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Smyrna times., 1924-01-16
PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING

Finest work guaranteed. Prices
right. Leave orders with Mrs. Marion
COverdale, Smyrna, Del, or write L.C.
Dunn. Box S06. Dover, Del.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Mrs. Benfeld Dillinger, near Clay
ton, is in the Howard Hospital, Phil
adelphia, undergoing treatment.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Joseph Kelley, prefect of st. JOS
eph's Industrial Home, is visiting in
New York City.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Mrs. Howard Sevil, who has been i'll
with blood poison at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia, is said to be
improving.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16
CLAYTON

A bazaar and chicken salad supper
will be given at Oak Hill School, Fri
day evening, Jan. 25.-adv.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Miss Hilda G. Emerson of State
College, Pa, has returned home after
spending five months in the college.
She has been spending a few days
with her sister, Mrs. Harry A. Smith.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Miss Helen Cobb and Miss Virginia
Jones, students at the Women's Col
lege, University of Delaware, were
recent visitors to their parents in
Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16
NEWS OF CLAYTON.
AND Local News Budgets from Cheswold, Kenton
8Iackbird, Townsend, Thoroughfare Neck,
Leipsc, BrenfOrd, and Their Vicnities.

and secure sufficient Federal Road aid
to warrant the extension.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

The church school of Trinity Church
will be held at half past two Sunday
afternoon. Evensong will follow at
half past three. The pledges for both
local support and the National Quota
not all paid, are requested to be
brought in so that the accounts may
be closed.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

That he might better equip himself
with an education, the Rev. Charles
o. Quillen, pastor of the Methodist
Protestant Church, over at Crumpton,
Md, made 10000 pounds of home
made candies for the holidays, work
ing at this "on the side" while attend
ing to his pastoral duties.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

The fourth Quarterly Conference Of
the Millington-Delaney charge will be
held at Asbury Church, Millington,
this Saturday at 1870 a. m. Dist.
Superintendent, Omar E. Jones, will
preach at Massey this Sunday at p.
m. Public is cordially invited to this
service.
Smyrna times., 1924-01-16

Clayton railroad circles were sorry
to hear of the death of David C. Col
pitts, aged 73, of Mt. Pleasant, long
station agent at that place and vet
eran in the service. He was popular
with railroad men all along the line.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
FORBES HISTORY
DETAILED TO JURY

Chicago, Ill.-The history of the
alleged conspiracy by which Charles
R. Forbes and j. w. Thompson sought
to defaud the United States govern
rnent of millions in the spending of
the money appropriated by congress
for disqualification of veterans, was
detailed to jury in federal court here
today by John w. H. Grim, special
assistant attorney general.
Defense counsel this afternoon were
to follow with their opening state
ments which it was planned to COM
plete before Thanksgiving day ad-
journment.
Conferences between Forbes, Thomp-
son, James w. Black, Thompson's
partner, Charles F. Cramer, counsel
for the veterans bureau, and Elias
H. Mortimer, began in tire spring of
1921, Mr.. Grim told the jury over the
prosecutive spending by the. veterans
bureau of the $17,Ooo,oO0 hospital fund
provided by the second Langley bill.
Black and Cramer are now dead, and
Mortimer, Grim said, was the paid
informant of the government.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
WISCONSIN BANKER
HELD FOR LARCENY
Clark Kinney of Three Lakes Charged
With Stealing Woman's Old
Fashioned Rings.

Chicago. Clark Kinney, former
banker of Three Lakes, Wis, was held
to the Cook county grand jury here
today in bonds of $4,000 on complaint
of larceny preferred by Mrs. Cecil
Ware of New Orleans, La. Mrs. Ware,
wife of New Orleans capitalist,
charged Kinney with larceny of "old1
fashioned" diamond rings valued at
$4,000. Counsel for Mrs. Ware said
that the entire litigation brought by
her against Kinney, including chancery
suits in New Orleans, involved between
100000 and $4,000. The plaintiff al
leges that Kinney, whom she met So
cially in New Orleans in 1922, after
gaining her confidence, persuaded her
to entrust moneys and rings in his
hands. Mrs. Ware testified that she
missed two rings after removing them
in hotel here and that Kinney when
questioned about them advised her to
let him take care of them, promising
to return them. She said they were
never returned. Kinney controls farms
at Three Lakes, large scale incor-
porated farming enterprise producing
seed potatoes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
EXTRA!
SHEATSLEY CASE
REPORTS DELAYED
Experts Still Studying Over Problem
of Woman Who Was Found in
Parsonage Furnace.

Columbus, O. Results of the sci
entific examination being made in con-
nection with certain phases of the
Sheatsley furnace mystery will not be
made known before the first Of next
week, County Prosecutor John r. King
announced at noon today after con-
ference with DR.. H. M. Brundage, a
pathologist, who with Chemist G. F.
Long, is conducting the examination.
Mr.. King said that no preliminary
report on any one phase of the scien-
tifc examination would be made. The
report, promised for iext Monday or
Tuesday, will include, he said, con-
illusions of the scientists on the gui-
nea pig experiment and as to whether
brownish crimson stains found on a
number of articles in the parsonage of
Christ Lutheran church in the fashion
able Bexley district are human blood.
The Rev. F. C. Sheatsley, husband
of the woman whose body was discov-
cred by him in the furnace of the
church parsonage in the fashionable
Bexley district, practically inclnerated,
on November II, was due to arrive
here this afternoon. The minister and
his four children are expected to vol
UNFAIRLY offer supplementary testimony
to authorities. All gave statements of
their movements on the day of the
tragedy to authorities on November
1s, and they are expected to clear up
a number of points which are not ex-
actly clear in the minds of the in
vestigators.
The Rev. Mr.. Sheatsley told Prose
cutir King week ago that he believed
his wife committed suicide by casting
herself into the furnace after becom-
ing violently insane. -sss-'f.'-4'
Tom Jones, %, who said his home
is in st. Louis, was held today by po-
lice after being identified as the man
who left an overcoat, scorched on a
sleeve and bearing stains, at a dry
cleaning establishment for repairs
shortly after the body was found. The
stains he said, were paint and the
scorches on the sleeve had resulted
from sleeping near camp fires.
Detective James Creedon of the CO.
lumbus police department today was
assigned to the case. He will work
with Detective Harry Green.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
DAUGHERTY FILES
HIS DEFENSE TODAY

Washington D. C.-M. S. Daugherty,
brother of former Attorney General
Daugherty, filed with the supreme
court today defense of his refusal
to furnish to the Senate certain infor-
nation concerning the affairs of the
Midland National Bank of Washington
Court House, Ohio, of which he is
president.
He insisted that the Senate investi-
CATION was not legislative in charac-
ter but was an attempt to prosecute
his brother; challenged the power of
the Senate to compel recalcitrant wit
nesses to testify, and asserted that in
the formation of legislation, congress,
before it can compel the attendance
and testimony of witnesses it must
through. the two houses, declare its
purpose and demand the information.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
Policemen Injured As Car Crashes Into Telephone Pole
Simmons To Cut
Dividend Melon
Declares RunlOT

A rumor which will give an extra
cause for Thanksgiving in many Ke-
ncsha home reached Kenosha today
from the east declaring that it was
expected that the Simmons company
would in the near future cut big
dividend melon. No announcement
has been made by the company and
no definite statement regarding the
rumored dividend could be secured.
The Wall Street Journal of New
FORK City in a recent edition carried
the following item, however:
When directors of the Simmons Bed
company meet early next month, it Is
expected that a stock dividend of
about per cent will be declared.
An increase in the cash dividend also
is looked for. The cash dividend is
expected to be doubled; placing the
stock on So per annual basis, COM
pared with present annual rate OF
81 share.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
HERO FACING
BOUNCER CHARGE
Both Good and Bad News
Prompts Search for J.
Schubert, Bartender.
GOT $1,000 REWARD?

There were two good reasons for at
tempts that were being made this
morning to locate Joseph Schubert,
former bartender at the State Line Inn
son South Sheridan road, which was
destroyed by fire several days ago.
First, it was desired til find out
whether or not he received, as is ru-
mored. reward of $4,000 for the part
he had In rescuing John Schmidt, own
er Of the tavern, and his wife from
death, when he found the tavern in
flames early in the morning several
days ago.
Second, the sheriff's Office was look
ing for Schubert on more potent
reason, namely, to serve on him war
rant charging him with assault and
battery on one Arthur Schieve, the
case arising out of an episode said to
have taken place at the roadhouse only
a few days before the fire, when Schu-
bert proved a hero.
Claims He Was "Bouncer."
Schieve was the complaining witness
on the warrant swornout in the NUM-
cipal court. He claimed that Schubert,
acting in the capacity of "bouncer"
had given him the "bum's rush" on the
night of November 10Th with result
that he had black eye and was other
wise injured.
Zone of my friends was in the tav-
ern," said Schieve in his statement to
the district attorney and. later to the
court. 81 thought he ought to be taken
home and went in the tavern to per-
suade him to go home with me. Schu-
bert interfered with result that
was hustled out Of the tavern"
Schieve presented a "black eye" and
other bruises as backing for his story.
The warrant has been in the sheriff s
hands for several days, but the officers
have been unable to locate Schubert.
Here's the Other Story.
While deputies were looking high
and low for Schubert to arrest him on
the charge, telephone call brings the
report to this paper that he has been
handsomely rewarded for his bravery.
This telephone call was an anonymou
one, coming from a man in Evanston.
who refused to divulge his name but
who said he was a friend Of Schubert
and thought the facts should be made
public. He declared that Schubert had
been rewarded by gift of $4,000 for
his work on the morning of the fire
when he crawled into an upstairs win
dow, awakened Schmidt and his wife,
and then pulled them to safety. Later
he re-entered the burning tavern to
rescue Puppy Boy" his monster Great
Dane dog, left to guard the tavern and
overcome by the smoke.
A rewarded hero or a bouncer?
Which, or both? These were the ques-
tions in the minds of the officers as
they searched today for Schubert but
failed to find him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
KENosHA COUNTY TAXES 1923 AND 1874 COMPARED.

because Of the increase in valuation
but levies for special projects in the
county had been cut, this helping to
Offset the additional tax burden thrust
upon the county by the increase in as
sessment, E'
:. The, total levy for 1924 was $685.
653.12 as against 1921, 44S.79 in 1928.
County Assessment Fixed.
The board accepted the report of the
assessment committee adopting the
equalization plan No. 10. as presented
by assessor of incomes T. T.. Cundy.
This is the three year sclecslve plan
Of fixing the values OF property in
the county. The total assess value
Of the property in the five-year peril
cd, starting in 1918, is compared with
the total true value as based on sales
in the city OF Kenosha and various
towns and from this comparison thu
valuation figures have been secured.
The plan brought the total assess
ment for the county to $106,804,910,
an increase Of more than $10,000,00o
over the total for 1928 of sos, 1924.
This county valuation is still nearly
$40 100000 below the assessed valua-
ton set by the state tax commission
for state taxation purposes, which
valuation Is being protested by the
city and county rs being discrimina-
tory and unjust.
OF this total the city Of Kenosha is
assessed $7S,203,8o8 or 1854 per cent
Of the total amount with the towns Of
the county assessed total Of $33,601,-
102 or 31.48 per cent. In 1928 Keno
sha was assessed $62,032,542, 65.1S per
cent Of the total, and the towns were
nssessed $3S,132,672 or S463 per cent,
showing that this year the proportion
Of the tax borne by the city of Keno
sha is increasing.
The valuations fixed by the county
board as the county assessment for,
county taxation purposes and the per-
centage which each is Of the whole
amount Of the tax, are shown by the
following table, adopted by the board
as part Of the report of the assess
ment committee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
EGYPT PROTESTS TO
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Secretary Receives Formal Protest on
Action of British Government in
Stack Killing.

Geneva - A telegram of protest
against the British action in ! Egypt
following the assassination Of the sir
dar, Lee Stack, was received today by
the secretarate of the League of Ma
tions from the Egyptian parliament,
under the signature Of the president Of
that body.
The text indicates that q similar
communication has been forwarded to
all the world parliaments.
The League officials seem in doubt
as to what to do with the communica-
ton, coming as it does from the par
lament and not from the Egyptian
government.
Whether it shall be distributed Off
cially to the members Of the League
council, which is meeting shortly in
Rome, has not yet been determined,
but officials this morning expressed
the opinion that the most l.fely course
was that the document would be trans
mitted to all the members Of the
League for their information.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
c aplin and Bride
Return to America

Nogales, Ariz. The bridal party
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Chaplin ar
rived at the international boundary
here early today in the private car
sonora" from the port city Of Quay
mas near which place the marriage
ceremony was performed early yester-
day.
Besides Mr.. Chaplin and his bride,
who was Lita Grey, his leading wo-
man, there were four other in the
party. The destination Of the party
from here is not known.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

Kenosha county taxes for the year
1924 were levied Tuesday afternoon
by the board Of supervisors of the
county, revealing that had not the
state taxes assessed against Kenosha
county jumped more than $1,000 be-
cause of what is claimed to be an un-
just $4,000, 900 boost in the property
valuation of the county for state tax
purposes, the levy would have been
below that of 1923. The board had
pruned off savings on many Of the
items making up the 4compIe.n tax
levy but these savings were J more
than gobbled up by the increase in
the state tax levy for Kenosha county.
The general county tax remains un-
changed for the year, remaining at
$250,00O the same figure as in the
1923 levy. Every item based on the
state valuation is of course increased
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
TO GET HANSEN
AT NEW YORK
Detective McClusky Will
Go East Tomorrow
With Papers.
TO EXTRADITE HIM

Detective Frank McClusky Of the
Kenosha police department, left for
Madison this morning to have extra
dition papers signed by Governor
Blaine for the return of Charles Han
sen to this state from New York
state. HANSEN is held in the Tombs
in New York awaiting for the arrival
Of the Kenosha officer, and when
brought back here he will be arraigned
on the charge of bigamy on the COM
plant of his wife, Martha Hansen, who
with their four children is living with
her parents at 1877 N. Fremont avenue.
The Kenosha police detective will
leave for the east as soon as the neces-
sary papers have been procured, leav-
ing probably early Thursday morning.
Chief Logan received a message
from the New York police Tuesday
night, informing him that since Keno
sha had the first claim, he would be
turned over to the officer from this
city. Earlier dispatches carried the
news that the New York department
was holding Hansen as fugitive
from Justice in Wisconsin and also
pending their investigation into his
alleged illegal marriage with a
Catherine Reardon in New York ten
days ago.
But the later telegram signed by
Lahey, chief inspector, from New
York read as follows: "Charles Han
sen having been indicted in Wiscon-
sin, will not prosecute here. Send
officer with necessary papers"
Says Other Got Divorce.
Meanwhile friends of Reeva Gold
berg, who is named in the warrant
charging bigamy as the woman Hansen
married while still the lawful hus-
band of Martha Bloom Hansen, say
that she has secured a divorce in Cali
fornia. Letters carrying this news are
said to have been received by those
Kenosha girl, whose name has been
who were in the confidence of the
brought into the story.
If Hansen married Miss Goldberg
at Crown Point, as is alleged while
the husband Of Martha Hansen, no
divorce could Be granted if the facts
were known to the court, as the second
marriage in such case would not be
legal one. NThe friends OF Miss
Goldberg here, however, gave this in
formation to establish the fact that
Miss Goldberg herself had severed her
alleged connection with Hansen, and
that their lives were separate at the
time of Hansen's further escapades
in New York and his arrest there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
POURING ROOF
FOR HOTEL TODAY
Concrete Work on Hotel
Dayton to be Completed
by Nightfall.
NO HALT IN BUILDING
Work of Laying Terra Gotta
and Brick Will Be Continued
Through Winter Months.

Among other things which Kenosha
will have cause to be thankful for on
Thanksgiving Day tomorrow is the
fact that the new Dayton Hotel is on
it's way and that it will probably be
ready for occupancy by the middle OF
next May.
Breaking all records for construc-
ton in Kenosha Contractor John
Christensen was this afternoon pour
ing the concrete for the roof of the
eight story hotel building, Hardly o
minute has been lost since the con-
struction of the building started six
weeks ago and with the roof on it
is expected that the construction will
go on right through the winter
months. Only extreme below zero
weather will bring any let up in the
building operations.
The work of setting the terra Gotta
and the brick will be started the first
Of next week and canvas will be put
about the giant frame of the hotel in
order to permit this work to go for
ward without interruption. It is ex-
pected that the building will be en-
closed by the middle of January.
Dreams Do Come True Here.
The new eight story hotel was the
result OF the dreams of Edward and
Fred Dayton and after nearly two
years Of hard work the two men with
the assistance Of few other people
in the city have brought the hotel to
this stage of construction. The no
tel when completed will cost in the
neighborhood of three hundred thou
sand dollars.
The Dayton brothers pioneered the
work for the hotel and when it ap-
peared that there was a possibility of
failure Jacob Gottlieb came into the
company and gave a personal guaran-
tee for stock to be sold in Kenosha.
Thomas Hansen the former owner of
the hotel site also aided materially
in bringing about the raising of the
funds necessary to start the building.
One man who has not been men
toned to any extent in the building
of the hotel is Edward Olson. He is
the stock salesman who was the buff
fer between the people and the man
who urged the building of the hotel.
many months on the hotel proposition
and finally succeeded in interesting
something like hundred and eighty
people in the stock of the company.
Olson was given the task of raising
the thirty-fve thousand dollars in
local stock necessary to put over the
deal.
The work of Olson has been instru-
mental in putting behind the hotel a
lot of local people and it is certain
that the interest of stock holders
will be big feature in the develop
ment of the hotel in the future years.
Companies Seek Management.
1t is known that number of men
long experienced in the management
of hotels are seeking to manage the
new hotel when it is opened. The
furnishings for the hotel are now be-
ing made by one of the biggest fur
nishing companies In the country and
they will be ready for installation by
the time the hotel building is COM
pleted. The furnishings and fittings
of the hotel will be "rich but not
gaudy" and the entire interior will be
most pleasing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
POWERS ACQUITTED
ON MURDER CHARGE

GAINESVILLE, wis.-After being out Is
minutes the jury in the case of Pat
rick Powers, suspended policeman of
Madison, charged with manslaughter,
returned verdict of not guilty this
morning.
Powers shot and killed Peter Pose
pny, a student of the University of
Wisconsin at the rear of the Powers
home in Madison May IL last. Powers
claimed he thought the student was
a burglar and was coming toward him
when shot and killed instantly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
NO THANKSGIVING DAY
EDITION.

In accordance with its long-es-
tablished custom, the Kenosha Eve
ming News will not publish an edi-
ton on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27.
Editorial staff, mechanical depart
ments, job printing departments
and all other employees of the Ke-
nosha News Publishing company
will be presented with the day off,
and the hearty wishes Of the COM
pany for heartier Turkey dinner.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
Dawes May Decline
to Sit in Cabinet

Washington, D. C.-Whether Charles
J. Dawes, vice president-elect, will sit
in the cabinet meetings after next
March has not been decided, although
Mr.. Dawes indicated last summer to
President Coolidge he did not desire
to do so. The custom was inaugural
ed by President Harding and as vice
president Mr.. Coolidge attended the
regular meetings of the cabinet. The
question was talked over briefly by the
president with Mr.. Dawes when they
met last summer at Plymouth, VT.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
! : os.sO4.eIO

The levies against the various
towns and against the city of Kenosha
are based on these figures. They have
notmyet been determined by County
Clerk Hoiderness and will be made
public later in the week.
To Use County Warrants.
The county board adopted resolu-
ton directing county officials in bring
ing criminal action against law vi
olators to use county warrants for
misdemeanors wherever this was pos
sible under the law in order that any
fines which might accrue from tho
case might go into the county Golfers.
This is. similar to a practice which
has been adopted by the city of Keno
sha.
The board closed its session by adj
journing until Monday, January 9th,
at 10 a. m.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
Leopold and Loeb
Get No Turkey

Chicago, III. There will be no
Thanksgiving turkey for Nathan Leo
pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, serving
life terms for the murder of Bobby
Franks. Instead the menu will con-
sist of roast pork, potatoes, tomatoes,
mince pie, coffee and a cigar. But
prison routine will be broken for the
day, no work will be done and in the
afternoon vaudeville program will
be given.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
TO ExTRApITE BAILL1E.

Motorcycle Officer E. L. Baillie,
charged with kidnapping and malicious
destruction of property by H. H. Shu-
feldt, must stand trial in Kenosha. R.
P. Cavanagh, attorney for Mr.. Shu-
feldt was notified today that Governor
Small had signed the extradition pa
pers to bring Baillie to Kenosha
county and that the warrants were
now in the hands Of the Waukegan
sheriff for service.