Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 132, Hammond, Lake County, 21 November 1916 — Page 1

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DQCD President to Call Upon Nation; to Get Ready For New Trade Conditions After War 1 n KOBKHT .1. BKMMOlt II iiilril Press Staff orresponden t. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. A call to American business to meet unprecedented trade conditions after the war is to be the keynote of President Wilson's message to congress, Tuesday December 5th. The president is completing the message today and expects soon to have it in the hands of the printers. The president believes the country's Industries can do a maximum amount of work only when there is a minimum o." industrial unrest. His message is expected to emphasize more confidence or each in the other and less tendency to class feeling. !n this connection, the president has formulated plans for rendering practically impossible strikes of all kinds. He will urge completing: of a program similar to the proposed in his- last message to handle such situations us lh recent threatened strike of the raiiroad brotherhoods. l'.elieving- the railroad problem as important a domestic issue as confronts the country, the president will urge congress to give the most careful consideration to possible legislat ; i n which will aid the transportation s stems to expand and improve, to meet the additional stress under which they will be placed at the close of the w a r. Abroad also, the foundation must be laid for the coming trade upheaval, the president believes. He. will urge congress to act immediately upon a measure along the lines of the Webb bill w hich would have permitted American exporters to organize without fear of anti-trust law action. John Kravcak of East Chicago on trial for a week in Judge Hardy's court on the charge ol having killed Stanley Kowosky last August rested his fate with the jury this afternoon. Chief of Police Bowen of Kast Chicago was the last witness o testify a nl identified the written confession made to him by Kravcak following the killing. The statement admitted the shooting and gave as the reason, Kravcak'-s desire to separate Kowosky from Mrs. Kravcak who had nut been living with her husband since last Christmas. The shooting occurred in a house at 14 -lth street and Railroad avenue in Kast Chicago in presence of Mrs. Kravcak who had just accepted a cup of beer from Kowosky. In his confession Kravcak said he did not want to kill his wife for the sake of his four children. He formerly lived at 8813 Hurley avenue. South Chicago. In his trial he is represented by Attorney Joseph Meade. The state 1s represented by Prosecuting Attorney J. A. Patterson. WHITING HAS NEW FACTORY (Special to The Times.) WHITING, IXD., Nov. 21. The 'Galena Ki gnal Oil Co. with its main plant at Franklin, I'a., Is erecting a branch factory at Whiting at the site formerlyoccupied by the Westrumite Co. The specialty of trils concern is the manufacture of car oil, they lubricating 73 per cent of all the oil used by the railroads in the United States. The plant Is now well under way and when completed will employ about twenty-five men. BANK CALL IS MADE IHy 1 nitetl Prexs.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. The controller of the currency today Issued a c-;m1 for the condition of all national banks at the close of business on Frltl;i. Nov. 17. WEATHER. Cloudy tonisht and probahljr Wed. aemlay. Xot much change Jn temper, lture. Lowest tonight allchtly above 'reezlne. lolerae to frexb ent to iorfhnxt wlnilx.

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Fairfax Harrison. By reason of the great car shortage which now threatens, there has been placed in the hands of a small committee of railroad presidents and the interstate commerce commission arbitrary power to speed up car movements by increased per diem charges, to punish for diversion and delay on cars, to speak for the railroads on all demurrage, reconsignmer.t, and emergency suggestions. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway, has been appointed chairman of the executives' commission, in whose hands the final authority has been placed. Did Citizens of Ohio Vote or Their Pocltbooks? Wilson Not Popular at First But Factories Opened and the Rest Was Forgotten. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 21. Ohio furnishes a stupendous revelation of the reasons for the victory of Wilson and the defeat of Hughes. For the first time since the foundation of the Republican party, with tiie exception of the three-cornered fight of 1912, Ohio has given its electoral vole to a Democratic candidate for president. The president overturned a normal Republican plurality of approximately 100,030 and captured the state by a margin of 80,000 votes. He received 154,000 more votes than he did in 1912, while Hughes ran 12,000 behind the Taf t-Roosevelt aggregate. It was the only Wilson landslide in the entire contest in the forty-eight states. Ohio proved a fertile soil for the seeds of the "Wilson propaganda. NTowhere east of the Mississippi did the people, respond with such ready approval of the argument that "Wilson kept us out of war" and the appeal to "let well enough alone." The "pocket nerve" is peculiarly sensitive in Ohio. Good times, good administration; hard times, bad administrates, according to the Buckeye brethren. Nowhere was the Wilson administration more unpopular than In Ohio in 1914 when the 1'nOf rwood tariff reduction had closed factories, opened ! soup-houses to the unemployed and stag nated business generally. The Ohioans arose in their wrath, put the Democratic state administration out of office and elected a Republican United States senator.--Then the war brought prosperity; the great manufacturing plants of the northern part of the state re-opened and began making munitions. The farmers began riding in automobiles. The Wilson administration was not so bad after all. thought the Ohioans. In other states there may have been doubt that "Wilson kept tin out of war." Not m Ohio. The Buckeye folks knew there was something closely akin to war on the Mexican bottler, and had not Wilson and their own fellow Ohio.111. I Secretary of War Baker, kept their boj s j rvnf'i'e-1 -m pace f)v-.)

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Bride of Two Months Happy With Forgiving Husband in Cell at the Hammond Police Station Says, "He Did Me Wrong Once."

Komc lln:-.. she blue ejeil girl brulii who shot with deadly aim and perlmps mortally wounded the man she believed held the power to destroy her happiness, is happy in a cell at the Hammond police station today. AVhell.cr or not Louis Champa, through whose abdomen a bullet passed, lives or dies at St. Margaret's hospi tal, did not appear to matter greatly j ! the 17-year-old w ife. That her j husband of two months, knowing all. 1 f..,.,., fr..rtf ...! x,-ni ..,,.! v.v , , , , ner, was me Know ieugu iii il uruugui i a smile and caused the light heartedness which she displayed tuday. Held 011 a charge of felonious assault, admitting she shot the unwelcome visitor to tho candy and school supplies store she conducts in 04C Morton avenue, aid declaring that he had wronged her and she feared him, Rosie offered no excuses, expressed no concern for his condition,and seemed to have explicit faith, that the future held no terrors. "He did me wroi onoe." the girl told I a reporter, "and I vas afraid I would be at his mercy again. He came into the store yesterday afternoon thinking my husband was at his work at the Standard Steel car plant. There were customers in the store. He saw my husband and didn't say a word. I drew the revolver an fired twice right at him. Then he went out. I was afraid he would come to the store some day when my husband was away and I was alone." Champa was found staggering along Morton avenue, an ambulance was called and at St. Margaret's hospital surgeons worked with him for more than an hour on the. operating table in an effort to have his life. It is possible they have succeeded. I'.ut that isn't what Champa's assailant is thinking of. She is happy now because her husband, sojie years her senior and an Americanized foreigner who speaks good English, is going to see. that she is no longer molested by Champa if the latter does recover. The husband Is a voluntary, prisoner at the Hammond police station. He spent the day with his wife in the cell and says he will remain with her. HQBE LYON IS Elie ft PAROLE Exemplary Conduct at Leavenworth Obtains Freedom for Hammond Man. Exemplary conduct as prisoner at Leavenworth, and intercession by 'his attorney gained an early freedom ...for Hobe G. Lyon of Oakley avenue, Hammond. Lyon returned to Hammond Saturday, physically well and with words of aproval for the prtsori system at the federal prison. Last January upon nis plea of guilty he received a two-year sentence at the hands of Federal Judge A. li. Anderson at Indianapolis. He was charged with having d rayed some of the freight that was stolen from Monon cars. His conviction was the upshot of the death of Jesse Overly a railroad man wno was killed in a raid by police and railrpad detectives. It was mainlined all along that Lyon was a minor offender in tHe conspiracy and was made the "goat" for the higher-ups who have escaped thus far. His attorney, David Boone, appealed to the pardon board through the prison board and obtained Lyon's parole to nim. Lvon is glad of course, to be back in Hammond, and says he will Stay here and make a new start with a clean slate, and his friends hope he will succeed. DEATH OF E. L. HEATON E. L. Healon. a resident of Hammond for ten years, died Friday and was buried yesterday at Youngsown, O., his former home. Mr. Heaton left! Hammond a week ago yesterday lor Youngstovn for a visit which he hoped would benefit his failing health. Mrs. Heaton was called by a telegram telling of his serious illness, t A. conductor for the Indiana Harbor Belt lly., a member of the Od I Fellows and very popular, Heaton wa known to a great many people hi Hammond. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, a brother, two sisters and his widowed mother. "TAKE 'EM DEAD OR ALIVE" ! Chief r'f l oliee Petefc Austg-n. Secretary IV.rrhcrt. Officer Kunz. Police j Comr.i ;.- sinner Tapper and Peter Poh:I patz. v ' " s'-i-ving warrants on rabbits south ' Crown Point tojav.

t m i.i.i ;tj v ( lly I lilted Press.) K lllM)l, Av. SI. The .ernuui undersea freighter, Ieuts-hlunl, ' made her second suirt for her home ' imrt, I! re me n, at S:;!. this afternoon ' escorted by two tugs which were to ac- ' company her to the three-mile limit at '. the end of the sound. At' 2:13 the lusts S. A. lleokwlth au" j Alert reported at the submarine's pier; to export her out. Captain Koenlg and i

nil member of the aobniurine's crew j were aboard when the two ttms camr i j cli ii mi n u up to the tlock -where the Deiitxehluuil wits tied tip alongside the! : liner ii'lcheail, t" the iK-companlment j of rlirer from IKe crew of the mother j I '1 he sea.Kreen mon4er iff the deep 1 clipped out of her Itertlt tiniler her own 1 power. Once out xhe xlowly ttwunu ! urotiml anil pointed her noxe lioinew iiril j mill with the tug Alert wax noun heaili el f.r the open Ufa. Several membert j oif the leui,hlninl were on deck. j The I -""nt'ii lielmsniam, ( Inline, xtooil at the -wheel with Captain Keo- j nie, umlling nx ever. A Kreat erow4 i lined the xhore cheering the departing ernft. There was no xeeret Incident to her ' departure. l-'jjrly In the day rlimr Iwere flyinii n'ot that he would de-I I part today IF Messrs. Chapin around the office need any V'E little. know where t- ... they can get SOMETIMES a woman is so liard up for something to boast of sI I E will brag on a .husband acts like he was cutting w h o A NEW tooth. LOOKS ?.if some of our best people are differing from what the colored cook CAI-HS- "nervous prosperation." FAMINE of good stenographers and errand boys is reported n.nd ADOS to the h. c. of 1. OLD Chaunce Depew says that to defy old age we must associate with tile young WILL the young please act accordingly? HOWKVEK. if they had more football across the water THEY'D have less war. IT doesn't profit a man to come home and pat his wife on tiie back and SPEAK kindly to her SHE only tries to see if she can smell something on his breath. WE call for bids on a FAT young turkey, from 12 to 15 pounds WHITE end full breasted AND a couple of cranberries. HI JOHNSON that he murdered denies specifically the republican party WELL, if it wasn't murdered, it Was mussed up a heap. MINNESOTA was captured and recaptured so many times THAT we can call it the Lemberg of the U. S. WILSON'S PLURALITY IS 3,400 (By I nlted I'rexx.t SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21. The republican state central committee today estimated that President Wilson's plurality in California will be in excess of 3,400. Basing the estimate on tabluations by them of official returns from fifty counties and semi-official returns from the other eight t'ney set the figures at 3.416. ACCIDENT TO LOUIS KULP j Word jias been received in Hammond j of an accident at Wanatah to Louis Kulp. a former Hammond man, who lived on Mason street and was employed as a linotype operator for Ths times. Kulp was running a hay press and his left arm was caught therein crushing it so badly below the elbow that it was necessary to amputate above the elbow. He was Removed to his iiome in Valparaiso. W. H. SPRING DEAD Win. H. Spring. 66 years of age, employed by the Standard Steel Car Co. as a machinist, died this morning at lo o'clock at his home in 415 Becker street. The funeral will be Thursday in charge of "the Masons, with burial at Oak Ridge cemetery. Chicago. His wife and two children survive. TIMI'"! mis s-re personal messages to tl-.e people of ttii eomnMinity from the mcri'hiiri.

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James R. Mann. There will be more Republicans than Democrats in the next house of representatives, and Congressman James R. Mann of Chicago, present minority leader, is is line for the speakership. Should the Democrats win over the independents in the lower house, which seems unlikely, the reelection of Speak Clark would be assured. The independents hold the balance of power.

(Hy Lnited Ires table gram.) I.OMJO.N, ov. 21. V wircles illxpatch from lluclmrext today k.-ih it is rumored In the ltumanian capital that cn. i'nlken. liayne ha been recalled from the t.erinan operations in Tranxyl vanin. being replaced by field Marshal Yon .Mackenxen who In now at llVliruil jn. In Mackenxen's place, the dispatch kh.vx, It Is reported that the t.ermaiix wi.'i put l.udendorff. Hy I iiiteil Prexx ahlerram.) rtoMJOY. Nov. 21. NotwlthxtanilHtanding protests from America, llollimii anil the Vatican, t.ermany In xtill departing Iteluian workmen. Moreover, he i now regixterln g, prexuinahly for future deportation, all citizen. of Switzerland and the Duchy of Luxemburg, who are renlililiK in Jt.-lKUim. lly l nited Irex Cablegram.) HKKL.1X (via AVirelexs to Long Ixlandl Nov. 21. "Our infantry now- ntnnda before. Craiova," de. dared the tierman official xtatement teUSng of the xweep of the Teutonic armies against the Iloiinianiaiix. 'On the Alt xome Important town, and Interenched heights were captured by us from the Roumanians In a never struggle, the atnte. nient continued. (lly lnited Press Cablegram.) l'iri'HOtiK All, ov. 21. l"uder (.rrninn pressure the Iloumanlans hate retired to Kil'axh. according; to the Iluxxian war office abatement, issued here today. I lly ,1 nlted Press Cablegram.) I.OXDON. ov, 21. V Central ew dixpatch from Athens declar. ed the tireelt cabinet has refused the demands of Admiral' Kournet. representing the clUes, that the (.rrinim, Austrian, llulgarian and Turkish ministers lejive the capital before tomorrow. The dispatch states that another meeting of the cabinet will be held before the matter in settled definitely. HUGHES DELAYS CONGRATULATIONS By United Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Chairman Willcox of the republican national committee, declared today no telegrams conceding the election of President i f'il. .-, r.-m(.rytnlatin p- tlim bIS lil-ln prepared, so far as he knows. Commenting on reports published in New- Y'ork that Charles E. Hughes had really prepared a telegram of congratulation, Willcox said: ,"I know of no such statement having been prepared. I saw the governor last night and tlte situation is just where it has been. There is no change. I don't know what the result of the official count will be any more than you do and it would be foolish of me to say anything about it." There are lO.OtlO Lake County people who are living all over the I . . A subscription to Til K TIMES will save j oi the trotltil of wririnsr a lettci; to any one of (Nrra.

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tr r ' 1 7 A decisftm of far reaching effect for Gary's industrial development was handed down by Judge Harry Crumpacker of the Porter-Laporte superior court at Valparaiso yesterday, when he held in the case of Nathaniel Stone and others against the Indiana Steel company, in which the plaintiffs sought to compel the company to restore the Calumet river to its old winding channel, that the plaintiffs were not damaged and that they had no cause for complaint. The decision enables the company to proceed with many contemplated improvements and is a big local victory for Attorney L. L. Bomberger of Hammond, who sat in rs co-counsel with K. K. Knapp of Chicago, they having represented the company. A three cornered light is on in East Chicago over the office of deputy prosecutor under Prosecuting Attorney-elect CJ-vde -Hunter, of Gary. The three men, any one of whom would doubtless f.ll the office acceptably, are :1I. II. Cohen, present incumbent; Lester Ottenheimer, secretary of the young men's republican club, and T. H. Grabowski, Calumet building, who has made good as an attorney among a large clientage. Mr. Cohen bases ius claims not only upon effective work for the party during the recent campaign but also upon the experience that he has gained by several years experience in conducting this office. Mr. Ottenheimer is a graduate of law from Northwestern University and was active not onljr in the organization of the young men's republican club but also in party councils in the campagin. Mr. Grabowski, who by birth is a Pole but who by choice and the naturalization laws is an enthusiastic American, is also an ardent Republican and because of his work feels that he is entitled to some consideration. The contest is a good matured one in which each candidate is busy lining up his friends for support.. The appointment is not effective until January 1. YES, THEY KNEW SAM'S BOY Sam Hock of North Judson. Ind., came to Gary yesterday. Sam met two young men who said they knew his son at college. Sam told the police they had a good time and when they left his room some of his valuables were missing. DEATH OF CONGDON My lnited Press.) ST. PAUL, MINN., Nov, 21. O. A. Congdon, Minnesota member of the republican national committee, ilieii here ; od.-i

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EscEpa From OsaS Nsar Hammond Is Miracle and Accident Unusual Ons. A Chicago bound flyer, rushing through Oak Glen illage on the outskirts of Hammond at a speed of a mile a minute in order to make up lost time, struck and entirely destroyed a five-passenger automobile in "which two boys, James Molenaar, aged 12 years, and Orin Kooy, 13, were riding. The machine was torn to pieces, the steel twisted and knotted, the body splintered and scattered along the right of way for a distance of two city blocks, the wheels battered into junk and the top ripped to bits, but the precious human cargo was saved. When the-, frantic engineer had at last stopped his engine and jumped to the ground he found Instead of the mangled remains of the boys, an unusual tableau on the pilot of hia steel steed. Embraced in each other's arms, the lads were plastered up against the front of the iig engine like two paper wads on a blackboard. James, who is the $on of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Molenaar of Lansing, was stunned but aside from a few scratches had no Injuries. Orin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kooy of Highland, was unconscious for several hours but there .AraJMtn:oka , Uoae-nd he wilt"1j all right shortly. It was because the Kooy boy's reach was not 'long enough for him to throw in the clutch readily that he was trapped on the tracks while driving the car. He had just turned around after having visited the depot whero h'i had gone on and errand and was driving northeast at the time of the accident. ."o one can explain how tho two boys escaped instant and liorriblo death. HARBOR li ASPHYXIATE Asphyxiation by gas escaping through an open jet claimed another victim in Indiana Harbor last night, when a stranger rooming with Andrew Adamschek, S419 Michigan avenue, met lit death while sleeping in one of the rooms on the second lloorAt 5:30 o'clock this morning Fred McIlroy, porter, noticed the odor of gas and realized that it came from tiie stranger's room. He opened tho door and found the gas jet open. The man was apparently asleep or unconscious. The porter did not investigate. Ho simply saw that ho was alive, tuen tumid off the gas, opened a window and left Uie room. When about D o'clock the stranger did not show up, an investigation was made and it was apparent at once .that the man was dead. Ho had been dead an hour or more. Adamschek then notified the police and Officer Bichl investigated. Dr. Sauer was called, but the caso was hopeless. Then the undertakers. Burns aud HcGuan, took charge of tho body. Dr. Sauer, In concluding his Investigation, said that the life might havu been saved had some action been taken at 5:30 when the condition was first disco vered. So far the man's identity has not been learned. He had a friend with him when he engaged the room and the police are hunting for that friend. Meantime the body owait3 identification at the morgue. EXPL0S1O! AT PLAIT A dust explosion in the upper reaches of one of the warehouses of "the Chapin and company plant, at Columbia avenue and the Indiana Harbor tracks in Hammond, occurred about 11 o'clock Saturday forenoon. Frank Wocik, an employe who was in that part of the building in which the explosion occurred, sustained burns about the face and hands, but was able to be at work Moaday. TJte damage caused to the building was not due so much to the flame and fire 83 to the pressure from the explosion. A concrete roof which supported the elevator in which the explosion occurred saved men from injury in the main warehouse. TIMES" advertising will enable yon to break all your busiacss rfrordt fur j the y ear end. Call riv;lit nwny. I I1IUS ml tn:i;i