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Watson Fears Tli Tariff Bill May be Jpardized! FEATURES OIBIU-. ilNTES NATIONAL NEWS SflCEJ washing i on. ui.a. The Fordney-MeCumbe- tma bill, approved ye8ters".sy th Senate f.nw; coramittetis turnuwrixed as follows: j Cost: S3.je3.C0d.009 end ol ?? years (McCumber;, Uimate). Financing: No metii, provided. ; - , ' i Rate: Sl. day ,r home service and $1.25 a dafor fords n service. Limit: $$0O for hoe, service and ff5 for. foreign slce. Cash provision: Limia to veterans gatting S50 total Certificate iro vision Amounts to three t:rce computecash due each man, to be I ai J t end of 19 year period. f Home or farm provlon: Veteran can obtain from Secretary of Interior full cash 13:3 If spent on purchase ofhonie or farm or on debts so cntracted. Cash amount inert-asea 149 per cent in 1928 if spout iahis manner. Vocational tra!n:ng rovislon: Veteran is paid $1.7! per d.iy w hile unJr vocations traitiiror provided by governiait ; total mount not to etce 140 per cent of cash va!t:e of h bonus. Ixiar: provision: Natlaat bm';s j"thor:zed to loan 50 rr cent of Tare ralie of boaus Certificate prior to January 1. IJCIand post ojfire department autbrized to make same loans therefter. By J. BART CAMP ELI STAFF CORRESPONDENT I.. SERVICE WASHINGTON,. Jyr.4 I-In.'ei t: n cf the soldier bonus b-jPh Senate legislative tangle is Republican leaders still dividne jday as to whether the tariff sryl be sidetracked for the. bons(' .'the bonus should be held up " the tariff Is disposed of.

.Senator McCumber. S ubllcan oi j improvement since its first number North Dakota, chairmpjif the Sen- (appeared. It has been issued monthate finance commit. eeis Insistent i,y but as its fleld has been greatly that the bonus bill b??!jassed first, i lncrea,)ed' u has been decided to He said he hoped f .f reach an:mak'5 u a weekly publication next agreement -with othiSifetetators to ;'ear- A new press will be added permit the bill to ot through i to the, nih school equipment for after two or three daii?W dht. this Purpose.

Senators Lodge of Whui.lt..; Curtis of Kansas. W 'tmt . ' i.r and other Republica Jaders we: of the opinion that fyattempt to displace the tariff pf the bonus would lead to a flllgiter by Republican and Democrt.Ai opponents of the bonus which vouHl seriously Jeopardize the tariff fill. They knew, they sHd, It was the Intention of Senator Brah. Republican of Idaho, an avowed foe of the bonus, to attack it a, considerable length, and with Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader, Wadsworth of Ne wTork. Qlass of Virginia and other bonus, opponents, prepared to discuss It,1 they were extremely dubious as to vhether the bill could be passed quickly. To add to the tribulations of the ' Republican leaders, notice was serv ed on the Democratic side by strong bonus advocates like aish or Mas sachusetts that they would not con-' sent to the bonus being delayed Indefinitely. Delay might imperil Its chances cf passage at the present session, Walsh argued. It was admitted on the Hepublican side the Democrats had JocVceyed the Republicans Into a difficult position from which it would require much dexterity for the' mto Uxtficate themselves. With the Democrats ready to demand immediatie action on the bonus and to offer alstraight out cash bonus substimte lfor the McCumber Insurance certificate plan, and the Republicans split! on the procedure to be followed vith v. pardto both the bonus yind the tariff, the situation was conceded by the Republicans to be orl e from r. hich their Democratic opponents were lilrely to derive much J?oy. AUTO SHOWS g ; '. n.j of, WASHINGTON. June 1 Si tlal increases In the product automobiles and building ma were the outstanding featur trade reports for the mon April, announced 'yesterday department of commerce. ger automobiles produced duri month totaled 138.512. or 30 pfcr than moro than In March, whilefrually k production also showed a tf frecklitial gain. Jful corai In many other lines, the f taran it fails. 1 show the advance over Maracklas u dltions that might have ft Othine pected from the precedin?he first although It was regarded w a wonc couragirig sign that "busf r lno the most oart is advanclnlfntireiy. less apectacular but moreF druggU tlal manner. fa

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WilSHI.VU'lDN, June 1. "l ndernMr haiTr a decided fmllinK oft 1b May," was the prosaic cob. elusion of the federal reserve board today. The board's retlew of the underwear Industry sr:mprophetic of the still warmer days to come. ENJOYABANQUET ; Temulac To Be Mads A Weekly Paper by Newly ; Chosen Staff Next Year. !

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j Hammond's journalistic aspirants CITY ENGINEER BRIDGE is preithe high school students who have j paring sketches of the proposed .. !,. Hohman street widening. The been arettlng out The Temulac ' D" (hearing has been continued until jthts year and those who will con-juiy nth.

trol its destiny next year, enjoyed i a banquet at the Hammond Country j planned as a celebration of the j

good work done by the old staff Malmstone delivered the invocation, and as a reception to the new man- j CAp HARRY NELSON was in agement. Jtown today. ;His gas station and Joseph Lngraham. retiring edl-jtea house at the juncture of Shef-tor-in-chief, presides as toastmas-' field avenue and Calumet boulevard t. , .v . k.Iis doing a big business, he reports, ter. Before the evening closed he j " had gracefully yielded the reins of j EAST HAMMOND boy rises to control of the school paper to Wal- inquire since when "Columbia The

!ter Bail, who made a speech of acceptance. : The principal address of the eve-I Intng was made by Editor F. A Tarry, of The Times. His subject i was, "Journalism as a Profession." He congratulated the young scribes on their good work and said that .

The Temulac wi a great success , . , , , . ... . ,of Kenwood for a couple of weeks, because it mirrored the life of the j . high school just as every success- j FROM all quarters comes praise ful newspaper mirrors the life of j0f the fine turnout of Boy Scouts on the community around it, enabling ' Memorial Day. It was the best the community by looking into the , appearance they have ever made In newspaper to see itself reflected." jpara3e and their representation Forceful addresses were also was greater than any other organmade by A. L. Spohn, principal of Nation. the high school and E. S. Monroe, j superintendent, of schools. There I JOHN MILLETT'S photograph

wire twenty-eight guests at the .banquet. j Joiip. Chevigny - is the new busijness manager of the paper. W. H. 'Howe, instructor in printing and i Miss Grace lotehkiss, literary supervisor, will continue to represent j the faculty in helping the students .keep up the standards which have I t-e.-ii established. Members of the staff are elected by the student body each year subject to the approval of tlTe faculty. The Temulac has shown steady 1S "o""""; faulty advisor I'icsciiiru im a porirono Dy iTho Temulac staff last evening. LY AT LI TO EXPLAIN ACTION Much sympathy is expressed for the families of the bandits who figured in the sensational shooting episode on 25th avenue and the following rtatement from one of the families is self-explanatory. HOWARD FOWLER'S BOYHOOD It Is not our purpose to, in any manner, defend the action at the time he was shot by the officers as mentioned in The Times. However, we feel that there are 5ome facts pertaining to his life which ought to be stated to the public in Justice to his family, consisting of his father and mother and one sister. Howard was horn at Bluefleld. W. Virgania. twenty-one years ago and at the age of about seven he came ' with his parents to Danville, Illinois where he completed the grades and a four year high school course, graduating with honor and standing at the head of his class; then he completed a course at Brown's Business College of that place. In addition to the above work he took up instrumental music and early in life Joined the church and became active in religious work. Some five years ago ho came to Hammond and worked for the Erie railroad. Standard Steel Car Works and the Sinclair Oil Co. and then made two trips to California, but Hammond remained his permanent home. Up until the event stated there was nothing in his conduct which caused his family to believe that , there had been any change in his onduct. and at this time they are at a loss to know the cause or influence of any change in his life. MABEL EAI'S, FAY EADS, J. S. FOWLER. ROYAL JESTERS INITIATE AND THEN EAT Court 43 Royal Order of Jesters met In austere session last night in

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Meivin Monnett, James J. Armstrong an p Parker. C. C. Bonham, George teM Poland and W. C. Norris. After which the Jesters adjournea llo a well known Lake restaurant OT a chicken dinner with ail the w,BIB,Bf. The Jesters are lookg in good weaitn toaay.

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j AV. J. McALEER is in Denver. Colo., on legal business. WILLIAM LOVE and Howard scheidler were taken into the Kiwanls club yesterday. UPON hearing of the detection of the bandit gang, Dr. Cilson also sent a check for $10 to the police pension fund. J. K. TRESCOTT, just back from a motor trip through the fruit belt of Michigan, reports that crop pros- , pects were never brighter. i H. A. BOENDER has moved his real estate insurance ofi'i-.-e.to Room 114 of the First National Bank building with Atty. Theo. Klotz. Memorial Day address at Griffith i under the auspices of the American Legion of that place. Dr. W. E. Gem of the Ocean was made the national anthem, as reported in these columns in the Woman's club pageant story. THE city is smoothing over the i surface of Conkey avenue and jitneurs can hardly wait until the job is finished so they can scoot down (Hat Btrsat an.-l svniH tViA Kumna specialist, Mr. Steele, made a hit with his pictures of the police-bandit tragedy In "Lover's Lane." Detectives posed for a reproduction of the events that culminated in the shooting. . FRANK MARTIN and family were up to St. Joe, Mich., Decoration Day, and on the way back stopped over at Cedar Crest the new summer tamp of Hammond Boy Scouts. Martin thinks it is a wonderful place. . TEY'RE going to change the name of the block on Michigan ave., between Oakley and Hamlin ' to Dort Place. So many of the cars are showing up along that stretch that it's going to the heads of those poetically inclined. THE construction gang has started pouring concreve for the double walls of'the swimming pool in West ; Hammond's Memorial Tark. That ; there may be no cracks In the wall. Ithe work will proceed in three eight I hour shifts until completed. The (concrete Is poured from, a high ' tower. F. J. OROURKE, Harry Grimmer and Fred Barnett are delegates to the state democratic convention at Indianapolis today. George Hershman. of Crown Point. Harry Arnold, of Gary. Allen Twyman, of East Chicago, Judge Sullivan of Whiting and Ed. Simon of Hammond, will attend. JIM WANG MICHELSTETTER has bought an interest in the Fred Webster Musical Comedy Co., which will play at- the Orpheum theater in the near future. "Now that I own half of this show can I lead the orchestra?" Jim asked Fred. "Sure," says Fred. "You . can lead them out in the alley after the performance." LAWRENCE DESWARTE. director of the Hammond high school orchestra, announces that Schildkret's Hungarian orchestra will give a concert in the high school auditorium tomorro wevening at 8 o'clock. The concert will be under the auspices of the student orchestra. A small admission will be charged. The public is invited. THE TIMES reporter who roasted the public because it didn't know the words to "Columbia. The Gem of the Ocean," got his yesterday at the Kiwanis club. The Kiwanians called on him to sing the song. He not only didn't know the words but he couldn't read them out of a song book.' "At that." said Murray Turner, he sung better than he writes." GENERAL failure of the sewers to function in the down town district during tire rain storms last week which resulted in the flooding of the basements Is cause of concern to property owners . and merchants. The failure of the sewers is attributed to the fact that the pumps at the outlets are too small. There Is need of bigger pumps at Hohman street and Calumet avenue. THE Jewish community of Himthe Law on Mount Sfnal by Moses. "m" .soa hundred years ago, and Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, speclal services win oe ne.a at tne &idj'" 5lrMl !ynagog. w nen k&odi ounus nappapori win pracn on "The Bible. The Foundation of ...

AVIATORS SHOULD CARRY SPITTOON INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE (HU'AIJO, Jane 1. To-aero Juice, torrents of It, have been pouring 'own and spattering the sidewalks la aristocratic Edgewater and Lake-view. It seems that soma low-flying plebtan aviator cbi-ws tobacco. Be:icvlnfr, that It Is a crying shame that the son porches aad flower pots within range of the air laaes should thus be decorated. Alderman EX I. FVankhcnser announced that he would Introduce a resolution In the city council prohibiting the practice of aviators chewing the weed.

VAMPIRE AUTOMOBILE SHOVES CAR IN DITCH Accident at Hobart When Cars Try to Pass Each Other. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! HOBART. I.VD., June 1 Mr. and Mrs. Laurey and two brothers, all from Chicago, were injured yesterday afternoon when their Ford sedan was thrown in the ditch near the Mundell farm north of town. The accident happened when three cars tried to pass, and the one car, a Chevrolet, locked wheels with the Ford, pushing it Into the ditch. The driver of the Chevrolet hastened away without even stopping tq offer aid to the injured. Dr. Mackey, assisted by Dr. Foukner, hastened the Injured to the Mercy hospital at Gary. None were injured seriously and It Is thought they will all be able to return to their homes today. The Ford car was badly damaged. ON AETNA ACREAGE Gary Real Estate Men Active, Report New Steel Site Planned. Will Aetna, east of Gary, the site of the once famous Aetna powder company which turned thousands of tons of explosives for the ai:ies i during the ir, become the site of another monster steej-manufacturing concern? " This is the question that Is 1n the minds of a number of welN known Gary real estate men who have secured options on Aetna acreage. They either have this in view or expect to purchase the land with the expectation of subdividing it for future residential districts for the employes of the new $40,000,000 tube mills whicn are to be constructed In Gary. It became known yesterday that Davidson & Son, local realtors, have secured option on 398 acres of land lying immediately south of the 490 acre Aetna tract, which has f een under option by the same firm for several months. Thl gives them some 800 optional acres. Besides this, another Gary man holds op tion on some Gary Acreage. The holders of the acreage decline to discus's the option deals or alve any intimation of Its purpose. The Times, however, has had Information for some weeks that a well-known steel corporation has had its eyes on the Aetna acreage. JUST A WEE BIT WET SPECIAL TO THE TIMES HIGHLANDS, Ind., June 1. It's not as dry In Highlands as one would think. In fact, there Is quite an oasis here. At least there was until Prohibition Enforcement Officer George 5keeks of Gary and his sponge squad cleaned up yesterday. At the home of John Pap. the dry agents found a complete 20-gallon still, besides 350 gallons of ryebread and sugar mash. The sponge squad then made a Jump over to the rendezvous of Gabriel KKii and found a 25-gallon still in operation. Kish was evidentally prepared to do a wholesale business. Fourteen gallons of newly made moonshine whiskey was ready for sale, whiie 450 gallons of corn sugir mash were waiting to be distilled. On top of all 'his the agents located 800 pounds of corn sugar. Tom Shriak was tne operator or t the still. He was catetaker while' Gabriel was out in the field taking care of his corn. Chief Weeks. Agent Rhed and Detective Sergeant Connelly and Fuller of , the Gary police department conducted the raids. , The office of Chief Weeks has been very active In mopping up the rnnntv the past month. Between ! raids. Chief Weeks has to be in court and by n'.ght- he says he is "ready for the hay." Agent Rhed nt vamt Chicasro has been assisting

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''y.Xs4bA .v.yM V-. '3Ws T?r- so r---2r i? "Prosperity Special Flying- pennants proclaiming it the "Prosperity Special," the largest and the most remarkable single train of locomotives ver hauled across the United States left the Eddystone plant of the ASK REPEAL OF TAX LAW (BULLETIN) s INDIANAPOLIS. Jane 1. "The Home Rale" faction of the Indiana I Democratic Party lost Its first and j probably Its last skirmish In the Democratic state convention this afternoon after a row that occupied the delegate's attention tally an hour. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. June 1 "The question of taxation and the restoration of home rule to the people are the paramount issues In this campaign," declares the platform submitted to democratic state convention today, of which the outstanding pledge is reduction of the expense bf state government. The platform, was adopted early today by resolutions committee of the con vtntlon. Other platform declarations are for: Repeal of the so-called Goodrich tax law and restoration of the law In effect prior to its enactment. Submission of bond issues over certain stated amounts to refendum. Revision of revenues derived from automobile licenses and inheritence to counties in which they originate instead of to the state highway commission. (There was considerable demand from counties for this plank. Limitation of state board of health's powers In condemning school houses and other public buildings- (Wholesale condemnation has come In for considerable criticism recently). Amendment of public commission act to restore its usefulness, or, if this cannot be done. Its abolishment. Limiting of powers of state board of accounts to auditing and accounting as provided by statute, (interpreted by recent appellate court decision). Abolishment of useless and obsoh a rt m m 1 l-dim o a rl ' KnaiH, with return to local self government. Return of public officials' salaries to pre-war basis and reduction of "largest army of unemployed In history" and "stupendous army of officials" set up by republican national and state regimes. The tax plank sets out that under the Goodrich law taxes in Indiana have doubled and trebled and the republican party "by its silence" has endorsed the law. It recalls that a plank was inserted in the republican platform pledging the return of bonding power to municipalities, but was removed at Gov. McCray's request. The referendum pledge is a substitute for provisions of the present law giving the tax board power over bond issue and on its face it does not appear, in the view of some, to be so great a return to home rule as sought by the plank stricken from the republican platform. To those who expected the democrats to defend the public utilities law, but condemn its republican administration, the public service commission plank came as a surprise. Samuel M. Ralson, senatorial nominee, had defended the law. Nevertheless the platform committee insrtrd a plank almost identical with that framed in the republican platform. In respect to th abolishment of useless boards and commission, the G. O. P. and democrat'- niatforms are similar. Enactment of a "fair law" for legislative apportionment Is pledged, the declaration on this subject asserting that the present law was designed' to bring about election of a republican legislature, even though the state might go democratic by fifty thousand. The platform condemns the proposed republican tariff and sales tax laws; opposes compulsory arbitration for labor, (as did the rely removal of the Indiana reformatory and declares for Immediate enactment of an adjusted compensation law for ex-service men.

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( BULLETIN ) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DEAL, King-land. June 1. 'ihe finding of an overturned life boat from the lost Peninsular and Oriental liner Egypt saved the crew of the wrecked Portugese steamship Dismantino, it was learned today when the seamen were picked up. They reported that they had about abandoned hope when the overturned life boat was sighted. (BULLETIN) CARSON CITY, New. June 1. The unanimous decision of the Nevada supreme court denying the right cf the btate attorney general , to intervene to set aside the divorce o' Mary Pickford from Owen Moore brought relief to thousands of persons who have secured quick divorces In Nevada In the last decade. (BrtLETIV) SYDNEY. X. S. W-, June J.. ' The 12.000-ton British " steam

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That the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad may be singled out as the storm center in the fight of the organized railway employes to force acceptance of the decision of the U. S. Railway Labor Board, regarding contract work, is indicated by the active interest shown in the Calumet region by high officials of the railway emploes department of the A. F. L. Last evening B. M. Jewell, president of this department addressed a large meeting of workers at the Hammond Labor Temple. Between 300 and 400 employes of the I. H, B. were present. Mr. Jewell came out from Chicago where he has been spending much time of lat before the labor board and where only yesterday he had criticized in no uncertain terms the 1 announcement of the board in reduc ing wages of maintenance f way employes 1 to 5 cents an hour. He tpoke fully two hours las; evening, explaining the situation as he tees it. The greater part of his time was taken in discussing the board's decision relating to the contracts between the I. H. B. and the Burnham Car Repair Co., for the operation of its car repair department. The three, points of the decision follow: (1) That the various contracts entered into between the Indiana Har- i bor Belt Railroad Company and the j Burnham Car Repair Company for" the operation of Its railway shops, and particularly the one bearing date of September 16, 1921, are in violation of the Transportation Act, 1920. insular as they purport or are construed by the carrier to remove said employees from the application of said Act. and that those provisions of the contracts affecting the wages and working rules of said employes are in violation of Decisions Nos. 2, 119 pnd 147 of the Railroad Laoor Board. (2) That the shop employees of said contractor are under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Labor Board and pubject to the application of the Transportation Act, 1920, and Decision No. 14T. (3) The carrier is directed to take up with any emrloyee the matter of rein-statement upon the application of the Interested employee or his representative. This decision rests upon the facts of this particular case, and the decesion of each of the other contract cases pending before the Labor Board will rest upon its own facts and the general principles herein declared. - Mr. Jewell believes that the other contract cases must be in substance the same as the first case as the conditions are practically identical. The United Boiler Heating & Foundry Co. of Hammond now has the contract for locomotive and other shop repair work at Gibson. It was employes affected by this contract which attended last night's meeting. They are the six shop crafts,

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sc y"i r: ?f .,i', r X . . t"- r St, Lonis for delivery. pounds. The train is part of an order of fifty locomotives of this type built for the Southern Pacific lines. Business men see the train as a "sign of the coming times." ship Wiltshire. which went ashore in a storm on Great Barrier reef with the loss of several lives, was being pounded to pieces today by heavy seas. The victims were drowned when Kfe boats were overturned. The Wiltshire hailed from London. Great Barrier reef Is on the Queensland coast. BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BERLIN, June 1. Eighteen persons are known to be dead in a mine explosion near Essen today. Eight miners were burled alive. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HOOPESTON. 111.. June 1. Traveling rapidly, two baloons. starters in the race from Milwaukee, passed ' over this city early today, the firbt at S a, m. and the other at 8.30 a. m. They were going, in a southerly directiorr. ' " boilermakers. electrlclons, black smiths, carmen, sheet metal workers and machinists, Included in the Indiana Harbor Belt System Federal tion No. "4. Officials of this or ganization say they have attempted to open negotiations with Belt of ficials since the wage board gave its decision but so tar their over tures have not been recognized. Another speaker of Importance last evening was Vice President Ev ans of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He is also a. member of the executive board of the railway employes department of the A. F. L W. M. Knight of Hammond, secretary of the Belt feredation. presided 'at the meeting. Another meeting will be called soon, it was announced. Aged Employe of Mark Plant Killed at Harbor Near His Home After alighting from a motor bus and while crossing the street in front of his home at 139th and Guthrie sts., Indiana Harbor, Sava Bracika, aged T2 years, was killed by an auto bus driven by Fred Martich, who ran over the workman, crushing his skull. According to Frank Rydzavskl, who had accompanied Bracika from the Mark plant, where the dead was employed, and who witnessed the accident, said that they had alighted from the Mark bus at th corner of 139th and Guthrie. His friend, he said, went ahead and as he neared the middle of the -street another bus going west struck him. Bracika who lives with his daughter at 3902 Guthrie st.. known as the Speed-Way Inn. was killed directly in front of his home. The body was taken to the ' Burns-McGuan morgue. Fred Martich of 3309 Deodar St., driver of the bus that struck Bracika, is being held under a 82,000 bond by the East Chicago police on a charge of Involuntary manslauahter

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MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. June The plea of Mabel Donovan. 17 y'1,8old, that her father be executed forKt ' the murder of her mother, was an-J .

swerea at tie Indiana state prison here early today when William E, Donovan died in the electric chan. Donovan's execution climaxed one of the moRt uniiftual criminal cases in the history of Indiana. I HE ASKS FORGIVENESS I Donovan died at eight minutes past midnight with a prayer on hit lips for forgiveness for the daughter who had destroyed hi single chance to escape death. Just before he went to the chair he had received a letter from hi daughter addressed to "Dear Old Dad" and urging him to seek solace in prayer and asking for Information ab'out a brother. . Donovan protested his Innocence to the last, contending that his wife. Laura, was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol. He declared his wife had attempted to use the gun against him and that It was discharged when ha attempted t wrest It from her. K YE-WITNESS TO CRIME Mabel Donovan, the daughter, was an eye-witness to the death of her mother. She la now living at Harrodsburg, Ky. i When the girl heard that her father had applied for a reprieve, she wrote to Governor Warren McCray of Indiana, asking that the governor make sure that the father paid the supreme pet.alty for tha crime. "My mother, was surely the best woman that ever lived," she wrote. "She was shot down with my little baby sister in her arms without any cause whatever, I have seen her beaten, knocked down and mistreated In many ways since I was old enough to remember. My father was always an everbearing man and, had lots of trouble. GOT HIS DESERTS "He cared for no one but himself, not even us children, and if he could ever get out he would not be too good to kill n children. In conclusion. I want to say again the sentence given him is surely what ha deserves." Just before his execution. Dono-. van said that he had no bitternes in his heart toward his daughter, for she did not realize what she w-as doing. He declared she was acting under the influence of a relativa of his dead wife. CROWN POINT ALL SET FOR CONCERT CROWN POINT, Ird., June L The Gary Municipal Band will play

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ai trow ii ruiui luuniii. concerts will be played at Cfowr Point this season, the Chamber of Commerce having entered lata a contract with A. G. Perry, manager of the Gary band, to furnish tne music. This well-known Gary band, which has had the work at Crown Point for the past three years, will play Its usual splendid programs and no doubt many people frort Gary will drive to Crown Point every Thursday night to hear their own band in the neighboring city. Mr. Perry has secured as the director of the band this season, Alfred J. Corwin of Chicago, recently of New York City. Mr. Corwlu rraa associated as assistant to Walter Damrosch for a number of years and is a very capable director and thorough musician. Rehearsals will be held, through the courtesy of the Union Labor Temple Corporation, at Labor Temple hail every Sunday morning this summer and as a remit, the band will be able to play many programs this year that could not possibly be rendered without rehearsal. Arrangements have been mad v play a concert at East Side Park. Gary, next Tuesday night. In the hope that the city council of Gary will attend and realize the need for concerts and make appropriations for the season. The concert Tuesday nlgut is made possible by business men who wish to see the Gary Municipal Band receive Its proper support. ; LEAVES SATURDAY Headed hy Dr. H. E. Sharrer. Judge Reiter. Clint Norris. Tony Tapper. John Morthland, C. C. Bonham, Harley Locklin. Earl Brusel, Ollie Roth and others, Orak Shriners, leave Saturday over the Sante Fe for Los Angeles enroute to Frisco for the big ceremonial and thenco to Hawaii. In Frisco the Orak caravan will have headquarters at the St. Frances Hotel .the week of June 16th. On the return from Hawaii ' ' Shraiers will visit Portland, f Spokane, the National Park f. .70c a boat trip on Lake McDonaJJ p. f rha i mnrirt nt at trip will be rhade at Hilq" . s 1 J -. 1 I TUf Shriners will be the gue S, McCandless of Aloho of the volcano at that kS8 travelers July S. will return

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