Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 32, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1921 — Page 1
EDITORS THE WEATHER T'nuettledj thunderstorms north portion t Thursday fair. in ana W. Himmoud SOc px month on treats aaa news stands 3o per copy. VOL. XV, NO. 32. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA
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WHO'S WHO 1 COUNTY; LONG LIST
Couldn't Tell About All of Them In One Article So Here's A Partial Directory Now that the scribes and Pharisees are assembled from up and down Indiana, we have an opportunity to brag a little about some of the rising young men of of the region. There's A. Murray Turner, president of the First National bank of Hammond ar.d the county's foremost ex-herlff. after-dinner speaker and former motorman. Murray tried speaking after breakfast when the stato legislators w-ere here last spring, but he didn't make much of a go at it. Seems like he doesn't get the rropcr inspiration out of cantaloupe or its too early in the morning or something. BZXX KT.i; A LONG TXBES. Murray has been around these parts since the memory of man reckonth not. One story has it that when LaSalle, the explorer, hit Crown Point he found A. Murray Turner waiting for them to build the courthouse so he could run for sheriff. Others say that he was attracted to Hammond by the old deodorizing plant. Just how Murray grot the money to start his bank is also a mooted question. The general impression is that he got it either as sheriff or while he was the president and motorman of Hammond's first cash fare st. car line. "Whenever important business necessitated a special call meeting of the. board of directors of the street car company the passengers would have to wait on a switch while Motorman Turner wentInto executive session with the other stockholders. rrrraocxrcxjro k. glxasoit. A good-natured fellow with specs ami not so much, hair, will take the visitors through the steel mills at Gay on a special train. His name is Bill Gleason and he's the general superintendent of the layout. If you were to ask Gleason what he does the best he would say 'golf, but he's mistaken. The thing he does best is to make folks feel at home when they visit his steel mills. Between the line of oratory that Mur.ray Turner hands out over the dinner tab! and EK1 Gleason's hospitality you ought to feel pretty much a home. "Whereas Murray started a bank and finally got enough confidence to put some of his own money in it, BUI Gleason built the steel mills and discover-, ed that they could make steel in "em. Dill's a. mighty popular person, especially wjth his own men, who swear by him. 2EEET COX BXLEY. If you haven't already had the pleasure, meet Col. Walter Riley, the president of four banks at East Chicago. Jesse James was a piker compared to Riley. Whereas Jesse stuck up a bank and beat it. Riley moves right in ana takes possession. Pretty soon he'll have he whole darned town of East Chicago and make Al Pack go to work. Al Pack, by tho way. is a young millionaire and a swell guy along Iwth it or in spite of it, which ever way it is supposed to be. Cp at the last national republican convention Col. Riley was assistant chairman to Will Hayes. They had an important conference right on the platform out there in front of Old Bill Bryan and all the other prominent republicans. "Good Lord. Walter, I wish I had a drink," Hayes said to the colonel. "So do I," Riley whispered back. TEX X2CM ACTT LATH CAP. NOB-TOTT. That spiffy looking fellow stepping -out of a" limousine is Cap. Norton of Gary. He belongs to the same regiment as Col. Riley and MaJ. Al Jones This man Norton is hooked up with the Gary Land company, the republican party and a lot of other successful enterprises, but cne of the best things he does is run (Continued on pace flve. UNITED DRUG CO. ASSIG IT'S ASSETS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) BOSTON". Mass., July 27. Louis K. Liggett, president of the United Drug Company, former president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce reputed to a millionaire, today placed his assets in the hands of a trustee. This action was taken, according to Attorney Frederick Snow because of the decline in the market value of the United Drug Company stock in the last 24 hours. The stock has dropped approximately thirty points this week, going down about"20 points today, when it sold at a record low price for both common and preferred.
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J .-; - T 3 -"4 4 Z . V (T f - ED W. SMI TH. EOS TO SEE LAKE COUNTY AT p Pilots o fAutomobiles Will Point ut Places of Interest Along Line of Travel. . If, while you are sitting quietly on your front porch this morning wondering whether you sh uld make another attempt to find a job or go out and jump off the dock; if, while you are in this cheerful frame of mind, the big- auto parade of visiting editors passes the house and a guy with a megaphone points you out as one of the points of Interest in the city, the oldest resident or the first white settler; If. such a thing should happen, smile and bow and forget about everything else in the Joy of the occasion. Perhaps you can tell by the following guide to pilots which gives the route of the trip from the Lyndora Hotel at 9 o'clock to the outskirts of Gary in the afternoon: WATCH TOUR SPEED! DRIVE CAREFULLY! SAFETY FIRST!' (This schedule on Daylight Savings Time). INDIANA RELTBLICAN EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION'S TOUR OF LAKE COUNTY. North Township Section; Thursday. July 28, 1921. ROUTE CARD FOR CAR PILOTS. (Car Pilots are requested to call attention of our gusts to points of interest along the route). HAMMOD Following breakfast " at Lyndora Hotel, Hammond, cars will leave the hotel at 9:00 a. m. Go north In Columbia avenue to Summer street. Turn to right in Summer street. Stop at Hammond Malleable Iron Works on left. Standard Steel Car shops on right (3350 employes, normally). Gibson yards of N. Y. Central railroad on left. Keep in Summer street to Kennedy avenue. Turn to right in Kennedy avenue. Keep in Kennedy avenue to one road osuth of Nickle Plate railroad. Turn right in road over N. Y. Central railroad. (Fertilizing plant to right). Follow road to Columbia avenue. Turn right, through Standard Steel Car district. Stop at car works on Tight. Turn left where street car turns. Follow car line to Hohman street. Stop at Conkey printing plant (850 employes) on ri,jht. Straube Piano works on left. At Hohman street turn to right. Go in Hohman street. (Call attention to city park and Erie yards. Turn to left, into Russell , street, to Anne street, to right into Anne street. Go in Anne street. Turn to right in Muenich court. Go in Muenich court, calling attention to new $400,000 Shriner Temple. Also $250,000 new Elks Home. Turn to left, into Hohman street. (Call attention to court house. I Make mention that in a sens Lake county has three county seats. Two superior courts are located in this Hammond court house. One superior court i located at Gary, while the juvenile, criminal and circuit courts are located at the courthouse. Crown Point). In down town district cross railroad tracks (Monon, Erie, C. & O.. N. P.. Michigan Central and I. H . Belt. Plants to left mark where America's meat packing industry was founded). City hall to right. Cross Grand Calumet river bridge. Northern Indiana Gas & Electric plant to left. Simplex plant of American Steel Foundries to right. Turn right in Hoffman street. Go in Hoffman street. Betz plant and Campbell Soup company, formerly Reid Murdoch company, to right. Elevator and old distillery to right in distance. Turn to right In Calumet avenue. Go in Calumet avenue to 150th street. Turn to left. At right is Hammond distillery, said to hold 250,000 gallons in storage. This would make, it is estimated. 50 highballs for every prrson in Indiana. We pass Beatty (Bill) Machine shop and (Continued on page sixteen.)
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COVER'OR W. T MeCRAT. Several Plants At East Chicago Show Much Increased Activity Some further pick-ups have been noted in the industries in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, and the present spurt is apparent in a number of lines. Owing to increased activity for certain parts of railway equipment Standard Forgings company will resume operations on part scale next week. Cudahy Packing company is enjoying a seasonal demand in its soap powder departments, especially the "Old Dutch" cleanser works. Many of the employes are working full time. The company's local car shops are also buity . Universal Portland Cement company and Union Iron Products company are among the busiest plants in Indiana. Each makes road materials and are participating in the business arising from the expenditure of more than one billion dollars tor new roads. The cement plant is running 100 per cent capacity, according to officials. The oil refineries are doing bettor than most industries, and have a very substantial demand for gasoline. This is of special benefit to the region. Early operations of the new Bessemer works at the Steel and Tube Company of America, will put tho local tube works in a better productive condition and Increase the working force. The Bessemer works, now under 'course of construction, is nearly completed. Movement of crops by railways has stimulated business at some of the car works, bringing in a number of repair orders and on some cases contracts for new cars. The Graver tank works has a very gratifying business, having ben awardt-d some large contract for tanks to be erected In the southwest. These tanks will be used by the larger interests to store crude oil, which nw may be purchased at a low price and stored to advantage, realizing a larger price when crude oil is in greater demand. This work of storing oil ne cessitated the expansion of existing storage facilities, with resultant increased work at the local tank works. Inland Steel company la supplying the plates for the tanks. JUDGE E. H. GARY Awaits Biggest Business in Near Future Country . . Has Ever Seen. NEW YORK. July 27 An optimistic note is struck in a statement issued here yesterday afternoon by Judge Elbert H. Gray of the U. S. Steel Corporation. "We think reduction in wage rate should follow rather than lead selling prices," says the statement in part. "Particularly those involving costs ot living, which in some respects are still unreasonable." While business Is still dull and hesitating, Gary says, the outlook Is not discouraging or doubtful. Sentiment has been for some time and still is growing better. At some date in the future, there awaits the biggest business this coun-, try has ever witnessed. At present there arc reasons for believing our conditions are improving."
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Chief Executive up and Dressed When Train Reaches Hammond, Ready, to Head The Pilgrimage Governor MeCray was up and dressed when the special train rolled Into Hammond. As he Was alighted from the Pullman he was greeted by Colonel Walter .1. Riley of East Chicago, and escorted to the banker's limousine which if to ' be the pilot car In the editorial journey. At the Lyndora hotel the Governor and his party of state officials were Joined by United States Senator Harry S. New who reached Lake county yesterday afternoon from Washington, X. C, and was taken to the Gary Commercial club for dinner last evening and a parley. Governor McCray and Senator Neware to speak at the luncheon in EastJ Chicago and the banquet tonight at Gary. The official representation at the editorial association outing includes the Governor, Senator New, ' Secretary of State Edward Jackton, Auditor of State Ora Davis and Chief Justice Ubank of the Supreme court. The official committees to receive the visiting editors and their guests of honor follow. THE COMMITTEES Hammond: P. A. Parry, editor, and R. H. Mciile, general manager of The Times, with Jesse Wilson, president of the. Hammond Chamber of Cammerce. East Chicago: A. P. Brown, editor of the East Chicago Globe and Henry W.. Petersen, president of the East Chicago Chamber of Commerc. Gary: Editor Robert Phillips and publisher Ralph Snpder of the Gary Poet and State Senator Oliver Holmes. Crown Pomt: Editor Blbler. general chairman; and Editor Fred Wheel er with John Kllligrew. county repub lican chairman. POLICE OF THHEE CITIES ATTEXD The governor and the editors will be attended by the police of three cities working In relays. Chief of Police Austgen and a squad of men were present at the start off and will continue with the party while It makes the rounds of the city, viewing Hammond's diversified induecriep. its splendid residential district, well kept parks and enjoying Us boulevard pavements. Chief of Police O'Donnell of East Chicago will be waiting with his men when the caravan reaches East Chicago and Chief of Police Forbis is to do the honors at the gates of the city of Gary. RECEPTION AT EAST CHICAGO The visitorp arc expected to reach the Congregational church at East Chi cago at 1:30 o'clock for the luncheon to be served by the Chamber of Commerce. Col. Riley Is to act as toastmaster and will be introduced by Henry W. Petersen, president of the East Chicago Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Ieo McCormack will welcome the editors and E. J. Hancock of the press association is to respond. M. E. Criteo will speak on th industries of the region, Supt. E. N. Canine is tn give a short address upon the schools, C. E. Fowler will discuss the parks and play-grounds while Col. Riley has been asked to sp&ak on the war record of the Twin Cities. Both Gov. McCray and Senator New will be called upon by the toasrtmaster. BASQl'ET AT GARY. The formal meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association's -outing In Lake county will be held at the Giry Commercial chrb following the banquet this evening. Gov. Warren T. McCray is to speak. Other speakers are Senator Harry S. New. Ed. Jackson, secretary of state, and officials of the association. Ora Davis and Chief Justice Ubank, are to be called on for a few remarks by the chairman. SPEND SIGHT AT GARY 1 Following the banquet this evening the editors will be taken on a motor trip to Miller Beach and returning to Gary are to be taken to their lodging Places. Friday morning they will be the guests of W. P. Gleason, general superintendent of the Illinois Steel Company, who will take them through the great Gary steel mills on a special train. After the editors have viewed the world's largest steel mills, they will go to Michigan City and Inspect the penitentiary where they will be the "guest of the warden at luncheon. The party ia to officially disband Friday, afternoon. Many of the editors plan on going to Chicago by boat to see the Paifeant of Progress.
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To Our Guests Today On behalf of the people of Lake County, we desire to extend the warmest of welcomes to the republican editors of Indiana to this section of the greatest commonwealth of them all. Though they are off in one corner of the state. Lake County people are just as proud of Indiana and Indiana products as any other territorial division of the state is. and realizing that Indiana editors are the brainiest there are anywhere are glad to do them honor and show them real hospitality. If the editorial visitors and their friends can get a partial grasp of the industry in the great Calumet Region, the people who make up its cities' will be happy, and we want them to get lots of pleasure and relaxation while they are grasping it. . For many of the newspaper workers it will be their first visit to the Calumet Region, though they may have been to Lake County before. We hope the visit will be an eye-opener to them. We trust they will realize that in many things Lake County is the second county among Indiana's ninety-two, and its citizens are unashamed to brag that in the days to come it will rank first in population, wealth, industry, and all the other good things for which Intiiana is noted. To the distinguished guests who accompany the moulders of public opinion and who are always glad to be seen in their. company the heartiest of welcomes is also' given. Credit must be given tq them for knowing a good thing when they see it. They know Lake County better than the editors do; especially do they know it on election night-when-the -figures begin to roll in at headquarters. - - Lake County hopes that jts visitors will go away from their outing in this region with a broader conception of what itimeans to the rest of the state than they have ever had before." It hopes that they will have found their 1921 summer outing a profitable one Perhaps it is too much to wish that they will have a better time here than they ever had at a previous meeting, but we can at least hope so. May they want to come back here again and again.
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It is understood that the Standard Oil company (Indiana) on August 1 will make an adjustment in wages of hourly , employes, which will range rom 5 2-3 per cent to 7 'per cent, and as high as 10 per cent for salaried employes. The company last winter adjusted wages, eliminating the 11.11 per cent high cost of Uvjng bonus. In oil circles it is expected that Sinclair Refining company, will closely conform to any adjustments made by the Standard Oil. The' proposed wage adjustment will affect Whiting refinery of Standard OH company and the East-Chicago refinery of the Sinclair company. At the present time the common labor wage at the oil refineries Is 48 cents an hour, average working day 8 hours. This rate is consideraMe higher than the wages in steel mills OF ROTTING Shocking Conditions Found Across State Line Near Hammond by Police. Six carloads of food, condemned by he United States government.' has been dumped at- Globe Station, in'IUinois, three miles southwest of Hamond, and cltlsens from surrounding cities have been hauling the poison food away in wagons, trucks and by hand in enormous quantities. There Is no one on guard to prevent the theft of the stuff, and while employes of the glue works drive the people away, they return for more. A large number of these persons are taking the eondfmned food to use as eating It. and this-la a very dangerous practice. A ptomaine epidemic may result if this is -indulged into any extent. Employes of the works stated this noon that they are powerless to keep the people away, or to show them tho
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J A t 4Vl J , A 4' Morns'sexatou J. f: watjox. in the region, the general steel rat being 87 cents, although as low as 30 cents is paid. At th beginning of the year the steel mills paid 46 cents an hour, with a rate of 69 cents for laborers,: for every hour worked after the rate of hour. REDUCTION BY EMPLOYES In making increases or reductions in wages a voice in the matter is given to employes of the Standard Oil company, which has a joint council, representing employes and managoment operating at each plant. When wage increases were made the rise In the general cost of living was v considered, and it is said that general living costs figure in the present decline. Despite the .proposed adjustment the oil workers will be among the highest paid group of employes in In , dtana. danger of using the poison food. A sign, conspicuously placed, warns that the food has beeri condemned and that It is unfit to bo eaten. Nevertheless the people mostly foreigners and hobos. continue to steal it, probably to-their own sorrow. A reporter visited th scene- of the thefts, and on the way passed several wagon loads of the spoiled food being hauled away. It was said that many men were seen to break open the cans .of corned beef and gorge themselves on the contents. A large numbr of broken and half empty cans were in evidence. The Hammond police department were notified shortly before noon today of the thefts -and an officer was snt I out to the glue works ,to invcstigais. The things which he saw caused him to hurry back to town and get in touch with the health authorities of Illinois. Cans, broken open, were a crawling mass of rotting meat, indicating that the spoiling process had already begun before they were opened. Ton much amphawis canot be placed on the danger that lies in using this condemned stuff for food. People who eat it are running a big chance of serious illness and possible death. The -lgn posted over the huge pile of cans and cases which reads, "United State:? Condemned Poison Meat. Unfit for Food." evidently doesn't mean a thins to them. JflidJanna
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Outing Of Association Opens The editorial quill lays 'di'- todn; beside the paste pot and .--iiear;, : nearly two hundred daily ami w.rW-y newspaper offices of Indiana. X'ritit er's devils whistle merrily as tiir-bawl-up the make-up to tiir heart'-, content. Tha bous's old alpaca wore coat hangs on the hook beside tho battered desk, partly obscuring the picture of the girl in the ons-piece bathing suit on the Ink company's calender. The old-curved stemmed pipe is coiii, left behind, though not forgotten. The boss Is up in Lake county wib the Missus. EDITORIAL ttHOITH VAXISHKH 1 They came early by train and automobile today. The editorial grouren was left with the alpaca coat, the pipe. th editorial quill, the paste pot. the shears and the worries of the newspaper business.' ' They came to Hammond as frolissome as a bunch of cubs. They are out for a time, thes-e editors and their mates. And they had' the Governor and a United States Scnatui with them. ;J The reception accordM the member of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association as they unloaded from th special sleepers atached to the early morning Monon trains wouM indicate that Lake county is out to defend Us reputation as a hostesa. BREAKFAST AT THE ITXDORA 1 "Come Tight in and make yourself to home." they were told. "Breakfast Is ready and after we eat we'il show you've what we got," was the way the reception committee headed by Jesse Wilson, president of the Hammond Chamber of Conjmeroe, greeted the editors. ' "Here's the keys to the city," added iayor Dan Brown In his most cordial manner. - Scores of the editors had got out of bed at unheard of hours to catch the " special at various towns between Indianapolis and Hsnmond. They were frankly eager for, breakfast and the provender on the tables at the Lyn dora hotel was ample for their appetites. - The editors were taken to the Lyndora hotel in automobiles- driven by Hammond bankers. Judges, lawyer, doctors, republican leadsre and other representative citirens. "WHY EDITOR LEFT TOWX," - For two whole days th editors can rlax. No need to keep an eye out for the infuriated citisen domandin? a retraction. Not necessary to break off In the middle of a red hot editorial on democratic waste of public moneys to explain to a subscriber that nothing has come down, not evn the cost 6( ink and paper, and that the advertising rates can't be lowered. From the wild precincts of Lak county the editor can dlamls.i all th" thoughts of work by a simple telegraphic order to his city editor readin.5: , "Give "em all- hell." WHAT COULD BE SWEETER Ah, to be an editor 200 miles from the office! Great changes often take elaee whila the editor la away. Som-etimes when he returns he finds the print shop towel broken In two places. THE G. O. P. OUT I FORCE Lake county republican leaders were out in force to greet the editors. For the benefit of the uninitiated It m ! &-h f be erplalned that a party leader, a either an office-holder, a candidate for office, an ex-office holder who is paying his political debts or a fellow who aspires some day to be a candidate for office. Well, they were all out. heart. by John Kllligrew. countv renuhlli-an chairman. . The wives and daughters of the visa ing editors were received by Mrs. Wm. H. Meyers, city chairman of th republican woman's organisation, and fa committee of Hammond ladies. AUTOS AT DISPOSAL OF EDS. The automobiles of prominent m(;: of the city were at the disposal of the editors for the outing and were driveu by the owners, decked out In their best bib and tucker. Right at the outset the drivers learn'-c-d something about editors, individually and collectively. They want r know things. They like to see th sight They are hail fellows, well met, bu't they crave Information. " The editors came to Lake county U see what they could see and t j u it down In their minds for further refer ence, the better to Interpret the neiy. that they print in their papers. - The visiting editors will see five nt ies that inter-lap and they will wondc-t' why they are not under one i-overrt-mcnt. Bt they must remember thai Hammond. Gary. East Chicago. Indinn'A' Harbor and Whiting are youns Tl;.';,'1 have grown so fast that they pa. -.;! out of their boundaries. But If the editors return ten yenr,from today and these conditions they will have reason to question thei spirit of co-operation an-I pro-,-ri-?s ot hich we boast. Thty will find our pavements ex.et lent for. the most part. They will incredulous at the sight of the jrrest industries, one aftrr the othr, thit extend from the Illinois-Indiana M:ite line to the dunes. From these pro.t mills that employ thousand of men. steel and the things into which it t msde are sent to every corner r.f tlje world, to the outposts of cl llizatiuu and even into the Impenetrable intcrj' ior of China and the heart of Africa. by the.
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