Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 329, Hammond, Lake County, 3 April 1922 — Page 1

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HA T CONGRESS -ACT IN BIG MINE STR1 THE WEATHER Showers probably tonight nnd Tuesdays not much change la temperature. rm VOL. XV. NO. 329. MONDAY, APRIL 3. 1922. HAMMOX D. IN I CAN A INDEPEHDEHT COUNTY TICKET

LAKE

COUNTY

TIMES

WINS TO DECIDE STEPS TODAY

DEMOCRATIC

FLED

THE DECK THEY SAY Have the Written Resignations of Their Candidates 'SPECIAL TO THE TIBESJ CROWN mNi, Hid.. -v.il S. The democrats havs paved the way for a third ticket in Ue county election this fall. With three exceptions, it is understood, every candidate on the democratic ticket which was filed Saturday, has given a -written resignation to the central commitla-; of the party to that his name can be withdrawn In case a third party movement i- launthed following the May primaries. . The law requires that an Indjpendent tn-ket rnugt be filed thirty daya before the county primary. To comply with this, it is said, frier.ds of the independent movement fi;.l a complete ticket Sautrday. in addition to the democratic ticket. It was stated by a reputable democrat leader that the independent ticket is also a "set-up'' and that the written resignations of all candidates on the third ticket can be produced at any time. By filing a complete democrat!! ticket the demo-republicans precluded the possibility of a weak democrat ticket from republican sources and oy filing an independent ticket, which can be vacated at any time and replaced by candidates selected by convention, they have paved the way for a third party. It is understood that there will be no further developments until ah.ori.ly before the Way primary. The independent ticket is not voted upon at the primary, under the stats law. . Only the republican and democrat tickets will be- on the primary ballot. THREE "OUT-SIDES 5" There are three "out-siders" on the democrat ticket who filed without the- sanction of the county central committee. They are John Primich, Gary, and Cecil M. Cole, Gary, candidates for clerk, and Koe Bagby. Gary, for treasurer. ED. STMOX FOR CLERK The other names on the democrat primary ticket are considered by the party to be strong contenders and In case a third party does appear to be popular the democrats expect to be able to grab two or three important offices, at least. ' Ed. Simon, former county auditor, who made a sensational race for mayor of Hammond last fall, losing by a few hundred votes, is the candidate for clerk brought out by the democrat central committee. Harry I Arnold, president of the Gary Truit Sz Savings Bank, is the candidate for treasurer. For sheriff, the democrat have drafted Frank Srickland of Lowell, a wealthy farmer who has be;n prominent in democrat politics for years. George Hershman, county democrat chairman, is the candidate for prosecuting attorney. r The democrat and independent tickets filed just before "deadline" Saturday, fallow: DEMOCRATIC Joint Represfrntal-re John P. Ivimmel, MeCock. County Clerk Cecil M. Cole. Gary; John Primlcii, Gary; Edward Simon, Hammond. County Treasurer Harry L. Arnold, Gary; Koe Baaby, Gary. Commissioner Third District Charles T. Strickland, West Creek. Coroner TV. Ml Bigger, Hammond. Assessor Wm. Kcstbade, Hobart. Surveyor Marvin W. Holben, Gary. Sheriff Frank Strickland. Lowell. COrVTY INDEPENDENT TICKET Commissioner Second District O. F. Woosley, Crown Point. County Coroner H. C. Stephens, Crown Toint. County AsMssor Edgar D. Kailsback. Clerk Circuit Court Lillian M. Toung. Hammond. , Sh-erin Agnes T. Slack. Hammond. ' Almire Jarvis. Hammond. Commissioner Third District George J. Hoevet, Lowell. Connty Surveyor Oliver W. Hershman, Crown Toint. Trustee TVt Creek Otto H. Childrers, Lowell. Advisory Board TJios. A. Goudy. AaeMr Cedar Crack T"T. Fred Ewer. Trustee Cedar Creek Tint. Joseph P. Marston . A urr Nort h Trrp. Robert B. Richardson. Justlo of tbe Peace North Tup. Edward Holmberg. Trustee North Twp. Christ Kricger. Justice of tbe rence. Center Twp. Elmer Gord, P. F. Hein, C. V. Layton. Geo. E. Connell. Assessor Center Trrp. E. W. Westbay. Trustee Center Tup. Rich a. Belefild, A. C. Baldner. L Justice of he Feac, North. Trrp.

' Louis Manslow. Trottre ioth Twp. Eugene Knotts. Aaaasaor North Twp. Win. E. Archer.

LOVED BY ANIMALS, PIONEER DIES Dr. A. Stonebreaker, Old Resident of Hammond. Passes Away at Home Of His Daughter. Dr. A. Stonebreaker, a veternarian surgeon, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dan Stoltz, at Gary, Saturday evening, and his remains are lying at the Neidow undertaking establishment in Hammond where they will be held until the arrival of his youngest son, Raymond, who lives in New Mexico. The funeral service will be held Wednesday, the hour to be announced later. Dr. Stonebreaker will be laid to rest beside the re-

mains of his wife, who died March 4, 1919. and is buried at Oak Hill cemetery. Since the death of Mrs. Stonebreaker the doctor cared little about living. Ha was nearing his eightieth birthday and after the death of his wife he said he hoped to follow her soon. It was his request that E. B. Cross, a retired minister, and for fifteen years a neighbor of the Stonebreakers, preach the funeral service. Dr. Stonebreaker practiced his profession in Hammond for more than thirty years. It was a mission of love. His love of animals was the dominating passion of his life. No night was too stormy for Dr. Stonebreaker to drive miles to treat a suffering animal and he was little concerned whether he was going to be paid for the visit. DESPISED HORSE BEATERS. Dr. Stonebreaker had nothing but contempt for the man who was cruel to an animal. He classed the horse-beater with the wife-beater, making the exception that whereas the wife could appeal to the authorities for protection the horse was helpless. The doctor believed in summary action for horse-beaters. He never became too old to give a horse-beater a sound licking. The barnyard at the rear of Dr. Stonebreaker's home on Conkey ave. was the delight of the children of the neighborhood. He always kept a span of beautiful horses, a couple friendly collie dogs and a tame wolf or fox. Recently he had a ground hog that was as domestic as a kitten. Animals and children seemed to recognize at once that the old doctor was their friend. Everyone who has lived in Hammond the past ten years will recall Dr. Stonebreaker in wide brimmed gray hat, white "duster" and smart riding gloves, driving the- spirited sorrel team with the two beautiful collie dogs, King'" and "Lion" sitting beside him on the seat or running behind. Dr. Stonebreaker never liked the automobile. When one of his sons brought an auto home one day he told him to "get the blamed thing out of here" and it was a long time before he would ride in one. He finally saw that the automobile was a merciful thing for the thousands of abused draft horses in the big cities, but always maintained that for pleasure riding nothing could compare with a team. "Whenever he passed a callow youth burning up the roads in a gaudy roadster he would say that the more he saw of some people, the more he thought of his dogs. CITY'S FIRST VETERNARIAN Dr. Stonebreaker was Hammond's first veternarian. He came to this city from Kokomo. He was a rugged unpretentious man who thoroughlyenjoyed living. His personal lire was temperate and clean, his integrity unquestioned. Whereas he was gentle and kind to his family and to animals he was a strict disciplinary with himself. One of his characteristics was a determination, never to give in to pain. About twenty years ago he had a large tumor on the calf of his leg. One day he put a kettle of water on the kitchen stove and after the water was at the boil ing point he sterilized an operating knife and cut away the tumor which weighed several pounds. He endured the pain without a word, boumj up the wound and then joked the family for insisting that he go to a hospital. There were no harmful consequences from the operation. "I was never sick-a-bed a day in my life," he used to say. He died while sleeping, without any previous illness except a periodical attack of rheumatism. " Dr. Stonebreaker's philosophy of life was the code of a strong man, tolerant with the weakness of others, but unrelentless with himselr. He is survived by three sons and two daughters, Noah, Eugene, Raymond, Mr. Dan Stoltz and Mrs. Martin Frame. The youngest son, Raymond, was wounded in France with the A. E. F. Dr. Stonebreaker had the respect and affection of thousands of people in the northern part of Indiana. SUFFERS INJURIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT Louis Eesteda, Bruce street resident, suffered a broken leg and other injuries that put him in St. Margaret's hospital when he was struck by an automobile driven by John Hutchinson, 830 Maywood avenue, at Standard and Calumet avenues. Besteda was pulling a hand-wagon He's a laborer at the Malleable Iron Co. Hutchinson made an unsuc cessful attempt to avoid striking the j man when he swerved from the street and his car plunged into the ditch. Dr. B. W. Chldlaw attended the injured man.

HOSPITAL

BIDS ALL BCLLETI.V CROWS POINT, 1D April 3 At 3 o'clock this afternoon, the county commissioner) announced that ail bids on the Tuberculosis Sanitarium had bets rejected. They stated., that the sanitarium project would be laid aside until there vras a likelihood that bids would come within the estimates. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CKOWN POINT, IND.. April 3 Today was tho day for opening bids on Lake county's proposed Tuberculosis Sanitarium, but indications are that not a btd will be accepted. Probably forty contractors were in the corridors of the court house this alternoon anxiously waiting to hear what action the board of commissioners would take. "W hen the bids were opened it was found that all were aoove the esUmr.tcs made by the engineer. Some were 550.000 too high, others ran even 115,0t0 over the estimate. ( The buildings are classed In three groups by the commissioners: Administrative building (including the intirmary and service and power building), raviiion A, Pavilion B ana Children's building. The enj;ieer's estimate on the entire project was J31'J,O0O. His estimate on the administrative building -was 60,000. Bids on the administrative buildings were as follows: J. W. Schneider, $372,779: General Conrtuction Co., $32".000; Simons Co., $:S6,600; O. V. Highlanu. $212,632. Other bids submitted by Schneider were: Pavilion A, $43,716: Pavilion B, $33,3S2; Children's hu'lding. $S4.S30. The General Construction Co., bid J3S.000 on Pavilion A, $32,000 on Pavilion B, $67,000 on Children's building. The Simons Co. bid $36,000 on Pavilion A, $3S.300 on Pavilian B, $68,000 on Children's building. T. D. Vobson b1d $40,0S9 on Pavilion A, $32,243 on Pavilian B, $79,748 on Children's building. O. F. Highland bid $36,551 on Pavilion A. $31,638 on Pavilion B, $20,3S7 on Children's building. J. P. Croak of Hammond had the lowest bids for plumbing and heating. His figures were $14,7S1 for the administrative building, $3,625 for Pavilion A, $2,310 for Pavilion B, and $5,083 for Children s building. The Standard Electric Co.. of Hammond bid $15,225 for the wiring of the main building. CAR BANDITS L'nchronicled, unheralded, deeds as daring as those on the silver sheet are being enacted daily by members of the special agents office of the I. H. E. railroad in a new war between determined, unscrupulous box car bandits and railroad police. Gun play, sheer courage and quick, sure thinking are some of tho characteristics that feature the daily combats between the,, law and desperadoes that have made the railroad yards of Blue Island and nearby com munities the marauding grounds for their depredations. l.osses to The railroads from thts source, plundering of freight shipments, aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, according to o'Jcials. Agents Kosmalo and Powell, of the Hammond office Saturday fought out a gun battle with an alleged box car thief they encountered at one of the jP,ncipal atif t, .Intersections of Klue Island. The man was captured and several shots were Area. No one was injured. More than a dozen bandits were sentenced in the Blue Island police court Saturday morning for petty larceny. Virtually the entire staff of special agents from the Hammond office under the leadership of Chief Bet Strong, devoted the whole of last week to rounding up the gang that has for weeks worried train crews. Chief Strong's men were instrumental in the arrest Saturday of Earl Clow, Chicago elevated ticket seller and alleged leader of the latest Blue Island group of box car bandits. The chief together with Lieuts. William Manning and John Nauraey are bus?) gathering together the threads of what they believe is one of the most daring. and far reacl'ng conspiracies that has come to attention of the department in many months. Women's Republican Club Meeting. The Hammond Women's -Republ!-can Club will have a social evening and program. Tuesday evening, at the home of Mrs. Herman E. Sasse. 028 Hohman st. A weil balanced program has been arranged. ' refreshments will be served. All Republican women are cordially invited to attend. 3-31-2t The firm of John F. Wilhelm & Son, Is branching out. In the past the company had devoted its attention to building houses and dealing in building supplies. Now the firm has c-pened a real estate office at 97 State St., and already has a long list of property in all parts of Hammond slated for sale. -

TOO HIGH

WAR ON BOX

NAPIER IS

CONVICTED

BY JURY East Chicago Detective is Found Guilty in Lake Co. Criminal Court. rSFECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, lna., April 3. Peter Napier of East Chicago was found guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill by a jury in the Criminal court on-Saturday, the jury being out several hours to deliberate on Napier's fate Sentence has not yet been passed by the cou.-t. This marks another episode in the sensational Napier case which arroused East Chicaga. , Najier shot at an Eait Chicago policeman alter beins arrested by him and taken ts Central station. Napier was the head of a private detective agency in East Chicago and it is alleged extorted monty from persons of prominence in order as they claimed not to divulge discrepancies in their conduct. Napier was arrested after having attempted to get money from a victim and taken to the station where the shooting occurred. If a new trial is not granted, it is said that the counsel of the prisoner will appeal their case to the appellate court at Indianapolis. A $14,000 bond will be rtquired for an appeal of this case. Half vT v'a populace from Indiana Harbor and East Chicago journey?J to Crown Point Saturday to learn of the fate .of "Bad Pete" as he s sometimes referred to. The court rooms were packed frern early morning until iate in the evening by these interested and disinterested persons. The trial started Thursday morning and was adjourned Friday noon, account of the defendant taking sick until Saturda ymorning. The se was resumed Saturday morning and the. evidence received by V.S0 o'clock, when the jury went out. The jury' returned with a verdict at 7:30. E CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY Many Hammond People Attended Mack Celebration at So. Bend. "Warde L. Mack, former Hammond resident, now general agent for the Northwestern Mutual Lif Insurance Co.. of Milwaukee, for nortTiern Inatana, with headquarters at South Bend, last Saturday celebrated hts twenty-fifth anniversary of his connection with the company. 4 Agents from all over the Mack and Johnston general: agency territory in northern Indiana reported at South Bend for the occasion which also marked the close of a FebruaryMarch months drive culminating in nearly a million doUars woath of new insurance for the two billion dollar company. Charles A. Smith, district manager, for northwestern Indiana, with headquarters at Hammond, who was one of the principal speakers at the evening banquet, pointed out that in Lake county, where Mr. Mack began his insurance career twenty-five j ears ago, w itn only thirty thousand dollars . worth of insurance on the company's books tor the entire county, there was now in force as the direct and Indirect results of Mr. Mack's untiring acyjios avtrovimate!y six million dollars on the company's books. Among the holders of the original thirty thousand dollars of insurance Mr. Mack pointed out, were the late Thomas Hammond, ol Hammond, congressman and banker, who -carHJrd twenty-five thousand dollars with the company, and John Brown, who is still active in, connection with the First National Bank of Crdvn Point, an institution which has become famous because of his personality. Mr. and Mrs. ' Mack were made the recipients of a beautiful silver tea set, the gift of the agency association. Among others invited tothe affair from theso parts, were:' Judse unci Mrs. V. S. Belter, of Hammond; Mr. and .Mrs. Warren Smith, formerly of Hammond, now of South Chicago; Special Agents M. P. Ludwig, of Hammond; E. N. Ripley, of Hobart; and John C. Fisher, of Crown Point. FRANCE WILL NOT CONTEST CLAIM f JITE'NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, April 3. The French Government has assured the United States that it never had any intention of contesting the right of the American Government be reimbursed for the $21,000,000 spent in maintaining the American troop3 on the Rhine. This was disclosed when the Stats Department made public the text of a note' received from Ambassador Herrlck at Paris, which contained a digest of Mr. Herrick's communications with Premier Polncare regarding the debt controversy.

N.W.IORANC

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TIN PLATE

OPERATING 100 PER CENT

For First 4ime Since War Period Big Gary Mills Start ' at Full Capacity For the first time since the v.ai period, the. Tin Mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. at Gary will be operating 100 per cent-ca: pacity, starting tomorrow (Tuesdsy) morning. I This, combined with the authentic Information that work on the first Unit of the $40,000,000 tube mills will be started before the fifteenth of this month, is the first real news that has greeted Gary steel workerg since the financial . depression hit the country more than a year ago. "Tomorrow morning the entire battery of Tin Mills at the plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. will be placed in operation. There are twenty-four milla in all and it will'be the first time they have all been in operattion at one time since the war when they were operated at 100 per cent capacity for a period tL some six months. The reason for th revival of operations at the Tin Mills is given as: The Elwood, Ird.. Tin Mills have a large rush order and due tc an accident in one of the depar:ments of the plant, has put the mill aut of commission. ' In order to get out the order,, it is said that the officials of the Gary ill have consented to assist in the task, which will take from six teeks to two months to turn it out. j Besides the hundreds of. local extra men who will be put to work, a, large number of Elwood men will oome to Gary to assist. It i estimated that in; the neighborhood of 17S Elwsod rollers ar.d helpers will assist The pilgrimage of the Elwood men Ftarted yesterday and many were still arriving today. ; Besides this order. It is said that he local tin mills have plenty iirdtri that will kj:t-p them busy turning! ut tin plats , all iummsr. This Is' the. busy' time M the year for the'tin mills, as many canning firms are gstting ready . for their summer busy season. While ' the local 'mills are running 100 per cent capacity, they will be running 72 turns a week. Intense interest, is being manifested in the unofficial rumor that work has already beei or will start by the flfteinth of this month on the first' unit of the monster Gary tube mills which will be erected ju"t east of the site of the Gary works plant. , It is known that a large amount of material and equipment has already been leceived l0r its construction and the real work is now only a matter of a short time. This 's thct.i tidings that Gary residents have been waiting for for several years, when it was first announcfd that the National Tubo works would construct a monster plant-in lary. LEROY FARMER WEDS Wm. Ludwig Married To His Boyhood Sweetheart Last Saturday. CROTVN POINT. IN P., April 23 0 Saturday, Mrs. Anna , AVltwer, of Schlcswig-ITolstcln, . Germany, was united tn marriage to William Ludwig, of LeRoy, Ind., at the Lutheran church pareonage, in Valparaiso, Rev. C. W. , Baer officiating. The' contracting parties were sweethearts in the old country years ago. Mr. Ludwig came to America to seek his fortune and tl.e lady married another. Her husband .was killed in action in the late war, leaving her with two sons. Through corVespontlence, Mr. Ludwig was inrormed of the course of affairs, and immediately the old flame of romance war- again kindU'a. So the lady was f.ialiy pote-Uiided to cqmn :o Aiit-tvci with her '.wo boys, and alter a voyage" of seventeen daya, she landed in New Tork last Tuesday. She arrived Friday evening in Valparaiso and today sh became the bride of her old sweetheart. Fred Hamann, of LeRoy, a neighbor of Mr. Ludwig. and C. F. Specht. were the only witnesses to the ceremony. The -newly-weds will reside on a farnt near Leroy. RECOVER TWO FORDS A Ford sedan stolen from Mr. Lesser Hvf Gary, from (513 Washington street, on March 25 til. was found abandoned in a ditch' rear Valparaiso, Ind.. yesterday according to nformation received from the Valpo authorities today. ' . Another Ford. a. sedan, believed to be owned by Frank Abbedento. S21 W. Madison street, Chicago, which carried license plates belonging to Otto Bolls. 654 Oakley avenue. Hammond, on March 20, was located in a ditch near the farm of C. O. Johnson R. R. No. 1 nea'r Chesterton. vtr-day

SCHLESWIG WIDOW

MUTINEERS SEIZE ARIAS

AND AMMUNITION

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) DUBLIN, April 3. -Irish reublican army mutineers' have seized sufficient arms . and ammunition to equip a field army of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, it as estimated to4ay. It . is generally' admitted that the situation is more critical as a result of the defiant parade of the Irish . republican ' army rebels thro'ugh the streets of Dublin on Sunday. There were from 2,000 to 3,000 men In line, all supporters of the republic , and ' enemies of the Irish free state. ' Richard Mulcahy, jninister of defense in the Irish provisional government, is expected to take steps at once to fill the places of soldiers who have joined the rebels. . The mutineers continue active day and night in the outlying districts, seizing arms, ammunition, automobiles, motorcycles and lorries. Everything that can be used in active warfare is being taken over by the mutineers. ' At Mullinger, the mutineers seized the barracks and refused admission to loyal troops. All the motor cars 77T r LATEST (BULLETIN.) CHICAGO. April 3. Mrs. Irene Hurtcr, was found drowned early today in Garfield Park lagoon.' Her husband had been searching for her all night. , Police said they believe she had jumped into the water. (BULLETIN) NORFOLK, Va., April 3. A puzzling mystery confronted the Norfolk police today in establishing the identiy of a young and beautiful girl found dead on the beach at at Ocean 'View on Sunday. ; The girl was found on the sand, shrouded in a mantle of her own tangled golden hair. There 'were numerous bruises about the head and face, but death, according to the coroner's inquest, was due to drowning. (BULLETIN) EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 3. Benjamin Boste. millionaire, mayor of Evansville. and democratic , state chairman, was near death today as a result of complications growing out of a recent attack of influenza. Mr. Bo Ist fill after a long drawn trial in the Superior court at Michigan City. EUa Jagger of Gary, was given judgment against Herman Faber, also of Gary, in the sum of SSl.DoO. ; The uit v.s to recover money" which Faber had obtained in selling three government bonds for Mrs: Jagger. The bonds were part of the bundle of six. worth S10.000 each,, which Mrs. Jaggers claimed she found in a Chicago taxi-cah in April, 1919. She had turned three over to Faber to sell for her after an" unsuccessful effort to- locate the owners. Faber sold the three and gave her only $9.000.. ...... The judgment still stands. Mrs. Jaggerxhas not been able to collect it. Today the Lamson Company of Boton. which claims to 'be the true owners" of the bonds.' was granted an injunction in the Hammond Superior court against Mrs. Jagger and Mr. Faber, restrain'" them- from doing anything which would tend to satisfy the judgment. Mrs. Jagger is restrained ' from undertaking to enforce payment and from selling assigning or. in any way encumbering? it. Faber is ordered not to pay it. Mrs. Jagger is also ordered to assign to the Umfen Companyill of her rights and title to Interest in the judgment. Th petition-which was prepared by Attorneys Ibach. Gavit. Stinson and Gavit. states that the bonds had been deposited by the. Umson Ce-.. in the vault ofvthe American Pneumatic Service Co., of Boston, from which they .were, stolen April 19. 1920., The three bonds in question are of Series TD 1920' and numberer 7,683. 7.6S4 and 7,645. . The Lamson Company already has a suit in the federal court to obtain possession of .two mere bonds, the only ones now in the. possession of Mrs. Jagger. , . Judge Crites granted the Injunction as prayed and set, the matter for .hearing April 24th.

JAGGERS

ENJOINED BY

LAMSON CD

attached to the barracks were commandeered. It now develops that a running battle occurred while Michael Collins, minister of finance in the Irish

1 provisional government, was ori his way to Castlebar to make his speech of Sunday appealing for Irish unity. The mutineers had & well organized plan to attempt to prevent Collins from speaking, but it failed. Roads were blocked and railroad tracks were torn up. Collins travelled on a special train wbich reached its destination before the rails over which it had travelled were pulled up. At one point rebels opened fire upon the Collins special. Eodyguards from the loyal section of the Irish republican army, who were travelling with Collins, returned the fire. While Collins was speaking In County Mayo, Eamonn de Valera was 'making a campaign speech at Dundalk. He attacked the Irish free -state and the recent peace agreement signed in London by representatives of north and south Ireland and the British ' government. widely known as a-furniture manufacturer and hotel man. (BULLETIN) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 3. Wabash river reached a stage of 21 feet today and was still rising. The crest of the flood is expected at 23 feet. The lower Wabash is swollen by the pouring waters of upstate streams, which are now receding. Additional rains in this section .are forecast. Considerable property damage is anticipated. (BULLETIN) ; DES MOINES. Iowa. April 3. ' Two masked bandits escaped with $10,000 in currency "after overpowering the night watchmen and blowing open the vault at the Mandelbaum store here early today. (BULLETIN) HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Apjril 3. There was no break in the non-union coal miners' ranks in the Logan and . Mingo county, fields today, operators declared this morning. They said that all their men reported for work, and that coal was being mined at capacity at all points. OFF PRIMARY TICKET (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, 1XD., April 3 County Clerk Wheaton today refused to put the names of Leo Boniventura, 'John Poppa, Morris Dohson and Alex Walielowski on the republican primary ballot as candidates for constable of North township. He said that unless mandated by the court he would not recognize their petitions. Under the new statelaw limiting the township to one justice of the peace, the constable is to be appointed by the justice and not elected.' The candioaiea for justice of the peace of North township are Av. A. ReiJand, of Indiana Harbor; Albert Griffiths, Hammond; George E. Jordan, East Chicago, and Frank U. I'rest, Hammond. MS I DAY State Representative James I. Day and candidate for re-nomination. Jiv ing at 4S37 Olcott ave.. East Chicago, was seriously injured Saturday evening when he was thrown to the pavement while alighting fre-m a street car at Myrtle ave.. Robertadale. Mr. Day claims that the car started up before he had stepped down upon the street. Both knees and the left shoulder of the state representative were Injured. Mr, Pay was unable to leave his bed today. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Starting April l. 1S22, The Lake County Times will be delivered by carrier to your hom- for 4o per month. On sale in streets and news stands at 2c per copy. LAKE COUNTY PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO.

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FOUR NAMES THROWN

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Full Force of Coal Industry Paralysis Will Not be Felt for Week T(BULLETIN) J riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CF1 CHICAGO, April 3. The policy f I'alon railroad men toward the Miners ISTolred In the coal strike that began at tnldn lc ht Friday, I expected to be determined today. Delegates f the rail workers -were to meet In conference bere to discuss their attitude. Official sf the rail tnlon refused to forecast, In advance of the merlins; what its srobnble outcome would be. It -was predicted that n rait might be Issued for a joint meetingof lesders of the railroad and miners' unions but this could not Is confirmed. (BCI.LETr) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WHEELING, W. As., April 3 Ths 'rat break In operation of non-nnlon mine In the Pan-handle counties of West Vlrrlnla, ca.me today when two mines In Marshall connty, bo. ween Bcnwood and Moundsvlllrn. suspended operation with the forces joining- the strike. The two groups totalled about IKiO men. It Is reported 1 .BOO non-nnlon men are idle throsurhout the district. All the union mines remain !dl and at United Mine Workers headquarters this morning. It wss declared the strike Is still JOO per cent, cffectlie In organised miners. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, April 3. A formal demand that the National coal strike be settled before the nation gets to the bottom of its reserve coal bin will be registered by Congress this week, it appeared certain today as comnrittees of both Houses prepared to dig further into thj causes leading up to the tie-up. "Settle it first, and then arbitrate the differences." was the general comment in congress. 'John L. Lewis, President of ths United Mine Workers, came o the capital today to appear be!oie the House Labor Committee, wh'c'.i Is investigating the circumstances surrounding the walkout. MIXERS FOR IT The miners, Lewis . said, woull weUome federal intervention to "compel the operators to live up to their contracts." "But," he said, "there can be no arbitration of the fundamental principle involved, which Is ihat o collective bargaining. It his stood the test of SO years and is labor's inalienable right. On that tbera cafi be no arbitration." lewis did not appear to b3 ever'.v sanguine of th possibil'tics of arbitration. ' 'Why," he said, "Jhe operator refused the request o' th governnienr ittelf that they Jo noLh.n-- mere than to live up to their 'Onnrra-t . It'does not appear likely that they would now yield the extejit of going Into a conference promoted by some disinterested party. -However, the miners are willing, as they always have been to negotiate with the operators." NOT FELT FOR WEEK The full force of the paralysis of the coal Industry will not begin tobe felt generally for two or three weeks, Lewis said. By that time " many . factories and plants with a small reserve stock will get to ths bottom of their bins and begin to feel the pinch of shortage. This will be followed by increasing tries of distress from industry generally, as the greater stocks begin to disappear. It was generally conceded In Washington today by officials, labor leaders and spokesmen for the operators, that this week will se ths crucial test of the miners' Strength. Saturday wag hardly a fa-r test, it was said, because of its be ng a holiday in some of the fields. LEWIS VERY" CONFIDENT By the end of fbe week, however, the number of unionised miners who obeyed the call of the national lesders can' be guaged with a considerable decree of aoc-uraey. Lewis was confident today that far as his men are concerned, the strike will remain "100 per cent, effective." Six hundred thousand nvnery, estimated, stayed away f-om ih "mines on Saturday and he predicted that this number would be ma ntained for the full period of the strike. The assistance which thr. nonunion fields can gi'e the operators In the fight has been greatly exaggerated, Lewis said, and tn: wc .ld be more apparent as the strike progressed. lewis srnr.Eft'rs ATIO4LI7,TIO I INTERNATIONAL MEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, April 3.-S(,om" or later the government rruM .ier fn, nationalize the c, al mines an ! operate thetu for the benefit nf i'

(Continued on pase Ave.) BUMPED INTO AUTO INSTEAD OF A MAN if 'Begging your pardon, sir. h:it T didn't strike any man with my auto at 2 a. m. , at Hohman and Faetf streets as siared in The Times f' Saturday." says L. R. Barton, Bunnell Auto Sales employe. Well, as Mr. Statler. I he ukpmfuVhoiel man says, "the cjstomir' is always rig"ht." However, the police records weve qucted in The Time? story. Mr. Barton did strike an automobile, not a man. That h admit. But he says it was in the afternoon and fijring a regular Uncle Tom's Cabin anow-gtorm. And that's that - r