Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 351, Hammond, Lake County, 28 April 1922 — Page 1
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Senator H. S. Hew Endorsed By Washington Man Who Calls Beverage Poseur Indiana soldiers cf the civil war and widows of soldiers of that war havfl received a letter from John McElroy, president of the National Tribune, published at Washington. D. C, In which he recommends the re-election of Senator Harry S. New and says Albert J. Beveridge, when in the senate, was a "poseur," an -egotist" and a "user of words." whose name Is "not recorded In connection with a bit of constructive or practical legislation." -The letter says "Senator New has been tried lor nearly five years and we know exactly what he thinks and we know exactly what tremendous Influence he exerts In behalf of our veterans and their widows." The letter to widows of veterans of the civil war. which la practically the same as that to the veterans, follows: "A crisis Impends In congress, and the vote on May 2. In Indiana, may precipitate this crisis 'disastrously for those who are Interested In the veterans of the civil war and In their widows. "In these Interests I am writing you personally. It Is highly desirable to the furtherance of these Interests that Harry S. New be kept in the United States senate. Senator New has (been tried for nearly five years and we know exactly what he thinks nd we' know exactly what tremendous Influence he exerts In behalf of our veterans and their widows. His every utterance rings true and his whole soul is bound up in securing Justice In the way of pensions for all veterans and for their widows. "Without a shadow of faltering, Hairy S. New is for right and justice on every question that comes before him. He Is a constructive leglsjator. "None of these attributes can bo applied to Albert J. Beveridge, who for six years rattled around in a eat In the United States senate. He was a figure head, a poseur and a talker. In all those years his name 1 not' recorded in connection with a bit of constructive or practical legislation. In fact, he is remembered only as an egotist and a user of words. "The re-election of Harry S. New appeals most strongly to the women voters because the state of Indiana "ha about 21,000 widows who axe drawing pensions. A vote for or against pensions In the senate might mean the difference between liberal and meaner aid of 21.000 women, all of whom are voters. These women, with their relatives, represent a formidable force that should be exerted In behalf of Senator New, whose senatorial acts and votes show him to b stanchly the friend of the war-worn, and their dependents. Fraternally yours, "JOHN McELEOT." TRADE PAPER REVIEWS TUBE WORKS NEWS Bonds for National Tube Plant at Gary Financed By J. P. Morgan. Construction is to be started at once In the proposed plant of the National Tuoe Company at Gary, according- to Chairman E. H. Gary, of the United States Corporation. The plant, which will manufacture lap and weld tubes, will cost $15,000. 000, according1 to estimates, and will bare an annual capacity of 250,000 tons. This will add 20 to 25 per cent to the capacity of the steel corporation's plant tube mills, says the Iron Trade. Announcement of the corporation's intention of building- the works was made originally several years ago. The plant is to be financed by the use of $5,000,000 from the corporation's cash reserve and $10,000,000 in bonds, $7,000,000 of which are a 7 per cent issue of the Indiana Steel Company, and $3,000,000 a 5 per cent Issue of the National Tube Company. The bonds were underwritten by J. I Morgan & Company and already have been subscribed. ST. LOUIS. April 2S. Every cltitn who can not read, write and peak the American langauge should be disfranchised, in the opinion of Thomas R. Marshall, former vice president of the United States. "Our constitution and laws are written In thu English langauge," Mr. Marshall said in an address here Tuesday night, "and no man is an American until he has learned the American language." Vote for Charles R. Dyer for Clerk, Lake Circuit Court. A..
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$24,000,000 BOND ISSUE FOR GAS CO.
Public Service Commission Today Authorizes N. I. G. E. to Sell Bonds (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, IND., April 28 The Public Service Commission today authorized the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company to issue and sell approximately $24,000,000 bonds and stocks for the purpose of re-organizing its financial structure and improving its financial condition so as to provide funds for needed additions and extensions of its properties. The new issues are to be used for retiring outstanding securities. The securities Issues ordered included: $5,000,000 common stock to be sold at not less than par. $9,000,000 preferred stock at not less than par. $5,970,000 six per cent gold bonds. $1,030,000 six per cent mortgage bon'ds for pending improvements. $1,885,000 five per cent mortgage bonds for improvements since December, 1, 191S. The old bond issue Is to cover securities affecting- the South Shore Gas and Electric Company, and Ham mohd. Whiting, East Chicago. Indiana Harbor and Michigan City utilities. It required Mrs. Elizabeth Gall of East Chicago, Just one day to decide that married life was not what it had (been cracked up to be. She came to the conclusion that she had been a wee bit hasty and was really too young. She is only fifteen. Today, through her next friend. Rosa Masarls, she file suit in the Hammond Superior court,, to have her marriage to Joseph Gall annulled. She and Joe were married at Crown Point April 18. On the following day they separated and have not lived together since. She asks to have her maiden name, Elisabeth Szali, restored. Her husband is now living at 5015-Merwin avenue. FJaat Chicago. Her attorney is George J. Eder. COLLAPSE QUIZ STARTS r INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CINCINNATI, O., April 28. CaptGeorge, M. Dameron, of the United States Inspection service, (began an investigation, this morning of a report that the collapse of the third deck of the Island Queen, while the steamer was carrying 2,500 passengers to the Grant Centennial celebration at Point Pleasant yesterday was due to the supports of the deck feeing tampered and weakened by some unknown individual. Captain Edward Patterson, steamer commander, said that he believed the supports which collapsed had been made secure by some person who gained access to them within the last week. The accident resulted in probable fatal Injuries to Wilbur Morgan, a member of the Boys' Band, Manchester, Ohio, who was caught 'beneath the wreckage and slight injuries to about forty-four city officials and selected guests. The boy was reported dying at a local horpltal this morning. ' The Island Queen was inspected and pronounced safe toy Captain J. K. Peyton of the inspection service on April 12. Captain Dameron refused to comment on the fact that at the eleventh hour plans had ben changed so that President Harding, who was scheduled to make the trip to Point Pleasant aboard the Island Queen, went up the river on the Cayuga, a government boat. The cabin that had been reserved for the president on the Island Queen was directly under the deck which collapsed. Captain Dameron said that he had former no theory, but would make a thorough investigation of the affair. According to reports be sent to him. Captain Dameron refused to verify this report. NOTICE All docks will be advanced one hour at 2 A. M. Sunday morning-. April 30th, to comply with Daylight Saving Ordinance No. 1743. 4-28 DANIEL BROWN, Mayor. A man who has helped Lake county, now Lake county help Otto G. Flfleld to be County Treasurer. 4-2S-5
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Hoopeston, HI., Scene of Mystery in Connection With Grewsome Find. HOOPESTON. 111.. April 2 8. Discovery of the body of Miss Gertrude Hanna, 26, lying on a narrow ledge in the :basement of the vacant United Presbyterian parsonage. has shaken this town to Its foundations today and provided the authorities with a mystery that may prove difficult of solution. Whether Miss Hanna was murdered or ended her own life has not been determined. Whether she met her death in the (basement of the parsonage or was brought there after being slain is another puzzling angle of the mystery." The length of time she has been dead, whether she died by poison or through some other means and the reason for her slaying or suicide are other phases that future developments must answer.. But topping: all of these puzzling questions came the revelation that the girl, had she lived, would have become a mother. This fact Is the outstanding feature of the case that has caused a sensation here. Miss Hanna's body was found late yesterday 'by a carpenter who was engaged in preparing the parsonage for the occupancy of a new pastor. Workmen had been engaged in the upper part of the house several days but not until yesterday did any of them have occasion to go to the basement. J. C. McKibiben, in charge of the carpenters, went to ' the basement yesterday and noticed what appeared to be a bundle of clothing on a ledge. Investigation proved it to be the body of Miss Hanna. Sheriff Charles Knox and Coroner John Cole were notified. An autopsy revealed the girl's condition. No marks of violence were found upon the body. Impressions In the flesh of the wrists indicated that her hands might have been bound for some time with a leash of some des crlptlon but otherwise the body was unmarked. Inquest into the case has been postponed pending an examination by expert chemists of the stomach and other vital organs of the girl. This examination will reveal whether death resulted from poisoning. ' Miss Hanna had been missing from her home for four weeks. She had left home late one evening- and had not returned. Search for her had 4een unavailing. The body, when found, was clothed in the garments the girl wore when she left home. The parsonage where the body was found had been.vacant for three months, the Rev. J. T. Meloy, former pastor of the church, having moved to Evanston. 111. It was located about two blocks from the home of Miss Hanna's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hanna. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna declared they knew of no reason why their daughter should end her life. Several years ago the girl became afflicted with a mental disorder and for a time was confined In a sanitarium. She later was discharged as cured. For a time after that she worked in Chicago but was forced to return to her home when her health again failed. Although regarded as abnormal, mentally, the girl had no enemies here so far as had toeen learned nor had she been friendly or Intimate with any men to the knowledge of her friends and relatives. E OE S25Q.Q0Q DRUMHELLER, Alberta, April 23. Damage estimated at $230,000 was caused by an oxp'osion that destroyed the power plant of Drumheller & Co., and the power plant and tipple of the Callie mine here last night. Miners at the Callie mane have been on strike for several weeks and owners said that threats that the plant would be destroyed had hcen ret tived. Fire which followed the explosion Vias checked within 100 fact of a cat-be containing 10J tons of high explosives. W. M. Walker, manager of the Callie mine, has applied to the Attorney general of Alberta for mounted police protection. He fears further trouble. INTERESTNG LIBRARY DISPLAY The Hammond Library Board has been given the use of one of the iblg windows of the Lion Store in furthering ifs Library Week compalgn. An interesting display of the wide variety of books obtainable from the library has been arranged and it Is attracting much attention. The publicity work of the board Is already bringing results in getting many new patrons for the library. The week ends tomorrow with a Tag Day 'but the prize offer to the readers of books remains open for six weeks. FELLOW on the car at 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. Don't forget to -rote for John K11llgrew for County Clerk at the primaries. May 2nd. 4-24-7t
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GETS CONTRACT FOR 625 CARS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, April 28. Another Indication of the Improved condition of business was given today when the Chicago & Northwestern Rollroad announced that it had awarded contracts for the building of 3,000 new freight cars, to cost approx imately $6,000,000. Delivery is to be made within four months. The Standard Steel Car Company, located at Hammond, Ind., was awarded a contract for 625 box cars. RY. BOARD STARTS FIGHT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, April First steps in the fight of the U. S. Railway Labor Board to retain its powers will be taken Monday when Ban W. Hooper, newly elected chairman and former chairman' R. M. Barton confer at Washington with Attorney General Daugherty and Solicitor General Beck. The meeting was called by Daugherty following the decision by Federal Judge George Page restraining the board from is suing public censure against the Pennsylvania railroad for non-com pliance with a board order on the open shop question. Appointment of a new federal board to arbitrate coal mine labor dispute also loomed as a possibility of the conference. Daugherty's action In calling Hooper and Barton to the capital was heralded as indicative that the government is to make the rail board's fight its own. 0 RADIO FANS With a father and son killed at Cleveland yesterday while attempting to stretch a radio aerial -across high tension wires and serious Injuries to other amateur operators under similar circumstances in other cities. The Times today publishes a warning to radio fans. There are probably as many as 700 radio amateurs in Hammond and the surrounding district. Any one of these amateurs who falls to follow these rules of safety Is unnecessarily running the risk of death. There is absolutely no danger to the amateur If these precautions aro observed. These safety rules are quoted from a radio expert and are particularly timely and applicable. Read them observe them! Acold accident! The rules: "First of all. remember to stay away from all commercial wires. Shock, from a high tension wire means death. A lesser shock, if sustained while the amateur was atop a roof, might throw him to the ground causing permanent injury or death. "For these reasons do not climb a telegraph pole or attempt to fasten your aerial to such a pole. "Do not attempt to string an aerial either above or below commercial wires. "If you put your aerial below the high tension wire there is danger of the wire blowing down during a storm and coming In contact with your aerial. "Do not tamper with the electric light wires In your house, especially If you have the higher oltage wires for operating an electric stove. , "Also see that your station is protected against lightning. For this purpose use either a lightning switch or a lightning arrester which meets the approval of the Fire Underwriters' Code. "The switch must not he smaller than a 100-ampere 250-volt switch. "The switch or lightning arrester must be grounded outside the house to a ground separate from the one used for the receiving set. The code specifies a No. 6 wire for the connection to the ground. "In addition place a 2 to 6-ampere fuse in the lead-in wire just before it enters the house. This fuse is an additional protection when the set is In operation." VIRGINIA RAPPE'S FIANCE TO WED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES. Colif.. April 28. Henry M. Lehrmann, motion picture director, today announced his marriage to Mary Alice Simpson, former "Follies" beauty, known to the stage as Jocelyn Leigh. The bride came her from New York two weeks ago, and they were married, he said. Lehrmann's name became identified with the Arbuckle case when It was brought out in the trial that he was the fiancee of Virginia Rappe. Always on the Job, for a bigger and better Lake county; Otto G. Flfleld for County Treasurer, Republican. 4-2S-5
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TO TH EVOTERS OF THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT j Our attention has been called to) a circular Issued in bhalf of one Will B. Anderson, candidate for the Republican nomination for: Representative in Congress from the Tenth District, which sets forth that the ! said Anderson la rnnnlnr on a Boer and Light Wines Platform and that we, as members of an alleged general committee, endorse his candidacy, and "solicit your support" for It. We take this opportunity to denounce the use of our names on this circular as BRAZEN AND UNAUTHORIZED. We are not supporting Anderson's candidacy, as the statement with the forged us of our names would indicate. We do not know Anderson; we have been unable to ascertain his address. Fearing that possibly some voters might be misled by the foiyrery of our names on this counterfeit endorsement, we have taken these tps to expose the unauthorized use of our names. In conclusion we wish to add that we are not in favor of interfering with the personal liberty of any man, but we are in favor of enforcement of laws on the statute books. WALTER J. RILEY, W. P. GLEASON. GARY STREET RAILWAY CO. PETITION To finance needed improvements and extensions of its lines in Gary, the Gary Street Railway Company has filed a petition with the Public Service Commission of Indiana asking for authority to Issue additional securities. , The company plans to reconstruct Its tracks , on Broadway from the Wabash railroad to the north terminus at the steel mill gates. This track will be laid on steel ties in concrete and on a six-Inch concrete foundation. ;It la also desired to build an extension on Ambrldge St., north from Fifth ave.. to the gates of the American Bridge Company. For this purpose the company plans to issue $130,000 worth of 20-'yeaf-6 per cent first mortgage gold bonds. It is believed the Improvements will cost not to exceed $103,000 but the larger bond Issue Is made to care for the expense of selling the bonds at which will make the bonds yield 7 per cent a discount 5 per cent to the purchasers. With the completion of the north part of the Broadway Improvement the company will have approximately two miles of track on that street laid in solid concrete. $2,000 FIRE AT v . - i r. v VOngTegailOnai JaiUUe .IS' Swept by Flames Last a 1 II T A ! Night. rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind., April 28. An overheated furnace started a fire last evening at the Congregational church in Whiting which . caused damage estimated between $1,500 and $2,000. The janitor was at the building at 6 o'clock and started the fire In the large plpeless furnace. It was planned to hold a party there In the evelrHg. He went home to supper and at 6:30 the fire was noticed by people passing the church. The flames had gained such headway that at first it was believed the entire structure with its beautiful pipe organ would be swept away. However, the fire was checked after a hard battle. Little damage was done to the pipe organ. The congregation bad spent considerable money only a short time ago in having the church redecorat ed but the work will now have to be done over on account of smoke and water damage. While directing the work of the fire department, Chief Matt Collins was struck by some falling glass and one hand was badly gashed. A GRATIFIED ADVERTISER Editor Times, Hammond rhd. Enclosed And my check of $2.40. to cover invoice of April 25th, and as I always have believed, (and still do) to carry flowers to the living, and not to the dead, I want to say that I placed by ad. in The Times on Friday evening and through that same ad., sold my property the following day, (Saturday) and - hereafter If I have anything to sell or want to tuy. the Lake County Times for rne. v Wishing you the foest of success, I am yours truly, J. C. TON. Otto G. Flfleld, a farmer and business man, asks your sufferage, for County Treasurer. 4-26-5 Vote- for Clerk, Lake Charles R. Dyer Circuit Court. for
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ni.I.L.ETIYS) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE APOLLO, ra., April 28. Three non-union miners were killed, one seriously Injured, and two others slightly hurt when a bunk house near the Patterson mine of the Kiski Valley Coal Company at West Apollo, was dynamited early today. A bomb washurled through a window of the bunk house, a small structure containing one room. Several men were sleeping In the room at the time. BII,LETIX) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KHARLESTUYV.N, W, Va., Apr. 28. Armed men pi evented the miners" army from dispersing at Marmet. W. Va., August 24. 1921. after "Mother" Jones, aged labor leader, had appealed to them to go home, according to evidence given at the trial of William Ellzzard, charged with treason against the state here this morning. (Bi'LMyrix) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, April 28. A well dressed man, as yet. unidentified, jumped Into Lake Michigan near Lincoln Park and was drowned. Park Policeman John Weckler made an ineffectual effort to rescue him. The body was carried out from shore by the heavy surf. G The South Shore electric line obects to the action of the Gary Board of Works in opening a street across the company's right-of-way wlthottf awarding plenty of damages. This morning Attorneys J. F. Lewis Meyer and Worth W. Pepyle filed suit on behalf of the South Shore against the City of Gary, asking for $20,000 damages In the Superior court at Hammond. On February 27 the Gary boara adopted the resolution oponlns a GARY DEALERS AT L INDIANAPOLIS, April 28. It !s safe to predict that when the miners and coal operators agree on a wage scale it will not be at a lower wage than that now being paid by the non-union operators, E. B. Heller, president of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants Association, asserted in an address before the sixth annual convention of the organization which opened yesterday at the Hotel Severin. MO.EY LOST IN TRANSIT The outstanding activity of the association during the past year, according to R. R. Yeagley of Indianapolis, secretary, has been the collection of ' loss and damage , rr , 1 J.,V, 4Un l Claims. iiicie la n uwum. mo.,. thousands, of dollars are being lost annually by Indiana retailers through thoir negligence in accepting without complaint cars from which coal has been lost or stolen. Mr. Yeagley raid. Other speakers were G. F. Olwin, manager of the Bettor Business Bureau; E. Victor Syrcner, manager of the Direct Advertising Corporation: W. A. Dalton of Gary and J. H. Panabakcr of Kokomo. The following were appointed on the nomination committee: S. N. Longsworth of Fort Wayne, chairman; H. M. Larson of Gary, D. R. Lontz of South Bend, Harry L'hl of Logansport. Don Crow of Columbus, and Saul Munter of Indianapolis. The resolutions committee is composed of the following: Henry Dithmer of Indianapolis, H. H. Deam of Bluffton. C. E. Moellering of Fort Wayne, P. E. Goodrich of Winchester, W. A. Dalton of Gary. The auditing committee is composed of C. S. Merrick and Fred Behrent, both of Indianapolis. About 300 coal dealers from all parts of the rtate are in attendance. The visitors attended B. F. Keith's theater last night. GARY ATTORNEY IN A DEPER MESS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANA POLI S. Ind., April 28. Dimitre EconomofT, Gary attorney, failed to keep his engagement in Federal court today to pay 'back the $750 he charged to "fix" a counterfelting case for Mike Zoran, also of Gary. His absence will cost him an additional $100 Judge Anderson stid. EconomofT was ordered to appear today with the $750 cash, which was to be returned to Zoran. who made complaint regarding the lawyer's tactics ofter he had wound up his affairs at the Atlanta penitentiary. ' GARY golfers are wasting time in getting Into shape, more than a week now there been considerable activity on no For has the Gary Country Club course at Lottaville and from reports the nine hol-s course is going to be one of the best In the country this summer.
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(BlLLETIJiS) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I LONDON, April 28. Armed men today .broke into the home of an under-sheriff at Clonakilty In County Cork, and killed hia, son. They then burned down the Masonic lodge building In the town, said a dispatch received here this afternoon. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DETROIT, April 8. Ten men were seriously Injured, one bo badly he may dies, and $25,000 damage was sustained today in a ,blast which partially wrecked the acetylene welding department of the west side plant of the Fisher Body Company. Leigh Lynch, production manager, said the explosion had been caused by a workman throwing aside a tank of acetylene he believed to be exhausted and neglecting to close the valve. Bf I.LETIS , INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HAZLETON, Pa., April .28. A forest fire which blazed all last night on Broad Mountain between Mauch Chunk and Hudeondale, destroying thousands of dollars worth of property and timber is today threatening the village of Lansford. Careless sportsmen are believed to have caused the (blaze. B
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66-foot highway across the South Shore tracks. Later the board, assessed $480 benefits and $4S0 damages against the electric line, meaning that the company was to get and give nothing. When the hearing on the assessment roll was held April 10, ih company k li ke I n.iu put in a. bill for $20,000 damages. The board refused to consider it and affirmed the old assessments- Now the electrla lines is suelng to recover It. HIS HEAD One night after Mr. and Mrs. Delmere McCann of Hammond, had retired and Delmere was apparently sleeping soundly, Mrs. McCann chanced to slip her hand under his pillow. She found a knife. It was a troubled night for her, but she managed to live through It. The next morning she asked Delmere what his idea was in keeping cutlery under the pillow. Delmere was . frank. He Informed her that he had placed it there and that he expected to use it on her some lime. That was two years ago, April 10, 1920, to beexact. They separated. They had been rriarried only since January 23. of that year. Today Mrs. McCann filed suit for 5rfvorce in tho superior court of Hammond. She says her husband is In Mlchian and hasn't supported her tor two ytf5s. J. M- Stinson Is her attorney In the suit. REFUSES TO GOASHORE New York Finds Captain Who Has No Home Outside of Ship. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YOHK, April 28, The ' Man Without a Country" has been found. He arrived in New York today and signed him namo to the ship's papers of the Steamer Esparta as Captain C. ONeil. When he said he had signed that way for so long ho didn't know what the C. stands for, and did not fill in the dotted line for his "home port" because he has no home, the ship news reporters became interested, and this is what they learned. "My home Is the sea," Captain O'Neil said. "I have had no other home since I was ten years old. "I have traveled 2,180,000 miles over the seven seas in 28 years as a seaman. "Married? I should say not! I wouldn't share my home and my ship is my home with any woman. And there ain't no wife In every port for me. I don't go ashore anymore. "A man's life ain't safe ashore any more, with women going around the way they do. "That's the reason I gave up passenger tships. Too many women. "No woman gets aboard my ship unless she has a husband, and she's got to stick close to him or go ashore," The deck around the captain's cabin 'looked like a flower garden. His cabin looked like a studio apartment. If it's service you want, nominate Otto G. Flfleld as County Treasurer. Republican. 4-26-5
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Locking himself in an out-house In the rear of his home at Fifteenth avenue and Brown street, half way between Calumet and Columbia avenues. Melvin J. Broadway, aKeji 4t years, late this morning shot himself to death. His body, still warm, was found by his brother. Hay Broadway, Atl'J Olcott avenue. East Chicago, when the latter called to soe him on a business matter. Broadway had used a .38 caliber revolver. The bullet entered through the right temple, blowing out his brains. According to the brother's story, to Dr. 1C J. White, deputy coroner who arrived on the scene in a few minutes aft--r the suicide was found, Broadway had become mentally unbalanced worrying over family difficulties. He was recently separated from his wife. She now resides In Chicago. Ineffectual effort? of friend to mend differences between him and his wife are believed to have brought on the attack of melancholia that today resulted In his sulcide. Dr. White will hold an Inquest at the Superior court building at 9 a. m. tomorrow. TREE DAY FOR SCOUTS Tomorrow will be Mulberry Tree Day for the Boy Scouts of Hammond. The mulberry trees are to be plant ed as part of the earrepalgn the scouts are always waging to -persuade more birds to spend their summers in Hammond. Col. L. T. Meyer will be at the Central school grounds Saturday morning at 9 o'clock with 200 thrifty mulberry trees which will be given to scouts. Only' one tree will given to a scout. Mr. Myer met a noted Pennsylvania conservationist of wild life at the meeting of the National Scout Council at Chicago In March. When the Pennsylvania man learned of the work the boys were doing in putting up bird houses, he at once suggested planting mulberry trees to feed thd bird3. Birds, you know, are crnzy over mulberries. Whey they havo mulberries 'to cat they will kee;i away from other fruit. Not long ago a check for $5 was received from the bird lover. He suggested that it be used in buying trees. More money was placed with it and the 200 trees were ordered. With ;ach tree the scout will receive printed instructions for planting and protecting it. He will be held responsible for that tree and next year Mr. Scott will have a roll call to poe how many of them are still alive. The trees will be planted in yard., parks, along streets, in cemeteries along the river and at Camp Wicker, COLLINS SEES CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) DUBLIN, April 28. .Following two days of attempts at truce making between the Free State and Republican factions of Southern Ireland here, Michael Collins, former head of the Irish Republican army and now chief of the Freo State cabinet, is convinced that civil was Is unavoidable, according to Information given the International News Service by his colleagues today. Tho Laborites are making no headway in their mediation efforts. They have bren attempting to arrange terms of a truce between tho Collins faction and the irregulars before the resumption of the peace conference tomorrow. Two proposals, it is lerned, have been put forward. 1 That a committer of public safety administer the affairs of Ireland; that Laborites hold the balance of power on this committee. 2 That a plebiscite on the treaty of peace with England, under which the Free State was established, ho held in advance of tha national elections. Neither of these proposals has ai yet proved acceptable to the contenting parties, The Dail Eireann, which has been In session for two days, is makinsj little progress, merely re-flghting old Issues in endless debate. Tho clashes between Arthur Griffith, president of the Dail, and De Valera, are most bitter. Griffith apparently controls a majority of the votes. , THERE was only one fight at th Gary Mill Gardens at Miller last night. Some two hundred fight fans were disappointed when after waiting until after ten o'clock, that, there would be no more bouta and that the management would refund the money at the box office. E. A. WARNER, former secretarytreasurer o the Kankakee Chambeiof Commerce who has Siernerl up In that capacity with the Gary Chamber of Commerce at a sa!ary of t"400 a year, will arrive in Gary today or tomorrow to take up his active duties the first of . the month. Vote for Albert E Griffiths, X. 6S Republican Candidate for Joxtlee of the reace 4,-24-S
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