Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1919 — Page 1

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NSTITUTE NEWLODGE Hon. Joseph G. Ibach to Represent Grand Mast r ter Tonight. Hammfnd members of th Masonic lodge are preparing for one of the greatest events in the history of the city's fraternal affairs tonight when the newly organized McKlnley lodge- is Instituted. Garfield lodge has had such a pnenomenal growth that for several years it had been felt that another lodge was necessary. This need finally resulted in a recommendation by Garfield lodge to the Grand Masonic authorities that second lodge be instituted. A dispensation was granted in March of this year and at the meeting of the grand lodge in May a charter was granted to the rew lodge to be known as McKinley No. 712. The officers under the charter are: M. D. Metz. Worshipful Master. H. TV. Morgenau. Senior Warden. J. C. Kennedy. Junior Warden. For the rurpose of Instituting the lodge the Grand Master appointed Hon. James G. Ibach, thirty-second degree Mason, of Hammond as his special deputy. Tonight he will deliver the charter to members and install the officers with appropriate ceremonies. Past Grand Master Harry B. Tuthill of Michigan City will be present and deliver the address of the evening. The Installation program will be augmented by special meeting and at the close of the work one of the famous buffet lunches, which never fail to please, will be served. .An invitatio nhas been extended to all Masons to attend this event. TATEW1LL WE C. & 0. OVE RAILS City Attorney Promises Council Prompt Action Will Be Taken. Those abandoned C. & O. railroad tracks which pass through Kenwood addition to Hammond and prevent the completion of the boulevard which was planned when the subdivision was laid out, are to be removed. City Attorney McMahon 'last evening promised the council that it would be attended to at i once. Councilman Frank Martin, In one of his characteristic speeches called attention of the aldermen to the fact that the tracks were, still there in spite of the fact that the admlnisration had promised south siders during the camraign that the railroad company would be made to take out the offensive tracks. Mayor Brown Informed him that there was an injunction In the federal court now restraining the city from taking any further action and that the administration was helpless. Attorney McMahon came to the rescue cf south siders Just then and announced that the matter could easily be attended to by letting the state start the action. Ha said he would have the prosecuting attorney start things at once. Maywood Fark is to have further Improvements. Since the bath house was built at the Hammond beach the proceeds have gone into a bath house fund. About $11,000 have accumulated and an ordinance was passed abolishing this fund and placing the money in. the rark improvement fund through wfhch the bonds were issued for building the bath house. It Is planned to use about $3,009 of this sum in improving May-! wood Park and the remainder will probably be used in retiring some of the $21,000 park improvement bends by which the bath hous was built. Alderman L. C. Smith called attention of the council to the condition of the pavements on many of the short strees cf the city. Small ruts are appearing In these otherwise good pavements, and toe recommended prompt action be taken In repairing them. He referred to the latest monthly report of expenditures, which showed only $S6 had been spent cn street repairs. Hammond's new ordinance regulating the parking of automobiles on the rtreets was finally passed. As amended the ordinance now forbids the parking cf cars at all places where street cars take on and discharge passengers, and also on both sides of Hohman st. between Russel st. and Muenich ct. Ordinance was passed abolishing fees rhlch. have been collected In connection with the granting of licenses and also the fees which have been chargd for rntallic license plates. Ornamental lights are to be placed on Iyer blvd., as soon as sufficient residences are completed to warrant the expenditure. A petition was presented the council, elfrned by prominent citizens of Hammond, asking permission for a chautaueua to stretch its tent in Hrrison Park for five days. This was granted.

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Dr. Charles E. Munroc The work of Charles E. Munroe. explosives expert in the U. S. bureau of mines, is expected to be one of the most valuable aids in discovering the bomb terrorists. NICE AS USUAL, CAUSE TROUBLE (BUI.X.ETIN.) flNTERNATIONAL NFWS SERVICE! EEBI.IN, June 18. Count von Brock. dorff-Ba&txao, bead oX tha GKrmaa paaca delegation, baa lodged, an am. phatlo protest with the Trench government against insult offered the German peac delegation by a Frencb crowd on ita departure from Versailles Monday. MNTERN ATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PAP.IS. June IS. Two German women secretaries were today accused of starting the trouble that attended the departure of the German peace delegation from Versailles Monday night. An official inquiry, it was stated, disclosed that as the autmobiles carrying the Germans drew away from the Hotel Reservoir, the women expressed their contempt for the crowd of 2.000 Frenchmen and women by sticking out their tongues and rutting their fingers to their noses. The stoning occurred as the automobiles were approaching the noisy L Rol station. A shower of missiles descended on the German rarty. injuring Dr. Melchoir. one of the German delegates, and Frau Dormbluth, a secretary. Premier Clemenceau not only dismissed the prefect of police Chaleil and the Police Commissary Oudaille. but ordered Chaleil to make a personal apology to the Germans. SIX row OH BOY KILLED 8Y TRAIN Last evening at 4 o'clock a west-bound Michigan City train at the Madison tt. crossing. Gary, hit and killed a little six-year-old boy, Paul Lchisky, eon of Mr. and Mrs. John Lehisky, 1011 Madison st. The boy was playing on th track with a playmate by the name of Albert nolha, living at 1113 Madison St., wh-'.n the accident occured. Funeral services wil be conducted from Wiliam's chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon with burial at Gary Oak HM cemetery. FOR ALL DAMAGES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE EL PASO. Tex.. June IS. Military and civil authorities here today are taking every possible precaution to prevent demonstrations of hostility against American sby warning all American citizens to reamin away from Jaurez until conditions have again become normal. Feeling in Juarez against the Americans remains high and authorities are anxious to avoid actions that might aggravate the anti-American sentiment. . All damage done In Jaurez during the recent .fighting is charged against the United States troops by the Mexicans and the Americans are accused of shooting into the homes, of citizens. CHILD DROWNS. V SCOTSBCRG. IND.. June IS. The 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Ray was drowned near here yesterday when she attempted to cross a small stream. She had followed her mother into the -field. Are you regains The Trmes?

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Believes He Will Now Be Cured Had Stolen Overcoat. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES' CROWN POINT, lnd.. June IS. Paddy Ward of Hammond was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in the penitentiary for stealing an overcoat and various Other articles to get money to buy dope. Ward is a dope fiend of the worst type. He pleaded guilty and was glad to gs to the penitentiary, saying he would now be cured of the drug habit. He is 4 6 years of age. He was also fined $10 and costs. Mary Garden, a Gary negress. was sentenced to 60 days in the county Jail by Judge Smith on Tuesday. Mary was found guilty of entering the home of Wm. Baker in Gary with intent to burglarize it. She was found by Mrs. Baker but denied her guilt. Steve Peteroff of Ross, who was arrested on child desertion, was given a 60 day jail sentence on Tuesday by Judge Smith. The jail sentence was supended. however, on condition that Peteroff should pay Frances Peteroff, the mother of the child. $5.00 per week. Samuel Simpson, the Lowell druggist who was found guilty several weeks ago cf attempting to attack Miss Marjorie Morgan,1 will" be given his sentence by Judge Smith on June 30. BOARD OF REVIEW RAISES WINFIELD TWP. ASSESSMENT Big Cuts Made in Valuations of Hammond Lots. fSPECIAL TO THE TIME! CROWN POINT, Ind.. June 18. Winfield township's assessments were raised from 10 to 40 per oent on different parcels ofland by assessors and approved by the Board of Review. Winfield"s assessments did not compare with the balance of the townships therefore the reason for the Increase. Chas. H. Frederichs and W. J. McAleer complained regarding assessments on lots 14. IS. 16, 17, block 4. and lots 31. 32. 33 block 3. and lots 6. 7. 9 I block 4. Marbles addition to Hammond. The board acted as follows: Lots 31. 33, 33. block 3. assessed at jf"50 reduced to $300; lots 6, 7. S. block 4. assessed at $750. reduced to $150; lots 14. 15. 1SV 17. block 4, assessed at $1,000, reduced to $150. St. John Township. The assessments of Adam Kolling was reduced from $9. "00 to $8,000. John Gcrlach's assessment rduced to from $5,600 to $5,000. Anna Neuaorf's assessment reduced from $2,600 to $2,400. Nicholas Neudorf's assessment reduced from $7,020 to $5,460. The assessmerU of Peter Toung ot Griffith reduced from $900 to $500. Otto J. Bruce, Crown Point, assessment changed from $2,500 to $3,500. Value of improvements made by th Board of Review on W. D. Webb, Hammond, on lots 24 to 27, block 1 was $20,000. HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS OF TREATY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PARIS. June 18. A sharp division of rTin!nn in found in the comment on the redrafted treaty by Parisian newspapers. 'Small delays show the big four incapable to setting even the insignificant details on a basis of pure right," declared the Matin. "We hope the Germans will not sign. It will enable us to do to Essen what the Boches did to Rheims." "The reply does not weaken France's fundamental demands," said the Petit Journal. The Journal said: "The language of the reply is strong, but the terms contain real concessions." The Echo de Paris: "Clemenceau'a letter covering the treaty is the strongest indictment of Germany. It contrasts strikingly with the weakness shown by the negotiations of the big four." "Rtal concessions have been made," states the Figaro, "but Germay does not escape the net-work of guarantees and reparation." JAIL PRISONERS HAVE GAY TIME NEW TORK. June IS. The county Jail at Mineola, L. I., where Mrs. Jack De Saulles, Mrs. Florence Carman and other persons awaited trial, including Frederick Holt, who shot J. P. Morgan, is in disfavor with federal Judges, it wag learned today. An investigation is being made of charge es that the Mineola Jail is more of a summer resort than a prison. It is charged that prisoners were permitted to go on automobile rides, that poker parties with big stakes were a daily feature, and that one prisoner was allowed to spend the last fort night of his term at the Elks club.

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PROJECT TO BE SjJRVEYED Council Orders Board of "tr 1 Works to Contract with Engineers Definite stepJtoward the construction of a water filtration plant In Hammond were taken by he city council Tuesday evening when Ithe offer of Langdon Pearce. the wellnown Chicago sanitary engineer io mtv a survey or the project for the city was accepted. Pearce and hla- assoc:ates planned and supervised the construction of the plant ct Evanstoo, III and are now building the one for East Chicago. They also have the contract for the Whiting plant. so they are thoroughly conversant "with the lake conditions in the vicinity of the Hammond Intake and also have post records on handjwhich will enable them to give the city a pretty close estimate on the cost - of the proposed improv mpnt. Mayor Brown, informed the council that more land would have to be acquired at the lake front on this will be investigated at once. The question was raised whether the filtration plant could not be avoided by extending the intake farther into the lake. It was shown by City Engineer Bridge that soundings which have been taken show the depth of the lake to b only about three feet greater four miles out than at the present intake. As' depth is the factor sought this move would do no good. It was also shown that this extension would bring th crib in the lane of steamer travel io Gary and Whiting with more pollution to contend with. The expense of such a move would probably be as : great as building the filtration plant and in case- the water was not remedied the State Board of Health would probably order a filtration plant anyway.' Chicago with its intakes, f ar .out JvJthe - lake has turgid watefTindUSes excessive" arhounts of chlorine. The survey proposed by Mr. Pearce will be an exhaustive one for which a charge of $500 will be made. In case it is decided to build the plant, this amount will be refunded if the firm is retained to supervise the construction. The actual building will be let to contractors and the engineers in charge will exact a fee amounting to two and one-half per cent of the contract price. A motion was passed by the council ordering the Board of Works to contract with Mr. Pearce for the survey. DIRE CALAMITY IF LEAGUE FAILS. SAYS M'CUMBER WASHINGTON, June IS. "If the United States refuses to Join with the rest of the world in some scheme to prevent war every great nation will proceed to devise means for wholesale destruction." declared Senator McCumbcr. Republican, of North Dakota, in an address In the senate this afternoon in support of the league of nalions plan. "The nation most learned, most thorough and assldious will take the lead in a nefarious design to manufacture gas bombs that will wipe out of existence in a single night raid New York or London, or Paris, or Berlin," McCumber continued. "The science of both aircraft and chemistry for war purposes Is at present only in its experimental stage. The old glory of noble and honorable battle will give way to the evil necromancy of chemistry, to insidious germ-producing poisons. Even since the date of the signing or tne armistice last November we have perfected flying machines ten times more powerful than those used during the greater part of the war. I am credibly Informed that we now have In fair prospect of completion bombs which if dropped by a single fleet over a great city like New Tork or London won not by mere explosions or fire, but by poisonous and insidious gases, destroy all life in such city. The nations first and foremost in the Invention of such satanic methods will i be triumphant over the nations whose hearts rebel against sucn niaeous pur poses." GUARDIAN ASKED FOR SHOCK VICTIM SHELBY VILLE, IND., June 18 A guardian has been asked for Robert H. Sterling. 2S. who served at the Tront in the world war and was recently discharged. He suffered from shell shock and was apparently well until a few days ago. when he suffered a nervous breakdown which has affected his mind. NOTICE TO MASONS. McKinley Lodge 712 will be constituted and its officers installed tonight. Hon. H. B. Tuthill of Michigan City will give an address. Eats. 6-18-1 MERRIT D. METZ. W. M.

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SENTENCED FOR 'S DEATH MS EVE CHICAGO, 111.. June 18. John Toohey and James Ryan were sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary by JUdge Brentano yesterday on their pleas of guilty to killing Paul Pagan of Hammond, Ind.. last Christmas Eve. The victim, the evidence showed, was an innocent bystander shot down in a saloon at 503 N. Wells St.. when the defendants and Frees and Wurst. the proprietors, quarreled over serving a drink. BOY DISAPPEARS Indiana itarDor, ina., nas oeen misMng since Saturday. It is feared he was drowned in Lake Michigan. Previous to that time he worked at the Inland Steel Co. plant No. 2 in the locomotive shop as a hostler helper. Tony was on night duty and after his working hours ended went to his home. He arrived home Saturday morning and had his breakfast. He then went out to the front steps to sit down. It was always the custom for him to go to bed Immediately after breakfast, but this time he said it was' too warm and he was going to the front of the house to cool off. After sitting on the front steps for a few minutes he said: "Mother, I am going down to the Lake and take a swim." When Tony failed to appear his mother. Mrs. Josephine Baginski, became alarmed and reported it to the police. Up to the present time no word has been received as to his whereabouts. His mother says that he was a good boy and in good health and also had a j good position and that he never stayed away from home over night. NEW CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT CROWN POINT. IND.. June 18. The following new cases were filed In the circuit court yesterday: 12757 (Daniel J. Redding) Ward L. Railsback vs. Dorothy J. Railsback. divorce. 12758 (Boone & Murray) Morris J. Cohn vs. City of Hammond, appeal from board of public works. 12759 (Joseph E. Brown) The Board of Commlsisoners of the County of Lake vs. BenJ. F. Hayes and Nettle L. Hayes. Condemnation. 12753 (L. D. Butler) John Cuspers vs. Mike Emory. Appeal from J. P. 12754( E. E. Pierson) W. J. KUllgrew, Admr.. Estate of Leander Clemens vs. Alvina Clemens, et al. Petition to sell real estate. 12755 (George P. Rose) Ben S. Edwards and S. S. Trust & Savings Bank vs. Joe Gregor. 12756 In the matter of the application for the commitment of Milton Arthur Parker to Indiana Village for Epileptics at .New Castle, Ind IRISH THANK U. S. SENATORS DUBLIN. June 18. A meeting at Dailierann today thanked the U. S. senate for its resolution of sympathy with Ireland and added: "The ties of blood and friendship that existed when both the U. S. an Ireland were under common oprpessors are indissoluble."

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E. C. HAS Hammond Merchant Delivers Important Address at Convention. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. June 18 Indiana retail dry goods merchants In their fourth annual convention today heard E. C. Minas, department store head of Hammond, explain how he has succeeded in building up a tremendous business within gunshot cf Chicago's competition. Mr. Minas. who was one of five speakers on the program, attribute the success of his busines sto hard work and service to his customers. Chicago competition, he says, Jaas really aided the store's growth. "My reason for talking on this subject," said Mr. Minas. "was. that upon receiving the invitation from the secretary of this convention, he said the board of directors had preferred this subject because of the large volume of business we were doing within gun shot distance of Chicago, where the strongest competition, no doubt, in the world exists. My reply to him was this, that I believed your board of directors had make a mistake in both the selection and the man. However, we never talk volume. We do not believe In the volume stuff. If it is volume that counts, we do not do half the business today that we should. "And at this place and at this time, I wish to state, that what I have done most of you have done as well, or even better, only possibly in a different way. "In other words. It Is after all your own efforts that count most, especially in laying the foundation for your business career or success. After your business has grown beyond the one man idea, then it becomes an organization, and at this time it is organlaztion and co-operation of the entire force that counts from the errand boy to the president of the company. As Marshall Feld stated. If he had lost all, and still retained his organization, he would still win in a business career. "My first venture was in the hardware business, and frankly at the time I did not know the difference between a three penny nail and a ten penny nail. I knew not the difference between a rim lock and a mortice lock, but we opened our store with a stock that invoiced $1,100. and that only partly paid for. My first day's sales were $2.62. So you can readily see that it was not volume of sales that Interested me. but it was to build the foundation for the best hardware store in northern Indiana, and Inside of four years I had purchFed a lot and built a modern store 50x100. with three stories, on a street where there was practically no business, with the exception of two or three grocery stores, and this was two blocks away from the then center of business. 'I recall that one of our competitors said at the time that within six months I would be broke, but Instead, within one and one-half years he, himself, was in the hands of a receiver. Not that I had anything to do with thi.. but he was more interested in my failure than he was in his own success "In another four years our pales had so increased that it was necessary (Continued on page seven

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ON If SO Criticize President for Forgetting About Fourteen Points. (BTJUJETUr.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS Sn?tv i i. 1 1 ix g-p-y. eminent demonstrations hare broken out at Tra&kfort. Grmaa government troops were forced to nse machina nu oa the crowd. (BTTZAETIir.) Br B. T. JOSGENSXir. f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! COPXKEAOEV, Jnne 18. Tne Social, ist newspaper orwaerta in Berlin States today: "Tne allied reply Indicates a aew war declaration. The amendments, with the exception of the plebiscite for upper Silesia, are Insignificant. "Tne might of the Oermaa peopl la strong enougH to continue tne straggle for life and right by giving a firm no to th allied capitalists. "The terms are unbearable, TLa accept, able. The claim are namiliatlag.' BY R. B. JORGE5EX. COPENHAGEN. June 18. Rioting has broken out at Weimar, seat of the German government, where the national assembly has met to give Germany's final answer on the peace treaty, said a dispatch from that place this afternoon. The Spartacists made an attempt ta dominate the assembly, said the dispatch, but were frustrated by the Ebert government forces, and "heavy rioting occurred." The dispatch brought no further details. "WEIMAR. Jijne 18.- The prevailing opinion among German leaders here today is that a majority of the national assembly will refuse to sign the peace terms. Differences between Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation, who arrived here from Versailles with the 'allied reply, and Dr. Mathias Erzberger of the German armistice comntssion. have been reconciled .and efforts are being made to smooth over other differences in the government" because of the crisis now facing the country. The national assembly will not discuss the terms until Friday. A member of the government declared today that only the prospect that Bolshevism will spread to Germany and the fear of starvation may prevent a majority of the assembly from voting to reject the treaty. The delegates to the assembly seem more disposed to criticize the United States because of President Wilson's alleged failure to insist upon his original fourteen points than to criticize either France or England. BUILDINGS Further evidence of the enormity of the building boom which Hammond Is now experiencing is shown by building permits totaling over $100,000 which have been issued within the last few days. In the latest batch of permits the largest is the one issued to G. Bates for ! the building which will be occupied by the E. J. Burns morgue and undertaking parlors at 239 State st. The second . largest will be the $10,000 addition to the Hammond Malleable Iron Works at 723 Summer st. This will be a new core room and will be built by O. Highland. The following are the other building permits taken out with Building Commissioner Vis: $8,000 two-story brick building at 518 Sibley st., by Shade and Wall; $2,000 cottage at 26 Dougla3 St.. by J. Miller: $7,000 home at 68 Sibley st.. by M. A. Dickover; $7,000 home .it 70 Sibley St.. by M. A. Dickover; $3,000 home at 202 Lewis st.. by J. F. Wilhelm: $4,500 home at fc7 Dyer St., by P. Thullen; $2,450 home at 834 White Oak ave.. by J. Martin: $3,360 add., at 1333 Roberts ave., by J. Martin; $2,000 power house at 723 Summer St.. by O. Highland: $1,600 garage at 164 Plummer ave.. by D. Bates: $3,000 home at 1201 Myrtle ave., by J. Gregorovich: $4,000 home at 534 Ames St., by F. Koznarski: $6,001 home at 90 Dyer st., by A. F. Carlson; $5,500 home at 98 Dyer st., by A. V. Carlson; $5,500 home at 100 Dyer St., by A. F. Carlson: $1,600 home at 163 Johnson St.. by A. Kowalski; and $3,100 home at 482 Eaton St., by N. P. Anderson. CRUSHED BY SAFE. VALPARAISO. IND., June 18. William Halstein. 50. was crushed to death in the local postofflce yesterday when an iron safe which he was helping' move accidentally fell upon him.

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