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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
SENATE PASSES
MATHESON Bill,
BUCK VOTES "AYE''
Prohibition Enforcement
Bill Passed by Upper
House Today.
All Features Of Original Bill
Retained in Form that Will
Go to the Governor.

10y Associated PfeSS Leased W1rel
Madison-The Matheson prohibition
enforcement bill was finally passed by
the senate this morning without change
except as suggested by the Anti
Saloon League. 1t was Immediately
messaged to the assembly for concur
renee in the Cook amendment striking
out the section dealing with evidence.
Action of the upper house in pass
ing the bill 20 to IL means the end of
amy possible fight that might have de-
veloped over the original Matheson
measure. All features, including the
100000 appropriation u n n m u S y
agreed to by the finance committee,
are contained in the bill as it will go
to the governor.
Governor Blaine will sign the bill,
when it comes to him, either at the
END Of this week or early next week,
Eaccording to his advisors. He is of
the opinion that the will of the legis-
lature on the prohibition question
SHOULD be accepted by him.
Prohibition enforcement in Wiscon-
sin will Immediately be extended with
the tlnal enactment of the MatheSon
bill into law, Prohibition Commissioner
Smith has said. 1t is expected that
seven new deputies will be added to
the commissioners force and regula-
lions established for putting provisions
Of the measure into force.
Buck for Enforcement.
The roll call on the Matheson bill
follows:
Ayes-Anderson Bennett, Bird, Buck,
Clark, Dennhardt, Huber, Kuckuk,
LANCE, Nye, Olson, Peterson, Ridgway,
Roethe, Severson, Skogmo, Smith, Stau-
denmayer, Titus, Werden-20.
Noes-Arnold, Bentley, Boyer, Bit
grien, Burke, Czerwinski, Hirsch, Jen-
nings, Kleist, Morris, Mulberger-11
Absent and not voting-Moran and
Conant-2.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
JUDGE Lands DENIES
THAT HE RESIGNED
Chicago Jurist Just Wanted to Buy
Some of Chairs in His Court Room
for Keep Sakes.
lRv Associated Press Leased Wire

my ASSOclaCeQ HIeSS Leased wire.
Chicago - Judge Kenesaw M. Lam
dis in a formal statement today le-
MED reports that he had resigned from
the federal bench to devote his time
to his position as baseball commission
er. His statement said:
81 have not resigned, nor have !
said anything that could have been
construed into statement that I
have resigned
The action Monday Of the Senate
judiciary committee in indorsiflg
Senator Dial's bill making it an of
Tense for federal judge to accept an
other position of pecuniary profit while
on the bench had again aroused ru-
mors that the judge was to relinquish
his federal position.
Judge Lands refused to say, how
ever, whether he was thinking of re-
signing at some future date. He said
the present rumor about his resignation
probably had arisen through conversa-
tions he had with Charles Nagel, Gus
todian of the federal building.
81 told him that when l left this
court / wished to take some of the
chairs with me, as they were cherished
by me. They belong to the govern
ment and | asked him if | could pur-
chase them"
Judge Lands would not say why he
had refused recently to set any cases
beyond June Is, fact which caused
reports that he would resign in near
future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
GERMANY MAKING
NO new OFFER
Official Statement Says that No State
ment Has Been Sent Out
from Berlin.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
London - A German official dispatch
from Berlin today says there is no
foundation for the report that Ger
many has made new PREPARATIONS of
fer to the Allies The German cabi-
net met this forenoon to discuss
developments at London. Just how
long the Fehrenbach cabinet will con-
tinue in Office is believed to depend
on the nature of the ultimatum being
sent to Berlin by the Allies and the
attitude assumed by the Reichstag.
Foreign Minister Simons and his
colleagues had hoped Secretary Hugh
es' answer to the German note would
be trife more precise in indicating
the American Interpretation of Clear,
definite and adequate proposals.. To
this extent the American answer left
the cabinet in a confused state Of
mind.
eve would have welcomed most
heartily any positive suggestion from
Washington and would have been equal
ly anxious to carry it out" said one
cabinet official. "The present reply
however, is doubly negative in that
it fails to give US even a cue or sug-
gestion as to how our counter pro
posals might have been amended or
wrought into a suitable instrument
for fresh negotiations"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
GRAND JUROR WAS
A BEER CUSTOMER
Work of Federal Grand Jury Attacked
as Result of Disclosure Made
This Morning.

Milwaukee - A member of the fed
eral grand jury which is investigating
the manufacture and sale of beer of
illegal strength in the eastern district
of Wisconsin is one of those to whom
the Port Washington Brewing COM
pany is said to have sold beer. He is
William SCHNEIDER, Port Washington
saloon keeper.
This statement was made in the pc
tition of H. A. Sawyer, United States
district attorney, which resulted in the
granting by Judge Geiger of tenn
porary injunction closing the brew
cry.
Mr.. SCHNEIDER today confirmed the
statement that he had bought the beer.
The attention of District Attorney
was called to the fact that Mr.. Schmid-
Ter had said that he was the William
SCHNEIDER of Port Washington who
was on the grand jury and that he had
bought the beer, and he asked what
effect this would have on the pro-
ceedings of the grand jury.
District Attorney Defiant.
'Mr. SCHNEIDER did not say that he
was on the grand jury when this case
was being considered" was the reply.
"Then he was not in the grand jury
room while consideration of this case
was on?"
"That is something that | can't dis
cuss the district attorney said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Dalton Jury
Fails to Agree

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
, Chicago.-The jury in the case Of
William Dalton, 16-year-old bank CLERK
who stole $772,OOO worth of Liberty
bonds from the Northern Trust com
pany recently, disagreed and was dis
charged today after it had deliberated
almost "a hours. About half of the
jurors were understood to have favor
ed acquittal of the self confessed boy
bond thief, while the others favored
conviction. The state immediately
moved for new trial and Judge Nc
Donald announced he would set the
date later Dalton's theft was one of
the largest bond robberies on record
and attracted much attention. At his
trial, Dalton said that he was "sur-
rounded by bonds" and could not re-
sist the temptation to steal because it
was $50 easy" He took a package
containing $772,o00 in bonds with him
when he went to lunch one day. He
was caught later in Heyworth, III.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
KEIVOSHAN HAS
PIECE OF ROPE
Someone Sends Kenoshan a
Piece of Rope Used by
Mob in Lynching.
JUST AS A SOUVENIR

A gruesome souvenir reached a
this morning when he received in the
mails a small piece of rope with the
explanation that it was part of a
hangman's moose used by mob in
Bowling Green, Missouri, in lynch
ing in that city. The Kenoshan, while
he knows many people in the Missouri
city, is at loss to know who could
have sent him the gruesome souvenir
of the "necktie party"
Along with the rope came paper
telling the Kenoshan, who because
of the peculiar circumstances, has
asked that his name be withheld, the
story of the lynching.
Occurred on Last Friday.
The account of the lynching told how
the mob had overpowered a sheriff's
party as they were taking Roy Ham
mond, nineteen year old negro to
the penitentiary for an ATTEMPTED at
tao kon a fourteen year old girl. The
mob lead the prisoner to a tree a mile
west of the railroad station where he
was hanged, despite the pleadings of
the sheriff and members of his force
that justice be allowed to take its
course.
The girl had been seized while she
she was returning from theatre and
the assailant had fled to be recaptured
when the father and brother of the
girl were attracted by her screams.
Doesn't Want Souvenir.
"Of course, don't want the souve-
mir" explained The kenosha profess
sional man this morning. 81 can't
imagine why it would ever be sent to
me. l know that it is interesting, but
an affair like that is disgraceful as
we'll and don't care to have the least
bit to do with it."
He Immediately discarded the small
piece of rope which had been sent to
him from the Missouri city as a SOU
venir of the lnyching and said he
would try to dismiss the affair entirely
from his mind.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
WON'T RECONSIDER
DAHL BILL ACTION
State SOlons Fight Shy of Taking
Further Action on Big Tax
Measure Today.
(By Associated Press Leased Wirel

L
Madison-Th legislature again this
morning showed its intention of de-
ferring final action on tax matters I'M
til the extent of appropriations in
creases for the coming biennium can
be determined. They have decided to
make the joint finance committee a
clearing house on revenue measures by
keeping the bills alive until their mer-
its can be threshed out in committee
The assembly refused to reconsider
the vote by which it engrossed the
Dahl income tax bill, increasing in
come taxes to $17,OO00OO annually, by
removing the personal property offset
and establishing new rates. On vote
of 35 to 46, it sent the measure to the
finance committee.
Senator Nye told the upper house
that his committee hoped to be able to
keep appropriations within the esti-
mated income of the state, under the
present tax rate. He informed the
senators that there might be no need
for passage of any of the proposed
tax measures.
Division arose over consideration of
the Severson bill repeating the secrecy
clause of the income tax law, which
finally resulted in adoption of sub
stitute amendment by the senate. The
substitute introduced by Senator Bird,
was said by him to conform to the
Republican platform pledges.
AS engrossed by vote of IA to Is
the Severson bill will require that all
corporations file returns on their earn
ings and dividends with the tax COM
mission, but strikes out the provision
which would permit the commission
to publish the income tax returns of
individuals.
The assembly got itself into fight
over the income tax secrecy clause by
adopting an amendment of Assembly
man Dahl to the Holly bill requiring
the industrial commission to publish
returns of incomes and statistics.
The measure as amended was killed
by vote of 43 to 40.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Main Street and Milwau-
kee Avenue Men Seek
Decorative Lights.
FAYORS ''CLUSTERS"
Petition to Council Will Ask In
stallation of Lights from
South st. to Union Park.

A wonderful new white way" is be-
ing planned for the city of Kenosha
and it was announced this morning
that property owners all along Main
street and Milwaukee avenue from
Pearl street clear up to the north side
park were being asked to sign a petit
tion to the common council asking that
a decorative system of street lighting
be installed on this portion Of Main
street and Milwaukee avenue. The
movement to have the new white
way" is being strongly urged by some
of the leading merchants ION Milwau-
kee avenue and it is declared that
many of the property owners have de-
clared their willingness to sign the
petition. 1t is expected that the petit
ton will reach the city council at its
next regular meeting in order to have
the underground work in connection
done before the work of repaving Main
street and the other streets is started
Promoters of the plan want uniform
system adopted to extend all the way
from the corner of South and Main
streets to the Union Park on Milwau-
kee avenue
Petition for Cluster Lights.
The petition will ask that the coun-
Gil order the installation of the type
of lights known as Cluster lights"
These lights have been very popular
in many of the cities of Wisconsin and
Illinois and it is admitted that they
are of a more decorative type than the
lights now in use for the special light
ing system on the downtown streets.
At the time the present lights were
put in, the clusters were suggested,
but the committee in charge of the in
stallation after long consideration of
the matter decided on the adoption of
the present system of lighting. With
the white way" constructed according
to the suggestions made by the pro-
motors of the plan, Kenosha would
have one of the longest decorative
lighted streets in the state, as the
decorative lights would be put in for
distance of more than half mile.
Property Owners to Pay.
The suggestion of the petitioners is
that the new lighting system be in
stalled under the same plan which now
prevails for the downtown system with
the understanding that the majority
of the cost of the maintenance of the
lights would be paid by the property
owners. Under the present plan the
city pays about the same amount as
would be required to light the streets
with the arc lamps.
Officials of the city today declared
that the petition would receive favor
able consideration from the council if
it contained majority of the prop
erty frontage along the streets in
question.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Silesian Insurrection
Spreading Rapidly
(By Associated Press Leased Wire)

Warsaw.-The insurrectionary move
ment in Upper Silesia spread rapidly
in the districts of Beuthen, Pless, Ryb-
mix and Tarnowitz. According to the
newspapers, Polish civilian fighting
organization occupied Kattowitz and
other towns after machine gun en-
counters with the Germans, but French
troops finally controlled the situation.
Newspapers last night reported eight
Poles killed and is wounded in the
Kattowitz region in clashes with the
Germans, in which the Poles attempted
to gain control of the districts border
ing on the Polish frontier. For a time
the Poles were in power in these dis
tricts but the inter-allied commission
interviewed and quiet was eventually
restored
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
'ALLS SUICIDE
A CONSPIRATOR
tepson Of Leopold Witt
Says He Was Defrauded
Out of Property.
WRITES COUNTY CLERK
an Out in Grants Pass, Ore
gon, Says He Is Owner Of
KenOsha Property.

Charging conspiracy on the part
Kenosha people to defraud his eli
t, Herman Kibel, out of property
shtfully belong to him, H. A. Van
Ike, lawyer at Grants Pass, Ore,
sent letter to County Clerk c. L.
)lderness asking that he be furnished
tn all information possible in regard
the estate of Leopold Witt, an old
an who committed suicide in Keno
a several months ago. The attorney
aims that property held by Witt,
hich is alleged to have been trans
rred by a will, was properly the
operty of Herman Kibel, who was
lie stepson of the old man. There has
cen considerable suggested litigation
YER the estate of Witt which under
is will was turned over to Otto Blox-
OFF.
Charges Irregular Transfer.
Van Dyke in his complaint to the
unity clerk declares that the mother
f Kibel married Witt with a direct
greement that property which she
wned at the time of her marriage
hould be transferred to her son, Her
ian Kibel He asserts that at the
ime Mrs, Kibel married Witt she had
wned residence in Kenosha and that
addition to this she had consider
BILE personal property Kibel is de-
Jared to be a man Of excellent repu-
alton and it is said that at the time
the marriage of his mother to Witt
e was informed that an agreement
as made that Witt should have life
Sc Of the residence in Kenosha with
he understanding that it would be
transferred to Kibel on his death.
Otto BloXdorf was named as the sole
ieir to the property left by Witt, but
he petition for the probate of the will
i'd not show the existence of any real
state as part Of the estate.
The county clerk made an investiga-
ion int othe case after the receipt of
he letter from Van Dyke and he found
hat the property in question was sold
" Leopold Witt to Warren French in
l914. The deed to the property was
'egularly recorded in the office of the
egister of deeds on April End of that
wear and no question has ever been
raised as to the sufficiency of the deed.
il is not charged by Van Dyke that any
Of the Kenosha people connected with
the transfer with the exception of Witt
had any knowledge of the ante nuptial
agreement made between Witt and
Mrs. Kibel at the time of their mar
riage. A search of the records fails to
show any trace of the agreement be-
ing recorded.
The property in question is worth
several thousand dollars and it is sup
posed that a portion of the money was
in the keeping of Witt when he died
and made up the personal estate named
in his will. 1t is expected that Kibel
viii come to Kenosha to see to secure
&c possession of the property later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Reduce Wages in
Printing Craft
fBv Associated Press Leased Wire,

Chicago The arbitration board
hose decision effects some $4,000
members Of the printing trades in
Chicago today announced a reduction
Of S4.35 per week for each of the four
major crafts.
The compositors were reduced to
S46.65 per week; pressmen reduced to
S47.65< per week; feeders reduced to
1885 per week and book binders were
reduced to $42.15 per week
This scale applies specifically to a
week Of 48 hours.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05

mQuiring Reporter
TODAY,S QUESTION:
Do you think the grand jury will
remedy Kenosha's lawlessness?

remedy Kenosha's lawlessness?
ANSWERS:
William H. Purnell, 1853 Park Row,
cashier am glad to hear that they
are to have a grand jury in Kenosha
to investigate conditions here SO that
we may see whether conditions here
are such as we are led to believe by the
newspapers. | also think that the
grand jury has more facilities with
which to carry on an investigation
than the district attorney has.
Frank Scholer, Main ST., shoe mer-
chant-The grand jury is what Keno
sha has wanted for long time. And
now that we have it or will have it,
hope they do their full duty and ev-
erything they are expected to do. Only
in that way can they make Kenosha a
"clean" city
Horace ]. Mellum, 1888 Prairie ave..
attorney-If the investigation carried
on by the grand jury is thorough and
far-reaching and if it does not spare
any official or clique of officials, there
is hope that Kenosha will soon be rid
of it's present deplorable conditions.
am very much in favor of the call
ing of the grand jury and have i'm
plicit faith in their ability to ferret
out all those who are not in keeping
with the law.
Mrs. H. Johnson, Market st., dress
designer suppose so. Grand juries
as rule are very effective. That's
what they are for. am in favor of
going through with the investigation to
its end regardless of cost. For 1 am
sure the county would benefit consid-
erably from it.
Harry Few, A. B. c. boarding house,
machinist.-I wonder why the judge
didn't call the grand jury long time
ago. There is one liquor case that 1
know of that has already been drop
ped, but l am sure would never have
gotten through the grand jury if it
had been done right and strictly above
board. There is nothing like putting
Kenosha back in pure light again
after it's reputation of the past year or
so,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
BLAINE HEARS DIETz PLEA.
tBy Associated Press Leased Wire)

Tby AssOcIaIeu FTess Leas11 wiz
Madison.-The pardon application Of
John Dietz, Defender Of Cameron
Dam" was to come up for hearing be-
fore Gov. John ]. Blaine late this af-
ternoon. It is expected that it may be
several days before Gov. Blaine will
reach a decision. Dietz was sentenced
to life Imprisonment at Wausau May
IS, 1911, following conviction for the
killing of Oscar Hart, member of the
sheriff's posse who came to arraSt him
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Senate Disposes of
Movie Censorship

Madison Moving picture censor
ship by board of review established
under the industrial commission, failed
to receive the approval of the senate
this morning, when it killed the Ben
net bill q to 4. The measure had
been recommended for indefinite post
ponement unanimously by the state af-
fairs committee. Louis E. Gettle was
confirmed by the senate as a member
of the railroad commission without OPP
position. His term is for six years
at salary Of $4,000 annually.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Ask President to
Call Conference

Washington = An impending fight
in the Senate against the adminnistra-
tons desire to defer consideration of
naval disarmament proposals was
forecast today by the re-introduction
by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
of his resolution to authorize and
request" the president to call repre-
sentatives of Great Britain and ia
pan into a disarmament conference.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
MISS sELFRIDGE A BRIDE

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
London = Violet Selfridge, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Gordon Selfridge,
formerly of Chicago, was married to
Vice Comte Jacques de Sibor, son of
Comte de Sibour of Chateau du Sol
lier, France, in Brompton oratory here
this afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Moro Leaders
Fall in Battle
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)

by Associated Press Leased Wirel
Manila ~ Ninety Morros, including
Maharjah Untong, a religious fanatic
leader, were killed Sunday by datch-
ment of Philippine constabulary in an
engagement near Taglibi on the island
of Sulu, some 500 miles from here, ac-
cording to advices received today at
constabulary headquarters here.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
COmrade Gives Blood
to Save C. A. r. Man
by Associated Press Leased Wire,

GAINESVILLE, Wis. Samuel Clarke
Burnham, Civil war veteran, aged "A,
and clerk of the board Of education for
25 years is recovering from a danger
Gus illness following TRANSMISSION of
blood from the veins of comrade of
the civil war, w. H. Chesbrough of
Beloit, aged rs. Mr.. Chesbrough suf-
fered no Inconvenience or difficulty fol-
lowing his loss Of quart of blood in
jected into the viens of his old com
rade and terminate of Sc years be-
fore.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Austria to Turn
Factories Over
by United pressl

ashington.-Austria foiled in her
attempt to get out of chancery via the
receivership route, now proposes to
turn over industries to foreign com
panies if they will come in and run
them, consular report to the depart
ment of commerce revealed today The
Vienna government has decreed that
Austrian corporations may transfer
their entire business to foreign com
panies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Burlington Woman
Burned to Death

Racine, Wis. - Mrs. Walter F. Uebe-
lie, as, was burned to death at her
home in Burlington late yesterday as
the result Of a gasoline explosion
The residence was destroyed by the
fire which followed. Mrs. Uebele was
using gasoline to clean some clothing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
Resume Hearings
in StilIman Case

10y AssOCIaCsu FTess Leaseu Wlre.J
New York City.-James A. StilIman,
who yesterday resigned the presidency
of the National City Bank, today re-
sumed, in the first of series of secret
hearings, his fight for divorce from
Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. It was said at
the outset of the hearing today, which
is being held before Referee Daniel j.
Gleason, that the presentation of evil
dence would require at least days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-05
DELINQUENTs PAVING UP.

County Treasurer Tom Scott reports
that more than S27 800 Of the delia-
quent real estate taxes have been paid
during the month of April and the
first days of May.