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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
TWO CHILDREN
FOUND DEAD
Kenoshans Return From
! Funeral of Asphyxia-
ton Victims.
ON FLOOR OF AUTO

News of one of the saddest TRACE
dies in recent years in the history OF
southern Wisconsin was brought to
Kenosha this morning by Commandant
Thomas Williamson of the Kenosha
Salvation Army, who returned from
the camp of that organization near
East Troy, where on Wednesday he Of
ficiated at the funeral services of Alex
and Peddy Thomas, the six and eight
year old sons of Ensign and Mrs. Will
liam Thomas, Salvation Army officers,
formerly we'll known in Kenosha.
The two children were found dead
on the floor of the automobile in which
they had ridden from Beloit to the
camp several days ago. 1t was estab-
hshed by the 'coroner's inquest that
they died of asphyxiation.
Had Gone to Sleep.
Ensign and Mrs. Thomas were for
merly in charge of Salvation Army
work at Beloit but several months ago
had been transferred to St. Louis
Granted furlough they came with
their family to the Army camp near
East Troy for a vacation. On the
night of the death they had gone to
Beloit to attend meeting in the Sal
walton Army barracks in their honor
and after it were returning in their
Ford automobile to the Army camp.
\ The younger lad had crawled down
on the floor between the front and rear
seats of the car and had gone to SLEEP
there just as they started from Be-
lott. Farther on the older lad also
crawled on the floor to go to sleep
The two had pulled a blanket over
them.
Found Dead at End of Trip.
At the end of the journey, the par
ents had looked Immediately for the
children and to their horror found
both of them dead.
Investigation revealed that they had
smothered to death, possibly from
fumes from heater or from exhaust
fumes from the car.
A large number of Salvation Army
officers and members went to East
Troy on Wednesday to attend the dou-
BILE funeral of the children.
The dead children were the grandson
of Colonel Edwy White of Milwaukee,
Salvation Army worker who is wide
ly known in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
Harry Harrison, Wanted
at Milwaukee is Ar
rested Here.
BY COP ON HOLIDAY
Police Officer O'Hare While at
Twin Lakes Finds
Some Work to Do.

Harry Harrison, now in the county
jail, has admitted, according to Sher-
if Fred Pabst, that he stole the Buick
car found in his possession which was
stolen from Joseph Bosco of haywood
ILL.,, about ten days ago, and also ad-
mitted that he stole money from the
proprietor of "a hotel at Twin Lakes
Harrison was arrested by Police OF
fcer George O'Hare at Twin Lakes
during the last weekend, while the
policeman was on a vacation, on the
complaint of Mrs. Gustafson of the
Alderman hotel.
The young man is now held on the
charge of grand larceny in connection
with the theft at the hotel, but it is
expected that the charge of automo-
bile theft will later be placed against
him. The police say that they have
been requested by Milwaukee to hold
Harrison as there is a warrant there
for him charging forgery.
Took Money From Tea Cup.
The Kenosha police officer was en-
ioying an outing with his wife and
children at the lakes and had his
mind on other things than ''pinching'
folks when the mistress of the Acker-
man hotel turned to him for aid. She
said that $65 had been stolen from
her pocketbook while it lay in draw
err in the kitchen, and also some
change which lay in tea cup in the
kitchen. She said she suspected Har-
rison because the day before he had
run short of money and borrowed
some of her to take two girls and an
other young man out to dance.
Harrison posed as the chauffeur for
erich man" whom he said was at
Nippersink playing golf. He said it
was the ''rich mans" Buick which he
himself was driving. At the appeal
Of Mrs. Gustafson, O'Hare watched
Harrison, and presently saw him -four
ishing a twenty-dollar bill before the
counter in a saloon. The Kenosha
policeman held the man and tele-
phoned Sheriff Pabst for instructions
'Bring him into town." advised the
sheriff.
Harrison was brought in. The sher-
if meanwhile started an investigation
suspecting that the Buick car was
stolen also, as O'Hare informed him
that Harrison was always riding
around in the car, and even "rich
man. would want to see his chauffeur
and his car once in while for his
own benefit, whereas Harrison had not
been absent from the lakes for days
Today it was said. Harrison ''caved
in" and admitted the theft Of the car
and the money.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
DRUNK DRIVER
GETS SIS FINE,
Judge Slater Hands Albert
Stemerak Fine for Men
acing Traffic.
FOUGHT COURT CASE

Albert Stemerak told Judge Slater
that he had not been drunk when
Deputy Sheriff Stanley Rauen arrested
him early in the week, and when the
case was called for hearing this
morning, Stemerak continued his cry
of mot guilty"
His stanch insistence upon the en-
tire sobriety of his condition when
arrested, was in somewhat amusing
contrast to the testimony presented
by the state.
He Was "Dead" Drunk.
Deputy Sheriff Stanley Rauen tes-
titled that he had arrested Stemerak
after the latter had collided with "a
car on the highway. He said he fol-
lowed the man for about half mile,
and found him travelling in a zig-zag
course.
Stemerak was at the wheel, but the
deputy made him get into the rear
seat When they arrived at the
sherifT's Office, and -Stemerak got out,
he could not manage his feet, but
fell in heap.
Sheriff Pabst testified also that the
man was intoxicated.
Judge Slater found the defendant
guilty, and ordered him to pay fine
of SIS and costs with the alternative
of forty days in the county jail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
SWINDLE GAME IS
BROKEN BY VICTIM
William Sheshtek, Garfield House, Almost
Falls But Not Quite - He Sets Trap
for the Other Fellow.
<ynA
CONFIDENCE MAN Is ARRESTED
Thomas Malin of Chicago, is in the County Jail This
Morning, and Sheshtek Has His Money in
Bank = Second Man Escapes.

They say it's long worm that has
no turning.
Maybe William Sheshtek Of the
Garfield House was marked out for
worm, but it's more likely he was
lined UP to be "fsh", but fish or worm
he turned, and his turning resulted in
the arrest Of the man who was batting
a hook TO get him.
Tncmas Malin, %, and slim and dap
per, with address 1901 Cottage Grove
avenue, Chicago, is today in the coun-
e. Jail awaiting hearing in court on
sire charge of operating confidence
RSrnc. There WIS i second confidence
zlan, but he escaped and the police
have rot get learned his name.
che game which Malin and his COM
1an;on sought to play on Sheshtek was
20 elaborate that it is a wonder the
sheet of their attentions could re-
s4rember it all.
Boiled down, through the pair OF
sogues, William was offered $1,000 all
fSr nothing; just a present. He was
to get this handsome present only by
showing his own roll of bills with
drawn from his savings account in the
First National bank.
lSheshtek did withdraw his savings
account; he did take the roll of mon
ey in hand; he did meet the "con'
man with the money outside the bank
but
bet tive Frank McCluskey Of the
police / was walking right on his
heels, anu the opportune moment
just around the corner from the First
National bank, he snapped the hand
cuffs on the swindler.
Malin Admits Game to Police.
Malin, half hour later, in conf
Dental talk with Chief Logan in the
police chiefs office, apparently knock
ed off his composure by the clapping
of the trap over his ears, admitted, it
is alleged, that he had worked the
little game with Sheshtek in order to
get his money.
Someone rolled me for bunch of
dough like that one time," he said
sand | wanted to get back at someone
else"
But when Malin was arraigned in
the municipal court just before six
o'clock Monday before Judge Slater
he blinked a moment when the judge
said "Guilty or not guilty" considered
and then said he would like a few
days to think the matter over. II
had all happened a little too fast fol
his own thoughts to catch up.
A preliminary hearing was set fol
August at a. M, bail set at $1,000
In default of BAIL, the defendant was
committed to the county Jail.
It's a Long Story.
This is the story that William Shesh.
tax told the police:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
FARM BUREAU Is
TO BE ORGANIZED
All Kenosha County Farm
ers Invited to Join
i'm Movement.
MEET ON WEDNESDAY

A meeting of the farmers interested
in the development of the Kenosha
County Farm Bureau is to be held at
the home of A. C. Stoxen near Bassett
on Wednesday evening, July 80. IL. L.
McMurray, secretary OF the state
dairy marketing committee and /. M.
Wright, secretary of the Wisconsin
Farm Bureau Federation will be pres
ent. The farmers Of Kenosha county
and their families are invited to be
present to spend social and proflt-
able evening together.
1t is hoped that Kenosha county
farmers may work out a program for
the county farm bureau along social,
legislative and cooperative market
ing lines, as are being carried on in
other counties of the state.
Discuss Dairy Marketing.
The dairy marketing committee,
working with the state federation, has
been assembling information on sue
cessful dairy marketing plans and is
developing a standard marketing plan
for Wisconsin dairy products.
At this time many of the county
farm bureaus are laying plans for
united action during the next legis-
lature. These farm organizations are
especially interested in the reduction
and adjustment of the tax load now
being carried by farm real estate.
The Farm Bureau tax program, both
state and national, calls for the adj
justment of the tax load on the basis
of the ability to pay rather than to
so great an extent on the assessed
valuation of real property.
Reorganize Under State Law.
The Kenosha County Farm Bureau
has been rather inactive for the past
year, but it is planned to reorganize
it under the new provisions of the
Wisconsin cooperative law which
were enacted by the last legislature
partly as the result Of the Farm
Bureaus legislative committee during
that session.
AS a cooperative association incor-
porated under the state law, the
county farm bureau will have more
stability and will afford additional
protection at the last annual meeting
held at Madison during February.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
Hands Down Opinion
in Russell Bankruptcy
Judge E. B. Belden Hands Down Deci-
sion Regarding Claims Against
E. G. Russell.

An opinion in the Russell case, liti-
cation that grew out of the bankruptcy
of E. G, Russell, the road builder, has
been filed by Judge E. B. Belden in
the circuit court The case was
brought by the Racine Crushed Stone
company against E. G. Russell, the
Maryland Casualty company, and Ra-
cine county.
Findings of the referee in bank
ruptcy, Charles Krenske, were approx
ed except that the claims of Alvin
Wenger, Mary Hay, Yorkville Metho-
dist society, Frank Heningfeld, Eden
Noble, Ole Peterson and Frank Chada
were allowed as lienable. Heltzel
Steel Form and Iron company's claim
lis consolidated with the amount of
claims not entitled to lien or pref
erence.
According to the opinion handed
down, claims allowed but not entitled
to lens, are not sufficient in the ag-
gregate amo mt, when added to the
aggregate amount, of claims, held by
the court entitled to liens, to exhaust
the fund held by the county and the
liability of the surety. The judgment
demands that all claims entitled to
liens be paid forthwith.
It further states that preference
over non-lienable claims be given to
the First National bank of Waukegan,
by virture of the assignments execut-
ed to it by Russell and filed with the
highway commission and county clerk
Thirty lienable claims are cited
in the opinion.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
REPORT SHOWS
MORE WEDDINGS
2.9% Increase in Marriages
and Divorces Over 1922
for County.
STATE INCREASES ALSO

Dan Cupid and company extended
himself more fully in 1923 than he did
an 1924, according to the report is
sued by the Department of Commerce
at Washington. Kenosha seemed TO be
particularly fertile for the youngster'5
activities, for it reported an increase
an both marriages in 1923 over that Of
1929, according 20 the report. In 1928,
295 couples got each other interested
i'm going through life together, and in
1922 only 254 men could convince that
many women that they belonged to
each other sufficiently seriously for
marriage. The increase is not ex-
planned in the report, although it is
believed that industrial conditions in
the city and the country generally had
8 great deal to do with the figures.
In the state of Wisconsin the in
crease is more noticeable. The De-
partment of Commerce announces that,
according to returns received, there
were in Wisconsin. for the calendar
year 1928, 1915 marriages performed
and for the calendar year 1922, 1927
marriages reported. The increase re-
ported for 1928 over the number re-
ported for 1922 is 400 or 90 per cent.
Divorces Went Up Too.
The marriage state isn't the only
one, however, for the report shows al
SO an increase in divorces. In Keno
sha county there were 95 divorces in
1928 compared with "a in 1922, an in
crease of 81 or almost 5 per cent. In
the state of Wisconsin the totals show
that the divorces reported for 1923
over the number reported for 1922 show
an increase of SIS or 20 per cent-the
same percentage increase for mar
riages.
While the report does not attempt
to be complete, it is as near being cor
rect as figures supplied by the state
board of health can make it. The re-
port points out that the statistics are
preliminary and subject to correction.
But, at any rate, they are encouraging
or discomforting- them as you
wish.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
Gustav Mattner
Died This Morning
Employee of the Nash Motors Co.
Died This Morning After a
Short Illness.

Gustav Mattner, aged SO years,
formerly an employee of the Nash No
tors Company, died early this morning
at the home of his daughter Mrs. HUI
go Wenngren, on Fourteenth Avenue
He had been failing in health for sew
eral months but was critically i'll on
1y few hours.
The deceased was born in Russia
March II, 1871 and lived his early
life in that country. He came to
America many years ago and had long
been a resident of Kenosha. He had
been employed at the Nash Motors
Company until last January when fail
ing health forced him to quit work.
His wife died several months ago.
HIS is survived by the following chill
dren, all of Kenosha: Mrs. Hugo
Wenngren, Otto, Elsie Ferdinand and
Ida Mattner He is also survived by
two brothers, William, of Kenosha,
and Adolph, of Tigerton, Wisconsin,
and by sister in Russia. The funeral
services will be held Friday afternoon
at two o'clock at the Hansen Funeral
Home, 418 Park Avenue with interment
in the Green Ridge Cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
SIMMONS SHOWS
A NEAT PROFIT
Report of Simmons Com
pany for Last Six Months
of Interest Here.
S1.O3 COMMON SHARE

Of interest to Kenosha is the report
of Simmons company, whose largest
plant is located in Kenosha, for the SIX
months period closing May 30, 1924.
This report was just made public In
New York, showing that the company
has made a net profit after taxes OF
$1,174,120 as compared with $1,5SO,9S4
for the same period a year previous.
In view of the general decrease in in
dustrial activities throughout the coun-
try, this report is most favorable one.
The report follows:
Simmons company, for six months
ended May 81, 1924, reports net profit
of $1,174,120, after taxes and charges,
equivalent, after preferred dividends,
to $103 a share earned on 911,601
shares of no par common stock. This
compares with net profit of $1,580,934
in same period of previous year.
Income account for six months ended
May 81, 1924, follows:
Net profit, after charges and taxes 81 ,174,120
Preferred dividends ...,........,. 22e,41S
Common dividends .......,..,.... 44I,0ll
surplus ..'..s'..'.'.''''' OVV'oSl
Consolidated balance sheet of Sim
lllOHO NOAAPoAAy oo Va Ahoy 80 ISNN1 tNA
lows:
ASSETS
Cash ..................... S1,361 ,527
Accounts and notes receivable. 5,508,117
Inventories ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7246,1S5
Prepaid insurance etc..... 179,237
Investment 455,9S6
Property and plant, less deprecia-
ton .................... 1871, 195
Deferred charges ............. 1875
Patents, trademark and goodwill 1,780,868
Preferred stock sinking fund. ...a 159,4l8
Total $500. $34, 1854 500
LIABILITIES
Accounts payable ......... 455,543
Notes payable .............. $685.
Sundry reserve ................. 352,576
Mortgage bonds etc........... 43S, 900
Preferred stock ............... 6,469, 100
Common stock Represented by
oil sol shares of no par value). $3.50, 900
Surplus Observation-Disclosures. 2,744,770
Total $34 ,364,509
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
Two New Cases of
Smallpox RepOrte
Health Department Isolates Two Ne
Cases of Smallpox Reported
Yesterday Afternoon.

Oficers of the health department
were called out to two new homes in
Kenosha yesterday to isolate two new
cases of smallpox. One was another
instance where the disease could have
been avoided if the family had been
vaccinated and become immune to
smallpox. The new cases reported
bring the total number of active cases
in the city at the present time up to
twenty-three. And sect Vaccinated"
still remains as the health depart
ment's slogan in its campaign to make
everyone in the city immune from
smallpox.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
ZEPP.

The ZR-3, giant Zeppelin being built
in Germany for the United States, is
expected to be brought across the At
lantic before autumn. 1t is $50 feet
long and carries 90 passengers and a
large cargo $3.50 miles at GO miles an
hour without stopping for fuel.
It's not yet definitely decided
whether the main air traffic of the
future will be in these balloon-type
craft or planes. Odds right now are
heavily in favor Of planes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
Truck Falls Thirty
Feet; No One Hurt

Grafton, Wis.-Injury to nines chill
dren and the driver of truck was
narrowly averted here last night when
the car with its passengers plunged
thirty feet over bridge to the bank
of the Milwaukee river In backing
the car the driver apparently lost con
troll of it and the machine crashed
through the side of the bridge. The
occupants suffered only minor bruises.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

You can't eat your cake and have
it too, but who wants to have cake
you can't eat?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

Only nice thing about summer last
ing long time is it can't be winter
again until summer has gone.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
.OHMSTEAD SAYS
HIS FEET HURT
Took Witness Chair in Own
Defense at Hearing Be
for Osborn Today.
OTHERS TELL STORY
Witnesses Called to Testify to
Traffic Officers Condi-
ton on Duty.
BULLETIN.

The hearing before the city man
ager reached a conclusion at 2:15
o'clock this afternoon. Mr.. Os-
born announced that he would pre-
sent his decision later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

To make visitor feel at home raise
cain when he spills gravy on the table
cloth. -------- 49,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

You ought to see the autos down
town, especially before you try to
cross the street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

Weather has a lot of influence on
our lives. August, for instance, brings
discomfort, making man even too lazy
to loaf.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

son of II is going to act the way he
did at that age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Giant Railroad Strike in Great Britain as Labor
Party Prepares to Take Over Government
Daily Worker Greets
Coal Miners Convention

THE DAILY WORKER, Americas only English-language
Communist daily extends its best wishes to the Sixth Biennial
Convention of the United Mine Workers of America.
Meeting time when the American capitalist class is at
the height of it's power when that section of it whose profits
drawn from the coal mining industry has forced widespread
unemployment be used club compel acceptance of
age-reducon THE DAILY WORKER hopes that of the
deliberations of the miners will program around which
rally.
If the miners and other be whipped
the industrial field then the first has been taken towards
campaign of suppression of all privileges.
THE DAILY WORKER stands for Incorporating
struggle against the capitalists industrial eIdas well
for the protection of foregnborn workers.
for class party of the workers and farmers for Recognition
of Soviet Russia.
THE DAILY WORKER will carry full reports Of the
venton proceedings and of the progress
program by the militant miners.
May the Sixth Biennial Convention of United
Workers of America mark urningpont in the American
labor movemen-the point which will mark the beginning of
the control of the labor by the
labor who have cIearcu policy, and the will fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Program for Which Progressive
Miners International Committee
Will Fight at Indianapolis, Ind.

Naturalization of Coal Mines with genuine democratic
control Operation of the mines by Union coal miners
national class political Spsed of and controlled
by wage earnesc end farmers. - --~- a AaN~
An aggressive organizing campaign that will
threat to and working conditions the
huge production of coal from low nonunion territory
United Front of coal miners railway vvorers-be-
tween the who dig the coal and those who haul it.
Reinstatement of Alex Howatt and other Kansas miners
expelled because of their fight against the Kansas
Court law.
ngon, McLachlan, Mcintyre and the mem
bership of District &C.
National agreements for the entire industry expiring on
the date.
Direct election Of organizers and travelling auditors
Support of the United Mine Workers for industrial union
ism thru amagamation for theAmercan trade
The sx-hour day and the 6ve-day week
Against secessionsm and dual unionism.
Closest possible a6aton the United Mine Worker. with
the organized miners of the rest Of the world
Cleansing the organization of corruption and election
frauds ~
leadership that will not finch and compror;s. :; A.
struggles that must be fought
10 bring these matters before rank and file an
siVe campaign OF education should be carried on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

private detective agencies which have
one leg in the department of Justice
and another in the investigation
bureaus of the big open shop enter
prise of America.
The revelations or underworld ac-
tivity as well put the leading sleuth
corporation into such an ugly light
that the Wheeler proposal cannot be
halted unless Burns can get the Chi
cago confessions reputiated.
Mrs. Ida Jaconson, of North Kim
ball avenue, appeared in South Clark
street court yesterday against Hugh
Engel, former assistant chief of the
Chicago Burns agency, and J. Glea-
son Walker, a subordinate, whom she
has identified as the men who choked
her and robbed her Of a $1,000 brooch
and other jewelry. Her testimony
was awaited with keen interest by a
dozen private detectives Of various
agencies who sat in the courtroom
but the Burns attorneys succeeded in
securing a postponement till January
20, by which time it is believed that
William j. Burns will have completed
whatever preparations are possible
for whitewashing Of his agency
should the two dicks look like losers.
Meanwhile the Chicago police force
which has professional jealousy
against private agencies, though it
has worked with the Burns agency in
red hunts, is following up the con-
fessions regarding other robberies
which the Burns men are charged
with. Paul Mezner, deputy sheriff,
who is said to have purchased Mrs.
Jaconson's $1,000 brooch, is held by
the police while the investigations
are being conducted and Harry
Baker, another deputy and Bonnie
CONTINUED on mage "a