Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1922 — Page 1

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E Was Considered One of Strongest of All Companies in Merger By W1UJAM L AYER3 NEW YOKK. May -20. Youngstown Steel & Tube Company unceremoniously withdrew yesterday from the proposed merger of the independent steel companies, which, following Thursday night's defection of Lackawanna Steel, leaves only five of the original negotiators. These fire are now continuing their conferences to "determine whether it Is advisable to consider the consolidation of all or some of the companies." according to Thomas L. Chadbourne. one of the promoters' council, who has acted as spokesman for the &roup. This development came as a surprise, except to associated steel industries, and stands as the biggest mystery Wall Street has had to ponder over in some time.' There were four possible reasons advanced in explanation, but a careful check in well-informed quarters definitely kills each of these conjectures. James A. Campbell, president of Youngstown. refused to discuss the causes of his company's withdrawal, beyond saying it was an individual matter affecting only Youngstown, and was not due to any threat of governmental interference, as there was nothing in the contemplated merger contrary to law. The steel men declared emphatically also that Toungstown or its officials had not received any advances from any other concern as to a merger, had not been and did not expect to be. With these remarks he brushed aside questions as to possibility of" Joining the Beth-lehem-Lackawanna duo and the possibility of reviving the original trlcorner deal between- Youngstown. Inland and Steel & Tube. SO DISAGREEMENT OX TERMS From information obtained from high sources it can bo further stated definitely that th-r has been no disagreement as to terms. Youngstown, it is learned, has submitted figures as to the percentage of rights and capital it expected from the combined company, and there was little doubt that they would be 'accepted by ' all the other conferees. It 1 equally true that there was no disagreement as to management, as the bankers had decided, and the steel men unanimously agreed that Mr. Campbell v as to act as chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. ' Thus the four possible explanations of Youngstown'i withdrawal are killed. They are: First, tear of government intervention; second, more . favorable offers for another merger; third, disagreement as to terms; fourth, dissatisfaction with proposed management. Rl MORS ALL DEXIEE The question which Wall Street Is ' trying to answer is "just what was the reason?' and there seems little chance of it becoming known very soon, as a number of men in position to know were quizzed without avail. Some of these set at rest the various rumors afloat. The sole ' off icial information is the statement by Mr. Chadbourne, which says: "The representative of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company at a meeting yesterday of all representatives of the six-cornered mrirer. advised that they had reached the conclusion not to participate further in the proposed coxisolidatlonl Conferepeces among the other five concerns are continuing to determine whether it is advisable to consider a consolidation of all or some of these companies." The loss of Youngstow n lt a blow to the plans for the independent . merger, particularly in view of tne figures on its position now made public for the first time. In some respects, however, the Ave companies are just as strong as six. namely they still have the same complete line of products, and the same georgraphical -location of plants. in SHOT AND KILLED Meets Fate While Attempting to Rob Traction Magnates Home. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, liay 2. Adam Prochowski. known as the "choloform burglar," was shot and killed early today as he Red from an attempt to rob the home of Henry A. Bltlr, traction magnate. Prochowski escaped from'Jollet penitentiary two months ago. It 1 believed that he was seeking to steal costly art treasures from tho Blair home. Prochowski was arrested five years ago and became famous for bis method of chloroforming his victims and proceeding to ransack homes at leisure. He Is believed to have robbed "Gold Coast" homes in Chicago of more . than $100,000 worth of valuables during his career.

TO C I N

NOTORIOUS BURGLAR

Did You Hear That

ADD accomplishments of Harry Rlmbach, Jr. He can tell how far a frog can jump by looking: at it. HARRY BERDIXE, 461 Ash St.. tells police his bicycle is stolen from basement of Central school. ATTY. FETTERHOFF, of Waiting, is to deliver the annual memorial address at Kentland, May 30, THE recount of ballots cast for treasurer at the county primary begins Monday in Judge Norton's court. THIS rainy, clouSy weather is tough on the boys carrying pocket sun dials. They miss everything but their meals. LAKE COUNTY republicans will start toward Indianapolis on Monday and Tuesday for the "state convention of the party. THE horseback . craze didn't last very long. Doc Smith is about the last to stick and you can't pry him loose from a hose. SIGHTS of the town. Baseball bugs looking at the clouds all day wondering whether they are cooking up another rain for Sunday. THE old "Wrecking Crew" of the B. S.-S. A. financial campaign is still prodding around here and there prying dollars' loose from their owners. BLGHASER GE.VG In a ruminating mood mused as follows the other evening: "I wonder if they will ever bring that prohibition back again?" THE Paige & Jones Chemical Co., of Hammond, is furnishing chemicals for the new S. S. Majestic, the world's largest ocean liner which is now on her maiden trip. GEORGE HANLON. police chauffeur, is bemoaning lack of opportunity to whisk the flying squad. to some scene of excitement in the new police Cadillac touring car. THE GOLFMORE HOTEL. at Grand Beach near Michigan City, is nearly completed and promises to be very popular this summer with the Hammond set that goes to the beach. XOW that William Gruppe. proprietor of the Hammond Tire and Repair Shop has a baby son, he can eliminate the waste in his business by'convertlng the used - tires into pacifiers. FRED GUTXER. the East Chicago man who was run down by an auto at Sibley and Hon man streets. a week ago today, is still in a critical condition, according to Dr. Groman the attending physician. TAKE a look at the front of Mayor Paul Kamrad't garage and tire store the next time you cruise down State Line street. He's painted it a wild red since he took on the line of the AVorld Tire Stores. HAROLD KIRKEINER while passing through Harrison Park Tuesday evening stumbled over a perfectly good sweater. The" owner can have it by describing its color, etc. Do it by phone. Hammond 19. THE Bootlegger on the Four Corners may be seen any day lately, paring over the pages of huge encylopedias at the public library. He is hunting for a recipe for WakWak, much in demand in Hammond. HAROLD GESCHEIDLER is worrid. Some one must have passed passed out the information that a thin spot- is showing up in his hair for the other day he received a lib eral sample of hair restorer through the mail. CARL HEATHERIXGTON. agent for the Port car, 271 State street, has made such a success of that auto that he -has taken on another big seller, the Stephens Six, selling at $1,535. The price has Just been cut,. $150. THE New York Car Wheel Co. has broken ground for Its plant on So. Columbia ave., and the Hydrox Ice Cream Co., will begin to build the first unit of its plant opposite the Simplex next week. ' The flrnt building will be 127x70. JUDGE KENESAW LANDIS, base ball arbiter, is slated to address the Touns Men's Club of the Presbyterian church. June -4th. Governor JfcCray will come here at a later tiate under auspices of the cluh. How about getting Fill Bryan, boys? ARTHUR S. BROPHT. employed at the Grasselll Chemical Co.. and Barbara S. Spanier, of St. John. Ind.. are to be married May 27th at Holy Cross cemetery. Miss Spanier has been the manager of Lear's Confectionery store at Drexel and 63rd st. for three years. THE orchestra of the First Presbyterian church Is waxing more and more 1 leful. At the reception held on Weesday evening in the church, the young people dlii remarkably well with a number of peppy orchestral selections. Mrs. John F. Wllhelm Is the able directress. ATTORNEY GERALD GILLETT has a new Wills Salnte Claire coupe the car with the areoplane motor, and he eays he looked at them all before he bought. "I thought Hank Whltaker was spoofing me when he safd it was the greatest automobile in the world but he wasn't," declares Glllett

IF MABEL COULD TALK BRALNERD. Minn., May 20. If Maybel could talk, advocates of birth control and bewailers of race suicide hereabouts would get a real jolt. Mabel today gave birth to two pairs of twins (four) to keep company with a pair she brought into the world last year. Mabel is .just a common old red cow, owned , by Olaf Fahlstrom. a farmer of Maple Grove, near here. ' Six calves in one year is the record hung by Mabel, for her sisters In cowdom to shoot at.

53 VIE FOR JOB IN ' WHITING WHITING, Ind., May 10. Amazing in Itself and considered an excellent Indicative of the revival In the building industries, was the spectacle that spread itself before the committee of officials of Community Work in Whiting when they witnessed a total of fifty-three Individual bids of contractors aspiring to build the proposed $450,000 Memorial Community House for this city. Of the fifty-three bids received, all were discarded with the exception of the three lowest. These are: Anderson & Co,, Stamberg & Co.. and the Great Lakes Construction Co. All are Chicago firms. Among the probable successful bidders for the electrical work Is one local concern, the Wilson Electrical Co. Final selection of the bids and awarding of contracts will be made within a few days. The Memorial Community House wjll be more than a year in building. It will be the largest single construction project in Whiting's history. The building will incorporate all of the recreational and civic features essential to a structure of its type. It will be the last word In community house construction. Flans were prepared by a firm of Chicago architects. The building will be dedicated in memory of the service men of the late war. HUGE WHISKEY SWINDLE CHARGE CLEVELAND. O.. May 20. Federal warrants charging violation of the national prohibition law were issued today for Armand A. Gardos, former president and general manager of the Armand Drug and Candy Company, and Harry A. Grossberg. a broker, who has been absent from his home and offices here since the government Investigation started a few days ago. The warrants charged that Gardos and Grossberg conspired to. violate the law and that through this conspiracy 67,377 gallons of bonded Hayner whiskey, released from the distillery at Troy, O., upon medical permits, has reached detail bootleggers in Cleveland and other Ohio cities. ... ran 10 START ON SCHOOL NEXT WEtK John F. Rahn, contractor for the new $1,000,000 Catholic University to be erected on the South side of Chicago avenue Just west of White Oak avenue in East Chicago, says he will start breaking the ground for the first section of this school building next week. The contract price for the first division of the high school known as Christhurst, was awarded at a figure above $100,000. Construction is -expected to be continued from year to year until the proposed plans of the school have ibeen completed. WHITING WOMAN SUES FOR DIVORCE Mrs. Anna Baker, 633 Schrage avenue. Whiting, today filed suit for a divorce from Gust. Baker in the Superior court at Hammond. She says her husband accused her wrongfully of being Intimate with other men. He also abused her and threatened to burn the house. His conduct towards her caused unfavorable comment In the neighborhood. They were married July 10, 1307 and separated" last December. Mrs. Baker asks for $5,000 alimony. Her attorney is J. H. Fttterhoff. CHIEF BUNDE announces InstaN latlon of new "mushroom" safety devices at corners Rlmbach and Fayette and Hohman streets and Summer and Calumet avenues. They are painted white; 8 inches high: two feet in diameter; and have four red lettered street signs. They are electric lighted. Too many tall, silent policemen have been bowled over In the past y reckless motorists. These signs may be run over. No injury done. MISDIRECTED sympathy . Con doling with Miss Mildred Garrett,1 of Lion Store grocery department in j belief that it was her brother Harry j who was engaged in gun battle with j Hammond police. It wasn't. The brother lives in Towle street, works at the Standard Steel Car plant, and reads the Litr'y Digest.

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TRAINS FOR SHRINERS

Railroads Expect to Move Ten Thousand Through Chicago. CHICAGO. May 19. Arrangements have been made for the movement of 10.000 Shriners through Chicago to San Francisco, June 7, $ i and 9, for the annual conclave. The pilgrims will be carried In forty special trains, railroad officials say, thus making it the largest organized travel ever handled at one time. The Shriners will camp one night at the rim of the Grand Canyon, and the government will be asked to permit the Hopi Indians to give a special snake dance. PROJECT NEARS Hammond's three-quarter million dollar water plant is in the final stages of completion. The last lap In. the biggest engineering project ever taken by this city will befin with construction of the superstructure that is to house the costly and powerful pumping and water purification equipment at the lake front. This will be undertaken 'as soon as bid now in the hands of the board of public works have been approved by the consulting engineer, John Lricson of Chicago. OXLY ONE LOCAL CONTRACTOR Only one local contractor offered a bid on the three-in-one unit that will include the pumping house, the boiler house and the purification reservoir. He is Rufus Danner. His bid for the whole was $79,800 plus the cost of reinforced concrete and other supplies for which he said ne couldn't get figures in time to include in his bid. Other bidders were C. E. Curson, $92,250, and H. W. Horst. $89,900. Horst is from Rock Island, Carson from Chicago. The successful bidder probably will be greeUd with the good word at a meeting of the board next Wednesday. HIGE CHIMNEY TO TOP PARK Towering 180 feet aboye the park and pumping station will be' a huge brick smoke stack. It will be the last addition to the plant to be constructed. It will cost $7,135. Or in bricks, children, how many bricks will it take? The contract has already been let. RESERVATIONS FOR SUMMER DUNES CAMP Reservations for a summer camp to be held near Tremont. In Porter county on the shore of Lake Michigan and in the heart of the Indiana dunes, are being made In encouraging numbers, officials of the state conservation department said today. The conservation department is cooperating with the Indiana Federation of Clubs in promoting the camp which will be from June 15 to 2S." A nature school Is to be held at the camp under the direction of' Dr. Henry C. Cowlei , of the University of Chicago, a student of the dunes for twenty years. Professor Stanley Coulter of Purdue university and Professor George D. Fuller, of the University of Chicago, will assist in the school. Instruction will be given in the formation and history of the dunes the plant and animal life f the area, the artistic value of the dunes and the desirability of the region as a State park. The first course of lectures Is to begin June 1 and the second June 28. It was said. The camp Is to use the beach house and summer houses of the Prairie Club, of Chicago. The cost of the camp is to be very reasonable, off lcials said. Registrations enouia De sent to Mrs. O. C. Mathis, 711 Sohl street, Hammond. WATCHMAN KILLED AT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEKVICEJ V1NCENNES. Ind., May 20. Wilson Roudebush, watchman at the old Murphy distillery near here, was shot to death early today in a battle with whiskey thieves. . A son .watchman at a nearby refinery, heard the shots and summoned the police. Roudebush was dead of three bullit wounds when they arrived. His empty revolver lay at his tide. More than twenty, shots were fired, but not evon an empty cartridge shell remained as a clue to the slayers. A CORRECTION. The ad appearing In last night's issue of The Times, advertising Saturlng specials for the Army store, should have read folding stools for 90c instead of 9c.

HAMMOND

COMPLETION

MURPHY DISTILLERY

"Bulletins

IBI'L LKTI ) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SH.W U'ltK, May Z, "Vual'i the best news I've got In many a year." declared "Babe" Ruth today when he was handed Judge Landis' telegram Informing him that his suspension for participating in a barnstorming tour last fall had been lifted. "Now, watch my smoke!" (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KEGIN'A. Saskatchewan. May SO. Slowly starving to death and almost naked, the six children of Mrs.' Mary Jablowskl were discovered today living in a barrow under a straw stack . by a Canadian department in- ' spector. (BULLETIN) . INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' WASHINGTON. Ala zu. Jailing of women who are caught as aidsUo bootleggers and rum runners was urged today by Prohibition Commissioner ' Haynes, as a remedy for loose enforcement in some localities. Women are becoming the most-' active conspirators In the bottleg set, both in manufacturing and distributing. Haynes declared. s SWITCHMEN SUE FOR DAMAGES Four switchmen and a merchant of Hammond today filed suits asking for damages from the Pennsylvania rialroad, alleging malicious arrest May 14. 1920. Each plaintiff wants $10,000 damages. They were arrested on charges oi grand larceny filed in the Hammond city court by James R. Brennan, a special agent for the Pennsylvania company. The specific charge was based on the theft of ninteen pigs of tin valued at $1,500 which had ben stolen from the company in June. 1918. The swiirhmen, William Young. Mike and Henry Morgan, and William Thomas, were said to , have stolen. the tin a,nd sold it to Dave Friedman, a- merchant. He was charged with receiving and concealing stolen property. All wers bound over to the criminal court to await action of .the grand Jury after they had been held in Jail for twenty-four hours. On May 19. 1921, the prosecuting attorney made a motion to dismiss the cases because of want of evicrence to convict. The court discharged them. Each man claims to have been forced to pay out $100 for legal aid and other expenses. They were also greatly injured in their credit and reputation and brought into public disgrace, they say. McMahon & Conroy and A. E. Tlnkham are their attorneys. PASSES AWAY with the death this morning at St. Margaret's hospital of Hawley O. Bellby, agrd 71 years, , there passed away an' interesting charac ter, an old resident of nammona, and a man whose three score years and ten wero marked by many twists of fortune. He was born at Fairport, N. Y., in 1851. In 1877 he was married to Josephine Ruff. It is noteworthy that the parents of his bride resided on a farm' in thj heart of New York City that later became the site of the world famous Madison Square Gardens. f The young couple made their horn: at Fairport until 1SS3 when they came to Hammond. They resided at 23 Condlt street. The death of Mr. Beilby makes the first in the family. He Is survived by his widow, thrie sons, Jame-s, Ransom and Homer and four daughters, Mrs. Florence Buttner, of Phoenix. Ariz.. Mrs. Cora Apon, Mrs. Mabel Beahn and Miss Rose of Denver. Mrs. Bellby, called to Denver by the serious illness of her daughter Rose, will, not be able to attend tha funeral of her husband. Mr. Beilby was Janitor at Central school for seventeen years. For eleven .years he had been fireman at the Straube Piano works. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 oloek from thi home of his son James at 497 Blvd. Services will be held at the First Baptist church at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Oranger will officiate. Burial at Oak Hill. EVEN LOOKED FOR IT BEHIND THE DOOR In the course of a whirl-wind Bring clean-up of his house and grounds yesterday, Albert Jaist, who lives out In Hessvllle, came to his garage and In the process of overhauling the contents of that building was dismayed, not to mention aggravated. ' to find that his flivver was gone. "I .looked' everywhere,' he told police of Hammond station. "Behind the shovel, back of the door, and I even pulled oyer a pile of bags. But, no sir, the "Lizzie" was gene. I want to report it lost." In the police blotter the report reads: . ' "Stolen, . one Ford sedan. Taken from ra rage of Albert Jazsl, Hessvllle.'

HAMMOND

PIONEER

OWSLEY WILL VISIT

LAKE CO. Director of Legion Commission to Speak in Four Cities May 30 Lake county will get Its first glimpse of Alvln Owsley, the national direction of the American Legion Americanism Commission on Memorial Day. He will come direct from Hartford, Conn., to speak at Whiting in the morning of that day. He will be the guest pf Lowell at one o'clock (Standard time), and will address a meeting at Gary at four o'clock. He will close his visit to the county by speaking at Crown Point In the evening. At this place. it is thought that the Masonic Temple will be secured. Preparations are being made in all these cities to have large turnouts. Whiting Post American Legion is expecting large delegations from East Chicago and Indiana Harbor . The Memorial Day committee is doing everything in their power to have a' monster meeting at eleven o'clock at the Community Center hall. ( The American Legion Is now looked upon as the. leading organization for Americanism in the country. Mr. Owlsey being the director of the Legion's program of Americanism work makes him the biggest man in that I.ne in America today. He is a wonderful orator, and the Legion men who heard him at Monticello at tho last district meeting were so enthused by him that they Immediately desired to have him address a Whiting audience. It was hard work to secure him as he .s wanted in many places, especially for this day, but Whiting Post usually gets what it goes after. Letters are being sent to all the various organizations asking them to co-operate with the Whiting Post In getting out for the Memorial Day service. T OF TRUCK Hand-in-hand they started this morning for the movies. , Brother and sister. Alveda, aged 10 years, mothering Carl, aged 7. They had dashed down Hohman street. They were fearful lest they be late. At Sibley street they paused, fluttering on the curb. ready to make a dash across the street as soon as traffic cleared. Carl, too anxious, withdrew has hand from that of his sister. She called to htm to wait. He was too anxious. He started across the street. A small truck swerved around the corner. It struck the boy, knocking him to the pavement. Witnesses say one of the wheis parsed over his head. A scream from the sister brought pedestrians hurrying to the scene. Chief Bunde, passing by, rushed into the street. He picked up the limp form of the boy and carried him to the office of Dr. F. H. Fox, In the Citizens' Bank building. Careful examination by the physician failed to disclose any broken bonos. But the boy was badly cut about the chin and face. After dressing the wounds. Dr. Fox took him home. The truck that struck the lad is owned by the Electric Service Company. Alveda and Carl ar the children of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Proctor, of 309 Indiana avenue. GARY BEFORE LOCHO BTEARLE C. REVES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! NEW YORK, May 20. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the 'board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, the three foremost steel m&gnatea of the country, have been invited to appear before the Lockwood committee, according to an official annuoncement by that body yesterday afternoon. The committee had hoped to hear steel men this week but the dinner given at tthe white house to leading steel manufacturers took the chief men of the Industry from New York. It Is now announced that the "big tfiree" may have been requested to appear next Wednesday or Thursday. The contention of Sanvuel Untermyer, counsel for the committee, developed in questions yesterday, is that the Bethlehem-Lackawann-a combine and the proposed consolidation of six independent companies constitutes infringement of the anti-trust law.

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COMMITTEE

Here's Pinchot Who Won Penn. Primary

J. if v Most recent portrait of Gifford Pinchot. WOLFF CO. How rapidly the Wolff Manufacturing Co., of Hammond, is expanding is shown by the fact that within the last year the firm has opened six new warohouses in Indiana and Michigan. C. A. Terry, manager of the company, announced the opening of the sixth of the string of warehouses when he returnrd to Hammond last evening, from Grand Rapids, Mich., where he had closed the deal. The warehouses are located at the following points: Fort Wayne, Evansville. Indianapolis and South Bend, in Indiana, and Lansing and orand Rapids, in Michigan. In ad dition to these he is contemplating opening opening four other ware houses through Michigan. This means more business for the Calumet district as these ware houses will be stocked with carloads of plumbing and heating fixtures and supplies. In order to give satisfactory service, the com pany has found it advisable to open warehouses centrally located and distribute from them. Mr. Perry reports increased ac tivity in his line and says that a summary of the April business of the Wolff Manufacturing Co.. shows that during the month the contracts closed were equivalent to any three months In the past twelve. The new branches hav necessitated several additions to the Hammond force and will eventually mean even more employment for the region. G.0.P.TAKES riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20. That the republican leaders In Indiana. Inclined to borrow from the lessons of the Pennsylvania and In diana primaries, are convinced that "old guard'" and ward heeler methods will not carry them to victory over the democrats in November was apparent today. Warning that "there's been a change in the minds of the people," was sounded by AVilliam H. Freeman, republican county chairman, at a meeting here of G. O. P. county candidates. When one speaker urged that "we take counsel from some of the old 'ward heelers,'" Freeman replied; "I'll call upon them, but I wonder if you've read the returns from Pensylvania. We must keep our eyes upon those returns. ' "Th people themselves are -ot-ing," he said, declaring the party must 'sell" its candidates to the voters. "Precedents have been upset.' We must look for a campaign different than has been conducted In many years. People are more independent. They must be led to know and made to believe In the men they are going to vote for." NOTICE B. P. O. K. Special meeting, st 11 o'clock Sunday,, morning. Two very important matters to be decided on. R. C. SLATER, Secy. 5-20 Although the enolution of ths horse has been traced almost wholly from fossil remains found In America, horses were unknown on this continent in modern times until Introduced by the Spanish explorers. Ft. Apache, Arizona, the old and historic army post of the southwest is to be abandoned.

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INDIANA

WARNING

ew Fight Starts Over Basic

Principles of Government By WEBSTER K. NOUV " 'wILvTv DlHT '' SERVICE NVAS.HL(JiO.N. AJay 20. Tne proposed amendment to Article Ten of the American constitution today threatened to precipitate one of the bitterest se-tional fignts in the hia.uiy oi tne Senate, i, . i. . . v .orm against South and East against West in a new fight over basic principles of government as implied by the proposed amendment of Senator Hiram W. Johnson.. puoucan or California, for proexploitation of child labor. JOHXSOX DEFEVDI IT Johnson warmly defended th islation as necessary to protect the children. He charged it was ths duty of the national government to "slightly invade state rights" when the issue or child welfare was raised. Bitter condemnation came' from Senator Lee S. Overman, Democrat of North Carolina, who branded th proposed amendment as a "clear attempt to wipe out state lines." He called attention to the similarity of issues when eouthern states refused to enter the union because tney were not assured of state sovereignty. CHARGES AA1-ST AME.DME.T From the opposing faction it was contended that the Johnson amendment would open the door to scores of similar amendments which ultimately would establish a paternalistic superstructure of federal government. It was pointed out that similar provisions could be added to the Johnson amendment which would give congress authority to legislate anti-lynching laws to invade state lights on public educational measures and finally to usurp pvlice powers of the various states. "It is true my proposed amendment to the constitution would erfect the rights of states." said Johnson, "but it is unfortunately equally true that the object sought, salutary and necessary as it is. cannot be attained apparently under the decisions of the Supreme court in any other way. STATE ABROGATIVE "Ordinarilly I would not wish to invade the perogative of the states, but if the welfare of little children requires it, I would not for an instant hesitate. Some of them refuse to keep step with the progress made for the protection of children. "These few must be made, if it be within the realm of possibility, to do their duty to the young even If this demands a slight invasion of states.' rights." In opening his attack, Senator Overman declared that the states have already solved the question of child labor prohibitory laws. "If the states wouli enforce these laws, there would be no need of an amendment to the constitution." said Overman. OVEHMAX GIVES REASONS "Enactment of this amendment would be the beginning of a move to wipe out the state governments.", said Overman. "It would eliminate police powers of the several states, which we prize so highly. The tenth article of the constitution, which Johnson's proposed amendment would wreck, has been the guarantee of states' rights under which the national government has existed since its inception. 4 "The tenth article was tha very section of the constitution which brought my state of North Carolina Into the union. Until the constitution was amended to guarantee states' rights set forth in that article. North Carolina refused to recognlie the national government." HERE'S MOOT POINT The tenth article If the constitution, which students have declared to be the keystone of the situation, reads: "Section One: The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the peoJohnson's amendment wouia aa the proviso: "Provided, however, that tne con gress shall have power to regulate or nrohibit throughout the United States employment of children under 18 years of ace. FRENCH ARMY READY TO TAKE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! FAR1S, May 20. If Uermany fails to pay her reparations due May 31. France's army may march forward. This is the interpretation toaay placed on Premier Poincare's views concerning the Rhine occupational army and Its uses. Austen Chamberlain, British gov ernment spokesman, recently, in formed the House of Commons that the allies had agreed not to in crease their Rhine forces separately. The French premier today let vt be known that, in his opinion, that view does not hold good In cas Germany commits a default of payments. Poinoare Insists that the treaty of Velsailles permits sepa- te action by any of the allies concerned in case Germany makes a voluntary default. France is roncern?d"' and there Is a general reeling that Germany's expected default will he "voluntary." Among the resins which are most commonly used In varnish making are various natural resins of fossil

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or semi-fossil origin.