Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 144, Hammond, Lake County, 27 November 1918 — Page 1

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financial Experts fn Hew York , Look for Neither Hard Times Nor Financial Panic, I t" Bt United Press 1 t NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Peace Jtvill not bring panic. Financial experts here are conWent of this. t Undoubtedly, prices of food, clothing, and most other commodities will drop, and there will be some friction between labor and capital, due to sudden increases in the available supply of labor. But these conditions will not ead to hard times or financia panic, financiers say. Conditions immediately following the civil war are pointed to in corroboration of this belief.' lF.CXrNF. IN HOLKS U.E". Although wholesale prices fell off more than SO per cent between January 1 and July 1. 1?5. there were remarkably few business failures. During the entire year IS65 there were but 00 failures, as compares with 6.500 In 1S61. The ffirst 'decltne in ' prices of commodities is "'expected ' to be shown In wholesale markets. Most retail merchants already have anticipated this decline,, and are keeping on hand only the lightest possible stocks. "When the prices begin to drop, buying activity will be resumed, and the increased buying will tend to stabilize the marklets. STOCKS ARE OT HEAtY. Merchants who stocked up heavily at' wartime prices may find th.hselves with stocks that must be sold jn a declining market, but the comlns "f pace lias been so Ions forseen that f.w merchants have placed themselves in this positon. Evrn those of poor Judgment, who would hav been wilj.ng to Mock up heavily, have been prevented from doinsc so in most cases hy government regulation of" manufacturing.' The merchant who wanted r heavy and complete stock of goods

Affairs of City Fuel & Supply Co., of Which Paul Parduhn Is President, Is Aired in Petition to Court

When Texas Oil Company

Asks for It.

THEY HAVE NOT TRIED THIS YET IN LAKE CO.

EVANSVILLE, IND., Nov. 27. Wearing a hot water bottle filled with whisky as a bustle, the wife of the Rev. Elijah Torrants, a Negro preacher, was arrested yesterday :harged with bringing whisky into dry territory from Kentucky.

GERMAN PRISONERS, MANY OF THfiM BOYS, THANKFUL FOR PEACE; HAPPY AT THE THOUGHT OF GOING HOME TO KAISERLESS GERMANY

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One of the varied enterprises of Paul Parduhn, known largely for his promotion of semi-profestonal baseball and football, has been taken Into court by the Texas Co., an oil and gas concern, which asks receivership of The City Fuel & Supply Co.. of which Par

duhn is the principal stockholder and j

the vice-president.

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pared y Attorney u. . Cravens ana riled in the superior court, mates that The City Fuel & Supply Co. is Indebted to The Texas Company for oil and gas in the sum of $5,925.39. The complaint gives the following outline of the affairs of The City Fuel & Supply Company : Defendant has chattel mortguge on

! goods remaining unsold. $5.0.00.

Two motor trucks niortJ; fred for J2.&00. Hammond First National Bank holds first mortgage on real estate in sum of $5,000. West Hammond Trust & Pavings Bank holds second mortgage on real estate in sum of $3,000. $2,?00 mortgage on seven-passenger Cadillac touring cr. Another ,of.; Parduhn' 8 enterprise, a third laterc'sT" tn.AVest liawirfcond's largest saloon, is said to be In better fhape and nets him about $500 a month. Owing to tho war. baseball arid football have not been lucrative but it is not" believed Tarduhn has lost mosey on the. season. Tho petition for receivership, however, does not enter into the personal affairs of Parduhn. but has to do entirely with The City Fuel" & Supply Co., as an instituion.

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MMY 1 PLEAS OF i GUILTY , "' !

TURKEY BAFFLES IN WEST HI10N0 BARS

I Thousands of Birds Sold at

Fat Prices Through Paddle Wheel.

The burden of the trade in turkeys. nes and chickens has been going on in West Hammond the past few days where rafflrs are. being held in practically ev- . t y saloon. Paddles sell for twenty-five cents eirh and a turn of the wheel nets the proprietor of the game several times tlits amount the turkey ,? gives away is v. orth. One p iddle seller took in a thousand dollars in one day and gave away about $500 worth of fowl. The stream of traffic from West Hammond oast the past few days has been a grand rarade of men bearing turkeys, geese and chickens. Some men paid only twenty-five cents for a turkey and others: ten dollars.

Plead Guilty to Liquor Charges; Many Refuse to Do So and Will Fight the Here Is List of Those Who Cases.

Times Br bra t. At Statb Capital. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. Nov. 27 Lake county men, who entered pleas of guilty in federal court late yesterday to the charge of transporting liquor into Indiana, after having been indicted by the federal grand jury, included: Paul Melka. Kick Andre, Steve Constantine, John Zalesk!. John Onick. John Zella, John Vljakovich. John Ganesh, James Hutcheson, William O. King. Charles Trbovich, Tanko Saponya. Nick Checkan, Nate Dennis. Stephen Toth. Thomas O'Neil. Charles Musulin. Antonio Chirko, Theodore Piechockl, John . Zaleski, Faul Jarobck, George Mazar and Joe Kocsis. Tha defendants from Lake county, who pleaded not guilty to charges of transporting liquor and in some, instances to charges of conspiracy 1 transport liquor included: Vavrens Lorenz. Slavo Golub. Demeter Sylagyi. Henry I.ederman. Ell Opatich, Meyer H. Klempner, Ben Taffe, Peter Mazrimas, "W. O. King, Taul Turik. Joe Wasylovcik. John Gansur. Alex Kaiding, Tony Kiris, Winca Kiris. Edward A. Gross, Stanley Wrona. Anton Kesiba, Ernest Edman, Antonio Dulmovich, Meyer Hill. Lawrencn Wertzberger. of Hammond, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bag of mail, containing among other things, a $30 Liberty bond, and a registered letter. Honds of the following Lake county persons, who failed to appear before the conrt. were forfeited: John rUbicki. Hammond: Abe Kiscnlerg. Hammond; Alex Danewski. Indiaua Harbor: Waso Bubanovich, Lake county; all charged with trnnsrortirg liquor Into I tie Ute. -

SAO THANKSGIVING FOBJIS COUPLE Carl Schultz Killed in Action Oct. 21, Says War Dept. Message.

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Hammond Man Was Not Such a Mark As Eddie, the Bartender Thought He Was; Eddie Will Dine in Jail Tomorrow. Ed Bowman, a former bartender of lied ford, Ind., was arrested last night at 11S Fayette street, a boarding house. vy Officers Bundo and Einsele of the Hammond police, charged with working a con game. Eowman is said to have gon to Howard Taylor, a clothing salesman, at 118 Fayette street and offered to initiate him into a club called tho T. A. R. M. and give him $1,009 In counterfeit money for $200. of.Xaylor'f..bnafld money...,- - .-i Taylor tipped the police off to the game and Officers Bunde and Einsele, two plain clothes men, went to th store and stood around first on one leg and then on tho other until Taylor signed the paper which was to make him a member of the T. A. R. M. Taylor gave Bowman $200 in cash for which in three days he was to have received $1,000 in counterfeit money. Bowman then left the worthless signatory with Taylor and. taking Taylor's $200 in lawful coin of the realm, walked out of the ?tore slapbang into the waiting arms of Bunde and Einsele, who had been patiently expecting him. Bowman was faken to the city jail and searched and tho money found on him. In his suit case, was also found other blanks to be signed. The blank signed by Taylor reads as follow s: "I, Howard Taylor, of the state et Indiana and county of Iake, do solemnly swear in the presence of the Almighty God that I will keep and faithfully keep all secrets and signs of the order of. the T. A. II. M. until death. Furthermore, if I should divulge any signs or secrets of the order of the T. A. It. M.. I shall after so doing be expelled from their order and treated as a spy and subject myself to the penalty by some part of the order. Furthermore I. Howard Taylor, do agree not to barter, sell or lve, to any party or parties any of the money or moneys.

gains of the Y. A. It. M. This entitles the qbove named party to a membership in the first degree, which he has taken in the presence of Howard Taylor, who is a member of the fifth degree. ".Signed. HOWARD TAYLOR. '118 Fayette Street." "Hammond, Indiana. Taylor refuses to say what tho Y. A. It. M. stands for and giggles when you mention it to him. tfut it is understood to stand for "You're After Rotten Money."

LANSING. No. 27 It will be a sad Thanksgiving for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schultz of this place. Their son. Paul, a gallant soldier overseas, will not be horne by Christmas. A telegram from th-5 War Department last nisM stated that he was killed in Fran- v on the 2 1st of October. His will be Lansing's first gold star and a wide circle of friends in this community sorrow for the bereaved family.

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SITUATION IN GERMANY CALMER United Press Cablegram LONDON. Nov. 27. The situation in Germany appears to be more calm, although the country is not safe from Bolshevism. The decisive attitude of Eisner, president of the Bavarian republic, is uniting the anti-bolshevist (sentiment throughout German?". Right now he is possibly the strongest man in tho country. His followers have warned Field Jrfarshal Von Hindenburg to keep ot.t of politics. It Is reported there are more than 70.000 armed soldiers in Berlin over whom Karl Liebknecht, self-styled bolshevist. is trying to get control -in order to start a counter revolution. Posters offering $25 reward for the former kaisfr and crown prince 'dead or alive" have been distributed in Cologne.

Well Known Hammond Man Succumbs to Fumes of Acid; Prominent Mason.

Wilfred Hunt. 39 years old. of 417 Tine

street, died at his home last night from I ihe effects of gas poison which he re

ceived while at work Monday afternoon at the- Central Chemical works. Mr. Hunt was a lead burner and met his death because of nitric acid fumes he breathed while filling" carboys. The decedent, who has lived in Hammond for the past twelve years, is well known and leaves many friends. He n-ao a member of tht Pine Street Prcshv-

terian church, a member of Sons of St.

George, a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar and belonged to Garfield lod ge. He leaves to mourn him a wife. Alice, and three children. George, 15 years old: Elsie, 10 years old. and Winifred, 4 years old. A mother, one brother and four sisters live in Liverpool, England, where Mr. Hunt was born. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the First Presbyterian church on Hohman street and will bo in charge of the Hammond Blue lodge. Rev. M. H. Krau.sc will officiate. Interment will be-held in Oak Hill cemetery in charge of Undertaker Stewart.

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One group of German prisoners in prison camp fn France when war ended.

The armies of German prisoners in the prison stockades in France were just as happy over the signingof the armistice as were the German soldiers still forced to fight under the whip of the war

leaders. The German prisoners, well fed and restored to pood physical condition, were joyous in .the thought that they soon could gro home to Germany a Germany freed of the rule of the kaiser and

his crew. The most striking" part

of the above photo and other pictures of German prisoners is the number of boys captured. These boys were forced to fight in the front lines.

Is This Romanca Stutl? (Test Ne Possible Clierie! TIMES Reporter Now With Army of Occupation, Finds French Demoiselle With Black Curley Hair in Boots anil Breeches By Winding Stream at Foot of Mountain Side. Oh! La! La! A Couple of Times!

Corporal L. J. Parry, enlisted Times' reporter, with Co. D, 315th

Ammunition Train, now one of those in charge of supplies for a brigade in. the 90th Division,

Army of Occupation, 7th Army!

Corps, under Gen. W. G. Haan in Rhenish Prussia, writes under date of October 26, two weeks before the armistice was signed as follows to The Times: (By CORP. ! J- PARKY.)

It's a great life if you don't:

weaken. I'm just back from a three day and night trip, hauling the big stuff you know-vriat' I mean for our brigade to the front and am all in. Am shooting you a fr Knpc: as tomorrow morning we

leave again for good and no telling

when I'll get a chance to write. We

are right in the war zone and never know from one minute to the next where we are to be sent. AVe are now billeted in a quaint little French town, that has surely been shot to hell and gone. Our abode is in a garret in which five squads are bartered. We have no beds or bunks. We simply stretch our blankets on the floor and hit the hay. French houses are built with the houses and barns together and some" of the boys sleep in the havloftv Pillows? Flow a little -air in our rings and when your bean hits that you're gone. A chap has to sleep on a two-by-four sometimes in the array and as you never roll over too tired thev aren't half bad. V HE TILLED TOR A CORK BELT. The most wonderful experience I've had in my six months over here was the one night I slept in a French-bed. They sure do believe, in swell beds in France.

A feather mattress three feet deep. Rolled around in it so much that I got up about 2 g. m. and thought I was aboard the transport and found myself yelling for a life preserver. AVhen I got here I found a bunch of mail dated July 21 awaiting me. Te gods and little fishes. Just think of it, here ii is Oct. 26, three mouths on the way, mail addressed to me at Camp Purdue with important business matters in it, but we can't kick, it's all for the cause. "Ve had to get the boys and cats over here to clean up on the baby-killers and that takes tonnage. Since I wrote ou last I've made a trip 500 miles clear across France in our Xash Quads and it was some drive. "What I missed seeing wasn't worth looking at. When the censor gives us the liiph sign I'll make jour eyes pop out of your head with a real story. THE FRENCH OIRL IN THE FORD. Let me tell you of the little French madamoiselle we met on the trip. "We were camped for the night at the foot of a mountain with a winding, bubbling stream clear as crystal below. I was corporal of the guard and it was about ,11:30 p. m . black as the inside of a black cat. I heard a motor car buzzing up the winding road and ordered the guard to run ahead and halt the car. In it. all alone, was a little French da.'ce in a Ford. She told me she was one of four girls in France who were working for the American T. M. O. A., A. E. F. I thought ?t first she was a Tank. She. spoke regular Crown Point English and was sharp as a needle. Well, we had a big camp fire. I woke tip tho cook, got her something to cat and made her comfortable. he was 20 years old only and previous to entering the "Y" service had driven an ambulance for over a year right at the front. She told many thrilling and just as horrible as thrilling things in her experience and only wish I had time to te.ll you some of them. FRENCH GIRL DARES DARKNESS. What impressed me most vividly was the fact of her driving along that lonesome mountain road all alone in the black dead of the night in the shot and " (Continued cn page two.)

TRUCK HIT BY :CiPlER HURT

Whiting Man Employed by

E. Chicago Concern Hit by Gary Street Car.

Milton Barton, WTiiting, driving a truck for the Wisconsin Lumber & Coal Co., East Chicago, was hit by a Gary &

Interurban car, yesterday, at the corner of lCSth and Cedar streets, Indiana

Harbor. Barton was driving east on 13Sth

street and the street car was moving

south. The truck was overturned and the man was thrown to the pavement sustaining a fractured skull. He was taken to the office of Dr. Teegarden who had him taken in the Sulski ambulance ta St. Margaret's hospital. A boy. by the name of John Kovalkowski, 333 Beech street, was injured in the same accident and was taken in charge by Dr. Emenhiser.

HOLLAND li'T GIVE UP WILHELM

Dutch Say Ex-Kaiser Can Only Be Extradited With Germany's Consent

HE SENDS US ORSETXITQS. T'nited Press C4.ljbgram. AMSTERDAM, Not. 21 (delayed). "I hop that when peace Is elgned America will remember that ah aad Oevmiy were one friendly," Frelderlcl: Wllhelm, former German Crown Prince declared In an Interview with the Tnltei1. Press today. The former Crown Prince appeared hi good health, amiled frequently aad was well dressed In a porting' suit of brown tweed. "X do not knowhow long I will stay in Holland. Mr future depends on the resolution. Z hope to aae Germany again but Z must ha patient." Offering the correspondent a cigarette, he terminated th Interview with tho request, "Greet America for me." A piano and billiard table hare been ordered tent to the liland and the former Crows Prince plant to dictate hi war memors this winter.

fUs-iTEO Tress Cablkbav. LONDON, Nov. 27. While legal authorities of the British govern

ment have decided that the allies

are entitled to demand extradition of the former kaiser, it is learned that Holland is not yet persuaded on that right The Dutch government, it is understood, maintains that Wilhe'lm can-only, be extradited-at the will of Germany or if his fate is decided at the peace conference he will be given up. according to the decision. " Holland's precaution against any plotting is known to include a cordon of troops around Amergonen castle. The Kaiser is not permitted to cross the moat. Wilhelm constantly is displaying impatience. . The former Crown Prince's abode j on a barren island' where the only habitation is the rector's house where he is Quartered.

NEW CHARGE D 'AFFAIRS APPOINTED Bt Fvtted Tress WASHINGTON". . Nov. 27. Charles Wilson has been appointed charge d'affairs for Bulgaria, it. was learned today. Wilson has been consul at the American legation at Madrid and has seen service in Russia. Diplomatic advices from Sofia indicate the appointment is pleasing to the Bulgaria! government.

PRESIDENT WILL MAKE STATEMENT

fBT T'nited Tress. 1 WASHINGTON". Nov. 27. Before leaving for France the president will make a full statement to the country as to his purpose in going and outline the work of the administration while he is away. It was learned today this statement will name the members of the rcace delegation finally.

p6lice on guard in new york Br i.-niteo Press.) WASHINGTON". Nov. 27. Permanent federal supervision of the stockyards is recommended by Secretary 'of Agriculture Houston in a statement made public today. Ertenslon of the system to include related interests is urged and congress is asked to take prompt action of the lalan. Houston's statement is contained in a lengthy review of the agricultural and food situation in the country. He declares that by control of the food administration "centralization of control by a small group of packers has been materially checked." He advocates a continuation of such a control, closely coordinated with that of the live stock market.

AMERICAN NAVY IN 500 BATTLES WITH SUBS

ft"NiTEt Press Cablegram. LONDON. Nov. 2 7. American naval forces engaged in five hundred battles with submarines, it was announced today. Ten U-boats were sunk by them and thirty-six others damaged.

GET READY FOR NEXT LOAN IBt Fxited Press! WASHINGTON". Nov. 27 In a letter to all banks made public today. Secretary McAdoo announced plans for "one more great popular campaign" for the sale of bonds. The secretary outlined the treasury's nolicy for the next five months, embracing a series of bi-weekly treasury certificates issued in anticipation of the fifth loan.

ROYALTY LEAVES FOR PARIS

ri''TEO Press Cablegram LONDON".' Nov. 27. King George, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert with their suite left for Paris this morning. They will make a brief visit to general hedquarters en route.

STILL RESTRICT THE DAILIES

Bt United Phess WASHINGTON', Nov. 27. All restrictions affecting the publication of periodicals have been rescinded, except on daily. Sunday and weekly newspapers, the war industries board announced tot'ay. It was explained that the exceptions were made because newspaper

publishers requested that the board con

tinue to exercise control over the use of news print for the present. Restrictions on weekly papers will be lifted De

cember 1. however. Restrictions on

manufacture of wail paper and making and cutting of wail paper designs also werti withdrawn.

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FIGURES ARE GIN OUT

Chairman H. E. Sharrer of the United War Drive completed his arduous and splendid labors this morning on the War Drive. 'I guess this is. cause for Thanksgiving," he 6aid to a reporter ts he handed him a couple of yards of figures. Hammond oversubscribed as usual. The grand total is $80,918.74. The country went 102 per cent on the drive with New Tork City 105 per cent. Philadelphia under Its quota and Chicago struggling to get over the. top. That Hammond subscribed ?81,000 when asked for $50,000 170 per cent is in keeping with its wan- record. Dr. Sharrer, chairman of the United War Drive, is to be oengratulated as well as his corps of workers. Here they are: .' Factory, - AUottnt..Sub.rptn. Am. Maize Prod. Co. $ 2.509 $ 4.250 no

Am. Steel Fdries 2,300 American Glue Co. .

V. S. Bets Co. Beatty Machine Co Chapin & Co. Chi. F. & Ftlzr. Co. Calumet Roofing Co.Corrugated Bar Co Champ. P. Mchy. Co. Conkey. W. B. Consumer Co. Chicago Tele. Co C, It. S. & S. B. R. K. Central Ry. Sgnl. Co. E.. J. & E. R. R Enterprise Bed Co

Erie R. R. 1.500 Federal C. & Tile Co. 650

Feil Mfg. Co Gibson T. M. C. A. Ham. Ptrn. & Model-Ham.-Pure Ice Co Hammond Dstlng. Co. Hoess Brothers Ham. Mlble. In. Wks. Ham. Brass Wks Ham. Mchn. & V. Ws. II.. W. & E. C. R. R Ham. Cornice Wks. Inlander & StelndlerHl. Car & Mfg. Co r. IT. B. &. N.T.C.R.R. Keith Ry. Equip. Co. Lake Region Bakery.

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