development will be watched with I'M
usual interest among the farmers of
the county. The Bassett company is
incorporated with capital stock of
eight thousand dollars and its state
charter gives it wide powers in the
mercantile business. 1t has power to
both buy and sell farm products, farm
machinery, real estate and everything
that enters into modern merchandising
business. The stock of the company is
divided into three hundred and twenty
shares of par value of twenty-five
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Rain Halted Scholey Raids.

be issued by the district attorney on
his return from Milwaukee.