Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — HAPPENINGS in the CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Wisconsin Now Has a Gretna Green in Waukegan WAUKEGAN, ILL.—“Do yon want to get married?” This Is a salutation common to the earsof couples strolling along the streets of Waukegan. For Waukegan Jias come to he -the-XJretna-Green-forWisconsin. Three hum

died marriages in June Is the record. = Competition for business has become so heated at the Chicago, Milwaukee apd North Shore Electric Railway station that some score of solicitors for the marriage ceremony frequently come near to fisticuffs over the patronage of a couple tnat step off the train, J. P.-ward bound. It seems that the justices of the peace, the doctors and the jewelers all contribute a dollar each to the taxicab , drivers and others who bring the cou-

ples to them. The J. P. unites the pair, the jeweler supplies the ring, and the doctor examines the men from .Wisconsin, who fear a conflict' with the eugenics law of that state. Waukegan ministers are complaining because the civil authorities are taking away their trade, and Waukegan youths are complaining of being accosted on the street at all times when In company with girls by agents of the marriage mart. Meanwhile Wisconsin couples are evading their home state law, which necessitates a five-day notice before marriage. The enterprise of the solicitors may be embarrassing at times, but it is recommended to bashful swains.

Grateful Woman Tips Off Bank Robbers to Police CHICAGO.— One bitterly cold night last February Patrolmen James Coleman and Peter Vernacchi made this entry in the blotter of tlje South Clark street station: “Found woman in doorway. Hungry and almost frozen.

Fed her. Gave her night's lodging.” The other night the telephone bell at the South Clark street station rang and a woman’s voice asked the desk sergeant: “Is Coleman or Vernacchi there?” She was told that Coleman was on a tour of duty. She reached him after two hours’ effort. “Listen,” she said; “you rescued me from certain death last winter. I promised myself to requite you sometime —and I never forget. On June 14 five men tried to hold up the First

State bank at Tolleston, Ind. They didn’t get anything, but they killed Herman W. Uecker, the cashier. I’m going to tell you who they were. She did. And Coleman and Vernacchi, with Patrolman John Lannon and Lie Michael Hughes of the detective bureau, arrested Lee Spiers, 6035 South Morgan street, and James Harry (Red) Parker of 6515 South Fairfield avenue. They made admissions which led to the arrest of Thomas and Albert Batchler,'7ss West Seventy-ninth street; and Daniel and Nicholas Trkulja of Gary, Ind. All’have confessed participation in the attempted bank robbery - Nicholas Trkulja, who had knowledge of it but was not Involved. Batchler admitted he fired the bullet that killed Uecker, when the latter made a motion as if to ring a police alarm. The men fled without obtalninganything. They used Daniel Trkulja’s automobile —a stolen flivver. The - V : have also admitted that, when not robbing saloons and groceries and howng up pedestrians, they engaged in stealing automobiles, specializing in fllvvets. These they would deliver to the Trkulja brothers in Gary, who would sed them. They estimate they stole 20 cars in six months. After the attempted bank holdup Daniel Trkulja, in his role of sympathetic mortician, conveyed the widow of the cashier, Mrs. Herman W. Uecker, and other mourners to the cemetery. Batchler, Parker and Daniel Trkulja were found guilty within 24 hours after confession and will die in the electric chair.

“On That Beach at Waikiki” Romance Never Ceases HONOLULU.— “On that beach at Waikiki” romance never ceases. The latest spell woven by the magic sands enmeshed Paul Stuart Winslow- of Auvergne Lodge, River Forest, 111., and Miss Ruth Anderson of Honolulu.

Winslow met her in February. Moonlight, palm trees, the beach, and the soft strains of Hawaiian music followed. Their engagement is now announced. i -- Winslow met Miss Anderson while he was the guest of her brother at the Anderson home in Honolulu. Both men were officers 'in the same air squadron in France. When the war ended the two men, who were very close friends, planned to visit each other. Lieut. Robert

Alexander Anderson, the girl’s brother, spent a month with Winslow at the latter’s home in River Forest Then they sailed for Hawaii, the beach and romance. . . Winslow stayed three months. Three minutes, he said, was long enough to convince him that he had found the “only girl” there on the beach at Waikiki. Soon he is coming back to Honolulu to be married. The eouple will live in River Forest \ Winslow and Anderson were attached To the Fifty-sixth British squadron. Anderson was shot down over the German lines and made prisoner. He escaped, however, the first American to free himself from a prison camp. Winslow' is credited officially with tw’o planes. His brother is Lieut. Alan Francis Winslow, famous airman, who lost an arm in a 1 battle with a Hun plane. Miss Anderson is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson'. Her mother was born in Hawaii. Her grandfather Is. Alexander Young, famous as an American pioneer in Honolulu. She was educated in Honolulu and San Francisco.

Business and Professional Women Now Organized DENVER.— Miss Lena Phillips, an attorney from New York city, the only honor graduate from the law department of the University of Kentucky that that institution ever had, has been here in the interests of the National

Federation for Business and Professional Women, of which' she is executive secretary. “This is the biggest thing that has ever been launched for the business women of the country,” says Miss Phillips, who started the movement in New York city, where clubs have alreadyfederated. “The movement is spreading all over the country and behind it are some of our most prominent women. The movement was begun last February and has progressed rapidly.

covering nearly the entire country; it is strange that it did not begin before, inasmuch as there are at least 12,000,000 working women in the United States of which at Jeast half are engaged in business or the professions. These form a large army of women who can work together for the promotion of legislative measures which will promote women in business—ope of the great purposes of the federation. It is our object to bring about a solidarity of feeling among women throughout the country, qad to gather and give out information relative to vocational opportunities. We will Publish,a magazine and a series of bulletins which will keep all the wojnen of the United States tn touch with each other, thus broadening their visions.” “As a federation, we ask equal opportunities with the men and equal pay. _ do not ask for the privileges of women and the rights of mem” Miss Phillips, who has traveled in all the larger cities from coast to coast, ’was astounded to find women engaged in occupations which are ordinarily reserved for men.