Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 290, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1919 — Page 1

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(By A?L C. REEVES, International News Service) LONDON, May 20. The Sopwith biplane that carried Harry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieut. Commander Grieve from Newfoundland, in attempt to cross the Atlantic, was given up as lost this afternoon. Gen. Sykes announced that such a violent gale is now raging over the Irish coast that such destroyers which put to sea in the faint hope that the men might be still alive, had been unable to return to port. Admiralty officials said it was inconceivable that Hawker and Grieve could have survived such a storm.

HEGEWlSGH BANK IS ROBBED

President Lawrence Cox Looks into a Revolver Again and Says He Could See" Bullet. THE HOLE LOOKED LARGE A naif a dozen men In the Him. mond County Club last Thursday, ifter the Dolton bank robbery, wer UscussiE.g the probability of the oandits risitinsr some of the Calumet region cities' banks one of theie lays. Among1 the men was Lawrenc Cox, president of the Interstate Bank 3f Begewisch. Some one suggested -.hat the Interstate might get a visit. 'Well, "if it does, the cash is all insured," said Mr. Cox, "and if they shove a (run in front of me, 111 be luiet for when I was deputy sheriff C sat with a gun pointed at me for half an hour in the hands of a Tol. leston bad man. X had a warrant for lim, and that hole looks mighty big. rou can see the bullet looking' you right in the face." Four men in a high-powered automobile held up the Interstate Bank of Hegewisch today and escaped with between $4,000 and $5,000 in currency. Twenty thousand dollars in currency in the vault of the safe was missed when an unidentified per-j son outside of the bank discovered what was going on and began shooting at the driver of the bandit car which stood at the curb with the engine running, waiting for the three robbers inside to complete their work. FI.EE TOWARD SOUTH CHICAGO. Tha robbers escaped, going north toward South Chicago. Only two avenues of escape are afforded 311 this direction out of Hesre.wlseh. One is Torrence ave., and the other Green Bay road. ! A police patrol filled with detectives armed with rif.es was dispatched immediately after th robbery occurred, under command of Segt. Ben Burns, to stop the men coining up Torrence ave. (Continued on page six.) SIMPSON GIVEN PORTER COUNTY JURY Sensational Lowell Case to: Be Tried Next Monday at Crown Point. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT. Ind.. May 20. When the case of the State vs. Samuel Simpson of Lowell was called in Judge Smith's court here yesterday W. J. McAleer of Hammond, representing the defendant, filed an application for a change of venue from Lake county, alleging that he could not get a fair and impartial trial here. Judge Smith denied the motion. Attorney McAleer then filed a request for a "jury from Forter county which was granted by the court. The day for the trial has been set as May 26. The. defendant Is accused by a young Lowell girl.

EAST CHICAGO MAN SUES FORDEFAMATION Charge- in Police Court Not Sustained; Defendant Charges Malicious Prosecution.

Suit for $15,000 damages was filed this morning in the Hammond Superior court by Michael Zbiegien, of East Chicago, against Marcel Hodupski and his wife, Mlchalina Hodupski. Zbiegrien. whose attorney are Isadore Friend and W. J. Whlnery. alleges that on January 22, 1919. he was arrested by the East Chicago police charged with having stolen $5,000 from the Hodupskis. In the hearing before Judge Cohen in the East Chicago city court, the evidence did not sustain the charge and Zbiegien was acquited. Ha charges malicious prosecution in the complaint filed this morning and asks for $15,000 to repay the damage done his character. The Hodupskis run a bakery on Cedar St., Indiana Harbor. L STRINGS LOST; HAMMOND IS SUED Hammond Woman Who Loses Valuables While at Bathing Beach Begins Action. Damages for the loss of three strings of corals at the Hammond bathing beach are asked in the suit of Mrs. Lottie Lipinskl against the City of Hammond which is now being heard by Judge Hardy and a Jury in Hammond Superior court room .'o. 2. Mrs. Lipinskl says that on September 14. 1315. she went to the beach to bathe. On donning her bathing 6ult she turned over her; wearing apparel and valuables to an attendant to be kept in a place of safety until called for by her. Among the valuables were thre strings of corals valued at $200. Returning to the bathhouse later for her possessions, she says the corals were not in the lot and since then have net been found. She has spent $30 trying to locate the corals end for that reason asks for $250 damagei?. Mrs. Llpinskl is represented by Attorneys McAleer. Dorsey & Gillett, while McMahon & Conroy represent the city. Owing to the fact that the city is the defendant, jurors must be drawn who do not reside in Hammond and this has caused much delay in getting the suit under way. All Monday was spent in paneling the Jury and more were drawn this morning. ITALY WILL HAVE ALL QUICKSILVER John Parkerson PARIS, May 20 The world's monopoly of quick silver will be In Italy's hands If the allies grant their request for territory on the Istrian peninsula, which contains a big quicksilver mine. It !s understood, however, that the allies are opposed to granting this demand of Italy's. There are only threi quicksilver mines In the world and Italy owns two of them. There were further indications today that a settlement of the Flume problem It at hand along the lines of internationaliaztion. JAZZ AT WEDDINGS IS THE LATEST f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LOXON". May 11 (By Mail). Jaza weddings have been introduced Into London :oclety by the dance craze. It is now the fashionable thing to combine the dance and the wedding letting one follow the other.

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ARE PLOTTERS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 NEW YORK. Hay 20. The makers and senders of the score or more bombs addressed to men of national prominence and placed In the New Tork post ofilce on May Day have been identified and located by the bomb squad of the New Tork detective department and federal investigators, it was reported this afternoon. "Wholesale arrests are expected within forty-eight hours. Inspector Faurol, head of the bomb squad, has evidence against twenty-three Spanish anarchists and has twenty-one of them under surveillance. Many of them belong to the same gang rounded up In New Tork two days before President Wilson was scheduled to make his league of nations speech in Boston on his return from Europe. The machine that turned out the wood cylinders Inside which the explosives were placed. Is In Faurot's possession. He also has the typewriter used to address the bomb packages. The machine was discovered in a Fifty-third st. apartment a few days ago. TANK PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS So Arthur J. McLaughlin Begins Suit Against Monon Railway. Through the unusual circumstance of a water tank burning up. Arthur J. McLaughlin of Cedar Lake was put out of business and for this reason he Is bringing suit against the Monon H R., owner of the tank, for damages. The complaint filed in the Hammond superior -court by Attorneys Boone 4; Murray is against Walker P. Hines. administrator and director general of the C. I. c L. Ry. Co. The wooden water tank stood near the Cedar Lake station and had been so erected that part of it stood on property owned by McLaughlin. He owned a restaurant adjoining the tank. On February 11, 1913, railroad employes built a fire near the tank and according to the complaint failed to watch it carefully so that the tank caught Are and with it went Mr. McLaughlin's restaurant. Mr. McLaughlin asks for 13.000 damages which he says will cover the loss of the restaurant together with four months' income from the business. WHAT FOCH THINKS OF IT nurrDwiTrnun Mrwc crovirri !' MI'SSF.lA Mnv .V Th li.rmaTis will sign the peace treaty when they see they cannot avoid It," declared Marshal Foch, the allied Keneralisslmo in an Interview here today. "If they do not sign it we are ready." DEMAND RETURN OF WIRE CONTROL f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, May 20. Demands for return of the telegraph and telephone systems to private ownership were presented by both democrats and republicans in the senate this afternoon. Senator Kellogg, republican of Minnesota, and Senator Gore, democrat, of Oklahoma, presented resolur tions demanding immediate return of the wires. WANT EARLY SUFFRAGE VOTE f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May 20. The woman suffrage constitutional amendment was laid before the house this afternoon for early passage, with suffrage leaders driving for final action before the end of the week. WANT LOWER CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE!WASHINGTON. May 20. Purchase of the peninsula of Lower California by the U. S. from the Republic of Mexico was advocated in a resolution presented to the senate today by Senator Ashurst of Arizona. The resolution provides for immediate negotiations.

GEN. I1AAN INC. POINT JULY FOURTH Preparations Under Way for a Big Reception for Distinguished Soldier.

rSPECUL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN POINT. Ind., May 20. The Fourth of July, 1319, will be the most memorable occasion the county seat has ever had in the way of a celebration. Maj. Gen. W. G. Haan, commander of the 3Crd division and later the "th Army Corps is to be Crown Point' guest on that day. Gen. Haan has accepted the Invitation extended to him by representatives of the Chamber of Commerce which has already started work on a program for a day of days. Crown Point expects to make it a county celebration and one that will draw crowds from near and far. Sec. Fred Ruf of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday received a telegram stating that Maj. Gen. Haan had accepted the invitation. E. NEXT WEEK Probability that Major General "W. O. Haan, commander of the 7th army corps in Germany, just back with the 33rd, would be in Hammond next week was the Information received from him this morning in a letter to A- M. Turner. It had been hoped to arrange a glorious home-coming for Lake county's first military man and Mr. Turner had telegraphed the general in order to learn the date. Gen. Haan is now stationed at Camp Custer In Michigan and according to his letter Is a mighty busy man. He had hoped to be able to spend a little vacation in Lake county, but Just when is uncertain. He plans to spend a couple of days here sometime next week, probably coming on Wednesday, but this is uncertain. For this reason plans for the big celebration are being held up. It had been desired to have him here on Memorial Day. but It appears now as though he will have to return to Camp Custer before that date. Mr. Turner will take up the matter in detail with Gen. Haan at once in the hope that it is not yet too late to have the big celebration. MRS. ANNA RIPLEY IS FOUND DEAD Respected Hammond Woman HI for Two Years, Passes Away. Hammond friends of Mrs. Anna Ripley, a much -esteemed north side lady, were shocked to hear that Mrs. Ripley, who was seventy years of age, wa3 found dead while silting in a chair in the kitchen of her home at 230 Hohman st. this morning at seven o'clock by her daughter. Miss Dorothy Ripley. It Is believed that Mrs. Ripley, who had been ill for two years and had been the victim of apoplexy, while leaning over to light the stove had met with another j seizure wlUch was fatal. Gas Jets were found open and the remains of a match indicated that she had attempted to light the burners. Both Dr. Graham and Dr. Jones, the family physician, were called and were convinced that she had been fatally attacked by an apoplectic seizure. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. KELLOG- AFTER INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J WASHINGTON. May 20. Complete Information on the war department's treatment of conscientious objectors was demanded in a resolution offered In the senate today by Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota. The resolution calls for a statement of names of all conscientious objectors, sentences Imposed upon them, date of their discharge and number of honorable discharges given conscientious objectors. Don't throw your paper away without reading the want ad page.

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GALLERY Hammond Is Scene of Sensational Shooting Last Night; Fred Fish Is Held Awaiting Outcome of Quarrel. Two Hammond men find themselves in St. Margaret's hospital this morning, one of them in serious condition, as the result of a shooting episode in a shooting gallery last night whose cause is yet somewhat of a mystery. The victims are : W. H. Riley, axed fifty-eight, proprietor of gallery, with three bullet wounds in him. May live. James Young, age fifty, Riley's friend. Shot twice in abdomen. Condition Is critical. Live at 118 In grab am ave.. West Hammond. FISH PITT TJSTDia ASSIST. The ehooter was Fred Fish, a cigar malier, who Uvea at 31 Clinton st. He is in custody, being put under arrest by Officer Stelow who had been attracted by the shooting. Fish was picked up ut Sibley and Hohman sts. and afterwards questioned closely by Capt. Rimbach at the police station. He claims that he shot in self-defense and that both Toung and Riley had attacked him with a frying pan. Stelow, who chased Fish and captured him. Is given great credit for his quick work. From the questioning done by Capt. Rimbach It seems that the three men were Involved In an argument and Fish grabbed one of the target rifles and shot 'Jonos twice In the body. He then shot Riley once. Riley ran out in the street and followed by Fish, the latter fired at him four time more, one bullet entering his leg and another his back. Capt. Rimbach. Officers Borchert and C. Fandrel responded at the call and took Riley to the hospital. On investigating further they found Toung lying back of a curtain and thinking him drunk took him to the police station, where it was found that he was wounded so he was at once rushed to the hospital where he is In quite serious condition. There are a number of witnesses to the shooting. Fish is held without bail until Toung's condition changes. U. S. WILL SELL WHISKEY AT AUCTION (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 KNOXVILLE. Tcnn.. May 20. Approximately BOO gallons of whiskey will be transported soon from Knoxvllle to Covington. Ky. by V. S. Marshall Thompson to be sold at public auction. It was seized by federal authorities in May 1917 at Amherst, in Tenr-ie. lafter a ,cash with the sheriff and his posee, who had also gone after H and elalmed the right to the whiskey. The supposed owner of the whiskey recently returned from the army and admitted ownership, so Judge E. 4T. Sanford ordered the whiskey to be taken to Covington for sale. DEATH OF FORMER CROWN POINT MAN SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. May 20. The many friends of Henry B. Sauerman, will regret to learn of his death at his home, 6451 Ellis avenue. Chicago, at 6 o'clock this morning. Mr. Sauerman was born and raised at Crown Point. Ind., and is survived by his wife who is a sister of Mrs. H. A. Johnson and A. R. See. Hammond. TWO ITALIAN LEADERS RESIGN (By Exclusive Cable to tha X. W. S. from II Secolo, Milan.) MILAN. May 20. Former Premier Salandra and the Marquist SalvagoRaggi have resigned from the Italian peace delegation, and Signor Barzilal will resign today because they were not allowed to participate actively in the settlement of Italian questions. The Ambassadors Imperial Dlcellerl and Bonilanga will succeed then

WHO HARRY HAWKER IS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Like the now famous Wright brothers, pioneers in aviation, Harry G. Hawker was a poor mechanic until ho became Interested In aviation. He Is thirty-one years old and an Australian by birth. In 1313 he attempted to win the London Daily Mail's S25.000 prize for an all-around England flight, He Jumped off at Southampton, but the next day was forced to quit because he had neither goggles or ear pads to resist the terrifflc wind pressure. A fortnight later h made the trial again, making 1,043 miles of the 1540 mile course in three days. The seventy-two hour limit had expired, however, but he was awarded 5,000 as a consolation prize. Hawker made a non-stop record flight in November, 1313. Later he made an altitude record of 24.048 feet. He was test pilot for the Sopwith company during the war. Six weeks ago he arrived at St. Johns, T. F.. with a specially built Sopwith biplane, equipped with a 37S horsepower Rolls-Royce motor for the cross-Atlantic flight. With him was Lieut. Commander Mackenzie Grieve, an experienced pilot who was Hawker's navigator on the trip across the Atlantic. Adverse weather conditions halted the two men several times after they had made ready to start across the Atlantic. Tha start was made at 1:55 yesterday afternoon, Is'ew Tork time, from a flying field near St. Johns, K. P. .

N C 4 HOPS OFF TODAY G. (bulletin.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, May 20. The 2TC-4 arrived at Ponta del Ctada at 10:24, Washington time, Admiral Jackson later notified the department. (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Kay 20. The NC-4 hopped off from Horta for Punt del Gada early today, the nary department was advised by Admiral Jackson. She will remain at Punta del Gada until weather conditions are favorable for a continuance of the fllgbt to Lisbon the dispatch added. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. May 13. The N'C-4 will continue her flight from Horta to Ponta del Gada and then to Lisbon aS soon as weather conditions permit, but at present she is weather bound, according to a dispatch from Admiral Jackson received by the navy department at fi o'clock this morning. The hour that the message was filed was lacking. It Is impossible for the N'C-3 to continue the flight. Admiral Jackson stated, and it Is feared that the NC-1 will sink before she can be towed ti port, being a practical wre;k. The NC-3 also was reported to be badly damaged, the engines being almost out of commission, and the hi'll leaking. why send Soldiers? INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON. May 20. Investigation of the proposed dispatch of 8,009 United States soldiers to Siberia was proposed In the senate today. Senator Johnson, of California, presented a resolution calling ipon tho secretary of state and secretary of war to state why 8.000 United States soldiers should be sent to Siberia, Senator Johnson's resolution set forth that dispatch of additional troops to Siberia was "for purposes undisclosed and unknown." BRITISH SHIPS BOMBARD THE BOLSHEVIKS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 COPENHAGEN. Majv' 20. Ekltls.h dreadnaughts In the Black Sea have bombarded the Bolshevik positions at ivretch. in Crimea, said a wireless dispatch from Moscow today, quoting an official statement that had been given out there. (Ketrch is on the strait of Kertch which connects the Black Sea and the Sea or .ir.v.) INDIANAPOLIS. -Mine. Catherine Breshovskaya, the grandmother of the Russian revolution, will speak here May 22. under the auspices of the Marion County V. C. T. U., it has been announced.

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INTO SEA, Sopwith Biplane Fate Mystery No Word Is Received of Daring Eirdmen. STILL HOPES FOR HUSBAND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, May 20 Mrs. Harry O Hawker, wife of the missinj sopwith pilot, was one of the few persons who today held out hope that Hawker and his narrator, Grieve, may still be alive. "Ood will protect my man," she aid, -with a braye effort to suppress tha tear, "but if he Is lost, it was ag-alnat biff odds. No man could do more. By EAJtLE C. BEEVES ISTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE J LONDON, May 20. The Sopwith biplane in which Harry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieut Commander Mackenzie Grieve, attempted to fly across the Atlantic, has fallen into the sea, admiralty officials now believe, and it is probable that both men have been lost. No further reports concerning Hawker had been received here this forenoon. More than forty hours has elapsed since the Sopwith jumped off from Newfoundland on the 1,950 mile flight to Ireland, and it is certain that Hawker's supply of fuel was exhausted hours ago, even had he managed to keep in the air. Both the admiralty and air ministry, announced this morning that absolutely nothing authentic has been heard of the fate of the Sopwith since her departure from Newfoundland. MANY BEPOSTS, NONE VERIFIED, Reoprts came from various sources last night that Hawker's plane had been sighted, that he had fallen into the se and that he had sent wireless messages to incoming ships. Investigation dis proved most of these messages and th admiralty discredited the sources of others. A rough sea was running off the Irii coast late yesterday and doubt was expressed that the tiny emergency boat fastened over the Sopwith's rear hood could weather such waves more than a few minutes, even if Hawker succeeded in launching her. Both men carried non-slnkable rubber suits, but the officials here had little hope that they would be picked up In timt to save them. ALL MESSAGES AE.E DENIED. Even many of Hawker's associates abandoned hope early today when the reoprt that the Sopwith had landed In the sea for the forty miles oft the mouth of the river Shannon, was discredited. A late dispatch from Queenstown denied that the admiralty wireless there had picked up such a message. The Central Xews Agency carries a report that Hawker has landed In the sea off the Irish coast and that a boat is going to his rescue, but this like other reports. Is without confirmation. MURDERER IS NOW INSANE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind., May 20. John Peres, who has been in the Jail &t Crown Point, charged with the murder of Daniel McLeod. was adjudged insane by Doctors B'ackstone and Brannon on Monday. The trial of Feres was set for Monday, and upon suggestion of Sheriff Barnes an insanity Inquest was held. The-court had reasonable grounds for believing the defendant insane and he will be committed to the colony for the criminal insane.

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