Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 14 December 1916 — Page 1

ft n ONTY ' TI THE & MARKET CLOSING E A T H E R EUDQUDdDR! YOL.OO1S.O. 152 HAMMOND, INDIANA, ONE CENT PER COPY (Back numbers 3o per caor) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 191G . 1 iLU.il

if A T

iL JllLlLJ

J i 1 -4n"3-A. J L jjl Jl 1

TFIR

A ill

. v .. - : : T

mfe. Wy-Wi wm MMk. ana ml 1

yuit e OF STOCKS

U.S. Steel Is Seven Points Otf Break Is Most Serious in Years. (BULLETIN.) The stock market broke so badly the whole list being off from 6 to 10 points and the volume of trading was so enormous that it was impossible to - get individual quotations before THE TIMES went to press. (Br United Frrs.) NEW TOEK, Dec." 14. Tho stock market was thrown. Into feverish activity "by a bear drive and by the damp, ing of stocks by trader who feared the effects of peace this afternoon. The, break was the worst and the nearest panic seen In the exchange for years. At 3:25 the official ticker had not vet caught up with the closing' sales, so great was the dumping of stock. Prices of leaders tumbled three to more than ten points. The weakness continued to the close. United States Steel tumbled to ll3Ms shortly before the market clos. ed, against 119V at the close yesterday. Steel recently sold a hove ,129. Central leather dropped lOVi to 95 Y. Marine preferred tumbled eight to 108. The break . this afternoon .was;.. mora sar. lous than that which came on Tuesday aftex the announcement of Germany's peace proposal. Xt extended to the close where creaks of one to six' points were made by munition stocks. Sails offered some resistance to the general excitement on the exchange hut Beading yielded two points before the hammering of heavy sales. During the last hour 750,000 shares were sold on the s-c exchange floor making the totk ay's sale about 2,500,. 000. This figure was greater than the sales of two days and has been exceeded seldom in the history of the exchange. Unit d States Seel closed at 113, off 6'i. Anaconda closed at 85 -4, off General Leather at 06, off 9; Heading Fr., 105, off 9'; Industrial Alcohol, HSiilOff lOVi. One Way to Beat the I High Cost of Living. ! t - (By United Press. CHICAGO, , Dec. 14. "Raise chickens in your back yard if you would cut down the high cost of M'-ing," said Theodore Hewes. secnry of the Poultry show which d hel-e yesterday. ( ' The increase In the price of i ; "'Tressed poultry has not yet equalf led that of porkor beef and It is a j commodity that eau be produced at ' home," he added. ,"A few fowls in I the back yard, fed largely from j from your table not only produce delicious meat, but supply fresh ' e.crgs. a luxury which few can -afford ' when they must buy them." WASHINGTON GIRL "ill Princess Hohenlohe-Schillmgsfuerst. Miss Catherine Britton, a younjr cioi louW of the national capital. has juat become the bride of Prince i Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillings-fuerst attache of the Austro-Hun-j

w

sccial activities shortly after the out- where she nursed m the war hr,break of the war and went to Paris, 1 pita Is for several months

MILITARY SALUTE OVER GRAVE -OF COUNTY PIONEER

, " , ;.. . v . .: His iui JOSEPH IIVMPFER, SR. A resident of Hammond for 53 years and one of the early pioneer of the county, Joseph Humpher, Sr., passed away Tuesday night at his home and will be. laid to rest tomorrow morning services at the St. Joseph church at 9 o'clock. Interment ir to be made at the St. Joseph cemetery. Joseph Humpher, Sr., was 91 years of age and a veteran of the civil war. Members of the O. A. R. are to meet at the Emerling undertaking parlors at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and procede to the late residence In. 97 Condit street, going from- -there to the church and to the grave. A military salute is to be fired over the grave. TO LIST (Special to The Time?.) CROWN POIXT, IXO., Iec. 14. Ad ded to the long list of crimes, ranging from r drunkenness, robbery, stabbing affrays and shooting scrapes, that have figured between the whltr-s and blacks employed by the Grace Con : struction company, was tHat of : cold blooded murder last evening when or fcers found that the cold ami liffdess body of a negro with two bullet holos through Ms head. Tlie ehooting occurred at ihp work -amp near the Erie depot. th! body of the dead negro being found by officer Flatt In a box car. in which several of the blacks made their temporary home. Like every, other case that Vie officers have had to contend with, not a whit of information could be secured, the few blacks that remained in the vicinity refusing to 'divulge any information as to the one doing the shooting. All that can be learned is that three strange blacks visited the local camp yesterday and engaged the murdered man in a crap game. Five shots were heard, and when the car was entered the dead negro.was founl' and his assailant had fled, leaving no trace behind them. v A letter on the dead man from his wife in Alabama, revealed the fait hat his name was Win. Ferril.- He was about 36 years of age and had worked for the construction company sometime. The coroner's inquest will be held today and an effort will be made by the authorities to apprehend the guilty .parties. Golden opportunities for yon TIMES went nan. In BECOMES PRINCESS

MURDER ADDED

Ss, v I .v.,....:-,,.., . ; ; . la: ":-.. iff:'?.' 1-.,

PAXTON IN CONTROL OF

(STOCK W. G. FaxtOn, formerly director in the First National Bank of Hammond and the First National Bank of Gary, has become the owner of a large number of shares of stock in the Hammond Savings & Trust company. It is understood that Mr. Paxton and his friends have secured enough shares in the- bank to assure the control and yet this has been accomplished without radical changes in the personal and directorate. Sir. Paxton authorized the state ment that no further changes are con- j templated at this time. The annual j meeting of the stockholders is held i shortly after January first at which officers and directors are elected fo' the ensuing year. Mr. Paxton is the owner of the Paxton Lumber Co. of Hammond, the In diana Harbor Lumber & Coal Co. of ! Indiana Harbor and Is substantially Sr.- j terested in the Gary Lumber Co. He j has many real estate holdings all over the Calumet region. The Hammond Savings & Trust Cu. was founded by Adam Ebert. Its president. F. Richard Schaaf. now president of the Citizen's German National Bank, and Frank Hammond, its secretary and treasurer. It took over the real estate and insurance business of Hammond. Schaaf and Ebert, then located on Sibley street, and moved into new quarters on Hohman street where !t has a modern banking equipment. No changes are contemplated In th-? bank. ' TRAILE THROUGH LAKE CO. Everywhere John E. Young Went He Sang "Wicky-Wacky-Woo" and Now He is Wanted for Forgery May Sing it for the Judge. i:- "W icky-wacky-woo," the trail of John E. Young, the "singing penman,'' was retraced from Chicago through Gary, Hammond, Milwaukee. Madison, Wis., and Harvard, 111., to St. Louis, where he was arrested yesterday by Pinkerton detectives. Young is an old-style tramp printer and a one-man Dutch band. Between pay days It has been his fashion to jig boldly into a saloon or cabaret, confess himself penniless and athirst, aid singing for a drink. . Recently. Youngr obtained a job from J. J. Collins, printer, 501 - Plymouth court.- One day, according to J. T.V. Norkett of the Pinkerton agency. Young stole a check book from Mr. Collins desk and forthwith forged hi employer's name to several , checks, which were cashed. Search for Young was begun in the neighborhood of his rooming-house at 221 South Racine avenue. It was learned, that he bought drinks when he had money and sang 1 for drfnks when , he could not buy. , One of the places where lie sang was Barney Grogan's saloon, where he .! passed a cheek for 37.30, Mr. Norkett says. "Find the tramp printer who sings Honolulu songs," went out the wor.l from William K. Webster, Pinkerton assistant superintendent. Word came from Hammond and Gary and Milwaukee and Madison and Harvard,' 111., of a tramp printer who sang Honolulu songs, and in this wav he was caught, singing hia favorijte "Wicky-wack-woo." SENTENCED TO REFORMATORY Omaha Burse, the 14 year old Mexican Indiana who was found guilty by a I jury In Judge Hardy's court Tuesday night of manslaughter, ' was sentenced j to two to twenty-one years at the Jefifersonville reformatory. , j A further investigation of the law by i Judge Hardy. I'rosecutor J. A. Patterson and Burse's attorney, M. D. Metz, I today makes it possible that Burse may j be sent to the boys school at Plainfield to be held there until ,he is twenty-one years old. , NOTICE On account of the funeral of Joseph Humpfer, Senior, J. I Humpfer & Co. on State street and Humpfer Bros, on Hohman street will be closed Friday until 1 p. ni. 12-13-2 NOTICE TO ELKS lm;wr:niiT meeting i onlsrht, Dec. 14th. to make final arrangement for stas Monday. Iec. 18th. Alo to complete arrangements for important hoUlny work. 12-14 T. EDWlV BELL, E.N R. (

T IN NEAR P

CONSTABLES SWOOP 01 CARD GAMES i

Young Chaps Who Played Only For Pleasure and Bear Goad Reputation are Arrested, Why is it that Gary should take such an active interest in cleaning up alleged gambling resorts in East ; Chicago? This is a question that is puzzl- j ing many of the residents of Indiana Harbor who are familiar with the fact that on several different occasions a squad of constables from the steel city have swooped down on certain saloons in Hhe Harbor and twice have they had a few fellows gathered about tables arrested. Why this interest? A number of theories have' been I suggested but only one plausible ex- i planation given. This explanation has j within the last few days been going ! the rounds and it Is quite universally j accepted. j The last stunt pulled off by these constables, a number of whom a,re said to be ex-policemen of Gary, occurred a few nights ago when they raided Myer Hill's place on Michigan avenue and arrested five young fellows who bear good ; reputations and are not known in any sense as gamblers. The place was raided and a game of cards found to be in progress. The players wefe told they were under arrest and were marchel ti the, court , of Judge George E. Reiland where, after some delay, bonds were secured In the sum of fifty dollars each. The raiders claim that they have evidence that gambling was In progress. Nick Mayer, a local (Continued on page five.) DO you ever think of those delicious nights when you hunted all over the blessed -sleeping1 orch FOR a breath of air? . IF you go out there now ytiu won't have to look very long. "WB cannot refrain from reminding little Willie that It Is high time FOR him to buy grandmother her Christmas skates. ' OUR friend Luke SIcLuke says that once in a while he sees a pretty girl who Is ' J " SO fretty that he feels like WAX.KING right up to her and telling her what a pleasure it gives him ; JUST to look at her, ibut he hates patrol wagons so and hospitals AND black eyes. WHEN we see. what straits the busy wiff is put to in order to' buy about aO Christmas presents WE understand fully the -hard row that ' MOTHER had to hoe in order to REIEAIBE-U all those she loved. FACETIOUS wag says that all the football heroes are home, but mother STILTj shakes the furnace, AND carries out all .the ashes.. THEY are asking Uncle Sam to make the Germans quit mistreating the Belgians WHY the old gent can't protect the lives of his own people LET alone making anybody QUIT anything! . , IF you'll only get up in the morning with the idea that ' ' .- ' ' YOU are just going to knock The everlasting stuffing out of bad luck before you've done anything else YOU'LL do it and feel good the rest of the day. HOW foolish to work your self to death , , - TRYING to keep from it: . OUR young ' hopeful having set . us back several bones for a ' boy scout bugle k i WE trust, the neighbors will not be unduly alarmed at the unearthly noi?es ..." J.S for Ui we are now- dwelling with the cats i the coalbih away from war's alarun,s - . ONLY trouble being that- it's .o hard to write ON soft. coal . ,

f i GARY PORT THE PASSING TflRIR APC j sho w i U i lAbh l nniiniTC

THESE FOUR RULERS

is l ' AWiX - -'"V I 5 j :'

'f7.

-'v "fell

Ieft to right, topi Knier of Germany and Sultan of Torkey. Hot loin: Em. prror of Aunt rla-Hungary and King of Bulgaria. These four rulers of. the central powers are ready for peace, but appsrently are not ready to surrender anything to their fs. Peace n their terms would aid Germany by makinjc separate kingdoms of Poland and Lithuania, and giving her a freer hand in the Balkans and Mesopotamia; and would aid Bulgaria by giving her Macedonia and Dobrudja. AustriaHungary and Turkey would lose nothing, and perhaps might gain sorns- " thing in the peace conference.

UUUULLU

Receipts at Harbor Increase 100 Per Gent Over Last Year-Over Three Million Tons. i GARY HARBOR TONNAGE DOUBLES Arrived in Ciary laat reason . This season .... h arbor 342 nhips 404 ships

Tonnage reeclpts ' Inst season 1,467,321 Tonuane receipts this ' sentHin 3,037,027 Iron ore reeHpts this season . 2.637,440

Gary harbor which last year had a tonnage equal to one-third that of the port of Chicago increased its ftnnaoro thi season one hundred 1 vvuuea, " 7 jpcent, due to the gigantic influx of iron ore. This season 404 ships arrived at the United States steel corpora tion's harbor brnging total tonnage receipts' of 3,037,927 tons, mostly of iron ore and including stone and pig iron. Iron ore alone totaled 2,637,440 tons as cornpared with a total tonnage last year or all receipts of? 1,467,321 tons. Stone tonnage this year reached 386,387 tons and pig iron tonnage 14,100

tons. Navigation which opened this year on April 23 with the arrival of the ore freighter Buffington closed on December 1 2 with the arrival, of the pig iron freighter Metaffa. The Metaffa is now unloading its cargo of upwards of 6.000 tons of rig iron Imported from the Pittsburgh district to help out the Gary steel works. Compilation of the figures were made by Miss Abell. secretary to the deputy collector of the Gary port district of Chicago, Hichard Elwood. ORB FOR XEW Fl'RXACES. The ibig iron ore receipts Increase is due to the fact that Gary blast furnaces are being increased from eight to twelve, some vt tlie new ones W be . V

ANICTODAYi

READY FOR PEACE in operation shortly. Four new blast furnaces are to be ibuilt on the opposite side of "the slip next spring for the Gary Tube company, which foreshadows even greater harbor receipts next year. ' WEiiWLMJES ( IRLW. ACKIMA.V. . REHLIV, lie. 14. Drirplte Grr. mony pea-e proposal, Field Mr. shal Von Mlndenberg's decinrat I,m that there will be no rest this win. ter still tanas. A military anthorI ( T repeated this in eommentine; on the fact that VtmuDT consiflered well the tpeace question before na- . nouneement wan made knowlna; that England did not want pence because the allien intended to launch a strong; offensive in the spring. " AMSTERDAM. Dee. 14. (.erman submarines sank a British strainer rr bound from Xfw York to Ensland with cargo of .IMH tons of war materials off the French channel. The dtnpatches from Berlin state that between Nov. 28 and Dee. S., n (rrraan ant succeeded in olnklnv vrxrla laden with J7.0OO tons of coal foond from Enflaii to France. Ily United Press.) , WASHISUTOS," . 1 4. iermany's answer .to the American protest against deportation of Bel. glnna la: in the hands of the state department here today. The text is practically the same as Riven In press dispatches in Berlin vthlch offered "explanation. " AMSTERDAM, Dec. 14. Resigns, iion of the Austrian cabinet was an. nonnced in dispatches received, to. day from Vienna. Alexander Spitstnoeller is to attempt formation of m new ministry. If the Austrian cabinet has resigned it has situated the unique record of lasting for a sjhorter period than any ministry of recent years in any European country unless it be Greece. Dr. Ernest Von Koerber, who succeeded to the premiership on the assassination on Nov. 1. of rremier Ftuergbk, formed a cabinet on that date. GARY FIRE DEPT.. EIGHT YEARS OLD Eight years ago today the Gary fire department was organ izad. Chief Fee. liny served five Jears. The first company consisted of a half dozen men. They-had a shack for a station and a horse and hose cart. Today there are a half dozen motor companies. GARY WITNESSES GO TO GRAND JURY Fourteen of the sixty Gary witnesses scheduled to be sunpoenaed befora th federal grand jury t Ipdianapolis last night to testify at the capital today. The number Include Judge C. E. Greenwald and Dan Fltigerald. They are to tell of election conditions. -.

l

STRIKII

ADDniSy

Go-Operation Keyword In fisw Crusade Expected to Co Bg Things For Hammond, NO CHANGE m The emit piths of asricnltnre. the schools, cburehex, home the very spirit of the people which are established now, will be the calf paths which our children's children most fellow for eentnrles to come. "The whole elty of Boston can not change the calf path of 1 bat city, now its busiest street, whiirb the poet !an Walter F In. mortalixed In his poem The Calf Path." Prof. P. G. Holden. If Hammond's business men were to act on the advice and inspiration they received at the weekly Chamber of Commerce iuncheon today from Professor P. G. Holden, of the educations t extension department of the International Harvester company, the fame of the city's co-operation and co-ordination of efforts toward efficiency in every p&ase of life would spread , the world's ends within a year. Ths most striking thing about the extraordinary talk by Professor Holden was that he convinced his audienc that.it ia possible, provided there is sufficient interest and willingness on the part of the men who were assembled at the luncheon. In point of attendance It was one of the.. largest in the. history of the Chamber, eighty men bavins been present. At half past three o'clock Professor Holden addressed a. meeting .of ladies at the Central school. His coining to Hammond today was generally acknowledged iby thoss present to ba been ons'of the fcest "3co6pa' Sier. intendent MteCniel ever "pulled AT in the way of providing a speaker. I4 left his audience filled with enthusiasm and new resolutions. The key to Professor Holdeu's program, ho pointed out, lies in a ce. tralized directing organization whteta marshals for progress every factor now in the city, all wfth tha idea, to get in toucJi and keep ia touch with, every home in tho community, par-' ticularly with a view of reaching the youth of the city. This planning directing, leading and protecting central organization he eaid must have the cooperation of the city government, the business men, organized labor, the press, the courts, the lodges, the boscouts, the homes, the schools. th churches, women's organization. thY. M. ?. A. and alt other social organizations. The average city's " cffoitnow are too scattered. The strongest spur In the individual ho eaid Is the property interest' and every child when eight years o 1 should have something that 5t fee!.; is all together Its own; every family lie urged should live ,in its own ho ve. "Imagine a mother singing to its cliii ). 'Flat Sweet Plat,' Instead of 'H. Sweet Home,'" He pleaded for a larger vision in tiie Individual and in the community, a l-'r so lived as though it were to lat a thousand years instead of a few score years. He pointed to the community interest of Edinburgh and Berlin and to I i national life of Germany where Si-vi-i centralized body In every community is acquainted with every family an i every individual. Again and again 1 emphasized the. inspiration of owning a" home. ."People do not fight for n boarding house." he said. . ""They may fight in them but not for them." Professor Holden pointed out that the company, which employs him is in touch with every farmer in the United States, and if that ia possibie he argued it is possible for every city to be In , touch with every home. IIu pleaded for "A Hammond Spirit." Of this !u: said , 'We should sin it in our songs, preach it in our piilpits, read H in our papers, and live it in our lives." t "iloime of the brainiest men are m the penitentiaries." paid the .speaker at another point in his interesting discourse. "The greatest charity is helping boys and girls to find their plac . of greatest usefulness. What I Hammond doing In that direction? Hammond can be no greater than lir people." The organization and fostering of a junior chamber of comme;ce, made up of boys from the ages of sixteen to twenty, was a project he advocated. Such a body full f vision 'and enthusiasm he said would tackle civic problems which a body of older men would go, at half-heartedly.. "Yon would be, surprised what 'such a body of youngsters would do with your street cleaning problems and other sanitary measures. The advantage from a financial standpoint of a high school courre wns another subject on which the speaker laid convincing strt,s. GRAND MASTER'S NIGHT TONI&HT .Mas . Hammond's Garfield lodge, F. A, Sf. tonight wil have a called meeting , a grand master's night, when the lodso will assist la receiving Hon. H. B. Tu hill of Michigan City, most worshipf grand master of Indiana. The mast mason degree is on the program i 7:30 o'clock and a big mas-onlc nigh expected, ,

9