Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 235, Hammond, Lake County, 29 March 1922 — Page 1

HAMMOND POLICE ACT IN WAR ON HOOCH MAKERS

THE WEATHER Cloud in north, unsettled in south portion tonight and Thursday with probably rain; not much chan in temperature COUNTY L VOL. XV. NO. 235. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922. HAMMOND, INDIANA MAKE CH ON AL N ROBLEM

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Present System Not Fair to Decent Foreigners (BY HAROLD CROSS) There was a lot of widely advertised bolshevism- in the country three ears ago. The advertisement was in the form of bombs sent through the mails to prominent officials. The United States district attorneys over the country rousted the department of justice agents off their roosts in the federal buildings and called for the reporters. Something had to be done about this bolshevik business. "THE GREAT RED RAIDS" The atmosphere in the suite of offices occupied by the department of Justice In a certain federal building not many miles away was charged with mystery the night the "great red raids" started. Every agent had an all-knowing look. After a long conference the agents came out. Each man examined his automatic revolxers. Some carried rifles and riot guns. They rode in six crowded automobiles and drove slowly for 13 miles to Blue Island. The caravan stopped. There was a whispered conference. Then the agents surrounded a tumbled down house. A woman who did not speak English opened the door. Several agents entered with guns drawn. All the occupants of the house, two foreigners and the woman, were arrested and taken to the federal building, together with, an "incendiary" banner that adorned the wall, a book, and correspondence in the Russian lan-guage. THE BUBBLE BLOWS UP The district attorney announced that the headquarters of the RussianAmerican soviet had been raided at Blue Island and agents of. Lenin and Trotsky had been seized. It was believed, he said, that the government had struck, at the heart of bolshevism in America. Papers which would be translated later had kieen seiied which were tei!evel to be plans for the "red revolution" written in Moscow and brought to this country by messenger. A quantity of "red"' literature had been found at the Blue Island headquarters of the Russian soviet, he stated. The inflammatory banner that was presumed to be the emblem of anarchy, revolt, sabotage and bolshevism merely said, in Russian: "God Bless Our Home." The book, supposed to be the "Soviet Bible" was a Russian edition of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn.WHAT CRITES SAID Now push your chairs back from the table and listen with the other Hammond Kiwanians to the speech of Judge M. E. Crites, of the Lake superior court last night: 15,000,000 ALIENS '"We have 15.000.000 ailens in this country," said Judge Crites, in his opening remarks. "The only test for admittance to this country is literacy. That test, permits to come into this country all sorts of radicals and excludes others who would make splendid citizens. The test is false. Something ought to be done, not only toward establishing a test that would be fair and of more benefit to the country, but to help those aliens who are here and to separate the sheep from the g-oats, so that we can get .rid of the undesirables. "The secretary of labor who 1s a naturalized citizen and fully in sympathy with the foreign-born American and the Immigrant, has proposed a federal law to inaurguate a system to register all aliens and give them . the benefit of special educational facilities," said Judge Crites. "He says that the registration should be done by specially trained men in the government service and recommends that a Department of Citizenship be established. "It will be the duty of this department to keep a check through the registration system upon all radical aliens and deport them if necessary. Also under this system the question of residence could be established in admitting to citizenship. "He cautions one thing in particular and that Is that the alien ought to be made to understand that the law is not to create a system of espionage upon all aliens or to place burdens upon them, but to correct our present hap-hazard system of dealing with the just and unjust alike and to enable the police and federal officers to work intelligently. "Further than that the Department of Citizenship of the United States government will arrange that the aliens shall have lessons In citizenship using the movies to show the great historical events of American history and Implant In them a love and understanding of our ideals and principles. Tor a small fee they will be taught the language. "I've come to believe that the clubs end societies formed among the foreign-speaking people to teach Americanism are not adaquate for the work and as long as this hlt-or-miss system of Americanism goes on no great good can be accomplished. It is too great a task for a few well meaning Individuals and requires the forces ef the government.

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TYPHOID MUCH IN

EVIDENCE

With ten known typhoid cases in the city health officials today were continuing a searching, and heretofore fruitless, investigation to discover the source of the disease germs before more families become contaminated and while there is yet time to put a check to it before the dread malady reaches epidemic proportions. Dr. William A- Buchanan, city health director, admitted this morning that attempts to trace most of the cases" to their inception have proven fruitless, but added that residents of Hammond need not be over duly alarmed as the situation is still within the ability of the health department to handle. The total number of cases reported during the year 1921 was but six. Within the past four weeks there have been nearly twice as many victims as there were all last year. Of those who contracted typhoid in 1921 four died. That is. G6 2-3 per cent of those afflicted succumbed to the milder form. There have been no deaths from typhoid reported during the present emergency. Here are some of the victims now suffering from typhoid fever. These cases were gathered from records In the board of health and from Interviews with physicians. This record may not be complete. There may be other cases in Hammond that have not been reported to the board of health. But the situation ought to be of sufficient importance to interest every family. The inroads of typhoid are any and varied. "Co-operation with the health department and physicians in runntng down possible sources and carriers of the disease "becomes a civic duty on th part of citizens. This is the only method of stopping typhoid. Tou must nail it at its source." That from Dr. Buchanan. TYPHOID VICTIMS The victims: The three children, aged 2. 4 and 6 years, of Frank W. Germillion, 28 Sibley street. The young son of Frank W. Savery 654 Hoffman street. The daughter of John Kransell, 399 Elm street. Sadie Brown, 110 Dyer boulevard. Clifford Moriau. 1160 Wallace Road. Rose Ziemba, St. Margaret's hospital. Walter Crisler, 389 Ash st. Aged 9. Four of the total cases have been traced to the germ source. Infection in the others is still a mystery. With possibility of new cases being reported daily, the health department is bending every effort to determine the truth of assertions that typhoid germs may be entering scores of homes through contaminated milk supply. At the office of the city chemist in the drug store of Verne Summn where are conducted the municipal laboratories, William A. Blackburn stated that on his visit to the pumping station at the lake front on Monday last be instructed engineers tot increase the chlorine mixture used for purification of the drinkin? water of the city. This was done he said when he found that the amount of chlorine then beint? used was insufficient, though not dangerously so. He ordered the supply per million gallons to be increased by onequarter pound. This makes a total of one and cne-quartcr pounds per million gallons. In other words the drinking water Hammond people have been consuming for some time has been possibly 20 per cent typhoid infected. Blackburn says the deficiency has been corrected. He says a test of water made yesterday showed about 20 organisms (bacilli) to approximately IS drops of water. This test was made with chlorine treated water. But water taken from the lake showed 35 organisms before treatment. Dr. B. W. Chidlaw, treating the Gremillion children, says their typhoid probably resulted from drinking brackish water common in many parts of Louisiana whence the family recently returnel after a visit with relatives. All three of the victims are seriously all, according to Dr. Chidlaw. He is treating also victims at 339 Elm St., and the son of Frank Savery. He cannot sccount for the manner in which the two latter cases developed. "Anyway," he says, "that's the duty of the health department and should be given immediate atten-tion." Walker Crisler, nine - year - old school boy living with his parents at 389 Ash st.. is believed to have become infected when he drank the swamp water after breaking; the ice of a pond near the Fitz-Hugh Luther plant. He had been skating. He was thirsty. He broke the ice, and drank the stagnant water. Two weeks later he was taken ill. Now doctors say he has a bad case of typhoid fever. CHARGED WITH INTIMIDATION Charged with intimidating witnesses who testified in the prosecution of the operators and inmates of the Federal Hotel, James Burns.. Aralon Hotel, and Herbert Kersten, S39 Walter street, were arrested yesterday by Detectives Sergeant John Kunz and are held at Hammond Central police station in want of bail. They are alleged to have crowded George Smith, a visitor whom police caught in a raid on the hotel, and sought to beat him up but were prevented by arrival of the police. They will ibe tried in court tomorrow. the city

MRS. EMMA WICKEY DIES LAST EVENING Much Respected East Chicago Woman Victim Of Pneumonia.

The people of East Chicago were shocked this morning when it was learned that Mrs. Emma Wickey, wife of E. W. Wickcy. had passed away at 8:45 last evening at St. Margaret's hospital. Hammond, aft er a few days illness of typhoid pneumonia. Emma Wolkitt. born in Montrose, Iowa, April 25, 1866. was united in marriage to E. W. Wickey 36 years ago in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Wicker was a consistent member of the Methodist church of East Chicago and was greatly interested in the Red Cross work during the late war. She was amember of the East Chicago Woman's Club and a woman of noble character and much loved and teipected by all who knew her. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from her late homo on North Baring ave.. for relatives and near friends. Those who would like to call at the home are invited to do so before that time. Those left to mourn a loving wife and mother are her husband, E. W. Wickey. Miss Mable, at home, Mrs. H. E. Zoegar. Mrs. D. L. White, Weslie G. Wickey a.id three grandchildren, all of this city. Interment will be made in Oak Hill cemetery, Hammond. LAST NIGHT Contracts totaling 185,000 were let last night by the commissioners of the Memorial Park District for the construction of West Hammond's new playground park on which actual work is scheduled to start next week. The commissioners last night met at the city hall and announced the successful bidders who had been selected from the forty who submitted proposals. Following is the list: Rowley Bros., field house and swim ming pools, $57,000. Rowley Bros., cement walks and pavement, $2,249. United Boiler Heating & Foundry Co., structural iron work, $2,949. Hammond Cornice Works, sheet metal work and tile roofing, $4,300. Tri-City Electric Co., electrical work and fixtures, $2,324. J. P. Croak Plumbing Co., heating and plumbing, $15,770. The contract for the grading and filling was let to the Public Construction Co. The total cost of this this is not known, but the job was let at a specified price per cubic yard. Equipping the field house, athletic fields and playgrounds will be taken care of later. The contracts for the shrubbery, trees and other landscape work will not be let until the other work is well under way. Much credit for the manner in which West Hammond's first park project has been pushed is due the commissioners who have been right job from the first in spite of t that under the law they on the job the fac must serve without pay. The mem bers of the board are George Hannauer, John Murray, Peter J. Liesenfelt, John Totzke, Jr., and Otto Heigl. Their district includes not only West Hammond but the territory south and Burnham on the north This arrangement was worked out in order that the communities in the district might help each other in financing park improvements. A. C. Berry of Hammond, is the archetict and has prepared an excel lent water color painting of the pro posed park which is now on display in the window of the First National bank of Hammond. Landscape work win be directed by M. N. Lovewell, landscape engineer of the South Park Commission of Chicago. FATETTETILLE. GX. March 2S -Weyman Coffield died here today, according to physicians, a sacrifice to truth. Coffield was stabbed late yesterday in the court room here after he had testified that he and his uncle, Genus Coffield, h3d committed several burglaries. They had each Just been sentenced to serve three to five years in the penitentiary. "I'd rather hang than spend five years in the penitentiary," shouted Genus Coffield, and leaned over the table and plunged a dagger into the breast of his nephew. The court room was thrown into an uproar,, Sheriff Kerlin felled the elder Coffield with a blow on the head and the young man was carried into another room, where first aid treatment was given him. Genus Uorrield was returned to jail and plac ed under heavy guard. The nephew died today.

PARK CONTRACTS

ARE AWARDED

COURTROOM STABBING IN GEORGIA

Whiting

MAN KILLED BY ENGINE [SPECIAL TO THE TIMES] WHITING. IND.. March 29. Joseph Mattis, 48, was killed instantly last night when he hurried across the Pennsylvania tracks at the Front st. crossing to avoid an approaching train and stepped in front of a switch engine of the Standard Oil Co. The accident occurred at 10:35 o'clock. The Standard Oil Co. has a switch track parallel with the Pennsylvania tracks. Mattis evidently did not see the switch engine. The body, which was horribly mutilated, was taken to the Andrew Barans morgue Mr. Mattis, who lived at 414 Fred St., Whiting, leaves a wife and several children. "SAFETY FIRST" School Officials Co-operating with Safety Agent of the M. C. Lines. William Leo Boslooper, safety agent for the Michigan Central rail road lines is putting on a campaign in the city school to prevent the practice of "flipping trains" by the school boys of the city. The effort Is endorsed by Prof. E. S. Monroe, who has promised the active co-operation of the school organization of the city, by which there will be displayed in all the schools one large potser. "Waiting for Daddy"; another picture showing a boy on crutches sorrowfuly watching "the gang" in a game of hockey on the ice, and a etory to be read by the teachers in the lower grades narrating the accident by which the boy lost his leg. Mr. Boslooper says this reception similar to that extended him in similar movements in the principal cities along the line and in Canada.. He says there is a double purpose in directing the "safety first" campaign to the schools. It is hoped that by educating them in the matter they may be the apostles for carrying on to the parents. Even if this is not accomplished there will be the resulting good which will come from having the young lads early interested in observing safely, a practice which will be of great benefit in the later days, when the boys go into factories to work. He adds to the literature named above addresses to the schools in which the point is emphasized by bringing to the boys and girls the pleasures they endanger when heedlessly they indulge in some dangerous practice. The effort has been most successful elsewhere and he is confident it will duplicate in Hammond the satisfactory record made in the other cities. Hammond is especially in need of such education and interest on account of the many trains daily leaving the freight yards here. HARBOR COUPLE ASK E Get Decree Once But Disregard it and Live Together Again. A divorce decree means little to Dave and Helen Klobucha of Itw diana Harbor. They had one once and disregarded it. In fact they went to living together again without even getting married. Now Helen regrets it and wants a new divorce. Dave filed the first suit which was tried in the superior court at Gary. Helen was granted the divorce, however. That was October 4. 1920. On December 20, of the same year, they decided to resume the matrimonial state. Helen says, in her complaint which was filed today in the superior court at Hammond, that they believed no marriage was necessary and that the fact that they were living together again would in effect set aside the divorce decree. Then Dave got abck into his old ways again. He would beat her and use vile language. He refused to support her and the child, but would spend his time gambling away his money. She says he is a habitual dunkard. Mrs. Klobuchar asks for the custody of the child and wants the title to a lot in Indiana Harbor quieted in her name. She is represented by Attorney A. P. Twyman. ACTION taken by the county commissioners at Crown Point this week transferring Hobart precinct No. 4 in Hobart township to Calumet town ship, Gary, now gives Gary 31 precincts. The precinct includes part of Miller and part of Hobart township, recently annexed to the city of Gary. A "WANT TO RENT" Times ad brought Attorney Wm. A. Fuzy over fifty inquiries. "An advertisement ln yotir paper exceeds all expectations," says Attorney Fuzy.

TEACHING

BOYS

FOR SECOND DIVORCE

BOMB IS HURLED IN DRY MEET

Lecture by W. Pussyfoot Johnson in Wisconsin Brings Sensation (BULLETIN) [international news service] GREEN BAY, Wis., March 29. Police obtained their first clue to the identity of the persons who placed a bomb in the church where William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, noted prohibition lecturer was to lecture today when two high school boys said they had seen an automo. bile containing four men drive In front of the church and, whibs the motor was kept running, one man dashed up the steps, threw the bomb down the aisle and fled. One of the men, the boys said, wore an army uniform. The boys were unable to Identify the occupants 'of the car, but the police are hopeful that the information given will lead to the apprehension of the bombers, who caused a panic among 500 people assembled to hear the lecture. GREEN BAT. Wis., March 29. Police today were endeavoring to run down the person who threw a small black powder bomb into the midst of a meeting at the Union Congregational church last night where 500 persons had gathered to near an address by William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, noted dry lecturer. A panic was narrowly averted. There was a general break for the exits and one woman fainted. The bomb rolled down the aisle, fizzing as it went. F. C. Walker, an usher, grabbed and shook it. The shaking of the bomb is believed to have prevented it from exploding. Had it gone off, serious damage might have been done. Walker's hands and arms were slightly burned. Men and women leaped from their seats an started for the doors. Speakers on the stage called upon them not to lose their heads. After some difficulty, they were calmed, and a stampede averted. Johnson was not In the church at the time. He was addressing a meeting at another church. USE OF STATE TROOPS Guard Units, However, Prepared for Emergency; Statement by H. B. Smith. INDIANAPOLIS. IND., March 29 Harry B. Smith, adjutant-general of Indiana, does not believe, he said that the coal strike, which is to be gin Saturday, will create a situation anywhere in Indiana that will make necessary the use of state troops. He said, however, that if such a situa tlon should arise the state would be ready to act promptly and efficien tly. Commanding officers of the Indiana national guard units understand, without any formal order having been issued, that they are to keep in olose touch with their organizations throughout the period of possible trouble. Those who have charge of equipment also understand, it was learned at the state headquarters, that they may be called on at any time and that the equipment must be ready for use. The state office has before it always, it is said, information as to how trains can best be moved to mobilize and to take troops to any part of the stat. Those who have charge of such affairs understand, they said, that the government, both state and national, intends, in the approaching strike, as one official said, "to assert itself in its duty to see to it that every man who wishes to work shall have that right." Back of that duty the state administration. it is now intended, will put its moral and physical resources. I. N. G. has been ready for action on short notice, it was said, more than 5,000 men in two regiments of infantry, almost two complete regiments of artillery, one regiment of combatant engineers and supplemental units. "Besides this, the department, it is said, does considerable work somewhat after the manner of the Intelligence department of the regular army. A municipal bathing: beach lighted with hundreds of lights, easily aecessable to the entire county, with acres of green grassy lawns, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and playgrounds, are among the improvements scheduled by Mayor R. O. Johnson for the new Gary-Miller beach. MOONSHINE whiskey and stills will furnish the background for a picture to be taken of the East Chicago police department soon.

REGARDED AS UNLIKELY

Lewis on Hand to Direct Coal Strike

[INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] INDIANAPOLIS, March 29. John L Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, will arrive in Indianapolis late today to direct from union headquarters the tremendous strike of more than a half a million coal miners which is to be launched Friday at midnight. The first step to be taken by the Miners' chief is the issuance of telegraphic orders to district presidents of the mine workers' organization, closing every unionized coal mine in the country. These wire Instructions were expected to be sent out today, but inasmuch as Mr. Lewis does not arrive from his home in Springfield, ILL., until late afternoon it was considered probable at union 'headquarters that the action might be deferred, possibly until tomor-row. Before departing for Indianapolis Mr. Lewis declared that Saturday would find all the union mines idle and that many non-union workings

Extra Latest Bulletins

(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BELFAST. March 29. While the Irish peace parley day violence continued in was under way in London toUlster. A detachment of Ulster constables was ambushed near Culloville, County Armagh, and a sergeant and a private were killed. Another private was seriously wounded. There were further reports of incendiarism. (BULLETIN.) [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] DALLAS. Tex.. March 29. Bruce Frazier, 33, of Peoria Ill., killed Monday in a railroad accident near Royse City, will be given a military funeral here, it was announced "today. " He was a world war veteran, one of three soldiers of his company in the first division to survive. His father. Frank Frazier of Peoria, builder of tanks during the war, is here to attend the funeral. (BULLETIN) [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] CHICAGO, March 29. Raids on several pool rooms where "books" are made on the races were planned by the authorities today as the result of the confession of James M. Moore, a clerk in the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, that he had stolen $15,000 to "play the races." Charles Oschger, a teller PITTSBURGH, March 29. 1922. Henry Alexander Laughlin, a director of the Jones & LaVShHn Steel Co. died at his home "Greylock " Chestnut Hill. Philadelphia, in his 84th year. He was a pioneer figure in the steel industry in America and one of the men who helped make Pittsburgh a great iron and steel center. Mr. Laughlin was born in Pittsburgh. Dec' 12, 1838, the son of James Laugrnlin. one of the founders of the present Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., and Ann McCully (Irw.n) Laughlin. In 1850 he was graduated from Brown university, and the next year entered the firm of Jones & Laughlin. All of his long business life was devoted to the interests of that organization. Mr. Laughlin was for many years chairman of Laughlin & Co., Ltd., and was active in its management until the busi ness was absorbed by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. in 1900. He early recognized the value of the coal deposits on the Monongahela river and foresaw the great advantage to Pittsburgh to be derived therefrom. encouraging every movement mak ing for improvement in the navi gation of the Monongahela river, and his activities assisted in making Pittsburgh one of the world's great coke producing centers. About twelve years ago Mr. Laughlin re tired from active participation in the steel industry and removed his residence from Pittsburgh to Phila delphia. . Mr. Laughlin was a member of the Presbyterian church, of the so ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Duquesne n-f Pittsburgh, the New York Yacht club and the Art club, PhiladelphiaHis benevolence and charities were numerous and widespread to public welfare institutions. C.E. POTTS' resignation as sup erintendent of the Sheet Mills of he Inland Steel company is aaid to take effect April 1.

STEEL HEAD IS DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA

soon will be on the "suspension" list. With the Longshoresmen' union promising not to unload imported coal, it was pointed out at headquarters today, and with the nonunion field "sewed up" by the strike if it succeeds in invading the un

organized fields the nation will be compelled to subsist only on the stocks, amples for a considerable period, of coal now above the ground. Even though the non-union miners do not finally cast their lot with the strikers, another possibility of virtually shutting off that source of fuel supply loomed today. That is through action of the railroad men. While the railroaders, whose unions have tentatively promised "moral support" for the striking miners, are not pledged to a sympathetic strike, it was pointed out in Miners' circles that they "might" refuse to haul the coal from the non-union fields or in absence of flat refusal, merely "forget" to haul to market the coal dug by the non union men. employed by the Independence State Bank, was arrested today on a charge of embezzling $5,100. Police had been seeking him for two months. (BULLETIN) [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] HUNTINGTON, W. Va., March 29. Harry Olmstead, ays in the southern West Virginia fields there are 5.500 miners in the Williamson section and 12.000 in the Logan district. All the miners are non-union. An attack from without is feared. It is said arms are being shipped into this region, from Cincinnati. (BULLETIN) [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ] ROME. March 29. The volcano Mount Etna is. in violent eruption and the inhabitants of the nearby villages are fleeing in panic, according to information from Palermo today. Streams of molten lava are flowing from the crater. Several earthquake shocks have been felt in the provinces of Palermo and Messina. (BULLETIN) [INTERNATIONAL NE'VS SERVICE] FUSCHAL, MADERIA ISLAND. March 29 -Former Emperor Charles of Austria, who has been seriously ill of influenza, was somewhat improved today. Charles and nis wife, Ex-Empress Zita, are living here in exile. GIRL ARRIVES TO WEAR NECKLACE Stork Takes a Hand in the Settlement of This Will. [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] OAKLAND, Calif., March 23. Little Miss Blum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Blum was born not with a gold spoon in her mouth but with a pearl necklace about her neck. Through her arrival here last evening at the Merritt hospital the stork decided the ownership of the necklace. Four years ago, Mrs. Rosa Blum, wealthy mother of Blum, died. She left a curious will, one of the provisions of which was that her $100,000 pear necklace should go lo the first daughter of her son, James B. Blum, provided he married, and to charity if he did not marry or did not have a daughter. Blum married and a year ago the stork arrived but brought a boy. Then it was that the court decided that Mrs. Blum should once a year under guard wear the pearls which had been lying in a safety Ibox in order that they miarht not "die" from want of contact with beautiful shoulders. Under the terms of the court she will wear them once a year until little Miss Blum is big enough to wear them herself. THREE SUFFOCATED IN FREIGHT CAR [INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] TRENTON, Mo., March 29. Rock Island railroad Inspectors today found the bodies of three men in a freight car bound for Canada. The men had apparently died of suffocation. Two of the bodies were identified as those of George Cooke, 25, and thought to have been from Toronto, Canada, and George Rommeul, born in Cambridge, Mass. No identification capers were f ound on the third body.

Hammond Chief of Police De

termined to Put Illegal Stills Out [SPECIAL TO THE TIMES] ROBERTS DALE, Ind.. March 23. 'Dam the Hood of moonshine that pouring daily from the illegal stil of Lake Front homes'." That is the command that h gone out of the office of Police Chi Bunde. Robertsdale bas been cho en as the first section of Hammon to be given a thorough spongin Concentration of a police "spong squad" in this vicinity is the fir step of Hammond authorities in determined fight to curb the grow ing traffic in poisonous home-made concoctions. The alarming increa in the number of prisoners arrest for intoxication, recent cases of wit beating and brutal treatment children, the menace of moonshine mad motorists and other contribut ing causes have gradually shaped policy of relentless arrests by poli and non-leniency by local courts the city-wide fight to eradicate tremendous evil. -SPONGE SQUAD" ABSORBS ANOTHER Coincident with the falling- shad of night last evening, the "spon squad" of Hammond Central stat fell fast and furious on the alleg gin-mill or John Sebastian Stanesz at 918 White Oak ay. They got still, hooch and mash. Stanesz a Still-cleaner in an oil refinery" "Whiting. Police say he made amp opportunity in his association wit many fellow foreigners in the refinery to provide them with moon shine. But at a handsome profit himself and a corresponding ment physical and financial loss to the purchasers. Stanesz' bonds were fixed $1,000. He is charged "with violat ing the state liquor laws. Police who made the drive la night and have been delegated Chief Bunde to mop up Robertsda are Detective Sergeants Kunz, Fa drei, Carlson, and Officers Bell a Mroz. More than fifteen raids on La Front residences have already be made. There will be others. "Stop the liquor traffic at its source and you stop it thorough Cut out the makers and there would be any sellers," that's -what Ch. Bunde says. JUDGE SMITH CALLS THE GRAND JUR May Indict Two East Chi cagoans on' Murder Charges. [SPECIAL TO THE TIMES] CROWN POINT, IND.. March 2: Judge Martin Smith has called a grand jury in the criminal court Monday, April 2nd. There are two persons in the county jail charg with murder and the grand jury the evidence warrants, will retu indictments against them. W Jones, a negro, of East Chicago a Marie Tielizzl, an Italian wom. also of East Chicago. The following men have been ca ed for grand jury service: Harry B. Arnold, Gary; George Lewis, East Chicago; George K. No zer, Hammond; W. E. Bruce, Lowel John W. Turner, Crown Point, a David Frank, Hobart. ROAD SUES GARY FIRM The Chicago, Indianapolis & Lc isville Ry. Co. has brought suit the Superior court at Hammond collect part of a freight bill wh It is alleged should have been pa more than a year ag-o by the Bot stein Fruit Co., of Gary. In November, 1920, the fruit de ers purchased a carload of potatin Wisconsin and had them shlprf over the Monon to Lowell. Through an error. It Is said. the. shipp. were charged only $85.08. It w later learned that the correct r should have been $51.70 more. Th tried to collect it, but the fr dealers refused to pay. Now. th are suing. Crumpacker""?''' . packer are attorneys f road company. or the (damage section) $ [SPECIAL TO THE TIMES] DYER, Ind., March 29 The $30 000 concrete road on the Linci Highway from Schererville to t Porter county line which, was bu by the Federal Construction Co pany last year Is already in b shape. There are cracks twenty-fi and fifty feet in length, M damage will probably be done w the heavy rains this spring w under the pavement. The road was a state highway and the inspectors were employ by the state and not the county Five thousand dollars u dedut ed from the contract price in final settlement owing to complal made that specification had been fulfilled. The road only completed. November and has had comparati ly little traffic

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