Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 308, Hammond, Lake County, 18 May 1922 — Page 1

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Committee Given Full Power to Act on Improvement If there has ever been any question of the sincerity of the Hohman Street Improvement Association as regards the Hohman street widening project it wa dispelled last night. One after the other the Hohman street property owner. rose to their feet at the meeting at the Chamber of Commerce and voiced approval of the widening of the street. Moreover, each property owner indicated that he was willing to have the benefits and damages spread by a competent outsider and would accept any reasonable and equitable assessment. The Hohman street property owners went even further to show that they meant business. They appointed a committee with power to investigate the legality of the Hohman street widening resolution recently adopted by the board of works and to ask that it be rescinded and a new and proper resolution adopted in its stead in case it was shown to be Illegal. .lESTION OF LEGALITY. Peter J. Lyons, representing Hohman street property, raised the question of the legality of the present resolution. He said that it limited the ' benefited district to Carroll street. "It would be an easy matter for an owner of property north of Carroll street between the Monon tracks and the state line to go Into court and kill the whole project by showing that the property owner south of Carroll street between the Monon tracks and the state line was to be benfited but not assessed." said Lyons. "There is only one way In which to make this project proof against law suits and that is to have the board of works adopt a new resolution including all property couth to the city limits in the benefited district." , The logic of Mr. Lyons' objection was readily seen by the association and was supported by William Kleihege and otner owners of downtown property. W. A. Hill, secretary of the association moved that a committee be appointed by the chairman with full power to act. COMMITTEE OP FIVE. The members of the committee are A. Murray Turner, "William Kleihege, Leo Wolf, Nicholas Emmerling, and Teter J. Lyons. The committee was instructed by the association to examine the legality of the Hohman street resolution and If Mr. Lyons was found to be correct to ask the board of works to rescind it and adopt a new resolution legally constructed. The committee was also impowered to request the board of works to employ an expert to ascertain the damages and benefits, the salary and expenses of lee expert to be made a part of the damages of the improvement. There was not a dissenting vote last night. The property owners present, including Leo AVolf. Otto Knoerzer, A. J. Marko, Charles Hohman, Gustav Muenich, Ben Bell, John Kuhlman, D. Spragia and Mr. Collins, of the Christian Science church were all of one accord. A. Murray Turner made an inspiring talk, emphas'-'ng the importance of widening Hohman street without delay. William liove. chairman of the meeting, railed on every property owner present, to speak and not a man voiced objection to the improvement. Gustav Muenich. one of the Hohman street property owners, said one of the most pungent things of the entire meeting when he deJ clared: "I am for anything that will benefit the business men of Hohman street. They are our tenants and I think we owe it to them to help them. If the business men want the street widened, I am for It." COMMUNITY SERVICE MAN VISITS CITY A. R. Wellington of Chicago, a member of the Executive Committee of the national organization for Community Service arrived In Hammond this morning to assist in furthering the movement In this vicinity. He will speak this evening at a meeting which is to be held at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce room. Mr. Wellington is the district executive of the Chicago office and has charge of the work in all of the middle western states. All itisens interested in the community welfare - of Hammond are welcome to attend the meeting and are invited to do so by the Hammond committee. The committee is composed of C. B. Tinkham, H. A. La-mpreli, R. H. McHie, Charles L. Surprise. Jesse E. Wilson and Jos. W. Todd. HOUSTON. Texas, May 17. Federal prohibition enforcement agent, J. W. Floyd, was shot and killed today as he was about to search a garage in the rear of a residence. The police, who are investigating, said that Floyd was killed by a fusila.de of shots fired from the house.

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ABE MARKS moved last week into his new home at 1150 Moraine ave. THE new unit of the Industrial j high school will be dedicated at 9:30; Friday morning-. j ALBERT E. GRIFFITHS is now thinking about scrapping his Maxwell. It has spring fever. HOHMAN STREET is in pretty decent shape again since the street department plugged the holes. WILLIS FORD is -working out the details of the gardening contest to be conducted by the Kiwanis club. DR. J. R. rt'GH is at Huntington, Ind., attending the convention of the Eleventh District Medical Association. BOB JEN'N'IN'GS. who has been dickering for a typewriter has found one. Bob didn't care whether blonde or brunette. IT is said that there is not an office girl or stenographer in the First National bank building with bobbed hair. WEST GART CAFE opens Saturday under management of P. L. Hard. Usual road house entertainment promised. , E. C. MINAS returned yesterday from Indianapolis where he attended the convention of the Indiana Retail Merchants' Association. THE Orak Shrine delegation to th big Shrine convention at Sam Francisco an dthe trip to Honolulu leaves Hammond, Saturday, June 3. STANLEY LUKOWSKI. a butcher at 712 State Line street, had a shepard dog that he fed on sirloin steaks. It ran away and Stanley says that if it will come back it can have filet mignon. ( DISCOVERED. That the Bootlegger on the Four Corners lives on the banks of the Calumet river. He's always singing, "On the Gin-Gin-Ginny Shore." REV. Fasqualee RicciardI de Carlo talked to lunching members of the Chamber of Commerce today. His address was the same as that delivered before Kiwanians Tuesday. THE public is cordially invited to attend the dedication of the new Hammond Industrial High school auditorium at 3:30 Friday morning. A pleasing program has been arranged. PAT REILLET, just winding up his winter season in California, sends a paper from Oakland detailing the observance of Boys' Day. Wei Barry, the freckled movie star led the parade. VETO? Will the mayor veto the ordinance passed unanimously by city council appropriating $1,000 for deputy to City Clerk Kunert? There is a merry fight on at city hall over the appointment. WHY doesn't some enterprising me-chant advertise a sale of artistic garbage cans? Folks will have to buy them now that council has decided every can must be standardized and have a cover. A STEAM shovel In operation can always be depended upon to draw a crowd. Witness the lines at State and Oakley all day watching Operator Brown, of Oak Glen, scooping out the cellar for the Greenwald building. STEVE SCOFES. who with his brother Pete, operated the Maine restaurant for many years, is visiting Nick Scofes at the Majestic Hotl for a few days.' Steve and Pete 'now have a restaurant In Lansing, Michigan. HAMMOND HIGH won second place and Culver third in the Northern Indiana track meet at Plymouth last Saturday. A recent story had Culver winning second and Hammond third when In fact It was just the opposite. Joseph Wledergott, 683 Hohman St. has decided that his auto repair store is too small for motoring. Testerday he drove a Ford through a show case and stopped Just before the Lizzie hit the show windows, heading for the sidewalk. THE new' Park Board, with the help of a live councilman, has made a hit with the Morris Park fans. The new comfort stations, park benches and dressing rooms are greatly appreciated. "Thanks, " shout the Morris Parkers. WALT MILLIKAN and some more Hammondites were wild today when a telegram came from Art Snodgrass and his party announcing that one of their oil wells in the Mexia field came in at 3 o'clock this morning, a 9.000 barrel gusher. TENANTS of Hohman street business buildings are anxious to be admitted to membership in the enterprising Hohman Street Improvement Association. They say that their equity in the property they occupy la represented by their leases. APPRECIATION. Hammond theat ter goers should" have it for man agement of Parthenon theater. This for opportunity of viewing that masterpiece of pantomine, "The Orphans or the Storm." It's at Hammond's handsomest play house all week. WHEN hovering over your radio phon if you happen to tune into ;the Toledo station, listen closely to the bed time stories. It is Paul Flschler

Doc Sharrer and Queen of Hilo Island First Installment of the Thrilling Story of Romance.

Now children, tuck yourselves in the trundle bed whiie daddy turns on the Radiophone and we will listen to the bed-time story. No. Johnny, you can't take Bowser to bed with you. His feet are dirty. Betty Jane quit teasing your sister. Stop kicking the covers off. Junior. Papa spank: The bed-time story tonight is about how Doc Sharrer went to the Isle of Hilo in the Hawaiian Islands and married the Queen of the H'loians and how the lake County Meiical Society sent Doc Oberiin to get Doc Sharrer and he ntr came back either. Johnny, you're not listening. You thought Doctor Sharrer was already married? Well, this is a bed-time story. Is it a tnje story? Certainly not. It is a press agent story to boost the trip of Orak Shrine to Honoluhi. Don't ask any more questions. Did Doctor Sharrer wear any clothes on the Isle of Hilo? Why certainly. Betty. You've 'been looking at these pictures in the geography. He wore a Shrine cap. One of those red caps with a tossle on it. What did the Queen wear? Well, how do I know what she wears? What's that, Johnny"? Did they send anybody to get Doctor Oberiin? Oil, yes, they sent Doctor Shanklin and he never came back and then they sent Doctor Chldlaw and then they sent your daddy and he brought them all back. Eetty, tell your mother to stop laughing. What did Doctor Sharrer do on the Island of Hilo? Well, Johnny Doc sent to Lyon & Healy's and got a ukelele'and learned how to play wli.le the Queen danced beneath the palm trees on the beach. And Doc and the Queen would ride the surf and drink Wakwak. What's Wakwak? Well. Wakwak Is the milk of the wild cows that roam the Island of Hilo. Everything was peaceful on the Island of Hilo until William Norris the druggist, who went to the Hawaiian. Islands with Doc, got stuck on the Queen and tried to beat Doc's time. What happened then? You'll hear all e.bout It on the Radiophone. It is starting now. ....... Gr-r-r-r-r-r bang rack zz-z-zz K. Y. W. Now, listen closely, children. (To be continue Tomorrow Evening.) Even the Dandelion. NEWARK, N. J., May 17 Dandelions are not fruit, and hence can not be used legally in the manufacture of wine for family use. Dandelion wine addicts with a conscience are responsible for this ruling of Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy Haynes, made public today by' Collector of Internal Revenue Ferguson. Constant inquiry by law abiders who feared dandelions might not be one of the fruit wine stocks permissible for householders to use on permit, caused him to send the query to Washington, Collector Ferguson said. While he ruled what a dandelion is not, the commissioner did not give a decision on what a dandelion is whether it ranks as a vegetable, a flower or a weed. speaking. Paul, who is a former Hammond boy. is a son-in-law of J. B. Ortt. He'sf connected with a broadcasting station. KIWANIANS of Hammond. Gary. Valparaiso and LaPorte are to hold a meeting at Valparaiso the evening of May 25th. President George Geyer, of the Hammond club and Judge V. S. Reiter. district trustee of the state Kiwanis organization, will attend together with members from Hammond. SPEAKERS at all factories, classes In English, lectures, other features In Americanization program now being advanced by East Hammond Civic & Improvement Association. School for' men and women opens tomorrow night at Brooks' House. They do things In East Hammond: REPORTS say that moonshine is even sold in certain grocer ystores In East Hammond and that many homes are being wrecked by moonshine debauches. "It is as bad as in th old saloon days." one business man told a reporter. "I know of one workman who. was sober and industrious for years who has become a moonshine drunkard." MIKE JURSZAK gets 5 to 14 years on burglary charge; George Byam and Harry Garret get each 10 to 20 years in penitentiary on robbery charges. This on evidence in criminal court at Crown Point given by Detectives Singer and Warner, of Hammond police department. The latter two were arrested after a gun fight with Singer in the Millikan flats last Saturday night. A new ttype of militatry airsh'p was recently tested by the army air service att the experimental station, McCook filed, Dayton, O. The s-hip is nonrigid in type, is 170 feet in length, has a gas capacity of 1S0.000 cubic feet and carries a crew of eight man.

6 COMPANY ! MERGER'S PROGRESS

Companies are Getting Nearer a Basis Every Day BULLETIN.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. Mar IS Attor. nej-Cmrral Dangherty today fnt telegrams to official of the Bethlehem steel Company and the several other iiteel and Iron companies which are planning a gigantic merger, requesting them to send representatlves to Washington on Satur day to discuss the proposed new combine. The conference Is brlnc arranged by the Attorney-General in accordance with the LaFotlette resolution passed by the Senate. ... v . t irmv I ri i . 1 I A U M . . NEW YORK, May 18. frogrrss i negotiations for the "six-company" steel merger were outlined -by Thos. I L. Charbourne, counsel for the inter ests involved in an exclusive Interview given to the representatives of the Chicago Journal of Commerce Mr. Chadbourne said: "I can say absolutely that there has been no negotiations 'between Midale or Republic and Bethlehem Steel for their acquisition by the latter company. Furthermore, I do not believe there will be any. The fact that Midvale advances rapidly in the stock market Is no criterion of a new deal. Is it not likely that the public is buying the stock? "I can say with fullest confidence that if Midvale Steel officials at anytime commence negotiations with Bethlehem or any other company the executives of the other companies now negotiating the "six company merger" will be notified immediately. "Mr. Corey, Midvale's chairman, is one of the most honorable gentlemen I have ever known, and he would not think of doing anything underhanded or covert. If he Is approached by Bethlehem we will knrw it, and there has een' no notica stfved on us. "Developments affecting the steel mergers have been known by us all tTie way through. When Inland, Steel & Tube and Youngstown began negotiations for their proposed merger they informed the remainder of the steel companies of their action and said they woud continue with their appraisals and valuations until they are convinced that no definite headway could be made. "Similarly when IackawanVia began negotiations with Bethlehem Mr. Downs informed every member of our group of the move, and there was nothing secret about the deal. Mr. Downs was absolutely honorable throughout the transaction, although I will admit that we did not think the Lacka wanna-Bethlehem merger would be consummated.' "As to whether Bethlehem interests could purchase control of Midvale in the open market I would not want to hazard a guess. No signs have appeared in my opinion, to indicate such a move. A man' does not usually bid up the price of the stock when he wishes to acquire control, but takes it when the stock Is offered for sale. "There are 38,000 stockholders of Midvale and I, of course, cannot speak for them, but I do not think that Bethlehem is after control of either Midvale or Republic. "Considerable progress has been made in the negotiations to combine the six companies, na'mely, Midvale. Republic, Youngstown, Inland, Steel & Tube and Brier Hill, and I am confident the deal will be concluded. We are getting nearer a basis e ery day. "The bankers have theoretically drawn a ring representing the limit of capitalization the combined corporation may have, and all companies are told to get inside this ring. "The problem is to allot a definite percentage of this limit to each com pany. which requires constant adjustment, as when values of one company are increased .a nother must be cut down. I can say this: When the combination is effected the new corporation will have fixed charges and preferred dividend requ'rements of only $1.10 per ton of ingot output, which will put it in an enviable position as compared with sime stee! companies." INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. May 13 More than 1.000 delegates from all parts of the state are attending the eighty-sixth semi-annual communica tlon of the Grand Lodge. I. O. O. F. of Indiana, in session today In the Grand Lodge hall in the Odd Fellow building. Mrs. Elizabeth Ehrhardt .of Green sburg, was elected treasurer of the Indiana Rebekah Assembly at the closing session of the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the assembly, on Tuesday afternoon. State officers In the Rebekah order are advanced one station in rank each year until the i office of grand president is reached. More than 3,00,000 pounds of Spanish mackerel are s'hlpped from Kev West yearlv. I

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TAX ASSESSING IS NOWCOMPLETE Township Assessor James Clements Makes Announcement. Complying -with the terms of the new tax law as regards the revaluation of real estate and improvements to be made this year. James j Clements, North township assessor, announced yesterday that tax assessments have been completed in -North township and that personal si.htdules have been filed, boxed and shipped to Indianapolis for binding. "While we have not arrived at any total as yet and our books have not been brought up to date, I am of the opinion that the total tax assessment is approximately as It stood last year," said Assessor Clements. "At this time I do not believe any of the cities in North township are likely to lose anything in net valuations." During 1921 the following Is the valuation of railroads and total valuation of all taxahles in North township taxing units, which Mr. Clements docs not believe far off of 1942 re-valuations: East Chicago City 1 8i. 242,080 Hammond City 61.583,690 Whiting City 28,196,443 Munster Town 2.305,140 Hl&hland Town 2,076,715 Hessville (innexed to Hammond Total $178,406,070 The valuations on banks and public utilities, which are made direct to the State Board of Tax Commissioners at Indianapolis, will not be disclosed for some time, probably not until the State Tax board concludes their work, which starts on June 5th at Crown Point, according to a statement made yesterday by Assessor Clements. He said for this reason the pctual valuations would not become known possibly until August 1. DEATH OF F. BEACH M ERKI LLV I LLE, IND.. May IS Fred Beach, a well known Ross Township man. died at his home of' Bright's Disease yesterday mornin,j. : He leaves a wife, Mrs. Cora Both-' well-Beach, and two small children. The funeral services wiil be held from the Charley Bothwell homestead at 2 o'clock Saturday atternoon. Interment in the Ross ceme tery. AUTHOR OF RAIL OWNERSHIP IDEA AT DEATH'S DOOR Attorney Glenn Plumb. Glenn Plumb, attorney for the rail brotherhoods and author ol the Plumb plan for the operation of the railroads on a profit sharing: basis, is reported to be fiehtinsr jramely for his life at bis home in Washington.

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IBM.LKTIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, May 18. Nineteen persons were burned to death in a fire which swept Holy Ghost hospital In Rome, said a Central News dispatch from that city. It is feared there are more bodies in the ruins. (BIX1-ET1.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MOSCOW, May A representative of the White Star steamship line is in negotiation with the Soviet today with a view to opening a direct steamship route between Petrograd and New York. The port of I'etrograd i now open to traffic. Bl LLET1N) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PITTSBURGH. Pa. May IS Three terrific explosions early today smashed three coal mine tipples four miles above Turtle Creek in this county and rocked the countryside lor a considerable distance. Matthews Patterson, said to be a leader of the United Mine Workers. Is ..under arrest and Sheriff Woodside's office announces other arrests are Imminent. (BULLETIN) LEROY, N. Y.. May IS. Another railroad crash at Leroy, where the Black Diamond exPpss disaster occurred last Saturday, late yesterday cost the life of Fred Schreiner of Buffalo, when a north bound Buffalo, Rochaster and Pittsburgh passenger train struck a heavy motor truck, killing Schreiner. the driver, and hurtling the engine off the rails. ... IBII.LETIN) BELFAST, May 18. Seven persons have been killed and more than a score wounded in fihtins in Belfast and suburbs during the last 24 hours. OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN FOR CATHOLIC LEAGUE All Except One Trustee Re-elected at Convention. Sessions at Fort Wayne. FT. WAYNE. In.i.. May 1?. All supreme officers, except one trustee, .vpre re-elected at ".he twenty-second annual convention of the Catholic Benevolent I?ae-ue of Indiana, in session here Tue3ilay night. The officers reelected are: Spiritual director, (he Rev. Edward J. Muncovan, Valparaiso; president. Jacob Hattman; vice president, Charles Freiburger; secretary, Teorrre A. Christian; tieasurer, John T. Kohrman; orator. John B. Urbar, til of Ft. Wayne; chancellor. George M. Frisz. Tipton; guard. Miss Clara Ness, Columbia City; trustees. Henry M. Kohrman, Thomas A. McLaughlin. Tre Shoemaker (newly e'ected. Ft. Wanye; mrdical examin-r-r-in-chief. Dr. John E. McArdle, F"t. Wayne, and law committee, .'ulian F. Franke. Harry F. Kennerk and Thomas J. Mclaughlin, all of r-'f. Wavne. ' ! Each council in the state was represented at the convention. Sixty -'elegates were present from Auburn ilia. Anderson. Columbia Cltv, Chesterton. Crown tolnt. Decatur, j Dyer. Frankfort. Griff ith. Garrett. ' Huntington, Hammond. Kendallvllle, Kokomo, Logansport, Lafayette. Muncie. riymouth, Rushville. St. John. Sheldon. Schercrvilie, Tipton iind Ft. Wayne. GARY LODGE CONFERS DEGFEE The degree team from Gary lodge f odd Fellows last night icnferrel the third degree on a class of two dozen odd Fellows from different Indiana cities at the Grand Ixxlge meeting held at Indianapolis yesterday and last night. The team is composed of some thirty members of the Steel City lodge.

' A band of armed men, wearing police uniforms, attacked the Musgrae barracks in the heart of the city, one constable was killed. (Bl'LLKTIt By S. D. WEYER I STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE GENOA, May 18. The general commission of the international economic conference met today and accepted the plans for a truce which will be operative in Europe during the work of the Russian investigating commission at The Hague and four months afterwards. The successful termination of the negotiations over the non-aggression pact was a victory for Premier Lloyd George of England, who has taken the lead in putting it through. (BVLLETIS) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, May 18. An accusation that Leon Trotzky, commissar for war, misappropriated funds of the Soviet, threw the meeting of th-t all-Russian central executive committee into uproar at Moscow, said a Copenhagen dispatch to the Daily Telegraph today. This dispatch quoted advices received in Copenhagen from Helsingfors. Trotiky was reported to have left the hall by a rear door during the excitement that followed the charge against him. bulletin) LONDON. May 18. Premier Lloyd George w ill not represent Great Britain at The Hague meeting next month, it was formally announced at the premier's office today. It is probable that British interests in the meeting at. The Hague will be represented by Sir Robert Home, chancellor of the exchequer, and by Sir Phillip Graham. PUBLIC INVITED TO .S. Hammond Industrial High school will give its sixth annual fair tomorrow evening. It promises to be even better than these of previous years, The attractions offered include two one-act plays, a French play given in Fr-rtrn; a dramatized version of the Bible story of Ruth, a regular "movie" and a musical vaudeville. The high school orchestra which has made several public appearances will play. The domestic science department will be on the job serving the delicious food for which it is famous. A feature of the fair wiil be the exhibit of landscapes painted by Mrs. K. S. Monroe, wife of the superintendent of schools. These paintings were recently part of an exhibit of the work of American artists at De Pauw T niversity. The fair will give the residents of Hammond an opportunity to see the ne'wly completed part of the high school building, ir.r"iding the large auditorium which is one of the finest in Northern Indiana. Tomorrow's fair will be the first time the auditorium has been used for a public meeting. The doors will be thrown open at 7:30 o'clock. A general admission fee of 10 cents will be charzed. DEMOCRATS ELECT LADY CHAIRMAN MONTICELLO, IND., May IS Mrs Ura Quinn of Rensselaer was elected chairman of the Tenth district democratic organization here, succeeding Ed. Simons,. of Lake county. Everetta L. Gardner, of Monticcllo, w as f lected ' Tire1 chairman. Other officers will b . appointed by the chairman. Soni 250 years ago children, in England were sent to school with pipes in their ratchets, nti the schoolmaster called a halt in their duties while they all smoked. According to General De Castel-

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Pinciiot's Victory Deals Machine Politics a Solar Plexus Blow

(BU.LETIN) 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PHILADELPHIA. May IS Gifford Pinchot today received the following telegram from Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, widow of former President P.oosevelt: "Hurrah for Pennsylvania! Your friends are delighted." (Signed) "Edith Kosevelt." (ntLLETIX) By GKoRfiK rt. HOLME STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE) WASHIM.ION, May 18. Follviral Washington that part of it which isn't at home looking after shaky nan in an extremely agitated state lodui. Stunned 1- the succession ot primary shocks administered by the votem of Indiana and Pennsylvania, leaders or -very nhade of political thought vi ere privately conceding today that "It looks like a Progressive era." Kven the nl tra-oonservatl ve Itepubllrana of the "old guard" tyoe. who were Inclined to scoff at the defeat of Senator Harry New by Albert J. Beverldge, have had their complacency Jarred all ont of plumb by the amwxhing defeat given the Pennsylvania Republican machine by Gifford Pliiehot. By J. BART CAMPBELL PHILADELPHIA, May 18. Stunned by the most smashing blow that has been dealt machine politics in Pennsylvania in yea-s. thA old line Penrose leaders of the Keystone state ruefully surveyed today tne wreckage of their once powerful organization and the ur.pleasant prosspect for them of Gifford Pinchot, former personal friend and ally of the late ThJdore Roosevelt, sitting as the head of the state government with all of its perquisites of power and patronage at his command. PINCHOT FOR PK ESI DENT . In capturing the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Pinchot ie believed by some of the shrewdest lieutenants the late Senator Boise Penrose had. to have become overnight a formidable presidential possibility, and to have become an important factor in national politics whom the "old guard" Republican leaders must consider henceforth. The Republican state commute will meet in a few weeks to name a successor to Penrose as the Itepublican national committeeman from Pennsylvania, and it is generally cencedrfd , that Pinchot, whom some of the old Penrose leaders are already seekin? to place, will be In a position to influence greatly the choice of Pennsylvania's next representative in the national councils of the Republican party. WOMEN P.ini'LV RESPONSIBLE As the women vC Pennsylvania are conceded to have had much to do with the lesult of Tuesday's primary election in this state, it is the opinion of the political sharps that they will be greatly encouraged by the Pinchot victory to demand a larger voice in state and national politics. Following so soon after the defeat of Senator Harry S. New, spokesman tor the Harding administration, by Albert J.. Beveridge, one time Progressive Republican, in Indiana, the success of Pinchot in overturning the "old guard" Republican machine in Pennsylvania, and in wrestling from it control of tha state, government, is also believed to be certain to cause formar Progressive-Republicans to perls up throughout the country and to give considerable impetus to the anticipated revival of the ProgressiveRepublican movement in state and nation. PENROSE LEADERS EXPLAIN IT Widespread unrest pnd discontent, and pronounced dissatisfaction with the national as well as with th state administration Rre declared by the old Penrose leaders to have contributed to their crushing defeat and to be certain to continue to felt to an increasing extent within and beyond the borders of the state. The coal strike, which affected thirty of the sixty-seven counties of the state, and threw SO.nno men out of work in Pennsylvania alone, is declared by Governor Sproul and other "old guard" Republican leaders to a'so have been but one of the chief reasons lor the Pinchot sweep. Will. HAVE ITS lNEU'ENCE As the F.everidge victory in Indiana was jegarded as one certain to influence the senatorial contests in other states this year, so th Pinchot victory Is expected to add to the trials and tribu'atiions of tha "old guard" Republican senators who are up for re election elsewher. if only because it is likely to giva fresh encouragement to former Progressives xv'tio in a number of Instances are opposing them, and to the women of other states to turn out in large numbers to smash tna old-line Republican politicians In them as the former Penrose leaders were crushed in Pennsylvania. PINCHOT LEAD GaOWINf. With 426 districts out of 7,334 in the state still to be heard from. Tinchofs lead over Attorney-General George Alter, spokesman for the Sproul state administration who he defeated fr the republican gubernatorial nomination, is estimated at 7.639 votes, but the missing districts are ones which ara now expected to add materially to the Pinchot vote. The walk-over for United State! Senator George Wharton Pepper, over William J. Burke, of Pittsburg, his opponent, for the old Penrose seat in the Ser.at. is nm from which the "old guard." republicans are seeking some surcease from their bitter disappointment at the resnlt of the gubernatoral fight. Unofficial returns from 5.238 districts gave Pepper a majority af approximately 211,000.