Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 198, Hammond, Lake County, 2 February 1917 — Page 1
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Amsnlmenls Certain o! Approval in House, Hear-Beer Permitted. GRANT DRY; KINDER WET (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Feb. 2. The senate today passed the Wright prohibition bill by a vote of 33 to 11. The measure had already passed the house, but must go back to the house for ratification of several amendments That the amendments will be acted on favorably by the house and the bill signed by the governor is practically certain. Drys plan to have the bill t.j tho Vinii; and the I amendments ratified tnis aiier- ! noon. Those voting against prohibition were: Senators Bird, ! Erskine, Hazen, Hirsch, Kin- ! der, Kolsem, Nejdl, Reser, 1 Thornton and Van Auken and j Wolsson. All otners voieu mi ! the measure, including Grant of I ! Lake county. . TIMES EUREATT, AT STATE CAFITAI.. ( INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Feb. 2. Those senators who attempted yesterday to cripple the prohibition bill with amendments found themselves in a peculiar position when the storm was over in the senate. Most of. their amendments were adopted and only in two instances did they fall down. They failed to put through the amend-, ment to submit the prohibition question to the vote of the people, which was offered by Senator English, and one offered by Senator Kinder of Gary to make the prohibition act apply to railroads at the same time that it took effect throughout the state. On all of the other amendments the bunch of senators who stood together was about the same all the way down, the line. , ! A list of the amniinnnts prrpr nt ed, nhh the action taken, follows: To amend set-tion 8 to prohibit retail or wholesale druggists from selling Priritous or vinous liquors and restrictin them to the sale of pure frrain alcolml for medicinal purposes and al?o to permit veterinarians to use praifi aleo-. 1...1. Adopted. j To amend section 15 to permit the use; of vinous liquors in sacramental church services. Adopted. To amend sections 4 and 15 to extend, the time of application of the prohibitory part of the act from January 1. 1!U to December 31, 11S. Defeated. 1 To amend section? 4 and 15 to extend ih- time of the application of the prohibitory part to April 2, 1918. Adopted. , To repeal in the bill the permit for the sale of drinks containing up to onphnlf of 1 per cent of alcohol. Adopted. To submit the question of prohibition a vote of the people at a special ref-; i rendum election. Defeated. To make the prohibition sections of the law applicable to railroads at the same time as to individuals and iirms. Defeated. Tt is known that a number of the senators who supported the amendments with the hope of weakening or destroy-
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TIMES BUREAU, AT THE STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAFOLIS. IND.. Feb. 2. Governor Goodrich made a stroke with his pen, late yesterday afternoon, which makes it certain that Indiana will have a constitutional convention next January. He attached his signature to the bill, thus making it a law. It is reported that a number of members of the legislature, will become candidates for election as delegates to the convention. Attorney General Stansbury having given them an opinion that they are not barred for serving as delegates. The senate killed the bill introduced nt the request of Governor Goodrich to make the impeachment of public officials easier. The bill provided that
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SPAGHETTI Don't argue with your spaghetti. It won't do a bit of good. Not a bit, Spaghetti is an obstinate, contrary food. You can't tell it a thing. You might as well try to reason With a plate of rattlesnakes. There is more pure cussedness in ten yards of spaghetti than in any other product sold by the lineal foot, with the possitle exception of noodles and barbed wire. There's no excuse for spaghetti acting the way it does. Food can- be rambunctious without being hateful. Head lettuce does it. Why can't spaghetti? Something ought to be done about this. And something shall be. The time will come when some brave man will meet this temperamental Italian worm on its own ground and conquer it. But so long as unfettered spaghetti is given the freedom of its dish there is no relief in sight. ins? the bill, did so on the theory t hut i the senate would 'refuse to adopt s iw , of the important amendments and licit; this would give them a reas..n 0r voi-j inc against, the bill when it came upj for passage tud.iy. Hut after the senate, had adopted these amendments and changed the bill to suit them there nasi but one thine that they could do and , that was to vote for the passape of the bill. It had been fixed to suit tritirj ideas and amended according- to their; wishes and they discovered that they would be extremely inconsistent if thevj refused to vote for the bill after it had been trimmed up according to Jhetr own notions. So it was expected that when the vote was taken today on the passnte i of the bill, practically all of the sen.i-j tors who supported the effort to amend , the bill would vote for its pnssap.. What else could they do? was th question they asked of each other. That the house will accept the amenilm. n that were made by the senate appears! to be a foregone conclusion, because I k-aders of the dry forces say that thei amendments are harmless. K. S. Shu- 1 maker, state superintendent of the anti-i saloon league; K. Carpenter, president of the Indiana Dry Federation, and I Setffitor Simmons, of I'.luffton. leader or 1 the dry forces in the senate, all expressed them-selies as being well satisfied i with the bill as it stood after the sen-! ate pot through with. it. Hit y sani none of the amendments did any harm. One amendment which was introduced by Senator Krskine of Evansville was believed for a time to create a serious defect in the bill but it was learned afterward that this was not the case. In one section of the bill it is provided that all medicines and other preparations of every kind which contain more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol were phohibited. In other part of the same section the bill prohibited the manufactured and sale of all spiritous.i vinous and malt liquors but said noth-j ing about the percentage of alcohol that they mipht contain. The Krskme resolution added to the latter clause the, provision prohibiting th' sale of such liquors when they contain more "i n t2 of 1 per cent of alcohol. While the dry forces would ha ve been i better pleased if this change had not been made, yet they say that it. does not harm the bill and that if it is found objectionable after the bill sm-s into operation it can be chanped by the legislature two years hence. Itw;s evident that the bill would not pass in th" senate without the. Krskine amendment. The amendment put in the bill by Senator Chambers prohibiting sale of liquor by retail and wholesale druggists strengthened the bill to a marked degree, according to the dry leaders. No such wild and wooley scene as that which attended yesterday's session has been witnessed in the state house since when, many years ago, the light was on to determine whether Green Smith, democrat, or Kohert S. Jtobertson of Fort Wayne, should occupy the office of lieutenant-governor and presiding ol'fiU',)!)tlnueI on v.ief iro.i any official found guilty of misfeasance, malfeasance or neglect of duty in of-j flee might be impeached and ousted. ! The vote on the bill was IK ayes and -8 1 noes. All of those who voted against the bill were Democrats except four republicans. The senate went on record, yesterday afternoon, against any change in the law regulating ' the collection and distribution of automobile license fees collected by the state. Senator Hoardsley had inroduced a bill to provide that each county should get all of the money collected for licenses for automobiles in that county. The bill was defeated by a vote of 19 ayes and 27 noes. This means that the senate will refuse to pass any such legislation at this session.
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n n i Marcus Schreiber Victim of j Accident in South Ham-j mend Engine Pit Life j Passes From Charred Body at Hospital. A flaming spectre arose out of the ground in the South Hammond Morion yards at the dark hour before t!i dawn today and a sheet or fire foliowed its course as it ran. The human torch wa; Marcus Srlu il.er. a 17-year old hoy who withdrew! from the junior class of the Hammond! high school two weeks tuo to become a mechanic's assistant in the railroad ya rd 3. His charred body lies in the Stewart morgue today and Mr. and Mrs. K. i. S' Ui'eijier, the boy's parents, are i'-o va ! ed by the shock of the hor- !... ih. Marcus was working in a pit. beneath an engine In the yards, assisting Frank t'ivoda. the hostler, in cleaning the ash pan:-. It was la degrees below zero at the time and it was necessary that the ash pans be t ho wed out before they could be dumped. The hosier did not have the crude oil which is generally use,! so lnfead he gave the boy kerosene to pour on a shovelful of coals whicU he held, according to the report received by the Schreiber family. The boy's overalls were greasy and caught fir". In a minute he was blazing. and crawling out of the pit ran wildly, fire from head to foot. A hundred and fifty feet away he fell and rolled in the cinders. The hostler had followed him, yelling at the top of his voice, but j the boy's clothes must have been well i saturated with grease and probably j kerosene, for they burned from his body, Jeaving nothing nnconsumed ex, cent his shoes. Two suit of under- i elothes. worn to protect him ng.iinsti the bitter cold, were destroyed an. I the body left, naked, the flesh burned from it. Bleeding then started which was not: Plopped until death came to lelieve the fuTering four and a half hours later at St. Margaret's hospital. The n. c.uent occurred at .1 o'clock this morning Marcus was conscious until shortly before his death at 7:30. lllankets were obtained from an empty freight car where Italian were sleeping and with these wrapped about him the unfortunate youth was taken by train to Hammond where an ambulance carried him to the hospital. Sivoda's mustache and hair were singed and his hands burned through his efforts to extinguish the fire, but he was not injured badly enough to warrant his being detained at the hospital. The father and mother, two brothers and two sisters survive. The brothers are !! l'bir; and Wilbur, the latter a pupil in the high srfiooi. and the sis ters are Claudia and Amelia. ; lie formet a student at Purdue. Marcus lived with bis parents on' their farm at Madison avenue and Schreiber road.
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SEHATE ; TIMES BUREAU, j AT THE STATE CAPITAL. ! JMUANAl'' LIS. IXIX, Feb. 2. ; Among the important bills introduced in the senate yesterday af tv noon are the . lollop nig : Humphreys) Providing for public!-; ty of reports of examiners made by the I stale board uf accounts. (Met Vay) To give the stat-? board of, tax commissioners power to place volua, ion on property of public utilities for taxation. ! (Negley) To provide that the board' of trustees of towns, and councils of. cities shall have power to tstablish pub-' lie markets for distribution of food1 product.1 and to appropriate money for j their conduit. I ' l Negley) To bring jitney busses un-' o r jurisdiction or the public service J commission law. (lioardslty) To provide that county commissioners in counties having population of 4S,e'ii) or more nil y raise the salaries of the circuit and superior court judges to $.",,i)0 a year. (Metherford) To compel the use of standard hose couplings and hydrant nipples for lire protection in cities and tow ns. (VanAuken) To legalize operation of labor unions, strikes and picketing, and to provide that injunctions should not be Issued in labor difficulties. (Krskine) To amend the banking laws to limit the capitalization of banks to sums between $25. "00 and $100. OdO. bused on the population of the place wherein the banlt may be located. t Hagerty) To prevent justices of the peace from practicing law in tny of the courts of the county in which they hold such office. ' Spe d il to Tin; Tun:.--.) IN DIANA POMS, Feb. ,r. H;rty i of the Ktlte Ixiard of b.eallh. tod.iv j received a t-.degram from the Fast j Chicago department of iiealth advising that it would be better to shut off the ! water entirely in the city than to risk conirjuance of the growing typhoid situation. From three to five j new case of thypoid are developing j dally in East Chicago and the epidemic ! is owing to the fact that the outside 1 Intake into the lak is blakel by j needle ice and he shore intake is be1 ing used. The department of health ! believes it would be possible to dynaj mite the ice and keep the outride In take free. REPRESENTS WOMEN Mr.. John Gavit. wife of the city attorney, is. representing the Hammond Woman's Christian Temperance union at 1 n d ir nn pol is this week.
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SEN. f JOL "WANTS HELP TO BEST "Help! Help!" was the gist of the message Senator Nejdl sent from Indianapolis to Hammond with Attorney W. J. McAIeer with reference to the house bill creating a separate criminal court at Crown Point. Tha committee. Senator N'ejdl stated, will hold an open session Monday at 4 o'clock and the senator sends word that, he wants as many lawyers and taxpayers as possoble present to help him defeat the bill. The Hammond opposition leaders are planning to round up a big delegation to go to Indianapolis on the 10 o'clock iuonaay morning train. It is not is not vet known when the senate will Gary court bill. vote on the! if KILLSJERB DOCTOR Gary Negro Woman Doctor Murdered in Her Office Last Night. Mary P. Taylor of Gary, a negro woman known as- a herb doctor, was murdered in her office at 1737 Massachusetts street last evening by Thos. Povzenic. who lived at Dr. Taylor's sanitarium. After tho killing of the, i-oman Povzenio went to a real estate office, phoned the police and awaited their arrival. i. iiiet i- orois smii that tne man confessed the killing. Hi shot the woman live times in the head. Povzenic, who was a patient at the Taylor woman's sanitarium, said, ac cording to the police, that for a fee of $110 he was to bo given treatment that! would remove him from tho "damaged ; goods class. .vccoruing io ine scory a payment of $G6 was made and of this I'ovzenic demanded back a part because of the inability to effect a cure. Failing to get the- money the shooting followed. The slain woman was 30 years old. Iter remains were taken to the Williams and Marshall morgue. Pleading guilty at the preliminary hearing before Judge Dunn in Gary city court today Povzenic was bound over to circuit court. Prosecutor Hunter plans to have the man tried on a murder charge as soon as the grand jurywill take up the case. H A. KELLNER ANNIVERSARY SALE Herman A. Reiner, the popular proprietor of the Kellner grocery and market, will celebrate the first anniversary of the occupancy of bis new building at 81 State street, tomorrow. The occasion is marked with attractive sales. Fair and ro ntlnlied cold tonight ntth temperature JO below. Saturday fair tilth nlowly rising temperature; moderate northwest ntniln.
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I nited Pits' Feb. 2. Fo; buried ben "a: CHICAGO, are believed pi rsons the ruins . t vaicii ruing by of an eighteen-fiat te was wrecked early th; a terrifi explosion of t its basement. The tenement is lo.u We it Fourteen'!, place si3c. Two thousand m children, awakened by ed at on t n. o; J 13-832 he west i uen and : i crashing the of the walls sought refuge In tl:e the ;;ng street in their night clothes .with aureture 10 be low zero, explosion, caused In- a leal miw The gas main, was so violent that it craily tore up the street like earthquake, shattering windows 1Kan for w as several blocks. Ihe detonation heard for live miles. Firemen, handicapped by the bitter cold, were still fighting the flames this fore.-.oon, caused by burning, gas-, which floo'ed the wreckage. There are two known dead. All hopes for the three score people trapped in the building were given up when searchers beard people cry for help from the ice mass. They broke throneh what had been a window of a' prisoned. Volumes of water poured! from a dozen hose lines had frozen im-i mediately forming a co r over the haven of the four, but with the ex-j tinguishing of the fire alternative of, freezing to death in.-1 cad of burning! was presented. Estimates of the dead are still unavailable and it may require several days to chop away the frozen wreckages. Several of the twenty injured are ' expected to die of exposuia s or in juries. Hammond's 'neutrality" ha been violated. "F.ombarded" from above by twentyfice "aeroplanes" and blockaded on all cides by as many "submarines," the policy of "Nothing Doing" is no longer possible. The aviators were led and captained by Kalond Fox. and the submer.-wbles by Edmund H. Klein, and warfare began last evening at an inspiring meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce which was attended by more than fifty young men, despite the below zero weather that kept scores away. Their teams are made up of the following workers: Fuse's Aeroplane. Roland F. Fox. captain; H. Harjos, A. "". Norlander, Walter Jordan, George Ilayman, A. Arnold. Kobert Patterson, C. O. P.auer. Art I.acey. K'iiott Conroj-. C. lie;'. 1,. w
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Washington EvISently Undecided on Action Toward Su5marina Order, (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Th: first definite statement that ''nothing has gone forward" to Germany yet was made by the state department today, relative to the present crisis. At the same-time the department left the impression that some instruction may have beer sent to Ambassador Gerard. Where yesterday afternoon th ; department stated that no announcement about the situation would be forthcoming over night it was announced today that it did not know whether there would be a statement this afternoon or tonight The statement was considered deeply significant since it was obvious such a response can be given only after this government has determined what action it w;"il ii!-c toward the latest German cr ier AVnnt KMt Submarine. The statement, however that lhAmerican steamship lines might given instructions as tc pcrmittins to san -Dy tomorrow - were taken to mean that some course might be determined upon by that , time. Such irstructions could be given after. this government's position is. taKcn. Today there wa? rrry indication thai President not h - !'V?. An a.'.io'.nc.j'.'.'ien'; r: cft?r the C:iHn?-t aoe5 will he tr.o rao-t jir;-jor:.a: since the v.ir berrdn. Til 701" w nd v SH IXrjT'V exer of th Feb. f" of sti:- .it isr ton pre scnu d a bill 'o :a; v- submarines U. ' ' teen provide 1 for I..!!. I; p-ov :.? for wrrty seagoing J'iL.s 1 " O-.- . ! . i t.e , . cm-cent yards fo- th A resolution v. ::s oTl "i te expressing : t :-. i senate that following in th- r. aval igh ; y . oast -t 'i I a rd wo-.il np. equip thpi civir manufacture , rei tl:e 1 1-. ! in w i en ;o s r. -of thEuropean war tile F:.lrnter a world peace t-::. all international dispute niitteJ. vhi. LONDON. Feb. 2.were reported sunk of Germavy's ;.ew j-aign. First was th er I'ortia, then can struction of the Three more ship" in th-1 second day "barnd zone" camo Norwegian steam-i-word of the d"avenvourne with u loss of three members th c crew, an the sinking of the Mnyds" lists the Hekla, 9a0 tons glisted; I'ortia, sUti gros. Hekla. ships as follows: ss; liavenourne not screw of 1,127 tons KEUTEAL3 WATCH U. S. (By United Press Cablegram.) I.oNlN. Feb. 2. In the presence of what m .'iv be tin supreme crisis in the w a u ld is i waited from America bv the r, . . ' f Europe with more . then by the bellig.-r-;, -r le utrals notaly t.; Washington to dene winch may mean th- w I poignant :.. ents. The Holland btermine the own life or ROOSTER INITIATE The Fo. initiated smoker ,t rooms. A r 111!) Wedne: andidai cs rta inment alny evening and held a in the. club four i id ent ut rty members were In a 1 1 enda nc . talent recruit They were entertained by d from the club. JUNIOR CHIDE Knoeizer. M. W. Sprague, Max Evans. .!. Mrusel. Herbert Floyd, Poland Stinson. F. C. Roy, H. Everson, II. Herbert. II. Newman, Adaui Dorsch, and Kenneth Stewart. Klein's Submarines Edmund H. Klein, captain; Claude Coombs, W. 11. Mette, II. J. Millie. E. J . Coasii, E. W. Knoerzer. John I'lrommer. Aloy Zeiler, W. P.. Moran, R. E. Amoss, Julius Meyn. Arthur Knoerzer, Lyle McKinney, Leo Arnold. "Walter E. Meyn, D. H. Smith. Arthur Ebert. oseph Knoerzeer, C. P.. Ogren, H. It. Gross, Clyde Scheerer, Edward J. Knoerer and Lieut. Irving Chayken. The "flyers" and the "torpedo fling ers" are going out after members for the organiation and the losing 'ld.. will be host to the winners at a dinner (Continued on page five.)
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