Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 18 February 1922 — Page 1

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HIS ACTION COMES AS A SURPRISE Will Devote His Entire Time Henceforth to Basebail " T I t STAFF COB RES POND CKT I. N. SERVICE! WASHXHGTOIT. JFeb. 18 The restfeatios of .tudgo I-anflis from the federal ; bench at CUcaffo came as distinct ur-' JHe to President Harding' wion the an- j Bouumtit of ths Xiaiidls' proposed re- j tlrtnmt wm mad to him at ta wldtje j house by The later-national Ser-; "TlC. I ZiandiB' latter of resignation bu not ; et been reclTd at the whits bona, j t the) belief tm expressed by officials ! that to Caicago jurist's dasirs to give ' Jl8 entire me to organized baseball! would be fTUfUled by the prompt accept-! auoe of the resignation by President ' VarAis. BT LUTllKR A. HUSTON j CHICAGO. Feb. IS Judge Kenesaw j Moarttaln Ean3;s, probably the best j known Jurist ia the United States, re- ! Signe 5 his poet as judjjo of the United j Stated 'district coijrt to'lay." He -will i r1iBia!ah n:s Judicial office on March ! I'-- , " j His rs!rnation as fornvarded to j 3''res:-dent Harding- in the mails today Judge Landis retires from a lifo pos'Mon'as a United States juriet to dexots his entire time to organised basoba'l, of which be is high cornmisoner. The jjds- laj io years old on Xov. 20 last. HD BASGBIIL JOB OVER TEAR. Fifteen months ago Judjp Land'.s acepted ;ht piseo of baseball commis&ioner at aji annua! salary of $50.j';o. Protests uRainst hi.- retirement from the bench at thxt time led Mm to decide to attempt to adimister both j Ms baseball and hJs Judicial duties and j s a result h;s contract with the liaso. j hijJl magnates was rcis-d so that r is i jjdi-al salary rf 7.'0 per year was ! iHducUd. iex 1'isr basba"l io pay liim f a o annual st if 3i i-f ..ii.5'"0. J Fifteen months tria! cf tbo arduous.; :roprjiil !on of bcldini; down both h ia j !' oil the br?h ail tho hasebalt '. j jb has con ,Tr:ced tra jude-o that if is j t .-o ariuo-.js an ur.der'iV'ng-. "I ilnd J there are not aoiigit lr urs 5ti the day : . contisuft t'l functions both of-! fice3," -was j'udsa tand's' way of put- ; liny it. .ITJdS,3 Ijand'.s as ajrioiriled to tae ivench by President Roosevelt on March 2S. t?u5. In ' a little mre than a morrth be wfluM Ijaro cojrip'cted seven ths years cf service In the judiciary j I'l anch of tie povernnient . Ilia vi-j oroua methods and ou t-epokenness j rr-aie him an outstanding character !T!c;3t a naticnil trstitu;on. V'S-orcus oTit.'Osii iori to Judge fjandis aprars up soon V.'.er b-- announced his j cccrtarc'? P's'ti0" baseuaM f r.ciTit'isio-er . A crt-Pcc' ted moventi-iit ! anpartptij' v;as iaui:cc.;l to wrue mm 1 Ttirf either from the baseball job ur the bench.Largely througU U:e investigation ot Senator T.Mai of South Carolina and BenrewetitaUvj 'clty, of Ohio,- 9nc retired. n a'terriit -w a3 in ado to. bring ! mpcarhment proceedings aarainst him In cone-resa. The action in the Vjouse vij started on the basid of his holdjns; employrnent outside of his judicial rapacity. Scn.itor Plat tcok umbrage because of Julse landi' leniency in the cas of a 19-ycar-oid defaulting banVi-teMer of Ottaiva, 111. Judge 7-andia reieasscd tho youth on h;a own rccojrnizance afier learning of. his tneajcr salary ar-d condemned bank officials for entrusting tho bandlin ol larpa sums to oi;e so inadequately j paid. Senstor Dial vigorously criticined Judg;o I-and's for what he rs;ards as an abuse of his judicial ; t-erogativf-s . j Attfempts iC' ' roe action on the i:n- ' roiciimcnf. pr-i 'ecdinga Called, however j nnd attempts ( cnat if gl.Iation mak-I inK it r.Hegal for a focieral Judgo . to ! accept ontaid rwnloj'mctit have not ! befcn Bjccessful. Humors that Judge Land. 9 would resign hae been current ever since he s;cepte'd the baseball post but the jurist at all timc3 denied t'netn. One of Judge I-andis' most recent pub i!c activities has h:rn an attempt to srb.tralc a dispute, between employe's the hu'ldins trades In Chicag-o and 'heir employers which has tied up 1 ntiltiotis of dollars uf contempiatoi ; instruction activity. After a pro-; i-actcd scries of harintis, Judge i,ndis issued a new rca'.e of wages Tor building traJo e.-nployes which involved radical reductions of the Vmj of many workmf t. Unions affected by the ruling Immediately protested and the resulting dispute is etij uncertain as to i's outcome. Jodge Ijandi3 first attracted nationwile attention in l?f7 when no fined he Standard 0; company more than: J39.w0d.09n in a rel-atlncr case The i fne subsequently was sot asid by a t higher court but its imposition brought, t lhi spotlight upon the judsce. (hen in j his second year as a federal jurist . i Judge Landis was born .Nov. 20, 18SS at MUlviiV, Ohio, lie was named Kenesaw Mountain because it was at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain In Georsria during the civil ws' that bis father received wounds. This family j borne is at Transport, Tnd. Girls Hike to' Washington EOS ANGEEE.K. With a apitot of .niy $10 between tbrin, two Eos Angeles girls, the Misses Mary Milsk end Oeraldine Snmers.. f.ave started on 3 0. 000-mile hike to Washington to draw a lifs sketch, of President Marilia

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Here's Dope On Bootleg Outside of Fungi and Furfurral the Stuff Seems toeBO.K. WASIJIXGTOX, Feb. IS. -"Moon-Mine mash develops ' wild yeast and other fungi." says an official announcement from the office of Koy A. ITaynes, federal prohibition commissioner, referring to a report of a che-mical anaJ sis of 'bootleg whiskey and kindred spirits. 'Fu.el oil is found In larso quantities in moonshine and ia poisonous in nature," the statement continues.. Aldehydes such as furfural and a large excess of a-itls are also found. Aldehydes, when ingeste-d, produce a condition kTiown as aldchydsismus, with a thickening cf tho -adventltla of the essela and an Increase of conntn-tire -tissue between the lubea of tse lier." Other-wise, apparently, " moonwhine is ail rlg-h,t to drink. I OPPOSES HITTING TAXPAYERS PURSES a sr tnn sV i. I iV. JJdUrTaV XUXTier Against ... ' nn -r e Expenditure When Inf ormation Can Be Had Free. In speaking to a representative of Tho -Times as to lis position on the (juestlon raised at the Kobertfdale anti-utility meeting the other nigbt, A. Murray Turner of Hammond said: The Public Utilities' In any City 'arc, in effict, iri partnership with -the city. No parircrsoip "can e.ist' un'leis there is mutual conridence, one in the o'Jicr. If one partner i3 sur.pioious of the ot'ior to such" a degree- trist'lie thinks it is necesjra-y to hire -a detect:" e to waien una: -nusjness assocuaie. , is Mgn time tnat inc pKirTnersuip ae dissolved. T am oprosod to hiring a detective "f an expert, at-a liberal coat- to -1 be j taxpayer?.' to find out w-nat could be t obtained 'by a -letter and a two-cent

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postage stamp. d.recte-J, to the I'ubi ;c ; (ro,). tlic youth Hob audi street drugUtility companies themselves.. j gist. - . They, above all people, canr.ot afford j - - to be vntruthful In their statements.' WASN'T there some kind of an or. They cannot keep a double set of i dTiance passed requiring .the jltis books, making one statement . to the to run both . was on Highland St., taxing body st Crown Point where I every aoi"' anl then whether they, want-

tliey ivou;d naturally like to have, the aluation lo" and making anotber statement to the Public Utility ammission a Indianapolis, where it" is to their interest to have th'J valuation high. In my opiniou. there is no commodity in daily use by the people of tills community upon w hich there is. as email a ma.rgiu of . profit ( be.twe.c-n the cool and the selling prico as there is in o :r pu-biic utii'tit'S. A Ivjihcl of wheat brings "th ; farmer a dollar and w hen it in reduced ; .to loxes of bread, w e are probably ' paying Ju.00 or $10.00 a bueliel for our wheat. Tho farmer, with bis inr.' crimen t in iiis dairy kerd.plus liis year's labor 'tu provide sast'ehance for them. .?ets 4c s quart for his milk. When, tt ' comes to the customer, it is 12c. It i does not take an expert accountant at jeon or J30 a day to tell that there is a wider margin of profit to some-j body in these necessary commodities , that there :." between the cost of coal, ' labor. Interest on investment plus de- ; preciation and a thoarand other ex- i penses in what vre bfjy from the Pub-! lie Utility companies.' ." " t SEND PLASKO TO JAIL FOR Ten men and two women were nabbed by detectives from Central police station last night in a , raid on the ite.v Hotel, ?0 State : street. One of the men" was' 'Charged with running a house of ill fame. . In city court tins morning he wts handed the stifTct--i punishment meted out. for .a like offense here in three ears. 'This when Judge Henry . .Cleveland vindicated a pre-campaign promise that if he be elected he'd do ail possible to clean out the festering spots of immoraiity that persist in spite of the best efforts of police. He sent Jim Tlasko, (Flasks) operator of the Rex Hotel- to the county jail for G months and lined him SS0. Tho defendant, who had pleaded -not Wuiltv-" to the- charge of operating a bawdy houtse, appealed through hitiattornej', M. M - Bru'-c. Judge Cleveland then ordered the iwo women, Helen Moore, and Mattle Fafford who tt stitier! ' they split thir 11 legitimate earnings under compulsion

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with-the manager of the hotel, held in I "The Pat" into a comedy. They laughbonds of J500 each as witnesses. ! 1 without the slightest provocation.' It The nine men fcund - in' the ' hotel j was-a particularly htlarioas e-ent when pieaucd guilty to "associating" and j tiie fellow xvas shot and fell 'dead on each paid 'a ' 'fine of ' $20T They are: G. 'bo floor. ! B ford: Tbmra.l Kcnios, .'Je'rge IN pas. : -r : : ..ng.-lo Toynias. Nick G.rg.i: Move j "I HEY -certainly work-fast in : HamKoratos: John Kopol-i..' 'M iltiam . Tol- , mond." "raid " PaiiT S"tInV Is ml f-om oils and Mick fkrou-s. I CbiCi;J;.v who sla-yed among wo;ves f here. f-'t1ne,-a canvapser, . set his samTRKNTON", X. J.. Mrs. Isidore ; Pie case on the sidewalk while he made Jacobs, wife of a local storekeeper; who j a call in a bouse cn the north side. sawordercd by two .bandits to throw j When he turned around, the , .sample, up her hapds, prabbed a rolling pin and ! cae wt3 gone. He told police it waa Mftustfl ba 'bao4ii . '" - - - -uwiA' j.V&a ' ;" ' v . - i :' , - .

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Did You Hear That WHY not njatch the Ebert Fiio Willi the Midgets A. C? CIAi:EXCE T.ATFW la able to le out f ajrain sifter a pneumonia illness. TliEKK are people In Hammond whe even sour the .'milk of human kindness. i " - : 1 f 1. OLVVKJCN s-Hs " job as athletic director of " local American legion po3t. I : : U ' IL.VNG1.VO FIRiS" . la the statu Quo of the Hammond Country Club proposition. v "THE EAT" made the loop look like KandolRh' street at eleven o'clock last night. 1'ETtlR AOL4r", of here csterday giving once over. Rensaeiaer a big city w as the ' . 1. .. . . ! THKr are still wondering what new ( scheme L'ruggiet Verne Summers will think Of next. WELJj. spring is here. Boys were playing marbles on the Central school play ground this week IjA-WKEXOE COX is debating whether to accept a banking proposition offered hfm at Hegewtsch. MICHAEI, L.BO"TE, aged 18. ia held at Central police station as a deserter from Troop 'A, Clamp . Sheridan. KMPIOTBS of the Telephone Co. will j gHe a dance Tuesday, evening, Kebruary :S, at tiio Ilamrnond Masonic J em-i pic. DR. C. B. MAXTH VS. of Hammond i ... . ( was one of the attendants at the Dev cridge uiectiti' at 1 ndian'polia U ccl.. this TlfE EHEJ1NERS are already anticipating that trip to 'Honolulu and Toc. Sharrer has begun -lessons on the Ukelele. , Ok-. MGR. W. D. WttF, or the j L.yndora, ha.s got the liofM to the point , now where little impro cmcnt could Miahcd for. bo THE best bowler in the composing room wants to knc'W if. Dave Ixcgren gets his hair cut wifh his hat on. ' ! EDITOR of the "Iiallv Ttenublic. of i or; Takiwa, Wash.. aks for a- coy pie copies of The Times. "Our e-iitor want ; to' so hat U 4s mads-of,". iie writes. ' . ON'E of the me.i not often ment'ncd w ho j,at dsncl so much fqf Koy Scoutins In " Hftnimond its Dr. TTornsn Ov ted to . or. not? - I. ' E. TEJUKrHOXE ICMTDOTES A3., uie selling ticketi for their dance at Masonic "T cm olo, .Tuesday night. Music j i by John Doll's 1,-iporial Vive. I'lant leads tii ticket sale' Joe E: FOLLOWING Han mor el :r.ou haie befin grartcd pat-nts on invemior.s re cert! v Franc's R. Mcllroy., transmisfjion lining: budiucrhaj H. Xilsscn, aled; br..kc rod jav. E. MI AKMED with a warrant to arrest 'clarence Williams, of Columbu.i, on-a t laa;- husband charge,' the deputy slifr-j-1 fT went to the home . yesjerday arid tour.d the man doins; the fa.mil;.- laundrx. IX. referring to Hammond's lack of nonunients and pu'S.ic ' Atatuary, the ron arinklng fountain acrosn imm ue coart house ar.d trie ' old cannon in Central Park wore overlooked intentionally. ........ PAT MUELIGAX, while a guest at the Howl Adair at Portland. ' early yos-j terday decided to smoke in bed. He Is! sufierir.g from burns about the. leg and body and the damase to the hotel is esumaieu at EDGTX SIX stolen February 15 from Walter' Vo.ver, noft drink operator st i.i rhi,n,n ,,; l found burned m HessvUle. by Marsha! Guenther. The car was completely destroyed by lire. Police are Investigating. SAM- DlEIOX. Jitney operator, - and had t Nick Weinand, 3S2 Truman avenue, ! a-collieion at layette -and -Caluniet-av-. last-night-. Then they fought about it. i Dillon tried to take Weinand's auto j Iteys away from him. In court this I i h i - for the jit--X. XICHOEArf,- Ftorter nays at State and Hohman got a. slgrtj band to wear on h's hat. "But so j many people dropped coins inta mihand when I was flaggins jitneys that fx a taken the sign of." says Xicholas. "They thought I was a blind man." OONTIUEUTIOXS to thjs column are printed' on their merits or they get the -waste basket. If I. B. will be bo pood as to send his name and address his fifty cents (stamps) will be returned to liim. Also bi "contribution." The Time3 doesn't accept money 'fcr liens. " - HAMMOND is so fed up. on vaudeville - and picture comedies that the crowd ' last" night insisted on turning

32 AUTQiSTS FACE JUDGE: PAY $11 FINE The. first day's, bag of the Gary police in the auto licence drive faced City Judge Iufin this ' morning. Meanivhile te cops continued makirg arrests'on a wholesale scale. Thirty-two motorists with ancient license tages crowded Into the court room The . thirtyrtwo. prisoners had three' excuses, one fallowing thirtyfalling down on. his first one. . "I sent for a 1923 ' licence, judge," cue prisoner begged. . "When did you send for it"", inquired the court. " i 7esterday."' . ! 'My car is a 3 90 model arid I sup-: posed a-1920. license was. all right. . Ij th0UKht vou only to ret a llcense j for new cars," declared an autoist from ICankaLee "Have you been running around Kankakee ' for the past two years with a 1V30 .license ?" asked Judge Dunn. "Tea', sir." 'Well, no wonder they have an aayluni in Kankakee." In each "instance Judge IXinn administered a line' of 111.' Arthur ' Koenig and Gust Papageorge, of Hammond,. Sam Linbaxdo, of East Chicago, and Richard Kehrraan, of Whiting were among. the out-of-town motorists hailed into the city court. Tbief of Tollce Kwrbis said the police j would not relax their, vigilance as long as there was an automobile on the ; btreets of Gary without a. 19C2 licens. ' "Ton people must 'th'nk' the stain j automobile laws are a joke." Judge! j Dun'h told the delinquent autolsts. "You were supposed to ha c new license pla tes the first day of January. The police gave you a month , and . a half of grace. Now you are In trouble." " "Don't want to see any papers," the ! desk sergeant would say.- "Ail we -wilt i0ok at is license plates. If you !iacn t .r(,t them you are out of luck." Eveleyn Gregory Fund W. O.- Pax ton "; , : 1.-J50.Q0 Girls Junior On b 2.00 Edward J. Bohll:.j 1.0' J. Harvey Keld 10.00 Mrs. Kva KltchcU 3.tJ0 " John 1'asca.lly J :r'' L- 0.00 J. AV. Savery - -:- 6.00 Jacob and' William Schloer.'. 5.00 S.' C. Minas Co. Employes,- 21.60 Eriend - ,.: ... 1.00 Times Office Employes ' S.00 ; Total to -noon Saturday tiO i - E'cs . Hammond K.ppreciate it3 r alciii tine-girl adopted with buch enthusiasm t'ebruary 11? ' Veil, jutit glar.cc over tho wonderful i response of Hammond people ta an IapQal in The Times for aid tn financing the reco-. cry form nerious burns of the i city's valentine-girl. ! In it. private room at St. Margaret's hospital where the loyal sisters are do- ! intr, all humanly possible to alloiiate i th terrible pain of the , scorched and . Mistered body' of little Evelyn, the mpj tncr of . the girl sits . at the bedside of j tj,e pathet!c figure and offers a prayer of gratitudo to. the generoaitj- of Hammo:, d citizens. JSVeleyti was "th'ought tt have been fatally burned when her clothing caught flre in the kitchen of her Hdhman st. home a few weeks ago. 'Before aid could ba summoned - at that -time -the flames i had wrapped themseli es about her i Dodj. 'Every vestige of licr clothing ; was burned. Her back and legs were i scared almost to the bone. For many I Ja's ! hovered between .life an death, ut through' tho heroic efforts of Ir. Ueorje M. f ook and the untiring as sistance of the sitters at the hospital little Eveleyrs 'lifo was' sparel. Even now she has not paasod the crisis and the most-careful and persistent atten - tion Is required to assure her complete ! recovery; for- thin tmd -many oxI penses will hay? to be Incurred. And perause Hammond has ta-;en fciie pit:1 ful littie valentinc-girl to heart the poo - ; nu ,.4- mnmiiitv . vsnt tn nr,ri j her recovery. So thy'iO' asked The' Tlm-s to establish a.i Evelevn Grcjrory Kund- jIere it if. BAT" DRAWS BIG HOUSE With the flr3t performance of "The Upt"' cair.e . large crowds of anxious mystery fans from all o-.'cr Lake couynty. From'- Gary. Crown Point, Gar). , liast Chicago, Lowell and the nearby cities they came,' to see t,he much herai. od first perfprmance of this wonderful mystry play. .." Those of 'us who , had seen tho performance elsewhere were as true to our trust,' to keep the real Identity of 'Th Bat a secret as where all those who saw' t!ie 'performance" and ' went "away determined not Jo ie.ll .their "ighbors pr any o ie ' wf o.- ap t tcipates seei-.tg tlxe p:ay hero. '. It Is a very miportarit duty tht all patrons who See "The Eat must per-

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Buj.tv'ss and professional men, m.iufafturrs 'and all citisens In genera' of Lako county are asked to. bo present ar a ma mecst'in which will be held' Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock In. th Gary superior court room.. j The meeting has been called by the 1 federal rnuria .ommltf i.f th T.akn I t ., , . - .o (V. publte interest in the llickey bill now before congress for the establishment of a second U. S. district court in Indiana. "Intercut in Iake county has been lagging sinee Representative Hickey i Introduced the -bill," said Charles n. i Dyer. Sfcrf tat-v- nf the hnr urwi.att-in l I in issuing the call. "Many who. were 'active in havtng the bill introduced I seemed to think the fight was won, b-ut It has only started. Strong pressure Is being brccjght to bear upon conurress against the bill by downstate organisations. The Indianapolis Hotel-, keepers" association has denounced it. The Indiana Heai Estate asonciation adopted a resolution against it. Some manufacturers are opposed." "We must get busy and keep plugging to offset this opposition," says Secretary Dyer. It has -been, pointed out that the opi position of the. hotel men f Indian

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M. i2t li (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 LONDON, Feb. 18.-. Nicolai Lenine is ill and is understood to be suffering from cystitis, according to information received from Moscow by members of the Soviet Russian trade mission today. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS StRVICEl CHICAGO. Feb. 18. An unidentified man was sliot and killed early today by Police Sergeant Edgar D. Cowing, who discovered the mart attempting to break into lii, home.- The only, mark of identification found about the man vas. the label of a Milw aukee firm on his clothes. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NE AS St'RVICEl' CHICAGO. Feb. 18. Tony Paserella, 42, a flagman employed by the elevated railroads, vas found slain today under die elevated 'structure on the West Side. He had been shot in the neck and his throat had been slashed with a razor. ' The police believe .his slaying was the outgrowth of the CLAUDE PALMER IS VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Successful Young Business Man Dies of Same Ailment as Brother. Scarce had -aourners attcndiiig- the funeral of ' Clare Palmer, victim of pneumonia, returned - follow Sng the obsequies of that popular and enterprising young Hammond business man, when they were shochej, as was the community, with news that his brother Claudo T. Palmer had passed away at his home, 1185 Harrison street, after a short illness with" the sime fatal disease. Claude Palmer, in tho prime of life, (he was S4 years of fc.;,-e) was cul down While on the very thresh-fiold of a promising and dct.jr.ibl? career. ..He hjri wf)n many friends' iii Hammond dul.jj1K his residence hec of 21. years, ! ije .was a successful accountsjit and jr,!, the eve of the illiiosa that claimed is life had 'secured - contracts - for j auditing the boons lor income lai puri poses of .a number of Hammond theatrical ar.u i.iuuu...u. ' He was born at erosion, i Resides his father Mark Indiana. Palmer he is sur The vivea Dj ii. ivu., . .nnii Palmer funeral wili.be held Monday morning at ii':..o lrom tnt late residence. nvcrr.d OrangCr will officiate. E. J. Burns w ill c 'nduct the funeral. Interment -T-iU take place at Oak Hill cemetery xe-here Claude will be laid to rest beside tho still fresh grave of his brother Clare. WILL WOOD TO TAKE THE STOMP WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.. Kepresenlatlxe Will F." Wood, of the Tenth Indiana district, '. will go on a ' short political peaklns-tour -next week under tl'C- aufjpices of the Republican eongress'onal committee, of which h is vice-chairman. r Tuesday -night . he will aefciress t'ue Hamilton club of. Chi cago, preceding '.-he next day to Water-j loo. la., where ic win aaaress liotar)ans nt noon-'and the members of tne

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apolis can . easily be acoanted for. S3 can the kicks from statewide asosc'.ations harin:r headauarters in Indian apolis. They have been '.using the ar- ! gumert that the coat of the new court' will be too great ' burden. This can! be met by arg-ujnents of the attorneys j and clients from the northern countien i who have stood , the expense of trials' in the court at Indianapolis. I Another point of. opposition is the! declaration that the so-called "wot centers" of the north part of the state arc trjing to get away, from Judge Andcrso.i in the trial of liquor oases. It is a well known fact that Judge i Anderson has refused . to try liquor canei excr-pt where there is a conspiracy. Dry leaders want- the new court in which a jjdge will have time to try these cases and they would like to have the court closer home to save expense of taking : the nuriicro"us witnesses into court. "I 'can't see Where' the 'wet' argument would hold good," remarked ' a Hammond attorney yesterday. ' "1 noticed that ,aU federal judges seem to be of a typo. They get that way. af ter being on the Job a while and I'm sure there would 'be . no advantage to;.the wets in taking cases -from Judge Anderson and trying them before another federal judge."' ' U Vv . political fued which is held responsible for several recent killings in the Nineteenth ward. (BULLETIN) , t .'NTERN ATION-AL-NEW5 SERVICE ST. LOUIS. Mo.; Feb. 18. -The loss or theft of unset diamonds valued at $150,000 retail, while traveling between Chicago and St. Louis 'in an Illinois Central sleeping car, was reported to the police here today by Sidney Krengel, diamond salesman "of 66-68 Nassau st.. New York. (BULLETIN) f iNT-.RNATIONAL NEWS St'RWCE' CHICAGO. Feb. 1 8. Eighty children of St. Joseph "s Home for the Friendless owe their lies todny to efficient work of the Mother Superior and nuns. When fire was discovered on the fourth floor of the home, here the children were asleep, the nuns rescued the children. They then returned and fought the fire so effectively that when the fire department airived there was little work for it ' to do. "MOTHERJOinUSIS, IN ON MEETING Tells Miners to Quit Fighting Among Themselves at Convention. t:T GEORGE W. W1EUA.MS . STAFF-CCR RESPONDENT I. M. SERVICE! IXDUXAPOIJS, Inc.. Keb. IS.. "Mother" Jones Interrupted a tumultuous - demonstration by supporters of Alex Howat against John Li Lewis and other officials'-of the United Mine workers In "t'.ie coal workers convention today. . Appearing- at a moment when charges of "padding tho list"' were being hurled acrois the hall as the absentee vote . w as beinr called in the toet of strength between Eewie and Howat, the aged woman who for more than half a cei.tiiry hns beep a guidinglight' in" labor movements, told the miners' to"- quit' iicjliting amahs themselves. . "The enemy is boring from within," slic said, "and you are putting into the hands of the enemy the weapons to fight you." IS SERIOUSLY ILL - Noted Film Star Reported To Be In Condition Resquiring Seclusion. UJ3 ANGELES. Cl.. Feb. IS. Gpiefoer the death -of -William Desmond Taylor, slam film director and tl!nes which followed her --nervous collapse at big funeral forced Mabel N'ormand, .whom Tayior is said to have called his "Blessed Baby" to move from 'her home at 88 W W.est Seventh street and going in secret seclusion at a bouse known only to her phyaioian and' a few- intimate -frijnds. if was reported today. Tfie ser,UMnes8'' cf V'SS Xovmard's condit'on lias been vrci.)liasise by the facLthat. w ith n trained, nurse in. constant attendance on' her the physicians have ordered that sjie . have complete rest and quiet. -Mtsa NxTraar.d's trunks were. said "to have be;n moved from

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Reconstruction in Interior ol Mammoth Refinery Is in Prospect This Year The statement comes from reliable sources that th- Standard Ol! Company of Indiana will 'expend $2.0i0,0'JV this year for "vast improvements -iud reconstruction work to be made '. tne Whtting plant. PROGRtM StRMIlTEO. A tentative program .bus alroa.i-" been drawn and plans ,a-d specifications completed, involving- an expenditure of $2,OW.,000 for tho reconstruction of obsolete portions in the interior of the plaxt... These, with the recomendation of the works manager have been submitted to the executive office at Chicago for approval. RECOSnilCTIOV PLAXXED. Tbe plans and specirlratior.s are a!d to 'oa.il for a complete reconstruction of obsolete parts in the"- interior "of the plant. The. installing of several butteries of high pressure Ft ilia, connecting new pipe lUies. butf-iing a series of storage tanks, ere believed to be als Included in the tentatix-e building pro gram. It mig-ixt also mean tho expansion of. the plant proper across tho line Into, the city rf Easi Chicago, -tng the .Twin C'ttes a partial claim -n this, mammoth industry. -Howevtr. nothing definite has benn divulged en this part n-t t project. .. leaving Ah': entire building program hinging uporthe approval of the escutlve boatd . Postnement on this .work is said t hax e been made for the last two years. Th's year . an .. appropriation was set asile and tbs local works manager instructed to rev-ire and submit a new set of plans tj the executive board, covering the necessary interior reconstruction work". WORLD'S URGE4T PW.IVI'. The Standard Oil Company cf In diana is the largest oil refining and by-products ' rrianufaota'rcrs ' 1n tho world. The Whiting! plant employ more than o.OCn)- peoples and has c annua! capacity f 10.7S1,00 bkr'rels o' crude oil. 4.8S9 9b0 barrels of gasoline, 1.287,70 barrels of reflned oil. 64-. 564 barrels of ' lubricating, oil 643.S60 barrcla of lubricating oil, CG.4x.fi. tons o." rcl!'na 7I.0 tons .- c dsoba': lrr4ucts; 3.822 1 tests, of cndle& 1,9? tons ef.-parawax end jjyio t.ns rf grease. ...... . i . : The pri'.perlty of Whit;rg is due. tv the Standard Oil oomipany'-s mainmoCi plant, co-. ering. a large area near thshores of Iakc Michigan and extending south into the limits o East Chicago. When other industries in the reg.'ot; are at a low bb. this coricern invariably is running at capacity. WHAT IT MEASJ. This building program holds miicU ptore for the Calumet region. TUc larg-o. expenditure f"i- building material moans a bcojn for. t.be stcci ar,.1 Iron Industry. T'ue co.-iatructioti wi'.'. create w-ork to absorb the army of -.- employed in this district. , Honor of Ebert Clan Vindicated And You Can Still See the Lutheran Parish House As You Trip By Tin- new German Lutheran I'ar's.. liou Jc, Erie and Eaton street. Hai;.mond still stands. ' Tho architect's claim that the g; n would ba safe under 'all conditions have .been x-indicated. Last niglit TOO basketball fans avw! friends of Cie Kpoetr and Ebert faoiHies jammed all available space. T-l:a'. was the -first strain on the SJ'mTli.; n-xt strain came .. when t Ebert 'five ijm'uerod out onto the floo:. Tho Ehert's; chc largest baskctbs'. tram in captivity. as re-Kale !.10j pounds. The' ixcornera are 'Just ordir.ary sired men. tl waa during the last few minutes of "play" that" the ' crucial test of tl;c gym's construction was ruade. ' In tbat mad whirl of ra'il tossing, .with the crowd shaking tli .building with cheers and stam-ping, Fr'.ls. Ebcrt crashed . to the ' floor with all of hi-s 290 pounds of flesh. The oaeers stuck in the tliroai s o" the tpectatorsi Stronj rcer: turned paled and mothers grabbed 'their c hildren." Young - bloods tiithter.ed their grips on their i-lrl companions. All awaited the end as if frozenBut the -building 3id .not coapse. Frits stirred ne foot and tried to arise. Tlie ' tense moment was past. The star nearjrwe;ght liad twisted a knee trat was able to bold through tre few remaining minutes of tlie game Oh, yes. Tiio score: TT e Eberts - 1 wen 20 to lo.-u Adam' Ebcrt,- Sr.. manager of tlio team, sat on t ie bench and . rooted dustily. Tilings would have- happened In the Ebert woodshed lsst night if his team bad lost. BLIZZARD HITS NEW YORE HARD MJWTOKK, Feb. 1 7. Xe---Yorker j. sltiycred- in temperature 2 to. 4;bekv.v tcro early today. l-iie. ij4iit of !to winter. Xo deatiis were rcpc-lcJ : as a rosclt. XF1W TDKK, MaJ-or Hylan ras s'iBgested the orgajiltation of a"Eoostora' Clcb," to include all the city news raprs,"for: the purpose of advertluia f Xow-Tprk City. . .1" ' . . . .