Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

we- WM Wf pw FTSWJS Ws WffWt HSfysmemREwiiSSSPPP pt Jiv- SWPKm 3fWv SJfWusBiV' Uhe Only Paper la the Wiscon-ln District Served by the Associated Press end the United press Association Associated Pres and ri NO 110 VOLUME XXV Keno6ba'e Oldest Daily Newspaper KENOSHA WISCONSIN SATURDAY MARCH 1 1919 United Preas Service 3 'TKK7 hx i -Sj: a EXT FELL IN ACTION AT ARCHANGEL CLEAN OLD RIVER WELL IilAY-BE SO HOMES COMPANY STARTS SEASON Sinn Escape Like a Fairy Story MORE THAN 750 IN $5080 CLASS Revenue Collectors Send Kenosha Men Demands for Income Taxes on Biff Salaries This Morning MAY PAY III INSTALLMENTS Several Million Dollars Will Be Paid to the Government by the 750 Men In-1 eluded in the $5000 Class of Income Earners Do you know how many people in JCenoslia have an income of more than $5000 The United States government believes that there are in the neighborhood of seven hundred and fifty of class and these men received with their morning mail this -morning an invitation from the government to admit it The invitation was in the form of the income tax schedule No 1040 and it has been anxiously awaited by a lot of these fellows The statement accompanying the returns suggests that it must be returned to the collector of internal revenue on or before March 15th of this year It is expected that income tax form 1040 will result in the government collecting more than a million dollars in income taxes in Ker nosha between now and the first of next December The fellows who got this blank today are the ones who get to pay the income tax de luxe It pro vides for the payments of a normal tax of twelve per cent on incomes over fourTIiousdnd dollars and it provides for the payment of sur taxes and all other frills that the congressmen figured out as a way to pay Uncle Bam war debts The return is considerably involved and it is the one best bet that ninety per cent of the men who receive these forms are ging to be forced to run to their attorneys to have them filled out The government agents who are in the city under the leadership of Joseph Custer will give such kindly aid as is possible to the follows who get the real money but the work of Custer and such men is largely given over to the work of cetting in the returns of the men who had incomes under $5000 It is estimated that the mail bag filled with these blanks sent out from Milwaukee on Friday evening will result in the discovery of something over two hundred men in Kenosha who have income in excess of $10000 and it is expected that more than forty men in the city will return incomes exceeding $25000 The tax on these incomes mounts up fast and the men who are to pay them are allowed until December 15th to complete the payment of the tax The installment plan if accepted provides that the first payment on the tax one fourth of the total amount- be paid on the date that the return is filed The second installment must be paid not later than June 15th the third installment not later than September 15th and the final payment on or before December 15th It is expected that a great nur ber of the big taxpayers in Kenosha will accept the installment payment plan MARCH COMES IN JUST LIKE A LION Blizzard Runs Around Kenosha But Mercury Drops Down to Twelve Above Zero and People Suffer There-was nothing like in the way March came into Kenosha but at that Kenosha was fortunate as the terrific blizzards which raged over the west seen to have worked their way around Ivcnosha Thero was a high wind and snow north of Kenosha anc Milwaukee had a real blizzard but March contented herself by coming into Kenosha with nothing worse than 4 weather The mercury Jropped down to twelve above zero sarly this morning and the wind was bitter cold The coming of the colder weather was reflected mostly in increas- ed calls on the pauper department for lid and in increased demands on coal iealers for the immediate deliveries Enr coal BULLETIN' (By United Press) Washington Mar Oscar Price to-Jay rosigned his position as assistant lirector-goneral of railroads to become iffdetive April 1st Price leaves to bo-orne presidents of the United Artists Corporation an organization of film itars including such headliners as Dharlio Chaplin Mary Pickf ord Doug-Fairbanks and Griffith President Signs Post Office Bill This Afternoon Appropriation of Ninety-five Thousand Dollars Assured by Wilson Signature at Washington Today (By United Tress) Washington Mar 1 Among other bills signed by the th afternoon was the post office building bill appropriating $200000000 for post office buildings and an equal sum for repair and 1 uilding of roads Among the items in the bill aro two for Wisconsin One is an appropriation of $425000 for a public building at Madison and the other $95000 for an addition to the post office at Kenosha Other bills signed by the President in-eluded the navy bill authorizing men discharged' from the service to retain their uniforms and the act authorizing the payment of allotments in the cases of enlisted men where disputes have arisen and where the dependents are liable to suffer because the allornent is with-held pending settlement The post office bill carries an appropriation of $200000000 for the improvement of federal roads (By United Press) -Stockholm Mar 1 The second and third Bavarian army corps have been ordered to Munich to present an ultimatum to the provisional government there according to a dispatch received from Berlin today They will demand immediate summoning of the former diet reconstruction of the parliamentary government aJid disarmament of Civilians vi i (By United Press) Chicago Mar Chicago municipal' situation was further complicated today by the announcement that former Mayor Carter Harrison is on his way from Paris to Chicago Petitions nominating him as an independent candidate for mayor may again be placed in circulation it was said after they had been pigeon holed several days (By United Press) Berne Mar 1 The German government today faced the mostserious situation since the first revolution With the new Spartacan uprising now developing iu all parts of the country dispatches indicated that further success of the radicals in the centrals in the central districts might render the government vihtually powerless I (By United Press) Stockholm Mar 1 The Lithuanians have refused the request of the bolshevik! for armistice it was stated in an unofficial dispatch from Kavno today Sta l-TrVg with bolshevik Russia has been practically VI 'TT Unite! states tnglmi and France Ab a result of an oter issued by the federal reserve board which tempor- 4 1 arily suspends exportation or importation of Russian rubles-officials believe commercial and financial transactiohs with that part of Russia under bolshevik control is cut off (By United Tress) Washington Mar 1 Senator Gay Louisiana- today announced his sup- port of the ivoman suffrage resolution introduced yesterday by Senator Jones Now Mexico support insures passage of the resolution at this session if an opportunity can be found to bring it up Senator Jones said (By Associated Tress) Coblenz Mar! Owing to reports of recent attempts to interfere with food shipments to American troops in unoccupied sections of Grmanv the number of guards on all cars containing rations' has been increased Five cars of provisions for American 7 troops Berlin and at the twenty prisoner camps left Coblenz for Berlin today each car being iu charge of soldiers (By Associated Tress) Copenhagen Mar government troops entered Duessellorf on Friday and occupied the railway Statons and public buildings Gpartacan leaders escaped and the town is quiet according to Berlin advices (By Associated Tress' Basle Mar 1 Spartacan forces Offered feeble resistance when government troops took Hamborn on Thursday and gave up two eamcn three thousand riflei and a quantity of munitions At Essen tho number of strikers is now estimated at 5100 i Blood Toll of-Great Struggle Is Announced Over Seven Million Men Give Lives in Greatest Wax of History Says Gen March in Official Report (By United Press) Washington Mar 1 7354000 men dipd In the war according to the official igures given out 'today by Chief of Staff March Russia paid the heaviest mice in blood: with a total 1700000 deaths Germany was second France bird and the United States last among the great powers Other totals announced by General March were: Germany 1600000 France 1383300 Austria 800000 Great Britain 706700 Italy 460000 Turkey 250000 Bel-1 iriiun 102000 Bulgaria 100000 Serbia and Montenegro 100000 United States 50000' The demobilization figures to date show that 77452 officers have been discharged and 1224507 enlisted men March also announced that up to February 20th embakation figures showed that 352922 men had left France and that 284919 of these had been landed' American transports had carried seventy per cent of these and British ships twenty-one per cent A cable of awards for the Distinguished Service Cross was made showing that 205 awards were suggested for soldiers of the 42nd Division and 134 of those of the 32nd i (By United Press) Madrid iMar 1-rOrder has been restored here following food riots and cavalry are patrolling the streets of the Capitol All theatres have been ordered closed as a precautionary measure (By United Press) Paris Mar The 4 4 Echo de said today that the Supreme "War Council would meet next week to com plete additional armistice terms the work of the special committee having been completed It is said Marshal Foch report will be presented at this time urging the immediate demobilization of the German army with the exception of a few divisions and the inter allied control of all German war nterials factories (By Associated Press) Washington Mar 1 Senator Knox of Pennsylvania former secretary of state speaking today in the senate assailed the league of nations As striking down American constitutional principles and proposed a new world organization which he said would preserve the Monroe doctrine and save American from the results of European intrigue and aggression Senator Knox said the constitution of the league as presented to the peace conference 4 4 sanctions breeds and commands and after criticising various clauses of the document asked: Why tMs feverish anxiety for the adoption Of this plant Why this racing up and down the land by propagandists urging its adoption What benefit is to come from such a sale of the country as is urged upon us Who are the beneficiaries of this betrayal of our The Pennsylvania senator said that if the people of the deseed what he termed a real league ot nations to prevent war and not merely build a coalition to further trade and preserve and expand territorial it might be through the formation of au international organization comprising all the nations of the world (By Associated Press) Madrid Mar 1 Martial law has been declared in Madrid and troops aro patrolling the streets Order has been restored but some theaters have b'en closed- This action was the result of rioting against profiteers today provision and butcher shops being attacked by mobs (By Associated Tress) Stockholm Mar 1 Lithuanian troops closely pursuing bolshevik forces have passed the line of Schaulen Sjeduva Vicves and which towns are in Lithuanian hands according to advices received here from Kovno Lithuanian advance forces have- reached Toakti about thirteen miles east of Vilna Owing to their defeat the bolshevik! have requested a suspension of hostilities but the Lithuanians have refused it is reported (By Associated Tress) Paris' Mar 1 The 'soldiers and congress at Munich has declared martial law of all of Bavaria according to a Zurich dispatch to Tho MatiSf Sebastian Lencioni In Russia After a Serious Skirmish with Bolshevists SECOND III FAMILY A Brother Was Killed on Last Day ot Fighting Went from Milwaukee Had Many Friends ILuLi KenosSa' Another name was written in gold on Honor Roll this morning when a telegram addressed to Ben Lencioni announced the fact that his brother Sebastion Lencioni had joined the little company of martyrs of whom history will say: 4 They saved others themselves they could not The message read simply: tian Lencioni died' on January 22nd from wounds received in The communication came from Archangel where Private Lencioni had beei stationed for some weeks previous (6 his death The last letters from tym reported that he was in the best of health and enjoying the Russian winter They were written on Christmas day and were received the one by his father in Italy and the other by his brother in Kenosha The news of his death cam'' as a rc-V of investigating eondui Jjy 'hroLh''Wrtl yove'rn- nient officials Fearful because' he had not heard from his brother since the holidays the young fruit-dealer sent a formal inquiry to Washington which evoked this telegram The death of young Lencioni io made doublv sad by reason of the fact that a brother Corado Lencioni was killed in France on the last day of fighting November 11 1918 Sebastian Lencioni St the lime ho entered the army had not lived in Kenosha for three years but was conducting a confectionary in ITe enterpd service from that city mid went overseas after only a few month of training in this country He was at all times enthusiastic about great nnd'found war romantic even in the snow and sleet of northern Russia The late soldier and patriot made numerous friends in Kenosha during his residence here and consequently is being mourned today by many who knew of his sterling worth and splendid patriotism The brother Corado Lencioni was a member of the Italian division briend- i ZfyiZ i front He saw a great deni of serMce iront fitting out there twenty-aeven benasti years old and had been iu America fot thirteen rears at the time he entered the service of the Stars and Stripes I FIRE "DEPARTMENT REPORTS TWO FIRES Kaltenbach has Fire in Garage and Two Automobiles aro Damaged Flames The fire department hod two fires to report this morning One of them occurred at the garage of Dr EKal-tenbach on Park Avenue on Friday night just before six when in some way lAknowu-to the department an electric automobile i took fire The automobile was destroped at a loss of about six hund red dollars The flames spread to a Nash automobile in the garage and did some damage to this ear The Nash car and the garage were insured against loss but the loss on the electric car is a complete one This morning just after five the department was called to the plant of thq Nash Motors Company on account of a blaze in the drop forge rcora It was caused by crossed wires and the fire department at the plant had been fighting it for an hour be-' fore the department- was called The loss was placed at about fifty dollars- BULLETIN (By United Tress) Washington Mar 1 Senator Lafol-' lette announced in the Senate today that a filibuster would be waged against the oil bill conference report and that it would be started immediately in tho event that an attempt was made to pass the measure v- Kenosha is Not Represented At Meeting Held On Friday to Make Plans to do Away with Polution STATE ENGINEER COMING Tully to Work Out Plans for Kenosha River in Connection with Suggestions for Other Sanitary Move- meats to be Launched This Year A state wide movement against the pollution of waters in Wisconsin rivers was launched by the State Board of Health in meeting in Milwaukee on Friday It is expected that some part of 'the movement will be reflected in orders to clean up the Kenosha river Engineer Tully of the state board who made the report at the Milwaukee meeting has recently- been in Kenosha making some investigations in connection with the garbage disposal problem of the city and during this visit he spent some time looking into the problems of cleaning- the Kenosha river The oldest protest in official Kenosha' is the protest against' the river It has been-before the council and the state board of health on niaby occas ions and it is certain that cleaning this river will be one of the first tasks to be undertaken under the now state wide Ji The city of Kenosha has been one of the worst offendors in Kenosha as old sewers were for years permitted to run into the river In addition to sewage poured into the river from city sewers there has- been much objection to the refuse of big plants along the river Vast improvements have been made in recent years in the handling of both sewage and tho sewage from these plants but up to the present time causes for complaints have not been removed The Kenosha river is a lot cleaner than it need to be put it is far from a perfect and sanitary river at the present time Kenosha officials were sent to Milwaukee at one time to attend a meeting to provide for the doing away of the lake pollution and this movement advanced on Friday was just another phase of that movement It is' expected that the legislature before its adjournment will pass a law which will force all of the cities along Lake Michigan and and along inland lakes and rivers to provido for some plan of sewage disposal which put an end to ihe pollution of the waters It is expected that the cities will be given five years in which to work out sewage disposal plans' Engineers have declared that it will cost Kenosha in the neighborhood of half a million dollars to take care of the disposal of sewers Kenosha officials' were invited to attend the conference held in Milwaukee but the city was not represented WOULD REMOVE ESTATE executor 'v 1 1 1 Petition Asks That Executor of Estate of Late Mary Bailey be Cited in the County Court Mathias Moss of Chicago husband of the late Cora Higgins Moss who was named as one of the beneficiaries of the of the late Mary Bailey of Kenosha ha3 filed a formal petition in the County Court asking that John Corcoran executor of the will of the late Miss Bailey be cited to appear in court and show why he should not be removed The petition states that the not been settled and asked that some formal steps be made to have the provisions of the will carried out at once Miss Bailey died in Kenosha in 1914 leaving hef small estate to a number of her friends and relatives It is said that several of the persons named in the' will have since died Judge Taylor has issued a formal citation directing the executor to appear in court on'March 25th BULLETINS (By Associated Tress) Washington March -Of the total of 3918 distinguished service crosses awarded 'for gallantry in action to American soldiers '6G4j went to the sec-and division of the regulars 300 to the men of the first division of th6 regulars and 233 to the third regular division General Marsh announced today Kenosha Homes Company Inaugurates Building Program with Contract for Four Houses OTHERS ARE TO FOLLOW Contract Let to Larsen Brothers Provides for Construction of Houses on Elmhurst Street Just a Starter for the Year The Kenosha Homes Company inaugurated its 1919 building program on Friday by letting a contract with Larsen Brothers for the Construction i of four houses on the lots owned by the company on Elmhurst street The houses are to add to the homes built by the 'company in past years in the Kenosha Homes Addition and are only a starter upon the program which the company expects to rry out in the coming year The new houses will be similar in construction to the splendid homes which have been built by the company in past years Each is to be a two story structure and is to have six rooms and equipped with modern conveniences Thu exterior is to be finished with magnesite a compound similar to Portland cement which has already been used successfully by the company in Kenosha Larsen Brothers the Kenosha firm which has the contract-for -the-hemes declared that they would start immediately on the new 1 buildings It Is declared that they will be completed and ready for occupancy not latei than the first of July and the shortage of houses now existing in Kenosha makes it certain that they will bo in immediate demand The increased cost of construction 'has made a difference in tlje price which will be asked for the new homes and there will be a slight increase in the of the homes as compared with the ante-bellum prices-The houses are being constructed under the same plan which proved so successful several years ago in providing homes for Kenoshans at 4 4 rock prices The Friday contract is but a start of the building program now planned by the Kenosha Homes Company Secretary Richard Mailer while he did not wish to make known the full plans of the company said that the four houses were being built as a post-war experiment and that they- would probably be followed by others if the plan worked out well i More details of this plan will be made public later as soon as definite action has been taken by the association The contract Friday marks a beginning of an effort to end the housing shortage which now exists in Kenosha and which is expected to become more acute as the soldiers return from the camps PUT DOWN BARS ON JUDICIAL CANDIDATES John Kerwin Enters Race for County Superintendent of Schools Against Cundy Today was the last day for the filing of petitions for judicial candidates to be voted for at the coming general election to be keld on April 1st The county clerk in Kenosha was not busy i Judge Taylor qf the County Court filed his petitions several days ago and there were no petitions filed for an opposing candidate This 'means that Judge Tayloy will be named for the new six year term without opposition The same is true of Judge Belden who has presided in the Circuit Court Ten morT days are allowed under a special statute for the filing of petitions of candidates fo rtho office of counly superintendent of schools' The petitions for the re-election of Superintendent Robert Cundy have been filed Superintendent Cundy will be opposed at the election by former County Jobn-J Kerwin of Silver-lake who filed his petitions this morning Mr Kerwin is widely -known to the schools of Kenosha county He served in the capacity of county superintendent for many years and made an excellent record in the office Ilia petitions filed today were generously signed in all towns of the county BULLETIN (By Associated Tress) Washington March 1 The Senate Judiciary committee today unanimously reported favorably the confirmation of the appointment of A Mitchell Palmer as Attorney General Paris Hears Wonderful Story of Escape of Edward De Valera from English Prison (By Associated Press! Paris Mar 1 The wonderful story of the escape of Edward De Valera the Sinn Fein leader from a British prison was told in Paris today It was related to a correspondent for the Associated Preis by prominent Irish leaders in connection with an appeal to tlm peace conference for representation of the Irish provisional government for representation The escape of de Valera was arranged by a prominent Sinn Feiner who appeared about the prison as a street singer' ne sang in the gae-lic language songs which told the Irish leader to secure an impression of the lock on the gate of the prison This was done and two Irish girls of beauty as shop girls enticed the guards from their places until de-Valera escaped (By Associated Tress) Washington Mar 1 In regard to published reports this morning that President Wilson told Democratic com niitteemen when he lunched with them on Friday that he-would not be a candidate for third term a statement from the white house 7 today said that the question was never mentioned and that the only suggestion was when the President said that ije hoped to write a history of current events (By Associated Tress) Washington Mar The house today without a record vote passed and Vent to the senate the bill providing for the repeal of the luxury tax imposed by the war revenue bill which would become1 effective 4 (By Associated Tress) Washington Mar In reporting favorably on General deficiency bill passed by the house yesterday the Senate committee added a rider providing $750000000 for the railway revolving fund i 1 --w (By Associated Tress) New York Mar 1 The transport Sobral which arrived from Brest this morning nearly capsized while docking todays when i more than 2500 trdops aboard the shipmshed to the star board side in greeting relatives on barges along side the: transport The transport listed fifteen degrees and Captain Devitt in command threatened to turn on the ships water from fire hydrants The troops were reluctant to move to the port side until after they had been threatened 'When they did move the ship slowly righted herself and the ships punips were put in action (By Associated Tress) Washington Mar resolution similar- to the Jones Woman Suffrage resolution was offered the house today by Chairman Raker of the House Woman Suffrage committee He declared that he' hoped to have it passed by both Houses of Congress before the adjournment on Tuesday (By United Tress) Washington Mar 1 The 332nd In fantry of the 83rd Ohio and West Virginia Division has been ordered to concentrate at Genoa according to War Department announcements today The orders were sent to Rome to the general military attache today and are taken to indicate that the division will be ordered home in a short time Behind the 'concentration orders is believed to lie the motive of avoiding difficulties in the present Jugo-Sla-Italian controversy (By United Tress) -London Mar -A news agency despatch from Holland received here today stated that- Chancellor Scheide-mann had resigned his position as head of the Germon cabinet It also said that other revolutionary measures were occurring in Germany and that more resignations were expected (By Associated Press) Berlin-Mar' 1 Two hundred thousand people were idle in Berlin today and strikes were extending into Southern and South Eastern Germany It was declared that railway communication between Berlin and Southern Ger: many had been cut off The conditions were jieclarea to-be very grave (By Associated Tress) Franklin Mass Mar 1 The bodies of three unidentified men wer found early today a short distance from the scene of a mysterious explosion that damaged the mill of the American Woolen company and fifty dwelling houses last night The bodies were badly mutilated i I- WWriinH'HiitiiijTiar-Tli wjn4Hin-iiiiil lit.