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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
MODERN GIRL
Is DEFENDED
Jane Adams Calls Her
Unconventional, Not
Immoral.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Chicago.-The modern girl is uncon.
vential and not immoral, Jane Ad.
dams, nationally known social work.
er, told the United Press today.
Seated in plain rocking chair in
the barely furnished reception room
of her Hull House." in the tene.
ment district where she has spent 8
lifetime working toward the uplift OF
the "downtrodden girl" Miss Ad-
dams dismissed with afourish of the
hand and a weary smile all the hula
baloo about the imm orality of the
modern girl.
Smooth speaking, the typical Amer
lean mother type, she refuses to get
excited about the charges of "wit-
ness" hurled at the American girl.
Knows From Experience.
"Just because she paints little,
wears short skirts, hobs her hair, and
is wont to go automobile riding with
men she, does not know very well, is
no reason to assume she is immoral,
Miss Adams said.
II work among them all the time,
and can say that the girls I know
are not immoral"
And Jane Adams knows most every
type of girl.
Hull House" situated in Chicago's
Ghetto, daily sees the girls come to
Miss Adams for advice and help.
She Can Take Care Of Herself.
"Girls now work around men," Miss
Adams said. "They understand them
better. Consequently they are able
to cope with most circumstances. And
the modern girl can take care of her
self at most any time.
GAS for women drinking, don't
think there is one little bit more
drinking, among women at present.
than there was before prohibition"
The automobile is blamed to some
extent by Miss Adams for what i'm
morality there is.
81 think that the automobile is one
of the reasons for the Witness of
scme girls. 1t has brought about a
new situation. A couple is able TO go
a great, distance away from home to
some place where they are not known.
Consequently some things are done
that shouldn't be DONE"
Ideals Have Changed.
"But you don't think that as a gen
eral rule the modern girl is any worse
than her predecessor ?" she was asked.
She replied:
swell, we are living under differ
ent conditions" she said. "We now
have a modern world. The ideas to-
ward women have changed. They are
allowed greater freedom, and they are
taking advantage of it.
"But as for all this talk about i'm
morality, there's nothing to it."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Hunt an Old Man In
Mystery N. Y. Staying.

New York City. - ~Al1,, = A mys-
terious individual designated only as
"the old man" is being sought
throughout Connecticut anI eastern
New York state in connection with
the death of Sarah L. Lussier, found
with two bullet wounds m her body
Anna Gray, Detroit, Mich, girl
Tony Greco and Tony Supo, both OF
this city held as material witnesses
support an a1ibi advanced by Joseph
Desecrante, who lives with the wo-
man, that he left her "alone with the
old man" and has not seen her alive
since. Desecrante is being detained
by the police.
The dead woman was once convicted
of murder, her effects snow, bat was
pardoned in 1922, it being asserted
that an insult offered to her daughter
constituted mitigating circum.
stance"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
US. FINDS GUN
TO GET AIRCRAFT
Weapon Reported by Gen,
Hines Has Range of
$4,000 Feet.
MANUFACTURE SLOW

Washington, d. C. - ~ - De-
veloping of can entirely new weapon
for use against aircraft was disclosed
in the annual report of Major General
John L. Hines, chief of staff of the
army. 1t is a 37-mm automatic can
non.
"This gun promises velocity OF
5000 foot seconds, a possible vertical
range of $4,000 feet with visable tracer
range of 10000 feet" the report said
"This piece should assist materially
in solving the problem of defense
against aircraft. However, the ord
nance department is undertaking the
development or Improvement of still
heavier pieces.
Ground defense against aircraft
can be further improved and brought
to reasonable efficiency. Mobility is
the greatest single asset Of the air
service, and it is vital that we develop
ground defense so as to avoid tying
our aircraft down to the defense of
localities against hostile planes"
While improvements made recently
in this and other lines OF ordnance
were "real," General Hines said, 1--WE
are in no position TO undertake the
manufacture of single one of these
improved weapons upon the outbreak
of war.
Must Make in Quantities.
"Nor will we be in any such posi-
ton until, we manufacture sufficient
quantities to permit adequate service
tests and standardize jigs, guages and
fixtures and manufacturing processes,
he said.
General Hines said there had been
improvement in training of the regu-
lars, national guard and organized re-
serves and expressed his complete sat-
isfaction with the present general
staff system. He found that the joint
army navy maneuvers in Hawaiian
waters had been of the greatest value
in training, aside from the disclosure
of weaknesses in the defensive system
of the islands, and urged that funds
be made available for further joint
operations as we'll as for field maneu-
vers of the First, Second and Third
regular divisions and the First Cav
airy Division at home "if possible in
conjunction with the National Guard
and Organized Reserves.
Itemizing small arms and artillery
developed in pilot types since the war
but not yet given adequate "feld
tests" General Hines said two semi
automatics to increase enormously
the fire power of rifemen" and semi
automatic, short range shoulder rifle
had been worked out for the infantry
A new infantry morton, 75-mm, OF
great range and accuracy had been
produced to replace the wartime
Stokes mortors. Among new artillery
General Hines noted a 75-mm pack
howitzer which doubles the range OF
the present mountain gum" and q
105-mm howitzer, type never before
provided for the American army.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Andrews Finishes
Florida. Inspection

Savannah, Ga. At Having
completed inspection Of customs
ports of entry and coast guard and
prohibition units of the south Allan
tic seaboard except Florida, Assis-
tant Secretary of the Treasury An
drews and his party left here fer Key
West and Havana. Only a brief stop
will be made at Key West.
General Andrews is satisfied with
conditions in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia. In each port
where the treasury official has talked
with subordinates, he has assured
them they should not hang back in
asking for personnel and equipment,
Without proper support from Wash
ington, he said, their good work would
be nullified.
The Florida situation will have the
assistant secretary's attention when
he returns from Havana.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Mary McKenna Dies
After Short Illness
To Hold Funeral Services fct Mrs
Mary Elizabeth McKenna Sunday
at Pleasant Prairie Church.


Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McKenna
81 years old, and the wife of Thomas
McKenna, died at the home on the
Geneva road in Pleasant Prairie town
ship Wednesday evening after short
illness from pneumonia. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. McKenna were taken i'll short
time ago and Mr.. McKenna is still
very ILL.,
Mrs. McKenna was born in Mechan-
icsburg, Pa, July 10, 1858, and was the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. John
Shoch. She spent all of her child
hood in that city and was married to
Thomas McKenna May IL, 1887. She
moved to Chicago with her husband
the year of their marriage and lived
in that city until she came to Kenosha
twenty-three years ago. She was q
member of the Eastern Star Of Bristol
and the Royal Neighbors of Pleasant
Prairie.
She is survived by her husband,
Thomas McKenna, two sons: John Nc
Kenna of Milwaukee and Charles Nc
Kenna of Pleasant Prairie; four
daughters: Mrs. Jennie Pierce,
Elva and Olive McKenna of Kenosha,
and Pearl McKenna of Milwaukee;
two brothers and two sisters: Mrs.
James Reynolds, Elkview, Pa, Mrs.
Catherine Limans, West Grove, Pa,
and Frank Shoch and Samuel Shoch
of Elkview, Pa.
The remains will be left at the
home until the time of the funeral
services which will be held Sunday
afternoon at-two o'clock from the
Pleasant Prairie church. The remains
will be taken to the North Bristol
cemetery where interment will be
made,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
CITY LIVES UP
TO NEW SLOGAN
Everybody Seems to Be
lieve in Making 1t a
Better City,"
JOHN DOE" PINCHED

Chief of Police Thad Logan found
this morning as he went over all
the reports for the holiday period,
that the people of Kenosha had been
living UP to the new slogan, Keno
sha, the Better City," Turnkey VIII
liam Long. found that the new slogan
was holding good too when he found
only one man in the city lookup when
he came down at six o'clock this
morning and "opened up" This was
poor overworked "John Doe" who was
arrested for intoxication while cele-
brating the spirit of Christmas in the
wrong way. Of all Of the money,
probably nearly 100000 which was
handed out in Christmas bonuses and
gifts to workers here, apparently none
went to saloonkeepers and bootleggers.
Detectives Realize 1t.
Everybody seemed to be on duty
Christmas Day at police headquarters.
The entire detective squad was there.
and there was nothing for them to do
Throughout the live-long day there
was only one call that came in about
missreants abroad.
This was when, during the after
noon, some one caleld up and said
there was drunken driver going down
the street. The detectives hurried out
in the waiting cars, and found the
driver, but found also that he was
not intoxicated. He had had difficult
in negotiating a turn and the car
had skidded, that was all. He was
not arrested.
"OId Black Joe."
Late Christmas eve, an old colored
man came into the police Office and
asked for nights lodgings. He was
cordially accommodated but before he
was shown a bunk the police found
that he carried guitar and mouth
organ.
Here was fun for the "boys!" There
was a fat turkey out in the oven, the
stuffing of which had been made by
Captain Clausen, and that excellent
chef Of the department, Edward
Pecan. Whein the turkey and all the
trimmings were on the table, odd
Black Joe'' as the guest was called,
played gay plantation melodies, using
his guitar and mouth-organ at the
same time.
"Joe" of course himself sat down
to the feast, and Christmas morning
was joyously ushered in, with no ac-
cidents reported, no ambulance calls,
no suicides, no murders, no burglaries,
no holdups, but with feast upon the
table and a strain of lively music ac
companying the "eats."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
RACINE MAN LED
RUSSIA FOOD VAN
Garage Worker Now, He
Saved Starving Thou
sands in 1921.
MOTOR TRANSPORT AID

Racine, Wis, - Thousands of Russ
slams remember Denis Murphy, RAJ
cine's garageman, as shey cross them-
selves before their "eykons' 'and say
their Christmas prayers.
For Murphy was the first relief
worker to bring food to them in 1921,
when millions were dying of starvs-
and cholera.
Murphy, a Londoner, who enlisted
in the English army during the
World war, joined the American rec
lief forces after the armistice. In
August, 1921, he was put in charge
of the motor transport service and
ordered to Russia
With % carloads of food and eight
trucks and oars loaded on a long
train, Murphy and his party blazed
the first trail of life through the
stricken districts.
He Tries to Forget.
Murphy doesn't talk much about his
work in Russia. He is trying to for
get it as ne "tunes up" the motors in
his garage on Taylor avenue. And,
then, young Denis takes up great
deal of his time, too.
Eastern Russia suffered most DUR
ing the hunger period, according to
Murphy. Moscow ate as usual" he
said. at was in the. Ural mountains
near Ufa, the capital, where the peo-
pie died in the roads before we could
reach them. In our territory there
were $4,000 children to care for and
100000 adults. We established D.
769 kitchens in our district before
October, 1922"
Mr.. Murphy has large collection
of rare Russian trophies, among
them fine painting Of the Madonna
and Child and large gold cross
which a Russian priests congrega-
ton presented to him on a special
anniversary. The priest was MUIR
dered and policeman who raided
the home sold it to Murphy. He also
has a rare book of daily prayers, WOW
en- into a white silk sheet in black
silk letters. The binding is stem
ciled in gold. Experts declare that
the maker must have worked for
many years to complete the book.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
NAB SALEM MAN
AS BOOTLEGGER
L. J. Lutz Held on Bonds of
$4,000 After Arrest at
Waukegan.
ON WAY TO KENOSHA

Louis j. Lutz, of the town of Salem,
is free on bonds of $4,000 at Wauke-
gan following his arrest there when
his autimobile was found loaded with
ten gallons of wine. Lutz was driving
along near the town of Grayslake at
the time that he was arrested by De-
putty Sheriffs Lester Tiffany and Ben
Nelly. The deputies suspected that
something was wrong when they no.
ticed Lutz and commanded him to
halt. The discovery of the liquor was
then made and Lutz placed under ar
rest.
The capture was one of a series of
thrilling chases sheriff's men had to
make in checking the course of liquor
through Lake county on Christmas
eve.
Have Exciting Time.
The Lake county sheriff's office con-
tinued its vigorous drive against
"liquor runners" when six arrests
were made between four o'clock and
midnight Thursday and large guam
tity of alcohol, wine and moonshine
seized. A needing outfit used in In
jecting "pep" into near beer to make
it taste like real beer was also con-
fiscated.
The liquor was taken from four ma
chimes. Deputies had to travel be-
tween 70 and rs miles an hour to over
take one of the machines. The liquor
confiscated in the eight hour period
includes: 1870 gallons Of alcohol, 10
gallons of wine, IL gallons of moon
shine, 2 cases of gin.
In the 4S hours Chief Deputy Lester
Tiffany and the other deputies in the
Office of Sheriff Edwin Ahlstrom ar
rested nine persons on charges of
transporting liquor, 800 gallons of al
cohol being confscated, as we'll as
wine, moonshine and gin. The liquor
was all being transported from Chi
cago to Wisconsin cities, particularly
Kenosha and Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
FIRST CALL FOR
TAX PAYERS OUT
City Treasurer Ready to
Receive Payment Of All
Taxes Monday.
ONE MONTH TO PAY
All Tax Bills Must Be Paid at
City Hall Before February
l Without Penalty.
"The melancholy days are here,
The saddest Of the year"

The first call for the payment of all
city taxes-real estate, personal prop
erty and income taxes-was made to-
day by City Treasurer H. G. Laughlin
to all Kenosha property holders and
wage earners coming under the income
tax jurisdiction.
The annual tax list has been given
to the city treasurer for collection,
and attention is being drawn to the
new law on the time limits for the
collection of taxes.
ttTaxes not paid before Feb. 4 shall
be subject to penalty of two per cent
on the amount of taxes, which penalty
shall be collected by the city treas
urer and paid into the treasury to-
gether with the taxes collected" the
law says.
On the last Monday in February,
1926, being the 9th, the tax list will
be turned over to the county treasurer
for collection, according to law. The
first day for the payment of these tax
es is Monday, Dec. %, at room in
the city hall The office will be open
between the hours of o'clock and 4
o'clock, except Saturday, when it will
close at 1880 o'clock These hours
will obtain until Jan. 81, the last day
for the collection of taxes in the city
hall.
Real estate tax bills as made out
by the city assessor are being mailed
to all known addresses. If any prop
erty holder should fail to receive his
bill within the next two or Chree
weeks, he is urged by City Treasurer
Laughlin to call at the Office for a
copy of the bill. Failure to receive
the tax bill is not accepted as an ex-
cuse for delay in payment of the
taxes.
The total amount of taxes to be coli
lected in the city of Kenosha on real
estate, personal property and incomes
will reach $685. 11.09, figures from
the office of the city treasurer show.
Of this money $1,010,1 1912 will be
collected directly for the city schools
and 1856, 489.27 for the city. The
taxes for the city this year represent
decrease of six per cent over those
collected for the year 1925. The 1925
sum collected for the city was $1,017.-
549.58.
1t is pointed out that of the taxes
collected in the city, the actual amount
of tax money the city will receive in
1926 is $62,061.31 less than it received
in 1925. The city schools will receive
from the city $16,OO4.57 more than it
received in 1925. The state will receive
from the city $182,5S2.O2 more than it
received in 1925, which is equivalent to
approximately three mills of the tax
rate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
5 ROADS ATTACK
NEW STOKER LAW
Hearing Set for Jan. 9 Be-
fore U. S. JUICES In
Milwaukee.
SEEK TO KILL ACT

Madison, Wis. - .ap, - Five rail-
roads in Wisconsin have opened an
attack on the new state law requiring
the gradual equipment of large loco
motives with automatic stokers.
A hearing has been set for January
9, in Milwaukee, before three federal
judges, on the question of issuing a
temporary injunction to prevent en-
forcement of the law. The case will
be heard by United States District
Judge F. A. Geiger and two others,
who are expected to be Judge G. q.
Luse and Evan A. Evans.
Attorney General Herman L, Ekern,
on behalf of the state railroad COM
mission, the governor and himself, an
nounced that he is preparing to resist
the motion for temporary injunc-
ton. The railroad commission is pre-
pairing affidavits and other expert tes-
tjmony.-
Law Passed in 1926.
The mechanical stokers law was en-
acted by the 1926 Legislature after a
hard fight. 1t was supported by rail-
road employees and labor organizations,
the author being Assemblyman c. S.
Geraldson, q locomotive engineer of
Superior. 1t was opposed by the rail-
roads that brought the suit to null
lily it.
The law provides that engines
weighing $4,000 pounds or more on
the drivers, and operating in Wiscon-
sin shall be equipped with automatic
- 1o
added gradually, being required on
twenty-five per cent of the engines
before January /, 1925, fifty per cent
before January /, 1927, seventy-five
per cent before January 1, 1928, and
on all before January /, 1929.
The legislation was urged as being
in the interest of public safety, it be-
ing contended by the sponsors that
the fremen would be enabled to as
sst the engineers in watching for
signals and highway crossings.
Call It Unconstitutional.
AS in the cab curtain cases, testing
law requiring curtains on locomo-
tives, recently upheld in the state SUI
preme court, the railroads assert that
the legislation is unconstitutional and
contrary to the principle of federal
regulation of interstate commerce.
The automatic stokers law is regard
ed as of even greater Importance,
however. 1t is the finest law of its
kind in the United States, whereas cab
curtains are considered necessary by
railroad workers chiefly in the north
ern states, the demand for mechanical
stokers is not sectional.
The plaintiffs in the case are the
Chicago and North Western; Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha;
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie, and Northern Pacific Railway
companies, and receivers of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road
The defendants are the Wisconsin
railroad commission, Governor Blaine,
Attorney General Ekern and all dis
trict attorneys of the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Bank Scholarship
Started at u. of w.

Milwaukee, Wis. Az An
nouncement was made here of the es-
tablishment of the J. P. Puelicher-
Marshall and nsley bank scholarship
of the University of Wisconsin, car
rying with it an appropriation of $780,
600 to be administered under the rules
of the American Bankers Educational
fund The scholarship will be IN
banking and economics.
Mr.. Puelicher has just been named
chairman of the board of trustees OF
the American Bankers Association
Educational foundation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
COPS INTERRUPT
PINOCHLE GAME
Three Arrested for Gam
bling as Result of Call
On PoOlr0Om.
ALI. COME TO COURT

Two police detectives stood watch
ing pinochle game for half-hour
in the Hub poolroom while the play
ers, unaware doubtless that the two
spc tators were policemen, kept on
bEthely playing and putting money
on the table.
jus at the close of the little game,
the go policemen, Detective John
Bre II and Detective Walter Chase,
CLOSED up little nearer the table,
and snatched the cards and money
on the board
To Plead Guilty.
AS the result of the arrest of three
in the poolroom, James Kelly, John
Alkire and George Nelson (not OF
Nelson's storage), were brought into
the municipal court this morning
The three signifed their intention
of pleading guilty. They have not
yet been fined.
There were two games going for.
ward at the time, the police officers
said, but they declared that there was
gambling going on at only one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
KENOSHA CASES
ARE CONTINUED
Roadhouse Paddock Injunc-
tons to be Heard Dec.
80 at Milwaukee.
MUST ANSWER DEC. %

Eleven Kenosha county roadhouse
and saloon keepers will know their
fate before the federal court on We'd
nesday, December 80, when Judge
Geiger will hold hearings on the per-
manent injunctions invoked against
the places by United States District
Attorney Roy Morse, following action
taken by federal raiders under the di-
rection of Robert Sterling, federal
prohibition enforcement director for
eastern Wisconsin.
Temporary injunctions were issued
against each Of the eleven places here
two weeks ago and the date set for
the hearings on the permanent injunc-
tions was originally December %, but
because of the heavy federal court
docket at this time-there are nearly
forty paddock cases to be heard from
this section of the state-the Kenosha
cases will not be reached until De-
cember 80.
Means Dry New Years Eve.
With the new date there still stands
the assertion of the federal officials
that the biggest places in Kenosha
county will be closed by December 81
to put crimp in any New Years eve
celebrations that are being planned in
these roadhouses.
At the Royal Palace Cafe, on South
Sheridan road at the state line, a re-
porter for the Evening News found
that reservations were being taken for
New Years eve without any strings
tied to them. No hint is given to
those making reservations that the
place might be padlocked before that
time. Other places in the county are
still open for business, according to
the signs in front of the roadhouses.
Had Dry Christmas.
On Christmas Eve the roadhouses
throughout the country were strangely
quiet for the most part. The usual
number of automobiles were seen in
front of some of them, but the snow
and the intense cold, combined to put
a damper on some of the Christmas
Eve revelry.
There still remains the trump card
in the hands of the prohibition en-
forcement agents, as limited in a con-
ference between Robert Sterling and
E. C. Yellowley, head Of the depart
ment for Wisconsin and Illinois, on
Wednesday afternoon. Whether the
new plans, which are believed to have
been drawn up at that time concern
any activities between now and New
Years eve is not known, nor has any
one been found who viii, venture
statement that might be considered as
officials or at least authentic.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Farm Credit Board
Considers Livestock

Des Moines, Iowa. - NJ Tho
board of directors of the newly-creat-
ed National Agricultural Credit corr
poration, in session to decide whether
its credit facilities had been extended
to finance livestock feeding operas
tions as well as grain growers, trans
ferred the conference to Fort Dodgs
where decision will probably be
reached.
Dean C. F. Curtiss and President IL
A. Pearson of Iowa State college, and
Nils A. Olson, of the United States
department. OF agriculture, represent
ing Secretary Jardine, have endorsed
the proposal.