Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 39, Hammond, Lake County, 15 October 1921 — Page 1

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"Nothing Can Avert It" Said Brotherhood Leader INTERNATIONAL NEtfS StRVICE CHICAGO. Oct. 15 "We axe going c-ut on the greatest railroad strike the country has ever known, nothing- In the vorld can avert it now." declared W. Q. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, as 500 general chair men o f the various railway brotherhoods convened to discuss their action with regard to tha railroad executives denance of their threat to strike against -age reductions. CAUSE or CRISIS The proposal of the railway execu tives fox an Immediate 10 per cent re daction in wages is responsible for the crisis. Lee stated. "It is a fight to the f.nish for tha life or death of our organization. Ferb.aps It is a fight to our rfath, .. for w are not going into it blindly. "The leaders of the workers will leave Chicago today with sealed orders falling for a strike." As for the date, tt already has been published and the beginning". a has been Indicated, will be by groups, first one line and then another going out." TTRST OmCXAI CONTIXatATlON Lees' statement is the first official cc-r.f.rmation of the report that Oft. 30 has been fixed as the date for the strike. "The executives, as usual are pulling the wool over the eyes of the public,' Lee said. The rail union leaders ere In their fr.al counsels here preparing for the strike, attorneys for the executives are drawing up the petition which is to be fled with the United States Railway Labor Board for a reduction in wages in accordance with their decision yesterday. OLD "C GAME IS MED Gullible Foreigner At Indians Harbor Loses $1,550 In Cold Cash T.e otd. old story of the bandkerohief confidence gome was pulled on Andy Suroviak of 3802 Guthrie street. Indiana Harbor, to th amount t-t 11550. Andy w.s g-ivn a tip on a fig real estate deal that would net him ifficint "velvet" that would put him on easy street. The prospect v. as a little i-vary at first, but when he saw- a tig roll of bills it: the possession of the real estate men that was to be given him as security of their fidelity all suspicion had vanished. The papers were made out ar.d the e gnaturee sfflAtd. Andy was sent out to rather ia the cash. His ready fapita.1 amounted to $300 and to make up Ui difference in sale pnee the customer wa compelled to draw on his sinking fund to S1200 worth. So to clinch tire transaction Andy called at t'-e bank and asWei for his hard work'd irti'.ngf. IV-. bank cl-sik understood Andy to say that he was going back to the eld country or. a visit and did not lustion the utpoji'cv furthtr as t- his intentions. Andy met th hsarper duo and counted out the amount as his part in tha transaction u evidence to the swindlers that he was playing- in good faith. Both to'..' cf moneys were placed in the hand bags. Whiifi Andy was swallowing hook, line ar.d sinker of a Tariety of he-cow vocabulary by the one swindler, the presto-change act of bags was played upon their prospect by the other co-partner. The real estate impersonators of real estate men went one way and Andy went the other leading to home. This morning while making- ready to bank the suppose! cash. Andy discovered that he bad two ten-doliar bills wrapped around iJ cf pptr. HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL DIES JamesA. Cameron. 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Cameron, 227 Lewis snreet died la-st evening after an illness of two weeks curat, on. The illness started by an Infection from a coid in an ee. The boy wrfs a sophomore in the Ham mond hirh school and was very popular among hi8 class mates. Services will be held at the house Monday afternoon at two o'clock with Interment at Mount Greenwood.

Hear That I WASTED la tht day which sees not one Hammond lawyer engaged in fistic fray. ART F. BAKER of the postofflce ie buying diamonds preparatory to matrlDR. SHARKER. Ir. Moran and Dr. Iddings went to the football game at Lafayette today. MAURICE TAUBEK, of the Sanitaria Cleaners has removed the sign: "Fants Cleaned Inside." THE Bomberger-Crumpaoker camping outfit are still in the dark as to why Leo Wotf sat down oh the hot potato? THS Standard Shoe Store is getting ready to move into new quarters op posite its present location on East State street. GEORGE KUSSMAUL does not get very encouraging news from his father at Crown Point, who is So years of age and in feeble health. FACT for today: Hammond's seven parks cover 88 43 acres of gTound or about nine-tenths of one per cent of the entire area of the city. DAVE EMERY'S friends got him in a duck blind, on the Kankakee river this iveek and Dave surprised them with his handling of the old cannon. MOST times he's a fire-fighter. But some times he's a cop, His name is Tony Pohley, And he's always on the hop. "SIX O'CLOCK" GRIFFITH, othervise Albert E., former assistant pros ecuting attorney, made big hit as chlei ;pe.aker et Brown rally last night. DAVE LEDERER. formerly a wel tnown Hammond clothing man. has de :ded to move back to hii, first and onl:love arid has associated himself with he Max Levin company. THE fox captured recently by Jo' Mesenfe'dt has been claimed by Edd!Jerwanger. Ed. offers no explanation a: -o how it came In his possession or whe ent tt over to Liesenfeldt's. E. G. SPROAT. republican speaker told an audiencj at the Lafayette sc. hoc that If they moved the colored "Joints' mt of Plummer avenue the places woulo f.U up with whites just as bad. ROT SIMPSON', new manager of th lammond Hotel, has appointed a bu? lioy to meet all the trains. The lad malave a little difficulty in learning the oibles of the Erie schedule. THERE is a scrap on for the use o' .he Lafayette school Tuesday night Both the republicans and democrat.' laim the school for that night ar.c ".either eide proposes 'to 'relent. THE John Millikan sporting good: tore will soon be using the basemen' s a place for displaying masquerade csturr.es ar.d camping supplies. Th. e modeling is nearing completion. CANDY Notions Hardware. These "epartmen's lead in total sales in 5 and '.1 cent store, says F. C. Mohn, who vil! conduct new AVoolworth store or Michigan avenue. Indiana Harbor. ' I'll rattling a living out of m: sr." says a jitney driver. "It's grradlal'y going to pieces but I figure it will eel me longer this way than to s!l it outright and beHos it. gives me some thing to 'in.' A HORSE, probably inspired by a 1emor.ra.tis mas:'r, deliberately strolled ip to the rear of an automobile park ed in front of the Lion Store this r.iornng and chewed a large gap in a Da.n Brown banner. ARTHUR E. GRIFFITHS goes about preparing his political speeches in a systematic manner. He speaks them 'nto a dictaphone and then listens to the record to get the effect. Frattice makes perfect. Albert HAMMOND lawyers participate in the ceremonies Monday when Atty. M R. Crites is sworn in as judge of Room " of the superior court, but the greater rart cf the splurge will be made by the East Chicago delegation. "ED. SIMON has it on Brown in one respect." remarked the BootloggT on the Four Corners. "Ha won't have to account for all of the money spent by his organization. He can charge a lot of it off to clear advertising." THE W. B. Conkey Co. is going to bid on the stats printing contract this year. The contract amounts to about $250,000 per annum and lasts two years. Five other companies are after the Job, which W. B. Burford haa had from time immemorial. THE Erie railroad has a hundred cord of old tires piled along its right of way from Douglas to Highland street, waiting to be burned Why doesn t the railroad permit the poor people to take the ties home for fuel? The ties are evidently valueless to the railroad. DR. I.. B. WATSON has received an interesting letter from Mrs. C. H. Lavers telling of the safe arrival of the t family at Shanghai, China., where Mr. Lavers 13 connerted with the Baptist Mii-sion. She tells of the delightful vacation spent in the Mohanshan mountains. CONSTABLE JULIUS TAUSSIG says the woman jury was much better than the twelve men he had several years ago. "That bunch came bolting out of the room saying they couldn't agree so they turned the prisoner loope. They all got away and I had to arrest every one of thera to r et them back "

A DISCIPLE OF OPTIMISM Tie doubting and those of little faith should read the letter of E. S. Jordan, president of the Jordan Motor Car Co. of Claveland. Ohio, to The Times autojTvobile editor in which he says: "There is something I would like to tell to every advertising man In the United States. "No doubt every fellow on your staff who has been soliciting advertising from the automobile dealers and manufacturers during the past several monthb, has felt at times that advertising of automobiles is almost a lost art. "It is my personal opinion that those dealers and those companies who concentrate in the next ninety days on newspaper advertising will get more business than Vhey expected. There has been a general impression that the public would not buy anyway .so why advertise. "This campaign which we are starting will be followed by other campaigns Just as coon a.s other manufacturers and dealers wake up to the fact that cars can be sold through advertising, and that there will unquestionably be a shortage of good motor cars before March 15, 1922. "Tours very truly, "EDWARD S .JORDAN." FAILED TO SUSPECTS SPECIAL TO THE T!WE51 DTER. Ind., Oct 15. Officials of the First National Bank of Dyer were ca.ild to Chicago this morning to look ver five men who were arrested yesfrday afternoon a-nd were believed to the ones who robbed the Dyer bank early this week. Cashi'T Stommel at nce informed the Cuicubo police that hey had jhe wrong men as far as Dyer vas concerned. The men ware captured yesterday ifternoon when thy had arousec" uspiclon by their actions in 'front of 1 So Side bank. When mototcycle oI!ee appeared the men climbed Into i machine and fried to escspe. They w re captured when they abandoned he car and took to their hee's. In the "tiachine were several automatic pisois and a rifl. No direct lead has been picked up by Juthoritie! of Illinois or Indiana in the Dyer bank case but Chicago Height.' toHce. are raid to have a couple oi lues which may lead to Interesting levelopments soon. TO LOWER TAX ET J. BART CAMPBELL STAFF CCPRESPONCENT I. K. SERVICE WASHINGTON. Oct 15 A concerted movement to obtain a. substantial reduction of the income taxes paid b. persons with moderate income? war U termined upon today at a conference o the democratic members of the senate .In a nee committee. It was decided to prss for the acceptance of the proposal of Scnatoi Walsh, democrat. Massachusetts for -eduction of the smaller income tax "ate to two per csnt on incomes of ?-,000 or less: 4 per cent on incomes rom $5. 000 to $10. "OH and six per cent on incomes from $l",r.or to $15,000, The : tx at present is four per cent on $4,000 ir less, S per cent above $40n. Senator Walsh who has embodied his proposal in an amendment to the pending tax bill, said he intended to fight bard for its adoption by the senate A number of senators on both sides are mderstood to favor it Most democratic eenator sare inclined to accept the republican compromise substitute for the pending measure as 'bey claim that its provisions originated argely on the democratic lde, but t'.iey are also insistent that several other Provisions, including the Walsh proposal, be adopted too. before they are asked to vote for the revised tax legislation on its final passage. SON COMING TO BURY HIS FATH2R The remains of August Nystrom, of Chicago, who was killed by a vampire auto a week ago yesterday on Indianapolis boulevard, are being held at the Burns undertaking establishment, awaiting the arival of N'ystrom'e eon who is expected to reach Hammond from California today. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon. HIGHER EDUCATION f INTERNATIONAt NEWS SETRVICE1 ilW LOMJOV, ( nan., Oct. 13 The forlowlnK nilea tor Freahnea wf promuI;at -f! today by the dk. per claaamen at the C'onnetleut C ollege for women. Tuesday end Wednesday wear a white Mocking; on the left rg tint a hlnrk atocklnjc on the rlKht leit. Thursday. Friday, and Saturday, wear hnlr drawn tlRhtly hack from the reml drawn In a pl(? on top of bead with n green how. Forbidden to roll stockings be. low knera until January 1.

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PROJECT Brown Tells Political Meeting Congress Will Act Favorably BY THE POLITICAL REPORTER The Dan Brown forces closed a strenuous week last night with an exciting meeting at the RH-erside school. The speakers were Mayor Dan Brown Joseph Conroy, H. E. Granger, Albert E. Griffiths and Councilman L. C. -smith Mayor Brown and Jce Conroy discus.i ed the waterworks project and Illianu narbor. The "Little Giant" indulged in no personalities. He glorified Dat Brown as the "niaE-ter mind'' and crc-d-ted him with originating the plan to onvert Wolf Lake into the greatest inland harbor in the world. Mayor Brown lie s.ald. had gamed tha support of Gov .vlcCray, Gen. Black, of the war depart ment, three United States senators and two United States congressmen. 'If the people of Hammond fall teturn Dan Brown to office they will repudiate their governor, their senators '.he war department sr.d Senator Mc'ormick, of Illinois," declared Attorne; 'onrny. "If we give Pan Brown a votcf confidence and make him our mayoi 'or four years more we will make possible the greatest accomplishment it he history of the great Calumet district. "You will have an Inland harbor sucb is there is no place in the world.' .'onroy continued. "That propositi"! -as thought out and carried forward b; -.inr.ple, innocent Dan Brown. If Ed !imon is elected l means that you'vt ;ot to repudiate everything that ha een done. Mr. Simon is an honest man .Ie is pledged on his honor if he is el"-'-ed to throw aside every construct! . measure ths.t L'art Brown haj begun, sr&tosr PLEDOED "If Ed- S'-tricn does rot intend to dis "ontlnue the great waterworks and bar ior projects that Dan Brown has start d let him on the next public occasio: lthdraw- his objections and openly ap rove of the mayor's action. Simon U t superb, superfine, elegant, beautiliei. olitlcan, bi't he is honorable and he j? ledged to repudiate Brown's projects 'imon is a Jacksonian democrat. "Dan Brown has the waterworks anc arbor projects in his mind to the fines tail. He began a study cf the waterorks when he came into office four years g' -nd his first act was to appeal to the public service commission or equitable water rates to stop sonv industries from gettmg water fre vhiie others paid various rates. Boor Brown became mayor the watr works was a footbalL "If you do not elect Brown you wil' lot have any relief from the -Rate: .hortage. The waterworks will be in the control of a. clique that will dls turb the financial standing of the city of Hammond. Elect Simon and yo't -'ipudinte Dan Brown's project for r pnyion and rehabilitation of the waterworks. "Immediately after the armistice the nayor, city engineer and city attorne vent to Washington, D. C to get the government to widen and clean the rand Calumet river. It was there that "ian Brown unfolded the plan for a gre?.t t.Iand harbor at V.'rlf la.ke with th "slumet river as the j finer circle con necting with the big canal at Grasse'li "My God, that can be tb greatest harbor in the world," said Gen-r.j! !ack, of the -war department, stud: -r.g the map. "Mayor Brown has won the support .if the senators and congressmen from Indiana and Senator McCormick, of Illlnils. The Illiana harbor will become .1 fact It will bring vessels from the ports of the world to Hammond. It will make this city a pearl without, a peer of all industrial districts of the world Dan Brown did it. OEXATSST TEBAXX2TAZ. ''Hammond will be the greatest railroad and water terminal in the world It will be from Illiana. harbor tl M freight will be distributed to the rail roads for every state in the union. The scope of this project is too great thut it taxes the imagination. We have no conception of the great future of this city the greatest city in Indiana. Every acre of the hundreds of acres an nexed from Hc-ssville will bo built .up solid with residential districts." Mayor Brown in his speech stated that he had Just received a. messacre from Washington stating that the Illi ana harbor project would be up before congress for action this term and the necessary appropriations made JAGGER SAYS HE'S REDUCEDTOTOVERTY" From the owner of $150,000 worth of valuable government bor.ds of indebtedness and a thriving express business and other interests valued at $15,000, C. C. Jagger, of Gary, bond fame, has been practically reduced to poverty. Jagger who together with Mrs. Jaffger testified in the bond trial at Michigan City yesterday, charging Herman Faber, bankrupt Gary Woman's Style Shop owner, with having kept the 530.000 from the three bonds w hich they alleged were turned over to (ash. is now holding down a Job that nets him practically S 1 0 a .wee''

TEXAS CITY HAS MILLION DOLLAR FIRE

(INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PARIS. Tex.. Oct. 15. After a niffht of terror, fire which originated In tbe five story building of tha Rodg-es-Wade furniture company at 10 o'clock last niiibt. destroyed eeveral business i. locks then sw-pt on to the residential section of i he city, was at 7:00 o'c lock this morning apparently under control. The loss is estimated at fully $1,000,;0O. Tho Rodgers-Wade Furniture company is the heaviest loser, their loss being estimated at $250,000. Many residences were de--roved. This morning the so.-ne of the conflagration is one of desolation. Families are grouped around thalr fw

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Brown Speaker Creates A Stir at Riverside School; ' Criticizes Smalley. BY THE POLITICAL REPORTER. One Dan Brown speaker talked so bard last, night .it Riverside school ;hat the American flaer behind him fell down. The orator was Attorney II. E. Granger and he w-as scoring the democrats, past and present. "Ed Simon is in politics for power c.p'f," shouf--.d Granger. "Anyone can kick but it takes a man with a heart o boost. Simon and Murray are just kickers. I never saw either one of Thorn at a council meeting In my lifeWhy dtdn't they attend the telephone iata hearings? Why this sudden !n'erest in tha people's rights? To get n power, that's all. Murray doesn't know whether he is afoot or horseback. . DEMOCRATIC STBEETS. "We hs.d twelve years of the rotten lemocrats. They never bu'It a street that would last two yers. When you drove over one of the streets their pet contractors built, your teeth would hatter and your knes knock together. When Simon was In the legislator (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. Oct. 15. Samuel Rea. president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Daniel Willard. president of the Baltimore & Ohio, were accused today of misrepresenting railroad earnings and operating expenses to the Senate interstate commerce committee by Frank J. arne, statistician of the railroad brotherhoods. (BULLETIN) CHICAGO. Oct. 15. Three high ?choo! girls laughed in the startled faces of detectives here today as they told how eight boys stole more than $100,000 worth of automobiles at their direction, who treated them to joy rides and incidentally who profited by the looting of the motors. None of the principals in the cae, all of whom are under arrest, are over 16 years old. The case was continued until Oct. 20. after details had been heard in the juvenile court. (BULLETIN) i iMEKNATION'L NEWS SERVICE" CHICAGO. Oct. 1 5. The City of Chicago today lost its $10,000.000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune when Judge Harry Fisher, in the Superior court, handed down a ruling virtually BIG CALLAHAN RALLY; SMALL REPPA MEETING Another Test of Strength Shows Citizens' Party To Be Stronger. Figures don't lie. ban r.ijrht the Citizen's T'arty held a meeting at their headquarters In Indiana Harbor and although it was not advertised there were 300 enthusiastic Callahan fans present. The Keppa forces bad an advertised meeting on Cedar street. At S:45 throetiuarters of an hour after it was scheduled to start, there were in people present. The- Iteppa mec-tini? didn't get un-d-.r way until after 0 o'clock. This evening there will be a, biCallahan rally at the Trans; ivaruu hall iln Indiana Harbor.

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pnsesslons saved from the flames. The temperature is uncomfortably cold though not freezing. Recalling the disastrous blare of 1916, many hastily loaded their be longings on trucks or any available conveyances and hurried to the open fields. Those whose home aweer not fle stroyed are slowly returning but fear is felt by some that the flames may again break out. Every precaution against looting is being taken, stjecia police and deputies being; staflonel in the business and residence aectlors. So far as is known Et this hour no lives were lost or serious Injuries ca'js ed by the fire. he didn't do one thing- thit is worthy of mention or he'd mention it and h hadn't. I d much rather have a man who knows how to wash dishes well than a man who never did a thing wel In his life. "Ed Simon says if he'a elected. Pete Lvons. Frank O'Rourkc. Frank Marti! and Sklddo Murray won't get a thing fha r,f a nnninti ve positions. II Kd means that then he is an ingrate. A BBAC'O IIG11T. "Simon says we've got a wide open town. He says if hs's elected we'll have a wide open town. The fact is Dan Brown lifted us above the com mon rabble of the cities cf this viclnl'y and we stand as a beacon light. I will never remain silent during a cam paign when Bumharn and West dammord are lined up 100 per cent on tue side of Simon. I'll not be client a lone- as there is danger of this city be 1-e turned over to bootleggers and i-amblers. The elot machine outfit 1 back of Simons. You em't trust a man who can only be reached by the click of e-old or sil-.tr." The speaker critlc'red the late John Smalley. The flag fell A wn. A number of i . ot- . tfir.it the air. The campaign wa? gertirg too hot. holding that the city government cannot be libelled. Judge Fisher sustained a demurrer filed by The Tribune. (BULLETIN) n NTEP N ATION A l NEWS SERVICE) CHICAGO. Oct. 15. "Tommy" O'Connor, notorious gunman and convicted slayer of Detective Sergeant Patrick O'Neill, was formally sentenced to hang by Judge Kickham Scanlan in Criminal court here today. The date of his execution was fixed for Dec. 15. O'Connor proclaimed his innocence when sentence was passed upon him and said he "would rathef be dead than alive in the same world with the people who have prosecuted me in this case." (BULLETIN) INTERN A.TICNAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Oct. 15. News that the railroad brotherhood chiefs at Chicago have announced the beginning of a nation-wide railroad strike on October 30. galvanized official Washington into action today. Within tin hour after dispatches from Chicago had been carried to tKe White House by the International News Service, it was announced that President Harding has summoned to Washington the members of the railway labor board for a conference. POLAND ADDRESSES" STATE AUDITORS MARTIXSVILLE, INT).. Oct. 15 The atitiual meeting of the State Associa tion of County Auditors of Indiana, which was held here closed with a banquet at the Martinsville Sanitarium In the evening. L. 1'. Branch, of this city, Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana. was toastmaster J. W. Wlliium. also of t'xs uty. i nude the ad.ires.- of wekonie and the ! response was by H W. Newlin, audij tor of Fountain county. Othtr speak ers were rmnp .vercner. a mcmoer of tho state boaiO (f tax commissioners 'rsor-r- -'! F!ar.-1. auditor : Lake count;'. If. M. Gardner, auditor of Cass county, Kd. Jackson, secretary of ptatc. And Ora J. Iav.ts, treasurer of state.

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R. R. Heads Hay Put Wage Cut Into Effect Without Waiting On Board t INTER NAT ION At NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Oct. 15. Five hundred general chairman of th rarlous union a of railway workers. representing membership of 2,000.000, met hero today to consider the challng flu down by th association of American railway executiv&a which late yesterday announced it would ;sk thi United States Railway Labor Foard for immediate further reductions ta the wages of railroad employes. Unless the union leaders recant from a position already emphatically taken there appeared to be nc alternative than to proceed with plans already drawn for "progressive' nation-wide strike. . I'XIO.t CHIEFS DAzr.n. . Union chiefs today were- stH son--what dazed by th sudd-ni -ha':- ng ' the railway executives. Ani l vvi'.ii an almost unanimous strl.-:e v r of their memberships tho biv :--rhoc 1 heads believed they a .-; t-, -.vh.-.-h would be effec:ie in f. rrinii f.-..-m t'.. railroada an agreement tin' oil1 prevent futrhe.r najf cuts. t: unl'.n heads were unwil-mgr. in . a .-:.n..c ' today's meeting, to cemm - t u, .i their probable course of g -i .-- The railroad executives rnajn i eni -phatiealy clear that :h.y v.-r- n now to fight out to a finish ;'' i-:. :e f low rw-ag-ts. Many of t'. cutives who were here yeUerday f rer.Kly a--s rted that lower wag? ve;-t z'.ir only thing that could biir.g about lowr freight rates demanded r. y shippers without bringing bankruptcy tu c. r-t of railroads. The executives lust ntimeln deciding: to go cef -rc tb lab- r board and petition for imm diate w& reductions. MAY OT WAIT FOR BOATtP. It was reported today that ri.i rcais were planning to put into effect of their own volition a 10 ,per cent w-atr reduction without waiting frr th- 1-s-bor boaj-l to act. This Cut is to go into effect, it is reported, as ?-cn as the payrolls of the various roads can be adjusted. The F.ailwy rv. ,r Board, It is pointed oat. will be without Jurisdiction until the issue has ben brought before it. through protests of the various unions. No official announcement of this intention to put into effect an Immediate blanket reduction was made before the executives adojurned their meeting but it was unofficially reported that a tacit understanding to that effect haI been reached. LONG COM-ERESrCE ANTICIPATED. The ourtnss of the rebuff given the unions waa emphasized by the early adjournment cf the executives. A oenference lasting: many days, with frctuent Interchanges between thA railway beads and the union chiefs, had be.n expected- After deciding to aak for wage reductions and appointing: ommittee cf five to confer w'th-tJiA union leaders, the main conference ad journed without awaiting; so much a a report from tbe committee appointed to corfer with the brotherhood leaders . H. Mark'ham. president of th II! I. nois Central RaUroad. V7. W. Atterbur'. vice president of tho Pennsyl vania lines; J. F. Gorraa, president cf the Rrxjk Isalnd; Carl R Gray, presi dent cf the Union Pacific, and Flp') Budd. president of the Great North rc. were the members of the eseKJutlves' committee. REFTSE A.Y FREDICTIOSWarreu S. Stone, grind chief cf tii Brotherhood of Locc-motive Ensflneers, G. Lee-, head of th-i Traltunen; W. S. Carter, chief cf the Firemen and 'Engintmen; Lv L. Sheppard of the Con ductors, and T. C. Casitea cf tho S witch rusn. were labor's representatives. The conference between these cotr. mlttes was brief and acre or les. perfunctory. The union ma asked thit the wage, reduction of July 1. be canc cllendadCMFWy C1IFW CMF Mw celled and a pl&fle plven that eo further cuts would ba inaueuratei. This plea wss denied. Union chiefs would not say today there would be a strik. w-.irren S. Stone simply declared: "I'm no prophet" an d refused further con.ment on developments. W. J. Le-3 of f hetrainmen was more outsposen. "if 1 were a betting man." said he. "I woulj bet th-fre would be a strike. As announced yesterday thi plans tha brcaherhoods are understood t:i call for a "progrcESl ve" walko-jt. Men on roads in one section of tho cc-unti - would be called out first. If tb;r failed to bring the roads to tsrras. the i-' n in another section would fro cr, jtrike. In conformance with this plan .ten lietrlcta are caid to have bef-n crc-a.tf.i. If tha roads refused to yield ihu l;leu In eacb district would be called tut and eventually a nat'on-vldo t,-;k wt-.-,i i result. MRS. GREEN HEADS THE WHITING- LADIES ISPECiAl. TO THS TIMES! WHITING. Ind., October ;S. T!..: Woman's Republican Club wan crstati. :zcd at tho headquarters on '. li'ti. xt . on W e-anesda oveitiln. tiro 'i. relic w uh offU'urd belnie tli.tcii: Chairman Mr?. Ry K. O Vice Cliali nia.i Mrs. Jmif be cret a ry N-'-.-a b'itiorr . Treasurer Hi f.io I"! tiie i v. The club w.i: niict ut . iUartrs on every We Jniads; i'i I promise te jj "'." jrt.j l airn. i-.irao:,. -a -j - tit-