Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 36, Hammond, Lake County, 2 August 1921 — Page 1

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THE WEATHER l"nattled tonight vlth ahoirrrl Ij fast iortion j cooler In toutb portion t Wednesday probably fair J lommhal uariafr In north por tlons Wednesday. fcellvcred by Camari in Bunmoa. and W. Hammond. 50o pex montn on treets and news stands 3c per copy. E COUN VOL. XV, NO. 3G. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA MM

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Six Cars of Chicago-Bound Train Leaves Rails Near Detroit (BULLETIN) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DETROIT. Mich. Aug. 2. With one of the most 'disastrous railroad wrecks and collisions in recent years averted narrowly, two men were under arrest today on suspicion of having VTecked the 12:45 west bound Michigan Central all-Pullman train at Inkster. Railroad detectives and police found that the "fish plates" binding the tracks together had been removed at the spot vhere the engine derailed. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DETROIT, MICH.. Aug. 2 Three persons were seriously injured ana more than a hunclred others imperiled when six cars of the Chicagc-bound Michigan Central all pullman tra'.n. leaving- Detroit at 12:30 a. m. left the tracks at Inkster near here early today. A catastrophe fcke the one at Porter, Ind. was narrowly averted when eas'tbound train No. 20 leaving Chicago at 5:40 reached the scene although it brushed the side of the wreckage. It -was stopped before any additional damage was done. Three persons, an engineer and fireman and Andrew E. Baumstark. a passenger of Atlanta. Ga. were Injured. Baumstark --eras taken unconscious to a hospital. He was badly burned about the feet and suffered from severe bruises. One hundred passengers -a-ere hurlo from their berths when the train left the tracks. The engine toppled over pinning the engineer ar.d firemen beneath the wreckage. The engineer. Robert Block, of Jaonson. Mich, pinned beneath his cab laughed and Joked with rescuers as they cut the steel away from him with an acetylene torch. It took more than three hours to release him. Six cars on the west bound train left the rails but repiained upright. Baggagemen on the derailed train had narrow escapes from serious Injury as trunks piled at the front end of their car were thrown to ihe rear. One baggage car was a complete wreck. MY SEELEY ON STATE BO. Governor McCray, from his home in tXentland Saturday announced the appointment of the new state board of registration and examination of engineers, .one of the new bodies created by the last legislature. Ray Seeley. of Hammond, was appointed a member of the board to serve for three years. Clyde A. Walb, of Lagrange, and Harvey Mitchell Anthony, of Muncie, were also named to serve for two years, and Charles W. Cole of South Bend, and K, L. lieCormick, a professor in the Rose Polytechnic School, Tcrre Haute, to serve for one year. The new law requires persons practicing professional engineering or land surveying in Indiana hereafter to submit evidence of qualifications to the board and to be licensed and registered. The positions on the board pay J10.00 a day. A secretary is to be employed. The secretaryship will be one of a number of new offices provided by the last legislature. The law lays down certain requirements for engineers and prescribes a fee cf $25 for registration, which goes toward the support of the board. HAVE YOU SEEN DONALD AKERS? A country wide search is being conducted for Edward Donald Akers. son of R. B. Akers of North Judson, Ind., and nephew of Mr. E. I. Matthews, of B61 State Line street, Hammond. Akers disappeared from Indlanapojis on the Fourth of July, at which time he intended to go to Chicago and from there to the home of his father. He never appeared at North Judson and his family, fearing foul play, have offered a reward of $200 for information which will lead to his discovery. If nothing has happened to the young man. he may be in the Calumet region, lie is described as follows: About 26 years of age. 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weigh ing about 136 pounds. He has dark brown hair, brown eyes and a ruddy cornplexlon. Relatives urge that any Information as to his whereabouts be forwarded either to his father or to the Chief of Police at Indianapolis.

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Did You Hear That IT is said Dr. Leonard J. Moran is about to commit matrimony. PARK SUPT. HOLTZ has some of the handsomest flowers In Harrison Park this summer ever seen in the city. MANY an arm overworked through shaking a few drops of water nightly on a parched lawn took a lay off today because of the beautiful rain. PETER J. LYONS, former city engineer has just returned from a combined business and fishing trip. Peter says Ed. Simon will be the next mayor. FOUR o'clocks are more plentiful than ever this year but as usual the beds at the 'West Hammond fire station have tJiem all skinned for siz and beauty. HARLAN ANDERSON. is another intrepid young man. He will claim Miss Margaret Byrn as his bride showily. Miss Byrn is a teacher in the Hammond sThools. THE tilt at the Parthenon Is still underway. Patrons are in hope that Elliot Conroy will be retained as first violinist instead of being supplanted by a Chicago Heights man. HAMMOND visitors at the PaJof Prog are unecided whether to knock or boost. It is and it isn't. When anyone asks if the Paj is a good sbow the answer is yes and no. DR. O. O. MELTON brought to light a pitiful case of governmental neglect of an ex-service man In Hammond who is dying of tuberculosis following the ravages of gas. JACK EXECH says that his proposed battle royal with auto drivers as participants at Porter Speedway on Sunday is bringing out a swarm of drivers who want a whack at the game. BILL T?EATTY of the Beatty Machine & Manufacturing Co. turned $3.75 back into the Rotary Club for the Widows and Orphans fund but had little comment to make. Can you beat it? STATE game commissions Saturday brought cheer to Lake county fishermen. They dumped a huge can of bass, fingerling size, in Wolfe Lake. They"ll be ready for business in about another year . THE falling off in business has been so great that hotel proprietors cannot reduce their rates without losing mere money than they already are losing, according to a statement issued by the hotel association. MAYWOOD PARK has been Improved wonderfully by the installation of about fifty park benches. Now if the board would just keep those geeae of the grass it would be a fairly comfortable place. THAT the tax payer may know how his money is being spent Dr. G. L. Smith and associate members of the school board have supplied material for a series of articles. The facts should be of interest to every parent. BEFORE starting for Mackinac Island and the Snow Islands today Joe Conroy purchased a new overcoat and a couple of suits of heavies as it is pretty chilly up there. Looks like he may get to wear them on the way up. WHILE eating dinner with the editors at the Michigan City prison on Friday, Herman Sasse was surprtsea to recognize his table waiter as Red Parker, the lifer who was sentenced for his part in the Tolleston bank robbery . MANT persons on reading the announcement of the Masonic picnic for August 13 thought the Shrine blowout had been changed from next Saturday. Not so. They are two separate events and the Shriners will cavort as advertised at Harrison Park. REGARDING the proposed constitutional amendment to the tax law. D. J. Moran says that he Joes not believe any man ought to be compelled to mortgage property to pay taxes. Tax according to income, he says, favoring the amendment. GU3 SIMONS who retires soon ao chief of the prohibition agents was highly excited this morning when those who have been working witn him presented him with a handsome diamond scarf pin with a "Good luck and God bless you" card attached. ODD FELLOWS from all parts or the 6tate are attending the Odd Fellows' State convention which is being held at Emerson, Ind. commencing today. A program of especial interest has been arranged and hundreds of Odd Fellows are expected to attend. "CONDUCT unbecoming a minister?" says the arbitration board or the Rev. C. M. Smithson. What's the matter? Did the preacher refuse to take a second helping of friea chicken at the church social or did he forget to take up the usual Sunday morning collection? "I CALL it pretty good work." siys Mrs. Jennie Delong, Postal Telegraph operator in commenting on the capture c the young Chicago housebreaker who entered two Sibley st. homes reiently. "Ten days from the time that boy was in our house the police had him and we had our jewelry back . "

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Cholera and Famine Fill Roadways With Unburied Corpses t BULLETIN.) t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERViTE BERUX, Ausr. 2 -A wireless despatch from Moscow today ald that report of RnsMa's distress from plague and famine that are now bcln circulated In foreign countries "re exaggerated. The wireless message which was dated July 2. was artdressed to the Berlin bureau of the International News Sen Ice. It follows j "Horrible stories aprend by the foreign pre concerning the disastrous situation on the Vola provinces are largely exaggerated.." INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BERLIN, Aug. 2. More than 10.000,000 persons face death in Russia today. Cholera is spreading. Famine conditions are worse every 24 hours. The morale of the people is breaking down. Hundreds of thousands are in flight and the roadways in the Samara district are filled with unburied corpses. Practically all of the workshops are Idle, The railway transportation system has nearly collapsed. But there was one ray of hope today and it came from the United States. The news that America will aid Russia caused a wave of relief in Germany, Poland and the Baltic states. It is believed that the American assistance will check the wild flight of hundreds of thousands of peasant from the famine stricken cholera ridden districts. Germany and the states adjoining Russia on the west have feared migration of vast numbers of Russians who would overrun the countries like a, plague in their panic of fear and suffering. Riga will become the center of distribution of American relief. Word from that city today said that Russian conditions were so appaling that they could not be adequately described. The cities and rural districts are Infernos of disease, death, Clth and hunger. An epidemic of insanity is sweeping some of the plague spots. The physicians who have been sent to the worst districts by Maxim Gorky's relief committee have been unable to accomplish much . The city of Tambow has been sacked by hunger-maddened 'mobs. tab horses were killed for the flesh. Cavalry was attacked and their horses taken for food. In the Samara district where cholera is mounting steadily the forsaken villages and the highways are filled with panic stricken children who have been deserted by their parents jn the nightmare of horror. These young children are dying on every hand. Their wasted littU bodies, barely clothed within the limits of decency, lie along the highways and in the fields. Everything that bares flesh is being eaten. Cats, dogs, rats, wild animals of every description, are utilized as food. Grass and weeds are cooked into soup. The towns and villages are squalid with fllth. All sanitary arrangements have collapsed;MICH. CITY MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aug. J As a result of the activities of state and federal authorities in cleaning up the w:et spots in Michigan City, Otto Hirschman, alderman from the Third Ward is in jail with a fine of $690 and a penal farm sentence of thirty-five days hanging over him. Eleven men were rounded up in-the raids last Thursday and yesterday three more on whom evidence was obtained by the officers came in and entered pleas of guilty. They were Sam Maullin, Frank Knoll and his son, Max Knoll. They received fines ranging from $460 to $690 and the customary thirty-five days. The arrest of Alderman Hirschman brought the total up to fifteen, quite a little colony-for the penal farm. Hirschman pleaded not guilty when arrested but when he was confronted by two investigators from the office of the attorney general he admitted selling liquor to them. He paid $200 and costs on each of three counts. His son asked to be prosecuted in place of the alderman but Prosecutor Earl Rowley refused the offer. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DIES AT MILLER SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. August 2. Prof. Otto Steifel, head of' the Ross schools died at his home in Miller last night after .suffering with IBright's Disease for some time. A wife and a daughter survive him. The funeral arangeruents have not yet beea made.

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f INTERNATION AL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK. Aug. 2. Fire broke out in the New York Stock Exchange building this morning, but was extinguished before it did serious damage. It originated from crossed electric wires behind the annunciator board. The blaze burned through the wall of the building but was out before the market opened. The Exchange opened at 10 o'clock but immediately suspended until 1 P. M. owing to the smoke which was still in the building. INTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Aug. 2. Two prominent Louisville, Ky., society women were killed here today when a limousine in which they were touring turned turtle on the Lincoln Highway between Franklin Park and Ten Mile Run. Mir Delia E. Money was instantly killed and Mrs. Edward Rerson died in the Middlesex hospital here. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MILAN. Aug. 2. Violent earth, quake shocks were felt at Leghorn and in the vicinity today. Numerous deaths were caused at Bari Benedict Knuckle, a laborer employed by the city to clean up in Lake Front park, in Hammond, was struck and instantly killed by an east bound Lake Shore Dummy at 7:55 this morning. The body was hurled 100 feet by the impact and was horribly mangled. Knuckel evidently did not see the train ss It bore down on him. There are gates at the crossing but there was no watchman. Witnesses declare that the train was running at a high rate cf speed, and that it did not whistle for the crossing. While horrified witnesses of the tragedy were picking up the remains, another train roared by. also without warning. The body was taken to Burns' morgue. The dead man was about 70 years of age. He is survived by four children, Louis; Mrs. Frieda Relcheis; Mrs. Clara Kuslezy and Otto, with whom he lived at 204 Indiana avenue, Hammond. He has been a resident of this city for forty years and is well known and respected. Funeral , arrangements have not been nyide. GOT THE WRONGASSAILANTS Smacked so hard and so often by two assailants that he failed to recognize them before he took the count, Joe Machewicz of Kensington, made a flivver of his case last night when he had two West Hammond boys arrested on charges of assault and battery. The assault was supposed to have taken place Sunday evening in West Hammond. Joe and his cousin Felix, were walking along about fifty feet apart when two men attacked Joe. Joe slipped off into slumberland without getting one good look at the men who did it. Felix reached the scene too late to take a hand. He claimed to have recognized Paul Dombrowski and Stanley Sczypczak. However, on the witness stand in Judge Kowalski's court, Felix admitted that he didn't see a blow struck. He heard the racket and yaw his cousin fall. He also recognized the men but he couldn't swear that they had caused the downfall of Joe. So there the case ended and Judge Kowalskl dismissed the defendants. Attorney E. G. Sproat conducted the prosecution and Martin Finneran was attorney for the defendants. SENT TO JUVENILE COURT FOR TRIAL Fred Hughes, the 16-year-old desperado who attempted to avoid capture by pulling the trigger of his revolver three times, the weapon being pointed in the direction of Detective Singer of the Hammond police force, and whose life was saved only because the revolver failed to work, did not present so formidable appearance in the Hammond city court this morning. He wept at one time while being questioned by the Judge. He was bound over' to the juvenile court for trial. D. Johnson, 444 East 31st street, Chicago. was fined $10 for driving a truck on the boulevard. NEW BANK FOR CITY OF GARY The People's State Bank. Gary s lat- I eft addition to the banking world opened its doors for business at Seventh Avenue and Broadway j-esterday morn ing in the quarters formerly occupied by the Gary Trust and Saving's bank. Officers of the new bank are Michael A. Kliott. president and R. R. Hemmlngway. cashier. Vice presi dents are Thomas J. Hurley.. Edward Milgran. Davis) Tdilgram, I. Ruman and Pv R. HmTnjngwa.

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by the collapse of the genet al postoffice building. Eight bodies were recovered within a short time and it was feared others vyere under the debris. The greater part of the population of Leghorn fed from the ity and is now camping in the open fields. The monetary dajnage was very heavy. Among the victims at Bari was a Greek multi-millionaire. INTERNATIONAL N"WS SrRVIfFj BERLIN. Aug. 2. The H?anburger Nachrichten today printed an editorial protest against f.jhe possible appointment of Dai'id Jayne Hill as American ambassador to Germany. The newspaper accused Dr. Hill of working for America's entrance into the World War against Germany. riNTTRNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CHICAGO. Aug. 2. Automobile bandits held up Ben Sucherman, messenger for the Sixteenth Street State Bank, shortly before noon here today and robbed him of a satchel containing $3,000 inr cash and $340 in Liberty bond?. They escaped. COMPLETES At a tteetlnjr held last evening at the Fifth Avenue garasa in Gary.M. E. Noblett, manager of the Hooier State Automobile Association, announced that the club had completed all arrangements in Lake county 'for providing service, both mechanical and legal to members in the county. Connections have been made, with the leading garages in different -parts of the county. Each of these will furnish gasoline delivery, toi-n-in service and first aid mechanical iservice within a radius of five mileis of their garages. This does not meian ?f course that the gasoline is free. It means that the garage man maV.es no charge for delivering it to th "motorist in distress. Repairs are calculated to place stranded cars in cotndition to travel to the nearest relief station. When the call comes from a point outside the five-mile zone the motorist w-ill be taken care of but he will be charged for the extra mileage. The official stations now desfg-natwd are Newman's garage in Hammond. Fifth Avenue garage in Gary, Chismar Brothers' garage in Indiana Harbor, Claussen & Meeker's garage at Crown Point, Main garage at Lowell. Nickel Plate garage at Hobart and Wood & Son's garage at Deep River. Others may be designated later. Legal service is now available immediately to motorists who need it. The attorneys are Clyde Cleveland at. Hammond, J. Glenn Harris at Gary. Oscar Ahlgren at Whiting and Joei Brown at Crown Point. Mr. Noblett wishes to impress upon automobile owners that members of the Hoosier State Automobile Association, through its affiliation with the American Automobile Association, are entitled to the same mechanical and legal service throughout the country as they receive in Indiana. At the same time motorists belonging to other clubs will be accorded the same treatment in Lake county and Indiana as members of the Hoosier State club receive. "In other words." he said, "we will take care of all of our members and the members of the American Automobile association in trouble in this state just as the Chicago motor clubs take care of ours in Chicago. Since our little conference with Chief FUzmorris in Chicago our emblem will be recognized there as other oJub emblems." "What we need now is more members," continued Mr. Noblett. "The association has marked four roads through Lake county and has erected signs. Now it has arranged for service to members. The only way this can be paid for is out of membership fees so we must have more members." TRUSTEES SELECT ATTENDANCE OFFICER rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES . CROWN POINT. IND., Aug. 2 A meeting of the township trustees was held at Co. Pupt. of Schools, Heighway office Monday. Charles Burge of Leroy was appointed county attendance officer for Lake county, having charge of this work out sic"e of the corporated cities. Mr. Burge is now trustee of Winfield township and his new office creates a vacancy there which will be fU'd by appointment made by Co. , frl George M. Foland. The reg-Ui-..joutine work of the trustees was transacted at their monthly meeting held the first Monday of each month.

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Caruso Dies In Naples, Italy Enrico Caruso. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, Aug. 2. Earico Caruso, the worlds greatest singer, died, today at Naples, according to a Reuther dispatch from the Italian City. NAPLES. Aug. 2. The goldten voice of Enrico Carusa is stilled forever, the gallant and spectacular fight jvhich the world-famous tenor has waged against disease ended early this mo'rnSng when Caruso died here from Acute Peritonitis. Mrs. Caruso was at the bodslde. Caruso's death was not unexpected. The attending specialists had anmounced last night that the patient wafl sinking rapidly and that he -would. Barely survive another 24 hours, evep if he held out that long. At midnight it was announced thtat Caruso was dying. His strength "was ebbing swiftly and already the dejith coma was hovering ovtfR jj'm. The physicians were iiponstant attendance and continuo'R.- administered resnoratives but the battle was ended. The last direct advice bearing on the health of Caruso wene received by the International News Service from Italy the middle of July. They paid that the singer was rapidly regaining his old-time vigor and . would be able to sing again next wintrr. Caruso is 4S years of age. He contracted pleurisy from a bad cold in New Tork City last winter and underwent a series of operations. At one time, he was given up by his doctors ani his friends bade him final farewell, bjt he rallied. He went to Italy to cuperate. NEW TORK. Aug. 2. Bs-oadway -was touched deep in its real heart benw-ath the paint and the brightest lights, by word received today that Enrico Caruso, its beloved star, was dead. The famous tenor's fellow artists, of the opera had fled the heart of the city but his friends and admirer-a of the orchestra and gallery seats were saddened by the news and on every side in theatrical circles today, were heard expressions of sympathy and regret. BANKERS TO PLAY THE TIMES TEAM The baseba'l fans, cf Hammond are doe for a real treat, as not since last season ha3 it been their good fortune to have the opportunity to gaza upon such a game of baseball as the one to be played at 4:30 p. m., Wednesday a Harrison Park. . The Times baseball team will play the Hammond Bankers, providing, of course, that the weather man forgets that they want to play. He saw the Times team start for the park yesterday evening and Immediately started the rain, he didn't know just when they were to play, but decided to take no chances. ' The Times has all the eld stars that played lart season with several new ones added and promise to show some classy baseball, also many features not seen In the regular baseball games. The Bankers also are reported to have a very good team, having just defeated the Hammond coppers, and it is said they can handle a ball like a stack of twenty dollar bills. The Times has challenges from several different teams of Hammond and if able, after this game, will accept. ROBBER VICTIMS Hammond pople were victimized in a series of robberies in the last twentyfour hour. The heaviest loser was Nick Novick, who lives at 94S5 Huehn street. Hammond. His Hudson sedan was stolen in Chicago at the Jackson park boat landing. Fred M. Barfield. 71 Sibley street, was robbed of two shirts by a man who gained entrance in his home through a rear window. The thief also opened the gas meter but did not obtain anything. T. H. Hobbs, 20 Rimbach avenue, lost two shirts and a hat to a thief who broke into his home through the basement door '""

Report Says That Hammona Preacher Should Quit His Job Chrarglng that the congregation of

the First Christian chuch of Hammond at a meeting June 27. rpudialed. a signed contract ur.dr which th trial of the pastor was to be conducted, the board of arbitrators yesterday issued a written report censoring thv members of the churc,"h and finding th; Ktv. C. M.. Smithso'.i "suiity of conduct unbecoming a minister." The arbitrators recommend thi "the Hammond church and C. M. Smithson sever their relations as pastor and congregation." VIOLATED SACHED PROMISE f "We find alsif.,' they add. "that C. M. Smithson violated his sacr- u promise to the. arbitration commiti , which is a breach of honor." The report Ss signed by C. G. Kindred, pastor of the Englewood Christian church; A. I. ZelUr, Chicat Heights, and T. W. Grafton, Indianapolis, comprising the arbitration committee. The committee was ' fired" by a votof the corgrepati.'n at the meeting ' June 27. but refused to abide by indecision, dvci.il jii ,i tiiat a contract -x-isted whereby it was authorized t" recommend to the congregation whether it keep or disciuarge the pastor. WHAT CHARGES WERE. The Rev. C. M. Smithson was charged with being indiscreet in his relations with women.. At the congregational meeting whr-n the board of arbitration was charged with having "dilly-dallied" past 'be time that it should have had a Report prepared, the Rev. Smithson w;igiven a vote of confidence. Sine-. then the congregation contracUu with him to renuin two years more. Copies of the report of the board of arbitration are. being nt to each nember of the church by A. Dickinson, who was discharged, as chairman f the general boa.nrl at the congregational meeting in June, but refuses to afknowledge his dismissal, declaring tljat the meeting vas illegal.. The report of thje arbitration boatrf fth an introductory note by Dickin.jn follows: Hamond. Ind., Aug. 1, IS21. jDar Brother and Sister in Christ: I am sending to you and to each member of the regularly elected Church Board a copy t.f the findings of the Board of Arbitration as delivered to me by C. G. Kindred, as I v lieve that each membr of the Bjard is entitled to thi sinf orniation . Truly your brother. A. DICKINSON, ' t Cha&rman General Board. July ISth, 1P21. Report of Arbitration CommitteeHammond Christian Church vs. CM. Smithsoru. Whereas, the EliJers of the Hammond Christian. Church and Minister C. M. Smithsosi chase C. G. Kindred and A. I. ZeOer. respectively, to adjudicate a dtfferenre, super-congregational, that arose between them, and signed oontj-aoas dated May 5th, 1321. which we4 later catified at a congSgatiorsl meeting called for that ljrposev and Wheifeas. it was agreed by the Hammond church and Minister Smithson that C. G. Kindred and A. I. Zel'er should choose a third member who was to be a minister in good standing, and that this committee, at its own time and place should be provid'.u with documentary evidence and wiincrsts to aid them in forming a con- . c.usion, and Whereas, i vas agreed by hot parties in writing 'that they would abide by the 'ind'ngs cf the artitiation committee: therefore C. G. Kindred and A. I. Zeller chose T. W. Grafton as the third member of .! committee and called a meeting at Hotel Mee, Hammond, Indiana, 19th. 1321. After going over the documents &:: hearing the witnesses, it became cl. - to the committee that we would ' driven to a decision we did not czr to rea.h. Minitser Smithson v. n.called in, a frank statement mada u him about the situation, and it w:.put up to him to find a way out. Tii'r we did by agreeing to resign unconditionaly and without reconsideration upon condition that all officers o' the congregation do likewise. Representatives of both sides were broug'it before the committee and concurred in the proposition made by Minister Smithson. After this, the committer adjourned trusting both parties carry out the agreement. C. G. Kindred and A. I. Zeller. with the concurrence of T. W. Gii.'ton, called a meeting of the congregation June 27th, 1321. to receive til's resignations and carry out the agreement made June ISth, 1921. WU!i keen disappointment we discover that the meeting waa wrenched out of the committee's hands, turned into a factional congregational meeting controlled by folks favorable to C. M. Smithson. who repudiated the signed contract under which the committee was created. Therefort, we the undersigned committee, chosen aa per preamble and contract, make th following statement: We find said C. M. Smithson gulity of conduct unbecoming a minister and guilty as charged by the documents submitted to us. and we recommend the Hammond congregation and C. M. Smithson forthwith sever their relation as pastor and congregation. V also find that C. M. Smithson violated his sacred promise to the arbitration committee, which is a breach of honor. This report is made with a dc;n feeling of humility and prayer that the wound caused iy the present trouble may be speedily healed by th grace of Gcd. Signed. C. G. KINDRED. A. I. ZELLER. T. W. GRAFTON.