Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 192, Hammond, Lake County, 2 February 1920 — Page 1
THE WEATHER TCT, LNDIANA ralr tonlffht and Tuesday! colder Tuesday.
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T PART OF BLUMENTHAL SHOE STOCK Four Trunks From E. Chicago Store Found in Alley By Police. New developments in the- B'.umtnthal bankruptcy proceedings came to light Saturday night when John Laptak who Uvea at 3327 Cedar street. Inc aria Harbor, notified the pollea that 1 had seen four trucks in the alley :.ecn Cedar and Pai-h streets near 13iih street when he was on Lis way frome from a dance. SHOES WEREN'T MATES The police foun.I the trunks and Upon examination at the .nation they tiusl them to be filled with shoes. The shoes had apparently been thrown !r.to the trunks in a hurry or the trunk had been rifled because none c' the shoes seemed to mate. The case of the disappearance of . rl trunks or merchandise from . . . . 1 i til..,,, . . . K -i 1 ht -i ! ailed and lnvestitat;--n showed. 1: At the four trunks filled w ith shoes v Sr.rrp of the lot wh'ch had been from the store in an effort to t' .e something whn bankruptcy was j r ".iar1. Rlumenthal had stated t: i: the .trunks were stored in a buiid i i' z on Biock avenj- but that befoi-s j ) bad been able to get them for Unit- i e l States Commissioner Surprise, wh- j -" is appointed receicr th" trunk., i 1 si been taken out, presumably bi j i' ?nds who hoped to h"'p the propri- j (lVMOU A I.I. ! soon after the trunks w-e found, j anonymou can was rece'.eo ov ; police saying that It. J. Blumen- j '! and Fred luennan had mad" a' sements to take the trunks away r- : i r v i t - u ) truck b"t that the trunks were overed btfore tlie truck could arNn explanation of why the ika were left in the alley awaitthe arrival of the truck has been found. Hlumenthal and his eon are tinder K n is of 2.non eat b to appear at the Federal building. Hammond, whenever ..imoned. Refree Sheridan will arr' ie in Hammond Tuesday afternoon 1- complete the investigation ordered In- Judge Anderson. Poiice of the :ast "Ch!ar" W?Toir r working "on tl. case under the direction of Capta n Kd. O'Donnell. TU ASK CHANGE OF VENUE: FEAR PUBLIC OPINION ; Themas if. Batchlor. Albert C. Batjafh'lor, James H. Tarker and Dan Trk'pija. the four Toleston bank bandits sentenced to death for the cold murifier cf bank cashier. Herman Vecker liii a bold daylight robbery last summer have again escaped the electric i-ast week tlie Puprem Court of Indiana reversed the decision of the Iake county criminal court sentencing them t'i death. They will he permitted to w thdraw their pleas of guilty and unUiergo a new trial. i The ground on which the supreme !nurt based its derision was that the (murders of Herman Ueker were not! J represented by counsel when they made! tueir plea of guilty before Judge Smith ft the Iake criminal court and that a jury was not empaneled to receive their plea. The bandits will now be brought Tao kto Crown Point for re-arraign-o..n fri.frt.fl tKa erlmtnal r..n.- Tl, . ',. , . ' viii wiwiaraw me pieas or guilt maue when first arraigned and will plead rot guilty. The court will grant them a new trial and the n-tx step it is aid will be an application of a change fvenue from Iake county. The four bandits are said to be very much afraid of public opinion in the county in which the foul murder was committed. 1.1 iiiiitl RESTAURANT DREW THE COLOR LINE INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 James D. Cooke, Negro, today filed t rait in the Gary superior court against Jdike, Paul and Tom Kallas. owners of the American Restaurant Co.. at Ham-' ttiond, for $5,009 because he alleges they Xrfused to serve him in their restaurant jn account of his color. FORMER HAMMOND MAN "FLU" VICTIM AL J. Broi. of Chicago, formerly of Hammond, died Saturday, January 31. t the Washington Park Hospital. Chicago. Mr. Broz had been ill with the influenza which developed into j-neumonia causing his death. The deceased is 33 years old and a son of Mr. end Mrs. Henry' IeGrand. of IS" Truman avenue. He leaves a wife. Mrs. Alice Broz, two sisters. Miss Bessie Bros and Mrs. W. E. Voight, arid a brother Rudolph Broz, all of Chicago, nd mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. J.eTrand to mourn his loss. The bur--,i will be made from th retnUcncv CiUc;ia.
Johnson County Man is Candidate for Auditor
William G. 01irr of Franklin, announces that h- will !. a candidate for the men ii.il ion for Auditor of the state of Indiana before the Uet.nh):- : can convention. His t.esponso lias l iif f with an enthusia.-t .. r spn.-M I rem Republicans of Johnson county XL G i :- c. s 31 --r - ' a WILLIAM c oLnc.n and plans will soon be made by his many friends at home to help h!m rea i I f is ambition. Mr. Oliver has never been a candidate for office, outside of Johnson Co. In 1J09 he secured the nomination for mayor of Franklin and received the Ground Hog bignal ror Fruit Sale Xever mind, folks, even if the 5farir.ota Monax (that's what "Webster calls nim) did come out the morning and K-:sten back to his lair again, here is M' 'f compensating news tliat no woodiuck or ground hog s shadow can efMayor TtrAvn is preparing for bij crowd. on the occasion of the government fruit sals which opens Thursday morning at Central fir station. It will winter which the ground hog has promised us, so better prepare with plenty of pineapples, peaches, apple butter, and ' tiler canned delicacies of the good old summer t'm. POPULAR HAMMOND GIRL DIES TODAY Hammond people w-ere shocked this morning to hear of the death of Miss Verna McAleer, daughter of Attorney and Mrs. W. J. McAleer. at Madison, Wisconsin, where she has been attendingthe University of Wisconsin. Her death was caused by pneumonia which dveeloped a week ago Saturday after she had been sick for only a few days with influenza. Attorney and Mrs. W. J. McAleer went to Madison as soon as they received word that the disease had developed into pneumonia and remained with her until Friday when Mr. McAleer returned to Hammond. She seemed much Improved Saturday, but took a change for the worse Sunday anddied early this morning. Mr. and Mrs. McAleer and Miss I.eoda were at 1A h.l B il. T. - h a n a a n V. An.... --..I t Miss Verna was born In Hammond on the 8th of May, 1S99. and was the second of three children. She graduated from the Hammond high schopl in 1917. spent a year in school at Bos ton and last fall entered the I"niversity of Wisconsin with a number oft other Hammond iris. She was spec ializing in the course of Home Economics. She leaves a host of friends, both in Lake County and among the students of both institutions which she The body will be brought to Hammond this ever lag and the funeral will be from the home Wednesday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock. nil or linn aim CARNIGiE MEDAL FOR SAVING MAN Littlo aware were the many friends of I Clarence I,abaii of the Uelvidere Restauat 5" ' Wat-,lInton 3t" t:,,r'' thal he was a hero, Saturday he was the recipient of a check for $1"01 along with a Carnegie, Hero Medal from the Carneg Hero l'u nd at Carnegie. Pa. Tho citation camo as a result of a heroic rescue whic'i occurred nearly tl-. ice years ago when laba;i was cmployed at Bethlehem. Pa. According to the story, he descended on a rope into a gas main. 150 fee1 below the piirf.vo of the street and pulled out of the maJn a worker who had been overcome with gas fumes. I.abaii carried th; victim up the rope with him. It was an extraordinarily strenuous ordeal and by the tune Labaii reached the street love with his victim he was exhausted and in need of medical -aid himself. $2GO,000 FIRE f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! GOSHEN. Ky.. Keb. Damage caused by tire w h' h destroyed the St. Elmo hotel ., n, a business leo-k licxij was c-.-i.iua ted tudaj i Iluu.OU'J.
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largest majority ever given a candidate for that office. He served an ii:aor fur four years and made. a splendid record as1 such. He is an anient believer In the 'Vijuare deal" for everyone regardless of the'ir wealth or social standing. In 1914 he was drafted by Johnson ciunty Republicans to make the race for repre.-mntative in the state legislature and here again his vote-setting-ability was demonstrated In the returns, when he ran more than two htin ired and fifty votes ahead of his ticket. It will be remembered that the Kepubltoan vote was divided that year and had this not been ao he would tio doubt have been elected in a county whoje Iiemocratlc majorities run around seven hundred. As to bis plans for the conduct of bis campaign, Mr. Oliver will begin at once to build up an organization in each congressional district of Indiana an-d he will do this by personal visits anil not by letter. These organ utions will later be extended to each county in the districts and as much of this preliminary work had been arranged before his announcement was made, he it now well on the road t J his goal. Johnson county people rcrard him as their candidate, and an. Oliver club is already being planned which will endeavor to carry the news of hs splendid qualities and sterling honest-
-,y to every voter in every precinct of Indiana. This club will not limit it membership to Hepubiicana, as already scores of Democrats have expressed a desire to help and when given a worthy objective. Johnson countv has a knack for getting what it .roes afier. It wax learned through authentic Information thl morning that the ntlonnl Tube Work will (art the erection of the monster CJary Tube Works during the present year and that plans have already been made to have the flrvt unit of the plant In op eration by the first of next year. The
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borJiood of-25JM)0.0t. .Inst nhfn ground will tif broken for the big project hns not been learned, bat It is snld In the near future. The proposed tinry Tnbe Works will be the biggest Institution of Its kind in the world and when completed will employ thousands of additional men. G ry haa been eager to bear of some definite news as to the possibility of the erection of the monster plant for yrnrs and the best Information today has It the plant Is now a reality. CHICAGO HOSPITAL Mrs. r,us Hugo died at the Washington Hospital in Chicago this morning about six; o'clock of pneumonia which developed from influenza. She had been sick only a short time. An infant die dat birth yesterday about noon. The body will be brought to Hammond tomorrow and will remain at the family residence at 80(t Alice stheet uni til funeral arrangements are made. r UIU1 III 1 nj;riiiriiiB at uruifj uift .jew until the arrival of Mrs. Hugo's sister from Pittsburgh. J. DIED EARLY TODAY Mrs. William J. Thompson died this morning at her home, 285 Michigan ave., Hammond, at 6:45 o'clock. She had resirlert in ltnmmfind far fhirtv-orie vcars I Kuneral arrangements have not been completed. Mrs. Thompson was born In Prague. Austria. April 21, 1865. She came to America when she was four years old. The family lived st Cleveland and later came to Chicago. Immediately after her marriage to Mr. Thompson in 1SS9 they moved to Ha.mmond. living first on Hohnian St.. and la'er moving to Wolf Iako. She eaes the husband, one daughter. Lillian.' two sons, Clarence, 7-'; State Uine St.. Hammond, nnd William, at home. Two sisters, a brother anil two ra ndch i ldren also survive. THIEVES BREAK INTO TOOL HOUSE G. O. E11U?. 104 Clinton street. Hammond, reported to the police of Central station that last night someone i broke tlie lock of the door of the Mon. on railroad tool house, Juet north of the Michigan Central railroad tracks, and stole one satchel containing bolt dies valued at $75: another ."atchel. containing pip" dies valued at JS and other tools w ith a total value of $22. TEDDY SOULOUS IN NEW YORK Theodore Poulous the popular candy man, has gone to New York via Detroit and Cleveland, on important business.' He will be gone about two weeks. -Mr. Soulous? lias made some recent investments w 11 change the c UUiie noticeably. in Hammond that it s business man
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MiOft MAN IS FATALLY BURNED IN LOTH GAS Clothes Ignited As She Attempts to Extinguish Fire in Paper.
Mrs. J. E. Cutting of 3R01 Ivy st.. well -Known in Indiana Harbor circle?, was so bfidly burned while attempting to light a gas range yesterday murnir.s in preparation of the noon mr-al. that she died at 7 o'clock last evening at he Mercy hospital in Clary. Th accident took place filioiit 11 'clock v.inie Mr. (utling i'lid the lour-y ir-old da ugh t.-r, Yvonne, were at churth. A four-months-old babe was in the house. A neighbor hrrried to the house after hearing the V aan scream and a description of Uk horrible happening was given by her. It as a spark from a match that set fire to ...mc paper nearby and in her attempt to put out the bia;-e ;-!io had not noticed that a spark had als,o caught her light lintse drcs, and she was in flames before aid could bo i : utr.tnoned ana was tou-id in the bed (where she had sought best to extinguish ilhe fames. The husband was k nt for ,,,ni. ru,,.,J to ,ho ho.Ua,, Mrs. Cutting was but twenty-five years of age and a resident of Indiana Harbor for more than four yerrs, corning from Joliet with her husband who took up employment at the Inland mill under l. Oarliti. The remains will be shipped to Joliet this afternoon wi.h church s rvice and interment in that city. Th bereaved husband has the sympathy of the entire public in bis great affliction. JUVENILE OFFICER TAKES CHARGE 0 C Bl rj Henry Pa use y. age sixteen, ?53 ., in whose possession the police found the bulk f the artfcles, consisting of ! two watches, knives, a flashlight, a pair of shoes and cash, which were taken from the lockers of students at Contra! school Thursday night. w""s turned over to Juvenile Crncer Iew -is." Three other boys who were paid to have been impiim'tne eacsac wvrc released on , frrobattoft. ! Other cases heard in the Hammond ! police court were: j arl Anderson, nog-farm operator from Blsmark, Mo., charged with puri basing a stolen automobile, was transferred to Crown Point to await trial in criminal court. Tfie cases of Toney Walepa, 1128 Co - lumbia ave., and James PettsaJiots. 575 fields ave.. loth charged with conducting a blind pig, were continued to Feb. 7. The case of Joe Webber, 320 Ash St., charged with keeping a vicious dog, was continued to Feb. 7. Bl T 1 The Hammond otiico of the United States Free Employment Bureau is now closed awaiting the action of either the state bureau or the city council or both. The resignation of H. J. Derner, the former employment agent, became effective Saturday and today the ofilee was not open. Mr. Derner beginning his employment with the General American Tank Cur Corporation today. Some action toward choosing a new employment agent or toward closing the bureau is expected at the council meeting tomorrow night. It is expected that the state bureau will recommend some Hammond man or men for the position and tiliow the council to make the llnal selection, since tho city pays half the j expenses of the office. No word from i the state- bureau has yet been received. VIOLENT QUAKES OF EARTH WERE RECORDED TODAY f INTERNATIONAL NtWS SERVICEl CHICAGO. F b. 2 The nioit violent death disturbances in many months have been In progress since 5:42 a. m. this morning. At taht hour the seismograph at the University of Chicago observatory began recording what observers described as "the most violent oscillations" recorded this year. The disturbances still iontinue but the distanie has not yet been estima I teil although b .iieved to b , cons id eraide. i: bi t mt ai.aioiim;." WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 Violent disturbances w ore indiate! on tlie sejsmograph at the Georgetown j j,;, v be ; n r. in -; ;t J:2f thi V'niver1 1 or n i n; ;1nd eont itmit-.r;. until ;:i5. ; I Father Torndorf. of the Georgetown' University,, one of the fi.rnn .t c-! perts on earthquakes and similar dis-j turbances, stated that the seismograph records today showed disturbances ! greater than any registered for many! months. I '"fie disturbances are severe but I should not say alarming." Father Torn' dorf said. "This is the tim.- - the w in - I I er m.mlht-.M' .en tiie li.vu '.o .1 , . 'ten t't ' turbant are -i.pt to oicur."
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C0RP0R 'A . ? ALEXAJSDEB. The funeral cf Alexander McDonald Graver was held this afternoon at Z o'clock from his home, 3911 Iongwood blvd.. Chicago. Burial was in Mt. Hope cemetery. Thirty-five automobile loads of employes of the Fast Chicago plant 1 jot the Graver Corporation attended thy ' i hr i servict-s. Mr. Graver was born May Z, 1SS3. Tfe graduated from t!e Knglewood high i scnooi m lawi ana ui'ii spent, m e years th I'ni' rsit y of .Michigan, com
The Attitude of Capital Towards The Present Cost Of Building Operations
Where wiU the money for Hammond' 1?C0 building campaign come from? What is the attitud of capital toi wards the present high cost of building i operations? te rj tho eve of what promises to be Hammond's biggest building year, a discission of these vital Questions, as given by A. M. Turner last week on the occasion cf the good fellowship dinner by the Builders Employers Association to representative of the various building crafts, is deemed of interest to the community and excerpts from the speech of the banker are subjoined. Opening his remarks, Mr. Turner said: I esteem it an honor as wel las a great pleasure to be a party to this most important gathering of men. Tho subject assigned me, "The Attitude of Capital Towards the Present High Cost of Building Operations." In attempting to discuss this subject I deem it proper that I first seek to reveal to yoii the secret as to who this mysterious being is whom we call the "capitalist." from whom we are going to try to extract the million or so dollars which we wish to invest in homes in this city this season. Is he among the dozen or so men in this city who are credited with being worth from $250, "0 to, say, $fi00.000? Is he among the fifty men in this city who are credited with being worth from $50,000 to $150,H'0 each? Is he among the numerous individuals supposed t be worth from JIO.OhO to $25.000 each? N! In but a few instances does he belong to any of these classes, for most of such are borrowers themselves in conducting their own business enterprises or have their means Invested In business buildings, homes, vacant property or personal property more suitalde. with them mortgage in
As Usual, He Started Something Immediately
CHAPTER I. Last night Police uffieer Charles Carlso noiled his Joints, bought a new p.iir of tiovts, polished his shoes a little more carefully than at any time j during the past month, and then stepped j out. It was the beat fir Officer Carl-! son for one month. His shift as patrol i utiv -i r was over and he was a stre. t ' man now. j CHAFTEB Tl. It is 4:r,0 a. in. A policeman stand'- j on the cuniir at State and Hohman. j .Through tlte vinaiy blackness a ba.kr j truck roils up to the curb and a man ..lights. "Much obliged for thendr." he shouts after the disappearing tntt-k. The man Suddenly a him. it.-irts dow n Hohman street. policeman looms up before
Lr-ah-hu. idee morning th;-," as he ; Accompanj irtg the verdict, was a recomaffyi'i v g'o.-ts the oil jeer. J meinial ion that the court exercise) as "flight ou arc." answers the equally ; much cb money as possible, owing to the affable policeman. "Nice m-rning for! belief of the jury that the I. W. W. or-
i cp.. but a bad morning for crooh.5. Come here'" CHAPTE3 HX Hammond Central poiice station. Desk Sergeant See writes into the big book: "Will Orn. 7525 Eans ave., Chicago, III. Age 21. Arrested coi n. r Sia'e and 1 11, .l,m 'in bv Oltlier I at SOO loilfj.! on
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t f, , i 5 'i h f. UcDONALD GEAVIR. pleting the mechanical engineer's course. His first work at the plant in Fast Chicago was engineermir on plant equipment. Iater lie became successively purchasing agent and sales manager. On January 1 of this year he was elected ilce president ard assistant g neral manager of the corporation. He leaves a wife and two small daughters, hi a mother, four brothers and two sisters. He was a member of Normal Talk A. Y. & A. M.. Oriental consistory ami Mcdmah Temple. vestments are not popular for various reasons. Is it the Marshall Field estate, the P.ockefclier interest, or others of this class who are seeking to invest their surplus in Hammond mortgages? No! Belief cannot come to us from this class for with them mortgage loan investments are not popular for the reason that each individual case requires close scrutiny, together with other natural objections which are selfevident. Then, who Is this CAPITALIST, from whose bulging purse must flow- this torrent of money to meet our increased building requirements for this and the veers to lol'ow? Who is this mysterious bloated money bag? I will tell you who he is. You know him well. You have rubbed elbows vith him, you have shared your lunch with him in the factory shop or railway yards. You meet hint daily as a clerk in the offiie or shop You see him selling newspapers on tn street. He belongs to that army of plain people whom Lincoln - said: "God must have loved for He made so many of them." How is it possible that such as he could meet the city's vast building requirements this year! There are probably ten thoisan-l wpge earners in this city with in average annual income under present conditions of about $i0.00, each or an aggregate of JO.oon.oao. Now eleven per cent of this vast sum equals $100 per month for each person or in a sum total of $1,000,000, and this about equals the sum which annually goes into the savings accounts of the banks bjhI the Building t Loan Associations and thence to the building of homes (Continued on page eleven.) cents in ca.h Held on charge of carryJitig concealed weapons and suspicion.' And there ends the Carlson's first night. tale of Officer JURY DECIDES if II I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I TACO.MA, Wash.. Feb. 2. After flftyeichL hours deliberation the Jury in the ; ctso of thirty-six alleged I. v. W. i charged with criminal syndicalism late l.-il night returned a verdict of guilty. , caiitzation was on trial and not its in 1,1,1 iTLjl The defendants were all arrested at Tacoma shortly after the Centralia Armistice Day murders. Take The Times and 'keep la 12lOU.il WUU uS V'UliU.
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DEMOCRATS OF INDIANA
PATHETIC Still Showing .Little Interest Although Primary Is Only 3 Months Away ! iviidvD aivis iv nvaang s3tU l.N'LMANAPOMS. Ind.. F"b 2. Aithough the primary election is only three months away tlie "Democratic party in Indiana haa not excused itself from an absolute state of lethargy. It was believed that the letters f that party would stir up some semblance of activity during- January, but nothing of much Importance developed. The fact that none of the old wheel hordes in the party could be induced to seek the governorship la being' tak. en as an admission of defeat in November. Charles A. Greathouse looked the ground over very aerioualy. There was no doubt that he wanted to make the race if there was even a remote chance of winning. Wizen the time came that some one would havi to get in the race Mr. Greathouse decided to stay out. ; After a fruitless attempt to get SamTialston to again peek the head of thr state ticket the organization settled unon Dr. Carleton B. MrCulloch, o3 Indianapolis, a man widely known irr medical circles, but virtually unknownin politics. The doctor atarted im the "fight" with a blanket attack on the present administration in hif speek at Hammond. If he uncovered any support by that speech the fact has net been registered here. According to brief announcements, there are two other Democratic candidates for governor John Iaenbarf-c-r of North Manchester and Mason J. Ni black of Vincennes. They are merely -also running." That is all that can be said of the campaigns so far. Hut as1 an Illustration of the fact that the party is completely up a' stump, it is merely necessary to mention the senatorship situation. Thos. Taggart, U Ert Slack and Thasi Marshall have all been regarded as the probable candidates. Yet none of them seem to have any inclination to make the race.' . It isTiow'p.-MWn,1j Tb1h -rapt resorTThe' parVy Willdraft sime unknown person to be tb go it. FORMER TIMES BOY KILLED IN BATTLE A few years ago a bright chubby-faced lad was olflce boy of the Gary Evening Times. When America got into the war the youngster enlisted in the regulars, was assigned to Company F. 23rd Infantry, and was soon sent to France. Every now and then members of Th Times staff would get a card or a letter from the young soldier In France and always there was a request for a fewcopies of The Times. One day in June, 1918. there came letter all mutilated, and only the first lines remaining. That was the last letter that ever came. Its mutilation was sigj iiiiicant it suggested that it might have been dropped on the battlefield. But no trace of the youngster was revealed In the daily casualty lists. His absence became one of the mysteries of the war. THE MYSTX1Y SOLVED. Yesterday the truth came to light. Those who read the Chicago Sunday Tribune may have read a brief Washington dispatch which was as follows:. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 31 Research of war department American expeditionary force records shows Privates Claude Derrick, 709 Eighty-first St., Chicago, and Walfred Nygord, Foster, Mich., as killed in action. Claude Derrick was really George Tot; tie, who used to live with his parents on Ridg road, near Broadway, Gary. At one time he worked at the American Sheet & Tinplate Co. During the war young Petrto's parents moved to the Eighty-first St. address in Chicago. When young Tetrie enlisted, for torn reason he went into the army under the name of Derrick. STUDENT OP &ET. XATSZB. As a boy, young Petrie was a communicant of St. John's Evangelical church in Tolleston. The pastor of the church, the late Rev. Edmund Kayser. took an interest In the lad and procured him a position on The Times. Pastor Kayser. as ho was known, will be remembered as the victim of a strange tragedy fn his rectory four years ago when he wis mysteriously assiasinated, supposedl for his war view s. Young Petrie felt grieved that Pastor Kayser favored the German rather than the allied cause when the war opened in 1914 and in 1915 when the clergyman was slain It was the belief of the boy that the pastor incurred the enmity of aliens In Gary who were proally and that they kilbiJ him. Because of his honest bearing and Ms quaint sayings young Petrie wee very popular with the staff of Thb Times. SAY NOTHING OF WILSON'S PLANS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON', Feb. 2 Officials at the White House today stated they knew nothing of the reported plans of the president to go to a North Carolina resort for recuperation. For the past week there have been very definite intimations that the president might take a trip to a nearby resort, but Dr. Grayson has steao lastly declared that any such plans are altogether indefinite.