Hammond Times, Volume 9, Number 41, Hammond, Lake County, 11 December 1920 — Page 1

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VANDERLIP IMS TO A REPORTER Russia is Asking Immediate Trade Relations With I). S. and Has the Money

' - (EDITOR'S NOTE The Times presents herewith an exclusive, wireless Interview with "Washington D. VanderIlp, bead or the syndicate of Pacific -oast bankers and financiers who is returning on the liner Aquitania, duo in New Ycrk today, after a several months' sojourn in soviet Russia. While- in Moscow Mr. Vanderlip ob- ' Gained territorial and economic concessions from the soviet government -which have caused a world-wide sensation. The International News Service wirelessed a number of questions to Mr. Vrderlip while the Aquitania was in mid-ocean. Below are his answers, Just received by radio.) HIGH SPOTS IN VANDERLIP INTERVIEW "I krlleve the re of communism (la let Russia) la rapidly banting tlf oat. I believe ten In e Is bringing: about a trradaal chtnfc from the left to th right. Russia considers America ber aly friend, but will not beg oa our doorstep much longer. Restoration of trade with Russia will do more than the league of nations could erer do. Japan will stick In Siberia until the Russians get locomotives BT WASHINGTON D. VANDERLIP (By Wireless to the I. N. Service.) (Copyrighted. 1920. by the I. N. S.) AJ$OaJ3-P THE STEAMSHIP AQUIYAflA APPROACHING NEW YORK. Dec. 11- Complying with the request of the International News Service for a wireless interview I am herewith sending by the Aquitania's radio my answers to the questions you wirelessed to me: Q. "What are the results of your mission?' "Briefly summed up. the results of my mission to soviet Russia consist of the concession of 400.000 square miles of territory In return for which Russia asks a chance to purchase $3,000.000,000 worth of goods in the V. S. ' Ths Vanderlip syndicate acts as fiscal a rents. "Russia asks Imediate tratle rela1 i i 1 '1 ' f, , ti Hi Yt k 'Washington D. Vanderlip 'tlona with th 17. S. She considers ' Americac in spite of the Wilson inva- ' aien 'o-f Murmansk and Siberia her "nly friend, and even though England eigns (an agreement resuming trade'.') 'Russia will give the bulk of her orders to us. She declares, however, that she will not beg: on our doorstep much longer. (Continued on page five.) MICHIGAN CITY WAS INDARKNESS MICHIGAN CITY. Dec. 11. Electric lights over the entire city went out at S o'clock Thursday evening when omethlng went wrong at the South fcaore power house, which furnishes "Juice" here to the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company. The Gas & Electric company at once switched to its own power plant in East Chicago and in about 20 minutes all was light again. Later in the evening, after repairs had been made, the South Shore tii once more furnishing electricity. KITCH GETS A JUDGMENT t INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE VALPARAISO. Dec. 12. The case of Owen Kitch vs. the Gary Street Car company, for personal injury damages which has been on trial in the circuit court here before a jiry, was ended yesterday when a verdict for $1,00 was given the plaintiff. He was injured and suffered Mood poisoning when thrown from a cir, which crashed into an open switch. Greenlee, Call f; Richards, with Daly and Freund. represented Mr. Kitch. while Kelly, Galvln and Worden were the council for the street car companv

Did You Hear That

MAC DRAFT, the chimney sweep and his horn are here on their annual mission of adding color to the street. A TEAR ago yesterday, you may not remember it, was 14 degrees below zero and one of the coldest days of the entire winter. COCNTT RECORDER-ELEOT BILL, ROSE has rented a house in Crown Point and is preparing to take his new job on January first. JOHN W. DTER is returned from Wesley Hospital where he has been for three weeks recovering from the effects of quite a serious operation. ANOTHER Chicago Heights car. this time an Overland, with Illinois license No. 3766S2, has been stolen and Hammond is asked to help find it. TWO men tried to get into the Gerhard Austgen noma at 374 Sibley st. Thursday night, but were frightened away when the family was aroused. A DEMENTED man who claimed to bo physical director of the Battle Creek. Michigan, schools, was taken off the M. C. train due here about noon on Thursday. THE case against A. C. Folea. Indiana Harbor lawyer, arrested for speeding, which was to have been decided yesterday has been continued until Dec. 24th. FRED BOSNITH S store at 302 Fayette st. was robbed last night of three boxes of cigars and $20 in change. The front window was smashed in order to afford entrance. THE six bowling teaxns which have been organized in the departments of Ihe Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co., opened their season at the McCoul alleys last night. CEARING, formerly of Hammond high, is also a member of the Valpo University basketball shooters and "Beanie" Harris, his old football rival is also on the team. MANY are at a loss to understand what has been keeping ' Tr.cle John Barge away from those athletic booster meetings at the court' house.' His absence is noticeable. SCHERERVILLE had a bandit ' affair this week. Geo. Miyate, a Japanese autoirt was held up by a stranger who asked him for a ride, and then robbed him of $100 and his jewelry. THERE was such a rush of bvsiness at the Hotel Hammond's restaurant last night following the-price reductions that Teddy Guseoff fears they will eat him out of house and home. "IT doesn't p-ay for a man to work his head off all the time," said E. N. Bunnell, one of the hardest workers in town, "but we all seem to do it when we ought to lay off and rest once in awhile." TOO many deaths by accident are due to the taking of needless chances, say the safety agents. Some people never learn the wisdom of caution until they are killed, and then, unfortunately, it is too late. HA3IMOND will have another co-operative store, conducted on the English or Roaehdale plan if favorable action is taken at a mass meeting whrih is to be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Labor Temple. MRS. LAURA D. FLOYD of East Chicago, lectured before the Jasper County League of Women Voters this week on a survey of housing conditions in Lake county and emphasized the need of improvement along those lines. THE case of O. Kitch vs the G.iry street railway company is on trial in the circuit court. The plaintiff was injured on a street car when it ran nto an open switch, and is asking for damages to the amount of $10,000. ED. KROER. examiner in charge of the employment bureau has received a letter from Judge Fox of th Industrial Board, stating that he expects Mr. Kroer to continue in the office since t has come under control of the board. SOME thoughtless rarents. rrohably green at the child rearing game, parked their baby carriage in the entrance of the Woolworth store last night and on leaving the picture show, marched homir without it. Officer Mroz brought it to the roiice station. THE Kerr divorce cae which has been attracting so much attention in Gary since it was re-opened in Kerr's f.ght to avoid paying a support judgment of $863 was to have been heard yesterday afternoon at Gary, but was continued until next Friday. A NEW York newspaper decided to find out what joke in current plays created the biggest laugh. After a two weeks' investigation it decided that this was it: Rookie Who goes there? Officer Maj. Moses. Rookie Advance, Moses, and give the Ten Commandments. THE golf season Is over but they are still telling golf yarns. On a street car. south bound, a golfer was seated and had comfortably placed his golf clubs beside him. A buoyant fellow with a wealthy breath came into tho car and lurched into the golf clubs. "Why don't you look where you're going?" said the golfer testily. "H-mphh! Tou don't know who I am. do you?'' "No, and I don't care to know." "Well," was the reply, "How do you know it's me?"

'Dry Solons Have Plenty of Whiskey

nh9rnrnmo' fl r i n rr TTr i win t umvu viauiug w i Capitol Offices Find Evidence That Lawmakers are Not Parched. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 WASHINGTON. Dec. U Some "dry Congressmen simply must have their liquor. Discoveries nothing short "f amazing to the uninitiated, made by charwomen cleaning up Capitol office preparatory to opening of Congress this month show that consistency is not always a virtue, especially in matters of whiskey. Sedate lawmaker1, be-frocked and full of speech, make tirades against the evils of liquor in the halls of Congress, but as these new discoveries prove it does not lessen an appetite for whiskey, so easily appeased after their mark of Congressional decorum is torn off, and they retire to the privacy of these secret cloisters. One Had Five Barrel. Fully fifty Senators and Congressmen who stocked up before the advent of the "terrible drouth" stored some of their private stocks in their Capitol ofice hiding places. One Senator, well known for his "dry" spell-binding ha-j stored in his own sanctum, away from the rabid mob five barrels of Kentucky bourbon. Some Bourbon, that fellow, they say. Some of the other fifty have almost as much, bin scarcely any of these "wet" enthusiasts in pVivate and j "dry" apostles in public, have ULo than ten cases of bottle whiskey gotls on tap, with plenty mere in warehous-S to replenish the stocks. ARE TAKEN That the Chicago police have taken into custody the safe blowers who blew the safe of the Illinois Steel Co., office at Stockton and more commonly known as Clark Station several weeks ago and escaped with several thousand dollars in money, liberty bonds and valuable papers is the information given out by the Gary police this morning. The men held by the Chicago police in connection with the Ciark Station safe blowing are booked as Albert Hlllman with a half " dozen aliasis. Oeorge Minor and Edward Kaufman. Ed Baker, a fourth member of the gang is still at large. According ? the report the men are all professional safe blowers and have served time for other offenses. They are now being held on a charge of grand larceny and their trials will come up shortly. Gary police officials are now waiting to learn the disposition of the ease and have secured extradition papers to bring them back to Lake county. The Clark Station job was pulled sometime between m.ldnjght and four o'clock in the morning. They had no nitro-glycerlne and in using dynamite, it took seven charges before they were able to open the door. IS KILLED " Walther Waillenour, an I. II. H. switchman, was killed last night at a point about a block west of the state line. No one was with him at the time of the accident and nothing could be learned as to how he came to his death. The mangled body was found at tin side cf the tracks 1-y the crew of a; trarn which reached the scene at o'clock. Death had evidently oceurro-1 J a short time before. The b'xly was taken to the Czeelianski undertaking! parlors in West Hammond and identified a short time later. Waillenrour's home is in Rayfleld, Wis., but little is known of him. lie had b:en living at the Lyndora hotel in Hammond. Coroner Hoffman of Cook county is holding an inquest at the undertaking parlors this afternoon. BANKS FORCED TO SUE SCHOOL CITY The extent to which the Hammond! Board of Education has been forced j to borrow money in order to keep thai I schools goin,g because of sharp cuts "n levies by the State Tax Board in tn last two years, is shown in six suits which were filed in trie Hammond superior court this morning. The complaints which were filed by Attorney Jesse Wilson for all of ttie plaintiffs ask for Judgments on promissory notes held by the banks against the School City of 'Hammond. The plaintiffs are the First Trust & Savings Bank. The American Trust & Savings Bark, The First National Bank. The Northern Tru?t & Savings Flunk. The Standard Trust & Savings Bank, The Citizens National Bank anj t The State Bank of Hammond. I The amounts of the various note run from $5,000 to $29,000 and the total indebtedness is $10S,50(. It is believed that the new tax levy will help make up part cf this deficit

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STAFF CO-RESPONDENT J. N. SERVICE ) LONDON. Dec. II. Two hundrrdj persons were killed and 15,000 rend-j ered homeless by an earthquake wlfich practically levelled the district of Tepeleni in Jugo-Slavia, according to a despatch from Valena today. The American Red Cross is rushing a relief corps to the scene of the disaster. Mystery of Dozen House Robberies In Hammond Are Cleared Up By the Police. Through the commendable work of Officer Byclick cf the Hammond police in promptly seizing a man whom he raw lurking in the shadow of the Eaytist church on Sibiey street, late Thursday night, nearly a dozen of the burglaries committeed iu Hammond within the last few weeks have been cleared up. Two men are now in the custody of the police. They are Dock Newton, the rvan captured by Officer Dye'.iek, and Charles Sometimer. who was picked up by Chicago police yesterday on request from Hammond. Newton's conflicting stories when he was arrested led to his downfall. Under close questioning he finally broke down and confessed that he and Sometime:had robbed at least 11 homes including those of J. E. Fitrgeraid and Carl K. Nelson. At the Fitz?erald home the lcot in furs, clothing and jewelry amounted to over $50 while nearly $300 in cash was taken in the Nelson robbery. Soinetimer had fled to Chicago following the arrest of his partner, but Newton was able to direct the 'Chicago police in their search for him. He was brought to Hammond last night and today the two men are being taken to several places at which they claim t-j have hidden stolen goods. Both men had been staying at the Columbia hotel in Eaft Hammond during the fall, but several weeks ago Sometime fled when 'Sam Skufakis. proprietor of the hostelry, asked for a warrant for his arrest after It was found that ht had been keeping two women in his room. Sometime is an old offender. Invt.tigat:on of his record shows that he has spent much of the last 13 year;' in prison. He was first sentenced to Jeffersonville from Spencer cour.ty. Hid., but broke his parole aiter serving part of the sentence. Later under the alias of Thomas Williams he served four years in tho Wisconsin date prison for burglary. On July 23, 1317. Sometimer wan ar rested at Terre Haute, nd., for burglary and violating the ndiana parole but managed to t scape by throwing pepper into the eyes of the offh-ers v,ho had him in custody. EARLY EXTENSION OF MARTIAL LAW SEEN BT DANIEL O'CONNELL (STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! DUBLIN, Dec. 11 Furly extension martial law- zone in Ireland was predicted here today. Opinion was general that Dublin will be Included in the proclaimed area before the end of the year. All Ireland today resembled a vast armed cap and the atmosphere is surcharged with tension. Tettcrdny's proclamation of martial law over a wide area in the southwestern rart of tho country, including tho county and city of Cork, cmn with such stunning suddenness that the bulk of the Irish people did not begin to realize until today the full -gravity of the situation. One of the reasons why it is expected that Dublin ill bo included in the martial law zone is that th- severity of winter is driving nwny pun?rinniti rebels from tho countrysides to the cities and a host of them is expected to concentrate in this capital. The government is expected to make every effort to round them up, in conformity with Premier Lloyd George's announcement in th; house of commnns yesterday that disarmament of the republicans is the government's chief aim. ey mm cvclone INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE! PORTLAND. Ore., Pec. 11 rortiand was in the grip of a miniature cyclone throughout the night. The storm abated towards morning, but tho weather bureau forecasts a continuatice today. Trees were blown down in all sections of the city, in some plaoea falling across telegraph wires and otherwise impending. traffic. The velocity of the wind gained a maximum of 68 miles an hour. Tho terrific windstorm was accompanied by the heaviest rainfall experienced in this section in years. The storm lashed the Oregon an 1 Washington coasts, cutting off telegraph and telephone communications with most outside points.

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Hammond Boys Try To Escape Crown Point Deputy Sheriff Shows Speed for His Years Yesterday rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT, IND.. Dec. 11 Deputy Sheriff Dick Kilborn demonstrated yesterday evening thattherc is plenty of speed in him in spite of his advancing years when he successfully ran down two young men who had escaped from him at the jail floor. The prisoners were Charles Clayton and Carl Toun,r. two Hammond youths who had just been tried in the criminal court for the theft of an automobile in Hammond about three weeks ago. The car which belonged to Frank Furstenbaugh, was stolen from in front of the Methodist church on Sunday evening and late that night Officer Joe Reckler found the boys trying to start it on Summer st. The jury found them guilty and gave each a $50 fine and 300 days on the penal farm. Dcruty Slrfiriff Kilborn ?tl"d with them towards the jaii. toys were handcuffed together. Suddenly they broke away from him and started to run. Kilborn gave chase thinking that they would have difficulty in running and that he could catch them easily. Ho was mistaken for the youths covered over three miles before they were finally landed. Kiibourn managed to send out an appeal for help along the way and with a bunch of volunteers succeeded in rounding up the men. The boys and Kilborn were covered with mud.

REPEAT TAX GAME IN EAST CHICAGO Vincent Caeser Pays Money First and Then Inquires of City Treasurer . Under the guise of being special deputy tax collectors, two youths, evi dently about twenty rears of age, re peated the flim-flam game worked early in the week in Hammond and yesterday called upon Vincent and Mary Cere, of 3904 Drummond St., Indiana Harbor and demanded that the taxes which they owed on the building in which they live and of which they are the owner, must be paid at once or they would be ar rested. Mr. Cesare. who did not wish to be arrested and who was a little delinquent in the payment of same, decided to give the men the money amounting to JS4.20. One of the men, who signed his name H. K. Adkins, gave Mr. Cesare a receipt for the money and then departed. Later. Mr. Cesare, who had occasion to come to Kast Chicago, stopped in the treasurer's office to see abcut some other matter. He was notified about the non-payment of his taxes and that he was In arrears. Mr. Cesare then informed the tax office that ho- had paid the amount to a special tax collector. He was in turn told that he had been buncoed, that the tax collector has no special deputies. Had Cesare been a reader of The Times he would have been $S4 richer today for this paper revealed the swindle tarly in the week. HURRICANE SPEEDS UP THISJEROPLANE Machine Goes 45 Miles at Rate of 385 Miles an Hour f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' CHETENNE. Wyo., Dec. 11. Fortyfive miles in seven minutes or a speed of 3S5 miles an hour, is the aeroplane record claimed hre today by Jack Knight, air mail pilot. When the PeHaviland 4 plane which he wan piloting to Salt Lake with 400 pounds of mall, encountered a hurricane at a low altitude .Knight turned tail in the wind 45 miles west of this city and returned to a point over thi local ft!d In seven minutes. While 3.f0fi feet in the air here the wind so exactly counteracted the push of the 400-horsepower Llberty motor that the plane hung motionless over the field for twenty minutes while consternation prevailed In the air mail hangar below. Knight finally managed to come to earth through a series of perilous "side slips'" executed with the nose of the machine squarely in the wind, making the last two hundred feet on an even keel, but almost vertically. SLUMP ALARMS THEJAPANESE DUBLIN. Dec. il. A near panic was reported from Toklo today. Several savings banks in the Japanese capital have closed, dispatches said, owing to "runs" which were caused by fears of another big slump such as caused widespread business depression recently. MASONIC NOTICE sii(y Master in evening' 7:30. All Masons invited. 11. w. MARGENAU, W. M.

ALL BOOST

FOR ATHLETIC PARK PLANS Enthusiasm,, the kind which accomplishes big things, -was rampant last evening at the meeting of the new Hammond Athletic Boosters" associa tion when the proposition of erecting a real athletic park was discussed. Many who had attended previou meetings could not be present at the courthouse last night because of oth er engagements but the new faces present made the crowd even larger than at the meeting the week bfore. The idea has proved to be a popular one and is meeting with the hear? support of men and women in all walks of life. Hay Seeley as temporary chairman started things moving when he called for the report of the ways and means committee, of which Frank CRourlce was chairman. Although the committee had only been working a week on the matter, O'Rourke vti able, to report investigations on six sites and an estimate of the lowest probable cost. The sites investigated were as follows1: 1. Property on Highland street just west of the Industrial high school building. It is believed four acres could be purchased at '$2,600 per acre. 2. Property at Columbia avenue and 159th street. This was estimated at $1.00 per acre. 3. Property on Calumet avenue, across street, west of Nowak Milling Co. (old distillery). This in expecUd to cost $4,000 per acre. 4. Block between Cameron and Henry streets, north of Huehn and belonging to the school city. Two thousand dollars per acre Is the price suggested. Property at corner of Calumet and Michigan avenues. This would probably be moat expensive, $7,800 per acre. 6. Tract of about fire acres between Jessie and Sohl streets, north of Mich igan avenue.. It is believed that this land could be purchased at a figure lower than any of the others. Mr. O'Rourke then read figures on costs of grading, guilding a fence and erecting a grandstand with a capacity ef 5.000. These fgures were secured by John Huchel and were from contractors who do such work. The total price of this work would be $30,200. exclusive of the cost of the land. The fgures were for frame construction and were considered the lowest pos sible. Expressions were called for from those present and the matter was dis cussed thoroughly. A. M. Turner was the first to speak "I have heard a great deal about this plan to erect an athletic park as a soldiers" and sailors'- memorial with in the last week. I think that Is a practical and appropriate manner In which to shew our appreciation of the services the boys rendered in the war and at the same time provide a real asset for the city. An athletic field is no longer to be considered a luxury; lr is a necessary thing. The plan has my hearty endorsement." Mr. Turner urged the vigorous pushing of the project, but said that he be lieved the estimate was too low. "If we go through with this we should build so that it will be permanent. think a fireproof structure should be erected so that the whole thing can not be wiped out over night as often happens to structures of this sort, which, because of their location cannot be guarded all of the time. 1 don't think we should stop at less than $100,000 or more if necessary to de it right." Dr. W. D. Weis said he believed this wan the proper step. 'We did a lot of shouting when the boys went away." he said, "but most of the enthusiasm seemed to have died down by the time they got back. I like this plan of a permanent memorial as a mark of our appreciation an 1 which at the same time will be looking toward the physical welfare of our young men. If it takes $100,000 or more to put' this over, I am in favor of it for we should have a memorial we can point to with Hrld'." Alderman L. C. Smith, president of the city council, spoke and told the status of the memorial proposition a'J he understood it. Further explanation of the situation was made by Alderman Rellley and Martin. Mayor Frown came later and gave it as his opinion that the old .committee cou'd no longer act and that a new one should be appointed, since the proposal, of building a combined city hall and memorial building had been held up. Frank Hammond expressed h-, approval of the scheme, but said be believed the project should embrace a large gymnasium with shower baths and a floor large enough for basketball and indoor games. A. J- Marko. John Huchel, Theo. Klots. Floyd Murray and V. J. Cupp also made short speeches. Election of permanent officers for the association was then taken up with the following results: , President, John Huchel.- - Vice President. Frank Hammond. Secretary-Treasurer. Dick WilTiama. A committee was then appointed to circulate petitions which are to be presented to the city council with recommendations. The members are b folftws: Frank O 'Rourke. E. O. Sproat. Kd Kline, Mel Monnet and Frank Martin. Another meeting will be hela prebably at the same place next Friday evening. '

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darkness was falling yesterday evening, bandits obtained $4,200 from the saloon of Andrew Zajac, at the corner or 135th aad Baltimore avenue, in Hegewisch. ' The place regularly cashes th checks of men who work at the plant oc tin Western Kt1 . ,- Testerday was payday at the work and thousands cf dollars worth of checks had already been turned In at the saloon. At 6 o'clock a machine stopped In front of the saloon and four men strolled in. A few minutes later twe more came in. Suddenly revolvers ap peared in 'the hands of several of the bandits, covering the bartender, who happened to be the only other man in the saloon at that time. While he stood back against the wall with hands aloft members of the gang hurried behind the bar and deftly cleaned out the money drawer. At first the bunch of checks already cash ed was crammed into the pocket of one of the men, but there were later discarded as being of no value to them. This action also saved the Zajac from, further loss. There was $4,200 still in the drawer in anticipation' of more check business later in the evening. This was Quickly scooped up by the bandits who hurried, from the place, crowded into the automobile and raced away. The whole operation consumed only about ten minutes. It required some time to organise the pursuit but all efforts at picking up the trail of the bandit car proved futile. From the hasty glimpse which the bartender sot of the machine, he believes it -was a Ford. ' I GETS NEW ROAD Roscoe E. Woods Spokesman for Delpgation which Secured Improvement The constructioa of the six and onehalf mile east and west thoroughfare known as One Hundred and Forty-seventh street, a westward extension of Sibley street. In Hammond, is assured. X delegation of West Hammond citizens, accompanied by ROecoe. E. Woods, of Hammond, who; acted as their spokesman, appeared before the . board oF Cook county commissioners and present ed their case in an hours conference yesterday afternoon. Some slight opposition developed on the part of Jerry O'Rourke. former state representative. William Busse, one of the commissioners and some Harvey representatives who wanted the H listed st. bridge built .before money was spent on One Hundred and Forty-seveath st. But th arguments of the West Hammond delegation were so convincing that the commissioners, on ' tho . motion . of Peter Relnberg, chalrmsn of the'ecuntj? board. Instructed Supt. . of Highways Quinlan to at once commence the preparation of plans and specifications fej the Improvement which will coat ia tr neighborhood of $700,000. j It is not, however, expected that wort will commence on this road until the spring of 1922. a year and three months from this date for the season, that the 71 mile program of road building that has been adopted by the Cook county commissioners has been held up by high, building costs and must be completed this coming year. Among those who presented arguments before the board were Samuel K. Marwman, special counsel for West Hammond, Mayor Paul Kamradt. wh said that the people had been promised" this improvement in return for ' theftsupport of the bond issues. Martlh Flnneran, who made a strong plea for connecting up the cities of Harvey.' Blue Island, Riverdale and Dolton with West Hammond: Mr. Watterman, the onion king of South Holland; Mr. Holmes, cashier of the South Holland bank'f Mr. Propper of TYopper's Obrners. a large land owner; . Henry Linder, of West Hammond, and others. , To John Jaranowski and Judge KowTalskl should go 'the credtt. for havlnf organized the delegation which included In addition to the speakers. City Tlerk Andrew J. Stachewicz, Frank.. Wache wlcz. Alderman A. B. Kryzanowskl. ' The outstanding arguments which seem to have won over the commissioners were the fact that while Westerly avenue. Halsted st. and South State St. have been improved by the commissioners, there is no east and west thoroughfare by which access may be had to thee highways. The hopelessness of getting street railway extensions also pointed to the need of developing this highway to provide intercity communication by motor bus. MASONIC ELECTION Election of officers was held by Pyramid. No. 887. A. T- & A. M. of Hegewisch. Friday evening with the following results: Worshipful master, Carl C- Smith. Senior warden, Frank H. Thompson. Junior warden. Rhinert Workman. " Treasurer, Clyde Faverty. Secretary, Victor Anderson. ';" The lodge will hold its installation of officers on Wednesday, Dec. 29, followed by an entertainment and supper. GO ON RECORD FORjOPENSHOP NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 11. TenL-' ressee manufacturers in annual eess'on here went on record as favoriryg the open shop and equal opportunltjfor organized and unorganized labor in the state. They also favored restricting foreign Immigration and th establishment of vocational schools in the industrial centsrs ef the state.

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