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BUZ.X.ETXCT r I NTERNATION AL NEWS SERVICE DUBLIN", May 12 The peace move in the Irish Free ' State was overshadowed today by ominous news of violence and threatened violence in the North More than a half a dozen persons were wounded in Belfast. A bomb that was being carried in a suit case exploded in a Belfast car wounding four people. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 CHICAGO, May 12 "Bomb Experts" of the police department rushed to the Packers' Machinery and Equipment Company this afternoon after three boys In the neighborhood had found what appeared to be a dynamite bomb in the rear of the place. The company had employed mill Wrights under the Landis award. BTSXAETXXT f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ROCHESTER, MICH., May 12 Stanley Copeland. 40 years old. shot and killed his wife today. "Everything' Proper" Says C. A. Perry Wolff Manager C. A. Perry, manager of the Wolff Manufacturing Company, yesterday afternoon entered a general denial to charges reflecting upon his company and the school board which were made by Councilman William Schulte at a meeting of the board Of education, Wednesday evening. Schulte's attack upon the school board grew out of alleged com plaints of Chicago contractors that in bidding upon school building Jobs In this city they were compelled to specify plumbing fixtures made by Wolff Manufacturing Company .irrespective of price. Councilman Schulte said that the Board of education insisted upon Wolff Manufacturing Company fixtures for the new Lincoln High school, although they were $1,400 higher than fixtures made by anotner company. ISED IX FOUR SCHOOLS. The school board specified Wolff Manufacturing Compan plumbing fixtures in the Industrial High school, and the Wallace, Lafayette and Lincoln buildings. In the Wallace and Lafayette schools all old plumbing was torn out and new Wolff fixtures installed. "The board of education selected our fixtures recluse they are better fixtures than those made by any other company." said Mr. Terry. "They also want uniform fixtures throughout the schools because it is cheaper to" make repairs. We sell our goods on merit only. This company would never think of using any other means of disposing of Its goods." "All things being equal, it is only proper that the school board give preference to "a local industry," said Mr. Perry. "The Wolfff Manufacturing Company is a large taxpayer and employes a force -f Hammond people. There is no one on the payroll at the Hammond plant who does not live here." SUCCUMBS 111 two days with .pneumonia, Martin Malko, aged 48 years, this morning dropped dead in his rooming house at 671 Sibley street. He had u.t arisen and was intending to sit In the parlor. Without warning he collapsed as he crossed the room. Mrs. John Metczus, with whom he boarded ran screaming to neighbors houses. Physicians were summoned. Dr. H. J. White, first to respond, found Malko dead. Malko Is said to have been without friends or relatives in the city FLOOD WATERS EWI WINNIPEG. MAN., May 12 Flood waters of the Assiniboine river were within 20 miles of Winnipeg today with the upper river valley a vast, lake. Rains since Monday Increased the dangers to small settlements already under water. Beaburn, Popular Point and Iverville are under water, and broken dykes at Pidgeon Lake have flooded the country for miles-

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and then killed himself, in an argument over a divorce suit which Mrs. Copeland had filed against her husband. The shooting was witnessed by Mrs. Charles Blssett, a niece of Mrs. Copeland. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOUISVILLE. KY., May 12 Corporal Mike Moran, for many years a member of the local police department, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide here today. The couple had been separated for a year and this trouble is believed to have been the cause of the killings. BULLETIN TOPEKA, KANS. May 12 Two huge gasoline tanks were within thirty feet of a fire which caused $40,000 damages to the Sunflower Oil and Supply Company warehouse here today, but escaped the fire. Locomotive sparks were said to have caused the blaze. E IS AT STANDSTILL Hammond's total raised to date Id the financial drive for the Boy Scouts and Salvation Army has remained practically at a standstill during the last twenty-four hours. Yesterday's figures of $15,500 hold good for today also. Solicitors showed renewed activity this rSornlng and are combing their territories, determined to reach ths quota of $20,000 before Saturday evening. George Hannauer and E. N. Bunnell still insist the goal can be reached. Several squads of the Super Committee were in action this morning, but it is not known what success they met with. They have been given lists of persons and' firms which have not donated according to expectations and are working on them. More squads will take tttis field tomorrow. T MOON S H INERT RAPPED East Hammond Holds A Celebration When Police Act. Boy, page Bill Bryan, Volstead, Haynts, et al! Residents of Moss ave.. East Hammond, turned out at 12:30 this morning, and parading the street, shouting, thumping dish-pans, and carrying on like a frenzied camp of revivalists, celebrated the capture and overthrow of East Hammond's most notorious "moon-maker." After numerous unsuccessful attempts to rah Martin Kolak, 524 Moss ave., alleged to have been baking moonshine for more tban two years, Detectives Einslie and Singer and Officer Bell last night entered the building after smashing through windows, and although too late to stop a quantity of hooch from disappearing into the drain of the sink, they did get several gallons of masu and In the basement in a concealed dug-out found a couple of quarts of ageing whitemule. With the arrival of the patrol wagon to carry away Kolak and the evidence, the neighbors on eithe. side and others far up and down the street, poured from their doorways and an impromptu celebration was held. , It marked a Strang performance for East Hammond one-time land of lawlessness. Kolak was held at Central police station on a charge of v. 1. 1. Tried this morning before Judge Cleave land, he was given :t sentence of 60 days on the penal farm and was fined $230. DIRECTORS OF LEAGUE LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 12 District directors of the Indiana League of Women Voters were elected yesterday at district meetings preceding a general session of the state convention which opened at the Hotel Fowler here Tuesday night. They are: Mrs. J. E. Henley. Bloomlngton, Second district; Mrs. William A. Wilson. Jasper, Third district; Mrs. A. S. Brown, Clay City. Fifth district; Mrs. Christian Eby. Connersvllle, Sixth district; Mrs. Isaac Born. Indianapolis, Seventh district; Mrs. John Roush. Frankf6rt, Ninth district; Mrs. Ora T. Ross. Rensselaer. Tenth district; Mrs. D. M. Coppock. Peru. Eleventh district; Mrs. J. J Llttrell. Elkhart, Thirteenth district. The First, Fourth. Eighth and Twelfth districts did not announce their elections. Watch for the big "Wachewicz Park View Gardens" half-acre lot sale. 5-9-2t

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OF STATE ! OIVISIT State Official May Block Jones And Laughlin Plant Location J 1 1 NTERNATION AL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS,' .viay 12. Th tract of state meander land near Hammond over which hints of "land grab" have been flung. Instead f j being worth $25 an acre as ap praised, is "worth at least $1,000 an acre," it was declared by William Oliver today, auditor of state, wo has just returned from an inspection of the site. "My little Jaunt to Lake county probably saved the state $400,000," he said. An East Chicago real estate company has been seeking title to the 450 acres involved, at the appraised value of $25 for transfer to tne Jones-Laughlin Steel Company as a mill site. State Auditor Oliver was at Crown Point yesterday looking UP real estate records and came to Hammond late in the afternoon to conclude his visit to Lake county. The appraisers who reached their decision only after consulting many real estate experts in the region, were D. W. Dupes of Indiana Harbor, Geo. W. Lewis of East Chicago, and W. J. Hastings of Hammond. The land in question, which is of no value to the state, has been under water until reclaimed by the East Chicago Contpany, which has never made a dollar out of it, and was given the same valuation as reclaimed land made by the TJ. S. Steel Corporation at Gary and the Inland at East Chicago. Mr. Oliver may further his political ambitions at the sacrifice of one of the greatest industries Lake county could get. WOMAN PLEADS FOR SEPERATION Separation from bed and board is asked in a suit filed by Mrs. Delia Schmoker, of East Chicago, in the Superior court of Ifammond. She and her hAisband, Ralph Schmoker, were married March 28, 1918.' They have one child. Mrs. Schmoker says her husband has maintained an attitude of habitual cruelity towards her for a long time. He scolds her and has frequently threatened to throw her and the child out of the house. On one occasion he insisted he would burn the house and furniture. She asks for separation for a period to be specified by the court and an Injunction was granted against her husband, restaining him from disposing of the household effects. She desires the custody of the child H. M. Cohen is her attorney. CHARLES BEYERS GET NEW TRIAL Harry Payne, of Hammond, who was granted $750 damages by a Jury in Room 2 of the Hammond superior court last Noven.br. mu:t make a new lel battle for the money. Judge C.-i'es thi" morning granted the petition of the defendant for a new trial. Payne brought suit against Mr and Mrs. Charlts G. Beyer of Hammond, alleging that thoy had oust ed him and Ills family from rcomi which were beng rented from the Beyers in 1916. One of the daughters was said to have been pushed out into the cold wtihout sufficient clothing to protect her. The jury caused some surprise when the verdict of $750 was brought In. Certain interrogatories submitted by the defense to the Jury were Ignored and it was on this that the motion for new trial was based. WM. GROSSMAN BUYS GARAGE Through a transaction closed yesterday by H. Hechler of Hechler & Stinson. enterprising young realtors William Grossman becomes the owner of the Industrial Garage on Calumet avenue between Bauer and Eaton streets. The purchase price is said to have been $10,600. Fee. buildings and equipment were included. UNEMPLOYMENT ON THE WANE WASHINGTON, May 12. Survey of the unemployment situation made by the department of Commerce in 34 states during April revealed that unemployment is on the wane and that industry and business is on the upward trend, secretary Hoover announced today. The survey showed a decrease of 33 per cent, in the number of men applying for work. Watch for the big "Wachewlcs Park View Gardens' half-acre lot 6--2t sale -

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LEADERS INDICTED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 CHICAGO, May 12. Demand that "Big Tim"' Murphy, Fred Mader. Cornelius "Con" Shea and five tuners indicted for murder in connection with the killing of two policemen in the bomb war attributed to labor gangsters be rushed to trial and sent to the gallows was made today by the state's attorney's office. The eight were named in indictments voted by the grand Jury in special session last night. Additional indictments were expected today in the drive of the police and law enforcement organizations against the so-called "labor outlawry." Mader. Murphy. Shea and the others indicted were ordered held without 'ball to answer to the indittments. The five others indicted are Isadore Braverman, Daniel McCarthy. Jerry Horan, Thomas Hogan and Robert McCloud. TOO MUCH REFORM BOOSTS LIVING COST, SAYS BUSINESS MAN Parasitic Regulators Eat Poor Man's Pie and Cut Into Bread. NEW TORK, May 12. Americans are ' "saving at the spigot and wasting at the bunghole," at a period when they should be discarding nonessentials and clinging to necessities, John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, declared at the annual convention of the organization here. 'High-priced hotels, theaters, ball parks and other camping grounds of amusement and nonproductive are enlarging- their capacities to accommodate the ever-Increasing army of refugees' from' the storms of life," he declared. PARASIES AND MIDDLEMEV "Golf clubs, cigar factorlesf Jewelry establishments, , walking cane emporiums, pet dog kennejs. canary bird dispensaries and bootlegging Joints are flourishing as never .before. . Every street and highway throughout the land is i teeming with automobiles that are (burning expensive , gasoline in the presence of self-imposed idleness. "And all this time the coasts of North, South, East and West are teeming with the multitudes of the weary, the constructive forces of society with marvelously increased demands upon them are at this moment suffering for the lack of ade quate nourishment." Mr. Edgerton asserted that the chief economic problem of the day is that there are too many middle men in the industrial fabric, with too many persons engaged in distributing the products turned out by the farmer and the manufact urer. TOO MA5Y EXPENSIVE REFORMS "When you add to this excess of distributers the countless number of whose activities are to reform regulate, inspect, denounce, tax vunaer ana oir.erwnse live upon those who are trying to produce something it will not be difficult to discover the principal factor in the continuing high cost of living, he said. SECRET SERVICE AS UNIT 1 1 NTERNATION AL NEWS SERVICEJ WASHINGTON, May 12. The sec ci. scnice wui De retained as a unit of the treasury department un der the reorganiiation plan of the government, it was announced at the treasury. Tentative decision has 'been reached to place prohibition enforcement in the department of justice. These and other reorganization matters will be finally determined by the president and his cabinet at a meeting early next week. While agreement has been made and there shall be set up in the department of Justice a bureau coordinating all crime detection agficies, It was declared that the secret service is regarded as entirely distinct in its functions of guarding the president and of preventing counterfeiting of money. TRUCK DOES DAMAGE Damages, totaling $175 were done yesterday to the lighting system in Hohman street when a truck driven by Peter Slager, 1243 S. Karlov ave.. Chicago, crashed Into a light pole in front of the Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store. Slager, arrested by officer Beasley, offers to made good the loss. The truck was damaged. Watrh for th hi "Wachewlcs I Park View Cardens" half -acre lot sale. B-9-2t

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Fourteen-year-old Wilbur Miller, colored, living with his parents at 406 Kennedy ave.. East Chicago, was drowned about :3o'clock last evening while swimming in the canal Just off Chicago ave., at the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. j A vigilant search for the body was kept up by the police, relatives and friends, but lato this morning no report of recovering the remains has been made. A crew of divers were kept busy all last evening and this morning. Nets and hooks were used in an attempt to resurrect the body. As a last resort,' material "ALL PEGGY By KENNETH T. TOVIL STAFF CORRESPONDENT t. N. SERVICE NEW YORK, May 12. "Liesl All damned lies:" With arms flung aloft, tears of rage and mortification glistening in her eyes, and as one small fooc stamped in anger, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, noted as -the modern Cleopatra, thus denied stories of heartbreaking, home-wrecking and wild parties in Paris on her arrival here from Europe today on the liner Maurctania. It was a serious minded, sober and chastened Peggy that came back home from gay Pare. She brought with her more, than $1,000,000 worth of gowns and Jewels. She said she was going at once to Norfolk. Va., to visit and comfort hei; mother. "Oh, I know what you are going to ask me.' she exclaimed when approached by reporters. It was then she voiced her vig THE CHIEF AT THOUGHT IT Kiwanians and Rotarians Display Great Skill Yith Knife and Fork. George Wolf, the Babe Ruth of bowling, last night broke all records at Crip Binyon's for chicken eating when he devoured eighteen legs, nine wings, four breasts, three backbones. two necks, one peck of potatoes. four pieces of cherry pie and three cups of coffee. Mr. Wolfe's remarkable exhibition was a feature of the Jviwanis-Ko-tary chicken dinner which followed the victory of the first club over the latter io a bowling contest held several weeks ago. On the return trip from Cedar Lake, Mr. Wolfs weight bent the axle of Bill McAleer's Ford. ;ThiS morning Mr. Wolf was reported to be unconscious but breathing. Bill Hutton won second place in the contest, irh;; Ttoland Fox received the medal for light eating and heavy conversation. The debate between Hugh Fchrman or the ilotary Club and tin Hutton of the Kiwanis on "Bowling" as declared "no game" by Bert

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Above, left: U. S. Senator Atlea Pomerene, unopposed for Democratic nomination to succeed himself. Eight: Walter F. Broum,' Toledo, who is fighting Congress man Simeon D. Fess, YellowCreek, for the Republican nomi-j nation for U. S. senator. President Harding is keping his hands off in the hot political fight for the Republican nomination fojr U. S. senator in Ohio, was being tised to blast It to the top. With a number of other boys, Wilbur Miller was in swimming at the canal. His boy friends say that the little fellow sank all of a sudden" and that the rapid current swallowed him before anyone could go to his rescue. Chief of Police C. C. Struss Is reported to be taking action of forbidding any swimming in this treacherous prt of tho canal. The several lagoons in the parks will be opened soon for swimming, Chief Struss announced. LIES" JOYCE orous and emphatic denial. Fesgy is not flippant. She said her one trouble was that she had been too serious and thus got into trouble. She is not going to marry at least not for some timet The inspiration she gets from men is essential to her. "I cannot live without men," she exclaimed. "I am not the flippant man hunter and home breaker and heart wrecker that I have been .pictured in reports from Paris." Peggy continued. "These reports have driven me nearly insane. My health Is breaking. The only man I ever really loved has killed himself because of me." She referred to "Billy" Errazuriz, a youthful South American, and former attache to the Chilean embassy in Paris, who committed suicide a fortnight ago in Paris after a gay party in which Peggy was a member. Steelman and ,Bill IrcAleer, the Judges, who brought in an opinion that neither of the gentlemen knew anything about bowling. Boscoe Woods was the first Jtotarian to step up and pay the cashier. The cost of the food commandeered by George; Wolf was prorated over the Rotary organisation. It required the services of two waitresses to carry the chicken to George Wolf and another one to take the bones away. After the dinner the chef came into the dining room and asked permission to shake hands with Mr Wolf. "I'm certainly pleased to meet you. Mr. Wolf," said the chef. "I would not have believed .it possible for one man to eat bo many chickens. I thought at first that all the Indiana ex-service men were having a state encampment and had stopped in here for dinner." The dinner got so noisy that Bill Rose, the Arthur Burrage Farw7v, of Cedar Lake, hurried over to Crip Binyon in his Packard Six to inform the gathering that no laughter was permitted around .the lake after sunset. Bill left warning (Continued on page ten.)

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Brother in Interest of Candidacy BIXLETI.V -LETI.Y j S, IND., MaT 12 Lake county, favr McCray as Lyons' IDIAXAPOLI5( Matt Brown, of -uccruor, ha. withdrawn a. . candidate for the iHt, It wa. reported today, leaving John William of Bedford, secretary of th --. Liion aa the oil t ivnwrH I - county politician. -.-t, E nar rrantlc effort, to Lineup a man' calumet dUtrlct for the Job. (RrLLETlJf) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, May 12. "I will tender by resignation to Governor McCray today to take effect imme diately," Lawrence Lyons, director! of the state highway commission, told the International News Service today. That Governor McCray had advised Lyons, who leaves the roads body to take up his new work as chairman of the Republican state central committee. to resign at once to "avoid misunderstandings" was announced jesterday by International News Service. Lyons said today the commission, which has the power to name his successor, would not meet until next week, hence he will actually remain on the Job until that time. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEJ INDIANAPOLIS, May 12. Governor McCray yesterday advised Lawrence Lyons that he had "better resign" immediately aa director of the state highway commission, H was learned by International News Service. Earlier in the day Lyons had stat ed he would quit the highways post right after the forthcoming stats Republican convention in order to take up his new work as chairman of the G. O. P. state committee. Ths governor, however, ured his immediate retirement in order to prevent! misunderstandings, it was learned, Matt Brown of Lake county, who is one of the leading candidates for the road Job, was in Indianapolis yesterday attending the reorganization of the state committee and looking after his interests in connection Tfclth the highway directorship. He was accompanied by his brother, State Senator Will Brown of Hebron, who was busy boosting his brother's candidacy. SELECTION CP TO BOARD Mr. Brown has served as a county commissioner and as treasurer of Lake county and is well known in northern Indiaea. Ho is said to have made an excellent record in public office. His friends say he is well qualified for the place. His name' is frequently mentioned in connection with the highway placa by persons who are close to the situation. Selection of the new director is to be made by the state highway commission, as provided by law. Governor McCray, it is understood, will not attempt to r.ame the director but will give the commission full authority to make the appointment. The governor, however, will advise with members of the commission in regard to the qualifications of the various candidates, it is believed. The commission probably will b called together to take up the question of naming a new highway chief some time next week. A meeting of the commission is tentatively scheduled for next week and th matter may come up at that time. In addition to Mr. Brown, a number of other persons are being mentioned in connection with the placs, but several of these candidates tr not regarded as likely choices of" the commission. WILLIAMS ALSO MEXTIOXED John D. Williams, chief clerk of the highway department, is the man most frequently mentioned for th place with the exception of Mr. Brown. He is understood to be in high favor with a number of members of the commission. He has been active in the work of the reorganized roads body and is given credit for putting the finances of the commission in a. sound condition. The .financial administration of the highway commission, under the director preceding Mr. Lyons, was severely criticized by the StatB board of accounts. ' Mr. Williams, who assumed the clerkship with tho beginning of the Lyons regime, has removed the objections to the financial management of the old ccmmlsslon. The directorship of the highway department pays & salary of $8,000 a year and is regarded as one of the most desirable positions in the stits house. The Important work of acting as executive head of the road i program of the state rests with the director. POPPY DAY MEETING All members of the Ladles Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and al mothers, sisters and, daughters of overseas veterans aro asked to meet in the parlors of th Majestic Hotel tonight at eight P. m.. to make arrangements for th proper observance on Memorial Day. They will aNo arrange for the &I of the beautiful popples made 'by the women and children of t'ie devastated regions of France and Belglum. This poppy has been adopted, by the allied countries as tha memorial flower for those who sacrificed their lives in the World War. Watch for the big "Wachewlca Park Viewr Gardens" half-acre lot sale. 8--2t

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