Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 222, Hammond, Lake County, 3 March 1919 — Page 1

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LEGISLATORS SPECULATE

POLICE SCANDAL STIRS W. HAMMOND

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Will Several Interests Attempt! to Shove Through Unde- ! sirable Legislation. j Times BturiC. At State Capital. j INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. March j 3. The last week of the seventy-1 first General Assembly's regular;

session began today with practically none of the more important legislation, except the German-in-the-schools question, settled. Conservation commission legislation, road legislation, tax legislation, strengthening the prohibition

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law, rearrangement of various state offices and departments in conformity with the plans of the Republican platform and Governor Goodrich, the regular and specific appropriations for Indiana for the next two years all were dependent on action that would be taken this week. JOB PRACTICALLY COMPLETE. There seemed to be a sincere belief In many quarters here that the senate made up its collective mind that i . !.atively little legislation of any Irntortnnce fe to be enacted. The house i Tactically has completed thS tfe Jo!s-Ir-.tion that n en the program, but : !:a? done so in several ;ntu-.-cs in su-h a fashion that th: senate certrunly i.-n not agre with it. This is true of vri'tlcdl!y eil the bi? hflministrat ion ,.-!s. ?uch tin the tax b:'.l and the road Amer.dnier.t t-f these measures by .f-riit means thaf the houe must , c-tio'.ir !n puch amem!mnt. Thus the v -.,i.- situation In a legislative ay

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A'ter having: strved continuously in con?rc;s s:.n"e 132. Representative Frederick H. Gillett of lasaaoh Jfettt has been nominated for Si'raker of the House in the siitj -sixth Congress Ni'ininat'on is ey.iivalent to election as the Repubiicaiis will have a majority of folly-five - over the Democrats. At a Republican caucus he poll'd j33 votes against 63 f-r Representative Jarer-j It. Mann of Illinois and IS f : R-i-resentative CawbeU of Kansas.

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HSBS'S DIFFERXMCE OT OPINION. TV.it? mMl.T "sV.o.-.-I" i;i the --:::lature U"! e nhich l-i!eved that the : hrHiSr? voll,i conch.i-h': this wve.i :5 . r!i v.ith mueh of the iinportiuit le-i,-, .,- a erred ci and that the record

iAUTO SHOW i I HEAVEN FOR j I 'GAS' BUGS! i

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OLD GAME WORKED SPLENDIDLY

The Automobile Fans Will Be Drawn Like Moths to the Light by the Motor Car Paradise.

Short Change Racket Nets:

Young Thief a Profitable Moment.

.V voting: ir.an about 20 years oii. oaring a brown suit and cap w-nt i-it . the Hammond Coffee store at I'll li;nan street. Hammond. Saturday on'ns and askd th- younjr lady . ;,:r'.v to give htm a twenty-dollar :oi for some c'nante. This -die agre'd to do and save ths nan twenty dollar bil'. lie laid a of money on the rouhtrr and -. : --.as counted :t "a-" f-'un-l to c-m-i n 1V 1 1 Uc. a.eantiine the man put t hat !): e.d to ii- tweniy-dollar oiil Tn on pnvr l--po and hdd it in h:. 'nd. ':"n the youni; lady told him that lie had only si'.cn her JH in pia-e of j he peemed surpris-vd and .said that re would Just leae the envelope with ; - 2r on the counter and go and set th re."t of the money. He. went out . snd nver came lia k. nf course when the en elope was opened it was found to be empty.

FACTS ABOUT THE SHOW Th Erent Haniinond'a Tint Annual Automobile Show. Tie Place liberty Hall. TUo Dates March 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. The Hours Doors open 6:30 each ere and at 12 noon. Wed. end Sat. Exhibits Trcer.ty-forjr separate exhibits of new model autoi, motorcycles, tire and accessories. Entertainment B arney Young'i orchestra and prof essloral perform, ers. The admission price Twenty-flye cents.

DIVORCE CASES IN

SUPERIOR COURT

A divorce and J60a alimony were jrronted Saturday In the superior court ft Hammond to Mrs. "Walter Fnhinki or: a cror s-complalnt filed hy Atty. AV. '. McAleer. charging rnil treatment. T shiniski a craneman at th Standard Ste-1 Car riant. Mrs. Fablniski oharst"1 him with cruel treatment. She wa.s piven custody of their child. McAleer, Porsey and Giliett filed a petition of divorce for Cora Dutton from AVUliam Dutton. today. The woman harires that on three occasions her husband knocked her almost Insensible. Herbert M. Aleee. through Atty .T. M. f'itison. flkd ruit for divorce from h'.dnp V.. Ailec. Ho .alleges th.at she ha remained awsy from homo from one day to sen montlis at a time and when he e?ked her where she had been, told him it v as none of his business.

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The doors of Liberty Hall will be opf-n-'d at 6:"0 th evening of Monday. March 10. on Hommond'? First Annual Autom-A-il'- Sho-.v. and whrn they open thej- v. ill rtv-.al a beautifully decorated auditorium with twenty-four separate exhibitU-n of 1D19 automobiles, motorcyclv. tires and acc:ssorIcs. This evening th'' committee v ill meet to complete the arrangements in chaig it' Chairman Ed liohlins and Manager Ceo. Knoerzer. Darney Young's orc'-cstra has b-en engiged and th'-re a 10 to be profess-ional entertainers. Attendance from every city and town in Iake county is assured by the Interest which the announcement of tjicshow has created. The automobile fans are on their toes. At the . how they can revel in an automobile paradise. 11 cry make of car sold in Hammond win bo on the floor, represented by the latest model the factory has turned out. " On "Wednesday and Saturday the show will give matinees, openlnsr at noon, and on other days the siiow will start at in the c-. nitiK- Rach right it will c!oc at 11 o'chxk. Th" nu'.f) ( Jihihi'ion alone is worth th twent y-tl ve cents admission It it tn ndd:tin tn-jsic and entertainment will be provided. The automobile merchants in Hammond are about the livest crowd that could be imaerinf d and they arc n bunch of good fellows. They are Rood hosts and know the secret of making everybody happy. Don't fall to take in the show.

SAFEBLOWERS ARE BUSY (By International Hews SeiTlce.) CHICAGO, March 3. Safe blowers rai-ly today dynamited a safe in th-i office of the International Dairy Co. "s office and escaped with $1.5fl0 in Ribeity Bonds and $!.:." in currency.

Once more West Hammond is under the scrutiny of the Cook county authorities. This time it is not the underworld but the police department that will bear investieation. Following general indignation at the continued wholesale arrests of working men for trespass of a railroad bridge charges have been made by individuals that each officer receives a dollar for every arrest he makes, a practice in violation of the law. STATION A COUNTY" JAIL. I'tirthcrmor't. it Is alleged, th police station Is ah-o a county jail .where prisoners arc made to work out th'ir flns or sent on th streets to clean and make repairs. That the new station was built largely by prison labor, s claimed by those who informed The Times of alleged conditions. Needless to ay. the city court or the police have no power to make the station a p-jnil farm or workhouse. A Times reporter yesterday ta'.ked to three persona who have been arrested by the "West Hammond police and are under bonds to be tried. JAW rjtACTIXSZD. Teter Miller, one of the trio, could not talk very plainly because his jaw was broken. Miller, who runs a restaurant at 176 State St.. declared that the jaw had been broken by Policeman Kulczak Friday night. -MiHer's Jawwas badly swollen yesterday and the physician who examined him told the reporter it was fractured and would ha le to be w !red. "I close my restaurant at 11 o'clock." stated Miller, "and was standing in front of the place when the policeman came along. Officer Kulczak demanded io know what I was doing, refused to accept my explanation and without pro oration struck me with a black jack. He forced me in an automobile and hit me four times with the blackjack after I was in. I was taktn to the station and charged with b-)nf o ru nk and disorderly. I was sober." KOLLINO SAPPED. The second man to tell a atory of rough treatment was Jack Kolling, k-ffT of a workingmen's hotel. Rolling told the reporter that he had ben tn the habit of going good for men arrested by the "West Hammond police who roomed at his place and that he promised to pay the fine of an Albert .Schneider In the sum of $1 1.50. "I never intended not to pay the fine." said Kolllng. "Schneider was put to work on the streets four or five das. To make the story short I was picked up on a trumped up charge and thrown In jail, 'sapped' by a policeman, and three weeks later 'sapped' again on the streets. I have sworn out a warrant for the arrest of Officer Joo Tulandowskl for assault and battery." In confirmation. Kolling carried black ami blue marks nni a red scar above the left eye which was swollen. POCKETS PICKED. The reporter was given a document, presumed to b" the statement of a man who resides at Madison and Cherry streets In Hammond. The signature Is a scrawl and appears to be "William T'lawlter." It is written In pecil and .states: "To The Lake CotKTT Times: "I went and paid $7 for groceries and then walked to Vest Hammond and Officer Kulczak hit me on t ho brad w ith a blackjack and put his band In my pocket and took t2o out and also took my groceries and kept rnc in jail 5 days. The officers made me lath the new court room, then they let me go home." The third individual the reporter talked to was Harriett Brennan, nee F.oscnbaum. widow of George TSosenbaum. conddence maij and diamond merchant. Mr. Rosenbaum owns her own home on Plummer ave. She Is under bond to appear l'.i court at 2 o'clock March 7th to answer a charge of conducting a house of ill fame. The charge, she declares, is a lie. nddinc that she has had no girls in her home for nearly a year. SAYS SHE PAID GRAFT. Mrs. Itoscnbaum told the reporter that her place was clsced last year the day after she had contributed $C00 of Kraft money for protection. Sho also told the reporter that for months she gave one officer t0. another S35 and others smaller sums each month for protection. Officer John Kusmula. who three years ago ran the tire truck into a post, wrecking 1!. and shot up the police department, served a warrant on Harriett recently, charging her with conducting a house of ill fame and she at once ("Continued on page five.) '

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Bulletin-. By SIDNEY DARE (BxcIdsIt Cable by the Z. N. S. and the London Daily Express.) PATHS. March 3. The great week of the peace conference opened today with tho inter-allied council of ten considerU.g Marshal Foch's final terms for the disarmament cf Germany on land and sea and in the air. In addition to cutting down the size of the German army it is u rule it loo J that the terms calls tor the termination of submarine wa-farc by all nations. The council of ten is scheduled Uo to get the report of the committee on reparation which is said to have sot. the. sum that Germany should pay at "4.O0M0O.00O rounds sterling. It i.s now confidently expected that peace terms will be communicated to Germany by the end of this month.

BY ROBERT J. PREW

(I. N. S. Staff Correspondent ) PARIS, March 3. This is the! peace conference's greatest week. The outcome of the labors of the i council of ten between today and! next Saturday will live in history j

for all time. Up to the present the allies have not ordered Germany to disarm. They have not thrown back the German frontiers nor submitted a bill for war costs. WEEK IS IMPORTANT. This week is going to be a severe one for the "big five" and with the reports of Important commissions in the peace conference will gt its f.r!-t real glimpse of the new order of things and what the future of Germany is to be. The French delegation is braced for a big effort because France feels that she has more at stake than any other state. The Trench delegates take the view that if a single precaution is overlooked or any of the demands are not put through, the whole country will rise up in blame in the next five or ton years. to DErnn: prontiers. "We are going to demand dismantling of the ancient Hohenzollern fortress which has existed so many centuries and demand that our enemies be placed beyond all possibility of nursing the Idea of revenge," said one I-Yenchman. "We are going to define Germany's frontiers once for all and she CGer-

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Gerardo Gniliano and his many-fingered hands. New York police recently r.abbed Gerardo Guih'ano in the' act of liftir., a watch from an unsuspecting victim. When his fmjrer prints were takes at police headquaftters it was discovered he had six fineers on each hand.

Home With Smile and French Cross

Lieut, R. C. Johnson, Lowell Boy and Hammond Lawyer, Back from Gallant Service at Many Fronts in France.

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Lieutenant T.. C. Johnson, the first Lake county soldier to return from France with the Cross de Guerre and the Falm decorations, stepped off the Monon train at Lowell today to give Lad an affectionate hug and hold Mother in his arms. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Johnson of Lowell are proud of their ton and so are the people of Lowell and Hammond for his record in the war is the highest. From the first of June until tho lllh of uctober when be was gassed. Lieut. Johnson lived under fire, excepting ten das spent at a rest camp. "Scratche4" a dozen times by high exp!osies he was never out of the scrap for an hour until burned from his feet to his throat by mustard gas In the Ai gonne. Attended Port Harrison. At tha outbreak of tho war Johnson, a university graduate and a lawyer, was establishing himself in practice in Hammond for several months ap peared for City Attorney Gavlt in the city court, handling the city's business in a creditable manner. Ho attended the second officers" graining school at Ft. Llenj. Harrison and was commission

ed a second lieutenant Xov. 27. 1917. j ! jroing overseas May 10. 1D1S. I

j Lieut. Johnson, winning promotion to j first lieutenancy, was attached to the j ?th infantry for instruction in France at Callaix, and went to Bellcau "Wood I with that outfit the first of June. On the eighteenth of July he went over the ! top w ith his own outfit, the r,3th Inf. of the 4th Div. at Le Ftrte-Milon (.Chateau Thierry). He was under fire for a month near Bazoches and out on patrols j nearly every niKht. In August he spent j ten days at Itimacourt In a so-called

rest camp and moved up to ?larates-Le-Geande for ten days enroutc to the Hojrmount sector of the St. Mlhiel front. At Esnes, Sept. 2f.th, he went over the top in the Argonnc fighting and continued in action until Oct. 11th when be was gasted and snt to a base itospltal. Lieut. Johnson reached this country Thursday and was assigned to a hospital No. Z2, Chicago. He expects to be discharged ae completely cured shortly. Johnson considers himself a lucky man. A high explosive ruined his helmet and ho was "scratched" several times in the Marne engagement.

t By ALFRED O. ANDERSEN IT S. Staff Correspondent.) BERLIN, March 2, via London, I March 3. Following the reception i of German East African troops, headed by Gen. Lettow Vorbeck, in which tens of thousands of peoj pie took part in the Pariser Plat?, ! a crowd stormed on the Hotel Adi Ion .in anti-American demonstiaj tion. j The demonstrators shouted: j "Throw out the Americans who ; are swine. They arc eating all of ; our food." i A cordon of polico lined up !n frfnt of the hotel and the front door was shut I to keep out the crowd. NO ONE ALLOWED TO LEAVE. j Thousands of persons waitc-d ouis'.de nu- no on-: was allowed to lea-re the I hotel premises. This met sage w as smugged out bv a pasre. j The crowd became angry over the api pearance of uniformed Americans on i the balcony of the Adlon overlooking ; the Parlrer Flatz during: the ceremonies i of welcome. j GERMANS SHAKE PISTS.

ine Germans from Last Africa, catching tight of the Americans, shook their firsts at them. One American private, mistaking the fist-shaking for a friendly greeting waved back. The crowd thought this was Intended as a threat and .the hostility was Intensified. TROOPS CLEAR STREETS. Troops cleared out the street in front of the hotel and at 6 p. m.. the iron shutters were removed from the front of the hotel. However arme.d soldiers remained on guard. Two German workmen entered the hotel demanding to see Lorenz Adlon. the proprietor. They asked to be conducted to the American officers, who with some soldiers, occupy the wholesecond floor of the hostelry, where they conducted their own kitchen. DEMAND AN EXPLANATION. The workmen said they wanted to get an explanation why the Americans hnd "mocked" the crowd. Hcrr Adlon tefused the Germans' request and the workmen departed. Hostility continued to increase, however, until the arrival of the troops. "It is all in the day's work." web the only statement that Gen. Harris or Capt. Mann would make. Both of these officers are from Missouri and are here on Pn official mission.

Famous Football Player, Once Divorced, Takes a Twice Divorced Wife.

SrECnt. To The Times. CROVO; PO I N'T, IND, March 3. Hammond football fans will b interested in a marriage which took riace here fast Saturday when Richard F. C. King, Harvard and Pine Village football star in 1S1", and Miss Vera 1. Ketru-k, both giving Chicago as their address, were married yesterday afternoon by Judge Berlecn. "Dick" King broke into prominence at Harvard by his persistence in athletics. Time after time be was put aside by the coaches as an impossibility, finally to be taken in charge by Capt. Charley Erickley. The next year he made the team and leaped into fame in the enr.ua! Princeton game, which ha is credited with having won for the Crimson. King's education 1s said to have been a herd to obtain as his place on the tenri. as he was r-.arried and had two chi'drtn at that time, and worked his i-a; hrojgh school. He graduated In 131G from the engineering school. Miss Ketrkk told the license clerk she had been divorced In October. 1911. and again in January. 1?13. King said ho obtained his divorce on May 13, 131$.

RETURNED SOLDIERS PURGHASEJEWETTSTORE

Herbert J. Millies and Harry Jewett. returned soldiers, have purchased the grocery, mcatmarket and general merchandise store of Ed Jewett, at P.obertsdale and took possession today. The young men are graduates of the Hammond high school, members of the I'.ooster Club, and enlisted In the army shortly after America entered the war. The name of the firm is The JewettM:ll:es Co. and the proprietors eipeet to serve the people of Hobertsdale very satisfactorily and enlarge the business. Harry Jewett is a nephew of the retiring merchant.

SHERMAN IN BITTER CRITICISM

NEW DEM CHAIRMAN WILL TOUR COUNTRY

.la General Pershing's casualty list today the following Laaa county boys are reported: WOUNDED SEVERELY. GIOVANNI CIOLFI, 4330 Todd art., East Chicago. JAMES CURTIS, 817 Peon. St., ary.

BIG FIRE AT MORRIS.

(By International News Service.) CHICAGO. M'irch Frederick M. Lang, watchman, is dead, and twenty

I city firemen are in serious condition

today in the wake of a fire which cused $500,00 dmage at the Morris

Co. pach.n? plant late last night. I

ADMITS GUILT. John Kovalehuk. 7.11 14th Tlace. in Chicago, arrested Thurfday at Indiana Harbor charged with transporting liquor, was taken before Federal Arent Green today an! admitted bavins: made trips from Chicago three time a week with whiskey.

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dent Either Usurper or Dictator. (International News Ssrriee.) WASHINGTON". March President Wilson, in attempting to plodce the Vnited States to a league of nations, is "either a usurper or a dictator." Senator Sherman of liiiuoii, told the senate this afternoon. "If the power to make such & pledge Is not found in our constitution, tha president's acts are usurpation," Sherman said. "If It depends alone upon his will as itommander-in-chif it is revolution. He is a usurper in one case. End a dictator in the other." Sherman spoke of the lsagua of nations as a "pandoras box of e il. to cr.ip-

! ty upon the American people the aggregated calamities of the world." Senator Sherman's speech was marked throughout by bitter criticism of

i President Wilson. ! I ."Indeed," he said, "shall we rot ask with

the dramatist. (Now, In the names of all j Gods it once) what meat does this cur j Caesar feed that be has grow n eo j treat?" !

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SOUTH BEND An automobile ehow j will be held here Thursday by the So. j

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Homer S. Cummings. Homer S. Cumminjrs, r,ew chairman of the Democratic national committee, is planning a tour ef tr, country this month. On this trip hwill endeavor to impress upon tKe variou3 state Democratic committees that the outlook as far ps th-s Democrats are concerned for 1920 , ia excellent and all that Is needed is soaas -bsr.1 y?z& '

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