Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 195, Hammond, Lake County, 30 January 1917 — Page 1

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Lflti SENATE Three Vita! Bills To fce Wrestled With by Senate At Capital This Week. BVM.rrriNTIMES HI HKAl AT STATE ( AI'ITlt. IMI A APOHS, Jan. 2t Senate committee report! favorably on ejdl'a blJl to tax foreistn Imiirani'f oiimpiiir doing bunlnrM In state two per cent for the benefit of nremeu's pension fond. TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Jan. 30. Some of the members of the senate are likely to die. of heart failure before the end of this week, because, according to the program laid out by the senate leaders, the senate will determine this week whether Indiana shall have a constitutional convention, state wide prohibition, and woman's suffrage. . . -it - -ii All three of these dius win up for passage in the senate this week. First of all will be the bill to call a constitutonal convention, which may be voted on today. Im mediately following, wuwme iw state wide prohibition bul anda vote on this bill will likely be taen Wednesday or not later than Thursdav. Then will come the -Romans su.frage Mil, so that any senator who is mot laid out by the first two, will have a chance to show his staying qualities by voting on the suffrage bill. The fact is. a situation has arisen in reeard to th.es.. three measures that is causing th- senate to -pass the V'xk ,j!Kk to the house. When the house passed the prohibition bill last week and sent it over to the senate in a hurry, some of the house members smiled broadl v over the fact that they had now put it up to the senate. The senate proposes v (, v. v.. right back at the house with woman's suffrage. It is thought, also, that the senate will make amendments to the j.rohibUion bill which will seriously cripple it even if it is passed by the senate, and the senators are wondering what the hou.'e will do with such a transformed bill, if it ernes back from th senate. There is a large element in each house that wants to kill the prohibition bill, but each wants the other to be the executioner. It has been the plan for some time that the constitutional convention bill should be considered by the senate, and voted on ahead of the prohibition bill, leeause the wet forces have figured that if the constitutional convention bill should happen to be passed by the senate it would serve as a stumbling block for the prohibition bill -which would come along later. Hut the dry forces insist that the senate take a square-toed vote on both propositions. Tremendous pressure is b'ing brought to bear on the senators by both sides to this controversy. Petitions for and against the prohibition bill are pouring in, figuratively, by the wagon load. Senators who went to their homes over Sunday report that they were besieged all day long by people who sought to influence their vote on the prohibition bill. For instance. Senator Smith of Knox, representing I. at orte ana rark u j utilities, spent Sunday at home and he j was pesiegeu hu uay ev j-'o,.i.. "' came from all the country around It. j is reported here that his house was full end his office was full and that he was net everywhere by people who wanted to talk to him about this bill, and other s.-nators made similar reports. Senator Norman of Partholome w county made a speech in a religious inettihg Sunday afternoon in which he t-aid that he had been importum-a n1 threatened with 'd struction of his busiii' ss if he refused to votti. against the i prohibition bill but that as a result f j prolonged prayer by himself and his j wife he had come to the conclusion that ! be would vote dry.

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one reason why the senate leaders T business find them. Anyone traveling li.-uf determined to dispose of these I from Gary or Kat Chlcaao to the state three measures this week is that the line for a drink would be willing to session is now nearly one-half over and aiit a block or so farther, they want to get th. se biils out. of the j These are the views of West Hamway so they may take up republican ! nlonf men who were Int e ieu e.i bv

platform arid administration measures jmd see what they can do with them. Woman's suffrage Is the only one of these three remaining for the house to dispose of. That bill is in the hands of a committee of which Kcpresentati ve Vesey of Fort Wayne is chairman and Yescy has them oil guessing to what that ' committee w ill do. He said yesterday morning that ho was ready to report the bill out any time the suffragists were ready for it. in the afternoon he said he would report the bill out when the time was ripe ,-md that ...,v,,ne could place his own construction on that statement. The gon- ral understanding has been that Y.-s.y proposed to hold up the bill in committee and to allow it to die tin re. but what he really means to do remains a mystery.

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ATO The What-You-May Column ICE Ice is one of the cold, hard facts of life that we are forever bumping into; and one of the few things in this world that's what it's cracked up to be. Ice is a paradox. It -is used by cold storage men to make it hot for the public; and it would be a coli day for them if they didn't have it. Ice was invented by Divine Providence to keep our rivers and lakes from freezing to death. During the summer it comes in chunks and goes in a hurry. It is what housewives and saloonkeepers depend on in July and fall on in January. Ice is found in the stare of box-office clerks and on the shoulders of society leaders. Married women stand on it in their bare feet just before they go to bed. It is used by Americans to cool their cocktails and by polar bears to cool their own tails. Ice rides around in big wagons and has a good time; and when it gets tired of life it melts and runs away. 10 BODIE Hammond and West Hammond Equally Interested in What Indiana and Illinois Legislatures Are Going to Do This Week. Ijocal interest, in proposed tion was extended today to in legisladude the annexation bill before the Illinois house at Springfield by whirh it is j hoped to enable the city of t'hicitgo to gobble up the outlyinc towns of Cook county, including Iialton, Kis-erdale, Hlue Island, Iiurnham and West Ham-: mond. Hammond is vitally interested in such a move as It presents the need of. amalgamation of the cities of North ; townsh!p to keep step with the com- ' munities across the state line and the , growing- city of Gary to the east. Also, ! the prohibition move at Springtie;,), j although not so rosy as the dry measure before the Indiana senate, is of in-i terest for it is to be i .-sired that if j Indiana is to go dry the sister state i follow suit. Property owners on (he West .ide of State I,!ne street are watching- the j legislatures of both states and wonder- I lug what the outcome will he and ; what effect If any, it will have or. : their holdings. ; If these prop.-rty owners imagine in j the event of a dry Indiana, and a wet: Illinois that available lots on the west; side of the state line can be held at a I premium for a now army of saloonkeepers they "are very likely to be dis. ppointed. "West Uarimond now has thirty-four saloons, and the laws of Illinois limit the number of saloons to ()1)e f,,r every 500 population. Since thi jaw- became effective no new !icenses have oecn granted, j. lve or six ,..,- htipn renealed arc! if in u letm! question whether even these can be re let. Consequently the saloonkeepers' of West Hammond need not fear thatj their more unfortunate brothers on j the east side of the line can 'horn In j on a good thins" in the event of a j dry Indiana. - j It is even a question whether any of i the established saloons in West Ham- ; n,i w:1! be moved to the state line' Su(-.n a change would entail a treat j exp(?nSe and not kt-owinir when the j state or nation might co dry it is j v rv Droliable that the saloon men i would stay where they are and let the a. reporter today. They are not very anxious to have the thirsty thousands from Pake county pouting in on their city and neither do they care about being absorbed by Chicago. "The annexation matter will have to be put to a vote and I b.-lieve the people will kill it," sal da West Hammond man. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tnnlithtt AYednesilny probnbly raiu or snow; lowest temper, alnre toniubt near the freezing; point: moderate to northeast winds. A live newspaper for people who are still on earth that's what THK TIMES la

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(BULLETIN.) By United Press. j NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Bernard Bar. j nch, Wall street plunger, cleared S 167,- ' OOO playing peace hunches during thlr- ; teen days In December, he told the leak- ' to-Wall-street probers today. If he had known what was coining from Washing- I ton he would have sold all day December ! instead of covering part of his short BelUng by buying United States steel , and his profits would have been larger. ! By United Press. , NEW YORK. Jan. 30. Making an apparent effort to find a possible note leak I trail hading to German Ambassador' Von Hernstortt or other "German cir-i cles," the house investigating commit-j tee today put Archibold S. White, the' envoy's friend, again on the grill. Hut j the committee got only denials. White, associate of Uernslorff, Thorn-; as I.invsmi and other diploma; ic and:: financial lights, had d-ni d having any advance information either on the kaiser's peace move or on President Wilson's subsequent note to t hi; belligerents. Nor had he traded during th period, either for himself or fo hak pe rsons in officialdom. The first - question ft red at White bore on the German angle solely. Attorney Whipple quoted testimony previously aired in Washington suggesting that German diplomatic circles had advance knowledge of Wilson's note. 01 BILL IIP 01 EXT FRIDAY I IM M.KTI .) TIMKS III HK II AT SI TK WITH.. IM)IM'(I.IS Jan. .'til. Senator Kimler nml l.rnnl arc Trcelilng hund reiln f lelei: raui from I like (oiinly, l-eople to e for iroh I hi I ion. (BULLETIN.) I TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. j INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Jan. 30. Majority report of the constitutional ; revision committee of the senate, fa-i voring passage of bill calling a consti-' tutional convention was adopted by the! cenate after a debate. Minority lepori! favoring submitting question to refer-; endum of people was defeated. Kinder signed minority report. Bill comes up lor second reading tomorrow. II .v I nileil Pre. . I IXIMANApoMS, .Ion. :;...-The morning senate was deote,i to the Introduction of petitions for the enactment 'f prohibition. Kvery county was represented in the 17...'hpu names. The house passed th" Kess'.er bill .allowing voters to cast, their ballots by mail, and the M Uteri herger bill providing for the sale of foodstuffs for w e i e; 1 1 1. The constitutional convention bill which has parsed the house will come up in the senate this afternoon for passing under suspension of rules. Senator Oscar H. Smith today telegraphed newspapers In his district, Ijfiporte and Starke counties, that he will support the "Wright prohibition bill. Itefore bin message had been s.-nt It. was believed that prohibition for Indiana hinged on his vide.- He has refused to announce until today how he would vote. The ilnal action on the measure wiil probably oci ur next Friday. The senate is made up of forty-nine members, one having- died recently. According to Attorney General Kle Stunsbury twenty-six vote? will be necessary to the success of the measure. STANDARD OFFICIAL -IS HURT I Special to Tito TtmKs.) IXIHANAPOLIS. INI'., .Ian. W. IX Webb. 'JO Highland street, Hammond, who is an official of the Standard Steel Car Company, is slowly recovering from the inuries received here last week when he fell in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel and sustained a compound fracture of the left arm. The broken bones protruded through the flesh. Mr. Webb was hurrying to catch a train for Il-'inm-u-! when the accident happened. Mrs. Vci;h is at his bedside. A Il-e newspaper for people who are till on earth tbnt's what THK TIMES Is.

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How tire gutted the Frank &. Seder department store in Pittsburg. Fire which swept through a section of the retail business district of Pitteburjf last Saturday destroyed the Frank & Seder department store, the Gracd Opera House, the Hilton Clothing Co., and a dozen or more smaller buildings, with a loss estimated at from $2,;00,000 to $4,000,000. Four firemen were seriously hurt and a dozen cr more so Ladly injured that they were removed to hospitals.

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"She has done what she culd." V.'iih tliese simple word.- an unafraid1 .soul assigned itself to tie; keeping of its Greater in the obituary whnh the unsteady hund of an a,ged woman wrote j a few days ago, with the requ. st that it be printed In Thh Times w h-n the autaor had passed to her reward. I- was Sirs. Martha Atmur, "the' grand old woman of Hogewisch," who i wrtte the obituary of herself, and when! she died this., morr-i"- Rt th home in n?5'w;icox street, f'w. J. 'A t'rrtu rVon?of her two living- sons, the notice was given to Tup: Timk.-. The people of' Hcgewisch who kie w- the kindly woman and her many deeds of mercy will laid i the note interesting and touching. : The notice whin the ng'd woman wri te for Tub Times to be published after she had gone is as follows: "Martha Pasil was born in Anglaze county, Ohio, in lSpi. and was married to Mathias Atmur in 1 THE PASSING SHOW SoMKHOW in our qui-t yet diligent w a y WH do run into the most HAI-'l-hlNd problems A KANSAS man w bos. wife has just i disappeared advertises that she has ;i I.-tti r "( ;" on her left leg THAT will undoubtedly identify h. r. but its going to be mighty i-nibarassuig FOU us to have to go up to a strange, lady ami ask h r to b t us WI'I.I-. you can see how it is yourself, can't you? i N' ) man can flirt WITH n woman imb ss him to flirt wants AND then again SOMK husbands arc happy In fpite of their appearance. TIIF. funniest thing in the movies "MANAGFK'S decision very good ' ISN'T it queer bow narrow-minded those people are who DISAGP.FK with you? Till". Cody (Uyo.) IP raid .says that "Carl Crawford took dinner Sunday at P.ufus Wilson's and TOOK away a load of hay" GPKAT eaters those rumbustious westerners! P.KYAN says a railroad should be permitted to have just, enough revenue lo keep its stock at par YFS and Swiss yodb i s and Chautauqua lecturers should get about one pi r cent OF the capacity of the tent. SOMEHOW we have no great hankering for the' land of milk and honey Y!!l-..N we get mere we snail un-j doubtedly I'nd that some son-nf-a-gun j has a COKNF.Il on 'both of l hem. ' THEY WON'T NEED HEAT IN THE COACH On the same train today two leaders in Hammond were ;-i-heduIed to have for Indianapolis. Poth are members of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors, boosters for Hammond and each thinks the other fellow is a pretty pi .od sort of. a chap to have in the town. These two men who are going to Indianapolis are Hev. '. .1. Sharp nnd J. 11. Fitzgerald. More than likely Uiey are now sitting in the same seat arguing j pro and con. Pev. Sharp is to join 1 1 1 -1 dry lobby.

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,1 jrl . T7r-s,t " I ."..'!. To the union were born five children and two died at birth. Prank U Atmur died in 1001. The, two children living are W. J. Atmur of Hammond, and J. C. Atmur of Pima, I diio. ' She joined the .Methodist church when she was lG yea rs old. She has done what she could. 'The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want'." Mrs. Atmur was 77 years of age. Mathjas. her husband, died two years ago. Tii fineral is fo b held frm -fh residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Atmur in 5V? Wilcox street at 2 o'clock Thursday afiernoon to Oak Hill cemetery. W. J. Atmur, son of the aged woman, superintendent for a number of years of the old tar works at Hegewisch. today stated that his mother read The TIM!: since it was first, published and whe n her eyesight, failed had the me.nib. rs of the family read it to her. It was a part of h-r dailv life for years. GEO, BACON El ROUTE TO Word reached Gary today from the department of state at Washington that George Y. Paeon, jr., of Gary, the represent .a i e in llngland of Central Press association, had sailed for home. Mr. Paeon js expected to arrive in Gary .about, the middle of February. Interest, in the young man's reported c.i t. ntion in Ireland by Kngllsh military authorities because of censorship rubs last week caused an appeal to be lnfole by his mother, Mrs. G. V. Paeon of Gary, to President Wilson. WHITING TO HAVE -JJMRiCLE Oil City to Greet Billy Sunday Aide at Meeting Tonight. i Special to The Times.) WHITING. IN P., Jan. 30. Everything in connection with the Gunder meetings Is progressing nicely. The work on the tabernacle Is going at a rapid pace, and when completed will s-.-at l'MMi people comfortably. Fred Seihert. for e.i-vfii years with P.U1 Sunday got here ready for bus-iness today and will address a union mass-meeting . in the Methodist church at 7:30 o'clock eharp. Everyone welcome, come and bring a friend, and in so doing help eet things shaped up for the bi;r meeting in the tabernacle Sunday morning. Wanted lOt'o Boosters o nsstst In making the Gunder tabernacle meeting the greatest thing ever in Whiting for the moral up-lift of our community. If you can 9.ng some and be one of the 150 voices in the great chorus choir led by Prof. W. H. CoIlison, who for a number of years traveled with I'r. Chapman, one of the world's noted evangelists. WHITE SLAVE PLAY. "Girl Without Chance", a New York show which comes to the Orpheum for one day, Wednesday, is said to he one of the most successful of this season's white slave dramas. It is not a moving picture. The prices range from -'i cents to a dollar.

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1 UERV LOWEST M'AV Jan. 30. The en. tire Norlh Atlantic squadron of the Ilrltlah navy hna been ordered Into water adjacent to York, It wan nuthorltltlvely mated here to. dmj. Report of ateamhlp maa. tera brought to this port (id Taken to Ilalnfax caused the Iniraanre of ordem to the aquadron to search for the German raider. From sonrrea close to the British consulate It was learned .NewYork hrbr watrm misfit mean may ft pot within 300 miles from New York on the Atlantic, grlvln color to reports of a German commerce destroyer SOO miles off nndy Hook. Orders were Issued after "tfira. ahln masters had reported mjster. Ions ships sailing about. At least two declared they were positive the Vfmwl was a raider. An embargo has been praced on wlrele" mennages reportln- positions of ships sailing under allied flags. Ships at the bane of Halifax and vessels dolnj- patrol duty will be brought toward each other and establish a rlaid patrol. Humors that the raider was headed In this direction are persistent. That the raider Is expected In this vicinity nnd that the llrltlsh men of wnr epe't to capture her are evident. Illy 1 nlted Press Cnblesram.) IIEKI-IN. (Via Wireless) Jan. 30. I nsuceessf ill evening attacks by Krench forces ajtalnst positions on Hill :l4 were reported In toilar'i official statement. Elsewhere on the western front the statement ilescribed enitniEement In the Ar. eoMls sector. A lively artillery rnmlint on the Somme iiii-nrrrd. lY m the .Macedonian front the report detnileil clashes In the t erna and Struma between detachments. No Important events were reported from other fronts. (Ily I'nlted I'ress "ableBram.) LONDON. Jan. 30 Germany Is keeptn as "war prisoners" all' neutral members of the crews of armed prlnes taken by th latest German raider, according to stor. lea of neutral survivors from the Yarrowdale. arrUlnjc from Com-n-liaaen today en route to their homes. I'MIIS, Jan. 30 Infantry lire stopped a German attack on a French trench on Hill 304 today. The war office reported intermittent cannonading; on the remninder of the front anil three enemy aero, planes were, brouaht down. GROUND HOGS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE TODAY . ...wl atin t Ofpl V brought i -V UllK'O nil'. ev... .--..-, the groundhogs irom ineir wimei- nwura beneath the sod and observing people in various parts oL the county no.ineu Tun Time Engineer Joseph Kasp.-r at the Hammond pumping station, saw the festive groundhogs running about the park and blamed their performance on a last year's calnadar hanging on fn station wall. "The ding fools inink it is the second of February," said Kasper. Park Commissioner Fox viewed the phenomenon with alarm. He is looking up statistics on the subject to iearn what the undue appearance of the groundhog indicates. Only 11 Mora Months? One of the dry workers was optimistic after he had seen a groundhog basking in the sunshine in the ard of his home on the south side. "Thursday," said he, "the senate will vote on the dry bill. If the old groundhog booze crimes out he will see his shadow and know it's all off January 1, 191S." Thern are 10.0CO Uise County pe-ople who are llvlnjr all over the V. S. A subscription to THE TIMES will save you the trouble of writing n letter to any one of them.

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Hammond Holds a Mass meeting Last Night and Those Attending Decide to Make Stand For Governor's Veto. Do the taxpayers favor the Pake county court program pending at Indianapolis? They must decide this week. At a mass meeting in Hammond Monday night It was decided that Governor Goodrich and his veto is the last hope to defeat tha hills providing for the removal of (superior court room three from Hammond and Crown Point to Gary, the erection of a new court house there and the creation of a nevvi crimm I court at Crown Point. Another mass meeting is called for eight o'clock this evening to ' be be id in the Chamber of Commerce rooms t onight to 0ke even s'rongerBt' ion than last night. The program as outlined but night provides for a blanitct remonstrance lo be spread over tha county to get thrusands of signa.tur! to impress Governor Goodrich vcith the opposite n t the additional taxes. The court fight it was explained Inst night is not a fight of Hammond against Gary, nor a fight of the county agnlnsi Gary. Everybody wants Gary to croc and prosper, but not at th- -:p. nc r r th taxpayers of the who! . , .. j,there must bo additional - w :. s Raid last night I hey h. on all cities ot he north a: . r. I Cnd tho center ct popuia' i .. : -lished. The mass meeting last night was ; attended. The taxpayers 'present v. ? : given an outline" of the situation by President Jessa "Wilson of the Chan h ,-. Attorneys John A. Gavit. W. J. McAl r. Joseph Conroy and Oscar DSnwidcie. retired farmer of Eagle Creek tmv" : ; . Mr. Dinwiddle said that he as ft farm r was opposed 'to any further f.xi -account of courts and added thv h knew that all his farmer-acquaint;..!.- - felt the same way. He. volunteer.' ! i take a number of the petitions into ! territory to have them, signed. Volunteers stepped forward to take t h ) titions into East Chicago, Indiana Hibor. Whiting and south of the i.ii:.. Calumet river. They must be hoi., o was explained, by Thursday ni:,h- athe governor has but three davs i which to veto the bills after they r i . him, rrobably about Thursday of th. week. While the court fight is put up to -, : the taxpayers of the county the s.rment was expressed at the meeting la .- night that Hammond must take ;; lead, particularly in linacing the that must be maintained at India na p olis. "SV. J. McAleer said that Git; bill vras but the entering wedge o, t all of Hammond's courts and ih.v. ; Gary can get what it wants ra w. . . -take anything from Hammond grows, and that property w ill ; .-, , .r; . in Hammond proportionately. Attorney Conroy scored the npn'i,. Hammond and its blindness toward i. -own interests. "We lawyers can move to the u,wn where the courts are, but weiavc scire pride in Hammond and we want th-m to stay in Hammond. Last fall when 1 put the court contingency up to a certain Hammond business man to help o 'get busy' he asked what my motive. ;.-. in the matter. The' idea "f quest ionnm my motive or that of any one person here tonight." Attorneys Yl'hiiiery and Gavit sp !o at length on the need of cooperation from the taxpayers to counteract tieimpression created upon Governor Goodrich by the so id vote of the Pake county representatives and senators for tie bills. Both referred to the hand that certain Crown Point interests had played in the court tight, that Crown Point lobbyists first stood by Hammond against the removal of room three from Hammond and Crown Point to Gary but that they changed front when the Garyites promised to help Crown Point get a sepate criminal court for the county. Both agreed that while it was y-ry hue Governor Goodrich upon a proper shov ing could still be induced to veto the bills. ' This showing la to be ma ; through the county wide renions-rane,-. The petition to Governor ; Ii !i states among other things th. v ,,ttaxation in the county and in He eiii s and adds: "That if said room three of said P ike Superior Court Is moved to Garc ft,, o the cities of Hammond and '-.. n Point, it will necessitate the building of a court house in said cit.v at a total expense of not. les than four hundred to five hundred thousand dollars, includim; the site for such building and the civ, -tion thereof, the cost of which wiil be added to the taxes now levied upon lb--people of said county. That the removal of said court to Gary will greatly increase the cost of maintaining said court." BUSINESS MEN OF NORTH SIDE UNITED The North Side Business Men's Association of Hammond was organised at a meeting in a hall at Hohman and Hoffman streets. The business men in attendance manifested great enthusiasm. R. K. Brinkmann w-as elected chairman, John Krause, secretary, so i Mrs. M. Fels, treasurer. The nevt meet ing is to be held Feb. S.

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