Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 194, Hammond, Lake County, 4 February 1920 — Page 1
"Do a Good Turn Daily" Ask a Boy Scout He Knows THE WEATHER ton II)IAA Cloudy tonight Thursday fair and warmer. X2TTXBVATXOITAX, NEWS rVU LEASED WIU SERVICE. Oa streets a4 mewaataaaa. per oop 7. SeUTered ny carrier lm Hammond ana West JUmaukl, 60s per monta. VOL. XIV, NO. 194 , WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1020. HAMMOND, INDIANA.
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OBJECT 10 PRESENCE OF PUIS U.S. Aviators Already Instructed to Quit Landing Across Border. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4 The Mexican pnvernmfnt has prepared a strong note protesting to the I. S. against the "ret -ateel landing- of American aviators i on Mexican territory," according to .;ting Foreign Secretary llilario Me-.-na. The note is to be sent to Washington some time toijay. It was learned that the note is couched in vigorous terms and that it points -t that within one week 'o ; r American airmen landed south of the Interi.. -tonal line. The note states that th" iator "could not giv..- anj satist'aci ry exn'anation as to why tlity had ' .- is rieri on Mexican soil." i"he note asks the V. S. to compel Vneriean aviators to stop landing in ..'exico or tear it might cause trou1 ie. HVE ORDKHED IT STOPPED. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 Army aviators have been given instructions not to reconnoiter over Mexican territory, it. was stated at the war department today. The proposed protest of the Mexican government against the landing of American aviators in Mexico will be answered with a note declaring that all landings in Mexico have been by accident and that the American army has taken all possible precautions to prevent such landins. MINI GEORGE'S PLAN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 LONDON. Feb 4 Premier Lloyd George plans to launch a movement in favor of more women members of parliament at a meeting to be held at the tjueens Hall on Februaxy 12. two days after the new session of parliament onens. according to the Daily Express. Viscountess Astor. M. P., who is the . niy woman to take her seat in the rouse of commons, will be one of the s rakers. Representatives of each of the hi-4 political parties have been inited. "It 1 possible that the opportunity iii te taken to start a campaign fund for women parliamentary candidates. ' s -iid the secretary of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. ;f such a fund is started, it may be iied for special propaganda work in n-,or of more women members of parliament." Great activities are now taking place h-hind the scenes of all the principal v. omen's organizations. It is believed that at least Kti or 200 women will 1 e candidates for the house of commons at the next general election. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 TTHITING. IND.. Ftt. 4 Mrs. F. XF.umhour of ll?th street suffered a verv sudden death yesterday morning which is thought to have been caused by heart trouble. The victim bad at-' tended the service at the Sacred Heart j church yesterday morning and on her! way out stopped in the hall to talk to one of the Sisters regarding her son's j tchooling. She was stricken and is! F.iid to have died instantly. The Bumhours have been residents of this city' for a number of years and the victim j vas always In the best of health. She Is survived by her husband and two tons, Joseph and Edwin. The deceased was a member of the W. B. A. of the faccabees. S. and U. R. N. of A., Fythian Sisters and the Relief Corps. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 9 o'clock from Sacred Heart church. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. WELL HERE'S NAME OF DEBS AS USUAL f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LANSING. Mich,. Feb. 4. Lazarjs V. Davido a Detroit attorney late yesterday filed petition for nomination of K ;ene V. Debs as Socialist cand.date for the presidency of the U. S. w t,. rb wt.rretsry of State. The ueti;'; its ontained 11'' n-:n'-.-. rio. e Unn f '. rumwr rcu.yil ' plait a name .m the primary ballot.
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NLAND WANTS PLOT VACATED A tract of land in Indiana Harbor. bounded by Michigan avc and Woodbine! piace, the latter vacated, and Aldis avc j and Baltimore St., both vacated, and. another pices adjoining and containing) seven lots, has been made the basis of. j a snu tiled in the Hammond superior! court by Inland Steel Company against the City of East Chicago. The steel company contends that it is Uc owner of the property and asks that the "plot be vacated and expunged from the records of Lake county, Indiana, and that the tract be vacated by the East Chicago IfcT'ard cf Tublic Works and b reafter be described 83 acreage." V. J. Murray is attorney, for the plaintiff. The case will be heard In Uoorn 1. M WITH TEACHERS Request of School Board to Take Some Action to Remedy Conditions. Drowsy councilman awoke and those who were awake sat up when a resolution, introduced by Milo M. Bruce of the Eighth ward, describing financial conditions and the deplorable Jack of sufficient salary among the school teachers was read by tho city clerk last night at a m-eting of the common council. Point after point supporting teachers' i ontetitiuns that their salaries should be raised were hurled at the startled councilnien. The monthly scale paid teachers is now $ino to $115. which they receive nine months in the year the other three months apparently hud the teachers hibernating:. It was shown that the present sca.Ie b3sed on twelve months in the year actually gives the teachers from ?7" to $S0 a month. Unless something is done immediately to provide a living wage Hammond schools will be without teachers. Some have already left the schools to enter more lucrative fields and others threaten to do so daily. So serious has the situatioYi become that in the resolution it was urged that the council members of the school board not only to raise the scale of wages, but even, if need be. to ca!l a meeting of the tax payers and parents to take up the question and assist in working out some plan of providing ways and means of raising the necessary funds for such increase. Dr. G. L. Smith, president of the school board, when informed of the action of the council said that co-operation of the council and its interest in a problem so BELIEVED END OF GARY'S INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IS NEAR With the death rate diminishing daily and the number of cases gradually decreasing there is every evidence that the twin malady. Spanish influenza and pneumonia, is on th wane in Gary. Up to noon yesterday only six deaths had been reported since the first of the month and these were all from pneununia. These came from widely separated portions of the city, proving that the, epidemic is not confined to only one part of the city. It was stated at the office of the health department today that thre is no longer any doubt as to the disappearance of the epidemic although it is expected that many deaths will yet occur in the ranks f those who are now confined with the disease. Th" total deaths durinw the past week was 64. of which 22 wcr attribute to other causes than influenza-pneumonia. Other contagious cases reported last week ending Saturday included on" case of small pox. one case of diphtheria and ne of measles. vital, to the welfare of the itv was highly gratifying to the members of the board. The school board will leave for Indianapolis Friday, where they will attend a state-wide convention of educators and will take up the question of more school funds for the city of Hammond with the state authorities. No successor has been found for E. S. Tillman, former head of the biological department of the Hammond high school who resigned Monday to enter business. Negotiations to secure Vernon Lautis of Canden. Ohio, or Miss Alice Creekmur of Chicago to fill the vacant chair fell through whm their schools refused to cancel contracts. According to a member of the school hoard the teachers will know the fate of their request for a living wage within two weeks. IN NO DANGER INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CUB "AGO. Feb. 1. The Missouri and Illinois, big hike freighters fvt in the i-c four mil-- oil U,'in-tor. (on r cic -.C'i the K arc-ton life saving stat.on livy are in no danger.
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on nnni Prominent Republicans Who Receive letters Not Showing Much Enthusiasm. TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS, ltid.. Feb. 4. In the circulation of a letter favoring Albert J. Beveridge as a candidate for the Re. publican nomination for United States senator the llrst tangible evidence is brought to light to substantiate the rumor that Mr. Be cridge seriously intends to get in the race. The letter was. sent cut last week by Willitts A. Bastian. an Indianapolis attorney, and former progressive leader in Indiana. It seems that the letter has been given general circulation among Republicans regardless of their leanings m the senatorship race. From a canvass of a score of Indianapolis Republicans who received letters the indications are that Mr. Bastian will not receive very favorable replies. Included in the list cV persons who had received letters were men Known to be supporters of J. W. I'esler. Indianapolis, and Warren T. McCray. Kentland, candidate for governor. If the attitude of these men represent tho position of a Urge proportion of those to whom letters were addressed it is predict'd that Mr. Reveridge will not enter the raco solely on the strength of tho support pledged to Mr. Bast. an. The Bastian letter follows: "I am one of the friends of Albert .T. Beveridge who would like to see him again representing Indiana in the United Staffs senate. The next six years will probably be the. mors, serious we have passed through since the Ciil war. Great problems will come up for settlement, and it is certain we need, at Washington, real statesmen, the ablest, most honest, courageous and energetic the people can command. "I enclose a clipping from Albert Shaw's article in the Review of Reviews, showing his t-plendid criticism of Mr. Feveridge's great work. 'The Life of John Marshall.' This is typical of comments of historians and critics the country over. Many m- n here f I as I do. If you fee like joining in an effort to induce Mr. Beveridge to stand for the senate this year please advise me at once. "Do you think It is worth while to make the effort? I believe that he would be a source of great strength to the ticket. Your response will be appreciated." BELIEVE SHERIFF POLLED A PRIVATE f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE M'MI N'XVILLK, TENN.. Feb. 4 Sheriff A. V. Warren and his wife were arrested here today In connection with the hanging in jail lat week of Fred Murphy, government informer, who gave the federal authorities information that the sheriff was operating a mountain still. Murphy was placed in jail by local authorities on a forgery charge which he termed a "frame tip" to get even with him for exposing the sheriff. The next day bis body was found hanging In his cell, the hands tied together by wire. The. coroner returned -a verdict of suicide anil the body was burled immediately. Federal authorities cannot hold the sheriff and his w ife o na murder barge hut only on one of intimidating; a government witness. Th state must bring murder charge against them if any Is to be brought. i;ven if they should be deemed guilty of such a charge they have done no wrong according to the code of the mountains, which holds that Murphy violated the greatest tin-, written law- among his own people by turning informer. SAY GOLD TEETH ARE OUT OF DATE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Feb. 4. Gold teeth and fillings were condemned in resolutions adopted by the American Academy of Dental -"Science, holding a convention here today. They were termed "out of date" and not conducive to general good health. .. The Oentists also went on record as being against removal of nerves from decayed teeth preparatory to filling. NOT ELIGIBLE TO MEMBERSHIP INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Feb. 4. Honorary membership in the American Legion is forbidden by the constitution, declared national officers of the organization litre tod.iy, following receipt ef letters of protest PLrn.imt the 'cianlinz by a Milwaukee post of smh 'a membership to .la- k le;it;sey, he.ix y ! w iijlit champ os-.-i;ip b,.xT. I:m?s ncsvs scWwC the bes;
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'STAND CDKTITION (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 Prohibition! turned up today as a factor in the con- j t poverty between Chairman I'ayne of the shipping board and Secretary of! War Laker over th? sale of the form-j er twenty-six German liners now held; by the shipping board. Chairman Payne has declared that it would be! unprofitable to hold the ships ,nei United States cannot compete with for-I ein passenger services when opcrat-! ing "dry liners." Secretary Baker desires that the ves sels be held as a transport reserve and ' it is possible that be may be able! to be allowed to exert his war power to commandeer the vessels if the president does not step in and settle the controversy. MRS. JOHN E. FITZGERALD DIEO TODAY Prominent Hammond Woman Succumbs to LongIllness With Typhoid -Pneumonia. Death early today ended, the Ave weeks struggle which Mrs. John li I Fitzgerald of Hammond fayibeen mak-j ing against" an attaA of f vphoi(J-pAeti-T motiia. News of the demise of one of, the most prominent women of the city: spread rap.dly causing profound sor- J row among her many friends in Ham- i mond and Chicago. fhe condition of Mrs. Fitzgera!d had' betn considered critical for several days and Monday night it was expect-j ed that tiie crisis would be reached. Tuesday she-howed slight improve-, ment but during the night she suffer-: ed a relapse and the end came at 3:15 this morning . j Mrs. Fitzgerald was born in Chicago forty-three years ago. H.r maiden name was Laura Gertrude Sexton, being the daughter of the late Austin Oliver Sexton, who figured prominently in Chicago's affairs during his lifetime. Her brother. Attorney William H. Sexton served as corporation cn,msel during the Harrison administration. One sister, Mrs. Mary Chancy, lives at Pasadena. Cal., and another sister. Mrs. Aloyisus Bolan lives at Great Falls. Mont. She resided in Chicago until four years after her marriage to John E. Fitzgerald which took place in 1301. The family then moved to Hammond, where Mr. Fitzgerald has been one of the citv's prominent manufacturers and bankers. He and one daughter, Mary Iviura Fitzgerald, are left to mourn the loss of wife and mother. During h r resident in Hammond Mrs. Fitzgerald had always taken a hading part in civic affairs. She. was very active In the promotion and maintenance of the Alice Club and has been an ardent Bed Crons worker, especially during the strenuous days of the war. When Liberty Hall was built in record time Mrs. Fitzgerald was there helping wherever possible. She will long be rmcmhered by many as one of few women dressed in overalls who wielded saw- and hammer during the last few minutes of the big job in order that; the building might be completed within the specified eight hours. At a late hour today funeral arrangements had not been made. STUFFS TROUSERS UNDER HIS COAT William P. F.'n.'n last night was taken to the Crown I'oint prison wiiere he will .be held awaiting commitment of the state insane asylum at Liiransport. Testerday morning he entered the Lion Store and when he It ft had six pairs of trousers wrapped around his waist under the coat. Me was ttrrested on complaint of a house detective and wa confined at Hammond Central police station. ENGLAND STOFS COTTON IMPORTS INTERNATIONAL NEWS ERV1CE1 LONDON. Feb. 4 The importation of cotton was stopped today because of the unprecedented fall in the exchange rates on the English pound. Some cotton shipments wt turned back. The stoppage of imports is the tiist telling effect of the exchange rate reaching a point where it does not paj- traders to import goods, said the Star. SUIT ON NOTE Judgement for J500 js asked by Paul J. Scholz & Company against A. J. Simpier. according to a siit filed yesterday in the Hammond Superior court. Th" pet't'on i-1 tiUd on the grounds tht the defend'-nt has f-cle.l to !ie.- ,,b; i 'i .1 ! oP Iwrlvc ploni- I s.-o: y n,ir-.-. lio.i li. Cte, ,,f v ;i:-l In is attorney for the pluint.ff. The j case wili be heard in room 2. 1
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tWARRBV T. McCRAT Jventland, Ind. Candidate for Republican Nomination for Governor. Today there is industrial unrest and radicalism in .the Nation! Today there is political unrest in. the State! "What tto need i3 GOOD SOUND AMERICAN JUDGMENT in all affairs, particularly in the conduct ot governmental affairs. Fewer agitators, fewer politicians more plain people close to the .heart, of InJlian, close to the Boil cf Indiana leaders, wise Tjith the knowledge tf human interests and human needs. , Think of these things when you choose your nominee for Governor! Remember, he is a candidate who can bring to the administration of public affairs that san balance so needed today. He is an experienced business man, a successful farmer, and live-stock breeder, an efficient American citizen. TVE NEED HIS KIND IN OFFICE. We need the efficiency, the honesty and the success in public business that he has evidenced in private business. We need a man, free from entangling alliances. We need a man like Warren T. McCray who represents no faction and no group of special interests. He is the logical candidate for the practical people of the State. Most of all, we need an executive who combines the broad vision of a patriot and fearless exponent of moral issues with the ability and energy of business capacity and civic responsibility. Warren T. McCray is all this and more be is a REAL MAN. standing four-square to the world; a real friend, responsive and understanding othuman needs; a real leader who 13 fair to all element?, and command the confidence of the public.
MOSS ENRiGHT WAS Wfl I KHfl AMnuc police of RECioii "Finis" has been written to the last chapter In the life of Moss Knricht. i chief of Chicago jrunmen. well known in Hammond and the police circles in! other cities of the Calumet region. j Last night in front of his residence! at 1110 Garfield avenue in Chicago, he j was shot and killed. A curtained au tomobile wung up alongside of his own $5,500 automobile, as he drove up alongside the curb, a sawed off gun slipped forth between the curtains and Knright was riddled with bullets. The car with the assassins barely pausing, while tho sh'ots were fired, sped away and none. Knows w-no or h" wmany there were. A few minutes: later he died .in bis wife's arms who had been waiting for him for supper. In last hopes, he was rushed to a nearby hospital, but physicians pr 'flounced hi mdead. Knright lived with his wife and two children n a JoO.i'Oit manj sion. Enright. who started his carer as a powerful leader among Chicago sluggers and gunmen is well known to police authorities in Lake county as it j is known that Enright and his gangj have taken an active part in labor fights in the past and a number of, episodes bordering on the notorious "district of the underworld" the other side of tho state line at Hammond. GAME IS CANCELLED Captain B-n Bollard of the Hammond A meri'-an . Legion basketball team announced today that the game which was to have bee,, played Wedn'sday evening with1 Chicago Heights; team, has been cancelled, because of j the death of Mrs. W. J. Thompson. I Two of Mrs. Thompson's sons played I regularly on the Hammond team. CHICAGO HAS NEW DAYLIGHT ROBBERY I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CHICAGO. Feb. 4. A hold daylight robbery netted two diamond robbers only SLO'iO in jewelry today. They entered the offices of Sandfeller and Miller, dia mond agents in the Heyw orth building shortly after 10 o'clock and at the point of guns drove both members of the firm into a vault. They ,ote) the pl-ir-e but at the diamond stock of ih" f ; nil is not k'-pt in 'he.r oft'ices. th" haul was smuil. 7'i.ke The Times dii keep touch with ibe whole vorld. 13
L GREAT SUCCESS I Playing to full houses both nights of the production the East Chicago Elks Minstrels, "The Jollies of 1920," went over with a success which was a surprise even to the veteran pro duction manager from the Joe Bren company of Chicago who had charge of the production. Not only was the show a production success, lut indications point to an unusual financial suci cess as wei i. i The fitst night, was marked by a few caseso fst a get rig b t whic h only added to the merriment of the actor's and actresses' friends. This had been rubbed off before the fchow- was over and the second night went off without aj l hitch, almost making the audience beljeve all of the fun makers were pro fessionals. The plot running through the play added to the interst and also gave an opportunity for more of the local stars to display their histrionic ability. The chorus could not have been improved upon and each individual fitted in to his or her place as though they were an veterans. The costumes were speceial for the occasion and could not have "been improved upon. Littlle Bobby Dixon and Lucille Mason made a great hit with their singing of "Baby" from the upper boxes, and the audience went wild over the bowery dance act in which J. O'Connell and Dorothy Fera featured. None of the acts could have been termed -ordinary." but the difference in the sjx foot two of Miss Fera and the four foot eight of O'Connell was enough in itself to cause a laugh. The management regretted tlt at the last moment reserved seats were not offered in Indiana Harbor be. ause of a misund-rstanding between Boyd Lukens and the committee. Arrangements for reservations at the Centra' Drug Store in Indiana Harbor had bees made with Boyd Lukens, Jr.. but at the Itst moment a misunderstand rg aroe h ich left Cic Harbor people without i cha nce of reservations withou ioins to last ChiCbgo. . POUND $3.27. 1 'NTFRNT10NAL nr',V3 ?E9vrr; NEW YORK. Feb. 4 - The rat. d e.-l!ne in th" English pound ontluiie ; dqy v. n'ii demand yr.t-,z; droppol a new low record of $3 27 1-4.
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HIS REASO Refuses to Accept Note oi Allies Asking Arrest of German Soldiers. r,. J INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 F.M.Ic. Feb. 4. Making good his threat to quit if the allies pressed their demand for high Cierman state and military oliicers for trial. Baron von Lersner today announced he had resigned as head of the German peace delegation. Yen Leisner refused to transmit to Berlin the list of German officials presented to him last night by Paul Dulasta, secretary of the peace conference, or "the covering note" which accompanied the list. ' The coveiing note was returned to the French i-overnment by the retiring German pea- e envoy. At the s-jme time von Lersner announced that he had tendered his rtsination to the German government. WARNS or atrVOLTION. BERLIN. Feb. 4. Warning of a revolution in Germany and the overthrow of the German government if an attempt, is made to deliver popular German military leaders to the allies for trial before a "war guilt" court was sounded today by Baron Kurt von Lersner. head of the German peace delegation. "Nothing has happened to change my opinion of what will result from thallies' demand for the arrest of alleged German nir criminals." said von Lersner. "The German government's position is so precarious that it would certainly be overthrown ani there would be rioting And clashea between the military forces and civilians everywhere if Ian attempt Is made to deliver popular iix-.atis t ttm allies." - SOVIETS HAVE SIGNED PEACE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. Feb. 4 Soviet Russia agrees to pay Esthonia fifteen million gold roubles under the terms of the peace treaty which has Just been sle-n ed by the Bolsheviks and tho Estonians said a news agency dispatch from Iteval today. Both sides agreed to renounce any claims to indemnities but important commercial concessions were made. Esthonia is granted permission to construct a railway to Moscow and to purchase 2,500,000 acres of Russian woodland. Both countries are to have free trade and Russia gets a concession to develop electric power from the rapids of the Narova river. The soviet also agrees to back up Esthonian neutrality. The treaty gives Russia free access to the Baltic, ports of Keval, Fernau and Hapshal. SCOUT EXECUTIVE WILL TELL WHIT BOYS ARE ME Kenneth S. Davey. Executive- of the Hammond Boy Scouts, will tomorrow tell the Chamber of Commerce men what the Boy Scouts have done to make real men, how they do it, and how much more they can do. He will elaborate upon Judge Norton's question of the value of Scouting, considering that a rewl man is worth $10,000 and a "bum" costs tho community $5,000. The Boy Scout army now numbers ,"oo,ooo and this fact is enough to mak the business men of the community understand the importance of the movement and the necessity of hearing the Ecout Executive tell something of the work in the Hammond field. Executive Davey will dwell somewhat on the millions which are spent annually for detecting and confining "crooks" and the very small sum which would be neeessary to keep the boys out of the crooked path. He will emphasize that each boy is potentially a man and that environment determines w hat kind oi a. man he will be. The luncheon meeting is expected to be largely attended and an interesting hour is promised. NEW YORK TIED UP BY BLIZZARD INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEJ NEW YORK, Feb. 4. The worst storm f the winter, a combination of sleet and high wind, struck New York early today. The sleet froze as It fell, crippling street railway traffic and causing numerous accidents. The sleet was follow ed by snow. A terrific gale prevailed off the ,'lanlit ioa.-t. both to the north and ,-outh .,( i -v York. -' - I "l;. i'r;e J:-i-5
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