Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 246, Hammond, Lake County, 31 March 1919 — Page 1

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Joyriders Have Great Escapade After They Visit Burnfram Yesterday.

Two years ago Florence Wilson, aged 23. living at 125 East 48th st.. Chicago, came to Hammond with a babe. She became acquainted with Mrs. Cordrey, 151 Indiana ave., and the latter dopted the litfl one. Miss Wilson betrayed a good deal if agitation and pledged the Hammond woman to secrecy, saying she did not want her mother to be aware of the child's existence. Lat night Miss "Wilson and her friend. Helen O'Connor, who Is said to be erapuoyed tn ilacClay Hoyne's office in Chicago, both dressed in the extreme style, appeared at the Cordrey heme in a taxi. "With, them were two men. DEMANDED THE BABE. The young women, after being admitted, demanded the eh. Id Miss Wilson had left here two ye.;... ago. Both of them appeared to have been drlnklr.g. Mrs. Cordrey refused to give up the little one to them. Miss Wilson and Mi.ss O'Connor became, frightfully profane and noticing & trunk standing on the porch, f rclered the taxi driver to take it. informing him that it belonged to them. Edward GubfT. 6503 Michigan ave.. owner of the- taxicab. then drove down to Burnham. where the mala occurants cf the taxi get out and dumped the trunk la a ditch. Gilbert didn't like the looks of things and insisted on driving back to Hammond. Employing a ruse he got the women in front cf the police station where- things began to happen. TTSTS OIi ASS SHASH1.. The lady joy-riders found out where they were and flew in a rage. They kicked every bit of glass out of Gubcft's taxi, and when they were put la a cell by Police-Matron Myrtle Pfeffer they proceeded to smash all the chairs, glasses, ur.d other things in the cell that got in their way. Both the taxi and the cell locked a if a cyclone had struck them when the Burnham visitors got through with them. After being in Jail all night, when the two women faced Judge Klotz in the city court this morning they played a different tunc. The court fined the Wilson woman $15 and costs for drunkenness. .r.d the O'Ccnncr woman 515 and costs for provocat:.on. Incidentally Gubeff went back to Burnb&m and returned the trunk to is owner. Incidentally agV.n. Mrs. Cordrey still has the babe she has eo tenderly cared fer for two years.

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Edwnrd Tourg. 46 years eld, committed suicide at the home of his parents. Mr. Riid Mrs. Peter Young of 13 State et.. Hammond, this morr.tng. Mr. Young got up this morning and ate hi breakfast and seemed to be In good spirits, but after walking around in the house for a while returned to his room and closed the door. A little later his mother smelling gas went in and found him lying on the "bed with one end of a hose in his mouth and the othor end of the hose fastened to a gas jet which was turned on. Mrs. Young called the police and they and the gns company worked on him for some time with the pulniotor but could not revive him. The remains were taken 1 1 NV-idiow s morgue. Young had separated from Lis wife not lorig ago and had broouevi oer the event considerably.

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If you hadn't had an Ice creim soda or a nut s jnlae or a piece of chocolate for ever so long, wouldn't you grin when an American Foldir came along who was Just loaded down with chocolati? Ask this little German b.v who almost hung on our doughboys' coats when they marched into the territory taken over by the Army of Occupation. The doughboys did their best to exterminate the fighting Hun but his l!:tle son !s an altogether dlf-

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JOSEPH SGHERER SUES HJ.fcEC.UNE

BOLSHEVIST GOES CRAZY; LOCKED UP

rSPECIL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. March 31. One of the most shocking tragedies of the rail that ever happened In this locality took place near Wheeler yesterday when Rn entire family was wiped out by a Nickel Plate train. THE DEAD. WAR. HEN SCETEX, aged 40. farmer. MAST UZTZB, aged 33, his wife. BAST IIITII, aged 2. his daughter. The Meyer family were driving home in an automobile and it is hard to sea how they could have failed to see the fiyr r for there are no obntacics on either tide. Tl.ey drove right In the crossing. The father and daughter were killed inMuntiy. The mcther lived to be fctarted ti the Gary hospital but died enroute. Mr. Meyer was a son of H. 1". Meyer of Crown Point. His remains were taken to Hebron.

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GARDNER VOORHIES

Eat Chicago Man Attends Bolshevis Meeting and Goes Out of His Head.

That Bolshevism is being talked and taught surreptitiously in East Chicago

j became very apparent Saturday when it became necessary to arrest and contlne

Tony Saucik. 5013 Ncrthcote ave.. who luid become crazy over the subject. Tony had been in attendance fit pome meeting the night before and something t-aid at that meeting set his brain on fire end as a result his talk is incoherent and rambling. A commission will examine him today and he will no doutt be committed to an

j asylum. He is a I;uss;an. Preliminary i examination was rr19.de by Pr. IX K. j Johns of the Calumet lldg.

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HAMMOND WOMAN

They Direct Her to Home of Friends and Then Snatch Her Purse.

Urs. Ctara Heck. 743 Claude St., went to Chicago yesterday to visit friends and was robbeel by two kind boys.. "We'll show you where it is," Bald two beys, about IS, when Mrs. Heck asked them to dl -ect her to 6S"9 N. PJdgcway ave.. where she wished to visit friends. "Whey they arrived at the address the beys snatched her rooketbook containing $2 and fied. She notified the police.

Says He Was Injured in a Street Car Collision Last September. Joseph Hcherer in the Lake Superior Court at Hammond h.13 sued the HammondL "Whiting and Uast Chicago Uailway for $2,000 damages for injuries he claims to have received last Septcmbeuhile a passer: ger on a street car. He Is mplcycd at the Sinclair refinery and charges that he sustained injuries in a collision. W. V. Mcilahon represents the p ainti;";. Crun packer Crurnpackcr have brought mandamus proceedings State ex rcl Town of He?s!Ue vs. W. 13. Vattr. township trustee r.i.cl school trustee of North township. In th-! now famous Hami.nr.exat ion i ro.: eej u J. Wltlnery f'r hi3 client. V.. A. Cain. has brought suit to set aside a judgment against "Win. Wright, receiver. In both Judge Keiter's and .Tti'lgo Hardy's courts In Ihimmond t' d iy regular routine work i3 going on.

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Hammond Soldier Boy Submits to Three Operations in Grand Rapids, Mich. Gardner Vorhees, eldest son of Alderman aid Mrs. Harrison S. Voorhees. 25 Williams st., and one of tho first young wen In Hammond to enlist when the war with Germany broke out. is in the hospital at Grand Kaplds, Mich., and last week submitted to three operations as a result of his soldier life in Prance. Whiio hia condition is not alarming, the family is much concerned over his healtlK which broke down when he went to visit his grandmother in Grand P.nplds. Gardner returned to Hammond two weeks ago from overseas. Aldvrrr.an Voorhees Is highly indignant that the government permitted his son's discharge from the army when he was in the condition lie is and is astonished that be had not bwn piven proper medical examination and supervision before hfir.g discharged, as It is reported tho praotlee, obtain'. His illness is due to exposure sustsined during the year he was in serviee abroad. . Gardner was a member of the Hammond High School football tem and n fine athlete. He is one of the most popular boys in the city and hi many friends will regret to har of his illness.

X-R. ABRAHAM. AOfWi?f:LcrviTc:n

Py a special ccr.srcss of more than muuic law. He will act as the final three hundred rabbis, Abraham Aaron, j arbiter in matter of a spiritual nature. ... , , i kahbi Yu Jfl"v!t.:h, who as born in 1 uaelovltch. of New 1 ork. has be n I , . . iKusia sixtv-nine jetrs ogo, went to chosen chief law giver of all the Or- Knsjand twenty-two ars ago and thodox J swish congregations in the i twelve years later rame to Nc-w York. United States, lie is recognized as the j This photograph was tahen In his East chief authority in this country on T;il- Side home.

Even The Butchers Sold Iron Crosses Times Reporter in Germany Finds Gcblenz Shops Doing Land Office Biz in "Sovics", Says Dan" ces With Red Cross and Y Girh are Worth $ 1 00 a Round.

WHAT KIND OF PAVE DO YOU WANT?

GRASSELLI MAN BADLY HURT

Pef.er Jamont. 4526 Grasselli avenue, F.a.t Chicago, lies In a dangerous condition at his home, with a bole in his head as result of an accident which befel kin Saturday. He got off a Green line car at Oras3elll or. his way home from the Harbor and he remembered no more until he awoke in Dr. Schleiker's 5rus tore. where he was brought by a street car crew, who bad fund him lying in the road. It !s bel ev. ho was hit by an auto.

THEY WON'T STRIKE JULY 4 BUXXETIN.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 31. Die United Minn Woikers cf America Mill not participate in any Keneral s'rike on July 4th in beha'f of Thomas Mooncy, sentenced to prison as the result of a bomb explosion during a pre1 arolrie3 u y i- Ivbrat Un in San Fr.inCisco, planned nt a convention held in Giilcago in January. This was definitely decided nt a meeting of the International Executive P-onrd of the Mine "Workers here March .'li'.h and made public todny at the beadouarters of the

irJners here.

Council Chamber at City Hall Tonight to Have an Important Meeting.

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cil chamber in the city hall tonight. Oratory in large, pizerj bundles will be let loo?e and the reverberations are to echo far and wide. A meeting of all the property owners on South Hohman street from Hoffman to Douglas Ftreet, and that will just about lnckiue all of the prominent owners in the city, will foregather at the" city hall to decide the kind of pavement to be laid or whether any pavement whatever Is to be laid. The city Is favoring the cement

J pavement it i declared, but a good

many of the rroperty owners object to cement They assert that it will not stand the trafTio and are prepared to demonstrate the fact. The meeting is set for 7 o'clock and it Is the -vi;h of those who have called tho meeting to have every proprty owner present.

Trof. Frank D. McEIroy, former principal of the Hammond High School, and his family arc now located in their new home at r.ockford, HI. Jlr. McElroj liivir.g shipped his household effects to Kockl'ord last week. He will not begin active work in tho Poekford schools in h!n post as assisstant superintendent for a week, using that time to go over the schools and inspect the worlt. He is to rut in force several new educational I !ans on which he has beeln working, which will be an innovation in the education of children. Prof. McEIroy is very much enthuslr.tis over his prospects in the P.ockford F.chools where he finds the opportunities

rr.d advantages suprlor to the line of work here, "j am quite taken with the poetibilitles where I am g'ing." he s.-iid on the cvs of his departure, "and only on th.it ac omit am I reconciled to leavI ing Hammond and the many kind friends i for whom I shall always have tender trifsnv-rles.'

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SOVIET SENDS ULTIMATUM f I NTEP NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BA?LK. March 51. Tho m.w sot let

I government of Hungary was reported : Today to h'l-. e sent fin ultimatum to the Ozceho-Slo ok government at Prague rei gar. ling the mobil'-Mlon and com-entr.i-'tion of troops there. Afdr Ihe Polhfj;kl n:cU at Pudapcst. the Czocho- . Slojiks lKnii mobilizing troops and It , war reported that an army would be sent against the Hungarian rods.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 SUr THIOR. Wis.. March 31. Angered by unrequiteii love and Jealous of attenttf rs she reeeived f n-m others, Gus "Widen, farmer near P.idpeland, Parren county, i! said t.j have shot and killed Cora P.oland, seventeen. He afterward turnid the gun en himself, inflicting wounds from which h- died. The shooting totk plsce on the P.oland farm.

Colored Men Armed With Big Colt Try New Plan to Get Even. A holdup resulting from losses in a rivip game occurred at Indiana Harbor Saturday night when two young men vho had lost heavily in tho game took'a tig Colt revolver end went to 3717 Guthrie st., and entering commanded everybody to throw up their hands. There were several people in the house at the time and the men got $18. The police was called and officers Fano and Pudich went out and got the young n.en who gave their names as "Walter "Williams, S6?3 Pennsylvania ave., and Walter Stanley 3642 Pennsylvania ave., both colored. They admitted the theft and excused themselves by saying that t'icy were simply determined to get their money back.

FRUSTRATE TRAIN WRECK

BOY SCOUTS WILL CELEBRATE PEACE

The following la the first of a new eries of lettera written by Cpl. IJ. Fair;-, now In 03ann, Germany, with the DO Dlv. (Texas-Oklahoma), Army of Occupation. la this serins la a description of a sight-seeing trip np and down the Rhine from Coblenz as provided by the Srtl army for the men in the Army of Occupation. EDITOR. B;r CP1. J- PARRY (EnlUted Times Reporter with A. of O.) OS ANN. Germany. Feb. :T I guess Uncle San. must hi trying to win the little bft of ,f.0"0 to S5.P0- ha made with, me just'tn.foro I donned the khaki thar I wruldn't come back to kiss n fe-rectlng t- Miss Liberty, for hero we are still licking up the sod in the oid Khineland. I am getting weary of talking home. Somebody has decided wo are to stay here three months longer, a rerfectW lovely aspect. The Army of Occupation is trying to get hold of a captain who had the gall to write to the New York Herald. Ftating that "the bov3 in ths A. cf O. were so contented and never had a better time in all thc.r Hveo bad more money than when tncy Were in civilian life, were in want of nothing ar.d a l-,t of other bally rot Can iou imagine vhere be got that stuff" What the dcuchboys said abou . him waa P.enty ar.d the whole A. of O. lit on his ne;k hard. It has been ooped out that we may be heme In four months but take It from me it may be longer thar, that. BAD TOR MOEALE. There is a G. H. O. out that our divisionthe Texas-Oklahoma will hit the pike fo-.- home In Juno by way of the Rhine and Amsterdam or Antwerp. I hope that is final for speculation about home-coming hurts the army morale to beat the brnd. It Is a eatlsfactlon for

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every week, e very " ,;. . ves. I ll ly -very hour for word to r-d vi homeward. It was a strain e:, ; Ulc boys It s-howrd in tiielr face? P a r,rw rumor of pome kind wouM be rc.i.-j,..,,- U3 dany and it would be the t-'Mc of conversation end tl o bore of o-n-ention until some other fresh yarn arrived. Now our minds aie at rest for the time bel.ng and we can go back to the Intermincbio grin with new ini and t-pirit. The hours will drag of course yc pods how they do drag but we have at least a knowledge of wlion we're due for the bfindeep. A TRIP TO CODLENZ. Just returned from a three .lay s!-Je trip to Coblens. Col. King of the srd Army is to b coiijpliiu'-i.ted on his Cobienz leave ar-a prc-j. "i f. r the A. of O. He has left nothing o:T his chcuule for the pass men and by the time the M. I', chases tho night owis oft the streets at 10 p. m. tl-.e doughboy is ready for bed. You don't need to spend a single mark on -the-trip. Kverj tiling free, railroad fare. excellent ,:cals beds, bo-it t r l v 3 up and down ho Khine, all tho cigarettes you nn rm.oke. aances vviih tho A. R. v". nurses and -y canteen girls, worn, jt00 a d?i re. Oh. boy! this, mini you, beside v.hat the "V. i-nlvation Army, l:d C'ro?s an:i 1C C thow?r at you. Ilvcry time you turn around somebody is et your side with fags, hot cocoa, cofi.ee, candy ani hencst-to-God sandwiches. Gee. liow a guy who hasn't had a sandwich since li'D left New Tork Bpprecinte a 5-and-wlch. OH, YOTJ SOUVENIRS. "When I said that a chap needn't part with his coin la no stgn that the boys do not let loose of it. If you want to

Hammond Scene of Unusual Crime While Friends Are Jollifying. Returning from nine monthsservice with Lieut.-Col. Roosevelt's division in France for a short furlough, Joe Marino, fruiterer and confectioner, shot and killed his friends Tom Fonto, Saturday night, in Hammond. Marino, a clean-cut, upstanding young infantryman, spick and span in his service-striped uniform, told the police this morning that he killed Fonto in self-defense. "rt was either his lite or ir.'.n," Marine.. 'Ihe young soldier in his early twenties was placed under arrest Saturday hy Chief Austgcn, Capt. Strong. Officers !-u:e and Carlson at 703 "Wctster ave.. afior he had summoned aid by phone from a houso adjacent to where tht shooting occurred. TOMTO TRIED TO STAB HIM, The dead men, who with a party of friends, boards at 703 Webster ave.. with his cousin, came for Marino with a knife and a frying pan. A woman tried to stop him from hitting Jlarino with the pan and sustained injuries to her hand as Fonto brought down the weapon. The police have not yet succeeied m getting all tho details of the tragedy but from all evidence they have secured and that which -was brought out by Coroner Graham nt the inquest thU morning n was purely a case of selfdefense on Jlarinos part. V A f - .

" - Marino had Just returned from New Tork where he arrived from oversees last Monday. He fought gallantly with Co. 6, 26th Reg., 1st Viv. Before enlisting he was proprietor of a. fruit store at Calumet end Thornton. He locked forward to his furlough with Ilamtnond friends and called at the l-'onto house on Sunday. At the time the decedent with eeveral friends was in "West Hammond. The party bad bee;i elrinklrg pretty hard and Fonto was In a quarrelsome mood. rarino had not touched a drop and Fonto'a party was very noisy. Marlr.o tried to quieten them and Fonto called him a vile name. A quarrel ensued and Fonto slandered Marino's uniform. "You're a bunch of slacker;," Marine cried, "to say anything against me." CALLS NEIGHBOR FOR AID. Fonto then went for Marino with fh knife and frying ian saying, "I'll kill you." A little, girl in the house ran to a neighbor's to phone for the police and while the station was being sough", three shots rang out and Marino ran t the neighbor's saylnsr, "They are gointo kill mo." He took refuse in the house end Chief Austgcn and his men arrived with tho patrol and took the party to the police station. Marino's story is pretty well borne out by witnesses. In addition to Focto was beset with Fonto's friends. He held at the police station without bii pending his preliminary hearing. The funeral of Tom Fonto will b held tomorrow morning at P:10 o'clork from Hums' morgue. High nisss win be hold at St. Joseph's church at 1" o'clock. Interment will be held tn !'. Joseph's cemetery.

SHOWDOWN REGARDED AS

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ALTOONA, la,, Murch 31. An

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bound New Tork-Pittsburgh express, on the Pennsylvania roalroad, was frur-, trated Inst night when three ties were ! discovered securely tied to the rails and ' I laced in such a manner that derailment woiild have ben cerfVn. Kailroad of(lelals at Altoona and Pittsburgh are

r.aking a thorough invest igat ien today.

Statue of Liberty to Provide Fire for Boy Scout Beacons. .

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PARIS PAPERS COMMENT 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl

PAK1S. March 31. The Matin, in; commenting today upon the trouble- j sort e frontier question which is now in the hands of the commission believed j that "The Khine problem can be set-'

tied on the principle- already la:d down by President "Wilson. The Journal coni'.ilains of the secrecy of th big four."

The Echo Paris states that unity, is essent-.al in the matter of frontiers.

Poy Ecouts of Gary, Hammond, Kast Chicago and "Whiting have received word that the suggestion of Sir Kobert Baden-Powell, head of the British l?oy Scouts, that the millions of Boy Scouts throughout the world celebrate the signing of peace by a world-wide chain of bon-fires, has been adopted by the Boy Scouts of America, it was announced here today by the national headquarters of the organization. The 3u7.031 Boy Scouts in the United States will light great fires in nil parts of the country on the night the treaty is signed and hold appropriate ceremonies. Fire will be taken beforehand from the Statue of Liberty in New Tork harbor and the flame will be carried as far as possible in starling the "liberty beacons. ' the anouncement said.

INDIANA GOES AFTER IAND SOME

REAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM

rull System of Connecting Roads to Be in Operation By April 20th. Notwithstanding the fact that the i state of Indiana is renowned the country over for it? good hard roads, active work is now being done whereby a full system of roads will bo under way by April, 1320, connecting every county seat, town or city of 3.010 population or over. Now that the highway commission Is backed by favorable law and court decisions, Indiana is ready to match the federal funds available for road building up to 1921, involving an rxpenditure of $ 1 .'.000. 000 by that time.

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Allied Leaders are Not Sat isfied With Results of Week's Session.

NEED IT?!

Dan Popovich, .1148 Pennsylvania avenue. Indiana Harbor, had his car stolen from in front of his residence between 10.30 and 11:30 o'clock Saturday night

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE IXblAN.U'OLIS, lnd., March 31. Pcstaurants jmd public eating p laces

are comirs in for their r-rare cf attention at the hands of the inspectors from the food and drug division of the state board of health. The 'clean-up enmpaieri inaugurated against bottling works, groceries and drug store;?, will Include public eating housi 3 and .'pedal attention will be given to the physical conditions in eonne t ion w.th every retlaurar.t find hotel dining room in Indiana, it was announced today by lr. Harry K. Barnard, e-hitf of ihe food and eli'ug eliv U-ioii. The purpose- of the division, the chief announces, is to prevent "fiiy old buihJim,'" no matter how pnyt-ie-aliy impossible, from being conwrl.l into a restaurant, by a man or women, "whose Knowledge of the business consists of knowing how to rook, and w hoso equipment consists of a ftove, dishes and tables.'

John Edwin Nevin f staff correspondent i. n. servicel PARIS. March 31. A "show down" by the big four before the end of tho present week was regarded as imperative today. President Wilson. Premier Lloyd Ge-orge, Premier Clcmenceau and Premier Orlando, arc not satisfied with the results of tho first week's session. It is known that the presielent feels he cannot accept responsibility for all iro:osi'; from British. French and Italian source, and as a result is about determined to demand that the peace conference put all its members on record cn certain ptopesed measures. The president would then be in a ror!-

tion to state the ctuse of the United

States by a definite statement of th fact. The redrafted league of nations cm 0nant is expected to bo subm;td to a pit nary session of the conference, within a week. Amendments have been adopter? wh!-vi will go ffir in removing opposition in the United States. Iloweve-r, UP to 1bi present there lias been no agreement :-ron the amendment protecting the Mein-l-e doctrine. There is known to be some 01 position to it.

Better call up The Times and have it sent to your house every night. Then you'll be sure it will be there.