Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 161, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1922 — Page 8

THE TIMES

Friday, Dec 29, 1922.

V Ml 1 it

First Telephone Exchange Used Subscribers' Names Not Numbers

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dec. -"Neither telephone operators nor subscribers today know what trouble in connection with the use of 'phones is," declared W. D. McKinney. of Columbus, secretary of the Southern Ohio coal exchange. McKinney is one of f.f pioneer telephone men of Ohio. "When I first started work as a telephone operator I was a boy," said Secretary McKinney. "Women then used to faint when they heard a voice at the other end of the line. They thought it was supernatural. "The exchanges were Bedlam. GE is were not employed. They wouldn't have been able to stand the strain. The old Bell and Edison companies in the seventies hired

Gold In Solution in California Lake to Be Chemically Extracted

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE RENO, Dec.- Both scientists and prospectors long have known that the waters of beautiful Mono lake, California, in the high Sierras, contain gold in solution. Many attempts have been made to abstract the precious metal. H. C. Parker, professor of metallurgy at Columbia university for a ai Gossip of Staff Correspondents at World Centers of Population By ALICE LANGELIER STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE PARIS. Dec Lafayette, here we are.... again! The chateau of Chavignac (Haute Loire), the birthplace of the great liberator, has just become the property of a group of Americans who are transforming it into a handsome country club. The location is an ideal one, on a high point with plenty of fresh air. There are several tennis courts, a good golf course and shady nooks and gardens where good Americans may repose themselves and dream of their great hero who first saw the light in this spot. Going down! Going down.... It's the birthrate of France which is causing alarm. According to statistics Just issued by a French society it is 10 per cent lower than at the corresponding period last year. There were 6,911 fewer births in the ten largest cities of France in the period from January to September. Paris, of course, claims the most babies and Marseilles next. Isn't it enough to make your mouth water Doctor Hurier, director of the Assistance Publique, believes that good wine is a fine thing for convalescents and has consequently ordered for the first semester of the year 1923 30,000 gallons of excellent vine rouge of "perfect nature." 5,000 gallons of vin blanc, in the same condition, 1,000 gallons of sweet red wine "naturel" and 10,000 one-half bottles of champagne, with stram covering, packed in cases of fifty all this for people "on the road to recovery." Let the dog do it. A butcher in the rue St. Charles notices that he the was a few steaks missing every day or so and set a detective to watch for the thief. He installed himself under the large cloth of the table and watched for business. It was not long before a little poodle sidled up to the shop and looked about to reassure himself that no one was looking, stood up on his hind legs and, seizing a nice juicy steak, made off with it at a good pace. The deective followed him till he trotted up to the door of a second-story apartment, scratched at it and an old woman greeted him with open arms. She will be prosecuted. How many real Parisian in Paris? asks L'Avenir. There are not as many as there are New Yorkers In New York. The Parisians numbers are growing smaller. according to the latest statistics, all in all not more than one-third of the total population of the capital. Country folk from the Auvergne and Savoie districts head the list. They are the famous "Auvergnats'" who talk with an amusing accent which is imitated in all the music halls. The men have long black mustaches that curl to points. They make handsome policemen. Before the war the Germans were more than 26,000 strong in Paris and the Swiss almost as many. Italians numbered 20,000 and Russians 10,000. Now the steady influx of North and South Americans, Spaniards and people from central Europe has just about replaced the Germans who were here before 1914. "We're on our way to America." said two little boys who were found fast asleep in a little railway station near the forest of St. Germain. They had started to walk to Le Havre on their way to New York but were overcome by hunger and fatigue. Thirsty Americans will not be able to drown their sorrows in imitation absinthe the next time they pay a visit to France. By a law passed in July 1922. the manufacEye, Ear, Nose, Throat Troubles of all kinds treated by an expert 23 Years on State Street. Cross Eyes Straghtened safely. surely, quickly by my special meth--od by twilight sleep; glasses fitted $5 and up. Write for Free Booklet. FRANKLIN O. CARTER, M. D.

News

Letter

t ? a

boys, preferably thick-skinned, to handle the calls. They stood in a row along the beard. When a call came in a boy would yell at another down the board: 'Give me Old Han Hawkins!' The calls had to be crossed between the boards. At first there were no numbers. Names were used. "Since there were only boys in the exchange subscribers were free to express themselves. "Competition was so keen that in Dayton, where I entered the business, we used to install phones free. The offer from the Edison company was: Put a telephone in your office and we'll put one in your home free," said Secretary McKinney.

number of years, in Reno on a brief visit, has just come from the lake, where he has been several months conducting experiments of extracting the fine gold by a patent process which he is satisfied can be carried out on an extensive scale. Professor Parker has been in consultation with mining men in Reno and find; they are much interested in his process. ture and sale of absinthe and "similar liquors" were forbidden, but the date of the application of the law was left unfixed until it was decided what should be included in the term "similar liquors." Recently the decree was published and manufacturers are allowed three months in which to liquidate their stock of "Just-as-good" absinthe. After Jan. 26, 1923, it will be illegal to sell all imitations. "Where do we go from here? has long been the question for dealers in precious stones who have always hawked their priceless wares in the open market of the rue Lafayette. The authorities have wanted to chase them off the streets, but no habitation was available. A large newspaper house in the same street is vacating their premises, so at last the dealers have found a happy home. The first mounted police in Paris had a hard beginning because of the unusual crowds which collected around to see the new experiments being tried out on the Grands boulevards. The horses are fine and sleek and the police a good -looking sight, the picked men of the Garde Republicaine, with tin hats n' everything. "Snow-sweepers wanted," read the official posters scattered about the French capital. Snow falls rarely, but the city wants to be ready for it when it does come. Both men and women are called for, but the wages are not the same for both sexes. "That's because the men have to push the loads of snow down the drains, it's too hard for the women to do," explained a husky would-be shoveler to a crowd gathered about the poster in the rue de Seine. So that's where the extra sous come in. The life of the greatest French benefactor, Louis Pasteur, is now being pictured in a most interesting play by Sacha Guitry. His father, Lucien, one of the finest actors on the French stage today, represents the scientist as he was in actual life. For beauty and honesty of workmanship the piece matches Drinkwater's poem, "Lincoln. " A monstrous omelette of 5,000 eggs was made at the Antwerp docks the other day when a pile of twenty crates full of fresh eggs came down with a smash. The consignee was sent for at once and, instead of weeping over his spilled eggs he put them on sale at a penny apiece. Immediately there was a stream of thrifty housewives with bowls and plates to clean up the cracked eggs, glad of even this little occasion to make a few economies. Well, it's an ill wind..... eggsactly. A new method of dyeing timber has been discovered by a Dresden engineer. He "vaccinates" the living tree with one-tenth of a pound of aniline colors dissolved in 200 pints of water. This is sufficient to color the timber throughout. Henry Spinner had a splendid thought for Christmas. He would send pairs of ducks he had shot to several of his most intimate friends. It was a good idea, too. Even his wife admitted that. She was enthusiastic, too, in making them look "Christmassy" by placing on the outside of the package those cute labels with pictures of Santa Claus, holly, and other jolly things on them. There would have been no real objection to her indulgence in this feminine weakness, either, except for the fact that each label bore the caution, "Do not open until Christmas." -Life. During the flue epidemic at Camp Bowie base hospital, many of the doctors worked twenty hours a day. One rookie medico had a seventy-five-bed ward thrust upon him the first day of his Army career. He struggled valiantly with his professional work, but failed to realize that he was now a soldier. He forgot the sacred morning reports. He forgot to make out the sacred mess regulations. He exasperated everybody. Finally the colonel hauled him to the carpet and demanded: "Why in the blankety-blank-blank don't you read your Ar- v regulations?" "Army regulations?" he ejaculated. "Goor Lord, colonel, I haven't even had time to read the newspapers'." American Legion Weekly.

SNIFF

CHEER UP ONLY TH

Mind Blank on Plot to Slay Husband, Is Claim of Mrs. Ford

BY WILLIAM R. STOKLEY. STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE DETROIT, Dec. 29. Vehemently asserting her innocence and claiming that her mind is a complete blank in regard to the plot against her, Mrs. May B. Ford, charged with offering a supposed "gunman" $20,000 to kill her wealthy husband. Ney B. Ford, and burn the body. It is just another "frame up" engineered by her husband to blacken her character and make her friends and neighbors think her an immoral woman, she claims. Detectives hired by her husband have hounded her for months and repeated attempts to "frame" her have been made, she says. Mrs. Ford says she doesn't remember whether she saw Lieutenant Edward W. Kunoth before she was confronted by him in the prosecutor's office. Mrs. Ford admits she is subject to memory lapses. Ney B. Ford is a second cousin of Henry Ford, Detroit auto king. HAS MEMORY LAPSES. "I have had moments of conduct when I was not responsible for what I did," she says. "If I wanted to kill my husband and I had ample opportunity to do it when I was living with him being a nurse I could have accomplished it without anybody ever knowing anything about the crime. This is just another frameup of his to keep alimony from me and put me behind the bars, as he said he would. He told me when I left him that he would put me behind the bars. "My husband tried to 'frame' me once before. A good friend of his came to me saying that he would see to it that Ney was killed and that I would get the money. (Ford is reputed to be worth $500,000.) I told him I would have nothing to do with the plot. I don't remember anything about it I don't know that any of these things they accuse me of ever happened." POLICE ALLEGE "TRAP. According to police, Mrs. Ford BERLIN GIRL USES MARK NOTES FOR GARB AT MASQUE Carnival costume. Berlin 1923

Jhtt

REE SHORT MONTHS AND BASEBALL.

was trapped after a Toledo man had "tipped" Detroit, officers that Mrs. Ford expressed a desire, to meet a "dependable killer" who would accept the job of murdering her husband. Lieutenant Ovid Straith was assigned to the case. The Toledo man arranged a meeting with Mrs. Ford. In subsequent conversations with Straith Mrs. Ford again voiced a need for a killer, it is alleged, and Kunath, posing as "a Kansas City gunman," was introduced. Pretending to fall in with the scheme to kill Ford. Kunath says the woman unfolded her plans with a calm deliberation that made his blood run cold. Many plans were discussed and abandoned as being "'too risky," Kunath says. being PLANS WELL LAID. The stage for the last act in the drama was carefully arranged. Kunath made an appointment with Mrs. Ford in a Park Boulevard apartment to discuss final details. Hidden in an adjoining room were two officers Straith and another. The officers had previously cut a hole in the wall between the two rooms and placed a newspaper over this with small slits in it. Conversation between Mrs. Ford and Kunath was plainly overheard, it is said. For an hour and fifteen minutes they listened to Mrs. Ford discuss the killing with Kunath, heard her review her whole life with her husband, telling how she had "played" him to propose and she finally 'hooked" him, the officers assert. "Mrs. Ford suggested that her husband be waylaid in his farm home or while doing the chores and slugged with a piece of lead

SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY

Monarch Coffee, 1 lb. 36c package package CHOCOLATE DROPS Per pound Grandma's Washing Powder, large pkg. . . 16c PALMOLIVE SOAP (Limit 2 per bar Pall Mall Fancy Red 23c Salmon, 1/2 lb. can

MONARCH STRAWBERRY PRESERVES 1 pound jar

Uneeda Biscuits, per package . . . 5c C

MONSOON CUT GOLDEN WAX BEANSNo. 2 can . . . .

Briar Ridge Peanut Butter, 1 lb. jar 23c CHICKENS WE DRESS OUR Per pound

Round or Sirloin Steak, 25c Boneless Rib Roll, per pound ....per pound

PORK LOIN ROAST Per pound

Garfield Cash Grocery & Market LEIMBACH & SCHROEDER, Props. Conkey and Garfield Sts. Phone 2668 WE DELIVER

TO BIRDS, BLOSSOMS

pipe or other heavy instrument." Kunath declares, in telling of the alleged plot. "The body was then to have been hustled into an automobile and taken to a farm 30 miles away. It was then to be soaked in oil, covered with straw and set afire. The farmhouse was in a remote place and would burn to the ground before the fire could be extinguished," Kunath swears Mrs. Ford told him. PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. "Mrs. Ford even suggested that her husband's gold teeth be removed, so that in event the bones were discovered there could be no identification through false teeth. "She said that one plan which had entered her mind was to hire gunmen to come to the farm, kill her husband, the hired man and shoot her through the arm, in a fake robbery, but abandoned that because she wanted an absolute alibi," Kunath said. Auto Gradually Cut Horse's Market Value INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WATERLOO. N. Y. Dec.- The days of Old Dobin are past. The gasoline motor is replacing him so fast, both on the farm and in the city, that he brings less than one-half of his valuation of two years ago, regardless of how strong and sound he may be. An analysis made of recent auction and private sales in western New York shows that horses have brought an average of but $90 each, while two years ago the figures were from $150 to $200. TONSILITIS Apply thickly over throat cover with hot flannel VapoRub Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly Walnuts, 1 pound 33c for . 19c Classic Soap, bars for 10 .42c bars) 6c Monarch Tomato Cat- 19c sup, 14 1/2 oz. bottle... 28c Richelieu Spinach, - 18c No. 2 can 16c Belmore Sliced Pineap- 37c ple, No. 2 1/2 can ' OWN 28c 25c 15c

FORMER MAYOR NOT WORRIED

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 29, - "I am not in the least worried over the effort, of the governor of Louisiana to return me to that state to answer charges of murder," and Dr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, scene of the alleged Ku-Klux Klan atrocities, when brought from Central police station to the court house yesterday for habeas corpus proceedings begun in his behalf after his arrest here on a murder charge preferred by Governor Parker. "I can prove that I was no where in the vicinity. "By that I mean the lawless element of Mer Rouge and Morehouse county. I do not know Governor Parker personally, although on several occasions I did meet him before leaving for Baltimore. During the last gubernatorial campaign I took the stump and campaigned against him and in favor of his opponent. "If the action of Governor Parker could be paused by a prejudice as a result or my work against him at the polls, it is merely a case of misinformation which is being thrust upon him." Dr. McKoin's attention was called to a statement from Bastrop to the effect that last year he joined and was initiated as a member of the invisible empire of the Ku-Klux Klan. He reiterated his denial that he is, or ever was a member of the Klan. He said the only organization to which he belonged in Louisiana was the Arkansas-Louisiana law enforcement league, of which he was one of the principle organizers several years ago. Sir John W. Isherwood, who has been visiting America, is the inventor of the Isherwood system of ship construction on whose patent 12,000,000 tons of vessels already have been constructed.

HAM

184 STATE STREET NEXT TO MINAS DEPT.

Pork Loins

Pork Shoulder

Pot Roast

Beef Roast

Hamburger

JESS

Corn Beef

Veal Breast

Veal Shoulder

Leg of

Frankf

risket

Ham Sh

Edward C. Minas Co. Has No Connection With Any Other Store O'Keh and Cameo Phonograph Records Perhaps Santa Claus gave you a new phonograph, of course, you'll be wanting new records. Here are latest releases of song and jazz hits. Cameo Records, 49c ea.

To-Morrow Homesick Toot-Toot-Tootsie Three O'Clock in the Morning Down Old Virginia Way The Laughing Record I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Call Me Back Pal O' Mine Somewhere Kawaihau Waltz Kilima Waltz Why Should I Cry Over You

O'Keh Records 75c and $1.25

Mellow Moon My Buddy To-Morrow You Gave Me Your Heart Homesick Toot-Toot-Tootsie CHOICE CUTS BONELESS ROLLED FRESH GROUND

MOND

RKET CO.

Beef

BONELESS- OUR OWN CURE

WITH POCKET Veal urters

SWIFT'S HIGH GRADE

con ks

anks

ST9

Suez I Wish I Knew Beautiful Isle of Somewhere Mother Machree Thru the Night Lovely Lucerne Mary Dear Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses Nellie Kelly I Love You You Remind Me of My Mother Because Mighty Lak a Rose Three O'Clock in the Morning Moon River Hot Lips Houston Blues Largo Salut D' Amour the MornPHONE 4067 STORE . . . 9c ... 8c 10c . 10c 18c 12 1/2c

15c

14c

12 1/2c

190 S. STATE STREET Hours; 9 to 5: Sunday 10 to 12.

, .Si.