Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 167, Hammond, Lake County, 3 January 1917 — Page 1

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DIES II MEDICAL

Officers of Reorganized Hammond Trust & Savings

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Whiting Man Dead After Taking

Electric Currents. Doctors Investigating

A strange death occurred last evening in the offices of the Ham

mond Medical Specialists at 85'

State street when Mike Pustarits, aged 32, an employe of the Standard Oil Company and a resident of Whiting, expired while in a little room equipped with a contrivance which transmits electrical currents to the human body and is known

as Rheostat. Dr. B. W. Chidlaw worked late! in the night to determine by a post j mortem the cause of. death and he j

found every evidence that the foreigner had been in the best of health. Congestion of blood in the vita1 organs and other evidence inclined Dr. Chidjaw to the opinion that the man may have been killed by a severe electrical shock. A reporter visited the "Medical

Specialists' this morning, following a number of foreigners into the place that is divided off by oak partitions into carpeted rooms in which the furnishings are in oak. There are any number of machines and arrangements for electrical treatment ami a group of men who looked to be of southern European extraction were enjoying. the comforts of leather furniture in the waiting room and looking about in awesome respect for the mysterious paraphernalia the prospective patron is relieved to find there are so many health-giving machines. The first attendant turned the reporter over to K. Pillischer who l.ad

reported tho death of Pustarits to the police the night before. E. Pillischer Jed the way down the carpeted hall to the office of Dr. G. W. Farver. whom Jie stated was being relieved for a fewdays by Dr. George Yades. The office is outfitted like hat of a banker but the pofse of Yades was somewhat disturbed. He said at first that Pustarits had been getting a treatment, then supplemented with. "I don't think I had given him a treatment yet." finally recalling positively that he hadn't. Tade.s gave as his opinion that Pustnrtis was a hypocor.dric, and then Pill-

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Beautiful Stocking Model is Slain

Hammond Savings & Trust Co. Hold Meeting and Announce Plans Resulting From Infusion of New Blood.

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the upheaval abroad. This country has been sorely perplexed for several years by a multitude of new political experiments, not a few of which will be abandond when tri. d cut. AVe need political rest . A BETTER EAILEOAD OUTLOOK. Wry significant changes have taken place in tho railroad outlook during the last twelve months. Corporation baiting is no longer as politically profitable as it formerly was, a statement that applies to railroads quite as freely as to big . industrial concerns and trusts. Railroads, however, suffered more se

verely than any other class of business

organizations, probably because of their intimate relations with the public at large. Between the upper millstone of

bitterness. An inconclusive ending of oppressive federal ana state legislation the war would be disastrous to civiliza- and the lower millstone of labor de-

NEW YORK, Jan. 3. The year 1317 opens with the mind of the world groping for peace. A year ago it was wholly bent upon war; no it is more and more devoted to seeking ways and means f bringing the ghastly struggle to a close. Thr. ara thojie- well ,i"rme(i who believe that peace is nearer than commonly supposed, because Germany is prepared to make greater concessions than expected: while others as confidently claim that Germany wHlfut present propose no terms that the Allies are willing to accept. The latter clfiss of believers also incline to tho opinion

that if present peace movements iau. In spite of their strong support by neutral nations, the war will be resumed on both sides with increased vigor and

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tion. inasmuch as It would not unlikely precipitate a second war as soon as the most aggressive belligerents sufficiently recovered, hence an absolute binding, copper-fastened settlement must be attained, including all the belligerents. DOMESTIC POLITICS. The coming year will be free of one grea-t uncertainty, the presidential election. AVe now- have four years ahead under an administration whose policies are as well defined as it is possible to have them. President "Wilson was able to carry out in the main the promises of his first term; and whether his succosses are liked or not it would seem the part of political wisdom not to attempt any further experiments vintil general conditions are less confused by

mands and increased expenses, American railroads only escaped serious financial difficulties, if not bankruptcy, through the timely revival of business which h might them general prosperity and averted an imminent crisis. PERPLEXINO BUSINESS SITUATION. War Inflation has carried prices of commodi'.ies to unprecedented levels. It Is somewhat hazardous to assume that this inllatii'ii lias reached its limit. Htill higher prices may be reached, and if so the adjustment following later on will be all the more severe. Suffice it to say that for the average business man the future is full of extraordinary perplexities for which there is no parallel and through which no sure trail cftn be

Financial and business elides in the' Calumet region are much interested in j tile announcement that the stokholil-j ei's and d irectors of the Hammond H.i v.-I

i lngs &. Trust Company conrident'y look ' i forward to a new era in the growth i and development of the bank as a ie-

suit of tlie infusion of new blood that I ame with the ejection of "V. ( ;. Pux-j ton to the presidency last night. '

Tue bank lias shown a healthy growth in the past few months, ami tins is expected to be greatly accelerated under the new management. The Hammond Savings Sc Trust Company is

one of the live downtown banks in j Hammond and lta location In close! proximity to the rapidly developing' section of Uohnian street is a valuable! one. j Tlie ofii ers and directors liosen by I the stock holders are as follows: . j . Paxton. president; Fred R. Mott.j wiee president; Frank Hammon,?, secre

tary and treasurer. The directors, in addition to the above mentioned offic-

i ers are IT. K. Sharrer. August K. Jar- !

necke and P. C. Paxton. AV. (J. Paxton, the new- president, 1 particularly well qualified for the position to which he has just been elected. He has long been successfully engaged in business in Hammond, identi

fied with every important project in the Calumet region and is regarded as or,? of HsimTTfomrV" most substantial business men. I'ired R. Mutt who was re-elected vice prudent, is one of the old residents of Hammond, a former mayor and successful In the real estate business in which he has been engaged since the founding of the city thirty-five years ago.

Mr. Kbert. the former president, lias been notably successful. He was postmaster of Hammond for one term, was one of the best members of the. board of public works that Hammond has ever had and finally became president of the bank which he, Frank Hammond and Richard Sc-haaf organized. He has presided over the affairs of the bank for many years with dignity and efficiency and be finally turned over tho bank to his .successor In excellent condition. Frank Hammond who has been reelected to the office of secretary and treasurer is counted one of the best l.unliprs in the region. He is

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John A. Brennan Familiar Figure In Lake County Politics Shies Caster in Ring

! Tlie war is on in Gary. i They have started the city camj paign. Both parties agree that the pn- ' maries will be held in March, that the ! legislature will not change t'ia da'e. j As a result candidates are malung announccments. j It is expected that throughout Lake

county city campaigns win itu at once. The Gary Democrat? will open their city headquarters this week. Republicans are to follow suit. Hot Battle On.

Official announcements for the republican nomination for mayor of ! Gary have been made by John Bren

nan and V. F. Hodges. It is expected Hans O. Egeberg, Dr. F. W. Smith. AV. J. "Williams, Mayor It. O. Johnson and possibly one or two others will follow suit. Jlr. Brennan's announcement appears in The Times today; Mr. Hodges' will be in tomorrow. Ex-Mayor Tom Knotts and Ex-City Attorney Harvey J. Curtis are out for the Democrats nomination for mayor. A host of candidates for the various city nominations will make their announcements in a few days.

Grace Koberta.

PHIUVDi:i.rniA. Jan. :;. Grace Roberts" missing diamond ring is the clew which police ar? hoping may solve

the mvsterv of lor murder.

were found in the room. Many of them are love letters. Checks for s.11 tho way from $500 to $1,000 were found. Police have guarded these letters and

Miss Roberts, known .as the -Girl photorraphs with great care. And hav

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AIjMOST tim to do your Groundhog Day shopping early. MKN'S fashion mag. says it takes lourteen suits and six overcoats to CD.ASS a man as a gentleman WK will Just have to ajplre being liomethlng; else. TO get on the front rage eastern (society women don't go on the stage any more THfclV become war nurses. SliCR-ETARY TJAXTETS is still being harshly criticized in the east OH, give over! THINK how funny little Danny is!

MANY a man who manages to save his face never looks the same, though, u ftei-wards. THINK it isn't hard to plca.se? MURK'S one patron who wants us to cut out liquor ada and others jAY they are all right but cut out tlie immoral lingerie pictures PRKTTY nappy weather we're havi n 2 . IT' extremely hard to be so busy t toast It is evident that some of

the girls we see on the street NKVKR have time to even get halfd f essed ? l.KTHER BUR BANK is fiS years old and has married a girl of 20 WE are evincing a certain amount of curiosity as to Just what Luther thinks he can cross now. ' cor ll'UTCE who evidently has brought up quite a family says tr.at mother ALWAYS knows where the children get their gcKid trails m;T wonders where the dickens THEY got their selfishness and ehe will look at father and say I KNOW they didn't get It from MY !de of the family.

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With the Form Divine," the Perfect Figure, who was a photographers' model for women's clothing and whose pictured face was known all ever the world, was found (lead in her apartment late Saturday night.' And the diamond a great four and

one-quarter carat stone was the only j

article known to bo missing from the rooms. Detectives are watching a prominent Philadelphia man who, they b'lieve, gave the diamond .o Miss Roberts. They .are working on the theory that the murderer may have taken the ring as a grewsome. souvenir of the crime. City Magistrate Harry J. Imber has made a voluntary statement to police that he knew Grace Roberts that he talked to her over the telephone Friday morning. His stat. ment is the first, so f:ir as is known, that has ben made to the police. Autographed I'hotffgraphs of more than a score of prominent Philadol-

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the Hammoml j ,t,i 'is were found o in. Under the i gir! s palatial a pari

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followed. At least twelve prominent rhiladolphians have been Questioned. One millionaire is implicated. Imber said, in his statement, that h had called Miss Roberts at 11 a. m, Friday in connection with sorno theater tickets. It was twelve hours later that her body, clad In blue silk pajamas, was found in a bed in her partmnt. Her skull had been fractured and he had been strangled with lior own stockings. In the apnrtmrnt wher Miss Roberts lived, nil oni heard her death si ru rain. She was killed, a "suleldo plant" arranged snd then her ussailant walsed off unscathed. Miss Roberts' strugg'" ngsiriwt death had been no violent that her hair was ripped from the head, blood spattered all over the bed clothes find her once blue, silk pajamas had been dyed red. She had first been struck in tha faee and when he showed she could fight, her assailant used ft flu t iron to crush

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y I nlted ire atilejtram.) HKRl.IV, (Via WIr-le Jan. 3. Occupation of Ilernrscl and Tiel In Koomania by (.frninn ftre-ji nn announml In the war rfiee statement olay. Advance of l.rr. man patrols Into the third French trench In Iht Forest 1'rlent on the western front -was nlM revealed In the statement. The pntrols lent royed the defensive vork there nod returned with Vi prisoners. (Ily I'nlted Press Cablegram.) AMS TriKDAM, Jan. X. C.erinan j" reply ?e the Scandinavian ' penre note on Jun. 1 referred those nations to the answer returned to President "WHson'a peace HUKies tlons, Herlin dispatches reported today. The note alio added that It depended on the entente's reply to the Wilson note whether an attempt to restore world peace would prove nuecessful.

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council to have a committee ascertain; if something can be done to facilitate, the transportation between the Twin Hies and Hammond. Jfe claimed, people are moving from Hammond to j East Chicago because of the service!

and that scores of other families would live here If they could make good time

to and from their work. Fred Deverenz laid all the blame for the poor service on the trains which block Crossings. burns came back at this argument with the statement that there is no reason why the company cannot double track on Calumet avenue now. and Williams advanced the opinion that tho greatest reason for the slow time made by the street cars !,, when they are so over-crowded

it takes minutes to discharge and take on passengers at a stop.

Wood and Lawson in the Limelight

Hammond City Dads Hear

Complaints That it Requires Hour and Half for Transportation From Indiana Harbor to Hammond

Illy t'nlted Press Cahlegrnm.) I.ON"1OX Jan. 3. I.ord Cow-dry, known as one of Knglund'n greatest business organizer", today took over organisation and development of F.ngland's aero warfare. He will' have sole charge of the construction and equipment of the em. plre's lr forces both of army and navy. (Hy Vnited Press.) M;W YORK, Jan. 3. Keports of new CJernmn submarines capable of lading mines while submerged, and a new report of n new (German raider roaming the Atlantic were b mu c lit here by the Holland Amer. lean liner Meow Amsterdam, t apt. Jan Ilaron today declared he had been warned not only to avoid rcsrular steamship ltnnes on his trip from Itotterdam. but had barely escaped destruction In the harbor of Falmouth by a mine.

A roar against the street car service between Hammond, East. Chicago and Indiana Harbor was registered at the meeting of the common council in the former city lust evening and a committee appointed by Mayor Smalley on motion of the city dads is to wait upon the local representatives of the Chicago City Railways to obtain from them the whys and wherefores of slow time and delays. Councilman Ered Eeverenz, who appears to be friendly to the street car company, is one member of the committee and Williams and Eggers the other two. Stating that hundreds of men are working in Indiana Harbor who live in Hammond, Councilman Rurns Introduced the complaint against the service the street railways. He said that it took these men about an hour and a half to get to their homes from the

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COMMITTEES

That there may be no delay in g"tting the Hammond Plan campaign fer

the third week in January proinpuy under way. Chairman A. M. Turner ol the Committee of Ten appointed a few of the most necessary committees. He put the. Rev. C. J- Sharp on the Christian church in as chairman of the finance committee with the privilege of selecting his fellow workers on the committee. Attorney L. u Bomberger was made chairman of the executive committee and Messrs. C. M. McDaniel V. S. Reiter and Jesse Wilson constitute the committee on program and speakers for the campaign week. A few more commitees. are necessary and these will be appointed shortly.

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A Well-Known Politician's Hopes of Becoming Secretary of the Senate Are Crushed When $1500 Graft is Uncovered.

timi'.s m nK. vi", VT STATU CAPITAI IXIHAXAIDEIS. INT., Jan. 3 A nice little piece of graft was killed off, yesterday, just in time to prevent it from costing the state $1,500. There have been two Republican candidates for secretary of the senate, W. W. Huffman, of Anderson, and Guy York, of Peru. A good many Republicans were opposedjto Huffman because they said he represented the old element In the party that should be laid aside to i. -v for new blood and more

progressive ideas. Therefore, It became apparent that Huffman could not be elected to the position. It was pointed out, too, that York, while a fine young fellow and well qualified for the place, was practically unknown, and that this would work against him when it came to lining up votes in the Republican senate caucus. So it became talked about that there would probahly be a third candidate, who might be. elected. A movement started 3-esterday among certain interests to elect a well-known politician to the position of secretary of the senate. The Interests back of this man found, however, that the salary of $5 a day which the secretary receives, was not sufficient

to justify the man in accepting the place. So representatives of thej interests began figuring around among the Republican senators and party leaders. They let it be known .that if the senate would apropriate $l,.r00 extra to pay the man for finishing tha senate journal after the close of the session he might be induced to take the position of secretary. When some of the leaders were approached on this proposition they hit the ceiling. They refused to entertain the idea for a minute. Some of them designated the scheme are nothing short of graft, and they declared there would be none of it at this session. They said the legislative referee bureau would finish the senate journal without extra cost to the state.

In view of this opposition, the lntere.rta behind the would be candidate dropped the matter and this man will not get the Job.

WOOD STARTS THE FIGHT WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. A sharp fight over the Thomas AV. Eawson -leak" fight was , participated on the house floor today Svhen Representative Wood of the Tenth district Indiana, de-

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Left to ri-ht; Congressman W. K. Wood. Representative R- L. Henry and Thomls W. Lawson, snnped within the last few days m Washington.

! Consres.man will R. wood oi tins muwim uiclh. u i'"",-v"" ! m the limelight at "Washington in a most sensational way lately.

Thomas W. Law'son, financier who made millions when the news concerning President Wilson's peace note "leaked," is in Washington and says he is ready to get the world aghast with revelations concerning similar "leaks" of the past twenty years. Congressman Wood has introduced a resolution calling for an investigation. Congressman Henry is chairman of the house rules committee, and it is to him that Lawson has addressed several letters, in which startling accusations against congressmen have t,een made. Wood has been ridicrlod and criticized by ro-.ne or the mora staid ccncre-sT-en, bui :s-g-.:rg rigbt ahead a-d derram'iiis ac;:on.

WILL LAY ITS HANDS ON TABLE Dl BOBF.RT J. BENDER. (Br I nlted Preaa.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. That the administration has Anally decided to lay Its diplomatic cards on the table before the senate forelfrn relations committee was indicated today when Pecretary Insing went to the capitol to consult with members of the committee. The secretary's visit was interpreted as Indicating the administration is mi"e anxious for endorsement' of its p-ace rote than it was heretofore revealed.

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