Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 117, Hammond, Lake County, 3 November 1920 — Page 1

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THE WETHEBi FOR IVtllWA Knlr and omr. That uarmrr tonight Thursday cloudy and narnitr. Oa streets and newsBtands, 3o Hacuaona and '.Vest HaaunocS. jer copy. Delivered by Carrie: la oOc per mrjntlv. Democrates Put Up Terrific Fight On Kinder But He Gets Majority BrtI.ETlX tnOWX POIT. Ind.j Xot. 8. The Lake county republican runjority estimated on the strength shown in 40 out of 90 precincts will be from 1S,000 to 20,000. l'crhaps tt will be a little higher, perhaps lower. The election anvssinp board met promptly t l' 'clock and began their laborious task. VnoSirlal returns from -10 out of 09 precincts give Wood, 10,000; Barnett. -.543; McGllI, 871. For prosecutor. Kinder, 9,507; Murray, 3,006; Granger, N53. In the sheriff race In the same number of precincts Hut Olds got 10,OiiS and Evans (K. L ), 1)51, showing that the efforts of a Gary paper to get the democrats to throw their votes to i:ans for sheriff as the democrats bad no candidate, was not successful. Lake county haus teen saved again, .-ave3 by the widest margin ever piled ij p In any election In the country's hia'.TV. Accurate fig-jres on the extent cf the landslide are not available, tut from returns now at hand dopster3 find It easy to make estimates givir.g the republicans majorities anywhere from 15,000 upward. It was a veritable tidal -wave which swept everything- beiore tt. EETTKSS IN EASZ.T Aside from the fact that thj republicans made a cleaning last night was :he most satisfactory election evening ever known. Returns began coming In early and kept coming in a steady stream so that Information was in the hands cf the waiting thousands with a promptness and dispatch never equaled before. National results from the east were pouring In by Bupper time and within a few minutes after the polls closed In the county, the boards of the various precincts began sending early figures to central receiving stations. oBards ovr the county seemed to vie with each other In being first to report their results. EESTJIiTS OAKT In Gary the results were 4 to 1 In favor of Harding over Cox, and 3 to 1 over the combined opposition. It is believed final fig-urea for Gary will show Harding with close to 9,000; Cox 2.550 and Christensen, 1.100. Chrlstensen fared better proportionately la Hammond than any other city. The totals for Hammond were as follows: Harding, 5,22 LUX, 1.6SZ Chrlstensen, SSO. Gary rolled up a vote approximated at 80 per cent; Hammond turned out about 80 per cent, while East Chicago and Whiting furnished even higher percentages than Gary. Disagreeable weather cut heavily Into the vote all over the county, but the results were much better than expected. CONCENTRATE ON" KINDER Every county republican candidate went over with majorities practically the same as those of the presidential candidates. The democrats had concentrated their efforts against Dwight M. Kinder, the republican cundjdr.te t"'cr prosecuting attorney and it had been freely predicted that Murray, th-- democrat, would make heavy inroads. Much of the expected ;cratehing did nTt materialize although several precincts slapped Kinder hard in faor of , Murray. Kinder trails b.-hind the rest cf the ticket, while the complimentary vote for Murray places him at the head of his tieket. TJNEASINXSS UNFOUNDED Activities of the Farmer-Lubor can didates and booster lvj.u w.-rried re- , fui'iicans considerably for a v, . j the menace had dwindled a'.tiieusrh there, was still some uneasiness eve-i up to eio.-tion day. Results show that l!;e fears were unfounded. In -.. r-i pi-- , cincts the tieket ran ahead of tliJ democrats, but for the ounty as a) whole they made a nwk third. In the south townships many precincts , reported no vote east for the tiekn. j It was a busy day for ekctir n hoards, i Voting started with the opining of (Continued on pape five.) , TTTVT'G T?TT?rFTTTl A V Trifl! PT'.HVTT.r.F:. Tn.l. Nov. 3 ft wast 9. I v;ll as-bei.ator Harding's and he ole- ( brated his victory bv going to -bed r-.rlv after accenting many wire con-

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VOL. X l'. NO. 117, TY Did You Hear That r. L. DAVIS visited the old stamping ground at Rensselaer over Sunday. ATT Y. JOE TODD confidently predicted that Hammond would go republican by a plurality of 2,500. NOT only has J. C. Coleman won the Country Club championship, but a new son arrived at his home lately to help him celebrate. NEVER was there an election ia which there va so little local betting. It was impossible to Ind democratic money at any odds. H. HENDRICKSON, of the F. S. Betz plant, is making a trip on company businoss to Now Tork. Philadelphia and Tittsburgh. WILLIAM DOETIL 11, has been absent since Sunday from his home, C30 Henry St., and the parents have asked the police to look for him. FRANK RICinviNC, foreman of the Simplex spring shop, has been mado superintendent of the spring shop and is receiving congratulations. SOMEONE stole the electric motor from a washing machine which was sitting on the back porch of the flat over the bakery at 841 Calamet ave. A SOUTH Bend waitress. It may Jolt you to know, was brought into police court over there last Saturday for driving her new Chevrolet 60 miles per hour. JULIUS TAVSING tried hard to get a little Cox money, but says he was unsuccessful. The only, bet he could get was that Debs wouldn't get a million votes. WHAT, asks an old timer, has become of the boy whom everybody In his home town thought was headed for the pen or the bad place because he smoked cigarettes. PARK SUPT. HEl'.MAN HOI.1Z and his assistants arc busy these days getting in the bulbs and putt'ig the winter coverings on ;l:e flowi.-r beds it :!io city parks. JUDGE GREEN, of West Hammond, with $100 in his mit, was arourrd looking for some Harding man who thought Harding could carry Ohio but couldn't find any, he said. AN automobile ditched Its trailer on Detroit st. yesterday. The driver none the wiser, continued on his way, while the trailer now occupies a place in the front yard at 163 Detroit st. THE auto with the Weservu legend bearing a huge banner having on it: "Jimmle Cox Is Fit To Leave HiiS Front Perch" was a part of the Cox campaign in Gary on Saturday. SIMPLEX employes are anticipating the dinner-dance to be given by the American Steel Foundries force of Indiana Harbor at the Lyndora on Saturday night of this week. NEW wrinkle In voting today. Autos were sent with a woman to various houses to care for the babies, while the mistress of the house was taken to the polls in a machine to vote. CILVRLET BCHRING, custodian of the court house, took no chances on forgetting to change the clocks back. He docked them an hour Saturday afternoon before he went home. JJOHN WATSON", local manager for the National Piseuit Co., is still being complimented on his exhibit in the Fall Festival parade and especially upon th bagpipe orchestra which later furnished music for the dancing. HALLOWE'EN roughnecks threw a br'ek through the front window- of the residence of T. C. Robinson, 454 May st. There were sixteen kids in the crowd, so he fears he will never be ablo to identify the guilty one. IT doesn't take some of the women long. One democratic rollbco'.c holder said to a young republican voter she Knew: "i'our name is not In the poll tok." evidently trying to shoo h'm away. Hut be cou'dn't be bluffed for hi? name WAS on the polibook. AN abandoned electric automobile has been standing at the edge of Harrison Tark on Lyman ave. since Saturday tiiKnt. The contempt in which electrics re held may be judged from the fact that no one has offered to steal or molest iho gumshoe car during the three days. TOM FLA NX AG AN, one of the old ' :.. . , . ; . tT- - , , rwJ f aruiy inc uiuioiin. nr during the summer to w ork at the American Maize Prolucts plant, but the c-ld bug was still in his system and ho finally had to get to get back on the force tnuch to the delight of Chief Austgen.

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Relief Is In Sight At Last Chicago is to Have Indianapolis Blvd. Almost Impassable for Years Great news for Lake county motorists. "Public hearing on the paving of Indianapolis bJvd. northwest of the Indiana State line will be held by the Beard of Local Improvements on Thursday, November 4th at 10 a m . n the j first floor. City Hall. Chicago. The highway is to be paved with granite block." says Major Hrnry W. Lee, j a notice sent to members of the Calumet Manufacturers Asosciation. "The urgent ticeejsfdty of this improvement Cinnot be too strongly emphasized. Indianapolis Blvd. is practically the only road between Chicago and Northern Indiana arid it has long been in a sadly dilapidated condition. "Ever since its organization nearly two years ago the Calumet Mar.ufac- ' turcrs Association has been working for this improvement. "Members are urgd to take a fewhours off and attend this hearing or . else send a representative so that its importance may be made evident to the board. It will mean mm h 1o every : plant and almost every person in thdj entire Calumet region-'

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ARTIST IN AUTO SMASH; MAY DIE Prominent Indiana Harbor Man in Critical Condition in Hammond Hospital K. Bucks taber .w ho has cendjeted a photograph studio at Ct,S2 Guthrie St., Indiana Harbor, for a number of year, and who is considered one of the most prominent men of the Twin Cities 1-cs at the point of death at the St. Margaret's hospital with a fractured sku'l as a result of an accident at 10:50 last night, when his machine collided with a taxi owned by Dale Fliek'ngcr and i WOMEN ARE SNOWED UNDER INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE! rive women aspirants for U. S. senator wore "snowed under" by yesterday's avalanche of votes. Tiey were: Sirs. Leah Cobb Marlon. Pennsylvania, wlio essayed to oppose on tv "dry" ticket the re-election cf Senator Penrose. Mrs. Ella T. Eoble, prohibition, and M'ss Rose Schneiclerman, Far. mer-XaCbor,' New Yort. Miss Ann Martin, Independent, Nevada. Mrs. Culla J. Tayhinarer, prohibition. Indiana.

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Foch. and other celebrities driven by Gene Kohl. 4Jn Way Home. Buckstaber. who was accompanied t-y bis two sons, was on his way home and was diiving west on Grapevine street when he collided with the machine driven by Rohl who was coming south on 13Sl!i street. As both machines approached the intersection ot KISth and Grapevine, it appears that tcth drivers attempted to swerve their machines to avoid accident, but mistaking each others moves, ran directly into each other. Mrs. Ralph Fairman"of 341st and Grapevine was a passenger in the taxi. .She had been attending an entertainment at tho Civic Club and was on her way home when the accident occurred. Gene, Rohl. the driver of the taxi, sustain-d lacerations of the- scalp, while Mrs. Falrman revived numerous tuts and bruises and was badly shaken up. She is reported as confined to her bed. The two sons of Mr. Buckstaber also sustained several cuts and bruises and w ere given first aid by Doctor Teegarten. who later had them removed to their homes. - Both machines are a total wreck and beyond repair. Since Grapevine street was ipened as a boulevard several ac cidents have occurred at tms same spot. BULLETIN r?PECIL TO THE TIMES1 WHITING. IND., Nov. 3 Dr. George H. Kcckins. formerly coroner of Lake county and one of Will ting's best known professional men. died today la Wosley Hospi.al. after an operationHe submitted, some time ago to an operation and second became neessssry.

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HAMMOND, INDIANA 8,0Q0 Votes Are Cast In Hammond Complete returns from Hammond precincts on the presidential candidates were known earlier last night than In any of the cities of the north part of the county. By 10 o'clock the total vote of the city was known. Following is the vote by precincts: Hardin; Cox Christ n Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct Precinct i. 34S 151 8 ID S 2i 1 1 :b Mi 43 o! 21. hS S 1 -1 104 Oti ?c TO 5 1 , i So 4 r.iM 1) b--110 S . i ; 10. 11. . 1 13-. so 1 0 1 il-i 260 -1'SS Precinct IS Precinct 1J Totals .195 101 1 '.'o co: 24: 1.695 ?bl Returns are incomplete tin the vftc ! for other candidates but m yeneral i they stood in practically the same ratio as for the heads of the tickets. Kinder, candidate for prosecuting attorney, was the victim of the most scratching. As elsewhere in the comity, he was frequently ditched in favor of Murray. However. Kinder seldom trailed the head of the ticket by more than ten votes. Many precincts gave him the full vote while at least two hit him hard. Precinct 3 of Hammond, has the distinction of returning a democratic plurality, one of the few green spots left on the county map. A total of T.SSS votes were cast for the three leading tickets, while about 3Ct' more went to the Prohibition. Socialist and Single Tax tickets. PUBLIC SEES WHOLESALE MCE CUTS With announcement of drasttc price fits by th.. city's, three department .--teres, it apj.ears that Hammond and '. icinity is now to have the 'n fit of the wave of slashing which has been creeping over the entire country. Leading merchants in ail of tiie big bui,ines3 centers have slowly ,eome to the realization that heroic work was necessary in order to keep pep in merchandising which had Tieen experiencing a period of stagnation. Their first efforts of gradually reducir.g prices met with little response from the buying public which seemed suddenly to have become convinced tl at even better bargains were to ccme If they would only wait. The public had it doped ris,.t Meishanta everywhere found that their first cuts were not attractive. In desperation they are now slamniin; the marked prices right and left and the offerings arc now admitted to be real bargains. Hammond's department stares held off even after the crash came in Chicago. They -hoped it was a pasin flurry, but they w ere w rang. Yesterday they touched off the opening gun of their campaign, the Dollar day sales which will be held tomorrow-. A glance at the advertisements show-:; the reductions from .marked prices, but it is known to be a fact that the new prices arc practically al! lower than jobbers' prices and in many instances are even below the manufacturers costs. The reductions touch ail departments of these stores, groceries, men's and women's furnishings, yard goods, hardware, furniture, drugs, shoes and novelties. Nothing has been spared. In many instances twenty- thirty, thirty-five per cent and even greater amounts have been lopped off the j rices. These aaies w ill draw to Hammond thousands of purchasers from the surrounding territory, who will be eager to supply their winter needs at r l ices which they have not seen since 1914 and which may not appear for several years. TEXAS ELECTS G. 0. P. TO CONGRESS SAX ANTONIO. Tex.. Nov. 3. Democratic headquarters today conceded the election of Harry M. Wurrbach, republican from the fourteenth congressional district. He is the first republican sent to congress from Texas since 1S94. With half th vote counted Warsbach leads Congressman Charles Beeby, 7,145 te

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Result is Too Big Today To Be Estimated In Other Than General Terms TO SAY NOTHING OF THE ROTTEN POSTAL SERVICE mTFOMTIONL NWS SERVI'El WASH1N(;T(I, Nov 3 The big. gent cause for the democratic defeat was the failure of the democrats f foresee and predict in ndtanrc th slump In the price of farm products nod place the responsibility therrfor on the republican congress, according to Albert Sidney Burl poxt ni:iMter-c ncral and nolllicitl wnrhorse of the Wilson cabinei. nv OliOBJit It. HOI MLS fcTFF Cniprjou!).. ( 1 I fj . :'.Rir,F; N15W YORK, No-.. 3. The republican avalanche which, struck the country yesterday, burying democratic nalicn-1 J-nd state administrations under a staggering total of votes, was still too big today to be estimated hi other than general terms. Figures available early this forcno.1,1. nowever, tnaoc certain that Senrl.t Warren G. Harding and Gov. Calvm Coolidge swept at lcti.-.t 31 stales with unprecedented plural 'ties and carried to victory with them C3 republican governors, a majority of at least 1:: in the United States stnaU- and a preponderantly republican hou.;e of representatives. om.v two iv nonvr The electoral votes of only tn states apnea red to be in douht today those of Arizona and Nw Mexico, each with three. The returns from these two were slow- and the vote so cose, that it may take several days to determine the results. ' The Cox-RooffVfll ticket carried the solid south, comprising 13 states, and nothing else, barring possible victories in Arizona and Mew- Mexico. AM, outhi:ii STATUS. Tht Harding-Coolidge ticket carried every state north of the Mason-Dixon line and every state west of the Mississippi river with exception of Arkansas. Louisiana. Oklahoma and Ttxus and possibly the two doubtful states of the Mexican border. On the face of today's returns. Hard ing's popular plurality ls estimated anywhere from 4ii0i,fifln to T.POn.oi'n votes, possibly more, and the Oh: senator seemed assured of havmg around 389 votes in the electoral college. It is the greatest victory ever scored by a republican cund date f t the presidency, far exceeding that 1 Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 "T. R. ' had a popular plurality of 2.341.201 an had 336 votes in the electoral colleg . ri.i it amtiijs sta(, (,i;itit;. Staggering pluralities were tun u in many states, due to the addition o! millions of women votes. The republican national tickets appears to have captured most Of the new- votes. New York gave Harding a lluralitv estimated roundly at 1,000. 000; Pennsylvania, a republican stronghold, Ihree-eiuarlers of a million; Illinois. 800.000; Michigan, 400.000; Calif ruia, 500,000; Massachusetts. 3'0,000 "and Ohio, the home stat ef both candidates, gave Harding a victory r -until y estimated at 3jO,(Mt('. Al l, l,l) FKIKMIS H K. The republicans succeer ( jn t u rn -'hi in n state ing back into the republican v. every northern and western which Woodrow Wilson carried Charles Kvans llugli-s in 1916. yearn ao the central and far o r Four west elected Wilson. Yesterdav those same state sro'led up impressive majorities for Harding. Fourteen states which m 1916 were carried by Wilson and which Herding carried yesterday were "alifocnia, Colorado, Kansas. Misse:i Montana, Nebraska. Maryland, Nevada New Hampshire. North Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. SOI I II is HIT II Mil). Even in the s.iuth'Tii Mates, the democratic majorities showed, in many cases, heavy declines from 1916. Where Texas four years ago gave ih-or. a handsome majority of 221,515. it was generally estimated today that (.'ox's majority will be many thousaneis less. Republicans even had strong hopes today of electing their men jn ge- era! congressional fights. other southern states showed like decreases. The thirteen states which Gov. Co appeared today to have certainly carried are: Alabama. Arkansas. Florida, Georc a, Louisiana. Mississippi. North ( ared i'i, Oklahoma, Kentucky, South Carolina. Tennessee and Texas and Virginia. LOOK WHAT NEW YORK DID NEW TORK, Nov. 3. New Yoi k city complete gave Harding 7S3,,"76; Cox. 345.535; Debs. 131. S56. In the gubernatorial race New Tork e ly complete, gave tsmith, 703.746; Miller, 390,135. Gov. Smith led Miller by 319',u ote in the completed returns from New Tork city

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