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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - August 12, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Badger weather Twil tit Friday by thu Itow night. Much to tight Rwy tit City edition twelve pages vol 135, no-132. Sort Yew. Madison wis., thursday afternoon August 12, 1920. Price three cents ponzi surrenders to government use of mail to defraud u. S. Charge Bushel Beket millionaire Giro Bond of Bank wrecked. Is Over 60 join lightness a Uto club a y Fine election ends Sho Emens meet b ponz1, the Shol Basket met Leonaire who claims to have made millions in International postal reply coupons formally surrendered to the Federal authorities hero today at Captain if. A. Armstrong of police Headquarters at the request of attorney general Allen applied for a warrant for the arrest of Ponzol on a of larceny. Ponzol accompanied by United stated District at Orfey Daniel Gallagher surrendered to United states marshal a few minutes before one. Reason is mystery the Little promoter was nervous and trave when he gave himself up. Nei ther the Federal authorities nor Ponzol would Tell Ponzol a reason for surren Dering. Shortly before Bank commissioner j. C. Allen declared the capital of the Hanover Trust company which he seized yesterday waa not amply impaired but probably wiped out the capitalization was Al Ponzol conducted practically ajl of is mysterious financial operations through the Hanover Trust company and held a Large share of Tho Stock in the institution. Crowds gather news of ponzi s surrender quickly spread through the City. Crowds Gath ered in the downtown Streeta and about the Federal building. That Many in the crowds were investors in Pon i s get Rich Quick scheme was Clear from the angry heard on All sides. Upon surrendering to marshal Duane. Ponzol was told he would to furnish Bonds of he did this and was released for a hearing aug. 19. The Federal charge placed against Ponzol was using the mails to defraud it was slated at the Federal building. After ponzi s surrender District at Thornty on monday Ponzol told me that when Tho audit was completed he would show enough assets Friday to cover. In a. With Post office inspectors yesterday while conferring with or. Pride auditor he made cer Tain admissions. I notified Ponzol i would not wait until tomorrow. Liter told me 1 shall not to Able to do tomorrow what i promised to do " will disclose details Washington details of Brume no s care against Ponxs will be disclosed by the Post office de As soon a formal notice has been tit ceded Here that a. Federal War rant has been served on feb Cal it was at the department. Violate Light la w while nabbing cars Albert and William sin Aiko among them prom rat acc go sharing of la Gama Auto club in turf fior court today. v. Got that Thorn All Prato Ted we. Sinaiko. Smith Arvi Dou Etive Hart to and Tho Light of their car waa out i m going to Swaar out Agron chief Shaugh it la Only coot on 50 Conta. police round up Lank prominent in court More tonight chief a proces6ion of automobiles with chief o police Thoma i in the first car paraded from the police Tallon to the court House morning. The 64 and followed chief Shaughnesy to Superior court. Kitty one pm tended guilty to the charge of operating an automobile in violation of the City ordinance two i and Likhtik and one Tail Light after dark. Three not guilty and their Carea were continued until to will Orpet in mix up at Frisco marriage License and suit for clash police puzzled san Orpet who says be is same will Orpel who was tried Tor and acquitted of the murder of Marlon i Amburt Wauke 111., a. Few years ago had authorities puzzled Here today. Orpet under the name of w. H. Dawson was on a Chance of wife desertion a curl Riv ing the name of Olga Sarre Mykl de troit appeared As he complainant and sea was Orpet a wife a marriage License was issued Here yesterday to Olga. Sax Nowski ii and will h. Both giving san Kran Cisco As their residence. Pending further investigation press ins of the desertion charge Tehjui been delayed and authorities were Abou decided today to drop the Case. The girl said she met Orpet while he was in the army and came Here from month ago to join him Orpel Sejd be was working Here As a Mechanic and had taken the name 01 Dawson to avoid publicity. Seaman lauds Gold Star men Waukesha heading the Gol Star names from Wau Kostia s Hono Roll of men who the Worl War Gilbert e. Seaman proper Shiv Republican candidate for governor declared it was they who saved wisc on Len. It is not to be that a candidate Oftle should put it into his Mouth tha he is needed to save sea Man declared in his speech in thl City last under the o binoculars at Premium from show Michigan Boulevard test to display latest in gowns wraps that again to play to in dusts what i what pm hosiery. Again it is pealed Mac Organ Boulevard windiest Street in the Uuk Csira Seaman for governo it waa these boys who their All who actually saved a teen Seaman is Neitis received Enthus Staj Mcnally All a Wfong Tho line. Making from g to 10 speeches a Day he is forcing1 the front. Three Days Cam Haa covered Waukesha Walworth and part of Kenosha Morrow. Thirteen of the 77 arrested last night by police in All parts of the City failed to appear. Judge Henry Casson imposed penalties of each on Tho 1 who pleaded guilty. Nineteen were fined on charge yesterday. Nina of those lined today were Wom i. They Ore mrs. F. La inns. Bird h. B. Zempel h. Arms Iron if Elizabeth Mary of Schulkamp in Lyle Hart and Florence Idder. Tho Rush to pay Clernt John King Dollar after the cases bad been a posed of was 50 great that judge Aston gallantly came to the Aid of he women by constituting himself pedal clerk and receiving their Money. Hull among violators Merlin Hull enforcer of stare Auto Obile License Laws was one of Tho alleged offenders. To was oat of town Oday. Those who Phea oed not Pelty Unk Kessenich John Grunde and Velde Beek and that Auto Mobile should have been locked up the declared or. Weiden Eck. If someone waa out in it i want to know the was con inked to give him Opportunity so la Kose who joined chief Shau Ehnes Auto Light club and paid Dol Lar initiation fee this Harry Sage George link mrs Anna Jbard. Elmor Blake Harvey Knox. Or James Lucan. Red Haspell. Or. Hue Gelf Madison Gas and electric com Pany Hanks Conkin and son j. R 1 Flower company Deadman Alexander Kornhauser Louia Raicht a. Lie air Alfred Ron i Democrat printing company Pur Ceil and wisc Bim a. M. Bray Ion. An ton Meti. Or. C. Smith Hobart John son r. Taylor s. M. Clark. Deco Transfer company mrs. T. La Crosse Paul Kayser ii. Morrissey Fred Han son. Miss Khz. Plogg j. G. H e. Olson w. Jingo , h. 1 Dobr Elisabeth eater. C. H. Good Axl it j. Royston. Max Levin. Albert sin Alko c. D. War a. J. Felly Marrare Schulkamp. Herbert Keil w j. William Dinalko Earl Vetter her Nnaji Jenkins s. H. Crounse Ullio Hart. I h. Brickman x. Quinn s. A. Gusher Seln Kludt a. E. Geltch o. A. Piper. Havison 1l s. Well and r. P Mendonca. 13 Are absent the thirteen absentees who will b summoned to court tomorrow Ore i m. Namon National league. Mer n Hull. W. It. Cropun fir. H. A. Smoli Svarcs retain names of. Old officers headed by w. C. Schlaefer bulletin Tho state shoo dealers association today re elected old and the lira ticket of directors. The final session of Tho state Conven Tion of the Wisconsin retail shoe dealers association closed Tbs after noon with election of of ulcers and adoption a f resolutions. Two tickets of officers and directors presented. Both containing names of Trio pres ent officers. These arc William c. S Ihlae Fer Wausau. P resident j on Eph Schumacher Milwaukee Glrst vice vice president Joseph Appleton vice president Ray mond a Ripple. Milwaukee Secretary and treasurer. First Luket con for directors the names of c. M. Cody Antigo Howard Culver Kau Claire b. O. Smith grand Kaplus one year t. F. Cummins. Platteville Dan Janea Pfilf. Eugene Meyer Watertown two a. B. Caspar., Mil i Wau Ocee s. J. Brouwer Milwaukee and Hyland Madison three years e other ticket proposed Arla Oliree years. Polu Tiomi Werl brought up at bus Ess Meenk. Urged Liu int my Stu to allies split on Russ question France recognizes Gen. Wrangel England advises poles to quit us Iii Roaul urged a Ngo in the present method of Eloot g of the National shoe Lle association Aud Demit Juis a Lee in election of Tho National Foll urged All members of the state Sochi Itin to Jocomo i Taiber of Tho it Iorgu association and 10 attend the convention in Milwaukee Jan. To 12, 1131 and expressed. Gru Lude i nov. U pm Lapp. Mayor Willu kit Eson super Trenden of Public prop to m. F. Blumenfeld and the citizen i and ladles reception commie shoe travellers h. O. Keonig com Tany and soil manuf during com Taaj Jund papers for Aid in making the convention a Success. Amendments to the Constitution which cause up were to increase Tho in shop foes so that firms Point a atm less or Leas annually Init Feo of f5, those doing a business from 76.0m to Feo of. 10, and Roosevelt in Wisconsin today d. Roosevelt democratic candidate for Vlco Preal sent will Mart his drive for votes Here to duty. Roosevelt who spoke in lust night arrived hero this morn in p. To was to speak in Racino at noon. From Tacina he will go to Milwaukee. He will be Tho great of the univer sity club and the press club. A re Cellon be tendered Roosevelt at followed by a dinner. Roosevelt will speak at the Majes tic theater Milwaukee at p. Cru sees wide use of office aids Orange. N. A. Edison today predicted Tho Universal of machinery in office. Rcpt liner to the speech of Scorga m. Austin who presented him Wilh n. Commemorative silk Ling at the 43rd anniversary convention of the Edl phone Edison raid n. Few years machines will do about everything in an office just is they do in the shops. Once will have better jobs and comparatively better pay the More they use the automatic said. Do you know Why Tho office worker in As Well site Sild is 15-cent sugar seen inn. Y Edison asked in the pres ent unrest. It is by cause he sees and understands the problems of his Boss and he s Watts feed to the pres ident paid salary he is close enough to know to earn a Tho c. 11. Austin w. H Lyon. J. Gamma Flatt Kurth. Southern Wisconsin f dry company j. W. Holtey. J. O. Davidson and s. A. Wol Jenberg. There la to More prom ised chief Shau Snesky. All defendants Ubo pleaded Gul Tad Tho charge against them dismiss on payment of thu assessment of without costs. Rut Tho Rale is gohir1 Quilge Caslon. These violation Moat of item arc without intent by Cafter sufficient warning there la no e for violations of the body of third a abyss found Mil i Ikeo Etc confronted with an epidemic baby Mur Dtra. The Booty of i third infant to to Joitit-1 within was wrapped in newspaper with a Cord a a Viand Diphl around its neck. In a is re it Here Early today. The 1-Ksy, according to assistant Coroner c in Oiler local Vert is be service that the Good will Battle for Warsaw looms main polish army at Bay before capital red cavalry Active t skirmishing pre i Lam Leary to Ano her major in easement is in Jiro Erosa in lha Warsaw front according to the. Latest dispatches Moses a Warsaw. Skirmishing preliminary to another major in cafe e ment la in Progress on Tho Warsaw front according to the. Latest dispatches from Moscow and Warsaw. The bolshevik cavalry imported advancing in Folly southward Malonff he , while polish kept in Contact with hem but did not attempt to make a stand. Several columns of alerts were and j Vancine across the River Buff in the direst a Tomsk Region. The main polish was reported retiring to a lint outside War saw. When the russians reach that the decisive Battle for the capital will be fought according to the plans of impish strategists. However Tho bolshevik command appears deter mined to Force the to evacuate tha City to1 tic or being sur rounded. The Rua Alan encircling movement has been held up by failure of the to make rapid Progress South of the capital. Women Aid defense of armed women marched through the streets of Warsaw today announcing they would fight the us zians to tha death. Somo had Only revolvers. Other carried rifles and Many old men. And youths gone to the defences being established near the City where they Are waiting to grips with Tho invaders. Annually More than a Luanne a the Board of Trotsky the red Rolls was changed from four to nine Mexa is. Little profiteering in the principal address of the morn in Carl h. Tenney Aluta fair Price com Mission e a made Tho a we pin g lat Umont but to his knowledge there have been no More a dozen Cauca Hoe inn. I can say that there has been any profiteering among wis in declared or. Tenney. Of co Jurac there arc High. Ii Rice a but tack of the investigations conducted these High once stores we found no cause a or Forcial. I Aronald that France and Bruin would go it hereafter whih would won Lam the bar Evi Dally waa for until it waa Aaan a tether or not Toca come b. Patched up. Would heal breach the a Westrik of Lake and great Brauia oct intent relation it Bupt Walgn automobile ban staged a wild of o the. West Eide Early today for the select Nylon of their who accompanied them. The twirl tvs included Ramn Orff Tan she with the police in Oak Park during which two she to Scro to Chi need. They escaped. Among the periods they were a couple on n. Porch whom they Relleve a of mid a cd Dler. Who donated j22. Tha in the Macuna .in-1 turn to 6, column 3 new drop in Tho Price o from s to 10 Antn a Pound in Tho wholesale grocery Trade brought Joy to every housewife a i who had been in despair regarding an toy Nual fruit preserving. Tow or la that can tvs bought from 13 to 15 a Pound to a. Forint get wholesalers predicted. See Little Hope of finding baby a Thero is no Hoyo of finding lil Akely vapor Adams of the state police said today after an 18 Hou for the kidnapped 1 Pasquale Khan apr of the child accompanied the Serc bang a str Aduna said he believed l and killed Herser was about a Milosc derm 22. Isi charged with murder Nelson 34, u on being held James v. To the Kansas miners will return Pittsburg miners who went on strike two months to pro Tex Axa invt Tho Nve Day week Penally levied by Coo operators will Stturr. To work immediately. In Mak ing Thia announcement Alexander to wat District Union president in to the a Elnera will or Tiern to work of their own Sidocon an4 not at a the child and that he telling con stories in an attempt to he death Penally. To hate played our last been run every Clew has crime As Tho Rexus of itch death of he fill s Day old baby found in .1 a tit Case in Milwaukee River ice the body a baby Ink pulled from Lake dear sunday King postpones scottish visit jux n do to seriousness if the Kisslan situation the Xing his to which was to have started Toti Orrow the rail mall said Tucklay. Pre Mier Joyd George. The Kinc con ferret night the newspaper Clarid. Through printed pamphlets Anil an open letter to president Wilson capt. George Wellington bar Felch requested he pc verment to Talco note that on Tho Dale mentioned to again would take pos Scanlon of the District of Lake Michigan ind a Tom Index that Merit Rem to All armed forces now quartered Cap called upon Tho american legion to furn Teh volunteers Loaid him in Foll fins Tho fees talk against foreign the pamphlets were Slym a by a. Ii. military Soreo Ter now in his seventies flirt Laid claim in the District in 1sss when his Lake Steamer was driven ashore Thero and he Anauo to Hoat her. To proof Odd to squat and slaked out for hit personal use Tho territory running from the River to Polk Nurt cts blocks and wok trom Lac Lako to St. Clair Street five bloc los. It .1 Sandy Wai Rte then hit now contains Bulla Oak Lul Jinga and Home of Tho St Reeler s last it Impi it from jul nols occur etl in the summer of Mill trend Aad Lloyd at Tiki not the two from Coopers Whipp closely Dur info adjustment of these Accord by 5 to the return of Brit Lah note to France Tyven out today by fool Jan office. Tie was qua d Oramay by British Hoarce this i so As known. It we communication received from Britain was made that Franca Rooff nixed Onui Kel s Soter meat the Southern Russia without consent of the Brillati. U. S. Is Neutral United will ref Man Tor the or Caen from aides in Tho be tween great Britain and France Over Ituala it wan Learned today at Tatu do Putman. Into Mono dashed idly. It was when through of that police bandits rna Ciline whizz a along and 1 Ark pc joined the play. The bumped Over the men hooted Tho pursuing cops und Tho Tirb scream etl with . 1914, Tho revolution from Pill on by a government entirely inc fir in in Oil Lal humor. To. S. District attorney Clyne could t Nee that military governor aloft Anil ordered his operative.1 to Hunt up Cap and ask How seek Driver of speeding Auto m11.waukkr Are Bernce in ado by police today to learn Thoj Tlly of an Aulino Billst who struck aft i other machine near last Are Kris injuries to nine year old Edward to Macli Ldhl failed to after Accident Uci Inis Hayes 70, an Alderman of Wau a t os.1, wan wire oust y i n u Rod when at Ruck by an automobile. Cox goes to Camp to speak cot no by his personal Staft and a do7ei men left Columbus today for turn of. For the of his stump Cam pals in rough out the country. Vatican labor wants raise of tha Vatican x pm Mem ant1 hot houses Tiro agitating for an increase in Wajcs. It reported today. Tic Ilc Clarid a while merely remaining Idle in their posts. Of gardens i Luccari Lolo Tho i while tic latter was walk. Ing in Tho Garden according to re ports car men vote to continue strike Emp of the Tramway company to 3s, Rallins Oft and returning to work tons named by Tho comply follow tvs a Wilh maj. Millionaire banker dead Escanaba. V. U. Van Clovo. 72, Bri nicer. Is Here . I Troko of apoplexy. Mannix expects to visit Ireland archbishop Mannox told the inked Statcy Lio was to in Cuhl in Urhan ctr of the Brit ish government. He refused to Zulke the Ottmo of his departure or Tho method to will to Ludo the Scot land Yard detectives Wales Leif naia Rulh House where he i stopping not author of ordinance Alderman Joseph 3ts-rr is on the a . In wednesday a editions of the wis Consin state to Urril there Apo Sitthi n Etlor to the editor in which or. Starr accused of fostering an ordinance it his followed a express co in new rate plea Washington Tho Amer can n ways a Spross company today run ulc application to the inter Stalo Comox co com Mission to Mcrea their a Tow

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