Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 336, Hammond, Lake County, 11 April 1922 — Page 1

TARIFF BILL IS REPORTED FA VORABL Y TO SENA TE

THE WEATHER TTnaettled aad colder tonight with rain In north and central portion, probably turninar to snow flurrleat WtdneTday cloudy, colder. LAK nniT'B H 1 VOL. XV. NO.. 336 TUESDAY. APRIL 11, 1922 riAAlMONl). IN DUN A discu JITAT

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FRICTION AT GENOA CONFERENCE

Thirty-Three Nations are Represented at Economic Meet f BCLLETIN Ty (?EOROE R. HOLMES (STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, April 11. The refusal of the Cnited States to participate in the Genoa economic conference has already been practically vindicated by the manner in which the parley has started off petty luarrelir:- with on the part of Trance and Soviet Russia, and near quarrels with other delegations it -vr.s asserted tcc'ay in cfficial administration circles. If the conference could not get by the flrst 'hand-shaking" session w-i'hout animosities coming- to the surface, It Lodes ill for the future vucces cf the conference, one official said, and the United States should congratulate itself for stayingcut. nrM,ETi. By FRANK E. MASON STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE GENOA. April 11. Either tne creation of a new society or nations or expansion of the present League of Nations will grow- out of the International economic conference If the plans of Premier Lloyd George succeed. It was 'learned this afternoon. The French believed that they had persuaded the British statesman to abandon his plans for an organ'zation of powers to g-uarantee the peace o.f Europe for a specified number of year, but U is understood that Lloyd George already has approached other delegates on the subject. Rremler Lloyd George's past of powers was to Include both Russia and Germany on common equality with the other signatories. By FRANK E. MASON -STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE GENOA. Anil 11.- The international economic conference - passed into the committee stage today. Optimism over the results of the meeting had been reduced somewhat by the refusal of the Frencn to discuss limitation of land armaments. Ttie French at Genoa are maintaining the. sajne policy on land disarmament that they held at the Washington conference. ASSUMES OLD ROLE Premier Lloyd George has already assumed the role of peace maker, and it is probable that he will be called to serve in this role more times before the conference comes to an end. A number of informal conferences between the various delegations were held today. The lineup of the various groups might roughly be described as follows: British, Japanese and Italians ara standing together; French. Belgians and Poles standing together; Owrmany and F.ass'a standing together. rd the "Lit'Ie Entente'- Jugo-Slav-!. Czeeha-Slovakia and Rumania occupying a middle course. Thirty-three nations are represented so far. There is no indication that the United States w:i! -hng her decision and en'er the conference. TOAtTE MAT AGREE There are indications that France will agree to the admission of Germany and Russia to the League of Nations in order to prevent the creation of a rivxl pact. The clash between the Soriet delegation and the French was generally regarded today as a defeat for France inasmuch as it forced the French into an open i-tand on the question of disarmament. Minister .-f Justice Barlhou. head of the French delegat'on. told the International News Scrvic- that he considered the incident -losesl. "Th conference Is continuing." said M. Barthou. "T consider that in the future the Russians wui accept the Cannes program in principle and will not hiinsr up issues 'her in omwiittee or plenary ses6on not. included in the Cannes agenda." HOW TIIF.Y I.I MS rr The first ro-nmission charged with po':i'-al a.Y.iirs convened at the r.eale Palace at 10:50 o'clock. At th? ct.lrtsin of the meeting at noon, it was announced that a subcommittee - be known as the rtustiin fimmrion had been formed to w-iik o-.it a program for Russia. The general ommission on political affairs C'l'ists of two representations the convening powers. Tw r?prcsntitivci of Germany and TU'fsia an don delegate oT the various other powers. The subcommittee of eleven members consists of fvo representatives of the convening powers, two representatives cf Germany and Austria, two of the "Lirtls Entente." and two neutrals. f. Barthou was 'conciliatory and slid lot opoose the presence or Russians and Germans on the general committee. George Tciitcherin. head of the Russian dlegatior, made a protest c'.a:m!ng that Russia should have two members on the subcommittee. , TO -VHOM IT CONCERNS Wi". n t be responsible for any debts, unless contracted by myself. H. F. CARROLL, :16:3t Claude st.

evee Breaks at Beardstovvn;

Did You Hear That THIS is the open season for ideas to relieve congestion in the Hohman street district. ON Conkey ave., they say, "'What was that, thunder or just a street car pasting'.'" "WHAT does a woman know about a wet carburetor, Joe Meyer, the advertising shark, arises to ask? IRVING CHATKEX is one cf the score of locals scheduled to see the White Sox open the season tomorrow at' Chicago T WENT T more days in which to campaign, candidates! This is the time for every good man to come to the aid of his party. HAMMOND has a large and growing number of radio fans and many have orders in lor a receiving set which they will have to wait some time for. TICKETS are going fast for the dance and concert which is to be given by Hammond Commandery K. T. at the Masonic Temple, Monday, April 17. GOV. McCRAT, refused clemency today to Charles, Beal, Herbert O'Brien and Martin Votljich, all of Lake county, and all charged with grand larceny. COUNCILMAN George W6tf says they framed on him this noon vhen his name was drawn at the Kiwanis lun;seon as winner of the twenty-live pound iron dumbbell. AMERICAN LEGION meeting ton.'ght. At Superior court building. Hour, 7:30. Smoker. Big business. New members. Plans for summer. All ex.-service men invited. OWNERS of dogs. See that wr hound has had hl3 license paid for before April 15. Otherwise expect punishment for transgression of the law. That from Chief Bunde. A BROWN Pomeranian dog evidently disgusted with the weather, left h,is bed and board today and may be out with some lady friend. The finder Is Importuned to notify phoise 3U0. BODIE, the photographer, has had three of his negatives selected to be exhibited at the annual convention of the National Photographers of Amreica at Kansas City, Mo., this week. EVERT time Albert Griffiths, candidate for J. P., and his campaign manager. Bill Hunter, go to Whit?iig it rains. Bill says the yare showers of good will from North township citizens. ' BOT SCOUT TROOP IS of St. Mary's church has issued a cha?nge to whatever troop wins the contest Thursday evening to meet them next month in a similar one just, to see how strong they are. WOMAN" enters police station. "Where carr I find Sergeant Carlson or Sergeant Warner?" she asks. Sergeant See tells her they're upstairs in court. "Oh, they're in court? Oh. who are they suing?" the woman asks. SUGGESTION FOR HAMMOND: Heinle Tensen. a landscape gardner. got stewed or something in West Hammond. He was pinched and fined and is working it out by fixins up the lawn, shrubbery and flower beds around the police station. THE Kiwanis club broke all records for attendance this noon. William Hodges, Jgwald Moe and about twenty Gary Kiwanians were the guests of the Hammond club at luncheon. It was n enthusiastic meeting. George Wolf and Harvy Fold won the silent obosts. INSUBORDINATION. That is charge against Charles Grecnrrg. 1219 Rnese avenue, Robertsdale. Ve is arrested by police on compliant of Captain C. P. O'Neil, command."" Company F, 113th Engineers, Indiana National Guard. McNeil alleges that Greenberg willfully remained away from two company drills. PRES. R. C. PIERCE and Executive I. K. Scott o fthe Himmond B1y Scouts spent Sunday in Berrien county, Michigan, looking over summer camp site. Camp snots on Smith Lake and Cedar Crest on Lake Chapln near Berrien Springs. T.hey also epect to visit Cadle Lake twar Powagiac this week. Action wtll be taken scon by the executive "on a tamp location. TWO plans have been proposed for solving the problem of widening Hohman street. One man says. "Build an arcade on each side of the street, cutting into the buildings ten feet and as high as the first story. Make the curb come to the present building line." Another man, a colleague of the former says: "Let the city condem the Rlmbach block Pur chase the property, dismantle th building, convert the block into park or square, and thus open Rim bach, Sibley and Morton Court tbusiness establishments. Wio'ec those streets and create a new business district "

ILLINOIS TOWN IS INUNDATED

Kansas Visited by Worst Snow Storm in April's History I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BEARDSTOWN, ILL., April 1 Weakened by the pressure of the highest waters in the Illinois river's history, the levee here broke shortly before noon today and 26 square blocks of the city were inundated Approximately 400 people were made homeless. No loss of life has bo far been reported. The damage to property eailsed by the torrent of water which rusE ed in when the protecting wall gave away will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Scores of homes were filled with water in a few minutes. The break of the wall had been expected and people living In the district of the levee had already moved out under orders of city military authorities. The situation is well in hand with the refugees housed in tents. DAM OZTXS AW AT TOWER, MICH., April 11 Failing to withstand the enormous pressule of the flooded reaches of the upper Black river, the dam of the Onaway Light and Power company here broke today causing a loss cf $60,000, sweeping away the company's pumpling houses, car houses and other buildings aoid leaving Tower Village and the city of Onaway without light and power. Several men attempting to repair opening breaks in the dam fled for their lives wen the structure gave way. TRAINS SEUOBALUIO SMITH CENTER, KAN'S., April 11 Western Kansas was battling against the worst April snow storm in history today. Railroad snowplows were bucking against snow drifts six to 12 feet deep between here and the Colorado line. No trains east bound from Denver have yet been able to plow through the storm. TTTB FLOODS IN 5 WTII3 INDIANAPOLIS, I N D. , April 11 Flooded for the fifth time in five weeks, Indiana streams were on a rampage again today as a result of excessive rainfall, but it was not believed a danger stage would be reached by the high water. White River is near the flood stage following heavy rains laat night and early today, but ia not expected to become dangerously high unless further rain falls. Streets were filled and basements flooded in Indianapolis by the latest downpour. Five and one-half inches of rain had fallen here since March 3rd. Near Columbus, Ind.. Horton Henry Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gatten and Mrs Edward Gatten narrowly escaped drowning when the automobile rr.ey were driving went over an inundated road, plunged into a flooded ditch. WZZ.X. B.TJXN OAT CHOP MUNCIE. IND., April 11 Unless thu weather clears immediately, farmers of Delaware county declare that all thoughts of putting out an oats crop this year will have to be abandoned. Fields in this vicinity have been flooded for the last, two weeks and farmers are already two weeks behind their usual schedule of spring planting, the delay being the most serious experienced here in several years. KNOW SAGES UT WISCONSIN WAUSAU, WIS.. April 11 Will six Inches of snow, which had fallen since 8 o'clock this mornin. covering the ground, and the Wisconsin river above flood tsagc, one of the wor6t snowstorms of the seaioti was still raging at noon today. With the receding of the storm it is expected the snow will melt rapidly, owing to the high temperature, and it is feared that the worst floods of many years will result. Telephone and telegraph communication " badly demoralized. TRAGEDY REVEALED NEW TORK, April 11. Slashed to death by an unknown assailant the nude body of Miss Helen Tracy. 0 years old, was found lying face downward in the ground floor hallway of a tenement house In Catherine street today. A crimson trail leading out Into the street showed that the body had been dragged into the house from the outside. The woman's clothing, consisting of a cheap checker gingham dress, a V.ack underskirt and a pair of black hoes. lay piled on the floor a few eet from the body. The victim's body was found by odgers, occupants of the bJilding were questioned by detectives but none could recall ever having seen the murdered woman.

SHOCKING NEW YORK

ARCADE

INTEREST When a ms rchant' trims his store windows, to which class of traffic in he directing the most of his appeal, pedestrians on th sidewalk or motorists in the street? This question has arisen since the arcade front plan was brought up as a suggestion for solving the problem of gldcning Hohman sreet through the business district ot Hammond. " The plan has met with a varied reception. Many are plainly undecided. Others have shown themselves heartily in favor of it. wl.'le still others have expressed tn.rmselves as just as heartily opposed. Those opposed' say that setting the store windows ten feet back from the building front and using the vacated space fur a sheltered sidewalk would deaden the windows so that the displays would ti'M attract people passing in automobiles. They say that the pillars would obstruct the view and that on cloudy days the arcade walks would be gloomy. The pro-arcade enthusiasts hold that merchmts in tiimming windows are counting more on holding the pedestrian than the motorist. "Drive down Hohman st. any day." said one "pro" man. ' "With the automobilea lined up along the curbs and the aw-nings hanging down to within Ave and one-half to six feet from the sidewalks, homuch of a view do you get of thstore windows? You've got to he on the sidewalk to get the benefit of them. You can't see anything from the other side of the street." Another one who had'just sized up the building fronts on the street showed that the arcade would have an overhead clearance of ten feet, which would leave the entire windows exposed with the exception of such obstruction as would result from the fiillafs. O? course, if a system of arches w as w orked out between the pillars, he said, there would be a corresponding cutting down of the exposure. He disposed of the gloomy argument by .referring to the lighting system which had been suggested ir the original proposal. In the meantime, several of the property owners already have architects working on estimates of cost of setting the fronts on the west side of the street b-iek twenty feet as provided in the proposal of the Board of Works. It is believed that these estimates will all be so safely hlgh that the east side frontage owners will he "knocked cold." The prediction is being freely made that when the estimates are submitted to the hoard the proposition of widening the street will be a thing of the past. GETS THIRD PLACE Harold Austgen Wins Place in District High School Discussion. Harold Austeen. Hammond high student, representing Lake county, was awarded third place In the Tenth Concessional District high school discussion league held at Ref sselaer. First place, with the honor of representing the district at the state meeting at Bloomington. April 21. went to Ewart Mercla. senior in the Rens.oelaer hlg(! school. Six of the eight counties In the district were represented, Paul Sidwell and J. H. McKee. of the English department. Purdue University, and Father Maurice, of St. Joseph college were the judges. Mercia was given first honors by one Judge and second place by the two others. Austgen was awarded a second, third and fourth place.. Ii?S total points were nine giving him third place. The subject for discussion, was, "A Comprehensive Program for the Solution of the Immigration Problem." Ice Prices Lowered AT KVAN9VIM.fi EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 11. A reduction of 10 cents on 100 pounds has been announced by ice manufacturers and distributors in Evansville. The price to housewives delivered is 40 cents a 100, as compared to 50 cents last year. The price to business houp.es this summer will be 35 cents a 100 as compared to 43 cents last y?ar. LOWER AT ADE3lSO ANDERSON. Ind,. April 11 Be cause of disagreement among members of a l.-cal Ice selling agency vvhl.-h had included three ice factories here, i no t f tha ice manufacturers is announrlnj he will retai' ice at 40 cents a hundred pounds while the selling agency, including two companies, is pricing ice at 5' cents against SO to 71 cents a hundred charged last year.

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HAMMOND BOY

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Foot OKLAHOMA BEAUTY DESCRIBES DEATH OF AKMY OFFICEK s V 1 'rf t"V a .- V?,.' Ifi..' i W J"1 i-V' Mrs. Jean P. Day. The honor of Mrs. Jean P. Day hansrs in tr j balance ad the in-:sti-Eations proceed into the death of ieut. Paul W. Be , shot by tier husband, Jean P. Day, former Oklahoma supreme court iustice. Day and Mrs. Day charge tne officer wag hot after attacking her. Prosecutor forest Hushes doubts this 6taement FarmarsGloomyat Prospects for Continued Rain During Month . BtTLLXTTN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, April 11 Rain soaked Chicago .began the labork-js task of getting its head above water shortly before noon today when a 30 hour downpour came to an endLarge areas were under water. Basement.-? were flooded, suburban trains were inundated. The average rainfall for the last twenty-four hours ending at 7 a m. this morning was 2.53. which hid been exceeded in recent years but once, December 16, last year. The Calumet river was out of its banks at some rlaces and the Des Plalnes river was a raging torrent. The Little Calumet river, ordinarily a sluggish stream thirty to fifty feet across, has become as w tde as the Mississippi. while three creeks at the south end of the county are now navigable rivers j The Little Calumet river is' a mile I w ide south of Hessvllle. The incessant rains of the past j month, coming to a climax yer.ter- ' day afternoon and evening with a j three inch downpour, have inun dated thousands of acres of farm land in northern Indiana, and while farmers say that no damage has been done to date they are worried by the w eather prediction of continued rains. Another week of rain would set the farmers- back in their spring planting. they say. and two or three weeks more of rain would do extensive damage. The land now flooded by the Little Calumet river, the Kankakee and the creeks should drain off by the first of May. Farmers living on unimproved roads were practically marooned today. The dirt roads are impassable. The Beaver Dam road into Crown Point has had from two to three feet of water n it for the past t'fee weeks. Yesterday's storm did a great deal of damage in'Hammond. Basements were flooded throughout the city. As usual the Hohman street emergency sewer pump was not in operation. , There has hen little else but rain for a month Hid Indications are that it w ill , be a wet and cold spring. The storm yesterday began with a terrific downpour at 3 o'clock fn1 the afternoon which continued almost without abatement until late in the evening. It continued to rain throughout the night and today. A Times reporter talked to farmers at Highland. Crown Point and Lowell. Each farmer said that while there had been no damage to date he did net feel very much encouraged by .the prospect of a wet and cold spring. NOTICE Comrade Woods' wife will be burled from Emmerling's Chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. 11 members of the - Woman's Relief Corps ire requested to be present. Mrs. Millie Davis. secretary.

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CALUMET RIVER NEAR MILE WIDE

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U. S. DENIES t INTERNATIONAL NE.VS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 11 Attorney General Daugherty's net move In his investigation into the possibility of bringing an end to the National coal strike, through action of the Washington administration was being watched for with extreme Interest today. Having admitted that investigation into pending anti-trust act indictments against more than 200 miners' officials and coal operators comprised a large part of his business in Indianapolis it was believed that his visit, of successful, would result in dismis.-al of these indictments. The Attorney General, let it be known, however, that he is not certain that dismissal of the w holesale conspiracy charges would be ad

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(BULLETLN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. April II Financiers and traders in Wall Street today declared to the International News' Service that the rising stock market, which has almost doubled the activity in the "Street," can mean but one thing that a business revival of great dimensions is approaching. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! DETROIT. April 11. Northern Michigan counties were faced today by the worst flood disaster in many years, as rivers and creeks, swelled by the fast melting snows and the heavy rains of the last 48 hours, overspread their banks, inundated thousands of acres of property, and swept away trees, fences and buildings. One man is dead and a score have had narrow escapes. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 LONDON. April 11. The evacuation of British troops from Ireland is continuing, despite the increased disorders and the threat of civil war between the Irish Free State troops and the mutinous faction of the Irish republican army. (BULLETIN) 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. April 11. Three persons were injured in a fire which today swept through the three story tenement house at 14 Garden st.. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Ail had jumped from windows. The injured were Rubin Lilling, Mrs. Sarah Sacks and Miss Martha Sacks. Policemen carried about a dozen persons down the fire escapes in safety. " TRAFFIC COPS FOR THE CITY "Tweet: TW-EE-EET1" What's that? It's the whistle of lUniniind'd flrst whistling traffic cop. You'll hear him Saturday. He'll be at Hohman and Sibley streets. Chief Bunde this morning announced that beginning Saturday traffic at that busy intersection w ill be .directed by the whistle method. Officer Michaels will introduce Hammond motorists to the thrill of the "stop-go" siren. One blast will start north and south bound traffic. Two blasts, east and west bound traffic. Instead of the old fog-horn signal for summoning patrolmen " the alarm at State and Hohman streets has been supplanted by a bell. This is operated (like the horns at other corners) from the central police station. But the bell is weak. Very weak. It's easy on pedestrains who chance to be nearby when it signals for a policeman. Much easier than the fog horn. That nerve racking summons t-ounded suddenly on innocent cars has all the horror of an inner harbor warning in an impenetrable fog. But the bell isn't strong enough to be heard far. So Chief Bunde will not replace fog horns 'at other corners. He's going to return to the manufacturer the bells already purchased. j

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m visable or practical at this time. He made it clear that the government is "not taking sides" in t he mine strike.' Daugherty stated that he would return to Washington today, but that he would again confer wiih Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States District Court, with whom he had a two hour conference late yesterday regarding existing anti-trust cas", before his departure. He staled he would not cail upon John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers before going, but if Mr. Lewis cared to call upon him he would be glad to receive him Both Lewis and the Attorney Gener al said no appointment had been made, but Mr. Daugherty said he would be "glad to chat" with the union chief. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON. April 11. Two hundred persons have perished in a flood of the Dvina river at Dvinsk said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Riga today. The flood was caused by the sudden release of an ice jam. Dvinsk is on the border of Latvia. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. April 11. Two men are dead, nine were reported dying and two others were suffering from serious burns foday following the explosion of. a pyrotechnic dump at Camp Buliis. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICTT KANSAS CITY Mo., April 11. Four deaths were reported today in the wake of storms which swept Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Rivers and streams continued bankfull and lowlands were still inundated, 'but further flood danger was not expected. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! BEARDSTOWN. 111.. April 11. Armed guards today were patrolling the levee surrounding the South Beardstown drainage district where threats were made of cutting the breakwaters at that point to relieve the strain on the city levee. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 11. udge A. B. Anderson of the federal court has approved the purchase by the state from the old Lafayette Street Railway Company of 18 acres of land on Tecumseh trail near Lafayette to be joined with the State Soldiers' Home for a State Park. HERE ARE SOME Let's see. Where did we leave the Jaggers of Gary th last time we had a story about .them and the $60,000 worth of trouble in the shape of bonds which Mrs. Jaggers claims to hav found in a taxicab? Oh yes. The Lam-n Co,, of Boston, had filed in injunction suit in the superior court of Hammond preventing Mrs. Jagger fiom disposing of the bonds in her possession and from assigning or transferring her interest in a judgment against Harman Faber and a suit pending against Benjtmin Laube. Well, today it was the federal court's turn again. The Lamson ('o. re-ites ail of the old facts and include.' as defendants, Mrs. Ella Jagger. Herman Faber. Benjamin Laube and the First National Bank of Gary. The complaint is in throe paragraphs. The first asks $40,000 Judgment for the three bonds which Faber took and disposed of for $31,000. The second asks for $20,000 judgment for the bond which Laube deposited w ith the First National bank as collateral security for his prior Indebtedness. The third paragraph asks $:'0.PO'1 judgment as" to the hank for converting ihe Ijiuble bond to its own uses when it should have known that he was insolvent and could not lawfully be 1n possession of a $10,0(i0 bond. The complaint was filed by Attorneys Ibach, Gavit. Stinson & Gavit.

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OLD FRIENDS AGAIN raid HOME

High Protective Duties Established on Farm Products

' BT J. BART CAM PBELL) STAFK CCRPESON0ENT !. N. SERVICE) WASHINGTON. April 11. After many mon'hs of delay, the so-called permanent tariff bill, radically different in many important respects from the form in which it was passed by the House last year and revolutionary in some of its new administrative and other vital pro-visions, was finally reported favorably to the senate today by the republican majority in control of the senate firance committee. NKW Ttll.HTS OF PRKMDET For the first time in the long, eventful history of tariff making and unmaking, the president would be vested by the bill w ith sweeping discretionary power to change and fix rates on imported articles and to even bar completely foreign products from this country whenever he deemed trade conditions warranted sjch action on his part. .Another entirely new departure in tariff legislation made by the bill is the establishment of high "protective'' duties on agricultural products which have heretofore been invariably placed on the free list in both 'republican and democratic tariff measures. FARMER'S niCH BKNEF1TS While the farming and live stock interests of the west and south are expected to derive rich benefits from the bill, the manufacturing interests, particularly of the East, find themselves in the unprecedented position of being deprived of their customary share of compensatory duties because of the impracticability, the bills authors contend, of their being given rates on manufactured good proportionate tu those imposed upon raw materials upon w-hioh they have heretofore had to pay no duty. It Is belieived however, that despite the pronounced dissatisfaction with which the manufacturing and importing interests may regard ths new tariff system proposed, that the "agricultural tariff block" an offshoot of the original "agricultural bloc," will force the, passage of the bill eventually in much the same form in which it left the hands of the Republican senators who dominate the senate finance committee. fl.TIMATE C'OXSL'MER sdl'EEZED The "ultimate consumer" is the one who is certain to fel the real "pinch" of the measure. It Is estimated that while the bill . will raise approximately between $200,000.000 and $300.CP0,O00 in revenue, that it will boost the already high cost of living about $2,000,009 or $3. 000.000,000. if not more. Almost everything that the average man or woman eats or wears, nearly necessity of life, has Imposed upon it by the bill a tariff which is expected to materially increathe domestic article w hile pro-, M ing it with ample "protection" Iron its foreign equivalent. C.EAERAI, EFFECT BEXEFICIAI While conceding that the hi; would cause living costs to soar in some instances to even world-war levels, administration officials contend that the general effect of th proposed "tariff wall"' would be beneficial to the country as a whole and would restore prosperity and maintain production and wages at such a high standard as to Justlfy whatever high prices might ensue. The democrats are planning to make political capital out of this as well as other features of the bill but the administration leaders profess confidence in their ability to master ample votes to force it through both the Senate and the House. Guesses vary In congress as to how long it will take to enact the bill finally into law. There is i growing feeling that it may prove impossible or impracticable to enact ft until after the November elections. A row between republican leaders of the senate and house o 'er the system of valuations to be employed as a basis for the bill is regarded as inevitable. AFTERFUNERAL Whiting Man Asserted to Have Been Making Whisky for 4 Years. 1 SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. IND., April 11 For four vears, it is believed. John Macielwicz, 635 Fred st.. Whiting, has been making moonshine whlske?. So busy has he been kept by the string of customers he has worked up that even a funeral in the family was not permitted to interrupt still operations to any great extent. Testerday, within a few hours after he had buried his two-year-old daughter, Macielwlcz was arrested at his home. The still was in operation. Chief George Weeks and Agents Harvey Rhed and Aea "Elliott of the Hammond federal prohibition office made the raid yesterday afternoon. They found the twenty-gallon still, four gallons of moonshine, and 439 gallons of rye and sugar mash. Macien leu was booked in Hair mond poice court under $1,000 bond. HOUSTON. Texas, April 1 . James Hughes was killed and John Roberts and James Harrison injured when a truck and a wagon plunged through a bridge at Sabine street. Tho bridge gave way under the weight of the heavv truck. All three men were city emf'.oyes.