Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 24, Hammond, Lake County, 16 July 1920 — Page 1

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legislators Do ' Njt Want To Take Any Wore Chances In Courts jr- . ! TIMIS arjREAU AT STATE CAPITAL i TVDLAKAFOL.1S. July 16. Cnquali- , fld legalisation of the 191S horuontal ; Increases In a.sesments will not no Aproned by the special session of th - QaaeraJ Aesemoiy uut.- ..-.- ( radical change of mind on the part . of many of the leaders in both the ; aaaata an house. I It la now preaumed that the ,ax tangle will be disposed of by the house j this week but that the senate will not j be able to give it luu r"nsi"""" .:i .v. nArt of next week. As It now stands it Is declared mat i substantial majority of the senators are eppes-d to legalizing the increases. partly because . they believ e such an et weuld not be just in the face of i the Supreme Court decision, and part-i ly for the reason that public sent!-; tneot seems to be against th continu- , .nee of the increases on tne aupucai--May Mtiddle Situation Further. t Probably the most important angle t the situation that is receiving the attention of the law makers is the pgs!biHty of a legalizing act being 'aubjact to further attacks in the eeurta. This contingency might muddle the tax situation to such a degree tfcat it never could be untangled, they declare. ... I Some of the 1-gislators believe that l It would be alright to legaliz- the ,ncreases in counties wntre iney naw not been attacked in the courts. StiU there are others who are firm in the belief that the Supreme c-urt decision made the imrr a?ff void in every county regrilCi? of lifigation and that it wouid be just a? unsafe to approve the increases in communities where there ha? been no kicks as in the counties wher, any legalization measures is sure to he fought. More Wrn for f'ounly Offflcala. Of course any action by thelature providing for automatic increases in tax levies so as to maintain the level "f the tax revenue for this yar regardless of reductions m assessments would be attended by a great volume of work for the county auditors and treasurers. Yet there are many legislators who believe that It is better to force "ihe.-p local officials to undertake this work iatlir than take way 'jut. chance on some other MEET TONIGHT First fteps towards opening an a gressive campaign in Hammond by th ing when a business session will b" j held at the headquarters of the Ham- j rnond Republican club. The meeting will be attended by thej officers, directors and heads of com-; mittees ef the club. The committees , are supposed to have been filled out ; by their chairmen and the personnel' wfyl Ennouneed. Plans for the j club's activities will be talked over' In a general way and especial attention will be given to the perfecting of j strong women's organization. ! The proposition of Hammond send-j Ing a representative delegation with the Lake county automobile cavalcad j to the hom of Senator Harding will j also be discussed snd It is likely thin; the club will join hands with the Mc Kinley club of East Chicago in promting the affair. ARRESTED FOR TAKING DRESS "Caught with the goods on." said Chief of Police Peter Austgen. facetiously, when Florence Smith, residing at the State Hotel, was arraigned this morning in the city court on a charge ,f grand larceny, following her alleged theft of a blue taffeta dress belonging tc Anna Swisher, who live at the corner of Sibley and Howardd streets. Florence, being asked by Peput -Prosecutor A. E. tlr'fflths. where the dress was. "Why on me." she replied, rising from the withnes.- chair and a-1-mmini a fascinating pose. Anna alleged that Flo came to her b..ife and took away the dress without permission. Flo says' she and Anna have always been "pals" and loaned one another their dresses. Flo was bound over to the Criminal court under bonds of $500. She w 11 be taken to the county Jail at Crown Point today. WAGE REPORT NOT CONFIRMED

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,- I was n led in tl-e Hammond Miprrier i MNTrpNATiONAL NEW SERVKE 1 : court by Jacob Molik. also of V.'h it l n g. ! CHICAGO. July 16. No confirmation j The suit is the result of an aceidert could be obtained here today to re-I which occurred at the corner of I'is-i ports circulated to the effect that thechrupp and New York avenues. April ! wage award of the United States rail-! is. Molik says he started to walk!

road labor board. scheduled to be . across Fischrupp avenue, nnd was keephanded down July I". would grant any ; ing a sharp lookout to avoid auotmnbiles

boosts of from S to 12 cents an hour to the l.SSO.onn rail workers of the country. Officials of the board denied the truth of these reports, and said that no announcement as to the award would bo made until it is officially

Sen. Nedjl Believes in Bill Paucity Insists That Bills Should Be Read Section by Section On Second Reading.

TtES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL IxniA.NAPOL.IS. July 15 Senator Neidl of Whiting Is one of the major- 1 leU meimbers of the senate. ho ha-s ! ed to introduce a long list of bills , ,H the special session or the Indiana , General assembly. The senator said ; today that he had a number of hi!'.. that ho would have liked to introduce. ' but that he did not believe It was in i line with the public policy that should j he considered at this time. BELIEVES IN BIL1. ECONOMY During the session yesterday Senat.ri xe.ldl warr.el th senate that it should nt mak anv misia-Ke!,, however, in j rushing bills througn without tnorougn ..onsirtior, Ve do not want to leave hrr an(J b1 lhe aughmK gtock of the mate." he declared. At the time the s.natPr wa9 insisting that the bills j.hpujd b(. rwad j,.ction by section on recond reading instead of rermiitir.s i hem to slide by with merely the read ing or the title. SHOULD READ BILLS This provoked Lieutenant Governor Push to call attention to the fact tha it is the common practice of the sen-j a-e to run tills through on second road- j mar by merely recitinc the titH. "If we . - . .v. i - t r , tk nil cok-1 ?).n !tpt((,n" section w would be j here yet and would not have been abl to Eet it to its passage.'" the presiding e.firer declared. "Yes," Senator Kejrl replied, "and if we had read the tax law section by siec'ion and knew what was in it. we would not have to be here now to fix it up." DEMOCRATS OBSTREPEROUS Because, of the obstruction to speedy consideration of bills placed in the road f hv ,h dcmocrati. mlnor. whlrh ref fo jojn with the reI publicans to ! Lke count y susrend the rules, two i biils. which wore given ' : U-.eir sri-ond ren-iinc failed to go to j ihrir rassa;. vrstnrdiv. One of thesei ; ; - the Lake county officials salary bill j sind the other ss the Hammond school ( bill legalizing the purchase of temporary school buildings, which was intro duced by natr Brown. cars in mm j Wantr flsrs nrp in Onera.tion 1 On Surface Lines, Both Sides Standing Pat. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. July 1 Chicago's street car strike continued in ecect todav with both sides "standing rat" In the

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controversy and no indications In sight j ppjnt where his case will be heard bethat an agreement will be reached to- ; f,re jUVenile Judge E. Miles Norton, day. j

From the company's standpoint the situation was much improved, how ! ever. Many cars were running early l today and a statement issued by th company officials declared mat seven- , .. . r.t v, a r.r n's r "null hnup service was in effect. Normal dav service would be maintained. they said. None of the motormen and conductors joined the strike In sympathy with the maintenance of ser-1ee men who started It, it was reported. TD STATE LINE Late yeterda v the Chic.ipo Surface ' ; linos were able to resume limid serv- ' i m ire over the lines from t hicago to ther . ; i Indiana si ite i:r.o. nooKing up wi'.n ine , H.. M'. E. i. lin". In the evennz ! about half the usual number of ears ; was running and this morning the num ber had been increased to three-fourths j Traffic between Hammond. "Whiting ' I and East Chicago and the state ilne I was light jcslcrday. Few people were ! willing to travel to the end of the line ! without assurance that they could pick ' up means of conveyance on the Illinois ' side, and business was light after IIj linois cars were placed in service last I niRht. of the Green line have j Local ofneia ; hron informed today that traiTie in CI c.'go will bo T.i per cent normal bv night and that the hues will be operating on their old schedules In a few days. MADE DEFENDANTS Vincent Muse and Andrew Demkovioh I of Whiting were tod.-.y made defendant?" in a suit for Sl."t.l(ii"i damages, which and wagons when Muse and I5cmko lch bore down on him in their car. He says they were traveling at a rate of 15 miles per hour. Molik was struck and dragged for some distance before the front wheel passed over him. One leg is said to have been crushed. His attorney is Joe "W. TodrLI

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WELL, IT'S GOOD FOIi SOMETHING The "white mule" b:i U m:;l'In Indmnn ilnibor li-is ; real kiek aerocdin to ':ii(sir! 1'cwr.fT the ln:i:-.n:! Harliur u;!;tr. lie irnrr :t'.ruse three stills Kftk itntl i:uk!U t knt-.-. li- r -U he Is tnlUlnc. The enptain h:m been nffiloted recently ith ai.l Mificre.l thousand riRopfes wlibmit Hntiln.-r any relief until :i couple f l:j:ijto be hTppeneil t: xpill scir.e "white mule' n n boll which n : Ju Ktnrtlim. I unuedlately the pa!:i stopped anil now the boll ha entirely disappeared, enten out by the llery liquor. 1'iie enptnin In thinkof stnrtlim n "boil remedy" factory.

BICYCLES FASG1MATE THIS BOY "I don't want to go to the rrfornmtory. They. ea.y they're going to sun me there, but I don't want to jro. I love bicycles, but my mother won't l me have one because sh5 says I wear out my clothes too fast on a bicycle," VcreJ Shivley. U04 Atchison avenue, At-hitir.g. and who hag established his rimfation as champion hicyc'.e thief of the Calumet region, looked up from be hind the bars in a cell in Hammond i ntra.1 etatlon and told how he had taken three bicycles yesterday, selling one for $10; being caught by the owner of the second. n.nd getting away with the third until he was arrested in East Chicago this morning on suspicion. Accompanying Verel was Cecil lee. also of "Whiting. The former Is 15 years old and the latter, 9. The boys stole a bicycle In Whiting yesterday morning. Riding into Himmond they sold the "bike" to a Hohrr.an streei garage for $10. VCith the money the lads bought a flash light. air rifle, and other equipment arP'l ins to Iv-ivs Then thpv came across an other bicycle in front of the Liberal Credit Clothing store, on Hohman street. Cecil l..t.i, the Vionrlle hs r rLndl Verel to the s,eaU After a After a couple rfi hours riding In which the lads circled i Hammond's proposed "boulevards" thev j returned the, blcycla. But the owner was, waiting -them wd the boys w-r j taken to Harnmond Central rolice st.i-j tion where ha.ving ben sen-eraly repri manded. they wfire turned loose. At 153 State, street they came upon j a nice looking bicycle belonging to Robert Keckman. 44 Sibley street! Again they mounted a stolen "bike" and j forgetting all about Hammond and its. interfering policemen thy set on j East Chicago. La-st night the hns slept j I in an employment agency office there, j ! This morning as they were riding oUt j of the city, po-Uce baited them. onhalted them. onfessionp came quicKiy ana tne ro were returned to Hammond. This alternoon the elder boy was taken to Crown DRY AGENT GETS INTO T SOUTH BEND. Ind., July 1 Leonard A. Collins, age thirty-two. a government, prohibition agent. who was detained here on charges of passing worthless checks on the proprietor of the Jefferson hotel, will not b prosecuted. He has arranged to pay the amount of the cheeks. Collins was arrested In Evansvill'. where he was on temporary duty, although his headquarters are at Inrlin onnollA . . .. , It was alleeed by the police that ,, . , . ,w . , . , Collins issued checks to the Hotel Jefferson. In this city, in payment for , rooms, and that the checks were returned. A telegram also was re- ! ceived here saying that Collins issued a cnecK in rrencn uck ior ,.. ana that It was returned. The chief f j police at French Lick sent the wire, j Collins said that the entire affair s ) a mistake, and that be deposited suffioenf money In Indianapolis with the ' Fidelity Trust Company to cover all checks he has issued. This money, he : said, consisted of two lno bank notes i made out personally bv William M. , p,,., president of the Fidelity com pany. He suggests that the notes may have been mislaid and not credit - j d to hjs account. He has issued three checks to the one for $3" and two fur Hotel Jefferson, he says. $:. LAKE GO. BILLS ARE ADVANCED INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 15 Under j suspension of the rules today the s nate unanimously passed feenator Nejdl's h il 1 amending the nineteen cit'es and counties war memorial acts to permit the donation of buildintrs and grounds for war memorials by private citizens, Shortly afterward the Nejd! bill, that aims specifically to, affect a memorli! at Whiting, was placed on first reading In the house. It was referred to a committee The Brown senate bill legalizing action o-f the Hammond school board in purchasing buildings for temporary school purposes also was placed on first reading in the house of representatives and referred to-committee.'

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I It I LI.KTIN.I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICCI I OS ;KI.Ks 'nl., July l. K.-ur lirrsoiir. are known to he been Injuil with neveral others unreported, and eonnlderahle minor damace was ilone to property here as the result of a Ntvrrr earthquake which roeken l.os tncrlm about n. ni. torfny. The Ininred nustainr dmlnor hurts from falling chmlneya and broken glass. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' IIS AMiEL-EH. Cal., July 16 A severe earthquake shock, the worst felt here In years, rocked L.os Angelas .nd vicinity this morning. The tenibl" ! came following the sharp jar of a terrific explosion. Buildings were! shaken and jarred from foundation to roof. Thousands of people in the downtown sky scrapers dashed for the elevators and stairs and poured out into the streets. For a moment the city was In coniion. but realization that no damafr was" done and that danger was 'past, restored order. The tembler was peculiar 1n that it was not felt outside of a zone of a few miles, with the best reports available. Pomona and Ontario, San Diego and other cities felt no trace of the shock pnd the suburban towns which experienced the quake reported that no damage resulted. Telegraph and telephone companies reported no damage to their wires and communication was uninterrupted. Except for a brief demoralization when telephone operators became panic sticken and left their desks in downtown buildings to flee to the streets, fearing severe shocks would occur. According to the best check possible the shock was entirely local to Los Angeles city and one of the outlying towns were able to detect the tembler. except the suburb of Inglewood, which reported that the "quake was slight." Inglewood was badly damaged by a " so. I Vo C q TT- a c-. reaiilteA ferw . -' . " " rip ' v . OFFICE IN EAST SEOi I East Chicago s free emniovment office . . ... .nKC, ,,. ... I rnornjn(? when H. E. Jones. hi a? been In charge entered the rrnrbv of I the General Tank Car corporation. Mr. j Jones will be assistant to w, j. Hi her. i employment manager of the Corral American, and will take the rlaer of H. J. Pernor, who u as formerly goernment employment aenl at Hammond. Mr. Jrr"irr has taken a position tith the Ii:u:nna Harbor Belt railway. This, the first dosing of the East hloago once, proinises to be the tn 1 of the office jn East Chicago since a number of the .ouncilm-'n have lafl . expressed themselves as opposed to arv further appropriation for th" place. The appropriation which has already born made will probably continue for the remainder of the year, but it is not hkey that th' tae authorities will maketi new appointment If the city .vilhonti's do not desire them to do so. miring the war and immediately fol lowing tne cast. nicaffo ernce marie f nn record in placing the large number of applicants, but recently diritic th" lahor scarcity in the Twin Cities, i' lias not been necessary for men to apply at the government office for work. F.ecause of this a lar-o share of the work of the office has stopped and has caused many to think that the office is unnecessary. NEW BUILDING FOR T i The General American Tank Car cor-j Iteration's b iil'lnK activities were again ! brought to no'icc i. ;.rdiv when the, company took out building permits aggregating J.'ti.'Mifi. This is only a drop! m the bucket 'compared with the vast ; expenditures wbirh have been m-ide at ! the plant during the past year, but j rurh of the small permits is an important part of the whole which -.mounts to , millions of dollars. ; The permits taken yesterday call fori an addition to th'ir brass foundry to be j erected at a cost of $15.in(i. a repair: car shop to cost Sin.Oei, and a sand ! blat shed to cost Jl.noft. j AME RI C AN C HAM P BEATS PARKE t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LONDON. July 16. U'm. M. Johnston. American tennis singles champion, today defeated J. C. Parke. 6-4; fi-4; ;-6; 3-6; 6-2 in the Davis cup competitien between the American and Knglish teams. The match was a slash-j ins. hotly contested affair as the ft scores indicate and Tarke extended the American champion to the utmost, coming back gamely and winning t w .- sets after losing the first two, only to be beaten by the flashy playng of Johnston.

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PEDDLER IS ACCUSED Danny Raiser, age s years, tvu ci, in.bruised shoulder in the city court this mo'ning to the gaze of Judge and pr s eculor as evidence of the roughness -f Tony Sgoazls. grown-nian and peddl.r, w he is alleacd to have beaten the poy foilrwing a. raid on hi.-' wagon as it was passing the si '.ley bet ween State andPlumm era enue. Toay w-as arrested on a charse of assailt and battery on a warrant sworl out by Danny's mother, Mrs. Mary Raiser, 67 State street. Th cae was cnnliir.i'ii t - Monday, w hen other lads alleged to have been whiprrd by Tony, will npnc.tr against the pdd!er. CONSULATE IS SACKED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI LONT'ON. July 16. Several persons wer Wiled and the Jugo-Slavs consulate vas sacked during a clash between Italans and Jugo-Slavs a" Fiume. adds an Kxohanee Telegraph dispatch from Vienna today. The tr.uble began when an I 1 in n mob atuckfd the home of a Jugoslav citisen. A number of buildings, including two banks and several Jugoslav coft houses, were demolished.

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$55,000 DEAL AT INDIANA HARBOR SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN POINT. Ind.. July 16. A big .dcn! m Indiana Harbor property was rce-'i-d. d ;:t Crown Point on Thursday. Ant Ivinv J. Purr? and Thomas p.-llock .' liing to Car; Kosenbloom lots 7 and in block in Ind. ana Harbor for Joo.'.'fiO. This is. one of the biggest deals in Lake cunty property for sevuai weeks. MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS WED f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! VALPARAISO. Ind.. July 16 A Valparaiso mother and her twin daughters will have no difficulty recallng their wedding anniversary. The entire family assumed marital vows last night three ceremonies being performed by two clergymen. Mrs. Lillie Zane became the wife of John HKely, a prominent business man and Cora and Nora, the daughters, became the brides of Wm. Baker and Harry Erie respectively The twins are prominent in the town's social circles. Read The Times Want Ads

Drys Say Cox Will Use Influence To Fight Wines and Beers ii By ALBERT k. F.. r. ;;u; :i: J STArr coRRESPONDcr;T i. n. service! , COLUMBUS. 1 . July ii.Th' 1 ttl brown jug is like-lv to iiukum- big proportions here nxt we, . .o Itric In fact that it no v r.pnrar." Gov. James M. Cox, democratic presidential nominee ill h(ivi considers bii d'flicultv in get

mg tatd It. Peiiey P.aker, general j .up:riitcndcnt of the Nau.inel AntiJ Saloon league. Has called a meeting hejr on July H r f the loaders from all over J 1he country and it is believed the dry 1 forces will insist the candidate mak"i his position cle.?r on what he. intends j to do with the Volstead ait in the events of election. EASTXKir DRYS START STOT Allegations from nslrrn proinbition to the effwt that ';. i", ix will lend hi- aid in loosening un the eighteenth 4 p-,-ndmTit to permit tli- manufaetur of beer and wines under the guise of K!:t;c rights still fail to bring any an- : nur from the candidate. Charges from the same source that he ov.es b.i. nomination to the liquor interest nnko Gov. Cox mad. but does nm Ioomcti his tongue. I: is deonnoH Iceon tlirt' he will not permit li- . iTicers of the l'."gue to dielalc what bi political policy haH, TOKGTJX TIED TIL I. TTJESDAT He has maintameri this was n matter thpt would be taken up in the national committee meeting next Tuesdav bo-i fe-j-c l'o wotild say one word on il. His j statement in Middietown. of his belief in the full enforcement of the law id ' the oniy encouragement the dry forces ha' . e had nnd on the other hand h- has maintained that the voting power abroad during the war ought to have had an opportunity tn register thetr wishes on the Volstead act. mhitant woken active Full power of the Na.tior.al Woman's party will be brought t' bear on tha candidate today when Alice Paul 1-ads! her de'K gafjon to the state hou?" to t:rge Gen . t'ox's support in the rat iiica,-' lion by the Tenressee legislature of tb.8 suffrage amendment. Among the prominent suffrage workers 111 il.e party Mrs. L. French of Knoxvillr. Tenn.; Mr?. Mary Stewart Bunch of Hendrr. on. ly.. arid Mrs, Fu- White, national --"ate' chairman, of TMtfW. Miss V. Lite. ; whoso collection of legal ofinions l,.--lp- ; rd to bring about the calling of a spoi ( ial session of the legislature tn Tennessee, w ill rresent the suffrage situation in that state. Residents of Hammond's East iide are once more showing irteres: In their transportation problem. They loudly express their dissatisfaction with the pres-ent street ear service and are preparing to ak the Green line to make some changes which will work to their benefit. At the present the street cars are making almost a' complete' loop of th city south of the Michigan Central tracks an dthc East Siders now want the company to complete the loop, t ars now run as far north on Columbia avenue as the Gary & Interurban tracks on Sihiey street. Per-tons residing north of th" Nickel Plate tracks and desrtng to visit the business district must go south on Columbia, west on Morton and ("onkey avenues and north on Hohman street. Three railroads are crossed in that time. Ordinarily the trip requires between fifteen and thirty minutes The street car company has idte tracks on State street, east of Calumet avenue to Howard avenue. Til" end of this spur is just 1..1"nr feet from th" north end of the Columbia avenue extension. Thus by laying only 1.100 fet of track a complete loop of the territory will be provided This would let the Fast Siders ride rlirect In tVna i business district in ten minutes or less with no railroad crossings to contend with. The dhope of loop serv er south ef the Michigan Central has been revived after beng floored year after year. Prominent East Sders are now nictating the matter and it is planned to carry the matter before officials of the street car company in a short time.. TRYING TO ABOLISH SERVICE COMMISSION 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE i INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July 15. The Hogsdon bill to abolish the puiiiic service commission and re-establish the after astlff fight on the floor. As a with prevision of rate-fixing, through agreements of utilities and local offic-iaii-or by the courts, was reported out by judiciary A committee loday without recommendation. The senate concurred in the report. A hot fight by public utilities interests to avert the abolishment of the commission was in prospect in the upper house. The co mmission received a heavy blow in the house yesterday when a minority committee report recommending passage of a measure similar to the Hogsdop hill was adepted after a stiff fight -n tbe floor. As a, result, it was believed today, corporate Interests would center their battle to fve the ce-mmission in the senate. The urper house measure was Introduced by Senator Alfred Hogsdon of Marlon.

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