Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 237, Hammond, Lake County, 31 March 1922 — Page 1

RE A TEST FIGHT CONTEST IN U.S. HISTOR Y STARTING i THE WEATHER Generally fair tonlRht and Sat- ' ordayi colder tools fat In southeast portloa with freezing- temperature! omrnhat warmer Satorday. lak: TIM VOL. XV. NO.'OT. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 1922. HAMMOND. NTUANA STILLERY DOWEaTOWH BUSIH

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OF HOOCHJiASH Police Believe Still is Biggest Ever Found in County While Judge Cleveland in city court was tacking: heavy punishment to liquor law violators arraigned before him yesterday afternoon. Chief Punde's "sponge squad" of Hammond Central station, conducted another successful raid near the heart of down town Hammond and uncovered what police bilieve Is the largest "MU yet found in Lake county. XTBnxBMKOvtrD tTirr-Tt At 137 Tlussell street in a subterranean stronghold under the hou.e, Detective Sergeants Kunz. Fandret, Singer and Einslie and Officers Teboda and Hanlon. discovered a So gallon capacity still simmering merrily away above three burners In a gasoline stove. Ranged about the sides of the- improvised distillery were 12 fifty gallon barrels containing corn and rye mash in the various stages of fermentation. XT WAS B.UJTJTtN'O 1W HIGH Next to the still a chair held a keg containing the condensing coil. This co!l ran through the keg full of water and from the business end there dripped in a steady stream, the liquid lightning that by test was shown to be 130 proof. An outlet at the bottom of the keg provided fr discharge of the water as It grew warm. Abcrve and extending into the keg was a rubber hose carrying an ever fresn supply of ice cold water. Police are amazed at the completeness of the outfit. It was one of the finest they have ever corae across. Xo detail had been overlooked by the makers. OCCUPIED BT XTAXrlAJTS two story frame oposite the Ahlborn Coal yards. It had been occupied by half a dozen Italian laborers. Police found a young Italian in on of the rooms, when the raid was made at 4 p. m. yesterday. He couldn't speak English. An intrepreter was founa and the young man agreed to lead police to one of the alleged hooch makers. In a pool rflom at State ar. Oakley detectives arrested Charley Glardina. aged "-. oiATtnuTA rouiro gutxtt He was found guilty in city court this morning and Judge Cleveland ordered him to take punishment with the half dozen others sentenced yesterday'to serve time on the penal farm for violation ef the state liquor laws. Glardina was fined $130 and sentenced to S3 d-.ys. He says he'll appeal. Some two dozen of " hts friends today kept the police station in a turmoil as heated Latin expletive3 rang through the corndors and excited Italians rushea about devising some way of staying the sentence. . STJPPLTEO OTBIB cities Tolice found only a small quantity of the finished product at the Russell street brew-house. They bel.eve the operators of the etill made daily delivery of moonshine to a number of soft drink rarlors in Cafumet cities. The only access to the cellar still was through, a small hole in the floor of the front bed room. This was covered by a carpet when police ; entered the house. They pushed the bed away from the wall and found the aperture to the tunnel leading to the distillery. In order to handle the huge barrels of mash the officers were forced to tear out part of the front wall of the house. They poured the 600 gallons of mash bacK Into the hole, broke the T.a,rrclr, smashed the xtove, carried away the still and called it a good day's work. TRIAL VERY By ELLIS II. MARTIN STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! SAN FRANCISCO, March 31. The laird trial of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle bids' fair to go down in legal h. story as having involved more lgal technicalities than uny case hitherto tried in the Superior court here. The day -.per.ed in court today with long aiguments over the admissibility of certain affidavits taken by the defense in Chicago. The prosecution is fighting tooth and rail to keep these out of the record. The Jury was not brought into the court room while the arguments were made. Tp date fully half of the time consumed in the trial has been taken ip with arguments oer legal technicalities. The defense today planned to attack further the health of Virginia Fsppe to support its contention that h was suffering1 from a chronic ailment which migh: have caused her death.

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MAYWOOD LOTS 10 JUMP $2 A FRONT FOOT

The final rush to buy lots in the Haywood addition before the price increases go into effect Is expected to culminate at the offices of Woods. Martin & Co. In the Hnmniond Trust &. Savings Bank tonight. The increases in most cases will amount to J2.00 a front foot, or 170.00 for a lot of 35 feet. Already about ten sites have been contracted for. Builders who have had such great success with their building operations on Lyon?, Eaton and Drackert sto. are expected to clean up all of the remaining; lots on these streets. A number of purchasers are also buying with speculative intenl. Hammond never before experienced a situation v-here the sale of a few lots positively meant the selling out of all the residential vacant in a whole division of the city, such as the east side. There are still in the neighbor hood of six or eight business Icjts and one corner for resale on Columbia ave. The reasons why Columbia ave. business property Is coming; to the fore so rupidly are as follows: 1. Everything on tl-e east side of the street is restricted for IB years against -business. The Majwood city park eliminates one block of lots. 2. This leaves but four blocks (short blocks at that) immediately available for business purposes on the whole street from the Nickle Plate tracks to Merrill ave. 3. Tlie East Hammond Improvement Association announces the following improvements for Columbia ave. in the rear future: New 36inch water main. New concrete pavement on Columbia ave. Ornamental lighting for Columbia ave. Scores' of new business blocks. The Maywood district has more home owners in proportion to the number of residents than any other section of the city. These make the best customers for the new business houses that are locating: on the street. the Maywood business district on Columbia ave. Storage garage. Shoe and Tepalr shop. Drug store. Bakery shop. Fruit, ice cream and confectionery store. Moving picture house. Oiling station, looking forward to the new pavement which will divert must new traffii. Dry goods and notions. Just remember that Columbia ave. is farther from the down town business district than any other section of the city and that it is tributary to a large truck farming district Jus south of the city. Today is the last day before price Increases go into effect. 1ST HAMMOND ' TAXPAYERS CALLED Taxpayers of West Hammond will hold a public meeting this evening to consider important improvements to the city which will be in keeping with other forward steps which have been taken lecently. They will express their opinions on the proposal to construct modern pavements on nln of the city's streets. If all are approved, the cost will be in the neighborhood of $316,000. The meeting: will be held this evening at . 7 o'clock at the Weniworth high school. The streets under consideration are Garfield ave., Freeland ave., Harrisan ave, Lincoln ' ave. from Flummer ave. south to 156th St., Ia3rd st. from Stats Line st. weat to Freeland i ave., 133rd pi. from Wentworth ave. west to Freeland ave., 154at t. from State Line st. west to Burnham ave., 156th st. from 'State LiDe st. vest to Burnham ave., Wentworth ave. from 136th st. south to 156th pi. Several of these streets run tlie full length and breadth of the city, while others are only a block or so li ;igth. Petitions for their construction, signed by property owners, are already in the hands of the Board of Public Improvements. In each instance the petitioners are Insisting upon concrete. The improvements will give the territory west of Wtntworth ave. first class thoroughfares where now i only sand loads are found. Property values have been advancing rapidly in this district since many homes have been built there and since the playground park was projected. At Wentworth ave. and 153rd St., the second lot from the corner is owned by a Chicago woman. She had held to it for years. Much of the time it was considerd hardly worth the taxes, but its value has jumped amazingly in the last year. She says she has been offered $3,000 and T3.500 several times for the 40-foot 'ot. Twenty-two boulevard and street signs have been ordered by the city to mark Sibley blvd. from State Line st. west. This will be the first street in West Hammond to have intersection signs, an! it is planned to broaden the work later to include the entire city. Be.'ore this is done, however, the council is co.i- j sidering changing the names of; some of the through streets and possibly mike them correspond I with Hammond's. The difference in j street names has always been a source of annoyance to visitors.

WOMEN CALL ON POLICE CHIEF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO, march 31. A committee of women vigilantes called in chief of police O'Brien to demand rigid enforcement of the law against selling cigarettes to minors following reports to the organization that cigarette smoking is increasing among San Francisco school girls. "So' prevailent is the habit among young girls that notices reading 'please do not smoke here' have been posted in some school buildings. "Mrs. Bertha Clancy told the AVoman 'Vigilant Committee,. , . "Spare time between classes is wien they indulge in the smoking. The habit is growing worse and worse."

UNEMPLOYMENT

SEEMS TO BE Optimism Marks Reports From Indiana Cities. Surevy by Evans Wool len. The unemployment situation in many of the cities of Indiana seems to be on the mend, says a report for the latter part of March, made public today by Evans Woollen, regional director for Indiana of the president's conference committee on unemployment, of which Herbert Hooves is chairman. ' Reports to the regional director from the mayors jnd other officials of many Indiana cities and from investigators f-cnt out by the Washington headquarters of the committee, indicated that In few places the unemployment situation is as acute as it was in December . In some places there are indications that Industry is resuming its prewar stride. Reports from Muncie. for example, say that the city "is almost back to pre-war conditions." Mr. Woollen's report has bean forwarded to th Washington head quarters of-the president's commit-t tee. SCMMART bV IlEPORTS A brief summary of reports from the leading Indiana cities follows: Anderson There is no occasion for worry about the situation here. East Chicago Conditions in East Chicago are somewhat Improved. More men are working than in December. They expect to reduce unemployment further when outside work gets under way. Ft. Wayne The local post of the American Legion is conducting: a canvass of the unemployed. Figures obtained thus far indicate these will number 1.300 or l.00. Unemployment is mainly confined to industrial plants. The outlook Is regarded as favorable in view of projected building and sewer construction work. Gary The situation is rather unfavorable. It is hoped that men will be put to work on roads. The mayr.r is actively lnterestel in the problem. Hammond The conditions here are not serious. The outlook is apparently brighter. The Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are doing everything possible to overcome unfavorable conditions. The mayor is working with these organizations. CAUSE FATALITIES INDIANAPOLI3. Ind., March 31 J - J it . Two fatalities nave auenocu i rapid rise' of the Indiana streams, following general heavy rainfall. Gordon Meagher, S. and his six year old sister, Mildred, were drowned in a small creek at Crawfordsville, when the bank on which they were playing, caved in. A near cloudburst had made the stjam a torrent. In a windstorm at Rockport, line poles and trees were blown, windows smashed and 'barns, outbuildings damaged. Homes were flooded and roads Inundated in the Wabash Valley near Huntington, and live stock was removed to high ground, while traction service through Wabash from Peru to Fort Wayne was abandoned because of flooded tracks. Heavy damage was done by a storm at Petersburg and the streets of Washington were flooded by nearly 2 Inches of rainfall. At Fort Wayne, a police patrol boat was pressed into -use for protection of families in flooded districts. GOMPERS CALLS IT A LOCKOUT WASHINGTON. March 31. The cea! operators have broken their contract with the miners and have deliberately forced the men to quit work, "in other words, a lockout," it was asserted today by Samuol Gompers. President of the American Federation of Labor, in a lengthy statement reviewing the history fJ the present controversy.

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Only Three Democrats Have Filed, 24 Hours Before Deadline (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind., March 30. County Clerk Herbert Wbeaton will call time" tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock and after that hour no more names can be filed as candidates lor primary nomination. Practically all known republican candidates have filed, making the largest entry lists the party has ever had In the county. Only three candidates have filed da the democrat ticket. Cecil M. Cole, 544 Washington st-. Gary, and John Primich, 106 Grant st.. Gary, have filed for clerk on the democrat ticket, while Roe Bagby, 443 Madison st., Gary, has filed for treasurer, subject to the democrat primaries. There are thirteen candidates for Justice of the peace a: Crown Point, "the marriage court." The petitions of the following candidates have been filed on the republican ticket: REFl'BLICAJt Proserntlns; Attorney D. M. Kinder. Gary. Joda-ea of Superior Court Virgil S. Reiter. Hammond, Maurice E. Crites, East Chicago. State n.preeatat1ves Peter Boult. Gary; Thomas P. MulMmx. Clerk of Lake Superior Court Charles R. Dyer, Hammond; John Kllllgrew. Hobart. Treasurer Otto J. FIfleld, Crown Point; Win Hunter. Gary; Haiel K. Groves, East Chicago. Sheriff Wm. H Olds. East Chicago. Cero E. E. Evans, Gary. Alwntr Wm. E. Black. Crown Polst. . . . linrreyo' - Ray Seely, Hammond, Covaty Commissioner Second District: John H. Claussen, Crown Point; August W. Neuafeld, Crown Point. Third District: James Black. County OonncllmOn Chas. E. Bailey, Neil Brown, Henry C. Eatterman, Lewis A. Pattee, L. B. Boyd. Martin P. Hawkinson, Joseph Hartley Sr. ORTH TOWNSHIP Juatle of tho raw Wm. A. Jordon, Frank D. Prest, Geo. E. Reiland, Albert E. Griffith. Advisory Board Mary M. Bielefeld, Frank Holly, John Tenkeley. TownalUs Trasta Erick Lund, Jacob Shurman. AiMit'r James Clements. Bert E. Escher, Jurrien Noor. CALCMET TOWNSHIP Township Trnatoo Thomas Matthews, Edmund N". Boll. JoBtlre of tho Psaeo Charles Clemens, Thomas M. Porter, George Kap'aich, G. S. Wedholln, James J. Rtapleton, Bessie Blumenthal, Joseph H. Cothery, Vincent T. Walsh, John N. Duncan. AitMr Chas. H. Martin, John McFadden, C. Oscar Johnson. HOBART TOWNSHIP Trnte James J. Carpenter. AMmnr John W. Karnes. ST. JOHN'S Trustee John G. Rohling. noss Trustee Roy W. Hack, Joseph Robert Harper. Aaesr Ernest Walter. if a not en Trorte C. Walt a, Frank Govert, Otto A. Meyer, Frank Seegers. Assessor Fred Danne, Henry Schrenbeck, Wm. L. Russell. Advlaory Board J. Ednor Fcddler. Peter Kutsch. Justice of the Peace Jacob E. Fleck. Constable Frank Senutz. C'EVTEH TownbJp Trustee Gej. II. Fredrich. Wrrj. J. Knoff, Chas. J. Millies, Thos. Mracek, H. W. Wer.del, Frank E. Jiese. JusTlee of the Peste H. Barr. J. J. Beatie, J. E. Berleen, E. J. Crawford. F. E. Far lev, W. L. Hendicy, W. F. Heinze. H. II. Kemp, E. A. Lamberg, W. J. Merrill, Chas. A. Nassau, Ge;rge A. Steinback. J. J. Wie. C'onMahle Raymond Fnerman. Advisory Beard George Kchnurleln. George Schnurleln, Charles Pfeil. WIN FIELD Trustee Levi A. Phillips. A asessor Geo. Meleher. WE?T f REEK Trusfeo Harry P. 6-imms, Emerson O. Sutton. .(triwr John H. Huyhurst. Advisory Board Arthur G. Ross. CEH4W CREEK Trustee) Grant Hayden, S. C. Kfcnnady, XL

How District Is Prepared for Strike

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r ST-'Z GLIMPSE OF Calumet regl-in rairroads anl dustries' hope to avert a coal famine fr a time at least, when the Vi7 PTT1 BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CEJ MIDDLETOWN, O., March 31. While "his wife waa lying in bed this morning Ambrose Watts, S3, who claims to have been dreaming, shot ber through the head. Watts told police the report of the pistol awakened him and he found his wife dead at his side.' BtLlXTl.N'.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON, March SI. Tha . British Miners' union Is going to rive Its support to the- American miners in their national strike at midnight tonight. However, hrdlua hrdlua hrdluta Miners, however, will not take any action to stop the shipment of coal to the United States unless the United Mine Workers of America request it. BULLETIN.) riNTEP. NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PANAMA CITY, Panama, March SI. Fire has broke out on the American Hawaiian, liner lowan, according to a. wireless message from her today. She is .bound for the Panama cana from Los Angeles and tugs have been sent to her assistance. The xessel was about ISO miles at sea when the radiogram was received. BrLLETIX.) ; INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICI LONDON. March 31. Charles, former emperor of Austria and kinsr of Hungary, who is ill of MIKE'S HAD A REAL KICK He Was Tired of Depending On An Outside Supply of Rotgut. Wearying of depending- upon an outside supply . of '.'moonshine" and not satisfied with its palatable effect.' Ml He' Werjo of 518 Narva, place, JUast Chicago, set up his own equipment, lie was sure his Initial batch had proved a. success, for his wife had commented upon its "kick." There was a' great ' deal of talk circulated in the neighbor-. hood about Mike's "good stuff" and yesterday Chief Georgd E. Weeks with Agent Harvey Khedd with Police Officers Kerr and Muha tarried awhile in Mike's home. And soon after, both Mike, his prized liquor and illicit manufacturing equipment merged into the open closely followed by the officers. At the East Chicago police station Werjo told the police that his stomach would not stand the rotgut that was being pushed across the bars and that he had tried producing something with a pleasing taste. The prisoner was released on a $1,000 bond. W. Kelsey, W. J. Nichols. W. L. Sanger, F. G. Carsten, Elsie Ragon. Assessor Loslie H. Gelst. Vernon P. Dickinson. , . . EAGLE (REEK - Trace Jay D-ab, ". M. Gosniley. , - AKesor Murray Fearee. A large eastern corporation has established wireless stations at its plants In Pittsbnrjp.a.nd Cleveland.

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crisis does cause cessation of delivalns of coal ha e been stored in the railroad jards. This photo s-iows two of the huge piles of coal with double pneumonia on Madeira Island, has rallied and the attending physicians report slight improvement, said a dispatch from Funchal today. BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PARIS, March 31. France has dispatched a note to Washington acknowledging the receipt of Secretary Hughes' second note and recognizing the validity of America's claim for payment for the upkeep of the American army of occupation on the Rhine, it was learned at the foreign office this afternoon. France promises to co-opcrats in ths matter with the other allied powers. BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BREMEN, Ind.. March 31. Indiana Evangelical association at its meeting here today. Is considering- a proposal to establish an old people's home in St. Joseph county, west of South Bend, property valued at $200,000 has been given for that purpose. BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, March '31 Word of the firt break in the ranks of the coal miners, scheduled to go on strike at midnight tonight, reached Chicago today. It was the message that union miners of the Western Kentucky have decided not to Join In the strike, Voting to stand by an agreement wjth the operators that runs through 1 922. TO FILE COMPLETE TICKET TOMORROW A complete democratic ticket will be filed tomorrow nt Crown Point for the May primary it was Mated today by Howard Gescheldler. one of the democrat leaders of Hammond, following a meeting last night in Hammond, attended hv nearlv hun dred democrat party men and women from various parts of the county. George Hershman of Crown Poin:, democrat chairman of the county, presided at the meeting. A ticket was selected to be filed tomorrow. Among those present at the meeting were Harry Arnold, of Gary, Joe Martin, of Lowell, Allan Twyman, of East Chicago, and the city chairmen. The only republican candidate who will not have an opponent on the democratic ticket will be Judse Crites of the superior court, it was stated. LEAPS INTO LAKE CHICAGO. March 31. W. T. Fenton, vice president and general manager of the National bank of the Republic, committed suicide today bv leaping into Lake Michigan. Fenton hired a taxi-caib and then his fare he walked to the water'? h5s fare he walke cto the water's edge and the taxi-driver saw him leap into the water. The police were notified nnd succeeded in recovering the body from tho lake but efforts at r9usciati.,n were ftiti'e. The body was Identified by Fenton's son. An investigation is being made in an effort to learn the motive. .

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S1 xT '"i-" .'- - ... . V ' empty cars standing on tlie tracks in the distance. But the la$cc supply on hand will rapidly dwindle, when the strike occur.. Crack Pennsylvania Train Slides Down Embankment This Morning INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HARRIS BURG, Pa., March 31. Five cars of the Dominion Express on the Pennsylvania railroad t-lid down a twenty foot enbankment into the old Pennsylvania canal at Halifax early this morning. The train was bound from Buffalo to Washington. Four were injured. The wreck occurred at 4:47 this morning and was caused by a broken rail. The second car from the engine, a day coach, jumped ths track and carried with it four Pull man cars which pitched into the deep mud on the 20-foct embank ment and went down into the old canal bed without toppling over. The seventh car hung to rails and held the chain of cars in position. There were ninety passengers on the train and many of them were asleep in their berths and did not know what had happened, some not being awakened. T. Spencer, of Atlantic City suffered severe lacera tions about the head., many of the passengers had to be. taken from the windows of the sleepers, as the doors were so deeply embeded in mud that they could not be opened. The passengers were transferred to a later train and brought to Harrisburg. THIS WINDOW NECKTIE SUPPLY Harvey Blum of the J. F. Blum tSon. State street haberdashers, pays the unusual thing happened the other day. Harvey is the official window dresser. He had Just gotten In a supply of the niftiest stuff in neckwear tha boys have ever seen in these parts. The orders ibegan flocktng in before he had completed the display and before the window was finished a telegram from the Blum haberdashery was on the way to New Tork for another big order of Grenadine two-tone knitted ties. Another article Blum had to restock almost immediately was the fancy piped front shirts, that are I going c .or big, he says. 'Teople are also getting some real surprises in our spring showing of Kirchbaum and Fashion Park Clothes." CYCLONE WIPES OUT TOWN IN SOUTH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl CULLMAN, Ala., March 31. Crane Hin, a small town fifteen miles from this city, wiped cut by a cyclone early today, according to meagre reports reaching here. Several persons are reported to have been killed and a number of others injured. Physicians and -nurses are bein? rushed to lhe village from here. Properly damage to the extent of $60.00 w.ts done by the cyclone in this city. Twenty homes in th path of the twister were demolished.

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U.S. Warns There Must be No Profiteering in Coal Prices THE NATIONAL COAL STRIKE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE The mrlke will beKn at oae minute pant midnight. Approximately A23.000 union miner will lay down tbrlr tools. Two hundred thousand nonunion miners may join tbrm. Twenty states are enroled. The country lias rrsrrvr coal enough to loot three months. The ftovrrnment Ttll keep -hands off" until the public be. Kins to suffer. ' BULLETIN MNTPOUITinM.I , TOPEKA, KAtv, March 31 kanui Miwivrs were jndcr orders of It - , ... w.c ivddj .industrial Court today not to join the nation-widn .trir SCh:dulftt 1n hoir, 1 A al jiiiuiujjut 10-4-night. The order further Ftated4: that present wage contracts betwcenl' operators and miners will remain In; effect for 30 days. In the meanllrr. ;!

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vuun 10 spcea up efforts to reach a satisfactory new agreement. 4 o BVLLETIK INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! POTTSVILLU. PA.. March 31--S U9-4 pension of operations in th.j lower flnthruf-lta ..... - . . .vei-j!E ,;tuiij early toaa.v when the night shift of miner! lffthe collieries with all ih.ir The miners expect a formal Ktrike to be roon declared because theySSl cannot draw any relief funds fromjj the general treasury or the local union while a mere suspension is in force. Railroads have given rtgh!4S of way to coal trains. An immense amount of coal is being rushed tre,3 .Du.ia.iu, Kocnester, rew Tork and other Empire etale points as well sj to New England. i. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NFW? srouin INDIANAPOLIS. IND., March 31--.-.-uic-a me uruer ot tne. i.an-g sas vourt or Industrial Relation extending for thirty days the presenr ""si; :n me Kansas coal netas,67 miners of that, district will, dror57 their tools st midnight and strikewith the rest of the nation's mineniie' John L. Lewis, president of the' United Mine Workers, declared to-he day. d tET GEO. TC HOLMES l STAFF CORRESPONDENT !. h. SERVICE In WASHINGTON, March 31 Whily battle lines are being drawn outoday for the greatest labor tleuj' in the country's history, officlaVe Washington went quietly about it business, watching closely, but keeping hands off. K So far as the administration lae concerned, officials said, there wllt-V be no hurried last minute conference no ultimatums and no frantSif' eleventh hour attempts to prevenflC the strike going into effect at mid-to night, such as have featured slmilaifs situations in other years. IESTJE GOES TO SHOWDOWT Having failed utterly to periuad J the coal owners to meet the miner?v for the adjustment of a new contract, the government, to all ap-P pcarances, Is willing that the issued, shall go to "a show down" betveennthe half million unionized mineri and the operators. ' Not until the public begins tfl suiter, eitner inrougn iacK or coal or from profiteering dealers, will th government tali action unless re-; quested to do so by the parties te" the controversy, it was stated offl-:; cialij. 5 The big strike will be ushered Inat one minute past midnight with -the two warnings from the govern-', ment one to the miners that there fhall be no violence; the other to the operators that there shall be no profiteering. PXICX MUST WOT AJDVA.IT CB "If the price of coal in any locality , is boosted, that fast should immediately bo reported to Washington,'', said Secretary of La,bor Davjs "There is no justification for any advance in the price of coal and thf public snouia not pay n. ( The strike beginning at midn'.gni will usher in the greatest industrial America. It was predicted today bJ labor leaders. i ne mine ownors they sd. by refusng to confer with the workers, have plainly warne! that they a-re out to break the en--ormous power wielded by the Unltsr Mine Workers in the organized labor world. (Continued on page five.) AL NIP HOBART Continuing his raids on preyin? duck hunters. AI Barber, state gam warden of Hammond, aided by twe other wardens, yesterday nabbec four Hobart men who brought down fifteen north-bound mallard; in the Gary marsh. The men were arraigned beforif. Federal Warden Merrill and wn bound over to the federal courts aIndianapolis under charges o violating the national migratory blr' laws and oi shooting ducks out t tirr.scn. The prisoners gave their nams? as: Irvin Garstersen. Walter Trail Rer, Paul Wehner and Earl Green Barber was aided toy Wajdsa Lundsren and Timm. .

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