Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 151, Hammond, Lake County, 14 December 1920 — Page 1

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Profiteering Has Bled Home Owners Industry and lltititicp By J. BAKT CAMPBELL WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. Profiteering in coal has bee n largely, responsible or the serious building and housing Shortage from which the American people ar suffering, :: was stated In a preliminary report of the senate committee on reconstruction and production submitted to th senate today by Senator Calder. republican of New York, its chairman. BEPARTMEXT PERMITS IT ' '"Coal profiteering has continued unchecked by the department of justice and Is a national dis.-rrace." the repo.'t said. "Coal speculation has been permitted to monopo'ize the transportation facilities of the country, retard ing necessary construction and incren.'ins the taile cost of manufacture an i distribution of ccramodities m general. it ca biea tne Home owners, puoi o utllltiea and industries." MENACE TO NATJOV "Th housing situation is a menace to th nation." said Senator Kenyon. lepublican of Iowa, a member o he cemmittae. "The oprrators -who apparently control the output of coal mifrht aa well understand that if there is power under the constitution, a"s we believe there is, congress will find . a nay to exercise that power to prevent the continued pi;:nuerir.g of the American people. LEGISLATION IS REQllRED "If profiteering in coal is to go on. I. for one, harsh as th- remedy may he. shall favor taking- nvr tiie mines." "There is little question that legislation will be required to straighten out the fuel situation, especial'y as It affects the average home and the people as a whole," Senator Else, republican of Xew Jersey, aDolhor memler cf the committee, said. "I arn coninced the coal industry cannot brlns order out of the prevailing chaos." STANLEY TELLS k UNUSUAL STORY Says They Slipped 30 Quarts of Bocze in Trunk When He Wasn't Looking It was only an ordinary look'.rssf trunk as it reposed there among the other baggage at the Wabash d"p t In Hammond but it proved a mighty important one for Stanley Kask wh'-n he ame to claim it yesterday evening. One of the boys fpployed ir. the baggage room notic-d a familiar odor. "With unerring precision he traced It and found It came from a little pj.d of liquor which apparently had Its sources in the trunk. He shook th-j trunk. It gave forth a glassy clank. Federal prohibition enforcement officers war called. The trunk was opened and found to contain some thirty bottles of whtukcy bearing the old familiar labels of Canadian distilleries. Several bottle had been smashed "In transit, accounting for the pool on the atath.n floor. The officers cfosed the trunk and had Just stepped into another room when In marched Mr. Stanley Kask, late or South Chicago and Detroit but nrw claiming: a residence on Hoffman St., In Hammond. Stanley had the check for the trun'x and an acquaintance with an automobile was waiting outside. He dragged the trunk to the car and was about to load it when the heavy hand of the law dropped with a slap on his shoulder. . He was dumbfounded when he iearne dthat there was liquor in his trunk. How it got there v ai a mystery too deep for him to solve. Stanley was arraigned before JudT Kiots this mwrnlr.K In the city court. He refused to plead guilty. It was unthinkable. Tile trunk, he said, was Just like his and had f.jtiio o his clothes in it but a sni.-ttiHp had been made. Someone mus hav flipped the whiskey in it when h viu't locking, j was the way he d-ped it ovf, 1 The trunk had been fOiij.M.'d from Detroit where Stanley .-lai n's to have, been living for a sii .rt time. Detroit j Is the great booze disseminating center of the middle west. The court listened to Stanley's pleas, unmoved. cut him short by handing him a fine of 10. and costs and thirty days in Jath Federal officers, while not able to identify Ka.k positively, are cf U.o opinion that he was arrested two years a.i under anoMier name for bringing liquor from South Chicago to Indiana Harbor. EAST CHICAGO DIVORCE SUIT Because her husband falsely accused her of "doinfr things unbecoming a virtuous -woman," Flora Almasan, who lives at th-j Baltimore Hotel in Fast Chicago, has filed suit for divoree from John Almasan in the Hammond superior court. They were married May 1 and separated Sunday. Mrs. Almasan also says her husband beat and wh-pped her unmercifully ax.d kicked her until her back was black ami tiue. She asks t h&Te her maiden name. Flora Sabo. restored. John D. Kennedy is her attorney. .

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F. S. KURTZ, 12Z Doty st.. says his baby bussry was stolen out ...f his back yard Saturday night. DR. MAL.MSTONE, Griffiths medical practitioner, was in the city on professional business tuOav. SIN'tu the police discovered the did 1 r luera"-' ioct, tn question is John E. fret his suspenders back? JUDGE IIARDV and his jury are still engrossed with the surT c ' J. Glenn Harris to collect his fees from Louis A. Bryan. BUSIXESS men perkeii vj-- considerably today and showed jt what they mostly desired was a dropping of the mercury. RUMOR has it tSat a new restaurant I will occupy the room recentlv vacated j by th, Arar,can Xrust & Siivins3 bank . r1st snf t ABE ILARTIX'S friend Tipton Eudd, is cing to tako Ins daughter to the theater if anything ever comes along ha wants her to see. CHICKEX thieves were in Harumond again Inst night. Thy dropped in on Tony Bacila, eSo Summer st , and stole 36 hens, valued at $00. SHE was telling her little son to count t-n before he spoke, when ha was mad and he said: "Mother, when I get mad I Just can't count?" THE worst of the Eddie Fitzgerald robbery is that Eddie never aspired to the t!tl-3 of "The World's Richest Newsboy." w-hlcTi a fool reporter saddled off on him. i THE committee in charge of the petitions for the memorial athletic park held on orruiizaticrn 'Tnwrrrgi'-i?r'0' Sproat's office Ss.turday and are now hard at work. L. IL COOK was in Chicago yesterday. Ills automobile, a Buick, was stolen after he left it at the curb at SixtyThird and Cottage Grove ave. Cook li-cs at 423 W. Sitley st., West Hammond. SIGNOR GIOVANI SPORAXDIO. Italian lyric tenor and Hugo Hagen, Norwozlon Tlrl,e ...... . . I , 0 . v. , . j ivaoow, a, .A"llOl fit the Methodist churc-h on Thursday evering, under the auspices of tho Epworth League. lue spoe aueut the mercury a year ; ago being 14 below," .says a v Timed reader, "but you didn't say a drggono wor.l about the ice on tho lakes around ' ne-re pemg ejgnt incnes tnicK a ago today." year : I DOC SJ? MIRER has already had two motnmete-r.s stolen from his Jackson car. Thes .if course ere only the ones he himself had beught and no one knows how many that h had acquired other wise have been taken. . rv T't ivr-i ttfii nnte-T.- i . " . , . .' . T I eii-.-o iie-vv f'jii eii iuj j.-;irie'r in e;ie Tapper bloek on Sibley street it looks natural to see Mat serving trtem out once Again, though he docs think j of the good old davs. J j COMMUNICATION" says that while Bill Newman was returning from Gary late Sunday night with two ladies In his Green Devil, the car suddenly ran into the ditch. It adds tho question: "Why?" All right, Bill we'll bite-, why? GRUDO MENCONI. who bad his Chalmers coupe stolen October 23, lias been notified by the LaPorte p-dice that the car is on its way to Hammond and Dale Suit has been arres-e. fe.j- theft. Suit claims he bought it from one Fred McMahon cf Hammond. FELLOW who was contemplating the gutter pool at the corner of Fayette and Hhrn-Jii sts.. yesterday .said: ' i was just thinking that if the Poarel of Works is never going to do anything to get rid of that pond, they might at least put gold fish in it and make it ut tractive." A GROUP of pale-faced youths were discussing tha blue law agitation in a cloud of cigarette smoke at a rool room the other morning. One said it would mean smoking would become a crime. "Well, that won't be so bad." said another. "If hoy ban smoking by law I think I can pick up some change as a cigarette bootlegger." THE Lincoln highway from Westville to Vaparaiso. long considered tho worst road in northern Indiana, has been repaired with a fine coating of fine rock on the bed of heavy rock. It is now in fine shape and one can go a.t more than a snails pace over it. But automobilists say that without, a coating of tar preparation on this road it will soon be full of holes again. ELKHART had a novel weelding this week and one of the papers there wrote up the groom as follows: "The groom, who Ipaned, as -usual, on his father, was lovely in a hartdsome three-piece suit of Heliotrope Handmed wne eiver underwear. Tho coat arid waistcoat were arranged in a loose effect and the trousers were held in pla.ee by buttons. He carrie-d an arm bouquet of groom's geraniums and a Jl.OOd policy in the Michigan Mutual. The groem's going away suit was charged, with hat and shoes to match."

THE-LATE EDWARD I.A1110 The body of Edward Larson, who died in a hospital at Limoges, France, will reach New Y'.rk on Friday, according to a message received today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Larson, 1 0 S 4 Garfield .-tree':. Hammond. This will be the first of Hammond's foidier dead "o be returned to this country from France. Edward enlisted April IP. 1017, and vent overseas with Battery C of th" Twelfth Field artillery n the Second division. During- the months overseas he was with Irving Chayken and several other Hammond boys. He was taken Ul with pneumonia and died in the hospital Oct. 16. 1D1S. "By that time his battery had moved forward so that his buddies did not learn of his rlath until copies of The Times were received from home, week.? lat"r. His was the battery which laid down the barrage for the "devil dogs" at Ohatf-fiU Thierry and it was cited on six different occasions. It is planned to have th-' Hammond Post of the American Legion leli" charge of the ftneral. .When the funeral will be held wilt not be known until after the body reaches New Y-uk and further annomceme nt is received from the war department. COUNTY LEAGUE TO MEET 1NHAMM0ND A prominent and practical ppeaker on Americanization work has been secured j by Dr. J. Goldman, chairman of the Americanization League, through thej courtesy of th Chamber of Commerce! of East Chicago. , The speakers name, which will be! announced later wiil it-liver the prin- ! clp-tl ndrlress at a meeting to be held ; Tuesday evening. December 2Sth, at the United State), e-ourt room, postofTico building at Hammond. The meeting whi. h is called and sponsored by a lsurnher c-f rnanv prominent people of Lake county, fe.r the purpose of organizing a Lake. County Ameriennlza'ioTi Federp' ion, and for the unifying the work of the Americanization committees of the cminly. This committee will co-operate with the liferent industrial plants, labor. I fraternal, patriotic and civic organizal tions. It will a IV co-operate with th city administration. Fion-d of 'ubT'c Educa tion, Tark and Library Boards. It i planned to formulate to- rtericaniza I" v , . V 7 . v . ? V r American basis, the fed'ration or organizitions to be manag tlnn apHvl.lAe r n nn1 1 . ed by the bst and most influential citizens of the county. The mayors of Gary. Hammond, Whiting and Ea.'d Chics th.j t". S. Commissioner Charles L. Surprise, Judge V. S. Reiter. Judge w. A. Fuzy. Joseph : Conroy. P. A. Parry, editor of Tt-j-b Timf..'. and a rumher of others who are back of the movement will make short talks at th" meeting. Invitations are being sent to all organizations over the county to have their representatives at this meeting. Mayor Is Victim of Accident Mayor Leo McCormack of Fast Chicago Is confined to his home with one broken rib and the fracture of several others as a result of a fall over a railing surrounding a lawn, at the home e.f hi3 son at Gary. . The mayor although tightly bandaged is able to move around some and refuses to go to bed. He plans to visit his office sometime during the day, despite hid injuries. PETTY THEFTS DUE TO BABY BURGLARS I Numerous petty thefts were cleared j up this morning when the Hammond 'police took into custody two lads, one S and the other 12. The arrest of the baby burglars followed closely upon the robbery of the store of Mrs. O. Pfratton, 331 Slate street, last night. A box of cigars, two boxes of chocolate bars and 5r cents in money were taken. The windowin a rear door had been broken to get into the p'ace. It wss so clearly the work of youngsters that the police investigation wao made on that line) and the culprits were soon landed. In hiding places at their homes were found a wide variety of articles which had been stolen in recent weeks. The boys were turneil over the the juvenile authorities.

Latest CrimeThree Eandits Arrested for Holdup Three bold bandits are under arrest one of them nabbed in Gary, and the fourth (ino is expected to It caught today through the police net that has been stretchoel over the enure; north end of the state. Mrs. lL.!ry Good-"-iii, -.mid or iturry Goodman of 4 M.igoun avc. Ea.-t Chicago, who c ecunear uucis a store at o.il Riga Pia.ce the Liiube-rt Co., had close 1 the store! ia&t evening about it. 40 p. m. and Mrs. I Goodman, in company with a friend, i Miss Rosie Cohen, was taking home the ! receipts of the day, and ul? a'numbe-r of pay checks which she had cached: for a number of working m-.ii, cmplo;. -cd In nearby plants. BANDITS S-PaiiNG OUT vWhiie. Uiu two wom-u v. civ waiUn.g along Maguuu ac. i.ear illlh L, u,., tureo nicu sprang irjiu out f an aiK-j , and j-oaiUng a revolver at the two i uomci. deu-etMcd their mul-y. The uo women, pie.ic sai.;iv.ii. cuinMieU w-it'll the bau-n : over the checks; almost il.uec. requ.si. and ;ur....-d and iiie-Lej tolaluig POLICE AEE NOTIFISD Mrs. GooeiiiuiL, u.on arriving g at her loieiup to ! I . . . i . , Home, eoiu liifc details, oi. the "cr iiusoanu, who ller notihed the puiiec, and then began searchipg tvr the thieves uu hid own account. Mrs. Goudma-u. who huU secuied a c'ood giimpsa of Uie thiwt-s expiau.ed the pellet that I.;,,- tilt. band.ts had been oiie 6f the old custome-ra iieeii i-urnisneu tne police & guuii to work upon. t ; u e Mr. Goo,aii, who, in the meantime had gone ....en iu secure uie help of a friend, was walking down tho; street, when he met one of the bandits ; who answered tho description furnish- I ed by Mrs. Goodman. He called a ! policeman, who placed the man under arrest. At first he denied all knowledge of tho holdup, but upon being searched, a number of checks and cash totaling $DS3 were found. Officers retro and TrtJanI, who were detailed on the case, were also fcusv and in less than two hours had captured two more of the bandits who gave their names as George Villas and Thomas Skutticles. GARY FOLIC- CAPTURE IIADIE Late last night the Gary police notified the Fast Clilcngo authorities that they had taken into custody Jim poppas, considered the leader of the gang, and who had been true..! to Gary" by Captain Hughes. 1 r" il,,n r,P 4 V, n F.-ist Chicago poli.-e. departmen poppas, who w as pi stior.'-d by the police euthorities, tells a number ef cor.f.i.-ting tales, but the poli.-e are positive thnt they have all of the right men In custody. ZUVERS STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY Eugene Zuvers, 6 was stricken with Webster avenue, apoplexy at midnight last niitht at th Mi '-nigan CenZuvers had tral station in Hammond purchased a ticket to Niles, Mich., and was waiting for the train when he was suddenly taken sick. He was helpless and unable to speak. Police were noticed and he was hurried to St. Margaret's hosT-ita in the ambulance. There his ailment was diagnozod as apoplexy. His condition today remains practically unchanged. CUT TODAY IN TEXTILE WAGES BOSTON Dec. 13. Thousands of textile mill operatives in England toj day were not-fled of a reduction in their wagef. In most cases the cut j was 22li per cent, the amount yugI Rested at a conference of textile mill ! heads in Boston last week. Labor I leaders claim the 22 1' per cent cut makes it lmposs.o-e. lor American textile op.-ratives to make a living wage. je f jhTiVvv.f if J tfr3

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Eddie Filas is in trouble again. Eddie is West Hammond's bad boy. lie Martrrl the downward p-i'3i by st-aling a rnenk(y wiemii from a pl'immr ; when In- was barely old enough to i walk. Eddie is 17 now and not. a year i has pass, d that lie hasn't caui'e-d the j p. dice- e.f Hammond or West Hammond all kinds ..f trouble. j T':ie" hi.y was arrested yesterday by j West Hammond police when evidence j had been secur.-d indicating ti-.at he j was guilty of robbinar t.vo Hjiinrnond stores. II, is said to have tak.-n two overcoats from the army ste.re on State street, and a suit of e!othc- and two overcoats from the Lion store. The total value was about Slc". ! It Was found Ih.'tr li t,:l.I f:i!r.r, tlio suit to a tailor to have it altered to his size, while the ov rcoats had been hidden at various places until he- could t a chaiie., to dispose of tm in. The last time Eddir- wa in trouble.' i.e was sent to the detention h.-me at Sc. Ciiailes. but he managed to escape arid on returning to We;'t Hammond had been acting l.et.ter than usual. AGREE TO ' ran . I r . . -.. I seventy rnousana Negro Laborers Will Receive Lower Wasres CHICAGO. Dec. 11 More Than 70,r'(. 0 negro laborers of Chicago and vicinity have agreed to accept a reduction in wages rather than le.se their J"bs on account e.f reduced producti -n. j R. E. Parker, president of the Ameri can Lnily Labor Union has announced. He said th-i union controlled more than 5Ci,0r'0 skill, d and unskilled workers in the stackyards here, the- steel mills at Gary, Ind.. and in foundries. lactones and eloeks fh and ulinut CM. rtgo. According to Parker, officials of the union have agreed on a 10 per cent reduction for unskilled laborers and a 15 per cent cut for skilled laborers and will Fubmit the proposition to their employers. Parker said thero were 100,000 unemployed negroes in Chicago and vicinitv. MINOR AUTO WRECKS OCCUR AT HOBART SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) HOBART. Ind.. Dec. 14. Sunday afternoon the Ford car owned and driven by Geo. Fairbanks turned turtle when it went down the i2-f.n.i e.-i-1 ankment nt the Main-- street brid.-. 1' is said that be was speeding at Uptime the accident happened and lost . otitrol as lie made the curve approaching the bridge. The car struck the cement abutment ,,f the bridge and It bounded back down the grade. The abutment saved it from going into the liver. Mr. Fairbanks was badly cut but not serious. Pun-lay evening about S o'clock while Messrs. Carl Baidt and Paul ' arlson were out riding with Mr. Wilkins of Gary in a Cadillac coupe nging to the Majestic garage of thn ,' - Or,i.,l, IV,, ..."U:.. i Main street, near th- Catholic rhurcl ! building with terrific force -Meh caused It to turn over and besides br.-aking a wheel, the body of the car was badly smashed. icjtside of, Mr. Carlson having his finger badly smashed, all three boys escaped without injuries. WAGE REDUCTIONS IN THE SOUTH ATLANTA, Ga.. .Dec. 14. Master builders r-f Atlanta have announced v. a are reductions to ail employes from common laborers to skilled cementworkers and brick-layers, effective Jan. 1, 1921. Common laborers are cut to .10 cents an hour, a reduction of $1.20 for an S-hour-day ; carpente.'s to 7,1 cents an hour, a cut of r cents per day; plasters and cmnt finishers cut to 90 cent an hour, a reduction f $1 80 per day; this reduction also applying to brick layers, painters receive the heaviest cut, theirs being from $1 to i0 cents an hour, a reduction of J3.20 per day. REMAINS OF LOWELL BOY S00NT0 ARRIVE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES ITWELL, Ind., Dec. 14. Emory Thomas received word yesterday that the remains of his son, Milo, who died in France about, two years ago. was expected to arrive in Now Tork about Dec. 18. The body will arrive here some time next week. Funeral services will be held and will be in charg3 of the Lowell post of American legion Death of Baby Girl Gertrude Elaine Idwig. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I-adwig of lc2 Towle rtreet. atred 3 years and three months, died after an Illness of a week oi- twe at midnight of the 13th. Th funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon. Rev. Licklider will officiate at 2 o'clock frem the home, interment at Oak Hiil cemetery. Undertaker Burns in charge.

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Orak Temple of the M Shn.ie will be represented in the ere the new Methodist hospital 'jary. This as ueciueii upon .ast n:i;l! at the regular meeting of the Siinncis in Hammond. It was voted to donate $500 to endow- a room in the n-.w institution. Last night was the occasion .f tho annual election of officers. Caiy furnishes the potentate this time. He is W. D. Hunter i. resent citv tteasuror 'f Gary. Following are the officers! looted : Potentate. W. D. Chief Rabl.an. J. Hunt. r. W. Mothland. :ant Ijabbni R. O. Wiru kle-r. Hig-h Priest and I'rphet. W. R. Ford . Oriental Guide, R. R. Gillis. Treasurer, The... Moor. Recorder, G. O. Mallett. Representative's to Imperial Council, H. II. Sharrer, W. Hunt.-r. Wiliiaiu Karle and V. S. Reit r HARRISON -CLUB ELECTS Mi ONCERS Harrison Republican Club members of Lake county lie Id their annual election of officers at an enthusiastic meeting at the club -rooms in Gary last night. Following the election of officers a social session was held and luncheon wa j served. Officers elected to scrvu during the ensuing year are: President. Marritt Martindale, Gary. First Vice-President, Judge V. S. Re iter, Hammond. Secondr Vice-President, Judge K. Miles Norton. Crown Point. Secretary and Treasurer, Daniel J. Redding. Board of Directors John O'Rourke, Floyd Williams. Frank Sheehan, James Lish, Frank Hubinger. Anto- iocrg, George Borsesh, Judge '"tianes Gre gory, Geo. H. tuner, ef Gary, and John Hillman. of Hobart, Joseph Todd, of Hammond. Robert Alexander, of Fast Chicago, .l tear Ahigren. of vhiting, Thoic.as Grant. Loweu, and Frank Schmidt, cf Dyer. CROWN POINT GIRLS BY MARGIN Crown Point girls carried honors from Hammond girls by a way s by a. iiaithe open; ng ween girls' . o iv ;UjiSm iasi night m ga' ie of the season b -usivet Dau teamj from the two c i c s. nammond was represented by the girls from the F. sj. 1.5 .nz company while Crown Point's champion were: from the Letz Manufacturing company. The score was 23 to 2J in favor of Letz. For a season opener the game was characterized by fast pluyiug on both teams. Feu Is were few and the action was snappy throughout. The Letz girls were partieulai ly proficient in their passing. Over 2:0 .-peotators were present at the Irving gym to see the game in spite of tho disagreeable weather. Following is the score: Le,t,3 Maude Hathaway, y; Pourbln, If Eium, c Letterer, r?.' F i e 1 d Free Margaret Ha -away, is Total Petz Fi 1 Free 0 Darlington, !g Irene Schroeder. rg Ruth Schroeder. c. Smith, if : Stein, rf Total 1 Referee John Weber. Sco Chayken. Teams desiring ganies with team should call on Cap Schroeder at the V'Xz ..frb-e.-. r Abe B t z Ruth SAYS HUSBAND ABUSED HER Rough treatment by her husband has led Aliec Horvat to fiV suit for di vorce ft Jin James Horvut. The complaint was filed today by Attorney L. T. Meyer in the Hammond superior court. Mrs. Horvat. sav-3 they were married last February and lived tegether until September 7. James is said to have threatened her with a loaded revolver and he also promised to U bock her teeth e.ut of her mouth. She accuses him of shaking her violently and adds that this m ist rea tmen t has greatly impaired her health. James is also accused of Intimacy with Miss Katie Rasumich. Mrs. Rasumicli and Mrs. Sherman. The plaintiff asks for $3.O0 alimony and J.Vi per week support money until the suit :s decided. NEW DROP IN SUGAR NEW TORK. Dec. 13. Refined sugar took another drop here teday when the Fib-ral Sugar company red iced ns pric to S 1-4 cents a pound. The American Sugar company. Federa! Refining company and the Warner Sugar Refining company announced a reduction in their price of refined sugar to S 3-4 cents, a pound.

Engineer Enthusiastic For Wolf Lake Harbor mat the Hamme.-d Wolf lake harbor is rapidly becoming more than a dream is seen i,y renewed agitation on 'lie i "l f n.'iient engineers. llaminends undeveloped wale- frontage ,r "-, ""l'J"'J is u stined within x f e v years to ;H, tj. probU-m of the c real iavica e w . er he-it from the Guif id Atlantic via the Missis- ; Mexico to th. sipj.i, Lakes the liiinon waterway, th- Great and the St. Lawrer.ee A,fl,r.,. "'S to the ( 'hu-ago Tribune i. 'day Chi cago is enlisted m the li t for the means so Hammond harbor vhieh much to every city in the Calune-t region. OF HU1.K I, A lit The newspaper savs"Civic induMrial. arid coiiiinerci.e.1 interests, through the Association .-t Commerce-,' the Commercial club, and other organizations, are prepan'rig to make early and intensive study or plans developed to a basic working point by Col. William V. Judson. engineer of the northwestern division. "Col. Judsoii's study calls for the acquisition ai.,i Uv,; of Wolf lake in hi,establishment of an 'Illiana harbor.' His plan has been approved by th..board of engineers lor rivers and harbors, and concurred in by the chief e.t engineers of the war department. iii:ar mk h from kaii.wws. " 'It is fair to anticipate that :n from ten to fifteen years there will be a navigable water belt from 'he Gulf of Mexico reaching to the Atlantic at the Gulf or St. Lawrence,' Col. Judson said yesterday. "'Ail commerce between the seaboard and points west and northwest must traverse it or cross it on the way to or from the sea, and if there be suf ficient economies in water transportation and in handling, a large part will be diverted from rail to water and seel; port for export by the cheaper route. i.ItCATEST V. S. It AIL CKMT'.U- " 'At the very buckle of the belt where two parts of the through route come together lies Chicago. At tins point, Chi' ago, already the greate.-t rail center of the world, and seemingly destined soon to become the western terminus of great ocean routes and also the northern terminus of one r the greatest of inland waterways leading to the Guif of Mexico, there must necessarily bo great and continually increasing provision for the transfer of freight. POINTS M1KD OF VAST HAKUOIt. " 'This interchange must be carried on in the most economical and expeditious way so that vessels and cars may have the quickest 'turn-around.' " 'Fortunately there is a break in the middle of the water front betwee.i the Illinois Steel company plant and Gary which is not yet used for industrial purposes. 'This undeveloped water front is some three and one-half miles long. The area just back of it, covered by Wolf Lake, Lake George, and nearby marshy regions, is abotu six squaremiles in extent. The foreshore et Lake Michigan at this point id reasonably shoal and is already publicly owned. "'A part of this frontaga and land lying submerged by the small lakes : in Indiana. to vrvnis work togctiikh "'There js the best of leason for r , lievmg tin re is no constitutional jeetion to concurrence on the part "C these two states in creating and endowing with sufficient powers a jo-ir.i harbor commiss on under whose r? ministration harbor facilities might i. established." ' WILBUR REFUSED TO SHOW MILDRED Blue Law Booster Declines to Give Reporter-Vamp an "Infamous" Buss BY MILDRED MORRIS (STAFF CC.KES' Oh! hi i fl. SPVKEI WASHINGTON, Pee. 14 The Rev. Wilbur Frost Crafts, superintendent of the International Farm Reform Bureau and leading "blue law" advocate, announced today that congress will be urged to create a "supreme court of morals" wh -se ehie-f woik would consist ot regulating kisses in the movies-. As described by Dr. Crafts the court would dev.de most of its activities ldistinguishing lo-tween "sacred" and "infamous kisses," and sending all the vampire ladies of the screen vamoosing into oblivion. It would derive its powers,, he; said, fr- ni the interstate commerce act and be a s Tt of interstate commission on kissing. "Would the doctor iiustrate the osculation sacr. d and the osculation infamous?" the reporter asked. Tiie reporte r was of the sex of which vampires are made, but it was not her fault and her only purpose was to secure accurate information, as her editor had instill, ted her to di always. Well, anyway. th Rev. Dr. Crafts li said to be of nervous temperament and linally lie said in an irritated tone; "Now, I de.n't want tf be interviewed on this subject any longer. I shouldn't be interviewed at a'!." After the reporter had confessed she had thought all kisses perfectly lovely and described how horrible it would be, if some day she should meet an infamous one and not know it. ami np pea led fr rnl :e-htenment n a subject so vita'. Cue lifv, Dr. Crafts' heart softened. IP remained firm, in hH stand against illustrating-, but finally yieid.d to entreaties to describe an infamous kiss. He said: "An infamous kiss is one that is given in false love." w The world cannot be made safe fodemocracy or anything uatil th movies are. elevampired. Dr. IJrafts sart.

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