Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 145, Hammond, Lake County, 6 December 1916 — Page 1
THE WEATHER EVENING & MARKET CLOSING EDITION VOL. XI NO. 145 HAMMOND, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916 ONE CENT PER COPY (Back numbers 2c per copy)
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Wilson Before Congress In Session At Washington
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Judge Questions Propriety of Arraigning A Person of Unsound Mind As Is Mike Inik. Mike Inik of Whiting, the human arsenal who attempted wholesale murder in the superior court house on Monday, will be arraigned before Judge Walter Hardy next Monday. He was brought up from the Crown Point jail by Sheriff Henry Whitaker for arraignment this morning, but after Prosecuting Attorney James A. Patterson had read the affidavit charging Inik with attempting to murder Judge Greenwald, and signed by deputy clerk Roscoe Hemstock, Attorney Frank Gavit, representing Fred Smith, of Whiting, Inik's guard asked for a continuance until next Monday. In asking for the continuance Attorney Gavit said he hoped Inik would be summarily dealt with and put where he never again can become a menace to society. The continuance he said is asked for, merely so that he will have time to advise Mr. Smtih fully what his duties as a guardian under the present circumstances are. Judge Hardy too questioned the propriety of arraigning a man who had been declared to be of unsound mind by the superior court as had been done in lnik's case several year. ago. A man of unsound mind cannot plead, he said to Prosecutor Patterson and to the large number of attorneys who were assembled in the court room. Prosecutor Patterson said that he understood Inik while given a guardian because he was of unsound mind, was given this guardian primarily because he was unable to manage his financial affairs, but that under a new law he is to be tried by a court and jury, with the aid of specialists, and if found guilty to be confined to the institution at Michigan City for the criminally insane. During these discussions Inik stood the table, and during the reading of affidavit, he nodded his head as though he understood, but at the conclusion he said he did not know what it was all about. In his cell in the court house where he awaited transportation to Crown Point, Inik talked freely. Asked by a Times reporter when and where he had bought his four revolvers said that he bought two of them about six years ago "when they tried
to take away my check." The others he said he bought later. He said he
(Continued on page five.) WINS MEDALS BY SOLAR RESEARCH Dr. Charles G. Abbot. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, has been presented with the Rumford medals by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his researches in solar radiation. These medals are awarded by the academy to American scientists whose discoveries or researches have added greatly to the knowledge of light or heat.
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BY UNITED PRESS. BERLIN (Via Wireless to Sayville), Dec. 6, 5 P. M. The official news agency this afternoon declared it was officially reported that Bucharest and Ploesti had been conquered. Ploesti is a railroad junction about 30 miles due north of Bucharest and on the main railroad from the Rou manian capital north. In the early statement of today the Petrograd war office admitted German progress around Trgoviscea and Ploesti.
UNION OF 3 CITIES AN ISSUE The question of the amalgamation of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago into one city with a population of 75,000 people, popped up quite unexpectedly last evening at a meeting in the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the manufacturers' committee of the commercial clubs of the three cities had been called together by George Hannauer to discuss ways and means of advancing the interests of the region. The need of letting the world know the many industrial advantages of the region led to discussion of advertising and it readily occurred to all present that in giving the Calumet district the publicity it demands more benefit could be gained for one large city than for three smaller ones. For example, it rould be truthfully said that there has been $2,558,569.00 worth of building in the cities of North township in the first ten months of 1916 and something over $3,000,000 for the year. C. A. Westberg of the East Chicago Company, G. J. Bader and C. E. Smith of the Smith-Bader-Davidson Company, J. H. Fetterhoff of Whiting, George Hannauer, Peter W. Meyn, Jacob Schroeter and William Hastings of Hammond, were in attendance, and all, to a man, favored the amalgamation of the three cities. The purpose of the meeting being to decide how the Calumet region can be advertised to the best advantage so that the outside world will know what it has to offer industries, George Hannauer pointed out some of the virtues of the district -- the utilities, comparatively low price of land, the shipping facilities, the labor market, etc. The L. C. L. yard is one of the great institutions and advantages of the region of which few realize the worth. Any shipper with 10.000 pounds of freight gets a car to the L. C. L. without cost. The cities of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago are within the Chicago shipping district -- a distinct advantage. They are supplied with electricity by the Northern Indiana Gas Company and so efficient is the service of that concern that the Cudahy plant after installing its own electric plant dismantled it to buy of the Northern Indiana. The American Steel Foundries have also discontinued private manufacturing of electricity. HARBOR'S CONGRESS IN SESSION (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. With an open challenge for a complete expose of any "pork" schemes, engineered under the guise of Rivers and Harbors legislation, the thirteenth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress convened here today. A number of East Chicago men are present. "If anyone knows," the challenge read, "that a project has no merit, and that an appropriation is sought solely to promote the political fortunes of some Senator or Representative, he will be given an opportunity to publicly name the man." "However, if a man from Maine criticizes a project in California, he will be expected to tell how he happens to know so much about things 2,000 or
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IT'S mighty bad to have thapped lips along about this time ! IT hurts so when you laugh at the I idea of the people who lost money be- ; cause i THEY forced up the prices of turkeys, fowls, etc., and nobody would buy them. WHIT should they send a womanli) "Congress to MAKE laws? Wlfl'" already. says woman's word law IN" regard to a woman to dress in 3 minutes beins able V.'E timidly interject the statement that not a few of them look EXACTLY that way. IT was a leap year proposal HE had just accepted her and then asked: "HAVE you ever loved before?" THEN she served him with this: . "NO, I have often admired men for their ftreivj and good 1 it's all love, rth. courage, intcllij joks, but. with you, nothing else" ence, dear. THEN the lights went out AND he went out with the lights. . WE are about to award the contract for the . OONSTR.UCTION of a gas mask TO be worn at local mo-vle picture houses when jammed in ' BETWEEN two stinking garlic eaters. OH Verdun where oh Somme is thy Victory, WHERE is thy Sting? HEADLINE reads: "WOMAN Arrested For ?moking A in bile" VK don't blame the police. Y6u ought to smell what Billy Lewis smokes sometimes. SOMEHOW a man is always ready TO forgive his enemy after he has got even with him. 3,000 miles away." The Congress is to be addressed by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, under whose jurisdiction waterways projects are administered. Speakers are expected to emphasize the present coal shortage as Indicative of inadequate tarnsportation, and urge development of inland rivers of coal mining districts. "On the headwaters of one of our greatest rivers," a preliminary statement said, "coal mines have been compelled to close, for lack of transportation, while cities lower down the river have paid famine prices for coal." The Congress will attack the "vaccinating waterways policy," of the United States, and urge some definite, constructive schedule 'of rivers and harbors improvement. AWARDED FIRST PRIZE (Special to Thh Timbi".) LOWELL IND.. Dec. 6. Ivan Hayhurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hayhurst of West Creek township, was awarded first prize In the Pig club contest for boys at the International Stocf show In Chicago. Ivan had three barrows entered In the show. The pigs were born March 15, 1916 and weighed 894, 38 and 361. respectively. They were of the Duroc Jersey breed of hogs. He has had full charge of the feeding of the hogs since they were born, he being Instructed In the work by Prof. A. T. Elliott, superintendent of the" Lowell school, and also superintendent of thei Boys' Pisr contest work In the southern part ct the county. They were certainly beauties and Ivan can well feel proud -of his saccess when It is taken into consideration that he was competing with ay (from all parts of the country.
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Murder at Burnham Roadhouse Caused by Insult to Women -- Inquest Held at Hegewisch Yesterday Has Brought Out Facts. "Somebody insulted one of the girls in his party and he tried to defend her. That's why they shot him." testified John (Buddy) Connors, chauffeur, who drove "Sonny" Dunn and his party to the Burnham Inn the night Joe Hagarty was killed in a gang fight. This is the first time since the murder was committed weeks ago, that the Chicago papers have given the real cause of the tragedy, yet on the day of the shooting The Times gave insult to the woman as the real cause. Connors, at the coroner's inquest in Hegewisch yesterday, told of meeting the Dunn party and conveying it to Burnham. Trouble started when they were sitting at a table and a man named Tommy said something to one of the girls. Dunn walked into the barroom and backed out, Hogarty appearing with two guns. He shot under the table. Escapes From Shot. "Don't, shoot me. I'm only the chauffeur,", 'Connors says he cried. Then he ran out of the door just as the shooting grew reckless. Earlier in the evening he had seen Peter Gentleman run out of a saloon at Thirty-first and State by a detective who told him to get off his beat. George A. Hogarty, 2204 South State street, brother of the man who was killed, testified they came from Kentucky. He knew of no grievance between his brother and the Dunn party. Partisans of Hogarty. the police allege, were out last night with ready guns. They are blamed for the shooting up of Sol Van Praag's "Tammany Athletic club," 2226 Wabash avenue, a mysterious affair which the police haven't fathomed. Hogarty and Van Praag were bitter enemies. Hogarty had a gambling club in Twenty-second street before the coming of Captain Nootbaar to the Twenty-second street district. He was forced to move across the street: and he began to take away many of the patrons of the "Tammany club." On the morning of Nov. 23 men robbed Van Praag's place -- operating as a cigar store -- and "shot it up." And a few hours later guns blazed in Burnham Inn, and Hogarty fell dead. "No, I haven't made any report to the police a bout the robbery of my store," Sol Von Praag said today. "What's the use? This talk about the robbers being gunmen searching for me to avenge the death of Joe Hogarty is all bunk. They know I was his friend. Both those fellows who did the job last night were drunk and didn't even wear masks."
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President Wilson (arrow) delivering a message to congress. VERY LATEST WAR NEWS (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON. Dec. 6. Lord Northcliffe, England's foremost publisher, one of the strongest figures in the British public's life today, and the man who through constant reiteration of his great London newspapers demands for greater aggressiveness, efficiency and force in England's conduct of the war, really was responsible for the shake-up in the British cabinet. (by United Press Cablegram.) PETROGRAD, Dec. 6. Continued German attacks on Bucharest from the north made in the direction of Tergovisten in the Poleshita region and around Dokaneshti were successful, the official statement declares today. Because the Roumanian front was pierced by this attack the Roumanians were compelled to retire. 'In other sections the enemy was driven back,' the statement concluded. ----------------- The above statement details of the successful German advance on Bucharest from the north. Tergovizea (or Tergovistea) is located on the railroad from Titu to Petrosina about 45 miles northwest of the Roumanian capital. Poleshti (or Ploeszi) is a railroad center 31 miles due north of Bucharest. ASYLUM INMATE SUES LAKE COUNTY VALPARAISO, IND.. Dec 6. The Superior court jury retired late this afternoon on the case of Persong against Neuenfeld, brought here by change of venue. Persong alleged that he did not receive proper medical treatment while in the Lake county farm, and sued the county for $10,000 damages caused by the amputation of one of his legs. Doctors Brennan, Huick and Blackstone, all of Crown Point, were here today to testify in the case, as each had at one time been the county physician. In the testimony it was brought out by the doctors that when in office they had recommended that Persong's leg be amputated, but that he refused and said that if given linaments and other medicines he could cure his foot without amputation. The superintendent of the farm was also on the stand this morning and testified to the same thing. THEY WON'T FORGET DEC. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hammond will long remember Monday, Dec. 4. In the forenoon they were in the Wesley hospital in Chicago where Mr. Hammond's sister, Mrs. W. A. Hill, underwent an operation. Returning home they found Mrs. Hammond's father, Bailiff DeBow laid low by Mike Inik's bullets. The news for the Hammonds from both Chicago and St. Margaret's hospital today is very good. Contract for your holiday advertising space now. Don't wait till the week before Xmas and expect to get the best position in the paper. Golden opportunities for you in TIMES want ads.
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ENGLISH CRISIS IS STILL ON ( BULLETIN.) LONDON, Dec 6. -- That Andrew Bonar Law, unionist leader, had definitely declined the proffer from King George, made last night, that he form a new ministry, authoritatively stated today. (By United Press Cablegram) LONDON. Dec 6. Announcement of the appointment of and acceptance of David Lloyd George to appoint a new ministry was expected momentarily this afternoon. The war minister was summoned to Buckingham palace this afternoon by .King George after the king had held a half-hour conference with A. Bonar Law, who declined the premiership. Lloyd George's visit to the royal palace also followed a conference between the war minister and Law. It was shortly before 3 o'clock when Lloyd George motored to Buckingham palace. It was officially stated that Law formally informed the king. that he would not attempt to form a new cabinet. United Press Cablegram. LONDON. Dec , 6. King George late this afternoon summoned the coalition cabinet members in council at Buckingham palace, inviting them to discuss the present situation. Bonar Law, Lloyd George, First Lord of the Admiralty Balfour and Minister of Pensions Arthur Henderson were the first ministers to arrive. The day was full of conferences between the members of the retiring ministry. Former Premier Asquith was visited by Sir John A. Simon, a member of the old liberal cabinet from which Asquith formed the now dissolved coalition ministry; Herbert L. Samuel, secretary of state for home affair in the coalition cabinet, and Arthur Henderson, minister of pensions in the late cabinet, and the only laborite represented thereon. In addition to the denial from Sir Edward Carson that any plan was afoot whereby Ireland would be granted home rule in exchange for acceptance of conscription, John Redmond, Irish nationalist leader, also registered disavowal of any such proceedings. If conscription should be placed on Ireland 158,000 additional soldiers would be available for England's war forces. WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight; Thursday unsettled and warmer with rain by afternoon or night; colder at night. Ineasing southeast winds tonight becoming strong and shifting to northwest.
t?Esrs. - ': '-. S v. T5(Jf FEDERAL GHAND JURY HAS EYE OH LAKE rn-m-i. County's Election Activities r Were Under Probe of Best Investigators." : Expectations are that Several mor subpoenas from the federal grand jury will be served in a day or two in Gary, Indiana Harbor and Hammond in connection with the election investigation. An Indianapolis dispatch says: "Following the probe of the Marion county election, which a.lso will take in the 1914 registration arid election, thgrand jury will take up matters pertaining to other parts of the state More . witnesses will be called : from Gary and Hammond. It is reported, and a thorough Investigation into affairs at Logansport also is reported to be scheduled. Reports from Logansport, which have been investigated, were to the effect large numbers of colored men who were registred there were living in box cars along the railroad tracks and were not entitled to vote. This evidence will be submitted to the grand jury. "Some of the most prominent Investigators of the department of justice were in the state to aid the investigation. It la rumored that the best kflown investigator of the department, known aa nits Cleverest - man on the force. I worked in and about Gary and Lake county during the investigation.' GUARDS PROPERTY OF INDIAN HEIRS Miss Florence Etheridge. Miss Florence Etheridge, of the Indian bureau, is Uncle Sam's guardian of the property of Indian heirs, and her keenness has discouraged many unscrupulous persons who prey on Indian credulity. Her specialty is to see that5 Indian heirs get justice. She is an expert on wills, a member of the bar of the District of Corambia and of the IJ. S. supreme court.
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