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VOL. XIV. NO. 135.
AVE DXES I ) A V, NO VEMBEli 21, 1920.
IIAMMOND, INDIANA
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JOHN BULL
INDICTED BY
FRENCHMEN
Statesmen Point Out Drift to
Estrangement Between
Two
TX&ZS, Xo. 24. Despite r-astjr1n
j official statement from both sides
i AEj-lo-Franeh relations are again
"trained to a degree unequalled sine
the war, and lead la r French, states
I man nd writer are making a at
' tempt to conoeal their feelings to
ward the English, government.
" The three chief taaaea la the
estrangement of the two countriaa
- aire Oermaa Indemnity, the allied at
tttnda toward soviet Russia and the
disposition of Turkish territory
PorTCAAE PROTECTS.
Former Praaldant Polncara. In a
pea latter, declares that If Ensland
atlnas to nrge France to further
rerlsleas of the treaty of Versailles In
favor of Germany England herself
e herald re tarn the surrendered Ger
man fleet and the former German
colonies.
M- Foi scare's letter was addressed
to an English editor who had asked
him to use his Influence to obtain for
Germany an amelioration of tha treaty
terms. The former president charges
that tha English are taking- advantage
of the election result in America and
American opposition to the league of
nations to ask France to yield on soma
of the principal points of the treaty.
DIVERGENCE WIDE'.
Raymond Recouly. author and friend
or Marshal Foch. also indicts England.
The gravest fact, he says. Is that the
divergence between tha two leading
allied powers haa been growing wider
during the past few month.
M. Reeouly recall that England,
aided by President Wilson, blocked
France's plan for a military frontier
cn the Rhine and substituted tha
Anglo - Franco - American defensive
treaty which proved worthless because
the U. S. never ratified It. Then charges
M. Recouly over the protests of ex
Premier Clercenceau. President "Wilson
and Premier Lloyd George forced a
plebiscite In upper Silesia Instead of
attributing the territory to Poland.
DISCARD FRETfOH IXFXrECE.
"England didn't send a single soldier
to maintain order In the plebiscite
sone," says M. Recouly. "This task
was assumed by a French division aid
ed by a small contingent of Italians.
In Syria British agents and officers
have done everything possible to make
the French mission more difficult. At
Constantinople the English reign su
preme. They have organized a govern
ment of puppets and pull the strings.
Everything that la suspected of favor
ing French Influence is discarded."
Both the Matin and Echo de Parts
have printed bitter attacks against
Premier Lloyd-George. Several promi
nent French journals have showed
spirit of retaliation by supporting the
is inn Fein cause.
STICK BAN
The leaping dominoes are under the
'ban in Gary, along with the all-night
cabarets, the pale mule and other
manifestations of the sportive gentry.
Since the war tha bones have been
in great favor In the bessemer and
open hearth town. Several professional
games having the usual green sward.
Held and "come" green of the African
golf links, became established and
wero more popular than the poker
game In progress at the other corner
of the room. In addition there were a
number of Saturday night and "pay
day" games.
One business man conducted a quiet
little game In the basement of his
store and serving numerous and sundry
libations of hard liquor at the preval
ent unpopular prices.
Craps have become more or less ac
cepted in the city. A favorite topic
among the young bloods at dinner in
the restaurants is the winnings and
losses. Employes of the mills nave
lost entire pay checks in a few passes
of the dice.
While the majority of the games be
gin with $1 passes, it is not uncom
mon to see $20 and $50 faded by an
individual. This is expensive pastlm
lng and Chief of Police Forbls has
called a halt. The galloping ivories
have been laid away. The chief found
that crap snooting made criminals.
Tha prevent gambling the chief haa
ordered tsrlct enforcement of the mid
night closing order. Markus Maram
gus and Steve Chrlstler were arrested
last night for-keeping their respective
poolrooms open after hours.
KAISERIN TAKES
TURN FOR WORSE
Special Dispatch to the International
Service and the London
Dally Expreos
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 24. The former
kalserln of Germany, who is ill of a
heart ailment at Doom, took a turn
for the worse today and was reported
much weaker.
The former German crown prince
was summoned to his mother's bedside-
for tha second time within a
wlie,
ON LEAPING
DOMINOES
FIRE DEPT.
COMPLETELY
MOTORIZED
Today's Hammond fire lighting equip
ment is completely motorized. The new
Ahrens-Fox, hose truck and pumper was
given its tryout this morning and city
officials gave it their approval.
The bhg truck, which Is the largest
owned by the Hammond Fire Department
was first taken to the bridge on Lake
George, blvd., for a demonstration. "Wa
ter was taken from the lake for the first
test.. Two lines of hose were first at
tached to a single large nozzle by Chief
Kill's men. The big pump was start
ed and an Instant later a perfect de
luge of water was being hurled far out
Into th lake.
The stream from tha single nozzle
had a range of over too feet from the
place where the men operating It were
standing. Directed straight up Into
tha air It hurled tha water to a height
greater than that of Hammond's high
est business block.
Next the pumper waa hooked to two
separata lines with smaller sized nor
sles. The same range was demonstrat
ed although more water was being
thrown than from the single large pipe.
At no time was tha machine running
near Its full capacity. It can handle
900 gallons a minute eighteen barrels
through four lines of hose.
The machine was then taken to High
land St.. near the Industrial high school.
It was feared that the low pressure In
the mains In this district would not
furnish sufficient water to keep the
pump going. However, with, two lines
of hose the suction pulled the main
pressure down to ten pounds showing
that sufficient water Is being delivered
there to combat tha ordinary fires.
John P. Ahrens. vice president of the
Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Co., was pres
ent and supervised the demonstration.
Chief Nlll. Mayor Brown, members of
the Board of Safety and other city of
ficials were present and were delight
ed with the exhibition. Representatives
of tha East Chicago. Whiting and Crown
Point flra departments wer also on
hand and tha opinion was generally ax
pressed that Hammond now owns the
finest piece of Are fighting equipment
In tha Calumet region.
The new truck wllj bo kept at the Cen
tral Station to answer ail fire calls while
tha older na ot smaller capacity will
be transferred to th ICo. 4 station on
South Caumet avenue to replace the old
team angina.
T THIEVES
STEAL 80 HENS
ON EAST SIDE
Chicken thieves brought sadness into
four homes In one neighborhood of
Hammond last night. Early this morn
ing In rapid succession four tales of
woe came over the telephone to the "po
lice station. .
The first call came from Joe Trlnkl,
94S Calumet avenue. He had Just vis
ited his coop and found thirty of his
barred and white Plymouth Rocks and
Rhode Island Reds gone.
Gust. Newell. 541 Lyons St., was the
next complain tant. He was short 20
chickens and 10 pigeons.
Officer Carlson was sent to investi
gate and while he was gone two more
calls were received and referred to him
as they were all in the same neighbor
hood. They were O. E. Hart, 657 Ly
onst St., and W. Marling, 575 Lyons at.
Hart had lost twenty-two chickens and
Martlng reported twelve stolen.
In all the thieves carried away eighty
four chickens and ten pigeons. They
had evidently spotted the coops in ad
vance and had come with a wagon and
plenty of coops ready to make a clean
sweep. They had worked quietly so
that the householders were not aware
of their visits until this morning. Po
lice have sent warnings to surround
ing cities and through meagre clues,
which were picked up, they hope to be
able to land the thieves.
KILLED BY
ELECTRICITY
William Cardwell of 2901 E. 91st St..
South Chicago, was electrocuted this
morning at the plant of the Mark Man
ufacturing company, Indiana Harbor.
The accident happened shortly after 8
o'clock, about one hour after Cardwell
had started to work. From statements
made by officials of the company, the
dead man had been working on some
switches at the power house and it is
believed that his hand came in contact
with a hot wire.
The decedent had been employed at
the plant for nearly four years and he
was considered a very careful worker.
He was married about a year ago, and
his widow ar.d one child survive.
SHOCKING CONDITIONS
APPEAR IN CHINA
NEW YORK, Nov. 24. One million
Chinese in the famine ridden province
of Northern China are doomed to death
before organised relief can reach them,
according to advices received from
Shanghai today by the board of for
eign missions of the Methodist Episco
pal church. Canlballsm haa broken
out. The Chinese government lias de
creed the death penalty for any ofaelal
guilty of graft during the famine
period.
HIGH
NOTICE
On account of the Thanksgiving Day
holiday, The Times will not be issued
tomorrow.
REFORMERS
INSTITUTE
NEW MOVE
Nation-wide Campaign Be
gun to Make Country
Dead Still on Sundays
(INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 4. Having made
the V. S. bone dry theoretically at
least reformers are now busy planning
to make the country dead on Sundays,
according to an article In the New Tork
Sun. conspicuously displayed on its
first page this afternoon.
STOP SFOSTS AND PICTTJK.IS
The paper claims to have information
that organisations similar to the Anti
Saloon league have set afoot a nation
wide campaign to put over another con
stitutional amendment that would make
Sunday a day exclusively devoted to
rest, thought, worship and prayer.
Strict laws sought by these reformers
would rob the Sabbath.' among other
things, of:
Outdoor sports, moving pictures, bus
iness of any description, newspapers,
train service, sale of gasoline.
oaaAwixruo is staxtxd
The movers of this plan, according to
the Sun. already have organized the
country into districts, and ere energet
ically pushing legislation, starting with
the ban on movies and sports on Sun
days. The South is said to have already or
ganized under the direction of L. Coch
rane, leader of the Lord's Day Alliance,
whose headquarters are in New Tork.
In South Carolina the Alliance Is work
ing In close co-operation with the Antl
Saloon League, headed by Supt. R. L.
Davis. Dr. Harry L. Bowlby. national
secretary of the alliance, is quoted by
the Sun as confirming the organization's
reported plans.
PAMURST
ASKS WHERE
IS THE HOME?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK, Nor. 24. "The nation
ought to realize it is slipping off the
old foundations the Individual homos
and homestead such as we had in Ne'
England upon which our civilization
and greatness has been built," said Dr.
Charles H. 'Parkhurst, New York's
foremost minister, in a Thanksgiving
message obtained today by the Inter
national News Service
"Originally Thanksgiving Day was
a domestic affair, a celebration in the
home." Dr. Parkhurst said, "I look
back 60 years I am 78 and I realize
that the greatest Influence upon my
Ufa has been that of my boyhood home
a house where every room had a
history, and where all had opportunity
to develop Individuality in an atmos
phere of simplicity, integrity and
moral earnestness.
"That sort of influence lias given its
color to our national life and I am
thankful and wo all ought to be thank
ful for it. It is still a power in Amer
ica. It constitutes an ideal based on
the home.
"But in our massing of people In
cities where Individual homes in the
old sense have become an Impossibility,
where people live stacked on top of
one another in apartments or cramped
side beside one another in houses
which all look alike," where children
have only pavements to play upon,
where the young are Influenced by
flashily dressed and heavily frescoed
women it is impossible to have the
kind of homes upon which we have
drawn for the best that has come In: o
our national life.
"Why, In Philadelphia, there are
rows of houses which look So mucn
alike even the dogs seek the wrong
doorsteps.
"This congestion of life, artificiality
and lack of nature is beginning to
have its Influence upon the country's
morale the thing is spreading.
"Shoals of women are seen on the
streets unfit to be mothers. Yet they
do become mothers, and what are tneir
ohlldren like? I recently asked a wom
an how her daughter was progressing.
She replied, 'Oh, I am too busy to
bother about her.' Her business con
sisted in social affairs.
"We cannot develop the right kind
of young manhood or young woman
hood under congesty conditions."
TWO GIRLS
ARE KILLED
SCMSnTVILLE. Ind., Nov. '23. Edna
Hollingsworth, 21, and Flossie Russell,
16. were almost Instantly killed hero)
today when they were run down by aj
freight car making a nying- switch.
The girls, walking across the Big Four
right of way. arrarently did not hear
the approaching car. '
STEAL $50,000
WORTH OF BOOZE
CHICAGO. Nov. 2. 'Whiskey and
wine valued at $50,000 was? stolen by
''quor thieves who over-wered the
watchman of Hirders warehouse, on
the south side ear v today. Five truck
leads of liquor were taken. '
. -
DESTRUCTION I
I S I"" t"a lfa IP" sfc 1 B i
DENOUNCED T
Widespread Criticism of
Dictation That Presumes
to Coerce Patrons of
Stores in Their Shopping
Freedom.
Enlightened as to the fact that there
is no strike In Hammond as far as th:
department stores are concern d be
cause many of the clerks involved did
not go out and because fully 5"c t
the store employes have been back at
work for sometime and because many
of the pickets now patrolling thu
streets were never employed In the
stores has convinced the gvneral pub
lic that the situation la vastly differ
ent to what they had been lead to ex
pect. The articles In these columns
on the wages, hours and working con
ditions have, it is pointed out. knocked
the props out from under many of the
arguments and propaganda emphasiz
ed by the so-called strike leaders.
Public sympathy is net generally with
these leaders because it feels that the
situation should have been cleared up
long ago.
ACT WIDELY DtOl(FD.
Sharp condemnation, condemnation
that Is almost city wide Is voiced at
the tactics employed to Intimidate the
department stores in the destruction
brought about In the smashing of plate
glass windows In one of the affected
stores. The stones hurled through
the windows went wide of their mark
because the owner of the property
will have to repair the damages u
not the department store. Every
business man and lover of Hammond
no matter in what station of life who
haa been interviewed by Times report
ers on the window-smashing has teen
unsparing In denouncing the wanton
and unlawful act. "Such cowardly
and uncalled for acts," declared one
man "do more than anything else t3
lessen the faith of law abiding people
in union labor. If the property was
destroyed by sympathizers with the
pickets it hurts their caiiai Inestimab
ly and their friends slu-'d b Ihe first
to ferret out the guTity and punish
them. Other acts of violence and
coercion have been committed. The
affected department stores have been
placarded with stickers announcing
what it Is asserted a wholly untrue
statement, namely, that the stores are
unfair to organized labor. The ob
noxious and vile stink bomb, another
infernal weapon of strike sympathy,
has been used against one of the
stores.
HOW EAR WILL THEY f.O!
Another solid and substantial citl
sen only interested in the welfare of
Hammond bitterly criticized the
smashing of the windows and asked,
"Where is It to end, this destruction
of property, how far will these mis
creants go in their attacks, what may
we not expect next and will they stoa
at the destruction of property?-'
Thrtre is m question buc that tr.e
real sentiment of the people has been
brought out by the smaahir. f the
drv:tnient stori windows cnl they
are net slow in fixing the Mara for
he I'ltuatlon. Reporters who !,,ivo
trve1 I'eatf ovqr the cltv hue n'l
found a (rgle nerson to n prov
this latest phase of the boycott and
soma of them go a long way In ad
vocating ways ;.id means to n 'nat.
there is no further rcurr;r-o of mi h
acts or any other deeds ul Violence
that mlcrht follow them.
PEOPLE AJIE TIMED OF IT.
In fact citizens are Joining in a pro
test against a continuance of the
striking, picketing and boycott witn
its attendant evils. People are tired of
being hindered in their desires to shop
where they want, they are tired of be
ing molested on the streets and jostlt
ed by pickets. Employes of tho af
fected stores are tired of being mot
with foul language and abuse. There
Is a widespread protest against the
dictation that presumes to coerce thei
patrons of the store, and it Is reported
that the unions are threatening others
than union families if they patronize
the stores. When their rights are In
fringed upon and their freedom of ac
tion asfailed it does not take a people
long to rise up.
rHIPPO" VANGHN
KENOSHA, -Wis., Nov. 21. Jame3
"Hippo" Vaughn, star left hander of
the Chicago Cubs, is in a hospital here
today suffering from severe knife
wounds said to have been inflictel by
his father-in-law during a quarrel In
his home. Dr. George D. Thompson,
city physician, said today Vaughn's
wounds are serious, but probably will
not be fatal.
The stabbing, it is said, was the out
come of recent c'om-stlc troubles In
the Vaughn family. A suit for di
vorce filed by Mr?. Vaughn recently, in
ur-ch she charges the pitcher with
cruIty and fal.ic accusations of re
ceiving attentions f other men. was
withdrawn yesterdn.-'.
"'aughti"s fathe--In-law, Harry Dc
Bold. escaped and is being sought by
the po'ice today. He Is believed t.
have r!td to Cowigo.
Injuries May Be Fatal
A Jrichtgan Central passenger train
struck an auto truck at the Clark road
crossing last night, throwing the
driver, Nick Slade. a distance of 60
feet. His injuries are believed to be
fatal. .
CUB
PITCHER
STABBED
Inland Steel Operating
Official Gets Promotion
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$28,000
is Spent
in Lake Co.
CROWN POINT. Ind., Nov. 24. The
Lake county Republican central com
mittee epent $28,000 in the county for
t!:e general election, a report filed by
Thomas F. Robert? one of the organi-
zation's treasurers, with the clerk of;
the circuit court here, shows. Kepub
licans Who contributed $1,000 or more
to the c.-inniittcc's campaign fund in-
clud
James A. Hemnway, Boonvillc, $1,
500 Walter J. Itilcy, East Chicago. $1
000: Albert Pack, East Chcago, $:',5''0:
?'. Richard Schaaf. Whitinc, SJ.000. and
R. P. l.amont and C. A. West berg, both
of East Chicago, $1,000 a-ti.
DRIVE TIE
IS EXTENDED
'Jo"d results are being attained in
Hammond's Red Cross membership drive
However, the canvass will not b com
pleted tonight a.s scheduled by a vjde
margin. The lime bns been extended
to Tuesday evening. November 30th.
The drive hafi lagged in the residen
tial districts owing to the fact that
many of the women appointed as soll:
itcrs could not devotw sufficient time
to the work this we U. They were too
busy -nith Thanksgiving preparations
and Ked Cross work had to be neglect
ed. Solicitors in factories, and the .stores)
ami offices of the business district have
met with gratifying results. This
part of the work h.xs ben practically
ebaned up as is evidenced by the num
ber of buttons seen on the street. There
is still some work to be done but do
nations already have been more thrui
the expectations of the committee lor
these districts.
Friday the aldermen who are acting
as captains in their respective wards,
will try to have all of their solicitors
out making the rounds of the homes,
and it Is believed the work wll be com
pleted easily before Tuesday.
REDUCTION CO.
OFFICIAL SUED
fc'uits for damages were filed today
in the Hammond superior court by two
young men of Hammond, P'eter and
James -F. Deasy against Henry Lnden
bieger. an official of the T". S. Reduc
tion company of East Chicago.
The brothers were riding a motor
cycle to work on May ". As t'ley
were turning into the gate of the Sin
clair refiner", wln-v they were em
ployed th-ey w ere ei ruck by the T,?n .l
er.bieger car, which was coming south
rn Forsyth avenue. I'eten suffered a
troen lesr and other injuries while
James had an ankie broken. Both men
were in the hospital for S'jme time
after the. accident.
Each man asks for $25,000 damages.
Both claim to have been permanently
crippled. lawyer & Green of Whiting
are attorneys for the plaintiffs.
Mrs. M. J. Duggan of 531 May street
has gone to Cleveland, O., to spend
Thanksgiving.
RED
GROSS
It
Monday is the next big date for the
Shriners of Orak Temple. It will be
the annual ' fall ceremonial rounding
I out the busiest year in the historv of
orak. '
I.unj; ago Potentate Andrew J.
Smith of Hobart announced that the
KOtti ror new members for 1020 was
."00. The number lias been whittled
down steadily until It now looks as
though ills ambition would be realized.
It is necessary to land 182 candidates
to put through the mill Monday.
Already the petitions which have
presented have neared the 100 mark
and it is known that many of the dis
tant parts of the territory have been
signing candidates this fall have not
made their report. Whether the mark
has been made will not be known un
til Monday afternoon when the last
petition fs n.
The lig banquet at this ceremonial
has been turned over to a committee
composed of Jim Armstrong, Mel Mon
neft and Fred Hickok. They claim to
have made a lucky purchase of suffi
cient Alaskan reindeer meat for the
occasion. Says Mr. Monnett, "We will
have wild meat, a wild supper and a
wild ceremonial."
Much regret had been expressed
p'nee tiie old camel went up in smoke
when someone let the desert get too
hot. Jake Rasper has a new- one
though which he is trying to break in
this week. "I'm doing my best with
the o'ld rascal." says Jake, "but a wtJk
Is too short a time to train a camel.
The cuss is going to be pretty wild
and rough and we will have a tough
time handling him, I'm afraid."
Weather Interfered with the parade
at the last ceremonial and it is hoped
that Old Sol will shine his prettiest
Monday for the Drum and Eugle Corp
an dl'atrol. arc aching to show err
some of their new stunts in public.
The candidates are praying for rain.
Following Is tho day's program:
2:"0 p. m. Report of Candidates.
3:00 p. m. Business Session.
3:30 p. m. Street Parade.
4:30 p. m. First Section
6:00 p. m. Usual Banquet.
7:30 p. m. Second Section.
9:30 p. m. Third Section.
10:30 p. m. Good night.
IN THE COUNTY
CRIMINAL COURT
f SPECIAL TO THE TIMES -
CROWN POINT, Ind.. Nov. 24. Mat
Borich of Gary for violating the liquor
law got a $100 fine and a 50 day Jail
sentence and Mike Nagdos of the same
place for the same offense was fined
$1"0 and a SO days sentence. Both
sentences were suspended during good
b'havior by Judge Martin Smith.
Tony J. Dubanowick on a charge of
grand larceny for stealing cigaretr and
ciirars valued at $22f.O0. got a one to
fourleen ytar sentence and $20.00 tine.
They fere stolen from the Indiana
Harbor Belt railroad. Such was a
ciay s work in the criminal court on
Tuesday.
LONDON'. Nov. 24. Greek troops
t'-at were sent Into Asia Minor to
fight the Turkish Nationalists, have
revolted, according to an Exchange
T-'egraph dispatch from Smyrna to
day. Greek mutineers attempted to seize
the comr .nder of the third Greek
regiment. -but he escaped by hiding
tlve tender.
mam
BIG TIE
ON MONDAY
Successor As Gen. Supt.
Is Wm. Maxwell Of
Midvale Steel Co.
John W. Lees, for a number of years,
general superintendent of the Indiana
Harbor works 'of the Inland Steel Com
pany, and one of the best known operat
ing officials in the American Steel in
dustry, has been made Vlce-rresider..
of the company with headquarters at
the general offices In Chicago.
Announcement of Mr. Lees' elecuon
to be Vice-President in charge of op
erations follows the meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Inland Steel
Company held on Tuesday afternoon
SASTEBJf MAI? SUCCXSSOX
Vice-Prtsident Lees has appointed as
his successor at Indiana Harbor, Wl'
llan A. Maxwell. Jr., an official of the
Midvale Steel Company. tMr. Maxwell
will assume his duties as general sup
erintendent of the Indiana Harbor
works on December 1.
The news of Mr. Lees promotion to
be chief executive operating officer of
one of the largest steel companies in the
United States, while causing regret
that he 13 to leave th9 local works, is
well received not only In Indiana Har
bor but throughout the Calumet region,
where he has hundreds of friends.
A BOMAJTCE IIT 8TSZZ.
The story of the rise of the Inland
Steel Company at Indiana Harbor from
what the skeptical were once won't to
denominate as the "acrsp mill" to be omj
of the finest and largest tteel rlants
in the world, and the greatest independ
ent steel plant in the west is also the
stcry of the success of John W. Lees,
and of the Block brothers, under whes
supervision Mr. Lees built the local
plants.
Yvhen Mr. Lees came to Indiana Har
bor to be superintendent of the Inland
Steel Company works. It was little more
than an array of stoves and kettles,
with dingy roofs, located on a sand heap
near Lake Michigan.
"Either a good windstorm will b.-y.v
the plant away vr else somebody will
pile on a couple of box cars and ship it
out of town," scoffers said.
But the Block brothers were deternf
ined to win and they did, weathering
the ups and downs of poor times and
good times and strong competition. And
during the whole time their right hand
production and construction man was
Mr. Lees, whose reputation as the build
er of the Indiana Harbor blast -furnaces,
coke ovens and steel works also places
him as one of the foremost Industrial
constructors In the country.
FEOJI 200 MIN TO 7,000
Mr. Lees took hold of the plant w rtr
it employed but a few hundred men.
Today the efficiency of the organiza-,
tion of Indiana Harbor works and its
7,000 men is second to none In the en
tire country.
FONDEST BREAM3 OTJTDORE
Not even the Thompsons, the Blocks,
nor Mr. Lees In their most fanciful
dreams of tho future of the struggling
company ever pictured that it would
grow into one of the largest producers
in the country nor that the Indiana Har
bor works would become the great In
dustrial institution that it Is.
Today the Inland Steel Company,
w.ith Its subsidiaries. Is an industrial
principality in itself. Besides its lo
cal and Chicago Heights plants, it has
huge ore properties in Minnesota, coal
mines In Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Stone quarries in Michigan and like the
steel corporation, the Inland's own tleet
of ore steamers ply the Great Lakes.
Like the corporation, it also has its
own harbor facilities at Indiana Harbor,
and in Pennsylvania it built a' town
to ; house Us mining employes, while
at Indiana Harbor it Js developing the
finest industrial housing project in the
middle west.
The largest property of the company
is the Indiana Harbor works, with Its
ore docks, blast furnaces, coke ovens,
open hearth furnaces, plate, sheet and
rolling mills. This plant's construc
tion and its operating organization Is
regarded as a monument to the genius
of Mr. Leea.
While a busy man, from the day he
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WHISKEY RING
CHICAGO, Nov. 24. a blanket' in
dictment charging 31 persons, includ
ing members of the Chicago police
force and two Kentucky distillers with
conspiracy to defeat federal enforce
ment of prohibition was returned by
the federal grand Jury today in the
$1,000,000 whiskey ring case unearthed
a month ago.
The s-peclftc charge In the Indict
ment Is "conspiracy to defeat the
Volstead prohibition enforcement act"'
iit the transportation recently of 1.000
cases of whiskey from the Old Gran
dad distillery at Louisville, Ky., to
Chicago.
Among the 31 men indicted are O. H.
Wathen, Louisville, Ky.. president of
the Old Grandad distillery: H. D.
Knedelblank. alsw connected with the
Old Grandad distillery. Jim O'Leary.
the widely known Chicago saloon
keeper and gambler. Michael (Mike de
Pike) Heitler arid Edward Small, Geo.
Hans, Eugene McCarTery and Timothy
Judge. Qhicago detective sergeants.
TURKEYS JUMP
-IN PRICE
, NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Although
turkeys in the New York market are
more plentiful than they have been
since 1310, the price Jumped to 65
cents a pound t.oday which Is 15 por
cent higher than last Thanksgiving.
Food experts declare the public is re
sponsible because of the willingness to
pay, any price the dealers ask.
31 INDICTED
IN CHICAGO