Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 229, Hammond, Lake County, 22 March 1922 — Page 1

1,620,000 TONS OF COAL IN

COUNTY'S BIN N THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thuraday j rUlna- temperature. LAKE TIM VOL. XV. NO. 229 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1922. IIAMMO Nl ). INDIAN I FT AHD HARD SML CUDB3ERS T

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N HISTORY U.S. Does Not Fear Danger to the Public Interests at Present. BILLET1V. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 I OIASAPOLIS. lad- March S3. "There t no prospect af settlement of the miner' Trace coatra-reray la advance of the nation-wide walkoat af half million hard and aoft coal worker April 1st." ThU Bat tatement w made to the lateraatlonal Service today by William Green, aecretary-treaanrer of the latted Mine "Workers after he had read a Washington dispatch saylna: cabinet offlcera were hopeful of an agreement before the atrlke beeomea effective. BL'LLETIX. IniAAPOMS, lad., March 22Rirrlif the miracle of a aertlemeat of wage difacnlrles within the nest tea days. Half a million miners in all the unionised hard aad oft real miaee of the Valted States aad British Columbia will drop their tools April 1 for an Indefinite period under the terma If the strike order from International headquarters of the I nlted Mine Workers which la in the mails today. For the first time In the history of the coal Industry both the bitnmlnoas and antharcite mlaes af the national, as forecaat by the Iaternatioaal ews Service many weeks mko. are to be Idle at the same time, if the strike order Is carried ont, ray of hope for avertlaa; the nation-wide suspension. BT W. H. ATKINS WASHINGTON", March 2:.-?Shut-doirn of the coal mines on April 1. by a strlka of 600.000 union miners, apparently awakened little fear today among high officials of the government that the- public Interest will be endangered or .that federal Intervention will be necessary. Attorney General Daugherty said today tho strike program had not reached the stage to warrant any statement of what the government may do, If the exercise of its functions become necessary. The attorney general said he believed the government has authority to net to prevent Interference in the production of coal. MATTER. OF" OOXJECTrRE. "When and how that power will he exercised, if a strike ' actually materializes and assumes the proportions of a long drawn out struggle between the miners and operators, and thus inflicts suffering or hardships upon the people, was left to be conjdctured. Attorney General Daugherty and others of the cabinet are said to ntertain the view that it Is not yet too late to avert a strike. The attorney general todriy was very hopeful that a. settlement may be reached. The cabinet Is confident that the pub ic and industry can go through a short strike, without inconvenifnc. It was said that even if a strike goes through on schedule time, the government may delay for a reasonable period resorting to courts, or other powers that are avaiiable until all possible means have been exhausted to restore peace between the operators and miners. MIGHT BE CONSPIRACY. 1 the government acts it would proceed under the statutes against conspiracy. Just how far the government would go in that direction may depend in a measure upon the investigations now being made by the department of Justice in the coal fields. These Inquiries are proceeding quietly. Government reports today disposed that the United States on the eve of the rtrJke, has the large .nock of coil in its bins, or actually minod and ready timove to consumers, that has been above ground at " any othar simi'ar period for many years. MICH COAL IV STOCK. By April 1, coal experts sail, nearly 100,000,000 tor.? of bituminous coal will bj available in emergency coal stocks held by large consumers. These include railroads, public utilities. 1 a rg o industrial consumers. Reports to the geological survey today indicated that the roal fields j of West v irjjmla ana other state, which are not unioniz'd are preparing to work at top speed to furnish extraordinary demands. These mine. already have increased fhe.r output in the last month far above normal .and still have a vast amount of unfilled orders. 200 MEN BACK AT HOBART PLANT fs-tCtt. TO THE TIMES HOBART, IND., March 2Z The local works of th,. National Fireproof -ing Company which has been closed during the entire winter, opened up Monday. About two hundred men are employed by this concern. The company expects to keep the plant in operation as business conditions are iniprovYrg in their' line '

OF COUNTRY

A LETTER OF APPRECIATION

Editor Times, Hammond, Ind. Dear Sir: Recently, in looking: through newspaper clippings that came to my desk, I was especially impressed with the splendid co-operation which our Scout work Jn Hammond is receiving; from T Times. Doubtless the local people have expressed their appreciation of this co-operation in helping them to reach in an effective way the boys of the community, but I woild like also to let you know that we are interested in promoting: this work throughout the country appreciate the valuable help which you and other newspaper men are grains us. Afaln thanking: you for your valuable help, I am Very sincerely yours, BOY SCOUTS OP AMERICA. J- I. Freman, Assistant National Field Director, Chicago. Boasted of How He Fleeced "HGQsier Suckers" Here SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CHICAGO. II!., March 22. vieorge uen iu Talmage lit a tailored cigacet and blew a cloud cf perfumed smoke into the face of Deputy United States Marshal Shehan last evening as the gate of a cell In the Cook county jail clanked shut upon lam. , "Now ye can cool yer heels," said the deputy marshal. "A "pretty chase ye led me today, young man.f' . Young Tiimadge, dressed to the m tmi t e and -'-(la h i n g""a ' m a rv el on s diamond ring, laughed at the turn of events. From a spacious mahogany olt'ce in tho Oilley building to a cell in the county jail, held for the government! V. 5. SEEKS TALMADCE, SR. Deputy Shehan lingered for a minute. "I'll say this for ye, young man. Ter a pretty slick feller. If yer father gets away he kin thank ye fer it." The arrest of young Talmag-, son of E. C. Talniae, president of the National Organization Company which, according to the United States attorney, fleeced hundreds of people, occvired at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, just as he was leaving an office In the Crilley building.' United Stales Judge Carpenter had issued "bench warrants for the arrest of the Talmages, senior am! Junior, on information from Unitr.J States Atty. Clyne that, the bonds given by the "slickers" last week were fraudulent. Mrs. Talmage, wife of C. K., ha I scheduled the Cumberland Country Club in Lake county on the Kankakee river, saying that she was the sole owner and that the property was unincumbered and worth 130.000. The district attorney told Judge Carpentier that an investigation showed the pioperty to be owned by a corporation in which Mrs. Talmage had no equity. l.DICTEU BY GUiND JIRV. The three Talmages were originally arrested on warrants growing out of indictments by the federal grand jury In Chicago charging that the National Organization Company which they promoted was using the mails in a scheme to defraud. It was declared that tiie company swindled scores of victims in stoc'v jobbing propositions. J. C. Brokebank was also arrested and gave bond. Tiie bonJs for the Talmsges a'ld Brokelbank were fixed at J5.000 by Unite 1 States Commissioner Mason. The bonds supplied by Mrs. Talmage for her husband and son was found to be fraudulent and the bench wairants were issued. TIP KATHKR TO BEAT IT. According to the United States marshal, Talmage. Jr., called to his father to "tteat it" when the marshal entered the door of the office yesterday, tnd Talmage. Sr.. made his escape through a rear door. Deputy marshals were scouring Chicago today in search of the "old man," declared by postal inspectors to be one of the 'smoothest" offenders they have df.alt with tn years. "We have been on Talmage's trail for twelve years," said Postal Inspector Johnson. "We secured his indictment ten years ago but he managed to escape prosecution. He operated in the Calumet region and made his boast that he could always put one over on the "Hoosier suckers." It is believed Talmadge senior is keeping away from the marshals until he can scap up acceptable bail for himself and his son. Mrs. Talmage was released without bail. The case has not been set for trial but wiil probably come up in tnB May term of court. Young Talmage is a familiar figure "around town." Always immaculate he drH'es a sporty roads- i ter and has had the reputation cf being "a rich man's son "

TALI1GE JR. RE-ARRESTED IN CHICAGO

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Aged Woman Tries to Bite Off Her Wrist In Steel Trap While Icy Waters Overwhelm Her As She Struggles On Flats. '

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ALGOXAC, Mich., Match 22 Hours of torture, in which , Mrs. Joseph Scars, 72 years old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held hf-r in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman's body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, from which she was batting it, tipped over and tioated away. For at least five hours the woman floundered in the icy water and WHITING LOSES A BELOVED PASTOR Rev. William Casper Miller, of Sacred Heart Church Succumbs at a Chicago Hospital. TYHITING. Ind.. March 23. Tie death of Rev. William Casper Miller, for the past four years priest of the Sacred Heart church of this city, came as a severe shock to the people of the entire community as well as to the parishioners. He was taken ill with a severe cold on last Thurslay, which developed into ii.fluenza. Dr. Moory head, the attending physician, ordered him to the Mercy hospital, Chicago, Sunday morning, from which time his condition became so critical that only members of his immediate family were allowi short visits with him. He succumbed to his brief illness at 3:15 p. m. yesterday. Father Miller was born in Lafayette, ind., January 6, ll9. lie completed the classical course at 3t. Gregory Preparatory Seminary at Cedar Point, O., after which ne took the philosophical and theological course, at Mount ft. Mary s of West Seminary, Cincinnati, O. He was ordained priest by Bishop Aler.iing in tho cathedral at Fort Wayne In 1902. He acted as assistant to Rer, BSeckmann. pastor of St. Mary's chmch. Michigan City. Alter mis bishop's house at Ft. ' he went to the Wayne as assistant at the cathedral and" as secretary of clerical work undr Bishop Alerding. He spent several years in this place. He is survived by his aged mother, Mrs. Mary J. Miller, wno made her home with her son; two sisters, Mrs. Francis O'Connell. Tacorna, Wash., snd Mrs. Doi-a Foster of Livingston. Mont; three brothers. Kdward Miller. Cincinnati, Ohio; August Miller, of Orange, N. J., and Theodore Miller of St. Paul Minn. Accompanied by Father Berg of Hammond. Father Midler had Just completed preparations to sail for Germany May 13th, having already obtaine.1 v;nsports. The body will arrive in "Whiting late this afternoon and be taken to his late home. 324 Laporte avenue, to remain unil 9:00 a. m., Thursday when it will ho removed to the church v. here he will be in state until 5 . o'clock on Friday morning. Services will be conducted by Mon Senior Jrhn Oohtering of Ft. Wayne, an intimate associate of the deceased from 9 to 10:30 o'cIock Friday in the Sacred Heart church. Interment will he made in St. Mary's cemetery in Fort Wayne. Undertakers Owens and Spansburg are conducting the funeral. SUPERIOR SPELLERS Once more West Hammond comes to the front. This time the reputation of the city is boosted by three students of the public schools who have demonstrated their superiority as spellers over contestants from Ave other schools of the east side of Thornton township. The preliminary contest of the fractional township to select representaties for the big Cook county spelling match which is to be held in the offices of County Superintendent E. J. Tobin in Chicago on April 1. was held Monday at the Went-! worth high school in West Hammond. Three children had been selected to represent each of the five neighboring schools: Globe, Sobieski. Lansing. Eurnham and Wentworth. A list of 125 different words was dictated to the fifteen contestants. Out of the three entries from Sobiessi school, one student, Anthony Kaminskl. made a grade which placed him among the three winners. Wentworth high's trio turned out the two other winners. They were Linda Wiening and Lucille Klug. These three stucTents from the West Hammond schools will go with their teachers to Chicago, on April I and participate in the county contest. They are being groomed to take the honors there.

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tnud. To extricate herself she attempted to bite off her right wrist,near where the steel trap gripped her. Unable to stand upright nor lie prone, she maintained the stoop ing position until the cold air aniF icy water drove her into a' frenzied fight in which she almost tore al her clothing from he back. So firm was the grip of the vise like trap that all her struggles only forced! her deeper into the ir ire. Her bod'; was half submerged in . mud when found. Dei th was due to cold and exposure, the coron.r" office ruled.-, HE SLEEPS WHILE THEY EATCROW Councilman Krigolka Takes i Snooze During This Important Meeting Th council chamber was crowdetf. It was amazing how so many people! managed to get into such a small space. If one Individual sneezed It Jarred the entire audience. The drys were good natured. They came early and got seats. Moreover it was their night. The wets were irritable. They kept steppiti' on each other's feet and the ordeal merely accentuated their thirst. City councllmen appeared tense and nervous. All except one. Alderman John Krigiollta of the north side did not seem to realize the Importance of the occasion. He did not seem to see the significance of the situation. Mr. Krigiolka was indirterent to the grave affair in which the council was engaged. It was p,ain that h dl not know that hist?ry was being ma.Je and that the city fathers who were rescinding their resolution favoring light wine and beer had the eyes of the world upon them. (The vote was 11 against beer and wine and 6 for it). Krigiolka was asleep! With scores of necks craned forward and ears turned to catch the vote of each councilman, Krigiolka slept. Not only slept, hut snored! Tes lit tti of the tenth ward of Hammond was benignly asleep, peacefully and with complete repose. The 'applau'e of the drys and wets alike fell unnoticed upon his head. It was only the yells of the city cleik that awoke Krigiolka. "What's up?" asked Counci'.man Krigiolka of the councilman to tlif right. "The beer and wine resolution," whispered the other. "Oh. hell," said Councilman Krigiolka. "are we stiil monkeying with that?'" RICKARD'S ACCUSER ON WITNESS STAND ' I NTE'N ATlONAf. NEWS SrVcM NEW TORK, March Z2 Fifteen year old Sarah Schoenfeld. chief complaining witness in the criminal assault and abduction case against "Tex" Eickard. famous fight promoter, declared on the witness stand this afternoon that Rickard caused her to make womanhood's greatest mistake. Her statement was made public while under crossj-examination by Max D .Steuer, lawyer for the sporting-man. She admitted that her alleged meetings with Rickard last fall were "horrible experiences and the tirst thing of the kind that Ivad ever happened to her.'- Sarah said she was ashamed of herself and never told her mother. DATE ISJDHANGED Scout Executive T. K. Scott announced this afternoon that the date of this week's inter-troop contest of Hammond Boy Scouts had been changed from Friday to Thursday evening. This will be held at the Lafayette gym as previously announced. Troops 5, 7. 8. 10. 12 13 14. IS and 18 will participate. Parents are taking great interest in these contests in which the different troops compete in signaling, knot tying, first aid work, drill and inspection. The last contest of the series win be the evening of March 30 when Troops 1. i, 4, 6,9 and 17 compete. Both contests start at 7:30 o'clock sharo.

Steel Independents Fight Pittsburg Plus Rate

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Photos from the hearing-. In group, left o right, are Fred S. Jackson, Chicago counsel for American farm ; , bureau federation; H. E. White, traffic expert of Western Association of Rolled Steel Consumers, Minneapolis; E. W, Pickering, Superior, Wis., general counsel for association, and W. E. McCollum, Chicago, secretary of the association. Inset is of C. A. Severence of St. Paul, president of American . Bar Association and counsel-in-chief of the U. S. Steel Corporation.

Hearings in the famous Pitts-burg-plus rate case are now being: held in Chicago before the federal trade commission. Some of the brightest legal minds of

Erie Train Hits Auto; 2 Killed

tBLLLETIM : Coincident with the death of the only' surviving victim of the Ridge Road tragedy at. 3:00 p. tn., hls afternoon . the man's . wife verjfiX a tentative Identification, of her husband when she virtually assured police ti-.t the dead man was Ely Umrik, a produce merchant of Black Ook. N. Kmmerling, Hammond undertaker was to bring tins wife to Hammond late today to ascertain eyond doubt " the man's identity. The woman had said the description of the victim fitted that of her husband. Tl:e other two victims have- remained unidentified. Limrick lived with , his wife an'1 adopted son at. Black Oak. It ibelleved that he was returning from a faim auction at Highland al th j time of the accident. rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 . HIGHLAND. Ind.. March 22. Two men. believed to he Gary residents, were killed instantly this morning and a third is paid to be dying as z . " THi 7 nr (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SCRVFCEi BOSTON. March 22. Letters : of Otto Haldor Larsen. Pauline Virginia ClarVs Norwegian student lover, whose suicide followed closely the girl's death at a gay party in her Black Bay apartment, show she was murdered. Superintendent of Police Michael Crowley said today. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS S'iRVICE 1 WASHINGTON. March 22. Uncle- Sam's stenographers lose $6,000,000 wor th of the government's time each year rouging their cheeks and lips. There are 40.000 girls on the government payroll a typists and stenographers. They received $1,200 a year and upward. Efficiency experts of the Treasury reported today the girls spend at least one hour daily with their cosmetics during office hours. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL MEWS 5 ER VICE ! REYNOLDS. ID.. March 22. Citizens rushed to the streets in their night clothes here early today when bandits blew open the postoffice safe. The L. Mallot store, in which the postoffice is located, was wrecked. The bandits escaped with $10. the contents of. the safe, in a car stolen from S. L. Baker, grocer. The car was recovered this afternoon at Preemption. 111.. 40 miles away. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHIOAGO, March 22. The Pere Marquette railroad was today ruled out of the wage hearing being heard by the United States Railroad Labor Board. The road, according

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the U. S. are representing: the rival sides in the contest. Western consumers of rolled steel, "independents," seek to have abolished the existing trade prac the resultof an accident at the ltidge Road crossing of the Erie railroad at Highland when the truck In which the trio was riding v.. 5,iU1.n Kuiiusn.y.-, hm.cu ' - lance or .5uu reet, ana ws tossea like splintered kindling from the path of the fast east bound Erie passenger train due through Highland at 1 1 :30 a. m. Immediate identification of the dead men was impossible from survey of the features. The bodies were" horribly manglfd. The third man. picked up several feet from the tracks, revived long enough to say he was from Gary and lasped into unconsciousness. It is thought he has a fractured skull. Dr. Malmstone. of Griffith, was summoned immediately after the accident by the crew of the train. He called N. Kmmerling of Hammond who dispatched ambulances and nurses. Details of the accident are meagre. Hearsay .witnesses aa-sert the light Ford truck containing the to the board's decision, did not hold proper conferences with its .men on the subject of wages. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SER"ICF1 WASHINGTON. March 22. In an impassioned speech opening his first attack on the four-power treaty, Senator La Fcllette, Republican of Wisconsin, described it to , the Senate today as an "unholy combination of powers" formed for the purpose of "exploiting prostrate Russia, Germany and China." 4 (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICFT ATLANTA. Ga., March 22. Henry Ford, through government agencies, will announce on June 1 the opening of a hydro-electric power plant on the Hudson river opposite Troy, N. J.. it became known here today, through an interview the Detroit manufacturer give the Atlanta Georgian while on his way to Florida, where he will rest several weeks. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONA! NEWS SERVICFI CHICAGO. March 22 Refusal of A. Edmunds, president of the Edmunds Manufacturing Co., to reinstate carpenters who quit work rather than accept the recent Landis wage award, is believed by other officials of the company to have been the cause of the bombing of the plant last night. " Edmund Scharssers, a night watchman, was seriously, perhaps fatally injured. The plant had been working as an "open shop;" (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK. March 22. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Schoen-

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"""IT A i tice of. charging freight from Pittsbur.r to tne point of destination of all rolled st.el, no matter where made. The hearings are expected to last three months doomed men drove directly Into the path of the on-rushing locomotive. There is no watchman at the crossine'. The truck wa travel in e ion Ridge Road Rescuers were unable to piece sufficient of the' wrecked rar toeeflier.. tor aeierroine "whatsit, con. tpined, if anything, at the time, of the accident. They hoped by this means to establish identity of the victims. After the crasl, truck and men were carried on the pilot of the engine from the crossing to a point nearly opposite the Highland station. This is a distance of some 300 feet. Exerting every effort to save the life of the third man. Dr. Malmstone rushed him to St. Margaret's hospital in Emmerling's ambulance. There other physicians at a late hour were aiding in the battle to keep alive the spark of life in the shattered body. His clothing had not been searched for Identification marks. i feld, dark complexioned. black haired and rosy cheeked, was to face a courtroom again today filled only with male occupants and to continue her testimony of alleged relations she had with George L. (Tex) Rickard, famous sports promoter, during September, October, November and December last year. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 NEW YORK. March 22. Still confined in Ellis Island, but not in the psychopathic ward. 'August ("Archie") Probst, Swiss butler, formerly employed by the Rolling Rock Club near Pittsburgh, today was waiting the decision of Federal Judge Knox on his application for release on bail. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DUBLIN. March 22. A revolutionary coup to overthrow the government of the Irish Free State will be attempted next week, it was declared here this afternoon by Roderick O'Connor, chief engineer of the Irish Republican army. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PARIS. March 22. The inter-allied reparations commission is threatening further penalties upon Germany, including increased military occupation and augmentation of Germany's 1922 indemnity payments to $900,000,000 gold marks if Berlin does not put into elfect the allies' new reparations demands before May I. according to the Matin today. FORD TRUCK RECOVERED Hammond polce were notified this morning that the Ford truck belong lrcr to Dan Hder, local expressman, stolen in Chicago, had been recovered. Eder says 1400 worth of'tlres consigned to Hammond were taken from the truck.

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Never Has Calumet Region Been so Well Prepared For A Coal Strike

Lake county's coal pile on ihe eve of the miners' strike is approximately 1,620,000 tons, according to a survey of the region made yesterday and today by Times reporters. The coal on hand Is sufficient to operate the mills. factories and utilities of the region at sixty per cent capacity for ninety days. The normal consumption of coal in the Calu.nct region of Indiana is 30,000 tons a day. The consump tion of coal at present is 18,000 tons a day which means that the pinch of the strike will not be felt for three months locally. SEVER HO WKLL PREPARED The region has never been ao well prepared for a coal strike. There are mountains of coal In all of the teel mills, car building plants, railroad yards and utilities of the district. The retail coal dealers have their bins piled high in an ticipation of the strike and there will be plenty of coal available for domestic use until mid-summer it none is shipped in. The steM mills of Gary, East Chicago' ani Indiana Harbor are doubly prepared for an emergency in the coal situation, having Installed oil burners in many of the furnaces. Many departments .f the steel mills are now operated by fuel oil and with th Standard Oil Co., and Sinclair Oil Co., refineries within trucking distance they are not worrying about the coal strika. There is less apprehension in the region about the impending coal strike than hoc ever been shown In an industrial crisis of the kind. XOSE BEI.OW 60 DAYS. The forty industries of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, having anticipated tho strike, have a nine ty days-' supply of coal. The steel mills end the allied plant such as the Sheet and Tin mills and the American Bridge have the same mergin. Other basic Industries and utilities follow who range from 60 to 90 days' supply follow: Standard Oil Co., "Whiting. 75 days. Sinclair Oil Co., "Whiting, day Standard Steel Car Co., Hammond, 90 days. American Steel Foundries 75 days. Malleable Iron Co.. Hammond, 10 days. . -. ., .-...-i Hammond Municipal Water Works pumping station, 69 days Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, tn days. Coal in shipment or held In rail road yards will Increase the supply of all these industries the next few days so that it is safe to say they will averajge a 90 days' supply. GARY MILLS STOCKED. "The Gary mills are well stock ed," said an official of the Illincl Steel Company. "Oil burners have been installed in the open hearth furnaces and the consumption o coal in the mills has been consider ably lowered the past two years There is a sufficient supply of coal on hand to operate the big milts and the subsidiaries at sixty- per cent for three months." "The forty industries of East Ch! cago and Indiana Harbor have pre nared for an emergency." declared an official of tha Manufacturers Association of that city. "Our as sociation has warned them from time to time during- the past si months to prepare for a coal strlk and as a result they are all wel supplied and can operate at their present rate for three months. Henry Conkey. secretary of the Hammond Manufacturers Assocla tion. "said that all members of 'h association have prepared for the strike and have from sixty to nine ty days supply f coal on hand. The Republican Iron & Steel Co Is probably the best prepared of any industry. "We have sufficient coal on han for the summer," saij an official o that plant. WANTS $10,000 Gasparre Razzlno through, ni attorneys. If. F. McCracker and Joseph DeMarti, has filed a 110,000 damage suit against Drs. R. O Wharton and Dr. T7. P. Laue o Gary. Mal-nractice Is the charge brought against the defendants. The plai'itiff alleges In the corn Vlaint that the defendants, due V the lack of knowledge in their practice, caused the death of th plaintiff's wife by an operation a child birth. - The plaintiff's witA and child died as a result of th operation, the complaint charges. As a result of the Caesarian oper ation, peritonitis set in, causing thd death of Mrs. Razzino. The operation and death occur red, December 20, 1320, the com plaint states. Gasparre alleges that due to thl death of his wife, he has beerJ damaged to the extent of $10,000 for which wiiiiunt he seeks a Jwij; ment against the defndants. In an interview with Dr. W. r I. a ue, one of Gary's pioneer phy sicians. he etated that the abovH case was not his, and that he ha merely been called In on a consul tation. "Why he has also beei made a defendant he could not an derstana. Dr. Lau r.as nan at lucrative practice in Gary for th4 past fifteen years.

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