Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 176, Hammond, Lake County, 17 January 1922 — Page 1

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(ILLS SELF ana Harbor Youth Uses; Revolver With Fatal Deter- j ruination at Indianapolis I INDIAN APOLIS, Ind.. Jan. 17. ames Domokos, age eighteen, of Indiana Harbor, committed suicide t."day in a room at the home of Guido Morrel, 3010 Kenwwd avenue, by firing a bullet through his brain. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Domokos. a widow, was In the room with hir son -when he shot himself. Domokos was struck by a train about two years ago, his mother told Dr. George K. Christian, deputy coroner, and ;;rgeant Chitwood and aquad. and since that time has been suffering from attacks f epilepsy Mrs. Domokos brought luin to Indian apolis Sunday, Intending t6 take him to the Indiana Village for Epileptics at Newcastle today for treatment. While she was standir.g at a dresser combing her hair, her son slipped out of the room, obtained a revolver from another room ajid then returned and ehot himstlf. Death was instantaneous. Domokos'e father was killed in the war. lie went back to his native home to visit relatives, Mrs. Domokos ."aid, and the war broke out while he was there. He enlisted in the army and was killed in action some time later. INTERESTING DYER IN CALUMET AVE. Town Council to Hear Body of Hammond Citizens This Evening. ISPECIAL TO THE TIMES DTETt, Ind., Jan. 17. Of what Inestimable vaJue a straightened Calumet avenue will mean to Dyer will be brought home to residents of in community Wednesday night when at a meeting of the town council at 7:30 a. committee (from the Hammond Cha-mber of Co-mrrvarco -will present the advantages bound to result frcm the project now contemplated. Headed by Mayor Brown and comprising also A. Murray Turner, Henry Downey, Frank Marti.i and George Geyer, president of the Hammond Klwe.nl 3 Club, the committee will detail fh benefits accruing mutually to the cities of Hammond and Dyer through strajg-htenening Calumet avenue from the point of Murtster to the junction if "that street with Lincoln Highway near the new $25,000 ideal DyerSchererrille stretch. A large attendance of Dyer residents la urged at the town council meeting to hear what tha committee from Hammond haa to say. BORROW TOR RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE tSPECIAT. T3 THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 17. The terrowlng of $73,000 for the relief of destitute in Calumet township and the -ity of Gary was authorized today by ' tha county council In session here. Trustee W. J. Williams of Calumet Township ha been taking care of about 1.500 cases but Is short on funds and finds the matter getting out of his control. It Is estimated that he cos will average $7,500 per manth. SHE WILL MAKE UNRULY HUBBIES TOE CHALK LINE a-., .- -...1 Airs. Pauline O. Fields. Mrs. Pauline O. Fields has been nemed special assistant district attorney of New York county. Nt-w York. Her special task wi, bi to do away with the practice of mollv-coddlinj: men who abandon their families and leave wives and children as public charges,

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STEEL MAGNATE'S DAUGHTER ELOPES -si, "i ft-,: -1 N orris L. Henderson. Jr and his bride, nee Miss Adaline Corey. Morris L. Henderson, Jr., son oZ a wealthy and socially prominent eartern manufacturer, and Miss Adaline Corey, daughter of Alfred Corey, Jr., the steel magnate, are honeymooning in Miami, Fla., following an elopement de luxe whn h surprised even their closest friends in New York. SISTER SEEKS SHARE OF FATHER'S ESTATE Mrs. Ida B. Dysard Asks Court to Have Wills Set Aside. Brother and sister face each other from opposite sides of the table in Room 1 of the Hammond superior court today in a suit which the sister has brought to force the brother to part with half of their fa;her's estate. They are Alva C. Bdinger and Mrs. Ida It. Dysard. Mrs. Dysard. the plaintiff, seeks to have, two deeds made by her father, Adam Kdinger, ret aside. She alleeea that before her father died, Aivah Kdir.ger, who was then living with him persuaded him to deed the 160 acres oi" land to him. At the same time another deed we; executed conveying to the son, the lather's interester in 13 acres c.f land which had been owned by th-i mother at the time of her death.. The 160 acres of land in question comprises part of the site oC the village of IVione Grove. Close to $2", 000 Is involved. On the death of the elder EdingeK affidavit was filed in court showing that he owned no real estate, having conveyed it all to h:s son before death. Mrs. Lysard was left with only a third of the 13 acres of land which Mrs. lilinger had owned. The plaintiff alleges that Adam Edinger had suffered a stroke of apoplexy less than two wetks before the deeds were executed .i.id that while melnally unbalanced he was persuaded to transfer the rfvil estate. The case was brought to Hammond recently on chance of vnue from the circuit court at Crown Point. BANDITS BUSY IN CHICAGO TODAY CHTCAOO, Jan. 17. Chicago's crime wave set the police department in full motion again today. Three bandits held Tip the Star Loan bank on the wes't side and escaped with between Slo.nO and $20,000 in jewelry and currency, according to B. j Hubsrhmsn. one of the proprietors. I At practically the same time two men were shot and between $10,000 and $12,000 taken by bandits in a bold holdup in the heart of one of the busiest districts on the south side. The wounded men are Anthony Koefoot and Joseph Ross, employes cf the City Trust & Savings bank. They had in their possession the Ward Ba.kery Co. pay-roll. LEDERSR TO PUT ON NEW SLE Dave Dedrrer, well known Hammond l-u ine" man, and expert salesmanager is soon to put on a sale of Women's cloak, sjit.tj and wearing apparel for the Grand , Leader, 'lf4 State street. Hummond. This sale will positively prove the greatest sensation in pricecutting tn the annals of retail business in Hamnond. The merchandise is high grade and "f the finest quality. The owner says iaie money, price Is no object, the buying public will do well to wait for tha Grand Leader' announcoment.

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Did You Hear That CITY COUNCIL meets tonijjht. SIGN on a State street shoe store: "Compare Our Prices With Anyone." FACT of the day: Only 'four more months until open season on spring poetry. KENNETH STEWAKT has associated himself with a newly organized Chicago advertising agency CONTIiACTOH JOHN II. McCLAY ia repur.ed quite ill at hid home with a carbuni le on the back .f V; is neck. DOCTOHS Lru kept on the jump these days. Much sickness, but collections were n-ver p orer they say. JL'DGH DKKSSEH of the Indiana Industrial Hoard is holding court in Hammond this week adjusting personal injury claims. SUNDAY'S attendance at the DeLuxe theatre set a new high record. The Queen .. Sheba' did it. list evening raw a turnout almoK as great. HAMMOND'S playground movement has a valuable champU n in the person oC K-iiibi J. IVipp.i.port ho was n i t the pioneers of the work in Chicago . AS a crowd at the Four Corners started to storm a car Chicago-bound the conductor leaned over and sh uted, "Wait a minute. I-et the passengers insido out." PAINTERS tcd.iy ret uched the exterior woodwork and the big electric sign of the Orpheum theatre. The place is being given a thorough overhauling inside and out. RUSSELL. T. BYERS of Indianapolis who enjoys the distinction v.f being the man who "discovered" Will Hays while in college wa.s here on a financial mission yesterday. THE curtain which has hidden the improvements in progress in the rear room of Bob Jennings' piace will drop tomorrow and restaurant patrons will be welcomed ii the additional tables. THE Tisdale Film Corporation may take advantage of the opportunity to film the Bctz Girls basketball team in action against the girls of the Hebrew Institute' tonight at tho Irving gym. THEY probably call it competition but it looks real affectionate when the Schultie, Ward and Bake-P.ite bakery trucks go training single-file from store to store making dc-!iveries simultaneously . "BIG BILL" Subottch oi Indiana Harbor has filed suit in the superior court to recover h's Hudson Super-Six from Sheriff W. II. OHs who has had it since Hill was arrested last year for bootlegging. PRICES of cigars and cigHrettes wi'l got a decisive "slash" in the very near future, it. was announced Saturday by Perctva.1 Hill, president of the American Tobacco company, who returned from Europe. "HELLO! How are you 'Sheb.y?' How's the Queen? - Yep. this Is 'the Sheik' talking. How',1 you like the DeLuxe? Crowds? Same here at the Parthenon. Well. see you later, Queenie. S'long." DR. HUGH RANKIN oi Philadelphia will speak Thursday evening at 7:15 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church on "Sunday School Missions." lie has spent a number of years in the work in the Wost. HAL PLA.MONDON. auto salesman, reports a friend was much annoyed by what a girl ia.id to him. This was at a. dance. The young man was once in the himtiT business and the girl said. "I guess it went to your head." ANOTHER fact that's a thnight provoker: Street cars bound from East Hammond to Indiana Harbor traverse 27 separate railroad crossing.? and con. sume one hctir for the nine mile trip! This from Ted Smith cf the street car company . A REPORT is current in local railroad circles that the famous "Twentieth Century Limited," now operating between New York an 1 Chicago over the Lake Shore division of the New York Central lines, may be run over the Canadian division of the Michigan Central . JIMMY' TRUST tells about meeting a man on a recent rabbit hunt. "The fellow down the road has a darn good rabbit dog." said the man to Trosl, "I've been trying to buy it." Jimmy asked, "Well, won't he sell it?" "Oh. he'll sell all right. But ho wants $.1." Trost threw up his hands. "SUGAR" 1 1 A VI) Y, manager of 11cCool's alley.-, waited on a corner to catch a car home the other night. The car was late. He wtnt into a drug stor to telephone tha station and ask what had become of it. "I wish I hand't been so curious." he say. "While I was telephoning the car passed." AT 7:3" tonight at ttie K. C. Hall. Robert Gerber, Chicago theatrical producer, begins the srle.-ti n of a cast of loO to take part in the K. C. minstrel show sl.'tod for the Parthenon February 9 and 10. All conviitte-'-s and talent are u s-ed ti be present t ngiht. Frank O'Rcurke is chairman. HAMMOND mm is a member of the Rotary Club. He likes to go to the club luncheons every i Tuesday . Not long ago he was to have gone away en a business trip. "I'll vait until nfter Tuesday so I won't miss Rotary." he lold his v ifi-. He had to write lelters postponing engagtment. He had to readjust a lot of things around his place of bustness In order to get to Rotary on Tuesday. Then Tuesday oajno ad bo forgot to tro.

SAILS ALONE CN TK1P Jh LAIS WED AS HIS HONEYMOON 5 ' T1. - v V,. ?z&4 . "-'":, l --'---Hlir1ttiiri Ailister McCormick photographed just before sailing. Ailister McCormick is now on the high sea? bound for England. He's traveling alone. The trip was t.. have been a honeymoon affair, hut the postponement of his marriage to Mary Landon Baker, prominent society beile. changed his plans It was the .second time Miss Baker had asked a delay at the last moment. Now 'tis said, the couple will he married in the spring in Kngland. COLLEGE GIRL TELLS A PITIFUL STORY Unwed Mother Wronged By Student is Arrested in Chicago. CHICAGO. Jan. 17. An unwed mother, 22 years old and a former "co-ed" at Iowa State college, Ames, la., is being held by the police here today on the charge of attempt ii .j to steal a pair of silk stockings and a waist from a local department store. She is known to the police as Eva Ropy, which is not her real name. Efforts are being made today by the police to induce her to reveal the name of her alleged decever, whom she declares is a student at the Iowa school and prominent in athletic and fraternity circles. When the young woman was arrested she attempted to destroy a note but police prevented. Through this note the police linked her with a child which had been found abandoned Sunday in the vestibule of an apartment building. The note was addressed to "Dear Willamack." According to the story told the poire by the young woman she rams to Chicago and found work after her alleged betrayer had refused, to marry tier. Her child was born in Milwaukee but she returned to Chicago, she said. Unable to work and lacking money to care for her child she abandoned it. hoping it would fall Into the hands of a woman living in the apartment houso where she left it who had befriended her. The woman confessed that she attempted to steal the garments so that she might return to her parents in Iowa wearing good clothes. She then planned to re-enter college, where she was a student of bacteriology, and there inject into her system poiwonous germ3 that would cause her death without leaving any appearance of suicide . IS MADE SECRETARY CROWN POINT. Ind., Jan. 17. At a meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce held on Monday, Vincent Toukey of this city was elected secretary of that organization j to servo during 1320, Mr. Youkey is j thoroughly qualified for the work, bcj ing one of Crown Foint's hustling young men, and it is the general opinion that the directors made a wise choice in the selection of Mr. Youkey. Mr. Youkey Is employed as court stenofrTher 'n the Ti?ke ci-eu court. MRS. J. A. HANSON, 68 S bley St.. has received word from Mrs. James Edward Bentley of Jacksonville, Fla.. that the latter's husband died in that ci'y following a nine days' illnes-s of typhoid pneumonia. He was buiied 'here 'from the First Christian church. Bentley and his wife left Indiana Hirbor two years ago open a grocery store at Jacksonville. FRED CRUM PACKER, president of the Men's Club of the First Presbyterian church, stated today that the club will renew its activities with an evening meeting next Sunday. Jn ftreoriancc with the purpose for which the club was organized wich was to provide a speaker on current topics or economic conditions. arrangements have been made for Anthony Czarneckl of Chicago to apeak onn "Europe Today ajad Its Ieeaon to America.

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33 (BlI.!,flTIV) BT WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE) UASHIXiTO.N, Jan. 17. Resumption of ''iHjreet negotiation'' -between rnJI executives and the "Big Four Brothrhomls loomed today an m nation-tv!ie peace move In the tangled affairs of -ailrtiad labor. The movement, avrnitlng merely lurmnl approval by ruirroad head add xreupttve committed of the Krotbr.hvods, w intended as a means of :itrrting a Ktneral rail strike this KPriiLS. It came as the result off the "pcare conference' staged here hf Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The plan involves the restoration of all pre-war regional conferences. (BULLETIN) CHICAGO, Jan. 17. The wasse policy of the railroads of the country Is expected to lie decided at a meeting of the American Railway Executives Association here next Saturday. The meeting Is a sequel to conference, with Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Executive of wcMern roads bare announced their Intention of applying for n general wage cut. Seven cnss already have been flhd with the t'nited States Railroad labor Board. Then

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Bn,I.ETI. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Jan. 17. Detectives today are Investigating the mysterious death of Adolph Kohn, Chicago merchant, whose boy was found In his room at the Hotel Marti mue last night. An autopsy was being performed on the body today to discover the cause of death. There were no traces of poison which he might have used or indications that he had been murdered. (IHIA-KTIX.) f I NTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 17. Joslah B. Cy) Morris, for more than half a century a traveling salesman for a Providence, R. I., jewelry firm, and known to jewelers throughout the country, is ded of heart diseases at a hotel here today. He was 83 years old. (lit I. I.KTI V. ) TERRE HACTE, Ind.. Jan. 17. Charles Giv-ens. 70. a physician cf Lewis, Ind., is at a hospital here today suffering injuries which probably will prove fatal as a result cf the collision here of the automobile in which he was riding and a freight train. (HCLIETIV) WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. An earthquake disturbance of a very severe type, lasting for almost two hours, was recorded on the seismograph off Georgetown University observatory here last night and early today. Observers estimated the disturbance to be 2.500 miles generally south of Washington. (Bl'LLETIV) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 17. Anohter daring daylight holdup was I - IS AUTHORIZED TODAY $25,000 to be Spent on Ideal Stretch of Road Near Schererville. CR.OWN POINT, Ind.. Jan. 17. The I,ake county council today authorized the appropriation of $2i.O00 to pay the eoimtx-'s share of the expense in putj ting through the ideal stretch of road on the Lincoln Highway between Sohererville and Dyer. The Lincoln Highway Association selected a two mile stretch for improvement because it was one of the most traveled by tourists in the country. It will be visited and Inspected by road specialists from far and nir. The total cost will be $211,000 in which the state, county and Lincoln Highway Association participate. The county's appropriation will be for bridges and approaches. At the council session this morning. A. M. Turner appeared in behalf of the association and A. W. Stommel and a delegation of citizens gave the official O. K. of the town of Dyer. It is planned to change the present course ctf the road at a point a mile west of Scheroi-ville. The road will be shifted about 400 feet, making It : 1. 1 n tr-n t'Tlrtrr tP C. . I. & S. pnMDin iv w - . railroad and doing awav with th-2 pres- : ent grade crossing which has been the sctne of a number of fatal accidents. DEATH OF MRS. SHEPPIE Mrs. Elisa Sheppie. who d,ed at her r-ome, 61 3 Fo-y h r venue. w,--s t'uried this afternoon from M. E. German church. . Burl'l v:-s m.-vl a.' Osk Hill cemetery. Chnrles If- Stewart conducted the funeral. Mrs. Sheppie is survived by her husband and two sons, Henry and Ernest, She had been a resident ot Hamroond fox tha past ix year.

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rases, however, have to do with the mailer railroads and cover n few classes of employ". NEW YORK, Jan. 17. A a preliminary to a move by the railroads for a nation-wide alash in wages of railroad workers conferences between officials of 52 railroads north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi and representatives of 750,000 employea are underway. Wage cuts from 7 to 14 cents have been proposed by the railroads, it was announced today. The railroad unions', it Is understood, will make a counter proposal for the restitution of wages cut off by the reduction of twelve cents an hotir, ordered by the railroad labor board last July and a flat increase of five cents an hour. Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen met here today with officials of the Lackawanna Road. Railroad clerks, steamship clerks, Ireight handlers and express and station employes were given a hearing yesterday. The conferences here will last for several days, each craft receiving the proposition of the roads and making a counter proposition opposing the wage cuts. ? o staged early today when two automobile bandits knocked down William Smith, messenger of the bank of Maplewood, suburb, robbed him of $4,400 and escaped. Smith had just left the bank to deposit the money in St. Louis. IRl'I.LGTt.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The railroads mnrt earn sin per cent on their stock and half, as much more tfor their surplus funds, if they are to meet the commercial needs of the country during the next two or three years, Daniel Willard, president of the P-alt-rnore & Ohio railroad, testified tinder cross-examination before the interstate commerce commission in the rate hearing today. (DVLLnTIV) WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. Failure of Henry Ford to "back up" promises made by his engineers in their negotiations with the war department officials concerning the disposal of the government's waterpower proejet at Muscle Shoals, Ala., led to the "disappointment" which Secretary of War Weeks telt after his conference here last week with the Detroit manufacturer, i". was learned today. (BIXIETIV.I LOS ANGELES. Jan. 17. Arthur C. Burch, whose trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, ended in a disagreement late yesterday, was to be taken before Judge Sidney N. Reeve in superior court today, to have a date set for the opening of his second trial. It was predicted that his second trial will follow that of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, his co-defendant, which has been set for February 6. JOHN KOTZER BURIED YESTERDAY Hammond, January IS. John Kotzer. first fireman to die in line of duty in the history of the Hammond fire department, was buried today with all the pomp and ceremony befitting the occasion. Kis body, lying In a flag draped casket, was borne on a fire truck from the residence of his sister at 46 Rimbach avenue, to St, Joseph's church where Father Berg celebrated solemn requiem high mass. Following services at the church the funeral cortege reformed and moved north in Hohman street to Gostlin street where the body and mourners were transported over the South Shore to St. Mary's cemetery. Evergreen, 111. In the funeral procession were a body of Hammond policemen followed by the f'.re-truck bearing the remains of the gallant young fireman flanked or. either side by a member of a firing squad from Edward II. Larson Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Behind these came city officials and a detachment of Hammond firemen followed by firemen from Whiting, East Chicago, Gary, West Hammond and South Chicago. Bringing up the rear were approximately fifty automobiles containing a portion of the hundreds of people that jammed the church during the funeral services. Scores of floral tributes were received from every source conceivable. Even little Lynn Seligman, newsboy who delivered a paper to Kotzer every night at the fire station, added a apray of rosea to the flood of tears he showered upon the casket of hla lost friend. IIFASSEI.AER HKRTFF RHRE. True D. Woodworth, theriff of Rensselaer, dropped Into Hammond Central s'ation this morning. He's her attending the district conference cf the KnlfhU of Pythlaa. Ha reports lota of rabbit down att

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Commonwealth-Edison Co. Official Admits Truth of Times Recent Story As first related In these columns the world's biggest power plant Is to be built on the thirteen acre tract of land at Roby which was recently sold to 'he Commonwealth Edison Co., according to the Unity Investors News, offi'-ial house organ of the Commonwealth Edison Co. The publication states: "Samuel Insult, head of the Commonwealth Edison Company, yesterday dispelled the mystery which has surrounded rhe fifteen acres of sand squeezed way up In the farthest northwest corner of the Hoosler state, by admitting that eventually It will be the site for what probably will be the largest power plant in the world. It will supply electric current to the entire gerat steel belt including auvu cities as Gary, Ha-mmond. WhP.ing, East Chicago, and othirs. all In Indiana, and possibly certain concerns across the state line in South Chicago. "When the Eggers estate disposed of It some months ago every realt.r In Northern Indiana and South Cnivaigo muddled the . mystery surrounding the purchase by naming a different purchaser Mr. Insull admitted he'd aJready had considerable amusement listening to reports of the dea.1. " It the most atrategic point along the lake In fact, the only ttnategio point south of the eighty acres bought in Waukegan for the Public Service Corporation of Northern Illinois,' he explained. 'It gives us 2.700 feet of lake frontage and ultimately will be improved with a great power plant. No definite date has been net'." GmZERS 10 MEET FOR PLAYGROUNDS The first definite steps toward pro il Ing Hammond with a playground y.tem'will be taken this evening when a delegation of citizens representing the various crric organizations of th city will appear before the city council and make their plea for immediate action. Alderman Govier of Chicago who h.a taken an active part in playground development in this city consented to appear before tha Hammond council an1 discuss the topic this evening. It is hoped that the council' will se nt to order a survey of the cits' and the appointment of a commission t ' go into the matter thoroughly.. The survey should show what is needed. The citizens who have been investigating ha-ve found provisions in the Ind:ana law which give the city the nece-. sary authority to go ahead on su'-Vi work and outline the methods of financing. BLUE RIBBON DAY IS TOMORROW This is becoming a special day on the calendar of the thrifty shdpper F'eople come from all points of the compass to these State street merchant.-, who make it their special business to offer on each Wednesday of the week their very best bargain. They have agreed to give values on this day that will cause the purchaser to talk about it for days and day.-, to come. The public is urged to read every ad. on the Blue Ribbon page a? i: means an unusual saving. . They hac decided that one of their greater' weapons to draw trade is unusual quality and low price. A glance at their oflerings will quickly convince you .' the truth of this statement. STEP-DA UGTITER OF CUBAN PRESIDENT ENGAGED TO WED Sertorlta Rita Gomel Colon. Senorita Rita Gomez Colon, daughter of the wife of President Zayas of Cuba, ia engaged to marry Senor Guillo Colli according to word from Washington Sb ia one of th moat popular figures ia tha youarr aadai aot than

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