Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 16 December 1913 — Page 1

EVENING" EDITION FAIR AND SLIGHTLY WARMER TODAY; WEDNESDAY FAIR. VOL. VIH., NO. 162. HAMMOND, INDIANA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPT, (Back MmMbers t Cents CwT.) ATTERSON CASE NON-SINKABLE SUIT FOR SEA TRAVELERS! mi i UA V

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The making up of Issues In the impeachment proceedings against Prosecutor James A. Patterson, which was scheduled for this evening before Judge Harry B. TuthiU at Valparaiso, is now delayed for an indefinite time, owing: to a severe attack of sciatic rheumatism which is confining the judge to his bed. Both sides are prepared to begin with the actual trial of the case next Saturday, but the unlooked for illness

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TIMES Bl'RBAC, AT STATE CAPITAL. ' Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 16. Washington dispatches say Shivelyj and Kern confered with McAdoo and ' McReynolds today and made recommendations for ' revenue collectors and district attorney. Cincinnati, O., Dec 16. Six men I were reported dead today, one man

fatally injured and a woman and X 'wo children supposed to have per,)ished in uames which destroyed the Salvation Army Home for Men, with a loss of $100,000, and imperiled a thickly populated tenement block In the center of which the home was situated. All the known dead were tnose who lodge transiently in home of this class, and no exact identifications could be made.

NOVEL CONTEST IS PLANNED Checks to be Found by Readers of Ads. The Morton Eiehman Company of Indianapolis will put on a novel contest through the advertising columns of Thu Times. Three evenings next week the above. .named rjB:,pnteriXRjg? Publishing a 'aerieB- of advertisements of ocal business houses and also will hide a check in some business, room in the city. In order to tind the cheeky every advertisement must be read closely each evening, as in several of the advertisements there .will be an added, or superfluous word. These words when put together form a sentence which iells in plain English the exact loca'ijion of the che-k. The Morton Eiehman Company has put this "stunt" in moro tnan twenty cities in Indiana during the last four months, all of which have proven highly successful.' Mr. Eicliman is here in personal charge of the contest and bears high recommendations from other Indiana publishers. He has chosen The Times as the best medium through which to operate his contest. Holidays Coming. The public schools of Hammond, including the night school, will close next Friday for a two weeks' vacation in observance of the holidays. The end of the first semester is a few days over a month away and many classes will be. promoted at that time. Final examinations are not far off. PHOTO-PLAY KIDDIE IS VERY POPULAR Clara Horton. One of the most popular little children in moving pictures is Clara Horton, who is also known as the "Eclair Kid." "My! I love pictures best in the world," says Miss Clara. "I do so enjoy my work. I have & private teacher who comes to my house every morning, and I take ballet lessons too. Mother has hopes of making a wonderful dancer of me some , day. Oh, I surely hope she won't be disappointed. I'm truly going to do my best."

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of Judge TuthiU is likely to disarrange the program. Attorneys for the defense are noncommital as to their course in the trial. They have listened with polite interest to the Crown Point report published in Thh Times last Saturday to the effect that the proceedings must be withdrawn in the lower court and- instead filed directly in the supreme court. They are saying nothing one way or the other.

MISS RYAN IS BACK KOHE AGAll Trip to Gary Causes Her to Lose None of Her Enthusiasm. Rosie Ryan, looking m the best of health and spirits, came home Saturday from her Sunday afternoon trip to a Gary skating rink on November 30, which resulted in the shattering of reputations, among them the good name of a prominent married man of the steel city. Today Rosie is shopping: with all the enthusiasm of the 19-year-old miss she in. This flftprnnnn Hffcn Pun n tnnlr r the matinee and laughed at a clever performance of music and nonsense. She has resumed her old habits of living and will remain In Hammond. Naturally Miss Ryan is distressed at the publicity which arose during her mysterious absence of a fortnight. Had she telephoned her mother from Chicago that she was at the home of a girl friend, none of this would have occurred. But as It was it could not be helped for. the police, fearing foul play at the hands of white slavers, brought the newspaper into play as a medium of solving the problem. Was Howie rugrsedf The visit of Delia Graves and Rosie Ryan to .the ..Murphy and Bee Burks saloohs.'"In the" company 6T-thr-ft-"yOUTBgi men, shows Indiscretion, and Miss. Ryan admits as much: That she was under the- Influence of a drug is apparent from the testimony of her girl friends, and although she is making no statements at present, that is very probably her explanation. Sentiment is not against the girl, and official opinion is that she was taken to a Broadway hotel by Victor Barnhart while her head was reeking from the effects of intoxicants or drugs. In that case the matter may not be dropped. The girl was " brought home from Chicago by Captain Rimbach of the Hammond force. She was found in a dance hall by Chicago police. The Frank S. Betz Company, largest dental, medical and surgical supply house in the world is constantly branching out until it is now ready to supply almost everything necessary for the erection, furnishing and equipment of a physicianls home and office or, larger still, the Sanitarium and hospital he patronizes. Kellantone Company Failed. The Betz Company has on the market today a stucco for house building that is said to surpass Kellastone, the material that has had such vogue in Hammond. Recently the Kellastone Company went up in the air with a -hurrah overcapitalized, so the financiers say. Since then the demand for that preparation has been supplied by the Frank Betz Company. In Qualifying the statement that the Betz Company can build, furnish and equip a dwelling, one is taking a chance of being in error. It is quite possible that some place in the mammoth establishment Is a department where plumbers' supplies and hardware is kept for sale. Frank S." Betz, the dynamic force be hind the enterprize Is an analyser who adds to his wisdom, knowledge. He will be a student till he dies and a worker till the last breath. If shipwrecked on a desert island Betz would have irrigation and a bumper crop in dess time than it takes to tell. Tain' la .a Stucco Town. In 1913 $600,000 was put in stucco residences in Hammond. There is no where a town that thinks more of the new material than Hammond, and there is not another city that takes more pride in pretty homes. HELP WANTED 1,000 customers to help carry away tons of neckwear at The Model Clothing House. BreltuBg La Venda Clears r th Alt-best class la all Its sixes, Adv. tl

BRANCHES OUT IN A NEW FIELD

After renting a . room at the Maine Hotel late- last -night.' apparently in high spirits, Johnny Loetscher, 23 years old and well known Hammond young man, drank the contents of a large bottle of carbolic acid and was found dead in bed by hotel attendants this morning. He is a son of Gottfried Loetscher a saloonkeeper at 16 Plummer avenue and leaves a wife and child to mourn his rash act. As it was often his custom according to employes 1 of the Maine Hotel, young Loescher"- inquired for a room about 11:30 o'clock last night. Laughing and Joking he bid the night clerk good night and went to his room. He had nearly a three ounce bottle of carbolic acid from which he had torn the label and poured the contents in a glass. This he drank. - "

After spending nearly half an hour ! this, morning in their-efforts to arouse young Loetscher, the door was orced open by' hotel attendants and Loetscher was found lying on the bed dead. He was partially dressed. The glass from which he had drank the acid was lying on the floor and upon further investigation Officer .Kunz found an empty whiskey and a note which had not been completed. It read: "Please notify the following people, John L" and then stopped. The cause for young Loetscher's actions, cannot be accounted for as he semed in the best of spirits. He had been dead for several hours as his body was still limp When found. Undertaker Neidow was summoned and the remains were removed to the morgue. Loetscher is well known in Hammond and was employed as a driver for Selpp's bottle wagon. The suicide is being, investigated by Coroner Chldlaw this morning. 0RPHEU1 ARRANGES EFIT Louis Rommel, manager of the Orpheum theater, announces that all records in point of performances will be broken at his house New Tear's week. Twenty-five shows are to be given in seven days. On xNew Year's eve a performance will start shortly after 10:30 and contlirue until the whistles have all blown and the New Tear is in. Added attractions have been secured and the regular performance will be mixed with a cabaret. All three shows on the day before Christmas are to go for sweet charity, It is thought advisable for Settlement House workers who are interested in this benefit to sell tickets in advance. vvnen tne cnristmas eve rush Is on there is . little thought of theatricals and crowds are apt to be small. How ever, an advance sale could be made successful. A season or so ago the big cities were regaled with a well acted farce in which a young physician finding himself in a pinch, rents out the rooms of his uncle's palatial residence, during the owner's absence. Complica tions ensue. The whole thing is resolved Into a question of how said roomers may be ejected before uncle arrives. It Is hard to throw out a retired banker from Kalamazoo, Mich., let alone a vaudeville artist. Jack Trainor as Heryy Smitt, retired president of the German American Savings bank, has brought the farce down from two and a half hours and intersperced tunes to make it lively. Although the small chorus is agile it would be better were the tunes admitted. That is, it would be better for the show, as a performance, but not for the box office. Pure farce esn't always go. Jack Trafnor is a good farceur, and Howard Longford a lady-killer. Louisa Willis pleases in a difficult role, one that is generally over-done, and Edna Raymond wears tights and war paint to the approval of the entire first row. The Dancing Dasies are dasies. To Go West. Frank S. Lowrey, who has for twenty-two years been a hustling citizen of Hammond, is leaving tomorrow evening for Los Angeles, CaL, where he will affiliate himself with the insurance game on the coast. First employed in the old M. M. Towle nail mill, Lowrey has since been connected in a buslniess way with Hammond insurance and real estate. He has invested well and is in good circumstances. Of late Lowrey has been a salesman for the Blackmun Realty company. His family will move to the coast later. Wilson H. Henderson of the night school is acting in the capacity of an employment agent during the holiday slack. He is asking those who need workmen to notify him so that he may send some one In the night school who happens to be out of work- He will recommend men for many different kinds of employment. Tou can bujr your Xmas The Model Clothing House. wants at

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burning of the Vojtiriia, have been the saving of ocean, going passengers.

Inventions is the 1 if saving suit demonstrated by Mr. Raschke, the in

ventor, before an audience of several of leading shipping companies. Times Wins $50,000 Libel Suit and for the Third Time Within a Year Plaintiff Fails to Get a Verdict in Case Against Paper. For the third tlm within a year a Lake county court jury has failed to return a verdict for J. O. Koontz the Hammond lawyer in his suits against the Lake Countv Printing and Publishing Company ; fo- alleged libel. Last night about eight o'clock the jury in J u dtre Kooelke s court where Koontz had sued tH Publishing company for fifty thousand dollars eturneda Verdict and judgment for costs in favor of the defendant. In the absence of Judge Kopelke who had gone to Crown Point," Judge Lawrence Becker was summoned from his home and received the verdict. CASE IS BITTERLY FOUGHT. The third of the series of trials was perhaps the most bitterly fought of any of them and lasted as long as the Crown Point trial which the plaintiff also lost. Koontz had sued because of the publication of an editorial In this paper in which Judge Becker had taken his part in an appeal case from Judge Lewis' court in East Chicago. Koontz excepted to the way in which he had been designated In the comment. The most important witness for the defense was J. A .Carey of Kenton, Ohio, who- was Koontz's old school teacher and now district assessor. His testimony and the birth records from the Ohio courts fixed Koontz's race in the minds of the Jury. Another strong witness for the defense was (Continued on page eight.) Nine Days to Christmas 1 Dec. 16 If You've Been Wise You Can Laugh at the Person Who Has Not Done His Christmas Shopping.

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v ' : i jt & 'I i the cause of many novel inventions for What probably is the best of these the leading men representing the WARRING HOBART FACTIONS Although,- the elections are over the warring factions in Hobart have not yet laid down their arms. One politl cal move is made after another to checkmate the other fellow and occa sionally the courts are resorted to for an injunction w mandamus. Judge Relter or the superior court yesterday afternoon issued a temporary restraining order against H. E. Keilman president of the tow nboard, William Scharback and William Lennertz town trustees to prevent them from carrying out their announced Intention of appoint' -g two new trustees for two new wards which they had created at a meeting on the ninth of this month.- The meeting for the appointment, of James Malone as sixth ward trustee and John E. Larson as seventh ward trustee was scheduled for last night, but the temporary restraining order put a check to the plans. The trial for the permanent injunction is to be begun in the superior court on Wednesday of this week. The petitioners for the injunction represented by Attorney Jesse . Wilson of Hammond are William H. Carey and James M. Ballantyne. In their complaint it is alleged that their proceedings creating the new wards were Irregular and that the wards themselves have no equal apportionment of voters, ward No. 6 having only twenty-five voters. Ths petitioners see In the proceedings a movement by the Keilman faction to secure control of the new board, Keilman himself having been defeated In the last election. IRATE WOMAN USES POKER Gary Man Has Adventure in East Chicago. To be chased by a poker in the hands of an Irate woman, only to flee into the arms of a police officer, was the fate of Henry Griesheimer of Gajry in East Chicago Sunday. Griesheimer was conducting himself in a very Indecorous manner near St. Mary's Catholic church. Insulting little girls as they happened to pass him and misbehaving generally. He was .observed by a woman who lives in the vicinity, but who as. a highly respected member of the community prefers her name to be unknown in -this connection. Outraged at Grlesheimer's actions she sallied forth, armed with a poker, and approaching him in a threatening manner ordered him to begone. Griesheimer fled precipitately and his vanquisher thereupon returned to-the house, called up the police and requested them to be on the lookout for him, as he was headed towards the station. She described the man and the police were ready for him and took him into the station at once. Griesheimer is not a. bad looking fellow and was rather well dressed and did not have the general appearance of one who would be guilty of the practices of which he is accused. Mr. and 'Mrs. Goodfellow are spending their money in Hammond, no need of going to. Chicaaro, . .The .M-1 C? ing House can supply all your Xmas wants.

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an Avowed Candidate Against Murphey and Don't Consider It -.. Seriously. Unless the rules for the political game, lor which the democratic tentn district chairmanship Is the prize, are revised before December 29 Attorney Joseph Conroy of Hammond may be acandidate for the honor. Conroy is not an avowed candidate to succeed "Charley". Murphy of Brookston. He admits that he has been urg ed by leaders of both factions in the party to become a candidate, but tip to the present he has not yet given It setContlnued .on. page eight.). Of Ave divorce complaints filed In the superior court within the last few days the latest filed by Attorney D. E. Boone for Mrs. Matilda Fredericks ' against her husband Henry C. Fredericks of Hammond.- The complaint in substance alleges incompatibility on the part of the husband, and asks $5,000 alimony, and $15 a week 'toward her 'support until the case is disposed of. ' Mr. and Mrs. Fredericks, were . married at Green ., Garden. JU. ,Jn . 1891. They -ad-thelr;three daughters, who are respectively 19," 17 and 16 years old, came to Hammond several years ago where the husband -engaged in the monumental works, and,, automobile business. r ..( ... - . : 1 Mrs. Samuel Booker of G4ry, through her attorney, Clyde Hunte. In a divorce complaint charges her, husband with cruel treatment. They were mar ried ten years ago. Nicholas Furanek of Gary, asks a divorce on the charge of desertion. They were married in 1906. Mrs. Joseph Arnanj - Tot of Gary, through her attorneys, Charles Greenwold, says her husband has done her physical violence on several occasions and abandoned her at different times. They were marked" 'In 1905." Carl Grove of Gary, charges his wife with being addicted .to the .use of . alcoholics and with deserting him. They were married In 1895. COMMITTEE ADOPTS PLAN A plan was tentatively adopted by a committee of State Line street property owners and the Hammond board of public works, . last evewiing, by which the "straightening" of the border thoroughfare will cost Hammond at least $10,000, in condemnat'on and house removal. Four blocks from Ogden street south are to be cut into on the Indiana side. . The assessment will be spread from Plummer avenue south between the first alley west of Hohman street and State Line street. It will not cost West Hammond a cent, and Hammond prop erty owners will be the beneflciarie The only thing about the plan that can be objectionable is the fact that this manner of -straightening" State Line i street will not straighten it, only make it wider for four blocks. There will still be three jogs, one 11.4 feet at Ogden street, another 17.3 feet at Carrill street and the other on the Illinois side, 15.5 feet at Ogden street. The committee, of which George Hannauer is chairman, will very likely make this recommendation to the West Hammond t'ity council. However, it is still in debate. - iLAKE COUNTY PIONEER DEAD (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Dec 16. John Mangold, aged $5, died at his home here today. He was one of Lake county's oldest living settlers and the father of ten children, several of which live in the northern part of the county. The funeral will take place on Thursday from the Iutheran church. -Attorney Dan Moran of the law firm of Moran and Dyer left yesterday for Kninam. Jasper county, Indiana, where he will spend several days hunting rabbits. He will return Thursday and Dan will have to have a well filled game bag if he expects to supply all his friends in the Hammond building that are expecting game. . Breltnng's La. Venda Cigars ai eonldcred supreme toy the best Judges ' Adv.

FIVE NEW DIVORCE CASES FILED

Lafayette Democrats Decide

to Hold Primary and Rescind Action Taken at Meeting There on December 6. Lafayette. Ind.. Dec 16. Tha Tinn. canoe County Democratic committee .met last night at the Jackson Club and ; rescinded the action taken at the meiting held Dec. 6. It was aeclded to !hold a primary election Dec. 28 for tho selection of delegates to the district convention at Hammond Dec. 29. A resolution provided for twenty-nino delegates, of whom fifteen will be from the city of Lafayette and fourteen cat. side. The delegates must come 'mm all (Continued on page eight.)' MAYOR PARKS TAKES DECISIVE ACTION Whiting Executive Wins. Praise by Revoking Saloon License. (Special to Taa Times.) Whiting-. Ind., Dec. 16. As a climax to a case of Juvenile dellnauencv. ! equivalent to the alcoholic poisoning I of Stanley Florek, the 17-year-old I Hammond boy, Mayor Beaumont Parks today revoked the saloon license of Mi chael Plllst The official's action Is almost without precedent In Whiting and citizens are now hopeful that the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to minors will hereafter ba observed. , Norman Rab and Paal- Welsby, IB years of-ag-e. were disgracefully intoxicated one night recently and out of revenge to one saloonkeeper Who refused them a drink they heaved a brick through the big plate glass of the buffet. They were arrested for this and fined a dollar and costs apiece by Judge Hall. On promise of good behavior the sentence was suspended. The ' boys, however, were compelled to pay fcr the window. Authorities brought influence to bear which finally decided the young men to make an affidavit as to where they had secured liquor. This they did. mentioning Michael Pilisl. The latter's license was immediately revoked. Pilisl operated a saloon at the corner of John street and New York avenue. He was a successor to John Pauly. Did Not Give Grants The West Hammond city cftuncil did not grant a franchise to the Gary, Hammond and Chicago Heights Interurban company last evening, but deferred the matter for a couple of days. In the meantime the ordinance will 1m changed in many respects. A special meeting of the council will be called by the mayor. Suits for Xmas specially priced $15, $18, $20 The Model Clothing House. HE'S ADVERTISING " PANAMA EXPOSITION Gecrge Hugh Perry. , George Hugh Perry is director of the division of exploitation of the Panama-Pacific exposition. His divison includes the departments of participation, promotion, publicity, publications, photographs, piinting. , lectures, nformation and public service, state orgalnzation and expostlon travel. Mr. Perry is a well known advertising man, a , writer and lecturer on the ; science of organization and the i economics of advertising an dselliug.

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