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STEEL ARE TELESCOPE Rear End Collision Occurs When Hot Box Stops the Train for Repairs. 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 NEW YORK, July 1. Nine persons were killed, including seven passengers and three others may die, and 43 persons were injured in the rear-end collision between two trains of the New York Central at Dunkirk, N. Y., at 2:20 a. m. today, said a revised statement given out at the New York Central offices here todaj The collision occurred when train No. 7 ploughed into the rear end of the second section of train No. 41, which had halted at Dunkirk for a minor repair. The dead: SEAS AND X3TJTJB.es. airs. Minnie Carton, Toronto, Ont. Kn. Edmuada Quiuoa and ber two daughters, aged about three and ten years. Niagara' r'a.Is, N. T. Three unidentified men. passengers. T. X.. Clifford, engineer of train No. 7. believed to be from Buffalo. Trtd Stoti, fireman of train No. 7. believed to be from Buffalo. The New York Central offices here reported that an earlier statement they had issued declaring that the tower signals at Dunkirk and the signal on (Continued on rage two.) VETERAN SALESMAN A. J. Burke, who has- sold products tor the Standard Oil Co. for thirty-three Stars, has been retired on a pension, which he will get the rest of his life, 'n accordance with the policy of the great corporation when its employes reach a certain age and have been with it so "I don't feel any too srood about it," fa id the veteran salesman, "'for I am just as young as I ever was. it seems t me and can sell just as well as I ever iid. I don't want to retire and I don't like this Doc Osber stuff." Mr. Burke f.rst sold Standard Oil products in Auburn, lnd.. then in Calumbia City. Hammond. Columbia City. Fort Wayne, end in Hammond again. Ha has been a resident of Hammond for twenty years and is one of the best known salesmen end most popular T. F. A. men on the fad. C. E. CONVENTION IS ENDED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J FT. WAYNE, Ind.. June SO. The largest Christian Endeavor prayer meeting ever held since the founding cf the- state organization of the church societies, conducted by Miss Bertha Harding of Logansport. closed the four day Christian Endeavor convention her, last night. "Down South. t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! VICKSBURO. Miss., July 1 The cross-river saloons in Louisiana were the mecca of thousands of Vicksburgers and visitors from all parts of the etate' yesterday, and many celebrations were staged during the evening. The groups of automobiles and gasoline launches were used for transporting liquor to bone-dry Mississippi and nearly everybody returning carried suitcases and big packages. One saloon in Delta. La., sold out its entire etock Saturday ni?rht and a car load of liquor was rushed there from Monroe, La., and sold yesterday. The big crowds of tipplers were good natured and no disorder was reported, though there was more drinking and more whiskey purchased here yesterday than ever before. GIRL STUDENT . IS DROWNED f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 ' ANGOLA. Ind.. July 1. The body of Hiss Opal Stickney, of Cooney, Ohio., a student of trl-sfate college here, 'who (crowned In Fix Lake, has been recov- - '

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WILL SPEND $175,000 for Church Property; Maywood Will Be Sight of Handsome Edifice. Thrcugh the purchase from the Hammond Kealty Co., through Woods. Martin & Co., of a largo tract of ground in Maywood for church, community house and parsonuge purposes, the fact is revealed that the Method:ft church plans to spend $175. OuO in Hammond in thrte building: operations. This vast sum cf money is to provide a center of activity on the cast side, another on the north side where lots have been purchased on Gobtlin st. between Towlo luid Cameron sts, from Mrs. Mary Huuhn and to provide a. down-town community center on Russell st. on property now owned by the church. And Hammond's allotment is only part of a. million dollar allotment that is 'o be spent in the Calumet district in Indiana. Iarge sums are to bo spent in Gary, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago and Whit in. j. The work that is outlined by the Methodists is in harmony with that of the oth;r protestant churches of the city which have divided up the territory and wil not permit a duplication of effort in any particular territory. For instance the Presbyterians are alloted the Homewood district, the Baptists have made East Hammond their particular ward and have built a costly commuaity hcjuse there; the Methodists have Menroe Sui.tr disirlct where a new church will be built later on; the Methodists have the west part of the north side and the Fresbyterians the east part of the north side where the Pine st. Presbyterian church is located. The Christian church has the Calumet ave, district. The decision to locate in Maywood and secure a site there was prompted by the rapid development of Maywood. which promises to absorb all of the available sites there within the next few months. The fact was recognized that failure to act now might rebult in th-j necessity of paying a much larger sum for a site a short time later on. The Methodist project in Maywood calls for improvements that will cost many thousands of dollars. It was thought advisable to get enough ground to provide for the activities of the church for years to come. The property was purchased through W. C. Eelman. Morton M. Towle. and the committee of the church which has the matter In charge. m SUSPECT IN TOLLESTON BANK ROBBERY LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 1. Jessa j Smith, proprietor of a soft drink establishment, was arrested here Saturday night, at the request or the Gary police authorities, for alleged connection with the murder of Herman Ueeker. a bank cashier at Tolleston. Smith is accused of having assisted In planring the attempted robbery that led to the murder of the cashier. He was taken to Gary yesterday. Smith was formerly a patrolman at Gary, and, according to word received here, today, is alleged to have known Chicago bandits who came to Gary to carry on crime. It is alleged that the gang stole several automobiles robbed several business places and finally attempted the bank robbery that resulted in the tragic death of the cashier. The men who are arrested in the crime are said to have made a nfession and to have named Smith. Smith is a native of Tippecanoe Co. and comes from a well known rural family. MANY KILLED IN HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, July 1. It is ofticiaily announced that 5 45 persons were killed and damage totalling millions of marks done at Hamburg in last week's fighting between Spartacists and government troops, said a Central News dispatch from Berlin this afternoon. INDIANA NEWS. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) EVANS VILLI"., Ind.. July 1. i- ire today destroyed the Theodore Rechtiil plaining mill and lumber yards here with a loss of $100,000. Spontaneous combustion caused the blaze. HENRTVILLE. Ind.. July 1 After I having been without food thirty-eight I days, Richard Elrod. seventy-nine years of age, was dead today cf paralvsis. The Times' want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed

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Use Gas Galore to Bring In the Booze THE POLICE STEPPED SOME STa hundred packages of liquor mostly in gallon lota i confiscated by the Hammond police last night oa its way from Chicago to Indiana, A great deal of it waa beaded for Q-ary. Torty arrests were made for uooie runalajr. 150 arrest were mad for drunkenness. The whole city hall building' was turned into a Jail. Chief Austg-en and bis men were literally fagged out this morning:. ALL traffic records between Calumet boulevard and Indianapoiis boulevard to South Chicago and points nearer loops were smashed to smithereens last night. Ye oldest inhabitant never saw anything like it. There never was anything like it. Literally thousands of Indiana machines went back and forth over these thoroughfares in a solid r.tream from live o'clock last night until five this morning. NO rEBEBAX. AGENTS. Of federal agents to stop the boozerunners there were none. Police simply couldn't cope with the enormous jam. From the little saloon on Indianapolis boulevard on the State Line to Manistee avenue in South Chicago there was a string of Indiana machines garnering the last supplies. In the South Chicago wholesale wine houses Indianans screamed to be separated from their cash. CAME TIOM AXZi OTIS. The Indiana machines came from all (Continued on page two.) 0. S. EXPECTS TO IKE TEST CASES f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. July 1. Test cases on the sale of beverages containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol will be brought immediately by the department of justice in ail Jurisdictions where such cases are not now pending. Atty. Gen. Palmer announced today. "We propose to maek immediate arrests of persons who violate the wartime prohibition law, according to our interpretation thereof," the attorneygeneral said today. "The department does not intend, however, to be swept off its feet the first day that prohibition comes into effect. We will proceed in an orderly fashion to establish whether intoxicating beverages prescribed by the law include those having less than 2i per cent alcohol." Mr. Talmer reiterated that all persons violatin gthe law might expect "early and vigorously prosecutions." While there remains a question as to whether 2.73 beer is intoxicating, the department of Justice will not attempt wholesale arrests, it was stated, but if a decision in the pending case at Baltimore la favorable to the government, prosecutions will result promptly in all cases in which evidence has been obtained by the bureau of investigation or sumbittedby other agencies." A widely published .statement to the contrary caused confusion this morningin many state?. In Connecticut many saloons opened this morning: aa a result of the misinformation. They closed their doors when advised by the secretary of the Connecticut Liquor Dealers Association that the attorneygeneral at Washington had not made the ruling credited to him. The attorney-general said that the test case in New York leaves it up to the department of Justice to prove in each individual case that the beer in question is intoxicating. Therefore, a decision in the Baltimore case, which would apply to all beer over one-half of one percent if upheld by the supreme court of the United States, is desired to give an interpretation applicable to the entire country. In the meantime the attorney-general said that he was hopeful congress will pass pending war time enforcement legislation, thus doing away with the exist ing uncertainties. The attorney-general reiterated that no amnesty had been granted in the case of brewers and said that his statement ef last night made this fact sufficiently plain. Reports reached the department this afternoon that Atlantic CUy was wide open with whiskey being sold as formerly. The attorney-general stated that if this were true, prosecutions would be started. TWO SUITS ARE DISMISSED Two divorce su.ts were dismissed by Judge Reiter in Room 1 of the Hammond superior court on motion of the plaintiffs. They were the suits of Lillie Hazye vs. Joseph Hazye and Katherlne Wood vs. Vernon Wood

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Trail of the Lonesome Vine Last Spree for Him. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WORCESTER. Mass.. July 1. Following a spree on the eve of the enforcement of the "dry" act, Maurice Sheehan. 4S year old. shot and killed his wife. Margaret, 3S years old and then shot himself at their home here early today. Five children ranging in age from 15 years down to one year,, witnessed the tragedy. Sheehan died at a hospital. Just One More. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, July 1. A dispute over the purchase of "Just one more last drink" resulted in the shooting of Joseph Deanbro. 20, early today. He was shot in the back and seriously wounded. $20 Quart in Portland. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' PORTLAND. Ore., July 1. Bootleg whiskey advanced to $20 a quart here today because the ration went dry. Oregon of course ha sbeen dry for quite a while, but because California stocks will now be hard to obtain, local dealers raised the ante. Prior prices were were $15 and $1" with a good demand. Only Dry in pots. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) MILWAUKEE Wis., July 1 Milwau kee's first dry day was dry only in spots for several saloon keepers were selling beer on the strength of the report that beer containing not over 2 3-4 percent al'ri , might be exempted from wai-t;me prohibition. Hoosiers With Headache. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 1. Hoosiers resumed their normal thirsty course today after thousands crossed the state's borders last night for the "last farewell snort" before the nation became "Saharaesque." Federal and local authorities guarding the state line rear Hammond arrested many would-be smugglers of liquor and although thousands emigrated to Kentucky from Evansville, few attempted to bring liquor into Indiana. At Burnham. 111., the normal population was swelled from"S00 to 5.000 by devotees of the flowlr.fr bowl. Safe, Not Booze. EVANSVILLE. Ind.. July 1. When patrolman Likens saw two men unloading an unwieldy package from an automobile he scented contraband liquor and rushed the pair. They fled. The package was a heavy safe stolen from the Newark Shoe Store a few minutes before. The strong box contained several hundred dollars. Nurse and Gob Pinched. GOSHEN. Ind.. July 1. Milburn C. Hill, of Goshen, chief machinist in the United States navy was fined $135 and given six n onths suspended sentence at the Indiana renal Farm when he arrived front Chicago with seven qts. of whiskey. A woman who gave her name as Adeline Doyle and said she was a Red Cross nurse at the Great Lakes Training Station accompanied Hill. She was also Jailed and fined. Well, He Lost. CANONSBURG. Ta.. July 1. Mike Welch, a cor.l miner. Is dead today as the result of overdrinking last night. He made a wager with a companion that h could drink the most liquor before prohibition became effective. Women, As Well As Men. KANSAS CITY. July 1 Kansas City's farewell to John Barleycorn continued until far into the early morning hours. Crowds paraded the streets, singing, blowing tin horns and s.nd In fact every kind of noisemaker that could b.j had. Until long after two o'clock this morning the crowds still paraded the streets. The saloons closed promptly at twelve o'clock but many who had obtained liquor before that time had drunk It instead of carrying It home. No Use for Dayton Now. I ND I ANA rOLI S Ind.. July i."Why did you leave Dayton?" queried a big police sergeant who picked up two runaway lads on the streets here at 2:30 this morning, "Dayton's dry: nobody wants to stay there," they said. The boys. Harold Bauman aged 12 and Forrest Richeson age 10. were returned to Dayton today. They came here on a traction car. A Record for Minny. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., July 1. Minnesota is claiming the distinction of be.ing the only state in the union that ws wet yes erday and bone-dry today. C. Lewis Weeks, deputy attorney-general of Minnesota, has ruled that regardless of any 'uling by federal authorities, the state is dry by the provisions of the prohibition enforcement acU approved by the last legislature

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: . - iiii't IM 4 1 1 11 WW il1 V Mif Ut. TbeobW Ton Dr. Theobald von Bethman Hoilweg, who was German chancellor from 1909 until July 14. 1917, has asked the allies to place him on trial instead of the ex-kaiser. He says he asumes respon BRYAN RODE THE CAMEL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COLUMBUS, O.. July 1. Riding a camel, Wm. J. Bryan headed the parade this afternoon at the Methodist centenary marking the celebration of the demise of John Barleycorn. "I always did," read the sign on the camel. An elephant bore the inscription: "I had to." And a donkey carried: "Me too." WELL, HERE'S TONY AND . WINCA AGAIN Champion Booze Runners Find Themselves Again Under Arrest. Just back frbm serving sentences In the Marion county Jail for violating the liquor laws. Tony and Winca Kiris of Indiana Harbor grasped the last opportunity and ran into the federal arm3 again last night. Tony and Winca must lovo that old jail. On stopping a big high-powered green machine in the north part of Hammond last night the police and federal agents found the Harbor couple in the front seat with two men in the rear seat. Two gallons of whiskey were also in the car. Tony and Winca. protested that the booze belonged to the other folks and even offered to kill the fellows for disgracing them, but they were jailed Just the same. The last time they faced that dear Judge Anderson Tony got four months and his wife three. She raised such a row that the Judge made her get out of the court room. They had also appeared several times in the East Chicago citvt court for similar offenses before thr federal agents took charge of them. 1 They are now being held to the federal grand Jury under $ if, "01 bonds each. EARTHQUAKE CONTINUING r INTERNAtoni i uewe trouirri .LONDON. Jfilv 1 Thp earthouake that rocked nf.rth central Italy is con- ' tnuing its destruct ion. said a Rome' dispatch todfay. The latest estimate contained inf news dispatches from Florence- is that the doa number S0 .

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THE KAISER'S GOAT "4 .'Ar" y- . . .v. , ,r A.-. .- -..-V ?i (: -j?' St JViVtl Bethmana-Hollwex. sibility for the acts of Germany during" his period of office. Bethman Hollweg is the man who at the beginning of the war defied the treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium as "a scrap'of paper." HERE'S NEW ILLINOIS -RULING MADE TODAY r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SPRIfGFIELD. 111.. July 1. The search and seizure law in Illinois in full force and effect today absolutely prohibits the sale of wines, beer and other alcoholic beverages containing more than one-half of one per cent in Illinois, according to a statement issued by Attorney General Brundage today. The statement holds that the ruling of the attorney-general of the United States in regard to the federal wartime prohibition act does not affect the search and seizure law. RACE RIOT ON WEST SIDE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. July 1. One negro Is dead, another is seriously beaten, and five men are suffering from bullet wounds today as the result of a race riot in Chicago's west side district. Chas. Jackson, colored, fell and broke lijs neck while he was fleeing fro-.n a rnob of white men after he had shot five of them. James Jackson, his brother, was severely beaten. The Jacksor.s were accused cf insulting two white girls as they stood on a street corner awaiting a car. REPORT MADE ON GROWING CROPS f ItlTTDU iTIAV A I SJ E J C C CDVIT C t WASHINGTON. July 1. The .cpo? reporting oard of the bureau of cop reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates from erports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau, that the area of cotton in cultivation this year in the United States Is about SjfT.0000 acres as compared ''VL&fii'-' acres the erevised estimstBjJ areage in cultivation a year ago benxg- a decrease of 3247000 acres or 8.7 percent. The condition of the growing crop June 25 was 70.0 percent of a normal condition as compared with 75. on May 23 1919. DIRIGIBLE MAY START TONIGHT LONDON. July 1. General Maitland telephoned frm Eiinburgh today that weather conditions are improving and the monster Eritish dirigible R-,14 may start on her trans-Atlantic flight to New York tonight. The Dirigible will carry letters from the mayor of London to the mayor of New York; from Kinar George to the Duke i-f Devonshire, Governor General of Canada, and from the postmaster general to the postmaster general of Canada. ' Col. H Niley cf the United States army, will he a passenger aboard the T?.-"t on the, return trip to the British

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SADNESS Saloons on Illinois Side Packed With Thirsty Indiana Citizens. CARS LOADED WITH SOUSES The Green ZJae cars m.fr h hours of twelve midnight were fro ht io niteen minutes lats when nit East Chicag-o. After the f : ral" in West Hammond the pour of men of Indiana fror' State LIm looked like another P rty Loan carade nitlv th. ' " ' tifctead of heads up, the tails -VJL'" aown. uia jonn Barleycorn ,v wm laid to rest. Many fights and accidents were re. ported last night, owing- to carle.5ness of street car passengers and trie fact that they were under the Inn. ence of liquor. Three fights occurred in one etretV car la East Chicago. The East Chli cag-o Jail hasn't been so full oJ prisoners since Mayor McCormei was elected. Gary, East Chicago, Whiting an J Indiana Harbor folk kissed Wesl Hammond good-bye today. Contrasting strangely with I night which was the busiest in thJ town's history, West Hammond today is quiet as a graveyard. Tht : change is almost unbelievable anc the visitor feels a little chill course his spine as though he had found himself alone in the presence of a tragedy. Crepe hangs on all the saloon doors. THE LAST SAD KITES. West Hammond Is dry since midnight when the last sad rites were performed over the remains of the late J. B. Corn They certainly put him away nice. .The services have been estimated to have cost anywhere up to half a million dollars and has enabled all the bartenders even to buy flivvers. The crowds began coming early and they remained late. Saloons were crowded first, then the crowds filled the sidewalks and before midnight the jam of automobiles and redestrtans made traffic almost out of question. POOLED SOUGH FOB BOOZE. Those who could get near the bars remained there while folks on the sidewalks pooled their buying and sent agent sin to make the purchases. Thy drank the stuff from bottles out in front. s Fearing trouble when closing time came, very West Hammond policeman was on duty and a squad of deputies 4Con'lnued on iuk. flv.) 2 WATER WAGON HAS BEER ' TRAILER MOW 2 3-4 iBeer CviiBe iSold in le Chicfirerr flNTERNAT! AL NEWSSrvl;r CHICAGO. Jj iy 1. Crcago is on n today, .fcut the cart the water was. has a trailer which may afford some relief to those who are unable tD holi their seats in the main conveyance. The trailer is filled with 2 3-4 percent beer and a little wine, which, under the provisions of an emergence ordinance passed by the city council, may be legally sold in Chicago saloons. The ordinance authorizes the ance of sixty-day saloon licenses for the sale of wines and 2 3-4 percent beer, with the provision that in ease of the search and seizure law operates I to prevent the opening of the saloons i the license fee will be refunded. Passage of the ordinance followed the announcement "of the attorneygeneral of thti state of Illinois, that under the present status of the wartime prohibition law beer and wines may continue to be sold. Leaders of the prohibition movement are preparing to resist the ruling of the state attorney-general, claiming that the search and seizure law. passed by the last legislature makes Illinois bone-dry territory. The attoi-ney-ger.eral ruled that the search and seizure law applies only to tho parts or the state which are dry by local option and has no bearing upon the war-time prohibition measure as It -erects th "wet" se-uions of the state.

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