Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 6 December 1913 — Page 1

LAK TIME TAKE THE HOME WITH YOU PARTLY CLOUDY UNSETTLED; RAIN. VOL. III., NO. 47. DECEMBER 6, 1913. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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Worst Storm in History j Cuts Off Food 4 and Coall Supply as Refugees Fill! Schools, Hotels and Thea ters in Denver. i Snow Is in prospect for the Calumet region tomorrow, as a result of the blizzard which swept over Colorado yesterday and centered in Oklahoma last night. The ragged end ot the ragged end of the storm will reach here today, bringing with it rain and a drop in temperature.

Denver, Colo., Dec. 6. The state of Colorado is isolated by snow ranging from thirty-five inches to eight feet in depth. Never in the history of the Rocky Mountains has anything been experienced to compare with the storm which has been raging since; Monday. Snow 44 Inches Deep. The snow in Denver is forty-four inches deep, and there is no promise of a letup. In fact, the government weather forecaster here predicts an additional fall of eighteen inches. Traffic of all kinds is absolutely suspended. Trains are stalled all over the state. One train the Denver specialgot into. Denver yesterday on the Burlington line several hours late. It started back to Chicago, but stalled just out of the Denver yards. Befugees in. Theaters. In Denver every downtown hotel is crowded, theater buildings and. school houses are being utilised for refugees who are unable to reach, their homes. Since last night sixteen miners and ........ a rescue paxiy of eight have been lost hear Canon City. Whether they have perished in the eight feet of snow be tween the mines and their homes-can-, not be known until the great drift is broken. In the Trinidad mining district, where martial law is in existence, the tents of both the soldiers and the coal mine strikers are absolutely isolated. Many of the tent' at the time communication was last obtainable from f thfre' hart been blown down and the suffering was said to be intense. Snow Causes Collapse. Throughout this state buildings in virtually every town have collapsed

(Continued on page five.) HIGH HONOR GOES f TO SPIRITUALIST hi ' 1 r it Sr?K & Sir William Crookes. London, Dec. 6. The recent election f Sir William Crookes as president of the Royal society the highest honor that can come to a British scientistwas all that remained to complete the story of a well-earned reward. Sir William's star first appeared above the horizon as far back as 1861, when he was enabled to announce the discovery of thallium, a new element. In the domain of pure science he has also added much to the world's knowledge of X and other rays. . His was the suggestion that what are called "elements" may really be compounds derived by gradual condensation from some more primitive material; for which he suggested the name Protyle." "Applied" science is in his debt: for he added greatly to the knowledge of dyeing and calico printing, artificial manures, and the disposal of sewage. Further than this, he is one of the great champions of Spiritualism. He was knighted in 1897; he holds the Royal, Davy and Copley medals of the Royal society; while scientific societies and institutions in many parts of the world have showered rewards upon him. ,

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Lowell Postmaster Dead at His Home.

t -3. ) is -. -sv. - ; v." V W. C. Nichols. William C. Nichols, postmaster of Lowell, was buried this afternoon in the Lowell cemetery. He died on Thursday at the age of 68. one of the most respected citizens in that city. He was a many of high moral character, an ardent republican, a Mason and a G. A. R. (Special to Thb Timss.) Crown Point. Ind., Dec. 6. Judge Harry B. Tuthill of the Michigan CityValparaiso superior court will sit as special trial Judge in' the impeachment proceedings' brought againsOame"3ti Patterson, Lake County's : prosecuting attorney. After considering the names of a 'dozen judges and lawyers prominent in northern Indiana and weighing their records, leanings and affiliations, the attorneys r on both sides, already fighting every inch of the way for every possible advantage, had to resort to the last provision in the law th striking process, as it is known, to decide on the man who is to hear th4 evfdence and render the decision. Reputation At Stake. - On the one side in the conference between the lawyers yesterday afternoon were Patterson, whose reputation is at stake and who is ready to put up the battle of his life. At his side was Attorney C. B. Tinkham of Ham mond who figured in the notable lm peachment proceedings against Mayor Schlieker of East Chicago as defense attorney. In addition to Tinkhanr Pat terson has retained Judge John H Glllett of Hammond, former judge of the Indiana supreme court and these two together with Attorney Ralph W. Ross of Hammond, Patterson's chief deputy will represent the defendant in his trial. As far as is known they are the only attorneys that Patterson has employed. Four to Prosecute. ' On the other side were Attorneys Otto Bruce and George Hirschman, and the law . firm Nye and Davis all of Grown Point, representing the four men who signed the affidavit of impeachment. Among the names that were propos(Continued on page seven.) ATTEMPTJtOBBERY. Sneak thieves made a bold attempt to gain entrance to the residence of Fred Gastel, 118 Williams street, late last night, but before they were able Kto get in a rear window the prowlers were scared away by a neighbor's dog. This morning a number, of matches and footprints were found on the ground below the kitchen window and marks on the window sill where the thieves had attempted to force the window open. , The police are led to believe that the attempted robbery was done by two men and that they are the same strangers that have been seen loitering in the South Hohman street residence district for several nights. Boy Is Missing.. Another person, swelled the list of missing, in Hammond yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Berthold, 238 Conkey avenue, asked the aid of the police in locating her 16iyear-old . son, Peter Berthold, who: disappeared from his home last. Monday night and nothing has been heard or seen of him since. He was employed in the Conkey plant in the binding department and has not put in his appearauv-e for work. ' The following description was given to the police: Sixteen years old, S feel 6 inches tall, weight 110 pounds, build medium, complexion light, dark brown hair and gray eyes, wore a grey cap, white shirt, dark purple colored suit and black button shoes. Breltungs La Venda Cigars are tha aihest class la aU 1U slxea-NA4Y. tf

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Lake-County Men and Capital Interested in Union SLife and Casualty Company; Five Stcry Office Building Contemplated. Hammond capital, combined with that from other sources, and the consolidation of three companies into a feurth has produced the Union Life and Casualty company, which has Lak; County men among its officers, and which will make its headquarters in Hammond. While the companies which are merged having been doing business since their respective organizations, the new company is still awaiting the completion of some necessary preliminaries, before it will begin to operate as such. W. G. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber company and Lincoln V. Cravens, who is the attorney for the company both said today that tentative plans had already been formulated for the erection of an office building in Hammond. The site for the building has not yet been determined upon, nor the amount of money to. be expended for this purpose, but Mr. Paxton explained that in the discussions plans for a five story building had been spoken ot. The directors of the company are as follows: W. G. Paxton, Paxton, Paxton Lumber company, Hammond, Indiana. L. V. . Cravens, Attorney at Law, Hammond. Manley D. Wilson. Eagle Cotton Mills, Madison, Ind. : Chas. Giele, Merchant, Madtson. Ind. Joseph G. Ibach, Judge, , Court of Appeals, Indianapolis.. , . . Chas. F. Williama, broker,. Indian apolis. ' ' A. K..- Harris, .Secretary, Crawfotdsi ville, Ind. . ' A, B. Headlnffton, Vice .President and QenerMJtf&nager, pblcago. r . . ' ' R. C.-Mackey, Medical Director, Hobart, Ind. ; ' " - , ,, .; H. K. Kosanke, Furniture and Undertaker, Kouts, Ind. v, The Western Underwriter an insurance publication in its issue of Dec 4, speaking of the changes, and future plans had the following: "The Commonwealth Securities Company of Crawford s ville, Ind., which brought about the pending merger of the Commonwealth Life of that city with the Merchants Reserve Life of Chicago, now has the control of the Union Life of Madison, Ind.. and will put the business on a stock basis. The new company will be known as the Union Life & Casualty company, and the home office will be at Hammond. Ind. The capital of $100,000 has already been subscribed at a figure to furnish a surplus of $50,000. "Both industrial and monthly premium business will be written. The business of the old Union Life, which Is all industrial will not be reinsured. but the policies will be transfered in dividually. It was all written on an adequate premium basis, atlhough the company operated on the asessment plan. The new company will be authorized to. write health and accident business ,and will write Industrial disability on both the monthly and week-; ly plans. "At a recent meeting W. G. Taxton of the Paxton Lumber company, Hammond, was elected president, and A..B. Headington president of the Commonwealth Securities company, was elect ed vice president and general manaeer. A. E. Harris of Crawfordsville was elected secretary." Boys Warned Again. A warning was issued at the central police station this morning that young boys who have been making a practice of stealing rides on automobiles and other moving vehicles in Hammond must stop, or they will be severely reprimanded. The practice of catching rides on automobiles nearly resulted in a serious accident yesterday afternoon when a young lad fell beneath the wheels of an automobile truck. , The accident occurred on Hoffman street near Pine. A number of small boys were returning from school and attempted to catch a ride ort" the bakery truck of P. Dietrich. One of the boys slipped and fell, the truck running over his arm. Luckily the member was not broken and it was a miracle that the lad was not killed. The driver was unable to secure the boy's name. Elks' Services. To commemorate in sacred session th mdmnrtfR " nt dfnartpd hmthprs. Hammond order of Elks No. 485, w hold their annual memorial exercises at the First M. E. church on Russell street Sunday evening. The Hon. Walter B. Ritchie of Lima, Ohio, will deliver the memorial address and considering his prominence in lodge work and being the author of the K. of P.'s present ritual, residents of Hammond will turn out en masse to hear him. Members are requested to meet at the club rooras at 7j. m. ADVERTISING THJE1 TUIKi, FATS, UP IT'S 131

WILL LIGHT FIERY CROSS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES, SAYS JIM LARKIN

James Larkin, speaking in England (top), and immediately after his release from prison, carried shoulder-Ugh.

Dublin. Ireland. . Dec. 6. The commanding figure in the Dublin transport workers strike the man who Is keeping It alive Is James Larkin, secretary of the Irish transport workers' union.' Since his release from prison a few weeks "ago Larkin has become the idol of the Irish' laboring classes. He was given a seven months prison term late in October, on an indictment. charging him with sedition and with inciting to riot. Public indlirnajton, however, soon became. so. greit'J.ffatTtie was release Immedately . after his release, - Mr Larkin announced that he was leaving Ireland to light a Fiery Cross in Eng land, Scotland and 'Wales. He began his campaign 'at Manchester with a strongly worded speech on Sunday, November 16-.. Concerning this new power out of Ireland, a London Times correspondent has written: B I (Special to The Times.) , Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 6. Road inspections and matters pertaining to the county'poor farm will keep the county commisisoners together next Monday and ' probably later. While they are not holding a formal session at the courthouse, they have not yet adjourned for the December term. They went in a body to Lowell today to attend the funeral this afternoon of Lowell's postmaster, C. W. Nichols. A number of the other - county officials also planned on going to Lowell. ANOTHER STATE LINE CONFERENCE A committee of West Hammond prop erty owners will meet tomorrow after noon in the Hammond Country club to consider the issues at stake in the State Line street controversy. The committee was appointed by Mayor Woczszynski of West Hammond. George Hannauer is chairman. Nineteen Days to Christmas Another Week GoneDon't Delay Your Christmas Shopping.

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Larkin? He has fascinated many peope who have come face to face with him people who are idealists, and poets, and lovers and followers of high ideals and the heroic. There is an extraordinary mutability In Irish affairs. Mr. Larkin first appeared ' some three or four years ago. ..Today his name is In every man's mouth. v He. ,s the Will and. the Fate to the multitude. t , "A year ago .a Dublin editor. ,of an adventurous mind,, going home In the small hours of . the morning, took the way that li" tlrr6iiS', stum. There was a lit. window someone 111, evidently and across the panes 'was scratched in chalk or paint, ;'God bless Jim Larkin.' ' "There's something more irt 'Larklh' than 'we' know', sal dthe editor." . ' - . . .; . . 'lAfktn was born in Liverpool, of Irish parents, ' some' forty ' years ago. wow, nis ngnting career nas added a word to the language "Larkinism." Shaking hands all the. way around. objectors to the proposed deep sewer yesterday forenoon called oft the dogs of war. They acted like the best of friends and extended felicitations to the city- officials who had - answered their questions. The arguments of Joe Aubrv and Roscoe Woods, has apparently won them over to the cause. "We are with you," some of them said. "Back to the mines men. the strike is over,";said the mayor, highly pleased. Now we'll go ahead and build this sewer system that it is to be a boom to Hammond." Get Their Courage nark. Now imagine the surprise of the mayor and board when reports reached the city hall this morning that the antis were active again and say that they will enjoin the board and stop the ; improvement. It appears that they are aggrivattng the matter, as they never have before. Mayor John D. Smalley was not visibly affected by this new phase of the situation. "We hope to let the contract on the 22d of December," said he, -and I believe fully that the price will be llOO.OOO under the estimate. The first bids were sort of feelers, I think. "What convinced me of that was an incident In which Proudfoot, one of the big contractors, , found that' he had made a ridiculous mistake in his bid when the board received the first bid. A misplaced coma made an item read thousands , of dollars lower than it should. Proudfoot said that he would stand for It if he got the contract. He must have figured on a big margin. "Therefore, I feel sure that. the contractors will go under the estimate. It will' mean bed-rock margins for there are many contracting firms in the running. I think Hammond is going to get her job done at the lowest ' possible price." feme's Canadian fink at 1 Nitt per easu ftntalaic nelter. Nine ranpvna rtll set ro a nafet rntac THB HOME NEWSPAPER OF LAKB COUNTY IS THB COMPLIMENT BE STOWED MY ITS READERS ON THB tTMff ,

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HAIMD SCHOOL TEACHERS AGAINST SEX HYGIENE TEACHING

Principals of Various Schools Express Their Views on a Topic Which Has Assumed a Nation Wide Importance; What They Say of Conditions and What Some Other Schools Are Doing.

If the study of sex hygiene were proposed for the public schools, to be Btudled systematically, much like arithmetic for instance; if the advisability of teaching the subject in the public schools at all were submitted to you for a referendum vote, would you cast your ballot for the affirmative or for the negative? Negative Would Win. Judging from the replies The Times received in interviews with educators in the public schools in Hammond, the negatives would win by a unanimous vote, provided the question were submitted with present conditions in view, taking into consideration the present preparation of the teachers, and the conception that the public generally has of the subject. Have Thought Out Problem. The Times has found that the educa tors in Hammond have given the sub ject serious and earnest thought. With them it is no longer a question as to whether it should be taught, but rather as to how it should be taught. Bearing in mind the suddenness with which this problem has come to the front all AS FAKE Governor Ralston . .. Denies Higlioinder" Yarnas Pub lished in Several Papers in Northern Part of the State After Full Investigation. TIMES BIREU', AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. 6. Philip R. Shumway of Chicago, and Russell Mott, also of Chicago, the latter an attorney, called on Governor Ralston yesterday and asked that a parole be granted to Toy Tan, a Chinese who killed Tip Ham, another Chinese, in a Chinese laundry on Sixth avenue, Gary. Mott is said to have formerly lived at Michigan City. Toy Yan is a prisoner at the state prison at Michigan City, where he is a trusty for Warden Fogarty. Shumway told the governor that Toy Yan. was In his employ as a , servant for several years, and that he was entirely trustworthy and that he was a good man with a good reputation up to the-time of the shooting at Gary. The shooting is said to have followed an argument over the merits f the rebellion which was then raging in the Chinese empire. Only one shot was fired. ' The governor did " not give the men any answer, but the, request has been taken under advisement. It is understood that Shumway and Mott will file petitions and make a further showing to the governor in behalf gf the Chinese. - Warden Fogarty needed a house butler, and he chose Toy Yan for that work, making a trusty at the prison. Toy Yan has made good. He does cooking, cleaning and serving, and he, with another Chinese, have full charge of the warden's house. The two men do not appear to be convicts with full life terms ahead of them. Every night at 9 o'clock they are in their prison cells, a short block from the warden s house. ' It was reported a short time ago in a Gary paper that Chinese highbinders were on the trail of Toy Yan because they thought he was having too much liberty at the prison, but the governor says he never heard of such a story. It was said that some one had asked the governor to order Toy Yan locked in a cell at the prison .Jnstead of allowing him to be a trusty, but the governor says no one made any such request of him. Toy Yan has been In prison about two years. Bhumway says if Toy Yan is paroled he will take him back to Chicago with him and give him his old job as house servant in his home. BUpY IN FORSYTH. Reports reached- the Hammond central police station this morning that sneak thieves were busy at Forsyth last night and although two places were entered nothing of value was taken. Early in the evening entrance was gained iato the barn of Fred Kasch, 7S5 Indiana, (boulevard. A set of single harness was stolen. Entrance was also I Kalnea al reQ "ers "sn resort at me J lake front. . .

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over the country, ' the sentiment is unanimous ' that the schools as a rule are, not prepared to teach it systematically. " Other cities' are giving as serious study to the subject as Hammond teachers. Here Is what some of the Hammond school people have to say on

the subject: ' ,' , Superintendent Talks. ' SUPT. C. M. M'DANIEL: I do not believe in teaching sex hygiene by the average teacher In the school room. One reason for this is that the average teacher in 'the schools Is not prepared to teach it. My own preference is for a qualified physician to handle the sub Ject from a biological standpoint. The University of Michigan has successfully used illustrated lectures, and my; plan now is to get these lectures beginning next year and present them to the pupils of a certain age. PROF. F. D. M'ELROY. principal ot the Otntral high school: In my estimation a physical director is the proper person to instruct the boys and a dean of girls for 'the latter. I think Continued on page elht.) PASSENGERS II COLLISION A woman whose identity is unknown, was thrown through the window of a South Shore car at Calumet.today when an Indiana Harbor Belt Line, engine collided with an interurban on a crossing. Motofman Thompson was rendered un.4 conscious -and InJurt'dYel-haf extent is not known. The collision occurred late today and blame has not been placed. The vestibule of the car was completely wrecked and' splintered. The car was pro-" ceeding towards Eart Chicago from Indiana' Harbor . on the branch line of the South Shore. Other passengers were injured and all were badly shaken. The engine was backing up.'1 Four box cars were attacked1 to it. BLACK ISHONORED. TIMES ntHBVl-, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis. Ind. Dec 6. William E. Black, county assessor of Lake county, has been appointed a member of the committee on factory and mill machinery for the thirteenth annual conference of the board of state tax commissioners and the county assessors of the state to be held in this city on January 8, 9 and 10. Breltung's La Venda Cigars ai coa sidered supreme by the best judges. SHE'LL HAVE HER COMING OUT SOON !1 1 Miss Dorothy Campbell. Miss Dorothy Campbell, daughter ot Congressman and Mrs. Philip P. Campbell of Kansas, is a debutante in Washington society this winter and will have her coming out party at Ranscher's, where the socially elect of Washington entertains, on December 16. She " has just returned frum a trip to Panama with ber father ' '

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