Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 5 July 1919 — Page 1

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HIS BOAT, DROWNED Shocking Accident at Lanso "u ing When Chicago Lad Is Panic Stricken. Becoming frightened -when the boat. In which he was playing yesterday in one of the abandoned clay pits at Lansing, drifted away from the shore, John Carcerano. 14. sprang overboard, thinking he could easily wade to shore. He Fink and when the body was recovered It was too lat to save his life. The lad. who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carcerano. Ml "W". Taylor St.. Chicago, had come to Lansing to trend the Fourth with his uncle. Tony Milazzo. In the afternoon the family went tu the ciay pit which is a fair sized body of water. The children were playing in two old boats which were moored to the shore and little attention was paid to them until it was noticed that John had loosened his boat and was being carried away from the shore by the wind. Mr. Milazzo saw that the lad was frightened and shouted for him to sit down as It would only require a few minutes for the boat to drift to the opposite bank. Instead the boy Jumped Into the water with the Intention of wading to land. He happened li be Just beyond an offset in the bottom of the pit where the water suddenly increases from a few feet to over twenty feet deep. Milazzo is a roor swimmer and was unable to render any aid himself. He ran two blocks and returned with an expert swimmer who dived into the pit and in a short time recovered tho body. Dr. W. A. Potts was on hand with a pulmoter but although they worked over the body for some time it proved futile. The body will be taken to the home In Chicago this evening and funeral services will be held tomorrow. MILLER UNDERTOW Caught In a strong undertow, B. V. Creenburg. 1435 South Willard avenue, Chicago, was drowned in the presence of hundreds of bathers at Miller beach at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Bathers who witnessed the drowning man's struggles rushed to his rescue, but he was lost to sight before their arrival. Vpon notifying the Gary police. Chief of Police Forbis dispatched the patrol wagon with Captain McCartney and Officer Temske to the scene where th'y were later joined by Officers Dumbey and Gust. Grappling hooks were us?d and an extensivo search made. The body had not been recovered this mornjug. It is reported inai iwu B.ns wcij also caught in the undercurrent dt came near drowning. After nearly an all-night search, the Gary police received word from Miller Beach at 8:45 this morning that Greenburg's body had been found 2000 feet west of the board walk. The body was brought to William's morgue in Gary by the patrol, where the young man's parents will claim the body sometime today. Greenburg aws twenty-one years old and it is learned that he aws a student at the Chicago University, where he was quite popular among the students. WANT THEM MADE RESPONSIBE TO CONGRESS flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 VTASHINGTOX. July 6. A fight to make the heads of executive departments responsible to congress Instead cf to the president is being planned by Senator McLean of Connecticut. Senator McLean has introduced a bi-1

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heads of the executive departments and requiring cabinet members to attend certain sessions of both the house and the senate. Today he announced his intention to push the bill to final consideration in the senate. "The proposed plan may not always secure everything desired," said Senator McLean, "but it "will secure licrht and enable the American people to place responsibility where It belongs." VON HINDENBURG WILL SURRENDER flNTERNATtONAL NEWS SERVICE1 COPENHAGEN. July 5. Field Marshal von Hindenburg. former chief of staff of the German army, who has Just retired to private life at Hanover, has telegraphed Berlin accepting responsibility for all acts and decisions of the German army headquarters subsequent to August. 1316. and also full responsibility for al lproclamations issued by the exkaiser regarding the waging of war. said a dispatch from Hanover this afternoon. 'The proclamations were issued upon my advice and responsibility ar.d I beg you to inform the allies of this." said Hinderburg in his message. ANDERSON MAN DIES OF AUTO SMASH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I ANDERSON. Ind., July 5. Thomas Peterson. 27, is dead today of injuries received two weeks ago in an automobile Accident.

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Gary's Botleggeress Is Fined $80 And, In City Court Today. Miss Lavella Beulah Boger. 1716 Massachusetts avenue. Gary, who bel!ons to elUc cIorrd circle- " aln a guest of the Hammond rolice, through j the courtesy of Capt. Strong. It doesn't matter how rot!te Lavella Is in asking to be excused for a moment. I she wasn't given any chance. She. it will be remembered, hired Wesley Zde. a colored chauffeur of Gary to take her and a friend to Chicago. Wesley borrowed a machine from a friend who made him promise that It would not be used for carting booze. Last Monday night Officers Horlbeck and Naugh stopped the mach'.io and found a total if two cases of whiskey in half pints. At the staton Lavella said she was in no condition to be locked up so they let her sit in the offices. Later she asked to be "excused." saying she was sick, and the cops busy booking arrests graciously said. "certainly." pretty scon she was sick again. This time she failed to return. Sho walked all the way to Last Crirago and frot-i there went to Gary. Wesley in the meantime was locked up. This morning Judge Klotz fined him $100 and costs and then turned him over to Special Agent Kabbit. Through j the. friend who owns the machine it was learned that Lavella purchased the liquor without the knowledge of Wesley. Judge Klo'.z said $80 and costs tj Lavella and she will also be taken before tho federal grari ury. Lavella's business is a strange combination. She rents a large building in Gary. The front room on the first floor is used as a church. The upstairs rooms are rcnled to boarders and the back yard L . a whecue trrounds. It was through her barbecues that she had attained fame in Gary. She knows just how to dope up and brown a quarter of beef properly so that every guest will be back the next time. Twice a week the crowds have gathered at her home. If it rained, the church part of her place was used for a banquet hall. She says that she did not "make so very milch money because so manp of the boys always wanted credit." This made It necessary for Lavella to carry another side line and whiskey by the drink offered the chance. She informed the officers that it wasn't hard to get a drink most anywhere in Gary. She went to South Chicago Sunday evening with Wesley Dado and one of those numerous Gary constables. The constable remJJjed there while Lavella and Dade started home. Lavella says Dad.; helped put the twenty-four quarts cf liquor in the car while Dade says he never knep it was there. Anyway. Lavclli's case Is a clear one and sh now awaits the attention of the federal court, having furnished $1,000 bond when brought before United States Commissioner Surprise in Hammond this mornir g. BIG TIME AT CROWN POINT CELEBRATION Maj. Gen. Haan of U. S. A., Greets His Old Time Friends Yesterday. tSPECUL TO THE TIMES) CROWN" POINT. Ind.. July 6. Ten thousand people swarmed to the county esat yesterday to take part in Crown Point's big Fourth of July celebration and It was the biggest day of Its kind ever had here. The jam of autos were terrific and not even at county fair times was there ever such a mob of people to the auto horse and motorcycle races. People (fame from Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Lowell. Cedar Lake in great numbers and It was a real homecoming day. All the old boys and girls were back to see Maj. Gen. W. G. Haan and the big parade. The distinguished , : aim . ' merce received many lumi'uiiremn its energy and industry in staging the affair and the organization is certainly putting Crown Point on the map. R-34 HEARD FROM BY WIRELESS flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 BAR HARBOR. Me.. July 5. British transatlantic dirigible R-34 was talking by wireless with the Canadian shore stations at Cape Race and Cape Sabl a: :45 o'clock this morning, but did not g!e her position. The exchange of messages was heard by the high po.."-fd U. S. naval v iieless j,tat'..n h:'f. $100,000 FOR BULL. 4 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl BELVIDERE, N. J.. July 5 Klr.g Pontiac, a famous blooded bull owned byMrs. Helen Massenat. has been sold to the owner of a large western stock farm. The price is reported be $180,000. HARBOR MAN IS KILLED IN CHICAGO Andrew Hallala. 3625 Tenth avenue. Indiana Harbor, was Instantly killed early yesterday by a train at One Hundredth and Ewlng avenue In South Chicago. Halala was seated on the edge of the station platform when he was struck.

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Senator Harry S. New of Indiana Never Had Any Children. (BUX.I.ETIN.) flNTERNATIONAL NEiVS SERVICE WASHINGTON. July 5 "I cannot discos it," was the only statement Senator Barry S. Mew, of Indiana, would make this afternoon when shown dispatch.es from Los Angeles telling of the murder of s girl by a youth, claiming to be a son of the senator. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 LOS ANGKLES. Calif.. July 6. Harry S. New, Jr., self-confessed slayer of his swetheart. Miss Frieda J. Lesser, Is not the son of United States Senator Harry S. New, of Indiana, despite his claims, according to telegrams received In Los Angeles today. The Indiana senator has no children, according to advices received bp the police today. New drove to the police station with the body of Miss Lesser early today and confessed that he had slain the woman in Topango Canyon, several miles from this city, after a quarrel. The motive for the crime, according to New. was Miss Lesser's refusal to marry him. even though she . knew she was about to become a mother. New told the police that he drove about for hours after slaying the woman. The first Intimation the police had of the murder was when New drove to Central station, with the murder car, in which lay the body of his victim with one of her furs across her unseeing eyes. Harry S. New, Jr., is a son of Mrs. Lula M. Burger, a prominent Glendale woman, and reputed to be scion of a prominent family. Acording to New. his mother, Mrs. Lula M. Burger, was divorced from U. S. Senator New of Indianapolis, eight years ago. The youth declared his mother had married again and he understood Senator New had taken a second wife. The young couple had driven through Hollywood to the beach and and then into Topango canyon. There, according to the confessed slayer, Miss Less-r. had urged the marriage be postponed and declared she would not become the mother of tho baby which New said he most fondly desired. "I became enraged." declared the youth, "and shot her before I knew what I was doing. I loved her and stili love her. "I picked her up In my arms. But she could rot speak to me. She must have died instantly. I tried to make her comfortable in the rear seat of the car and held her hand as I drove toward town in hope that I might feel some pulse beats." ON AUTO TRIP Heart Failure Believed to Have Caused Frank Bowling's Death. While on a pleasure and fishing trip with his family, Frank Bowling, fortytwo years old and a member of the firm of Bowling Green Storage and Van Co.. at 203 South Dearborn st.. Chicago, died very suddenly on the road side near East Gary yesterday afternoon. Heart failure is believed to have caused his death. The body was brought to William s morgue In Gary. With his family. Bowling was driving along the Miller road in a light delivery truck. He remarked to the folks that he was not feeling very well, and a short time after getting out of the truck passed away. Mr. Bowling is also well known in this region. No funeral arrangements have been made. WILL PUT KAISER IN TOWER OF LONDON flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 LONDON. July b. White Tower, the oldest part of the tower of London.- built by William the Conqueror, is being prepared for the ex -kaiser when he is placed on trial before an international court in London, the Daily Express stated today. Suitable furniture is being installed and rooms are being made ready to house attendants. , No difficulty will be raised by the Dutch government in delivering the former German emperor, the Dally Express understands. It is likely that he will be sent to the mouth of the Thames on board a Dutch warship and there turned over to the British authorities. It has been decided, the Daily Express says, not to ask for the death penalty on account of opposition, some of -which came from the United States. TO RE-ESTABLISH MONARCHY FlNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) LONDON, July 6. A Central News dispatch from Copenhagen this afternoon said Count Westarp and Herr Heydelirand have published a proclamation In the newspaper Kreuz Zeltur.g. at Berlin, stating that It Is now the a'm of the German conservative psrty to re-establish the Hohenzollcrn monarchy. Take The Times and keep tourh with be whole vorld. in

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This picture shows how Jess Willard finished the first round of his losing battle. He had been floored by Dempsey's pile-driver blows to the head and Referee Ollie Pecord, in center, was counting Jess out when the bell saved Willard. Dempsey is waiting for Willard to rise.

EVEN THE LADIES ARE GLAD (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl ABOASD THE GEORGE WASHJJfOTON, July S. Keen Interest was manifest In the Dempsey-Willard flg-ht Toledo by the presidential party now speeding homeward. The results of tho fight were flashed oa a moving picture screen, which was viewed by the prasldeat ad Mrs. Wilson, the Trench ambassador and Mine. J'userand and other notables aboard. There was general satisfaction over Sempsey's victory as most of the sympathy bad gone to the challenger. WILSON'S PLANS ARE REVISED BY WIRELESS Will Pay Brief Visit to New York When He . Lands Tuesday. John Edwin Nevin istaff correspondent i. n. servicel EN ROLTE To THE U. WITH PRESIDENT WILSON' ON" BOARD THE U. S. P. GEORGE WASHINGTON, July 5 (By Wireless to New York.) A revision wa? made in President Wilson's plans today which will enable him to pay a brief visit to New York City when he lands at Hnboken next Tuesday. The president is expected to go ashore shortly nfler noon and will proceed to Co-neti': Hall, in New York City, where he will be formal'y wir omed by Gov. Fmlt'i. of New York state. .After a brief r?sp.i!is.e Mr. Wilson will go to the F .nnsy'ani: station a'.d board a train for Washington. The George Washington will be -"e'-ed outside of Ambrose channel by the Atlantic fleet. Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of tho Navy Daniels and other officials will go down New York bay on the battleship Pennsylvania and ho transferred to the George Washington before he docks. The secretarits are expected to acompany the president from Hoboken to New York city by automobile. DOCTOR BOUND OVER. INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICEl RICHMOND. Ind.. July 5. Severe arraignment of Dr. F. W. Kreuger. physician, who confessed throwing the body of a new born baby on an ash heap, is made In the coroner's report, binding the physician over to the grand Jury for disposal of the child while a spark of life still smouldered in the body. Criminal neglect is alleged in the report which is to1 be filed today. It charges that the physician threw the two days' old baby down a sixty-foot embankment. The child, consldt rd a monstrosity, lived only twelve hours after a toy found it on the dump. Appearance of Wayne county grand Jury for Investigation of rumors that the disposal cf such babies is general. Is called for in the report.

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T AT EAST Welcome Heme Arrangements for Soldiers To Be Made. Next Monday at 8 p. m. the representatives of all rellsious, fraternal, labor ar.d commercial organizations of Eajt Chicago and Indiana Harbor will r.tmi at the court room of the city ha71 to make final arrangements for "Welcome Home Pay" for our returned soldieis and sailors. All organizations who have not recelved'a reuest to attend are hereby requested to send a representation. All the citizens who are interested in the affair are requested to be present. HARBOR LAD WINS AUTO RACE AT HUB Mike Magdo, 3726 Cedar street. Ind!-, ana Harbor, is the proudest boy in the. region today. j Driving a Euick Mike won the 23-mile race at the Crown Point speedway durIng the Fourth of July celebration yes-, terday. j Crown .Point people say that Mike, made1 a lot of dust but they had o take' It. As he was returning from the: scene of his victory a 7-passengrr( Oldsmobile collided with him near St. ' Johns, tearing a front wheel off the: axle. FIRE CRACKERS START 4 FIRES The Hammond flre department was kept busy yesterday morning with blazes started from fire crackers, four fires being started in less than two hours. The first three calls which were received from the Lion Store furniture department at 10 o'clock, the Straube Piano store at 635 Hohman street at 11:20 o'clock and at 343 State street- al 11:40 o'clock did not amount to much and were soon put out. The department was then called to Hessvillc to the residence of Henry Keichers but the tire had too big n start and as there was no water to light the blaze the house and contents were completely destroyed and the firemen had a hard time to save the adjoining homes. SEXTON DIES OF SUNSTROKE t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 5. John Berens. 73. dropped dead of sunstroke in thei gravt.he was digging at Orth-ll odcxiJewish cemetery here.

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GRAHAM BACK FROM JIG SCRAP Hammond Doctor of Opinion that Willard 's Stomach Was His Weak Spot. Jess Williard's stomach was his weak spot according to Dr. J. A. Graham, of Hammond, who was present at the big scrap yesterday. "Dempsey's second punch In the first round put Willard out of commission and settled the whole thing." says Doc. "When the gong sounded Willard started out fast and made a Jab with his left towards Dempsey. That was the only real blow he struck In the fight for Dempsey landed one on his Fiomach and followed it a few seconds later with another. The second punch did it. I was watching Wlllard's face through a powerful set of field glasses and could plainly see the expression of pain which followed the Mow. He ' instantly turned deathlywhite and after that thre was nothing to him. "That blow seemed to paralyze Willard's feet for he displayed no footwork from then on and the only activity shown was in trying feebly to ward cff the blows which Dempsey rained on him." Graham, who also saw the JeffriesJohnson fight at Reno, says the two fights were similar. "Willard, like Jeffries came into the, ring like a circus ringmaster," he says. "He waved his arms about his Ik ad and nodcVd and bowed to the crowds. He seemed to be .trying to buck up his courage Dempsey entered the ring quietly and seated himself in his corner. Willard preferred to remain standing. He was showing off hi3 great hulk. "In the fighting Willard also acted much like Jeffries and seemed groggy from the first. Bvmpsey was like a young tiger. He was right over J"ss all the time slamming him right and left. Nothing could stop him. I don't see how Jess stuck In the ring as long as he did. His runishment was awful." Graham went to Toledo Thursday night with a party of Hammond men, among whom were Charley Hassc, Tom Croak. George Graham, Eddie Dunley. Clarence Eder and Judge Green of West Hammond. They arrived In Toledo Just in time to go to the arena. They encountered the usual holdups In the refreshment lines. "Two-bits was charged for sweetened water that they called lemonade." says Doc. PUZZLING MESSAGE IS RECEIVED 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 ROOSEVELT FIELD. MINEOLA. L. I.. July 5. Lieut. Col. Lucas in charge of the Royal air force personnel here to welcome the R-34. announced thi afternoon that he has received a message from the R-34. saying that fh would arrive at Mineola tomorrow about noon. The message was a personal one from Maj. Scott, commanding the jig dirigible. Col. Lucas said. It was not clear whether this message had been sent before or after the R-34 had signalled her distress oT Nova Scotia.

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DIRIGIBLE L U. S. Destroyer Dispatched 400 Miles from New York Today. (BTJLIETTW.) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl BAB HAEEOJl, Me., Jaly 5. Th British (Urlglbl. K-34. flying from Scotland to Mineola, N. T., Is bells-, to have come down at the south nl of tfca Bay of rnady. Th XT. S. xuitsJ wireless station at Otter Cliff at 11:34 a. m. today received a message from ths llg trans-Atlantic air craft asking for adestroyer to take the S-34 In tow. The message was addressed to the naTal department at Washington snd was Immediately flashed orer the land wires from the Otter Cliff station to Secretary of the Ifary Daniels. By JACX VEXOCX I STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICEl ROOSEVELT FIELD, Mineola, L. I., July 5. Within sight of American mainland and with victory almost won, the giant British dirigible, the R-34, is reported thh aftexlioon to be stalled between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, over the Bay of Fundy. She was on the last lap of her history - making trans - Atlantic flight and within a few more hours would have made Mineola where thousands of persons were waiting to receive her. WZ&XZ.XSS sxxros kbws. ' First reports that the dirigible was in trouble. came to officials har through American naval wireless stations far up in the North Atlantic coast. The naval wireless station at Ottercliff picked this message from the ship: "Could destroyer proceed to south end of Bay of Kunday to take his majesty's airship R-34 in tow?" The naval wireless station here picked up another message from the R-34 as follows: "Flying over Nova Scotia. Strong headwinds. Petroleum running short." MESSAGE OM LANSDOWITE. The message was from Lieut. Commander Zachary Lansdowne. T". ?. V.. who made the overseas flight in the K34 as the guest of the British government. OtterclifT's station heard the messages this morning sent the R-34 to :h Canadian shore stations at Cape Rare and Cape Sable, but none of them gave Indication as far as rould be learned that the big craft was In trouble. Naval officials said that it was their opinion that the R-34 had experienced engine trouble but explained that this was only a guess. SHIP IN SZXUOUS TROUBLE. The need for a tow couW mean only one thing, officials here declared, and that is that the ship is in serious trouble. They believe that either her petrol has run clear out its shortage beins indicated in the last message or thst serious motor trouble has been experienced. Officials were satined that the lives of the crew are in no danger. Thy believe the big ship is floating lazily over the waters unable to move. The sound end of the Bay of Fundy lies approximately 400 air miles from New York, so that the big dirigible completed practically seven-eightifs of hr journey. It is roughly estimated that she must have travelled 3.000 miles. STRAIN ON MOTORS HARD. The strain on the motors of the ship have been terrific. Experts waiting f ir her arrival hero pointed out that th motors have been run continuously well over 72 hours under trying conditions. The R-34 has been buffeted by strong winds all the- way across and some of these have driven her- far out of her course so that the actual distance travelled is very great. This, it wo? pointed out. would also make a ma'erisl difference in the petrol supply which Maj. Scott had estimated necessary for tTlw trip. The messages from the ship eliminated the last faint hop that she will able to make Roosevelt field today. The news of her mishap spread l.ke wildfire among the thousands gathered he, to see her arrival. Saturday "half holiday crowds rouring into the Meld wro met with the news and turned ba-k. There was a general exodus from thi field as it became apparent that tho his ship could not possibly reach here today. PORTER CO. LAWYER IS DROWNED flNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl VALPARAISO. Ind.. July 5. Ge". Fattreger. of Chesterton, secretary of the Porter County Bar at-socla tion. was drowned while in bathing in Lak Michigan An unidentified man wa drowned a few hours later at the same place when his Fkin caps;zed Go". Nemec, 18. of Chicago, was drowned in Flint Lake while swimming. Don't throw your paper away without reading the want & i page.

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