Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 88, Hammond, Lake County, 30 September 1919 — Page 1

BEST READ NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY RAIN: C2rKXTXOZrA XTXW3 VVJ.X. LEASED WIRE SERVICE. Oa straats aid newsstand a, 3c per copy. Delivered by carrier la Hammond and Weat Esmmoil, SOo pex tuouth. VOL. XIV, NO. 88. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. a. r-n mm7 l I , n in ml i : UUtiW UU CARRY STR NTO PITTSBURG

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IS TODAY Bethlehem Figures Just As Conflicting As In Pittsburg. riNTE.'AT!ONM. NEWS SERVICE - WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. The senate will carry its investigation of the steel strike directly into the trouble-ridden Pittsburgh district next Friday. Senator Wm. S. Kenyon, chairman of the education and labor committee of the senate, announced today that unless the league of nations situation in the senate interferes, his committee which is conducting the investigation of the strike,"1 will re-open its investigation Friday in Pittsburgh and continue it or three days Friday. Saturday and Sunday. While Senator Kenyon announced that the labor investigators would visit the Pittsburgh district, the committor undoubtedly Bill carry it? investigation into such surrounding steel centers as M'-Keespcrt and other towns where John Fitzpatrick. chairman of the steel strikers national committee, charged the hid been 'terrorism.' against the strikers by the Pennsylvania state cons'ahuiary and the steel mill guards. Senator Kenyon's announcement followed closely v, receipt of an invitation to the committee to come to Pittsburgh from the McKeesport Chamber of Commerce, which stated that "Aspersions" had been cm st against that city "by the steel st nkers." BOTH SIDES TAKE ISSUE. -INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BETHLEHEM. Pa.. Sept. 30. The tnme conflict of figures which featured the initial stages of the steel strike, in Pittsburgh prevailed at the Bathlehem .plants liere today. Officials of the plants said the situation was Improved all around and that miny men who stayed away from the mills yesterday "to see how things turned out." returned to work on today's shifts. The strike leader in this district. David Williams, announced that the strike was approximately 90 per cent effective in most departments. "Si trio ugh admitting that the departments for treating castings, the bridge shop, ore bridge yard hoists' and crucible hammer are operating fully. Kricklavers and pipe-fH'ers are out 93 per cent, he said "All the blast furances are put s.-ve two. The. situation is satisfactory for the men." STATE MAY ASK FOB FOUR CITIES Investigations, believed to be the forerunner of action on the part of the Stare Board of Health to force cities the Calumet region to adept means of sewage disposal and treatment of drinking water, have been started in Hammond and other cities which depend upon Lake Michigan for th-Mr water supply. Sanitary experts of the heaUIi hoard have been working in this vicinity ond are expected to return soon to maVe an exhaustive survey. Last spring a communication was received by the Hammond health authorities in which the state board stated th.t unless the city got buy and installed i wnter Miration riant the .-state would do the w ork and the city would have to stand the expense. At that time it w i wondered how the addtd expense could he saddled upon the city when the city itself could not incur such a debt, having already reached its limit. The survey now contemplated does net stop at Hammond alone but includes all of the cities which are contribtuing to the pollution of the lake and then rlrawinsr drinking water from it. It is rxpected that some system of handling : sewage, similar to that recommendri by rhioago experts recently will be include'! in the plan. Health experts declare that filtration plants alone cannot cope with the lake polution problem which is becoming wor?o each year. Pirt of the impurities are. removed and many of the living organisms arc killed by the chlorine but in bad weather in "hich the hike is stirred up by the wind the case is hopeless and the only remedy nil! be to clean up the whole end of the lake. Take The Tim and kr.?p i; touch with the whole world.

MAY BE CHOSEN AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY TO U. S. 1 .- - f--:T .5fee'' Dr. W. S. Solf. Dr. "W. S. Solf, former German solonial cretary, is mentioned now as a possibility for the post of ambassador to the U. S. from Germany. CHICAGO MEN GET R0AD JOBS County Commissioners Yesterday Let Contracts for Four Roads. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWX POINT, Ind.. Sept. 30. Chicago road contractors cam into Lake county yesterday and picked off the cream of the contracts awarded by the county commissioners the. S'ultr road in Calumet township and the Verplank road In Calumet township. The bidding was as follows: T. M- Stulti ioad. CtHtunat Towaaliip. Vnited Construction Co.. Hammond. $50,900. Johnson Construction Co., Chicago, J45.10T.10: $47,051.34. with three-year maintenance bond. A- L,. Courtright. Crown Point. $50,331. No bond. James J. Nedjl. Whiting. $S.0in. W. J. Lang. Chicago; J42.H47.52. without bnd. $44,733.34. wUh bond, this bid was accepted. Tarplaak Ro&d C ileum at Townahlp. L'mted Construction Co., Hammond, $52,000. Johnson Construct icn Co.. Chicago. $46,2:;0; $4?. 127. 24. with bond. A. L. Courtright, Crown Point. $34,000. James J. Nedjl, Whiting. $47,000. W. J. Lang, Chicago, $43,622.72: $45. 7c S. 44. with bond, this bid accepted. X.. E. Barnes Ko&d No. 2 Hobart Township. A. L. Courtright. Crown Point. $126,000. Pid rot accepted, higher than estimate. McCracken Road Calumet Townahlp. A. Courtright. $10). 000. V. S. Construction Co.. $98,747. Bid not accepted, too high. Bert James Road Mortli Township. James J. Nedjl. $2t'.000; if he wis awarced contract for Stultz and VorClank roads, otherwise not to be consulred. V'nned Construction Co., $25,370. A'.x -iri!;d contract. acthxm Road North Township. M. D Heiney. $15. o . Awarded contea. t. Jovep'.i Backe Road St. John Tjir'n.hip. A. L. Court right. $26. 17. Not accepted, too high. XZalaer Road Ross Township. $f 2.136. Not icjepted, hisher than (:: .msite. Jcreph Kepp Road Ha-aoTer To-vishlu. Al. Poitz. Hammond. $12,100. GARY MAN SUED IN HAMMOND COURT For injuries which he received and damage done his wagon and a load of fruit and vegetables in a collision in Chicago. Jacob Harris has brought suit asainfit Benjamin (Joldinan of Gary, who is concerned in the Gary Window and Plate Glass Furnishers. The accident occurred August 16. 1915. as Mr. Harris was taking a load of produce to his customers in Chicago. As he started to cross Morgan t., on Adams St., a truck belonging to the Gary firm struck his wagon, demolishing it and scattering his wares on the pavement. Teople from the neighboring houses rushed to the scene and carried the fruit and vogetfblos away so that it was n total loss t him. He received numerous injuries which prevent him from earning as muih money as he formerly did. He asks for $5,000 damages in the complaint filed this morning by Attorneys Ibach. Gavit. Ttnkham & Stlnson in the Hamirond superior court.

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FALLS DQV ON ISSIO Police Amazed at Boldness of Ridge Road Auto Highwaymen. An amazing story was told by five well-known Hammond young men last night to the Hammond police which bears out the reports that no fewer than fifty people have been held up on Ridge Road between Hammond and Gary during the summer. About a week ago while driving on Ridge Road Chester Dickerson of Hammond was held up by two men and robbed so he with four of his friends decided to lay a trap for the thieves and apprehend them. Mil? LAY FOR BANDITS. So for several nights Dickerson. Bill Toung. Pan Eder. former officer Kobtrt Law and Edward Schmahl have gon out to PJdge Road and waited in vatn. However, last night excitement' materialized. The quintette drove out near Hessville and while Eder was left alone in the car as a decoy the other men h.l themselves in the woods along side the road and waited. They were armed with shot guns and pistols. MASKED MX II AFFSAE. After waiting a little over an hour a Ford with two men in it passed them. Shortly after the two men returned and with masks over their faces ordered Eder at the point of a revolver to hold up his hands. Rejoicing inwardly at the success of the strategem and thinking that his four companions had the hold-up men covered. Eder responded willingly. He folowed order and joked with the thieves while they took his revolver and $11 in currency from him. thinkine of course that he would soon have it back again. BANDITS RETURN TIRE. The bandits who had left their :ar at some distance away starred ba-k towards it when from his hiding place Dickerson opened fire on them. The other four men ran to the Kder car which was turned around, clambered on the runing board and started after 'he bandits. The latter opened fire on their pursuers. Ed Schmahl. who was standing on the running board of Eder's car. was shot through the chest and fell to the ground. Robert Law then went to his assistance and was shot through the hip. The men were put in th automobile, and rushed to St. Margaret's hospi! 1 where Ed Schmahl is in a critical condition. Dickerson says that if his companions had fired on the bandits from their hiding place they would have got them. The bandits made their escape and there is absolutely no clue to their identification. Many robberies have been reported to the Hammond police and many a Hssville durine the summer and it is believed that the bandit duo are one arl lh, same who have committer! all the thefts. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY MAY RESULT FATALLY Mrs. Henry Peterson Shot Through Breast by Her Husband Last Night.. What will probably Me a murder took place in Hammond last night when about 7:30 Henry Peterson of 252 Plu ni ftier aenue went to 2.V1 Plummer ave-; nue where his wife 'is living wi'h lv r mother, Mrs. Jess Hrucc, and mailed :lie woman out on the back porch. When Mrs. Petersen went out to him. h r husband asked her If she was cumins' baik to live with him. She told him that she wu not and turned to go back ino the house, according to a post-shootiirg statement made to the police. Just as she got in the kitchen door Petersen drew a revolver and shot his wife! through the breast, the bullet entering! Just above the heart. j The Hammond police were called and j Mrs. Petersen wa taken to St. Mar"4! garet's hospital. She is in a very critical condition. After the shooting Peter-' sen fled and no trace of his whereabouisl have been secured from the police. j

JURS. VANDERBILT ASKS DIVORCE AND CUSTODY OF CHILD . . :V ":V ; ; v-i 1 . Mrs. Cathleen Vanderbilt. Mrts. Cathleen (Nelson) Vanderbilt is set'kinp a divorce from her husband, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. The papers charee desertion and frs. Vanderbilt asks for the custody of their only child, Cathleen, who hai lived with her mother since the aeparation of her parents soma yeara apo. It is said that Mr. Vanderbilt will not contest the case. The Vanderbilta have been married sixteen years. Mr. Vanderbilt was tha youngest eon of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Nj alimony U being asked. IK THE C-Toner Graham asserted his rights this morning when he held an inquest ever the death of John Porinchnski th-s West Hammond lad killed bv an auto mobile Sunday. Arrangements had been made by the coroner of Cook couniy. HI., to hold an inquest in West Hammond but Dr. Graham insisted that it was his case as the death had occurred In St. M-irgaret's hospital. Evidence at the inquest seemed to absoHe Dr. J. R. Prown of blame for the boy's death. Witnesses stated that the toy with five or six others had clii-ched on th runnig board of William Keller's machine after a blowout had forced him to stop. He was turning around to re turn home on the flat tire and before starting down the street had told the boys to get off. The road was partly blocskeri. by his car when Dr. Brown ap proached and it is said he gave ample warning. The Porinchnski boy ran across the street from the Kellar machine and then started hack just as Dr. Brown reached the scene. His machine was traveling slowly and Mrs. Kellar who was standing near says It barely passed over his body before it stopped. The boy r- se to his feet unaided and was hurried to the hospital where he died later. Ane.ther community "sine" similar to th" one held recently in Harrison park T possible a big welcome home celebration for the exserviee men will mark the eriil of the War Camp Community Service work in Hammond. At the same time the work is being closed up ill ever the country. As demobilization of the army is practically at fin end the different welfare associations which were included in the W ar Camp Community rr ice hue requested the War Department let them each take up their own work w here it v.ns left off some time ago. It is i-aid that important plans which they hope t.i put into effect soon are being held up by this central body. Demobilization camps are radily being closed up and the men are practicaly all back In civil l.fe. Just v. hen Hammond's last meeting wil be belli has not been set definitely but the committee In charge expects to announce the date soon. Nearly &,oi,0 rcepie attendee the first "sing" and they have been eager for the next one. The committee is undecided wheher to hold another "sing" or use the funds in pulling off a big welcome home celebration such as has been held in other cities. NOTICE Peginnmg .Oct. 1st. Nelson's Dru Store will close evenings at 10 o'clock, except Saturdays, when the store will close at 11. Sunday hours from S:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. and from 4 p. m. to 3 p. m. 9-30-4t

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TAKE UP T I!NTENT!ONL NEWS SERVICE ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Sept. So. Criticism of organized labor nd plans for solution of the present industrial unrest were the keynotes of the opening addresses of the fortyftfth annual convention of the American Bankers Association here today. The issues confronting the American people today." said R. F. Maddox, of Atlanta. Ga., president of the association, "seem to be whether the government shall be more powerful than the labor unions, whether business enterprises shall be dominated by the labor union, or by giving all employes a larger share in the. profits and a greater voice in business, or the labor unions shall be broken up. The present difficulty is that the labor leaders do not seem willing to accept in lieu of their urinn control, the profit sharing plan, bit insist upon the closed shop. "'It is the duty of those in authority, everywhere, to assure the people that the rights of all will be rrotecto.-i, arl while labor has won its way to a higher place in the world than it had before the war, that place cannot be demanded by a disregard of law and order." "We cannot fail to seriously consider the labor question when we see branches of the union spread to clerks, pencemen. firemen, school teachers and evtn to actors." A campaign in the United States, through moving pictures on the forum. In the press and in the pulpit, to teach men the dlgniiy and need for honest labor and production, the shame cf waste, the dishonor of wilful extravagance, and to discredit the vain oatentation of wealth," he aaid- "The enormous dis proportion of wealth in America has led to false ideas of extravagance and ostentation going far beyond the reasonable bonds of mere luxury." FOSTER IS T BY SENATE BT OEORQE R. HOLMIS STFF CORRESPONDENT t. N. SEHVICE PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Sept. 30. William Z. Foster, eastern director of the steel workers striker, was summoned to Washington today to appear before the senate committee on education and labor which is conducting an investigation Into the strike. Foster was requested to appear next Thursday morning at in o'clock. Senator Kenyon's committee desires specifically to question Foster concerning his radical ideas on government, as expressed in his book on "Syndicalism" in 1312 and his later book on 'Trade Vnion'.sm" written in 1915. The following telegram was received by Foster from Senator Kenyon: "Tour telegram received requesting the committee to come to the Pittsburgh district. Hope arrangements can be made for committee to visit this district and take testimony the latter part of thi week or first of next. The time f coming is dependent upon the voting on the amendments to the peace, treaty. Committee desires you to appear before it on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. ' Foster replied that he would be on hand at the tim requested. The news that Senator Kenyon's com mittee will come to Pittsburgh to hold j hearings was greeted with enthusiasm at strike headquarters today. The striye leaders plan to lay al ltheir grievances before the committee. INDIANA NEWS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Sept. 30. Preparations are being completed today for the ifccption of Cardinal De Sro Men-ier Belgium, in South Bend and a Notre 1 ame. October ; 3 . TIPTON. Ind.. Sept. 30. John .Schneider, 27, is dead and his wife and tlaushtot Flo"ei or- are suffering seriious injuries today as a result of a collision with thei. bv. .; o" in automobile drtv..n cy J:e Fr.-.i-king . ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 30. Decision will be given Monday in the suit in w-hich I-ouis Kimberlin, republican, contested the election of W. S. Kllis, to the superior judgeship, it was announced. The contest extended over three months. GRKENSBCRfi. Ind., Sept. 30. In the shortest will ever filed here, the small estate of the late James Champ i disposed of in fourteen words. Meeting of McKimey Lodge No. 71?. Wednesday. October I. Business meeting. All entered apprentices report for next dgree. MERRITT D itETZ W. M.

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MENTIONED AS ONE 1 OF MEN WHO MAY1 BECOME CARDINAL Archbishop Dennis J. Dougherty. Archbishop Dennis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia is one of the two archbishops mentioned in connection with the selection by the ptpe of a new cardinal in the U. S. Most Rev. George Mundclein ci Chicago is tha other man mentioned. Only one car-, dinal is to be named. SCENE IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J OMAHA. Neb.. Sept. 3'L Maj. G'n. Wood, acting under orders' from Secretary of War Baker, arrived ia Omaha early today and immediately took command of military forces sent here by the government to suppress disorder and establish order after the riotous outbreak of Sunday night. Gov. McKelvie also is in Omaha to begin an investigation of the riots. No outbreak of any kind has takn place since Sunday night. Predictions that there would be further rioting and bloodshed and that mobs were planning an attack upon negroes in their homes have not been fulfilled. Apparently the military is in complete control of the situation. Although the city is quiet, machine guns command every important street intersection today and machine guns mounted on trucks are in readiness for Instant use if needed. The city hall, opposite the court house where the rio;ing centered, has been turned into a temporary arsenal where weapons and nmmuniuon of the federal troops is stored. LIQUOR BAN LIFTING STORY NOT VERIFIED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON. Sept. 30 Insistent reports that President Wilson soon will lift the war-tim prohibition by proclaiming the army demobilized, while arousing considerable interest in official circles this afternoon were without verification. At both the White House and department of JustIce, officials stated ti.at the s-ituation was unchanged and no hint as to when any such action would be taken had been given out. It was pointed out that the latest figures issued from the war department showed that the emergency army was 90 per cent demobilized. At the same time it was pointed out that Attorney General Palmer has let it be known that it is his formal opinion that no mater what the demobilization figures may indicate, demolij l'.zation cannot be technically tompleted until the treaty has been ratified and the proclamation of peace issued. GARY TO HAVE ZONE OFFICE t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 30. Establishment of Z"ne revenue collection offices in eleven Indiana cities will be completed early in October and confirmation of nominations of deputies to have charge of the offices is expected soon, according to anannourfcement made today by William Elder, collector for the. Indiana district Gary and Logansport will have zone offices and Marion will have a branch office of the Muniie zone. A branch of the Sr.ut hBend zone office will be established at Michigan City and Oary zone office will have branches at Hammond and East Chicago. NEW CHICAGO v MURDER MYSTERY CHICAGO. Sept. 30. Two women ara being sought by the police today in their efforts to solve the murder of Dr. Reginald Karreman a wealthy recluse, who Was found slain in his home in Englewood, a suburb. Dr. Karreman was irwriKierj iu ueain ana n n re siartea under the bed on which bis body was' found i" o aftort to hide the crime c

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Gary reached its highest tension during the ninth day of the big steel strike tod;, awaiting developments with a restless spirit The dawn broke with a cold drizzling rain, dampening the ardor of the pickets in the strike bound picketing areas. Activity on both sides was redoubled yesterday. Several hundred of one thousand members of the Loyal American League, who offered their services to the ctiy in preserving peace were called into action for the first time. "Many of them using their own machines, they dashed around the city in automobiles, policing the thoroughfares and carrying men who wished to return to work, hack to the mill gates. REPORTS Or VIOLENCE. Hourly reports of increased violence reached the police department. Threats of intimilation grew and light wast thrown on a new method of lawlessness. Mayor W. FHodsK-s and Chief of Police Forbis immediately took steps to cope with the situation. Today they have it In hand and a score of arrests have been made. Karly yesterday mornin. reports reached the police that strikers were combing the main arteries leadii.gt to the mills in the residence section ind were employing automobiles mantlet with sluggers to beat up certain strike breakers who h:id been "spotted" going to work in the mills. At the time when the Gary works swung into one-fourth of its capacity operation last night as a result of the tContinue. on paga Ave.) BOTH SIDES SAY THEY'RE SATISFIED Steel Strike in Pittsburgh District Has Reached Stage of Stagnation. By OEOKOE R. HOX.1CXS. STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1 N. SERVICE 1 PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Sept. 30. The national steel strike in Pittsburgh an 1 Western, Pennsylvania, the industrial heart of the country, has reached a sta-e of stagnation or snail-like progress in which neither side can see a quick decision. Hhe "crucial" days of the strike, which both sides had confidently predicted, would see the making or breaking of the strike, have passed without doing either. Only a stampede of th ; strikers back to the mil's, or a stampede of the workers from the mills can now give either side the clear-cut decision it rravoi. The "bogey man" of the steel ope: -ators is government intervention looking to a compromise. If Washingt "i does not "butt in." as one steel mxti put it. all the steel interests- have t do is to lay back and watch this strike win itself. Financial resources, the ieavy siege artillery of the companies, will provide victory in the long run. Jteel officials can continue to eat indefinitely on their resources. Srrikeis can't, though they are admittedly fairly well "heeled" for this strike. FRANK BARBER IN TROUBLE AGAIN. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. "Sept. 30. Frank J. Barber of Hammond was arrested at 6 o'clock Sunday night at 231 Spring street by Capt. Hildebrand and Detective Scblene after he hid apparently made an attempt to kidnip a two year old child from his wife, who rooms at 321 Spring street, ani works at the Winner Cigar factory. Barber took the child away from th house, came as far as Franklin street, and then returned with it to the house but the indications were that he was insane, and he was hel.l for an examination this afteicoon before Justice Snook. He has been so violent tiiat his wife could not iive with him. DON'T SET 'EM BACK TONIGHT f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. The nation w ill get up one hour later on October 28. At 12 o'clock on the morning 0f Oct. 26, the last Sunday in October, th" hands of the ci oeks of the C S. wil be set. back one hour marking the fin-" ale of the daylight saving law. The law will die by act of congress, at the overwhelm! nz demand of farmer and miner interests and with protests froir? itiea and industrial centers.