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hk MB hcich ce ratratonratel Mmcatiiina Le L TP piéd to start the truck. It id a start the engine.. Believingthat 4t was out of gasoline they grained the gas from another truck a~dailliéd p-m;@mmum sat stlll -mqflg start hh y Wl ;,...g.'--"". Lar PWKLALME * ~ > _ ~WHO FLED BRIG --*They gained un ou.reuws oy »mash-- Ing . a window. in the office, where y battered the: combination of safe but were unable to open it. robbers then went into the ware i whcr:' thrée big trucks belong-- Iing to 5 wéere standing. E' Lontobiq T&&W n 1.00T -- They Joaded the big ibree and a 'halr ton truck with 3,000 pounds of Men Who Sawed *4 to Lib-- & ert'from Great es are ~ _ "Mush"" Letter Writers. LVICTIMIZED MANY WOMEN * The~ "three lonesome gobs" Who: _ wrote leiters:to Indiana editors that _ their names be~ published so they »would receive letters from girls to '~help them while away the houts in 'Building 6, Naval Training Station "Hospital, Great Lakes, arg the ones. «'who sawed the bars of the station "'brig Monday . and ¢escaped, _ Mean g'mm;h the '-:l' c!el"'ls-m returning --huge mail to 1 j mnx:auu marked : wfm 'no address." Bullding 6 is the sta-- -- on "hoos¢gow" and has no,connec-- _ 'ton with the hospital, But of course ««the kind hearted edit--rs who brint ~»d the dppeal didn't know that. 'The _ men are Joseph Miller, 6700 Archer .. avenue, «ad Frank Sedivy, 2%5% Aa+ 'bany avenue, Chicago, and F. Jerry ' 'Mohfér, -- 1322 Bergen -- road, Fort \\Wayne, Ind. TT mf?7 odbetemiy t u0g Bs \ away is indicated by the fact 196} &dm leading to the wate-- m i6 left apen, which would t * re-- l & mc. Mur , one of the pro k.g the wholeéale company, .ZWAMVAA'AJAi 4 Q:u-'fi pomen t , Ee re s t C 0 2OA 4t ake lso an oll lamp, which they took 'wif one ol the trucks. > The : tobacto : was taken from 2 rear room And the :robbers apparent ly worked' for several hours A8 they 'could not. have .taken the tobaceo . wnrarandly so aticmpt was tosde . Thet Bs wagn wak. dowe: Qeioce Tact that they used a spotlight and AFE CRACKERS FRUSTRATED AT i > i o o ight . T4. oX 'Ansznnt" nf ues »::'.'ut business is don by checks s l.'t'" \ % . -- The attempted "'"'""'A"" 15' t 'eovered ' by. 'Albortt Ho: E. truck diiver emipioyed by the firm, 'when he came to work this morning. it is belleved that a small quantt ty of cigarets was carried away by 'm M f a Fae « At.. 18 belleved the work is that of \,w talent. -- Following so , closely ; the . robbery. of the Orpheum 'theatre Bunday morning, it is likely that the robberies were _ committed "by the same persons. OL, 3 % Mundreds of letters being re= '?M« at "the naval t ng . station following the printing the notice .most of them coming from w m.';mn there are some from to ,g"."fin postoffices all over the. coun-- After w to crack a safe ABbe W. Wholesale Products . last nfght, robbers loaded a big lck, belonging to "the firm, with erchandise -- but ~were unable, to-- art the "'"'.fi_'.fl were frighten-- I away before they could G@ecape ith anything of great. value, . ; . . ie most daring that has been re-- prted to the local police in months hnd the manser in which it was plan-- aq showse that the robbers worked ' LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT ~~ No report had been recelved today by w."..o.:h""" or the provost guards at t Lakes ot the three W A false tip dArifted Into ' Lakes yesterday but after run-- rfi»'&w' m{ were jas dar from real biding rlacs 6" the men as BIJG ROBBERY FOILED. WHOLESALE GRO. Big Truck With Loot At-- 0, , MAMRKRES . ©HTVTY M TS of olives and many other otf XXXXIL--NO. 34. LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT to carry~out their at ition to th tice 3 .Lfi 1ina t an |ha C 3 thn. oun--| _ Ia--the two ps Fipre Capt. D. sday | "Buok" MceNa:t vost ttl. " Goale BOY HURT AT _ © > _ SUES FOR $10,000 THEY 'REFUSED TO PAY +' You Say It! oye of Henry J. Saal Who Emnm Horse to Fox: At© Libertyyille, According < ta < Wil-- on . a .wet --pavement, threw him, wk&)h Hight ~log. Mrs. Violet Fiel, then visiting Shal and for whom the horse was intended, ordered the boy sent to the Victory Memorial hospital in ~Waukegan, Williams ai-- In _oft that year, the: bill Mzm refused to pay the hospital: snd doctor's bill, amountin®s to less thin $500. Sam Anissinmof. owner of the stables from which the horge was sent, refused any fAinancial responsibility for the aceiient. He is also being sued. ~"That horse, Lady: Dignity, was Mre. Baal's favorite mount," Aitorney it she alleges that her husband has mttnqnflliuuthh'ti.lt seeims reasonable to suppose that he can aftord to pay damages to the 15 HOLD AUTO RACES ---- AT LIBERTYULLE year old boy who risked his-- life to get the horse to Mrs. Saal." _ _ EIGHT LEAVE ON --~~LONG AUTO TOUR tangements have been made to hm»flo races one day du-- ring the ¢qunty fair at Libertyvilla, The auto races will be held Sunday Septémber #%. Several well known racers :zto be booked and it is ex-- md, t the event will be excep. My exciting. "The basebail :me' bet the Highland. Park ~Elks' and the Young Men's clyb of ¥Forest will also be played that ' .. The Highland Park Elka® Avill u_oeonm{ the teams. Baturday aftérnoon Zion band of 50 pleces will pargde at: Liberty-- ville and will give a 'concert both in the afterncoon and evening. M ' and ) Fore ba I .J Bati They loft last night at midnight and will make Post: Arthur, CaS., as their farthefest poirt, They will to k--ne two weoks. f '\Oannda and Minnesota where M"' #mcationist3 pick un m packed automobiles were Filpe Capt D. K. Huatton, Firoman "Buck" McNamara, Frank Klatkow-- ifi.uonho. Lester Talcott, Ed4-- die {flll Trayling, svscretary of the Elites, and Arthurs Malkmstrom. | "m"" & of the banana shortage | ----this young lady is picking som e ; »t the now almost extinet frult in | Lake Thrown and Injured Unlon at Washington, D. C. __ Following Mrs. Violet Fiel Saal's Kight-- Waukegan ; ukegan men are woell 0~ cfi,".h Woods of Wis WILL ALEX BEIN _ -- BE VICTIMOF.NEW MOVE OF GERMANS Announcement ' -- that : Money Held by Residents Is to Be. !*~ Seized May Hit Him. ESTABLISH DICTATORSHIP According to--the cables: everybody will have to take an oath as'to his tholdings of foreign currency and {false returns will be punished severely and 'couflscation ol property will rosult. Curosity was ken amodg 'Wauke-- gan people this morning when they read cablegrams from-- Berlin, Ce:-- many, in which it statéd that a di¢-- tatorship has beon. established in Germany under Gustay Biresemann, the hew chancellor appointed a few weeks ago. te cesc i _ The sgnsationel feating of the dic-- tatorship comes wul'tz'm.eo ment that the dictator is going to se tcure in some way or' another' $100, 000,000 from the sums of foreign money. which German people are hid-- ing through voluntary contributions, Alex Hein, of Waukegan, it-- is re called, 'removed from this city to Germany some time ago, : MHeport has it that he took with him : most of the weslth <which he has accumulated in Waukegan mertcantile circles and hbe has been erecting"a wonderfully 'home there. it is not known here whether 'he has establishd his=rest dence in Germany and has taken oht citizeinship papers as a German rest dent hut the belfef"is such is not the ease. <-- Acordinigly, . there "is © gome doubt, as "to his etact status under the new order issued by the Chance!-- LIBERTYVILLE, LaKE COUNTY, _ Jn shott, It is not known whether he mnzn under the pale. of this order and¢whether he will be sub-- Jected: to confiscation of" propérty and holdings, whether they arés in Germany or back here in Waukegan. The new move of the Chancellor . It has been generally known that the wealth which Mr. Hein has ac-- cumulated in Waukegan, > while <it made him comfortably well off as-- Aa cititen of America, would make 'him many today with the German Mark at the low rate which it his been for some time. . -- _ a . When here Mr. Hein told what things an American doliar could: buy as recalled when-- he mentioned that his~ chauffeur cost him about $3.00 golid a month. % : p1 i 4s The . chancelor: WM vre measure with the ' preaident 'decided that the burden oft his fAnan-- .cial decrees must 'be borne' by tht upper classes. President Ebert point: ed 'out 'that the middlo as well--as the working classes will hardly be affected as thé completo' delination ','fl:u:." reatt w '"'::ncehd own p among the W1 ; a ma-- jority of the smail business mop, and the professional and learned classes. * ¥Finally, it is the chancellor's iaten-- tion to punish saboteurs of the new decrees a la Mussolini. For thoss who swindle the government both in giving up foreign currencles and in the Income tax returns. Herr Strese-- mann will, if forced, announce a do-- cree df total confiscation of property. 'To large floscks of eTal, amoag mmutdlhemf'l'llytogo south (for ~the winter, wore:. seen winging their way to warmer climes at ~sunset' last night by Deputy Game Warden Henary Kern of Wau kegan. This is 'the first time that he ever heard of Teat starting their winter flight in August. it is an inditation that the woeather farther north has become ¢o disagreeable that the m havo: been forced to move, according to him, All wild lifo. presages an early Wwinter, he out. DUCKS START ON -- 'way TO SoUTH says The stock exchange this afternoon was stirred by a rumor that.the death penalty for saboteurs of the qev!.!li- erece was contemplated, <but Herr Stresemann does not intedd to o. so far.' However, e is Aetermincd that sevore punishment must be. moto1 NEW EARTHQUAKE AT MESSINA, ITALY casina, Italy, ~Aug. 22. --Roecurid% carthh tromors«~ thraw | the popula®@g ofessina dato alarm _ today. t «ds teared that thoy Serocast renetal of Rrecent activity by the volcans Mt, Eina. Lake County's Big Weekly -- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN POSSE SURROUNDS HOUSE TO TRAP _ DARING ROBBERS Clarence. W 's e on Grand Ave:gg,e ll_jamod: Frontier times~ _ were ~re--enacted. e@arly Friday when a toore of mon, armed ~with shotguns and revolvers, surrounded. the bome ",u William Neal on OGrand aven near Clar-- ebce Wedgo's dancing pavilion in an effort to capture,. persons who hbad ransacked and robbed the . Wedge home during the night. it WARRANTS TO BE SSUED Sheriff Abistrom and Deputy> D« A.' Weale, received a call at 1 o'clock this. morning that uw,Wod'gc home, which. is located west of the dénce halt, had been robbed., When .they: artived there they found 'the posse of farmers and others. guarding. the Neal: home. . Unusual . noises * had been heard there and it was believed that the robbers had taken refuge there, : s _ It developed, however, that Néal Lvu,dflng a party for about a score of his friends, who were made virtual prisoners by: members of the posse because they were unable to leave 'the house without danger of being mistaken for robbers and shot. _ When the officers arrived Neal's guests easily convinced them that Fnrfuifiii'otihic to do with the robbery,-- all being well known . in the Gurnee and Grayslake neighbor-- while . members.of, the family. were out during the evening,. Mr.. Wedgo H":: at bis :efreshfl:cntsmd n:l: a midnight. . robbery ;. w not disgovered until nearly 1 o'clock when <members +of> thé, family. return« ed home. > They found all the dress-- hoods, and they were permitted return to their homes. s ers: and other> furniture Plan-- Wonderful . Program --of Music for Annual Pioneer The big annual basket picnic and celegration of the Lake County Pio-- nger ----Agricuitural --association .. of Wadsworth will be held at Hickory grou m'a ';t::' worth on Saturday, ugust . 25;; ®! ve enter-- tainments 'are m" including some of the county's best speak-- ersa, music, sports and games. ° B.R OC K W A Y -- TO SPEAK The Philharmonic ~Orchestra ot Zion will furnish the music for & concert from ten in the morhing ur-- ti noon and local talent, both vocai and -- instruméntal . will "intersperse in the orchestra program. h Lewis O. Brockway, county record-- ar, and W.J. Smith, member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, will be the principal speakers. Rev,/F. H.. Nelson of Zlon-- will 'also speak and Charles Hitchcock,. a lalented impersonator, will entertain. Judge Perry I. * Persons, one of the pio neers, will also talk, and violin solos will be played by 'Miss Carey New ton Royal of Zion, . < s MYSTERY AUTO _ OVER 60 FT. BANK ".? Bnlgk"roadltor c{'plbod over & t. cm kment at Wau! Green Bay roads, neat hl.»fl about 2 o'clock Sunday, mornia lAanding on--the North Shore, Mk right of way,/ and the fite or where-- abouts of the nccupants in mystery which officers from that and the sherift's office Are At *#0 solve. Villago Marshal Barney = hagen stated today that the only clus Is m 1921 Chicago liconge number, as the stato license and oxho numbejs hbave been removed and oblherated. The card is almost completely wrock-- ¢d,. . The machinge was atrippod, « nfiocx I8IAND, I1L,, Ang. 2%%-- est Hamiin, bridgo worker for the Rock: Island roaitroad is .probably fatally injurdqg today. as a result of a frictured --skull sustained when a plece of falling timber struck him on the head, on Steal Many Valuables. Association Picnic. ILLIXOIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1923, to a daughter THREATENED TO _ Albert Thiele of Sheridan Road is Held Under $5,000 --© BRANDISHED GJN, CHARGE TN esn i Ahas LX Ls A Andahsant & Innreeited $ tor s andaien aod revolver and a box of 1 then started a rough house. It is al-- so charged that he had the idea that members of his family were trying to ""un him" and that he bhad said. ho "would --get even." -- _ . . $ m-fi. to-- ~Spe¢cial > Assistant Prosecuter H. C.; Coulson, Thiele some ' time ago gave< bhis father & black byo and when asked why he did It, said: "he had it coming to him." Thielse sgerved overseas with the 149th Field Artillery under Lieut. Col. A. V. Btaitk.> 90 0 0 5oc ~: C>:% Freshly thrown mp dirt in the clHicken yard of Charles Seberpuska, of 619 So. Utica street'led Ira Black-- well of the sponge squad .to, investi--, gate and as a result he founrd a bot-- "tle that contained some alleged in-- toricating 'liquor. He was released in bonds of $2000. _ iGFFlClALS G0 ~ TO ELGIN TODAY SPONGE SQUADERS G@ET TWO VICTIMS Hall ot official Waukegan honored Ponstus Gonzales, who wnfif;nnd in' sane in county court yestofday, to-- day. ' Sherift E4 Ablstrom was the driver of the car, and with him were wt Justices of tha Poeacs, Hervey Coulson and Harry Hoyt Gongalos 'wu cha¥ged with having throatoned the life--of another Mexican at, the | Johns-- Manvilie plant recently, . Frank Cuden, of 10th. street and McAlister avenue, was another vic-- tim --of the squad. Their report shows that a gallon of intoxicating liquor wes found there. It was standing by the sink, according to the report. The clerks in the Waukegan Post-- ofiice required to work at distribut-- Idg cases will hereafter be=taken off their feet--the department today is ingtalling rest bars. These are REST BARS FOR _ POSTOEEICE MEN adjustabel seats, which permit the clérks to work in a semi--sitting and semi--standing position. In many in« Stances clerks have been sequired to 'stand beford their : cases~ for ~ An Injunction to cloge the place is alréady before the court, and State's Attorney A. Y¥. Smith is of the opit-- fon that this latest raid will wreck many hours and it proved A gteat strain upon their feet and legs. The rest bars are a great convenience, his Concern felt for Mr. and Mrs, Alex Hein of Waukegan (shown above) who now are living im Germany. . German Chancellor announced Wednesday he assumes dictatorship of country and one of first moves will be to confiscate property of wealthy people to help save Germans from absolute ruin. Will Hein's wealth and property be grabbed, Waukegan friends Dictator May Seize Property B o n d . GLENCOE COP IS + -- ~LATE TUESDAY Tells Local Officer;. He ELVUDES -- THE -- SHERIFF O'Depnuel), : : charged 6'1. & ~ Trled 4 -- 8 _ an M akur c orec. work. . ) "1. 4* -- When the Lake . county . authort ties. arrested Gunthér they were un der the impression that he came here arrest O'Donnell ov.w of his but the -- offi Bm ed 'that he went to the : road job for the so'le purpose: of finding out ift O'Donnell . was. ¢t» ployed; by Contractor ~John Darrow and it found would report back to the local authorities to© makecthe ar-- On: account of the 'delay, through mol.l'm of Gunther, however, O' # bad time to "duck" and is now reported to be at Des Moines, lows. j & If the concrete was not seriously damaged Darrow may drop the ~Not Try to <~Make <Arrest *'Outside of Jurisdiction. ctharges against Gunther. FORDS TO--RACE _ ~AT PIONEER PIC. in addition to a splendid program that has been arranged for the Plo-- neer Association picnic to be held OPEN LAKE BLUFF _ ~ ROAD IN 3 WEEKS at Wadsworth next 'Saturday there has been one more feature listed. Henry Ford will take a prominent part in this feature. Cars made by him will take port in a balf -lh Work:of paving Sheridan road be-- tween North Chicago and Laka Bluff has: been: complted, it was announced today by Charles E. Russe!!, county superintendent of highways, and this section of the road will be opened tor traffic in about three weeks. The contractors are now working on the section ncluded in . the reloca« tion, whete Shoridan road\leaves the race, that will be from: the bridge through the town,. Special geared Fords,: one seaters, two -- séatars, coupes ang touring cars are all elf-- gible. o A ' * 5* °-- A~ communication. received .. from County Judge P. L.. Porsons yesterday stated that he would be.present for certain to make one of the addresses, railroad tracks BIKE RIDERS TO HOLD B1G PICNIC A mototrcycle and bicycle: riders ptenic' and outing will te held . Sat-- arday, -- Adgust 25, at Fourth Lake under the auvsapices of the Higgin-- botham and Douglas company and all imotorcycle and tike ridera are invited to attond and take patt in mcz amanmmtc ccaa & A mototcycle and bicycle: riders . No. woRD ."m i ptenic' and outing will te held Sat-- No word has been P# . C arday, -- Adgust 2%5, at Fourth Lake ecrning Honey Epker, mfll?' under the Aausapices of the Higgin havo "béen arrested at ~3 botham and Douglas company and|Night when RBe arrived. there of all imotorcycle and bike ridera are board the U B. 8. Wilmette. _ 4 invited to altondt and taze patt in| wartant is out tor: hJ ': gin the . activitics. _ Races, games : and that "he passed a..» .,x, al contests will be held .with prizes in payment for an moblle «awarded to the witROr3% --~ _ --!. parchased froth Barrelt . : Burget $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE work in saving the Bradag i cfi n 'other 'nearby coltages on + This is one of the thickly set Dig| tricts "in the 'lake. region' s PROMPT WORK OF FIREMEN SAVES "LARGE DISTRICT &a,ggg' Loss as : Catta --Burns;. Two Damaged but . -- Saved by Fox Lake Dopt. FORD'S ..LOSS$ . IS ©$5,000 One summer cottage was destroyed by fire and' two others were" badly burned while dozens of others in a thickly settléd summer mor}krnloa on the east bank 'of Long lake was visited <by a 'very sarious fire this morning. about 10 o'cBck. A cottage belonging to a man named Ford of Chicago was burned to the ground and most of its con-- tents also were destroyed. 'The loss was about --$5,000. s _On one side of the cottage was the cottage owned by a man named Brad-- agan. This cottage also caught fire and a loss of about $2,000 was. sus-- tained there. One side of the house was burned as well as the roof and some of the furniture was 4dnan§d although most of it wes moved" dut in time. The fire 'started in an unknown manner and spread thguxh the Ford cottage very rapidly. Word was sent to the Fox --Lake fire--depariment and inside ot ~20 minutes ~the deartment was on the grounds and : id good On --the other side of the Ford tot-- tage --was a cottage owned by (the Hoffman family also of Chicago. This cottage was badly burned on one #ide with a loss of about $2,000. Most of the furniture there also was saved work in saving the Bradagan and Moflman cottages as well as prevent ing ~the fire from spreading to the other 'nearby coitages on the lake. This is one of the thickly settled 4is-- tricts "in the 'lake, region' and had there been' a wind blowing there: is no telling how much»damage would have resulted. . ' uhi ue ooo io on on sn Aigit mgiar Aios Abogot two miles of concrete high-- way hbaye already besn. constructed along the Lake shore to theo Wis-- consin statg line. ~It is planned :to continue -- that M(;v':.y" to -- Kenosha to connect with Pa avenue. and kouth along. the lake shose to Wau-- kegan, which will--complete a shore drive connecting. thes: two : cities. . The. North Shore . electri¢--rallroad recently.: announced ..plam# ~to . con-- struct .a large . amusement center . for the purpose of <providing all kinds ot . entertainment, . andthis company has obtained right of way--from its present tracks along Sheridan road to the lake front, through Winthrop Harbor.~ The company: expects to buifld tracks along the lake shore between Waukegan and Kenosha. The Waukegan Athletic club baso ball team is planning. to renew ac-- tivities on the diamond on Sunday against the Highland Park .| Elks team on the Elks home lot in High-- land Park. Russ Broajbear, map» ager of the team, has been nogo* tiating all week for the gam@, and while no arrangements have yet been completed, it is believad the locals will be reccived for the Sunday enfortainment, -- pooady,. * WAUKEGAN A. C.. VS. HIGHLAND PARK _ One week from Sunday, the W. A. C. has a game booked for the local KaA¥his of Lithuania team at W HIGHWAY THRU of Big improvement. I