Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 258, Hammond, Lake County, 19 April 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER FOR INDIANA Rain tonight and Tuesday.

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RAGEOY OF THE SEASO E. J. Harrison, Veteran S. O. Salesman Sustains Skull Fracture in Train Collision. hi i.i.rn t krrr o'clock "Mr. Harrison w able- to speak. Althwngh delirious and ntlrrlnK Incoherent word, hi condition conxldered by physicians hopeful. It was said that he hnd a UghlIbi chnncc to lite. The first serious auto accident of the "an in Lake county took place in Hammond this morning when Kdanl .! . Harrison. 1-r"S Moraine avenue. a salesman for the Standard Oil Co.. for "lis district, was struck and probably ftaPy injured by south-bound Morton p?sf rgtr fain No. r. at the Standard e?nti? crossing in Hammond. H" was taken to St. Margaret's bospial where 1M. I'hidlaw discovered he bad sus'ained a concussion of th brain. The ''ord frian in which Hai-vison was ridwas" completely demolished. It is said that the injured man w a., driving ea?t on Standard avenue and his ievv of the approaching train was .lit off by a knoll which slopes gradually from the corner of the cemetery that extends along Standard icnu" to the Monon tracks. About three years ago. it w ill !: i -called the son of Mat Brown, former county treasurer, was instantly killed st the same crossing, when he was struck by a fast passenger train. Vnung Biown was riding a motorcycle and was a contestant in the Century race at the time of the accident. Mr . Harrison came to Hammond from South Kend several years ago and is one or the Standard Oil C... s best known field men in the state. He Is vary pi eminent in Masonry. ANOTHER SHRINER JSHURT "Members "of Orak Shrift had scarcely had time to recover from the shock of the news of the serious accident hfa!l! pa; K. J. Harrism. one ..f the high officer.-? of the Shi .tie when they heard that Car! Rundquit. leader yf i h Arab patrol for four ears, hid i-ta ned a broken leg when he was . Hijtii' in a shaft at the Giison slvp h,.- afternoon. L IS AUTO VICTIM As the result of an automobile accident, last right on Gostlin St.. just east of Columbia ae., Mis. Tom Gary ."J09 Kennedy ave., V"ast Ch';ago. who h. riding with her husband in their l'i rd sedan, whtn it struck a motor- ; i !e and w as in turn struck by a :aiy car driven by V lUiam Harris. 1."!J Hickory aenue. Hammond, is toisy in St. Marg.i'et's hospital where physicians say sh' will lose her nose, the bridge having been torn away by flvinj glass. Her husband also was taken to the hospital where ir, was di..vered he. had suffered no more serious injuries than several bad cuts. The couple were driving east on fell in St.. about 8 o'clock when they allege a motorcycle with no tail lights showing suddenly loomed up in front. It was too lat to turn completely aside and the automobile rr?u . i into th" side car of the motorccle. s.i terrific was the Impact that the Ford was tossed to the left and directly into the path of a heavy Oakland "6" which shattered the smaller car. The motorcycle was being pushed along Gostlin St., by Harry Russell. 1536 Homer T.ee ave.. East Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Gary were taken to the hospital by Julius Tauaig. YOUNG VANDALS ABROAD Boy vandals last night raided the home of Mrs. Helen Austgen, 374 Sibley rtreet, and destroyed several vases used as decorations for the front porch. Plants and shrubbery were uprooted r. nd earthenware smashed and scatterrd about the yard. The rampage cf the 'boya was carried on while the fami y was away. Joe Austgen Is offering a reward for the names of the boys responsible for the- act. ARTHUR KLEE SUSTAINS INJURY Arthur H. Klee. the twentv-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Klee. c-f 161 G rover street. Hammond. suffered a serious and painful injury Saturday afternoon while at work at the Inland Steel iplant, when a piece of steel from a machine on which he was working, flew eff, flitting him in the eye. The young man was rushed to St. I ,iike hospi ta! in Chicago, w here specialists fear that the s:ghi of h " risiit eve js omflrtf'y d slroyed

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Threaten To Swell The Strike Ranks Freight Handlers and R. R. Clerks in Chicago District Take Strike Vote.

t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl fllH'A'JO, April 1? A return of j Chicago of a complete freight tie-up I and the establishment of a drastic freight embargo on ail roads loomed today when 8.000 freight handlers and! "0.000 railroad clerks threatened to join tha switchmen's strike Tuesday. A strike vote on the proposition is to be taken today. It was stated by George A. Worrell, chairman of the Brotherhood of Kailroad Clerks that a strike is almost sure to lie voted unless the railroads avert it by capitulating to the demands of the freight handlers and railroad clerks for a wage increase. This the railroad officials declare they cannot j do as the Cummins Jp'.sch law. they say frbids settlement by the railroads! directly. They believe that a complete food blockade and industrial tienp will result here if the strike is declared . CAPTURE Joe Ars'n'. 57 Merrill ae.. Hammond. sixt -three j ers old. was reputed to 1Q t "boot-lcgrrr" and Saturday night when i Shorina 7,arra. 1"3 I'ompany House. called at the home of Arosrnt. accomjpqnied by his friend. Joe Ci ctanovtch. 3t Summer St., Aresepi refused to sell them any liquor. A fight followed and Areseni was shot through the head and fataliy wounded. He was taken to St. Margaret's hospital and d!ed there Nat 1;0 Saturday nisht. ' rolice airiinx on the scnr took int.custody a foreigner. He as held at Hajnmond Central station. Soon his friend's began to arrive and from their statements dei'i-iivcs, felt they had the wrong man. The friends knew much, however, and when they found the suspected man would not be soon released they slowly but regretfully dlu!ged information w hi li resulted in the arrest ! of Zarea and his companion, i j According to th story Znrn opened Ith" door of the murdered man's home j on the second floor of a building hack Icf the Indiana Hotel. The two men grappled when Are-sen! declined to par' vlth any of his 'moonshine" for love or money. Zarea was thrown down t airssi nd Areseni is said to have followed him. In the alley outside. Zarea's friend see ing the battle waging hotter, took to l is heels. H'3 had proceeded about 20t feel when he heard three shots. Prdir-e ; believe he was on the S'-cne when Arscni I as: shot ar.d hope) to w ring a complete I c- nft.'-sion from both men before .night. I In the murdered man's rooms. Detec- ' lives Einslie and Singer found over J;'.0n J in cah. Krirnds of the suspected man. I who was released following the arrest 1 of X?rea. alleged that Arseui was known j throughout Kast H.rniinond as a peddler ! c.f whiskey. Zarea is said to have made previous purchase from him. Cvetan- ' ovit h i held as a material witness. N'o (charge has been made against Z.irep pending the coroner's inquest which will pe lo Id tome. t row. R. R. Bl HAKES A "WASHINGTON. April 19 All terms of the railroad law. under which the railroad labor board Is created., must be complied with by organizations of railroad employes befnre grievances can be brought before the board, it was announced today by the board in a formal statement. The ruling of the board was madwhen S. J. McLtougall, of the St. TiOuis Yardmen's Union, and Kdward McHugh, of New York, appeared as represntatives of all the "outlaw" strikers, to ask immediate wage increases . The law provides that every resource of negotiations between the railroads and their employes must be exhausted before grievances and differences can be filed before the board. The statement of the board which vis read to representatives of the "outlaw" strikers, was interpreted by W. N. Poak. representing the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen as a refusal to recognize or to parley with the strikers who have recently tied up freight terminals. MAGAZINE GIVES IT'S POLL FIGURES CHICAGO. April 1!. The Literary Digest today announced the first result if its National republican presidential poll as fo'lows: Wood S..7 .1 r.hii 1 I i J M.i ; n g 2. "SI Hughes 1.10ft Lo wden ...... S3S

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PROVES FARMERS $9 WHEAT COSTS CONSUMERS $36 Sen. .Vale J. Gronn wdghlrj bread. Senator Asle J. Gronn of North Dakota, chairman of the senate agricultural committ, and called cliarapion of the western wheat jrrowera, has shown his associates by practical demonstrations how a barrel of flour makes 400 loaves of bread and that with bread at nine cents a loaf the consumer pays $36 a bushel for wheat that brought the farmer oaly $9. ioiir CELEBRATE WITH DANCES Sensational Social Gatherings Take Place in Both Whiting and Hammond. "Well, It certainly looks like the return of oid tims. It's getting to be the regular thing: again that no dance is really complete without a battle royal. List to what happened in Hammond on Saturday night and In somnolent Whiting last night. These followed tempestuous "gang"' fights at Gar.. Indiana Harbcr and Hammond In the past: Hammond casualties S. arrests none. Whiting casualties 1; arrests 3. T'rof. John G. Keane. who conducts a reputable and high-class dancing school at 152 State street, Saturday rented the dance hall to two Hammond young men v hom he said were "Buddy'Mcl.aughMn and George Fotts. Prof. Keane asserts that a Chicago orchestrat was hired to play which was well enough to start the ball rolling. TAHTi:il T ! SHARP Kverything went lovely at the Orpheum hall unt il about 10 r. rn . Then into the maze of sinuous and serpentine forms gliding about the floor moves "Fanny. the Blonde," well known Hammond youth. Now "Fanny" had an old score to settle with a woman named Flanagan and unluckily for both they met in the cloakroom, according to T'rof. Keane. The two were not without friends and when the smoke cleared away willing arms carried out the exhausted and battle scarred Amazons. In all there weie throe casualties. When the police arrived at 11:15 Prof. Keane had cleared the hall, the orchestra had gone and the dance was ovf r. MF. BATTLE AT AVHITIAR At Whiting last night the battle was between members of the sterner sex. Last Wednesday night a dance was held at Slovak Home. Whiting.. There (Continued n pag two.) YOU'VE GOT TO-' AT POKER Tvetectives Singer and Einsliw and Officer Carlson of Hammond Central police station, working last night on the murder of Joe ArsenJ, came upon a "tip" which led to the capture of seven men induging in a poker game and a "pot" of money containing approximately 35. Ovr the resturant at 39 Kenwood ave. a poker game was at its height. Anon came a shout of victory which no poker pla.v'-r will fail to recognize. The three officers passing below the window heard and knew. This morning in the city court the seven were arraigned and plead guilty. Joe Sokal, !! Kenwood ave., was fined $21 for keeping a gambling house: Israel Bogosian. .121 CVnkey ave.; Valentine '"udzito. r.O I I, lined ave.: Vike Ange1n;i. tss M..iion a..: Yukila. 1 1 Of) Co'i mliin .; 'a--iii Sum h. 1 T f " (Vlum1 ia ave.: and Mike Liidor, 50." Fields ave., were each fined J15 for gambling-

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JohnsoiT Forced To j Change Plan Will Not Speak in Gary and j Hammond Until April 30.

Senator Hiram Johnson, republican presidential candidate! ins been compelled to change his plans for meeting In Lake county this week, according to C. G. Kingwill. of Hammond, county manager, and will not be able to speak in Gary tonisht. Mr. Kingwill had & thirty minutea talk with Mr. Johnson and his managers last night in Chicago and learned of the change at that time. Senator Johnson vrlll eome to Lake county on April 30 from Michigan CHv where he speaks earlier In the day. He will speak In Hammond at 7:0t p. m. and at Gary at t;30 p. m. Th meeting tonight in Gary will be addressed by Tat O Donnell t,f Chicago, an ardent Johnson man. On Wednesday, th? Johnson organization in Hammond will be addressed by E. J. Cook, the Illinois delegate who will vote for Johnson at the National Convention and 'a ladies auxiliary will be formed. j FOR II. S. RAIL L bt Mii.onED Monni 1STAFF COPHESFONDENT I. N. SERVICE 1 "WASHINGTON. April 13 Samuel I Gompers has come out for govern-! ment rontroT of the railroads. s snokel sman for the American Federation of Labor and friends of. Warren S. Stone, chief cf the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and president of the Plumb Flan League are inclined to gloat over It a another victory for S'one and another indication of hi fnbuenc on the policies of the Federal on. In pamphlets Just (ssued conta'nirg hi editorial in tie eurrent issue of tii f ederatlon n , -of! icial magazine, in which h at fJH b prlnclplea pu tvhio! the Fde,tG'i, will stand in, xnp rresent political campaign. Gompers announces his surport of federal railroad control. The pamphets are causing comment in labor circles due to th fact that the editorial as It appears in the Fedtralionist and as given out to the i.ewspapers contains no word as to the Federation's attitude on the railroad question . Inquiries at the federation's head- ; quarters today brought the explanation that the statement appearing in i the pamph'et Issue of the editorial repeating a declaiation for g.,erh-! merit. ! ELECTION FOR Tomorrow is West Hammond's big dav. Four aldermen ae to be elected. There have been little election almost weekly during the last month I or more for school trustee.", members of hoards of education and township officers but tomorrow's will be the most important of the year, aside from the presidential election next fall. I'ntil the last few weeks interest in the aldermanic election was at low ebb and it looked as though the old r-ffl-tcrs would be stuck for another term but recently the air of anathy was ca."t aside and plenty of candidates appeared. The campaigning of course has not been whit it used tc be. The saloons are gone and only near beer pep can be Injected into the contest. Following are the candidates who filed petitions with City Clerk Andrew Stachowlcr to have their names placed on the ballots. First Ward Frank Green and Jas. Kelly. Second Ward John Simerackl and Barney Kulczyk. Third Ward Frank Winski and William K a 1 1 a s . Foiyth Ward John Murray. The Fourth Ward is the only one In which no contest is prr-mired. Mr. Murray has given satisfactory service in the council and his constituents want h'm retained. Other names may 'be written in. however. Jt was with onBiderale regret that citizens learned of the withdrawal r,r William Walsh from the rae in the Firt. Ward. He i now a member ( f the council and had been urged to run again. . He says that his work requires all of his time which accounts for his withdrawal after he had taken out a petition. WHITING MAN DODGES WARRANT Pave Labounty who lives at 3325 Commonwealth avenue. Indiana Harbor, last evening decidtd that he would beat up his wife. The two were on a Gren Line car running fr.-m Whiting to East Chicago at the time and before the beating had progressed very far. Conductor George Falk decided that it had already gone too far. When Falk attempted to interfere j Labounty drew a revolver and threatened to shoot if anp one interfered. (Then he Jumped off the car and ran ' away. i Conductor Falk reported the affair li, the Kast Chicago police and Mrs. j Labi uniy swore out a warrant for her husband's arrest. Mrs. f.aho-jnty lives in Whiting. ,

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Horace Baker (left) and A. O. Wharton. Horace Baker is one of the representatives of the roads cm the new rail labor board, while Arthur O. WTiarton is one of the representatives of the employes. Baker is a former peneral manager of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad. Wharton is president of the railroad employee' department of the American Federation of Labor

5 EM NEWS FLASHES fBUXIJETIN) riNTERNATlONAL NEWS SEPVICE1 WASHINGTON. April 19. Tha iuprem court of the United States today failed to make its long expected decision on the constitutionality of the national prohibition amendment and of the Volstead enforce, ment act. (BtnjiETIN) t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN FX.ANCZSCO, April 19 Si Russian brides accompanied as many doughboya on the United states army transport Logan, which docked today after a thirty-four day trip from U&nlla . (BCL1ETIN) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YOBK, April ID. Fire broke ont on the steamer Hallfried, lying t 43rd st. dock in Brooklyn, and despite the efforts of fij-e boats and city firemen soon spread o a harge loaded with oil and to several other craft nearby. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEPVICE1 WASHINGTON. April 13. The supreme court announced that the call for the docket would be suspended afte. rriday, April 30, accl no motions would be received by the court after Monday, May 31. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl LONDON, April 19. The EveningStandard printed a report today tha the government possesses information of the existence of a plot to start rebellions in Ireland, , J.ndia, Egypt and Canada in June. NEGROES ARRESTED BY ST. J E f SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 ST. JOHN. Ind. April 1? Three Negroes, who late Saturday night entered the fjnrr of IVtrlo Sun. hardware merchants at Iowcll. and stole liberty bonds amounting lo S17,"i rind a iri.-tntity of knives and other barn ware, were captured tliis morri'iig by a po;::-e of farmers in the woods hiick of the Monon station at .St. John. Tin y vverq taken to the county jail at Crown T'omt. where according to Sheriff Barnes the men partly confessed to the Lowell tobhery. They are he ld on an opi-n cii irgo pending the uncoverin: of further evidence.-. The Negroes, it is said, camped last night at l-'armdale, a milk station on the Motion railroad midway between Lowell and Vd: r L-ike. They destroyed a milk can belonging to a farmer named Kleino, who. coming upon the men when lie arrived at the station tins morning rvith his supply of milk, had an altercation with the Negroes and they fled. Bearding a freight train they rode as far as Si. John. There a posse had been gathered sifter Kleino phoned the station pgent. Ht St. John. As lh! Negroes leapcel from the train they made a dash for the woods and vveio tniniedialely surrounded. They gave, t in nie! v e? up without offering to tisht. Sheriff Barnes believes the men are from Chicago. Charges of robbery will be preferred against them. STILL GOING .OVER-ALL CRAZY I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ATLANTA. O.i., April IP With n-?ar-1 ,".0f0 names appended to the Overall Club list, business and -prof essi'-na 1 men. clerk", workmen and men in all walks of life appeared today, the official opening "overall dav" wearing the denim on the streets and at work to a number estimated at between 7.OO and S . 0 1 0 . Fledge have been signed to wear the c-vciall outfit until the long hoped for drop in the prices of wearing apparel is a r-ili: . Fri'-es Tor the denim-' have ni-'adv l":iin I" , -i v an 1..C .

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New Slicker Bilks Soft Drink Man

Pretends to Sell Eeer Which Is 2.75 But It Turns Out .275. r.eforms rctre ar.d reformers go but the "oi"-n" man we have always with us. L,?t to thi tale whi'h O. Hrnry w ould have lo-.rd to rev.0U.nt . The great thirst which asai ? America has been made the, ba.T.:sfor many a slicker's game but lfce be. jet -crop's out in Jlamfttond whire the vgtUli&ic lllliv- l in-- Hi'. iu -fWc ; drummer. This particular type c-f : s-alesman is a seller of oft drinks. He j h yn oa tiies the owner cf the soft drink f-;tablishment. who most often ss pick- !'! for his tTiirt y-w ord English 'acabulary. and into- the ear of the dealer pours a ta'e of easy ri'-hes and fabuf ions wraith. j The patter of the salesman runs j so mething J:Ue this: "I represent the Near Beer Bottling Works. Here 1 hold a bottle of 2 3-4 per cent beer. The alcoholic contents mind you. equal 3 C!-4 per cent and it's the bailie as the pre-war beer. if you tiiie five cases of the 1-2 per cent beer allowed by law we will sell you two aes of the real article. You have our own tiade sell it as yen please. What could be pweeter. The 2 3--t per cent is marked right on the bottl see it. You can make a fortune. Keen this quiet. How an any cases?'" Well, naturallya reposition cf that snrt will appea'o anyone, so the soft drink dealer immediately orders a cellar full of cases. He has reached the end of the tain-how and the pot of gold is within his grasp. A few das later the proprietor receives his goods. He rushes to the cases containing the "i eal thing." He picks up a bottle. It's marked .275 per cent, alcoholic, c-ntents. Sometime they w ise up and sometimes they don't. MAN KILLED AT CHEMICAL PLANT Whether Lake ce-unty. Ind., or Cook county. Til., should stand the expense of the Coroner's inquest in the death of Jim Berjomia who met a violent death Sunday morning i: a question which Coroner Evans of Gary and Coroner Hoffman of Chicago must decide. Jerjomia. who was employed at the plant of the 1'nited Chemical & Organic Products Co.. in West Hammond, was caught in some machinery early Sunday morning and iboth legs were ground off. The Biirns- ambulance v.as called to rush the man to St. Margaret's hospital. No one was sure whether the man was alive. Arriving at the hospital the ambulance attendants; were informed that it was useless to ibring the mian to Ill's operating room as lie was dead. The bod'- was taken to the Brims' morgue to be prepared for burial, but in arranging for the inquest the qi.est'on ha.-' niisen whether the man died i,i Lline i.-i or Indiana and on which side oi the line the rxpenre of the inquest stn-u'id be borne. JOY-RIDERS TOOK IT Joy-rider yesterday hopped into the automobile belonging to Dr. J. A. Teegarden. S504 Grapevine street. Indiana Harbor, which was standing in front of St. Margaret's hospital, Hammond, and blithely drove away. This morning the car ws found in a field on Summer street near the Central Railway Signal plant. One tire was cone . THIEVES WERE BUSY Thieve, last night entered the room (if VWm Tlolfiich. Monon. Ir.d.. who is stepping- at the State Hotel and tcok ,-iieck drawn on the Monon railre-ad totaling ? -1 and S3 in cash . Tw o ;ill i.i;"li... o-ie i 1 1 1 . 1 .y lie Mo'lort r?te F.a r. K and e.ne- 'ov the I e.. .- i nes sta.:e iiiLiik were alst- s'olt;u.

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Important Decisions Expected To Be Handed Down Today. BCXLEITIV HNTEPNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl WASHINGTON-. April 1tThe anpre me court led ay decided tn the rase of Lvrrctt I,. Simpson, charged Trtl unlawful Irannportation f lnn slcatinsr liquors In interstate commerce from Wyoming- lo Colorado. In violation of he Tired hone-dr? law, that sMmpium had no right under the law. to transport tte llqaora between the tateo, and rrverird the decision of the k-rr-rr ronrt. IHILFJIV HNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl WASHINGTON, April IS Oil 'rompaniea operating tn New Mexico ae. cured from the supreme coort vf The I this afternoon an lnJaB-tlen against enforcement of the NVw MrIro state tat on all carried la tanka hy the state anthoritlea. . BtUETIV f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WIIIOTON, April 18 The "Jim Crow" law of Kentarky, rrqnlriag different conches for white and colored, was upheld today fcy lhe supreme court. BCI.LETIV f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. April 10 The 'First National Bank of Canton. Ohio, arching to enjoin Skrlton Williams, comptroller of currency, from demanding reports concerning loana made by the bank, and from Inflicting; penalties for failure to flic such report, won Ita ease today In the aupreme court. Williams Is required to answer In tKe district court tyt Pennsylvania, the snlt testing his right lo demand the report he asked. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, April 19 The V. S " supreme court meets at noon today after a recess of more than two weeks A number of important decisions ar expected to be handed down by th court during the afternoon. Greatest public interest attached ti final opinions by thfc court la thesj cases: Constitutionality of the national prohibition amendment and of ths "Volstead enforcement act. HAII, CARRIERS' CASE Divorcement of the so-called coal railroad carriers from their anthracite coal mine ownership- and discontinuance of such railroads from their sales control of coal . Constitutionality of tjie farm loan acts. Constitutionality of the fedral law imposing a special tax on child labor. Liability of owners for damages resulting from the Black Tom Island Munitions explosion. 1IFC1RD ARGl ME.NTS IN APRIL The supreme court heard arguments early in April in test cases brought to determine the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment and the enforcement law. While It would be exceptional for the court to render a decision on so important a matter in so short a time, a decision in the case today is not an impossibility. The court has been made aware of the great public interest in the important questions laid before it for final adjudication and the briefs submitted in the cases indicate the vast amount of property interests involved. TWO STTi:S ATTACK IT The states of Rhode Island and New Jersey in original proceedings hav mad the most interesting assaults on the laws. They have challenged the constitutionality of the amendment and asked for injunctions against the attorney general and the commissioner of internal revenue from enforcing the Volstead act on grounds alleging illegal invasion of state rights to control domestic taxes. Impairment of state revenues, unauthorized interference with intrastate commerce, usurpation by the federal government of the state -power of concurrence in enforcement of the laws, illegal control of non-intoxicating beverages: unlawful seizure of property without due compensation, illegal proclamation on ratification of the prohibition amendment in advance of such ratification under referendum laws of CI states, and other allegations. Uniting with the states in their attacks were appeals brought by private interests from Masschusetts, Ken tucky and New Jersey against adverse decisions to tuch Interests sustaining the law handed down by fed eral judges. ROBBERY OCCURS AT LOWELL SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) LOWELL Ind., April 19. Someone broke into L. J. Schitchfield'a drug store and S. H. Petrie's harness shop sometime Saturday night. They got nothing in the drug store but in Fet -He's shop they took about $400 in Liberty bonds and some knives. Three negroes were arrested in Crown Point, on suspicio-n yesterday afternoon. Th had a Liberty bond in their possession and some knives and could g v e no sal -. Ta i t er n n w i i -a nhoo f tie;.- g . i I I . - -. i ;nd li" v til I eie aivaKin,, fill the i inqu i: .