Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 304, Hammond, Lake County, 9 June 1919 — Page 1

FAIR LAKE COUNTY TIM WEATHEfc XNTXHATIONAL SIWS rULi LEASID WXBB SEBVICE. (' IOa streets and neviituli, Se per copy. Delivered by carrier in I Hammond and West Hammond, 60c per month. VOL. XIII, Xo. 304. MONDAY, JUXE 9, 1919 HAMMOND, INDIANA. OHMAN STREET PROPERTY IN MIDST OF BOOM

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Transfers Hay Reach Half Million Dollars Before the Season Ends. With six big real estate deals closed within the last few weeks, two more important ones pending and several building projects practically closed Hohman street property is on the threshold of a boom, the extent of which cannot now be forecast. Property transfers and 4 new buildings erected may be expected to represent half a million dollars before the season ends. IT WASNT SO LONG AGO. Time was, and well within the recollection of a middle aged man too, when a man who had the temerity to spend money on business property south of the Michigan Central railroad was the subject for the pity of Hammond people. He was throwing his money away. Later as the younger and more aggressive business men came Into control of things the tide of expansion of Hammond's business district began to creep slowly southward. In spite of the Jeers of many others these progressive men maintained their attitude and continued hammering at their campaign that If Hammond was "TSexpaiid W triustf tteTioutK'-" FrSLctTcally everyone now realizes that they were right and the unparalleled activity in South Hohman street property bears out the prophecy which they made years ago. PAXTOX BUYS 110 FEET. W. G. Paxton. president of the Paxton Lumber Co. and the Hammond Saving's & Trust Co.. has just purchased the Douglas property with forty feet frontage Just south of the Straube building and also sixty feet of the Schrum property adjoining it, one of the rooms now being occupied by the Bauwen Auto Sales Co. Prospects for a new building there are good and Hammond people' will welcome the news that several old eyesores will disappear in the shape of the unsightly frame buildings now occupying part of the tract. Dr. Emanuel Filllscher has closed a dear for the Eder building Just south of the Central school property. The reported consideration In this transaction was $45,000. The southeast corner of Douglas and Hohman streets, known as the Summers property has been purchased by Frank S. Eetx. This frame building, for years occupied by the Max & Leo, ia!oon now houses the Prest-O-Lite sattery station. The confederation in his deal was said to be $14,009. llCOMTi PROPERTY SOLD. On the opposite side of Hohman St.. ind adpolning bis pharmacy. Dr. Ft. O. md adjoining his pharmacy. Dr. P.. O. property. Dr. Ostrowskl early realized the future growth of Hammond south and demonstrated his faith In a practical manner by the erection of the Tine building -which his store now octuptes at Douglas and Hohman sts. On the west side of Hohman at., beVween Douglas and Clinton streets 1s mother string of frame buildings progress has doomed. John Schmueser has acquired fifty feet of the Ben Bell property and another substantial business block may be expected there soon. Just south of this on the corner, tho new garage for H. Thlel is being pushed to completion. Leo Wolf Is putting up this building. TWO OTHER DEALS PENDIXG. Two other deals which may be of even greater importance than any of these are expected to be closed at any tim. The Central school property is to be sold as it is considered Impractical as a location for j school and must be iold before real estate values reach such a figure as to put it out of reach. Valuation between Clinton and Dovglas streets Is now about $400 per front foot, according to the latest transfers. It is known that interests are seeking to purchase the Central school land for the erection of a "sig theater, while another theater deal centers about the Kleihege property Just nrth of the Lion Store furniture department. Both will involve vast sums of money. With the removal of the Hammond Pavings &. Trust Co. xo the Hammond building. Robert Jennings, who formerly operated an ice cream parlor and confectionery on Sibley street, is fitting out the old bank room with equipment for a new refreshment store. Tha bank move necessitated switching the Liberal Credit store two doors north of its old stand, while Jack Fox managed to drop into the property at the northeast corner' of State and Hohman streets. Some time during last night thieves entered the garage of E. J. Fillischer, at 42 Highland St., Hammond, and stole their Marmon touring car, valued at $4,600.

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V- ' "?: 'l' 'V- , fail -.. . ..v. -w: MA AAfaW.K,.v..a S AM UC MATTH rWS iVAUC LAIN Assistant Secretary of 'ar Crom- . well recently pinned a Distinguished Service Medal on Samuel Mathews Vauclain. of the East Chicago Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr. Vauclain did not do any valorous deed at the front, but he did a lot to help beat the Huns. As president of the Baldwin Locomotive Company he speeded up work and provided the necessary engines to take the doughboys and their supplies to the front. Then he helped very mueVi In producing a mobile "1sattefy"that "silenced "the kfg'Krupp guns. E. CHICAGO MAN REVELS AT A PICNIC With Special Police Star John Pakolko Has a . Merry Time. With an East Chicago special police star on his chest and armed with a backjack and cheap flashlight John i Pakolko started out to round up bolshevik, relieve, whiskey runners of their burdens and preserve order in general. He took in an extensive territory for when arrested Saturday he was keeping them straight at a AVest Hammond picnic. He says his home is in East Chicago. It seems that fake officers have been operating on the Indiana side of the line stopping men whom they know to have whiskey. The story goes that they work in "cahoots" with the AVest Hammond saloon proprietors and taek the whiskey back over the line, selling it back to the dealer at half price. Although no evidence could be found to substantiate this, the police believe Takolko was on of these birds. Anyway his fine was paid by a AVest Hammond saloon man. Pakolko says that several weeks ago when the bolshevikl were making trouble in East Chicago he went to a hardware store and purchased the tin Star for a dollar. He says the proprietor of the store swore him in as a special policeman on the spot. The blackjack was added to his equipment to protect his life as he claims to have been threatened with death by eight Russian reds who said they would kill him if he did not get out of East Chicago. The flashlight belonged to his uncle. Haing transferred his activities to West Hammond, Pakolko of course had to watch in on that picinc and it i thought that the lads who turned him in to the police were some who had met him on the Indiana side of the line. Someone called the police station and reporte dhirn and he was picked up. Judge Kowalski gave him the minimum fine this morning for carrying concealed wearons which with the costs amounted to $56.50. GOLD EMBARGO IS REMOVED f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, June 9 Removal of the gold embargo was announced by Secretary of the Treasury Glass this afternoon. Shipments of gold out of the country will be governed by practically the same procedure as that applying to silver. Applications will have to he made to the federal reserve board, but thse applications will be "freely granted" it was stated," "except to Germany and those sections of Jluss,a. under Bolshevik control."

J. K. REPPA HAS SAD ACCIDENT Chicago Girl Drives Her Car Into That Owned By City Controller.

J. K. Repra, 4742 Melville ave.. East Chicago, city controller, had a serious accident in Chicago last night when his car was hit by another machine driven by a young lady. Miss Beatrice Von Gracck. 2141 W. 55th St.. Chicago. - Mr. Reppa had three o his own children and Mary Macek. 6312 S. Rockwell st.. in the car. Mary was crushed in the accident and physicians say there is no hope of her recovery. Margaret Sturmo. 5S55 S. Throop St., also in th-i Reppa car. suffered a fracture of her collar bone. Of Mr. Reppa's own children. John. Vernon and Karlman. the latter was severely cut and bruised and was also takf n to the hospital. The car driven by Miss Gracek contained her mother. Mrs. Rose Gracek. who was badly bruised and shaken up. T!e accident happened at the corner of VT. 53rd st. and Maplewood ave. Both cars were demolished. Miss Gracek. the driver, was overcome by the shock and was taken to her home. Mr. Reppa him-j self was caught between the seat and i steering wheel and his ribs jammed and leg bruised. He is able to get around, however, and returned to the city thiSj morning to visit his son and look a,fterj the condition of the girl who is in such J serious condition. Mary Macek. MYSTERY IN AUTO SMASHUP Beautiful New Hudson Is Found Demolished South of Dyer. rSPEClAL TO THE TIMES! DYER. Ind., June 9. A beautiful new Hudson super-six, on its first trip, lies wrecked about a mile south of Dyer on the St. Johns road. The accident is said to have taken place yesterday morning about ten o'clock and as far as can be ascertained no one was killed, though there are conflicting reports as to the extent of injuries received by the occupants of the car. Much secrecy envelops the accident. The machine was driven at a high rate of speed and had reached the top of a steep hill. The road was covered witn crushed stone and when the speedins auto struck this on its descent of the hill it began to hurtle from side to side. It plungcS to the left of . road at high speed and just as it reached a culvert turned completely over. The number of passengers in the car is said to have been five and all were thrown out. As the car turned over the driver jumped. Inquiries at a neighboring farm house resulted in the statement that no one was hurt In the accident, but those who viewed the beautiful machine which was demolished are unable to see how the passengers escaped. The remains of a man's hat with the initials D. D. in gold letters were found near the scene of the accident. The car was stripped of license plates and one man was found who said the occupants were on their way to Cedar Lake. TWO AUTOS IN COLISION tlNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 MARION. Ind., June 9 Lawrence Smith, son of a prominent grocer of this city, was thought to be fatally injured today, the result of an automobile wreck occurring near Fairmont last night. Smith, In company with a party of young men. was passing n cross roads when a Ford machine driven by a farmer, ran directly amidship of the machine in which he wag riding. It was thought that It will be necessary to take an X-ray picture to determine the extent of his Injuries. Others in the party received minor bruises and scratches. , SIX KILLED IN CHICAGO TODAY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. June 9 Six persons, including two men. a woman and three children were killed today at Berwyn, a suburb, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy train. The car, driven by a man named Steinberg, bore a Michigan license plate. C. & O. FLYER INJURES TWO (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) MO'CIE. Ind.. June 9 Webb Jordan and A .K. Murray, both of Medford. Ind., were seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train here Sunday. MONON TRAIN KILLS AUTOIST UNTERNATIOftAL NEWS SERVICE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. June 9 Archbald Jeffries. 43. was instantly killed early Sunday when an automobile which he was driving wa struck by a fast Monon passenger train at Harrodsburg, 12 miles south of here.

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Br-- - LAKE CO. S ELECTED Indiana Branch of American Legion Gives Offices to Local Men. - L:" 1 1 1 -... Two Lake county soldiers have been honored with offices In the Indiana branch of the American Legion. They are, Capt. Floyd Murray of Hammond, and Percy Glover of East Chicago. The stand t&ken by soldiers or Michigan City recently agafnst a certain public official, who sought to cast reflections on soldiers, and "whose conduct has placed him In the same class as Big Bill Thompson, of Chicago." was commended in resolutions adopted at the convention of the American Legion. Indiana branch, at the state house Friday. The resolutions also called on the government to deport all aliens who may be found to have been connected with recent bomb outrages and those who surrendered their claims of citizenship tJ escape military service. Employers were also urged to display -the "back again" flag. Fred C. Miller, mayor of Michigan City, was said by officers of the legion to be the official referred to in the resolution. It is as follows: "DISOBACEPUI. FHOCIEDIITOS." "In the recent disgraceful proceedings at Michigan City, in which a public official, who until recently was recorded as an alien enemy, sought to cast refection upon the loyalty and patriotism of soldiers of that community w ho had i ricked their lives to secure the liberty) this alien enemy was permitted to enjoy in common with our own citizens, wc command the soldiers of Michigan City, regardless of rank, race or color, for their r.ianly staod cgainst this public oflicflal, whose conduct has placed him in the same class with Big Bill Thompson, .f Chicago, whose disloyal actions brought him the contempt cf every loyal citizen of his own city and state, as wtll as of the entire country. We assure the soldiers of Michigan City that in resenting the conduct of this official they have the sympathy and suppoi t of every Indiana member of the American Legion." THE OTHER HJESOLTJTION. The other resolutions said: "Resolved, That the American Legion. Indiana branch, in convention assembled, realirm the declaration of principles made by the parent body at the meeting at St. Louis. Mo.. May 8. 9 and 10. 1919: commend it for its display of 100 per cent Americanism and rromise the earnest and devoted effort of every Indiana (Continued on page seven.) CHARLES NELSON DIES AT HOSPITAL Charles Wilson, the pitiful wreck who was found lying dead drunk on State Line street by the Hammond police and carried into the station by Officer Fandrei, was released on Saturday night and on returning to his haunts across the State Line was taken ill. He was removed to St. Margaret's hospital, where he was found in a terrible condition, his body beeing covered with vermin. He was given a bath and died last night. Nelson was a rag picker without any relativees here here as fa ras is known. BOND ROBBERY AT FACTORY (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 9 Four hundred and fifty dollars in Libertybonds. $135 in checks and 200 in ci:reney waj obtained when the safe o fthe Marion Paint Co., was looted Saturday night or early Sunday. The safe, of light sheet steel, was forced open with a heavy bar.

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- i . r" NEW SCHOOL SITE WORRIES E. HAIMOND Residents Object Violently To Sites Now Under Construction. Selection of a site for the new East Hammond school building is now one of the most Important matters before" the Hammond Board of Education and when tho newly constituted board meets Tuesday evening it is likely that final action will be taken. Residents of that part of the city are objecting violently to the sites under consideration by the board and have sent a petition to thi board. Bunnell's addition and a vacant tract south of the Standard Steel Car Co. tenement houses are the locations which the board is now considering. The Bunnell site Is so close to the Wallace school that It is considered out of the question by East Hammond folks who! are trying to have the school in the most central location. The same objection applies to the Standard Steel Car Co. site. It is known that two factories are to be built south of this location, which would make the school hemmed in on three 6ides. the company houses on the north, the Standard Steel Car Co. to the east, and the new shops to the south. SXtTFAKXSS INTEB.VIE WED. Alderman Sam Skufaklss probably keeps a little closer to the sentiments of his people than any man on tho Hammond council. He has sounded them out on the school matter and finds them with; him in the f.ght for a school building nearer the center of the community a statement to The Times he says In If the petition handed to the Board of Education about three months ago deter(Continued on psge three.) TRIAL OF LIBEL SUIT IS By HAB.BY B.ETJTLINGER. (STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE MOL.VT CLEMENS. Mich.. June Broad-shouldered, bronzed Texas men. who fought back Mexican marauders in 1915 and 191S. resumed the stand today in the Henry Ford-Chicago Tribune $1,000,000 libel sut. They gave testimony for the defense to show conditions" along the Texas border, which it is alleged, might have been aggravated byFord's so-called pacific utterances. Thomas J. Alexander, postmaster of Sebastian. Texas, was the first witness. He told of a raid by Mexicans on August 6, 1916, in which two men were killed, bridges burned and trains menaced so they had to be guarded. The second witness was Marcus W. Hincs. a Texas ranger and United States customs inspector, who gave Mount Clemens a wild-west thrill by going about the streets with his revolver strapped to his hipv Hines told of a raid on his home town of Santa Maria, Texas, in which three United States soldiers and two civilians were killed. "But our boys killed four Mexicans and wounded seventeen," Hines said. "We !ay in the grass for hours and kept Plugging away at them." Hines also told of seeing a woman murdered by Mexicans in 1913 and of other border raids and shootings in 1913 and the early part of 1916. Describing a raid on a little town called Mission. Hines said: "I, saw two dead Mexicans and the bodie of four United States soldier Dead horses and mules were strewn all! over the road. I got there just too late, to get in that fight myself.'

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nta 7 CAETLW C PALMER-!' SENATE By CAB.L CAMPBELL f STAFF CORRESPONDENT i. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, June 9. By a vote of 47 to 24 the senate today overrode President Wilson's wishes and directed that the text of the treaty of peace with Germany, as available here, be published.

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The president, in a cablegram reaa at f freAtV "has what the opening of tbsenate foreign ..reiteljext ot tue peace treaty nas wruu

tlons committee investigation Into how copies of the treaty reached the United States, expressed the belief that it would i i . . i . i . : , b '"unwise" to submit the document while the treaty was still under negotiation. and furthermore declared that anyone possessing the text had "what he is clearly not entitled to have or communicate." The Republican leaders immediately accepted the challenge on the senate floor and forced the adoption of Senator Borah's motion that -a copy of the treaty, which he asserted had ben secured by the Chicago Tribune, be given publicity by being printed as a senate document. To obtain further light on how copies of the peace treaty reached private hands in Xew Tork City, while the senate and the American people were still denied access to it, the foreign relations committee decided to subpoena as witnesses J. Pierpont Morgan. Frank A. Vanderlip. Jacob Schiff. Thomas F. Lamont, Henry T. Davison and Paul AVarburff. CHILDREN HAVE LUCKY ESCAPE Two little children, Joe Panyak, three years old. and Walter Panyak, seven years old. of 167 Wabash ave., Hammond, while running across the street at the corner of Sheffield ave. and Huchn st. last evening were hit by an automobile. It is claimed that the children ran in front of the car, which was driven by L. R. Mawrey, of 597 Forsythe ave.. West Hammond, and were knocked down and dragged a short way, bruising their arms and legs but not injuring them badly. Mawrey stopped at once and the children were taken home, where medical attention was given them. INJURED IN BICYCLE FALL Albert Kiser, of 806 Walter St., Hammond, fell off the bicycle which he was riding at the corner of Oakley and Douglas sts. yesterday and received a cut three inches long in his head. Kiser was taken to St.' Margaret's hospital in the Hammond police patrol. WHITLOCK GETS NATION BERTH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) PARIS, June 9 President WUeon has decided to appoint Brand Whitlock, now minister to Belgium. ambassador to Rome, succeeding Thomas Nelson Tage. The promotion is In recognition of Whitlock's fine work at Brussels during the war. Page is retiring to continue his lit erary work. It is known, however, that he has bee nout of touch with President Wilson's views on the Italian situation. ITALY TO HAVE GENERAL STRIKES fINTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. June 9 The secretary of the Italian socialists announces that general strikes will be called In Italy, France and England to show labor's ' solidarity with the KolsheviKs, said a Naples .dispatch to the this afternoon. Striker Central News c ft n n fho n,k I lice have clashed in Rom,

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C0M1TTEI Says Possessors of the Treaty Text are Not Entitled " to Have Same, (BUXiXiETXZT.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINOTOM, Jtutt . A cabled message from President Wilson to Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, author of the resolution providing for a probe ot tbe charges that copies of the peace treaty had reached business Interests In Ksw York, was received at the White House today. It was forwarded to the senator as soon as It had been decoded, officials stated, and any arrangements for making it public will be left entire, ly to him. (BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICI ' WASHINGTON, June 9. The peaes treaty will he published immediately as a senate document, it was decided by a rote of 47 to 34 In the se&ats this af. tsrnoon. ( BUXIETIN.) By JOHN T. FAKXE&SOir fSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE PAJUS, Jane 9. The rumpus caused In American senatorial circles over the charge by Senator Lodge that certain hankers in New Tork were in possession of the treaty while the text was denied to the senate is not causing' any alarm among the Americans here. It has been no secret that copies were available in Germany and neutral countries but the position of the American delegation is that they agreed not to make the treat 7 public until it is signed. T INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 WASHINGTON, June 9. Anyone who has the official English heTs clearly" not entitled "tcTfiave? 1 i " T . 1 4. A . I . I . - ' President Wilson today cabled Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, calling for the resolution calling for a probe of charges that copies of the treaty were in the hands of certain New York interests. The cablegam. expressing hope that the investigation would be "most thoroughly prosecuted," and., stating the president's belief that it would be unwise to submit a j document still in the course of negotiation, was submitted by Senator Hitchcock to the foreign relations committee today when the probe was started. LEADING) FINANCIERS CALLED. Immediately afjer the President's cablegram had been read into the record, the committee announced that six of the leading financiers of the country were to be subpoenaed. They are: J. rierpont Morgan. Frank A. Vanderlip, Jacob Schiff. Thomas F. Lamont, It. C. Davison, and Paul Warburg. 'The text of the president's cablegram follows: "I am heartily glad that you have demanded an investigation with regard to the possession of text in full of the treaty by unauthorized persons. I have felt that it was highly undesirable officially to communicate the text of a document (Continued on page five.) SHRINERS WELCOMED JIT CAPITAL Orak Delegation Goes Yesterday On Special To5 Big Convention. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVKE! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 9. Thousands of Shriners from all paits'of tH United States arrived here jesterday and today for the forty-fifth annual imperial council of North American Shriners. and more are scheduled to arrive tomorrow and Wednesday. The council will officially open with a monster parade Tuesday morning which will end at th Murat Temple, when Mayor Charles Jewett will welcome the Arabia Nobles to Indianapolis and Imperial Poetentate Elias J. Jacoby. of Indianapolis, will make the response. Delegates from Rochester. X. T., Washington. D. C, Memphis, Tenn., Davenport. Ia., Hammond. Ind., and several other Indiana cities arrived here Sunday. The Alkader special from Portland, Ore., arrived here this morning after an interesting cross-country trip with stops in a number of cities. Portland is 'after the 1920 Imperial council and has the support of many northwestern temples. Among the many Shriners to rriv-s here today are delegations from Dayton, Detroit. Oklahoma City. Seattle. Buft'a!-. New Orleans, Jacksonville, Fl.i.. Montgomery. Birmingham, St. Louis, Lc Angejes, Chicago, Springfield, III., Atl.na and Boston.