Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 271, Hammond, Lake County, 29 April 1919 — Page 1

UNIT WARMER WEATHER VOL. XIU, XO. 271. IIAMMOXU, INDIANA. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919. INTERNATIONAL NEWS H'LL, LEASED WIRE SERVICE. On streets and news b.-oC:. oc per copy. Delivered by carried la HiirmosS and West Hammond, 50o per tnoctlu i"irir i jmbm i mir-ma USINESS ARRESTED GIRL'S CHARG

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S. C. Simpson Is Accused By Child, Arrested and Put Under Bond. rSPEClAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind., April -29. Samuel C. Simpson, one of Lowell's most prominent- citizens and business men, was brought here under arrest on a very sensational charge by Marshal Duckworth and was bound over to the Lake county grand jury now in session. Simpson is accused of attempting to attack a little thirteen year old girl in his place of business last Thursday. The child attends the Lowell public schools and is prominent connected. LOWELL INCENSED AT AXrAIS. The charge brought against Simpson 5s one of the most serious that has ever been preferred against a citizen of Lowell and the people of t,- town are highly incensed over it. As a matter-of-fact Lowell has seldom been as wrought up over an occurrence. The girl who accuses Simpson is Miss Marjorie Morgan, daughter of the late "Vm. Morgan. Both her parents are deceased and she makes her home with her aunt and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hyden. who., live four miles north of Lowell. The attempted attack. It Is alleged, occurred last Thursday when the girl went Into Simpson's store and ordered an ica cream cone. TELLS STOT TO KXI.ATTTX3. She was told to go to the rear of the store to get it and according to the girl's story when she went there Simpson seized her. Two other little girls came in the store. Simpson went to see what they wanted and the child escaped. "When Miss Morgan reached home she f.ld her relatives and the arrest followed. Marshal Duckworth brought Simpson to Crown Point and turned him over to Judge M. J- Smith who fixed his bond at $2,000 when he was released' and returned home. Prosecuting Attorney W. O. Thomas took the matter before the grand jury in the criminal court yesterday afternoon and it is reported an indictment has been returned. CALL poucrT" TO QUELL A REAL RIOT John Burkat Battered up Is Still in the Ring, While Mary Is Out of Jail. t ' Hurry out here to Baltimore avenue, there's a man killing another." was the startling message the Hammond rolice received last night, so it was toot sweet for Cspt. Strong with Officers Carlson. Wallak and Schaadt. When the police arrived they found that "Wojock Sozepenskl of 3 Baltimore avenue had John Burkat of 75 Torrence avenue down pounding him with an axe, and doing a good job of it. The rolice arrested Sozepenskl and Mary Szipinck, the woman who was with him and who has been living with him as his wife. Burkat claims that he was walking along the street when Sozepenskl Jumped on him without warning. Dr. Buchanan found that Burkat had a cut about an inch deep and two inches long over his left eye. a cut on his nose. Fveral cuts on his arm and body, also about seven bad bruise3 on his back where he had been hit by the blunt side of the axe. Sozepenskl who is charged with felonious assault Is under a $1,000 bond. Mary Szipinck who is charged with a statutory offense is out on a $200 bond. An interesting angle to the affair was presented this morning when an anxious delegation of boarders appeared and bailed Mary out. "TV gotta get her, out." said the spokesman, "or else we can't put on the feed-bag." PEACE CONFERENCE IN GERMANY f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BE R. LIN. April 29. The peace committee of the National Assembly has been summoned to meet, on Friday at the Chancellor's palace. BLCFFTON The first meeting of the After War Community work organization, of which Rev. B. E. Rermsnyder is chairman and Prof. J. F. Myers, secretary-treasurer, will be held May 7

Judge Boggs, East Chicago, Gets Fellowship

JtDGfc UOGG5. Judge Boggs, formerly principal of the Harrison Junior high school. East Chicago, has been granted a teaching fellowship in Chicago University, where he will teach and study for the coming year. His work will be in the University School of Education. He left East Chicago about a week ago under a year's leave of absence from the East Chcajo board of education. Mr. Boggs. as a special school man and as a citizen, will be very much missed from this city, where he has hosts of friends, who not only admire his personality and character. but speak only words of praise for his work. He and Mrs. Boggs were prominent as musicians cf high ability in church and social circles and were always willing to respond to calls made upon them by the public. From such circles they will be sadly missed. The best wishes of the entire- community are with them. ONLY IN THE MOVIES CAN IT BE DONE Going 25 Miles An Hour, Four Men in Ford Try to Turn Round in Street. Trying to turn their machine around in the street white going at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour resulted disastrously for four men and their Ford Monday evening in "West Hammond. Two of the men spent the night in St. Margaret's hospital, one escaped with a few bruises while the fourth made a complete getaway. The machine was badly damaged. Bill Cogal. whose "address was given as Chicago, Al Martinson, 61S18 Calumet avenue. Chicago, and "William Hamlin, 431 Sheridan avenue.. Whiting, and a rtiirth man. whose identity is un known visited West Hammond saloons and then started west on State St.. at hoot 7 nviock. Hamlin says they were making twenty-five miles an hour when the accident occurred. In front of the Gabriel Cinelll home, ir w State st.. the driver suddenly decided to turn around. Without slack ening the speed of the car, he swung sharply into the curb, glanced off and started for the opposite curb. The flivver skidder. rolled part way over and after shaking herself free from her occupants hit the curb and righted hersefr. facing east. Cogal had his right wrist nearly severed and his right eye was badly bruised. Martinson's face, foreehad. right eye and cars were cut and bruised. Both were taken to the hospital. Martinson was able to go home this morning but Cogal will remain for further treatment. It is thought he will recover in due time although first reports were that he had been fatally Injured. - G. S. WILKES SUES FOR DIVORCE Suit for divorce was filed this morning tn the Hammond superior court by George S. Wilkes from his wife-. Ethel R. Wilkes. According to the complaint. Mrs. Wilkes was cf a "crabby, grouchy disposition." failed to take care of the children, wouldn't cook and Anally ran away with another man. Her whereabouts are now unknown to Wilkes who still has their two children. They were married May 30, 1907 and separated January 15. 1319. Mr. Wilkes desires to retain the custody of the children. Boone & Murray are attorneys for the plaintiff. THE GUARDS COULD NOT STOP THEM f INTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE 1 NEW TORK. April 29. Several thouNew Tork, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia gathered outside the Hoboken plrs today to greet the 77th division veterans, returning aboard the Agamamnon, and Pennsylvania troops on the Kroonland. stormed the guards and swarmed out on the piers as the troops began to disembark. The Prnnsylvanians led the drive. After threats f army guards failed to throw them back. the. debarkation was stopped until the guards received reinforcements and drove the crowds back. SEYMOUR Final arrangements for the formation of a Rotary Club in this city. May 12. will be worked out at a meeting cf those interested In the club on May 2.

LONG TIME FOR SHE-PARROT

TO KEEP QUIET BOSTON, Mass., April 20. A learned auperior court Judge and Jury of 'twelve good men and true' were railed upon toiluy to decide the egg-la; In ability of a pet parrot. A nnmn amusement park offered a renird of (500 to nnjooc vlio could produce a parrot Tlth an egg-liu Ing en pn city equal to that of "Lizzie," nbo nutldenly surprised brr owner by depositing two perfectly good eggs after a alienee of IS year. Mla M. Louise Jackson claim nhe in entitled to the reward beeauae her Hlca" tllncloiwd unexpected propensities nnd deposited four eggs. Miss Jackson stijs sbe made a demand for the 95O0, but it was not forthcoming, hence the suit. FIGHT IT Demands Showdown on the League of Nations From Republican Senators; Sherman Says "PussyFooting Time Is Past." By J. BAST CAU7BIIL fSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, April 29. A complete "show down" on the amended league of nations covenant by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and other old guard Republican, leaders of the senate -was demanded today by Republican senators like Borah, of Idaho, who announced that they found the modified document as objectionable as the original one. SHXKUAS WANTS SHOWDOWN. Senator Sherman, of Illinois, who bitterly condemned many provisions of the covenant, was among those Republicans who declared that the time for pussyfooting was past and "it was up to the leaders of the Republican majority to the next congress to let the American people know where Republicans were going to stand on the proposed league of nations." As Republican senators continued today to flock back to the capital as a result of the publication of the newcovenant. Senator Lodge, one of the first to return, found himself confronted by a situation invested with more than one serious aspect, It was stated. DIVERGENCE OP OPINION. A canvass of Republican senators disclosed a divergence of opinion as to how the Republican attitude toward the amended covenant should be presented to the country. A number of them expressed the hope that the Republicans would be able to present a united front on a subject upon which so many possibilities hinged, but they admitted that they were "at sea" as to Just what course of action certain Republican senators were likely to pursue when the senate was called upon to act finally on the covenant. Senator Borah was insistent that Republican senators all disclose their exact position with relation to the covenant. It was stated that he had not "abated one jot or tittle" his opposition to the U'nited States being committed to a league of nations In any form whatsoever." Borah's friends added that he would P.ght the proposed league of nations plan if he had to "fight it alone." BUY DALY BROS. COAL COMPANY John F. Wilhelm & Son this morning purchased the property of the Daly Brothers Coal Co. which has been going through bankruptcy proceedings in th? federal court. The sale was conucted by U. S. Commissioner Charles Surprise. Th-! Wilbelms have been operating the old Stout Coal yard under a lease which expires May 11. The sale of the Daly jardjofferM them an opportunity to get Wo a new location at the expiration of their lease. The Daly Brothers yard has a frontage of 173 feet on Calumet avenue near the B. & O. railroad tracks and is considered an excellent location. A SMALL BLAZE. A small blaze broke out this afternoon in the Hammond Shoe Shining Tarlor through the use of some, cleaning fluid. Quick response was made by the Are department and smoke did a lot of damage in the candy shop adJoining and the Fox establishment on the corner. Street car service was badly blocked for a while. GREEN'SBL'RG Judge John Craig of th" Pecatur circuit court. grand vire chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana, speaks at Shelbyville tonight. Lawrenceburg tomorrow, Vincennes Thursday and Evansville Friday.

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Officers in charge of the navy's preparations for a trans-Atlantic flight have announced that one of the four sriant seaplanes built for the trip is ready to attempt the fiieht. This plane is the NC-3. It will be flown o "somewhere in THREE YANK SOLDIERS ARE KILLED Thirty More Are Injured In London When Blacks Annoy White Girls. INTERNATIONAL laWS SERVICtl LONDON Api 29. A between a party of Americans and South African blacks today at Winchester, southwest of London, resulted in the death of three Americans and injuries to thirty. The fight started when the blacks began paying attention to white girls. The Americans interfered and the blacks attacked them with clubs. British troops quelled the riot. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Winchester said the Americans were soldiers in the American army. American army headquarters here denied ihore were any American troops in Winchester. The war office later announced that the Americans were soldiers who had been serving in the British army and were awaiting repatriation. A courtmartial has been ordered. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 FARIS. April 23- Lord Northcllffe today editorially warned Premier Orlando that he must read to the Italian chamber today the note expressing the views of the British and French premiers on the question of Fiume if he wants to avoid trouble. The Northcliffe statement, published in the Northcliffe Taris newspaper, declared that note was communicated to Orlando before he left for Rome and that President Wilson is acquainted with its terms. If Orlando does not inform the Italian people of its contents, the signatories may publish it. Lord Northcliffe said. HINDENBURG RETIRES TO ESTATE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI COPENHAGEN. April :3 Field Marshall Von Ilindenburg has retired to his estate in Hanover, said a Berlin dispatch to the PolHiken today. It is expected that Hlndenburg will be succeeded by oenerai uroener, torGerman food controller. mer BRANCH OFFICES IN TWO CITIES TT1MES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS, Arril 29 The state employment commission has decided to establish branch offices in Hammond and East Chicago. It is at these two points where the most e ffective work has been done by the war labor bureaus since the boys began to return home. BLOODY SIEGE OF MUNICH THREATENED I INTERNATIONAL KEWS SERVICE BEKLIN. April 23. Government troops, marching on Munich, have captured several villages near the city. A bloody siege of Munich is threatening unless the communists fle. Communist leaders are now negotiating wth the government-

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Newfoundland" within a week, it is now said, where it will start the iong trip over the Atlantic for Europe. Commander H. C. Richardson will be one of the members of the crews selected to flv the NC-3 and the other three planes, the NC-1, 2 and 4. WOMEN TREATED UNKINDLY Some Hammond People Re ceive Patriotic Women Canvassers With Scorn. rrsr-T One hundred per cent precincts are being- reported daily by the solicitors w-ho are canvassing the Hammond residence districts for the Victory Liberty loan. And the siranri f)inr. nf it is ' ih.t e . -i the highest proportions of sales having been made, the women who are covering the territory were able to sell only a few scattering- bonds. This is attributed to the fact that go many of the people have gone to the banks and made their purchases. Loan workers as a rule are well received by the public but in some cases they are meeting with very unkind remarks when they mention the loan. It seems that these uncivil ones treat the women as though they considered them to be butting in on their private affairs. They fail to consider the fact that the women are calling at their homes merely to save them the trouble of going to a bank. From the meagre reports which have been received at headquarters Mrs. Leary, captain of the Tenth precinct holds first honors. She has sold over J6,000 worth of bonds. Mrs. Keiter, captain of the Fifteenth precinct is second with $4,000. Mrs. W. D. Patton who is in charge of the woman's department will not call for a meeting of her workers until the middle of next week at which time she expects to present the real workers with medals. A definite report on the sales made by the factory solicitors and banlts is expected for tomorrow. SUES GARY LAUNDRY CO. Attorney George L. Eder, representing the American Coal & Supply Co.. an Illinois corporation, has filed spit in the Hammond superior court against the Superior Laundry Company of Gary, for the collection of an account amounting to $1,082.42 said to be due the company for coal purchased by the laundry. A suit for the collection of two rotes was filed by tfc, law firm of Sarlc, Brissey & Crundwell for L. W. Sarlc, et al., against John Baran. Lawrence Harris and wife have file a petition in court to be permitted to adopt Stephen Toth. L. T. Meyer is their attorney. REFUSE TO ACCEPT TERMS

f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl I tc,P- "We have still more to add to the ROCK KG CD. 111., April 23. Using ; amount. $112. 730. " said Paul Muschelthe Australian eecret fcallot system ' witz cf the West Hammond bank, "so

and by a vote of 718 to 591, furniture workers of this city have refused to accept terms conceded by the manufacturers of the 28 industries for a settlement of the strike now in its; fifth week. The workers demand . closed shops and a 4S-hour week. This the manufacturers refused to grant. I Scores were read by the president ! or trie union, guaranteeing financial i support to the workers If they "hold I tight." which undoubtedly had a strengthening influence in the voting. COMPANY F GETS ITS ORDERS f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) BLOOMINGTON. April 29. Company F. of Indiana State Militia, of this city, reecived orders from AdjutantGeneral Smith today to report to Linton where trouble has broken out over the operation of telephones by strike breakers. The company, in charge of Capt. Nat. Hill, departed from this city on a special train at noon.

4 llTAIIAIie STIRRING UP TROUBLE Even American Red Cross Officers Find Italian Commissions Canceled. X.OBEBT J. PBEW "4?7f.vZ, OHDCNT I. N. SERVICE! ' ' rn". Apru zv. Just before the Italian parliament convened in Rome today to consider the momentous Fiume proDiem. iving lctor Emanuel doclarr-d that he was heart and soul nitv. ths ! Italian people in whatever tht v war.le.1 I according to a dispatch from Rome to the Maun. "I wish what my people wish," the Italian king was quoted as saying. "I shall solidly support any action that parliament may decide upon." It is apparent that Paris and London aro not informed as to the real feeling in Italy, says a Rome dispatch to the Petit Journal. That adds that all Italy is a s-eua dioc, impervious, it appears, to conciliation. The Italians are prepared for isolation, battle or death from stravation. :o matter what the result mav bo it inemDer oi ine .American tood commis sion, who arri.ved in Paris today from Vienna by way of Trieste and Northern Italy. In describing 'the erfect of President Wilson's statement, the American said: "American Red Cross officers who were given honorary commissions in the Italian army have been notified that all such commissions were cancelled." WEST HAMMOND OVER THE TOP;! Patriotic Town Has Thousands to Spare and Is Still "Going Good." Proud as th rrovcrbial boy of bygone days with a new pair of boots. West Hammond today added tu its patrietic glory as the town in the I'nited States to send more soldier boys from a given block than any other place of its size ii the country by quietly announcing that it bad gone jver tho top in the Victory Liberty Loan with several thousand to spare and several more thousand coming. It is the srond place in Cook county's fifteen to cci over the don't think we are through " Much of the success of the last great drive as in all its predecessors is placed i to the credit of George Hannaurr, gon rral manager of the I. II. Belt, who was chairman of the drive and his efficient and tireless co-vorkers. rQff OOIP? T.T1 AVP CAMP MILLS flNTERNATICVL NEWS SERVICE! CAMP MILLS. N. Y., Apr;! 23. Troops were scheduled to leave here today as follows For Camp Sherman, 411th telegraph battalion, one officer, 11 men; 129th eld artillery, oneofflcer. 12 men; 110th engineers. 67 men; machine-gun company. 362nd infantry, ten men: field hospital, S30. one officer: field hospital No. 41, three men. For Camp Custer. 411th telegraph battalion, two men: 129th field artillery, two men;,110th engineers, one officer. 23 men; field hospital 339. two officers, 62 men; field hospital 41, one man.

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State Militia Called Out. Linton is Put Under Martial Law By Governor. BTJZ.X.XTZN.) J!1.TERNATi'0NA1- NEW5 service: MNTON, lad., April 29 All the stores here were closed today because the clerks and employes rtfused to work j until the trouble over the strike-break-j tng telephone operators of the New ! Home Telephone Co. has been settled, j The city is quiet under state troops, i who are patrolling" the streets. S (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl ! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 3 j Martial law has beea proclaimed at Linton, Greene county, Ind., by Gov. I James P. Goodrich, as the result of a riot there last cig-ht, when 500 citizens, mostly miners, stormed the local telephone offices and compelled strikebreakingtelephone operators to leave their switchboard and llee for safety. The governor Issued a proclamation this morning, declaring- martial law in the mining- town, following; reports that further trouble .was threatened. The proclamation issued by Gov. Goodrich sets out that there exists within the citT limits of tha cit.-ir nf j Linton and the Immediate environments thereof, "a state of riot and. lawless insurrection" against the laws of the state of Indiana, and that the civil authorities of the city and county hava been unable to cope with the situation. riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 29. Ten thousand union miners in the Eleventh district, United Mine Workers of America, refused to go to work this morning, because cf the operation of telephones In Linton, Ind., by girl operators who I are said not to be members cf the tfilPTirinnp nnpratnrc ,,tmi o.-4 v-M w .j - . vj -- , awwuu ! ng t0 Wrd brougkt to the district mine workers' headquarters in this city. Information here is to the effect that if the strike-breaker operators, who are said to have gone back to work again this morning, are not removed telephones will be torn from the Linton homes. 2N IN UGLY HOOD. Three members of the miners' union par tion in the trouble. The party th.T came here said that the trouble la t night was not participated in by mintr'. but by a crowd of boys. The men said the miners in the district were in an ugly mood over Ho--situation and serious trouble an anticipated. HAS NO WORD OF IT. i riNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April S9.wm. ; Green, secretary-treasurer of the Vniti cd Mine Worltcrs of America, which h.is international headquarters in this c:tr. nformed the International News Serv ice he had received r.o word of the r--iported walkout of 10.000 miners in the Lleventh district because of the t )- phone trouble at Linton which is in the Eleventh district. Mr. Green also said he had no word to the fficct that members of the Mine Workers ViiKn took part in the riot at Linton last night. The governor also issued a call t'-r the state militia company at Bloominston, lud.. to proceed to Linton uniarms at once, tp strengthen the forces of state troops already there. undr command of Adjt.-Gcn. Harry II. Smith. GIRLS RESCUED BY SHERIFFS 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LINTON. Ind., April 2!.-V'o ',;-.- panics of Indiana state nnliti.i mand of the Adjt.-Gen. H.irry ! in romwho today arc patroling th-.- ;-ir of Linton, following a near riot hTe la;.;, last night when a mob, jo-irrnl h in it. rl strong, stormed the local tc r rs company, where strike breaking phone operators were on d-ity forced the girls to fire from thr board to the roof of the building girls, who registered at a local hfcoming from Indianapolis, wrre ris:;ir,l by policemen and deputy shrriff- airl today are b-?ing guarded by stat troop.'. The trouble was the ouigrowth of i strike of lora! telephone girls whi'-h h' -gan last Thursday. When the loenl operators struck girls front out of to.vn were sent here, and phono service w.v; maintained until last night when tlot mob stormed the phone oxchaniro after an indignation meeting in support of the striking girls was held. To safeguard the telephone company's property Gov. .Tames I'. Goodrich caller) out the Torre Haute fill Sullivan. Ind., companies of the fo.it.guard. They arrived here about live o'cloek 1hN morning, in command of Adjt.-'icn. Smith, sent here by the covernor. The troops were intneilialeiy given posts and began ratroling the streets.