The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-07-21
DISCIPLES OF LENlNE
Local Police Officers Ar
rest Men Who Circu-
lated Leaflets.
Paul JankOW and George Magn,
Musicians, Are Held Pend
ing Federal Action.

Kenosha's great Red dawn" Wen
out in darkness just before midnight
Saturday, when its self-ordained her
aids, Paul Jankow and George Magn
both of 5O7 Elizabeth street, discov-
cred that Kenoshans will tolerate q
"public-be-damned" policy as aittle in
Socialist as in captain of industry.
For several weeks the soviet apes
ties have been circulating revolution
airy pamphlets ending with the MARKHAM
slogan: GO your way and let the pub
lie say what they please" They Wen
their way and the public followed their
advice; at least one true-blue citizen
reported the Red activities to Chief C
Police Logan and gave him the info.
nation on which Jankow and Magn
were taken into custody They are now
in the city jail along with enough boil
shevik paper to pay their passage 20
Leavenworth or Russia, but preferably
Leavenworth.
Unsigned Letter Led to Arrest.
The agitators owe their prescrs pres
dicament to the ,oyalty of "a Citizen
WHO recently scrt the followEg letter
20 police headovarters;
"If you are interested in getting the
man that is a bolshevik agent in this
town, VIII be glad to let YOU know
his address. His name is Paul Jankow,
507 Elizabeth street. If you viii watch
him, you will see that he throws out
bolshevik propaganda Leaflets"
With the note was a detailed descrip-
ton of Jankow-slight in build, black
hair, black beard, black beady eyes
a typical Russian agitator.
Both enclosures had been written on
July 10th and mailed on July 18th.
Officers Make Two Raids.
With this information, in addition to
what he lad already gathered from
other sources, Chief of Police Logan
planned his raid on the Reds rendez-
vous for Saturday night. At 1140
o'clock, Officers Cyzak, Charles Rock,
Breidt, H. Rock and McCluskey went
10 the Elizbeth street address, where
they found Jankow asleep. Awakened
and placed under arrest, he refused to
talk, to protest, or even to inquire on
what charge he was being taken into
custody A search of his room yielded
two RED Albums" May Day edition,
several of the treasOnous pamphlets, a
'bolshevik primer, and what seemed to
be a Russian textbook. They were
piled into the patrol wagon and taken
to the station for evidence.
Magn, who had been picnicking, was
not at home when the first raid was
made but was arrested just after mid
night by Officers Cyzak and c. Rock.
Like his brother-agitator he had moth
ing to say either at his erstwhile home
or at the station.
When examined by officials, the con
fscated literature proved much less ac-
tionable than the earlier leaflets,
which Jankow and Magn are now be
iieved to have scattered over Kenosha.
The "Red Album" contained nothing
more infammatory than eulogies OF
Lenin, Trotsky, and the late Carl Lieb-
knecht, Rosa Luxembourg and john
Reed, and few pictures of the changes
wrought in Russia by the soviet reyo--
luton. There was nothing in it to
suggest the rise of the proletariat
against the bourgeoise much less a
bolshevistic revolution in the United
States The pamphlets were more
dangerous. With their suggestion Of
a combination OF the blacks and Reds
in the United States against the white
capitalists they indicated that Lothrop
Stoddard was not entirely wrong in
warning America against "the rising
tide of color"
Jankow is believed to have been t
ring-leader in the Red activities
Kenosha He is a man of some intelli-
gence, fanatical opinions, and equally
fanatical courage. His attitude
throughout the circumstances connect
ed with his arrest has been that Of
man who sincerely believed himself
prosecuted for a cause"
Magn belongs to the "dumb-driven-
cattle" type easily msled by such
man as Jankow. He does not speak
English and is apparently uninteresteo
in, American industry, American poll
tics, and American government. His
one desire seems to be to get back to
Russia as soon as possible; in fact
has been suggested that he may have
consciously undertaken the circulation
of Red propaganda with the object 0.
securing deportation to the old couE
try. Both Jankow and Magn viii b
held here pending action by the feder5
authorities at Chicago.