Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 116, Hammond, Lake County, 4 November 1921 — Page 1

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Quartet Taken Before Judge Martin Smith At Crown Point

Exclusive stories appearing: In The Times over a month ago stating that a Juimber of Gary deputy sheriffs and constables were to he called before the session of the grand jury and questioned regarding- their alleged shake flown methods employed among- the south tiiie foreigners was substantiated yesterday when four Gary men were arrested on the charge of robbery, the recent grand Jury having returned true lulls against the quartet. Charles Beal, a constable, operating fit of Justice Clemen's court; Herbert O'Brien, ouated Gary policeman, and row constable endVilliam Lang, deputy nonstable. Johnny Hamilton, alleged Hind pig keeper, whom it Is said was

Implicated in the deals was also arrested

How would you like to see a bunch of boys feverishly grinding away trying to start fire without watches, watch them sweat and labor as they try to coax a glowing coal by rubbing two f-tieks or twirling one in a groove in another? Then come to Harrison Park tomorrow afternoon and watch the contests which will be pulled off in the field meet which the Boy Scout troops of Hammond are to stage.

I Fire building will be only a small

ran oi it. mere win be ten events in all. Eight or ten troops will participate, each sending gits most proficient men In the different lines Into the contests. A large crowd is expected as this is the

nrst field meet to be held In several ears and the boys have not 19.9 a chance to show off in public. A general invitation has been extended to the people of Hammond to attend. First of all will be a review of the troops by the officials of the Scout Council. Then there will be the drill

contests in which the troops will go through various maneuvers. Following this there will be a first aid race, signalling contests, knot tying contests, a horse and rider tourney, building

NEW PORTRAIT OF HARRIMAN BRIDE, RED CROSS NURSE

The warrants were served by deputy j "r by friction, a relay running race lieriff, Tom Mathews, yesterday after- j an,J a fireman's fescue race, noon. The quartet were taken to Th drum and bugle corps will meet

Crown Point where they furnished bond j a the Central school at 1:30 o'clock and

of $2,000 before Judge Martin Smith. All four men are represented by Attorney Glenn Harris. There .are two charges against each of the men. In one of them Samuel Puskac of Clark Station Is the com-

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head a big parade of Scouts to the park

where the contests will start at 2 o'clock sharp.

plaining witness. He charges that Hamilton. Lang and O'Brien seized 16 gallons of moonshine worth $3 a gallon, and other witnesses are expected to testify that the confiscated booze. Instead of being turned over to the proper authorities, was turned over to Hamilton, who Is Baid to conduct a blind pig on the south side. The second charge is mde 'by Anna Zycko, who lives near New Chicago. It seems that Anna was In the moonshine business and she saj-s Lang, ;

Kt-al and O'Brien made her pay $100 for secrecy. Other state witnesses in the latter case are Frank Szcyerbic, Bruno 7.ycko and Steve Zycko. It is saTd that Frank Szcyerbic Is the man who made the moonshine and that Anna was sellIns 1C . Puskac, the man at Clark station, v ho was relieved of 16 gallons of moonFhine by Lang and O'Brien, was released by the deputy constables after they hail taken his hootch, it is said.

Hamilton protests his innocence and tfenies any knowledge of the matter. The state witnesses, however, say that the 16 gallons of liquor seized by Deputy Constables Lang and O'Brien were turned over to Hamilton, who split the tfvoflts with the deputies.

CONTINUANCE IN

PFEFFER CASE

Mrs. Herbert M. Harrimn. Herbert M. Harriman, millionaire banker, and his bride, formerly Miss Sally Hunter, are spending their honeymoon at French Lick Springs, while society in general discusses how his bride will be taken in millionaire circles. She is a Red Cross nurse and her romance with Harriman began when she cared for him when he became ill during the war.

(BT HARRY L. ROGERS)

STAFF CORRESPONDENT" I. N. SERVICEJ WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. "It is true that negro soldiers were hanged in France but war department records

show they were executed after fair trial and conviction of offenses of such a nature to warrant hanging them high er than Gllroy's kite." This was the comment of Secretary of War Weeks today upon statements

of Senator Watson of Georgia, that he had received a letter from a person in j Philadelphia who could "furnish pos- i tive proof" that -soldiers were hanged (

in the American Expeditionary forces." Weeks said he saw nothing In thfurther evidence produced by Watson to warrant credence of the Senator's charge that American soldiers were executed promiscuously and without due process of law. Records of the war department show. Weeks said, that ten soldiers were exevited, ihut that

all had a fair trial by court martial. "Senator Watson has not come to the war department for information." said Weeks. "I believe In vetigation will fhow that he has no substantial backing for his charges, if he has been told such things occurred in France. I think he will discover eventually that he has been deceived."

"If such hangings had taken place," Weeks declared "the facts would never

j have been hidden. I have too much j reypect for the energy and initiative

STAGE SET FOR LAST MEETINGS

Fred C rum packer Latest Orator To Appear For Brown

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HELPS STATE CONVICT PAL

After an all day lesral battle before Judv A. R. T'nkham in police court yesterday Sam Slanovich, alleged partl r (.f j . Marcovich, whose modern underground distillery was raided at 3:ihland by police and federal officials, was found guilty on one of !x cunts and was sentenced to 30 days l-i the county jail besides being as-f-H-scd a flne of $150. Attorney Whinery representing the defendant n.ip'aled and Stanovich was released on br-nds of 11.000. Marcovleh is alleged to have as-tei-'.ert that taklig all responsibility in

rid previously made and for which ' Tie will be arraigned before Judg An- j 5"t son tomorrow had taught him a les- ' and that in the present cae Stan-i- j

vn-ri win nave to assume a portion of the guilt. lie then turned state'"" eidenre attempting to disprove the statement rna'le by Ptano,i,;h that the latter was merely an employe and that h had not lived at the M.ireovirh residence, but at his own h.jtne, IS Massachusetts venue. (iary. , 1'urinR- tiie trial many ver'nal tilts

between Attorney Whinery and federal I

Accompanied by a score -of witnesses, attorneys representing Mrs. Myrtle Pfeffer, charged with accepting husti money, while police .matron, at Hammond Central station, thia morning appeared In the offices of Judge Charles

Fredericks ready for trial. They were met by Joe Todd, assistant prosecuting attorney, who asked for a second continuance on the grounds that he will be occupied today and tomorrow in prosecuting liquor law vioS.tions. The case is now slated for bearing at 10 a. m. Monday morning. According to James K. Stinson, of counsel for the defense, Mrs. Pfeffer will waive arraignment and plead not sruilty. Judge Klotz of police court i3 expected to appear for the defense. He will present court dockets bearing on the case.

DEATH OF AGED WOMAN Mrs. Augusta Notzke. 87 years eld, died this morning at 3:30 o'clock after a long iiiness at her home 42 Towle street, Hammond. Khe is survived bv

four sons, two daughter sand thirteen grar.d-children. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home and burial will be In Concordia cemetery. '

REGION POLICE ARE INTERESTED IN ARREST

Mrs. S. Mattich Held in Chicago; Victimized ManyLocal Merchants.

Hammond police today were told that Chicago authorities are holding Mrs. S. Mattich, who victimized many local merchants and banks as well as business houses of Gary, on forty complaints of check forgeries. Her bonds total $180,000. Mrs. Mattich, a tall handsome woman of striking appearance, lived for a time in the vicinity of Columbia avenue and 17th street. Her manner of approach was anything but suspicious to her many victims. She succ.- 'sfully patsed a number of worthless checks on merchants of the Calumet district cities before police finally secure! knowledge of her whereabouts. Chicago police have written Chief Austgen fcr a record of the feminine check forger's operations In Hammond.

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Solomon Greenburg who runs & dry goods store at 83 State street, Hammond, today filed his petition In bankruptcy in the federal court at Hammond. He schedules his debts at J5,"97 87. all of which are unsecured claims. His assets amount to $2,659.50 The petition was prepared by Attorney I. I. Modjeska.

operatives occurred. Stanovich found guilty of operating a P;!!l.

FOOD COST REDUCTIONS ARE HARDLY VISIBLE Labor Board Makes Report on Food Conditions

In Country. j . - i WASHINGTON. Nr. 4. The retail j

ro t of food in son cities is coming down, but in many instances it is so .mall as to be liar'lr noticeable, according to figures rivl public today ty the bureau of labor statistics of the department of lbc,r. The figures are f r reven principal cities and show that retail food prices during the month from Sept.. 13 to Oct. 15 decreased two-tenths of one per cent in St. Paul; four-ienths of onerer cent in Little Rock: one per cent in New Haven. Conn.. Richmond. Ca.. and Washington, D. C. In Omaha there was an increase of two per cent and Jn Memphis an increase of one p-r rent. There was no change during the month in Baltimore, Kansas City and Philadelphia.

ITALIAN MASONIC LEADER ATTENDS COUNCIL MEETING

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WALK OUT SUNDAY

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 4. All of the union miners of IHstrict No. 1 United Mine Workers of America, embracing the major part of western Pennsylvania, have been ordered to walk out at midnight. Monday, Nov. 7. This decision to call tho men out was reached after a lengthy secret meeting of the district officers and members of the executive, committee of the district.

held here today and which ended this afternoon. .

of the press of the United States to believe such conditions as those oharged by Senator Watson could remain concealed until this time." he said.

poor LJttie Newt." he added, "what did he know of what was going oa over there?" Watson clashed with Senator Edge.

New Jersey, republican, when the latter charged that the photograph of a sca-ffold produced by Watson as one of which American soldiers had been executed was "really one on which two brutes, one of whom was a negro who

had attacked a seven year old French girl, were hanged for brutal dastardly

crimes. "I have obtained from the war department the records concerning- these executions and the executions of other

soldiers In France," said Senator Edge. "These records show the executions that the Senator from Georgia referred to. took place April 4, 1919, and April 15, 1919. "The first was that of a negro who had been convicted of both murder and rape. His victim, a 7 ar old French girl, died later and the negro was tried Feb. 12. 1919. The second man executed was a white man who had been convicted of the crime of rape, March 27. 1919." "The Senator from Georgia has made his charge and the country wants to know by 'evidence that cannot be disputed whether or not they are tnue." "3enr J r Cham'berlarn mad (these very san.e charges on the floor of this ; ena.te two years ago and they were j not questioned," shouted AVatson.

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Marshal Ferdinand Foch.

JJNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Nov. 4.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Idol of the allies came to Indianapolis today and found prepared for his reception the most elaborate milifarv

Indiana's history. A salute of 19 guns sounded as the distinguished marshal and his entourage arrived at the union station and was escorted to a hotel by the famous Culver black horse, troop. That was the beginning of a strenuous day's program for the aged general. A formal reception, a special auto-mo-bile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a luncheon tendered by Gov. McCray at the Country Club, preceded a huge parade of tx-service men this afternoon, when thousands of men were to march over a four mile, flag- 1

.bedecked route, with the "greatest soldier since Napoleon," at their head. The entire Indiana national guard with full equippage of artillery and ambulances was to be In line; veterans of the Rainbow Division were to be there, "tin hats" and all, besides thousands of former soldiers here from every corner of the state. Dedication of the Indiana war memorial site- in University Park, at which Marshal Foch is to t-peak. A visit to national headquarters of the American legion were to precede a "four hundred" banquet attended by 400 Indiana citizens with the mashal as the honor guest. A mass meeting at tho Cadle tabernacle is the last number on the pro

gram of the beloved Frenchman, whose I

train departs at midnight.

TO THE VOTER

Don't be misled by eleventh hour rumors, charges and aliened disclosures. Both parties have had ample opportunity to plead their cases with the voters. The campaign has been i long one and the discussion of the issues has been thorough and complete. This was shown last night when the democrats at their final allies said nothing that they had not said by them many times before. Take no stock in gossip that comes out at the last minute. If you hear some rumor that is damaging to either side do not repeat it as a fact until you have confirmed it or had it contradiced by City Chairman, Cleveland at the republican headquarters or City Chairman Martin at the democrat headquarters. Neither of these men will sanction any misrepresentation. You have been fully informed of the issues. Don't be misled.

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CONGRESSMAN MAY GO TO GERMANY AS AMBASSADOR

FORDNEY DEMANDS

SMOOT'S FIREl

(BY J. BART CAMPBELW r STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE1 WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. The announcement of Representative Fordney

of Michigan, that the Hotie would not j agree to the incorporation of the Sale . Tax in the pending revenue bill drew' fire today from Senator Smoot, repubii- j can, Utah, who took occasion to open his expected drive for the adoption of j his proposal. . I "It comes with the bad grace from I any member of the House," Smoot declared, "to say that the Sennte cannot' pans any explanation it may deem fit j and proper."

Signor KaonI V. Paler mL Signer Raoul V. Palermi of Rome, prand roaster of the grand lodge of Italy and thirty-third decree sovereign grand commander of the supreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite Masons of Italy and her colonies, is now attending the meeting- of the supreme council in Washington, D. C.

DEATH OF LITTLE GIRL;

Gwendolyn, 13 year ld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Holmes, died early this morning at her home, 442 Pine street, after a h-o days' Illness of scarlet fever. The funeral was held this afternoon. Burial was made in Oak Hill cemetery. In addition to the shock of little Gwendolyn's Mdden death the family is further bereaved by the serious 111netw of Gilbert, 6 year old brother of

Gwendolyn's, who has happily passed

through the crisis of an attack of scarlet fever and is believed now to have a chance of recovery.

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(BULLETIN) 1 1 NTERN ATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. An appropriation of $10,000,000 for prohibition enforcement will be asked of Congress for the next fiscal year. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes announced today. The appropriation for the current year was $7,500,000.

(BULLETIN) riNTERNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. President Harding today signed the joint resolution making November 11, 1921, Armistice Day, a legal holiday.

(BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 DETROIT. Nov. 4. Automobile thieves held up the pay car of the Gordon-Paget Baking Company and escaped with $4,100 today. The robbers crowded ,the pay car to the curb, threw pepper into the eyes of the driver and a companion and seized a satchel containing the money.

have to "fight it out alone" in their effort to obtain suspension of Federal Judge Anderson's injunction against their check-off system. Indiana operators, all of them named defendants in Judge Anderson's decree, will not join in the appeal to be taken today in the U. S. Court of Appeals at Chicago. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Nov. 4. A moment after he had kissed his 11-year-oid son, Samuel, goodbye, Lizzo Batista, saloonkeeper, was shot five times and probably mortally wounded as he stepped out of his home today. The assassin fled.

Rep. Alans on B. Houghton.

OWN YOUR OWN HOME. A building boom Is on the way. Communicate at once with the Franklin Club, care Lake County Times, and we will tell you how to obtain a home in a splendid resident district on montluy payments. We can help you. Our lots are located in Whiting, Hammond and Indiana Harbor. Franklin

(BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. The first permits to manufacture and sell beer for medicinal purposes were issued today by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. The permits were granted to the Schlitz breweries of Milwaukee and the Piel Brewery of New York.

(BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl TOKYO, Nov. 4. (Via Radio). Premier Takashi Hara was stabbed to death here late today at the Central railroad station. A Korean boy hiding in a third class waiting room sprang upon the .premier and stabbed him repeatedly in the breast. The cabinet leader died fifteen minutes later. Hjs assailant was immediately arrested.

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SIMON RALLIES TO-! NIGHT Lyndora Hotel ! Edison School and CNeil'sj Garage, corner Calumet and I Carroll, Saturday night;! Grand Rally at Roberts-j dale Auditorium; Ed. Simon

and C. B. Tinkham, speakers. -

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(BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEJ DELAND, Fla., Nov. 4. The Putnam Inn, one of Florida's largest hotels, caught fire today. Help has been summoned from Dayona, 21 miles away.

f INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICEJ NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Nov. 4. General John J. Pershing, commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces in the World War today denied charges of Senator Watson of Georgia that American soldiers were hanged in France without trial by courts martial.

(By Th Political Saportar) Oceans of G. O. P. political pep were In evidence In Hammond today to assure the republicans a magnlflcant turn out of voters to view their big auto parade and crowd the DeLuxe and Orpheum theaters for brief programs or music and speaking. It will be the greatest political demonstration Hammond has ever known. The democrats had a cold night to contend with last night and this combined with the abated Interest of th citUena In political spell-binding threw a damper over their final rallies. While all seats were taken at the Orpheum theater the gallery of the DeLuxe was empty. The crowds were restless and people began treking out before the

speakers were thTough.

Taking a pointer from this, City

Chairman Clyde Cleveland has fixed a limit rigid on the time alloted for speakers and promises that everybody will be well on the way home by 10 o'clock. The big Brown parade will form on the side streets between the Calumet river and the Michigan Central tracks and begin to move at 6:45. The parade will go 'north on Calumet avenue to

Huehn avenue, west on Huehn to Sheffield, south on Sheffield and Hohman to Kenwood, east to Calumet avenue, north on Calumet to State street and west to Hohman. The musical program will commence promptly at 8: o'clock at each of the theaters DeLuxe and Orpheum and the speaking is to start at :30, continuing until 9:40. The speakers at the DeLAixe are At

torney McAleer and Mayor Brown, and at the Orpheum, Attorney Fred Crum-

packer and Charles Surprise. LACKS ENTHUSIASM

The democrat meetings at the DeLuxe and Orpheum lacked the enthusiasm that was manifest at the Simon rally in. the Parthenon theater. Perhaps this was in part due to the fact that the speeches ty Ed. Simon. Judge Ibach. Bernard Gavlt and C. B. Tinkham were practically the rame as the epeechee they have been making throughout the campaign. Nothing new was propounded for the republicans to answer tonight. Mr. Simon talked on utlity rates, Mr. Gavlt revived the moral issue. Mr. Ibach summarized both of these Issues and Mr. Tinkham again' declared TJan Brown was not a strong character. U17TATOKABI.Z rTJnUCITT Hammond has drawn some unfavorable publicity by reason of its campaign. Besides the Pfeffer affair, Sam Sku-

fakiss, proprietor of the much raided

hotel at East Hammond, candidate for councilman-at-large on the democratic ticket. Is quoted In The Chicago

Journal this afternoon in a story that

will add nothing to Hammond's good

name. The Journal, a democratic organ, says that Hammond Is held In a death grip of public utilities and bootleggers and that its police department carries on a traffic In working

girls.

From the statement Skufakiss

makes regarding the Immoral conditions of his home town It appears that he is bo thoroughly disgusted that ho is about to leave It.

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(BULLETIN) riNTERNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Nov. 4. Edward Clifford of Evanston, 111., assistant secretary of the treasury, believes that the outlook for business in the Middle West is brightening. Economy is still the watchword of the hour in Washington, however, Mr. Slifford stated.

(BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Nov. 4. The United Mine Workers will

(INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE JOLIET.J1I.. Nov. 4. Fire today destroyed the A. C. Marshal' school, valued at $100,000. Spontaneous combustion originating in the coal bins is said to have been the cause.

VANCOUVER. B. C. Nov. 4. Mrs. May Young, an entertainer in the Monte Carlo cabaret. Vancouver's best known flight life, the same resort which was closed a few ago, is dead, and L. T. Dillon is in a hospital dying, as the result of two shots which were fired in a roo mat the Starthcona hotel here today.

DEATH OF DANIEL WOLF

Daniel Wolf, aged 75 years, who died Monday at his home In DeMotte. Ind., following a brief illness was buried yesterday near Kniman, Ind. Mr. Wolf, w-ho arrived In this country from Germany in his fifteenth year, was for more than fifteen year a Hammond business man. He is survived by his widow, six daughters, Mrs. A. R. Schultz. of Reus

f-slaer; Mrs. Henry Iteissig. Mrs. Liziie Gamer, Mrs. F. J. Hepner, Mrs. A. T. Brady and Miss Margaret Wolf of Hammond and fouT sons, Peter, Michael and Frank of DeMotte, and John G. oi Omaha. '