Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 7, Hammond, Lake County, 22 March 1919 — Page 1

DID YOU -HEAR THAT-

MAJOR Dick Schaaf had an experi-

-nce with trench warfare the other day whjpn his big touring: car took him in J- Beaver Dam ditch and that's what I ) said, too. -dam ditch." j GEORGE KNOF.RZER 1s still spitting j nickels -whenever he thinks of that abaret fuss, he's so mad. Too bad, ! George -worked like a beaver, too. '

THE old "VVarne cafeterti is to bo turned into a bakery one, of tho Federal Bakeries string all the strings like to get into Hammond. -DC,E E. F. AMES Is waiting am-',,-: for the opening of tho golf season and talked it over with his son Ray, vh has just been here on a visit. REV. H. MACKEXSO.V, pastor of Trinity Lutheran is a clerical live wire

who believes in advertising and will j rut some life in the'ehurch game 'round i here.

TOE CONROY Is out with a sturdy defense of the League of Nations. Joe can work hard, nowadays since Rex cam- back from the trenches. CATT. STRONG of the Hammond po-' lice, for some reason or other, was around town In mufti today and nobody knew him probably Sherlock Holmesing. JTTXJE J. G. I BACH, who is not long back from Florida, hid such a good ime down there that he sajs h w ishes hehad known there was such a place long ago. FOUR of Hammond's w ell-know n men

ro finding new health and interest at j

i no standard J. F. Krost. D. C. Atkinson, Henry Burg- and Julius Hunting. VRTHUR L1XSEMANX. just returned flora Siberia, has left the Citizens' National Hank and accepted responsibilities at the Hammond Savings & Trust.. TOHNT KILE RICH, one cf the best old scouts in the world, is very ill at .his home and according to his brother Mat, fears are entertained he cannot rcc" er. MANAGER BURNS of the lljmr.wnl Country Cbjb is determined not to have more tires or robberies and is brina black cat for superstitious purr-ires. HILL. DAEGLIESCH. the former Hammond Country Cab golf pro." "'' get in harness at one of the Iniir.napolis country clubs this vcar. II. ROTHSCHILD, close student of iit;matioral affairs, brlieves that America should Ic slow to be entunglcd in foreign alliances of any kind.

-i crvv. i v, .i,.L,it. on i-o. lion- : ;a:i. who carries almost eer thing in j . ock that there is with the exception j of coffins and pianos, has a Spfts that i au do everything but fraction-. 1 AUGUST SCHNEIDER, assistant j ."Jpt. at the standard, is geing t 1 j Franco to take charge cf a plant there ' ?nd Charles (Chc-wey) "Wilson na lake j a. trip across this summer. THE Gloomy Gus who pi-vdicteJ thai j )l.;mmond v.ould have a -vast number of j .-lipty store buildings on its hand 5 i hen the state w ent dry has gone in hit; j i'Llc and pulled the hole in after bun. j

U1.U Dec Clark, who believes ho ha-: Ce groatcst oil proposition in the world :.nd finds the same more interesting nan having to got up at 3 a. m. to give .-'ju'.lls to iick people. THERE will be pn important meetIrj at the Chamber of Commerce next

i fiursuay nignt to aiscoss wic sucr project for South Hohman street. EST HAMMOX1) saloonmen mny try the pelican idea if they can get supr'y of birds and rtud a computer.; f i ainer. RALI'H FIERCE, the w. k. circulator, is sporting a new National 'o do his circulating with. WHEN J. T. Ilutton thinks pbou' viia; happened n the i-mnn s ycor aso yest-rday. it makes him sick i think about what miyht have happened, GEORGE KL'sSMAl'b locks for 1ft"i s from his three boys m tcr, ic about i? miious!y r any young ir.un -.cr v.-a ted for i.vc ittcrs fron hi- - ,vf cthcart. IT doesn't take much to Mir i;r H nry Htirke, the snvcr. an.1 all yuu h -e to do is to mention school prpcrs i Hammond to get a rl.-e out o."

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THE DIFFERENCE A YEAR AGO

UAKCH 32, 1918. Oermaji advancing- ott a fifty mil front la Plcardy, hartng broken through th British first Una position!, epturlagr between 16.000 and 20,000 prisoners. Their caanonadlnr of th Brltlah front to violent It can be heard la England. MAECH 33, 1919. Germany lies helpless before the alllee, with the kaiser and the former crown prince fugltlvei In Holland. The peace conference In Paris Is pre. paring" terms which Oermany most tltsra "on the dotted line.'1

FIRST OF THIRTY-SEVENTH DIVISION HAPPY TO GET BACK HOME

HAPPY WHEN BANK OPENS

Dr. alter K. Wilkir.s, photographed as he left New York police head quarters after arrt'ht. Ur. Walter K. Wi'kuis is awaitinir trial in Xaw York f.ir the ir.urdi'r cf his wife in their hor.iC at Lonsr

Ieach. L. I. He tvas arrested while j . waitir.p to take a train to Mireola. "

Mrs. Wilkins '.V3s beaten to death with a hummer outside her horn the

nichr. nf r plirnarv "'7 Tlip rinctnr w ! th

sixty-four years old. i pnny and 1

HESSViLLE Mi HURT

i J. TV. Ilcti'hiti of llr-sviit". a f.rcj man on tlf: Iiuliitua li:.rb-r TIM. II. II - a ..:i I i tv y t.. vf'i k at Hlu Isl-'.nii 'abo-.it 1 tli? liiortiins; on his r.-.otor-oylf vV).n 5o,u-:hir.s v-n. wrong wltb ' t.ir mo'-liin'-.

j Formal Opening Today of j Standard Trust & Sav

ings Bank, Which Begins Business Monday. ' Kast Hammond merchants wore th pniilo that ! n't orr- off todaj- on tlir ocrtifK'n rT tho formal opening of th Ptandarc! T--ut Saving Dank In lt

J buiMing; .t Fifld .ami Columbia avenues, on-- l-!..-k tjortli of Morton avenur. I lhy wc:r a jroul as a Kid with a

rcw prr ut lio "t. The openinsr of th bar.k. whlv-Ii )ias a capital of $25,000 r.t laFt etabl!.i:cd Kist Hammond a? a bJiino-o diitrivt. Tnrpov-tlc-n of the bank with its splendid fixt;irs. decorations, rolnfcrc'3 vaults and C'thrr Up-to-date

! equipment assured peopla of th j t-tindard district of Its physical per- : n'anence whil-? the reputation of th? j t'.u f r-tors and officials es it the best I of character. F.ast Hammond !s sat- ! lfi.l t'iat the bnr.k will operated ! on the same high plane as the other

luiKf; bank? 'vith which V -. V . W .

toyn Is Identified.

Mr. M(n. prcsldrnt of the Lake Co

Trust ai Sa-v incs Co., is president of j

:'tr.ronrd Trust and Savings Cvm-

O. J"nks, vice-president of j

1 the .Standard Steel Car company., i I vice-president of the bank. The sec

reta r -treasurer ts C. F.- Fletcher, ant

! auditor with the standard plant.

j Tfv institution will do all wanner j of banrfins business with savinss an I j

! lotninercal at ounis, roreign exj thantje and st amhip ticket si'enciea. The vJircctors of the bank are .1'. W. M'.yn, 1. 'i. Jenks. C. F. Fletcher. : Carl Kauffinan, V". C. Belman. VI". A. l.;ehkenan ami ,Jo;. Thompson.

MONROE DOCTRINE

NTEGRITY CONSIDERED

j All of Proposed Amendments

to Pact are Taken With Pres. Wilson Presiding.

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Detachment of Thirty-seventh division on board transport Harrisburg greeting crowd on arrival in New York.

The picture tells

whether or not these lads were

glad to get back in the U. S. A.

The boys of the Thirty-seventh division, made up mostly of Ohio troops , are joining the home-

comers these days. The first de- ' Harrisburg.

tachment arrived in rew iork recently on board the transport

RECEIVER ! rnn n a i s

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FRIENDS STAND BY PETERSON

Scout the Story That HeiHawkeye State Is Seething ! Was Involved in Hotel i Because of Expose in Dollas Scandal. ; High Circles.

MACKEY AND

COOK REMOVED

Coal Company in aBnkrupt-

I rn a'.-cour.t of the association with ! n-hich his name has been connected, I , with tli" recent scandal involving the j

, . , ! I'villas Hotel, of East Chicago. Eert Cyj Jeweler S StOCk SOlCl i H Peterson, manager, has tendered ; . hn resignation to take effect the first and Haberdasher at Indi-f ap.-u. i

Friends of t e young: man. -whose I

(BUX.Z.ETZS.) f IMERN ATION L NEWS SERVICE! FA&XS, March 23. Premier Orlan3 of Italy had appointments to confer with President Wilioa and Col. S. M. Eonie this afternoon on Italy's claim b to Plum and the Adriatic littoral. (It Is reliably reported that JreIdent WUsoa will be selected as referee to settle the dispute between Italy and Juffo-Sla-rla over Dalmatian territory borderiac the Adriatic.) Btri.rsTziT.) John Parkerson staff correspondent i. n. servtcij FABIS, March 22. Japan's claims for "equal riefhts" for Japanese clUEens, which has been menaclay the league of nations plan has been settled In a series of private conferences, It was understood this after, soon. Zt was reported this afternoon that the matter had been so modified that it was ffenerally unobjectionable. The world "equality" was aid to have been cut out of the Japanese demand so that It simply calls for "Justice alike for the nationals for all members of tho league." John Edwin Nevin f staff correspondent i. n. service! PARIS, March 22. All of the proposed amendments to the league of nations covenant were taken un-

1 der consideration today when the

j league of nations commissions met B'ciowa-sl under the chairmanship of Presiofllcial circles are set-thing today in the I dent Wilson. most sensational turmoil In years as a. )

This was the first full meeting

OWA'S GOVERNOR

CHARGED AS BRIBER

ana Harbor Fails.

result of charges made fcfeore tho legislative Judiciary committee tliat $5,000 as paid to an attorney tj buy the pardon of Ernest Kathbuu from Governor ". L.. Hardin. Impcachnu-nt of the gcverner, it is threatened, may bu the

of the commission since the session in February, the day before President Wilson sailed for the

j United States before the adjourn-

Mr. l(...'i

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his h.-ind in t't.o vvlie-5. t'-arinK H. t'--n rode r

!c it p.r.n chairs o: the .ff c-iip cf hi -hunt six ir;!-

I t lftTERNATiCNL NtAS StRVlCEl VAHING i'v... March ::'.-liiin; i -Cnductfd t iienc 1 . t s in such a tnan- ' ti-r as t-j disadvantasijusly affect the ' .nit, rests cf the go v. r n ni t at , Clarence

!!! Ix-- vvi! t-i t : p. ; h. Mackfl, pccsid.-tit ; . W. Cook, : li'in tv t 'v.- 'I'.-i-ttT v. :io Ken-ra.l couii-r-1 unil William F. De-

: m-'.i'i,. . gan, sc ci t-ta r;. , Ur v o bct-n re

; irom th; opera! iun of th 1

i rxrajjh Cable Company's "land lines un-!:-! government cuntvo'. I'o? tmfistcrG nrral Uuiif.auii announced this afi :,-i uvjn. The order also iticludes tlju Uvatd of trustees of the vonipany and I A. 1". .vems, president of the Kansi an e'uy Hume Telegraph Co , has been j f pMu s ' d to succeed them, Burleson ' adueci.

GARY BOLT

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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) I-T1AX KI-'UKT, lnd., -March Hcf- , erec In T-ankruptcy Harry c'. Sheridan today appointed Chas. I.. Surprise of j Hammond receiver f r th; JDaiy Uios. ; Coal Co. of Hammond, upon a petition

! of involuntary bankruptcy tiled by At- ,

. tornevs Sproaf and Metz f that city. , moved " ' ! Tt'.o liabilities anil ssrt havr- not as

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Southern Coal, C -Ki.- and Mining t o. cf ; St. lxiui. the- Kuss-maul lec-d arid 1 Roofipg Co. of Hammond and the die- i inbchcr Brick Co. of Michigan City. J

r.VTflOI "Driver Bell i causing sv::i ,u a'.ousy at '.ho Hammond police sic t iun. A new boy camt yesterday n i; 'l exrpf-'s to liave hi:u made a t-r t'-atit i;ct wo'-'.t. anyway.

TON T TAPPER is putting in a ha.-..- ; - , t t ii ' ,,re from the bunding- on H.Mmmn iHundrecl Thousand Dollar . DICHARGES

:vioi firmerlv

Damage Done m G-ary

pc'.ilavity among all classes was at

tste-d by 1.1s election a year ago last; outcome of the livestigation.

rail as one or the counctlmer. at large , (jovernor Harding, in a public state-1 ment of congress e.n lite reepublican municipal ticket, I n-.ent, has branded the cherses as pr--! b-

a'.iy those intcrejted in his car- j rosterolI bnd has declared the entire 1 M0Ha0E D0CTXINZ VI.

affair a "frameup" on tha part of his i Two of tl,e most Perrlexlng questions political enemies. The governor oper.lv-j which havc been PU"lirK the d-Tegatcs charges Attorney General H. M. Hivne'rSwere th" j"mirration Questions ee put with participation in the f-amtup." i forward by the Japanese and the ., . . , ... 1 amendment to inurc the integrity of 1 he charges against (.ivern. r Harding i ,r r. . , . ,, , ... i tho Monroe. Doctrine.

wore maae in an aintiaviT mea py v!i-

county farmer, given George

e-j-. have deeply reeretted the unfor

finale hain of circumstances that connected his nam' nith the delin-'I'ien.-;.-of two ioung girls who held the management responsible before the court for their downfall.

IMvrson ?ays that he was ready to ! liani Rathb'in. an Ti;i prove ti.iit he was :u Wafliingtvn In ; -who declared he lmd

his attorney ?o.onn, with the ex-

etipied by Mci

i'u jeweler tor the present tenant

l.ibeial L'loihms -'o. crxy engineer Win endge ts :- i r.'wlat of a busy man putting Hammond's new street improvement p-ro?-V.-cts in haro for action this spring. . t-i ui-vrTTrn l.ae l.f.nt-lii tli

i,ltVX iZV-.tJ-. A. i -I k.H,..v

''.s.in-imer resort on the Ch:pptwa ri -. c-r " . -jiied by Fred Bueli. thu v.-restlcr. and w;;i have a r?al il:i:e for lishennei:. H. R. f'.'HNElDEn, the local Turn

1 ..!.-.'. son. w ho was given a hunch adnir oil. Era't'bcd !' in a hurry

e'eaned up a neat sara. t MAI.COM D. STEWART of Warren

'fe nn is quite the happiest man in town Jfr.day. Reason? Why his son just i'opped in for breakfast after a !onr; trip to France. 1,EVT GOLDEN is having quite a time declaring that it must have been sotr.e mistake about his taking the stiU case. POT CORN" OEOR'XE JONES has shaken the, dust of Hammond from his feet and billiard cut and taken up his abode in the classic county seat. FRANK E'UCOMB and Feto Davis, two of the old-timers who are about as

smunch friends of the bov s overseas as j

car. ts found, are still keeping an cyt on' the things that happen over there. IF Lockie Simpson had room enough in his shop to put in a printing plant. h-3 could get out a great newspaper, providing he made Bill Kane editor-in-chief and could.- get Fat to do more-taki-.ig-JOHN" DONALDSON', the plumber, saja that wfutirg for trains at Hammond crossings is one of the biggest wastes of ti-ne and money its people are faced with. FRANK HAMMOND doesn't think newspapers ought to make mistakes. Tet he brought In a letter referring to a date whih he made February 13 when he meant March 13. Oh, very well. I'rar.k. OLD Mel Monnett's place Is beginning to look like home with all tho boys getting back home and thre Is one place where they get the real glad hand. WHAT with Buicks and spring decorating John Schmeusser is so busy that h wishes the government could put about sis more hours in the length of the day.

FROM ARMY

Blase Last Night.

Jeweler's Stock Sold. Frank Suttin, conducting a jewelry store in. the Majestic Hotel building in Hammond, has iold his stock and will retire from the retail jewelry business. Mr. Suttin may decide to continue in the watch and jewelry repair business in which line lie ;s con-iiicred an ex-

atl' n.iaiv i' at the Nationn.1 Rivers and i Clark

. Ha'bo!.; Congress w hen the events al- press understanding that the money was

i K-sed were pulled off but that there i t" go to Governor Harding In exchange j j vra. a conspiracy against him that he J for a pardon for his son, Ernest Rath-I ' coulu not overcome; that the manage-j bun. The younger Rathbun had been j ! r.ient was in charge cf Tom Dollas , conv icted of a criminal assault and was i during that particular period and i under sentence of tjf imprisonment! that 1." was not responsible for any-! when a pardon was granted him by the j ! thins that may have happened during governor. ' that t-rat: that he was impersonated! I hv anoth'-r and that the second man, j

'who was implicated impersonated or

I. as

evening at abot;

.en o'clock j ending totalled S6.-'33 officers and 1,-

;sed th'- alias of John Williams,

The stock was -sold to Louis Cordon gu;itj parties being Greeks.

The stocii

fas given at the Gary

t,crt' ' en., oiiu-i of John Williams, both

i '.INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEj I XV 1 5 H I VI : I I V Mm en "2 . IM.

I charges from the army up lo the week j on. w .o - Thosc who have kn0wn Mr. Peter-I

S "U:rL "Tl : ZtZ 'Z:: from boyhood in the city and who :

till

afternoon at the offices

chief of staff. These include

loops on duty in the.Lnited States

and j and memteis of the American Expe-

ir,.,. -.tVi.v hv rut'irnpd I our oi. vnc u.iu

I home. Ordeis hav e been Issued -ip to elate for th" demobilization of l.T-'S.o'Hi ! officers and men. leaving only 'J02.245

the alarm ef fire

Dolt and Scjcw V.'vrka. just cast of ' , 10. J c n.

r srv. Trie m e was u.icovcrtu in iiic

dyi-.arr.il room by a:i employe

si tl very raiudly and

on i and ' cotirid-raiilc headway .il.en the Gary jfre dcp-n-imc :u arri-.ed. Owing to low-

pressure. .ne aepaninem couia not ao cff lCers and men be discharged unvery eft'-ctive work in extinguishing 1 dr existing orders. tho b.aze for an hour and a half. It j 1 ' " was midnight b-rfore the fire was sub- ! O'LEARY JURY JURY uued and under control. Two depart- i REPORTED HUNG ments of the plant were entirely gutted !

including the contents consisting of ma- j chine-ry. J The damage to the building is esti- i mated at between $2u.C't'0 and $25,000 i

and to the contents and maenmery at about $75.0.iO nniking a total cf flOO,00'.'. fully insured. It i.- said. At the plant theic were between 500 and COO employed, and Sup rintendent

Car states that work will euiniiicnce ! ;otl- . j

in Lnless a verdict is reacnea lomguvj

it is expected that the Jury will be dis-

i ui. nticnt lifi Bomewhat 1

r .),- . o 1., ,if.ru tur.i.fl r,-T to I1VB nuv 11 ... r - .

of Gen. . - .. . inti.ia-.elv believe h'.s story and are

; CnaS. curpiise as u uui: iui 1.113 otrur j

i tors who will receive lf,0 cents on the

dollar.

ual circumstances are

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f. tO ?HV liiat IIICJ ii.-w 1-.1 i. i -J

r.ei t really been on the Job, -that the fiasco v.ould not have happened.

rtrit nvs that people should re-;

that Mr. Suttin had only four creditors ! ivpnib, . that a one-sided story always; j who will receive- their money in full. unju,t and unfair impression!

1 He qufts business with the good will

'of his creditors and the public

I Haberdasher Falls. ; Hyyman trnilovitz of 3-104 Deodra st . I Indiana Harbor, ha? made an assigniment lor the benefit of his creditors to ' Chas. Surprise a trustee. Smitovitz ! has about $3.50 in men's wearing ap-j

r.rel st.vfi; find owes about $6,000. He I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! , tll wa,

N"T3V YfiRK. March 22 The jury : annual...- - - lalnej to the cit;.

in Dullness ri;oit:ii

I t,,id lhat the people or tlie commumt ' .-,hou'.d give his word i.ue weight whenj jie d-cl ires, upen honor, that he is innocent of the things with which he

ha been charged. As an alderman. Petersen has been tisuiUy considered fair, impartial and not oniv interested but concerned over

th- wisdom of everything that per- j f!TTTJ ATION IN

RoufHonor As an example of the laxaess Id porting ths names of the wounded, in Oen. Pershing's casualty list today. Is reported the name of Eric Xund of Hammond as lightlywounded. An account of this casualty was gi'ea In The Times last August, nearly eight months ag-o. Mr. Lund -was wounded at Chattean Thierry in. July. Among the other "casualties reported today Is: WOUNDED SETESELT. JOHN M. OBKIEN, Indiana Har. bor, Znd.. father, James O'Brien, Palace Hotel.)

The following- communique was issued on the second meeting of neura;s with the league of nations sub-commil-

i tee:

A second meeting was held at the Hotel Crillon Friday aftetneon in ordt?r to give the representatives of the neutral states a further opportunity of stating their views of the draft of the

covenant before a committee of ha ' league of nations commission. The re- , inaining articles ef the covenant were examined in successive order. ; (The first fifteen were examineJ i Thursdayy.) CICII. OITES THANKS. 1 At tho end of the meeting Lord Rob- .' ert Cecil (o fEngland) thanked those .' present for their assistance and for th ' labors of the several neutral etates in ' previously elaborating propects for a league of rations, which said Lord Rob- ' ert. had been of much use to the com- . mission. Lord Robert added that the peac j conference hoped that all of the states j represented at these discussions wouM i become original members of the- league.

Following fhe meeting of the supreme

having entered

. lAUiinn nf .. .Tiinniin n c t . came mourns

vvhichls deliberating over the case of

the

inv, ifuirt for the. first time this af-

jternoon for additional instructions, j caught him : iftoi- fl-iov- Visrl heen enliehtened on'

its high point.

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The reduction In prices

Hl plans for

&c ineomriei-e.

welfare, e future

are thus

the qustiond points by Federal Juc ivANT DEBS TO JDXJ j Hand, they went back to their discus-j nrvTTTnm ttti A n !

CAN'T JOIN UP WITH SPARTACANS

immediately on reconstruction and

about two weeks it is thought operation of the plant will again begin.

WOMEN ASSAILED

charged. It has been out since lei-day morning.

yts

BYAHOBBERiOBSf

Last nglit about 11 o'clock Mrs. Leonard llaefer. of 34j Truman street and h-r s-tster. Mrs. Anna Hess were on the way home when at the corner of Truman and Jesse street a young man came np and asked them where they were going. Mrs. Haefer told him that it was

none of his business. The man drew

a knife end slashed at her hand bag. Mrs. Haefer jumped bick and began to ?cream. Tii man snatched the bai; and ran down J.-sse street, making his escape. This morning Haefer and their daughter found the basr cut. open lying near the Michigan Central tracks and In a little side pocket was found th" $1 To that Mrs. Haofrr had with her, but evidently overlooked by ths thief.

RELEASED

(INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! V.-ASIHNGTON. March 22. The release of J. E . Whetton, an American citizen anJ Joseph S. Bentley. a Mormon biihop. who had been taken pris oner by Villistas in Mexle. was reported 1n advices reaching the state department this afternoon. The men were ht lu fo rfour days, but (suffered no -physical violence. Another dispatch to the state department from the New Sabinas Co., a Evit'h concern in Mexico, stated that Oscar Wallace, an American citiren, had been attacked by bandits and carried off, either dead or severely wouncd. The attack occurred at his residence, Halcinda Encltias, near the city of Frogresso Cauhlla.

I in the United States nnd now

(sentence of ten years i-pprisonment j

for sedition, lies been chosen Dy tne soviet congress, (the Bolsheviks) at Moscow, to be the president of any future' "soviet" that may be formed in

dispatch from that I

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' COPENHAGEN. March 23. Any attempt by the Bolsheviks to drive through to Germany in the sprint; and

dom-

f INI ERNATION AL NEWS SERVICE!

j GENEVA. March 22. Eugene V. 1 . 1 .... 4 a - nf Va i-aili.iol Biii-'nUiitl

r! ro r.ni-ure. according io an ouic.ai

statement Issued by the head of the Lettish army. Ic is contended that Finland, the Baltic provinces of Riis-

! sia and Poland, will form a bulwark

through which the Bolshevik army

i an not break.

America, said

city todiy. ,

The Socialist liaders Maclean and i Lori were chosen for England and J GERMAN SHIPS France respectively. LEAVE FOR FOOD

EGYPT ALARMS

r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, Maich 22. The situation in Egypt, resulting from political disturbances, lias be-come worse, said a dispatch from Cairo today. Reinforcements of troops are being sent to quell the disorders, according to the Star. Armed Bedouins have entered Baharl s in lower Egypt, looting villages. The Turkish flag has been raised at some places.

HEIGHHOl ONLY FOUR BILLON

Tay-

GEN. ALLENBY HONORED IN EGYPT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICCi LONDON. March 22 Gen. :S;r If. If. Allenby, co'iuurer ef the Turks in Palestine, has been appointed special high commissioner of E;i;ypt with unlimited military and civil powers, as a result of the political disorders prevalent there, it was learned today. It is officially stated that the Egyptian situation is grave.

A. G. Anderson BERLIN", via LONDON. March 23. Upwards of thirty German ships will leave German porta within the next few- days to bring back food to Germany. , The new steamship Trizier is leaving for t herbourg to pock Up American troops. Upon her return voyage she will carry food.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Mar:h 22.

ments of income and excess Oarofits taxes, one-fourth of which weie due last Saturday, amounted to 41.001.244.000, according to practically complete returns compiled by the treasury department this afternoon. The number of payments for the full amount due was comparatively small, and taking into consideration the many extensions of time that was granted, the tieaf.iry department ofic'als estimated tnat well over $1,000,000,000 would be netted by the income tax provisions of he revenue bill.

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ALLIES LEAVE ODESSA, RUSSIA INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON. March 12. Odessa hes been evacuated by the allied forces, according to a Russian wireless dispatch picked up here today. A British and French garrison ban been occupying Odessa. North of that city a Greek force has been heavily engaged with the. Bolshevik troops recently.

HAD TWO PINTS; IS FINED $80 TSRECIAL TO THE TIMES 1 vVHITING, lnd.. March 22. Martin Henchman of Gary, arraigned in the city court for having twox pint bottles of whiskey in his auto truck, was fined $50 and costs by Judges Green, amounting to ISO. He paid and was released.

WHITING MAN DIES IN STORE

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rSPECIAL TO TMe TIMES V.TIITING, March S3 Jos. Chrort. age : years, of 101? White Oak Ave., dropped dead in a store at 1100 White Oak avenue, he h:i"inar been in an exhausted condition, from tuberculosl . nnd unable to work for several months. The funeral was held yesterday in charge of Undertaker OwBj, Interment was at Hainmpnd.