The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-02
POLICE CATCH
FOUR VIOLATORS
Four Permitless Soft Drink
Parlors Caught in PO-
lice Cleanup.
M'NALLY ABACKSLIDER
McNalIy Who on Friday Re-
fused to Sell Is One Caught
and S. J0cius Another.

War on permitless "soft drink par.
lors" in Kenosha, started several days
ago through information dug up and
published by this paper, continued or
Friday night and today.
Action was tran sferred to new
front, namely the municipal court, fol
four offenders caught by police Friday
night who. were brought before Judge
John C. Slater and charged with op-
Grating soft drink parlor without
permit. Each of them pleaded guilty
and each was fined $25 and costs, the
maximum fine under the ordinance.
Furthermore" said Judge Slater il
imposing the fines, eff you appear be
fore me again on this charge, you may
expect still heavier fine. 1t viii
then be a second offense."
Four Pleaded Guilty.
The four who entered guilty pleas Il
the charges and who were each fnec
$25 and costs were:
Thomas McNally, 574 Fremont ave.
Stanley Jocius, 900 Jenne street.
Paul Howell, bartender for Matthew
Fitzimmons, 1871 Salem avenue.
Mike Johnawicz, 33 N. Main street.
Thomas Mentally is the same ont
who on Friday refused to sell sof
drink to News representative, stating
that he could not because he had beer
ordered not to sell even soft drinks
Evidently he had back-slidden during
the day, for Friday evening the police
squad had little difficulty in securing
drink of pop. Jocius is also one o.
the three whose permits were revoked
recently and whose application for {
renewal of their permits started the
investigation that revealed that they
were operating without permits.
Police Squad Makes Visits.
The arrests were made On tour. o.
inspection made by a squad of detec
tives under the charge of Detective
John Breidt and sent out by direction
of Chief of Police Thad Logan in en-
morning that no soft drink parlors
were to be allowed to operate withou
permits.
In each instance the detective squat
succeeded without much difficulty il
purchasing bottle of pop and ther
placed the man in charge of the "par
Tor" under arrest for operating with
out a permit. None of the men ar
rested tried 10 fight the charge, plead
ing guilty.
Locante's Place Closed.
The squad visited several other pla
ces where it was thought that the sof
drink business was being continued
without permits Three Of these wer.
found closed.
Sam Locante's place at 165 Pear
street, where for two days past New.
representative has been able to buy
soft drink despite the fact that it hat
no permit, was being closed at S:3t
just as the officers arrived. A visit t,
Bella Ribar's place at 514 Elizabeth
street also found that place closed
Likewise efforts to buy anything a
the Fischer Hotel on Market stree
were futile.
Also Visit Anderson Park.
The detective squad also visited
Anderson Park and after buying {
bottle of pop there placed the opera
tor under arrest. This charge was
dropped this morning, however, wher
Investigation revealed that Anderson
Park now has a permit. The misun
Outstanding arose because of the fac
that two weeks ago the permit ISSUED
to Andrew Anderson was revoked Dui
this was for an offense more than two
years ago and the permit had expired
automatically. Meanwhile another
permit had been issued to his son
who is now facing charge of viola
ton of the liquor laws, but whose
case has not been tried. For that rea
son the permit is still in force there
News Also Checks Up.
The Evening News also kept up It's
check to find out whether the permit.
less places were learning that soft
drinks are not to be sold without 6
permit. A man was sent around tt
the various places with the following
results: showing that most are learn.
ing now that the law is to be obeyed
Stanley Jocius, 900 JENNIE street
informed him that he was not sell.
ing pop anymore-just giving it away
to his friends.
Thomas McNally, STA Fremont ave
nue., also declared that he was. not al
lowed to sell. There were, however
several persons in the place.