Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 118, Hammond, Lake County, 7 November 1921 — Page 1

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Moonshiner With Weapon Is Seized Before He Can Harm Official State Fire Marshal J. P. Humphrey, of Indianapolis, was givt n a sensational introduction to the East Chicapo Moonshine" district, Saturday v hen he invaded the south side of Purine avenue and was denied entrance to a home by its occupants at the point of a shot gun. "This is a little surprise." said the fire marshal. "I tho;;icht this was a civilized country." Suspicious of the origin of a recent fire occurring at 4 :'! Paring avenue. Fire Chief Smith with Fir.- Marshal J. I!. Humphrey called Saturday at this home for the purpose of making an inspection of the property and securing evidence as to the lire of last September. A careful survey had been made of the outward premises after which the officials knocked upon the doors for admission to the house. There beirig no response the officials presumed that there was no one at home. Peine later informed hy the neighbors to the contrary, the men secured a search warrant for entrance to tnp place. 1 istrust i n g the attitude of the occupants, the assistance of lour peheemon was secured to train entrance to the house. Lying propped m bed with a Winchester pump pun at his side, lay Stanley l'jez, prepared for the attack on his home. Officer Pedro acquainted with the peculiarities in the district and sensing trouble, had pained entrance to the mom through a side window- and to the rear of Piez, overpowered him and seized his fire pieee ttefore he was aware of the officer's presence. Cookine: and steaming in one corner of the room was a still with the essence of "moonshine" bubbling from its coils into regulated containers ready for marketing. When arrested. Stanley FU-z denied that the fire that occurred at his home I In September was caused by operating! his "moonshine" still. The prisoner was released upon a $1,000 bond. DELL PLAIN TO REPRESEIs I. N. G. & CO. The third annual convention and exhibition of the American Gas Association, the national organization of tiie pas Industry, will be held in Chicasro on November 7 to 12 and Mr. Morse Pell Plain. ice-president ol the Northern Indiana Gas and Kiectric company will be in Chicago tomorrow to represent his company which is a member. Mr. Pell Plain stated that this year's ; convention is expected to be the most important in the association's history. as it will deal with the problems arising out of af ter-the-war readjustment. More than I.JrtO delegates are expected to attend and one hundred of the leading manufacturers will exhibit their latest Kas bur Hint; appliances and equipment. "There are bi problems facing the f:as industry," said Mr. Pell Plain, "one of them has to do with the oil situation which is of Kreat moment to. the Industry, using: as it does approximately one billion frallons of pas oil i annually." Mr. A. C. Pedl'ord, chair- j man of the Poard. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is to discuss this situation. Questions of finance. the SelllnK of securities direct to customers, and public relations are also inirortant and will be covered thoroughly i by Samuel Insull. president of the Peoples' Gas Lipht and Coke Company of Chicapo. Other addresses and re- '. forts will deal with important accounting, technical and manu f ac turinir , phases of the business." : LEGION AT WHITING HAS FALL FESTIVAL SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING, Ind., Nov. 7The Ft 1! Festival of the American Pepion opened in Ciesar's jrarasre on Ji.dinn.i I'.lvd., near 119th street on Friday nipht The affair was well attended and a good time afforded those pre cnt. There is nvi.-io, danoi-i booths, where thinps may be ;iurchiscd nnd a general pood time . in st in- f ir all those attending-. The Pepi n the profits for th purpose f '.i-r-..-h-inp up th.r club ; ooms in -,'r"r P'-a-cluh house at 11?lh street and New York avenue int which tiey will eentually ni-tv, s in adltioi to navinp a pool time y u m ny wll o fr worthy oh h. Smashing the pins. Hammond bowlers tonight will engage in the first tournament of the season when eight ! teams comprising the Hammond City ! Rowling League cla.'h at McCool's al- I leys. The first set will start at 7:,10 four more teams following at S:45 p

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One Time Police Matron is Held Under $2,000 Bond to Criminal Court. Arraipned before Judge Charles i Frederich this morning on a rharpe of brihary, Mrs. Myrtle I'feffer, one time Hammond police matron, receiven a . surprise when Joe Tonn. assistant rros- , ecutinir attorney moved that the case ; be dismissed on a teehinacity unearthj e l by the defense. Mrs. Pfeffer swept : intra the room and into the arms of j Deputy Sheriff Albert Morris, who held j in his hand a warrant for her re-arrcst hi a charge of blackmail. While the crowd stood in open-mouthed amazement unable to grasp the significance of the move. Mrs. I'feffer ac companied by her attorneys. J. K. Stin- i son and Judge Fred Harnett was rushd from the fourth to the fifth floor of the building where she was scclud e.i in me onices oi jimce iiarnett. I here the w arrant was heard to her. Judge l'arnett immediately called the county clerk at Crown Point and oer ine telephone was reail the affidavit ch harping blackmail s.tul signed bv John I'ickson. The charges are substantially the same as contained in the first aei.lai it rharrin;r brihary. Mrs. Pfeffer's bonds w ere st t at $2,000. The case will be tried before Judtre Martin Smith in the Crown Point criminal court. No date has been set. Disorderly Meeting Mrs. Myrti" K. I'feffer, former police, matron, addressed u crowd of women only at K. of I', hall on Saturday. The meetins nearly hrnj- up in a riot, d'le to caluniinous a! .local ions made by the speaker. Mrs. I'feffer'.s disjrraceful si eech was unfit for publication. E OPENING BIG SUCCESS Pel lorn in Hammond has such larpe crowd turned cut for the formal; openinjr of a new bufmess house as j visited the new store of the Friduss Furniture & Carpet Co., at 245 State St., Saturday. They came from far and. near, Hammond. Fast Chicapo. Whitinp, Gary, l.ansinp. Oak Glen, Heitewisrh, Chicapo Ileiphst and Riverdale. Thousands visited the bip store and were shown throuph every department. All expressed amazement and surprise at findinp such a complete furniture line outside the city of Chicapo. "Their many compliments and kind words make me feel amply repaid for the tremendous effort which it required to pet ready for such an occasion and carry it throuph," said Sam Friduss, manaper of the store, this morninjr. 'We hadn't intended to sell a slnple article Saturday," continued Mr. Friduss, "but the demand was so insistent that we relented. Our sales ran into the thousands of dollars and would have been even hipher if we had had time to place the price taps on our stock." The store was a bower of flowers. The first and second floors were decorated with beautiful boquets of daisies, asters, roses and chrysanthemums, many of which were the plfts of warm personal friends of the manapemcnt. The Friduss Brothers have made a preat hit with the people of the Calumet repion. AN AFFIDAVIT .STATF OF INDIANA, COUNTY OF LAKH, SS: I, the undersipned, individually and on my ow n behalf, solemnly swear that everything said about me by Mrs. Myrtle Pfeffer. at K. of I'. Hall, or any other place, pertaining to wronp or immoral acts by mo, as Police officer of the City of Hammond, is untrue and Absolutely false, and further swear that to my best knowledpe and belief, that everything said by Mrs. Myrtle Pfeffer at the K. of P. Hall or any other place pertaining to the immorality of the Police Force is untrue and absolutely false, as I am informed and believe. I'F.TEIl AU-STCEN, Chief of Police. FRED G. IUMHACH, Captain of Police. HOW A H P I?. PKPU O.A HJ.. K. FANPREI GEO. T. HANPON CHARLES H. SEE AL.FI LEO P. STEPOW EDWARD WARNER. Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public, this 7th day of November, 1921. DAVID T. EMERY, Notary Public. Commission expires Atur. 24, lf23. Our"Wea-lker lian Snow Flurries.

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Mayor McCormack Assures East Chicago Election Will Be Guarded. Kvery person arrested in Past Ch go on election day for violation of election laws ,r for su h misdemeanors as disorderly conduct, inciting a riot, etc., will he held without bail for twenty-four hours. This was the statement of Mayor Leo .McCormack and Chief of police Fd j 'I on nell today to Maj. Mellen, of the i s,ate '"il'tia. who was sent to Fast Chicago to investigate the report of I a "''I'!' committee that the troops I were needed in the Twin Cities toi morrow. j Mayor McCormack stated to the army officer that he would have seventy-five additional police tomorrow and that he was in full control of the i situation and dil not nee d help. It was reported at Indiananolis that the oommitti of Keppa baders who ,.a j jr d on the governor at the state capital, was headed by Hazel Groves. city chairman. It is ridiculous to call state troops to a city where there is no trouble! and no reason to expect any trouble ! that the police- cannot handle," said Mayor McCormack.

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Tl. ,. , oisrofrardiner frantic sicnals of the n.-mman. Kuwene Ciller of 022 151st street, Fast Chicane, early today drove head-on into an east-bound Michigan Central train at Kennedy avenue and! received injuries that proved fatal four hours later. According" to the crossing- watchman he saw Czicler approat hinp in a highpowered Hudson sedan. II" waved to the doomed motorist to stop. moment later the train swept by and Czigder, unable to lrinr his car to a stop, struck the coal tender and the automobile was swept ahnr like a leaf before a yale. The car was demolished. When Czigb-r was removed from the wreckage he was taken to St. Margaret's hospital where J)r. j;. Chidlaw found he had sustained three factures of his left ley, a broken left arm and i n t erna I i n ii i r i e He die.i at ,1 a. m. The body was lakrB io Huber's morgue in Fast Chicago. $150,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED AGAINST FARMERS 1 Heavy Damages Asked from Three Well Known Men By ChiCaT0 PaVinST CO rSPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN POINT, Ind.. Nov. 7.. i Sam It. Woods, Roy Hack and Alexander Poyd. three prominent Pake county j loiioc..-.. -..- mac.- ueienoants in a t.uv.v..,, uo..r . .neu oy me r ea- j ,.i v.m .luii, w nn n ,.- Miiiij'i'.ini me lonnai i i,tr paving Lincoln hiphway in Pake county. The damape suits were tiled in the United! States District court at Hammond, the i complaint settinp out that the company has been libeled and slandered by the three men, they havinp written a letter to the Indiana Hiphway commission in which they charped that the paving company was not buildinp the road according to specifications and that it was not as thick as the contract called for.

They composed a committee named j Is hack of Simons. Railroads are a valby the Farm Pureau to investigate liable asset to the city but the public's and report upon the Lincoln hiphway : interests must be paramount at the city

job. BURLINGTON TO SPEND r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICFI CHICAGO. Csov. 7 Relieving that there is a decided improvement in general business conditions, the Chicago, Purlington & Quincy Railroad and its subsidary. Colorado & Southern lines today- authorized the immediate expenditure of $15.non,no0 for new equipment. Directors of the two lines met here this morning. The action was taken following consideration of a business survey made by the two roads. CALLAHAN 226, REPPA 75, STRAW VOTE SAYS Pome time ago the Aristo Club. 3527 Cedar street. Indiana Harbor, agreed to give a republican dance. The republi- ! can party printed the programs nnd i made it appear that the club had endorsed the republican ticket. This was not true. Vincent Pimlnski, president, and Joseph Pareniika, recording secretary of the club, today announced that the following straw vote had been taken of the members of the club: Callahan. 226. Reppa, 75.

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Clyde Cleveland Says Victory For Brown Is Fore-Gone Conclusion j (B, The Political Reporter) ! The prediction of Clyde Cleveland, city chairman of the republican party, that Pan Prown will win tomorrow with a 2. 5 i.i 0 majority of the 13,000 votes appeared reasonable today in view of the increasing Prown sentiment. One comparison of stronpth is to be found in the two automobile rarades) j the democrats having 200 cars a week i api and the republicans about I.efM) Friday niht. It was unfortunate that the republican parade broke into a numi her of sections but the city was alive with autos and red fire. ' 1 I1, ,lH Kien out at & ocIock the day of the republican parade to 650 Ci'rs- The starter's fi&ures show more than l.OnO car.s lined up on the side streets off Calumet avenue for the start. Another evidence was the jrreatly increased attendance at republican rallies the past week. On the street and in public places Prown supporters are by far in the ajority. Cvery charpe broufiht by the demorats has been answered to the sat- ' isfaction of the majority of the voters. I MARTIN'S STATEMENT I Even Frank Martin, city chairman ' f the democratic party, is not contident enough of victorv to venture a prediction as to the majority. In a sipned statement today, Martin contents himself with saying that "the Prown administration will be piven a crushing defeat." He says Simon will I carry ten of the thirteen wards which ' is a preposterous statement. The best auaij ;s or tne urown campaign, appearinp so far is that used by the committee of 10k business men who are out today worklnp for the mayor. Their argument follows: ' THE ISSUES 1. The industrial and residential development of the city can proceed no further until the rehabilitation of the Hammond water works is carried out alonp the lines now beinp undertaken by the administration of Mayor Pan Prow n. - '"ere no law ana order issue in the city of Hammond, which we all known is a clean, decent, orderly, moral and law- abiding- community. 3. In fairness to Pan Prown it must be admitted that the constructive work he has hepun in the way of street improvements, water works improvements. park development and Calumet river straiphteninp entitles him to the opr"rtunUy to comiilete the work he has j'T'"' absolute impartiality of me 'public works In the lottinp of improvej ment contracts insures real competition and has saved the tax-payers hundreds of thousands of dollars. This situation must not be replaced by one in which the administration is to be dominated by anv contractor's ring. With miljions of dollars of street and sewer improvements contemplated in the next few years; the cost to the rublic in increased special assessments, in the ( event the contractor s combine pets control, would make past increases in utility rates seem trival in comparison. 5. The firm of railroad attorneys responsible for the closinp of streets in the east side of Hammond, cuttlnp off the eastward development of the city, blocking Columbia avenue with railroad yards and turning the city over to the New York Central Pines. I hall. fi. For the first time in years the vast activities of the school city are j in competent hands. Much construc- ; tive work has been done. The interests that have sought to exploit the tax payers have been held in check. Every Hammond child deserves a common and high school education at the hands of ; competent, well-paid instructors, and any attempt to make political capital i out of this vital community need should he instantly reproved. 7. The annexation of Hessvllle provides for the future expansion of the citv. This great opportunity for ! growth and development must be prej served at all costs. 8. Every business man and tax payer is vitally interested, in this postwar period of high taxes, in the magnificent achievement of the Prown admin istration in keeping the per capita cost of fixes to the lowest figure of any city in the state of Indiana. This sort of municipal government must be continued. OUT OF TOWN CARS IN PARADE Automobiles from surounding cities have been presed into service to swell the democrat parade tonight. according to reports today from Whiting. Gary and Gary has been asked by the democrat central committee of Hammond to send a hundred cars and it I.-, reported that a big baking company of Chicago will send its trucks. West Hammond is expected to have a great many cars in the parade. The official starter's count of the republican parade Friday shows that 1,025 cars lined up for the start.

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A homicide arid a suicide took toll of two lives in Gary over the week end. The dead are: CIIAI'.LKS STEKP, 1008 Adams street, died at the Mercy hospital after ; shooting himself through the temple, j JOHN PKKO (colored!, 12th avenue !and Washington street, shot throuph head and killed by Abe Roberts, alias "Hut Nick." Pressing the muzzle of an automatic revolver, which it is believed he thoupht was empty, Charles Steel, 100K ' Adams street, pulled the trigger and reeled to the floor with part of his brains blown out. According to the story told by Mrs. Steel, her husband came home from a meeting about midnight. She noticed that he had been drinking and after telling him about it she left the house a pel went to the fia t of some neighbors in the rear of the building-. Mrs. Steel's aped mother. SO years old, who was in bed. stated that Steel got his revolver and taking the cart ridge chamber out of tiie gun counted i, he shells several times. He also dropped the pun on the floor twice. Latest "Bulletin (BULLETIN) flNTENATICNAL NEWS SERVICE POPLAR BLUFF, N. D., Nov. 7. Forest fires today are eating their way through the lowlands south and east of here. The bottoms of Black river, where underbrush and timber is dense, is a mass of flames with the crackling fire headed rapidly toward Corning, Ark. Live stock pasturing in the lowlands are fleeing to the open ahead of the flames. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONA'. NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 7. Though scheduled to go on trial for manslaughter as the result of the death of Virginia Rappe, one cf the guests of his gay Labor Day party here, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, famous iaughsmith of the screen, gained a week's grace. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON, Nov. 7. The new crisis in the Irish peace situation, precipitated by the refusal of the Ulster Unionists to accept the proposed compromise measures, appeared today to be working swiftly towards a climax. A member of the entourage of Sir James Craig, premier of the Unionist government of Ulster, told International News Service that Ulster would not make the concessions made by the Sinn Fein. (BULLETIN) CHICAGO, Nov. 7. The first snow flurries of the season will

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He then placed the muzzle to his temple and pulled the trigger. Hearing a noise like the discharge of a gun, Mrs. Steel ran back to the flat and found her husband lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The S. & S. ambulance rushed the unconscious man to the hospital where he difd a few minutes later. Reed was found dead in an alley near 2tUh avenue and Madisan street Inter yesterday afternoon after Abe Roberts, alias "Hut Nick," also colored, had fired point blank at him, the bullet striking the victim in the head. According to the story told by witnesses, Peed and several other colored men were talking in the street when Roberts walked up to them and took part in the conversation. "The people In Gary are a bunch of grafters," he said "and I just knocked a eo'iple of them out over in the pool room." A'ith that he pulled a revolver and fired point plank at Reed, the bullet striking him in the head. Roberts walked away and was placed under arrest a short time later. He is being held on an open charge. come late today or tomorrow, according to prediction of the weather bureau. (BULLETIN) GLENS FALLS, N. Y.. Nov. 7. Snow three inches deep fell in the Adirondack section of New York state today. (BULLETIN) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. The cast for the armament conference was complete today with the exception of the European "stars" Premier Briand, head of the French delegation, and Lloyd George's understudy, A. J. Balfour, who is leading the British delegates to Washington. (BULLETIN) TINTS-NATIONAL NEWS SPVCE1 GOSHEN. Ind., Nov. 7. Two men have been captured at New Paris charged with robbing the Standard Oil filling stations at Goshen and Elkhart. Rockwell Rhodes, 21 , of Elkhart, and Cassis Webster, 24, of Mishawaka, were captured by Sheriff A. W. Fonda and a deputy after a struggle in which Rhodes was felled by the sheriff with a revolver. The third man, who had all the taken, $300, escaped. money DIES AFTER AN OPERATION Raymond Pessa. eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pessa of West Hammond, died Friday from the effects of an operation for appendicitis. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning from St. Joseph's church in Hammond and burial will be in the St Poniface cemetery in Chicago. The fntio-r of the boy is employed at the plant of the United Chemical and Organic Products Co.

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Tree Planting In Harrison Park Will Be Feature of Memorial Congress having passed tion declaring next Friday a resoluNovember 11, a national holiday, assures the success of the plans which are being made by the joint committee of exservice men of the Edward H. Larscn Post No. 802, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Hammond I'ost No. 16 of the American Legion, to celebrate Armistice Lay in honor of the 3.7S2 men who went from Hammond and West Hammond and of whom 35 died in service and lul were wounded in action. The day's exercises will open at 11 o'clock when a memorial tree will be planted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Harison Park in honor of their name-sake, Edward 11. Larsen, who died overseas while in service. The parade will start promptly at 2 o'clock from the corner of Hohraan and Ogden sts., proceeding north to Rimbach ave. They will be Joined at the state line by the West Hammond participants, who will then plant some trees in memory of their soldier-dead on 152nd st., the new cement highway. The parade will then move west to Forsythe ave., north to Sibley st., then back to Hohman and south to Harrison Park, where public speaking will take place on "Americanization" and a formal guard mount will be put on by ex-service men and a "retreat" sounded at the close of the exercises. The parade will be headed by the police departments of Hammond and West Hammond .followed by the mayors and councils of these two cities, the ;. A. R. in autos, the SpanishAmerican war veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and Auxilliary, the Salvation Army, the Roy Scouts, the rublic and parochial schools of Hammond, the fraternal organizations of Hammond, then the West Hammond schools, together with the fraternal organizations from that city. It is hoped that the ladles of the Red Cross, who were so active in the war, will turn out In cap and gown and Join in this parade. They are requested to notify the chairman promptly. Instructions have been given to proceed with the float, which will be a very symbolic feature of the day's celebration. Miss Genevieve Carroll has been selected to represent the Goddess of Liberty in this parade. All organizations who have not yet signified their intention of taking part in this celebration are requested to report to the chairman, Joe V. Todd. 502 Hammond bldg., not later than Tuesday at 5 o'clock. The celebration will close with a dance by the American Legion at Unity HaJl, and the Edward H. Larsen Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will give a public installation of their newly elected officers at the K. of P. Hall, Hohman and Ogden sts. at 8 o'clock. At this time an address on "Americanization will be made by an overseas veteran, Dr., Geisler of South Rend, and the Post will be formally presented with a stand of colors. Several musical numbers will be given during the evening, and a Ladles' Auxilliary formed. All ex-service men and their families are invited. A special invitation is extended to the school teachers of the two cities. It has been requested that all exservice men, not members of these two organizations, participate in uniform if they have them, and if not, turn out anyway all overseas men attaching themselves to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and all others to the American Legion part of the parade. Report promptly at 1:30 o'clock at Hohman and Ogden sts., as the parade will move at 2 o'clock. The finance committee hopes for a further response from the business men of Hammond for the funds necessary to make this ceIVtlon the success it merits. The manufacturers have responded liberally to the call. The final meeting of the committee will be held at the Court House on Wednesday night and all who are interested are invited to be present. RECKLESS Reckless drivers on Kennedy avenue, Fast Chicago, early this morning smashed into and broke an electric pole, cutting the high tention wires running to the local plants and endangering traffic in the vicinity of the Green Engineering company up to the American Steel Foundry industry. The accident happened about 1 o'clock this morning as Wm. Corter I of 53 Rimbach avenue and Mr. Melsel. of Hammond, were returning home via the Kennedy and 151st route. Just after passing the Green Engineering company plant, the driver lost control of the steering wheel, crashing into an electric pole. The sudden Jar broke the pole half in two, portions of which fell upon the car, injuring the occupants. Wm. Corter received cuts upon the right side of his head, while Melsel sustained several bruises. The injured were taken to Dr. Rob-inon-ofii,.p. for first aid treatment.

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