Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 15 December 1920 — Page 2

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OPENLY DEFY UNITED STATES

BT W. 11. ATKINS STrr CPBOFSPO("ENT t N SERV1CF1 WASHIN'OTON, Pec. 15. Coal pfOUlators. chief factors In anthracite and l:'t .imtnoiia coal Pri'flteerinr, continue to uiv their tradfc In Jpt1ance of Atty.

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Justice to remedy renditions, ma dr. the fcasta for Senator (.'aider's attack upon the attorney-general tor falling to stop

coal DroflteerliiK. was Irorly admitted)

today by the attorne y-pcnoral and his dvlcer. The attorney prneral wi'i rot rfply ditectly to Senator ('aider. The senator's charge tht coal proflteeriner froes on dc-sp't the attorneygf neral'a efforlJ'. Is admitted by the department of Justice to be true, but oftctais are quick, to explain that vigorous criminal pruccoluro by the department has bten vrtually blocked oy rourt procedures holding' the Lever law In 3 i id. Pressed for an "xpianation for continued abuses In th coal trade, the department of justice revealed that !n some large producine districts, coal operators have openly deft-d the attor-rey-general and his agents by refusal to produce their books and records. A report on coal profiteering, prepared for congress under th attorneyjteneral's direction, states that In flvo cf ten principal coal producing states, c niprislng Indiana. Colorado, Western Kentucky. Pennsylvania and Mlssouii. p: ost v. u tions under the Ijrver law hav. been prevented by decision? of the L'. P. district courts, diclarins the law Is not constitutional. In Tennessee Talmer rf ports nfteen bituminous operator were arrested and heid for the grand jury, bu: gaineu freedom from further prosecution by virtue of an or2er by the federal district court, enjoining enforcement of the LTer act. The Lever act. It was aid. was the or.!y enactment uod'T which It ha been posible to proceed 5n coal cases. No attempts hare been possible to proceed In coal cases. No attempts have been made to haul the pfratrs before courts und?r antitrust laws on charges of combinations In restraint of trade.

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HARBOR GIRL UNFOLDS h PLEASANT ROMANCE Cupid in Drug Shipment Will Celebrate Outcome Next Spring A romance that began two years ago, tiy th mailing of a small card which was placed !j a shipment of druss conijrned to the Central Drug Su-re, Indiana Harbor, will cause the ringing of eddlng belis in the early spring for Miss Mary Gordon, -who has l. en effecting in the capacity of cashier at tli Central S'.ore for tUc few j cars. Two years ago. il:ss Goruou with s"-,-rral other clerks were unpacking and choking a shipment of drugs which bad i rived from a point In California. Miss Gordon, whil unpicking one of tho ia!".'. tame across a, little card bearing the vsme of AVendeil F. Holmes, Santa l;rlaj-a. California une of ili" clerks suggested t M!i i .rdun Uia: she write to th gentleiv.fA, but being a little modest. Miss Gordon at first declined. She -ivafl- flnaliy persuadrj to answer riie card and a few days latT received a Ictrr from Mr. Holmes, vslio. hoTir'ver denied placing the little card in tii drug box. ilr. Holmes, whose legal residence Is in New Tork State, has extensive In-tfi-ts In California, and having much le;.ur time on his shoulders, kept up i '. correspondence with Miss Gordon, v !v readily retaliated. Then carae the Inevitable, their letbanie more frr'fj-.-nt. tlxjir little

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FOUR KILLED IN MAIL AEROPLANE IjC'N TK KN". Dec 14. Four persons were killed near trickle Wood today whn a huge Handtey-P&ge a!rp!ane. carrying mails between lAndon and 1'arlM, crashed In a thjck haze. The airplane, which was carrying tight passengers, a well as mail.';, struck a tree and then crashed into a houne, which was demolished. The wreckage cauht fire. The airplane had

i'-'ft started for Paris. The catastrophe occurred at Golders Green, near the Cricklo Wood ara-clrome.

SHE KNOWS THE BEST Give her candy. Give her tbe beat. Whitmans and Johnstons cost no more than inferior grades. We have all the popular assortments In one. two and five pound packages. Nelson's Drug Hrore. 18-15-tf

WRIGHT CASE TO JURY TODAY 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 5ERVICE1 Ll. PORTE, Ind., Dec. 15. The case of Jack Wright, charged with the murder of Henry Muesnel. millionaire .South Bend brewer, which has been on trial in the circuit court here three weeks will go to the Jury late this afternoon or tonight. It was expected. An alibi witness, testifying that Wright was In Holland, Mich., Dec. 33. 191E, the night of the murder when three men entered the brewery office at South Bend and shot down Mueyse and Frank Chrobot. an office assistant, escaping with about $40,000. was the chief defense. Trial of August Schultz. second member of the alleged murder trio, wll',1 be held in Fouth Bend. The state declared today Schultz will confess following the Jury's finding in the Wrijrht case. Charles Danruther. sought a the third mem'oer of the trio. Is said to be in South America.

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Hammand :: Indiana TODAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Five Robettas EUROPEAN WONDER WORKERS VAN HORN & INEZ Roller Skater DeLuxe

Scenes in the postofSce.

Clerks sortinr Christmas mail and placing It in barn, and trackmen carrying tha bags to trucks to b hauled to the trains.

The Christmas mail rush is on now in full blast and rill increase every day from now until Santa arrives. Postoffife officials are doing their 'jnost to handls

ths rush and are pleading with the public to aid them by mailing their packages at the earliest possible moment to avoid a tidal wave of packages at the st

minute that will clerks and cause i up. Ths pictures conditions in any day.

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adventure was fast ripening Into love, then cams the e.-echange of photographs and the last but not least, the personal

meeting, which comes this evening, and i

then for the wedding bells, which promises to make this romance one to go down in history. PYom a photograph of Mr. Ho'.me, he would be considered very good look

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is to be congratulated. Mr. Holmes besides being a larg grower of oranges and other citrus fruit. Is a large stockholder in one of the motion picture companies ner Lcs Angeles. The many friends of Miss Gordon b-s-seeched the, drug store !at evening: to congratulate the coming bride. Miss Gordon, when interviewed last

Chesapeake and Ohio '.,...'. 56 H Chicago. Mil. and St. Paul 27 Colorado Fuel v 27' Consolidated Gas . : 78 Sj Corn Products 653i

Crucible Steel aj 8Erie I27i General Electric Ill General Motors IZ Lackawanna Steel 50: Lehigh Valley 14 Mexican Pete 164

ARSON RING WORKS ANEW I'MO.VTOWX, Pa.. Dec. 15. Fayette county's "Arwon ring" resumed operations early today after a lull of ten days. The major portion of the Kair Chance Lumber company's plant at I"alr Chance was burned. 1as $50,000. This is the thirty-first fire In seven weeks and the third lumber propvrty

fired.

Mldvale Steel Norfolk and Weatefn Northern Pacific Pure Oil Pressed Steel Car Railway SteeJ Springs , Heading ,

Republic Iron and Steel " tlS Southern Pacific i'

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evening by The Timbs. a to when the I Southern Railway

marriage -would take place, suggested that her friends watch the columns of Ths Times. When asked If she was hsppr. sh. replied: "Tts, I am happy. Why shouldn't I bo?"

American Can 23 H American Car and Foundry American Locomotive 82 American Smelting 404 American Steel Foundry 2V America nTel. and Tel 7T Anaconda 37 Baldwin Locomotive S7'i Bethlehem Steel B C2 Canadian Pacini; 112'-i rvntral Leather 36 ,

Studebaker 48' Texas Co 4 3 Union Pacific 11 a V. S. Steel 75 Westlnghousa i0 Sinclair Oil 24 H CHICGO LIVESTOCK HOGS Receipts SO. 000; market 10c higher; bulk. $a9.1: top. $9.2i; heavy weight. $8. 90S '15: medium welrht. IS.3.1S; light weight. JS.S; 39.15; light lights. .90ti9.23; heavy packing sows. smooth. I. 758.99, paching sows, rough, J5 50-6 8 75; pigs, IS. 6039. 16.

CHICAGO VEAL SO to 60 lbs.. 10

70 to 80 bs., 1I'312; 80 to 100 lbs.. 13 'S?14; fancy, 13: overweight kidneys, 140 to 175 lbs., 8 1 10c. I t BUTTER Receipts. 6.194 tuba: creamery extra. 49; firsts, 44; packing stock. 20 & 25. EGGS Receipts. 1.201 cases: current receipts, 64& 70; ordinary firsts, 65 W 70; firsts. 733 75: extra, 83385: checks 45350: dirties. 45 55. CHEESE Twins, new. 2122: daisies 2122S: young Americas. 2424S; longhrns. 24f''!4Vi: b"icl.-. LIVE POULTRY Turk' J , 38: cnic-l-.'.ns. 1624: springs, toosiers. 13. .fc-se. 24: ducks, 2S. POTATOES Receipts. IK cars: b i k 140$ 150.

BIG REWARD IS OFFERED ClUGAGO. Dec. 14. A reward of $1.500 and "no questions asked." has been offered for the return of $12,000 worth of jewe's stolen from the purse of Mrs. A A. Carpenter, in a local department store. Mrs. Carpenter believes the gems were stolen by a pickpocket who Jostled her among the crowd of holiday shoprers.

BIG CHICAGO JEWELRY ROBBERY CHICAGO, Dec. 15. After binding and gagging: Sam Rubenstein, West Side Jeweler, four armed bandits today looted the vault of his store and escaped with Jewelry valued at between 120.000 and 125.000. Many pieces left on deposit by holiday shoppers were among tile loot.

PASTIME TODAY Tom Mix io "THREE GOLD COINS" Also The Ford Weekly

PETERS & WEST Singing and Instrumental

EMMETrS SURPRISE COMEDY NOVELTY

FRISCO TRIO Comedy Singing, Talking, Whistling and Piano Oddity

KELLY & STONE Comedians Also the Last Episode of Ruth Roland in "RUTH OF THE ROCKIES" Don't Miss It! DON'T MISS THE MIDNIGHT SHOW NEW YEAR'S EVE.

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AUDITORIUM MAX HELPER, Prop. Phone 1951 367 Calumet Ave. Hammond, Ind. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15th Constance Talmadge in "HAPPINESS A LA MODE" Also "Her Bargain Day."

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Alice Brady in "THE NEW YORK IDEA" FRIDAY

Big Double Feature Alice Brady in "THE NEW YORK IDEA" and Eugene O'Brien in "THE WONDERFUL CHANCE" Afternoon Only EVENING Alice Brady in THE NEW YORK IDEA" FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Joe Ryan in 3rd Episode of "HIDDEN DANGERS" Afternoons Only SATURDAY Eagen O'Brien in "THE WONDERFUL CHANCE" SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY All-Star Cast in "CHILD FOR SALE" Children, read the Pollyanna stories and then see Mary Pickford in "POLLYANNA" Also Harold Lloyd in the greatest comedy ever made "High and Dizzy" FOUR DAYS STARTING SUNDAY, DEC. 26

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CATTLE Receipts. 9,000; market.! steady. j Beef Steers Medium and heavy- j welsrht. $12.5$ 14.60: choice and prime, I12.S05J14.50; medium and g-ood. $1.21 12.50; llgrht weight, ?. 601425: pood i and choice, $9.60 Q 14.25 ; common and I medium, $.25(89.60. J Butcher Cattle Heifnr. $4.4010.- '

io; cows, 4.Jo flj.uu; nuns, i.v. Canners and Cutters Cows an.l helfsrs, $2.T'?f 4.25; canner steers, $3.50 '5.00: veal calves (light and handy-weig-ht). $$.0010.00; feeder steers. $S -259.00; stocker steers. $4.2598.25: stocker cows and heifers. $4.35ifS.OO. Western Range Cattle Beef teer, $:.!3'10.15; cowb nd heifers, $4 603 8.25. ctjcicaoo CAtrs o&azk WHEAT No. 2 red. 200: 1 hard winter, lToi: 2 hard winter, 173; 1 northern spring-, 166. CORN No. 2 white. (old 73; 4 whlta S6Hrit; 2 yellow, old, 88; 3 yellow. 7374. OATS No. 1 white. 47 -4fi49Vi; 3 whit. 47 3-4-8 434; a wnite, 474SS; 4 white. 46.

Family Theatre Michigan Avenue INDIANA HARBOR LAST TIMES TONIGHT "Romance" No Children Admitted

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Studio Re-Opened The Art Studio formerly conducted by E. Buchstaber is now under the personal supervision of Mrs. Bertha Buchstaler .i-H t co d', of experienced artists. Everything that pertains to Photography. Special attention given to enlarging and framing, Buchstaber Studio 3452 GUTHRIE STREET INDIANA HARBOR TEL 397W

THE LATEST JANUARY COLUMBIA RECORDS Now on Sale AT Barker Furniture Store 3415-17-13 MICHIGAN AVE. INDIANA HARBOR