Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 190, Hammond, Lake County, 30 January 1920 — Page 1

r THE WEATHER "On INOI A VV Fair lonlgbti tolde In orth and tax portion; Satar"lay fair. Do a Good Turn Daily" AIT C S VI a He Knows XVTZ&lTATZOITAXi ITKWH TVJJm leased wtbjs SSKTZCS. On, street a kd &v(ttnfl. per copy. DellTirid ay caxrlar la E.-iond t&J Wast JUmavti, b& per moBtlk VOL. XIV, NO. 190. FRIDAY, J ANUARY 30, 1920. HAMMOND. INDIANA. in LfU i

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cCULL GOVERNOR ASPIRANT Delivers Opening Speech of His Campaign Before Hammond Democrats. Scoring- the Republican State administration for Its centralization of rowr policy and citing instances in which he believes the policy has worked to the detriment of community's and in contradiction to the- theory or selfgovernmer.t for the smaller units, Dr. C. B. McCullooh. of Indianapoli,. fecently announced candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, delivered the first speech of his campaign la Hammond on Friday night. ATTENDANCE DISSAC?.TI.;. Tha occasion as the organization cf the new Hammond Democratic club at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Prevalence of influenza and unfavorable weather caused a disappoint ins attendance, but enthusiasm ran hich. Howard Gescheidler acted as temporary chairman and called the meeting to order after the audience had been entertained by the orchestra. Miss Glenn Ethel Stelhorn rendered two vocal solos which were appropriate and veil received. Mrs. George Bass, of Chicago, was unable to be present but serct one of her assistants who spoke of the work of organization which is going on amongr the women Democrats and of aom of the future plana. WAR lVOIlKtR SPEAK J". The crowd was fortunate In ha' inn Mrs. Ida Gibson, probably the best known newspaper woman in AmTi . at present. She A3.no-- .publicity chairman of the Woman? 'National Pemocra tic Bureau. She was an active Red Cross Worker on ail front3 during the war, was present at the signing of the peace treaty and was able to furnish some Interesting sidelights on the notable event. Mrs. Gibson, In her address, scored the members of the senate who she says are holding- up the ratification of the. treaty and deplored the fact that America of all nations engaged i on the "side of th allies is tiie only one not at peace today. ztew orriciBS. In the organization o? the new Democratic club, women were (riven an important part. A constitution was adopted after which the following officers were elected: Chairman, Frank Martin. Vice Chairman. Mrs. Emma Leary. Secretary, Samuel Hicks. Treasurer, Mrs. John I'. Smaller. A meeting will be held later for the selection of the executive committee. APPHOVKS TAX SYSTEM. Chairman Geschellder introduced Dr. McCulloch and reviewed the candidates war record. Mr. McCulloch entered the service as a lieutenant and came out a lieutenant-colonel. He also received the Croix de Guerre as a recognition r, e V I m arvlrs in TTrsi rrtk TT ! i"Q 1- . Ing his campaign on reforms In the tate tax system which he deems imperative, lie said: A cancer has attacked the body politic. From small beginnings It has reached out and spread its roots to every vital organ of the sfat". Great suffering lias followed in its wake and all men call for its removal. This foul and malig;iant growth has been engrafted on the state by the Rrublican party. This gnawing, eating, rxcrescence owes lis birth to the administration now seated at the Stato House (Continued on page twelve. CAPT. DETZER IS HELD NOT GUILTY COURT MARTIAL 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 XETV TURK, Jan. 30. Capt. Karl W. Detzer of Fort Wayne. Tnd., who was court martialed on charges of brutal treatment to soldier prisoners at the LeMans embarkation center in Franco, was found not guilty and will be restored to duty at once. Official announcement of the -verdK-t v as made at headquarters of th Eastern department, Goernors Island, today. Capt. Detzer was formally fieri from arrest this afternoon and said he would 'art immediately for bis hme in Fort TVayne. Fellow offic-rs at Governors Island gave him an Informal reception when thn verdict was announced. The trial of Capt. Detzer lasted nearly eight weeks. BOYJIUHT Sam Cat ley. a nine-year-old schoolboy, -was struck by a truck late yesterday afternoon whily plamg in front of his home at 227 Highland ave. He was bruised but not seriously hurt. The driver of the truck was not held by the police. SALE CANNED GOODS I still have some pnvernment canned a-oods which I will offer for sale Saturday. January 31st, at the Central fire itgtfnn. Truman and Hohman sf. 1-30 DAflKL BROWN, Mayor.

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IND. HARBOR MAN HAS JUST BEEN APPOINTED MAJOR 1 - it. V NT V"-"1 I 1.. V :1 I.F.SH II A St AM. j Leh Hacail. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred O. Unseal!, 3S10 Drummond St., Inidana Harbor, has just received an appointment as major in tho quartermaster section of the Reserve Corps. During th world war Hascall was in the quai tvrmaster corps and was promoted to the ank of captain. He served eighteen months overseas. I.csh Hasca'l Is well known In East Chicago, where he was formerly emploed at the Grassclli Chemical 'o. He v,ts promoted by the company and sent to their offlo-s in Toronto. Canada where he enlisted when war was declared, lie graduated from the East "hi'-ago his:li school in 1004. He is married and has a son and daughter. Hi wife was formerly Miss Margaret Wincklcr, of Harrmond. CANTON, OHIO MAN WITH BABY BRIDE CAUGHT AT GARY John Bandr!s. 4'1 years old. of Canton. O.. and hi slo year old bride. Katherine Poppas, of th same city, were arrested at the St. Regis hotel in Gary shortly after 2 o'clock this morning and are bing detained by the Gary police awaiting further data fromthe Canton authorities. According to the story, when the girl was only thirteen years old. Fanderls tempted her to run away wltn Mm. From Canton he took her to I.os Angeles. C;al., where it is said that he got another woman to go with him to the marriage license bureau to secure a license and then took the child to a justice of the peace where they were illegally married. The police have been hot on their trail for a number of months. Several times they eluded th authorities, but it was not until this morning that Banderis and his child bride were taken in by the long arm of the law. Awaiting more particulars, they are being detaine din Gary, on open charges. T KILLED BY TRAIN Patrick Ferreil, foreman of a construction gang- at the Mark Manufacturing plant at Indiana Harbor, was almost instantly killed last evening about six o'clock when he was struck by a K. & O. engine. He was on his way to work at the time the accident occurred. Mr. Parrel!, who was 35 years old and single, had been rooming- in Indiana HarboT. Just before his death he gave the name and address of his. sister. Mrs. Thomas McKenney, fi'S Harrison street. Gary. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. TANKER BREAKS IN HALF AND SINKS I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' WASHINGTON, Jan. CO The tanker McLero broke ir half and sunk about 125 miles f f f lh' east coast of Florida on January "6th. the navy department was informed this afternoon by a wireless dispatch via Miami. Fla., from the steamer Ozette. The Ozette picked up a lifeboat containing: the chief officer, the third mate four engineers and twelve members of the crew. The captains boat with twenty-six passengers, is reported to be still adrift. , BONDS AND STAMPS WILL BE RETURNED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE "WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Stolen registered Liberty bonds and War Stamps, amounting to several million dollars, recovered by the secret service in a nationwide clean-up of fake "brokers" establishments, are to be restored to their rightful owners by the treasury department, it was announced today. Most of the securities were of large denominations, and previously had been recorded as lost or stolen.

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E ALL MEXICAN Increasing Bandit Activity Makes Added Precautions Necessary. BVLLKTIX. ! INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MOCTtSZl'MA. SOORA. MKA.. Jan. 30 After hntlinir a band of 1 arqnl Indiana for more than twelve hour. rntlre mine crerr of the Santa Marin mine, numbering twenty-two rmploy, waa wiped out before aandown last nlicht. arrordlnar to word reaehlns military headquarters here today. The Santa Marie mine la located Mat of Norl. Sonora. close to the Chihuahua atate line and la operated by the alien capitalists. The mine rrew waa composed entirely of Mexicans, with the exception of Snt. Hod rich Wilson, an Austrian tnintaa; engineer. DOUGUAS. ARIZONA. Jan. 30 Military guards have been doubled on all railroad trains leaving the border for the interior of Mexico, according to ofTic4al orders received by Mexican military authorities at Agua Prietas. just across teh line. The orders issued by direction of President Carranza were said to have been the result of an increase in bandit attacks and robberies. According to advies received at Agua Prietas. five attacks have been made on Mexican Central trains In as many days, passengers were robbed, the trains looted and the guards executed by the bandits. One of the roving bands Is said to be commanded personally by Francisco Villa. This band looted a train near ll'rmo, tate of Durango. Villa, according to tnese reports, now has in the neighborhood of 4,00 modernly equipped troops and will attempt to recruU S.000 more for the purpose of waging a campaign for the possession of Chihuahua City, recently designated provisional capital or the new revolutionist party of Mexico, of which Villa has been named commander-in-chief. The emblem of the new party is the Red Flag. POUCE TO SELECT TWO NEW TRUSTEES Hammond police will choose six candidates next Monday, two of whom will be elected on the following Monday to the office of trustees of the Police Pension Board. The two retinring members arc Officers Charles Carlson and George Hanlon. This is the ninth year since the police pension fund was established. Two widows are now receiving $60 a month. One of them has been a. beneficiary for eight years and the ether for three years. The fund, has enjoyed remarkable growth. Several donations from public spirited citizens and thi proceeds from many balls and benefits have swelled the treasurer's report to an attractive figure. Of a total of S22.?6S.3 in the treasury. j;.T63.:9 is In cash and the balance in bonds. LET CONTRACT FOR ME IMPROVEMENTS An extensive program for remodeling the lobby and entrance of the Hotel Mee ha a just been completed. Contracts let to local and Chicago firms call for an (xpenditure of around $2,500. It is proposed to eliminate entirely the bs.rbcr shop now- occupying tho rear of the lobby and to move Into Its place the office desk and cigar stand. The billiard room in the rear will be entered through the back cn'rancc and the present door opening from the lobby will be walled up. A new front and tile floor are also among the improvements contemplated. The hotel has recently come into the ownership of T. C. Priniis. who has continued to make Hotel Mee one of the city's leading hostlerif.-. K. H. Krueger. 1143 Hohman M.. has been granted the contract for the new tile floor. BURNS FATAL TO TO TOLLESTON MAN Injuries received, in an explosion when he poured keresone into a stove to start a fire at hip rooming house at 1001 Roosevelt street in Tolleston a week ago resulted fatally to Walter Helwis. an employ of the Gary Motor Truck company yesterday morning. The remains were shipped to the form er home at Cincinnatti, Ohio, today. INDICT GROCERS (INTERNATIONAL HEW": SERVICE I CHICAGO. Jan. 30. Continuing Its warfare against the high cost of living, the government today secured the indictment of 17 of the leading wholesaJe srrocera of Chicago.

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Judge Cohen Has Problem to Vex Him When is a husband not a husband? City Judge H.-".an Cohen of East Chicago was calle, tiupen to answer that question legally ana ethically when two negroes appeared before him, the man claJming the woman as his wife and the woman denying the relationship. The man produced his marriage certificate and then the woman explained. "You-ah. honab, this man was mah husband, but hc lifts nevah contributed one cent to mah support. Ah stand here unsupported andvwhen ah stand unsupported ah am through with that man and am goin' t get a man who will support me." Sho now keeps one hundred boarders and gees out to work by the day while her new man stays at home and does the cooking and housework. AS DIRECTOR OFSERVICE Af'er being In charge of the Hammond bureau of the Free Employment Service snlce it was established p. ear ago, H. J. Derner has tendered his resignation to take effect Vtbruary 1. H has accepted a position with the General Amerj lean Tank Car Corporal (on at East ChiI raeo as director of their employment bureau. hile the' wcrk Mill in a measure be similar to that with which .lie has been accustomed during the last yar. the proximity with, the actual work of a plant lias bad much to do with Mr. Derner's change. He is reronized as having marked Jebihty in mechanical lines anl the lure of ihe shp has been strong since he left that kind, of work 'ast February; Ti'T: cor3;.th.-iajicilt end of it also offered ' an InduTment which would have bfii bard to refuse. Mr. lrner took charge of the lhm. motid office at a time when tb" wrk was in an experimental state nil ot the country. The federal government wa.3 then backing th- movement. LatT this was turned over t th- state employment servi'-e and since then th" st te and city of Hammond b;is been .--hrins l Ihe expense equally. Th" Hammond "f-! flee has from the first been the grei'st j producer of results in the state and it; was frequently visiten ny inspectors from all prts of the country. Its director was tireless in, his efforts at making successful placements and carinj for labor surplus and shortage. It will now be n'cessnry to chose a j .successor for Mr. Derner, it is preti- ' able that the state offh-e will pick a I Hammond man and ask the city council !-for its approval. FISH SALE MAKES HIT IN HAMMOND .At three o'clock this afternoon there were but two kinds of fish left at the box car store on the Michigan Central skiing where Hammond house-, wives have been given an opportun-' Ity to reduce the 11. C. L. by means of ; fish diet. j Little flounders and little smelts.) whale steaks and lialibut will sizzle or! fry or boil or bake In many a Ham-) mond homo tonight. The only un v arieties which remained on sale w ere ! codfish and haddock, both selling at 12; cents a pound. Mayor Brown opens a clean-up sale on g-overnuient prov isions at the Hammond central fire station tomorrow. Preparations are being made to handle a good tize crowd. ROBERTSDALE GIRL BURIED SATURDAY Miss Clara Kraemer. twenty-one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kraemer. 1290 Myrtle avenue, llobert.sda le. died at the home of her parents yesterday of pneumonia. She leaves besides her parents, a brother. Joseph, and a sister. Nettie. Miss Kraemer was blind at birth and attended the school for the blind at Indianapolis where she became a fine musician. The funeral will be from the Sacred Heart church Saturday morning at nine o'clock and burial will be St. Joseph's cemetery. CHANGE PLANS FOR NULL FUNERAL Tolly Null, who died Wednesday evening at his home. 445 Pine street, of pneumonia, and whose body was to have been shipped to his former home at Westminister. Md., will be buried at Oak Hill cemetery tomorrow after1 noon. The services win tie lield at the home with Lev. LicV.lider o.Ticiating at 2:30. ANDERSON TAKES ONE FROM WHITING fSPECIAL TO THE TIMES 1 ANDERSON. IND., Jan. 30 Anderson high school won from Whiting last night by a score of 43 to 42. Whiting led at the end of the first half, but after the loss of Vatr ar.d Thiessen because of injuries. Anderson forged ahead and won by a. narrow margin. The Whiting players wilf rest tonight and will play Ijipel high school to morrow nisi'.t--al-I!l. .

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Thsit M.'bael Ki-0 end Mfry Kiec. estranged husband nd wife, "hid b en living in Indiana Harfor at th same time for several months without either being aware of the prc:ene r.f the other uas shown yest-irdy v hen Mr. Ki-c's jttnrn'v, M. Havran. ("led a fiivo-cej rtfphln! for him' In ' b "TlnmTioivl i superior court, in which be rtatej thai I the woman v. as not a t-Mdcnt of thej state. J Court att'ehr". paid no particular t-j tentiotl to the new cojuplaint until In-; reeords cni" ow n irom i.n-i -nirt in the evening !-hovv ins that a divorce hnd been granted Mary Kiec TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL1 IN ULAN A POU S, J an. CO. The Supreme Court Today reversed the Lake Criminal Court in the ease of the four Toll est on hank robbers who were sentenced to death. The higher court directed the lower court to permit the men to withdraw their plea of guilty aud to tand new trial. OEFIAIlf TO LAST, A MYSTERY, MEETS HIS DEATH f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! OSS-'ININ'O. N. V.. Jan. 30 Defiant and smoking a cigarette. Cor-o:: Favvcett Hamby. the nerviest prisoner Sin; Sing has ever known, was electrocuted for murder last iiicrht and as his corpse lay upon the marble slak in the prison morgue today, the lip "vere still parted in the cynical smile which he wore as he was strapped in the chair of u ath. f.ne woman witnessed tit- execution. She was Mi:;s Nellie P.ly. a well known New York newspaper writer. It was the first time in more than twenty years that a woman had been allowed to witness an execution in ifing Sing. Hamby spurned spiritual consolation. He said he thought it would be out of place for a man who had led such a desperate career as his to "senk aid from heaven at the last minute." He also objected to wearing a. black shirt and when he was led to the electric chair, shortly inter eleven o clock by Warden Lewis f.awc and three assistants he was attired In a striped black and white shirt. "Good-bye fellows: I always try anything once," he .ailed cheerfully V, his fellows in the ilea t ii - house. To the very last Hamby refused to reveal Ins r-al name or tell anything of his youth, although he. confessed thet he had robbed thirteen hanks, held up two trains and part.cipated In three murders. CHIEF "WILLIAMS' TRIAL POSTPONED CROWN rOINT. IND., Jan. Si The trial of Folice Chief Thomas Williams, of East Chicago, accused of being an accessory after the fact to grand larceny, was continued to February ZZ, on account of the illness of the defendent who Is confined at his home. 4153 Northeote avenue. Last Chicago. C. B. Tink.ha.rn of Hammond, is at-

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IDATE S "LODGE OF SORROW. jgt - ? 1 t B. McCULLOCH. that very day on a complaint whi'ch was iilefj las; summer. A glane Jit Mary's bill showed that she a 'so h-i'l declared Michael to X.-3 a n-n-resident of the ;ia"e. They were married S-pteniber T. 1113. tcd separated April 15. 111". Michael rrl 5t d'werter liiit Teft ;t,r iiiidre; f,n hi." htm!'7. on' 4-)',iid died Inter and, the .1ier t ,1 r, o lvov m a 'liicago orphanage. He also ciccuses Lis wife of ha vine a violept t. riper and of throwing dishes ,-it liim-wheu in fits of ai-cr. Mary .'-"eccd cru--l m.d inhuman treatment, stitinc that, she hid been driver from hurio. SCHOOL TEACHERS OF THE STEEL CITY ' WANT MORE MONEY When the srhool board met in Gary yesterday evening, demands were made in the form of a petition signed by nearly every teacher in the city, asking for an increase in salary of $20.00 a month. The few that did not sign the petition were tho.'e who were ill with the fluenza. The petition asks for an increase of Z without regard to th- sum that is now drawn by the individual signers. It is brief and to the point. It merely ! recites the cost of living has gone up so high that an increase of saiary is absolutely necessary. The board was asked to consider the application favorably and to lave the j increase start with the he.-nuvng of I the second semester, on Monday, FebI ruary 2nd. GARY BARBERS TO Earbers in Gary are going to have bankers hours, at least that i tlio plan for the new moi-ninu working schedule. Seventeen boss- barbers in charge of shops on the soirlh side, south of Ninth avenue, have ajrrctd to opm thqir shops at 3 o'clock in the nioi'.iiifr instead of eight, -in compliance with a petition " resented by the barbers for a one hour shorter day. l.'nder the new plan, barbers will start their daily work at nine o'clock in the morning and work through until einrht o lock at nisht: with an hour off at noon and a half i hour for the evemntr meal. It. v,?. not iMrnf rl just when the- new plan will go into effect. WHO KNOWS FRANK LURRY? Some time ago the - Hammond Red Cross apked for i nfomir.t n whjcJi would lead to locating Frank Lurry. Miss Patterson says that as 'it fr-tte has' learned nothing about him. Information of importance is be in; held for h'm at the hcadq u a rt r : s a r, d she urges that any person who may give assistance should K' t i:i torn h vv.t.i her. LARSEN FUNERAL NEXT SATURDAY Through en error yesterday in the .article referring to tho death of M.ss j Anna Larson of Hammond the name was! (given as Iarkin, which has resiilu-d in.l a great cieal of confusion. The famjiy announces that the fureral will b he'd Saturday morninsr at 8 oVlo' k from All St-ints church in Hammond end the body v 11 be taten to M t. Olive cemetery at Chicago for b-uriaL

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Ruling Legalizes Horizontal Increases Ordered by Tax Board. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. .50. Holdin? th decision of the lower court to be contrary to law, the stale appellate court today declared invalid the injunction which prevenle3 Marlon county taxing orrtoi-iH from collcctinj taxes based on horif.QJnl Increases In assessments ordered by tho state ooard of tax commissioners. , This decision lias tho effect if l-ihzing horizontal Increases orderi every county of tho state. In a number of counties suits wera brought to enjoin the collection of ta.xes based on theso Increases. In Marion county, farmers living In eight of the nine townships brought suits to enjoin the collection cf these (ai.es. Judge Linn r. Hay or the superior court issued an injunction Dec. 5. Ey its provisions the horizontal increases could be certified to the county treasurer but they could not be collected by him. This prevented tho collection of ajiy taxes in Marlon county, although, undr the provisions of the law, tajkes ara payabia Jan. 1 of eaeli year. In rendering its decisiuu the court goes into detail concerning the rfsults of the inability of local authorities to collect taxes based on these Increases, holding that nearly every taxing unit of the state would as a consequence have insufficient funds to operate. "It is a matter of common knowledge that the oder of the state tax commissioners, the enforcement of which th appellees are seeking, is a part of the tenefal""order affecting every county In 'he st,3t and many of the taxing units in the several counties," says the opinion. The opinion was written by Judge McMahon. "If the contention of the appellees should be sustained," the opinion reads, "it means that the order is void, not only Insofar as it affects Washington township in Marion county, but as to every county and almost every- taxing unit in the siate, it means that property as-i-cased by the loi aJ tax officials w ill, as a rule, bo valued for taxation much below the true cash value, while the property assessed by the state tax board wi l be assessed at its true cash value? It means widespread litigation throughout the state groat curtailment of revenue for the state, county, town, township, schools, hospitals, roads, bond pajmonts, in fact for all purposes of government; irreparable injury and confusion in th collect ion of taxes and the breaking dowa of the revenue system for tho year." "Should tho decree of the trial jourt be sustained, it moans revenue, not only for state purposes, but for all local government will be depleted: that deficits of serious character will occur, that bond obligations will be defaulted, school terms cut short, roads neglected, methods for the protection of health and sanitation curtailed, and all processes of government, stale and local seriously interfered with. Confusion snd chaos in levying and collection of taxes will follow." The Injury suffered "by the appellees in the refusal to grant the injunction when (omparcd and balanced with the Injury to the public, should their injunction granted by the lower court bo. upheld, is not such as calls fcr or Justifies th court of equity in granting injunctive relief, the court contends. "It follows." the court concludes, "that appellees fhould be left to their legal remedy and that the decision of the court is contrary to law." WATCHES, KNIVES, SHOES AND COIN STOLEN BY BOYS After class hours at Central night school tiie young men attending there change from street dress into gym tojra find for an hour or two imbibe physical education in the gymnasium. Last night when the time came to go home four of theni discovered that someone had opened their lockers and stolen two watches and chains, two pocket knives, fi'c keys. 511 in money and a $12 pair r.f shoes. The young men who reported their losses to the po!ic are Clifford Withim, 100 r.ussell St.; Twrence Kimbrough, IIS Detroit st.: Edward Hobbs, 10 Rimbach ave.; and Leland Daenitz. 10S "Williams St. William Kaiser, aged sixteen. SOS Walter St., was arrested at his home by the police of Central station and is said to have admitted taking a chain and pockl t book. SERGT. YOIK FEARS NOT APPENDICITIS f INTERNATIONAL VrWS SEHVICE1 WORCESTER, MASS., Jan. 30 Although believed to be ill with appendicitis. Sergt. Alvin York, America.' famous "one man army." refused to submit to an operation in New England and U ft herr today for his nountaiti home In Tenhesse. i