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! Government Is Watching for Raids on Hammond Distilling Stock Stored in Warehouse. , "Whiskey stock of the Hammond I tlstli:iny Company are being closely J guarded in anticipation of any raids i : which may be pulled orT by the thirsty ones. The knowledge that over 1500 barrels of whiskey are still In the ; warehouse in Hammond would be a strong temptation to some men it they thought the stuff could be ha;J lor the takins. Both gaugers, Asa Elliott and W'lll'am H. Myers have been retained by the internal revenue department and they w il henceforth work night a-1 day 5-hiIts aided by watchmen. The whiskey iis been t.t.:ure:y locked i?p and will remain undisturbed until it i definitely settled what will be done with it. Q E. Vorels. who has collected millions in revenue for the government while holding the office of deputy internal revenue collector left the posit-on yesterday to start in the coal rr.inlr.K business. His successor. Geo. C. Stelhcrn of Indianapolis is now on the Job. Yeterday was spent In checking over the proprietary stamps And tieinp them up for mailing to Washington in accordance with an order from headquarters. These stamp's will now be distributed through the postoffices. While this wl.i relieve the collector of part of his burden. Mr. Stelhorn says he has Twenty of work ahead to keep him busy for several months. By that time the higher officials will have decided whether or not the Hammond 'f?;cw is to be discontinued as. was intimated in a letter from Indianapolis several wieks ago. 'T A HEAR BEER TRUCK Ex-Soldier Says the "Nigh Beer Stuff Is Against My Politics." "Wel!. I've got a Job for a truck driver at last," announced V. S. Employment. Agent Hans Derner at the Hammond Employment bureau yestercay. There are always several drivers ' hanging 'around the office for the Jobs that .are scarce. Three wanted to know a,t once where the Job was. "It's a near beer trutk." said Hans. Silence. One of the fellows strolled disinterestedly out out of the door. As the ethers started to leave Hans halted. "What's the matter with the Job." he juer'-ed. "'Well you see it's a Ford truckand I never had any experience with those machines," said one man and then he heat it. "Oh, this rilgh beer stuff !s against my politics." said the third and he was gone. Derner spent Just three and onehalf hours talking to truck drivers before the eighth man finally accepted. "I didn't have any hand bringing that stuff into Hammond in the first ' place and I ain't gonna aid the business now if I can help it" was the reason Driver No. 5 gave for 'rejecting the offer. V ABLAZE TODAY t INTERNATIONAL r'EWS SERvjCr. NEW YORK. July 3. Fire of unknown origin this afternoon completely destroyed a rive coach train on the Sixth-avenue elevated line at the So. Ferry station, near Battery park, pwept the station structure itself, and then communicated to the big Staten Island and Vnion Kerry buildings) which are threatened with destruction. The flames leaped forth suddenly from the forward coach of the train, causing thirty-four passengers, mostly women, to flee for their lives. A sixth coach train on the Ninth avenue elevated line, standing in the station sped out upon the tracks and escaped destruction. GARAGE FIRE j AT FRANKFORTFRANKFORT, Ind., July 2 Twen-tT-six automobiles were consumed in a f. re which destroyed the. Coulter gar- j jge here tody. Loss $5000.

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ok WM. J. HASTINGS. The firm of Gostiin. Meyn & Co.. Hammond, the oldest realty operators in the Calumet region, has been incorporated and William J. Hastings is now junior member. The new firm title is Gostiin, Meyn & Hastins. Inc. Mr. Hastings has been with the Gostiin, Meyn Company since he returned from naval service and has been so uccessf-i.il in his work that he has been taken into the organiaztion. Delegation Goes to Crown Point to Seek Re-Assessment of North Township From Board of Review. . City officials of East Chicago and a committee of the Chamber of Commerce went to Crown Point today to appear before the County Board of Equalization. The delegation will back up the request of Township Assessor James Clements for enough deputies and sufficint clerical help to re-check the Twin City valuations if not the whole township. During the past few days the committee has discovered not only great discrepancies in the East Chicago variations on both residence and business property but industrial valuations as well. A number of important improvements have not been assessed at all. The only way in which the small as well as the large taxpayers can secure justice is to have the results re-checked by the assessor and tuch assistance as he may he able to secure. The general attitude of the North Township is to either insist that other valuations in other townships be increased or North Township be reduced from 25 per cent to 50 pt cent. The situation is regarded as critical in tho extreme and the East Chicago delegation will strenuously endeavor to secure a proper equalization at Crown Point today. DEMOCRATS WANT ACTION INDIANATOLIS, Ind.. July 2 What is said to be the first direct action of its kind taken in the state relative to the league of nations has been placed on record by the Jrving Jefferson club, a joint men's and women's democratic organization which unanimously adopted a resolution calling upon Senators New and Watson, of Indiana, to vote in favor of the league covenant as contained In the treaty of peace. Miss Grace Julian Clarke, leader in women's affairs, drafted the resolution. DOUBLE KILLING AT CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL NLWS SEPfCX' INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 2 Leroy Tandy, negro, 24. today shot and killed his wife, failed in an attempt to slay his mother in law and fired a bullet into his own brain in a fit of Jealous rage. Tandy was dying at a hospital it was said this afternoon. MORE STRIKING. PHONE OPERATORS T INTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE1 TEW ALBANY. Ind., July 2 Mor pay and recognition of the unoin is demanded by striking telephone operators and linemen of the Home Telephone Co. The exchange was idle today. Employes of the Cumberland Telephone Co. will strike in sympathy if their grievances are not adjusted, the strikers declared today

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MOURNS DEATH OF F. C. DEMING Another of City's Leading pitizen's Is Called Early This Morning. rSAiTX c. BEUX3TCK Frank C. Doming was one of nature's noblemen. Those who knew him loved him and those who were fortunate enough to count him as a friend will enshrine him in their rntmorle3 as long as they live. Ha was for everything that was for the welfare of Hammond and no city could have a more loyal booster than Frar.k Doming. He was an ardent Hoosier and a staunch patriot and of a type of citizenship that any municipality could be proud of. He never permitted his right hand to know what his left hand did and his charities were numerous. He was one of the charter founders of tho Hammond Country Club and believed in its mission thoroughly. He loved the open and his hobby was to get out in the open with frUrds. He counted it a privilfge to io a representative of the club's golf team in its many intercity tournaments and always was an enthusiastic fighter and a delightful companion. In his death the city loses a true friend and a splendid. God-fearing citizen. Frank C. Deming. vice president of the First National Bank of Hammond, formerly president of the Hammond Country Club, and one of the city's most prominent and popular business men, died at his home, 9S0 South Hohman street at one o'clock this morning. Mr. Deming was taken wlth-an apoplectic stroke on the ISth of June last year and has been an invalid ever since. He was partially paralyzed since the attack and did recover sufficiently to be taken out in a motor car but lately be gradually failed and last Sunday was afflicted with another serious attack and it has been known that the end was near. News of Mr. Deming's death is mourned by a wide circle of friends and associates In Hammond, Michigan City. Frankfort and Chicago Heights, where he was very well and favorably known. The decedent came to Hammond in January 1S31 and engaged in the lumber business with his brother. E. P. Deming. He has always been closely associated with the progiefs ot the city for nearly three dccr.des ana retired from active business life several years ago. He came to Hammond from Michigan City, where he was born Sept. 24, '5S. He is survived by a wife and three daughters: Mrs. W. C. Wolff of Michigan, City, Mrs. Joseph Ibach. Jr. and Miss Eleanor Deming. A brother E. P. Deming and four sisters also survive him They are: Mrs. G. L, Thompson, Frankfort; Mrs. W. H. Winnie. Frankfort: Mrs. E. A. Bishup, Liut-r-tyv lie. III. and Mrs. L. R. Kramer. Frankfoi t. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at three o'clock from the residence It will be private in Its nature and for Immediate friends. Rev. J. C. Parrett of the First Presbyterian church will officiate.. The remains will lie In state at the residence from 10 to 11 on Thursday mornTr.g FIRE GUTS THERMITE are. "lab" East .Chicago Factory Is Visited Last Night by Costly Blaze. Fire did thousands of dollars worth of damage to the Metal Thermit company's big plant at East Chicago at the dinner hour last night. The blaze. It is believed, started in the laboratory though Supt. Chas. LIndemiller's investigation is not complete. The structure is fire proof and the damage is confined to chemicals, partitions, fixtures and furniture. It may reach $15,000. The laboratory Is on the second floor of a two-story building. The fire department was notified that flames were bursting from the second floor about 6 p. m. last night. T?T5 flames were soon under control but not until after several explosions had taken place. A window blew out and flying glass cut Fireman Keenan on the arm. The plant will be crippled until the laboratory Is rebuilt as it Is the center of operation for the Thermite Co. Much damage was done to chemicals on the lower floor by water. AVIATOR IS KILLED. I INTERNATIONAL StWS SERVir.Cj NEW YORK. July 2. Lieut. Jules Viscayart, of Bpston. United States Army aviator, was killed at Mitchell field L. I., today when a new plane he was testing dove to earth and caught fire. I Arc ycu reading -The Times ?

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Albert Wllk and George and Mary Kraynak. of Gary, are the first to fcLce the federal court from the bunch rounded up Monday evening by the Hammond police. They were taken this morning before United States Commissioner Charles Surprise and each was held to the federaJ grand jury under $1,000 bond. Albert declares he was the victim of circumstances. He owned the machlno in which the party was returning from South Chicago. The others had asked him to take them there just for th ride, he says. While he was in a lunch room the others brought three four-gallon jugs of whiskey to his car and had it hidden under a blanket. As the side curtains were in place he failed to notice the increased bulk and says he was not aware of the presence of th-j liquor until the police stopped the machine in Indiana. Mrs. Kraynak wu the most talkative of the bunch and made a number of nasty remarks. She formerly tended bar in a saloon which her father owned in Gary. NEW VALUE SLFRONTAGE $750 Per Foot Is Paid For Old Ben Hayes Lot on South 'Kohraan. Announcement la made today that A. Murray Turner acting for Gostiin. Meyn Sc Haptlnps, Incorporated, purchased fro.n Carl , Kaufman and Leo Wolf the 40 feet of frontage on Hohman street, Hammond, Immediately adjoining the superior court house on the south. The old improvements on the properly at this t.me being leased to the Mcllroy Beltlr.g Company. The cont idei ation of $2900C establishes a now value for Hohman street property as this -s the highest price paid up to the present time for inside property per front foot. The Improvements are practically wotthless. This property formerly owned by Carl Kaufman and Leo Wolf, proprietors of the Lion Rtor. who had Intended to Improve It with a six or seven story terra cott.i office tviYiing. It was offered for sale and Gostiin, Meyn & Hastings, incorporated, untlcipating the Increase in value that Is bound to come to Hohman street property by reason of the contru;l lor of a $25"J.OOO theatre bv Gumbintr brothers, at the corner o' Hohman and State streets and a $250,000 theatre and hotel by the Kleihege Estate nt the corner of Hohman and Sibley streets. It was decided to purchase thia p'ece of property, for with the exception of the property owned by the School City of Hammond, this Is the only piece that ha been c.'i'ered 'or sale in the last seven or !j:ht yeirv between State str-t-t and Muenicli Court. It? geographi-ra! position will g've he proposed build:r.g 10 be 'D-'S'ructed . :on thi. trie a commanding view of both No Hohmcn street and So. .Hohman street 0:1 account of it being situated right at the point where Hohman street makes an angle. Plans for the Improvement have not as yet been made but it Is more than probable that an elegant office building, which will be a credit to this city will be constructed upon the site. "NOTHING DOING,'! SAYS JOSEPHINE f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK, July 2 Miss Josephine Marie Kelly, black-eyed Chicago beauty, has no intention of marrying the young King Alexander of Greece, who Is reported In news dispatches from Athens to be paying considerable attention to her. Miss Kelly wrote her uncle. William Hylan. owner of the Lorraine hotel that she had been received In audience by the king, had taken long motor rides with him, but had discussed nothing more serious than "war and sanitation." She likes the "King, ehe said, because he is about her age, very companionable and quite democratic. Refuse to Hear Reed. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SESVIct 1 ATLANTA. Ga.. July 2. By a vote of S4 to 43 the house of the Georgia legislature refused to Invite Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, to address them. This is taken a an indication of overwhelming sentiment favoring the league of nations. Stated meeting McKinley Lodge tonight. 31 special slides of Masonic Home will be shown. Garfield members Invited. 7-2-1 MERRIT D. METZ. W. M.

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Commander A. C. Read, right, shaking; hinds with Harry Hawker. This picture might be labelled "victor and vanquished." Commandet A. C. Read commanded the U. S. navy seaplane NC-4, the first plane to cross the Atlantic ocean. Harry Hawker attempted to beat the U. S. plana across by a dash from St. Johns, K. F., to IreTand. but failed. They were snapped exchanging greetiners at the aviation field at Hendon, outside of London, alter the arrival of the NC-4 at Plymouth, England.

CITY DADS HOLD SLOW AHhought the usual amount of tlmo was consumed in long and heated discussions, little actual business was transacted by the Hammond city council in Its meeting la-st right. When adjournment came after 10:20 o'clock matters, with few exceptions, stood just as they were at the opening of the session. Mayor Brown had an ordinance Introduced providing for the appointment of two extra policemen to be on duty at the bathing beach. This met with opposition from the first and when the vote was taken on second reading action was halted. At the last sessloh the Board of Works had been Instructed to order the Gary & Interurban line to quit unloading freight on Sibley st. near Sohl St. A communication from tho company stated that this would me.m tho discontinuance of the road's freight business. It was then decided to back down on the former demand and let the: board see if the objectionable features could not be eliminated. Councilman Rellly introduced a motion to 'nave tho Finance committee investigate the possibility of having band concerts weekly in the city parks. This motion was lost on the vote. That old flowing well buried somewhere at the rear of the city hall wa3 revived once more. Tho Board of Works had reported unfavorably on tho proposal to reopen the well for the us.; of the public. Many of the aldermen believed It should be tried anyway, so tho water department now has orders to locate the old pipe, open it and analyze the water. . Owners of vacant lots will be notified to get busy and cut their weeks, otherwise the city will take the usual course of having them cut and adding the cost to the lot owner's tax duplicates. It was recommended that the city purchased a motor dump truck to make the long hauls In collecting gurbagv. Citizens are kicking regularly about the slowness of the garbage wagons. Some vicinities are frequently missed for weeks at a stretch. MAC FOLAND TO SEE BIG GO CROWN POINT, Ind., July , 2 Among the Lake county men who will t see the big fuss at Toledo on the 4th of July is County Auditor G. M. Found. Mr. and Mrs Foland and son will go to Toledo to visit Mrs Foland s relatives over the Fourth nd Mac Incidentally has two tickets for the Willard-Dempsey meeting The other ticket? Why it's for Foland, Jr.. of course. STATE OF SIEGE AT DUESSELDOEF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVJC. LONDON, July 2. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam today says that a state of siege has been proclaimed at Pusseldorf after fighting in which i three citizens and a cavalry sergeant were killed.

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as K.I V J Bulletins John Edwin Nevin stafp correspondent i. n. service1 En Route With President Wilson to the United States on Board the U. S. S. George Washington, July 1 (Night By Wireless to New York. President Wilson today decided to board a special train for Washington immediately upon his arrival at Hoboken, instead of paying a short visit to New York City. The train will leave for the national capital as soon as the presidential baggage is stowed on board. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, July 2. The army will be demobilieed when it has been reduced to a normal, peace-time basis, to be determined by congress. This is the informal opinion of Attorney General Palmer, expressed this afternoon in response to a request for his personal view of when demobilization would have progressed to the extent that the president could carry out his announced intention of setting aside the wartime prohibition act. 'ALL WELL" DIRIGIBLE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON. Juiy 2. Thick fog. Into which the R-34 plunged during the morning on her tran3-At lantic flight, cut down her speed from 40 to 32 knots, MaJ. Scott reported in a wireless message at noon. At that time the dirigibla was in lat. 55 degrees and 7 minutes north and 14 degrees and 50 minutes west. The text of the. radiogram follows: "Noon: Fosition 55.7 north; 14.50 west. Speed 32 knots. Going through thick fog. All well." Scott wirelessed at one o'clock that his "average speed" was 42 knot?. Another message flashed from the forward gondola of the airship at 2:15 this afternoon (Greenwich time) reported her position jis 53.50 north longitude, 17.50 west arid -said her true speed was 31 knots. The expression "true speed" was taken to mean the actual rate at which the R-34's engines were propelling her forward, the "average speed" of 42 knots representing the speed at which she was soaring westward wit hthe wind at her back. A e you reading Thi Times?

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Leaves Edinrjiirgn Tor noosevelt Field at Mineola This Morning. Features of the World's Greatest Airship length, 639 feet 5 Inches. Greatest diameter, 73 feat 9 laches. Total weight, 30 tons. Carrying capacity, 31 ton. Motive power, five sunbeam, Kocrl engines cf 250 horsepower each. as capacity, 2,000,000 cubic feet. The S-24 is as big as the liner Adriatic and her length, is greater than the height of the Singer building in New York City. Her wirelesa is as powerful as that of an ocean liner and she can travel six thousand miles without making- a landing. (BTJX.X.ETX2T.) HNTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE! rONECN, July 2. The giant British dirigible S-34, which left East Tort una, Scotland, at 1:43 this morning far the United Sta-tes was about 500 land miles from its starting- point at 2:15 this afternoon, according to a message received from her commander, and was sailing westward without any trouble. "The R-34 has mode good," said another message from MaJ. Scow, the airship's commander, sent at 1 p. in. and reporting that the dirigible np to that hour had covered about 430 statical miles. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON, July 2. The first attempt in the history of the world to fly across the Atlantic ocean in a dirigible balloon is under way today, with the great British dirigible R-34 pushing westward towards America above the north Atlantic lane. The monster R-34, the world's greatest airliner, poked her nose straight into a fog bank off the Irish coast shortly before 10 o'clock this moning (Greenwich time), after eight hours after she soared away from her anchorage, near Edinburgh, Scotland, on the first attempt by a dirigible balloon to cross the Atlantic. REDUCES SPEED THROUGH TOO. Until she encountered the mist clouds, the great dirigible had been epeedine westward at the speed of an ordinary railway train about 42 miles an hour She probably will reduce her speed as she gropes her way through the fog and it now appears likely that she may not reach Mineola. Long Island, until Saturday morning. HAS CREW Or 25. Her history-making flight apparently is being made in as prosaic a fashion as that of any modern ocean liner. Her crew of 23 men. including Lieut. Commander Lansdowne of the U. S. Navy, are as comfortably housed in their gondolas as the officers of any of the big Cunardrs excepting that their free(Contlnued on page seven.) MAY BE NEW OPINION SOON f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO July 2. After a day of uncertainty regarding the disposition of authorities with regard to the' sale r.f beer and wines, Chicago liquor dealer have definite information today that Chicago is "bone dry" and that sale of any form of intoxicants is :rohibited. Orders have been issued to the police to enforce the war time prohibition law and the state search and seizure law to the letter. The ruling of Attorney General Brundage yesterday that the search and seizure law applies to the wartime prohibition law, killed the last hopes of the wets here that they might continue the sale of beverages containing a low percentage of alcohol. FAMOUS G. 0. P. POLITICIAN DEAD NTW YORK, July 2. Lemuel Eh Qulgcr. widely known republican politician ard attorney, died at hia home. No. 435 West End avenue last night of Br'sht s disease, it was learned today. His wife and family were at his bedside when death came. Mr. Quigg was in his fifty-seventh year. The Times' want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed.