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The McCarthy weekly news., 1925-05-02
STIkiNE RIVER
 BOAT LAUNCHED

WrangelI, AIaska.- Steamer Hazel B No. ,, declared to be the first twin, screw river boat in the world, Was launched last night to operate on the StiIline River carrying gold seekers into the Cassiar. The steamer will make her maiden voyage soon after May 1 as conditions in the river permits. Beginning with the opening of navigation on the Stikine, a boat will leave here up the Stikine every two days.
 Indications here are that the rush to the Cassiar next month will exceed anything sin ce the Iditarod striko D years ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

RACINE OFFICIAL
Is UNDER FIRE
Attorney LAWN Asks Governor Blaine
to Bring Charges Against Dis
trict Attorney Potter.

Racine, Wis. - Charging
that district Attorney L. D. Potter has
.wilfulIy neglected, refused and failed
to perform his duty, Attorney George
S. LAWN asks Governor Blaine that he
be removed from office.
LAWN filed his petition Tuesday. 1t
is voluminous affair, and mentions
two cases in which LAWN alleges
that Potter failed to perform his duty.
LAWN has. been more than two weeks
in preparing it.
The main part of the petition com
Germs the case, of Walter Baker of
Lake Park, who was arrested and
charged with blac!1mail on COM
plant of Louis Nathanson, a store
keeper. Attorney LAWN and another
man hid in a side room of Nathan
sons store, and allege that they heard
Baker threaten the storekeeper and
endeavor to extort money from him
by claiming Nathansorl had been too
friendly with Mrs. Baker who had
been engaged as a clerk in the store.
At the preliminary hearing, the dis
t-ict attorney recommended that he be
released and the court commissioner
followed his recommendations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

Athens { - - Greek troops
have been ordered to take up strategic
points along the Greco-Bulgar from
tier in the Demirhissar region in
Macedonia, northeast of Saloniki, ia
ascertain the strength and intentions
of the Bulgarian forces which on
Monday fired upon Greek post
near Demirhissar.
Following the attack, at the begin
ming of which Greek official was
killed and a Greek captain shot as
he went out with white flag, severe
fighting ragged for nearly "a hours. II
finally eliminated in the Bulgarians
hosting white flag and the tender
ing of expressions of regret by the
Bulgarian commander, who Explained
that the firing on the Greek post was
due to a misunderstanding
1t is reported here, however, that
Greece is determined to investigate
fully the reasons for the action of the
Bulgarians in the Demirhissar region
where tense situation has existed
for three months because of the kill
ing of Greek citizen at Stanimakai
Bulgaria.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
N. Y. Cafes to Close
to Save Big Patrons

New York City, Possession
of list of prominent patrons OF
gilded cabarets where champagne
flowed as of old-except in the matter
of price-is one factor upon which
Federal Attorney Buckner is counting
for fulfllment of his prediction that
there will be a dry Thanksgiving
on Broadway.
He believes that the proprietors OF
thirty exclusive places upon which no.
tees of paddock proceedings have been
served will consent to close their
places without forcing jury trials,
rather than have their books scruti-
nized or undergo the loss of prestige
they would suffer by having the names
of their patrons revealed.
The names of some patrons of
one of the cabarets under fire have
already been revealed, without, how
! ever, any intimation that their checks
covered anything more than the heavy
! cover charge or expensive food.
Curiosity remains unsatisfed as to
how Mr. Buckner obtained the evil
dence against places, he says, had
regular Bertillon system of identified
ton of patrons, involving introduce
tions and scrutiny through peep holes
before admission. Soon after he
entered office he padlocked fourteen
cabarets by the expenditure of $1,4O0
for champagne through lawyer friends,
one of whom was threatened with
black-balling recently when up for adj
mission to the bar association.
Mr.. Bruckner estimated that all
cases would be disposed of in time
"for a good, dry Thanksgiving"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
ma FERGUSON WARS
ON SPECIAL SESSION
Woman Governor Opposes Demand for
Legislative Inquiry in Road
Expenditure.

Austin, Texas-( "a special ses-
sion of the Texas legislature may be
called to investigate charges of reck-
less expenditures in the state high
way department under the regime OF
Governor "Ma" Ferguson.
In a statement from Washintgon
last night, where he is on tax rednc-
ton mission, Lee Satterwhite, speaker
of the Texas house of representatives,
declared that if the governor did
not call special session for an
investigation of the state administra-
ton, he would.
In breaking a two months official
silence last Saturday, Governor Fer
guson declared against special ses-
sion and challenged the malcontents
to take their. whispering" before
grand jury, thus saving the tax
payers the enormous expense Of a
special Legislature.
The woman executive, wife of former
Governor James E. Ferguson, recently
charged with dominating the state
highway commission, declared that she
would summarily remove any state Of
fetal proved in default of duty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Preachers Son On
Way to Life Cell

Allison. Ia. - &. - Resolved to
conduct himself as a model prisoner,
Warren Vandervoort, II year old slay-
er of his father, Rev. S. J. Vandervoort
Of Parkersburg, was en- route to the
Fort Madison prison today where he
must spend the remainder of his life.
Behind him he leaves broken
hearted and physically wrecked moth
er, whose loyalty .,layed large part
in saving him from the ALLOWS.
In parting with the mother, Mrs.
Della vandervoort, the boy reiterated
the repentance he voiced in his con-
fession, promised good behavior in
prison and called himself "at peace
with God"
The mother said she was "only glad
they did not hang him." And, now
that the tragic events are over, won
dered where she would go.
Outwardly the youthful slayer was
as carefree under sentence as he was
before he knew his fate and displayed
an unconcern that puzzled even his
mother and his attorneys, but the af-
lection was somewhat disputed by 9
statement made shortly after sentence
was passed, in which he expressed re-
morse for his act, told the officials he
was grateful for their kindness to him
and indicated he still chung to the
Christian training he received in the
home he shattered.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
CHIEF. SCHW ARTZ
GRAVELY INJURED
Fire Chief Hurt at Burning
of Burke Theater, In
Serious Condition.
HIS HIP IS FRACTURED

Fire Chief John Schwartz was in
iured this morning about fye-thirty
o'clock while fighting the fire at the
Burke theater. He had been working
over an hour when, while exploring
the corridors upstairs for pockets OF
flame, Il 5 fell down a narrow rear
stairway which was unguarded at the
top and which under ordinary condi-
tions would have been plainly visible
But with the mountain of smoke that
cut off the tiny rays of the fashllght
the chief could not see hand in front
of him, and in taking step he found
himself plunged headlong down q
stairway.
Assistant Fire Chief Michael Jacobs
who was also on the second floor
heard the sound of a falling body fol
lowed by a loud cry of extreme pair
and distress. Jacobs and his men
rushed to the rescue.
They found the chief lying injured
at the lower turn of the stairway
Suffering acutely as he was, the fire.
men managed to pull him through 8
window which opened just at this turn
]
He was. hurried over to his cot at the
fire station and DR.. w. J. Hanley was
summoned.
By nine-thirty o'clock the chiefs
condition was no better. He was still
suffering acutely, and his physician
advised. his removal to st. GATHERINGS
hospital. There four X-ray pictures
were taken of the injured hip-bone
jDr. P. P. NJ. Jorgenson and DR.. W. J
Hanley attended him.
''Mr. Schwartz sustained a fractured
pelvis,@ on the left side, just. off the
spine,", said DR.. Hanley this morning
"He is in charge of special nurse
There is. no. question but that he vii
recover but he will be confined fol
some time to his bed. 1t will be al
least three or four months before he
will be able to return to his duties al
the fire department"
d. Jorgenson at noon said that NJ
had Just come from the hospital. HI
said that the condition of the patient
was ''fairly comfortable" He also de-
clared that the fire chief will recover
but admitted that the convalescenct
will undoubtedly be long.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
ABANDON SINKING
SHIP; SAVE CREW
Steamer President Harding Rescues
All But One of Men Aboard
Shin FlOriO.

New York City - - The Ital-
ian freighter, Ignacio Florio, which
sent out S. o. S. signals on Monday
night, was abandoned in sinking con-
dition this morning after the crew
had been rescued by the steamship
President Harding, the United States
line was informed by radio.
The President Harding was proceed
ing to New York with the 38 rescued
members of the crew. The rescues.
were made after the President Hard
ing had stood by the crippled ship all
night, unable to remove the crew be-
cause # high seas which washed over
board to his death the second, officer
OF the freighter. All of the disabled
ships lifeboats had been smashed and
the rudder torn away.
This morning the seas had subsidized
and the rescues were effected in 27
minutes, Captain Paul Grening of the
President Harding informed the Unit
ed States line Offices.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
WITTOCK Is
NOT GUILTY
Jury in Short Time Finds
He Did Not Resist Con-
stable Benedict.
WAS SUMMER PARTY

Lawrence Wittock, Charged with re-
sisting an officer while he was being
placed under arrest, was found not
guilty by the jury in his case after
about twenty-five minutes deliberation
of the case late Tuesday.
The trial was the result of an ar
rest by Constable Lee Benedict of
Bristol at Paddocks Lake on July 26.
The constable had been summoned on
the complaint of citizens that there
were young men on the shore who
were noisy and disturbing the others.
John Regner, Theodore Kreiman and
Alvah D. Paddock as well as Benedict
were witnesses for the state in the
case Tuesday. The state was repre-
scented by Second Assistant District
Attorney John Kennedy, while Edward
Ruetz was attorney for the defendant
Wittock was at first arrested for
disorderly conduct, but this charge
was changed to that Of resisting an
officer when it was found that there
was no disorderly conduct ordinance
which applied in the county outside
of the city of Kenosha.
ATTORNEY Ruetz made much of this
in his argument to the jury. For the
constable said, when asked why he had
arrested Wittock in the first place,
that he was intoxicated, and Ruetz
maintained that had that been the case,
Benedict would have charged him
with intoxication instead of ydisor3erly
conduct when he brought him down
to. the county Jail. Lou Heller testi-
fed that he saw Wittock at the lake
shore that day, got close to him and
he stated that he did not think him
intoxicated but thought him sober;
Turnkey Ray Willems testified that
Wittock was not intoxicated when
brought into the county Jail that night
by Benedict. Wittock himself as well
as several of his companions of that
afternoon testified in the case. They
said that Wittrock ran back into the
water to get the key for his car from.
his companions when Benedict chased
him and dubbed him.
There was some delay in the case
Tuesday when the defendant could not
be found. He had recently been
sentenced to Jail for driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated, but was
placed out at work under the Huber
law by the sheriff. He was finally
located Tuesday and brought to court.
1t was found that he had been asleep
in bed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
CHURCH MUST FIGHT
CRIME, SAYS COOLIDGE
President Looks to Religion Rather
Than Police to Combat
Lawiessness.

Washington, D, G. - - Presl-
dent Coolidge believes a public con-
science enlightened by religion, rather
than the police powers of government,
must be looked to to remedy condi-
ton of lawlessness which he warns is
altogether too prevalent"
! "A lack of respect for government
and the conventions of enlightened So
ciety is altogether too apparent" the
president declared in an address here
last night before the annual council Of
the Congregational churches.
Asserting that if there are any gen
eral failures in the enforcement of the
law it is because there have first been
general failures in the disposition to
observe the law" the president saw
in the influences of religion" the
only adequate remedy for the evil.
The governments part in the re-
preston of crime and wrongdoing
must be buttressed by an enlightened
conscience and determined senti-
ment in favor of law enforcement"
Mr.. Coolidge said, "before it reaches
its highest application.
'"The utmost ingenuity on the part
of the police powers" he said, "will
be substantially all wasted in an eff
fort to enforce the law if there does
not exist a strong and vigorous de-
termination on the part Of the people
to observe the law. Such determine
ton can not be produced by the gov
eminent. My own opinion is that it is
furnished by religion"
The president added that he saw no
"diminution in the steadfastness of
the religious convictions of the peo-
ple," explaining that he was not refer
ring to religion in "any denomination
al or any narrow and technical sense"
Rather, he believed, there has been an
increase of religious faith despite "all
the complexities and distractions of
our present life"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Milwaukee Police Investigate New Clue to
Mystery Furnished by Twin Sister
of Murdered Girl.
MYSTERIOUS PHONE CALLS PROBED
Incident Also Links Up With Mysterious Telephone
Call Received by Girl Victim On Evening
@8 of the Double Murder.

Milwaukee Wis Two said by the police to be al-
toobe thieves being sought here in effort to
the mystery surrounding the shooting of Miss Madaynne
Latimer and James Sears Kenosha week ago.
The sought said to have been occupants Of light
touring which parked under bridge Pike Creek
near Kenosha Country club early last Thursday morning
The machine used by the stolen from who lives
the outskirts of the city, and who notified the police last
night that his automobile had been missing since before the
double Staying. II.
addition this clue the police working lead
given them by Evelyn Latiner twin sister of the dead girl
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

COoIidges Put Up
Seven Preachers at
Church Meeting

Washington, d. &C p)-The old
practice of putting up the pastor for
the night" is being enlarged upon this
week at the White House where seven
Congregational ministers, two Of them
with their wives, are house guests.
When the Rev. Noble Pierce, pastor
of the presidents church requested
the membership to take in" their
quota of delegates to the Congrega-
tionalist convention the President and
Mrs. Coolidge declined to be left out,
announcing they had room for nine
persons. The nine include two former
pastors and a present pastor of the
Edwards church, of Northampton,
Mass, Mr.. Coolidge's home town.
White House officials said the
visitors were guests not Of the ma
ton, but of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, Congregationalists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
FARMER HELD
ON $1,000 BONDS
Daniel Tough Pleads Not
Guilty and is Held Under
Heavy Bonds.
E -
ASSERTS INNOCENCE
Farmer Tells Judge He Is Vic
tim of a ''Frame-up" and Will
Prove His Innocence.

Asserting that he was the victim OF
a "frame-up," Daniel Tough, the Ke-
nosha county farmer who was arrested
at his home north Of the city on Tues
day, entered plea of not guilty to q
statutory charge when arraigned be-
fore Judge John c. Slater in the muni-
cipal court late Tuesday afternoon.
cts all frame-up on me, Judge"
he told the court as he entered his
plea. "I'll show that at the trial too"
Judge Slater told the farmer that
this was most serious charge and
that under the circumstances he could
not be released until due processes of
law had been carried out. The court
set the date for the preliminary hear
ing for October both and set the bonds
at $4,000.
When iIlquiring into the mans abil-
ity to furnish bonds, Judge Slater
brought ont that Lough had been q
resident of this county but short
time.
81 don't know soul in this country
who could help me furnish bond"
Tough told the court.
"Have you any property z"
"a little place out north of the
city," the defendant stated. Il own
all of the buildings but am not clear
on the land"
Tough discussed with the sheriff the
possibilities of furnishing bonds but
up to a late hour today was still in
custody in default of bonds.
Drop Murder Questioning.
The authorities are convinced that
Tough knows nothing regarding the
double murder mystery, which is being
Investigated here. The fact that ne
lived in that community in which the
tragedy occurred led to search of
his premises for any other clues
which might develop. This search,
however, revealed nothing and the au-
thorities have entirely dropped the
theory that Tough knows anything
about that crime.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
French Prepare New
u. S. Debt Proposal

Paris {. y The French gov
eminent is preparing a counter pro-
sposal on the debt question which will
probably be sent to Washington next
week.
The provisional accord brought back
from Washington by Finance Minister
Caillaux and his delegation was so IN
favorably received in parliamentary
circles that it is felt preferable to re-
new negotiations for a final agreement
with the United States rather than
submit the provisional plan to the
senate and chamber.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
SHIPS COMMANDER
SHOT AND KILL ED
Murder Committed ON High Seas
Aboard the Ship "MeIita," Accord
ing to Meager Dispatches.

London, Eng. - Captain A,
H. Clew, commander Of the liner Me-
lita, belonging to the Canadian Paci-
ic Steamship, Ltd, was shot and killed
aboard his ship at Antwerp last night
a message to the company today re-
ported. One Of the ships officers is
alleged to be the slayer.
Two Of the Melita's officers were
wounded: David Kennedy Gilmour of
Glasgow, assistant chief engineer, and
John Holiday of Bootle, England,
junior second engineer.
The cause of the shooting is not
known.
The Melita, which arrived at Ant
werp October 10 from Montreal, was
scheduled to sail again for Canada to-
day.
Captain Clew's home was at Birken-
head, England.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Arthur r. Robinson
New Indiana Senator

indianapolis, Ind. - {. , - Arthur
R. Robinson, indianapolis attorney,
was appointed United States senator
last night by Governor Ed Jackson to
serve in the place of the late Samuel
NJ. Ralston until the 1926 general cleo
ton.
Whole-hearted support of the adj
administration of President Coolidge
was an influential factor in Robinson's
choice.
The appointee is a. years old. He is
a former state senator and an ex-serY-
ice man.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Curtain Falling
On Stillman Case

White Plains, n. VI ~)-What
was believed to be the final chapter
in the litigation brought by James A..
Stillman against his wife, Anne U.
Stillman, was written today when the
supreme court justice Moreschauzer
signed an order cancelling all the
bonds given in the various appeals
taken in the suit, amounting in all to
$4,000.
The cancellation was taken to in
dictate that Mr.. Stillman had paid all
the costs of the litigation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

The investigation into the. murder
of Jimmie Sears and Madalynne Lati-
mer was at standstill today as far
as new clues 60. No new develop
ments which were branded with any
great amount of credence by officials
working on the case were uncovered
with the exception Of a statement by
Coroner Joseph Friend and Detective
Sergeant Emil Meissner this after
noon. This statement revealed the in
formation that a series Of ten or
twelve long distance telephone calls
between parties in Kenosha and
Madalynne Latimer in Milwaukee is be-
ing Investigated. The details Of the
parties called and the hours were
checked from the Milwaukee Office Of
the Wisconsin Telephone company and
the Kenosha numbers from which calls
were either sent or received are be-
ing traced this afternoon by Meissner.
Wether this new information would
result in anything fruitful in the in
veHtigation, Meissner refused to say,
but he declared that he would trace
every call and attempt to find the sub
stance of the conversation If it hap
pened to be between Madalynne. and
anyone else in Kenosha, other than
Sears himself.
It. has been definitely established
that Sears called Madalynne at her
boarding house in Milwaukee when
the wednesday meeting was arranged.
On Tuesday evening he called her
again to, confirm the date"
Tuesday officials here believed that
they had found the mystery car which
it was rumored might be linked with
the actual murderers. Coroner Friend,
Lieut. Charles Rock, and Police Ser
geant Matthew Kirsch went to Milwau-
kee immediately after the information
concerning the discovery of Mitchell
car there with missing hub cap was
received here. The clue was then be-
lieyed to be "a hot one" inasmuch as
Mitchell hub cap was found near the
scene Of the murder here Saturday by
Frank Bostetter The Milwaukee car
was one owned by Ray Wright, an en-
ploye in an automobile plant. He gave
satisfactory evidence that he himself
could not have been involved in the
actual murder, and the police soon
learned that his car had had nothing
to do with it likewise. It all developed
into hoax, the blame which
police attached to overzealous news
paper reporters.
In the Mitchell car in Milwaukee
was found a woman's white shirtwaist
that Wright declared he used in clean
inp his ear. The rumors That blood
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

who told of man who peered into the
window of Madalynne's room as she
was dressing to leave for her last
meeting with Sears The police con
meet Fsis story VITA the stor9 Of n
telephone call Madalynae received the
same afternoon. She told her sister
Of the call, from some one who said
he was Jimmy"
Was Not Jimmy's Voice.
Evelyn said her sister knew it was
not "Jimmy's" voice but told the
speaker she intended going to Kenosha
that night.
Today the police are inclined to
piece together these two threads, ar
irving at the conclusion that the man
who called and the one who peered
into the window is the same person.
1t was announced that the pepper was
recognized by Madalynne, and his
identity disclosed to her sister.
Meanwhile the search for the auto
mobile from which hub cap was lost,
which when recovered in the vicinity
of the killings was covered with blood,
continues.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

ULTIMATUM SENT TO
BULGARS BY GREEKS
Demand Indemnity for Attack on
/. Frontier Troops Within Forty
eight Hours.
BULLETIN.

Athens - (AP) = The Greek
government has sent an ultimatum
with . 48 hour time limit to Bull
garia in connection with the from
tier fighting near Demirhissar, de-
manding an indemnity of 100000
French francs, an official express
sion Of regret and the punishment
of responsible Bulgarian officers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
ENGLISH TEAM DEBATES BELoIT

Beloit, Wis. } - A three man
debate team of the University Of
Cambridge, England, meets Beloit
college team here today on, the ques-
ton: Resolved that this house is in
favor of prohibition" Beloit taking
the affirmative.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12

Mrs. DIN F. burst, of Keyser, is in
Oakland for short time visiting her
mother, Mrs. Leah F. Sincell.