Appleton Post-Crescent (Newspaper) - April 28, 1923, Appleton, Wisconsin THE WEATHER Fair tonight anil Sunday what warmer Sunday APPLETON CITY EDITION 100 PAGES THE DAILY POST ESTABLISHED 1883 EVENING CRESCENT ESTABLISHED 1890 SECTIONS 7 and 8 PAGES 73 to 96 APPLETON WISCONSIN SATURDAY APRIL 28 1923 FULL LEASED WIRE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IRISH CIVIL WAR HALT Dail Eireann Is Expected To Take Up Of- fer Wednesday By Associated Press ment of the conditions on which the Irish Republicans are willing to peace sheds little new light on the political situation in the opinion of the Free State government circles although it does contain a definite der suspending hostilities as evidence of the good De proclamation contains six proposals which are generally re- as the points of his old position He asserts that the Irish people constitute the ultimate court of appeal for disputed tions of national expediency and icy and declares in substance that persons holding Republican principles should not be excluded from the cils of the government The question of the Republican is certain to be raised at next Wednesday's meeting of the Dail Eireann suspension of hostilities by the Irish Republicans against the forces of Free State government and an effort to negotiate peace with the Free State on certain conditions proclaimed Friday night by on de Valera the Republican leader chief of staff E F De proclamation set forth the general political principles of the Republicans nnd asserts ul- timate court of appeals for deciding disputed questions is a majority vote of the people of that ance by violence should be excluded but that adequate facilities should be afforded the people for a proper pre- of the issues involved The proclamation adds that nobody holding Republican principles should be excluded from parliament and the council of the nation It says the forces are servants of the tion and amenable to a freely elected assembly SEES BASTS FOR PEACE De Valera expresses the belief that his declaration affords a basis for nnd Wo hope this advance will be met in the spirit in which wo make it and that it will be supported by all who Jnvp our country and desire a speedy nnd just ending to the present al trouble Ax evidence of our own good will the army command is issuing herewith an order to suspend aggressive action to effect as soon as may be but not later than noon of Monday CLING TO ARMS The effect of this proclamation is still doubtful DP Valera sill along has declared his willingness to abide by a decision based on the free will of the people but ho is said still to maintain his original position that the government must not interfere in land if the people decide in favor of a republic Chief of Aitkon in his order for a cessation of offensive operations the Republican troops to remain on the defensive and protect and their munitions This is taken as implying there is to no yielding on the part of the licans to the Free State government's demand for tho surrender of all arms ORDER TO ARMY Aitken's order To all commands and independent Suspension of In order to give effect to the decision of the and army council embodied in the attached proclamation you will arrange a suspension of all offensive operations in your area as from noon Monday April 30 You will Hint whilst re on the defensive all adequate measures to protect themselves nnd their munitions Storm Stadium To See Football Game 40 Hurt new stadium at bley hill with a capacity of spectators was the scene of disorders Saturday afternoon when it opened with the association football final to decide the championship between I land and Wales Forty casualties re- i suited when the doors were stormed i after the stadium was full The game was suspended for a time when tators swarmed on the field STRICTER OF SOVIETISM A United States Of Russia Also Is Advocated By Com- By Associated Press decisions of the Com- munist substance that Russian endeavor to rehabilitate self without the slightest surrender to proletarian dictatorship and enforce sharper Communistic control of trial and economic explained in the government newspaper Friday A new state control commission will have the right to investigate all ments of the in an or to bring about what is described a- idealism Tho duties of the commission in- clude merciless punishment of Soviet employes for snobbishness or for dis- regarding peasants questions of workers and The Central Fox River Valley Number The Appleton today is pleased to offer its ers its Central Fox River Valley Prosperity and Advancement number the largest newspaper ever printed in the Fox river ley and one of the largest ever issued in Wisconsin outside of This huge newspaper consisting of 100 pages contains a vast quantity of historical and statistical material of a highly ative nature compiled entirely by the staff of The in about two months of intensive effort It is almost entirely a product of the Central Fox River to which it is dedicated The paper war in Fox river valley mills the graphic illustrations were made in this community and the ing was done here Publication of this newspaper obtaining its raw materials from many and varied sources illustrates the re- sources of this valley Approximately copies of this edition were printed All but the cover section is printed on X grade print paper manufactured by the Patten Paper Co of Appleton This is the best grade of newsprint made anywhere in America To print this issue pounds of the Patten print was necessary The cover section paper was manufactured by the Bergstrom Paper Co of nnd coated by the Appleton Coated Paper Co of ton About 3.300 pounds of this paper was required making pounds or more than 12 tons in all A continuous strip of paper 2.1 inches wide long enough to print this entire edition would reach miles the distance from Appleton to Chicago The cuts from which the illustrations were printed were made by the Printing and Carton Co of Menasha from graphs supplied by The About 300 photographs were obtained by The Post Crescent from which more than 100 were selected for use The Banta Publishing Co of Menasha the four cover pages This edition is printed with a special quality of ink suited to the high grado paper that was used About 150 pounds of this ink was required This edition consists of eight sections of twelve pages each and a cover section The first editorial section is devoted to and progress the second to Menasha kauna and tlv adjacent community the third to the industries of the Central Fox River Valley the fourth to the rural community the fifth to Appleton nnd county the sixth to auto- mobiles the seventh and eighth contain the daily news report A single copy of paper weighs 28 ounces The statistical and historical material contained in the matter and in the advertisements represents weeks of ex- study and painstaking effort Xever before have the ple of this valley had an opportunity of with so little effort about the community in Jive It Is a addition to the permanent historical of the Central Fox River Valley With explanatory statement the offers Central Fox River number to its readers for their approval Woman To Decide If Navy Is To Chase Bootleggers il Kv Associated Press ashington A resort to use of vessels in combating rum gling off the Atlantic coast has been determined upon by the ion if the department of justice de- the President has tho legal m- hority to tint into effect a plan ready worked out The administration Saturday was awaiting nil opinion from the justice department as to whether the GERMANS EXILED BY INVADERS TO DATE By Associated Press Berlin Expulsions from the pied area approximate ing to German official circles Giving figures up to April 15 Herr Von Braun the Prussian premier told a committee of the diet Friday that individuals had been formally but the number affected about as members of their milies were sent out with the expelled men He said that from the old occupied area imperial state and city of- and 156 private citizens had been expelled and from the newly area officials and 26 vate citizens dent has the power to declare an and use the armed es of the government to bunt down the rum runners a course urged for some time by prohibition er At the justice department tho dent's request for an opinion was re- 1 erred to Assistant Attorney General Mrs Willebrandt at once began an examination of the legal technicalities involved MRS STERNE NOTED CUBIST ARTIST IS WED TO INDIAN New Mabel Dodge Wisconsin Lawmaker Comes Out For Judicial Body In California Speech San States tor Irving Wisconsin in an address here Friday indorsed dent Harding's plan for the United States to enter the League of tions world court The issue he said was not political but rather an American question which should be considered by the senate without re- gard for political affiliations Indorsement of the court he de- clared is a duty that America owes to Europe adding that it would be a Sterne widely known in cubist and toward vorld ponce aml the turist circles was married to her chauffeur Antonio Lujan a full ed Indian at Taos Xew Mexico April 16 the Xew York World says day Jt was her third marriage Her first husband was Dodge a Boston architect In 1917 she was married to Maurice Sterne Russian painter who now is living in Italy She lived for a number of years in and her solons were attended by nrt and radical leaders of all classes Frank Tannenbaum and Big wood were among those who ed the gatherings Her friends say she told them that Lujan had divorced his Indian wife a week their riage judication of international disputes P B YATES BELOIT MANUFACTURER DIES R Tales founder president and general manager of the P B Machine company the world's largest woodworking ery plant died shortly before noon on Friday in a Chicago hospital where he had come for treatment eral weks ago according to word re- hero Friday afternoon The direct cause of his death was monia following a breakdown of his circulation system In Creek Drowns Gitter H Job As Ambassador Too To Go Back In Politics BY DAVID LAWRENCE Copyright 1023 by the Post Pub Co George Harvey resign as Ambassador to Great Brit- ain when he returns here in a few This question has been raised here not only because talk of a successor is inevitably interesting but because George Harvey may play an ant part in the 1924 campaign if he does come back to America When Ambassador Harvey applied for leave of absence from his post President Harding was in Florida Mr Harvey gave as his reason a desire to attend to some urgent personal ters No intimation has come since to the white house or the department of state that he intends to resign and there is of course no criticism of his work so it is a question of ily separation from But the circumstantial stories which have been conveyed here from what appear to be reliable sources is that sador Harvey simply can't afford the London job any more and that the strain is him Besides the expensiveness of the post there is another influence ing at George is the desire to get back into the political fray His name has been mentioned as a possible manager of Mr Harding's campaign though this does not seem as likely as Mr Harvey's active as right hand man to the man who is chosen as manager Mr Harvey is too new a Republican to be- come chairman of the Republican tional who ever be- comes chairman will manage the Harding campaign WARREN AS Tf Ambassador Harvey does resign there will bo plenty of names for the place as it is always much sought The man who is not unlikely to be considered for the to Great Britain ever is Charles of Detroit Mich who has just come home from Tokio where as ambassador to Tapan he helped immeasurably in bringing the United States and Japan into cord both before and after the Washington conference on ment Mr Warren has won his spurs in diplomacy and President Harding thinks so much of his ability that he is sending him next week to Mexico to confer with President Obregon and arrange a settlement of the entire Mexican question Never Again? lost dead and wounded in World war according to statistics just brought xip to date The number of dependents left by those who lost their lives is fixed at The dependents comprise 000 widows children who were left partially orphaned orphans parental couples and 162.000 parents who were already widows or widowers The statistics have been sub- mitted to the by the minister of labor TDK m TO BE TO A EARLY du first straw hat of I he season made its appearance Thursday on the head of Fond du mayor R D Haentze Pedestrians gasped when bo wandered out of the city wearing his straw hat but he explained that he was only taking it over to get it cleaned GIVEN Sentences Range From Day To Year And One-Half For Liquor Violations ing from one day to a and six months in jail were given to 52 sons convicted of conspiracy to late the laws in Gary and Indiana by Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger in United States court here Saturday Roswell Johnson Mayor of Gary was sentenced to serve one year and six months at the federal prison at At- lanta Ga and fined Lewis Barnes former sheriff of and now chairman of the board of public works at Gary was given one year in prison and fined William W Dunn judge of the Gary city court un- til his resignation after his conviction was sentenced to one year and a day in prison and fined as a Gary attorney was sentenced to year in prison and fined 000 High Official Suggest ence To Compromise On Revenue Program offers are to be made to Governor Blaine in the tax controversy that is lying up the consin legislature it was learned Saturday A suggestion expected to come from a high state official will be made for a conference between the governor and progressive Republican leaders in an effort to draft a revenue measure that can through both houses This state officer has come to the conclusion that the governor's tax cannot muster enough votes to get through the senate He bases hi conclusion on the opposition of 13 stalwart senators the opposition o three Socialists and four addition Pro In a letter which will be sent to the governor it learned that this official asks tha Governor Blaine call into conference Senator H J Severson Speaker John Tj Dahl Attorney General Herman L and other leaders for the pur pose of drawing up a compromiS measure that would fulfill Progressive Republican pledges for tax revisions Governor Blaine vetoed the Ridge way intended to force higher re for teachers in Wisconsin high schools upon the ground that the effect of the measure is to pro hibit after July 1 31124 graduates of two year normal courses from teaching in any high school and cer tain graded schools hundred unemployed demanding increased doles stormed the parliament build ing threatening the police with guns and stones 74 Year Old Lothario Tells Of His 22 Wives W Davis 74 Civil war veteran on Friday broke the silence be has maintained since his arrest on a charge of bigamy nnd grand larceny that has resulted in twenty-two women in various parts of the country claiming him as the husband who had deserted them Puffing reflectively at an ancient black briar the spruce white-haired veteran sat on a cot in his cell where he is serving a throe year sentence for grand larceny and spun out a tale of matrimony of conquests and heart affairs which rival those of Casanova I have courted women all over the world Yes and lived with many of them as their husbands Davis began But I deny that I married COMMUNISTS CONTROLLED FEDERATED PRESS CHARGE By Associated Press St witness for the defense in tho trial of Charles F Cleveland charged criminal syndicalism has disclosed in- on the that ment agents had been attempting to obtain for a number of weeks Testimony Friday was by Jay Klonc who attended tho party convention near bore last ust and he read a report one of its part of which rend again in court by tho defense Friday From it tho state and federal agents prosent came into evidence tho Federated Press a news gathering agency wan controlled by tho Communist party The report stated that the Federated Press along with three organizations formed to aid Russia nnd as one ot its purposes the dissemination of Com- munist propaganda throughout the United States Spanish American War Veterans Will Turn Thous 36 Old Company G Members Still Live In Appleton Back 25 Years At Festivities And Reunion Here Tonig two women as the police claim I did not legally marry that in some cases the bride and I just signed a license which we bought in a store and let it go at that I fought in the civil war Then I roamed the world as a soldier of for- Davis story takes that romantic youth to were the thousands he spent on a dancer in the Cafe de Paris of Madrid the woman in the opium den on the Barbary coast blushing brides he took into the middle west He tola more details of how he bought the names of women from a matrimonial agency Fifty for 50 cents I got he said with a bland smile I up with some of them but they've no son to complain They all were I treated them fairly Sometimes we got a license and wrote in our names That was good enough for most of During his three year term Davis hopes to produce a set of memoirs Appleton Business Man Is tim Of Night Tragedy While Driving Alone LIGHTS BRING RESCUE SQUAD Resuscitation Effort By Police Fails After Body Is Found f At Wheel f Richard 37 well known business man met a tragic death through drowning early Friday evening in a creek off the three miles northeast of Appleton hen his automobile overturned Into the water The drowned man was brought back to the city in the ambulance after efforts to resuscitate Mm by means of the lungmotor of the ton fire department proved futile The call was received at the local police department from Bros Apple Creek at about Friday ning that a car had overturned a creek two- miles north of and that nobody was to be seen about the car Sheriff Otto H ke and Chief George T Prim and Of- ficer John Kobussen who had just re- turned from a case in Xew London drove at once to the scene the ambulance accompanied by Fireman Fred Holtz and the lungmotor FOUND CAB After the car was righted the drowned man was found underneath almost in a driving position How Ions he had been in the water could not be ascertained He might have been there for a much longer period had not the lights of the car ued to shine It was these lights one of was under the water that at- the attention of Reno and ben Stammer 450 Upon investigation Sheriff Zuehlke and Chief Prim observed that Gitter had driven his car partly off the road was considerably elevated at this point He kept on driving with one wheel off the road while at- tempting to bring the car fully upon the grade Finally the wheel struck the abutment of the bridge and plunged into the creek imprisoning the driver in the water LEAVES WIDOW SON Gitter formerly conducted a soft drink establishment on also one on and another at Appleton Junction He is survived by his widow and a son Earl his father and mother Mr and Mrs An- ton Gitter Hortonville five brothers Frank Hortonville Louis Appleton George Xew London Albert ton and Lothar Slinger three sisters Mrs Otto Dallmann Tigerton Mrs R W Collar and Mrs Simon mers Hortonville The funeral take place Tuesday afternoon with interment at Riverside cemetery IT is a happy coincidence that tho issues its Central Fox River Valley Edition on the anniversary of the departure of Compary G for the Spanish-American war which is also the seventy-fifth an- of the settling of Appleton as well as the seventy-fifth sary of the founding of Menasha The soldiers who took part in tho war with Spain fast becoming senior war veterans of this country and refilling this they are gradually seeking closer ties of companionship with one another Their silver jubilee Is to be in the nature of a reunion erans from all parts of the county their wives Civil war veterans and their wives and members of the Artillery band have been invited to join with the local Charles O Bacr camp tonight in commemorating the date of April 1898 when the local soldiers entrained A banquet opticon views concert and a dance at Odd Fellow hall havo been arranged As the veterans recall old times they will find that 25 years have wrought many changes Only of tho UK or more men who left Appleton for the service are still living in Most of them are married nnd have sons old enough to enter the service themselves About 20 Of the faces are missing forever and four ot the men never returned at all One man died in service in the and two have died in tho home About 25 men are living outside the state nnd 7 are in foreign countries One man is a lieutenant colonel in the United States army and another is a lieutenant-colonel and assistant in- of the Wisconsin tional guard A number of the ans have served on Mexican border duty nnd others fought also in the World war The men who died in the service were Sergeant Charles O Baer after I whom thp local camp was named ho having fallon a victim to typhoid er at the military hospital Fortress Munroe Aug 28 Otto Merkel who died Aug 20 of typhoid on boaro the hospital ship Relief in Xew VorU harbor John Schuh who died ot July on board tho United States transport Xo 30 in Ponce bor James Wallace who died Sept 2 of malaria in tho military hospital at Ponce Porto Rico A large majority of the mon who served in this war wore members ot the local Company G Second mont Wisconsin guard company the time under thoi command of Capt Hugh F The lieutenants were Maurice S enboom and William TV al officers who left with tho company were Major X TC Mor gan who has sinco died and K Green regimental t apt Green later served as a in the World Capt i roy became Major Pomeroy in border service When during tho war a state guard was organized ho made a colonel of a regiment Zuehlke and made a major and captain The latter was also for a captain of Company G as was so Morkel Company G left Appleton in i espouse to the country's call to tho West Indians from Spanish they were accorded a such as they are not likely forgot They left on April and some pf the men camo homo as typhoid convalescents the company returned on Sept IS nnd was mustered out Nov 10 The departure donned from tho pages of the old crescent is described as 6 o'clock last evening Capt was notified by Gen that the orders for mobilization at Milwaukee would forthcoming morning member of tho company was notified to be at the ar- mory promptly nt 10 o'clock to await orders They were to a prise Shortly after 3 o'clock morning orders camo for Major gan Groon nnd instructing them that the special train for tho troops would reach Appleton at A M At this morning tho fire bells clanged and every on the waterpower the people that the orders had boon received In a few minutes the commenced to fill instructed the soldiers to every detail of preparation nnd report promptly at 9 o'clock pre- pared to inarch By 7 o'clock crowds began BADGER GIDEONS MEET WITH ILLINOIS TRAVELERS By Associated Press two day of the Christian Commercial oilers of Illinois with tho Wisconsin Gideons cooperating opened here 1 It is the twenty-third annual session of the Illinois association which has subscribed to a program in conjunction with the Wisconsin i calling for tho placing ot 1 000 Gideon bibles in hotels nnd 1 tions The convention will end with church services Sunda evening 112 HOUR RECORD AND STILL IS DANCING Continued on page SI now world's dancing endurance record was here Saturday when at Albert Kish of this city had beaten tho mark of 112 hours established Thursday nt Tex by A c Watson by one minute Kish con- dancing no formal an- has been made by Gen Pershing regarding his plans for the summer it is known that he is con- an extended swing around the country at the time the training camps are in progress and will visit many of them as possible It is therefore possible that Gen Pershing will visit Camp Douglas where the Wisconsin National Guard will be in training from July 14 to August In all Gen ex- peets to spond about three months in travel about the various training camps Gen Pershing in his capacity as of staff has already writ ton a letter to all members of tho and house inviting them to visit the during the training period this Minim or Tho letter went to Senator and other and opposed to a large as well as t those who believe in a strong national is a means of national KLANSMAN DECLARES BODIES WERE PLANTED By Associated Pros Kock plain J K Skipwith of tho Ku Klux Klan in his night practically has been tho scandal in Tho bodies of two mon taken from a lake in by the 10 f j nnd T K rapped and killed a Kind were those nt th but wore shipped in and lie said JEWS PA PER I IN SPA PERI
