Hammond Times, Volume 10, Number 28, Hammond, Lake County, 30 July 1921 — Page 1

AIL WA Y'S AIM THE WEATHER Cent-rally fair tonight and Sunday; Slightly cooler in northwest lortion tonight and In north and central portions Sunday. 1 LJOL eliv-red by Camera in Hammom, and W. Hammond 5o p moati on streets ana news stands 3o per epy. VOL. X, NO. 23. JULY 30, 1921 EIGHT PAGES 3?& SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION fJ TS N M tS EC

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Army's industrial Homes In New York Jam Full and Much Suffering Seen ?- r ' " BY FRANK W. GETTT t3TAFF C3RPE5POMDENT I. N. SESV1CE NEW YORK, July 30 The "Wolf at the door is going to be fiercer this winter than for the past 23 years. The Salvation Army is making unprecedented plans to relieve suffering and distress among the poor. But the margin of safety will be small. Evangeline Booth, head of the Army's forces in America declared today all indications arc that the coming winter will be the worst in a quarter of a century. There are going to be two principal d ff iculties lack of housing and unemployment. The Army bases its assumption that the coming winter is going to be severe upon the number of persons at present dependent upon it for shelter. Whereas in previous years the Army's industrial homes have always been half empty in the summer time, they are 'Jammed full" now' and more people are trying to get in. And those that are in are going to stay not taking chances on a shelter when the snow begins to fall. Then there? the question of unem ployment with the army secretaries hard put to find jobs for orre-fourth of the men who apply and with more applying daily and fewer jobs each week. The army no longer deals with the downfallen and the "bum." Men and women with responsible jobs or capable of filling them are applying to the Salvation Army for better positions. One man who had been making 510.000 a year applied to the New York headquarters and they got him a job he was grateful to take at $12 a w eek . Applications for work are 70 per cent greater than last year. Jobs are becoming scarcer and scarcer. What the army plans to do is start a complete canvas of all industries with a view to placing some of the needy before winter sets in. Another indication of hard times is the youth of the men in the morning "bread lines." Where once doddering old men stumbled up for the daily hand out, young men and boys now find the army lines their only chance of a meal. The Army needs buildings and needs them badly and at once Miss Booth pays. Throughout the country it. is encountering great difficulty in finding places to house the growing number of dependents. ANHUALBATTLEGROUND LAFAYETTE. Ind.. July 23. Battle Ground's forty-seventh annual Methods-. Episcopal camp meeting opened Inst night with a sermon by the Rev. urien W. Fifer, D. D., of Indianap-oi!-. The assemuly. which is expected to be the largest in the history of the association, will continue until August 7. Many special features are included' in this year's program, among them a Laymen's day cele oration next Thursday. Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; Warren 3" . McCray, a governor of Indiana; O. V. Bradfute, of Columbus, O., presi-I'.A-r.t of the American Federation of Farmers' Associations; John Gllrown, of Monon, president of the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations, ana George- I. Christie, director of the agricultural experiment station of Purdue University, will be the principal speakers. Laymen's day will be principally n farmers' day and it is expected that nearly 20,000 ti north central Indiana will attend and enjoy the program arranged especially for them. RECEIVER FOR tSPECTAl. TO THE TIMES ' CROWS POINT. Ind.. July 30 T. Stanley Draper of Gary wai appointed receiver of the American Restaurant of 23 W. 7th avenue, Gary, by fuge F. Miles Norton on Friday. Gust Frar.galis is suing the concern for damages and on complaint to foreclose a chattel mortgage which he holds amounting to $3,000. he proprietors Dan Mandas and Theros Serfios have abandoned the place of business and their whereabouts are inknown. A TIMELY TALK BOSTON Love in a cottage was contrasted to misery in a castle by Dr. A. Z. Conrad, preaching at a local church. "Better calico-clad exuberance than silk-clad defection. Better a dollar watch ticking out moments of haplness than a diamond-studded chron crr.eter measuring out moments of misery," philosophized Dr. Conrad.

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ROBERT BURNS, no relation to the cigar, lost his bike at the corner ot Sibley and Hohman street. THE appointment of Robert H. Harrington as prohibition enforcement ' officer is proving very popular. MANAGER CARROLL of tit Gary Telephon Co. and formrly of Hammond is to be oreratd on today for gall stones. JOHN MILLIKAN'S sporting goods store has issued twice as many fishing licenses for Wisconsin and Michigan as last season. AND still they go. Seven dogs answered the call at the canine pearly gates this morning, all because their owners failed to muzzle them. SUPT. BRADSHAW of the Old Peoples Home at Green!urg. Ind., has been in Hammond this week buying hospital supplies from the F. S. Betz Co. TOM ROBERTS who had charge of the automobiles for the editor's journey desires to thank the people who donated their time and their cars. The Moorhead Oil Co.. while it has not broken into print lately. !s coming right along. The plant is entirely rebuilt and working all the time. BASEBALL teams from the Conkey plant and Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. are fighting it out on the Harrison Park diamond this afternoon. MANY people are wondering 'whether the fair weather fleet of taxis and busses will be 60 -.ild for the business next winter when the deep snows come along. EDWIN FREDRICHS, after being hounded for weeks, actually did get married. He says that he had to. to escape the pointed remarks of this column. BASS have been striking like fury in Michigan during the last three weeks. One Hammond man who has returned reported catching 85 in one afternoon . A NUMBER of Lake county Greeks who have gone back to Greece for visits recently have been grabbed off and put in the Greek army and are fighting on the front In Asia-Minor. DR. U. G. LEAZENBY, former missionary to South America, will be heard in a Centenary lecture at the Methodist church in Hammond at the morning service, July SI. NEXT to the story in a recent issue headed "L. Knoerzer to paddle own canoe" was a heading "Harbor man falls from canoe: drowns." Could this be fate? Not according to Leo. HENRY BROWN, 591 -Sibley street, a blacksmith, has been accused of stealing 259 horse shoes from a man named Bulmyer. The case w-ill be fought out in the Hammond city court. A WEST HAMMOND tarten.1cr wants to know why they all pick on the Illinois city. "There is as much booze in Hammond as there is over here," he said. AVe're glad to know it. OLD ROSCOE WOODS wfto has been missing several days has been heard from at last. Post card, marked Beulah. Mich., says: ,"We are forgetting Hohman street, sewers and business in general." PEOPLE are wondering what became of these paper pants which were said to be so darn comfortable in warm weather. No one has been wearing them. Perhaps they expect It to rain. YE eds. besides looking over the county in two days, expected to bend a frequent elbow, well loaded with eau de vie. A courier from the front was seen to dash West Hammoudward Thursday morning. MR. AND MRS. W. B. CONKEY who are geiting passports for a trip to England had to change their p5wis the other day When the Mauretania on which the trip was to be made wan badly damaged by fire. JIM WANG and Mrs. Michelstettcr have returned from Port Washington. Wis., for the week-end in Hammond. They will drive back to their summer home Monday. Jim Wang is Mrs. Michelstotter's husband in private life. MAYOR BROWN said that he would notify the quartermaster In Chiw.e of the unguarded condition of the spoiling food dumped at Globe Station. If people eat the stuff, our doctors and undertakers may be a busy crowd. ATTT. AND MRS. JOE CONROT xpect to leave Tuesday on their trip to Mackinac Island and points northwest. Joe gleefully shows the tickets and explains that for years he has had the same stateroom on the old boat Manitou. MAYORS of Hammond. Gary, East Chicago and Whiting conferred wltn Chief of Police Fitzmorris this week regarding the armistice to be signed to suspend the war on Ind'ana motorists in Chicago and Illinois motorists in Illinois. Overtures were made by Fitzmorris . PATRONS of the Parthenon theater are interested by the friction between leader of the orchestra. Mr. Eicher. it is reported, refused to discharge Elliot Conroy, the first violinist, to make room for a violinist from Chicago Heights. Instead Mr. Eicher tendered his resignation to take effect Tuesday. The other musicians did likewise.

INSISTS ON BUYING HIS WIFE'S CORSETS

DES MOINES, la.. July 30. Because a husband buys th? corsets for his wife is no reason why said wife should be given a divorce, in the opinion cf Judge Joseph Meyer. Mrs. William E. Roote rested her suit for divorce with the assertion: "I cannot even buy a corset, he does all the family shopping." Judge Meyer dismissed the suit for insufficient evidence. CLYDE HUNTER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE Actioo Begun by (Plaintiff In Crown Point Circuit Court. CROWN POINT. Ind.. July 30.-.-Through her attornej-s Crumpacker & Crutr.packer of Hammond, Mrs. Daisy A. Hunter of Gary, has filed divorce pro ceedings in the Lake Circuit court against her husband Clyde Hunter, formerly prosecutor of Lake county and a prominent lawyer of Gary. Mrs. Hunter alleges that they were married Nov. 2Uh, 1910 and lived together until June 17, 1921. She states that the earlier part of their martied life was peaceful and harmonious, but that the last few years it has been otherwise, due to hla neglect and misconduct. Some very sensational charg es are made in the complaint. Mrs. Hunter further says that he is worth $200,000 and enjoys a large income. They are the parents of one chiid. ?he prays for an absolute divorce, the custody of the child and $30,000 alimony and the costs of the actions for divorce. Charles C. Jagger of the Jagger bond fame of Gary is in bad with the Gary authorities again. On a complaint made by the Sinclair OH Refinery this week, Jagger was arrested at Sixth avenue and Washintgon street yesterday on another charge of issuing fraudulent checks. Today he is held in the confines of the Gary jail without bond, awaiting trial. Ever since last fall when it came to light that Jager was the custodian of $150,000 worth of ownerless government bonds alleged to have been found by his wife on the floor of a Yellow Taxi cab in Chicago Jagger has been in a peck of trouble. Besides losing custody of all the bonds, surety of the peace charges filed against him at Crown Point, forced to sell his express company on Washington street at a low figure, arrested several times for giving bogus cnes, Jagger's martial troubles have also given him considerable worry. According to those who ought to know, Jagger is now broke flatter than a penny. He has lost all the money he ever owned, forced to sell his profitable express business at a loss and on top of that he sayp "that his friends have gone back on him. now that he is in trouble." This must be quite true as he was placed under arrest at his home at the Washington Hotel yesterday and was still friendless in jail at noon today. The details of the charges preferred by the Sinclair Oil Co. have not been learned. SEN. NEW RETURNS Leaves Today for East to Join Week's House Party. Senator Harry E. New, accompanied by Messrs John KUligrew, Tom Roberts and Alfred Jones returned to Hammond yesterday afternoon from Gary to see a number of political friends and canvass the senatorial situation. He left for Indianapolis last night'to join Mrs. New at Boston. Senator and Mrs. New will be among the guests of Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks at their house party at their mountain home at Lancaster, N. H. President and Mrs. Harding and a few others also will visit the Weeks home. GETS $5,000 POLICY THEN TAKES LIFE When Lewis Russell Wamsher committed suicide by shooting himself last Monday at his room on Ivy st. Indiana Harbor, h did it only after he had made deliberate preparations. Wamsher is known to have been desponden- because he could not find work. His money was getting low-, but before his little fund was exhausted he went to the pains of paying the quarterly premium which was due on his life insurance policy. He had held a policy for $5,000 in the Northern States Life Insurance Co., of Hammond. The mother who lives at Morocco. Ind. has already revived a check for the arnounv

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Lowering of Lake Level Is Why Hammond Has Drop in Pressure. A communication from the office of John Ericson, at present in the employ of the City of Hammond, to direct the construction of the new water works, throws some ligflit on the present water shortage. A few daysago, there was an alarming drop in pressure so alarming, in fact, that officials from Hammond got in touch with Ericson In order to discover the reason. It was thcught for a time that mechanical trounle had developed at the lake front plant. After an Investigation. Ericson submitted the following statement which explains to a great extent the lack of water. The letter read In part: "The trouble at present is this: The lake level yesterday was about onehalf a foot below mean lake level, which. I understand, is nearly two feet lower than it was a year ago. If the water in the lake was two feet higher now, or as it was a year ago, we today would be able to pump at a rate of seventeen million gallons per day instead of only fourteen and onehalf million's. "You will also notice, that if the pumps are lowered eight feet, as we intend to do, the present intake will yield a minimum of nearly twenty-four million gallons' per day. and correspondingly more with a higher lake' level and greater lift, which we can then operate under." Ericson goes further, an; states what relief can be expected Imme diately should the people of this city heed his warning. He says: "The situation now, therefore. i. such, that nothing can be done to re lieve the situation immediately, cx cept to impress upon the citizens the necessity of their co-operation in this difficult situation. They should fores?o all but the most necessary sprinkling and no useless waste of water should be tolerated. "The situation yesterday was aggravated by a strong off shore wind, which affected the water level in the lake unfavorably. "The results from the water survey cannot be expected for some little time, and in the meantime the citizens should co-operate, or some restrictive measures will have to be taken." That, in brief, is the present situation. The people of this city have the responsibility of the water shortage on their shoulders. Some restrictive measures will be taken if the wanton waste does not cease. Girl While Driving Auto -Is Hit By "Green Line" Car. Beatrice K. McCormack, daughter of Mayor Leo McCormack of East Chicago, narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon when her automobile, which she was driving, was run Into by a "Green Line" street car, doing considerable damage to the automobile. The accident occurred on Chicago avenue, just east of the four corners, when Miss McCormack started to turn her car around in the middle of the block. Miss McCormack says that she did not fee the street car until it was to late and her car had been hit sideways and pushed 10 or 12 feet along the tracks. Miss McCormack admits that the mis hap was unavoidable on the motorman's part and she was to blame, but she did not lose her nerve and that her actions In a pinch are not as described by Irvin Cobb in "Just Like a Woman." WAR HERO WALKS TO NATIONAL CAPITAL WASHINGTON? uly 30. Frank F. Kostak, Chicago war hero, wanted to know why all the delay orthe part of the War Risk Insurance Bureau regarding his claims for ccmpensation. So Frank "hoofid it" from Chicago to Washington 790 miles to make a personal investigation. The story of his pilgrimage was made public here today. Kostak was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the French M-d3il!e Militaire for bravery in action at Chipilly Ridge. He is now being cared for by Vincent B. Costello Post of the American Legion, which is pushing his claim. "Gee, this is the first real meal I have had for several days." said the hero enthusiastically as he finished Hinner after his long hike.

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UNTY Lake county will be the host next wee kto the Patriarchs Militant Deparent Council I. O. O. F . , of Indiana. It will take place in Gary Emerson school grounds. General Commanding G. M. Hermiston. of Toronto. Canada, MajorGeneral 11. K. Landos , department commander of Indiana, Brig. General Harry Funston of South Bend, Ind.; Colonel J. Cannan of Plymouth, Ind.; Major George Breiel of Cincinnati, O. ; General Hahn, department commander of Michigan; General Fairhall, department commander of Illinois, and other general staff officers of Indiana and other departments will be the honored guests. The fourth battalion of Indiana, under command of Major George Evans of Gary, Ind., consisting of Canton Gary No. 5. Capt. Elmer Thompson, commandant. Canton Century No. 17, Captain II , G. Simson. commanding. Canton Hammond No. 55, Captain D. Brandenburg. commanding, and Canton Valparaiso No. 27, Captain H. J. Fox, ccimmanding, will have charge of this cantonment. The program as follows: Sunday. July 31. 7:30 p. m., chapel service First M. E. church. Monday, August 1. 9:00 a. m. to 12 in.- Department council session . 1:30 to 6:00 p. m. Auto trip through the Calumet district and the great sand dunes, the proposed national park. 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Decoration of Chivalry on ladies. This ceremony will be performed on the Emers'on school grounds and is open to everybody. 9:30 p. m. Department informal ball. Tuesday, August 2. 9.30 a. m. to 12-m. Department council session. 1:30 to 5:00 p. m. Trip by special train through Gary's great steel mill. 6:30 to 8:00 p. m. Military parade and brigade review. 5 EE NEWS FLASHES BERLIN, July 30. The famine in Russia is worse than the great famine of 1891. More than 23,t'00,000 Russians, are feeling the p-lnch of hunger. More than 6,000,000 Russians, mostly peasants, are in flight frjm their homes. The foregoing statements were contained in a letter received today by Madame Gorky from her husband, Maxim Gorky of Moscow . (BULLETINS'.) tINTERNATIONXL NEWS SERVICE . BOSTON. July 30. Capt. F. M. Sulzer of the Salvation Army, ended his life at the Peoples Palace here today by shooting himself through the head. Despondency over ill health is believed to have been the cause. He was well known throughout the organization . (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MONESSEN, Pa.. July 30. Plants here of the Pittsburgh Steel company and of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company resumed operations today aijr many weeks idleness. Nineteen hundred men will be back at work by Monday morning, i: was announced . (BULLETIN.) flNTERlATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SOUTH BEND. Ind., Judy 30. The Studebaker corporation today declared the regular dividends of 1 per cent each on preferred and common stock, pabale Sept. 1 to stockholders on record at the; close of business August 10. Rumors of an extra dividend were denied by A. K. Erskine, president of the corporation. CALL NATIONAL GUARD TO BIGPAPER MILL Disorder Follows Strike at International Paper Plant In Vermont. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BELLOW FALLS, VT., July 30 Two companies of National guard troops arrived hetij today to maintain order following rioting in which shots were fired, presumably by striking workers of tha International Paper Company mills. The r-ijing started, according to State's Attorney Whitney when 11 shots were fired from the North Wa'pole, N. H. shore of the Connecticut river Into a strikebreakers' camp on the Vermont side. A riot call was sent to Rutland ana Adjutant-General Herbert Johnson ordered out Company I of Battleboro, and company A of Rutland. The men were loaded into motor lorries and pushed to Bellows Falls where they began the work of policing the town. Trouble has appeared inevitable since the starx of the strike. Several minor disturbances occurred when attempts were made to import strikebreakers.

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8:00 to 9:30 p. m. Decoration of Chivalry on Chevaliers. (Emerson school grounds open to the public. 9:30 p. m.- Entertainment of department and regimental officers and their staffs, the ladies and the:r guests, by the Gary Commercial Club. 9:30 p. m. Sp'Cial entertainment for battalion officers, line officers, chevakiers and their ladies. lnelay, AukuH 3. 7:30 to 9:00 a. m. Officers sououi of instruction. 9:00 to 12:00 m. Individual spelldown drill. 2.00 to 6:00 tive drill. 8:00 to 9:00 m. Canton competip. m. Awarding ot drill prices. 9:00 p. m. Grand march of the military ball. Thursday, August 48:00 a. m. Trip across Lake Michigan on the big steel steamship "United States." Special program for th ladies. Monday, AuguM 1. 10:30 to 12:00 a. m. Ladies Auxiliaries of the Patriarch militant, or ganization of state association ot ladies auxiliaries. Tuesday, Auguftt 2. 9:30 to 12:00 a. m. Council or department auxiliaries. 1:30 to 3:00 p. m. Rebekah tregree by degree staff of district No. Q 1, under auspices of Genesis Rebekah Lodge No. 734. 3:00 to 5:00 p. m. Open meeting and entertainment of state officers. WfdBfuday, August 3. Special entertainir.sint to be an nounced on headquarters bulletin. Tuesday. Thursday, August 4. Excursion to Chicago via South Shore electric thence to Milwaukee, Wts., via S. S. United Slates. All subordinate, encampment, can ton members and Rebekahs are invited to participate In all of the above arrangements. Children will be en tertained by special nurses on the play grounds of Emerson school. MONON FLYER HITS ICE WAGON TODAY Accident Occurs in Heart Of Hammond Just Before Noon. A south bound Monon train, due in Hammond at 11:05 city time, crashed Into a Consumers Co. ice wagon this morning at the Plummer avenue crossing. One of the crew of two men on the wagon was painfully injured. He is Joe Bonie, 368 Hohman street, Hammond. He suffered bruise's on his back and a deep cut on the forehead. He is suffering somewhat from the shock. The other man on the wagon was Peter Gallagher, 336 Cameron street. Both horses were killed, one by the impact. The other suffering a broken leg. was shot. The wagon was going: south on Hohman street and had turned west on Plummer avenue when the men noticed tht the gates were being lowered. It Is thought that they attempted to beat the train to the crossing. The train was not traveling at an excessive rate, as it came to a stop immediately rffter the crash. The injured man was thrown on one side, and the horses on the other, of the track. Gallagher, aside from a few minor bruises, was uninjured. Bonie was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital, where his injuries were attended to by Dr. T. W. Oberlin.' The train, which ordinarily is made up of but three or four cars, was unusually large today, due to a large number of people, part of the personnel -of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., who were on their way to Atlantic City to a convention. The wagon was badly smashed. The engine hit at the front wheels, and divided 'the outfit into two parts, throwing the horses one way and the men another. TRIP HAS ONE GOOD RESULT Gus J. Simon's trip to Valparaiso, bore good fruit after all in at least one of the liquor cases which have been pending in Porter county, since goodness knows when. Shoemaker, the "immune" salooonkeeper of Valpo, alleged friend of Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew, has been arrested and is out under bonda of $500 pending his arraignment before the grand jury. Nothing new has developed in the other cases after two weeks have rolled by. Things sre being done by Porter county citizens, however. Angered by the open and promiscuous violations of the liquor law in their district, they are now determined to get some action on the saloon men in cities over there. Just r.ow a petition. s:?ned by the most influential men In the county, is under advisement at the Attorney General's office in Indianapolis. This petition requests a special prosecutor who will clean up the county. Should this request fail to gain the desired effect, more drastic action will be taken to get proper co-operation between the officials. TWELVE HUNDRED RETURN TO WORK CHICAGO. Jub :! The Chicago & Northwestern railroad today announced operations would be resumed with a full force in the car shops here next Monday. At the same time, the locomotive shops will re-employ 25 1.200 men will return to work. per ;ent. of the usual force. About

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f'NTERNATICNAL NEWS SERVICE ALTOONA. Pa., July 30 The Manhattan limited, fastest tram on tr, Pennsylvania railroad between N -w York and Chicago was held up ar?'l robbed by several masked bandits early today at an islatc-d spot in tinfastnesses of the Allegheny mountains, about 30 miles west of this city. Letters were rif.ed of an unkpown sum in the mail car and "no mail clerk was shot and slightly wouned during an argument with one of the robbers. The robbery of the crack Manhattan Ltd. was the most daring exploit of the kind in the history of the eit. ranking with some of the bold detds of Jessie James, but never before has one of the two finest trains in the country been molested. Other tra:ns have been held up and some robbod at points east of Chicago but today's attack was the nerviest of ull. The robbers who had been rid:i the rods of the mail car tmergd from their concealment after the train l'.id got in motion again after it hud cut off a helper engine at Gallitzin. While passing through a 1-jng tunnel tlo-c.s in the mail car had l-i't a d - r ..pen and it bad not b-t-n closi d wSi.n t'ubandits swung up onto tw !' U"-m-and stealthily ftalkrd into the man car and covered the- seven n.-n v ro were sorting mail. Erry lubbtr carried a gun. Threats were maU- v kill all the mail clerks if they attempt il any resistance. While the seven nun w.re backed up againM a wall with tuir hands above their hads and guns pointed at their hearts, oth- r robbers hastily went through all the mail t'oH was suspected of containing anytb of value. One sack of registered was thrown from the train and a federate j-ifled It before st.ite tr. - - - Vn era and railroad detectives found it There is reason to believe that f. sum obtained was a large one as th train carries only high class mail said to frequently contain bonus, cash aim other securities shipped by New York and eastern banks to Chicago and western clients. Government officials declare there is no way to ascertain how much the loot will be at present and it will take weeks to determine just what letters were stolen and what they contained. The Manhatfn Ltd. is the crack train on the Pennsylvania, railroad between New York and Chicago. The train left New York at 6:05 last night and was due here at 4:30 this morning. It carries no day coaches and makes but few stops. After passing through the Gallitzin tunnel, west of Altoona. the train was stopped and the helper engine cut off. The bandits had ben riding the rods, and after the flyer had got under way again the bandits, risking their lv-f. crawled from under the mail car ar.d crept through an open door of the mii! car without attracting lh attention of the seven mail clerks who were sorting mail. rery clerk was quickly covered. Taken unawares, the clerks complied and one of the bandits demanded the registered mail. An argument followed with one of the clerks who had declared that there was no registered mal. One of the bandits then fired five times and A. J. Lantz. as. of Thompsontown, Pa., was shot. The other clerks were told they would also be shot if they offered further resistance. A minute later, gun In hand, one of the bandits crept over the tender of the engine and forced the engineer to apply the emergency brakes. When the train came to a stop near Cassandra, east of Johnston, the bandits jumped off and fled. The train tnen started for Johnstown and mall clerk Lantz was taken to a hospital where It is said his Injuries were not serious. Before the train left the scene . the hold up the conductor ran to nearby railroad" telephone and notified the railroad offices at Altoona and every bit of Pennsylvania railroad and Blair county police machinery was si t in motion to trail the bandits. NORTHCLIFFE INCIDENT 13 "CLOSED" LONDON, July 30. All the morning papers devoted much space to the controversy between Llod George AdnvcInstration ar.d Lord Northcliffe. Long cablegrams -ers pr.nted from Wa.'Lington where Lord Northcliffe is now vi'iting. The Dally Herald, orgaa of the Laoor part, refused to attach any importance to :ie quarrel. "It Is the most amusing piece cf low comedy that British politics has produced in a ions time," said th) Dally Heralc. "Two of our greatt Jtmsgogues have turned back-jnat comedians with the whole broad Atlantic as their stage. Northcliffe d- -nies that he said it. What if he d.d or what if he didat: it does not makj any difference e'ther way." Foreign office officials refused today to make any further comment upon Ird Northcliff e's statement. They said that the "Northcliffe Incident i closed." WORKERS FAIL TO GET TOGETHB Master plumbers and Journeymen of. Hammond held another meeting yesterday In an effort to reach an agreement whereby the plumbers might resume work while waiting: for a wage decision from Chicago. While th?7 got nearer togcUier than at any previous meeting they failed to reach an agreement. The main point at issue now is whether a master plumber should be allowed to use tools on his own Job. The bosses want the privilege and ttie men held to the contrary.