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Evening star., 1925-04-16
LAW SCHOOL OPENS DRIVE
Endowment Fund Sought by Fac
ulty and Students.

The campaign for the endowment of
the Washington College of Law was
opened Tuesday night with a dinner
at the Highlands, given by school
authorities for the student body
A mock trial. written by Miss Grace
NJ. Whelan of the class of 1925. which
showed reasons for the necessity of
the endowment and the obligation of
the students to support it, was pre-
sened.
Evening star., 1925-04-16
SS Boys ST and $1.25
Pajamas. Two for.

Manufacturers sam
pies and broken lines.
One-pieee style. OF
good-wearing cotton ma
terial, in assorted col
ors. Sizes 2 to s years
of age.
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Choice OF one and two piece
styles, of neat striped percale and
plain-color pajama cloth, in pink,
blue, tan, lavender and white. Sizes
to IS years. A chance to replen-
ish the boys needs for many
months to come at a substantial
saving
Evening star., 1925-04-16
800 Boys $1.50 to 81
Broadcloth Blouses.

Genuine English Broadcloth
Blouses, some subject to very
slig h t imperfections, lille
others are perfect quality. Col
lar-attached and e C k ban d
styles. Plain white, tan and
blue. Full-cut sizes from 6 to 16
years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
EASY MONEY LURES
OSBORNE BACK HOME
Feels That the Place to Annex Kale
for Foreign Spending Is the Land
of the Free and Brave.

Tampa, Fla. - Osborne Wood today
was back home without greater part
of the fortune he was said to have
possessed several months ago. But as
he expressed it, he was black in the
easiest country in the world to make
money" ready to have another whirl
at the Wall Street wheel of fortune
which brought him some time ago a
sum variously estimated around mill
lion dollars.
The million dollars have vanished
now, admittedly into the Golfers of
the gambling resorts which dot sec
tions of continental Europe.
"But / still have plenty" Wood told
newspaper men upon arriving yester-
day from Spain aboard the federal
shipping board vessel West Chetac.
His present plans were indefinite
early today, but he intimated he
might leave Tampa today, possibly for
California.
Although Wood declared his prodi-
gality had heavily drained his resourc-
es, he emphatically denied reports that
he had given worthless checks and
said his attorneys in Paris had filed
libel suits against a European branch
of Chicago newspaper for having
published a story to the effect that
check of his had been returned.
His only regret over the unpleasant
notoriety occasioned by his European
adventures, Wood said, was that it
might reflect upon his father, Major
General Wood, governor general of the
Philippines.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
DEATH OF RErcHswEHR SOLDIERS

Veltheim, Germany-Further details
of the disaster yesterday at Detmold,
in which seventy eight Reichswehr
soldiers were drowned in the sink
ing of pontoon, were received here
today.
When the pontoon, carrying about
100 men across the Weser, river began
to sink, the officers Immediately order
ed the soldiers, most of them whom
were young and inexperienced, to rid
themselves of their guns and kits, but
the men grew panicky and dashed
headlong into the river.
Many evidently thought they would
wade to the shore which seemed quite
near but as the river here is forced
into narrow channel about 800 feet
wide, the current is rapid and the
depth even near the shore is about
nine feet. The soldiers were hot from
marching and it is believed many were
numbed by the shock of the cold water
and thus rendered incapable of help
ing themselves. Two sections. had al
ready been transported across on the
pontoon ferry when the disaster oc-
CURED.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
Miss Amelia Walden
Died This Morning
Death Ends Long Illness of Miss
Amelia Walden, Long Kenosha
Resident, This Morning.

Miss Amelia Walden, aged SO years,
long a resident of Kenosha, died Just
after ten o'clock this morning at the
home of her sister, Mrs. John Priddis,
667 South Sheridan road, after long
illness from the weaknesses due to her
advancing years.
The deceased was born in Somerset.
England, October 16, 1856, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Walden. She
came to America with her parents at
an early age, coming first to Kenosha
in 1874. She had lived part of her life
in Chicago returning here more than
twenty years ago, since which time
she had made her home with her sis
ter, Mrs. John Priddis, here.
Surviving her are two sisters, Mrs.
John Priddis and Mrs. Thomas Jack
son, and one brother, Robert Walden,
all of Kenosha. Announcement of the
funeral services will be made later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
Farm Buildings
Destroyed by Fire
Fire of Unknown Origin Destroys All
Buildings on the George D.
Strong Farm in Somers.

A fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the farm house, barn and other build
ings on the George D. Strong farm, a
mile north of Somers, just after noon
today 1t is possible that the blaze
started from grass fire ignlted by
sparks from train. as the grass from
the barn to the railway tracks had all
been burned away.
The house was unoccupied and the
barn had almost been burned to the
ground when the fire was discovered
by L. E. Ozanne, who with others was
coming to Kenosha to attend the Mod
ern Woodman convention here. Vol
unteer fire fighters attempted to pre-
vent the flames from spreading to the
house but were unable to check them.
The total loss will be in excess of
$4,000. George D. Strong, owner of the
property is now residing in Lake Mills.
An investigation was being made in
to the origin of the fire, it being
thought possible that it might have
been started by tramp although no
evidence of any hobo being in that
neighborhood was discovered.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
SAYS HUSBAND
ASSAULTED HER
Helen Schmitt Files Suit
Against VIM. Schmitt
in Circuit Court.
HE in COUNTER SUIT
Other Couples Seeking Di-
vorce in Municipal Court
Tell Why They Do So.

Suit for divorce has been commenced
in circuit court by Helen Schmitt
against William Schmitt, Jr., asking
for an absolute decree and also the
restoration of the name which she car
ried previous to her marriage of Hell
en- Sybeldon.
In the complaint filed in circuit
court, the plaintiff charges that her
husband assaulted her on number of
occasions. The couple were married
at Kenosha, Feb. 8, 1921. They have
no children. An action for divorce was
started by the wife May 20, 1924, but
reconciliation was effected and the
couple started living together again
June 2, 1924.
Says He threatened Her
Now the plaintiff charges that de-
PENDANT assaulted her Dec. %, 1922,
again in Feb, 1924, and again in the
month of November of the past year.
She says that he wrestled with her,
threw her about and slapped her. His
conduct finally on Nov. Ia, 10 and 16
became so threatening, she says, that
she was obliged to leave their common
home.
Schmitt has answered the complaint
and combined it with counter claim,
but these documents are not on file.
There has, however, been filed with
the plaintiffs original complaint
reply to the counter claim in which
more sensational charges are made. 1t
is said that Schmitt's charges are of
an equally sensational nature.
Cases in Municipal Court.
Several new complaints have been
filed in divorce actions in the NUM-
cipal court. One of the most conser-
vative and decent" of divorce cases
is that of Heron VS.. Heron. Allen L.
Heron asks for divorce from Ida D.
Heron. They were married at Wash
ington, D. c., June IL, 1894, and have
two grown children both of whom have
been given a university education by
their father. He states in his COM
plant that for the last five years he
and his wife have lived voluntarily a
part and that she refuses to live with
him.
Mollie Reichmann seeks a divorce
from Herman Reichmann. They were
married at Milwaukee, May ~, 1918,
and have no children. Failure to sup
port is charged by the plaintiff wife.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02

necessary. 1t was stated authoritative
ly in 1922, that Simmons company con-
templated the erection of an addition
to the plant which would mean an in
crease of ten thousand people to the
population of our city. No steps have
been taken along this line, and to all
appearances, the project has been
abandoned.
Move the Offices.
No person with knowledge of the
facts hes ever asserted that Simmons
company moved the plant out of Wis
consin. It did, however, transfer its
Offices to New York and Chicago. How
did this action affect the city of Ke-
nosha Prior to the change, the Office
force consisted of 236 employees with
a weekly payroll of $4,000. At the
present time, the force is composed of
20 persons, drawing weekly $1850--a
loss of 1876 employees at $3.50 per
week.
Of the higher salaried executives,
about 40 in number, who were trans
ferred to the offices at New York and
Chicago, the payroll amounted to over
$4,000 per month. Formerly a con-
siderable portion of this money was
spent in the city of Kenosha. Can
anyone say that the loss annually of
several hundred thousand dollars in
cold cash makes no difference to the
merchants of city?
A statement, issued by the financial
department of the city, shows a total
loss in income taxes of 100000 But
this is not all. Our charitable insti-
buttons are maintained through con-
tributions from public spirited citi-
zens, particularly such men as were
executives of the several departments
of this office. Ask any citizen how this
loss affected the Community Chest and
other calls for necessary donations.
Certain persons, residing some dis
lance from Kenosha, dismiss the sub
ject by asserting that Wisconsin's tax
system had nothing to do with the re-
moval of these offices. May l ask:
Whose word in the matter shall we ac-
cept as correct? Is the statement of
outsiders to be accepted in preference
to that of home people whom we have
known for half a century?
Yes, my friends, Kenosha has and is
suffering today through the loss of
the Simmons company Office. Wiscon-
sin suffers and will continue to suf-
fer until the dawn of new day.
CONRAD SHEARER.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
In Financial Battle.

New York City News that the
Dodge Brothers Automobile company
at Detroit has been acquired by a
syndicate headed by the banking firm
of Dillon, Read and Company, of New
York, is prominently published here
today as one of the mos important
transactions in the history of the au-
tomobile industry. The sale is said
to have involved more than $1O0,O00,-
900 practically in cash.
Representatives of the banking firm
declined either to affirm or deny the
sale and Clarence Dillon declared that
while final negotiations mad not been
completed, some announcement rela-
tive to the deal would be made within
a day or two.
In financial circles here it was de-
clared that the sale consummated 8
financial battle between Dillon, Read
and Company and the house of j. P
Morgan and Company, representing
the General Motors company to gain
control of the Dodge Brothers prop
erty. 1t was also believed that the
sale was preparatory to $500,000,00C
merger of the Dodge property, the
Packard Motor company and the Hud-
son Motor company and the Briggs
Body corporation. Confirmation for
this also was lacking.
Sale of the Dodge Brothers com
pany marks an eventual step in the
romantic history of the concern which
began under the guidance of John and
Horace Dodge who were formerly
stockholders in the Ford Motor com
pany. The present firm was started
in 1914 with capital valuation OF
100000, which was increased to
$4,000, 900 in 1923. The major part
Of the shares is held by the Dodge
estate.
Last year the concern did a gross
business of $191,000,00O and it is ex-
pected that the sales will go over
$500, 100000 this year. Assets on the
last available date, June 80, 1928
were $75,067, 1888, total that is be-
lieved to have increased to well over
$l00,000,o00
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
VINCENT LEADS
IN SLUSH FIGHT
Kenosha County Assembly
man Leads Attack on
Slush Fund Rumors.
ASKED FOR A PROBE

Assemblyman Dow J Vincent, as
semblyman from the Second district
of Kenosha county in the present state
legislature, leaped into the hmelight
at Madison today as the result of the
fact that he introduced resolution
asking for an investigation of an arti-
Gle carried in the Capital Times, a
Maison newspaper, which the resolu-
ton declared reflected upon the
honesty and integrity of the members
of the present legislature"
Assemblyman Vincent took the floor
and urged the adoption of the reso-
luton which was lost by tie vote of
AZ to AZ.
Referred to Slush Fund.
The item referred to was published
yesterday and told of a fund of $92,-
600 purported to have been spent by
the Wisconsin Manufacturers associa-
tion in the interest of defeating the
income tax bill.
The resolution would have provided
for the assembly resolving itself into
a committee of the whole to investi-
gate the charges and that the. editors
of the paper be subpoenaed to give
testimony in connection with the ar
ticle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
FIRE CHIEF ASKS
FOLKS TO HELP
Don't Let Rubbish Ac-
cumulate in Easements
and Yards.
CARE AT BONFIRES

Fire Chief John Schwartz asks that
the people of Kenosha, in making their
bon-fres this spring, be careful to
chose the right time and place.
Fires should not be started on the
pavement" he said Fires on asphalt
can cause much damage to the pave
ment, and it is not necessary Those
who live in homes can start fire OUT
doors with little danger if they are
careful to start when there is no wind,
and not too near buildings"
Clean Up the Cellars.
The fire chief said that this appears
to be the proper time for cautioning
the public as apparently general house
cleaning has begun earlier this year.
eve have usually set aside the first
week in May as cleanup week." he
said, "but people this year are not
waiting for the first of May. They can
do a lot to reduce fire hazards by
using a little common sense. Women
are not more careless than are our
merchants down town or on the west
side, north side or any other side," he
SdIus again we IluSI DSB IHS OASA-
ness men to be careful with their
wrappings, excelsior and the like. If
they will only make practice of not
allowing this stuff to accumulate in
their Easements or to accumulate in
their back alleys, fire hazards might
be reduced by so per cent. They can
put this inflammable material in CON
+oinarS xubora IL will he Safa until col
lected or they can burn it every
morning in the burners for this pur-
pose which can be secured at the hard
ware store for a couple of dollars.
"Clean house by all means, and keep
your stores clean, but remember to
take care of the rubbish and to make
bon-fres with discretion"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
ASSURES
PAN AMERICAN PEACE
Proposals to Enforce a South American
Monroe Doctrine and international
Court of Cancellation There.

Washington-Pu today of a
series of thirty draft conventions pro-
posed for discussion at Rio de Janeiro
this year by the jurists commissioned
by the fifth Pan-American conference
to begin codifcation of American in
ternational law, revealed a vast tenta-
tive project for re-knitting American
republics into cohesive community Of
sovereign states pledged to solidarity
of policy and action aimed chiefly at
outlawing wars of conquest among
themselves.
Included in the project is one pro-
posed pact banning any grant. of terri
tory by the contracting parties to nom
American states. 1t forbids also even
temporary occupation Of such territory
by any nation with the purpose of ex-
ercising sovereignty, regardless of the
will of the republic whose territory
was affected.
Among other provisions designed to
prevent war between the contracting
parties are conentions to establish new
and far-reaching machinery for concil-
iation of disputes and plans for Pan
American court of international JUS
tice.. Both plans are taken, with nee
essary notifications, from the original
Cancellation and world court projects
launched at The Hague, and in the
separate convention suggesting "pre-
emble'' and bill of fundamental
rights for the American republics, oc-
ours this explanation of the purposes
aimed at:
"The American republics are more
interested in regulations concerning
the peaceful relations and neutrality
than IN those concerning war, in the
hope that the latter is happily and
forever banished from the American
continent"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
INSANITY HEARING In
ELLINGSON MURDER
Jury to Hear Testimony OF AIienist
Experts and Determine Whether
Girl is Sane or Not.

San Francisco, Cal. - Dorothy
Ellingson, accused of matricide, OBJ
served her 18th birthday anniversary
here today by appearing in court pro-
ceedings participated in by attorneys,
alienists and witnesses to determ-
inc whether she was insane when she
shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna
Ellingson one night last January.
The jury which will pass upon her
sanity was sworn in last night after
brief proceedings. 1t is composed of
three women and nine men.
The prosecution last night denied
it had obtained signed statement
from the young defendant in which
she said she was sane and wanted to
plead guilty to a charge of having
killed her mother, with full realiza-
ton of the seriousness OF Nthis admis-
sion.
The defense was just as emphatic
ally positive in denying the truth of
vague reports that their client had
repudiated her attorneys and censur-
ed them for their alleged failure to
consult her before demanding her
trial on a charge of insanity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
Workman Injured in
Building Accident
Thomas Scott, Jr., Formerly of Iowa,
Painfully Injured in Accident
at Nash Plant.

Thomas Scott. Jr., workman who
came to Kenosha only a few days ago
from Iowa, to work on the construc-
ton of new building at the Nash
Motors company plant, was painfully
but probably not seriously injured on
Tuesday when scafolding fell, trap
ping him under some of the timbers.
He was badly bruised about the head
and face. Fellow workmen hurried
to his assistance and gave him first
aid. Later he was taken to the ST.
GATHERINGS hospital, where this morn
ing, it was said that he had revived
consciousness and appeared to be
out of danger
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
KISS LEADS TO
NO END OF FUSS
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of assault and battery or for peace
bond from Anderson.
eyes, I kissed her" he said frankly,
"but she kissed me more. She kissed
me plenty"
Bonell was accompanied by his wife
and his little boy, and the attitude
of his wife was perhaps one of the
most interesting features in the case.
She "stood by" her husband, and had
no criticism of him.
81 only want them to leave rus
alone" she said, "and not sheer at US
and leer at US every time we go by, or
threaten my husband so that he is
afraid to go to work"
She insisted that her husband had
been "vamped" and that the other
woman came over to their, the Bonel's
house, and started the affair.
when l came home from midnight
mass last Christmas about two
O'Clock in the morning, / found the
other woman there" said Mrs. Bonell.
II thought no i'll. While it was bit
unconventional, l looked at it in the
light of very friendly neighborly
call l only learned later how very
friendly it was. The time she and
my husband kissed / was in the house
even, and she called down stairs. l
had gone up to look after my little
boy when it happened. I'm not hold
ing a grudge, but they don't seem to
forget it. wish they would leave US
alone"
Judge Has Little Sympathy.
j. /
much sympathy for the masculine
kisser, and he glanced at him with
scant appreciation.
81 am not going to issue a bonds to
keep the peace without hearing what
the other party has to say" he said.
"The story you have told does not do
you much credit, young fellow. If the
case comes in on the complaint of
assault and battery | shall have to
hear it, and the other side too"
Anderson was summoned by the
police, and he walked into the judges
Office, rather stern young man, with
Woodworking hands. He stood before
the judges desk in the municipal
court chambers.
''This man charges that you as
saulted him this. morning" said Judge
Slater. "Is that true %
eyes sir, it is" replied Anderson
grimly.
Because Of something that took
place about month ago?I
eyes sir" said the man. He denied
that he had made any threats to
finish Bonell or do him further in
jury. The judge asked him if he was
satisfied, and he said that now he was.
at burned in you a whole month
until you could get your hands on
him ?" continued the judge.
"Well, it did," admitted Anderson.
Understand / am not condoning
this man." said the judge to Anderson
speaking of Bonell, "but want you
to know too that you are not to take
the law into your own hands in such
cases. There is a remedy under the
law. Now are you willing to let mat
tiers rest where they are ?"
Anderson said that for his part, hav-
ing administered a beating, he was
satisfied All parties left the judges
Office with this understanding.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
ST. LoUIsIAN SHOT IN NEW YORK,

New York City The body of man
containing two bullet wounds and be-
lieved to be that of Mack Passwell of
st. Louis, was found today stuffed in
the narrow areaway CT an upper Park
avenue tenement house. In a pocket
was found q savings bank book show
ing deposits Of $4,000.
Passwell who was registered at the
Hotel Almanac in upper Broadway, is
believed by the police to have been a
dealer in sacramental wines. They
said the slain man carried large bank
balances other than the one shown by
the deposit book found in his pocket.
Police said they were certain he was
not slain where the body was found.
Both wounds were in the head. Police
are working on the theory that he was
either slain in q bootlegger's warfare
or that he was shot by robbers. He
apparently had been dead about eight
hours when the body was found.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02

Detroit, Mich Negotiations for
the sale of Dodge Brothers, Inc, to a
buyer or group of buyers whose iden-
tity has not been learned are now in
progress here and announcement may
be expected later today, A. G.
Schwartz, local representative of Dill
lon-Read and Company, New York
banking firm, told newspaper men this
morning.
Schwartz, E. G. Wilmer and S. w.
Rowland all connected with Dillon,
Read and Company were in conference
at local hotel at the time Schwartz
made the statement that negotiations
were under way Others were attend
ing the conference but newspaper men
could not learn whom they repre-
sented.
Clarence Dillon of the New York
firm was in Detroit last week, it was
learned today One rumor that had
gained Roadway was spiked today
when Alvan MacAulay, president of
the Packard Motor Car company, de-
MED that his company was involved in
any merger with the Hudson Motor
Car company and the Briggs Body
corporation for the purchase of Dodge
Brothers, Inc.
Another rumor to the effect that the
General Motors corporation would pur-
chase the Dodge interests was given
point blank denial several days ago
by officials of General Motors and
Dodge Brothers, Inc.