Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 216, Hammond, Lake County, 6 March 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Rain thl. afternoon and tonlgnt, Vnhmblr tnrntns o anon flurries In worth portion l colder Tuesday. y Carf.ra ; HaaooBa 2? Hanunona 6O0 par moith oa Wests and ww stands Ho pot Hpv. VOL. XV. NO. 216.

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Decedent Alderman, Business! Man and Loyal Worker . j for Scouts j Hammond today was shocked to learn the death of Harrison S. Voorhces, a member of the city council, prominent in business circles and a genial wholesouled citizen who for over a score of j ears has been Identified with the propress that the city has made in many lines of activity. Perhaps it Is hard tr. say where Sir. Yoorhis will be most missed. SCOUTS IrOSX HIATOT In the death of Mr. Voorheis, Hammond Scouts lost one of their most loyal supporters. He never stinted either his time cr money when engaged 1n scouting affairs. His enthusiasm was :nce-e and the repeated achievements of his scout son, Llewellyn, who bas attained the second highest rank in the scout world, that of star scout, were a constant source of delight and a worthy exemplification eo faithfully. He was chairman of the camp committee and it was to his efforts the great success last year of Camp Wicker wns attributed. A SFX.EXTCXI OrEBATOB Mr. Voorheis, fifty-three years of ape, had been a resident of Hammond for the past 2 8 years. He was born at White Lake, near Holly, Michigan. For more than ten years after his arrival Jiera he was connected with the Michigan Central railroad in the capacity or telegraph operator and ticket agent. Ie left the services of the railroad to enter the employe of the Hammond iiiexator Company, Hammond building, where he remained for five years as telegraph operator. "With removal of the company to Chicago in 1908, Mr. Voorheia entered the taxlcab business for himse.lf.Later.hw gave thjAw.y.p. when he was "offered the position of exclusive distributor of Kelly-Springfield tires and auto aecesories. He was engaged in the latter business with Pan Brown at 168 Fayette street at the time of his death. TOOK FOX.XTZCS SZ&XOTT8X.Y The versatility of his Interests, numerous as hey were, still were not too everwh- - ig to retard this active man Irom e. ins in politics. And with him It was no mere hobby the business of politics. He took It seriously and 3 councilman for four years In the legislative body of the city he initiated many Improvements in city government. He was a member of the re. rublican party and was much consulted by the chiefs of tbat organization. Surviving: Mr. Voorheis are his widow Mrs. Elizabeth Voodheis, two sons, Gardner, aged 23, and Llewellyn, aged 15, and one sister, Mrs. O. It. Van lUper of Holly, Michigan. Mr. Voorheis had been 111 hut two creeks. A week ago he ventured out of the house after suffering a slight coll and bronchial cough during the week previous. The resumption of activity poved fatal, however, for Mr. Voorheis was forced to the sick bed. The ent came suddenly and without warning arly Sunday mVning. He asked for a lrlnk of water, nis wife, who had atended him constantly, helped him to 1hc glass of water. He lay back upon the pillow as though to drop off to lcep. Without another effort he pass. 1 away. Thysicians say hta deatn va due to heart trouble. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence. 25 Williams street. Rev. Farrett will officiate. Masons of Garfield lodge will rave charge of the funeral. Mr. Voorheis was a member also of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Wotfflmen of the World. RISKY DRIVING Gnr?i Gardner. 154 Indiana avenue.; at the wheel of an automobile that con- j tamed Henry Klaver, 375 Indiana avc. 1 was arrested by police on a charge of driving while drunk after he had crash ed on Ifohman street into a. new Oldmol'ile sedan belonging- to Fred Grander. Poth cars were badly smahed. Klaver was booked on a chirg-e of intoxication. LOSES RELATIVE "?. J. Simons, general prohibition enforcement tgent, with headquarters in Hammond, was called to Chicago on Saturday by the death of his wife's mother, Mrs. M. Wagner. The f jneral ! will be he'd from the Chicago home j Tuesday morning. Mrs. Wagner had j been ill for sme months. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION At Oakley ard Piummer avenue, near the Hammond pnstoffiee on Wednesday. March S, 1922. at two e'clock. Six fS) or eight ig automobiles to the highest bidder. ".?ne prepared to pay fush and take your car away. .".-fi-1 SPECIAL RUG SALE. The Hammond Furniture Co., 242 p:ast State street, has received a shipment of velvet and Axminister Rugs, inlaid and linoleum which is now on sale at remarkably low j: rices. 3-6-1

Hammond Is Mourning a Leading Citizen : i-": . ' fit' K PO fc. i o fNf sv HARniSOX s. voonnKis GIRL REALIZES For five years us an employe of the insurance department of tho First Trust A: Savings Bank, Miss Lilly Fedder has tabulated mortality figures and watched pretty closely the snip of the scissors of the sisters called Fate. Hut to l;er the- fig-ures represented merely something- transient in life. They dealt with the ephemeral. the passing:. All about her she watched the frantic efforts of physicians and scientists to prolong huaran life, to postpone the Inevitable event called Death. While she tolerated the foibles oi those who interpreted their destiny as wholly mundane and fnaterial she cherished a hr.pe that sometime she .might throw .JCJf- .wry ..lata - th work of interesting young people n the church. At last this dream has been realized and beginning today she enters upon liar new duties as assistant manager of the Walther League National Headquarters at Chicago. "And what will I do? What in it that I'm interested in?" Miss Feddor answered query with faery. Then she said "The purpose of the Walther League is to assist in keeping our young people with the church; to promote Christian love and fellowship; to make intelligent and energetic church workers; to encourage the support of charitable endeavors; to promote the systematic study of the r.ible; to establish a hospice syrtem for the welfare of fellow Lutherans and ethers vaho are away from home, and to increase the love for our foreign missions." The Walther League is an organization of Lutheran young people within the synodical corfereiv-e. They have recently purchased a two-story dwelling on Eggleston street, Chicago, to which has le-n removed the national headquarters formerly situated at Milwaukee. Miss Fedder has been interested in the work of the league fot a number of years. For five ycar3 she was secretary of tho Indiana district and for two year3 the was national secretary. HE WAS NO SULLIVAN He was being booked for intoxication. Sergeatn jhgg'k etaoin a ar ar ar ara "What is your name?" This from Sergeant Singer. "Sullivan," was the reply, "Stanley Suilivan." What? Tn you mean to say your name is Sullivan?" "Yes. Sullivan is my name." "Say," came from Jergt. Singer, "don't try to kid mc, young fellow, T Untw the Sullnans dn" come from Lithuania. Have you got your iirst papers?" "Yes," f;ilieii!y. "Well, what name?" "Stanley Pnslowich." "Why didn't ou tell the truth? What do you mean giving a name like Sullivan ?" "Well I thought this was .St. Patrick's day nd I thought you looked like an Irishman." "Weil, maj le yo-i aren't so drunk a?' thought. May bo you're ail riant, now, yes? Well, go then. Hut be careful." .Snd Sergeant Sinsrer turning away from the desk awarded himself thtf hand-painted shamrock. GAMBLERS ARRESTED. ! Ed. Junior, dusky king of gambling', land," healed a delecatlon numberinei more than a dozen white and 'black gamblers arrested by police in a raid Saturday night on the resort at 7i Plummer avenue. Junior was charged with operating a gambiinar house. The other with visiting. When police swooped in on the crowd they found the leader seated at a side tabie with a .45 calibre revolver loaded on the table beside him. "To guarantee that none of the boys got frisky," was the nonchalant expression of the gambling king. HUTS RKI.KISKI) IMJKJt RUM) Three yo'ing boys. Alex Juri. 4S09 Melville avenue Louis KIsh. 427 AlcNatidev avenue and Peter Bartock. of -I f 1 3 Melville, were released under $50 bonds each from the East Chicago police station for taking the big Buick touring car of Joe Artmin of Hessvllle and going out for a "joy ride" as they said.

HAMMOND

AN AMBITION

WILLYSGUTS PRICES New Prices Are Made Possible By Remarkable Economies In Manufacturing Methods. A deep reduction in prices of Overland and Willy s-Kni(fht cars, was announced today by officials of the Willys Overland Company. The new prices are effective immediately. The new price of the powerful, easyriding Overland touring car, which by sheer merit of economy, quality and comfort has attained a dominant place in the light car Held, is $550. One year ao. this car sold for $1035. This is an additional reduction since the reduction of 42 per cent recorded from September 1929, a total reduction of 47 per cent in a year and a half, the most radical reduction in motor car prices In the history of the automobile industry. In 1316, the Overland sold for 5515, a price that was thought could never be bettered. Today it is $115 lower. The Willys-Knight touring car is now listed at $1375 a further reduction of $150 since the startling reduction of 34 per cent made last September, a total reduction of 40 per cent in a year and a half. These new prices were made possible by remarkable economies in manufacturing methods, the consumption of high-priced material inventories, the practical total elimination of obligations for high-priced materials, the operation of a new, more progressive and more economical marketing plan, and leastly,- the hearty co-operation in the plan to build more cars per-man each day, by every employe in the four plants the company operates. These now prices place Overland and Willys-Knight cars in the front price rank in their classes. For the past year ad a half, the records of these cars have proved their economy, quality, performance and comfort. The new prices and those of September 1920. follow: Overland chassis $450 formerly $35; touring $530 formerly. $10.33;' roadster $530 formerly $1035; coupe $S30 formerly JI523; sedan $S!5 formerly $1673. , Willys-Knight roadster $1350 formerly $2300; "touring ..1375 formerly $2300; coupe $1S75 formerly $2950; sedan $2093 formerly $3054; chassis $1100. All prices arc f. o. b. Toledo. The powerful, easy-riding Overland offers many advantages; economy of operation; triplex springs, insuring! easy riding; three sped, and reverse selective transmission of heat-treated nickel-alloy steel gears; Tinmken bearings; all-steel body; baked-enamel finish; spring base of 130 inches as against wheel-ba.se of 100 inches; 34 foot turning radius; 27 brake horse power motor; electric starter .lights and horn, etc. The Willys-Knight car, built of the highest grade materials, stands apart from the great majority of cars, chtefly because it is motored by the WillysKnight sleeve-valve engine. This engine has given the Wllys-Knight car the slogan, "Its Motor Improves with Use." It is because of the sleeve valves of the Knight type motor that the automobile world In general concedes these seen advantages to this Willys-, Knight motor First, it improves with use; second, it requires no adjustments: third, it is more powerful; fourth, it is more flexible; fifth, it is silent in operation and remains so; sixth, it is simple, being free from complicated parts; seventh, it is economical. SENATOR NEW URGES SENATE RATIFICATION j BT J. BATtT CAMPBELL ! STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE) j WASHINGTON. Marh 6 The alter- ; native for such undertakings and unj nerstandlngs as the armament conferjf iice developed is "such a rule of brute . force as will plunge the world into ! chaos and threaten humanity m ith oh- ' I'.vion," Senator, New, republican of ; Indiana told the senate today. With a Ion,? prepared spec, h uririns senate ratification of the confercm-" treaties. Senator Nov, as an administration spokesman, opened what pro- .' mised to be at least another week' j debate on the four power Pacific pact. 'We may not cast aside these treatof righteous condemnation from ail the! of being overwhelmed by the outbui't! of rifclueous tondeim.iiti'.n from alt the fi-i-pn ff !' worlO." ?'ew said. j ! "It will not do tor us to think tl.ee. : tr.;i i ?. n'jy be cli'-:-i;;.j.ed with a r m- ' femptnus smirk that being merely treat'ey they mean nothing are ma-le only to te broken, that they are valuers." BABY PRONOUNCED DEAD, RECOVERS I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEVICE ! MAXSKIKi.l), C, March 6. Mr. an :

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Mrs. Fred Cu1r are re.iricin today Over ; ii g. xx eie announced from the late res th- miraculous recovery of their bahyildencc fjday.

sn who had been pronoun.-ed dead last night. An undertaker was called to embalm the body for burial -but before starting work, he thought one o fthe eyelid twitched. A physician was summoned an dthe baby Is noxv u:ivd out of danger.

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PRESS SENATORS TO

URGE BONUS LEG1SLAT10

Senators New and Watscn and Congressman Wood today were aent telegrams from Hammond urging them to get behind and p.Jsh legislation which wl'l provide adjusted compensation for soldiers of the lats war. The telegrams were sent by Mayor Dan Brown and embodied a resolution passed unanimously yesterday by a mass meeting of citizens which was held at the Knights of Pythias hall. The meeting was held under the auspices of the American Legion and the Veterans of the Foreign "Wars. Attorney Joseph H. Conroy and Mayor Brown spoke in favor of compensation legislation. Mr. Conroy was particularly eloquent and forcful as the subject Is one over which he becomes considerably exercised. He considers it follow-up work to that which he did during the war when he was prodding up the city's patriotism and helping start the boya on their way to France. FEDERAL Expect Indictments for the Liquor Law Violators at Gary Shortly. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 6. Two hundred indicmonts are expected to be returned by the federal grand jury which today began an Investigation into the activities of an alleged automobile theit ring- operating in four states, and into liquor law violations at Gary, South Bend, Muncie Terre Haute and other Indiana cities. The alleged p.utornobile theft ring and "fence" syndicate is eald to have carried en operations .mounting into thousands of dollars in Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicesro and Indianapolis.'' - GARYJAN'S CAR East Chicago Police Make Seevral Week-end Arrests For Liquor Law Violation. , "Because you have a star gives you no license to be a bootlegger, booze runner, moonshiner or blind ptg operator," na!d Chief of Tolice Struss to Coustable Mike Peter, who with John Strus. of Gary, were arrested Saturday night on Pennsylvania ave., Indiana Harbor, when a ten gallon keg of moonshine whiskey was found, in their car. Mike Peter gave his address as 1301 Jefferson at., and John Strus, 3313 Monro, st fiarv. Constable Sam-umbargo Is another! case which has long been under suaplcton. Constable Lumbargo was j caught red handed while making de-1 livery of a one gallon bottle of "moon", to a soft drink parlor at 3466 rcnnsyl-j vania avenue. Lumbargo holds a war-; rant from Constable Leo Bonaventura and lives at 4903 Todd ave.. J'iast Chl-j .-ago . A suspicion has been he'.d against; Lumbargo the last year and late yes- j tenia y Officers Kerrin and Keklch cor-ral-d their man after laying In wait the greater part of the week. The missing link as to -wriere the surply of Niagara of "Moonshine" that turnishes the soft drink parlors of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor com-I es from,, was also discovered. At o407 -atHrK street. Indiana Harbor, a 60 j rallon still with 13 gallons of "moon" i nml 15 barrels of mash were confiscated. Fixe men who gaxe their names I n Martino f'esaro. Jim Valent!, Pizzo Glnseppe, I-illy" ringgo ano i-izzo xin-. cenro were arrested as proprietors andj hooze runners operating out of 3I07 Watting street. All five men were re-i leased on $1,000 each, to appear in courtj ihis afternoon. j All morning long a stock of lot lie. "moonshine" guglcd down the aewer jv.pes of the East Chicago police tatir.n lavatory under the supervision of the gimble eye of Deok Jereant MoIxer. Jugs. ruarts. pints and small medicine bottles . filled with the poisonous liquor gus'ced down into the city I sewer nex-er more to be neen or used as an eye opener or stimulator to revix-e 10mc roor "moonshine addict. FUNERAL OF T SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) WHITING. Ind.. March 6. Arrangements for the funeral of Miss Florence Stewart, 'popular Whiting newspaper, woman who died early Saturday men n-j Sei -: t . . wiii be held at the house, 43$ Sheiiaan avenue, at 3:30 p. ni. Tuesdsj and from the Congregational church at 2:00 o'clocli. Burial wiil be made at Oak Hill cemetery, Hammond. Owens and Spsunsburg- w'i conduct the funeral.

GRAND JURY

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FIND MOONSHINE IN

MISS STEWAR

HT HABaeaOEaO f.'jAL ANDREW

The resolution was s'.gned by Mayor; Brown as representing the citizens of i Hammond and he was instructed to I send copies at once to the senators and j congressman. The resolution follows: ; "HE IT RESOLVED, by the citizens! of Hammond in mass meeting duly as- j semhled, pursuant to call: "That it be the sense of this meeting that we favor adjusted compensation for ex-service men of the World War, and "THAT we urge upon the Congress of the United States the adoption of a bill providing for adjusted compensation, and "THAT this meeting empower Mayor Daniel Brown to sign this resolution on behalf of the citizens here assembled and cause copies to be immediately sent by v.'ie to the Congressman from the Tenth Dli'ict of Indiana an1 the two United Si ales Senators from indi-tna." RAILROADS IN FIGHT TO REDUCE WAGES Hearings are Begun Today Before U. S. Railway Labor Board. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAOO, March 6. llailroads of the country today beg-an a drive to bring down wages of their employes when hearings on a ppl ications for wage reductions by almost every rajl transportation system in the country were begun before the United States Railway Labor board. Nearly all classes of employes are Included in some portion of the hearings, except the "Big Four" brotherhoods and the switchmen, who are negotiating directly with the roads. The railroads are endeavoring to take away the remainder of the increase given two years ago. The last cut allowed by the labcr board took away a large part f this increase. GARY POLICE SET RECORD Cause 433 Arrests During Month of Feb. the Shortest Month in the Year. A drive against the enforcement of the liquor laws, houses of ill fame and the arrest of a large number of auto drivers failing to have their 1922 license plates, netted the Gary police a total of 433 arrests during the month of February or a daily average of 24. Although the shortest month of the year, it is believed this will stand as a record and tops the majority of months for several years. On top of this it is an indication that Mayor P. O. Johnson who took oath of office the first of the year and Chief of Police W. A. Forbls mean business. "I am going to clean up Gary so clean that it will be the cleanest city in the state of Indiana to live in," Mayor Johnson publicly told a monster audience In his stirring inaugurad address. "There has been a general feeling that Gary Is going to be wide open after I take office but don't you believe it. Moonshine, prostitutes and denizens of the underxvorld must go," he told them. The drive has not stopped, according to Chief Forbis. "This is just a start," he said today. Of the 433 arrested for 42 different offenses, 355 arrets are males and 78 females. The majority of the women taken into custody were inmates taken, from alleged houses of ill fa.me and hotels in the city. Two hundred and thirty-six were married and 1P7 of them single. Fines and costs paid in the city court during the month amounted to a surprising total of $3, 127. on. six hundred and seventy-seven meals were served to prisoners, 472 lodgers were cared for and sheltered, 248 runs were made with the police patrols. In the disposition of the cases of those arrested 14S raid fines, 21 xvent to jail in default of payment of fines. two were bound over to the criminal ( court. 124 prisoners xvere released from j custody, one case nolle pross. 29 cases ! appealed. 9l xvere turned over to other t officers, sex-en xvere fugitives from jus- j tice and ten had their bonds forfeited. Those failing to have their 1922 license plate took the lead for the largest number of arrests with 118. gamblers second with 63, 59 for violating state liquor laxvs and 5S xvere booked as drunks. Curiosity Kills a Cow. PFTTIGREW. Ark.. March Jim Stcpp's milk coxv a few days ago wandered into an old deserted house, climbed the stairs to the Recond story, where feed was storerl, and, after eating her fill of feed, xvalked over the window, gave the situation a glance and stepped out. She fell to the ground beioxv and killed herself. MASONIC NOTICE Garfield Iodsc 569 F. & A. M. will hold a called meeting Tuesday afternoon. March 7. opening at I : o'clock to attend and conduct funeral service of our late brother, Harrison S. Voorheis. Serx'iees at the residence, 2f Williams at., at 2 o'clock. Interment at Oak Hill. 3-6-1 F. J. FRl'HMTER, W. M.

Vampire Autos Kill Prominent Robertsdale Man

V -1 ANDREW 1VARNF.K SUTHERLAND BIG REALTY DEAL Forty-Six Acres of Land to Be Subdivided Into City Lots. Lansing, Illinois, Hammond's closest neighboring city, xvith a present population of 1,800, today records its big gest real estate transaction .JyJ-kJucb, 46 acres of hoi';, laiiJ is t be'-sb divided into city lots. " - . " William Winterhoffc. . president, and Henry F. W. Schultz, cashier, of the Lansing State Bank, the oxxTiers of the acreage, were represented by Roscoe E. Woods of Woods, Martin & Company and the purchaser, the United Building & Dex-elopment Organization, xvere represented by Sol Koff, the purchasing agent of the company. The consideration for which the acreage was purchased is withheld. SEW WATXS WORKS AIDS EE AX. It is safe to say that tne deal would never hax-e been consummated had It not been for the fact that Lansing has Just completed the installation of a nexv water works system by which the town is povided with the finest ppring xvater from an underground river. In this respect Lanisng now has a great advantage over that portion of the ridge road district In Indiana. The people of Lansing confidently expect that the population of their town will double in the next live or ten years. Another advantage that Lansing has ox-cr Munster and Highlands is the splendid transportation laclittfes provided by the Bed Buss Line which ma kes ten round trips daily between Ham-: mond, Lansing, Chicago Heights and jollet. NEW .HOUSES T OBE EB.9CTED The purchaser of the in-reage has in mind a modern subdivision and will at onre commence the construction of a number of attractix-e homes on the property. One Hundred and Eightieth and One Hundred and Eighty-first streets will be opened through the property. The property will be platted and staked out at once and a big sale will be put on this ppring. The actix-lty in thi3 section Is also somexvhat due to the fact that Cook county has plans for the raving of Burnham avenue and Tnrrence avenue clear through to the industrial sections to the north which will be a great thing for Lansing, xxhlch h:s been virtually cut off from lrondale and South Chicago becauf-e of a lack of roads. SAYS EVERYTHING F Improved Prices and Con- : tinued Demands for Farm Products Necessary. M INTERNATIONAL f'EWS SERVICE! NEW YORK, March 6. The American farmer is the greatest buyer in the United Slates and a return to full volume of business cannot be expectod until agricultural prosperity is restored. Eugene Meyer. Jr., managing director of the war finance corporation, declared in an address before the Republican club of New York. "Improved prices and steady demand for the farmer?- products mean a gradual increase ii his ability to pay his debts and to resume buying on a normal scale," he said. "For every ton of agricultural products that moves from the farmer to the consumer, a much greater quantity of industrial products moves to the farmer to :.upply his needs." Meyer said that both the railroads and agriculture have interest in seeing that goods reach the market at the loxvest rates compatible with capital and operating costs under efficient management.

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LANSING RECORDS

WAITS ON

ARMER

SUTHERLAND IS KILLED

Robertsdale Man was Wellknown in Political and Labor Circles Andrew Warner Sutherland, 1164 Myrtle avenue, Robertsdale, for years prominent in Lake county political and labor circles, was instantly kiiled Sunday evening at Forsyth corners, when he was struck toy an automob-l and run over by another before he could live rescued. Howard Bennett, 112i Lincoln ave., Robertsdale, who attempted to drax the body to safety after the first car passed, was struck"by the second machine and is now in St. Marg-aret's hospital suffering from a number of cuts and bad bruises. Neither machine stopped. , Mr. Sutherland was employed at a millwright at the plant of the American Maize Products Co., and -was return ing home from work Sunday evening, when the accident occurred. He was crossing Indianapolis Bl.'d.f a short distance east of Calumet avenue when an automobile, said by witnesses, to have been a Ford, struck, him and knocked him to the pavement. The Ford turned south on Calumet avenue and continued towards Hammond. Mr. Bennett rushed to assist Sutherland to his feet and other by-stand-ers started forward. Just as Bennett stooped over to lift the man, the second car hit them. It -was a larger machine, described by some as a Buick, and was going east on Indianapolis Bind. The machine bowled Bennett over and the wheels pascsed over the body of Sutherland. It was found that Sutherland had died instantly. The body was taken to Baran's morg-ue in Whiting. The police immediately besan a search for the two automobiles. Witnesses were unable to furnish the numbers of the cars and in the confusion only vague deseTlrfotis could be given. Examination of the clothes of Sutherland,' if showed the Imprints of ten of the projections of the tread of a vacuum cup tire. Police thus have little to work upon. ' Mr. Sutherland was fifty-five years old and had lived in Robertsdale for eighteen years. The' family moved to Robertsdale from Chicago. Eight, years ago he was republican candidate for alderman-at-large of Hammond but was defeated. He was a member of the Whitingr Masonic lodge and the I. O. S. lodge of Hegewlsch. He was also a member of local 21 of the Carpenter's union and served for some time as secretary and treasurer of the Lake County Building Trades Council. He is survi've-d by a wife, a son Warner Sutherland who lives at the home, and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Newell of Kokomo and Mrs. Wiliiara Smith of Robertsdale. " The funeal will te held Wednesday afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock from the First Congregational church of Whiting and burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery at Hammond. The great automobile industry has become in recent years more and more a barometer of business conditions and general prosperity, and if it is a true one just at this time, the shipping records of the New York Central furnish a significant forecast of the returning of better times. February was a banner month for the loading of automobiles shipped by manufacturers at various points to th retail trade and even the highest records of last year xvere eclipsed. I'uri'ng the third xvr-ck of last month cars loaded with automobiles averaged 475 per day, as compared with an ax-erape of 3fi4 carloads per day for the month of June. 1921. which was the best seeord made during all of last year. The first week of February automobile car loading!, axeraged 337 per day and tho second week the average xvas 360 per day . The upward trend of automobile shipping has been continuous, tho ax-r-ane loading per day for the month of January this year having been 300 earloads. These figures are for all lines of the New York Central system, which serves practically all of the big automobile-producing centers of the eastern section of the United States. BREAKING SPEED LAW "You were spedlng!" -fbls from Ihe rr.otorcop. "I wasn't. T can pryfe. I got 12 xvitnesses. Every rlissenger will swear I wasn't speeding." This the petulant reply from Jseph Hanrahan. chauffeur of a bus thAt plies 'between Hammond ond Sixty-flurd street, Chi cago. So tho motorcop ook Joe to the hoosegow. And Jo t"l all his 12 passengers. And every passenger swore Joe xxasn't exceeding the speed limit, but some of them admitted that maybe Joe's speedometer was kroken. Hanrahan's arrest preceded that of James Buchanan and C. II. Spoerer by a few minutes. All three operate rival busses. They were booked on charg. es of violating the speed laws. TriaT in city court later today

NEW YORK CENTRAL AUTO

SHIPMENTS INCREASING