Hammond Times, Volume 9, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 31 July 1920 — Page 2

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!! I NYC NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 - T. LOUS. MO.. July 81 Any prrand New Engrland can be wiped out 'f prenlacat f the Vala Mine Worker t America to the trkln mlnera l return to work will bf diarrrfnrdrd by the -runaway" day men of Belleville eettna of Southern Illinois, aceordinie to Jantea Mason, aecretary of the Uelle. vllle aub-ditrlet. i will pay no attention to anch an order." Mason deelared. -Prealdent Frank Farrlnrton, of Illinois Miners t alon. la the man we take orders from aad we are tired of the president's commission. W are no whavlnjj eperlenee with one of them In the wage rale we are now objecting; to."1 IDlAXAPOUS, ID., July 31 An order for striking mine workers la III laols and Indiana to return to work Immediately In neeordance with President Wilson's demand, will be aent out "at once." John 1.- Lewis, president of the miner's union, informed the International eree to this effect at his hutrj today. Whether or not he will reply today to the president's stlns:ins rebuke of the mine workers for their violation of the "wulcmu oblliraiioa" of their wajre agreement was not made clear. Mr. l-ewl said he rould not comment on his response to the president until his mrwunt is ready to be made public

"Until fcihayne and Mi Woods obr up it will be impossible to learn Just how Loftis niet his death." said Coroner J'ettr Hoffman today. The brcken whiskey bottle warrants a most thorough investigation. "We want tfind on whether lis was hit with this r ottle or rot . "Examination thowe that Iwo blmJ vessels were broken and he was a very heavy drinker. These vestels niht have beer broken by a fall or a blow."

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SfRVICCI WASHINGTON. July 31 President Wiljn, having appealed to the striking coal miners to return to work, is today awaiting action upon his appeal bofore the government pioceeda furtluT in the ct.a! crisis. Officials here are extremely optimistic today.' because John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, has stated that he will order striKing r.ine workers back to work and If he succeeds the present crisis ci.ii be quickly r-se(l The president stands ready to cr.ll te wage scale committee of the miners and the operators to' Washington (cr a conference Immediately when hs learns that the striking miners are back to work, it was stated at the "hite House today. Little lost tim is expected, for the president had previously communicated with both the miners and the operators, and promised the miners be will see that negotiations for a, settlement ar not delayed once the men are back ts

work . According t officials of the interested commerce comm'ssion the movement of coal Is now encourapina: and the existing: shortage In the Northwest emptory order from John I. I,ewis, labor difficulties ao not interfere. Coal operators under tite leadership of D. B. XVentx, of the National Coal Association have effected an arrangement to prevent speculation in coal and to maintain level prices during: the present scale.

SAM LOFTIS CONIES TO EXPECTED END Disgraceful Life of Diamond Merchant closes in Drunken Debauch Last Night.

J isTTE NATIONAL NEWS SEHVICtr CHICAGO, July 31 Samuel T. ALoftis. famous Chicago diamond merchant and long a conspicuous figure in the city's night life, is dead today and the police are trying to unravel the mysterious chain of circumstances tnat led up to his death. " Roy M .Shayne. wtathy sen of a farmer State street merchant, and his pretty fiancee, Kuth Woods, arc hold by the police until they can determine whether Loftis met his death from nat ural causes or was killed. Uoth were in the diamond merchant's luxurious apartment on the north side when he died. A preliminary examination by the coronr showed that Loftis died from concussion of the brain. There were contusion near the temples, but otherwise the body bore no marks of vio

lence.

Miss Woods bears marks of disfigure

merit. She told the police that the wealthy club man invited her to his

apartment early yesterday afternoon

became intoxicated and that she had

to fight him all over the apartment.

She finally telephoned Shayne for help

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A'Crdlnr to Shayne' story, Lofti3 himself admitted him "to the apart

ment. Within a few minutes after his

arrival. Shayne toll the police. Loftis tuddenly keeled over and died. Loftis

was. intoxicated.

Chief Of Police Garnty himself, and tVt heads of Chl.i;V criminal defartrr.eau iramedlar'.-iT t'.ok charge of

the affair. The luxurious apartment was in a state of disorder. Oriental tugs were disarranged. Tapastcries r.ac been torn from their places and

there were two empty whiskey bottles of Loftis' extensive private stock

lying broken on the floor.

The j.ulice found the dining room

et for a dinner for two. The dinner

had nri been se-ved.

Shayne was at tt.o apartment when the jolice arrived. He had called a

d ctor. who In tur.i h. called the polica. Silts Woods was taken to her mo: "net' horn at a. r . A-policeman v as waiting tr-r !..r when she rr!vd. She had several of Loftis' famous diamonds with her at the time. "Loftia could hardly stand when 1 arrived at the apartment.'" said Snayna. "My fiancee was standing betide him. terribly pale. I had .hardly stepped In when Loftis swayed and fail. HU face h:.. the floor. I dragged him into tin parlor. We applied tntlling sal's, but he didn't revive. 1 then adviseJ my f:.ncee to get away and that I would protect her name. I then called a doctor." AJthdugh a widower. Loftis kept a fully appointed apartment. One room was fitted up exclusively with dainty femlnfns things. It had been his cust6m. the neighbors said, to give gay Iirtiea inert?. Loftis' clothing was found two letters irom wemen. one signed, "J. M. H.." and the other "J. V." Both indicated that the writers had been Intimate with the diamond merchant and ha4 been cast off by him. Miss Woods tcld a haxy story. She eras befiiddled. the police said, from the linuor drank In the apartment.

Forty-Five Thousand Dollar Investment Made by E. Chicago Lodge. One of the most important transitions of East Chicago real e?Uta in many months was completed yesterday when representative sof the Kast Chicago lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose reached an agreement with Dr. A. O.

Schlieker for the transfer of the property a: 713 and 713 Chicago avenue. The purchase price U reported to have been Ma.dOO. The property consists of fifty feet frontage with two buildings, ons a three story brick structure and the other a two story frame. At the present time tha brick building is occupied on the first floor by a market with living rooms on the second and third. The frame structure la the home of the Schlieker Drug store on the first floor and has living rooms on the second . The deal was handled by a few business men who are members of tha

lodge and who saw in this transaction an opportunity for the lodge to acquire not tnly a home but one which will bring in an Income untjl such time as the club desires to make use of the entire structure. The club now has over five hundred members and expect to add still further to the number within the next few years,, As soon as possession can be obtained the lodge will remodel the

brick structure to provide club rooms on the second floor and a lodge room on the third. The first floor will still be used as a business site, as will also the frame structure next door. When building conditions become more suitable the club expects to tear down the frame structure and making use of the present brick building, erect an extension, making a three story brick of fifty feet frontage. When this is done the second and third floors will be used exclusively for the club members and the first floor will still be

used for business houses.

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John Libuba. husky lorfr of U3 Wabash avenue, whose brutality won the scorn and anger of th- polie and court, recounted in city court this morn lng how he had beaten hi wife because the sometimes expressed a longing to see the old countiy and a moment biter admitted that although he himself ha. boen in America 15 years never arplled for firM papers, was sriven a fine of 1210 and sentenced to 6 months on the penal farm. He was accused of wife betting and assault and battery .

William He.nkel. Po Gostlin street, tcld police that boys stole his Jtn won tarpautin yesterday as he was unloading his wagon at 94 State street. Tour trucks belonging t. Chicago firms were picked off Calumet boulevard, this morning. Each drvler was assessed $10 and went away saying hereafter he'd believe in signs. Most of them read the sisrns at either end of the drive but "they d'-n't usually believe in s!rns. The case of Julius Gloja, 525 155th street. West Hammond, charged with violating the auto law. was continued to August 1$. Oloza was arrested on May IS. after he had run dewn and seriously Injured a man riding a bicycle on Summer ptreet. The victim is still in the hospital. Oloia is out on bonds o' $1,000. It hi alleged that his machine skidded for a distance of 06 feet after he had applied the brakes when he struck the bicycle. He is a chauffeur fr !We6t Hammcnd's mayor. Charles R. Dyer of the law firm of Kiley, HembrofT, Dyer and Keed. of East Chicago is assisting in ths prosfr-utlon.

HEW ORPHEUM BILL "I-idy Chauffeur?." a snappy musical act met with a noisy te.ppiion at its first appearance at the Orpheum theatre this afternoon. Th swarm r-f girls are decked out in the s-woiiest of cortumes and they know how to we;ir them too. Ori.u Mtigin and m.ne wicked fo.n s-lirnrinsr characterize Use play. Another act winch brought down the house was thf Stafford Ko ir w horo- .-lever romody stuff k",.t the oi-ou-d in an uproar. . Th re are a. so f'-ur oilier good action me biil.

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REPUBLICANS HOLD MEETING

HAMMOND SUPERIOR COURTS

This morning through Attorney W.

J. Whlnery sut to collect 2.M on a promissory note waa filed by Theodore Lesion against Anthony F. Federcwitx et al. An amended complaint was fl'.ed this morning by the plaintiff in the suit of he Citixen's National Bank against George M. Eder, et. al.. for foreclosure of a morttgage. Cier-rge J. Eder ie atorney for the plaintiff.

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At a meeting of the directors of the Hamond Rerubl:caji ""iub. he'd last night in the club rooms it is urtderstor-d that action was taken looking to the formation of an rgn izat -..--n to oi !i with civic bodies if the city and county for the instruction of voters on the l.eceswty et registering at their precinct polling places on September 4th. or October 4. Contrary to the method heretafore used of registering at any time voters must register on "nc of the two dates names as provided In a special law parsed at the la.-i session of the legislature. Henry Cleveland, as chairman of the

membership committer was promised cc-operation of the club in its drive for new members. Announcement was made that the tlub rooms will be fully equ.pped. redecorated and flooded with campaign literature by the end of August. A lively org-anization wit ha full complement to- meet the coming campaign lively organization with a. full i-oni-dlrectors.

TODAY Constance Talmadge in "THE LOVE EXPERT" We promise each member of the audience a thrill. Boys, bring your prettiest girls; girls, make a good looking fellow bring you. Did you hear it? Were you lucky enough to get it? What? Ask your friends. SUNDAY AND MONDAY Wm. S. Hart in "J0KH PETTICOATS"

!!!SBWBrf?Bin" E-abs is a bearding school girl, utiliiing her time neither on trigonometry nor athletics" but on the subject of love. THE BHi DEDICTIO.V Chemically speaking. Babs arrives at certain formulas involving the lovemaking sciemce, for which she will talk or fight for.. One t her pet theories is thefact that when a person is in love, upon holding Jhe hand of the loved, his cheeks will take on a scarlet blu'h. his heart will syncopate and his pulse will accelerate. Well and good. c far as the theory

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goes. Btit when Babs discovers thai but what'a the use of giving it away. It's best to see the picture.

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CHICAGO VEAL -5ft to HO lbs., 1t? 19; 70 to 5 lbs.. :o21; 80 to 110 lbs. fancy. -24; overweight kidneys, 10 f 175 lbs., 11ff12.

f UU AI.O ( ASH GRAIN WHEAT No. 1 red. 232(ff235; 2 reJ, 2S')'ff23;; 3 red. 228; 1 hard winter, 213 235: 2 hard winter. 231; 3 hard. 223; standard hard. 220; 1 mixed, 233233; 2 mixed. 229'3'231. SOItN No. 1 mixed, no; 2 mixed, 14; 1 yellow. 1411T141H; 2 yellow. 141; 1 white, 140'!?141; 2 white, UOrtf 141. OATS No. I white, 741176, 3 white. 77ST5.

SEKROES vnn AHRESTKI) The Kast Chicago police again landed two holdups yesterday when George W. Blae. a negro, tried to sell a victim's watch at the. Bcrkcwitz Jewelry store on Michison avenue in Indiana Harbor. Mr. Cerkowitz notified the station and Serffpant Makir with officer Sam Harr hastened to th jewelry store while the proprietor dickered fT the sale of the stolen property. Following Blue's arrest he confes

sed to hold ng up Jo-hn Anderson jf the Mark Hotel the night previous and implicated - Riley Poindexter, another ne

gro. The two held up Anderson as he was returning from wtk at the Mark Coka plant and at the point of a revolver ordered him to put up his hir.s cr they would "blow his head off." They took a watch and $13.10 -n cash. Blue also confessed to another holdup about

a week ago. Blue lives at S52S Parri.-rh avenue and rolndexter lives next door at 3I2S. i l

MONDAY AND TUESDAY Rath Roland in the 9th and 10th Episodes of "THE ADVENTURES OF RUTH" TUESDAY Zasa Pitts in "THE HEART OF TWENTY" " WEDNESDAY Elahe Hammersteifl in "WHISPERS" .

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DOUBLE FEATURE TODAY AND SUNDAY LADY Chauffeurs , Pretty Girls Special Scenery Catchy Music A MINIATURE MUSICAL COMEDY

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LEW DIAMOND Comedian

BUTTER Kecelpta, 3.821 tubs; creamery, extra. S3; extra firsts. 43; nriv 43; packing- stock. 34fr40. EGOS Receipts. 8.608 cases; current receipts. 40-42; ordinary firsts. 4131 464; checks. 3435; dirties. 3Rf37. CHEESE Twins. new. 23;i5-24;

young Americas. 354; lonshorns. 25'j; brick. 35'i:54 . LIVE POULTRY Turkeys. 4!: chic kens. 3Vi; springs. 3SJ40; roosters. 23; geese. 21. ducks. 21. POTATOES Receipts, 12 ears; early cwt. Ohlos. CZXCAOO TifTTt STOC3C KOGS Receipts, 4,50: market steady: bulk. 1355 1? 15: hvy weight. 14 1ljf' 15. S5: me-dium weicht, 14.7 51 10; llrht weight. 1S.251.15 lis-ht lights. isf 15.75; heavy packing sows, amooth, 13.60 TtH; pc.kinr sows, rougrh. 13ffl3.60; Piirs. 1415.4?. CATTLE Receipts. 1.5A1; market com pared -eek ao. food chriee. corn fed ateers. mortly SSnfaOc hiher. irrassy steers very uneven, but avajrenn-r 75c?f $1 lower: prood sheet stock, slow to 51c off. In between kinds ifrerular, 75-.ia $1.25 lower; eanners 25i9 5Ac Inner.

calves closed strong-. 1.25 higher.

Allfs Chalmers 33 American Can -37V American Car and Foundry ...I32?i American Locomotive 93 1 American Smelting 614 American Steel Foundry 35 American Tel. and Tel 95, American Woolen soi

Anaconda Baldwin Locomotive Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chescpeake and Ohio Chicago and North Western Chicago. Mil. and St. Paul .. Corn Products Crucible Steel Erie General Motors Lackawanna Steel

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TODAY Vivian Rich in "THE WORLD OF FOLLY" Also "Elmo the Fearless" TOMORROW Kerry Carey ia THE MAN OF THE WEST"

GAFFNEY GIRLS Singing and Music

H0LDEN & NQVAlRE Singing and Talking

STRATFORD FOUR School Frolics

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July 31, 1020. Dear Dad: I've bought an automobile. Don't tell me that I'm an extraTagant son, or that I've violated all the thrifty traditions of the family. I've been following your advice about savings and I guess the habit yorr taught me has given me the price of several motor cars. Anyway, about three-quarters of the car, all but the tires, top and seat cushions, were paid for by interest money earned by my savings during the past fev years. I'll come around Saturday and give you a whirl. Your prodigal, BOB.

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PASTIME TODAY Alice Brady la "THE DANCER'S PERIL" TOMORROW Frank Mayo in "BURNT WINGS"

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TODAY Carlyle BIackwell& Evelyn Greene in "Love In a Hurry" Also -it Hearty aad Spick TOMORROW FRANK KEENAN in "The Master Man" Also Vampy Wayj

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