Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 280, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1921 — Page 1

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Hammond and West Hammond Officers Are The Victims. (im.i.KTi) Orr.rcr Fisher k reported to be creat.y :m proved at 1 o'clock today, ji t : :t up v i.i i''" ,,ver from his .unds. amy re--: tV-th two wounds from a bandit's revolver !n his body, Officer John K is her of the Hammond motoreye e ,,.,, ad i;.. dangerously wounded in St. Margaret's h-fr-ita'.. The j, .die-man's assa;".atit is in custody, and being held on tsc charge of shooting wilii intent to ki'l. pen-ling the outcome ol Kishr'.s wounds. He is Chief Abe Kyzk.'a bad negro from Chicago, who ivcs p.t 3447 Indiana avenue. With him vai Harry AY illiams, " ."42 Calur.t..t avenue. Chicago, wbo is being ".et 1 ns an accessory before and after the f, , .-r. ! .l!OOTIV(. I i:ST HAMMOND. OiT.cer Fisher t ncotinten d the men 0- i O-lsim'ia avenue, near Fields ar-t-.ue. j.;,,)!! ten o"ock Saturday night, lb. -k w.-.s c-ai ry;iiK a bundle and Fisher. bcco:i;i:ig 5 us? ,.-b us. st-ppf! thrrt. As he examining the pack- .. Ce, lb. zk suddenly Hipped out a r'rc'lver and tired t'.oi shots. DfTiecrs riecliler and Kelly u ho' w-re a 'out ir.) feet, away when the shots were lire!, gave chas". An irtnor.-nt hysf'.der, Jamfs I-ce. &76 Merrill averoie. co'ored, vias mistaken for one f t he wo't'd be murderer, when he t.K to his heels and he was captured by Tb-ckler after a slv-rt chase. K-diy t-.tdf after Kyrk and V.'illiama but was 0 ist a ner ci, Ki?!er sho-A ! amira'ole tirrv tV.rntig'vut the affair. Shot t w!e ih.rouglit the lefv hv at. he kept his fc-t and remained quiet while a passbsr car was cniinandi. red to take i.-n to tlie hospital. Dr. K. S. .Tones " as calb-d and in his examination found that one bulb t had passed elc-se to the heart, possibly bunctur-i-K the hmg an i the other had ranged from the side to the center of the breast., where it emerged. A hestbr rt rap, duns under the left arm. may tie t'.ie means of. saving Fisher's life as it was pierced by the buliot atv, possibly deflecfrd it from its course. SHOOT AT OF1K Illl OhRVJ, The two lead m-n app- areil later on 'he oifh sole In V. .it Hammond, i' -I'-ic thry held up a man by me to'ti' e rf Kopae., w o ji-es at 5'.! J ."..'.! i.l.o.e, v.'cFt .Hammond. TIkj ' ... i; from h-.ni and a watch. Early S-ntday m-.h-nirie til-y encounter ( 'Cf.evr Okraj of tl-.e AVrt Hammond f ucc and without warning fired three -hots at him. They ran v, . st on Pium1 - i iiV'-'tmo atil Oliraj press. ( two ' 'rc-I :m i. ieto , t vleo ith at itvnutbii J. Tiie a.so :.::,d titem to bur;:i.eoa nvmuj wb.rre th-;y capli.r- , ,( ,,,. r,.r;v.CR. rroug ;t to tto-Jlato-1- .-i.d etlti.-u they werr identified as the f.o ..(1 encountered by Fisher. r.;i.vk corife-.o(i j0 the shootin g. Tkesr' :t liave ;l piili.-e record and Cyzk was Mei,;ili.d by t;hbf Simons "'' '"- i'l ohiiotooi foroe as an old olt, b r in Chictg.,. growth of mm DISTRICT CHURCHES i '. ,T. .c: a e p. t-r- (d .' -.-de-, doorht - d & n oi'tiu'il rep uid n. !i e i : st , il .'I ft TO'ert of. the Calu'i t Ce! ist i.-ti ob-ii n.,r;' boar-l ' I ie!i wiii 1,.- sebniitl e,l this week to oe stale coo ve n i on f,f the Christ i.t n dHirc'.'i of lo-iMiia. at T:--r.-.n. Keiival me. tings held '.ytue board t Hammond, H-ssv:lle, Indiana Harbor. Griffith, Crown I'oint, Hobart. I'ep rtiver, Tel., stop. Harvey and Howell resulted ?n fiL'6 additions in ih'rty-two works, the reje.irt states. Churches wcer oi-e-anized uid hu:idlr::s creet.d at H'-ssviile, Toliesron find Criffith. Tiie Miitup in church attendance and church expansion in the United States is not t-f fleeted in the report of the boaid which "as created to jne.-t the eior rgen,.y arising at the close of the v. ar wh.-n spiritual 5to.-k went down lis as General .Alotors and Bethlehem ste.d. Th,; Calumet Christian :1 i.-sionary Board was put into the field by C. J, Sharp, former pastor of the Hammond Christian church, as a s ot of federal rvaerv., bank for the ennstian churches of Lake countv ami adjoining territory, to keep them solvent and above board. It was ft poou stunt and it worked so we eli otner districts are using it.. WAS MERELY EXPERT WITNESS Pr AV. A. At a :sek of AVost Ham. was iiigniy cxc.tej Saturday evening when lio read tn otory in Toe Tinv-s regarding t he'a.-q iit ta t of HarryMays, the "miracle man'' nf 'the rhare of practicing medicine without a license. M.nuszck was listed among other witness, ..s for th- state and hligured somehow that The Times was trying to place him among the p-.op,. who iiad gone to Mays for tr. atnient. 11a was merely there as an expert wiLv e ).

THE T1VES May 16. A shock

ing- auto fatality took place near here last night wh-'ii Peter Zyp, ft (tod 63. and one of Highland's pi -rieers, was sthuok and k:)led outright by an automobile. The aoident took place at the Zyp home stead, one of Ilicii'anii's landmarks at the cf-rtifr of Ridge JUL and ' '' n- ttvciiui! and happened shortly 1" -fore six o'clock. The Zyp residence and barn, are on t.T."':te .sides of the road and Mr. Zyp nas crossing the highway to milk his cow and stoppeei directly in front of tWe auto driven by a young South ("hieaco man. He IS. DON SAVAGE REPORTED SUICIDE Gary shocked to hear tn!s montjing of the reported suicide ot Mrs. Don Savage, wife of the well known Broadway sporting goods deal'.r. Her body was discovered shortly after 0:30 o'clock by Mrs. Louise Marlow. a washerwoman. Kne had attached a tube to the gas burner in her sleeping room and taken her life in that wa, A note was found beside her, reading, "Tell father it was an aecident. don't teil him the truth." The decedent u as M". Savage's s.-cond wife. There or' no children. TWENTY HURT WHEN HUMMER LEAVES RAILS r.T.' 'OMIXtiTO.V. lib, May 16. An oflieja; inquiry into the wreck of Chi-cac-o & Alton train No. ?, known as "The Hummer," which was derailed three mile.? from h-re last night was launched today by railroad authorities, belief that the wreck was the outcome of a plot has bejn expressed by officials. Work of clearing away the wreckage completed today and the tracks opened for through traffic. All of the injured are being cared for In Bloomington hospital.-. About 20 persons were h-jrt, several of them seriously. William Sutt'es, fireman of ti.e -Hummer" was severely crushed and may die. "The Huiv.:r.fr" left Chicago at 6 o'clock last right for Kansas City. It carried about 200 passengers. AY hen about three miles out of Hloomingteoi it struck an open switch, while traveling at a. speed of 00 miles an hour. The engin left the rails, binned ovfr the Ces. and crashed Into a, string of "empties'' on a sidito;. The mail and baggage car and ti-.e smoker also wc ; e derailed, hut the pafv-ngcr coaches remained on the tracks'. FEDERAL MEN FIND LOT OF BEER Federal prohibition agents from the j Hammond office mado their greatest; catch of home, made beer Saturday af- I tt rn'H'n w'o-n they paid a 'brief vis,;! to M is haw ska. Henry Van Due'e and! hoJ mother. Mrs. Lewis A'a n Ha-le.j w ere arrested for operating the young ! brewer', as a side line i.j th.. ir soft j In the house wore found (wo l.",-ga'-Ion barrels- t.f beer mash, .VV, pine hot- J ties r,f beer with a decided kick, ." -alie ns of crape tcine anel -.1 gal - I ) ns. i,f daii.-ie lie n v. inc. K r i dene-- of j scion - the iio ior was ai.-o obtained I aitain.- t the people who we e later r1. -as.-d on bond. They w-ih be tro d this i ve ek in the M i.-ha w a ka police cemrt. THIEVES ARE ACTIVE AGAIN i "I 'kieves w ere active ov'ev the week I end in Hamrn nd. with til-1 result that j several people were victimized. l-lmilj t;e;man, lt'-vt avenue .N. S.iiiiii Cnica 40", was held up by v, o no o at Cocorner of l'ih street an! ti.e I'.-nn-svivania railroad t tacks ab.v.t S:r.h Fri day morning, and robbed of j:;r, and a! watch. Tip? no-n are deserib. d as :)-! ing about 23 years edd, ..ne, J feet, C. and the other 5 feet. 5 inches tail. J. M. Smith, Columbia hot-1, t e-ported that hht pocket was picked of $! in the Columbia Moving Picture theater. ' has an idea of i ho the culprit is Warren AA' i 1 1 ia tns, f.ii' Truman av- . T.,1-..1 Tl. lu'in fifl li..o ! sf each reported the loss of a bicycle. Child's Narrow Escape Little Leon Domosrarski. five years of age, miraculously escaped dath yesterday afternoon when lie ran into a. machliiA 'and was thrown in the path t.f a '-ireti car. The lad's right leg was broker, ami he was badly bru'.s d about the head and face. Ho was taken to St. Margaret's hospital. Carl Fris'k. 2-9 Hffman street, was driving north on Hahman street, when the little boy ran out into the street .and directly into the sliie of the mae hine. Th" impact threw -him In the path eT a stteet ar. which struck him, but the fender rolled him out of the way of the wheels.

picked up dead. The contrary to the report auto stopped, circulated last night that it went on without giving; any aid after striking the Victim. Mr Zyp had lived here fir thirty-eight ican- and was highly esteemed by his neighbors. The driver of the death ear wn. Charles Fpr.-t, SIS 5 South Cnieago avenue, and he applied his brakes when ho saw Zyp in the road but he was go In ST so fast lie could not bring his machine to a stop for 200 feet after he had struck the farmer. The funeral arrangements for -Mr, Zyp will be announced to morrow, lie leaves a wife and several children. Building Mechanics Now Idle Contractors Halt Work Until Men Agree to Accept Wage Cuts Three hundred and twenty-three bullo ing mechanics employed by members of the. Building Trades Employers' Association in Hammond. AAliiting and East Chicago were thrown into idleness this morning when the contractors mad good therr promise to halt construction work if the mn refused to aec.-pt wage cuts which had been announced May 1. It is expected that Gary contractors will follow the same course next Monday. Building craftsmen remained firm Saturday night in the stand which they had previously taken against accepting any wage reduction". The contractors had taken the m3ttcr up with the International Union heads but had been Informed that it was up to the arious locals to accept or reject the new wage schedule. The number of men affected by today's cessation is not as great as It would have been a month ago. The building industry has slowed down until contractors had only a few men employed here and thero on small Jobs. The largest job affocted had only 1? men on it. This gives an Indication of the business condition when it is romembercd that contractors like Dickover, Danner and McClay frequent ! have 100 r more men working for each of them. The contractors this morning '"'f'rp. able to list over htlf a mdion dollars worth of work which is being hld up because of the cost of labor in North township. They say that unless the wages of skilled mechanics come to $1 an hour and laborers to seventy cent:--, the people back of this building work will refuse to go ahead with it. Bids were opened last c-k on additions to the Industrial high school pu,kling in Hammond but it i.-: hardly lik-ly that this job will b ! staried this year as it could not bo finished before the opening of school after the dels that is expect eel. The bids were made on both the old wage and the proposed rate. Those based on $1 an hour were $20,00" lower than the others. GET YOUR SEATS FOR LEGION MINSTRELS The reserved seat sale for "The Jollies of mil," the big minstrel-musiea. re-, tie, which the American legion will stage at the Parthenon theater en Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of this week, opened this morning a no is now going on a- the Parthenon box office. While the sale, ha.-j been verygratifying to Co; committee in charge there ar- sti.; many choice seats b ft for either of the three night performances, but they are going fast, as if you have not already made y-ur res- r ati-us, yon had bc-tt-r so in once-. The advance tickets sold by to.members of the legion, the Woman'.', a .ix ilia ry and their fib 'ids must be . x -cl.ang. d for the re.--.-r v ed seats. line of the b er-et singing and darn ing choruses ,.-,.r organized for a home tob-nt product ion will play a big part it. this year's American Legion show, -nd will b- made up of seme of the very llnest of Hammond's talent. Among the yming ladies taking part in the show v ill be Cecil Abbktt, Louise Stevens, Maude Burke, Dorothy N"ierengarten, Kl-a Freeman, Lillian McTntyr... Mar gin rite Hester. Fayo A". Kick, Miriam, M. rz, Helen Turner. Gladys Tuley. Vera Tub-y, Fern Hogarel. Luciibi Bogard, l.u. i i lo AhbiHbuf. Irene Ituycraft, Martha Tiedinan, Lfiz-1 Pr nelergast, La-V-rne I-i-endergiist, X-iii" Me-yers, frit.v.. .le, lsab-lle Hawkins. Margaret e'a.rr-.dl. Laura S .ss. Anna Sass, Rore.hv !., ..rotby Dunsing. Ethel .;.yb.' anel Marie Deunke. The tinal work of "polishing off tiprough spots" is now going on and threhearsals are rapidly whipping tinbig cast, of sixty peep!e into real professional shape, and it is predicted by all who have been privileged to witness tiie rehearsals that "Th- Jollies of 1921" will easily eclipse any previous attempts along tint home-talent line ever offered to Hammond " audiences.

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Fails To Get Wife and Loses $2,000 In The Bargain. Alleged Swindler Taken. rsPECIAL TO THE TiMESl WHITING. Ind., May 16. August Kresta's dream of finding .a wife through a matrimonial agency is shattered; he is short J2.000 through his experience, but be. has the satisfaction of knowing that the man who swindled him is in jail. That the arrest was made Is due to the watchfulness of a member of the Whiting police who was able to furnish the necessary clue, at a time when the case seemed hopeless. Officer John Bernak of the AA'hiting police and Mr. Kresta who lives at 417 John street, returned last night from Detroit. Mich., with Henry .Weiss, alias Molnar. who is charged wltn having separated Kresta from his bank roll by a time, honored method. More than a month ago Kresta advertised for a wife in a matrimonial magazine, staling that he possesses quite a sum of money. A short timelater Weiss appeared "in .Whiting anel told Kresta that he had a widowed sister and would like to have him meet her. Kresta "dolled up" and started on his way to Michigan to nuot the supposed widow. On the way to the train it seems Weiss met a "friend" who said if they would wait until he attended some business, he would accompany them. They waited and the; conversation then turned to starting into business. The friend Mashed a purse which he said contained $3,000 which he would Invest and AA'eiss said he had $2, ooo he would invest. Kresta wh'o v, as all keyed up saiu he too would invest $2,000. He wint to the, bank and drew out this amount of money. As soon as they returned front Michigan they were to start in this business. The question then arose as to who was to keep the money while they were away and they finally decided that the honor should go to Kresta. Going to the hardware store a bucket was purchased, also a lock and key. The friend's $5. "00 was nut in a purse; AA'eiss put his suppos ed 12,000 in in a handkerchief ant Kresta's $2,000 was supposed to be wrapped up in a newspaper. The three packages were shown to Kresta before the bucket was locked up. He naturally believed that all was well. The trio then went to the restaurant for a meal, after which Kresta was instructed to take tin bucket to his home for safe keeping. His friends would wa.it until he returned. Kresta did as lie was instructed and when he returned n friends were to be found. He waited and finally beginning feel that something was wrong went home and smashed open the bucket. In the purse he found two $1.00 bills, the purse being stuffed out, with papers; tiie handkerchief was also stuffed with papers and the paper supposed to contain Kresta's $2,000 contained nothing but newspapers. In his desperation he appealed to the police. At first it looked as though little could be done. It later developed that a Michigan auto was in AVhiting that day. which had aroused tho suspicions of Sergeant Xizbdkiewiez. He took its license number. The men never let Kresta see the macine but after he gave the descriptions, Nizi.dk lew itcz found that thev tallied with the descriptions or the m'n he had seen. Through the license number AA'eiss was located and Officer John Benak armed with condition papers was ent after him, Kresta accompanyl-jg the officer. Officer Benak encountered several difficulties in getting this man. Manyattempts wer- made to haf'l'e him. even to attempting to kidnap benak'? witness. Kresta- In spite of this hereturn'.! to AVhiting Saturday night with AV.-iss. Weiss who is about years old wi,!l be arraigned for the offense tomorrow ami in the meantimehe has not said anything more about his widow. -d sister and Kresta has ne.t yet found a wife. BABIES ASK MOTHER TO COME BACK TO THEM Evelyn is five years of age and her ! rother. Robert, .1. They hac written a pathetic letter to The Times f r )m Erie, Mich., where they ar,- staying wtth their aunt. The Times is aked to find their mother and tell her Evelyn and Robert are watching every antomobib that passes the house hoping for her return. Little Robert hangs to the fence with his little face pressed between the wire mesh, and his wide eyes searching for a sight of mother. It is evident that Evelyn wrote th letter with little Robert by her side; the elocter to get medican for herc-r was the laste we seen mama may be she is in hammond bekoz we use to life in hammond.'" The family name is withheld,

MILK WASTE SOLUTIONS ARE OFFERED Livestock Farmers Want Skimmed Milk for Hogs While The Times war on milk waste was being carried onto 'the floor of the Chicago city council's fenl price committee today with a promised grand jury investigation by State's Attorney Crowe, the editor's mall rained briskbats and bopqucts. Out of the storm of opinion came a suggestion that oT-fe-rs a partial solution as to how the flood of skimmed milk into the sewers might bo deverted to decent use. An official of the Lowell Live Stock Association of Lowell, Ind., declares that the farmers cf Lowell will sell a controlling interest In tho big hog farm to the Milk Producers' Co-operative Marketing Company as an outlet for great quantities of the skimmed milk that tho Producers' Company destroys at Gary and Indiana Harbor. A rOUETH AS COSTXiY "Skimmed milk has half the hog-fattening food value of corn and oats and costs one fourth as much," the communication to The Times stated. "The Producers' Company can transport the milk to the hog farm near Iowe!l by .ruck and after the cost of transporatlon and labor is paid will fatten the hogs at bast one-third cheaper than ,ve are feding them now. AVe are willing to give the Producers Company a controlling interest in the Association." Chester A". Chapln, manufacturer of cow feed, Indites the following screed to tho editor: "AYhoever wrote your 'amazing disclosure' of the milk situation In Lake county might well do some further investigating. "Why call skimmed milk milk? Does he know what skimmed milk Is worth? If not, ask tho Bureau of Markets of the Department cf Markets of the Department of Agriculture st Washington. Does he eat butter and does he know what it is made of? "The company I am acsociated with manufacturers feed for dairy cows and it would be to its benefit to have retail prices down to a basis where the consumption would be larger, but I believe ia fair play and feel that the producers' side of the quseiton has been grossly misrepresented by you in your issue of May 12." Tho Milk Dealer, a magazine published for distributors, this month contains an article on powdered milk that is strictly a skimmed milk product. The writer who Is an expert makes the following statement: "I am convinced that in milk powder lies the siolution of the milk world, and that already the best milk powder now produces is superior to aU other forms of milk." Milk powder is the form in which the 111. 000 gallons of milk now poured into Lake county sewers daily could be economically preserved for shipment to the tenement di-stricts of the cities or to the staring people of Europe and the Orient. Milk powder Is but one of tho manifestations of skimmed milk about which Mr. Chapln appears so ill informed escially for a man In an industry so losely silled to that of the dairy farm. The Hammond Dairy company makes cottage cheese of skimmed milk and it finds a ready sale. Skimmed milk is used in the manufacture of candy, baker's frosting and it is canned and sold at a profit. The food value of skimmed milk is an established fact and its wast.; ,s an inexcusable folly. Skimmed milk also has a chemical value, according to tho department of agriculture. Sam R; AVoods of the Milk Producer's I'oifipany writes The Times as follows : "Editor Times: In regard to your ar liel- in Thursday's Times about the nidk going in the sewer at Gary and Indiana Harbor, I wish to state that it is a fact and a deplorable fact. (1'ou will notice that Mr. AVoods calls it. milk, not skimmed milk. Skimmed or not, it is milk.) "It is a shame that we have a good product produced at high cost anel can't, sell it. Instead of going on strike or shutting down shop, we farmers go on producing. AVe are learning though, from the other fellow and it may be in the future through our spleirdid organization that we can limit production to the needs of the consumer. It won't be two months now until the we-Plher gets warm and the demand fon-tTee cream and the poorer pasture will bring a shortage of milk right here in the Chicago district. AA'e are not the only ones who have wasteel .good food products. (Mr. AVoods here telis of the waste in the grain and cotton mills in former days.) "AVo are in our infancy. The milk producing company is now selling stock for a two million dollar enterprise to build factories and stands to put out product into condensed and powdered milk, cottage cheese and or.e hundred and one other things. The only reason the milk is now running down the sewer is because we haven't the emt'pmer.t to handle it. Some of those numerous faniilies with hungry children

had better come out -to the farm and ; help make milk. AYe are working about sixteen hours a day at mighty 1 small wages and if anybody wants my j job lie can have it." i SAM B. AVOODS 1 MAKE 49 ARRESTS OVER WEEK END Although no important arrests were made, the Gary poiice set a new- record for the total number of arrests ,,Ver tiie week end when 40 persons were taken into custody from Saturday noon until early this morning. The ari'ests were for nearly every petty crime imaginable.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! DAYTON. May 16. Mrs. Helen Cox Mahoney, daughter of James M. Cox, democra--.c presidential candidate in 1920 and former governor of Ohio. died here thii morning of edema of the lungs. She took ill Saturday following -a visit to Dayton from "tor home at Oakwood a suburb. She was married three years ago. (HI I.I IITIX.) i INTERNATIONAL NFVVS SERVICE AYASHINGTON, May 16. The supreme c-urt of tiie fnited States today sustain..! the validity of the federal inheritance tax law of 191fi, in a suit brought by the New A'ork Trust Co. against, the internal revenue collector to recover taxes paid. Iil XLKTIX.) ONTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. -May 16. Peanut profiteers were branded as "penny snatchers" here today by P. D. Bain of Norfolk, A'a.. president of the Fnited Peanut Asociation. He pointed the corner peanut vender as a man "who steals pennies from children with peanut appetites." He addressed the peanut men's convention here. (BILLKTIX.I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK. May D. A general alarm was sent out by the police today for .Arthur Tyler, alias If'an Collins, with a police record as a gambler and confidence man, sought in connection with the strange shooting of John II. Redd, wealthy lingerie manufacturer. Reid is dying at Fordham hospital with four bullets in the head and one in the right hip. (Bl 'MKT IV.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. May 16. Detectives today were awaiting tin arrival or John M. Halhbeck. a Milwaukee grocer, solve the Identity of the man found strangled with his head crushed and hia eyes goughed out in a drainage canal at Summit Saturday. Hahlbech wired police he tle-ughf the murdered victim was his half-brother, Carl Leyton. Recover East Chicago Man's Pocket Book From Chicago Dips Tiie Hammond police were kept busy over the week-end as the result of : wave of crime which swept over tip city. Chicago bad men came to Hammond in large numbers. Shortly before the shooting of officer Fisher by a Chicago bandit, three well known pick Rickets were picked up, following a complaint from cne' of their victims one of tiie dips was a veritable walking bank, having money distributed ail over his r ' trson. The men arc Henry Marks, alias Smith, 824 Grace street. Chicago: Peter J. Kelly, Fifty-etghth avenue, Cicero. II!.. .and James Leonard 1224 South Genzie aenuo, Chicago. Saturday evening ab.ut C:Z(, as (Ice.. Meholich. o2S Alexander av-mn East Chicago, was alighting Jrum an Eas; bTilcago car at Hohman and State sts.. lie was jostled by three men, and a few minutes later he found that his pocket book containing $113 was missing. Meholich went to the police station and reported his loss, and staled that he suspected three men who bearded a Chicago ear as the dips. The" polo - man. ned an automobile and gave (base, overhauling the street car at Hohman ana elostlin street. They ,:ii,T,, ,.,n(j ar rested the men. At tho station, it w a--found that Marks and Leonard ee ere old offenders. Both had their pictures on tile in the Bertillion room. Marks was arrested in Hammond im the same charge about two years ago and has a long record of arrests in Chicago, Detroit and other cities, ATien searched by tin officer, every pocket in Mark's clothing yielded some cash, till a large; pile of currency was stacked on the desk. Not sat: slid, the man was made to undress, and more cash was found in his underclothes. A total of $132 was found on him, and the pocket-book belonging to M-holich. Marks tried to, get rid of this but when he threw it. he w as u n.'ort u n-, enough to hit an officer in the .and thus hewas caught witli the goods. yh,- m(,n will bo arraigned tomorrow- morning. OLD SOL CREATING MUCH DISTURBANCE PITTSLFP.Gir. Pa , May lfi. Because eif cyclonic storms en the sun and the resultant disturbance in tiie earth's magnetic fields. teb-grraph and telephone services w-. re J.srupted Friday and Saturday- nights, according to Dr. K. Burns of the .. ; i . g h any ..ihs.-iv.-Cii-y He says that the sap spots appear periodically ecery 11 yeyrs and usually are accompanied by fieetrhai disturbances ,,n the liutli. Tio- sp.,t, observed this year, he ,s:w i ovcr an unusually larger t. ri itory est i.nat-d at approximately SO, ooo miles. Dr. Burns says there ate many unusual features about sun spots now visible. Tfte largest he said, is about . 4,ei'..ei miles long and 2l.oo miles w id. anel is surround'-d by ati almost coititless number ,.f small, r sp.-s. According to Dr. Burns t be spot., will disappear only with an ct ipiion of the fun's interna! ga.-es.

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FIND WALKING BANK

(1)1 I.I.ETIV.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WAMIIVGTO.V, Mny 10. Fr-Md-nt Harding today rrfuel n appeal for federal roop for tho A est Mr;lnlii coal fields, where there ban been Intermittent warfare during the ptrnt week. The Appeal wan made to the prenlilent by Senntor Sutherland, on behalf of the governor of AVet Virginia. Secretarr AVeeks wan present when the appeal won imidc to the president. The president Mated thnt he illil not believe It would he wise to ncnd federal troops Into WcM Virginia at this time. m'M.ETIVINTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE nilM.K.'OTHE, O., Mny 10 Sltr freight, linggngr and pnnenser cnr arrived here nnd were placed In the yards at Camp Sherman for InMnnt one In case the 19th Infantry In sent to Mingo county. West Virginia. Food nnd provender have been packed for qnlck handling?. Officials ore still "waiting further orders." INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WILLIAMSON, AV. A"a.. May 16. AA'ith the arrival of several companies of Kentucky national guard, the first round-up of the leaders in the attacking forces which have been making war along the Tug river front, has started. The militiamen have started combing the densely wooded sections of the mountains. Five men, alleged leaders in the insurrection, have been placed under arrest. According to information sent to Sheriff A. C. Pinson and Captain Brookus, in command of the AVest A'irginia state troopers, the five men under arrest, have been taken to Pikeville, Ky. Many of the Kentucky militiamen are Kentucky mountaineers and they are well versad in mountain fighting. Their presence has had a salutary erfect already, as there has been l ttle firing going on this morning. Not a shot has been fired across the Kentucky border into West A'irginia since they arrived, A determined effort is being male to locate the base of supplies from which point the distribution of arms and ammunition baa been made. It is known that somewhere in the mountains a large supply of arms and ammunition is still cached. One report prevalent here but without official confirmation, is that arms have been sent into the mountains byunion officials and that these supplies were purchased in Cincinnati. orricers arc trying to verify this report. Running Short Of Ammunition TlNTrRNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE AVilliamson, AV. A'a., May 16. Th t was comparative calm all along ' Tug river battle front this mornin-. A few stray shots were fired in ti -sectors where fighting has been heaviest in the last few days, It is fear -o that the lull is only temporary a-,d more trouble is expected. One reason assigned for the let cp in hostilities is that the supply of ammunition is running low. Reports ave filfcred through tne mountain fastness that pleas have been sent to AVashington for troops by Gov. Morgan and in some quarter their cessation of hostilities, is regarded as a strategic move t,n the part of the leaders of the ettackin; forces. By stopping the fighting a while at least, the sending of federal troops may be averted and in i: meantime the attackers can secure a fresh supply of animunilin, The warfare which has been iarrbd on for three days knows no mercy. At New Howard, scene of heavy fiihting Saturday, a woman was about to be. come a mother. Physicians would n t venture across the opening space surrounding her home and face posss'.io death. Neighbors. had abandon d their homes but the woman was to., ill to flee to the mountains. In lie darkness of night there amid a show -er of bullets a new life came into w o rid. At Merrimae, u woman with s baov in lo r arms, sought to go to the substation, a short distance away for pi.teetion. As she crossed the open spa she was fired upon but escaped injut-

Indiana's Week-End Accident Toll I-'.ve- killed when interurban car hit (ruck near Terre Haute. Dead Mrs. Hazel Holscher. ;,e Frank Holscher, 4. Mrs. Martha Hastings, 50; Lester Dotson, miner; Calvin Hastings. Seriou.-.'ly Injured Infant daughter e,f Mrs. Holscher. All were of Terre Haute. Orange Ives and Russell Stine ,.f Shelbyville were seriously injured in automobile eaceidents. 'arl J. Ensen. in, Indianapolis, was killed when a playmate tossed a piece of sterl into He- a;r and it struck hi.' head. 27 DEATH TOLL IN IRELAND IdTiLIN, May 16 Twenty-s even persons were killed during Ireland's "worst week end" according to the following casualty list compiled at noon today : Crown forces, kill' d. 14 wounded. S. ''iviiians. kiliej. 13. wounded, 11. Many of the victims were dragged from their homes and shot in cold blood.