Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 2 December 1916 — Page 1

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Automobilists Are Hit by Pennsylvania Train Yes-j terday Afternoon Victims Are Representatives of Five Companies. (.Special to The Times.) j , rr-.r v. mi t..- 2. WhiLinac ! was the scene of a serious auto accident at four clock yesterday when E. V. Mackintosh and J. W. Murphy, both of Chicago., were struck by a uest bound Pennsylvania passenger train. The accident happened on the Pennsylvania crossing at the approach of Dickey Hace from Standard avenue on iht- route to Indiana Harbor. Mackintosh and Murphy wc both it preventatives of tire companies, the former being from the Brazil Tire Co. and Murphy representing the Goodrich Tire Co. They were returning to their noma in Chicago. Mackintosh being at the wheel in his Dort car, he having escaped with a number of scratches. The train which struck the machine. tarried the men to 119th street, from v here they were taken to the office of Dr. Hosklns. Here Murphy's injuries were found to consist of a broken collar bone, ms ear partly torn off and everal scalp wounds. He was removed to St. Margaret's hospital In Heyden s ambulance, but Mackintosh was able to return home. CRM POINT TO HAVE NEW FACTORY ( Special to Tub TPme.-O i-ROWN POINT. IN"EL . Ijec 2. fiown Point is to have a new industry, the jpcCrillus ledic.l Co. of Win-"hf-str, Ind.,' which wWl move their equipment and head .offices to Lake j county. The companywill build a new; far-tory building, SO:, feet, to be cont ructed out of bricl-js, and consists of j About three yea's ago II. E. McCrillus conceived jthe idea, of rlacing medical" products tm the market by diict consumer wrk. He interested a i-umber of X'eople in the proposition with him. amon'g who were a few nf Lake county's most substantial citiThe ft5"?t-' "r til'fl organisation wf k: that tle line was built up until 11 , Sr- comprises over sixty different ts rt'Vf.i. The company ntyv,' has a number of w; goni on the road in i-vclve differer t counties throughout a, the purpose of the ''intral India .i'npany la to have 100 wagons throughout ;th stated of Indiana, Illinois. Ohio and.' Michigan iby 19VJ. ' The compa ny now is incorporated f...:- $50,000 4nd thny purpose to in- : ease this capital to' $100,000, the majority of whUcli will be held-in Lake , 'A.r. 'company is controlled by a L5fd "f seven directors. five of wtcX will be selected from among the stockho lders residing in Lake county. The build. ing. will be a credit to the rit as it will not be an unsightly structure, f'mployment will be increased frorj,i time to time as the business deman.'ds it, and local people will be given th e preference. GERTMANS EXPECTED

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DOC Alfred Zimmerman. Alfred Zimmerman has just succeeded Dr. von , Jagow as German minister of foreign affairs. His duties are similar to those of the American secretary of state, and he will answer Mr. Lansing's notes. ARMISTICE PICKETING (.Special to Thb Times.) CROH N" POINT., IN'D.. Dec I. An armistica has been called in restaurant picketing warfare in Hammond, and next Thursday, Judge W. C. McMahan in the circuit court at Crown Point is to pass on a. temporary injunction petition filed by the restaurateurs against the officials of the .waiters' union. The matter "was pur up to Judge Mc ifahan. last Wednesday, but by agreement all around the merits of the case were not entered into, and the hearing was continued until next Thursday. In the meantime, according to an agreement reached, there will be no picketing. Eereolos Bros, who operate tha Maine . and the Majestic and George Brahos who owns the Hammond Cafe are plaintiffs in the case. COLLEGE BOY AND PERFORMER ELOPE Whiting Society. Is Startled at News of Crown Point Elopement. Special to The Time?.) WHITING. IXD-. Dec. 2. The marriage of William Gondon, a student at Northwestern University and the only son of a very prominent Whiting family to Helen Johnson, a vaudeville performer . some years hi senior, hae causl. a sensation in the society of this c'ity. Miss Johnson Was playing at the Star Theatre in Whiting and Gondon met her in going back and" forth to school in Chicago. The couple eloped to Crown Point Saturday night and getting a deputy clerk out of bed secured a license. Oomton Is the son of Mj. and Mrs. Al Gondon of USth street, a graduate of the Whiting high school and a member of the Owls Club. It is reported that his family will seek to annul the marriage. If you'll advertise jrour holiday bargains we will Ret the people to xtaop early. the time to ;et busy. TO USE BUILDING xx - , 1 palace in Bucharest. by the members of the Rjjmaniar. officials have fled to Jassy. It protgeneral staff of the German ariny

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With a report from the east that a ten per cet increase in wages is to become effective in the sister plant of the Standard Steel Car company at Newcastle, Pa.. Hammond employes are keeping their ear to the ground in the hope that similar good news will come to 'them. Officials of the Hammond plant say they have no knowledge as yet of any raise in wages if any Is contemplated. The raise in the Newcastle plant to go into effect December 15th affects some 900 employes. Aa the plant has more employes It is evident that not atl were included and it is probable that the unskilled labor was not included in the advance. Unskilled labor, hewever. fared better in the general wage increases throughout the country than any other class, and it is believed here that the wage increase affects primarily office, and shop employes who are on a mon'.hly salary. It is that class all over the country whose income has in no way kept pace with the cost of living. At the Hammond plant of the Standard Steel Car Company there are 'employed in round numbers, including all hands about 1.700 persons, and indications are that this number at least will be employed during the whole next year. RAISE QUESTION JEjUBIBIUTT All Indiana Mayors Except One May Be Reelected Next Year. TIMES BIRGAl, AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. IND.,. Dec. 2. The fact that mayors of several Indiana citieB have announced their intention of seeking renomination has raised the question of their eligibility. The cities and towns act, passed in 1905, provided that city officers, elected on the first Monday in November, 1905, "shall bo ineligible to be re-elected, respectively, to the same offices at the ejection to be held on the first Tuesday, after the first Monday in November, 1909." The effect of this law was to prevent any mayor holding office two consecutive terms. This act was unsatisfactory to some of the politicians in the state, so the general assembly in March, 1913, amended the cities and towns law to read: "No person shall be eligible to hold the same elective office more than four years in any period of eight years in cities of the first class. Present incumbents in cities of the second and third classes shall be eligible to election to the office which they now' hold in the election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 1918. and at every city election thereafter." The effect of this amendment was to make Indianapolis the only city where a mayor could not be elected 'for two consecutive terms, as Indianapolis is the only first class city in the state. The mayors of all other cities may, under the amendment, seek re-election as often as they desire, provided they were in office when the amendment was passed. GET JUDGEMENT AGAINSKLEMPERER Former Hammond Man Loses Suit That Pends Five Years. Imitating a rival s , store front will cost the firm of Marcus & Klemperer, the latter Otto Klemperer formerly of Hammond, now of Chicago, the sum of H.6Q0 if a court judgment entered in the Cook county superior court this week stands. Herbert Circle, president of the Grand Rapids Furniture and Rug Company, 213 Wabash avenue, was the plaintiff and charged that imitating the front of his former store when he operated next door to the Marcus & Klemperer furniture "house, he lost $15,000 worth of business. "Mr. Cirkle had built up a flourishing trade," said Attorney Frederick H. Silber, "when in 1910 the Marcus & Klemperer Company opened a similar business at 610 South Wabash avenue. Mr. Clrkle's store front was painted green. The front of his rivals' store was.-palnted green. They Imitated his sign and his window displays. On appearances it was difficult for customers to tell the stores apart. "As the rival concern was situated nearer to Congress street, from which wealthy trade came from State street and Michigan avenue and the Michigan avenue hotels, the Marcus & Klemperer Company got Jnost of the business. After a year and a half of competition Mr. Cirkle was forced to close up shop. He opened his present store several ; years later." I Pending Four lfr. I Tlie suit has been pending for four ' i cars' The Mr reus &- Klemperer people, it is sail, Vrili appeal

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Hiram Johnson. Of all the new senators chosen at the recent elections, none is better known and none will be more in the limelight than Hiram W. Johnson, fha California ProrrsRiv-Rnnn-lican. Johnson is known as a dvna mic personality. He is fifty years old, won his first prominence throug-h frosecuting San Francisco "boodir.g" cases in 1906-7, was elected, governor in 1911, was the Progressive vice presidential nominee in the 1912 campaign, and re-elected governor in 1915 by the enormous plurality of 185,505. LUKE GO. ODDFELLOWS TO GATHER At the afternoon session of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Lake county which 'will take place Monday, there will be present beside the grand officers the following Rebekah state assembly officers: Miss Florence McGregor. Mt. Vernon. Ind., president; Miss Rose Butner. Windfall. Ind.. warden; Mrs. Geld Chesllne. Marion, Ind., secretary; Mrs. Emma Wilson, Jasper, Ind.. treasurer; past president. Kate I. Nichols, Klkhart. Ind.; past president. Marry E. Stipp, Michigan City. Ind.; past assembly officer, Mrs. I. Smith of .south Bend. Ind.. and C G. Allison. Russiaville, Ind.. grand patriarch of the grand encampment I. O. O. F. of Indiana. Reports of the lodges, new business, a school o finstruction conducted by President Florence McGregor and addresses 'by the grand officers will constitute the program of the afternoon session. At the evening, at 7:C0, the session will be called to order and the Model lodge will open the meeting on behalf of Mariam Rebekah lodge. Mrs. Mary Wedgwood will preside. The degree work will be conferred on a class of members by the Genesis Rebekah lodge of Gary, Ind. Refreshments will be served. Mrs. Elizabeth Clinton will be chairman of the reception committee. On Tuesday at Indiana Harbor a new Rebekah lodge will bo instituted. It will be known as Esther Lodge No. 798 and will start with fifty-one charter members. Grand Master Ir. A- A. Spears, with the assistance of the assembly officers will have charge of the institution. The meeting will be called to order by the grand master at 2:30 p. m. sharp at the lodge hall of the Auditorium for the purpose of instituting and installing the officers of the new lodge. During the evening the Rebekah degree will be conferred upon a large class of candidates by the degree staS of Miriam Rebekah lodge 407 of East Chicago. Ind.. under the leadership of Mrs. Maude Norton, SON OF NOTED BOER. GENERAL ' INHAMMOND H. Tarleton Pearson, son of General Sam Pearson, the famous Boer war leader, is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. .T. Cahlll of 244 East State street, Hammond. Mr. Pearson, whose home is in South Africa, has come to the middle west to study American ideas and methods of business. He plans to return to South Africa in June. General Pearson is now touring the United States giving interesting lectures, having spent a year in Europe during the present war. NOTICE TO . KNIGHTSJTEMPLAR All members of Hammond Commandery No. 41, K. T., are requested to be present at a special Conclave. Sunday morning, Dec 3rd, at 9:00 o'clock to attend and conduct funeral services for our late Frater, Oscar F. Johnson. Services at the residence, 386 Thornton avenue, at 9:30. Funeral party will leave over the Michigan Central at 11:1 5 for Michigan City, where interment will ; be made. J ULYSSES G'. PETRIE, E. C. i GEORGE O, MALLETT, Rec. NOTICE TO ELKS Memorial ervlcr Trill be held In our lodire room en Hohnian street lit 8 ! .. SunHnj, Deo. 3rd. Yonrrlf null frienlM nre Invited to thene frvlers. T. i;iWI 111)1.1.. K. It.. 1 2-;-3 Hammond I.uiljiv -43.

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- A ST. IS . VASTLY SURPRISED Wild Animal Found at Large and Captured by the Police. Warren street received : rreat shock this morning. Htthehto it has prided itself on being the thoroughfare da luxe in Hammond, the quintessence of modernity, the apex of civilization and several other things. But it can claim these things no longer. It has, been relegated to the backwoods and the jungle. Wild animals rovo within its confine. This morning Mrs. Ti. ' S. Smith" of Warren street, found a wild fox within her encloaed front porch. It was a beautiful animal, about twice the size of a house cat and nearly grown. The fox was terrorized and members of the police force captured it and took it to the police station. Wild foxes in Hammond And on Warren street Who can explain it? Kow we suppose Ruth street will be coming to the front with a hippitamous or something. M CROWN POINT Remains of White Man Is Found on Erie Near G. & I. Tracks. (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IXD-. Dec 2. The remains of a white man, supposedly a foreigner, literally tacked to pieces, were found early Sunday morning on the Erie railroad tracks, but a short distance from the Gary & Southern crossing. The grewsome find of several parts of the dead man's anatomy was made by Conductor Kiel Piatt of the Gary & Southern on his last trip at one o'clock yesterday morning. He reported the fatality to the coroner here and the remains, which were strewn along the Erie tracks for several blocks were picked up and brought to Linton & Merrils morgue here. No marks of identity could be found on what little remained of the dead man's clothing and the foody was so hacked to pieces that it was impossible to recognize the features or tell what age the victim of the accident might have been. The remains will be kept for , several days and the effort to discover somo means of identification .will be continued. No valuables were found about the dead man's person and it is presumed that he was some workman from some of the various camps in this vicinity. STORAGE BATTERY INSTRUCTION IN NIGHT SCHOOL Believing that there is enough of a public demand from automobile owners for night school instruction on the storage batery as used in automobiles, Ernest Tilllman, principal of the night school, has arranged with Fred W. Dempsey, the Fayette street battery man for a coudse of instruction. Mr. Dempsey is a firm believer in popular education In the storage battery and offered 'a valuable Willard battery as a prize and he will also arrange to have experts and demonstrators present at the various classes to meet with the class. The battery prize will be awarded to the writer of the best essay on storage batteries, the essay to be based on information gathered at the classes. The contest closes Feb. 28, but the class will be continued until March 28. The class instruction will be given every Monday evening in the third floor room of the Central school building. A special Instruction for the automobile class la?t: Tuesday evening was well attended

GARY GIVES 9 RECRUITS TO 0. S. A. Recruiting for the regular army in Gary this week was as good as in any part of the state. Corporal George H. Bradley, in charge of the station at 922 Broadway. Gary, got nine new men. They wijl be sent to Fort Wayne for further examination. Recruits are as follows: infantry arm .Jessie Schooler, Michael Banker, Alfred Corsby. Charles Luc ha and Boleslaw Jakubuskas; cavalry . arm E. Woods, Ed Porkay and Forrest Brouft; coast" artillery "Samuel Coroda. THREE FUNERALS AS flESULT OF ACCIDENT Gibson Victims to Be Buried in Elkhart, East Chicago and Michigan City. The beautiful ritual of the Knight Templar Commandary will be said for the second time in a week when the funeral of Oscar Johnson. New York Central roadmaster, is held tomorrow morning at the residence in Hammond. Mr. Johnson was present as a Templar at the funeral of W. II. Gostlin Thursday and was -one of the three men killed yesterday at Gibson when a Michigan Central express train crashed into a speeder at the tower. The services for Oscar Johnson are to be held at the late residence in 386 Thornton avenue, and Calumet avenue, at 9:30 in the morning with the Rev. Parrett of the Prebyterian church and the Masons in charge. The commandary will leave on the 11:15 train on the Michigan Central for Michigan City where the remains are to be interred. Oscar Johnson will be buried beside the grave of his wife. The remains of Milton Wertz,- the carpenter foreman who was killed with Johnson, were shipped today by Undertaker Stewart to" Elkhart, Ind., for burial. The remains of George Toney will be buried at East Chicago, tomorrow. THREE KILLED IN AUTO RACE By United Pre.) SPEED WAV, UMONTOW.N. PI., Dec 2 (4 p. m.). Hoghle Hughea, Frank Gnlvln and Gaapon AVrldle, Galvin'a mechanician, were killed and at least a acore of persons Injured here this, afternoon whfn talvlns machine crashed Into the press stand. Hughes' car piled through the fence at the west curve and was put out of commission. Hardly a minute later GalTln's car went off the track and cnt through the press stand. The stand was completely wrecked. , ELECTRIC TURNS . OVER; LADIES GIVEN A SCARE An electric automobile driven by Mrs. Fred Dulhof of Ada street,- who had as her passenger Mrs. J. M. Kaiser of 86 State street, turned over at State Line street and State street last evening. The two ladles had been for a ride through the south side an j Mrs. Dulhof was turning from the state line north onto State street when the a incident happened. The women were shaken and bruised but mt seriously hurt.

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BEEN FJUUIfl nr London Hears Different Sfories of Tense Situation in Greece, Athens Disputes Story 0 Armistice. United Press Cablegram. (BULIXnit.) X.02TDOSr, Dec 2 That tha arnUatica reported to have been arranged la Atana la settlement of tha Greak-aUiad controTersy has failed, wu reported la a aispatca todsy "by tho Jiondoa Swain Star dated Athenji, Friday, 7:45 p. m. Taa dispatch, declare, the bamtha um aottta cl AtHas., r aewaa with m artillery attack by franco-British naval forcas. Tha B, raspoaaen wits authority for tha statement that siins ir . fleet had fired toward tha bin, ti4t tha city. " IT! thS aaclara,, that tbirty-flr- -franci, . baen take, prtioaer, y tha reek vsr . effT00- A'lce has been effected between allied troops and Greek reservists at Athena. A dispatch from the Greek capital asserted that King Constantine had agreed to delivery of she mountain batteries to the allies. - - In turn it was said Admiral DuFournet agreed to withdraw allied troops from the city, pending reference of the agreement to the allied governmnts London regarded this dispatch as indicating a clearing up of the iense situation brought about by the refusal of the Greek government lo accept the disarmament plans. This refusal was marked with Eanguina ry clashes 1. tween' allied troops and Greek reservists, according to dispatches Friday and received here today. Panic seized upon the residents, the streets were deserted of civilians, the shops closed and traffic suspended. Clashfi'n some instances, occurred In the heart of the City. , WBiSW IMJEST WMEi MEWS" By United Press Cablegram.) L.OXDO'. Dec. 2. Rumor that David Lloyd George waa packing up belongings ln his office as minister of war were printed la the I-ondoa Dally l ews today In support of the report that he waa pre. paring to leave that post. A numl bcr of Loudon newspapera today declared the cabinet faced a crisis likely to result la Its dissolution. The present, cabinet waa held by a number of newspapera to be cumbersome for e-zpeditlrua conduct of the war. There has been considerable popular dlssat Is faction against Premier Aquth. recently. I By United Press Cablegram.) BERLIN (Via Wireless to Say.ttlle) Deo. X Fljurhxln- between Teulonlc and Russia n-llu mania n forces la the Carpathians and oa the Transylvania frontier is aria la progress with the enemy Buffering; heavy losses, the wa- office on. Bounced today. Oa Field Marshal Van Mackeneen'a front a bl battlo has developed. The first Hon mania n army whtch offered aa engagement southwest of Pleter has been broken through and defeated, the statement declares. 'Russian aad Roumanian attacks In the forests of the Carpathians aad along tha Transylvania frontier mountain continue,'! the report aays. 'Tea. terday'a attacks were especially directed against our position on Rabaludova aad Gueraracuda and east of Dornavatra and Tretosu aad also la the Oytoa valleys. The attacks were without success. The eaemy suffered heavy losses. HAMMOND MAN ARRESTED (Br Xnlted Press.) COLUMBUS. O., . Dec. 2. George Smith, 833. of Hammond, Ind., arrested today, was identified by Gus George of Gassaway. W. 'V., as no of the two men who flim flammed, ium cut of $25 yesterday. MANIAC CAPTURED (Br United Press.) DATUCA, IND.. Dec, 2. Martin Rice, a maniac, who shot and killed Sheriff Martin Jones of Vermillion county, was captured at 9;30 at his home. He offered no rcsistence. MEXICAN SITUATION (Br Vnlted Press. II W EHB MILLKR, EL PASO, Dec. 2. That the situation of the Carranza government in northern Mexico "is desperate" following the capture of Chihuahua City by Vil ... was admitted by General Gonzales. The commamlt-r of the government forces! at Juarez made this iidniisKinn to HenJs. T Time? h:. lh m-sf! n tn t!u 'ou:::