Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 65, Hammond, Lake County, 3 September 1919 — Page 1

BEST READ NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY RAIN WiEBNATlONAl. NEWS TVlIi LEASES WISE SEKVXCE. Oa streets and newsstands, 3o per copy. Delivered by carrier is Hammond and West Hammond, SO per month. VOL. XIV, XO. Go. WEDNESDAY, SE PTEMBER 3, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. mm m ' !S 3 51 i f I 8 i V 5 1 u I STEEL ST S QUIET TODAY

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F PICKETS AREON DUTY Tension About Mills and District is Electric and Apprehension Exists. With hundreds of strikers picketing the Standard Steel Car strike zene this morning the huge car plant entrances from east to west was practically beleaguered with pickets, but fortunately there was no disorder. A handful of policemen, all that Chief Peter Austgen can spare from the business section, braved the crowds who prevented none from gaining ingress to the plant if POLICE STAND ALONE. Sheriff Barnes was absent from the sctne this morning and no deputies were; ieviaence. a ae muni t'lci ...e rdcr fell upon Cart. Fred Rtmbach at Re Columbia avenue entrance and Capt. kJi.il Strong at the Summer street gates. There wera about twenty policemen on uty. Including Motorcycle Officers Warner and Lute and Detectives Ein"t'.e and Bunde. Cap. Rimbach reported no disorder list night and said that the situation as peaceful. Gun shots were heard at the east pate this morning but an ln--estigatlon showed that the firing was done by hunters in the swamp on the ;ary road. V7HXK.E PICKET 3 ARE LOCATED. The strikers have pickets on Conkey nvnue, Highland street. Summer street. Morton court and Columbia avenue and in fact wherever road passages lead directly or Indirectly to the mills. They made no attempt whatever to come In conflict with the civil authorities and have been constantly cautioned and adscd by their leaders to conduct themflves In orderly fashion. BTJTEEB STRIXEH.S COMINQ. Notices appeared at the Morton averue and Columbia avenue last night that a committee of strikers from the Butler, Pa. Standard plant are on their way to Hammond and will mjt tomorrow a) -ommittee from the Standard strikers ln conference. It is believed thtit the Increase in Ticketing since the troops were with-nr-n from the strike zone nas been effective in keeping men away from the r iant who would otnerwise go uactv ij j work. The number working at tne piarn is not much larger than It was a week ago. if any. WOMEN DO NOT SHOW. Standard officials say there is noj dancer whatever and that men who wish j o return to work are welcome and that' .;.- will not be interfered with. j The reports made by some of thej linkers yesterday after the brush on i c. ,.,.v, ctrr.pt that the women would he i ,nl!ed out this morning did not ma Ttalize. They were not in evidenre to any appreciable extent except on Colum-J 1 .a axenue near Morton. , STA5Da&9 OTJAE.DS A.EJMTED. S!reet cars brought income employes! between 6 and 8 and the. Standard ord- j ranee busses tcok several loads of office; men and foremen Into the plant whilej v med Standard guards stood at Jhe. -.hop entrances. , There Is an Increased tension in the: a-.r at the Standard district and there is no denying this fact. The ponce are restmistic regarding the situation and conditions put a heavy strain on them. The strike leaders are holding the men in heck but whether they are going to l,e able to control all the radicals is another question. CRIMINAL COURT IS OPENED Judge Smith Sentences the; Hammond Youths For Burglai-y-SPECIAL TO THE TIMES r-i-nvi-N.- pniT. Ind.. Sept. 3 -Returning his former speed in disposing of criminal cases Judge Martin Smith cleared Monday's calendar with sentencing Roy Hays and Charles Rellly. two Hammond youth, charged with burglary and sentencing them to 2 to 14 years in the penitentiary. Henry Pockel. the St. John's moron, who attempted to attack an 8 year old girl was given a $1.00 sentence and ti months in the penal farm. Peckel is a half-wit and will be taken care of by his brother upon his discharge. Mike Checouris. of Gary, charged with rambling, was on trial at the hour this was written. Don't throw your paper swaj

DID YOU HEAR THAT CAPT. JIM RTROX. who presides over the destinies of the Calumet ave. fire, station, is in the market for a good pair of cheap binoculars so he can lamp the Standard ructions over on Columbia ave.

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II. A. LAJUPRELL. who for a thm man has more Jobs than the law should allow one man to have, has been mad chairman of the noonday Chamber of Commerce meetings and states posolutely that no tea will be served there. DONALD GAVIT, son of Atty. John Gavit, has Joined The Times staff. While In college Donald was editor of: the college paper and is getting into Unreal gamnow with both feet. JAMES BRANCH says. "Talk about the h. c of I., when you have five kids 1 tc f f rmt with tlv-A Tnir ri f clinM nnil ' five sets of new school books I wonder where I am going to get of? at with my week's wages, and you cuht to see them kids eat!" YOU can't help feeling sorry for C. A. Bonham. the insurance man. He's hav ing a fierce time digging up a little! change to buy a new suit and buy at ticket to the world's series at Cincinnati, and he may have to travel without a valet this time unless the rest of the force chips in. OSCAR BORCHERT hopes- the time will come when Hammond will have enough policemen so that he won't have to be called from guarding the beach beauties every time there Is a little (lare-up at the Standard. TV. B. COXKET, Hammond's energetic published, is happy that the street car strike is over, as it meant a big loss to him every day there was no car service. "W. J. MaLEER, who started to play golf ten. years ago. is now taking lessons and bids fair to become quite a player if he persists for several years. C A. ANDERSON", once prominently connected with local Industry, was here Sunday on a flying trip from New York, but couldn't make enough to pay expenses as he generally does. IT IS reported, but without any confirmation, that J. J. Ruff is selling golf balls a dozen at a clip since the Labor Day events. Joe expects to have a lot of cups to sell also next year. DR. F. W. OBERLIN is sporting a handsome new Dodge sedan and how he ever happened to desert the ranks of j trie stuaepaKers is more tnan nis mends are able to figure out. BILL BRIDGE, on being informed that a Carroll county seventeen-year-old boy had been made champion li.-o stock judge of Indiana, said that Carroll county boys were always g-ood judges of calves and fat stock. It may be mentioned that Bill was born in Carroll county and got his education there. JUDGES V. S. REITER and TV. T. HARY. of the Hammond superior courts, are back in Hammond from their summer vacations ready for the opening r( the September term of court next Monday. CAPT. J. A. GRAHAM, after an outing lit fVdur Tt-A 9 -(-. T 1 1 r-n e A tn T-lam. mond to take up his medical practice ; and campaign for sheriff where he left : Lff a mnnth urn ' DR. E. J. PILLISCHER arpeared -P. the streets today with a r.ew Cadillac Six sedan. JOHN SPUROEOX. stenographer of Room 2 of the superior court, has i ticket to the state fair at Indianapolis j and hopes to use it a couple of days'; this week. ATTT. JOE TODD saw all the other lawyers buying new automobiles so tr-ii shopped anumd a little and found a cute little Saxon roadster. V. C. BELMAN acquired a healthycoat of tan while he was Fording to Florida and back. ATTT. "VV. J. WHLVERT bought a j-enerous supply of canned goods at Mayor Brown's store in preparation for a long winter, and he's not lik some purchasers, he doesn't care "who knows It, TWO straight defeats at home have caused Manager Joe N'agel. of the Hammond team, to be the most ridden man in Hammond. He promises a change cf luck. Friends have suggested that he let the high school team linish the schedule. DR. A. M. LLOYD, the specialist, wasn't worried a bit over the street car tie-up. He had just received his new five-passenger Franklin sedan anj made good use of it. DEATH OF FORMER WHITING GIRL fSPECIAU TO THE TIMES! WHITING. Ind., Sept. 3. People of this city were shocked to hear of the i death of Mrs. Harry Rhea, a former I well known Whiting girl at BloomingI ton. I'.l.. where her home is. She was I a daughter of Mrs. Morris O'Xell of Whiting and leaves a husband and three children. Two sisters. Mrsx Stenhouse and Mrs. Welsby of Whtting. left with Mrs. O'Neil for Bloomj tngton this morning. The decedent submitted to an operation recently as a last resort and grew worse thereafter. The Times' want ads bripg asto be believed.

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CAUTIONS Police and Firemen are Given Raise But Mayor Asks Where the Money is Coming From. Policemen and firemen of Hammona. who are .isking for more money, were granted the raise by the city council Tuesday evening and later had it taken away from them. The aldermen decided to investigate first. Petitions were on hand from both the police and lire departments asking fur salary increases. Representatives of both departments were present at the meeting and explained things to the board. Living- xjen.cs have advanced to such an extent that the $122 now drawn by patrolmen and firemen is not sufficient. As a result two policemen have. quit, two more are expecting to leave within a few days and several others are forced to do extra work in order to make a living. The aldermen were willing enough to grant the increase and after some discussion the patrolmen and firosnen were raided to S150 per month and the same increase of $27.50 was given all officers. All this was embodied in the motion which was made to grant the petitions. Then Mayor Brown made a speech. He asked his aldermen where they were going to get the money to increase the salaries and pointed out that the city's indebtedness was now practically up to its legal limit. He addt-d that he was through borrowing money from the banks and henceforth they would have to do it themselves A motion was made to reconsider and after the mayor had decided a tie vote a new motion was made to grant the raise in salaries If the finance committee finds It can be done, A special meeting will be called as soon as the finance committee completes its investigation. Councilman L. C. Smith brought up that old matter of abolishlnK the present board of works and letting the mayor appoint one from outside the city council. This motion met with its usual stormy reception and received the otes of only Smith, Martin and Rellly. A new scheme has been devised to get the weeds cut on the city's vacant lots, i Each alderman is expected to make the rounds of his ward and compile a list of all weedy lots. These will be turned in to the city clerk, who will send the customary notices. In case the property owners fall to cut the weeds the city will send a man to do it and the charge for the work will be added to their tax duplicates. The county commissioners were granted permission to improve Sheffield aw with a concrete pavement fifteen feet wide on each side of the street car tracks. This will be done under the three-mile road law. COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF x,Jl!Zf.RN,T,0NAL NEWS SERVICE 1 BOSTON. Sept. 3. A decision of farreaching import anr was handed downtoday by Judge I.oring in ths supreme court when he decided In favor of the National Equipment company, of Springfield, in its efforts to restrain the National Association of Machinists from forcing the ccmpany to maintain a clos ed shop. Judge Loring said that the! case came within the recent ruling of the United States supreme court in the case of the Hickman Coal and Coke Co.. that employers had the same liberty to employ non-union as the union men had to organize. Counsel for the Springfield company sought an injunction, but upon the promise of the attorney for the union not to interfere with the employes this was not granted. STRIKE BRINGS I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MARION. Ind . Sept. 3. John H. Wallace, asre 45. was shot and seriously injured this morning by Kay Smith, a special policeman on duty at the Illinois Glass Co. plant in Gas City, following an argument between the two men relative; to the strike which has been in progress j at that place since July 1. Following! the declaration of Wallace that Smitft; was not a man the shooting occurred. Smith was rushed, to the county jail at Marlon, in fear of a mob, and Wallace was removed to his home. The bullet which was .32 calibre, entered Just above the heart and lodged Just under thfi skin on the right side.

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C. W. Cole Begins Action This Morning in Hammond Superior Court. Declaring that ha has been squeezed out of hie office vice president and general sales manager of the Gary Motor Truck Co.. and was not permitted to participate in the management of its affair as provided at a reorganiration meeting held April 25, 1318. C. TV. Cole has filed suit .in the Hammond Superior court to restrain William H. O'Donnell from voting for stock that he represents until the courts have straightened out some of the matters. He claims to have bean damaged to the extent of $50,000. The complaints filed by Attorneys Osborn and Osborn and Fred Crumpacker. states that on April 25, 1918. In order to continue the policy of the company and carry out an expansion program, the plaintiff and the stockholders of the motor truck company entered into a contract by which the capital stock was to be Increased from $100,000 to $1,000,000. Each stockholder was to have the right to subscribe to fifty shares of the new issue for each share of the old which he owned and which would be exchanged at the rate of the old share for fifty new. Each stockholder was to transfer all but cne share of his holdings to TV. H. O'Donnell as trustee and receive Jn exchange trust certificates. Mr. O Donnell was to do the voting for the shares which he held In trust and the stockholders were to receive their earnings. In the agreement the officers then selected would remain in control for five years. Mr. Cole was vice president and general sales manager. Folllowing a meeting of stockholders In September, HIS. he says he haa been excluded frm tha affairs of the company. They have refused to pay him for his services and he has had no access to records or mall. Returning to Gary after a brief absence he says he had been deprived of his stenographer and the officials would not let him use theirs. They also asked him to vacate his office and stay away. He adds that TV. H. O'Donnell and LIquorl O'Donnell have sold and offered for sale their personal stock and voting trust certificates to outsiders in competition with the stock of the corporation which had been placed upon the market and that the buyers thought they were buying corporation stock GIN. HE SAYS. E At the trial in the Hammond city court this morning of Ernest Smith who ran wild yesterday on the north side and shot two shots at Will S Steinarfcl and held up Emile Pchuli. robbing hitn of $150. Smith claimed to know nothing of wiiat happened yesterday. He claims that he has been taking treatments for lead poisoning which he had contracted while painting in Whiting and was walking along H"hman street yesterday afternoon when he met another man who ask him if h-e knew of any rooms to rent. Smith told hlm that he did not but if they walked around, maybe they could find som!. the man offered Mr. Smith a drink of g'n which he had in a bottle. , Smith then took a di'nk and claims that is the lat thing he remembers until he found himself in a cell at the H.immond rol'ce station later on. Two charges were made against him. one for assault with Intent to rob and one for assault with intent to kill and he was bound over to the grand Jury at Crown Point on a bond of $2,000 for each offense. The prisoner has a wife and a four months old son and this is theflrt time he has been in trouble and has always before yesterday was thought to be a respectable law abidln? citizen. He says the gin is the cause of all h!s troubles. CONTRACTORS TO BID ON LINCOLN ROAD All the members of the Board of County Commissioners and a number of road contractors of the county left Hammond on the Hoosicr Limited for Indir.rapoiis last night, whero they will attend the meeting of the State Highway Commission. Contracts for the construction of eleven and one-half miles of Lincoln Highway road from the Porter county line west are to be let by the commission. This is the first Lake county road let by the commission under the new state highway law. About ten Lake county men made the trip.

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FARE 0111 UP THIS P. M. East' Chicago Board of Public Works Will Take Up Moot Questions For Council Action. The board of public works of East! Chicago, after a short meeting yester-i day, decided that they did not have time' to take up the many questions before! them and so adjourned until this after-1 noon. The question of the increase in! fare for the Green Line will be taken up at this time and something definite will be done. Arrangements have been made with the street car company to have their representatives present and it Is hoped that the matter will be brought to some definite conclusion. Other questions of importance will also be discussed. Whatever action is taken will then be referred to the city council for their approval. A special meeting of tho council has bren called for Wednesday evening. September 10, for the purpose j of approving th tax levy and it is not j likely that another special meeting will! be called to take up the street car si'ua-, tion before that time. 1 t The meeting of the council last night i was short and very little was done. An' ordinance providing for additional cleri-' cal help for tho city treasurer and one! providing for the placing of cork carpet in the court room were referred to the finance committee for report at the next regular meeting. The council also voted; to Increase the salary of bridge tenders to $10 a month and the wages of street laborers to $4 for a nine hour day. Bridge tenders have been receiving $!) and street laborers $3.60. COUNCIL TURNS DOWN TAX FERRET ISPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. 3. The Lake County Council this morning met at the court house at its semi-annual sesion and tok up the matter of employing T. L. Shortr'.dge as tax ferret for LaVie County, an appropriation of $100,000 ha ing been recommend? by the Board of County Commissioners. When the seven members of the council voted on the proposition it was found that three had voted for the appropriation and three against it with one member non-committal. A sthis vote turned down the proposition. Mr. Shortridse asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration by the council and this disposed or the natter. NOTICE The Hammond Chamber of Commerce will hold its first post vacation noonday luncheon next Thursday noon and a good speaker has been obtained. All members are urged to come out" as some important matters are to be takn up. K. A. LAMPRELL. t-2-2 Chairan. Com. 8

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9 it" 9 most recent pictures taken cf th earnest consultation with vjoverr.or FRANK WAS SORPRISEO AT RESULTS Frank Wachewicz has received several surprises since, he opened his s-ale r-t lota In the north part of Hammond Sunday. The first jolt came, when fortycne were disposed of during the afternoon. He had expected to do a bij; business, but the crowd that swarmed to the sale took him off his feet. On Tuesday they began dropping in at his office to close up the deals. Then he received another shock. Instead of taking advantage of the easy payment;!, forty per cent of the customers had spot cash and the majority of them said they were expecting to build thfir houses next spring. "!3J Nino more deals were closed Tuesday and with the number of prospects which are still holding off it is believed th;it the entire tract of sixty-one lots will easily be closed out this week. An odd feature tf the sale was the fact that several of the purchasers of the $198 lots were men who had paid as high as $300 for lots in the same community less than ten years ago. NDRTDfi CO MITTEE HERKCOVITZ iSPECUL TO THE T1MES1 CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. S.--AJ committee compi-sed of Attorneys J. j Bruce. George Hvrshman. Crown Point;' David Boone and Judre lbach of Hem-; liiond. and J. U. Peterson, of Crown! Point, were named by Judge Norton in the circuit court to investigate the case of Marcus Hershcovitz, an Indiana Harbor attorney, against whom disbarment proceedings were begun en Tuesday in connection with perjured testimony given by some cf his clients. TAILORS FILE PETITION TODAY i William R. Gould an I Richard Von Frank of Hammond, members cf the tailoring firm of Gouid fc Von Frank, have filed a petition in bankruptcy in, the L". S. District Court. The schedules attached to the petition s-how-claims against the firm amounting to $6,659.13 while their assets arc $210. None of the claims of importantare heid in Hammond, but are said to be old bills incurred by the company in other cities before locating- in Hammond. They have been abl to reduce the total greatly sii-ce co ninyr to Hammond Uut from the present condition of the woolen industry and other lines and the uncertain prospects ahead of them they had gradually reached the place where they were unable to keep their business going and still meet their old creditors. MASONIC NOTICE. Business meeting of McKlniey-, 712, tonight. All Entered Apprentices report. -3 MERRITT D METZ, W. M-

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TOIfRRO' President Will Travel In State In Special Throughout Country. (BUiUBTIK.) WASHINGTON, Bet. 3-ThU coufer. eace will be held between Oct. 5 aad 10, it was stated at the White Houia today. Tb.d method by which ths conferees will be selected also was revealed. The pres. Ideat will send to the TJ. S. Chamber of Commerce, tha American Tederatioa of Labor, to leading- agricultural Org mix, tlons and to the Investment bankers as. osclatlon, invitations to submit to him a list of representatives qualified to tax part in the meeting. Thasa lists will be soanned by the president while ha is on hia trip, and from them he will personally select thos who win participate in the conference. The number probably will be from forty to forty-five, it vu stated. It was emphasised at the White House that the president haa not yet made any individual selections. John Edwin Nevin fstaff correspondent i. n. service1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.The administration's side of the problems facing the United States will be presented to the people byPresident Wilson during the coming twenty days. The much discussed western tour of the chief executive commences tonight. Leaving here he will make two set addresses tomorrow, one in Columbus, 0., in the morning, the second in Indianapolis, in the evening. From then until Sept. 29 Sundays excluded the president will devote his time to making public his views of the remedies needed to solve the after-war problems of America. OBJECT Or TOTJB. WIDENED. Originally intended as a trip to ' re. port to the people his work as chief. c the American commission to negotiate peace." and also to swing public sentiment behind his demand for a speedy ratification of the peace treaty by the senate, the general scope of the tour ha widened materially. It now will include discussions of the treaty, the railway situation, labor, and the general schemes of peace reconstruction. The president, it is known, has nearly a score of topics which he intends to draw on in his various speeches. Because of this, it was said today he will insist that his rrorram be rigidly adhered to and as far as possible impromptu appearances and speeches reduced to a minimum. SCHEDTJXE IS KEPT SECSET. The president will travel on a specia' train. The schedule will be withheH from publication and the train will run as far as possible as the second secti::i of regular trains. It will be made up of a baggage car. a private car for the president. Mrs. Wilson and the president's immediate party, a car for th secret service and two cars for newspaper representatives from the press associations and metropolitan Journals Hear Admiral Cary T. Grayson an 1 Secretary to the President Joseph K. Tumulty will acompany the president. PIBST TBIP SINCE ELECTION. This will b the president's first trip to the great Northwest and to the Pa cific coast since he was elected. Several trips to that territory have bern arranged tn thr pf?st but none have been made because o mportant maers developing that prevented. The program of the trip has !ein worked out so that a good rart of the time of the president will be spent in territory represented by senators who are opposed to ratification of the peace treaty. Before leaving here tonight the president planned a conference with Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, minority leader of tContinued on page five.) AM n TAKES MERCURY TABLET Mrs. Margaret Liesakos Is In Serious Condition At Hospital. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind.. Sept. 3. Mrs. Margaret Liesakos of 431 Indiana Koulevard. attempted to commit si;' cide by taking bichloride of mercurytablets. A physician was called and found the woman to be in a very serious condition and ordered her taken to thf hospital. lipon questioning the woman for a motive, she informed the questioner that she had trouble with her hueband, who is a waiter in the restaurant at 502 119th street. Constantine Liesakos. the husband, was takfn to the police station, but uton beine uuest'oned, was released.

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