Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 286, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1919 — Page 1

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SAYS WILSON S HOUGH Officials at Capital Believe He Hay Be Forced to Run Again. (BTJI.X.ETIN.) MNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, May 16. President Wilson did not tell Democratic senator and representatives tha be would not te a candidate for a third term wken-ba met them at the white house dinner at which the league of nations covenant wa discussed, Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, declared emphatically today. This report was published In a New York paper today. riNTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, May 16. Revival of'the report that President Wilson at the white house dinner at which he explained the league of nations covenant to the senate and house foreign relations committee declared that upon his second return to America he would announce that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for a third time, was interesting official circles again today. The report was published In the New York World. Just what President Wilp on said upon that occasion always has Veen shrouded In mystery. It is understood that any reference lis made to a third tsrra was ia the strictest confluence and for that reason senators have been reticent about commenting upon his remarks. MAUT DimaXNT B.EFOKTS. Following the dinner there were varied reports of what the president had said. One was that he had made it plain he would not accept a third term, end another was that he had been noncommittal. The result was that white house officials diplomatically denied that there had been any formal discussion of a third term. "I cannot comment upon it," was all Secretary Tumulty would say when his intention was called to the report today. For eom time there has been an Impression in certain capital circles that the. president would be forced to run again and the fact that at this late dale the Democrats apparently are grooming no candidate for the next presidential campaign has not served to discount this impression. It was pointed out that even though the president had made his position plain at the white house dinner there have been many developments since that time which would furnish him with ample opportunity to withdraw from an ysuch step If he "deemed it for the best Interests of the country." One of these developments, it was pointed out, was the opposition of Republican senators to the league of nations covenant. This, It was indicated easily could be construed by the president as an invitation to remain in the fight. LIFE FOR TOO BAD NEGROES East Chicago Colored Men Who Committed Brutal Murder Sentenced. (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. May 16. Two East Chicago negroes, both bad actors, who In a particularly atrocious hold-up shot Vladyslaw- Spycwsky last March, were tried before Judge Martin J. Smith for murder in the first degree yesterday. There was nevr any question at any stage of the game of their guilt and it was about as all-around black a crlma as was ever committed In the county. Eoth men wera sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and It Is hoped that their conviction and sentence will have a salutary effect on some of North township's bad "niggers. ' Notice to Contractors. There will be an important meeting lit the chamber of commerce Saturday afternoon at two eclook. 5-lS-lt Committee. BROADWAY HORRIFIED f"RW YORK. May 1? Broadway was BSCS toda over fne appearance of a nw bedroom farce, opening last night which portrayed scenes .i a notorious Knslish roadhouse during a Zeppelin raid with some flashes that reminded the 'first nighters " of -The Girl from Rectors." One critic said the farce portrayed only "reasonable vice," another called It "hopelessly vulgar." and aid t should bs kicked off the stage.

SCHOOL CENSUS IS COMPLETE Lake Co. Grows During 1919 In Astonishing Manner.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN POINT. Ind.. May 16 County Superintendent of Schools I F. Heighwny today sent Into the state department of schools the school census of 1913 which enumerators have just completed. The growth of Lake county during the year has been 2.0S1 and on an estimated 3.112 basis gives Lake county a population of over ISO, 000. The figures are as follows: Township. Fopulatlon. Gain. Calumet Cedar Creek 2;. 417 ISS 10 457 233 217 1S3 s:s 114 1SS 231 - o . 412 432 417 s:r iss ! Center j Hcbart j Ross ! Fast Gary Griffith Hanover Hcbart New Chicago Schererville Eagle Creek Hanover Xcrth St. John West Crek Winfleld Lowell Munster Loss. 15 4 35 15 13 Cities. Population. Gain. j Crown Point 773 (East Chicago 0.10 4 Gary 12.1 5 I Hammond 9.325 'whiting 2.6S3 23 846 P63 679 161 gain, Total for county. 33.5.M; net 2,491. LAKE CO. EDUCATOR GETS FINE POSITION Out oF Eighty" Applicants for Lebanon Schools' Head Prof. Holliday is Chosen. LEBANON. Ind.. May 16. W. W. Holliday. principal of the Froebel school at Gary, who has been employed as superintendent of the Lebanon city schools, is a graduate of Indiana Vniversity and of the- Valparaiso Normal College. He has been in school work for more than twenty years. He taught two years In the Frankfort High School, was principal two years at Bringhurst, was superintendent at Vpland four years, principal at Whiting for three and one-half years and superintendent of the Whiting schools for more than six years. Four years ago he was called to Gary to take charge of the Froebel night school, where he has thirty teachers under his direction. He Is 47 years old and has a wife and four children. Prof. Holliday succeeds H. G. Brown, who designed to accept a position with a book publishing concern. There were ! more than eighty applicants for the lv.alsh.lo of the Lebanon schools. TEACHERS' SALARIES INCREASED Two Boards of Education Give Schoolma'ams Nice Boost in Wages. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) WHITING. Ind, Maq 16. That the school teachers of the region are to receive decided increases l;i salaries, keeping pace with the increase in the cost of living, i3 evidenced by the recent procedure of the Whiting and East Chicago boards of education. The Whiting board of education at a recent meeting voted to raako $1000 as a salary minimum in the public schools. All teachers will deceive $1000 or more. The kindergarten and grade teachers will begin at this rate, others to be relatively higher. Yearly increases are also provided for. Supt. E. N. Canine, of the East Chicago schools, has recently Issued a schedule of qualifications required In his schools, together with a list of salaries paid. The latter range from, $70 to $200 per rfconth with yearly increases of from $5 to $10 per month provided for. The East Chicago list of salaries Is said to be one of the best in the state. BANKER HAY'S FATHER AT POINT" OF DEATH H. G. Hay. assistant treasurer of the United States Steel Corporation, father of H. fi. Hay. Jr., president of the Gary State Bank, is very ill at his home in New York and hope of his recovery Is very doubtful. Mr. Hay, of Gary, left some days ago on a business trip to New York and was shocked to learn that his father had suffered a severe attack of heart trouble and is now at the bedside of his father. Mr. Hay, before his removal to NewYork, was engaged on a large scale In the banking business and cattle ra'.slnir In Wyoming and has visited Gary a number of timet

THAT WILL HOLD . THEM FOR A WHILE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PARIS, May 16. A feature of the German note on the release of war prisoners was a request that the allies equip the German captives with new shoes and clothing. In French semiofficial circles the comment was made today that the new clothes wsich the Germans wore last year when they boasted they would capture Paris "have evidently been worn out by over-pressing."

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Two Children Playing in a Barn Are Burned to Death. TSPECIAL TO THE TIMES HO BART. Ind., May 16. William Raschka received a telephone call yesterday afternoon from his brother Frank, who lives near Palmer, telling him that his barn was burning and that his two children, Esther, aged 4 years, and Kenneth, aged 6 years, who were playing In the barn at the time, were burned to death. The bodies were recovered from the burning building but they were already lifeless. Mr. Raschka was working In the field at the timo of tho fire and his wife who was In the house did not discover It until the building was all ia flames. The origin is unknown. HEALTH .OFFICER ' MAKES A REPORT Some improvement is noticeable in the water supply of Hammond according to City Health Commissioner Eucha.na.n. but he intimates it is not good and there is little use of ever expecting it to be good as long as conditions continue as they are at Lake Front. However, he says the stories current regarding th-i prevalence of typhoid fever are unfounded or physicians are not reporting their cases to him. Records of the health department show that slnca January 1st there have be"ii eight cases of typhoid fever in tho city. At the sanifl time there were eleven cass of smallpox, eleven of measles, nine of diphtheria, and six of scarlet fever. Last year the city was practically free from typhoid and tho only cases in Hammond were patients brought to the hospital from other cities or peoplo who worked in other cities and drank th-3 w ater there. At present ths city water Is testing low In germ cultures, Indicating that the lake has quieted down somewhat. Dr. Buchanan "says that following storms with winds from the north, the filth laden surface water and sewage from different titles Is brought towards the Hammond beach. As tills settles to th bottom of the lake the drinking water soon shows the presence of foreign matter. Chlorine attacks this matter first and often when the water is particularly dirty It cannot be completely sterilized ia the treatment. DRIVE IS READY TO FUNCTION NOW Hammond has been divided into ten departments for the W. C. T. U. membership drive. A captain has been appointed for each section and each In turn selects ten helpers. All rledge themselves to secure at least ten newmembers with their "gifts of gratitude" in the victory drive. Two captains were selected from each of the four unions in tho city and two more from the county officers. They are Central Mrs. Mina Primmer and Mrs. Mollis Blanchard: South Side Mrs. S. A. Reed and Mrs. George eYager: No. Side Mrs. Harry King and Mrs. Ralph Tweedle; Francis V.'illard Mrs. Caroline Camp and Mrs. Bertha Grieme; County Mrs. II. E. Granger and lrs. J. R. Graves. The presidents of the unions who will also be active are Mrs. George Adkins, Mrs. O. N. Kiger, Mrs. Clarence Graves and Mrs. J. C. JIcCartln. YES, THESE ARE LUXURIES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 NEW YORK. May 16. Corsets are luxuries in the meaning of the newgovernment luxury tax, the National Retail Dry Goods Association was informed today by the Internal Revenue authorities at Washington. And all the mysterious beribboned things that women wear under their outer dress must pay the luxury tax. the revenue men ruled. NEW RED UPRISING. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE GENEVA. May 16. A serious bolshevik uprising has broken on t at

Kustenji, in Bulgaria, according to In-the only way to end the present stagformation received here today from nation, said a d spatch from Eerlin

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Recoterwl dynamos Thousands of dycamos which the Gormars had stolen from French and Belffian factories have J, Women Meet in Zurich to Protests Against Terms Handed to Germany. CExelusive Cable to the Z. N. S. from the Petit Journal, Paris.) ZURICH. May 15. A protest against the blockade of the central empires was moved at the international congress of women which Is In session here. Frau Glucklich, of Houngary, declared that the blockade was reponsible for Bolshevism in her country. Thirty-two American delegates are present. Including Jane Addams. of Chicago, Ida Tarbell and Jeannet'.e Rankin, the former woman memoer of the American congress. England is represented by twentythree delegates. Including Mrs. Philip Snowdcn and Mrs. T'espard. Only one woman represents France. There are three representatives from Ireland, 27 from Germany and four from Austria-Hungary. In moving the resolution opposing the btockade some of the delegates declared

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It was bringing etarvation to women fourteen banks In various small towns and children. adjacent to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Frau Heyman of Germany said that The banks were closed by state authorGerman women protested against the jties last February. Invasion of Belgium and the Inhuman .

deportations of civilians from Belgium and Northern France. According to Frau Heyman German women were not in favor of the Brest-Lltovsk treaty nor the soldiers idea of drafting peace. Young German women, representing forty German cities, joined in the movement for a revolution, said Frau Heyman. ANOTHER PEST FOR SWITZERLAND BY PATRICK DEVITT. (Exclusive Cable to th International ews Service from London IJally Kmpres. GENEVA. May 16. Archduke Maximilian, a brother of former Emperor Charles, of Austria. Is the latest member of European royalty to arrive In Switzerland. Four more archdukes are j expected to arrive here this montn. Arlstcratlc families continue to arrive from tho former dual monarchy, where, according to report, living conditions are intolerable. LAKE CO. MAN JS PAROLED TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL1 INDIANAPOLIS, May 16. Governor Goodrich has paroled Frank Koonce, who was sent to the state farm on January 10 for six months on a charge of petit larceny from Lake county. The record says the man was paroled because Ii ia father Is in need of his services. WANT THE TREATY SIGNED (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 COPENHAGEN'. May lfi. German merchants and other Germanas of practical affairs are urging the Berlin governmen to sign the treaty as today.

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been recovered by the allies. The equipment is now in a dump in Belgium, waiting for the owners TWO HURT IN AUTO SMASHUP Logansport Man Is Badly Hurt Between Griffith and Schererville. SPECIAL TO THE TIHESJ GRIFFITH. Ind.. May 16. Another narrow escape from death in an auto accident t?ck place near here yesterday when X. D. Flancagtn of Logansport. Ind., and Arthur McCauslin met with Injury. The big touring car In which they were riding was ditched while going at a good clip and turned over with the men under it. The cause of the casualty was a broken steering knuckle. Flannagan suffered a broken arm, dislocated shoulder and internal injuries. He was sent on a Panhandle train to a Logansport hospital after first aid had been given him by Dr. Malmstone. McCauslin escaped with minor Injuries. The car was demolished. W. H. SCHAEFER - PLEADS GUILTY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., May 16. William IL Schafer, banker, pleaded guilty to brand larceny here today. The case was one of eighteen Indictments against him In connection with accusations that : ho promoted a "gigantic scheme of fraud and deception to loot his banks. Schafer controlled t the Mortgage Sej curlty Co.. which operated a string of HAMMOND COMPANY IS INCORPORATED I 'NTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. May 16. Articles of Incorporation havu been filed with the secretary of state by the Granger-Whitaker Co., of Hammond. JJnd., which will do general express and drayago business, with, a capital stock of $15.000., Th directors are Fred Granger, Giles T. Warner and Lawrence Erlenbauch. TOO MANY TANGO-TEAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE-) NEW YORK. May 16 John E. Carey wealthy surgical manufacturer, accused of invading the apartment of pretty Mrs. Helen C. Waterman and carrying her off to his room In her nightgown, was today held for trial in J3,003 bail, charged with abduction, burglary and. felonious assault. Magistrate Seers said he had na doubt that the cave-man episode was an aftermath of too many bathing and tar.go-tea parties attended by Carey and the young widow. GERMANS WILL SIGN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BERLIN, via London. May 16. A dispatch from Versailles today quoted Count von Brockdorf-Rantzeau. head of the German peace delegation, as saying: "The peace terms are unacceptable, but that the Germans are ready to accommodate the allies on any legitimate claims to the fullest extent. The foregoing Is the first sign of the unbending will not to sign the treaty, but the German? may sigh under protest. Don't throw your paper away

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to claim their property. In many instances the Germans stole the equipment of entire factories. LADIES 10 WORK FOR THE AMY High school girls -will do the greater part of the soliciting: in the Salvation Army drive In Hammond. Mrs. Edward DedeTow, city chairman of the women workers, is holding a meeting with the precinct chairmen at the chamber of commerce this afternoon and plans are being laid for a rapid fire campaign. Precinct chairmen have fbeen appointed who will have charge of the girls In their territory. Girls are requested to cal their precinct chairmen for Instructions and in case they do not know? the number of their precinct they should call Mrs. Dedelow whose phone number is A prize will be given the high school turning in the greatest amount of money. Following are the precinct chairmen and their telephone numbers: Four Father Seroczynski, 10T9J. Five Mrs. J. E. Walker, 1246-R. Six Mr?. C. R. TweerVe. 23;. Seven Mrs. Harry Muth. 2310. Eight and Nine Mrs. Ralph Pitrce, 573 Ten Miss Gladys Younger. 1051-J. Eleven, Mrs. L. T. Feltzer. 1194-J. Twelve Mrs. William Stafford. 1031M. Thirteen Mrs. A. J. Buck, ZaZl. Fourteen Mrs. Julius Meyn, 3366. Fifteen Miss Dorothy Rohrer. 1313J. Sixteen Miss Faye Rirk, 1S4C-R. Nineteen Mis? Adele Dunbar. 8SM. JUDGE KLOTZ CAR DAMAGED One of those annoying and too frequently re-curringr car-backing arrldents happened yesterday afternoon, when a street car again backed up on iHohman street .Without warning of any kind and smashed into the automobile driven by Judge Theodore Kloti of 4S7 Sibley street. Judge Klitz had driven up behind the street car which was standing on the Russel street switch when the car started ahead and got partly off the switch when the motorir.an suddenly ! reversed the car and it backed into the ' Judge's car. No one was Injured but the left fender was smashed and one tire torn. BRITSH DIRIGIBLE MAY GET HONOR INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ATLANTIC CITY. May 16. The accident to the American dirigible C-.", at Newfoundland last night.' makes it appear poss.ble that the giant British dirigible R-34. may win the honor of belr.g the first to cross the Atlantic. Reports reached the Pan-American Aeronautic congress, in session here, that the R-34. which is nearly three t.mes the size of the C-o. probably will advance her schedule time of departure and start very soon. Arrangement for housing her are being- m.de at Cape May. FOUR CHILDREN'S TERRIBLE FATE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CHICAGO, May 16. When Mrs. Mary Swiniarski returned to her apartment today after working all night she was met at the door by a patrolman. Hho fainted. On beinf? revived she was toid how a rubber hose on her kitchen stove became detached and haw- her four children, Joseph. 2: Sophie, 4; Mary ; and Anna. T; had been asohyx-

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He Wanted to Give $10 To Be Allowed to Tell What He Thought of Outfit. Tony Kozloff, Whiting's premier bolshevist, was givea the maximum penalty here yesterday by Judge Roy Green. "And I am sorry that the nature of the charge does not permit rr.e to say what I think of this man. If I would be allowed to do so I would gladly pay $10 of his fine in order to tell what I think of him and any lawyer who would come down here to defend such a man," were the c.osmg wc Presscuting Attorney John C. Hall in asking that Tony Kozloff, Whiting bolshevist, be given the maximum fine in his trial for violating a city ordinance. It was necessary to rap long and loudly for order before the applause died down in the courtroom . OLD ORDIA2TACE EEOTJOHT TJP Kozloff. who had distributed handbills announcing a -protest" meet'nfollowing the breaking- up of a bolshevIs. gathering at Whiting two wee!., ofd Tm SrreStfd " the strgth of an old ordinance which makes U a misdemeanor to give or throw away handbills or circulars In the city. The professed purpose is to prcvent tne t being cluttered with paper pnd to stop the circulation of obnoxious advertising literature. Swan Johnson, a Chicago lawyer, was on hand to defend Kozloff when Citv Judge Green called the case. Five osix of Kozloff -s crowd were in the courtroom. The preat turnout which hid ;,Jen rrcmiscd when he was arrests ad dwindle radly. The rest of thspectators were Whiting citizens, Jovii to the core, who were itching to see IvoEloff given the limit. ATTACKS ITS VALIBITT. Evidence of the policemen who had arrested the man was- Introduced m show that he had distributed the handbills. Johnson, seeing: that the prn,.was against his ci:o,.t. attacked tbvalidity of the city ordinance and clared it his belief that it would be unconstitutional. Judge Green 8,,.t naturedly asked that he be spared humility of holding it invalid himself had framed the ordinance. A -to his ability to see such an tindertaUinJ through. Mr. Johnson informed hi h.-.r'r. ers that he had pushed mai!;.- a c-. through the higher tribunals. Cas. : which made the present affair sc.--.-i trivial arid insijEriii.lcarit. TEE JUDGE TOOK IT Ur.a-.ved by the legal talent bcrrhim. Judge Green retained his ,.v,,,. posure. rrosecutor Hall ihtn wound un the argument by asking f-..r th mx:'mum penalty for IZozloff which is JiO.'. and costs. Johnson rrotested but :n vain and - the brief war of words the real rt".--mc-nt back of the prosecution. Kcz;.-;; -- bolshevistic activities, was m---ntionei. The return to Russia of Uozlcff and h:.--sympathizers was suggested by M-. Hall whereupon Johnson came bio".; with. "It's a shame a man has to go t Russia for liberty." WHITING- BOESN'T SEED THEII. Judtre Green called them back to the case and proceeded to soak th-? fine to the defendant. For Johnson's benefit he added that Whiting had no need for such fellows ns Kozloff. "We don't want anything of this kin 1 in Whiting. Our people are happy .ind contented here and there is no n'd attempt to spread such stuff." This in reply o cno of Johnson's assprtlo; n that tho liberty of the workingn-.cn to organize 'and protest was being curtailed in America. Johnson announced he would take an appeal and put up the appeal bond. Within the next ten days the suit v.lii probably be transferred to the criminal court at Crown I'oint. I (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I NEW YORK, May 1C. Ylu;i was vigorous t rading at the opening of l h". stock market today with many .toss movements in different groups of r-tocUs. the opening transactions being marked by a pond deal of excitement in a number of issues. Royal Dutch of N"-.v York gained 4 points. There, was a wide op'-ning also in Interborough pfd. tint stock in ranging from "2-'-i to 25. Urookiyn Transit was in supply, lulling 2 points to 26U- Raldw in Locomotive was arhi in. demand, advancing l'.i t:i 102. Steel common reflected continued absorption and advanced t- i,, !;:'. Keystone Tire was under pressure declining 1 to CU'-j. Take The Times and keep touch with the whole world.

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