Hammond Times, Volume 10, Number 53, Hammond, Lake County, 21 January 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER TTnietted weather tonight and Simday ; probably enow In north and centred portions; colder Sunday in north ad central porUon.

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Both East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Scenes of Moonshine Raids Prohibition Enforcement A pent Harvey RJiedd with E. V. Ber.vanger and Captain Tim O'Nell of the East Chicago police force en a prohibition crusade through the East Chicago district yesterday afternoon captured four violators of th eighteenth amendment, four stills and a large quaintity of "moonshine" wfrc seized. Spoiling any tips to give notice to the list of violators of expected raids to be "pulled" in the district. Prohibition Officer Khedd with his lieutenant, TSerwanger jumped into the territory yesterday afternoon and sumnmninc the assistance of Captain O'Ncil started upon their quest. Kasimler Parezas. 1939 Darin? avenue, was caught red handed with a 20allon still In operation and arrested. Tom Mando at 533 Chicago avenue, with his alleged assistant Barney Trampst, 4715 Fo.rsyth avenue. were arrestee! and a small still confiscate.! in the place. Oust Sheam.in of 5"31 1'oryth avenue upon the complaint of his neighbors for manufacturing intoxicating liquor, was arrested when -moonshine" was found in his basement. All four men were released on $1,000 realty bonds. Prohibition Oft icer Rhedd said this morning -that one thing is worthy of notice. Of all the whiske y seized since I have been ;n charge of raids in this district, only a couple ci quarts is oldtime liquor. The rest is 'moonshine' containing from 2 to 50 per cent o. .fusel oil." I(.UT) IS CO-VTIM FTJ The Indiana Harbor police continued the raid last night in the Harbor section, arresting three offenders and taking two stills. Officers Kekech and Kerrin finding a Quantity of home brew in the possession of Stan-ley Kaskulskt, 372S Catal-pa-st., arrested the offender. Clements Strofski, 4021 Beach st. and Balenty Sopsick. 402S Beach St., were both. arrested when stills were found in their basements. All three men were released on $1,000 bonds. Chief of Police Christ Struss said this morning that while both ends of the city appeared to be rid of their violators of the prohibition act, the police force had orders to continue raids next week. Monday will mark the beginning of the fourth week of the clean up work In the East Chicago-Indiana Harbor district, during which more than 200 arrests have been made and the violators punished in the East Chicago court. Kazlmier Parezos, found goiilty before Judge Twyman this morning was fined J100 and costs and sentenced to 25 days at the county jail. The other pases were continued until next week. GIRL PASSES AWAY Miss Virginia Rick Mourned By Wide Host of ; Friends. Mfm Faye Virginia Kick, on of Hammond's best known and most poj-pular young women, died yesterday afternoon at tho home of her parents, Mr. and Mfs. Frank Rick. 5S0 Wilcox avenue, following an illness of several months. Miss Rick was an only child end will tve mourned by a host of friends. She was born December 22, 1Ki9, was educated in the Hammond public schools and was graduated from Indus trial high school in ISIS. Sh.- msj employed for more than three years in j the auditor's offices at Gibson. j On August 8. 1!H8, she united wi'h i the Christian church and will be buried from there Monday afternoon ;it 1;.10. Interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. NEW WORKER IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Miss Lillian Orne Victim of Attack of Indigestion at Severin Hotel. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Jan. 21. The body of Mrs. Lillian Or me. president of the Indiana State Parent -Teacher ; Association and chairman of the w ornen's division for Senator New's campaign. who died at the Peve-'n H el j last night. wa,s removed todc.y to the! Orme home at Glenns Valley, ten miles south of Indianapolis. Mrs. Orme had j just come to Indianapolis to work i n the interests rvf Senator New when ! seized with an attack of indigestion j which affected the heart. Re fore her j marriage to Hence Orme, Mrs. Orme! was Lillian C. Clewell. She was, horn at Ig-ansport. and attended! school there. She was'47 years old. I

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Did You Hear That AT least no one questions Miss Evans' ability as a teachiT. IAMYGIXE a city of 40,000 with only four public bowling alleys? That is all Hammond has. THE Parthenon management repents that some women have seen 'The Sheik" three and four times. STREET commissioner begins erecting "Drive Slow" signs near schools. This means all schools in city, public and parochial. IRVING Chaykcn has come to the front as a basketball promoter, taking over the Comets under the banner of the Colonials. WILLIAM .Simpson, of Hammond, ; and Sella Do Witt of Porter. Ir.d., were j married Wednesday by Justice George i Lay In Laporte yesterday. BOY Scouts were not filmed this afternoon, but instead a held meet was staged. The filming will be next j Tuesday at Harrison Park at 4 o'clock. ! THE discussion of evolution in the j public schools will be carried on in it hi pulpits of local churches tomor- ; roi , it was stated today. The clergy I is divided. HAMMOND man's peeve is the pang that stands in the mid. lie of the sidewalk arid gossips, while people who are really going somewhere have to force their wav through. VISITINO real estate men from Iowa will be the guests of the real estate board of Hammond and East Chicago at a luncheon at the Lyndora hotel at 12:13 Monday. TWENTY more jitneurs take out licenses. This makes twenty-five now operating legally. None yet has filed bond. One man says he can get bond of $2,500 for $b0 a year. THE Blue Devils and the WentI worth H. S. girls terms will play Monday evening at 8 o'clock at the Irving j gym. The last time they met the i Blue Devils won i) to 4. FACT of day: Hohman street widening finally given intelligent consideration as South Hohman street merchants organize to discuss measures for betterment of thoroughfare. SINCE West Hammond passed the new prohibition ordinance soft drink sa'ooiiists are ready to throw up the J sponge. It is said that half of them will renew their license February 1. TODAY'S WH1.SPEK: A successful young Hammond attorney is said to be about to announce his primary candidacy for ofliee of justice of the peace. It'll be worth about $5,000 a year. CITY Judge Henry Cleveland is confined to his home with an attack of hiccoughs. This began four days ago and continuing uninterrupted has so weakened the victim that he's forced to go to bed. THE new "fastest engine" on the Michigan Central which is known among railroad men as "K-3 model," will soon be given ninety days trial on the Michigan Central lines running through Hammond. WHEN the foundations are built for the new tube works Gary will believe it is coming. Many Gary men consider the announcement yesterday to have been for the benefit of the Independent steel companies in the merger. A FIRST class repertoire company would do a land office business in Hammond now. The etty is hungry for the spoken drama in the opinion of many tho w-goers. Whatever became of the St. Clair Stock company? THIS weather recalls to Harry Gardner his only auto accident about a year ago when on a trip to Chicago Heights with Harry Portz his car skidded on the ice and turned completely over and neither man got a scratch. LOUIS Wolf of Chicago, arrested January 3 after it is alleged he drove away after -striking car of Councilman lull Schulte and wrecking batter's machine, was discharged In city court this morning. The case was nolle pressed. M. T. M'"SS.I.N of the Jones and I.aughlin Steel company, writes THE TIMI2S in part: "I must congratulate your paper on getting the last ounce of news out of the steel situation. After THE TIMES got through there wasn't anything left to write that hadn't been said." L. S. FISHER, manager of the local office of the Chicago Motor club, phnnfs from his office in the Citizens' National Rank building that it is his orcaniyation and not the Chicago Automobile club that is paying the estate of Frank Schwerin .","". for injuries resulting in Schwertn's death when struck by an auto driven by Ed S. Rate. RAKER'S war said to bring slash in prices of "trust made" bread to small town grocers. Rig Chicago bakers s.-ld to be selling lfi ounce loaf for C'i cents arid 24 ounce toaf for ? . This in Valparaiso. Hammond prices for sr. :ne bread f and 1." cents. Fight to drive out independent bakers, said to be motive. Fight scheduled to hit Hammond soon. LESLIE and Lynn Ranser, SI 4 Summer street, taxi operators, who lake passengers anywhere in the city for two-bits, lead revolt against Jit ordinance find declare that with either jitneurs they will drive "free-will jitneys. " These have small coin box in jit. Passengers may drop in amount they thj"k equable. Payment of offering optional with passenger.

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Ul KM Tm an Evolutionist," Says the Rev.Peter Lsngendorff , Pastor of St. Paul's Church The good or ill of teaching evolution in the nigh school -;s a matter of (pinion, it would appear from a symposium of interviews secured by a reporter ted ay. A niynber of people. Inoludin- tli i Rev. pr t'T Langcndorff, pa.-tor of St. ! Paul's Episcopal church, acquitted Miss I Dorothy E'-ans, science teacher in the Hammond high school, j "I am an evolutionist." declared the : He-v. I.an a-endorff. "It is generally acc pteel and it bans its place in the teachinuc of science. Bet science take c-ire of science and religion take care of religion. Don't let the two be enemies. The benefits of the teaching of 'volution depend, naturally, upon Imw it is taught." .Vr.i. jr. Hutch! ns ompha t iea' !y endorse! Miss Evans. "Every liny and "irl in high school is a walking i-nter-rotration poin!." said Mrs. Hutchins. j "Their quest ions must be answered. I They should be capable of reasoning! things out for themselves A teacher i has no right to withheld important! facts from hcr pupi's." j 'I, FT Til KM II WE IT." BKT7. j Frank S. Retz commented freely up-' on the situation. "I think the high' vhneii faieiKy ought to give the chii-l dren en-eryth ing that will make them wise." he said. "As long as the tnxe-i ; ire so high let them have everything : there is to know. Give the kids their; money's worth. T't'Ps my motto." ' The Rev. J. C. '.ranger, pastor of the' First Baptist church, denounced the; practice. "By no 'means should the theory of evolution be taught in high school," he said. "The fUpemat u-ra! canont be. explained 'by the naf Jrah j It has a harmful effect upon the mind ; of the adolescent and tills their minds with d-oubt. The trouble with science today is that it is trying to tinderstand God from the material in scad of the spiritual viewpoint. God is becoming small and man is becoming greater. We should not countenance evolution or an attempt to erase the 'u per n at u ra! from the scrijitnres." T. R. Tennant. member of the board of education and superintendent of a Bible class, said that the teaching of evolution to children would h.'ve to be handled tactfully. "It might have a dilatory influence upon the mind of a child." he said. "1 do not. know that a child in high school worn Id be t.Me to grasp the. features of the theory. While I might believe the theory to be true I wouldn't necessarily teax h it to my children at a. tender age, helievinsr that should be left to ti later day. However, I cannot comment upon the situation in the high school until I have investigated. I wouldn't care to go on record at this time en the particular episode referred to in y e s t e rd ay' T i m e s . " CIII M 1 A f K HB SKEPTIC A I.. Attorney Fred Crumnacker was skeptical about the teaching of evolution in high school. "T believe it is practical to have religion training in the schools and to lea-ve the theory of evolution to the universities." he said, "There Is a pretty wide-spread skep ticism of our institutions at thi time j and it is well for the future of the country that children he well grounded in religion in the schools. I lo not care what reed they are taught, but I lwdieve they sbouM 'be taught one creed. They should believe in Jome manner of christian religion. It is essential as their equipment for citizenship." Dr. Lrf-na R. Watson ...aid that white i here is no reason why evolution should I clash with religion it would be bette left to the universities. "There are many children n hi rh school who have not had any relicri.eis training." said I r. Watson. "To teach the theory of evolution to these children is apt to prejudice them against religion. When they go to the univers'tb's they should be mature enough i and rcifrici'-ntly well grounded in re-i 'Igion to be able to rightly apply evo- i lutie-n. I belii-.e in creative evolution but the idea that man ascended rrom t he mon key is not pro vealble." ARREST TEX RICHARD ON GIRL'S CHARGE NEW YORK. Jan. 21. Tex Rickard. manager of Madison Square Garden and one of tho most widely known fight promoters of the world, was arrested on a serious charge made by a 15-year-old girl. He was arraigned in East Side police court and held uneler $,H00 bail for a hearing next Wednesday. WOOD TO SUCCEED POSTMASTER KOSTBADE HORART. lad., Jan. 1. J. J. Wood has recelved his commission as postmit'f here to take the place of Win. IC.stbade whose term expired the first of the year. Mr. Wood will enter upon his now duties February first..

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LODGE WOMEN IviEET IN III District Gathering of the Daughters of Rebekah Is Noteworthy Occasion. WHITING. Ind., Jan. 21. The Dauphter-s of Rebekah of Iake County D:st. Nil. 1 m.-t at Whiting for their district meeting. In the afternoon a school of instruction was conducted by Mrs. Emily UVed ge wood, state district president of East Chicago. At 6 o'clock a dinner was served at the hall to the larpe number of members and guests p recent. In the evening- the regular meeting was held and in the initiation the Gary degree' staff did the initiatory work. The Cernia.nia lodge of Hammond received a silver cup for the highest percentage in membership and Genesis lodge in Gary received a silk banner for the highest percemaire in the unwritten work of the lodge. The next district meeting ' f the lodges will lie held at Hoi, art in April. j The officers .from th-5 grand lodge present were: George lterslitnan. Grand Master of Crown Point and C. H. Iteed Grand TruMie from East Chicago. The state oTicers in attendance were Mrs. Emily Wedgewood. ' slate vice president of East Chicago; Mrs. Clara Evans, state treasurer of ,-jarv r,,i ypdlv Mason. Kt.-,-.. ciHe ., uard of East Chic? go The dis trict officers present were Mrs. S. E. Stt iiim. dist i i t Hammond; Mrs. district, pres'd -r. and Mrs. Sehn 1 deputy jiresid Elizabeth Mil of Indiana er. also past nt of Is-, past Harbor d ist rict president of Hammond. Ef N CRIMINAL COURT ; CROWN POINT. Ind.. Jan. 21. I Mike Valkech of HammoT.d was cne,i and given a fel day sen'enca j (which was su spend edl by Judge I Smith on Friday for violating the li- ! qmr law . Manj Garay of Whiting f.r the same offense ,vni also fined $1X1 and a G months en'--n-e in the Woman's prison. Manj's s..n'enc,? was also sus. pended she being the neither of a large family. Judge Smith showing leniency on that account. Mike Rolwinski on the same harge was also fined . R.C. ALLEN HART'S NEW SCHOOL HEAD HOT! ART, Ind., Jan. C. Allen has been avpe Intendent of the local the place of Supt. Ce 21. Prof. n. i.r.ted as superschools to take ml on who was elected county superintendent of schools. Mrs. R. C. Wilson was appointed as principal here.

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dclla Chicsa. in the Vatican gardens. RY WIETJAM WASHINGTON, K. HUTCHINSON Jan. 21. laves of America's crippled war veterans are constantly endangered by an army of "human vultures'" hovering over hospital areas, it was learned officially today. The situation has become so grave that government officials and members of congress now are planning means of exterminating this new menace to disabled war heroes. It was brought about officials said. 1 J" bootleggers, drug purveyors and other undesirables, who flocked to hospital areas to ply Ibiir trades on pay-days just outside (he p.,"'' rnllV'Ht cr'-vli ns. CROWN POINT. After six years of circuit and pn;ircm tract for Singleton Friday by Ditch C iT.d., Jan. 21. litigation in the courts the conDitch was let on mmissioner Leroy 1 fayden to t; unty Commissioner James T.ooi. The ditch will b ' 1 thick for $07. it located In Fag Creek townshi;i Cc 1:1 r and est The petition for the .Singleton D.tch was tiled Jan. 24. 1M6 by Attorneys Victor Roberts and' George Hersinnan and it has been in the courts ever since and was finally merged with the Greisel ditch and rdcred const! ucted. The contract for the construction for he Mct'onneil t.jtch in southern Lake ,univ was let to Peter Stanley of Lowell for J11.9.VL Iotch Commissioner iA-roy llayden also let this contract. ' DEATH OF MBS. HENNING i "Mrs. Ijouisa Henning. a pioneer resident of Hammond passed .away Friday afternoon at her home, j 22 Fayette ;itMrs. Henning was seventy years oW, and litis lived in Hammond forty years. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from St. Paul's Lutheran church on Clinton st. MM II, El nil A. t'AI'UHTZ i pre t 7., I -' ! IEM, Indianapolis bouir va,rd bis home died yesterday morning at fter a short illness of pneunior.i . H- was 45 years of age ami was employed by the Thearle-THiffiehl FireWorks Co. He is survived by three sisters. The body will be taken from Kmmorlings chapel to the residence of Captetz's brother-in-law at .812 I'alumct avenue. Hnglewoo l. Chicago, The funeral v. ill be he'd Monday morning. Interment will be made at Oak Wood cemetery.

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after his election visiting with his Below at left is a photo of a re The government at present is he! less to prevent the deoatn-,-ery of itstricken wards. Civic .authorities i;: many instances have vigorously foucth these "pay smite hers . " The principal complaint of officials was directed against "prohibition authorities who failed .to close avenues of poisonous liquors, now Hooding practically every hospital area, in the country. The age-old army menace e.f "ramp followers" it was stated. has been changed to "hospital followers." Congress will son be risked to withhold part of the compensation given eact hospitalized soldier to prevent his exnloi r1 1 i . n hy ' be !ay s-nl'-''s. Latest Bulletins ( HI I.t.ETI . KANSAS CITY, M '.. Jan. II Funeral services for Mayor James Cowgill. who lted unexpectedly yesterday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2::b.i o'clock in Calvary Rapt ist church. Plans for a large bouse funeral at Concentration Hall wi re abandoned ' at the request of the widow. H! I l,K1-l.) CHICAGO, Jan. 21 Ninety-six automobiles were destroyed in a fire which swept through a gara'ge in Wilmette today. The loss Is estimated at IL'iO.Ol'O. ni I.I.ETIV.I LONDON. Jan. 21 The Rell of Westminister Cathedral began tolling at 0:45 o'clock this afternoon, proclaiming the death of Pope Rcnediot XV at Rome. Cardinal Rourne had received official news of the-Pontiff's death just a few minutes before. ti DIETEI DIES IN GARY John Dicfel, well known Crown Point man and one. of trie oldest employes on the Gary Street Railway, diet! at the home in Gien Park this morning at seven o'clock following an attack of paralysis. Mr. Diet el. who was 40 years old. cam a to Gary from Crown Point some nine years auo, where he was born and raised. He was employed as a conductor on the city cars for the Gary Street Railway. Funeral arrangements had not been completed up to the hour of goir.r to press, neither were details of his illness and death available.

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LAST HOURS Archibishop of Piza May hs Pontiff's Successor BY EDWARD ST RETT STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE ItOME. Jan. 21. l".p,. Henedict XV died today. Death was due to pneumonia an.' heart weakness complicated Itb bronchial catarrah and lnfiuenjsa. The pontiff had been 111 only ii . days. The final attack dated back to ast Tuesday when he cold . contritcted During the morning In a period of consciousness the pop- whispered to those at the bedride. "t feel better." A fresh crisis followed shortly afterward . The pontiff had been sinking rapidly for 24 hours and only the natural vitality of. his wonderful constitution sustained him. During the morning a slight amount of liquid nourishment had been administered. The pontiff lapsed Into semi-consciousness. This gave way to unconsciousness. It vu announced at noon that the patient was In a state of coma but later it wa said that he had been sleeping and had fallen into "deep slumber." Between noon and 1 o'clock the doctors admitted that the pope had nt shown any Improvement either from nourishment or lp. Tho Osservatore Romano official organ uf the Vatican, announced that Dr. Battislinl, papal physician had informed the pope's official family that even if death were not imminent it was inevitable . Belief was expressed In Vatican circles that the pope's successor will be Cardinal Pletro Maffi, archibishop of Piza. Benedict XV, lapsed into delirium . arly today. He wa in agony and ailed to recognize anyone at the -bedude. Lying with closed eyes, he murmurfd "Peace, peace," evidently alluding suh-consoiously to the mission of the pontificate in war time. Other undistinguished messages fell from his lips from time to time, but h s vitality had sunk so low that he ioke in the vii,'tkest of whispers. Day dawned up. in a tragic scene at the Vatican. The paoal court Joined 'he cardinals in prayer. The pall of ppreaching death hung over all. Outl"s that the pope's successor will be rowd of reverent men and women uttered their supplications for the recovery of the pope. The four attending physicians dirt all in their power to relieve his sufi rings, but they could hold out no l.cpe fir ultimate recovery. The strain as telling on all. In the ante-room f the sick chamber, high prelates of ihe church, faces drawn with the g.ny of their sorrow, prayed without .'a ssa"' ion . Although the pontiffs life had ben ebbing f..r twenty-four hours and his defuse expected, news of the death threw this city Into deepest gloom. The Catholic "Churches quickly filled up and special prayers were said for the repose of the pontiff Vt soul. The piazza of St. Peter's was crowded with reverent and praying: men ami women as the great bell In the cathedral began to toll out the sad tidings. During the past twelve hours of life the pope had pa-ssed from alternate fits of consciousness Into seml-oori-sclousness ami at times was delirious. During one period when his mind was wandering he kept muttering: "Peace, peace." At another time he murmered that "duty called." The pope passed peacefully and his fe Mures were resigned and calm despite the agonizing suffering through which he had passed. The pain which the pope bore so stoically hut could not hide entirely added to the strain en those who stood be-ide the bedside in prayerful death watch. The last sacrament had been administered and prayers for the dead had been said before the final hour. Extreme unction had been said twice, once Friday and again early this morning. The four attending physicians expressed surprise this afternoon over the tenacity with which he had been able to cling to life, in view of the inflamed ce.niition of bis lungs and the weaknetvj of his heart. The prelates of the Vatican, however, believed that an intervention of divinity was responsible. When the pontiff had rallied slightly this morning and the doctors said that som benefit might be expected from nourishment and sleep, the, ecclesiastic attributed it to a miracle of tho Virgin e.f Pompei. Pope Renedict XV was In his 6Sth year and had reigned as pontiff of the church of Rome seven years and ahent four months. The brief bulletins from the Vatican were read with eaarer and breathless interest by the crowds that surgfvl before the newspaper bulltin boards. iiting man fails TO SHOW AT TRIAL Louis Rumwohl, Whiting merchant and peddier, is arrested yesterday at East Hammond market or felling without a license. Teboda and Einslie or Hammond Central station made the arrest and won awe-inspired admiration of Whiting police who received news of Raumwdhl's apprehension with credulity. He didn't show up in court this morning. His J100 personal bond may bv. forfeited