Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — Correcting Misstatement About Mayor Becker, of Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Correcting Misstatement About Mayor Becker, of Hammond.

The Semi-Weekly Republican of Friday, Aug. 12th, contained a false statement about Mayor Lawrence Becker, of Hammond, to °the effect that he had been disbarred from the practice of law by the highest Indiana court and was planning to remove to Seattle —_— The article was clipped from a press sheet sent out by the republican state committee and escaped the notice of the publishers of the Republican, either of whom would have recognized it to be false. Mr. Becker is the mayor of Hammond, but he is not an attorney and no action was ever taken to prevent him from practicing in any court. Doubtless the author of the article in question had Mayor Darroch, of Laporte, against whom successful disbarment proceedings had been instituted, in mind. The Republican wishes to correct its error and hopes that the former article has resulted in no injury to him. He is still mayor of Hammond, so far as we know a very able one, and he intends to sit right on the job and to retain his residence there, where he has extensive investments.