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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Ponzi Confesses
Prison Sentence

Boston-Charles Ponzi personally
admitted today that he was the Charles
Ponsi who served a term in the peni-
tertiary at Montreal Bank Commits
sioner Allen today took charge of the
Hanover Trust company. This is the
institution in which the account of
Charles Ponzi was shown to have been
overdrawn recently.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Negro Bandit
Dies of Starvation

Pottsville, Pa.-Charles Wilson, ne
gro bandit, died of starvation in the
Schuylkill prison today after fasting
for 4S days. Wilson took his last food
on June 29th He had not spoken to
Jail attaches for days. The negro APP
peared lively yesterday and officials
believed he would be able to hold out
without food for several days, altho
he had lost considerable flesh.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
WARNS WORLD OF RED PERIL.

Washington-Poland in an official
proclamation issued at Warsaw today
has solemnly warned the world that
if she is overcome by the Russian Boil
sheviki her fall will be due not only
to "overbearingmight" but also to the
indifferences Of world because it felt
democratic,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
SIMMONS BOARD IN SESSION.

The Board Of Directors Of the SIM
mons company will be in quarterly
session at the plant on Thursday.
Heads of the company said today that
the meeting would be given over
largely to routine business. No big
projects for the extension Of the bust
ness Of the company will be announced
at the meeting. Many of the members
of the board were in Kenosha today to
be the guests of the company at the
Fairies Simmons ball game this after
{
noon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
Cox Opens Campaign
Speaking Trip Today
ny United Pressl

Dayton. Travelling as an ordinary
citizen, Governor Cox left here at
11:05 o'clock this morning on his
speaking campaign to land the presi-
dency of the United States. His first
stop will be Columbus. Following
keynote speech in that city he will 90
to Camp Perry enroute for the Atlantis
seaboards
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
CLOSE IN ON WARSAW.
AN Associated Press. !

London-Reports from Moscow say
that a continued advance along the
Bug River has been continued by the
bolsheviki, indicating that the soviet
troops are slowly but surely closing
in on Warsaw.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12
COUNTY BOARD
ORDERS INDEX
Turns Down Purchase of
TarbeH Index-Orders
Committee to Proceed.
LAUGH AT OPTIONPLAN

Turning down the proposed purchase
of the tract index prepared by Charles
A. Tarbell as not suited to the de-
mands of the county, the county board
at its meeting on Tuesday afternoon
voted without division to have the spe-
cial committee proceed at once with
the installation of tract index in the
office of the register of deeds.
1t was held that the index which had
been prepared by Mr.. Tarbell did not
meet all the demands of the county.
Experts declared that it was excellent
for the use of an abstractor but that
the county was expected to gather
some data which had not been taken
into consideration by Mr.. Tarbell in
the careful work which had been done
in his tracts.
It is expected that the committee
will at once get into touch with some
experts in the tract index line and that
work on the Kenosha county index will
be started within the next two or three
months.
Laugh at Option Plan.
Chairman Murdoch and Supervisor
Thomas S. Scott presented to the
board the request of Henry B. Kotz for
an option for the future purchase of
the county property now used for the
county Jail and the municipal court.
The members of the board were ad-
vised that the Kotz proposition pro-
vided price of $470 front foot.
Members of the board laughed; others
said that the price was not high
enough, and all of them were agreed
that it would be foolish to bind the
county to a bargain far in the future.
The matter was passed without any
action being taken by the board.
Pay Tribute to Former Members.
During the afternoon session the
board adopted resolutions paying trib-
ute to the memory of the late Isaac
T. Bishop of Somers, former chair
man of the county board and former
state senator from the district, and to
Rudolph Henschen. former member
of the board who died only few days
ago. The resolutions of respect were
unanimously adopted and ordered
placed on the permanent minutes of
the board.
The board voted that no change be
made in the location of the Office Of
the highway commissioner until after
the November session. After the usual
amount of routine business the board
adjourned to November 9Th.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12

WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12

Let the News do your PRINTING
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Longshore1nen Win Point
In Fight for Closed Shop
Judge Hand Refuses to Grant
Injunction and Dissolves
Old Restraining Order

Federal Judge Augustus N. Hand, in
the United States District Court yes
tcrday, refused to grant an injunction
against striking longshoremen and
their closed shop methods and dis
solved restraining order which had
been in existence for some time. New
York merchants by the decision lost a
point in their fight against the long
shoremen.
The ruling followed a test suit
brought by Samuel Buyer & Co., elastic
garter manufacturers of 935 Broadway
against William S. Guillan, general
agent Of the Old Dominion Transports
ton Company; Martey Lacey and Will
lam O'Neill, of the international
Brotherhood of Transfers, Chauffeurs
Stablemen and Helpers. and the Inter
national Longshoremen's Association
The suit charged the defendants with
conspiracy to violate the Federal Ship
pirg act, the Sherman antitrust laws,
the Lever act, the penal and state
criminal codes, and alleged that long
shcremen had interfered with inter
state commerce by refusing to handle
freight hauled by non-union truckmen
The restraining order had been OBJ
tuired to prevent such refusals.
Judge Hands decision was based on
arguments of the Old Dominion com
pany that the restraining order or an
injunction would ruin it's business.
The issues Of the suit have not yet
come to trial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
England Seeks Damages
For Holding Ships
w SHINCTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.- Great
Britain has initiated diplomatic con-
versations with the American govern
ment as to the liability of the United
States for expenditures necessitated
by the detention in American ports of
the seven former German line steam
ships allocated to this country for the
homeward movement of American
troops. The ships were held up by the
Shipping Board after their surrender
by the War Department, but finally
were delivered TO England.
While the ships were detained here,
British crews sent to America TO take
them over were idle in New York. A
question of demurrage charges also
is understood to be involved, as sail
ing dates for the ships on British
schedule had been announced.
No specific claim for reimbursement
has been presented, it is understood,
the negotiations having been started
for the purpose Of reaching an
amicable agreement rs to where the
responsibility for the delay rests. The
ultimate ownership of the vessels,
which include the Imperator, now
operated by the Cunard Lime, also is
understood to have been made a part
of the discussion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Southampton Residents
Stage Huge Block Party
Main Street in Gay Attire for
Frolic in Which Young
and Old Join

SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, Aug. "a
Main Street here was center Of
gaiety this afternoon when huge
block party was given. The thorough
fare was illuminated by hundreds of
colored lights and many houses were
decorated. Music was furnished by the
Camp Upton band. Irving l.. Terry,
who planned the party, was assisted by
Ralph frood, music; Henry Fordham.
refreshments; Louis Williamson, Rob
ert Cameron, Harry Willie, Abigail
Halsey, Raymond Corwth. John Hayes.
Miss Myra Burnett Frank Buring.
Harry Brown, Judge Robert r. Ken
drick, Alva Ellsworth Benjamin Bishop
and John Vorrigan. Steward Davis,
William Dunwell, Alexander Cameron
and Henry Schwenk comprised an adj
visory board
The young smart set enjoyed dane
ing and a number of the older folks of
the exclusive summer colony attended.
Proceeds of the party will 60 to the
permanent memorial fund, of which
H. II. Rogers is chairman. No one was
admitted to the blocks where the party
was held who did not submit to being
tagged. Miss Myra Burnett headed a
comittee of fifty girls who did the
tagging
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Latvian Secretary Held
Testimony To Be Reviewed by
Washington Authorities

Alfred Nagel, accredited secretary to
the Latvian Legation at Washington,
who is being held at Ellis Island be-
cause of objections raised by the State
Department to his landing, was told
yesterday that he must await the for
malities of having his testimony re-
viewed by Washington authorities be-
fore he will be permitted to return
home.
Naeel, who was promptly recalled by
his government when it became known
that he would be Objectionable to Sec
rotary of State Colby, expressed a de-
sire to engage passage back to Riga
thus avoiding the humiliation of being
dcported. His request was denied.
Agents of the Department of Justice
went TO the Swedish liner Drottning-
holm, at Fiftyffth Street, North River
and examined three trunks belonging
to Nagel.
The examination was made in the
presence of John Kalnin. the Latvian
Consul in this port. The contents OF
the trunks were not molested except
for the removal of package of papers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
David Kessler's Daughter
Contests His 5000 Will
Undue Influence Over Former
Theatrical Man Charged;
Widow Estimates Estosa

Notice of contest over will which
is said to dispose of 5000 was filed in
the Surrogatcs' Court yesterday. The
tcstator of the disputed instrument
was David Kessler, who for many years
was one Of the leading playwrights and
theater managers Of the East Side.
Mrs. Ida Heine, daughter, is the con-
tcstant.
In the hey-dey of his popularity with
the Yiddish theater-going public Mr..
Kessler possessed q comfortable for
tune. He suffered business reverses,
but he never changed his will or added
q codicil so as to make it conform to
his reduced circumstances When it
was filed for probate it was found that
the viii left the entire estate to his
wife to be used for the education of
his daughters, Sylvia and Natalie
Mrs. Heinc bases her contest on al
legations of fraud and undue influence
used on her father in inducing him to
make the will filed for probate by Mrs.
kessler. If the widows estimate of the
value of the estate is correct there will
net be sufficient to pay the legal ex-
pCnses of the contest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Professor C. ]. Heede
Will Be Buried To-day
Funeral Services Held for the
Founder of the Brooklyn
AuuarirIm SOciefv

Funeral services for Professor Chris
tian Julius Heede. known information
ally as an authority on rish and foun-
der of the Brooklyn Aquarium Society
who died Sunday night from heart dis
ease at the home Of his daughter Mrs
Anna Myers, 1856 South Elliott Place
Brooklyn, were held at the home last
night. Burial will be in Evergreens
Cemetery to-day.
Professor Heede was sixty eight
years old. He was born in Denmark
and came to this country twenty-five
years ago. Fourteen years ago he
founded the Brooklyn Aquarium. He
had devoted much of his time during
the last several years to the breeding
of rare tropical and Far Eastern fishes
Importing the spawn for his private
katchway at his daughters home. Il
IVES proud boast with him that he had
gwen away hundreds of rare specimens
OF fish and never sold one.
Besides breeding rare fishes Pro
fessor Heede was in the mason con
tracing business, with Offices at Sc
Gold Street Manhattan.
Two daughters, Mrs. Anna Myers. Of
the Brooklyn Red Cross Ambulance
Corps, and Mrs Olga Zundt, also 81
Brooklyn, and n son, Albert, living II
Ec, mark, survive him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
George V Sues Local Firm

Through his solicitors, White & Case.
Ia Wall Street, King George Of England
yesterday entered suit in equity in the
United States District Court against
Manning, Maxwell G. Moore. Inc, 119
West Fortieth Street, to compel an &C
counting by the defendant company
for alleged fraudulerx claims paid
them by the Remington Arms Com
pany.
The complaint sets forth that in
August, 1916, the British government
entered into two agreements with the
Remington Arms Company for the de-
livery of 100000 Enfield rifles, equip
ped with bayonets and scabbards. Prior
to that ime, it alleges, Manning, Max
we'll & Moore had been commissioned
to purchase certain materials to be
used in the manufacture of the arms
at Eddystone.
Fraudulent claims for these mate
rails. it alleges, were paid the defend
ant by the arms company and these
claims afterward honored by the Brit
ish government in effecting settlement
for the rifles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Passenger Air Service
From Newport Is Started
Big Plane VIII Take First So.
cieiy Party to Southampton,
To-day for Tourney


NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 24.-Newport
is now one of the terminal points OF
an aero express. A twelve passenger
hydro airplanc arrived yesterday and
began its passenger service to-day. 1t
will run between Newport, Narragan-
sett Pier, Southampton and New York.
Tomorrow 4 party, including Mrs. Vim
cent Aston, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Russell,
Dr.. Thomas A. lie Breton, the Argentine
Ambassador. and the secretary of the
embassy, Dr. Felipe A. Espil, will 20
to Southampton to witness the tennis
matches. They will return here dur
ing the afternoon.
There were two parties for young
people of the summer colony to-day.
Mrs. Robert Grosvenor entertained at
Robert Gould Shaw entertained at Gull
rock in honor OF her sons.
Mrs. Royal P. Carroll gave a dinner
this evening. and Mrs. William Fahne-
stock and Mrs. Robert T. Strawbridge
were luncheon hostesses to-day.
The Argentine Ambassador, DR.. LIE
Breton, gave a luncheon at Hill Top Inn
to-day for twenty friends.
Miss Edith Woodward and Miss
Laura Biddlc have reached the finals
in the girls tennis tournament at the
Casino and probably will play the
match for the championship morrow
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dudley Kenna
and Kerens Kenna have returned to
months absence.
Mrs. Stuart Duncan has gone to Can
ada for a brief visit.
Miss Martha Maynard and Mrs. c. L.
Miller, of New York, are at Hill Top
Inn on their way to Boston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
1.-the Cat Step
Will Take Place
OF Wiggggle Dances
Stately Camel Walk Among
Innovations; ID anci n 9
Masters Protest Church
Ban OH Woman Member

"Ladies and gentlemen, kindly take
partners for the cat step!"
Having banned everything at the
opening session on Monday which pos
sessed the slightest semblance of a
shimmie or wiggle, the members of
the National Association of Masters OF
Dancing in convention at the Hotel
Aston yesterday afternoon were led
through the intricate steps Of num-
Der of eXpurgated dances. Despite
all the ruthless censoring there re-
mains, however, the slightest sug-
gestion Of the terrible jazz in their
turns.
1T is impossible to get sway from
this" Arthur Kretlow. who did the
leading, admitted before the session
began.
The cat step, terpsichorean creation
of Mr.. Kretlow. will be known in the
ball rooms of the nation during the
coming season as the polonaise mo-
derne. Mr. Kretlow also exhibited q
dance, originally called the camel
walk, which in it's revised form will
masquerade as the fox trot artistiuue
This dance consists of numbJt
of steps. something after the fashion
of the paille step of the modern ballet
Other Innovations Of the ballroom
were the triangle onc-stcp, which is
modern version of the old French
dance which was known as the valse-
quatre temps, and the Clique waltz
which is a dance with the movements
of skating introduced.
At the morning session the executive
committee passed resolutions resenting
the opposition of the Methodist Church
to dancing, particularly as shown in
the action of the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church Of Wichita, Kan, in OK
pelling Miss E. L. Shaw, a mem
Der of the association, from the church
because she was a teacher of ball
room steps.
Miss Shaw was formerly the super
intendent of the primary department of
the Sunday school of the Grace NJ F.
Church of Wichita. In good standing,
she took a letter from the Grace
Church and applied for affilation with
the First M. L. Church. Miss Shaw
said that she was denied membership
and the reason given was the fact
that she conducted a dancing school.
Mrs. John Francis Yawger, general
secretary of the New York Federation
Of Women's Clubs, addressed the after
noon session.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
BOY Goes on Vacation With One Leg and viii
Come Back With T,vo

Tho Fund sent out ITS vacationists
yesterday. 1t sends twenty to-day, and
tomorrow will send 326 more.
Fifteen Of those who began vacations
yesterday were mothers accompanied
by broods of children of various sizes.
Ordinarily, the fund does not provide
outings for mothers, but confines its
efforts to caring for children.
Those who went yesterday were
taken by the Fund because in all New
York no other fresh air organization
could be found which had places for
them. They are all mothers of large
families and need a chance to rest. At
The Tribune camps where thew now
are they will be relieved of care of
all their children except babies in
arms, yet they will be where they can
watch over them and be sure that thew
are safe and happy.
One of the Tribune Funds proteges
went to the country three weeks ago
with one leg and is coming back a
week hence with two. NATURALLY. the
second leg will be an artificial one.
Nevertheless, the lad will bring back
almost enough additional flesh and
blood to make leg of his size, for he
has gained six and one-half pounds
during his three weeks and ought to
acquire at least two more in the week
remaining.
The story of how this boy and his
two sisters came in for four weeks of
vacation each instead of the usual
fortnight shows the sort of heart
which dwclls in a Fresh Air hosts
breast.
When the children went to CASTLE,
n. Y, their vacation place, to DR..
Mary Greene, their vacation host they
were booked for fortnight stay The
day before they were to board the
train for home, their mother was dis
possessed and there was no home for
them to come back to. The Fund
learned this fact and telegraphed DR..
Greene, asking if she could manage
to keep the three children another two
weeks until the mother could prepare
a place for them. She wired in reply
that she could and would-and she is
doing so. Incidentally, all three of the
children in question are cripples as is
the fourth child of the same mother,
who remained at home.
The method by which Louis is to get
his new leg is described in a letter
from Dr.. Greene:
The three children are doing
nicely. Louis has gained six and half
pounds. | think we may have benefit
concert next week to help pay for Il
leg-when he can have it,
HE has already banked SO for it of
money he has earned here
"Ihey can stay the two weeks more,
making the whole vacation here four
weeks.
Louis is old enough to 60 home
with the girls all right Each one has
a small bank account"
This Fresh Air host believes in self
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
Ex-Daug lnter-in-Law
Of Mayor Gaynor' in
Divorce Suit Again
Mrs. Nelson Cammans. For
s11er Mrs. Rufus Gaynor,
Answers Husbands Action
by Asking Separation

Mrs. Mary Gammans, once the wife Of
Rufus Caynor, son Of the late Mayor
William j. Caynor lied a suit in the
Supreme Court yesterday for a separa-
ton from her third husband, Nelson
Gammans, a lawyer, VINO is now in
Porto Rico, suing his wife for divorce.
Mrs. Gammans is thirty-two years
old and her husband is twenty eight.
Each charges the other with abandon
mert, while Mr.. Gammans adds to his
complaint that his wife treated him in
a cruel and inhuman manner. Mrs.
Gammans says that in the two years he
lived apart from her. Mr. Gammans
failed to provide for her.
Mr. Gammans is connected with the
law firm of Rounds, Hatch, Dillingham;
& Debevoise. He left here for San
Juan, Porto Rico, on June 26. In his
suit for divorce, he asks the custody
of Constance, his wfe's daughter by
her first marriage, whom Mr. Gammans
has adopted
Mrs. Gammans, then Mrs. May
Giufire, was married TO Gammans
February s, 1911. Gammans was nine
teen years old and Harvard sophie
more. This was followed by strong
objections from the young mans fam
lily, who criticized the Rev. Dr.. Duncan
Mcmillan, pastor of the New York
Presbyterian Church, for performing
the ceremony. Mrs. George Garden
Gammans, mother of Mr.. Gammans
and Ebert II. Gammans jr., his uncle
threatened proceedings to have the
marriage annulled on the ground that
the bridegroom was not of age. Moth
ing came Of these objections, however
Mrs Gammans obtained divorce
from her first husband on the ground
OF desertion. Then she married Rufus
Gaynor. This union was annullcd on
the ground that Mrs. Giuffrie had not
obtained her decree OF divorce dissolv-
il G her first marriaCe