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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
THE ALLIED
OFFENSIVE GROWS
IN POWER
IUNIrE3 PREss cAB1EGRAn.1

LONDON. July 22-DiHering from
the German offensive the allied coun-
ter offensive instead OF diminishing as
.it progresses is growing in power
From an apparently limited attack it
has rapidly developed into one of the
greatest battles OF the war Allied
troops, including French. American.
italian and British. are attacking on
a front of more than 100 miles. ex-
tending from Seasons to eastward Of
Rheims The German war office ad-
hitting participation of Americans in
the counter offensive Tor the first time
appears highly indignant at the en-
ployment Of Black Americans.
Berlin claims repulse Of all attacks
between the Aisne and the Marine and
between the Marine and Rheims where
the Allies made substantial gains
Along the Narne where thousands OF
Germans were slain in their retreat.
Berlin declares the retirement was car
ried out without interference.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
SEVEN ARE HURT IN
HAMMOND ACCIDENT |

Yesterday morning about 2.3o O'Clock
q Newell taxi, driven by William Suit,
of SOS Truman st, Hammond. with six
colored people in it ran into freight
train No IS on the Nickel Plate. smash
ing the car and injuring the people in it
very seriously.
In the taxi were " NJ Scott. Marie
Soft. Cora Boiling. Ella Steel and John
Carey. all Of 40 Plummer avenue. and
W NJ Harries Of Burnham.
All those injured excepting Suit are
negroes.
The taxi which was running at high
rate Of speed north on Columbia avenue
crashed into the side of the freight
which was going east smashing the car
to kindling and hurting those in it so
badly that some are not expected to live.
They were taken TO st. 9Iargaret's
hospital in the police patrol and Nei-
dow's ambulance.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
SANS LOVE DREAM
WAS CUT SHORT
And Alice, Well Hers Was
Not One Bit Longer,
Alas!
ESPECIAL TO THE TlGEs ]

CROWN POINT. IND. July IA
record breaking marriage and divorce
came to light on Saturday by the fling
OF a suit for divorce by Samuel Bosby
vs. Alice Bosby. The couple were mar
ried July 3rd and separated a week
later. Mrs. Bosby having her husband
arrested and jailed for stealing her
watch and chain.
Samuel became acquainted with Mrs.
Samuel through a matrimonial agency
and though not fair 10 gaze upon he
concluded to cast his lot with her for
better or for worse IT proved TO be
worse for she has gone back TO mother
and Samuel is in the divorce court. n
this case it did not pay to advertise.
Attorney Thos. Fancher is looking after
the legal end Of the game
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
TURN OUT AND BID
GOD-SPEEO TOMORROW
Two Hundred and Twenty
Nine Boys Will Leave for
Service in Army.

Every resident OF Hammond who can
IS urged to turn out tomorrow morning
to bid Gods 10 the 229 young men
who leave for the National army over
the Monon at s:15.
There will be a short patriotic ser
vice at Liberty Hall at o'clock. The
bays are 20 be led from the hall 70 the
depot BY band, the mayor. chief OF
police and prominent citizen
only one Of the 229 has failed TO re
spond 10 the call by the draft board
and there IS reason to believe he has
not received his notification. He IS
Henry Mueller believed 10 be employed
bv the Simmons Brick company. at Ho-
bart. and the board desires that he get
in communication with them at once
and report at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing prepared to leave.
Fourteen men are left in the 1917
class l and these are men with tenn
porarv disabilities such as burns
scalds. broken ribs or illness and VIII
be in shape to be sent later
There are I number OF opportunities
for special service open 70 the 1918
class ftwenty-one year olds) for vol
untary Induction. Three men can be
sent to Cincinnati Ave to Ft- Thomas
Kv ana ave TO indianapolis. all train
ing schools tor auto mechanics.
The colored boys. twenty-one year
oIds as well as other ages. viii be
clad to know that special opportuni-
ties are offered them for voluntary
Induction. Five viii be sent 10 Fort
Dodge and Ave 10 the Fisk University
of tennessee for training as auto me-
chanios.
With only a left in the 1917 class !.
.4o in the 1918 Class |. and $50 in
Glasses ? and ;. the supply Of regis
trants IS running low. New legisla-
tion extending the draft ages viii in
crease the number Of resistrants.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
S26O,OOO Loot in 30 Days from
Cars Amazing Confession Shows
Autos, With Women ACCupants as Blind, Used
In Nightly Raids About Chicago;
United States Acting

A quarterRof a million dollars worth
OF merchandise is the lot gathered dur
ing the last ninety days by the Calumet
region gang of box-car thieves. accord
ing to the partial confession Of one of
their number made yesterday.
/. So amazing was It in its revelation of
crime that federal operatives. under d.
rection OF Hinton G. Clabaugh. superin-
tendent OF the bureau Of investigation
of the department Of Justice. joined yes
terday in the investigation.
Police are confident the confession will
result IN the breaking up OF several
gangs that have robbed railroads of
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars worth
Of merchandise and believed 70 be re-
sponsible FOR number Of unsolved muir
der mysteries.
Score Of Arrests Seen.
A. least a score OF arrests are ex-
pected before the investigation is ended.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
BY FRED FERGUSON

NlTED Press CARLEGRAx
WITH THE AMERICANS IN
FRANCE, July p, 2 ?. m.-The
Americans continue to advance and
are five miles northeast of Chateau
Fhierry as this is cabled. In the
meantime both ends of the salient
are being pinched in by the allies.
American and French soldiers
entering Chateau Thierry were
overwhelmed by 200 civilians lock-
ed in the cathedral by the Ger
mans The Germans looted the
town thoroughly before retreating
Every American unit is working
tlrelessly. Trucks have been run
ming night and day for four dsvs
the drivers alternating in sleeping
on the seats. Artillery men sleen
on the ground by their guns. One
machine gun unit got so far ahead
that it received no food for twentv-
tour hours. 1t sent back word and
two motorcycles were loaded with
ratlons and the drivers got throuoh
After crossing the SIrrne tbe 49,,
cans advanced sometimes rs e..
n'e-eishts of mile an hour. y.-Ior.
headquarters were moved tvvic. Yx,.t,-
twelve hours TO maintain co,rr,,,.,ta
tions.
In the region of CrissoIies and R,u-
9t'-|ermnin the Americans renut..,
strong counter nttacks. The fighting :,
heavier on the west side of tbe -,II.n.
IN the middle, northeast of Chate.v-
Ihierry, where the Americans arc bax
ing difficulty in maintaining co,t,c.
WIN the Bosches. owing to the rnpIditv
OF the letters withdrawal
In tho town of CrissoIeS and at Bau-
st--%ernnin and in the region ,bou.
'hehi there is heavy fighting. ARTILLERY
"ho machine guns ere leading the in
fantry in the street fighting and ,n
clearing the woods of the enemy. Avt-
HtorS report they were fred on nv ua
chino guns and anti--5-cr.ft ntoco.
from the Forests of EpIes. tpdtcattrg
the Germans possibly are holding their
suns for a stand there
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
HEARTS Of WORLD"
OPENS At ORPHEUM
Orchestra of Twelve Pieces
Plays Score for Stir
ring Movie.

Three things were uppermost IN the
minds Of the audience at the Hammond
Orpheum theatre this afternoon when
the first exhibition Of the new Griffith
spectacle. Hearts Of the World" which
Will appear for Eve days. was given.
These things were:
First. the sweet love story in a grea.
setting OF war. taken on the battle
fields of France.
Second. the excellency OF the music
by the twelve piece symphony orches-
ira.
Third the coolness Of the theatre.
despite the character Of the weather
outside
The last is explained BY the fact
that the Orpheum IS a steel. brick and
stone structure and that it has one Of
the most complete cooling systems pos
sible. Air IS pumped by great fan sto
all parts OF the house through coils Of
ripe packed In ice. 1t IS ten to twenty
degrees cooler in the house than on the
street
The Indianapolis News OF June nth.
saws of the picture:
Griffith. master Of the cinema. has
surpassed himself in The Hearts OF the
World He has set a new standard
for motion picture production which
is not likely that even Griffith himself
will surpass Griffith has caught the
feeling that today fills the earth and
he has fixed it as living. vivid. graph
ic record. a tremendous human docu-
ment that brings the war and all that
il means and all that it is its causes,
stupendous import-bring them all to
the thresholds. Hearts Of the World
indeed is war at its ward and that
its best
six stage hands are employed in pro-
arct--rr nffncts
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
Today In the
Great War
JULY %, 1917.

JULY %, 1917.
Twenty German aIrplanes attempt
attack on London, but are driven
back before reaching the city. They
kin IL persons at Harwieh and Felix
stowe.
Siam declares war on Germany and
Austria.
0u1Y 20, 1916.
Russians chase Germans at North
ern Galictan frontier.
Berlin announces the Franco-Brtt-
ish Offensive has been stopped
JULY %, 1915.
Russians make a stand ct fortress
OF Ivangorod, near Warsaw.
italians press attacks along the
Isonzo.
JULY 20, 1914.
Austria demands repsratton Of
Serbia for killing OF Archduke Ferdi-
Eand and declares serbias immediate
reply unsatisfactory.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
THEY WANT
INTERVENTION

ft-N1TFD PRESS CABLEGRAM-l
STOCKHOLM. July 22.-Iutervention
by the allies in Russia was pleaded for
by Col Kmschumsky. former member
Of the Russian general staff.
Intervention by the allies would un-
quetsionably restore the eastern front"
he declared.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
SEVEN HIT
IN st. CAR
COLLISION

Seven persons were injured yesterday
In a head-on collision between Whiting
and East Chicago car and a Windsor
Park car at lo4th st and Ewing avenue
The injured are. Mrs. ". Peterson. 9476
Ewing av.; Miss Elizabeth Burney 4425
Forsythe av.. East Chicago; Samuel
Malkowski. 764 Indianapolis blvd. Whit
ing; Mrs. John McNabb 4725 Alcock
av, East Chicago; John McNabb her
husband. Alfred Hansen Williams
Hotel. East Chicago. and Myer Perko-
witz. 516 New York av.. Whiting Ac-
cording to John Polenski. motorman on
The Whiting car. the brakes failed TO
work.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22

including all the big fences" for the
receipt Of stolen property in Chicago.
From excerpts of the confession given
last night by Inspector G. n Bryan OF
the commission. names and locations are
necessarily deleted.
Briefly, the story. told BY the confes-
sion in a most dramatic manner. may be
outlined as follows:
The invoice value Of the total loot in
ninety days amounted 10 s25O.oOo.
The cash value to the members of
the gang, consisting Of six men and
three women. was about $4,000
Women Used as Blinds.
Through the railroad Yards Of Clear
ing, Burnside. South Chicago and Burn
ham the gang rode in three automobiles
armed with sawed-o shotguns and re-
volvers. using three women as blinds. 7
Policemen and watchmen were ter
Continued on page seven)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
19 KILLED
70 INJURED IN
CAR SMASH

CHELSEA. MICH. July 22.-Thirteen
dead and more than a score injured.
several probably fatally. is the toll TAX
en- in the Detroit United Railway colli-
sion Saturday night The edad:
Harold J. Finn. soldier. Detroit.
J. Nicholas Vasnon soldier. Albion.
J. Howard Fetterman. Lakewood. 0.
Wallace Virgeant, soldier Plymouth.
Mich
Giuseppe Brusea. soldier, Detroit.
P. DecIerck. soldier Detroit.
Oscar Decker. soldier. Detroit.
Edna Douglass. Tpsilanti
Theophel Stranger. Ann Arbor,
Bernard Adair Ann Arbol
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Ext d )

HUNTED PRESS CABIEGRAM.l
PARIS, July -, 4;1o p. u.-Alned
forces are progressing everywhere on
the soissoas-Rheims salient, except on
a small front north of Chateau Thlerry
where the Germans have slowed down
the Franeo-Americaas by a heavy rear
guard action.
This desperate enemy resistance which
is taking place on q front OF about seven
miles is designed to cover the retire
ment Of heavy German forces TO the
zortheastward. The Earne has boon
crossed al several new places in TIE
vicinity Of ver=euu.
The number Of enemy prisoners is in
creasing hourly. The German artillery
Is becoming feebler.
German plane crossed the front line
today ana started toward Paris but was
driven back by an artI-atrcraft barrage
on the outsEtrts. It dropped no bombs.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
AMERICAN
CAVALRY WIPES
OUT HUN FORCE
UNITED TREss CARLEGRAM. ]
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR.

WITH THE AMERICANS on THE
MARINE. July 22.-American troops
facing their first cavalry charge Of the
war utterly wiped out formidable
fo~ce OF German horsemen east OF the
eits- OF Rheims and defeated what ap-
parently was an e:Af1tioIy attack TO
cut tho allied lines and Chalons I'm
mediatsly after they crushed an inta7-
try attack supported BY tanks
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
TIMES
REPORTER OVERSEAS
Corporal L. J. Parry Cables
His Arrival Somewhere
Over There.

cable announcing the arrival of an
other TINES reporter who enlisted in the
army were received last night Corporal
Leslie J. Parry. Co. IS. No. 315 Ammuni-
tion Train 9oth Div, American Expedi-
tionary Forces. is overseas and about TO
realize his ambition of years to be in
the thick of the offensive against the
Hun. News of the arrival of the mem
bers Of the first Camp Purdue training
detachment is beginning 70 come to
their relatives and friends
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
HUNTING
U-BOATS
OFF COAST

PROVINCETOWN. MASS. July
22.-Heavy cannonading was heard
off shore at II o'clock today.
Naval vessels are off this port
hunting submarines. The port is
closed. Explosions resembling
those of depth bombs were heard.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22

LNITFD I'REss CABLEGRAM
PARIS, July 22.-The Germans
have withdrawn through Epieds to
Beauvardese. La Liberty declared
today.
Epieds is four miles northeast of
Chateau Thierry and Beauvardese
is seven miles.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
HUNDREDS OF j. S. A.
MOTOR TRUCKS HERE
Four Companies Stop at the
Co. Seat Fair Grounds
on Way East.
Tsprc14r To THE TINES

CROWN POINT. IND. July 22-Hun-
dreds Of L. S. y motor trucks have
thundcrsd through Lake county IN the
past few days bound for eastern points
and all have camped at the fair grounds
here. They all belong to the 311th Am
munition Train and the component parts
were as follows
July 17-Co. a. Capt BuetteI.
July $50 B. Capt. CHATTER
July 19-Co. c. Capt Gascoigne
July GOO, D, Capt Johnson; Cent.
Hdq. Detach. Major Denman
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
BULLETIN

PARIS. July p. - Desperate
German counter attacks on a five
mile front north of Chateau
Ihierry were completely repulsed.
Elsewhere on the front the German
resistance consists only Of artillery
fire. On the whole front our posi-
tons were maintained.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
70 IN PERSHING
CASUALTY LIST
IBY UNITED Press ]

WASHINGTON. July 22--sixty-t7vo
casualties listed by General Pershing
today included.
Killed in action. 8: died Of wounds.
IA died Of disease. Z; died of accident.
3 wounded severely. 6: missing. l6.
prisoners, !.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
NEW MANAGER
AT BUNNELLS

L J. Alerding formerly Of the Ford
branch at indianapolis at Indianapolis
has accepted a position as manager OF
tho Gary branch Of the E y Bunneu
company and has taken UP his work
Mr. Alerding has had many years ex-
pcrience IN tho automobile business.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22

LONDON, July 20, 4:5e p. m--The
Germans axe heavily counter attacking
along the Hrarne trent but theIr assaults
are unsucoessful. it was learned au-
tho-ttatively today.
French and Americans are ezperteno-
ing great difficulty in crossing the
Marne in the Dormans region as the
Germans arc shelling the bridges and
using immense quantities Of gas.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
Americans Gross MaB'ne, Advance !
n~nn@ RRAA~ AARRp R~ARA AA~AA
DEAD AND DYING REPORTED IN SUNDAY WRECKS
NOTICE TO
TIMES READERS

Owing to increased postal
rates and cost of all materials
used BY newspapers. THE
TIMES is forced to follow the
lead Of other papers all over the
country in increasing subscrip-
ton rates. Effective August !.
1918, the following rates will
prevail
Delivered BY carrier,
per month S 40
By mail. one year $50
By mail six months 200
BY mail. three months 100
BY mail. one month. 40
r. c. PIERCE.
Circulation Manager. Times
Newspapers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
TWO ARE
KILLED At
{. CHICAGO
-Four More Hurt There, and
Seven are Injured in
Hammond

The first hot Sunday in the Calu
met region resulted in the violation
of the "Stop, Look and Listen"
rule and two paid for the penalty
with their lives at East Chicago.
Four were seriously hurt there and
in a train smash at Hammond sew
en- were hurt.
TWO MORE WILL DIE.
Two dead now lying in Flies under
taking rooms East Chicago. two fatally
injured at St. Margaret's hospital, Ham
mond and two with broken bones and
serious contusions. with automobile
wreckage strung along two hundred feet
of Wabash track at kennedy avenue.
East Chicago. as mute evidence of the
awfulness Of the ira agedy, constitute the
fearful results of an accident that oc-
Cured in the latter city a o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
CAR CONTAINED SIX People.
The Wabash fast train enroute from
the east 10 Chicago. rushing along at
speed of thirty-fve 70 forty miles an
hour. struck a five passenger Allen car
containing SIX people crossing the Wa
bash and 3 & O. tracks on Kennedy
avenue and driving south
The dead are: August Johnson. aged
"A ? mail clerk at 22nd st. and Calumet
ave Chica so. and Anna Fredburg, aged
II 5767 Wentworth ave. Chicago.
Rosa Fredburg aged IS. sister of the
dead girl and Robt. y. Fredburg father
of the girls are fatally injured
HOW oTEEEs ARE HURT.
Mrs Frieda Fredburs, the mother IS
severely bruised and may be internally
injured Fred Geiser. watchman at the
above crossing. was hit by flying wreck
age ard has broken right arm and IS
severely bruised Harold FredbUrg. ag-
ed "A. the sixth occupant Of the i'll fat
ed auto Jumped from the car just before
III. train struck it, He was uninjured.
The family Of Fredburgs. accompani-
ed bv August johnson who was the be-
trothed Of Miss Rosa. were out for
SUNDAY afternoon drive and with no par
ticular objective point in view finally
rounded UP at the beach a Indiana Har-
bor The left their home at 5767 Went
worth avenue about o'clock and were
IN their way home when the accident
occurred
STORY TOLD BY SOY.
The automobile a used Allen. had
been purchased about ten days before
Continued on page seven-)
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WASHINGTON. july 22.-Fresb
successes by American troops be-
tween the Marne and the Aisne
were reported by General Pershing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
NAT. LEAGUE
HEADS CONFER

PITTSBURGH. July 22.-National
league heads in conferences tomorrow
will agree to play out the entire year 5
schedule. according to President Barney
Dreyfuss Of the Pittsburgh club.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
MAY FINISH
OUT SEASON

WASHINGTON. July 22-Baseban
players affected by Secretary Bakers
edict that they must do essential work
or fight may be permitted finish ha
present season. it was intimated todav.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
ARTILLERY
SLEEP BY
THEIR GUNS
Germans Counter Attack Violent
Iy But Allied Armies
COntinne to Advance
IBULLETiN

A
LONDON, July 22-The Germans ara
heavily counter attacking along the
Marine front but unsuccessful French
and Americans are experiencing great
difficult in crossing the Marne in the
Dormans region as the Germans ara
she1tng the bridges and using great
quantities.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
rs HELD AS A DESETER

Homer Kizer. Of South Chicago. is
held in the city Jail as an army desert
or tc be turned over to the federal au-
thorities
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
BRITISH TROOPS
GAIN GROUND

LONDON. July 22-British troops
gained more ground Yesterday north OF
Albert. Field Marshal Haig reported
today
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
800 CZECHO- -SLOVAKS
ARE SHOT TO DEATH
uEN1rEn PREss CARLEGRAaf.

BERNE July 22.-Three hundred
Czecks captured by the Austrians were
executed by shooting. reports received
here today state.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
SMASHES GERMAN
CONTROL OF METAL

WASHINGTON. July 22.-The gov
ernment has taken another step TO
smash for all time the German control
of the metal industry in this country.
Official announcement was made to-
day that Alien Property Custodian
Palmer has taken over the business OF
T. Vogelstein & Co, and that Of Baer <
Sondheimer & Co. both German owned
metal concerns. Both, according to
Palmer. were closely affiliated with
the German metal gesselschaft which
for some years has dominated the en-
tire metal markets of the world
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
SEC. ROOSEVELT
IS IN EUROPE

= - - fNE-s-N~1
WASHINGTON. July 22-Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has
arrived in Europe
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22
ALL COMING IN;
WATERS FINE

rBv UNITED PREss.1
WASHINGTON, July 22-Honduras
declared war on Germany July 10.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-22

Buy a Thrift Stamp tocay.
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Continued on page seven)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-16
Harbor Wage Dispute
Goes to Local Board

me War Labor Board, to whom the
sar,ous classes of harbor workers an-
poaisd ior an adjustment of their de-
mands for better wages and work;no @
eondluons. has referred the mater 70
tne harbor Wage Adjustment Road ~
inns port, with instructions 70 heo;n
hearings not later than Monday ~
tne BOARD as now constituted the man
WIZ nave as representative T. V. O'Con.
nor international president of tho
Aongshoremens Association.
me decision of the War Labor Roar,
TO enlarge the board by the anno;nt'
ment OF representatives. of Organized
TABOR and the boat owners to sit With
Captain William b. Baker. Ethc,hor,
Stewart and G. p. Putnam. who rn.a.'
up the old board. was reached in Wash.
ington Tuesday and was accented hy
the representatives of the men %
clearing the way for settlement Of y
situation that for more than a wear
had intermittentIy threatened general
tying up Of the harbor.
I'VE are satisfied" said John Rrcn-
nan, president of the Tidewater Boat-
mems Union, that this is the end of
the dispute II is conceded that the
men are entitled to more money. the
new board will have two practical men
on it-O'Connor and the representa-.
tive OF the owners, and it will not bo
very difficult matter to reach ! set
tlement."