Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 161, Hammond, Lake County, 26 December 1916 — Page 1

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iO SIX EiEiY ..WHIPS Battle Takes Plaee on Christmas Eye in Straits of Otranto Following a Raid, 1 By 1'nlted Pre Cablegram.) BERLIN (via Sayville), Dec. 26. Four Austro-Hungarian destroyers made a successful raid in the straits of Otranto, sank two patrol boats and on the way back routed six enemy destroyers of superior type and speed. A Vienna official statement declared, today as follows: "On the night of December 23. Austro-Hungarian destroyers in the Otranto sank two armed patrol boats after artillery combat. On the way back at least six host At destroyers of greater '. and speed, evidently of the Indomlnto class, blocked the -way. A. violent artillery combat wai held. "One of-the hostile destroyers was set afire and three others were several times hit at short range. "The enemy' sea forces a mile we.'t there was one vessel of stronger unknown type were routed. "Of our destroyers one Teceived two h ts in the funnel and never one was hit on the superstructure.- Our losses were one dead, no wounded." PUT HARD BOILED EGGS OVER ON MAGICIAN Lawrence Hoffman, haberdasher and magicion, demonstrated at the closing iiow of the Elks benrflt Saturday night that he is equal to any emergency. In a spirit of fun stsgre hands put Hoffman in a hole they thought he iou;d not get out of. His closing stunt was a trick in which he extracted a card from an egg. The stage hands had substituted hard boiled eggs and Hoffman perspired freely before hp was able to convince the oudience that there was a card in the egg. He produ-ed the card, just the same. Rata and warmer tonight, turning 1o snow and mrk colder by Wednesday nights stronn; cnat to aontb. triads tonight, shifting to westerly Ufdnc. nor. VETERAN HAMMOND MERCHANT BURIED t 1 4 X X The Late P. H. Mueller. .j,.,, of friends paid their respects to the memory of P. H. Mueller with their presence at his funeral Sunday afternoon. A wealth of floral offerings l.oie further testimony of the esteem in which he has held by persons of all ranks in the community where he was a pioneer merchant. it the home, where the ceremonies were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Hawihorne of St. Paula Episcopal church, the ceremonies were elaborated with the Nearer. My God to Thee" solo by Mrs. Louise Freeman, and a chorus number by the Saengerbund-Fidelia, of which Mr Mueller was a member. At the grave, the singing society rendered another number, and all present limned to a beautiful eulogy which was delivered by F. C. Miller. In addition to the active pall bearers from the -anks of the Knights and Ladies of Honor of which -Mr. Mueller was a member, there were six honorary pallhirers, all friends of his. Members of th Krieger-Verein also turnea out in hod y. In additon to holding memoerin these organizations. Mr. Mueller ship was also a member ot me vimmuci vi Commerce. A man of many fine virtues. Mr. Mueller cultivated particularly that of charitv. and while business men and mnv friends have expressed their regret "ove'r his death, there are many others, who, unable to do so. felt it nevriheles not less keenly, for they lost -Vne-ou, unostentatious benefactor.

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SCENTS STATE DEPARTMENT SCANDAL t it-. Representative William It. Wood, Republican of Indiana, has introduced in the House a resolution for the appointment by the speaker of a committee to investigate the stock market speculation Thursday, Dec. 21, which grew out of two statements issued by Secretary of State lansing about President Wilson's note to the European belligerents. He asks that the commitee ascertain if any one high in the administration or a relative of any one there profited by the fluctuations of the market on the secretary's statements. POLICE li URDERER Frank Teyton. prominent among the colored folk of Hammond unt'l October twenty-third when he shot and killed Alma Smart, a negress, has been arrested at Merldan, Miss., and will be brought back to stand trial for murder. Sentiment trapped and caught Peyton. He went to Merilan. his home town, for Christina and the police who confidently expected him to do just that thing were waiting. Mrs. Smart was proprietress of a hotel for colored people at 467 Hohman street and Peyton was the "ta-" boarder. Hs became jealous of the attentions Mrs. Smart was showing towards William Calhoun and while she was at work in the kitchen fired five shots. The negress died a few hours later from a wound in the stomach. One of the bullets went wiM and struck Jim Allen, another hanger-on about the place, in the leg. Peytin escaped through the alley and 5t is believed hid the remainder of the day in the lumber or coal yards along tho river bank, leaving town at night. The Hammond police sent descriptions of Peyton broadcast. GARY STEEL WORKERS INTERESTED IN STOCK Interest among Steel company employes in Gary is strong as to the price at v-hich the Steel corporation will offer them common stock for subscription this year. From New Tork comes word that Chairman E. H. Gary will set aside 35.000 shares for distribution among employes at a price to be determined later. . The stock will be offered during January at. a price below the then prevalent market. The manner in which steel common quotations are falling indicates that the price will be very reasonable unless there is a sudden readjustment of trade conditions. At the end of 1914 there were 40,719 employes who had subscribed in the preceding years, and who either held the stock outright or were paying for it on the installment plan. The total number of shareholders last April was 117,242. Last January the Steel corporation offered the common stock at $55 a share, and 25.940 employes subscribed to the extent of 49,172 shares. On January 3 the stock was selling on the New Tork stock exchange at $89. It declined to 78 7-8 on January 31. but gradually rose from that price, until on November 27 it sold at $129.75. the highest price the shares ever reached. Steel common closed at 1074 on the New Tork market falling four points during the day's trading. One Gary worker, whose pay is $4.50 a day. draws $300 a year from his stock investments. DEATH OF JOHN WALTER John Walter. 73 years old, a resident of Hammond for the past thirtytwo years, died early Sunday morning at St. Margaret's hospital. His death was due to-pneumonia. The funeral has been arranged for Wednesday afternoon. After short services at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. Walters daughter, Mrs. Ernest Lokotzke, 614 Oakley avenue, where the body lies in state, the remains will be taken to St. Paul's Lutheran church for services there. Interment will be made in the family Kt in Concordia cemetery. Two daughter sn.i thre giann . h!tir.-n ?urvie "r. Walter

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L COMES Operations of Foundries and Shops is Curtailed, However, Because of Lack of Cars to Assemble the Raw Material. NEW YORK. Dec. 26. Great actiYiyt continued throughout the steel industry last week from - the merchandising aspect, but the operation -of furnaces, mills, foundries and shops were being cut down sharply because of railroad congestion, the lack of cars to assemble raw material, and inefficient iabor. Many furnaces belonging to steel companies, as well as merchant stacks, were being banked. In adequate supply of pig "iron and cru.le

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steel, in turn, gauged suspensions at!courc. not a few foundries and mills. Wire,! Indianapolis has a criminal court, sheet and tin plate mills are most sen- j By having one in Lake county it is ously affected. j pointed out that pressure would be reThe situation at Pitsburg and along! lievd as fast as the circuit court is

the lakes is believed likely to bu worst before it is better. Deliveries of rolled products are falling behind contract promises and many depend-j ent manufacturing plants, it is feared, must curtail output. Tha railroads are in an eleventhhour rush to place more large contracts for cars and for motive power. Merchant builders have taken on additional contracts for 11,000 cars and have placed contracts for 150,000 tons of bars, plates and shapes. Railroads, too, have bought B0.O0O tons of steel for car building and car repair at their, own shops. Orders for motive power are being placed with feverish haste, but it ts notable that of contracts for 800 locomotives just closed, BIT are for foreign roads. The largest buying is for Russian and French roads, but orders also are coming from India, Ea.st Africa, Java and the Belgian Congo. Contract prices for domestic, and foreign account amount to $32,009,000. peace Overtures Xmt Kffectlve. Peace overtures have caused little more than a ripples in the trade. The demand for shell steel is as urgent heretofore. All the high carbon steel available quickly is absorbed. The latest contracts for forging bll'ets amounting to 75.000 tons include 10.000 tons for France, 20,000 tons for Italy and 10.000 tons for Canada. More wire contracts about 30.000 tons also have been placed for export. Italy now is searching for 40,000 tons more shell steel. Structural steel work is most active. Of contracts for 40,000. tons closed 19.000 tons are for railroads, 8.000 tons for shipyards and 13,000 tons for manufacturing plants. CHEMISTS I SS TIMES B CHEAT, AT STATE CAPITAIINDIANAPOLIS, LND.. Dec. 2. When you take a drink of water from private water supplies and wells the chance is two to one that you will get good water. Once in three times you will drink bad water. This is the discovery made by the chemists in the state water laboratory, as shown in the annual report of II. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, which has Just been completed for the past year, ending on October 1. Out of 1,609 samples of water examined 1.333 were found to be good water. The report says: "This condition cannot be remedied quickly. The average householder ts not easily convinced that his water supply is polluted. Until the health officer of the community deliberately acts about closing bad wells they will still continue to be used." Tha worst condition exists in shal low wells. Out of 49 springs examined 12 were found to hold bad water. Tbe report says that the fact that water aowa from the ground does not insure its quality. Many springs are but surface supplies and are subject to the same form of pollution at the shallowwell. The laboratory examined samples from 276 public water suppliea and found 222 of them good. Speaking of the examination of fo-d the report says that manufactured food stuffs are more generally pure than food produced by farmers. It says: "If it were possible or advisable in tabulating the results of analyses of food samples into two classes, one of which would show naturally the farm made foodstuffs and the other the manufactured products gathered from all parts of the world and sold in package form, it would b evident that the adulteration was confined almost entirely to the first class. The bulk of the food supplies which consist of cereals, fruits and vegetables. icanne-l goods, sugar syrups, apices arrt J'acssiories would show no a lull era t!c-n pnd th unsatisfactory Jtmp'f wvdd 'tie fot.nd in the list of good pinined i by till, local butcher in bin back rovm sr.ri by the farmer who dirt nor.

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If Proposed Criminal Court for Lake County is Created There Will Be a $5,000 a Year Plum for Some One. The proposal to trans'er one of the j superior court's Judge Greenwald's j to Gary to create a new county court; to assume criminal jurisdiction, tf ( brought about will mean that the j criminal court, court room No. 4. will ' result in Governor Goodrich appoint-j ing some lake county lawyer to be j judge of the county's first criminal concerned ana it uk the three super ior courts would go on with civil cases. Meativned For Jadge. If the legislature transfers a court to Gary and sets up a fifth court of record, the criminal court at Hammond or Crown Point, the $5,000 judgeship will -be appointive until the next election. Spoken of for criminal judge are County Chairman E. Miles Norton and Prosecutor J. A. Patterson of Gary. Representative Edwin Davis of Crown Point, Attorney Abe Ottenheimer of East Chicago, and Attorneys IX E. Boone and E. O. Sproat of Hammond. It Is said some of the men mentioned havs already laid wires to land the plum. The appointment, as stated, will rest with Governor-elect Goodrich. . " THE PASSING SHOW THE wirr caught us looking at what one young lady had in her flesh-colored silk stockings for Christmas and also the other days AND seid: "Well I got more in mine than she has" HIST, Watson, the tape measure! FOND mother asked daughter w-hat the intentions of Jh young man she allowed to call so often WERE "NEVER mind mother." she retorted just like that, "I don't know about his but I know what mine are." WE wrote that the bride was a debutante in 1314 not 914 and hence ARE looking for with linotype operator ONE of those p-elm clubs THAT Jim Watson refers and then. to now THE suffragettes displayed a banner in congress the other day but kindly refrained from HITTING old Champ Clark in the head w-ith an umberel. WE have had so many fights during the day that we wouldn't ba surprised TO hear Ls Darcy knocking at the front .door and ,IXKING for trouble. LrOHTNING never hits same place twice In the WITH the the business first lick it tends to all IT went after. THE poor squab, known more politely as the dove of peace, IS being frightfully manhandled. BANKERS say that foreign gold is a menace to this country WE would dearly love to be menaced. FOLKS think they are keeping up with their neighbors when in reality tUey ARE running behind. HORSES are said to be suffering from spinal trouble resulting from over-feedins? NOTTOED the spines sticking from a lot of hosses but didn't know JT was from overfeeding. how to work and had no means of determining whether tr not his products were standard. It is a difficult mutter for the farmer to determine when his vinegar is matured, how nmh moisture is present In bis butter, whether , or not the condiments or spices he uses in the preparation of home-mad.? sausage and meat loave w ere pave or loaded with - hernial? '." TIMES advertising: Trill enable y to lire ilk nil Tnr hnaineaa record far the jear end. t rll a TIMES ad ni:ia

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FRENCH ACTRESS ? MERRILLVILLE TALKS JNCORPORATION Bustling Village t Between Gary and Crown. Point After Place in Sun. MERRILLVILLE, IND.. Dec. 26. The wheels are set in motion here for the incorporation of Merrillville, and while aside from a meeting last week, no definite steps have been taken, there is a growing sentiment for this progressive movement. The taxpayers in the community ar? beginning to realize that many advantages may be enjoyed as sn Incorporated town which now are denied them. The Incorporation movement is the outgrowth of the progressive spirit that has been growing In Merrillville during the past few years. The public found that Merrillville was a clean, healthy community, and its people a lot of good boosters. It will not be very long now- before Merrillville can boast of electric light and power. FOUR COSTLY FIRES DURJIWEEK-Ei Policeman Takes Pot Shot and Bullet Goes Wild. The series of costly fires in Hammond was continued during the weekend when a flat building was gutted, a garage seriously damaged, a bed room turned into a furnace and a marn partially destroyed. The first blaze occurred late Saturday afternon when a two-flat residence at 682 Ann street, was eet afire by live coals in ashes which had been thrown n the basement against a pile of fuel. The basement waa burned out and the fire spread to the first flat where H. If. Sturn was the tenant. It reached the second fiat occupied by John Gill, who last summer was life guard at the Hammond beach. The lower apartmen was wrecked and the total damage is estimated at $1,500. A short time later boys playing with matches started a fire which partly destroyed a barn in the rear of 365 Truman street owned by E. C. Reese. Antaasobllea IVatrayed. Three pleasure automobiles were destroyed and two trucks badly damaged by fire which started in the Granger Whitaker garage on Hohman street, oposlte Central park, earlyJ Christmas morning. A seven-passenger Studebaker owned by an Indiana Harbor man had Just been taken into the garage for repairs and a mechanic waa at work on it. The workman left the machine for a few momenta and when he returned it waa in flames, the fire having started from the gas feedThe car burned up and a new Hupmobile and a Ford were likewise consumed. The ceiling and back wall of the garage were burning when the departments arrived. The damage is estimated at $2,00(1. Paul Niemetx. 411 Oak streei. was enjoying a smoke in bed "hen th bede'othes ..-aught n fire Christmas .ii utid hi!r he .e.?cp. i.li-li-

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I : I - UZZJ ;) Mile. MartyL An effort is being made to induce Mile. Martyl, a talented member of the Opera Comique of Paris, to come to this country and appear in some of the roles which have made her famous on the other side. The photo shows Mile. Martyl in the studio of her husband. George Scott, the famous military painter, in Paris. jured, the room was ruined. While the department was at. work on the garage fire an auto is said to have passed in tha darkness over a fire hosa stretched across the street. A policeman fired his revolver, the bullet glancing on the brick pavement rand striking the auto top, passing through. OR DEAR! If you want some inside facts regarding certain prominent men: if you want to see a certain well known Hammond man twanging the ukulele; if you' desire to see a dozen of Hammond's sweetest dears, better make a new year resolu tion to reserve either Monday or Tuesday, January 22 or 23. for the minstrel to be given by the Shriners of Orak tern pie. The entertainment Is to be given at the Orpheum. i Here la the distinction to be borne In mind: the minstrel will be given by the Shriners themselves under professional tutelage and not by professionals under the lodge's auspices. The Shriners themselves and their daughters will oc cupy the stage, which will be set with the most gorgeous scenery that London has produced. The Joe Bren Amusement company, which drilled the home talen last year, will again be on the Job this year. Dr. II. E. Sharrer and George Clark of the gas company are on the committee to select the talent, and W. E. Startsman, of the American Express company. Is chairman of the advertising committee. Those who attended the Shriner's minstrels last year remember is as a scream. r VEBV L&WEST (By United Presa Cablegram.) BERNE, Dec. 26. Roam that the Swiss federal conactl contemplates action alantlar to President Wilson's, la reported In a Berlin newspaper. ROME, IJec. S. Germany handed to the neutral nation whose services are asked la forming; peart nnRrttniw, a araiid packet eon-taint ns; terms on which he Is willing to make pe-oe. The packet waa seat with Instrne-tloaa that It b forwarded In ma; tho pmrN actually requested terms, It Is rumored(BCXL.RTIV.) (Bf United Preas Cablegram.) BERLIN (Vl Wlroleaa to Sayvine) De. 3 Repeated repalae of British patrols waa reported In today's abatement of the western fire at. Artillery activities have increased at some sectors of the Vpres front on both aides of the I.aBassee canal and west of Lens. TIMES' advertising- will enable yon a break all Tonr bloe recorUs for the year end. Csl! -i 'I' IMP. " right away.

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Immediate Heeling' of Del a. gates From Warring Powers Proposed by Kaiser. . (By I nlted Press Cablegram.) BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville), Dec. 26. Germany icxlay proposed a meeting of belligerents in her answer to President Wilson's peace note. Her formal reply to the American peace suggestion was made in a note handed to Ambassador Gerrard at Berlin and at the-same time the American diplomats at Sofia, Vienna and Constantinople. The note also hints that the work, of the prevention of future wars can ba begun only after the end of the present struggle and declares. "Whn this moment shall have come Germany will be ready with pleasure to collaborate with the United States at this exalted tasK. " The German holds the "most awnro- . priate road to reach tha desired ults" is an immediate meeting of lelegates of belligerent states t neutral place." American diplomatic representatives t Sofia, Vienna and Constant-rim-,;. were handed the same note. The note read. "The ViiVi i suggestions made by the President of me united States of America in order to create a basis for the establishment of lasting peace hav hn nd considered in the frieni-o-expressed In the president's communication. "The president nointa n-.xt ii,. which he has at heart and leaves open the choice of the road. To th. perial Government the immerf!.-.t change of Tlews seems the most idpropriate road in order to reach the desired results. It thrr. . the sense of its declrHr. ri 1 which offered its hand for peace negoi.auons, to propose immediate meeting of delegates for. the belligerent states at a neutral place. "Also the Imperial Government is of the opinion that the great work of preventing future wars run v.,-,,-only after the present struggle of nauorist. "It will, namely the German government." be ready with pleasure to collaborate entirely with tho United States at this exalted .task." The text as transmitted" over F-jy-ville wireless docs not contain any peace terms. Whether this is the entire text of the note u not made clear in" the despatch. PREDICT $10 COKE. PITTSBURGH. Fa., Dec 6. Coke prices made a general advance during the week, while both production and shipments showed a marked decrease. The week opened with spot coke quoted at and $9.25, later selling at $9.50 and $9.75. Predictions are being made freely the market will reach $10 befor the end of the present week. Shipments during the week amounted to 362.000 tons, the low point of the year and a decrease of 67,000 tons from the previous week. Production fell off proportionately, the loss In weekly production being 49.000 tons. Total production, was 375,000 tons. A live newspaper for people vrha are till a carta that's what THE TIMES Is. Snapshots of Members of President's Cabinet. SOSE.5T LAN51NC 7

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