Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 332, Hammond, Lake County, 6 April 1922 — Page 6

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MAJIKET CLOSE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KBW TORK. April . xao stock market eloaed. lrregular today. Many of the Usuea that had been, atrong during- the forenoon reacting- from 1 to 2 pelnta. while other made new high. Mexican Petroleum waa a. late feature. aJhwincIng -to ' 129 V B. K. T. waa In demand, showing a rl cf over 2 points at 30 H. U. 8. Steel reacted 1 point to 97 ' and Studebaker yielded nearly one point ; tot 1HH. Reading: moved up 14 tto 77. and New Tor kOntario and "Weatern waa JH higher at 30. Government bonds unchanged; railway and other bonds ateady. Total pales of bonds today 117,- ' J7.00, A nvw tojik stocks close . Allis Chalmers 47 American Car and Foundry. . . . 153' , American Steel Foundry 37 4 , Baldwin Locomotlve 115', f Bethlehem Steel B 76 M 4 Chesapeake and Ohio 64 U ' Chicago and Northwestern .... 71 . Colorado Kuel 31 , Corn Products 105 Crucible Steel 60tfr ' General Motors 13'4 Lackawanna Steel bl 1 Lehigh Valley 61, Mexican Petroleum :l29x Mldvaia Steel i 3 4 Northern Paclfls 75H Pura Oil 31 H ' Pressed Steel Car 76 Railway Steel Springs 99,4 Reading 77 14 4 Republic Iron an dSteel 84 4 Studebaker 118H ' Texas Co 45 1 V. S. Steel 974 I Westlnghous , 62 "Winy Overland 8Ti giaelaJr Oil 26 LIBERTY BONDS KSTW YORK, April . Closing j Liberty bonis: 34s 9.28; 1st 4s 1 9.04; 2nd 4s IS8 I6; 1st 44s 199 68; 2nd 44s l9 14; Srd 44s $99.52; 4th 1 44a 90; Victory 34s I100.0S; 1 Victory 4 1100.90. GRAIN CXOSK CHICAGO,. April Wheat prices clepsd strong to lc higher today, the I market flrmtng up at the finish on good general demand. May delivery displayed a tendency to sag aaveral J times during the session. Corn fin- ' lined 4c above the opening. Ots ; closed 4 4c higher. Provisions j closed Inactive. ' CHICAGO CASH GRAIN ' WHEAT No. 2 mixed $1,234. 4 CORN No. 2 mixed 664o7c; No. 4 5 white 67 4 38c; No. 2 yellow 57 574c; No. 3 mixed 53blc; No. 3 white S64c; No. 3 yellow s&4 564e; No. 4 mixed 54c; No. 4 white I 534954c; No. 4 yellow 54&544C. i OATS No. 2 white 364S384-; ' No, 3 white :54?37e; No. 4 white S4 4Q3CC. j CHICAGO PBODVCE BUTTER Receipt 4.609 tub.

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Creamery extra 334 6 34c; standard 834c; firsts 31 33c; packing stock 17 618c. BOGS Receipts 21,265 casss. Miscellaneous 22423c; ordinary firsts 21422c; flrsls 234234c LIVE POULTRY Turkeys 30c; chickens 28c; springs 30c; roosters 20c; geese 18c; ducks 30c. t POTATOES Receipts 71 cars. Wisconsin round $1.50(8' 1.60; Idaho russets $1.85 2.00; Colorado brown beauties $1.70. VEAL 50 to 60 lbs 78c; 70 to' 80 lbs. 8g9o; 90 to 110 lbs. 9llc; fancy llSJlc. CHICAGO LIVK STOCK HOG3 Kecelpts 22.000. Market fairly active, steady to 10c higher, mostly 6c higher. Bulk $10.20' 10.70; top $10.80; heavyweight $10.15 10.50; medium weight $10, 40 10.75; pigs $9.5010.60. CATTLE Receipts 11,000. Market slow, generally steady. Reef steers, choice and price $8.731?9.40, medium and good $3.459.73, good and choice JS.lo'q 9,35. common and medium $6. 608.15: butcher cattle, heifers $3.35 f 8 25, cows $ 1.50if 7.35. bulls $4.10'? 6.23. SHEEP Receipts 1.000. Market slow, biff 23c lower. Lambs. 8 4 lbs. down. $14.00?16.75; lambs, 85 lbs. up. $13.23 16.00: labnis, culls anJ common, $1 o.50iff l?.7;j ; yearling: wethers $11.75 f 14.50. EAST BIFTALO LIVE STOCK CATTLE -- receipts 50. Market slow. Shipping- steers $8.258.60; butcher grades $7,255? 8.50: heifers $5.25i ".75; cows $2.25 W 6.00: bulls $3.50S5.75; fetders J 5.00 rj 6.00 ; milk cows and stringers I-5'SIIO. CALVES- Receipts 300. Mar'rfflS active. Cull to choice $3 "It. SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 1.200. Market active. Market $16 16.50. Choice lambs $8.5015.75; chull to fair $S'T15; yearlings $3' 12. HOGS Receipts 1.600. Market active. Yorkers $11.405 11.50: pips $11.40; mixed $11.25; heavy JlO.SOW 11; roughs $?(fi9.50; s-tags $5lff5.25. EAST ST. I.OVIS LIVE STOCK CATTLE Receipts 2.000. Market steady to strong. Native beef steers $8.00(89.00; jcarling rtecrs and heifers $3.25 Jj 9-00; cows $3.75 & 6-2o ; stcckors and feeders 16 25 7.35; calves $3.755f 9.25 ; earners and cutters $2.S53 .85. HOGS Receipts 8.00?, Market steady to weak. Mixed and butchers $10,55 10.65; good heavies $10 25 10.50; roughs $8.75'g9.O0; lights $10.55(510.65; pigs $9.00 10.40; bulk HO-BOiS1 10.60. SHEEP" Ileceip' 600. Market steady. Mutton ewes $S,00 9.50; lambs $?. 00 15.75; canners and choppers $2.00g 5.00. MOl X tTTY LIVE STOCK HOGS L'eceipts fi.000. Steady. Ran ;e $9,00110.10; bulk $3.30 10. CATTLE Receipts 1.210, .Strong. Short feds $6.25'"a" S.23 ; fed butchers $4.50W7.25: Mocker steers and year1

Oes Lac a ofF.c.als. front row. left T. M. Kilbe-t and Mrs. G. J. Varnes. justice of Je pece; Berry, assessor. Oes Laca, M. D.. it the 3rst town in the country to go in strong for petticoat government 100 oer cent of it. In tbe recent election the entire womxu's lings $5.50 7.25; feeders $3.50 6.50; feeding cows and heifers $3.50 (g 5.50. Si HELP None. SOI Til OMAHA LIVE STOCK OATTLK "Receipts 3.100, F.eef steers slo. heavy grades 10 15c lower, othors about steady; she stock and other tlasses mostly steady. HOGS "Receipt 7.000. Strong to 10c higher; closing easier. P.ulk $8.75S 10.00; top $10.15. SHEEP Receipts 4.000. Ijimbg steady to 25c lower; best spring lambs $17.50; sheep and feeders steady; shearing cw.s lambs $14.!H. TOLEDO SEED CLOVER Ossh $14. 40; April $13,35; Oct. $11.40. AI.SIKK Cash $11.50. TIMOTHY" fash $2.95; May $3.00; Sept. $3.30: C. t. $3.23. CLOSE STARCK STORE TODAY The r. A. Starck Tiano store of Gary was closed today out of respect to P. A. Starck one of the coun try's first and best known Piano manufacturers who died suddenly last Friday. He was driving an auto ccupied (by his daughter whin his death occured. The funeral ;vas held at the rrsi dence at 6100 Sheridan Road in Chicago this afternoon. J. H. Sullivan, manager of the Gary store, was one of the many who attended the ceremonies.

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ticket was swept into office much to the discomfiture of the clique which had become chronic officeholders. The itea of woman's ticket originated at a social Cath GET INTO Two Gary firemen were fined in Hammond city court this mornim; on charges of intoxication and driving while drunn. P.. J. Droney received the heavier fine. He got $35 for driving while drunk. John Mitchell, only intoxicated, fot $11. The two ire said to have careensd east In Fayette st. in Proney'f Buick and fo have crashed into an automobile owned by George Gelt. liar, rison St., which was parked on tus south side of th estre t. Geitz" wit'e warn in the car at the time of tNs accident. She was sightly injurei. ( The firemen were arrested by Ham-j mond police immediately after th.; accident. Police ray Droncy "was very drunk." Herman Holtz. Fred Schreiber and Martin Kreiger witnessed the accident. WHITINGJHOLDUP SPECIAL TO THE T!V!:S) WHITING, Ind., April 6. Andrew Utazecz. who has a grocery ston; at White Oak avenue and 125th St., Whiting, was held up and robbed o!' SC, at S o'clock last evening. Mr. Litaasecz was preparing to elc-e the

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?7 - erine of the ladies tendar- hefore election. Tt?n day. electioneering was sufficient, according to the returns. The mer were defeated decisively. store when a stranger entered. Pretending he wished fo make a purchase, he enticed Litazect near him and suddenly drew apistol. The grocer was forced, back against t lie wall while the bandit rifled the ca3h drawer. The robber then ran o'H the front door anil disappeared among the box cats on the B. t: O. tracks. Police were unable to find any trace of him. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 NEW YORK, April 6. A third girl. Polly Lorraine, former actress, today claimed ay her husiband, Joseph T'onald Grafton, son of a Tittsburg furniture .manufacturer, whose alleged bigamy is being investigated by the grand jury. The two other claimants for Grafton's affections are Teggy Davis. 17-year-old "Follies"' girl and Ellen OurleyMcIntyre. of "Yovingstown. O-, Who c'sim ho married them last November and December, the ceremonies being separated by only a seventeen day interval. 'Don took me to Pittsburg, where we resided for five months.' said Mi?s Txrrainc, who claims she is wife No. 1, because he took out a

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PEARL ASKS (OIRT to ijlxide; IT (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CORNING, Ark., April 6 The crucial question or whether a school jjirl may rouire her lips, powder her nose and wear silk hose, short skirts and gauzy waists will receive judicial conridcration here today. Pearl Ppgsley. 18 year old Knob, Ark , rchool girl, is suing for a writ of mandamus compellng the sciiool board of her home town to set aide their rules prohibiting girl students from assuming "'these outward garments of the flaoper. The case fisun been lending for months and the girl students of the st.ite are waiting with baled breath judicial definition ff thei rights in the matter of dross.

license to marry me in this city on Feb. 1. 1921. but told me a ceremonial marriage was not necessary." "Ho inlroduced me to his father and 'brother as his wife. He even lntroduct , me to A. A. Shepherd, who lived with us as a boarder, as Mrs. Grafton. I am surprised to lea:n that Shepherd was a witness to his marriage to Peggy Duvis." Bigarny complaints against Graftonwere laid before the grand jury by Miss MMntyre, really wife No. 2 and by Mrs. Capitola Ijaird, mother of Peggy Davis, the third girl Graftoivis alleged to have married. FINED $130 FOR L. L. VIOLATION .fidge Dunn yesterday found Jno. 'Madajczzk, 1633 Maryland street, guilty of violating the state liquor law. He was fined $130. When the police raided the defend ant's home they found 140 gallons of mash and a still. John appealed the case. March Shows Decrease In Births and Deaths The birtli pheet i'i the office of the city health officer shows that only US children were burn, while February increased Gary's population by 110. According to th report, ther"J were 57 deaths in the month of March. In February, the death total was 76. WOMAN FINED WHEN WHISKEY IS FOUND Because several bottles of whisky were found in her home Stella Dobroinsku. 173S Pennsylvania street, was fined $130 in police court yesterday. Detective Sergeants Potts and Mather and plainclothes tnfcn Buck and Windmuller made the arrest. Steila pleaded guilty. OLD MAN STORK IS 4 G OLDBRICKING" Mr. Stork evidently had a dose of spring fever during the month of March, according to the monthly report of city health officer "White today, as he only brought IS new babies as against 140 babies left in Gary during the month of Febrtiary. According to one of the ex-service .men. Mr. Ktork Is "goldbricking. jCars Washed and Polished complete line of parts.

U. S. OVERPAYS TOTUNE OF 45 MILLION

I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE "WASHINGTON. April 6. An audit of wartime contracts has shown that' the government overpaid army contractors $45,681,000, it was revealed by Brig. General H, M. Lord, chief of army finance, before tne senate army apropriations committee. General Iord declared the audit was not yet completed and that many millions in discrepancies might be. shown. Of the amo-unt owed the government, Lord yaid, $16,000,000 was now tn process of collection, while $1.SOft.000 had been paid back on older claims. GARY NEWS ARREST ALLEGED CAR THIEF New York Central Railroad Detectives J. D. Little and R. H. Thompson last night arrested George Kuchlnich, 27 years old, of Clark Falls. Wis., while in the act of breaking Home car seals at Pine Station, west of Gary. He was booked and held at. the Gary police station. RAID KOSTER HOTEL. Upon Information received by the police, the moral squad of the Gary department swooped down upon the Koster Hotel, late yesterday afternoon, arresting seven men who were participating in a card game. Thoe booked as owners of the place are William Poppas a.id X. Giardina. P. R. SMITH IS AWARDED CONTRACT The contract for the work to he done on the Grand Beach Hotel, Grand Beach, Michigan, has been awarded to T. R. Smith, al Gary contractor. The contract is for all the plastering and stuccoing to be done on the building which Is now under construction. Approximately $28,000 was Mr. Smith's bid. Rowley Brothers, of Chicago, are about fifty lathers and laborers employed, Mr. Smith will begin work, on the 10th of this month. BANQUET CAST SATURDAY NIGHT The cast of the Elk's Minstrels and those that assisted in making the show such a success will be barojueted by the Elks lodge at Rothschild's restaurant in Gary Saturday night. Following the dinner, there will be an informal dance at the Club rooms for the dinner group Elks and friends.

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SNEAK THIEVES STEAL TREES The party who has been digging up trees between Madison street and Grant street on Twenty-first avenue in going to get himself into a peck of trouble if Tark Supt. Ed. Kirsch or the rA-'lie learns hi Identity. N(t. content with digging up a few and stealing them, the sneak thief has been taking only the choicest trees and after filgging them up has left a number lying on the ground whicn were not suitable.

RODGERS RECOVERS HIS STOLEN AUTO Officer William Rogers of the Gary police department who waa rec.entiy appointed, motorcycle patrolman, breaks into print again today, latt night having recovered a stolen Ford belonging to A. H. Ltetz, 717 Connecticut st. and stolen from 10th ave. and Broadway. Officers Rodgers found the. stolen car a block away from the scene of the theft at 9th and Broadway. SECOND OFFENSE NETS $230.00 FINE Afier taking into consideration" the fact that Harry tfchvimmer appeared on "a charge of violating the state Ji'juor law onco before, Judce Dunn yesterday gave Harry 60 daya on the state penal farm and finsd him $230.00. Detective Sergeant Mater and Plainclothe-rnan W"ytow made th.; arrest. Several gallons of whiskey and two stills were found at the home of S.?hvimmer. who live sat 657 "W. .3rd.;.ve. YVnen Schvlmmr was brought into court several months ago rn the same charge, h" wa found not guilty. AUTO UPSETS IN FLOOD WATERS Four Gary yours men and women, two girls Mildred Mevata and Retla Hennessey and Joe Holbrock and John Mack received painful Injuries and narrow escapes from death nearBlack Oak Tuesday night of this week when their machine turned over in the water filled ditch. According to details of the accident, their escape fronv more serious Injury was nothing short of miraculous. Both girls were taken to th hospital. Miss Mevata, receiving a broken arm. Gary police were active yesterday and last night taking 24 people into custody during the day. Considering conditions this winter 1t was exceptionally quiet In police circles, but with the appearance of spring there is an evidence of h revival cf crime. The great mansions that dot central Eurpoe, th former homes of departed royalty and nobility, are presenting something cf a. problem. There Is no money to e spared for keeping thes historic souvenirs, or for turning them Into museums and art galleriea as France and England have done lit some cases. It seems likely that they may be used as quarries from which the peasant may die atones to construct his humble cottage. Scientific American.

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