Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 7, Hammond, Lake County, 4 March 1922 — Page 1
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m LOANS FROM COUNTRY Money Is Needed Here to Upbuild America Industrially (BT GEORCiE R. HOIMES) IJTAFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, March 4. The American government has decided to put Us f .ot down on the. steadily growing 4"actice of some European countries raiding the American investment markr! through the flotation of low prices 3?ond issues. The administration 'believes that this r'.'.ietice has grown to the extent -where St is taking huge rums out of the coanfy which properly should be used for he upbuilding "f America industriallyIt believes a1s that the practice is detrimental to European countries, t homseh'es. By postponing the day when they "will have to stop borrowing rnoney, end balance their budgets and tax according to their needs. This was the explanation forthconiin? oday in official quarters for the significant and carefully worded statement issued by the state department ajain requesting American banking houses to consult with Washington before -undertaking forc'.Jtn obligations. While officials were careful to ex plain publicly that the action was "not aimed at anybody," !t la an open secret in "Washington that among: the chief offenders hare, been various French cities, which have floated municipal bonds through the American market !n great quantities. This has been looked -upon with disfavor by high government officials, not slono because it took money away from American Industry, but principally ba-j caojo they believe the practice is only raerely applying 'a soothing poultice to axnailgnant cancer. The cancer Is France's apparent unwillingness to make her revenues erual her expenses. "No laws exist at present under which the government can restrain the 'banking Interests of America from floating these issues, which mean fat commissions for thern. It is a question, however, officials said today, whether some legislation along this line would not re necessary. BUCK PRAISES T liara played 'A Buck on Lieave In many large theaters since I first produced the play in France and the Auertortam theater la Chicago was one to th largest but by no means the Ia.rgt of ai;,"said Sergeant Fatrlck Hemry Barnes to & Times representative this morning. Sergeant Barnes la r.ow in Hammond preparing for the lreumttion of his A. V. musical cornety at the Farthenon theater on March S, 10 and 11 under the auspices f Bdward H. Iarson Pest, No. 802, Veterans of Foreign Wara. The famous "Buck" expressed himslf aa delighted with the Parthenon theater, declaring It waa one of the largest nd most beautiful he had ever seen in a small city. "The largest theater I ever played," continued th sergeant, "was the Victory theater at Bordeaux. France, the embarkation camp house. That great theater haul a seating capacity of 6,000 and was the largest welfare building of the A. 13. V. The building was 110 feet wide and l'10 fe.t long. It had a tage opening of 31 feet and depth of R2 feflt. It was most completely equipped for the modern handiing of theatrical productions and the lighting was perfect in every way. The orchestra pit would accommodate. 33 musicians. 'A Buck on Ieave' played to several capacity houses In this great theater. Sergeant Raxnes who presented his play at the Thaater des Champs Elyacs, Paris, during the peace conference and who came to Washington at the opening of the disarmament conference, has many interesting memories of his si months' tot:r of the A. E. V. circuit in France wit i "A Euck on laVi" following the signing of the armistice. 13 KlUJEDOUTRIGHT IN TRAIN-BUS SMASH riNTF9NATtONAL NEWS SERVICE! PAINESVIEEE, Ohio. March 4- Thirteen perso- were killed outright, another died in a. Tainesville hospital at 8:30 this morning and three others are go seriously injured that they cannot recover, as the result of a collision between a New York Central express train and a crowded motor bus. Fainesvillo to Falrport Harbor at 11:05 last night. Bodies of the passengers were hurled for hundreds of feet along the right of way. when the train, running at sixty miles an hour struck the bus st the St. Clair street crossing. Three of the victims, horribly mangled were taken from the locomotive pilot when the train was brought to a stop more than 400 yaras from the point where the crash had occurred
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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind.. March 4.- -The people of this city were unexpresftnly shorked to learn that death this morning closed th eyes of a w man wbf.se sphere of influence for good and whose contact w ith people brought her the friendship of more persons, probably, in Whiting than any other resident of the city. That woman was Miss Florence H. Stewart. After a lingering illness of a month's duration and which had confined her to bed for the past two weeks, she parsed away this morning at her home, 4 3S Sheridan avenue. The Immediate cau?o of her death is attributed to leaky heart valves. NATIVK OF ri.KVKI.AM, O. Miss Stewart was born thirty-eight years fro at Cleveland. Ohio. She was a graduate of the Whiting hi eh school to whic hcity the family moved when she was C years old Did You Hear That SFMCIAL, Agitit G. J. Simons was at Mirhigan City yesterday a-s a witness in a liquor ca.ie. "WORK will start this month on the new Episcopal church at Ietroit and Hon man streets. SOME wit from Chief Hunde: "Auto lights and n"t driicr.i should be lit after la.rk."' JACK CROAK is recovering from an operation on his nose performed recently in a Chicago hospital. WHEN the roll is called up yonder some politicians, probably from Lake county, win want a recount. FETCH J. CM NX) I E. 661 Stute street, and Mermn Sultrle. 49 F-ouglas street, aro arrested for violating npced laws.' OKOR.G E HANION wa.i not responsible for the story abor.t the fire department in these columns yesterday? ELWOOD WASHINGTON of Hammond, writes The Times that he is a candidate for congress against Will K AVood. NOT all the diplomats are at Washington. Consider the flcor-walkers at E. C. Minas Co. or the Lion Store on sales daj's. PRIMA P. Y candidates might get a universal approbation If they adopt a slogan like this: "Fewer battleshlpi and more street car?." TOWNSHIP maps showing Improved roads, dirt roads, ditches and ownership of land are being prepared by County Surveyor Seeley. They will be completed in a month. NOT a word h-as Ed lierwanger received from Indianapolis to Indicate that his resignation as prohibition agent had been accepted. WELL,, as the young man cheekforger remarked as the jail door clanged behind him: "You can't lead a double life on a single salary.'1 FACT for today: In the last tei years Hammond's native born white population ha-s crept up from 73 to T? percent of the total population. HAMMOND, full of music lovers, lacks opportunities to hear good music. Outside of private musicales the city boasts no frequent public performances.. GENERAL -Superintendent G. H. Austin of the Simplex, reports that business is showing substantial gains and fe'ls much encouraged over the situation. HARRY ROCKWELL. a popular Crown Point man, brother of Mrs. Victor Fyi r of this city, is very ill at the home of his parents there, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rock' dL ADJI'TANT K. P. Thorsen. of the Hammond American legion post, is out doing his oe?t today tr rustle UP a big crowd fur the bonus meeting tomorrow at the K. of P. li'iil. HARRY MINAS predicts that the three hundred people v ho purchased snow shovels from hhn last summer will have an opportunity to use them before March is over. Wo hope not. THE Lake County Bar association at a meeting yesterday adopted a resolution supporting the Hickey bill for the creation of a new federal court district. THE balmy days have started fishing stories already. Anglers are dragging forth their equipment and already thirty-flve have signed up for the annual contest conducted by the Milllwan sporting goods store. MYRA STEVENS crowded in a little too close to see the midget's parade start yesterday find was offered a job by the enterprising director of the trmirr. Mlerbt pass for a. midget ai lha t. WEST Hammond Ire department ha.received a hy.ira.nt thawing device on trial, which if purchased, will alwayt be on the fire truck In cold weather Several of the city's fire plugs are now froien.
oman For seventeen years she was first asds'ant librarian at the Whiting public llh'a-y s-d to her duties she :'ve her rfat st care and enthusiasm. For nearly sixteen years, ever since The Timtv-s was foun-do-1,' Miss Stewart had served the newspaper as Wilting reporter and her wide acquaintanceship, r.eal Tor lvr work and extreme loyalty made her one of the most valued members of The Times' staff. MEBEB OF KORTX1CHTLV. Mi wirt w t a rnf.mhi f the Fortnightfly club and of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. She la survived by her mother, threw sisters and two brothers, both residents of Chicago. Complete funeral arrangements have not yeit been completed, but services prxbably will be held from the late residence at 2 p. m. Tuesday afternoon. Burial will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. M)MK jifr.ey -'rivers ii never heard of T.1s I;Ie. F.obe.rt .vd.il -Ah;, "that's lake som'-where, isn't it?" 1 iammonO And as for ! ut near the j Tet they're J supposed to be making trips to those points undir the ordinar.ee. I'L'RCIIASE or the Chicago Kiver and Indiana railroad by the New York ('en- j tral lines will increase the business I handled by the railroad offices at Gib- j son, it is said. George Hannauer is l:i i New York City on the deal. NEWSBOYS selling papers in the vicinity of the South Shore station are reported by neighbors to so on frequent carouses Police are investigating reports that the boys have been supplied moonshine by morons.
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, j I.enseiar. !'; Crown rmn, 16. MANY complaints aro being regis- Brook. ) ; Enorson cGaryl. lo. tered against Hammond automobile' Kentland. !: Froe;.l (Oary), U. and truck drivers because of the in-j This leaves the iwo afternoon concreasing tendency to disregard traffic I tests lined up as follows; rules In turning corners. Several i Valparaiso vs. Rensselaer, narrow escapes have been reported. j Emerson vs. Frobel. j The winners of thes.' gau-.es will JOE IUF.SCTT. able young salesman ; settle the sectional cbtimi.ions'.iip this at Rothschild & Hlrsch, gets quite cn- evening. th'iEiabtie. in describing closing-out yale "
of winter sweaters at his store, prices are away down, he say.-, they're closing out. forever the!r of men's work shoes. The ' Also stock I'lULKMlDT will bo In charge program Monday evening w-hen sports- ; man gather 'or the roynlHt- monthly j meeting of the L.ike County Fish anil . Game Protective as.-ociation. lie has slated a dozen members to te'.l of their most (xcllinj moment in fielj oi stream. omission of three hues from the! roster of Elk's l."igo officers balled i things up sor.K.-v, h:;t yesteiday. F ) should have i-ad: i Esteemed Lecturing Knigh. Arthii'- ', 3. Brophy. Secretary P.. C. S'.aler. Treasurer S. M. Postjewaite. THE preliminary hearing of Irving Kirch on a charge oC having narcotics in his possession, which was to have been held before Commissioner Surprise this morning, was postponed until 2 o'clock this afternoon. Kirch was arrested i:i connection with the attempt to rob the Hammond distillery. ANTONIO VOLK. West State street, faces charge of forcibly entering a dwelling and of carrying rrnceaied weapons. These, after he tri-d to get into a tenant s nouse wno naei j neglected to pay his rent. Volk Is said to have thrown the furniture into j the street. Police found a revolver in i his possession. j IUMMOXH teachers wil Monday, whon they return to sign sw-evrn statements that they attended the N. E. A. this week in Chicago. If they didn't they don't get paid. It took a world wide war to show- that signed papers are "scraps' Well, maybe, the school board didn't think about that. . . j MAYOR Brown returned today f rom j I Washington where ho attended me Great Lakes-St. Lawrence wa.terw aj s convention. He says congressmen boy. His Idea, too, about a new dty hall have been given a jolt. After viewing the national rapitnl. Dm thinks Hain-moi.d should have a new city hall. TIME WITHIN YEAR For the second time within a year, Edward A. Gross of Gary puts in his appearance in connection with bankruptcy matters in the federal court at Hammond. Yesterday Gross filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy as proprietor of the Gross Specialty Shop, 1036 Broadway, a store dealing in ladies' ready-to-w ear. Early last fall The Vogue another More with which Mr. Gross had been connected, went through bankruptcy. The sch r"ules for the Grow Specialty Shop show debts amounting to $4.329.86 against which are assets of $41.001. In the assets are $40,000 worth of real estate and $791 due the store on open accounts.
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r 1 aaywwn. w w w to1 i?, ) I i.ett to right, lHe. sicnaiora I tina Henry I. Ashurst of Arizona Frank K. Gooding of -daho, J. E-X-T-R-A SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) VAUWKAI.-'o. lnd March 4. UcI suits of the three contejils of the r-ee-tional basket hsll tournament t'oi j morniRg were as follows: B WN WILSON BACK ' FROM CAPITAL ! Hear Interesting Debate Be-j tween Gov. Miller of Newj York and Gov. Allen of! Kansas. Mayor Brown and Attorney Jets-e Wilson, Hammond's delegates to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress at Washington. P. C, returned yesterday I rom the eapital. The Hammond delegates were mainly interested in the debate between Gov. .Miller of New- York ;md Gov. Alien of Kansas on the St. Lawrence Ship Canal. The St. Lawrence Ship Canal is essen- j tial to the Illiana Harbor project. In tact, defeat of the St. Lawrence pro- j ,ect wncn it comes before Congress for j approval in the near future would m j aU probability kill the Illiana Harbor project. A majority of the 430 delegates at the congress were favorable to the St. Lawrence improvement, the Hammond
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jwant to lose any ot lis export ousiness. j The St. Lawrence Ship Canal has been approved by a joint commission of ' the United States and Canada. The e.I tlmated cost is S2J0.0O0.000. As .1 eount- ! er move. New York and New Jersey j propose to build a harbor on the Atlantic Coast to cost half a million dollars. i hey .ire supported in this by the railroads who have always been bitteriy opposed to any river or harbor project, Kigntoen states of the Middle West, have endorsed the St. I-awrenee Ship ' i anal. The canal would bring o can ! trcighters through the Great. Lakes to j jimiuth. Milwaukee and Chicago. It' ! would accommodate boats of a size that j carry seventy per cent of the freight on the Atlantic. With the building of the ship canal, it would be necessary to build a harDor at the foot of Lake Michigan. Michigan City, Milwaukee and Chicago have rot the harbor facilities to handle the big boats. The losical place, according to government engineers, is Woif Lake, on the state line in Hammond. This project, known a.s Illiana harbor, will make Hammond the greatest railroad and eteamshlp terminus on the Great Lakes. At the time of moving crops transportation facilities In the east are not sufficient for the traffic and as a result there is a surplus that could be exported. The St. Lawrence Ship Canal means millions of dollars annually to the farmers of the North and Middle W est and to the wheat growers ot i Canada. The canal will create sufficient power to supply all New England with electricity at a saving that wilt pay the cost of the Improvement In a few years, Gor. Allen told the congress.
Jeu- it. Caraway l Arkansas, Chairman Arthur Capper ol ivansas, and Morris Sluppard of Texas. Below: Charles A Haws.in of Ion a, Y. Harreld of Oklahoma and E. F. Ladd of North Dakota.
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(BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WARSAW. Intl.. March 4. Harry Rdd, Indianapolis, president of the Interstate Public Service Corporation, announced plans today for a mammoth hydroelectric plant at Mottvilie, Mich.. on the St. Joseph river. Reid said $5,000,000 will be spent on the recently launched project at Monticcllo, Ind.. and that the recently acquired electric systems at Warsaw. Goshen and Middlesbury will be supplied with current from Monticello. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Mirch 4. Simon O'Donnell. former president of the Chicago Building Trades Council, and three co-defendants charged with conspiracy and extortion, were acquited by a jury in court here today. William Schardt, a business agent of the carpenters' union; Michael Artery. busines agent of the Machinery Movers and Rigers' union, and Albert Green, business agent of the Painters' union were the others tried with O'Donnell. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NES SERVICE! LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 4. C ommander Evangeline Booth, the national leader of the Salvation Army, who is officially visiting California, has been stricken with influenza and is at the present time confined to her room in Long Beach. (BULLETIN) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) DALLAS. Tex.. March 4. Dorothy Canon. 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. M. E. Canon of Hearne. Tex., is expected to be discharged, in perfect health, from a local hospital sometime this month. The child has undergone 14 operations and 43 skin graftings have been performed since she was found lying on WAS CHURCH KEPT ALIVE WITH DRUGS? INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Yiaich 4. The parents of Harvey W. "h irrh, who was hanged bite yepterdny for the murder of two men whom he killed to gain possession of an automobile, have refused the request of Coroner Peter M. Hoffman that he be allowed to make a post-mortem exrmination of the body. Coroner Hoffman desired to examine the body in an effort to learn what had caused the strange comatose condition In which Church was during I Mie dosing weeks of his life and when ; ne was hanged. The r rner express ed the iiejef that drugs might have been gnen the r.i.in wk'i the intent of keeping him silent. The coroner said he would nedeavor to learn if he has legal authority to. make the examination on his own initiative.
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a live wire, almost lifeless, in pool of water last June. (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE . , WASHINGTON. March 4. Col. Hubert Work of Colorado was sworn in as postmaster general, succeeding Will II. Hays, who resigned to become the head of the moving picture industry. Hays will leave immediately for New York, where on Monday he will take up his new duties with the "movie" magnates. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NORFOLK. Va.. March 4. Two men and one woman are dead, as the result of burns received in a blaze which swept through a rooming house late last niht in the poorer section of the city. r One other woman is still in the hospital suffering from burns, but it is not thought she will die. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LOS ANGELES, March 4. A bombshell was exploded today in the probe of the mystery surrounding the murder of William Desmond Taylor, film director, when Detectives King and Winn of the district attorney's office revealed that they are investigating a report that Edward F. Sands, valet of the film celebrity, was under sentence to be hanged for murder. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. March 4. Earth tremors, more sharply defined than usual and continuing for more than an hour, were recorded on the seismograph of the observatory at the University of Chicago today. The first tremor was felt at 7:20 A. M. The center of the disturbance was estimated at about 3,985 miles from Chicago. WIPE OUT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. March 4. New rules governing conditions of employment for railway telegraph and telephone operators have been announced by the United States Railway Labor Board to become effective March 15. Tho feature of the rules is that, while eight hours Is recognized us the standard day's work, time and rne-half pay for overtime during the firtt nine hours is wiped out. With the . announcement of these rules for all classes of railway employes. Consideration of requests for wage increases from the employes and wage reductions from the carriers will begin Monday.
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Says Secret of His Power Is His Readiness to Admit His Mistakes BY DAVID M. CHURCH STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. N. SERVICE LONDON. Marcfc 4-Although 10 Downing -tree today denied that Premier Lloyd George would confer with the unionist lead at Chequers tomorrow, yet It I. belle-red that a conference will be held within the nt 48 honra that will determine the fate of the coalition government. When the premier departed for Chequers yesterday he Intimated, acrordlng to an article published by the Chronicle, that he doubted whether lie would e-rer return to Downing afreet. Austen Chamberlald. Arthur James nalfour, Sir Ilobcrt Home, find Lord Iltrdenhead. unlonl.t leaders, who were reported to be de.lrous of conferrlnn with the coalition leader Ptinday. are known to fnor the latter remaining lm office. BT SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH (Written for International N. Service. 1 (United States Senator From Idaho ! (Copyright. 1?23, by the I. N. Service WASHINGTON. March 4 Lloyd George, according to the news dispatches Is again in peril. No one will be surprised to see him escape unscathed and triumphant. In any event, whether he succeeds in this particular instance or falls his career has been one of the most eventful In all the history of his country, a countryblessed with a multitude of great names. What is the secret of his power? His gn!us consists of his willingness to admit his mistakes after all, a rare genius. He has the courage to change his program when manifestly in error. He has seen the fearful blunder of the Verssilles treaty. He understands that It Is thts which is now holding Europe In economic chaos and demoralizing' the -whole continent. He, therefore,- wants a -change, or a revision, of the treaty. H-1bo ' recognizes the mistake, if not' the crime, of the allied and association powers 10 their treatment of Russia. He understands now the blockade of Russia after the armistice constituted one of the great wrongs ef history and werked a detriment unparalleled to Europe and indirectly to the whole world. He undoubtedly believes that tin-e has come to recognize the present government of Russia, to bring Russia back into the family of nations, to open up trade and business with Russia, and thus take the second most important step toward the Btabilization and rehabilitation of Europe a step without which the world cannot recover and without which the bonuso and tariffs and subsidies will n - bring prosperity, even to the United States. Lloyd George. In other word, has the capacity to realize when he has been run over by events and the courage to admit It and arrange future programs In accordance with such experiences. The action of the allied nations towards Russia is almost incredible. It is based upon a narrow, bigoted, shortsighted, policy, which, in different ways has brought on almost as much misery to the human family as the war itself. We have appropriated millions t feed the Russian people and yet our action is helping to retard immeasurably the capacity of the Russian people to feed themselves. We connived at the program which was to prevent, her recover--' after the war and we are still engaged In the same policy. Our own pecple are paying for it, not only in the taxes which are assessed to take care of the millions, but they are paying for it in the retardation of the recovery of Europe and thereby Indirectly of our owl country. There Is no such thing as peace, either physically or mentally or spiritually, in Europe with 10.00.000 people outlawed and an entire continent harrassed and tormented as that continent, is being harrassed and tormented by the Versailles treaty. Several Lake County Cities Eepresented in Crown Point Criminal Court. tSPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, Ind.. March 4 Liquor law violators In several Lake county cities were given penalties In the criminal court on Friday by Judge Martin Smith. The highest fine assessed fell to John Mihal of Gary to pay. Mihal had a still in operation when Gary police caught him, also SO gallons of mash and & gallons of moonshine. IPs sentence was 90 days in the penal farm which was suspended during good behavior. Andrew Trogan of East Gary, J100 fine and 60 days at state farm. Carl Dziwrdzy, Gary, $lo0 and 90 days at Penal Farm; sentence suspended. Frank Gullckow-ki, Gary. $I."0 fir.e and 6 months suspended sentence. Julius Grohovae, Indiana Harbor. $50. and Steve Sertrch, also of Indiana Harbor $50 fine and 6 months at the State Farm. The above two indulged in a friendly battle, spitton throwing being the mode of warfare.
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