Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 38, Hammond, Lake County, 4 August 1921 — Page 1

ND FACTORY MANAGER IN DEEP TROUBLE THE WEATUEB Pair tonight and Friday, poaslbly becoming unsettled la north portion! omntiat warmer tonight. E COUNTY HI Pelivrred by Camera la Ktmmou, and W. Eunaond 50c pat moata on stret and nwi stands 3 per copy. VOL. XV, NO. 38. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA

IS ACCUSED OF SEVERAL AUTO THEFTS

ME UP MISTRESS

OF TIME SEAS

BRITISH TO KEEP NAVAL SUPREMACY

Goes Ahead With Construction of Four Huge New Battleships. I,, (BY GEORGE R. HOLMES) STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE) WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. Great Brit ain hu no intention of relinquishing her position a Mistress of the Seas, at tna forthcoming Washington disarmament convention. This Is tha Interpretation placed today In high naval quarters here on the action f the British admiralty a.nd House Commons In voting to go ahead with the Immediate construction of four new powerful battleships. The acquisition of these great dreadnaughts will allow Great Britain to retain her naval supremacy which was seriously endangered by the American and the Japanese programs. Should England have stood still in naval building and America and Japan completed their present programs the three greatest naval powers in the world, would have gathered around the conference table in Washington on nearly an even footing. As it is Great Britain will enter the conference with the greatest navy in the world and then fight for -proportionate reduction." which, if adopted, will permit her to emerge from the conference still the world's leading naval power. The attitude of the United States toward this plan of reduction has not ben made clear, nor has that of JaI'an. In proposing the laying down of the four new vessels the British admiralty disclosed there will be no "scrapping" of first-class ships. The scrapping, if there is to be any, will be confined to older vessels vessels which have now served their time on the seas of the world. There is no thought, the admiralty secretary said, that the powers con cerr.ed. would deer... the junttng of ships already built and building. This was taken as indicting toda: that the conference will concern it self more with limiting f'iture opera tinnn than with endeavoring to reduc or decrease the size of the navies now existent. PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY HAS IT'S FIRST MEETING Hammond's Newest Organi zatian Meets at Mackey Home. The first meeting of the Hammond Society of Psychology was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mackay, the moving spirits. Mr. Mackay. who presided, discussed with those present the new translations of the scriptures being made by Dr. M. A- Miller from old Greek manuscripts. "No religion has departed so far from the teachings of its founder as that of the Christian religion," declared Mr. Mackay. "The accepted translation of the Bible will be greatly appllfied by the new and literal translations. The St. Jl.rr.es, translation which is the Protestant Bible is merely an amplification of the Jerome translation. In a paper on marriage. Miss Vera Holmes of Chicago, said that it is a principle of nature that each entity seek vibratory correspondence with a 'ike entity. Brunettes are magnetic and blondes electric. The combination should work, according to the laws of natural science, Miss Holmes said. Health is the principle of existence, she declared. In seeking a mate, the young man or young woman should rot permit sentiment to sway reason. Personality is but a demonstration of the physical condition and mental attitude, she added.. "It is very seldom that a blonde man and a blonde woman or a brunette man and a brunette woman can live In harmony," said Miss Holmes. "There Is not enough difference in their natures to keep them interested. "As & rule women are developed in the spiritual aid the love of the beautiful more In the ability to reason. The day will come when woman will be guided more by reason and less by Intpition and man-kind will be happier." PETROGRAD REPORTED CALM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PARIS, Aug. i Travelers arriving at Helslngfors from Petrograd report that Petrograd is calm and that no mutinies have broken out there, said a dispatch to the newspaper L'lnformation today. It added that the population expects international intorvenion and that the city will be declared a free town with th administration in the hands of British functionaries. It was recently reported that an English company had secured the entire harbor concession of Petrograd from the soviet and that the Petrograd street railway lines would be turned !&ck 9 their Belrian owners.

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ATHLETE REX HIDT Is nursing a sore right arm. He wrote his stuff left handed today. THE break In the hot spell was at least a stimulus to show business. The Parthenon did well the past week. SCORES of unemployed men are to be seen at all hours of the day In Harrison park. There have been as many as 200 and 300 at a time. THE machine belonging to John Stepanovlch, 3718 Guthrie st.. East Chicago, was burnt up on Standard Sve. near the bridge yesterday. MATOR DAN BROWN is once more enjoying good health after his selge of illnesia. i The mayor suites he la tip top shape for a stiff campaign. TICKETS for the Masonic picnic, to be held August 13th, are on sale at the Masonic Temple, Mlllikan'a, ilonnetts; MiUett's; Nelson's and Startsman s. WHAT did the bankers have on the police force that they, were able to trim them In thj Ta,sebaJl game? The drag didn't work on The Times bunch last night. JOE MILLER the Chicago Heights man who bought out the Hellerman shoe store is celebrating his advent into Hammond business circles by putting ou a big sale. J. E. TRESCOTT and G. C. Davis, 789 Walter st. have returned from Michigan where Mr. Davis purchased a farm. The Davis family will move to Michigan this fall-. BY defeating the crack LaPorte goli team 26 to 4. the bouth Uend' golfers are claiming the championship of Northern Indiana and will play Hammond or any other team, to prove It. A TOLEDO man is advertising to and his wife, whom he says, wears rolled stockings ana has a bird tattooed just below her right !Jif. Some of our best scouts say she is not in this tow n . ENCOURAGING news comes from Judge V. S. Keiter who 13 taking a course of treatment at Battle Creek, Mich., that he is feeling better already. He will remain three weeks longer. DAVID EMERY, manager of the Bankers ball team, emphatically denied today that the game with the printers was thrown yesterday. In order to get a return match for a big side bet. EVEN the $1 there and back excursion rates failed to draw people from Lake county to the dunes. They are simply not interested. The Chicago people who go there are looked upun as freaks. PRINCIPAL SPOHN of the high school, is hard at work on an elaborate program for the coming school year. The scholastic standing of the high school has been notably increased by Prof. Spohn. ABOUT 200 barkers of the K. of Cbaseball team will take advantage or the 69 cent excursion to Valparaiso and accompany the team there Sunday. The Nickel Plate train leaves Hamrhcnd at 12:22 new time. A SALE of stolen property recovered by X Hammond police department, but unclaimed, will be held at the City H?l! on Augut't U"h. There are sorro good bargain and l auctioneer wn ian tell the world that thev are go BUS and flivver drivers breathed easier yesterday when they learned that the city council had passed no legislation placing restrictions on them to protect the street car company. They were expecting something of that order . RADICALISM is on the Increase In the region. A great many complaints have been made against socialistic speeches made from time to time on the CentraJ school grounds. Red literature has been freely distributed of late. REV. FATHER JOHN BERG, pastor of St. Joserh's church, Hammond, and a committee of men of this city, will tsend the convention of the Catholic Central Society at Fort ,Wayhe beginning August 7th and lasting until the 10th. FRANK M. LAKE, who used to be M. A. Dickover's right hand man In the contracting business, writes that he Is now settled at 1714 Lertard St., Dallas, Tex., and warffa The Times. He adds the post script: "Oh but it Is HOT here." THE atmosphefs around the prohibition enforcement office at the federal building continues unsettled and Bob Harrington is beginning to believe that maybe he dreamed that stuff about being appointed group chief. Ills cre dentials hav not arrived yet. FRANK WACHEWICZ. the real estate man who Just returned from a two week's vacation In Michigan has entered the ranks of golfers. He spent several days on tha links at St. Joe, Mich., under the tutelage of Leonard Hlrsch and now Is ready to challenge all comers. TICKETS for the trip to Hudson Lake o er the South Shore for the county Masonic piiiie August 13 havu been placed on sale at the Masonic Temple, Mell Monnett's cigar store, the MilleU and Millikan Sporting Goods stores; Startsman's store and Nelson's drug store v

GARY FIRE CHAUFEUR LOSES CASE Harry White Must Go Back To South Carolina To Stand Trial

Harry White, former chauffeur of the Gary fire department, must go back to Charleston, South Carolina to stand trial on a charge of stealing an automobile. Such was the ruling of Judge Hardy In Room 3 of the Hammond superior court last evening when the hearing was held on Whites petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition named William A. Forbis chief of police of Gary, and Richard Murphy, agent of the state' of South Carolina as defendants. White was arrested July 25 In Gary and hld as the man wanted by Charleston police. On August 1, Governor McCray of Indiana issued a warrant to Murphy by virtue of a requisition issued by Governor Johnson of South Carolina. White was about to be taken back south when his attorney. Harry P. Sharavsky. started the habeas corpus proceedings. He insisted he was not a fugitive from justice and that no specific charge had been placed against him. In the hearing he said he was in Charleston at the time mentioned and that he had hired an automobile to take him from the hotel to another part of the city. He said he paid the driver and started for Gary and denied that he had been implicated in any theft. Attorney Sharavsky fought the extradition on the grounds that the papers called for H. E. White, alias David White alias Davis White. However. Prosecutor Kinder was able to show the court that it was merely an uncertainty regarding the first name and that the description accompanying the papers fitted the man arrested. Judge Hardy, denied the writ and remanded White to the custody of Chief Forbis. Prior t5 entering the army in 1918 White drove a truck in the fire department and 15 lived in Gary prac tically all of the time since he received hi sdischarge. HARBOR MAN DDSENT LIKE IQ RAQP.AIN unnunm John C. Borowski of Indiana Harbor, is trying to get out of a what he believes to have been a bad bargain. Today he filed suit for damages in the Hamomnd superior court against William and Anna Pletrow.vki from whom he purchased the lease on the Auditorium theatre on April 23. Borowski says the Pietrowjkis had been running a movie and vaudeville show in the house and told him that they were cleaning up a net profit of JirjQ to $125 every week: It looked good to him so he paid them $1,172 and ran the show a little over a month. He says it was long enough for him to learn that the business had been misrepresented. The financial returns were so slim that he rescinded the sale on June Sd. and returned the leaw; to the defendants. They have refused to pay back his $1,172. so now he has brought suit to recover tS.oO1) from the Pietrowskis. W. T. Dickerman of Chicago and Sheerer & White of Hammond are attorneys for the plaintiff. SEEKING TO BREAK OP DAIRY TRUS1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Aug. 4. The Indiana manufacturers of dairy products and thirty-eight members of the organization throughout the state are named defendants in court brought by the state legal department in the Marlon county superior court today, charging combination in restraint of trade. The suit asks for a permanent injunction to prevent further operation of the alleged gigantic .'dairy trust" and asks that a receiver be appointed to wind up the corporate affairs of the defandants. The complaint Is almost identical with that filed recently against the so-called state-wide "ice trust." Dealers in milk and cream and manufacturers of butter. Ice. cream and other dairy products In twentynine cities are named. The list includes: "Cloverleaf Creamers, Inc.. Huntington; F. H. George & Co., Ft. Wayne; Sohn's Product Co.. Marlon; West Side Milk Co., South Bend; Chamberlain Ice Cream Co.. Lafayette, and Ray & Arnold Creamer Co., Logansport. Indianapolis, Kokomo. Anderson and Miinele dealers also are defendants, as well as sellers of dairy stuffs In smaller cHl.e?, ?f94iCr K? no lRv?lved

Bandits In Hammond Joe Vereab. of East Gary vras beta up In bis auto this afternoon at Summer at. near the power house and rob" bed of 92,000 In bonds and cash by four a raxed auto bandits who fired at him 3 times, one ballet going through hi bat.

Boy Train Wrecker Who is Now Held On Murder Charge Air " r i A 4, in Johnny Arre, the fourteen year old boy of Glenburn. Pa., is shown here as he signed a confession that he wrecked the Lackawanna Limited killing two persons and injuring others. He placed a heavy bolt on the track in order to have the train flatten it out. Accused by His Brother of Killing Their Aged Mother. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BOONVILLE, INI).. Aug. 4 Format charge of murder was to be placed today against Dollie Dc.ffendoll. 22 yeaxs old for the alleped slaying of his widowed mothtr Mrs. Martha Deffendull. 70 years of age. In a signed statement. Willlas Deffendoll 17, is reported to have accused his elder brother of thcrime saying Doilie shot his mother's head off when she refused to give him furniture with which to "set up housekeeping." Both brothers were taken to jail following the discovery cf the woman's dc-ipitated body in a wood near the home at Heilman, lnd. Both persistently denied knowledge of the alleged murder until the younger brother, according to county authorities, confessed that Dollie became enraged because his mother refused the furniture and shot her. Dollie, ac cording to the confession was engaged to marry Miss Shoptaugh of Eames Station, and the girl had demanded a furnished home as a condition of the marria ge . GREAT SCOTT, HARDY REFUSES TO FIGHT Jake Kasper Pulling Carpentier Stuff in Schrum's Woods. Plans for the big Shrine picnic at Harrison Park on Saturday were given a Jolt today when George Mallett announced that Judge Walter Hardy had balked on entering the ring in the first four round championship fight. "I never dream' l my man would hesitate an instant," said Promoter Mallett with a rueful countenance today. "I knew the judge was a little over weight for the lightweight class, but we could have trained off some of It this week and a little cash would have made it all right with the referee. "I don't know who was to have opposed him but maybe the judge found out some way. I'm looking for another man now as my forfeit has been posted over a week. It was all supposed to have been kept secret but It's hard for a man to keep I1I3 mouth shut when he gets a setback like I just received. So far I haven't been able to land on a substitute." Mallett was seen in confreence wih Mayor Brown this morning. Brown kept shaking his head and Mallett still looked blue when he left the office so it Is supposed that he failed to land another prospect. Not a line can be learned from the other training camps. Jake Kasper has been se-en rushing in a: on of an -ild barn In the Schrum woolU the last few days with towels and buckets and such things, but he persistently refuses to bo interviewed or let anyone approach the building. He's pulling some of that Carpentler stuff. The two-four round bouts continue to be the leading topic for speculation In conrjectiofl wtji the forthcoming picnic

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INDIANA

YOUNG

CHARGED WITH MURDER

HARBOR-BOUND RESPONSIBLE

The question of liability of drivers of motor vehicles using the public highways, in case of accident, has always been raised as a result of the wreck at New Carlisle, lnd., last Thursday. The New York Central railroad is repor'.ed to be determined on a thorough invetftigatlon of the cise. as a part of the coroner's inquest, with the purposi of at least clearing the railroad of responsibility if not tlxtng the responsibility for the accident, which resulted in the less of one life, upon the driver of the Indiana Harbor bound truck which caused derailment of the train. Whila acoording to law, the drivers of vehicles using the highways are fuUy responsible in case of accidents resulting from their negligence. In practice to collect damages from a driver or a small truck company, because of their limited financial resources. RAILROADS OFTE.V BLAMED It is comparatively easy to collect from the railroad both because of Its resources and of because the railroad Is anxious to maintain a favorable position In the eyes of the public. ' Concernii.g the present wreck, it now appears that the truck driver who. It is said, drove his machine up-j on the New York Central right of way where it became stalled and derailed a! locomotive and nine coaches, was not 5 EM' NEWS FLASHES (BULLETIN) riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Aug. 4. The public library at Ligonier. Ind.. is given a bequest of $1,000 in the will of the late Isaac D. Straus, former vice president of Straus Brothers Co.. probated here, today. The Straus company was established at Ligonier in 1832. The Straus estate is valued at $1,600,000. the widow receiving a third and the three sons dividing virtually all of the remainder. (BULLETIN) nJTERNATfCNA' NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Aug. 4. Postoffke inspectors, railroad detectives and claim agents hurried from here today to join the search for bandits who held up a Big Four train from Chicago at Wood River, 111., early today and escaped with a registered mail sack said to contain $40,000 in cash. Large checks belonging to the Standard Oil Company were on the train, officers of the company said today. Payment will be stopped on the checks, they said. (BULLETIN) riNTcMTTNi NEWS SERVICE' WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. The death of Enrico Caruso already has led to an overwhelming demand for phonograph records of his voice, according to Washington dealers. One of the largest houses in Washington reported today that it has had several orders for "every Caruso record in the shop." (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONA' NTWS SERVICE1 WOOD RIVER, III., Aug. 4. Three unmasked bandits early today held up the messenger of the Big Four Railroad here, grabbed a sack of registered mail, said to contain $40,000 in cash, and escaped toward St. Louis in a high powered automobile. The money was sent out of Chicago last night. Posses are trailing the bandits. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NWS SERV'ICFT BRAZIL. Ind.. Aug. 4. John J. Jones, mayor of Brazil, has been appointed federal prohibition officer for the Terre Haute district by Bert Morgan, state proh i b i t i o n director, it was announced today. Judge Bryan of Greencastle is to be named chief deputy. Jones will tender his resignation as mayor. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BEDFORD. Ind.. Aug. 4. Traffic was resumed today on the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroad following the wrecking of a frieght train loaded with coal, stone and foodstuffs near here. Railroad officials are investigating the cause of the crash in which fourteen cars piled up. No one was injured. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Aug. 4. Within twejve hours after he and his aj-

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FOR DAMAGES the employe of a large truck company but was "on his own." The L.t H. Wert company, contractors, which hired the string of trucks, one of which was hit, states' that the men were hired as individuals and not through a contracting firm. The trucks had finished their work in South Bend and were on their way back to Indiana Harbor when the accident occurred. I.VJl'RY CLAIMS ARE SETTLED Five South Bend people were Injured in " the wreck. The most severe injuries were received by Paul Joers, of 610 North Cushing street, who is still confined to his home, with a fractured rib. It was reported today that the railroad company had made full settlement with Mr. Joers and with four other South Bend people who sustained injuries In the wreck. In fact a majority of the claims are believed to have been promptly settled by the railroad company, so the question of claims Is not the most important factor in the railroad's demand for an inquest. Neither does the payment of claims amount to an admission f responsibility by the railroad company, as such payment was an ordinary' precaution in view of the unreasonable suits which are sometimes brought against a great corporation. Engineer Daniel L. Flynn. of Elkhart, who died Sunday at St. Joseph's hospital in South Bend, of injuries sustained in the wrec't, was burled Tuesday at Hillsdale. Mich, his old home. leged "affinity" had been trapped in a North Side apartment last night, Wm. Cyrus Sprague, prominent Chicago -author, lawyer, publisher and clubman, was named in a suit for divorce filed today by his second, wife, Mrs. Mabel Jones Bush Sprague. flMTrONlTIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Aug. 4. Following a quarrel, Emil Boyer, 35. stabbed his wife, Nellie Boyer, to death early today and then hanged himself to a chandelier by a clothes line. MADE IN BOND ORDER The city of Hammond Is S918.75 better off today than it expected as a result of a change whit-h the Public Service Commission has mU'e in one claus of its supplemental order granting permission to issue $SPO,000 worth of bonds for the waterworks improvements. The city originally asked for permission to issue $612,500 worth of 5 per cent serial bonds. When this was granted the city was ordered to -jy $918.73, the fee required by statute. When it was found that the amount or the issue would be insufficient and that the bonds would not meet ready sale a new petition was presented. ine amount was Increased to $S0O.00O and the rate changeu to 6 per cent. The fee on this issue was $1,200. As the first order was rescinded by the Commission, that body decided also that J;he city should not be required to pay the fee which had been charged. Hence it was credited to the $1,200 fee leaving the city a balance or only $2S1.25 to pay. MR. MARTINIS VERSION Editor Times. In your first page article last night regarding the us of voting machines you state that I chanfiS that the republican would have an advantage that would spell ruin for the democrats. I made no such statement. I would not say so if I thought it was true, which I positively do not. I voted against the use of machines because in my opinion the Australian ballot provides the medium whereby the voters have a better opportunity to express their choice of officials. Heretofore voting machines have greatly Increased "straight ticket" voting which Is what the politicians want. This Is cause? largely by the fact that sufficient opportunity has not been given voters to familiarize themselves with the machines before election and on election day sufficient time is not given the voter to vote a "split ticket,." Signed, FRANK B. MARTIN. Councilman Ninth Ward HAMMOND COUPLES WEDAT LOWELL LOWELL. Ind., Aug. i. Rev. C. A. Brown pastor of the First M. E. Church of Lowell, united In marriage Melvin Parks to Violet A. Armstrong and Jesse C. Hanley to Miss Amanda Peterson. The young couple secured their marriage licenses at Crown Point and then drove to Lowell to have the double wedding performed. All the parties are residents of Hammond. SHRINERS NOTICE AH members of Orak are urgently requested to attend the special meeting Thursday evening at 8:00 o'clock at the Temple to complete arrangements for the picnic. This includes the ratrol. Drum Corps and members cf t'.ie committees. WILLIS FORD, I-?-? Chairman,

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J. Walter Keller, Pratt Food Co. Head, Under Arrest In Chicago

(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NtS SERVICE! SPRINGFIELD. Penn.. Aug. 4. Joseph S. Keller, father of J. W. Keller, declared today that reports concerning his son's connection with automobile thefts were undoubtedly incorrect. He insisted that J. Walter had an ex:ellent reputation in business and private life and that while he frequently speculated in second hand automobiles, they were purchased through a Chicago garage. (BCLLETLX.) CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 4i(Ki p. nu Trn charge ot larceny will be made againat Lieut. Col. J. W. Kllcr, -ir of a wealthy Philadelphia Iimily and manager of a half million dollar company at Hammond, lnd., when he la booked tomorrow for the ; nllcjted thefts of automobiles, uecordlng to upvrutlx-B of the police d. pnrtiacat. Already the police have recovered five automobile xitld to liuve bct-n stolen by the alli-jtvd millionaire burglar," whore uiionvi3 uuiuia for theft la puzzling the :iutli-;i Itlcf. They arc on the trull of the other live. The police are myntin'-d tuuiiy as to the wbercnbuutu of Mri, Keller, who had been Hvins; with her UunlniuJ In u $2,7!M-n"yenr suite at an iic.ushe hotel. Klio could not he found sind no one knew where the had none. A bomb was i-xplmiod in Hammond business circles yisitiduy when it became known that J. Wult'.r JCeller, manager of the Pratt Products Co. of Hammond, had been arn-sUJ .in Chicago, caught in thi act . soal ng an automobile in Grant park. "Amazing'' is the only thing they c uid .-ay. Flat disbelief was txpressed until ;he evidence, piling up cv after easa against the man, proved beyond a doubt that there was truth in the charges. J. Walter Keller was much respected as a buslnes man in this city. His reputation for Integrity was unquestioned . A squad of detectives from the auto section of the detective bureau' made the arrest. They found Keller in the act of substituting a wheel of his own for the locked steering wheel of a Ford car. Three other wheels were found at the Pratt Co. in Hammond by operatives from the Chicago department yesterday. Keller is the son of a Philadelphia millianaire, and was employed by his father at the Hammond plant. He was a lieutenant colonel during the war. and before that was a major in the Pennsylvania State Mounted Police. He Is prominent in club dries in Chicago, and is a graduate or Svrarthmore University. lie was married about a year ago to an heiress of Mendota, III. He maintained an expensive suite of rooms in the Del Prado hotel in Chicago, and was reputed to be wealthy in hfs own name. He steadily maintains his innocence. The key which unlocked the door to the mystery was a card found In Keller's pocket, issutd by the Harper Garage, 5649 Harper avenue, Chicago. Through this bit of pasteboard a number of the thefts were cleared up and an opening wedge was made niineh will no doubt lead to a complete solving of his activities. He represer.iea to the garage man that he had bough' the cars from strangers. One of the stolen machines. sime traced to H. H. Welsh, 1216 Astor siChicago, was sold to George St." John of Hammond, who later sold the machine to Harry J. Rlmbach of the Hammond police force. Rlmbach looked up the car and found that it had been stolen, and Keller was called to the station. This was about a month ago. Keller said that he had bought the machine from two strangers in a Chicago garage who had told fclm a hard luck story. On account of h sisplendid reputation his story . was believed. G. J. Simons, head of the prohibition agents in Hammond, was in the room when this Interview took place, and he said at the time that "That man is a crook ." As Dr. Jekyll. KeUer was a respected business man of Hammond, an invited guest in Hammond's homes, well liked and popular. As Mr. Hyde, he was the clever and resourceful auto thief a master crook, according o the authorities. It is thought that between fifty and a hundred thefts will be traced to him before the case Is entirely cleared up. Keller has retained William L. Reed of Chicago as his attorney. He asserts that "it's all a mistake." His wife also expresses confidence in lur husband's innocence. It ha been the thought of some that a sudden keptomania streak may be responsible. E-X-T-R-A HOPE OF SETTLING DISPUTE IS ENDED 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, Aug. 4 Hope for reaching a working agreement today in the Chicago Building Trades disp'ute which affects construction In all of the surrounding district, was dissipated today when a conference before Judge K. M. Landls, arbiter, ended in bitter controversy ani? the judge left the ro i in dlsgMst. The building construct!! .n employes association and the Associated Builders of Chicago were principals in the dispute. The conference today was called to enable Judge Landls to receive final answers of parties in the buildirrg ti?-up to proposals for a working agreement.