Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 366, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1922 — Page 1

HAMMOND DISTILLERY BROUGHT INTO NOTED TRIAL

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THEATREMAi Big Touring Car Turtles in Ditch Pinioning Driver Beneath S. J. Gregory, operating a string: of theatres and bead of the S. Jj. Gregrory Theatrical Company, last night narrowly escaped fatal Injuries -when the heavy Premier automobile which he was driving skidded In the muddy road about three miles east of Chicago Heights and turned turtle Into the ditch paralleling the highway, pinning Gregory beneath the m'-Mne. He had swerved from the center of the road to avoid striking an approaching car, when he lost control of his machine. It swung twice about in thn road and then plunged off into the ditch. Gregory, at the wheel, found himself pinioned toy the neck and shoulders. He was forced to remain in that painful position for several minutes until the small group of passing motorists na.a been augmented to a number sufficient to lift the car. The injured man was taken back to Chicago Heights and then transported to his quarters In the Mee hotel, here. Although painful, his injuries are not believed to be serious enough to cause his friends appre hension. and "he is being congratulated that his accident was not more serious. GETS THIRD Emerson, high sohool of Gary took first place .nd Hammond high school third in the Northern Indiana track meet which, was he.ld Saturday at Plymouth. Second pJace went to Culver. Dick Sturtridge of Emerson, was the shining light of the meet. He took first in. the high hurdles and broad jump and was tied with three others for first In the high jump. Froebel of Gary, East Chicago and Whiting failed to score any points. Following is the summary: 100 yard dash D. Stagnates,1 of Warsaw, first; Bieger, Hammond, second; Wade, Culver, third. Time 10:4. 220 yard dash Bleker, Hammond first; Goldman, Emerson, second; Repolge, ifiddlebury, third. Time 24:1. 440 yard dash Spencer, Emerson first; D. Stamates, Warsaw, second; Maner, Bremen, third. Time: 54. 880 yard run Barnum, Emerson, first; Spencer, Emerson, second; Berg. Bremen, third. Time, 2:06. Mile Run Barnum, Emerson, first; Atchison, Elkhart, second; Shearer. Culver, third. Time 4:57.3. 120 yard high hurdles Sturtridge, Emerson, first; Nichols, Hammond, second; Whitney, Warsaw, third. Time: 17.2. 220 yard low hurdles Nichols, Hammond, first; Sauter. Culver, second; Robinson, of Warsaw, third. Time 28. Running broad Jump Sturtridge, Emerson; Wade. Culver; Stamertz, Eikhart. tied for first place. Distance: 20.6. Pole Vault Shearer, Culver, first: Cedergreen, Hammond, second; Blarkwelder, Laporte, third. Height 10 feet. Shot Put Shearer, Culver, first; Whitney, Warsaw, second; O'Keefe, Plymouth, t hird. Distance 47.7 "-i. High Jump Sturtridge, Emerson: Wade. Culver; Stamerz. Elkhart, tied for first. Height 5.6. Relay Elkhart, first; Emerson, second; Goshen, third. Unusual Accidents f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) j ALB ANA, N. V., May 16. Michael J Taken. S3, was decapitated when the steel cable on a dredge in the Hudson River broke today. Whip-J ping through the air, the cable lash-i d arou-ad Yakett's neck, severing bis hed, then the cable unwound 1 And threw the body into the river. i f f INTEKNA!CNL NEWS SEfVTCEj I EAST LIVERPOOL O.. May 16. t Eight men and ono woman, em- j ployed as kiln drawers, ww injur-I ed and a pottery kiln wan b!own! to peaces !n a gns explosion at trej MeHiwl Corns Pottery Company's! plant in Weilsvino, here, voday. j HOBO-KEN, N. J., May 16. I Ado'.ph Krawnkel. 60. !ost -hlc balance whll fitting an awning cn.a window hre today end fell -five storle. his body becoming t-npaled on an Iron ra'litg. He died instantly

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STEEL MERGER WOULDN'T BE LAW VIOLATION

(BILLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW UKK, May 16. Cnairmen of hoards of directors and presidents of six independent steel companies went into session in the office of Kuhn, Loeb & Company here today to discuss terms under which the companies can be merged. The companies concerned in tne meeting are: Midvale Steel and Ordnance. Republic Iron and Steel, Toungstown Sheet and Tube, Inland Steel, Brier Hill Steel, and the Steel and Tube Company of America. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK, May 16. Denial that the DroDosed six company steel mer ger would be a violation of the Sherman law or Clayton act was! made yesterday by Thomas I j Chadbourne, general counsel for the companies concerned in the merger. The companies named in the proposed consolidation plan are the Midvale Steel, Republic Iron and Steel. Steel and Tube Company of America, Brier Hill Steel, Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Mr. Chadbourn's denial was occaoioned by an inquiry received by the different companies from the Federal trade commission requesting full and specific information In regard to the proposed merger in compliance with the Lafollette resolution adopted by the senate last week. "No monopoly will fee effected nor will there 'be any restraint of trade," declared Mr. Chadbourne. "There is no base whatsoever for the impression that it is proposed to act in concert by agreement or otherwise with the United States Steel Corporation or any other competitor. "An operation of the six companies will result in a very substantial reduction in costs which will enhance rather than restrain competition." OF INDUSTRY BY C. B. EVANS. From the Chicago viewpoint the significant thing in the proposed steel combination is the migration of industry westward. Companies operating in Chicago and the west are wanted, for those who know the history of this industry declare that the Chicago district is to be the steel center, says the Journal of Commerce. Evidence of this conviction is seen in the plan for the erection of pip eworks at Gary by the United Stattes Steel Corporation, also in the purchase by Jones & Laughiin Company of 400 acres at Hammond with the probability of the acquisition of 500 acres more and the Intention of erecting steel works costing 125,000,000 to $50.000,000. The" American Car & Foundry Company has property available for similar purposes. A large part of the sase Is in the fact that the "Pittsburgh base is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.. It matters little whether the government Investigation shall make out a case of combination in restraint of trade, for the normal course of events will dispose of the subject. While it is a tradition that the price of steel shall be determined by the price in Pittsburgh plus the freight from Pittsburgh to Chicago, this principle is now widely disregarded because Chicago itself Is becoming more and more a center of the trade. LAKES BHIXG ORE HERE. The outside observer naturally considers this rule an absurdity and an injustice, but so long as the powers in the steel trade had a great preponderance of their Interests at Pittsburgh and eastward the- practice could be easily maintained. Agreements among competitors ned not take written form and v ould not expose their participants to the penalties of the law. The force of this Pittsburgh base agreement is now pretty much gon and another center, that is the Chicago district, is coming to its own. Chicago has no iron ore under its black soil, but It has a Lake Michigan which bears to the industries I on its shores at low cost the ore of the Lke Superior region. We shall I have a market here not for freight j from Pittsburgh when no freight is : hauled hut a market based on Chii cago prices. Federal Aid to Home Builders Is Suggested r'NTERNATICNAt NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May Secretary of Commerce Hoover favors Government assistance to home builders seeking construction capital. The secretary proposes a conference at which owners of "loose cash" would be mobilized to help home builders. The Oovernment has a sound foundation upon which to build some sort of structure that would loosen hame building capital, give it more mobility to all regions and afford greater security," says Hoover. "A conference to consider this problem would be of great value."

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NORM BRIDGE is all enthused about these quick, quiet weddings. "Now when I . . . . etc." THE Standard Steel Car Co. is building a large addition to its passenger car paint shop, in Haitii mond. , DOC. "BALDT" SHARRER was handing out cigars today in celebrationof his acquisition of a new son-in-law. HOUND-SNATCHERS. For third time boys enter basement of S. L. I-esser, at 19 Sheffield avenue and steal his dog. THE painters and decorators have been vieing with Bodie, the artist, in re-decorating the Bodle studio on State street this week. FIRST to go on vacation. They are Officers Mike Byelich; Nick Klnslie, and Pete Hilbrich. They left today for two weeks. "MEN NOT -WANTED." (Oh, what a fib.') This interesting play will be repeated by the Trestle Club Thursday night at K. of P. Hall. F. S. EETZ, SR., saw a bull fight while In Mexico and reports that it is zero" In sports. "The bull doesn't have a chance for his money," declares Mr. Betz. P. M. CRAIN and J. P. Smith, of Hammond, have seen granted a patent on a tire protector. Carl E. Bauer has also been granted one on a brake beam fulcrum. WORRIED. Glenn Clark, banker and Beau Brummel is worried how he can keep a crease in his nice, new baseball pants. He plays with the mythical First National Bank team. HORACE WELLS, of Denver, Colo., who is visiting at the V. SI Reiter and Julius Meyn homes, furnished several excellent vocal numbers at the luncheon of the Rotary Club, today. MEMBERS of the city council have been invited to be the guests of the school board at "the Sixth Annual Fair of the Hammond high school at the Industrial high school building, Friday. The public is welcome. HEINIE YENSEN, who attracted attention by his good work in landscaping around the West Hammond police station while serving out a sentence, now has more work of that kind than he can attend to. REFEREE H. S. SHERIDAN, of Frankfort, will be in Hammond Thursday to attend to such bankruptcy matters as may be ripe for him in th federal court. Some interesting developments may follow this visit. THE Hammond Grease & Oil Co., is opening a new station at Kenwood and Calumet. The othe stations are Sibley and Calumet, Ogden and Hohman and Indianapolis blvd., and Calumet. Milton Deimedy i president of the company. JAMES CLABBY, SR., last night received a telegram from Jim Clabby, Jr., the middleweight prize fighter, from Vancouver, saying that he would arrive in Hammond Wednesday night. Jimmy has been in Australia for eight years. ,J. J. BREHM will build a coal yard west of Hohman street and noth of Plummer avenue in the triangular plat of land to the west and north of the Monon and Michigan Central railroads. Construction of the fence started thsi morning. TO Join the movies. Anna Evans! and May Lucer, Columbia avenue girls, are stopped by Chicago police. The young ladies were on their way to the coast to Join the film folk. They were to be brought back to Hammond today by local authorities. CARL NELSON, druggist, has a plan to eliminate two sharp corners and improve Hohman street by building a diagonal street from Hohman street in front of the Simplex plant to the south end of Sheffield avenue, a distance o three or four hundred feet. DOUG"! PATTERSON, of Hessville, was entertained by the West Hammond police over Friday night. The party brok up Saturday morning at 10 o'clock when Mr. Paterson, Sr., appeared and settled for Doug.'s error in cruising about town without his auto lights burning. ATTY. JOE CONROY reci-rd official notification from Indianapolis yesterday that the Supreme court had ruled against the Gary jitneurs in their fight for freedom of the streets. The decision holds that the council has power to bar Jitneys from certain streets if it so desires. NEIGHBORS say that Dr. Oberlin did a little porch, climbing the other night when he got home late without a latch key. Dick Wlnckler boosted him up and he climbed the porch of his home where he entered by a window. It is presumed he s,at down on the porch roof to remove his shoes. R. H. REID and his son, Richard, 'are planning an automobile trip to (California and they would greatly I appreciate a few pointers from ! some one who has driven to the coast. If you have made the trip, ' please telephone Mr. Reid at Hammond 2132, and he will drop around and get posted.

& HASTINGS LOCATE Still another industry. Gostlin, Meyn & Hastings yesterday closed the sale of seven acres of land and the buildings of the Durable Motor Truck Co., at Calumet Park, to the National Fireworks Distributing Co., of Boston, for a consideration of $12,000. The buildings are In good condition and adequate for the needs of the National Fireworks Distributing Co. The Indiana Harbor Belt railroad is putting tracks Into the plant. The new concern will employ ten men. WIFE AND GIRL HURT IN AUTO JAM LAST NIGHT In a collision of two automobiles at Truman boulevard and Jesse st.. last night Mrs. George P. Daily and datig-hter were painfully bruised and Mr. Daily's touring car was damaged extensively. Mr. and Mrs. Dally and their daughter were driving west on Truman blvd., at the intersection of Jesse street when Alfred Henning. 348 Johnson street, drove across the boulevard from the north. According' to Mr. Dailey, Henning's car would have struck their machine in the center with disastrous results had they not swerved swiftly to the side. Instead Henning's car caught their front wheel and threw their machine against a telephone pole, the Daily's declare. SIGNALSWILLSHOW ' RED AT NIGHT r-r-,fSEC,AL T0 THE TIMES CROWN POINT, md., .vlay 15. The county commissioners have recently ordered one hundred safety signals which the Hoosier State Automobile Association is having manufactured and installed where motorists approaching a bad turn, crossing, curve, etc., may be noticed of their danger by the signals, which show red at all times at night. A car approaching the signal has thrown upon it a bright sparkling Iiht. They are mounted on a heavy iron standard and embedded in concrete, and will stand the weather of all kinds. The Hoosier Automobile Association will install the safety devices, which are very expensive, and anyone found mutilating them will be prosecuted.- The commissioners have ordered the devices placed at all bad crossings and turns. REVIEW BOARD IS CROWN POINT. Ind., May 16. Judge E. M. Norton reappointed the 1921 Board of Review today Ho begin its duties on une 1 and continuing for thirty days. The board consists of the following: John W. ryer. Hammond; Wm. Fitzgerald, Gary; County Assessor Black, Couni ty Auditor Poland and County Treasurer Bradford. LUCKY AT PRIMARY UNLUCKY IN FORDS CROWN POINT, Ind., May 16 Johnny Killigrew in minus, a brand new Ford equipped with new tires and everything. The machine hadn't been injured nor had it a license number. Mr. Killigrew left it out in front of the courthouse and when he came out It was gone. No clue whatever to the thief. NOTICE Poperty holders on Hohman st.. south of the Moncn tracks are urged to attend the meeting of the Hohman street Improvement Association, Wednesday evening. May 17, at S o'clock. Meeting will be held in Chamber of Commerce rooms. Very important. W. A. HILL, Sec'y. HERE is some belated news from the Rotary-Kiwanis ball game. Kiwanian Bill McAleer drove to the ball ground, jumped out of his car and left the engine running throughout the game, which lasted an hour and a half. The Rotarians claim that Bill was prepared for a quick get-away. WORKMEN today began digging the basement for a one-story business block to be built by Contractor J. T. Gohman, for Dr. H. E. Sharrer on Hohman street between the O. K. Building and the Mee Hotel. The building will have three ground floor store rooms and Is to cost 10,00O.

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K t Group of labor leaders, includingE. CHICAGO E With the first installment of city taxes collected up to May 1 insufficient to pay the city's current expenses. East Chicago is forced to authorize a refunding bond issue of $255,000. The common council at a meeting last night passed an ordinance au thorizing the issuing of $205,000 of time warrants to bear 6 per cent Interest and to expire August 1, this year. At the expiration of this time, a bond issue of a duplicate amount will be authorized to carry on this loan, according to the program introduced by the council last evening. fSO.OOO PARK I5STE In order to continue with this year's park inprovement plans. Park Attorney A. H. Sambor. when introducing an ordinance asking that the .council authorize a bond issue of $50,000. said that the park board would require this money In carrying on the work in the various parks and to keep up their maintenance fund during the present year. The ordinance was referred to the finance committee for investigation. CITY'S FINANCIAL CONDITIO BAD Introducing the ordinance asking for the $205,000 bond issue. Comptroller P. A. Parks explained that this amount was to be used in paying off two bond issues falling due next month. One of a $100,000, he said was made last fall, and the other issue of $100. 000 time warrants was authorized by the present council the first of this year; thus bringing the outstanding loan to $200,000 and with the accrued interest on both issues of $5,000, making a total indebtedness of $205,000. Comptroller Parks said. "Without trying to shade any facts, the city is not in the best financial condition at the present time." Considering the amount of city taxes to be collected and the amount of money in the treasury now. Comptroller Parks was somewhat pessimistic as to the city's financial standing at the close of 1922. AUTHORIZE J. AND I. SEWER An ordinance, approving a contract and entering into an agreement with the East Chicago Company, a local real estate firm, that will permit this concern to lay at their own expense a sewer and drainage svstem across 150th St. and south along White Oak ave. to the Calumet river, was referred to the street ar.d alley committee of the council. This is one of the linking points in the closing of the real estate transaction for the 1.000 acre site to be acquired by the Jones and Laughiin Steel Company just west of the East Chicago city limits. Sometime ago the Hammond council approved a similar oruinance, permitting tho East Chicago Company to lay a sewer and, drainage system in that city's corporate limits. APPROPRIATING ORDINANCES An ordinance, appropriating $1,000 for the purchasing of horses to oe usea o w.e ... - An ordinance appropriating I-oU was adopted. and amended to read $273. to le used as an expense fund by Chief of rr,iia r r sinus, when making his visit to the chiefs' convention to be he',d in Los Angeles in June, was adopted by the council as amended. An ordinance appropriating $1,000 for city hall maintenance was referred to the finance committee. An ordinance appropriating $2,000 for the purchase of an automobile for Fire Chief Charles Smith was referred to the finance committee. A petition signed by business men on Michigan ave. requesting tnat the board of works take action of making improvements along this street, was read to the members of tie council. The petition called attention to the unsightly condition of the main thoroughfare of Indiana Harbor with the street in a delapidated condition, lamp poles down and the walks torn up in many places. Councilman Donovan recommended that the board of works take immediate steps to make the necessary city lmprover.;nts along Michigan ave.

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jf "V , A - Cornelias Shea, heavyset man in (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MILWAUKEE. Wis.. May 16. Leaving a note threatening that if their romance is interrupted they will carry out a suicide pact, Clyde Follansbee, 19, captain of a high school football team, and Elda Demand Campbell, 19, a business college pupil today eloped, it is believed to Waukegan. The girl had been deserted by her husband, George Demand, of Kilborn, Wis., last October. She and young Follansbee wer.e former sweethearts. (BULLETIN) 'NTERNATIONA'- NEWS SERVICE' PEORIA. III., May 16. William ("Bill") Quirk, alleged leader of an automobile stealing ring, today made good his threat to kill one of his pals if he ever "squawked." Quirk hid in the shrubbery near the home of Charles F. Neil, one of his gang, and shot him as he was coming down the steps. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! MUNCIE. Ind.. May 16. Touching a high tension wire while at work on one of the Bell Telephone company's poles east of the city. Homer Rutledge, 41. received a shock which caused him to TUBERGUL Secretary Herbert Graham has sent out the following minutes of the annual meeting of the Lake County Tuberculosis Association called to order at 'the Gary T. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon: Present: Walter Allman, presi dent. Crown Point; Milton' Kerr, ! treasurer. Crown Point; Mrs. Wm. J. Kought, Whiting; ilrs. (Dr.) P. E. Hoskins, Whiting; Ms. Mary B. Thompson, Visiting Nurse, Gary; Miss Julia Deal, Whiting; Miss Florence Eckdahl. Whiting; Miss Roberta C. O'Hara, Whiting; Mr. H. E. Kdilman, Hobart; Mrs. Jo"Tin J. Coldsmith, Gary; Mrs. F. J. Stovall, Gary Mrs. E. X. Canine. East Chicago; Mr? Robert P.. Miller, East Chicago; Mrs. W. W. Smith. Enst Chicago; Mrs. Harry Ackroyd. East Chicago; Mrs. Jess Thompson. East Chicago; Mrs. E. L. Reid. East Chicago; Mrs. B. C. Luken.s. Indiana Harbor; Mrs. J. R. Karvoid. Indiana Harbor; Dr. Ertvest Schaible, Gary: Dr. E. E. Evans. , H. E. Graham. Secretary . ... u,, ,.. Gary, and Miss Margaret Hanlan, of Gary. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Treasurer's report read and arproved. Copy given to secretary. Visiting nurse report read and accepted. Letter from Mrs. K. J- Stovall applying for position was read and secretary's re,ply was also read. Dr. E. E. Evans, representing advisory committee on sanitorium. made a detailed report, indicating that the Manufacturer's Association desired to reject present set of sanitorium plans and substitute plans of thir own. Dr. E. E. Evans and Dr. Otis Xesbit (also of that committee) seemed to favor eliminating ! extravagant features of present plan and to use the remodeled specifications and drawings. Motion was made by Dr. Earnest Schaible and seconded by Mrs. E. X. Canine (and carried) that a committee be appointed to draft a resolution regarding our sanitorium. Committer; 2ir- Arm. Rf '

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fc2 - J (c) Underwood & Underwood center, arrested by Chicago police. loosen his' hold and slide to the ground. His safety belt prevented his falling but he was dead when other workers reached his side. He had " been employed as lineman for the company here for seventeen years. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LEBANON. Mo.. May 16. Over a hundred national guardsmen supported by 25 deputy sheriffs, from eleven Ozark towns, were beating the hill country at Bradshaw Flats, 10 miles from here today. In the center of an, ever narrowing circle they expect to either capture or kill five bandits who yesterday seized a $20,500 payroll of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad at Springfield, Mo. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONA'. NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, May 16. The prohibition bureau today embarked upon a clean up campaign in the state of Illinois similar to that recently completed along the Florida coast. Colonel L. G.- Nutt of Commissioner Haynes personal staff, who directed the Florida campaign, was today ordered to Chicago to take charge of enforcement work in that and throughout Illinois. Earnest Schaible and H. E. Graham. Officers elected: Dr. Ira Miltimore, president. Gary. Mr.-". Wm. P.ought, vicee-president, Whiting. Milton Kerr, treasurer, Gary. Herbert E. Graham, secretary, of Gary. Motion was made by Mrs. Rought seconded by Mr. Kerr and carried, that our Visiting Xurse attend conventions in nearby stales. Motion made by Mrs Rought seconded by Mrs. GoldsmiCi that we have a paid membership. Motion carried. Sanitorium resolution: W hereas, The Lake County Tuberculosis Association feels gratitude to the Lake County Commissioners and Manufacturer's Association for their recent interest in the building of our Sanitorium, and, Whreas, We feel that the present plans for a sanitorium have been accepted by the State Board of Health of Indiana and were revised by Mr, Thomas B. Kinder. Institutional Secretary terpen) from the National Tuberculosis Amoeiation; that reports received in our open annual meeting show that these plans can be revised so as to come well within the limit of the appropriation ; he it Resolved; For the above reasons that it is the sense of the Lake County Tuberculosis Association that the County Commissioners in connection with the Lake County Manufacturers .Association, confer with the architect of the present plans, having him revise them as suggested) by the several contractors bidding on these plans and by eliminating unnecessary features so build our sanitorium as has been recommended by our State Board of Health National Secretary, Thomas B. Kinder, thus avoiding unnecessary delay and expense; anJ .having an institution that has had the sanction of men who are experienced in the needs of such Institution. HERBERT E. GRAHAM, Seecretary

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itate Director Tells About Effort Made by Whiskey Men to Bribe Him

CINCINNATI. O.. May 16 Bert Morgan, federal prohibition director for Indiana, testified in the whiskey conspiracy trial in United States dis trict court Saturay that John Gehrum and Clem Herbes, two of the fourteen defendants, told him in an Indianapolis hotel early this year that they had "a wonderful organization" and that he could make "quite a large sum of money" if he woud "O. K." permits for the withdrawal of whiskey from distilleries in Indiana. Morgan testified that in the course of the conversation the two men informed him that George E. Remus, principal defendant in the conspiracy case, was a member of the organization. They told him that Remus was In the "financial end." Morgan said he rejected their proposal. The entire matter was reported later to the Indianapolis grand jury, he added. MET IN INDIANAPOLIS Morgan was one of the prohibition officials who aided in the raid on the Dater farm last October. On taking"' the stand he said he had met Gehrum and Herbeu in Indiananoli and had held a conversation with them in a room at the Edwards hotel, that city. He was asked to give the details of this conversation. "The first time Mr. Moore and I were in the federal prohibition director's office on Sunday morning," he testified, "Herbes and Gehrum came there and set and talked juite a while. The conversation, was general. "After I get home and was eating dinner Gehrum called rne on the phone. I recognized his voice. He said h wanted to talk, but Moore was there and ho aian't know whether to say anything or not. "I went to the Edwards hotel on Sunday afternoon, to Moore's room. I told them that's where I would be. Herbes and Gehrum cam to the room. They stated that what they wanted to talg about was rather a delicate matter. They talked rather freely. They said everybody got theirs, why couldn't I get mine. They went on to say how much money was In It." "In what?" District Attorney Mor row asked. "In the liquor. They said thy had a wonderful organization. They connected Mr. Remus up with all of It." WISHED TO "WITHDRAW The reference to Remus was stricken out when the defense objected. "They wanted to withdraw liquor out of the distilleries in Indiana. They said they wanted me to O. K. the permits. They went on to say the amount of money In It for m would be quite a large sum. I told them my answer, 'not in a million years, and they said that that was their information. They had checked up on me at Indianapolis and Washington and knew they could not reach me, but the organization had told them to get an answer." "How did they connect Mr. Remus's name with the conversation?" "They spoke of Mr. Remus being part of the organization." - "How long did the conversation last and what transpired then?" "I guess the conversation lasted about an hour, and after I gave my answer, they did not press it and shook hands and left." Mr. Morgan said Ine two men said they were interested in the Squibb and Greendal distilleries at Lawrenceburg, Ind., aut the Hammond Distillery, at Hammond, Ind. He said also they had referred to the. government raid at a place they called the "Hole in the Ground," this being on of the names for the Dater farm, near Westwood. "What did they say about that raid?" "They said that "was water over the dam. They were not interested in that, but were Interested In th future." HAD PINANCIAI. END. "Did anyone else, and when, approach you concerning the organization you spoke of "Mr. Baldwin." The defense objected to the answer as having no connection with the case. Judge reck allowed th answer to stand. Mr. Morgan was questioned further about references to Remus in the conversation. "What was said about Mr. Remus in the conversation?" "They talkeJ anout Mr. Remus during all of the conversation, said he was one of them." "Did they tell you what part he took in the organization?" "I believe they inferred that he had the financial end. That was the substance of what they said." MYSTERY SOLVED! INT Eff NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 SISTERVILLE, W. Va., May The mystery who rolled topped stockings only show when maidens of Sisterville sit down his just been discovered. A disease epidemic went the rounds here several months ago just when decollette evening gowns were much the thing. Vaccination followed and everybody was vaccinated. Rather than have a mark on their pretty arms, the girls and young women submitting to the treatment elected another part of their anatomy where the scar could not be seen. Decollette gowns are still In vogue here, but roll-top hose and very short dresses never will be. The girls were vaccinated on their knees.