Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 193, Hammond, Lake County, 3 February 1920 — Page 1
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'Alderman and RobertsdaleWil! Urge City to Preserve Region's Beauty Spot. i A number of Robertsdale's progressive iuzera with Alderman 'William Haraan us the sponsor are fostering a movement urging the cily of Hammond to v.:rchase a choice piece of ground for 1-i.clc purposes before the tract has been secured for industrial purpose?. IKCXiTJTJX OlOTX. Th proposed park would include the siovt -which lies opposite 116lh St., east r Wolf river. It will also include port.oicf the bottom of Wolf river and "arious parcels of land along the shore 3 to insure good boating and bathing 3 abilities. The tract consist of forty res of land and sixty acres of water, extending in a narrow strip about one , m le in length. In addition to boating "and bathing, there would be fishing. It js ena of the most- beautiful spots in this 1 K''on, having always been selected as s.r ideal place for picnics. XATUStAb BEATJTT SPOT. This id one of the natural beauty spots ,' the region and has been visited by Chicago people for more than fifty years. 1'. is an ideal place for a day's outing ml has not as yet been spoiled by industrial development. The time has come when the community must decide er.Uer to abandon Wolf Lake to the factories or to preserve it as a pleasure "place. Kobertsdale people are strongly In favor of holding factory development to strict limits and holding unspoiled the ratural beauties of the region. X AXE TKOWT CROWDED. Some have urged that the Lake Front Xark.ls sufficient for Robertsdile needs. .Alderman Ha man replies that the present park is already overcrowded a.nd is J-U'-ly to be reduced in size by the expanding needs of the Hammond water eystem. The alderman says: We must think of the coming r'n'Taliens and grasp this opportunity while V can, as with the rapid influx of manufK -luring establishments in this region the land will certainly soon, be gobbled til" STITCH VT WTO CHICAGO. Chicago has purchased! the Forest Retr. e in the near neighborhood of this tract, which means great possibilities as the property will gain In value. The Idea i to co-operate and preserve these fciity acres of water for pleasure. The proposed park will be on th new JV'Osevelt Drive, which is also being proposed and will make the finest vouleari system anywhere in this region, it taxing the dream of Henry S. Davidson. Munich every one who has heard of the frnovement hopes will be realised. (THE EOOSXVELT SKITS. The Roosevelt Drive is planned to prnnect the Lake George Drive with the r.hiea go boulevard system. In the Wetch of the tract the drive is shown (rnlering the Forest Reserve at 116th st. JL second proposed boulevard connects he Lake Front Tark at the northern end tof Calumet ave. with the Roosevelt J3rive. This second boulevard will run .leng the east bank of Wolf river and lav j ! t run to the north and west of the fne grove which lies opposite 116th TlY BE CUT OFF AT VLADIVOSTOK I r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 ' ASHINGTON". Feb. 3 War departhttnt officials were today seriously con lerned over reports that the Bolshevik armies have isolated Vladivostok and were apprehensive lest this would seriously delay the evaiuation of the American troops in Siberia. Official reports as to conditions were anxiously awaited. If the Bolsheviks have completely surrounded Vladivostok, it is believed here that American and Czecho-Slovak troops would either have to fight their way through or will be cut off from the port of departure for a long period. The war department is concerned lest the isolation of Vladivostok may mean battle between American troops rd the Bolsheviks for they pointed out that the troops which are drawing toward Vladivostok are no? properly equipped to give battle but are prepared practically for debarkation. Advices as to just how many troops J-.ave already reached Vladivostok are hieagre and it was stated today that it nay be that a large part of the American troops have already been concentrated in that port and if there are but a. few left in the Interior they may be rounted across country to some other port. I ' " EIGHT HURT CLEVELAND, O.. Feb. 3. Eight pcrIniis w ere seriously injured and n score j d! b.-uised !i ''i a liUKi' d o-ss--n- . ;er cur tollid'U with a baggage car near j .ron early this mornin
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hi n i Mi'i 11 111 IN AbbLooUKI i Aun nor i imcI ttllU lllL LII1L E. S: Tillman and W. E Startsman in Business at South Shore Rooms. Today the world is calling loudly for two types of man the fellow who! can impart knowledge to the know E. ?. TILLMAN ledge hungry and the fellow whp can render service in a business way to a service hungry public. Krnest S. Tillman, who for more' t' six years has been at the. head i of the hiologiral depart merit of theHammond hich school, has answered ihe call of business. Today, instead) j Y. E. ST.t HTSMAM of unfolding to the pupils of the Hammond high school the mysteries and wonders of plant life. Mr. Tillman is selling automobile tires and accessoiies. Why did F.rnest Tillman leave so noble a calling? Why did he finally decide, after much deliberation, to bid goodbye to teaching possibly for the rest of his life? Well, to get Conn to braes tacks, Krnest can make more (Coiiunutd on i'eg three.) G. H. JOHNSON WILL BE THE SPEAKER G. H. Johnson who succeeds George I'. Huls't as he ad of the International Lead Refining Company, will speak before the East Chicago Chamber of Commerce upon the activities of the company and will tell the members and all interested persons who attend many of the important points of interest concerning the company. Thi.-i will be the first talk of a number scheduled through which the Chamber of Commerce hopes to enlighten their members and the business men of the city upon the actual working: of the different plants in the Twin Cities. Mr. Ilult left the International Lead at th f.rst of the month to take a position in Chicago. He will be succeeded as works manager by O. M. Kuchs who is also works' manager of the Salt Ile City plant. Mr. Kurht will have his orfice at Salt Iake C.ty and will be represented in Last Chicago by G. II. Johnson. SIX DEAD FROM GAS POISONING! T INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI XEWAKD. N. J.. Feb. 3. Six men j were found dead from gas poisoning to-j 'ay in .- 1 0111 in a small Market st. j 1 Old. TV Co hollies ? 11: Oil'' boij. j lvo in an-iiiT bed. and one was upon a! cot.
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QTAnTCn fl OlAlxlUJ Ul Several New Sewers Authorized and Forsythe Gardens is Approved Preparations for the big spring drive on public Improvements were tviiiem-ed yesterday when the Hammond Board of Public Works authorized City Kngineer Hrid.iie to draw tdans a nd advert !.-e for btd on several important sewage projects. Discussion of pending improvements ninn of which appeared to Mayor Brown, who presided, to have been too long neglected, resulted in promises from the Board and the City Engineer that work would begin on them before another month pasred. The City Engineer was authorized to a.k for construction bids on an 18inch sewer in the alley south of 15Qth street from th center of Columbia avenue to the center of the firrt street east of Columbia: on a 15-lnch sewer in the alley between Stanton avenue and Davis from cented line of 115th street to the southerly line of Railroad avenue and on a 15-inch sewer In the alley between Davis and Stanton avenue, from line 18 feet south of center line of 114th ftreot to southerly linn of Railroad avenue. Other sewage projects arev expected to be advanced at the -next meeting of the Board. Th consideration of the Ttoard of Works accepting the platted Korsythe Water Gardens, the owner Henry 5. Davidson, agreed with demands of the Hoard that hp construct the following streets through the trt: Pnjamin Place. Haman Court. Roosevelt Drive, T'urton "ourt. Maiden Tine, Ptewart Court. Warwick avenue ami Caroline avenue. Work on 1 1 f I li street to th northward to b rnnu-llfd in 1!2n and to the seuth of ll?th street, not later th;in 1321. L WEDNESDAY P- M. l.ate on Monday evening the body of Miss Verna McAlcer was broug' to Hammond, accompanied by the parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McAWr. and sister. Mis Leoda. from Madison AVis., where death occurred early Monday evening. It was announced today that funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o"clock from the home and that the cortege will leave for Oak Hill cemetery at 2 :',j0 o'clock. Word of Miss Mc.Vleer's death cast a pall of sorrow over her many friends in Hammond for she was universally loved because of her kind, sociable and genial trails. Her remarkable spirit of determination ws demonstrated by the manner in which she fought off death for a week after physicians had declared her case hopeless. She first contracted influenwa from which pneumonia devloped later. Mr. and Mrs. McAleer were called to her bedside at once and remained there during the nine days of her illness. Two physicians and three nurses did everything in their power but the fiht was a losing one. It was said that a bacteria clot formed in the left lung, causing a hemmorrhage and that pleurisy followed. ROTHSCHILD. PRES. At a meeting of the board ofdirectors of the West Hammond Trust'' & Savings Bank, M. Rothschild of the Model Clothing Co., Hammond, was elected president and J. K. Stinson, Hammond attorney, vice president. Dr. W. D. Weis was elected second vice-president and Paul Michel wiser., cashier. The fifth member of the new board of directors will be Charles Myers. The new president takes the chair of the Alexander J Campbell, who recently died. According to the n-vc officers there will be no change in the bank's polii ies. DRIVERS OVERCOME BY GAS FROM MOTOR ! INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 MARION. Ind.. Feb. Z John B. Gagen, 4" is dead, and Schuyler Nye 54. if confined to the Grant county hispitat as a result of being overcome by b irnt gar from the motor of the aite.mohilo truck in which they were riding. Bfth men were found in the cab of the truck in an unconscious condition. Gagcn is survived by a w;fe and one .hilil. It is believe.! N : wiil die Are you teiciins The Tr-aF
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Only Two Boy Scouts Have Ever Faced Judge Norton
Judge E. Miles Norton of the Inke Juvenile Court at Crown Point gives sjme interesting s4 nii unrd 4rTiT ti experience with Bo-y tjcouts. The letter, address to Scout Executive K. S3. Daey of Hammond, follows: "I have your letter of January 22nd. concerning the juvenile d lmqueny among boys in Lake County, and the number of boys appearing as defendants in the Juvenile Court. "In reply will say that during the yesr 1?13. the Juvenile Court of Iakc County handled 1P5 cases filed against delinquent boys, and twenty-on cases filed against boys chargetj with con firmed truancy. Of this entire number only three ever belonged to the Roy Scouts, and they but for a short time. To my mind it is no mere accident that so few of the Hoy Scouts bne been mixed up in Juvenile delinquency. "Boys go wron'. not so much berausf they are inherently wicked, as hecausf they do not have developed wiihin then; the courage and strength of character to say no. Very few- boys brought before the Juvenile Court but th.it know what Is right for them to do and whnt is wrong. Any movement that assists to develop mental determination, and moral grit is desirable. Any instrumentality that guides restless, boyish energy into the riiiht channels is valuable. Roy Scout work does this. Many bov who have been brought Into court MILLER BEACH IS 10 BECOME GREAT PLEASURE RESORT Miller Beach, two and one-half miles cast of Gary, is to undergo a porcedure of improvement that will make it one of the finest pleasure and watering spots on the lake. This was decided at the regular meeting or the park beard In Gary last night. It is the desire of President W. P. Gleason to make improvements at Ut" lake front park with ample facilities for ;00.000 population. This includes the construction of a paved boulevard leading to the lake front and extending cast to the Porter county line. The establishment of a route for s street car line to the park. The immediate erection of a permanenbathing pavilion with adequate lockers, to eos in the neighborhood of J7.i.0000. The construction at once oT a parking space largi; enough to accommodate at least five hundred automobiles. GORMAN RITES TO BE THURSDAY The funeral of Thomas F. Gorman, who died -at Hessville will be held on Thursday morning at 9 o'clock from All Saints church. Through an error it was announced in yesterday's Time; that the funeral would be held Wednesday. FUNERAL WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Mary Thompson will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday from her home. ;s5 Michigan ave.. Hammond. Rev. Parrett will eifficiate. Burial will be made at 0;;k Hill. The f uro ra! a rrn n emen t are under the direction of Charles H. Stewart.
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Maru recently arrived at Seattle and bejfan discharsariri her carffo. The cargo consists of 5,705 balsa of have been assisted In a desire to square MiemseUes by joining the Scouts. . ."The . association -formed with the class of boys that form the Scouts, and the help of thee Scoutmasters has not only kept many boys from, going wrong, but has assisted the juvenile au'horiurs in this county to reclaim a number of them who have started wrong. "The influence of the Roy Scouts is toward building real men. morally, physically and spiritually. If a r--nl man is worth Ten Thousand Dollars to the nation, state and community, and if each bum is a liability of at leat Fire Thousand Itollars, who shall re kon the worth in dollars of Roy Scout work? Roy Scout work keeps the lads physi..ally and morally clean, and prepares 1 hem for honest and honorable service and usefulness, therefore it will be of interest to every business man and employer of this county, though they may hsie no sons -of their own: every tax payer will be interested because the vork tends to turn potential community liabilities into community assets; min-i-tirs. priests ami churches will be in-;e-.-sted becalse it contributes something at leat to the sum total of moral and spiritual uplift: each and every one of us will be interested because it tends to make our home happier, our community better, and our country greater. '"Tours with best, wishes for the Boy Scout movfiiKnt. here and everywhere. E. MILES XilRTOV." PLANTS ASKED TO AID CENSUS Phineas M. Kent, supervisor of the census, believes that there are still a large number of people in the Calumet district who have not been enumerated and who can not be reached by the usual enumerating methods. He has also come to the conclusion that the best way to reach every pers-on is through the industries of the region. In order that every person may be enumerated and the cities and Industries therein may receive the benefits of the larger cnumration, Snpervjfon Kent is asking that all manufacturers, merchants and business men help in the enumeration by making sure that all of their employe." hahe been enumera ted . Persons who have not been cnumer. ated should be reported to SupervisorKent at room 111, First National Bank Building or pnone 4?3. Hammond. ANOTHER HONEST LAD IS LOCATED The son of Lave E mery of the Lake County Savings and Trust company, yesterday found' a purse containing a gold witch and a set of gold soldier buttons in a oiici on Carroll street across the alley and opposite the Post ro3M sto-e. The artirles were, turned over to the police of Hammond Central station. TRIP WAS HALTED John Ko;tn. 12 years old. tCil Fred street. Whiting, was captured yesterday at Urn Hammond ear barn.". He had just completer! the first lap on his journey to the 'wild and v.voty west." Probation officer Evans of Whiting will take- John awav from Hammond ntiiil slrftioii teiday and return him to Ix.s home.
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X) 9 H if -'X,- 'c'. . y .-c: s.v - .o -. raw silk valued at $11,500,000. The silk will be shipped to silk plants in the U. S. for finishing. TOOL SHEDS BORN AT REAR OF NEW HAMMOND THEATRE A loss of approximately $600 waj incurred this morning by the Danner Construction company when two blaies destroyed the pumping hous and tool shed ereeteei in the rear of the Mode clothing Co. store and adjoining the site of the new theatre now under construction in Hammond. The first fire was discover" at 7.30 in the pumping house. Firemen from Central Station extinguished the blaze after the building ha dbeen partially destroyed. The fire iff said to hae been caused by a red hot stove which upset when the floor settled after the. ground underneath slipped into the adjoining theatre .excavation. When the stove fell a gas main burt and it is believed that escaping gas was the cause also of the .'".fond fire which brought men from Central fire station to the scene a second time at about S;30 o'clock. A restaurant at 32 State street was cut off by the broken gas pipe and remained closed all day. !! Hill E. CHICAGO ATTACK Some mystery Is attached to the beating un of Peter Skouras yesterday on Chicago avenue in East Chicago ! about half past three. He was found by Mr. Seifer of the Seifer Furniture Company lying in front of the store on the sidewalk while two men were seen to have run from the spot. Mr. Seifer placed a chair in the entrance to tha store anel helped the injured man on to it. Examination by Dr. G. W. Miller show-i! the leg to be broken in two places. ! Peter Matales. 311 State street. Ham mond, who was identified as one of the two assailants, when arrested claimed that he acted onl j-in self defense after Skouras had tried to choke him. The other assailant has been identified a? a Gary man. but has not yet been placed under arrest. Skouras lives at 4818 Tod avenue. East Chicago, and says he is at a loss to explain the attack. He is now in St. Margarets hospital. BETZ BUYS TRACT IN EAST CHICAGO An industrial tract comprising approximately ten acres, lying northeast of the intersection of White Oak ave. and Hist st.. East Chicago, has been purchased by Frank R. Betz. a Hammond real estate man, from a Chicago syndicate for $10,000. The price is considered by realty ex perts to be quite low in view of the wonderful industrial future of factory sites in that district. Mr. Betz expects to hold the tract until it can be disposed of for industrial purposes. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PARIS. Feb. 3. The. council of ambassadors today discussed Poland's request for re-inforeements against the Russian bolsheviks. The French favored the sending of troops, bit the B'-itioh. opposed it. No t'efinit e dc ision was reached and the request will again be cons.drerj at the meeting on Friday.
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Says Strenuous Measures Were Necessary to Combat Manufacturers Reputation rtNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.. Feb. 3 Sounding "Americanism" as the keynote of the defense. Judge James O. Murfln fired his opening broadside today in behalf of Senator Newberry and his 122 co-defendants charged with vote frauds, by launching an open attack on Henry Ford and his peace propaganda. After citing the war situation in Europe when the Newberry versus Ford senatorial contest was on, a time when the German armies were thirty miles from Paris and the fate of the civilized world was hanging in tho balance. Judge Martin declared: "Rightly or wrongly, many peopla remembered Henry Ford's campaign against being prepared for this awful catastrophe. They remembered his well meant but misguided efforts to bring about what now appears would have been a German peace. They remembered that he was not active In tha war and that none of his family had become so. And so remembering, thera was a very general feeling that Mr. Ferd did not represent the type of American who at that critical Juncture should represent that state In th U. S. senate." MiWBERRrS RECORD. Judge Murfln then detailed Senator New-berry's war record, recalling that his brother and two sons Were In tha naal service, and that the senator him self, as a lieutenant commander in the navy, entered the race against Ford, "with reluctance and after repeated urging" and following the determination that it was his duty to do so." Admitting that the Newberry campaign organization was highly organized and even terming it "the most per-fee-t political organization ever put together." Judge Murfin held that tbl was necessary under the circumstances. FORD BEST ADVERTISED. "It was necessary because Commander Newberry was running against the best advertised man in America." lie hurled at the judge and jury. Entering a complete denial that Senator Newberry contributed money to his campaign fund. Judge Murfln asserted that "not one dollar of his money was ever handled by anyone." anel the Newberry backers, he declared, "wer prompted not by ray. but by patriotism, not by avarice, but by Americanism." REVIEWS CHARGE. At beginning of his address Judge Murfin described in detail the offenses with which Senator Newbrry and his political retainers are charged. He made the point that under the Michigan law, so long as campaign expenfes come within eleven numerated classe sin the district statute there Is no limit as to the amount of money that committees may spend in behalf of candidates. "Before I am through." he said, "I will point out to you everything that was done by anybody connected with this campaign. I want to impress upon you that this campaign was an unusually hot one and in analyzing wht these respondents did the atmosphere under wi ch they did It must be considered." NEW REALTY AND LOAN FIRMS ARE SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! WHITING. IND.. Feb. 3 The International Realty Co. and the International Savings and Loan Association have opened up for business In a very attractive one story brick building erected for this purpose on 119th street, adjoining the Slovack Hall. The officers of both companies are men of foreign extraction, who have had a long residence and business prom inence in Whiting. The officers for the Realty Company are: President, Michael Kozacik; vice president, Andrew L. Baran; treasurer. Joseph Tapajna; secretary. Andrew N. Witko; manager. John H. Pillisi. The Realty Co. has a capitalization of $25,000 and will deal In real estate. Insurance and fo reign exchange. The officers for the Savings and Loan Association are: President, Miciiael L. Kozacik; vice president. Andrew L. Baran; treasurer. Joseph Tapajna; secretary and attorney, A. N. Witko. The Savings and Loan has an authorized capital of $500,000, with shares at $100 each, payable either In cash or installments of $1.00 each. Attorney Wilko connected with the new concern has been in the office of Attorney T. Joseph Sullivan since coming to Whiting about two years ago.
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BERLIN, Feb. 3. More than 10i ulleged Bolsheviks have been arrested .n a series of raids in Berlin suburbs during the past 48 hour?. In one laid tii' so'dieis anel police seized fivearmy tru-.-k loarls ol literature and fighting material. V