Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 3, Hammond, Lake County, 21 June 1922 — Page 1

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COMB. TION STRIKE IS MATTER OF CONJECTURE THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tnurdayj clo-vrly rising temperature I moderate northeast nlada, shifting to east and newt beast Thursday. COUNTY VOL. XVI. NO. 3. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1922 HAMM ON D. FN T I ANA LABIS' WHITIH lira

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One Still Running; Anothei Ready and Two Old Ones Scrapped SPECIAL TO THE TIMES "WHITING, ind., June 21. A veritable flowing w ell of moonshine, believed'to have been supplying much of the liquor which lus been causing trouble in Whiting recently, was plugged vrs-.erday afternoon through acti.m of Attorney Thoin-is P.. Cerajewski, hard-hitting deputy prosecutor, and the Whiting police. l-.r.atz Hallo. 1143 Indianapolis l!u.. was t-preadini this flood oi li oon-hina from his little grocery. He dt!iverd it Just like any otner coni:::odi ty . MX AKHF.5TED I'vosccutor Cerajewskl prepared a bunch of warrants which resulted in fix arrests. Hallo's place was visited by Officers Mullaney. Vidovich, Saltstnan, Assenheimer, Hall, Brown and Eranwr. Fir.t they ran across thirty-three cute little half-gallon jars of moonshine all fixed-up for delivery. Then they found a 20-gallon still running full tilt. Near it was a lb-gallon still, filled and ready to start as soon as the bigger brother had finished. There was also some fresh moonshine. Ignatz had evidently been a busy guy. for in a dark corner were found two old 5-gallon stills which had been broken up after they had become worn out. Fred J. Smith furnished ball when he was taken to the station. SOFT DRIMv l'AKI.ORS Officers Wawizyniak and SurdukowsUi dropped in on Andy Skunta and Lewis Mashura at their soft drink place. 622 Clarke St. They found a quantity of wine which tested 8',i per cent alcohol. Both furnished $1,000 bail. Andy Saho'.s soft drink place, 405 Stiibor St.. jielded at pitcher half full of "moon." A whiskey glass was beside it behind the bar. Mike Ucchan furnkshed his SI. 000 ball. Two homts completed the roundup for the pftcrnoon. Andy Thomas. 9.10 Schrasre ave.. was brought In with a 5-gallon still, some moonshine ar.d an gallons of mash. Andrew Suliman, 417 Center St., had a still, a gallon of moonshine and 50 gallons of mash. Joseph Chi'la furnished the $1,000 ball for Sulim-fl. They were to be arraigned this afternoon. ""We are right on their heels." said Prosecutor Ccraejwski this morning, "and we are going to keep smashing them as fast as they bob up. It's a hard fight, but if constant plugging counts we are going to keep Whiting clean.' FIRST DANCE AT To Raise Funds for City's Big Fourth of July Celebration. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING, lnd., June 21 The first of the Wednesday night dances to help the fund for the monster Fourth of July celebration will be given tonight at the new pavilion In beautifult "Whiting Park. These dances are open to everyone, much the same as the festivities on Independence Day are open to everyone who cares to attend. There will be a small charge for dancing and the proceeds will be used to swell the fund for the big celebration. No matter how hot the weather is up town, it will not be too hot at the beach pavilion where the dance is held. The dancing will be stricttj high class and to th'i music of one of the best orchestras in this region. The more this dance is boosted the bigger will be the funds for the biggest Fourth ever held in Whiting. Everybody in Whiting at ell Interested in dancing or music will probably be in attendance and there will also be a generous sprinkling of people from other cities. There will be no dance Friday evening or sny Friday evening thereafter. Henceforth community dances will be held on Wednesdays. General Clwiirman D. J, Paskweitz of the Citizens' Independence Day Committee, when interviewed last evening, expressed the opinion that his Fourth would be one of the most successful ever given In the history of the city. "It will set a mark for committees to try to equal for years to come," he added. "There will be something doing from the time the parade starts at nine In the morning until the last dance a eleven at night." "DOC" SALISEURY of Crown Point, who has worked his way into the 80 golfers class finds that the hardest part of a foursome is to run a bank and keep a set of ibooks. GUS SIMONS, general prohibition agent, continues to dash into and out of Hammond every day or so in following up leads In connection with the latest distillery Ibooze theft. Sensational developments iqu.ilinsr the Remus case are hinted at

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) fAN FRANCISCO, June 21. The long arm of the law Is to be considerably longer if plans considered at the twen'.y-ninth annual convention of the International Association of Police Chief3 today are car ried OUtt The executive committee presented for the approval of the convention a plan for establishment of an international police ht-adquarters in charge of a high cla.-s international police chief who would enlist the co-operation of the police departments of the world in trailing wanted criminals. The international police headquarters would be in conjunction with ' the international bureau of identifi cation whicn it is proposed to establish in Washington with the support of the 1'nited States Department of Jus'-ice. It would, however, be Independent of control by the Department of Justice and would work for t'jc establishment of universal codes rnd standardized methods of police work. The principal stumbling block is the financing of the plan and the convention will consider ways and means to that end. The next matter of importance on today's proTram was discussion of ways and means to regulate the sale and arrying of firearms. WITH FOUR WIVES! Finkerton Detectives Arrest Donald Stewart who Has Livelv Career. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 NEW YORK. June 21 A former Presbyterian minister who is charged with having -four legal wives, a divorced wife, and to be now living with "a present wife" has been arrested in Los Angeles, it was' disclosed today by the Tinkerton Detective Agency. He is wanted on charges of having passed numerous fraudulent checks. Steps will be taken, according to then Pinkertons, for his extradition from Los Angeles to Boston. The minister's present name, according to the Pinkertons, is Donald D. Stewart, but he Is in reality Robert Allan McLaren Browne, once pastor of churches In Dundee Lake, N. J. and Paterson, X. J". The Boston authorities want t!)e minister on charges of .polygamy, grand larceny and conspiracy, declared the Pinkertons. The career of the minister and his present wife as given by the Pinkertons follows: "In 1 9 1 S he married Brabara Jones of Mount Carmel, Pa., who Is now under arrest In Los Angeles with him. "In the following year he was ordained minister in New York City and assigned to his first pastorate at Dundee Lake, X. J. He lost his church, it Is said because of his alleged connection with the suicide of a woman in California with whom he had been friendly. "In 1920, he married Ethel M. Turner Osbalderston, of ew York City. He deserted her, the Pinkertons declare, after he had squandered all her savings. "In February, 1921, he married Bertha Ellen Grannis in Detroit. Before the minister disappeared after this alliance, the Pinkerton claim the mother of the wife charged him with having obtained several thousand dollars from her by bogus checks. , "In September, 1921, he married Norma Ehrenseller in Boston and is said to have obtained $2,000,000" from her and her mother. It was this marriage that caused the Pinkertons to be put on his trial. In addition to these wives the former minister Is said to have a divorced wife and three children living In New Jersey. The Pinkertons In tracing the former minister's record discovered, they claim, that he has held brief pastorates, in Paterson, Sanderson, Texas, and Chico, California, In the west he was known as an ardent reformer and he Is said to have claimed that he cleaned out the tenderloin district in Chico. GARY MAN IS HELD John Passetto, 2592 Jefferson St.. Gary, was arrested yesterday by i Ben Strong of the I. H. Belt railroad detective force for the theft! of clothing from a box car at the L. j C. L. railroad yards. I The man was arraigned in the ' Hamond city co.urt this morning and found guilty of petty larceny. His fine was $15 and he was sentenced to a 60 day suspended Ja'.l term. He was also paroled to Detective Ben! Strong for the saime period. COMPLETE PLANS i A meeting will "be held this ev- , ening at 8:00 o'clock in the rooms of the Northern States Life Ins-ur-i ance Co., to complete the plans for the celebration to 'be held July 4th. A31 delegates from the various churches and other organizations, are urged to be present. W. F. BIELEFELD. Chairman.

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AND STILL THEY COME Here's another letter picked from the bunch In thin raorninjx's mail placing? the Mauip of approval on the eflTorts or The Times In ripoalnK tce conditions! Hammond, Indiana, June 30, 1022, Editor, The I,lkr County Times Huramond, Indiana. Dear Slrt The members of the Woman's Ulble Clasa of the Fimt Methodilnt Church, vrlah to extend to you their appreciation and thank for the fine atand you have taken to make Hammond and other Lake County eltlea better itlea. "We believe you are entirely right In your crusade aKninst the prime and liquor and Unie our utmost support. Asaln tbunklnn; you and vrlahyou cOntlnn-.-d muccesa, we are Slneelely yoort, MRS. fiEO JTHEETEII, Teacher MISS IRIS G.IDSnv, Secretary.

F HAMMOND COURT Cases which have been continued and pending In the Hammond city court for weeks were all tried today and the result was one of the busiest sessions that the court has had for some time. Liquor law violators were there In abundance. Those convicted were Milos Basnak, 179 Company House, $80 and 90 days suspended sentence. Andrew Howach, soft drink proprietor with place of business at 368 Hohman street, was arraigned for the second time for the offense and drew a fine of $220 and 60 days on the penal farm. Frank Morland. 18T Henry St.. received a sentence of 90 days suspended and a fine of 1130. Joseph Nievxlelski, 295 Gostlln street, was fined $130 and sentenced to serve 35 days on the penal farm. Other law violators who were tried this morning were Mike Paloney, drunk. $15: Steve Krawzauko, drunk, $11: AValter Shultz. Oak Glen, 111., speeding $11: Mike Palarmo, of 1084 Harrison street, spedlng, $11; Ralph McWilllams, 589 Summer st., speeding. $11: Frank 'Yukwsko, 126 155th street, drunk, $11: Nick SopIon and Steve Makar, 3510 Theodore street, Indiana Tarbor, drunk, $11 each. Joe PlopblnkI, 335 154th place driving an auto while intoxicated, $13.00. Deputy Prosecutor Joe Todd should 'be given credit for his Initiative in causing the raids to be made on the liquor law violators. He supplied the police with twenty-four search warrants with which to work. Several cases which the court was unable to find time for this morning were tried this afternoon. PLEDGE SUPPORT TO TIMES IN VICE WAR A pledge of support to The Times in its drive on lawlessness Is contained in the latest petition of commendation reaching the office of this newspaper. The petition follows: "We, the undersigned, citizens of the City of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, heartily commend the stand of the Lakr, County Times, have taken in the exposure of the conditions existing in Hammond and other parts of Iake County, relative to vice and the violations of the liquor law. "We pledge our support to The Times in their drive against these conditions." Mrs. O. N. Xiger; O. X. Kiger; E. Alice Wiltsee; S. E. Wiltsee; Mary C. Pickett C. H. Leeson; Mrs. F. W. Preston; Mrs. John R. Layton; H. J. Wright: Mrs. C. H. Leeson; Mrs. W .A. Knipp; M. J. Mct-lennen; Nina Abbott; Genlse Bush; C. M. Jewett; Mrs. H. R. Lighty; R. W. Abbott; Mrs. E. L. Dorsey; J. Wesley Reed. Emma C, Witham; Mrs. E. Sailors; Mrs. J. McDonald; Mrs. D. F. Hix; J. E. Sheldon; Mrs. J. E. Sheldon; Lizctta Rouley; I. B. Reagan; Mrs. S. B. Reagan; Mrs. Ferrell; Mrs. Haney; Mrs. Emma Wright; D. S. Anderson: O. Carlson; Walls; H. O. Palmer; Mrs. O. Carlson; Mrs. I Dorsey; Herbert Compton; Ruth Klery; Mrs. J. C. Mllliken; Mrs. Wm. Stephenson; H. R. Lighty; J. E. Milliken; Ella A. Palmer; A. C. Sprout; Mrs. Gertrude Sprout; Mrs. Anna M. Wells; Mrs. H. J. Parker; H. J. Parker; Maude Yenzel. THE INNOCENT MR. BASNAK Like the proverbial snipe that walk Into the bur at mjlnlbt, so Mlloa Baanak walked Into the Mammond police atatlon last night. He approached the officer at the deak. "Gimme my still," he a.-.ld. MHom batted an eye a few minntea later and found hlmnrlf anrrounded by cold and cheerless teel bar. Police raided hla home at 179 Company Hooae, East Hammond, last Monday night, and there they found the still. Baanak waa not In evidence, however. Two officers waited throughout the nljcht for him, but he did not appear. That la. not till last night. This morilng In police eonrt, Baanak waa fined 90 and given a suspended sentence of 90 day.

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AT Knocked from Engine Step by Wagon Left Standing by Track. SPECIAL TO THE T1MES1 WHITING, lnd.. June 21. W. A. Watts," a switchman for the I. H. Belt Railroad Company, who lives at ' 155 Logan st., Hammond, was quite seriously Injured when, he was knocked from a step of switch engine No. 46 Just a little south of the 119th st. crossing by a wagon that had been left standing too Close to the track by some careless teamster. The accident occured at 10:25 o'clock last night. The Injured man was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital In Hammond by Andrew i;arn. where It was learned that his back is seriously injured. The nature of the injury will be more definitely decided today. COUNCIL RATIFIES Construction of Pump House, Boiler House and Reservoir to Start. The Hammond city council last night ratified the contract for the construction of the pump house, boiler house and purification reser voir at the lake front. The contract was awarded to the Henry W. Hoist Co., of Rock Island, 111., by the Board of Works at a recent meeting. The pump house is to cost $36,500; the boiler house, $43,000, and the purification reservoir (superstructure) $10,400. Excavation and underground work for the new waterworks Is nearing completion and the Horst Co., will be able to begin work above ground at once. Other business transacted by the council follows: Although too poor to appropriate money for a police court - matron's salary the council authorized an appropriation of $1,000 for fireworks to be ftot off at Harrjson Park, July 4th, rain or shine. Passed ordinance to third reading whTca stipulates that water users- must obtain permit from waterworks department to sprinkle lawns. Hours of sprinkling for residents north of CarroTT street from 5 p. m. to 7 p. m.; south of Carroll to Conkey avenue, 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.; south of Conkey avenue, ajiy time of day or night. Granted police one day a week off with pay the year around and two weeks vacation. Passed ordinance whereby city licenses can be transferred from one person to another on consent of city controller. Tabled ordinance which provided that all sidewalks must be built abutting lot line. The council approved a report by City Attorney McMahon in which the city attorney said that the 120 houses in the Lyndora subdivision are exempt from taxation so long as the titles remain with the United S."?K.tes Housing Corporation. The city will lose $2,G29.37 in taxes this spring in the Lyndora subdivision while the county and state will lose a far greater sum. Agreed to meet but once a month during July, August and September. NEW FOUNTAIN IS THING OF BEAUTY SPECIAL TO THE TIKESJ WHITING, lnd.. June 21. - Thi citizens of Whiting can be justly l-roud of the new drinking fountain that has been recently completed at the corner of 119th and Oliver sts. This Is a gift of thi board of education to the city and is a thing of beauty as well as a most sanitary drinking place. The bubblers are designed so that a film of water constantly washes the dust from them and the famous artesian well water is pumped to the fountain for drinking purposes only. It is hoped that this fountain will not be abused as the one previously placed there, and that the public will realize that the large amount of money expended for this purpose should not be wasted. WARN MOTORISTS Aldermen on the safety board issue the following warning to Ham mond motorists. Ordinances 1769 j and 1770 will hereafter be strictly enforced. The former reads that anyone parking his "car at the space on the east side of Hohman street, at State and Hohman streets south for 125 feet, will be prosecuted. The I later says that there shalf be no parking r-f cars from Muenich Ct.. south to Russe:l street and the penalty Is a minimum fine of $3 and a maximum of $100. costs to 'be aided. Police stated today that these ordinances .will be enforced to the letter from now on.

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CT WILL VETO BONUS BY J. BART CAMPBELL STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE J WASHINGTON, June 21 President Harding will veto the soldiers' bonus bill, if it is passed finally by congress In the form in which Chairman McCumber of the senate finance committee reported it to the senate, administration leaders, who have con ferred lately with the president on the bonus situation declared today. The ' prediction was also made by them that despite McCumber's . expresses, belief that the president will sign the bill, the measure will not be passed by the" senate until it is whipped into such shape as the president is likely to approve. The. official white ljuse btatement that the president's position on the bonus is still the same as he describ ed In his letter to Chairman Fordney, of the House Ways and Means Committee on February 16, was accepted by the administration leaders as indicating unmistakeably that the president would refuse to sign a bill as McCumber has sponsored. OLD FIRE ENGINE Out at the Roby Speedway one of the old fire engines, which for years did good service In the Hammond fire department, is being given a workout. It is being used by the Roby Speedway Association In putting the finishing touches on the turns of the track. These spots are built up of new clay and in spite of the work spent on them before the last race, the cars soon churned them Into nne dirt and left them full of ruts. At that, drivers were surprised that Manager Jack Leech had achieved the results he did. He had done all of It without the aid of a muchneeded soaking rain. He had hauled five tons of water to the track. Now he has hit on the fire engine as an easier way ani for hours each day the old steam engine chugs away pouring a steady stream of water on the new parts of the track. Leech expects to have the course in apple-pie order by next Sunday, when the association's second auto race meet will be staged. All of the drivers of the races two weeks ago will be there and inquiries have already been received from half a dozen more. It Is predicted that thirty machines will be in the pits when the hour of the races swings around. E OPENS TODAY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 21 The greatest religions conference to be held In this country in several years will open here today when the International Sunday School convention begins its sessions. Nearly 7,000 delegates from all parts of the world were pouring into the city today, while several thousand visitors were also expected. This will be second time the International contention has been held in the United States. Four years ago it was held in Tokio. Japan, eight years ago it was held in San Francisco. Essentially the convention will be a conference to plan for winning the young people to the church. The keynote will be expressed In a prayer, written by the Right Rev. Charles E. Brent, Protestant Episcopal bishop of western New York and delivered today by William O. Thompson. D. D., president of Ohio State University, Columbus. Ohio, aud president of the International Sunday School association. NEDJL GETS BIG T SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT. Ind.. June 21. James J. Nedjl of Whiting was cne lucky bidder on the W. G. Beilfeld road In North township, let by the county commissioners on Monday. The road is known as Columbia ave. in Hammond and the contract price was $136,276. Courtright, Heinz & Wheeler of this city put in a bid of $137,400. The Hooslor State Auto Association was given the contract for furnishing the Oanger signals to be installed in Lake county during the summer. H. P. Downey of Hammond received the coal contract for the Hammond superior court building, and W.' H. Tuthill of Gary was the successful bidder on the coal for the Crown T'oint and Gary, county buildings. EDWARD REIL has been announced as the new assistant superintendent of the East Chicago plant of the Consolidated Oil Coimnanv.

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The Times Questionnaire for City and County Officials Why did Prosecuting Attorney Kinder refuse to noQe prone the vice cases in the city court when he knew the grand jury had been called to hear the evidence? Why did he refuse to ask for a contuuarxe of cases to allow the grand jury to hear the; evidence? Was he afraid the grand jury after hearing the evidence would INVESTIGATE HIS OFFICE? Why did Mayor R. 0. Johnson permit the Linden Hotel gam bib g house to continue to operate a block and a half from the city hall after one Gary merchant had complained to him that he lost $1,600 b the place? What has Mayor Johnson done with the 130 slot machines in Gary? Were they seized and confiscated or are they merely stored away for future use? What does "Chet" Johnson, the mayor's brother, do for a living? Why didn't the sheriff seize the slot machines and take them to Crown Point? Why didn't George Weeks and Harvey Rhed raid the places where liquor is sold in Gary and about which The Times printer?! information nearly every day for two weeks? Why didn't the police drive Pauline Schultz, Jake Saultz and the other notorious dive-keepers out of Gary? Who tipped the Hammond moonshine parlors and fish resorts off that the police were coming? Why did not Mayor Johnson order his police to raid the Gary resorts and obtain evidence instead of placing the burden upon The Times?

FIVE BANDITS A police net has been spread In two states for a gang of five bandits who early Sunday morning held up a road houre at Bernice, lilt, and escaped with $300 in cash. The place is isolated, and is located between Lansing and Oak Glen, a few miles southwest of Hammond. The bandits were all heavily arm-, ed, and the leader wore a mask. Parking their car down the road a half mile from the lonely road house the stlck-up men approached on foot and burst into the place wjth the old cry of "Stick 'em upl" Eight customers and the proprietor were lined against the wall while the bandits went through their pockets THE POOR BOYS WILL HAVE NO PLACE TO GO Judge Twyman Suspends Sentences Providing the Soft Drink Vendors WiU Close Ud Shop. At the rate Judge Twyman Is going now by suspending Jail sentences against convicted violators of the state liquor law upon condition that they are out of the soft drink business within a specified time, closed signs will be decorating more than five hundred places by the first of December, this year. That is, however, if other licenses are not granted to parties wanting to occupy these vacated places. Four convictions were handed down by Judge Twyman on such conditions. Joseph Nickon. 4938 Melville ave.. fined $130 and a suspended sentence of 180 days at the county Jail; Bertha Ambrus. 5020 Alexander nve., was fined $130 and a suspended sentence of 180 days, to be out of business by July 10; Toney Petrowski, $100 and costs and suspended sentence; Elizabeth Shuta, No. 1 Wickey place, $130 and 180 days suspended sentence, was the list. COLLINS HAS FIGURES TD PROVESTATEMENT Biggest Trouble Is Enforcement of the Liquor Law. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) WHITING. Ind. June 21. Chief Clay C. Collins of the Whiting police department agrees with The Times In its statement that Whiting is the cleanest city in the Calumet region, and he has the facts and figures to "prove It. Chief Collins has been on the force of the oil city for twenty-five years, the last eighteen of them as chief of police. He has all the statistics or the period at the end of his tongue. There are some Interesting figures on crime. "The biggest trouble the people haive lo face today is the enforcefent of the liquor law." stated the chief. "So far this year there have been 51 arrests for violation of this law. and. all but 16 have been conviced. Out of these convictions, however, but four have been given Jail sentences. It Is impossible to enforce the law with the fining alone as punishment. Moonshiners and 'bootleggers can earn it back in a week. The only effective check would be to to send every one, of them to Jail." As proof that moonshlnlng and the selling of liquor Is on the decrease, Chief Collins showed the figures on drunkenness for 1921 and so far in 1,922. Last year , there

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and the till behind the bar. The robbery was consummated in a liesurely fashion, for the place was tar out of range of cries for help. After completing the search and Ignoring any Jew;elry they ran across, the men forced one of the customers into his own machine, ana at the point of a gun made him drive them to their car, which was parked in a lonely spot some distance from the scene of the hold-up. They fled in the direction of Chicago Heights. Police In surrounding cities were notified at once, and the man hunt was started without delay. Efforts to locate the bandit gang proved unavailinr, however. were 210 drunks arrested In Whiting, or an average of slightly less than 18 a month. So far this year, there have been 47 arrests for this offense, or an average of less than 8 per month. Chief Collins says also that there Is little or no gambling In his city, and offers as proof the fact that the outward manifestations of vice are not at all In evidence In the city. INEFFDRTTOHALT E Every effort to block the proposed authorization of a $50,000 park bond issue by a committee ffom the East Chicago Chamber of Commerce, who met with the park commissioners at a meeting held last night, seems to have been futile. The consensus of opinion following a heated discussion among the park board Members and the Chamber committee was that the common council would pass upon the bond issue at their next meeting. It wan evident that the members of the council, who were present at the park board meeting, were In accord with the park commissioners in their desire to make improvements in the various parks as soon as possible. A special meeting of the council has been called by Mayor Callahan to be held this evening for the purpose of passing upon the ordinance that will allow the $50,000 bond issue. It was intimated that the park board will ask for $15,000 instead of $50,000. B F ES rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind., June 21. Mary Zaliskl of Indiana Harbor has filed a $25.')00 damage suit in the Iake circuit court against Tony Zaliski, whom she accuses of violently striking her on the left jaw, causing her to fall with great force and severely bruising her. She was disabled for several weeks and suffered great physical and mental pain. The romplaint was filed by Hershman. Moklva & Klotz. THE TIMES latest news beat of yesterday relative to the visit of four well known officials of the National Tube Co.. and U. S. Steel Corporation visiting Gary to go over the housing problem for the construction of more than 200 houses for employes of the new Tube mills In the near future caused consiJerable excitement in the business district

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Union Heads at Cincinnati Fail to Make Decision and Will Confer Again BY WARRENT W. WFHEATOX STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE CINCINNATI. O., June 21 Ths much discussed strlke-flghtlng combination strike of the coal miners and railroad Ehop crafts remained a matter of conjecture here today. Ie3nite assurances that the coalition of forces proposed for meeting Jointly, the coal miners strike and the expected ratlroad walkout, failed to come from a conference of leaders of both unions. Another conference will be held. The only fruits of the Initial conference was a Joint statement from John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers and B. M. Jewell, president of the railroad employes department of the American Federation of Labor. In It both reiterated organized labor's belief that the railroad workers will strike early In July. The conference was surrounded by all possible secrecy. Conferees neither Lewis nor Jewell would supplement their prepared statement. No announcement was made as to the date for the next Joint conference although it Is believed It will be held before Saturday when the railroad workers strike ballots will be counted. Rail Labor Board After The 'Tanners" CHICAGO, June 21 Another shower of brick bats this tUne from the railroad managements is expected by the United States Railroad Labor Board within a few days. Notice was sent out today by the board summoning the managements of thirty railroads, charged with farming out work in defiance of a labor board decision, to a hearing here on June 26th. This move on the part of the board is expected to draw a vigorous protest from the railroads. The board recently has been recipient "of bitter criticism from the railroad union leaders in Cincinnati because of the wage cuts ordered. The railroads it was pointed out today, have been able to get their shop work done much cheaper through the farming out procedure, than the reduced wage which will be effective July 1st. The practice of "farming" labor, however was declared Illegal and ordered stopped by the board in a test case recently involving the Ind. iana Harbor Belt Railway. One railroad, the Southern Pacific, has notified the board that it -will follow this decision and discontinue all contract work.

FIND MUTILATED BODY ON LAKE SHORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! EVAXSTOX, ILL., June 21 With the finding of the mutilated body of a man in a remote spot along the shore of Lake Michigan today, police began the unraveling of an absorbing mystery. A man, a former Chicago saloon keeper, who was supposed to have started for a visit for his old European home some months ago, and a married woman who was believed to have accompanied him, are the principals sought by the police. Sewed in the lining Of the coat worn by the dead man was found the name "J. Laschcrt-er the man who left for his European home. Since Laschover left his Chicago home, according to his brother, Joseph Laschover, Chicago, no word has been received from him. The body was found in one of the most weird spots in this section, known as "Dev-irs Hole," consisting of a boggy marsh land and stretching out along the lake shore. The dead man, it was said, was seen in company with a woman near the spot some days ago. It is the theory of the police that the victim was murdered, robbed and his body thrown from an automobile in the marshland. HIRSCH AND BLUM V. OF F. W. TRUSTEES Edward H. Larsen Post No. 802. held an Interesting meeting last night and heard report of the Poppy Day sale which resulted in a profit of over $250. This will be divided between the Post and the Ladies' Auxiliary. They also decided not to send a delegate to the National convention in Seattle, Wash., in August on account of the expense Involved but devote the funds for the relief work of the order. Comrades Joe Hirsch and Harvey Blum were elected as trustees to serve one year anJ eighteen months respectively. On account of the next meeting day falling on the Fourth of July, there will b none but there will be one on July 18th. The "baseball team is doing good work but did not play last Sunday. The Gary team cancelled the date owing to inability to secure Gleason Park. They will play a return game at Chesterton next Sunday and all their frlenls are invited to go with them. THE Parker case from Hammoni was halted in the Gary Superior court yesterday when Mrs. Rebecca Parker, asking the custody of her child, collapsed on the witness stand. The Parkers have been divorced for some time and the cave was to settle a dispute over the ejus, tody of their daughter.