Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 308, Hammond, Lake County, 13 June 1919 — Page 1

FAIR LAKE COUNTS WEATHER SKTZ&NATXOXA.X. KEWS run LEASES WIRE SEBVICE. On streets and newsstands, 3a per copy. Delivered by carrier In Hammond and West Hammond, 500 per month. VOL. XIH, NO. 308. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. li3a . OB MAT u CITY ENGINEERS OF REGION MEET IN CHICAGO RED CA

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FOR MEETING HAMMOND Agreement Is Reached That Action Not Talk Is Necessary Henceforth. City engineers of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Gary met with Engineers Pearson and Wiesner of the Chicago Sanitary District yesterday in Chicago and discussed plans whereby the matter can best be placed before the people of the district in the big meeting which is to be held at the Hammond Country Club, June 26. Engineer IV. F. Bridge of Hammond eays he had always been more or less skeptical regarding the project owltig to the fact that he had never acquainted himself with the fact. He says that for the first time he now believes he understands the matter and looks at it In a much more favorable, attitude. Something must be done, he says, to halt the pollution of Lake Michigan, the source o? the drinking water of the Calumet region. 'Whether the cities can handle their problems separately to better advantage or by doing it collectively is a matter which the people must decide for themselves and to aid In working out the solution the engineers must gather data ard be afce to sue mi i. maps ana rougn estimates. It -was agreed that the engineers of the region cooperate in preparing maps of the territory which ' will be affected by the sanitary district and hive theses Teady for the meeting June 26. Flans for sewage disposal have been discussed for some time but it is now agreed that something definite must be done soon. "The old Sag canal plan was not mentioned once yesterday." said Mr. Bridge. "The plans now under consideration are for the treatment of sewage before It is dumped into tho lake. By this method it would be revered harmless and not a source of disease to the cities pumping their diinkir.g supply from the lake." This would necessitate the construction of intercepting sewers to convey the sewage to a treatment plant but tc cost would be enly a fraction of the amount which wojld be necessary ff the o'.A drainage canal rroject should be can-lid out. PROPERTY OWNERS MEET THIS EVENING Type of Pavement For N. Hohman Street To Be Decided Upon. Property owners affectd by the proposed improvement of North Hohman street are to meet this evening at the city hall to decide at last on the type of pavement to be used. The meeting is called for 7:30 o'clock. Three types of pavement were specified when the Board of Works advertised for bids. The bids were received last week and have been checked over by the city engineer and the contract will be let just as soon as the people chose the pavement. Brick, concrete and asphaltare the kinds on which bids have btn- received. While there is a diversity of opinion as to the type which should be selected, it is hoped that the reople will recognize the fact that much valuable time has already been lost and come to an agreement at once. It has been pointed out by those familiar with the situation that delay is only adding to the ultimate cost of the improvement. In case a disagreement rhould result tonight it would be necessary to go through the expense of calling for bids once more and it is predicted that If bids are submitted again by contractors, the figures will be higher than the ones now at hand. BIG KOBBERY IS FOILED f 1NTE RNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 KEW YORK. June 13 Before the eyes of hundreds of pedestrains, six automobile bandits attempted to rob James Ryan, bank messenger, of a satchel containing 1100.000 in securities as he emerged from the Colonial bank at Columbus ave.. and Eightyfirst St.. this noon. Ryan engaged in a pistol battle with the bandits, wounding one of them. The robbers dragged the wounded man into their automobile and escaped. BEDFORD Four large ;:m kilns are being installed at Rabitsville, near here, by the Big Four Lime Company, operated by the Lehigh Cement elant. of Mitchell.

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s- :4 vV . Miss Grace D. Banker. Miss Grace D. Banker of Passaic. N. J., has received the Distinguished Service Medal from Gen. Hunter Liggett for "exceedingly meritorious and distinguished service, and untiring devotion to her duties under trying conditions during operations against St. Mihiel salient and north of Verdun." Miss Banker is chief cperator of the army telephone service in.Coblenz. She has been overseas a vear and was supervisor of t.e first thirty-two "Hello Girla" who enlisted in March, l'JIS. WILL STAND . .BEHIND. JEN TO THE LAST West Hammond City'Council And Officials Back Up Officers. (BULLETIN.) Both. Kosmala and tipencer were released on bond this morning in Chicago. West Hammond's city council stands squarely behind Officers John Kosmala and John Spencer, indicted" for the murder of Marvin Hemphill. De.trmined that the men who were indicted Wednesday by the Cook county grand jury shall have the best possible defenders in court, the council last night arranged to retain Attorneys Short and Olsen, two of Chicago's, best criminal lawyers. An ordinance appropriating the re.ainer fee was passed without hesitation by the aldermen and it is understood that prominent citizens of the Illinois town have asked to be permitted to pay the further Costs of the defense. Attorney Markman, after trying all day ta secure the release of the two officers on bond, returned to West Hammond yesterday evening with the information that the proffered bail had beea refused. He believed he could secure their release today on a writ of habeas corpus and expected to hav ethe men jout before noon. Mr. Markman says that after the first matter had been thrown out of the court of Judge Kerst'en, the assistant states attorney had immediately taken the matter before the grand jury, summoning as witnesses a number of men who had fled from Columbia hall immediately after the killing. Other witnesses, which might have thrown some light on tho officers' side of the affair, he says were not examined, but the Indictments were returned upon the evidence submitted by the machinists alone. It seems that a large fund has been raised by the union men of Chicago and i vicinity to assist in the proecution of the case. The union men have hired Attorney Clarence Darrow and another prominent lawyer to aid the assistant states attorney. It promises to be one of the most bitterly fought cases in years ar.d the election of a jury will be a long drawn affair owing to the labor angle which has been introduced and which may prejudice jurors one way or the. other. The city council realized the price which must be paid in order to enable Kosmala and Spencer to be properly defended in court, but the responsibility was accepted gladly. "We must defend the men who for years .have defended us," was the way Mayor Paul Kamradt summed it up. "Those men were doing their duty under orders cf the chief of police, and now it is our duty to fctand by them." LIGHTNING KILLS , ONE AT SEYMOUR INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) SEYMOUR, Ind.. June IS Louis Foist. 3S, a farmer living six miles northeast of here, was Instantly killed and his sister-in-law. Mrs. Harry Foist, was stunned late yesterday when lightn.ng struck a tree under which they took shelter during ' an electric storm. Lightning struck and destroyed the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station at Hayden, Ind.

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WHAT HE SAID IS NOT STATED Private Charles Baring of Hammond is back from overseas. He brings with him a good yarn but refuses to say whether he was the victim. A soldier in the early part of the war when the Red Cross was sending stuff over, who had been unable to change his socks for -several days, felt a bad blister on one of his toes. On removing the sock he found a little roll of paper which had irritated his toe and caused the blister. On it was written, "God Bless Your Poor Tired Feet!"'

ANOTHER FLIGHT IS Vickers-Vimy Bomber Said To Have Started From Newfoundland. (BULLETIN.) ST. JOHKS, K. T, Jose 13. The crew of the Vlvkers-Vlmy aeroplane early this afjeracen announced the postponement of their attempt to cross the Atlantic until tomorrow. The London report of the start was based on an nn. confirmed rumor. An hour before the start was to hav been made tt was found that the wheels of ths j?lane wera mora seriously dam aged in landing yesterday . than was at first believed.. It was deemed advisable to postpone the start. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. Jun- 13 J. H. Viokers, of the Vicekrs-Vimy Aeroplane Co., announced today that Capt. Alcock and Lieut. Brown have "hopped off" from Newfoundland in their Vickers-Vimy aeroplane in their attemrt to fly to Ireland. The air ministry which issued a report earlier in the day, stating that weather conditions over the Atlantic were unfavorbale for flying, has received no report.Cable dispatches to the International News Service in New Tork from St. Johns. Newfoundland, the starting point of the flight, have been somewhat delayed in transmission since the inauguration of the telegraphers strike. EAGLES T INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 NEWCASTLE. Ind.. June 13. Robert E. Proctor, of Elkhart, was elected president of the Indiana Aerie, fraternal order of Eagles, at the closing business session of the state convention here ytstcrday. Other officers elected were: Judge G. A. Farabough, South Bend, vice president; J. B. Bryan. Jeffersonville. chaplain; Manson Reiff. Bluffton. secretary; James T. Anderson. LaFayette. treasurer; W. F. DeJane, Vlncennes, worthy conductor; Albert Carteaux, Warsaw, inside guard; Herbert Friest. Linton, outside guard, and J;ii O. Crlm. Newcastle; Wm. Schoelop, Shelbyville and R. C. Brock, Kokomo, trustees. Evansville was given next year's conenrion. IS FINED FOR LARCENY Edward Griffith rested by Chief Bawer and Brady bor Belt R. R. larceny. Griffith pleaded of stealing brats of Osborn. was arZielke, and Officers of the Indiana Harcharged with petit guilty to the charge shavings and other was given a 10 days fined 111 by Judge mond city court this small things and jail sentence and Klotz In the Ham morning. NOTICE! On account of the extreme hot weather necessitating theuse of hoses for sprinkling all over the city and In order that all users may get the benefit of 4good pressure, it is important that all water connections are kept in good shape, also that faucets are left open only when necessary. The sprinkling hours from this date will be as following: Zone One All users north of Webb street, from 3 p. m. to 7 p. m. Zone Two All users south of Webb street frpm 7 p. m. to 11 p. m. Anyone may sprinkle from 5 a. m. to a. m. irrespectiv e of zone. We request of the public to co-operate with us and adhere strictly to these instructions. 6-13-3t G. G. BLOCKIE, Supt.

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FATE OF 4 YEAR OLD One of the most shocking fates imaginable befel four-year-old Katlo Stief. a little Hammond girl living at 35 Grove at., yesterday while she was playing with friends on Dearborn St., whose parents kept a very vicious dog. The animal was tied under a back porch and Katie went to play in a swing near the brute. The dog jumped on the child, knocked her out of the swing and sank its teeth in her back, ripping the flesh out in a frightful wound. As the child roled over the vicious brute clawed her left eye out and ate it before frenzied witnesses could render help. The child J is In a critital condition and the animal which has bitten other chilQren is permitted to live. HO ORGIES SAYS CITY COUNCIL West Hammond People Do Not Propose To Let The People Run Wild. . For operating a wine room In which women were permitted to remain resting until the late hours of the night the WestTHammond city council last r.ight suspended the license of the saloon operating at 221 State st. The action was taken on recommen datlon of the West Hammond Law and Order League, five women signing the communication which was presented to the alderman. The saloon, which is, said to ba owned by a . Chicago man. wifl'remain closed until the next meeting Of the council. June 25, at which time he can appear and show cause why his license should not be entirely revoked. Summary action is to be taken with violators of the statutes relating to the operation of saloons from now on as it is expected that some proprietors will attempt to disregard the law during the few weeks before prohibition becomes effective. The city dads are not going to stand by and see the town turned into a saturnalia of vice these days when folks will be crowding there in increasing numbers from dry territory. Investigation was also ordered of the report that negroes and negresses were allowed to remain in a wine room at the rear of the saloon at 101 State st. The operation of double bars under one license will also be looked into as It Is said saloons are jnnnfng wholesale and retail departments in the same room. Stat "street In West Hammond s also to be improved. It was reported to the council that a petition Is being circulated among property owners to have the old foundation placed in shape once more, and to give this a top coat of crushed stone and asphalt. It is expected that the property owners can finance this improvement at a cost of about $73 rer lot whereas a rebuilding of the street will cause several times that amount. Trains have recently been exceeding the speed limit through the city and are also doing too much whistling while within the city limits. Cfty Attorney Markman was instructed to notify the offending roads to stop It. Growing from a monthly distribution of 25.000 gallons of gasoline and kerosene to 100.000 gallons monthly in six months Is the remarkable record established by the Moorhead Oil Co. since taking over the interests f the City Fuel & Supply Co. Under the management of P. G. Moorhead and with E. E. Cole a salcsmanager the business has grown rapidly. Three men were employed last December where now seven are required. All of the employes are stockholders in the firm and are constantly boosting the business. They now have four truck and a sales car In constant service. The lubricating oil business Is also growing. Mr. Moorhead gives all credit for this increase to the high quality of products, his appreciative customers and the service rendered by his employes. Their advertisement on another page tells the story. MAY BEGIN A CIVIL STRIKE flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) BERLIN, June 12, via London. June 13 Exposure of a plan of the bourgeoise to begin a civil strike In Berlin was made by the Freiheit today. The strikers were to seize the municipal assets, it was declared. A secret meeting was held by the bourgeos leaders on Wednesday at the Kussischehof hotel.

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Geo. Candido Aguirar. - President Carrarza. humiliated because Mexico has been ignored and eft out of the league of nations, is sending his son-in-law, Gen. Candido Aguilar, to Paris to present Mexico's claims for league membership. General Auilar is now in Washington. ,

TRAIN HITS BABY; IS UNHURT TALrASAXSO, Ind., June 13 A Chesapeake A Ohio freight train at Maiden struck the two-year-old daughter of Charles Wells and, yesterday afternoon. The train was stopped within 100 feet and the crew hurried to the point where the child had been hurled Into a Altch beside the track. Ed Perkins, of Huntington,' the conductor, picked up the child and gare her to the mother, who had been a witness to the affair. Wneu the child stietcLed out its arms and reached for its rrnt, the latter fell v the ground In a faint. She hvl expected to find her ha ay dea,1 and the rhock of finding 'he child sllTS and well proved too much ur her. ' WOMAN'S ATTIRE IS . Hff BY ONE Department Head Scores Clothing Worn By Fair Sex. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 URBANA. 111.. June 13 "Why should any woman desire to show her dress shields and underwear to the public?" "Waists so th'.n that a woman must shave to- wear them are not decent." "We cannot escape from clothes, but we may escape from fashion.' These and a variety of kindred remarks are included in a circular on fashion its use and abuse which has been put out by the Hime Economics department of the University of Illinois. ' The author is Lena Hope. The circular also reveals one reason why many girls are bowlegged when it says: - "Many girls appear bowlegged berauBe the leg. which should be at right angles to the foot, is obliged to assume a slant position because of the stilted heel. "Evening dresses described in our fashion magazines as not having much above the waist and very little below." the circular says, "are not rare. Skirts that re so tight they reveal rather than conceal the figure have been worn recently and are about to return. "Women should, however, not, according to the circular, be criticised tor spending too much thought on the dress, but should give more intelligent thought to the problem. It Is not a national costume that . It needed, so much as a fine national taste. "Standardized dress," the pamphlet declared, "will never be popular. Women are too fond of indulging their tafte for pretty things." The parting shot at fashion is taken as an Indictment of the injury caused to womens health by idiosyncrasies of dress, but it is asserted: "Fashion knows no pain." ROCHESTER If arrangements can be made the 60 agents of the Chicago division of the Erie railroad (Marion, Ohio to Chicago) will hold their July meeting at Lake Manitou, near here.

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IS SEEKING flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. June 13 Gov. James P. Goodrich, of Indiana, today sent telegrams to governors of thirtyone states, asking their attitude on the calling of special sessions of legislatures of the various states to ratify the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution recently passed by the U. S. congress. Governor Goodrich fi:nt mes-sag-as to the governors of Alabama. Arizona, Arkansas, California. Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho. Iowa. Kansas, Maine. Michigan. Minnesota, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana. Nebraska, Nevada. New Hampshire. New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota. Tennessee, Texas. Utah. Vermont. Washington. AVest Virginia and Wyoming. The other states of the union can take action on the amendment without having to call special sessions of their legislatures. The governor In his telegrams asks if the governors of their states are willing to rail pertaH sessions of their legislatures in the event that enough states decides to take the same action to insure ratification of the amendment early in 1020, thus assuring the women of the country a vote et the next presidential election. The governor asserts the sentiment in Indiana is in favor of a special sessicn of the state assembly, but desires to obtain the sentiment of other governors before calling the legislature into session. WILL PASS ON PEACE TREATY r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COPENHAGEN. June 13. President Ebert of Germany and Count von Bernstorff. former German ambassador to the United States have both left for th-3 meeting of the national assembly at Weimar which will pass upon the acceptance or rejection of the peace treaty, said' a-dispatch from Berlin today. The terms are expected to be handed to the ascniblymen tomorrow. NEW CITY CHEMIST IN HAMMOND Hammond has a city chemist once more. A. W. Lockhart. a young man who until recently was employed as chemist in the water and food laboratory of the' State Board of Health at Indianapolis, arrived in th city Wednesday and looked over the field. 0:i the return of Dr. Buchanan, city health commissioner, from Indianapolis yesterday the city laboratory in the Rimbach building was turned over to him. Mr. Lockhart is now getting the laboratory In workinif order again after an idleness of several years and expects to be ready for analytical and bacteriological work by the. latter part of next week. Hammond folks will soon have regular reports oil the city water, showing just what stu.t they are drinking.

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FOR HOLIDAY Chicago s Pivot of Conspiracy In Thirtytwo Cities of 11. S. (BTJILETIN.) Police officials of the various cities In the Calumet region scout the sensa tional Ked story today Insofar as th groups in their precincts were concern-ad--The Beds have been watched closely and have shown no activity whatever sine the May Bay fizzle. (BUXLETIU.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, June 13. Department of justice agents throughout the country have been Instructed to take every pre. caution against possible bomb outrages on July 4, It was learned today. While officials" of the department claimed to have no evidence to show that plans have been made by radicals to renew their campaign of terrorism on that dat o, they admitted that there have been frequent although vacua rumors that Independence Say might be select, ed for an attempt to carry out further bomb plots. That the Reds in East Chicago, Hammond and Gary are being watched vigilantly by government secret agents is asserted in a story printed today in a Chicago newspaper under a Washington date line as follows: Following an appeal to congress to day by Attorney General Palmer for an appropriation of $500,000 to run down the authors of the recent attempts to assassinate - public officials, it became known that 200 secret agents of the navy intelligence bureau are investigating a gigantic plot to explode bombs In Chica--go and more than a score of other large cities on July 4 next. About fifty government detectives are working in Chicago, suspected of being headquarters of the plotters. Others are pursuing leads in Detroit, Indianapolis, East Chicago, Hammond. Gary, and other middle west industrial cities. Suspects are under surveillance in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, ?t. Louis, Louisville, Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, and Moline. THIETT-TWO CITIES SED T ASSETS. The plot called for July 4 bomb demonstrations in all these cities except Milwaukee and in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New Tork. Trentqn, Newark. Jersey City. Bridgeport. Taunton. Fall River. Providence. Boston, Pittsneld. Memphis. Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, Birmingham and New Orleans. Existence cf the plot became known to department of justice operatives about two months ago, when an operative who had joined a terrorist group and gained the confidence of the "Committee of Five" members of the inner circles at Chicago headquarters of the organization succeeded in purloining papers containing a program of bomb explosions for a large number of cities whera Fourth of July celebrations on a larg scale were to be held. DEATH DEALING BT THE KAF. many of tse cities where the celebrations planned were to be municipal in character the points at which the largest crowds might be expected to assemble were Indicated with the best and quickest avenues of aproach tn and departure from such points. Probable IiiiC3 of march of rarades were indicated with points from which the parades might best be "viewed." Evidence of the widespread nature of the plot includes a large, number of pieces of mall, telegrams, and messages delivered personally found in placrs where raids had been made on radical centers. LAD CRUSHED BY CARELESS AUTO DRIVER Lester Kelly, 12 year old son of Mr. end Mrs. James Kelly, of 551 Ingraham avenue. West Hammond, while crossing the street at the corner of Sibley and Hohman st., Hammond, yesterday afternoon was knocked down and badly injured by a truck. Lester had started across Sibley ?t. when hit and squeezed against tn curb by a truck driven by Joe Washowskl. who lives at 5013 Walsh ave.. East Chicago. It is said that Wachowski was driving too fait and recklessly. When picked up Lester was f-und to be badly cut and bruised about the face, chest and arms, after receiving medical attention he was taken to h's home. Wchowski is being held under SK'rt bonds to await th outcome of the boy's Injuries. Advertise in The Times and advertise again. Results come with constant effort.