Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 236, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1921 — Page 1

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Breaks With Hammond Now Entirely Encircled With Daylight Cities. A FINE THING FOR THE CITY Hammond is now entirely surrounded by daylight savings cities -Gary. East Chicago. Whiting, West Hammond, Indiana Harbor. Next Monday Hammond will be running an hour behind every other city in the neighborhood asleep when everybody else is up and on the job. "West H.immnnd which generally works in accord with Hammond, on matter, of e-o.ual introst. on both sides of the state line, has broken with her sister city. West Hammond goes on the daylight savin.tr time Sunday morning. When the city council took up the matter as councils of other cities have done, ona of the tlrst questions asked was. "what has Hammond done." Well, as I understand It." replied one Informant, 'some of the women who are doing the as.-ssslng in Hammond talked It over with some other women and decided that they didn't want it. They told the council so and the council knocked out its ordinance." Then arose the. debate, in tvlilch the West Hammond aldermen reached their decision in characteristic style. They decided they were not groins to be out of step with the rest of the Lake region just because Hammond wanted to. True, it was shown they would lose an hour and sain another in passing through Hammond on their way to Chicago but they figured they could stand the little inconvenience. The only objection voiced at the meetin was from the police and fire departments but as they are under the control of the city dads and work tweK hour shifts anyway, they were squelched. "This town ha.-? always been alive.'' comments City Clerk Andrey Stachowicz, "and It's going to stay that way." A HOT SHOT If you divn't want to parade into church Kastcr Sunday too late to show your new flowered Ka.ster bonnet or your husband's checked suit and gren top coat, better not forget to turn the clock an hour ahead .Saturday night before you go to bed. For Foster's the day the day light savings law goes Into effect. Teople may remember Easter that never remembered It before. Gary, Whiting and East Chicago have adopted the new -ruling in order to be in accord with Chicago and avoid confusion in interurban train schedule. Hammond ad-opted the new- law and then they repealed it. -Street car Bchedules between Gary and Hammond will be thrown out of whack and travelers on the Monon and the Erie will be similarly discommoded. If you're pJanning to go home Kastor on any of theise. railroads and are thinking of taking the train at Hammond, better change your mind and hope the train at Crown I'oint. There-, at least the railroads and the court house- are going to be run on tho now schedule-. Otherwise the Master visit might be missed. Gary Tribune. SAYS HE NEVER HIDES HIS STAR Krnest Guenther, the deputy town marshal of Hessville, Ind., was in Hammond today saying "hello" to his many friends and acquaintances. Mr Guenther is well known in this vicinity, having been a resident of Hammond for 27 year.", from IS:, to 1011 He has resided in Hessvllle since that time, and is known to be an excel'em citizen and an efficient officer of the law. Mr. CJjenther takes exception to the statement that he has at any time hidden his star In the performance of his duty, as published last Monday, the list. He admits that he is the inventor and has made use of the clever subterfuges that have made him the terror of motorist.-; who violate the law In that vicinity, as printed in the above named article. Beautiful Display One of the most admirable floral displays ever seen in the Calumet region Is shown thin week at the Hammond Floral company, corner State and Hohman streets. Primarily the display is for the purpo.-e of supplying the Kaster trade, and It is attracting a great amount of atention. It is the largest showing the company has ever made and offers Hammond people the same opportunity enjoyed by Chicago folks.

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rii w iv o i Kim "Til KM KIM) OUl)S" Lake County Time.-;, Hammond. In.l. n ! 1 ;ur n : 1 Hiring these more or 1-ss dubious t hues w !!! ;'. great many men h.mts may fe. 1 i !.; i ni'il to curtail their a I v -rt is. r: g. it may ft: err .'"erne of them up to know hat our campaign this im-nt h in your newspaper was P roduct ive .r' even greater risuit- : ha n w a n t ioi ; a Led. We ha.- a: ways (."in 1 The Tim. .- i.. lie a e.,; .d 1 e r 1 i i n j; m-dium ,i!i we !"; we are in a po.-i-tiou to know, a. we have used considerable newspaper advertising in various parts of the country during the las; 2-i years. We cannot ref.il! any other paper That lias produced better re.-'ilts than Th' Times, considering ratis etr., and while we may he a little opt imistie. we believe that if evoivone would go a head and advertise and pay no attention to the vast amount of gloom that is being spread by Interests ihat possibly have some ulterior motive in disturbing' business conditions, they would rind that their own btisine.-'s w-.-uld be normal or very nearly so. With hist wishes for your continued success we are. Very truly yours. WYMAN PIANO CO. By K. II. r.EID. Manaeer.

er Of Homes For 35 Years In Hammond Building Inquiry. PATtT TIA The first installment of the proceedings of the committee to investigate building, as printed in last night's Times, has aroused widespread interest. Just its the high prices of certain building materials is being universally condemned: so the abuses in the union rub's that make possible Lrrat financial loss on account 'f jurisdictional disputes, under-production and discrimination in favor of industrial contractors has awakened the public t "the reasons for the general reluctance) of people to invest tneir dollars In building. Continuing the- account of Wednesday's meeting; the testimony of Mr. Fred Smith, president of the First National Hank of Whiting, a member of Smith, Bader Pavldsnn real estate company, and a builder of homes for ?.:, years is interesting. It is given as follows: MR. WOODS Have you had any work held up by any delays or losses caused by working conditions In the I'uiiding trades? Mil. SMITH Yes, I have, towards the end of the busy season I had all the carpenters of our city at work and the; Pettit Brothers from this city and John G. Myers from this city. I don't believe I had anybody from Fast Chicago. And tho Pettit Brothers, who were fine builders, they built very fine homes, got in bad some way on some roofing contracts and other matters. They seemed to belong to the contractor's association. I thitvk. and they and the contractors' association and unions had some trouble indirectly. iiws" buildings stood idle there for six months or more. They had probably $75,000 worth of my buildings under way. They got. in so bad with the 12 i or 1.) or .01 men tney nan. tney nnany got down to two men. They tried awfully hard to finish their work before the winter season set in. expecting, of course, in the first place to get It done by the middle of July or August. They borrow money as they go along. They got in so bad with only two men working, Knder the rules a contractor Wan not work. as I understand it. At b-ast that is what they told ine. They finally went broke and I had t take the wind" Job off of their hands. 1 don't think they would object to rue telling that. In order to keep their good name. I assumed their liabilities of $7S,oon, Mr. Bader and myself. Mil. WOO PS To what extent'.' M It. SMITH !7S,non. MB- SMITH I iini.-!ied the job with other men. Mil. WOOPS Is this just an isolat ed case of discrimination against members of the employers' association or Is that generally done, do you knov. anything about that? MB. SMITH I dont know. As I say, I Just give the whole job to one particular man. I never had any trouble with any of them, my work went along splendidly. I nev. r had any trouble with any of them. I didn't in this case, excepting Pettit Brothers, they got in bad in some way. Mil. WOOPS You don't know anything about the mi rits of the cont ro v. rsy '.' MB. SMITH No, 1 don't. I know th.y did splendid work. I know I was very much satisfied with their work. I had no trouble with them at. all. I finally helped them out by taking the jol. off of their hands and kept their good na.me. When they got through they didn't have anything left. although when they start 1 in the beginning of the season they had 30 to to thousand dollars. Mil. WOOPS Thank you. Mr. Smith. MB. BKKP Mr, chairman, excuse me. There seems to be some mistaken tConlfnued on page six.

Failing to obey an officer's command to halt Jake Herbert. 'Z'o years ot.7, a

colored night prowler was shot and -.1! -.1 in Gary late lat night. ! officer Began lirst detected the cd- ; ored man while traveling his beat in the vicinity of Buchanan street in the j west tide r sidential section where Residents have b.-en terrorized f--r ! mouths with burglaries and hold-ups. demanding that the colored nni halt and give an account of himself officer I'.egan shot once in the a;r when the colored man started to run. Giving chase the officer fired a second shot at the fleeing form. j At the northeast corner of 7th avej nue and Buchanan street the colored man fell in a heap and by the time trie officer reached his side he was dead. Papers found on the colored man's person disclosed his former residence as 112 I'lum street. Greenville, Ala., where he has parents living. The. body was removed to Guy's undertaking parlor on the South Side. SAYS UNCLE SAM CAN'T KEEP HIM OUT I ! NTERN ATICN AL NEWS SERVICE1 CHICAGO, March 0. "fnele Sam can't keep me out. He can put soldiers at every port and I'll get back in. There is absolut'dy no u,;e deporting me." Max Herman, 2S. German adventurer, and assistant Steward at the Irake hotel, one of Chicago's newest and most fashionable h ostleries, thus defies the government to keep him out of America, the land he professes to love In preference to any other he had visited. One thing Is certain Max will not stay in Germany. Herman enlisted on the German cruiser Fresden when Admiral Von Spree's fleet touched South America, enrly in the "World War. Iater when the vessel returned to Rio de Janeiro he deserted and made his way to the Cnite.1 States I came up through Mexico." he said. "In 1313 I was arrested for burglary and s--nt to Tontine. When I got out on parole the immigration authorities picked me up. They sent me back to Berlin. But conditions there are terrible I picked up a boat for the Vnited Stntes at Antwerp. I won't stay in Germany I'll find some way back to this cotintr. I like it here. it's an easy life and I'm coming' back in." S SUES FOR DAMAGES Suit for damages was filed thl morning in the Hammond superior court by Miss Irene Ostrowski of Hammond through her next frbnd Mr. H. O. Ostrowski. Miss Ostrowski was seriously injured on New Year's Day when the automobile in which she and her aunt Miss Bernlce Ostrowski were riding was struck by an Krbpas's en ger train .at the Calumet and Conkey avenue crossing. The complaint a.lletres that the train was traveling at an unlawful speed . that no warning of Its approach was given and that the crossing- watchman did not warn the motorists. The plaintiff asks f .r $3 '10 damages. Cleveland & Cleveland are her attorneys. BASKET BALL GAME TONIGHT Basketball fans., who have been aching to see the Hammond high srhon team in action will be gratified this veninar. The Industrial liich school basket ball team, with the same powerful lin.nip as when the school was suspended from state athletics, will me.-t the Alumni teairt of rtowen high school of Chicago. The game will be played nt the Irving school gym and will begin at :4." o'clock. A crowded house will greet the favorites. Since the team was kept from the state toirnamont, the member? have been playing with various amateur organizations of Hammond and are in perfect form. CROSSED WIRES CAUSED FIRE Crossed eleetrie wires caused a rire yesterday afternoon, which did about $ tan worth of damasje to the residence at. 541 Went worth avenue. West Hammond. Prompt response by the tire department saved the building as the flames were gaining headway rapidly when the apparatus Arrived. Onty chernicals were necessary in extinguishing the blaze. HE FAVORS IT Kdi r Times: Gentlemen In as much as the evenings are longer. I am in favor of the daylight saving plan. Yours truly. 13. 11. NELSON, Sr.

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c-v. .Jl 1 The double divorce action of James A. Stiliman, multi-millionaire New York hanker, and his wife, known before her marriape ts "Fifi." Potter, is attracting nation-wide attention. Stiliman denies that he is the father of little Guy Stiliman, thirty months old. Mrs. Stiliman names Mrs. Florence H. Leeds as co-respondent. Stiliman does not deny tisat Mrs. Leeds' two-year-old boy Find Riley Whistle At Anderson Poet Once Made Noise Maker for Prominent Gary Man ANDERSON, Ind., March Z'n. A small wooden whistle, made by James Whitcomb Biley when he was a sign painter here, was found by Mrs. I.. J. Burr, of Anderson, when she was lookins through treasures of days gone by. Mr. Riley made the whistle for Claude and Kenneth Burr, sons of Mr. and Mrs." Burr. Kenneth M. Burr now is a claim adjuster for a steel mill at Gary and Claude Burr, now dead, was a newspaper editor .The whistle is still good for noise, Mrs. Burr said. BRITISH TO CENSOR BATHIOITS NOW Garments to be Worn Under Government Control INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVtCFl I-ONIxiN, March L". The British government, shocked at the style models of 1321 bathing suits for women, has decided upon censorship. Government contral of women's bathing cos'.jmes has been established and Pr. Addison, minister of the public health has been appointed bathing costume ocnt roller. A circular letter Is being sent to the local authorities at sea-side towns suggesting that laws be enacted making It an of. fense for persons of either sex to wear a costume that does not extend from the ne-k to within four Inches of the knee. Already some of the bathing resorts have begun to protest. They claim that such regulations would keep away many fashionable women who visit the shore to show off their costumes and the! personal charms rather than to seek the) solace or salt water, out trie government Is in earnest and Dr. Addison declares that a strong effort will he made to abolish indecent attire. LIQUOR CASES Liquor in some capacity was the cause of several cases being tried in the Hammond police coirt this morning. B. Whit- and AW- Mnekarss. Whiting, each p.-a.od gu:''ty to being drunk last nig lit and paid lines amounting to $11 each. Stanley p.-kosz. 72 Dearborn street. Hammond, admitted the ownership Of a still and 4'i gallons of moonshine found in bin hom and was sentenced to 30 days in Jail and fined $130.

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Guy Stiliman, left, thirty months o!d, who, Stiliman charpes. Is the bott of Mrs. Stiliman and the half-breed Kiiide, Fred Hcauvais. At right, Mrs. Florence H. Leeds, former "chicken" in the I)illint?ham-ZieK-feld Century chorus, named by Mrs. Stiliman as co-respondent. Below, James A. Stiliman. millionaire banker, and his wife.

Jay is his son. Stiliman names Fred Beauvais, half-breed Canadian guide, as co-respondent. 5 EE NEWS (BtTIiLETIN) PNTRNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, March LT.. Humors were current in Washington tins nfftrnoon that former President Wilson had nf:' red a relapse at his Street home. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his personal phys.iei.-in, could not be located and the Wilson hoine could not be reached by telephone. (BtTI.I.ETUI) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! hAinllTI-:, IN P., March 5. Th.Carpenters' t'nion here today agreed to accept a wnjo cut of 10 per cent, of the present scale. plasterers and Cement Workers have accepted a reduction of 12 per cent. All the unions connected with the building industry here are expected to agree to wage reduct ions. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 ATLANTA, March -a. Kugetie v. Iielis. returned to the federal penitentiary here today. He reached Atlanta about noon aboard a Southern railway train, was immediately placed in an automobile with Waribri Z.-rbst of the penitentiary and whisk, d away.. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE! KANSAS. CITY. .Mo.. March 25. Com Alilson. a taxi-cab driver of Monon, In.l.. was arrested here to. day after a ln.non mile chase on a charge of being a member of a notorious box car robber gang in Indiana. Detectives caught Allison In a rooming house. (BULLETIN) "NTriATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! MON'UhK, l.a , March 25. l.ieut. Will Coney, famous army aviator. probably was fatally injured when his airplane fell in a field near here this afternoon as he was attempting a one-stop flight from Jacksonville, Kla.. to California. Physician.! rushed to the scene of the a.-, blent, said Coney's back was brok'-n. (BTJLLETIN) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICLJ Ttl K.MINGHA.M. Ala.. March. 2."..--Mo hig pictures showing 'la ra Smith Hamon ar- barred in Birmingham. Til is announcement was made after a conference between managers of local picture houses. Death of Mrs. Mason Anna Mason, wife of Harry Mason. ! L ft Ann Street, died Wednesday at St. Margaret's hospital, following an operation. She was 2 1 years of ace. The body li-.s in state at Kin:ii--rl :ng's (ha;..-!, hut will be moved Sunday to the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mr.". Frank Caliendar. 500 Chicago avenue. The funeral wlil be held Tuesday a. m. at St. Joseph's churcb

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- wRUft S. 4 si- t 4 -. . " a .. - Beauvais acted as mariafrer of the Stiliman lodpe near Three Rivera, Canada. (BULLETIK) INTERNATIONAL NWS SERWCEI EA1IXKOEE, Mirch 25 Cnrdln. nl Gibbons' last net ousiclo his own home was cne of niecXn.es... it be. came known today the last vlMt to an. Institution niado by the Pn-liite, was on Saturday to tha horns of the Little Sisters of the Poor. The ag-exl Inmates of the home came out to welcome him and he smiled upothem and rrave them his blessing-. The last recorded words of the Cardinal, were: "Kow different an end from Carclin. al Manning's. The sorrowing- household was re. minded thrt Cardinal Mannings last days were saddened by the forg-etfiU-ncss cf seme of those upon whom he had counted to be his most loyal and tuif?.lt;i in coEf-nluas. O'Conner UCUli ill Hobart? 12 Chicago Detectives Rush i to Lake Co. City to Scour it For Murderer 'SPECIAL TO T"F. TiWESl IfOBART, Ind, March 25. llob.-irl was given a thorough scouring by Chicago d;-tectives last night when a man believed to be Tommy O'Connor, slayer of Policeman Patri.k O'Neill of Ohij cage was seen in t"wn. The man j answering O'Connor's description npI p.-a.red in Hobart at ten o'rlock and j at once aroused :-' is p ic i-n s by his noPons. Local authorities v. ere notih-d j and word w lis s.-nt to Chicago police ; headquarters, In a short time au.o- ' iiiohih s bearing 12 ) c! ives reached ' Holmrt and made a systematic search. j No trace of the man was found and it j is believed he became suspicious and nppe clout ct to vn. MRS. ANTON ALBERT PASSES AWAY The many frb" -nds Albert. 7-IS Walt'-r shocked to h'-ar of day noon at the Wash of Mrs. Anton street. will be er death yesteri n - t o n Pa r k h os - pita! in Chicago. Mrs. Albert was 40 years of a o. and has r. sided in Hammond for the past ;; years. She has mad.- a host of friend. during her re.'-denee in tins .-it. Mrs. Albert was a memhr of the Catholic Ordr .if Foresters and the Ladies' Bosary society. The fun'-rni will be from sr. Jie'.pli'.i church, Undertaker Kmrr.erling in charge, am! burial will take ;. ia.ee in St. Joseph'., oi rn ter-y. The servic.s will be at f o'clock Me-ndav morning. Biggest treat of the year Wabash Gb-e Club at First Presbyterian Church. Friday night. Come and bring your friends. Children 25c, adults 50c. 2-25-

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Mrs. Nicholas Kekich Ends Her Life Yesterday Afternoon.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind.. March 25. Surfer ing. it is believed, from temporary de mentia due to ill health, Mrs. Nichols Kekich, 12S1 Myrtle avenue. Bobertad.ale committed sub-lde yesterday af fernnon by throwing h. rse'.f into thlake at the Whiting park. The body was found at 4:30 o'riorl by Park Policeman William Walk-i It bad been washed upon the b-aeh Beside the body floated the woman"! hat. The women, who was 2fi years .U and Nicholas Kickich were rnanie two years ago and had been living i; Boliertsdale sine- then. Mr. Keek lei h.us a six-y.ar-old daughter by former marriage. A baby, two month old. Is left motherless. Friends sa; the home life of the family had ;:' ways been the pdenantest and thr Mrs. Keckich had appeared as devote, to her st' p-daughter as if she w r her own child. She had been in poo health for several weeks ami it I thought that brooding over this cause her to take her life. A neighbor woman met h"r as sn left the home ;1t 3 ..'clock and In th- i brief conversation Mrs. Keckich t-al she was going to the grocery. A fev minutes later the watchman at th New York Central railroad crossing Ii Whiting saw her cross the tracks c.n walk toward the park. It is suppo.i-. that she walked out on the w-. hi-.-akwater pier and jumped off Int d. ej, w at er. When officer Walker found 'it body about, an hour later she wore her lie.ivy font and furs. T.-i body was taken to the Hayden morg'o a hero the in.iu- st will be conijuct sl ' ; Deputy Coroner White of Ilammoi..: Mo fun'-ral arrangement have b : made. ilhlUII I stral Vampire Lurecl Hun band, Says Wife of Chicago Policeman CHICAGO, March 25. Mrs. VI la Johnson. ff-rmerly .f 1Kti Cent.T -freet. w ho now lives in W,f. Ilatini.nd. w.-n ca'l.-d f.vrything from n ' '''" p'rnte" to "an :istral vampir.' '' - !rs- C.-c h.-rl re Dressier, f.445 N ' iark sTc- :. w a.. :pj. ar.d l.ef. r ''!: "' "'. in Morals Caurt yes'cr l-.y ir-l ih.irlr Cat Vi.-la w;: "vamping"' h.-r p.diee,- husband. K.lward Dr..;;. lei-, of S)o f: , bl avenue st.it I. m. Mrs- Pres-hr produced love letter? written to the policeman from Viola, m..st of which began "Parling Papa" and contained what Judge Heap referred to as "puppy love gush." Poring the hearing it develop, j that Viola was a "sort of a spilit medium" when Philip Miatka of West Hammond appear, d and said t hat "he thought" she was his wife. mkt m.it vr "I met her at Mrs. L.-e s spirit parlor in West Hammond." said Mr. Mint k .'i When the lights cam. r,n, after a .seance. Mr. Miatka found his so,,!mate in Viola, he said. They were marri.d January 21 oi this year, r--gardbes.. of ;he fa.-t that VI la had forge,, en to divorce P.. W. Bayhurn of Champaign. III., who,,, Illnr. n.d after living some time will, a certain Mr. J-hns-.n. The.se fact, were brought out by testimony from Mr Miatka at,,! fro,,, Invest i ga t ions made by the Social Service Bureau. M IM.K LACK-' .11 ItII)H Tl). After the hearing had progressed' for some time Jm-ge !!,-;,,, ri,,(j ,,mt h(J did not have Jurisdiction, as Mrs Johnson was charged with disorderly conduct on a city ordinance. In (lisp. -sing of the case he said ty,xt he wished that he did have Jurisdiction so that he "could punish this woman." Mrs, Dressier is the mother of thre children, Baym-nd, 13; Florence, u and Kdward. f. nam tried IN CHICAGO COURT Jesse McKelBry, the negro who was arrested by Hammond police in January for robbing men who b.ad befriended him and given him shelter In the bunk cars n'M.r Burnham, was yesterda.y sentenced to s,v months In t tie reformatory by Judge Kersten in Chicago. At the time Hammond police investigated t!ie matter they supposed the robbery was committed in Hn.mmon1, However, after the arrest had ben m.odo they found that the bunk cars were located Just across the state lln in Illinois. MrKellery was then turned over to the West lia.mmond authorit!. s who bound him over to the Cook county grand Jury. He was indicted and the trial was held yesterday. 11. cause of the fa.-t that he had already . lii nt several months In Jail the court gave him a light sentence. MASONIC NOTI CE Members of the Masonic Fraternity are re AW quested to assemble at Vf'Hfe the Temple Sa !iturdy. 30 p. m. to escort the Grand Ixidge and assist at the

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laying of the corner stone of the new Temple. Members of the Commandery will appear in full uniform. WALTKK T, HABDY, JOHN C. KKNNKDY, JOHN W. MOUTH LAND. 3-ri-2