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DESCRIBE Wife of Judge Day Tells of Incidents Leading Up to Slaying. By JACK CAIU-ERRY STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE UlvUHO.uA Clu, April a. A triple investigation into the age-old story of platonic friendship, built about the glamor of an army uniform, beiuty and sudden wealth, which served as the death trap for Lieut. Col. Paul Eecl'.. 44 years old. premier army airman and commandant at Post field. Fort Sill, Okla., was launched today. The army, through a military court, presided over ty Major Thos. Lanther; tic state, acting through Coroner A. W. McWilliams, and the federal government, represented by Millard F. Meadows. pror.iL.it ion director of Oklahoma, united to ?ift the ashes of. the sto.-y told by Jean p. Day. 55 years old. former suprey court judge and millionaire oil ma;i, self-admitted slayer of Beck. OM-Y TWO EYE WITESSES Dav, with the smoking revolver 1 n' his hand, ond his wife, her ir.in.l j l blank in the hysteria of the death ,cene, according to ber (tatementa see ate- the only eye. witnesses to tne killing. Both annoanced toJay they wou.d not appear before the triple court of inquiry;, And we cannot fcrce them to do so." Forrest U Hughes, prosecuting attorney, fcaid, adding "but that will not keep' me from filing proper charges." Mrs. Day told of the. events leading up to t.he tragedy for the nrt;t time today. Confined to her bel under the care of doctors and refused the right to see anyone, the central figure of th tragedy, despite the pleas of freinds, gave her version of the affair. WIFK TEM.S STOFY -Sly husband killed. Beck becauc-e he attacked me." Mrs. Day said. "My husband and I have known Reek intimately. He was our fiien 1. We entertained him at our home on many occasions"On time he callel when my husband waa away, but it was a very brief visit. However, each time he called previous to Monday night, be acted a rerfect. gentleman. We greatly enjoyed having him. He was brilliant and scintillating-- and an acceptable addition to any company. "Early Tuesday morning, however, shortly after Mr .Day left the house in our automobile to take our guests to their homes. Mr. Beck became a monster a beast. He seized me by the wrists and threw one arm around me. Nothing like this had ever occurrid before a&d I was dumfounded. For a moment I could not rpeak. Then, as ho continued hold me, he cried out his love and made improper proposals to me. T screamed for him to stop, but I struggled in vain to free myself from his grasp. MRS. DAY A BEAITY "How long we struggled I do not know. "But I r?mmber my husband coming in. I saw him there framed in the doorway and knew I was safe. "After .that well, the next thin I remember was the police telling me to be quiet, that I needed rest. "What happened during that interval I do r.ot know." Mrs. Day considered one of the most beautiful women in Oklahoma. . She is a brunette and of striking figure. She speaks with the accent of a southerner. "I love my husband and my baby they hold 3U my love." Mrs. Day concluded h.-r staterr.' nt. The Days have been married Z2 years. Their daughter, Doris, ir. a student at Vie University of Oklahoma, returned to h?r home today, MAY OT BE TRIED "My wife." Day said at the conclusion of the statement, is the dearest, noblest, purest woman on earth. Under the circumstances, could any red-blooded American man do lesi than I did?" It was generally accepted in .-w.-' cial circles that Day would not be tried for the killing. Army officers were open in the; statement th.it they would not demand the arrest and trial of Day under military law. They pointed out that whiie Beck was of the army, he was on civilian ground when killed. "DRY" OFFICIAL IVQl'IZ Much depends on the findings of Prohibition Director Meadows. Meadows has been informed by Coroner McWilliams that when authorities reached th Day home, n the heart of the fashienablc district of the city, they wound "sliced orange and brew bottles" scattered about the room where Beck's body lay. Meadows has ordered all witnesses other than Day and his wife to his office today to prcbe this phase of the affair. At the same time, the cenorer is investigating a report that "four automobile loads of people were 'n the Day home just before tne kni ing. This Day denies.. He named two oil men L .H. Fritchard, T H. Anderson, their wfves, and Major R- B. Paddock of Fort Sill, a relative of Gen. Persh-

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i nunc ui iitiuo STRIKE MEETINGS fe X 3 at 1 51 o Samuel D. Warrinet. Samuel D. Warriter of Philade.'4 phia. president of the Lehigh Coa and Naiation Company is ?d me the anthracite mine owner? who refused to crant the eru.nd of tli miners. m -a SfiMCO T" faTl I U WiOa UUliai . , Shooting In Plant CHICAGO, April 5 With a gun in each hand, a man entered the W. A. Jones Foundry Co. plant this afternoon and shot four men. killing one of them. He wan shot and killed by the superintendent of the plant. The man's name is said to be Falfeldt. The man lie killed was Chester Borgstron, hief clerk of the plant. " . The man rho did the shooting .is said to have been an ex-mnloye. First reports to the police .were that ne sought to revenge for having been discharged. REITER'S DECISION T Appellate Court Reversed In "Postal Cas 3 by the Supreme Court. . Late yesterday afternoon 'the ' supreme court of Indiana reversed' the appellate court and upheld the decision of Judge Reiter'of Hammond in the famous divorce suit' of John Postal vs. Nora Postal. The suit was a peculiar one and Judge Reiter made his decision prac tically without any precedent on which to base it. The Postals lived at BlufCton, Ind. They separated and after a time it was decided that Mr. Postal should gain a residence In another county and obtain a divorce, thus avoiding notoriety in the home town. He came o Gary and lived in a hotel for six months before fll'ng his suit. Later Mrs. Tosta! came to Hammond and filed a cross complaint. Her ipsba.nd disappeared and she obtained the decree on her cross bill. She also was awarded a large sum as alimony. The late Judge Walter Hardy heard this case and hesitated a long time in making his finding as ho was in doubt whe ther he had jurisdiction owing to the question which had been ralstd rrgarding the legal residence of the parties. What precedent he could find upheld him. Several years ago Mr.. Postal : returned with a wierd tale of an accident out west in-which he 'was injured and lost his memory. He claimed that it was, which in this Hinn that th suit hd been

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Judge story. Reiter did not bear out his The iudtre refused to set a,ide the judgment of Judge Hardy. Posul s attorneys appealed to the appellate court. Jast fall the higher court handed down a decision reversing judge Reiter. Attorneys for Mrs. Postal were, dissatisfied and asked the supreme court to take over the case. This was done and yesterday the decision was announced sustaining JuIge Reiter and Judge Hardy as well. The case ir said by lawyers to have been one of the .most difficult from the court's viewpoint ever tried in Hammond's courts. IJGHTS FOR MILLER BEACH At a special meeting of the city council last night, the ordinance, for the extension of water and light i to the Miller-Gary beach was passed. Councilman Gus Strom voted against the ordinance at the regular Monday night meeting when effort! was made to pass it with an emergency clause, making it necessar to call an extra meeting to pass it. Action was also taken on several minor ordinacee.

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JAGGER CASE The worm in the Jagger case turned today. For weeks and weeks Charles and Ella Jagger of Gary have figured as defendants in civil and criminal suits brought in state and federal courts, all resulting from Mrs. Jagger finding J60.000 worth of government bonds in a Chicago taxicat. It has been with difficulty that they have kept a line on all of their court affairs. Their attorney. W. J. Whlnery, of Himmcn!, has been a busy man. Recently th Lamson Company, of Boston, filed suit in the fiMcrat court at Hammond for possession of two of the bonds which are now being held by Attorney Whinery. Mr. Whinery was named as a defendant along with Mr. and Mrs. Jagger. Today Mr. Whinery filed separata answers for each of the defendants. For Mr. Jagger it is merely an answer in general denial as the husband had nothing to do with the finding of the bonds. Mrs. Jagger's answer tells of the finding of the certificates and her efforts at finding the owner which covered a period of two years. At last in March of this year, detectives emplbyed through Attorney Whinery established the Lamson Co. of Boston, as the owners. Negotiations for restoring the bonds to thctr owners were then opened up. Mrs. Jagger offered to return to the company the two bonds still tn her possession, assign to the company her interest in a judgment ot SJ1.C00 against Herman Faber, ot Uary,(, and also her Interest in a suit now pending against Eenjajnm J. Laube, of Gary, providing the company would reimburse her for attorney fees and expenses viich she had incurred in preserving the bonds and finding the owner. She also asked for a proportionate part of the $5,000 reward which the company offered when the bonds with others were stolen. The Herman Faber judgment concerned three bonds which ! aber Is said to have stolen from rrs. Jagger through threats and intimidation. TheLube suit' charges 1 the justice of peace of Gary with stealing one bond and converting the proceeds from its sale to his own use. TI: I Jim son company refused to meet the stipulations required by Mrs. Jagger when she stated that she owed Attorney Whinery 110.000 attorney fees and $1,300 expenses. fhe answer asks tjiat the com-i rariy take nothing on its complaint J and Chen files a counter ciaii against the company for $15,000. Attorney AThinery's answer mere'y relates his activities in the ma-tter and asks that the palntlft be permitted to take nothing a to him. olTfP WATCH YOUR STEP AS YOU PRESS OH GAS A day in the speeder's court. It's a good experience for any motorist provided he's there as observer. He can see himself mirrored in one of the types arraigned before Judge Cleveland. There are many types. The motorcops, Teboda anc fclrlenbaugh, of Hammond police station bring in all sorts. They have not any friends when they pursue a speeder. They know the menace of mad drivers, thoughtless operators who consider the safety of none. Not even themselves. Yesterday Erlenbaugh and Teboda nabbed 15 violators of city and stae traffic laws.' Most of these we.: speeders. Some were taken for failure to carry licenses. Others haC no certificates of title. One nu'oi1st was happy in the thought Mat he was putting over one on the police. This because he'd long gotten away by carrying a truck license on his touring car . The boys got him. Many txpes show their stripe when hailed before the court. Most deny they were exceeding the speed limit. meres ue pieaii.K tne innuenuai opo, "c friends who know the police chief. Or who shook hands with the mayor. j He hints darkly about the cops los ing their jobs ir ne s pincnca. Here are some who were taken yesterday by Teboda and Erlenbaugh: Albert Delehenty, 1037 Columbia avenue; Fred Sass, Highland Far. 111.; Harry Welsaman. South Chrcago; Earl McMillen, 3C54 Commonwealth ave.. Indiana Harbor; Henry lurha.m, 1247 Van Buren st Harry B. Morse, 786 Hohinan st., and almost a dozen others. Hammond motorists are warned that a war of retailiation by Soetn Chicago police has ibeen Instigated because Hammond motor cops insist that . transient - motorists observe local traffic lavs as well as residents here. Watch your step in South Chtcasro. Watch jour step in Hammond". REMOVAL NOTICE Dr. A. J. Warber. Dentist, ha moved his office from 165 State St.

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FAR EAST East Chicago Banker Spent 12 Weeks Studying the Orient. VIEWS GREAT WALL. OF CHI.VA FROM THE SKY When Col. Wait- J. l:lley was a boy he had . Durning desire to see the great wall of China, -built more tran twenty-one cen- . turies ago to keep out the Tartars. But n never dreamed that he would see the great wall while traveling in a ship in the skies. Tet that is what he d.d. From Peking, the Eust Chicagoan traveled by airplane 180 mil inland and as the ship, piloted by Capt. Evans, an English . aviator, sailed through the sky he beheld a great atretch of the historic wall, which extends for 1500 miles across the country. "It was like an Aladd'n fairy tale- Ra'her it was like the story of the magic carpet that transported one through the air. In all my wlidost dreamt I never vlsioned as a boy that I would sail over the great wall of China in an airship. It certainly was a contrast. I in the fast airship and below me the wall built before the coming of Chris;," said the returned traveler. The yellow peril is overrated, according to Col. Walter J. Riley, the East Chicago- banker and manufac turer, who home after a twelveweek tour of the Far East. If the 400.000.000 rople of China and the 78,000. 00 people of Japan, Korea and Formosa were to coalesce then the whites could be driven out of America; but the Sast Chicagoan sees no danger of that. Col. Riley's trip took him to Hawaii, the ..Philippines. Hong Kong, the different governments of Chin.-t. Korea and Japan. " Mst of the time he was a fellow traveler with Mar-;

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the French army d-jring the Hrt part of the war. Te East Chicagoan was not of th! famous soldier's party, but it happened that thier itineraries were almost Identical and brought them together m Japan, China, and across the' Pacific to Canada. HAWAII'S PLIGHT "In Hawaii there are 25.000 natives and 115.000 Japanese. The next generation will be Jap-Ameri-cam. You "an easily guess what a (Continued on page five.) WIFELESS KI1NIAHS JUMP OVER TRACES One hundred and thirty Kiwanians and their wives, including six members who did not bring their wives,, enjoyed a dinner and program last evening in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. ' The Kiwanians who did not bring their- wives are . Roscoe Hemstock. Frank O ROurke, George Wolf, Paul Fetlde.r, James Jacobson and Mike Wagner. They were segregated at a table marked "Wife Deserters." The wifeless Kiwanians were riotous. Having no restrain upon them they made more noise than all the other members together. It was the consensus of the club that hereafter they bring their wives with them and act civilixed on ladies night. . ... , . . , - George Wol? and Frank O'Rourke. two of the wifeless members, sang fceveral duets. Other ' wifeless members Insisted on waiting table, making speeches and "razzing" the master of ceremonies. The evening's entertainment was thoroughly enjoyable. Miss Lola Clark - favored the club with vocal elections, accompanied by "Mrs. Lillian Mikesch at the piano: Howard Cook gave- a violin solp, accompanied by Miss Holier . and la ulon Dermcdy. always a favorite, sang. The club listened to a speech on Canada, it being Canadian week. BOSSE NEVER ACCEPTED SALARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) EVANSVTLLE. Ind.. April 5. Known as the "best mayor Evansvllle ever had," Benjamin H. Bosse. who died yesterday, never retained once cent of his salary as mayor, but turned it over as contributions to swimming , pools, play grounds for children and parks. Ile'opened the first municipal baseball park in the country and his advocacy c-f improved streets and better schools brought about many improvements. JANE ADDAMS, noted settlement worker will speak in Gary "next Monday. She will attend a meeting at the G-ary Neighborhood House given under the auspices of the Calumet Region Settlement House Federation. Wtrkers from "Hammond, West Hammond and Indiana Harbor will attend. - CHARLES M. REED, attorney in the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company' project,, says he is hitting the ball every day to gat the legal end of this gigantic contract completed-

INDIANA WOMAN 1 SLAIN BY KOREANS

'.V- . :1 Mra. William J. Snyder. Mrs. William J. Snyder of Brazil. Ind., ia the Americnn woman s!ain by Korean assassins ia Shanghai China. The assassins ran areuck in a crowd of American tourists after an unsuccessful attempt to kill General Tanaka, former Japanest minister of -rar. Mrs. Snyder'a husband, a prominent coal operator and manufacturer of clay ware, was with ber. James Hays, Detective, Is Arrested James Hays, an .operator of the Peter apier private detective agency of East Chicago, indicted by the Lake county grand jury for perjury in the trial of Peter Kapler, was arrested in Crown Point yesterday afternoon by deputies of Sheriff Olds! ' ; . Jlays is being held in the county jali:at Crown Point under a $8,00e GRAND JURY 5 FINE BILLS rSPEClAL TO THE TIME31 CROWN POINT, IND.. April 5 The errand jury in. the criminal court concluded a two days session on Tuesday, returning five indictments, one against an Italian woman by the name of Marie - Tuzille. of iSast Chicago, who shot and killed her daughter-in-law, Marya Page. Will Jones, of ' East ; Chicago", was also indicted for murder, ' his victim being Jack Ziez,' who was passing on the opposite side of ihe street and was hit by a- stray bullet fired by Jones. Warrants have been issued against tho three persons against whom the indictments were returned, but their names cannot be made public until they' are under arrest. L1 TO GO TO LAFAYETTE Lafayette, today welcomes an en terprising - young mail; - Hism'mand loses one.' He is Arthur F. Ltnsenman, for the past three years paying teller at the Hammond . Trust & Savings Bank. Linsenman last week resigned the career of, banker to enter the produce business with his father-in-law. He says there's more money and a bigger future (n doughnuts than there is in dough, not dollars, ts what lie said. Anyway, Hammond loses a popular and ambitious young man. Together with his wife he lived at H30 Sibley st. He was for seven years connected with the Citizens' Nation&r Bank previous to- enlisting in the army for the period of the late emergency. Lir.senman will enter the grocery business established at Lafayette 35 years ago by his father-in-law, William Hadcrly. - HITS FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD; ESCAPES The arrest of the owner of a Ford bearing Indiana . license number 1E743. will be made some time today, complaint having been made by E. M. Hayes. 444 Jefferson street. Gary,, that the driver itruck his 4j ear-old aon at Fourth avenue and Jefferson street yesterday and failed to stop. According to the police the auto license was issued to Chas. V. Beisler'of Hobart. ' Mr. Haynes stated that he would swear out a warrant" -for Belsler's- arresr-

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INTERN AT CNAL NE5 SERVICE BbliivKum, Calii., April 5 Jack tendon, most materialistic of mate rials, has sent a message back from spirit land, according to Edward iS, Payne, London's life-long friend, a noted scholar. Payne declines to vouch for the genuineness of the messages which h ays were received by him from an Oakland spiritualist who knew Dondon in life. But he declared that the writings were "certainly in the style of Jask London." "Some of them are so marvelous as to cause us to wonder," he said today. Payne refuaed to make public the text of the "psychic writings" or to authorize quotations from them. Their general contents, however, became know thiough their being read by Payne to a gathering of 200 literary persons, many of whom had known London when he lived in Oakland. After hearing the messages, many of these shared Payne's opinion rcgardlnir thlr similarity to Iyondon'a '

"And the Greatest of These Is Charity

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind, April 5. Everybody knows that Lake county has brains and strength, but could you put your finger on its heart? The heart of Lako county is two miles east of the classic county seat. It is knoirn as the county poor farm. It will do you good to visit the county poor farm, just to see the pretty haven your county has provided for the old and indigent people who have found the game of life too strenuous and fortune too fickle. - You will le proud of the county to know that its poor farm is the best In the state. Yesterday the county commissioners ' made their quarterly inspection of the poor farm and a Times reporter accompanied them. After the inspection, .he commissioners com plimented Mr. Charles J. Belshaw, the superintendent, upen the splendid condition in which they found the institution. The Lake county poor farm comprises 318 acres of the best farm land in the county and the buildings and other improvements represent an expenditure of $150,000. The institution has a capacity ot 365 inmates, hut owlnnr to prohibition BI'I.I.ET1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Ayr.l 6 iirs. Louis F. Swift, wife of the president of Swift &. Co., died suddenly in her home in Uako Shore Drive early today. BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON. April n. The employers today agreed to suspend their lockout of the members of the allied engineers. Nearly 600,000 men are affected. (BIIXETISI INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE V AVSAS CITY. Mo.. April 5. Frank H. Cromwell, democrat. elected mayor of Kansas by. i majority of 13,000 was City votes over Mathew Foster, re publican, in yesterday s election, according to the final count announced today. iBl't.I'ETIX INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COPENHAGEN, Apr. I 6. the general lockout of unionized labor throughout Denmark was called off today.. The. lockout began with strike troubles and tied up all branches of Industry. It had been in effect about a month. Bl'Ll.ET1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DAYTON, O., April 5. Executives of the National Cash Register Co. today announced inai of registers were more made In March than at any time since last October. Sales last March also were four times CLUBS TO HAVE JOINT MEETING Have you temperament or Juet temper? Psychologists say some people have seven temperaments. Others have less.They are indications of character. Also guide posts to careers. But ycii can learn all abcut that If you attend the Joint meeting of the 'Chamber of Commerce. Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, Thursday noon. Two hundred men and women are expected. They'll be addressed by Dr. William Windsor. LLD.. Ph. He's from Fittsburgn. For forty years, Dr. Windsor has studied character. He's an expert analyst of human psychology and an easy and fluent speaker. He has just completed a series of lectures at the Hamilton Clul'o. in Chicago. He talked also at the Cook County Rl Estate Board and be

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style. London is presented in the "psyhlc communication" as affirming that the human mind does not die but has a conscious existence in the outer wcrld after the dissolution of the body. . He tells of a gradual return of consciousness after hla earthly death and f the joy he felt on finding himailf in possession of the intellect that was Jack London in the world of flesh. . He describes himself a existing in extensive vaguenesses, and as striving to revivify his powers of literary expression that he might, in his old manner, communicate his new thoughts. Impressions and emotions to his friencia on earth. , TT. rirlarea that in his efforts to start his mind working quickly as of vore. he ytarns for the stimulus of alcoholic liquor. Payne is investigating the claims of the medium through which the messages were received that she re ceived a visit from London's discmbodied spirit there are only 150 at present. Since tho state and nation went dry there has been a gradual reduction In the number of charges upon the count'-', although a noticeable increase in the number of alcoholic insane. However, there are only eight moon shine insane cases at the poor farm now. The greatest benefit from pro hibition has been the decrease in the so-called social diseases. Every inmate has. a comfortable, clean bed in a spacious and well lighted room. There are reading rooms and smoking rooms for the men and sitting rooms for the women. Daily newspapers are euppUed h inmatesi Each man has an al lotment of pipe tobacco. Once a week a moving picture show Is held In the big dining hall. The food is wholesome and the In mates have plenty to eat. Their clothes are well laundered. A nurse Is in attendance daily and a physician calls three times a week. The environment and operation of the poor farm are ideal. The Immaculate condition of the Interior, from the big kitchens to the sleeping dormitories, is reflected on the exterior, where acres of lawn and wplks invite the inmates to spend the long summer days out of doors. greater than in March, 1321. Four hundred and four salesmen were awerded prizes for disposing of their allotments. IBtTLtETlX) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICII BUFFALO. N. Y., April 5. While attempting to sell 370 worth of war savings stamps in a pawn shop, Fred A. Perkins, 61 years old, of Chicago, was arrested here last night. Police say the prisoner admitted he was a member of the gang of four men wanted in connection with the theft of $180,000 worth of war pavings stamps and $170,000 worth of Liberty bonds in Chicago. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE TOKIO, April 6. Japanese troops which have been stationed along the Shantung railway, on the Shantung peninsula In China, are belg withdrawn, it was announced today. In accordance with the agreement reached at Washington, the policing of the railway is being turned over to the Chinese. t BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J LONDON, April o Great Britain has notified all her debtors among the allied powers that she expects an early effort toward payment of the war loans due her, it was learned today. The British givernnient pointed out that she needs the money to pay h;r debt to the United State. fore Chicago Rotartans. "Knowledge of Character and De velopment of Personality." That will be Dr. Windsor's topic at the noon-day luncheon tomorrow. On the platform with Dr. Windsor will be Henry Truman Miner,, of the Sheldon School, through whose ef forts Dr. Windsor was persuaded to come to' Hammond. Morse Dell Plain, of the Northern Indiana Gas : Electric Co., will be another speaker. BANDITS ROB STREET CAR INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! ST. LOUIS. .Mo.. April 4. Four young bandits boarded a street car and robbed Harold Kaemmerer, 1 a messenger for the Water Tower Bank of a satchel containing $5,600 in cash and $1,600 in bonds and cou pons. The bandits escaped in a high powered automobile which they had previously stolen.

Peace Meeting With fers

ignored By Mine Operators so Far BTJZ.XITXir - -nyni o non union coal min -t,.,- .. . . sympathy with the strike. Coal company. Pittsburgh, FrankSLrZ"''' Co.. Co., ---- J OKl Co- re ioaa. Miners said f .. o . ' uvu in sympathy win, i - ""'"u miners. At Bower, the Wm i-i " e ui ana Coke Company haa men at work man ning the water pumps only. Abcm are out in the vicinity of Sutton. Operators permitted strikers to remain in company houses and cultivate their gardens. The miners thereupon agreed tn .n i power to prevent disorders. i ii Deueved all mines in this district will be Close --j - .uo ten or the week. W ASHINGTON, April 6 Congress settled down today to awaJt response from coal operators to congressional overtures for a peace meeting with the striking miners. "vv'hlle the house labor comm tie conducts its inquiry into conditions aided in bringing about the existing tieup, Interest centered in the answer which operators In the central competitive field will make to th4 committ3:a telegraphic Invitation to them for a conference m Washington on April 10. Upon the response depends, according to congressional belief, either quick settlement or continuance of what promises to be a protracted shutdown of coal mines of the country. Even in the face of testimony that the operators will not agree to a basic wage scale, country-wide in scope, Chairman Molan of the house labor committee, is optimistic that the conference invitation will be accepted. There is a faint hope among the committee members that the operators in the Western Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio fields, who so far have remained adamant to pleadings for a conference, will change their attitude, although acceptance by the ofTier operators is expected to have a salutary influence on them. Issuance of the conference invitation will determine whether the operators or miners are responsible for refusal to meet. OFX&A.TO&3 Xir HO KTJJURT INDIANAPOLIS, TNT)., April I While the strike of the nation's coal miners continues without signs of wesfkenlng even gaining strength through the reported spread of the walkout in the West Virginia Fields there was no precipitate rush today on the part of the mine opera tors to take advantage of the con gressional invitation to a joint wage parley with the striking miners. In fact, according to all reports available here, the operators of the great central competitive field, on the surface at least, have failed to warm up to the propoBal of the house la bor committee that they get together with the miners. Despite this apparent arathy on the part of the employers, however, hope was expressed at headquarters of the United Mine Workers that the operators sooner or later will "ccme around." And a sufficient number accept the house committee's invi tation to warrant the execution of a new contract for the big central field, which would form the wage basis for the miners in all the soft coal districts. GIVER 20C FDR FINDING $2810 GOSHEN, Ind., April 5. A stranger, who gave his name as Stephenson, after boarding a Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana traction car here yesterday for Michigan City reported to the conductor, Charles A. Hollinger, that he had lost a pocketbook containing $1,010 in currency, and Jewelry valued at $1,00. The conductor went into the station where he found the wallet and returning, received 20 cents as a reward. The stranger rode to Pouth End, where he left the car a-nd has not been seen since. Authorities here believe that he ' is Sam Wingman, who, with two other persons, is wanted for robbery of a Cincinnati pawnshop where jewelry worth $5,000 was taken. Hollinger, authorises eay, has identified rictures of Wingman as likeness of the man who lost the pocketbock. LAST OF WHITING'S I SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind., April 6. The remslna of George Chlgas, the first Whiting boy to give his life in France duri.ig the late war, have a-rived in New York. The body will arrive in Whiting the latter jiart of this wetk. and a military fu-ieral will be in charge o- the American Legion Post No. 8i This !j the last of Whiting's soldier djad. ' Announcement of f unera.1 serrleea will sppear at a later date

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