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VOL. XVI. NO. 109
THURSDAY, OO TOBER 26, 1922.
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trrFr corrcsj'okdent i. n. service!
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26 Govern
tnant rernue agents and auditors.
Just now catcMntf up with their af-tar-tha-war
work, have ms.de the
otartl.'sis discovery that more than
1.000,009 persona liable for taj.es on
incomes .bovo S5,Q9i) have dodged
payiuwU either through not making
returns or concealing assets.
This was learned at th treasury
dopiu-traent today. Simultaneously
wie the Inauguration of a drive on
ths part of the Internal revenue
bure.-.u to catch the evaders.
Revsnaa experts estimate that the
treasury can bs enriched to tho ex
tent of S503.00S.0OO In collection trr-cm
Individuals who nave failed to make
r. y returns for four years.
In CAtaloaruing tax payers through
out the country, agents have found
that the number of persons who
should have made returns, and did
not will total nearly 1.000,000. In
addition, thero Is also shown in the
repcrts a largo class of tax evaders
who have put themselves In the $3.
000 class whereas their earnings are
considerbaly larj-ej- than that amount
Orders have gone out to Internal
rerenua collectors to make a round
up of small business concerns In
largs cities. These cities will be
centers of a. whirlwind smash at the
e-adT3 In the next few weeks: New
York. Philadelphia. Boston. Cincin
nati. Cleveland. Detroit. St- Louis,
Ban Francisco and Pittsburgh. The
drive will he extended to other cities
upon an equally vigorous scale, it
was raid by treasury officials. -
COMMON
PEOPLE TO
BE HEARD
3? Wlf.VTAM HCTCHIN'HON'
STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. If. SEHVICEJ
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S The voice
of tin common people will be heard
on an erjua'.ity with the roar of the
'tiratt corporation Jn tha applica
tion of President Harding's new
tjxtra-rillnary tariff revision pow
r. under rules of procedure an
novnwZ today by the United States
tariff commission.
Each American citizen who can
show a cause for redress will nave
th wm rlht as the Standard Oil
Company or the United States Steel
Corporation to file an application
for chaises In tariff rates, accord
ing to the commission's announce
ment. The stat-sment must contain
the applicant's name, resident, busi
ness address, occupation, the kind
of relief sought and tho grounds for
It.
Appeals for rate changes can be
. paused on allegations of business in
Jury or loss from any one of three
causes. These are:
1 Changes !n economic conditions
making existing Individual rate a
burden to the applicant (section
315).
2 Losses incurred through unfair
business methods employed by com
peting Importers (section 16), and
3 Infliction of preferntial taxes
against American exports by any
foreign nation (section 317).
The first cause will give American
business men an opportunity to ob
tain tariff relief if their grounds
are sufficient, wltho.it the necessity
of bavins the whole tariff bill re
written. The second cause will give pro
tection to concerns or individuals
competing with importers. Under
this section, the president can levy
additional duties against any Im
porter engaged in unfair price cutting-
CONCLUDING
GOLF MATCH
THIS P. M.
Franlc Hammond, the Hammond
banker, playing with Dr. H. E. Oro
rnan and Pro Whit yesterday, made
a wonder shot on No. 5, a 300-yard
hole, when he unk hia second shot
after a drive about 175 yards. Mr.
Hammond plays J. CI. Ibach Jr. this
afternoon in the finals of the PresL
dent's Cup match.
Program golf at the Hammond
Country club 1 about done for the
season. The concluding match for
the women's championship between
Mrs. Victor Dyer and Mrs. C. G.
Klr.g-woll is now a matter of rec
ord, when Mr. Dyer won the cham.
ponship for tha sixth time, a reeord
which is not beaten, it ia believed,
in any golf club.
i
More than twice aa many men
nt women died accidentally In 1930,
NO WONDER!
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
PLY.hi jL 'i H. K:ij., iKt inln
do Valera were the Christian
names riven a daughter born to
a local dairyman. The child
lived two rears and then fell In.
to a pan cf hot milk and was
drowned.
And in America
CLEVELAND, O, Oct. Claim
Is male that long-distance hon
ors fall to the Infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. M.' J. Bourjaliy hero
no far as names are concerned
The youngster !s to be called
Vance Bourjally, !n honor of his
great - great - groat -gra ndfather,
Governor Vance of Ohio.
Did You
Hear Jliat
BEVERID3E speaks here Saturday
night.
WIN HUNTER post cards Judge
Henry Cleveland from good old Cali
fornia. JIMMY CLABBY and Dennis
O'Kecfe will box November 11th at
East Chicago,
RAY fiEELEY addressed the Ch,m
ter of Commerco at Valparaiso at
noon today on "Road Construction."
HONK Honkl Sir. and Mrs. Ray
mond Flanigan of Sibley street,
have purchased a new Dort tourtn
car.
HOWARD MAS WAIN. 22 Michi
gan avenue, nabbed for speeding 4 9
miles an hour in 130th street. He's
Jit driver.
FLORENCE JOHNSON. 1235 Calu
met avenue, loses $25 money order
when It is stolen from counter at C.
& O. Hotel.
EX -MAYOR LEO McCORiLVCK oX
East Chicago, is serving on the jury
this week in Room 2 cf the-Harn-mond
superior court.
TONIGHT the Boy Scouts of Ham
mond hold their Hallowe'en mas
querade at tho Lafayette gym. Levi
Golden and Alex Batony will have
charge of tie doings.
BRICE WHITAKER staged a re
markable recovery following an op
eration for appendicitis less than
three weeks ago. He is up and
around -town looking- fit as a fiddle.
W. L. BURCH, bus driver and op
erator of a number of buses. Is ar
rested for failure to stop at railroad
crossing. He lives at 432 Michigan
avenue. His buses ply between Ham
mond and Chicago.
ARTHUR LINQUIST. driver of
Texaco Oil truiik. cuts into funeral
procession and is nabbed by Motorcop
Thompson. Oilef Buada says this
particular form of discourtesy la
common to Texaco drivers.
HAD his rand. George Meyer, of
East Chicago, teamster, is charged
by G-eorge Gobblns, 43S Hickory st.,
H. Graves, 1S9 Ash stroet. with steal
ing sand and gravel. He gets $15
fine on petit larceny charge.
PREPARING a , 'Dutch lundr Of
ficer Adam Funli yesterday nearly
severed his left thumb when a knife
he was using to cut rye bread flip
ped. He suffered considerable loss
of blood before th injury was dress
ed. SPORT. Very careful of his new
shell rim glasses, Harry Rlmbach,
finger print artist and official police
"mugger" of crooks, usea a ten dollar
bill to clean tha lens. Harry has
had the glasses a week. Yes. the
same bill. too.
DIXON BYNAM. assistant IT. S.
district attorney, -was in Hammond
and Gary today working on some de
rails of the Lake county liquor scan
dal which is to be aired before the
federal grand Jurj The grand jury
convenes November 8th.
THE new cement pavement west
on 147th street, from West Hammond
has already shown a, number of bad
cracks, although the road has been
opened hardly a onth. The trouble
is .believed to be due to a poor foun
dation through the swamp lond.
FTVB times arrested for speeding.
Carman Salvatore, 43 Doty street,
jitneur. pays $20 fine and in petulant
huff throws license plates before
Judge with exclamation that "he is
through." Later in day he recalls
act. gets out flivver, reclaims license
plates and starts over.
L. L. WHITE, division superin
tendent of the Erie, was taken into
Klwanls club the other evening on
a promise to build a new Erie depot
at once. C. K. Thomas. Of the I. H.
B. is a new member of the railroad
block of the Klwanls club. Incident
ally there aro 5 4 Kiwanis clubs in
Indian a.
THE Sunday school classes cf L.
L. Bomberger and (Charles Surprise
aro casting about for some stunt
whereby they may strut in the lime
light of publicity. Suggestions will
be gladly received but both classes
state emphatically that they will
not consider the adoption of dolls.
That's old stuff.
"MY brother is a police commis
sioner, you can't pinch me." A. G.
Vermett, 475 Sibley street, arrested
on charge of speeding in Truman j
boulevard, told Motorcop Schaetzel j
that. Just to prove it cop and pris- '
oner went to the home of George
Vermett, police commissioner, where
Charles Wilcox and Wife are
Held in Connection With
Missing Autos
Five-year-old Margery, golden
haired sweetheart cf the Lyndora
Hotel. Hammond, today stands in a
new rs!e as the innocent medium of
an expose that polico hope will un
cover a ring of auto thieves credited
with having stolen and disposed of
thousands of dollars worth of cars
during the past year. Margery's
mother yesterday was arrested at
tho hotel by dectivee of Hammond
central station and officers, that In
cluded a police matron, of Gary. She
is charged with complicity in the
questionable dealings of her alleged
husband, Charles Wilcox, with
whom she ha3 been living at the
hotel for the past two weeks.
Margery, sought by her father,
who resides in Gary, was taken by
the pollc matron. She will be given
into the care of the mother's par
ents. Tho rrlrl ! alleged to have
been kidnapped by ber mother, who
3cd with Wilcox.
Wilcox, posing at the hotel as a
railroad special agent, is held by
Gary authorities on the specific
charge of receiving stolen property.
It Is charged he bought the flivver
of Johnny Kllligrew, Republican
candidate for county clerk, stolen
last June. Police pursuing their in
vestigation have linked the name
of John Jakuah, said to be a cog in
the wheel that disposed of the stol
en cars. Wilcox's name wa.a found
in the retrieved automobile of KI1
Ilgrew's. The engine number bad
been fiied off.
Pollc of the cities In the Calumet
district have been lonj? hunting the
rang o? auto thieves whose opera
tions netted thorn as high as tea
and twelve cars a week.
From the lips of Margery's moth
er. Gary authorities hope to learn
the identity of others connected
with the ring and their method of
operation. The woman wss first ar
retted on complaint of tho father
to probation officers. He wanted
Margery removed from tho alleged
evil association of tho mother.
01
M MUSICIANS
DN TOUR TONIGHTiGAPPENTERCONFESSES
Orak Shrine drum and bugle corps
will play at Whiting tonight at 7
o'clock, at East Chicago at 7:40.
and at Gary at 8:45. The members
of the corps will be accompanied
by a large delegation of Shriners
who will sll tickets for the big
Orak Shrine circus which Is sched
uled for Hammond November 8th to
Uth. The concerts tonight wlil be
the first of a series which will em
brace evry town and city in North
ern Indiana
Preparations for the circus are
being rapidly consummated. Tickets
are selling like hot cakes and quit-s
a friendly rivalry has sprung up
among the Shrine members as to
who will sell the mos tickets. Dr.
Sharrer. the potentate, expects that
the sale will reach the 103.000 mark
oefore tha opening of tho circus.
Commencing Monday, Octpber 30.
reserved seat swill be on sale at
J. A. Armstrong's Jewelry Store in
Hammond. Tickets purchased In
advance may be exchanged at Arm
strong's for reserved seat check.
FARMER IN
BANKRUPTCY
Harold J- McCann of Eagle Creek
township is the latest Lakp county
farmer to be driven into bankruptcy
by the pinch of low prices for agri
cultural products. His petition was
filed In the federal court at Ham
mond today.
His debts which total J3.727 cover
a wide ran,re. In it are five notes
of various amounts, bills for tele
phone, binder twine, auto accesso
ries, a quarter of beef, shoes, cream
separator repairs, threshing service,
blacksmith work, spectacles, and a
horse doctor's account.
McCann's assets amount to only
$681 and he claims exemption for
the brother pleaded his case. "Are
you guilty?" asked Vermett. "Yes,"
said the brother. "That's all," said
the police commissioner. The other
was booked.
FRUSTRATED at the altar. Miss
Catherine Lynch, Gary probation of
ficer, arrives on scene of Tollestou
house wedding at moment when
bride, garbed for ceremony, awaits
with groom, others, arrival of min
ister. She orders marriage post
poned for thirty-five days. This un
til girl has reached age of sixteen.
Miss Lynch charges marriage was
planned hastily to circumvent order
forcing girl to attend school. The
girl returns to school while the
groom awaits without."
NEW CEMENT
PLANT IS
PLANNED
General Superintendent C. O. Sod.
erqulst of the Universal Portland
Cement Co. plant at Bufflngton, to
day stated to The Times that his
company Is considering plans for
replacing plant No. 3 by a new and
modern plant which will be dust
proof. Superintendent Soderqulst has
been in consultation for several
days with officials of the company
at Chicaxo in connection with the
plans and specification for the new
plant.
"The people of East Chicago and
Inidana Harbor can be no more an
xious to abate the cement dust than
Is the cement company," said Mr.
Souerqnist.
The Bufflngton works Is divided
Into three plants, of which No. 3 Is
said to bo the offending department.
Owing to the press of business. No.
3 has not been shut down until re
cently. This was so during the re
cent depression when the Bufflng
ton works was the only industry In
this section to be operating full.
The cement works has been one
of the steadiest Industries support
ing Ea-it Chicago. The plant was
erected- at Bufflngton in 1903 and
has run without cessation since It
was first plactd into operation.
THREE NEGROES
FOUND GUILTY
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
CROWN POINT, IND.. Oct. 26
Leonard Etherly, of Gary, was found
guilty of receiving Molen goods by
Judge Martin Sn'.ith in the criminal
court on Wednesday and sentenced
to from one to eigbt years in the
penitentiary. Etherly is out on
parole from Jeffersonville at this
time. An overcoat belonging to
Isaac Davis was found in Etherly's
possession.
Albert Collins, of East Chicago,
was sentenced to ten to twenty years
at Michigan City on a charge of first
degree burglary. He was caught
ransacking the home of Pete Bene
dict. On a charge of grand larceny
Eugene Morton must serve one to
fourteen years at Jeffersonville. be
ing also found guilty on Wednesday.
Each o tho defendants were ne
groes. THEFT AT STANDAPU;
Three hundred and fifty dollars
disappeared from a desk in the of
fice of G. H. Vincett, general man
ager of the Standard Steel Car Co..
while two carpenters were working
In the office.
With detectives Carlson and War
ner. Chief Malo of the Standard po
lice, arrested both men.
One of theai confessed taking the
money.
He is Earl M. Harvey, 19 Rimbach
a n'je. He will ,"b aralgned In
the City court on a charge of grand
larceny.
VOLIVIA ON TEIAL
FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL
WAUKEGAN. 111.. Oct 26. Over
seer Wilbur Glenn Vollvia of Zion
City went on trial here yester
day for criminal libel, on charges
brought by Thomas H. Nelson, an
independent Zion City pastor.
Nelson was expelled from fellow
ship In the church after he was
charged by Vollvia.' with having at
tempted to cause a "stampede" to
an Independent denomination. Sub
sequently Nelson charges that Vo
livla referrsd to him in print by all
manner of evil sounding names.
Vollvia was represented by three
attorneys. He was expected to
have a score of witnesses in his be
half, including several from Indian
apolis. Nelson went to Zion City
from Indianapolis after he had been
hired by Vollvia to do evangelistic
work.
STEPS IN
AUTO'S PATH
John Hogan. aged 35, suffered a
broken left leg last night when he
stepped from the curb at Sibley and
Hohman streets and into the path
of an automobile driven by Jesse L.
Ropp. 329 Henry street. Ropp was
driving west on Sibley street and
had Just swerved south into Hohman
street when Hogan walked in front
of the machine. Ropp took ttie in
jured man to the hospital.
SiM-Carp," New
London Drink, Has
Kick and Wallop
r I NTERN ATION AL NEWS SERVICE!
LONDON, Oct. M. Robert Ver
meire. of the Embassy club, has con
costed a new cocktail. He calls it
the "Siki-Carn" cocktail and says
it has both "wallop and kick."
DOLLS
Just received a large shipment of
Kidoline Dolls direct from the fac
tory. Now on display In our win
dow. Don't fail to see them. Ham
mond Furniture Co.. J. Arkin mg-,
42 E. State St. 10-26
First Leg of "Ideal Stretch" of Lincoln Highway
Nears Completion; Site of Million Dollar Hotel
La?? -fer;
wis'&l' i'': .rT-""4-a .. , - v,- fst-
The "road that will never wear
out" apd the possible site of a mil
lion dollar notel are shown in the
above picture, taken for The Time3
by Photographer Farley.
That hundreds of tourists will be
attracted dally throughout the mo
toring season to this "ideal stretch"
on the Lincoln highway between
Dyer and Sciiererviile and to the
500-room hotel which will be built
next spring, If present plans are
carried into effect, is the prediction
of the Lincoln Highway Association,
under whose auspices the road is
being built.
It is a forty-foot concrete pave
ment, ten inches thick and rein
forced with r. network of steel rod.
GARY STEEL
MILLS ARE
ERED
Difficulty In securing cars and
shortage of blp is causing demand
to exceed that of supply, according
to steel officials in Gary today in
commenting on production at the
Gary steel mills.
For the first time In months, the
'oral mills aro working some SO per
cent of normal capacity, even fac
ing the above mentioned obstacles.
Eight out of a total of twelve blast
furnaces at the Gary works are now
in operation, supplying enough steel
to run the departments nearly 100
per cent capacity.
Tonnage would be Increased con
siderably at the plant of the Ameri
can Shete and Tin Plate Co.. but
owing to the shortage of skilled
labor help cannot be secured to op
erate the additional mills which of
ficials could start in operation. Two
additional tin stacks were placed in
operation this week, while output In
the hot mills remain the same.
Faced with the shortage of labor
and skilled hands, there are rumors
that officials are contemplating an
other salary increase for the future.
Another blast furnace would be put
into operation at tho Gary works,
it is said, but until enough men can
be secured to operate it the furnace
will not bo lighted.
REPOPT OF ILLNESS
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE )
DENVER. Col.. Oct. 26. William
G. McAdoo. former secretary of the
treasury, bad recovered today from
the shock he received when be
reached Denver last evening and
read that he had been stricken in
Dodge City. Kans.. and would be
forced to cancel all his speaking
dates. McAdoo spent fifteen min
utes here enroute to Salt Lake,
where he will continue his campaign
addresses. He declared he was nev
er in better health and that the re
port of his illness was the result
of a train porter carrying out in
structions not to disturb McAdoo's
slumbers.
YOUNG SPEEDER
IS SAUCY
Harold Meyer. 16-year-old school
bov. speeder, today was cooling his
heels and head in a cell at the Cent
ral station after his father. Joseph
Meyer. nationally known 'herb
king" of 9S Waltharn street, refused
to condone his son's speeding pro
clivities by paying a court fine for
his release.
Young Meyer was nabbed in Mor
ton avenue yesterday by officer Be'l
who pays the boy was going 3S miles
an hour. This morning in the city
court Harold was fined $11.
He didn't have the rr.one Kind
told the court and police they were
"a bunch of hams" if they thought
he'd pay any fine. Police late to
day were getting ready to take him
to Crown Point with other prison
ers to work out his fine in the coun
ty Jail.
UNO
M'ADOO DENIES
'"IDEAL STRETCH" ON THE I4"COLN
built with the greatest care and un
der the most scientific specifications.
The best trains of engineers and
road builders of the United States
have gone into the Job. Before win
ter halts operations the first leg of
the "ideal stretch" from the west
end of the section to the bridge,
will be finished.
Jens Jensen, famous landscape
artist of Chicago, has been charged
with the beautificatlon of the right
of way and an ornamental lighting
system is to be installed. The right
of way is one fet wide.
Early In the spring work will be
resumed and the project will be
completed by early summer. At
th same time, it is declarld. a syn
i ThinkMoonshiner's Through
When He Pays His Fine?
Not on Your Life Is He!
When a moonshiner is arrested
and convicted, pays his fine and ser
ves his time he hasn't paid the full
penalty. Not by a long ehot.
The Internal Revenue Department
isn't through with him.
For instance. Supposing Mike Do
bre had a still when the officers raid
ed him. Supposing also he had 20
gallons of moonshine. Then say
there were fifteen or twenty barrels
of mash.
Now as soon as Mike "Is found
guilty the Internal Revenue boys
get busy. From tha report on the
cafe they start making up a neat
little statement to present to Mike
as soon as he court is through with
him.
The first Jolt Is the penalty of
$1,000 for operating a still without
registering it. Then there is a tax
of $12. SO a gallon on the liquor found
in his possession. In Mike's case
it would be $236. Next they decide
that his fifteen or twenty barrels of
mash would be tha equivalent of
I BULLETIN)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
LONDON. Oct. 26. England is
without a parliament today for
the first time in four years and
the bitter THUcal struggle for
control of the new parliament
seemed to be converging into a
double combat with iboth Tories
and Liberals lined up together
against the Laborite- Socialist
element.
(BFIXETIX)
LONDON. October 26 By ra
dio to International Nws Ser
vice) Great Britain will make
another payment November 15,
of sbout $50,000,000 to the Unit
ed States on account of back In
terest on the money borowed
in war time, it was stated at the
Treasury department today. A
similar amount was paid on
Oct. 16. The principal, rum of
the debt is $4,277,000,000.
fBTTLLETIX)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26. The
Canadian schooner Emerald, re
cently seized off the Jersey
coast by American prohibition
agents, was ordered released to
day following official announce
ment by Secreta-y of the Treas
ury Mellon that the seizure was
a "blunder." This action was
exclusively forecasted by the
International News Service a
week ago.
(BIXIETIV)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE)
LANCASTER. Fa.. Oct. 26.
Following ?n attack on Milton
Delchler, 28. an insurance man.
by a band of men in the regalia
of the Ku Klux Klan. Chief of
Police Eckman today declared
open war on the organization.
Deichler told the police he
had been kidnapped in a motor
1 s
HIGHWAY
dicate of hotel men will bui'.d a
million dollar fcotel catering to mo
torists. This betel will be the
French Llolc of the motorist. The
hotel men believe that it will re
ceive a great patronage from Chi
cago. They say that it is near
enough to the city to afford a short
and pleasant drive and far enough
;o offer a haven In tho country for
the city-dweller.
In connection with the hotel there
will be a golf course.
Following the building of the
hotel, many beautiful country homes
will be buflt along tha "ideal
stretch" of highway by wealthy
Lake county and Chicago people, it
is believed, and it will become In
diana's ' Gold Coast."
probably 100 gallons of liquor. That
Is taxed at the same rate, adding
another $1,280 to Mike's bill.
It Is carefully footed up. The to
tal of $2,535 and maybe a few odd
cents Is written plainly so that Mike
will have no trouble in reading it.
The bill is presented.
'But I paid my fine and served 30
days," Mike generally protests.
"That's none of our business. We
are merely collecting U. S. Revenue."
reply the stern government men.
It ends with Mike paying as a
rule. If he doesn't his property can
be soil
So when a moonshiner gets off with
a fine and suspended sentence, dear
public, don't get sore and say that
he didn't get enough. "Wait until
the revenue bays take their rap at
him.
There will be a number of cases of
this sort In Hammond and ofher citi
es soon. The Hammond cfflce of
the revenue department has Just re
ceived a large batch of such bills
for collection.
car. taken to the city limits and
thrown to the pavement with a
warning that tar and feathers
woi:ld be his lot unless he prop
erly supported his family.
BVM,ETFV)
LONDON. Oct. 26. In a poli
tical manifesto issued to the
British people today, Premier
Andrew Uonar Law declared
that "the maintenance 0f our
good friendship an I good un
derstanding with the United
States will be bas?l not upon a
formal alliance but upon a
community of Inherited ideals."
(BILLETI.M
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
TOKIO. Oct, 26. Advices re
ceived here late this afternoon
stated that Russian Red forces
bad taken over "Vladivostok
peaceably as the last Japanese
troops exaeuated the city today.
American, British and French
sailors are in readiness to land
if their presence is required to
guard their nations' interests.
JAILED FOR
ROBBERY
LOGANSrORT, Ind., Oct. 23 Men
giving the names of Walter R. Mil
ler, 26. and Floyd W. Ray, 22, In
dianapolis, are bcim,' held in jail
here today on the charge of robbing
the Neff book store here early today
of gold pens and camera supplies to
the value of $1,500. Police claim
they caught the men in the act cf
getting away with the loot.
If the ocean were fresh water, all
the harbors of New England and
the middle Atlantic states would be
ice-bound by winters as cold as we
now have.
III Fated Aotoists Employed
at General American
Tank Car Co.
The Grim Reaper, agisted by !;!
comrade Carelessness. Ian -ya: re
claimed another a-:t- v.im a '
Chicago in -.ins of t'.c ir.' ,,
ins fatalitlij) ever r-evnivi it: t:.
Calumet region. It was n-t cn
rushing train and the spe -dii: a...-
this time, but. n the contrary, a
Dort automobile w ;Mi f, vo , epa- '
runnlng at a jnt.de rat a pace, tr..i !.
by a Pcnnsylvani t iviicl.i I
backing across liist st., K.;.t C i
eago. THE DEAD
Paul H. Buser, 26 year? old. of Zri
Forsyth av., v . Hammond.
THE WOI'VIIED
Wm. Kammsky, taken t - .-". ?,i,i-.
caret's hospital with flight :n.'uri .;.
Ho lives at 2Cu li4th plate, Vv..t
Hammond.
Walter Ma-iyrlski, Mh-.n v..
West Hammond, suffered in n r in
juries. Wm. Zaletta -' West liaiiune: -1.
said to have- escaped w'.'t r, .'.-
at-eratlons ..bout the hen .1 a:. ! fa ;.
Waiter Ca'.cta. tik t rt. 21 tr--aret's
hospital. Injuries r'pvr- I
by attendants ;is :v ; Bftrh.-ut. H
.iv at 147 154th st , V.'ost Han-.-mond.
Returning home around 5 30 las-,
evening from their work at i::
3eneral Anuricar. Tank Car CX i i
101st st., the men were said to have
oeen traveling along at a r:.:r.i:'
.ate of speed, when :t is r-re?.ir.: :
.hat they were surf rif'-d at t'.
straight lead - .rossir.g !"" a Per.:---iylvania
freight train backing s :'.;'.";
owards the J. H. Beit r a. -.
During the daytime this tr--?s!r. r
.s said to be protected by a v.-at- !.
.nan. but there belit ; iit'.'e or r
switching in this ind ".rial sctlv '
after six u'ch -.!;.. Fat"'.; r.ita ; i
have been taken at this pwn. af'.tr
this time.
Ccr.cuctor Wickline was in char;'1
.f engine No. 0-;53 and Charlo? I'ao
t.a, engineer, of the 1'en nr.- i v,t : . : i
freight train that caused the. ai
dent.
Police Officers Mclver. Kfci.' i:i
Kerr cf the East Chirc., pr-:ir. i :
.itjn assisted in taking thu v ,;;mi -i
for medical aid.
LEGION
HEAD TALKS
i
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE!
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 2 "pres; .
dent Hardin? knows the best q-i.-h.:.
ncations of his personal physic i.i -.
The national convention express--
my opinion in d"mar.dit:? the
moval of Brigadier Genera' Si wyer."
declared Nat:, -.a: 'mm.ird.-r A-.'-,
M .Owsley ef the- Atu'ri-'an I.- ir: o.
on his way to ,'ew York today !
bid farewell to inter-al!i--d war v .-; -erans
who attended the N-iv :
leans convention.
"What lia ppt lis- w!,n an Irresist
ible force meets a:i !r..rro .a '.. ; -ject?"
is a iue?tion that i be th u
:ng the new comnuni'-r cf the L -gion.
On two principal objectives
justed compensation and Dr. Saw
yer's removal, efforts of the s:-r ;,
men have been blocked tempore. :
at least by t he- veto and by tr.. pt in
ident's reported refusal to dism'f
Sawyer as chief co-erdinatv-r li. .
pitalization work.
Commander Owsley appeared v. -.-decided
on what eourrt- could b
pursued with regard to Dr. Sa v;. :;'
position.
"I expect to see President Har..
ing within three weeks." he. sa '.
"Until I can have a personal ceo
versation with h.lm I have ever-,
confidence that the president v.-'.'l
do no harm to any service man."?
The loader cf the World var vet
erans indicated that , new ma' ' -offensive
was to be start- A tt .It
tain the boras and thst r. ..- ;Vi ,n
which he was not real;- to .V.S.oi3
would form part cf tie,; t:at-gy.
Commander nwsb wi".: rot oris
here next week. While ii :-w
York he wiii r..,.d conf-ttnecs wi'U
other Legicn r-pr.-sntat: o i l!...
question of uti-ving tho -i;:"-l f i
Legion Weekly here.
ui mum
ml muim
"There's a
mirror of the
Mrs. C. Wen
of her hu:-'e;:oi
' 'Tis the n
hubby r-rlb'-l
to! t te ,1 c ec
'It's net t ..- :no-v, i;
lightl" said the v.-tfe, n;.-.
than ever.
"I say 'tis iho nio'n.
husband, a? thoush that
Then the wife n
a ".ih
ten oh- i
roil tho
.- t t -
prove ? ,;-. v, s t ;
band got. 'i
powered At :.h::r :
rising drawer.--was
bot-.nd - .o r t
Gary city "v'.m t
court, on eii.ic.fs
"You v- (-is ri-e
i c
tt-tliir t
0 - ::.'; n ,
tho o;
1 . . the
J v,
i ve
Il-i
Mr.
the police
a 1 t ;
N WW
HE'S SURE
II WASN'T
away.
"It wasn't
pea ted.
They live at i
he r-
Adams