Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 29, Hammond, Lake County, 22 July 1919 — Page 1

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Whiting Realty Operator Se-; cures Options on the Old 'White House Property', j INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I WHITING, Ind., July 22. The; historic Forsythe tract, formerly site cf the "White House" which) before its destruction by fire was; i the scene of many a wild revelry at the "Five. Foints", is soon to! pass into history. The Forsythe homestead site, consist- ' Irg cf "CO acres cf the most valuable j brd In th? township. is to be converted I Into a h!sh-c!ass residence! subdivision ; nr.d w ill be embellished by some of the j most beautiful residences in the county, j This tract. consisting- of about 330 3-res somo of which is water, is bound-j r! Tin the -north by Phil "Schmidts on1 Indianapolis boulevard, on the cast by Calumet or Sheffield avenue, south by what is u be 121-t street, on the west by Wolf River and Wolf Lake. j "DAVIDSON AFTER IT FOR YEARS. i For the past two years H. S. David-j has been negotiating with Oliver O. Forsythe to secure the land for residence puroses. Mr. Forsythe is nowmost friendly to the movement and Mr. Tiaviison is busy trying to put this j fleal through to prove to Mr. Forsythe i .'hat people are anxious to secure this i.ind for a residence section. Already h has secured applications to the ext. r.t , rf $140,000. 65 acres already having j I 'ifii subscribed for. SOLD IN ACRE AND EAIP TRACTS. Ir is being sold in acre and one-half 3T tracts. In one day applications to th extent of $7S.000 were taken. The p'.an at present is only project, but if it does materialize and Mr. Forsythe consents to part with the land in (Continued on pae two.) IS TEMPTED; FALLS; Eobt. T. Penn Caught Tak- j ing Stuff From Indiana Harbor Belt Ry. Holdir.sr a position of trust !n which h was supposed to guard railroad property from! thieves. Robert T. Penn, 7 2S Wood avenue, Hammond, proved himself unworthy and as n result was fined $35 and igiven a ninety day penal faim sentence by J'idge Klotz in the ffamriond police court. a Venn, who is fifty-eight years old. vvj.s tni ployed by Chief Special Agent A. A. 7. elke. of the I. H. B. railroad T'ol ce i onm time ago on the excellent recommendations which be brought v:th him. lie entered the service as a epe.-:al ferseant and was assigned to the y.ivas it E:lue ilsland. Owing io the amount of traffic throutrh this ard. Chief Zielke thought it best to transfer Venn to t"e Gibson L. C. L. beat M;oi tly after the man (-tarted on h:s r-f-v watchman Job a pair of shoes '.sappeared from a shipment. Suspio."n loir."' ! to Penn. but lie managed t.j clear himself. Later another pair was missed, then two, larare sides of f-oie leather. By this time Chief Z-.elke had it doped out that Penn was the 1'oy. They waited for him yesterday ar.d met him coming from the yards with-a bucket of pickles. After his arrest Penn confessed to T.ta'ing cars in the yards but would rot udn.'.t l-nvir.jf stolen anytning tout the art. Us which had teen reported. A charge of petit larceny was entered Against him to which he pleaded guilty In tho city court this morning. THOUSANDS OF MINERS STRIKE ("INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. July 22. Three hundred thousand .miners have Joined the strike in the. English and Welsh coal fells, the Pail Mail Gazette estimated today. From S""" to 1,000 sailors from the British fleet are engaged in pumping out mines flooded by the strike. Most of these are in the north of England. STILL HARPING ON COAL SHORTAGE I fNTERNT'CNAL NEWS SERVICE 1 INDIANA POLLS. Ind , July 22 Failure to lay up coal for the winter, rhortase of cars, low percentage of workdays in the mines and pos.-ibil-!1y of rr.ir.ing accidents are given by Indiana mine operators as their reasons for alarm over a prospective coal

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Blimp's Fall Brings Death to Twelve Fearful Accident, First of Its Kind in the World, Takes Place in Chicago Yesterday.

WHAT THE BLIMP WAS CHICAGO, July 22. The dirigible was known as the "Winfffood Express No. 471." It was to to the first pas-seng'er-cai-ryingr dirigible built far commercial purposes in the United States. Yesterday was its test fii?ht. It was constructed at a cost of 330,000 and was supposedly fireproof. The length of the balloon was 163 feet, with a fifty-foot beam. The ffondola was equipped with four loublo seats for eight passengers wih two extra cockpits for the pilot and mechanician. The envelop was capable of holding 1CO.OOO cubic feet of hydrogen jras. It carried two engines of American make, each motor capable cf developing' sixty horse-power and to get her propelling the ship, with no wind, at a speed of between sixty and seventy mile 3 per hour. (BULLETIN.) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' CHICAGO, July 22. The death list in the tragic dirigible balloon disaster wa 3 , Increased to twelve today when Milton j O. Norton, a staff photographer of the j International Film Service, died from in- i juries he received in his fall from the blimp. At least one other of the twenty-six who were injured may die, but the remainder are reported today as being on the road to recovery. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, July 22. Federal, state, county and municipal -authorities began today their probe of Chicago's weirdest tragedy when a giant dirigible balloon the first army style blimp to visit the city hurtled through the skylight of the Illinois Trust and Savings j bank, killing eleven persons, injuring 28 and turning the counting room of the bank into charnel house of horror. MUST REGULATE AIR CBATT. One almost certain result of the disaster is that the city council will draft and pass ordinances reguiatinjr future traffic over the city by air craft of al! descrir tions. The accident is the first of Its kind that ever has occurred over a great (Continued on page two.) E. CHICAGO MAN WIRES SENATORS Anderson Wickey, Manufacturer, Against the League of Nations. Advocates of the League of Nations are very fond of declaring that bankers, business men and manufacturers are out and cut for the League of Nations. "Weil, here's a manufacturer who is not. Andrew Wickey, 624 143th street. East Chicago, president of the Famous Manufacturing Co. of that r:ty today sent telegrams to both Senator H. S. New and Senator James :. Watson at Washington as follows: "I am opposed to the League of Nations. The United States thould be an independent nation. "AlfDKEW WICKEY." WHITING- CASE IS TRANSFERRED Transcript of the damage suit of Lillian Dimmock of Whiting against the Great Atlantic fc Pacific Tea Co., filed first in the Hammond superior court, has oeen received by DeputyClerk Charles Surprise of the United States district court in Hamond. After the matter had been started in the superior court May 23, motion was entered before Judge Reiter to have the case transferred to the district court which was granted. Mrs. Dimmock suffrred a broken leg last December wiien she fell while entering the Whiting branch store of the company. A the suit was between parties residing: in different states the change to the district court was made necessary. Mrs. Dimmock asks for $10,000 damages. $100,000 COMPANY FOR EAST CHICAGO TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. July 22. The Smith-Hamilton Company, of East Chieazo. has been incorporated with a capital stock of a hundred thousand dollars. It will handle bonds. Clarence C. Smith. ''Pochard T. Hamilton and Harvey E. Jackson and Will E. Roe are its incorporators

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H. Percival Dodge. II. Percival Dodp?, a diplomat oi long experience, has been named ai first representative of the Unitec States to be sent to Juo-Slavia. H was at one time chiei of the l atin. American bureau of the stuto d partment. IN E. CHICAGO Contracts have been let to Beck and Hepner of East Chicago for the construction of a temporary arena at the old East Chicago ball park on Forsyth and 141st st. for the purpose of boxing and wrestling contests. The arer.a will occoinmodate from six to seven thousand rcople and will be completed on or about August 5. Alderman George Oswego of East Chicago has several matches on the fire, and is negotiating with Charlie Whi? and Kitchie Micshel and Joe Burman and Young Sharkey. The .first contest Is to be staged in East Chicago, Aug. 9. Xoble Morlli has b-'en appointed commissioner for the boxing and wrestling contests that will take place in East Chicago. BUIED IN CAVE-IN .. George G. Connor employed by the J. J. Laughlin Plumbing and Heating Co. of East Chicago showed that he was a hero as well as plumber. While John Baron of Hammond was working under th sidewalk at Forsyth, near Chicago ave., East Chicago, whre the new building Victory is being erected ho felt the ground give way under him and fell twenty feet with structural work on top of him buryiner him. Connor who was working close by heard the noise, moans and groans of Baron. Connor then grabbed a pick and shovel and dug Baron out. He was cut up and bruised and unconscious and was immediately taken to a doctor.. Baron was buried under the wreckage for almost an hour. The accident was caused by the rassing of a heavy motor truck near the spot causing the temporary structure to loosen up and cave in. CHOSEN HEAD OF AMERICAN LEGION Col. Ilenry D. Lindsley. Col. Henry D. Lijidsley of Dallas, Texas, is the recently elected chairman of tho American Legion, orfanization of world war veterans, le was chos-en at their convention in St. Louis after the delegates failed to force the chairmanship on CoL Theodore Roosevelt. Colonel Lindsley is director of the war risk insurance bureau.

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1 FRENCH OFFICER Tribune Attorney Shows Up Detroit Flivver Maker and His Attitude Before War. By HARBY REUTLINGZU. tSTAFF CO-RESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE1 MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Ju!y 21. Admission that he had said that French officers who came to the United States to negrotiate a loan "should be canned out of the country" was drawn from Henry Ford today shortly after he took the stand for his elfthth day of examination in the trial of his Jl.OO.noO libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. Ford also said that he was opposed to the tnanfacture of war munition prior to 1017 and that he was not in favor of making trouble over the submarine campaign. "You rvvere opposed to njdln? th-5 French loan, weren't you?" was the first question Atty. Elliott Stevenson iskcd the witness. "Yes," replied Mr. Ford. "You sar4 a can should be tied to th officers here for that purpose, didn't you?" "No. I said they should be canned out of this country," For d.eplied. "You were opposed to making trouble over ihi submarine campaign?" was the next question. "I think so." the witness answered. Stevenson then swung his questioning to the Lusitania disaster and asked: "Didn't you say when you heard it was sunk that it was a good thing that the pople should never have gone aboard?" "No. I didn't say that." Ford declared. Stevenson then read from an article written by "Willis S. Abbott in Hearst's magazine, in which Ford was reported as saying that he realized he made a mistake at the ptart of the war that all neutrals were afraid of Germany; that it was a case of rlsht vs. might. Ford declared he had said that on his return from Stockholm. "You heard Mr. "Wheeler's article?" said Stevenson, referring to a five-hour interview with Ford by Charles X. Wheeler, of the Tribune. "Did you send him a letter approving the fairness of It?" "I didn't." Ford replied. "Well, you signed it?" came from Stevenson. "No. I seldom do that." was Ford's answer. Stevenson then took up an almanac and read addresses of the president to congress to Mr. Ford. The first was the 1515 session of congress Just before Ford sailed to Europe with his peace ship. "You recall you addressed a note to (Continued on page two ) iWHAT'LL THEY Just what to do with the small stocks of whiskey which they still have on hand is bc-ginr. ing to worry several W. st Hammond saloonkeepers who managed to survive that rush of June 30 witj some of the liquor. The majority of the t-aloons had closed out every drop of whiskey before midnight of the last day before prohibition became effective and so have nothing to worry about. The others simply locked up their shops and went horn. They were paying rent on the buildings so some of them decided to get their stuff out and turn the places over to the landlords. There they ran up against the first snag. The governmccnet had made no provisions for moving the whiskey and under the law it had to stay right there. Then some of the boys tried to sell the stock remnants to their landlords, but that also was contrary to the law. One fellow evidently knowing of tho 'business as usual" rlan of Burnham, called the West Hammond police station this week and asked if he could move his stock to Burnham. "Ncthinsr doing." was the reply and the chief further added that he had nothing to do with th.-; whiskey as it was now under the eye cf federal authorities. One saloonkeeper on the last night, seeing he would have a small surplu. had a truck on hand Just before midnight and took his wares to a storehouse and thus was able to turn the house over la the landlord the next morning. The other boys have not fared so well and it seems must continue to pay rent on closed saloons until some action is taken by the government. COUNCIL CONSIDERS WAGE INCREASE f INTERNATIONAL NFWS PERVICM INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 22. Increase of pay for Indianapolis patrolmen from a minimum cf $3.30 a day to $4.25 a day. was under consideration ty the city council today. FIGHTS WITH UNCLE; DIES INTERNATIONAL NEW SERVICE! FT. WAYNE. Ind.. July 22. John Grim. S3, is dead in Tocson. Wells Co.. fiom excitement caused by a fight with a n unrl.

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Senator Hirry S. New of Indiana, at left, and Harry S. New, confessed murderer of Frieda Lesser. Harry S. New, thirty-two, confessed murderer of Frieda Leser in a lonely canyon near Los Angeles, claims to be the son of Harry S. New, Indiana senator. The senator does net deny an affair with Mrs. Lula Burger, the slayer's mother. The younger New says he killed Miss Lesser, his sweetheart, because rhe wculd not marry hiai, although her condition made the marriage imperative.

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REALTY FIELi Through his purchase of a valuable piece of real estate and the rumor of the erection of a large building on the site. Peter W". Meyn, Hammond financier has entered the Chicago field on a large scale and has been instrumental in a big boom in land values In the vicinity of Halste.i and Sixtysecond streets. Mr. 'Meyn recently closed a deal with the Jcserham heirs for the acquisition, of the lot at the corner of these two streets. The property measures 106 feet front by 124 feet deep. The price was Just $1,000 per front foot or $106,750. The Economist, a leadingindustrial publican of Chicago, in speaking oj the purchase, speculates on the uses to which Mr. Meyn may put the property. A rumor is mentioned in the effect that other parties may seek to lease the land for the erection of a seven-story office building. "This is one of the most significant speculation deals ever made in that section of the city," comments trie Economist. Mr. Meyn has numerous holdings in Chicago real estate but this is by far his heaviest venture. Already a number of transactions in that vicinity have been reported as a result of the sale of the valuable, site. At present Mr. Meyn's property is Improved with an old two-story frame buildinc of no particular value . GENERAL PERSHING ACTS AS SPONSOR FOR CAPTAIN'S SON General Pershinj. holding infant son of Captain and Mrs. Dawea. General Pershing laid aside his official duties long enough recently to set as rponsor at the christening of the infant son of Captain and Mrs. Sandvs Dawes, at Hernhill parish

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IS NATION'S CAPITAL Four Dead and Two Score Wounded Today in Race Riots Between White and Blacks. (BTJLIiETIlT.) WAOTaTnNAL,N,EWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, July 22. President WUson was asked to declare martial law la the District of Columbia to end the race riots here, by resolution Introduced ia the house this afternoon by Ben rtnerson of Ohio. AMIINGTON. ,Tu!y 22. With four dead and two score wounded in race riots that continued, throughout the night, the possibility of the national capital being rut under virtual martial law loomed large today. Rarefy has AVashington exrerlencert : night of greater terror. The flame that had bfen smouldering for more than a week burst forth with clashes between whites and blacks in widely separated sections of the city, one of the disturbances. i; which a marine was shot, probably, mortally, occurring within a ston.'s throw of the executive mansion. The heaviest casualties were suffered by the police detectives. Sergt. Harry "Wilson was dead today, Detective Ser-'t. Bernard Thompson was not expected to live, while four others received serious wounds and two minor injuries. The other dead were one white and two negro civilians. Purging mobs of negroes and whites proved themselves s'ronger than the law, the latter, represented by the military and metropolitan police force, supplemented by cavalry and marines, being swept away. The hospitals of the city were thronged throughout the. night of turmoil wi:h wounded whites and negroes. L'ntil almost daylight groups of belligerent negroes, heavily armed, were touring the streets of the city in automo biles, evading or defying the heavy police and military conol. particularly in the cutlying sections. The down-town section, where a riotous mob of more than 1 ono had ranged earlier in the night, had by that time practically been deserted. It was plain today that the officials in charge of the police and the military forces in the city were apprehensive concerning what may happen tonight. "Whether a practical condition of martial law will be declared was to be de termined today. The tfmper of the op- j rosing elements indicated that unless j stern measures were adopted there would i be more and more serious barricades. In barricaded hojsrs throughout the city, negroes crouched behind their guns, firing an occasional shot to eae the panic of terror and hatred which stirred them. The police and military forces, worn with the tumult of the night, gathered to re-form their lines, battered by the whirlwind activities of the strusrsle. Every hospital in the city sheltered a part of the night's toll of dead or wounded. Ambulances gradually cleared up the long list of detailed calls which had piled up as the night wore on and the work of destruction outstripped tho work of mercy. At every police station tn the city ver gathered motly crowds of prisoners, white and black, brought in wholesale lots, such as AVashington had never seen before. The casualty list, in dend and dyin:. was largely white. The negroes, armed and prepared for th" struggle, suffercl

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OF NATION: Japs Have Never Forgotten California Issue and Never Will. John Parkerson "staff correspondent i. n. service PARIS, July 22. Japan intends to raise the issue of racial equality at the first meeting of the league of nations, a member of the Japanese peace mission told the International News Service today. "We have never changed our views on that point." he said. "If the United States makes certain reservations affecting "us, we will not reply by making reservations on the racial issue ,as some have suggested, but we shall certainly raise the question later." JAPAN IS UN EAST. The Japanese peace delegate said h was uneasy over the effect in Japan of the present disposition of Shantung in the United States. The Japanese, h said, would resent Senator Sherman's speech as much as Americans would resent it if a Japanese statesman had trampled on their flag. The Japanese mission is attemptingto belittle the strength of the opposition In the United tSates to the Shantung award and to ascrib it entirely to politicians. This is becoming difficult, the Japanese diplomat admitted, and as the Japanese people are inclined to believe that the whole American people are opposing the Shantung claus. EYES CLEVELAND E. Chicago Company May Take Over Hancock Plant and Center Its Opertaions There. The Green Engineering Co., an Industry that came to East Chicago in he year 1905, has negotiations under wey for the purchase of tho Hancock Co. plant in Cleveland, which may mean the enlargement of that plant by the local Concern. The purchase of the. Cleveland plant and machinery will enable the East Chicago concern to handle its foundry work and stoker production to better advantage in the Ohio city. The Green Engineering Co. located on Kennedy ave.. Just south of Chicago ave., at a time when the city of East Chicago had but few industries, and when Indiana Harbor was Just beginning to loom tip on the map. Since then the Green Co. has had a steady growth, has Income a substantial and steady industry, and the removal of the fundry and stok'r departments of East Chicago would lessen considerably the importance of th" cal works. NO RUSH TO CONNECT WITH FOLKS ACROSS "TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL1 INDIANAPOLIS. July 22. "With telegraph companies accepting business cables to Germany and German Austria and the postoffiee department about to re-open the mails with certain resrictions there is no rush of German born citizens of Indianapolis or persons with relatives or business connections in Germany to get into communication with their friends. Officials of the Postal Telegraph Company that no great number of messages had been filed. The Western Union Telegraph Company is accepting cable messages to Germany and Austria when the messages contain business matters and are writien in English or French. BARKER DIDN'T WANT TO SHOOT ANYBODY ANYWAY "William E. Barker. T12 Sibley st husband of the woman who told Hammond police the thrilling tale of having been robbed by negroes after they had threatened to kill her baby and who later admitted it was all b.ink. was arrested yesterday by Officer Lute. Barker a charged with threatening bodily injury to some of b;r neighbors. One of the men appeared at the police station and asked th.it he be taken in charge as he had been informed William had bought a hiu pistol and was goins to shoot him up. Barker was very tame when he reached the station and when searched no gun was found. He had one c-nt and a meal ticket, hut seems to have friends as he was ablf to fix tip the necessary $500 bond for bis release. He will be given a hearins tori3 -- . - T i.J

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