Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 35, Hammond, Lake County, 29 July 1920 — Page 1

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Senator Nedjl Points Out What the Law Requires To Commission TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL XXDIAXAPOLIS. Ind.. July 23. An amendment to the. state highway commission that has been concurred In by both the Senate and the House and Is now awaiting tha Governor's signature lj a distinct victory fc-r the brick interests, which have been considerably peeved during the last year because the state commission has been awarding all contracts lor cement roads. The Commission has argued that the cement bids were from JS.000 to $10.000 a mile cheaper than the brick and for that reason they decided to spread thslr funds over as many miles as possible by accepting cement bids. It developed in tha discussion of the amendment on tha floor of the senate that the highway commission has been representing to- contractors that the 1319 highway commission law prcvides that the contracts must be awarded on the lowest and best bid. Senator James J. N'ejdl. of Whiting, who is a road contractor, pc-inted out that the law requires plana and specifications to be prepared on three kinds of materials, cement, brick and bituminous ccncrete. It therefore follows, he said that the cement bid is the cheapest. The law was changed to read that the lowest ar.d best b:f"'for the kind of highway to be awarded." shall be accepted . It 3s understood that the commission has right along understood that it has had the power to let contracts either for brick or biuminous maerials. Tha commission, however, only raised the technical point in order to ward c-ff the arguments made by the repsesentatives of the other classes of road material men The fact that the Assembly had taken formal notice of the situation and made it specific that any kind of material may be accepted will end o force he commission to recognize the mattrio.:s that hve hitherto- been tabooed. MAN FOUND. ftT BUFUl Hammond police are confronted with tr.e mysterious disappearance of ope man and tha finding of another who lies dying at St. Margaret's hospital with n- mark or clew to his identification. Burnham police last night found a man lying in the road near one of the Burnham resorts. He was unconscious. Rushing hlra to St. Margaret's hospital physicians there worked over him for hours but were unable to revive him. His skull may ba fractured. Police have two theories. The man either was robbed and thrown from a cab or was struck by a speeding automobile. The single thread that may lead to the man's identity are the initials "O. C." found In the band of hrs 15 1-4 cellar. Tha victim wis well dressed. Ha wore a straw hat; brown suit; brown oxfords; black stockings, silk shirt, and had T cents in his pocket when picked up. He Is approximately 5 feet. 9 inches in hight. aged about 25 years, light complexloned. and weighs about ISO pounds . Physicians say he cannot live. The missing man is Arthur Waterloo. 21 years old, of 431 Logan st.. who left his home Monday to make purchases down town. He failed to return. 'Waterloo had about $15 in nis pocket, according to his wife. SI. LOUIS COAL SUPPLY IS SEIZED BY CITY ST. LOUIS. Mo., July ID. Tha emergency fuel committee, appointed by Mayor Kiel, today seizesd In the name of tho city, tha fuel supply of St. Louis and established a directorate over distribution. It w&s announced that essential industries. Including ice factories, hosp:?ls and similar institutions would be cared for before coal dealers would be al-lowe-d to make other deliveries. The city is threatened with an Jce famine as well as the closing down of hundreds of industries owing to the southern Illinois coal strlek. Sli hundred and four cars were seized. RECOVERING FROM ANINFECTION W. E. Gilmore. vice-president of the Hubbard Steel Foundries of East Chicago, who has been at St. Margaret s hospital in Hamond for the past coup'e of weeks suffering from an Infection of his foot is reported to be much improved. It was feared for a time that it would be necessary to amputate the foot but the infection was stopped after two' toes bad been amputated.

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Did You Hear That LOCAL democrats snicker about the G. O. P. being a sort of porch raxty. FRIEJvDS of George Vermette. police commissioner, regret to hear of his illcess at his home on Truman avenueCTTT Water Superintendent George Blockio Is getting after delinquent water users with a sharp stickWHA.T state is Harrison Parker from? 1 Huge and expensive three-sheet posters are up In Hammond announcing that he is candidate for governor. JACKSON street is still talking about the barefooted fireman who was chasing a 12-year-old girl to spank her the other da;'. READING that 75.000 prohibition sleuths had made SO. 000 arrests since Jan. 16, a Hammond man urnder how they came to miss so many. PROMOTERS of the motorcycle races at the Id Roby track are preparing to have a brass bend out Sunday to liven filings up at the opening Tneet. THEO. MOORE, cashier of the Citizens National barJc Is sending post cards to his friends from Parry's sound. Ontario, where he claims to be having a glorious time. R. E. ERESSLER of tha Jordan Mfg. company, is anotlrtr golfer -who is so enthusiastic about tha game that he will play the country club links all alone and fight with, himself over his score. "BESS" GARBER. an old time Hammond boy, known as the sweet singer Of the Standard. "J"" out k yesterday with a party of golfers, tha guests of H- E. Sharrer. EDDIE ZAVOLSKI, assistant chief of the "West Hammond fire department, is now enjoying a vacation of two weeks. Hu's spending it fishing, visiting and lazying around in general. MISS Esther Nierengarteu of the "Wyr.ian. Babb and Killen etore. attended the Owls' picnic at Cedar laka yesterday. Besides taking on a few dainty freckles she also copped off a prize la the ladies sack race. THERE are a cumber cf young delivery truck drivers in Hammond, who never turn a corner without seeing how high they can make & pedestrian Jump and going on one wheel is another favorite diversion. A LITTLE bird Just flew In with the information that Tony Voss, a. popular Hammond young man, has Just purchased a pretty bungalow on Detroit street and that it is aa ideal nest for a mate. A COPT of tha New York Herald published at the time of Lincoln's death and containing also news of Lee's surrender is posted in the window of Postlewaite's stationery store. The paper is owned by Joe Kinel an employe. THE Burnham avenue bridge over the Grand Calumet river has been closed for several days for repairs. A new plank floor is being laid lengthways over the old floor, a much needed improvement. TWO Hammond men who reversed the usual procedure and took thedr wive along on a fishing trip, found it a lucky tip and Henry and Fred Goehringer brought back a fine string of wall-eyed pika with them. They were at Eagle River, Wis. HAMMOND man Is pretty proud cf his grandmother, who is S7. and who raises cabbage and potters around with chickens, soma miles south of here, has never belonged to a club, had a servant problem, smoked a cigarette, nor appeared in rubllc without most of her clothes on. EVERT day or so the Janitor In making the rounds srtumbles on an empty bottle or two in some secluded nook about the faces of Ibach. Gavit & Stinson. Today it was a couple of "Peter Hind Brewing company" brown bottles. Polks are beginning to wonder where they come from. KEV. C. J. SHARP tells of -watching a terrific fight between two whales as he was traveling down the Pacific coast a few weeks ago. They kept it up for hours. 'T don't know what they were fighting about." says the evangelist, "but I suppose that it was over a female as usual." BILLY ROSE, who expects to carry the county's most conspicuous pair of ears Into the recorder's off.ee. is figuring on capitalizing that broad expanse of external ear. He figures it would be a good stunt to have his trademark, a red rose, painted on each car. fore and aft. HENRY S. GABLER'S broad smile these days is herewith accounted for. Gabler. as treasurer of local labor or' sanitations, has paid In $15.00 of a total indebtedness of $38,000. the purchase price of the former Lutheran school building at Sibley and Oakley, whore 21 Hammond unions will make their headquarters after Jan. I. "OUICK. send a doctor. A man here has been injured in the fertiliser works." The rhysician at the other end of true wire hung up ruzzled. perplexed, dumfounded, confounded. Here was a new problem in ;ediine. Here indeed had some innocent lay-man happened upon one of the mysteries of anatomy. The physician. shouting "Eureka" seized one of his a&sistants and leaping into his machine sped to the man "who had been Injuredia the fertilizer w-crka."

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S POSSIBLE I. H. Belt Officials Hold Up Coal Pending Arrival of Supply From East The probability of a complete shutdown of a number of the larger industries of the region with a lay ofT of thousands of men. became evident yesterday with the announcement by tha officials of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway that all coal consigned to industries and dealers would be held up pending the arrival of coal from the east for which the road is now negotiating. The order dots nof Include coal consigned to public utilities which will be delivered the same as usual, officials announced. HOPE FOR SHIPMENTS The coal which is being held up will be used by the railroad ifj necessity demands but it is hoped that shipments, cf coal from the eastern states will I be received before the present supply Is exhausted and the cars consigned j to tha industries may be released. At: the present time the railroad has onlya few days supply and as soon as that . is gone they will start using the coal j which is now being held up. ( AO LARGE RESERVES j None of the industries of the region j ahve any large reserves of coal and j most of them have, been operating since the coal strike last fall with . only a few days supply in reserve.) With a cessation of incoming cars the! plants will be forced to cease oper- j atlon or turn to other fuels and to the! majority of the industries it will mean! that they must stop' work. j Oil la being used in some of the !n-' dustries and has been in use since the former strike but in most cases the oil burners have proved to be an expensive method of operating and some of the plants will choose to close their gates rather than attempt the oil route again. Upon former attempts the I plants also experienced some trouble j in getting an adequate supply of oil j and then same trouble will probably I be encountered again. EAST CHICAGO PLANTS of the punt. .... ...w In East Chicago most are served by the I. H. Belt and with out coal wil Ibe able to run only a 6hort time. Some of the smaller plant have only a week's supply, others range from two weeks to a month or six weeks. "With only a few days delay in getting coal it will mean that thousands of men will be out of employment and if the shortage remains acute for a couple of weeks there will be tens of thousands idle. The Baltimore and Ohio has taken no steps to stop coal shipments as yet! and off lclals. stated this morning that they expected no suth orders but could not be certain. HALF OF STATE IDLE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. July 2D. Revised data compiled, by the Jftternational News Service from reports from the mining districts and from information at headquarters of tha United Mine Workers today indicated that slightly less than half tho 215 mines in Indiana are idlo and that the numbur of "runaway" strikers probably is somewhat In excess of 12 00". Some reports, however, stated that fully 70 per cent of the miners wore idle. One dispatch from Terre Haute tod.iy said that after much neated discussion over thp "advice" of President Ste. wart of the Indiana union, representatives of District N. 11. locals voted by a "larga majority," not to return to work. Stewart, it was said, had stiongly urged the men to resume operations. President Lewis of the International union, today awaited a reply from the operators as to whether they will enter a joint conference to adjust the labor troubles. He declined to comment on the reported refusal of Pittsburgh operators to confer because they regard Mr. Lewis' action as an invitation to re-open the recently concluded wage negotiations. MINSTREL REHEARSAL A GENUINE SUCCESS With Its first reeharsal held last n'.ht at the legion headquarters, a genuine" success both in the number of young men and women who offered thtir hist ric ability and from the Fur"rior talent which appeared, Hammond rtst 16 and the Woman's Auxiliary to the egion meet tonight for the sesond rehearsal at the home of Mrs. Mike."ch. 2S Rimbach avenue. Irving' Chaylqen. chairman c-f ths. talent committee, expressed pleasure at the unusually fine start made by the Legion in its preparation for the big minstrel chow scheduled fo rthe Orpheum theater August 12. 13 and 14. There, is still room for ivsveral ambitious tV.ented young men and women te take part -in the entertainment -which it is expected, will be viewed by more than 3.000 people during the three-day run.

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Sirs. EUa A. Boole. Sirs. Ella A. Boole of New York Jity. state chairman of the Womui's Christian Temperance Union, will run for the senate as a candidate of the Prohibition party and under the banner of the AntiSaloon leajrue. Mrs. Boole will oppose Senator Wadsworth if he is renominated on the Eepublican ticket this year. HOP PRICES AREHOPPING MNTERNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE1 1XTERLAKE., .V. V. Julr -9 The price of bops Is due to bop llils fall, so the hop gxowers say. All ummer long auto tourists hove been lidlag through the bop country looking at the crow la gerop with louslns eyes. It s golns to be a hamper crop, too, but the autolsts are ready to buy the bops right off the vine, to be taken home for their eoncostlons of "home brew." "About U the hops there will be left around her this fall,"' say the farmers, "will he the hops In the gross-hoppers and hop-toads." GOT AWAY FBI! SEVEN LONG YEARS But City Treasurer Bielefeld j Tn. 11 -x i -r-r-X lUdXlV UiieCiea XllS I Poll Tax. Personal pro-perty in the city of Hammond scheduled for taxes will approximate $:25.000. according to City Treasurer Walter Bielefeld. Of that amount the city will net 56 per cent. Frcm the first Monday in May to date, the city treasurer's office has mailed out nearly 5,000 delinquent tas notices. Little more than one-ha'f of the number appeared before the wicker cage of the treasurer to meet their obligations. The rest have until November to meet payment when additional interest of S per cent, making a otal of IS pr cent will be tacked to the delinnuent principal. Hammond's poll tax this year will ! exceed $4 550. One chap paid $1.61. j "He'd escaped for seven years tvjt we finally got him," said Mr: Blelefelt. j. FLOYD IRISH 'J. Floyd Irish." a name that strikes a responsive cord in the hearts of the many Hamondites heads a brief personal "sketch in "the National Underwriter." insurance men's journal, of a former Hammond insurance man and live wire, who now n.:-iJs the position of secretary and managing underwriter of the Penninsular Fire Insurance Co.. of Grand Rapids, Mich. The article says in part: "As a local agent. J. Floyd Irish- always took a deep interest in the technical side of the business and. as he was a student by inclination and former occupation, hf found the study of fire insurance fascinating. He laid a good groundwork for his present responsibilities as a'oca! ag

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er.t at Hammond and tne represents- I ginr.-ring and Mining Journal! Co.ortives of the Penninsular Fire do not j ado Schc-ol of Mines and other publirepresent that company long before j cations, these men are convinced that they discover that the ' big man at the j the shale oil Industry is the coming home office" knows all abont their pe- industry of the country and from this

cul-.ar difficulties ana is able to be helpful and to advise them intelligently regarding the problems that may arise." STEAL VALUABLE F Backing a truck to trance of Nagedeman the rear enEros., men's

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furnishings store at 3403 Michigan palgn to elect Gov. Cox. the democratic ave., .Indiana Harbor, last night, thie- nominee for president. McAdoo !svm nfrd the building, and. takincr sued astatement today declaring he

their time, picked out $1,200 worth of would make a number of speeches in ' the choicest stock in the store. I Cox's behalf. The loot consisted of silk shirts. hand bags, and valises. ! p. O. E., ATTENTION! The robbers evidently were sure of, themselves as clothing was scatter-j Important matter to be discussed toed about the store indicating that night. Don't fail to attend, they had picked out the most valu-1 R. O. CONDI, able merchandise accessible. 1 7-2 Exalted Ruler

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GIVE IIP PLANS FOR ". THEATRE Hammond Hotel and Improvement Co. Goes Forward With Hotel Plans Having abandoned for the present the project of building another theatre in Hammond, the Hamond Hotel and Improvement Co., !s now going forward with their plana for erecting the new seven or nine story hotel at the northwest corner of Stale and Hc-hman sts. The coropany which was incorporated last November is now selling stock to citizens of Hammond and other parts cf the Calumet region. The capital stock of J300.O00 is divided into $300.000 common stock held by James P. Bereolos, Gust. J Beeolos and V. J. ''CVhinery. and $800,000' preferred stock which has been placed on the market. Shares c-f $100 par value are meeting with ready sales in blocks of varying proportions. Piana have already been drawn for the new building by C. Howard Crane, the well known Detroit architect and its erection will be under his direct supervision. No detail c-f beauty and i comfort to the patrons of the hotel has been overlooked. The hotel will afford at least 150 rooms for guests. ! each room to be supplied with hot and I coid water and at least 200 to have I baths, either tub or shower. There will also be a number of tw ro-m apartments for family use. The main entrance will be on Hohman street while there will be int other entrance on State street. The hotel lobby will be large and convenient, affording an ideal assembly and meeting place for the guests and patrons. In the basement will be barber rhops, Turkish baths and billiard rarlors. A large ar.d beautiful bani quet room will be located on the sec ond floor. Accorilng to the i resent plans thiT will be eleven store rooms on the first floor to be leased to tenants. There v.'iH also be a coffee p'nop ar.d restaurant c-perated under the hotel management. - On the second floor will ba .sixteen shors to be leased to tenants, with entrance from Hohman street. Just when actual building operations will begin is uncertain at present but from the way the preferred stock 19 being taken up it is thought that work can be started soon. All of the present tenants of the old building occupn the s!t.ofv, the ?troosL hot;' have leases wr.:ch perm'-t the rooms tcbP vacated in ninety days ENTHUSE OVER MALE OIL Realizing the growing importance of the shale oil industry a number of the prominent men of the Calumet region, after studying the situation carefully, have launched the Hutton Shale O.l & Refining Oc, incorporated under ttie laws of Colorado and capitalized at $1,500,000. Officers and directors of the "new company are well known to the people cf the Calumet region." Following are the o.Tie.rs: President J. T. Hutton. Vice-President P. W. Krill. Sec. Vicl-Pres. C- G. Heckenllvely . Secretary J. D. Brusel . AsUtan Secretary w. W. WilliaJtis Treasurer rr. Robert Spear. Assistant Treasurer E. X. Canine General Manager G. C. Purcell. .The officers with Clement Neidig and G. C. Wiles form the board of dlrectors. All have demonstrated their efficiencv and abllHv as bu:ineM and r prffessional men and predict a.promising future for the company. The Company's home . office Is located at Rcom 415 in the Hammond building, while a branch office is located in the First National Bank building at Gienwood Springs. Colo. After consideration of reports and statistics compiled by the U. S. Bureau of Mines. U. S. Geological Survey. Smithsonian Institute. U. S. Museum, Colorado Stele Geological Survey and well known authorities writing for the National Geographis Magazine. Endata they were able to acquire 3.520 acres of good shale land In Rio Blanco county. Colorado. The capital "stock is divided inta I'l.ffO.OOO shares of 1 par value. As soon as $2,500 worth ot stock is sold the first unit on the Hutton property will be erected. McADOO TO STUMP FOR COX NSW YORK. July 23. William Glbbs McAdoo. former secretary of the treasury, will "take the stump" in the cam-

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NEW HEAD OF THE VANDERBILT HOUSE 4. ""'WK1 :' i. J. . I 1 William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., is the new head of the great house of Vanderbilt. He controls about 20,0C0 miles of the richest railroad lines in America. Since June, 1918, he has been regent of his family, in preparation for takir.e the place of his father, William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., who died recently in Paris. BUY. AH DIN REAL CHEAP No crash of cymbals no scream cf saxaphone and clarinet no medley of a dozen Jangling noises today greeted a small party'of county and Hammor.i officials when they entered HammonJ Inn at Lake Front park . The once famous hostlery is 'no imre. Accompanied only by the beating of the !v-t sun on the red stone porch, the gentle ripple of lazy wavelets, and the bu;r of some scavenger fly in ain ear for food. County Treasurer Ralph B. Bradford. City Treasurer Walter Bielefeld, and Custodian James E. Trost and Constable Sidney A'.nsworth. mark c-d the door of the shore resort witn j the official seal of abandonment and I dereliction the threat of sale f-r tax es the mortgage cf ill fate. Harry Kavanaugh, owner of a caf at 61st and Cottage Grove avenue and vice-president of the Woodlawn Savings & Trust Co., proprietor of Hammond Inn was not present. City and county treasurers assert that taxes on the building for 1918 and 1919 have not been paid. The county tax will amount to $37.54 and . the . city tax, $238 S5. Until August 10 the present ow ner will be permitted to mei-t the delinquent dues. If on that date the taxes have not been raid the building will be sf-ld at auction to the highest bidder. The sale will take place in front ot the Superior court building. Hammonl. With purchase cf the building at auction goes a proviso also that the structure must be removed from its present site. The land is owned by Oliver Forsyth, wealthy Chicago realty man . During the first year of its existence Hammond Inn. when opened about three yeara ago, proved one of the most popular resorts along the lake shore. Its reputation as a center of night life spread rapidly to the metropolis and Chlca.goans nightly crowded the tables of -the huge, beautifully decorated room that locked out on Lake Michigan. Its semi-sequestered location made it doubly attractive and the combination of, moonlight; soft breezes; music and good liquor made Hammond Inn famous for miles. With the coming of prodibition the Inn fell off in revenue. Attempts to i revive the old atmosphere failed and I th owners betook themselves away. So little Interest has been taken in the place that even the usual method of safeguarding the building with a barrier of cement bags against the lashing of angry Lake Michigan In its ev;j moods has not been made and the basi ment of the structure is being slow-IJ pounded to pieces. It is thought the owner will maki no effort to save the building frora falling under the sheriff's hammer. 'Bulletins BULLETIN , r INTERNATIONAL NfWS SIRVICE LONDON, July SO A deadlock t Is threatened when the Polish and Russian armistice envoys open their parley tomorrow nljcht or Saturday. The negotiations are expected to take place either at Baranovltehi or Brest Litovsk and villi last at least a work. Latest developments have Riven air of uncertainty to the possibility of a renera.1 peace conference between Rus. sla and the Russian border states in this elty next month. DEATH OF BABE Hugh R. Johnson, baby of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Johnson. 347 East State street, uied last night. The infant was but two days old and the funeral win be held tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30 p. rn., from the house. Eaxmerling in charge.

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Wilson Says He Won't Exercise Slightest Control Over Contest

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON. July ;?President Wilson will not attempt to exercise the slightest control over the campaign of Gov. James M . Cox. the democratic candidate for the presidency, an official in close touch with the president told the International News Service today. WANTS TO WIN What the president wants most of all this authority declared, is to help to win the election for Gov. Cox in any way he can. This help, it was further stated, will not be thrust upon the democratic nominee, but will he jriben freely of and whenever it is desired. HE WOX'T DICTATE . In other words the speaker made it plain that President Wilson unreservedly recognizes Gov. Cox as the new leader of the democratic party and has no intention whatever ef trying to dictate to those who are managing his camr&ign. Cox is thi nominee and it is Cox's campaign, is the president's view cf the situation and under no circumstances would he consent to "butt in" to snatch the guid iug reins from the governor's hands. WOX'T DOSS COX Such is President Wilson's real attitude, according to one known to ba persona grata at the White Hoys?Stories that the president would "boss" the campaign and endeavor to "dominate" Cox. it was said, were absurd. Lcmocratic leaders here resent th implication, given in some quarters ti the Wilson-Cox accord on the league of nations, that Gov. Cox had one set c f vievs on the subject when he calicd at the White House for his nowcelebrated cc.nfc-rer.ee with the president and another set when he went away. This, they say. was not true. There was complete accord between President Wilson and Gov. Cox. ARE IX ACCORD i Gov. Cox had previously announced his position on the. Hague cf nations issue, towit. thct ho would not oppose reservations which wc'uld not destroy the purposes of the league. At the famous tete-a-tete with the president on the south portico of the White house, party men here insist, the two leaders, the old and new, found themselves in accord. That segain is described as a true i statement of what happened o j portlo of the White House. - on the WAIT I XTIL AVGVST Tht prediction was made today by an administration official close to the president, that Gov. Cox. on August " will leave no ens in doubt as t bis real position on the league of nations. and that his speech of acceptance will be found not only in perfect accord with his previous declarations on the Fubject and with his pronouncement following his interview with the president, but with the views cf ths president himself. HERE'S NEW DEMOCRATIC SLOGAN NOW By WM. PHILLIP SIMMS TSTrF COPPEJeCNDENT I. N SERVICfl WASHINGTON. July 23. "Peac. Progress and Prosperity." has bf;en adopted by democrats as the party slogan in the 1920 campaign, and with it Gov. James M. Cox. "the new figure in democracy, and its now leader." will carry the fight into nearly every state in the union. This announcement was made her today by George White, new chairman of, national democratic committee and manager of Gov. Cox's campaign, shortly after he had taken charge of party headquarters in the national capitol. COAL OPERATORS' NEW WHITE HOUSE APPEAl f INTERNATIONAL KEWS SERVICEl CHICAGO. July 23 While many operators from the 'central competitive fiold. gathered hero today to discuss a proposed general conference with, striking coal miners, the Illinois coal operators association addressed another ap-pe-al to ths White house to act in the crisis. Coa.1 mining in Illinois was reported by the operators to ba almost at a standstill today. Th industries of the state) already are seriously crippled and municipalities are threatened with serious shortages for their institutions. A similar situation exists in Indiana, where it is estimated fully 50 per cent of the mines are down. Today's appeal to the White House was signed by E. C. Searles. president of th Illinois Coal operators. It said: Referring to our letter of July 13 wo would now advise you of receipt of a telegram from Thomas T. Brewster of St. Louis, chairman f the operators wage sc.7.fo committee, stating that John L. Lewis, president ef the United Mine Workers, has request e-d a joint conference between the wac scale committees of the operators and miners. U. S. MARSHAL'S CAR SMASHED Deputy United States Marshal Walter Mybeck's new Euick was quite- badly clama?ad Wednesday when a Gary undertaker ran into him at the corner of ISth street and Cline avenue. A fender and running board were smashed. the front axle sprung and a hole was knocked in the radiator. No one was injured.