Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 328, Hammond, Lake County, 12 June 1922 — Page 1

COURT JUDGE GRILLS CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS

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Hammond Department And Railway Employes Do Wonderful Work Fourteen loaded freight cars were destroyed by fire and thirteen others -were badly damaged by flames early Saturday evening- at the Gibson yards of the I. H. B. railroad when a tank car filled with benzol exploded a.ft.r being punctured in a collision with a gondola loaded with iron erap, Tho Accident, said to . e one of the most unusual In the s. -.rials of railroading, will result :n a less of nu-rchandite and rolling sim : that ina run to $40,000. Ef-ioi-ts io fix respons'bility and to eel cm ine the extent of the damage thioueii a ..-heck of the merchandise fif.-doyed, is now being conducted by J. W. Smith, head of the operating department. A formal investigation will be made tomorrow, he said. Four hundred freight cars containing thousands of dollars worth of mechanrtise were threatened by the fire that raged for six hours Saturday niht. Untiring energy on the part of firemen of the Hammond city department under Chief William Sill and the wonderful eoperation ar.u loyally of yard employes kept the flames centered in a spot about twelve rails in width. One man was slightly burned about the lets when he stepped into a cloud of 5tam and hot water escaping from a locomotive that had been run into the fire zone to fight the fames. HOW IT HAPPENED The accident occured at 5.09 p. m. Cars were being diverted over the north hump to the various tracks These spread in a net work in all directions. Cars routed over certain roads are grouped In sections. The section in which the fire took Flace contained cars destined for western points. It lies on the west side of the hemp and is clearly visible from Summer st. A switchman stationed at the top of the hump stnds the cars over the hill. Among these jesterday afternoon was. a car loaded with scrap iron. This was sent, like those before it. hurling down the prade. It struck -.ho switch that was to divett it to one of the scores of tracks thut spread like a fan from the foot of the hump. It swerved into this traok and 200 feet beyond clashed into the benzol filled tank car. The draw bars of the two cars rammed together. In the fea-ful impact of the two heavily laden cars, the steel drum of the tank tar was punctured. A moment later there was a flash as the pas and benzol became ignited. Some say this was due to a spark. Others say -.hat friction caused tho explosion. The detonation was not loud, but the flames leaped up in a j moment and within five minutes a! spot 50 yards in circumference be- I csme a ragi'ig furnace as car after car of merchandise ai!ght f.re. The high wind fanned the blaze and it became a question not of halting ' the fire, but of confining it. Of saving scores of othor cars in dangerous proximity. In addition to the tank car of benzol, another tank filled with t rid oil laiiRht fire and burned fiercely. Huge clouds of black srr.oke poured from the blazing contents. This retardel firemen further. The lenzol was in transit from an Eat Chicago steel mil!, where it is manufactured as a byproduct, to Chicago users. 0K MAX DIRXED Compani-s one, three and four of the Hammond fire department were summoned. These worked with the fire-fle-htine crews of the raiircmff. Specially equipped locomotives were called into play. Switch engines were harried to the scene e.ud began hauling cars out of the danger zone. Firemen and rail employes worked frantically. At 11:30 p. m.. more than six hours after the fire started, the situation was under control. More than 2.400 feet of hose was used by Chief Nill to bring water to ftirht the fames. Water was obtained at Summer street and at the hump. But difficulties here combined wiih the teiriflc gaie that Kw all afternoon in1 late into the night made the work of concentrating the blaze one of desperation. The man who was turned is F. A. Rowen. a switchman. His injuries were slight. He stepped into a jet of steam and hot water. He walked Into the offices of Dr. H. C. Groman of Hammooi, was treated and went homeleaded cars that were destroyed were these: Six refrigerator, five merchandise, two t.-nk cars, one with benzol and one with crude ou, and one unclassified. Those partially destroyed contained coal and scrap iron. The loss In freight cars alone will total $28,000, according to I. H. B. officials. Loss and damage to mer chandise In transit will bring the I whole to around $40,000. This :s covered with Insurance, it Js said. WASHINGTON June 12 The body! of Mrs. Cornelia Gilliland Roberts, I 69, mother of Mary Roberts JThine-' hart. Is to be taken to Pittsburgh today for burial. Mrs. Roberts died j early this morning at the emergency j hospital from injuries and burns re-j celved in an accident about a week ago.

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Smith W. Brookha.ru Col. Smith W. Brookhart, Proftrcssive in politics and veteran of two wars, is leading the field of six candidates in the Iowa primaries for the U. S. senate. Labor and farmers' organizations backed Biookhart. THE GOLDEN CITY Red-Fezzed Invaders Waken Sleeping City With Noisy Arrival. By ELLIS H. MARTIN STAFF CO-RESPONDENT I. Ii. SERVICE bA.V HiA.Mistl', ual.,. June 1-. Shrinedom's conquest of the golden city of the west for its Golden Jubilee was complete today. Sweeping across the hot desert sands from ail points of the compass, the hosts of ncbles and their friends poured into the waiting arms of Islam's 10, COO welcoming Shriners and Mecca was theirs. The final influx of the red-fezzed invaders started at 4:30 this morning when Hyria Temple, Pittsburgh, the second largest in the United States, wakened the sleeping city with a noisy arrival. They were accorded a rousing welcome and the blare of their trumpets had hardly died, when in pulled Ben Hur Temple from Austin. Texas. They proved the vanguard for the mighty Medinah invasion from Chicago in the form of five special trains bearing 2,000 Nobles. From then on every hour of the day saw at least one temple arriving. More than forty special trains bringing them in from all over the United States. Twenty-seven specials arrived Sunday. San Francisco has hung the sign of the Star and Crescent above all others and all she has is at the disposal of the visitors. Today was a feast of music, the bands, more bands and more chanters marched, serenaded and concerted at all hours and at a score of points. LAKE COUNTY HAS A SYMPDHY BAND A symphony orchestra of thirty musicians has been organized in Hammond by F. K. Either, formerly director of the Parthenon theatre orchestra and at present a teacher of music. The orchestra includes eight first vioiins. four second violins, three trumphets. four reeds, two string bass and a tuba two cellos two violas and two French horns. The new symphony orchestra is holding .successful rehearsals and will give a concert in the near future. It is a great step ahead for the musical world of the county and the efforts of Conductor Elcher and hi artist should be appreciated. The associate concert-masters of the orchestra are Newstrom present director of the Parthenon theatre, and Conroy. leader of the Gary Or -uheum orchestra. BUSY IN WEST HAMM0ND West Hammond police spent a busy week-end rounding up drunks, speeders and disorderly characters The fo'lowing pand fines this morning: William Taylor. Hammond. ?1? 50. for dri inc .in auto while in-toxU-aied: Harry Russell, a carnival at'atle. $5 and costs, drunk: Edward Martin. Hammond, to and costs cirjnk Others arrested and who will be tried later were: William Todd. Hamnor.J. drunk: Steve Symanak and Carl Brummer. West Hammond, drunk: Gustave Johnson and John P". Tcung. Hammond, disorderly conduct.. R. Erehart. Chicago, speeding Joseph Hirsh. West Hammond, disorderly conduct. THE tie plate unit of the Inland Steel Company is espected to start operations the latter part of the month. This department was recently constructed. The Inland Is said to have fie-retof ore purchssed .the builk of their tie plates from the Interstate Iron and Steel.

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Labor Unions Begin Important National Convention At Cincinnati TINTED NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CXKCXmrATI, O., Jane IS Smenl. dertag resentment or crganlxed taor to the courts, which In the past year hare rendered several adverse decisions broke out In all consuming fire of wrath today at the American Pederatlon of labor! opening esslon of Its 42nd annual convention. Wot eren the United States supreme court, whose august body heretofore has gone uncrltlclzed, publicly, escaped' In the report of the executive council of the federation which devoted itself, in a large measure to a fiery disparagement of the entire Judiciary. BY WARREN V. WHEATOX STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE CLWI.V.NAil, -., June l. racing the most difficult problems of its 42 years of existence the American Federation of Labor opened its an - nual convention htre today, its leaders militantly determined to combat increasingly threatening inroads on organized labor. Four hundred .accredited representatives of the millions of workers affiliated with organized labor, began in the Ohio national guard armory, two weeks of deliberations from which labor leaders demand there must emerge a solidified organization, able to cope with the asterted "grim struggle ahead." Including in Hs personnel men of all shades of thought in the labor movement, progressives, standpatters, re-actionaries and radicals, the convention get underway with a slight feeling of uncertainty manifest among the delegates as to w heth er harmony effort of Samuel Uompers, labor head, will prevail. Repudiation of tiompers by the building trades . department of the federation in its convention may lead to Mime disenion creeping fr.to convention deliberations, a few delegates freely predicted. Delegates raraded from Federa tion headquarters to the conven- I tion hall, where they were welcomed by local municipal and labor officials. Adolf Kummer, president of the Cincinnati Central Labor Council, opened the convention as temporary chairman. The Rev. Peter Deitz delivered the invocation. George P. Carroll, may of Cincinnati, and other local o..cials welcomed the delegates and labor visitors to the convention city. President Jompers took over the duties of presiding officer, after Thomas Donnelly, secretary of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, had presented him with a gavel made by the carpenters of Cincinnati. CJompers declared the convention to be the "parliament of labor en gaged in the work of fighting the battles of mankind." "The Issues that have been heap- j ed upon us in no way depress our j spirits," he said. "Our movement j is united. Its spirit is unconquer- j able. There - Is throughout our ; ranks a militant determination thaa : justice for all the people must inumhp. "We are shocked by things that have happened. Twice within a , few days the Supreme court of our ! land has rendered decisions fitting only to the dark days of old. There is a boisterous and brazen movement at work to destroy every progressive institution and to submerge human rights for the sake of profiteers and industrial autocras" ARMY PAY TO ! PEACE TIME STANDARD INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, June 12. President Harding today signed the Wadsworth-McKenzie bill, returning the navy, army, marine corps and coast guard service to peace tine pay standards. The bill, effective July 1. slashes $14,154,000 from the pay bill of the four services. It reduces th; 0 a month w-ar time pay of private soldier to $21 a month but grants mrny special allowanc-r which might run the enlisted msns nay . htrh a S157.50 a month. The nv nf officers rant?s from $1,500 i for .new second lieutriiants or ensigns up to a maximum of $9,540 for major generals and rear admirals.HAZE LT ON. Pa.. June 12 The vote of the anthracite miners on the question of authorizing the scali committee to deeare a strike if necessary w-ill be counted st the head quarters of each of the three anthra-j cite districts on Jure 22. it wa announced today by Thomas Kennedy. ! chairman of the scale committee, voting ends June 21. it was predicted by miners' leaders that the vote will be practlcaly unanimous in favor of the propose.1.

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Fatal Injury Tony Skrentny. son of Anthony J j Skrentny, a f jrniture dealer at 3714 ' Cedar jft.. Indiana Harbor, and his friend Andy Kratek, are reported to be near death in ihe Hammond j and Gary hospitals as the result of j a railroad pccldent Saturday evenI ing when the east bound No. 2 j Pennsylvania flyer, aue in the hrj bo- at 6:14, struck the truck 'n j which the boys were riding at Lincoin ave. ana nuriea ii to me roadside 25 feet rv.-ay. This morning nurses from the respective hospitals to which the boy? were removed following the accident, reported that both are suffe! i ing from fractured skulls, but th physicians still have hopes f their recovery. Tony Skrentny, ulieved to the most serious cas was still unconscious at 10 o'cloc this morninsr. Lewis Nemeth o 2C02 Pennsylvania ave., the boy who is said to have bee:i hanging on the rear of the true!; when it was struck, escaped with a few slight bruises. The train after traveling to nearly in front of the Harbor station on Michigan ave., wa? brought to a stop and backed up to the plaue of the accident. After riving the name of the crew and assisting the police remove the two unconscious boys from . the mass of twisted wreckage, the trainmen were released by the officers to continue to j their destination. 1 4 RAIDS ME AT Nipped in the bud berore they had become well acquainted in their new locations, four disorderly houses were raided over Saturday and Sunday by the Indiana Harbor police department. Five prostitutes, one male keeper and one associate were arrested. Lucy Murray and Marie White, colored, who bare faced the. charges of prostitution eight or ten times in the Eat Chicago court, were arrested at ii9T Pennsylvania ave. Sunday night. Marie White, the keeper of the place, was also charged with violating the state liquor law, when police officers found two gallons of intoxicating liquor in her rooms. Tom Makropolos. an alleged keeper of a Jiouse of ill fame at 3324 Guthrie St.. was taken into custody with Florence Perry, a white prostitute, Seturday night. James Nick, charged with associating at this place, Mas arrested also. Gussie North, colored, whooe name has appeared frequently on the East Chicago police dockets for prostitution, was arrested at 3524 Farrish ave., charge! with keeping a disorderly house. Myrtle Carrlpbcll. colored, was arrested at 3457 Watlins st., Saurday night. Her associates escaped. FIFTY SIX rsEClL TO THE TIMES I CROWN POINT. INI)., June 12 The Recount Poard counting Treasurer otes finished three weeks of work on Satutday noon, countiny ! fifty-six precinct?, counting 15.04 j ballols. Up to the present time, Fifltld has 4,313 votes: Groves, 3.173, and Hunter. 4.46s! votes. Fifield ha Inst 403 votes; Groves. 232. and Hunter, SS2. Groves ha trained 177 votes and Hunter 27 votes. Fifiel'l's official count gave him 47S majority, having lost 27 votes--, he now has 432 votes in the lead. i WHITING PIONEER PASSES AWAY SPECIAL TO THE TiMESI WHITING, IND., June 12 John McCarthy, aged 55 years, and a resident of this city for the past thirtyfive years, passed away at his home on Sheridan avenue, Saturday evening, following a lingerinir illness of two years. .Mr. McCarthy was. until his illness employed on the tower stills of the Standard Oil Companv-. The funeral services will be held at the Sacred Heart church. Tuesday morning, at 9:00 a. m. Interment to be at Mount Olivet cemetery in Chicago. The deceased leaves to mourn him his wife. Mary, and three children: Margaret. John and James, besides a host of friends. DUCATS. That's what srort writers call the pasteboards, the tickets, the legal tender to prize fights, other events. P.oy McCool has a fine supply of ducats to the LeonardKansas bout at Michigan City. July 4th. Hammond is sending a delegation of fans.

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7 X 1 1 Viv.V 'y J. V. Morgan. HOUSES OF ILL-FAME (Bl IXETI ) CROWN POINT, Ind., June 12. Judge Martin Smith of the Criminal Court called the grand jury for next Friday, this morning. BTJZaZiZiTXK The clean-up of the Oary underworld, demanded by The Times, hat started. Times reporters were today served with subposnaa, signed by William Sunn, Judge of the city court, commandingthem to appear' tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock to testify in the caae of the state' versus Dolly Qage, Frank Escurda, William (Big Bill) Subtovlch, John - Fyragakli, Barry Fauloe, Jake Saultz, Pauline Schulti, Helen Atkins, Earry St. Clair, Joe Itrnoit, Georfe Kuskovich and Jenpi Killer. Pauline Schultx Is the proprietor of The metropolitan," a house of ill fame and 'wet" saloon, at 1550 Jefferson street. Jake Saulti la the proprietor , of -The Edelweiss," a house of ill fame and "wet" saloon at 1333 Washington street. William 'Biff Bill" Subtovlch ia the proprietor of a saloon on Adam street and formerly operated the notorious "Haxbar Bay Inn" at Indiana Sarbor. The Times crusade against vice conditions in Gary and Lake county resulted in a clean-up campaign by Gary officials Saturday night when twelve keepers of houses of ill-fame and two liquor law violators were arrested. Thot-e booked on charges of keeping houses of ill fame were: Mary Paulos, 1423 Washington st. Jake Saultz. 1333 Washington St.. (Edelweiss Cafe.) Pauline Shultz, 1550 Jefferson st. (, Me t ropol itan.) Helen Atkins 20th and Broadway, iChicsgo Hotel.) Harry t. Claire, South Side Hotel. IP80 South Broadway. Joe Lamont, 951 Jefferson St. George Miscovich 938 Broadway. Mrs. Genevieve Miller. 0th and Jefferwn st.. Wabash Inn. Doliie Gase, 107S Adams street. Frank K-'cadero, 1524 Washington street. William "Big Bill" Subotich. Indiana Harbor, 1208 Adtms street. Jonn Pyrzakis. 142S Jefferson st. Violators of the state liquor law: Martin Carmella. 1929 Delaware street. 43 gallons of moonshine whis j key and destroyed 650 gallons of sugar mash. John Mannish. 1S50 Virginia st. ELKS TO OBSERVE FLAG DAY1DNESDAY Patriotic Ssrvices at Club Rooms at 8 O'clock. In the Evening. Every fraternal organization in the city, including the patriotic societies uch as the G. A. I!.. American Legion .Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Spanish War Veteran?, are invited to attend the Flag Day services at the Elks' club on Rimbach avmue, Wednesday evening. The services will start at eight o'clock, and a spkndid program has been prepared- At 9:13 there will J be dancing. No admission will be charged The public is ureed to weir Ameri can ffags on that day and to deco- ! rate business houses and homes with the national colors. PUBLIC SALE DRAWS' CROWD The White Store stock bougtit at abe.it twenty-five cents on the dollar is now- on sale at practically a give away price and the new owner says at the rate the Ftock is sflling i it will all be cleaned c-ut in about ten days, he wants none of the old j stock on hand when the grand op- j ening is held. In the meactime itj is worth any woman's time to step into the store and take a look at the unusual bargains to be bad.

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YORK'S WORST STORM

(intepnat:onal news service EE; YOET, June 12 The known dead, 49, from the storm in the metropolitan area is listed today as follows, Including i Twenty-nlae drowned. Seven killed la ferrle wheel crash. Six tilled by falling trees. One electrocuted by fallen live wire. BPT.T.TITTJT (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! VIWAEJC, OHIO, June 12 Three persons are known to be dead, thlreen others are seriously injured and jthere are believed drowned in the .raters of Buckeye laJce, a summer resort near here, while the bodies j of five others are thought to be hur ried beneath the wreckage of fifty cottages, as the result of a tornado which swept the lake and surrounding territory late yesterday afternoon. NEW YORK. June 12 New York today is taking toll from the worst storm ever experienced in its history.

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ETJX.LETXBT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) MOSCOW, June 12. Reports circulated in Europe and America regarding the condition of Nicolal Lenine's health have been exaggerated. International News Service was informed today. BXTU.ETXS riNTEPNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MILWAUKEE. WIS. June 12 Sound advertising Is the best highway to business success, F. M. Feiker, formerly personal assistant to Secretary of Commerce Hoover and now a special representative of the commerce department, told the National . Industrial Advertising Conference here today. BUXXtZTZZf riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. June 12 Five persons are recovering today from injuries received last night during the 33 mile gale which swept Washington for a quarter of an hour. Boats were overturned In the Potomac river and roofs were blown from buildings while trees were uprooTeH by the raging wind. ETJlLXTUf INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) TOKIO. June 12 Nakaoka, youth convicted of slaying Premier Hara. was sentenced to life imprisonment today Hashimoto, tried for inciting the assassination wa acquitted. (HI LLETIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CrilCACO. June 12. Coroner 'Peter M. Hoffman began an inquiry today into the deaths of W, C. Weeiock. grandson of the late John H. Peers, millionaire plow maker, and his bride, who were killed when their honeymoon airplane fell at Ashburno flying field yesterday. John Metzger, pilot of the plane, was uninjured. The coroner wl'.I probe charges that the accident was due o negligence on the part of the pilot ind the company owning the plane. Bl I.I.ETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) LOS A .v. tli-KS, June 1.' villiam Foster MacKay. well known eliior and writer, is dead today and two other men were injured, 'nt perhaps faially, as the result of an airplane accident late yesterday when a plane tarrying MacKay. Bell Valentine and Hugh Ilinjrman clashed :Hto a telephone pole near Grah-jm station. i Bl I.1.KT1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BOSTON. Mass.. June 12. one man was killed, several persons injured and property damage estimated at nearly a million dollars was the toll today of a storm of vyclonic fury which swept Massachusetts yesterday afternoon. The storm was accompanied by a wind of 40-miie velocity. III LI.KTIX) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! ST. LOUIS. Jjne 12. Two earthquakes, on of wiiich lastSPECIAL TO THE TIKES CROWN POINT, Ind June 12 A serious auto accident took place near the Adank farm yesterday when an auto driven by Sam Paradise of Valparaiso, skidded in the loose gravel into a telephone pole and turned turtle burying Paradise and his wife beneath it. Both were injured internally. They were taken -by ambulance to the Valparaiso hospital.

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i The known dead from drowning, the overturning of a giant ferrls i w heel, the uprooting of trees, and other accidents resulting from the storm are placed at 49. Nineteen more are missing or unaccounted for. The number of injured has not yet been learned, although It Is believed that they will number more than the dead and miselnf. The furious 100 mile gale that un expectedly swept New York and its vicinity about 5:30 yesterday after noon wrought inconceivable havoc. A giant ferrls wheel Jn Glason Point Park was completely overturned, ca tapulting the people in it to the beach 100 feet below, killing five and injuring 22. Trees standing as high as 100 feet were uprooted. A two story house was torn loose from its foundation. Live wires were torn down, boats on the water were overturned, drowning many. On Long Island Sound, Pelham Bay, Beastchester Bay, Coney Island and all other resorts, rowboats and other water craft scurried for shore. Some made it but many were overturned, and their occupants drowned. ed morei than two hours, were recorded' last night and early touay at the St. Louis university Seismograph. The first quake occured about 1, 50 miles southwest of St. Louis, and apparently was a collapse of the ocean floor somewhere In the Pacific. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WAL'KEGAN, 111.. June 12. Norman, Griffin, cashier of the Grant Park Trust and 9avings Bank, was piaced. on the stand today as the trial of Governor Ln Small, charged with conepiraey to embezzle the state funds, entered its eighth week. 4BI-LLETIX J INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, June 12. Cornelius "Con" Shea, labor leader. Daniel McCarthy and Mrs. Josn Miller indicted in connection w ith the murder of police LieutTerrence Lyons a month ago, were ordered admitted to bail of $75,000 each by Judge Taylor in Criminal court today. fTNTE NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE TOLEDO. Ohio. June 12. Mrm. Curlessy Tepper. 2S, who shot and krlled her former husband John H. Tepper prominent Ohio restaurant owner, in a restaurant here April 19, committed suicide today by drinking poison in the General hospital, w-here she has -been confined ince the shooting. She is bell e v d to have been lnsan. Hospital authorities believe Mrs. Tepper obtained the carbolic acid unobserved from the operating room. IBILI.ETIK) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHARLESTOWN. W. Va., June 12 The Rev. James E. Wilburn of Blair county, entered a plea of not guilty In the Circuit Court her today to the charge of killing Deputy Sheriff John Gore during the armed march of miners in Ixsgan ccmnty last summer. (BCLLETI)' t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICF1 eFON DU LAC. Wis., June 12 Five minutes before a Milwaukee road passenger train being detoured over the Northwestern line near Arpleton Junction was due. R. H. koeke. section hand, discovered that a bridge on the main line was washed out. Waving a lantern he ran through a blinding storm and stopped the passeneer train which contained over 100 people about 200 rods from the washout. (BltLETlXI riNTFONATIOWAL PfWS SERVICE! SANTA ROSA. Calif.. June 12. Theft of 23.000 gallons of old wine from the Daniel Tocchini Winery here was discovered today on the return of the owner from a week-end trip. Heavy iron bars had been sawed and ten barrels and twelve large runrheons containing the wine removed in trucks. AT CEDAR LAKE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, Ind., June 12. Two men were drowned at Cedar ! T.nke vesterdav. Nineteen-vesr-old Oren Owens of South Chicago went swimming oft Lassen's pavilion and eniccumbed to cramps. His body was recovered. A man as yet unidentified, on the opposite eide of the lake went under whlie swimming and hie body has not yet been recovered. ,

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Says That Authorities Are Winking At Law Violations

In a scathing arraignment of city and county officials. Judge Henry Cleveland, sittirg in the Hammond city court, today charged authorities, sworn upholders of law and order, with responsibility for the wave of immorality that Is sweeping the county, supplanting liberty with license, law with lawlessness, sunshine with moonshine, and reducing the state statutes to a thing of barter and trade for silver and patronage. ZZ ABIXXTS XT In his bitter denunciation for the law's laxness he fully vindicates his adamant demand for a thorough cleaning out of city and county offices by admitting that since assuming office his court has been made the laughing stock of bootlegger, booze maker and lawbreaker through the machinations of unscrupulous lawyers and because of the ease with which other authorities have winked at law violations and have worked to undo the best, though limited, efforts of the city court to instill in the citizenry of the county a wholesome respect for the law. FHITi UOXDT'S CASX He cites the case of Phil Smidt, operator of a fish resort on the lake front, raided last October by federal prohibition agents and local police. In Smidt's place the raiders found this: 25 gallons of colored moonshine; two quarts of moonshine; one quart of Gordon gin; one quart measure full of moonshine (this behind the bar, and forty-five c4.se s of beer that tested 2.75 and 3.5 per cent alcohoL The raid was made by federal agents on telegraphic Instructions from Bert Morgan, state head of the prohibition department. The raid was made on a federal warrant. But Smidt wasn't brought before a federal court. Not Smidt WHAT'S TJUi JLirswzxr Instead, a second affidavit was made by a state officer. Ori fhis affidavit Smidt -was arraigned. In city court. He was lined. All this on the q. t. Then the original affidavit, sworn out by the federal agents, was quashed. No one know i how. There's no explanation. There isn't even an explanation why Smidt was not given a Jail sentence when arraigned In clty court. He had twenty-five gallons of moonshine and 45 cases of illegal beer. Tet Smidt got away with it. Contract this with the case of any one of a dozen others. Less fortunate than Bmldt. But they bear the brunt of the law. "What'a the answer? Judge Cleveland wants to know. XX THXT INOWI "Do the people of this county know what's goin on? Do they know one county official can't even trust another? Do they know the law is honey-combed with dollar marks?" That's what Judge Cleveland asks. Again he cites an instance to prove his utter disgust with the trend of law In Lake county. He, a member of the bar, a Jurist, a public official, has the temerity, the courage, the public Fplrit, the honesty to come out, open and above board, and pillory to the gaze of all, ITiat which has been long suspected, talked abou?. dreaded, yet tolerated because no one had the nerve to Bay anything, to attempt anything! And he says he has but started. He says he hae the law abiding interests behind him. It says It Is time for the taxpayers, the home owners, the parents of the county, to assert themselves. THE LAW CHZATXD In concluding his denunciation. Judge Cleveland tore back the shield of secrecy that has masked the activities of the sheriffs office and revealed condition's there so potent of evil as to make the blood boil. He assured this writer that sentencing a man to the county jail was but a subterfuge, that the man would not serve his sentence, that justice would be thwarted and the law cheated. He cited .as one case alone, that of Tony Rose, found guilty in the city court of violating the liquor laws. Rose lives at 325 Kane ave. It will be recalled that it was his 14-3 ear-ol son who was caught by police delivering moonshine to a soft drink parlor and pool room. Rose himself later was caught. He was (Continued on pege six.) DERAILED TRAIN HOLDS UP TRAFFIC OH FIVE ROADS HARVET, 111.. June 12. Traffic on five railroads was Interrupted for hours when an Illinois Central freight engine and four cars ran over a brake beam and were derailed near the Harvey interlocking plant yesterday. Chicago to Montreal exprews train No. 6 on the Grand Trunk railroad was delayed three hours while Chicago wrecking crews cleared up the debris. Other roads affect Jd were the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pajl. the Chicago. Terre Haute & Southeastern, and Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal. ELKS JNpTICE The Flag Day exercises will be held in the lodge' room of the new home on Rimbach ave., at 8 p. m., Wednesday, June 14th. A very enjoyable and Interesting program has been arranged, and all Elks are urged to attend. The public is Invited. C. S. MATHTJSA. 6-12' Exalted Ruler.