Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 350, Hammond, Lake County, 27 April 1922 — Page 1

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CONVEYANCE New Evidence of Senator News' Activity in Behalf of Lake County Further evidences of Senator .Harry S. New's -work to advance prosperity In the Calumet region were shown today when the East Chicago Company received from the secretary of war a deed whereby the government conveys the west branch of the Indiana Harbor ship canal to the company, which originally gave It to the gbvernment. - This conveyance practically closes the negotiations of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company for acreage In Hammond, west of East Chicago. EXPANDS PLANT ACREAGE It means that the Jones & LaughHn Company, which has contracted for acreage from the East Chicago Company, will be enabled to fill In the canal from White Oak ave. to Uke George road and from Lake George road to Wolf Lake. The latter stretch was long abandoned as a canal project, although the government held title. RUSHING DEAL THROtGH Recently the Jones & Laughlin Company took title from the Newport Company for part of the site of its projected steel works and blast furnacos. When it negotiated with the East Chicago Company for its acres It stipulated that consummation of the deal would he contingent upon the steel coming being allowed to have tho west branch of the canal filled In. What the steel company engineers planned Is to have a turning basin and slips for Its ore fleet on the canal Just west of the Sinclair Oil Refinery. It wants the unused stretch of the canal beyond the Ilarnmond-East Chicago city limits for plant purposes: NET AD WOOD HELP When the company made Its wishes known. Col. Walter J. Riley and C. A. Westberg, vie president of the East Chicago Company, Immediately took the matter up with Washington. Senator New get a bill through the Senate and Congressman Wood got a ball through "the House, and President Harding signed it. This measure, through Senator New's and Congressman Wood's lnfl'ience at Washington, was rushed through congress. By It congress authorized restoration" of part of the canal to Its original donor. Final steps to accomplish this required a deed from the War Department. ON A TRIP TO By WEBSTER K NOLAN STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON. April 27. President Harding left Washington yesterday on his first trip to Ohio since he became president. He went to Point Pleasant, a tiny township on the Ohio river, where he will deliver an address today In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of General U. S. Grant. No stops enroute are contemplated in the plans for the president's trip until the presidential special reaches Cincinnati some time this morn-i-ng-. The president with his party will spend two hours In Cincinnati and then depart for Point Pleasant by boat. The trip by water will be made tip the Ohio river for a distance of 25 miles. Although the village of Point rieasant has a total population of only 145 persons, according to the 1920 census, it Is expected that the president will addresa an audience of more than 18,000. Twelve thousand persons are reported to have secured boat passage from Cincinnati alone, and thousands more are expected to hock to Point Pleasant from all parts of Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana. The presidential party will be the guests at dinner in Cincinnati tonight at the home of C. P. Taft, brother of former President William Howard Taft, and publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star. In addition to the president and Mrs. Harding, the party will include Attorney General Daugherty, Secretary of War Weeks. Secretary Chnstlon and Mrs. Christian. Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Representative and Mrs. Charles C. Kearns of Ohio, Brigadier General and Mrs. Sawyer. Mrs. Frederick Grant. Mrs. Henry C. Corbin. Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. McLean, and Mrs, J. F. Prendergast, Julius A. Penn, Jesse' Smith representatives of the press. Mr. Col. and

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WALTER MANGOLD. 1037 Erie St., says his Ford is stolen. THE Orpheum theater looks pretty nice now that It has been redecorated. MEETING tomorrow night at Superior court building of Ex-service Men's Political Association. EX-GOV. BUSH made a rip-snorting good speech for Senator New last night at the Orpheum. ST. PAUL'S parish house and the J. W. Milllkan store are among the scores of recent ones to acquire raoSi phones. THE Snodgrass Auto Sales, featuring the new Maxwells, received three car loads of Mexwell touring cars this week. THE Hammond 1C of C. baseball team will play its first game Sunday ith the Lowell American Legion post team at Lowell. A LOT Iff motorists are taking it for granted that the Hohman street road race is to be run again this year and are getting in trim. LEGION hall team tomorrow afternoon at 6:15 meets West Hammond Maroons at W. II. hall park in first game of season. Ulrich and Peifer pitch for legion. BE sure and vote Tuesday, women. It may not be a novelty any more, but It Is a duty. Don't fall for a political rot. Vote for the man you believe is the best man. STRANGER, that crude oil odor permeating the atmosphere last evening was -wafted hither from the refineries at Whiting. It Is ever a harbinger of colder weather. JACK GILL, who has been 111 at St. Margaret's hospital with Bright's disease for the past five months, is improving and his many friends are hoping he will soon Je out. THE big boss of the Nickel Plate road can make a host of friends for the road if he will only put on a dummy device between Hmrrond and the Harbor mornings and evenings. Z. M. "PETE" HART, of the. .Nor thern Indiana Gas & Electric Co., has been knocked off his pins as the result of an over-zealous desire for planning and executing work at the plant. THE old buildings at the northwest corner of State street and Oakley avenue are rapidly being cleared away to prepsre for the erction of the new home of the Mlnas Furniture Co. FELLOW on the car last night wanted to know why the Green Line doesn't install radio phones to amuse the passengers while they are waiting on switches and at railroad crossings. PROGRAMS are being mailed for the annual banquet of the Lie CouTt; Tlshl & Gani Protective Association which will be held for members only at Phil Smldt's jext Monday evening. AN Ice truck trying to turn from Hohman st., into Rimbach ave., the other evening whanged into the concrete base of the traffic post and turned it right over. But of course, Hohman street is plenty wide. COMMITTEES were appointed and plans were laid last night for the combined financial campaign of the Boy Scouts and Salvation Army, of Hammond. All are confident the $20,000 can be raised the week of May Sth. THE Ex-Service Men's Political Association is becoming a powerful factor in the county campaign. The boys are looking into the war records of candidates. It is said thejr have 'found that one candidate got out of service by a trick. A RAILROADER. Just acquainted with the Hammond public library, was surprised to learn that he could have obtained books there to prepare himself for railroad examinations. He had spent a lot of money in purchasing the books outright. ARBUCKLE. He's being featured in Los Angeles , theaters. "Jim Wang" Michaelstetter, writing from L. A-, says crowds fight to get in movie house presenting "Ga9Iine Gus," a late Arbuckle picture. It win be shown at the De Luxe this spring. VICTOR G. BOTLES, 675 Sherman street, tells police he's robbed of $264 by two men at Summer and Grant streets. Searched at station he is found to have $40 in pockets. Is booked on charge of intoxication and held -while police investigate robbery charge. MRS. FORREST V. PERRIN. private secretary of William A. Toung, insurance writer in Hammond building, has joined the motley throng of bobbed heroines. Laura pulls the old one, "You know, I just had to my hair's been coming out ter-r-rlb-ly." 'Sal right, Laura, we know others who weakened. RATTA-TAT-TAT! It's the typewriter of Miss Mary Matthews, Hammond's most competent public stenographer who has opened an offloe at 107 Citizens' Bank Bldg. Business men who want well written letters can get her at Hammond 3660. She has taken prizes in national speed contests. She lives at 617. 160th st.

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Russian Problems Grave and Threaten Further Peace of Conference (Bl'tLI'VIlM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PARIS. April 2T. A piuility that France may refuse to attend the propoirct conference at Genoa of nations nlsrninK the Versailles treaty developed at a council ot ministers' scstJon today. By S. D. WEYER STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! GENOA, April 27. Under the shadow of the prave pronouncement by Lloyd Georsre regarding the threatening state of European relations, a last desperate effort was launched today to solve the Russian debt question which has disrupted the Genoa economic conference. Called "to clinch peace for suffering Europe, the conference today had become more notable for its warlike pronouncements and crises than for any progress toward peace. There is little prospect of either side budging from "irreducible conditions" which have been outlined. LLOYD GEORGE ALARMED Even the British premier himself, a confirmed optimist to the last minute in any international disagreement, is described "today aa holding little hope that tho Russia problem can be settled at this time. Lloyd George, according to announcement from his villa, does not intend leaving Genoa tor at least a fortnight. Jle wants to stay until the broad outlines of the proposed pact pledging European nations against aggression for a period of ten years had been worked out. Attention was centered today upon the fact that Russia has no less than forty-eight divisions concentrated upon he Polish border. SEW MEAACE TO PEACE The Russo-Polish friction, due to Poland's alignment with the allies in the present controversy, and Russia's contention." that Poland, ' by-the Riga agreement has formally recognized the Soviet government, has been one of apparently unimportant technical diplomatic qulbblinj. But the question must be judged by its future possibilities. It looms as a new menace to the peace of Europe. The Soviet continues its efforts to force Poland definitely to join the colors one way or another. If France marches upon the Ruhr, May 31, as threatened by Premier Poincare, obnervers here consider it probable that Russia will seize the opportunity created by the Polish ally's preoccupation with Rhine military operations for a war of vengeance against Poland. FHEXCll DEMAND SANCTIONS The first French reaction since it became apparent the British probably would sidetrack the unsolvable puzzle for the broader question of general European accord, has been statements from French delegates demanding that any such pact be backed by "sanctions." This constitutes a revival in a new form of the three year French campaign for binding military alliances which will guarantee France the fruits of the Versailles treaty and guard her against a war of revenge. GARY BANK ROBBERS SENTENCED LAPORTE. Ind.. April 27. Unswayed by pleas of his Gary friends that Mike Frankovich was coerced into looting the Eauclaire State Bank at Eauclaire, M'.ch., April 4, in company with three Negroes, all of Gary, Circuit Judge Charles E. White at St. Joseph. Mich., imposed what is virtually a life sentence on the four men. Judge White dealt out sentences of thirty to thirtyfive years In State Prison. Those sentenced were Mike Frankovich, thirty-five, white, the leader of the bands; Henry Griffin, twenty-one, colored, wounded when fleeing from officers: George Ellio, twenty, colored; Almo Evans, thirty, colored. MISSISSIPPI FLOOD INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NATCHEZ, MISS., April 27 The Crevasse In the Mississippi ricr levee near Ferriday. La., was 200 yards wide and -widening rapidly this afternoon, according to authentic reports reaching here. The Red Cross is today establishing a refugee camp to take care of the flood sufferers. Flood water from the Crevasse is expected to enter to Vidalfa. a town of about 2,000 population, opposite Natchez on the Louisiana side, late this afternoon. An urgent call has been received from Junks, La., a saw mill village in the path of the floodAlways on the job, for a bigger and better Lake county; Otto G. Fifleld for County Treasurer, Republican. 4-28-5

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OUT FOR SENATOR faL WILLIAM If. HODGES "Home Rule for Cities," is the slogan for William F. Hodges compalgn for state senator. Mr. Hodges believes that cities should rule their municipal affairs. When Mr. Hodges left the office of mayor of Gary, declining to become a candidate for re-election, he left the city in the .best financial condition it had ever known. His administration had ibeen on a high business basis. "Bill" Hodges has been a Lake county man for. fifteen years and been very active In behalf of the Republican party. He is known all over the county and not in Gary alone. One point of his home rule plan is that cities shall have complete authority In fixing salaries. He stands for economy and lower taxes. E INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PEORIA, ILL., April 27 War on druggists and doctors who are alleged to have entered into a . conspiracy to violate the ., prohibition laws .hasibeen -opened by' the'-federa government Iherev Six physicians and two druggists have been indicted. Prohibition agents say other arrests and Indictments will follow. Proprietors of the Jefferson pharmacy were held in bond of $35,000 to answer indictments charging illegal sale of intoxicants. Drs. Fred L. Jones, Louis C. Whipple, C. S. Mellen, Charles M. Noble, Edward B. Thompson and Wesley Rooney are at liberty under bonds of $2,000 to J3.000 each. It is chargd ethat the pharmacy bought whole books of liquor prescriptions for an average of $3 a prescription. When a "right" customer appeared he was sold liquor and one of the prescriptions cancelled and placed on file. ELEVEN PASS BAR Young Lawyers Pass Creditably at Session of Lake Circuit Court. SPECIAL TO THE T1IIES1 CROWN POINT, IND., April 27 Eleven applicants passed the bar examination conducted by Attys. F. B. Pattee, Crown Point, Ora L. Wlldermuth. Gary, and D. J. Moran, of Hammond, on Thursday afternoon In tho circuit court room. These examinations are held the first day of each term of court. The following are now qualified( to practice law in the. various courts of the county. Morris H. Cohen, Gary, Frank A. Spychalskl, Gary; Donata Lepore. Gary; Wm. Love, Gary; Theodore S. Boone, Gary; Sadie DeArmand, Gary; Robert Lorvery, Gary; Homes B. Smith, Gary; Godfrey J. Collins, East Chicago; Milton B. Selgel, East Chicago, and Martin S. Gordon, Whiting. GARY-COIfANY AWARDED CONTRACT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 27. The highway commission late yesterday awarded contract for Gary end of Dunes road to General Construction Company of Gary. $178.390.77. The Michigan City end to t Chicago Heights Coal Company, $206,145.81. The W. C. T. U. of East Chicago will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Leslie Graham, 4526 Forsyth ave. Miss Deuell will speak on Public Health. A man who has helped Lake county, now Lake county help Otto G. Fifleld to be County Treasurer. 4-26-5 Don't forget t vote for John KtlHsrrew for County Clerk at the primaries. May 2nd. 4-24-7t Vote for Charles R. Dyer for Clerk, Lake Circuit Court. Adrr.

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Small Crowd At Gary Hears Democratic Candidate For U. S. Senator Bernard Bohbs Shlvely Of Marion candidate for the nomination of United States senator from Indiana addresed a meeting of Lake county democrats at Gary on Tuesday night Inclement weather prevented a large attendance at the meeting. The meeting was held in the Emerson high school auditorium under the auspices of the Shlvely-for-Senator Club. The Marion county (bosses of the party were asailed by Mr. Shlvely. He said that these bosses dictate who will be the candidates and who will not be. "It is not necessary to get the O. K. of any individual to win a senatorial nomination." Mr. Shively said, and offered himself as a logical solution to the present situation in the party. EXPERIENCE IS SEVERE TEACHER Mr. Shively's address follows, in part; "Today, as we look abroad over the political horizon, we again have revealed the eternal Justice of that immutable law of patience. In 1920 some of us knew we were right. Now we all know that some of us were right. Experience is a severe teacher, but she teaches an honest l sson. , It has required the torttjre of the damned to recrown the truth. Bmt today she is enthroned in the hearts of a once deceived people who patiently await the ides of November to legally dedicate her. It has not been necessary to thank God, to await an election to vindicate Woodrow Wilson or his politics.. ' "No, justice is her own guide. And -iittjfciajrwfl ec the political carrions f wallowing in their own filth'. "We see the results of their work. We behold energy dethroned and vagrancy enshrined. We see the lines of worry across the faces of men. We see patience in a rage and doubt stalking the ways of humanity. Confidence has fled. Thrift has become a beggar. Reason has lost her grip and fear alone stalks the ways of men. "The prosperity that - was, has succumber to the panic that Is. Smiles are now the mere moekings of vanished days. Mystery, woe and want walks up and down in the land. The wheels of industry are silent. The hands of labor stilled. Even the plowman, weary and helpless, turns merely the clods of ignorance and doubt. . The false charges and exaggerated .boasts of 1920 are now exploded. Prejudice smiles forgiveness. Hypocrisy withdraws. Class and race hatred realize they were duped. - The business that was to have Its golden Inning, totters and stares. And yet we wonder now how it all happened, i REPI BI.ICA FAILIRE "The Republican party has not kept the faith. They have broken or ignored every promise made rn their platform of ,1920. All . their criticisms aimed at our party have been proven false by their own acts. They have almost wrecked the nation .by their petty political prejudices. They have (bowed to the will of the special Interests and in the first year and a half have played true to their traditional policy, that policy which maintains that there is no prosperity like a limited prosperity." "How bitterly they cursed, damned and Inveighed against Mr. Wilson, only to isolate themselves in the maze of their own folly, upon the ascent to power, you are all aware. "Am I wrong when I charge that they have fooled and corrupted the body politic; that they have substituted honor for power, achievement for patronage, fame or party, beef for soup, happiness for misery, hope for despair and glory for shame? "Today the Republican party is a party without a conscience. It is provincial. It can not see the broader view. It is of the earth earthy. It never looks up. It is without vision. "The fact of the matter is that the Republican party has so long been playing the role of critic that it has not taken time to think along constructive lines. "In 1920 they coined the expression "aimless drifting.' They were right but they got their dates mixed. GROCER, GARY JBANKRUPT Carl Philipoff, a grocer, 530 East Sixth avenue, Gary, today filed his voluntary petition Sn .bankruptcy in the federal couj at Hammond. FhiJlpoff sold the store to Daniel Chrlstoflf in February and lisu among his assets $3,900 still due on the contract. His assets total $,- 839 against which he has debts amounting to $13,251. He schedules $2,939 as due him on open accounts. If it's service you want, nominate Otto G. Fifleld as County Treasurer. Republican. 4-26-5

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Above, Mr. Emmanuel H. Kottner; Dr. Florence Fowler, below. (By Central Press) CHICAGO, April 27. Does '. Mrs. Emmanuel H. Kuttner think that she is the reincarnation of the Queen of Sheba ' Is Emmanuel H. Kuttner engaged in a plot with Dr. Florence Fowler to railroad Mrs. Kuttner into a madhouse? ' A Chicago court will have to decide these questions when the -divorce-alienation suit of Mrs." Kuttner comes to trial. . In her complaint, Mrs. Kuttner charges that her husband Emmanuel H. Kuttner, secretary of the 111llnols Ballast and. Improvement Co., formerly of Hammond, and Dr. Fowler, chief of the psychopathic division of the Cook county hospital are attempting to have her adjudged Insane. Dr. Fowler replies that Mrs. .Kuttner has on obsession that ahe is the Queen of Slie-ba. Mrs. Kottner further chargti that her husband established Dr. Fowler in a "port of love" and later brought hed to their goat and poultry farm so the alienist could gather evidence to send her, his wife, to an asylum. - . "I became STjspiclous-when he began to bring ' Dr. Fowler , 'here,'' Mrs. Kuttner said, "and when they continued coming I ' got out "an inSPECIAL TO THE TIHES1,;..V.', NEW YORK. April 27.-The,. pjafts for the merger of independet-;steel companies are proceeding-"bot 'dis cussions have not yet. reacfied'Ja point where it can , be predicted when the final details will be;worked out. " ' 7 T-;. Executives interested-in theseven company merger have been rneetMELLON DENIES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 WASHINGTON. April 27. Seerttary of Treasury Mellon today reiterated his dental that the country was flooded with millions of dollars worth of Spurious Bonds, but said that a new investigation would be instituted at once because of the charges in Congress that such condition exists. Mellon admitted there had been some duplication of the numbers of bonds, but said that the government had suffered no losses from these duplications and that the errors had been corrected as soon aa they were discovered. HUGE PAPER MILL STRIKE THREATENED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE . ' NEW YORK, April 27. Unless the paper makers of America today withdraw their wage cut demands, more than 500.000 paper mill workers will go on strike May 1. representatives of the latter declared today as leaders of both interests went into conference at the Murray Hill hotel. The workers said there was no hope of compromise. JUMPS 20 FLOORS. TO HIS DEATH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE',. CHICAGO. April 27. A man. as yet unidentified, committed' suicide before noon today by leaping from the twentieth floor of the Marshall Field annex building. Death, was instantaneous.

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Junction 7 to' restrain them. . They used to make love oa.the f;oat farm before I employed guards to keep them ..away. Thla adjoins .my bungalow." .. ... t lr. ' Fowler. . declare t . . that the charges.. come. from, somewhat Irresponsible devotee of psychic fads. "She is a student of spiritism; Mohammedanism,'-'. .OCCUtt sciences and n"evE "thought.- Dr. Fowler said, "She" once. -boasted -to me' that she waa thS reincarnation 'of "the Queen of ;Sheba.;V '- She. got. bar. Idea .that Kurt tMr-and-.!., were "keepinT company from' one of her neapce." ; The Kuttrie'rs have (been married eighteen years.-- : -. ' ' '.. , Jng with -Thomas - Chadbourne, Jr., who represents-iie oanaing nrm or KuhnLoeb '&-.Co.,;and is the leading factor in atranglng the preliminary details' or 'the' cOmblno. " '-' It is. understood that recent meetIngs'were largely, devoted to digesting reports t (the . committee on valuation of properties but that no actual ' details .of . the . merger . were discussed. VAN HORNE FOR ECONOMY ( , 'WIIAAIU) B. VAS HORSE 'Wiilard B.,.Van Home of Indiana Harbor, is ;a . strong '' advocate of economy" in piublic expenditures that hxeans lower taxes. In seeking the-republican nomination for state representative. Attorney Van Home fsks the voters to be guided solely by his record as their representative the' past three sessions of the legislature. Representative Van Home has been a resident of Indiana Harbor for twenty- years.

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When Senator Harry S. New left the Orpheum theatre at Hammond last night, after having made the" fourth speech of the day's tour of the county, he was in high good spirits. '. "I'm glad I rame to Lake county,'' said the senator. 'It has been a royal reception and after all, what is there to public office unless it carries with it public approval? We all like to bo appreciated, especially If -we feel we have merited the appreciation, and so I can truthfully say that I am glad I made this trip." RIGHT TO KEEL HAPPY Senator New had 'a right to feel happy about his reception in Lake county. With the exception of Hammond, he spoke to Jammed houses and great cheering crowds In Hammond there were a few seats vacant on the first floor of the Orpheum. It so happened that any number of social events and civic meetings, including the Elks carnlcal, detracted from the senator New meeting. His crowd in Hammond was somewhat larger than the audience which greeted Beverldge last week. The greatest turnouts to hear Senator New were in Gary, Indiana Harbor and Kast Chicago. ACTIOSS BETTER THAW WORM Speaking in Hammond last night. Senator New referred modestly to the expeditious way in which an act of congress was obtained to vacate a portion of the East Chicago canal in order to bring the Jones & Laughlin plant to Hammond. He said that while he was not an orator be was confident that speech-making would not have secured passage of that congressional act, "In my experience in the United States senate, I have never known one vote to bo changed by oratory," declared Senator New. WILL STAIN D BY RECORD "I am fully prepared to stand behind my record," said Senator New. "I would like to ask my opponent in what respect he would have voted differently than I did on the important measures enacted by the recent congress. I voted for all the war measures, for woman's suffrage, the maternity bill, the welfare bills, and the five bills that have put the farming- industry back on its feet." ' attorney Edwin Friedrich presided as chairman of the meeting. Gary Meeting Was A Big Success ... . . If there was a trace of doubt as to his popularity in Gary and the vote the Steel City will give Senator Harry S. New, candidate for reelection at the primaries next Tuesday, the doubt was wiped out at the Gary theatre in Gary last night when he was greeted by a rip-roaring audience which packed the popular show house from the main floor up to "peanut heaven" and out to the outer doors. ' It was the largest audience that has gathered , at any Gary theatre sine President Harding spoke in Gary during the . presidential campaign. Long before the curtain rose at 8 P. M. the main floor and balconies were filled, maty standingin the aisles In the rear of the house When he walked on tbe stage ha was given a hearty Gary welcome by his attentive audl.snce. City Judge William Dunn introduced Mayor R. ' O. Johnson, permanent chairman of the meeting, who in turn stated hlis pleasure and honor in introducing Senator It. S. New, the "Grand Old" Republican who has done so much for Lake county in his past four years of active- and busy service in the senate at Washington. Offerin-g an apology for having to hurry through with his speech as the county committee had arranged three speeches for the evening. Senator New spoke at brief on tariff measures, tax reductions, the soldier bonus arid what the United States had already done for her returned heroes, government expenditures since the Republican party came into power, and the child labor mwhich Senator. New -Mated .his opponent. Mr. Beverids. claimed to be the author. He also spoke of the task the Republican party had in front of them when they took tho reins of the country following tha eight years of Democratic reign. "The business affairs of the country were in the worst shape lit the history of the United States. Each department was a prcblm in itself and had to be re-adjusted. On top of that they faced a twenty-five billion dollar debt which we had to wipe out." With the attention of the audience focused on him. Senator New continued the speech which Gary has been looking forward to with great interest. He expressed his regret in having only a short time 1n which to talk to the people of Gary, explaining that the arrangements were not made by him, but by his committee. My competitor for this nomination was here a few days ago," said the senator, "and in the course of some tif his speeches here in Lake county, Ve spoke of tho return of prosperity, and that his return to the senate is necessary to expediate the return of prosperity." "In the first place," the senator continued, "when the republican party tooTc the reins, this country waj in the worst condition that it lias been in years. Prosperity is coming; it cannot come all at once. Conditions are becoming better through out the country. I notice that the steel mills in Gary are operating and employing more men than they have since August, 1920. I noticed advertisements, the first to appear for some time, 'Men Wanted." carpenters, stone cutters and other workmen.

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