Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 130, Hammond, Lake County, 7 November 1913 — Page 1

COUNTY TIME UNSETTIJ3D TODAY SHOWERS. SATURDAY AND COLDER. A ITION ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numoera t Cents Copy.) VOL. VIII., NO. 130. OHAMMOND, INDIANA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1913. T

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Havana, Cuba, Nov. 7. Gen. Felix Diaz was wounded in the Malecon last night. He was stabbed twice ,being wounded behind the ear and the neck. He also was beaten with canes. Diaz, Cecilio Coon, a fellow fugitive from Mexico, and Luis Malda were listening to a band concert when a group of Mexicans, among them a young Mexican, Pedro Guerrero, passed the Diaz party. Diaz is said to have made some unpleasant remarks about the followers of Carranza, whereupon Gunerrero went to the sea wall, where other Mexicans were seated, and informed them of Diaz' alleged insults. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 7. A bandit boarded a sleeping car on Burlington train No. 9, a west bound limited from Chicago, as it was leaving the transfer station at Council Bluffs shortly after midnight, held up the porter, robbed sleeping car passengers and escaped.

5l last OF YEAR

Mayor-Elect R. O. Johnson of Gary Has 'Ducked' the Patronage Question and Will Not Announce Any Appointments, of Which He Has 300, Until After Christmas. NO GARY JOBS : ARE PROMISED According to Mayor-elect Jeki. Dr. Frank IV. Smith, and W. P. Hodgn not a promise of a city kali Job vraa made Before election. It la probable that Mayor JohnaoB will anon nee aone of his 25 to SOO appointment until the laat week; In December. He and hla art vlnera will carefully go over tke llat and the beat men will be ehoaea. One of the questions now confront Ins Mayor-elect R. O. Johnson and his advisers is the selection of a chief of police. An energetic man Is wanted and when he is inducted Into office a (Continued on page ten.) NEW SEWER PLANS ARE NEARLY READY Deep Sewer Proposition Bobs Up Right After Election. The deep sewer proposition was re vived at the city hall this morning by Mayor John D. Smalley, his official cabinet and W. B. Gerber, an engineer In the firm of which W. S. Shields is a partner. Gerber told a reporter that the new plans of the sewer system and the pumping station are about complete and that they contain many changes which will decrease the cost. It is understood that the city has given up the plan of providing sufficient power for street lighting. The board of public works will act officially on the matter next Wednesday. At this morning's session the Sibley .street and State street walks were accepted. Bids for the painting of three bridges over the Calumet river were laid over till the 28th. CONTRACT JIELD OVER. (Special to The Timer.) Crown Point. Nov. 7. Until the county commissioners receive definite information as to the valuation of Hanover township and its bonding possibilities for stone road Improvements, a contract which is pending will be held in abeyance. The question arose over the letting Of the Wassman stone road contract which provides for an improved highway to run three miles northeast of Brunswick. All the records containing the necessary Information are at Indianapolis in the hands of the book binder. The Lowell Construction company of which James Brannock is the president was the lowest bidder for the contract wit ha figure of $24,190. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are the highest class in all its sizes. Adv. tf APY

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T BY A FATHER The Times today received many bouquets and a few brickbats for its appraisal of vaudeville at the Orpheum theatre. One popular business man, a patron of the theatre, said that iru his opinion no one in attendance at the show in question really relished the smut but that some rather enjoyed the embarrassment of girls and'women in the audience. It was learned today that Joe Brennan, the offensive comedian, got out of town just In time. A mad husband was looking for him. At one performance Joe told a nasty story in which he talked of his friend's children, five In number, and the lack .of any in his own family. A baby in the audience started to cry. That's one of my friend's five children," said Joe pointing it out in its mother's arms. When the woman told the baby's father about it he was furious. ACCUSE ABALfil All OF VORKIiiG FOR SMALLEY Men Who Bet Money on Sam Are Now Mighty Sorry For It. Young bloods of Hammond who formed a syndicate to promote Sam Ableman's candidacy for mayor , are making sweeping charges against tho Independent Citizen's candidate. They say that during the last few days of his campaign that he worked for Smalley, advising the voters converted to him to give the democrats their ballots. In Roth's barber shop yesterday Sam admitted that he had worked for Smalley against himself. It creates a new angle in politics and is unpre cented. Never before has Hammond had a mayoralty candidate who plug ged for a competitor. It leads to the belief that Abalman was never a competitor. Jimmy Clabby is said to have lost $500 on bets that Abalman would run ahead of Wright and on other combinations. Leo Knoerzer is said to have lost $100 and other men dropped large sums. They blame Abalman for their loss saying that they had enough votes lined up for him had he not worked against himself. WILL PLAY RACINE. The Clabby A. A. warriors will travel to Racine, Wis., next Sunday, where they are scheduled to do battle with the fastest team in the state league and contenders for the championship. This is the Clabbys' second big game of the season and in anticipation of a bitterly fought battle with Racine the week has been spent in hard signal and scrimmage work. Coach Smith is of the opinion that the team has greatly improved since their last game with Waukegan and with several new men in the lineup it is evident that the local squad will put up a stiff fight against Racine. The Clabbys ' received new sweaters this week and will not only be able to show Racine some class on the gridiron, but will also be there with new uniforms. Tried Tomorrow. James O'Keefe, he discharged West Hammond policeman, will be tried before Judge Adam Stachowicz tomorrow morning for disorderly conduct. O'Keefe is said to have gone on a big spree last week and shot up the town. Business Not so Brisk. Business in October at the Hammond post office fell back from the hot pace et In September but there is every indication that it will revive with a whirl this month. Both the Conkey and the Betz companies, the two greatest users of stamps, have a flood of mailing matter coming. The receipts for October . this year totaled J13.628.49 and for October last year $12,995.98. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are considered iuprema by the best Judges.

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E A retail of crime has followed the election iu East Chicago, murder, riot and street and saloon brawis hav:ns given a bloody touch to th ebitter contest between the Schlieker and Callahan adherents. j he dead: Unidentified man murdered In Okla homa near Grasselli and body dragged to the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad to give, the appearance that death was caused .by a train. The injured: Maay Are Hart. Coley Joyce, boards at home of Mrs. Welch Magoun avenue near the Pennsylvania railroad. Skull fractured and beaten and kicked to a jelly in front of Noble Morelli's saloon, Forsyth avenue, will probably die. Jack Rogers, beaten into insensibili ty by roughs in a saloon. A. P. Twyman, Northcote avenue, beaten by two thugs at the alley between One Hundred and Forty-eighth street and Chicago avenue In Northcote avenue. Mr. Twyman says he believes robbery was the cause of the assault on him. Joe Churilla, Oklahoma, neaten and kicked, lying In St. Margaret's Hos pital. Alexander Knaver, Oklahoma, shot In stomach and leg, still living, and hope for his recovery is entertained. One at Morgue. The unidentified dead man now lies at Huber and Baddeaux's morgue, while all of the injured, with the ex ception of Mr. Twyman, who was not so seriously Injured ns the others, thanks to the timely arrival of help, are at St. Margaret's hospital. There is no means of Identifying the man found dead on the Indiana Har bor Belt railway, unless by description of his clothes. His face was cut from his head and there was not a scrap of paper on his person which might serve as a clue as to his identity. The body was found Just south of where One Hundred and Fifty-first street woutd cross the railroad, near Kenedy avonue. Th 'Hp of tho jnutlla ted face showed ' ' scraggy mous tache. Tho hair was black. The- man had black- hair, was five feet six- inches tall and weighed about ISO pounds. (Continued on page ten.) FOR AXE TO FALL The election in Hammond apparently has left no sore places at least none which time cannot heal The taxpayers of Hammond are now waiting to see what Mayor Smalley will do after the first of the year when he begins his term as a regularly elected mayor. He holds his present office by appointment and practically his entire cabinet is an inheritance from his predecessor. That he would use the official ax after the first of the year was therefore a report which received considerable credence today. There is more than passing significance in the edfeat of John Moriarty for Judge Lawrence Becker, wnen it is remembered that in the factional fights of the democratic party, Moriarty always stood strongly with Becker. This probably cost Moriarty his seat in the council. He was defeated by only six votes but Is said to have been double crossed many more time than that by democrats. , ' BLAZE ON JVTLCOX ST. Fire which broke out in a barn at 378 Wilcox street early this morning almost caused its total destruction and rpsiilteri in a - hnma hplnir Hurnarl rtAnth Th Ha WH. firKf Alxnnv-A hv ,.,,, n-oh 577 vi,Hn by Ernest Graham, 377 Michigan ave nue, who turned in the alarm. Fire departments Nos. 1 and 3 responded, but the flames had gained such a big headway that it wasfouml impossible to save it from destruction. The building was owned by Nathan Kahn and caused an approximate damage of $400.' It Is said that the loss was covered by Insurance, and so far the origin of the blaze has not been learned. , At the Bijou. "In Arizona." a classic of wild west melodrama, played at the Bijou thea tor last evening to full houses. It was generously applauded. A Novel "Ad." Lawrence Hoffman, the haberdasher, president of the East State Street Business Men's association, took advantage of the recent city election in an original way. Hoffman distributed sample ballots which contained valuable advertising. Smoke HfeHte Canadian Clnb Mixture. For pipe or cigarette beat that leaf aa4 akill eaa prodace Aav

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CONGRESSMAN PETERSON MUST BUILD NEW FENCES With the wiping out of power of tho . Knotts. machine, part of which supported Congressman John B. Peterson of Crown Point last fall, the tenth district representative will have to build new fences in Gary. He will also have to do the same in Whiting where Mayor Parks was beaten. The Knotts leaders can offer voters nothing for the support or Peterson so the congressman will have to fall back upon the antiKnotts democrats, who are now In power, for his main backing. The independent democrats intend to cut a wide swath in county and district conventions from now on, so their leaders say. At the very first election to

name delegates to conventions there will be '- a battle royal between the Knvtts democrats and the independents. SUPERINTENDENTS TO HOLD ANIiUAL filEETiNG Vocational Education Will Be Chief Topic at the Sessions. Y FROM LAKE GO. ATTEND A. number of Lake county pedagogues left today for Indianapolis where th twenty-fourth annual meeting of the city and town superintendents of If. dlana will open at- the Claypool hotel tonight with a lecture by Charles A. Bennett, of Bradley Institute, on "Vocational Education from the Viewpoint of the State, the Industries, the Workers and the School Men." Friday morning the program in cludes' addresses by Supt.- T. F. Fitzgibbon, of Columbus, on, the "Aim and Scope f PrevocatlpnaV Work In the Regular Schools"; -"tMffidulties Encountered In - the Organisation ' and Prosecution of the -Pre vocational Work in the Regular Schools and How These May Best Be Met," by Dr. W. F. Book, state supervisor of vocational education: "The Vocational Survey as a First (Continued on page eleven.) MY CARRY FIGHT STILL FURTHER Flushed with their success Gary republicans, progressives, and independent democrats are negotiating with the successful citizens' leaders at East Chicago-Indiana Harbor for plans to get a citizens' or non-partisan county ticket for the next election. The plans have already been discussed In Gary and as a result the next county election may see a new ticket In the field made up of men of all parties. Gary republicans-progressives are heartily in favor Ojf the plan and it is said that there is a similar feeling at East Chicago-Indiana Haroor. Should the movement spread the re publican and democratic office holders at Crown Point will have to do some heavy work if they are to offset victories as were obtained at Gary and East Chicago. Throughout the county there is beginning to be developed a feeling that party lines hsould be overthrown in county offices as well. ELECTION STARTED TROUBLE As a result of a quarrel concerning the outcome of the election a smallsized riot occurred in an East Hammond company house yesterday afternoon. Frank Kushman, one of the rioters, was arrested by Constable Morri Dobson on a charge of assault and I attery. The trial will come up before Judge Prest this afternoon and Joe Servern will appear as complainirg witness. Suffers Broken Arm. While cranking a motor car on Hohman street Frank Trienand, agent for an accident insurance company, had his arm broken by the kick of the engine. He was attended by Dr. Chldlaw. Monarchs vs. Tigers. Football fans will have an opportunity of witnessing a fast game at Harrison park next Sunday afternoon, when the South Chicago Monarchs will ine up against the Hammond Tigers. The game will be called at 2:30 o'clock and as South Chicago is coming to Hammond ntrongly represented an -Interesting contest is expected. Smoke- HcHle Canadian Clan Mixtare. - For pipe or cigarette, beat that leaf aa skill ana produce AO.

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The Hammond Woman's Club is getting down to brass tacks and black pins. An ingenious plan is being put into . operation by which the city of Hammond may be duly . impressed by its dirtiness. Thirty women have been appointed from the civic department of the club to gain accurate information by a tour of inspection of alleys and streets, centering attention on sanitation and the disposal of garbage. By their report a pin may of the city will be made, black pins indicating the dirty spots, white pins the clean alleys, and red pins the disease breeding places. Start Work Today. This may will, when completed, be far from a consoling sight to the commissioner of streets unless his workers apply themselves very diligently. Although It is he that has had to bear the blunt of all blame In the past he need not fear if he has been wrongfully criticized by some. The thirty Inspectors of the Woman's Club will know when they are through whether the property owner, tenant or the alley cleaner is responsible. A press announcement has been issued by the civic department of the Woman's Club so that all may know what is being attempted. It is given below. Time To Clean I'p. Do not be surprised next week if you see well-known Hammond women walking up and down the alleys of Hammond, peering right and left. Members of the civic department of the Hammond Woman's club are preparing for a meeting of that department next Thursday night when the subject for discussion will be the streets and alleys of Hammond, and the disposal of garbage. Mrs. Eugene Cooper has thirty women to investigate the condition of the alleys and report at the meeting Thursday night. A pin" map will be used on which the dirty spots .of Hammond will be indicated by black pins, the clean alleys by white pins, and disease breeding place by Fed ones-. - - , The women are consistent; ; In almost every case they have seen that their own alley premises were clean before starting out to Investigate those of their' neighbors. One Homewood resident said that of all the alleys she had visited those In Homeweed were the dirtiest. If you don't want your name "called out in meeting." and your alley marked with a black pin clean it up before Thursday. RETURN BIG VERDICT. (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 7. After being out all night the Jury in the superior court before Judge Kopelke returned a verdict for four thousand dollars against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroal for the death of J. Kallas a Greek section hand who was accidentally killed at Scherervllle more than two years ago. A fellow workman was killed with him at the same time, but a private settlement is said to have been reached between the administrator of his estate and the compatty. Kallas Is survived by a widow and a child who reside in Greece. Their interests were represented by Dr. F. Houk who acted as coroner in the case and subsequently appointed by the court. Chicago lawyers prosecuted the case, and the company was defended by its Logansport" attorney. SNEAK THIEVES AT NELSON'S PLACE According to the police blotter this morning sneak thieves broke into Harry Nelson's place at the Lake Front park yesterday afternoon and after ransacking the place made their getaway with 500 cigars and a bottle of whisky. The robbery occurred about 1 o'clock and entrance was gained by smashing a front window with a stone. It is thought that the theft was committed by a tramp. HANLON WILL RECOVER Encouraging news was received from the bedside of Thomas Hanlon yesterday, who was injured in the disastrous Goodyear Rubber company fire at Milwaukee a week ago, to the effect that he is gradually improving and will bo r Me to leave the Emergency hospital in a short t'me. He is a brother of Captain George Hanlon of Hammond. Hanlon is employed as a fireman on the Milwaukee fire department and iccording t the account of the eaccldent had a miraculous escape from death. He was caught under a falling wail which k'.lltd eight firemen and Injured nineteen others. He escaped with a broken leg .a dislocated ankle and severe bruises. The accident was due to an explosion which blew out the front rear walls of the Good Year Rubber company building. Hanlon was saved by being blown under a truck, the lower part of his body being caught by the mass of bedrls. . The horses hitched it the truck were instantly killed. He was rescued from the mass of wreckage in an unconscious condition.

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Machine Plunges Down Embank men When Lights Go Out and Occupants Are Thrown Out

(Special to The Times.) Hobart, Ind., Nov. 7. A large sevenpassenger automobile tumbled down a thirty-foot embankment at the turn of the road at Crocker, Porter county, yesterday morning. Four of the occupants were seriously hurt and the other three suffered cuts and bruises. The seriously injured are: Mrs. I. H. Coulter of Westville, wrist and forearm broken and Injured internally; Mrs. O. M. Coulter of Westville, Injured about the head; Miss Mary Kalies of Westville, cut about the head and arms and Injured internally; Miss Nellie Hoard of Westville, two ribs broken and shoulder dislocated. Three Slightly Hart. The slightly injured are Miss Zella Dolman of Westville, bruised; E. P. Bonham of McCool. cut on the head; Mrs. E. P. Bonham of McCool. back sprained. Cruel treatment, drunkenness, desertion and infidelity are responsible for an average of more than-one divorce case a day in the Lake county courts: - In thethree hundred and eleven days that have elapsed this year, more than two hundred and forty-five cases have been filed In the superior court at Hammond alone. This number does not include ' the number filed In the circuit court at Crown Point. Of the cases begun this year, prob ably seventy-live per cent have already been disposed of. Most of the separ ated couples are a class of people of j who live from hand to mouth, and the demand for alimony is the exception rather than the -rule. More cases by far are filed by wives than by husbands, and In most cases the spouses have lived together less than ten years. The first three years are a popular divorce period, and the second cycle seems to end at the seventh year. Frequently -the couple has a child or two, rarely more than two. The foreign born are now slow to take advantage 'of the divorce courts, after the wronged party learns what his or her rights are. In their native countries many of the wives would be compelled. to bear all the insults and Injury that a cruel husband heaps upon them. In this country they appeal to the courts and not Infrequently the divorced woman gets along better standing alone than acting the cook, wash and scrub woman without pay for her liege lord who frequently is nothing more than an ungratful star boarder. . . Judging 'from 'the' complaints that are filed. it seems almost incredible what an. amount of abuse some women will stand before they decide to have the marriage knot cut. Recently a woman ' filed ' a complaint In which It was stated that her husband compelled her to work in the field like a hired hand while she was nursing a baby only a few weeks old. With the exception of one time when he took h to the nickle show she said he had never allowed her any entertainment; she never received a kind word from him but plenty of kicks and beatings. She had put up with this for several years for the sake of her children, and yet after she had hired a lawyer and he had filed the complaint, she asked that It be withdrawn on the ground that she and her husband had patched things up. Three days later however she was back !n court again with another lawyer and a new complaint. Two new divorce cases were filed this morning. Rose Vucallch of Gary says her hus band, Nick, whom she married in Dec ember 190S, has been guilty of cruel treatment and desertion. The case is filed by Attorneys Dunn and Lucas. Here is another of the same type only different In name and time. Mary Lubovlch who was married to Mile Lubovitch charges him with cruel treatment and desertion. One of Mile's pastimes "with Mary, according to the complaint, was to beat and kick her. They have two children for which she ask the custody. She also asks for a hundred dollars alimony. They separated two years ago. ' A Big Improvement. Residents of the third ward, where streets have been esveloped iti mud. are appeased now that the commissioner of streets has put gangs to work shoveling, away the drying mud and cleaning- to the curb. Fayette street and Oakley avenue are beyond censure,

DIVORCE II CAI RECORD BACK FROM AMAZING HONOLULU

AUTO UPSETS

The Westville woman are members of a Greek letter society and went to McCool to hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. Bonham, a former president of the society. Mr. and Mrs. Bonham started ta bring them home in their machine. After the meeting Miss Kalies was sitting in the front seat with. Mr. Bonham who was driving, and the other five women were in the rear seat. How It Happened. Just as they got to tht, embankment the lights went out and a moment later the machine plunger down the embankment. All of the occupants of the machine were thrown out except Mrs. Bonham, who was caught between theseat and the ground. Miss Kalies, who was In the front seat, said that Mr. Bonham was driving slowly but that she thought when the lights went out he turned in the wrong direction. Gary Man GJets Times Clipping from Hawaii Regard ing Lawsuit in Judgfe Becker's Court in Which He Is Interested. In far off Honolulu was a soldier man no not ragtime who read Thh Times and saw a story which concerned his brother A. Dearbeyne, president and treasurer of the Lake County Realty company of Gary, but which the latter had not read. The brother in Honolulu is James A. Dearbeyne, sergeant of the 104th, Mine company of U. S. A. Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Armstrong on the Hawaiin Islands. The item is question related to entry made" in Judge Becker's court sometime ago In which the Gary man's bond was defaulted, with' Attorneys McCracken and Freer cn the bond. The newspaper clipping was sent back from Honolulu to Gary. Mr. Dearbyne does not question the correctness of The Times statement, but makes -an expalnation regarding The case in which Mr. Dearbeyne was charged with receiving money under (Continued on page eleven.) LETZ CO. GETS PATENT. Crown Pt. Factory Perfects New Feed Grinder. (Special to The Times.). Crown Point. Ind., Nov. 7. The Let Manufacturing company, a growing Industry In its seventh year, has receive! patent rights on a feed grinder, the invention of the owners. George Holland-Letz and John Holland Lets. The U. S. Patent Gazette carries an announcement of their patent with a complete dlscription. The feed grinder is for farm use and demands as motor power a gas engine, something that all modern farms now have. It will grind oats, corn .wheat, alfalfa, husks, seeds and all. The Letz company has another new product, a three roll corn planter, the first on the market of the kind. It la the invention of the brothers. LOST ON WAY FROM SCHOOL j The disappearance of six-year-old Esther Rose, 41 Cond it street, from the Washington school caused considerable alarm to her parents yesterday afternoon, but' she was found unharmed later in the day. It was the little tot'a first day in school and she became lost while on her way home. The police were notified and also aided In the search. Penalty to Taxes. The ten per cent penalty Is on now and delinquent taxpayers are contributing to the coffers of the city. After the eighth of February property will be sold If taxes are not paid. The payment of taxes has been prompt this year. Is your house cold - when . you reach nomeT Get a Gas Heating Stova. N. xnd. Gas & Elec Co. Adr. tt