Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 225, Hammond, Lake County, 6 March 1919 — Page 1

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HAMMOND, INDIANA.

THURSDAY, MARCH 0, 1919.

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CALUMET MFRS. ASSN. PLANS FOR HAMMOND

Straightening of Calumet

River Sought by Live New Organization.

Indiana's Ex-dramshop Keepers Raised Slush Fund, It is Charged.

The Ca'urnct Manufacturers' Assocla-

'. tion, organized a month asn. has up- ; v.irds of fifty members, seven of which j are Hammond industries. Of the nine 1 committees 9t work four or five are developing projects of great importance ! to Hammond. i Fraiik Eashom of the Automatic Pp.it:j ty Service Co. is chairman of the sanitation committee, which is co-operating ! with local interests in the organization ! of ft sanitary district to divert sewage

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The ghost 01 the "$6,600 alder- !f;om the lake. Major Lee. secretary of t the association, was active in this inat-

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To Make River Navigable. For twenty years tSero has been ta'.k

eve of the primaries and threaten- f dredging the calumet river through Hammond. The government requires ing to take a little trip to the office deeds for a straight channel. The t c. j. i - , TT .Manufacturers' navigation committee. cf state s Atty. MacClay Hoyne. ott0 K rt,irh ch.,inrian. has UIMicrt:n It will accompany the soectre o to sfcure thos tov vu' thl r J ' project to completion. The ber.ofits of the Bacchanalian revels Of police- ' the improvement to this city are obvious. A navigable belt would make a men, including the Chief's mara- ' compktc circuit via the river with lake . . . , , , ... outlets at Indiana Harbor and South thon joy-ride, and the spook of the Chicago. collection of hundreds of dollars: Koai1 t0 Him'The improvement of a road to North from resort keepers for the alleg- i Harvey, that would llrk Hammond. . . ! West Hammond and Heecwisch with ed purpose Of Obtaining protection Harvey, Rlverdale. Dolton. Blue Island. - . . , . i etc.. is another important phase of the trora the ponce aepartment and aPSOClfttlon.s wprU. w. j. Davidson of

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Scene at debarkation pier at Crest with soldiers about to board transport (above), and American boIdiers dancinp with Y. M. C. A. girls at Ai.i-les-Bains, France. It is a joyous moment in the American soldier's life -when at last he

MATTKH OF GOSSIP.

The slush fund has been a matter of

posslp in Wert Hammond since Indi

ann. went dry. West State street, the 1 near oasis which, from the Sahara oi Indiana is the longest alcoholic App -;n way for a city of the size in the t'ni'ed States, has talked Rbout it. Th fund, according to rumor, was fhow. eied on the council largely by Indi-ex-saloonkeepers seeking licenses in w"t Illinois. TWK.XTV-TWO TVEW SALOONS. Tho facts are thosf. Pefore Indiana 'v-rit dry April 2. 191. there were thl: ty-four sr.loons in "est Hammond with an annual license fee of JjOO. An cdinance limiting the number of sa- ' 'ons t on-1 for every ."00 population ;. -evented the frrantin? of more 11c i nses.

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FOOD FOR U. S. FORCE

Truck Load of Eats Belonging to U. S. Stolen by German Mob.

By AZ.rX.EI O. ANDERSEN UnrtLIX. March D. via London, March p. A truck load of food on its way to the Hotel Adlon for the United States

' military commission, was held up and

On April 2!. 131S. foity-tiht appll

r.t ions lor saloon licenses were sun. Rtoicn by n mob in the streets here tor''ttfd to the. city council and at the ' r3ny Looting continued throughout ths 'lilte mf-etitiK tho council revoked th . Hjj-ht ami many shops were, pillaged. " nance limitlr.K the number of sa- I rtt-infrrcements of government troops 'nons. At the next meetintr. May 9. ' under rommand of fieri, von I.uottwitz Mayor I'aul Katnrndt vetoed the repeal j avp arrived. The banks and public ivd'narice and submitted a statement tui!dinjrs are under h'-avy puards. :i-.at hi believed H would be a bad Minister of "War Xosko declared toi King for the city to remove the limit ! day that if disorders continued "Berlin or, the numbr of saloons. The coun- i will Ret surh a taste of martial law as r'. re-passed the ordinance, removintr : it never had before." the limit, over the mayor's head, by (Martial law has already been provcte of seven to on. Alderman ! claimed in Berlin, but evidently Jt hAS

v. alsh was the only member to vote not. been strictly enforced.)

Nay." roin saloons closed. The council at the previous meeting rrfuscd to issue new licenses to Henry Veters, Andrew Esser, James Mona-, : an and the firm of Jack Vesseriat and Kdward Herwanrer, on the grounds 't-.nt their saloons had not been propv!y conducted. The yearly license fee ,v a e raised to $700. Thirty old saloonV.eepers were granted licenses and 1-venty-two license. weris isued to new .i nplicants. making a tota,l of fiftyvo saloons, the present status. The ii.:ncil then passed a new limitation ordinance providing that there, should v, ii) more than one saloon for every one hundred and fifty people, which !.-- now in force and keeps the number of licenses at 52. NEW FEHSONNEL OF COfNCIL. The personnel of the West Ham-r-ond city council Is as follows: William Walsh, tinsmith and ex-s-loonkeeper. 1"S State street; Fred Iier vanger. butterine salesman. 572 Intrahara avenue: A. D. Kriynowski, secretary West Hammond Building & I.oam 204 154th place; August Gloza, ' binder. 334. 155th street: Frank Lesizynskl, saloonkeeper, 301, 15oth St.: Otto Planer, saloonkeeper, 106 Garflelj avenue; John Murray. 519 West Stats - st.. saloonkeeper and John Sumeracki, in the taxicab business with the mayor, 20S, 15 4th place. THE TltlAL TOMOnilOW. The trial of Mrs. Harriett Rosenbauni on the charge of conducting A disorderly houso in her eight room story and a half frame residence at 221 W. riummcr ave., will be held at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the J -.stice court of Chas. Yoerger. In addition to his official duties Justice Yoerarer conducts a grocery store on "West State street. Mrs. Rosenbaum declares she will be specific. She told a reporter last night that she was in business from 1&08 to 191S and during that time paid n average of $150 a month for protectlon. The present chief, Jos. Nits, received $3-5 a. month, Mrs. Rosenbaum stated. "Sometimes he came to my house to

cdlect and other tlmos I took the t

money to him," she declared. "One time I gave him his money at Kowalnki's grove. Before Nitz was chief. .John OkraJ wore a star and I paid Olrraj ten dollars a week. When OkraJ lost the Job of chief two years ago and bcarr. a patrolman I continued to pay him ten dollars a week. The pa-

The citizens' counter-strike here has

proved a half-hearted affair.

SAY THE STRIKE IS SETTLED

(By International New-s Service.) COPENHAGEN". March . A settlement has been reached between the Berlin stride leaders and the government, according to information from the German capital today. The strikers had the support of the Spartacides and in the fighting which accompanied the movement many persons were killed. It is reported that as a result of the agreement the soldiers and workmen's council will form an organic part of the constitution.

Brt.l.T-Tiv.l I (By International Hewi Service.) j INDIANAPOLIS, INS., March G. Re- , fasal of Senator Negley, of Indianapolis, j. acting1 senate leader, this morning ltJ ; th.6 absence of Lieut. Got. Bush, to recognize. Democratic members of the senate on a motion to Uroit flebtvte on ( each bill to three minutes for each ena- 1 tor, caused an uproar in the upper house , of the legislature, and much "mud ; llnglng" hack and forth from the ive- ; publican to the Democratic side. j

Times Brnr,Ai At State Capital,. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 6. The last four days of the seventy-first General Assembly began today with both houses in the same general state of uproar, which

usually features the close of a leg-! f,nds himself on the debarkation pier islative session. I 6t Erest with his shiP in readiness j to bear him back to "God's own counThe senate spent. the day yester- , try .. Rut wMle he is waitjnf, for day on consideration of the state j this suprerne moment he entertains last night that further work mustj himself by d ancinpr with the Y M. be done on it in the upper house, j C. A. jrirls. who are always ready for before it is returned again to the ! a Kod time. lower house for further action. Its !

fate was still uncertain when the two houses met today. MANY BILLS IN TROUBLE. Meanwhile the house of representatives had practically wiped its slate clean of measures that were of deep importance to the entire state, except that many of the important bills it has handled now are in the senate, where they probably are to be amended and then sent back to the house for another round of trouble. This was true of the state highway bill, the tax bill, the regular appropriation bill, the specific appropriation bill, the conservation commission bill, and other Republican state administration measures and others of deep sitrnificance to the state at large. END IN TANGLE. There are many here, who -1 that the legislature wi'l end in a heterogeneous tangle, with the acrimonious dislike of tho senate for the house and the house for the senate showing itself In a final deadlock in which many Important measures either will go down to total defeat or will be so mutilated that they will be unrecognizable. There are otheri and these include officials high in the ranks of the majority party in both houses who believe that the last day (Continued-onpage eight.)

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TO SPEAK OVER U. S. U.S. Senators Opposing League Will Go Before People With the Facts.

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CASE TRIED AT CAPITAL

Hannah & Hogg President Pleads Guilty in One of First Liquor Cases.

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LEVIATHAN DOCKS TODAY

(By International News Service.) NEW YORK, March . The giant transport Leviathan, bringing back officers and men cf the twent?seventh division, was reported oft Sandy Hook at nine o'clock today. The liner is expected to dock at the army piers, Hoboken, between 11 and 12 o'clock. The Mauretanla. following In the wake of the Leviathan, will be delayed in arriving as a result of having run into a fog oft the coast.

BLACK HAND MURDER. CHICAGO, March 6 Members of a black hand gang are being sought today for the murder late last night of Frank Gento, shot five times and instantly killed as he was leaving his home. Gento's wife died recently. He collected $1,000 from an Insurance company and detectives say the "black hand'' agents were after his money.

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16-YEAR OLD GIRL TAKEN INTO CUSTODY A telegram yesterday from the chief of police of Marion, Ohio, to Chief of Tolice Forbls succeeded in twenty minutes of taking into custody Maggie Simpson. 16 years old, a runaway from the Ohio town. She was found at 311 West 6th avenue and her parents who were very desirous for her return were notified.

Troupe of Entertainers to Come From Collissimos, Chicago, First Night. The troupe of entertainers et the famous Coliseum Collssimo restaurant in Chicago will be on hand Monday night at Liberty Hall when tho First Annual Hammond Automobile Showopens for the week. The entertainers, secured by Leo Knoerzer, are sure to draw a big crowd for the opening, as they are well known by hundreds of Hammond people who have heard them in the Chicago cafes. Barney Young's orchestra will play anad it is going to be a festive occasion. The auditorium is being decorated and the decorations are those used at the recent automobile show at the Coljseum, Chicago. To say the decorations are elaborate is a mild way of putting it. They are lavish. The doors open on the auto show at 6:30 Monday evening. All exhibits of automobiles, motorcycles and accessories will be complete and ready for the opening.

Times BtnEAf. At Stats Capital. INDIAXArOLIS, IVO.. March 6. A plea of guilty to an indictment in which he was charged with three others with the illegal transportation of liquor, was entered in Vnited States court today hy Fred Gray, president of Hannah Hogg, wholesale liquor dealers of Chicago. Action on the plea was deferred by Judge Albert B. Anderson until all the defendants are before him. Wolf Marcovich also has pleaded guilty and proceedings are now under way for the removal ofMorris Brennan and Pavid Diamond to the jurisdiction of tho Indiana, district. The indictment. wTitch alM) charges conspiracy, alleges that Marcovich and Brennan arranged with Diamond, a fruit dealer, for the transportation of ISO gallons of whisky and brandy in twenty-six barrels from Chicago to Fast Chicago. The liquor was packed in apple barrels and sent with n consignment of fruit in a freight car to Diamond. After Alfred Austin, of Chicago, attorney for Gray, had explained to Judge Anderson that the liquor was bought and paid for in Hannah & Hogg's warehouse and removed by the defendants. Marcovich and Brennan, the conspiracy count was dropped as to Gray. The case will come up during the arraignment March 10.

Tough Egg . This Boy!

International News Service. CHICAGO. March 6. The "toughest t'Cg in Chicago" ran amuck last night and today will have to answer to chargs cf disorderly conduct, larceny, assault and battery, resisting an officer, and willful d struction of property. Ha twisted an artificial arm off the patron of a south side saloon and used it to beat up six oilier patrons, including two women, broke all the glassware in sight, and gave f. ur d-tectUes a tough battle before arrsU-d tlieu refused to give his name when booked at head-Quarters.

300 MILLION DOLLARS

RETURNED TO BANKS

Fed. Reserve Reports That People Are Returning Hoards to Banks.

SHOCKING CRIME

IS CHARGED

Special to The Times. LOWELL. IND.. Mcrch 6. A terrible story of parental depravity comes from the Burrows camp on the Kankakee river, a resort quite familiar in years gone by with IJke county sportsmen. In the vicinity of the camp there is a shack where dwell Charles Kissinger, his son Glen, and his daugher Anna, who Is but 10. Tho girl hasbecome n mother and affidavits have been filed by her in the Porter circuit court charging father and son with a shocking crime. The girl has mndn a sworn statement.

International News Service. WASHINGTON. March 6 More than $300,non,0O0 that had been hoarded during the war has been returned to banks since the signing of the armistice, according to tho February statement of the 1'ederal reserve board issued today. In reviewing the business conditions throughout the country in February tho statement says that whll progress in the readjustment of business to reace conditions is reported to the board's represetnatives in the several districts to have been made during the month and while the advance in different parts of the country is reported generally gratifying. some uneasiness is expressed by the public at large because the progress is not more rapid. Although tho readjustment process is still fer from having reached completion there Is much evidence that the factors which must be reckoned with in bringing ebout the desired reorganization of business and financial relationship are co-operating in a fairly satisfactory way."

(By International jswm Service.) WASHINGTON, March 6. With the departure of Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho, and Thomas, of Colorado, and Reed, of Missouri, Democrats, for New York, to speak tonight against the league of natioins plan as supported by President Wilson, the real fight throughout the country over the proposal is on. The Republican senators whe opposed the president's plan and who subscribed to Senator Lodge's resolution against the constitution of the league in its present form, are planning to carry their side of the case before the people in a series of public meetings, following the lead of Senator Borah, who first announced his intention to make a speaking tour against the league. WILI. TOTTO TBI COTTHTBT. Senator Wadsworth, of New York, already has plans for speeches In Brooklyn, Syracuse and Buffalo, while Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who as chief of the committee on foreign relations in the senate, was chief spokesman on the league for the president, expects to speak in towns from const to coast in favor of the league plan. KEN YON IN IOWA, Senator Kenyon. one of the leaders of the progressive sentiment In the senate, expects to make speeches against the league in its present form In his home state of Iowa, while Senator Kellog, of Minnesota, who is to speak in Minneapolis tomorrow night, is expect

ed to declare against it. although he was not one of the signatories to the Lodge resolution. The rest of the Kepublican senators who signed the Lodge resolution are expected to speak at least occasionally during the congressional vacation. BOEAH IN 30 CITIES. Senator Borah's present plans inclufle speeches in at least thirty cities. W"hHe

1 no formal announcements have been I made, it Is expected that his attacks j will be replied to by friends of the ad- , ministration and it is not improbable

that cabinet members will be called upon to find occasion for public speeches. In which they can set forth the arguments in favor of the league plans as not drawn. WIZ.SON TO BVBBT BACK. The general belief in Washington now Is that the president will be back sooner than had been expected and that the general session which has been called will start some time before June, certainly by the first week in June and the big battle over the ratification of the peace treaty will begin then.

COMPANY SAYS UB

W. HAMMOND LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE MEETS

It is expected that the meeting of the Law and Order League of West Hammond at the Went-rth school will be largely attended tonight by citizens Interested in probing charges against the police department.

TWO WILSONS ON HIGH SEAS (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. March 6. There are two President Wilson? on the high seas today. Speeding towards Paris to fight for the league of nations, is the chief fxecutive. and homeward bound with a cargo of happy Yanks aboard is his namesake, "President Wilson." formerly tho Austrian steamship Archduke Franz Joseph. The steamship President WiTson was re-named by the Italian government after its allocation by the Inter-allied maritime council to Italy and placed in service of transporting American troops from overseas.

The following nev Lake county names appear on Gen. Pershing's casualty Ust3 today: WOUNtED. (Degree Undetermined.) HAEEY K. ARMSTRONG, 3619 Pir St., Indiana Harbor. WOUNDED SLIQHT1T. ADOLPH WALTHER, 737 Sohl St., Hammond. PETER SOIAN, East Hammond, Inu.

WHITING TURK ON TRIAL TODAY

Special To The Times. WHITING, Ind., March 6. The trial of Omat Hommett. the Turk who conducts a coffee house on llf'th street, near New York avenue, which came up in the city court on Tuesday, was continued until today. Hommett Is charged with violting two city ordinances, that of having curtains, which obstruct the view from the street, the other ordinance violated is that of having music in his place of business. The case is being tried before Judge B. E. Green, Attorney J. H. Fetterhoff appearing for Hommett.

THEY TOLD HIM TO GET OUT (By International News Service.) LONDON. March 6. Gen. Ludendorf. former first quartermaster-seneral of the German army, was advised to leave Sweden by the Swedish government, after the foreign office 'had learned that the 'entente would probably demand his surrender, said a Central News dispatch from Stockholm today. It is reported from Paris that Ludendorf will be among the defendants if the allies decide to br!;ng the authors of the war to trial.

FRANCE WANTS HUN FLEET (By International News Service.) PAUIS. March . The political experts of the Echo De Paris and the Figaro today urged France to claim a large portion of the German fleet in view of the fact that France has been unable to carry on any naval construction during the war. Both oppose strongly the sinking of the German ships.

LIKES THE -SKIP-STOP

Shortens Runnnig Time but Council Has Ordered Regular Stops.

GRANTED DIVORCE. In Judge Greenwald's superior court yesterday Mrs. Lyda Tickle w-as granted a decree of divorce from her hus-

J band, William Tickle. The mother I was given the custody of the little Tickles.

SEC. BAKER TO DISCUSS MA TTER (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. March C Secretary of War Baker this afternoon announced that he would see representatives of Knights of Columbus at 4 p. m., to discuss their appeal for permision to spend more than ten percent t" their share of tho collections during the united war work drive for comforts for the soldiers. D. J. Callahan, of Washington, supreme treasurer of the Knights of Columbus and Philip A. Johan, of New York, controller, were to see the sec-

The Hammond. Whiting A East Chicago Street P.ailway is reluctant to comply with the orders of the city council to discontinue the skip-stop system. The company insists that the public as a whole !s well satisfied with the

I system of s-opping at every other block becars.; it speeds up service and

shortens the time materially Deiween East Hammond and Hammond, Hammond and East Chicago and East Ch cngo and Indiana Harbor. Abandoning the skip-stop system in Hammonj will not mean that it will be discontinued in East Chicago. The

; company points out that Chicago is I well pleased with the new method. I The skip-stop system was Installed

as a war measure to aio in senms munition makers to and from work.

FUNERAL OF JOHN REILAND The funeral of John T. Reiland. a carpenter, who died yesterday afternon at Gary, will be held from the home of Mrs. Pauline Volkman. a relative, r,00 Hamlin St.. Saturday morning at

i 7:30 to All Saints church with burial In St. Joseph cemetery

ATHLETE DIES AT ST. NAZAIRE (By International New Service.) BOSTON, March 6. Lieut. David Henry, formerly Brown T'niverslty star and foothe.'.l athlete, died in the base hospital at St. Nazalre. France, according to word Just received by his parents here. Henry's best athletic work at college was in 1914. when he pitched Brown to victories over Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Holy Cross. After leaving college he spent ?. short time with the Pittsburg club o? the National League.