Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 196, Hammond, Lake County, 10 February 1922 — Page 1

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MACHINISTS BYTHOUSAiS ARE AFFECTED Navy Dept. Peremptorily Dismisses 20 of its Yards Personnel BTJXXJ. .LN "rrniT'CNi news stehvic? XTBlSXfr, PA., "Tab. 10 rMiowtftg tajrtmcMoT&a from tit nary dprtnaaA, work was ordered raspasded today at tha local plant of the Berth,! ah em Steel Col, ob matarial for tit 'bsrfetLeahlp 'balaa' bailt st th Fore Hiver plant of tfcs eenpanr. Tlia order also rtoppad work oa armor plato ind g-arut for bttlMAip ntnr bulltling. Two tOumaand mam Q Toe laid off at tna Bethlehem flaat and many at tha Ttrra Xlrer plant. BY WEBSTER "N'OtiAS trrxrr ccfresrotoeht t. n. srrtvrcEl WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Indicting ef the government as "the most merciless. Inhumane and onreasonafcle" of Jl employers, William H. Jc-hnston. president of tha Internationai Association of Machinb-ts. today declared that he would carr" to the white house Y.im protest asraJnst the "orethiea.1 action" otf tho navy department In preemptorily dismissing- twenty percent ef the personnel ot the nary yards. Sixteen thousand 7nachinists ln government yards will be averted by the erdr of the secretary of tno nary and. sympathetically, it will affect 35, MO workers In other trade and ultimately rrtflitate ag-ainrt tha well-being- of more than a hundred thousand w.rkm. engaged in private plants. JohnsInn declared. "Without a word of wamir.gr. without a material or sentimental ctre for i:s loyal workman, the government has swrt into the pr-owinir a'-my of the unemployed thousands of honest workera Johnston nld, "America shamed before the, action of tha Japanese imperial irovemmnt. Johnston savd. "for that rew civilization of the orient, while ac.tirr In accords nee with the decisions of the "Washing-ton conference to rdt:c naval armaments, nevertheless is tak.nar .the utmost care of such employes who dismissal from the government's servie-a Is necessary In reducing- personnel. Japan. Johnston said, knows better than to flirt with the dangers of. a. nation of unemployed. "This i" tho most heartless thing that I have witnessed in 80 years experience In industrial life," Johnston said. "Even private employers, -raed la badness for profits, rould at least humane enough to plve some advance notice to men about to 9 dismissed wholesale, or permit ham to continue until the situation Had eas-ed perceptibly. But in the r-.a.vy department's ungenerous and iaoonsaderat act, which had all tho "axmai-Wa of tswV Tengeaace visited upon men dolnr n honest day work, there was no palllatrngr circumstances. At tJie Washington nary yard, Whar W. machinists are. employed, all of tnem reported to work yesterday Hiirrttnsr, ungnspecttna; they would h 41sm.ased, and on arrival at thetr tvMvcliea tbT were summarily notified that they were to fro home and not report for work tintll June." Johnston .declared he is negotiating today with the assistant secretary of the navy to secure easement of tho de-f-artmenfs dr-artle discharge order. N'o promise of action is (forthcoming, ha said the matter will be presented to rhe secretary of the navy and in all r.robabliMty direct to. President Harding, unless the order is rescinded or modified greatly. Johnston asserted that the unemoloyment situation ha3 grown worse n the past fit month." and that its unfair ordrr serves only to extend the national industrial stagnation. He branded the recent Tioover unemployment conference "the most useless conference ever gathered." "It ran amuck of Its purpose," he id. "It adopted many high sounding resolutions, but accomplished nothing, and that nothing was done up in a tinsel of words." M TAXES F 'TNTERKATICNAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 Congress today found a way to get the money to ray a soldier bonus. After a length discussion behind cioced doors, the tax division of the houe ways and means committee agreed upon the imposition of the following schedule of new taxes, designed to raise nealy all of the $350,000,000 which has been estimated as necessary the first year; Tax tobacco 2 cents a pound to raise $6,000, COO. Tax cigarettes SO cents pc" thousand, 125. 000, f"0. Tax BUtmobiles. 25 cent per horFepower, ?.0.000,HiO. Tax of one-tenth of oi;o per :nt on stock and bond transfers, $6?. 000. 000. Ta.v on real estate transfers of $5 per thousand. ?20.0O0,000. Tax theater tickets 20 per cent when ver CO cents In price. J7i,000,f00,

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BEATTY ARE APPOINTED Official Announcement Is Made of New Park Board. ! i Mayor Erown this morning officiary : confirmed the appointment of A. Mur- j ray Turner and William A. Beatty to the park board filling the vacancies create by the resignation of Henry Gabler and Harry Kreiger. This waa announced yesterday ln The Times Today th mayor s-erffied as correct the story printed yeaterday. Followtng a meeting of tha board to bo called at an" early date a program of the activities the hoard anticipates for tha coming year will be announced. MISS FARLEY DUNBAR CALLED BY DEATH Hammond 1 Club Woman Victim of Pneumonia After Short Illness. Prominent Jn Hammond social and j civic circles and an old resident of this j city, Mrs. i'arley Dunbar, died yester-, day afternoon at her home, 27 Rimbach ave. She was a victim of pneumonia to which she succumbed after a five dajs' illness. Sh is survived by her husband, her daughter, Adele, her mother. Mrs- Catherine Bollaeker and her brother, Albert Streebcn, the two latter of Schenectady. New Tort Mrs. "Dunbar was '63 years of age. With her husband sKe came to Hammond in 1909, from Boston. Mr. Punbar is manager of the Iyona Manufacturing Co., of Chicago. Mrs. IXjnbar was always actte in matters affecting the community. Aa a member of the Hammond Woman's dub she advocated any worthy reforms. &he was a member of the Methodist church and at the time of her death was a member of the official board. Mrs. TOanbar will be buried Monday afternoon at 2 p. m. from the Firnt Methodist church. Irtcrmect will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. SAYS 5C LOAF AT PRESENT IS IX. C Riewe, proprietor of tha TBakeKlta bakeries of Hammond and Indiana Harbor objects to publicity which hints that tho flvo-cent loaf of bread should be putting in its appearance. It can't be done, he Ray. The five-cent loaf la an Impossibility until other items that enter into bread baking are reduced, is the opinion expressed by Mr. Ria we. "Until deflation reaches these basic items, over which we have no control," he eays. "you are merely driving the baker up against a public hostility he cannot meet except by sliding over into the red part of the ledger." He points out that coal has not come down, rents are not coming down. Often they are going up. Bakers' help he says cannot live on pre-war . vases facing rents and transportation that are at more than war-time levels. "It is wronging the baking industry V9 print statements7 that base the whole case of the baker on flour costs" objects Mr. Rlewe. "Tho cost of bread material in the raw state Is three and one-half cents per loaf, which Is only 45 per cent of the cost of producing a leaf. "Next compg shop labor expense ! which amounts to one and on-half cents per loaf. Then comes the selling and delivering cost which is one . and one-half cents per loaf. Office and administration expense is one-half cent. "The wholesale baker who sells a pound loaf at "tj cents at present has a half cent profit. When you hear of a five-cent loaf you should investirate thfe seller's books. Tou will find losses being charged to advertising." It is fuel, transportation and rent which are holding up baking prices. j according to Baker Ilicwc. "clct them ! down," he Fays, "and the baker will ; be glad to participate in the real reI turn to pre-war prices." NOTED BARITONE NEW TORK. Feb. I . Despite reports that they were married this morning to the surprise of their friends. Joseph Michael Schwarh, baritone of the Chicago Opera Company, announced ajter he had procured license that his wedding to Mrs. Clara Sielckink, widow otf, the millionaire "coffee king" would not take place until noon tomorrow. It will be nolemnized at the home of thi bride. No. 6S Park avcmie. Some trouble was i vnf-rincod by the noted R'iFsian sinser when he visited the municipal bii!ding to obtain the license. He had no papers to show he wu divorced from Hannah Radot in Vienna in 190$, one year after he had married her.

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Members of the creditors committee of the Gary Motor Truck Co., went into conference at the Hammond federal building at 11 o'clock today in ati effort to agree upon either a sale of the assets or some method of financing the plants and that it can be kept in operation. Whatever was decided upon was to ba laid before Harry Sheridan, referee in bankruptcy, who is hearing cases in Hammond toay. The matter was to come up before him at 1 o'clock this afternoon. During the forenoon he held firtt creditors meetings in six small cases involving stores with stacks of merchandise in Lake county cities. Charles Surprise was elected trustee In all of these cases . A stiff fight is on in the case of the Ogden Manufacturing Co., of Plymouth, lnd. The plant which manufacturers automobile speedometers and other auto accessories is now in the hands of Mr. Surprise as trustee. He is Contesting unsecured claims amounting to tiO, 000 which have been tiled hy creditors and also a mortgage of $S.PO0. If these claims can be warded off it is believed a substantial dividend will be paid tbe creditors soon. In the matter of the Composite T.ath Co., of New Chicago, Attorney Edwin Frfedrirh of the firm of Crumparker & Crumpacker, representing practically all of the creditors, announced the fplection of Mr. Surprise as trustee. A soon as a petition can be filed and heard the assets of the bankrupt firm will be offered for sale. E T Inecm tax return blank's hare now been distributed for all classes except companies, , partnerships, corporations, capital stocks, and fiduciaries. The blanks covering the classes named arnot to be had at present at either th Hammond or Gary office and it ia said they have not been received in the state. The delay -is due to the fact that sufficient time has not elai$s"d since the final amendments were made t the tax law. Blanks for all other c'asses mav now be had at local offices. AH who made returns if or 1920 will reo?ivr their blanks-Ihrough the mail. Most of these have already been sent out from Indiariaj'Olis and the stream of taxpayers haa already set in. A Dick Maddux, deputy collector in charg" of the Hammond office .will spend all of next week in Newton county. After that he will be at the Hammond office dally until the tax rush is over. March 15 is the last dy for filing income tax returns. JURY VOTES L CAN'T AGREE After srpendin; an uncomfortable night in which they took fourteen ballots, the jury which heard the suit o' Harry Templeton of Hammond against the Hammond Auto Paint Top Co.. ln Room 1 of the superior court, announced this morning that they could not agree. The trial has betn in progress since the first of the week. Templeton attended one of the autombilo races at tho Koby track in the fall of 1920. lit claimed he could not find a scat In the grandstand so he sat on the cdc of the track at the south erd of the home stretch. A wheel was thrown .from one of the racing machines. lie said it struck him as he tried to doge it and suffered injuries to his spine and shoulder. There were witnesses, who naw the wheel bound in tho direction of Templeton but none of them saw him struck. Templeton waa found lying on the ground tout tho vrheel was nowhere near. Templeton asked damages from the promoters of the race on the grounds of negligence. The jury retired at o'clock yesterday and remained ln seclusion until 10 o'clock this morning. It is said that tho vote was 9 to 3 in favor of the defendant on each of tha fourteen ballots which were taken. CHICAGO HAS NEW (INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERViCEl CHICAGO. Feb.. 10. A searching Investigation of alleged "fixing" of liquor law violation cases in the federal building, is underway today at the Instigation of Judge K. M Landis. The probe was undertaken when admissions that $1,200 had been paid by a liquor violator to a local politician and that subsequently charges agalnrt the alleged "bootlegger" had been dropped. Both the politician and the man accused of dealing in illicit boose admitted their part in the deal. Following these admissions CoL John V. Chnnln, assistant United States district attorney, was summoned before Judge Landis and openly rebuked.

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Mary Miles Minter dressed aa Cleopatra "jtaat for fun, and as she appeared on witness stand at inquest ef William Desmond Taylor's death. Mary Miles Minter. whose daintiness and sweetness won hei fame on the cinema screen, hoped some day to how her admirers that sh could play more serious roles. And in a spirit of fun she Rarbed herself as tha bad. bii Cleopatra and bad her photo taken in that role, not lenowinr that fate soon woulf' cast jef in a serions part. As one of William Desmond Taylor' I PLAN CAPTURE OF BAND OF FORGERS Federal Authorities After Gang Making Bogus Qovernment Revenue Stamps. JEn-TERSON-VILIK, lnd., Feb. 10. Federal authorities are endeavoring to capture a band of forgers which is supplying makers of "white route, " and kindred friends cf the undertaker with fraudulent government revenue stamps. The "moor.&hincrs," by placing the forged stamps on their decoctions create "..c- impression with the victim that he i buying real whisky w hich has pasned t !c government teft and on which he has paid the revenue tax. Better prices are obtained aa a result. The jnuin revenue tarrrps cost J5.4B for each gallon of liquor tajced by the government, but the forgers sell the false stamps for $2.50, and the government, of course, gets nothing. It is estimated by R. C. Minton of Indianapolis, chief of tho leg-al depart - ; ment of the- prohibition enforcement departmtnt. that the government has ! been swindled out of itt least $l.0(H!t'f0 in Indiana alone bv these forged j stamps, and as the sale is going on all over the contnry. and moonshtning haa , become almost an industry, the amount of the government's loss can hardly be computed. It is believed by the federal investigators that the printing of tho bogus stamps is done in New Tork, althVig'h a plate used in the work has been traced to Indianapolis. Mr. Minton said that the government has not been able to find tne place in Indianapolis where the stamps wcro supposed to be struck off. It was while this investigation was being made that the !n'side story of the resignation of the sheriff in this city became public. NEW GRAY ON EXHIBITION v$"hi;e others have been talking about revolutionizing motor car production engineer for the Gray Motor corporation have achieved the minimum low cost car of high quality a'i-I after twenty-five years' experimentation, announce the Gray automobile .scheduled to sell for les3 than $500. IxK-ally the Gray will be d-stributed by Hugh P. Morris, enterprising owner of the S. fc S. garage at State Line and Sibley streets, who so energetically displayed the salesmanship and f a -oililies of his !!es force that he was chosen as distributor from a dozen local bidders. Two types, touring and redan, both selling for less than $500, have been placed with Mr. Morris for demonstration and displaj-. So vn usual is both Jhe car and the price that much peed not be written here to eulogize this wonderful achievement of the Gray Motor corporation engineers. The car will rell itself. It will be the most talked about vehicle in the motor "world. Mr. Morris in preparing an intensive ."ales campaign in take. Porter, I.aPorte, St. Joseph. Elkhart. Jasper and Newton counties, for all of which c? is general distributor. BTJRNHAJI AVE. TO BE OPENED TO RIDGE ROAD The Calumet region is to have an other important north and south thoroughfare. ! Burnham avenue. which connects Burnhnm and West Hammond, has been I made a -state "road by. Illinois and in to b opened to the Ridge read at Lansing. It will be paved by Cook county. There is talk of a separation of grades at the Michigan Central, crossing. I

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admirers sne la one it the central figures in the trazedy caused bv his mysterious death. She says frankly that aha loved him and is aiding the colics in thsii Announcement was made today by President John Bochnowski that, the new Peoples State Bank at 4202 Forsyth avenue, Last Chicago,- would be opened. Saturday, March 4, 1322, for business. The Rtaie -r,arter authoriEing this new ban'riing Institution in the city of East Chicago was i.s.ued February 2 -f last year. An early charter was secured, believing tha; construction on the bank building would be completed late last summer, but on account of confusion among the trade unions and tlio contractor's inability to obtain the special building material called for in the plans, and specifications, construction was delayed. CAPITAL AXD SIRPirj. Tbe capital stock of this new bank will be $50,000 with & surplus f $10,000. Officials of the new institution estimate the savings to nearly $40,000. ( OITKERS. The new banking concern is headed by a corps of well known business men of tho city, reeog-nized for their high integrity, fair a.nd impartial

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1LJ1 JL IX Jl (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 10. Hit by a terrific storm raging 1,000 miles out in the Pacific, the freighter Bessie Dollar, badly damaged, today was limping back to Vancouver, according to wireless advices from the steamer Bearport in direct touch with the Bessie Dollar. The bridge of the Bessie Dollar was swept away, her steward killed and her captain badly injured by the storm. (BULLETIN) tNTFRNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. "I have not resigned. I have not been asked to resign, and I have no intention of resigning." said Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall today, in response to a published story that he was about to get out of the cabinet because of dissatisfaction with the policies of the Harding administration. (BULLETIN) 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES. Catf- Feb. 10 Eastern portions of Los Angeles county are facing serious conditions today as a result of swollen streams due to heavy rains and snow in the mountains. Three important bridges were carried away last night and traffic on the interurban lines and highways is badly interrupted. (BULLETIN) ' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DUBLIN. Feb. 10. An army of 7,000 men commanded by former British army officers, has been concentrated on the Ulster side of the frontier in the sector of the Armagh-Tyrone county line, according to information received here this afternoon.

search for his slayer. The other photo of her above shows her telling amid tears at Jie coroner's inquest what she krew of Taj lor'a past; busings dealings with the public. The officers are; John Po.Thno wpk I, president; Joseph ;. Krrywinsky." first vice president; I,eo K. Herod, second vice president; Thomas S. Gozdecki. cashier. Tho diroctor? are; Andrew Zdrojewski. Joepli Wadas. Michael Zolkos, Jerry nujwit, Michael Dywan and Matt Dmbkowski. The building, ivhich is jutt finishing completion, is considered one of the best equipped lanks in the city. A series of fire and lmrg-ular proof vaults, separate and enclosed steel cages for bank clerks. Individual compartments for the officers, and executive chambers for business meetings, compose the first floor or bank proper. Tho lobby of the bank is finied in marble with a tile floor. The second floor is given over to offices of professional men entirely. HI UniXi AM LOAN ASSOCIATIOV In connection with this bank the First Polish National Building and Ioan association has b-en organized with assets of $"59.000, headed by the Fame officers. Jl q (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' "ELLSBURG. W. Va., Feb. 10 Fire starting at five oIock this morning, burned to the ground the stamping factory of the Eagle Manufacturing Company, one of the biggest plants in this section. The main part of the factory accross the street was not damaged. (BULLETIN) l INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. Feb. 10. Great Britain has warned the Irish provisional government at Dublin that British troops will be used to protect Ulster if the Irish republicans renew raiding activities on the Ulster frontier. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE; AKRON. 0., Feb. 10. Two men were instantly killed in an explosion of a fireworks plant at Hudson, near here, at 12:20 this afternoon. One factory building is reported wrecked. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CHICAGO, Feb. 10. Nine persons were injured today when two "L" trains on the Humbolt Park line crashed in what was said to be the heaviest fog in Chicago in years. Panic ensued among the passengers. MATCH SETS CAR OV HRR. Lighting a match last evening to see what was wrong with the carburetor of his automobile almost cott William F. Youpk Van Bjren pi recti the loss of his eyes. The match ignited the gasoline K-'nich burst into blaze, seriousl y burning Young's face and hands. The car was badly damaged. The accident occurred in Russell street.

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Says Dollar Mark Is Stamped Over the Whole Motion Picture Industry BrLETT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES, Calif, Feb. 10. Mabel nrraaa4. world -fa m on Aim i-trru,. koM fae la better known to Sfty mOJIoaa of -ravle" fiat thronarb. out the world than the nnt wldety knows political arwaaa;ra, la arfcednled to be throat forward today lata evea more Important role than she haa hitherto e-rcnpled la the pro he of the myatery of YVIHlnru n. Ta. lor'a death. RCLETIX INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERViCEl LOS AVGELES, Calif, Keb. IS. Some of the detectives working oa the Taylor marder mystery hare advanced a belief that If Edward H. Sands, the slain direct or' a mUsls secretary, ktlled hta employer, wns Insane. BILETIV INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KEW YORK. Teh. 10. William Itmnnd Taylor, alala movie director, ta a letter sent tn bla daughter within the last last year, told her that he had made a will making her his sole heir, it was learned today. Frank ti. Srhranhelsaen. attorney for the daughter. Etehl Daisy Tanner .who ia lit Ins; with her mother at Momaronrrk, aaM he bad telegraphed Administrator llrj -aoa of Hollywood, telling him of the will and asking that a thorough search be made for It. BT CHARLES PARMER 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE NEW TORK, Febj 10 John ' Roach Straton, famous fighting pulpiteer of Calvary Baptist church "larrured the devil around the etump" today when he discussed the morals of movie folk and the Taylur murder mystery in a special ifteriw given The International Ken s be.ryice. "The motion picture intercuts may employ Mr. Will Hays and the entire cabinet, but they will not clean hour until" the tap root of evil is out, he declared with a decisive snap of the juv aa he leaned forward in his study chair. The tap root Vr. Straton hastened to explain, is mammon,' the same ev.l that has faced mankind ever nince the dawn of civilization. "Tbe dollar mark is stamped all over the whole motion picture Industry,." liu continued. "The industry shouldn't 1k whitewashed. It should Tbe washed white, and that is a totally different thinir. Unless evil tendencies row apparent are wiped away, there Is danftcr that the nation may be debauched. "Twenty million people witness motion pictures every week think what that means. And the lcadir.gr stars before the rubl'c Almost without exception have splotches on their records ' Dr. Straton said that some actors r.ae leen married and divorced-, so often their records are beginning" to eclipte that of Henry VIII. He spoke of one actor who had been married ar.d divorced half a doien times and even Jested a.bout his matrimonial career cn the public stage. "Now comes a culmination of all tb:s rottenness in the movie world. There was the Boston road house disclosure and now at Hollywood tho ArhucUle and the Taylor case. Some of our leading stars are appearing In a mo?t enviable light. "Think -hat it means! "To cap the climax, here is the Taylor ca.vc. "And here is 1'atty Arbuokte, with hi idiotic prin still on his face. "Think. I say, o these men heir, g heroes to the youth of America!" Manhattan's hard-hitting pastor exp'atned that he is not a foe, but a friend of true dramatic art and the decent people on the stage. TAX EXEMPT NOTES CALLED The secretary of the treasury announces that all the tar exempt 3 . per cent Victory notes have been cali ed for redemption at par on June IS, 1922. and that the notes thus called for redemption may bo redeemed prior to June 15, 19212. at the option of the holder, at par and accrued interet 1 tho date of option redemption. Ii view of the call for the redemption of the entire 3 per cent scries the secretary of the treasury hae at the same time suspended the conversion privilege of Victory notes, and beirinnin? February 9, 1922, no farther conversions of Victory notes may be made. Detailed resrulatlons covering the redemption of Si per oent Victory notes and the suspension and termination of the conversion privilesre arc set forth tn tres-vury department circular r .. 277, date Feb. 9. 1922. The amount o' 3i per ccr.t Victory notes, outptand H about I49O.O00.W0 and the treasury is calling: them for redemption before maturity ;.n pursuance of the plans which It taa already announces! for th refunding of the Victory Liberty Loan.

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