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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Funeral Party Aids
Boy Convict Escape
Mourners Ditch Police While Reform
.atory Youth Makes His
Escape.

Superior, Wis 4 - Intercepting
a line OF funeral cars returning from
aacemetery, that they might capture
Russell Mcdonald, 17-year-old escaped
youth from the Waukesha reform atory,
police Monday. afternoon were re-
pulsed bv other members of the Nc
Donald family, forced to give chase in
their automobile and returned tt head
quarters empty handed, the lad having
made good his escape.
The Mcdonald youth was returning
from the funeral of his sister, with
other members of his family. He got
away from the Waukesha reformatory
two weeks ago and has been in hiding
with his parents here, police declare.
He was captured few days ago, but
released to attend his sisters funeral
on the promise that he would surren-
der after the rites.
Suspecting the lad would try to es-
cape, police intercepted the funeral
train on the way back to the city from
the cemetery. A hand-to-hand battle
ensued in which Angus, brother of the
youth, figured prominently. The Nc
Donalds got away in their machine
and successfully "ditched" the police,
giving the boy chance to ge. away,
Angus Mcdonald forfeited $50 bail on
charge of being drunk, dlsorderly
and resisting arrest.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
SEEK FEDERAL AID
TO JJNRAVEL HOAX
Kentucky Authorities Ask for Govern
ment Help in Solving Insurance
Hoax Mystery.

Parksville, KY. -, Federal
aid will be sought by Pike county,
Kentucky, officials to help solve the
McCarr, KY, mine murder and swim
die case in which five persons are
under Indictment, officials indicated
today, adding that it probably would
assume international scope in bring
ing about the arrest of Joe Jack ST.,
believed to be in Hungary.
Jack was said by William H. Turn
er, once thought killed in prema-
ture McCarr. mine blast nine months
ago but now under arrest charged
with murder and the central figure in
the story, to lave obtained Passport
for him to enter Hungary. Besides
believing Jack has knowledge of the
explosion which caused the death of
two men, officials want: him arrested
for alleged passport Irregularities and
"bootlegging" Of aliens into America.
Nine months after he was supposed
to have been killed, Turner arrived in
New York from Europe last week and
was arrested as he left the steamship
Resolute. Following his "death," his
wife and relatives realized $4,000
from his insurance policies. Of this
amount Turner's sister, Mrs. F. F.
Farley, Tampa, Fla, gave him $4,000
which Turner said he gave his son,
Theodore to take to his wife.
Those under indictment are Turn
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Farley and Joe Jack
Sr. and Jr. The latter is in Jail here
accused by Turner of telling him he
was responsible for setting oc the
blast.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
]. |. BEGGS CAPITALIST
OF MILWAUKEE. DEAD
Man Thought to be Wisconsin's
Richest, Dies Suddenly
After Operation.

Milwaukee, Wis., II Funeral
services for John I. Beggs, president
of the Milwaukee Electric company
and director of ffty-three corpora
lions will be held Tuesday. Mr..
Beggs died at his home Saturday
night after a long illness. The
body will be shipped to Harrisburg,
Pa, for burial.
John I. Beggs was dominant
figure in Wisconsin industrial and
financial circles for more than a
quarter of a century. He was in St.
Louis on business on Monday of last
week and returned to Milwaukee on
Tuesday, apparently in his usual
health. Wednesday he complained of
not feeling we'll and Thursday con-
suited physicians who took him to st.
Mary's hospital for examination. Fol-
lowing a consultation of doctors it
was decided an operation was neces-
sary, and it Vas performed.
His illness was closely guarded. At
his request his only daughter, Mrs.
Richard MeCulloch, of st. Louis, was
informed. Saturday night public am
nouncement of his death was made by
the son-in-1aw, Mr.. McCulloch.
For a year prior to his death, Mr..
Beggs was legal resident of Florida.
He established residence at Fl. Pierce,
Florida, by the purchase and develop
ment of $1,000 acres of land.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Ask Advice On
Electrical Code

Madison, Wis, p -Recommenda-
tions for the national electrical code
are being sought by the Wisconsin
Industrial Commission.
John A. Hoeveler, electrical en-
gineer of the commission, who repre-
sents Wisconsin on the electric COM
mittee of the National Fire Protec-
tion association, on Tuesday was adj
vised by Chairman A. K. Small that
the 1925 edition of the national cleo
trical code has been released by
the National Board of Tire Under
writers.
In Wisconsin, the state electrical
code constitutes the electrical wiring
standard. The state code in general
conforms to the national code, but in
some important respects is an advance
of it, particularly as regards safety
to human Nfe, the industrial COM
mission stated.
The electric committee of the Ma
tional Fire Protection association will
meet in February, 1926, to consider
proposed amendments to the 1925 edi-
tion of the code.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

A comic opera named "Robin Hood"
was sung in New York soon after the
Revolution.
]. C. Harding, 4O2 s.NJackson street,
Waukegan, driving Jordan sedan
south on Sheridan road about four
miles south of Kenosha, Monday night,
collided with truck driven by Jacob
Jerelle, 1908 Adams street, North Chi
cago, Ill. The truck had no tail light
burning. Deputy Sheriff Tom Jester
answered the cell and placed Jerelle
under arrest. Both cars were dam
aged slightly.
Funeral services Of Niels C. Jorgen-
sen, Kenoshan, who died Saturday at
the Milwaukee hospital, will be held
Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at
the home of a daughter. Mrs. Alvin
Nielsen, on Strong street, after which
services are to be conducted at the
St. Mary's Danish Lutheran church on
Rowland avenue at two-thirty o'clock.
Interment will be in the family plot
in the Green Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22


ernest HyeIte pleaded guilty before
Judge Slater. in the municipal court
Monday to the charge of unlawful pos
session OF intoxicating liquor and was
given fine Of 500 and costs.
The funeral services of Mrs. MARI
ana Madsen were held this afternoon
at two o'clock at the Hansen Funeral
home with interment following in the
family plot in the Green Ridge ceme-
terry.
John CLARK. Northwestern hotel, driv-
ing a Ford touring car west on Middle
street October II, collided with .
Chevrolet touring car driven south
on Maplewood avenue by John Dezdzek
of the Cooper road.
The Reverend Adam Waldvogel, pas
tor of the German Baptist church, was
taken to the Kenosha hospital Monday
evening suffering from an attack Of
acute appendicitis. He underwent an
operation later in the evening. His
condition is reported as serious.
H. Balm, 1914 Salem avenue, driving
a 1926 Nash coach collided October
Is with a street car at the intersee-
ton of South and Church streets. Balm
was driving north on Church street
and about to turn to go west on South
when nc had an encounter with the
east bound street car on South street.
George Baltrus, arrested on ths
charge of unlawful possession of in
toxicating liquor, pleaded not guilty
in the municipal court Monday and
the case was continued to October Is
for hearing There are two cases
against Baltrus, one on a state charge
and one on city charge arising out
of the same offense.
Two street cars collided on Sheridan
road Monday at 1905 a. m, with the
result that Mrs. Warren J. McAllister,
569 Pomeroy street, passenger in one
of the cars, was bruised and injured,
according to a report made to the
police. The south-bound Sheridan
road street car was struck in the mid
| die by the east-bound Elizabeth street
car while the Sheridan road was cross
ing the Elizabeth street switch. The
motorman of the Elizabeth street car
! motioned to the other motorman to
go ahead and kept his own car in mo-
ton, the police report states.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Coolidge Disarming
Move Waited by u. S.

Washington d. c.. Wide.
spread interest attached in official
and diplomatic circles today to the
disclosure that President Coolidge
hopes that the success of the Locarno
European security has opened the way
for a new disarmament conference in
this country. In the absence of Off
cial knowledge of the terms of the
group of pacts worked out to give
Europe its first real prospect of Sc
curity since the war however, definite
steps toward the calling of such con-
ference are unlikely. a
Since the Washington governments
policy would not permit it to parti-
cipate in any way in the discussion it
was compelled to confine itself to the
role of bystander, but gave its fullest
moral support to the undertaking.
There has been no more definite
indication of what President Coolidge
may have in mind toward summoning
new arms limitation conference than
the statement that he regards the
signing of the security agreements
as going far toward making possible
such move.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Peaceful Relations
Among Nations Urged
Secretary of State Zimmerman Says
Spirit Of International Brotherly
Love Must Be Developed.

'
Cleveland, o. ,-Al = Peaceful
and neighborly relations between ma
tions were advocated by Fred r. Zim-
norman, secretary of the state of Wis
cousin, in an address at Calvary
Evangelical church here.
Mr.. Zimmerman told the laymen that
they could accomplish much "in bring
ing the world to Christ" The layman,
he said, owes a duty to serve state and
church, at the same time keeping the
two separate.
"The truth of Christ's teaching that
everyone is my neighbor is realized
more and more as the population of
the earth increases and the means of
communication are facilitated" he
said "An earthquake in Japan
arouses our sympathy and stirs US to
prompt and benevolent action. It
matters not that the sufferers are of
a different religious belief. They are
neighbors and we fulfill our Christian
duty toward them. In doing this we not
only obey the mandate of our Teacher,
we also spread the gospel of brother
ly love to the whole world.
would it not have given Chris
tianity wonderful impetus through
out the world if we and our brethren
in all parts of the world had been
prompt and decisive in refusing the
gags of battle in 1914 and 1917 as we
were in manifesting our brotheriy love
in 1924. 1t would have been a price
less victory for the church and it
might have been won had VIC given
heed to the Masters teaching and lived
like Christians instead of merely talk
ing like them. Our critics have
right to suspect that we advocate
cate peace only when there is no cause
for war, and that we .ove our enemies
only so long as they are our friends"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Says Good Hotel Is
Community Enterprise

Green Bay, is.-.--0>-The good
hotel is symbol Of community enter
prise, R. D. Mel sddeh, manager of
the Park hotel, Madison, asserted in
an address before the state convention
of hotel men here on Thursday, ; y
"The hotel business should be sold
as an individual business and as a
community enterprise" he declared:
"Group selling has been found profits
able in many sections Of tho country.
Wisconsin hotel men should join in a
campaign of selling Wisconsin, to the
world, they should set forth. its at
fractions and advantages and sugar
coat the proposition, with information
about their good hotels
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Life in South Seas
Not All Its Painted
E@v. {. Il. Heine Goes 1000 Miles On
Shopping Trip TO
TekyO. tt4

Tokyo "A 2,00O-mile shop
ping expedition, from Jaluit, one Of
the South Sea islands, to Tokyo, was
recently made by the Rev. G. R. Heine,
a representative Of the American
Board of Missions, who has been sta
toned in this lonely, far-away post
for SIS years. P
Out in the Marshall Islands, which
is the group to which Jaluit belongs,
where there are no automobiles and
where one pays calls over a distance
Of 200 miles, the Rev. Mr.. Heine re-
ports that considerable progress is
being made among the natives under
the supervision of the Japanese. Most
of the Germans, he reports, left vol
unfairly at the beginning of the
Wor;dw War and the rest were
deoorted when the war ended and
the islands were put under japanese
manIaae. Now there is, only one
ot1ar white on the island beside
Or. Hene, who is an Australian. There
ale no hotels and no motion picture
shows and no amusements and the
roads are mere pathways not more
rhan eight feet wide, cut between the
paatations and the jungle.
"Na, the South Sea Islands are not
eTactly as painted by the romancers,' .
said Dr.. Heine, "as far as comfortable
living is concerned. But it is quite
true that the $500 natives Of the Mar
shall group are nearly all well-to-do,
because OF an Industrious development
OF tile land. There is no great wealth
ana set there is no poverty at all.
Some of the native chieftains even
have private yachts which take them
4rom one isia&d to the other, each one
he;rg between 60 and 100 miles apart,
They hay even have planes some day
"Rai il one wants to call on white
frieai in the South Seas, the nearest
acc in The Gilbert Islands, which are
uaacs the British mandate and, some
300 miles sway"
Life in the South Sea Islands is
for the most part uneventful," says
Or. Heiue, "and there was one, period
Saortiy after the World War when for
nasa .har year the inhabitants were
without newspapers from the outside
world"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
AFFORD ATTENDS
US. TAX HEARING
Kenoshan Heads Tax Com
mittee of National Manu-
facturers' Assn.
BACKS MELLON PLAN

W. H. Afford of Kenosha, as chair
man of the committee on taxation of
the National Association of Manufac-
turers, is in Washington attending a
hearing conducted by the house ways
and means committee on the many
disputed features of the tax legisla-
ton proposed by Secretary Mellon and
to be presented at the next session Of
congress.
Mr.. Afford, through his long career
in finance, chiefly as vice-president Of
the Nash Motors company, is we'll in
formed in taxation matters, His as
ISOLATION has recommended to the con-
gressional committee the adoption of
Secretary Melons proposed reduction
of the maximum surtax to 20 per cent,
the repeal of the estate and gift taxes,
repeal of the publicity of income tax
returns and reduction of the excise
and so-called nuisance levies.
Using the administrations tax pro-
posals as voiced by Secretary Mellon
as a starting point, the house COM
mittee is listening to the advice Of
various organizations of citizens such
as the Association of Manufacturers.
Other Organizations Heard.
Texas tax clubs endorsed Secretary
Melons proposal for repeal of the
federal inheritance and estate tax. Lee
Satterwhite, speaker of the Texas
house of representatives, told the
committee that, Texas felt it should
have sole jurisdiction over inheritance
taxes within it's borders.
Other, organizations to be heard are
the Retailers National council, the
New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation and the Real Estate Board
of New York.
The house committee hearing has al
ready brought out several major points
on which fight is sure to develop in
the next congress. They are:
Maximum surtax rate on incomes Of
20 per cent, against the present 40 pei
cent.
Repeal Of the inheritance and estate
tag. II
Repeal Of the publicity provision OF
the income tax law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Private Sleuths
Must Have Office

Madison, Wis.--N - Private de-
tectives of other states must establish
an Office in Wisconsin before they can
be licensed in this state, the attorney
general held on Tuesday. @
Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman,
in whose Office detectives are. licensed
under new law, reported that nom
resident of Wisconsin had employed a
private detective from another state,
who was not licensed in Wisconsin, to
Investigate the cause of relative, in
Kenosha. j. E. Messerschmidt, assist
ait attorney general, told Mr.. thinner
man that the secretary of state has
no specific duty to perform when he
is Informed of violation of the detec-
tive law, except his duty as a citizen
to report knowledge of the violation
to the prosecuting attorney.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
NEW SHENANDOAH
To Be S'TURDIER
Stronger Craft to Rise
f,om Disaster of Huge
Airship.
Pr NEW TYPE SHIP


7Easn:ngtan.- -, Destruction of
G.. Snenxa toah will point the way
!nrns iste!s % several important
damages n aff Sj5.e construction, in
.ae OPINION .. Ralph H. Epson, form
~ ii i: as:}A1A oalt,,da champion and
ros gaze e7s .Eess at the Aircraft
ilsaa ..2gnen. Cooperation,
III sea c.hsi4 ~ tie Corporation
.1ic go>s,au.aa officials they were
p,eosrsd :, cuts n airigible of a new
fyra VI i,G%pn altlired three les
SIN. w7ter he snd should be learned
fs9u =. ..arr o; the Shenandoah. The
,,sxe =. -.e:s.c to snd. should be COW
eesG ailn sh;r light metal instead of
arr sc3ald have much greater d.
apreass e,,q.oared to it's length, and
shoa,i cas- It's control car fastened
move saearaiy TO the frame.
"Tha Shaaard3ah's loss of life was
ret large relative to the total number
on board, and the fatalities would
i.ave been almost eliminated had the
c1Htrci cas been more rigidly attached
t. tss hu!,," said Upson.
:'Ife 'aca that the airship broke. in
tmo is ar equally direct result Of its
e...e 4s.ve sieuderness. 1t, used to be
thonghs shat a long pencil shape was
Aecessary for speed, but recent stud
IL, and experiments show conclusively
that air resistance can be reduced
with more compact shapes
New Hull Proposed.
The most improved hull shape has
only cne-third, the Shenandoah's
tcrgth, compared to its diameter. Ex-
peeimcnts also show that it is possible
to make an airship completely stable.
Improvements in stability alone
would greatly reduce the requirements
tor safety-valve capacity, although
there is no good reason for not having
plenty of safety valves. Another inn
portant requirement is to, allow plenty
of pressure range from valve opera
ton. The Shenandoah could stand
safely a pressure of only 10 milli-
meters of water or about one-one-
thousnndth of an atmosphere. Airships
can now be built to stand many times
that pressure.
Perhaps the greatest disadvantage
of the Shenandoah was its fabric cover
easily torn, inflammable, loose and
Tapping when dry, straining the
framework when wet, soaking up
thousands of pounds Of water, and
soon worn out. Before long this kite
construction will be a thing of the
past, replaced by metal clad airships,
with rigid metal covering.
"The faults of. the Shenondoah are
no discredit to the. men who designed
and built her. THEY took the best that
was available at the time"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Sales Orgy Upsets
N. Y. Stock Market

New York City - = The food
gates of speculation, staggering, under
the load of swollen streams of buying
orders pouring from all sections of the
country, burst upon the floor Of the
New York stock exchange today and
swept prices upward in one OF the
widest sessions witnessed in recent
years. The edluge reached its maxi
mum intensity in the motor stocks
which were wirled upward l to z
points on sales running into the hun
dreds of thousands of shares.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
PRESIDENT FRANK
IS JUST OBSERVER
Tn Endowment Controversy
of Board of Regents of
the University.
MEETING ON SATURDAY

,+sas 4
Madison, Wis. - ,..E: President
Glenn Frank Of the University of Wis
consin is merely an observer in the
endowment controversy, he indicated
on the eve of the meeting Of regents
today.
DR.. Frank said he did not intend to
raise the question of accepting dona-
tions from incorporated foundations,
and that he probably would have moth
ing to say if the question is raised by
someone else.
Asked whether he had gathered data
on gifts from educational foundations,
he said he had not gone into the sub
ject thoroughly. Speaking of the res
oIution adopted by the regents last
July, refusing gifts in the future from
corporate endowmepts such as the gem
eral education board, DR.. Frank said:.
II regard it as action taken by the
board Of regents before l became pres
ident of the university and had no
voice in university affairs. I shall
merely watch the matter for the pres
ent time"
To be Ex-OficiO Member.
The board of regents met in COM
mittee Friday, preliminary to the meet
ing as a body today. President
Frank will attend the meeting as an
ex-officio member for the first time.
1t has been indicated from several
sources. that an effort would be made
to bring the question Of reconsiderlng
or resembling the action on the endow-
ment question before the regents; One
member of the board said it was likely
that the subject would be raised. Prof.
Joseph Jastrow of the department of
psychology, writing in The Nation,
said the decision may be, indeed
seems likely to be, reversed"
The procedure by which the, regents
could reconsider their action was in
doubt, member of the board said to-
day. The parliamentary rules, of the
board would permit only a. regent who
voted for the resolution to make a
motion for it's reconsideration. AS an
alternative, it was suggested that a
motion to rescind the previous. action
was possible.
Probe Regents Action.
Recent developments in tho endow-
ment controversy include the investi-
CATION of the regents action by a
committee of alumni. The committee
will. meet here today to, hear fur
Their testimony if any is available, and
possibly to make it's report.
Resignation of State Senator c. B.
Casperson Of Frederick from the board
Of regents, unoficially reported to
have been submitted. to Governor
Blaine, would reduce the majority
against acceptance of gifts from in
corporatsd endowments. Senator Cas-
person was one of the nine regents
who voted against the resolution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Four BOarders Dead
In Year, All Insured

Detroit, Mich saY..s-POlice are in
yestigating the deaths of four board
.ers, within the last year, at the home
Of MES Gabrial Varges, all of whom
left insurance policies in which she
was the beneficiary. The 'investigas
ton resulted from the death there yes
terday Of John Nardai, who according
to the death certificate, died of acute
alcoholism. Information supplied by a
neighbor led police to question the
woman, who said she contracted with
all of her boarders to carry life insure
ance in her favor In return; she said,
she agreed to provide the boarder with
care when he was sick and food and
shelter when out of work,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Denied Right to
Condemn Property

Madison, Wis, - The Wis
consin Traction, Light, Heat and Pow
er company was denied authority to
condemn property of the Green Bay
and Mississippi Canal company was a
Wisconsin supreme court today,
The court held that the Green Bay
and Mississippi Canal company was a
public utility and therefore its prop
erty was protected against condemna-
ton proceedings for the use of anoth-
er utility. The condemnation order of
the lower court was reversed and the
case ordered dismissed, without ether
issues being passed upon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Two Men Hanged in !:
Adjoining States

Chicago, ILL.,. "a Two men, one
here and the other in Michigan City,
Ind, today paid the supreme penalty
for murder. A woman was the VIC
tim in both cases. *
John Koval, who slashed the throat
of Martha Egelski, his landlady, in
Gary a year ago. died in the electric
chair at the Indiana penitentiary at
Michigan City, shortly after mid
night. He was pronounced dead seven
minutes after the current was
turned on.
In the Cook county (Chicago) Jail,
Frank Lanciano, slayer of Mrs. Rose
Attila, his commonlaw wife, was
hanged at 1900 o'clock.