Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 141, Hammond, Lake County, 2 December 1920 — Page 1

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Stolen Securities Found in Bundle Beneath Box Car k BTJIiIJBTrST HuaxiaoToy, xotj., Dec. a million dollars worth of valuable ya- ; per, much of tie amount ald to b ' a.egotiabl Becurltles, and twenty-four thousand dollars In liberty bond, atolen .' from a tank at Clifton, IU., two weeks ago, were found by Zrle railroad d- ' teotlvea under a section shanty at iXDfhla&ds, near Hammond, and brought to Huntington today. Bank official iva been notified and are enrouta to 'Bunting-ton to identify the robbers' loot. t, TSCCtAL TO THE TIMES GRIFFITH. IncL. Dec 2.--A rich find was xna.6. this morning by an LErie section man in the yards at Highland in the shape of a big pile of f Liberty Bonds, farm leases and other valuable papers. Report has it that there is a huniJred thousand dollars worth of Liberty 'Bonds in the bundle, and other reports , ay that the sum is much larger. The loot, evidently stolen, was found beleath a box car in a string used as homes for section men, and is believed to have been thrown off a passing train. Report of the rich find was made by the section man to the Erie agent at 1 Iighland, who communicated with the division superintendent at Huntington, and he came to Griffith to take possession of the bonds. They are believed to be the loot stolen from the Clifton, I!!?., bank a week ago. 1,000 Men Laid Off Yesterday Leonard Construction Co. Building Sinclair Contract Cuts Down Force Nearly 1,0 00 men employed by - the Leonard Construction comrpany, who ire wording on a contract for the B'.n'clalr OU peflnery company were laid of! early yesterday afternoon. While the direct cause of this sudden layoef has not yet been ascertained. It is believed that the uncertain oondltlon of the building material market is the chief reason. 1 Tie construction core pan has a cantract with the oil company for building; wiUch will require a year and a half to complete. They have Just recently completed an offloe building. The construction company has In tli neighborhood of 1,500 men employed on the construction of three I buildings, and with the lay off of yesterday, there will be left in the neighborhood of 600 men still emPloyed. ' The construction officials declare, however, that the men laid off will be riven employment on some woric they are doing at Chicago. THEATRICAL PEOPLE OIE INN.Y. FIRE v ffNTTSNATlON AL NEWS SERVICE NEW TOPvK. Dec. 2. Five persons were turned early today in a fire that wrecked a five-story apartment house in West Fifty-seventh street, Just oft Fifth avenue. More than 100 familie living in nearby apartments and houses were driven into the street by the "blaze. Only one of the dead has been identified, that being the body of Miss Mirjorie Lescomb, film actress. The ! u!!iling. formerly a fashionable v siJenoe, had been converted Into a liv story apartment house. Mrs. t!02vp;i Reid, an opera singer, win lived on the top floor, has not been accounted for. Firemen reported they could see the leg: of one body in the i wreckasre. j The flames spread rapidly and all j persons living above the third floor, had narraw escapes. GATES OF FOREIGN OFFICE CLOSED INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SE3VICE lsu. ji'-. uf-c. i. t or tr.e first time; it: years the gi?ar.t;c iron gates of the foreign, office were closed today to all but those havinjtr official business inside. This precaution was taken as a result of evidence discovered by the police in anti-Sinn Fein 'raids. It is probable that Westminster Abbey may j be closed to visitors. Scotland Yard j officials said that "important, names" ha'! been found in the police raids. The htm--- office has irred Archtishop Mannix of Australia. f"r making an address at Bootle. where incendiary fires occured last Sunday merninjv

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a sprained ankle 4his week. LAFORTE has a new woman county auditor, Mrs. Katherine, Spore, appointed in place of the late Albert Kimble, who died recently. STEVE BAHTAK. the Indiana Harbor murderer", was received at the Michigan City prison today to begin a life sen tence for murder. ABE MARTIN says that there is a whole lot of people in the country that dont' care whether a shop's open or closed just so It's running-. JAMES M. COXRICK. well known here, died at hi homo in Wheeler on Wednesday night. Ha was agent of the Kickla Plate at that (station. QUITE an argument ensued in a local ehop the other day as to whether Judge Land Is had any right to hold another job, while, working for Uncle Sam. MISS MILDRED SURPRISE of Lowell, has accepted a position as stenographer In the office of her uncle, Charles Surprise, the U. S. commissioner. HAMMOND doctors are rushed night and day because of the great numbers of severe cases of sore throat, tonsilltis and diphtheria, while pneumonia is also very plentiful. STEVE 'SARIN' GO, fourteen years old. has disaprxared from his home In one of the East Hammond company houses and his mother has asked the police to look him up. TWO baeketba.il games for one prlc of admission will be the feast at the First Presbyterian church south side rymn Friday night. One of the teams will be from East Chicago. STILL mope trouble is reported" from the tough kids of the north side. Thja time the. "Oak Street Bunch" has" ben raising Cain around the home of Mrs. Ruth McLeod, 461 Hoffman St. OH. yes. we forgot to mention the other day that the Coy and Meara gambling cases ware continued again when they came up In the regular order of the elty court's business. ALL of the outsido work on the Parthenon theater baa at last been completde and workmen Are now pushing the Interior finishing which will probably require a couple of months. CHIEF OF POLICE PETER AU3TCEN and Capt. Emll Bunde started early this morning on a hunting trip promising to bring enough rabbits to furnish a big spread at the city hall table. ERXEST XUNERT and Robert Odell are both bewailing the loss of their dogs. Kunert's is a .black and white setter named "Susie," while Odell'e Is a white and brown bulldog named "Queen. THE CENTRAL SCHOOL grounds have been graded up this weeJc and today some real black dirt is being spread over the north section, leading to the hope that grass may once more be seen there after all. NOW that the open season for garllo Is here again It is the wonder of atl how Charley Surprise can keep sweet and sroillng in epite of the fog which must almost suffocate him as lie deals out naturalization papers. SEVERAL rheumatic citiiens who read of the strange methods employed by "Doctor" Vidkowski, have been making inquiries and the invariable question that shows up sooner or later is: "How old is his daughter?" JOE OSHAUBA. Vho Hives at Adams and Calumet ave., had a motorcycle and side-car etolen from his place Sunday night. Joe had just bought It second-hand and did not remember the number other than it was an Illinois license.

A LOWELL man was up the other; 3.000 pounds of fresh fish from the day for his first visit end somebody j Booth Fisheries, Chicago, with inasked him how he liked the town. He structlons to cut the price as meat is replied: "Well. I like the place real j down, fish is down in price, for parwell and if some of those complexions ticulars see Sam's fish ai In today's I see on the street tasted as good as ! paper. In three years Mr. Kaplan has

they look I never want to again." go home THE Vail will case from Valparaiso. Isnow being tried In Crown Point. The part of the tMse. wherein the validity of the will was contested, has been dismissed, and now the main fight centers on the construction of a certain section. ! it being claimed that some property 1, i . .a . 1 not disposed of. l . HAMMOND man who was down in jiSDfr county, on mi return nome na i la return home he vr tellinir some of the boy. about' his i friend's hard cider. "Did you sample it?" one of them asked. ".I guess I must have." he sighed. ) "There are still two ds.ys I can t remember or account for." SOME of the laws In the city or dinance record are enforced, but most ! of tliem lire de.d letters. Amoni those ! not enforced is the one fixing the fate of speed for vehicles on city streets. Few rretend to pay any attention to i. including the traffic cops, who see ftutomobiles passing their stations at n speed of 25 or 30 miles an hour and never raise a finger. The taxis are the most flagrant violators-

; XViaVOr at MeetinfJT XJimS'S . tj rl t wui jjy juciLiuii viuy xasue in Business-Labor Struggle. j inougn tne meeting or representa- ; tives of the Hammond department stores and the Trades Council, called by Major Brown to see what the boycott situation was, brought no definite results, it 'did clearly define the issue before the public and left no doubt in ,the minds of the people as to the real bone of contention. There is only one radical point of difference between the department stor proprietors and organized labor ( mu mil is over tne power oi organiz ed labor to monopolize employment in department stores by denying the opportunity to work to those who do not bejong to labor unions. This fact was brought out by Chairman Mayor Brown in - the following dialogue taken from a transcript of the meeting by a stenographer: THE MAYOR'S QIKSTIOX. 'MAYOR BROWN "Let's take it for granted that these gentlemen do sign this contract and there would be 60ri of their employes in there now who would refuse to join your organization what would be the consequence?'' MR. CROAK "That would amount to this, they would have to be discharged by the management, exactly to be candid about It." MATOR BROWN "That is what I want to get at." MR. CROAK -"That is exactly what It would mean." CLOSED SHOP THE CKl'I. As neither wages nor working conditions enter into the discussion which was admittedly brought out at the meeting, the department store proprietors take the position that the unions have no right to exercise the above power and that the employers and the public have no moral right to consent to the exercise of such power by organized labor. They seek a far closer and more Intimate touch with their employes than when outsiders negotfate the relations between employers and employes. It is pointed out that they have no Intention of op posing the unions, on the contrary they believe in the right of organization but they refuse to discharge faithful employes who have worked for them for years, because they do not see fit to belong to a labor organization. rSIG DCRES9. They concede to eyery man and woman the right to work for the legitimate Interest of the group to which he belongs the right to organize Just as they concede to every worker the right not to belong to an organization If he so elects. Thty do not deny the right of any class of workers to strike for their own protection but there Is no strike here only a boycott which seeks to Jeopardize and destroy their business and inflame the minds of th publlo against them and force union men under duress not to trade in tnso establishments that are picketed. It la exceedingly unfortunate that this situation obtains In Hammond. The cly has so far been very fortunato In escaping the depression which Is already being felt in other parts of the country and is growing In others. It Is too much to hope that the city will escape It altogether. There are signs that it will not. WHAT MAY HAPPEN. Many men are being laid off at various plants in the Calumet region and local factories are cutting down a few men here and a few men there. There is a little slacking in business over the country and when It does hit Hammond tt will be regrettable if it does not find business. Industry and labor all one happy family. HEEE'S FISH GALORE NOW Sam now has enough fish to feed every one in Hammond. Teaterday Sam Kaplan, the live wire State street fish merchant, received built up the largest &Bh business in Northern Indiana. FOUR CHARGED WITH MURDER r international NEWS SERVICE! PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2. Despite the confession of Peter D. Treadway -- - , . weaitny manuiacturers agent, tne aistrlct attorney's ornce today announced that all four persons in the room at the time of the murder would bs charged with murder in the first de t gree. 'Al" Smith, one of the four, still re mains a fugitive and is being sought in Ohio, where his trail has been found. Treadway assumed sole responsibility for the murder after Marie "Boots' Phillips, his companion in escape, had turned irom nim. SPEEDER Joseph Kijowski. lis Elm street, Hammond, paid a fine and costs in police court amounting to $1S. He was arrested for driving his car So miles an hour over State street.

All that is mortal of Carter B. Donovan of 4110 Earing avenue, East Chicago, the first Lake county boy to arrive in France during the world war. who died Tuesday morning at the Hammond hospital while undergoing an operation was consigned to hi? laker this afternoon. Dismal weather and overcast ekles failed to keep mourning friends from the funeral services conducted from the First Methodist church. East Chicago, by Rev. Geo. W. Jones, who paid a glowing tribute to the cx-soldicr. Fully two hundred citizens and over a hundred legionaies. besides a score of uniformed policemen with a band of 20 pieces donated through the courtesy of the Elks, formed an escort at tiio city hall and then marched to tlie home. Uron arriving at the house the entire cortege rassed through the room CARTER B. DO.OVA.. wherein lay the casket. There wss a wealth of beautiful floral offerings which entirely filled the room in which the casket rcsposed and long before the services an immense throng of friends congregated in and around the home. As the casket was carried from the house by the pall bearers, composed of 4 soldiers and two sailors, a firing squad of American Legion members of Whiting came to present arms. The procession then formed on Baring avenue with Chief O Donnell commanding a detail of uniformed police, headed by a band of twenty pieces. Then followed members of the teamsters union and citizens of the Twin City while a number of city government officials came next in line fol(Continued on page five.) ADMITS KILLING BRITISH OFFICERS DUBLIN, Dec. 2. Countess Markiewicz, M. P.. one of the most prominent Sinn Fein leaders 'in Ireland, who was arraigned today before a court martial charged with conspiracy and sediti"n admitted while in jail that she had killed British army officers, according to the prosecutor In opening the state's scase. When the noon recess of court was taken the counters advanced to the president of the court marshal, and snapping her fingers under his nose exclaimed: "That's for your British Justice." 12-YEAR-OLD MAKES LONG- TRIP t $3.03 In his pocket Silvio Giuliani, 12-ear-old. and a native of Indianapolis debarked from the French liner La Provence here today, having made the trip from the interior of ETance all alone. The boy had expected to meet his father, Amosa Giuliani, upon his arrival, but the elder Giuliani was not on hand. An agent of the Travelers Aid society-took young Silvio in charge and he will be cared for pending the arrival of relatives. TWO MILLION TXQTTiATi FIT?.! "L x KEARNET. N. Dec. 2. A fire which broke out in the lumber yarl of the Plunkett Webster company. - , . , n..i.ut. irrT... eany loaay, u at 9:15 a. m., it was estimated. Forty of lumber, chiefly basswood. four pUes were ablaze. emen b.lr nhi i o control the mammoth flames, lumber was piled in a meadow. A CORRECTION j-n In an advertisement of the new Cohn Variety Store, 20 State street, Hammond, which appeared in yesterday's isrue of The Time, the line under the signature read "Formerly the Ham mond Furniture Co." This line shoul.i have been "Formerly the Hammonl Furniture Exchange." It happens that the two names represent separati firms and the Hammond Furniture Ca is still operating under the old name

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Men Accused of Slaying Mother and Daughter are Taken into Custody at East Chicago. Accused of being the occupants of the machine that struck and instantly killed Mrs. Julia .-ieja and her daughter, lona. age 7. at Chicago and Melville av(pii. John Kadcr. John rhilHps and Julius Petto. a!l of Last Chicago, were arrested late last night by Officers petro and Trtanji. The arrest which l considered one of the cleverest made in Kast Chicago, came following t'rje recovery of the Marmon car by Officer Pefro in an East Chicago garage. Great prai.e is due to 'the two officers, who hue been laboring on the cate since the aciident Sunday even:ng. The machine, which had been damaged considerably, was found by Officer retro, who had been making his rounds in an attempt to locate another machine. Seeing that the machine answered the decription of Uie car that was supposed to have ben t'ie o'eath of .the two people, Officer Petro summoned eeveral witnesses and the machine was finally identified as tiiat of the one they had seen strike the two people. ARRESTS FOLLOW The machine once Identified, the officer had little trouble flndins; the owner and th arrest of Kadar followed. Upon being taken to the station, Kadar denied all knowledge of thn accident. A Utile later the two O.'cers arrested Phillips as beinsr one of the occupants of the Car. Phillip under' a grueling examination implicated Julius Petto. MAKE C'OXFBSMOX After the three men had been placed in jail, Kader, who has been married only a short time, broke down and made a complete confession. The accused man then went on to tell of taking his wife over to Whiting to visit some friends and after taking supper at a friends home, had left his wife and gone up the street to another friend, when he happened to meet Phillips. While the two men were ta'.klng, Petto oame along and asked Kader to take him to the Harbor. Kader consented, and the three men instead of taking a shorter route from Whiting to the Harbor, came by the way of Chicago avenue. "It was while we were driving down onicago avenue," said Kader. who !s the owner of the machine and who was driving at the time, "that the dreadful accident happened. I was driving at the rate of 17 miles an hour and did not see the two people until I had struck them. I wanted to stop the machine and help those whom I had injured, but Petto insisted that I keep on going which I did. increasing my speed to about 25 miles an hour. Upon arriving at the Harbor. Petto left us. and I returned to East Chicago, placing the machine iu Simko's garage. Upon arriving home. I informed my wife what had happened, but I was afraid to tell the police. Kadar. who formerly resided in Whiting came here several months ago and has been the owner of the machine only a short time. All three men will be held without bond pending the coroner's inquest. FOR ALIENATION He Couldn't Save Money But Wife's Friend Had It To Burn Julia Jligoroc Is the wife of a laborer employed in the Gary steel mills. Crist Andule Is a single man who runsagroeery store at 1437 Adams St., Gary, i Crst has accumulated some money j while Julia's husband. Alex lias never been able to lay by much. Alex and Julia are not living together now and in a suit asking for $10,000 damages for alienation of affectons which was filed today in the Hammond superior court. Alex accuses Crist of i c-nt icing her away from him. The Jligoroffs occupied apartments over the Andule grocery store. Andule, I it Is said, became enamored of Mrs. Jligoroff and asked if he might room with them. They took him in and for a wn,le a11 'went well. Then Alex notlced the change which was coming over ! his wife. She cared little for him. He ! investigated and found that the storeI keeper had been giving her presents trom time to time. from time to time. More expensive g'fta came to the .,, t(, . charming Julia until finally it is alJKd. Andule offered her an automomany Deauuiui dresses ana an easy llfo if she would only reciprocate this affection. Julia fell, on June 14 I tshe disappeared from the home and her ! husband says that he found she had been induced to leave by Andule who was providing her with a home elsewhere. Since then Alex has been deprived of her association and help and feels that he has been damaged to the extent of $1.000. He is being represented in court by Attorneys McMahon & Conroy. See Brown's sale for Friday and Saturday. Dec. 3rd and 4,th. 12-1-3

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'Ware Fake Tax' Men In The City

Plrst of :i iet it he stated n?ht here that City Treasurer Walter Bie!efeld has no "deputy tax collectors" working In Hammond. He issued this statement this morning that the public might be warned aga:nt dealing with anyone claiming to be such Now as to the cause of tt all. Sam Spetable Mho owjis a liUtlc home at 520 Kenwood avenue. Hammond, presented himself at the treasurer's office early this morning. "Whet's a matter, you s-nda coilect after dlt-sa money. 1 pay him longa time. Got pepra right here, dispa year, htsta year and year blfforr. .Alia time money, money, money. Too much. Right away" Sm started . rantir.g rijrht off the reel waving aloft three tax receipts ar.4 another piece of paper which wa plainly the object of his ire. U;eiefeid f rally halted his ravirs and tried to get a straight story of Pain's troubles After much questioning !t was learned that yesterday evening two strangers railed at Sam's houte. One of them. & young fellow, informed Sam that he owed $S4.20 back tax on h's property. f-am protested. bJt was met by. the threat of instant sale of his property unless he paid what he owed the city. At lan he gave up and paid the money. He received the following receipt: IM.21 December 1. 192". Received of Sam Spetahle. eightyfour dollars and twenty cents, back on 1918. 1317. 1315. 1313. 102". No. 236. W. L PELTINSC. Dep. T. Col. With Yarn's .'back ta.ver-'' In their posf'ssion, the men departed. The more Sam thought about it the madder he got. It resulted in Ins visit to the treasurer's' office where he learned the truth. He was the victim of slickers. Spetable later told his story to the poilce. He says his wife insists that she has seen the voting sharper at the city hall when she visited there on dif ferent occasions. She wnl be questioned and probably brought to the city hall to look the employes over. BUXLXTIIT ' INTERNATIONAL KFWS SERVICE1 CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Dec. 2 Four masked bandits held up a rassengcr train running between Chattanooga and Cincinnati on the Southern Railway at Oneida. Tcnn., at 1:30 this morning and after looting the mail and express car . escaped according to meagre reports reaching hero. BULLETINr INTERNATIONAL. NWS SERVICE I MOBILE, ALA., Dec. 2 Charles and Andrew Cavar, brothers, of West Palm Beach, Fla, and John Wittfeld of Burwick, Ta.. were drowned outside the "Jetties" at Lant worth Inlet when high waves capsized their boat, late yesterday afternoon. BULLETIN 'lTERNATiriN. pjfW-i SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 2 Fire which partially destroyed the plant of the Indian Packing Co., at Gre-enwood, south of here today, caused damage estimated at $150.Ol'O. Most of the loss was in canned foodstuffs. Motor equipment v as dispatched by the Indianapolis fire department to aid in righting the flames. BULLXTIIT ',"'r""" -OVV ', SERVICE NEW TOKK. Dec. 2 With six persons missing at least two of whom arc believed buried under the elebris of the front part of the Strathmoro Apartment house at Broadway and Fifty-second sfrcet, further search for bodies today was halted by crumbling walls. The front part of the structure collapsed and It was feared the rest might cave in at any time. BTJXiXTZI7 ''""-"-"' '. SF-'M'E' SOUTH BEND, IND.. Doc. 2 Following a consultation of physicians at the bedside of George Gipp, star half back of the Notre Dame football team, it was announced today that physicians consider the only chance of paving the football star's life lies in locating the poison In his system. Gipp's condition was brought about by the bursting of an infected tonsil followed by an attack of acute pneumonia. SEASON OPENS AT SOUTH SIDE GYM The basketball team representing the Presbyterian Y. M. C. plays the opening game of the season tomorrowevening at the South Side gym. . the Presbyterian church. They will take on the Young Moose of Eart Chicago. The Y. M. C. team is touted as one of the strongest teams in Lake county. They are In the field to meet all comers and are after the county amateur championship of the county. Here Is their lineup for tomorrow evening-: Forwards. Sheldon and Hess: center. Cadwalter; guards, Grace and WHhelm. . The Young Moose are not slouches by any means and have been going gooJ since the season opened, po a lively game Is promised. A curtain raiser will start at 7:30 o'clock. Tean desiring to book games with the Y. M. C. should call on George Parsons.

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Within 30 days the first group of I1" . houses in the Indiana Harbor H-'tt"-4 company subdivision are expected '--' be on the market. These houses are part of trfe firu unit of 2"0 dwellings erected by 1 1 homes company to be sold to employe of the Inland Steei company's Indian ll&rhnr plant. The hfm i company n a subtirtiary of the Irland -Stetl, ani' the employes, of th steel works are f get the. advantages of wholesale co." price plus the opportunity ef aojuirinj homes on the easy payment plan. Adding Finishing Touchrn. Finishing touches are being addfd t .-' the sunlight su'jd, vision. as it known. Located in the southeast part of Indiana Harbor, it it one of the fln-ff-'t restricted dwelling sections in th Calumet rrgion. With the completion of work under nay and the rapid removal of tle: traces ot construction there now ' being revealed the fu;i att racti vene.: j of tho hoUi-Ing project. Workmen have practically completed the paving of the concrete streets. Cement sidewalks and housewalks are under course of construction. Sewer were built at the outset. Water ha been turned on in the mains, and g;t is to be available at an early dai". Electrical -connections arc about finished, wires or being strung. and telephones will soon be l:ad. Amplc flre protection is available as the result of the completion e.f an extensive system of fire plugs. Fluent Ilnuxlnc Project In the Stntr. The Euldi vision for the iland Steel employes is unique as wtll as modern, and is up-to-date in every respect. Kcr instance, the streets are not of the cemventlonn! straight-line plan and ar' not. laid out in squares. Instead they follow wind, rig courses, thus" diminat. ir.R the monotony of the straight cfc't and west and straight north and soulii thoroughfares. (Continued on p&ge two.)

SPEEDERS TRY 10 BRIBE COPS Jwo speeder, one from Whiting ani the other from East Chicago, yesterday tried the old trick of bribing Ham mond'e motorcycle cops and as usual came to grief. The first man taken was John Kader. 4436 Todd avenue, East Chicago, w ti , was later taken into custody by Eas! Chicago police on the" charge ef running down Mrs. Julia Scja and her daughter at Calumet Sunday evening with his machine. Kader was arrested by Officer Erlenbaugh at Calumet avenue and 150th street. He was anxious to get ay( for reasons whieli were obvious when it was learned that he was then evading arrest on a manslaughter charge. He offered "Erlenbaugh $5 but the cop refused. Special Judge Tinkham heard tho case in court this morning. He said: "Ordinarily yon would get the limit but as I understand you are in muc'i" more serious trouble at Kant Chlcag I will let you off with $3 and costs." The next man arranged was John Dobornik, 549 Indianapolis "bou'evarl. Whiting. Officer Bell and Erlenbaugh caught him speeding with In motorcycle and sidecar on SheffielJ avenue. "Follow me," commanded Beil as ii took the lead toward the police stat'oin. Erlenbaugh dropped in behind. Dobornik kept lagging behind P-ell and finally he begged Erlenbaugh to let him go. At last he held out $2 saying it was all the money he had an 1 telling the speed cop that it was better to ta!e $2 there- than to anrost him and get nothing. Erlenbaugh took the money and then dumbfounded John by making htm keep right on to the station. John wa i booked and told he must d g up S50 for bond befere he could go home, lit du a huge roil of bills from his sock and peeled off $48. lie wanted to deduct the J2 which the cop already had. "Nothing stirring" said the sergeant "That $2 will be pinned right on yur arrest sheet for evidence." And it was. This morningr John paid $13 and costs for speeding. A charge of attempting to bribe an officer was then placed against him but after it was seen that he was thoroughly scared and ha 1 learned his lesson, it was decided not to press the suit. AUTO BANDITS FIND A VICTIM I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 CHICAtX). Dec. 2. Four men leaped from a black automobile In the 2400 block on Southport avenue, shortly before noon today and dragged into their car, Edward Van Home, secretary-treasurer of -the National Milk company, took from Van Home, t.?00. which he had on his person. Ind then threw- him from the car at the corner of Fifteenth Ftreet and Turner avenue, a few miles away. Van Home was on his w-ay to a bank near the milk company's office" with the $1,900, $1,600 of which wan In cash. PRAISE FOR POLICE FORCE Editor Times To much credit and praise cannot be given to our grand and worthy chief of police and his able co-worker, Capt. Bunde, also to Officer 12g., and others who have been doing such good work in North Hammond. One of the greatest was the cleaning up of the South Phre depot of the gang of hoodlums and boys. Their vi t&lk and actions was a menace to th public. The stopping of the speedlnn of reckless drivers of machines and trucks was fine and we sincerely h"p the good work will continue From a North Side Citizen.