Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 170, Hammond, Lake County, 7 January 1921 — Page 1

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OWS AMAZINGL 1 THB WEiTHEB FOR I.DIAA Cloudy and colder tonight probably rain In eitrrme fcontb portion i Saturday fair, colder In East and South portions. ONE OF THE Oa rtret and newsstands, 30 par oopy. X)ellverxl by carrier In Hammond antl Wert Humuond, Ttreo Cents VOL. XIV. XO. 170. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA r

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Communism Increase In t Britain, Relief Schemes So Far Fail BT WILLIAM L. MALLABAR f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I4 N. SE81CE LONDON", Jan. 7. The m ensure of unemployment in Great Britain is growing at an alarming rate. Mora than 700.000 unemployed are rgisterd with the government, but -according to an authentic estimate today, the number actually exceeds 1. "00. 000 Tna great army of unemployed hs been increased by 100,000 in the parst fortnight. Precautionary measures are hrelng taken to cope with rioting, especially in London where the leaders are .again .threatening to march upon the premier's residence and parliament build, ing. Among the Bolshevik sympathizers a.-1 some who go so far as to elajm that leaders cf the unemployed are secretly working cut plans for a revolution. .They are counting on support from the Eritish troops. A great part -.f the army garrisoning England a', this time is made up of boys and men -ho had enlisted because they could not get work after the war. The unemployed are organized and have efficient leaders. The Norwich Board of Guardians 's increasing the tax rate to the maximum. It was openly stated tlat the board was forced to this action to re lieve the unemployment situation because leaders of the idle workers were threatening direct action and looting. The chief of pollca warned the board that he would not be able to control the situation if fighting broke out. All of the British government an.i permanent schemes cf relief have failed ". far. In the meanwhile the . of the Federation of I'nemare tightening their organizaCommuniats have been making -.n effort to manipulate the dissatisfaction into channels of revolution and eem to have met with considerable sympathy In some quarters. A probe of the outbreak at Islington on Monday when the unemployed attempted to storm the library from which they had previously been ejected, revealed that some groups of malcontents had been transported from Acton with trop-lika precision. Acten is the headquarters of the organization of the unemployed. Newspapers report that leaders of the unemployed in the East End, tlv .district where the working classes and tot live, are threatenening to swoop riown on West End shops and loot :thein if the police adopt extreme measures in dealing with the unemployment demonstrations. The West I'.nd is the seat of the richest and inrst fashionably stores in London. The fear that the unemployed could 'hope for support from a part of th? arm in tha-event of a general uprising is small and fears of such a. contingency are generally discounted. Howrver even the suggestion of such a thing is a significant exposition of the prevailing temper. Co-ordinately with the bleait Industrial outlook, tho British-Russian trade negotiations seem to have rcach;cd a deadlock. The leaders of labor had hoped for Industrial assistance jhroug ha trade agreement with Russia for It would supply large orders ,fcr British factories and give work to ,tn of thousands now Idle. Furthermore Sir Robert Home's ('.heme for financing trade with Central Eurore seems to have struck a snag. The slump in the domestic industrlat situation is strikingly emphasized by t lie November railway returns which show a falling off of 5,000,000 pounds sterling. From every angle the situation grows worse steadily. TWO DIE III (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) AUBURN, Ind.. Jan. 7. Detectives from Fort Wayne and DeKalb county authorities today who were making it e&rching- Investigation Into the mysterious explosion which wrecked tha home of G. W. Sheffer, nationally known fanscy stock raiser, causing the deaths of Sober Sheffer, 6, and Martha Sheffer, 11. son and daughter of the stock man. Shelter's wife Is suffering serious injuries and Sheffer was less seriously hourt in the collapse of the house, Nie Shecer, half brother of the stock man, ts held pending investigation. He is aid to have quarreled with Sheffer ver a piece of land. The theory ts advanced that a heavy charge of powder wrecked the house. CHICAGO. Thomas, for '. the Chicago raiiroad and Jan. 6. Benjamin 0 years president of & Western Indiana Ion? prominent in transportation affairs of this section, died today at his home here. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Thomas had teen 111 for a number of months and his death wa not unex- , pelted.

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Legislature Invited to Come Here Scions to Have Opportunity of Seeing Cities in Calumet Region by w. h. bi.odgett. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Jan. T. Tae Lake county delegat ions in the house and the senate with the Chambers of Commerce of Gary, Whiting. Hammond and East Chicago have cxlendcJ an invitation to the members and employes of both houses to visit the Calumet region as the guest of ths people of that district. It is the intention to carry the visitors on a special train and take them to every part of the district, entertain them at each city and in every way give them an opportunity to see the industrial situation in that locality. "The Calumet region is tiie mon wonderful of its kind in the United States," said Howard Hay, of Gary, who is one of the persons Interested in the proposed visit, "and very few of the members of either house except those who live in the north part of the state have any realization of what our district really is. We want them,

to see our great factories and understand our great opportunities and we wish to give them a better idea of the Calumet region than they have gained through reading the papers. Thus they will see how Lake county adds to the wealth of th state and how much taxable property the county has. It Is our intention to have a special train and we hope to take the members and employes as soon as they can get away from busines, which we hope will be n the early rart of the session.'' SUES WESTERN Nieulaa PaJasan cf Indiana Harbor who has been trying for a long time to get back J2.000 which he gave the Western Union Telegraph, Co., for transmission to Roumania, has now resorted to the. federal court. This morning his attorneys, Ibach, Gavit, Stkison & Gavit, filed a complaint in six paragraphs with CharierSurprise deputy clerk of the U. S. District court at Hammond. The defendants are the United States of America. Albert S. Burleson, postmaster general and the Western Union Telegraph Compajiy. l'alasan first brought suit against the telegraph company, but the corporation demurred, saying that at tho time in question the telegraph lines were under the control of the U. S. government with Mr. Burleson In charge. He has now filed & new suit which covers every thing. On July 2, 1913, while the telegraph was still under government control, Palasan delivered $2,000 to the office at Indiana Harbor with Instructions to transmit It to the Banca Nationa.ll at Bucharest, Roumania. in U. S. currency. It was not until three months later that the delivery was mad and then ths company desired to pay the obligation in Roumanian currency which had depreciated fifty per cent since the order was placed at Indiana Harbor. This wa.s refused. Sinca then tha government has relinquished control of the telegTaph lines, but no provision was made for carrying out the contract entered into with Falasan. The plaintiff asks Judgement for $3,500. M. B. MAN AT CONVENTION David M'.IgramJt proprietor of threw M. B. Boot Shop on Hohman street, Hammond, leaves tomorrow evening for Milwaukee to attend a convention of retail shoe dealers. It 1? ixpected that 30,000 dealers will be present at the sessions which will be held next week. From there he will to to Cincinnati and other points farther each, where he will investigate the progress, which is being made on certain large, orders of shoes, which are being manufactured In a variety of rw styles for the Hammond store. He will be gone a week or ten days and expects to have some Important announcements for the public on his return. SETTLEMENT WITH MONON EFFECTED Attorney W. J. McAleer of Hammond, representing relatives of the three victims of the Water Valley railroad crossing accident, which occurred last summer, announces that a settlement of damages has been effected with the Monon railroad officials by which the company pays a total of $o.50. In the accident, which occurred near Shelby, Mrs. Nellie Ahlgrim, who was driving the automobile, her child and a child of Neil Sirois, were killed. Another child. Ruby Siroij, was injured. KENTUCKY EDITOR IS SERIOUSLY ILL GALVESTON. Te:., Jan. 7. Co!. Henry Watterson, editor emeritus of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is sericusiy 1U at a local hotel

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FOR PROGRESS HERE IN 1921 With a car behind them winch han witnessed many public improvements! : in spite of Ingh prices and unsettled ' conditions. tjle Hammoml Board of Public Works has mapped out an ex- ; tensive program of improvements for I the coining year. ; Members of thc board believe that by the time thc season for public works ; opens again costs will have become stabilized so that contractors will riot ' s.liovv the reticence which they did la-' I year in bidding on Jobs. Uf course thc bis j"b ahead of the city is the iinprni ement of the city's water department. This work must be started as soon as possible in ordrr i to meet the cris.is of a water shortage wnich impends. This will Include thbuilding of a new pumping station, centrally located, tho tunneling of water from the lake to the plant and the construction of a modern Alteration plant. The proposed deep peirer intercepting all rf the sewers wheh n"iv emptv into th Grand Calumt river, a seu -nge pumping station and a deep sewer on Conkey ave.. nre anion? the problems lo be tackled In this department. The- pedestrian subway, under ''fc raiir-'ad tracks on State St., for v.h'irhj already been mted-; has been undr consideration f. r sone tims and will be taken up i-fro in providing no legislation is passed by the general assembly for the clevaton of ratlroa 1 tracks in second class cities. Welfare stations nre contemplated part of the subway plan, hut even if the subway Is not constructed, these rest room will be installed in downtown locations. Street mprovements proposed for this year form an important part of the board's proKTam. Here are some of the improvements which ill he att?;mpted Paving State street. from Morton Court to State Line street. Paving the east half of State Line street from riummcr avenue to Standard avenue. Paving Oakley aenue from Ttate street south to Douglas street. Paving Russell street from Oakley avenu t State Line stret. Paving Sibley street from Calumet avenue to Columbia avenue. Paving Plummer avenue from Oaklev avenue te Calumet avenue .completing the concrete highway from the warehouses of the west part of town. Paving Columbia avenue from Highland street to Kenwood avenue. Paving Truman hlvd. from Hohman street to Calumet avenue. Paving Gcstlin street from State Line to jast city limits. Paving Chicago avenun from Sheffield avenue to east city limits. Widening Sohl street from riummer avenue north to Johnson street. E INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 Tho 'consumers' ttrike" against high prices, due to "an unwise, campaign promulgated b ythe government to persuade the public not to buy," and "unwise prosecution by the department of justice of retailers charged with profiteering." is responsible for the "Industrial panic' confronting the country, John P. Wood, of Philadelphia, spokesman for the National Association of Wool Assocation. declared before the senate finance committee today, when It resumed hearing on the omnibus tariff bill passed by the house recently. ID I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SFR'.ICEl SOUTH BEND. Ind., Jan. 7. The body of an unidentified man believed to be Anthony Stafilaris, of Brooklyn. N. T., was found here la'e last night near the tracks of the Lake Shore railroad. The only clues to the man's identity were a notebook in which the name of Anthony Stafllarls appeared many times and a match-box bearing tho name of a Gary, Ind.. merchant. He appeared to be of Jewish nationality, about thirty years old, was wearing a dark brown suit, gray flannel shirt and dark tan shoes, a deep gash in his forehead led police to believe he had been struck by a passing train. CUT ARMY TO 175,000 t STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE1 MARION, Ohio, Jan. 7. It is Senator Harding's intention that the enlisted forces of the United Prates army be cut to 175.000 men immediately and further reduced to 15n.000 within the r.fxt fiscal year, according to Representative Julius Kalin. wiio conferred with the pre.",dent-elect today. "Senator Harding knows that the roillenium has not come," said Mr. Kahn. "He realizes that this nation has to move so as to defend the rights of its citizens, but he is determiner! that waste must stop at once. He. wants a sensible military establish ment."

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L FOR CHARLES QUiGLEY Ind. Harbor Plans to Honor Memory of American Boy Who Died in France Tiie body of Private Charles Quigley, ton of George E. Quigley of 3442 Common vvealt havenue, Indiana Harbor, who was killed in - action in France, July 1?. 1918, is due to arrive, at Indiana Harbor tomorrow, according to a telegram received by his fathe this morning. CIIAKLKS QllGLEV. Private Quigley'a body is the first of returned soldier dead to arrive at Indiana Harbor and a big ceremony planned. American Legion members from East Chicago, Indiana Harbor. Whiting apd from other pojnts in Lake county will participate in the ceremony. Police from the Harbor and East Chicago station will act as a per cial escort. Upon the arrival of the body at New Tork Central Static, it will be met by hla former comrades and from there conveyed to the undertaking parlors of Burns & McGuan who will hAve charge of the body. Private Quigley before enlisting was employed in the open hearth department of the Inland Steel Company and when war was declared, although not of age, secured hie parents consent after much persuasion and was one of the first members to Join Company L. 151st Indiana Infantry, enlisting tn May, 1317. He went to France wltn this company, btt upon arrival there was transfered to Conwiany C, 28th infantry. Private Quigley was in action on three different fronts and in the battle of the Marne. received wounds which later caused his death. He is survived by four brothers, James, Robert and Myr! Quigley at home. Albert tl. Quigley of Millers Station and three sisters. Miss Ida Quigley, Mrs. Lena Morris of Pittsburgh, Pa., . and Mrs. Annie Jordan of Gary. ENDS LIFE IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) AVICHITA. KAXS.. Jan. 7 Slowly dying from terrible injuries and pinned under his wrecked automobile on a lonely highway near here early today, Joseph B. Nichols, member of the Wichita board of trade, and wealthy business man, committed suicide. Nichols fired a shot into hi3 head to end his misery. His body was found by a passing motorist. He had left his home on a business trip. His machine apparently skidded and overturned. In the crash, his left arm and leg were crushed and his sldo mangled. With his right arm hedrew a revolver from a door pocket and shot himself. KOVACHS ENTER WHOLESALE FIELD Kovach Bros., who operate a gent's furnishings store on Hohman street, in Hammond and two stores in East Chicago, have entered the wholesale field of men's wear., with headquarters in Chicago. They have mapped out a large territory that will be covered by expVt salesmen, and will supply their local stores from their' own wholesale house. This means, so says Mr. Kovach, that they will be in a better position in their local houses to give values such as the great majority seek, especially as this readjustment t;me. when prices speak with authority as they never did in the past. Associated .with the Kovach boys is,' Mr. Miller and Mr. valentine, twa gonial fellows, who have made innumerable friends in and about Hammond, and whose faces are very familiar to the trading public. WILL CUT OUT . . 1921 CROP LEXINGTON. Ky.. Jan. 7. Tobacco I -.-rowers of Kentucky, at a meeting here today, voted to cut out the ?2i ti bai co crop and to suspend all sales cf the U'20 crop until May. Thirty-two counties approved the proposal to eliminate the 1921 crop v hile three counties voted against itThe meeting was a stormy one and

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L 1 With fitting military ceremonies thc i body of Private Edward Laracn, who j d,ed in France, will be iaid in its last resting place Sunday afternoon. The body arrived in Hammond this morn.ng and was at once taken to the home t" the parents .Mr. and Mis. Peter Lara. n. 10S4 Garfield avenue, Hammond. Lanen is the first of Hammond's soldiers, who died on foreign fields to be returned home for burial and arrangements are being made for one of the largest funerals ever held in Hammond. He was one of the hundreds of Hammond boys who unlisted at the entry of the I'nited States into the war. He entered the service April 13, 1917. end went overseas with Battery C of fie Twelfth Field Artillery of the Second Division. Iarsen was in action shortly after reaching France. His battery laid down he barrage for the marines at Chateau-Thierry and was thereafter in the hottest of the fighting until the end of thc war. When the last grand drive was under way Edward was taken ill with pneumonia and died in the hospital at Limoges. France, Oct. 16, isis. The funeral will be held from Ali Sr.ints church on SMbley street. Sunday afternoon at 1:110 o'clock. The procession will start from the home or. Gartitld street at 1 o'clock, moving west on Conkey avenue to Hohman street, north on Hohman street, to State street, east on State street, to Oakley street, to the church. In the line, will be a large escort of ex-service men, delegations of police, city officials, members of fraternal societies and friends of the deceased. Following the services at the chjrch the body will be taken to Mt. Olivet cemetery vjhicago for burial. The military rites will be given by a firing quad of ex-service men. Fail bearers will be selected from comrades :f Larsen the majority of whom served n the came battery with him. There will be a. meeting of ex-serv-ire men this evening at S o'clock at the American Legion club rooms on .-tate street. It is expected that about 1.100 veterans will attend. EX-SBRVICE ME1V ATTE.NTIOX! A meeting of ex-service men will be held this evening at 8 p. m., at American Legion club rooniF, when final arrangements for the funeral of Private Edward Yarsen, wil) be completed. All ex-service men are requested to attend. A great many ex-soldiers feel tlJt they must be members of the American Legion in order to attend this meeting, such is not the case, this is a meeting pure and simple of every nan who served this country and it is possible the new bonus bill will b discussed at this meeting. PASSES AWAY The first death caused by small-pox was reported to the board of health yesterday afternoon was that of Joseph Hutt, 718 151st street. Mr. Hutt had becD sick only two weeks. His case was among those whom many claimed to have been chicken-pox. Dr. J. A. Teegarden, secretary of the board of health, plans to take drastic action among those who have been obstructing the work of the health board, and it is rumored that charges will be made against several prominent men who have by word and deed, advised many not to be vaccinated, while a number of others have circulated a report that what the health authorities say is small-pox is only chicken-pox. , Antl-Yarrlnnttonlst Sought. Several clues are now being run down, which it is believed will soon result in the arrest of the person or persons who have been circulating pamphlets throughout East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, advising parents not to let the local doctors vaccinate their children. During the past 24 hours, ending at noon today, 12 new cases of emall-pox were reported by the doctors who have been making a house to house canvass. Some of these cases are only in a mild form, while man v others are considered serious. Pictures Taken. In the afternoon of yesterday, health authorities together with a committee representing the citizens of the restricted district, visited number ?f homes to investigate as to whether small-pox really existed, and were very much surprised at the number of cases that really were serious. Through the courtesy of a number of the patients, pictures were taken showing their condition. These plltures will be shown in tho different theaters and newspapers. MARRIED IN IOWA Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Smith. 9 Warren street, stating that their son. Robert S. Smith, Jr., was married to Miss Celeste Lamb at Fort Madison, la., Tuesday last, at the First Presbyterian church in that city. The couple are in Chicago on their honeymoon. CONTINUES TO IMPROVE BALTIMORE, Md.. Jan. 7. The condition of Cardinal Gibbons, who has been ill for nearly four weeks, is reported today to show much improvement. For the first time since he was

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5mNEWS FLASHES f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICL1 IXDLANAPOLIS, LVD., Jan. 7 Thc smallest ncmber of empi r es connected with the senate in recent years was selected today by the so-called "plunder" committee of the upper house of the legislature. Twenty employes, instead of the forty-five allowed by law, were picked. They include: Registry Clerk. Glen Kimball, Marion; Endorshlng Clerk, Jennie Aronson, Gary; Minute Clerk, Harry Callighan, Wabash; Door-keeper, 'Asa Elliott, Gary, (formerly of Jonesboro). BTXXiXtETXIT I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LITTLE ROCTC, ARK., Jan. 7 -Eght persons lost their lives in a fire originating in a rooming house in the downtown section of England, Ark., early today. Thc blaze spread rapidly and before it was under control had destroyed a large department store, two meat markets, a drug store and a number of smaller business buildings, besides the rooming house. BUXX.ZTrW INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) OKMULGEE, OKLA., Jan. 7 One bandit was killed and another seriously injured in a running tgun battle between the bandits and the sheriff's posse near Holdenvillc today. Tho posse tracked down the bandits with bloodhounds after they had wounded two men at Calvin, Okla., during an attempted hold-up. The wounded bandit was captured. The hold-up victim. J. A. Williams and F. W. Reejc, are seriously wounded. BULL.! TICK INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LANCASTER. PA., Jan. 7 The Pennsylvania Iron and Steel Corporation, an Illinois concern, with a plant here, was today placed in the hands of a receiver after a strike lasting six months nnd r falling market. Tha assets are given as $385,000 and liabilities as $547,000. The plant here wl! be sold. Fifieldis Republican Floor Leader Crown Point Man Chairman of Ways and Means Committee INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Jan. 7. Assignment of members of the House of Representatives to the committees wfth w hich they will serve during the session of tho legislature is the task today confronting Speaker John F. McClure, of Anderson. Speaker M:Clure was to return to his home after the legislature adjourns this morning and Is expected to announce his house committees on Monday. Repv. Otto G. Fifield, of Crown Point, is slated to become republican floor leader of the house, Speaker McClure announced. Fifield will be named chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, which carries with it the appointment as floor leader. He was a member of tha legislative visiting committee, which inspected state Institutions. Gov.-clect McCray has gone to hla home in Kcntland, lie will return with his family tomorrow to prepare for thc inauguration on Monday. MAIL ROBBERY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SLR V ICE NEW YORK. Jan. 7. A mysterious train robbery in which a number of United States mail bags were rifled on train No. 203, bound from New York to Philadelphia, last night, was reported to tha Pennsylvania railroad by tha station master of Broad street station, Philadelphia, today. The mail bags were rifled and their contents tolen. No estimate is yet available of the value of the stolen goods, but it is believed that registered mail containing checks and money orders, was included in the loot. The Philadelphia station master reported at 4 o'clock this morning that when the mail clerk tried to unlock each end of car No. 6650 of Train No. S03 upon its arrival in Philadelphia he found the doors had been opened and the mail-bags piled against the roof. Upon opening the front end of the car he found the seals of the begs were broken and letters and packages lay scattered on the floor. He could not say whether any mail bags wcri missing. An Investigation, was immediately instituted by the railroad s special po. lice. Inquiries were made along the route of the train, especially at stations where it had stopped, with ascertaining whether any mail bags had been thrown out of the car. No evidence has yet been found that thia was dons.

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Engage in it BT GEORGE U. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I SLRvrf WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Facing a condition of affaire in which the tlli-'it whiskey business is r how n to l o onof the biggest businesses ;n America both from point of capital invested and the number of men engaged in it, prohibition officials frankly admitted today that the country is not d;y, that it wont be dry for at la-t a generation, and that the only hope of making it dry now ilea in a crystallization of public senium-n.t behln i existing law. The enforcement people have gon' Just about as tar as they can go. o -.,)-gress is cutting down their appropriations, along with the general sla;hi; and even a curtailment of the pn joi' forces may be necessary. Meanwhiiimillions of dollars continued to bn turned over in this biggest unrecognised business and thousands of men continue to engage in it. Prohibition officials, among tl-.r-ni John F. Kramer, the prohibition commissioner, see one hope the crystallization of public sentiment in favor of law observance and enfori ement. T.iiJ crystallization, they bulieve, la coming. They point out that in severa'. large cities there have recently appeared in the newspaper huge advertisements paid for by "non-drys'' urging respect for law. A condition of affairs in whieh officials who are sworn to enforce th la-.v now frankly disregard it. v ill not ho permitted to continue, they beljevo. The United States is not dry and w e will be dead and gone before it will In dry," bald Kramer today in the frar.lvest explanation of exis'.ir.g conditions that he has yet attempted. Liquor, like the poor, I believe, we will always have with us. A prohibition law of itself will not make this country dry in anything except theory. Public sentiment must be behind it i make it effective. We are doing all we can now and hoping for the b. it. "I believe that sentiment is crystallizing. I believe that this nation i dry forever, in that the prohibit). ( law never will be erased fr. ri tinstatute books. Neither do I think there is a possibility ef a light wines and beer amendment." MANDEL FILES SOIT IN LAKE SPECIAL TO THt TIVES CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 7. Su" for $25,000 damages was filed today in the circuit couq by Meyer Mand'l, a Hammond merchant, against the 11. W. it E. C. street railway company. i On Sunday, October ;t, 1920, Mandel was driving his car to Ciiir-i-go. On Indianapolis boulevard in t'.' north part of Hammond he was dr -ltS on the street car tracks as a c v. approached from the west. H tri-.i to turn to the side of the street i ii the wheels of the machine would n ? climb over the rails. He says he tried to signal the in -torman of the street car to stop t )' that the latter paid no attention him. The street car hit Ihe automobile, throwing Mandel to the pave ment and causing injuries w ht'-h' nearly resulted fatally. T.e was refined to the hospital for S'-vrral week". The suit here was filed hy Mr. Mandel' attorneys McAletr, Dorscy A. Gillr'.t EXPLOSIONS III UTILITY PLANT IE INTERNATIONAL NW3 SfRVKEl MUNCIE, Ind.. Jan 7. A series '' explosions of uncertain origin in tv.e plant of tha Indiana General Srrv;ee company here today resulted in lr.Jury to several workmen, two of whom nsn;die. One man, whom rescuers wer unable to reach, waa reported to bo i a deep pit. Thc plant supplies current for electric light and power t Muncle. Marion, Eaton. Haitfort Cty. Alexandria. Elwood and smaller town and cities where factories today were compelled to close and some bus:ns houses euspended operations w'n.-ji power failed. EXPLOSION AT EAST ALTON ALTON, 111 . Jan. 7. Or.e man is reported dead nd another injured In a:, explosion which blew- to piece? the "wheel" houy of the Eimtable Po-' der company at East Alton, near hc: today. Officials of the j.iant refund to give any information. The sho k was felt for miles around an.i in E iwardsville, 13 miles distant. T'eo;le thought it was an earthquake. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS Henceforth, all display advertising; copy for publication must be in THE TIMES office not later than 11:30 A. M. the day before publication, with a b"mit of 77 inches if brought in at that notice. Three-quarter and full-page ads must be in 48 hours before publication.

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