Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 20 September 1921 — Page 1

EAC VOL UTJON Cnaertled weather tonight and Wedjieadijr wlta probably thunder konttii continued ngrm followed by cooleir Wednesday and In nort h"1 portion tonla-ht. Delivered by Crnr in Binmo ut W. Hamroond 50c pi moots on treats and ittwi ataads 3o per copy; VOL. XV, NO. 77. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA

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Jakes Alex Howat To Task For His Defiance of Executive Board tJWTCT NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE TND1ANAPOLIS, Ind.. Sept. 20.Tha fight la Mlr.go county must be won." Ia the" words John L. Lewie, president of the United Mino Workers, summed tip lengthy discussion of tha recent bloody conflict In the West Virginia, coal fields la his report to the biennial convention of the International Miners' organization here today. There can bo no compromise of the principles Involved." In the Mindo county contest." declared the union chiefta-ln. "The souls of our dead members -who have died In this conflict -will protest any other course and on this occasion let U3 highly resolve to carry on. We sincerely hope that the work of the senatorial commission will be Instrumental In laying here the horrors of that field and In paving the way for the recognition of the rights of the mine workers who desire to become members of tha Mine Workers of America. Industrial peace will never come to this tented area until the miners of that field are accorded the same privileges as exist In the organized sections of America and which re shall not be reduced. Lewis was equally emphatic la hie assertion that the wages of the miners sail not be reduced. "While other powerful trade union organizations have been compelled to accomodate themselves to the pressure of economic conditions.- the union .jiM in this connection, "our (Contlnusd on page Ave.) When Ben Kafflo, proprietor of a genta- furnishing store at 739 State Line St.. Hammond, returned home yesterday from Chicago he found that it would be necessary for him to start all over again In business. His store had been cleaned out In his absence bythieves who had made one of the most complete Jobs ever pulled in Hammond. It made a great mystery for the police to solve. It looked baffling. Mr. Baffles was distracted. He was ruined. Just when he thought he haQ eafely weathered the storm of the business depression, here comes some-low-lifer and steals him blind. Detectives Einsele and Singer visited the store to look things over. There was llttla to look at. Mr. Raffles had apoken well. Practically the entire stock of the store. In fact everything of value except the fixtures and some small novelty articles had been removed some time after Mr. Rattle locked up the placa Saturday night. The loss was estimated at $2.31350. Baffle explained to the cops that the family had gone to Chicago over Sunday and did not return until Monday forenoon. The Raffles live in quarters adjoining the store, but the burglars bad confined their operations to the business room. He bad already Investigated and found no one in the neighborhood who recalled bearing any sounds in the night which would have been made by the thieves in cleaning out the store Entrance was gained through a Bide window near the rear of the building. Tracks showed that the stock was carried from this window to a truck in the alley. The stock included 33 suits of men's and young men's clothes, 3 brown winter overcoats, a summer overcoat. a spring overcoat, 85 pairs of men's trousers, the complete stock of silk and plain shirts, socks, hosiery, neckwear and Jewelry. But hold on a minute! Mr, Raffles .1f he interviewed anyone at all, failed to question one neighbor woman. She could have enlightened him. The detectives found her. "Did yon see or hear & truck In the the alley at the rear of Mr. Raffles' store Saturday night?" she was asked. "Sure," was the prompt reply. "I paw Mr. Raffle's truck out there -c about 9:30. Someone was carrymg stuff from the store to it." That was enough. Ben was taken to the police station. They questioned him closely and finally he told the officers how it was. Business was bad and the creditors were getting troublesome. He figured that the best way out of it would be to stage a real robbery. The stock had been loaded into the truck and taken to Chicago where it had been stored on Chicago avenue. The police have the address and are bringing the clothes back today. No steps have been taken looking towards prosecution of R3fCle as the police decided to leave It up to his creditors.

A ROBBERY THAT WASN'T A ROBBER!

(SPECIAL TO THE TIMES HOBART. IND.. Sept. 20 In a shock ir.g auto accident yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, a quarter of a mile from Ainsworth on the Lincoln Highway, A. L. fisher, of thin city, received a fractured skull from which he died an hour later, and Mrs. Fisher was seriously hurt. An auto travelling about 60 milea an hour, driven by W Angeles, a Chicago confectioner, crash ed square Into the Fisher car as it was turning into the highway and the lm pact was fearful. The Chicago parties escaped unin jured. Mrs. Fisher was rushed to Mercy hospital in Gary, where it la believed she may recover. The Fishers are the parents of Earl Fisher, of Gary: Kay, of Oklahoma, and John, of Hobart; Mrs. Hazel Dlllabaugh of Crown Point, and a daughter, who lives at home here. GROWN POINT HAS 1 3 DIPTHERIA CASES City Council Holds Special Meeting to Cops With Epidemic. 'SPECIAL TO THE TIVES1 CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. 10. A called mi'.eting of the city council was held on Sunday afternoon to determine the best way to cope with the dlptheria epidemic) which has gripped Crown" Point the past week. The members of the school board and board of health met with the council and after due deliberation and consid eration of the matter it was decided by all those present that it would be unwise to close the schools at this time unless a strict quarantine was enforced. It was deemed advisable to have medical Inspection in the schools and all children not now in perfect physical condition to be sent home to remain there until all danger of contagion is past. The schools have been thoroughly fumigated and those In authority belteve that the situation is well in hand. There are thirteen cases In Crown Point at present and all of the are getting along nicely. Robert Boss, eon cf Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ross was taken sick with the dread disease and the house quarantined on Monday. ' CLEVERLY CONCEALED STILL FOUND Chancing to kick a small box which had been reposing unobtrusively along side the house of Vasal Mineschan on the Black Oak road Just east of the Saxony road. Chief Gus Simons of the federal dry squad yesterday afternoon brought to light a very cleverly concealed still which resulted in Vasal being arrested. Acting on Information that Vasal was making and peddling moonshine the dry chief and members of the Hammond police force visited the farm yesterday with "a search warrant. It was raining hard and the search was a disagreeable one. A barrel of mash was found in the pantry, but that was all. Failing to locate the still in the house the n-.en separated and started going through the out buildings. Fodder shocks were examined. The wet weeds were explored. Then Simons happened to kick the old box along side the house. Behind it he saw a small window in the cement foundation of the buildir.g. Within he could see the barrels and other articles. After much search the entrance was located. It was through a trap dor.r in a small closet under the stairway. Vasala had 200 gallons of horrible mash. He had evidently been cleaning up the farm and had cast into barrels anything which he thought would ferment. There were raisins, muskmellons. cucumbers, apples. grapes, peppers, corn and other unrecognizable stuff in the bubbling mess. A still stood nearby, ready for operation on a small oil stove. Water could be obtained from a small pitcher pump sunk in the sand. The outfit nearly filled the small cramped cave which had been excavated under the house, separate from the regular cellar. Vasal was not at home, but his wife said he would be' back from Indiana Harbor some time that evening. This morning he appeared at the Hammond police station and put up the necessary J 1.000 bond for his appearance in court next week. INDIAN DISORDERS ARE SPREADING INTERNATIONAL riEWS SERVICE LONDON, Sept. 20. Ttn Indian rebeif were killed when a force of 70 am -tushed three platoons of British troop in tne iianjirl district, said an exchange Telegraph dispatch from Bombay today.

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Hear That CARL BAUER will desert the bachelors this week. MONON Is quarantined as a result of wholesale diphtheria. RAIN has made It tough sledding for the Calumet avenue carnival. P.OSCOE HEMSTOCK has had the flare taken out of his new bell bottom trousers. THE carnival which is being- put on by the Odd Fellows on Calumet avenue will continue until Thursday night. J. WES LET REED is building a fine church for tbe Methodist cbngregation at Griffith. FRANK AND TED BLOCKER and Mike Thompson are playing with the Gary Elks football team this falL FROEBEL HIGH SCHOOL of Gary, has an enrollment of 2.500 pupils and is the largest in the state. JESSE BEEBE. 454 Ash street, is offering $50 reward for his Ford coupe which was etolen in Grant Park. Chicago. CHARLES SURPRISE today celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of his Induction into the federal service. What on, Charles? THE Orpheum gave up the ghost on Sunday night and eloped until Saturday. Hereafter it wll function only on Saturdays and Sundays. THE county W. C. T. U. convention will be held at East Chicago oa Tuesday, September 27. and the state convention at Elkhart. October 7. RAIN has put a crimp in building 6o far this week and it is difficult to note the effect of the open eTlop declaration by the Hammond contractors with regard to carpenters. VIRGIL REITER, JR, who has been employed as reporter on Thb Tunes' for the past few months, has left for Ann rbor to resume his studies at the University of Michigan. "WELL, by Jocks, I guess I wouldn't. want to be .'drug Ilka that," said a Four Comers habitue aS be gave Dare Pevil Dale the o. o. last Saturday noon as he went through Hammond. THE L. N. CARTER home at 1 Highland street, was entered Sunday night by a burglar vrho got away with a ring with a diamond of one, and one eighth carats and a cluster diamond ring set in platinum. FOLKS who live in the vicinity, of 2 4 Williams street have asked the police to put a quietus on a certain motorist who Insists on tuning up his motor, with cut-out open every night aabout midnight. DR. H. E. SHARRER was elected vice-president of the ofafl Associatioi of Insurance companies at Indianapolis yesterday. There are fourteen Indiana companies of which the Northern States Life is one of the leaders. MANY Industries in the region ar employing only one member of a fam ily. the Manufacturers' Association having decided to try and give work to one member of each family and relieve Buffering this winter. FAILING to 6e killed on the first lap of his drag from Chicago to New Tork. Dale Ruth left Hammond yester day noon fox Hobart, The first da. showed him that the stunt Is hard on his sole leather dragging suit. STEVE JAJBLONSKI. who runs the Tree taxi for his friends knowTT as thLittle Green Line, started to take r Pal to the South Shore station Sunda night and drove right through the Monon gates on Plummer avenue. GARY POST says the Hammond police tricked the Gary team out . that game Sunday. Hammond has al ways known that her police were Jus a little chrewder tKan the ordinary, but Gary would never admit it before. HERE'S the last word, if possible, on West Hammond's Hudak-Kirk controversy. Miss Julia Hudak is not under prace bond as many gleaned from yes terday's story. It's Just her mother, who is bound to let the Kirks alone. JIT drivers declare that the tourint cars that went "anywhere In the city for S cents" were put Into the field b the taxi companies to run the Jitneys out of business, but that the taxi people didn't stick to their program. ARCHIE RAWINS, 298 Torrence ave. is all worked up over a shot which was fired through the window of the bedroom In which his children were sleeping Sunday morning at 2:30. The bullet lodsred in the wall at the side of the bed. DR. YOUNG'S traveling football club Is getting into shape at Harrison Park. Kr. of Illinois; Rlsley, of Indiana; Lampke. of Minnesota, and Wallie Hess, Hammond, are some ot the stars who will represent Hammond on the road. NOW It's Georg Henson, of the police motorcycle squad that's iri the limelight. The boys are all talking since they saw him Saturday night atop a truck load of furniture leaving a downtown store. You know it waa rumored some time ago that George was liable to be married any time. SEVERAL stray lambs have been seen wandering aimlessly about the streets during the last few days. People won them on the gambling devices at the carnival and then, not knowing what to do with them, have turned the helpless creatures cut to shift for themselves.

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Gary Councilman Brings Damage Suit Against Lew Barnes. Lew Barnes', rormer sheriff of Lake county, and controlling stockholder of the Barnes Ice & Coal Co., of Hobart and Gary, was yesterday made defendent in a $3,000 personal injury suit In the Gary Superior court today. Don F. Van Llew, lormer banker, member of the Gary city council and well known Gary real estate man, 1b the plaintiff. The suit is an utcome of an automobile acident on the night of April 20, during the heat of the spring primaries. Following a meeting at the Harrison Club it started to rain and Le Barnes, driving his Packard car, invited Mr. Van Liew and several other men to ride with him as he Intended driving to a Johnson meeting whose campaign he was interested in. In the car, there was Mr. Barnes, Harry Stringfellow, Van Liew, John Lane and John Ferry, all four prospective candidates for the office of city treasurer. Nearing the I H. Belt viaduct on South Broadway, Mr. Barnes attempte.-I to fix a rubber on the windshield and in doing the machine skidded on the slippery pavement and plunged into one of the iron supports beneath the viaduct. The most serious of the Injuries sustained, according to the document, was due to a set of artificial teeth, which through the impact, was shattered and particles of it lodged in the rocf o." Mr. Van Llew's mouth. A piece of the set of teeth, it is alleged, was driven through the roof of his mouth and lodged Just under his nostril, causing a permanent paralytic condition of tinright mostril. Mr. Lane received a broken leg and other injuries and although he was confined to tha hospital all through the balance of the campaign, he was nominated. Mr. Stringfellow and Perry escaped with minor injuries. Mr. Barnes escaped with some severe bruises, but the car was badly damaged. STEEL SHEET PRICE ADVANCED $5 TON Inland Steel Co. Stil Operating at Capacity; Refuse To Take Loss. Operations of leading steel mills in the Chicago district were increased at the opening of the week. The leading Interest in this territory Is producing at the rate of 36 per cent of capacity and the foremost Independent is oper ating at around 30 per cent. The Illinois Steel Company has fiv furnaces running at Gary, two at So Chicago, and one at Jollet. The In land Steel Company continues to oper ato Its sheet mills at capacity and has also Increased its output in other departments. Ralirouds are buying for immediate needs only, according to leading sterl authorities, and there Is nothing to indicate that the carriers plan an extensive buying program in the near future. The Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western roads are now Inquiring for 1.000 cars each. Sheet steel demand is exceptionally heavy and the leading Independent in this district has Increased Its quota:ions $5 a ton. New prices in effect in Chicago yesterday were: No. 10 blue annealed sheets. 2.33c; No. 28 black. 3.3Sc. and No. 28 galvanized, 4.3Sc. Finished steel prices are quoted un:hanged with the exception of hard tee.l bars which are nominally priced at from 1.75 to l.S5c, Chicago. Pig iron is firm at $22, Chicago. Iron and steel scrap prices are un changed with little business reported. Foundry grades are active but steel and rolling mill material has not been in good call. Heavy melting steel continues quotable at from $11 to $11 . 50. Old metals are dull with prices stationary. Reports from the east indi cate that the old metal market in New York is showing more strength with df-alers expecting higher price levels to prevail soon. FIFTY BARRELS OF WHISKEY IN COURT Whiskey, with a bootleg value ol $100,000. is involved in a lawsuit before Judge V. S. Reiter, In the Superior court. The complaint is Julius SFriedman, of East Chicago, and the defendant is Albert Given. According to the complaint. Given gave Friedman a promlsory note in the sum of $3,213.45, July 16, 1318. shortlyafter Indiana went dry. Fifty barrels of whiskey 'were the basis of the tran saction. Friedman says the whiskey was collateral for a loan and Given in his complaint declares the note was giv en in payment for the liquor. It is the contention of Attorneys Crumpacker and Friedrich, representing Given, that the deal was illegal and therefore the note cannot be collected. Friedman says he 6old the whiskey at 90 cents a gallon in February, 1919, and discounting the revenue from the sale. Given still owes im more than $3,000. Attorney Abe Ottenheirser represents Friedman.

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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. IND.. Sept. 20 They came to the county fair today in golashes, rain coats and slouch hats. It was a b.aak, drizzly morning, but the crowd that milled through the mud under dripping trees remained good natured. Umbrellas were so numerous that the scene from the road was like a field of mushrooms. It was awarding day and the fair buildings were peopled by exhibitors eager for awards in the various contests. At 10 o'clock the judges began to announce their findings. One farmer whose bull failed to qualify took the matter to heart, hitched up his team, and started for home at a lively clip, the unlucky critter trailing behind at the end of a rope attached to the ring in his nose. "Gosh hang 'cm," cussed the farmer. 'Gid'ap." COMPETITION ZEIN The hundreds of competitors in the annual county fair do not take It lightly. The prizes are highly valued. It is more than vanity. They mean money. In a county noted throughout the state for Its fine herds of cattle, and especially holstein breeds, the blue ribbon is an achievement. Every man and his brother is an authority on the live stock or produce entered in the contests and the judges exercise the greatest care and discretion in making the awards. Another thing In which everybody at the fair today was an expert is th weather. It wae probable the greatest aggregation of weather prophets that could be assembled. Each farmer is by long practice a forecaster. He sniffs the azone at the break of dawn and gazing Into the heavens ascertains the intent of the elements. Whereas the

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(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 20 When the county grand jury adjourned early today after a fivehour session. District Attorney Matthew Brady announced that important progress had been made toward establishing that a "frame up" had existed to impeach the testimony of Miss Zeh Prevost, one of the state's star witnesses in the cose of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, charged with the murder of Virginia Rappe, pretty film actress. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) BANGOR. Me.. Sept. 20. Edward Francis Prout, a University of Maine student, was almost instantly killed in a boxing bout with Frank Langley. a fellow student, who was held today in connection with a technical manslaughter charge. Prout fell through the ropes in the fourth round, fracturing his skull on the floor. (BULLETIN) MEXICO CITY. Sept. 20. Recent disclosures of a plot against the Obregon government, apparently directed by General Felix Diaz from his headquarters in New Orleans, has placed old supporters of Diaz again under suspicion and watch is being kept upon their movements. Many of these old adherents of Diaz are back in Mexico but scattered in such a way that until now it did not seem any sort of organization could be maintained. (BULLETIN) (Copyright by Chicago American) CHICAGO. Sept. 20. Lowell Sherman, actor, sought by authorSECOND BABY STARVES TO DEATH THERE Death from malnutrition took little eighteen months' old Frank Kologe'. jr., of 4905 Northcote avenue, Eat Chicago, this morning. This Is the second child of the Kclogel family to have passed away the last two weeks from marasmus. Last week Joseph, two and one-half years old died from under nourishment, and this morning the little baby brother was taken away . The family has now dwindled down to four children, where once flocked eight spry youngsters. The father says that he has been out of work for over nine months. City authorities, who have been working on the case have been able to secure the father work. Street Commissioner Sterling opened his big heart and placed the home provider with a Job that will help to keep the cupboard supplied, the eocl bin filled and tide the family ot six over the long winter months. The city social service director has been giving this wanting case much of her attention.

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paid weather prophets in the government service are often caught on their way home without an umbrella, the farmer is always forewarned. The writer recalls an incident in which Prof. Cox. cf the Chicago weather bureau, stepped out of tha federal building where hie observatory ia located and looking out on Dearborn street, aald: "My goodness gracious, it is raining! I'll have to go tack and get my raincoat." STIBT WAIT A PSOPKIT All morning long at the fair the farmers kt)t turning their all-seeing eyes to the sky and remarking that it was going to clear up. Sure as shooting. It did. Shortly after 11 o'clock the sun came out and the "I told you so" began to be heard. It was not only brighter but warmer. As the chill disappeared the fair crowd shed its rain paraphenalla and wraps. This afternoon the full glory of the fair burst fourth. The Gary municipal band played, the horses worked out on the muddy track, the free vaudeville show was revealed to an admiring throng and the TTrst parachute drop was made. Throughout the entertainment the barkers kept up their cries without which a county fair would lose its Identity. BJBUHTOxr or rcuxsrss The county fair is a reunion of old friends. Farmers' wives seek out ther former school mates and fir.d a bench where they can gossip. There is a great deal of back trapping and "Hello Byron" and Jolly "How be yahs?" on the part of the men. It is one of the finest and most whole some American customs the county fair. It will do you good to attend. Tomorrow is children's day. ities of San Francisco as a witness in the case of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. charged with the murder of .Virginia Rappe, arrived in Chicago today. He entered a vigorous denial that he was a fugitive from justice and that a third man was in the room where Miss Rappe met death. (BULLETIN) riNTEPNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. The Interstate Commerce jCom- , mission today made another cut in freight rates when it ordered the transcontinental railroads to decrease rates on vegetables from California and Pacific Coast territory to territory east of the Rocky Mountains as far as Chicago and the Mississippi river, approximately 18 per cent. (BULLETTN) INTERNATIONA', NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. Opposition to congress making any move to force open sessions of the approaching conference on the limitation of armament and Far Eastern questions, was expressed today by Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Alabama, Democratic minority leader of the senate, following a conference he had with President Harding at the White House. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL MEWS SERVICE) LONDON. Sept. 20. P remier Lloyd George has replied to Eamonn de Valera's note of last night, ;t was announced officially this afternoon. The official announcement, which was given out at the premier's offict in Downing street, gave no indication of the contents. FOUR GARY MEN ARE FOUND GUILTY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT. Ind., Sept. 20. Mark Crudrup, Andrew Caldwell, Anton Frinchetty and Julius McFadden of Gary were found guilty of larceny in the criminal court on Monday which carries with it sentence of 2 to 21 years, a $50 fine and disfranchisement for 5 years, which was imposed upon them by Judge Smith. Thoy stole shoes and underwear valued at $130 from cars on the Wabash railroad. MAKES A GOOD HAUL Harry Mathers, federal dry agent stationed at South Bend made another good fcaul-Saturday according- to a report received by Chief Simons at the Hammond office today. Mather raided the home of George Popp on Rural Route 2 out of South end and brought in two five gallon stills, a ten gallon still. 200 gallons of mash and eight gallons of moonshine. Popp was released under $1,000 bond and his trial et for Tuesday.

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Of Outlaw Unions In This District The I. W. W. is boring in at Gar: and Hammond to such an alarming ex tent that tha A. F. of L. is fast loslnl ground. Following the state federation of la bor convention at Hammond when Lake county delegates put through I resolution condemning the Americai legion, there ha been a rumor in labol circles that all was not well In th Calumet district. It was declared thai the I. W. W. was gaining ground an that the American legion resolution wai a concllatory measure to keep the laboi ranks intactOXOAJVTXB&S AT WOES An investigation has shown that un less the A. F. of L bends every effor In Gary it will find an I. W. W. organ' lzation built up in the steel city. Tht I. W. W. have three foreign organ! lers working with the laboring classei in Gary and at East Hammond. Th organizers are Lithuanians and the J W. W. headquarters are very mucl pleased with the success with whlcJ they are meeting. 1 The Interest that the I. W. W. hat taken in the cases of the four men kill ed In the Standard Steel Car plant rioti has spurred the A. F. of L. on to action It was stated by one of the federatloi of labor leaders that In all probabilitj the A. F. of L. committee having tht work in charge would meet in Washington sometime in September to presi the cases against tne police and guardi who fired the shots, and that they ar very much worried over the progresi made by the Wobblles and fear that li they don't do something the I. W. W. will. j acs TAzrersa cosnso The I. W. W. expect to have Jac$ Tanner In the Indiana steel distrlcl shortly. Tenner is reputed to be l firebrand and was Imported by the I W. W. from England. One labor leader predicted that thi best thing to do would be for the A T. ot L. to make a concerted carapalgc of organization in the steel district "If the L W. W. is left to work out its organization there will be an out law strike," he predicted. This leader claimed that every da he was In the steel belt men came t him and demanded to know why th A. F. of L. "didn't do something." "The Metal Workers Union of the t W. W. is a growing menace in Lak county," he declared. "It ia Increasing its members every day. , The I. W. W. is preaching open revolution and getting away with It" CHARLEY CELEBRATES AN ANNIVERSARY Former Lowell Bay Makea Good in Seeking Fortune In Hammond. Fifteen years ago today Charley Surprise, with his wardrobe tucked in a small valise, stepped frm the 8:15 Monon, In Hammond. A err rt time before he had parted with V parents at LowelU and set forth to seek his fortune. He had been offered a Job in Haramon d. Charles had just been appointed deputy clerk of the U. S. District court at Hammond and with many misgivings he was about to start on the r.ew work "I remember it as well as if it were yesterday," said Surprise this morning. "The -wonder Is that I got along as well as I Sid considering my ignorance of the work I was to do." He pulled out an old bank deposit book. There dated a few days after his arrival In Hammond, was the first entry in Mort Towle's familiar hand. Fortyseven dollars. Charles had breasted up to the cashier's window In the First National Bank and Informed STT. Belman that he had decided to make the bank his depository. BelmatT never batted an eye. He merely said: "Well," and called Mort to take care of him. That account fluctuated. It climbed past the hundred mark and tTien almost pass ed out six months later when Charles was married. But it gradually recovered and today Charles has stock In the First National and First Trust 4 Savings also. Furthermore his account Is not to be sneezed at for besides his personal deposits he generally has from twenty to thirty thousand on deposit in bankruptcy and receivership cases. In those fifteen years. Surprise has seen trie Hammond office of the federal court grow. During his term. 345 cases have been filed on the bankruptcy docket and he has acted as trustee or receiver in at. least 100 of them. He has handled about 180 estates. For fourteen years he has been U. S. Commissioner with all of the raft of work which that Job carries. Today Charles tofll; a vacation. Ha refused to visit the office all day. He even thought seriously this morning of going to Chicago to see a ball game if the weather cleared up. Next Sunday he plans a still further celebration In which his Sunday school class at tha Methodist church Trill participate. He's rolnr to give hla boya a half holiday or something. In closing here's another point. For fifteen years he has written a letter to his mother every week and Ms mother has written him. That means 760 letters to write and 759 more to rejuL which in itself l. quite an accomplishmetit,