Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 254, Hammond, Lake County, 8 April 1913 — Page 1

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WKATHRR. UNSETTLED TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY; PROBABLY RAIN. 71 a 1 LAKE COUNTY 1IM EDITION TOL. vn, NO. 254. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPT. (Back Numbers 3 Cent Copy.)

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DOCTOR IS INVOLVED IN CHARGES

Former Hammond Woman Accuses Well Known Physician in Kankakee; West Hammond Man Is Also Under Arrest. SHIDELER ACCUSED AN ACCESSORY (Special to Tub Times.) Kankakee. AdHI S. After living io Sammond. In a clandestine relation hip for three months Mrs. Myrtle Parloris, wife of a Kankakee lawyer and Ben Shidler a beer wagon driver form srly of West Hammond have turned itate'a evidence In sensational charges igalnst Dr. Samuel G. Smith, a promt aent physician of Reddlck, 111. The noman charges him with having per formed a criminal operation upon her, (Continued on Pag t.) H. LI. BICKtiELL IS 111 CRITICAL STATE Veteran Hammond Druggist in Texas May Not Re cover from Operation. (BtlXRTIT!.) A telegram to Judge V. S. Relter today ladleates that Mr. Blcknell Is Mmewkat Improved, bat l quite - ditto. L. L. Bomberger of Hammond received word from Mrs. Henry ramer of Nacodoces, Tex., stating that Uncle Henry Blcknell, who was recently operated on for bladder trouble. Is very low and that the worst is expected at any time. This news will come as a shock to those of his friends who had had hoped that his illness was only temporary and that he would recover in due time. Three weeks ago Blcknell was taken with a lit of loneliness and decided, overnight, to go to the home of his daughter In Texas, When his friends found him absent from the store the next morning it was the first tbey knew of his determination to go to Texas. Whether or not he had a premonition of his death is not known, but his sudden leaving was considered very ex traordinary. Almost immediately aft- ! er his arrival at the home of his daugh ter he was taken violently 111. He was operated upon and word was received that he would make a speedy recovery. Then a relapse came and now It 1 believed that he will not recover. MEETS OLD FRIENDS IN CAPITAL SOCIETY Mrs. John H. Marble. Mrs. John fi. Marble Is the wife of the newly appointed successor to Franklin K. Lane on the interstate commerce commission. Phe is already popular in Washington's of3cial set, ha vine lived at tne capital hefnre hfr.hmhand'a aDDoiucmant.

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DR. F. W. SMITH NAMED FOR JOB

County Coroner Honored by Being Named Republi- - Party Leader. Dr. Frank W. Smith, coroner of Lake countjv Is now the head of the republican party In Gary. Dr. Smith was elected chairman of the city central committee at a meeting held in the Gary hotel last night. He will at once begin the work of laying out plans for the forthcoming city campaign. C. J. Williams of Glen Park was Dr. Frank Smith. elected vice chairman and Michael Binzen, treasurer. Dr. Smith will name his own secretary. In the fifteenth pre cinct the contest between John Koslnski and Martin Bennett was decided In favor of the latter. Retiring Chairman George Manlove, head of the town and city organization since 190S, presided at the opening of the committee session last night., . . CONVICTS WILL BE DINED Men Whose Homes They Saved, the Waiters. 20 Coovicts Feast. ' CHICKEN. 1,500 pounds. SPONGE CAKE, 175 pounds. LAYER CAKE, 175 pounds. ICE CREAM. 100 gallons. ORANGES. 175 dozen. APPLES. 8 barrels. Two hundred convicts in the Indiana state reformatory at Jeftersonville tolled for nearly two days on the levee during the flood last week, and through their work It was possible to save the town from the Ohio River. Now a committee representing the citizens of Jeffersonville is making arrangements for a great banquet to be given In honor of the gray-garbed men who saved the homes of the citizens. An entertainment will be given In the reformatory next services the banquet will be given. Merchants, lawyers,, physicians and ministers have gone Into the plan with a will, and these men, whose homes were saved by the convicts, will act as waiters Sunday morning. Plans also are afoot to obtain the paroles of many of the convicts. TIT TTTip gTT a hum up g AUTOMOBILE And Hammond Chauffeur Has Narrow Escape from Death. An automobile, driven by Frank Burns, employed at the Fredericks garage, in Hammond was struck by the (west bound Michigan Central flyer No. 9 yesterday afternoon, at Columbia avenue and the Michigan v Central tracks. Mr. Burns was driving the car at a rapid pace along Columbia avenue, and was unaware of an approaching train. Not until it was too late to shut off 'the brakes did he realize his danger. The train hit the rear end of the car demolishing it, the driver narrowly escaping death. The automobile was taken back to the garage. DECISION EXEMPTS MANY FROM TAX Supreme Court Rules Concerning Leases. Washington, April 8. Hundreds of corporations will be relief from paying the Federal corporation tax by a decision yesterday of the Supreme Court to the effect that corporations leasing all thel rproperty and having no income except that yielded by the lease are not "doing business" and therefore are not subject to the tax. This phase of the corporation tax arose in the case of the Mine Hill & Schuyklll Railroad Company, once operating a railroad in Pennsylvania, now released to the Reading. 1 About' 300' claims, involving $700,000 paid into the Treasury under the corporation tax act, turned upon the decision In this case. - Besides the many railroads leasing their property In a similar way, nearly 100 telegraph-companies are said to have leased property to one operating company. Justice Day announced a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Hughes and Lamar concurred.

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CHICAGOAN TO ! ADVISE WILSON R. C. Keller Will Give Views on Monetary Reform. Washington, April 8. R. C. Keller vice, president of the Colonial Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago has an appointment with the President for noon Thursday, when he will give his views on the monetary reform measures. It is understood that Mr. Keller will give special attention to means by which national banks may be better protected and the depositors and stockholders assured apainst insolvency. After his talk with the President Mr. Keller will discuss the same quetsions .with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and then present his views to Senator Owen of Oklahoma, chairman of the banking and currency committee, and Representative Glass of Virginia. Mr. Keller has been mentioned frequently here as the possible successor of Comptroller of the Currency Murray, whose term expires on April 2S. Mr. Keller, who is but 29 years old la

a brother of Cashier A. B. Keller of the Gary State Bank. PUTS FLOOD LOSS NEAR $20,000,000 B. & O. Says It Will Take That for Repairs. Estimates made by the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio are to the effect that at least $20,000,000 must be expended to repair the damage to railroad property in Ohio and Indiana by the recent floods. According to Daniel Willard, presl dent, the property has been damaged to the extent of betwen $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. More than 6,000 men are em ployed in reconstruction work. . President Willard estimates the loss In gross revenue 6n the Baltimore and Ohio lines during the last week in March and the first part of April at $2,000,000. Damage done by the floods to the physical property of the Chesapeake and Ohio Road amounted to $250,000. GARY WOMAN APPEARS IN CASE Stevens-Maeder Trial in Chicago of Local Interest. The deposition ofMrs. Sarah A. Knepper of Gary, who formerly had a rooming-house at 3107 Rhodes arena, " In Chicago, where Mrs. Savanna Maeder a widow lived, is on file and prob&bly wCl be read to the jury in the suit begun against K. E. Stevens an Illlnolslan. It contains the statement that Mrs. Maeder received Stevens in her rooms there on numerous occasions in October. 1908. Mrs. Maeder also had other visi tors, the deposition asserts, from October to December in 1909, whose names ' were "Charlie." "Joe," "George," "Phil," j "John," "Willie" and two other , "Georges." . j Stevens, who is married and has ' family at Bloomington, and Leroy Hanna, a stockyards commission mer chant, famillarlv known a.s "Pon." are ' the defendants in a suit by Mrs. Maeder In which she charges that they threatened to ruin her reputation, cause her arrest for larceny and extortion andi "all kinds of trouble." FIRE FROM AN UNKNOWN CAUSE There was a fire yesterday afternoon in Indiana Harbor which called out the fire department to 3723 Deodar street, where a small blaze had started from an unknown cause. The fire started in a small smokehouse outside the main building, presumably by children of the neighborhood, although this is not known to be a fact. The smpkehouse has not been used for smoking purposes for over two weeks. The fire was extinguished after inflictinga damaee of $160 on the J house and $50 on the contents, fully I covered by insurance. . j The departmerft was given a second run in tne evening, wnen an alarm from 3426 Elm street came in. The fire broke out in the rear of the building at this number occupied by Dan Kelly, and was caused by an overheated stove. The property Is owned by Oliver Lundqulst. The blaze was extinguished without the use of water, and with practically no danger. " wimm will HOT EIJTERTAIII IT Indiana Society Would Visit City, But None Will Lead Movement. The Indiana Society will not come to Hammond for Its annual outing this year. Hammond might have had the honor of entertaining the society, but there was no one to take the initiative or the responsibility and so the project went by default. The Idea seemed to be that It was too Iblg a job for this community to tackle. Gary might have undertaken it but not Hammond. The city of Hammond has all of the facilities for such an entertainment but no one to take hold of it. A large number of Hammond people will attend the banquet of the Indiana Society at Chicago on the nineteenth in hoonr of Joe De Frees, former president of the club who is Just returning from a trip around the world. The affair will be held at the Blackstone Hotel.

COUNTESS SCHERR-THOSS RETURNING TO EUROPE AFTER VISIT IN THIS COUNTRY

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CouotoM SeJierr-TheM.

Cormtesa Schorr-Thoss, daurhtr of former Ambassador and Mrs. Brarr Whit, who bu been vis It in j? ber parents in this coon try, has tost left for Europe. She married the .eeunt while her father was stationed abroad and now mates her home in Germany, where bar husband la an o&ear la the army.

PROPERTY PURCHASED : BY BANK From th e confrf sile '(of Oatm7"fcwrater claims. Joint claims and cross claims regarding the ownership of the. residence that has ben 'occupied by Phillip Hudson for the past two years it now develops that the property is owned by the American Trust & Savings Bank. Mr. Emerine Bald today that the bank had purchased the property and that It Is free of all incumbrances. He said thaCthe bank had taken over the equity in the property owned by Phillip Hudeon. Thus it appears that Paul B. Llpinskl has no interest in the property what-SO-ever. The report that Liplnskt had taken back the property is untrue. The sale was made directly from Phillip Hudson to the American Savings & lrn,t company. SHE'LL ADDRESS Y. W. C A- CONVENTION Misa Jessie .Vuhoo. Miss Jessie Wilsln. dsue-nter of the ; president, will be one of the speakerat the national convention of the Y. W. C. A. In Richmond, Va- this week. She will speak Saturday night. The convention will close on the following Tuesday

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BUILDING ACTIVITY

rUS-U!!P!ECEDE(lTEB Up to Ten O'clock This Morning Inspector Cole Totals $23,100 Permits. Unprecedented building activity In Hammond is being reflected in the rec ords of Building Inspector E. E. Cole, who since yesterday up to ten o'clock this morning had made out permits to laling $23,100. Many of the permits are of course, for additions and founda tlons, but there is quite a lot of sub stantial houses among them. Over half of the above amount appeared In the permits this morning. Last year at this there were but 63 permits Issued against 114 thus far this year. The list since yesterday morning is as fol lows: W. M. Stempkowski, cottage $300 at 650 Walter avenue. Henry Tempf, cottage foundation $200; at 130 Hanover street. George Kosln, cement block garage, $400; 215 Hohman street. Cora Holland, cottage foundation, $250; at 225 Logan street. Charles Lutes, frame cottage, $2,000; 480 Bauer street. ' John Puchowskl. frame addition. $300; 182 Hohman street. Joseph Fink, frame cottage, $1,000; 323 Torrence avenue. Enola Payne, second story addition, $500; 120 Conkey avenue. John Passage, cottage foundation, $200; 551 Truman avenue. Mary Forauer, cottage foundation. $300; 1200 Harrison avenue. Alex Glnskl, frame cottage, $1,000; 551 Moss avenue. Stanley Sankoffski, frame cottage, $1,000; 648 Walter avenue. Charles Allen, dwelling, $3,200; 1193 Harrison avenue. Paulina Gerber, frame cottage, $1,000; 163 Henry street. John Heiman, frame cottage, $1,500; 322 Cedar street. Mrs. John Wilhelm, frame dwelling, $3,300; 211 Detroit stret. E. O. Scott, bungalow, $2,800; 214 Detroit street Mrs. M. E. Tearel, bungalow, $2,850; 180 Detroit street. Clare Palmer, bungalow, $2,000; 449 Bauer street. ED M'FADDEN LOSES STEPFATHER Edward McFadden. engineer of the Hammond building, received word last night that his stepfather, O. A. Brostrom, formerly of Hammond, had died yesterday afternoon at his home in Harvey. Mr. Brostrom was 44 years old and Is survived by a widow. He underwent an operation for throat trouble last week, but was unable to live, hemorrhages having set in which roved fatal. While in Hammond Mr. Brostrom lived at 599 South Hohmna street. The funeral arrangements were made this afternoon. ' - Say. bos. fill that plae of aUae with Forex or Conatry Club. They are aalea made. Each package coataln premium tickets. McHle-Scottea Tebacc Cat.

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SCARES THE Polish Catholic Sister at In diana Harbor Afflicted and Eight Cases of Disease Exist in Catholic School; Pesthouse Built. Somewhere on the prairies that sur round the inhabited portion of Indiana Harbor, fifty mechanics are working furiously today to build a pest house which is to be completed in fifteen hours. The exact location has not been revealed by the authorities, lest tha emergency work be interfered with but the pest house is being built far enough out on the pralrjes to Insure perfect iso lation. COUNCIL, ACTS UUICKXY. The undertaking was made possible through action of the city council last night when $1,000 was appropriated for the building on suspension of the rules. The emergency which called for tha Immediate construction of the pest house was revealed by the startling disclosures made by Dr. C C. Robinson. who discovered one of the nuns in the Polish Catholic church, to be suffering with the smallpox. Subsequent revelations made jointly by Drs. Robinson and tContl-xd on Page 7.) BROTHER OF ATTY. CROMER DEAD John W. Crumpacker of LaJg.Breathes ,Hia Last Yesterday. Peter Crumpacker and Fred Crum packer, his nephew, of the Hammond law firm of Crumpacker & Crumpacker, went to Laporte today to attend the funeral of John W. Crumpacker, a brother, and uncle, respectively. John W. Crumpacker was one of the pioneer bankers of Porter and Laporte counties. He was elected to the office of treasurer of Laporte county when he was 24 years old, and after serving a four-year term he went into the banking business, with which he has been connected ever since. He was 64 years old at the time of his death. He was the one of the Crumpacker brothers who was not a lawyer. He was a brother of Edgar Dean Crumpacker, who is now located in Valparaiso. The funeral was held in Laporte, but the interment will be at Valparaiso, where the bodies of the parents of the deceased have- been resting. DEATH OF MRS. HEIMKE Well Known Hammond Lady Dies in Iowa. The funeral of Mrs. William Helmke, 603 Murray street, who died last Saturday morning while on a visit with relatives at Westgate, Iowa, has been arranged for tomorrow afternoon. Services will be conducted at the house at 1 o'clock, the Rev. Theodore Claus officiating. At 2:15 o'clock services will be held at St. Paul's German Lutheran church, of which the deceased was a faithful member. Mrs.. Helmke was 58 years old and Is survived by a widower and four children Miss Martha and Messrs. August, William and Herman, all of whom live in Hammond. She was a resident of Hammond for more than twenty years, and during this time she had the friendship of scores of people who appreciated her amiable character. Interment will be made in Concordia cemetery? On account of the funeral tomorrow the Helmke & Walther store on State street will be closed In the afternoon. HAS HE MADE HISlJECISION? Ignatius jMankowskl declares that Judge Mangan has not entered his decree In thejease In whlcK Mankowski's right to hold the office of clerk of West Hammond Is at stake. Mankowski's attorney is watching the matter .closely so that he can take an appeal t the expiration of the 20 days in which he may appeal. This is in direct opposition to the claim that is made by the friends of Martn Finneran. who say that the decision has been made and that the recanvassed returns show that Finneran and not Mankowski was elected. Ton get Instant warmth snd comfort with a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind, Gas & Elec. Co. It

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F.JRL George O. Schaaf of Robertsdale, Son of the Late Richard Schaaf, Is Dark Horse Who Was Elected to Succeed His Father. TAKES SEAT AT CROWII POINT TODAY (Special to Thh Times.) Crown Point. Ind.. April 8. George O. Schaaf, the son of former Commissioner F. Richard Schaaf. deceased, who was not even known to be a candidate for the appointment to fill his father's vacancy, was today selected for appointment by the county commissioners. Thus a dark horse copped off the prise for which fifteen Hammond. Whiting, East Chicago, Gary, Aetna and Highlands, candidates were bitterly contesting. Mr. Schaaf is employed at the plant (Contlaaed on Pace .) DIRECTORS DECIDE 0(1 HAP PROJECT Chamber of Commerce Will Be Sponsor for an Indus- ' trial Map. The directors of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce met in the club rooms of that organization last evening after hearing the report of Roscoe E. Woods, the chairman of the publicity committee, decided to stand sponsor for tae construction of a .real estate and Industrial map of the entire region v hich shall show Hammond in the advantageous position of being the center of the cities of the region. The cost of the map is expected 4o be in the neighborhood of $500. IfNwill be the most complete compilation of facts regarding the real estate and industrial development of the region that has ever been prepared. The plan Is to make the map a cooperative venture with the Hammond Chamber' of Commerce standing sponsor for the project. Each advertiser will be given a backed copy of the map and their share of the 5,000 of the 10,000 printed copies of the map that are to be made. The plan is to turn over the other 5,000 to the Hammond Chamber of Commerce for distribution an a public enterprise, and there will be no profit In it for anybody. The whole project will involve $640. HE'S FOLLOWING IN TEDDY'S FOOTSTEPS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt the new assistant secretary of the navy, has started out on a political career very roach like that of his illustrious eoasin Theodore. Young Franklin has the same position at Washington that the elder Roosevelt held tmder McKinley. Both Roosevelts are greduates of Harvard and both have been state senators in New York. They are related both by blood and marriage. The new as sistant secretary is thirty-one years old and is a Democrat.

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