Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 3, Hammond, Lake County, 17 February 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. II., NO. 3. FEBRUARY 17, 1912. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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TEH THOUSAND NAMES

Nearly 1,000 names have been signed 1 lo the petitions in the I.Jon store afone -asking for five-minute street car service in Hammond. The petitions, which have been circulated in the .various manufacturing plants In the-city are being liberally signed. ; It is expected that by the middle of next week 10,000 names will have been secured on this p?titions. - It i understood that! those who are back of the project for' better service Intepd to rent halls in all p&rts of the city end have public meettnsrs in the interests of Improving: the srvice. There will be advocates of the improved service who will explain its adrantages and answer any arguments that may be raised against the new plan. The public generally is aroused over the project, and it is believed that public sentiment will force the installation of better service even though the full flve- minute service is not established. There seems to be some misunder standings regarding the proposed plan which will have to be thrashed out in SURPRISED !Y BOMB . The first real political sensation of the year In Lake county potaics broke today when , Alexander Jamreson of 3riSHh. trustee of Calumet townshih announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for auditor of Lake county. ' : . This makes public the firs opposition to the candidacy of John A. Brennanof Gary and brings to the- surface, -the volcano that', jias been rumbling .for tonne time ' about the audltttrship. It "presents'? aa-V tetere'stir-g sequence - T I svents.i not all" of. which can be made public- now. - - Waw.Well Received. When John A. Brennan first announced his candidacy. It met with rordlal and enthusiast is reception. leaders from all parts o? Lake eounty ,-iad In his pro-announcement campaign, promised him support and on the rep resentations made the Gary man, he got Into the field. All seemed serene for a time, but - the news developed that secret forces were at work against Mr. Brennan, the county seat furnishing their origin. ' . Brows May Una. , Then the news came that Mat J. Brown, commissioner . was aoout to announce his' candidacy and Mr. Brown Sid go oyer the county to size up the jittiatton. He found a great many of the leaders, told him frankly that they were for Mr. Brennan and the expected nnouncement was not forthcoming. Next the name of William Vater of Whiting, county councilman was brought up. but Mr. Vater had to bs (iiown where he was not being made a Stalking horse for some one else. , Now comes the' Jamleson announcement and it is declared that It will be followed by others. "Friends of Mr. Brennan declare they will not be Surprised to see three or four candidates In the race before long, paving the way for an announca-nent from the friends of Mat J. Brown. THKRE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIME.-? MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERY DAY TH AX ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IV LAKE COUNTY PUT TOGETHER PADEREWSKL BROKE. COMING TO AMERICA ' JEgnace Paderewakt. the pianist, la noon to depart from hl Swiss estate for a five months' tour of 8outh Africa, after which he intends to revisit America to recoup tela fortune. It ia declared by hla friends that tha huge sums he earned In the United mates have almost, entirely v&aib.ed.

POLITICS

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EXPECTED HEXT WEEK

public meetings before the demands on the street car company are fully formulated. For Instance, . the business men on East State street do not lik the idea of having the cars run only one way around the l?op, If they are right in their assumption that they will run only one way. They say that the c'ty service ought to run both ways around the loop. They say that if the cars ran only one way that th people who transfered at One Hundred and. Fiftieth street and Calumet avenue from the F.ast Chicago carswould never reach State street. They ask that, thp cars run both ways around the loop so that a person could get on the city cars, afte- transferring .from the East Chicago cars and ride either by way of Hoffman street or State street from Calumet avenue. - Those who are back of the movement for better service sem to be very well satisfied with the progress that has been made so far and. it seonis that some Improvement in the service is already assured. . SUPPLYING New ideas on pure water supplies and sewage disposal were brought back to the Calumet region yesterday by representatives of Hammond, East Chicago and Gary, who attended the fifth an nual meeting of the Indiana Sanitary and Water Supply association,' which! met at Indianapolis on Thursday, and Friday. . , . . .-: . The object of t association is the study 'of the sources of wnte supply in ! the ststt Of Indiana, theiconservatlon ! and ; puriacaUon, but" wl hi -icent1 years-the scope of the association has widened to such an extent that other related subjects are taken up with egual interest. Hammond waa represented by Dr. W. V. Weis, ' secretary of the board 1 ot health, while East Chicago was represented by C. L. Kirk, superintendent of the East Chicago water department. Gary was also represented bji a number of representatives. " Men who are recognized the world over as experts, read papers and made addresses, among, the subjects being a paper dealing with the sanitary survey of the Ohio river by Jay A. Garvin, water chemist of the Indiana 'state board of health; a report on the condition of the White river, with suggestions on sewage disposal by H. E. Barn. ara; a report or the committee . on stream pollution and sewage disposal by R. L. Saekett, professor of sanitary engineering at Purdue university. An Interesting phenomena was discussed in a paper by Dr. W. G. McGee.' who has charge of investigating soil water for the United States department ot, agriculture, the paper dealing with ,. the diminishing well supply in Indiana, "a, most Interesting address was made by George W. Fuller, sanitary expert of New York, his subject dealing with sewage disposal. Arranges for Hani mom! Metlag. All the ideas and theories expounded at the meeting are of the greatest Interest to this region, because the Calumet region b,as many problems to solve in this line. While at Indianapolis Dr. Weis made tentative arrangements to have some of the big men In Hammond to address the Iake Michigan- Sanitary association, which meets in Hammond on April 4th, and for which he is making arrangements now. Among the men whom he expects to have at this meeting are Dr. Jordan, president of the Indiari state board of health; Dr. H. E. Ba chard, Indiana food Sand JTug commissioner; R. L Saekett, professor of sanitary engineering, Purdue university; Charles B. Burdick, sanitary and hydroulic engineer of Chicago; Dr. George B. Young, commissioner of healths. Chicago; Dr. J. N. Hurty of the Indiana state board of. health, and Prof. Severance Burrage of Purdue university. RETIRES FROM , DRAY BUSINESS Harvey Marchant.-one of the veteran draying and expressmen In Hammond has turned his business over to Martin Stroman. his nephew, who now rung the business.' "Harve" as he Is known to his friends around town. Is laid up at his home on Russell street with sick ness. He has been . in the draying business for neatly twenty-five years. Realty Market Quiet. While there are a large number of inquiries for real, estate in Hammond there have not been many sales. Gost lln, Meyri A Co. report only a few sales of minor importance, and the -J. S. Blackmun ' Co. has done nothing . to speak of. The J. S. Blackmun Co. will be in its new office In another week. The office Is located next to the Citl zen'a Germany Xatlonal bank. Try a La Vendor cigar. It's good:

M IDEAS 1 WATER

OPPOSE ANDERSON AS JUDGE

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Efforts to have another Judge named to preside at the trial of the dynamite cases, instead of Judge Anderson of the Hammond federal court, will be made by union labor men of Indianapolis, according to James Kinney, president jf the Central Labor union. Kinney says, being unfamiliar; with the law, he can not say whether the "movement will take the form of an effort to get a change of venue, or whether -an appeal will be made to the department of justice to have a special judge named, or what' method will be pursued. Un-

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The C. jL. : Uv' Monday, night adopted resolutions condemning Judge And-

erson. A subsequent motion also called OB;therAmeriean .'Federatloii of Xm.E h6r ftdild -'-n the ',work; of "remavlng: Judge Andeirsen f rera.-efitfce,. if, it cottld be : shown thati hla decision fin the'llurns habeas -corpus case au tn hi decision ordering Wlideti'ce In the dynamite, caaea, removed to A the ". Federal ' building jjwilewwwr- m if w . r c; t , A movement' Is oh foot,-' It has beM-, Jeamea, te have ihe executive eorn- ' mftt.ee of the C. L tu appeal to Samuel Gompera,, president of the A. V. of I, for advice concerning w-hat definite .stepa rt should"take 1n the matter. -

IIIJUHCTIOII CASE TAKEN UP TODAY Gary Land Condemnation Questions Are to Be Aired in Court. . Judge . Lawrence . Becker is 'expected to be back from Chicago at four o'clock this afternoon in rfrder to take up an injuntion prceeding" in which Ballard & Stantn, ' represetig Edward Grelner, hope, to be able "to-enjoin the Gary & Connecting Railways Co. from proceed ing with ' the condemnation of certain land, v Sme time ago the Gary & Connecting Railways Co. started injunction pro ceedings against Edward Grelner for the purpose of securing a right of way through his land. The court Issued an order in which he found that the railroad had the right to condem the property and ordered it appropriated as prayed for in the complaint. John M. Beckman, Morris Reiner and Fred J. Smith were appointed as the appraisers and they were to meet at the South Side Trust Bank In Gary . this afternoon to make the appraisement. Following their failure to prevent the condemnation of the property Ballard and Stanton have now sought to enjoin the appralsors from proceeding further. The case will cme up In Judge Becker's court at four o'clock this aft ernoon. DONALDSON IS RELEASED John Donaldson, who was 5 quaran tined at 287 Sibley street for a number of weeks owing to smallpox with which he was afflicted, was released from quarantine this week. The quarantine was raised on Monday of this week and the house thoroughly fumigated. It Is not thought that the disease has spread any farther In Hammond. At least there have been no signs of It. Return From Funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shea and thetr daughters. Misses Fannie and Florence of S3 Webb street, attended the funeral of their relative, Mrs. Charles Shea, at Rochester, N. Y.. this morning. Mrs. Charles Sea was a sister-in-law of Mr. Sea of Hammond and died last Wednesday at her home after a long Illness. She visited in Hammond at the time of the death of her r.ephew, Charles Sea, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Thomas Shea. - v. The' Hammond family. ; went to the befislde of the dying woman & week ago last Thursday. : -WHY ARE RKADER7 YOU NOT TIMES

TRIAL IN DYNAMITE CASES.

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, . 1 . , , . I HEAVY VOTE CAST III MS PRIMARY Bulk of Ballots Yesterday Cast For Becker, Knotts and Watson The fourth .day's balloting in The times gubernatorial primary -brings a total of nearly seven hundred votn cast of which over one third go to two men. T. E. Knotts of oary and Lawrence Becker of Hammond. A remarkable coincidence Is noted in their case and that Is that each man doubled his vote over, the preceding day. Mayor Knotts of Gary still leads in the balloting. Another quite remarkable fact Is brought out and that is there Is far more Interest among the democrats than among the republicans. "The mails today are bringing many vots and messengers, are flocking with the filial ballots. The totals wilt be announced next Tuesday, but absolutely no ballots will be received after Monday night. " ' EEPUBUCAN. Chas. W. lairbanki . . . ... .. . . .25 Harry New .. . .'. . ' ; . . . .'. ........ 14 Chas. A. Carlisle Y .......... 6 W. P. Durbin -sv. 33 J. P. Goodrich . . ; .14 E, D. Crumpacker ............. 60 James K Watson .... . .... ... 71 Fred Simms .... ;i .......... . . 3 J. F. Hanley .....12 . DEMOCRAT, Thomas E. Knotts ........ 149 Lawrence Becker ............. 122 Samuel Ralston .24 Henry Barnhart 6 J .B. . Peterson 46 John B. Boehne ............. i 1 L. Ert Slack . , 20 J. J. Keegan 3 EXPECT INTERESTING SESSION Members ot - Unity council. Knights of Columbus, are. looking forward to an Interesting session in Hammond next Monday evening, when the seer ond degree will be conferred upon a large class. At this meeting Joseph Roy, the grand knight, will also Informer the council whether or not the class receiving the second degree will beNadmitted to the third degree at a joint initiation with the Gary council on the following Sunday. U Harry Weis. the new lecturer pf the council, also has a number of features for entertainment which he witl give for the benefit of the lodge on Monday night.

DICTOGRAPH

LAWYERS HIT BY A TAXI CAB

) Messrs. Greenwald and Manlove of Gary Have a Nar row Escape Last Night. Two well-known Gary attorneys were badyl shaken up ami bruised last night shortly after 6 o'clock when a taxicab, driven by Chauffeur Williams of the Williams taxlcab line, Ptruck them as they were crossing Sixth Avenue and Broadway. The injured are: GEORGE MANLOVE, 552 Madison street, o.fnces in the Reynolds building: thrown several feet; injured ab6ut the knees and legs. CHARLES OREENWALD, 770 Jackson street, prosecuting, attorney, thirtyfirst judicial district, offices inthe s Brennan block; hit and . thrown against curb, badly shaken up and bruised. - . Escaped Serloua Injury. Messrs. Manlove and Greenwald had Just been in a tea and coffee store In the east side of Broadway. They were crossing to the opposite side when the taxicib bore down upon them. Bystanders assisted them to their feet and although both are able to ,be out today they feel quite "sore." Witnesses declare that they had a lucky- escape. . An investigation will be made to determine whether Williams was exceeding the speed limit. Of late taxlcab and automobile drivers have ignored the city speed ordinance and there is a mania on the part of many automobile fllK nv.niio rnratf the hrnsteat In the city. : OUT Z4-TI0UIIS Benjamin May's Fate Still in the Hands of the Jury. The Jury in the case of Benjamin May charged with entering the car barns of the Gary & Interurban railroad for the purpose of committing a felony, had been out twenty-four hours at noon to day and farfled to arrive at an agree ment. . Judge Virgil K. Keiter, who was in South Bend, had asked Judge Becker to receive the verdict if there should, be one. Shortly before noon Bailiff John Agnew called Judge Reiter on the long distance' telephone and asked him how much longer the jury should be kept out. The' Judge informed him that If it had not arrived at a verdict by 2 p. m. today 'that It shouldHtte discharged. In the. meantime Attorneys Sheehan and Lyddick, who" defended May, take this as a good omen and do not believe that their man. will be convicted. The worst they expect to get is a disagreement The court . attachees .refer to this most "bull headed" bunch of jurors that the court house has seen in a long; time. The same Jury was out fourteen hours before they finally arrived at a verdict in the case of Paul Prince vs. Tapper, Beemsterboer and others. BETZ CAT1T FIND LADS nON-SfVlDKERS Has Fine Jobs For Young Men-Who Don't Smoke Cigarettes. F. S. Betz, the surgical Instrument manufacturer, has not been able to get boys who live at home, have good habits and do" not smoke cigarettes. Betz said today, "We have some fine positions for boys or young men who are willing to come In and spend some time learning to make surgical instruments. "The work requires so much skill and. care that it Is hard to find the right kind of men or boys to learn the trade. In Germany and other foreign countries there are hundreds of skilled Instrument : manufacturers, men who learn the trade and hand the art down to their sons and their children's children. But here In America it is hard to find employes who will do the work as It should be done, although we would be willing to pay well for their services." THE HOME NEWSPAPER OF CAKE COUNTY IS THE COMPLIMENT BE. STOWED BY ITS READERS ON THE TIMES.

E IDE III DEAR FAKED

Himmelblau Stenographer In Bribery Cases Hakes Serious Allegation Against Employer

ACCUSES

T The tower of bribery evidence, . against Mayor Tom Knotts and other. Gary city officials ,which had been built up by Thomas B. Dean, the franchise seeking detective of dicto graph fame, was shaken at the base this morning when it became- known that the defense declares that Meyer Himmelblau one of the state's star; witnesses, in an affidavit signed by himself swears that he and Dean had faked the alleged dictograph records. Himmelblau a young " Chicago stenographer according to , lawyers lor the defense was on the receiving end of the dictograph, when Dean, and some of the men whom he claims he has bribed, were in Dean's room, discussing the bribe. - 'HIRED BY DEA7T. It was his business to make a steno graphic, record of. the conversation as he heard -it- Irt-atrwrthcr room over the dirtgrapb. a.ntHma the bribery- charges vltualy. rwt tn'th! dictograph evidence, JCTmeWlM-wHh Bean- "were the prinpaliiwltnesse! Now HHnwelblaa has bolted aiid Is in th-eopposlng camp resting securely' under the protecting wings of the attorneys for the defense. Himmelblau will probably tiever set foot on Indiana soil again, while any dictograph cases are pending, fearing arrest on the charge of perjury In th tVilliston and Gibson cases. In the Wllllston case which was tried at Valparaiso the Jury disagreed, while Walter Gibson the Gary councilman was convicted at Crown Point largely on Himmelblaus .testimony. His cas? is now pending in the supreme court, and will take on an entirely new aspect there because of Himmelbalu's cofesslon. ' Inasmuch as Hlminell.lau will not come to Indiana' again, the attorneys for the defense, and the state's attnr (Continued on page ST) ' The Sensational Affidavit. ' Personally appeared. before me. Stephen A. Cross, a notary public in and for the'"county of Cook and State of lillnols. Meyer Himmelblau, who after being first duly sworn, deposes and says as follows: - I met Mr. Thomas Bart Dean on or about May 1st. 1811 at 618 First National Bank building, Chicago. 111. hav ing been referred to him by. Mr. Bloom of this city. I was hlrd by Mr. Dean to act as a stenographer in Gary Lake county, Indiana, and the next day left Chicago for Gary; met Mr. Dean at the Gary Hotel where he registered me at this hotel as J. J. Jones, Chicago, room 318. Mr. Dean had shown me the dictograph and the workings of it upon my arrival, he Speaking in one room and I listening in another. About three or four days later I was requested by Mr. Dean to take a record on Mr. John Nyhoff who was then the member of the board of public works. This record was taken. I was alone In Room 318, Mr. Dean being in room 304, wlt'.t Mr. Nyhoff. After the conversation was ended Mr. Dean had returned from down stairs, where he and . Nyhoff had gone. Dean came to my room and ask-ed-me how I had gotten along. I said that I had heard part of the eoaveniHln aaA had take It dovra la my BOtea. The next morning Mr. Dean came , to my room with a long hand memorandum in his hand and we sat down together and he asked me to open my book and read just what I had taken down of the conversation. As we went along be would write down in long hand on sheets pf paper the essential parts of the conversation as I had taken it. . We thn pit pnper in the typewriting machine and I started to write the conversation as", Mr. Dear dictated ity from v the memorandum whloh he had. This conversation filled up about four pages of paper. Mr. Deaa thea produced a aew shorthand book and aiiked me to take typewritten beets and wihite then op In shorthand In the new shorthand book aad he destroyed the old one.. Mi. Dean himself destroyed the , original fnotea of the conversation as I had taken It by tearing them up. The ink writing in the shorthand book Mr. Dean .wrote, out an affidavit, himself patting la my name that the notes la the hook were the original not en of the -Iioit record and that they had been taken on' such a date and in such

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kl HIMMELBLAU MAKES SWORN . STATEMENT "Mr. Dean had me make fake notes in ' every case and the original notes are not now' In existence. : "Dean destroyed every original shorthand book that I tooK notes in while on the other end ot the dictograph and had me make fake notes. "There was never taken by m any dictograph record on Thomas Knotts the mayor, i ; : t "Mr. Dean said, when Mr. Knotts signed the franchise that the Job they put up on itim did not work out the way they thought it was going, to work. . i - "Dean himself made all of theso records. : :' .. "In all" of these,; records it wti imposetbls for me to. hsr ros-l them in shorthand and make any sense.. V ,T- -.-., ' "Mr. Dean instructed me that in case I found it impossible to write any of the conversation from the dictograph to continue writing so that to give the impression to the witness in the roora that 1 was getting all the conversation." Extracts from Himmelblau's affidavit. - place when In truth-and In factthey were not the original notes. i During this time while In Gary I made records on & A. Wllllston,- Emerson I Bowser, Anthony Baukus. Bolice Ssymanskl, Szymahski, sr. and John McFaiJden and Walter Gibson. These records were made In the same manner with the' eonventatloa with. mm In each ease to the eonvematloo. In the first conversation, with Bowser In the room with me as 'a witness wa Harry G. Moose. At the second conversation with Bowser the witness was S, J. Watson. In the three, conversations with Bollce Szymanski, Ralph W. Julian was one of the witnesses and Dr. Hosmer another. In the Walter Gibson record the witness was Dr. Hosmer. ' " In all of these records it was Impossible for me to hear enough of the conversation so as to put them in, shorthand and make any sense.' In (Continued on page . AMERICAN GIRL TO s COME HERE TO SING Frances Rose. Cleveland girl wh who - will next season terminate a Ave years' engagement singing operatic roles in Berrtn. has anounced that she will accept a Ion? American engagement with Gatti-Casazra and " the Metropolitan opera company. ShV hd never seen a . grand . opera pro- . ductlon tititil she went tp Europe to .uuy. mere sue nas sung the UUo 3a roles jn several; Straui operas.

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