Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 13, Hammond, Lake County, 3 May 1919 — Page 1

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Son of Chas. Neidow Dies In Hospital After Six Hours of Suffering. Victim of a typical childish curiosity and an unusual fatal ;hain of circumstances that followed Master Arthur ' Paul Neidow Jied at St Margaret's hospital last night a few hours after he had been run over and crushed by a motor truck. The boy, whose 11th birthday would have been celebrated a; week from next Monday, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Neidow, 71 State street, prime favorite with all who knew him and his death is a terrible blow to the family. SIPPOSEIi TO I1E IX SCHOOL TARO. The accident that led up to his death occurred in the alley between State ar.d Sibley streets at the noon hour when Arthur and his little playmates were surposhed to be in the school yard at St. Paul's Lutheran church on Sibley, where they went to school. It was lunch time and the children had been warned by their parents not to go out of the school yard. Arthur, who was in the sixth grade and popular with classmates and teachers alike, according: to one of the children who went w-ith him. started to see if they cculd find any sticker stamps in the rear of the 5 and 10 cent store. HOW TRAf'EDY HAPPENED. As they were passing the rear of the Hammond Candy Kitchen they peered in the -window to watch the candy makers and one of the men who claims he did not see the children threw some water from the soda fountain sink out into the alley. Like a flock of frightened chickens, to avoid the water the children sca'mp-pi-ed back. Arthur to avoid the water stepped directly in front of a big motor truck driven by Arthur Gehrke. Qehrke declares that it was Impossible to avoid hitting the child because of his sudden back-ward movement. .. CHILD TERRIBLY (HI SHED. "We did not know that anyone had been hit by the truck." said Mgr. Soulias of the candy kitchen, "until we heard the screams." Arthur was run over by the truck. It crushed both his legs and tore the shoes off his feet. His left leg was laid open from ankle to hip and the tortued child was rushed to St. Margarets 'hospital where he lived conscious until six o'clock, when his little life fluttered out. six hours after the terrible accident. Fl'SEKAL HELD 0 MONDAY. The funeral will be held from the home at 1:30 o'clock, then from St. Paul's Lutheran church at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Interment will be held In Concordia cemetery. Arthur, whose death is mourned by both the children and teachers of St. Paul's school will have six honorary pall-bearers from his class and six active pall-bearers from the higher grades to serve at the obsequies. AUTHORITIES ISSVE WARXIXG. Chief Peter Austgen and the city authorities commiserate the tragedy and point out the awful warning to children who are accustomed to go through alleys In search of thligs they might pick up. It is a common practice for school children to wander through the streets and alleys to and from school and they are deadly dangerous. Traffic on Hammond streets and alleys is very heavy and congested and auto drivers are none too careful In approaching Intersections. The police Issued solemn warning to children today to keep out of The alleys. TAKING MONEY BY THE CARLOAD SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CXtOWN POINT, Ind.. May 3. County Treasurer M. J. Brown. Deputy Treasurer Ralph Bradford and twelve (12, count 'em) deputies are putting in the busiest day of their careers today. It is the last day of the 1919 spring tax paying and the county treasurer's office expects to take in $100,000 today. The county treasurer's office has $2.150.000 cash on hand; the biggest sum It has ever had at one time in its history. INDI AN AFOLI S, May 3. National Cll and Supply Company, Hobart; capital, $25,000; to manufacture petroleum and Its by-products: directors, Lewis E. Barnes, William J. Killigrew, CalVin Shearer.

CRUSHED

1NANCI CONFIDENTIAL Innovations This Year at Sessions of CountyBoards of Review. t SPEC I AL TO THE T1MES1 CROWN POINT, Ind.. May 3. County beards of review must sit in closed session when they consider financial statements filed with them by corporations, for the statements are regarded as highly confidential information, according to letters which -he state board or tax commissioners is sending to county assessors. The letter was occasioned by a complaint to the board from an assessor which said thit some corporations have rrfused to fill out the blank statements j sent to them because they did not w ish j to make a public record of information they do not wish to fall into the hands of competitors or others. The board's letter follows: "Sections 107 and 108 provide for the statements of domestic corporations. We desire to call to your attention that Section 123 makes the statement so filed confidential Information and you should notify the auditor that these reports must be. kept under lock and key. The duplicate copy must coni'J to this board. "When these reports are considered by the board of review they must be considered in executive session, concerning which you will receive further instructions, but the confidential character of these reports must be protected. The failure of the auditor or taxing officer to protect these reports will subject them to the penalties of Section 331, which provides that any officer who shall be guilty of violating any provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined for each violation in any sum not less than $20 nor more than $500, to which may be added imprisonment." FOR I. W. W. CHICAGO, May 3. Federal officials and the Chicago police are preparing today to guard against any untoward demr.ostrationu that may result from the convention of the Industrial Workers of the World which is scheduled to meet here at 10 o'clock Monday morning. I. W. W leaders notified the police today that the convention would be held. Thomas Whitehead, secretary of the I. W. W. declared that more than 100 delegates would be present. It is expected, however, that many others who are not delegates will come to Chicago and that several hundred radicals will be In the city. The police have forbidden any pa-rad-s and detectives will be present at all meetings to guard against demonstrations. E OF WEDDED EXISTENCE Theresa Stivi of East Chicago has filed a complaint for a divorce from Nick Stivi in the Hammond superior court. She says they were married September 12, 1917. and lived together until April 28, 1919. Flv or six weeks after their marriage she alleges Nick began beating her, slapping her face and knocking her down. This became a regular occurrence. On March 24, 1919, when she was Flck, she says he came into her room, locked the door and drew a revolver threatening to kill her. Nick also went frequently to Illinois and returned late at night intoxicated. He works at the Interstate Steel plant. The wife asks for $2,000 alimony and the furniture which is new in the hands of the husband. A. Ottenheimer is her attorney. Olive Bender, through her attorneys, Boone & Murray, has filed suit for divorce, from her husband. Charles Bender. They were married March 1, 1917, and separated May 2, 1919. She states that he becomes Intoxicated regularly, neglected her and finally abandoned her. WHITING NEARS END OF DRIVE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 WHITING. May 3. Whiting's. Victory Loan subscriptions to date amount to $375,000. The quota is $509,000, which Chairman Fred J. Smith is certain Whiting w-ill now raise her atlotment and sees success after a hard lof of work.

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mayors in new edict

Bolshevik Parades in Gary and East Chicago Will Not Be Permitted Under Any Circumstances From Now On. PROCLAMATION. To the People of Gary: After noticing what happened In Cleveland, New York and other cities yesterday and after making a careful survey of conditions here and In order to protect the good name and citizenship of Gary X have arrived at the conclusion that It is best not to permit any public gatherings or public parades in the street of Gary for the next ten days. The Felice Dept. has been instructed to carry out this order. Jtespectf ully, W. T. BOSSES, Mayor." "There will be no more Bolshevik meetings or Bolshevik parades in East Chicago." said Mayor McCormack this morning, "even if we have to call a sptcial meeting of the council to take action on this matter." Although the mayor feels sure that under the Schlirker administration an ordinance was passed which provided that parades could not be held without a rermit lrom city authorities, yet thus far no ordinance of this nature has been discovered. "I'l that I want Is some authority for prevntlng such parades." said Chief T. D. Williams, "and you many depend upon it. there will be nothing more in that line doing, nothing absolutely!" It is understood at the East Chicago city hall today that no parades will be permitted in Gary tomorrow. A part of the parade Thursday on the south side. East Chicago, a district that is almost wholly Polish but which has been noted for Its patriotism, its volunteer soldiers, and its liberty loan activities, was reported to have been broken up by boys who hissed, shouted, hurled epithets, threw stones and otherwise so barrassed and annoyed the marchers that they dropped out of the line of march.' The feeling is so high among returned soldiers and among the better class of all nationalities that the police will have no trouble In securing an abundance of volunteers if there should be any attempt to parade in East Chicago or Indiana Harbor on the 11th. as scheduled. It has been freely said that had not East Chicago been a dry town, where whiskey has to be obtained under cover, there might have been serious trouble Thursday. L COURT SETTINGSFOR WEEK Jury in Federal Court Says Gary Man Is Not Guilty. fSPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind.. May 3. The following Criminal court settings for r.ext week have been made by Judge Martin J. Smith: Monday May 5. 473 State vs. Joe Shilinski, grand larceny. Tuesday May 6. 472 State vs. Fred Kalpin. assault with intent to rob. 462 State vs. Will Jones, burglary. Wednesday May 7. 457 State vs. Willie Thompson, murder. Thursday May 8. 465State vs. r.ichard Sherman and Edward Cleveland, murder. Friday May 9. State vs. Will Pulley, assault with intent to committ murder. State vs. Vaselln Korich, grand larceny. 468LIVING MODELS? YOU KNOW IT SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. May 3. The two living models. Gay' Rhoda and Sylvia Weinsburg. who appeared in the Miller P.eady-to-Wear Store windows last night made a tremendous hit and the young ladies will greet their friends in the same place tonight in the Blue and the Gold. The big store, 500. 119th street,, will be prepare for the big event. Buy your children Victory Liberty Bonds.

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E! APPEAR BEFORE JAX BOARD Green Line Says Taxes Amount to 5.66 Percent of Gross Receipts. rTIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 3. At the meeting of the state tax board, C. E. Lawrence, of Hammond, vice president of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Electric Railway Company, and Fred Crumpacker. also of Hammond presented the case of the northern Indiana line. They said the company will pav $25.0'O taxes this year on the $162. 6115 assessment fixed by the board last year. They sail! the taxes would amount to o.fA per cent of the company's gross receipts Charles W. Chase, president, and Frank N. Gavit. attorney, appeared at hearings of the Gary Street Railway Company and Gary & Valparaiso Company. They said their companies had been treated fairly last year. Thev were told by members of the board that the vacations probably would l,e raised this ear. but that would not necessarily mean an increase in taxes. HOLD BIG In a communication issued last night at a meetinir of the Lake Coun'.v Contractors Association, the secretary of the Hod Carriers Vn.on i, requestei to instruct his men to return to work MonJay at th old wage rate. The meeting which was held at the Wels hall was attended by about ninety per cent of the contractors of the Indiana Calumet region. The matter was discussed at length and it was unanimously agreed that wages and working conditions should not bo changed. It was shown that in January. 19 is. there were perhaps forty men of good standing in the Hod Carriers union owing to the. fact that men were scar-e and non-union men were receiving more money thin the scale a,kcj by the union men. . Shops were paying more than the scale and a large Percentage of union men left the unsteady hod carrier work and accepted factory employment. The m"'rs left in good standing were old reliable citizens. many of whom ownea uieir own homcs and had worked for the same contractors for years With the added war activities ' came Ceneral Crowder's work or fight order and the contractors assert that a Heating element decided to work. Many were sent to Hammond from Chicago and hired on work at the Standard Steel Car Co.. at the rate of forty cents an hour. There, they say. the busineS3 sent of the Hod Carriers Union got busy at the l-ate and through promise of easy jobs obtained their applications for membership in the union at a promised wag- of sixty to seventy cents an hour. This was also done on nrarlv all Jobs In tr.e region and it is asserted that Laie county has tilled up vith mfcn rnp Tying union cards but who have little disposition to work, no responsibility and really don't know a mortar hod from a brick hod. "Men re plentiful " says Bert Wilhelm. secretary of the contractors association. "Overseas soldiers are walking the streets with honorable wounds received in action and s. rvice stripes on their uniforms All are anxious to work at forty or fifty cents per hour. People building a home Biv.aiung unuer the present high prices and Vncle Sam is asking a cut in all building material and labor. Other crafts are keeping down to a living wage considering the wet spring, lost time and high price of tools and Crovvder's Alternative Boys are demanding seventy and eighty cents an hour and do not care -to work very hard for that. The public in this case can be the judge." MISSING GIRL FOUNDMURDERED LA TROLL. Pa.. May 3. vVeuged under the seat in an outhouse on a farm near here, the body of Miss Emma Austraw, nineteen years old. school teacher who has been missing for several days! was found murdered today. The girl's hands were behind her back, her face had been struck on the head with a blunt Instrument. Two men re being held in connection with the crime. INDIANA MAN JUMPS TO DEATH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 CINCINNATI. O.. May 3.-La' if.Ln believed to be Elbert Vorbley. registered at the Columbia hotel here as of Muncie. Ind.. early this morning jumped to his death from the Cincinnati suspension bridge, landing on a paved street. On the fly leaf of a prayer book In his pocket was the following: "Laura B., 146 Carroll, Tacoma Park JId."

ICDNTRAGTORS

MEETING

Hammond Girl Safe In Berlin, Spy Stories Untrue Heads Own Film Co.

k- 'if , t n , - -;ii ' ' ' 1 l mJ:. i., ST. CL Miss Fern Andra, the beautiful Hammond girl about whose life in P.erlin where she has been since several months before the war broke out in 1914, is safe and sound. The various rumors that have reached this country about her being shot as an American spy are made out of whole cloth. Her mother. Mrs. Sadie St. Clair, 1S4 State street, is rejoicing over the following letter which she received from George H. Harris, American Commissioner of the Inter-Allied Commission of the Repatriation of Prisoners of War. in the Honl Adlon. Berlin: "Your daughter is well and is more than comfortably circumstanced. Aside from the fact that she has not been able to communicate with you because of the war she has had no unhappincss nor has she at any time suff : red by reason of the blockade. She is doing well professionally and is just as much of a popular favorite as she has ever been. "In response to a message I sent her she called at my office and (as she ennMARTIN LOSES HIS AUTOMOBILE Martin Stasko, 49IS Northcite uvenuee. East Chicago, drove to West Hammond last niht with a friend to attend tho carnival. He ieft his Ford at the curb, took in the shows and later was standing on a street corner nearby. While talking to a party of frieends he was surprised to see his Ford pass with a stranger at the wheel. Instead of borrowing another machine to give chase, he ran to the police station and by that time the fellow had made Ms getaway. The bedy of the war i.i painted red. the fender black, wheels white ar.d it has yellow seat covers. It is considered Btrang-5 that a th.ef sho-ild seiect a machine with such striking color markings. LOGANSPORT MAN IS RELEASED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 INrIA.NAPoLl-S. Ind.. May 3. Fred J. McC'ord. of Leigansport. Ind., who was sentenced to the federal prison at Atlanta. Ga.. from this city, has been ordered released from the penitentiary by President Wilson, according to word received in Indianapolis today. McCord was convicted on several charges, one being that he obstructed enlistments; another that he was guilty of writing to defraud the United States and anotirer that he conspired to evade conscription. He was sentenced to three years and has served more than a year. CASE VENUED TO JASPER CO. RENSSELAER. Ind., May 3. The case of the State of Indiana vs. Lazar W. Saric and Taul Crundwell, an action to disbar the defendants from the practice of law, was venued here for trial in the Jasper circuit court yesterday. Saric and Crundwell both live at Indiana Harbor.

rlV' - 1 A T" - .--r" 1 .... ' ' '" '''f "'4 AIR-ANDEA. 1 not write directly to you nor can you write directly to her until peace has ! been declared) she desired me to tell you that as soon ns commercial reiaj tions are resumed betwem the two countries she hopes cuhr to visit the . United States or hive you visit her in i i Germany. Meantime fhe wants to know whether you need mon- y. She has her j own film company here and is doing j very well financially. "Assuming that you will desire to re- , ply to this I suggest tl.it you address your letter to me care of Assistant Chief of Staff G-l, General Headquarters A. H. V., A. I. O. No. 706, France, 'and send it as promptly as possible heJ cause I expect to change station in the 1 not far distant future." ! Miss Andra left London where she 'was a favorite stage beauty before the I war broke out for a Berlin engagement and has been there ever since, finally i appearing at the head of her own company and is the Mary P:ckford of Germany. WHY CERTES "DICKS" ERI Seensation Busted When 4 Chicago Bulls Fall Down on the Job. Four Chicago Micks" came to Gary yesterday afternoon ar.d claimed that the automobile ho-rht recently by former Mayor T. L. Kotts. of Gary, had been stolen April 21 from C. C. Dawson. "We are Detect've. S"rcant William II. Doyle. John Sheebey. Jarres Mullen, and Benjamin Weiek, of the detective bureau automobile squad and we want that ear." said one of tin in to Mr. Knotts and they swore out warrants before Prosecuting Attorney Clyde Hunter. Mr. Knotts had no dlu'ieiiay in showing that he had traded his old car and a cash difference for it and there was nothing to the "dicks'" chargees. Ths first owner of the car identified it this morning and the "dicks" were sent back to Chicago with their tails between their legs. '(U. S. SELLS MUCH WARMATERIAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May :. ,:, -s of surplus war materials so far have resulted in but slight loss to the government. These sales, since the signing of the armistice and up to April 25, netted f 15S.3M.356.23. or about f'O per cent of their original cost, the war department announced today. During the week ended April 25, the sales amounted to $2.210.6S9.9S, of which $ 1.24.907.90 was for horses and mules. Finish up the Victory job.

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STATE TO Magnificent Work Is Done By Organization In Every City and Town In County. CBTJltETIIT.) tlons to the Victory loan today paBed the 51,500,000,000 mart Only a slight peediry np Was reported from any 0f the twelve federal reserve district, aad the treasury department today renewed its appeals to all loan organisations to perfect plans for a house to house canvass during: the one remaining- week of the drive. The nation Is no far behind schedule It was stated, that it will he necessary to raise approximately $500,. 000,000 a day during- the remaining- days to reach the minimum groat. . Up to this noon Lake county, the most patriotic and loyal county in Indiana, has oversubscribed the Victory Loan by three-quarters of a million dollars. County Chairman F. R. Schaaf who was told by the weak sisters fid crepe-hangers two months ago that the 5th Loan couldn't be put over announced from the offices of the organization in Gary at noon today that not only had the county bought six million dollars worth of Victory Liberty Loan short-term notes but that the drive would go on unofficially for another week with the prospect of a million dollars oversubscription. NOW WE CAN ALL HT7KRAH! There are smiles and glad-hand shaking all over Lake county today. East Chicago and Gary have come to bat in the seventh inning with a (wo million dollar subscription, each and everybody grabbing for more. Hammond, w-ith a million dollar quota, will oversubscribe big and already has $1,166100. Whiting with half a million already sold is not yet finished. Lowell has sold $ino,00 with $6?. 000 yet to go. Crown Toint has bit off $135,000 with as much more to go. Hobart reports $80,000 gone with $20,000 to sell. Pyer. Cedar Lake and Highland are reported over the top. SELL LIKE HOT CAKES. The Victory bonds in Gary have been selling for a week like hot cakes. The record in the factory division alone is as follows: Illinois Steel Co. f 791, 930 Sheet Mill 150. ooo Tin Mill 117.00 American Lridge 107,000 E., J. & E. 79.000 "Gary will go over two million," said Chairman F. It. Schaaf. "We are not S'-'ins to quit now. Let's help out some of these other backward counties." In Gary the First National took $150.000 ami the Gary State ?15O.O00. HAMMOND HAPPY, TOO. In Hammond the First Xational bought $100,000 and the Lake County Savings & Trust $100,000. The Americans Maize reported 100 per cent subseription today us did a number of other plants, all records of which will be given. In Tub Times chapel one of the features f.f the Victory Loan was the unfurling of the gorgeous Victory Industrial Loan emblem today with appropriate exercises by Chairman Eddie Goehringer. The weather has been hard on the workers all over the county for two weeks. It has been dispiriting and gloomy but the workers went at it with pep and enthusiasm and Lake county when all the. totals are in may be said to have closed her war record with immortal honor and glory to herself aai her reole. FIFTY OVERCOME IN MINE EXPLOSION INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE W7LKKSUARUK. IM.. May ;. Fifty men were overcome by Flack Pantp In the Nottingham mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes-harre Coal Co.. at Plymouth today. Twenty of the men had been rescued up to noon and the others are being rapidly brought to the surface. The condition of most of the men taken out is serious and the dead record may later prove to be high. BANK STATEMENT. NEW YORK. May 3 Average: Ioans increased $32,Pfi3.0'i0; demand deposits increased $13,510,000; time deposits decreased $1,411,000; reserve decrease $15,226. Actual: Loans, increased $117430.000: demand deposits increased $25, SOS. 000; time deposits increased $610,000; reserve decrease, $S,273.27r,.

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