Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 204, Hammond, Lake County, 16 February 1920 — Page 1

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THE WEATHER T p "Do a Good Turn Daily" Ask a Boy Scout He Knows 1. OR IVDUXA Kolr and not so rld lonlxht and Tuesday. 1L ISTDEIfATIONAL NEWS rULI LEASED WISE SERVICE. On streets at. a newsstanCa, a pr copy. Dellrared by earner in Hammond and Wst Kumuvna, SO (ex month. VOL. XIV, NO. I'D I. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920. T HAMMOND, INDIANA. r JV. nnrmn Anna

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HEAD, SKULL FRACTURED George Fondoalis Dies After Encounter With Colored Man. i.al to serve a i unldentifled n-yest-rday cost Indiana Harrier !U and the iv.urgiro i in his r-"uuran - c I-' on.! ofl i ,s, an .-t.tiir.i -.: h:l I k -cap ; t,. report w' . 4 .M i. h.iKun vf. lo.'n n-hi'ii a Ti- ' rod lunch. Von - : him and i fiiu , necro nit V , a ti it a itl id : Td wad fused to In wbi- - r " :.t . t ' Old' t !: nt s r d . : I a .1 :' "- Thf o: I d lo l: ,e rf :. , lu;id V SO i-howed ml .t i-l:t loi i! i'..r tlv v t a mi . on. V 1- i s 9 bad u; .-''..illy ait. 1 1 on tho 1'ii' r nine o'cl i ji HIS Dr. . :.id. I'eek .. .-an.-d to the rotaurant a i lid ,.,!,-! Fondoai.s n nt onsiiou s. The i:ilui d man was rushed to t. Margaret s hospital where he was tound i-.nc from a :'racluied skull o he suf- j He died I ! I 'ori'l "a i is bad made no report u..v;,ut to the police and had of the 1 oov:sid- , the cut so tinirrportant that no : description of the assailant was given ) to anv one before hi became unconinns. The police are wo; Kine on ttie use but so far have found no clews. R. R. STRIKE DANGER 'STILL PERILS COUNTRY ' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 The railroad unions are prepared to put in motion machinery for calling a genera! ralltoad trlke iT the proposition of the -.resident for a ivac tribunal is rejected at the meeting of general chairmen .,,.,e February 2S. I'nions which have not yet taken a stiike vol- on w3?e i--n.ands. will do so. it was leirued t- - ll ' . Labor leaders declare that ofdy the . mrnediate danper of a railioa-1 strih..- ; passed. The situation remain.? a ious as it was a week aco and the . risis tv ill r ot be over until til3 :r.ets -i-i;- of the representatives Ot t men. Th-- numeral chairmen to met her b 1 navy' w ill cme auinor:'u r-ini- - o 3. -pt the presidents proposition to iletaiild strike vote be j ut inf .1.1 ai 1011. I. P. Malh'.y. crn.nd vice pree'der.t t ,;,sy shop laborers. 1 as eono 1,1 rcto c.-r.-er with I'rsident Allan R. -ir'-.er. It is believed that the m.iii.raoef of way men. if it is decided carry out tb'ir strike plans af'er -e l-'ei.x u. , y meet (nt;. will postpone ;t:-'.n until aff.-r the raiUoads are tin n-d to privte control. GIRL IN MINISTRY OF MARINE STIRS PARIS STATESMEN Mile. Landry. Mile. Landry, daughter of the French minister of marire, has been ;riven a position in the secretariate of th ministry of the marine by her father. Her appointment has created a stir in Paris because of the novelty of a woman holding a public office there. Mile. Landry has taken de-o-rees in philosophy and law and is .u!.i.v.i-u-i extremely capablo.

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Death in Drunken Carousal In a d-unker; tarou?.il in which a kr"- ! "iie lamp was overturned ami the buildtug -t on tire. Jacob Dundieh. fortyI i-ii'ni years old. was burned to death in j another tragedy in Gary yo.ifrilay evenJo Toliovuh nd Dundoh wr bat chins' it in an old building formerly used by a br-ovmc .onipanv as a storchous , ! ;;i T "nty-ilrst a ve. and Massachusetts "fliy dil i:o' have !h etinvrnionccs f .1 modern h"i)ie but contented thom- -!..- iviih th- ban? room, a i-.oivde of hi tot?, a tahle. vcral tiiairs and a no lamp furnisheii thfm phourIi hi ilhancy nl'h wliieh to cook their meals i n 'Jttle stop after dark. V' llovi' h formerly lived alone, tu r- ' ently lie invited Iundie!i to come an i ! Jus hom) wt'h bim. Two could 1 .e th'-i-tf as well as one ar.d it would led b so lonesome. N'-ith'.-r workod last ntght and they a' at the tahl drlnkiiiK and an emuty

' racked by th rain tlmuos told i DICK "WIXi-KIyKi:. who reenOy reihe tale. h ther they had an argu-t iirnii from Pittj-hurEh and N".w York. ad in a lus.sl knocked over the! wh-r he vas for tio weeks, says l'uts!u"p is not known. Yellovicli. who was'huieh is so diily that his clthitif would i ho rd -undsr arrest and later released. ! .-land up in a corner m ben h got. ha. fc. et ifed that lie did not think of Pundich. j "U hurried down into the basement to i JOHN" ISKN'I'ArtiJKT?. of North Man-- : his trunk. lv! lie aw that 1 lie . 1 io'ter. D-ni..crati? uberna 'orial a.pi- ! ii.i.n was on lire. I '-''tit. wa in Ifnmtnond yes'erdav and

Ll"ii making an Investigation there as no evid.-me of foul play and .' r l;. K. Eans ordered T'Hovlch jse. After tiie V.tc department l oi -f rebad ' bi.-v.-ii called and ' Pundieh's b-.dy burned 10 a oris tli flro extinguished. vi as found. It w as p. His bead was rest- - and his arm sticking 'I! on the the I a b "111 of window. it n.u apparent! lhat he w as so intoxir-alid that he help himself. The body Williams morgue. was was ' ''liable to ' i'b' ed t Aecordii :c to the b avajiaoie inr.ir - n-ation, Diuido h ba a wife and three i-tntuTen Iivinjr 111 the old country and ' considerable ni'-uey in a t'lii a so not !, "k. J iuiera: arrangements have b tn made. LABOR PARTY PROCEEDS TO ORGANIZE In sp'te of the extreme cold sbou four hundred persons- turned out for the meeting yesterday afternoon at Ywanow iiall in Indiana Harbor for tn purpose j of organizintr the city for the labor j party. All who were present were very I

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report of the state convention which - I w as b- Id at Indianapolis Friday and Sat- i 1 unlay of 1ast week. It was decided to delayr action of city fhis until the meeting: n-xt month, j when many who were kept away from j yoterday's meetinR by the edd are exJ pe.-ted to be present. Promoters of the I party are well satisfied with the meeting .-nd predict a strong organization for Indiana Harbor. j J ! TO HAT! STATE LABOR PABTT. IN'WAXAPnu!. Ind.. Feb. PI Little ! doubt remained that the newly organized ! i state labor party would place . ticket t it' the field for the l!20 tampaicn when ! the delesrates from twenty-nine counties j ! m-t in Indiana, olis Saturday in the Ser. j ond day's ss:on of the organization ' j convention. Francis Tnllon of Indian-' jnpolis was elected state chairman and' Fdward Kidd of Hammond state seere-j i tax v. ' ! j Daniel J. Tobin, representing thej i American Federation of Iabor, who advocaten tpe terjemtion pln.ti of riot put-I ting a labor party in the field met with; a storm of disapproval and only slight i applause. stat eonvention for nomination of a complete state ticket will lie held m Indianapolis June 4 and Carl Mullin of Hammond represented Ivike county in the eonvention. VETERAN GONE iL. It. Daugherty, Father of Prominent Family, Dies Today in Chicago. Word has been received in Hammond of the death of Douis I.. Daugherty at the home of his s. n Edward Daugherty of Chicago. February I5th. He was one of Hammond's pioneers. Mr. Daugherty. who was ST years of ace was a civil war veteran, having served In the Plst and S1t Div ision of Indiana, and was wounded at the bottle (f Vicksbtn'K. H" is a's... a mem... 1- of the , , j; Hammond. The niond n a n y niond decease, is well known in Himand Ivihe , ounty w h're b leaves ft .ends, havinsr '.!". erj j.-t Hamri'i 1 jo years w here he came in lsno and res.ded st H-o Logan street. Mr. Daugherty's wif died four years ago, and he leaves to mourn him fc ur sons. Oliver M. Daugherty of Hammond. Henry H. Daugherty of Highland. Ind.. Charles Daugherty of ("rown Point and Ildward Dausl.erty of Cireago, anso one daughter Mrs. Ida Leal! of Ci.teatto. Til . The t'uueinl will le held from thhome 1 '. his son Ildward Daugherty, oT 3 r03 51st street. Chicago. Tuesday morning at 11 ' o'clock. Interment. will be V.eid in thej.- : a rn d v ho at ll'ii'-.-e.,i.-i In,;

ANOTHER CM. WAR

DID YOU HEAR THAT SVXDAT -.va. one of the coldest T- brunry days Tbmni'nH ever had ami the quiC-est, Neai ly everybody stayeel home. TOMMY ROBERTS of Gary is in Hammond this week presiding at h';iriiig for the Slate Industrial Hoard.

KDD1R iOKII IllNilKR. who !ion wha, he. in talking about, says it i mighty cold day to bo a "polar ln;tr, or we shoub fay pall-bearer. a ATTT. ARK OTTF.XI . HI MFR. of Fast .Chicago. Mas in Hammond today inquir ing about jiassport s to Cuba. F.t "as musl be getting awfully dry. 'hiFRANK DCCOMK en- ." 1 : the--t(l! VV l!.-y r. u y s .iii-..-r eoii,.v ho get away to T- xus m Hid can't understand why ha. k ill litis kind of uoallp II. M. .mirXSON". the insiiianee man. i-u't for anyone who has b- fii liamei) I 1 'o I'l '-.-.kiciu . ou 4 iu o i ; ca u Itickei. lie want.o a n-w dra! a bin business tnan. day I a ' k l n r onds. the situation r 'ilh his THE new Hammond Rpubl!can Club j iihs ueen negotiating for rooms to be j j used as headquarters and Chairman Kdstar Crumpacker expects to announcei the location soon. I PPI'IL.? In several rooms of H e Con tral school buihlim? were allowed to return home this mornimr because. ti,rl I I' '"tintr plant, could not raise the tem-1 ! ,-,-r -.tare to the comfortable polo UDWI.V FRIKDPICII. treasurer of th" TIamniond Republican Club, says lie is inioiis to have the niuihership drive started so that he can have some money i" handle. KAHt. XEL.SOX. th banker, is another freezing eus who wants 10 ko .South where the golf balls wliis nil the year round and says. "What it the- climate doesn't make you feel ,ke working. Who wants to work?" EVERTHciDT'S happy down at the '.ty hall the niayor. and lloje, and ltridSe., Bielefeld, and all. Kv rylH'dy 's happy upon this chilly day. Today they ! ass the clK-cks around today they K'"t their pay. IT now looks as tb.op.g-h there ill he no poult ry show iu Ilatnmutid tins ve ir "P the idea. Lack of (juart-is is th-! reasoa. j RK VENUE AGENT August Melahn of Hammond find Urn Gnu I cage participated in th mi. ii ii.juor makers m u,e M,-inay of lorre JIaufe riday. The still business i seoms to be in an even more flourishing t condition there than in the CalumeU tteion. i SENATE BLOCKS SALEJF SHIPS Resolution Requires Deferred Sale Until Congress Permits. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) ASIUNGTf Fen. 1H. .uIt- of the thirty ex-German ships by the l:. .. Shipping: Boa id was blocked i.v the Senate this afternoon. Without a roil , all the senate adopt -ed the M':K.eJl.n- resolution leqmriiig the. .sale of the ..h:p.- lie post p. ne, until authorize t,y congress. As amended and ad-.pted. the McKellar resolution read: 'Ttesolved by the .senate of the V. that the v. s. Shipping Poard be, and Is hereby requested to defer the polling of tej, vessels taken by the U. .-'. formerly owned, in whole or in part by a corporation, citizen of anoj t of tf.e German imperial gov e; n:p nt f.-r which bid." are n.-vv being received by the shipping hoard d:iiin the war. until the s-ibje.-t has i..-en onsideyed by the . fmnuttee n wconducting hearings, reported to and acted upon by- the senate in accordance with the suggestions made by the chairman of the shippingboard." BIG OVERLAND STRIKE IS OVER I INTERNATIONAL 'Li:i". .. f NEWS SERVICE ; b. D,.--The T h n g i r a 1 v n fori e : of the t.-; t -1 I I :-, e ;( in-.e May .n 1 Will.cs-i.iverland 1 has been in be oral plant '.. invoivmr at th pt art ." workmen, today was formally called off by the Machinists Union and the Central Labor Uni- n. In a statement labor ffb ials said con. ditions at the plant are now sa;isfa't. oty. BURGLARS GET EIGHTEEEN CENTS P.urglars broke into the office of Mag'niot Satm day . ' n a t : . ti !-.. kj P.rolhers. 1 night and n U'e safe Tii-y 7 4 Fay et'e street, i smashed the com- ; 'Twits ji n on- ' t t h i I tf n , !i t s .

Hannauer Makes Appeal for Scouts

"We've 3,t to fi"-,ll)i Tiir; tui." ha urn a nof J1..",i,mi to raise and a week wk ark going ovnn said ; I1;iniittf. Co Roy fcitiMH linaneia! oo mm i t let-. Ther is no doubt hut what ouota oi" J8.HIOI will 1,.: raised, intention oi th eeom in i 1 1 e,. to t li It is th very organization and Individual w h lias 10t rontriliut' d. "The morn we t..t now. the b r it vill he lofore anoth.-r eampaiiin is staije.l. With the $.iim the 1 1. 1 11)1110:10 wts will havi suffieieru to tide them over for a year or more. , Breat many merch.uits and fral-inal 01 ta n i a t ion -' have iail.-d to throw in their bit in th.iiiteiests of the boys. We are g-otit after them and after those who have not. d -lie enouijb. It is their organization and their hoys. "We want the co-npej-atlon of eveiy man and woman in Hammond. A'l together n,,w oVKIt TIIK TOP." Death Comes From Wood Alcohol Gary registered its second wood albol Poisoniritr fatalitv Satnrii.v I wlp-n Frank I 'elligianis. 31 years old.' j died at the Mercy hospital, two hours! ! after drinking the "Coroner's cock-, j 'ail-" The body was ninuo-j t; 1 ..... vv mani s morgue Today i'..ronei I". 1-:. Evans will makea test of Hie man's stomach to ascertain the nature of th.- lotion, which ; proved baffling to atiendiiu: physic-' lans. They knew the victim had drank a poison and that it contained a quantity of wood alcohol, but we.-e unable to ascertain the other ingredients. , It was learned that the Coroner's! office Is not adequately supplied with i equipment to make tuich tests as! these and it is likely that Mr. Kvans !

i" mane application to the county j commissioners for the neceysary arti- : cles nd equipment ft'r thos- tests in the near future. The first wood alcohol death occurred nearly four weeks 0gt, when w ood ah-ohol "Cocktails" first made their appearance in ;ary and shortly; after it had caused over a hundred i TWO deaths in the Fast. I

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When Big Block Burns To the Ground. j 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SESVICEl MARION. IND.. Feb. IS Firv, erlgi inating in the basement of the Woolj worth Five and Ten Store, and diseovi ered shortly before six o'clock S'unj day. threatened the lives of fifty pertons and completely destroyed the j Marion block, w ith a total loss esti- ;. mated to reach more than J.ion.nfirt. j .Mora than :!." business firms and famj ilis were in the building and all suffered total loss of their effects. The i First National F.ank and th Wo.dworth ; store were the heaviest losers. Firemen suffred greatly from the sever- ', est cold of the winter. ' Workers in the Calumet district rn1 bed their eyes as they ran to work j today. At T o'clock sidewalk thermo- ; meters in the loop districts registered 7 below, while in outlying- spots the ! mercury was reported to have reached the tiftetti below mark. , The day was one of the coldest of I late February .11 many years. I - ""'3 ' ONE OF 4 MEXICAN WAR VETS IN OHIO Daniel Darlington. Datiic! Darlinjrton is one of the four surviving veterans of tlie Mexican war now livinjr in Ohio. He was born at Newark, O.. where be now resides, ninety-two years ago last October, lie also fought in the Jivil war.

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The 'Theda Bara" of Denmark is her husband, enjoying Sedan in Sunday Smashup Hammond Girls and t Two, Whiting Men Meet With Injury in Chicago. Two pirls from Hammond and two Whiting men were injured yesterday at Chicago when the big s.-dan cir 111 which j they were tiding was stnp-k and smashed to wreckage in two successive collisions with street cats at Twentysecond st. and Michigan blvd. Dayne Matthews of AVhiting. Pnmuel A. Jackson of Hammond and the Misses Annie Riid Catherine Meyers of Hatnlnond were being driven bv Henry H.ttt j of Whiting to th" loop. The serjsin bej lorgei to Undertaker . D. Heyden of Whiting. At Twenty-second st. and I Michigan blvd. the machine, which was i said to have been going at tiio rate of ' hirty miles an hour, struck a west-bound i India na a ve. car. The nmomobiie was hurled info the path of an east-bound car. which squeezed it against the hrst street car. ' The west-hound cir was derailed and (he automobile was reduced to junk. The occupants were dragged out and taken I to the office of n phvsieinn and later to 1 a hospital for further examination. Jackj son alone escaped without injury. Mealp 1 wounds, ruts and bruises constituted the 'injuries of the others, who vote able to return home. WILL START CALF CLUB IN COUNTY I SPECIAL TO THE TIES I GROWN POINT. IND.. Feb T - Til j Lake County Dairymen wii! meet r (Wednesday afternoon in the assembly I room of the court house. The object i of the meeting is to oii,iniz.- a hoy's (and girl's calf club which has been so I successful in other counties. Pi..f. ! Shanklin of Purdue will address the meeting and the county agent wil precide. AGED FLAGMAN . . DROPS DEAD Fred JlaJms. aged eighty years. 1"$ Fayette st.. dropped dead of heart failure ten miiiu'es nfier arriving at the Fha.nty which 1c- oc.-upi.d the Highland 1 . 1 . Monon railr.-ad y.-t.rday lb had b. - i, f, t . s,,. t foi oce r f 1 v o n 1 1 ',- s as flag ma 11 at ssitig on ,:i" moi ni ne. of H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 o r. d i . 1 s his w 1 i . w l D nt y. a Il-i'.i-1 ' .finir, lu'l.. no point. IP y aftej noon a' In-- b a c. s - h re.- rdu :di . n : m.-nd ii jiiiinoii. Fied of and Anna Kai--i- of t'r . will I..- buried w -I I) ? o'clock. Th-- 1 1 1 r i h 1 will t-ik-r n.-r-lW'-e IS the Oil; Hill b riahcr. Feivv ,- d .1. lb ! oi NOTICE I w le i ia. on s.i 111'W. Fire- stai I-', bi u.-i I V finds: ' a pr ico: s. ion. Ail- sda v : IT and IV th. ( 'I.' I t ' '.. s , pU... plll.-a pples t. lie in :.-ih. prices. (.'ins. To be soid at iiv Watch Thf Times for thflour sal,.. -' 1 -" L D XIF1. PR' I tt X, Mayor.

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Asta Nielsen, who is shown here, witjj a vacation on the Riviera, SHOPLIFTERS ARE ARRESTED IN STORE Women Tell Shady Story to Police; Victims Refuse To Prosecute. Circumstances surrounding he 1lcged dual life of a prominent Hammond man were reveab d late Saturday afternoon with the urrest of two women 011 a charge of shoplifting. Mrs. Pfoffor, police matron at Hammond Cent ral station, was ailed to a local store about .1:,':0 p. m. Saturday, where she took into custody two girls who gave their names as Anna Johnston, aged twenty-nine, J16 AUport st., Chicago, and Rose purinello. twenty-four years of age. The elder of the girls, when arrested, was carrying a paper shopping bag containing eight georgette waists valued at 540 stob-n from a store. Resides the waists they had stolen a. silk petticoat and had then left the store- and visited the Hammond man at his office. j I The elder of the girls asserted that she was a sweetheart of this man, who is married, and had met. him four years ago et a Rurnham resort. The petticoat was left with him and the girls returned to tho store There they purchased a priper shopping bag and in a recess on the landing of the stairway that leads to the ba-s.-mont the two shoplifters extracted from their pockets and sleeves j the ciEht waists, placing them in the i bag. I In the meantime the petticoat had been missed and when the girls emerged from the stairway after franstrring the waists, an employe of the store ap- ' proached and demanded that they leave 'he building at once. His remarks were overheat d by a member of the firm, who i suggest' d that before- nlb-wltig the f-jrls 1 ' o d.-pait they 1.. starched. The arrest ' followed. ! All the articles were returned ,-ind proI scout ion by the store -was dropped and ' the Kirls released. Mrs. pfep. r. police j matron, characterized tbe per as pro-IVs-dona! shopltf te rs. ' Attempts were made to connect the j two gitis with i he- theft a I'-ov weeks l it" ol a J'jiio sealskin i o:i' and a valuI able diamond ring which el -appeared iron, tne ip-me ot J r. Jl. . Gromau. -Neuner ot t li- articles nave i..en re.-ov-.-1 e.j and efforts to implicate the jirls proved unsuccessful. At the Mation the prisoners were searched and on the elder was found $2.05 in money and a dope fiend's outfit. In her pocketbook were tyo forge. mor-T-Iiipe prescriptions, a. spoon with the I lid le llets. rl :.o r to. i- la:.. awed ... ff . ri l:d few oil pride- iti rev i-d of "tnk ' devise.) bottle of morphine ices of "sti.-v ." The ' alius the fact that V tig the s'.ii'f vas FIVE KILLED IN SOUTHERN WRECK LIRMINGHAM. are dead nn-1 erne !'. l!o-ng a headt w o fa st ' f re i sht bain. i G-rnd Sou Ttuln i:.-, i-- p i ; :" Ft) ue. ! . i . . Van Rich-coiid. roAia . Feb s e r i o i s ', Ot, eojlish t ra i OS . i hem. o r, iii - : : V 1 1 1 v. -, . .; I FiVe in ju red. '1 between t he 'a-.1-M.I ' '. A. ' i -- . n . f ..hn All -.v of o til-em.i n. ;, -i. braketna n . W. P. MM' u stieber: I) e g ro 1 v - were of this eW. j . . : . ,dstoek. Alabama d aii-i ,i,a. di-1. vv a -rbms'T In.

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IN POLITICS PROMISED Hoover Republican Boom for Indiana is Forthcoming Soon. (TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANA Pl.'LI.--. Ii.d . Feb. 1 . Plans are under way in Indianapop.s t- bring to a head the much discussed Herbert Hoover bo. -in for the preslden. .-y of the 1'nite.i states through an ofti.ial announ-enient authorized by Mr H-.over oousenting to place his nam on the. Indiana Republican presidential pref erem-e ha 11- t . In view of the national controversy, over the political affiliations of the f. imer food administrator and the manner in which he has been courted by element. of the 1,'f moci a t i.- parr v to induce him to he their standard :.earer. the P.-p ; id ha n ll-.nwr boom when fully developed in Indiana -. expected to be one of the sensations of i he cmipaigti . nilPl HI.K ANS PR F.V A 1 1, ON HIM Despite th- statement issued one wc-k ago by Mr. Hoover declaring that he would n-.t pledge himself 1 ' "undefined partisanship." it has bee,, learned from reliable sources that the Republican friend. f Mr. Hoover in Indiana have pt a upon him t--aiinouii.-e. his . andidacy . Developments in the Hoover situation are expected this week. If the-, e I no mien in tne plans the Hoover ompaisn will he launched in Indiana within a few days and a manager will e named. J.jSt why it is planned tstart the Hower ball roliir.3 in Indiana has not been learned. IIKMtM'H AT5 AT SKV The candidacy of Hoover on the Republican ticket will eave some Demoratio leaders in Indiana, as well a throughout the nation, in a rather unique position. Within a few 5Rys after the. New Vf-rk World declared that it would support Jlr! Hoover for the presidency no matter what part-' should claim him. a number of Indianapolis Democrats beean to busy themselves to start a "Hoc'v-er-for-president club." While the leaders of the movement were enthusiastic they never gave their plans publicity. one reason for their silence might be that thev discovered that Hoover would not consent to being drafted by the- Demcxrats as an only hope. .1. F. Wilhelm has fllej suit against James F. Lyons . et. al. for possession e.f property and damages from the unlawful detention of same. Ilia at. torneys are Eomberger, Tetrrs and Morthland . OHIOANS TO HELP DIRECT POLITICAL FIGHT OF A. F. OF L. He S3 William Green, abore, and John P. Frey. A nation-wide fight to elect friends of organized labor to state and national offices will be cor doc ted by the American Federation 4ft Labor. Records of men who have oeen unfriendly toward labor will be given iride. publicity in the campaign, whjch will be directed by the national nonpartisan political ci ipaign committee recently named by th federation. Lifted on the committee are Two Ohioan?. William Green of t r.chocton, secretary of the Urt'teti Mine Workers t,f Amer va. . nri Jokn !'. Frey of N'orvvo. ,r of the Fnternatioi.a! M.-.,,. u.-iion. Th move of the fevieratiun to cond .ct a non-parti;?an right to elect its friendi eiiminates the possibility of a third or labor party lieing formed.

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