Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 259, Hammond, Lake County, 20 April 1920 — Page 1

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STRUCTURE IS ASSURED Standard Oil Chairman Hakes : News Public In Chicago. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEBVICE1 ' CHICAGO. April -O John D. HoekeVeUer and his aon, John I . Itockefelfclsar, Jr.. 1ito presented Community ferrlea with a gift ot MM),0OO for the erection of a memorial community Itouae at Whltlnsr. Ind . it rraa announeed today. Col. II. W. Stewart, rhalrman of the hoard, and Wm. Barton, president of the Standard OH Co. f Indiana, through whom the gift was made, made the presentation today. This 1 tho structure whose prellmt tnary details hav been given In these jolumas from time to fime during: the r pa-st few months and the official inf tcuncement of the gift -win be a source I ef much rejoicing and gratification for ( the people of Whiting. It will be the f.rst memorial community house erected In the state of Indiana and none j planned is so elaborate as the Whiting 7 tnemer'al . DID YOU HEAR THAT DOC SMITH may get to a dinner too late to connect with the soup course, but tiiere is no more dinner unless he does connect with It. IIARTIX FIXXERAX was elected a jmomber of the North District board of education In the West Hammond election Saturday. The South District members were all re-elected. EDDIE GO EH RINGER stepped frth Saturday in a natty brown derby and vas considerably peeved because it has hitherto elicted no comment in this column. "Well, Wogglcs, here it is. OFFICIAL confirmation has been received from the Chicago offices of th : appointment of C. I Ehrensperger as ( general agent for the Monon railroad With offices at Hammond. AL. KOZLOWSKI. former I. H. B. fireman, has sold his property on 154th pi.. Vest Hammond, to Mike Tejka, who Jives on the same street. He has bought a farm near Bay City, Mich., and exXects to move there at once. ED LIPIXSKI and J. R. Tonkers of I Hammond go to East Chicago this evening to meet Fazy and Davis of that 3lace in a bowling match for the chamjpionship cf Lake county. The match Ffcegins at S o'clock. i THE Polish League of Leike County Is holding a big meeting tonight at St. John's hall, 133th and Beech St.. Indiana Harbor, to which all candidates for county offices have been invited in order -that the league members may have a auiance to iook mem over. HARRT GARDNER Just wound up j'frJs ftrfct year in the taxi business and 'has figured up his total mileage. "I traveled Just 23, 004 miles last year." jays Harry, "which is equal to a trip asrouna me woria ana rrom cr to Hssvllie on the second trip." FELLOW who Just returned from Florida tells some awful tales of the fish which can be c&ught in the Gulf of Mexico and offers to prove it by W. B. Con key. "Why, they have fish down ( there that swim in very shallow water ifcut won't bito a hook." declares the enthusiast. "You just hoek thrm in any part of their anatomy. They weigh about 1 210 pounds and can call for help just like a human being." CYCLONE TRAIL HITS LEROY AGAIN CROWN' POINT, Ind., April 20. Lercy seems to be a target for wind storms this spring, another heavy wind :siting- this section on Monday mornins and causing quite a bit of damage, the Ibarn on the Mose .Henderson farm was completely wrecked by the wind. According to reports from Dyer, that region also got a touch of the wind tiut no serious damage, was reported, rutslde of 'blowing down signs and telephone wires. SUES FOR DIVORCE Inability of- his wife to control her temper is given as cne cf the reasons for the suit for divorce which ias been filed in the Hammond superior court by Raymond Ford Abbott, 32 Sibley St.. Hammond. Abhott says his wife, Cecelia, often flies into a rage, ia sullen and ugly and refuses to speak to him for long periods. Added to all this, is the allegation that she keps company with other men. They were married March l. 1906 and separated April 17. 192". McAleer, Dorsey and Gilleu are attorneys for the plaintiff. Take The Tirnrs and kr.ep ouch with the whole worir. Is

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEJ NE WYORK. April 20 Severe losses were sustained In the stock market today wTien pratclcally the entire list was raided by the bear element. Stocks tr thrown overboard in large amounts and prices were slashed to the extent of from 2 to 14 points. Many of the oil Issues, sold down to the lowest prices touched in months. Mexica ndropped 9'3 to 184 and Tan American Tetroleum 3 3-4 to 102 3-4. f Trans-Continental Oil, after touching) a new low record of IS 1-4, rallied l! point at the close, wvhlle Sinclair Oil! showed a loss of 2 points at ST1. Stromberg Carb. after dropping IS. points to (I, rallied to 91. Pierce' Arrow broke violently at the close! dropping 5 to 68. Steel common clos- j ed at the lowest of the day at HO'j.j Baldwin Locomotive showed s less of' 6 3-4 at its closing: of 120 3-4 and' Making Strenuous Campaign For Office Coming from East Gary, a commun- j lty which has always rung up close to, 100 per cent republican, even In IMS. ! and which has neer been represented! on the county ticket. Malcolm Habel- j green is making a strenuous campaign j for the nomination for county recorder! -n the republican ticket. Forty yars ago, when he was just a i year old. Malcolm moved with his father, H. S. Hazelgreen. to East Gary, from Chicago. He has lived in Lake county all the time since then and both he and the elder Hazelgreen have been active workers in the republican party's affairs. For years he has been associated with his father as f 'if o ... m 1 -r MtLCOLM HAZELGRtEX contractor in railroad construction work and th name of Hazelgreen is probably one of the best known In the country . How Mr. Hazelgreen is regarded by his home folks may be judged'from the fact that he has served eight years on the town board cf East Gary, being president of the board for four years. He has served on the county cential committee as precinct committeeman since he was old enough to vote. As it seems to be the style for candidates for recorder to be bowling fans this year. Hazelgreen Is right upi with the others. The other n:ght at; Fort Wayne he and two other recorder possibilities were in the lists In the bowling tournament. Malcolm is also a rabid baseball fan and although he does not play the game much he has taken a healthy American interest in the great sport. Hazelgreen's record Is a clean one and he is adding daily to his large circle of friends who are pulling for him to win. He has a reputation ast a. hard worker and it is a. sured that! I,k county voters will make no mistake in marking the "X" in the square! opposite his number 45. E SHIRT CLUB LATEST IN IITING White Collar Sports at the Standard Oil Co., Establish New Precedent. 1 (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) WHITING. IND. April 20 The men employed in the shipping department of the main office of the Standard Oil Company are forming a Blue Shirt club ir order to aid in the H. C. L. campaign . The employes of this department 1 have sent in an order for blue shirts, similar to those worn by railroad men and when these arrive you won't see any more "white collared rports" in this department . These men are forming a precedent which it is thought will be rapidly followed by the men in the other departments of the main office. With the men wearing only blue shirts they are wondering w hat the girls are going to do in the w ay of i dress in this campaign to beat the! H. C. of L. Ttv a TIMES Want Ad

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1 urn Republic Steel was 3 points lower at 105 e.g. Crucible Steel flumped 1 ." 1 .points to 241. Studebaker was fl e ! points lower at 113. Losses of from! 1 to 2 points were made in the copper and the railroad issues. QUOTES SCRIPTURE; JUDGE FREES HIM David Manuel, a colored minister from Chicago, was yesterday arrested in Indiana Harbor on a charge of being intoxicated. "When he was brought before Judge W. A. Reiland he pled his own case and quoted scripture to proe his right to drink and become drunk. After about fifteen minutes of scripture, Jude Reilatid a .s convinced of the man's right to drink and freed him. NEW CITIZENS FOR LAKE CO. Anderson Finds Applicants Who Joined Unions Be fore they Joined U. S. By evening1. Lake county will hava about one hundred new United States citizens, the result cf the naturalization hearing which is being conducted today at the Hammond federal building before Judge A. B. Anderson. At the same time there will be several fellows who will trll the world that getting their second papers ts not a mre matter of, form, as they had evidently believed. Applicants with their witnesses, making a crowd of over 400. thronged th second floor of th federal building today waiting their turns before the court and examiner. Restrictions against applicants from enemy countries during the J war had ben lifted, which accounted for the nnusual crowd. j One of the outstanding features of the j hearing which aroused the intrest of i Judge Anderson trsj the fart that nearlv every applicant reported th birth cf one or more rhlldren since his application was filed. Names and dates were sometime hard to recall, but generally the additional information was forthcoming. '"Have you any more children than listed here?"' trie examiner asked a young man from Whiting. ".ure, I got whole bunch of them." answered the new citizen, and he pulled out a list showing tho najnes and dates of the birth of four. "There's no race suicide up here," commented the Judge. Whiting and East Chicago furnished the bulk of those examined during the forenoon. The court showed particular Interest in a thirty-seven-year-old fireman cf Whiting, who knew little about th American form of government and had difficulty in speaking English in spite of his thirteen years residence j here. "Why don't you learn to read and sposk English?" a?ked the court. The fellow said he didn't have much time for it as he worked too much. "How- mmh pay do jou get?" "About J7.50 a day." "Do you belong to the union?" res." "I see. you Joined the union before you Joined the United Ftates," remarked the Judge with sarcasm. Several men were turned down because they knew practically nothing of the form of government in this country. They looked blank when even the simplest questions were put to them. One fellow had heard of Wilson and also knew there were such things as senators. "What are they for, what do thev do?" i ask'd the examiner, referring to the senators. "Just a minute," interposed Judge Anderson. "lou r? asking him a prettyhard question. What they gre for and what they actually do are two different things altogether." But it was all the same to the applicant; he had no answer for either part of tho question. 'How can I admit that man?" 'asked the court. Referring to the naturalization laws, he said, "Here it says that the applicant must be attached to the principles of the constitution. How can he show he is attached to them when he doesn't know what they are? Petition dismissed." Naturalization matters required the entire time of the court today, but tomorrow morning the petit Jury will be called and the first of four cases at issue will be tried. MOURN DEATH OF LITTLE SON The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Morris will be grieved to learn of the death of their little son, Virgil John Morris, two years of age, this morning at S:30 o'clock at their home $32 Erie street. Hammond. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the home. Rev. W. Lichtsinn will officiate. Interme'nt will 'he held in Concordia

cemetery in charge of undertaker Stewcars will (be added before the end of art. next month.

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The overall fad, which started in the south and pread rapidly to other parts of the country, made ita debut in New York a few days NATION-WIDE POLL FAVORS GEN. WOOD Hoover Gets Second But 1719 Votes Come From Democratic Party. Leonard Wood Is shown to b far In the lead as the popular choice for the republican nomination for president by the nation-wide poll cf the Llterarv Digest, the first installment of which is published In the current Issue. The Literary Digest has announced that 11. 000. n1) ballots hae been sent out, and it is expected that the poll will be one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken. A total vote r.f 25.1?S is shown in the first installment. The vote for first choice for republican candidates follows : Wood ,Vo7 Hoover 3.96S Johnson 2.2Si Harding 2.361 Hughes 1.120 ljOwd'D 838 Taft 707 Coolidge 56S Tershing 213 Capper 167 Tolndexter 123 Rutler 6 Oiimmlns 28 Goodrich 5 Although Hoover ran next to Wood '.n number of votes received, more than half of his republican votes, 1.713 to be exact, came from democrats. 10 HAVE A ROTARY Preliminary Organization is Perfected Last Night At Meeting. Hammond will have Lake county's first notary club if preliminary organization plans set afoot laf-t night at a dinner given at the Lyndora Hotel are carried out. Cecil' Harris, a Rotary organizer from Chicago, addressed the meeting and W. G. Faxton was chosen temporary chair man with Ralph Tennant secretary. Committees were named on constitution and by-laws and for the nomination of directors. Frof. Edwin Munroe and Dr. George L. Smith spoke on Rotary to those assembled and plans for the organization called forth much enthusiasm. The club will beerfected next week. YELLOW TAXI LINE IS PROSPERING "When I thou'sht cf taxi my thoughts just naturally swerved to Yellow taxi and that's all there is to It. I wanted a cab and I chose a Yellow cab you know I alwajs do prefer the best," such was the way Hugh Graham, well known Hammond 'business man, explained how he had the good fortune to be the first rider of the fourth cab to be added to the strinsr of Yellow taxis' now in Hammond. The new car was put into service last Saturday and Mr. Graham had a hurry up call to East Chicago. He got the first ride In the new car. Sam rostlewaite. manager of th Yellow Cab Co.. says that three more

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a?o, when thirty members of the Cheese club, an association of dramatic press agents, paraded in ' denim down Forty-sixth street E. J. HARRISON IS STILL DELIRIOUS Physicians at St. Margarets hospital at noon today stated that the condition of E. J. Harrison, veteran Standard Oil salesman for this1 district, who yesteTday morning was struck "by a Monon passenger train while riding in his sedan, was considerably improved and although still delirious and -very low. chances for h's recovery are fair. Scores of Hammond friends called at the hospital last night and learned ;n vain that definite hpe for his life 1 Is held out. Details of the accident In which the car perns " ' . - - " 1 1 . V. . - 1 1 1 1 ric - l-i n rt tie sustainea i.i mjuii's. .-niacin 'j to bits, was made known this mornini? According to Engineer A. J. Whit- j larh, of Lafayette, he blew the iocomo- j tie whistle while rti!l some distancij from the crossing. Mrs. Ernest j Hfltz, whose h'is"oand owns a florist! shop on Standard aven-ae near the Mo- t non crossing, saw Harrison approach- ' ing the tracks, heard the engineers ; whistle and shouted to the doomed man to- stop. He aparently did not hear, j she alle'ges. and drove straight mio the onrushirg train. TRUCK LOAD OF CEMENT IN RIVER Fishermen whe make their headquarters at Camp Cuneo. Robey, and cat their lines frim the Indiana blvd. bridge over Wolf River will be surprised next summer when they rull urrva hardened sack of cement. Yesterday a truck load cf cement. Oh cago bound from the Bufftngton plant, struck a hole In the bridge and the front axle broke. There was a sw'sh. a slide and a splash as 143 sacksslid from the truck and plunged into Wolf river. The truek balanced per ilously cn the edge for some time and j was finally removed and taken away this afternoon. The negro driver sus- j talned minor injuries and not a little j fright. The fish in Wolf river rould rot be reached fcr their opinion of the ra tastrophe . BEAN SUIT GOES TO PLAINTIFF Indinna Harbor's celebrated bean case, which has kept Judjro Hardy and his Jury busy for several days in Room 2 of the Hammond superior court, came to an end yesterday afternoon when the jury brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the Ste venson-Benko Co.. and ordering the defendant, Abe Rahdu, J to pay the J3T0 due on the consignment I of beans. The verdict was also against the um-wii.i."u which he asked for damages because of ) loss of customers through the alleged , poor Quality of the beans. Several cans were opened In the court room and the jury was permitted to taste and examine them thoroughly. AUTO VICTIM WILL NOT LOSE NOSE Mrs. Tom Gary, of Kennedy avenue East Chicago, who was injured Sunday,

evening in an automobile accident on ' mother and therefor" asks for Gostlin street in Hammond, will not 10.0n0 damages. He also asks for $:,;o lose her nose as physicians first feared, j for lne Ioss of thp motorcycle and sideand it is believed that the operation ' car' Albert E. Griffiths is attorney for will leave only a small scar . A small , the rlaintiff. piece of bone was removed from her nose at St. Margaret s hospital yester- j WON'T BORROW Mrs Gray was injured when her hes- j FR05I U. S. band In turning sharply to the left to' LONDON. April 20. The ,lefiritof escape hitting a motorcycle, ran into the British government is 3Cfi.oort,ft0rt the machine of William llaris. who pounds sterling. Austen Chamberlain, lives on Hickory street in Hammond, the Chancellor of th" Exchequer, an. Both machine were running with dim- nounced this afternoon wh"n he intromd lights and were- unable to see the duced the new budget In the .Mouse of motorcycle which had no lights Commons.

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near Broadway. Similar demonstrations have been staped in other parts of the country during the past few days. XT (BULLETIN) 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO, April 20. Tna atriXe of Chicago awltctmen, which started in this city nearly three weeks ayo and spread throTifhont the country, Trtll tie called off Wednesday, It was announced today. This decision was arrived at cy the strike leaders this morning. Tney claimed a victory over the railroads and the brotherhoods, but announced that they would not fight the government In order to maintain the strike. ASK FOB BOASD HEARING. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, April 20 Declaring that the railroad strike adtuarion constitutes a national emergency, W. A. Robinson, of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, and James Eubanks, of the St. ejionl. Yardmen's Association, thli after1 ei.j 'emergency briefs' 'with the labor board, asking' an immediate hearingfor the "outlaw" strikers. 5EENEWS FLASHES UUI,.ETIX r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BAT SPRINGS. MISS.. April 20 This town was practically wiped out of the map by a tornado this morning. Between seven and fifteen were killed and the principal business houses wrecked by the force of the wind. BULLETIN (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl MERIDIAN, MISS.. April 20 Reports from the Southern and Eastern outskirts of the city, where a cyclone struck shoitly before noon, say ten to twentyfive persons were kille-1 and an equal number injured. Rl'MXTI X (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. April 20 Train No. 5 of the Rock Island railroad was wrecked early today when it ran Into a washout caused by the cloud burst at Marquette. Hi.. sixty miles from Chicago. Four coaches left the rails. Bl I.I. El IX r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. April 20 National Chairman Homer S. (.'ummings of the democratic parly today denied that any attempt would be trade to take the democratic ci nvenion away from San Francisco. TWO DAMAGE SUITS FOR KOSIBA Two suits for damages have been fled , in the Hammond superior court against j Anton Kosiba or Gary as the result of the conision cu j,areh :4 in ,vhich Ko5:a n MpIr, f vi.mmmH x,,, i.-e The accident occurred on Summer St., Hammond. Melos -was riding his motorcycle, going west, and Kosiba was driving his automobile east. They met near the gate of the Hammond Malleable Iron plant. The complaint alleges that Kosiba was intoxicated and driving on the north side of the street. Tho suits were filed by Sam Routes, admini ?traor of the estate of Mclos. He ?a's Mf,,os "as ,h o!'? support of an

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Wonderful Showing Made !n Growth by Premier City Ot County. m i.!.i:ti 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WAJHINGTOA. pril Preliminary populntlon figure nrrr i.linownied todn; l (he rf, Ixirenu m fol. Ion: f;HV, IMtlWA: I2lt pop,, Int.. n r.'.,.1l4! Inrren-e lnrp IIMO. 4 llrr rent . Though Oary people have rompl.iin-.-i that cum? enumerators hav imi cured all the names r.f people w 'o ;i 1 inhabitants of tii mr.gio citv. ;t,:: there was a feeling of general a'i--faction show 11 tnay anvne; .u :i's men when lh populaiion of ;a-y was announced from Washington to ba 55.354 . The 1?10 population of i;ary wa? lfi.6S2 and the percenlape rf im-rea?'-announced C'3.1 per cent is by far greater than any iity wh"S" replication in 1320 has o far Veen given ..ut by the census bureau. L PAVE S. STREET SOON Aute-nobile tourists this summer traveling to and from Chicago thro -iz'.i Itidlana will pass through Hamme-nd and not around it via Calumet avenu-, a in the pas-.. Action taken last night by th Board of Public Works will inaugurate a campaign of street Improvement . lors urjl by Thf: Times. The f.ist M-n will be the repaving of Hohman street. Work on thl badly mutilated therouah fare from Douglas to Carroll sfrec-. will begin sooyi and shou'd be open to traffic within less than two month?. The nature of the materia! to. be ii?e,i in paving will be optional with property owners of Hohman street wro i will be assessed the roft of th im provements. The present pavement seems tf have met with tin! versa'. d'approval and a special hearing- for t'r filing of remonstrances ancl (i isc:s i or of the pro.le. t will 1 held iry tho Board at the city ha'.l st 2 p. m. on May 1". Further repairs for Standard aveni" which will be u"d as the patewav to Hammond will be mad" In ilie near f ut ure Frr-perty owners of Conkey avenue and Kenwood addition will ha e an opportunity on the afternoon of Mi'.' S. to discuss with the Board of Ps'ilie Works the contemplated new Conkey avenu main sewer wh'o'h w!M drain a ' the territory between Calumet ai eivi and State Lire and Conkey and Standarn avenues. ' The project has reached a deftnit" ( stage and according to off;,-.; ,'. .if t ( city engineer s o"'.''e wor;v 011 the pe-tv-er. which will extend vest on Conkey avenue te Ca! imt to Hohman street, is wailing only a few legal preliminaries. From the size and character of -th Co nkey avenue sewer it will not o n r be intended for i;se of property owners whose holdings abut ih avenue. !vit will be adapted also for receiving sew. age from collateral drains already c--n-strurt'-d or route mpla ' "d . The post of the se-er to owners af abutt mc property will he SO per rent of the tr-'' cost of the proJeT . The excess o' ever and p'-iove what should be equivalent to the cost of th- local r-owe will be levied again."t each j.'ere of property in the district t he drained HARDING AT E. GO Twin City supporters of Senator W. G. Hardins will have two epp ortvuities to hear him speak In the ci:y tomorrow, accoruins to the latest arrani;ements which have been ir.adv. Immediately frllowing his appearance, at t'le Chamber of Commerce l.nicicon at East Chicago anang'envr.ts have been made for him to speak a. the Twin City McKinley Republican .!..: in Indiana Harbor. A large number of reservation? for the Chamber of Commerce lim-Micn had been made at noon today r nj a few- others were expected to he mad before eveninjr. Any reservations whicn are made lal.r than tonight will rot be accepted . James Johnst.-.n. secretary of thTwin City Republican Club, mc makintr plans f-r securing Governor Lowden ! speak in Indiana Jlri' "- in the near future. Johnston tl -Lowden barker of Indiana H.irh r an 1 feels fcjt ihat he can ariango f,.r x date.