Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 3 June 1922 — Page 1

STRIKE POSSIBILITY SITUATION CAUSES UNEASINESS

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and probably Sunday, moderate temperature, gentle variable winds. LAK COUNTY TIME iLii V2 VOL XL NO. 20. JUNE 3, 1922 TEX PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION. mi AUToeaoBiLi ckey

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MARKS MACHINIST IS VICTIM !

Second Employ of Plant to Die By Motor Within A Week John Cracknel), aged 55 years, u machinist at the Steel &. Tube Company and residing at the Marks Subdivision hotel, Indiana Harbor, was killed on Dickty Road aoout 10:3t o'clock last night when he talked into the path of a machine driven by Wm. H. McCord of 550 Washington st Gary. Sava Kiacika, aged 72. another workman of this company, was killed Wednesday evening in front of his home at 139th and Guthrie sts. bya motor bus driven b-y Fred Mart.ch. STEPS IN FRO.Vr OF CAR Avoiding to the statements of McCoid and the occupants of the death car,- who brought their victim Into the Indiana Harbor pcce station immediately following the accident, the Mark workman was walking along the side of Dickey road towards the Harbor and stepped Into the street directly in front of their car before it could be brought to a. stop. When the machine had come to a standstill trie man had been knocked down and the body crunched beneath the wheels. A few minutes afterwards at the Harbor police station. Dr. Cotter pronounced the man dead. DRIVER IS RELEASED Wm. H. McCord of 550 Washington St., drivr of the machine, John Mackin of 1643 Delaware St., Walter A. Gaston. 529 Adams St.. and Ike Solari, 1371 Tyler St., occupants of the car and witnesses to the accident were released by Dr, Ostrowski. deputy coroner, following an Inquest held over the body last night. Records of the Steel & Tube Company, where the dead man has been employed as machinist, show that he came here from South Chicago, residing there at 7843 Burnham ave. The personnel card further shows that he. Is marriel and that his family lives in Louisville. Ky. STREET PLAYING The danger of children playing in the streets was proven again in Gary last night, when a little girl nearly lost, her life. Elizabeth Ratz, daughter of Steve Rats. 21st avenue and Saxony St., Is confined at the Mercy hospital in Gary suffering from a broken leg above the knee and severe body bruises received when she was struck by an automobile truck. Little Elizabeth was playing ball in the middle of the street when a heavy truck driven by Joseph Karr, 2760 West Tenth avenue rolled along at a twenty mile an hour clip. The little girl became confused and darted In front of the heavy machine. Karr saw the Immediate dangtr ahead and tried to avoid hitting the child by turning the truck into the ditch. It was too late, however, as the child was caught -by j the. machine and hurled h;aUy to the pavement. She was rushed to the Mercy hospital where It developed she had sustained a broken leg and was badly bruised. While her Injuries are not considered serious at this time, she may be crippled for life. For months and even years The Times has waged campaign after campaign in its effort to show parents the danger of permitting their children to play in the busy thoroughfares. Still these shocking accidents occur. Two Gary children have met instant death in street accidents since the first of the year, and a dozen or more have been injured. As long as children are permitted to play in the street, these accidents and tragedies occur. SCHOONER'S CREW REPORTED LOST INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. June 3. When no word was received today from Captain Birchild. and the three members of his crew on the gasoline schooner Mae Hyman, grave fears were expressed in marine circles that they lost their lives when their vesel overturned off Point Reyes. The coast guard cutter Shawnee wag sent out to investigate, so far she has not yet reported. The steamer Raineler, with a crew of 27, Is also disabled 140 miles north of here with a broken crankshaft .she was reported In no danger and the tugs Sea Lion and the Relief were expected to get lines aboard her this morning to tow here here. REMOVAL NOTICE I have raovtl my office from Room 502 Hammond bulliing and am now open for business In Room 409 Hammond founding. JOB W. TODD, Attorney-st-law.

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AMUNDSEN STARTS FOR NORTH POLE

Discoverer of South Pole to Drift Ice Locked Over Arctic Polar Regions INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SEATTLE. Wash.. June 3. The Maud. Capt. Kaold Amundsen's auxiliary powered schooner In which ,'ie will attempt to drift, ice-locked, across the North role, will leave here late today for Nome and the Arctic. Today here crew of eleven men completed final preparations in loading equipment and food supplies for the trip, which is expected to take from five to seven years. Captain Amundsen will not leave on his ship, but will sail on the Victoria for Nome and rejoin the Maud there with 25 busky dogs and fur garments nnd robes. The Maud, named for the Queen of Norway, will carry two airplanes, a radio outfit with a sending limit of ;000 miles, and scientific material for the most exhaustive research into the polar mysteries yet made. Music and news from broadcasting stations at Nome will entertain theN scientists when the Maud begins to drift this fall in the polar current which Amundsen believes passes over the top of the world. Dr. H, U. Sverdrup, meteorologist and student of ocea rography, will be in charse of tlm expedition's scientific activities, assisted by F. Malmgien. The Curtis biplane and the J-L all-metal monoplane will be piloted by Lieutenants Oscar Omdal and O. Dahl, both formeily rf the Norwegian government .service. The radio outfit, one of the finest ever installed, -even on an ocean liner, will be manned by -T..M. Olonkin. who will also act as chief engineer. S. Syvortson will be assistant engineer, with Carl Hanson as utility man. E Further plans were made last night by the group of civic inspired citizens who are determined to make Independence Day this year one of the most memorable holidays in the history of Hammond. Meeting at the Chamber of Commerce representatives 05 churches and societies set the ground work for a permanent organization. W. K. Bielfeld was elected general secretary. He will be assisted by Jesse E. Wilson. Other committee heads were appointed. One of the big features of the day'4 events will be the athletic and field day program. Responsibility for the success of this? project has been placed on Irving Chayken. He will direct the sports. Another meeting of committees will be held tomorrow with Mr. Bielefeld. nans for securing a speaker will then be discussed. Anyone who can take an active part in furthering the biggest Fourth of July celebration this, city has ever had is urged to get in touch with Mr. Bielefeld. The organization needs help. Come on, you clubs, you talkers; here's a chance to do something. t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. June 3. "Little Stuff" was the way Governor! McCray yesterday characterized charges of political misuse of the state depository law, made by Frederick Van Nuys in his keynote speech before the democratic state convention yesterday. Making a general denial of Van Nuys' charges, the governor said: "I am not now a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Kentland (mentioned by Van Nuys) but I will say that we have a capital and surplus of over $140,000 and the state funds, which amount to about $150,000 are amply protected by bonds. "Mr. Van Nuys failed to state, like he did in his charge of the general fund deficit repayment, that withdrawals had been made from the Kentland bank. "I do not know where the democrats arrived at their figures in which they charge that the cost of upkeep of state highways has been over $1250 per mile, but I am going to look Into the matter."

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Did You Hear That

OFFICERS CARL FAN DUEL Sandor Singer and John Fisher are on vacation. NEW Buick owners: Dick Winckler. Bill Having;. Wliliam iihn and August Jarnecke. JUDGE FRED BARNETT was one of the vice-chairmen of the state democratic convention. JULIUS MEYX leaves tonight for Wyoming, where he will spend a month on the Eaton ranch. DEFL'TT Court Clerk Cora Anderson deliered a speech last evening before the Americanization class it Brooks House. RACING jitneys continue to imperil traffic and human lives on South Hohman street. High speed is Quite common. "'BALDT MAY announces osen ing of fish house at Armour, north west corner of Cedar Lake. "Baldy's" usual good service. HENRY VIS, city building commissioner, has moed to 545, 150th street, after residing in Robertsdale for fifteen years. THE boxing exhibitions at Porter Arena, a week from next Saturday, will be held under the auspices of the American Legion. PAT REILLEY writes from Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods in California, that he is seeing some of the seven wonders of the world. SINCE Chicago Is to have the 7-cent street car fare July 1, Hammond people are wondering how about the Gree Line fare along about the same time. C. E. BANGHART and wife, and Miss Kittle Jeycox, of Chicago, are driving to Niagara Falls. Mr. Banghart is the sales agent for Armour & Co. in this territory. WALTER Bl tEFELD. city treasurer, is makTrig arrangements for the Fourth of July celebration to be given by the Sunday schools of the city at Harrison park. DURING absence of Chief Bunde, who leaves with his wife June 14 to attend police chief's convention at San Francisco, Captain F. G. Rimbach will be acting chief. J. D. BECK WITH, secretary of the Kiwanis club and Carl Nelson, delegate, attended the district trustees meeting of International Kiwanis at South Bend last Thursady. MARTIN COTNINGHAM got so dizzy watching the speedometer 'on the Bunnell machine in which 'he rode to the auto races" at Indianapolis that he hasn't recovered yet. PETER M. MEYN'S summer home at Grand Beach is about the fines bungalow at that fahionable resort. F. S. Betz. Dr. Glllis and' J. E. Fitzgerald have homes at Grand Beach. BUILDING permits granted In Hammond during May totaled $248.100 as against $96.S50 for the corresponding month of 1921. Building in sight for June Is more than 1150.000. EDGAR CRUM PACKER, of Hammond, has submitted to the Gary board of works a plat of the Crdmpacker Iake View Subdivision. The local agents will be Mott, Wilsie and Crumpacker. "BALDT" STEELMAN, who proved a fizzle in attempts at bowling and baseball, is crowing over his recent showing at golf. At last he has' found something he can do In the way of athletics. THE Chicago. Lake Shore & South Bcnd-IUinois Cen'ral railroad companies have recently issued an attractive pamphlet descripf.e of the Indiana, sand dune regions, whose receipt we acknowledge. THE New York Car Wheel Co., which is erectrhg a plant at Hammond, has let contract to the Whiting Corporation to Install the "Whiting straight line system for the manufacture of car wheels. .II'DGE CRITES. of Room 2. of I the superior court, will attend to any matters of grave" import which may come up in Room 1 during the absence of Judge Reiter while attending the Shrine convention. WHAT is your secret accomplishment? William Ahlborn, the contractor, used to be a chef and Attorney Glenn Titers played the violin. "Buck" Sawyer was the coxswain of the Wisconsin rowing crew. FRED DONOVAN has given up drinking his eleven bowls of coffee per day and will substitute buttermilk. He offers all his ratrons as much as they can drink for five cents. Circus style or out of the bucket. AND speaking of entrants for the Hohman street- speed classic, who can beat the time made by one of Joe Humpfer's grocery trucks last evening on South Hohman? Some one out In Kenwood must have been starving. CHIEF JOE NITZ, of West Hammond, is being flooded with circulars from railroad companies showing! him the best way to California, since- the word spread that he Is going to attend the national convention of police chiefs.

T. R. TENNANT IN PRAISE OF

LL In speaking of the work of I. L. Bomberger on the Board of Education as brought out by the address before the Rotary club, T. R. Tennant, a member of the board, said today: During fourteen years residence in Hammond, previous to my appointment to the school board, I had never been thrown into contact with Mr. Bomberger. In : the light of later events, I can see that this was my loss. After two years close personal contact in a great many meetings, I ha e come to know and like Mr. Bomberger exceedingly well. If I may do so, I should like to grasp this opportunity of publicly thanking the city council of Hammond, for affording me the privilege of serving the community in a small way. In conjunction with a man of such high ideals and lofty aspirations. During the many meeting which have been held, questions of policy have Been discussed, and expenditures involving considerable sums of the taxpayers' moneys have been approved. In all cases, Mr. Bomberger's judgment has been sound, and his decisions fearless. He has always been opposed to class legislation and granting of special privileges. - His first thought has always been the welfare of the school children. ' His year as president of the board has been marked by the development of a spirit of harmony throughout the organization of the school city, and by a rapid and economical development of the physical property of the schools. This has taken days and days of Mr. Bamberger's time, which he has given gladly and without a thought of compensation other than the pride and satisfaction any truly public spirited member of society feels from a civic duty well dene. The development of the school city, for several years to come, must be rapid and continuous, anw will be a serious problem, more serious-in fact, than many people appreciate. Mr. Bomberger has plans for development, some of them In process, and. some .in embryo, which. -will keep Hammond abreast of the times in sehool matters, and which will cause the citizens to be proud, rather than ashamed. of their schools. Keeping in mind the probability of a considerable increase in the population of Hammond In the next few years, and the consequent necessity of meeting the demand for ever Increasing school facilities, I can only remind you of the old adage regarding swapping horses In mid-stream. HO! HTM! ANOTHER MOON MAKER MOONS TO JAIX, Tom Lupuoror, aged 3S. Lived all alone at 53 Co. .House. Wanted easy money. Made moonshine. Sold it for $5 a gallon. Last night raided by Detectives Kunz, Fandrei, Carl son and Warner. They flni a ten gallon still dripping merrily. Tom slept while the still worked. There was about eight gallons of completed moon. Judge Cleveland this morning in city court fined Tom $130 and sentenced him to 35 days on the penal farm. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BATON ROUGE. I.. June 3 The state of Ioulsiana yesterday had made the first steps towards outlawing race betting by passing the Butler anti-racing bill by a vote of 22 to $. only one vote margin for the necessary majority. The bill has not yet passed the house. If it passes there it means racing will be stopped in Louisiana, C. P. RITZ. 3S28 Fir street, Indiana Harbor, lugged in a pickerel from the Kankakee river which weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 38 inc'ies in length. He has entered it in the annual contest at the J. W. MUlikan store in Hammond. OAKLEY AVENUE and Truman Boulevard are popular speedways and where they cross is one of Hammond's most dangerous spots. Folks who live near the corner are considering taking down their fences to give the cars more room. It's either that or have them torn down. GENIAL George Wolf, councilman. Kiwanian, athlete and cement block king, has a daughter which was presented to him by Mrs. VTolf at the Lying-in hospital yesterday. The baby has been named Jane Elizabeth. Her three brother sare"so excited about the event they don't know what to do. THE Hammond Kiwanis club is preparing to open the swimming tank at H. A. A. park for the kids. Hundreds of boys enjoyed the tank J last summer. The club Is also preparing for the city beautiful contest. It is a live club, always anxious to do something helpful for others, especially the chllrden. REVIEWELRS of the stage long ago gave up as hopeless their attempts to say something different as well as expressive about Henry Santrey, who comes to the Parthenon next week. - They Just can't find words to describe the irresistible appeal and wonderful pleasure- gantrey's performances and songs afford his audiences. Congratulations to the management for banging that stellar vaudeville entertainer Hammond.

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(Bt I.l.KI IN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KObKta'luli, iMig-. June 3. A London-Paris passenger airplane fell into the English channel off this port today. Later it was reported that a steamship bound for Bolouc had picked up two bodies. ( Bl I.LETI ) . INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BELFAST, June ii. two additional British warships arrived here today to reinforce the warcraft already in Ulster waters. They were the Cruiser Wallace and a destroyer. BI LI,ET1.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SHELBYVILLE. ir.d., June 3. Mrs. Clara Carl, branded a "feminine Bluebeard," today was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the poisoning of her second husband, Frank Carl, by a jury in the Shelby Circuit court. The verdict carried -with it a recommendation for life Imprisonment. (Bll,LETl) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON. June 3. Investigation by the International Nw SCHIFF-REFUSES TO TESTIFYJfl MERGER Banker Asked to Throw Light on New Independent Combine. ! NEW YORK, June 3. Mortimer I Schift of the international banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Company, defied the Lockwood legislative investigating committee when he was summoned today to throw light upon the merger of three independent steel companies. Mr. Schlff refused to give any information. Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the tommlttse, was especially anxious, to secure information about the $20, 000, COO which Kuhn Loeb & Company was said to have agreed to furnish for the nerger. Testl-mony-thatthe banking company had volunteered to furnish the sum had been given before the committee on Friday by A. C. Dinkey, president of the Midvale Steel & Ordnace Company. . TWIN DEATHS SAYS OFFICIAL Little that would aid in clearing up the unexplained features of the accident in wliich Leo Szwinskf and Edward Friduss were electrocuted the evening of May 25, developed at coroner's Inquest which was held ; this morning. I Numerous witnesses were called. I Those who were present in the Friduss store that evening recounted the details attending the double fatality. It was agreed that the electric current whtch caused the deaths was transmitted by the elevator starting cable and that the circuit was completed as the men grasped' it and stepped into the water of the elevator pit. ' . Insurance inspectors, city officials, electrical contractors and representatives of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric So., testified regarding the conditions of the wiring of the building before and after the accident. Minor grounds had been detected when the building was completed last fall, but these were said to have been corrected. During the inspection the day after the accident it was said that a grounu was found in the starting switch of the elevator, but It was considered doubtful by some of the experts whether the leakage from the power circuit could have caused the deaths. The opinion was expressed that during tVe deluge of rain that evening the high tension circuit in the alley had been shorted to the secondary circuit of the transformer supplying the building with current. Deputy Coroner White In his verdict, called the deaths accidentia! and said that the source of the fatal current had not been determined, VOICE OF PEOPLE In reply to the communication of Mrs. H. V. Gage through your column, I make these assertions: In behalf of the committees and the Woman's Relief Corps. I will state plenty of automobiles were at the Central, school on Decoration Day for the conveyance of the Grand Army veterans to the cemetery. Howev'er, they made their own arrangements and wanted for once to do things their own way. I want it understood that these honored gentlemen were by no means overlooked and I am sorry indeed the move was misunderstood. Signer, MRS." JANE MURNINGHMA. -President Womsn's Relief Corps

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tt a o Service revealed torlay that the recent report that an American relief administration train had been wrecked by bandits in Russia with the loss of several lives was false. The original reports was printed in a Copenhagen paper and was telegraphed by a news agency from that city to London. (Bl'L,LETI) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, June 3. The offer of the anthracite operators to submit the whole wage controversy with the miners to a commission to be appointed by President Harding will be taken up at ji special meeting of union leaders at Hazleton, Pa., next Tuesday, it was announced today. (BILLET1S) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BERLIN. June Z. Nikoial Lenin, head or the Moscow government, was reported today to be suffering from an attack of apoplexy which he suffered on June 1. X.laxim Litvinoff and Karl Rad?k, representatives of the Russian Soviet government, have been ordered to Moscow post haste. DUE IN GARY Early construction of the first unit of the massive $40,000,000 tube mills in Gary was seen today when information was received that Chief Engineer . F. N. Waterman would arrive in the city shortly. His arrival in Gary was slated for yesterday, but on account of being detained on business in Pittsgurgh he will not reach the steel city where he will make his future home until the first of next week. Chief Engineer Waterman will be superintendent of construction of the first unit, which will cost approximately $15,000,000 it Is understood. Then when the plant Is complete, he is slated to become general manager. It will take some 18 months to complete the first unit at least that period is given as the contract time. Mr. Waterman carries a national reputation as an engineer. Recently he has been engaged in the task of working out a plan for the standardization of efficiency of all the United States Steel Corporation plants In the country. He was also employed by the U. S. government during the war at the Neville shipping yards. Plans for the construction of a handsome home in the west side residential district fo- Mr. Waterman and his family are now being completed. It is understood that he will be folloVed by a large staff of clerks and engineers. DEATH COINCIDENT WITH HIS MASTERS Some months before the death of the late Judge Frank Zawadski of Gary, the nationally known Polish leader made Prosecuting Attorney Dwight M, Kinder a gift of a beautiful canary songster. The canary. "Dickie" as he was called, became a pet in the Kinder home on Jackson st. and long before the senator rubbed his sleepy eyes in the earl ymorning "Dickie" was happy in his wicker cake sending forth his sweet melodious songs of the woodland. Coincident wit hthe serious :jlness of Mr. Zawadski. previous to his death two weeks ago. "Dickie" also showed signs of illness. His singing ceased, he perched sorrowfully with hanging head and refused to touch the delicious morsels of greens and seeds which' Mrs. Kinder was accustomed to place in his cage. Then the news of Mr. Zawadski s untimely death reached the Kinder. "Dickie" seemed even more sad on that day and th following morning whn Mrs. Kinder went to the cage to console "Dickie" she found him dead. He had followed his former master to the great beyond. MR. REID CHEERS DEPtnnrEXTi makes his CHEERS GOOD WITH CHECK R. H. Reid of the Wyman Piano Co., today mailed a check for $10 to the police pension fund. In ths accompanying note he commends the police department as follows; "We have heard nothing but favorable comment on the methods used in handling this situation. We feel that more of this kind of work will cause the tough eggs to give HammonJ a wide berth." COLD M ED 1 TL.S FOR C OPS S4.YS ELATED CHICAfiOAX Chief of Police BunJe, Hammond. Ind. For such a clever piece of work as the Hessville highway trap in which you aot the two road ag ents, if I had It in my power, ail! connected with that excellent work would get a gold , medal. Tours truly, J. C. G-lwver, 6S22 Dorchester avenue. Chfcsgo.

TUBE WORKS ENGINEER

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lUUrWItN DAY C RCUS Canton Hammond, No. 55, I. O. O. F., announces a ten nights open air celebration which is scheduled to open next Wednesday night June 7, on the Calumet avenue bridge show grounds. For a special feature attraction, there has been engaged the Nat Reiss Shows and all of the numerous attractions conected therewith. These incluie four modern riding devices and ten shows, all of which are reported to 'be of an unusually high class type and grade. These attractions are transported in a privately owned train of fifteen cars and are scheduled to arrive here some time next Monday after a long jump from a point for over in Illinois. They will unload at the B. & O. terminal near th Wabash Railroad depot. A special meeting of the Canton Festival committee was held last evening incidental to the regular meeting of the lodge and chairman Robert E. Law started in real and active motion the machinery of arrangements for the celebration. Much important work still remains to be done before next Wednedday night's opening and this was all laid out at last night's conference and assignments given to the various sub-committees. In the effort to make the amusement undertaking a success, the Cantons will have the co-oper-ati'.e suport and aid of tne membership of the iocal Odd Fellow lodges and also of the Ladles' Auxiliary members. The committee has arranged for two special events in connection with the Festival, each of which give promise of developing much general local interest and patronage. It is proposed to gi've away a 1922 model Dort touring car and the tickets for this award are in the hands of the members today for the first time and already reported to be selling rapidly at twenty-five cents each. The automobile is from the Heatherington Auto Sales at 271 E. State Street, this city, where it Is now on public window display. There Is also getting well under way a cdmbination popularity contest in which first and second prizes of diamond rings are to be awarded to the most popular ladies (single or married) or girls, a high grade bicycle and complete amateur, baseball outfit to the , best . liked boys, and a diamond ring and a silver table eating set to the favorite babies. The only restrictive condition is that the candidates be residents of Hammond or the closely adjacent communities. Nominations are being made through the medium of an official blank which is in the hands of the members and in the Contest headquarters at 187 State street, room 203. The special business headquarters of the Festival Committee Is being equipped today with a telephon and will answer to the call of Hammond 1544. In charge of the detail work connected therewith is Harry E. Bon nell an expert carnival manager, with Miss Elizabeth Hipsher of 331 Cedar sreet, his assistant. LOT 0' TROUBLE Before Louis Takacs and his second wifei Mary, were married last September, Louis took her out to his cottage near the Gibson Subway and showed her his tirood of six children by his first wife. Mary looked them over and announced she was willing to act as a mother to them. So they were married. It wasn't long before Mary established contact with a liberal source of moonshine supply. She hit it regularly, according to the story of Louis and has been intoxicated much of the time since then. She is drunk two and three days at a time, during which she frequently lies on the floor In a stupor with her clothing diyarranged in a manner quite embarrassing to Louis "and the children. And in sobering up she is simply awful. She kicks the children, refuses to cook and calls everybody bad names. One day she knocked th three-year-old child clear down stairs, simply because he was in the way. On April 14 she made the sweeping rTireat to kill the whole family and burn the house. Mr. Takacs has decided to get a divorce. Attorney W. A. Fuzy filed the complaint yesterday and asked tiat Mrs. Takacs be restrained from carrying out her threats and ffm visiting the home. The suit was filed in the superior court at Kammend. SAM GOBITZ 8TRITK BV JOE M. ASHER'S AtTO Sam Gobitz. 336 Piummer avenue, early last evening stepped in front of a machine driven by Joe M. Asher. 443 Eston street, at State and Sohl streets. The machine "ran over" Gobitz. He was taken home. He sustained leg bruises. Witnesses to the accident included Mrs. Shaw. 2S9 State street; Paul Martin, 450 Piummer avenue: N. J. Scatena, 722 Calumet avenue; A. Prookman, 3S7 Indiana avenue. WHO IS KEE "VT WHERE IS HE. Volice are asked to hunt for Hugh Keenan. aged 60, one time blacksmith in Hammond. His sister Is near death In a Chicago hospital.

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Leaders Regard September as the Best Time in Which to Strike

(Bl'LLETl.V) By JAMES I.. KILGAI.LEX STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! CHICAGO, June X Strike clou us looming uraw the Industrial horlson are not recorded with apprehension by the country's leacU-va railroad executives, It was f.ml today on high authority. "We Co not take the ("noma strike threats seriously," said th president of one of the big Middle West railroad systems. "A strike now, or month from now, wonld be inopportune from the standpoint or the men, and their leaders know it. Two things are against the lik. Ilhood of a strikes First, employment condition are not srarce. Second 1 Wages. Even with the r.ew eut, tbe pay of railroad men will be higher than In ether Industries.' By H. K. REYNOLDS STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, June 3 The spectre of a combination railroad and miners' strike, involving close to 5,000,000 men and constituting the greatest industrial tieup in the history of the country began to take form in Washington today. Even though not yet materialized, the possibilities of the situation re such as to cause administration leaders distinct uneasiness. Railroad leaders in ths capital agree that September would be the best time to stage the transportation tieup if the men decide to strike, according to a canvass of opinion made by the International News Service. Daily reports from railroad centers throughout the country received at labor headquarters indicate the men are "strainirg at the leash" and that they intend to quit work as a protest again&t wage reductions even if recognized chiefs of their brotherhoods and unions do not think a strike should be calledThe leaders, however, are fully aware of the situation and there is expected to be no delay in formally ordering the men out after their wishes are officially made a matter of record through strike ballots. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen at its last eonvention prepared strike ballots to be sent out broadcast to members whenever a wage cut was ordered. This convention was overwhelmingly in favor of strike on the wage cut issue and the attitude of the flremsn is believed to be paralleled by that of other railroad workers. September Is being looked upon as the best month for the rail tieup, on the hypothesis that the strike of 503,000 bituminous coal miners will be over by that time. The railroad labor chiefs think the mine strike will windup sometime in August. Whenever the miners go back to work there will be a rush of coal shipments and if this rush comes in September, the railroads will have to cope with it at a time when they also will be called upon to haul millions of bushels of grain to the markets. Because a national railroad strike Is highly expensive, costing in the neighborhood of $25.000.000 a day, it will have to be of short duration. If the miners do not go back, however, the railroaders are agreeable to a combination strike that would be just as effective. In view of the excessive cost of a railroad strike it may not be possible for the rallwsy workers to go out for more than a week. For this reason, labor chiefs here think that the strike to be most effective should be called simultaneously throughout the country. JULIUS PETERS DROPS DEAD IN KITCHEN Julius Peters, aged 48 years, propped dead in the kitchen of his home at 579 Locust street. Hammond, shortly before, midnight last night. It is 'be'iieved he succumbed to a heart attack. Together, with his mother, Mrs. Tressie Peters, he had just returned from a -visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kali In Michigan avenue. Mrs. Peters in an adjoining room, heard the crash of her son's body as he fell to the floor of the kitchen. She rushed out. Before the physicians arrived Mr. Peters had passed away. He is survives by his mother and one sister. Mrs. Otto Borman of Garfield a venue. He was employed In the maintenance department of the Michigan Central railroad. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 1:00 p. m. from the late residence. At 1:30 from the Immanuel Evangelical church In Sibley street. Burial will be made at Oak Hill. N. J. Eramerling will conduct the funeral. W1NSL0W EN ROUTE Hrin. Alfred A. Winslow, aecom-' panied by his wife, is en route to Hammond from New Zealand where Mr. Winslow is stationed as United Staates consul general. Th s information is conta!nd in a post card received today by W. C. Belman. friend of the Winslows. The card was mailed from. London. Mr. Winslow should arrive in New York within a few days. He is then coming to Hammond. M. Winslow will be remembered as the editor of the old Hammond TrU hune.

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