Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 160, Hammond, Lake County, 28 December 1922 — Page 1

VER HOLMES. TO WORK FOR DUNES

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Vol. 7 XVI. NO. 160 President Regards Proposal As Untimely And Unacceptable BY J. BART CAMPEE1Ij WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. President Harding is expected by Repub- - lican senators numbered among his closest advisers to express publicly within 24 hours his known opposition to Senator Borah's proposal for a world economic and disarmament conference. The president informed several of these senators when they conferred with him at the White House that h would adOress a letter, probably to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, in which he !wou!d define clearly the reasons for his regarding tha proposal as untimely-and unacceptable. While administration Senators continued to fight the proposal, those on the Republican side favoring it plunged afresh into the debate which again raged on the sinate floor today. Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon, a "mild reservatlonist" in the historic leaguo of nations battle, was among those, to urge strongly its adoption. To the failure of the senate to ratify the Versailles treaty, MeNary. a leader of the "Farm Bloc" attributed much of the unrest and hatred existing over-seas. "I shall never know whether it was the stubbornness df Woodrow Wilson, the perversity of the senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Lodge, or the eloquence of the irreconcilable senators that prevented ratification of the Versailles treats," McNary said, "and yet 1 shall always think, as a mild reservationist, much of the unrest and hatred existing among the nations it this time would not have occurred if th- rtat y- rental a Ins th lea g-ua ef nations covenant with the Lodge reservations had been ratified. "Having that view. I cannot persuade myself to oppose any conference I believe would work for a better understanding among the nations of the -world." Of even greater importance to the farmers than - better agricultural credits McNary declared "are markets." "In a large way the cruel and unfortunate plight of the farmer is due to the fact that he is smothering in a surplus of agricultural products. A strong, brisk, foreign market such as he is entitled to enjoy, would lift the farmer from impending ruin to a position where he could meet his obligations and leave him a fair profit for his laborious work and his investment. To this reward ho is abundantly entitled." W. WILSON CELEBRATES B BY GEORGE R. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE) WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. Woodrow Wilson celebrated his sixtysixth Wrthday today. He spent a part of the morning In the study of his quiet home In S street perusing the newspapers and the congressional record and their accounts of the stormy debate in the United States senate over America's duty to Europe. He found them strangely reminlescent of tha papers of three years ago, when the league of nations debate crackled and sputtered in the senate from" opening gavel to close of business. It was stated today by those who have seen Mr. Wilson this week that he Is hugely enjoying the present situation in the senate particularly the spectacle of an old Irreconcilable like Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, leading the fight for greater American participation in European affairs. Mr. Wilson is in better health and In better spirits than at anytime since he began his grim battle to "come back" from the near fatal illness that struck him down three years ago. If he maintains the slow but steady progress toward his old time mental and physical vigor he will be fully capable of exercising the tactical leadership of his party two years hence a contingency that is more and more beginning to occupy the attention of Democrats of all factions In Washington. Mr. Wilson has progressed enough physically, it was learned today to w&l k about his home and little garden at some length, aided by his case. NOTICE Special meeting of the Indiana Harbor Bwit Federation tonight, at 7:S0 o'clock, Hammond Labor Temple. W. M. Knight, Sec'y. 12-28-1 NOTICE Don't f v-i ?t the Shopmen's dance Frirt" nJjcbt. Dec. 2Sth. 12-2S-3

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Did You Hear That? GEORGE GETER and family are at West Baden for the holidays. MARTIN" FINNERAN and bis bride are back from a honeymoon in New Orleans. EVIDENTLY the street cleaning department la still celebrating. The alleys are In foul condition. EVIDENCE was still heard today in the Grornan-Muenich receivership case in Room 2 of the superior court. TWO buildings of the Damascus Crucible Steel Co., are being built ar.d will soon be ready for occupancy. THE Loyal Order of Moose will initiate a big class of candidates New Year's Ere. The lodge is enjoying a remarkable growth. DOES anyone, including the motormen, know just where the southbound street cars should stop at Hohman and Sibley streets? A. C. GROVES. propriaor of the Commercial Hotel at Crown Point, has taken over a hundred and twenty room hotel at Plymouth, Indiana. THE Bonus Athletic club is having a smoker at its club rooms on West State street this evening. Judge Green, president of the club, has charge of the program. THESE tent Christmas donations to the Police Pension Fund: Mrs. G. L. Smith; First National Bank; Hammond Grease and Oil Co.; John Stoltz: Kofifee Kup Lunch, and Mrs. Mary M. Huehn. MISS DOROTHY 1IATHAW A T, beauty specialist. 13 now sole owner of the Artemis Beauty Shop, having absorbed the interests of Mrs. Delia SUger, who ably assisted in establishing the business. THE Trinity Lutheran church choir will give a cantata on Friday evening in the chapel at Waltham street and Park Place. It !s expected to be one of the. finest ever rendered in Hammond. THE A. B. C basketball team, of Gary, issues a challenge to any 115 pound team, games to be played at home or-abroad. "En gene -C&jlas-aj, S49 Virginia street, Gary, is the fellowto see for games. HAMMOND Boy Scouts on a. hike recently made hunter's stew with a pinch of the dehydrated soup vegetables such as will be prepared at J Lansing and the boys who sampled it declared it was fine. HAMMOND could have landed the Ford plant if the river bad been navigable, real estate men declare. The labor market and housing conditions were better here, but Ford had to have a waterway. -' GEORGE CHAPTX, president of the Hammond Manufacturers' Association, has sent out letters announcing the general annual meeting to be held at the Lyndora hotel at noon Wednesday of next week. MAT THOMAS, driving another man's Hudson sedan, overturns and wrecks car in Sheffield avenue. With him was John Kadontz. Neither Injured. Thomas pays fine .of 123 and costs for driving while drunk. PLAX on foot to establish residential district for colored people on Summer street east of Columbia avenue. The city's colored population would be restricted to thn.t territory if the plan is successful. TURNER FIELD is ready for the baseball season. The sand lots along the bank of the Grand Calumet river ha3 been transformed into a splendid field. The diamond has been built. Early in the spring the city will erect a concrete grand stand. A GIRLS' orchestra. ' of twenty pieces and the boy's band of fortyfive pieces from the Masonic Homo at Franklin. Indiana, will give a concert at the Masonic Temple at 8:00 o'clock Sunday evening. The public is invited. Admission 23 cents. LOAFER. Denying that, David Miller, 560 Sibley street, tomorrow will appear in the juvenile court at Crown Point and explain to Judge Norton why he isn't supporting his children properly. He wa3 arrested on complaint of Mrs. Lucile Myers, probation officer. ELMER NEWSTROM. leader of tha Parthenon orchestra, who scored a direct hit with this week's overture, gives a very large share of the credit to a violin produced by W. N. Newton, of Carroll and Newton, an Instrument Elmer seems to derive much pleasure in fingering. SERGT. R. A. KELLY, in charge of the Hammond recruiting station has been ordered to close the office Saturday. He says there are still openings for G4 men in the infantry and field artillery. John and Leo Allen, of Hammond, and four men from other cities, are the latest recruits. MENTAL fog induced by drink and not an atmospheric fog. the result of a caprice of the elements, was held responsible for the act of David Gross, who drove his bus through the Hfthman street window of the First National bank in the fog of Sunday morning.' He paid a $60 fine in city court for driving while drunk. BILL BEATTY, of the Beatty Machine & Manufacturing Co., and one of Hammnnd'? most ardent rarHx.

LANSING TO HAVE A NEW PLANT

Truck Farmers to Meet Friday to . Make Final Arrangements SPECIAL TO THE TINES LANSING, III., Dec. 23 Within another year Lansing will be on the map as one of the first places In the United States to have a commercial plant for the dehydration of fruits and vegetables, the very latest method of preserving these products1 and preparing them for economical transportation. Lansing truck farmers will meet tomorrow evening at the Village Hall at 7:30 o'clock to make the final arrangements with representatives of the American Food Products Co. The proposition has been discusion in a quiet way for some time. President Alrred H. McComb of the American Food Products Co., is now Jn Lansing and will be one of the speakers at tomorrow's meeting. He is the man who perfected the dehydration process and developed the special machinery which is necessary to its success. Dehydration of fruit and vegetables has been agitated for some time. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has spent thousands of dollars in bringing its merits before the public Its advantages over canning are said to be Just as great aa canning was over the old method of drying. Dehydration has the great advantage of reducing the bulk of the fruit or vegetables. It Is said that food products which would require ten or fifteen cars In shipping, can be carried in one care lr dehydrated. Dehydration in simple language means removing the moisture content. Drying- does that but dehydration does more. It removes the moisture but leaves all of the original color and flavor in the -dried -product. At' present the merits of dehydrated products are being presented to all of the large hotels and ship lines of the country. These are adopting the system and are being catered to first by the American Food Products Co., because , they will buy In larger bulk. Much of the products of the small plants already started are being shipped in five-gallon containers. . ' Mr. McComb has a large case of samples which have been dehydrated in the experimental plants. In the lot are potatoes, apples, carrots, spinach, parsley, onions, etc. Some of the bottles also . contain vegetables which had been prepared for the table after being' dehydrated. They were merely placed In cold water which was raised to the boiling point. In the process they absorbed water filled out and looked for all the world as though they had Just come from the cellar in their original state. A soup mixture Is also put up. It contains the dried ingredients of a well known .vegetable soup. A five-gallon can of this dried product it is said., will furnish sufficient soup to run a large hotel several days. The plant proposed for Lansing will be able to handle 6,000 tons of fruit and vegetables annually when in full operation. It will have the very latest types of "machinery, embodying many improvements over the equipment of the small plants -now In operation in other parts of the country. It will be by far the largest In the United States and will furnish a nearby market for practically all of : the surplus truck farm products of the territory adjacent to the Calumet region. MERCHANT LOSES HIS FATHER Sol Fox, father of Jack. Fox, the Hammond merchant, died last evening at Detroit, Mich. His home was in Indianapolis. Mr. Fox was 84 years old and he was known to many Hammond people through frequent visits at the Jack Fox home. He ihad been in poor health during the last year. Surviving are three sons, Jack, of Hammond;- George, of Richmond, Ind. and Simon of Indianapolis, and four da-jghtew, Mrs. L. Hi r sell, of Anderson, Ind.: Mrs. A. 'B. Barker, of Peoria. 111.; Mrs. George Lichtenstein of Detroit and Mrs. Henry Rawitsch of Indianapolis. ,. , The funeral will be held Friday at Indianapolis. , The Jack Fox ftore in- Hammond will be closed all day. - phans, dropped a letter to the broadcasting station at Ft. Worth, Texas, the other day warning the broadcasters against any fraudulent long distant . receiving claims which may be made by certain other Hammond gentry. - -. " SHE swor 'jtr a wmw.t charging her husband with wifs and hfM abandonment ar.d then trSfccaMw SS pirice f'r serving "the warrant J arr.?U'n;r her "busbar,.!, t.e . ilf. a::i Kendall, 663 Sherman anuI'fce husband was released !r. ' 45 cash ball. Police say it 9 -ranted tn hold tho warrant over the huBband's head but the law doesn't nnsratu that way.

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LADY KILLED AT Mrs. Ambrose Curtis 50 years of age, was struck this morning and instantly killed by a fast train at Servia, Ind., as she was making her way across the tracks to the Eric Station to board a train for Hammond after spending the Christmas holidays with her mother. More complete details of the accident were not given in the brief announcement phoned to Hammond friends of the woman today. Forest Nicholas. 443 Michigan avenue, son of Mrs. Curtis left immediately for Servia to bring the body of his mother here for burial. Mrs. Curtis had been in Servia several days visiting her mother and a number ' of friends in that city. She was to leave there for Hammond "this morning. It was while making her way to the station to catch the train that she was struck by a fast passenger train traveling In the opposite direction from the train she was about to board. Mrs. Curtis lived with her husband at 610 Wilcox avenue. She is survived by Mr. Curtis and her sons, Clifford of 150th street and Forest Nicholas of Michigan avenue. CONVICTED 3 TIMES OF LAW VIOLATION Three times convicted of violating the state liquor Uwa Rudolph Hrapusta, yesterday was sentenced to serve a suspended sixty day Jail sentence imposed when he was convicted for the first time In April. He was given a fine of $500 and costs and sentenced to six months In Jail upon his conviction on the third charge yesterday. His attorney, Pail Glaser, of Gary. Immediately started an action to appeal this judgement to the Criminal court and made a further move to secure the release of hi? client on a writ of Habaus cor pom. He held that Hrapusta comld not be forced to serve the sixty, day suspended Jail sentence until he had been fonjnd guilty by the higher court of the charge upon which be was arraigned yesterday. Judge Cleveland ordered Hrap-usta taken to the penal farm to begin 'his sentence. FACTIONS IN FIGHT It's a tame day which doesn't bring out some new angle In a church fight in East Chicago. Latest in the way of church news Is the arrest of Rev. Slmion Mlhaltlan and Nick Andrec, priest and treasurer respectively of the Roumanian Greek Orthodox church "New St. George" of Indiana Harbor. Both are charged with embezzling church funds. They were taken in custody by the sheriff and released after furnishing f 2,000 bonds each. They wiill be 'tried in the criminal court at Crown Point. The arrests were made on warrants sworn to by members of a faction of the congregation which has been at oddB with Rev. Mlhaltian and his followers for the last six months. The trouble culminated in a suit for an accounting by the "out" faction several months ago. Then the priest and his adherents enjoined the "outs" from Interfering with the affairs of the church. He refused at first to permit the "outs" to examine the church books In order to find what had been done with' certain funds. , Since then the books have been audited and the "outs" claim they have discovered a shortage of $3,J02.27. which -Rev. "Mihaltian refuses to account for. It was because of this alleged shortage that the priest and treasurer were charged with embezzlement. This suit is . not to be confused with the court affairs in which the First Crenk Russian Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost of East Chicago was involved for several months. That affair was apparently settled a week ago. but it Is intimated that there will be fresh developments s?on. ' ' WILL ASK $40,000 FOR FAIR GROUNDS SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, Ind.. Dec. 28. The Lake County Agricultural society held a meeting in the basement of the court house on Tues day afternoon relative to the improvements to be made at the fair grounds this year. The society are going to ask the county council to needed Improvements and additions the present buildings, though Just completed last year are inadequate to house the stock and' exhibits dur-

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Commodity Gains 30 Cent Since the Middle of September. BT JAMES L. KILGALLKN STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE CHICAGO, Dec 28. Wheat prlcca barometer of prosperity for the American farmer, are going up. Not giddily, but t!owly, steadily, constructively. Today December wheat, selling above $1.25, is hovering near the high point of the season, having gained 30 cents since the middle of September. May and July wheat likewise are meeting excellent demand. The new year, grain leaders predict, will see even better prices and insure the inevitable "comeback" of the farmer. Joseph P. Griffin, former president of the Chicago board of trade and an authority on g:-aln, informed International News Service that only failure to establish proper credits abroad is preventing a substantial advance in the market. "Europe needs our wheat." he said. "But Europe cannot buy. Our potential customers are bankrupt. "Crops in this country and Canada this year have been bountiful. We have produced a surplus. . Kurope's crop is subnormal. The big thing that's needed is the prompt establishment of credit abroad so that the American farmep can dispose of his wheat to all his customers. "Russia, which in pre-war days, exported between 600,000.000 and 600,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye is out of It. She can't take care of the European demand. "If proper credits were established abroad, so that Europe could buy from us, I would not be surprised to see $2.00 wheat." B. A. Eckhart, head of one of ;th largest milling concerns in the country, pointed to one reason for prevailing good prices. In spite of the surplus of wheat produced by the United States and Canada, there are no accumulations of winter and spring wheat. "I believe," he said "that the consumption demand for wheat produced exceeds that of pre-war days" E PILE MAY CAUSE DEATH Unlighted coke piles which have been-common in Gary for years was responsible for their first death early yesterday morning. Joseph Kuegnls, 1417 Jefferson street, occupant of a motorcycle side car was the victim. Thrown out of the motorcycle elde car when the machine struck the coal pile. Kue-gnls struck his head, the heavy motorcycle taking the same path and landing directly on top of him. Hashed to St. Antonio hospital, Kuegnls was found to be suffering from probable fatal injuries. A number of bones were broken and he suffered serious internal Injuries. Twelve hours following the crash, he died. Although this is the flirt fatality as a res-oJt of leaving coal piles and building material on the streets, without lights of warning after dark, dozens of serious accidents have happened and dozens likewise injuredIN THE JUNGLES OF INDIANA RICHMOND, Ind.. Dec. 28. With lions routing the sand dunea, wolves In the swamps of the northwest part of the atate, and lynx ln the HTH! country, the coatratlon that Indiana waa till a Ms; game state was a-Iven further substantiation today when reports were received that lance eagle attacked a litter S if plan on a farm near here. The eagle was killed and measure eight feet from tip to tip of Its wings. T T LET TOF FORD PLANT CHICAGO, Dec. 2b The cortract for the first unit of the Ford Automobile plant at Hogewisch has bc-v.i let to the Great Lakes Construction Co.. of Chicago. The building will be 600 feet wide and 1,400 feet long and of steel construction. It will be located at Trrence avenue and One Hundred and Thirtieth street. Construction will start at or.ce. NOTICE. - . Dear John: Please come home to us. We will buy you a new Durant automobile to ride to work in.

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SPEAKERSHIP FAILS TO INDIANA VO LIS, IND., Dec. 28 What Is described a3 oie of the quietest speakership contests in recent years has failed, political observers assert, to show any apparent trend toward any of the contestants a'week In advance of the opening of the Seventy-third session of the Indiana general asembl. Eight avowed candidates are in the field, but of this group only five are conceded to have an opportunity to obtain the. place. Many legislators in discussing the probable speakership choice of the republican members of the house, who will caucus next Wednesday eve ning, the evening before the session convener, assert that L. A. Pittenger, of Felma; Raymond C. Morgan, of Knightstown; William R. Phillips, of Gflenwood; J. Glenn Harris, of Gary, and Asa J. Smith, of Indianapolls, are the leading contenders, and ' that only an unexpected compromise would make James I. Day, of Bast Chicago; Oscar A. Ahlgren, of Whiting, and Luke W. Duffy, of Indianapolis, possibilities for the speakership. HATE EUQKT LIAS Most of the legislators assert that Mr. Plttingcr and Mr. Morgan apparently have a slight lead over their opponents, although neither has progressed to a place where he can claim his election with any degree of certainty. That element, the legislators say. gives the other contenders hope that they may be eventually the choice of the republican caucus. , 'Mr. Pittlnger is said to be favored

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Dec. 29. George B. Lockwood, former Indiana editor now secretary of the Republican National committee, will be the principal speaker at the mid-winter banquet of the Indiana Republican Editorial association, to be held here Jan. 26. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PARIS. Dec. 2 8. Sara Bernhardt, famous French actress, who is 111, was still holding her own today. It was announced at her residence that she had spent a good night and that her general condition was unchanged. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Policeman Maurice Crontn, now on the force, early today shot and killed one of two bandits who had hurled a brick through a window of t he Edna Naedlin Beauty shop.. The otheY man escaped. Cronin served seventeen months as a rifleman in the American army ln France. 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BEiLEVliLE. HI.. Dec. 2b. Flames brought under control about 1 o'clock this morning AS TYPICAL SANTA CLAUSES Hammond Boy Scouts gave a good account of themselves in putting over the food campaign requested by City Nurse Mary Moran for needy families. Contributions were generous. The truck owned by the Hammond Scout Council was kept busy both before and after Christmas rounding up the non-perishable provisions and other articles which were collected at various concentration points. Part of this has already been distributed and the city nurse has a large stock on hand from which deserving families will be provisioned during the winter. Troops 1. 2. 3, 4, 6, 7 13 and 20 participated in the collection. Among the donations were the following: 7 bushels of potatoes, 2 bushels of apples, 6 pounds candy and nuts. 130 jars home canned fruit and vegetables. 207 cans of boughten fruit and vegetables, 13 bars of soap, 43 pounds of dry groceries, 30 pairs of shoes, S2 coats, 32 paire of pants, 28 .dresses, 25 waists, 21 overcoats, 33 suits of underwear, 7 sweaters, 49 hats and caps 25 dolls and oys, 3 ehickens, 1 go-cart and 192 pieces of miscellaneous wearing apparel. A total of nearly 1,000 articles. HAMMOND TO ANNEX City Attorney McMahon Prepares Ordinance for Annexation. City Attorney McMahon is preparing an ordinance to be Introduced Into the city council for the annexation of all territory south of the

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CONTEST SHOW TREND by many of the state administration heads, although Governor McCray, as far as can be learned, has kept aloof from the fight and has expressed no choice. The activities of Lawrence Cartwright, Eighth district republican chairman, in behalf of Mr. Pittinger lead to the assertion that the Selma man was favored by the republican state organization. Since this report became current it is said Mr. Cartwright has curbed his activities to some extent. Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Plttenger are farmers and are said to be counting for the bulk of their support from the former members in the house. Mr. Morgan, however, has an active opponent in his own district, the Sixth, in Mr. Phillips. Morgan's friends are said to be eager to see Mr. Phillips drop out in the belief that this would give Mr. Morgan the entire Sixth district delegation. Mr. Phillips, however, has told his supporters that he is in the race to stay and will permit the caucus to make the eliminations. AP70XCTTKX1TT HIT SATTSIT Mr. Harris' Inability to remove the other two candidates from Lake county, Mr. Day and Mr. Ahlgren, has handicapped him. Mr. Harris' friends believe. It is said, that if he is unable to command a caucus majority, he will have enough support to name the speaker. In view of the reports that Mr. Harris would be satisfied with some important committee chairmanships, such as heads of the ways and means committee, or tha fees and salaries committee, it is said such a situation would be satisfactory to Mr. Harris. destroyed the "Mighty Doris Shows" and an old car barn, causing a damage estimated at about tloO.000. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Dec. 2g. r ive banks early today kidnapped George Peterson and Miss Cholita Echaefer on-the north side, pounded him into insensibility, boat the girl and wrenched rings and jewels from her fingers and' clothing. The couple were thrown from a motor car on the west side. The girl was unable to obtain an estimate of the value of the loot. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PEORIA, 111.. Dec. 28. The explosion ' of a still in a shed here today kindled fire in which Robert Walton was burned to death. James Campbell perhaps fatally scored and all trace of a third man wiped out. Police said the men upset the coils ln a quarrel. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ERIE, Pa-. Dec. 28. Fanned by a gale and sleet . storm, fle this morning levelled the Aris theater and partially destroyed three other buildings. Property damaee was J2QO.0OO. state line and the west city limits of Gary to the south limits of the town of Griffith. This ordinance will bring Into Hammond Highland and Griffith. ILL KNOWN MAM DIES AT HOSPITAL Walter W. Edwards, known to many friends throughout the Calumet district, died yesterday at Grant Hospital, Chicago, of a throat Infection. Mr. Edwards, a member of the Hammond Elks, was lndentifled here with the Aetna Powder Co. Later he left for New Tork city with the same organization and was transferred to Benson, Arizona where he had charge of the Apache Powder Plant at that place. He is survived. by his widow and one son. The funeral in charge of Hammond Elks Lodge .No. 485 will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Segerston Chapel, 8154 North Clark street. Interment will be made at Oak Ridge. Officers and members of the local Elks lodge are. asked to meet at the club rooms tomorrow at noon when they will be taken by auto mobile to Chicago. NEW IRISH PEACE iT STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE BT DANIEL O'CONNELL BCBLIN, Dec. 28. Secret peace negotiations were opened - today between the Free State and Irish Republicans. The seat of tho negotiations was not revealed, but the correspondent is Informed that they are taking plaee in a town outside of Dublin. . Several heads of the civil administration and army . left Dublin during the morning. Don't forget the Shopmen's dance n-da. aissKC Deo. SSth. 12-2J-2

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TOJIELP Declares the Park Will Not Be a Tax Burden C. Oliver Holmes state Eenatot from Gary, will enter the legislative balls at Indianapolis next week pledged to the establishment of a Dunes park, the passage of a tax on gasoline, the adoption of a law enabling Lake county to create a Junior College and legislation for the creation of county school units. Siin. Holmes went on record in favor of these measures in an interview today. He is thoroughlysold to the plan for a state park in the Dunes and believes that it will bo a paying investment for the state Instead of a liability and a burden on the taxpayers. "The purchase of a park in the Dunes does not involve any tuch expenditure as has been reported," declared Sen. Holmes. "I know with my eyes shut that it won't cost 2,000,000. Further than that it can be paid for over a period of years "The state has the right to appropriate the land for park purposes and a fair price will be fixed by an appraiser. While property owners can appeal to the courts the stale will not have to pay an ojhorbitant price. The National Dunes Park association has been arranging for private subscriptions looking to the establishment of a park in the Dunes and I feel sure that some of the land will be donated to tho state. "It is planned to establish the park along the lake front from a point a mile west of Waverly Beach to extend two miles east or Waverly, giving three miles of lake frontage and an area in the dunes of about 5,000 acres. The state will charge a nominal sum for admittance to the park, possibly ten or fifteen cents and will derive revenue from rustic hotels and concesnions which will be under rigid management. "The city of Gary has no selfish aims in working for the establishment of a Dunes park because we have more park area than any other city in the state and a splendid park in the Dunes on our own lake front. - "The state conservation commission which has charge of state parks is making money on every state park. Including Turkey Run, and there is no reason why the Dunes park would not eventually pay for itself. Although the state cannot issue bonds It can acquire property' on time payments so that It is not necessary to buy the park wit5i spot cash." Sen. Holmes is in hopes that the tax on gasoline will be passed in Indiana as-it has in twenty-two states. ."A certain portion of the revenue collected from the tax should come back to the county without any strings tying it to the state highway department," he said. "This portion coming to the county should be used In the building of roads at the discretion of the coun ty commissioners." Regarding the Junior college, Sen. Holmes said that the three state universities are overcrowded and that the state must either build more univrsitles or adopt the plan of Junior colleges in various sections of the state. He favors the Junior college plar and will work for the passage of a bill to make the establishment of a Junior college in Lake county avail able. The automobile school bus in us in rural communities all over the country is the basis of the "county unit school system" whereby firsi class grade schools and high schools centrally located in the rural districts take the place of the township schools. A county school unit can serve several townships in the. rural districts. It is economy and efficiency. Senator Holmes has in mind legislation which will enable the establishment of the "county unit system" in Indiana. IS SHOCKED AGAIN Once More the Metropolis Is Shocked By A Discovery. - INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW TORK. Dec. 26.- Once mors New Tork is shocked. Having societies to save It from Indecent books, Immoral plays and the lures of the gay w,h!te way ln eeneral, Gotham now finds that vice has taken a new grip on society In a form so subtle it escaped all but the Initiated. For suggestive, strains of muein stolen from the songs of barbaric tribes have crept into the songs an a music of the city. Louis H. Chalif said yesterday and are threatening the moral fabric of the nation. In o-der to supress such mnste and dances danced to It. a new soclety Is being organised under his direction which will set out to censor gongs and music that are considered vulgar. S. Reld Spencer, organist and eem. poser, wrote to Mr, Chalif, ln commending the movement, ' "I am ln constant receipt of new musical compositions from tin pari alley disgusting trash that requires an apology to my waste hasUet before I ehuek it 'in "To write you what I know of the dar.es among savage people would be a violation of the postal laws. As our eompoeera cf modern danee muslo are adopting the barbarlo rmislo of savage tribes It' In only natural that dancers will adopt

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