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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Genoa-As a result of the meeting
of the economic conferences sub
commission on Russian affairs today,
the situation became so critical that
it seemed doubtful whether any French
position could be reconciled.
After the adjournment of the meet
ing which was taken at 1:15 p. m. I'M
til five o'clock, the British delegation
announced that serious though friend
ly discussion had occurred
M. Barthou, head of the French
delegation, declared at the meeting of
the sub-commission that France would
never consent to having mixed commits
sons on which the Russians served,
give consideration to Russian credits,
debts and the treatment of foreign
property nationalized in Russia.
Reply Called provoking"
Premier Lloyd George, in opening
the discussion, said the Russian reply
was most provoking and unsatisfactory,
characterizing it as typical of Soviet
diplomacy which, he said, always in
troduced such arguments at a time
when people were really trying to do
business. He thought, however, that in
substance, the document showed the
Russians wished to come to some ar
rangement if possible. Everybody,
Lloyd George remarked, had their diff
ficulties with public opinion at home
and it was not right for other states
men to criticize the Soviet representa-
tives too severely. He said he thought
the breaking up of the conference be-
cause Of the Russian document, would
be serious for Europe and Asia.
M. Barthou, for France, said that
five weeks of consideration of the Rus
sian, questions at Genoa had been with
out result and it was unlikely that
further consideration of them by com
missions named by the Genoa confer
ence would be useful. He suggested
1t would be better to have the Allied
powers with the neutrals and possibly
the United States, name an investi-
eating committee without the Russians
who had shown clearly that they would
only take up the time of such com
mission with propaganda.
This conflict of opinion gave rise
to the serious doubts as to whether
the two positions were susceptible of
reconciliation.
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dian usage.
y The second and third generations
of wampum making Carnpbe1ls
supplied much wampurn to John
Jacob Astor, who used it in buy
ing furs from the Indians. 1t was
probably Mr.. Aston who opened up
the way for the Campbel1s' extern
sive wampum trade on the plains
and in the far west, which has last
ed to the present. although its
manufacture is now very rapidly
dying, as the Indians have become
more and more civilized and ac-
custorned to the intrinsic value of
the white mans money. Yet some
wanpum is still made on the New
Jersey Coast.
A Wampum Workshop
The interior of wampun work
shop is as different as it is possible
to be from a regulation mint. In
fact in its primative nature it more
nearly resembles limekiln. The
floors are hidden from sight by
great heaps of shells, and the rude
benches and tools are covered en-
tirely with white-fying dust as the
shells are being ground and drilled,
and suggests the application of in
Vulnerable coats of whitewash,
which in fact it really is.
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SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD
NEGRO MUCH ALIVE
Texas Court is ScandaIized When
Corpse Comes to Light and
Joins Argument.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire

Corsicana, Tex. The "body" of a
negro supposed to. have been dead for
six weeks suddenly rose from its SUI
pine position on the undertaken
stretcher, sat up and demanded what
it was all about and at the same time
caused bit of excitement in the little
court room of Justice of the Peace
Christian yesterday.
Possession of the body of the ode
ceased" was the subject of litigation,
the undertaken refusing to deliver the
body until certain expenses were paid
Relatives appealed to the court and
it was necessary that the corpse be
produced in court. When one attorney
was in the midst of plea the sup
posed corpse arose to sitting pos
ture. In the scramble that followed
spectators employed the windows as
means of escape.
Court was summarily adjourned but
later Judge Christian rendered YER
dict for the plaintiff.
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in no way resembles United States
coinage Nevertheless in certain
sections of the West it was once
quite extensively used for sale and
barter, and is still limitedly EN-
ployed In brief this money" is
what has always been known to
the Indians as wampum and for
long time, after the arrival of the
white man, it was very much more
valuable to the original inhabitants
of America than the white mans
coinage. In fact the Indians
loathness to dispense with his
wan1pum is the reason for the ex-
istence right down to our time of
z demand for this primitive cur
rency.
Whites Manufacture Indian Money
The Indians, of course, were the
first Wampum makers but when it
became a medium of exchange for
the early colonists and traders the
white men took up its manufacture
and have continued to make it long
years after the Indians themselves
have stopped doing SO.
There are several reasons for
this but the principal one is that
by the encroachment of the set
tiers upon their territory, the In
dams have been gradually driven
away from the sea to the interior
plains where the proper shells for
the manufacture of Wanpuin are
not obtairabIe. The white man
living near the coast can, however,
still secure all the sea shells re-
CURED. Thus the Indians have
come to depend entirely upon
them for their wampun.
A Family Affair
Most of this wampu1n making
came finally to be carried on by
few old families of Southern New
Jersey, foremost amongst whom
for many years were the Camp
bells. From the early part of the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
OLD ROMAN SAYS
TOO RIDICULOUS
Refuses TO Make Any Answer to Charg-
es Brought by Hap" Felsch
and Others.

CBy Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Milwaukee. Wis. 81 consider the
Feisch charges too ridiculous to an
swer, as he is ball player in bad
standing and unworthy of any con-
sideration whatever"
Charles A. Comiskey, president of
the Chicago American league base
ball club made this statebent last night
at his summer home near Eagle River,
Wis, where he has been resting for
the last few days, to special CORE
spondent for the Milwaukee Journal
in his first interview since the scandal
bearing damage suit of Oscar Happy
Felsch against him was filed in Mil
waukee last Thursday.
Mr.. Comiskey will return to Chi
cago Sunday, he told the Journal re-
preventative.
Meanwhile in Milwaukee his at
torney, George B. Hudnall, opposing
the move of Felsch's counsel seeking
before Judge John ]. Gregory in cir
cult court today an order forcing Com
iskey to produce the books and records
of his club to determine back pay bon
us and damages for forcing Felsch
out of organized baseball.
Notices of suits similar to Felsch's
in behalf of Joe Jackson, former White
Sox fielder and "Swede" Risberg
short stop, were given yesterday.
Felsch and his fellow players who
were ousted out of the White Sox or
ganization in 1920 for the throwing
of the 1919 world series to Cincinnati
in a conspiracy wit ha group of gam.
blers, have been touring the southwest
with their outlaw baseball team known
everywhere as the "Black Sox". They
are expected to arrive in Chicago to.
day and the attorney for Felsch plan.
to go to Chicago tonight to hold s
consultation with them preparatory t.
the starting Of several more suits.
Felsch's attorney criticized Judge
Lands, basebalPs high commissioner
for saying that "no one will pay mucl
attention to what s--,sch says"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
FORD NC GREGOR
COUNCIL GUEST
Leader in Movement for
Better Municipalities
Talks Here.
is READY TO HELP
Madison Man Declares State Is
Looking to Kenosha to Plug
Holes in City Manager Law.

"The men in Wisconsin who have
anxiously watched the development of
the City Manager form of Govern
ment are very happy that it is hav-
ing it's first expression in Kenosha.
We regard Kenosha as the most fav-
orable place in all Wisconsin to test
out this new and intelligent form of
government and from what have seen
can but feel that Kenosha is going
to give to the state an excellent show
ing of what a modern form of govern
ment can do for city,
This was the statement of Ford Nc
Gregor, Secretary of the Wisconsin
League of Municipalities and connected
with the Extension Division of the
University of Wisconsin at the Elks
Club on Friday evening when he was
the guest of President Walter H.
Afford and the members of the Ke-
nosha City Council.
Mr.. McGregor is regarded as one of
the best known students of municipal
government in the nation and he came
at the invitation of the local leaders
to discuss with them the Wisconsin
law governing the City Manager form.
Officials Attend Dinner.
In addition to the members of the
city council City Clerk George W.
Harrington, City Engineer Peter Hurt
gen and City Attorney Edward F. Hig-
gins attended the dinner at which
Mr.. McGregor was the honor guest.
! Mr.. McGregor did not make speech
but the gathering was informal and
he discussed the Wisconsin law and
the possibilities which were offered to
cities under it. He held that the law
was not perfect and asserted that he
expected that out of the experience
of Kenosha in government under the
| City Manager form would come the
suggestion of amendments to the law
which would make it more workable
under the Wisconsin code. Mr.. Nc
| Gregor has been interested in the de-
| velopment of the commission and city
manager forms Of government in Wis
consin for more than ten years and he
was one Of the most active proponents
of the legislation now on the statute
| books.
The guest Of the evening discussed
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
By OSCAR P. AUSTIN.
SidtisticiGn. The National City Bank
of Neo York

During Bolshevist labor dis
pute in Moscow recently some
printers, turning out paper money
for the Government, struck for
higher wages. The strike was fin
ally settled by an agreement that
each printer should be entitled to
the amount of money he could
turn out in one hour each day,
printing the notes for himself not
higher in denomination than 500
rubleS.
When, in comparison, we con-
slider how Uncle Sam manufac-
lures our money down in Wash
ington and at the several minis
and how carefully every penny is
guarded against loss this loose
method of money making in Rus
STA at present seems almost unbe-
lievable to a good many Amer
leans.
A Private Mint
Yet it is fact that at the pres
ent day certain form of money
once widely current in America but
now quite unknown to most peo-
pie is manufactured in this coun-
try in just as free and easy man
ner as anything the Bolshevists
might attempt. Moreover, it is no.
more counterfeit than the Russian
coinage, although our Government
has nothing to do with its produce
ton and does not in any way rec
ognize it as specie.
Quite recently there was placed
on exhibition ip the Bergen Coun-
ty, New Jersey, Historical Society
a private money making machine
which had been in use for nearly
one hundred years, no less than
four generations of one family en-
ploying it for extensive money
making purposes. With this an
nouncement the question naturally
arises: What are the operatives of
Uncle Sans Secret Service doing
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forth, from right to left, till the
sharp end of the drill penetrates
through the cube of shell from end
to end lengthwise.
When a sufficient number of
cubes are completed they are then
smoothed and polished with emery
paper and strung on wires, pre-
cisely the same as. children string
beads, and they are then ready for
the market. The wampum that is
made from the streaked, blush
parts of hard-clam shells is the
most beautiful, and therefore more
valuable, and is harder and tough
er to work. The price paid for the
products of this now almost obso-
lete industry. is IA cents running
inch on the string, and the average
amount of money made by these
shell money makers is about So a
day during the season.
Origin of Wamptrn
In the Hall ,of the Indians of the
Woodlands, in The American
sMuseum of Natural History, New
York, may be seen case contain
ing strings and belts of curious
looking white and purple beads.
This is wampum, and was used as
currency by the Indians, early col
onists and traders, and the Indians
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
PRIVATE MONEY MAKING IN AMERICA

also employed it in their ceremo-
MES and as a badge of authority.
Among other traditions explain
ing how wampum first. came to be
used, the Iroquois have one to the
effect that once Hiawatha, on a
journey, came to little lake, and
was wondering how to cross it
when flock of ducks appeared and
settled on the water. When they
few away, the water had disap-
peared, and Hiawatha, looking on
the dry bed of the lake, saw that
it was covered with shells. OF
these he made the first wampum.
Despite this legend and similar
ones, however, it is believed that
the earliest wampum was made of
small pieces of wood of equal size,
stained black or white. Poreupine
quilts are also said to have been
used. Later, wampunl was made
from shells, sometimes of the
fresh-water varieties, but generally
of sea-shells, The best wampu1n
was made from the hearts of the
common hard clam of Long Island.
While shell beads were early
manufactured by the Indians along
the Atlantic shore, they were rare
West of the Hudson River before
the seventeenth century. With the
arrival of the colonists, the indians
were supplied with tools which
made it possible for them to work
a greater variety of shells and to
produce more finished work.
Paying Fare With Wampum
For ages wampum was used by
the Indians almost solely as
money. The making of wampum
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the dust behind them.
Sheriff Brought In Car.

Sheriff Brought In Car.
When Sheriff Rauen arrived, she. found
an excited and indignant neighborhood.
The Buick was gone, but he found on
the neighbOrig grounds Columbia ,au-
tomobile without license. The color
of the escapade was so peculiar that
the sheriff concluded that the Chicago
visitors were of the lowest type and
that the unlicensed car was a stolen
one. Sheriff Rauen brought the car to
town with him and arrested two Of the
ohter men found at the place believed
to belong to the same crew'as the men
who had disappeared. :.
Enter c. P. Shea Again.
G. P. Shea, whose hospitality the
Chicago gun-toters had shared, came
Immediately into town, engaged an at
torney and sought at once to have the
Columbia released and the men dis
charged from custody. His efforts were
united with those Of a well known
farmer and resident of Paddocks Lake
and the release was finally secured.
Sheriff Rauen maintained to the end.
however, that he disliked the com
plexion of the men and believed that
there was more to their history.
Chum of Madar and Murphy.
G. P. Shea is now described az an
intimate of "Big Tim" Murphy and
Fred Madar, both of whom are also
charged on grand jury indictment with
the murder Of Lieut.. Lyons. Murphy
in addition is under federal indictment
for mail robbery and has been arrested
a score of times. According toJreports
from Chicago "members of the states
attorney staff declared that they ex-
pected to send Murphy, Madar and
Shea to the gallows on the evidence
that made possible the indictments
Five other men are associated with the
three named in murder indictments for
the killing Of Lieut.. Lyons. The kill
ing of Lyons followed the Staying of
Patrolman Thomas Clark by the same
gang Of labor bombers.
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Different designs of wampum belts
a penny, the black beads at fol
for a penny. The use of wampur
as money among the .colonists
New York was continued until 17C
atFleast, as at that time, accordin
to an old record, 'tthe ferriage 70
each. single person from New Yor
to Brooklyn; was eight stivers /
wampum, or a silver two pence.
Wampum AS Ornaments
Messengers from one tribe
Indians to another used strine
and belts of wampum as credef
tials. In time the articles made
wampum came to have great syn
bolscal importance dependent o.
the -colors and arrangement of tn
beads. They were also used
memory aids. to the keepers of tn,
oral traditions of the Indians
Whiie.a as a medium of exchange
the dark beads were rated higher
thanSthei light and5white beads, for
symbolicaT purposes, these latter
beads, however, were auspicious
while the dark ones were inauspi-
cious, {having to do, in the mes
sages or records. with death, war,
etc.
Wameum was also worn for
ornament by the Indians, both
menta and women. 1t was worked
into collars, necklaces, ear pend
ants, bracelets, armlets, girdles,
.anklets and headdress decoration.
"Wampum pipes" long tubular
shell beads of about the length OF
the common pipe-stem, and per
forated disc-shaped shells, as we'll
as shells ground into various
shapes including the forms of ami
mails, were also in common use at
one time by the Indians.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
Balkan States After
Commercial Treaty
(By Associated Press)

Constantinople The Russian So
Wet. government and the Turkish Ma
tionalists are planning to hold con-
ference at Kars to draw up a. new
treaty providing for the resumption
of commercial relations between Tur-
key and the small republics of the
Caucasus such as Georgia and Aver
baidjan.
A treaty to that effect was signed
by the Russians and Turkish Nation
alists last fall but has not been rati-
fed by the states concerned on the
ground that it was unavoidable owing
to the abnormal conditions in Rus
STA,
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the white men or with tools sup
piled by them.
For long time after their ar
rival wampum was in use as com
mon currency among the Dutcl
colonists. Its value was at one tim
four for penny, and at anothe
time SIX for penny. In Mass
chusetts, in 1913, wampum, if o
good quality, was legal tender Il
the amount of forty shillings. TIL
white beads were rated at eight 70.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
HOGS DIE FROM HEAT.

Juda, Wis. Thirty-seveh hogs,
valued at $4,000 and owned Henry
sMohns, died from the effectS of the
intense heat at the Juda stock yards
while waiting tonbe shipped to market
this week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
WOMAN IN TEXAS RACE.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire

Wichita Falls One woman, Miss
Annie w, Blanton of Denton, Texas.
sister of Congressman Thomas Blan-
ton of Texas and three men are candi-
dates voted on by voters of the 18th
Congressional district today to elect
representative 10 fill the unexpired
term of Lucian w. Parrish, who died
recently from injuries received in an
sseoss0bile accident.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
NASH TO BUILD
BIG ADDITION
Quarter Million Dollars to
be Spent to Increase Ca
pacity of Plant.
TO INCREASE OUTPUT

The Nash Motors company is plan
ming to make a large addition to its
Wisconsin properties, but the addition
will not be to the Kenosha plant but
to the plant in Milwaukee. President
G. w. Nash of the company, who re
turned from New York on Friday af-
ternoon, said that plans and specifca-
tions had been accepted for large adj
dition to the Milwaukee plant of the
company. This is the home of the
Mash Four" and there has been such
demand for this new type of the Nash
output that enlarged facilities are be-
ing demanded.
The new addition to the Milwaukee
plant will be building 100x400, three
stories high. 1t will house additional
facilities for body painting, trimming
and sheet metal work and it is the plan
of the company to have it erected be-
fore the end of the present summer
The addition to the Milwaukee plant
when equipped will cost in the neigh
borhood of quarter of a million dol
lars
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
CAN SEIZE FOREIGN BOOZE

Washington The supreme court in
a decision handed down today held that
liquor, while within the boundaries of
the United States, enroute from one
foreign port to another, cam be seized
under the national prohibition .aet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
Will Take no Further Part
in Discussions of Rus
sian Problems.
REPLY Is PROVOKING"
Lloyd George at Session Today
Pleads It Be Considered but
French Ready to Quit.
BULLETIN.

Paris--The French delegation
will remain at Genoa to take part
In deliberations on other questions
properly before the conference,
although it will have nothing more
to do with discussion with the Rus
SLAMS, it was said at the foreign
Office this morning. AS far as
the Russian problem is concerned
the conference is considered by the
French government at an end,
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Big Demand for New Car.

"The demand for the four-cylinder
car is far in advance of our ability to
produce under the present plant equip
ment and we want to get this new adj
dition ready just as soon as possible.
We have the plans all complete and the
figures for the contract work and ex-
pect to start work at once. The plant
should be ready in few MONTHS" said
Mr.. Nash.
The building of the addition to the
Milwaukee plant is not expected to cut
in any way the business of the Keno
sha plant. Some of the parts for the
four-cylinder cars have been made in
Kenosha and it is understood that this
work will be retained here. The in
creasing demand for the Nash Six cars
the product of the Kenosha plant, is
such as to tax the plant to its capacity
at the present time.
Silent on Pierce-Arrow Deal.
81 guess you have said all that there
is to be said in regard to the Pierce
Arrow-LaFayett DEAL" said Mr.. NASH
with an air of finality. "The deal fell
through and / am not Of the opinion
that there will be any effort to reopen
the negotiations. haven't anything Il
give out in regard to it and if anything
is worth giving out, it must come from
the other fellow"
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TURK TREASURER RESIGNS.
(By Associated Pressl

Constantinople Faik Nuzhet Bey,
minister of finance, has resigned ow-
ing to the precarious situation of the
Turkish treasury.
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belts by them seems to date back
only as far as the advent of the
white men. All the belts which
have been found are of beads which
were undosahtedIx naade either by
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Wear a poppy Memorial Day!
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-05-11

The play Stop Thief given AT
rha Arcade Theatre tonight under the
auspices of the c. H. S. Athletic AS
ISOLATION deserves your patronage
so therefore we expect to see you
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-05-11
Earl Varnes

MIR. Earl Varnes, died at his home
in East New Market, Tuesday morn
ing at four-thir1. O'Clock, Following
4 long illness. aged thirty-four years:
Nh. Varnes was for NUMBER ol
wears employed by Cornwell' Bowdie
& Co., this city where he came III con
tact with and made many friends
he later resigned to enter the IN
surance field for the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co. in whose service
he remained until ill health pre-
him from working.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs
Mary Varnes and two sisters, Mrs.
William Gregson, of Oxford, Pa, ana
Miss Sallie Varnes, of Cambridge
and one brother, Mr.. Fletchef
Varnes, of East New Market.
Funeral services which will be IN
charge Of Cambridge Lodge OF Elks
will lie held from his late home IN
East New Market, tomorrow tFri-
day) afternoon at three O'Clock, win
interment in East New Market ceme-
racC