Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 6, Hammond, Lake County, 24 June 1919 — Page 1

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VIOLATING REED LAW IS CHARGED AH Defendants Will Be Ar raigned Before Anderson July 7th. LAKE COUNTY MEN INDICTED Tony Benski, William Kobeikl, John J&zaczkowskl, John Kovalehui, Joe ByUwy, Louis Niendorf, Prank Johns, Steve Stonemerov, George E. Thomas and John Vujakovich, all for violating the Seed amendment re. farding the transportation of liquor. TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITA INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 24. The first arrests of men Indicted by the federal grand jury will be made this week. The report of the grand Jury, submitted Saturday afternoon, named 311 defendants, less than ore-third of whom are fn Jail. Capiases were being issued today by Noble C. Butler, clerk of the United States district court, and it was expected that the arrest of defendants will begin not later than Wednesday. All defendants named in the grand jury( report will be arraigned on Monday, July 7. Victimized Hotel Men. One of the most interesting casts Is that of C. F. Harrell of Chicago charged with impersonating a government officer and victimizing Lake county people. It is alleged that Harrel, by representing himself to be an agent of the d e par t men t ( - ju et tee In La ke cou n t y. obtained credit for lodgings at hotels in Hammond. Gary and other towns and also to have borrowed money from the hotels. Black and Hollabaugh are alleged to have stolen automobile tires artd accessories at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Only the names of the twelve men (Continued tin page, five.) SHOOTING TO BE FATAL ILawrence Foster Dying In Hammond Hospital As Result of East Chicago Shooting. Lawrence Foster, a colored man, was fatally wounded, being shot three times In the back last night at East Chicago by John Frisco, 3604 F.lock avenue. Inoiana MarDor. Dr. Teegarden, who was l called, said that Foster, who was hurried to St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond, will probably die. Mrs. Juanita Fancher. It Is claimed ,ty the police, was an eye-witness of the affair. She says that John Frisco walked Into the house with a gun in his hand and went into the kitchen Vhere she was sitting. He pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, but the gun refused to go off. She yelled and ran out of the house with Frisco after her. Lawrence Foster then got in between them and tried to stop Frisco, who then pointed the gun at Foster and shot him three times. Mrs. Fancher says that two weeks ago Foster went to Flint Lake, Mich., and asked Frisco If he wouldn't watch over his wife while he was gone. Frisco helped Mrs. Foster make sandwiches for the men who work in the different mills around Indiana Harnor. After the shooting Frisco ran out of the house and disappeared. The police ! were caliea in ana api. jjowney nm , Officer Zakovich were put to worse on the case. Frisco could not be found." This morning the gunman returned to S604 Block avenue intoxicatedrHe staggered into the house with a gun in his hand. Mrs. Foster then called in th police and he was ariested. He Is now at the East Chicago police station. ADMIRALTY DENIES STORY (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI LONDON. June 24. The admiralty today- discredited a Faris report that the remaining ships of the German war fleet, lying in German harbors, tave been sunk by their crews. Imports that German warships at Kiel and Wiifcelmshaven and other Hern.an r.aval bases had been scuttled hv thir crews were circuiaiea .tn-i-

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Spy bv two American press associa- ( (lelmqueis. ah owners oi aogs not :!irs. The admiralty last night also ( having license tags will be prosecu.&'ied a denial. The rumor was not ted and that means the taxes will be Carried b the International Newi collected, plus the court costs which Service. j make Fido worth about 15.

LAKE CO. MEN INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY

NEWS. OF CASUALTY SENT BYWAR DEPT. Hammond Man Home For Months Is Reported Severely Wounded. Though Private John George, of Hammond has been home from the- war for over six months and his relatives and friends knew a year ago that he had been severely wounded In battle overseas, along comes the news today in General Pershing's casualty list tha Private John M. George. 682 Webster avc., Hammond, had been severely wounded. The army casualties are still coming In day by day and though the armistice was signed last November it is believed by next November the casualties will all be in. DENIES ALL ES Says Neither He Nor Brother Were Mixed Up In Scout Charges Police Say Differently. In spite of the fact that Claus C, Schrtim denies that he, or any of his brothers were concerned in the affair Saturday in which five Chicago Eoy Scouts were rounded), up at tho point of a gun and held prisoners until after midnight at the Schrum place southnest of Hammond. E. A. Iln', Hammond police detective, and Joseph Nitz. chief of the West Hammond police, say differently. Mr. Schrum thi3 morning called the West Hammond station by phone and informed Chief Nitz that a big mistake had been made and that the story of the affair was all mixed up. He later admitted to the chief that the boys had been brought to his house, but said that he had not done It, in fact they had been captured by another man. Then he admitted that the man was his brother. He further Informed Mr. Nitz that he was going to Chicago to see if something! couldn't be done to clear his name of the stigma attached by ie incident. Schrum was under the Impression that the West Hammond police were unacquainted with the details. Chief Nitz first learned that the Scouts were being held at the Schrum place late Saturday evening when the police of Harvey, 111., called him for information. The Chicago police had been asking Harvey to locate tho lads. . Schrum. (Continue- on page nve.) SCHRUM DENIES THE CHARGES June 24, 1919. Editor The Times: Concerning the article on the front page of your edition of June 23rd, wherein it is charged that I shot at a number of Eoy Scouts out near my place and held them prisoners till Sat-, urday night. I beg to advise you that the article is absolutely false and I know nothing about any suth transaction that might have occurred. I have no knowledge of the matters stated in your article. I do remember oi seeing some Eoy Scouts out near my place Saturday evening, but I did not molest them neither did I speak to them. In faet. it is no unusual sight for Boy Scouts to be out on the land of my brothers and mine, because we have a Boy Scout hut there and take a great interest in their work. We at numerous times give them help and furnish provisions for their luncheons. Why your paper should eek to put me in a false light before the public is more than I can understand, and in fairness to me I request you o make such explanations necessary to abs-nve me from the stigof 8Uch accusations. I wish to g further that none nf mv brother. who live near me had anything to do with this alleged affair. Tours very truly. CLAUS C. SCHRUM. CHIEF AFTER DOG TAX DODGERS Over 6f0 residents of Hammond own dogs and have paid their taxes so far this spring. Chief of Foiice Austgen says there are still many dogs in the city on which the taxes have not beenapaid- rog taxes are really due J"an. . 1st. but it has been customary to allow citizens to wait until they come in to pay their other city taxes. The time for paying taxes expired May 1 and after giving the public nearly two months' grace the police force is getting ready to go after the

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ID YARN Detective E. A. Bunde Finds That Story of Robbery Didn't Hold Water Worth a Cent. A story filled with thrills and heart ir.tere-t and shot full of holes yesterday by the Hammond police department. Mrs. W. F. Brk-r. 712 Sumer St.. was not bound to a chair by two negroes j Friday night. Her baby was, in no danger of death at the hands of colored intruders. She was not robbed of $200 in cash and two 100 Liberty bonds. It was all wrong. The story which arpeared in The Times Saturday was a recital of the dramatic facts rt told to the police by Mrs. Barker that mornings She said two negroes had entered her house after midnight and threatened to kill her child if she refused to tell where the money and bonds were hidden. She said she told them and they escaped, after bind- i ing her to a chair with her stockings. It made an interesting story, but there were other things in the air which caused the police to investigate further. Mr. and Mrs. Barker were to be called into court to explain why they had not j paid son bills which were past due. E. A. Bunde, of the detective force, got . busy on the matter and in questioning J the women got stories which did not hang together. The husband then ad-! vised him to let the matter drop. j Mr. Bunde didn't fancy the idea of having the public hear of a bold robbery by negroes in Hammond with the police standing by and making no effort to catch them. It all ended by the woman admitting that the whole story had been framed yp. . It seems the Barkers thought that a $400 robbery would excite sympathy among their creditors and result in the dropping of the court matters. The woman claimed to have cashed a check at the First National Bank of Hammond. This money she said was in the house when the negroes came. Bunde found that no check had been cashed by her. He- also learned that the two Liberty bonds on which they had started making payments had been taken off their hands by the bank because they were unable to meet the payments. CHICAGO'S STRIKE MAY BE E Municipal Utility Employes Out Menacing Health of City. flNTERN ATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. June 24. Chicago's municipal utilities are facing a general strike today that may seriously menace the health and safety of the city. Four thousand street cleaners, section foremen, garbagemen. ash wagon drivers and street railway repairmen w(nt on strike today. Two hundred and fifty electrical workers will strike at 6 o'clock tonight and thirty hours later the police and f.re alarm operators and repair men are scheduled to strike. If the strike is not, settled by tomorrow 3.000 water pipe etxension men and the elevator operators, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, sheet metal workers, bridge-tenders and other city employes may Join In the big walk out. The strike of the electrical workers tonight will plunge the streets of the city into darkness, it is declared, while the strike of the garbage men. street cleaners, etc.. constitutes a menace to the public health. The chief demands of the men are for summer vacations and a re-adjustment upward of the wage scale. The finance- committee of the city council thus far has refused their demands. TWO AVIATORS BURNED TO DEAH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Rye. N. V.. June 24. Twu aviators were burned to death here today when the 'plane in which they were flying fell several hundred feet to the ground and then burst into flames. The bodies are unrecognixable. Efforts are being made to learn their identity through the army, as H is believed they were military fliers. The machine fell on a trolley loop, near the amusement park. A few men saw the crash and rushed to the spot, but found it impossible to extinguish the flames. The cause of the accident has not been determined. HARVEY MAN IN FANCY STUNTS Stanley Walton of Harvey, 111., came to Hammond yesterday afternoon in his automobile. He was intoxicated and tried pome fancy stunts on Hohman ftreet which resulted in his arrest by Officers Carlson and Singer. This morning in the city court. Judge Klotz fined him $50 for driving a machine while drunk.

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vvlrt? ' tTppr row, left to rijrht: Mathias . Erzberger, Hcrr Wissell, Ilerr Bauer and Herr Giesbertz. Lower row: Dr. 'Bell, Gustave Noske ana Dr. Schmidt. Below is Dr. Eduard David. f HerrfEiuer is premier in the new German cabinet. He was formerly minister, of labor. Dr. Mueller; majority Socialist leader.

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T is now possible to compute with substantial accuracy the profit and loss of the diplomacy in which the President has been un-

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GREAT BRITAIN WINS: "Guaranteed and undiminished control of the seas; Virtual control of the League of Nations, with six votes to the one of the United States or any other Power; The major part of the former Geman colonies; Confimed possession of Egypt; Greatly increaser influence in the East; Reparation for injuries and losses to civilians. FRANCE WINS: Alsace Lorraine; ' The Sarre Valley; A barrier all along the Rhine against another German attack; Reparation for injuies and losses to civilians. BELGIUM WINS: Additional territory; Restored independence; Reparation for her injuries and losses in the war. ITALY WINS: i Restoration of Italia Irredenta; Security for her Alpine frontier; Control of the Adriatic Sea; . Reparation for injuries and losses in the war. JAPAN WINS: Former German islands in the Pacific; Control of China; Increased influence in Asiatic Russia. WOODROW WILSON WINS: A place in history as the Founder of the League of Nation: which threatens his country with undoing. THE UNITED STATES LOSES: Her independence and sovereignty; The friendship of Italy, Japan, and China; The power o'f self-defense; Self-determination of the size of her army and navy. The right to make treaties at wilfi The right td-mind only her own business. WAS IT WORTH WHILE? Harvey's Weekly.

VON REUTER TO BE TRIED flNTERN ATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, June 24. Admiral von Heuter. who commanded the German fleet, scuttled and sunk off Scapa Flow. will be tried by the same internation- ; al tribunal that tries the kaiser and I other war culpfUs and will be liable j to receive the death fentenee. the j Daily Express deoared today. A British court martial will not sit in judgment on von Reuter because he violated the terms of the armistice. His case. It is held here, is exactly the fame as that of a German iolder who fired on allied troops after the armistice went into effect. Times news service is the best

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.... s ,4i months. The balance uheet 'Bulletins (btjlletinA ational mews servicei ne 24. There was no con. PARTS, firmation here today of a rumor circu- j iated last niirht that Count von Brock. dorff-Bautiau, foreign minister of Qer- : many in the Scheidemann cabinet and j uvau ui u uvnnia peace uciegaxion. committed suicide at Weimar yesterday. 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KAKEISBUEa, Pa.. June 24. The Pennsylvania house of representatives this afternoon ratified the federal suffrage amendment by a vote cf 153 to 44. Zt was approved, bv the senat last session. ,

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i: X is minister of foreign affairs. Th other members of the cabinet are: Interior, Dr. Eduard David; finance and vice premier, Mathias Erzberger; economics, Ilerr Wissell; labor, Herr Schlicke; treasury, Herr Meyer; teleprraph, Herr Giesbertz; colonial office, Dr. Bell; defense, Gustave Noske; food, Dr. Schmidt. No appointment has been made to the ministry of justice. The new cabinet was formed after the downfall of the Scheideman-' Ebert cabiaet. TREATY TO Serious Internal Troubles are Expected in Germany. Lesser of Evils Chosen PARIS CELEBRATES NEWS FROM WEIMAR r I VTCP NATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI PARIS, June 24. Paris gave herself over to a-nijrnt of merry-making after word of tUe acceptance of the peace treaty by the Germans was sent iver the city by the same great siren voice that formerly announced the joining of the German air raiders. The scenes of the armistice cele. braUons were repeated. Hilarious crowds marched through the streets, cheering and singing song's, chain, pagne was flowing: in all the restaurants and the Place de la Opera and the Place de la Concorde, ia front of the headquarters of the American peace mission, were crowded until an early hour this morning. (EULLETIX) John Edwin Nevin r staff correspondent i. n. servicei PAKIS, June 24. If is now expected that the treaty of peace will be signed Thursday afternoon, President Wilson sailing for home the following day. The president is extremely pleased at the j outcome of the negotiations and declared today: "This peace Is the greatest boon for humanity." President Wilson Is deeply disappoint! ed. because the treaty canot be signed this evening. The failure of the German government to send a new peace delegation here at once, and the Prench Insistence upon complete formalities for the ceremony at Versailles, have put this i out of the question. A. G. Anderson fSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WEIMAR, June 23 (Delayed). Germany's decision to sign the peace treaty, unconditionally, was . tKen wim a IU11 realization Dy tfie new government that serious intemal troubles may result. It is believed that Geman military leaders will carry out their threat to resign from the army, carrying with them large numbers of officers. The prospect of an iCon'lnued on page nve.

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SUCCESS EXPECTED THIS TIE

New Will Repealing Legislation Not Be Restricted to Portion of Tax. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, June 24 Another effort will be made soon by Republican leaders in the house to repeal the luxury taxes carried in the war revenue law passed by congress last winter. It was expected, leaders said today, that the second effort will meet with a better reception by the house because the. repealing legislation will embrace all and not be restricted to a portion of the luxury tares and consequently its support will be more general. mtjst eubkacs axt. The first repealing bill, rresonted som weeks ajn by Representative Forney, chairman bf the house ways and means committee, repealed only the taxes imposed by section 906 of the revenue law which are confined largely to wearing apparel. It was attacked immediately by members who were, receiving complaints from their constituents because of the war tarxes on soda water, ice cream sodas, optcial glasses, furs and many other things and articles In general use. TAX OTXSB WATS. When the demand for extending th repeal law grew so strong as to threaten all these taxes, from which the government expected to derive a revenue cf $350,000,000, this year. Representative Fordney 'decided to abandon his attempt to pass his bill and to Invite, conferences with his colleagues as to the legislation. As a result of these conferences it has been argetd practically to repeal all the luxury taxes and to turn later to other forms of taxation to raise the necesary revenues for the government. DEATH OF 1 F. W. BRENNAN After an illness of three j-ears. Francis William Brennan, whose home Is at 512 Hoffman street, Hammond, died yesterday at Albuquerque. X. M , where he had gone in the hope of benefitting his health. The young mn had z. wide acquaintance in Hammond where he had lived during the last seventeen years. He is survived by his widowed mother, Mrs. Lydia Brer.nan. six brothers and fijiir sisters. The brothers are Andrew, Tatrick and Matthew of Chicago; Alexander. F.-i-ward and John of Hammond. The sisters are Mrs. Xou, Mrs. Edward Hoffman. Mrs. Mame Lyman and Mi" Catherine Brennan. all of Hammond. The mother, who was a the ynun; man's side during the last days of h'.s illness will accompany the body here for burial. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. NOVEL FEATURE AT CENTENARY r i mtfrn ATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI j COLUMBUS, O.. June 24. A feature j of the Methodist centenary tomorrow will be the visit of the army d:rigib A-4 from AKron carrying ir ,mi.officers. If favorable reply is received from Washington today requesting that a mcthodist bishop be allowed to ascend in the big gas. one . . . . . . . 1. r-w .... jo: the oisnops win ii"v " mon from the air. using a megapcone. NEW STRIKE AT STATE CAPITAL (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. June -4. Eigh hundred moulders and 450 helpers went on strike here today after employers, had refused to grant them a wage increase. Union leaders estimate the strike will affect about twenty manufacturing plants. The lrler are asking for $ f"r an 8hour day. They have $5 for & 9-hou rday. been receiving NEWS MAKES GERMANS HAPPY f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COPENHAGEN. June 24. The news that Germany had accepted the peace treatty aroused patriotic demonstrations throughout Germany. In Berlin, Muinch and other cities, great processions formed, made up of all classes, and marched through the streets, singing the old war songs ani cheering German war generals. The convervative press. In excited articles, expresses the hope that Germany's day of revenge may yet come. The German Officers' association, claiming to represent a million Germans, has sent a note to the Dutch government, requesting that Holland refuse to deliver the former kaiser xo the ellies for trial. Better call up The Times an: have it sent to your .house ever be there.