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THE WEATHER Showers; not 'much change in temperature. THE HAMMOND TIMES FINAL EDITION HAMMOND, INDIANA, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1939. VOL. XXXIV, NO. 13.

PUBLISHED DAILT EXCEPT SATURDAYS SOHDAT EDITION DELIVERED SDNDAT MORNINGS PRICE THREE CENTS DELAYED Whiting Jubilee Opens Tuesday PAGEANT WILL VIVIDLY DEPICT CITY'SGROWTH Civic Groups, Industries, Military Units, Floats Have Places in Parade Jack Dempsey Gets Best of Toughest Foe Mauler 'Sneaks' Out Phone Call; Sends Message to Friends for Food July 4th will be gaily celebrated by thousands in Whiting next Tuesday when the municipality takes official note of having become 50 years old and opens the first of a series of summer Golden Jubilee events. City officials and civic groups reported last night that their preparations were completed for a gigantic parade and all-day Celebration in Whiting park, on the shore of Lake Michigan. The day's program will include a pageant review of Whiting's half- century of progress, dating from the period of the pioneers when the sparsely settled community was woodland with several nearby lakes, up to the present time in which the Oil City commands national attention as the home of the world's largest complete oil refinery, built in 1889 by the Standard Oil company. HISTORICAL EDITION The Hammond Times today presents a historical edition in recognition of Whiting's Golden Jubilee and, incidentally, for a similar half-century of observance by the Standard Oil company, of Indiana, around whose refinery the Oil City has grown and prospered. The complete program for the July 4th celebration in Whiting appears in an adjoining column on this page.

The day's observance of the Golden Jubilee will begin with a mammoth historical parade spreading out a distance of two miles, at 10 a. Tuesday. Approximately 40 beautifully-decorated floats will be in the line of march. Marching units will include representatives of church, fraternal and civic organizations, and some of the major industries in the Whiting area. Guardsmen to March The Indiana National Guard--400 strong--will march.

City administration officials, former mayors of Whiting, annuitants of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, and members of Whiting Post 80 of the American Legion, will be in the parade. There will also be crack bands of Whiting and George Rogers Clark schools, as well as the 113th Engineers' 35-piece band. Ten American Legion drum and bugle corps from over the region including the Lake County state champion ladies' corps, will march Ths parade, which is expected to be viewed by more than 25,000, is to be filmed in color for prosperity. At the conclusion of the parade, ihe populace of the city and its thousands of visitors will gather in Whiting park, on the lake front, ior an all-day program of entertainment. Variety in Program The park program will include athletic events, both for children and adults, also special events for little children, a boxing and wrestling show, a galaxy of outstanding vaudeville talent, all-day dancing, musical concerts and a gigantic fireworks display bringing the Independence day celebration to a close at night.

Parade prizes aggregating $375 in cash will be awarded by judges who will view the spectacle from the portico of the Whiting Armory in 119th street. The Golden Jubilee celebration, directed by a committee headed by Mayor James T. McNamara will be continued on August 5 and 6 with a music festival at the Whiting high school football field. NEW YORK, July Jack Dempsey was way out in front tonight in the moht important fight of his life. His face covered with a two-day growth of blue-black stubble, the old "Manassa Mauler" of the prize- ring lay in a bed in Polyclinic hospital and sent a message to the world that "I'll be out soon." The late afternoon bulletin read: "Improvement has been noted Mr.

Dempsey's condition thin afternoon. His temperature is 100.08. His pulse, 70. His respiration, 22." All indications were tlu the former heavyweight champion--waging this battle in wine-colored pajamas instead of the traditional black or purple tights of the ring- slowly but surely was licking an attack of peritonitis that floored him after an emergency appendectomy Thursday night. He was resting comfortably and feeling so chipper that he sneaked" a phone call from his bedside, dictated a message to his friends, and growled continually for "some real food." "I'm not feeling so good now but with so many seconds in my corner how can a guy lose?" Dempsey's message, dictated to his press representative, Ned Brown, said.

"Tell the boya I'll bo out soon." There was some talk around the hospital that Dempsey might reach a "crisis" tomorrow night. Dr. Alfred Lillienfeld, who is working on the case, said that the crisis in a peritonitis case usually does not develop until about 72 hours after the operation. But it was believed that because of his superb physical condition, Dempsey is improving more rapidly than the average patient and might not even reach the crisis stage that occurs in normal cases of a serious nature. Lillienfeld said, however, that although "we are not particularly worried now, due to his superb physical condition, he is by no means out of danger." SEEK MEANS TO SAVE WPA JOBS Finance Disapproval Plan On Road Project Threat Tc 1,500 Employes Vagrant Slugs Watchman; Winds Up in the Hospital Michael Welsh, 65-year-old vagrant, was taken to St.

Margaret's hospital with a gash in his head yesterday as a result of his attack on Thomas Bragg, watchman, at the Great Lakes Warehouse corporation, 13. Industrial road, Hammond, according to a Hammond police report. Bragg said Welsh attacked him when he ordered the vagrant off the property. In the ensuing struggle, Welsh was wounded by a blow from a cane carried by Bragg. Means to save the WPA Lake county highway improvement program, now at a standstill because of disapproval of a temporary finance plan, are being sought by county officials.

The program employs 1,500 of the 4,000 meii now on WPA rolls in Lake county. A ruling by Edward P. Brennan chairman of the state board of accounts, disapproving the temporary finance plan, put the improvement program at a standstill. Calumel and North township relief funds and county highway departmenl funds were contributed to WPA truck hire costs under the plan. The problem was brought before the county council by John Krause of Hammond, president of the county commissioners.

MAY RECREATE MONEY POWER OF ROOSEVELT Opponents Admit Alter Filibuster That Power Can Be Revived; Up Wed, Whiting's 4th of July Program WASHINGTON, July --Senator Alva B. Adams, democrat, a leader of the anti-devaluation bloc, conceded tonight that President Roosevelt's dollar devaluation powers which were filibustered to death in the senate last night can be revived next week if the senate approves the conference report on -fee administration monetary bill. Senator Robert Taft, republican, a leader of the republican forces which blocked a vote on the report last night, admitted that "it would be difficult to challenge" administration contentions that the devaluation powers are subject to revival. Showdown Wednesday The two statements indicated that the final showdown will come at 5 p. m.

Wednesday on whether Mr. Roosevelt can regain his authority to order further devaluation of the dollar. The senate agreed to shut off all debate and vote on the conference report at that time. Neither administration leaders nor members of the anti-devaluation bloc would forecast the outcome. It was learned, however, that a by aides to the democratic that the vote would be close, with less than a half dozen senators in a position to decide it.

Although the president tonight was stripped of his authority vo devalue the dollar or to utilize the stabilization fund, treasury authorities appeared confident that the monetary legislation would be approved when the senate reconvened. The Independence day i a week-end coupled with the typical long British week-end, lessened the strain on the treasury and the international monetary situation and made action before Wednesday unnecessary. Adams was willing to concede the administration's point on continuance of the devaluation authority, but insisted that the stabilization fund was "dead" and would have to be revived by new "affirmative legislation." Must Be Recreated "I don't have any question about devaluation," he said. "The powers contained in the conference report represent a new grant. "However, the stabilization fund was created up to a certain time and there is nothing in the bill to renew it.

They will have to recreate it in some way," Adams said. The preseident's devaluation powers and the treasury authority to operate the stabilization fund expired at 12:01 a. m. today when the 1939 fiscal year ended. Administration leaders fought furiously to bring to a vote the conference report to extend the powers, but "gold republicans and conservative democrats formed a coalition and talked the report through the end of the fiscal year.

La Guardia Intercedes NEW YORK, July a plea from Mayor F. H. La Guardia, plans went forward today for a strike this midnight of 15,000 unionized milk truck drivers, a walkout which would shut off distribution of about 95 per cent of the city's milk supply. In welcoming everyone to attend the Golden Jubilee celebration in Whiting park, on the lakefront, Mayor J. T.

McNamara last night announced the following official program for the Fourth of July: Parade at 10 a. at the Whiting Community Center. The line of march will be north on the west side of Indianapolis boulevard to Roberts avenue; cross to the opposite side of the boulevard and return thereon to 119th street; east on 119th street to Front strset, and into Whiting park. 11 a. luncheons and famiJy reunions.

12 noon--Softball game. City softball league leaders. 1 p.m.--Baseball game. City Twilight league leaders. 3:30 p.

events. Girls' and boys' games at ball field. 3:30 p. show at the Lagoon. Entertainers including Chet and Chet in clown antics; Peggy' and Claire, presenting roller skating thrills; Two Black Dots, a blackface comedy act, and Luster and Ainsley, world-famous acrobatic comics.

4:30 p.m.--Death-defying high dive by the Great Delno, plunging down 100 feet into an eight-foot net. 6:00 p.m.--Boxing and wrestling show at ball field. Seven three- round boiling bouts; one wrestling match; one mixed bout, boxer versus wrestler. 10:00 p.m.--Colorful and colossal display of fireworks, Dancing at the pavilion throughout the day. Sewage Expert's Wife Is Killed Mrs.

Edwin Kurd Falls 10 Floors From Husband's Office At Indianapolis Tractor Crushes Farmer To Death and Runs Wild Dairyman Run Over as He Cranks Motor; Burial Monday Afternoon HOBART, July 1. (Special)-- Funeral services for John Schultz, 51, life-long resident of near Hobart, who was killed instantly today when run over by a tractor on his farm, will be held Monday afternoon. Services will be held from the Methodist Episcopal church at 2 o'clock with the Rev. W. H.

Bleam offciating. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, Kobart. Schultz was killed when attempted to crank the tractor. Apparently in gear the tractor lurched forward and crushed the man's skull. He died without regaining consciousness.

After running over Schultz the tractor continued traveling, crashed through the side of a barn and halted against a post on the inside. Schultz was well known here, having operated for many years the Hillcrest dairy farm. He was a Mason and is a former worthy patron of the Order of Eastern Stars. Survivors include the widow; son, Howard, who is vacationing in Michigan; three brothers, Fred of Memllville, Charles of Hobart, Edward of Michigan, and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Rhoda of Hobart, and Mrs.

Emman Wilson of Valparaiso. Dr. L. E. Dupes of Hobart, deputy Lake county coroner, said after an investigation, that the tractor, probably had been left in gear Friday when Schultz last used it.

SENATE TO BE BATTLE SCENE ON NEUTRALITY Forces Are Lined Up as Hull Declares House Action Aids 'Trouble-Makers' So, It's New Type Skeeter Stinging Us Hammond Goes into Action Against Illinois Forest Preserve Mosquitoes HITLER'S VISIT MEANS WEEKS OF UNEASINESS 'oland Wants Danzig to Explain Military Preparations Credited to Nazis Mrs. Margaret Hurd, 35, wife of the consulting engineer in charge of construction of Hammond's $3,195,000 sewage disposal project, was killed instantly yesterday when she fell 10 floors to an alley from her husband's office at Indianapolis. According to a United Press dispatch, Mrs. Hurd had gone to the office to wait for her husband, Edwin C. Hurd, on his return from Chicago.

Hurd appeared before the Public Works Administration regional officials on behalf of the Hammond project, division 7A, yesterday morning, according to City Engineer Clarence A. Mason, a member of the sanitary district board. Mrs. health Hurd since had been in poor an automobile accident in 1932. Indianapolis police believed she became dizzy as she leaned from an open window and fell.

There was no eye witnesses. Mrs. Kurd's husband has been in charge of the Hammond office of the consulting firm headed by his father, Charles. The Hammond office is located in the Calumet theater building. The Kurds have three children.

tion as a "matter of disappointment" from BEGIN HOLIDAY WAR ON SPEED Hammond Police Warm Up By Arresting Four Motorists Police "warmed up" for the expected Independence Day traffic rush through Hammond by arresting motorists yesterday on charges of violating traffic laws. All authorities in Lake county are participating in a concerted drive to prevent an exhorbitant accident and death toll this year and orders are out to halt any and all violations of traffic ordinances. The four arrested were Ross Gunder, 21, of Valparaiso, charged with speeding 60 miles per hour in Calumet avenue; David Goldberg, 36, 4757 Ingleside avenue, Chicago, charged with speeding 64 miles per hour in Calumet avenue, and L. Lindeloff, 53, of Lafayette, arrested for running the red light at Highland street and Calumet avenue, and Andrew Pozak, 22, of 1720 Van Buren street, Gary, arrested for having improper license plates on his car. All filed bond except Lindeloff, who paid a $6 fine.

WHITING'S GOLDEN JUBILEE Edition of The Hammond Times Majled Anywhere in the United States (10 Cents Ptr Copy) Place Your Order at Once Telephone Ham'd 3100 THE HAMMOND TIMES CHILD SHOT AS HE RIDES IN CAR Police Hunt Six Boys as Slayers of South Chicago Lad at Riverdale RIVERDALE, 111., July highway police tonight sought six youths in connection with the death of Roger Dawson, 6, who was fatally wounded by a stray bullet while riding in an automobile in 138th street with his parents and two brothers earlier in the evening. The child died at 8:55 o'clock in St. Francis hospital at Blue Island. Deputies Frank Bailey and James Driscoll of the sheriff's police seized Edward Strand, 25, of 11023 Burnham avenue, and his brother, Raymond, 23 shortly after the shooting. They had a 22-caliber target pistol in their possession which they admitted they had been shooting in an abandoned clay- hole which the Dawson family automobile was passing when the boy was shot.

However, they insisted they had been firing away from the highway. The distraught parents told police that as they were riding past the clayhole they saw a flash which they believed from a fire cracker An instant later, Roger, who had been standing up in the back of the car holding on to his father's shoulders, slumped to the floor blood gushing from a bullet hole in his forehead. The boy's mother, Edith, was driving the automobile and the father, Harold, was sitting alonp side of her in the front seat. Roger's two brothers, Paul, 10, am Clyde, 5, were sitting in the back seat. The Dawson family resides at 2300 West lllth place, South Chi' cago.

Cloudburst Takes 4 Lives EAST RUTHERFORD, N. J. July cloudec four homes in this community today, the aftermath of a sudden cloudburst that swept two children to their deaths in the raging waters of a storm sewer and their two would-be rescusrs after them. The victims were Sophie Kosto- philis, 11, and Arthur linger, 6, WASHINGTON, July leaders tonight organized for a momentous battle against the house-approved neutrality bill. They said that the limited arms embargo provision in the measure was an invitation for the "trouble-makers of Europe to take matters into their own hands." In the senate sponsors of any neutrality measure of the administration's liking faced formidable opposition.

A coalition of isolationists and republicans, who have kept up a running fire against President Roosevelt's foreign policy, was organized there to attempt to force house bill through. Vote Will Be Close Leaders of all factions indicated that the ultimate vote will be close. There was no indication when the measure would be taken up by the senate, or when a final vote might reached. Administration a were scathing in their comment on the neutrality bill which was approved by a- narrow margin and after a battle in the house last night. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued a forma" statement characterizing the house ac- reg'ret and the standpoint of the assurance of this country's continued aloofness foreign wars.

Speaker William B. Bankhead, who personally fought for the administration measure in the house last night and whose vote was one of the margin of two that kept the decimated bill from being killed entirely, hinted that the action might tip the scales so that Hitler would seize Danzig. "This will encourage the trouble makers of Europe to take matters into their own hands," Bankhead said. "I am very apprehensive of the repercussions abroad that might be caused by this action, and the next few days may bear out this apprehension." Calls It "Embargo law" Hull referred throughout formal statement to the present neutrality law as an "embargo law," and to the house bill as "an equivalent." The senate contest will center around an amendment inserted Into the administration measure, written by Rep. Sol Bloom, democrat of New York, by a house freshman Rep.

John M. Vorys, republican ol Ohio. The Vorys amendment providec a modified embargo on shipments of arms and ammunition, but nol "implements" of war to belligerents Sale and shipment of airplanes, included among the proscribed war materials under the present neutrality law, was exempted by implication in the house measure This provision was the only major modification of the legislation Hul recommended in letters to the senate and house foreign affairs chairman six weeks ago. The embargo provision, however, is especially irritating to the state department. Those officials contend that the mandatory embargo provisions of the present law tie the hands of the chief executive in dealing with foreign affairs.

The effect of such a law, they contend, actually encourages aggressor nations to i depredations against weaker neighbors. By GEORGE T. AULT A vast squadron of pursuit-type mosquitoes--ace i of the took county forest preserve corps --droned over Hammond today, threatening this city's $3,000 defense program and causing an inter-state exchange of diplomatic notes. The invasion and victims of mosquito power-dives will tell you it's no joking matter--adds to the itching and irritation caused by the 1939 insect insurrection in Hammond's own larva-producing areas. Woodland Variety Worse Hammond's anti-aircraft defense, in charge of Dr.

H. C. Groman, city health commissioner, and City Bacteriologist A. W. Ecklund, may prove entirely inadequate unless protests to Illinois forest preserve officials bring action.

Ecklund today was preparing Hammond's first diplomatic effort -a letter to Cook county authorities asking their cooperation in the war on the winged pests. The front-line facts are these: Mosquitoes captured in Hammond recently have been found to bo of the "woodland" type, described as "more ferocious" than the swamp species which breed within the boundaries of Hammond. Sprays Forest Preserve Ecklund said four or five species of. "woodland" mosquitoes are crossing the state line from nearby forest preserves. These species, he explained, prefer hatching in the woods.

Larva is abundant in the forest preserve, tests of water dipped by the Hammond bacteriologist have shown. As a result, Dr. Groman sent men into Cook county territory to spray oil on the breeding places, but this will not continue because of Hammond's 1 i i funds for combating mosquitoes. Although Di. Groman said Hammond is making "definite headway" in its mosquito abatement program, enormous breeding places have been found in swamps and low sections of Munster and Highland.

Officials of the two towns have been advised as to methods of destroying the mosquito larva, but apparently have done nothing toward swaying the swamps. Bains Wash Oil Away Recent heavy rains have complicated the anti-sting campaign Mosquito breeding surfaces have been increased, thousands of new surfaces have appeared and oi sprayed on old surface! has been washed away or diluted. It will be necessary to re-oil old surfaces and spray the new ones with waste oil and creosote, Ecklund declared. Where good drainage exists, however, the heavy rains have washed away much larva. This occurred along Hohman avenue, between 173rd street and the Little Calumet river, where city workers dug ditches to permit rapid draining.

A negligible amount of larva remains there now. BERLIN, July 1 scheduled visit of Adolf Hitler to Europe's "danger spot," Danzig, on July 23, tonight focused attention sharply on a period of two weeks which well-informed sources here refer to as "the acute" or "critical" stage in Germany's quarrel with Poland and the British-led security front. The impression in authoritative circles was that this "acute" state in the totalitarian technique of returning Danzig to the reich over Poland's protests will come between July 25 and August 5. Thus, nazis give strength to the belief that there will be at least three more weeks in which friction presumably will increase but in which no showdown should be expected. Travel by Warship The present plans for Hitler's visit--while not officially announced as yet and presumably subject to change--tend to confirm this impression.

The fact that the fuehrer expects to make the visit by warship, which would avoid any pass sage across the Polish corridor, was reminiscent of his visit by warship to the city of Memel when that semi-autonomous territory was wrested from Lithuania at the time of the final dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Husband Stabs Wife 30 Times; Watches Agony CAMDEN, N. July --Police entered a one-room apartment today in response to a summons by neighbors and found Thomas Swissler, 31, seated calmly en the floor watching his unconscious wife, Mrs. Frances Swissler, 38, who had been stabbed 30 times in the head and body with four- inch scissors. Mrs.

Swissler's condition was critical. Her husband was charged with assault and battery. "I guess I lost my temper," he told police. Police attributed the stabbing to a quarrel over finances. Dyer J.

P. Decides Bank Night Is Not Lottery Justice Court Dismisses Suit Against Whiting Theater Manager and William Steigelman, Louis Henry Pfeiff, 3T. 50, and WHITING, July bank nights are not lotteries, according to a ruling yesterday by Raymond Zech, Dyer justice of the peace. Zech's ruling was in the case involving the Hoosier theater and Mrs. J.

A. Ciesco, litigants in the suit for $400 filed in East Chicago superior court by Mrs. Ciesco, naming Rex Williams, manager, and the Hoosier theatre as defendants. No date has been set for the hearing. The trial before Zech yesterday was on a warrant issued against Williams by Joseph P.

Sullivan and Robert Daerr, attorneys for Mrs. Ciesco, charging that bank nights are lotteries. Zech dismissed the charges. Mrs. Ciesco was named winner of a $400 bank night award May 3 and the theater refused to pay her the money because she allegedly was registered under three names Justice of the peace and superior court suits followed.

Williams is represented by Attorney Roy A. Green. Danzig Admits Having Defenie Force DANZIG, July (UP)--Formation of a Danzig nazi defense force estimated to number more than 4,000 men was admitted in high quarters tonight but only as a "security measure" against Polish mobilization. Danzig police also have been strongly reinforced in the last few days, it was stated authoritatively. Although work is being pushed on barracks at Matzkau, near Danzig, and the Languhr police barracks have been enlarged, it was denied in official Free City thai any soldiers or any members of nazi formations in Germany had entered Danzig.

'The return of Danzig to the Reich already has been decided," the nazi newspaper Danziger vor- sposten asserted in an editorial reviewing the strife with Poland. "The exact date for the return will be set by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler." Poland Will For Explanation WARSAW, July The Polish government tonight prepared to ask Danzig formally in a note to explain intensive military preparations in Free State territory along the Polish-German frontier. Government circles generally believed that the note would be dispatched Monday or Tuesday, addressed to the Danzig senate and designed to clarify developments in Europe's most acute danger spot. Poland, warning the Reich that any internal or external violence in Danzig would be a cause for war, has asserted officially that nazis are forming a 'free corps" in the Free City, for the presumed purpose of an eventual putsch as a prelude to proclaiming the return of Danzig to the Reich. Newspaper reports continue to tell of extensive military and armament preparations in the Free City.

Wants Information As disclosed in authoritative sources, the projected Polish note to Danzig's pro-nazi senate would ask especially about formation of the free corps, which high sources in Danzig described as a. Danzig nazi defense force, estimated at about 4,000 men The note was expected to inquire why anti-aircraft gun replacement's have been built in the free city and why foodstuffs and materials have been stored. The possibility that the note would be became known after the arrival here of Stefan Chodarki, the Polish Commissar General for Danzig, who had a long conference with the Foreign Minister Josef Beck. An unusual development in Polish-German relations was reported tonight by well-informed sources. They said that Germany had notified Poland that the Cruiser Koenigsberg would visit Danzig from August 25 to August 27.

Here's a Brand New One LONDON, July James Liddlc was fined 530 in police court for driving on the wrong side of a road and colliding with another car. He pleaded vainly that a ccrk popped out of a chloroform bottle he was carrying and that he inadvertently smelled the chloroform..