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op laudedDminationp With Guns Like• • • »(By Pacific Atianiic)■ turrets, these 16 guns of H. M. S. Rodney Secretary Stimson, U. S. leader at the Naval has applied for permission to build a super-ither of Great Britain’s .largest fighting ships, 5 reported'Ramsay MacDonald looks favorablycap. request.r. LAWutomobiles ime for tor Joe Stippr Michiga# iddress-bjgr1 ?enth Dis-association yesterday, ntion, Mr. ures at the n for the : Volstead-Lconstruc-jrage daily prisoners,’* e for 1929 than twice Yesterday,onfined at• a-'perma-‘marcel.* ” backer ofthe iparole law.i * - There have- been 5,800 men .paroled from Michigan City since 1897;’’ ihe cited. “Of this number 77 per cent have made good.’*Lloyd D. Claycombe, representing Secretary of- State Otto G. Fifield, also spoke at the association meeting yesterday. Claycombe is assistant superintendent and counsel of the Indiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and - Investigation.Stanley Bueklind, new Gary police chief and recently elected president of th© association, presided at his first meeting.Chief Thomas J. Martinson of. r •Hammond was accepted as a mem-ber of the law enforcement group. Speakers -included Joe Pendergast, secretary of the Chicago Railway Pblice association, and Leo McCormick, acting chief of the East Chicago police, department.RSLLET. /AGAINST13.—(U.P.) rs, carried oday saved serious in-: by Harry (anion, Al-/ woundedto police, urke hadbullet he L into the 'Teill was rce of theANTSERVICE].—Another r told his r after the it and her t the point f $14 and5.oy Betker, i blanket m Indian- a police edicament. if the girl robe so as.—(U.P.)— liam How-smfortable improved t the home►ed^ duringVALPARAISO, Ind., Feb._ 13.—A jury in Judge Harry L. Crum-packer’s Porter Superior court Monday returned a verdict of $475 in favor of Wilbur Langille, of East Chicago, against Grice and Alma Chandler, also of East Chicago. Thesuit was the aftermath of an auto-*mobile collision at the corner of 136th and Fir streets, East Chicago, on August 18, 1928, when a Cadillac auto driven by Mrs. Chandler crashed into a Studebaker driven by Frederick, son of the plaintiff. The jury deliberated one and a half hours. Chandler asked $1,000 damages. Charles Strom, of Gary* and J. A. Fleshbein of Valparaiso, were plaintiff’s counsel and W. B. • Van-» * * * .4Horne, Sr. of East Chicago, and William Daly, of Valparaiso, repre--sen ted the Chandlers. Chandler is a colored politician and alleged vice leader of East Chicago, and was Indicted by the government in the recent conspiracy cas»es.CROWN POINT, Ind., Feb. 13.—Construction of the J. Wesley Reed road in Hammond, for which, the contract has been Jet. was made possible this morning when the bonds were sold by Treasurer Hazel Groves. The issue amounting to $144,000 was taken by the Commercial bank of Crown Point “which♦ ...»agreed to pay ,a premium of $4,225 and accrued interest of $580. \ Several other financial houses of local and state prominence were represented in the bidding. .The rbad is Standard avenue, in Hammond and provides for its extension to connect with Summer street. -‘25 YEAROU) RACKET’ ASSAILEDYOUKEYCrown Point Tired of SeeingJudge Kemp Get Bulk atMarriage Business[SPECIAL TO THE TIMES)CROWN POINT, Feb. 13There are varying views on the profits which jingle from Crown Point’s world-famous marriagemill. “It is worth $30,000 ayear/* says Mayor Vincent Youkey, who is determined to crush what he terms a 25-year-old racket/*I would gladly sell out for$5,000 per year” answers Justice of the Peace Howard H. Kemp, who today admitted toa Times correspondent that heoccasionally spent money for publicity and made a lot of trips to Chicago and Indianapolis to stir up business.”What appears on the surface to be only a mild criticism of Kemp’s “big business’* methods may, Crown Pointers say, result in some complicated legal maneuvering.CALLS IT DISGRACE.Youkey, who calls the marriage mill a disgrace to Crown Point,** has tired of seeing Kemp get the bulk of the business. No longer will he stand by and watch two other justices of the peace—Harvey Minas and Arthur Taylor—be paid $2,000 a year and less to keep their fingers off the marriage plum.The mayor plans, he says, to Invoke an ordinance passed in 1926 which requires all solicitors of marriage business to pay a daily license fee of $50. “Kemp has not been drumming up business on the street*hife»eir t)lit h‘e Has a lifggly tr-ganized and subsidized clique here in Crown Point which sends it to him,’* the mayor avers. *T want to see Taylor, who led Kemp by several hundred votes in the 1926 election, get a square deal.**Passage of the ordinance in 1926 was a move, it is said, to 'keep Taylor and Minas from making inroads on Kemp’s trade. By makftig soliciting a finable offense it i*(Continued on Page NineteeiiyNEW BY-LAWS ARE APPROVED:WHITING, Feb, 13.—At a shop ^business meeting of the WhitingRobertsdale Chamber of Commerc-held last night in the Community Center before the membership ban quet, a new,set ofby-laws, whereby twelve directors will be selected one-third each from the industrial commercial and professional groups was adopted.The new plan replaces the old onlt; where 21 directors were elected wit1) no reference to the various businesi groups. It was explained that tin new plan will be moTe representa tive.Twenty-four men will be nominal ed and an election will be held thlt; day of the annual meeting of tin chamber, -March 4. Votes will blt; counted’ by tellers and results wil be announced at the meeting. Pro gram of the annual meeting is nov being planned by a committee. Ispeaker will ’be engaged.’Among other business discussec was the membership drive under tin leadership of L. C. Grbb, who is alsc vice president of the chamber o: commerce. The membership committee is- nor* at work on preliminary plans to Increase the chambei membership.• The membership campaign ii planned for the week of Feb. 24 tlt; 28 and the goal will be 100 nev members.A. B. CHIPMAN DIES AT GARYCROWN POINT, Ind., Feb. 13.—. Byron Chipman, former member -the Crown Point City council, wl moved to Gary a year ago, died ; 4 o’clock thi* morning at his hom 3759 Jefferson street. He had belt; fll only a few days with urem poisoning.Mr. Chipman, who was 62 yea old, served 8 years on the Crow Point council. Surviving are h wife, a son, Judge Albert Chipmi of Plymouth, who was chosen r recently to try the old Carr' I$j case, and a daughter, Mrs. Robe Ingalls, wife of a Gary attorney.The body has been broughtrto tl Linton undertaking parlors herj^ ai the funeral will be held at 2 o’cloc Saturday afternoon from the Rre: byterian church, ••...
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Calumet City Times
Calumet City, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1930
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