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Evening star., 1924-03-14

The military attache OF the British
embassy and Mrs. Charlton will en-
tertain q company Of ten at dinner
this evening in compliment to Col.
and Mrs. George Burleigh of New
York, who are at the New Willard
until the first Of the week.
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Evening star., 1924-03-14

Mr.. David Edward Finley entertain
ed at dinner last evening for his
sister, Miss Margaret Finley, who is
his guest for a week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
FINE CICCHINI ON
DRUNK CHARGE
HI. Cicchini Fined $50 and
Costs for Driving While
Intoxicated.
ON AN OLD CHARGE

The case of Herman Cicchini was
called in the municipal court Monday
afternoon on the charge of driving
while intoxicated, on February ID.
The case had been continued time
after time, some times because the
defendant was out of town, some times
because the city attorney was engaged
elsewhere, some times because the de-
tense attorney could not be reached.
Monday aftrnoon when the case was
called again, the defense attorney was
available, the assistant city attorney
was present, but Cicchini it was said,
was in Milwaukee. The case, however,
was not continued another time, but
R. v. Baker appeared for the defendant,
trial was held before Judge Slater.
Witnesses for the city were DR..
McCluskey, Francis O'Connell, Assist
ant Chief Cyzak and Detective John
Breidt.
Cicchini was found guilty of driv-
ing while intoxicated on the night in
question and was fined $50 and costs
by the judge.
Cicchini had been called to Milwau-
kee in the interests of an appeal case
which it was said he has been carry
ing on there after being found guilty
of grand larceny in connection with
the theft of an automobile.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Dropped Dead in
Arm Chair Today
Charles Herman Died Suddenly This
Morning from an Attack of
Heart Trouble.

Death came suddenly this morning
to Charles Herman, aged az years,
long an employee of Simmons com
pany, who dropped dead in an arm
chair at his home on Racine avenue,
from an attack of heart trouble, with
which affliction he had suffered for
several years. Mr.. Herman had risen
as usual this morning and after eat
ing his breakfast, had sat down to
rest in an arm chair. He gasped once
or twice and when his wife reached
his side he was lifeless. A physi-
cisian was summoned who pronounced
the man dead.
The deceased was born in Kenosha,
December 10, 1882, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Herman and had lived
practically all of his life in Kenosha.
He had been employed for many years
at Simmons company, where he was
widely and favorably known among
the employees. He was a member of
the German Workingman's society.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Herman, and two children,
Oda and Jerome Herman. The funeral
services will be held Friday morning
at nine-thirty at the st. George church
with interment following in the family
plot in the St. George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Reign of Terror in
Honduras Capital

Washington, D. C. - A reign of hor-
ror prevails in Teguoigalpa, the CAPT
tai of Honduras, bodies being strewn
on the outskirts of the city with ma
tives actually dying in squalor, it was
reported today in advices to the state
department.
The paraphrase of the departments
advices said:
Conditions there are deplorable.
There is typhoid and dysentary cpl
demic Dead bodies are strewn on the
outskirts and no attempt is being made
to inter or cremate them. The odor
throughout the city is nauseating.
"The food supply is becoming short
and the prices for canned goods are
exorbitant. The natives are actually
dying from squalor. The situation is
liable to continue for some time due
to the attitude of the authorities"
Another revolutionary movement
was reported to have been organized
in the southern part of Honduras by
Dionisio Gutierrez, former minister of
war. Gutierrez is an advocate of Bon
lila candidate for the presidency.
Zuniga Huete, the message said, now
was recognized in Tegucigalpa as die
tator.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
School Board May
Change the Rules
Some Members Want Present Commit
tee System AbOlished-Others
Oppose This Plan.

Some discussion was held at the
school board Tuesday evening relative
to the present committee system.
School Supervisor Martin Schmidt
moved that the present system of
committees be abolished in favor of
the old committee system.
"The organization we have now"
returned Supervisor Cook in opposing
Schmidt's motion, "is in our opinion
a business-like organization all the
way through. 1t comedies with the
recommendation and survey of the de-
partment of the interior at Washing
ton. don't know much about schools;
we employ professionals to attend to
all that. What do we know about
class room work. All / can hope to do
is be guide in establishing business
like methods.
1--WE are the board of directors of a
corporation. A board lays down poll
cies, employs executives and declares
dividends. Our dividends are the in
creasingly better educational advant-
ages given to our children"
"There is dinner promised US this
year." interposed the president.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10

It was just so years $50 tsday that
the Kenosha fishing ao-4 Of eight
small sail boats was caught Is miles
off shore in one of the most terrible
gales which eyer hit the lake. Six
of the eight boats which cleared port
that morning came riding back in a
smother of icy foam, their close-reefed
sails frozen to the masts, and their
crews half dead. The crews of the
other two boats were picked up as
their bodies were washed ashore one
by one.
That battle with the 100-mile-an-
hour hurricane, which lifted 150-foot
seas over the top of the lighthouse,
stands out wildly today in the minds
of the only two men who still live, who
went through the fight. They are
John Borkenhagen, 70 years old, and
Frank Holderness, Sr., 80 years old. In
perhaps half dozen homes elsewhere
in the city, others can remember the
terrible anxiety felt as one by one
merchants closed their stores and
joined the great groups of relatives
and friends who gathered at the beach
straining their eyes for glimpse of
the fleet
That was back in the days when Ke-
nosha was just village of about 1000
persons, and the fishing industry was
one of the main sources Of livelihood.
More than half Of the people in town
were at the beach that day and watch
ed the boats one by one fight to make
port. With six boats in, the strain in
creased as darkness began to fall and
the shrek of the wind rose even high
err, for somewhere out there fighting
into the night, were the two boats
which never came home.
A few talked of putting out rescue
parties, but the cooler heads realized
that no small boat could live out in
that storm in darkness. Still the
watchers stood at the beach, hoping
against hope as night shut down. With
daylight searching parties put out to
hunt for the bodies or the wreckage.
Survivor Tells Story.
But let John Borkenhagen, who in
those days was known as "The Kid"
tell the story.
st was about o'clock on the morn
ing Of April s, 1874, just half cen
fury ago, that the little fleet of eight
fishermen put out from the village of
Kenosha. l was with my uncle, Capt.
Albert Borkenhagen, and with US there
was August Houck and Fred Smith. AS
the sun climbed higher during the
forenoon the decks warmed and we
lay about smoking and chatting. We
let the nets down when we got to our
grounds which were about 25 miles
southeast of Kenosha. AS we worked
the fleet drifted a ways apart.
at was a little after o'clock when
Uncle Albert suddenly shouted to us
to reef the main and staysails. Then
we looked up and saw it coming. Up
in the north it was as black as ink
although we were riding in a calm,
with water as smooth as oil. We re-
monstrated with him against putting
on any sail
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
TlUO Left TO Tell Tale OF Lake
Disaster Half Century Ago Today

REEF those sails" he commanded.
"We haven't time to loose in talk.
Make Ready for Blow.
eve worked faster than we had for
months. Two of the boys pulled up
the nets and dashed everything fast,
while the rest of US worked. on the
for we had no more than gotten into
oil skins when the storm broke all at
once One second everything was dead
calm and the next we were racing
through white water, the mast lying
on her side until the end of the main
sail dipped water, and the gale Shrek
ed about us.
"The seas came up rapidly, whipped
by that hurricane until they were run
ming about $50 feet high. At the top
of the swells, the wind literally lifted
tons of water aboard, and then we
would start the slide down into the
trough which looked to be the bottom
of the lake. Once at the bottom the
boat would bury her nose and then
start skyrocketing up again.
Suddenly the ballast box, loaded
with about 1900 pounds of dead weight
started to shift around as though it
were a cigar box. For a time it look
ed as though it would tear us to piec-
es, but we finally managed to catch it
and get it dashed fast again. Then for
hours we nosed into the storm, for we
were south when it hit and we had to
tack back against it. Every moment
we felt that the little 14-foot craft
would go to pieces, but she had been
built in the days when hard wood and
good labor were cheap. Although she
creaked in her joints she held.
Make Port at Kenosha.
"Then we located the harbor en-
trance That was in the days before
the big breakwater made her snug.
Running for the harbor was the most
dangerous of the entire battle, for if
we m sjudged the drift we would new
err have a second chance to try over
again, and the waves were mountain
Gus. 1t was getting dusk when we
turned her nose in and held our
breath We shot in in smother of
foam.
when we tried to hurl the rope to
shore where 500 willing hands were
ready to make us fast, we found that
it was frozen stiff. Neithe. would
the sails come down for they were
sheets of ice. Numb, and more dead
than alive we stumbled ashore and
home.
''The next day we found fathers
boat washed ashore near Waukegan.
We found his body dashed to the mast.
Searching parties went out, but it was
not until several days later that any
of the bodies were found. For several
weeks they drifted ashore one by one.
Finally, the last victim had been laid
to rest.
''Now when the wind walls or shrieks
during the winter nights, there are
two of us who remember that wild
battle with the waves. But only two
of us left, for that was so years ago
today"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10


the man told him the woman who had
robbed him was colored, wore brown
fur coat and dark brown hat, heavy
set and about five foot six or seven in
height
May Smith took. the stand in her
own defense, and denied that she had
been in Kenosha on the night of the
21st of March. She told an account
of her living in other cities, how she
went to Racine looking for Mr..
Wright recently and then stopped off
at Kenosha to look for Mr.. Boys.
She said that on the night she was
arrested by the chief of police she
was trying to find where Mr.. Boys
lived" She said he had died and she
wanted to tell his wife that some one
in Superior wanted to find them be-
cause there was settlement in some
estate. She said she had only spoken
to one man on the night that she was
arrested and that was to find where
Mr.. Boys lived. She said she learned
that his folks lived down an alley and
that's how she happened to. be found
in the alley by the chief with white
man.
The case was continued day or
two longer at the request of the at
torney for the defense.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Opens Jewelry Store
in Orpheum Building
A. F. Quick, Formerly at Lockhart
Store, Will Open Jewelry Store
Here in Near Future.

A. F. Quick, for the past three years
associated with Thos. Lockhart, will
open jewelry store in the store for
merly occupied by Kilday and Kilday
in the Orpheum building within the
next few days. It is the hope of Mr..
Quick to have the formal opening on
Saturday of this week.
Mr.. Quick will have new and mod
ern store handling jewelry and will do
watch and jewelry repairing Of all
kinds as we'll as engraving, etc. Mr..
Quick has had fifteen years experience
in the jewelry and watch business and
is thoroughly acquainted with the line.
Many friends of Mr.. Quick who have
become acquainted with him at the
Lockhart store wish him the best of
success in his new business.
Mr.. Quick will take over all of the
guarantees of Mr.. Lockhart and will
continue to do the railroad watch re-
pairing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Explanation of
Parking LdIU

"Don't violate the Parking Ordi-
nance" was the warning issued this
morning by the Kenosha Motor club.
This is the time of the year when
motorists are getting the "old bus"
out preparatory for the summer tour
ing season and it is deemed advisable
to inform the public exactly as to
what regulations are being enforced.
Certain parts of the city are sit
uated in what are known as Parking
Zones. These parts have restricted
parking. Parking in these zones is
permitted for one hour only from the
hour of 600 a. m. to 500 p. m. except
on Saturday when the hours are from
600 a. m. to 1890 p. m.
These zones in the down town dis
trict, extend from Grand avenue to
English court.
East and west they are as follows:
From Chicago street to Exchange
street on Market street; from Chicago
street to Exchange on Park street;
and from Chicago street to Maiden
Lane on Wisconsin street
There is no parking permitted on
the north side of South street east
of Main street.
There is also no parking permitted
on the south side of South street
west of Main street.
No parking is allowed on Church
street from Market street to Park
street.
On Park avenue from South street
to Park place, there is no parking
allowed on the west side of the street.
Fifteen minutes parking is allowed on
the east side.
On the west side of the city, park
ing zones extend on Rowland avenue
from Pomeroy street to Drew street;
on Salem avenue from the corner of
Salem and Elizabeth to Edwards
street; on Elizabeth street from the
intersection of Salem to Edwards
street; and from Elizabeth to Salem
on Newell street.
The parking ordinance is being en-
forced very strictly by the police de-
partment and violations are being
dealt with accordingly.
The new parking station at the foot
of Wisconsin street will be opened to
the public in the very near future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Autopsy Reveals Baby
Found in Yard, Died
from Blow.
MAY HAVE BEEN FALL
Physicians Say Child May Have
Been Killed by Fall and Not
Intentionally Murdered.

With the finding that the death of
the "nameless' baby boy, found yes
terday morning lying in fence cor
ner, was due to a blow on the right
side of the head, police today re-
doubled their efforts to solve the mys-
terry which surrounded the case.
An autopsy, performed late yester-
day by Drs. c.. G. Richards and J. F
Hastings, revealed the direct cause of
death to have been cerebral hemor-
rhage. There was no skull fracture
from the blow which caused death, be-
cause, as the physicians explained the
bones of newly-born child are soft
and pliable, but there was a separation
of the skull bones.
This, it was stated, might possibly
have been caused by the pressure of
the hemorrhage, but it is more likely
that it was the result of the blow
which caused the death Examination
of the lungs showed that the child
had been alive at birth, the doctors
stated.
Check Industries.
A complete check of all industrial
plants where girls are employed, has
been made by the police, it was stated
While no results have as yet been OBJ
tanned, the search for the mother is
being pushed.
The police first theory that the baby
unwelcome at birth, was killed by
someone in the hope of hiding the
mothers trouble, and then the dead
body disposed of in the fence corner
where it was discovered yesterday
morning by William S. Stretch, was
strengthened by the verdict of the
physicians.
Following the inquest the child's
body was removed to the Crossin un-
dertaking parlors from where it will
be buried by the city.
Whether an inquest will be ordered
by Coroner Truman T. Parker had not
been decided upon up to noon today
although it is not probable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
Damage Suits on
in Circuit Court
Suits Brought Against Joseph Gold
stein by Joseph and Richard
Goodman Started Today.

Damage suits brought by Joseph
Goodman and his son Richard Good
man of Milwaukee, against Joseph
Goldstein, Of Kenosha, for a total of
$4,000 alleged damages, were being
heard in the circuit court this morn
ing. The suits arose out of an alter
cation which took place in regard to a
business settlement between the liti-
giants in Kenosha on January 18th.
The plaintiffs allege assault and bat
terry, SANDER and false arrest and de-
tention, the latter arising out of the
fact hat they were taken into custody
for short time after the alteration
arose A jury has been selected to
hear the suits, which were joined in
one action. Taking of testimony was
started early this morning.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
.COLORED GIRL
MUST FACE TRIAL
May Smith Bound Over for
Trial in the Municipal
Court Today.
STUDY IN SHADOW

1t was study in black and white
this morning in the municipal court.
Three colored women, friends of May
Smith, rushed to her defense and
helped build up an alibi for her in the
continuation of the case of larceny
of person. There were other colored
women who came from Racine and
Chicago, interested in the case, and the
testimony this morning for the defense
had all the interest of variety.
Catherine Young, colored, the keep
err of the rooming house on Forest
vile avenue, Chicago, where Mrs.
Smith roomed, was perfectly sure that
Mrs Smith was there the night of
March IL, playing cards at the moment
when by the charge of the state she
was supposed to have been holding up
Joe Skowronski in Kenosha. Mrs.
Young was sure that on the 18th and
goth May Smith was down in court at
48th street and Wabash avenue, list
ening Ato Frank Aliens case on the
charge of assault and battery as a
result of which he is languishing in
the Cook county jail.
Mrs. Smith of Racine.
Mrs. L. A. Smith of Racine, who
runs a laundry, testified that on the
night of March %, May Smith came to
her home in Racine, arriving in taxi
between nine and ten o'clock.
81 writes them a receipt and gives
it to them when they come to my
house." she said. "No, sir, / didn't
bring it with me because l never had
no, eye of coming down till yestiday
evenin'."
"Are you related to this woman p
asked Morris Barnett.
"Say which %
Related to her, are your
mo sir. Never saw her before
n the taxi driver brought her, and
no baggage with her"
Anna Bradbury, also of 4337 Forest
vile avenue, Chicago, was another
colored witness for the defendant.
She remembered that May Smith came
there to live in February, but ''disre-
membered" the exact date. She was
"bedfast" herself later in the month,
and remembers that Maybele was
there waiting on her and helping her
and positive that she did not leave
until the 22nd of March.
The defendants attorney insisted
that there was no evidence to war
rant her being held for trial.
There is no credible evidence in
this case" he said. There is only a
Polish fellow who says that on one
of the principle streets of Kenosha a
woman approached him and at arms
length took $40 from his pocket, and
so suddenly disappeared that he could
not overtake her. This in our expert
ence is not convincing"
"After the offense has been proven"
said Judge Slater, at is matter of
credibility. am satisfied that some
one did rob the complainant. Let the
jury pass upon the credibility. The
testimony of the complaining wit
ness is not so strong a. L should like
to have it were | sitting as a juror
in this case. He did not tell all that
he could tell, / think. Defendant is
bound over, bonds $780,"
May Smiths friends endeavored to
raise the bonds for her.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
.SPEEDERS JUST
YOU WATCH OUT
Judge Slater Set for Busy
Season and Will Have
No Pity.
STIFF FINES FOR ALL

The speeder not only expects to
speed but to get away with it. That's
what every motorcycle officer knows,
whether he is attached to the city or
county. This morning a man whom
Nick Otto had brought in for speed
ing, and who was fined good sum,
turned on Nick at the door with face
that looked as if it had been dipped
in vinegar with pickles thrown in.
II hope l can do favor for you
some time," he said with bitter
sarcasm.
That man was F. Shepherd of Mil
waukee. In appearance he looked
decent and gentlemanly. But his at
titude when arrested was the attitude
of every speeder. He was panied and
SURPRISED that this should be done to
him. He expected the motorcycle Of
ficer to be a Ngood fellow"
At Fifty Miles An Hour.
Deputy Sheriff Nicholas Otto pick
ed up Shepherd speeding on Mon
day afternoon at the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
at was better than fifty" said Nick,
"but / always knock off a couple of
miles unless the circumstances are
worse than they were in this case"
Shepherd left $25 as bonds, and got
his surprise in court this morning.
"Thirty-five dollars and COSTS" said
Judge Slater. speeding on the high
road makes it dangerous place to
travel on, and danger adds to loss of
life. / ought to put you in jail for
going fifty miles an hour. / wonder
what you mean by it,,
Bonds of $50 were forfeited for A.
Glauberg, New York City, arrested by
Nick Otto for travelling forty-fve
miles per hour on the Lake Shore road
on Monday afternoon.
The first speeder turned a bitter
look on the motorcycle officer who
had merely done his duty, but the
motorcycle cop merely laughed.
"They want to call us every name
under the sun for stopping them," he
said, "but we know our duty. If some
fellow gets killed out there, people
will say, Where was that motorcycle
cop? Why didn't he get that man be-
fore it happened? l won't let one
speeder get by me if / can help it and
the season is just opening"
Judge Slater set the key of what
attitude may be expected from him
this season, in the way of soft
heartedness to speeders, and it was
indicated that if any leniency is to be
asked they had better not appeal
to him.
Victor Bartiski, who was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Bostetter, for speed
ing on the Geneva road, was fined SIS
and cost by Judge Slater this after
noon.