Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1920 — Page 1
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Candidate Will Stand By His Pre-Convention Friends and Workers BT A . O. HATWABD 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N SERVCE WASHINGTON. June IS Senator Warren G. Harding, the republican presidential nominee, intends to hold mtact for work in the general cam- j paign, the Harding pre-convention or- : gani-iatien. He feels that this is due to the ; friends, who, without money and in , the face of many discouragements brought to him the convention dele- , gates and held them loyally through j the strain of ten ballots until success came to him . WILL DEPEND ON HAIIDING 1 The republican national 'committee: -Al be an important part of the campaign machinery. It will not. however, b9 all the machinery. The Harding j organization will be the ultimate; working, driving power of the candidate . Harry M. Dougherty, of Columbus. O., w ho arrived this morning and conferred with Senator Harding, is the head of this personal machine of the republican nominee. Daugherty is a veteran Ohio politician, with loyal friends and bitter enemies. The latter defeated him for election as a Harding delegate to the Chicago convention while electing most c his friends. WANTS OINGERT CAMPAIGN At their conference this morning Harding and Daugherty considered plans for the campaign that have been worked out by the latter. Daugherty ii insisting that no time be lost in getting down to a systematic campaign, full of jrinarer. He has prepared the Harding organisation throughout the country lor such a campaign. With these plans carefully digested. Senator Harding will be ready tor his conference, set for next Monday, with Chairman Will Hays, of the national committee .who w ill present his plan rf campaign. It will be necessary for Harding to co-ordinate the two (Continued on page sixteen.) Serap Slackoscff, whose Induct. on int i the U. S. Army :n December, 1917. cost him $20 which he has never been jtieto recover, is stlil seeking tc find some way in which lv can get the ;ty of East Chi.ago to make a rest itution. Scrap came to East Chicago from Mchaw. M;ch. during the ar. Before aving Mohawk, he had registered for he draft and had instructed the draft hoard how tc reach him a: East Chicago . When his name was reached oy the board, the notification letter was sent to East Chicago, but for some reason he did not get it. Easn Chica1,1 police veer- instructed to pick him u P . They did so and he spent twenty .x h"-urs in jail before a friend. Una .cayksff. put up $20 1 fcr his release. Mockosoff went to Mohawk and en-o-"d the army and served to the enj r ' the war. In the meantime h!s friend. Sayksoff. wer.t to California, after trying: in vain to recover the mon ; which he had put up for Mackc-soff. However, in order that his friend would not lose. Mac-kosoff ?ive him and Saykseff later provided Attorney W. E. Reiiani with power of attorney to obtain the bend money and t-irn- it over to Mackoso. Efforts at 'ocatin.sr the money were fruitless. I: had disappeared shortly after Mackosoff was released. Mackosoff has had th services of abo-ut fiftee ndifferent attorneys, all of whom have given their time without charge, but none has been able to help him. Admitting the obligation, the city council ordered a special ordinance drawn by the city attorney, repaying he $200 to MackPsoff. After the ordinance had been drawn the city attorney took the matter up with the state board of accounts a.nd was informed that the warrant could not be drawn legally. There it has restei since last January. Mackosoff was in Hammond this week In a despairing effort at finding seme one who- could help him. There seems little chance and It is said about the only w-ay that he can be reimbursed la for the city officials and other public spirited c!tizer.s of East Chicago- to get together and make up the $200 out of their own P'-cketa. ATLANTA SUFFERS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! ATLANTA. GA . , June 18 The warehouse of T. H. Brooke & Co., in South P,utler St., with its contents of sugar, flour and grain was destroyed by fire last night, causing a loss of $200,000. Fireman John Mayfield and Amos Eisse were seriously hut not fatally injured by falling debris.
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!fX : t. OOVE3LI.OB EDW AED I. EDWABDS NEAR FATALITY ATHESSVIUE Gisbon Raliroad Man Comes To Grief in Brand New Car. John D. Sltbert, living at the Hotel Mee, narrowly escaped death last evenmr when his Chevrolet roadster, in .Vii,'Vi Nft v-aa Hrivinp u.aft struck and completely demolished by a fast freight train'at the Summer St. crossing of the New York Central crcsoI ing in H;ssvi!le . ' . . . t T ? ry tieoeri. an employe ci mt i. a. railroad at Gibson, was severely cut about the hands and 'ace. It has not been determined whether he suffered internal injuries but incidents surrounding the accident make his escape from death virtual!yvff 'mrfacTe. He v as returning to Hammond from Gary . Siebert. who bears the reputation of being an unusually careful driver, says that there were neither lights, watchman or warning at the crossing. After the wrecked automobile had been gathered from the tracks it was discovered that some one had made off with one of the tires. FALLS TO (INTERNATIONAL NfsS SERVICE I BOSTON", June IS Boston today fcU to thy seventh position in cities of the U. S. when the population of Detroit and Cleveland were announced by the census bureau as S9o.7:J9 and 76.S"J6 respectively. Apparently firmly en trenched in fifth place this city w-as forced to give way to the two middle west municipalities which showed amazing growth . Boston's population has been announced as TIT.1'23. St. Louis, for many years the fourth largest city, was also superseded although showing an imrcas" much larger than Boston's and by the latest figures is in the sixth place. The standing of the seven leading cities of the country, accord. ng to the latest figures follow; New York Chicago Philadelphia, (estimated) Detroit Cleveland ?t. Louis Boston .5.621,111 .2.701.212 l.KOO.000 . 93;t.7D! , 7D6.83ti . 773.023 . 7 4 7.923 RELATIVES SOUGHT Chief of Poli-e Peter Austgcn has been asked to hunt for the relatives of James Ondrew H-'dge who was killed in an accident at the DuPont powder plant at Wilmington. Del, on May 4. The young man was 21 years old. was j feet, 5 inches tall and had dark brown eyes and hair. FAIR GROUND BONDS SOLD 'SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, led., June 18. Co. Auditor George M. Foland disposed of the $110,000 fair ground improvement bonds on Wednesday to the various banks of the county, each bank taking an amount according to its resources, being taxed $3 per thouar-d. The improvement at th Fair Grounds j will begin at once, the contract having been let to E. H. Crowell of Crown Point last week. The disposing of the bonds has relieved Cc-unty Auditor Foland cf a load as he has been anxious to have the work at the Fair grounds started and the bonds had been offered for sale but no bidders. CROWN POINT MAN ELECTED V.VEPARAISO. Ind.. June IS, 1320. Jhe district conference of County Agents held here yetserday, resulted in the re-organizati -n of the agents of this district, by the re-elect. on of present officers : V. A. Place, Crown Point, president; and Chas. Bruechnei, Ijporte, secretary. The next meeting will be aeld in Culver on July 2ist.
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Brown Is Out For Good Roads State Senator for Lake Co. Aids Hammond in New North -South Highway. Will Brown, of Hebron, joint senator for Lake and Porter counties is still plugging away before the Stats Highway Commission in the interest of betti i roads for this corner of the state. His latest feat was accomplished yesterday when through his influence the commission took ovi r the Ad Way and made it part rf the state highway system. Hammond is particularly is benefited by this latest move of the commission for it will now bo provided with a state supervised highway directly south from Calumet ave. to Kentland in New tin county. When this route and a connecting link west from Crown Point has been placed in condition, Hammond will have an excellent direct rout? to th county ?eat. The Ade. Way which now becomes a state highway starts at Kentland and passes north through Morrocco. Lowell, Schneider, Cedar Lake, St. John and Tyer and into Hammond over Calumet ave. This is the first highway to be laid cut the full length of ths county. - , Ear!;.- in the spring, the commission set aside a number c f sections of th Lincoln. Dixie. Jackson and Dunes highways as state roads making a total of over sixty miles at that time. In taking over the Ade Way over thirty more miles are added making the total in Lake county now close to ninety-five miles. While Lake county seems to be favored more than other counties ci the state in total mileage, the commission realizes that this county is the gateway through which much of the tourist traffic passes in going from Indiana to Chicago and points of the Northwest. It was largely through the efforts of Will Brown that the enormity of automobile traffic through Lake county was brought to the. attention of the commission and resulted in the first quota of reads being selected. This latest resu'.t of his work will be hailed with delight by the people of Lake
and .New-t'M eo-irntie. ESCiACH'S STATUS iM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIA-VA-POLIS. Ind.. June 18. Jesse Eschbach had "nothing to say" today as to whether he will be speaker of the house in the forthcoming special session of the legislature. It is said that if he does take the post of speaker, :t may necessitate his resignation as chief examiner of the slate board of accounts. Mr. Eschbach. however, served as speaker at the ene-day suffrage ratification session w Hen the legislators served without pay. It r.ow appears certain that thc""sreial session will convene June 25. simultaneously with the Democratic national convention at San Francisco. GLASER PAPERS SET ASIDE AND G AN CELLED SPECIAL TO THE TIMES', "CROWN POINT. IND.. June 18 County Clerk H. I, . Wheaton received a letter from the federal government on Wednesday ordering him to set aside and cancel the certificate of citiznship cf Paul P. Giaser of Gary. Ind. Tapers of which were issued to him on April 30th. 1312. The trial of Giaser was recently h"ld before Judge Anderson in Indianapolis and citizenship was denied him in the United Stater .
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EXPECTED Shocking Charges are Made in Police Station Relative to ,mg of ..Youths. .I Carl Buse, i.. Michigan avenue, was taken to the county jail at Crown Point tsterday where he will be tried in the criminal court on serious charges. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by Edith Buse. a sister-in-law, following what she alleges, was a continued orgy of licentiousness inludged in by Buse an da group of young men, whom she says has contaminated many young girls of the neighborhood. The particular crime for which Buse is locked up is the seduction of. Mellne Diettt, aged 15 ears, a slip ef a girl, and a sister of Busse's sister-in-law-. The girl lived in the same house with her married sister. Buse was a boarder. In a story' related to police of Hammond Central station Buse broke down s.nd confessed hi3 participation in a continual round of parties at which girls of tcrwier age were' Invited. Deputy Prosecutor Albert E. Griffiths Is preparing airidavits against half a dozen other members of the alleged corrupt ring and expects to round up the gang w ithln a, few days. One ot the most sensational stories of vice and the corrupting influences worked , by innocent house parties and auto rides, ever written into the annals of the Hammond police department prortistn to be revealed soon with the arrest of other members of the gang. Th6 cry of county Juvenile attaches asking. "'VVriy don't mothers keep their girls home at night, or at least know where they are?" will be answered in full, it is expected, when the escapades ef Hammond"s youth are "divulged at ths trial. Dinner For New Plant Invitations are out for a dinner at the South Fhore Country Club. Chicago, or the 24th inst., in honor of the representatives of the eight new enterprises which either have or are to become a part of' the City of Harrrmond this year. Representatives of the, existing manufacturing plants ef the City will. be host to the representatives of the following new enterprises:. Pratt Food Company. Continental Seed Company. Overland Crane Company. 1m. Wolff Manufacturing Company. EaSalle Steel Company. American Manicopy Typewriter Co. T'nion Railway Equipment Company. Metals Refining Company. CASE WAS DISMISSED Friends of George Coyle. 264 Plummer avenue will be gratified tc learn that the charge of wife desertion that was brought against him. has been found to be entirely unsubstantiated and aj a result the case was thrown out of court. "It is clearly a case of mtsundermanding." said the prosecuting attorney, when Coyle was arraigned in the court this morning. "There is no evidence to up-held the charge and I see no reason to prosecute."DEATH OF A. ARNOLD August Arnold, a well known citizen of West Hammond, living a.t 217 West State Street, died yesterday in St. Luka' hospital. Chicago.- He leaves a wife, son and daughter and four grand-children to repine. The funeral will take place on Monday af ternocn In charge of Neidow. Budial at Oak Hill. T K'ewTvi m . , , S Mr .JW - '". ' ' ' io.. '?., rar "s yv c V 1
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CHICAGO, June 18 A week ago Fred Steffier was taken before Judge Landis charged with transporting an automobile across the state line from Indiana and selling it in Chicago. He told a thrilling story of personal heroism at Bellau Woods, Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. He spoke of unrewarded prowess. A khaki shirt lent a touch of realism to the story. The judge looked upon him with a sympathetic eye. The case was continued a week for investigation. Yesterday Steffier, with two companions in the charges, again faced Judge Landis . "I have investigated your case at your home in Anderson. Ind." the Judge said. "Do you still say you were a former soldier?" "NiV the defendant replied. "I waen t telling the truth. I never fought in the war." "Well, this record shows that you are a reformatory graduate and that you have stolen automobiles before. You are sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary." The other two defendants were sent to the house of correction for six months. WOMAN PROTESTS E E Police Inclined to Doubt the Accusation of Her Husband in Regard to Crime. Mrs. Will Thornton of East Chicago, today continued to assert her innocence e t the charges made against her by her husband in which he asserted she had thrown a man into the lake to drowji after having knocked him unconscious with an oar. She has maintained silence since her arrest last Monday and has failed .to divulge any Information Although 'the po'.ice -are convinced that she knows as much or more than her husban d. The police are investigating Thorntons story, but in view of developments are inclined to doubt the story in its entirety. For ono thmg it is considered improbable that a man could be enticed into a row boat at the time of vear when the crime is supposed to have been committed. At that time the weaiher was cold and not at all favorabla to rowing. The police are inclined to believe that the man was hit on the head by one of th gang while walking along the street or in a house and his body was then disposed of by throwing at out of a boat. Some change and a watch which were found in the pockets might have been left there in order to avert, suspicion of murder. As soon as possible the members wi!l be bound over to the criminal court and will be sent to Crown Toint to await trial. POLICE BAFFLED BY ST. JOSEPH MYSTERY Body of Young Woman Decapitated Has Not Yet Been Identified. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ST. JOSEPH, Mo., June IS. New clews, leading in different directions today have the police more baffled than ever in their attempt to solve the Lake Contrary murder mystery. revealed when the nude body of a young woman, minus the head, was brought to the surface of the little summer resort lake by a fishing party. A possibility that the supposedly beautiful young woman may have been carried a captive to a bridge over the lake a rendezvous for summer flirtations and there brutally beheaded alive was seen today in the discovery of indentations in the bridge flooring which the police believe were made by an axe. The barely visible marks, surrounded by blood splotches, led to the belief that they were made by glancing blows of the instrument, perhaps due to the struggles of the woman. The position, of the marks left little doubt that the slavers cut off the head just before casting the body into the water, and to prevent identification, carried the head away with them in the "murder car," found by detectives at Armour. Mo., 17 miles from here. The fact that the arms were securely pinioned by a wire clothesline added to the belief that the woman might have been carried to the bridge alive. The failure to find ths head, although the entire countryside Joined in seining the lake and digging its banks, has convinced the police the murderers carried it off with them for burial at some distant point. The police were still seeking today a woman who telephoned the undertaking establishment of Sidenfaden, asking for a description of the body early yesterday and stating that it might be that of a missing relative. The description was given and the woman told she might call to view the body, but she suddenly hung up the receiver when her name was asked and has not ben heard from since. Advertise ia ne Tirries and adrerti a?a:n. Resjlts come with constant effort .
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WIT.I.TAM O. McADOO BgT.T,T.mr INTERNATIONAL NFMS SERVICE I LOS AJVGEI FS. Cl.. j-ane IS. A slight earthquaki; was felt here early today. The trembler was of no consequence and lasted but a few seconds, it was said. BTJTJL.ETI3T f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! N'EW YORK, June 15. The stock market closed steady today; government bonds unchanged; railroad and other bonds steady. TJXLXTTS r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! MONTREAL. Qua., Jum 18. Samuel Gompers was dat. unanimously re-elected president f the Am'jicau Federation of Labor. BUUETIir f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CLEVE LAND, O., June 18. With drawn revolvers, five bandits today held up the employes rf the First National bank of Chagrin Falls, about IS miles from here, and escaped with loot estimated at ?lo.00. BTTXuUBTTJsT t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVTCfl WASHINGTON", June IS Senator Harding learned this morning with deep regret of the death of George W. Perkins. He sent the following telegram to Mrs. Terkins: "Flease permit me to send you in this moment of sorrow my deep sympathy. The country has lost a useful citizen and the Republican party an outstanding personality." BTJULKT1N r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CEI WEST ORANGE, N. J... June 18 For the first time in many years the w histle at Michae Winters old brewery failed to blow today when a f.re broke out. The brewery was recently converted into a candy factory and the engineer explained that he could not get up enovgh steam to toot the whistle. BUXXaXTXXT f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ! TOPEKA, KAN'S . , June 18 Henry W. Allen will not as kGen. Wood to deny a statement that he branded Allen a "Judas" following the Kansas delegation's desertion to Senator Harding at the Chicago national convention. Seen here today Allen characterized Gen. Wood's alleged statement as "hot air," and declared he had not seen or heard from the general since Saturday's "landslide." SHERIFF BARNES SAYS "NOTHING DOING" He Balks on Taking Marovich Automobile In Custody. Sheriff Barnes balked this morning when it came rft taking into custody the automobile which prohibition enforcement officers "confiscated" from Nick Marovich. the Highland still operator. Nick's attornejs had started suit in the Superior court to recover possession of the car and this morning Deputy Sheriff Albert Mcrris started out to serve the papers. At the federal building the efficer ran against so much argument that he decided he would rlay safe. He was told that the machine wis already in the hands of the and it wc ul I be out of the question for him to try to mnke i any more so. He communicated with Sheriff Barnes, who told h:r! to let it rest for the present. Through an error the ram- nf S-im Fostelwaite and the Yellow Cab company was included among the dr fondants when the rapersi in thn replevin suit were filed. A Cole automobile had been stored at the Kunert garage, but it was not the one wanted. S3tn says he is always looking for publicity for his enterprises but having hi? firm hooked up with the theft of a car does not appeal to him as good advertising. The plaintiffs will be dismissel as to all excert the prohibition officers.
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n KLUJ 11. MARTIN ' STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N SERVICE .SAN KKANi'I3a, CAL., June 1? -Friends of Wm. G. McAdoo today seriously doubted the auihentieity of report circulated here that the forme: head of the U. S. treasury had s"i' a verbal request to western delegations not to vote f r him. "While Mr. McAdoo has made plair time and again that he not a candidate for the presidency I doubt ve-y mucli the authenticity of this report." declared Mrs. Ar.tonette Funk of Chicago, one c? the most active workers here in behalf of the McAdoo boom. IT'S GOSSIP OK CONVENTION Other friendj of McAdoo here also scouted the truth of the report. It was. however, the choicest morsel of convention gossip afloat and delegates discussed its possible effect, on the balloting if true. One delegate favorable to McAdeo declared that the termer secretary of the treasury might be expected to issue some pre-convention statement as to his position with regard to the nomination. McAdoo has announced his intentino of remainvng away frorri the convention. Gov. Cox. of Ohio, will al" remain at home, his manager, E. H. Moore, announced here today. COX CALLS IT irWniGJflPIED According to Moore. Gov. Cox would consider his presence here "undignified." The announcement that Atty. Geen. Palmer will come to Saa Francisco, however, insures the presence of most of the presidential candidates. Gov. Edwards cf New Jersey, will arrive early next week. Senator Owens Ic already here; Secretary of Agriculture Meredith is expected next week and Senator Hitchcock and Simmons are expected to arrive before the convention opens. The announcement yesterday that the western states have been asked t form an organization to provide for concerted action in the convention toek on new significance today with the arrival here of Senator James I'. Phelan.and the announcement that he will fight Yor the inclusion in the dmoeratic platform of planks providing for the exclusion of Asiatics and tprevent foreigners from acquiring oil lands in the U.S. The special trains began to roll In for the convention today. The first one brought eighty newspaper men . Another bearing the Pennsylvania delegation will come early next week . New York, Ohio and Indiana special trains will follow. DINES WITH By A, O. ILATWAJBJD (STAFF COR RES RONE ENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON. June 18. Senator Warren G. Harding. Republican nominee, is not gravely concerned as the result of a referendum on the league ef nations covenant advocated by Presi- , dent Wilson, and again urged in a state-. ment from the president published thus morning. When asked for an opinion oa the interview given out by President WiiSun, Senator Harding said: "I am sure the Republican party will gladly welcome a referendum on tha question of the foreign relations of thi republic ind that the Republican attitude of preserving our nationality wil be ovei whelmingly endorsed." Herbert C. Hoover b'-ea.kfasted with Senator Harding this morning at th senator's home in Wyom'ng avenue. "The conference between Mr. Hoover and myself covered a wide latitude and w-as most satisfactory," was the sen-4 ator's only comment. None other than Mr. Hoover, except the senator's immediate family, was present at the breakfast. John Barrett, former director of ths Pan-American Union conferred with Senator Harding today on Latin-American matters. Senator Harding has long been interested in the development of friendly relations! with Latin-America." s.aid Barrett, "and it was this question th:rwe discussed. The conference was vert satisfactory." Ohio Republicans are ail set for h campaign and are awaiting a word from the Republican nominee to go aheid. THEY WANT TO SUB ROOSTER FOR DONKEY ' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE? CHICAGO. June IS Illinois democratit women will make an effort at the San Francisco convention to substitute the rooster for the donkey as the party symbol, it was stated teu.iy by Mrs. Frederick Tahl, cf the sta.e democratic women's committee. "The democrats are not "mulish,they are merely firm." said Mrs. Tahl. "The donkey was inflicted on the party just after the civil war, because of their opposition to the reconstruction program . The rooster i3 a proud crea--ture, and has a good deal to crow about. Democratic women will wear little silver roosters at the convention." DEATH OF INFANT Edith I.oraine. infant daughter ef Mr.' and Mrs. H. C. Sou th wort h. IM: Hay avenue. Hammond, died thi.-t morr,. i :ig. Funeral announcement w,:i ?' made later. Read The Times Want Adu
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