Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 7, Hammond, Lake County, 25 June 1919 — Page 1

iAK TIME RAIN1 WTEHNATIONAI. KIWI FULL LEASES WISE SERVICE. On streets and newsstands, 3e per copy. XellTred by carrier la Hammond and West Hammond, SOo per month. VOL. XRT, No. 7. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. REIGNS ERLIN, ALLIES ARE DENOUNCED PRESIDENT

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FEELINGS Patience of Allies Is Exhausted With the German Government. (BVXiX.ETX2r.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, Joaa 25. "In my opinion the treaty of peace is a guarantee of war," declared Senator Borah la the senate this afternoon. The senator from Idaho based this opinion on charges which he ma da that all subject nations had not been given a hearing at the peace conference, particularly Ireland. "Until you have learned that a people's spirit of nationality cannot be crushed by force you will never proceed on any program which will Institute a permanent peace," Senator Borah said. (BULLETIN.) A. G Anderson r?TAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE! rvur.rv, jane 25. Disorders have again broken out In Berlin, following acceptance of the peace treaty. Mobs are looting shops and other buildings In many parts of the city. One hundred looters had been arrested at midnight last night. There is a new strike almost hourly. The telephone and postal workers have quit work, handicapiplng the city's industries seriously. Delayed reports indicate that the strike disturbances are eoutnry-wide. Feelings of revenge and hatred of the allies Is spring up alongside the chaos here. Orchesctras In the Berlin cafes last night struck up the old war songs of the "JJeutschland Tiber Allies' type. The crowds sang the song with wild enthusiasm. Everywhere people are earnestly discussing plans for Germany's revenge, when the proper time comes. John Edwin Nevin rstaff correspondent i. h. service! PARIS, June 25. Unless the German government announces the personnel of a new peace delegation by this evening, the allied and associated governnints will send a note to Germany and call Premier Bauer to order in the sharpest terms, reminding him that their patience is exhausted. In the meantime Marshal Foch has been instructed to hold his troops in readyiess. MEETING- COLDLY INFORMAL. The French newspaper LaLiberte reported yesterday that Foreign Minister Mueller had been named to head the delegation, but it was stated at tfie French foreign office that no official announcement of the personnel of the delegation has teen received ) Cold formality will mark the final scene In the drama of the world -war. There- will be no friendly exchanges between the allied and fierman peace delegates it was decidd today. Any attempts by the Germans to debate the treaty problems before signing or to make further oratorical protests will not be permitted. The council of five has decided that there will be but one sreech. CLEMENCEATJ TO MAKE IT. That will be mid" by Premier Cle- " (Continue- on page nve.) Foreign Minister In New German Cabinet f. .-vi... .- yr -jr.. y Li In the new German rab.net. formed under ths premiership of H-:rr Bauer, formerly minister of labor. Hermann Mueller, majority Socialist leader who was under secretary of the War Food Bureau, holds the post of minister of foreign affairs. Mueller was one of the most conspicuous German delegates at th International Socialist Conference, which met in Bern in February.

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THINK OF IT! NEWCASTLE MAN FINDS A PACKAGE CONTAINING $2,000

He Sees Several Automobiles Run Picks It Up Friends Thin Says That the NEWCASTLE. Ind.. June 25. Scott Thornton is the luckiest man in Newcastle. Two weeks ago Thornton announced he had found a bunch of money and that the owner could have it by identifying it. No one took him seriously and some even went so far as to say he was affected with the heat. Thornton brought his find to & local newspaper office yesterday and exhibited, nearly $2,000. Since he has given thet owner a reasonable time in which to claim it .Thornton now says the money is his. Thornton is a cripple. He was never burdened with wealth and the money he says will keep him the rest of his life. Maybe some auto tourist lost the money. Thornton says he found the money In "West Broat street and that before he SPECIAL ELECTIONS NECESSARY Experts Point Out That Special Session of Legislature Calls for Elections. By SAY O. WICKER. "STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! IXDIAXAPOLIS, Ind.. June 25. That Governor James P. Goodrich will have to call two special elections before s can summon the state legislature to meet here in a special session to ratify tho Susan E. Anthony woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution was tho assertion made here today by attorneys and others familiar with state laws. These elections arc made necessary by the appointment of Jesse Eschbaugh. speaker of the house of representatives and representative from Kosciusko county, chief examiner of the ttate board of accounts and Glenn Van Auken. joint senator from Allen snd Dekalb counties, a member of the Indiana public ervice commission. Law experts say that state laws provide that two state positions cannot be held by the rarne person at the ;am lime. Thty hold Vha both Eschb-mg'i aid Ann Auken had automatically severed their connection with the state legislature when they accepted state positions and they need not officially tender their resignations as members of the legislature. This leaves vacancies in both districts as well as it leaves the house without a speaker. It is declared both places must be filled before the legislature can meet and that immediately upon convening a successor must be elected. Governor Goodrich plans to call the legislature into session during the latter part of August or the forepart of September. As only ten days' notice is required for tho special elections to fill vacancies in the legislatures, these elections can be held and the legislature called when the governor plans. Eesides ratification tf the suffrage amendment the special session of the legislature will consider "three or four emergency matters" which the governor has not made public. The legislature wit not be in session longer than cna week, the governor says. L ELOPE AND WED They Save For Auto and Diamond Wrist Watch? Yes, They Do Not. TSPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind.. June 25. For the last few months John Huff. 1S-year-old son of Dr. and John A. Huff. Oak Park, has been carefully saving h;s allowance. To the questioning of his parents young Huff vaguely muttered something about an automobile. In the same period Miss Mildred Fluggies. 17. daughter of Dr. W. L. Ruggles, 926 North boulevard, has been saving her money. She insinuated her heart was set on a certain diamond studded wrist watch she had aeen. They were members of the same 1 clas t the Oak Park-River Forest ! lownsnip nigh school Last Thursday they eloped and were married, in Crown Point. NOTICE An important mass meeting of employees in all crafts at Standard Steel Car Co., Hammond works, will be held Friday, June 27. 1?1I. at S p. m. in Huehn's Hall, Hohman and Logan Sts.. Hammond, Ind. National Committee for organizing Iron and Steel Workers. 6-25-3t Are you readins The i lines?

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reached it he saw several automobiles run over it. The money was in a brue-and-white checked cloth bag and was wrapped in a brown paper sack. Thornton, when he found the money, refused to permit anybody to see it. but later announced his find in the local newspapers, saying the owner could have it by identifying it. A lot of fun was poked at Thornton, but he said he would show the money at the proper time. He appeared at the newspaper office yesterday with the sack and startled the office force by pulling out ten and twenty-dollar bills by the handfull. The police believe the money was lost from an automobile. No robberies have occurred in this part of the state in which money to this amount was taken. Thornton stated he would invest his find in Liberty bonds. RDNANCE PLANT IS CLOSED OP Advertisements appearing In Chicago newspapers call for sealed bids for the dismantling of government buildings and the removal of machinery from manufacturing plants which had been working on government contracts during the war. Included in the list are the Standard Steel Car Co., of Hammond, the Standard Forging Co.. of Indiana Hacior, and the Pressed Steel Car Co., of Hegewisch. 111. "With the closing of the Ordance Department of the Standard Steel Car Co. Saturday, Hammond people have been wondering what will be done with the immense plant which was erected In record time to handle the government contracts. Superintendent Elakey of the Ordnance Department says that the disposal of the buildings is entirely out of his hands, having been left to tho United States Salvage which has district offices in Chicago. From the oITtce of Major Eayless. hea.i of the Inspection Department at the Standard plant, the information is re ceived that the fato of the buildings Is I still a matter of doubt. If the Standard Steel Car Co. should present a reasonable bid for the purchase of the structures they would of course be left in Hammond, but if outsiders overbid the plant owners, there is a possibility that the houses will be wrecked and the material moved away. The buildings and machinery are estimated to be worth about $3,500,000. Nearly half of this amount represents the machinery, much of which was built especially for the manufacturing of the different parts of gun mountings turned out by the plant. Many of these special machines will be retained by the government and moved to their big arsenals for further use. Schools for vocational training of disabled soldiers are being established by the government in various parts of the country. Men who have lost an arm. leg or met with other serious injuries which would ordinarily discourage thern from learning mechanical trades will be trained in the federal schools to operata the machines which their handicap permits. Hundreds of machines are now being selected from the different plants to be moved to these sxhools and it is thought a large part of the machinery of the Hammond plant can be used in this way. As construed by Major Eayless. the bids called for by the secretary of th; Chicago District Salvage Board will be merely for the purchase of buildings anj machinery and does not mean that tho government Intends to wreck the place at once. This affords the Standard Steol Car Co. an opportunity to place their bids for the purchase of the plant along with outsiders. As yet no action is known to have been taken by the corporation, although th time for filing bids expires Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. PUBLIC MEETING AT COUNTRY CLUB A public meeting will be held at thi Hammond Country Club on June 26th ft S:CV o'clock s which all citizens who are interested in the Calumet region are invited. This Includes citizens of Gary. East Chicago. Indiana Harbor. Whiting and Hammond. The engineers of th5 various municipalities, together with Langdon Jearse of Chicago, an expert sanitary and hydraulic engineer, have been working on a complete survey of the region for the past thirty days to determine the best and most economic method of sewage disposal for the entire region and are to make a report it this meeting of their final conclusion on the method and initial cost of such a project. This will be cf interest to all industries in the region as well as all citizens. Don't throw your paper awaj ithout reading the want ad page

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GOP BEATEN Savage Encounter in West Hammond Last Night Hammond and Gary Men Implicated. Beset by a mob while attempting ta arrest three men last night. Officers Kulczyk and Wojclechowskl of the West Hammond police were badly beaten and it is believed they would have been Wiled if help had not arrived. Three men. Ernest and Earl West, of Hammond, and a named named O'Donnell. of Gary, engage in a fight at the corner of State and State Line streets late In the evening. .The two officers placed them under arrest and started west on State street. Intending to take them to the police station. When about half way down the block. O'Donnel, who, is a large and powerful man, announced that he would go no farther and that the only way they could get him to the station would be to kill him. Kulczyk was leading him and drew his club but before, he could use It. O'Donnell snatched it from his hand and hurled Kulczyk to the pavement. A crowd had gathered as soon as the trouble started and as the policeman fell they closed in on the men. One managed to snatch the officer's grun from his pocket. Wojclechowskl had his hands full with the two men he had arrested and the crowd beat off all of his attempts to render assistance to his partner. - Kulczyk was kicked and beaten and when he attempted to rise to his feet several slashes were made at him with knives. Hi3 hat had three siits, one mi tho crown and two in the brim showing how close the blades had come- It is said O'Donnell was about to make It a finish Job when Andy Wetter came to the rescue of Kulczyk and seized the Gary man. While they were struggling more members of the police force arrived and the fight was over. O'Donnell managed to escape but the West brothers were lodged in Jail. This morning. Kulczyky's face and no6e were so disfigured and swollen that he was hardly recognizable. His nose had been beaten until he could scarcely breathe through it. West Hammond police believe this Is just the beginning of the truoble which the rough element cf the Calumet region will attempt to stage in the Illinois town during the last days before prohibition becomes effective. Warning has beerlent out by the Cook county sheriff to watch for such affairs and to have every available policeman on the job constantly. . E TO CATCH UP SOME When He Gets Money to; Keep Wolf From Door He's Going to Work Up Memorial. "No. the project is by no means dead." declared Atorney D. E. Boone, com. mander of civilian war actiities in Hammond during the war, in speaking of the soldiers and sailors memorial proposition. JIr. Boone, who gave practicaly all his time during the war to one kind of war activity snd another and worked night and day at everything but the law business, said that being a. poor r ai he found it necessary nowadays to give some time to his long neglected law practice in order to keep the wolf from the dodr. "When I catch tip." said Mr. Boone, "I'm going after that memorial harder than ever and some other things in thl-3 town that need attention." SPIEGEL FIRE SALE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS The Spiegel fire sale, now going on in full blast at the big store, 9133 Commercial avenue. South Chicago, is breaking all records. Crowds storm the big store daily eager to take advantage of the great money-saving bargains offered at this sale. In hundreds of instances the goods were only damaged by smoke and water. In other cases the goods were slightly damaged by fire. Mr. Friduss. the manager, stated to a reporter that the big store never in its history offered the bargains it offering at this sale. He said that people are coming from Gary. Hammond. Crown Point. East Chicago, Indiana Harbor. Whiting and suroundinjt towns. Goods are marked onethird to one-half of what they cost at wholesale. If you want furniture here Is your opportunity to fve big money. A e you reading Th Times?

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Premier Francesco Nitti. Francesco Nitti, premier and minister of foreign affairs in the new Italian cabinet, appears to have constructed a government based on the very ideas which overthrew Orlando and his cabinet. It was only six months ago that Nitti resigned as minister of the treasury, denouncing the extreme demands of the Italian delegation at Paris. The new Italian government appears to be as friendly to France and England as the eovemment which has just fallen.

Went As Soldier, Back As Butcher, This Doughboy Crl. Leslie J. Parry, enlisted Times reporter, who a year ago today went to serve Uncle Sam as a soldier, returned to Hammond last nipht as a butcher with two gold stripes snd an honorable discharge, all the way from Osann, Germany, via St. Js'azaire, Boston, Camp Devcnes and Camp Taylor. ' This is the butcher part of the yarn. The first day out on the V. S. S. Luckenbach he got enough of ship "slum." so hearing that the commissary department wanted a butcher he figured a Job like that ought to be next door to the refrigerators and enlisted. "Can you cut meat?" they asked him. "I'll say I can cut meat," he shouted aloud, and sotto voce, he whispered, "with a knife and fork after it's fried." Well, he worked as a butcher and lived on the fat of the land. Fruit, ice cream and all the fancy stuff for the officers' mess fell to the lot of the butcher-reporter. Pretty soft for 12 days. He kept pretty close to the refrigerator. He doesn't think much of the eats he has been having since the boat docked and may go after a butcher's job somewhere. Says th old town looks pretty good to him But that's what they all say. LIFE IN PEN P. (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. June 23. Peter Nemech of East Chicago, who was tried for murder several weeks ago in the criminal court and found guilty by a jury, was sentenced for life in the stat prison at Michigan City by Judge Smith. Judre Smith has ordered the grand Jury for June SO. Forest Tatrlck. a Hammond street car conductor, was fined $3.09 and costs for assault, pleading guilty. Affidavits were filed against Malba Schwab of Gary for unlawfully stealing an automobile from Charles C. Jaeger. Walter Huber, also of Gary, was charged with the same offense. James Busbas of Gary for visiting gambling house and Mike Chicouris guilty on the same charge. Theodore Tsurias. keeping a gambling house in Gary, and also on a charge of embezzlement. Are you reading The Times?

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NEW ACTIVITY ON PART OF BOOZE HOUNDS Hammond and Gary Men Are Arrested With Whiskey. Three men. Harry Fagan. of Calumet avenue, Hammond. William Kroft of the Maine hotel, Hammond, and Tokama Monieka of 1629 Pennsylvania avenue. Gar!'.(were arrested last night by the Hammond police at the corner of Calumet avenue and 150th street, charged with violating the liquor law. The men are charged with bringing twelve quarts of whiskey Into the state in a taxi. Kroft. who drove the tail, and Monieka pleaded not guilty and their cfese tvas continued until tomorrow morning. Fagan was fined $105 and given a suspended Jail sentence of thirty days on his plea of guilty in the Hammond city court this morning by Jujge Klotz. WELL-KNOWN GRIFFITH PEOPLE IN COURT Mrs. Ernest De St. Aubin Files Suit for Separate Maintenance. . Alleging that her husand. Ernest do St. Augirt of GriiTith. worth over $300.r00, refused to provide for her or their chijdren and thaf he would not let thein have a proper education, Blanche do St. Aubin has filed a complaint in the Hammond superior court for separate main tenance. At present they are living in the same house, but not as husband and wife. The complaint, filed this morning tjy Attorneys Boone & Murray, states that 1 they were married January S. 1902. and ( separated April 1. 1319. The wife declares that the husband refused to prop- 1 erly clothe the children and because of the condition of their apparel she was forced to withdraw them from scnool. She now needs SlCn0 to refurnish them and will need $50 per month to maintain herself and family during the hearing (.-t the suit. There are six children. The defendant is said to own the controlling interest in the Griffith Land Co.. and has property in Griffith and Chicago. The different holdings are set out in detail in the complaint. She also accuses him of beating and abusing her in front of the children and other people. Mrs. De St. Aubin asks that a receiver be appointed to take charge of the business of her husband and to reduce it ta such a condition that she can be paid $50,000 and attorney fees and proper arrangements be made for the support of the children.

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Congress May Attempt to Override It, Nation Waiting On Action. SOME NOISY NIGHT HERE 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVirri NXW YOBK, Jane 25. With tlx more days to go before the nation goes dry unless President Wilson interrenes, carpenters began work today at the Madison Square Q-arden on the largest bar the world evr saw. The bar will extend all the way aj-otmd the arena of the Garden and will be open Just one night the last night. An admittance fee of $3.00 to "keep ont the roughnecks," will be charged and theatrical performers will pat on a show while the ticket holders hook their elbows onr a real bar for the last time. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C, June 25. Rumors continued today that President Wilson is certain to terminate war-time prohibition hy a proclamation, declaring that de-. mobilization is at an end. If this proclamation should be. issued, Representative Randall, of California, prohibitionist, has served notice that he will endeavor to override the proclamation and continue wartime prohibition through an amendment to the prohibition enforcement law. EXPECT TO COMPUTE DHATT. The house judiciary committee' expected to complete its draft of the enforcement bill today, and Chairman Volstead will introduce it immediately lnti the house, with notice that he will ca"! it up for consideration within 24 hour. He will not wait even to have it printed in its final form for information of house members. In its present share the bill llnka to- ' gether war-time and constitutional amendment enforcements for severe penalties for violation under the direction of a commissioner of prohibition working with the department of Justice and subject to the supervision of the attorney-general. All beverages containing over one-half of one per cent alcohol are prohibited. SCAT HAVE PBITATE STOCKS. Under the house bill individuals may retain their stocks of liquors if such stocks are stored in buildings occupied by them as residences, and the use of liquors will not be prohibited, except ir. public Search and seizure warrants may be issued only by judges of courts of record, wines for sacramental purposes may be manufactured and sold and non beverage liquors may be used In medicine, the arts and Industry. CANT IMPORT BEVEKAOE3. Beverage liquors beyond the authorized alcoholic percentage may not be manufactured or imported, except by and for the private use of the diplomatic representatives of forelurn countries in the United States. They may not be transported in interstate commerce. Final opportunity was given today for the public to enter a plea to repeal prohibition. HEED PINAL HEARINGS. The subcommittee of tho senate judiciary committee was holding it3 final public hearings today on prohibition legislation and Senator Sterling, the chairman, expected the committee would complete its consideration cf enforcement legislation before the end of the week. He said, however, that h-! did not expect the legislation to get the attention of the senate before the middle of next week when appropriation bills will be passed. j Patent medicine and drug Interests j appeared before the committee today in an attempt to convince the members j that prohibition should not extend to' I their products. Prohibition enforcement measures as they now stand would so regulat proprietary medicines that it would be Impossible for them to be used as Intoxicants. Drug interests declared that too strict legislation against patent medicines would create the danger of abolishing by law some medicines which are held by the medical profession to be necessities. THE HARDEST PBOBLEM. Representatives of firms manufacturing flavoring extract also asked to be heard by the committee during its session today. They expressed a fear that their business would come under the ban, if proposed prohibition enforcement laws are adopted. The most difficult pj-ob'.em which the committee had to deal with, however, was the determination of what an intoxicating beverage is. With several court decisions before them, and th5 testimony of eminent physicians and chemists, there was some division on the question. The strong supporters of prohibition were of the opinion that one-half of one per cent of alcohol madj a beverage intoxicating.