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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
ARREST TWO MEN
AFTER INVESTIGATION
After Investigating the Death of John
Brandt Sr., for Three Years,
Sons Are Arrested.

Marinette, Wis. District Attor-
ney A. F. Murphy of Marinette coun-
ty who together with Deputy Fire
Marshal Greenwood, caused the arrest
of Lewis and John Brandt, Jr., on
charges of murder and arson follow
ing an investigation of three years
after John Brandt Sr., was burned to
death in a barn near Crivitz, denied
today that any preparation had been
made to exhumeTthe body of the
youths father ait Pound, Wis.
The district attorney declared that
the body would not be removed from
it's grave for he had sufficient proof
that John Brandt Sr, was the victim
of the fire on the Brandt farm.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Milwaukee Jail
Doing Big Business

Milwaukee.-Th city of Milwaukee
has gone into the "hotep business.
Five counties in the state are new
sending their prisoners sentenced for
bootlegging to the house Of correction
here and paying their board rather
than lodge the rum sellers in county
jails. "Rates" for out-of-town guests
at the house of correction are $3.50 a
week. Dane county is the most recent
addition to the customer list Other
counties using the Milwaukee institu-
ton are Racine, Kenosha, Columbia
and Green Lake.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

ing facts to meet his convenience. The
News was supporting Tenn Scott for
postmaster. 1t made no secret of it.
The News did ask for a second ex-
animation when the civil service
bureau reported that there was but
one man in Kenosha eligible to the
Office of postmaster. After that ex-
animation was held the editor of the
News made no suggestion Of any kind
to either the postmaster general or
to any >other official in regard to
the appointment"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

Vermont, twelve miles from the near
est railroad depot, he is the son of a
dirt farmer and has experienced all
the hardships, reverses and arduous
labors that fall to the lot of the farmer
boy. One biographer has said of
him:
while many of the boys of today
are feverishing putting on the golf
green, Cal was happy in pursuing to
its native lair the sportive potato. He
early and always has been an artist in
the moving and he early became an
adept in divorcing the lowing herd
which winds slowly Ger the lea from
the raw material which makes for
butter and cheese"
He took the oath of office in the
Coolidge farm house.
And, as the biographer has pointed
out, the bovines of Plymouth, Ver-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
TO PLACE FINAL COPY
in HANDS OF PRINTERS
John Davis Completes Speech of Nom
nation Acceptance After Two
Weeks Trip in Maine.

Locust Valley, N. Yin the seclu-
sion of his home here on Long Island,
John w. Davis pressed forward today
to complete the address he is to deliver
in his home town Of Clarksburg week
from next Monday in accepting the
Democratic presidential nomination.
He had before him merely process of
revision, the bulk of the work having
been accomplished during his two
weeks in Maine. He expected to place
the final draft in the hands of the
printers tonight and was to clear the
way for the devotion of his time early
next week to the perfection of his
campaign organization in consultation
with Glen L. Shaver, his campaign
manager, and other advisers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
William Marshall to Have
Hearing on Murder
Charge Aug. s.
DEFENSE ASKS DELAY
Absence of Counsel from City
Given as Reason for
Request in Court.

William Marshall will come into
court August IS to answer the charge
of the murder of his father, James
Marshall. The hearing was set for
this morning, but when~the case was
called, at the request of the attorney
for the defense, continuance of two
weeks was granted, the bonds remain
ing the same as before.
Leo Vaudreuil, attorney for Mar
shall, asked the continuance as one
of the lawyers who may be in the
case is out of the city.
Still in County Jail.
Marshall is in the county jail where
he was taken on July % following his
fathers death at the Kenosha hospital
when he was formally charged with
murder. Bonds in the case were set
at $4,000 by the circuit judge, but
the bonds have not been raised.
The young man shot his father on
the night of July %, death following
the next day, as the result of quar-
rell at their home, which is said to
have been the climax of long series
of quarrels between father and son.
No New Developments.
"There are no new developments in
the case at ALL" said Attorney Vau-
dreuil this morning 1t is still ex-
pected that the plea of young Mar
shall's attorneys will be that he shot
his father in self defense and while
operating under a fear that for the
time being made him unaware Of what
M i lie.
claim that Marshall did not seek to
kill his father but fired low in an eff
fort to wing him and bar his APP
proach up the staoirs where he, Will
liam, was standing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

PerenniaI1y, aspirants to public
office, mindful of the farmer vote, be-
come converts to the cause of agricul-
ture and the farmer and demand JUS
tice for the tillers of the SOIL
To them there is no significance in
The fact that they have been little con-
cerned with this great division of the
citizenry during the off-campaign sea-
son. The votes the thing, ard one
may look from now until November
for veritable delpge of oratory and
pictorial evidence that all candidates
are for Justice for the farmer" More
often than not it is an artificial spon-
sorship calculated to mislead the Man
With the Hoe.
An exception to the rule is refresh
ing.
Calvin Coolidge early took his place
upon the farm. Born in Plymouth,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
PLEDGE SUPPORT OF
DEFENSE DAY PLANS
Patriotic Organizations Promise ia
Give Government Help in
Defense Day Work.

Washington, D. G. Assurance Of
cooperation with the government in
the holding of the national defense
test" on September IL by more than
score of patriotic and other societies
is given the war department in
letter from Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
president general Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. on the basis
Of a personal canvass of the organiza-
ton. The letter was made public to-
day by the department..
Declaring replies she had received
on the subject had been "most en-
Mrs. Cook said the socie-
ties did not propose to confine their
assistance to mere lip service" but
to cooperate in every way, both locally
and nationally, to make the defense
demonstration a success. Most of
them, the letter said, already have
taken steps in that direction.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

on his fathers farm that the photog-
rapher snapped him as he raked the
new-mown hay, started for the COW
pen at milking time and essayed bit
of surgery on one of his favorite old
shade trees
The same farm smock and boots
he wore when the pictures were taken
still repose in the hall closet of the old
family home and await his pleasure.
He knows how to wear them, and.
what is of more interest to his fellow
farmers, what to do after he puts
them on.
"He has always adorned hay rake
with as much facility as reviewing
stand" the afore-quoted biographer
declares.
That would appear to make him
eligible, at least, for consideration by
the farmer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

mont, have enjoyed a rare distinction.
1t is not every COW that can be MIXED
by a President of the United States,
any more than it is every President
of the United States that can milk a
cow. President Coolidge not only is
at home" on farm. A farm is home
to the Chief Magistrate of the land!
Ergo, his must be natural under
standing of the farmer and his prob
LENS, and a consequent deep sym
pathy with him that is not prompted
by campaign expediency or vote seek
ing.
President Coolidge did not have to
pose for the above photographs,
either. They were taken years ago,
when he was Vice President and be-
fore there was any intimation that he
was destined to hold the highest Office
in the land. 1t was during vacation
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
CHARGE PASTOR
ASDRUNK DRIVER
Rev. Thomas Snrcka, 81
North Chicago Street,
Is Arrested.
HERE TWO MONTHS

rev. Thomas Smrcka, 371 North Chi
caqo street, pastor of the CS~cho- Slavik
church, met his jinx Saturday evening
at 6:40 p. m. when he was arrested by
Police officer Reynolds on the charge
of driving an automobile while intox-
icated.
Rev. Mr.. Smrcka had just been CIV
en- a nice new car by his parishioners
and he was out enjoying it, when the
policeman nabbed him. He was
brought into court this morning on
the charge, pleaded not guilty and the
case was continued for hearing until
August at 9 a. M, bail fixed at $500.
He looked like a respectable person,
and it was unusual for a person of his
type, profession and appearance to
be brought into court on such a
charge. 49,
Says He Was clustered.
Meanwhile the pastor, quivering
with sensitiveness at the ignominy Of
being arrested, stoutly denied IN
court this morning that he had been
intoxicated. He said he had had moth
ing to drink whatsoever, and had been
j teaching all afternoon prior to his ar
rest.
According to his story, he failed to
stop for the arterial highway on North
Main street, and when advancing upon
the street, was whistled to and follow
ed by the police officer. This so
frightened him, he said, that he was
unsteady at the wheel, and did zig
gag the car down the street until he
came to stop. 1t was just a case of
NERVES" the minister insisted.
Practitioners Up in Arms.
The members of the church of which
Mr.. Smrcka is the pastor and leader,
were UP in arms Sunday over his ar
rest. Chief Logan was deluged with
I telephone calls and visitors, begging
| him to drop the charges for the sake
of the parish. This, however, he re-
fused to do.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Make Test Case
Of Wisconsin Law

Madison, Wis. What is said to be
the first criminal warrant ever issued
in Wisconsin for an employe charged
with failure to carry workmen's COM
pensation insurance, was issued in
Milwaukee for Frank Kersez, former
restaurant proprietor, according to
industrial commission officials.
Under the Wisconsin law, each day
an employe fails to carry insurance
subjects him to fine of from $40 to
500 or thirty days to six months in
jail, it IS stated The case will be
prosecuted by the state as a testA
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Dean of Marquette
Gives Resignation

Milwaukee, Wis. ~ James c. Pinney,
dean of the college Of engineering Of
Marquette university, has rendered
his resignation to take effect Aug. 81.
He will enter practice of his profess
sion in utilization with j. A. L. Wad-
dell, a bridge construction authority,
New York.
In addition to his work as an edu-
Gator, Mr.. Pinney has designed many
,of the bridges and viaducts Of Mil
waukee. He is a member of numer-
Gus societies Of the profession.
A successor to Mr.. Pinney has not
been announced.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
FERRIS ENTERS FOR
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Announces Candidacy With Collidge
and Dawes on Republican
Ticket Today.

Milwaukee, Wis. John E. Ferris,
Milwaukee, today announced his candi-
dacy for lieutenant governor as an
independent republican. To get CT
the ticket he must file petitions with
the signatures of 1000 voters attach
ed. Mr.. Ferris in his announcement
states that he is Republican with
Coolidge Dawes affiliations. His de-
cision to run for the office, he said,
was prompted because there is no can
didate of the administration ticket
now in the field. Henry A. Huber, La
Toilette progressive was the only
candidate ito file on the Republican
ticket before the time for filing pa
pers expired.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
IGAS EXPLODES
WOMAN KILLED
Miss Lucille Herzog, Chi
cage, Well known Here,
is Asphyxiated.
FOUND IN HER CHAIR
YOung Woman Found Dead Fol
lowing Explosion of Gas
Range in Apartment.

Word reached Kenosha this morning
of the tragic death of Miss Lucille
Herzog, 25, stenographer, who was
found dead, sitting bolt upright in a
chair near gas range which exploded
at her home at 4739 Washington bou-
levard in Chicago, on Sunday evening,
The explosion shattered the windows
and set fire to the kitchen but the
young woman's body was unburnt.
Miss Herzog was a niece of County
Highway Commissioner John Herzog
of Kenosha and while she had never
lived in Kenosha, had been a frequent
visitor\here. She has large circle of
friends who mourn her death here.
Neighbors Hear Explosion.
Neighbors heard the explosion and
rushed into the apartment, finding the
kitchen on fire and the young woman
dead in the chair in front Of the gas
! stove. Firemen were summoned who
took charge of the apartment.
After fremen had extinguished the
small blaze that followed the blast,
the Austin police were puzzled to find
, that only the hem of the girls skirt
had been charred and that all four
burners on the range were open and
burning briskly when the first rescu-
ers entered the room.
Cause of Death Mystery.
They were unable to determine
whether the young woman had been
burned to death, killed by the explo-
sion, or had been asphyxiated by
escaping gas fumes before the blast
occurred.
Miss Herzog's father, Charles Her.
cog, a retired wholesale meat dealer,
is visiting relatives in Manitowoc, Wis,
and an aunt, Miss Clara Herzog, had
gone out for the evening when the
explosion occurred.
Charles G. Nail, of Abs Washing
ton boulevard, who heard the crash of
falling glass and rushed to the burn
ing kitchen with other neighbors, was
the first to enter the ROOM
"Miss Herzog was sitting in a chair
he said. "A small flame was burning
at the edge of her skirt and quickly
extinguished it with my hands. Every
thing else of an infammable nature
in the room, such as towels and
draperies, was in flames. l noticed
thet all four burners of the gas stove
were burning.
There appeared to be no escaping
gas at the time. The only way l can
account for the girls death is that gas
escaping from the opened burners be-
came ignited by a small pilot flame
when the room became filed with the
fumes and the explosion resulted"
Mr.. Nail declared he saw no burns
on the girls body at all. 1t will be
left to coroner's jury today to de-
termine the cause Of death.
The remains are to be brought Tues
day afternoon at 1880 to Racine fol-
lowing funeral services in Chicago.
They vill be taken from the train
directly to the Mound cemetery in
Racine where interment will be made
in the family plot.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
GOVERNMENT MAN
DEAD FROM WOUNDS
Keeper of Government Dam is Dead
and Another Dying as Result of
of Shooting Friday.

Rhinelander, Wis. - Milton Ewinc,
81 year old caretaker of the govern
ment dam at Seven Mile Lake, near
here, is dead and Peter Popich, is
said to be, dying as the result of a
shooting near the lake yesterday af-
ternoon.
District Attorney John w. Kelly
stated that no details of the affair
could be learned and that he will make
invasti9atinn todav-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
MORE.

A ton of coal now is made to gen.
crate a third more electricity than five
years ago, government bulletin claims.
At that, fully nine-tenths of the po-
tential energy of coal is wasted--goes
up the chimney or out in ashes. Not
to mention the terrific power locked up
in coal atoms, which future generations
Will unprison and use.
Industrial chemistry is easily the
greatest field that lies before ,Ameri-
can youth. Electrical engineering and
aviation science are others.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Absent Editor Replies.

Connersville, Ind.-W. T. Marlatt,
editor of the Evening News, who is
here to attend the funeral of his
mother, was shown a copy of some of
the remarks of Congressman H. A.
Cooper of Kenosha, on Friday night.
"Mr. Cooper" said the News editor.
"has taken tha nsua1 course of twist
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Funeral Services for
John Madden Monday

Funeral services for the late John
w. Madden will be held Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock at st. Thomas church.
The remains will be removed from the
Crossin chapel to his late home on
Geneva road Sunday afternoon at 100
o'clock
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07
Gives Bad Check
Leaves Automobile

Lake Geneva, Wis. Police are
mystified at the percentage deductions
of Wallace Cushman who, they claim,
left town after distributing 500 worth
of worthless checks. They can't get
Cushman's idea Of profit. He left his
automobile behind.
Apparently there was no need for
his haste because police did not learn
of his check passing activities until
two days after Cushman's departure.
The car was worth 5000 anywhere,
police said.
Some of our farmers are becoming
SO well educated they can't tell when
it is going to rain.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

A watch has 100, 144,0oo ticks year,
but camper scratching would swear
he has more ticks in a minute.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-08-07

CRATES can see behind without
turning their heads, 50 wouldn't it be
terrible if gossiping women we're like
girafes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-15
SHAVER ATTACKS
sCOOL|DGE STAND
ON GOVERNMENT
Democratic Leader Brands
Speech as COmpIaCenCy
in Face of Corruption,

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. f5.-Branding &C
ceptance speech of President Cool
idge as "complacency in the face of
corruption in the Republican Ad-
ministration, Glenn L. Shaver, chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, today issued a statement
calling the public to get behind the
Democratic issue of honesty in gov
eminent
He charged Coolidge has at
tempted to conceal Republican dis
honesty" behind the budget system.
1T seems impossible that Mr..
Coolidge should think his budget
argument an answer to a corruption
that has shaken the faith of the
people in their Government, ="
Shaver said, "Or that he thinks
them so forgetful that they will not
recall the fact which members of
his own party have called the
tragic looting of the Veterans
Bureau No better justification of
the Democratic issue of honesty in
is needed than Mr.
bolidge's speech.
Pointing to the conduct of the
Veterans Bureau. Shaver ridiculed
the Presidents praise Of the Ad-
ministraticn's treatment of disabled
soldiers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-15
CHILLY WEATHER
HA[TS SPEEDING,
POLICE REPORT
Only Handful of Arrests Are
Made on Charges Of
Fast Driving,

Four alleged speeders were slated
at the city prison Thursday night
and three more hearly today. Lieu
tenant Halstead Of the motorcycle
division, said cool weather has re-
duced speeding.
Those arrested were released eth
err on bond or on their own recog-
nizance.
A man giving his name as Guy F.
Roberts, 80, of Ladoga, Ind. charged
with driving while intoxicated, was
forced to stay in Jail when he failed
to produce bond.
Following discharge of twelve de
PENDANTS Thursday because of a
faulty speedometer on a traffic
mans motorcycle. Halstead ordered
his squad to make a daily check on
their meters.
Those arrested on speeding charges
were:
Fred Steel, %, of 14z e. Ohio St;
William Cage, "a. colored, 1541 N.
Senate Ave; Gerard Pride, 10, Of
324 w. Ohio St: John Parmentier, 80,
of 121 w. Twelfth ST., Harry Ely, IS,
OF New Augusta, Ind; Joseph
Riggs. Sc, of 1925 S. Sheffield Ave;
Chauncey Davis, %, colored, of 507
w Twenty-Sixth st.
Thomas Ford. 2S, of 743 w. New
York St, is charged with driving
while intoxicated.
Mrs. Anna Cooper As, Of 1851
Washington Blvd, is charged with
assault and battery and improper
driving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-15

and partial funding Of the foreign
debt restricted immigration, pro-
tective tariff and the Washington
conference.
He expressed hope fullness of the
Dawes plan would solve Europe's
difficulties and again announced his
intention of sponsoring another dis
armament conference when the plan
appears to be in operation. He pro-
posed adherence to the world court,
but reaffirmed his intention to stay
out of the League of Nations.
Agriculture. he said, has seen "a
partial relief come in a natural way"
He declared the\ path to greater
prosperity lay through more or
ganization. cooperation. diversified
ton" a wise. skilled and unselfsh
leadership" and continued pro
lection by tariff.
Relief for Agriculture
The President announced his in
tention of appointing a committee
to investigate and report measures
to Congress in December to put
agriculture on a basis Of economic
quality with other industries. in ac-
cordance with the Republican plat
form.
He reanirmed MS intention to
press Congress for more tax re
duction, particularly in high
surtaxes, arguing such a course was
the surest "guarante of prosperity"
After a declaration that economy
would be enforced in the conduct of
his campaign, he devoted a few
words to lesser issues; the Supreme
Courts powers should not be tam
pered with; women are to be vel
coined in politics a a new force; Gov
eminent operation is 70 be avoided;
Negroes must be protected in their
constitutional rights; prohibition
viii be enforced as best l can; child
labor should be abolished; the Army
and Navy should be efficiently main
tanned.
A possible reference to the Ku-
Klux Klan was contained in the sen
/ fences this is one country; we are
one people, united by common in
terests. There should be no favorites
and no outCasts; no race or religious
prejudices in Government"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-15
HAWKINS FILES
STATEMENT ON
ENEMY ACTIVITY
Mortgage Company Seeks
Injunction and Removal
of Receiver,

In an effort to show why Federal
Judge George w. English should en-
Join sixty-nine persons from alleged
attempts to dissipate assets Of the
Hawkins Mortgage Company, and
why he should remove Lew Wallace.
Indianapolis. as receiver in bank
ruptcy, an affidavit by Morton s.
Hawkins. president of the company,
was read in the hearing which be
gan today in Federal Court.
Hawkins alleged that Champ Fttz-
cock, editor of THE Insurance
Field, published in ST. Louis. pub
ushed false articles about his com
pany in an effort to discredit the
company. He also alleged that in
the Hotel McAlpin in New York
City. in 1921, officers Of Hawkins
Mortgage Company met with mem
bers Of the American Industrial
Lenders Association. to induce the
mortgage company to increase its
rate OF inte est, and that the lenders
association threatened 10 put the
Hawkins company out OF business
unless it complied.
lie also alleged Thomas L. Nc
Murray, State insurance commits
sioner, wanted $4,000 or he would
put the Hawkins company out of
bushes" He charged Lew Wallace,
temporary receiver for the Hawkins
company. in fling schedule Of as
sets attempted to helittle the assets
OF the plaintiff. McMurray is out
of the city. His friends ridiculed
Hawkins charge.
An affidavit OF Anthony a. Scheib.
secretary Of the company was read.
His was practically the same as that
of Hawkins 1t took an hour TO
read each affidavit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-15
T. B. M. LOSES PATIENCE

Tired business men at the South
Grove golf course haven't much pa
thence with salesmen's chatter when
they are just about to make a drive.
Paul Knauss, 1922 Montcalm St,
and other youths, according to testi-
mony in city court today, tried to
sell players golf balls at Crucial
points in the game.
Knauss. 1t was said, watched
where the balls went, recovered them
and resold them to the players.
Garrett Odds. judge pro tenn, fined
Knauss 81 and costs.