Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 33, Hammond, Lake County, 20 September 1919 — Page 6

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THE TIMES. September 20, 1919

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ALLEGED State Supt. of Public Instruction Seeks Opinion From Attorney General.

TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAP1TAL1 IXUlANAPOilS. Ind.. Sept. 20. Authority to declare the contracts of text book publishers who have failed to A3-Uvt-r books as at an end and to supply th schools of the state with books in 8om other way has been asked l L. X. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction in a letter to Attorney General Ele Stansbury. The cancelling: of contracts would mean the forfeiture of bonds given by publisheis amounting to from $5,000 to M0. 000. In his letter to the attorney general, Mr. Hines said that publishers are free to have their books published any plaea they desire and that the state board of education believes they have had ample time to supply the books. The letter follows: "There Is a general complaint amonj school superintendents and teachers to the effect that they are unable to secjjre copies of regularly adopted school books from the publisheds holding contracts with the state of Indiana. The publishers holding1 contracts with the sta'e have each executed a bond conditioned that they will faithfully perform the obligations of their contract. The contracts contain a provision to the effect that the publishers will fill all requisitions for text books within five days of the date of receiving: the order. "It Is evident from the information coming to this office that certain publishers have not yet filled orders for text books, although these orders were riaced more than a month ago, and have not as much as acknowledged receipt of them. 'TVill action lie to bring about the forfeiture of the publishers' bonds? "Under the provisions of the contracts and the facts and circumstances incident thereto, would the state be authorized in declaring the contracts at an end ar. i in taking such action as seems advisable to supply the schools immediately with books? "These publishers are free to get their books published anywhere they choose and it occurs to the state board of education that they have had ample time to supply Indiana dealers with text books necessary to meet the demands of the schools. "The situation is indeed urgent, anl Z ehall appreciate an early response, that the board may know what course to pursue." Representatives of publishing houses have been frequent visitors at th office of fe state superintendent since the board of education decided to investigate the shortage of school bocks. The representatives of the publishers revealed the fact that some of the publishers maintain little more than offices and that the manufacturing- Is done by sub-contractors. It was said that nearly all the grade school books used in the schools are produced by a single concern at Hammond, Ind., although the contracts were let to a number of publishing houses.

Dies Following Operation. Joseph Diksnis, the thirteen year old eon of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Diknia. Fifteenth avenue and Grant street, Gary, yesterday died at Mercy hospital following an operation. Funeral services in charge of the Wir.iam's Undertaking csompany will be conducted Monday from the Lithuanian church, 15th and Grant streets, with burial at Calvary cemetery.

LAST OF ARMY FOOD ON SALE The last of the government army food consisting of canned roast bei-f and canned hash was placed on sale at the city market in Gary this morning anel it is hoped by the firemen who have been acting in the capacity of salesmen, that they will be able to dispose of it today. The last ef the smoked and the canned bacon, was srld yesterday. I

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KATHERINE HOUSE TO BE

DEDICATED

The Katherlne House of Christian Fellowship at the corner of 13Sth and Deodar streets in Indiana Harbor will be dedicated tomorrow. The Katherlne House Is a "twin building" of the Baptist Settlement House which wag dedicated in East Hammond last Sunday. Both buildings were started at the same time and are constructed identically alike.. The Katherine Hftuse is being used by some branches of the settlement workers and has been used for the past few weeks but was not entirely completed. The meeting which was to have been held in the building last night had to be cancelled because the electric lighting and fixtures were not complete. The meeting tonight will therefore be a combination of the meeting which was planned for last night and the one planned for tonight. Nothing: further has been done concerning the concert which was cancelled last Saturday because of the sickness of the einger. The dedication services to-morrow will be in the morning and last throughout the day. The morning service will be a Hungarian and Roumanian service with Rev. C. M. Brodie, district superintendent, presiding. Rev! Rollo Spear will preside at the afternoon and evening meetings. The program for the day will be: Morning Service at 10:00 o. m. Hymn. Prayer Mrs. C. E. Donnelly, Chicago. Greetings from State and Community House Workers. Rev. Carlos M. Dinsmore, General Supt. Indiana Baptist convention. Miss Sarah E. Xoyes, House Director . Miss Martha M. Troeck, City Missionary. Miss Lena Gorrell, Day Nursery Matron . Miss Florence Hausewald. Head Nurse of the "Welfare Association. Special Music Hungarian and Roumanian songs. Address Dr. Frank L. Anderson, Secretary Chicago Baptist Executive Council. Hymn. Prayer Mm. Dora Laycock, Chicago, 111. Afternion Service 2:30 P. M . Hymn. Prayer Mrs. Js-ij ' -Address Mrs. Katherlne Westfall, Kxecutive Secretary "W. A. B H M S.

Special Music Choir of First tist Church. Address Dr. Jos. R. Wood,

York City. Hymn. Prayer Mrs. W. p. Rhodes. Evening Service at 7:80 P. M. Address Prof. A. 'c Burgln. Sec retary Indiana Harbor Civic Club. Address Prof. E. N. Canine. Supt of Public Schools. Special Music, Address Rev. J. F. Fraser. D. D. President Indiana Baptist Convention, Hymn. Prayer.

to be willing to risk a "show down" in the fight to force labor back to the pre-war piece system, whereby Germany was able to undersell the rest of tha world. The government, in seeking a solution of the financial problems, is siding with the employers, hoping also to reduce the cost of living whili adjusting the exchange rate. Aware of antagonism of the government, leaders of the workmen declare they are determined to fight to the bitter end. If a strike is preiritated it is believed inevitable that it will tae a political trend.

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COUPLE POSE AS MAN AND WIFE

When Plalnclothesmen Sergeants Eisner and Quandt demanded entrance to a room in a shady hotel at 1200 Broadway In Gary early this morning they found Sylvia Estey, 16 years old, and Angelos Bulls, 23 years old. a Greek well known In police circles, posing as man and wife. They were unable to produce a marriage license. Bulls Is the same man who made his escape from the police, but jumping out of a window, when caught under the same circumstances some time ago. The case will come up;in the city court.

National Crop Improvement Service. WHEN rows got "off feed" while being fed a clean, palatable ration, it is usually an indicaVion that the feeder has overstepped the limit. In order to get a cow back to normal she should be fed eome high-grade ready-to-eat dairy mixture the ingredients of which are plainly marked on the sack. When bossy is herself again, careful experiments can be made with increasing her feed by adding different ingredients which help to reduce the price of the milk being manufactured. Feed very lightly immediately be

fore and after calving. Work the cots and calf on to full rations very gradu- j ily ; then feed liberally, but always j be on the alert against overfeeding, j Cows vary greatly in ability to assimi- j late large quantities of feed and con- J vert it into milk, hence each cow j should be fed according to her ability to utilize feed. The successful dairyman and feeder Is the man who studies closely each

animal's power to perform and cares for and feeds her accordingly. "The eye of the master fattens the cattle," says the old proverb, and the modem dairyman must use bis head as well as his peck measure.

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known in police circles as the clevnst swindler operating among their own people, in the country. They will be bound over to tne criminal court at Crown Point some time today.

John Narkovich Weds

Miss Mabel Shortz Yesterday afternoon at Gary Justice of the Peace Clemens officiating at th marriage of John Narkovich of Gary to Miss Mabel Shortz of Medaryville. Ind , was solemnized. After a short honeymoon trip the young couple will reside on a farm near Medaryville.

PRISONERS REACH GARY Wanted on charges of swindling a number of foreigners to the extent of J4.000, In an alleged "handkerchief game" Nick Matovlch of Indiana Harbo. Steve Favolich, Youngstown, O., and Steve Lguspina, 813 Jefferson street. Gary, were brought back to this city by Captain James McCartney yestsr3y evening. They were arreetel a week ago by the authorities at Toungstown. O.. where they had fled and were preparing to "fleece" several other foreigners out of .huge sums of money. The trio are

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Petition to Adopt Child. A. C. Grove and Cornelia M. Grove in Gary superior court yesterday filed a petition for the permission to adopt Sylvester Wragg.

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GERMAN LABOR HANGING IN THE BALANCE

By EENST OaPHAi. (Exclusive Call to the X. IT. S. and the London Daily Express.) BERLIN', Sept. 20 The fate of Getman labor Is today hanging in the balance with the cricis in the metal industries which is expected to reach its decisive stage before the end of the wetk. The employers claimed that high wagea are contributing to the decline

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CAMPAIGN WILL CLOSE TONIGHT. Members of the Gary Post of the American Legion will wind up its membership drive in Gary this evening and with encouraging reports being received earii today it is hoped that it will hit the 1.000 mark. The goal et out for early in the week was 1500. The result will be made known at the Gary Commercial headquarters when the applications will be counted tonight.

ful imprisonment era made against Mik Shafroa and Elmer Earr, two East Chicago policemen In a damage suit filed this morninj? in the Hammond superior court by John Anderson . Anderson, who is a cook at the Dollar and Anderson restaurant, 3403 Michigan avenue. Indiana Harbor, says that on September 13, the two patrolmen entered the kitchen of 'he restaurant and assaulted him. -He was beaten with a black jack and two shots from revolvers were fired to frighten him. He says lie was tol.1 to enrae alon with them or they would blow out his brains. He was then dragged through the public streets to the police station where he was imprisoned for one hour. Because of the injuries which he sustained and the damage which his good name suffered. Anderson is asking for to.Of'O damages. His attorneys are McMahon and Conroy of Hammond.

Henry G. Hay, Jr., treasurer of tha school board, and Howard Bell, auditor of schools, accompanied Mayor Hodges and Superintendent Wirt. The Gary city budget J893.O00. and school budget were parsed soma tiin ago, both being considerably larger than the budgets of the present year. Undar the new state tax law the approval of the state tax board must be secured In every case where the budget has been increased. The Gary city tax levy rt 74 cents on the $100 includes the public library levy of 5 cents. The school levy was fixed separately.

SAYS WIFE HURT HIS BUSINESS. Slowly and surely the trade of Jas. Whit.ell who ran a barber shop at 804 Chicago avenue, is being ruined and his wife is the cause of it all. At least that Is what James claims in his petition for a divorce which has been filed by Attorneys Meade. Royce and Tyman in the Hammond superior court . Mrs. Whitsell. he says, has a habit of coming to the shop and right there before ail of his customers, accuses him of misconduct such as running around with other women. He says they were married February 6. 1913, an dseparated Sept. IS, and that for the last two yesrs she has continuously nagged him until he is unable to stand it longer. They have on child.

ACCUSES EAST CHICAGO POLICE. Charges of mistreatment and wrong-

17-YEAR-OLD YOUTH TAKEN Seventeen year old Eugene Chandler of Kattawa, Ky was taken into custody of the Gary police by Sergeants Eisner and Quandt at 31th avenue and Broadway in Gary last night and when searched r .32 cahber revolver and some cartridges were, found on his person. He will be arraigned in the poiice court today on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. !

PLUMBERS STILL LOCKED OUT

Atnoon today no settlement had been n:ad- in the Plumber's controversy, according to Grover Elkins, bus-iness agent for the Plumbers local, and until the Master Plumbers get ready to talk to tha members jf the Plumber's local, tha Gary Plumbers will be able to do nothing but just wait. The lockout occured last Tuesday morning and since it is reported that the Master Plumbers having been doing their own work.

BROADWAY LOT SALE. Yesterday a deal was consummated that resulted in the purchase of Broadway Gary frontage when the firm of Ljttle fir Stevens bought the three 25foot lots at 172S-3S Broadway from Traube Plttman at a prici of $10,000 or more pr lot. The firm have owned for several years ths 25-foot lot adjoining, which with the three additional lots gives them a 100-foot frontage, and next year it is announced intnd to build on it a large apartment and store building. Another Broadway sale of yesterday was the purchase from Little & Stevens by Pittman & TV&tson the twostory brick building at 442 Broadway.

BOY SCOUTS AT CAMP TREMONT. Camp Tremont, the summer vacation home of the Gary Boy Scouts will b the scene of the first of aseries of Fall and Winter tVeek-end activities at tha Dunne Park this week, where twentyfive members of troops number 7 and 3 v.ili spend Saturday and Sunday. They left, last night in charge of Dr. A. R. Wren. The camp has ben equipped for week-end trips during the cold wathr and the Scouts are living in anticipating of some "keen" times as one. of thera f xpressed it the other day.

TO MEET STATE BOARD. Iast evening Mayor Hodges and William F. Wirt, superintendent of the Gary public schools, left for Indianapolis to appear before the state tax board in session today in the interests of the Gary city and school budgets.

THE EIASON WHY th BX.UX Theatrs is running Wasimova li "Th Brat" 1b faecaasa it Is good. A great many people wanted te know why we did not run "Tha Red La-ntern." W told them zo ask people who had seen it uj! that would explain It. xrastmoTa appea.ru in "The Brat" all the time.

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