Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 82, Hammond, Lake County, 23 September 1920 — Page 1

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Derailment is Caused It is Believed By Spreading Rails Or Damage to Engine. BY HARRY . L. ROt.ER-S STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. EN ROUTE WM'H N . SERV1CEI GOV.. COX. DEM1NG, N. M., Sept. S3. None the 11 orse for his experience of yesterday when bi3 special train was wrecked ' rr.ile north of I'coria, Ariz., throwing him a distance if twelve feet. Gov. James M. Cox was today speeding Inward Albuquerque on a special chedu'.e following a detour over the Southern Pacific which necessitated the elim.ination of several Arizona addresses. NO RAIL (IBS THl CTION. Rumors that the derailnien which resulted in the destruction of one locomotive, a tender and a bagage car and the derailment and partial demolition of two other coaches had been causeJ by an obstruction on the rails were apparently dispelled by statements by railway employees who were on the train at the time of the accident". Division. Engineer Walker, who was riding cn the first two locomotives hauling' the Cox special denied emphaticaly ther was anything on the. track. E.NGINE INTO DITCH., "In my opinion," lie stated, "'the derailment was caused either by spreading rails or by some piece of mechanism on the first engine dropping to the ground. We were running a little better than thirty miles an hour. The first thing I noticed out of the ordinary was when the tender of the flrot engine began to Jump and I knew u was off the rails. I jammed on the air and an Instant later the. second locomotive went crashing by and Into the ditch." COX TALKS WITH ENGINEER. Engineer Charles Nicholson, of the second locomotive, who suffered broken leg and possibly internal injuries, was catapulted through hla cab window and clear of the wreck. The injured man though in great pain, was eager to alk to Gov. Cox when the latter came rushing to the scene. "1 want you to know that we didn't get you in the ditch on purpose," said the injured man, grasping the governor's hand. WHAT COX KNOWS. "I know that perfectly well." said Cox. "I know you boys are all for me." "You're right, there. Governor," said Nichols. "We're all for you." Nichols, like Engineer Walker, first noticed the tender bouncing about and then applied the airbrakes. "I didn t have time to jump." he said. "The crash came too suddenly. I thought of jumping but before I could move something shot me through the air and I saw the engine coming over on top of me. How I manager to get clear of It I do not know." TRA I N MASTER. INT ER VIEW ED. Division Trainmaster H. W. McKean was riding In the first coach. "I knew we were off the rails and 1 heard the boys in front aprly the air,'' he said. "Then I was conscious of i locomotive flying past the window and the next ins'ant there was a pile of wreckage alongside. In my opinion the derailment was caused by spreading rails or something droping down from the first locomotive." Gov. Cox was seated at the dining table in the private car Federal when the crash came. He was thrown a third cf the length of the car and slid along the floor for some distance But was uninjured. Immediately upon regaining his feet he ran to the front of the train in an effort toaid those in the car ahead. .All trainmen admitted the accident might easily have been a disaster. The oilfiled tender of the second engine burst and the ditch alongside the track was flooded with petroleum wh.ch for some time threatend to engulf the overturned locomotive with its furnace blazing. A photographer w-';h the parly lived up tp th ethics of his profession by rushing to the scene of the wreck and cranking furiously at his maclnnwhile passengers climbed out of the broken windows and trainmen wer-J rescuing their Injured comrades. HAMMOND SUPERIOR COURTS The OidSeld Tire company has filed I a suit in attachment asains.-t Curfis H. Lankford of Hammond, through Attorney M. D. Metz. Jacob and Charlotte Kuch of East Chicago have filed a petition to ad-opt William Kibbe. minor child of Zelma Kibbe, who lives in Chicago. Meade. Kcyce and Twyman are attorneys for the petitioners. Minnie o!e of East Chicago is sueIng for a divorce front Lawrence Cole. They were married May 23. 1S97. and separated Sept. 16. lSiO. Mrs. Cole accua&tta her husband of beating her and calling her vile names. She says he told her to leave the home. She asks for J 1.000 alimony, the custody of their two children and support money during the pendency of the suit. Her attorney are Meade, Rcyce and Twy-sr.an.

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Hear That DISSATISFIED with her census, Valparaiso has completed arrangements lo take a it ojre. DEPUTY CORONER UfllTE finds j business punk of lair. Id )nmoivJ and 'Aiming tin re has ii'U been a violent deaih since Augur I 14. MK3. A. T. JACOBSH.V. 74S Claude St.. complains that thieves cntrr her garden in broad da;, light and steal crapes frcm her vims. WILLIS K. RIHD, an ardent East Sider. living in Ma wood, has become imuculated with South Side virus and has purchased a icsijenco in Kenwood. THE Northern States Life bunch of Sox fan3 are on the anxious right those1 elavs. but jou hae to give 'ein credit for being cocky atid full of confidence. THE firm name is now Ibach. Gavit. Stinson &. Gavit. The addition to the firm, is Eernrd Gavit, sen of John Gavit one of the old timers in the law organization. . RESTAURANT advertises business lunch for rift.v-ilve cents, recalling the old b. 1. which used to bo had for fifteen cent?, and which included a huge stein of suds. THE Sunshine Club is reported to be missing Bily Bridge, who hasn't put in an appearance for a month of Sundays and Secretary Otto Gorsbach is somewhat puizled. ACCORDING to the weather man autumn is late this year and did not arrive officially until 2:20 a. m. this morning whereas the equinox generally arrives on September 21. E. K. FINNEY, one of Valparaiso's big merchants, well known here as a member of the Specht-Finnoy stores in tli" Porter county capital died this week and is to be buried this afternoon. THE janitor cf the Lafayette school has asked the police to settle the youngsters of that rart "of town who have been climbing over the roof of the building and crawling In through the windows. E. N. BUNNELL, believes that If coal operators and others who near the profiteering line were to follow Henry Ford's txampie and do a little pricecutting it would be a pretty good old world to live in. ALD. CHARLEY LUTHMAN thinks the city should contract for a' lot of those concrete park benches. "They won't cost us anything and they are a whole lot better than nothing, as we are now- fixed." he says. ATTT. FLOYD MURRAY la getting perennial joy by getting out at the high school athletic field these afternoons and putting budding linemen on the football squad over the jumps and they say he Is getting results, too. OLD-TIMER wants to know if we remember when you could go into Fop Clabby's for a juicy steak, a stein of beer, a ticket on the ball pool and a ticket for the fight that night and discuss a. littlo of everything besides? MRS. CLARA CURTIS, mother-in-law of Mayor Brown, will testify that Times want ads pay. The other day she lost J100 on the streets. She inserted a lost ad and the next morning a man from East Chicago brought it to her home. PETER L. DAVIS, who has Just returned from a swing around the state, says he never saw politics so dull. "Nobody seems to know how he is going to vote," says Fete, "and nobody seems to care as far as I was able to find out." THE recent activities of the police in enforcing the parking ordinance is bringing dozens of Hammond's most prominent citizens to the police station these days. "It's the first time I ever was pinched," ie the common expression. CAriTALISM tried its best to pester Kirkpatrick, the socialist speaker last night. It sent train after train down the Michigan Central tracks and numerous street cars on State St., making the speaker pause right when he'd be going good. PRES. G. M. SEMMES of the Gary Country Ciub and Senator F. N. Gavit while in Hammond yesterday in discussing th club were of the opinion that the name of the club might be changed to the Lake County Country Club and said that it already has a large waiting list. HAMMOND plant head did his best to keep an aproin'mept with a friend In Chicago the other day. But when he went up in the elevator his friend went down in another. And when he started down his friend started up. "When I started up again I lost track of him," said the H. P. H. "I think he quit and I don't blame him." IN one of the city schools there is a school maam who is a firm believer in Cox, and one day admitted the fact. She had occasion to leave the room for a minute and in her absence about forty joung republicans hastily wrote 'vote for Harding" all over the blackboards What the teacher thought when she returned deponent sayeth not. A drummer at a local hotel was talkink with another about the oldest jokes and claimed that the oldest joke Is the one about the school teacher who was giving the class a lesson in American history. One boy was busy rlaying with a fly that he had caught and he paid little attention to what was going on. Suddenly the teacher said to the boy: "Tommy, where was the declaration of independence signed?" Tcmmy stammered fcr a moment and then replied: "At the bottom."'

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George R. Kirkpatrick of New i 1; opened the campaign for the S ciil St party in Hammond latit night w In n addressed a crovvd in tront of the w est I entrance of the federal building. j The meeting had be!! called for thel American Legion hall but owing to the! heat it was decided to transfer it t-j the) street corner. About seventy-five were In the room when the change was announced and this number was consideraly augmented in the open air. Kirkpatrick spoke on "The Old Steal or a New Deal." He showed that, the social system in vogue today is littlo different from the system which sprang up when civilization first emerged from the tribal slate. He named three periods of development of society. The- first or chattel slavery period had two classes th-s slaves t;nd the owners. Society, he said, was conducted in the interest of one class, the owners, and the interests of the two classes conflicted Statesinenship then consisted in keeping the owntrs in the saddle. Then came the period of serfdom when the two classrs were the serfs and the landlord master.-1. Later cam-; the period of capitalism which exists today in.which the clases are the'eapitalists and the workers. One class buys labor power and pays wages for it anu the other class sells labor pow.-r and gets wages for it. "The capitalists try to keep you In the dark," said the speaker. "They try to make you believe there are no classes today. It's up to you to find which class you belong to. You may I be voting John D. Rockefeller's ticket) and that would be silly." Society to- ' day is conducted in the Interest of the capitalistic class, he said, and state-j manship consists in keeping that clasc in power. BANDITS HOLD UP U. S. MAIL TRUCK INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 SOUTH BEND. l.N'D., Sept. 23 Armed auto bandits early today held up a United States mall truck and escaped with two locked pouches, said to contain $5.000. The bandits drew alongsld the mail truck as it was leaving the New York Centra! depot and commanded the driver to dismount. One of On- bandits then drove to the edge of the city, disappearing with the two pouches and leaving seventeen other sacks of mail in the truck. Police and federal authorities are scouring Northern Indiana for the bandits. NO LET UP TO THE GREAT REVIVAL The revival at the Baptist church is still reviving and there seems to be no let' up to the interest. Almost every night have been con versions. For the hot nights the attendance has been remarkable. Starting with 'Monday night the audiences have grown larger each night and the interest grown by leaps and bounds. Dr. Kramer had for hl sabject "Ar You From Missouri?" After paying a great tribute to the "show me state" he spoke of the one who came to Jesus by night and 'had to be shown what conversion was. It was an old fashion honest to God sermon on being born again with a new setting. Never did a man lator harder than Big Jim and never was a congregation gripped with a message more manifested by amens" all over the house. Big Jim nearly preached his heart out as he poke of what God had done to convince men of giving their hearts to Him. The b:g thing about Big Jim Kramer is his sincerity and boldness of utterance, his great heart power, and his red blooded gospel. After hearing him you go away thanking God for having heard a man who has the milk of human kindness in his breast and that he is human. Tonight at T:15 the subject will be "Whose Get Your Goat?" It is said Eig Jim travels at the rat of a mile a minute In this sermoji. It has been called one of his hottest n imbers. The Gar;- Baptist church will attend in a body. This morning the evangelist spoke to several hundred boyp and girls at the high school as a preparatory meeting for the great high school night tomorrow n:ght. At noon today he made a special address to the chamber of commerce and Invited that body" out to attend the great business men's meeting next Monday night at the Baptist church when he wj.Il speak on "Proxitis." Tne Rotary club has voted to attend in a body and the chamber cf commerce will get behind the meeting. The service starts tonight at 7:45 instead of S o'clock. WHITING MAN STOLE CAPE FOR PATCHES SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind.. Sept. 23. George Necki wis taken into custody for being drunk and when arrested was found to have in his possession a lady's cape, which h refused to tell where he secured. When questioned Necki said he wanted to use the goods to patch his trousers. When arraigned Necki was fined Jo.flO and costs, amounting to 115. CO. with which amount even In th?e days of the H C. L, had he walked the straight and narrow, would have purchased a new pair of trousers for him.

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I Gary Executive Angered at i Newspaper and Park Bd. ! Row Goes Merrily On .Mayor William F. Hedges of Gary has severed all diplomatic relations with Homer J. Can, dlloi of th- administration organ. A fight or ginaiIng in the park board has been carii"i Into other departments of the citv hall and as a re. bit. the may r ami Carr are at loggerheads. It Is understood that recently tnr mayor an. nounced that reporters for Carl's paper, the Gary Tribune would be ,Miii-d interviews or ni c filiation i thr ian thst shown u: ;h public ic Is o." the city. Row on Park Flonrd. The park board row has been going on behind the scenes for seven' months. The first cicagrment was at park hna.d nnei.ng where W. r. G.iason. pre.i.j.n. ,,f the bard if 1 general superintendent of the .-t.ee: mill.", bitterly arraigned Carr. who i.one of the park commissioners. G.easn accused Cair of being an obstructionist and berated the. commissioner and editor for his acts as a public official and the editorial attitude in the iciumn of his paper. Disagreement Transpires. It iw known that Carr disagreed with Gleason on numerous park board improvements. For one th tig he advocr.ted the construction of the boulevard road along the bank of th river t, Miller, an improvement wIch Gleaii'fl said w as Impossible ow mg to troepan.Ion of the mills when the monvter Tube works and an eaMein switching terminus are built, fair ai:' ".ant'd a temporary hrldge rrcte-i across the lagoon at Miller and Gleasbn maintained that the service, wo.ii.! not warrant the expenditure. The ed -tor also took the stand that the price-, asked by property owners for land which the park board desired for park purposes at Miller were not excessive while Glea:-on refused to meet the demands and started condemnation croceedings which have since been dropped. The session of the park board a; which Gieason attacked Carr was explosive. Friends of Oltason's stale they never saw him so angry. Homer Mima't Anked. Recently there was a report circulated around the city hail that Carr had been locked out of e meeting of the park board. Investigation revea"ed that the park board had held a ccnferer.ee with the mayor, city engineers and park superintendent to which Carr was not invited. Soon after this meeting it became apparent that Hodges was reflecting G'eason's disposition toward Carr. At that time it was confidently predicted that he would ask the editor to resign from the board, but this did not develop. Neither did Carr attack the president of the board or the mayor through the editorial columns of his paper. So the fight goes merrily on. the obvious explanation is that each being a republican fcarel the ang?r of his party, if he injected a persons; fight Into the campaign which would surely be seized upon by the opposing parties. Attnekn on Pollei". When asked by Times reporter about his trouble with Editor Carr, anger appeared in every feature of th mayor's countenance. He indicated however, that it resulted from unfavorable news accounts of police activities and attacks on the city court. Some time ago Carr's papers carried interviews with a Gary justice of the reace erilicizing the police enforcement of the state dry law and interviews with federal agertts upbraiding the c.'tvcourt for the leniency shown, moonshiners and bootleggers. The mayor did not seem to mind the criticism of the methods employed in the city court as he did tbe attack upon the police department as the pl!ce have made nearly S f0 arrests of liquor law violators within a year and doing everything in their power to wipe out the Illicit sale and manufacture of whiskey. "The city court does fot attempt to co-orerate with he pilice department in cleaning up these l:o,uor law violators." the mayor Is said to have remarked. Hodges Appoints ?njder. Meantime Mayor Hodges appointed the editor of the de-mocratic paper (The Gary Post) a member of the executive committee of the new city planning commission. It would appear that the mayor has forgiven the democratic editor for his opposition in the last city election. Many wondered why the mayor appointed Snvder. but he gave as his reason, that h w-anted a non-partisan committee, and that the appointment wa;i justifiable. This was another blow to Carr as the Post end the "Contemporary down the street" are always like a pair of strange bull dogs. IRONING MACHINE DEMONSTRATION J. C. Young "sales manager of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electr.c company invites women to attend a demonstration and display of t,hc Horton Ironing Machine" to be held at the N. I. G. & E. offices en Thursday, Sept. 23. 'We find that the majority of the h',mef in Hammond are already equipped with electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners and think the time is opportune to introduce a rejlly efficient and convenient ironing machine. "Our demonstration is not so much of a rales effort as an educational feature as we feel'that if you have the opportunity to see the creat amount of perfect work tha can . b done wih a Horton Ironer that we well be amp.y repaid for our efforts."

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RECALLED Memories of the da;, s w hen business transactions could be di.-cussed and frammed while the contracting partus r'dttd our foot on. the bras rail, are recalled in the ojit of th" Val Blatz P.rewing company azeinst Sam T. AtK'ns and Marx- and Ernest Wink, ler. vvhleh is now being heard u Judse Rcitrr in Room 1 of the Hammond superior court. The suit was started in the spring of 1917 when tti- brru'ing company asked for foreclosure of a mortgage held against Atkins and the appointment of a receiver lo manage the real e.tati concerned. The mortgage was originally given by Atkins to Mrs. Erneot Winkler and was later transferred to the- brewing company as pail pajment on a Chicago saloon wnioii Mr. Winkler purchased. The deal was made in Februaiy. 1913. The answer filed by Mr. and Mrs. Winkler charge s fraid in securing their signatures to the contract in purchasing the a'n"n. They sa tha: J. -Metzger, an old acquaintance in w hom t ne y i po; d great confluence, acted as agent for the Val Riats company. He first took Mr. Winkler to many saloons and insisted on ire-ating h:ni at each place. The result w as that by evening he was well liquored up and in no condition to transact business. At the Winkler home the contract was produced. As both Winkler and his wife wore edueated in German, they look Metzger's word for it that th contract was all right. They .gned. supposinz the,- were to pay $Sf"1 for the saloon and they say that thry later iearnvd that they had contracted to pay J3.500. THIS ORDINANAN'CE n An automobile drew- up in front of j the Hammond police station this morning and Dr. G. L. Smith, well known I dentist and member of the Board cf Education, walked in looking rather sheepish. ' In his hand he held a card, one of those ags which the police are attaching to automobiles which are parked at wrong places. "Well, vou caught me," said Doc who had read that first offenders were escaping with a warning. The deck sergeant took his name and license number fcr future reference and remarked ominously, "Remember, the second time means a fine." Just then Chief Austgen approached and he and Mr. Smith started discuss-.) ing the htcrits of the parking ordinance. "It's a good thing," declared Doc. "I'll seo that you don t get me again for I ." His voice faltered. He recognized the voice of a lady who had just entered tho station. She had arrived in an electric. She wanted to knew "whafc this tag means?" ' You here too?" demanded the dentist as he faced his wife. "Looks bad." said the chief. ' Let's see which one of you took out the license on that electric?" "Now lock here." protested Doe, fishing around for a cigar. "I wouldn't go into this matter too far. just let it go as a first offense for each of us." And so Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Smith are each charged with having violated the) traffic ordinance. j Pat DurUeavey. 777 Beal avenue, and Ray Ducey, 672 Webster avenue, were arrested this morning on disorderlyconduct charges and arraigned biefore Judge Klotz in Hammond police court. The young men were accused of stopping all of the girls employed at the Central Railway Signal plant on Summer street, as they were going to work. Two men employed at the plant and two ef the girls were cn hand to testify. Duffev's alibi wasr that his sister had ser.t him to find several girls and have them come to her home this evening in order that she could arrange to get a Job at the factory. The testimony showed that the boys had not confined their conversations to this subject so the court, fined each $5 and costs. Two truck drivers were arrested this morning on Calumet boulevard. One was Mrs. Charles Both of East Chicago and the other was Clyde Brewer, 1132 Union street. Indianapolis. Mrs. Both paid $10 while Brewer was re leased on o cash bond to appear later. One solitary drunk wa? arrested by Hammond police lajrt night. Ho wa" l.' M. Crocker, who boards at 1124 Monroe street. He said he had taken just three drinks across the state line, but that it proved tco much for him to handle. He paid $1 and costs. DESCHANEL TO HOSPITAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I PARIS. Sept. 23. Paul Deschane!. former president of Cranoe. who is ill. was remov-d to a private hospi..i! this afternoon as the result of a euaden and serious collapse.

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5 EK NEWS FLASHES BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICE) NOG ALLS, ARIZ., Sept. 2 i Miss Mary Miller, of Nogales. was killed: Harold Henry, son of Col V. L. Henry, former army medical officer had b:s bark broken, and Miss Glad.vs Grove and W. H.. Kon . were rrobably fatally Injured when the automobile, in which they were riding plunged over an embankment. 40 miles from Nogalvs on the TuckSon road early today. BTJT.I.ETX1T INTERACTIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW WKK. Sept. 23 An attempt lo blow up the rteid avenue station of the Fulton street line of the Lrooklvn Rapid Transit sjstcm in Broejkl; n. was frustrated today by .he: swift action cf a pe.Iiceman. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SYRACUSE. N. Y.. Sept. 23 The Franklin Automobile Co. today announced k reduction of 1 7 to 21 per ceVt in the pr.ee of its automobiles. It was stated that wages would not be reduced. H. H. Franklin, president of the company, in making the announcement stated that price reductions In til lines ire necessary to stimulate business. BULLETIN t INTERNATIONAL NtWS SERVICEI CHARLESTON. W. VA , Sept. 23 Martial law is imminent in the Mingo county mining district of West Virginia, acceirding to advices received at the state carita! and the governors office teiday. Reports reaching both the headtiua rters of the United Mine Workers of America and the governor's office indicate that the situation is serious and thai there is possibility of trouble? which may develop into an armed clash. I Gary Man Will Sell His Ear When Thomas Cenroy,. Gary mill, employe, picked up a Chicago pap r the l'. V ... -..v rrM t. v usaijo, j jrars oiu, ana son or a wealthy Cuban -sugar- kir.g.- would give S2.Of)0 or whatever the owner though was a fair price for a medium, seized healthy left ear. he sat down, pulled a pencil out of his pocket and figured that $2,000 was a lot of money even for an ear. Another minute later. Conroy was busy writing a letter to the Herald end Examiner, stating that he had seriously considered the offer, only if they sliced off his left "listener" they would have to pay him J3,C0O. "If this man Cusada wants a new ear that bad be ought to be willing to pay my figure for a. good one and believe me. I'm not Joking, cither." --.id Conroy According to Conroy's letter, he wants the money to push a young tighter by the name of "Mickey" Truc-1 to the front. "He's a coming champion," said Conroy, "and I need the money to get him up to the top near some of those lopnotchers." N If the son of the Cuban sugar planter and Conroy come to terms. Conroy's left ear will be attached to Mr. Cusada's head to replace one lhat a horse stepped on down In Cuba and wrenched off almost entirely. Conroy boards at the Mullen ' House Hoto! at 301 Jefferson St.. in Gary. He lis 2 3 years old and previous to his acj cepting a rosilion In the Pipe shp in , the mill was employed as a switch- ! man. He walked off the job with the I "outlaw" ruilroaders and to this day 1 never went back to work at his . old trade. "You can tell that fellow for me." r-id Conroy over the telephone last e vening, "that if he wants to find a goc d left ear and is willing to ray me my price for It, I'll climb up on the operating table with him Hny time he the word. I mean what I say and don't fear that I will back out cither." "Mickey" Truel. his much-touted boxing chamrion is a pal of his. When they lived at Homestead. Fa., they. were closer to each other than two twins and that bond has never been broken. When but a youngster. Trucl showed exceptional talent for th boxing game. He started his career when he lived In Ireland and has been following the artful game of hit and getaway ever since. Befora coming to Gary from Pennsylvania four months ago. Mickey has been towing them away right and left and Cenroy wants to get him hear bigger game. "I'm telling you that this Kid Is a coming .champion," said Conroy. "All I need is some money to get him started and traveling with faster class and the world will see a new lightweight champion. That's why I want this fellow who is making this offer for an to hurrv un. as the sooner T rt Mickey into the boxing game in this neck cf the woods the better. "When you going to let mc know about this car proposition?" is the last word Conroy said as the reporter hung up. George Oswego, take note. WILL ENTERTAIN BANK EMPLOYES F. Richard Schaaf, president ofthe First National bank. Gary, will entertain th employes and directors?, numbering 3S. of the First National bank. Gary, at the harvest home dinner and dance, at the So-uth Shore Country club oa Saturday, tbe 26th.

WHAT THEY PREDICT "The rrhole of the V. V, with possible exception of ten aouthrrn Ktntrn, -mill so republican this yrnr." WILL If HA1S, republican national rhnlrman. "Tb elertlon depend npon Ohio, Indlann. M Irgrlnla nnd Illinois. " we rnrry Ihear four state f.ov. Cos lll he the next president." CKORC.K WHITK, demoeratle notional chairman.

HV Pl.OVn MACt.HIFK STAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE t opyrlght. 1920, by thr I. . . NEW YORK. Sept. 23 The campaign chieftains of the two old "parties talked "brass tacks" today. In aclusive, thoroughly frank interviews, they told the I ntertiii iona! New? Service not what they -hope for, but-. hat they expect. Both were specific, citing states and figures. BRKAK IMO SOt TII. Will Hays, chairman of the republican national committee. ies the w hoI, country, with tin- r -ssib't exception of ten southern states, goi.ig republican. He said the- republicans ihh, year would break into the democratic "solid south." Kentucky. Hays predicted, would go republican, by 40,Ofjn. while North Carolina and Oklahoma and Tennessee were "republican possibilities." ; ' CLAIMS MARYLAND. Maryland, he asserted, would be republican this year. Why do you claim Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, he was asked. "Because in Kentucky and Miasourl the republicans won two years ago In the state, and we only lost Maryland by less than 300 votes." "Why do you consider North Carolina and Oklahoma republican possibilities?" HERE 15 RKASOV. "Because the people in these states, as elsewhere, are determined tb.at-a.-re-spcnsible .political party cannot v".d responsibility for eight years of maladministration and because, too. there, as elsewhere. they hold "America first.' " George While, chairman of 'tb democratic national committee, on thother hand, claimed Oklahoma. Kentucky, North Carolina and Maryland would be democratic as usual. As to Misouri. he said: "HITK CLAIMS ALL SOI'TII 'We don't term Misouri doubtful," buthe democratic majority there may b'cut down." '' Chairman White claimed 137 votes or the "Solid South, "while Hays concedes! but 110. - - . Chairman White listed the following thirteen states a doubtful: - - Ohio, Indiana. West Virginia. Illinois. Washington. Idaho, California. Vw Hampshire Massachusetts New Yerk. New Jersey, Delaware and North '.Dakota. Chairman. Hays claimed ail -, f these states as positively republican. Thus 1S9 - electoral votes which th democratic campaign chief ceniYtlers doubtful are claimed outright by his republican opponent. i CHANCES OT KOOD. 'hi While not exactly conceding them to the republicans. Chairmen White! indicated lhat the democratic chances' re; re not good in these slates. " J Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. Oregon, Wyoming South Dakota Connecticut Main". Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. These states have a total of 14 electoral veitcs. Chairman Huys was emphatic :-i asserting that New York will be republican. CLAIMS A CLOSE FltiHT. . V Chairman -White said the fight would be very close in that state. The democralic chief declarer!; that Gov. Cox's record and local issues had split the republicans in West Virginia, lilinois and Indiana and thought lh" split would swing those states, pos sibly. in addition lo Ohio, for the democrats. The republican campaign pilot retorted that Ohio was positively go na republican and that the local issues" in this adjacent states would not .affect the national issue in the least. WHAT H HITK SAYS. The democratic national chairman said: - - . "Primarily the doubtful states in thj presidential election this year are: Oh'o, Indiana and West Virginia, while Illinois within the past two weeks, because' of the republcan split there ha placed itself in the doubtful list. "If we tan carry those four stales, I have" no", hesitancy in saying - that Gov. Ojc will be elected president-" The republican national chairman said: "-. "As to Ohip. Indiana and Illinois, th local issues in those states among republicans are . not serious and will not even seriously' affect the state elections and they cert-'nly will not influence the national issue at all." w EST FOR LEAGUE? Chairman Hays listed all the four states called "doubtful" by Chairmat White under those that were ''certain ' for the republicans. - . 4 . Chairman White said the west wa quite keenly fof the league of nations, while the cast was -apathetic. "Washington and. Idaho are dout tful states, both being: very strong or the league of nations," said the democratic chief. Chairman Hays' counted both "v'ashmgton and Idaho in his "positively re publican" list. FIGHTING. FOR CALIFORNIA,. "We propose to make an attive fififht te win Calif ornia.'"' said Chairman White. "The same forces that swung that state for Wilson in 1916 are .operating now. There is dissatisfaction with the Chicago republican convention's presidential choice and Gov. pox has had an unprecedented reception there." . Chairman Hays included California in his "positively republican'.' list. "There is no doubt." Cha.ir'rnan "3"h!te (Continued on page flvt.