Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 126, Hammond, Lake County, 16 November 1921 — Page 1
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Questions of Utmost Delicacy Discussed In Secret By Diplomats Today
OPEN SESSION TODAY WASHINGTON. ov. 16. The next plenary (opeit esslon of the conference prohablr will le held Friday 'If thlnKs go well' It was Id (odny. Premier Briand la expecting to return to France to look after his political fencea within two weeks, and it la aald that the premier 1 anvtous to set his land armament peech off aa noon aa possible In order that he may he free to ko honld the exigencies of French politics suddenly demand bU return home.
BY FRANK CHARLTON
rSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE
ANTI-JITNEY ORDINANCE IS TABLED
Th city council met last night for its first post-election session. There
j were only three absentees. Decorous, j almost serluus, the city fathers corij summated the business of the evening without great to-do. Florid addresses
were conspicuously absent. There was little bickering. -ti ordinan.-u aimed at. excluding from the streets the lovable jitnev occupied fully 25 minutes in Its rending and City Clerk Kunert suffered poignant sorrow when at the expiration of his laborious monologue the astute councilmen leisurely tabled the measure without a dissenting voice or the loss of a minut. Almost (painlessly City Controller Kroertjes extracted from the thriftycity dads an ordinance permitting him
to borrow $50,000 on short time notes to be met by taxes rayanie May, 1322. This money, he said, was necessary to meet current running expenses of the city. It developed that Hammond has SU'S.nno in the treasury, $4., 000 of the amount in the general fund. Mayor Brown was present at the meeting. A delegation of street railway employes and representatives ot taxi cabs companies were present to lend their moral support to the measure introduced for the rurposo of wiping out the jitney.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Negotia- I
tlons In the armament reduction and j Pacific conference have turned today ; into channels of secrecy. The old ! policy of working out decisions behind j closed doors, and then announcing i them to the public, so familiar to the j European diplomats gathered here, is i
being followed. The full membership of the tig five" went into session shortly after 11 o'clock this morning in the PanAmerican building-. The big bronze doors were locked and admission was denied to all, while the diplomats prepared to tackle the vexing issues involved in China and the orient. TWO GREAT Tit OB I. F.MS. TVi fwn ffrpai nrftblcms c.nn f ron tl n er
the conference :(1) Naval reduction i l be damped on tight.
POLICE AFTER L LIFTERS Neither Mayor Brown nor Police Chief Peter Austgen would commit himself this morning when asked whether an
intensive campaign to clean up Hammond was about to be inaugurated. However, unusual activity of police last night against gambling presages bad weather for the folks who like a tiltable lid. It appears the lid Is ahont
Chas. Friedrich Gets An Earful Now He Has Something On
borne Fellow And He Is Going To Get It. Judge Charles Friedrich of Hammond was stopping at a leading hotel iu Indianapolis recently. While he was preparing to retire for tho night the telephone bell rang. "Hello, Mr. Friedrich,' aaid a girls voice. It was one of the hold telephone operators. "Aren't you from Lake county." eha continued. "Yes. I'm from Lake county," said Friedrich. "What's up?" "One of tho girls has a headache and we thought perhaps you could spare a drink." "What makes you think Ive got anything to drink'.'" "Why, all the men from Luke county who stop hero have something with them." "Is that so? Well, can you name one of them." The girl mentioned a rather prominent Lake county man. "What?" shouted Friedrich. "Do you mean that that old hypocrit has liquor with him? Why he's a pillar in the church. I'll be damned." "Oh. Mr. Fredrlch you wouldn't tell on him, would you? He's the grandest man." "I'll be damned," repeated Friedrich. "I'm sorry," eaid the girl. ", I'm sorry now I haven't any liquor- What you told me is worth a quart." "Oh, you stingy old thing. I know you've got some. All the men from Lake county have it. Say, that must be a great place."
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f" LATEST BULLETINS
45 Counties In North and West of State To Constitute Northern District
(BULLETIN) riNTFPNTIONA. NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. Premier Briand of France today promised the next "bombshell" for the armament conference. Premier Briand stated he expected his proposals with regard to disarmament would prove almost as much of a surprise as the naval holiday proposals made by Secretary of State Hughes.
In a raid on 103 Suite street, Detec
tives Carlson and Warner and Officers Borehert and Wright naobed four alleged gamblers, a gambling table and other rarephernalia of the profession. The men booked at Hammond Central station on charges of gambling are: George Kales, Mee Hotel; Dave Stevens, State St., Jim Vournazor and Mike Kanapolis, both or the same address.
Earlier In the evening Detectives Carl
son and Warner surprised the boys in the rool room at 96 State street when they entered and after tucking an overworked Keno board under their arms, took the proprietor in tow on a, charge of exhibiting; a gambling device. The case is set for November IT.
and (2) far east issues, are both under consideration behind closed doors. Whether the whole discussions in the meetings of the conference committee of the whole the committee on far east affairs ever become public, is doubtful. They are being carried on informally in the nature of International conversations. It is not even certain that a stenographic record of them will be kept Questions of the utmost delicacy are involved and diplomats, like politicians, dread the future publication of utterances in private which might embarrass either themselves or their countries. MAY NOT BECOME PIB11C. While America's far east program probably will be given out in due course of time, there is likelihood that the counter proposals which it evokes will ever become public. A question of international courtesy Is Involved here precluding the publication of the counter programs of the foreign powers unless they themselves announce them voluntarily. Statesmen like A. J. Balfour, Arlstide Briand, Rene Viviani, Dr. Van Karnabeek and the ambassadors attached to the various foreign delegations .are strlcklers for diplomatic
form, which means negotiation in secret. Unless there Is some unexpected leak, it is obvious that the intimate details of the committee conversations will remain a diplomatic secret. LOAOKO WITH nVNAMlTK. It is freely admitted that the discussion of far east policies is "loaded with dynamite" and for this season the opening guns will be tired behind closed doors, where the reports will not reach the ears of the public. Later it may be deemed advisable to bring the discussions Into the open, but for the present the del J.ates will be able to freely express their differences of opinion screened from the view of the press and public. Secretary of States Hughes has a program in the far east, just as he had a program of naval reduction, but it seemed virtually certain today that It .will not be presented in the same
startling way. The questions involved i Will flamr Ollf TVT'JTrnr. Hovi
SEEK TO HAVE CHILD CLINICS
An effort is being made to establish a permanent free medical and dental clinic in North township under the direction of the state hoard of health. Dr. Ada Schweitzer, of the -State board, will conduct the first clinic about the middle of December. John M. Hestenes of the Hammond Brooks house has taken the initiative in the undertaking and a meeting has been called for Friday afternoon at which the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary club. Kiwanis club and the Ham-
All differences of opinion are believed to have been met in the new bill which has been introduced In Congress by Representative Hickey for
the establishment of a new federal court district in Indiana and the appointment of a second judge. i
Congressman Hickey, whose home is j at Laporte. has been in touch with I barr associations from all parts of the j court matter and has at last hit upon a division of the state which seems satisfactory to the great majority. The bill provides that forty-five coanties lying in the northern and western ;
part of the state shall constitute the northern district. This district will be "L" shaped. The remaining counties shall constitute the southern district. Th! present judge and marshal are to be the judge and marshal of the souther.! district, and the president is authorized to appoint a judge and marshal for tho northern district. The northern
; district takes in practically all of the 'northern part of the state from a line
arawn trom the southern edge of Adams county and extends as far south along- the western part of the state to include Knox county, of which Vincennes is the county seat. It pro-
I vides the court shall be held in four
I places, namely. Terre Haute, Hammond, South Bend and Fort Wayne, creating four divisions in the northern district. Hammond will be the seat of the northern district in what iis known as the western division and jwill comprise the counties of Lake
Porter, Newton, Jasper, Benton, White, Warren, Tippecanoe and Clinton. The terms for Hammond beginning on the first Monday of March and September. ! In the southern division court will be held at Indianapolis, New Albany and !
cvansviiie. in which hree districts are created. ' The bill further provides that suits shall be brought in the district where
(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany, broken on Feb. 3, 1917, when the German ambassador. Count von Bernstorff, was handed his passports, were formally renewed today when President Harding sent to the Senate the nomination of Ellis Loring Dresel to be American charge d'affaires at Berlin.
(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Nov. 16. Members of the International Lady Garment Workers' Union are today casting a referendum on the question of striking. The garment workers are seeking to frustrate revival of the piece work system. Six thousand workers went on strike in New York Monday.
(BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICER ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Nov. 16. -AHeglng cuts on her hand sustained when a bottle of beverage manufactured by the defendant company exploded, incapicated her so that she was unable to do her housework, play the piano or embroidery, Mrs. Henry J. Stolle today filed suit for $20,000 damages against the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company. Her husband filed suit for $10,000 charging that through loss of his wife's service he was deprived of "the pleasure of hearing her play on the piano."
F INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Nov. 16. An estimated loss of $100,000 was caused by a fire early today in the downtown factory district in West Kinzie st. The fire tug, the Graeme-Stewart, aided the firemen who perched on nearby buildings, played fifteen streams on the burning structures.
r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE TRINIDAD. Colo.. Nov. 16. Notices of a wage reduction averaging 30 per cent were posted today in coal mines of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in LasanJmas and Huernao counties. The cut effects approximately 3,500 men.
IF IT was so
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JACK WRITE IT?
NNY WHY DIDN'T
"Here's a funny story, ha ha," said Jack Mooney, one of the reporters. "I got a lot of stuff to get up and you can have it." "What's it about.. Jack?" "It's a darb, ha ha ha. Now get this Alfred Siemering and Fred French are city firemen. How's that? Oh, he spells it S-I-E-M-E-R-I-N-G. These
STREET CAR
LL BUY NAVIES OF THE WORLD
SERVICE IN PICKUP
ANOTHER R. R. OFFICER IS SHOT Ed. Fay, Chicago Belt railroad de-
i lectjve, and well known in Hammond, I was shot and perhaps mortally wound- ; ed late last night bj three men whom j he surprised in the yards of the railj road at Pullman. He was taken to j Burnside hospital with three bullet i wounds in his stomach. Hie shooting of Fay occurred within ! a few feet of the spot where r,. Oldham, ! C. & O. detective and resident of Slb- ; ley st.,- fell before the bullets of box j car bandits less than two weeks ago. ! Oldham is recovering at Burnside hos1 pi Uil. j
WILSON TO START RELIEF CAMPAIGN
tne defendants reside, but if two or
more of the principal defendants re- ! irds have been bragging for two weeks side in different divisions, such suit j about what they were going to do when shall be brought and tried in either I tney went duck hurting. Ha. ha, this is
mond Woman's club will be repre- i division. Where a case is removed from a food one. sonted. At this time the Dronosit ion ! a state court to a federal mnrt I "Well, thev s-ot two rtnv off unci
permanent clinic removal shall be to the federal court went to Plymouth no. not Llvmouth;
in the division in which the county is j that's the name of the hen and it comes situated from w hich the removal is ' later anyway, they went hunting for nlarie- j rabbits and never got a one. Oh, I This division seems to be a sensible ' remember the name of the place. It one in which to divide the state. Yes- was Palmer, Indiana.
ierua me committee appointed by the ! "Now all these rabbit hunters shot
or establishing a
win oe discussed. Kepresentatives of Whiting and East Chicago will be consulted.
PLASTERERS WILL MEET TONIGHT
in tne tar east are orticially described as being too delicate and too prolific of heated discussion, to be given the rough and ready, take it or leave t handling that featured the presentation of the naval program.
"In status quo," once translated as a deuce of a mess, was the situation today in the building trades following unsuccessful efforts to soften union plasterers who were called off a score of Hammond jobs after non-union lathers had completed work on the buildings. The plasterers meet tonight at the Ii.:ior Temple. They will ui.-jcuss the whole affair. It is possible that an
arrangement will be reached by which plasteiers will return to jobs now lather with the understanding that future work must be done by the union lathers. None of the officials of either the unions or contractors could be reached today.
president of the Lake County Bar as- was
soi-iation, wun full power to act on the question, heartily emlorj ed this bill, and recommended its passage and bave accordingly so notified Mr. Hickey.
a Plymouth Kock Tien. They
KO PLACE LIKE HOME
Brown's Plan For Good
Fellowship. In line with Mayor Brown's plan. Jesse AVilson, president oC the Chamber of Commerce, will begin the campaign for the relief of the destitute at the weekly luncheon of the Ch amber of
Segfrled Heintz. age 13 years,
14 Dearborn street, unbosomed h!m-i 1 here is no time to he lost." stated
se:f to his companion Krk Krause. of! Mr. Wilson today.' 'In order to do 241 Torre nee avenue, and the two 0 j effective relief work a proper investithem decided to bit out for the bound- j Fation must be made so that the worthy less west. : people who are too proud to ask for Armed with a stoden revolver audi aiJ ran he found and tho unworthy
S20 in cash the pair left early yester- 1 People known
of j Commerce, tomorrow.
day morning.
When Mama Heintz entered frled's room later in the day
Seg-
Indiscrimtnate relief work is almost as bad as none at all because the
she w"orthy people do not receive help."
found a note. "Mother, wPl w-rite! 'r- Wilson is also president of the you later where I am. Segfried." i itatnmojid Belief Association which will Then she called the police. ' have charge of the campaign. A drive That's all except that the embryo'8 e. put on in which every man
globe trotters are home again.
But they're .atisfied to get adventure at the movies.
WATCH THE CIRCLE The grand chief of the exalted order of bargain hunters will "spill the J-.-eans" in the circle tomorrow. "Keep yfnur eye on the Circle" appearing in The Times. Watch tomorrow's announcement.
WANTED A GOOD BJXOTTPK OPERATOR: MUST BE RELIABLE. LAKE COUNTY TIMES. 11-15-2
who has had a steady Job for a reasonable time will be asked to contribute a dollar a month."
DEATH OF CHILD Nicholas Volovlch 3 year old fon of Mr. lnd Mrs. Nicholas Volovish, of i'tG Elm street, died last evening at the home of his parents of an attack of spinal meningitis. The child w-ill be huried tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. from the late res-idence. Burial will be male at St. John's cemetery. N. Emmerling- will have charge of the funeral.
HONOR TO VINA M. WEST PLEASES ...LADY MACCABEES Lady Maccabees of Hammond- are pleaded at the appointment of Miss Vina M. West, of Port Huron. Mich., who is attending the conference In Washington Is the, supreme commander of the Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees. Mrs. Katherine Kitchell, treasurer of the Lady Maccabees of Hammond, states that the local order used its Influence to obtain the appointment of Miss West by the president.
NEIGHBOR KIWANIS
GATHERING
thought it was a quail.", "Is that all of the story?" "Yep, that'a all. Now, you think you're such a clever guy, write a funny story about it- I'm too busy." This is the best we could do Jack.
PLAN RED CROSS CAMPAIGN Representative of Hammond civic and fraternal clubs are urged to attend a meeting of the Hammond Chapter, American Red Cross1, called by Mrs. S. E. -Swaim at the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 p. in. tonight, for the purpose of planning the annual Red Cross enrollment campaign The national campaign began Armistice Pay. Hammond has been lax in throwing her resources behind the movement. The campaign closes) on Thanksari ving Day. Nothing has been done locally so far. Every man and woman Interested In aiding the Red Cross should be pres
ent tonight at the Chamber of Commerce.
HOPE FOR BOULEVARD Residents and property owners of Harrison avenue who hold out hopes that their thoroughfare will be converted into a 'biulevard suffered a lapue of faith last night when the city council referred the measure creating
Harrison :.venn. 9 ;bou 'e va rrl In tho!
Park Commtsioners. This was done after the resolution had been sent from the" street and al-
i-iiiiiiiitire lo council ioi action, int pleasant pastime of passing the buck! now places the measure up to the Park Commissioners. j
Klwanlans of Hammond and neighboring cities with a number of prominent men from cities where Kiwanis clubs will porbably be organized -soon, held a good fellowship sessi n last evening at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. The affair was put on by the Hammond club. A frne chicken supper was served by Mrs. H. L. Davidson. Prior to th-i feed and immediately afterwards the boys went through a number of their stunts, sang sonas and got set for the speaking program which followed. Frank O'Rourke acted as toastmaster. Several officials of the state and internati onal organizations were present. A message was received from
Lieut.-Governor Harry Darling of Indianapolis expressing repret that he could not be present cwing to the recurrence of an old ailment which would necessitate an operation. His place on the program was taken by O. E. McCarver, of Ia Porte, who delivered a rousing address on what he found to be the outstanding poin(s in favor of Kiwanis. Dean C.ark of Chicago, and Bill Millard, state organizer, also spoke. Both U I 1 of the rapid growth of the Kiwanis idea and showed that Indiana now ranks first Short speeches were made by A Murray Turner, Dr. K. Sharrer, W. J. McAleer, of Hammond, Judge Martin Smith of Crown Point, Fred Smith of Whiting and a number of visitors from Valparaiso, LaPorte and Lake county towns. Entertainment was furnished by an orchestra, a specialty act by Milford Allen and some rope exhibition by two cowboys who chanced to be stranded in Hammond. The dub took
up a collection for tho cowboys w 1m are trying to make a pony trip to Washington.
HESSVILLE NOT MARRIED OFFICIALLY
Found Some folks who don't know yet that dear little Hessville is now a part of Hammond. This startling fact was brought out In city couti.il last right by Councilman Caleb White who lampooned the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company
as an organization that has remained intelligently ignorant of the recent wedding of the two cities to the financial avantage of the comrariy. He said that Hessville people are still being charged the old rate of 13 cents a kilowat hour for electricity while as a purt of Hammond the former villagers should be paying the Hammond rate of ten cents perhour. L. C. Smith, president of the council, instructed the city clerk to advise the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company that Hammond could become a Tarzan if need be to protect its af
finity and that should the company persist in harassing Hessville proper Tarzanish methods would be instituted by Hammond. Morse Dell Plain, vice president of the company, said this morning that the rate would be changed to conform with the Hammond rate as soon as his coinpar y received official notice from the city that Hessville is now a corporate part of this city.
Jitney traffic between East Hammond
and the down town district has suffered a slight slump this week cue to the resumption of service ml the way around on the street car line. The deep sewer on Conkey avenue
has been finished and the cars now make
the full trip. For several months peo
pie Pound tor East Hammond had to
transfer when the scene of sewer con
struction was reached. This usually
meant a walk of over a block with the possibility of missing connections with the car at the other side of the break. The result was that many preferred the jitneys with the extra two cents fare. The shuttle car which operated on Columbia and Morton avenues s now in regular service. The crews were stationed on their limited run so long that they became personally acquainted with about all of the street car users of the East Side.
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Rain and Warmer.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE CIRCLE
"Keep your eye on the circle." aroused the Inquisitive faculties of thousands last night, who wondered who or what't to appear in the circle. Well dear readers, the cat jumps' out
of the baj today. The ring will appear daily from now- on and it will be known as the "Bargain Circle." The king of bargain hunters started on a journey today to find bargains. This bargain hunter is a mericlesa creature who lias ben picked on to dig up bargains, and he carried sealed orders to GET bargains stripped of all
camouflage.
what he dug up for tomorrow. Wed
nesday's paper will show- what he dug up for. Thursday, and so on. If you should come into a possession of a pot of gold, so to speak, a communication addressed to King of Bargain Hunters, care Times, will delight the old fellow immensely.
THEN THE POLICE MOPPED UP BILL
Big Bill Shaughnessy used to pull the Samson stuff in the movie studios at
Hollywood. When a "set" had been "shot" and was due for the scrap heap they sent for Big Bill. It didn't make any difference to Bill whether the "set" was a palace, a frontier stockade, a doll's house, or a whole town. He would just tear right in said scrap the whole shebang in a few minutes. Big Bill was the ehampion scrapper of the west cost. Last night Big Bill tried the same thing in Hammond. Big Bill became intoxicated on moonshine. He mopped up. the fctreet at Stare and Hohman stretVi with the diminutive Ed. Caijo. Then the police arrived. That is to say some police arrivea. A few minutes later more arrived. Some of thess-
who reached Big Bill first went away
or picked themselves up and looked around dazed like. But a half dozen
of the boys finally clubbed Big Bill
into submission snd prevailed upon him
to enter the "paddy wagon" for a little
ride.
Then they Rooked around for Ed.
Caijo, the innocent plaything of Big Bill. Ed. had lit out when the melee started. Officer Paul picked him up at
Calumet and Sibley a few mlnntes la
ter. Ed. was stilt running when he reached the police station. The fright
ened look in his jrazelle pvi-n was s"lt
there this morning when Judge Klotz
leaned over and murmured, "15 and
costs for being drunk."
Big Bill cast a pathetic look such ss an elephant might offer a cat on his little friend of brief, but bitter acquaintance and fished up $30 bucks for
the two of them.
Henry Ford Says He's Able To Finance Such A Proposition
BY ALLAN L. BENSON (STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! (Copyright, 1921, by the 1. N. Service ) DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 16. Henry Ford todaf authorized me to make the following: sensational announcement upon his behalf. "I will buy the navies of the world at junk prices," he eald. "and then turn them into agricultural machinery and automobiles If the United States snd the other powers will agree to disarm on the sea. "You may tell those gentlemen In Washington that I mean business. They may think that I could not finance such an undertaking but you may tell them that I can. You may
assure them that with acetelyn torches and electricity I can cut those war
ships to pieces and make useful things out of them."
DIDT GO FAR ENOUGH. Mr. Ford's announcement came as
suddenly as did the world-famed announcement of Scretary Hughes with regard to the limitation of eea power.
We v ere at his tractor plant at Dear-
bor, talking of many things. In the
course of the conversation, I asked him what he thought of the Hughes proposal. He said it was all right, except that It did not go far enough. He expressed the opinion that there should be complete, disarmament . on the sea. Then he authorized the announcement to buy all of the warships afloat.
'To buy those ships." he continued.
"would be only to get some of my raw materials for a while from a newsource. I am spending great sums all the while to get ore out of the ground ami make it Into steel, and I might just aa well buy the metal In those warships as to buy metal anywhere else. WILL BUY THEM ALL. "I wish you would make It plain that I stand ready to buy, at junk prices, any and every warship that the United States and other powers may think of sinking. Flease ask them not to sink a ship. I undorstand that some of the captured German ships were
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TAXIGAB DRIVER
CHARGED WITH SLAV! N G
N CALUMET REGION
LaPorte Man Arrested For Trafficking in Girls for Immoral Purposes. CHICAGO. Nov. 16. Harry Everts.
19 years old, a Laporte, Ind., taxicab
driver, was arrested In a rooming house at 1731 West Monroe street last
night by Sergts. Patrick Mulvahill of
the detective bureau and J. H. Conley
of the Gary police department. Also taken into custody at that address
was Nora Uritas, 16 years old, who ran away from her home in Gary two weeks ago. Everts, it Is alleged brought the x to Chicago for Immoral purposes. It is alleged he is one of the leaders in a hand of taxicab drivers in Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, and other Ineliana towns who make a business of transporting women from Indiana to Chicago and from Chicago to Indiana towns. Federal officials will be given the evidence In tho case today.
BRITISH NAVALEXPERTS
ARE NOT COMMITTED
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16 Great Britain's naval experts are not committed to any definite program of amendments to Americas far reaching scheme for limiting the world's navies, it was
The circle today showsj semi-off Icially stated today at Britsh n f r,f 1 rtm -v rt r WTa-t t n nr. V- J ......
The statement was made in connection with the meeting today of the four allied admirals Beatty, Katon De Bon and Acton under the chairmanship of Assistant Secretary of th Navy Roosevelt, to consider tho practical application of America's proposals.
CRACKSMEN BLOW
SAFE AT WHITING
Nitroglycerine Used in Safe Blowing But There is No Loot.
WHITING. Ind.. Nov. 16. Safe blowers the latest to invade Whiting, having wrecked the safe in the Julio.; Hoppe Paper and Supply company at 422 Indiana boulevard. When the employes entered the store in the morning, gas was smelled very strongly. Investigation showed the safe to be ruined. The first two doors were blown open with nitro-glycerine. When another door was found they evidently lost heart and chopped this door open with an ax. As It happened
there was no money in the safe, Mut
the thieves made away with all HkHoppe's valuable papers. Insurance and property and even their hank books. Nothing else was disturbed in the store, so money evidently was the
aim.
Entrance was gained by sawing the
bars on a sido window, and exit was evidently made by a rear door as this
was found unlocked.
This is the second time within a
few week" that Hoppe's store was en-
tereu. i ne otner time it was mo
work of young boys who havo since
confessed to their wrong doing. Thi.
however, looks like the job of an expert cracksman.
rliAYTOwN FESTIVAL and CARNI
VAL, NOV. 17-18, 7:30 p. m.. Lafayette
SchcoL Admission, Main Bldg.. 25c.
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