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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Vets and Drys Pour
Bills Into Congress

Washington, D. c. - AZ - With
the new congress only few hours
old, the Volstead act and its parent
law, the 18th amendment, already have
drawn flood of proposals for amend
ment and repeal.
While the preponderance Of these
are '1iberalizing proposals from the
wet side," the drys have nearly bal
anced the scale with their measures
for tightening up prohibition enforce
ment.
The house first felt he agitation
with the pouring of more than a
score of prohibition bills into the
hopper at the opening session, but
Senator Edge, Republican of New Jer-
sey, moved to bring the senate into
the question.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
AMERICA INVITED TO
JOIN NATIONS LEAGUE
Germany and Russia Also to Be
Asked by Council at Geneva, It
Is Announced.

Geneva - .A.I - The League OF
Nations council today decided to in
vite the United States, Russia and
Germany 70 participate in the WORK
of special commission which is to
prepare for an international disarm-
ament conference.
The decision, which was reached in
secret session, was not announced Of
ficially, as difficulty has arisen in
agreeing upon the European states,
members of the League but not of the
council, who will be invited to par
ticipate.
These are almost certain to include
Finland, Holland, Poland and Jugo
Slavia, but there is some doubt
whether Rumania and Bulgaria will
be added.
The plan to invite Argentina and
Chile has been temporarily aban-
doned. The reason assigned for this
is that the commission will concen-
trate it's early efforts. upon European
disarmament; hence the Latin, Am
erican membership of Brazil and
Uruguay is deemed sufficient at pres
emit.
u. S. to Await Invitation.
Washington, D. c. = (AP) - Def.
mite comment by Washington officials
of the League of Nations decision tc
invite the United States, Russia anG
Germany to participate in the work
of special commission on interna.
tional disarmament will await a care.
full study of the text of the invitation
by President Coolidge.
Congress, in ratifying the German
peace treaty, imposed limitation on
the power of the president to send
delegates abroad for conference and
it will be necessary for the Wash.
ington government to have very full
knowledge of the purpose of the pro-
posed disarmament conference as well
as its exact relationship to the
League of Nations and to the Yer.
sailles treaty before decision can be
reached.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Harding Crow is
Buried on Monday
Funeral Services for the Late Hard
ing Crow We're Held Monday With
Interment in Green Ridge.

Funeral services for the late Hard
ing Crow were held on Monday morn
ing from the Hansen Funeral home
with interment following ia Greoa
Ridge cemetery.
Born on April z, 1859, the son of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Grow,
the deceased lost his mother during
his early boyhood. His father after
ward married Elizabeth Dabbs by
whom he had five children, namely.
Minnie Pedley, Clarence Crow, Ethel
Bennett, Fanny Pedley and Harry
Crow, all of whom survive.
The deceased received his education
in the public schools and remained at
home with his father being later
foreman on the Wells farm for over
fifteen years. AT the end of that time
he purchased a farm of 112 acres in
Pleasant Prairie which he improved
and cultivated for thirteen years.
In 1890 he married Ida Pedley, and
the union was blessed with three
children, Archie H., Pleasant Prairie;
Frank H., of Kenosha, and Mrs. Myrtle
Fry, KenOsha.
Mr.. Crow was Modern Woodmen
and a member of the Park Ave. M. E.
church. He moved to Kenosha in 1918
and has since made his home at 10
Rice avenue. On Monday, Nov. 80, he
suffered stroke of paralysis from
which he did not recover, and he died
Friday morning without regaining con-
seriousness. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Ida Grow, three children
and three grandchildren.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
ROBERT GRAFTON
is NOTED ARTIST
Talented Portrait Painter
Is Doing Mary D. Brad
..s ford Picture.
FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL

Mary D. Bradford, whose portrait il
to be presented to the new high schoo
as gift of the city's educationa
interests, is sitting regularly, anc
Robert Grafton, the artist, has made
much progress in the elementary
steps required for the building o.
such a picture.
4{In a recent article printed in the
Fine Arts magazine, Robert Grafton
is declared "the man who discovered
New Orleans, pictorially speaking.
H. has been recognized as one of the
outstanding portrait painters of thu
country, and was engaged by com
mittee from the Kenosha College club
which is sponsoring the movement
upon recommendation fro m thu
country's greatest artists.
Lives In Chicago.
A Chicago man and wide traveller
Mr.. Grafton, seems to have found IL
the quaint old southern city of New
Orleons an atmosphere altogether con
genial, both from personal and ar
artistic standpoint. Here his bes
outdoor manner has been developed
and from hence comes the finest col
lection of his portrait work which
has been shown so far.
Robert Grafton, English on hi:
fathers side, of old New England
stock on his mothers, with the grace
of the world traveller and the artist
born, brings both an English point o.
view as well as the New Englander''
love of family trees to the service
of his profession.
He brings, too, peculiar ease ant
nonchalance, seeming carelessness
that is nevertheless graceful, which
he imparts to his sitters, perhaps
through his Interpretation of theil
appearance. He is singularly happy
in his pose of the figure, so as tt
give an immediate impression of ease
and elegance.
Popular in North and South.
Mr.. Graftons ability to depict
vigorous mind, and force of character
is evinced in his convincing presen
tation of mans decided individ
uality. He was much in demand as 8
painter of men before New Orlean:
all but claimed him as her own. In
and about Chicago and throughout In
diana there are numerous fine por
traits that bear evidence to his pop
ularity at home. Among these are
recalled study of John Elwooc
Bundy, the famous Hoosier painter
and the famous George AIDE portrait
executed for his fraternity house al
Purdue. Mr.. Grafton has also wor
honors in Indiana, having received
the Foulke prize.
Robert Grafton is however, a. YER
satile man, painting women and chill.
dren also with sympathy and charm
Several of his portraits were repro
duced in Fine Arts magazine few
years ago, bearing testimony to his
ability in the work that Kenosha has
set for him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Wisconsin Farmers
Want New Coop Clubs

Shawano, Wis. - .2Sz Mo e
farmers cooperative societies are
needed in Wisconsin in order to take
full advantage OF the prosperity that
is here, according to Assemblyman
George A. Nelson, Midtown, presi-
dent of the American Society of
Equity, which is holding its annual
convention here.
Mr.. Nelson, in his opening address
to the more than 200 members here
from all points of the state, spoke
with optimism regarding the farmer.
It was his opinion hat those who have
gone through the period Of depres-
sion during the last three years are
due to make money.
Business sessions were to be held
today at which problems confronting
the farmer were to be discussed. The
convention will close with the cleo
ton of officers tomorrow.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
BULLET HALTS
FLEEING MEN
Men Fighting on Main
Street Try to Run When
Police Arrive.
A REGULAR MONDAY
Miscreants Arrested Over the
Week End Are Only Minor
Jewellers, However.

Miscreants over the weekend made /;
specially this time in fighting in pairs
for the police had three separate call:
of this character, one of the fight:
proving a stabbing affair, with one
man in the hospital.
Shoppers on Main street Saturda!
evening were startled by the SOUND
of a pistol shot, and investigating
they found that there were two me1
attempting to flee from the police.
The two, Lawrence Pickering ant
John Duhant, both of whom live at ;
downtown hotel, were brought int
court this morning on the charge Of
disorderly conduct. They were ar
rested by Police officers Vanderwah
and Turkelson, in the midst of a fght
at the corner of Main and Marke'
streets. Tn, officers shot into the ali
to halt their progress when the pail
started to flee from the scene, ane
succeeded. Pickering at first plead
guilty and was fined So and costs
but later withdrew the plea, declaring
that he had intended to say "not
guilty" Duhant pleaded not guilty
also and the two cases were set fol
hearing Friday afternoon.
Man Stabbed With Knife.
Blaz Svecko, who lives at the Gar
field House, was stabbed Sunday nigh
by Peter Michenicas, according to &
story he told the police. He was
found by Matt Since of the City Square
hotel, who summoned the police.
Since was walking along South West
Main street Sunday at 1880 p. m
when he heard some one groaning ant
calling for help. He found SveckC
leaning against the door jamb of the
entrance to the Garfield House. Since
called the police and Officers Beam
Pecan and Bolton responded and tool
the victim to the Kenosha hospital
where DR.. Christopherson attended
him. He had a wound in the chest
but was not seriously injured.
Lieut.. Rock and Detectives Breidt
and Chase searched Svecko's room, No
-16, at the Garfield House, and found
a knife covered with blood. Sveckc
named his assailant but he could
not be found when the police searched
for him.
Others Fighting Too.
The third set of fighters were John
Marchioretto, 426 Middle street, anc
Frank Ferrara, Glencoe, Ill. They were
taken into custody Sunday at 1850 a
m. by Police Officers O'Hare, Reynolds
and Bolton when found squabbling or
Anton street.
"What were you doing or Anton
street, after moonshine 2" asked Judge
Slater of both defendants in court
this morning. 81 know that district
Neither vouchsafed a response to
this. Marchioretto pleaded guilty and
was fined SIS and costs; the other
pleaded not guilty and his case was
set for December IL, bonds $25.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Journalism Students
Analyze Newspapers

Madison, Wis., - Principles
of journalism that are applicable gem
orally are disclosed to senior students
in the university Of Wisconsin
course in journalism by an analysis of
20 newspapers, including two in foreign
countries.
Forty-one students are engaged in
the study this year. Their findings will
be compiled in thesis. The contents
of four typical issues of each paper are
analysed. Results of the analysis in
previous years "were of such wide
scope that certain concrete principles
have been discovered that are applii.
cable to American newspapers general.
ly," said Grant M, Hyde, instructor in
journalism.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Optimists After
Rat Elimination
Hear Professional Rat ExterminatOx
Talk Rat Eradication - Exge
City-Wide Cooperation,

If the members of the Optimist
club have their way about it there
won't be rat left in Kenosha to
nibble a piece of cheese before win
ter is over Leonard B. Paul, profess
sional rat killer, spoke TO the club at
it's luncheon-meeting on Monday af-
ternoon and told them of the diff
culties he is encountering in getting
the entire city to cooperate with him
in his campaign of rat extermnation
in Kenosha.
The Optimists learned considerable
about rats during the few minutes
Paul spoke end they, individually and
collectively, promised him their CO.
operation.
At the meeting on Monday George
Stevens gave report on the pro-
ceedings at the recent national con-
vention Of men interested in boys
welfare work held in Chicago.
The annual nomination of officers
for the coming year also marked the
Monday meeting.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
DRUNKEN DRIVER
Is FINED TODAY
Edward Whitaker, Wau-
kegan, Collides With
Car Monday.
HE PLEADS GUILTY

As result of an accident which oc-
Cured Monday afternoon just before 6
o'clock on Sheridan road, Edward Whit
taker, 814 North avenue, Waukegan,
was brought into the municipal court
this morning and charged with operat-
ing an automobile while intoxicated.
Whitaker collided with car owned
by Mrs. Sylvia Chamberlain at 21O
Deming street, which was driven at
the time by her sister, Mrs. Alma
Sweeney Of Milwaukee. He. was ar
rested by Police Officers Beam and
Turkelson. til
Mrs. Sweeney was driving a Stude-
baker sedan south on Sheridan road
and was passing the Koenes garage,
when Whitaker, driving Studebaker
touring car south on Sheridan road,
started to pass the sedan and ran into
it on the side. Both cars were dam
! aged.
With Whitaker was Peter Burke of
Waukegan, who was charged with in
toxication. He pleaded not guilty and
his case was continued
Draws Fine of 500.
Whitaker pleaded guilty to the
drunken driving charge. He said he
had no business in Wisconsin, but did
not tell the judge whether or not he
had purchased his liquor here. He said
that he has a wife in Waukegan.
Judge Slater ordered him to pay a
fine of 500 and costs with an addi-
tional sentence of twenty days at hard
labor. The right to drive a car was
not taken away, as the man sentenced
lives outside of the state.
Mrs. Chamberlain Injured.
This VISA the second accident in
which Mrs. Chamberlain's car figured
within two days. Mrs. Chamberlain
was injured Sunday at Chicago and
her sister, Mrs. Sweeny, had taken the
car back to Kenosha for her, when the
intoxicated driver ran into her.
Mrs. Chamberlain is now in Victory
Memorial hospital at Waukegan, re-
ported to be in serious condition
from injuries received Sunday after
noon in an automobile crash at North
Chicago. With Mrs. Chamberlain at
the time was R. B. Vanskike of 702
Market street, Kenosha. The auto in
which they were riding, sedan, col
lided with car owned apd driven by
Stanley Bemben of North Chicago at a
street intersection on the border line
between Waukegan and North Chicago.
The force of the crash was such that
the sedan of the Kenosha people, al
though much heavier than the other
machine, was hurled upon its side.
Both machines were badly damaged
Mrs. Chamberlain was the most
severely injured and was hurried
to the Waukegan hospital. Other oc-
cupants of the two cars escaped with
minor scratches and bruises.
Police were called to the scene, but
no arrests were made as the testimony
of witnesses was that the collision was
apparently unavoidable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
LIQUOR MEN TO
ANSWER CHARGES
County Men Facing Fed
eraI Liquor Charges to
File Answers.
ONE ON WEDNESDAY

indications that the ten Kenosha
county roadhouse owners a CT n g
charges of violating the national pro-
hibition act would file answers to the
federal charges when they take their
cases into the court of Judge Geiger
in Milwaukee between now and Fri
day, December 10, were found today
as several of the men ordered their
attorneys to prepare answers.
One of the places named in the
federal actions, the Eagle Inn, located
on the Geneva road near the inter
section of Highway 81, will be repre-
sented in federal court on Wednesday
through Attorney Leo Vaudreuill
Others of the ten will appear later this
week and next week to face the court
After Other Counties Next.
In the meantime information came
from the Office of Roy L. Morse, United
States district attorney for eastern
Wisconsin, that his, Office was prepar-
ing summons and subpoenas for other
roadhouse owners in this section of
the state, continuing the federal pro-
hibition officers crusade against holt
day liquor dispensers. No other sum-
mons for Kenosha county places have
been served since the ten were notified
last week, but it is known that federal
agents have reported to headquarters
damaging evidence against other Ke-
nosha county roadhouses and saloons
not yet implicated in federal actions.
Racine and Walworth Counties Too.
Kenosha county is not alone in the
federal moves. Reports from Racine
declaring that federal Investigations
in that county have freed roadhouses
in Racine county from uspicion by
the federal sleuths are branded a:
"hardly likely" here. It i, known that
the United States distrs It attorney:
Office in Milwaukee is being provided
with evidence against places in Ra
cine, Kenosha, and WaIworth countie:
almost daily, and this evidence is be.
| ing gathered in the same secrecy a:
that secured in Kenosha county.
Walworth county got its first set
back from the federal raiders when 81,
places were named in one day by fed
eral summons for violations of the
liquor laws. The same federal mer
who worked in Kenosha county me-
with success in Walworth county il
the vicinity of GAINESVILLE. Whethei
the next bombshell would fall il
Racine county or not is a question
that can be answered only by the fed
eral prosecutor in Milwaukee,.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
GERMAN WOMEN
LIKE THE bob
Mrs. lara Vogelman
Tells of Present Con-
ditiOns in Germany.
JUST RETURNED HERE

German "Fraus" and "Frauleins"
are now taking to bobbing their tres
SEES, but the new movement is one
which began only within the last
year, and short hair amongst femin-
ity in Germany is nowhere near so
prevalent as it is here, according to
Mrs. Clara Vogelman, formerly a
nurse in Kenosha, who has just re-
turned here after an extensive visit
through the various German provin-
ces. Mrs. Vogelman is now staying
with Mrs. Gertrude Schultz on Hanson
street.
altogether" she said, "the position
of women in the old country has en-
tirely changed, and women have far
more freedom than they had former
ly. 1t is a far call now from the old
settled days when housework and
knitting were supposed to be the
great recreation of woman's life"
Mrs. Vogelman went to Germany last
May, and during her -even months
there, visited relatives and travelled
from one end of the "Fatherland" to
the other. She noted much depres-
sion and melancholy caused by the
economic conditions
The average wage, she said, is 25
to 80 marks a week, while 40 marks,
or 10 dollars a week is considered
good pay for a workman. Many of
the factories are closed and there are
thousands of unemployed all oyer.
Food, on the other hand, is high. A
single egg costs 25 pfennig; quart
of milk 36 or 38 pfennig; a pound of
butter two marks, 80 pfennig, and a
pound of soup meat sc pfennig to two
marks. Rent is all the way from 25
to rs marks month, the higher rent
being for a heated apartment, but
very few of these apartments are
modern or know the common Ameri-
can necessity of bath room.
Police Lost Power.
The old admiration and awe of the
uniform has passed and no longer is
the military the upper class, she said.
Even the old respect for the police
man has passed, and he is powerless
to curb the wildness of the younger
set. A generation is growing up
which has cast aside the restraints
and traditions of the older Germany
as "rot," and have no morals or pre-
cepts to draw upon in their place.
No one wants the Kaiser back, and
the bitterness that is felt towards
him has extended to the entire Hohen-
zolIern family. Prince Henry is now
commoner and mixes with the popu-
lace as one of them, and is easy to
meet anywhere, the returned visitor
said.
Prohibition never ''took" in Ger
many, and the people the whole coun-
try over still quaff their great
draughts of beer from stems that are
decorated as of old. The cafe life is
still the merry life, but there was
little drunkenness to be seen, Mrs.
Vogelman said.
The German people have an espe-
cial regard for the Quakers of this
country, she said, for the adoption of
homeless German children by Quaker
| families here. =.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
COURT RULES SCHOOLS
ARE NOT HOME RULED
Opinion Holds That Wisconsin Amend.
ment Delegates Only Powers
Outside of Education.


Madison, Wis., THE supreme
court today held that the home rule
amendment to the Wisconsin consti
tuition, giving cities and villages t.
power TO determine their local af-
fairs and government, has no applica-
ton to schools.
The court issued writ of manda-
mus, ordering the levy of $750,00O in
taxes for school building repairs in
Milwaukee under the one mill provi-
sion of new amendment to an exist
ing law applicable to that city.
Justice Owen, who wrote the opin-
ion, pointed out that the constitution
deals with two definite subjects
cities and villages and district schools,
and the general subject of education,
The opinion holds that he manage
ment of schools never have been
placed in the hands of the municipal
government.
Other supreme court decisions of
interest throughout the state, were
as follows;
Proposed detachment of territory
from union free high school districts
was invalidated in two cases. The
court affirmed both cases, one of
which came from Fond du Lac county
and the othe, from Rock county.
Benefciaries IF teachers enrolled in
the state retirement fund system be-
fore July 16, 1928, are entitled to an
allotment for "prior service" the
state supreme court held today.
The court granted writ of man
damus directing the state annuity
board to authorize payment of a claim
filed by Mrs. Hannah S. 0'Neil of
Oshkosh, for payment of approximate
ly $4,000 from the fund on account
of the death of her husband, former
high school principal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Nobody Home"
When Coal Comes
Customer Gives Bad Check and Gets
$24 Cash in Exchange; But
Coal Isn't Delivered.

The Transfer Truck and Team Own
ers' Association Coal company with
offices at the corner of Valentine and
Park streets, found themselves just
$24 out of cash this morning due
to the appearance of a check custo-
mer in their midst.
The customer ordered four tons of
coal and presented check for S58.75.
The check was made out to Edward
J.. Clark, signed E. M. Davidson and
endorsed E. ]. Clark. The customer
said his name was E. j. Clark of 1923
Salem avenue, and he asked to have
the coal delivered at this address.
The coal bill amounted to STATS and
the customer was given $24 in cash.
When the coal man came to deliver
the coal, he found there was nobody
home upstairs" for there was no
such address. The check then was
found to be worthless.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Granger Pleads for
City-Farm Relations

Neenah, Wis. \-43/ - Closer CO.
operation between the farmer and the
city business man was advocated by
Herman hide, Neenah, master Of the
state grange, who spoke at the annual
grange convention here.
Mutual business problems, together
with the mutual financial benefits
therefrom, should be studied by
groups composed of farmers and bust
ness men, Mr.. hide.
That a pay-as-we-go program in
highway construction would result
in vast saving annually to Wiscon-
sin tax payers was the speakers con-
tention.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Police Halt Michigan
ElOpers in Wisconsin

Wausau, Wis., Leo Gizzetti,
aged %, and Mary Brand, 16, of Iron
Mountain, Mich, were taken into Gus
today here yesterday afternoon at the
request of Iron Mountain officials, as
they alighted from a Northwestern
train. The couple had started some
where, they did not know just where,
to, get married, but the age of the
girl had proved barrier. Iron Noun
tain officers are expected to come for
them this afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
7cRAwIs IN TREE TO STOP FIRE.

Boise, Idaho.-Fred Call, fire guard,
crawled into hollow tree to extin-
guish fire, according to forest service
reports. A bolt of lightning set fire to
hollow yellow pine tree 43 inches in
diameter. Call found that the fire was
burning within the tree. He made his
way into the trunk and Clipped away
burning wood with his knife and then
brought the burning embers out with
shovel. He made several trips into
the tree before the fire was completely
extinguished.