Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 53, Hammond, Lake County, 13 January 1917 — Page 1

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Flexible Shaft Go. Making Foot warmers For Auto Loses Plant At two o'clock this morning fire broke out in the plant of the Flexible Shaft Co., 145th and Carey streets, Indiana -Harbor. Spontaneous combustion is the only theory thus far as to the cause of the conflagration. The damage will amount to approximately $25,000. The fire was discovered about two o'clock but on account of the inflammable nature of the materials being used for manufacturng purposes, it spread rapidly and the building was a mass of flames by the time the department arrived. This company is now engaged chierly in the manufacture of foot warmers for use in homes, in automobiles, etc. The device is made from charcoal, tar and corI dust. The Harbor fire department responded promptly and worked continuously from two o'clock to six. o'clock this morning. There are still watchmen at the plant where the ruins are slowly smouldering. The plant houses a good deal of valuable machinery which has suffered by falling debris and by water and it is imposible to estimate at this time just what the final loss would be. The manager, L. Aeby. worked com tinuouiy last night and is in bed today exhausted with work and exposure to the severe cold. It was one of the rights when it requires heroism of no mean character on the part of firemen who are compelled i.o undergo the extreme cold in garments stiff with snow rihI ice. Although they battled under sev ere handicap they did good work in finally bringing the flames under control. I With James Nejdl. Lake county's senator from Iake county fiffhtinff a lone hand apainst all of the county's senators and representatives, the delegations lor and against Gary's court bill returning from the state capital last jiiKht and today, were convinced more than ever that Governor Goodrich -will iecide the fate of the bill. The Gary boosters are confident of victory; not so the opposition. They admit they are u p against a stone wall but ready to continue the -fight. The senate committee held open house from eleven to four o'clock yesterday pnd gave everybody a Chajice to be hoard. Among other things the committee heard that the court fight was one of the issues in the campaign, and this was the first inkling- that the Hammond. Kast Chicago, Whiting and Crown Point delegates had that Senator Tom Grant and Itepresrntati vts Kdwin Uavis and J. I. Day had of this phase of the campaign. Frank O'Kourke, a democratic candidate for representative -in the late campaign told the committee, that the court issue was taboo in the campaign and that he did not run up aeamst it at any time. i Speaking before the committee for the transfer of room three of the superior court from Hammond and Crown l'oint to Gary, were Mayor Johnson of Gary, Judge Ora. Wildermuth. Attorney Itobert Davis and Senators Kinder and Grant, and liepresentatives -Harris, Davis. Day and Sambor. Speaking against the bill were former Senator Frank Gavit of Whiting, Maoyr Smalley, Attorneys W. Jv Whincry, Freil Parnett, Jesse Wilson. John X. Peckman and Frank O'Kourke of Hammond, Attorney Pester ( )tt enheimer of Past Chicago, and Attorneys Herbert Parr. Milo Pruce and Martin Smith of Crown l'oint. Attorney J. If. Fetterhoff and Senator Xejdl of Whiting. WELLS IS ARRESTED (lly I niteil l'redM.) 1 1 1NT1N"GT X. I XIV. Jan. 13. Police today questioned We'.don H. Wells, arrested here as a suspect in connection ivith the murder of Mona Simon at a Columbus. Ohio, hotel. Police claim they' found bloodstained handerehiefs Hnd a revolver in Wells' suitcase. Wells formerly lived in this city but has recently made his home at Kansas City. M Acording to the police he denies knowing anything of the murder, but admits he registered under the assumed name of John Prunt at the hotel where the girl was killed. TIMES ds are personal mficMEM to the people ot thU community from fhe merrhnnt.

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Captain Duffy photofriEphod on his recent arrival in New York. Capt. Jonn L. DufTy of the ill-fated steamer "Chemung-," which was sunk by a German torpedo in the Mediterranean, has just returned to this country. The captain of the German submarine requested DuiTy to lower the stars and stripes before th? vessel was destroyed, but this Duffy refused to do under any circumstances. fSpecial to Tin', Timf..-.) CUOWX POIXT, J.VIV, Jan. Crown Point citizens acting on own initiative, lave entered tinfight now- was: ins at Ind ir.nnpolis will put up a determined fight to 11. their court . a n d keep the court situation in it: in an effort to retain seat has in the way of pr sent status, all the county court facilities. and keep the court procedure rightfully and constitutionally where U belongs. at the county seat. At a public meeting held at the courthouse a committee ooinpos.-d of Attorneys Parr, Pruce and Smith, were named to go to Indianapolis and keep their ears to the ground in the j. recti f cou rt squabble and protect the vunty .! 's interests as far as is pi issjbl.-. Petition from business rm ri. .;:-, and taxpayers of Itv and pn '. .-. ' life, are being forwarded to th. tors and representatives at the siao.capital, remonstrating against any additional tax burdens being placed on the already overburdened taxpayers of the county in unnecessary courts, and if the sentiment of the public is considered at all by the law-mnkers at the capital they will act rather gingerly in imposing an additional Jmrden oh the people.

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By U. P Men To Th2 United States (Hy I nited lreM. Lci.VIif'X, Jan. 12. Prince Albert, the second son ot" King George, iui-tly eased into manhood on his birthday recently without any more celebration than an American youth coming of age. The prince had been on sick-leave from his ship and was convalescent on his birthday. Contrary to tho custom prevailing

in some other Kuropean royal fain- j Savanna. Oa.. in June. Lach post, it ilies. Prince Albert does not set up j was explained, is entitled to one delan establishment of his own now ; egate to tlie state convention for neh that he is a man. The king is averse j twelve members or major fraction to N.-win.' the state with large : thereof.

sums without reves.-i time to come his son .- and for sc. me w ill receive his aUowan.es out of the fa.-iily fund. The king's tirst son, the Prince of Wales, is considerably better off than his- young brother, -having a large income from his duchy. Oenerally fnlr and continued colli tonlKht; lowest enieratnre nhoe irrcir nt quite " colli Sunday afternoons went to northwest wiauts.

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THE NOSE I The nose is an unnecessary j nuisance; one of nature's ini suits. j And wasn't the middle of the i face an awful place to put it! i Right out in front where it can j catch cold. ; But what's to be done about j it? Clothing. Absolutely noth- ; in i If we could wear overcoats I on them without being taken for halfbacks; or if they were j detachable, so we could put i them in our pockets and hook , on white rubber ones when we go out in the cold. That would , be different. But we can't. Our : noses are stuck fast. They're ! forever getting broken, or smudged, cr warty. But thy're inevitable. If they were even equipped I with automatic shutouts, like i automobiles. Or, better still, if we'd been born without noses : in tlie first place. Solid, decoi rative knobs would have done ; as well. Think what a blessing ; that would have been to cheesemakers. With I'o.-t I'l of tlie Indiana divisi ion of the Travel is' Protective assoeij ation formally organized for Lake j county at a meeting in Hammond. Friday night, the way Is opene-1 for inidustrial heads and their salesmen to j affiliate with one of the strongest najiionul bodies in the country, organized 'for mutual benefit and protection. I Xeeding but twenty members to get ; a charter. Post Dl was launched with la membership of thirty-five and a wide aw.tke org T-P-Aisn ! went -six iiiization of officials'. as t:ie movement. now years old, is called, was dis-'ussed from many angles at the orj K:'!:izat ion smoker in the Mee hotel j last night. A li've wire bunch of state ; officials weje present and gave Post jll the best kind of a send-off, which 'Included among other things a check j for $5o as a "nest egg." i The following ofifcers were elected: President Frank F.sshom, treasurer I nml general manager of the Two Step i Ladder Company of Hammond, j First Vice President A. J. liurk of i Hammond. Standard Oil Company ! soiesman. Pake county district. Second Vice President George Petz 'of the Petz Mfg. Co., Crown Point. Secretary-Treasurer- Frank Waller. tit St 'tidavd il Company's sub-sta-i i unmond. j Hirectors .1. George Geyer, IVderal Cement Tile (.'ompany, Hammond: j William St-'eh. Crown Point; and Stan- ' lie Champman of the Two Step Ladder 1 Com pany. Co mm it tee (hairm"n Membership. Mr. Geyer; legislation, F. I'.. Mcllroy, president of the Mcllroy Pelting Company, Hammond; press, Francis A. I taker, vice president Tw o Step Ladder Cam any; employment, H. A. Lampreli, superintendent American tJlue j Krnest Hixon. Crown Point, j Jt was decided at the meeting that the elected ofifcers shall hold their tirst meeting a week from tonight at I the Hotel Mee; The latter place will lie the post'. permaneut meeting headj quarters, Mrs. Mee's courtesy in extend ing tne privilege naving oeen arKnowiedged with a standing vote of thanks. A vote of thanks Was also extended The TiiiEK for the publicity it gave the organization of the pout. Charles M. Zink, secretary-treasurer of the state division, presided at the j meeting last night and with him were I John J. Shuttleworth of Terre Haute, ' state chairman of tlie membership comj itiittee; C- S. Putterfield, press- chair- ' man of Post P.. Indiamtpolis: J. G. Klink of South Pend, one of the state (membership committee, and J . J. Mari cus, a South Pend member. j Attention was called to the coming '"state convention at South Pend in May and the national convention at s M r. KlUik complimented post its president, saying that he rr felt ; wit he had the making of a ftate president in hi n. President Ksshom earlier in tlie evening gave a brief but interesting history of the T. P. V. reorganization at Denver in IS! at which time h. already was identified with it. As the newly elected president, he gave a very earnest expression regarding the c ause and the god work to be accomplished.

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Suffragets picketing entrances to White House. Each of the two Pennsylvania avenue entrances to the White House is beinjr picketed I y six members of the Congressional Union, each of whom holds a banner with the inscription: "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage.'' The pickets will be on duty from 9 to 5 each day, the individuals being relieved at frequent intervals.

AniioiiiKeiiienti around which hinge the success of the Hammond Plan are to be made at the mass meeting Monday evening in .assembly hail of the Huehn building, it was announced today. So much interest has alreadybeen stirred in the city regal ding next week's campaign that an overflow meeting: will very likely have to be held on Monday night, ami if this is necessary the public assured of prominent speakers, at any ut the places. Today requests were received from another score of mothers who want the professionally trained community worktrs to tome to their homes some lime during the week to address a neighborhood gathering of friends on the various phases of the Hammond Plan. Prof. P. O. Holden of the International Harvester Company who kindled the lire for a community plan and uplift for Hommond, was to address the Hammond Woman's club at the Masonic Temple this afternoon, and with this organization backing: the project and making it the paramount issue in the city's life there can be no iuetton of failure. H. S. Mobley another leader in the International Harvester Company's education extension department, is scheduled to address gathering of workingmen in the Franklin school In Pobertsdale this evening. The prospects today were that not less than 2uo meetings. large and small, would be held in Hammond this week. With the whole city prepared for the work, a permanent organization will then be in order to carry out the plan. Dodgers announcing the various meetings for next week will be distributed Monday night. (Special to Thh Times.) HOBAKT, IXD., Jan. 13. Lewis Tree, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tree, i had a narrow escape from freezing to death Thursday night. He had spent the afternoon in town and left for home early in the evening. At the corner of Second and Center street he fell into th excavation on the Gordon lot where Mrs. Gordon is building- a new house. Later in the evenihg neighbors heard groans coming from that locality investigated and found Mr. Tree unconscious from the cold and nearly frozen to death. Dr. Prink wan called, and it wns not until two o'clock Friday morning that he regained cuiciousnes:;, ho a.lso had a badly frozen fcr. rid rnd foot. At the present writing he is in a serious condition, but hopes are hold for his recovery. BOY HURT Edmund Rude'eal. an 11-year old boy, was run down and painfully bruised by a Petz Company auto truck driven by Roy Kussmaul on tollman street near th,- bridac late Thursday

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r i.x. btHI rliuM HU ti! Weighing five pounds aVd eight ounces a'package containing 5.000 signed dry federation pe titions were dispatched by the Hammond Woman's Christian Temperance union to Miss Clara Sears at 151 Market street. Half of tiie petitions are to the house and the other half to the senate, asking that the state be made dry. The postage on the package was f The Anti-Saloon .league has also circulated petitions and 'these liae gone in under separate cover. pofuur tip; mm is dead Mi.ss Liliian Lortz, a popular girl 20 years of age who at one tirno clerked in the Lion Store, died Wednesday of scarlet fever and was buried Thursday afternoon following services at the home of her brother, Fred Lortz. Miss Lortz made her home with her sister, .Mrs. Max Schneider. Her parents were dead, the mother biing taken in death about a year ago.. Mis Iortz was well known and her death caused sorrow- to a large circle of friends and acquaintances. DEATH OF LIES. LEITZ Mrs. Alberta Lciiz, aged SI, died Wednesday at her home in South Ipimmond and the funeral fs to be hell from the house at 1 o'clock Sunday to the Lutheran church at 2 with burial in Concordia cemetery. Rev. Claus will officiate at the funeral. Mrs. Ienz was the wife of Charles Leiiz, formerly a resident of Tolleston. SIR OLIVER LODGE HAS MESSAGE FROM SON KILLED IN WAR . ?.y r-.' r- ' ' -y-::?y -in .. :oc:,-. r -. tV .vO.i-Xv'..-. Sir Oliver Lodge. Sir Oliver Lodgo m l.U Look "Raymond, or Life and Death," just out in this country, gives new and remarkable examples of the evidence and memory of affection after death He asserts that he ha had messages from his son Raymond, who was killed in action during the early months of the war. Sir Oliver's reputation as a scientist and searcher Into the nvebvt is world wins

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4 v. ISHING (Special to The Times. GRIFFITH, IXD. 5an. 13. A serious accident occurred in the Krie yards here yesterday when a brakeman by the name of Hettfcr, slipped and fell under the wheels oi" the ermine of the Prie local. The young man was throwing a switch, and losing his footing in the snow fell with his arm across the track. One wheel passed over his arm between the elbow and shoulder crushing it to pul o. i L'r. F. A. Malmstono was called at once and after rendering- temporary aid. took the injured man to the hospital at Hammond. The arm was later amputated at the shoulder. The young man was a son of J. Hettler living near Pol war. I lid. ilS. EUZATkWS TAKEN B! DEATH Mrs. Kliza Laws, a resident of Lake county since ante-bellum days, died yes- ! terday in Hammond at the age of eigh-ty-one, folowing an illness which e.v- , tended over several weeks. She is survived by he r husband. John Laws, who is Sti, li.e children, eighteen granelchildren and one great grandchild. Tlie children are "William J. and Pd.vin D., of .Crown l'oint; Fremont and Mrs. AV. II. Hammond of Hammond, and Mrs. K. W. Pumii of Pattle Creek. Mich. Frank Laws." a grandson, had made his home with his grandmother for years and was an adopted son. In the death of Mrs. Laws Lake county loses another of the pioneer women. She came to tho county before the civil war and was not only one of the oldest residents but one of the most respected. She was born at New Haven. Conn., her maiden name being Morris, was educated at a convent in Jersey City and married in 1S51. Five years previous to the outbreak of the civil war Mr. and Mrs. Laws moved from Chicago and settled at Crown l'oint. Thirty years ago the family moved to Hammond, a village at that time. Mr. Laws entered the coal, lime and wood business where tho present Consumer Company is located and Continued until about ten years ago when the couple moved into the present rtsider.ee on South Hohman street. Tho funeral is to be held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at the residence in 70 i Hehman street and the remains removed to trie vault in Uak Hill cemete ry. Tlie deceased children are; Swinburn, Viola, Frances and Walter. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AT EXPLOSION ny 1 nlteil Pre.) XKW YOI1K. Jan. 13. Keports of a heavy loss if life as Ji result of the explosions of ton; of powder at the Haskell, X. J., PuPont plant last night were circulated today in various Xew Jersey towns. A sergeant of the Pompton Lakes police declared twenty-seven were killed. He announced his estimates alter talking with surviving witr.es-'ses. One of the company Joetors was quoted as saying lie had counted eleven dead. The PuPont statement accounts for on! ytwo missing. Hints ot? incendiarism are many. A lle newipnper for people who are pflll on earth that's what THE TIMf. I.

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Germany According to Emperor Is Fully Prepared Fcr Further Sacrifices. (By Unltea Press Cahleffram.) AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13. The allies' purpose to crush. Germany and enslave Europe is now made clear; but as they have failed in their months of bloody war and unscruplous economic fighting to accomplish subdication of the central powers so will their future efforts fail. Kaiser Wilhelm thus -summoned up his belief of the entente powers' position in a proclamation to the German people issued today. In it he declares his people were "ready for all sacrifices" ar.d asserted his confidence in "full vic tory over all the enemies and lust I for power and rage for destruction. The proclamation reads: "Our enemies have dropped the nia-;v. ! After refusing peace with scorn and I hyprocrilical words of love for peace and humanity they new in replying to tho Vnited States have tone ' beyand that and admitted their lust of conquest. The baseness of which i3 .intense! by caluminous assertions. "Their aim is the crushing of Germany; dismemberment of the allies' power and enslavement of the freedom of Europe and the seas under the same yoke that tlre.ee villi jrna.il. ins tj.-t.'t is now enduring. "Put what in thirty months of bloodiest fi sitting and unscrupulous economic war they could not achie - they v ill also fail to accomplish in the future. "Our glorious -victories end th" Iron strength of will with whi ii ..;ir fell'."'.at the front and at borne have borne aii hardships and dicU ss i-- . pur. rant for the future that our bUox-J Fatherland has nothing to fear. "Purning indign-.ti u and Hd..r V,'; ;t will redouble the strength of every Oman man or -woman whether devoted to fighting, to work or to suffer! is. W are ready for our sacrifices. The ; who planted this glorious spirit of freedom in our brave people's hearts will also give us Rnd our n -l ie allies full victory over all the enemies' lust for power and rage for destruction." Chances Are That Kinder Measure Providing for Holding Lake County City Primaries in August Will Eccome a Law. TliiES SwIiEAir, AT STATE CAJITAI.. IXPIAXAPOLIS. INI)., Jan. IX There appears to be -i fair chance that the bill introduced by Senator Kinder of Lake county to change the dates f..;holdmg city primaries will be pass,,: and become a law. It has already paf. ed the senate and is in the house, it would fix all city primaries in the state, except in Indianapolis, for the first Tuesday .-, i u r the third Monday in August. Li Indianapolis the primaries would be held on tho first Tu -day after the third Monday in May. It is reported that the real reason why Kinder wants the bill passed is that he wishes to run for the nomination for mayor of Gary, and if the primary was held under the present law in March he would have no chance t make a campaign for the nomination, because lie will be tied up in the session of the legislature until that time. THREE RAILROAD TUTTcT TTTTT? T1 TATIAV Three railroad men were hurt in :i-t-idents near Hammond today. Jacob Cutler, an employe of the Krie, had his right arm cut off In an accident at Oriffith; O. A. Xiper had his head , hurt in an fall at Gibson, and jack tLcarnie, 70S Hohman street, was burned wiiil working for the Fl ic

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