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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
FIGHT RETURNS
TO AID BLIND
Relayed Reports to be Read
at Athletic CarnivaIS
in KenOsha.
THE MAYOR APPROVES

Observation-Disclosures of the Carpen-
tier-Dempsey fight July End, relayed to
Kenosha, Racine, Oshkosh, Marinette,
Superior, Wausau, Green Bay, Madison,
Appleton and Sheboygan, at athletic
festivals in these cities, have been ar
ranged for in the interest of the cam
paign for vocational school here, for
the more than 1000 blind adults in the
state, Judge A. c. Backus announced.
The Badger State Advancement AS
ISOLATION OF the Blind aims to raise
Immediately the $4,000 necessary to
complete payment on the home for vo-
cational training here, a school where
adult blind of Wisconsin will be taught
trades.
The mayors of the above cities have
approved of the festivals which will
be here simultaneously, and other
cities are expected to join in the pro-
ject. The festivals will include ball
game and will be followed by the read
ing of the returns. Skilled boxers will
re-enact the fight in New Jersey as an
added interest.
Endowment for Blind of State.
The endowment of the Lighthouse"
"a school where the adult blind Of
Wisconsin will be taught trades-has
been approved by a committee of the
Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
The proceeds from funds donated
are for the conversion of the Nugent
sanatorium of Wauwatosa into home
and trade school for the blind, where
the inmates will be taught basket max
ing rug weaving and other trades. Vo-
cational training for the blind of Wis
consin will include baby carriage max
ing, carpentry, piano tuning, massage,
typewriting and dictaphone operation.
It is estimated that there are more
than 1000 blind persons in the state
Although 1879 of these have become
blind after their Goth birthday, the
few schools for the blind which the
state maintains are open only to the
children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
BLACKHANDERS ASK
$4,000 FROM BANKER
Suspect Reaching for Cash Eludes
Sheboygan Police Despite
Bullets
fBy Associated Press Leased Wire. J

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Sheboygan - Black hand letters de-
handing $4,000 on a local banker and
threatening his life unless the money
was deposited at a certain point, led
to some exciting scenes here, when
police, secreted at a nearby point, dis
covered hand protruding through the
fence in search of the package sup
posed to contain $4,000 and fired two
shots when the man refused to halt
at the command of Lieut. Charles Ries.
The banker was ordered to leave the
package inside the fence near the plant
of the Badger State Tanning company.
The police were on hand at the appoint
ed hour. By an ingenious arrangement
of gates the officers found themselves
locked in and unable to take up the
prompt pursuit when the hand reached
through the fence for the package and
the man fed.
Over the signature, 81, 9, 8, 4, of
them" the warning to the banker or
dered him to deposit the money or the
signers would be sorry for him."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
JUNIOR COLLEGE BILL
KILLED BY ASSEMBLY
Bill for Five Junior Colleges in Wis
consin Loses in the Assembly
This Morning.

Madison.-The Nye junior college
bill, calling for establishment Of two
year college course in five high schools
of the state, was killed in the assem-
bly, today. The measure had gone
through the senate without serious OPP
position. This action of the lower
house means that Racine, Oshkosh,
Superior, Lacrosse and Milwaukee,
where junior colleges were suggested,
will have to wait at least another two
years before being authorized to ex
tend training in higher education. Sup
port has been given the proposal by
educators of the state as an advance
in educational development, extending
opportunities for college training to a
greater number of students. It was
also suggested as q means of relieving
the university. The assembly spent its
morning largely in killing senate bills.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Samuel Berse is a
Victim of PneunnOni,
man Wen known to People in Bras
vile Neighborhood Dies After
Short Illness.

Samuel Berse, aged as years, an
widely known to the people in II
Evansville neighborhood, died at h.
room at the corner of Elizabeth stree
and Fremont avenue, at an early hon
tins morning. He had been i'll wi.
pneumonia for only a few days. IT
man has a sister living at Aurora. m
and brother living somewhere !
Wisconsin, and an effort is being ma
to locate them before arranreman,
for the funeral are made. Berse We
employed as saloon porter and b
was taken with a cold several days arr
lie improved and he decided to retur
to work and proceeded to scrub foo7
IN his bare feet. An hour later he wa
taken with pneumonia.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
CALL THIRTY SECOND
FOR PEACE REUNION
Great Gathering of Rainbow Division
to be Held in Detroit in the
Month of August.
Especial Correspondence

Detroit, Mich. = A call for a ma
tlonal peace reunion was issued today
to call veterans of the 32nd Division
OF the American army in the World
War to be held in Detroit, August Is,
20 and 80 this year, under city aus
pices.
The Detroit city council has extend
ed an invitation to the 32nd Division
Veteran association to hold the reunion
there, and arrangements for the gath
erlng are now announced by a Detroit
citizens committee which organized on
request of the mayor for the purpose
of promoting the reunion and repre-
senting the municipality and the com
munity as host. National and inter
national figures will be invited as
guests.
The citizens executive committee
with Governor Alex Grosbeck of Mich
igan as honorary chairman, Mayor
James Couzens of Detroit, as honorary
vice president, JEFF B. Webb as general
chairman and Major Dan ". Smith as
chairman of the Detroit advisory and
finance committee, has planned three
days crowded with festivities, memoir
lal and celebration. Ten thousand men
are expected to attend All railways
have granted special rates for Red
Arrows and their nearest relatives.
On Sunday, August 28th a division
memorial ceremony, with Major Gen
eral William G. Ham presiding, will be
held in the Detroit Armory at which
time representative of the French
government will decorate the colors
of one of the regiments of the division
for conspicuous galantry during the
capture of Juyigny, one of the strong
holds of the Germans just prior to the
Argonne offensive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
THOUSANDS WATCH
CHILDREN IN DRILL
Five Thousand KenOsha School Children Take
Part in Great Field Meet at Simmons
Field Friday Afternoon.
WONDROUS PICTURES in COLOR
WONDROUS PICTURES
Children Of Every Grade Of the Schools Have Part in
Year = Weather Handicap
Making Day One Of Wonder Days of School

The money realized from the field day
will either be placed at the disposal of
Kenosha is doing in the line Of ply
steal education.
A delegation representing the De-
partment of Physical Education of the
Racine public schools were interested
spectators. A similar field meet is to be
held at Racine next Friday afternoon
the Department of Education or will be
placed to the credit of the school
board. Chairman Rahr had as his as
sistants on the committe H. Velaske,
Curtis Strange, Mrs. Natalie MacKen-
zie and Miss Jane Davenport. The
transportation committee consisted of
j. M. Phelan, chairman, Louis 7. Rahr,
Miss Maude Shelton, Miss Emma Bris-
ter, Miss Heating and Mrs. Mackenzie
The Junior High school competition
was led by J. R. Redstrom, assisted by
Curtis Strange, G. w. Guetzlowe, R. H.
Heinz, Nathan Bruce and the Misses
Bernice Hughes, Mayme Parent, Mild
red Jackson, Lena Hansen, Isabelle
King, Doris Gillian, Eillean Haensgen
and Catherine Novack A group of
high school students chosen from the
high school track team and the Girls
Athletic association acted as clerks,
with George Werner as head clerk.
Gibson Gratified With Results.
Thomas r. Gibson, head of the De-
partment Of Physical Education, and
director of the meet. was all smiles
at the end of the meet. He was
extremely gratified with the results
of the days work.
81 want you to thank for me-" he
told News reporter, "the many par
ents and friends of these children for
their patronage and their trust and
belief in us for the safe conduct of
their children. | also want to thank
the many school teachers for their I'M
stinted cooperation and the commit
tees to whom all of the success is do.
We gratefully and sincerely appreciate
the work Of all those public-spirited
citizens who placed their cars and
trucks at our disposal for the trans
porting of the children from their
homes to the field and return. The re-
suits of this meet are such that hope
it will be repeated in the future as an
all-day frolic for the children. This
experiment has shown conclusively that
the children of the city appreciate our
efforts to bring them up as good citi-
zens and it should not be our last"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
SOUND TAPS FOR
CIVIL WAR VET
Philip Drissel, Prominent
Resident, Died on Fri
day Afternoon.
SAW LONG SERVICE

Philip Drissel, aged seventy-eight
years, pioneer resident of Kenosha
county and Wisconsin and one of the
best known of the survivors of the
Union Army in Kenosha, died at the
Kenosha hospital just after three
o'clock Friday afternoon following a
long illness. He had been in feeble
health for number of years and an
attack of erysipelas had taken him to
the hospital some time ago. Members
of his family were with him when
he died
Mr.. Drissel was native of Germany.
He was born in August Of 1912 and he
came with his parents to Milwaukee
county when he was three years of
age. He came to Kenosha county in
his young manhood and for many years
resided on farm on the town line
between Somers and Paris.
Had Long War Record.
Mr.. Drissel enlisted in the Union
Army in 1861 as a member of the
Thirty-frst Wisconsin Infantry and he
served practically during the entire war
seeing service in many of the hardest
fought battles Of the war. He had
been q leader among the members of
the Grand Army in recent years. He
spent most of his life on the farm in
the county, but fifteen years ago he
retired from active work and came to
Kenosha to make his home Mrs. Dris-
sci died three years ago. A family of
five daughters and four sons survive
the father. The daughters are: Mrs.
Lena Vollman, Kenosha; Mrs. Maggie
Sphr, Chicago; Mrs. Clara Shelton,
Los Angeles, Cal; Mrs. Mary Thelen,
Kenosha; and Mrs. Lizzie Thirst, Kan
sas City, Mo. The sons, Jacob Drissel
Of Paris; John, Frank and Nicholas
Drissel of Kenosha.
The funeral services will be held
from St. George church at nine o'clock
Monday morning and the remains will
be inferred in the family plot at St.
George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
MAN PERFECT IN
ARMY BRAIN TEST
University Student, Forty-Two Years
Old. Scores 212 Points, Sur
passing All Records.
(By Associated Press)

Seattle, Wash Michael Nolan, AZ
year old University of Washington
engineering student, was characterized
by university authorities on Friday as
Zone Of the twenty-five most brilliant
minds in the United States" follow
ing his feat in making perfect score
PIP points-in the army alpha"
intelligence test.
Nolan required only thirteen of the
seventeen minutes allowed in which
to complete the test. His feat was
unequalled, so far as is known here,
by any of the approximately 100000
service men who took the test dur
ing the war.
DR.. E. R. Guthrie, professor Of psy-
chology at the university, said the best
previous record of 2O7 points in seven
teen minutes was made by a Yale
university profession while an officer
in the army, The highest score known
to have been made by any university
student was 206. The average for the
army was 1876.
Nolan's education prior to entering
the university last year was confined
to seven grades in an Irish grammar
school He had been lumber jack.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09

to spend the night in their cars or
abandon them and wade through sew
eral feet of water to farm houses.
The Big Thompson river went on a
rampage as the result of q cloudburst
in Estes Park and another in the Big
Thompson canyon between Loveland
and Estes Park. The Colorado and
Southern bridge over the river was
washed out and the Lincoln highway
bridge over the English irrigation
ditch near Loveland also washed away.
Several pedestrians in Longmont were
marooned in the main streets of the
town when more than two feet of
water filled the streets after two big
irrigation bitches had broken.
More than dozen washouts occurred
on the Denver & Interurban Railroad
between Denver and Boulder and on
the Colorado & Southern line into Wy
oming. Service on both roads was
suspended. Train service over the
Denver & Rio Grande and Santa F6
annulled this morning.
H. C. Hayden, Associated Press OPP
orator at Pueblo, turned reporter when
the Associated Press leased wire fail
ed last night and filed the first story
from the scene 'of the Puebla disaster
to the Denver bureau of the Associated
Press early this morning,
Pueblo Is Hard Hit.
Pueblo, Colo. - National guardsmen
patrolled Pueblo early today, permit
ting no one to enter the section of the
city flooded by waters from the Arkan-
sas river while several firers, started
by lighting are burning in several parts
of the city.
The food followed severe storm in
the mountains accompanied by several
cloud bursts which made the river and
all creeks in the vicinity raging tor
rents.
Telegraph and telephone communica-
ton was lost last night when the flood
filled many Of the business houses to
a depth of six feet.
Eighteen families were reported res
cued from the lowlands and one wo-
man reported her husband had been
sweep AO4lt GAG S4SAG III CllG ASOu Wa
ters while attempting to escape.
Several firers broke out early in the
evening and big fire broke out about
midnight in the central part of the
city. No attempt at fighting,the flames
could be made but rainfall probably
prevented more serious results.
The Pueblo Star Journal, afternoon
daily newspaper had four feet of wa
ter on the first floor, according to a
printer who waded his way about.
The flooded district included the
railroad yards and station, traction,
gas and electric light plants.
Heavy loss from the foods also was
reported from Florence, an oil town
where the loss will run close to mil
lion dollars, according to estimates.
At daylight the flood began to recede
although several small fires still blazed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
KEN0SHA SOLDIER
KILLED in CANADA
Joseph Howarth, An Ex-service Man
of Kenosha, Killed at Interna-
tional Falls, Canada.

A telegram which reached Kenosha
today bore the news that Joseph Ho-
warth, one of Kenosha's former eX-
service men, had been killed at Inter
national Falls, Canada. The details
of killing were very meagre and at the
home of Mrs. P. Anderson at 564 Day
ton street, who is the mother-in-law
Of the deceased, little could be learned.
Howarth was formerly employed at the
Nash Motors until in September Of last
year when he was laid off He sought
employment, it is thought, in Kansas
and from there went to Canada. His
body will be sent to Mrs. Harry Ander-
son, sister, who lives in Niagara,
as quickly as possible, according to
Mrs. Anderson.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
LOSES FOOT
UNDER TRAIN
Peter Marurerak of Mil
waukee Has Right Foot
Cut Off.
COMPANION IS HELD

Peter Marurerak, aged 81 years who
gave his home as 705 Kinnikinic ave
nue., Milwaukee, has his right leg cut
off at the ankle just before six o'clock
this morning when he fell under
freight train No 288 at the six mile
road crossing of the line north Of Ke-
nosha. He was picked up and brought
to Kenosha and taken to the Kenosha
hospital where DR.. H. A. Robinson,
surgeon for the company, cared for his
injuries. He will recover but he suf-
fered greatly from loss of blood be-
fore he reached the hospital Marur-
erak is unmarried and it is declared
that in company with John Smigkosti,
who lives at 779 Garden street, Milwau-
kee, he was attempting to beat his way
to Kenosha.
After the accident Smigkosti was
arrested by Northwestern Railway De-
tective E. F. Donavan of Milwaukee
and brought to Kenosha. He was ar
raigned in the Municipal court on a
charge of trespassing and his hearing
was continued until Saturday. Smig-
kosti declared that he and his injured
companion were making an effort to
get into Racine where they expected
to get work.
Held Bundle in His Mouth.
Donavan was riding the freight
train out Of Milwaukee on account Of
the fact that there had been lot of
complaints against thefts from the
cars and as the train approached the
six mile road crossing he saw two men
walking along the road. Marurerak
had a bundle in his hand and as the
train came along he attempted to flip
one of the first cars but missed it,.
Then Smigkcsti took the bundle from
his companion and holding it in his
mouth he made a run for the rapidly
moving train. He managed to get
aboard but Marurerak was not success
full and he fell under the wheels. The
train was stopped and the injured man
placed in the caboose and brought to
the Kenosha station and taken to the
hospital in an ambulance.
Efforts are being made this after
noon to locate the relatives of the man
in Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Girl Dressed as Boy
Held as AccOmplic.
tBy Associated Press Leased Wire,

Milwaukee - Armed with an auto
matte pietol and dressed as a bo,
Sophie Drdzinski, 10, was taken from
Chicago and Northwestern raiIroag
train at Oconto and returned here II
day for questioning concerning recen
robberies. The girls companion. Gus
Someich, rs, leaped from the train o.
OcontOn and escaped, but was arres
ed at Iron Mountain, Mich, and vii
also be brought to Milwaukee, the DC
lice said: The girl denied connectio,
IN any robbery. She told detective he
home is on farm one mile from Mar;
nette, Wis, and that she had bee
working in Milwaukee for severa
months.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
REMOVE RESTRICTIONS
FOR VACATION WORK
Children Under Sixteen Will Be Per-
mitted to Work without Per-
mits in Summer Months.

(by Assoc lated PrSSS jJHaSed WIrHl
Madison, Wis. - Children under 16
years of age, will be permitted to do
vacation work without permit as a re-
suit of final concurrence of the senate
in a bill of J. E. Johnson already pass
ed by the assembly. The measure re-
moves restrictions now placed around
vacation work.
No change is made in the permit law
with regard to children who do not
regularly attend school throughout the
year. Vavation jobs alone are removed
from the regulation of the industrial
commission under provisions of the
bill.
Final concurrence was also given in
the public welfare committee bill call
ing for free vaccination of school chill
dren whenever an epidemic causes the
board of health to order general limo
culation. This proposal was introduc-
ed during the fight to abolish compul-
sorry vaccination, to counteract the
claim that doctors would capitalize the
disease to enlarge their practice.
Senator Smith told the senate that
he would ask that it override the gov
ernor's veto of his bill regulating the
stringing of telephone and telegraph
wires. He proposed that the regula-
tions be formulated by the railroad
commission in conformity with the ma
tional safety code.
The Dahl bill strengthening the COM
pulsory education laws of the state and
providing for half time instruction in
all high schools except those in rural
communities, in order that Industrial
students might be taught, was sent to
the public welfare committee for con-
Ssideration in the senate. It went
through the assembly without obje-
ction.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Chicago Police
Kill Three Bandit

Chicago-Three bandits were she
and MORALLY wounded early today !.
a battle with the police. A fourt
escaped. The shooting followed
wild chase through the fashionab..
north shore district. The police c.
ran into the bandits car and wbe.
the bandits ATTEMPTED to flee IL
policemen shot.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Phoebe HanafOrd
Died This Morning
fBy Associated Press Leased wire)

Rochester, N. Y. - Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford, 90, prominent suffrage work
err and first woman minister to the
Connecticut legislature, died here to-
day. She was pioneer in the move
ment for equal rights and a contemp-
orary of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and other early leaders.
She was the first woman ever ordain-
ed in New England where she became
a minister of the Universalist church
in 1858. She was an official and mem
Der of many literary and temperance
societies and the author of several
books of prose and poetry.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Holds City Right
to Curb Socialists

New York sgity-The appellate divi-
sion Of the supreme court decided to-
day in Brooklyn that the city Of
Mount Vernon was within its rights
when it refused to allow Socialists to
hold street meeting October 2, 1920.
The Socialists had asserted that the ac
tion abridged the right of free speech.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Irishman Meets
Death Fearlessly

Limerick, Ireland = Thomas Keane,
sentenced to death by court martial
for improperly possessing arms and
having taken part in an attack on the
police at Singland was executed by a
firing squad in the barracks square
here today. Keane met his fate with
out culver. As the execution was be-
ing carried out, large crowds outside
the barracks offered prayers and sang
hymns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
Cloud Burst Forces
400 Out of Homes
tBy Associated Press,

Peoria, Ill.-Town officials at Wash
ington, Urbandale and Farmdale were
not able to estimate on Friday the
damage caused by the cloudburst that
sent hundreds of persons from their
homes when Farm Creek overf1owed on
Thursday night. At Urbandale the en-
tire population of about 400 was driv-
en- from their homes. The creek be-
gan to fall on Friday and people were
able to return to their homes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
ONCE MOB LEADER
WINS PHI BETAKAPP
Frank Tannebaum Is Graduated VII
High HOnOrs from Columbia
University.
(By Associated Press Leased VIZ,


New York City = Frank Tame
baum, one time mob leader and radic
agitatcr was graduated from Colun,b-
University this year as an honor g,
dent and won the key of Phi Re-
Kappa, an honorary scholastic frater,
ity it was announced today.
Tennenbaum who served q wear +;
jail for leading mob against church,
here in 1914 and scathingly denoun.
ing all laws when he was convict
was declared to have discarded
radical views and now takes the at.
tude of liberal in matters pertainir
to economics and sociology.
He entered Columbia University
1916 but when the war started he wer
to work in the ship yards and later h.
came sergeant at a Georgia arm
camp. Tsnnenbaum is 2S, and marie,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Denyer.-A dispatch to the Den
yer Times from Pueblo, received
at 9:15 this morning, contained a
statement that hundreds of lives
have beNn lost" 1t was the first
direct dispatch from Pueblo since
last night and came over West
ern Union wire. The dispatch
added that most of the lives were
lost in the Grove district, south
east of town. The Times an
nounced it had no way of verify
ing the despatch which came from
its regular Pueblo correspondent.
The Grove district is in the poorer
section of Pueblo and populated
mainly by foreigners. The dispatch
declared the residents of the dis
trict had been warned that the
food was coming, but did not leave
their houses in time to avoid the
Onrushing waters. Persons in
Denver, familiar with the district,
were skeptical about such a heavy
loss of life. They pointed out
that there we're many high hills
near the district on which people
might take refuge.