Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 217, Hammond, Lake County, 3 March 1921 — Page 1
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il WASTE ORE liE Berlin Says, "German Will Cannot Be Shaken". tBILLCTIV.) WEUMN. March 3 -Instead of O"" y mlm pprchendtng h no.ttton ,e arc convinced that the British and T renrh have complete mlsapprehenalon r their own .Itaation." aald Theodore vtolff. editor of the Berlin Tngeblatt. -The nlllea will learn what It nean to lo.e tbemaclrc In IUulon. The l.eautifal VeraaUlea daya are gone for- . Cheeky Interference tills time ill not auccced In shaking Germany will. We hae been threatened with thumbscrew met hods 1K '7 BBVe lust tbelr effect." KY SARI'S C. REEVES 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT !. N. SERVICE LONDON. Marcn o. An auieu m- . atum was served upon the Germans t day that they must present more -ui table proposals on indemnity before next Menda or allied troops wih ,1vwt into Germany, it was official)v announced by the French delegation to the indemnity conference this afternoon. If tho Germans fail to meet the a.-l-.ed Indemnity demands or to tender .-ounter-proposala more satisfactory than those presented on Tuesday tVe allies will put into effect the following compulsory measure. t. Occupy DaiJburg-, Kuhrport and lusseldorf in the German coal and industrial district jr. West Prussia. . Each of th; allies will rut a tar cn German exports. 3. A ine of customs stations wlil established by the allies along trie riiiine. When tha indemnity conference opened at St. James Palace at noon Premier Lloyd George immediately crave the allied' reply to the German .-ountcr-propoaals of Tuesday, rejectir.g them, it iv.is understood that Premier Briand. of France, and Count rforza, Italian foreign minister, would fellow the Brltisn premier outlining the positions taken by France and Italy. The Germans were bluntly informed that the allies Jo not desire to waste any more time. The Germans were accused of vexatious evasion :t the peaw treaty. They were told that they had not paJ the monsy required of them; that thy had nut supplied the coal in quantities specified by the Spa protocol and that they had not brought their war criminals to trial. "In view of the Germans' disregard of the Paris decision the allies have decided that the extension of time tn which the Germans must pay, from 30 years to 40 years, will not now operate." the French commique said. M. Barthau. the French minister of war, left for Paris during tne day and it was believed that his sudden return was In connection with French mili tary plans. The crowds about Et. James palace itood silent as four motor cars bearing the German delegates drove up for tho meeting. Dr. Walter Simons, the German foreign minister, and head of the German delegation, was pale and agitated. When Premier Lloyd George and Marshal Foch arrived the crowd broke into cheers. Dr. Simons consented to pose for a photograph. As lie stood before tho camera men he w?j asked what courje Germany would take. Another of th German delegatus, replying for the foreign minister said that no new pro jjosals had been drawn up. "We can do no more than we have," said this delegate. It was reported that the Germans had arranged to leave London within 38 hours. The management of the Savoy hotel, where the Germans have been stopping, said that he had been notified by the German delegates that thy would depart some time tomorrow. INQUEST RESULTS IN . MOTHER'S ACQUITTAL ;SPECtAL TO THE TIMIS I CROWN FOINT, Ind., March 3. Tin coroner's inquc3t ever the body of th? baby born o Sophia Sonncnberg recently was neld 'his week and the verdict of the coroner was that the baby died from natural causes probabiy brought on by exposure. And she wis acquitted. It is taid that she will bj called before th grand jury to tell her story but it is the opinion tnat no charges will oe brought against her. In the light of .-.11 that has happened much sympathy is expressed for her by the charitably inctim d people who feel (hat !he has suffered enough. No one is able to Judge the circumstances and the ago.iy which the unfortunate girl suffered. All alone in her hour of trial is punishment enough. OWN YOUR HOME I have some excellent vacant lots ) Hammond, Whiting and Indiana Harbor. I can build a few bungalows -,o sell for Ij'I.O" eown and 1 50.no p..r month. -Triflers need not apply. I want to get in touch with familieTho earnestly (iciilre to own ti.iir homes. Price aoout 16.000. Write to A-X, care The rimes. --!
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Did You Hear That I . ATT Y. W. J. Whinery who h?s been, in Washington, I). C, cn legal business , for a, feu- days, has returned home. 1 THE James Norrises of Kensscbicr, i have returned tliitlicr after a .visit with Hammond relative". I, t. BLTZ and Carl Kaufman, who have been sojourning at Hot Springs, arc expected home this week. A number of Hammond people motored to Porttr to see the terrible train wreck, there -on Morn!;;'. THE cheel;-to-cheek. heart-to-heart stuff has been barred at Wabash college J dances but the lip-to-lip rtuff still goes, i HOWARD OESCHEIDLER is groins to Indianapolis ever the week-end I'or a Utile relaxation, whatever that is. f WALTER LAMBORN ar.d son Herbert, are learning: how to cook this week while Mrs. L. is visiting relatives in Illinois. DR. CHARLES LEESON, pastor oft the South Side M. E. church will move Into the new Methodist parsonage in Hyde Park tomorrow. SO rnnnv ronI are calling UD THE ! Times to report seeing robins that the. weather man probably checked it by sending a cold wave for a few days. HERMAN MEETEK of Highlands was in town today looking around to see if anybody wanted to go to a ball game with him. A story has been going the rounds that Capt. Emil Bunde was held up and robbed the other night but the Capt. Rays the "kiddcr" is at work. NESS IE HATDEN of Muncie, kept seven dogs and rive cats in her home. Her husband has just been granted a divorce therefore. THE only interest the Hammond baa. ket ball fans will have this year in the state and district tourneya la to 'read about them and we'll say that's tough luck. THE special committee which the city council named to investigate the dance hais of the. city ha asked for more time because of the lull in social events due to the Lenten season. HAMMOND'S new board of park commissioners remltred its first report to the city council Tuesday evening. It was the first time that many of the aldermen knew there was a park board. AN automobile belonging to E. Herbet had the front fender torn off last night t when a street car turning from Hohman to Sibley street, hooked it with one of the door steps which happened to be hanging down. EMIL NOVAK, well known in East Hammond, announces that he will be a candidate for the nomination for alderman on the republican ticket from the Sixth Ward. That ward is the hangout of Sam Skufakiss, present alderman. "DICK" MARK, of the Hammond Reauj r.t -- 3 vivijvu si-r . v i a Business this week ana in nis aosence the duties of secretary are being attended to by Miss Katherinc McHie. JAMES HARDEN, a well known Valparaiso citizen, remarked that it was a lucky thing for him that he was not in the big Porter wreck and keeled over dead. Heart failure. HARRY BLANKENBURG, 600 Summer street, should be avoided by holdups. Laet night a man followed him and his wife home and then ran between the houses. Harry took a shot at b-lm but missed. "WILLIAM FLANETA who was sent to the penal farm from Hammond to serve 183 days and a fine of $500 for filing to support his children is said to have escaped and police are watching for him. RICHARD JANSEN, member of the Hammond High School football team, who has been ill 50 long. Is reported to bo gaining strength at St. Margaret's hospital and his friends rejoice in his conv-alescense. A report was circulated that one of Crown Point's banks,, had been robbed yesterday and that the. bandits were headed towards Kouts. The citizens there formed a posse and later heard the story was a canard. THE sport man on the Rensselaer Republican picks Rensselaer to defeat Emerson of Gary, Brook to beat East Chicago, Ivowel! to beat Valparaiso, Frocbel to beat Crown Toint and Whiting to win the basket ball tourney at Gary. GUS B. BOWDEN, who lives at the Avalon Hotel, created a scene in the alley at the rear of the Orpheum theatre last night by beating up his wife. He was arrested on a warrant later and released on bond. He will be tried tomorrow. T" W. E. Nichols between bites at the (.liamlier of Commerce luncheon today announced that he h.-:d found buttermilk a sure cure for coiic in babies. HIr youngster is thirteen njonths old. Doc E. M. Shanklin. who has been through the fight several times, insisting that there is no sure cure. B. LEV IN E, Mleh'igjfti City dry goods merchant, was in the smoker of the Michigan Central train when the crash en me at Porter. He was shaken up ar.d sustained several cuts. He was given a check 'for ?3 by tin New York Central to settle ail dania. Mr. Levlne turned the check over to the Michigan City chapter of the American Red Cros
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PLEADS FOR That the action of the Hammond city council in knocking out th plan for a recreation park aa a memorial to; tiie soldiers and sailors of tho late war is not to be the rtnal step in the matttr was decided today when tiie : Hammond . Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution urging tho com- i ntittee. which presented the petition to re-fii." it and pledging the support of tiie body. The action was taken at the noonday xincliron of the Chamber of Commerce after Frank O'ltourke, chairman of the committee, ,had explained the, action f the council. He reviewed the days during: the war when the boy.were accompanied to t.p railroad stations, and t iic arreat thintrs which tile people talked of do:r. for them when they came home a!'t-r the war. "I do not belit-ve tfiat the people of' Hammond have forgotten in such aj short time the debt of appreciation ! which they owe these boys and 1 do . not believe the action of the city coun-j cil re-presents the sentiment of the i majority of the citizens." said Mr. ! O'Rourke. "When w e presented the : petition we also Hied 'with.it a plan j which we suggested by which the park! would be made salf supporting and! would pay for Its bondr ju.-t as the lake front bath house is doing. In otiier words the park would not cost , the city of Hammond one cent and all! this talk about placing a debt of 150.-i 000 upon the tax payers was misrepre- j sentation." Mr. O'Rourke proposes to have his j committee circulate new petitions,! which will have fo many signatures j that the council cannot ignore them.' He and many other cit'.rens. who have J disaussred the matter are opposed to having the matter go into the election! to be made a political Issue and the; subject for misrepresentation. They! believe that it lj the duty of Ham-! mond to put the project over and do it) this year. j Dr. John Van der Vrles of the TJ. S. Chamber of Commerce delivered an adtires today in behalf of , the plan to erect a Chamber of Commerce building at -Washington, .where national headquarters will be established. ThiA was suggested by William Howard Taft when president, as he believed that the president and congress should have source of information" and s-2g-getion representing a".! of the ness of the country, just as labor and the farmers are represented at Washington. He told of the steps, which have been taken and explained the benefits to the country at large of having senfible legislation for business in general instead of having laws made for the benefit of certain classes of business to the detriment of others, as has been frequently the case !n the past. Each Chamber of Commerce organization has been assessed proportionate ums to pay for thio bulldinsr. Hammond's quota was JSCf) of whl-h a small amount had already been pnM. After .some discussion it wrs decided to raise as much as possible todav and when the contributions were a'l in it wa-s found that the quota had been s-vbscrlbed. To cap It off. telegrams were received from P. W. Meyn snd A. Murray Turner at Palm Peach. Fla.. in which they wired their mibscriptions. IN SERIOUS TROUBLE CROWN POINT. Ind., March 3. Mithiss Gabriel, an alleged crook, claiming to be from Hammond, was apprehended by Marshall Fuller on Wednesday, between Hebron and Leroy, after having been notified by James Love of Leroy that he was trying to dispose of a car load of cm which he claimed he had to sell but which existed in nis mind only. Gabriel has been plying his corn game among the farmers since last fall, but none of the corn has ever been delivered. Last year Ernest Hixon of this city gave him $50 on deposit for a car of corn but Hixon has never seen thi corn, th-j $50 nor Garblel since that day. He disposed of a car to the Boone Grove (levator people today and many farmers have ben fleeced lately by the corn game. Gabriel claimed to be a farmer. He is now in the county j Jail. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WIRE MEN Because of a serious shortage of operators the Western Union Telegraph company has established a school in its Hammond office for the training of operators. J. H. Cline, who is the manager of the Western Union here will have charge of the instruction department and is now organizing large day classes for both men and women. The tuition is absolutely free and the time required to become proficient is six weeks to three months. Tt is said good salaries will be paid to tho-te who complete the courses and jobs are guaranteed. Strange Sign Greets University Students EVANSTON, Iil. "Women's Christian Temperance Union, no beer, no work; we want whiskey." This sign on the highest gable of the University Hall greeted early clasjfoers :t Northwestern University. The authorities believe the sign was hung by Initiates of one of the college fratcr lilties.
MEMORIAL
HAMMOND MAN
REAL NEWS SERVICE
Once again the great superiority of The Times over the Chicago evening newspapers in the matter of news service was shown last night in its story of the death of Champ Clark. Champ Clark died about two o'clock eastern time or one o'clock our time, yet Chicago evening papers distributed here in homes between five and six carried stories of his illness but not of his death. Every edition of The Times yesterday afternoon and evening carried the death story. The five o'clock and evening editions from Chicago said nothing about it. Why not subscribe for a paper that gives you the latent news instead of an evening paper that goes to press at noon and is labelled five o'clock? Boarder Commits Suicide Woman Makes Ghastly; Find in Attic of Her Home When Mrs. Al-c Weigosk, Z'Z6 West Tenth place, Gary, went to an attic room to look for some extra bedding yesterday noon, she made a ghastly find. As she was g 'r.g along a clothtalinc on which s'n had placed some extra bedding she came across the dead body of a boarder, Joe Matuszak, who had committted suicide by hang'ni himself with the clothesline. Mrs. Wiegosk'a screams attracted the attention of the neighbors who hurried to her assistance thinking some harm had hefaI1?n her. Almost frantic she pointod to the Auspendeo body. Neighbors then informed t.o poiico who cut tfawrrthe body. The dead man was an employe of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company and has betn missing for several days. Sunday he told Mrs. Welgosi; that he was leaving for Chicago to make arrangements to bring his wife and children from the old country. That was the last she had seen htm until she discovered the body. According to sn investigation Matuszak was a heavy drinker and according to statements made by a neighbor he had not seen him In a sober mood for a long time. It is believed that he became despondent over drinking. lie Med a noose in the clothesline and m a sitting posturo strangled to death. The body was removed to the S. & S. Undertaking establishment. M. C. DICK SHOOTS La Vera Cross Taken to Hospital With a Shat- j tered Ankle I With both bones of his left ankla shattered by a revolver bullet fired at ; him as he was climbing aboard c M:chigan Central at Kensington, 111., j last night, La Vern Cross, a young man v. ho says his home is at 012 W Pearl street, Jackson, Mich., was taken from he train when It reached the Hammond station. Cross, who is twenty years ell anl un ex-soldier, says that he was out of wt rk and money and had decided rr beat his way from Chicago t nis 1'i'itie at Jackson, Mich. Witi his friend, Lloyd Farley who a'so Ih-'-i at Jeckson. he had waited near ine Kens'ngton station until the tadsf-rHfr train was aoout to pull out. V. ten the train arted tho men rati for the bagt.age cars Farley climbed up between the rc is and Cross was following when .-n- of the Michigan Central railroad p die-; v. i-i had been watching them, nr?d tw shots at him. One of the bullets struck him in the ankle but he managej to retain his hold on the car end mad? the trip to Hamond, suffer. n - everuciating pain. Word had been 5jnt .inca I that the! two men were aboard ar-J off! ii were ! woiting at the rtatlon ,v!. -,i i n train ! et rived. When it was to :..! t.!tj Cross had been injured, ho wu t.i'Kt-u , to St. Margaret's hospits'. l: A. A.; Young, the amending jnys'einn. taj; that both bones were jh.i tte! cl just' above the ankle nd tha"; rcc-jvi-ry v. :iV; bo slow, CALL CONFERENCE OF U. S. SHIPPERS CHICAGO. March 2. A general ..on-' frrence of representative or;--iiza- 1 tlons of shippers throughout thej United States wan called today to meet ' here March 14. The ca!l .was signed j by the American Farm Bureau fed-! eratlon, the National Livestock Ship- j pers league, the American National) Livestock as-sociatlon, the National Paving Brick Manufacturers assoc'.a- f tion, the Farmers National Grain Deal-, f.-s' association, the Fort Worth nd West Texas Chambers oT Commerce ', the Texas lnd-.)tr!a." Tra f So itasrue and , s. rutnber of sir.iiiav organizations togther with the attorney generals a'., Illinois. Iowa. Indiana. Michigan . Washington, Idaho and Nevada.
SOLDIER PA HANDLER
An Old Timer's Picture
Sis . - -' r r Here's anothe,- piclU'O of Hammond in lSSo which gives gjme i'3(: tiiLi changes which have taken pia-e in thirty-;igiit years. Yesterday's p'cture 8o :tu she business district arotsnd Slat? tin-1 Hohman streets. This utio is a g.nnpse of the city's mo-lost residence district. The houses sh '-in were iocat-.d -n the south side of State street, stalling Just around the corner from Hihmin. The first one shown was occripit.1 ti.i n by a family named Muhrus!'. The neatly painted and v. -rt puee with the sar on it was tii home, of P. W. Meyn, today one vl 11;t.imond's richest citizen.:. Two young-! te.rs are show-in standing in the street in front of the house. There is some dispute as to t'-.eir identity but t'r.3 majority of authorities lean to vhe belie fthat thej- arc Pill Newmuii mid Willie Klelh-gy. Y'ou know both of them. Next after t-is. Meyn home comes George Tung's p'ace; then C 'J. Smith's house back of the big trie. There is another house not shown belonging to Pete Gragido before th-3 large white house known as Mrs. Thompson's boarding house is reached. Next come Wi'liarn Goodman's houe: . then William Washington's IE CHICAGO, March 3. Sixteen railroad brotherhoods today issued what Is in effect a challenge to the United States railway labor board and authorized a strike of employes of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic railroad whose request to put Into effect a wage cut was recently declared to be a matter in which the board has no Jurisdiet ion, because of the financial ondition impo.v.d. Sanction of the A. B. & A., strike was telegraphed to tho road employes early today following an all night conference of the heads of the brotherhoods. The telegram dispatched to Atlanta, i ndorses a strike vote taken by the A. B. & A. employes, Jan. 2S, and becomes effective cn a date to be determined by local representatives of the organizations on the road ir: question. Coincident with the strike announcement testimony was offered before the railroad board today by F. W. Grosser, general organizer of the Brotherhood of Kailnoad Clerks', Freight Handlers and Station Employes, to show'that railroad employes in some ases have been discharged after testifying in railroad hearings. "Railroad employes in many cases have found that if they give information or testimony concerning the roads sooner or later they will be discharged,"' Grosser told the board. Grosser read from a paper quiting various instances of employes being discharged for giving information, but refused to give names. M. T. Whiter, spokesman for the. railroad, took exception to the reading, asking that it be substantiated by readUsg into the record of the hearing the- names of all men discharged in such manner. Grosser, under questioning, iaid he had been discharged from the Nickel Plate railroad, as he b"'.ieved. for giving out information concerning conditions. He promised to furnish the boarri specific examples and names of the discharged for giving' testimony. Pullman employes today requested from the board a ruling that they are under the national agreements adopted by the employes and the railroads under federal administration and that their wages and working conditions be governed accordingly. POLICE FIND DISORDERLY HOUSE Officers Carlson and Warner of the Hammond police, who now travel in plain clothes, paid an unexpected visit last night to the residence of" Charles ChappV. colored, at 574 Merrill avenue. They found an old fashioned disorderly ho'sse in full swing. Chappie was booked as keeper of the hoise and J'jiinm MeDaffy. Anna H ;.' v. a ri i cr.d Alberta Turner were booked k.--! 'ttn-at-r-. h'OT.-ar.l Young and frank .U.iiRSO?: v re arrested on tiie charge of frequenting a disorder!? house. Their cases ha t been set for heal ing tomorrow.
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1 - LI home and the ro.-f discernible neyotlu is the Torn llaniinond home. Morton court is betwi-en the Washington and Go idman imusen. The Wood it tho territory n the d!.taiee occupy .- known as .West Hammond. Not one of th'- ri-nider.ct- shewn ti the east of Mirl-:i court it. now standing. With th" erption of a brlek flat building the "ntirj stretch .a now filled with bus'n't s l.-.usrjt. The ' j board walks wis '.eh floated away every time it rnitipd, .!-. rows r-f -eds ar.ii the water M.mJi.ig in the butters at'.clearly shown in the original photograph. There u r t not a sewer in town then and it to' a hard fight t- f-'e-the first one tlrouglt because thos' opposed argued that it w.-uld dralr. all the ivater oui of their -.veils. State street v.-a then one of .'! best residence t'-eel s. There -w ere few homes on Sibley street, but 'hat j.vas considred a tJOr loeati. n because it was so far south. I'lummcr avenue, had ;t n'j'iibT of ,'ranic uusiness liuuit, and tiie residen .- s ef many of the foremen office men and other "white collar'' employes if the old HammonJ packing plant .vhich w-a.-s then just beginning to exnand. Tlicre were als-1 some residences and a 'few business houses north of the Michigan Central tracks. Sulsky New East Chicago Controller Mayor McCormack Gets Congratulations on His Appointment Mayor Leo M?Cormack of East Chicago is today reoiing the congratulations of citizens upon his appointment of John J. Sulsky c Indtana Harbor as Ea.-t Chicago's new cUy controller vice I. K. Keppa. resigned. He has been v.ie of the most active men in public circles for years. He is active in all societies and civic organizations. And is engaged in th : undertaking bus'ness. SS25 Cedar St., for the past six years. Mr. Suisky served as clerk in hJ criminal court In Chicago for four years and was chosen treasurer of the Republican Civic Central committee of East Chicago. He received his cduca-. tion in college i,i Detroit. Mich., and also the Armours Institute, Chicago Illitioi-!. HAD THE Bl ALL READY A gallon of colored moonshine, 11 dice and a bank hook. Those were thart!cie: found on the person of Brock Cable, colored, when lie was arrested by Officer Byel-.eh at Michigan avenue and Sohl street, Hammond, yesterday afternoon. The ban'? book showed only a small deposit. (,',-u'p probably had not had time to get his money making schemes in operation. (."able, who lives et the oods hotel on north Iloiiman street, wilt walking along Michigan aeme, trying to look unconcerned when Bj elicit spotted him. He was carrying a bund'.e in on arm and the eo; immediately becanv; suspicious. He asked Cabl what he had and Brock waj so frightened he nearly dropped it. Peeping through a hole in the newspaper which covered the bottle. Byel'ch could f tiie liquor. Cable was nrrested and later re, leased under $:;? bond. His case will come v.) for hearing tomorrow. J.J. DAVIS BY GEOKGK It. 1IOI.MUS STAFF CORRF.SPONDENT I N , SERVICE) WASHINGTON. March S. Presidentelect Hard'ng today closed his cabinet, as his special train rolled into Washington. The president-elect conlrmed the appointment of J. .T. Davis, of P nrisylvania and Illinois., as secretary of la.b o r. 'I have 'Virt.l . tda- to Mr. Davis an'' asked htr.i to he in V. ashinte-.i and I sb.-.'l a jjp.ilt. t ltm a e'eret ary of I;,'oor." the ;i-e: id -.-tit-elect suij "Mr. Davis is a' 'fry able man. I thij.k it is going to i. very fine apoo'fttment and one ti.at will find gri&t favor."
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' HAS PASSED i lobby Against It Not Developing Right Kind of Strength.
mi .m:ti. TIKI'S BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! lDtAVPOM. Intl., Mnrrli li. lf vole of HO to II lite nenne tudnj d houe bill repeflllna: lull lrti erew la and by oe rf 4 to 13 paed Itoune bill 3 rrenllne full i-l.-t'ng rrew law. Ilolmea apoWe for ImIV iteelnrlna; thai present do not pretext nreldenta and making point thnt ' though eltlen hae firemen otid tol on duly nil the time no nttcmpt lv;t ever be-n made to drlnntc tl.e Lumber eltlei -hall employ. Ilrown vood for bllln. Aejdl ot d nKitlnst BI I.M1TI. lMIIAXAPOMX, March 3 The Henley taennte bill, vthlrh nam a knock at the C roTii I'uiiit mnrrlngr mltl. rcquirlne health eerilllrntra before mairlnnre, failed to tnx in the "-''' Tursd.iy nftrrniHiii. It lnekrc tour voten of obtaluliiK the neeenry cor -ntltotionnl innJorKy. A. motiui. postpone the bill Indefinitely failed n atandina; vote, but VThen thr roll vra.--enllrd on the pTist:iae of the bill, (nentj-.tno tenutora voted for the bl and tiTC-ntJ-:o tarnlnst It. Six nena -lurs were abaont. The bill may com" up agaia. I Ml I.I.KT1. lmAroMi, Marrb 3. My a ot of SO to 4. the house Tuedny afternoon pnnaed the Ahla-ren bill hleb would mnke II Impossible for nny one to beeorae n i-andldnte on nn InHrt'ein' ent ticket nt the eleetloo, unl.-Mit derlnraf ton of Intention to become nn independent eanJldjfe had been Hied live day before the date of holding the primary election. iBl'Ll.I0T1.) INDIAXAPOMS, March 3. tio-r. Ho- , Out aliened thr Ilolmea bill Irgnllcli.v change of name of corporation nlen 1 proeeedlnjr Iistc- been fnully. Knrri geticy clnue. (BULLETIN) INDIANAPOLIS. March 3. TI-c House yesterday afternoon indefinitely j postponed ihe Baxter anti-picketing j bill by a vote of 50 ayes and 44 iiof. t Harris and Fifield voted for the bill, fand Day and Ahlgren voted to kill it. (TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL I INDIAN A PO LIS. Ind., March Z. - "-, number of tho rrore im-or:ani tolle that held the c-nter of t ytag the house of representative, l.ixt warc moving rapidly toward ilii d r.-.i 1ing in the senate and most o: i .. seem to be backed by a majority. Among tlie.se a'C the And. rson providing for the repeal o." th. lu'.i crews for railroals. One of thc-e repeals the full crew law of l?o& t--.-trains .iud the o'her i. the 1D1I 1 providing for a "lull switching crew'' The railroad m-n declare that the.laws are not njcessary and that they add at least $1,000,000 to the cost .v" operation of tlv? tailroads in Indiara Every Indication points to the pairage of both of these repeal bills by the upper h'tuse. The lobby a-ainse them Is not demonstrating tiie sort strength that ri.-rjlts in killing a til.after it has passed one house. Another Important measure, the Barker administration tax bMI, will bt ready for passage before the end . ' the week. There seems to be no opposition to this bill whatever in th--senate. To persons wits have been obsi-rviiiA-the trend f tax legislation it app'jr that the administration tax bill wts one of the mea.-tjres that was fou-, ! .. out by the press and the people b.. fo-.-the assembly convened. Soon .i..fte.the passage of the Jolinson home rubbill last July it became apparent lu observing citiz ns throughout tl.: state that seme restrictions shouH K put on unbridled issuance of bondj anl on tax levies. It is true that many of the maj - rity members of the assembly came to lr.dianapolis with widely different iJt?s on the method of cure that snould be adopted. Ah a rrult there have been .1 wide range of bills prerentci witj no other object in mind but to keep down bond Issues. One of thisc w,t -Jihe Beardsley referendum bill. TMsi has been put up for passage twice in the senate. The first time it was recommitted and (ho next time it faiie-i to attract a constitutional majority. This plan is, therefore, dead, TTie other plan is to reauec the limit of indebtedness any road building unit can incur. The senate now has under eonsidcratton a house bill which wr,i limit the indebtedness o-i three ml'. gravel roads tt 2 per cent of the as segscd valuation of the road district, The limit is now 4 percent. It is the theory of the leg,5-ator pushing this pl.tn that it is better t set a limit of itdbtedness and thv-ri let the various 1 .-.cui units build road as long a:;, they , an Tn ,hi(i v ay e,. stntc control n clim.nated ae we',! a the expense ami red tape of refer, j-.-duuis or any oher plan. But there ;ias been no effort made by any member of :r-P nsembly to workout a plan whereby a!I indebtedntcr limits may be r-duced from the pre, ent limits t oy the constitution or by law. .This would be a difficult ta-lt and at the iv.n would result In hardships somewhere in the 5tafe as anyhard and fast limit on schoolstruetlon. for in-itance. would cripp'.poor townships ir give rich townsltips a wide margin to Incur debt. All thees things have been care'iilly considered by the Governor and by the Republican loaders in the assembly with the oon-tti-!on that nothing better can be offered than the administration ta oil!. Of course there j., UlJ doubt that it -vil! pass. As soon u is in operation .t gr..Up of t- n taxj.yers in any laxing ur.it e n R,., a snfegaard again?; unwHrranted expenditures and excessive levins, Whtu protest Is filed 't wxil be up to thstate board of tax commijsjoner.i decide the question