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F?ATH HALTS THE : USEEFUL WORK OF * DR. JOHN C. FOLEY F County Bd. at mfl'lnflm ! today Named Successor to J. W. Swanbrough. Pr. John C. Foley, for many ad-- pointed assistant supervisor to suc sa John W, Bwanbrough, who died f week. a Y --_ The MJ:' made at A & edhnty board _ Capt. Swanbrough was ¢lected last April for a two year term as assist-- 'ant supervisor of Waukegan town-- OL., APPOINT CONRAD HOLLSTEIN AS ASST. SUPERVISOR --A td it aues® h As Nemaditvaith "the days he taught' school mogey to educate himself present day hbe Had. never ea out of his practice. His en pment from 'Jife came through his fession in which he served the blic for ° 34 years. y Sixty --years ago July . 10, he was in in Kenosha. ~ A short time later .meved to Marengo and from there ."up-."lhmmm"'um-'lwu'-l- torm a wili ..,.mod,byar. Molatein. -- * Mr. Holistein was assistant auper-- yisor for several terms, but he was defeated by a small voto for re--olec ~tion last spring. It was ramored at (hat time that be would contest Wbflmm"&m«n e¥A "mm lowed ~an' extended from pnou-- k MHis clection as assistant sn pers last -- spring created quite * Ecnaatinn. aw hBhe led the ticket strations the health . commie er of the city and the dean=of c county surgeons, 'died Tues in Miami,'Flz., where he had @ a month ago in search of better TO SERVE FOR 15 MONTHS hbad heart had forced temporary oi 3z reurcm&nctt 11om t his -- practice© but 'at no time during his iliness had hbe: given . up hope 'of peturning . in the spring to carry on "the. work that had 'enddared him to bedside,' RT TROUBLE BLAMED mnanied him, is recontllied RDBG | so-- anp | dam @mwmmmfi' s Hermk *A with the remains. mm mith came at 4:15 o'clock. HOD®® | nyeq that h . 'BRe would rally so ho COU | povg "paces, 4. the. trip back to Waukeghn | (;02i,,""* > Reld to the last day. 47 th0] " "Cnoyptiop "Fears Dr. Foley was a~ young | T88 PutPS , 60 'years old, but in the DTSC | norg renge ot medicipe ~and §00587 ., n | that since recomuined s' one . | that . of the county.-- "4% to '& nlllh-.: c 0. c td c m atliit--ap ty t eP x ut may C * wble to complete his educafion Lt Waiteal® in 1890. when hbhe of Lake Co. S n in -w' __Fh-o m" County Tuberculonis SAINO® * a member of the American Med-- Association, a ~director of the ty -- Memorial -- hospital, lilinois ;. Medical o e L oY nlghmul'"fi' ty, ..mmudln- rator of ' the ~Waukegan _and h --Chicago Chamber of Com-- e, an organizer of the Lake ty Clinfc, and one of the back of the Hattie Barwell Goodfel ita the fact that he bad been 'u fl rly day hc?t:h':.! 4 . ; aoamty, nl in that capacity on Vacation. LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT yYears MHollistein : today =was ap xo. 4.-- SECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUXNTY, teo M'l'l-.r'-;l Had never The suit w . _His .._WM\ hrough his | Rocher, of 9 served ".gu.m Attorney 1 10. he was |since the a TED MODRPREY IS PROMOTED AGAIN "Red" . Murphy, former managetr Of the five and ten cent store in Wauk for a number.of yearsk and lfi" transferred from here [;. . te, Ind., three YeAars Ago as a deseryed promotion, has <Just store and a Dbigger Cuy,. AAZ, SEME~ phey is forgidg abead in fine shape. He and his wile left last week for $25,000 DAMAGE l SUIT BY ACTOR AGAINST ORPHEUM Anard. dihco is Pdcatbie i IL FCR 1 He and his wife left last week their new : home. They are: known and havye magy, friends Waukegan. * x Singer--Charges He Was Hit on Head With lron Bar and Can't--Sing Any More. SUES MRS. ANNA HEYMAN '&.Homi. owner "arm:lf Orphoum theatre, Waukegan, leged that he sustained injuries which have necessitated his giving up his in rning sh hiy att at the Orphoum was on at omw':.'amw fell upon his w.mh;u-wmm that since . then his voice has been affected and he compelied him to givre up his part in the act. He was a sing-- er in French, Spanish and Italian. . The suit was filed in circulit court, Waukegay, by Attorney Louis J. Du Rocher, of 904 Woods Theatre Build-- ing, Chicago. . -- "' Attorney Du Rocher declared that since _the 'accident --Chevalier's part in 'the act which his client put on here has been. a fallure because of the actor's injury, > M HEALTH SITUATION . -- INLAKE C0. NOW _ One Case of lnhmlom« sis and 7 Cases of Fever in Week. MUCH P NEUV M O N | A LAke County reported one ol the two cases of Infantile Patalysis in -mmw'unomudo- partment of c Health at Spring: feld during the last week. Cook couwn-- ty reported the other case. Lake county reported seven of the 334. new cases of scarlet fever reported from the entire state. * 'These Agures show an apparent improvement in the health situation of the county, For a time. Lake County led practically all counties in m-&uwuhtuucom.otCook in the number of new cases of scar-- let fever and diphtheria cases. 'The [muwmu-otmm- ed as sufficiently bad to cause any The following _ dispatch from mnuou tells of the health sjtua-- . throughout the --state : Bpringfeld, I!l1., Jan. 23.--=The se vere Janzary weather has struck Iili-- wois citizens in the chest, judging from the weekly report of the state department of public hehith, The re port showed 368 new cases of pneu-- monia in the state last week, mak-- ing the discase the most prevalent of the serious contageous disoases. Chicago had 257 of the pneumonia Searlet fover continued to be wide ly prevalent in the state during the week, 334 cases being reported. Of these Cook county hbad 189, Adams esunty 12%, Kane county 1%, LaSalie county 10, Lake county 7. McDon-- ough county 5, Macon county 14, Ma-- goupin county 6, Madison county 7, Peoria county 5, St. Clair county 5; Tazewell county 5. Two hundred twenty--one cases of diphtheria were reported during the week, of which Cook county had 133. Thirty--stx cases of--typhoid fever, largely in Chicago, wore reported. Twoenty--two cases of influenta, 16 of thém in Chicago, were among the cases montlioned. Measies continued to be the moa' "popular'" disgase in the state, 5 Mrs. a Carney, 87 years old, ded T at her home in Antioch where sh6 had dived for many years. Her husband died seven years AgO. Two daughters, five sons and a si¥ ter, Mrs. Frank Roggin of Antioch, are in the immediate family. The fun-- eral services will be held Thursday morning at 10:80 o'clock at the An-- toch charch with burial in Mill Crgek cases occuring, Tuberculosis cases numbered 241, whooping cough,-- 144, gonorrhea, 369, and syphilis 256, comatery ew: home. : They: are:> #ell and have many friends in ANTIOCH PIONEER DiEks ~ vaudeville years AKO.| to havo and a #i¥--] obsserve t Antioch,| . Eigin, y. The fun--| They Sorirey at Mill Crgek]L am, ; > sAnamamign. DATES FOR FAR PLEASE COUNTY Gives Opportunity for an Out-- : ng Over the Week End of > _ <~~ Aabor Day, _ _ _s 'SUCCESSFUL LAST YEAR * With the®announcement from the officials of the Lake County Fair as-- mmtthnuflwu will be held on the wooek over Labor day comes the yvoice of approy-- al from s number of residents who found the fair of last year A real outing for the fall holiday. Fear last year that the fair would eut into a number of festivities that are usually hold on that date were disrupted when it was Tornd that the Mrmuavcnthom!lfl'"" ;lcmmqmvwmtm e. se«" Those who exrpressed an opinion today declared that the dates select-- ed would probably meet with county wide approval in view of the success of the one last year on the same The automobile race feature for the Sunday program was such a suc-- cess last year that it will bo repeat-- ed on even a greater stale this year, while the card of horse races prom-- ises to bring the best horses in this ncuonolthoeo-ntrytothowlro. The addition of a fancy horse show will be a feature that will appeal to a certain class of fair lovers,. This is the first time that the horse show has CHICAGOAN ASKS sociation. WANTS Zion, Great Lakes and Elgin radio stations aro requéited by. a Chica-- goan to observe the "silent night,' each Monday, that is observed by Chi-- cago stations, according to an artt cle appearing in a Chicago paper Fri-- --A number of Waukegan and North Chicago -- residents believe the a: only night to prow! for h"u:m stattons it is almost impossible to get through the three stationhs mention-- ed, especially Zion. While owners of big sets will ap prove of it those with smaller orystal outfits might be just as loud in de-- tending the three plants. The article is as follows: \ Dear Sir;: Why not start a movs to havo the following radio stations observa "dlleont Monday" nights? KEigin, Zion City and Great Lakes. ~They r." ®amenace to Chicago ra dio on Monday l':o' 1 ipfltm why this can not be done. 1 am, yours most truly, I -- ---- PR. HARRY* KLINK, r. ; Harry Klink Says Zion Great Lakes and Elgin Ruin been attempted by the fair as OHDEAR *or messe hey RAMK. _ nwe's Been Booisogma ---- FOR 3 STATIONS io Lake County's Big Week!y _ WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN «MONDAY ABOUT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR TLLINOTIS, THURSDAY, _ JANUARY 24, 192%4. " rron Te Governmerd, WELL WELL. # NY JORH is GeT Ting ALBERT ROSENBUSH TRIAJ THURSDAY operating . a conlidence _ samw", _ 26 scheduled to start tomorrow in Cir-- court. . It is charged that Ros-- &-u-u.-. check ho had THOMPSON DECLARES PEOPLE IGNORANT OF TAX MATTERS MUST WATCH SPENDING typical American community would vote to pave its streets with sterling silver, providing the expénse be pald t':'y the !'odera:l tre:'lu;x." --Charles . Thompson, dean of the Uuy-fi of Hlinois, declared today in an dress before the Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce. In bis talk the dean laid down nine other axioms of taxation, as follows: _' «> _ .: The trial of Albert Rosenbush, _ "t Every dollar paid out of the public treasury: must come from the pockets of tha people. _ . c al kedromcns %.2 Lk _ _"$ \Every doliar borrowed for pub-- lic expenditure sooner or later must be pald by the people. . . ~ -- -- . "3 The amount of .tax money raised is of less importance than the way in which it is spent. s "&4 Generally speaking, the people of the community as a whole are not Interasted in taxation. They are con-- cerned only Ansofar as they are mem-- bers of particular groups of hun!?. --_*"§ 'Too often those who ery the toudest for tax reduction sre the vory ones who are seeking fAnancial aid from the government. "& The -- taration problem can never be solred with any satisfaction as long as It is a vehicle on which no.; :"Tl:" ride m:' om?.' + "I . mere fact tha Ox-- penditures have fallien bdo'.'g'llfll is no argument that they swhould not be foreed to fall still low@r,-- _ _ "# The total tax burden of any community is less important than the way in which it is spent. > > "9 'The pressat mothods of assose-- l:wnrly aro, gonerally speaking, te, unfair, and vicions."" SCARLET FEVER _ FATAL TO GIRL fould . Pavae With Silver. if Federal Taxes Paid for !t, 'Thompson Claims. (u'm rlomca"!au:_a':.d 20 yoars om'. 0 wotth, ay m a mlfio County General nom of «darlet fever. She was the danghter of Mrt. xl Mrs, Walteor Lucas, Be-- cidos parents there are three brothers, Harold, Lester and Charles, Tha fumeral:> gervices were helid Iofll; afternoon from the home at 1:30 o'clock with burlal in Millburn | cemeterp ® P Kansas City Mo., Jan.r_g.-:l:!_n, mc\ j + of of game, * On ThAT ? BOOZE AT LAKE -- _ FOREST PROM |_ OUSTS STUDENTS Fourteen ~empty . flasks _ found strewn about the. premises 'after the annual junior promenade in the Lake Fosest University Art Institute last ¥Friday night hbhave an-- aac: expose of wfl% m:a for ten weeks for participa tion in the alcoholic revel that sup j the baill and other suspen« m the student --countil are Other Suspensions to. Follow STUDENT COUNCIL-- ACTS anticipated. c President M'lvm"r An investigation _ of "prom" revelry was initiated when Presi-- ront Robert 8. Moore of the univer-- sity Admihbistration staff bitterly re-- proached the students in an address ::'. the chapel services Monday morn-- "Fourteen flasks were found in the milding after the promenade," said Dr. Moore. "It is a disgrace to the school and the cause of grief to the honorable students, faculty members .. ~Student Counci! Acts | PDr. Moore in conclusion nmtt«fi that the student council immediately Investigato the affair. xt Et body, consisting of _ Miss Jelnuette Schultsz, George Bissey, John Woodman, Dwight Shire and Willlam Hart, instituted an inquiry at once. KYesterday, after announcing the suspension of one student, the coun: cil Indicated its investigation . had only begun. Inasmuch as the stu-- dent disciplined had been so Te: pentant and pledged that he would never again use intoxicating liquors, the council agrééd (to concéal his and myself, for wo have always prided ourselves that wo were dig-- tinctive from other universities in this respect. identity. ANOTHER MILK _ STRIKE AVERTED BY BUNDESEN Further Inquiry After Find-- m-u%m Another milk strike was ed Tusuday afternoon when Ch dafte-- tributors ander pressure from Health Commissioner Horman _ Bundeson, wittdrow their demand that farmers in the adjacent country engage upon twelve months delivery contracts, Only minor points, untouched in re-- gont arbitrations of their quarrels, ro-- main to be settled, and, according to officials of both dealers' and produc-- ofs' associations, peace is assured un-- til the prosont agreement expires on April 1, at least. s "Can't something be devised to take the place of cup eustard for a chaser to fried onlons," asks Oswald Tanneor. Bobbed . 'r girls are finding out it is not the original cost but the up» keep that counts. * WAp] of tE 1 WiSsh JHN WOULO HurRy AONE AND ~ Reueve Ts SuSPense * In QOH Dear / marrlaga. he "l hesitates is TURKISH JAZZ TO BF HEARD HERE Turkish jazz and other wierd music of the Ottoman Empire and Arabic strains will be heard by Wau kegan.and Lake county radio tans Thursday night, beginning at 10 o'clock.. The Medinah Temple band, which has never before been heard outside of the temple will broadcast a special program at that time from Station WJAZ, the Zenith Edgwater Beach hotel, Chicago. DRAINAGE CANAL _ FOR LAKE COUNTY Bill Provides $82,000,000 River Project to Keep Sew-- age Out of Lake Michigan. BOOSTERS HERE TODAY Senator Brookhart (Rep., Ia.) intro-- duced in the senate today a. bill pro-- viding for the creation Of . a ninland waterways corporation to supervise water transportation developments and "directing the secretary of war to complete at an expense not to exceed $32,000,000 with tive years, the water-- way projects in the Mississippl, it nois, and Ohio rivers. ~ This huge project is also intended to take care of the sewage disposal problem of Waukegap and other North Shore towns in Lake county, Two re-- presentatives, Alva G. Wood and J. O. Sanders, of the Chicago Sanitary District board, were is Waukegan-- to-- day to interest members of the city council, the Rotary club, the Cham-- ber of Commerce, health department officials, and heads of large factories in the project. & y oo Provides Many improvements _ ; The bill calls for completion, in ac»-- gordance with plans approved by the thiet of engineers, of the following projects: ® § Improvement of the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo by construction of locks or dams with a view to seour-- ing a navigable depth of nine feet. . Improvement of --the )lluhfig'; tfrom the mouth of the Ohio river the noirthern boundary of gt.. Louts with a view to providing a permanent Th 4 & W --nine feet and--a m of 300 feet. ' P To Mouth of Iilingis Improvement of the Mississippl riv-- m BL"L&m t:; mouth of the Iili« er w a view, to m'lll'.. & permanent navigable channel minimum depth--of nine feet fi & minimum width of 200 feet, & reasonable add'tional width around bends. Improvement of the Iilinols fruin the terminus of the Illinois waterway or near Utica, ML., to its contluence with the Missigssippi river with a view to provi"1g a permanent navigable channe! with a minitmhum depth. of nine feet and a minimum width of 200 feet, o. t / 5y m Improvement of the Mississippl riv-- er from the mouth of the Illinois riv-- er to Minneapolis, with a view to pro-- viding a permanent navigable channel with a minimum depth of six feet and a minimum width of 200 feet. ------ Improvement of Missour| Improvement of Missouri river from Its outh to the upper end of Quin-- d4aro bend, with a view to providing a permanent navigable channel with & minimum depth of six feet and a minimuim width of 200 feet. © -- © _ The improvements _ authorized shall be based upon a withdrawal of not exceedin'g 10,000 cubic feet of wa-- ter per second from Lake Michigan through the main channel sf the sant-- THREE KILLED ! AS A BIG LOCOMO-- . TIVE EXPLODES ENGINE BADLY WRECKED Aliquippa, Pa.. Jan. 23.--Three per-- wons, Including the freman and eng+ neer, were killed when the locomo-- .gvo on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie number 17, enroute from Pitts-- burgh to Cleveland, blew up 500 yards west to the station here today. The dead: oo k (.I:Grl-; _ Clark, of McKees Rocks, engineer. oo w 2 0 _--Irvin Kuechler, of Pittsburgh, fre man. M g C foreman of engines. The force of the explosion lifted the locomotive 100 yards off the rails, and l"I'en 1t ;. -'t'nu of wrockage, In the yards of t ones lin Steel plant, bordering g fi According to a statement made by oficials of the Pittsburgh and Lake Rrie Rallroad, two hours after the accident, no coaches left the rails and no passongers werds Injured. They said a probe would be started immediately to determina the cause of the explosion, f The train was picked up by anoth» etr locomotive and continued . to Cleveland. Polics reports herse im inediately lanor the accident placed a'.fid at es o uns w i Shuck IN BIG PROGRAM (Turn to page three) $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE 12,000 VOLTS ELECTROCUTE 6. E. BARNES, 31 PLANT DAMAGED BY FLASH G. E. Barnes electrical engineer at the Public Service plant in Wauke-- gan was electrocuted Tuesday night when a fliash over occurred on a 12,000 volt bus. He came in con:-- tact with the electrical fame. and was> burned horribly, Considerable damage was done to the plant as well. The un!orgmata accident oc-- curred about 7.30 and Barnes was rushed to Victory Memorial hospita), where he died at 10.40 o'clock. Service Plant Meets Horrible Death Tuesday: Night. Mr. Barnes was 31 years old and had lived in Waukegan about six months, his residence being at 611 North Genesee street. He was elec-- trician at the new plant, and the ac»-- cident occurred at Station No. 6. He had been in the employ of the Public Service company 14 years, and came to Waukegan from Joliet, where he was--system operator. Prior to that he was employed for several years at the Morris, NIL., plant. -- -- ~~He leaves a wife and five months old daughter, his mother, Mrs. David C. Fraser, one brother, L. A. Barnes, a step brother, David C. Fraser, Jr. all of Joliet, and a sister, Mrs, Wal-- ter Hodgson, in New Zealand. _ The exact manner in which Barnes recelved his fatal injuries cannot. be determined, but it is believed that he was making some repairs at a switch, when a short circuit occurred and he was caught in the arc of flame.. This 'would account for the fact that the, clothing was almost eompletely burned from the body, and alsofor the severe fiesh burns. 1t would--also--account ~for the--fact that he lived so long after the acci-- dent, because if he had been electro-- cuted by a charge of 12,000 volts of electricity death would have been in« We M hewrch'wad t Aurs ie . The inquest was held at the Wetzel ;-"M' fungral home this morna-- 'At the inquest it developed that the short cirguit which resulted Barnes' death was so intense that it melted a three inch cable. He never was opening an oll swilcu. Mr. Barnes, A. Flint, his assistant, and D. L. Jasinskey, the engineer in zon wrant into the Diknt Lt the esd .OE MBE . e NC P ue same time. -- Barnes made -- the statement that he would . investi-- gate an oil leak. A few minutes lat-- er the two other men saw & terrific flash. The electrical flame shot 23 feet high in the switchboard galléry. They rushed to the scene and found PUBLIC SERVICE . _ CQ. LOSES $46,000 _ ON HEAT SERVICE Asks REPLACEMENTS _ NEEDED Commerce Commission to Discontinue It. (TUEN TO PAGE FIVE) consclousness. service in Wauke at Public of lIllinois "¥% : &1 3 4% §# e #% /4 f AF E'L': "Tep 2