Janesville Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - August 6, 1921, Janesville, Wisconsin HOME EDITION jl FULL LEASED WIRE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS NO 127 FRIDAY JANESVILLE WISCONSIN SATURDAY AUGUST TWENTY-FOUR PAGES By carrier In per per BUSTLING SCENES AS BOARD GETS FOR FAIR MINIATURE CITY RISES AS CONCESSION BOOTHS ARE SET UP OFFICE IS MOVED Day Next Entry Day Is Tuesday Noon With new lots of equipment and cars arriving dally the fair grounds Is already taking on the tone of readiness for the and exposition which opens next Tuesday on tho erection of concessions whip and other entertaining attractions Is Removal of tho downtown office of tho fair board to tho grounds on day was announced t Saturday Late entries arid all will be ob- there Miss Agnes bo day will bo next stores that do not close Wednesday will do so fair aro to communicate with tho Re- tail Bureau of the Chamber merce Somo of the concession stands aro El ready doing business Tho in front grand for tho free entertainments has been completed A temporary lighting has been Installed in tho grand stand and other buildings Members of the city lire department havo ished tho buildings with flags and bunting Shows Most of tho reservations for Hvo Stock havo been made Tho arrival of stock is expected to commence v All at the fair will bo of high class said Charles S nam of the fair They must all rulings of the state Inspector before being permitted to buy he and caution will bo Secretary of Labor Plays Daddy to Kiddies at Mooseheart Home SUSPECT FREED BY BEAS CORPUS KOLZE IS BLAMED Mrs Demmer Intimates Victims ted Suicide ASSOCIATED Chicago No further action ward tlie solution of mystery the deaths by ing of Mr and Mrs Fred Kolze and John Demmer is likely until the jury which held Inquests over the Mr and Mrs Kolze is reconvened It was an- Saturday With Mrs Mary Demmer wife of John and housekeeper for freed from further detention by habeas corpus proceedings was she would be questioned further until next week when her case cornea up John Demmer died nine years I ago Mrs Kolze eight years ago and Kolze two weeks ago Mrs mer who became housekeeper after the deaths of Demmer and Mrs her love for Kolze she did not poison any of three i Friday she asserted that Kolze gave his wife a white powder which might have poison and intimated and Demmer had committed suicide a theory scouted by the authorities able Pays Fine for Assault V Ki noway claiming to bo a newspaper man of Milwaukee and Chicago was fined Including municipal court hero day when ho pleaded guilty to n charce of assault and battery Tho complaint against molesting boys a serious dismissed for lack of evidence T S Kolan appeared for him with S for tho state Howay was arrested by Officer while he was visiting at tho carnival grounds Spring week Car Stolen in Second Ward a 1919 model Maxwell touring car from the driveway at home 864 Walker street was reported to the police here Friday Mrs Kyser The machine Is insured Mrs said she found the car upon re- turn after several hours absence The machine bore license tag WILLMANN RETURNS FROM WESTERN TRIP Rev Henry returned Friday morning from a western trip the Elks convention in California as a delegate from the lodge Ho then visited Mrs Frank Nuzum at Santa Barbara al and spent three days National park Ho in San Francisco Seattle Canada Lake Louise and at Banff On his way homo he cd former parishioners In SEVERE ELECTRICAL STORM HITS CITY The most severe electrical storm of summer struck at m Saturday A torrential it for more than a half hour Tho rain up an op- pressive humidity that settled on the community with of dusk Friday GOSPEL TEAM TO HEBRON ON SUNDAY Continuing tho practice of making Sunday visits to other churches the team will go to Hebron Sunda'y night where they will conduct tho services A small party will so to Richmond also r Modern Necessities Electric lights are a modern necessity to modern They aro to be used with a ple press of the linger whon darkness falls They are accepted as a matter oC course Gazette want ads should bo just as freely They serve in ways many times each year They enable you to sell something or to buy thing or to do many other things If your name la In phone directory directory If you Cagetto er you may charge your Labor Secretary photographed with seren of children at the borne are kept and educated di- When not settling strikes and the department of bor Jim Davis secretary of labor continues work at Mooseheart 111 care of over fatherless youngsters rector Lingering Fatal to Judge James G Jenkins Milwaukee ASSOCIATED James G kins one of tho most noted ists In Wisconsin history died day at his home here after a ing illness was hy the him of the warm weather Judge Jenkins served on the federal bench several years and retired 1C years ago He was an crat throughout his life and was offered an associate justiceship on tho United States supreme court by ident Cleveland In- 1855 Jenkins will best bo bered for his memorable injunction In against employes of the ern Pacific railroad Tho road at that time was in hands of the United States court and was being operated by receivers Judge Jenkins tion forbade them to combine or con- to strike at the same time knowledging their right to combine for mutual benefit and protection It was the year ot the panic and the re- of the road announced they had found it necessary to reduce aris of officials and workers from 10 to 20 per effective the first ol tho year tho strike threat and tho Injunction It in labor circles and was mych talk or seeking to have the Judge impeached even far as to have congress appoint a committee to come to waukee and investigate but the In- junction with some was upheld by tho higher courts and pronounced The ment talk died away and came of It INSTANTLY KILLED CLEANING SHOTGUN ASSOCIATED Hope was Instantly killed late Friday while cleaning a shotgun The weapon ex- the charge striking the face and tearing of the flesh It Is said a shell ally was left in the gun when It was put away last fall AN INDEX To In the In turn to noiT rend the of Electric Co Wisconsin River The Optical Shop linking Co The Store Tlie Gulden D Co C Co UlK Co It M Son AVood Co T J Co Co Shop Co T r It IIP ii Co j JI I Racine Bridge Falls 8 Men Escape Death ASSOCIATED employes waukee wrecking company had escapes death Saturday rir For One D D degree H at once the kind of want that Rev J A Melrose of the local Presbyterian today had he not in- a little offer he re- several days ago from the operator a quick scheme out Denver Colo But the Presbyterian pastor was not to be winked and as a result he ably saved You have the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the board of directors or the State University of was the letter sent Melrose man who It Registrar Altmon out the enclosed history blank and send It to us with check cover cost of- engraving the Search of directories Ing the educational Institutions failed such the Centennial -St te at Denver according Mr rose showed that Registrar Altman has secured for a but there is no property no faculty and not even a printed Presbyterian pastors have been the prey of the scheme a similar offer received by Rev Rl G of the Madison terian church DEMOCRATIC CANNON FOUND DEEP IN MUD AT BOTTOM OF LAKE ASSOCIATED I cannon which was as a salute by its owner an ardent democrat ing the election Cleveland as president In dis- appeared immediately after has been found Imbedded In the mud of Center Lake in which the water Is ly low It was thought at time that republicans removed tho cannon and sunk It fn tho the abouts of tho had been determined HARDING LEAVES VACATION RETREAT ASSOCIATED X President and Mrs Harding said good byo day to their vacation retreat here at the top of Mount Prospect where they have been the guests since day of Secretary War Leaving by the party planned to havo at Poland Spring Me and in the evening to board the presidential yacht flower at Portland for their return voyage to Washington Tho president probably will spend most of the at Poland Spring coif During the late afternoon is expected to go into Portland and call on Mrs Douglas Hale widow of the late Senator Hale and mother of tor Frederick Hale a member of the Mount Prospect vacation party The Mayflower sail about 10 p m STILL FOUND IN SHED OF FARMER TO THE GAZETTE a raid on the farm of Joseph Troy of Sheriff Will McCormick discovered In a shed In the rear of the Troy was in the and and brought Commission Announces way Staff Will Stay in Office ASSOCTATEO will retain A H Hirst chief highway the coming year all of official announcement of the highway commission today says This an- W O klss secretary declares further failure of the last legislature to pass tho highway privilege tax means disruption of road work In 1323 county funds are now provided for to meet federal aid work to be done In 1021 and 1022 but 1023 can provide the tion season of 1923 will have passed by to the statement This means the loss of one year's federal aid con- The highway commission has for 10 years building up an efficient experienced force of and with failure of federal aid in 1923 it will become necessary to drop the experienced men Force We feel spirit of will provide for an ex- tension of work by taxes to-be collected in 1024 but he by the fact we then have to build up a new force with many men of little experience The last legislature made no for continuing an ation to meet federal aid it will take more money to moot federal aid than will remain of auto license fees after obligatory payments have been made This will to tako only a fraction of Its share of federal aid and will leave no state funds to con- the patrol system of ing our highways tho success of which has roads famous the less weal thy counties are overburdened being required under tho law to pay one- third of the aid Recommendation of the highway commission change this law was not accepted and no the overburdened counties are left In a bad condition with tho added burden of being required by law to maintain the state trunk highways tho cost of maintenance of which has heretofore been paid by state We fel proud of the spirit of alty public service In our and wish to assure zens of that the work in- trusted to tho commission will as heretofore be carried the best manner under the Alleged Bandit Kills Self After Fight With Sheriff on Country Road DX ASSOCIATED 111 James Witt alias Joslyn 29 for whom a hunt was instituted as the murderer of Chief of Police George Rehm of West Friday night shot and killed himself after lie had been badly wounded In a duel with Sheriff Martin Hex tall of Kendall county on a country road near Yorkville 111 Witt's wife at the wheel of an- other automobile escaped with her three year old son Yorkville is 30 miles from West Chicago and 27 miles from St Charles where Witt lived at the time lie is alleged to have shot Chiet It appeared Saturday that Witt had been In lor two months while police were combing the west for him He was j supposedly traced to Salt Lake about six months ago A of 500 was offered for his arrest Sheriff Hextall learned Friday night that a man Witt had been employed at an Oswego county garage He set out from Yorkville and on the way met two cars with only spotlights showing Suspicious the sheriff gave suit One car turned off a side road but the other containing Witt ran into a blind road to a creamery ATTACK BY OF STOCK EXPERT DIES AS RESULT OF FALL Charles H Royce 55 extension professor of animal bandry at the New state col- lege of agriculture Cornell ty died today of injuries sustained in a fall from a silo on his farm near Prof Royce was con- one of the leading authorities Americ on Guernsey cattle in this country He former member of the the University of sin JAPAN AGREES TO NOV 11 FOR MEET Japan has agreed to Nov 11 as the date for the beginning ot the disarmament conference in Washington as suggested by United States according to entire of the old West Sixth street bridge caved in with a crash that could be heard for around The east of this section fell 15 feet Into the while the girders Ing the opposite end held probably Slaving the lives of the men Ed Connolly the only man thrown Into tho river which is quite shallow at this point thrown clear ot the falling mass of steel and oak All the others were huddled on the ex- treme east end which hit the water The men were near a heavy rick which was used tp hoist a of the turning mechanism the The rick hooks had to the section and the order given to hoist As the heavy weight swung clear the bridge crumpled under the strain There were four big acetylene tanks on the end of the structure which fell into the water and it is ered remarkable that none of the men were struck by them A heavy cart or the west end also crashed down the Incline and just missed striking the men POSTAGE METER IS INTRODUCED INN Y NO MORE York York was Saturday to tho postage a machine which makes every man stamp printer and does with the necessity of sticking them on National City bank tho first one exhibited here The machine recently approved by the department operates on a principle similar to that of the government's automatic cancelling machines As the letters aro run through it a square about the a stump Is in which appear the U S paid 2 cents Tho machine Is equipped with a register which can be set only by authorities When the register shows the has stamped as as he paid for the machine stops and has to be taken to the tn he reset Costs Less Than Half of One Percent to Collect Revenue Men Claim Popular opinion government expenses In collecting Income war and luxury taxes amount to almost as much as the amount collected was upset here Internal enue collectors who claim the ex- penses of collection amount to but one-half of one per cent of the amount taken In as taxes Tho statement heard so often that taxation of the federal is almost a losing 1 tlon is decidedly absurd and declared P J Mouat U S col- lector While I have riot the at hand we have advices from ington that It cost but 55 of one per cent to make the collections last y Four internal revenue collectors are now in Janesville In an extensive check-up on delinquents here another week the cost of taxes amounts to about 25 percent all figured up with charges and receipts so that entire cost fa practically as compared to the amount taken stated by one of tho collectors OBSTREPEROUS BLIMP TOWED MEEKLY BACK TO STATION New navy's smallest and friskiest blimp the was brought home to the air station Saturday after a wild solo flight to Scarsdale DO miles away The return trip was made on a truck The dumped her crew of three Into the marshes Island Friday while they were ing to land because of engine and freed of their weight bounded off A fleet navy truck set suit arriving in Scarsdale to find had effected a landing and had been thrown and roped by workmen on farm of Col Alexander Crane The escaped slight bruises GOVERNOR SMALL TO RETURN TO CAPITAL TUESDAY Lcn here Saturday that he would return to Springfield Tuesday The governor he would pone until Friday of next week in order to return to the capital The governor issued the following shall not be permitted to misrepresent my official course in performing my duties as governor I shall not resume my good roads tour until Friday of next week I expect to my official ness hero today and shall be In Springfield Tuesday MENTION PLEA OF BURGLARS IN PALA TIAL HOME INTOXICATED STUDENT DRIVER FINED Alfred a summer school student atv Madison Saturday fined In district court for driving an automobile while intoxicated The car occupied also by several other students was driven Into a concrete approach of the Grand avenue viaduct Friday but nobody was injured The students told a detective they were making a week end trip to offset the Yank Prisoners Across Border Monday Promise ASSOCIATED i the American ers In Moscow and Petrograd will be sent across the Russian border by Monday according a message received here Saturday by Walter L Brown European director of the American Relief chairman of the sian relief committee BLOOD BY Alleged Forger Held Here Says Accident May Have Caused Her Actions Was It a blood clot on the brain caused by an automobile accident in Montana eight months ago that caused dark eyed and dark laired Louise Slotta to pass two false checks Janesville merchants and land In the county jail I don't know why I just did pass those didn't realize It was so serious Oh I don't I did put the name Margaret on I can't wailed the girl at the Rock county jail Injured by Auto It 15 In that I run down by an bile I was severely Injured and In the hospital then told me there on the brain and that I should have an operation to remove it before I became lost my memoir I thought it not anything at the time but times It seema as It I could trol Witt the being in jail and with the prospect ot going to prison I can't help being overcome and ing It Is awful Denies Writing Checks Miss Louise Siotta the in the case was arrested for passing two false checks totaling on two merchants In a ment at the county jail the girl de- page 5 SPANIARDS ENCOUNTER SHARP RESISTANCE REVERSE SERIOUS Cabinet May Resign as Result of Critical Situation j Is Report ASSOCIATED forces landed at La on coast southeast of for the purpose oC attacking the ish rebel tribesmen have encountered serious resistance and their has been held up An official statement Friday night said the Spanish cruiser protecting tho troops that have been other along the northeastern coast have been ed by tho Spanish war vessels in that remains that a serious reverse In Mako and that the situation at Melilla threatens to become critical Reports persist that the cabinet may resign have en place between Alfonso the country IRISH PARLIAMENT MEN TO BE FREED ONE EXCEPTION ASSOCIATED members of tha Irish republican parliament now in tody will be released with one ex- in anticipation of the ing parliament called for Aug 1C announcement that the prisoners would be freed was made Saturday Tho exception 13 John J convicted of the murder of District Inspector McGrath STEEPLEJACK FALLS INJURIES SERIOUS Chicago Charles a steeplejack of Milwaukee fell while painting of the German Lutheran church Saturday He was injured and it was said at the hospital that he would die ELKS DONATE TO SUPPORT BAND A check for 525 from the Elks lodge for support of Bower City band in Its public concerts mer was received Saturday by City Clerk E J treasurer of the Community Music committee from Secretary H D Murdock Ashland Paper Mill Superintendent Dies Frank A Elmgren superintendent of Paper Mill an Internal trouble following an operation The body will be sent to Appleton day night He was a member of the bodies Broker Woman Held John B Kennedy 26 Los Angeles Insurance broker was killed late Friday as he was entering his Bummer cottage at Beverly Hills an ex- elusive residential suburb Madeline f- Evanston 111 with him was held as a- witness Mrs who is 10 the R attorney of she was divorced She told officers was behind She said she naw two roughly dressed men ing In the Our home was really through my love for Sir said I would have been married to Mr ago but he could not overcome the objections of mother who ho said disliked me -I have known Mr Kennedy years and was to marry him but for some reason I married Mr My 4 relations with Mr Kennedy have ways been of tho best Mrs Lizzie Besenty said she heard two followed of Mrs She said sho an automobile appearing down the near cottage tial mansion of Baroness James De Rothschild a from the an passport day but after ransacking the house from top left out taking The house tains worth several million caretaker who was In charge of of the family received call day night the Don't mention to the police harm was done and we They Ride Their Own The proof of the pudding is In the eating and the two first owners of World bicycles secured the Gazette subscription contest are shown in the accompanying pictures Kenneth Johnson of1 Janesville right Caple of the city of Brodhead on left These two boya made an earnest effort and loaded up the five yearly subscriptions with the the De- of the Gazette in short There are Gazette district who work arid who have already cumulated a considerable ber of the new yearly tions A person been list for sixty is no greater fun for boy than bicycle riding There is no more healthful ex- the ting astride a high the and Johnson country to the the best as any fellow you who has ever tried The boy with a of determination thing that these two boys have done the the Circulation come In them or write them addressing Gazette tlie bicycle either at the Wood Hardware Company office SON SHOOTS FATHER AS GARAGE THIEF by his own son ter being caught in the garage carrying several cushions early Saturday Frank Schone lies In a police station cell with a bullet through his lilp Robert Schone the told police that tires and accessories had disappearing the garage day night he lay in -wait Early Saturday a man pried open z back door with a crowbar picked up cushions and started away Schone pursued him firing When the discovered him to own father The elder Schone had been from his wife three other children lived with mother The father police part of the garage CASE DISMISSED CAN'T FIND JYORK he had family all the money could but that was unable to set Herman Judge Maxfield through his Roger O Freeman wan changed with following WON'T ALLOW RAIL INEFFICIENCY CLAIM Washington Cost of labor to for- the alx guarantee following government will include only Increased and inefficiency of factors un- der a decision handed day by Commerce The the war in Russia on page 91 today How city a new city of Muskogee homa FOR Fair Saturday Sunday predictions for week beginning Region Lakes Upper moderate temperature fair thermometer Saturday Aug 8 a r i T i -1 V 10 a m 1
