Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 217, Hammond, Lake County, 2 March 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER T'OR INDIANA Increasing rloudln- , followed by rain in south mid rain r snow In north portion Inlr today or M rancidnj) it a nil cr tonic ht- In South lioitioni colder Wednesday In North and Central portion.

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LL CARRY Party leaders are Afraid ol the Proposed Bonus Legislation. RV WH.IIAM I'll 1 1,1 1 SIM. 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON. Marc N SERVICE! - Kike the " a i y of Versailles, universal training " I" let; i'iation. ami umUr me-aMires - j..-..r...i ifim to sra:- i bonus to all " 1 ' - - :! to c :; r r '.' d hit" the "'" is ootmon was admitted by con--sir here t Tiny s l-ar;ngs on ' ''V.'Tc'F( d soldiers '.. r-.efo law h' -i nrori Representative .loseph W. of Mielrgan. eha'rroan of the y- means uomniuic. kmu:s iii:ui.. " hearing: itself promise? to be . nigh "iviicss. Tt is estimated that vjt!fid congressmen have offered i i ( r the subject and at least t'.venof these carry elaborate plans 'vgiCs.; ion. ' 'i'.a i rnian Fordney deed he "v.i'.l hear everyone who : '-es ) be heard. and as all spon--of h;Us. the Ame: ie3n T .eg ten. the . . a:: ,,f Foreign Wars, the Private -her-' and Sailors Legion and other -dividual? and organisations undoub- - i'y win appeal before the committee .- proceedings wilt necessarily be it i ri mir.4t new CHARCiF.. Democrats charge the Rpubiicans :H planninjr to conduct the hearings' 1n such a way that a hcr'j bill can-, Hf.f be introduced before the '"hicapo "ii-entiou n-vt June. n which case.) t -v sert. there in IHt'e Lkeiihood of j i ' y;mTtT ii"""l'n 'on 1if measure before ! I ' 'i. mber when a new s?5i"n of con- (." begins. T? "publicans dery this i '.-'cf. Thy say they Intend to rush, t I'.earlngs as m-ich as ihey will . .' and. orsTder insr the complexity of: " t " problem and the sum involved andj it the eari':et possible moment will! r- p- r out a bi'.l. 1 A BIM.ION HO I.I-AH IIOM i'roposed bonuses run ail the w ay f -nn cash grants of ?10( to JSC per; t: r. payable in a lump sum. to month- j i . inf tallments. land grants, comb inons ot both, of financial assistance; i i the purchase, of country or c ( h i r.es. j !t i? estimated that the cheapest! ti " boaus would cost th govf i nment j e. -r a billion dollars. whil- "titer plans j i . 1 ! 'or expenditure running- ail the y up to four billion dollars. j N' T ;ie methods proposed for raisins j t oonus niuti'y are divisible into two j i. u-rai classes; a new liontl issu or ! T ,- !eying of special tases. The trea-.:-ry watchdogs claim that a new bond; 1-..-UC lannot be floated at less than, t . or six per cent and this would' I .-..-ve disastrous to outstanding liberty j. r.! Vi-i'iry bonds. They also contend! t' i' it would tend to increase thai ,i of living. I I'OI.ITK I " KKtllFI I.. , i - icia ns are afraid of the pro-j ; .! ".'onus leg-islalion. They admit j i .ire between two fires the mil-j !: us of ex-service men who want thej i ' us. and the popular opposition to i a -.- new or increased taxes. The American Leg-ion wi'.l be repres I. ted at the hearings by Franklin ili'i . commander, and Thomas W. y, '-r. chairman of the legislative umittee. This organization has ad- '- atcd a straight cash bonus of $50 f' r each month of service, else, giving e-,,;i soldier one of three options: land e. Cement: a.d in the purchase of a ! ome. country or city, or vocational ation. It also favors an increase i;i the rate for wounded men. Margin Gates Spepry will appear for th' I'riate Soldie-s and Sailors Lei"!i. which favors a fiat bonus of $"" to ail alike. The Veterans of Foreign Wars are sponsoring: a plan whereby every soldi'-1 would be granted $:to for every month of service, with an extra $100 for every doughboy who went over the top. A dollar a day for each day of r vie a is favored by some of the members of the ways and means committee coupled with the alternative offers aeRest'd by the American Legion. AUTOSIST'S TIP LEADS TO CAPTURE OF 2 STILLS Harbor Man Picked Up In Wilds of Porter County. VALPARAISO. Ind. March 2 A pass5hg machine tipped off to Constable V.'.-ilsh of Wht'lcr hints of a still operntmg in a deserted houn.' in Liberty township. Sheriff Forney and Walsh captured two costly stills and nine barrels of the contraband and arrested Joseph Koekich and George Sablish of Indiana ' Harbor. They implicated two ri-orti'.nent residen's of Indiana Harlor. Forney took both to the T'nited S.h'.-5 authorities a' Ilammmi'I. Advertise is the Time?

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iLake County Official With Duties Well Done Asks For Second Term. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT. INT).. March I Geo. ' M. Foiami. more popularly known as Mack Foland, who is rounding out his' first fTm as auditor of Lake county today announced l-.is candidacy for a second term which unless a political "atthquake happens, in Lake county, will be his for the asking-. It is al most sure that Mr. Foland's name will j gro before the. "Republican primaries on May 4 without any opposition, accord-j ing to the unwritten law in Lake county politics that a county officer, when j the work of his first term is well done j is entitled to a second term. As far j a Mack Foiand having filled his of- I iic ac-eptsib'y. he haf bren one of the ! htrt county auditors Lake county ever' had and is recopnized all over thej county a-s such. He assumed the difficult duties of that office when it was , grcwlng by leaps and bounds r.nJ at-j t-nded to them faithfully. His ad-j minis;ation of what is perhaps one: f the most important offices In the! stale has been without criticism and; the results he has attained iUitle' him to a second term. J TWO TRIED IN KANGAROO COURT Members of M. E. Church Enjoy Mock Trial in Federal Building. "Hey Kaiser and Paul .Morris, both TUunsiiieiit. by the ;,;-, Jn affa! rp of the Methodist church in Hammond. v.-r' tried yesterday evctung at the I le mxnon.l federal ru'l-; -, c on the . l-.arse of Tert.t in a f tiil m an old farm-house south of the r'ty The -.n-inz men refused to plead kii ''' and following the bear inn of the mas ef evidence the jury returned a verdict or Kui'ty. Life tenfencea we-re imposed upon both men by the court. C'ose to eixy persons wre present in the court room durinp the hearing, the T-aiortty of them being members of the Methodist church, the Sunday S.i'ool. the classes taupht'by "Mrs. W. C. Bel man and harles Surprir being in the majority Tn fact, it was a kangaroo court which was the outgrowth of the old rivalry ttwa the two classes. Follr-wirE" were the principals in the trial: Judge A. K. Tinkham Marshal John V. . Mver. Deputy Marshal Leland Daen'.ts. Clerk Lloyd Tw-eedle. " District Attorney Charles f;trprtse. Assistant District At torney Clifford iVitham . Attorneys for Defense Edpar CrumpaCker and John Byrne. As the jury was made .p entireiv of members of 'Mrs. Kelman's class it was a foresrene, conclusion wiiat the verdict would be. Their deliToeratlons were ha.'tened by the announcement that ice cream would be served .hist as soon as the jury returned. Mr. Crtimpacker had tilings looking- pretty bright for his clients and had succeeded In having one of the prosecution's witnesses taken In custody hy the marrhal before the trial was over. He nnd Mr. Surprise summer! up their cases briefly in the closing arguments and the defenses was n little nettied when, true to form, one of the jurors fell aieep . Judge Tinkha.ni sentence Imposed a life c-f public service upon the culprits and in passing it he delivered a w-eil chosen address on the responsibilities which are incurrfbent on all citizens ACTIVE IN DEBATE ! Indiana Senator and Repre sentative Conspciious in Legislation Discussions. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! WASIII NGT.ON". March ".' Senator Watson and Representative Will R. Wood. Tenth Indiana district, have been conspicuous in the senate and house debates for the past several days. Senator Watson has been in the foreground a the leader In the movement to obtain protection for the newAmerican dye Industry, while Representative Wood, as chairman of a subrommittee of the house appropriations committee, has been engaged in the running debate developed ty consid eration of the legislative and execu-j tive appropriation measure. Other J members of the Indiana congressional delegation have been hard at work! with committee hearings. Better call up Trie Times and have it sent to vour house everv

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HLAK 1 HA 1 ! O.VLiY eleven day k remain in which pay income tax. S. SILVER, the State t. jeweler, is spending several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., for his health. W. C. EEIJIAX is back at his desk in the First National bank after spending much of the winter in Sunny Alabama. FRANK WACUKWICZ and several other prominent Hammond business men j are preparing to spring aii'dher industrial surprise soon. ' INDICATIONS of spring brtn hope to the hearts of "Gast State ht. people that the pa vein-, ir. will at last be Jintshed. GLORGE STELHOn.V. deputy reverue coilcotor. has been spending a great ileal of time in tiary of late, helping on j iuaraw tax collections. j I 'Tirt"! dirtiest p'.-ace in Himmmiii is t't'1 steps of the federal building." said j ;. well-known Hammond woman todiy. "Is 1'r.cle F:mi t'. oonr to enplcy a jam- 1 t or to clean them ;" j HAVE BOON"-;, among; the region's; asluloft politicians, declared that the j K publican presidential situation is too j complicated for him to figure out. Mr. I lioone is a Lovden man. i HANS PEKNER who is now connect- j ed with Uie employment office of the j ieneral American Tank Corp.. says that The company now lists praethaJly all of 'act year's baseball team on us payroll. mi a great team is expected. ATTT. L. L. HOMBERCEH was on hand in the mock federal court last nisht ready to defend W. C. Helrnan, Avho is harged with bringing ti rearms in'o the state from Alabama. Lack of tim caused the case to be dropped. EDGAR CRL'Ai PACKER, who is the : 1 1 v male member of the family in the r-tate not a lawyer, showed the effects of heredity in the manner in which he defended his mock trial clients last tngh l. SOMKBODV showed hriey 1'red-i-ieha a. rew .-paper picture of Oeortt Pu riitnit v. federal rum mi est !ga tor of Grand Rapids, and Charley said. "Weil. 1 he could make pood in t'i"n Point why couldnh lie m lirand Rapids." ,"! AMLTIL Ticay, of 'he Fi.iou and Fsst.me theaters, aecompa tiled by a nifty Lnghsh waii.iug stick, has left for j ill? land of jaz. He will s'op off in Florida for a few das before proceeij- j i,ig to Cuba. IjAKE county Republican poiiticians pre surprised that no Republican has yei bee.it appointed to manege the Leonard Wood carnpa.igm here. Most Of the two-by-four counties already have a man in the field. NOT that, the two ventures are so similar, but Atty. Guy White got married much the same way he went to Avar just did it without saying much to anybody and afterwards wen.t about h.s work as usual. ATTY". JOHN GAV1T was wishing yesterday that the sun would get around and thaw the ice away from bis garage door so he oould pet his machine mil again. Otherwise he was afraid he would have to do manual labor to release the car. ' VOTHER post card from L'ncie F.en j lieli finds him Tabbing because The Times busn't showed up for two weeks. No paper could be expected to keep up with a man in Cuba and besides, it's doubtful if he could have read it anyw a y. WILSON ACTS WITH RAILROAD UNIONS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON". March i President Wilson tok definite steps today to get the railway executives and their employes together on the wage controversy which has threatened to engulf the nation in a railroad strike. The White House late today made public two letters from the president, one addressed to the sixteen employes organizations, and the other to T. 11. DeWItt Cuyler. chairman of the board of railway executives, representing a majority of the railways. Kach fide was requested to communicate to the director general of railways the names of their representatives to a general conference which will be held in Washington ajs soon as details for tt can be safely worked out. NEW U. S. POLICY TOWARDS STEEL CO. r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) WASHINGTON. March 2. A new governmental policy with regard to "big business" may be formed as a result of the "supreme court decision that the V. S. Steel Corporation is not a trust within the meaning of the Sherman law, it was said today at the department of justice. Atty. Gen. PaJmer was studying the decision today almost to the exclusion of all other business. No hint was given as to along what lines this proinr'sod nevv policy might go. ALLIES TO MAKE LOAN TO GERMANY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) LONIMj.V. Jtirch 2. Sir Auckland Geddes. the new Frit is h ambassador to the United States, revealed today that the allies are sanctioning an interna-' tional loan to Germany. This l"Pn will be used for the purpose of putting Germany on her feet .-concini J ically. . . f

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Hammond's newest hotel and theater building the 6'"'0.ne.n structure to be elected on the northwest corner of State and Hohman streets is an assured reality, it developed todav when the Hammond Hotel S. Improvement Company announced Its incorporation! with a cardt.-il stock of J30".0'n. I Vhe building upon which work wiill soon start, will be either seven or nine stories high, depending upon future plans of the company. The hotel will contain 250 rooms, 100 of which will be equipped with bath. There win be also several two-room apartments to be leased for family use. An elaborately decorated lobby with entrances both on State street and on Hohtnan. which will open to the main lobby, have beers planned. It Is the intention of the management lo have a coffee shop and restaurant for the convenience of guests, on the first floor. Nothing: will be left undone to make the Hammond Republicans Lease Home Directors of the Hammond Republican Club have closed a lease for the rooms over the Federal Fakers on Hohman St.. newr the four corners and in a short time expect to have the place fitted out as headquarters for the party during the present campaign. At the meeting at which this was decided upon a plan for a great membership drive was also discussed, final arrangements were deferred on this until after the big meeting which is to be held Friday evening at the court house . The rooms over the bakery are admirably suited for headquarters, hiving an assembly room and a number of smaller rooms which can be used for offices. The place j new being renovated and when 'the decorators finish their work they wiil without doubt bo the most attractive quarters any poetical organization ha.Vr-vcr had in Hammond. It is row planned t include every man and women of the Republican faith in Hammond in the drive for more members. The women arc already showing much interest in the work and are preparing to turn out in force at the meeting Friday evening. This will be held in Superior Court Room No. 1 and will begin promptly at S o'clock. The plans as worked mil thus f.'r will be announced after whic hsucgestiotis will be accepted from tlcse pres. at The drive will be short and snappy so every available work'T IT be necessary. Friday evening the tn-ft steps will also be taken to f'-tn a woman's orc rt nir.at i"n similar t that which the men i fiirrs bae oJw;iys .ma i n i , ; !-,.-!, This vva referred to briefly by County O.iairman Killigrevv at the organization meeting several weeks ago and he

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; p- - - r- - r. "f -r v - - - - -?m appointment and f u i r, isb intrs equal to the best in the state. The theater will have a seating capacity of 2. 3 '". It will be equipped with the finest type of theatrical pipe organ, and will tie devoted to both the presentation of legitimate spectacles rind the best work of the silver sheet. Successful theater men Known to ail II i.mmond people will have charae of tie new house. James and Charles Michaelstetter. present managers of the Oipheum and I"e Luxe theaters, will conduct the new theater, alt hough their present houses will remain under direction of the Hammond lbitel A- Improvement Co. The location of th" new improvement is one of the choicest in Hammond. The sit" front -1- feet in H-.limau street, l'.o feet m State, and feet in pluniiner avenue. The Mructure will he ,,f concrete and steel w ith the latest approved exterior. Plans will be present Friday evening to explain the plans at length. Tin; same course will be followed as has been jMiopted f..r other parts of Indiana. CAPT. BRYSON CAREER FULL OF INTEREST Cup!. Atonzo Hryson. the veteran steamboat master who in his eightieth year, died at the home of bis daughter Miss Pearl Pry son in Hammond la.-t Sunday had an interesting- career. t'apt. Prysm was born in Cincinnati in July. ISth amlV'iok to st ea m -boat ir g as a boy, makinsr that work his life career and spe nding more than fifty years as master of 'boats in the Pittsburgh-! " n-i nna t i trade an dthe Cincinnati-New Orleans trade end after III l'-mocal t.i Davepport. la., in 1STS he commanded in. its in Hie St. Lou i s'-St . Paul trade. e was postmaster at Davenport, also heh county office, IF" was widely known among the steamboat men on both rivers and in his more aetivc years vv a s identifieil with some :' th- largest packets on the Ohio and Mi. .- ss i ppi. at a time when steamboats were more generally used than now . Among- some of the celebrated boats that he i omnia nded were the P.ostona and the "iV W. Ducan at 'irioin na t i and the Gem C-Itj an dthe Ale Miteh- '! at ?! . Louis. Tb Diiian ,-ark in the Ohio- river while under l is . .Iranian d but w Itherut the lss of life In the Civ i! War f apt , u-vs"n spent most "f the time a;- a eonmmider of arm-! trnnsv'orts and cun'aoata ruuning !:- the Tennessee river with soldier nii.i s Tppii's for the A i -nj of the Cunil. i Unfi . He w-, rked directly , i ti i - r Governor '!iC;' P. Moil'Ml in liies war rlaLcs i

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Hotel a ' -"s m the County. . t , r-,. V"is A? , ft . . Iu" , Cl-tff-4 for the building have been d.awn by C. Howard Crane, of Detroit, one of the leading architects of the United Slates and a specialist in hotel const ruction. The Hammond Hotel & Improvement Company is organized under the laws of the State of Indiana, with an authorized capital stock of $900,000. $300.- (,.,,) of which is common stock, divided into 3.00') shares of $P't each. The common stock w ill be owned and controlled by: Jam"S P. Bereolos. Hammond. Ind. Gust P. Kerenlos. Hammond. Ind. Herman Ij. Gumbiner. Chicago, til. Abe Gumbinger. Chicago. IP. t'iiarles Michaels tetter. Hammond. .lomrs Miehaclstettei , Hammond. Harry M. Rosenblum. Chicago, 111. William J. Whinery. Hammond, Tnd. Of the authorized capita! stock $600.ru 1 0 is preferred stock, divided into 6.0"') shares of $100 each.PROPOSE FOUR COUNTIES FOR NEW DISTRICT Gary Ready to Furnish Two Candidates For New Congressional District. Regarding the rruch-discused redistricting of the tenth district leaving Lake, Porter. Jasper and Newton into a new district, W. H. Plodgett of Cue Indianapolis News lias this to say : "It was the original intention to introduce at the special session of the legislature a congressional apportionment act creating a new congressional district composed of Laic , Potter, Jasper and Newton counties. "Hut Investigation of the iaw shows that the apportionment act must come before the next regular and m t. the next special session and for tii.n reason the proposed bill wiil be held off. Lake county is a large industrial county, whiie the others are rural counties although there are a few industries in Porter county. "It is understood that the two Republican aspirants for the new eongres sional j"b. if om is made, will be J. Ob nil Harris. pro.so' .-.prws. n tut i v e from Lake county and W. A. Hodges, mayor of Gary "Neither of them liar- announced bis candidacy but the friends of both say they will h' contenders for the place when it i- made. "There will le some oppov Side Lake county to uakinu tiict but til'" ad V oca r of thry wiil have ro troiii.!,- n the new irw enacted," ; o n o ij t disil think ge(t j,;g

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HISTORY U.S. Arms Dry Agents for War, Guns Are Given to Raiders. BI LLETI V. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! ALBANY. -1. March 2 New York State haa lined up with New Jeraey In an effort to moke legal aale of beer over one half per cent alcoholic content. Akscniblyman Fouls A. Cnrlller. "New 1 ork Democrat, haa Introduced a bill which would permit alt; per rent alcohol In beverages on the ground that the federal prohibition amendment rjmol prrvrnt atatea from determining; the nleohollc content of n buerajr or defining what conntlt olea an Intoxicant. Bl LI.ETI N. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! IIOM ON. March 2 Hetufna toda? from 33 Mniw. towns revealed large innjot-ltlc In favor of the lnte John Barleycorn. Many dignified rommiBllies joined the wet column for the first time. Lexington oted "wet" for the first time In forty yearn. For the lirt time In the hlatory of Rockport. Lincoln and Mnnaflrld. the qaeaflon of license receUed a majority of voteaItoeWport. where In the alstlra fought "llrmon num.-' with hatcbeta, oted lor license. In Worcester county 25 towns registered a net srnln of i!AH for license. In the Western part of the state the towna of Howe. Southampton, Chesterfield and Williamsburg; awltched from "dry" to license. Bt LLKTIN. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 TR KNTON, . J.. March a tio. Fdwarda today aiarned the hill IrgallKlotc the "manufacture, sale"and transportation of alcoholic "I'lrrmn rontalalna: 3..0 per cent aleohol after the format declaration of peace had been declared. The bill was passed last night h the sennte, the assembly hating pass ed It last week. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I WASHINGTON. March. J Pry agents are being prepared for war. IIug quantities of guns and 'ammunition a part of the surplus war equipment, were ordered today to be given ln:niodiaP ly to prohibition agents for "eventualities. Commissioner Roper, dry law enforcement chief, directed that all arm, ammunition, ammunition-belts, scabl arris and holsters, now held by Internal revenue collectors, be turned over to supervising prohibition agents for distribution to the thousands of men constituting the fedral whiskey t'.etecti., force. Officials denied that the heavy arming of agents indicated that wholesale raids were scheduled. They did not deny, however, that agents preparing for activity in some sections where illicit, distilling is reported on a wholesale scale. Trouble has been brewing for some time between enforcement agents and moonshiners of the mountain districts. Officials admitted that the stage is being set for a round-up of such violators. "pnHtlHKR? I'XDEB SCRI'TISV. WASHINGTON. March 2 Clergymen will not escape, inspection at the hands of fedral dry agents. Just to put the "lid" on a little tighter, men of the cloth must undergo searching inquiry to establish their right to use wines for sacramental purposes. Federal prohibition directors and ail other su borri i nates, in a lengthy letter of instructions today were directed to scruitinize carefully the returns filed each month by dealers and wine ma kers who have shipped or delivered wine to rabbis, ministers, priests or other duly authorized church official for sacramental use. . ' FOURTH LODGE RESERVATION IS ADOPTED (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON. March 2 The senate H'lei'ied the fourth Lodge reservation to the peace treaty this afternoon. The reservation was as follows: "The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide wlat questions are within it domestic Jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in. part to its internal affairs. iclnding immigration, labor, coastwise traffic, tariff, commerce, the suppression of traffic in women, in children and in opium and in other dangerous drugs, and all other domestic questions are sob-ly within the jurisdiction of I he p. s. ami are not under this treaty lo be submitted in any way either to arbitration or to he consideration of the council or the assembly of tinLeague of Nations, or any -,-ncy thereof, or to the decision or reconilmndation of any othr power." The wie on the rc'oiiiUon w as " to i.mcs news- icr ;j. ti'iC D -