Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 283, Hammond, Lake County, 13 May 1919 — Page 1

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Final Course of Action is Expected Before Sunday Hext. (BULLETIN.) John Edwin NeviN 'statf correspondent i. t . service) FAHJS, May 13. The meeting of the big four, which was scheduled for this morning, wai called cff Just as scfaie of the secretaries bearau arriving. Ths Gcrrnaa delegation seat word that farther communications which it Trtil addrcso to the allies were not yet ready. The committee which is draft, lag tlia Austrian treaty was not ready wiTh its documents and there -was there, fore no 'business ca the slate for tao biff four. (BTJXLETIIT.J INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE EE ILL IN via Copenhaeu and tondon ), Kay 13. Count von Biockdorffliantzau, head of ths Qerc-aa peace deleg-atioa at Versailles, Is presenting ectvater proposals regarding territorial cEEticns to the allies, today, said advices from the seat cf the parley. (BULLETIN.) 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! TAH1S, Kay 13. President Wilson will remain , in Taris ruitil the peace treaty Is signad, tut has made It plain that the Oermaa3 must not protract their discussions "beyond June 15, the Echo d Paris states. John Edwin Nevin staff correspondent i. n. service) PARIS, May 13. The German peace envoys-, -having '-agreed among themselves that they cannot secure a modification of terms, will sign the peace treaty, according to confidential information reaching President Wilson today. Herr Lansberg and Herr Geisberg, two members of the Teutonic peace mission, have left Versailles for Berlin to inform the government of the decisions reached by the plenipotentiaries. DECISIC1T EETOEE SUI7DAT. The final conclusions and a definite course of action vi'I be decided upon by th Germans before Sunday. ( The big four met again this morning sn-1 continued their consideration of Austrian question?. The Austrian peace delegation Is Fcheduled to arrive at St. Germain tofcrht slid fnSii indicaetions will pssume passive attitude when the terms are presented. V7HAT OTHER NATIONS CI AIM. Signor Crespl, of the Italian delegation. Is quoted as saying that aside from hr territorial demands, Italy will ex-p"-t. all peoples who were members of !'e dual monarchy in 1911 to contribute 1 the Indemnity Austria-Hungary must tay. The Servians (now r&rt of Jug-o-iavi.it are demanding complete reparaVn. in addition to Bosnia and Ilerzefovlna. Jugo-Sln-. ia is ready, however. (Continue-. m fane Ave.) ftED CROSS PLANS WORLD-WIDE FIGHT AGAINST EPIDEMICS A9 1' 5 1 V Dr. Wm. Palmer Lucus. Dr. ViHiam Palmer Lucus, Prof. 6f ChiUren's diseases at the University of California Medical school, San Francisco, is one of the delepates to the Interallied Red Cros conference at Camres, France. The conference will prepare the program for the congress of all Red Cross ' societies to be herd at Geneva, thirty riavs after peace is declared. The work will deal with the organization of an international council which will strive for the prevention of epidemic diseases and the perfection of measL .urea for child welfare.

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Where There's a Will There's a Way INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, May 13. No matter how tight a woman's skirt is, she can kick a man if she wants to. Magistrate Douras so ruled and he putnder bond to keep the peace Miss Jennie Berger, 33. Miss Berger denied that she had kicked Joseph Goldmutz and told the judge it could not be done without splitting the skirt she was wearing.

LAKE GO. VALUATIONS JNCREASED Report From the State Tax Board Shows New Law Is Being Enforced. .TTIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL) IND1A.VAPUL.1S, Ind.. May 13. Large increases in the assessed valuation of I.alie county concerns this year as compared Willi valuations of last year are shown in a rport made to the state board of tax commissioners by a special reprcsentati e. The state board is gratified over the indication that property is being- valued by the assessors cf Lake on the true cash value principle, but it has intimated that there is likely to be a "shaking of dry bones" !n Indianapolis end Marion county, where, it is reported, that assessed valuations are not coming- up to expectations of the state board. Lake county has had a very high tax rate, especially In some of the cities, but it is predicted that Lake county next year will have one of the lowest tax rates in the state because the valuations this year are much higher than thr'werd.last year. L'nder the new tax law tax rates) come down generally in proportion to the increase In 'assessed valuation. The special representative of the state tax board reports from Lake county the assessments this year as compared with last for a large number of concerns. Some examples follow: Cudahy Tacking Comrany last year, $174,000. this year. $1, 400.000; Indiana Box Company, $11,000, $103,000: Llmbert & Co.. $2,000. $133,000; Locomotive Superheater, $112,000. $715,000; American Maize Products Company, $62,000, $499,000; Chapin & Co., $103,000, ,$870.000; Hoes Bros.. $1,000, $19,000; Xowak Millingr Corporation, $48,000. $344,000; Straube Piano Company. $19,000. $218,000: Sinclair Keflning Company, $210,00, $1,311,000. The. increases are due partly to the development of the properties, but the chief cause is the enforcement of tho new tax law. RESIGNS RATHER THAN USE GERMAN SERVICE The Rev. J. E. Harman Says He Was "Starved Out"; Incident at Evansville. EVANS VILLE, Ind., May 12 Tho Hev. J. E. Harman, pastor of the Emanuel Lutheran church of this city, tendered his resignation Sunday, and the governing board of the congregation promptly accepted it. The minister asserts he was "starved out" and had to resign. According to hl3 story, services in the Emmanuel Lutheran church were held in the German tongue until after the United States entered the war against Germany, and then it was decided to conduct scrvives only in English. He says that since the signing of the armistice several of the best paying members of tho congregation requested that he again conduct the service in the German language, and when he refused to do this he says these members quit paying their duos. As a result, he says, his salary was cut to such a low figure that he could not live, and so he decided to quit. His letter of resignation was sent to the church by a special delivery messenger Sunday morning, and read to tho congregation. The F.ev. Mr. Harman says that moat of the members of his congregation are loyal, but that the best paying members were tho ones who wished German back in the church. The wife of the pastor says both she and her husband have been living in constant fear for tho last few weeks because of the ill feeling the matter caused in the church, and she said they had feared "bodily harm." The Rev. Mr. Harman has receieved calls from Lutheran churches at Cleveland, Yoiingstown and Columbus, O., and probably will accept one of them. MOTORCYCLE STOLEN. While watching- a ft ing machine and alighting: from his motorcycle at Twenty-fifth avenue. Gary, yesteiday afternoon, John Adams had his motor, cycle stolen. Are ycu reading The Times?

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SOUTH BEND ALDERMAN -ONRAMPAGE He Couldn't Stand Radical Action and Told Them His Opinion. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SOUTH BEND. Ind.. May 13. City Councilman Maurice Vennet has his ideas of how to handle "radicals" in this country. Vennet went to a meeting of local "radicals" last night to se what "those cuckoos do at their meetings.'' As he entered tho hall the speaker of tho evening vas offering his views on how to run tho country. These views did not interest Councilman Vennet. B-.it a picture of a tablet bearing a number of names and Inscribed "These men died for the fatherland, killed by United States bullets" did. Vennet pulled the picture from the wall and before other "radicals" could interfere, crashed the frame over th head of the pryicipal speaker "and after telliaff "the whole bunch wht I thought of them," left the hall. rolice later restored order among the "radicals." TIRE THIEVES ARE SENTENCED TO PEN Hammond and West Hammond Men Confess to Wholesale Thefts. Max Stepanskl of 30, 154th Place. West Hammond, and W. P. Robinson of 243 Lewis street, Hammond, who were arrested by Officer ralmateer of the Hammond police on May 5. after the officer had watched the two men J load tires from a box car to an automobile were sentenced by Judge Martin Smith of Crown Point yesterday to the state prison. Both Stepanskl and Robinson had been work.ng as switchmen for the Indiana Harbor Helt P.. R. for over rive years and were two of the company's most trusted men. The m'n confessed having stolen many automobile loads of tires in the last year, taking only a few tires out of each car at different times. Both men were sentenced to serve , from 1 to 14 years in the pentitentiary, were disfranchised for Ave years and j fined $30 and costs. Robinson will go to Michigan City and Stepanskl to Jeff ersonville. SUES FOR $1,000 DAMAGES Suit for $1,000 damages was filed against the city of Hammond this morning 'in tho Hammond superior court by Cesare Menconl. Menconl. who Is represented by Attorneys MeAleer. Dorsey & Gillett. alleges that on January 19. 191S. he fell on the icy sidewalk in front of the Hammond Savings & Trust bank. His hands it seems hit the pavement first. A can which he had been carrying struck the fingers of his left hand, mashin? the first two so badly that they were amputated lated. AUTO SMASH BRINGS MIXUP Gus Stephens et al, otherwise known as the Calumet Ice Cream Co.. defenlnnt tn a dimaca suit tried durins the winter in the court of Justice of I the Peace Frank D. Prest, have filed application In the Hammond superior court to take an appeal after the customary thirty days allowed for such action has expired. In the suit Harry Reich was granted $100 damages and costs as a result of a collision between his automobile and the ice cream truck. L. V. Cravens, attorney for t he defendants, was out of town when the trial was held and the Judgment j went by default, ow the defendan represented by Attorneys Klotz Tinkham. say they knew nothin and of the case being tried and declare that Reich's auto ran Into their truck instead of the opposite as charged in the original complaint.

FORD JURY EXPECTED

BY EVENING INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., May 13. J. J. Sherman, a retired stock broker of Chicago, who is reputed to be a millionaire, one retired business man and ton farmers comprise the jury now occupying the box in the $1,000,000 libel suit filed by Henry 1'ord against the Chicago Tribune. The entire session this morning was given over to the examination of talesmen. It is expected a Jury wlil be completed by tonight. Eliot Stevenson, attorney for the Tribune, won a point today when he successfully objected to a question put to & prospective Juror by Ford's attorney. "Do you know." the Jury was asked, "that "William Eross Lloyd offered to bail out William D. Haywood, I. V. W. leader?" Lloyd Is a sto 'iholder In the Tribune'. The court ruled ' .r the question was Immaterial. t"" Judge Alfred J. Murphy, chief counsel for Ford, in addressing the Jury panel, reviewed at length the editorial entitled "Ford is an Anarchist," upon which the suit Is based, calling particular attention to various phrases in the editorial. The Solomon News Co., of Detroit, which Is a co-defendent with the Chicago Tribune, today changed its plea td one of justification, which Is the plea of the Tribune. The News Co. previously had rleaded ignorance of alleged libel In the copies of the Tribune which it circulated. HOW I. W. W. GREW IN FAR WEST f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! FOSTON. May 13. "That the I. W. Tf. attained Its growth !'.n the northwest because of lax social laws and economic injustice worked by the moneyed interests." was the statement this afternoon of Mayor Olo Hansen, of Seattle, speaking before the Employers Association of Eastern Massachusetts. Tho men who made up the membership of this undesirable society were men who were .made bittr by wrongs committed by th lumber kings of Washington and Oregon, charted the fighting executive. He continued that the movement was IcMng forco now ss employes and ail clti.ens wtre realizing that they could rot leave tho workman to himself without suffering. Take The Times and keep touch with the whole world. 13 NORTH DAKOTA HAS WOMAN SCHOOL HEAD Miss Minnie J. Nielson. Miss Minnie J. Nielson was elected superintendent cf the schools of North Dakota last November. During the recent session of the state legislature, however, the faction opposed to Miss Neilson was in control, and a law has been .passed which ireates a board of thre members which would take over many of tho duties that are now centered in the office of the elected superintendent. Miss Nielson's friends are fighting this step and the result is that she has become the center of rh interesting fight..

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"WOBBLIES". CASE WAS CONTINUED Chicago Lawyer Fails to Show up in Time for W. Hammond Trial. Owing to the failure of their attorney to arrive yesterday at tho tlms their case had been set for hearing, Joseph Levinski and Jack Kroon. the I. W. W. agitators held at West Hammond, asked to have their case continued which was granted. Levinski and Kroon had managed to get word to a Chicago lawyer named Moore who assured them he would be on hand to defend them. The case had been set for two o'clock, but Moore did not arrive until after three o'clock. His clients had been returned to their cells. After a consultation with the men, Moore asked that they be allowed their liberty on their Own recognizance, stating that tr Was amitteT"5r' principle rtth"th3 I. W. W. to see the thing properly tried through the courts. West Hammond authorities couldn't see it that way and insisted that bond be arranged. Moore returned to Chicago, where he managed to fix up the required bond which was not high owing to the fact that the men were held only on the disorderly conduct charge. The trial has been set for Thursday of next week and promises to be of considerable interest as the legal representatives of SWIft & Co. are furnishing an. attorney to assist in the prosecution. Federal agents from Chicago have been in West Hammond investigating the matter for several days and It Is probable that by the time the case comes up for trial more serious charges may be lodged against the "wobblles." It is said that Levinski in his controversy with an official of the Swift plant made the statement that while the company ofncials were running things there now. he would show them who was la charge later. EAST HAMMOND MAN IN TROUBLE Joe Mlele of Columbia avenue, Hammond, went over to West Hammond for his drinks and visited the carnival on Hohman street. He started a fuoa nith a woman who runs one of the stands at the carnival. The woman told him to move on but M;ele showed her a toy etar and said he was a Hammond police officer and would smash her stand. The woman then saw Officers Shaadt and Palmateer and they arrested Mlele charging htm with impersonating an eff icer. Miele was fined $60 In the Hammond city court this morning by Judge Klotz. PROHIBITION NOT BROUGHT UP THERE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May 13. A (statement denying that the American Legion in convention at St. Louis Indicated sny choice for (candidate for president of the Un.ted States, or that the caucus went on record as In favor of anti-prohibition was Usued this afternoon by Colonel Henry D. Llndsley. chairman of the Legion caucus. Prohibition. Colonel Lindsley stated, 'was agreed to be an Improper matter to bring before the caucus." "The constitution cf the Legion expressly prohibits the Injection of part'san or political Issues," Col. Lindsley added. POSTER WINS HIM A BRIDE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEWARK. N. J.. May 13. "For Home and Country," the Victory loan poster painted by Alfred Everett Orr won him a bride, it was learned today. The bride was Ruth Wyckoff. beautiful Los Angeles girl, who posed as the wife In the roster. Miss Wyckoff was Visiting In the cast shortly before the last loan campaign began. She conceived the "For Home and Country" Idea and suggested It to Orr, who promptly picked her as his model. Frienship ripened into love while he was painf.ng and they were married last Saturday. They will live tn Los Angeles. Advertise in The Times and advertise again. Results come with constant effort.

EXPECT ETO T Settlement of the strike of building tradesmen is expected to be reached tonight Following the meeting yesterday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce It was believed that the contractors and representatives of the unions had eliminated enough of their differences that a complete adjustment was near. Special meetings of the strikers were held last night to consider the changes agreed upon at yesterday's meeting and there are still some points left to be threshed out at a Joint meeting which will be held this evening at the Chamber of Commerce. Both sides are confident that the matter will be disposed of satisfactorily and that work will be resumed before the close of the weelc. KILLS SIX THEN GOES TO MOVIES Young German Found Seeing "Tender Mercy," After Slaying Six. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE AMSTERDAM. May 13. After murdering six persons at Dortmund, a nineteen-year-old German youth named Fritz Ritter, went to a moving picture theatre and was enjoying a show called "Tender Mercy" when the police arrested him. The first victim was Herr Lenkmann. bread card controller, who was slain with an axe. After stealing all the bread cards and $7.50 in money the youth attacked Frau Lenkmann. killing her. Then the murderer dispatched a servant and choked two children to death. He wound up by shooting the eldest son of Lenkmann. "I waa out of work and hungry," was Hitter's defense when arrested. THOUGHT HE WAS RESTING INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COLUMBUS, Ind.. May 13. A boy about five years old was entertaining passengers In a crowded Louisville-Indianapolis traction car by his questions. Finally he centered cn a soldier, wearing the aviation corps insign'la. tD'.fi. you get wounded." the boy asked. "No," replied the soldier. "Did you kill any Germans," he then asked. "No." replied the soldier who bore three silver chevrons. "I wasn't overseas." "Oh. you were in the war resting," was the lad's responder. MANY APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP PAPERS Judge Hardy has been busy all day In Hammond superior court Room No. 2 granting full citizenship papers to foreign born residents of Lake county. They came early this morning and soon had the court room and corridor filled. Each apllcant had two witnesses. It was expected that by evening fully seventy-five aplications would be passed upon. About thirty-five had been granted second papers at noon. Restrictions In many of the industries regarding the hiring of men who have not been naturalized caused a rush for first papers while men who have had their first papers for several years are Just now awakening to the necessity of finishing their course in citizenship. FIND GERMAN REVOLVER THERE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I LONDON, May 13. a German revolver and a number of German made cartridges were unearthed when the military authorities made a search for arms and munitions among the Sinn Feiners at Cork today, said a Central News dispatch from that city. Are you reading The Trmes?

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Former Hammond Han Shoots Han Who Had Been Boarder In His Home. Thomas Lake, formerly well known in Hammond labor circles, now living in Chicago and who married Miss Mabel Post of Hammond, shot and killed Thomas Webb in front of a south side grocery store in Chicago last night Lake, against whom his wife had instituted proceedings for divorce, blamed Webb for his domestic troubles and accused him of stealing his wife and son. So he took the case In his own hanls yesterday and shot Webb threo tinier in front of a grocery store at 634 4 S. Central avenue. Then he calmly put the revolver back In his pocket and walked away. Scores saw the shooting. "I'm glad I shot him and I hope hi dies, for he got my wife and child f run away with him," Lake told Policeman John L. Heinen of the Englewood station, who arrested him before he had gone half a block. Lake's hope was realized, for Webb died fifteen minutes later. Two bullet had penetrated his lungs and the third had entered his mouth. WEBB HAD BEEN EOAEDIE. Webb, it is said, had been a boarder at the Lake home. About two months ago Mrs. Lake and her son disappeared. Soon after that Webb, who was 5 years old and a railroad switchman, left the Lake home. Lake became suspicious and watched (Continued or. page two.) ifsir FLIGHT IS fBTJLlETijj.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHATHAM, Mass., May 13. Hope of "hopping off" Cape Cod today on the BOO mile "Jump" to Trepasso, N. r., was abandoned this afternoon by Ident. Commander A. C. Head, of Lyme, II. C la charge of the naval hydroplane HC-4. "A high wind is still sweeping along the coast from the northeast," said Commander Kead, "and it will be impossible for ns to leave today. However, we have not given up hope of i keeping in the running and weather per mitting the KC-4 will start tomorrow fro Trepassey to Join the HC-I and NC-3 for the long flight. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ST. JOHNS. N. F., May 13 . Local weather conditions were favorable for fiytntr this forenoon and if the earlv afternoon reports are equally poor), the British airmen. Captain Raynha'i and Hawker, may start across the Atlantic this evening. Roih plants were provided with fuel and in readiness fir the start when the adverse weather reports came in (Continued on page two.) Expect Petrograd's Fall. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 STOCKHOLM. May 13. Petrogrnd i expected to fall to the allied forces In a few days, said a dispatch from Helsingfors today. DIRECTS DAKOTA'S FIRST STATE BANK J. R. Waters. J. K. Waters, of Beach, N D., has been apoir.ted manager of thi? Bans of North Dakota, which will be tho only state finaancial institution of its kind in the United States. The Lank has beet; located in Bismark and is under the direction of tho state industrial commission. Public Ir.nds of all kinds will be poured into this bank and there will be no exception to this rule. It is expected that the doors cf the bank will open ?.!ay 25. The principal purpose of the bank is the financing of the stat system of industrial enterprises as authorized by the Non-Partisaa League legislature.

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