Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 290, Hammond, Lake County, 26 May 1920 — Page 1

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COURT 1 SMASH OF LEVER ACT

Trial To Proceed Under Only a Part of the In: dictment. TVTERNATICN KL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. l.M)., May 26. -Trial of 125 coal operators and miners charge with conspiracy to violate the Lever act, -will proceed under only a part of the original indictment. Judge A. B. Anderson m the L'. 8. district court here today sustained as to certain counts a motion to quash the. indictment on the ground that it was faulty. Called Class Legislation. Declaring that certain sections of the Lever act are class legislation in that they permit farmers and food dealers to hoard food and charge excessive rrircs. while denying ihc same privilege as regards coal to miners and operators; Judge A. B. Anderson in V. S. district court here today sustained the niotien to qua-h the indictments recently returned against 1-5 coal operators and miners as regards thirteen of the eighteen counts and overruled the mouou in r gard to the other rive, Shoots Holes In Act. Judg Anderson, in delivering his opinion, declared that amended section fur of the lever at is vo d and that the original section four is insufficient. He also declared that section -6 of the L"er act is void. N The court's action today is the culmination of the Ion? standing coal conrroversy, having its inception in the ration-wide strike of bituminous miners last November. Out of injunction preed;ngs which fallowed pr" tiie investigation into the activities of miners and operators by a special federal grand jury. Charred With Conspiracy. The indictment returned by the grand

jury, under which the coal men were ; all over the country in Broadway fronthaled into court, charge,! the 125 le;d- i nge and acre-age for subdivision purer of the coal industry with ennspir- j poses, but very few Hammond people .icy to violate the Lever act by eonniv- i got in on the gold thing, ance to restrict the production and d?s- j So it is with the bargains that are be-

tribution of coal and conspiracy to fix j : - J excessive prices. Charles Evan? Hughes, chief counsel, pnd legal batteries for both Mi- miners and operators attaeked the ronstituti-jn-ality of the Lever act. when the case first came up m the court lure thre w epks ago. They also attacked the.indiclment as faulty. ThA census for the little town of i Griffith, no far from Hammond and ; Garv. will tell a far different story,' til during tle present census. j,-()r Griffith is destined to be put on th" map by industries which have lately l'uated in the town, among them the Griffith Foundry t'omnanv. lncornora-i ted. and the Leonard Tractor, both con cerns of national importance After two months frenzied effort i the Griffith ! fe-ikiii iiiiiija in itauuira. inr mi luu.l j Foundry Company is now in operation with a daily pouring capacity of fifteen tons. Additional buildings are to be erected just as quickly as arrangements can b- made, and it is hoped that in thirty days the pouring capacity will be increased to fifty tons per day. Harry C. Stewart. Frank J. V'achew lcz. Coit F. Holt and John C. Nowlcki are the men responsible for the rapid growth of this industry. Mr. Stewart, who is president of the com- . pany. was formerly superintendent of the East Chicago Foundry Company and Mr. Holt was formerly in the accounting department of the U. S. government. Mr. Wachewicz and mt. Nowicki are both Hammond men and well known for their activities in the real estate business. According to these men orders are now- on the books which will keep the foundry going at full capacity for one year, heavy orders having already been placed with them by the Oakland Motor Company, Detroit. Mich.. General Motors Company, Pontiac, Mich., (Ttrisce Motor Company, Dtroit. Mich., Hupp Motor Company. Detroit, an! numerous other smaller concerns, the; orders including such castings as exhaust manifolds. fly wheels. crank cases, camshaft bearing gears, cylinder heads, oil pump covers, radiator outlet elbows It Is said this foundry will be one of the most up-to-date in the country, j equipment with, most efficient Crant?S and conveyors .and having railroal facilities that are ideal. With such a promising institution as t he 'Griffith Foundry and the Leonard Tractor Company, the little city of Griffith may breathe with a great deal of pride, for great municipalities have come from humbler beginnings than these. INFANT DIES Delors Virginia Herman, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Herrman, died at their home. 32 Douglas street, yesterday noon. The funeral will be held from the Catholic church at Dyer. Ind.. tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Interment, will be held in the Dyer cemetery in charge oX L'hder taker EmmerLiis.

GRIFFITH IS BOOSTED BY INDUSTRIES

Pinkertqns Trail Vaudeville Actors Clever Performers at Orpheum Seized as Wit nesses Against Female Impersonator In Chicago.

Patrons of the Orpheum theater last night faaled to note the shadowy forms of corpulent slouths that moved about the theater foyer or slouched Into rront seats. But they did not fail to appreciate the third act billed as Helvey & Brill, two peppery peppers, one of whom played the piano and the otner a cornet and saxophone. It was a (rood act and the apparent uneasiness of the two actors awakened no suspicion In the audience. When they had done their "turn" the two men lost little time in getting away from the theater. They boarded a street tar for Chicago. Detectives followed. The actors went directly to the State-Lake building, corner State and Iake streets. There thcy met a third man. Frank Tynn; known HOUSING SALE PAST S FIGURE NOW Having disposed of all of the fourapartment buildings, a number of duplexes, six rooms to a side, and numerous single six and seven-room detached houses: the sale of l S. government houses has passed the $2(in,niin figure. Frank R. Martin, selling representative of the government, is well pleased with the progress thus far made. The interest of residents of other cities is unabated and Hammond people arc awakening to their opportunity. The fact is recalled that Hammond investors failed to get in on the Gary proposition, although it lay -ight at Hammond's door. Fortunes were made by people from Chicago and other cities ing offered by the T'. S. Housing corpo- - 1 . . i-, 11 . . .J 'T1 ration in Hammond. The corporation is losing J340.OOO on buildings that are worth a quarter of a million dollars more than they cost, and Hammond investors comprise less than JTi per cent of the purchasers. Industries Losing- , Opportunity. Many of the local industries have housing problems that will sooner or later become acuto and which will require the co-operation of the communIt will.be necessary to finance at least HO to 70 per cent of these operations wita. local capital and let the contractors finance the balance. The onVrtncs of the United States Housine: corporation are already financed on a basis that makes it necessary to raise only ten per cent of the investment. What then will be the answer of the """"" pu.m.c no me nousme " - "' rcK,..n are irmignt up r !i0luuon ana lr neaas or the lnausines nave ianea to tase advantage ot mis great opportunity to provide for valued men? Hammond does not ned to take jit. nro.non of capital out of local channels to provide housing for the many newconcerns that have located here 3SSH . j K0 invested in homes already built and rfadv fo" occupancy in thirty days will do the 'work. XnTefftment reatnre Great. i In today's advertising Woods. Martin : Sz ' Co. are featuring the seven duplex or two-apartment brick buildings that are left. Thse can be rented a for a figure that will bring a re turn of 1 1 u per cent net on the investment. Many business and professional men are interesting themselves in these proposi'ion? A Hammond doctor bought JlS.'iOO worth of these houses last evening. He expects the rents to pny out I'ncle Sam after the initial investment of ten per cent is made. A number of other well known investors have gotten while the getting is good. One of the snrprising sources of buyers is the person who is now living in light housekeeping rooms. These persons are now paying for a few rooms and inferior accomodations an amount that would make the monthly payments on one of the new modern four-room bungalow s. Class of People Baying-. The sales have been made entirely to the better class of American people. The sales agents are maintaining the high standard of the subdivision and will not permit any invasion of the district that will be injurious to t. In fact the government insists on this and it is apparent that when the renters in Lyndora have been replaced with owners or have become owners them selves the yards will be better kept up and the whole tone of the will l imr.rni'i.,1 neighborhood One of the residents of the May wood district made the statement today that with the transfer of these properties from government ownership to that of private individuals who would have an interest in keeping them up that Lyndora would become one of the beauty spots of the city. It is estimated it will require close to $30,000 to send the All-California Rugby football team to the Olympic , . . . , . , fcamis. 1 nrfc ciuos ana nve, (alitor-; ... . nia universities will be represent ed in the personnel of the Olympic games team. Times news serice Is the best that money can buy and honest effort can furnish.

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on the circuit as a femUe impersonator. Pinkerton detectives . seized the three. They were lodged in a cell at the detective bureau. This morning- Helvey & Krill were releiLseu and Tynn was held as an accomplice in thetheft of $21, OOP stolen by a messenger boy- from a Boston bank. Oscar Buzzull Jcsseman. the bank messenger, accompanied by Tynn and others, led detectives si merry chase to the four corners of the. country. Jcsseman died on a train in "Wyoming. Tynn came on to Chicago. He became acquainted with Helvey and Brill. Tynn had plenty of uoney and Vfi trio had a good time while it lasted. Detectives learned of Tynn's connection with the two actors who performed In Hammond last night- They trailed them and Tynn's arrest followed.

HOSPITAL

TAG DAY MAY 29TH Through the kind permission of authorities in iiinimond, West- Hammond, tlast Chicago, Whiting, Indiana Harlwr, Lowell. Roby, Kobertsdale and other nviehboriiir towns, the listers of Saint Magari's hospital have been authorizd to "put on' 'a tag day on the 29tb v .May. At a recent fleeting of the hospital's n.edicMl staff, presided our by' JJr. White, resolutions were offertd toward embodying imronmi-iils in various linos of hospital service. Many of the doctors on tiie staff, who have served in the army and navj", are bringing back know lodge ,.,f th,; -very latest and best advances in medical and surgical science. It is their intention in co-op eration with the untirins endeavors on I the part of ihc iiislcrs of si. Margaret's to embody these improvements in the hospital service. Naturally these benclits imi:4 redound ultimately to the interest of tiie hospital's patients. Since the war the hospital has opened a training school for nurses; has added a much needed department for maternity cases; has wonderfully . improved its bacteriological laboratory; has advanced in other lines too nu,incrous t o mention. This together with various lines of service to be shortly added, will eventually bring: our local hospital to . i . .. , - . toe very irum ruiii 01 S-anrirdfSt3 rios-i ... , , Ihousn condu-ted by Franciscan sters. tnere arr- neiihrr ra, ial n.,TSisters, there are neiihcr racial nor religious restrictions for admission to the hospital. For this reason, and in support of a work which is exclusively humanitarian and aiming merely at the lessening of pain and suffering and sickness, the Sisters look forward, as on previous occasions, to the generous support on the coming tag day, of every citizen of this part of the Calumet region. The following committees' have volunteered their services m the int rest of the tag day: At Hammond with headquarters at the Dickson Bros, candy store, 10 Sibley street, near Hohman. boxes and tags ;m be had; including St. John ami lywe, Friday evening and all day Satl urdav : Mrs. L. Long. Mrs. O'Callahan. Mr. Fortner. Miss Marie Ueinert. Miss Cas. sie Leary, Miss S. McLaughlin. Miss L. Hilbnch. Miss Clara Portz. Miss Rose Hleile. Miss Veronica Koch. m At Whiting at Ganier Insurance; Co., 119th street Mrs. V. S. Parker, 3.3 Sheridin aenue. At Roberlsdale at Miss Anna Studer, 1317 Roberts avenue. At East Chicago at First National Rank Mrs. L. D. Godfrey, chairladv ; Mrs. J. Jakupchak. At Indiana Harbor at McGowen's undertaking establishment Mrs. Carl E. Joef. "106 Michigan avenue: Mrs. Mary Itaczkowski, 3807 Beech street. At Hegewisch. III. Mrs. J. Hoffman. K'.ti:ij Rrainerd avenue. . , Remember the day Saturday, May 29th. Let's makethe slogan: "Hospital Tag Day; put 'er over the top.' IN WHISKEY RING CHICAGO. May 26 Chicago's "Gold coast" section comprising the homes of the wealthiest and most socially lyominent residents of the city was in a furore today as the result of a raid by prohibition agents on the apart ment of. Charles B .Smith, millionaire president of the Stewart-Warner Speed ometer Co.. in which ten cases of whiskey were seized and carted off to government warehouses. The raid, it was declared, was made in connection with the federal investigation, of the "Million dollar whiskey trust." which is said to have supplied big quantities of liquor to the homes of the wealthy. Thes warrant on which the raid was made charged that Mr. Smith had intoxicating liquors j unlawfully in his possession uniawiuuy in rns possession. u was . . . . , . . 'reported that prohibition sleuths were I ' . . waiting at the apartment early.touay to arrest him. It was reported at th federal huilding that warrants for the seizure of j j ' 1 ndir ?.i"e:i i 11 di ipasi a oozen or more homes of the wealthy have been issued and that more "gold coast" raids will be made today.

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SENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER AUTO CRASH Julius Gloza, aged 40 years, 515, ;5th rt.. West Hammond, chauffeur for Mayor John Okraj. of West Hammond, i held at the Hammond Central rri,I1c station on a temporary charge of violating- the auto law ne.A .k. cevery or death of Tony Standowski, ! . .viorris ave., w ho lies at St. MarjAret s hospital w ith a broken leg. bruised head and serious internal injuries as the result of being thrown frccl his bicycle yesterday afternoon when struck by an automobile driven by fJIoaa. The accident . occurred at Highland and Tapper sts.. wh.n ...- dow-cl who was driving west on High- j anc -rouiaea with the speeding- autometi of Gloza w hich was going- seat Ai-crvdinff to Captain Kmil Bunde of Ire Hammond Central station, the autarntile driven by Gloza skidded for a dis.anee of S6 feet after the brakes had Vflen applied. SUM FOIINO AI . HESSVILLE 1 I A rentable nest of smallpox was discovered yesterday in HeSsvill by Dr. wmmjtvA. Buchanan, secretary of the Hammond board of health. The fact that Vx-R whole city of Hammond was indirectly threatened with contajrion made the significance of the discovery doubly important." I'owr members of the famiW of t.v. LucheneHvere found to be infected with .-nian,.u.v. wnne tne father, who had only recently recovered from the distase, w-3 traveling daily between his home and the .Standard Steel Car plant in Hinifi.ond where he j:5 employed. The lather unknowingly has been acting a.s a carrier JTor smallpox for several days and, it was asserted, had minsrled daily with h Hired s of workmen whose homes tocvk them into very section of the city, ' It was further pointed out that the vlcather at this time is peculiarly ad'ed to the spread of smallpox. - - Aceord:n to Dr. Buchanan he learned that LucJf-.4n had returned to work at tiie gtndJ plant before proper precautions ha. been taken to fumigate 'he residency 0n visitin the home he noticed on? of the children was not welt. Inves. sation proved that the hiW wa.-. '.'1t ..rith smallpox. "Any moF-r' kee.the doctor. The mother brought ji. three other children, all of whM- v tfrj Buchanan found to be ini. yon report tiiR'" ir. the . V, . w , . r- a tt l-l . .v. iwuniy newtin orncer h-H lti ,h ,.h,-irf, ' ' a ' ' tne children over and rronounw 1 . . . 1 ronounita KO. coanty-health officer. h.d looked 1 1. .. splotches on faep an(j 1,0,1.. mori.- or. outbreak frequently occurring after influenza. The family was immediately quarantined and Dr. Buchanan prohibited the father from associating with his sick (hildren and continuing to work at the Standard plant. . H. BELT IS BACK . ON ITS FEET Wednesday, which had been heralded by speakers at the switchmen's meetings last Sunday as the day on which other rMHu.Q-1.- (Trtfle rr ,1.- ..... ' oi ui i urn mot region i would jom them, brought none of the predicted developments. The nearest approach to a sympathetic walkout of railroad worker". at Norpaul yards on the west .nd of the Indiana Harbor Belt 11. R, where a number of office clerks quit their jobs. Norpaul .is an isolated place. Practically all of the residents work for the 1. H. H. When the switchmen quit their work sentiment in the office was divided. About half the clerks were related to striking switchmen and were in favor of kuitting also. This morning they re. fused to be restrained longer 1 threw down their pns. The others stuck. As this is also claused as an "outlawstrike, men from the Gibson yards went to Norpaul today and ate handling the work of the vacationists. Reports from the general offices of the I. H. B. areto the efWt that the belt line is once more on its feet and handling morethan its jiormnl run of business. The number of cars handled so far thi? week is said to exceed considerably the number, handled in the same period last year. SOLD DECAYED APPLES, IS FINED fin complaint of a Hammond housewife, who charged him with selling her apples which were partially decayed. J. Benjamin, a Hammond fruit and produce dealer, was brought before Judge Charles Kriedrich last night. Benjamin admitted selling her the apples, but said he did not guarantee them to be y. und. He paid a tine and eosl amounting to J25.05. The complaint was made by the woman to M. !. Metz, city sealer. Mr. Metz. says that people who believe they are being cheated or given a 'raw deal" should report their grievance to him at -nce in order that he Kin get action. "It is only by such things being reported to me promptly that prosecutions can be started and such practices stopped, said he Take The Tim; and Tc?ep touch with the whole world. I:

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5EKNEWS FLASHES 0 BIXLETIX (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGKLKS, CAL., May 26 A freight car bearing- 600 cases of "extra dry" California champagne bound for the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, where the California delegation to the republican convention will reside, has been sidetracked. Prohibition agents, prevented the car from leaving- the state at Needles. Cali. Federal permit for shipment of the car load of wine was secured for ' medicinal purposes," BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. May 26 Appriximately a million dollars has been spent in the campaign of Major General leonard Wood for the republican nomination for president. Col. Wm. Cooper Procter, manager for Gen. Wood, disclosed this fact late this afternoon when the investigation of campaign expenditures was resumed by the senate sub-committee. Col. Procter declared that 7n.noO has been spent "in educational and headquarters expenses.' wikon wai Press Mandate For Armenia f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May 26 President Wilson's request for authority to accept a mandate for Armenia is not likely to get congressional action will after the national conventions, although it will be considered by house and senate foreign relations committee tomorrow. The house committee contemplates calling Secretary of State Colby as a witness to testify concerning the duties that would fall upon this nation if it accepted a mandate over Armenia, tien. Harbord. who made an investigation and rendred a report on the obligations of such a mandate will also be called to testify. There is every indication now that the Armenian mandate is going to be another political issue in the coming campaign and republicans profess to accept it gladly. They point out that the acceptance of such a mandate woUid mPail the levying of additional taxes and declare that there is no sympathy in this country now for any action which means additional taxes President Wilson is determined for action on thequestion on the mandate, it was learned today and he will Insist that the matter be t,ken uj in Jl&rnee .U-Aefr- t- tte.-eariicfet poss.'b.'e moment. I WHAT mini WILL ite STEAL NEXT Many an ardent female talker From the days of Dr. Walker Preached of female dress reform. Preached 1n vain and by example. She-wed the ladies how to trample n men's riehts and raise a storm. But. at last the world's grown saner And each woman Is the gainer in the long- waged war of dress1: Toes that once belonged to brother Vow are worn by brother's mother And by sisters Madge and Bess. Good old Thomas Carlylo somewhere in his Sartor Resartiis, that delightful dis.-Jcrtation on the philosophy of clothes, brings out the point that all dress was originally a matter of health and then, later of convenience. It was only when society became corrupt that women's apparel too, fel' upon evil days and the fantastic hoops and the cumbersome bustle and the terrifying frilly skirt that swept the street came into being. For years women were slaves of ridiculous, inconvenient clothes designed for them by our crafty far teeing men. who kept them from making progress just as surely as did the heathen Chinee with the feet binding of hi wemen folks. Then came the big war. As 6-inch guns rushed into style, women's 6-inch heels went out and our sisters put on short skirts, Sam Brown Belts, "dinky" little hats, sturdy brogan shoes, and other sensible togs that had always been brother's exclusive prc-perty. They crabbed the vote too. and began wearing sport hose turned down below the knee just like father's golf stockings. And now, they've copped the sir. perior ."ex's cc-mfy athletic underwear. If youp don't believe it. take a look at the L,ion Store's windows on Hohman street. Dainty garments to be cure, buttonless and with lace edged bodice, but al-mc-st line for line. Tom. Dick and Harry's athletics, and they call them Kiel Maids. "And why not." mother and Sister Sue exclaim. "If we'd known howvery, very comfortable mens clothes are. anji how nice the feeling of swinging the destiny of the nation with the vote 1s. we'd have had these things long age-. If trousers weren't so ugly, wed have them, too.' Advertise ia Tne Times and ad rertiso aerain. Results come with constant effort. kre you reading The Times?

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Recount Proceeds Slowly Hammond Senatorial Candidate is Still Four Votes Behind Gary Man (BTJLIiETTlT.) CXOW2T POINT, IND., Kay 26. Due to the fact that only one clerk had slgn en his 1 nl t la 1 s la the second Hammond precinct, when the law requires signatures of both, the recount hoard this afternoon threw out the whole precinct and McILroy lost thirteen -rotes. He rained one -rote, howeyer, in the day's total count, putting- him so far only three votes behind Holmes. Special To The, Times CROWN POINT, IND.. May 26 Frank

B. Mclllroy slipped one point yesterday in the recount of the senatorial ballots cast In the republican primary. Monday found him with sixteen of the original Holmes lead of twenty to his credit, but in the course of Tuesday's count he lost one of these points so that last night he was still five ballots behind Mr. Holmes. The canvassing board handled seven more precincts yesterday, four in Center township and three in North township. This makes fourteen out of the county's ninety-nine precincts. The result of the count Monday was Mclllroy, 198; and Holmes, 151. The seven precincts added yesterday bring the count to date 335 for Mclllroy and 252 for Holmes. None of the Garv. East Chicago or Hammond ballots have been counted yet. It is expected that when the city votes are canvassed the relative standing of the two men will vary greatly. One of the causes of trouble in counting by the election boards seems to have been the method of marking ued by some voters. The law specifies that a cross mark must be placed in the square after the candidate's name. Many ballots which were disputed were found to be marked only with checks. In some precincts these had been counted as good ballots. SAYS HE HAS B BT J. BART CAKFBEX.X.. 1 STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! WASHINGTON, May 26. Col. William Ooonr Proctor of Cincinnati, this afternoon declared that he has carried "the burden' 'oJ lh,e. icampaign o JJUfc Oen. Xewiarii ;'W.jo.. j or the repeal n.. VT' sciential nomination., J Ha appeared before the sub-committee investigating campaign expenditures. Col. Proctor said he had advanced $000,000 for campaign purposes which has not been covered by contribution?. Tiie Wood campaign has been carri-;1 out in 47 states .t an averag; expendi ture of $8,000 a' state. Col. Proctor said, "and in there was an additional $19,000 for publicity in each state." The. second largest, contributor to the Wood campaign was C01. Ambrose Monrell, a friend of Gen. Wood, who gave $20,0PO, Col. Proctor said. He named Wil'iam Wrigley. chewing cum manulac u rer; Col. Byllesby of Chicago, ar.d the ' Goodrich rubber man of Akron, O'." as contributors, but did not state howmuch they gave. Col. Proctor objected to questioning from Senator Reed as to internal differnces in the Wood organization, and the committee adjourned until later this aftcrticon. T SERVE HIS SENTENCE Arrested yesterday afternoon by Federal Prohibition Agents as he wa p.eparing a field of 15 acre sof his 85 acre farm, for corn, Nick Derket, 45 years old, and marired, was this morning arranged in the city court and found guilty of violating the prohibition law. He was sentenced to 30 days at Crbwn Point, and fined $130. Derkert pleaded that during the present prices of farm labor and shortage of food which threatens the nation this fall, he should be given his liberty. The federal agents however, insisted upon his doing the time. BEG YOUR PARDON In a story published in The Times vesterday. regarding one Homer Dewsander. who attempted to bunco the Grand Central Piano company, the name of the Hammcnd Furniture com. pany was included. J. Arkin, operator of the. Hammond Furniture company, says his store had nothing to do with the deal. It 'should have been the Hammond Furniture Kxchange, 204 State street, instead of the Hammond Furniture company. .The mistak made by The Times is cheerfully corrected. He Obeyed the Biblical Injunction by Far Too Much Steve Olew-yka. age 59. 155 Company House, arrived in Hammond yesterday. He was taken sick in the middle of the afternoon. He casually dropped into a corner drug store, where he procured, he says, a bottle of wine for the stomach's sake. Two hours later he was picked up at the corner of State and Hohman streets and fined $15.00 in the City court this morning, charged with drunkenness. ' Advertise in ise Tkuea

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PREDICTING 395 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT Claim Unpleged Delegates Will Control Convention and Many Are for Wood.

IT CEORGK It. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE1 CHICAGO, May 26 "Gen. Wood will poll so many votes on the first two ballots that only a political miracle can prevent his nomination on the next few succeeding ballots." This claim was conflditly put forward today by the general's handlers in .Chicago. The yuest for additional delegates has diminished appreciably. They are now engaged in laying covention plans, not pre-convention ones. The general, they believe, is already "in ." 3n.1 OTES OV FIRST Wood's Chicago headquarters estimate his strength on the first two ballots as high as 395 votes which is within 100 votes of sufficient. They exude confidence with every typewriter. They point a situation analogous to that of Hughes four years ago. Hughes polled 293 votes on the that ballot and his nitial strength actea as a magnet for additional strength and he was nominated on the third ballot . CLAIM 1PH:ik;K) delegates In such a position they tay is Gen. Wood today. Suggestions that the general, with all his initial strength, may run up against a stone wall just beior e gets the requisite 433 votes are met with earnest argument. The fact that the unpledged delegates will control the convention 1s the happiest augury possible" for thi" general, it is claimed. swim; to strongest may "Strength attracts strength." said the presidential-makers. "The unpledged delegates have no particular choices, otherwise they could come jj're pared to support thm from the start. Non-partisan observers declare that the swing w ill be to the man w ho exhibits the most strength. That man will be Gen. Wood and the gravitation to him will begin after the first balot." The opposition of Senator Boies Penrose, the old guard's astute political mentor, is recognized and discounted by the Wood handlers. n:nosE opposed t ohighes "Senator Penrose." it was said at Wood headquarters, "was opposed" to Justice Huges in 1916. Hut rank Hitchcock went out. gathered together his delegates and nominated Hughes. Krank Hitchcock Is handling Gen. Wood. It is certainly not inconceivable that he will again defeat the cherished plans of Penrose." The Wood forces are confident that they will fall heir to the several "favorite son" delegations which will be released from their promises after the first ballot. They expect to get many of Pennsylvania's T6 delegates after the vote for Sproul or Knox in the early Ballot. New York's big delegation of 88 will certainly throw a fewr for Wood, it is said, and from Senator Poindexter's Washington, delegation .ihew-e.tpeet'S number. . VIWKT; HARDIXG MfTKOn.lWl, Jt is confidently expected by Wood's handJers. too. that Senator Harding will withdraw on the eve of nomination. Wood is the natural heir to Ohio's delegation, it was pointed out today. The general run second to the senator in the Ohio election. The situation is something like this: Under Ohio law. Senator Harding must file notice of his senatorial candidacy by midnight. June 11. Under Ohio law, he cannot be a candidatefop senator and president at the earns time. WOT DITCH SEXATORSHIP He must renounce one or the other. Is he going to throw up his senatorial chances, which, with Wood support in Ob:o. are almost certain of success, in order to make an admittedly br,.i-,. quest for the presidential nomination? lie is not." I APPLYING FOR HELP Hegira of Men to Farms So Great That Jobs are Getting Scarcer Last week the farmers of Lake county were loudly calling for help, declaring that unless some of the idle men of the cities came to their assistance they would be able to put out but a fraction of their usual crops. Today not an application for help is in the hands of tho Hammond employment agent. Times stories have enabled many a farmer to get help. Business was brisk in the employment office last week and a number of men were referred .to jobs on farms. Then the stream of applications suddenly stopped. However the men continued to come in and list their names for farm jobs. Kd Kroer, examiner in charge of the Hammond office, has the names or eight who want to try farminir sn.n but he has no place to send them. The theory has been advanced that many men headed for the country when they first learned of the onenin on farms and that farmers found their help without the aid of the employment offices. Several of the men sent out by Mr. Kroer told him later that on the same cars with them were several other men going to the same place. However, preference seems to have been given to the man bearing an employment office card. RECOMMEND SUGAR SEIZURE CHICAGO, May 26. Seizure of 3.000.000 p,-unds of sugar which has been held on railroad tracks here for several weeks, has been recommended bv the local heads of the department of justice, it was learned todav The recommendation asks that, the sugar be confiscated and sold at cost.

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