Hammond Times, Volume 9, Number 10, Hammond, Lake County, 8 May 1920 — Page 1

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Hammond Candidate Who Lost By 20 Votes Wants Check of Ballots. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CILOVTS POIXT. Ind.. May 8. Iefated In the primary election In his race for the nomination lor state senator by & bare, twenty votes. Prank B. McEIroy. Of Hammond, has filed his retlUon -with the circuit court for a recount of the senatorial ballots. In the election Tuesday Mr. Mcllroy received 4.618 votes, -while C. Oliver Holmes of Gary nosed him cut -with, 4.63S votes or a, faltry twenty votesDoes Not Allec rrtttt Mr. Mcllroy's petition, which was filed through Attorneys McAJeer. Dorsey & Glllett. of Hamond, states that he believes there were errors made in the count and that a recanvass of the ballots may put him in the lead. He is net asserting that any flagrant error or fraud will be revealed but hopes mistakes of the precinct boards In dealing; with spoiled e-nd questionable ballots may swing the total in his favor. Will Bear the Xxpease. It Is conceded that Mr. Mcllroy has everything to win and nothing;, except the expense, to lose by the recount, as It has been pointed out that an error against him of one ballot to each five precincts could make the difference. It would not be surprising to find twenty errors in a vote of 17. The recount will require considerable time. Acting: upon the petition. Judge Norton will appoint three commissioners who with the attorneys representing the contestants and the county clerk will so over all of the ballots. rinding Oirea to Board. The fir-dins of this commission will be submitted to the county commissioners who will examine all contestwd ballots .snd make a new finding- on the figures before them. The matter will then be heard by the curt. the report of the county commissioners being accepted as prima facie evidence, and the Judge will announce the winner f the congest. In case Mr. Mcllroy wins, the expense of the count will be borne by the county; otherwise he must foot the. bill. The results of the count will be watched with much interest as Mcllroy was the only candidate on the ticket to publicly run on a beer and light wine platform. souihWe strike set Concern is being- expressed by heads cf several of the industries oi rrast Chicago and Indiana Harbor over the threatened strike of the South bnre trainmen which is scheduled to start Monday morning:. The men are asking for an Increase in wages and riami that the company he not Uvea r their agreement of less than & year 'ago. A cessation of service over the South Shore would have n. decided effect upon many of the industries of the Twin Cities because of the large number of workmen who daily arrive on the South Shore from Kensington and the south side of Chicago. Three or four of the smaller industries have in their employ only a few local men and depend almost entirely upon the South Shore lins to bring their employes from other points. Hammond and Gary also use South Shore transportation appreciably. The plant which would suffer most from the threatened strike would be the Cudahy Tacking Company Dutch Cleanser plant which is located neir the river and along the South Shore line. The Green Line which runs within a reasonable distance of almost every other plant in the region does rot come within a couple of miles of the Cudahy plant. The Cudahy plant, however, is making arrangements to carry their employes from Calumet to their work by means of truck and other industries are expected to take the same means of saving their employes a long walk. CHICAGO -PLANS LARGEST HOTEL riNTERNATIONAL NtWS SERV1CE1 CHICAGO. May 8 The world's largest hotel, to cost approximately $15.000,000. and to contain more than 4.000 rooms is to be built in Chicago, it was announced today. t will be an enlargement of the Tldgewater r.each hotel, one of the fashionable hostelries of the North Shore. Don't throw your pa pet rxij srithout reading the want ad pace,

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GUT COBB lft yesterday morning for Sheridan. Ind.. where his grandmother is seriously ill and not expected to live. t THE newly-chartered Rotary club of Hammond completed its organization at a Lyndora hotel luncheon this week.

DEMOCRATIC precinct committeeman of Hammond are at Crown Point today organising for active participation In the county pre-eloction, campaign. THE "popcorn" building on the Bunnel Hohman street property has been moved adjacent to the Rcllly building further down the street. JUTXJE W. C. McMAHAX, now on the appellate bench, one of the original McGray boosters, was in Hammond on his awy "bade to Indianapolis after voting at Crown roint. DRUG addicts broke into the office of Dr. Chidlaw last night in the Citizen's National Bank building and stole two hypodermic cases and a quantity of naxcotics. "WHILE his car stood in front ef the K. C. hall on Sibley street last night, someone stripped George Geger's auto of a $12 motor meter. Geger lives at 1160 Garfield avenue. "WALTER J1IBDCK and Charley Surprise were at Indianapolis yesterday and heard Charles Evans Hughes arguing before Judge Anderson in the coal miners' case. JOE HUT TON" was all smiles today because of the good turnout last night t Gary for the organization of the Consistory club which has been a hobby of Joe's for a long tim. THE G. A. rOWELSOXS are packing to move to their new home neir Cleveland. A. M. DeWeese will occupy their apartment on AVarren street when the Fowclsons leave. COITXTT Recorder ' A. W. Jehnn . r Newton Hembroff of Hammond, and John R. Farovid of Indiana Harbor are raising cabbage by w hoi c m I e in Texa.s. but can't get cars to ship out the crop. SERGEANT BOB CRAMER has been walking his legs oft this week, not having a machine to use. trying to locate a suitabl landing field for the airplane which is to be sent here soon to boost recruiting for the air service. J. K. STINSON wore a wistful look today and explained it by saying he wished h- were in Louisville, Ky. He was there when the first derby was run years ago and was never able to get It out of his blood. JOE Todd wishes to express his thank? to the people of Itnmmond and I.ake county for the generous support which they gave him in li;s ract for Joint representative. He also congratulates .Tay Ocrmeyer cm his success in landing ths nomination. MAX Kl'HN and Bill Karth who; went to Louisville on Tuesday to sleep I with the nags in preparation for to- j day's races, sent the boys a "hot'" on j yesterday just to see how near they were getting to the dope. The home j folks are disgusted for the horse came dragging in last. j O'ROURKE'S demon K. C. ball tam will lock horns with the "Whiting Polarlnes at Hirriron park tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Batteries Wilson and Senchak for the Polarines and Hilbrick and "Eddie" Erennan for tli Cascys. Ililbrich is a farmer lad who hurls major league ball. flEOUGE HAWAL'ER, general manager of the I. H. I?.. denies that there Is onv truth in the Carv story that all the roads but one h.ive agreed to end j the strike. Ho maintains that the. roads are in agreement to stand pfl'- and j that the strike is ended as far as they are concerned. C. C. HONI1AM. Beau Prummell of i Hammond's insurance crowd. cjuicUyj informed a few friends yesterday that be had purchased a new hat which j w ill knock 'cm all cold. How ever, lie j plans to spring it aj a surprise when, be dons the flannels so this informs-j tion is slipped the public in order to minimize the shock. PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES: Candidates for the Republican nom- ! ination for state office? are showing ac tivity now in preparation for the final derision in the state -convention next week. The list c-f candidates for Lieutenant Governor was further increased yester day by the entrance of -Joi'.ph A. Min. j turn of Indianapolis. Mr. Minturn. i v ho is a patent attorney, makes the j fifth candidate seeking the office. The others are Harry E. Negley of Indianapolis. Emmett F. P.ranch cf Martinsville. Arthur E. Lonn of Laporte and "William M. White of Crawfordsville. ( ALLIES ENCOURAGE POLAND OFFENSIVE MNTFRNATIONAL N.WS SERVICE VIENNA. May 8 The Polish offensive against soviet Russia is a direct result of the allies agreeing "at the San nemo conference to encourage Poland in her attack, according to the newspaper Isvestia. of Moscow. The Isvestia claims to possess Information that the allies took sch action.

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Advocates of the Sanitary District received slight encouragement frm Indiana Harbor citizens at the Indiana Harbor Civic Club last evening when the advisability of establishing a sanitary district was thoroughly thrashed out in a meeting which lasted until lmost midnight. Opinion was divided and while some favored the; proposition there appeared tu be a well aenntd feeling mat the naesiu-n could uut cany at an election. C. B. Tinkham of Hammond, opened the meeting over which W . K. Jewell presided by giving a history of tnc Sanitary District agitation, explaining the law under which futli a district might Jbe established and giving reasons why at thia time a Samtaiy District should be established. The limit of two per cent for the bonded indebtedness of a city. n explained, would prohibit individual action by any of the citiea because the cities are already approaching that two per cent and would be unable to issue bonds to pay for sewage treatment plants. A sanitary district, on the other hand, would be allowed a bonded indebtedness of two per cent in addition to the indebtedness oi' the individual cities. Thus, he pointed out, amalgamation would not solve problem since the amalgamated city would have no greater corresponding ability to issue bonds than any individual city. The question of East Chicago citizens paying a greater share of the cost than the other cities was taken up and Mr. Tinkham explained how Kast Chicago would get one and a half treatment plants and ..Hammond and Whiting would also get one and a half. Since Kast Chicago would pay about as much as Hammond and Whiting combined and would" get as much f the system as Hammond and Whiting fombincd. he assfrtcd that the proposition Is about even. Unity of action was urged as the best and most economical. E. W. Wickey insisted in his answer to Mr. Tinkhain that Last Chicago is now in a position to treat the sewage as well , cheaper and sooner than a sanitary district possibly cnul and recommend-d that formation of a sanitary district if it should be form?'! should await the opening of the Sag Canal in order that the effect might first be determined-. Any adjustment of costs that the Sanitary Commission might make, he said, would be merely taking the money out of one pocket and putting it in another. Amalgamation, he asserted, would solve th problem and would do it cheaper than a Sanitary District. It was the opinion expressed at the meeting that filtered water which List Chicago and Indiana Harbor will lie receiving within a mmth will satisfy the treat majority of the citizens of rbe Twin Cities and will mean the cieft-at of the proposition if it is voted tipm. Ex-Mayor Frank Callahan was one of those who contended that an election could not carry in Imfcana Harbor. Hunter to Head Lake Consistory Preliminary steps to form a Lake1' County Consistory were taken at : meeting of some seventy-five 32nd do- i gree Masons at the Gary Commercial I Club rooms in Gary yesterday evening. ! Pesides the election of officer", plans! were discussed for -organization of a' Lake County Consistory in the near future. Prosecuting Attorney iyde; Hunter of Gary was named president' and the nine vice president elected pre j H. L. Uudolp'i of Indiana Harbor. At-' torne y M. F. Metz. of Hammond. Aud- I itor G. M. Poland of Crown Point,! Mark Dickovcr. Vaplaiai.so. Dr Hillaid; of Whiting. Alfred If. Kimba'l. of .aPorte. H. A. Smith. Hobart. II. 11Tuthll! of Michigan City, and E . i. i Mooney of Kat Chicago. Deputy City Clerk John C. Terry of i Gary was made secretary and treas-' urer and on the advisory board Joseph T. Hutton and John Ross of Last C')i-J cago. both 33rd degree masons. To further and complete the organization' a big meeting is to be held at the Gary Commercial Club rooms on Tuesday fvening. May 11. At this meeting Wil-j liam Geak. a 33rd degree Mason m.-i 1 'the Fort Wayne Consistory will ad-i dress thr Lake County MrLsdns on organization. Lake County Masons are now making big preparations for another large class which will take the Consistory at Fort Wayne on June 1, 2, ana 3. It is thought that there will be in the neighborhood of 130 in the class. According to Mr. Perry this morning the Lake County order will have over three hundred members when erg-m ined and are now planing on a mon-i ster new temple. j I Better call up The Times a:iJ have it sent to your house every aieht. Then you'll oe sure it wil be there.

Gary Man Complains There Were Not Enough Ballots To Supply the Voters. Here come-? a Gary man who wasn't satisfied with the heavy vote captured in Gary by Senator Johnson. Complaint of allied frauds in the election machinery in Gary was made in a letter to The Herald and Examiner in Chicago yesterday by H. K. West, a voter. West said: "In the prrcirfct where I vote the supply of ballots was exhausted at 2 p. m.," he wrote. "No more were received. I lolled nar tho polling places all through the da. hoping to get a chance to vote, and saw hundreds of men turned away. At 5:30 the men in the polling station told a group they might asw-ell go told a group they might as well go home, as they could not vote. "'Peculiarly, this same thing happened in more than one precinct. Perhaps it will explain what became of the predicted heavy vote for Hiram Johnson." added West.

MISSING CHICAGO GIRL TRAILED TO GARY Buys Cigarettes and Per-j fumes in Stringfellow Drug Store. "Positively Identifying her as the prety Mten yar old May Cairns, who disappeared from Hr home in Chicago on her sixteenth b4- hday. the trial last night led to Gary. " Harry Stringfellow. proprietor cf the Stringfel'ow I'rug Store, a drug clerk and !-evial patrons identified the picture of the missing beauty whic happeared in the Herald anl Kxaminrr on Thur.-da's e".ilion.. Shortly before ten o'clock Sunday evening Miss Crns, beautifully gowned in a blue tailored suit, stepped from a taicab in front of Stringfcllow's 1'rug stuie. Cioing inside she purchased a package ..f cijari-ttes and s-.-me perfum. I nder her arm the t at ro d a number of periodical?. People in the stoie remarked about her beauty. Getting in the taxi she ordered the di ivcr to go to the P.roadway tht-aiei at lTtli avenu and P.roadway. l"nronte she remarked: "Thi.-i ij sure a heck of a town." but according to the driver he did not carry on a conversation with her. A reporter of Tnr. Times who received t h e tip o f her v i i t to the r ?! y was unable to trace her movements, further thnn the Broadway theater. lie consulted Chief Korliis rf t'le ;ary police depa 1 1 men t and tmlay thp police arc lending rery assistance run down other clews. It is believed tli.it the taxi driver knows more about the S-lrl's movements than he has divulged. EDITOR SENT TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT riNTERNATIONAL NFAS SERVICE! . 1 i.vui.i.v.irui.iJ. iai.. .May a James Kilgallen. managing editor of the Indlana Daily Tinv s. today was fined 10ft ana costs ana was sentenced to ten' days in jail on each of twu counts of J an indictment charging contempt of' court for the publication of articles! regarding the alleged nppearance of attorneys before a grand jury. Robert A. Duller, editor of th Times, claimed l esponsi'oi 1 it y for the articles, one an editorial and the other a front page article, and in a signed story today declared the "supreme, court or Indiana will he called on to determine whether or not Claris AJam. Marion county's '.'pineless prosecutor. through the agency of James A. Collins, judge of the criminal court, can select who he plea ses of the staff of the In dianji Fiaiiy Times on which to visit his ire i for truthful and proper criticism or! his mlsc on duct as a public official" J An appeal was taken .immediately-. and Mr. Kilgallen was freed on bona ! HESSVILLE LADY PASSES .AWAY 1 j The many friend." of Mrs. Mstilda Shoy. 34 year? of age. for many years a resident of Hossville, wiil he grieved to learn of l.er death at her home thU nn-rniiig of ocart trouble. Besides her husband. Mrs. Shay lea v. es to mourn her, two .sons Corneil and Vernon Shay ot Hessville and five daughters. Mrs. Myrtle Hay of Tenn., Mrs. John borne of Chicago. Mrs. Wm. Kansfield. Lc-ra Shay and Blanch Shay, of Hessville. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at the home in Hessville at 2:00 o'clock. Interment will be he'd in the Hessville cemetery. The Times want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed.

BULI.ETIIT. WASHINGTON, May 3. "Bad business aclm'nistration" cm the part of the government, was blamed for present high Eu-rar prices by Herber Hoover today in a telegram he sent from Near Yori to Senator Capper, republican, of Kansas. ETJI.I.ETIK. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 8 An unconfirmed report reached heT today from Chihuahua City, by way of 1 Paso and Zai-edo that General Benjamin Hill had captured Mexico City was not credited at Obregon headquarters.

BULLETIN. By GEORGE HOLMI3 In. N. S. Staff Correspondent. B1W TOEK, May 8. The name of Eugene V. Debs, termed "Socialism's martyr,' niw serving a term of ten years in '.he federal prison at Atlanta, for obstructing the draft, was ca everybody's lips as the na. tional convention of the Socialist party got under way here today. BULLETIN. SIN ANTONIO. Tex., May 8 SsltlUo was captured yesterday b7 rebel forces. The town cap!: uittel without resistance. Advices containing this Information were received by Obregonlsta agents here today. I KENT-LAND TURNS OUT i TO WELCOME M'CRAY Republican Nominee Greeted by Home Folks; $100,000 Bull in Parade. KENTLANP. Ind.. May 9. Newton county rivc Warren T. McCrsy an enthusiastic reception Thursday afternoon when he returned home f r. m his s:at" he adejuarters ai Indianapolis. The winner f the KepijV.K-an nomination for j overno- received an ovation frf.m the home folks thafwlll go down in history as onn of Kent'and's red letter events. All -business houses were closed and f 'tores and houses dec. orated. The town band flayed and speeches were made. Mr. McCray wa.s met .it Kail Park a few miles, south i f K'mi.ir.d. by a larsre delegation of ad.-.iirers who had worked hard to win-u.trs for him in the primary. As he s;epped from the P.i Pour train the nominee for Co verm r was greeted with loud cheering. The deeoi ated automobiles then formed in line behind a ear in which Mr. M'.t'ray role. At ihe head of the proessieu w as an upholstered m- tor truck in which rode liruinni'i Fairfax, thS 1 MKm) bull which head.--tli-: celebrated M.Cray herd of H'-rf-r.l?. The ar.imal v. .is put :n the parad U, ,iii of IV i notoriety h c lined tliro.isit the - .cation of h.s p'.iotoRiaph beside J, . McCray in a C'niiaso rewsapper. whhh printed an attack on the candida'e shortly before tjie primary election. iIOF NOW STATE BANK Tn keeping w:th the progress ve and r.,pjdlv developing Kast Side, the hank 0r Hammond, formerlv a private bank. situated in. the Calumet avenue district, has now heen converted into a Stste Bank, with a. capitalization -f j JL'5.000.00. Surplus fund of $." Oi'O.'iO. jl'ndivided Profit', as shown by tli IP.nnkV statement in response to the I call of May 4th. of $1.S73.3;. This bank has been in existence three, years j and during that time lias made a steady land healthy growth. Today its ReI sourrtJ total nearly JlfiO.ooo. Am.-ng ! its ftnklir.!drr! are included some of j Hammond's strongest and most cm("fvative business men. men who have ; demonst ra t eri their ability arc pre en I their success in this tie as well as in I other lines. u oniers ai a men? the city's most cpeiienced and efficient bankers as demonstrated by their past record. The hank transacts a eneral banking business, and in ad dition thereto conducts an insurance, real estate and renting department. The splendid patronage given the State p'link ot njr',mcnii by the reople residing on the East Side, in particular. (attests to the confidence which tney l have in this rapidly grow ing instituI tion . OVERMEYER EASY WINNER Cr-mplete returns for Porter and Lake counties in the primary, showOvermeyer of Kouts. and easy winner in the Joint representatives race. His total vote in the two counties was 5.102. his nearest competitor, farlin. receiving a tftal vote of 4.4cfi while Todd obtained 3.P3. Overmeyer's vote in Lake county was 3. son to Carlin's SS1?.

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fx Ck v. 4 J Robert TaftFobert TaVt of Cincinnati, sen of fx-President Taft and a strong Republican, is leading the Hoover "presidential Loom in nis city. "He is tha greatest man amor.g all the candidates." asserts voune Taft. E 0 For w-hat purpose is the ten m.liion dollars which the fiiends of ths home Service of the Sahation Army pri p se to raise enough throng's the nation next week, to be used? The question is very timely in Hammond, because this city is t." raise seven thousand dollars rf (he ten million. The budget is divided a- follows; J4.''i0O.n0O for the l;polt of corps ectlvuies, wh'ch indude.-i operating cost of rol.i corps and oij-tposts.

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."" 0 .0f'0 for the maintenance of Z 4 ; "'The publiq is weary, just as we provincial and di isi rial headquarters a re weary, of past opportunist policies in v a-ions large cities. in wage adjustment, of half way exThesc respective headquarter? super- pedients devied to meet a situation isc the activities of a'l the corp;' in temporarily without regard to fundathe extension and lev eiopment of all .' mental principles.'" said Lauck.

i the Salvation A i my cnterpricg withi., the ir j:i i isdn t ion . Tii'y maintain He. ji ff and Kinp'oymcr.t Bureaus. FreshAir Camps. Prison Departments, j $250,000 which represents adminis- , tralive and oilirr . osts of the S.ihal-

ion Army in the United States, charse- j been the rule with organized capital shie to National I leadquart-rs in Ne.v)and middlemen both since snd during York nnd Territorial Hc-idTiarlrrs for. tn war antl 'hat the public has been

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$410 000 for women's social work and! insatiable speculators and conscienceincludes the cost .-f operating Rescue ! ,rs3 financial ghouls; that w age inand Maternity Hospitals. 3 Children's ' crca;,es ,iavp b?en the result -and not Homes. 11 slum Posts and Nur. cries. j ca',!-e of price increases or that H5".000 for the pension fund for the! 1,16 purchacinS Power of the railroad r.ged md disable! S. A. offices ' w ho t u'ol'k,r '-"' sctually less than It w,s be-

I have rendered at least years acti e ! I rvn-n . ! S1i.ui non f the T in.rdn i inn $1.4 .'0. nnn for the Liquidation ! Loans and Mortgages on Social Insiitu tions for Men and VV, men. $653,001) To Acquire new- properties for Extensions and Development of Sa'vation Army work. JI.-.O.tMV) toward-' the Purciu'e of a New- Traininc C. llege in New York City w.th a capacity of ljO Cadets. STORE WILL BE PACKED TONIGHT With the opening of the new and spacious Newark Shoe store, at 5T2 II. iitiian street. S. J. Dennis, the entei prising young manager, inaugurated a novel method of introducing the store into hundreds of Hammond homes and winning many new friends. Through schoc-l children, he has distributed cards bearing numbers from 100 to 3.000. among them being ten lucky numbers' which, if presented at the store before midnight tonight, will entitle the bearer' to his pick of any shoe in the store. The lucky numbers that will win sh.-e are: 15fil. 17f3. 1133. J45.3. 12 2. S. 2005. ItOP. 1 351 1 38 1, 1 421 . DESTITUTION IN GARY FAMILY fSPECIL TO THE TIKES) CH EST KMTuN. Ind.. May 0. A pitiful case of destitution is that c-f Mrs. ,T L. Walk who resides r-n the W. W. Pepple farm at Furnessville. ' whose husband Is in the Crown Point jail under sentence of one to fourteen years in the penitentiary for grand larceny. "Walk has recently been employed as a. switchman in Gary. Formerly he was employed at the yards r-f the Hydraulic j'ress P.ri. k Co. Mi Walk came to the hrick yard Tuesday morning in desperation. Her landlord had commanded her to move, and -die had no money to pay a drayman, and buta few cents with which to- tiuy food. She has two children. DEATH OF MRS. KISTLER Mrs. Elizabeth Ki-tler passed away j yesterday morning ioiiowing a ten month's illness. The funeral wiil be held frcm the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Murray- of 1229 Garfield street. Hammond, Monday afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will take place in Oak Hill cemetery in charge of un dertaker Emmerlinf.

Brotherhood's Request Creates Sensation With Their Latest Demands.

j BY MILUItED MORBIS " rST--.- CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE1 WASHINGTON. May 8 The railroad i brotherhoods and unions, through their j representative. AV. Jett Lauck. consultingeconomist, today presented a de mand to the- federal railroad boai-1 for I a minimum wage of t2.i00 a year for i every one of the 2. 500,000 railroad employes. ASK. niMEUlATR HISIEF Lauck declared that 2.500 a year is ce very iait upon which an American l-mily can 11. e in d-.cency and u h lowest vi'a&onable decree of comfort vith living cet;ts as t'l.'v are. !! asked that immediate relief be granted on tins basis and to mk luick action possible that the bard j curtail its examination of wage data j and proceed immediately f the deter mination of the quesliuu of whdt cons' itutes a living wage. Jinvi; c aim:s sesatio lie declared that the combined increase at-ked. amounting to more than a billion dollars a year, would cause no appreciable boost in the cost of living when the railroad companies increased rates proportionately to meet them, provided profiteers were not allowed to take advantage of the situation. luek's move following his presentation of a survey cf wage. prices and profits full of astounding revela tions as to profiteering, caused a sensati- 'n. i no IID IS KTOI'MlKn For nearly fr.m- weeks the b"ard h.-'s been hearing demands of the workers for increases which in the majority of cases would not have brought wages anywhere near the UcV'i) mark and there had been no inkling that te unions as a climax would make a definite demand for the establishment of i a uniform minimum living wage. ISSt A (IMUIAUE ! The public wishes the railroad wage i contiovcrsy settled soundly, equitably, j and on a long-tine. far-seeing basis, j "We challenge anyone to deny tnat ! flagrant, indefensible profiteering has and " now virtuallj- at the mercy of tore tne war. lie . said the unions' request fr a ..minimum wage of ;.300 was based r,n ! '"ligations of the government and f'uo,r3 a, budget compiled by Koyal S. i .viecKcr. l. . commissioner of labor j .statistics, showing that a family of j fivp today needs $2,533 a year to live i with a minimum degree of comfort, i Lauck said there was now effective j anti-profiteering legislation before i congress placed there by the president. ( u.. in- urru ins oo.iia to recoinj mend the establishment of prfce-f ling ' agencies like the fuel and food admin1 Ifllraf Inn. A...4 ... : 3. . : , . IT .. - . I t . . .... . ..i.-.i;, vm inuu&crres. oosra during the war "to control other industries just as your board now- controls railroads and railroad labor." PROPERLY PUNISH PEEPING PETE Here's a warning tr "Teepirtg Pete" Lushing from residents c f Thou nton avenue . "Pete tiie Teepcr." it is alleged, was shot at a few evenings ago when he was found cnooping beneath the windows Jof a Tliornt"n avenue residence. Ist night he was cauptured by Dace Jacobs and his son who live at 361 Tbornto navenue. "Pete" was given a severe drubbing by the two men. it is said, and was temporarily cured of his peeping prod i i ties . In a letter to The Times the. irate citizens c-f the district conclude, "if he is caught looking into the windows again a f-hot of "white mule" will be tame to the shot he will set." FIRST NEWS OF CELEBRATION SPECIAL TO THE TIKES1 WHITING. Ind.. May y. The board of Public Works here proposes to have a Fc-urth of duly celebration in Whitinj? this year in which they will cooperate with the Community Service Workers . The celebration will take place on Monday, July 5th. BREAD PRICES STILL CLIMBING 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS tEsVICEl WASHINGTON, May 8 Announcement was made here today that ths price of a 14-ounce loaf of bread will be Increased from 8 cents to 10 cents, on Monday.