Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 73, Hammond, Lake County, 15 September 1921 — Page 1

DJUSTMENT IS Tnsettled weather tonight ud Friday with probably showers somewluLt cooler tonight in nortii portion and in east and south por" ttonfc Friday. 1 ; r 1 iH J bo tttoom sod aog paooratvB pnn XdOJ JLU jg HpuJ E1UU pu SlSJJiS VOL. XV, NO. 73. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA IHGTOWH

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Alschuler Agreement Expires, Shop Representation Adopted INTERNATIONAL NEWS SCTV1CE1 .gainst complete expulsion of organised labor from four ot the lArCt meat itwas to be launched -t . -galled by official- of the inter, national Butcher's Union of Coionna" Th(. plants beKO this afternoon. The pi" 100 cent, "open shop" to. came i" Pr r ., :,i , day. inlon be m-kl- desperate efforts to "line up" the workers. prUy in ti- PUnt. of four of Urgest meat Packing concerns in emoloyes Labor unions, under this 1 " t recognized by the packerThe announcement of the adoption of the .hep representation plan followed tne "xpfration today of the A schuler agreement under which Federal Jud, Samuel Alschuler was arbiter ' f J disputes between the packers and their employe,. The packers prev iously had served notice that they would not renew this agreement, which tney regarded as a war-time measure. AiXi ASJS ELIGIBLE Under the shop representation plan all men and women are eligible to work in th. packing plants whether members of unions or not; no person not an employs of the company may represent employes In the adjustment of grievancea and employes elect their own representatives by ballot. All repesenatlves elected must be American citizens. It waa announced by James O. u. Condon, attorney for the packers, that 90 per cent of the employes of the plants involved had voted for adoption of the new plan. Condon also announced that there would be no Immediate attempt to readjust wages or working conditions. UNION HEADS SILENT Officials of the International Butchers Workers Union declined to comment today upon the action of the packers It is believed, however, that the unions will make a determined attempt to force a conference with the packers in an effort to preserve union Influence in the packing plant. In some circles the possibility of a strike Is not discounted. TO NEW YORK CITY Will This Man Survive Railroad Crossings in Calumet Region? Dale Ruth, originator of the "drag of death" which will be demonstrated in Hammond on Saturday noon, was in Hammond yesterday and today. Dale says he had to get away from Chicago to escape the newspaper reporters who have been pestering him to death since he unwisely let be known that he was going to stage the "drag" all the way from Chicago to New Tork. Wearing a heavy leather suit over his regular clothes, Ruth will he towed from the rear axle of an automobile the whole 1.200 miles. He leaves Chicago at 10 o'clocfc and expects to be in Hammond two hours later. Dale's leather suit is locked on him and it will be the privilege of Mayor Brown or some other prominent citizen to release the dare devil at the end of the first lap. If Ruth survives Hammond's rough railroad crossings and street car switches he will continue his drag to Hobart the same afternoon and spend three hours there before continuing to Valparaiso. "The drag to New Tork Is merely a little test trip." says Ruth. "If I'm alive after this journey, I'll start on the long one from Xew York to San Francisco." He has planned the trip In laps of fifty miles per day. HAMMOND BOY PLEADS GUILTY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 15. Harry Swick. a 17 year old Hammond boy plead guilty to a charge of larcency in the criminal court on Wednesday and was given 1 to 14 yeasentence. Swick had been stealing goods from railroad cars which were standing on the tracks loaded with merchandise . VETERANS TO ATTEND The National Encampment of the G. A. R- will 'be held at Indianapolis on September 21 to 25. Already fifteen Hammond veterans hav3 arranged to attend the encampment and Post Commander Patrick Reilley hopes to increase this number to twenty before next Tuesday.

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However, Hammond Police Find Negro in Posses sion of Stolen Car. A tip from a Standard Oil Co. dr-vcr. together with the quick work on th" part of officers Hinlon, Btasley and Taboda. yesterday enabled the Ham mond police to make ne of those quick captures In which they notified the 1 1 waukee, Wis., police of the recovery of a stolen car. before that body knew that the machine had been taken. The pilfered auto was taken on Sheffield avenue near the Champion Potato Machinery Co. The truck driver called th station yesterday noon to notify the poi'.ce that a auspicious looking negro, driving a new Buick touring car, had stopped him and asked the way to Hammond. He said that the man had started down Sheffield avenue. The above named officers manned tho patrol and started after the thief. Thry met h'.m on the avenue and crowded him to the curb. When brought to the station, the nan gave his name as Jack Little John and his address as 23d street and State. Chicago, at first denied that he had stolen the machine. Ha Insisted that he was taking it to Gary for a friend. Later, under a stiff grilling, he confessed that it was a stolen car, but maintained that the theft had been committed by another man, who had left him In Chicago. The car was stolen at 5 o'clock yesterday morning in Milwaukee. The Hammond police had recovered It and captured -the thief by 12:30 of the same day. The Milwaukee polioe were called and they said that there had been no report of the car being stolen. A little later they called -back and said that the theft had Just been reported. The negro was taken back to the Wisconsin city this morning by a detective from that place. SENTENCE ASSAILANT OF Hammond Man Gets 2 to 14 Years for Wounding Officer John Fisher. rSPEClAL TO THE TIMES CROWN" POINT, IND.. Sept. 15 Chief Abe Eyzk of Hammond, who shot at Policeman John Fisher and severely wounded him early this summer, was found guilty ar.d was given a sentence of 2 to 14 years and $100 fine by Judge Martin Smith on Wednesday. Eyzk, in company with Wesley Fyker, who was later turned over to the Chicago authorities, was accosted by Policeman Fisher at 10 p. m. on the nigit In question. He asked them wJiat they wers doing as they were acting auspiciously. They told him that they were looking for work. Eyzk was carrying a package under his arm and Fisher asked him what it was, at that he pulled a revolver out of the package and shot Fisher severely wounding him. For a time is was thought that his wounds were dangerous, but he finally recovered and was In court on Wednesday to testify against Eyzk. ANOTHER DISTILLERY ROBBEDOF WHISKEY Terre Haute Warehouse Loses Ten Barrels This Week. TERRE HAUTE. IND Sept. 15 Mystery purrpur.ding the theft of ten barrels of whiskey from the bonded warehouse of the Commercial Pistllery Co. in this oiy, is, in the opinion of officers working on the ca;-, near solution. John E. Kelley, age twenty-six; Edward Cahill, age twenty-four, and Elmer McDanicl, age. twenty-seven, all of Peoria, 111., are under $1,500 bond each at Charleston, 111., on a charge of transporting liquor, and are under $2,000 bond each to appear at Paris. II!., September 22 to answer a charge of breaking the lock and seal of a government warehouse. The federal grand jury at. Danville, 111., is making an investigation, and it is reported that Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney at Indianapolis. will cause th? arrest of the three men on a charge of burglary at a government warehouse. FIGHT ON THE KU KLUX KLAN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl CHICAGO. S' l t. 15. A nation-wide fight on the Ku Kiux Klan was launched here today by the National Unity Council, a newly formed organization. Former Governor Edward F. Dunne will head the organization In Illinois. Councils are to be organized in every district where the Ku Klux Klan Is represented and a campaign to combat the growth of the Klan undertaken. ACCUSED OF BEING DISORDERLY WHITING. Ind.. Sept. 15. Miss El.zabeth Czekely, Mrs. Katie Giiica, Mrs Anna Cervin and Mrs. Anna Sellck. all of whom were arraigned In the city court on Tuesday, on charges of disorderly conduct were all fined $2.00 ajid costs by Judge Green.

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Hear That ATHLETIC Coach Paul Kelsey Is giving the high school football squad nightly workouts. KENNETH HAMMOND and George Hously have been pledged to Sigma Nu at Indiana University. HELEN DOBSON Is home from the hospital where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. THE Messrs. Kaufman and Wolf are installing the Nokol heater In their South Hohman street residences. THE golf season still has six weeks or more to run, and for the most rab'd of the fans, it will continue all winter. PAUL AULT of Hammond, and Miss Francis Jordan of Chicago, were granted a marriage license at Chicago on Tuesday. A JURY In the Porter superior court brought In a verdict of $200 for the plaintiff In the case of E version vs. Goodman from Indiana Harbor. J. H. FETTERHOFF of Whiting was elected president. Charles Dyer, Hammond, secretary, of the Lake County Bar Association for the ensuing year. JOHN M. STINSOX. of Hammond, and Mayor W. F. Hodges of Gary, each a Valpo U. alumnus, have been elected to serve on the board of trustees. J. WESLEY REED, the contractor, Is putting up a handsome brick home on West Detroit st.. next to the Forest Preserve and facing the Country Club. SO great was the demand for Singers' Midgets at Keijhs In Indianapolis that the managers were forced to book them for a second week yesterday. HOHMAN" STREET speed hounds are daily learning the terrible truth that Officer Henson is not their friend. He picks up about three a day. MOXNETT'S noonday lunch 1b rapidly gaining in popularity. Quite a representative crowd of business men gather there every day. EDDIE BERWANGErTm in town today looking things over. The LaPorte appointment has not as yet been verified, but Eddie has moved his chattels to that city. ROBERT E. BRESSLER of Hammond has been granted a patent on a railway motor car and Frank Phillips of Hammond has patented a vegetable and fruit dispenser. DOC SHARKER says that he doesn't mind paying $11 to the police pension fund, even for speeding, but he thinks he should be given credit for having won the race with Jim Armstrong. THE "Kangaroo Court" In the negro section of the county Jail, has attracted i considerable attention lately. Court is held for every prisoner who is brought in, and he Is fined for being sent to Jail. OH. by the way. wasn't prohibition supposed to end crime and the social evil? Was there ever two more horrible things than the Church murder and the Arbuckle "party?" STATE LINE STREET repair Job is supposed to be finished, motor traffic continues to favor the West Hammond side, either from force of habit or because the drivers can't notice any difference In the Hammond side. A GANG of Doc. Toung's pigskin artists were pinched for speeding t'ne other day on their way to practice. They expect to move as fast with the ball as they do in the car, according to the practice they are having. COMMON expression among Hammond people is: "I never did take any stock in that boob. Arbuckle anyway." Which causes theater owners to wonder where the crowds used to come from which greeted "Fatty's" pictures. SOME clever girls won the honors at the local theaters this week. The Stephen sisters in a revue at the Orpheum are comers. They should get alons very well. Adams and Barnat at tho Parthenon had an entertaining act. RATIFICATION of the amendment granting suffrage to full citizens only will cut the total vote in Hammond down about TOO, it is estimated, but it certainly gives East Chicago politicians a dirty job, for they lose about half of their constituency. F. S. SETZ. hurrying through Europe grabbed a handful of papers off a news stand, rushing past the Paris postoffice through them !n and told the postmaster to mail them to The Times. They arrived today. Betz is probably in the heart of Africa by now. ONE Hammond barber shop has ruled that girls under 20 who want their hair bobbed must be accompanied by their mothers. "Otherwise." said H. Tuttle, who runs the shop, "I'd probably get my few remaining strands pulled oat by some bad mama." - MUCH comment has been aroused over the announcement that Bert Morgan, state director of prohibition enforcement, has asked for the resignation of Chief Deputy Ed. Berwanger. Some think the "big gun" Is right In observing state lines and others hold that a man of Eddie's type should be retained. ONE of the victims of . clever Roumanian swindler, who got away with $15,000 last December by working an old "con" came on a number of Roumanians In Gary, located the "con" artist In Erie, Pa., where he was carrying on the same game, and had hlra arrested. Thdore Hargot. the vie time, was ieeced of $4,500. T!i swindler Gabriel Shroform, will ' taken Uick to Gary.

MOTORING MORE SAFE

Meeting of Various Civic Organizations in County Undertake Big Task To make motoring safer In Lake county Is the task set for itself by the Lake county branch of the Hoosier State Automobile Association recently, and last night at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce that task was heartily endorsed by the representatives of the various Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis Clubs, Lions Clubs and other organizations in Lake county. The meeting was called to order by Dr. O. O. Melton of Hammond In the absence of General Chairman R. F. Schaaf who is in New York. M. E. Noblet of Indianapolis, state secretary of the automobile association, explained the urgent need of safeguarding measures at the numerous railroad. Interurban and street and road crossings in Lake ocunty and also educating the motorists to drive more carefully. W. E. Jewell of Indiana Harbor then took charge of the meeting and every representative present was given a chance to speak . Every one at the meeting was en thusiastic and announced that the organizations they represented were ready to help but the main question was how to proceed? At previous meetings of the auto association It had been decided to make a detail sur vey of the county so as to determine exactly whert something should be done to lessen the dangers of driving automobiles In Lake county. In making this survey the officials of cities, towns and villages of Lake county will be expected to help as will b& the county officials. Already the county commissioners have pledged their support to the extent of stating that they will have bridges and culverts painted white, guard rails put up, and obstructions removed that now obstruct the view in many places and will help generally so far as reasonable expenditures go. In order to carry m the survey and an educational campaign and provide signs in many places within city and town limUs where county funds will not be available some way had to be decided upon to raise such funds. A dollar tag day campaign was suggested by Carl Dorman of Gary at a previous meeting but this plan was discarded for a windshield sticker plan suggested by Roscoe Woods of Hammond . W. H. Williams, manager of the Lake County Branch of the Hoosier State Automobile Association was selected as campaign chairman anl the following persons were appointed to select committees for the various cities and towns in Lake county which committees are to be responsible for raising the funds to be spent in their local communities. To select these committees were W. M. ' WiUiaim. Mrs. S. J. Scheean of Gary, Mrs. August Bremmer of Crown Point, R. M. Fudge and P.oscoe Woods of Hammond. W. E. Jewell of Indiana Harbor. H. W. Sommers and A. S. Hess of Gary. This committee then appointed the parties in the several cities and towns in Lake county as follows: Crown Point, Joe Brown, Clarence Fate, Otto Fifleld. John Claussen, Niel Brown, Fred Ruff; Deep River, Will Wood; Dyer .August Stommel; Gary. Mrs. Frank Scheean, J. CDorman. A. S. Hess. Paul Hood. Glen Harris, S. N. Lee, Harry Sommers, C. Oliver Holmes; Hammond, Clyde Cleveland, Roscoe Woods. Ed Bohllng. R. M. Fudge, Dr. O. O. Melton, L. L. Bomberger, E. N. Bunnell. John Gavit; Hobart. William Killigrew. W. B. Owens, Harry Paxton, A. J. Smith, H. I. Koons and Mr. Scheldt; Indiana Harbor. W. E. Jtwell, Nelson Beaton, Thomas Chizmar. John Horns; Lowell. Thomas. Grant, George Hoevet George Baliey; Whiting. Oscar Ahlgren, Jas. Nejdl. M. J. Nannon, Fred Smith. Geo. Schaaf; East Chicago. Jl. K. Groves, Dr. A. A. Ross. Julius Freedman, Dr. P. Hale. The campaign chairman. W. M. Williams, will call the above named committies togethe rfor the purpose of getting the campaign organized In each community. W. D. Hunter of the Gary Rotary Club acted as secretary of the meeting. ELWOOD POLICEMEN ORDERED ARRESTED AS BOOTLEGGERS ANDERSON. Ind.. Sept. 15. Warrants were issued in the Circuit court for the arrest of Arthur Atwood ant' Charles Justice, me.nbers of the Eiwood police force, charging them with bootlegging whisky. Atwood is charged with the sale of two quarts of whiskey to Emmctt Tipton for $25. and Justice Is charged with having aold a pint of whisky to John Hutcherson for $. Both affidavits are signed 'by Edward Casto. Sheriff Lewis went to Eiwood to arrest the two officers. YOUTH CHOKES TO DEATH VALPARAISO. Ind., September 14 Cecil Neese. age twenty, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Neese, of WheatSeld choked to death here yesterday following a violent coughing spell. He was on his way . to Wisconsin with his parents in an automobile. In addition to his parents he is survKed by a brother and a sister.

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Left to right, above: Z. T. Vinson, W. D. Ord and A. L. Greeves. Below: Harry Olmstead, Albert Belcher and J. D. Francis. These Logan and Mingo county coal operators called upon President Harding a few days ago and requested him to keep federal troops in the mine war district. They asserted that the minera would resume th war as soon as all federal troops were withdrawn, and that state authorities were unable to cope with the situation.

J WILL QUIZ Shakedown methods brought to light and employed by certain Gary constables and deputy sheriffs are to be lnestigated at the next session of the grand Jury according to Information received by a Gary Times reporter today. Angelos Rose and John Boley. both Gary constables and deputy sheriffs are being held under arrest by the Gary police on a charge of violating the state liquor law. According to the story. Rose and Boley were in an automobile driven by John Messers also held under arrest when they were taken into custody. A warrant for another Gary man, a former policeman has aleo been asked for. It is alleged that Rose and Boley had a tip that a certain Hartsdale farmer had been making moonshine and paid him a visit. They said they had the goods on him. etc.. but according to information the farmer did not have any money to fix it wUh and offered them some moonshine Instead. This they took, it is alleged, but were able to ditch it before the police officers caused their arrest. Two other Gary constables who have oeen shaking ignorant foreigners will probably be questioned and arrested. BUX.X.ETXIT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J NEWCAMLE, Pa., Sept. 15 -Ten mills out of -O at the Newcastle Works of tlie American Sheet ft Tin Plate Company, will resume operation on September Sft, It wo announced today by Superintendent Jo tin A. Butler. More than hOO men who have been idle for a long time will Ue reemployed. BTXXiIiETUr INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) FT. WOHlHi Texas, Sept. 15. Two train rolibem were linntontly killed near uere today when they attempted to steal a registered mall pouch from the mall car on Train 'o. 11 of the Texas and Pacific railroad. Government agents had been tipped off u hold-up was to be Btaged and operatives waited with sawed off shotgun and rifles. The robbers were i9ddlcd with bullets. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN' KHANCISCO, Sept. 15. An inkling of the gruelling consultations Roscoe ArbirckJe's attorneys are engaged In came from one of their number, Charles Drennan, a San Kranelttco attorney, today. Brennan admitted, that owing to the pressure of ,rbiiness," counsel for the defense have known but four heftira sleep in the preceding lorty-rLsht hours. ETJLLETXIT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ST. LrULIS, Sept. 15. Tods city was completely darkened by heavy clouds for several minutes after 9 o'clock todoy. WOMAN'S G. O. P. TO MEET MONDAY Woman's participation in the Hammond city campaign w-ill begin officially Monday evening with a meeting of the Women's Republican Club at the home of Mrs. Herman Sase, 928 Hohman street, Monday evening. All republican women are Invited to be present. The republican candidates will address the meeting.

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16 HOLES IN LUNG HE COMESUP SMILING Happy Little Expedition From "Over There" in Hammond. "An eighth of an inch from the heart." said the doc "There are twelve machine gun holes in your let lung." "I don't care much for statistics." said Sgt. Dick Kennedy of Co. A., 23rd inf. "What I want to know is do I live or pass out?" "Live outdoors for five years and young lung may heal." The wounded vet couldn't find enough open space in Jersey City, his home town, so he started hiking for California and this morning stopped in Hammond. His French bride, an over-seas buddy and "Little Red," a guiena pig. are his companions. "Little Red" was placed on the ration's roster in his home country. Being a guiena pig on a S.000 mile hike is a lot of fun when a sot woolen shirt pocket to crawl into for a snooze, "Little Red" appears to say. As long as the supply of lettuce lasts, "Little Red ' is satisfied. Kennedy led three men in an attack upon a German machine gun nest and after s. hard fisrht against odds captured it. He possesses a distinguished servii-e cress and a croix de gutre, the latter from the Chateau Thiery offensive. He was wounded July IS. 1013 and u for eighteen months in a hospital where he fell in love with Ir.s French nurse and married her Pick's body guard is Private Harry Stigers. of the 37th Ohio. PROBE NON-ENGLISH The new school attendance law of the, state is causing confusion in Lak: courty. The main provisions of the law increase the age limit to 16 years and stipulate that all children up to tht age must attend a school "conducted in English." At a meeting of superintfndents of the Gary, Hammond. East Chicago and Hobart public schools, held at Gary, State Superintendent L. N. Hines of Indianapolis said that he had received numerous written complaints from Lake county people who said certain private and parochial schools vere not being conducted in English. It developed that State Attendance Officer Blance Merry is coming to Lake county to conduct an investigation. Another difficulty in connection with the attendance law exists in the rural districts where the school3 end with the eighth grade. A majority of tho pupils graduate from the eighth grade at the ages of th'.rtn, fourteen and fifteen years and the law says they must attend scnool until they are sixteen. Can thoy be forced travel many miles to the nearest town and pay a tuition fee to attend high school? Must the state provide some means of transportation? These ars questions puzzling the attendance officers, t IRISH DELEGATION MAY LEAVE SUNDAY LOXDON. Sept. 15 The Sinn Fein peace delegation may leave Dublin for Inverness Sunday, said a Dublin dispatch to the Westminster Gazette today. Arthur Griffith, chairman of the delegation, the founder of Sinn Feinn. will go in place of Eamonn de Valera, Is making preparations for the departure of the envoys. Griffith was quoted In a Dublin dispatch as saying he believed the conference would go on despite the hitch which has occurred the contents of De Valera'a last note to Premie Uoyd George,

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Carpenters Are Holding Out For $1.10 An Hour; Meet Again Friday Resolutions favoring a prompt getting together on the rart of contractors and building trades which have refused to accept the Landis scale, with the alternative of wortting under open shop conditions if the new scale is turned down, were passed today by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce at the noon day luncheon. While several of the grafts have not signed up the new agreements. It was reported that practically all of them had given the contractors the impression that an adjustment would be reach ed soon. The craft which is presenting the most determined opposition is the carpenters. Last night at a meeting of committees from the contractors and Carpenters District Council, the carpenters held out for $1.10 an hour. Anothet session will be held Friday evening. Members of the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs were present last night and will also sit in on the next session. Chairman Jesse Wilson at the lunch eon today reviewed the troubled history of the building Industry in Hammond during the last yaar. He recalled the sessions which were held several months ago in endeavoring to get the employers and workmen together on a satisfactory wage. He characterized the present situation as a disgrace to the city of Hammond. T. R. Tennant of the .Board of Education told of the .situation at the Industrial high school. He said the board Is standing back of the contractors in the present situation. "We are only the servants of the people," he said, "and if the people believe that we should pay $1.25 or 5 an hour it would be our duty to do It. But I don't believe any sane person will consider the present attitude of the carpenters Justifiable." He expressed the conviction that nothing could be arrived at in the present situation If the public waited until the contractors and wirfcmen fougnt out their differences. "The time Is ripe for the open shop and we will never get any place in thTs region until we declare for the open shop." Chairman Wilson called attention to the fact that the financial interests have expressed willingness to loan money for building if the costs are cut down, but that under the old wage conditions it would not be surprising if they tightened up the purse strings. Attorney W. J. Whinery then proposed the motion that It be the sense of the Chamber of Commerce that the contractors and craftsmen work under the Landis decision which contains the provision that crafts which do not accept it may be declared open shop. Dr. Gillls. John Croak and others did not like the idea of the open shop threat, but when the vote was finally taken only one "no" was registered.

WINCKLER NAMED TO HEAD CLUB TICKET Hammond Country Club" Puts Directors Ticket In the Field. Xew officers were put in nomination at the meeting of the directors of the Hammond Country Club last . night ti be known as the directors ticket and the probability is. that another ticket will be chosen next week in competition. Those nominated are: President R. O. Winckler. Vice-Pres'dent Dr. L. J. Mo: an. Treasurer Xorman P.ridpe. Secretary Georgo W. Clark DUiECTOES Jesse Wilson. Peter W. Meyn, Lawrence Cox. Business affairs of the club were dis' cussed at length at the directors meeing over which President Conan Scott presided. Xo further news was reported of the much-discussed sale of the club which it is believed has gone by the board, though the option does not expire until after Sept. 20, ana it is not generally believed that the association will sell the club. CHICAGO, Sept. 15 Out of a confusing tangle of confessions, the police today advanced two startling theories in the gruesome "handcuffed murders." First, that neither Leon Parks, Clarence Wilder, nor Milton Walker were participants in the murders. Secondly, that Mrs. Eva Church, mother of Harvey W. Church, the confessed slayer, had knowledge of the doubie killing. Park's testimony was forced by Church, police believe. The youth babbled an incoherent and for the most part meaningless confession in the manner of one having been coached. He was interrupted by Church at several points and meekly changed his statement to conform. Church, one of the strangest characters on criminal record here, is believed to hold a weird, hypnotic power over Parks. Mrs. Church, held under guard, has been the victim of strange hallucinations. Suddenly in the middle of last night, she demanded she be allowed to eee her son to "urge him to tell everything he knows." She was taken to him and they held a long conference. Officials are beginning to believe that Church may be the only one lmpllcatad in the brutal slayings, but are awaiting another statement by him today, naming an accomplice.

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