Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 133, Hammond, Lake County, 22 November 1916 — Page 1

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East Chicago Man Pronounced Free in Judge Hardy's Court by Petit Jury This Morning. A jury of twelve men in Judge Hardy's court found John Kraveak of East Chicago not guilty of murder. It was 'out five hours when it returned its verdict at eight o'clock last night. KravcaX man forty years old. who admitted the killing of Stanley Kowosky last August is again a free man, because the Jury concluded lie had n.it sinned against society when he shot and killed a man who broke up his home, and Induced Mrs. Kraveak, th mother of four children, to desert her husband. The shooting occurred early in the morning when Kraveak finding ths shack on Railroad avenue in which Kowosky and Mrs. Kraveak lived in lawless abandon. Kraveak walked in to the place and found his wife in bed and Kowosky serving beer to her from a cup. Kraveak testified his rival lunged at him with a knife and that he shot In self-defense, but in his written confession ha alstf stated that he had bought the gun a, moith earlier "to separata them." KravcaJc was a good witness for himself. but his attorney Joseph Meade left no avenue unprotected for his client's defense. Kraveak went to work with an East Chicago concern this morning. His attorney was unable to say whether the husband and wife would be reunited in a home. Since her husband went to jail to await trial, she was compelled to go to the almshouse, having had no support for herself and her four children,.. one. of . which, ia sickly. HARD LUES FOR IND. DEMOCRATS Garyites Return From Election Fraud Probe by XT. S. Grand Jury. WASHINGTON. Nov. J2. Plans for aolving the Indiana patronage problem after March 4 have been practically agreed on. Until March 4 the state patronage. If there ahall be any, will tie distributed under the direction of the two Democratio aenators and the pemocratio representatives. After March. 4 the Democratic party of the etata will be represented hera in "Washington by the Vice-President and four Democratic members of the house of representatiyes. These fiva representatives of the party will get together between now and March 4, bo it ia said by persons authorised to speak for them. and agree on a plan for the handling of such patronaga as may come to the tata after that date. The present thought la that appointments in the congressional districts represented in th bouse ty Republicans shall be mad on the recommendations of the four Democratic representatives and the Vice-President. The same plan, it is said, probably will be followed withj respect to any and all federal appoint-, ments in the tate. patronage Likely to Be Slim. Sine the state failed to give its electoral votes to Wilson and Marshall, the outlook Is that there will not be any considerable amount of Democratic patronage given the state during the next four years. This does not mean that the administration wou)d undertake to punish the Democratic party iri the state for its failure to stand by the President, but that in the very nature of things the federal l.iums will go to the Democrats of those states that made the re-election of the President possible. Under this plan the states west of the Mississippi will fare better in thia matter than they have heretofore. AVlll Wllaon Reappoint? It is assumed that the federal office; holders in Indiana will, as a rule, be rr-appointed as their terms expire. However, in view of the fact that Wilon is the first Democratic President to be reelected in a generation, ther is no warrant for saying definitely it this time what the policy of the administration will be. In any event, the four-year terms of the federal officers in the state do not In any instance expire in 1916. The last of these officers to be appointed, L Ert Slack, United States district attorney, holds until January. 1920. Only twenty-sis presidential postmasters' commissions in Indiana expire in J917. Most of these postmasters, it is understood, will ask for reappointment. In 1918. a large number of postmasters' commissions will run out That will be the busy year for whoever assumes to dictate these appointments.

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While people of Lake county were snorincr last Sunday morning little Miss Ruth Law, the blue-eyed blonde aviatrix, long known for her daring aeroplane feats, started a flight from Chicago to Xew York City, but found it necessary to land at Hornell, N. Y., 590 miles from Chicago. In flying that far she broke the American endurance record, made by Victor Carls trom the other day, when, engaged in a similar feat, he flew '432 miles from Chicago to Erie Pa. She reached Xew York early the next day and the first thing she asked for wa3 face powder.

(BfULETlX.) (By United Ir ) M A5HDGTO.V, St. 22 taliere ha nera (Towisc doubt here 'this afternoon that the I nltrd States supreme court will be able to render decision j In the Adamson elisht-hour Js.w before ; early In January, unless the ponderous J machinery of the highest tribunal Is j peeked to a rate that would set a pre. j cedent. The government will he unable to submit Its appeal before December 4, tthen the court reconvenes after a two weeks' reoes. Tomorrow night will be the big stag affair of the year at the Hammond Country club when the fifth annual installation ceremonial will take place in the shape of a banquet to the incoming officers. The affair will Introduce II. M. Johnson, the incoos: president, to his fellow club members and guests. Former President George Hannauef and retiring officers and chairmen are on the program for speeches and reports and some hot shots are expected at the dinner. Dr. T. W. Oberlin. the new chairman of the entertainment committee, will be in charge of the program. Members from Gary. "Whiting and East Chicago have signified their intention' of being present. GARY TO GET ANOTHER HOTEL It was reported in. Gary today that plans have been completed for the erection of a three-story hotel building at the southwest corner of 8th avenue and Washington street. The structure will contain 57 rooms. Sigmund Eisler, a South Broadway business man. is having a $32.0rt hotel erected at Indiana Harbor. TIMES' advertising will enable you to break all your business records for the year end. Cnll a TIMES ad man

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to - f LADY calling onanother THE other had a little dog. Visitor started to pet it BUT when it licked the paint off one side of her cheeks she put pup DOWN in a hurry. IS onions there is strength. THE laaie may be a noble bird but Oi.l.) hen contributes about AS much comfort to this nation as all the other birds put together. NOTE with interest that some of the election prophets have emerged from THE cyclone, cellar. WHO but a woman can sharpen a pencil with a pair of scissors? OL.I Abe Martin is in a hHuva fix this Thanksgiving HE says he can't afford both an automobile AND a turkey the same year. DOOKS zif the old guari? never Tes, never surrenders and - NEVJEK pays its bets. READ of a pet rattlesnake in West Va. that has gune without fond for EIGHT days WE have written for the system MAY have to come to it if food keeps on climbing. ALWAYS prided ourself on being a quiet dresser UNTID the wiff says that the racket WE make when we lose a collar button is positively disgraceful MAY be something in it. WHAT they call peace agitation abroad suggests SUSPENDING the dove from the wash-line and beating it like an OLD carpet. IT still Is fashionable to hesitate AS to whether they want a Ford or a baby. "WIIjSON means well," said a democratic friend on the street ear WELL, what? j Contract for your holiday advertising; space now. Don't wait till the I week before Xmas and epeet ta get the let position In the paper.

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PPEAL CASE toh COURT Missouri Federal Judge Hoids Law Unconstitutional 4 Today By Vnlted Press.) KANSAS CITY, MO., Nov. 22. Judge Wallace C. Hook in the federal court here today held "that the Adamson eight-hour law is unconstitutional and invalid. Judge Hook refused to grant the motion put by federal attorneys asking that the application of the receiver of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad for an injunction against the Adamson law be dismissed. Attorneys for the government are expected to appeal the case to the supreme court at once, which will make this the test case to determine in the highest court of the land the constitutionality of the law. Judgf Hook made this decision at 11:1 S o'clock this morning. "My decision was merely to rush the case to tiie supreme court as rapidly as possible," Judse ITook said .after the AVcrMon. '" ' ' '"' " ' ' "I have given the government until three o'clock to perfect an appeal to the higher court." Francis M. Wilson. U. S. district attorney and Frank Hagerman. special council for the government intimated that the appeal would be ready "by or before three o'clock." "This is an independent suit 'to enjoin the enforcement of a recent act of congress, commonly called the Adamson law upon the ground that it is contrary to the constitution. "The sole question raised by it b that of the constitutionality of the law. upon a consideration of the Adamson law and what is said of its practical effects and what was intended to be accomplished by it., is the judgment as the court construes the terms of the law, it cannot be sustained." Riniic niM.rrix.) I.OMJO.V, Sot. 22 The British hospital ship Britannic, pronably the White Star I.lner of that name and ihe largest nhlp afloiit. was sunk In the 7es chaa- : ne of the Asjrean Sea yesterday. The admiralty nnnounred today that of those aboard, about 50 were lost, SH Injured and l.lOO saved. The admiralty announcement declar. ed the Teasel had been sunk by a mine or a torpedo. The Britannic was a steel triple screw steamship of 4S.158 tons until her sinking he biggest British ship afloat. She was built for the White Star passenger service, being finished only last year, but was immediately requisitioned by the British government for una as a hospital transport. The Zea channel Wnere the admiralty states the great ship was lost is a bit of water between the mainland of Greece and the Island of Zea. From this it is safe to assume that the Britnni. was bringing back wounded soliliers from Salonika, the channel beimr one of the direct routes to tae allies' depot in this section. The report has been current among business men in East Chicago recently that the Henry Ford automobile Interests had purchased the plant of the Edwards Valve and Manufacturing company and that they would open up a branch Industry there about January 1. Investigtion. however, proves that the rumors are false. As a matter of fact, the Edwards Valve company has several small orders now on hand and are putting on from six to ten of their old men j every day, in fact as fast as they, can get hold of them. They are anticipating further orders and it seems to be only a question of time when this plant will again be running at practically full capacity

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1 uK The Living And C0ICIUE1 FAVOR PIPE LIE GRIT Hammond City Dads Take First Vote on Franchise for Sinclair Cudahy Company Which Will Bring Oil and Gas Through the City. The Hammond city council last evening passed to second reading the pipe line franchise for the Sinclair Cudahy Refineries Co. which has purchased a site of 110 acres Just across the boundary line in East Chicago and is preparing to commence the construction of the region's newest Industry which will employ several hundred men and will be of wide-spread benefit. Attorney Warren Fease, representing the company, explained to the city council that the pipe line from Tulsa, Okla., will enter Luke county at Dyer and pass through Munster and Hammond to East Chicago. He stated the village of Dyer has passed tne franchise and the county commissioners have given the Tight of way from Munster to the Hammond city limits. The village of Munster will act tonjght on the matter. Members I nanimons. The members of tne Hammond coun cil were unanimous in support af the pipe line franchi.se. Attorney Fease explained that the clause giving the company right to maintain telephone and telegraph wires for pipe line business only was a provision that In all liklihood would never be made use of Insofar as wire space can be rented from the Western Union much c'heaper. The clause was Inserted in the franchise contract so that in the event that the company could not obtain AVestern Union service it would have an alternate course and be able to have intercommunication between its power plants located every forty miles along the way. The agreement as tsigned by the board of public works and Jo.seph Cudahy, president of the Sinclair Cudahy Pipe Line Go., and tho Sinclair Cudahy Refineries which are kindred firms, stipulates that tlipipe line shall be underground and for the purpose only of transporting oil and gas. The route tnrough Hammond is over Columbia avenue to Gostlin street and east to the refineries. The pipe line must be laid near the curb and the pa vement replaced in the same condition as found. The usual responsibilities named in franchises of the kind fall to the company.

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The Dead King. as titjr Attorney Garit- framed the franchise the lntereetaof, the city are wen protected oy it. Smoke Ordinance. The ordinance on smoke .abatement was heard at first reading and referred to the Judiciary committee. ' By it the building inspector is made smoke in spector and the baa Is put on smoke with a veangence. Factories, office buildings and railroad engines would have to b outfitted with emoke consumers if the proposed ordinance be came a law. A J200 fine is attached. The ordinance is so flamboyant that it provisions would make it a viola tion to smoke a cigar without a con sumer on it The traffic ordinance, providing that vehicles be allowed to stand no less than seventy-five feet from a street intersection or a fire plug, was laid over and looks to be about as popular as before It was revised. An amendment changing the name of Charlotte street from Its north end to May street to "Maywood avenue," was attached to tho street re-naming -ordinance on motion of Couftcilman Boone, and the act sent to second reading. Councilman Iteilley introduced the question of the need of a runabout automobile for Chief of Police Austgen and 'his captains. The matter was referred to the finance committee with the board of police commissioners. It took the council over an hour to handle the purely routine business of ratifying contract for material for the new 36-inch water main and the appropriating of additional monies to the various funds to tide the city over until the first of the year. The contract for a new boiler at the pumping station to cost $920 was read for ratification and passed to . final reading. The franchise for the construction of a switch track by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway across Marble and Fisher 6treets, was ratified. Councllmen Eder, Kolauko, Reilley, Leverenz, Muir, Kockler, Boone, Plageman, Lund, Nordstand and Eggers were present. DOCTORS TO SEE WAR REELS Six reels of war surgery, taken in the hospitals of France but not permitted for exhibition In tha allied countries, and on exhibition In tho United States only before students and medical bodies, will be shown at the Tenth District Medical society meeting at the Hammond Country club this evening as an extraordinary feature. The pictures have been shown only a few times in the middle west. The subjects include: Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Foundation with tha American Red Cross in France, demonstrating his latest methods; plastic surgery of the face and jaw: corrective exercises devised especially for the cure of functional nervous condition contracted in the trences; extraction Of a shrapnel ball from the region of, the heart: functional conditions contracted from life in the trenches; American method of bone grafting as performed in Europe war hospitals by Dr. Fred H. Albee of Xew York. Tbtb Tiwm has the largest circulat!on In the county.

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Franz Josef Gathered to His Fathers, New Emperor Studied Ail Europe, By United rress CnMcgrnm.) LONDON, Nov. 22. Eyes of Europe were turned today on tLe Archduke Charles .Francis Joseph, now to he emperor of AustriaHungary. Although Vienna has so far withheld official court confirmation of the death of the aged emperor, Franz Josef, his demise has been confirmed in special dispatches from various sources. The new ruler of the nation whose demands on Servia precipi tated the great war is 29 years of age and is now supposed to be at the front in command of Austrian troops operating in the Carpathians against the Roumanians. Undoubtedly he has already been summoned to Vienna. W"lth the prospect that the new sovereiirn may have an imnnrtsnt bearing on the future In the war. his character and disposition have been the ' subject of tiecp ntudy by ail Europe. Democratically inclined, very little was known of him up to the time that an assassin's bomb murdered the Achduke Francis .Ferdinand, the heir. In Barajevo, June 28, 1914. The man who will now become Austria's ruler Is known to L.ave had a good military education and haachieved some success as a military commander in the great war. He hat lack of any training whatever in state craft or diplomacy. Moreover he assumes the throne at a time when th strongest of men would havo a task to maintain the empire of Austria and Hungary intact and strong. Hungary is growing restive under .the Hapsburg yoke. Its fear of swallowing up of Hungary In the Teutonic empire and Its leaders have not hesitated In expressing that belier and to work for & separate Hungarian kingdom. But Immediate results of the removal of the strong figure of ihe aged emperor was believed here to mean an increase of Prussian, domisu tion in thi central empires. DSECUTOR The three cornered f:pht for the deputy prosecutor's job in East Chicago lost two of its angles Monday night when Proseeutor-eieet Clyde Hunter formally gave tie appointment to tiin present incumbent. H. M. Cohen. Mr. Cohen is tho only prosecutor in the county who has hold the office continuously since the inception of J. A. Patterson's term. Others have com -and gone, resigned voluntarily and upon suggestion,, and many change! throughout the county have been made. II. M. Cohen, however, hai stuck. This has been dug'lo hi3 fairness at. i close attention io'duty and the universal satisfaction which he has gHrn to all classes of people. There ha been no occasion or demand on the p;ti i of any one for a chango in this offic during the last four years. Incidentally it may be said that th office in East Chicago has turned in more money as fees to the county office during the last, four years than that of any other city in the county, not excepting Gary itself, with its larger population. The public fit large will have no kick coming at the reappointment of this earnest and rfficient young man. YOUNG MOTHER GIVES ' UP LIFE FOR BABE Shortly sfier announcements ha ! been received in Gary announcing thi birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Suor there ccn.e-word of the death of the mother. Mrs. Suor was married about a jear ago. She was rthe daughter of Attorney Pepple of Michigan City. The Suors lived on Monroe street, but recently moved from there. Mrs. Suor's death occurred at Michigan City. Mr. Suor is connected with the open hearth department of the Gary steel plant. 1 was stated today that the child is doing nicely. WEATHER. Rain toniKbt, Tbnrsdny unset tied.. Colder tn afternoon or night. Moderate to fresh shifting -winds becoming westerly.

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