Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 122, Hammond, Lake County, 4 November 1913 — Page 1

LAKE COUNTY T WKATHBB. FAIR AND COLDEIt TODAY; WEDNESDAY FAIR. 1& EDITION VOL. VIII., NO. 122. HAMMOND, INDIANA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numoerm S Cents Copy.) CO o

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GOVERNOR USES PHONE 10 ISSUE WARNING

Gary's Municipal Election Is a Lively Affair; Ralston Orders Peace Preserved at All Costs; Guard of 300 Special Officers from Both City and County. Governor Samuel Ralston in response for an appeal for state troops to guard the Gary elections called up Chief of Police Martin and Sheriff Whitaker on the long-distance telephone early today and gave them strict instructions to preserve the peace in Gary. POLLS l .DEH GUAHD. The polls in Gary today are being operated under the guard of more than 300 police and shrievalty offi cers. Chief Martin was at his office when the governor called him on the telephone. The state executive stated that complaints had reached him and that troops were demanded. Martin responded that he saw no trouble and asserted that he and not the sheriff should- beJn.oontroLof th actuation. Sheriff Whitaker, who was at the office at the time, also talked with the governor and he told the executive that in his belief the soldiers were needed. Governor Ralston suggested co-operation between the chief and the sheriff, and this was agreed to. Early this morning the chief and sheriff made several rounds of the south end polling places together. However, during the morning there occurred many incidents that tended to bring the two peace executives at odds with each other. At citizens' headquarters it was charged that some of the police were intimidating and the sheriff with his deputies made several trips to south end precincts. WILD ORGY OP SPEEDING. The streets of Gary were used as a race course today by the automobiles. Both parties were well supplied with machines. In some instances the drivers acted as if they were mad, driving down the streets with open throttles, (Continued on page eight.) New Pave at Princess. Mosaic pavement at the entrance of the Princess theater on Hohman street is being removed today from the outer edge to the lot line. The surface of .the flooring made walking precarious. Cement bMng less slippery,- will be substituted. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are the highest class In all Its sizes. Adv. tf MRS. PITZER WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS . -' ' if - v f Mrs. A. B. Pitzer. Mrs. A. B. Pitzer, sister-in-law of Speaker Champ Clark, who was a delegate from Colorado to the Democratic convention in Baltimore, is not candidate for the postmactership (n Colorado Springs, as reported, but ' probably will enter the race for confress from that district. Mra. Pitzer as been a lifelong, Democrat. She taught school many years ago in Colorado and numbers among her political allies many former pupils.

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POLLS New Tork. Nov. 4. The registered voters in Greater New Tork. numbering 669.762, began at 6 o'clock this morning to visit their polling places to decide the mayoralty issue and the merits of hundreds of other oiflceseekers. Including candidates for the state asembly and the city board of aldermen. The weather was unsettled and rain seemed probable before the closing of the polls at 5 p. m.. but interest was bellevd to have been aroused to such a pitch that the weather was not regarded as a factor. Tammany and anti-Tammany leaders expected a rec ord percentage of the registered voters to exercise the franchise. . Extraordinary precautions were tak EXTRA CITIZENS' TICKET WINS AT AETNA (Special to The Times.) Aetna, Nov. 4. Most of the vote at Aetna was cast by noon today. The citizens' ticket will carry the election as it is the only one in the field. The results: Trustee Second Ward William H. Clatyon. Trustee Third Ward John Seeburger. Clerk Joseph Debold. Treasurer Fred Wuersch. Marshal Ernest James. y WILL UK Whiting Youth, Weary of Life, Fires Revolver Into His Body, But Has Good Chance to Live at St. Margaret's Hospital. (Special to Thb Timfib.) Whiting, Ind., Nov. 4. Steve Simko, age 21, made an unsuccessful attempt to end his life at his home. 215 East 119th street on Sunday evening. Simko rwho was employed at the Standard Oil company spent Sunday at his Doaraing nouse Deing apparently in a rather morbid state. He was seen to be writing a leter and a short time later the shot of a revolver was heard (Continued on page eight.) IS ELECTED PRESIDENT Well Known Lady to Head Hammond Settlement Affairs. Virginia Brooks-Washubrne, the Joan of Arc of newspaper fame, met with the Hammond Settlement House directors yesterday afternon at the annual election. Though removed to Chicago and booked for the platform Mrs. Washubrne will remain a member of the charity. She was first president as well as founder. She is now honorary president. The officers elect follows: Mrs. W. C. Belman, president; Mrs. Washburne, first vice president; Mrs. G. It. Smith, second vice president; Mrs. J. M. Turner, secretary; Miss Alta Adkins, treasurer; and Mrs. W. S. Lawson, corresponding secretary. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are considered supreme by the best Judges. Adv. tf

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en to prevent Hlegal voting and Intimidation of voters. Police Commissioners Waldo ordered every police captain in the five boroughs transferred to some other precinct with instructions to stay at his new post until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. It is the first time since the consolidation of the boroughs into 'Greater New York that the captains, as well as patrolmen, have been subjected to such orders. Army of 700 at Polls. Seven hundred detectives and plain clothes men were assigned to watch persons attempting to vote illegally and "strong arm men" were on the lookout for "guerillas," who, according to leaders of the fusion party, had been employed to intimidate voters. ELECTION RETURNS. Tonight The Times will flash election returns from its office on Fayette street. In addition to the focal election news there will be reports from New York and other cities as told by the wires. Special returns will Tbe received from Indiana cities, sent by The Times' Indianapolis correspondent. EVERYBODY INVITED. WORKERS KEYED UP -111 m CHICAGO Political Tension There May Bring Trouble Before Night Is Over. East Chicago and Indiana Harbor are in the midst of the bitterest politlcal ngnt today that it has ever been their fortune to experience. Starting at 6 o'clock this morning the heaviest vote ever known in the city s history is being polled. So there have been no sanguinary far j encounters, but trouble may ensue at' any moment as both the Schlieker and Callahan adherents are in an excitable frame of mind and keyed up to the highest tension. The Schlieker crowd this morning caused a number of arrests. Several voters in Indiana Harbor were arrested for provoke and sent to East Chicago, while a number arrested in the latter city were sent to Indiana Harbor to give bond. Both sides are confident of success. the Callahan workers especially so. The betting on the outcome is even. APATHY REIGNS AT CROWN POINT Not Expected to Get Over 500 Votes Out There. Crown Point, Ind., Nov. i. After one of the most apathetic campaigns in its history . Crown Point is voting for the men to run the city affairs for the next four years, and while no overconfidence is displayed by any of the candidates for the various offices, thai one best bet seems to be on the citizens' ticket candidates .although there j may be several surprises on that tick- : et when the ballots are counted this evening. Each candidate is working tooth and nail, so to speak, to get out the entire vote of the city, which Is proving a hard thing to do on account of the little Interest dispayed by the population as to the resuts of. today's eection. It is estimated that not over 500 votes wil be cast in today's election, but the candidate workers may succeed in exceeding this number by J severa dozen in their efforts in get ting out the entire vote. Death of Mrs. Branson. Alma M. Branson, wife of William Branson, 830 Beall avenue, died at the family residence Saturday evening at 6:30 o'clock, following an illness extending over a period of several weeks. Funeral services will be held from the family residence Wednesdayifternoon and interment will be made in the family lot at the Tolleston cemetery. Mrs. Branson was 18 years old and during her residence in Hammond acquired a large circle of friends. Besides a husband she la survived by a father in Mississippi and a brother In Hammond. Heat, when and whirt you want It Get a Gas Heating Stove No. Ind. Gas Elec Co. Adv. tt

TOLD BY UNCLE SAM TO GET DOWN AND

fit ' - A V i President Vict Opens Bids. I The board of public works yesterday morning opened bids on the Jessie street pavement, laying the matter over till the 12th of November. I Wins a Gem. I A $60 diamond was won in a raffle J by John Martin at the opening of the 1 Bessemer buffet on East State street ' Saturday. The proprietor. Abe Cohen. provided every accommodation for his j guests, a tasty lunch and good service. J MILLIONAIRE PACKER DEAD Edward Morris, president and treasurer of Morris & Co., packers, died at 6 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 4800 Drexel boulevard. Chicago. He was 47 years old. - Since the death of his father. Nelson Morris, in 1907, he had held a place of high prominence in the industrial and financial life of Chicago. He was one of the four or five men who ruled the business of the stockyards in this city and elsewhere In the west an Industry that puts Chicago In closest touch with all the world. Flags are flying at half mast In the stockyards today. A part of its activities will cease temporarily, tomorrow. The representatives of a score of commercial and philanthropic Institutions will assemble in tribute to the dead. .

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c1 oriano Huerta. ELECTIO TO BE CLOSE Unless Hammond blushing. the unforseen transpires can retire at midnight unknowing that the morning press of the state will not be regaled with tales of a lawless and rowdy election here. Though political machines are operating at top speed nothing far amiss has happened in the election of city officials. With six tickets in the field it has narrowed, down to a race between the heads of the republican and democratic tickets. A record vote is expected, one that will pass the five thousand mark.' ' But at the same time dopesters are agreed that fifteen or sixteen hundred votes will win. Qnlet Along the Potomac. Party workers kept within bounds except in one or two incidents. At Gibson a report became current early in the day that members of the election board were instructing voters and that their suggestions were rejected. One citizen, told to vote the rooster, is said to have marched out without casting a ballot. In the Standard district parties centered their forces. Threats of counteraffidavits were made against republican workers, but these proved to be buncombe. Something may break on the north side about 4 o'clock when an employer of labor is expected to bring a gang of foreigners in a body to vote. They will be challenged. Free Ride All Around. Motor cars were easily obtainable and it was not. necessary for anyone to walk to the polls in any section of the city. Many advertising stunts were sprung and most original of these was , Oscar Plageman's . white-clothed black face artist, who stood In front of the second ward polls at the Superior court building. The dark complected gentleman had a minstrel appearance and bore a sign: "Plageman for alderman." ' At democratic headquarters apprehension was felt over the outcome for the first time during the campaign. At republican, headquarters every one appeared cheerful and confident, though not overly so. It is the general opinion that Smalley and Crumpacker will run close. Snake McHle .Canadian . Clnb Mixtare. For pipe r cigarette, beat that leaf and a kill can produce. Adv.

Defiance Expected. ered By Wilson Step Take Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 4. Huerta has been told he President must resign the presidency of Mexico without loss of time and that he must not leave as his successor Gen. Aureliano . Blanquet, his minister of war, or any other member of his offi cial family or of the unofficial coterie he might be expected to control. This ultimatum from Washington was conveyed to Provisional Prsevdent Huerta through his private sec retary, Senor Rabago, by Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the American charge d'affaires, . acting under instructions from the Btate department. HIEHT.V CiETS ULTIMATUM. Senor Rabago presented the memorandum to his chief late Sunday, but early today President Huerta had returned no answer and. as far as could be learned, had guarded its contents from almost all of his ofTlcial and intimate counselors.

MJHEYJMILIS THE MONEY

Museum of Anatomy in Hammond, Exposed by Times When Started Long Ago, Does Flourishing Business Among Ignorant Foreigners; Manager Interviewed by Times Representative; Horrible Story of Their Methods in Gary. 1

In the face of a scathing expose that The Chicago Tribune is making on the quacks who are duping the ignorant public with free museums, terrifying literature and fake cures of men's diseases, the representative of the Reln-hardt-Flint syndicate, which operates in Hammond and Gary, and which The Tribune includes In Its expose, says with brazen frankness, that the business Is run for the money that is in it. Revolting Displays. A year ago at the time when Reinhardt and Flint, who operated a chain of houses in the middle west, established their "Free Museums for Men" with their revolting display windows on the main streets of Hammond and Gary, The Times exposed the nefarious business. The merchants on the streets grumbled about the eye sore that had been opened in their respective cities, the non-advertising physicians denounced the quackery, the ministers held up their hands in holy horror, the ladies in various civic club organizations were shocked, the city administration looked on complacently and the "patients" drawn largely from the foreign elemen Day the freight. Julius Was Ther. When a Times reporter on Monday afternoon called at the "Free Museum for Men" on State street In Hammond he found Julius Zweigenthal, poking a fire. - "What is it?" he Baid after a glance, but without interruption of his work. "I would like to see the manager or the doctor," answered the reporter. "I am the manager" still poking. "Where is the doctor?" asked the reporter. "Well, why you said you wanted to see the manager?" ' or the doctor" added the reporter. He Was Cautious! "The doctor is out now," said Julius laying down the poker. He was guessing as to what kind of a customer he had to deal with and was wary. When the reporter explained to him that he came to hear what the manager or the doctor had to say in answer to the charges that' are being made against the chain of "Institutes" Julius was almost overcome- with gratitude " for such frankness. He rewarded his visitor by giving him his card, and when the reporter intimated that he preferred his -right name instead of an alias. Julius assured him in profuse words

Ultimatum Deliv Most Sensational in Situation Those who learned of the Washington note regard Gen. Huerta's position as one in which he will be forced to give one of two answers refusal point blank to comply with the demand, possibly going so far as to hand the diplomatic representative his passports, or the elimination of himself offclally. SEES AID FOR REBELS. Those most intimate with the president insist the latter course will not be taken for many reasons, chief among which is that such action would be tantamount to submission to the rebels. Official Mexico Is no longer in doubt that the Washington administration, favors -the rebel cause and Is convinced that this is the means adopted by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan to assist Carranza to win? - Oea. Huerta summoned to the national palace last night the diplomatic corps, buc for what purpose was not releaved. Three of the ministers, those of Germany, Norway and Russia, were absent. Thay have been in Vera Cru. where they were in conference with President Wilson's representative, John Lind. who is Understood to be fully conversant with the latest representations from Washington. THEY SAY that his -m, Was Julius Zweigenthal. "I am the fellow, you know, of whom the Chicago Tribune said yesterday that he helped to murder a guy in our place in Gary. They had my name spelled wrong. Did you ever read such rot?" Worried About Name. "Isn't It truer- asked the reporter. Julius, instead of becoming ' Indignant that a stranger should hint that he travels under an alias, or that he might be guilty of murder, returned a smiling countenance. "Let me tell you, my friend," he said, "we do an honest business. Why, I would be the first man to quit if this business were crooked. I am the manager of several places like this, and I always tell the doctor never to rob our (Continued on page eight.) SCORES GIRLS FOR SHIFTLESS WORK Miss Dymple B. Johnson. Following1 an in . estimation of working girls at Fort Smith, Ark., Miss Dymple 8. Johnson declares a vast number in all classes of positions have their minds so much on escape by marriage that they ara inefficient in their daily duties.

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