Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 302, Hammond, Lake County, 10 June 1920 — Page 1

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Industrial Court Plank Is Defeated Railroad Tribunal Urged . BT JUSTIN H. FORREST fSTAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. .SERVICEl CHICAGO. June in Final agiee- ; rnent upon all the proposed planks In the 19-0 republican platform, except those, touching the league of nation and the Mexican situation has been 'reached by the special steering com- ' TTiHtee of thirteen and Indicates a J ""piddle of the road" policy on the rart of the party. Bitter denunciation of the Wilson ad ministration is the g'i t the preanmie t the platform in which the question of a soldiers bnus is onfined to high 1 riaise of the work of the soldiers and : r.as appropriated Bencrnusiy ior uie j dihaliled of the word ward." INDUSTRIAL COIRT DEFETI'I Defeat of Gov. AUfn's Industrial court plank, which was forecast yesHenry Lincoln Johnson, called Lowden's "$9,000 Georgia Peach" because it is said he received that amount of Lowden's campaign funds, has been named Republican national committeeman from Georgia by the state delegation. 'terday, was accomplished in the steer ing committee, but the plank adopted j ;on the other hand, is not as broad as; that demanded by Samuel Gompers i and the American Federation of Labor fin the hearing before the committee. As regards the railroad and public ptilities, the plank urges the establishment of a tribunal to investigate ; and make decisions, to prevent tying i:p service. The decision r-J these tribunals should be "morally, Dut not legally binding. " Tribunals should refuse to accept judisrietion, except for investigating purposes so ldr.g as service is interrupted, or men are on trike. THE ME.YICAV PLAVK In regard to Mexico, it seemed pretty certain the steering committee would get together on a plank which practically would endorse the report of iConlir.ued ou page SIX.) S. 0. OFFICIALS ENACT LIFE SAVING ROLES rPrrciAi. To The Times. WHITING. IND.. June 9 Dr. R. E. Humphreys and Dr. G. Cash of the Standard Oil Co.. appeared in the role of life saver at the East Chicago canal' on Tuesday. These men .officials of the company, being on a business mission at the S. O. Co. docks at this point, saw a man struggling in the water several feet from the bank. It took several moments to learn whether he was attempting to swim or drowning and when the latter was realized little time was lost in getting a row beat. The two men rowed out to where the man was, pulled him into the boat and were soon back to shore. Here all their efforts were put forth to resusitate the victim. He gradually regained consciousness and was soon able to w-alk away, his name having , not been learned. . HEARING POSTPONED According to a communication received from ihe Service Commission of Indiana, the public hearing which was to be held at the Hammond court house on the petition of the Northern Indiana. Gas & Electric Co.. for an increase in gas rates has been postponed. The petition applies to Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago and the hearing- as originally set would have been held on Monday. June 21, in room S of the Superior court. However. th valuation figures necessary in working out a new rule have not been compiled and cannot be ready by June 21. The meeting is postponed indefinitely and a new date will be announced as roon as the date la In the hands of the jCommj.iFioi

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DID YOU HEAR THAT JAMES X. STINSON is an 'Irreconcilable" and says that Borah's stand on the. league of nations is perfectly o. k.

A LUTHERAN ministerial conference from different parts -of the district -was In session here yesterday. THE SHRINERS ere all set for the biff annual trip to Portland. Ore and will start tonight. TUDGE FRED EARXETT, attorney in the Hammond building, will attempt to "do" the convention this afternoon. MRS. W. . D. PATTON, enterprising Hamond woman, is another convention visitor today. SOMEBODY thought Mel Monnett had convention tickets on tap also and tried the other day to buy or rent one. ALWAYS accommodating "Did You Hear That " rises to remark that motorists driving to Gary shouldn't stop on the way to pick violets. O. A. KIMBILL, usually an expert gardener, says that this year he Is up a stump and can raise nothing but radish tops ami grub worms. THERE is only one time when Judge Theodore Blotz fails to be one of the first boys at a circus and that Is when he is sick abed. DR. MKNNELL is back from Martinsville "having dealt his enemy rheumatism a body blow at the sanitarium tiers. CONSPICUOUS In the circus crowd last night were A M. Turner and P. W. Meyn. with several youngsters in tow as excusses for their presence. L. ROTH. 448 Hickory street, always was a lucky fellow. Yesterday he found an auto in a ditch on the southern outskirts of the city. So far no one has claimed the car. STATE Representative Otto J. Finely of Crown Point, one of the lucky possessors of a se-peant-at-arms badges, was In llmiin. nd today on his way to the bis o nvtnUoa. FOR ONCE Tete Lyons, who always worms his way somehow into world's series and conventions, is stumped. He is looking for the Coliseum underground and insists he will find it. THERE WERE plenty of gambling games at the circus and . hundreds " of dollars changed hands with the local ratrons of the game coming out of the small end of the horn, of courseERXEST WALKER, 474 Gordon street, had a bicycle yesterday morning. He rode to the circus grounds and parked the bike, then, "Some "monkey rode It. away," said the exasperated Mr. Walker. OVER IN" West Hammond the water shortage lias also become a live topic. Everyone there buys water through the meter an! pays $1.23 whether any water runs vr not. Little can be obtained lrom the second floor taps these days. J. EISENT3ERG, wide-awake manager of Buchlers Meat Market, is in New York for a two weeks visit with his father. "Off to get a chest full of salt air," said the excited Mr. Eisenberg as he leaped on the moving train. HAMMOND will witness a most dignified and unusual Flag day program on the evening of June 14, when public patriotic exercises will be held at the K. of P. hall under the auspices of the ever energetic Elks. DR E. M. SHAXKLIN. reading that three seats at the convention had been set aside for Sir Auckland Geddes, the new British ambassador, wants to get inside to see Geddes occupying the three seats, and will guarantee to make him move over. MRS. W. H. MEYERS, 98 Douglas street. Hammond, is one woman who is following the big convention closely. She was able to land tickets for the entire session. A lot of less fortunate Hammond men are wondering how a woman could do it. MAYOR BROWN, City Engineer Bridge and the Board of Works will attend the indignation meeting of south side water users tonight to defend the position of the administration on the subject. The meeting will be held at Charley Dinner's place j-V the corner of Kenwood and Hohman streets. C. A. CRITCHLEY. Hammond manager of the Cable Piano company, will tell the world that it pays to advertise in The Times. That page ad. which he used last week, brought him over $2.000 worth of business and landed 15 new live prospects. P. C. PRIMIS. genial manager of the Mee hotel, is beginning to feel the overflow from crowded Chicago hostelries. "You know Senator Johnson stopped here while he was In Hammond and I shouldn't be surprised if It is on his recommendation that the Mee hotel is filling up with Califorinians." CHIEF OF POLICE Peter Austgen, who is stopping at the Statler hotel. Detroit, durinar the convention of police chiefs of America in that city, sends a card containing the onvvous new sthat he's sojourning in Windsor. Ont. Remain. Chief, and bask in the wonderful coolness of the liquid amber, while still you may. MISS LEOTA McAleer and Miss Agnes Harper of The Times ste,.f reached the convention a little late yesterday and arrivine at 12:15 had just settled nicely in their seats when Chairman Lodire's gavel fell and adjourned the gathering until this morning. "Darn the luck any'y." quoth Mac to Harper. "I'll say worse'n that." said Harper to Mae. TRY A 11TIMES WANT AD'j

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(BULLETIN) NEW YORK, June 10. The entire nation will be placed under war-time sugar restrictions beginning June 21, it was announced today by Special Assistant Attorney Genera Arnim W. Riley. The drastic conservation measure, Riley said, was necessitated by the acute sugar shortage. THE SAME 0L0 Show Lures Sixteen-Year-old From Farm Near Kokomo. Little Clara Roach, age IS ye.ars old. who lived with her parents on a biff farm outside of Kokomo, Ind., is a particularly attractive girl and when she fell Into the path of Fern Miller, alias the more alluring cognomen, "Baby Young." the older girl persuaded Clara to follow a carnival that was then playing in Kokomo. The two came to Hammond and the carnival pitched its tents in West Hammond. They were here for .several days. Local Juvenile authorities 'were asked to apprehend Clara and return her to Kokomo. The search was in vain. Yesterday police of Hammond Central station were asked to help In the search. The girls were found to have stayed at a Hohman street hotel and later to have gone to Chicago Heights where they are now living in a hotel. Police of Chicago Heights have b?en asked to arrest the girls. HERE'S $250,000 Hammond's building Inspector. Henry Vis, is anticipating issuin'er a building permit the latter part of this week that will approximate J250.O00. Following the announcement that the LaSalle Steel Co.. has let the contract for its mammoth plant at Summer st. and 150th st.. to the Broline-Noian Co., S South Dearborn St.. Chicago, it Is thoujht'the buildup prmit win be taken out within a few days. The plant of the LaSalle Sttel Cn. whose tract containing over 31 acres, was purchased through Gostlin. Meyn A Hastings, of Hammond, will ultimately cost nearly one million dollars. It is said that with completion of the final unit more than 6.0(10 men will be employed by the company. The Metals Reftninr Co.. one of Hammond's newest and most thriving industries, today took out a permit for construction of a $40,000 factory buildin. The building- will be 70x1:6 and will be one-s-tory h!?h. The site containing around twelve acres, was purchased through Gostlin. Meyn & Hastings, also. It is located on Summer street. STATE ENTOMOLOGIST LOSES BUG ALCOHOL rTIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL) INDIANAPOLIS. INTV. June 10 Somebody that has access to the state house is both a lover of strong liquor and is cunning. Frank X" Wallace, state entomologist in the department of conservation, will vouch for these statements. Mr. Wallace had a quart ; Dottle of pure grain alcohol, for use in his scientific work. The other day when Mr. Wallace had occasion to use the drug to kill a bug that he desired to examine he found that the one-time powerful liquid had.no effect on the beetle. Examination revealed that some one had been removing the original substance and replacing it with water until only a slighi. odor of the fire water remained. Bringing large shipments of ore I from the Lake Superior region three J more boats docked at the Gary harbor j sterday morning. The boats to dock were the Thomas F. Linch. the Mitchell and the Marisposa. A few lines on Col. William Cooper Proctor, General Wood's campaign manager.. -

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ED TILL 4 P.M. Settlement of League of Nations Plant Cuts Session Short After 15 Minutes BY GEORGE R. HOLMES rSTArr CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! COLISEUM. CHICAGO. June 10 The fight on the league of nations continued to hold up the work of the republican national convention today .effecting a suspension until 4 p. m. The morning session laste'd but 15 minutes. As soon as the prayer was concluded. Senator Lodge introduced Senator McCormick to make a report on the status of the resolutions report. Senator McCormick said: "The committee on resolutions has commissioned me to make report to the convention and to surnbit for your consideration a resolution. "The sub-committee has continued its deliberations throughout yesterday, last night, and far into the morning. "The members have been actuated by the same purpose of the delegates of this convention to unite 1 1 ward a victory next November. "I have to report that the sub-committee unanimously has agreed upon a platform including a paragraph dealing with the treaty of peace. (Applause). "It will be necessary for a sub-committee to revise the details of the Graft and to submit it to the full committee. "In order that the full com; rUee may consider this draft line by hrte in order that every delegate of this convention may be heard. I ar.i iv trueted to move a recess until 4 ?;lock this afternoon." Cries of "No! No!" came frOfV' the floor as Senator McCormick said lit was instructed to ask a recess. An aye and no vote was immedf-Vtely taken. It was very close. if'! "The chair is in doubt." said'&vdge. "We will ask a standing votr- , After surveying the "aye" voi'.j they stood. Senator Lodge annHcd: "The ayes have it." TV' BY GEORGE R. HOLMES I STAFF CORRESPONDENT f N. SERVICE! CHICAGO, June 10 The deadlock so often predicted, apparently had the republican national convention in its grip today. Unless the thirteen party leaders who wrestled far into the night over President Wilson's league of nations, could patch up a hasty agreement before 11 a. m. another day of dawdling around faced the 9S4 delegates and thousands of visitors. There was a strong agitation erly today to go ahead with the speeches nominating candidates, regardless of whether the platform builder's were ready to report their findings. REVERSE VSI AL Bl SI.ESS This reversal of the normal order of business met some opposition among the candidates' managers, who felt that the effect of the oratory would be lost through side-tracking and shunting" it around and permng the league of nations instead of the candidate to become the paramount issue . Night sessions for the remainder, of the week became almost a certainty today if the convention is to complete Us business and adjourn by Saturday. BOLSTER VP KAK SPOTS Meanwhile the managers of the var(Continued on page six.) E. Chicago Ousts One Carnival Failing after a week's effort to secure permission for the holding of a carnival within the limits of East Chicago the company yesterday set up their tents just over the line in Hammond and are now doing business at Chicago and White Oak avenues. A few of the tents were placed over the line in East Chicago, but upon warning from the police were moved to the Hammond side of the line. Refusal to allow the showing of a carnival in East Chicago is the result of action taken by both the East Chicago Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Civic club because of objections to the taking of money out of the city. As a result the money is now being taken out of the city by the carnival, but .the city is not getting the percentage of the receipts which would bo the share of the city if the company were allowed to operate within the city. WILL TRY TO ' DEPORT GLASER Taul Glaser. alleged radic.il and Gary attorney, who had his citizenship papers t.-ken away from him in a sensational case before Judge Anderson two weeks ago, is soon to face deportation charges. This is the information learned yesterday when steps were taken by emigration officials to start deportation proceedings. Federal Agent George Bragdon and other government agents were in Gary .this week making preliminary arrangements, it is said. Glaser states that he is going to take the rase to the supreme court and will fight the chargis to the last ditch. Advertise ia ne Times and adi """tisc ao-a;n. Results corns with j constant effort. --r

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at Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Flore.nce Lowden. daughter of the Governor, is so excited over her father's presidential race, that she has gone to a cow sale in Minneapolis. Until yesterday Hitchcock was ths best-dressed man at the convention. Medi'.l McCormick stole his honors by buying a new pear necktie pin. Medill also wears' a grasshopper coat that he would not sit down ia for the world. Irrtns S. Cobb has Victor Koenigsbnrg. a New York politician, here to substitute for him i the eating- finals in case Cobb's interior breaks down. Koemgsburg has a girth of one furlong and nine inches. Senator Pat Harrison. Democrat, was approached by a Lowden worker today with a proposition for his support. Pat accepted a badge, but thus far has received no expense money. Bellhops wore out their voices today paging Will Hays. Senator Harry New, "Tobe" Hert. Joe Kealing. and other leaders who are supposed to be "in on the konw" of what is being planned .All of the leaders were "out." "This convention is so badly muddled," a California delegate remarked at the Annex, "that if Babe Ruth knocks a home run this week he's liable to stampede the whole works." When Wood headquarters passed out red and blue feathers bearing their candidate's name, Victor M. Locke of Antlers. Okla.. former chief of the Choctow tribe, saw them, he emitted a loud whoop and grabbed six. Senators Capper and Curtis of Kansas leave no doubt as to what state they are from. They are wearirfg cloth' sunflowers in their coat lapels as large as dinner plates. Gen. Enoch Crowder. father of the 1 draft law. is among the spectators in j the Coliseum. He is not a Wood booster. There was a general'craning- of neckr to see Sir Aunckland Geddes, the new British ambassador, but so far he has) not showed up. although three seats' have been set aside in his name. There is a considerable democratic colony here looking curiously at th-: enemy. Most of them are on their way to San Francesco and are stopping off here for ammunition. Wives of the leading candidates on the ground form almost a "cabinet circle." Mrs. Wood. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Ixiwden. Mrs. Poir.dexter. Mrs. H.ixding, are all on the job and busy. A pickpocket sprained his wrist tyins to lift the bankroll of a visiting delegate. He unfastened the three t.-ifety pins that held the roll to the delegates undershirt, all right, but he couldn't unti the fihline he had w.tuptJ around it. Cne deelgate t the Coliseum with a head shaped like a pic-olo player's, said it always thrilled him to hear the band play: "Hell, the conquering hero comes." And here's a little readin'. writtn' and 'rithmetic: Sproul ' comes from Pennsylvania, and his name rhymes with "scul." He's the biggest tnan

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w r wi rfil iijiViii i photographed at the convention. in the .Pennsylvania delegation.' Out, side of the fact that Boies Penrose is for him. that's- about all that's known about him to date. Fans were the most popular implements at the convention and were waved freely by all delegations in the Co'.lisemn. And the scarcity of hot air was an added pleasure to those who were present. Another wise-cracking resolution was written by Senator McCormick. claiming- it should be lawful to lynch people. It looks like the resolution was almost too radical to get by. Incidentally Chief of Police Garrlty is distinctly on the "job at the sessions1. He estimated his trips about the big building to total five miles at Wednesday's proceedings. Things are running as smoothly as the new link as far ' as the police and firemen are concerned, there having been only two of th well known light-fingered gentry taken from the building in as many days, and one man who somehow had wormed his way in without the necessary Credentials and badges being ejected. POCKET VETO IS INVALID 1 1 NEJt NATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl WASHINGTON". June 10. The socalled "pocket veto" is invalid and the president has ten days from the date of receipt" in which to sign legislation, according to an informal opinion sent to the White House today by Atty.. Gen. Palmer. The attorney-general, it was announced will isue a formal opinion letter. Among measures which may be affected by this decision are the waterpower bill, the-"Underwood news print resolution, and measures repealing all war-time legislation except trading with 'the enemy an dalien property laws. . As the water power bill was received on June 14. the president, under the opinion, has until midnight, June 11 to sign it. ' FCWCWOO Map at Senator Miles Poindexter. among thos vbo aspire to th presidency

Plank Expected To Meet With Speedy Approval of Ihe Conventios

By J. BAST CATVTPBBI.S f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICEl CHICAGO. June 10. The compromise IcAgue of nations plank agreed to by the "irreconcilables" and the "mild reservationists." was unanimously adopted today by the platform "steering committee composed of 13 members of the resolutions committee. The plank keeps ratification of the treaty with or without reservations obo!utely out of the platform and will keep the fight off the floor of the convention. John Frances informed Senator Johnson. It wa-s also accepted to foreshadow the unanimous adoption of the compromise platform by the full resolutions committee and by the convention itself. . As had been predicted, the "mild reservationists." were "flattened out" by the overwhelming opposition ro thc-ni which had developed over night. BY J. BART CAMPWELI. STAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SftRVICEl "HR'AGO. June 1 Th threatened fight over the leagje of nations on the floor of the Republican convention was blocked today by a compromise on a peace treaty plank reached between the "miid rcservatK'nisls" and the "irreoonei'aVies . The irild reservationists"' withdrew their demand for a provision for ratificatfon, with "power reservations." and Senator Borah of Idaho, leader of the "irreeoncilibles." announced lie was satisfied with the plank subr.nird to him. AGREEMEXT IS VIDE The jiank 'agreed upon was drawn by former Senator' Elihu Root after senators and other Republican leaders had held a series of conferences to prevent a renewal of the senate controversy over the league of nations on the convention' fid.ir. Until the agreement was reached the ' mild reservationists" led by Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, and Lenroot, of Wisconsin, had been insisting upon the oonventii-n going on record in its platform for a ratification of the treaty with "proper reservations." XO REFERENCE TO RATIFICATION Elimination of all reference to ratification was forced upon them by the stand taken by Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator Borah against it. The plank agreed to was expected to meet with the speedy approval of the convention when the platform in which it is incorporated is; submitted by the resolutions committee this afternoon. With- th convention- Veader-suppcrt-I Henry never had so much attention paid him as he has had since being elected delegate from Grass Center. ing the. plank, any opposition that might be startefl to it would be quickly "flattened out" it was predicted. The 'compromise' plank is so wordel it was stated, that no matter who the convention may name as its? presidential candidate, it will meet with hi.s views . The announcement that the compromise plank was drafted by Elihu Root was made by Ogden L. Mills, of New York, a member of the "steering committee" identified with the "mild roservationists." Senator McCormick of Illinois, one of the irreconilibles" on the committee, denied, however, that Root had any thing to do with it. "Do you remember Elihu Root wrote the plank?" Mills was apked. "Or do you mean Senator Smoot." "Elihu Root." Mills? replied. Mills ex-plalned that the "mild reservationists" had agreed to the plank and to the elimination from it of any pledge for ratification of the treaty. "Did Elihu Root draft the plank?" Senator McCormick was asked as he ! f t the meeting of the "steering committee" with Senator Lodge, the convention chairman. "Root, hell." was McCormick's reply. HAMMOND SUPERIOR COURTS David Nichols vs. Mary A. McLeod is the title of a now auit on account filed by Attorney J. M. Stinsoa. Matt Hackstock et al., have filed 6Ult on a promissory note against Bias Gladish of East Chicago through Attorneys Roe & Petersen. Joe Koledin has filed suit for possession of the bakery equipment now situated at 347S Pennsylvania avenue. Indiana Harbor. Nick Cristu is defendent In the suit. Attorneys Sheerer & White represent the plaintiff