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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
COMMITTEE CALLS NEW
TO EXPLAIN INCREASES
Postmaster General Asked to Show
Administration Plan for Rails
Ing Postage Rates.

Washington D. C.-Postmaster Gen.
eral New was called today before the
Senate postoffice sub committee to
explain details of the administration
measure proposing increases in rates
on practically all classes of mail mat
ter except letter mail to take care of
the advance in the pay of postal en-
ploys approved by Congress but vetoed
by President Coolidge.
With view to having ready a re-
port on the bill before the Senate
takes up the presidents veto of the
salary bill on January 5, the sub-com-
mittee has set aside four days OF this
week for the hearing, today, tomorrow
Friday and Saturday. 1t is the hope
of Chairman Moses and the other mem
bers to conclude the hearings within
that time so that report can be made
to the entire committee next week.
Some publishers, who are opposing
the advance in second class mail rates,
have protested that the notice of hear
ing was entirely too brief, but the
sub committee will go on with the
hearings on the dates specified, Sem
ator Moses said today. After Mr..
New is heard opportunity will be CIV
en- the publishers and others interest
ed to present their arguments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25

between England and Turkey is an
other one of the major problems that
has come to the League during the
past year and which has demonstrated
the tendency of the big powers to let
the League play its real role.
international Goat"
Incidentally Leaguers recognize also
that the League is. very handy con-
Germ for the big powers in such dis
putes. In cases like the Mosul dispute
for the example where each one of the
contending governments has taken
such pronounced position that it
could not possibly give in without pro-
voking most serious opposition at
home, it is very convenient to be able
to make the League the goat and to
tell the dissatisfied elements that it
was the League which made the de-
cision and that they were obliged to
accept the result. However, the
League recognizes that amongst its
other roles that of a sort of "inter-
national goat" is not the least i'm
portant.
The League the past year has also
definitely launched the great ideal,
towards which nations have been CROP
ing for years past, namely that of the
development and codifcation of inter
national law.
The financial reconstruction of Aus
tria Hungary are also two Of the ma
jor problems which the League has
settled the past year, while definite
progress has been made towards the
preparation for disarmament, prepare
ton for the international control of
the traffic in arms and for government
control of the private manufacture of
war material-one of the most impor-
tant causes of war.
In addition the League has pro-
crossed steadily in the handling of all
the humanitarian problems entrusted
to it such as control of the narcotic
drug situation, white slave traffic, ex-
change of Greek and Turkish popula-
tions and care of the Russian war
refugees.
Finally, the settlement by the League
in the early part of the year of the
Memel dispute between Poland and
Lithuania demonstrated again the
Leagues ability TO handle a maj or
problem in international life after all
other efforts and organism had failed.
As consequence Leaguers are look
ing forward with confidence that 1925
will witness an ever increasing pres
tige and influence for the League.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
SOFT DRINK PERMITS
ISSUED BY COUNCILS
Licenses Issued by City Clerk With
out Council Action Are
Declared Void.

Madison, Wis. - Licenses to sell
Notwithstanding liquors must be is
sued directly by the city councils and
licenses issued by the city clerk with
out action of the council are void, the
attorney generals department held in
an opinion Tuesday.
Conviction cannot be upheld which
finds the defendant guilty of having in
his possession intoxicating liquors
without proof of a valid license in ex-
istence at the time when the offense
is charged, j. E. Messerschmidt, assist
ant attorney general, declared in the
opinion, which was given to Charles
w. Lovett, district attorney of Price
county, Park Falls.
The district attorney wrote to the
department that he had tried liquor
case in which the defendant was charg-
ed with having possessed Intoxicating
liquor in duly licensed soft drink
parlor. Facts developed at the trial
it was brought out in the opinion
showed that the license under which
the defendant was operating was issued
by the city clerk without application
having been made directly to the
council.
The defendants place was raided, a
quantity of wine was seized and he
was convicted by circuit court jury
Counsel for the defense made mo-
ton in arrest of Judgment on the
ground that no legal license existed.
The town board as board must act
upon the application for such a license
to determine whether or not the appE-
cant is proper person to be licensed
the opinion held.
"No application was ever presented
to the board for the license and the
board did not exercise its discretion in
granting the license" the opinion said
Under the above decision, we are con-
strained to hold the defendant had no
license to sell Notwithstanding liquors
on premises on which he was licensed
to sell Notwithstanding liquors, the
verdict of guilty is not sustained by
the evidence that does not show he had
valid license when he was charged
to have had liquor in his possession y
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
FREE TELEPHONES
TO BE ELIMINATED
Wisconsin Telephone Asks for Right
to Apply Standard Toll Rates
in Two Places.

Madison, Wis. Elimination of one
of the few remaining instances of free
telephone service between Wisconsin
towns is sought in the application of
the Wisconsin Telephone company to
apply standard toll rates between Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls, oral ar
guments of which was heard by the
state railroad commission here yester-
day.
Telephone service is being furnish
ed between Eau Claire and Chippewa
Falls without toll charge, this ar
rangement having been in effect dur
Ing the past 40 years, according to
representatives of the company. The
telephone company is seeking to put
Into effect regular toll rates of 10
cents for station to station calls an
Is cents for calls to individuals.
The only other remaining instance
Of telephone service without toll
charge between towns served by the
Wisconsin Telephone company is at
Green Bay and Depere, according to
It's representatives, although such an
arrangement is maintained at some
places by independent companies.
The cities of Eau Claire and Ship
pewa Falls are contesting the appli-
iation of the telephone company on
The grounds that it would be inimical
70 business and social relations be-
tween the tons, which, it is contend
I'd, were built up through the free
service. The company, on the other
han=, conrends that under the present
system, the cost of the service is
not borne proportionately by the tele-
phone users in the two cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
CITIES AIDED MOST
BY GOOD HIGHWAYS
State Engineer Declares That Roads
Bring Rural Communities
Nearer to Cities.

Madison, Wis. Business in the
cities benefits most from good high
ways, trade being drawn away from
the rural communities, John 7. Don
aghey, state highway engineer, de-
cIared today in connection with rec
emit discussion of the proposal for a
gasoline tax.
With the construction of highways
the rural people are brought nearer
the cities and larger towns on basis
of time required to go there to make
their purchases, Mr.. Donoghey said,
and experience has shown that resi-
dents of rural communities take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to buy in
larger places, where the selection is
wider. Thus, he pointed out, dis
trict economic benefit is derived by
the cities from the road construction
which, he asserted, tends to offset any
benefit which the rural sections may
receive in the expenditure of high
way funds.
Although the cities are seeking a
larger proportion of highway funds,
especially of the revenue that would
is probable that any such tax measure
which may be introduced in the COM
ing session of the legislature will
carry smaller share for the cities
than they have asked, in the opinion
Of the state engineer.
Mr.. Donaghey expressed himself as
optimistic regarding the passage Of a
gasoline tax bill in the next session
While the aggregate amount of funds
available for highway work would not
be increased by such levy, it is
understood, it would replace part OF
the appropriations and provide more
ready funds for road building.
In this connection, Mr.. Dpnaghey
said that funds available in 1925 for
highway work in Wisconsin will be
several million dollars less than dur
ing recent years, due to the fact that
most of the money from county bond
issues has been spent. The expendi-
lures on roads next year, he estimated
will be approximately 13 million dol
lars. The remainder of the bond mon
ey, revenues from motor license fees
amounting to approximately $563,00C
and appropriations to meet approx
mately one and one-half million dol
lars in federal aid will be among
other sums available for. road use
The first revenues from a gasoline
tax, which it is estimated would bring
approximately four and one-half mil
lion dollars at two cents per gallon
would not be available until 1926.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
CHEMISTRY ADVANCED
AS RESULT OF WAR
Julius Stieglitz Points Out Great
Advance of Science to Meet
Needs of War.

Chicago, Ill.-The World War for
the first time in mankind's history,
brought home the tremendous power
and almost limitless possibilities in
herent in the field of chemistry, Pro-
fessor julius Stieglitz declared at the
135th convocation of the University
of Chicago on Tuesday.
Chemistry stood for much that was
most evil in the war, but also for
much that was of the very BEST" he
said. Chemistry was responsible for
the steel and explosives, but on the
other hand it produced drugs and dis
infectants which will continue to ally
pain and reduce suffering.
"The power which already has ac-
complished so much good must hence
forth be even more extensively ex-
plotted with far-seeing vision for the
good of mankind"
Explanation of existence through
the sciences is closely allied with
chemistry, DR.. Stieglitz indicated. In
the problem of memory, he declared,
the science of psychology is faced with
only the two possibilities of records;
either physical In character compare
BILE to photographic records, or records
of chemical nature such as in
photographs.
The achievements of chemistry are
but a promise of the future, he de-
clared. Chemistry and medicine are
pursuing a path toward the investion
Of specific remedies against leprosy,
pneum onia, tuberculosis and similar
diseases, he asserted.
The convocation conferred degrees
on 1874 students.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
FIND KLEEB DIED
OF ALCOHOLISM
Post Mortem Shows Seri-
GUS Condition of Mans
Body at Death.
TO HOLD NO INQUEST

Albert Kleeb, who was found dead in
a lodging room operated by H. Wofsy
at 81 North Main street, at noon or
Monday, died as result of chronic
alcoholism and heart failure, accord
ing to the report of Drs. Charles Gavin
and o. w. .McCluskey, who conducted
the post norton examination ordered
by Acting Coroner John Slater. The
report of the physicians eliminates
the element which the police consid-
cred possible that there was foul
play in the mans death.
Kleeb, who is forty-fve years old
was discovered dead in his bed by
Wofsy on Monday. The bed clothes
were soaked with blood and the mans
swollen lips and bleeding nose gave
evidence of the man having suffered
extreme agony and pain before he
died. At the time it was believed that
the man had been drinking heavily and
that on his way to his room in the
Wofsy lodging house he may have
fallen and injured himself, summon
ing only enough strength to get to his
bed unable to undress himself.
100 MUCH AlCOHOIs
According to the physicians who ex-
amined the internal organs of the de-
ceased in the laboratory of Henry
Miller, city chemist, Kleeb for some
time must have been suffering from
chronic alcoholism and this had proved
too much for his heart. The stomach
was found filled with poison resulting
from having taken too much alcohol
into it, and the lining of the stomach
and intestinal tract was covered with
hemorrhagic ulcers. After an exam
nation of the brain it was found that
there was some puddy-like foreign
substance mixed up with the brain
matter that may have affected the
mans mentality during his lifetime.
In the light of this report, Acting
Coroner John Slater has decided that
he will not call a coroner's jury for
an inquest into the circumstances
surrounding the mans death.
Find Brother of Deceased.
Yesterday afternoon Adolph Kleeb
a brother of the deceased, whose home
is on South Sheridan road, presented
himself to claim the body and he has
ordered funeral arrangements to be
made at once.
Funeral services are being h sld this
afternoon from the Mischief mortuary
with interment following in Green
Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
Former Resident
Died at Waukegan
Hugh III. Rogan, SO, Former Resident
of Kenosha, Died Monday at
Victory Hospital in Waukegan.

Hugh H. Rogan, aged SO years, for
many years resident Of Kenosha
county, but more recently Of Chicago,
died late Monday night at the Victory
Memorial hospital in Waukegan after
an illness of several months. His
health had been poor for the past
year; for four weeks he had been at
the Sacred Heart Sanatarium and later
had gone to the home of his sister,
Mrs. Thomas McCann, near Gurnee.
An operation was finally undertaken
as last resort, but in his weakened
condition he was unable to rally
from it.
The deceased was born in Pleasant
Prairie, February II, 1856, and lived
his early life in Kenosha county.
Forty years ago he went to Helena,
Montana, where he lived until five
years ago, coming at that time to
Chicago to work and to make, his home
with his sister, Mrs. A. D'Auben. He
is survived by one brother, W. M.
Rogan, of Kenosha, and by three sis
tiers, Mrs. Sarah Matchette, Spokane,
Washington, Mrs. A. D'Auben, Chicago,
and Mrs. Thomas Mccain, Gurnee.
Another sister, Mrs. John O'Hare, and
brother, jain Rogan, preceded him
in death q
The funeral services will be held
Wednesday morning at Waukegan with
high requiem mass at the Immaculate
Conception church at nine o'clock.
Interment will follow in the family
plot in the st. James cemetery in
Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
Prohibition Cheaters
Punched at Wausau

Wausau, Wis. Eighteen persons
have been arrested charged with vio-
lations of the federal prohibition
laws. Joseph Hoffman, John Hoffman,
Frank Tafelski and Edward Tafelski
pleaded not guilty and will have pre-
liminary hearings later before United
States Court Commissioner E. E. Smith.
Gist Schochow, Leslie C. Jones, Clay
ton G. Jones, Mrs. Mathilda Jesse,
John Jesse, Carl Erdmann, Ewald
Hoeft, John Krienke, Frank Behling
and Bart Pickering waived examina-
tions and were held for trial in fed
eral court at Madison, their bonds
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.
Stanley Likwartz at whose home
the officers claimed to have found
and destroyed sixty-four barrels of
alleged moonshine, Andrew I.akwa,
Walter Rose and Tehopil Pudelki who
were arrested
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
CHANCE.

Successful men, interviewed, usual
ly talk platitudes about hard work,
not watching the clock, and the like.
Refreshing is the common-sense
viewpoint of William E. Knox, who
came to America as an immigrant boy
and is now president of American
Bankers association. He says:
There is such thing as chance.
Don't be deceived about that. A
friend of mine commented the other
day that he knew many men who had
worked as faithfully as he, been as
honest, and had just as much brains,
yet they hadn't got as far as he simply
because things didn't break their way"
However, for every man who be-
comes successful by chance, or luck,
there are thousands who win by eff
fort and determination only.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
Kathlyn RiOrdan, Last Of
Trio of Wives, Starts
Action in Court.
HANSEN NOW IN JAIL
Hansen, Now in Jail Awaiting
Trial, Now Faces Two
Other Actions.

A new cloud came on the horizon for
Charles Hansen, Kenoshsn, alleged to
have been married to three wives with
out divorce from any and now in jail
here facing charges of abandonment
brought by Mrs. Martha Bloom Han
sen, "Wife No. 1" of Kenosha, when
word was received here this morning
that Miss Kathlyn Riordan, the New
York City shopgirl who was the last
girl to be led to the marriage altar by
Hansen, was starting action for an
annulment Of her marriage.
The announcement was contained IN
a letter sent by Miss Riordan to Coun-
ty Clerk Holderness asking for GER
tlfied copy of the marriage certificate
of Charles Hansen and Martha Bloom
Hansen in Kenosha on July 3, 1915.
Explains Reason for Asking.
"The reason for my asking for this
favor" writes Miss Riordan, is that
Charles Hansen married me in New
York on the 10th day of November,
1924, and / must have the certified
copy of his license for his first mar
riage to secure my annulment in New
York"
County Clerk Holderness was MAX
ing certified copies of the marriage
records this morning to send them to
the New York bride Of Hansen as soon
as possible.
The New York shopgirl is the third
wife of Hansen to start legal action of
some kind against him. His troubles
started when he was arrested in New
York City eight days after his mar
riage to Miss Riordan; he was wanted
then on charges brought by Mrs. Mar
tina Bloom Hansen of Kenosha, his
first and only legal wife, who charged
that he had abandoned her and their
four children. He was brought back to
Kenosha to face these charges.
''Wife No. 2" Brought Suit.
While he has been in jail here pa
pers have been served on him for an
annulment of his marriage under the
name of Charles Albert to Reeva Gold
berg, formerly of Kenosha and now of
Los Angeles. They were married in
Crown Point, Ind, in December. 1921.
When annulment proceedings for
this second marriage were served on
Hansen at the county Jail here, he
SIhIGA bHdJ ne WOulu uOG dIbSIlpb W
fight them. 1t is presumed he will
take the same attitude regarding the
proceedings brought by the New York
shopgirl.
Followed Chiefs Advice.
In connection with the annulment
proceedings brought by Miss Kathlyn
Riordan, "Wife No. g." it was recalled
here this morning that when Hansen
was taken away from New York City,
his bride was broken-hearted.
~ love him so much What shall /
do?" she sobbed as the officers took
him away.
Chief of Police Thad Logan of Ke-
nosha, who went to New York to bring
Hansen back to Kenosha, advised her
that the best thing she could do was
to try to forget him and to start an
nulment proceedings at once. Evident
~ She has now decided to follow this
advice.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
PROSPEROUS.

How much money have you in the
bank? The average American has
about $1S5 in his savings account.
That isn't far from the bread-line,
though the nations total savings
do amount to the gigantic sum of
81, 900 million dollars.
"If 1 lost my job and couldn't get
another, how long would my money
hold out ?" This is a question that wise
men ask themselves occasionally.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
First publication. Nov. 20, 1924.
STATE OF WISCONSIN-IN CIRCUIT

First publication. Nov. 20. 1924.
STATE OF WISCONSIN-IN CIRCUIT
CoURT-KENOSHA COUNTY.
NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE.
Wisconsin Mortgage and Securities Com
pany, a corporation, plaintiff. VS.. Carlos
S. Hollenbeck and Agnes Hollenbeck, his
wife. John Istvanek and Anna lstvanek
his wife, Stephen Istvanek and Mary Istva-
mex, his wife, Matthias Istvanek and Serafine
Istvanek, his wife, and Michael J. Hensgen
and Mary B. Hensgen, his wife, defendants.
BY virtue of and pursuant to iudg-
ment and decree of foreclosure and sale
duly rendered in and by the Circuit Court.
in and for the County of Kenosha, State
of Wisconsin, at the regular October, A. ID.
1923, term thereof dated on the 18th day
of November, A. d. 1928. and duly en-
tered and docketed in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court in and for
the County Of Kenosha. State Of Wiscon-
sin, in the above entitled action, in favor
Of Wisconsin Mortgage and Securities
Company, a corporation, plaintiff, and
against Carlos S. Hollenbeck and Agnes
Hollenbeck, his wife, John Istvanek and
Anna Istvanek, his wife. Stephen Istvanek
and Mary Istvanek, his WIFE. Matthias
Istvanek and Serafne Istvanek, his wife.
and Michael j. HensRen and Mary B.
Hensgen, his wife, defendants therein, /.
the undersigned. Sheriff of kenosha County;
State of Wisconsin, will offer for sale and
sell for cash at public auction and vendue
at the north front door of the Circuit
Court House in the City of Kenosha.
County or kenoSha ana state or Wlscon-
sin. on the 9th day of January, "A. d.
1925, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
that day. the following described mort
gagged premises directed in and by said
Judgment to be sold for the purpose of
securing sufficient funds with which to
pay the amount due the plaintiff upon said
judgment for principal interest and costs.
together with solicitors fees and the ex-
pense of such sale, and together with all
taxes, tax liens and tax certificates
chargeable TO said real estate. which said
premises described in said judgment
as follows, to-wit:
The east half of the southeast quarter Of
section twenty-four (24), and the northwest
quarter of the northwest quarter of section
thirty-six (S6), township one (l) north OF
range twenty-one (21) east of the Fourth
Principal Meridian; containing one hum
dred twenty (120) acres more or less, ac-
cordnR to the government survey thereof;
said premises lying and being in the county
of Kenosha, in the state of Wisconsin.
Dated at the sheriff's Office in the City of
Kenosha, County of Kenosha, and State OF
Wisconsin, this 18th day of November; A. D.
1924.
Terms of Sale-Cash.
FRED C. PABST
Sheriff of Kenosha County,
Wisconsin.
RANDALL, CAVANAGH &
MITTELSTAED,
Attorneys for the Plaintiff.
(W-3S) Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-25
First publication Dec. A, 1924.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

First publication Dec. A, 1924.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
KENOSHA COUNTY COURT
IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the VIII of Christian
Nissen, deceased
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
demands of all persons against Christian
Nissen, deceased, late of the City Of Keno
sha, in said County of Kenosha, will be
examined and adjusted by the County Court
of Kenosha County at the regular terms
of said Court to be holden at the County
Court room in the City of Kenosha in
and for said County, the first Tuesday
of May, A. D. 1925 at ten o'clock a. m. of
that day; also that the time until and in
GLIDING the first Tuesday of April. a. D.
1925. is the time allowed and limited for
creditors of said Christian Nissen. deceased,
to present their claims for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 10th day of No
vernber, A. D. 1924.
BY the Court,
ROBERT " BAKER,
(W-38l County Judge.