Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 231, Hammond, Lake County, 13 March 1919 — Page 1

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COUOTY

Income Tax Is Now Due

VOL. XIII, NO. 231.

HAMMOND, INDIANA.

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919.

INTERNATIONAL, NEWS P ULL. LEASED WIHE SEKVICW.

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HARBOR MAN GETS

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EXCITES

SOCIAL INTEREST

STIFF DOSE Wolf Marcovicii Sent to Jail for Six Months, Hannah and Hogg Head Sentenced.

Miss Mamie Black, County Assessors Daughter, Marries Fred Homfeld.

A wedding of social interest throughout the dounty occurred yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mr. William E. Black near Hebron, when their daughter. Mamie Irene became the bride of Fred W. Homfleld. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Brown of the Valparaiso Christian church at two-thirty o'clock in the presence of nearly one hundred and twenty-five guests. Miss Kathleen Folz of Boone Grove played the brid-

Tijies Euriau. At Stats Capita!.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 13. For bringing one thousand half-pints of whiskey into Indiana, purchased from, the Hannah and Hogg liquor firm of Chicago, Judge Anderson in the federal court yesterday afternoon passed severe sentences on Wolf Marcovich and Morris Brennan of Indiana Harbor. Judge Anderson refused to spare Fred Gray, president of the Hannah and Hogg company, for he sent Gray to jail with the Lake county men. BETTJSED SON'S PLEA. An unusual Incident occurred in the Marcovich case. The son of the well !;r,own Indiana Harbor steamship agent and foreign exchange agent. Wolf Marovich appeared with his father in court and pleaded with Judge Anderson to let him serve- his father's sentence which Arderson had put at 6 months In the Marlon county Jail and U.000 fine. Judge Anderson refused to do this. Gray was sentenced to 90 days in Jail prvl fined $100 and costs. Morris Brennan. who assisted Marcovich in the importation, was sentenced to six months in Jail and fined $100 and costs. KECoancBiros arai's advice. It would pay a lot of these Lake county men If they wou;d Mre this girl and take her advice instead of paying a lot of those high priced lawyers up there. said Judge Anderson as he dismissed Anna Lemene. of Gary, who had been Indicted with James Kowal and Steve Neosha for bringing eight gallons of whisky from Chicago to Hammond. The young woman told Judge Anderson she had acompanled the men. one of whom is her undo, to act as interpreter for them in buying supplies for their green grocery. "As we came back I heard them talk1rg about getting the whisky," she said, and I told .hem 'Tou better not do that,' but they wouldn't listen to me. Xnd'just as we crossed the state line we got arrested, and I told them. --Vow see what you get.' " KIOBO VOTED POB OEAKI. The curiosity of Judge Albert B. An-d-rson was aroused as to the age of Doc Harris, a negro, charged with bringing a irallwv-ot whisky .from Hamilton, O., p ConersviUe. Doc confessed Jie djd v"not know his age. 'I was plenty old enough to vote for

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WHITING LAW FIRM TO OPEN GARY OFFICE Gavit, Hall and Smith Will Branch Out in Their Legal Work. Special To The Times. WHITING. IND., March 13 AttorUtys Gavit, Hall and Smith, Whiting's well known law firm, are branching out by opening an office in Gary. In the Steel City they have scoured quarters at .Roadway and 6th street which they intend opening next week. The office in Gary will be in charge oi Mr. Gavit, Hiss Mary Broderick, stenographer in the local office being transferred to the new location. Attorney John C. Hall will remain at the Whiting office, as will also Miss Geraldlne While, as tunosrtipher upon the return of "Walter (Hi. Smith, the Junior member of the - firm, from France, arrangements will b6 made for Mr. Hall to spend a large pan of his time in Gary, while Mr. Smith will remain in charge at Whiting. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Gavit have sold their homo in Oliver street and will moe to Gary abcut May 1st.

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MBS. IKEITE BLACK HOMIELr, al music and Miss Rhea Leeka of Chicago served the bride as maid of honor. The groom was attended by Albert Homfleld of Valparaiso. The bride wore a very beautiful gown of white georgette over silk and she carried bride's roses and lillies of the valley. Miss Leeka's gown was a dainty one of apricot georgette. A delicious collation as served during the hours of the reception following the ceremony. The wedldng colors of white and yellow were carried out In the refreshments and the home was pretty with masses of greenery and daffodils. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Escher, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fitzgerald and daughter. Miss Laura Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs. John H. McClay and son. Max, and Mrs. F. S. Betz were the Hammond guests in attendance at the weddingr. After a brief wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Homfeld will livs on the Black farm near Hebron. They will be at home after May 1. Vr. Homfeld returned the first of the year from camp !n South Carolina and previous to that ho was stationed at Camp Sherman. Chillicothe. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Homfeld are among the county's most prominent young peojle and have a large circle of friends.

CRIMINAL COURT BILL IS DEFECTIVE

Governor's Adviser Says Bill Never Can Become Effective Law.

HAYES OPENS HEADQUARTERS (Br International News Service.) CHICAGO. March 13. Will Hayes, Republican National chairman, who opened headquarters here yesterday, Is expected to make public the name of the man to have charge of the Chicago headquarters today and start the ball rolling for the National campaign next year. While Hayes refuses to discuss national issues, it is known that the conference of Republican leaders to be held this week will devote a great deal of time to the quostlon of a special session of consrress to take up reconstruction work.

Times Bureau. At State Capitat.. INDIANAPOLIS. IND., March 13 The Lake county bill.- Introduced by Senator Grant, to create a criminal court In Lake county, vras found to be vitally defective Tuesday, according to John Edwards, legal adviser to the Governor, and it is probable the bill never can become an effect lv law. The bill sought to amend Chapter 34. of the acts of the special session of 1S81. epproved April 12. JSS1. but instead the measure's title amends Chapter 35, of the same acts, which refers to subject matter wholly foreign to the criminal court bill. The provisions of the criminal court bill would amend Section 7 of the old act. and. as a matter of fact, there is no Section 7 of Chapter 35. which the title of the bill amends, that chapter having but one section.

FEDERAL MEN ARE TO TAKE AUTOMOBILES Plan to Confiscate the Machines Carrying Liquor Over State Line.

GERMANS HUNGRY? PICTURE ANSWERS

court TRUE CASH

Automobiles or other conveyances loaded with liquor being transported Into Indiana from another state henceforth will be seized by federal officials and confiscated under the Internal revenue laws. This policy was announced today by federal o.Ticials In the department of justice. The announcement grew out of a warning of Judge A. B. Anderson In federal court yesterday when he said to District Attorney L. Ert Slack: 'I think it is about time you started confiscating automobiles." The confiscation may be made under the revenue law. which places a tax of S per cent on the business of all interstate conveyances. Automobiles hauling liquor from one state to another would come in this class. The confiscation would be permissable because the operators all have failed to ray the federal tax. Federal authorities in Oklahoma have Invoked the statute for several months and have found it useful in breaking up liquor smuggling, it is said. It is said that if the Tedcral agents rut this Intro practice, that owing to the close proximity of the Calumet region to the state line, that many automobiles will be taken here, and that Sheriff Barnes may have occasion to keep local garauesi filled to capacity with cars taken in the illegal transportation of liquor.

ITALIAN

WARBLERS

RETURN TO AUTO SHOW FRIDAY EVE

Last Night Sees Biggest Attendance of "Week at Liberty Hall. Grand Opera with even a larger troope than that which appeared the opening night is billed for the Hammond Automobile Show at Liberty Hall Friday evening. The Colisimo singers from the Arrowhead Inn, a group of Italian artists, are to return by courtesy of the management of the tavern. Yesterday afternoon and evening tho Coney Island choir provided the entertainment. This evening local talent, including a string quartette, will be heard. Interest that Chicago dealers and accessory men are taking in the Hammond Auto Show and their compliments indicate that It Is not a small affair. Representatives of automobile row, Chicago, are attending the Hammond show daily. The hall was Jammed last night. The exhibitors are making sales dally although that is not their object. Their purpose Is to make friends hut they find

; they make the best friends of those they

r.ell auton. tires and accessories to. Saturday afternoon will he the last matinee and Saturday night the close of the show. Following the closing at 11 o'clock Saturday night the Mcllroy Motor Supply Co., ono of the exhibitors, will give a spread to all exhibitors. "We could use four times the space we have had In Liberty Hall." stated Manager George Knoerzer. "There Is a great need of a hig auditorium In Hammond for conventions and affairs of this kind."

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Germans ecrambling to cut meat from dead horne in Berlin street.

Reports emanating from Germany repardinjt the food situation differ widely. They range from stories of meat and vegetables

aplenty to stones of people driven ! horse dropped dead on the street.

mad by hunger. This picture from Berlin would indicate that the Germans are hard pressed for food. A

The picture shows how men, women and children cut chunks of rnea) from its bones with pocket knives.

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STREETS Plans for Intercepting Sewer System Being Prepared As Part of Great Construction Program.

NVITE NEGRO INVASION OF RESIDENCE DISTRICT

FRONTIER FIXING ENGAGES ATTENTION

RAILROAD HEAD'S WIFE A SUICIDE (By International New Service.) CHICAGO. Ma-ch 13 Eluding a trained nurse who has been attending her for several weeks, Mrs. Edna T. Kurrie. 37. wife of Harry Kurrle. president of the Chicago. Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad suicided today by Inhaling gas in her home here. The body was found with a gas hose gripped between the. teeth.

Legal advertisement has been started by the city for the greatest program of street construction ever undertaken in Hammond In a single season. The city engineer, W. F. Bridge, has prepared specifications for pavemenfj for the following streets. Hohman, from Hoffman to Douglas. Hoffman, Calumet avenue to East Chicago. One hundred fiftieth street. Calumet avenue to Columbia avenue. Truman street. Indiana avenue. State street, Oakley avenue to Calumet avenue. Fayette street, Hohman street, to Calumet avenue. Oakley avenue. Michigan avenue to Douglas street. (On petition) Rhode ave. and three or four streets In Itobertsdale. Petitions now being circulated.

j The kind of, material with which ! the pavements are to bo built will he

determined by property owners. The city engineer declared that the city is ready to pave any other streets on petition of the property owners. Mr. Bridge Is working on plans for intercepting sewer systems for the north and south sides, respectively, and expects to make these improvements this year.

!;Detroit Street Property

Owners Offer to Sell Residences to Negroes.

A revolution is threatened in Hammond's residence district da luxe. Angered at the Anderson injunction in

the Federal Court permitting the opera- j tion of a coal yard on one of Hammond's j elite residence streets, residents of that j fashionable district are advertising their i homes for sale to negroes. An invasion by colored people of the J south side is threatened. A Detroit st. j man today advertlr-es several locations i

on that thorough! fire as suitable Tor colored people and invites prospective home owners of the negro race to look over the bargain?. Other Detroit st. residents, wild over

the Calumet Coal Yard. Fay they will 1 sell their homes to negroes or anyone else who wants to buy. Ope well known south Id" resident ' said. "I don't purpose to live here any ' longer. I am going to fil my property , and get out. When a lawyer who is supposed to have the best inter"ss of the citv nt heart sells his services to brimr a dirty coal yard on n residence street, v hf re people take pride In their homes. I'm through. T wonder if he would hive worked ns hard for the roaJ yard If , they wantrd to locate on the south side

of Glendale."

Two Sets of Demands Now Before the Peace Envoys.

WILSON SHIP IS DELAYED

MISS PERIO GETS $5,500 After three hours deliberation the

! Jury in Judge Relter's court this aftefnoon returned a Judgment of $5,500 j for Miss Josephine Perto. ladles' tallor of 455? Lake Park avenue. Chicago.

The amount is to be paid by Tullo La Ouara. ex-wholesale liquor dealer of Gary, for breach of his promise to marry the Chicago woman.

TO ABANDON CAMP SHERIDAN (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON. March 13. Camp Sheridan at Monteromery. Ala., having

been slated for abandonment, the base

hospital there will be given up. the war department announced today, through the surgeon general's office. No more overseas patients will be sent to this hospital and the demobilization of the hospital forces ami tho transfer of the present patients will take place along with the breaking up of the camp.

By John T. Parkerson. (By International Iftwi Service.) TARIS. March 13. The fixing of Germany's new eastern and northern frontiers engaged the attention of the peace dolesatts today. There arc at least two sets of demands before the envoys, one from Poland In th east, the other from Denmark in the north. The supreme inter-allied war council did not meet again today but will meet tomorrow. The following formal communique was issued : The surreme war council met on Wednesday from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The aerial terms to he imposed upon Germany in the preliminaries of peace were discussed. The articles dafted by the military experts were examined in detail and adopted. The r.ext meeting will take place tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Another commission is to be established as soon as the preliminary peace treaty is signed to straighten out details for the regulation of waterways affected by the war and probably railways as well, If the commission's authority is extended to railway lines, one of the biggest problems will be furnished by tho Bagdad line.

HAIG TO RETIRE NOW.

(By International ITewa Service.) BREST. France, March 13. The steamship George Washington, upon which President Wilson Is coming to France, has been rlightly delayed by stormy weather and is not due to arrive until S o'clock tonight. The flotilla which is escortfng the George Washington into port, met the presidential ship on Tuesday. A request that President Wilson traverse the same route through the city s on his former visit, was sent by the mayor in a wireless message. Mr. Wilson consented, but requested that there be no ceremony.

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PROPHECY IS FULFILLED (Sy International News Service.) CHICAGO. March 13. Ready fulfillment of the police prophecy that more "black hand" murders would follow the attempt to assassinate Mrs. Jennie Finniacl last night, came shortly before 9 o'clock this morning when Genero Orlanl was shot. Two men stopped Orianl as he left his home and after a few words with him. fired a volley of shotsl Into his body. Orlani was shot In the back of the head, the right eye, the left ear and in the back. He diej Instantly. The murderers escaped.

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(Exclusive Cable by the International rw Service and London Dally Eipr). LONDON.' March 13. Field Marshal Haig Is retiring as comander-ln-chief of the British army, the Daily Express stated today. He Is expected to be succeeded by Gen. Sir William Robertson, of the general staff. Sir John Cowan will retire on Sunday as quartermaster-general of the British army, it is sa'd.

COUNCIL

NEW TRANSFER CO. INCORPORATES CROWN POINT, lnd.. March 13. Articles of incorporation for the Reliable Motor Transfer Co.. with headquarters at Hammond were filed In Co. Recorder Jonnson's office on Wed-

nCM! -. The capital stock of the con-I cern is $30,000. The ..company will do : a general transfer business,-also cart-I ing and draying. Chas. Lynch of

Hammond, and David and John Quin- i

lan of East Chicago are the directors of the affair which will start operations at once.

PRESIDENT'S BOAT IN BAD STORM

tHV BERT FOB D ). (By International News service.) BREST. France. March 13. Encoun

tering a strong outwest wind and ! heavy seas, the liner George) Wash- '

ington, with Preside'nt Wilson aboard, is ten hours behind her schedule and may not arrive until after S o'clock tonight. Unless the weather and sea moderate the presidential party may remain on board the ship all night, leaving for Peris tcmorrow morning.

GOODRICH SIGNS BILLS

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. March 13. J Gov. James P. Goodrich today signed several more bills passed by the legls- : lature including the Bracken bill to es

tablish a state colony for feeble minded persons. 1

ARMED POSSE HUNTS KIDNAPPERS (By International News Service.) DANVILLE. 111.. -March 13. A posse nt more than 100 armed citizens and deputies searched today for three men who Jate last night attempted to kidnap Esther and Elsie Schwartt. sisters. According to Esther, the oldest sister, the men attempted to flirt with them. They ignored the advances and say two of the men Jumped from the automobile and lifting them Into the machine, started to drive from the city. Esther wis thrown from the machine. Her right leg was broken. She also suffered a fractured Jaw. Elsie managed to escape from the men by Jumping from the machine when It became mired In the mud on the outskirts of the city.

TO TAKE APPEAL

At a special meeting last evening the Hammond city council appropriated $250 to pay the costs of taking an appeal from Judge Anderson to the I". S. Court of Appeals at Chicago in the injunction of the Calumet Coal & Supply Co. against the city. Judge Anderson at Indianapolis last week enjoined the city from interfering with the operation of a coal yard by the company at Detroit and Hink streets. He declared the ordinance giving the city option to refuse a permit for coal or lumberyard to be invalid. Property owners having agreed to pay the fees of Attorneys Whinery and Sproat to fight the case In the higher court the council agreed to defray the costs of the appeal. Councilmen Keeler. Miller, Highland. Heckleman, Bruce. Martin. Allen and Voorheis votes yea and Highland, Luthman and Reissig, nay.

WRECK ON P. & ERIE. (By International Niwi Service.) NEWCASTLE. Pa.. March 13 Four passengers were injured, one seriously when one car of an accommodation train on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad was knocked into the Shenango river by a light engine at a cross-over here today. The coach fell into five feet of water. Firemen were summoned and holes were chopped Into the car. releasing the dosen or more Imprisoned passengers. Three othe"r coaches were derailed and the pass.gers In them were severely shaken up.

VALUE iS

THE BASIS

Personal Property To Be Taxed at 100 Value Just the Same as Real Estate.

NO MORE LYING GOES Assessors and deputy asseteora together with other officials of Porter, Newton and Xak counties thla fore, noon filled courtroom No. 2 in the Hammond courthouse to hear tha instruction or Fred A Sims, chairman of tho state tax. hoard, in xe-g-ards to the new tax law. The order was simple. "As sees everything to its fall value and ths

state board will back you up," said ! aCr. Slnu. "Wo want this thing done j and we are going to use every bit of power in the new tax law to sea j that it is done. It is not going to be j an outrageous proceeding and no- i body will be seriously hurt. j

"It means that property will be assessed at its full value and there, after there can be no complaints that tha poor man pays more than ais share. And It means that the temp, tation to make certain concerns or corporations bear the other's share will be ended." The assessors were told to assess personal property at full value well as real estate. If a building Is built at a cost of Jtt.SOO, three per cent will be allowed each year for depreciation. Household furniture ,over the state has averaged $43. How the householder will have to tell the truth. The days of lying- to the assessor are to be ended.

fSPECIAI, To Ths Times.J INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 13. The first of the sectional tax meetings preceding the one to be held at Hammond this week, where state tax commissioners instructing assessors on the new tax laws took place here yesterday. Chairman Sims called for equality in appraisement of all property and the enforcement of a true 100 per cent cash valuation. Taxpayers all over the state are due for the biggest jar of their lives. GO AT TEE THE KICK. "Tou have heard so much about the inequalities of the tax laws by which the poor man is heavily taxed and the rich man escapes with a small amount of taxes. Now have nerve enough to go out and assess the rich man's property at Its true cash value." said Fred A. Sims, chairman of the state board. Ie added that under the new iaw the assessors had the power and the law to back them up in a 100 per cent valuation. PERSONAL lOO FEB CENT. TOO. Assessors from twenty-four counties in ctntral Indiana gathered at the State House to hear an explanation of the new Jaw. Similar conferences will be conducted during the remainder of the week In other sections of the state. Personal property is to be taxed at 100 per cent valuation Just the same as real estate. Mr. Sims said. "Tou will have your troubles with the persons whose property Is now to be assessed at full value who formerly enjoyed favors, for they ill abuse you and call you all sorts of things, but Just tell them you can't help It. and that the state board of tax commissioners ordered the valuation." Mr. Sims added. UEQES OTEEE3TIMATION. He urged them to overestimate property tf necessary and then let the owner appear before the county board of review and prove the value of his property. "If a man shows you a diamond and It looks like an expensive one, but lists it for $50. you make your appraisal at about $500 and then he'll come before

the beard of review and tell what he paid for It."

Mr. Sims urged assessors to pay particular attention to Intangibles and

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OGDEN MAY BE SELECTED (By International News Service.) CHICAGO. March 13. J. Ogden Armour, multi-millionaire packer, who recently declared he "envied the carefree life of the hobo," may become a "brother" in the Chicago Society of Vagabonds. The society at its meeting Sunc"y will consider adopting Armour as a brother "active" or otherwise.

OIL PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT

LQGANSPORT. Ind., March 13. Th annual meeting of the South Bend dis trlct of the Standard OH Company o Indiana was held today. Agents, su pervlsors and drivers were present The day was devoted to a dlscussloi of the outlook of the coming season'; sales of lubricating oils. Every agen; present pledged himself to sell from 3 to 100 percent more oil this year thsa last.

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