Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 103, Hammond, Lake County, 19 October 1922 — Page 1

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202 Candidates Are Named as Liberals by The Wets By GEOHGE R. HOLMES. STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. The little handful of "Liberals" In the present congress those who have doggedly stood out for modification of the Volstead act at every opportunity in the face of an overwhelming dry majority, are going to find strong reinforcement in the next congress. This confident assertion was made for the first time, three weeks before election by the national association against the prohibition amendment, an organization modeled after 'the Anti-Saloon league in its machinery and its tactics. To back up its assertion, the association cast caution to the four v. inds and boldly came forth and named names" of 202 congressional candidates, republicans and democrats alike, whose views on Volsuadism are sufficiently liberal to Merit the endorsement of the wets. It was further asserted that before election day arrives this list will be augmented so that there will be approximately 300 "Liberal" candidates for seats In the sixty-eighth congress. The naming of these candidates, coupled with the clean cut wet-and dry fights in Ohio, New Jersey and New York this fall, served today to draw the attention of political leaders more and more to the fact that Volsteadism is an Issue and likely to remain so for some years. Election of all the "Liberal candi dates" endorsed by the antl-prohi-bitionlsts would give them a ma jority in the house favorable to perhaps a !ight-wines-and-beer act, the association, however, does not delude itself that It Is going to elect all the candidates named this year. Its purpose Is to greatly strengthen the "Liberal" element in the sixty-eighth congress, to the end that in 1924, after two more years of drouth, modification of the Volstead law and perhaps amendment of the constitution may be ', made the supreme issue of the cam. paign. The Ust of 202 Liberal candidates, with more to come, was about evenly divided between republicans and J A V 1 . V. -J KA 1st of states with 51, Ohio listed 15, lissourl 14. Massachusetts ij, flew Jersey 11, Wisconsin 11, Illinois 11, ir.diana 10, Maryland S, Connecticut 7. Iowa 5, Louisiana S, California 4, Nebraska 6, Minnesota 4, Michigan 3. and a scattering from other states. Pennsylvania, where there are known to be a number of "Liberal candidates" will be announced later. The Illinois list was also announced as being incomplete. Five present democratic senators and three republican senators were endorsed for re-election on their liberal records Reed of Missouri, Hitchcock of Nebraska. Powerene of Ohio, Gerry of Rhode Island, and King of Utah, democrats;. Lodge of Massachusetts, LaFol'.ette of "Wisconsin, and McLean of Connecticut, republicans. Ten of Indiana's 13 democratic candidates for congress were indorsed. That the increased activities of the wets are beginning to concern the dry interests was in evidence today, Wayne B. Wheeler, generalissimo of the Anti-Saloon league, rushed a statement to the press that 'the list of 202 wet candidates will be a challenge to the friends of the eighteenth amendment throughout the land." "The signed tsatemtnt thit they favor the manufacture and sale of '.vine and beer is a bold, brazen attack on the constitution itself," he concluded. The Rev. Samuel McCavert, on behalf of the federal council of churches, issued a lengthy statement, denouncing the Literary Digest for having recently conducted ,i poll on the wet and dry Issue, which showed a majority in favor of modification of existing liquor laws. His statement described the Digest's poll as "an insult to loyal citizens and described attempts at nullifying the eighteenth amendment as "elemental - disloyalty to America." HARBOR FIRMS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13. Articles, of incorporation for two Indiana Harbor firms were filed with the secretary of state here yesterday. The Big Four Chemical company, capitalized at $5,000. will manufacture chemical products. Incorporators: Dave Mllgram of Gary, Sophia Mllgram. Indiana Harbor, and Morris M. Milgram of Indiana Harbor. The Internal Drug company, was 'capitalized at $3,000 and will retail and wholesale drugs. Incorporators are Barnee .Mages. Chicago; Harry Mages, Gary, and Fred A. Honoro, Indiana Harbor.

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Blinded Lansing Girl Drives Auto Over Embankment. Police today are seeking the driv er of an automobile who sped away after the bright glaring headlights of his machine caused a Lansing mother, daughter and two grandchildren to plunge over a 20-foot embankment when the daughter, driving a flivver, became blinded by the beams o the other's headlights and drove into the ditch bordering Hohman st. Just south of the Little Calumet river. Mrs. Ed. Horn, wife of a Lansing confectioner, is in a critical condition at St. Margaret's hospital while her daughter and two grand-children are under a physician's care at their Lansing home. The accident occurred about 8 o'clock last evening when Verna. daughter of Mrs. Horn, driving south in Hohman St., became confused by the glare of an approachlpg auto's headlights and drove into the deep ditch that parellels the road. The mother, sitting in the front seatwith her daughter, was crushed when the machine turned over. The two children, riding in the back seat, suffered minor injuries, as did their mother at the wheel. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Conroy, of Hammond, enroute to Lansing, were traveling Just behind the ill fated flivver. Mrs. Conroy says she saw the "stop" sign of the machine ahead blink on and off and then disappear with the tail light Just, as the car from the south swept by. It did not stop. Mr. and Mrs. Conroy aided in extricating the victims from the wreckage. SEEKS 10RMAT1 Whiting Civic Body wants To Know About Jones Laughlin Plant. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING, Ind.. Oct. 19. Several months agothe Calumet regfon and particularly Whiting and Hammond were pleased to learn that the great Independent steel firm of JonesLaughlln had purchased land from the East Chicago Company and would locate a very large steel plant at this place. In the past few months nothing has been heard from the proposed sale and plant. Tomorrow evening at the Whiting Public Library a special meeting of the Commercial ' Club will be held to discuss the reasons that are holding the Jones-Laughlin people from coming here. The principal cause of . delay or of not going through with their Intention seems to be the difference of opinion as to the ownership and the value of the bottom of Mud LaTce. The auditor of the state of Indiana claims ownership of this property by the state. The East Chicago Company has been paying1 taxes on this property for a long time and its title was never questioned until a recent decision of the appellate court. The auditor has placed a price on this land that is much out of reason, about forty or fifty times as much as had bean fixed by appraisers appointed by the state. Neighboring cities are interested In this question and it Is expected that a large number or citizens w-ill come to this meeting, which will be open to the public. Roscoe Woods of Hammond and Henry Davidson of Whiting will be the principal speakers. Word has Just been received In Hammond of the death of Constantine Angelos, former private in Co. L, forty-fifth Infantry, which occured October 16, in the United States hospital 51 at Tucson, Arizona. He was a victim of tuberculosis. Angelos leaves a wife and daughter, Stella, who are living in Hammond at the home of Mrs. John Wiers, sister of Mrs. Angelos. The body Is expected to arrive in Hammond within a few days and preparations are being made by "the American Legion post for a military funeral. 'Sirs. Angelos and her father, G. IB. Kikkert were in Valparaiso yesterday to consult with the Red Cross secretary regarding the affairs of the deceased. Angelo was trained at Valparaiso university from 1919 to 1921 but because of his illness with tuberculosis was sent to the government hospital in ! Arizona. He enlisted June 12, 1917 at Pittsburgh and was discharged August 11. 191S, from Base Hospital No. C at Fort McPherson, Ga. NOTICE The firm of Doll and Earnhouse is hereby dissolved and I will not be responsible for any debts contracted under that firm name or under the name of the Song Shop other than by myself. 10-18 JACK DOLL.

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"SPLENDID picture," Is verdict of those who have eeen "Under Two Flags" at Parthenon theater this week. ACTUALITY. Bum in alley lighting butt he picked up out of gutter with piece of rope burning In garbage refuse. ODIUM attached to name "East Hammond" brings move on part of business men's association there to change name. MRS. KIM-MEL, 504 Plummer ave.. tells police she was assaulted, choked, robbed of purso at 12 midnight in front of her home. Her assailant escapes. L. L. CALDWELL, school superintendent, left last night with 60 others of school faculty for three day convention of state educators at Indianapolis. MA-NT a poor husband must be eating a cold lunch these days so that friend wife will not have to miss any of the choice testimony in the McNally case. SINCE Chief Xitz, of West Hammond, turned down the chance to pick the All-Hammond baseball team there have been no applicants for the honor. Whoever takes the Job should know local baseball players well and should be handy with his hands and feet. UNLESS the McNally case is concluded today, police may ask appointment of a special Judge to try cases in the crowded police docket. The cells are filling wltli prisoner awaiting trial. XO trace yet of Bill McAleer's flivver stolen from in front of offices. Now the best criminal lawyer in county 'has only his Cadillac and Marraon in which to ride. But how he loved that flivver! SINCE seeing that silver trophy which Is to be given at the Roby races Sunday, Billy Harris, of Hammund. has been busy re-building his war-scarred flivver and swears the cup will be his Sunday evening. MAJORITY of Hammond automobile dealers have entered into an agreement whertby their salesrooms clos at 6 o'clock on Wednesday evenings. However, the salesmen may chase custorAers on the street if they so desire. WALLY HESS Is oachtng the Betz girls basket ball team. Feminine squeals feature play of Helen Du Val, Irene Malo. others In exciting moments. Hess sees strategy of several well placed screams during future contests. BABES In arms were among the spectators that crowded city court in McNally hearing yesterday and today. Judge at one time threatened to oust all unless babies were hushed up. Men and women stood for hours listening to testimony. T. W. DOE. 139 Entry avenue. Chicago, expected too much of his flivver last night when he tried to squeeze between a street car swerving around at the four corners and the curb stone. His flivver was badly damaged in 'the argument. THE Industrial Garage at 939 Calumet ave., has taken over the Lake county territory for "Rholite," a liquid which, Jt is claimed, may be placed in a storage battery to recharge It immediately whereas it would take 36 hours by the present method. WELL, the Public Service Commission has settled the only question which has stood in the way of paving Conkey avenue.. Property owners didn't want to start the pavement until they knew whether the street car company would bear its share of the load. PRISON fare for Mrs. McNally. little "doll-mother," now on trial in preliminary murder hearing? Not much. Accompanied by plalnclothesman she has taken virtually all .of her meals since arrest Saturday at restaurants downtown and at Lyndora dining room. SERGEANTS KUNZ and Fandrel make important catch when Uiey nab Roland Wilton, Lansing, Mich., and rilllam La Rue, Detroit, in stolen car at Calumet ( and Huehn avenues. Get confession from pair who say they stole car after their own broke down in Detroit. LUCKT. "When a South Shore cast bound train struck the automobile driven by Henry Hooing at Torrence avenue lie picked himself out or the wreckage suffering nothing more serious than a bruised hand. The auto was smashed. Hooing returned to his home in Chicago. FOR larceny of L. C. L. shipments, I. H. B. special 'agents nab Kenneth Kouts, aged 19, car sealer, 529 Eaton street and pal, George McBee, 727 Wood street, aged 20 years, in yards at Gibson. The boys were stealing from freight In transit, saydetectives. They are held in Central station. BEN" BENSON is arrested on larceny charge on warrant sworn out by Delmer -Bewley, who alleges Benson took tire "that belonged to him. Benson claims innocence saying he intended returning tire which was on car1 reclaimed by Benson after Bewley failed to keep up Installment payments.

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UN dlKttl rAvlffli Ordinances Passed by the Three Cities Regarding H. W. &E. C. R'y Held Unr&asonable. Ordinances passed by the cities of East Chicaso. Hammond and Whiting requiring the IL W. & E. C. Railway Co. to pave with certain materials between its tracks on the streets of the cities are held unreasonable In an order handed down by the Public Service Commission of Indiana. The order was entered in the case wherein the street railway company asked to have the East Chicago ordinance declared unreasonable as a result of the controversy which had arisen in connection with the paving of 150th st. The commission does not say that the street car company is relieved of the responsibility of providing a safe traffic surface for other, vehicles on the part of the street occupied rfy the tracks. It merely holds that it is unreasonable to require the paving with brick or cement. Hearing in the matter was held at Hammond, August 18. The city of East Chicago was represented by Attorney- J. W. Brissey and the street car company by Attorneys Crumpacker and Crumpacker. It was shown that the city had adopted an ordinance similar to the ones of Hammond and Wihtlng requiring that the street railway construct and maintain eight feet of pavement over its right of way on streets which were paved. The East Chicago board of works last spring ordered the paving of 150th st. with concrete. The street car company argued that the pavement alone would cost $7,507 and that placing its tracks in condition before paving would cost another $5,000. Furthermore, it was argued that repairs could not be made to rails and ties later without great expense and causing demage to the pavement. It was pointed out that the company had surrendered its franchise to the Public Service Commission in June, 1921, and that its obligations under the old franchise was thereby nullified. The company also brought up the subject of Jitnevs in showing that it was not financially able to Btand the expense of laying the pavement. It was said that Jitneys had operated practically unhampered over the same streets as the cars and had taken away a large share of the road's patronage so that the line is barely making operating ex penses. The plea was made that the cost of paving fnust ultimately come from the pockets of the street car patrons who, a,rd least able of all the people of the city to stand the cost. The company offered to fill the part of the street around its tracks with loose material which could be rolled to a satisfactory surface and keep It in good condition. This would permit making repairs to the track from time to time. The commission based its declsl&ti on the ruling made in the icase of the Indianapolis Street Railways Co. in which the conditions were prac tically identical. Th"dc!slon In brief Is as follows: "It Is therefore ordered and adJudged by the Public Service Commission of Indiana, that Ordinance No. 1302 of the City of East Chicago be, and the same is, hereby declared to be unreasonable insofar as said ordinance requires the petitioner herein to pave its right of way on 150th street in the City of East Chicago with either brick or cement, and the petitioner herein Is hereby relieved of the obligation to pave said street according to the terms of said ordinance." IS NEXT WEEK Albert J. Beveridge. Republican nominee for United States senator, who is scheduled to be In Lake county next week on the last leg of his speaking campaign," will speak in East Chicago at the Masonic hall on Saturday, October 28. Arrangements are being made by County Chairman Tom Roberts to have Secretary of labor James A. Davis, former East Chicago mill man, to speak here also before the closing of the campaign. City Chairman Charles Fichter, who is also instrumental in bring "Jim" Davis, as he is known among the mill men here, has no assurance so far that he can come to East Chicago for a campaign speech. Indications are that Governor McCray, whom party workers were maneuvering to have come to East Chicago before election, is said to be unable to leave the. state capital for some time. HAMMOND MAN MAY DIE Mitro Chioban, laborer in Hammond plant, is dying at the St. Margaret's hospital with a fractured skull suffered when he was struck by a piece of flying steel. He lives at 56 Company House. A son, living in Philadelphia, will arrive here today. A hand-operated wallpapering machine has been Invented.

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PFQIfiWflT TAKES PLACE (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LO.MX., Oct. ltt, A Uonur law, a Unionist visited King George at tbe Buckingham Palace this evening and accepted, the Premiership, in nucces. Ion to Lloyd George, the Central Xtfli announced. BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LO.UO., Otft. 19. Premier Lloyd George, who stepped out from under the British empire this evening when bin resignation nu accepted by King: George, appeared to be the happiest man in London. A Brcat crowd cheered him as he left Buckingham pa ace and the premier laughed and waved his arm like a boy. By DAVID M. CHURCH STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE LONDON, Oct. 13. The last of the great war statesmen vent Into eclipse today when Premier Lloyd George of England resigned, together with the rest of the coalition government. Lloyd George has been in power six years, lacking a few weeks. He succeeded Herbert Asquith in December, 1916, when the great war was raging. The premier presented his own resignation and that of the other members of the cabinet to King George this evenine. After bufTetlng the grave crises of the war and the troublesome "peace" era which followed and pass ing through the storms and strife of Ireland the ministry succumbed at last to its enemies in the unionist, or conservative party. It fell under the blows of the tories supported by labor. Political events moved with dramatic rapidity today. The tory meml bers of parliament under leadership of the "die hards.'' met at the Carlton club and voted in favor of an Immediate general election to create a new government and a new house of commons. All of the eloquence of Austen Chamberlain, the old government spokesman' in commons, and Earl Balfour, former premier and former foreign secretary, could not Stem the tide of hostility against the little Welsh statesman whose wizardry and magnetism "had pulled him through many a hard fought political battle. Seventeen-Year-OId Daughter of Nurse First Witness Put on Stand Nervous tension of principals, court attaches and spectators heightened perceptibly as the preliminary hearing of Mrs. Hazel McNally, charged with the murder of her twin babies, advanced into its second day in the Hammond city court. Interest centered about the expected appearance on the witness stand of Frank McNally, husband and accuser of the defendant, and a North Side mid-wife, who is said to have attended Mrs. McNally when her twins were born December 9. EX CORD BEEAXTNO ZITTSBXST Every available foot of space was taken by the curious crowd long before court was called and newspaper men were forced to fight their way through the sweaty, smelly crush in getting into and out of the place. Never has such interest been shown in a case in the Hammond court. ,The state opened this morning by putting on the stand Miss Katherine Griffith, 17. daughter of Mrs. Mary Griffith, the nurse who attended ! Mrs. McNally for nine days follow ing the alleged double delivery. Miss Griffith said they had met Mrs. McNally while they lived In neighboring houses on Garfield ave.. in West Hammond. Mrs. McNally, she said, had told her she was to become a mother and her physical appearance bore out her statement. IN BATTTTWCr DEFEJTBASTT On one visit to the home Mrs. McNally had her place her hand on the left side of her abdomen and explained to her that the moving "'bunch" which she felt was the child's foot. No one else was present during this conversation. She also was in bathing with Mrs. McNally and their pictures were taken while they were in bathing suits. 1 The 'pictures were' not introduced and on cross examination Attorney Schwartz tried to have them exhibited. The girl explained that the negatives had been lost, but that the pictures which she had received were now in the possession of Attorney Jellison, who is assisting Prosecutor Joe Todd. The state objected to showing the pictures at this time and the court sustained the objection. 1 (Continued on Page Five)

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE W AbHI.SUTu.'v', Oct. la. -a new era of activity and prosperity" is at hand for the United States,, President Harding declared yesterday ir a message to American farmers, delivered by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in a speech at Washington courthouse. Ohio. The message was in the form cf a letter to Wallace to be read to the farmers. Suggestions that farmers should unite to reduce production in order to protect themselves against low prices were deplored by the president. "It would be a calamity," said his letter, "if the farmers should unite in such a dimunltion of production as would force famine prices. The world can get along without the products of the farm. "It Is rather a striking fact that among the world's industries that of agriculture has been most rapidly rehabilitated since the war. The crop statistics of the world for the past two seasons are proof of this. Agricultural production is very nearly censored, taking the world TXJ FTPS

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(BILLETIX) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Official denial was made at the White Ho-ise today that President Harding was in any way responsible for Col. Charles R. Forbes abruptly leaving the American Legion convention at new Orleans and returning to Washington. (BULLETIN) LONDON, Oct. 19. A change of government in Great Britain will not alter the British policy of paying the $4,277,000,000 which the Eritish owe the United States, it was officially announced at the Treasury department today. I BCLXETIJO NEW YORK, Oct. 19. Mrs. Helen Ruth, wife " of "Babe" Ruth, suffered abrasions of the left hand early today "when her husband's automobile skidded near the New Haven railroad bridge and crashed Into a tree. , She was attended by a doctor and continued her journey in the car, which was only slightly damaged. (BULLETIN) WASHINGTON. Oct. 19. The Standard Oil Company was giv EXECUTIVES " " CHANGE AT Here tout a few daya Sister Fulgentia, mother superior In charge of St. Margaret's hospital, admitted yesterday that a casual survey of the district convinced heT of the necessity of increasing hospital facilities here. She refused to comment, however, on reports from Cleveland that the local institution would erect a half million dollar addition within a year or so. That announcement may come with the 23th. Jubilee of the hospital to be celebrated in February. Sister Superior Fulgentia. for six years at the head of St. Alexis hospital, one of the largest and most progressive in Cleveland, supplants Sifter Hilaria who had been for three years In charge of the local hospital. i Sister Hilaria will go to Saint Al exis as Superior. y One illustration of the enterprise and progress that characterizes the brown-eyed Sister of St. Francis, who comes to take charge of Ham mond's house of mercy for the ill and afflicted is the request that she made shortly after her arrival a few days ago that she be made a subscriber of local newspaper. "I haven't seen a paper for days and surely how can one know howl the world progresses If one doesn't read the papers." she said. Sister Fulgentia has ambitious plans for the institution's future. Phe will reveal these later, she says. JAMES ARNEY GETS $7,625 DAMAGES MICHIGAN CITT. October 19. In an agreement before 'Judge Crumpacker in Superior court yesterday morning the damage cases of James .rney against the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Eend railway (So. Shore Lines) came to a settlement and were stricken from the court docket. The plaintiff in the case. James Arney, lost his wife and small son. j erne, in a crossing actmeiu ai Hammond, Ind., last year. The settlement amounted to $7,625. A great cave in Frederikshall, Norway, (is 10,000 Jeet deep.

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as a whole, but agricultural prices are so low that it is apparent to all of us that the farmer is not being adequately compensated. The Washington administration has recognized this condition and has done everything in its power to restore a normal balance between prices and costs of production., A great deal has been accomplished, and I am glad to say that the trend Is strongly toward better conditions for the farmer. Ho has been the leader in the difficult task of bringing the whole industrial world back to normal conditions, and that contribution is everywhere recognized. Our own country, as evidenced by every index of business and commercial conditions, is on the way

now to a new era of activity and prosperity. In that new era we can be very sure that the farmer will be among the first to get the sub stantial recognition which he needs and must have for what he has done to make these improved circum stances possible. (Siened) "W. G. HARDING."' en a clean bill of health by the Treasury department today for its recent " melon cutting" by distributing stock dividends. The Treasury department held that the Standard Oil Co. had not .vaded the tax laws by this method of distributing profits. iBI'LLETIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 19. An alleged menacing influx of I. W. W.s !s being met head-on by city officials. Two hunJved and five alleged "wobblies," many of them leaders of various parts of the country, were Jailed during the past twelve hours as the city's answer to a reported "on to Portland" movement of 25.000 I. W. W.s to participate in the waterfront strike. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, Oct. 19. A sensation was caused in British theatrical circles today by information from New Tork that Pat . Somerset, English actor and costar with Edith May in "Orange1 Blossoms." has been ordered deported on account of his relations with Miss Edith May. DIES IN FALL Ralph Eichholtz, aged 60 years, a sign painter with the Thomas Cusack Co. of Chicago, fell 35 feet to his death yeyterday afternoon in Hammond when a rung In the ladder he was scaling broke. Eichholtz fell to the ground, pitching forward on his head. His neck was broken. He died a few minutes after police had rushed him to the hospital. Elchholtz was working with other men in painting a sign across the top of two recently constructed elevators at the Morton Avenue Coal Co., corner of Morton and Calumet aves. The body will be removed today today to his home, 1427 S. Kenneth ave., Chicago. "WHERE AM THOU?" THIS CONCERNS YOU. The Friday evening services as conducted by Rabi Julius Rappaport in the Sioley street synugosru are attracting ever-increasing numbers of intelligent men and women of all classes and conditions of life, eager to learn about questions of the dav. This Friday, October 20th, at eight p. m. the title of the Rabbi's sermon will be "Where Art Thou?" Everybody welcome. This Sunday morning at 10 a. m. and every Sunday thereafter the Sunday School classes meet in the class rooms of the synagogue. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE (BULLETIN) DENVER. COLO., Oct. 19 A score of persons were Injured when two Denver tramway cars collided at a street Intersection In North Denver today. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICEl (ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 19 Eleven workmen were Injured. five seriously, here today, when the second floor of the building at 22 West Alamaba street, which is undergoing repairs, caved in. Two of the men are nat expected to recover. ( BULLETIN) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SESVICEl BALTIMORE. J1U, Oct. 19 Six hundred children, pupils in school Number 33, on Light st., marched from the building In one minute today while a fire, which caused the sounding of three alarms raged in frame shacks, thirty feet away.

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In. fends Character of Prcsecuting Witnesses (DILI.ET1X) At 3:30 thin afternoon the Jnry deliberating the fate of Pauline Schultz, had been out three and onehalf hours. There wuj no Intliuatlon when they mlarht return. CROWN POirrT. Ind.. Oct. 1?. "The Times reporters who testified yesterday in the trial of Pauline Schultz of Gary, cither told the truth or else they are the most damnable scoundrels who ever sat ia a witness box." This was the statement cf Deputy Prosecuting Attorney W. O. Thomas today fhen he made his closing argument before the ju:y in Judge Martin Smith's court. Pauline, mistress of the notorlDus Metropolitan Hotel, is now anxiously awaiting the appearance of tne jury which has been closeted sin.?o 11.30 trying to decide whether she ia guilty, as charged, of keeping a house of Ill-fame. "Either thest young men told t'-e truth about what went on at t:;e Metropolitan Hold the night of June fifth or they have conspired t ruin the reputation cf an innocent woman," said Thomas in his argument. "Who are you going to believe, gentlemen of the jury? The reporters v.-ho visited the Metropolitan Hotel and have testified that it was a house of ill fame and that they were solicited repeted'y by women and that they had to promise to return in order to get away from these women, or Paulino Schultz and her attorney who say that the painted women were chambermaids." "Either these reporters have hepn telling dirty, malicious vicious lie. or they are telling th-e truth. Either they have deliberately, .purposs';.' designedly and falsely mentior.pd this woman as running u house of ill fame or it is true. Think of ti e kind of a low-down, inslflnificant man that would go Into a respectable woman's place of business a lawful business and . proclaim heto the world as the keeper of a bawdy house. Any man who would so such a thing ought to be in the penitentiary." Then he pointed to the fact t"iat one of The Times employes had been with the firm for sixteen years and that the reputations of thn three were good. He called attention to the apparent reluctance cf the reporters to testify. "Thy are not anxious to testify in this matter. It was distasteful to them. They didn't come here oT their own free will but because they had been subpoenaed by thn state," said the prosecutor. "Counsel for the dafense admits himse'f that each of these Times men is of clean character and truthful and i they are truthful, Paulino Schu'.',2 is guilty as charged." iProsecuting Attorney Thomas made it plain that the jury had to believe one of the two stories, ami that if they believed the reporters it was their duty to send Pau'.ir.e Schultz to jail along with Jake Saultz who was sentenced Tuesday on a similar charge of operating a house of ill fame. Thomas riddled the "story" of the defense. After the reporters had told their experiences in the Metropolitan Hotel and the grilling cross-examination of attorney for defense had failed to shike their testimony, tho defense introduced its witnesses. Three men were rut on the stand to show that Pauline's place was a nice, clean, orderly rooming house. One was a bartender, another a foreigner who had difficulty :n making himself understood. The third was a young Swce, who is an engineering student. It was on the latter's testimony that the defense laid most stress. This hoy said he always spent his fventnga at the Gary public library and had never seen anything off color at Pauline's place. The defense in its argument parti cularly called upon the jury to consider the fjc't that this clean locking young man of studious habit1) had selected the Metropolitan Hotel as his home. It was noticeable tha the attorney for the defense failed to reiterate his "gamblers' war" chargo which he used in trying to smooth the path of Jake fault on Tuesday. It evidently failed to take well with the S.iu'tz jury and the defense let it slide. The defense took occasion to spea'i his mind on the jury system in criminal court. He criticized the jury commissioners for not drawing enough Jurors to fill the vacancies caused by rejections. He complained of the system of rcpJaeir.g jurors by having the sheriff pick men out of the corridor of the court house or off the street and said that it was this practice that created the professional juror. He said that the court was no to blarne fo- the practice but that it waj the fault of the jury commissioners - ho impanel the juries. HERSELF CROUX PC I XT. Ind.. Oct. 2V Mm. Eliza Wood Iackry, for two years n resident cf the County Seat, coming here from Hebron, committed cuicide thin morn ir it by strangling herself with a bd quilt In a bed nt her borne. She vrn 74 years old and leaves a husband. Decedent ba been an Invalid for some time.

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