Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 82, Hammond, Lake County, 26 September 1921 — Page 1
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BEG1NST0DAY LeadingMinds of Country Meet At Washington Today
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TO DECIDE TH MOOT POINTS Penn. Road Defies Board and Denies Its Right To Impose Rules " (BtXlETtX.) "INTERNATIONAL NES SERVICEl CHICAfiO. Set. 2fl While the Inhor board wa econsldertivc the attitude of the Pennsylvania, official of the Brotherhood of RhIIitiit trainmen met here, to count the ballots cane In the rrtk Tote iwrntfy taken. The strike to m ordered after the lahor board bad announced 'trace reduction on July 1. rTNTENAT!0iAL NES SERVICE CHICAGO. Sept. 2? The Pennsylvania railroad and the United State Railway Labor Board are at loggerheads today and a bitter fight to decide the points to issue ltwc?n the railroad and the board is In prospect Other railroads may be drawn into a fight that eventually may result in legislation or court action to determine the scope of the labor board's powers. BEJTSED TO PARTICIPATE. Th Pennsylvania has defied the labor board and denied its right to impose rules by which the board shall deal with its employes. The railroal has refused to participate in an oral hearing here today at which the boarl planned to hear arguments in connection with the shop crafts committeeelection dispute. In a letter sent to the labor board by Samuel Ret, president of th Pennsylvania, made it clear that the road intended to ignore the ruling of the board which prescribed the manner in which employes of the road should e!rt representatives to deal with the -ailway officials in matters pertaining to working rules and conditions. Rea charged the board with arrogating lo itself the power to ignore the decisions of the United States supreme court. CANNOT ACCEPT VIEWS. "The carrier cannot accept these views of the board." Rea's lstter said. Novel and startling though they my be. and !f followed to their logical conclusion, revolutionary in effect. It does not believe that the transportation act has deprived or was intended by congress to deprive either employes or employers of their constitutional and legal rights as established by the supreme court and other courts of the United States." The defiance, of the board by the Pennsylvania is a climax to a fight by that railroad to etsablish the "open shop" on its lines and to refuse recognition to unions of railroad workers. The road had persistently refused to recognize the unions as organization; in dealing with its employes. A recent order of the board directed the Pennsylvania to deal with representatives of the employes chosen by the unions. The road app;aled for a rehearing on this order and its plea was granted but with retsrictions that the railroad has refused to accept. Whether other railroads will follow the. lead of the Pennsylvania was being watched wtlh interest today. SCOUTS TO HELP GUARD THE STREETS Aid of the older Boy Scouts ot Hammond will be asked by Chief Austgen of the Hammond police in handling the crowds of school Children anu preventing accidents in crossing buss streets on the way to anu from school. Chief Austgen said th?.," Turning that he would take the matter up at once with Scout Executive I. K. Scott. There have been an unusually large number of accidents since school began, due to the smaller children running blindly across streets, often directly into tho path of an automobile before the driver has time to check his car or turn aside. The average child is told to watch nut for automobiles and hurry across the streets. He f fecjuently stands a long time on a corner ftd finally decides he must get across some way or b-e ate in getting home or to school. If he looks at all it is generally In the wrong direction. "Many of the scouts have training In this kind of work and would ba glad to act as traffic cops around their schools," said Chief Austgen. "We haven't enough men to place at the dangerous crossings at each schoolThe scours could arrange their schedule so that several of them would be on hand before and after school to help the littlier ones across the street. They could alternate days, so that not one of them would have more than one day a week of it. I think the boys on duty should be in uniform &s it would command greater respect from the children and at the came time motorists' from all over the country would recognize their authority."
MASONIC NOTICE Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. will hold a called convocation Wednesday evening, Sept. 2Sth. Fast and Most Excellent degrees will be conferred. -26-2t C. EL NELSON, E. H. P.
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CROWN POINT. In J . Sept. A near Jail delivery at the county Jail at Crow n Point In which Jailor Herman was bound and gagged by !'" prisoners and then attempted to saw their way to freedom last Friday was learned for the first time today. Although the details hav e not been made publi- it is understood that th" two prisoners who bound the Jailer and attempted t" saw their way out of Jail came near accomplishing their task and were d6tertod only In the nick of time. One of them had been sentenced two to fourteen years and th other was awaiting trial for b'irslary. The incident was kfpt as secret as possible. One of the prisoners was one of the thirteen taken to Jeff rsonville by deputies to start serving their time yesterday. This lav? in. the neighborhood of thirty ptisonars at the county Jail. . DOCTOR TO TESTIFY IN ARBUCKLE CASE (BrLLETI.V) BT EbLTS H. MARTIN STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SEPYICE Sl PIAXIMO. Sept. 20. An Indication that counsel believes the preliminary hearing- of Hoseoc "Fatty" ArbOckle on a charge of hating murdered Virginia Rappe, film actress, may continue the greater port of this week viaa iclven today as the hearing entered upon its fourth day. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26. This promised to be a day of 'surprises'' in the Arbuckle case. The fourth day of the preliminary hearing of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. charged with the murder of Virginia Rappe. was to be ushered in with the testimony or Dr. Arthur Beardslee. He is ona of the state's surprises. story has never been told in public. He was one of the first physicians to treat Miss Rappe and d.-parted the day after sh was taken ill, on a hunting trip. For nearly two weeks he was listed as missing and finally returned too late to testify before the grand Jury or the coroner's Jury. The state characterizes his testimony as 'vital." The state, it is understood. depjjds upon him to shatter the theory held by the defense that Miss Rappe died either from natural causes or as a result of treatment accorded her during her illness. Dr. Bsardslee, according to the district attorney's office, diagnosed her illness as coming from an internal injury from the start. When the defense promised a surprise from Al Semnacher, the Los Angeles manager of the dead motion picture actress was dismissed on Saturday and prepared t depart for hi.home when the d'.-fense discovered iT was reported today, that among the many things he had forgotten while on the stand Friday and Saturday were points vital to Arbuckle's case. For the purpose of bringing out this testimony they planned to have him recalled. They did not indicate what they expected to bring out from him today although the report was current they believed Semnacher "knew more than he has told." Despite the Importance attached to the testimony of Dr. Beardslee was a degree of curiosity as to what Semnacher has "forgotten to tell," interest centered today rhlefiy in the appearance on the stand of Mrs. Bambinc Maude Delmont, who, with the death of Miss Rappe. assumed the role of "avenger." As the prosecuting witness, thcstate depends upon Mrs. Delmont -o clinch its case. She was the first to accuse Arbuckle. She has given th most damaging testimony utterid against him at both taa coroner's inquest and before the grand jury. She has revealed in fullest details the events of the hilarous party on Labor Day afternoon which had a fatal ending. And she has sworn to leave no stoneunturned "to avenge the sweet memory of Virginia Rappe." GLENN JONES TAKEN TO GARY HOSPITAL BtxLiynx.) Glen Jonea died yesterday at the hospital In Gary and nn Inquest will be held this afternoon over bla remain. Several are under ausplcion of his Slaying. CROWN POINT, IND. Sept. IC Glenn Jones who was mysteriously shot at his home on Harrington avenue Friday night war. tak.m to Mercy hospital in Gary on Saunihiy and c-ti operation will he perf rir.e.l in hopes that the bullet can be dislodg-jd from his lung. Up to thia time no clew has been found as to wh- fired he fatal shot. NOTICE TO KNIGHT TEMPLARS Hammond Commander- No. 41 K. T. will hold a special conclave Monday evening. Sept. 25th. opening at S o'clock . Red Cross degree will re conferred. Members are requested to attend . 9-: W. T. MARDT, E. C.
PRISON FOR FATTY, BRADY'S AMBITION
M timer j XaAr 'r - v .r - r . r-i.: i u,''w, Y.. . r. I U w - ' ' District Attorney Mathew Brady, To secure capital punishment ot r least a lonp: prison term for "Fatty" Arbuckle- is one of the present ambitions of Mathen Brady, district attorney at Sap Francisco. He is prosecuting the case against the film comedian with jrreat vigor. Chicago Police Department Reeks With Illicit Booze Scandal (BIL1.KT1M I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. Sept. 2H. Four peron rrere arrested this afternoon in the booze problem. They verc n policeman, t vro men and a woman. All were cbuntrcd with conspiring to extort money from a physician. secret Service atfrnts meanwhile were f-cn I out to make scores of nrrests among policemen on the sonth n.ide. Another revelation by Prohibition Awenta showed that in one police district, the police patrol had been used to deliver illicit whiskey at a charge of 85 a case for '-protei'tlan." INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. S'.'pt. 'J6. Wholesale dismissal of huiidr.-ds of policemen and the indictment of many loomed today as the probable outcome of Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris' drive to divorce the poliee dq ailment from illicit liquor traffic. The chief charged in a sensational statement made late Saturday that at least half the members of the Chicago police force were involved in booze, deals. CLY.NE GATHKHH KVIDECE. United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyrie was to present to tht chief today evidence gathered by federal prohibition agents involving members of th police department. Chief Fitzmorris promised immediate suspension of all officers against whom evidence Is presented. "We have evidence against scores o! policemen which we are getting in shape for the grand Jury," Clyne said today. "I cannot say how many policemen are Involved In liquor deals but the number is large." SWEEPING TIIANSEEK ORDER. As one step in the plan to break up booze traffic in the department Chief Fitzmorris lias prepared a sweeping transfer order shifting the personnel of the department. Hundreds of officers and patrolmen are to be assigned to new duties in new sections of tlv city. Chief Fitzmorris made it plain that his motive Is not a drive to enforce prohibition laws but to achieve efficiency in the police department. "The police department will not bo efficient until It has been completely separated from thel!quor traffic," the chief said. "I am going to k the limit to separate them. No good policeman 13 implicated in a booze deal." CALLS IT A JOKE. Prohibition enforcement in Chicago was characterized by Chief Fitzmorris as a "joke." "That statement goes," he said, "not only for the police department but for the citlzenary. Thousands of Chlcagoans are interested in violating the prohibition laws every day." The chief charged that federal officials, though the liquor permit system, are responsible for the flood of liquor In Chicago and asserted the way to "make prohibition an actuality is to stop the liquor ;it its source.'" GOT A BUNCH OF TROPHIES Edward Ileckelman. H75 State street. Hammond, returned home Saturday from the Crown Point fair with a hunch of trophies which his chickens picker) off. He specialize in silve"!' spangled Hamburts. He won the ribbons for first cockerel, first, secon and third pullets and the purple championship ribbon for the best male and female In a -lass which had about thirty-five entries.
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HAMMOi Other Crafts Quit When Carpenters Go To Work On High School Building Carrent-r work ricked up this morning, but other lines of building Industry slowed down in Hammond when men were put to work on s-exeral jobs in accordance with the contractors open shop declaration with regard to- carpenters. At noon today the carpenters ere about the only men working on Hip Industrial high school additions with the exception of the structural iron workers. When the tradesmen who had been brought to the job to start work under the new -.age of $1 an hour took up the'r tools, the laborers, the men running the electric hoist and some others quit. v Without the laborers, the bricklayers had to suspend operations. So did several more eralts. The carpenters kept on working. They carried their own lumber and did the -work of both laborers and carpenters. Rowley Brothers had picked up several carpenters who wanted to work Seventeen more reported who had come to Hammond on Saturday from Chicago, South Bend, Gary and Indiana Harbor. The union men who had been working on the building were standine in little groups on street corners and several of the newcomers got cold fet and refused to work, fearing trouble A number of Hammond men -who had hoped that things would move along all right took a look at the situation and decided' to wait a while. Less than twenty carpenters were working alone, on the job. ', Other lines of worft have advanced so that the present carpenters will have steady employment for some time and will be able to finish practically all of the work on the cafeteria and th first two floors of the south wing. Tht third flooi can at least he closed up so that no damage will result from inclement weather. At the Elks' Home five carpenters were put to work. They are alone on the Job as the other mechanics finished their part of the work last week. No attempt was made by Contractor J. W. Spyder to ust) non-union carpenters at the Masonic Temple. The plasterers are just winding up their part and the walls are not dry enough for the carpenters to start yet. Nonunion carpenters were also put to wor' on several of the smaller jobs In various parts of the city. STABBING AT E. CHICAGO MAY BE FATAL l-ittle Italy was called to account for the stabbing fracas taking place al the rear of the store at the corner oi Tod and Chicago avenue, Bnst Chicago, last night, resulting In the fatal injury of' one of their number. Peter Valentino of 4306 McCook avenue, avenue. Calumet. A call came to the police station last night from Steve Simko at 505 Chicago avenue that a drunken man was blockading the doorway of his place of business. Officer Rybeck' answering the summons found thtt the man had been stabbed and weakened from loss of blood and had sat down upon the steps. The injured man was taken to the station and Dr. Townsley called to dress the wound-?, and later to the St. Margaret's hospital, Hammond. The Kast Chicago polif. scoured the surrounding territory all night in quest of the attempted murderer, but yet this morning were unable to locate the suspect. The authorities have the brother of the injured man under suspicion, having learned that the brother had lived with the victim only a short while ago and taat there w-:i. a family quarrel, the brother leaving and going to Gibson yards to won upon the railroad section. FOR PRESENT WEEK SPECIAL TO THE TIVE3 CROWN POIXT, IXD., Sept. 26 In the Criminal court of Lake county, "W. O. Thomas, deputy prosecuting attorney, made the following settings for the week of September 1921: Monday, September 26 J02S State vs. Herman Biesen. 2097 State vs. George Blosky. 2068 State vs. William Robinson. Tueeday, September 2 1S33 State vs. George Eredendorf. Wednesday, September 28 2106 State vs. Newell Kilgore Melvin Shaw. 1331 State vs. Chester Cooper. Thursday and Friday Court matters. and STILL GOING DOWN NEW YOriK. Sept. 26 The German mark continued to depreciate in value, selling today at .f"s7Vs. It's pre-war value was 25 cents.
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RAILROAD HEADS CHARGED WiTH VIOLATING ELECTION LAW
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Sept. 26 H. E. Byran. president of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul railroad, and three other officials for the road were served today with warrants of a.rrot rh irginc them with eolations of the election laws. The warrants followed a complaint by John H. Turney, and twenty-five other em
IRISH CHIEF, LONG SOUGHT BY BRITISH, SNAPPED DURING ATTACK ON ORANGEMEN
yT'MW'jiAiwwiw ""I - - Michael Collins delivering LATEST (BULLETIN) r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE i BELGRADE. Sept. 26. Italy may be drawn into the troubles between Albania and Serbia, according to indications today. Reports that Italian officers and men of the ranks were fighting with the Albanians were taken under consideration by the foreign office and a note of protest may be sent to Rome. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CHICAGO. Sept. 26. One man was buried alive and another seriously injured today when the Canal street end of a street car tunnel under the Chicago river caved in. A steam shovel is at work endeavoring to extricate the man who was buried beneath tons of brick and earth. His identity has not been learned. (BULLETIN) ("INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE; NEW YORK. Sept. 26. James Lewis, New York Central pay master, who had $75,000 in cash in a grip, was wounded in the left THREE HURT IN 1 (SPECIAL TO THE TIML51 CROWN POINT. IND-. Sept 2 -Two auto racers and a mechanician were injured yesterday In the American Legion races at the fair grounds. The injured are: A. Chizmar, Mike Firsnaik and A. M. Mado of Indiana Harbor. The first two received bruises and cuts when Chizmar's car 'eft the track and went through the fence and the latter sustained a fracture of the nose when his car turtled. Chizmar and his mechanician. F!rnaik. were running third in the. twentyfive mile free for all when he lo?t control of the car on the turn. Magdo was driving his Essex Special at a mile-a-miiiute in the Battle Royal when the reflection of the sun on the windshield of another ear blinded him and caused the accident. Between 4.fi""l and 5.nw persons saw.' the raoep. The results follow: Ten Mile ford Kaee P. II. L-awnel. Columbus, O.. first: 13. Newman, second. Twenty-five Mile Free-lor-.l1. "Doc" Yak in rueenherg. firt : K- W. ('u y. fhrevolet. second. A. Chizmar, Stutz. donated third money. Battle Royal. "Doc"' Tak winner, Prcmoter T. J. Main, of Hammond is arranging another race.
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ployes of the road that they were denied two hours off with pay to cast their vote in the June election. The nieu claimed that when they absented themselves to vote their wages were "docked" two hours that day. The rati officials have announced they will fight the case to the United States supreme court if necessary on the ground that the law is unconstitutional.
jjwjMft-KMw)iwMii)iiy wynw'i,,'a mm vTfif.), J Vl his address at Armagh. hip. Paul Shay, 45, a guard, was shot in the left shoulder, and one of three bandits was injured today in a revolver duel in the Grand Central terminal when the bandits tried to steal the pay roll. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CHICAGO. Sept. 26. A strike of 186.000 railway trainsmen in the United States loomed today when strike ballots, cast by members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen began pouring into Chicago as the vice presidents of the organization convened here to count the ballots. James Murdock, vice president and acting president in the illness of W. G. Lees, opened the first ballot. It was for a strike. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WARSAW. Sept. 26. An attempt toassassinate Marshal Pilsudski, president of the Republic of Poland, failed today when a Ukranian student named Fedak fired four shots at the chief executive when he was making an inspection at Lemberg. SAYS WIFE FAILS fSPECIAL TO THE TIVESl CT.OWN POINT. 1NU-, t-ept riiiik Pav linch Gary, has Iiled t' Mass. street, divorce proceedings against his wife. Mary, whom he claims was a failure ns a wife and home maker. The Pavlinchs were married in 13Q7 and separated September 23rd. She hit him and kicked him and on various occasions made the home an unbearable place to live in. She was not a dutiful mother and the husband declares she is not a fit person to have the custody and care- of them. Daniel J. Redding filed the complaint. CHAS. NEIDOW LOSES MOTHER DOLTON. HI-, Sept. 26. Mrs. Mary Neidow. mother of Charles C. Neldow of Hammond. di-d Saturday at her home in Doiton, 111 , at the age of 77 years. Th funeral will be Wednesday afternoon at 1 ."1 Tt the home of Mrs. Louis Koch of IioUon and 2:00 o'clock at the Lutherin church and then to Concordia cemetery. Hammond. Mrs. Neidow riiic from Germany when a girl of five years and n.ovofl to Globe Stat i m and lived on the farm ever jirn". She leaves to mourn Mrs. Louisi" Koch of Doiton, Charles C of Hammond and Mrs. Mary Schmidt of rullnnn. 111.
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Bt LLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The prlera of unemployment I the nrreatet domestic problem nwif rontlng the nation, President Harding Mid In opening; the national confereinee on unemployment here. I nemplojmenf, the President ald, Ik a condition which Is not penllf the Inlted State alone, hot prevafla Kenerally throughout the world. The re-nult of thin conference will be watched by eery country In he orld. "If we fall today we will try ncaln tomorrow," the President aald. "There ha been unemployment befor and will be naraln. There will be depression after Inflation Juat aa surely aa the Ud -bl and Hon." fBT GEORGE R. HOLMES) f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICEl WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. The first serious attempt by the government to oive the unemployment problem began here today. L'nder the direct aupervlelon of President Harding and Herbert Hoover, the fcretarv of Commerce, seventy-ens of the leading "economic minds" of the country were brought together in National conference to sek ways and means of getting several millions of jobless back to work with the least possible delay. ALL SECTIONS REPRESENTED Every section of the United Sts: e is represented, as ie also every "key industry mining, building, steel manufacturing, leather, textiles, bankers, agriculture, college professors economists. Every school of political and industrial thought is included in th represented in the gathering, from Charles M. Schwab, Steel Magnate and advocate of the "open shop" to Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, to whim the "open .-hop" is anathejna There are ten representatives ef organized labor In the conference, all of whom are officials either of the American Federation of Labor or its member crafts. There are four women. Mayors of two principal cities, and many "dollar a year men." who assisted the government in various capacities during the war. PROFESSORS ON" ADVISORY BOtRD The conference proper, consists of el members and an economic advisory oo'mmission of 20. Most of the advi. ory commission are professors of economy in various universities and colleges. President Harding himself planned to open the conference with a speech n which he will outline the scope of ihe conference and express the administration's hope that success may attend its efforts After that he w-il! :urn the meting over to Secretary Hoover's permanent charge. The major part of the day is expected to be devoted to getting organized. The first task of the conference will jc to determine as nearly as possible how many bread winners are actually out of unemployment today throughout the United States. The second will be to get them back to work as speedi-" is possible before winter addg to their :nisery. MAY SOLVE ITSF.I.F. It is the well night unanimous b'.'.k f of administration officials thai the oil of the present unemplo.v mf nt pro, 'em will speedily solve itself, they b"-ie-e. Consequently, after emerg. m-y r.uavjres for immediate relief are centered, the conference can be expeced to delve deeply into the problem of how business can be assisted to its fee; ind directed once more along the roar! prosperity. Those in charge will bend every ef. fort to eliminate capital and labor cri rovrrsiest within the conference.
10 FURTHER A BUYER'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl NE WIOKK, Sept. 2 6. A conference of New York's leading business men has been called to further th 1 movomtnt for a "buyers' week" with the idea of selling $100,000,000 worth of merchandise in tw 3 weeks' time thus starting a flow of goods from th factory to consumer, giving relief to the economic pressure and aiding unemployment. Jesse I. Straus of R. H. Macey ei Co., has been made permanent chairman of the movement. It is reported here that the idea fs spreading to other cities, and tha' many letters and telegrams have been received asking further Information. Mayor Archibald of Newark. N. J., has taken an active interest in th plan and is lining up Newark merchants to work with the New York merchants. The father of the "buyers" week" idea is Franklin Simon, one of the leading fifth avenue drygoods merchants . Tentative dates for the drive are Oct . 10 to Nov. It . DEATH OF MRS. ZIJIMER Mrs. Sarah Ella Zlmmer, one of Hammond's beloved and respected citlxens. passed away at her home, 122 Euclid avenue on Saturday evening at ten o'clock, following an illness of several months. Mrs. Zimmer was fifty-eight years of age. is survived by her husband, C. S. Zimmer, sly onj. and ono daughter. The funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at the residence rev. Riet of the 'First M. E. church will oTiciatJ. Burial rvlil b made In the Hhssv.I'.ij ctnist. ry.
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