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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
NAMES LACROSSE MAN
TO INDUSTRIAL BOARD
Reuben C.. Knutson to Succeed George
T. Hambrecht on Important State
Governing Body.
(Bv Associated press Teased wirel

tBy Associated Press Leased Wire)
Madison Reuben G. Knutson of La
Crosse was appointed member of the
industrial commission by Gov. Blaine
today, to succeed George P. Ham brecht,
whose term expires July list. The APP
pointment is for six years, at salary
of $4,000 a year Mr.. Knutson has
been intimately connected with the la
Dor movement for years, as an organ
izer and an officer of the American
Federation of Labor. He is leader
of the labor group at Lacrosse. Born
on farm in Lacrosse county, July 81,
1880, he was educated in the public
schools of that locality and has spent
his life there. Eight years ago he be-
came interested in the labor movement,
as a member of the steamftters and
plumbers union. A member of the
executive board of the state fedora
ton of labor. Mr. Knutson has attend
ed two national conventions of the
A. F. of l.. He has served as an alder
man in Lacrosse and as member of
the board of industrial education.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Two Men Drown
in Sand Lake

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Rhinelander, Wis. - William Wolf,
3S, a street car conductor of Chicago,
and Fred Fragel, 50, said to be a mem
Der of the Chicago police force, were
drowned in Sand Lake yesterday when
they were thrown from boat in which
they were riding. The two men who
were members of party of Chicago
policemen, spending their summer va
cation at Sand Lake, were fishing from
the boat when fishing line became
fast in snag. In attempting to re-
lease the line, the boat capsized, throw
ing both men into the water. The bot
tom of the lake is full of mud and the
men sank into the mud bed. Their
bodies were recovered about 20 minutes
after the drowning and effort was made
to revive them Both bodies were
shipped to Chicago, accompanied by
James Bradwell one of the party.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
LEWIS LOSES WHEN
WOMEN SHIFT VOTE
Tickle Feminine Contingent Gives
GOmpers Advantage Over Mine
Head in Campaign at Denver.
(By Associated Press Leased wire)

Denver, Colo.-The John L. Lewis
boom for the presidency of the
American Federation of Labor, today
took a slump.
Under instructions from their execu-
tive board, the delegates of the Ladies'
Garment Workers switched their Gal
votes from the mine workers presi-
dent to Samuel Gompers.
Three delegates Of the mine work
ers commanding 1896 votes were al
so reported to have deserted their
leader for Gompers.
While the Lewis supporters admitted
their own delegation would be split
they claimed sufficient votes had been
pledged by the metal trades, the rail-
road organizations, the machinists
union and the carpenter to elect their
candidate, Their lineup gave them APP
proximately twenty thousand of the
1924 votes in the convention.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
State Senator Named
for Highway Job
(By Associated Press Leased Wire

Madison-Senator A. C. Anderson of
Menomonie was appointed a member
of the state highway commission to
replace John S. Owen of Eau Claire,
today, by Gov. Blaine. John w. Salter
of Unity, Marathon county, was APP
pointed a member of the state board
of education; William Mauthe of Fond
du Lac, a member of the board of con-
Citation; and DR.. l. E. Steffen of An
tigo, a member of the state board of
health in other announcements from
the executive office Senator Anderson
has been a member of the legislature
since 1915, serving on the highway
committee and the finance committee
His term is for six years with a small
per diem salary. Mr.. Salter becomes
a member of the state board of educa-
ton for five years, to replace Charles
L. Hill of Rosendale. He has been IN
terested in educational work in Mara
thon county. Mr.. Mauthe takes the
place of A. J. Frame of Waukesha as
a member of the state board of con-
Citation for a term of three years,
with small per diem salary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
To Name Helper
for President

Washington There may be an sa-
sistant to the president of the United
States as it is under serious consider
alton by the committee on government
reorganization. This office would
probably be called an executive posi-
ton. This would leave the chief exec
utive free to devote his time to the big
affairs of the government. This would
not take away the presidents secre-
tary, position now held by George
Christian who meets the visitors,
makes the appointments and is at the
right hand of the president at all
times. The new position would be
made for a man who would keep check
on the twenty-eight executive depart
ments of the federal government.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Says Intelligence
Tags Tell Nothing

Milwaukee, Wis. Geniuses, must
clans and linguists may be only about
seven years old mentally, if you put to
them the right questions, declared DR..
William Healey, director of the Judge
Baker foundation, Boston, before the
conference of police women here to-
day. DR.. Healey referred to the pres
ent experimental stage of all mental
tests, declaring that any attempt to
classify an individual by sticking a
number on him that is supposed to
designate his exact intelligence is alb
surd.
Miss Henrietta Addition, of the In
ter-departmental social hygiene board
Washington, D. C. said that the under
world. has given delinquent girls such
a cynical outlook on life, that if po-
lice women are to be successful, they
should be trained social workers who
can combat these conditions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Sheriff s Daughter
Is Strangely HJ

A feeling of deep anxiety pervaded
the sheriff's Office this morning on ac-
count of the continuous illness of Mad
cline Rauen, the only child of Sheriff
and Mrs. William Rauen, and she was
taken to the Kenosha hospital during
the morning for an X-ray examination.
Madeline is IA years of age and she has
been strangely i'll since her graduation
from St. Thomas school week ago.
Drs. Murphy and Curtis, who have been
her, have not been able to
diagnose the case. The little girl has
been running high fever for several
days. The daughter of the sheriff was
one of the best known of the members
of the senior class at St. Thomas school
this year and it is feared that her con-
dition may be the result of overwork.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest G. Anderson, Mrs. Sarah
Wyers and BILLY" Heating Killed
When Train Strikes Car.
ALL GO TO THEIR DEATH SMILING
Members Of Happy Party Fail to See Fast Train and
Drive Directly Into the Path of 1t on Tuesday
Evening = Victims Widely Known.

Death in an awful form lurked at
the grade crossing of the Geneva road
and the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railway at Truesdell station four
miles west of Kenosha Tuesday night
just after seven o'clock when four peo-
pie were killed when a southbound
train running at a terrific rate of speed
struck Ford coupe driven by Ernest
e Anderson, well-known Kenosha con-
tractor and a few seconds later the
bodies of three people were taken from
the debris of the wrecked car more
than hundred feet south of the cross
ing and little girl just breathing her
last was picked up twenty feet far
Their south. The dead:
Ernest G. Anderson, aged 48 years,
well known carpenter and builder.
Mrs, Mary Anderson, aged 40, his
wife.
Mrs. Sarah Wyers, aged 46 years,
wife of Reiner Wyers, 902 Sixth Ave
nue., sister of Mrs. Anderson.
BILLY" Heating, aged four years,
daughter of Mr.. AID Mrs. Burrell
Heating of Chicago.
Only the little girl escaped being ir-
stantly Killed, She lived for possibly
five minutes after the terrific crash OF
the train and the automobile and died
before physician could be called to
the scene.
. no Eye Witnesses of Tragedy.
There were no eye witnesses of the
tragedy and the members of the party
carried with them to their death the
story of what happened just before the
train struck the automobile. On
porch just little ways from the cross
ing woman was sitting but when she
came into the presence of death in its
awful form she turned her head away.
II heard the terrible roar as the train
struck the automobile" she said, "and
l turned my face away. When I re-
covered myself enough to look again I
saw the wrecked automobile way down
the track and the people were hurrying
toward it. I don't know what happen
ed, heard the bell ringing and I heard
the people in the automobile talking
and laughing. They must have gone to
their death laughing and unaware of
the coming Of the train"
Bodies in Twisted Wreckage.
Roland Vikstrom, who was in house
near the scene of the accident was the
first person to reach the tangled steel
and iron which had been the automo-
bile. He found the bodies of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson's
sister twisted in the wreckage of the
car and helped remove the bodies from
the wreckage. The little girl was some
distance south. Men rushed to her and
found that she was still alive but she
could not speak. They carried her to
the side of the tracks and she gasped
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Treasurer Winds Up
Tax Sale Figures
Report Shows That Kenosha County
Got $35, $685. of the Tax Titles
at Recent Sale.

County Treasurer Tom Scott this
morning completed his report of the
recent sale of tax titles in Kenosha
county and the report shows that the
county of Kenosha took over titles to
the amount Of $35, $685. while sales to
individuals amounted to $11,656.54,
The treasurer declared that there need
be no worry about Kenosha county be-
ing forced to take over the property.
He asserted that he was convinced that
the taxes would all be paid and that
the county would collect 1870 penal
ty for it's trouble in handling the tax
es. It is declared that a number Of
the pieces of property sold at the re-
cent sale have already been redeemed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
SOUND TAPS AT GRAVE.

Former comrades of Dante Genovesi,
the Kenosha ex-soldier who was drown
ed at Camp Lake on Sunday, will act
as pallbearers on Thursday morning at
the funeral services to start at the
home at 954 JENNIE street at eight
thirty. The church services will be
held half hour later at the st. James
church with interment following in the
soldiers plot in, the Green Ridge Gene
terry where the American Legion bugle
corps will sound taps as the body is
lowered into its last resting place.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23

Mquiring Reporter
TODAY,S oIIESTInN.

Do you think Kenosha would support
company of home-talent actors to put
on current plays here? (Question sug-
gested by "A Kenosha Musician"
Thanks!)
ANSWERS:
w. B. Deering, 459 Bond ST., union
organizer think every town is inter
ested in play that its own actors are
putting on. Big plays are being put on
now in Philadelphia and Pittsburg by
local companies who get together for
a season. The houses are packed ev-
cry time, too.
Miss L. Schmitt, 429 Exchange st.,
student should think the people
here would support such project. The
high school class plays are always well
patronized and all of the home-talent
affairs are successes. But | don't think
this hot weather is the season for
plays, do you?
Albert Cook, 212 Exchange st., labor
er-I don't think very many people
right now have the money to spend
at theatres, and such things when so
many are out Of work and so hard up
for ready cash. 1t is good idea, tho.
Miss w. Cheever, 673 Elm st. hosiery
worker-Im sure would like to see
Kenosha people in play if there were
some certainty of good entertainment
and if the prices weren't too high.
That's the trouble with so many of
these kind of shows they charge too
much.
Charles Leskeski, 166 Fremont ave-
Yes, l think Kenosha would support
a home talent play. People like to
see their friends on the stage, and 1
think there is plenty of material in
Kenosha for successful casts,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
POLICEMEN GUARD
VETERAN SEA-DOG
Brass Buttons and BiIlies Protect Ad-
miral Sims from the Violence and
Insults of Hyphenates.
(By Associated Pres= Leased wire.)

(By Associated Press leased Wire)
New York City - Rear Admiral Sims
returned home today to explain to Sec
rotary DENLY remarks attributed to
him in his recent London speech on
Irish Americans. Everything was
peaceful when the veteran sea dog
landed. A thousand blue coats were
massed on the dock to preserve order
Police lines we're drawn several blocks
north and south of the pier entrance
The admiral was the first person to
step ashore. He entered an elevator
a few feet from the end of the gang
plank and descended to the main floor
of the pier where he stepped into an
automobile with Rear Admiral House
commandant of the third naval dis
trict. Thanked by police he rode away
to take the first train for Washington.
There were scarcely anyone on the
pier. From the handful of persons
who had gathered there came neither
cheers nor taunts. Among those who
met the admiral was his brother. On
the trip from quarantine, the admiral
maintained strict silence, declining to
make any statement before reporting
to the secretary of the navy. At the
station, however, there were a few
boos and cheers and one woman was
seen parading with banner bearing
the picture of jack-ass-apropos of
the reference to jack-asses reported to
have been made by Admiral Sims in
his London speech. The woman was
not troubled by the police. Admiral
Sims and his party left for Washing
ton at 11:08.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23

in the ambulances. The bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson were taken to the
Mischief morgue and those of Mrs.
Wyers and the little Heating child to
the Hansen morgue.
Eugene Sweeney, engineer in charge
of the train, declared that it would
have been impossible for him to have
prevented the accident. The automO-
bile was directly in front of him. he
declared, and there was no way to stop
the engine. One of the men about the
crossing alleged that the Anderson car
had passed another automobile which
had stopped for the crossing and that
although occupants of the other car
shouted, none of the members of the
Anderson party appeared to under
stand the warning. Fireman King and
Conductor Klumb of the train crew
aided in removing the bodies from the
wreckage of the automobile.
Relatives Ignorant of Fate.
The relatives of the members of the
Inflated party were ignorant Of the
fate of the members of the automobile
party for more than an hour after the
accident. Mr.. Wyers, his daughter,
Mrs. Lawrence Sabey, and her husband
and Elmer Anderson, son of the 9TH
er victims of the tragedy were sitting
in the door yard at the pretty home
of the Wyers family at 902 Sixth ave- ,
nue., when newspaper men brought to
them the first word of the tragedy.
There had been considerable trouble
in identifying the victims of the ira
gedy. The mangled bodies were not
recognized by any one at the scene Of
the accident, but some of the people
knew that the coupe was the property
of the contractors son, Elmer Ander-
son. The members Of the little party
at the Wyers home were overcome
with grief when they were told partial
details of the tragedy and they left at
once TO rthe morgue seeking their dead.
Mr. Anderson was building a new
home on Salem avenue and it was near !
ing completion and for the time being
(Cop4iuund IN na0o X
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Workers Favor Irish Free
dom But Not at Cost of
British Trade.
CHEER AND ,JEERS
Federation Divided when Com
Ders Rules Out Boycott
Resolution.


Denver, Colo.-After a stormy de-
bate, the American Federation of La
Dor convention today disposed of the
Irish question by adopting a resolution
trimmed of it's most drastic boy
colt provisions expressing sympathy
for the Irish cause.
Irish sympathizers supporting a res
olution calling for a boycott against
British goods were overwhelmingly de-
feated in an attempt to have the con-
vention overthrow a ruling made by
President Gompers which prevented re-
consideration of their proposal.
Have Stormy Session.
The appeal of the boycott support
ers from the ruling of President
Gompers provoked one of the stormiest
sessions in the history Of the Fedora
ton. Cheers and jeers were mingled
as the boycotters took the floor and
attacked Mr. .Gompers who had ruled
out their motion to have the boycott
declaration added to the resolution ex-
pressing sympathy for the Irish re-
public which was reported favorably
by the committee.
The action of the committee com
pleted the defeat of the supporters
of boycott which they claimed had
been drafted by "high officials of the
Irish republic"
The boycott supporters contested
every effort to bring the sympathetic
resolution to vote without it's boy
colt provisions, by raising points of
order and attempting to have the en-
tire matter referred back to the com
mittee for reconsideration.
Would Modify Volstead Act.
The convention unanimously adopt
ed a resolution urging modification of
the Volstead act to permit manufacture
and sale Of beer. Officers and the
executive council were instructed to
work for change in the law and if
this should not be successful all unions
be called on to petition Congress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
HAD DEATH PREMoNITIoN.


One of the most interesting de-
tails of the tragedy was the fact
that Mrs. Wyers appeared to have
had a premonition of her death.
"She must have feared just this,
explained her husband, Reiner Wy
ers, Tuesday evening, as sorrow
stricken he talked to a few close
friends. "0nly yesterday she at
tended funeral CT a friend in RAJ
cine. When she returned, she told
me how the minister had pointed
out that the flowers in the field
bloom one day and are dead the
nexsa She could not forget that
sentence She told & to me several
times and now her deafh has shown
how true it is. -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Thinks Wife Dead
Sues for Divorce
Andrew Matucyckie Who Served Three
Years in War Filed Suit for Abso-
lutte Divorce.

Declaring that he believes that his
wife is either dead or that she has run
away and married someone else, An
drew Matucyckie, through his attor-
neys, Buckmaster and Hammond, has
filed suit in the municipal court de-
handing an absolute divorce. The
couple were married in Russia. In his
complaint the husband declares that
he served for three years in the army
and provided for the support of his
wife and one child. He alleges that
two months after he returned from
service the wife disappeared, taking
the child with her and that he has not
been able to get any trace of either Of
them since.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Senate Authorizes
Suit Against State
(By Associated Press Leased wire)

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Madison, Wis.-The senate today
unanimously granted Attorney General
William Morgan authority to start suit
in the United States supreme court
against the state of Illinois to enjoin
them from obstructing the navigability
of waters tributary to Lake Michigan.
Attorney General Morgan said that
Immediate steps would be taken to
commence the action, which is of i'm
portance to lake ports.
The assembly this morning on re-
consideration of the vote by which
they had rejected their resolution ex-
tending authority placed the matter
on the table.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
NEW RENT LAW UNLIKELY

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Madison A new rent regulation
law to replace the statute establishing
the Milwaukee rent bureau, declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
yesterday, is unlikely at this session.
Attempt to introduce bill making APP
plication Of the law general over the
state, was beaten in the senate while
bill in the assembly has gone to re-
vision with little chance of being re-
ported out in time for action.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
Milk Depot Bill
Killed In Senate
Nv Associated Press Leased wirel

Madison - The Hanson bill permit
ing cities to operate milk depots and
take over entire distribution of milk
was defeated in the Senate today 10
to Z. The proposal passed the assem-
bly, with the understanding that its
constitutionality might be tested
should it become law. The assembly
passed the Holly bill which would pro
hibit manufacturers from assigning
territorial right to agents in Wisconsin.
Vote on this proposal was SO to II.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
AMERICA REGAINS
COVETED TROPHY
Yankee Polo Players Take Second
Match and the Series in Polo
Classic at Nottingham.
(Bv ASSOCIATED Press Leased Wire


birmingham - America today re-.
gained possession of the international
polo trophy, defeating Great Britain
in the second match, 10 to 6 and win
ming the series two matches to none.
The international match was for the
best two in three games. The Ameri-
can team woa the first game played
last Saturday by the score Of II to 4.
By today's American victory, the trophy
which the British team took home to
England as a result of its victory at
Meadowbrook in 1914, returns to the
United States. The trophy is a cup
which has been contested for since
1886. The match just concluded is the
eighth international series Of which
each nation has won four.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
REAUyAIs MAY TESTIFY.

Yonkers- Counsel for Mrs. Ann U.
Stillman, defending the divorce suit
brought by her banker husband, de-
clined today to comment on departure
of one of their number for Montreal.
They would neither confirm nor deny
a report that he would seek to bring
back Fred Beauvais, Indian guide nam
ed as correspondent to testify for
Mrs. Stillman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23

several times before death came. The
body of the little girl was not mangled
but blood trickled down the side of
her face. The body of Mr.. Anderson
was terribly mangled. The train was
stopped as soon as possible and backed
up to the scene of the accident and
members of the train crew aided in re-
moving the bodies and placing them
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
CHILD-sLAYER INSANE.
by Associated Press Leased Wirel

IBy Assoclabeu Fress LeaseI WIreJ
La Crosse, Wis. = Miss Myrtle Lar
son, of Strum, was acquitted by jury
in circuit cour tof Whitehall, Wis, of
the charge of numbering her newly
born child. found smothered in an out
house. The defense was that Miss
Larson was temporarily insane at the
time she killed the infant.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
PEGGY WILL NOT APPEAR.

Nby ASSocIateu F1rsS Leased Wire1
Chicago Hopkins Joyce will
not be compelled to leave New York
to testify in her proceedings against
James Stanley Joyce, her millionaire
husband whom she is suing for $4,000
a month temporary alimony and
100000 solicitors fees with which to
prosecute divorce. suit. Judge Sa-
bath today over-ruled a motion by at
torneys for Joyce asking that Peggy
be ordered to appear in court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
SAILORS DROWN ~ SUPERIOR.

10y Essociateu WIZ
Superior, Wis.-Two sailors Of the
steamer Angeline, Russell Macarthur,
20, Ashland, Wis, and William Hall,
20, North Crandon, Wis, we're drowned
while swimming in Superior Bay last
night. Halls body was recovered this
morning. McArthur's body has not
been located.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
ERTLE WILL REFEREE

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Jersey City, N. ]. = J. Harry Ertle
of Jersey City today was formally Sc
lected by the New Jersey state boxing
commission as referee for the Demp-
Carpenter bout July 2.