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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
Mystery Letter
in Wheeler Probe

Washington.-A hint of a mysterious
letter about land permits said to have
been written by Solicitor Booth of the
interior department to Senator Wheel
er's Montana law firm, was heard today
by the special senate committee inves-
tigating the senator's indictment on a
charge of accepting money for appear
ing before the department in land mat
tiers. Senator Sterling of South Dako-
ia, Republican member of the COM
mittee, said he had been told of such a
letter and expected to produce it be-
fore the investigation was ended. He
declined to reveal the source of his in
formation or say who prepared a mem
orandum with the aid of which he was
ross-questioning L. " Beaulieu, a
western attorney, who said he also had
heard Of such a letter.
Beaulieu, the only witness at today's
hearing, testified he had been chief
counsel for Gordon Campbell, the Mon
tana oil man indicted with Senator
Wheeler, but never heard of the sena-
tors acting for Campbell in land cases.
On the contrary, he said, Wheeler had
told him de declined specifically to
have anything to do with any of Camp
bells litigation except in the Montana
state courts.
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COOLIDGE SPEECH
FAVORABLY RECEIVED
Macdonald Government Express Whole
Hearted Approval for Fur
:hc- Disarmament.

London, Eng. President Coolidge's
sreech ut the luncheon OF The Assoc
Gated Press in New York yesterday
Lss been very favorGbly received here
both 81. tho press and by the Off
sia.a Of the Macdonald labor govern
riert
1t is expected the prime minister
himself will take the earliest oppor-
tunity 20 proclaim his whole hearted
support of the American executives
proposed conference for further world
disarmament.
When the time comes for formal
invitations to second worlds dis
armament conference to which Amer
lea has given the lead the answer
from Great Britain will be forthcem-
ing as readily and as spontaneously
as was the first call issued by Presi-
dent Harding, according to observers
in close touch with the Macdonald
government.
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EXTRA +!
CONFESSED SLAYER
LEAPS TO HIS DEATH
James De Joy, Confessed Wife Slayer,
Leaps from Third Floor While
Having Picture Taken.

Chicago ~ James De Joy, 27, who
confessed to killing his wife, leaped
from the third floor of the detective
bureau today and landed head first
on the concrete pavement. His skull
was crushed and he died on his way to
the hospital.
De Joy was being posed for photo
graph, when he broke away from a
detective and dived head first out of
the window, taking most of the win
dow with him.
The murder Of Mrs. Anna De Joy
&c, as particularly brutal. The woman
was stabbed, her throat cut, her eyes
gouged out, and otherwise mutilated.
De JOY, also known as James Pc
trucci, had told how he stabbed and
slashed his wife in a forest preserve
near the city. He was being prepared
for newspaper photographers, and at
the same time detectives were asking
him to tell why he gouged out the wo-
mans eyes, when he leaped from the
window.
If Mrs. Anna De Joy and Mrs. Fred
Potenza had only been bit more
skillful about preparing breakfast,
they probably would be alive today.
James DeJoy and Fred Potenza, con-
fessed wife slayers, admitted to po-
lice that displeasure over their break
fasts played a large part in the muir
ders.
After an all-night examination, De
Joy early today blurted out to Captain
William Shoemaker:
eyes, she wouldn't get up mornings
to cook my breakfast, so l cut her
throat"
To this was the added aggravation of
poor breakfasts m1a0 she got them. and
constant pickering, Ele Joy sals
Potenza who shot and killed his ife
on the street here late yeste day ane
also shot his sister-in-law, told po-
lice burned breakfasts constituted one
of the chief reasons for the murder.
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THIRTY ARE KILLED
NSWISS RAIL WRECK
Four Americans Are Reported TO Have
Been Killed - Many Bodies
Removed from Wreck.

Switzerland-Thirty persons are re-
ported to have been killed and so in
iured when the Zurich and Milan ex-
press trains collided near Bellinzona
this morning.
Twenty-one bodies have been remov-
ed from the wreckage early this af-
ternoon, most of them so badly burn
ed that Identification was impossible.
Both trains had numerous foreign
passengers, coming from or going to
Italy.
-Four Americans are reported to have
been in the sleeping car of the train
from Italy, which car was less dam
aged than the others.
The Italian train had on board some
French and English passengers in adj
d:si1S K As Germans and 81 Italians.
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Ask Receiver for
House of David

St. Joseph, Mich. = The state of
Michigan today asked that receiv-
CIR be appointed for the House of Da-
vid, Bentor Harbor.
In petition filed in Berrien coun-
ty circuit court by o. L. Smith, as
sistant attorney general, the state pur-
suing it's announced course to break up
the organization asks that all holdings
of the colony, the value CT which are
estimated to be ain excess of $4,000"
be placed in the hands of a receiver.
The state bases its petition on alleg-
ed fraud which it charges worked the
change of the colony in 1907 from q
corporation to voluntary religious
organization from restrictions under
which corporations are operated.
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from the owners as to what was to be
done with the property.
Reports were spread that it was to
be subdivided into high grade resi-
Dental district, restricted to elaborate
summer homes to cost not less than
$4,000 each. This report was not
absolutely confirmed by the former
owners nor was it denied.
Brings New Coniectures.
The sale of the entire tract to the
interests of Mrs Edith Rockefeller
Mccormick brought new reports this
morning. One of these was to the
effect that Mrs. Mccormick planned
to use the tract as the location for a
large geological garden which would
draw tourists to Kenosha from far and
wide and would involve the expendi-
ture of large amount of money in its
development. Attempts to confirm this
report in Chicago were unsuccessful.
Another report was to the effect
that the tract was to be used as site
for an extensive summer home for
Mrs. Mccormick. This report also
stated that parts of the tract might
be sold to other wealthy Chicagoans
and that the district might still be
developed as a second Lake Forest"
Is Most Valuable Property.
The tract in question starts at the
road running into South Park avenue,
which is commonly known as Lovers
Lane and extends south between the
Sheridan road and the lake shore to
the Chiwaukee property. 1t has been
cleared by the syndicate which pur-
chased it several months ago and is
ready to be turned over to the new
purchaser.
The tract is beautifully located for
either of the purposes which have
been mentioned as possibilities 1t
has natural facilities which would
lend themselves to the development
of geological garden should such a
venture be planned.
Attorney Clarence Fisher, of Keno
sha, who was the local legal counsel
for the syndicate purchasing the tract
several months ago, stated that he had
not been officially advised of any
transfer of the property to Mrs. Nc
Cormick and could make no further
statement regarding the deal.
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THAW STILL REMAINS
IN MENTAL ASYLUM
Evelyn Nesbit May File Motion for
a New Trial - No Time Set
for New Hearing.

/ Philadelphia, Pa. - Although he was
1 declared sane and fully capable of
managing his affairs by jury in COM
mon pleas court last night, Harry K.
Thaw today is still in the Pennsyl
vania hospital for mental and nerv-
our diseases, where he has been con-
/ fined for the last seven years.
! After the verdict had been brought
in, William A. Gray, counsel for Eve
llyn Nesbit, Thaw's divorced wife,
whose Is year old son was permitted
! to intervene in the trial. requested
| the usual four days in which to file a
/ motion and reasons for new trial.
| The motion was granted and Judge
/ Monahan, before whom the case was
| heard, held Thaw in the custody of the
court pending its disposition. No time
was set for the hearing of the mo-
! ton. Meanwhile Thaw must remain in
the asylum.
| In announcing that he would ask
for another trial, Mr.. Gray said he
also spoke for Arthur G. Dickson,
counsel for the trustees of Thaw's es-
tate, who also opposed his release.
Thaw and his aged mother, Mrs.
| wary O.s IHAWj IecelVcO HcW Oh GtLe
verdict in Mrs. Thaw's suite at the
Ritz-Carlton hotel. Thaw said he
would not make any definite plans for
the future until his case finally was
disposed of.
Thaw returned to the asylum short
/ ly before midnight. He did not say
whether he would voluntarily go to
New York to answer the indictment
charging him with an attack on Fred
erick Gump, Jr., Kansas City high
school boy, should he eventually gain
/ his freedom.
Civil suit for $65O,OO damages en-
tered against Thaw by Gump's father
was settled out of court last Janu-
airy.
Since he shot and killed Stanford
White in New York in June, 1905,
Thaw has spent about 16 years in
jails and asylums.
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The above Associated Press dispatch
referring to the resale of the Van
Ingen farm and adjoining tracts locat-
ed along the shore of Lake Michigan
just south of Kenosha, was the cause
for much rejoicing and conjecture in
Kenosha business circles this morning
as the news spread of the big sale.
There was much rejoicing because the
big price paid by the new purchaser
indicated the increased interest which
is being taken by Chicagoans in Ke-
nosha and the district adjoining it;
there was much conjecture as to the
probable use to which the big tract
would be put by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller
Mccormick, who is reported to be the
new owner of the tract,
Later reports from Chicago brought
tho information that the property was
sold to Krenn and Dato, agents for
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick.
The Chicago syndicate which bought
the Van Ingen tract two years ago
and has been steadily adding to its
holdings since, was composed of Harry
Goldstine, Henry Hedberg, Newton B.
Lauren, Ernest Lyons, Charles N.
Nichols and Fred Smelling, who now
have sold the tract to the agents of
Mrs. Mccormick.
Reports in Kenosha today were cur
rent that the Edward Robinson farm,
the only tract of land which has
separated the Van Ingen tract from
the Chiwaukee property, had been
sold only few days ago to the syndi-
cate mentioned above. The price for
which the Robinson farm sold was
rumored to be $1,000 an acre. The
reported safe of the Robinson farm
could not be confirmed
Bought Up Few Months Ago.
The 1850 acre tract, which includes
more than the Van Ingen farm, but
which has been known under that
name, was bought up about two years
ago by Chicago syndicate. The ex-
act price paid for the land was not
made public, but the sales averaged
from $400 to $1,000 an acre at total
cost not to exceed 100000. There
was much secrecy about the deal and
no announcement could be secured
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TO BUILD SUBURBAN CITY.

Chicago, Ill. Another North
Shore suburban city is planned
south of Kenosha, Wis, on the
Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan
by deal nearly completed for the
purchase of 1900 acres known as
former Van Ingen estate for ap-
proximately $1,550,000. The deal is
being financed by the Edith Rookie
Teller Mccormick trust and the firm
of Kren and Dato of Chicago, plan
to sub-divide the property and lay
out townsite, with construction
of a hotel to cost more than a
million dollars as one feature of
the ambitious plan,
The plans were disclosed today
when it was explained the report
last night that Mrs. Rockefeller
Mccormick had purchased the
property was inaccurate, but that
the trust was merely financing the
transaction.
Edward Dato said it is planned
to establish city patterned after
the city of Evanston to meet the
demand for high class suburban
residences with city accommoda-
lions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
STRASSBURGER LEADS
PINCHOT In PRIMARY

Philadelphia, Pa. Returns from
yesterdays primary election in Penn
sylvania today showed additional
gains for Ralph Beaver Strassburger,
Norristown publisher, over Governor
Pinchot for delegate at large to the
Republican national convention. The
vote in 6,797 districts out of S,119 in
the state gave Strassburger 342,628;
Pinchot 138,997. Philadelphia COM
plete gave Strassburger a majority of
1901 The governor was leading in
some of the rural counties.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24

Washington, D. C. - Converting two
hours earlier than usual, the Senate
pressed toward vote today on the
soldier bonus bill with each speaker
mited to fifteen minutes. The prin-
cipal controversy centered on the
amendment for inclusion in the bill
of cash option provision, offered by
Senator Copeland, Democrat, New
York.
! Although drafted by Democratic
members of the finance committee, the
amendment was not submitted by
them, leaders said, because they feare
its adoption would prevent enactment
of bonus bill. Republican leaders
have said they would vote to sustain
a presidential veto if the bill carried
the cash option proposal but would
vote to override veto if the insur-
ance plan should be disapproved by
the eXecutive.
The pending bill, reported to the
Senate by the finance committee sub
stantially as passed by the House,
would allow cash payments to veter-
ans not entitled to more than $50 in
adjusted service compensation and
20-year endowment insurance policies
to others.
The Copeland amendment called for
a cash, payment in full to veterans
preferring It to the insurance. Such
a proposal would require a larger i'm
mediate outlay by the government than
the straight insurance proposition,
and the amendment provided for in
surance of $1,000, 100000 bonds under
the second liberty loan act to take
care of the payments.
Opening the debate today Senator
Underwood, Democrat, Alabama, re-
newed the attack against the bonus.
He advocated pension law but de-
clared it impossible to compensate
the former soldiers for their service.
''You dishonor these protectors of
our nation by offering them dirty dol
lars" Mr.. Underwood said, "or by
proposing to give them these insur-
ance policies.
"The man who fought on the first
line OF battle will have to carry this
country in the next twenty years. You
very cunningly fixed this bonus so that
it won't be paid for 20 years and pro-
pose that these men instead of you
will have to pay for it.
You're adding under this legisla-
ton an enormous tax to an already
heavy burden. The doctors disagree
as to the cost of the bill. One esti-
mate says it will cost $4,000, O00, 900.
The treasury antuary, Mr.. Mccoy says,
it will cost $3,600,000, 900. and the
treasury is probably right"
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Sentence of Dunn
Expected Soon

Chippewa Falls, Wis. Sentence OF
George Dunn, found guilty by cir
cult court jury late Tuesday on 9
charge Of manslaughter in the fourth
degree, is expected to be pronounced
within few days by Judge James
Wickham.
Dunn was accused of being the driv-
er of an automobile which was wreck
ed by hitting a cement culvert guard
north of Chippewa Falls last Deem
Der, resulting in the death of two
companions, Charles L. Vigne and Ar
thur Danielson.
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Poor landmarks to
Erect New Hospital

Superior, Wis. The Poor Hand
maids of Jesus Christ, a religious or
der out of Fort Wayne, Ind, will
erect a new 100000 hospital in SUI
perior during the current year, it was
announced today. The contract for a
200-room hospital will be let shortly
and it is expected to have one of the
three floors up by fall. An older
building, used for 80 years or more
will be converted into home for stu
dent nurses and nuns.
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! Andrew stood in the municipal court
before Judge John C. Slater. With
infinite tenderness, the representatives
of the Service League stripped the
clothes from his back, revealing the
ugly welts and bruises. Andrews five
years of life had not been pleasant.
A few minutes later the boys father
stood before the judge and listened
to a warning of dire things which
would happen to him if he abused the
child again. The man, it was learned,
was cursed with an ungovernable tenn
per and penchant for bad liquor.
| Andrews case was just one of those
agencies which had been spread out
over the city by funds supplied from
the community chest. His stepmother
had brought him to the Kenosha Free
Clinic. He didn't seem to be getting
along as a five year old boy should.
He never smiled, and his face had the
weasened expression of little old
man, aged far beyond his years.
Investigation by the Service League
to which the case was referred showed
that his mother had committed suicide
two years before. Tired of life she
had gone upstairs, taking a razor with
her. She died at the Kenosha hos
pital. Then Andrews father married
again. The stepmother had four chill
drcn of her own. They moved in to
live with Andrews five brothers and
sisters. All the other children were
healthy and normal, but Andrew seem
ed to be under cloud. This angered
Ga hol n 90
drinks he gave the lad work out"
with a razor strap.
The stepmother, a kindly woman,
wanted to help the lad. She bad
thought nothing in particular about
the bruises and welts when she had
taken him to the clinic, but the doctor
did, and that was the reason the Serv-
ice League was called in.
Things went nicely until the day
after Christmas. Then the league
visitor saw the welts again. The
father was hailed into court and
punished, and Andrew was taken to
one of the leagues best board ng
homes where SIS week was paid for
his support. A physician examined
him and suggested that he be taken
to the Juvenile Research Institute at
Chicago for special examination. There
the doctors pronounced his malady a
rare case of thyroid gland trouble.
Special treatment was prescribed.
Meanwhile he stayed in the board
ing home.
AS the weeks passed the boys condi-
ton rapidly improved. Gradually a
ready laugh came to him, and the
weasened look disappeared. He de-
veloped a sudden interest in tops,
wagons and other things that the nor
nal heart of the five-year-old Graves.
Now he has won his way into the
heart of the woman with whom he
has been staying and she has asked
permission to adopt him. She is a
woman of some means and Andrews
future looks bright.
Without organized service work An
drew's body would still be covered
with wells and black and blue spots.
Without the Community Chest funds
this service work could not be ac-
complished.
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Bold Bandits Steal
$500 and Take Car

st. Paul, Mimi. Two pedestrians
leaped on to the running board of an
automobile driven by Crescent
Creamery company, employed in the
crowded business district here today
took $4,000 from him and elected him
from the car, in which they escaped.
Stanley Gadacz, credit manager for
the company was driving to a bank
with the money Two years ago he
was held up and robbed of $1,000 near
the scene of today's holdup.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
POLICEMAN is
SHOT BY BANDIT
Milwaukee Patrolman is Shot in Thigh
by Supposed Automobile Bandit
Who Escaped.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Patrolman Joseph
Kubacki was shot in the thigh early to-
day while pursuing what he believed
to be an escaping automobile bandit.
The officer came upon the car in an
alley and at his approach the driver
attempted to evade him. In an ex-
change of shots Kubaeki was injured
although not seriously. The alleged
bandit escaped.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24

Newark, N. President Coolidge
yesterday overwhelmed Senator Hiram
w. Johnson, of California, in the New
Jersey preferential primary. With
479 election districts still unreported
the president had a lead of nearly
SO, 900 votes, which was being increas-
ed by belated returns.
President Coolidge captured the en-
tire slate of 81 Republican national
convention delegates, seven of whom
were elected at large and "a by dis
tricts. The Coolidge delegates at
large were leading their Johnson OPP
ponents by approximately 10000 votes
while in the Congressional districts,
the Coolidge candidates were well
ahead in every contest, although
there were divisions within the Cool
idge forces and the Anti-Saloon league
opposed two of the Coolidge delegates
at large.
Returns from 2,035 election districts
out of. 2,514 in the state gave for pre-
sidential preference: Coolidge 9O,274;
Johnson 10,487.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
Four Frat Houses
Robbed of $500

Madison, Wis. Four fraternity
houses were rifled of $1,000 in cash
and watches early Wednesday morning
in one of the most daring Latin
quarter robberies ever staged here.
Houses suffering losses were: Kappa
Sigma, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Delta
Chi, and Phi Gamma Delta. Theft in
each case was confined to sleeping
quarters Of the house
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COOLIDGE SWAMPS
JOHNSON in JERSEY
President Is Given Lead of $4,000
Votes in Incomplete
Returns.
BULLETIN.

Newark, N. president Cool
idge's lead over Senator Hiram w.
Johnson mounted to more than
$1,000 votes today as delayed re-
turns from outlying districts in
yesterdays preferential primary
were reported.
With all but 32S of the states
2,514 election districts heard from
the vote was Coolidge 1856,
Johnson 11,438.
The vote for the Coolidge dele
gates grew apace, the Johnson
delegates being decisively defeated
in every instance.
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4s PAGES TODAY.

Be sure that you get all of them.
Notify the News or your news deal
er before 700 p. m. if your paper
is not complete.
This is a Better Homes" Edi-
tion and the articles as well as the
advertisements carry very i'm
portant message to every household
in the city.
Keep this edition for future
reference; you will have cause to
refer to it many times.
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Announce Taylor
to Succeed Beach

Washington, D. C. Secretary
Weeks announced today that Brigadier
General Harry Taylor, assistant chief
of army engineers had been selected
to be chief to succeed Major General
Lansing Beach, who retires from ac-
tive service on June 18.
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CITY EATON DEAD

Duluth, Mimi. Captain Guy A.
Eaton, naval official of the Ninth
United States Naval district and com
mander of the Minnesota naval mill
tia, died he1e haday.
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Many Reports Current as to Use Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick Will Make
of the Tract.
SOLD AT AN ENORMOUS INCREASE
Deal Shows Big Jump in Value of Tract as it Was
Purchased by Chicago Syndicate Two
Years Ago for $8O0,OO0

Chicago, Ill.-The 1900 acre
former Van Ingen estate property
south of Kenosha, Wis, has been
purchased by agents of Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller McCormick's proper
ties for $1,550,OO0, it was an
nounced today. The deal was said
to be among the largest closed
between Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Little children make fun O. Their
teachers, an college men ridicule
Their professors, an workers don't
think any too much o. Their employers,
an so it goes. Some people are jest
like bandits they go after TIL folks
that have got money.
Copyright, John F. Ollie Coz