Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 55, Hammond, Lake County, 27 January 1917 — Page 1
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Legislators Angered at Hisses' Turn on Suite, Hot In Senate Next Week HMI.ET1S.) TIMES Hl RKAl A'l' STATE CAPITAL. lMJIAAI'OLIS, Jan. 27. The prohlI. It ion bill whlofc passed the hoe I hiinriny will arrive In the senate Mon. day and It In understood that the committee to -which It will he referred will Rive It prompt attention. The public moral committee In composed of Senator AVhlte, Signs, tirant, MeKinley, Hazen, Ersklne and Kagerty. and the majority of the committee In understoo 1 to be opposed to prohibition. The bile will probably come out of the commit, tee with a divided report, the majority favoring panMIf and the minority to Is 111 the bill- Then the bis fight will follow on the floor of the senate. By 1 nlted Tren. IDI iAroLIS, Jan. 27. Dry worker today declared that they had enough member of the nennte pleased to vote for the dry federation prohibition bill assure pan-age of that measure in the upper house of the legislature. "We have the pledges of nine !emocrntle membern of the nenate to vote fr the prohibition bill Indorsed by the dry federation and thin assures it passage," stated one of the n.ont prominent dry worker- today. "We are confident that the measure will meet w th rce.n in the nen.te. an with the nine nemocratn. we have nev enteen repubU eans who will vote for the bill, making a total of twenty-nl." (ETLLETIS.) TIMES BUREAU, at STATE CAPITAL. "li'iiPOM. INt... n. 27wh women In the gallery of the Kom nlsBed wHUe the debate c the proMhltion Mil w in prof.... " Xhurjdly they 7 damaged their chlnce for the passage of the suffrage in the house It 1. said that a few 1 , House were walverinff a ZToT: theTufsUou of whether they would or would not support the Mil, and TomTof these metnhers are now saying thTt the, Joo offense at the hissing and Si caused them to decide to oppose the woman's suffrage hill. TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAI.. INDIANAPOLIS, IN'D., Jan. 27. Most of the real activity during the remainder of the session of the legislature vnU be found ia the senate, according to those who know something about legislative matters. The house has passed the constitutional convention Mil and the prohibition bill and about the only real fight that remains on the house rrogram will come if the Judiciary 15 committee ever loosens up and makes a report on the woman's suffrage bill. This committee is holding bark t.n that bill and there is at this time little indication that it will make a report in the near future. If the committee does trot this bill out on the lloor of the house, it will be the signal for a scrap that will go down in Indiana legislative history labeled a 'dinger." Kepresentatives from Lake, si. Joseph. Allen, Vanderburgh and one or two other counties have their clubs nady to give the bill a warm greeting. 'pif. senate, however, has not yet passed imy of these bills and the lights on that side are yet to come. The llrst probably will be on the constitutional convention bill, which now has precedence over the others. This bill probably will be passed because the republican and democratic state platforms both declared for H and Governor Kalston and Governor Goodrich both recommended it. The fight on the prohibition bill in the senate promises to be one of the best little scraps ever pulled off in the senate and if the bill finally gets through it will be lucky. The third t ght will come on the woman's suffrage bill, if this measure ever reaches the frnatf. DISCHARGED As the result of a decision handed d.un by Judge W. C. McMahon. of the Lake circuit court at Crown Point j esterday, the Lake County lee and Cold Storage plant, East Chicago, is no longer in the hands of a receiver and E. W. Wickey. as manager, is in charge of affairs this morning. This action comes as the result of a motion on the part of representatives of the company to discharge the r-r'-iver. A change of venue was taken finm Judge Ileiter's court to Crown Point. Upon a thorough review ot the finances of the company. Judge Mediation ordered a dissolution of the receivership. H. K. Groves has been receiver for several months.
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1 a 'Mr s.' Mis .lury Lord Arrdrews. Miss Mary Lord Andrews, cf Washington and Virginia, has been appointed chairman cf the Colonial hunters' division in the inaugural parade. This .section will be ct;aposed of society horsemen and horsewomen of Virginia, dressed in Colonial costumes from white wig to boots. The women will use sidesaddles and their costumes will combine the national colors, red, white and blue. Miss Andrews, who is an accomplished horsewoman, though less than twenty years old, received her appointment from Mrs. J. II. Rogs, chairman cf the woman's divjj'on TAXPKTERS CALLED TO Nil BILLS liecause the per.dins court leuislation at .Indianapolis is u matter that vitally concerns every taxpayer for all time to come, and because there must be an overwhelming expression of crystaiize 1 sentiment nsrainst the bills to remove one curt from Hammond to Cary and establish a separate, criminal court in Crown Point, a mass meeting of taxpayers is called for next Monday evening to be held in the Hammond Chamber of Commerce rooms. The Chamber of Commerce and the committee of the Par association under whose auspices the meeting railed, ask the people to rally t i:-t call to give unmistakable exp'i.- i , to Governor Goodrich that the laxpayers want to hold him to his campaign promise of economy In public ofi-,.-ra ami the committee unable to reach everybody, has issued a public rail for the meeting. I GEORGE If. BACON JR. 5 SAFE IN LBf Mother in Gary Hears He is Not Held in Irish Prison by English Military. Mrs. George V. Paeon, sr., of Gary, today g t word from Central Press association of New- York that her son, George, Jr., is safe in London and not In a military prison in Ireland as was first reported. Yesterday Mrs. Paeon had Mrs. John A. Logan, of Washington, appeal to President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing to ascertain the whereabouts of her son. The report had come to New York that young Bacon proba.bly had violated some rules of English censorship while acting as a war correspondent and had been imprisoned. Harry P. Parker, of Gary, a personI al friend of young Mr. Bacon, yesterday wired Congressman Sabath at I Washington to look into the case. Mr. Bacon is war correspondent and English manager of the Central Press association of New York. His employer is Virgil McNitt, editor-in-chief of the association. OTTO BORMAN TO GO TO FLORIDA Otto Borman, the p.oneer Tolleston and Gary real estate man, leaves Monday night for Florida. Mr. Borman'i ! family is at St. Petersburg and he will join them there
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The Whai-Ycu-May Column LAUNDRIES A man in Mexico, the Department of Commerce bulletin's, "is desirous of purchasing machinery for a small laundry." What anybody wants with a laundry in Mexico is more than we can understand, but since it is 0 we append a partial list of things he should get. Above all, he must have a button smashing machine, any laundry worthy the name lets no guilty button escape. Then he will need a collar ripper and cuff frayer. This indispensable little contrivance will utterly demoralize the strongest shirt that was ever built. Next, a clothes mixer. In these days of pre-digested food and vest peck-t bungalows by mail, every man expects his laundry ready mixed. He's sore if you send him the same colored pajamas two weeks in succession. Some authorities claim you can't run a laundry without a machine or two to wash the clothes, but this really isn't necessary. Eight Protestant Churches of Hammond Unite in Calling Dr. Henry W. Stough for Union Meeting Must Raise. $5,000. If the finances are arranged and there are r. further changes in plans, Hammond will have a big tabernacle union revival with a sawdust trail and a well know metropolitan evangelist, beginning Sunday. Feb. 25. and continuing for iix weeks. Pastors ofight protectant churches of the city have extended a call to Dr. Henry W. Stough and his corps of experts who are conducting a union revival in Cincinnati at present with a daily atendance of 3,5'iC peopde or more. Pev. Stough recently evangelized Buffalo, N. Y., and 7.000 converts are said to have responded. He has a company of thirteen salaried people. It is estimated that a tabernacle to -cat ::..''"' people can be built in Ham.i ri at a cost of $2,".iif( and the i i lurches are preparing to guarantee or underwrite $5. unci for the expenses of the revival. The $5,ooo will cover cost of building and heating the tabernacle and the salaries and expenses of six or eight assistants. To keep down the expense the evangelist is willing to cut In two his- staff of workers for this date. ITfe Ml Ollerlng. 1 r. Stough is guaranteed nothing. On the last Sunday of the revival he will accept a free-will offering of the people, as is customary with evangelists. A meeting of pastors ami representatives of their congregations was held at the First Methodist ehuureh last evening with a Mr. Shannon, personal representative of Dr. Sough, present. There were twenty-five men in attendance including the Pevs. Parrett. Witt, Cowley, Adam.. Passett. Kern Nagl'er and Roberts of the First Presbyterian, Pine Street Congregational. Baptist, Methodist. Monroe Street, German Methodist and Nazarene churches, respectively. All churches favored going ahead with the plans at once but the Firstt Presbyterian representatives asked for time in which to take the question before the congregation Sunday, once more. All congregations acted favorably last Sunday. It appears that the protestant church members believe the time iS ripe for a union revival. The Firft Christian church has not as vet signified its intention of co-operating in the movement, it was stated today, but will be urged to do so. Mr.' Shannon, the advance man, said that while Dr. Stough id dated ahead two. years, it so happened that he had this open date in the early spring. THE WEATHER l nrettled and warmer tonight and unilayi prnbnhJj- rain or ni-iv loyet (ctrpfrnfure tonlslit isboiit 2.: moderate cnte:lT wines Iieconlng fresh to trocx aouth to Kouthwent unJ:jy. A live newpnper for people who nr till on earth that's what THIC TIMES la
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Lake County Senator Enjoys i a Tilt With Government ! Highway Experts Over I State Highway Commission Bill. TUHES BUK.EATJ, AT Si ATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, 1ND.. Jan. 7. While J. E. Penny backer and J. T. Voshell. government highway experts, were explaining to a legislative committee the need of an Indiana, s-tuie highway compulsion, attempts mic made by Sui.uor N.-jdS. a Lake couu! contractor, to (iiscr.-uit the biale highway uiiaiiiisMri- i ie b:l the tuo go Vet iunt.nl exialts w.-rc n'.ile to forestall j.il's attempts each time. Ncj.il .-ought to apply principles he said were true: in Lake county to the. general .slate si'.uaiion. Lake county now iias Ihe highest tax rate in the slate, iri. nis of good roads for Indiana say and the millions ot dollars that have been tprnt in road 'improvement" in that county have brought practically no lasting results. Contractors have reaped enormous beneiits in Lake county under the present Iisorgani.:ed system of road buiidin-:. friends of the state highway .commission bills declared Erennan Quits Gary Mayoralty Race. The Times has received the following from John A. Brennan: Gary, Ind., Jan. 27. PJ17. To the Republican Voters of Gary: .; v .Inspired J ?r'S5jfJient example of our Democratic brethcrn in promoting harmony in their ranks preliminary to the coming city campaign, and believing that Mr. W. F. Hodges ideas in regard to giving the city of Gary a clean, honest and energetic administration are in complete harmony with my own views on this subject. I have concluded that it would be a mistake to divide the force who favor clean government. I have therefore-, after consulting with my friends, concluded to withdraw from the mayoralty race. I desire to return my earnest thanks to ray friends and acquaintances, who have honored me with their support, and to assure them that my only, motive in taking this action is to promote harmony in the Republican ranks and to assist in securing clean, decent government for our city. Very sincere ly, JOHN A. RULNNA.V. SERVICES OMITTED FOR FUNERAL Owing to the funeral of Mrs. Klisabeth Hess Sunday afterneion the regular services for the Kvangelical Lutheran Concordia congregation at the Hessville school house will be omitted. Mrs. Hess was one of the; founders of the congregation and as her funeral services will be conducted at her home at 2 'o'clock by the I'.ev. Bruno SageT, it is expected that many cf the members will be in attendance there. 5,500,000 DESTITUTE IN WESTERN EUROPE Herbert C. Hoover. Herbert C. Hoover chairman of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, has just returned to this country to spend fdur weeks in devising relief plans for another year. He says there are 5,500,000 destitute persons in Belgium and northern France, and that it will take between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000 to carry on the work of the commission another vear
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Mrs. Walter I.ewisohn (left) and Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn at Palm Beach. Th'? .season ha. ftartod at Palm Peach. Hundreds of millionaires and their wives are turning '.he famous I-"lu: i.ia winter resort into a gay place. Aiiiontr the first uriia!s wore Mrs. Oscar Lev:.sohi and Mrs. Walter Li'visohi'., wives 'A N.-w York nii'iioiiaires. Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn was formerly Eoina May, Ihe roteci actress.
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TiaiES BUREAU, AT STATE CAFITAL. INblAXAI'OLIS, IND.. Jan. 27. Shortly after the house; bad convened yesterday Representative Mc-Nagny introduced a motion to have the committee on judiciary is, of which Representative Vesey, of I"t. Wayne, is chairman, report the Alldredge part suffrage bill to the house "at its next session." McNagny marie a short speech in supjxirt of his motion, saying he saw no reason why the house should not have an opportunity to conside r the woman suffrage measure. Representative Harris, of Lake county, a member of the Visey committee, quickly took up the cudgel against such a plan. "We had an understanding with the suffragists that we were to give them a hearing on this bill," he said. He declared he believed the committee j should give the suffragists a hearing I before reporting the bill to the house. Ihe hill was introduced January 12 and biis been in Vc spy's committee since, with no prospect of its being renorted. No Smothering', Speaker Says. Representative Jinnett said he believed the wording of the McNagny motion should be changed, that it was too indefinite. Speaker Eschbach then said, in brief: "If there is any movement on foot in any committee to smother any bill, tiie chair is very much opposed to such proceedings, but I believe the motion of the gentleman from Whitley should be worded differently, for the 'next session would be held this afternoon and that, arording to the state Ily I nftd I'rfM CaMeKmm.) I.nl, Jan. Repuloe of .erman attacks In the mmIiIii (t'nainu) vnlley, nan announced In a Ituumanlnn official statement reeelved today. "After eleven hours of denperate flKhtinjc in the toiin anil colli we repulxed the enemy to the south' the report ntated. l litis, Jan. 27. Spirited nrllllery ceimlint marked the utruKSle for supremacy on Iliil 1104 today lie. tween German and Kreneh forces, the official statement said. The Kreneh fire was directed with destructive effect attainst German works. The same sort of flehtlng was in force around KstargeM. Five German aeroplanes were liroueht down on the western front, the statement said. Klsewhere aJonK the front there ere no new developments. PARIS, Jan. 27. Fightfnr with (treat Intensity over battleground ionic atro aecnrately ranged for artillery, has marked the renewed struggles about Dead Man's Hill anil Hill .104. Advices today indicated that the French half wrested hack from the enemy again practl. colly all1 of the advance poMtious which thr German assault of Thursday night won. A flood of machine (tun bullets, a rain of artillery Are. and fierce hand to hand fiuhtlnir hnve soaked and blacken
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SUFFRAGE BILL ment of the gentleman from Lake, would not give the committee time to give the suffragists a hearing. However, that is a matter that is entirely in the hands of the house." At this point, after a long wait, and an invitation from the chair to speak if he so desired. Representative Vesey arose and gave an explanation. He said that, on a suggestion from the chair that whenever bills of the same import had been introduced in both houses, the house committees should await action by the senate, he had held up the bill. Then he suddenly moved to lay the McNagny motion on the table. Representative Miller, of Kokomo, was recognized by the chair to second the Vesey motion, although Reprcsentaties McClaskey and Turner were on their feet to second the motion. Viva Voce Vote. A viva voce vote brought a chorus of "ayes" and not so many ..noes." The 'noes" came tardily, as if the voters did not Quite know what they were' voting on. Speaker Kschbaeh declared the McNagny motion tabled, and then said: "The chair desires to say that if he finds a disposition to bury any bill in any committee in this house, he will take charge of the bill, in so far as the rules of this house will permit, and it will be placed on the floor of tha house for you and the chair will do what he can to let you know which way you are headed." An outburst of applause from the representatives greeted this speech from Speaker Kschbach. ed the soil of the two hills. Tile concerted assault Is an attempt by the Germans to ascertain whether the French are preparing an attack on the west bank of the Meuse following their successful advar-ce on the east where Gen. Mvelle eel l.r.ilcl his departure from lerduue. lir.HMX. Jan. 2(1 French attacks throughout last night and this morning against positions on Hill 34, vwn yesterday by the Germans, were fruitless. Ail such assaults lirok, down. The state ment also details fighting around ( ombres Heights and St. Michael. Of other operations on the western front the statement says: ''Southwest of Dlxiuude, a Ilelgian outpost of ten men was captured w-ith no losses to our forces. South of the LaRasse canal advances of English detachments failed." INTRODUCES INSPECTION BILL TIMES HI RE IF AT STATE t ll'IT.U,. INDIANAPOLIS, July 27. Representative Day of East Chicago, introduced a bill to legalize Sunday hunting and fishing: in Indiana, and one to create a state building inspection department with the chief inspector at $2,000 a year and four assistants at $l,5bt. There are 10.O0O Lake County people who are liTlnar all over the I". S. A subscription to THE TIMES will save yon the trouble of wrltlns a letter to any one of them.
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nST YEAR ins, Autcs anJ Street Cars Taks Big Toll ot Human Lite. 133 Persons Killed in 1916 by R. R., Autos and Cars. 439 coroner's cases. j 22 homicides (two mere than j Marion county in which Indi anapolis is located. 17 drownings. 32 suicides. 40 killed by automobiles; 52 ia al! ki.lcd by autos and motorcycles. Six times as many persons killed by autos here per thousand population as in Detroit. Slain by railroads in Lake county, 79 plus 18 killed on railroads while riding in motor cars; total 97. Only 29 killed in Marion county, which has 2'2 times our population. Nine times as many persons killed here on railroads per thousand population as in Indianapolis. 118 slain in other accidents (including those in mills). Lake county is supposed to be the home of "safety first." 136 persons were killed in this county of 120,000 populaton by railroads, traction cars and motor vehicles; hundreds were injured. Many of the lives were unnecessarily taken. What are you going to do about it ? There will be more autos th"year? More dead and injured? Four times as many people are murdered here per hundred thousand population than is the average for the United States. What do you think of it ? The year 1916 was one of bloodshed in Lake county, according to the statistics from the coroner's office, which show the record-breaking number of cases of 433 that came to the official's attention. With Marion county, in which Indianapolis is located, having a population of between two n,l me-half and three times as great as that of Lake county this county exceeded it in murders and it had nearly twice as many lives lost in motor vehicle disasters and three times aa many in railroad accidents. Gary Hard Hit. The bloody record of Lake county, which is said to outdistance all other counties in Indiana, is the most fearful one in lits history. Appalling is the word t use in describing the toll in motor vehicles. Gary alone, counting nine of iis residents killed just beyond the city linn: .. in Miller, lias nearly as many d. .-:-'is :'r. m m..tr vehicles as di.i Indianapolis. There were 22 murders more than in Mariem count, which includes ln!ianopolins. There were "2 suicides. There were 52 persens slaughtered in motor vehie-le disasters more than twie:e the number of persons killed in Indianapolis and the rest of Marion county. There were 70 persons killed on the steam railroads; 2 on the interurban railroads; 3 by street cars, making a total of 81, which does not include persons killed by trains and street cars who were riding in motor vehicles at the time. In Indianapolis and Marion county only 29 persons were killed by (Continued on page flve. SCHOOL HEALTH BILL LOOKS PROMISING Everything; is favorable at Indianapolis for the passage of the law to compel health inspection of children in the schools". Dr. W. I): AVeis reported today on his return from a visit to the governor. Ir. W'eis represented the board of health and the Chamber of Commerce. Governor Goodrich is enthusiastic in his support of the measure and all . representatives and senators from Lake county with tha exception of Sambor, promised their votes. Sambor stated that while he Is personally in favor of the bill he desires to consider it further before giving his promise. Dr. AVeis states that he feels very encouraged. The appointment of health inspectors in the various cities will be made only after the applicants have been passed by the state board of health as qualified.