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ginning rentals have been exorbitant They constitute an average of 20 to 40 per cent of the wages of the work 'ers. They compel the business man to increase the selling price of his goods. As a consequence, the cost of living has always been greater in Gary than in any of the surrounding towns. This burden has to be borne by the consumers; the people pay the bills. It is a hardship that, in view of the wages earned, the workers should not bewailed on to bear. Other articles on "high, rents will follow this." Dr. Smith looks quizzical and talks quizzical with the slow Hoosier drawl of a Whitcomb Riley poem. In his July 15 Republican he quoted E. H. Gary, chairman director Steel Trust: "To employers of labor I would say: Treat your men right; treat them justly and liberally." To which Doc Smith answers: "Air. Gary, the people of the city that bears your name would like to know if the wages paid in the steel plant are in just proportion to the earnings of the plant? Are the rent als required within the limits of a fair and just profit on the money in vested in lots and buildings by your subsidiary, the Gary Land Co.?" Interviews with the mayor of Gary, workmen, lawyers and saloonkeep ers will follow-in The Day Book. FIRST DEATH IN NEW YORK CAR LINE STRIKE New York, July 28. The strike which has tied up surface cars in. the Bronx and West Chester county and' which threatens to extend through out Manhatton claimed its first life early today. When brakes on a car at 177th and Leston road failed to work for some unknown reason and the car and a trailer plunged down hill and were splintered against a subway pillar, Motorman E. Horn, strikebreaker, was Instantly killed and two plain clothes men and an other strikebreaker were seriously injured. SAY EVIDENCE MAKES IT LOOK BAD FOR ROY HINDERLITER Olney, III., July 28. Over the trail that led to the death of'Elizabeth Radcliffe, 17-year-old girl, bits of ev idence are being gathered that will fasten the "air bubble" murder on Roy Hinderliter, wealthy farmer boy, according to State's Atfy H. G. Mor ris, who believes he has evidence showing the boy had a well-laid plan to carry out a fake-physician opera tion on the girl. Evidence has been discovered that leads to the belief that the girl was lured on the buggy ride last Friday night that resulted in her death un der the pretext that she would be op erated on by two physicians and thus relieved of her terror because of the fact that she was about to become a mother. The "tryst letter" was burned up by Elizabeth, but on the morning she received it she told her sister-in-law of her trouble and added the signifi cant statement that "she would soon be out of it" Two boys who are said to have done corfslderable talking In a brag ging spirit may be arrested as the ones who were to pose as "fake" doc tors and carry out the abortion oper ation, but lost their courage. o o MAY IMPRISON IRISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT London, July 28. Laurence Gin nell, the Irish nationalist member of parliament who yesterday was the storm center in an uproar In house of commons, was today offered his choice of a fine of one hundred pounds or six weeks' imprisonment, following conviction of false repre sentations on which he obtained ad mission to the Knutsford Barracks. The charge was lodged against the Irish member of parliament several weeks ago. Irish prisoners captured In the hunting down of the Dublin re volt were quartered at the barracks. Ginnell was remanded awaiting his choice of the two alternatives. - --