Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 36, Hammond, Lake County, 30 July 1917 — Page 1

THE COUNTY TIME IW&MERrFA t R J R A t NflCOOLEft) Dsl i veered-by" TtMX S carriers, 30o rsr month; on streets and at newsstands, 3o per copy; lack Bnmbtrt 3o per copy. VOL. XII., NO. 36. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917.

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AUTO UPSETS Fifteen Year Old Girl Was Driving Gar and Machine Turns Turtle This story concerns one of the most singular auto accidents aver recorded la THX TIMES. Twelve children were pulled from beneath aa overturned car at Our. The eldest was 15, and all were lalured save a baby of one year. Te accident points out the danger of letting- children drive motor car, which are really locomotives. This child of 15. of little physical strength drove this car yesterday with eleven other tots as passengers. She was tweaty-flve miles from home whea the accident happened aad had es. sayed a trip over some of the most most crowded auto highways la the country. It was a trip that would beea a task for skilled aad matured driver, considering" the num. t,er of children aboard. By sheer luck no cne was killed, but this girt driver was a menace not only to her. self and her own passe"6"' " other cars as well. It i criminal to let a chill drive aa automobile. ' When motorists who witnessed the overturning of an Illinois machine at the foot of a hill at Ridge road nd Harrison street. Gary, late this afternoon got to the scene of the accident they pulled from beneath the wreckage twelve children, all of whom were injured except a smiling baby of twelve months. The smash-up ended forty-mile Sunday cruise over the crowded roads that lead Into northern Indiana. Firteen year old Helen Adent. 723 West 130th street, Chicago, was at the wheel. With Helen were six younger brothers and sisters, as well as Hattie. Wary. Victoria and Verna Zajweski, M-26 Normal avenue, and eight-year old Theodore Lutikus. 1301 149th street. East Chicago. When the children's car passed through East Chicago, little Theodore, who never had an auto ride before, begged to be allowed to go along. He was assisted on board. Filed la Ambulance. Dodging speeding machines the, trip was without mishap until Gary was reached. The twelve youngsters were piled Into a Gary police ambulance and taken to Mercy hospital. There it was found that Peter Adent. six years old, was the only one seriously Injured, receiving a broken arm. Ten others received cuts about the face and v.niii nnri raln -wounds. Besides Peter and Helen the other Adent children are Lillie, 13: Irene. 11. Florence. 7: Leonard, 5: and Alfred, the baby. The Zajweski children rige in age from 7 to It "Papa told me to take the children for a ride," Helen said. Jtrs. Melton Aids. Following the accident which occurred shortly after 5 o'clock, the children were carried to the home of Mrs. A. P. Melton, wife of Capt. Melton, V. S. A., while first aid was rendered the youngsters, the police and Wilyliams' ambluances were en route. OCCURS NEAR DYER SnuuuS""ssssSS Chicagoan on Wrong Side of Road Crashes Into Machine; Two Hurt. v Special to Thb Timks.) DYER. IND.. July 30. The perils of motoring, and how little a driver knows what the other fellow is going to do was vividly illusterated one mile south of this city yesterday afternoon when 1 Sowardson and his nine-year old son were badly hurt when Sowardson. drivlng on the left side of the road crashed Into a Paige touring car. The little Sowardson was pitched through the windshield and his face terribly cut Sowardson was cut about the arm and stomach by, glass. Both machines were wrecked. Sowardson was from Chicago. He was driving a new Ford and completely lost his head. Had the Paige driver not kept his head the results would have been far more serious. The Swordsons were cared for by a Dyer doctor. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the Democratic City Central Committee will meet at the Jefferson Club Rooms on Monday evening. July 30th. 1917. at 8 p. m. for the purpose of electing a City Chairman. Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer for the coming CityElection to be held in November, 1917. and to transact such other business as may come before said meeting. Signed. OTTO H. DUELKE, 7:28:2 Chairman.

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1 boy drowned la G-ary. 1 boy drowned la Xast Chicago. I mts drowsed la East Chicago. 8 'badly hurt la Dyer motor accident. 4 hart la Eut Chicago motor acci dents. II hurt In XJdg-e road motor accident. 1 man hurt by train at Indiana Bar. bor; may die. 1 girl scalded to death la Gary. 5 killed la Seymour auto accident. 1 man killed by munition guards at Gary. 1 womaa stabbed by husbaadla Xast Chicago. . 5 OIE IN AUTO CRASH SEYMOUR. IXD.. July 30. Five per sons, two men and three women were instantly killed and two others seriously injured at 10 o'clock last night when an automobile in which they were returning from a picnic was struck and demolished by a fast train at the Penn sylvania railroad crossing two miles from Seymour. The dead are: TSUITV, LON, 58 years old, owner and -r of the auto. STXISZE, WTXXJAM, 45 years old. . OESTADT, JULIUS, 21 years old. WEESHOEST, CIAB&, 23 years old. BINDERMAITN, EDNA, 21 years aid. The injured: Ora Drote. 21 years old. MartinSteinwedel. 23 years old. The train brought the dead and Injur ed to Seymour. The two injured are in a serious condition and may die. All' are members of well-to-do-families in Sey mour. 2 IN THE CANAL Two drownings occurred Saturday and Sunday in the canal at East Chicago. Both went down -while bathing. Phil Guerman. 508 144th street was in the water at the B. & O. C. T. bridge west of Forsyth avenue. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon. The boy was 13 years old and the body was not recovered until yesterday morning at nine o'clock. Officer Baslck was instrumental in bringing it to the surface. John Kemeick. 45 years old, went Into the canal at 14ist street yesterday and was drowned at 11:40 a. m. He lived at 533 141st street. He has a wife in the old country and worked at the Hubbard Steel. His body was recovered at 4 o'clock by Officer .Basick. Lndertaker Fife took charge of the remains. ONE FATALTY IN RECORD PLEASURE DAY A drowning marred an otherwise record pleasure day at the Hammond lake front Sunday. Driven by the heat. Axel Hanson. 48, of Chicago, pulled oft his outer garments and went bathing in his underclothes in the Wolf river near Camp Cuneo. He drowned before assistance could reach him. It Is estimated that between 7,000 and 8,000 persons bathed at the Hammond beach yesterday. Over five thousand persons passed through the bathhouse while half that many went to the lake in their bathing suits by automobile. There were thousands in the park and thousands of machines passed over Calumet and Indianapolis boulevards. The fish restaurants were jammed. SWIMMING AT GARY Alfonso Morris, colored. 10 years old, was drowned late Saturday afternoon while bathing in Little Calumet river one-half mile west of Broadway bridge. The boy's mother, Mrs. Anna Morris, 5008 State street. Chicago, and his sister, Ruth, were at the river at the time. The body was taken to the Williams & Marshall morgue. JOHN KUL1GK IS T BY POLICE

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John Kulik. 627 151st street. In a violent quarrel with his wife, whipped out a knife and began slashing her about the arms and body. She was badly cut up when the police arrived. Dr. Townsley took fifteen stitches in order to draw the wounds together. The woman was taken to the Hammond hospital. i When the police arrived John had gone. He has not yet been- captured. THE TIMES stands for the U. S. and President Wilson.

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MISHAPS There was a toll of four automobile accidents yesterday in which East Chicago people figured. Leo Sczyjiel. south side, arm broken; taken to Hammond hospital. Tony Jelo, 4746 Olcott avenue, foot crushed. John Pany, south side, both legs broken; taken to St. Margaret's hospital. Mrs. George Douglas, 4730 Forsyth avenue; face broken, back and chest bruised, internal injurits. Leo Szczyjiel was driving an Elgin Six and at the corner of 149th and Baring avenue ran into two young men riding a motorcycle. When the police arrived, the machines and the men were piled promiscuosly in a heap at the northeast corner of the above streets. The boys were Tony Jelo who was riding behind and John who was riding in front. sJohn's last name could not be learned. Leo's arm was broken; John had both arms broken and Tony had his foot crushed. Leo and John were taken to the hospital. George O. Douglas, proprietor of the Paris Cleaning establishment, 4730 Forsyth avenue, was returning from Lincoln park and had gotten about half way from Robertsdale corner to the Calumet boulevard, when a street car hit the rear of his Ford driving him into the ditch. Mrs. bouglas was on the rear seat with a baby in her arms and by her side was her sister. Miss Mary Sloan. Another child wasalso in the machine. Mrs. Douglas was thrown against the front seat and "against the top braces and sacrificed herself to keep the child from being injured.. Shells quite badly hurt but just now nertously is not yet known. They were taken on the street car to Hammond where Dr. Clark attended them. The others in the car were not seriously injured. GARY TOT ' IS SCALDED Tl DEATH Daisy Haller, three years old. died Sunday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haller. 3637 Delaware street, Gary. The child had been fearfully burned the day before, being accidentally scalded over the trunk and legs. The Gary Undertaking company had charge of the funeral, which was held this afternoon. Burial was at Gary Oakhill cemetery. GARY AUSTfiWiLEO BY GUARD'S BULLET Peter Pavelich, the Gary Austrian, who attacked guards at the American Sheet and Tin Plate company at Gary Saturday and who was shot in the pistol battle that followed died last night at Mercy hospital. Pavelich lived at 1109 Madison street. George Harbaugh, deputy sheriff, shot Pavelich during a running battle. It is stated that Pavelich fired on Harbaugh. The man had first attacked Capt. Carroll of the Tin Plate guard. YOU MOST STOP FORJTREET. CARS Police Prepared to Arrest Violators of New Indiana Law. Police in the cities of the Calumet region are preparing to get hot and heavy after taxi drivers and motorists who violate the law. The last Indiana legislature established a law which makes it unlawful for any person operating a motor vehicle to pass a street car or an interurban car at a lateral distance of less then twenty feet on the streets of any city or town when such car has been stopped to allow passenger to alight or embark. When the operator of a motof vehicle approaches a car thus stopped and when the condition of the road or street will not let him pass in a lateral distance of at least twenty feet he must stop his vehicle not less than six feet from the rear of the car arid remain at that distance until passengers have alighter or until the car has started. Violation of this act carries with it a fine not exceeding $100. The third section of the law provides that the act shall not apply "to the operation or motor vehicles and motor bicycles at street intersections in cities or towns where officers are stationed for the control of tratfic at such intersections."

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An English Tommy (left) and American Sammy. The job of guarding the international bridge at Niagara Falls between America and Canada is shared by American and English soldiers. Guards are on duty at all times to prevent any acts of destruction or violence. The two soldiers in the photograph show the difference tetween the army uniforms of Britain and America.

TRANSPORT SUING (By United Press.) AX ATLANTIC PORT. July 30. An American transport with 1.100 men on board was reported to have collided with another ship in the bay here this afternoon. The transport is said to be in a sinking condition. The transport is the steamer Saratoga, formerly in the Ward line service. At 3:30 it was reported that the steamer was being, towed back to port. She collided with the steamer Panama. The Saratoga is a ship of about 10,000 tons. At the navy yard it was said no one aboard was injured. HAMMOND HUSTLERS SELLING UNITRAGTORS Samuel A. Schlessinger. one of Hammond's live wires, 134 Highland street, returned from Indianapolis last Saturday to spend ihe week-end with his family. Mr. Schlessinger, who has associated himself with Arthur A. Cohn, formerly of the Northwestern Life Insurance Co. of this district, in the manufacturing business and they are selling to dealers thrcugout the state with Indianapolis as their headquarters the Unitractor. a device to be atached to I ird n achincs whereby the farmer can tio almost anything on the farm with the motor tractor. The machine does the work of many horses and is intensely practical. The two Hammond hustlers are advertising extensively and workina so hard in the promotion of the machine that it is impossible to see how they can fail to be successful, as they are putting an immense amount of energy into the selling campaign. IT WAS ft NOISY SUNDAY ALL J u dure Fred Barnett resumed Ham mond city court bench today after a va cation during which time" Attorney Floyd Murray hendled the reins. Saturday and Sunday being sizzlers the "bull pen" was packed with drunks, speeders and -Uier law violators. "Go to hell" said one drunk to Officer Fred Hvermen, Saturday night. It cost him $11. Henry Cleaver, 130 Michigan avenu?, Hammond, had a lit tie too much to drink Sunday morning and told Tatrolman Ben Strong he vaJ a "damn liar." He was fined $1 and costs. Frank Pavlik secured trial continuance until Tuesday. He Is charged with assault and battery, having struck Charles Foss at Sharpshooters grove Sunday when Foss attempted to make him behave. Two Gary specier, John Spadzinskl and Karl Hickman, were fined $10 and costs ench. Two negrot-s were fined SI and costs f rdisordcrly conduct. Four white men were fined t and costs on the same charge. '

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INDIANAPOLIS. July 30. Samuel V. Perrott, recent chief of police of Indianapolis, found guilty of conspiracy . to commit ejection frauds in 1914 -was today sentenced by Federal Judge Geiger U serve four years in tha Atlanta federal prison and pay $1.00il fine. Herman Adam, a former city inspector of weights and measures. Roy A. Potefl former police captains, W. Sanders and M. Hulse, former police sergent and Lee Stringer, city detective, were given sentences ranging from two years and six months in the federal prison, to six months ia the county jail. All were fined. Hiimoi S SOLD L. L. Sachs of J. P. Strickland & Co. of Chicago, has sold to Gumbiner Bros., who own a chain o f theatres in Chicago and oither cities, the capital stock of the Orpheum theatre In Hammond. The theatre, which was constructed in 1911 at a cost of about $100,000. has a seating capacity of 1,200 and has equipment for vaudeville as well as moving pictures. The new owners will make material improvements in the theatre. The Gumbiners have successfully operated DeLuxe for years in Hammond. CLAIMS FLIVER HAS TRAVELED 200,000 MILES Hammond's champion long-distance Ford is off on another tour. This time it carries C. I. Bunnell and family who left at 3 a.pm. Sunday for- Boston, Mass, and vicinity to visit Hammond soluier boys stationed at forts on the coast. Walls and Brown ran the car 75.000, it is stated and turned it in to E. N. Bunnell for a new car. It was remodeled and sold to the Newell Taxi Co. and it is claimed they dYove it 100,000 miles. It was made into a service truck for six moniiis by Bunnell and then sold to a groceryman at Indiana Harbor. He used it five months and Bunnell took it back. A 1917 touring car body was placed on the machine and a trailer complete for camping attached. The present owner claims the Ford has traveled 200. 0C3 miles. TO YOUR INTEREST We make all our own lenses. We make any lens in an hour. S. Silver, Jeweler & Manufacturing Optician, 177 State St.. Hammond. Ind. 7-30-1

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Men Go Back To Work Today In Nineteen Railroad Yards Brotherhood Loses Its Chief Point of Contention But Proves Patriotic

(BILIETW.) Striking switchmen 1 Hammond returned to work today and freight which had stood In the yard .for two days beaan to move. Aside front damaxe to perishable freight the strike had only a temporary effect owing- to Its shortness and the fact that only yard men were oat. By tnlted Press. CHICAGO. July 30. Chicago's big railroad switchmen's strike which for more than two days paralyzed freight traffic, was ended today following a Joint conference of representatives from both railroads and from three of the four big railroad brotherhoods representing the striking switchmen members of the Brotherhood of -Railroad Trainmen, who demanded a "closed shop," with 85 per cent of the Job filled by B. R. T.'s. EXDIXG IS SPECTACULAR. The strike, called early Saturday, had a spectacular ending. The settlement was brought about almost solely through the efforts of representatives of the other three big railroad brotherhoods the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Engineers, and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. DID MVRDOCK GET HEI.Lt These men, who irrived here yesterday afternoon.' vent into conference wit hthe general managers' committee last night. Early today they re ceived G. W. W. Hangar, member of the federal board of mediation and conciliation; later James MurdocK, vice president of the Trainmen's Broth erhood and the man who called tha strike, was called into a special meet, ing of the other brotherhood represen tatives. What they said to Murdock and what Murdock sad to them was withheld. Some of those present said that Murdock "got hell," to use their own expression. MANAGERS MEET AGAIN. After Murdock's departure the brot. erhood representatives met again with the general managers' committee and announced they were authorized to make a settlement.' TAKE NEW By WILLIAM G. SHEPARD (United Press Staff Correspondent.) PETROGRAD. July 30. Russia's women soldiers have pledged themselves to take their own lives rather than become German war prisoners. Each woman soldier carries a ration of cyanide pf potassium to be swallowed in case of capture believing death would be preferable to' the fate they probably would meet In German hands. "The Legion of Death" fighters are "good killers." I learned this today when I talked to five of them now in a hospital suffering from shell shot. From a woman's lips I heard how she had run a German through with her bayonet, firing the gun at the, same time. From others I heard how these women and girls fresh from comfortable homes and universities went leaping over mangled bloody bodies in the charge with enemy shells bursting all about them. Girl soldiers drilling in the streets are now a common sight in Petrograd. Huge crowds gather daily about the engineer school where 1,000 girls drill daily. Premier Kerensky has promised to form women's marine detachments. They will be assigned to ships. A peasant girl, one of the five wounded Amazons who are visited at the hospital, proudly displayed a captured German helmet on the bed beside her, the first war cries of a Russian woman. RER PUBLIC (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON. July 30. Germany's Junkers are working hard with the German people to Justify militarism and efforts by the militarists to delude the public into believe that Germany is beset by rapacious foes who started the war to dismember Germany Is what London saw today behind the "peace interview" granted by Chancellor Michaelis of Germany and Foreign Minister Czernis of Austria. The reported pres

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SETTLED The railroad managers Issued a statement saying that the strike had been -settled through the intervention of the three brotherhoods. The managers said the affiliated brotherhoods ruled that the B. of R. T. was In the wrong in ordering the strike, which as its main object In ousting the Switchmen's Union of North America from Chicago yards. STRIKE SETTLED IN SO HOURS. The strike was settled approximately fifty hours after it had been called, and in that time had tied up about 50 per cent of the transcontinental freight traffic of the United States. It was said that the intervention of the three brotherhoods was largely caused by the attitude of the federal government that stopping of war supplies probably would be followed by federal. Intervention In some form. STATEMENT IS ISSUED. During the conference George W. W. Hangar of the federal board of mediation and conciliation, was (failed in and the situation explained to him. ' He declined to say what he had told the conference, but settlement followed soon after. The following Joint statement was issued by the conference committee of managers and the committee representing the B. of R. T. "First. The men to be returned to their positions at once, without prejudice and loss of seniority. "The questions at issue were disposed of as follows: "(A) Meals to be settled by the commission of eight at New York. "(B) . Appointment of yardmasters, reinstatement and employment of newmen to be settled by a board consisting of Messrs. L. E. Shephard. chairman: W. M. Vlark, M. W. Cadlett. H. E. Willis. L. J. Grifflng. A. J. Lovell, S. A. Boone, representing the B. of R. T., and conference committees representing the railroads. "The rights of all other employes are safeguarded by a clause, 'It is agreed that the matters at issue are be settled without -adopting a closed shop rule or any rule that might fairly be considered equivalent as such." ent in Switzerland of Erzberger. the clerical leader, recently head of the Reichstag collation presumably as a peace negotiator was regarded as proof that the militarist deliberately staged the recent "crisis" In the parliament and that Erzberger was nearly a tool of those interests. Michaelis' peace interview was rather an assault on England and France. He charged the allies with secret agreements aiming at "enslavement of Germany." He was particularly bitter in responding to Sir Edward Carson's suggestion that the first step towards peace would be for Germany to announce her willingness to surrender the occupied territory. Count Czernis' statement was along the usual Germanic line, asserting: complete agreement between Germany and Austro-Hungary and reiterating the old plea that Germany's enemies were responsible for continuatiqn of the war. Of curious collateral Interest In the peace talk was an interview attributed to Dr. Erzberger at Zurich in which he declared if he could talk with Premier Lloyd George or Foreign Minister Balfour a few hours an understanding which would permit peace negotiations would result. Latest "Bulletins (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Joly 30. Sweepingfood control legislation probably will he ready for final action by congress' within 24 honrs. President Wilson today was asked by Chairman Lever and Chamberlain of the house and senate conferees on the bill to agree to a modification ot the so-called congressional war committee the only big obstacle remaining In the way of final agreement on the measure. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, July 30. A small patrol encounter In the neighborhood of Bulleeoart and Achevllle were nil that Field Marshal Baig had to report today from the British front. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, July 30. Tha British cruiser Ariadoo has boea torpedoed and sunk with a loss of 39 men, tno admiralty announced today. (By United Press Cablegram.) PAJUS, July 30. German troops kept up a continuous and violent bombardmeat of French positions at several points along the southwestern front to. day. Several raids war repulsed, (By United .Press.) WASHINGTON, July 30. ''A tissue of lies" this is tha answer from tha Bussian embassy hera today to Chancellor Michaelis' peaca address Saturday. At tho same time the state department let it be knows the government looks upon the chancellor's utter, ances with suspicion.