Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 10 July 1919 — Page 1

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Importance of Economic Clauses In 0. S. Treaty With Germany. John Edwin Nevin 'STFF CORRESPONDENT 1 M srnvirci (Crrytyh, 1319, by the I. 2T. Service.) 1 WASHINGTON, July 10. Sev-j en subjects are dealt with in the i economic clauses of the treaty; with Germany. . They include every problem that has grown out1 of the war. Outstanding, however,! is the fact that the American! economic experts refused to make! the United States party to an arbi-. trary division of indemnities or of j seized property. i . Instead, the United States is the' - only ration subscribing: to the treaty which reserved to its lawmaking body congress the right to dispose of all property acquired from Germany. As a result the American Lusitania claims, and I the claims gowing out of the sinkings of American merchantmen, as well as the claims resulting from the submarine raids off the Atlantic coast by German submarines can be adjusted by congress itself. HIM JM1E ECONOMIC SECTIONS. The seven subjects dealt with In the -oonomic sections of the treaty are as follows: First Commercial relations between The allied and associated rowers on the I one hand and Germany on the other hand, including: matters relating- to nationality, exportation and importation and property rights of nations of the allied and associated governments In Germany. Second Treaty relations with Germany: how they are to be resumed, etc. Third The adjustment of debts nrriong nationals of the allied and associated powers on the one ha ad and German nationals on the other. Fourth The. disposition of private property which has been sequestered In rue allied and associated countries an! ; In Germany. Fifth The legal effect and the adjustment of contracts concluded prior to the war between nationals of the allied and associated powers on the on hanl and German nations on the o-her. x Sixth A mixed arbitral tribunal to pass upon claims against Germany for property Injured or seized in Germnny nd to function in connection with the n-liustment of debts. Seventh Rights in relation to Industrial property and literary and artistic (Continued on page- sixteen.) WILSON SAYS SENATE Will RATIFY TREATY ! 1 President Supremely Con-1 fident Body Will Carry Out His Wishes. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 "WA.SI1IXGTOX. July 10. The senate will ratify the pea'-e treaty in the opinion of President Wilson. Ho made this very plain today jn his talk with the newspaper correspondents, the first that he has had since the United States entered the war. The president also made it plain that with the ratification of the treaty by the German national assembly at Weimar the blockade of Germany automatically came to an end. From now on Germany -will ba allowed to trade freely under tin 1 Sivstem of credits that have been adopted b the supreme economic council. The president ' was in an unusually h-ippy frame of mind and seemed supremely confident that the work of the Paris peace conference would be fully satisfactory to the people of the l'ni-ed States. While it is not permitted t 1 quote what he said there was no doubt of the Impression that he left with the correspondents to whom he talked freely Hnd frankly. Ibi declined to answer a number of purely hypothetical questions dealing with whit might happen when the league of r.at.ions actually Is organized. However, he insisted that the senate would ratify the treaty and it was very jlain that he expects the. ratification to include the original document which he presented to the senate later In the day and without the inclusion of any reservations. Are you reading Ttie Trmes ?

State Capital Attorneys Raise Question As to Sentence in Gary Bandit Cases.

JUDGE SMITH SETS THE DATE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN i'OtNT. Ind, July 10. Judge M. J. Smith has announced that upon July IS he will hear th.! rlca of lawyers for setting aside tho verdict in the case of the condemned Tolleston bank tun men. Clarence LXirmw wiil be the chief attorney for the- det"cne. Work, on securing a jury tor the trial of Nick Trkulja began and lasted ail day. J. II. Conroy. of Hamomnd, conducted tho e-vniination 'for the bandit-co-defendant. The hearing of the evidence began this morning. TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INIlAXAI-OiJS. July 10. Joca attorneys have laised to the rieht of a jjc! the question as ;e. on a p'ea of guilty by a fir.t degree murderer, to determine without a jury whether the J murderer should be sentenced to death or to prison for life. The question came up in connecl tlon with the action of Judge Martin W. Smith, of the Iake county criminal cuort. who recently sentenced to death on a piea of guilty of first degree murder Albert Batchelor, Thomas Batchelor, Harry Parker and Daniel Trkulja and sentenced to life imprisonment Lee Spears and Jan Bierlich. They killed Herman Uecker, cashier of the First State Bank cf Tolleston a suburb of Gary. Judge James A, Collison of the Marion county criminal court said it !s his opinion that no man can be sentenced to die unless the sentence has ben pronounced by a Jury of twelve mn. j It Is an invasion of a man's constitutional rights for a J jdge to attempt to pronounce such a sentence, ne said. "I will not accept a plea of gui! ty in a first degree murder case" said Juige Collins. "The supreme court has held as late as 1303 that a Jury must be the only tribunal imposing the death penalty." Attorney-General's Office. "Without committing itself to a final decision, the attorney-general's office said that under the bill of rights and the wordir.g of the revised statutes of lt,5l such a ouesfion m'cht have been raised but that under the revised statutes of 1905 it wa unlikely that such a question could be raised. An old supreme court decision based on the 1SS1 statutes held that a judge had no such right, but it appeared to some who have investigated that the basis of the early supreme court decision has been removed by the revision of 1305. It was said that any change of sentence In the cases of the Gary men row would have to come either by I change cf sentence by the Judsre himrelf or by a direct appeal to the supreme court. The law provides that a person convicted of first degree murder may be sentenced to death or to life imprisonment for life. Some construe the law to mean that a Jury alone can decide which the sentence should be. 7n the Gary case the judge acted on a plea of guilty. OFFICER WARNER IS PRETTY HANDY WITH PISTOL Officer El Warner of the Hammond police handles a revolver just like he

rides his motorcycle. He- has it un- Mrs. Garrity. nzc twenty-two, toe der almost perfect control. " In the j dancer, cabaret singer and one-time target practice yesterday at the rifle wife of the mayor of Highwood, a range V'arnr hit the bullseye eight j suburb of Chicago, is now !n the enstimes out of ten and the two which j tody of the federal court pending the failed to register were just outsiie j trial of her paramour. Thomas J - "vVil-

the spot. His total was OS placing him first on the list. Following are the results points. of the shoot: V.'arrer 9s: Hesterman SS; Rimbaeh Sn: Hanlon S4: Pee f.2: Strong 81: Carlson 8": Homrich 79: Kunz 7: Newland 75: Wai.ack 60: AV. Pahnateer 6S: Kinsele 64: Singer 63: F. fandrei 5fi; Schaadt 51- Horlbeck 4?: K. Talmateer 44: Cordua 42; TrostSS; H. Hesterman 36: Xauch 30; Flanigan 30; Pel 29: Russell 25; Schmitt 2"; McCarron 21; Towers 17; Hilbrlch 9 EBERT SIGNS RATIFYING PiPER (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI LOXUoX. July 10. A news agency dispatch from Berlin today said that; accord. ng to the Vorwearts, President j Ebert has signed the resolution ratifying the peace treaty. The document was then immediately sent by special courier to Versa. l-s the dispatch added. Are you readins His T:m;s? be there.

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riNTERNATIOSAL NrWS SERVICE) OKEEIfrixr,r. Mass., July 10. John D. Rockefeller, world's richest man. distributed shinny neiv nlciels to bellboys, waitresses and curious townspeople today as he was leaving tie notel here today for b-ls summer borne at Seal Harbor, Me. Only one nickel went to, eaell "tierson and was accompanied with, the good wishes of tae oil kinr. Mr. RockefeUer, his son John. T. Jr., and a party of sixteen arrived here last evening from Lenox by automobile and left tofiay In a drizzling rain for Maine. . -TT x t ; Ft. Wayne Lawyers Roast- j J J i ed for Attempting to j Thwart the Federal Authorities. f TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! IXblANAI-oMS, Ind., July 10 Carl Yapel, of Fort Wayne yne, formerly judge ; lor court for eight 'if the Allen super ears an 1 Robert Huehler. another Ft. Wayne lawyer, were reprimanded by Judge A. B. Anderson Tuesday afternoon In the federal court for efforts said to have been made by them to thwart the federal authorities nd to obtain from Mrs. Leon a Oimstead (Irrity what the court terms an "enormous sum for so trifling- a service." ,IID(;K DOKS OT SPAI1K TIIKM. inms. on the charge of raismg federa. reserve notes. Wi.llams is now : tn. Indiana state prison at Micr.igan City where Judge Anderson said he was railroaded in order that he might nt be brought he'fore t'.:.- fe.'.rral ,-ourtland subj a fifteen ted to the risk of receiving , vvar .sentence the federal & ion His state prison sentence is fur from two to fen rtrn years. Judge Anders. .n spared no words In holding th" two Fort Wavne, lawyers up as men w he. ha ! takn advantage rf a helpless w. mar. to obtain a large (Continued on page ten.) KILLED IN ROME STREET FIGHTING INTERNT!OHL NEWS SERVICE I PAKls. Ji.lv I . Advices to : Information t'-riay sa:-l that two person;: were killed and th rty wounded in an outbreak of fighting in Rome, following the declaration of a general strike. Many shops were pillaged. Troops with machine suns were posted about the central telegraph office. Rioting again broke out in Rrescia and Palermo, where 100 ringleaders were arrested

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14 -.'t-i ., . --L. j Question, of League of Na tions Is Raised in Unmistakable Terms by President Wilson. John Edwin Nevin f STAFF CORRLSPONDEKT I N SERVICE! SENATE CHAMBER, CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, July 10. The United States senate todav j was given complete power to finish the task of ending the war with' Germany. President W OOdfOW Wilson, fresh from the peace conTerence at Paris, laid before the tV ,- A A senate authorized under the constitution to ratify all treaties the j complete text of the document signed by the German delegates ' ; and the representatives of the : allied and associated powers at 1 Versailles. Until that document is ratified, or rejected, the technical , . state of war must continue. PEEDICTS NEW WAS tTNLESS The pn-i-ide:t raised the Issue of the league of nations in clear and umr.istakable terms. He l 1 the senate that the P'-opK s oT the world, "bled white," wanted a permanent peace. II. warned that if the league of nations was n't created and its future assured, "there must be another and final war. ar:l the world ! lr.ust be swept clean of every wc r tn:u , cou.ii renew me terror. j i TELLS HOW STATESMEN FEEL. ! The president reveiwed the change. attitude of the European statesmen to- ! ward the lengue and then i-snandc-J.-I "Tin v M'-r it rs the hrnr- r.f ti. -i.-l.l and thal hiipo th.,y diJ arc to dis. a,r,0!lU. Snall we .r anv other free 1?M,Pie ht.xi;ate t0 acCept thii great dutv? arc we rtject it and break the h.nrt (lf tn v.or!.i7-SOM-j XEPXT3LICANS APPLAUD. Th president was lisftud to earnest - ,y Wlu.,1 ,.e 1(.,ar;(1 ,hat hls s..rvlces and all the information he possessed l-altng with the treaty was at the disposal of the foreign relations committee and in the senate the advocates of rati-li.-ation nodded their approval. " Harding of Ohio and Sterl: if of South I'lkota w ere among the Iter ublican ri.-h-ult.r" " ho applauded the presid.-nt from lime i . time, other K.-puh iom senator, like Ki;ox of Pennsylvania, and Mn'ermick of Illinois, were among the senatorial oppom nts to the ie-lUe of nations who did n..t j.'iri t It applause. TRIBUTE IS CHEERED. The president's tribute to the part, that Anirriea's moral force played in the struggle was greeted with cheering and applause. It whs a continuation of the applause which had greeted h m as he took his place in front of the vice president's chair. The president read his address from small typewritten cards and his voice (Llon'lniied on ugu nv,)

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r ST"?. ' i. u el' . - ;;r.e; CRUSADE FOR COMFORT STATIONS HERE Once more the peor l- of Himmon-.l :.re discussing that old subject cf having city pn,vie comfort stations for the ' ' .r.v.,r.ir-ice : the rubiio. The matter! im iuutii i;p a- regular intervals tor :i number i.f yea rs, but as yet has re-t-u.ea m naming more than talk. A jrominent citizen in speaking of !h" n:.-ttr this morning said that h D r.-" veil ll v. as time lor t:;e. c.tv ccun cil to give ti-.e subject serious consider- ; jation. "You see." he said, "up to a yearj i or so ttg-i, vii"ne-.-er anyone brought up j j the subject ijf c. mfort stations, there j v re alwavs plenty who would sav wo (lift not r.'e.l th'ni. Kvrry saloon was e'iuirrcd with so-ca-l.d public toilets. . hich, altlu ugh the argument was pnor int. wouiii temporarily sta.l o. any ei'fjrts at building real stations for; ; rh:i drcn into such I lace.--. j "To h' p the ' ri of thej intended of course for women and ih:H-l r- n When the saloons closed the men i were out o;" luck, M have a comfort sta'i id. i would be to ii locate.! R. near :;-- possible to the r'-i;t" '.;. triet. I don't know could find such a plae, of the business wh'-ro the city nh.t now, bu I m sure a loont h i the council pot aft eou.d be secured if! the matter." J A member of the council has l.x n approach'-d by n r-'e lately on the sr.bjvct says that he mier nis pe.. an-i bel; that some notion council at once. uld be taken b; th c a MP MAN . 0-tAXj WHO STIRRED W. HAMMOND J John Kostuba. ! cord in to the Kast i the slickest of the Hegewisch, aohicago police. irk. He Is said ! to be one of the daring men who cut j 1 through a wall ani door in Lewin's j ! store at Kast hicago and got away .1 1 1 i in H was .arrested . . , . i lb st June tor area into me -:- : W. Hammond. Jl.a'Mj was taken n stoce. T-T o s t e h j.a was put uiider bond and he jumped it. A year i un lie was arresttd in Mi'.wa'.ikee ' . -r stealing an auto and was put r n probation for a year He will' be held to the Crown Point grand jJry. ADMINISTRATRIX IS APPOINTED FOR DEMNG ESTATE With the appointment of Mrs. E!ear.or Demir.g as administratrix r.f the estate of the late Frank C. D-eming this morning in the Hammond superior court she filed a bond of J3000C-0. Coar.tv Cletk Herbert Wheaton says this is the largest bond he has accepted since he has been in office. Th-? bond was signed by five substantial buiness men of Hammond. The personal property of the estate is valuec at $150. ceo. TEFP. F. H.M'TE Peace-time miner's problems formed the basis of discussion today at the second day's session of the 27th consecutive convention of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America. William H. Grfr, rational secretary and treasurer, and John Lewis, national vicepresident, are expected to attend the convention, which is expected to be one of the most important in the history of the organiatzion

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"Bulletins 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. July 10. I Will H. Hays, Republican na tional chairman,- was taken to a private sanitarium here today, suffering from nervous breakdown, ' due to Overwork. -4 Complete rest ana quiet was pre. scribed by his physicians. Recov- ! ery is expected within ten davs. $4,500 IS STOLEN ROM HARBOR Ml Hi Patriotic Foreigners Lose Thousands in War Savings Stamp Theft. Indiana Harbor wf.s the scene of ' rifr robbery last night when $4000 :n ar saunps Mamps and currency was i- '"' uci.i tiir; i:oo:u u; Citvt Ulia ana Theodore Alavania. Th losers are Steve Vuka. cf 3S2' Cedar St., Indiana Harbor, and Theodore ; Alavania. and a boarder. Marko Culano. also of the Harbor, j Vuka lost J150 in cash and $1100 ii ' Postal Savings Stamps. Alavania It . loser of $1300 in Postal Savings Stamps j .iiul Cu'.ina is out JTKO in currency and ! $s00 in Postal Savings Stamps. The police are investigating and the portal authorities are watching out for I the stamps. They are convinced that i the robber was some well acquainted with the lay of the house. i n ATHING WILL BE ! l j. r EXTENDED AN HOUR Public May Get Relief Because Works Board Member Had to Get Out. Rules at the Hammond bathing beach are to be altered so that bathers may enjoy the water another hour. This . was promised by a member of the Ham ir.or.d F.oard of Works last night as he . compl.-iinu) sly heeded the "all out'' sigr.al at the beach. Complaints had been registered .against the rule which was made before I cnyiight sav ing was thought of. Nothin, iimj ij..-c ii e:..ii- ij netp ine situation ;.. . l. -j i. . . .i . i. i the situation ai J an last summer and thus far this ' nr the bathers have b"-n forced to have the water even though there is nearly on hour of daylight remaining. Last night the works board member was induced to go swimming. He was having a high old time uli'-n V,.- signal was sounded. At first he reb lied, just l'ke other folks have done, but there j was no alternative. However, as he was changing bis clothes he vowel that , something would be done at once to j remedy matters

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TWIN CITY i MlHinn InvnUmA In TUmniiUll IIIIUIICU Ml IllltC Mergers; Another CONSOLIDATIONS OF LOCAL PLANTS Merger, ia.proee of colapletloa a-nd one la prospect l-ol-l com. Panics, ,om. of wMcH hare their Eu- CWcag-o are as follows STEEL TT7BE MTHfJE. New York banker, are copl.tla, to be known a. Steel T-abe com. Pan- cf America, Inc., which will embrace Mark Manufacturing company, vrith a steel work. In the Xa. cuaaa Harbor district of Eart Chi. cco Newport Mining comp.,y, Northwestern Iron company. ad have affiliated the Ironuol, Xroa company, By-Prodnct. Coke corpora, tlon. on(J of lt pUat mt Chicago, and other coal and era mining corporations. SINCI-AXR CONSOLIDATED Sinclair Consolidated corporation Is to be the tame of the larra.t single oa corporation la the world, whose capital 1. expected to run lata a couple of hundred million., xhi. concern is to take la Sinclair Kenning company, with its largest rellaery at East Chicago, ad ha-ing there the northern terminals of i SOO-mile pipe line, Sinclair Oulf, Sla. clalr Oil and KcSnlng and ntuneron. other refining, producing aad traa portatloa corporations. FOTJ'NDRJES-OBtlTTXTj' KEllOEJU American Steel roandries, with two of it. nnmerons plants in Hammend and East Chicago. respect!-e-ly. has just absorbed the Griffin Car Wheel company, with a doiea plaats, and 1. said to be about to absorb rnor equipment companle.. Ths foundries company has authorized 525,000,000 additional in preferred stock of which $9,000,000 has Just been paid for oae company. A NEBTTXAK UIKOEX, A fourth merger is merely la prospect and that involves the efforts of interest, la the east to effect a new steel corporation, a matter that has been the subject of re. peated negotiations. The names of two East Chicago companies, Inland Steel and Republic Iron aad Steel have beea mentioned ia the prospective deal, but a. has beea said there is no authority that such a merger may come; but if It doe. it will net be surprising. Mergers of oil and steel corporaf lions cnm nf l . j iuui iiitve taeir major interest in the city of East Chicago, involve figures which run into hundreds of millions, and if another deal now wholly in a nebular form is consumnated, the tota lindustrial consolidations will approach sums never before equalled in this district Total consolidations now under way, including one completed, is expected ta involve capitalizations that will eventually amount to $500,000,000. Of the three assured mergers two concern iron and j steel properties, the third oil proI duction. ! $100,000,000 STEEL COMBINE. The newest assured merger under i way is the new $100,000,000 steel com- ! bine to be kiiuwn as the Steel and Tube company ct America. Inc.. which will take in two large pUnts in the Indiana Harhor district of Kast Chicago, steel works and blast-furnaces elsewhere, and also coal and ore mining properties. The nucleus of this new steel combine is the Mark Manufacturing company, with five plsnts In three states. Including the one in East Chicago, and the By-Products Coke corporation, with newly completed coke ovens at Kast Chicago. I SINCLAIR CONSOLIDATED. The vastness of the new Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation, now In process, is just coming to light. Embracing the Sinclair Refining company, with its largest refinery at Kast Chicago, the Sinclair Oil and Ke-tining company. Sin-clair-Guif Corporation, the SOO-mile t -ikiahoma ICa s t Chica pipe line, and numerous other producing, refining, tank car, transportation and steamship corporations, the new- oil combine. It Is declared, -a ill be the largest individual oil corporation in the world. FOTJN DRIES-CAR WHEEL MEBvQER. American Steel Foundries, which has two of its largest plants in Hammond and Kast Chicago, respectively, has completed the absorption of the Griffin Car Wheel company, owning a dozen plants, and is said to be about to draw

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