Hammond Times, Volume 10, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 28 May 1921 — Page 1

ENE NTO rE MONTH'S CA TION TUB WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and unAnjt cooler In north portion tonight nl In north and central ' portions S undn y. Delivered by Carriers In Hammond and w. Hammond 50c per month on streets and news stands 3o per cop. COUNTY T VOL:X. XO. 20. MAY 28, 1921. EIGHT PAGES trtrb SATURDAY AND "WEEK LY EDITION n n ill Mi mmn

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N IRELAND Predict New Epoch of Turbulence and Disorder As a Result. By EARLE C. REEVES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 LOJTDON. May 2S A IBritish army stronger numerically and better trained and equipped than Kitchener's "First Hundred Thousand" In the great war. will be In Ireland before the new -week is far along, according to plans decided upon by the cabinet and believed to be in the process of execution today. Partial publication of these plans which called for a re-doubling- of the present strength of the British army la Ireland, -which ia E6.000 was the eenaatlon of the day here and was expected to create an even bigger aencation throughout Ireland when It becomes known. Coming on the heels cf the Ulster election, which, though it gave DeValera and other Sinn Fein chieftain.seat in Ulster parliament, was generally Interpreted as a Sinn Fein defeat. Premier Lloyd George's decision to us the "mailed flat" in Ireland more aggressively than ever before, i. txpected to mark a new epoch in the whole history of the Irish problam. The fear was almost universal thai ;t n-l'.i be a new epochn cf turbulence f-r the Irish republicans have Just fh',n-n by their organized attacks or, he black and tans in Dublin and othes parts of Ireland that they are determ.ned to fight back with every ounce of counter aggression they can must r r. Dispatches from Ireland were conse.y:entiy awaited with eagerness today and the general atmosphere even 'n official quarters was that fraught with grave foreboding. L FOR SON WAR HERO CRAWFORD5VILLK. Ind.. May 2S. Plans for the formation of a memorial endowment for th Wabash College library In honor of J. Howard Wilson, an Indianapolis young man who was killed Tn tha Argon n wood battle In the world war. have been made by his father. The young man enlisted in the marine corps on the day following his graduation from "Wabash In 1918. He was nt almost Immediately to France and was eoon on the firing line. He took rart in the marine drive at Chateau Thierry and was killed November 1. ten 1sys before the armistice was signed. J. Howard Wilson was a brother of Charles Wilson. 876 South Hehman St., Hammond. ATTENTION SERVICE MEN! Service men attention! The body rf your comrade. Patrick M. Getzinger. who died In France, arlved in Hammond this morning and the funera! win take place next Monday morning, femorial day, at 9 o'clock from the All Saints church. Last night, you were asked to come to the court house in Hammond to discuss plans for giving this boy a military funeral, and to discuss several other affairs of vital importance. The only ex-service manj present was the commander of the American legion. It looks as though the morale was mining. Patrick Getr.inger deserves a military funeral. He .hould have an escort of every exservlco man In the city and the man who does not turn out in full uniform to pay his last rospects to his departed comrade is evading a solemn duty. Patrick Getzlnger was a member of troop B. third cavalry of the first division. He nerved on the Mexican border, and later, when In France, was wounded. He died as the result of pneumonia, brought on by his wounds. He has a brother, Joseph, with the regulars In Belgium, another, Thomas. Verved at West Point. His brother Daniel and sister. Mae, are at home at 1227 Euclid avenue. CORRECTIONS The following corrections are hereby made to the program and the parade for Decoration tiny. Through inadvertence and misunderstanding the name of Rev. Lickl ider was inserted in place.' of Rev. f. M Smithfon for the invocation and benediction. Also the auxiliaries of theSpanish war veterans and the American lezlon will ride in automobiles following the woman's relief corps. PATRICK REILLEY. Post Commander. DR. HOW AT TO SPEAK ! i mi-iakp was included in the; Memorial day program a-" published J in last night's Times. The speaker on behalf of the American Lesion will be Dr. W. F. Howat, and not Joe Todd, s was given.

PLANS MENU

FARMER'S WIFE HAS

COMPLAINT

In answer to the following letter The Times desires to state that It is In full sympathy with the farmer, it has not criticized the farmer and tt believes he should receive 51 per cent of the retail price of milk instead or a third, as at present. Nothing, however, can excuse the waste of food at a time when half the world Is starving and we are called upon to send money to Europe and the Orient to buy milk for starving babies when there is no milk there to buy. The waste is not chargeable to the farmer. It is chargeable to the Milk Producers' Co-operative Market Company and the unscientific dairy business of the country. While many improvements have been made in the handling of juuk. such as pasteurization, they have all come a9 the result of just such agitation as that carried on by The Times against the pouring of thousands ot gallons of skimmed milk into Lake county aewera dally. The letter from a "Farmer Wife" follows: "Hobart. lai May 25. "To the Editor cf the Laka Couacy Times: "Dear 6!r: As one of the readers or your publication I axa led to ask why in this controversy over the mooted milk Question, you are constantly engaged in criticism of the producer, the farmer and his family whom you vliberately seam to wish to misrepresent to the reading public. "Has it not occurred to you that the distributing end of this important and necessary business may need the light of investigation? Milk is now retailing at from 12 to 14 cents per quart, that is when delivered and of this amount 4 2-3 cents per quart goes to the producer, and it Is common knowledge for those who cars to know the truth that milk cannot ba produced and sold at that price without actual loss to the producer. "The fact is that at current prices the farmers of this region are being forced to give their labor without anything near like a reasonable compensation. If you doubt my statement we should be glad to have you examine our books. "It has been stated the consumer should have ten cent milk by July. Then the pastures begin to fail, feed to buy and the cost of production increases. If it takes nine cents per quart for dlstrlbntion that would leave I t-tnt per quart for producers, a little over the shipping cost. Where would the producer be at and where do you think you would get the milk. "Some time ago the milk drivers asked for an increase In pay which amounted to less than half a cent per quart for the amount of milk delivered. The price to the consuming public, however, was raised a full cent per quart. Would not this also bear Investigation? "As far as the Insidious captains recent used In the headlines of the papers with regard to the throwing away of hundreds of gallons of skimmed milk is concerned, anyone who will be honest and take tho trouble to look into the matter will find that at this time of the year milk has always been abundant, the only difference .. being that formerly the dealers required the farmer to keep the surplus milk on the farm and stand the loss whereas now the Marketing Co. uses the surplus to the best possible advantage and much more efficiently than the farmer. "I suppose that it has at some time or other suggested itself to the economists of your valuable publication, that one of the sources of the basic wealth of the nation is its food supply and that you cannot bankrupt your farmers and drive their young men and women away to the cities without seriously injuring the whole economic life of the nation. "It might be well for you occasionally to reflect on these things. "Very cordially yours, "A FARMER'S WIFE.'' RIGKENBACHER BEACHES CHICAGO ! INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, May 2S. Capt. Eddie Rlckenbacker, American ace, took to the air at 7:30 a. m. today on the fourth leg of his fight from Redwood City, Ca!,, to Washington. He left Checkerboard flying field in an army plane from Rantoul field, piloted by Lieut. Woodbridge. Rlckenbacker will fly from Chicago to Dayton, O.. where he will land and transfer to another plane for the final stage of his flight to Washington. He expected to reach the national capltol by 3 o'clock this) afternoon. Enroute from Omaha to Chicago late yesterday, Rlckeriibaeker snaohe-d a few honirs of sleep In the cockpit of the mall plane piloted by Wm. C Hopson. INSANITY PETITION Fred Pahler o riammond today filed a petition in the Hammond superior court, asking that Susan Pahler be declared of unsound mind. She has been an inmate of the Longcltrf insane asylum at. T,o sra n sport for a number of y-ar :ind has shown no improvement. The petitioner would present e'. Hence of her mental condition in court in order to show that she is incapable of managing her estate and that a guardian should be appointed. Attorney E. G. Sprcat is representing the petitioner.

DID YOU HEAR

THAT LAKE COUNTY atrawberrls have begun to come into the market. The crop is only mediocre this year. SIMON LEOPOLD of Rensselaer, with his daughter, were here Thursday on their way to Colorado Springs. RESTAURANT labor Is 150 per cent, higher Instead of 15 per cent as was stated by error. The restaurant keepers state. KID Cordrey and Dr. King, are some welterweights, according to referee Clinks Meyers they fought a good draw. SPEAKING of mixed foursomes, golfers saw John Beckman, Carl Kaufman, John Fitzgerald and Gus Bereolos batting around the other day. AS eoon as the Hohman street road race is over, this paper expects to start a Jay-walkers contest which will be fully as exciting and nerve-racking. HAMMOND has no representation among the officers appointed from Lake county civic bodies to have charge of the promotion of the ideal section cf the Lincoln highway. ENTRANCE of a "bath tub" in the Hohman street auto race is reported today. The tub is reported to have reached the 40 mile speed when first seen and going on two wheels. HESSVILLE'S school census Increased 12 per cent, last year. Carrying this increase to the total population and adding it to Hammond's estimated population gives a grand total of 41,331. A new pool has appeared In town whereby you draw a certain number of minutes and seconds. The one which has the correct time that the Carpenticr Dempsey fight ends, will win $300. " ITS getting about time for the annual flip-up between the city of Hammond and the street car company regarding fares and wages and profits, if any. before the Public Service Commission. DR. H. J. WHITE will attend the American Medical Association meeting at Boston which opens next Friday. Following the convention he will go to New York for three weeks of hospital work. HANK G ABLER says the reporter pegged him wrong when he thought he saw him on the merry-go-round at the Wert Hammond carnival. "I never rode on one of those things In my life" says Hank. IN the squib about Conkey avenue, the other night in this paper, the compositor made it read that the avenue was being "sacrificed" when it should have been "scarified." The street was sacrificed several years ago. COHEN'S Variety Store, the "house of a thousand bargains," has wound up Its closing out sale and has moved from 204 State street to its new quarters at 692 South Hohman street, four blocksouth of the Court House. POSTMASTER Rohde, has received word from Postmaster General Hays regarding the establishment of a governmental bureau of information in the posteffice department building where visitors wll be taken care of. REPORT hath it that Charlie See. our portly and genial police secretary, has purchased a bright and shining automobile. Everything will be to the merry till Charlie tries to get underneath and grease the darn thing. EVERYBODY was pleased with the accomodations at the East Chlrago arena and the way in which the entertainment was run off. The fans were satisled that the management made the strongest match possible for the opener. DR. H. S. SHARRER and several other members of Hammond's new court of the Royal Order of Jesters w ent to Chicago last night to bo present when the charter was delivered to Court No. 4S at that city. A big banquet was enjoyed after the ceremony. IT is worthy of note that none of tho protests against the living corset model which appeared at the Wescrveu Shop last Saturday came from the men. The girl in the window was one of the chorus from the Orpheum stock company. The show has left town. LAT NELSON, erstwhile bank attache, claims to be the champion 'form' golfer at the Country Club this year. Having wintered in the South, he has the edge on the other fellow through experts. The Western car at Hcgewisch disputes the claim, however. ELEVEN out of the fourteen ornamental light posts on State street, between the State Line and Morton Court, have no lamps on them. The council talked one time of moving these posts to South Hohman street because the people had refused to keep them burning, but nothing came of It. A nepro -woman from th Plummer avenue district furnished some Interesting sidelights on the conditions In that section at the police station last night. Her husband appeared also wih a badly spotted pink shirt, caused, he said, by an accurately thrown cuspidor from the hand of his Amazonian wife. GEORGE KELLET. a tramp, froro Seattle. Wash., who lias been hanging around West Hammond for two weeks. I was bound over to the Oook county grand jury yesterday. He was arrest1 eH aftrr Vie enMope! a fl-.-e vert r old girl into the bushes near Burnham ave. Trie child's clothes had been torn from her but she had not been harmed when the officer arrived.

PATRIOTIC SPEAKER IS

TURNED DOW Hammond People Indignant at Snub to Memorial Day Speaker Yesterday. In what work could the pupils of St John's Evangelical Lutheran school cf Hammond be engaged that is so important as not to permit a brief Interruption for patriotic exercises and instruction? Every other school of Hammond, public and parochial, welcomed the speakers representing the G. A. R.. Spanish War Veterans and American Legion. Why does this North Side German school refuse to participate in Hammond's Memorial day exercises Monday in honor of its soldier dead? Every other school cf Hammond, public ar.d parochial, promptly accepted the invitation of the veterans. These questions have been asked ver and over by Hammond people, as like wildfire, the report spread that Richard Siegel. principal of the school had refused to allow Attorney Albert E. Griffiths of the American Legion to address his pupils and at the samtime turned down the invitation to take part in the parade and memorial exercises Monday. Attorney Griffiths, Alderman Pal Reilley and Attorney H. E Granger representing the Legion, G. A. R.. ant, Spanish war veterans respectively were members of one of the speakin parties assigned to tour part of thschools of Hammond, Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Other group.of speakers had been allotted various parts of the city and it was planned that every achoo! chiid of Hammono should be reached in this way. The apeeciies were simply little lessons in patriotism. They explained the significance of Memorial day and the duty of all good citizens to pa their respects to the dead wh-j hac fought for their country. They ciose by urging the children to march in th parade Monday and help make the services a success. Many cf tho schools had been notified in advance. The children were ready and the program was quickly carried out The Industrial high schoo; was marched to the speaking place in six sections becajse cf the number o. pupils. At the Polish school in Eau. Hammond no previous arrangement had been made. However, when the visitors explained their mission, t'.n instructors dropped everything and marched the youngsters right out in the open to hear the speeches. They accepted the invitation to participate Monday. So it went everywhere in Hammond until St. John' school on Towle street was reached. As the Lincoln public school pupils were to hear the speakers in the Methodist church auditorium nearby. Attorney Griffiths thought lv. would save time and speak at St. John's school while Mr. Reilley anJ others addressed the pjbiic school children. Approaching the school he found the front door locked. After knocking several times, Principal Siegel unlocked the door and came outside. He appeared "peeved" over the Interruption. Griffiths told him what he wished to do and met with the first and only rebuff. "Is It compulsory; do we have to do it?" asked the instructor. Griffiths replied that there was no "aw compelling it. whereupon Mr Siegel informed him that the children were very busy and he didn't want them disturbed. He stated that he did not wish to get into trouble with the governing board of the school. He was told how the other schools of Hammond were co-operating with the organizations of veterans in the work. He expressed the opinion that some of the children might take rart in Monday's exercises as individuals, but said that the school would not b represented as an organization. "Then I suppose you object to my talking to the pupils." said Griffiths "Yes, I'd rather you wouldn't," was Siegel's final statement. Then he reentered the school room and closed the door. There was no patriotic speaking at St. John's school this week unless Mr. Siegel did it himself. Griffiths reported his failure to other members of the parly later and In a short time news of the affair had travelled the length and breadth of the city. Indignation was general an'i no one was willing to accept the explanation that children could be too busy to listen to a four-minute speech on patriotism and Memorial day. Mr. Siegel had "passed the buck" to his board and if justified in doing so merely Included more people in the unfortunate affair. Other school boards of the city do not tie their principals' hands on the subject of admitting patriotic instruction in classes. Mr. Siegel this morning confirmed the srtory of Mr. Griffiths. "There was a young man at the school who wished to make a speech." he said, "but I had had trouble formerly with the board because of speakers, who had been allowed to talk to the pupils. Then. too. the, children were having written tests in the classes and I could not permit thm to he interrupted under any circumstance." He was asked what wort of speeches had brought about his trouble with the governing board. "Wall, thera were ora tpeaJccra

DIPTHERIA AGAIN AT

CARMELIT

E Partial Quarantine Ordered Scourge Killed 7, at April Visitation Diphtheria, the scourge that took the lives of seven little jrirls during its visitation six weeks ago at Carmelite orphanage. East Chicago, has again put in appearance at the home. There is one case of the disease at this time, f our-year-o!d Emily Godanovlch having been stricken a few days ago. As a result of discovery of the newcase the sisters in charge have isolated the little one in the south building, which has been ordered quarantined by Dr. Teegarden, city health officer. Only the nuise and attending physicians will be allowed in the south cottage, and unless new cases developed the main building and north cottage will not be quarantined. Little Emily was taken ill early in the week. A city health laboratory analysis of the cultures taken from the threats of the 15 slffters and 65 children, showed but one positive reaction, and that was the culture from the throat of the sick child. In April when pneumonia, measles whopping cough and diphtheria sweeped down upon the orphanage, a number of sisters and 40 children became ill, seven of the little onrj dying. A number of the whooping cough cases continue to be isolated. Dr. Teegarder. la hopfful that there will be no further fatalities, and believes that the situation at the orphanage is well in hand. NEW INDUSTRY TO BEGIN WORK With a force of two hundred employes the Metropolitan Custom Garment Corporation will begin work In its building at Lincoln and Plummer avenues, the first of July. a'ord!ng to a statement by H. Biederman. president of the company. The building was formerly occupied by the AYolff Manufacturing Company. It was leased 10 the garment corporation by F. L. Wyman. Says Husband Tried To Wring Her Neck Attempts by her husband to wring her neck, beat her with chairs and other acts of cruely have resulted in Auielia R'golio, 33C5 Cedar street. Indiana Harbor, filing suit for divorce from Steve Rigolio. The complaint was filed in the Hammond superior court by her attorney, Marcus Hersheovitz. Mrs. Rlgolio rays her husband frequently became intoxicated, with moonshine and wouid then accuse her of belgn untrue to him. He frequently threatened to take her life. One time he chased her with a knife and tore her clothing Into shreds. They were married June 14, 1?14 and separated May 14. of this year. The plaintiff asks for $1,000 ailmony and the custody of tneir daughter. CUNNINGHAM BUYS IN KENWOOD The Arm of Woods, Martin & Company, has just consummated the sale to Martin Cunningham of the circle lot at th ecorner of Kenwood and Forest avenhes upon which he expects to build an attractive home in the n?ar future. or as soon as building conditions permit. The lot is one of the most attractive in the subdivision. It looks over into the forest preserve and has a south exposure. It has a frontage of 13S feet and a rearage on the alley cf ?3 feet . which came around from time to time and they told the children things which ought not be said in front of children and I got called down by the board for it." was his explanation. Kiegel added that he had told Mr, Griffiths that in order to prevent interrupting the children's tests he would attend to the patriotic Instruction himself later. He failed to state wl. ether he really did thlf. ERNKST ft. Pl HIiMAN CMP n, IS, I'MTEI) SPAMSH AMFHICAX WAR VETKRANS Be it resolved. That whereas. Our patriotic instructor, together with the patriotic instructor of the Grand Army of the Republic, Calkins Post of Hammond. Ind.. and the patriotic instructor of the American IiCglon of Hammond, visited all of the schools in the City of Hammond. Ind.. and at each school made a patriotic address and extending to the teachers and school children an invitation to attend and participate in the memorial day services to be held in Hammond on Memorial day; That whereas. One school, located on the North Side of Hammond, known as St. John's Lutheran school, refused to permit the patriotic instructors the privilege of extending the Invitation to the pupils of said school: we, the I'nlted Spanish American War Veterans of Krnest R. Puhlman Camp. No IS of Hammond, denounce said principal and the hoard in charge of said school as un-American. unpatritoic and unworthy of the privilege of our government, and are hereby declared by thH organization to be no better than other organizations whose purpose is to destroy our government and Its institutions. Pigned. A RATH MA V, Commander. JAME? rAIJIER. Quartermaster, of Ernest R Puhlman Camp N5. IS. Vnlted Spanish American War Veterans of America-

ORPHANAGE

NOTICE There will be no issue of THE

TIMES on Monday because of the day being a holiday. Hammond's annual memorial worship will conducted at the Baptist church on Sibley street Memorial Sunday, and all organizations tn the city are urged to attend. The fraternal, military and civil groups will meet at the court house promptly at 10:30 and will march to the church. In years gone by, the members of the G. A. R have been extended the greatest courtesy on this day, and this year will be no exception. The services will be well worth attending and the public in general are cordially Invited and urged to attend, in respect for cur honored soldiers, living and dead Memorial Day morning, the graves of the dead soldiers will be decorated as usual by the children, assisted by the Women's Relief Corps. All this week members of the American L"gion, the Spanish American War Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic have worked untiringly in the schools cf this city in order to instill a spirit of patriotism In the children. TWO COLORED WOMEN III LOVE TRIANGLE In a lore triangle In Gary last tiigiit. two colored women were -wounded, one of them probably fatally, when an ardent olver broke into a he use, pull"d a revolver and fir'id a fulisade of stvt? at them. The shooting occurred shortly after midnight at 1801 Jefferson street. According to statements given uy the two victims. Mary McCorkell and Louise Blake, following the shooting at the Mercy hospital, the lover, Percy Goins. also colored, who did the shooting, was a former sweetheart of trie McoCrkell woman. She had refused to keep company with him and the shooting resulted is an outcome of her refusing: to accept his attentions any more. Last mnt at midnight Goins called at the Jefferson street residence and demanded admittance . When the McCorkeil woman refuse, to let him in the house Goins is said to have broken open the door, walk-d into a rom where the two women were talking, pulled a revolver and openeo fire at them. The Blake woman received a flesh wound in the right shoulder and the McCorkell woman a serious wound in the right breast. She may die. Following the shooting, Goins ran out ct 'he door and escaped. BOUND OVER TO CRIMINAL COURT Harry Ellison, the Chicago automobile thief who found Hammond such poor pickings the other night, was arraigned before Judge Klot7. 141 the Hammond city court this morning. Kllison attempted t-i steal the car belonging to Abraham Stutsman from his garage, and was forced to change the patent lock w heel for an ordinary Ford wheel to do it. His plea to the Judge was calculated to produce a 'ot of sympathy for "just a man trying to go out and steal, who didn't know howto go about it," hut this characterizatoin produced nothing in !, favor. He was bound over to the criminal court under bonds of $;,500. The judge figured that a roor, hardworking auto thief should not carry an automatic and a bunch of auto keys. POLICE NAB SEVERALBURGLARS The Hammond police have several burglars and thieves In the lockup today, following a drive to clear up a series of recent robberfes, William G. Kew, ?2 Russell street, Hammond, is alleged to have broken Into the coal office of the Bleker Brothers company. He was seen in the office abovit one o'clock in the morning by Ray Poilor. a special agent of the C. and O. ranroaii. Poilior was passing the Douglas st. office when he saw Kew Inside. Kew stopped him and asked him for a cigaret. The agent became suspicious and held the man until the police arrived. Kew claimed to be in the office to get out cf the rain. Mr. Bleker says that the door, which was nailed shut, was broken In and that the office was In disorder. Another of the thieves is Joe Hojye, 332 Baltimore st. He was arraigned thi smorning following his arrest on the complaint of Frank Rognar and J. Lucky, who are roomers at olZ Kields avenue. They claimed that Hojye stole a $10 liberty bond and a $.i0 watch from them. Hojye pleaded guilty and was bound over to the criminal court with a bond of 3,000. NEW INDUSTRY IN WESTHAMMOND P. Biererman. representing the Custom Garment corporation, stated today that his companr has negotiated the purchase of property at Plummer and Lincoln avenues for factory purposes.. By mid-summer 200 people will be employed, he said. F. L Wyman is president of the company-

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Big East Chicago Industry To Shut Down For Reqairs For Month.

"The General American Tank Car plant will be closed down next Saturday, June 4, and remain so until the first part of July, next." This statement was made today by J. E. Tes seyman, plant superintendent of t'" General American Tank Car plant m East Chicago. The reason for this temporary shutdown has been defined as necessary for makirg certain repairs within the plant and taking the annual inventory. It is said that when this plant is running at full capacity that it employee over 2.500 men and women, and while this shut down will throw ov -r a thousand people out of work, officials claim that the majority of thir office force will be retained. While other plants In the distri-' have been closed down tight, the G-n-tral American Tank Car p ant has been running at full capacity. A poil recently made of the differcrt industries in the East Chicago-Indiana Harbor district showed, of the plan's working, an average operation of ii per cent. The large order of tank cars fr the Standard Oil company received last fall by this plant Is yet to be finished. An order for over Bnn stoefc cars tor the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad company has not b-en completed, and this work along with ether orders for gondolas and box cars will p"nd until operations are resumed sometime in July. next. A Times reported who visited the plant yesterday found w bile mai.lnc the rounds that there was rlenty of work. Officials were busy Insp'.ctini; corrplit'd wrk and ordering it ut -t the yards to consignee. while m ; ': ofice of the pnt superintendent hi conference with offieiaig f:c..m Ci,cago . FAREWELL FOR W. G. PAXTON Members of tlir Hannvnd 1'i Club f-urpriicd W . :. I'axt n hi iv . residence last e-rnnj kni serenaded him on the eve of his limine r.-i' llj.i'hurgli, Scotland as th- i . rjaic fr .v. the Hammond Rotary 1 I u i. in the international con re r-net to 1 - t.ei.j i-,,. r,. in June . Th-: visit of the Hammond Kotarian . was a complete sutpi is- to Mr. l'a vtu.-i. The club members filed nil- tin.unannounced ar.d .-:' 11! th, t . cirsinging song a cna in in nri"U stunts . A concenena player had ben employed for the occasion and help, d in the serenade. I'axton pro . id t . b- a splendid host and was givn a flit mi send-off. The party had assembled at the Country club. ' Mr. and Mrs. rax ton and llr : daughter Carulin leave Chicago I -j New Vork on Sunday. They sail on the Caronia on Wednesday at noon. They expect to go to Edinburgh first and then make a tour of Eur p. Th y will be gone three months. HIGH SCHOOL LASS PLAY The senior class of the Hammond industrial high school will present 1 play on June 13 et the Oryheuir. theater. The cast wi'i include the bs talent that the tohool affords and wi'h a splendid vehicle for their talents, the performance should be one of ti; best ever presented by the student. The play is "The Importance o:' ;ng Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, and ii. Mudes a cast of nine people. It N .. farce comedy in three acts, and the; is not a dull moment m th en: : play. There is one gratifying thing ai.-u the plays g;ven by the high s?chooi s: -Jrnts. They are always high grad performances of great literary vaiuand they offer the only opportjnli that Hammond people hive of sieln;something really worth while. In stand cf the slapstick style of comedy which Is all right in its way, this pin-, will offer a brand of really clever hi: mor. which is rathe.- a relief from th ordinary kind. The cast has trained faithfully under the direction of Misr Leoda Mc Aleer, and are prepared to give finished performance. It is expected that a large crowd will attend the Play. AT THE PARTHENON "The Oath" the photoplay which opens at the Parthenon theatr is a revelation In the art of the motion picture. In it It. A. Walsh, who produced and directed it for the Mivflower Photoplay corporation for distribution by Associated First National pictures, Inc., has obtained two ;rtenstely dramatic effects which have been marked by critics as being important advances in the art of motion picture direction. The first Is giving the audience a distinct effect of having witnessed a tragedy without ever showing th actual event Itself. The second scene which Is regarded as notable is the entire lack of oonfusien is putting over the most dramatic Incident ever shown in a motion picture. Rather than attempt to show the effect of tlv action on the crowd that witnesses Mr. Walsh has chosen close views o' the emotions of the ar(nus characters mofrt vitally affected by the rsult that the climax of th court room scene in "The Oath" Is as gripping a piece of screen rt as r.s vr been produced. DEATH OF BABY Little June TTts. two year- oid daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred LortT, died st the home of h"r paren's h. "31 West State street as the result of Infantile paralysis The little girl will be buried in Concordia cemetery following futieral services at the horn, at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Undertaker Nellow i la cbargo.