Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 7, Hammond, Lake County, 25 June 1920 — Page 1

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H1ST0RY MADE AT CELEBRATION Hajronoiid Commemorates Capture of Eight Fine Industries at Elaborate Banquet.

Hammond's Newest Industries

Pratt Food Co. LaSalle Steel Co. I. . Wolff Manufacturing Co. Metals Rrflnlnc Co. American Manncopy Co. Union Railway Kquipmt-nt Co. Continental Seed Co. Overland Crane Co.

CEMOCRATS TO HEAR WOMEN'S VIEW POINTS Feminine Leader Says Her Party Has Most Honored the Women.

j BY MRS. KEOHGE BASS ' Chairman Woman' Bnreau of Ilemoj rratic National omnvlttee i (Written Kxpressly for the lntcrnatJ ional News Service! i SAN FRANCISCO. CAL., June 25 1 Never before in the history of a polj meal party and a political campaign : have women take so distinguished and , so effective a riace. To say that more than 1.0 delegate?, more than ;130 alternates and an equal number j of women and men on the executive ; and national committees will assemMe in Pan Francisco during: c.mven1 tion week is to give but a partial impression' of the exact relation the , new electorate will btar to the whole body of the delegate?. I A newspaper correspondent said toi day .:n estimating; that about four hundred women would exert an in-

BILLETIV (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 EL'FFA LO, N. Y.. June 2 5 A platform erected for the purposs of of taking a group picture of the 5.000 delegates at the Baptist convention collapsed this afternoon at the Broadway Auditorium. Fifty persons were injured, half of them w omen .

Hammond and East Chicago people were greatly concerned when the report of the Iluffalo accident was icceived. Rev. Robert P. Lkklider pastor of the HammonJ baptist church. Miss Catherine Williams. 607 Truman ave., and Miss Charma. Moore of the Brook's Hons were among those attendingthe convention. Mr. and Mrs John E . Francis, of 4132 Olcott ave.. Last Chicago, wer also present. At a late hour no word had been received to Indicate that any of thein had been included among those inured.

How About Nominating Woman fo

Vice Presidency? This Group Queries

League Plank Stand However is Convention's Real Bone of Contention.

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Celebrating the acquisition of eight new and splendid industries within j the short space cf a few months near- , ly six score Hammond manufacturers and civic leaders with a few guests from East Chicago and Indiana Haibi r were banqueted at the South Shore Country Club last r.ight by Messrs A. M. Turner. P. V,. Mcj n of the Gostlin. Meyn. Hastings company and GeneraJ Manager George Hannauer of ! the Indiana Harbor Belt Kailway. J who were largely instrumental in bringing the industries to the Calumet ; region. A HAPPY GATHERING j The gathering was more or less of ! a jubilation and was designed primarily by th" hosts for the purpose of j introducing the executives of the new j industries to their associates-to-be !

in the Manufacturers' Association and w as one of the most notable events of the year in Hammond's history, featured as it was by details of the extraordinary growth of the industrial city this year and its marvelous propects for the immediate future, when the stressed railroad situation eases up . SWELL CITY'S POPULATION The .ccation cf the r.ew plants in Hammond is regarded as an important milestone in the city's history. They will have a capacity for employing between 4,000 and 5.000 men and when fully engaged w-iil swell the city's population to approximately 5'V'OO people and Hammond will Lae to make varried preparations to l'ceive them. Among the many attractive industries which have located within Ham-

mend during the past few months and j - hich are now either in operation or j under construction may be mentioned j .he Pratt Food Co., with 250 employc; the LaSa'.le Steel Co., with a pay' yr 11 that will carry ultimately 1.000 names; the Wolf Manufacturing Co., " tih 50 employes; th- Metals Refining .''.. which will employ 250; the Union j Ilailway Equipment Co. with its 750; 'inployes; the Continental Seed Co.. j

tv.v employing 150; and th Overland (raaf Co., having a weekly roll of names. GATHERING OF THE CLANS Everyone who attended the banquet considered it one of the most remaj-k-aHe functions of its kind ever given in municipal history and great credit is given Messrs Turner, Meyn and Hannauer for bringing so many industrial representatives together. In his own inimitable way, A. Murray Turner acted a toastmaster. after an elaborate seven course banquet had been served. He introduced the city's new comers in fitting manner and pomced out the justification for so marked a celebration. Ho showed where Hammond had been metamorphosed from a one-industry town to a

home of diversified industry and call- i cd attention to. the fact that since j

the W . fcs. tor.Kcy plant located in Hammond. 40 new plants had been acquired by the city. "We now- manufacture,'said the speaker, "everything

from pickles to pianos, from forceps I

to freight cars." MAYOR BID'S WELCOME Mayor Dan Brown welcomed the new industries to the city after eliciting praise from the presiding officer for the kind of administration he has jriven the city and said that it had increased lfl0 per cent in industry and population in the 14 years he had been in Hammond. He' was convinced that its wonderful railroad facilities were the fountain head of the city's industrial growth. He pointed out the pressing needs of the city at present. Major Kellar. of the Pratt Food Co. corporation cajne to HimmonJ because rf its transportation facilities and rraised the spirit and unselfish help his people had received from Hammond men in getting & start here. "We know we can distribute our output better from Hammond than from any other place in the country." said Major Kellar. "and our concern will begin operations in September." BIGGER THAN' DOLLARS Chas. A. Heath, of the Continental Seed Co., was especially outspoken m his praise of the Hammond men who had figured in bringing his company to Hammond. "There are bigger things than dollars in Hammond," said Mr. Hrath. "It is a noble community and a ' must try to live up to our responsil :lity toward it." "Hammond has a wonderful future."

responded President Hall, of the Union F.y. Equipment Co.. "and we intend

DELINQUENT

PROPERTY

J. Bruce Kremer, national com-

; mitteraan from Montana and vice chairman of the national committee, who mill call the conTention to order. fluency in nominating a candidate for president .sa.d that the women would aggregate one-tenth of the delegatus. I called his attention to the fact that this did not state the real significance of the women's influence in this conven lion. If the four hundred women were in one unit. voting together their number might mean exactly what the figures sympolize, but as a matter of fact every state has a part in that four hundred. No delegation will meet and cauus on the partyplatform without hearing them and directly the women's point of view, whether the problems are distinctive

ly tnose in which women are most interested, or whether they, lie wholly in the domain of economics and politics. We are being asked almost every hour by representatives of the press, wh-ther women ar.- to be placed on I the platform committee and when we! explain that state delegations meet to chOOse their own rcrtrecent -l t '

who are named in open convention thereafter when the roll of states is called, we find it necessary to emphasize the point that whoever is chosen, whether a man or a woman, carries into the platform committee the result of the conference r,f the men and women of his state.

Surprise and chagrin marked the featurts of county and city officials when Custodian Jwies E. Trost turned in his inventory this morning- of the personal property of the Hans Brothers Co.. of Chicago, new lyinjr on the grounds cf the old plant of tht Fits-Hugh Luther company at 150th street and Columbia avenue . Property that originally carried a taluition of 1400.000 and on which i?. is alleged, Harris Brothers had failed to pay a cent of taxes or make any tax return at all f r 1913 ani 1925, had dwindled to a fraction of the first val

ue, it was discovered.

""When the co-rrrpany learned that tax assessor James Clements of East Chicago was on their trail for delinquent taxes they shipped as much property to Chicago as they could get away with before Custodian Trost stopped them." explained a Hamond official thl morning. The Inventory contains the following 1 hoisting machine, one locomotive, ten steam shovels, two cars cf machinery, four cars of scrap iron. "If nothing unferseen occurs the property will be offered to the highest

bidder at puhifc auction on the grounds cf the old Fitzhugh-Luther plant, on July ?, at 10 a. m..' said City Treasurer W. F. Bielefeld this morn.nj-.

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j 'STAFF COPRECf,OS;DENT ! 14. SERVICE' I SAN FIIAC1SCO. CAE.. June 25 I President V'l'son's political represen- , -a'ives in this pre -contention scn ; nre t' day stoutly demanding that trie , - v famous Virginia platform foreicn i "'"iaU-'iis plank stand as the d5r.icxr.i- : ',: party's statement of the peat and ! U'Siiur- of nations issue, the only chan- ' e s being for the purpose cf clartni '. -on. so that it may be better un-

I derstoocl by the man in the street.

THE GREATEST QCESTIONS The Internationa! News Service i? ab!s today to divuice the tentative

! Inrh. labor, compensation for teach- ! er.. soldiers and sailors bonus ar.d I "om ic n sa ti-t. divulge the tentativ I Irish, labor, compensation for teacb- ! "rs. soldiers and sailors bonus and ronipensalinn for postal employes, piat I ffTTti planks as approved 'by th administration . If th Wilson force j prevail in the committee on resolutions 'the following planks will be adopted :

"Ireland We express our profound sympathy for the rights' and aspiration of small nations, and of races, subject to alien domination. The striving of these for self-government appeals to the sense of justice of th world . The centuries old struggle o Ireland for self-government is. today r.f t'r.r- unhappy problems dist-J.-b-

Delegation of Massachusetts women snapped en route to convention.

"A woman for rice president." is the sioean of thia irroup of Massachusetts women attending the Democratic convention. "We

went to know why it wouldn't be say. Tbey point out thit such a a Brood plan for the Democrats to ; move would win many of the nominate a first-class, brainy j women voters. Their senrip.io-it w oman for vice president." they I is shared by some other deeates.

FIRE BURNS FEED CO. AT

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ON ANXIOUS SEAT

GARY BOYS

FODND IN MISCHIEF

1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, June 25. Switchmen in ail the Eastern yards have voted to walk out at midnight tomorrow, Union

Fire of unknown origin yesterday de

stroyed a three-story storage house at the plant of the Chicago Fertilizer &.

Feed company at Osborne. The loss icadt.rs 'Kf.r advised todav. may run as high as $50,000. ! . T, iM.itiw A A , .., I At a secret session held at midnight

izers and seeds ready for shipment. It is believed that the fire waj the result of spontaneous combustion, but plant officials announced this morning that a

j yesterday switchmen efnplowed in the Potomac & Baltimore yards decided alI most unanimously to join the walkout. 'Similar aclion. It was learned, was

thorough investigation to determine the , , , . . , ,

, , ' ntipnia. jcascv- city aiu o.n. r ranroaa cause would be made at once. . .

tu. . i . j v. . . , centers in the east. . The nre lasted but a short time and

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HIT JY TRAIN John Petrakos. who lived on Bck avenue, Indiana Harbor. wag instantly killed late esterday afternoon when he was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio pissenser train. Petrakos w as on his way home from work and was crossing the railway bridge in Indiana Harbor, hen the accident occurred. The train was. east bound and it is believed that Petrakos did not know of its approach until he heard it upon the bridge.

EXPERIENCES A SECOND FIRE Fcr the second time within 60 days the heme of Walter Kc.se, 29S Torience avenue, yesterday was threatened with destruction by fire. A blaze rigmat;ng in a p.le of excelsior ind other w rappmgs spread rapidly through the basement of the house and give firemen of company No. 1. a hard fight before it was finally subdued. The loss is placed at

$200.

Two Gary boys, early this morning, stood in front of Charles N. Neidow's undertaking establishment on State it. and debated the wisdom of stealing a man's automobile right from under h;3 nose even if that man were

dead . Fearing lest the whirr of the motor in the 2 a. m. "stillness might reveal a strange hand on the clutch the lads pushed the automobile 50 feet from the establishment and were abut r enter the car 'preparatory to driving it away when the heavy hands of Officer F. Far.drei descended upon their shoulders. They were taken to Hammond Central station where they confessed to Desk Sergeant, Kunz their intention to steal the car. The boys gave their names as Harold Gradelle. 1555 Taney Palace and John Heist, 2S40 West 15t5h avenue, both of Gary. They were released on bonds of $i00 each and will be arraigned in the city court tomorrow morning. The automobile which the boys attempted to steal is a Buick roadster and belongs to the local advertising man for the Garford Automobile Co. of Chicago. The car is at the polics station. No trace of the advertising man could be found. Officers of th company said they hadn't heard from ! him since yesterday morning.

"Maybe it's a mystery." said police cynically .

was beyond control before companies from Hammond reached th scene. j Fire Chief Nill of Hammond, who

TJBQE MIS TO WAIT 0 F.epres-ntatives of the unions and the department of labor, who have been

flashed through Summer street at 50: working with the men urging thm to miles an hour, reaching the fire before wait for the railroad labor board's de-

thtm deaf to appeals.

Company No. 1 had arrived, succeeded ' vision report

in organizing an emergency forc of "W'c tried to show th m that employees to keep the fire from spread- j president's message to ths board ing to outlying builditgs. ! rr

A check for $50 to the. firemen's pension fund was re-oeived this morning by Chief Nil! from the Chicago office

of the feed company.

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bring speedy action and an award was certain within a week." said one of these representatives today. "But they will not be moved from their determination to strike. They declare they are weary of promises and point to the reports that the board is deadlocked. It must be admitted that they have waited patiently and for a long time. They have got the notion that tho boaxd Is

unable to agree on th .switchmen's dv mands. We have no answer to their argument that the cost of living is rising while the boani is deliberating. Shopmen and other railroad workers

affiliated with the railway employes department are being counselled by their leaders to "sit tight a while longer." THIT FEEL CONXTDENT "We are urging the members of our international unions to wait fcr th !a-

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. KELLY SPOOFED THE YOUNG LADY

Dupes Hammond Girl Into Believing He Was What He Was Not.

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SAX FRANCISCO. Cal., June 25 The Democratic convention will adopt a platform before it nominates a presidential ticket, according to Chairman Oummings of the national committee. The plan to havo the convention nominate before it adopts a platform has not been approved by party leaders. Hiairman Cummins? stated today that leaders fear if the nominating is done before tiiat is adopted delegate? will not remain in the convention until affr the business l.- completed.

A wild seeoe at the Nw York headquarters. Split in t delegation? No. Just a newspaper with the account of tha Yankees' rime and ererybodj wants to see if Babe Ruth made another homer, tng mankind. To her, taa leagne ef nations offers for the first time in history. an international tribunal before which she may obtain an impartial hearing. "We pledge that when American reoresentatives to the league of natione

are appointed, they shall be instructed to bring the affairs of Ireland before that great tribunal for adjudication." Labor "The question of industrial peace is our greatest domestic problem. It is the greatest problem of tha world . "Labor constitutes the largest element of our population. On Its welfare depends the prosperity of all high wages and good living conditlosa ejn-

WILL SEAT PALMER DELEGATION

DEATH OF AGED MAN

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Lawrence Kinr. aged 7.", died of old age at the home of his daughter. Mrs. M. Highland. .".52 East State ftrret last night. H had been ill for three weeks. The remains will be sent to Saginaw, Mich., for interment by the side of his wife, who died two ears ago.

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t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO .CAL. , June 25 An unofficial poll of the democratic rational con rn'ttte today shows that lb Falmer democrats from Gort' n-ill fe seated by a practically unanimon vote, it -as declared here today by 1 ".chert A Olcott. Atty. Gen. Talrrr j .'"crctary. The factions headed by Senator Hoke Smith and "Tom" Watson are contesting the right of the Palmer delegates to seats.

MARSHALL OPENS HEADQUARTERS f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.. June 25 Vice-Pre.vidc nt Marshall held "open house" here today at his quarters in the St. Francis hotel. He had no appointments with party leaders but rever.il called on him and he discussed the convention with all of them.

James Kelly, young debonair, attract I ive. and employed as shoe-clerk in one j

of the Chicago department stores yes- j terday. was arretted at a residence on i vOIVlJVLISSION

Sibley street in Hammond by Detect- f

ive Nick Finsele. and officer Charles Carlson folicwing a request received by police of Hammond Central Statiion from the Chicago police department

that Kelly be apprehended on charges of grand larceny. Kelly is accused c-f stealing Jewelrr, clothing and other valuables from the rooming hcuse at which he lived. Jle gave hia last addres as 131S Wells street. Having duped a pretty Hammond girl into believing that he was a sales department manager of a large whole

sale shoe house. Kelly was won't to i

DENIES PETITION

f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) INDIANAPOLIS. June 25. The rub-in-Serv ice commission today denied the petition .-f the Northern Indiana Gas

I and Electric Co., asking that they be t -a ! t. H r , , HivcTt r,. .-. , . - . .... i -

- -. . iuvwv orri. dMuy a.s a depreciation fund to a fund to be us.d for improvements. The order affect ; the following towns: Logansport. -Michigan City, Wabash. Lebanon and Frankfort. In denying the petition the commission set forth that the company has failed to impend a'.l the monev if sh.m'.i

frequent this city. The woman who I cn necessary repairs and that the dt-

oprraiea xne utMiuuifc . iiuuc "iav.ii , preciaiion iuna 13 more Kclley is alleged to have burglar. zed. than improvements. knew of the ycung man's Hammond at- . fair and acquainted loca.1 police with j nfur-rmTT Ci A v the girl's address. It was arranged ! oIsU. 1 XI Oii. X O

with the young woman that she would

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notify police of Kelly's next visit. Last night Kelly stepped into the trap that had been laid for him. When arrested he had six cents on his person and a terrible grouch. "Faithless? Indeed I'm not,' mapped the young lady last night. "Jimmy is a bad man and deserves no sympathy. Thir.k of him spoofing me like

HE WAS FRAMED Wi.ham P.. Smith who has a wife and two children in Huntington, Ind.. va3 fined $6j in the city court thu morning when found guilty on a charge of indecent exposure. The warrant for his arrest was sworn

'out by H. l.-'tir following complaint

Questoin, Why Did He Go After Cigars When Lug

gage was Full of Perique? Owen. Southw-ick has Just one hope and fond wish. That is to see the niche-r who abirconded with his suit case die in all the agonizing death induced by inhalations o. some very strong tobacco- w hich the grip contained. Southwlck first missed It after he stepped off a train from Martinsville at the Michigan Central station on Saturday. The suit case was left in the waiting room. Souttiwick went out after some cigars. When he returned the grtp was missing. But he Is, confident that grif wtl! come to the thief. For a silent bit cf nemesis in the shape of some sundry pounds of very black and vicious tobacco reposed within it. "The brand has killed more than one man down my way." Southwick said, and gloated in triumph as though the

despoiler cf his riches lay writhing at his feet already. "But I'm going to miss those collars. Such nice celluloid ones. I had m shind up spick and span, too."

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that and he said he had a car and a j or wire. Susan, tn

bia- home on the North Side and and I improper advances ti

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came he asked me to lend h.m

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U. S. W. V. MEET TOMORROW Vn eff.irt will be made tomorrow evening to put Ernest P. Pnhiman Camp No. IS. United Spanirh War Veterans, over the l.lOfl mark. Thirty more members are needed and to aroje interest in the membership drive. Frank

j J . Waish. Past Department t'r.mnmndjer and Department Inspector will ar

rive here over the- M ,n-.n ra:;iojd from Tfuyetfe, Ind.. at 5:12 p. ni.. tomorrow. Ho will be met by II. F. Gran? er. Carl Vermel t and other members of the local camp. Intense rivi'rv between camps for a goal of 1 e-0 per cent, membership has r-prtinc up all over the United s't.-ite and Hammond promises to jump into the lead.

Senator Thomas F. Walsh of Montana is being: discussed as a possible permanent chairman of the convention. "His rcatatache ntl beetling eyebrows gives me the impression of the topical Montana ftherifJ of old-time cowtown days," says Bushnell. stitute the bulwark of civilization. W recognize that the solution of these questions is dependent more upon economic principles than upon sympathetic legislation. We advocate insurance in all interstate employment and the suppression or regulation of monopolies that control the cost of living, are however, subjects that call for direct action. The organization of labor should b encouraged . We believe, however. that 1' is the duty of this nation. frorr its resources of land, to offer abundant opportunity to our soldiers ant sailors. "We believe that the civi' service law should be amended so that

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