Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 320, Hammond, Lake County, 2 June 1922 — Page 1

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7,000 Children are Now Attending the Hammond Public Schools President 1 L Bomberger of the Hunmond School Board addressed the Hammond Rotary Club yesterday regarding the development of the Hammond schools. Mr. Bombtrger very clearly showed the 8row;h from 1912 by means of charts and also explained the sources of revenue and the distribution of expanses. In 1912 the number of students in the Hammond schools was 3.iu: in 1922 this has increased to 7,000, and according to the present outlook, there will be 8,000 students within two years. The number of high school students has Increased from 650 in 1915 to 1.859 In 1922. The capacity of the high school n 1.500. so' the limit of the high school will soon be reached. The Increase In stJdents has been very great, but the increase in high school students has jiot kept pace with the grade schools. This indirates that something must be done to increase the number of students who finish their full course. Mr. Bombergec suggests the solution of this problem will probably be the establishment of Junior high schools comprising the seventh, eighth and ninth grades; with a Senior high school course of three years, making a total scholastic period of twelve years against the eleven years at present. By locating several Junior high schools in different territories, accessible to all students, the present high school would then become the Central high school of the city. In 1915 the assessed valuation of Hammond property per student was only $3,000 per year as against an average for the United Ststes of $9,000. Owing to the change in the method of assessing "rroperty and to the growth of the city, the assessed valuation is J60.000.000 and the valuation per student Is '$9,000. The average cost of schooling each child ;er year In Hammond Is only $7$. TCast Chicago spends $98 per year and Gary $120 per year. This indicates that the school board is conducting the schools on an economical basis, '. Mr. Bomberger stated that the valuation of the Hammond schools is $2,000,000. Due to the rapid arrowh of the city.- sixteen additional rooms for next year are needed, in addition to permanent structures to replace the present temporary buildings. The school board Is erecting a permanent biilldina- to replace the Continued on page five.) By J. BART CAMPBELL. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. June 2. A warning that the prospective bonus legislation was "certain to encounter many difficulties before its final passage," and any attempt to postpone consideration of it until after the tariff bill is disposed of would imperil its enactment at this ses. sion. was voiced by Senator Wf.lsh of Massachusetts, a Democratic member of the Senate finance committee, in a statement Issued today. "The opposition to bonus legislation is powerful enough, although when the Altai vote is taken its opponents will be comparatively few." aid Walsh. "There are many, however, who are only half hearted in their support, arid many who would like to see it rejected, but are not willing to be known as active in the opposition to it. Such a condition always encourages inaction and delay." . From the outset, this opposition has had the most money and the most influence behind it, but fortunately there are morn than enough votes to overcome U once we. get the bonus to a vote. An increasing number of P.epubliean and Democratic senators were lining up today behind a straightcut cash soldiers" bonus as a substitute for the McCumber insurance certificate plan. Senator Bursum, Republican of New Mexico, is preparing to press his cash bonus bill, which the Senate finance c3nmlttee ignored. He is understood to have received assurances of support from at least fifteen of his Republican colleagues and from even a larger number on the Democratic side. The Bursum bill would provide payment of 50 per cent of the compensation due ex-service men immediately after its passage rid the balance not later than five years afterward.. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democratic member cf the Senat.e finance sommittee, expressed tlmliar views and indicated he intends to insist upon fhe Senate providing1 a essh bonus plan In lieu of the McCumber. bill, which he condemned r.s "fan;oufla."

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Mrs. Lillian Frances Barlow and her . husband, Jlarry Barlow, motor cop. Put-putyput-put-put! Motorcycle Cop Harry Barlow pursued his merry way nabbing speeders on Ardale street in a Boston suburb He came upon a car parked along the curb. He investigated. Found his wife, Lillian Frances Barlow, at the wheel with a strange man's arm about her aist. That is whai he say? in seeking a divorce. She says she's the victim of a frameup E. BUILDS BIG BRIDGE A. B. Cohen Gets Million Dollar Job in J ersey City. " tSPECIAL 'TO THE TIHES1 LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 2. At a meeting of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders. Jersey City, N. J., A. Burton Cohen was selected to plan and supervise the construction of the new concrete boulevard bridge over the Pennsylvania railroad cut In Jersey City. The changes Include new approaches to the bridge which will be made to harmonize with the rest of the boulevard development, and which will be completed at a cost of $1,000,000. ' A width of 120 feet will be given the new structure, and it is expected that this will allow for traffic expansion for some years. Mr. Cohen Is a native of East Chicago, Ind., and graduated as a civil engineer from Purdue University here, with the class of 1905. Mr. Cohen is well eiulpped to manage such an rndertaklng as he was largely responsible for the design and construction of the big D. L & W. bridge At Scranton. Pa., and also planned and constructed the famous Lackawanna cut-off In North Jersey. He was a baseball star while at Purdue. MINOR ARRESTS AT SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING, IND.. June 2 George Tharnak. proprietor of a soft drink parlor was arraigned, bfore the city Judge on Wednesday and fined $50 and costs for gambling, while Alex Luch and Charlie Manlah were each fined $25 and costs on same charge, they being inmates of the place. George Adams. John Portis .nd Pete Peterson, all spectators of the game, were dismissed. Thllip Sabo, arrested by Game Wardens Barber and Llphan for fishing out of season, was fined $27.10. Peter Jwacha arrested by Officer Saltsinan, on two charges, first, drunk and disorderly conduct,' and second, assault and battery for which lie van fined $25 and costs for each charge. Tor.y Kueazlrh arrested on charge of disorderly conduct, was fourf? not guilty and dismissed. VOICE OF PEOPLE CALLS IT DISGrRACE Editor Tlmes-j-The Mothers of Sons who gaive their best to fight for freedom looking down from their heavenly home, must -have wept to see our aged veterans riding in a cattle truck to respect their Saldied dead (at the tune of SO cents apiece) Hammond's civic pride must I be at a -very low ebb. j Chirches and clubs raist'hide! their faces in shame. Better blot j out Decoration Day altogether than commit such a disgrace. j M.R6. IL V. GAGE, 19 Webb Street.

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C. And 0. Takes Drastic Action 'Following Revelation About Employes In Hammond With the summary dismissal here of seventeen employes of the Chespeake & Ohio railroad, many of them veterans of the road, for alleged Infractions of "Rule G" prohibiting the use or purchase of intoxicating liquors by railroad employes. Vain efforts were made today to reinstate the ousted employes through the brotherhoods. They say they cannot condone violation of "Rule G" by aiding violators of it. Now the men who were dismissed "for good of the service," say they'll institute action themselves showing the action of the C. & O. is unfair end based upon false information maliciously obtained through perjur ed affidavits. COMES TO HEAD MONDAY The situation promises to come to a show down in the city court on Monday morning. next. when Arthur Fitz Harris will be arraigned for the second time on charges of violating the liquor law. Yesterday he was sentenced to the penal farm to serve a suspended 60 day sentence. This was first imposed when Fitz Harris wasarrested a couple of months ago with Albert Reel. They were found guilty of making and selling moonshine. Their customers were railroad men. Both of them were heavily fined and given suspended jail sentences. Reel, raided again last week, was for the second time found guilty of the game oftense. Tried again in the city court he was sentenced Monday to serve 60 days on this count and an additional 60 days representing the suspended Jail sentence. He is now on his way to the penal farm.. . The case of Fitz Tlarris is peculiar. He may face charges of perjury in addition to those of violating the liquor laws. It was on information siupplled toy Fitz Harris, gay the oust ed rail employes, that C. & O. officials based their charges. Fitz Harris says he's been made a cats-paw, a dupe. He may seek escape from deeper complications by issuing a statement Justifying his action in "double crossing" the men to whom he sold liquor and then filed affidavits admitting his own violation of the law in order to provide a basis for railroad officials to take action in ouster proceedings. Judge Cleveland has given him until Monday morning. At that time he will be again arraigned. It will then be decided whether Fitz Harris is to serve an adidtional 60 days for the alleged second offense based on his affidavits to rail officials. MANY ARE OLD EMPLOYES Many of the employes who were dismissed had served the C. & O. for periods of two to twenty years Of the .seventeen all but two are residents of Hammond. Most of them are married. Most have families. All are thrown out of work. Now they're looking for new jobs. The dismissal order came May 29. It was contained in Discipline Bulletin Issued from Peru, Ind., above the signature of G. J. Derbyshire, general superintendent. It cites violations of the road's "Rule G." The employes, effected include an operator, a brskeman. two engineers, a yard clerk, a fireman, a car inspector, six switchmen, three special agents and a conductor who had been in the employe of the road for more than sixten years and Is reputed to have help build the old C. C. I railroad. The charge against him Is that he was drinking liquor in his boarding place. According to the employes" story the facts are these: ' Following the first conviction of r.eel and Fitz Harris a ' couple months ago, the pair were approached by special agents of the C. & O. They were solicited to divulge the names of the road employes to whom th-y had sold liquor. At first the men demurred. Then they "were provided with passes and asked to go to Peru, thore to meet railroad officials. (Fitz Harris showed the court a pass with which he had been provided). At Peru they were met and taken to a room. For a consideration, it Is alleged, and certain promises of well-paid and permanent employment, .they "coughed up" the names of their cash customers. These men were then summoned. They appeared before a bord of three rail officials In the Chicago offices of the C. & O. One by one they entered the room. They were formally rflarged with violating "Rule G." Most of them admitted their guilt when thy were confronted with affidavits sworn to by FItzHarrls. They were allowed counsel for defense. They were dismissed. Now Fritz Harris, according to city court, finds . that he has lied, j Either he perjured himself , on the j witness stand in city court when' first arraigned and testified then' that although he had made moonshine he had never sold a drop or he perjured himself in the affidavits he filed against the seventeen employes and on which evidence, alonr " war discharged.

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TO STIR (BtLLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, June . In planning fo a big railroad strike, those who will b responsible for directing the suspension of work will take Into consideration the present strike of '300,000 union coal miners and the effect of the mine tie-up upon any steps taken by the railroad unions. If the railroad men ahould decide to go out within the next three months they probably will join forces with the . miners, precipitating the biggest strike In the world's hUtory and virtually paralysing Industry In the Vnlted States. WASHINGTON. June 1. The next wage reduction order of the raili read labor board at Chicago will provide for slashes in the pay of more than a million additional railway, workers, including not only the shop crafts, but all employes except Two employes of the Inland Steel Company, at East Chicago, were seriously injured last evening when the pulley of an overhead crane broke and allowed a container of iron to fall to the ground among the workmen below. The injured were: PHILLIP CHANGE, of M20 Avenue M, Sooth Chicago, suffered a broken leg. ERNEST K NO DEL. of 10401 Avenue H, South Chicago, escaped with severe body bruises.

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(DILLEIIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHiCAuo, June ;:. Police today are endeavoring to learn the identity of a young woman who attempted suicide by swallowing poison after writing a note In which she called herself "Miss Nobody from Nowhere." The note said the woman sought death to obtain relief from pain and hunger. Physicians say she will rfecover. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, June 2. -r- Coal prices in Chicago will advance to $3 per ton to consumers, it was predicted today aa the result of the approval by Secretary Hoover of a maximum price of $3.50 per ton for spot . coal at the West Virginia mines. Prices advanced 25 to 50 cents pe rton yesterday. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CH1SW1CK, June 2. N. J. Ritchie .ind Miss Sigourney defeated W. Meyers and Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 6-3 and 63, today in the third round of the mixed doubles of the Middlesex tennis championship tournament. BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LAPORTE, Ind.. June 2. Michigan City has been selected as the meeting place of the 1922 convention of the Indiana Elks. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, IND., June 2 Miss Alda Fields, 17, was kidnapped in an automobile by two men, driven to a barn seven miles from the city and there attacked by fourteen men, according to the story she told the police today. Mies Fields was persuaded by two young men to ''take a ride" last night. When she entered the machine, one of the men clapped his hands over her mouth and she was spirited away. Another car, contain ing twelve men, followed. Early this morning she was tossed out of a machine in front of her home. Police are seeking the young woman's assailants. MAKES MORE MOON TO PAY KINEl TWICE NABBED To pay a fine of $130 assessed against him in the city court. Whiting, for violation of the liquor laws Percy Rusnack testified in Hammond city court this morning he'd gone J back into the business immediately after his first conviction. He said the Whiting court had granted him 90 days to get money to pay his fine. His home at 1158 Indianapolis! boulevard was raided last night by ; Sergeants Kunz. Fandrel, Carlson, and Warner. They found a ten gallon still in operation; 150 gallons of distilled moonshine. Judge Cleveland, finding Jiim guilty, sentenced Rusnick to 60 days on the penal farm and fined him $200 and costs.

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those who are members of the "Big' Four" transportation brotherhoods, J it was learned authoritatively hera ; today. The new reductions will average five cents per hour and are expected to take effect on July 1 like those already ordered for the main- : tenance of way employes. STitEET CAR MEN HL'RT CHICAGO, June 2. The possibility of wage reductions, that would precipitate a stret car strike was seen here today as the result of the order of the United States District Court reducing fares on surface lines from 8 to 7 cents, effective on June 15. Leonard A. Busby, president of the surface lines is understood to have declared that a cut in fares must be followed by a reduction in wages. Officials of the street car employes union declare a wage cut will mean a strike. It is estimated the fare reduction will save car riders $7,000,000 annually. According to officials of the plant the young men had just entered the mill to go on the night shift and it was while they were walking through the shop that the 'crane p-ul-ley broke allowing the heavy load to fall, which scattered among the workmen injuring two. The injured were taken to the Mercy hospital at Gary in a Burns-McGuan-, ambulance where a view hours later Dr. C. C Robinson amputated the left leg of Phillip Change. it was announced today. The convention, which is expected to attract 5.000 Indiana Elk will be held August 4 and 5. . ( BULLETIN ) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, June 2. Announcement was made here that the anthracite operators would present 'a new set of counter proposals to the striking miners this afternoon in an effort to end the coal strike. (BULLETIN) By FRANK E. MASON tSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE PARIS, June 2. Negotiations of international tankers regarding a $1,000,000,000 consortorium for Germany have struck a snag and there were indications today that the Germans will not get a great international loan despite the favorable reply they have returned to the demands of the interallied reparations commission. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BEX-FAST, June 2. A violent battle Is in progress over an extensive front along the Ulster Louth frontier between Republicans and Ulster constabularies reinforced by British tropes according to advices from the "front" this afternoon. The constabulcs were being beaten back when the British troops were rushed up to reinforce them. NEW TIRE STORE OPENS After four years of success with Overland Vacuum Tread Tires in Gary, Michigan City and Indiana Harbor, the erganixers of the Hammond Tire Market under the directing hand of Louis Glass, have arrived in Hammond to throw open the doors of a new tire store at 67 State st. - The controlling office of the three stores has heretofore been located in Chicago, tut will be closed and moved Into the new place opening In Hammond. This will be the center of distribution for the entire state. The first sale will start today and will consist of such standard sixes as are most generally used on the standard makes of cars and at prices made possible only by buying in large qutntity for the chain of stores. SHARP'S GOOD NATURE BLUNTED WHEN HE IS ROBBED - Ed. Sharp, 118 Russell street working on a building at Sibley street and Calumet avenue was approached y a stranger. "Got a match?" inquired the stranger. "Sure," said Sharp. "Go into the rear there and you'll find a box of matches in my coat." Sharp, attired in his work ing outfit, had left his street clothes i : in a rear room. The stranarer re turned. "Much obliged," he said and was gone. Later Sharp riscovered the affable stranger had taken ..his clothes, watch and all. He'd concealed them about his body before walking past Sharp. . He didn't leave even a match.

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Platform Contains Indirect Proposal to Abolish Public Service Commission DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES Dan M. Link, of Autmrn, secretary of state. Robert Bracken of Frankfort, auditor of state. George H. DeHority, of Elwood. state treasurer. Zachary T. Dungan, of Huntington, clerk of the Supreme and Appellate courts. Daniel C. Mcintosh, of Worthington, tate superintendent of public instruction. Voscph H. Shea, of Seymour, Judge of the Supreme court. Joseph Collier, Indianapolis, Judg;e of Appellate ctmrt. First district. William H. Bridwell of Sullivan, Judge of Appellate court. First district. Valentine E. Livengood, Covington, Judge Appellate Court, Second ldstrict. Edwin McCabe, of Williamsport, Judge Appellate Court, the Second district. By MAURICE EARLT INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 2. An indirect rroposal to abolish the public service commission, four separate planks denouncing commisions in general and promising destruction of "useless" state boards and advocacy of the repeal of the tax law were the hi&b spots in the Democratic state platform adopted yesterday by the party's convention. The platform, as drafted by the resolutions committee and approved by" Samuel M. Ralston, nominee for United States senator, and other conservative leads, as well as the slate of candidates for state offices, was ratified without a hitch, following several hours of oratory. The only attempt mad,e by the "home rulers" who deeired a radical program "so the party would have a chance of winning in November," to incorporate some of their specific proposals in the platform was staged early in the session when a demand was made to refer all amendment of reports and resolutions to a vote of the floor of the convention, instead of xeferring them to committees. This proposal was voted by a small margin and thereafter there was no attempt to amend the platform or to bring in a minority report, which had been threatened. NOMINATE BY ACCLAMATION The state ticket was nominated by acclamation, except in the cases of clerk of the Supreme and Appellate courts ?nd judges of the Appellate court, First district. Joseph H. Shea of Seymour, who had been slated for tne nomination for Judge of the Supreme court, had let it be known he did not desire the place on the ticket and his name was not presented to the convention. Instead William A. Cullop of Vincennes was named and nominated by acclamation. Immediately after the nomination was made, Lincoln Dixon permanent chairman, announced that Mr. Cullop did rot live in the Flrsv judicial district of the court and therefore was disqualified for the nomination. Joseph M. Cravens then presented the name of Mr. Shea and hjs nomination was made by acclamation. SALSBURV LOSES OUT Ellas D. Falsbury of Indianapolis lost out in the three-sided contest for the two nominations for First district Appellate court judgshlps. He and Joaeph Coller of Indianapolis were the only candidates until Wednesday, . when it was decided by the leaders that Indianapolis shoul dnot have both of the Judg- ! ship nominations. Judge William H. Bridwell, now on the Circuit bench in Sullivan county, was then brought out and Salsbury was sacrificed. IS GRANTED DIVORCE Sirs. Martha Harris was granted a divorce from her hurband Enoch Harris, auto mechanic and tire salesman, 629 State Line street, Hammond this morning by Judge Reiter in Room 1 of the Hamond Superior court. - Mrs. Harris said her husband had told her he no longer cared for her and had called her vile names. He also remained out late at night, coming in at 4 or 5 o'clock in thsl morning.' He neer explained! whe?e he had been. This, she said, i 'cont;nued for about three years. Mrs. ; I Harris and her two children are now

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; Theo. Roosevelt, assistant navy sec retary, above, and Sen. Wiluara M. Calder. Friends of Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, are urging him to enter the race for nomination as U. S. senator to oppose Sen. William M. Calder, who must seek renomination to keep his seat. The Anti-Saloon league has i announced it will oppose Calder. Koosevelt, it is said, would be ac ceptable to the dry a. MEN HAVE HOBART. Ind.. June 2. Relatives of Tony and Crist Springman are a bit uneasy over the disappearance of the two boys slr.ee May 22nd. when they left with a truck load of furniture which they were moving to the west suburbs of Chicago. No word has been hard from them and their friends and relatives fear that they have met with foul play. NOT GUILTY SAYS JUDGE Fred Marttch of 3509 Deodar St.. Indiana Harbor, held by the East Chicago police on a charge of involuntary manslaughter as the driver of a motor bus that ran down and killed Scvb. Braclka In front of his home at 139th and Guthrie street. Wednesday evening, was found not guilty before Special Judge Hyman Cohen yesterday. The Judge said that in his opinion It was "an unfortunate accident." The responsibility of autolst and pedestrian being equal and the fact that Martich's view was obstructed by the other' truck, from behind which Bracika Is said to have stepped to this death, Is believed to. be the basis of the Judge's decision. L FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 1. Balloon number 11. with Bernard Von Hoffman, pilot and Ralph K, Vincil. observer, entry of the St. Louis advertising club In the elimination trials for the International Balloon race landed seven miles north of Ft. Wayne at ten o'clock this morning. Contrary winds which carried the balloon back towards Sffilwaukee, reaching points In Ohio were given as the reason for the landing here, Von Hoffman said. ROOSEVELT'S ADVICE TO U.S. CADETS ANNAPOLIS. Md., Jun 2. "Pattern your IKes so that your men swear by you not at you." This was the advice given the 1922 graduating class of Midshipmen here at the Naval Academy today by Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant Secretary of the Navy who made the presentation of diplomas. "You may command o-bedience bv your rank, bilt unless you command loyal devotion by your character, those under you. will never serve a. they would otherwise," said Roosevelt.

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INDIANAPOLIS. IND,. June J. A fight on the Question of whether Flmore Barce, of Montlcello, or Ed. Simon, of Hammond, should serve as the Tenth district's member of the resolutions committee of the democratic state convention was carried before the credentials committee Wednesday night by Simon and his friends, but although the credentials committee ruled in favor of Simon, the comhiittee'a action was ignored by Barce, who continued to hold his seat in the resolutions committee. He was upheld by members of the resolutions committee and ihe Lake county crowd, supporting Simon, finally gave up Ihe fight The controversy grew out of the question of whether proxies should have betn permitted to 6 voted in the Tenth district caucus. At the caucus the Tenth district chairman ruled that all legally executed proxies of delegates should be voted, but the supporters of Barce. who were anti-home rule men. appealed from the decision of the chairman and the meeting voted that none but delegates, who were present should vote. On the vote than taken, Barce was declared elected to the committee by a vote of 23 to 12. Had the "proxies held by Lake and Tippecanoe county delegates been voted. Simon would have been elected, hfs friends said. . . SHOT7Z.S KATI BEEN TOTES The latter appealed to the creden-" tials committee' and this committee, after prolonged deliberation, ruled that the proxies should have been voted. The committee was informed by W. W. Spencer, leader of the "home rule" crowd, that the rules of the democratic state committee authorized the voting of proxies. Unable then to say whether Barce or Simon had been elected to sit on the resolution committee, the credentials committee ruled that neither man had been elected. The committee ordered another meeting of the Tenth district delegation held for the election of a resolutions committee member. Barce and Simon had been called before the credentials committee to hear this ruling. After it had been made Barce returned to the room where the resolutions committee was in session nd resumed his seat as a memWr of that committee, despite the credentials committee's ruling. The Lake county rowd Fathered a group of delegates together at 11:30 p. m. and held an election, declaring Simon the distr'ct'a choice as member of the resolutions committee. DEMANDS BARCE'S EJECTION Simon, learning that Barce was seated on the committee, went into the committee room shortly before midnight and demanded that Barce be put out of the room. The resolutions committee then held a conference after which the members announced that Barce would be retained on the committee. They said the credentials committee had no authority to determine membership of the resolutions committee. The Lake county crowd, fighting to unseat Barce, said that at the bottom of the affair, the fight was on the "wet and dry" question. They said they regarded Barce as a "dry" while Simon, they said, was a "liberal." STATE HEALTH OFFICIAL IN Taking cognizance of the flood and health conditions in the Little Calumet River valley, the Indiana State Board of Health officials are securing data today that may assist in the early construction of the Burns d'tch in the interest of public health. L A. Goupel. director of the -ter and sewage department ct me Indiana State Board of Health arrived In Gary yesterday and immediately went into conference with Mayor It. O. Johnson and officials of t'le city engineering department concerning the Little Calumet .river and the construction of the Burns ditch. Following a conference in ttie office of Mayor Johnson the party then made an inspccMon' of the river and adjacent 'iv-PSinp lands. Mr. Goupel slated t'nat he would file his report with the state board of health officials Just as soon as he returned to the capital. He also carried reports furnished by the city engineering department. If necessary, the power of the federal healt hauthorities will be Invoked to compel tfe constructton of Burns ditch and th diveriion of the waters of the Little Calumet Into Lake Michigan, ten miles east of Gary, thus removing . constant menace to th'e health of more than 160,000 people in the industrial cities of Gary. Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting. The Burns ditch commission named by Mayor Johnson several monini ago are now doing everything in their power to put the project through. A large part of the wage earners ;n Aresentia are women, more than I.OOC.OOO being engaged in gainful occupations. German sailing ships interned at Pacific coast and South American ports during the war are now being used for lumber carriers.

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