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3 c- ST SHEBOYGAN, SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 23, 1921. PRICE 3 CENT3 1 1 rn lb UL UVJ HOW ALLIES MAY ENFORCE PAYMENT BY GERMANY A PARTY OF ENTENTE IS CRITICISED CHIEF BALEY SAYS "TAPS" F0RI.IV.17 S.B.CROCie DIED FRIDAY AT 5:45 P. M. im NOTE LEFT BERLIN llOOrl TODAY If DENMARK NORTH OrW SEfK SEA t' vpld PftAOUK FRANCE GERM A NY ZECHO" ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF CROCKER CHAIR COMPANY Due To Heart Pioneer Manufacturer of This City Succumbs at Ago of 71 1 Years Helped Found the! Crocker Chair and the Phoenix Chair Company Re- tired Several Years Ago.

mining valley and the rich West- This map indicates steps that may be taken by the Allies to enforce the payment of German reparations. The shaded area shows the original zone of occupation west of the Rhine where the British, French, Belgian and American armies have been in control since the armistice. Several weeks ago, following the German refusal to agree to the allied demand for total reparations of the Allies crossed the Rhine and occupied the area about Dussel-dorf (Circle 1). The Allies are now prepared to extend this occupation to include (Circle 2) the entire Ruhr LETTER AND THREAT OF REV. HAUSER BRINGS REPLY FROM DIST.

ATTY. ZABEL Silas B. Crocker, agod 71 years, one of the founders of the Crocker Chair company, former alderman of; the Second ward, died suddenly at his home, 1204 N. Fourth street, at 5:45 p. m.

yesterday of heart fail-1 ure. He complained of a slight ill-ness yesterday afternoon, but his; condition was- not considered seri-i ous. Mr. Crocker was born In Wills-, boro Falls, New York, on Novem ber 12, 1849, the son of Mr. and, Mrs.

Silas R. Crocker. Mr, Crocker, the father, farmed and conducted a cabinet shop for several years New York state, and in 1853 came to Sheboygan, where he was one of the first to engage in business. In 1866 he, with his eldest Watson, and I. V.

Bliss, pur, chased the old Gurrey hotel build-1 Ing on Pennsylvania avenue and' they put in a sawmill and machinery for manufacturing chairs. This was the start of one of the largest chair factories in the entlro world. The elder Crocker was one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of that period and did much to promote the industrial and com-1 macdal development -of -the conn" ty. He died at the venerable age of about 84 years, in 1896. Silas 13.

Crocker, who was only a child of about five years when his parents located In Sheboygan, ac-i quired the greater part of his tidu-cation through private instruction. When he was seven years of age he left the parental roof and started out to make his own way in tho world, spending ten years in the Adirondack mountains, and then he began his business career in Chicago, where he held a clerkship for two years. At the end of that period he returned home and became associated with his father and brothers, Wat-' son Roger and Ara in founding the Crocker Bliss Chair! company in 1868. The last named, Ara D. Crocker, passed away on April 9, 1902.

5 TWO CITY OFFICIALS IN PARTY; MBS. ZORN WILL REMAIN A party of live well known, citizens of Sheboygan, including two city officials, will leave this city the latter part of May for European destinations, to visit the haunts their youth, their old homes, and their relatives and friends. In the party will be: Frank Ira, city poor superintend ent; John KummeT, 1 city comp troller; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Reh-waldt; Mrs.

Franz Zorn, 616 N. Ninth At the next meeting of the common council the two city officials will make application for a leave of absence of several months in order to enable them to make the trip. No doubt the council will grant the necessary authority as both have been without vacations for a great length of time. Passports for the members of the narty are arriving daily, and it Is planned to leave New York on May 28, all having engaged accommodations on the S. S.

Zeeland. They will go directly to Antwerp, Belgium, cross through that country into Germany and there the party will break up. Mrs. Zorn will go to Europe to spend the rest of her life there with her five children, who live in various parts of Europe, Bohemia, Saxony and Austria. She will alternate her visits with her children.

Two of her daughters, Mrs. Kather-ine Kusserow, of Georgia, and Miss Marie, of Flint, arrived here on Monday to see her off safely on her Journey. They will then return to their homes. Mr. and Mrs.

Rehwald will visit their old home and iriendsand relatives In Germany, remaining there about a year. They will go directly to Berlin, and will visit many other points, Including Hanover, Mecklenburg, Strassburg and Thuerlnburg. Poor Superintendent Ira will go with Comptroller Kummer to Bo hemia and the two officials will travel together for a great part of the time, visiting Berlin, Duessel-dorf, Leipzig, and other Important places. They expect to be gone about ten weeks. City Comptroller John Kummer will visit his sister in Grussbach, Bavaria, and other points and scenes of his early days.

This will he his second trip to the old country, having made a visit there about eighteen years ago. By Associated Press. Paris Germany, instead of either agreeing or refusing to transfer the gold reserves of the reichbank to occupied territory in the Rhlneland, as the allied reparations commission had outlined, has offered to agree not to export or permit the exportation of gold from Germany before October 1 next. Germany's note, in reply to the reparations commission, delivered to the commission today, in which this offer is tendered, says her proffered agreement would adequately protect the allies, who had demand ed the transfer because the second paragraph of Article 248 of the treaty of Versailles prohibiting the exportation of gold becomes Inoperative May 1. The second paragraph of Article 248 of the peace treaty reads: "Up to May 1, 1921, the German govern ment shall not export or dispose of and shall forbid the export or dis posal of gold without the official ap proval of the allied and associated powers acting through the repara tions commission." This proviso was intended to pre vent Germany, should she feel in clined to do so, from disposing of any of her gold holdings prior to final settlement of the amount and methods of her reparations pay-J menta.

ATTENTION RELIEF CORPS All members of the Woman's Relief Corps are requested to meet Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the corner of Eighth street and Michigan avenue and march in a body to 1640 N. Eleventh street, where they will conduct brief funeral services for the late Mrs. August Maffert PLAN TRIP TO EUROPE GOLD NOT TO BE DISTURBED BEFORE OCT. 1 BE IN THE HANDS OF HUGHES THIS AFTERNOON hrms Are A Secret lill Not Be Divulged in Berlin ind Their First Publication Will Be Made at Washington After ReceiptInterest Keen jo Allied Countries as to Contents and Part U. S.

Will Play By TTnlted Pren.l frrlin New German repara- ns proposals will be dispatch- to President Harding for tansmission to the allies imme- tbinet, which begran snorxiy De-ire noon here today. According i information, these oposals, it was understood, dude an increase in tne casn innents offered and a better for reconstruction in France id some form of international edit. fBr Assocfated Pre.l Berlin A cabinet crisis ap- ars imminent here as a result the discontent aroused by the vernment's failure to consult reichta? before asking Pres et Hardina: of the United ites to mediate between Ger-ny and the allies relative to hration3. The position of Dr. iter Simons, the foreign min- Jer, is particularly fBy Associated Pr.l Germany has sent to shinsrton a reply to the Am- lean note rejecting the role of orator lor the reparations estion between Germany and aines, says a Central News w.tcti from Berlin.

pi? terms of the note sent to Harding were not di- io party leaders up to time it was disnatched at today, and its contents -1 not be known until later in toy. Leading politicians are ared to have been amrrv be- Me members cf the cabinet not consult the. hof- Vip pnal communication was sent -iie American capital. ars Consideration of the man eovernment's note to "nitpd States was comnlptprl "Wins of the German cab- last niffht, says' a message In here from Berlin. watiers later met with ratine Fehrenbach, chan- near a report of Dr.

1 the Trfnnco1a 'St dinff The meetin governmental TOdmr 1 Prljn of Germany's policy i. "i'drauons. iasi word" of his I a the most beiore tlie entente Present, -i a of an inclin- 10 Con n'i nat Germany ier before v00a: as tn i tt uc-iillie, uv iv, at future steps take idenforc- Wl aemnn 'A, cablet 1 HER 1 tonig-ht or Sun- on? -Cst and e- SCANDINAVIANS OPPOSED TO THE HARSH MEASURES Neutrals To Protest Policy Adopted by France of "Asking for the Last Ounce of Flesh" Declared Absurd- Says Germany Will Not and Cannot Pay What is Being Asked To be Swamped by Goods, IBy Associated Pre Copenhagen The steps by the Entente nations to compel Germany to pay the war reparations are being criticised in the financial and Industrial circles of Scandinavian countries. Apprehension i3 expressed that these measures will also have a punitive effect oh the neutral countries. "There can be no said a prominent Danish manufacturer to the correspondent, "that Denmark and other neutral countries, especially those bordering on Germany, will be swamped by German manufactures to the great detriment of our national Industries, a great many of which will be ruined.

I for one think that it is high time that those countries, who for one reason or other took a neutral attitude in the great war, got together and agreed on a joint policy of protecting our own interests." A well-known Danish politician. Dr. L. V. Birck, professor of economics In the University of Copenhagen, said in an interview: tragedy of the Ja that Germany will not pay, and cannot even If she would.

Her home debt has passed the sum of The indemnity insisted upon adds an amount equivalent to the whole value of Germany's national wealth according to pre-war standard. "Another tragedy that France knows that a policy of a stern Shy-lock asking for the last ounce of human flesh is absurd, and yet she Is compelled to stick to the guns of her demands. Unless she keeps up her faith In the solvency of Germany, she must admit her own bankruptcy. "This is then the triple curse of the present European situation: Germany will not pay and cannot pay, at least not so much as France, who knows her own demands to be impossible, must insist upon' to escape her own economical destruction. The Entente must demand an Indemnity, and is justified in demanding It, but cannot for interior reasons accept German goods, the only real means of repayment." COMMISSION GOVERNMENT IN COUNTIES By Associated Press.1 Madison, Wis.

The bill of Assemblyman Summerville for a commission form of government for counties was passed today and is ready to go to the' governor. Governor Blaine is expected to sign it. The change will be optional with the counties. PARKING VIOLATION Ben Perlman was a of the parking law in municipal court to day when he was nnea i and costs. He let his machine stand at the curbing in front of a downtown store longer than twenty minutes and was accordingly tagged.

PIPED ALL THE WAY a mr United Press.) Minneapolis. This is not a "pipe story." O. L. Pipes was -piping hot today. Adam Smith, detective, piped Pipes while he was pip- ing water to his garden, "Well, I'll be piped, piped Smith.

"It is a pipe Its Pipes." Pipes Is wanted in' Janes- vllle, for taking a mortgaged automobile out of the state. Smith said Pipes, was about 4 half piped when he piped him. 4 BY RALPH F. COUCH United Press' Staff Correspondent Washington. "Taps" was sounded for the W.

strongest of the national radical societies. Chief Lewis J. Baley of the bureau pf investigation said today, through the disappearance of "Big Bill" Haywood, who was to begin a 20-year Jail term Monday. Haywood, accordinr to his bondsmen, now is in Moscow, Russia. "The I.

W. W. has suffered a blow to its prestige that will weaken its power to stir up industrial discord," said Baley. "The organization will have extreme difficulty in recruiting new members. "Without a continuous string of converts radical organizations die.

"With the weakening of the power of the I. W. radical leaders who in the past have receive4 the organization's indorsement will find it difficult to stir up violence in labor dispute s. The I. W.

W. leaders know the significance of Haywood's desertion and are alarmed by it and chagrined. "The incident from one point of view should have a tendency for good in some industrial circles where radicals have heretofore exerted wide influence. It is unfortunate, however, from the point of view of justice. "We believe, however, that Haywood will return to the United States during the summer, following the convention in Moscow which he planned to attend.

If Haywood does return the punishment then will be inflicted. Meanwhile if Haywood, as anticipated, fails to surrender himself In Chicago Monday, the government will ask the court to forfeit his bail of $15,000. The I. W. W.

is reported to have a membership far in excess of the other radical organizations at one time claiming 500,000 members. The active, paid up membership, however, is believed never to have run above 100,000. lay United Press. Chicago "Big Bill" Haywood, I. W.

W. leader under sentence of 20 years in the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, is propaganda director of the Russian soviet, District Attorney Clyne said he was reliably informed today. Clyne, who refused to divulge the source of his- information, said Haywood went to Russia at the invitation and solicitation of LenJne and Trotzky, dictators of Russia. A representative of the Russian rulers came to the United States to secure Haywood's" services, Clyne said. "Haywood 'knew Trotzky very well," said Clyne.

"When Trotzky was in the United States, Haywood hired him at $12 a week to make soap box speeihes on the street corners of Chicago and New York. "Evidently Trotzky realizes the value of Haywood as an organizer, the man who secured 480,000 members for the I. W. W. in the United States before the war would be a valuable asset to the Russian soviet.

"According to my information, Haywood is to start an extensive drive of soviet propaganda throughout Europe. The Russian soviet plan to establish Soviets all over the country is about to start." Haywood's first job will be to disorganize the armies and navies of Europe by soviet propaganda. Clyne does not believe Haywood intends to return to the United States. LANDIS RULES AGAINST WIS. CORPORATIONS IBy United Press.

Madison. Wisconsin corporations have lost their initial fight against the government for $7,064,675 through a decision of Judge K. M. Landis of the federal court at La Crosse. Judge Landis sustained the government's demurrer in the suit brought by the la Schuster.

Co. of Milwaukee for the recovery of $9,715 of taxes paid under protest in 1919. The Schuster Company claimed the right should be given it to deduct from its federal Income taxes the amount paid the state for soldier bonus taxes. 'The company claimed it had no knowledge of an increased tax due for 1919 under the soldier bonus law passed in 1919. The Schuster Company Intends to see the question through the courts and will appeal from the decision of Judge Landis.

Every corporation in Wisconsin paying an Income tax in 1919 Is Interested In the litigation phalian industrial district. Occupa tion of the Frankfort area (Circle 3) is being considered. If these step3 do not bring the Germans to time, seizure of the great seaports and shipbuilding yards of Hamburg, Kiel and Stettin (Circles 4 and 5) and the occupation of Berlin may follow. neither accusation nor conviction has been offered. If I be not mistaken you claim to be a member of a political party that claims to build its cornerstone upon the broad ground of brotherhood of man and of humanity.

You appear even to be recreant of those fundamental tenetsw 1- however, find that I JvrA ndt alone in expressing a few kind "words in. behalf of Mr. Flood, but am supported by the following Teal ChribLianmen, Judge A. C. Backus, Judge George E.

Page, Judge John J. Gregory, Judge Walter Schinz, Judge Gustav S. Gehrz, Judge Michael Blenski, Judge Henry Cummings, Judge John C. Karel, all of them either district court, circuit court or civil court Judges of this county; John J. Drew, city treasurer; Percy Bremen, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works; Patrick McManus, sheriff of Milwaukee county; William E.

McCarthy, chairman of Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors; Vincent J. Schoenecker, president of the Schoenecker Boot Shoe Company; M. L. Annenberg, publisher of the Wisconsin News; R. J.

White, president of the Travelers Protective Association; Joseph G. Rellly of Hurley Rellly; F. A. Massee, director of the Palmolive Company, and a host of other equally responsible and respectable citizens of this community, who equally recommended Mr. Flood to the city of Sheboygan, I not only begin- to question your authority to censure or threaten me for my independence of judgment and conscience, but I rather begin to take it as a compliment, particularly when I view your letter in the light of the glaring inconsistency between your public protestations from the pulpit and the political platform and your private conscience.

Your letter appeals to me as but part of a religious and political persecution which should find no support from one who. professes to believe and practice Christian teachings. I do not know what official position or connection you have with the Social Committee of the Milwaukee Church Federation, or by what authority you have undertaken to question the honesty of my motives. You could, however, do me no greater service than to exhibit your narrow bigotry and unchristian attitude to the Milwaukee Church Federation to whose fair Judgment I am perfectly willing to submit your attempt to hold me up for Judgment. In the meantime let us all fervently hope that some day the milk of human kindness will not be soured by religious intolerance, nor curdled by the dominating Influences of prejudice, and that the time is not far distant when even you will fully understand and practice the teachings of the Nazarene.

Yours, WTNFRED C. ZABEL. District Attorney. REPORT MAY 2 By United Frees. Milwaukee Federal Judge Geiger tof ft hfl known todav that he will be ready to receive a report from the special grand Jury in session here.

May 2. The Jury has been de-rntin? thA ereater nart of Its time. it was 'understood, to alleged liquor law violations witn a majority oi it in mi i Hps centering in Milwaukee and the Fox river valley, he came again unto the temple, and also the people came unto Him, and He sat down and taught them, and the Scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had sat in the midst they said unto Him, 'Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law com mended ua that such should stoned, but what, "-syest" This they said, tempting him that father' miRht have, to accuse Him, but Jesus stooped dawn and with His finger wrote on the ground as though He heard them not. So, when they continued asking Him He lifted up Himself and said unto them, 'He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at I might even refresh your Very 'Reverend's recollection with the parable of Jesus wherein He speaks of removing the beam out of our own eye before we undertake to find the moat in the eye of our brother.

You have undertaken to question my motive in giving this slight assistance to this man in his sixtieth year to obtain a position in another city. It might be interesting for you to know that I have even done the same for erring members of your profession. When on several occasions you appeared before me, and also in the municipal court of this county, interceding in behalf of Individuals charged with crimes yes, even felonies, you exhibited what I in charity construed and believed to be a real Christian spirit with a genuine desire to help a fallen brother. I did not condemn nor question your motive even in such extreme cases In which you appealed to me and to the court in behalf of leniency. When on frequent occasions you made public appeals from political platforms in behalf of a political program that was aimed at the destruction of the government In time of war, and raised your clerical voice In behalf of men who have been convicted of impeding their own government when it sought to conquer autocracy, and I disagreed both with your policy and utterances, I at least gave you credit for being sincere in your convictions by questioning neither your motive nor your sincerity, although I disagreed with you.

By what right do you undertake to question mine and to threaten me for expressing my sincere belief In recommending a man who has yet not even been convicted to say nothing of not even having been charged with a crime? You should realize that the days of Hubs and Calvin, and other religious persecutions are but relics of the Ignorant past, and find no place in the light and advancement of this twentieth century. I cannot understand why you, under the garb of Christ Himself, in the face of His teachings should undertake not only to pursue the subject of your wrath, who has neither been charged nor convicted of any offense, but at the same time undertake to condemn and threaten any one who has seen fit to exercise a little bit of the teachings of the brotherhood of Christ which you have apparently so soon forgotten. Let us at least try and be consistent, If Mr. Flood is guilty of a crime' I shall be the last to commend him for it, or to ask his commendation from any one. But, I hare at least tried to be Christian enough to be the last to throw the first toae especially- where) Rev.

Otto Robert Hauser, pastor of a. Milwaukee church under date of April 14, wrote a letter to District Attorney Zabel inquiring whether he had written a letter of endorsement to the Sheboygan Fire and Police Commission of Robert C. Flood, who was recently named Chief of Police of Sheboygan. Without any delay, though a very busy man, the District Attorney made a reply, and it is so to the point that it is given In full. The letter wui set.

jme oiners ia uxinK- ing are anxious to credit idle rumors, The letter follows: April 15, 1921. The Very Reverend Otto Robert Hauser, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, 921 Pine Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Very Reverend Sir: I respectfully acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 14 calling upon me to explain whether or not' I recommended Robert C. Flood to the Fire Police Commission of the city of Sheboygan, and if so why I so recommended him, and the further statement that It is your intention to bring this matter to the attention of the Social service Committee of the Milwaukee Church Federation at its next regular meeting. I do not know whether to construe your letter as a threat or a promise, but regardless of.

whatever construction might be put upon the same I have no hesitancy in informing you that you were accurately informed when you learned that I did send a letter of recommendation to the Fire Police Commissioners of the city of Sheboygan. You have, however, failed to inform me by what authority you questioned the conduct of a body of. public officials in a city in which you are neither a resident nor a taxpayer. You state that you are interested in this matter "in view of the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Robert C. Flood from the Milwaukee police department, and therefore it is hard for you to believe that I would recommend him to any other municipality." It might be fair for me to ask you the reason for Mr.

Flood's resignation from the city police department, and what if any charges of criminal or any misconduct have been made against him. So far as I am able to discover no criminal charges have ever been preferred against Robert C. Flood in his official capacity as former lieutenant of the Milwaukee police department. Personally, I have never yet been apprised of any crime or any other misconduct of which Mr. Flood has been guilty or even accused.

All I do know la that he resigned from the Milwaukee police department after having given thirty of his best years In the service of this city, and that in his official capacity he has cooperated with this department at all times. It Is hard for me to believe that one who proclaims to teach and to preach the gospel of the forgiving Christ should assume the attitude of Saul before his conversion. While I have a right to as- sume that as a -minister of the Gospel you are fanUliar with the teachings of Christ, It is not al- together impossible that you have forgotten some of them in your zeal to reform and coerce others Into your way of think- ing, and therefore most respectfully recall your attention to Chapter 8 of SL John: "Jesus went into the Mount of AAd early. tb They had been engaged la thew operation of this industry for four years, had their business well, established and had built up an ex tensive patronage when their plant was destroyed by fire. The same, year, In 1872, the father retired and they reorganized under the name of The Phoenix Chair company; but eight years later they disposed of, this enterprise and established the.

Crocker Chair company, which has now been In active operation fori about 40 years. On November 29, J878, Mr, Crocker was united in marriage to Miss Mary Rait, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Rait, of Wau paca. Two children were born to.

them: Elizabeth, who married Julian Mogenson and who now re-, sides in Chicago, and Myron of I Milwaukee. Mr. Crocker was a member of the Congregational church. For a time he was activo in politics, and served several terms as alderman from the Second ward.JEIe always led a life of activity and business enter-prise and prospered in his takings. Mr.

Crocker was ond of tha pioneers in the founding of the. chair business In Sheboygan, and: until eight years ago was active with the company which he helped' to form. All during his life ho worked In the shop as superintendent of construction, and took prido In the fact that he was one of the men in overalls. The flag on the Crocker Chair company's plant Is at half staff today, The funeral services win be held from the late home, 1204 N. Fourth street, on Monday at 2 p.

xxl, the Rev. M. R. Brandt of the Congregational church otnciatlDg. will be made in Wild wood cemetery.

WEATHER FOR THE WEEK IBy Associated Ptms. Region of the Great Lakes Normal temperatures, considerable cloudiness and occasional rains. Lyons, France, has the only university that offers a course in perfumery making. Ninety per cent of the world's total output of real lavender oil comes from the vicinity, pf Lyons, France.