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DISCUSSES NEED OF SHIPS AND YARDS
Four East Chicago Hen and Two from Chicago Implicated and Found Guilty.
Declares Local Exchange Costs More Than it Makes Petitions Service Commission.
SATURDAY SESSION IS HELD TODAY
Assembly Is Speeding Ac-
tion on Many Bills Today.
Head of Worlds
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tional" East Chicago-Hammond de-j
linquencv case appeared in the i "irt-v business hone is $ i I . . : pany asks $.".. The on.-.,
Pcclaring that u is conduct !:ik its business .it its local lAchaiiiivJ at ;n n.riel l.,c ,1... -i.. v.
CROWN POINT, IND., March h;is uh,d a pt tUil) wUh Ih, ;,ul',Hc Vrv." 1. Six principals in the sensa-commission of indium r..r an in-
s-lT-fl.'- in Irttv.s I ' 1 III' .".
I At present the monthly rate lor a ono-
Hlld th"' fOlll-
juvenile court here yesterday- and j ,,,, is $3 !in1 ,, incr).aso ask;i. A were tried by Judge Norton. Two j i,l'rU"" of follows: i Class or Seriee liates IV r Year. others were convicted in Chicago. j !cr Y(.ar it s ihm. Four well-known East Chicago1 In-"-i'i:i a partv) bus...?4s ff i Individual Slat (1 party) res ?,' ",'
men were iouna guuiy iuu ivvo,Two.rarly t..I,t...ss
of tender years ap-; ivi-o-part- tiat. resi.i.-ne. ...
I r utu -j'iin , oaiii'Ass . witnesses. , t.-0.,r. , r,.s,,i, nPr ,
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being implicatea.
nt'M.ETIX. (By International News Service.) INDIAN APOUS, IND., Marctt 1. j Telephone Interests of the ptate drew up and presented to the state let'lala. i ture, the hill which -roculd permit a puh-
j lie utility to surrender its franchise ; I and operate under the public service ! j commission, It irai revoaled at the puh- j lie meetinff on the hill held hy Juliciary ' A committee of the house last night. j The hill which has heen passed hy i , the senate would revive the privilege of i
j franchise surrender which, expired hy ! limitation July 1, 1917.
peared as prosecuting witnesses. ; ro.,r., art j , ri.S!i, nc. Two Chicago men have also been ' v--rnr ty. busn.es
, . , Kight-p.trty. r-5tdenoe. rural found guilty in a Chicago COUrt for j Individual, one-way. ineoninK-
i Kf nsion. same premises. bus. i rx t 'TlSHm. snrie or.-oi!s'-s res
3TGHT ABE INVOLVED. j Vrivltto ,raH," .v .,., n with
operator's set for each pos. cord
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Sidney Story. The use America can make of th shipyards and ships she has srouireii as a riuit .if the war is beintr point"l out it: .pocche. throughout the country I .'"wint-v Story fie is an expert on r.i.. s :i:e problems.
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The parties to the scandal whose st and conviction took place arc
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i oi...v.-s: J-cha Fappas, Kast Chicago, a! Ins Williams wriii r at I'.l'ie Ooose inn; guilty and sentenced. Jerry Lazaris, Kast 'hi -a-o. tailor; Tiiilty ami sent' .r.cc 1. Eert Petersen, Kiist Chicaso, manager lid!as Hotl: cuiity and sentcr.e d.
Thcmas Dollas, Kast ('hionjr-. propri.tor hotel: guilty and sentenced. Beatrice Bird, Hammond. aged 1:
: Trunks, two-v.ay
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The in.i-'ase a;-k-d ' niinimura and the ra:s - !y on business h"Us. s j especially those with boards and trunk line:
f residences is is thrown larsreand industri'-s, private switch-V-T priva'e
j By BAY O. WIXEE j (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.) j INPIAXATOIdS. IND.. March 1. 1 Consideration of th , highway commlsj slon bill was a spc;al order of business ! for this morning at the first Saturday session of the senate hld during the ! pn sent session of the state legislature. : Hoth houses were in session day and are speeding action on Jlie many bills
' which must be disposed of during the ! : i OTiiing wctJs. A wek from Monday ' i ; will see the close of the seventy-first J ! session of the Indiana state legislature, j ! The fate of the J' fT rson vil le reform- j j atory bill w ill be decided next week, ns j j well as the proposal fwr removal of j I other state institutions. The bill for ! the removal "of the reformatory to a i
: t- . j-k . f-.rr rp "rrV4- I'"1"1 more cemrany loeateu is in lae i ! Q at JepOo ao O'.OO lOnignt naIll!s of th9 senate committee on re- j
I forma tories of which 8' nator Harts Is
ehairmau. The bill can be killed :n i
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THEY'RE WAY AHEAD NOW
found to bo delinquent, paroled to
father. j Tlorence Sickles, Hammond, aged l'": found to be delinquent, committed j to girl's school. Two Chicago men, who were implicated j in dirts' storv. had. l rovioffsly been;
arrested, lined ?,1'"'C apiecb and scnt-ei.c-d to Un days in jail. OIF-is TEH SHOCKING STOET, The story given by the g.rls in a full and free confession involves two weeks of orgy and dissipation with th-; prominent Kast Chicago find Chicago men. ' (Continued on page seven.)
branch exchange. $21 !:-. asked for ten j lines or less and the scale is gradal up to $1C0 for 2fil to ?C0 lines.
sfiiUi nani
i man djm.I WITH FOLKS
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and You'll See the 5:40 Pull Out.
Government operation of railroads is a grand and glorious success. It Is mo he than that. The passenger trans are not merely on time. They are ahead of time. Take one Hammond man's experience with one railroad four days this week. Monday Hicbard Von Frank calls
CHEATING CHEATERS
NEWEST BOOZ
Kob' rt Kn.gl.ii.d returned yesterday i
i afternoon to his h me near Kast Chi-. ! r-a t... neieh 1., to.. r.lirf ,,f his M'nrrh'd '
If urn II. v. after "''ng uone for cer thirty j 't
I hours.
Thursday
0 the Monnn by tri- . m. and asks about ; . The vdce at the t will be at least s late. At .' :H5 !): k s told the train may 1 ho'ir. At 5:40 he d pot. The 5:40 has
the ticket ofi'i -e ephoii" at : 1 5 I t'ne 5:4') to Chic:: other end says twenty-five min i calls again and he as late an a saunters into tl.
departed. ; Tuesday Richard presents himself!
the Mon m depot at 5:3S Western
committee. An entirely new turn in the centralization plan has been taken and a resolution, which has been presented the seate. provides for the appointment of a commission to report to the 1021 leg
islature a plan for the election of tie , members of the Indiana Public Service j Commission, the Industrial board, the i state tax commission and "such other .appointive positions as the commission i may deem proper."
I Several more anti-fiermsn bills re
j main to be -lisposed of. One bill wnul
' prohibit the teaching of the CoTtnan language in the high schools of the
state.
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COVENANT
Senator Declares That Draff Strikes at Precepts of the Constitution.
WHAT KNOX SAID.
Supportinr lU his assertions with Quotations from th leag-ua covenant, he showed In seven possible eon. tingrencies war Is leg-allied and that in certain far-reaching- controversies "the partlea must go to war. "Thus the proposed covenant, ia rtead of abolishing- war, actually sanctions, breeds and commands It," he declared. "Moreover It requires that every future war shall he potential world war and that we shall be an active participant in every such war." "It does not abolish or prevent wars, and it does section mad command them," he said. "It does atrilts iown great constitutional principles, bulwarks of our protection. It does rcb us of th most vital attributes of sovereignty. x do,B threaten our independence and life.
. Archbishcp I'atrick J. Hayes Patrick J. He yes has jtist been appointed archbishop of New York tc succeed the late John M. Farley. He is tifty-one and a native of New York. whre he entered the priesthood twenty-stven years aeo. In his present oflke he is administrator cf the world s largest diocese.
has
afternoon Kngland came ,
the depot j
E GAME
ners Were Held Up by Gunman Is Told.
I'nion time. The 5:4' Wednesday- Pick I
'over to Hammond for a rule with his j at o:3i. rue ;:!' has g'.ne. nephc-w in an automobile. When they j Thursday luck reaches the depot got to Hammond he asked to be left n j a 5:S5. The .":l'i is K'tns. He takes ! Hob man street and said that he would after it down the platform, grabs the
! go home on tin street car. j h-.r.d rail, swing on. sprains a wrist. " j Xow it seems that the uncle lost his; tcj.r a ligament, wrenches his back XI OW Pail" Of Wh.lSlCey RUll- nn'1 v.ambred across the state lino i and barks his shins. lUit he got it, into Kurnham and forgot to go home j by C.corge.
Thursday night and his relatives, think-j The 5:3fi. the Z:, the 5:.1S and the ( ing that he had corne to some harm, j is sure giving some service. I eamo to Hammond on Friday and sought1 i is due tonight at 5.35, according i the aid of the police. j to the dop
- j But in the meantime 1'ngland had re-j Cho.itinrr cheaters is the newest game turned home perfectly happv and un-
it, connection with the illicit traffic it. j rc-rnrd. never ('reaming of the excite-hq-uor across the state line. jmrtit that his disappearance had caused Taken into custody by Olficers liunde
and Kinsele of the Hammond police de- , partrnent. Tony llfliiifko of 422 So. ; Culaski st.. South 1 lend, an employe of I the Stu!ebaker plant, confessed to Spe- j ,-iiJ Agent Creen of the department of ! justice that while engaged in transporting whisk; y he was victimized in ar. unusual manner. ( Tonv implicates a Joe Slar.greskch of;
S ulh 1'end. He told Cre.-n that on the : Iwtifth of February he went with!, TT . . - Slangreskch to Chicago and purchased E HammOnQ HOlQUp Fea-
i :! gallons ot whiaKev. A man name,!
lirown whom Tory believes owns the Washington Carago at 330 No. Clark St., ' iiicago. was engaged to take Tony. Joe and the booze to So. Itend for $50. V.rown had a Thos. Callahan in the machine w ith him.
The party started for its destination.
GRAVEL ROAD BIDS ARE REJECTED
i ROBIN REDBREAST
WEATHERS BUZZARD
N WEBB ST. TREES
Co. Commissioners Hold a Special Meeting at County Seat.
(But It's a Crestfallen Bird
That Tries Pitifully to Sing Today.
BROTHER OF WHITING MAYOR PASSES AWAY Herman Henry Schrage, Invalid for Twenty Years, Taken by Death.
INQUIRIES ARE HEARD
NEDJL MAKES
CHARGES IN SENATE h
Special to The Times. CHOWX POINT, IM., March 1. The county commissioners yesterday afteri.uon rejected bids for two of live road improvements. There were no bids submitted on the other three. Five bids by M. l. H, iney, Vnited Construction company. Whiting Construction company. Northern Indiana
; Construction company, and Shea & Co.,
respectively, for the W. F. Hodges road
No. 2 in Calumet township, were re- ;
jected because the board decided to here- !
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tured in Chicago Hearing Today.
"ISootlcsging" of whisky between Chicago and Soutn liend, via Hammond, is
Tory noticed nn auto following them to be thoroughly investigated today, which stopped when they stopped for Tony Helinski, a mechanic of the South refreshments and started again when I Send. Is in custody of federal officials, they started. in Columbia ave.. south las are also John S. Iirown. who operof the Standard Steel Car plant, the oth-j ates a taxieab in front of the Morrison er machine drew up beside them, Tony ! hotel, and his helper, Thomas S. Cal ladeclares, and two men alighted with J han. drawn revolvers. The' hold-up men j Urown and Callahan, trie police say. robbbed Tony and Joe of all the money i admit they have carried several loads of they had which amounted to $130. Then j whisky in their taxi into Indiana, but one of the robbers got in the car with ; deny Kelinski's charge that they had Brown which contained the whiskey and j any connection with the holding up and Joe and Tony were ordered out. 'robbing of Bellnskl near lvr-t HainThe South Bend men did as they were I mond. Bclinski said he was robbed of told and stood In the road" watching j $100 and many gallons of whisky by
the two cars speed back towards Cm- j men who followed nis taxi.
Made to Kill County Unit Bill. (By International News Service.)
I after require a maintenance bond on all . The poor bird came i l.n.l ........ 1 .... f(.Q.tj a ml tl.if r .-. t in 1 , .... .
in a . x j. t t- ; - "" 1 " tasc provii, n oy nM
lOayS Autempt, XS JDeingitho advertisement for bids.
j C. A. Buokly was ttie only bidder for the C. A. Buckley road in West Creek i township, and as his bid was the same i as the engineer's estimate it whs rej jected ns being too high, i There were no bidders for three ina-
' endam roads known ns the Kouis Reed- j
INDIANA Pu US. .Mai oh 1. 1 9 19. The 1 er. Pyer and C nrn?h roads, proposed highway commission too up i The Calumet avenue pavement hasn't the entire morning session of the state j necn advertised as yet. senate today, at the first Saturday j NEGRO GETS HEAVY SENTENCE.
session he ,i liv the senate lur g the, joihi .-un.-. i.e. ,. , ? nu
recently found guilty in the cireiii court at Crown Point was sentence
to from 5 to 20 yrrs in the. state
prison at Jeff ersor.ville on Friday by .Tioige Norton.
Proba.ily no body's feelings were hurt quite so much by the bally blizzard of yesterday and the intern--- Cold last n-gbt as these of a robin redbreast in the trees back of W. H. Lederer's home lit 23 Webb street. "Uncle Billy" Lederer. an enelni for the Krie railroad, worried all night about the lobin which arrived the tir.-t part of the year, presumably as the advance geaid of an early spiing. The robin was a! out all in th.s morning and didn't do much sinking.
out for breakkind ho , 'd' ri
de Billy," but it was a crestfallen and miserable robin, all hunched up and droopy; Its eyes were half closed from the cold. What the bird thinks no on- knows but it is probable that it said tuts morninir, together with f e em ! i un-
dted humans who reside in t: "Believe me, next winter I'll Florida."
Sr-EciAt, To The Times. WHITIX,';, I.l, March 1. Herman 11,-r.ry Schrago, age 4", an invalid for twenty jeits. died yesterday at the homo of hi father, Henry Schrage. at t'r'7 Schrage avenue. Whiting. A service will be held at the home at 1 :M Sunday ftcrr.- n and th-? funeral v ;t be conduct d ff -ni the house at 10 a. in. Monday to ak Hill cemetery. The dec as-'d man is survived by three brothers. Mayor Walter Schrage.
IP nrf and William, and two
Place and Mrs.
Mrs. B. Preesen.
sdsters. August
News Nuggets
Warts Want Straps.
- city, be in
(By International News Service.) B.; -Ki-YN. Mar,-.. l. The under- : d iien of Brookln. who are not tn n-i i-it to reach straps In elevated train, have organised 'The Short ;.M.n's League." ami today announced their intention of appealing to the ( public service comrnl.-sion for longer
; t ra ps.
cago. Vcording to Tony's signed confession he went with Joe to Chicago the next diy and hunted up Brown at the bitter's place of business. Asked what
Boose Smuffg-ler Shot. BENTON" HAKllOK, Mich.. Feb. 28. August Mashke, a Russia of this city, was shot in the arm by a federal officer on board the Pere Marauette train
bad become of the whiskey Brown "got today. The officer claimed Mashke
ma 1 and hit Tony between the eyes." "He hit me between both of my eyes," is the wuv .Tonv puts It. Brown added
made what he took to be a move for a run when arrested charged with smugcling liciuor. Warrants have been 1s-
insult to injury by demanding $.",0 for sucd for five men, including Mashke.
the trip. Tony and Joe refused t' pay.
FRENCH AND 0 GREEK VICTORY
Officials claim to have evidence the gang made the trip to Soith Chicago, loaded their suitcases with booze, and
i were bringing it to this city.
(By International News Service.) SALONIKA. Greece. Mar. 1 French ani Greek troops have captured Tiraspol. 5" miles north of Odessa, from the Bolsheviki. The allied forces are pursuing the retiring Bolsheviki along the Pneister river. M ich material has been taken from the Bolsheviki-
EXPLOSION AT ARMS PLANT (By International News Service.) NKW HAVEN". Conn.. March 1. Three, men were killed and a number of others injured in an explosion of the Winchester Bepeatincr Arms Company plant here this afternoon. At the factory all further details concerning the explosion were refused. "
present seion of the legislature, and will be brought up aarain when the senate reconvenes this afternoon folicwing the noon recess. The highway commission bill came up for second reading and a motion by Senator Dobyns, chairman of the roads committee, to suspend the rules and place the bill on passage was killed. Various amendments to the bill wpre offered, one by Senator Bobyns proposing to amend the bill eo that the system of state highways shall be approved by the governor by April 1. 1920, was adopted. Sen. Sejdl of Lake county charged that an attempt was being made to pass the highway commission bill ahead of the county unit bill and to kill the county unit bill, thus giving the highway commission complete control over all roads in the state. This was denied by both Sen. Pobyns
and Senators Beardsley. Sen. Nejdl declared that a section duplicating a section tf the county until bill be struck cut and his motion will be taken up this afternoon.
: i FIGURES OF NEGRO
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FIFTEEN DAYS MORE FOR INCOME FILING
REDUCING THE BRITIH ARMY
(By International News Service.) BONBON. March 1. The British army Is being reduced to 9"2.0OO men, it was officially announced today. Great Britain's strength exclusive of India, at present is 2.50O.0OO men. The British army of occupation In Germany will be composed of 3?0.000
men and 2S.fiOO officers.
With fifteen days left in which to file Income tax schedules hundreds of Hammond people are evidently waiting until the last hour. March 15, to visit the office of the revenue dpartment on the third floor of the federal building and comply with the law. I. C. Vorles. J. C. Belot and Geo. Stelhorn are there to serve the public, handing out the schedule blanks, instructing those who are puzzled tv some of the questions and receive the taxes due. If you tire married and live with your wife you need not make a return unless your income for 1918 was Jjooo or more. If you have dependent children under IS years of age you must fill out the schedule and will receive a $200' exemption for each child. If you are not married or do not live with your husband or wife and your incom- was $1000 or more you must make a return. There is a severe penalty for failure to make a return. j
COLONY
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; Selling Fake Souvenirs. ! (By International News Service.) i WAKWICK. N. V., March 1. Germ- ' ar. spiked he knots and iron crosses are i , being turned out by a French manu- , facturer at Lyons to be sold to our
(By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, atarch 1 AmaoMee. .ntent of a Republican flinmstr to hs undertaken immediately and carried on until the end of the session, was expected momentarily when the senate met today. Senator Watson of Indiana had ths announcement framed and planned to read it on the floor as soon as Seaatoi Knox completed his speech on the leagrne of nations. Senators Lodys and Smoot, on the other hand, said they had aot decided definitely that a fillonster was to h undertaken and would not deoide until late this afternoon. A Republican filibuster would defeat the $7,000,000,000 bond bill without ths passaare of which the victory loan cannot be floated. It was pll that Re. publican senators approached the proposal for a filibuster arainst this bill with the greatest hesitation and mlsglv. lng doubting that the country would approve talking- to death a measure so vital to the country' finances. (By International News Servloe.) WASHINGTON, March 1. Weighing the league of nations contitution in the balance, Senator Philander C. Knox, secretary of state in the cabinet of President Iaft, found the instrument wanting in many vital particulars in a senate speech today. Four tests were applied to the covenant by the Pennsylvania senator: 1. Poes it abolish war? 2. Poes it strike down the vital revisions of the constitution? 3. Is it destructive of American sovereignty? 4. Poes it threaten our independence and life? A COOI. ANALYSIS. Analyzing the constitution "calmly and judicially." Knox attempted to show
(Continued on
ytfe seven.)
ARMISTIC
E
TERMS ARE
COMPLETED
(By International News Set-vice.) LONDON. March 1. Marshal FocJ now has the completed armistice terms to Germany which are expected to approximate the military and naval con-
according to Corp,
Jameg Turner,
'Paddlefoot,' 'Troy,' Bental and Fei'ice Sentenced to Prison.
A. P.. C. in a letter to his mother souveniro are sold at fancy prices.
'Paddiefoot,' 'The Mouse,' 'Troy- and 'The Major,' familiar figures in Ham
monds Uai keytown. were nanu s with1 which a jury in Judge Belter's court j became familiar during the trial of Robert Phillips. William Tivlor and '
H enry Bental, colored, for holding ur ,
robbing and choking, Clarence Barrir.o, January 21th. 1'h Hips is known as "PndJ'cfoot" and Taylor .-s "Troy." "The Mouse" and "The Major" are at large, although wanted as witnesses. Phillips, Talor and Bental were sentenced to serve from five to fourteen years for their crime. They robber Barrino of $219. William Felice, a negro, was found
iigkboys who are hunting souvenirs, i rtltions of tho rrace treaty and they will
result in the complete demobilization oj the German army, dlsarmameni throughout Germany and inspection ol German munitions works by an inter allied commission, said a Taris dis1 patch to the Daily News today. Germany's armed strength, for th. rurpese of meeting internal disord-ri Is expected to be fixed at about twenty, five divisions.
Tipplers Up in Arms. (By International News Service.) NLW V O UK. March 1. Gotham Ice Cream Soda "tipplers" are up In arms today against the high cost of drinks. An Ice cream soda on Broadway or Fifth avenue costs twenty-five cents now. Before the war the price was ten cents. i
SERIOUS RIOTS IN MEUNICH
(By International News Service.) BBRLIN", Feb. 2S. via London. March 1 .--Set jo-is disturbances have again
broken cur at Munich. Government
troops have occupied the law courts building. The Majority Socialists at Munich are apealing to the workmen not to join the general strike.
guilty of receiving stole,, goods and j The Gerstenberg dlvls'on of the Gerscnteneed to one to eight years. IV- m(ln army have occupied Hamborn. rice was implicated with the robbery One hunlred and sixteen Spartacides of Jacob Beuitscher. While dancing were arrested there, with negro men in the Junior S- John-!
son poolroom Peuitscher's poekethook was picked of 117. I'euitseker is a
w kite man.
Andre Tardieu is speendlng- up tb work of the peace conference, said th Paris correspondentof the Dully Mail It is not estimated that a general view of the peace terms can be given between March 1 and March 15. Between March 15 and April 1. it is believed, all of the problems will have been solved.
BIG FOUR TRAIN RUNS AMUCK
Don't throw your paper away
without reading the want ad page.
(By International News Service.) CKAWFOKP.SVILLE, Ind., March 1. Several cars of a long Vig Four freight train passing through Crawfordsvllle today Jumped the track, broke loose from the rest of the train and plowed through the home of Mrs. Ellen Peneen. Mrs. Penecn was sitting in a chair and saw the cars Coming but escaped without Injury. The entire house was moved two feet.