Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 9, Hammond, Lake County, 28 June 1920 — Page 1

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Suit Filed in Behalf of Second Wife in Connection With First Wife's Divorce.

League of Nations Figures In'

Keynote Address At Democrats Convention i (BY DAVID M. CHIRCH ) e 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERV1CE1 AUDITOKJL-M. San Francisco. June jSS. Hold;r.g ITesident Wilson as the j "Immortal" leader of the Democratic ! Party. Homer Cummins. temporary chairman of the Democratic National Convention, in the keynote speech p. ening the convention today, called up"n the Democratic cohorts to "stand with the fore- of civilization" and the Pres ktdent in a bitter fight against nullillc.

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When Pauline Fredericks shot her i

husband, Hvnry C. FriedencKs at Ll-

.n. 111.. May S. questions arose as t -

the disposal of the estate of the man who had accumulated considerable

property. Mrs. Friederieks 9 a! Crown Point woman and her husband, I

was well known in Hammond, where he had formerly bean engaged in business . Today in the Hammond Superior court a suit as filed which waj expected to dispose of thiiJ difficulty. The suit was filed by the state on be

half of Pauline Friederieks to mandate Clerk Herbert L. Wiuaton to make certain entries on the court's order book in connection with the divorce suit of Frederick's first wife. On April 10. 1314. the court granted Matilda FTiedericks a divorce and the order made certain adjustments of the property rights between the parties. The costs of the proceedings were not paid by the defendant at the time the order was issued so it was not entered on the books by the clerk.

' Subsequently, the relator in the pres

ent case, was married to Friederieks and the question ha-s arisen as to the ; legality of their marriage. in order. ! if r O C .1 i K t A t r ftmr- , r V. n r- o et.

the costs have been paid and the present court proceedings have been instituted to force the clerk to complete the record of the old divorce, case. Attorneys McMahon and Cnnroy are appearing for Mrs. Friederieks.

STEEL

PUT DETAILS

ARE GIVE

Work Will Soon Begin On In tregal Units 'of Plant West of Michigan City

STORY BRINGS HIM

SENATOR JAMES D.THELAN of California can take his meals at home while attending: the Demo, cratie national conTention. lie lire in San Francisco, tton of the Peace Treaty and the Jeague of Nations. "Let us stand with the forces of civilisation." said Cummins. The .choice is plain. It is between the democratic Party's support of the 'League 0f Nations, with Us program ' c peace disarmament and world fra

ternity, and the Republican Party's i

platform of repudiation, provincialism, m.Htarism and world chaos." CAl'SED WILSON'S II.I.1NKSS President Wilson's illness resulted from "crucifixion" at the hands of his "political adverf aries," Cummings : charged. 'He had been physiciaily wounded just as surely as were GarJ f.eid and McKinley and Lincoln, for, ;t ! is but a difference of degree between I fanatics and partisians." Cummings " said . Cummings devoted more than half I of his keynote a-33ress to the League 'of Nations and left no doubt that it Its the desire of the President and those

Tl CARS OF COAL Coal Merchant Succeeds in Pleading With His Wholesaler for County Poor.

Charles J. Be'shar. superintendent of the, Laka County Poor Farm lett Hammond Saturday night much happier than when he came In the morning. The Time's' story of impending coal shortage at the poor farm netted him the assurance of two tars of coal and the promise of aid in filling hit

! entire order. I Mr. Eelshaw was pretty blue SaturI day afternoon . He had tried all of the dealers and had been turned down jfiat. It looked as though there was j no chance to fill the poor farm's coal bins before cold weather set in.

j J. J. Pibr-s. Hammond coal dealer, j read the story in The Times. He was

having the same trouble as the other

dealers in getting coal. However

he thought he might make one more effort in a good cause so he got hi Chicago wholesaler on the long distance phone. He presented the situation of Mr. Eelshaw. A strong plea was made in behalf of Lake? County's unfortunates who fare the riirors of

1 Winter with an Amniw K,

The coal merchant's he-art w.i

moved. "We will send two- cars at! once for a starter." he promised. Then j he added that he would do his best to- I wards getting more -oaI to the poor ' farm until the winter's stock was in. j The farm uses soo tons of c-M yearly so at least sixteen more carloads will be necessary. I

SPECIAL TO THE T1ES1 CLEVKLAND. O.. June 28 Details of the plans to build a flool plant on a sitt- with about tuo miles of Lake Michigan Trumae just west of Michigan City. Ind., were announced here by F. W. Wheeler, president of the Saginaw Shipbuilding Co., of Saginaw. Mkh. The new company, the American Iron fe Steel Corporation, with executive offices in Cleveland, is charter

ed in Delaware, and is sponsored

interests identified with the steel industry in the Cleveland. Pittsburgh and Michigan districts.

Work is to begin on blast furnaces

an.i integral parts of the stei 1 plant.

I and it is announced that these units j art expected to be jn operation withi in a year From ii.nciiioo t,, Jionnn-

K"' is to be expended in the initial construction of the plant, it is sail. 2.-0 Tun Dally.

j ihe first of a series of blast fur

naces of improved type will have a capacity of :50 tons daily. It also is panned to construct in the first year six open-hearth furnaces and a 12mill sheet plant. .Subseo lif-nt con

struction is to include a tube mill ar.l

eventually other mills for the manuj fa. ture of plates, rods. bars, slabs, j raia and wire, bast furnace capacity , to be increased as needed, i Others interested in the new steel I orporation are former Congressmen , Wheeler, L. L. Knox. Pittsburgh, presi dent of the felkk-Knox Steel comi pany. vice president of the Blaw-

rw.uA cieei io. and identified with various other companies; K K. Slick

Pittsburgh, chairman of the SlickKnox Steel Co.. and former vice president of the Midvale Stetl & Ordnance Co.. J. A. Langfitt. Pittsburgh, vice president of the Vnited Chemical Co.. George a. Magoon. Pittsburgh, president of the Commonwealth Fuel Co.; A. J. Vernier. Chicago; George f. Titus. Detroit, president of the Detroit Paper Mfg. Co.; ft. L. Queisser, Cleveland, vice president of the Jones Gear Co.. and F. J. Lancer. Cleveland, director of the Lake Superior Iron Ore Co. I.nunrh Lake Meanter. The company is to launch three lake iteamships during the year for the carrying of iron ore from its holdings in th Lake- Superior district. These

,lrs"'"5 win nave a rated of 12, r.oo tons each.

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E-Urict M toWior views of the Auditorium at San Francisco, and Homer S. Cummiogs, temporary chairman -t the DemocratK national convention.

HAMMOND RAISED

capacity

-PASSPORTS SHOW

NEW PROFITEERING

"You Can Only Charge Dollar," Says Uncle Sajn. j "Send $9 To Me."

$2,500 FOR ORPHANS

Hammond responded liberally to the appeal of the Carmelite orphanage lor financial aid. At noon tc-day it was estimated by Chairman A. M. Turner that the city's contribution through tag day pales Saturday waa Jl.sno. I'ntil late in the evening the faithful corps of girls and women haunted Hammond's s-lreets keeping sharp watch to see that no prospective tag purchaser got away. Few escaped. It was estimated by Mr. Turner that R.'Wn people had been tagged which makes the average contribution ab.-ut thirty cents. The task of checking up the money received by each tag sa'esUdy was a long one. The figures are interesting. M hen the boxes were opened it was found that dimes predominated. Thsre

were 4.7'0 of them, eame the nickels of 3,50f. Then came 2.

WILSON ELEMENT WILL BE IN CONTROL

By J. BAST CAMPBELL (STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE 1 &A-N FRANCISCO. June -$. K.-yn Uie resolutions committee gets down to business this afternoon at the Auditor. :um the administration forces will control at least two-thirds of its members, supporters of President Wilson iredicted today. Wm. J Eran, the Nebraskan. and Senator I'avid I. Walsh, the Maspa, chusctts member, and other anti-admm-istration members of the committee, will find themselcs in a hopeless miaorit'. it was also declared. Bryan and Walsh say they anticipate this and ill carry their league fight to the t cntion floor i.i the s-hape of a minority report, which Walsh oroh.

5EKNEVS FLASHES

BULLTT1N ' INTERNATIONAt SEWS SERVICESAN FRANCISc'O. June it.walion Jennings Erynn -a ;ii light to 'he end against the nomination of William McAdoo. according io Ix-e Herd man of Omaha. Nob . close frirr.d of Mr. Bryan Herdman today, following a conference with Bryan, slated hc- was in a position to positively declare that Mr. Eryan will oppose the nomination of McAdoo to t)u end.

HERMAN HERMES

NOW A BENEDICT

Delegate -ein Seal Rock. "Lookit 'em. Bill. Thick as fleas on a livin' dog's back. I'd like to cop tiff a few of 'em for the wife's winler coat." -ho support him that this question bt made the outstanding issue of the 1'? campaign by the Democratic party. Denial that the President opposes res ervatior.s to the peace treaty was made. ty Cummings wnen he declared that, "it is not reservations that the President stands against, but nullications ." He declared that the President has constantly announced his "willingness to accept any and all reservations not Incompatible with America's honor nd true Interests." (Continued on pag- three.)

And He's Going to Send Us a Picture .of .Himself Bathing in Pacific.

Herman Hermes, formerly of Hammond and a native of Ireland, but now

one of the boosters of Kiveraide, r-al., was married last week to Cecile Marguerite Hudson, formerly of Hammond. Herman thinks the new smay interest fe.s friends and write?: I think this is the garden spot of the world. Riverside !s the center of the Citrus belt of California, it is also the home of the Famous Misr-ion Inn. I have met a great number of ex-Hammc-n-ites sinoe coming out here Tom Warrilow, now art director for Wm. Farnum. who ia making a name for himself in the movie world, also Capt. 'Doc' Smith famous football coach, who is now a flyer as well a-s flight surgeon at March field, near here. Doc donned the pijffkin himself here last fall and gave the populace some of old Hurryup Yost's stuff which defeated anything they stacked up against. I also met Lieut. Wilson, who is filling a prominent pc-sition in the same .rapacity as in Hammond, that of Phycal Tnstrctor to our schools. I notice by The Times, which I get regularly, thanks to my friends, that baseball is still going on in Hammond in an amateur way and Frank O'Rourke has blossomed out as a manager. Best of luck to him. Tour-? as healthy as ever. ' HERMAN C. HERMES. Will send you a picture of myself in a bathing suit soon, sporting in the

, Lake county people who wished to 1 make a trip to Europe or Cuba but I I who failed to apply for passports be-i fore June 25 are out of luck. The!

price nas gone up and the increase is i e(1

...... n-,. i,.i ni-ji iiiui.i oi prcniccr ling at Washington are heard. j The old price for passports was j Recently U. S. Commissioner Charles i Surprise of Hammond received notl-

cation that the price would be boost

ed to J10 on July 1. Then came an

ther communication 'which stated that

the new charge should become effective June H3 a3 none of the passports issuej on or after that date would be

issued until after t;,e first of July.

-Mr. surprise chuckled when the

notice of the raise was received.

o" me ice he received $1 and

w a nihirol ( v., - . . . ...

..... Mjppose inatj he was to get naif of the 10 also, j His smil faded, however .w hen a lat- ' er official notice instructed him to' keep SI as usual and send the remain-!

mg $? to Washington. Thus the; price of the passport increases (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! per cent, to the public. the govern-! L'OWEI'1- 1NP Jun'' 2 8 A disasment's share of the proceed, increase,-' trUS orcurrpd af Schneider. 12 Sun ter cent, while the share of the i southvr"t of flPr' Saturday a.

. (nr nir maiiru in tne hotel and

l.janrry. -i jiaives and 21 . paper dollar.. There were several five-dollar bills. Only one silver ilnl'a- or.n-

in the whole lot. indicating th.

great scarcity of this coin. Mr. Turner has not heard of the work in other cities of the region but tt is expected that East Chicago will do even better than Hammond. He speaks in glowing terms of the work of the. ladies in putting the btz job over and gives them full' credit for

ram? trie oay the success which proved to be.

ably will submit, especially if lirvan

Next in order j finds it necessary to make a minority which there were j r pert on the "dry" plank for w hich he 600 pennies, l.eyn j is sponsor.

The session of the committee is expected to bo a stormy one. Bryan and Walsh leading the fight against the administration program, on which Senator Glass of Virginia, the k'ated administration chairman of the convention and his associates, were still busily engaged this

morning. A final draft of the administration platform will probably not be ready for submission to the committee until tomorrow or Wednesday and the committee is expected to do little more

it i today than meet for the purpose of or

ganization.

ETJII.ETrre INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' SAN FRANCISCO. .Tune 18 It s XI.vAdoo on the third, fourth or fifth ballot. Slid Postmaste-r 'ieneral Burleson today. "I rrcd.cted yesterday that McAdoo would be nominate,! and the situation look? just the same to m,. today, where the delegate are all set to go. McAdoo is as good as nominated."

SLAKE CO. TOWN

HAS BAD FIRE

man at the receiving end of the pro

cess drops from

cent. In the past the

sued only for six months, with

percent to 10 rer

passports were is-

ra-

restaurant and spread until five buildings were burned on Front street. The town being without fire protection little could be done except to keep the

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r.ewal priviliges. The ,ew pa.ort, spreau.ng to other buildings

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wiu or gooa lor one year with the rrivilece of two --ix n n h . -.-- .

making them equivalent to , way the fire was kept on

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passports.

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Word was received in East jChicago yesterday that Mike Belish, an employe of the Harbison Walker Refactory Company, was killed !n Mnuih Chicago on Saturday nijjht. Uelish wa found with "his skuil fractured and it is believed that he was struck by an automobile. Belish was a single man and lived at 4738 McCook avenue. It i. thought that he had relatives in South Chicago but the names or addresses are unknowns

iion was out ngncing nre and in this

the one

fire wa3 under

control five buildings were burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars, which is partly covered by insurance. It was thought for a iim? that the New York Central depot would go. but by the hard work of the off Tee employes the building was saved.

PENN. RY. EMPLOYEES

THREATEN A STRIKE

BULLETIN WASHINGTON. June 2S. The railroad labor board will not award a blanket increase to railroad workers, but will establish a minimum wage scale for maintenance of waymen and from this minimum all other scales will be computed, according to information received here today by labor officials.

RECEIVE VICTORY MEDALS Ex-service men who have not Fecured their issue of victory medals, may secure same by making application at the recruiting office on Broadway any time between the hours of S a. m. and S p. m. The victory medals arrived last week.

1 INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICE! PHILADELPHIA, June 28 Unless tlx Pen:isyl ania railroad meets certain demands of trainmen by 11 o'clock tomorrow morning a strike of 58.000 men in the service of the company is threatened . The men by an overwhelming vote decided to quit their places if their demands are not met immediately in a mass meeting which ran into the early hours this morning. The ultimatum was issued by Harry S. Jeffrey .chairma nof the advisory board Philadelphia and Camden Federation of Iabor. Among the demands made are the dropping of all criminal charges against Jeffrey fo racts performed by hi ma? a union official. The Reading road has not been included in the threatened walkout, but aheir freight today Is in a congested

condition. Botlvccmpanies are keeping I school

BTJliETTW PAN FRANCIoVO. June 2S. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, announced today that his plans are all laid for labor's fight before the resolutions committee. "Al we want is the adoption of the sarrvo labor plank by this convention that'w presented to th Kepublicans." he said. "I expect an invitation to apjear before the convention tomorrow."

BUXLXTnJ SAN FRANCISCO, June "McAdoo will b nominated because an overwhelming number of delegates from every section of the country believe he is the only man who couli lead the Democratic party to victory." Judge Eugene Bonniwell. of the Philadelphia Municipal court and leader of the anti-Palmer forces in Pennsylvania, declared today.

passenger service at normal.

PRIMARY CASE IS CONTINUED

Try a "Times Want A4'

ISPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT. Ind.. June'

IS. Be-

DEATH OF MRS. SPOHN The death of Mrs. August L. Spohn.

wife of Prof. Spohn, of the Hammond

took place yesterday morning

ip Brennerman hospital, Chicago-. from tuberculous. The decedent was born in Belle Plain. Iowa, and besides her immediate family, a husband and two daughters. Harriet and Margaret, she Haves to mourn her father and mother in Florida, four sisters and a brother She was 42 years of a.tre. The funera'

cause of the delay m receiving his ap-. will take place from the family resi-

lj"inim-ni. as special judge in the I dence.

Holmc-?-.M( II r ov-

ta tarroll .street, on Tuesdav

election recount from tc the First M. V. . Chnrrv, at .i

Gov. Goodrich. Judge H . L. Crum- Rev. Basset will officiate. Emmetpacker at noon today, continued the ling will have charge, interment at Oik hearing until July I j Hill cemetery,

Over-Sunday Work Boosts Cox Candidacy Several Degrees

nt LLii'n A I HAM lSv O, I'AL i Jane USIt a definitely Announced early to-

j u.iy mai senator Jonph Hoblnnon, of

I.onoWr. ArW., hud been selected permanent chairman of ibr democratic luilionnl convention. Srerrtnry of M-te Uninbridcr Colby. 1 -u aiil. would be udminlotr.it ion floor leader, nuil Smnior t 'after f.l!L, ( YtrfcinO, li.iirman of the rrftolutia.s committee . It vrn understood, however, that n flRht would lie made againot Glan' rleetion by Borne of the administration eritirj., but It wan nor brllrrH thflftht would muterinlly change the ltuntion .

HI LLETIV UIHTOBll'M, s.V-A FRAMISCO, C'AI. . Jane -ZS When the curtain weet up today on the flrit brief acme of democrncya grrot quidrrnninl rnnTetit)..n aprctnele 4,.tfiS delegate end alternate!, dMcmblrd under the control of J. Ilrnre Krrmrr polinhrd red wood Kavrl, come to listen mainly to thr eloquence of Homer S. Cnmininga In his remarkable keynote addreaa. were atill in ruafnilon In reaped to the party standard-bearer, with Gov. Jame

M I ox. of Ohio, much on their lipa mil with Wm. G. McAdoo, the big convention conundrum. BV M ARLEX E . PEW 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE' SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.. June 'sWilliam G. McAdoo remained the ent-trn-.a of the democratic convention tociay. The forces behind Gov. James M. Cox privately declare that McAdoo is final in his refusal t,, run and claim

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Sportj delefats from Bstn Remg Chinatown, trying to Kire puide to show m aoTaethlatr a W$ shady, y' know. a heavy over-Sunday gain for then Ohio candidate, alleging that on tke third or fourth ballot we will be

(swinging more than six hundred vsi .

tes . This statement is on the assumption that McAdoo will stick to h's declination. tAX BE FORCED OX HIM The other side of the picture is a statement by Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, to the International Newt Service, as follows: "I have assumed all along and in

GEN. ISAAC R. SHERWOOD, Democrat rongresaman from Toledo, Civil war veteran and one of the oldeat members of the loner house, will be disappointed if there is anything in the Democratic platform that may be construed as favorable to the maintenance of a large array. now that Mr. McAdoo will run if tha nomination is forced upon him. I base this statement upon Mr. McAdov own statement that no man could refuse the presidential nomination if i: were given to him by his party." IlERi: ARE McADOO ROOSTER Sunday afternoon more than 6" m-n

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