Hammond Times (Newspaper) - August 12, 1935, Hammond, Indiana EAST CHICAGO INDIANA WHITING XXX NO 47 THE HAMMOND TIMES TRI-CITY EDITION MEMBER or INTERNATIONAL HAMMOND INDIANA MONDAY AUGUST 12 1935 MEMBER OF PRESS ASSOCIATIONS PRICE TWO CENTS Granger Says State Tax Board Has Snubbed Him ASSESSOR ACCUSES ZOERCHER TRICKS Says President ot Board Has Been Skulking Around the County Like a Rat THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and day except local thunderstorms ex- treme south portion tonight what cooler tonight and east and south portions Tuesday Sun rises sun sets Moon sets a in tomorrow TEMPERATURE FOR REGION Temperature today in Hammond was 76 degrees above zero at a degrees above zero at noon Weather fair at noon Did You Hear A personal fight between Phillip Zoercher president of the State Tax board and Leon J Granger assessor of North township flared ento the open today Granger bitterly denounced Zoercher for his alleged snub of the North township office in all assessment matters affecting North ship Granger declared with passion has been skulking around Lake county like a rat for 30 days pulling every trick in his bag to embarrass me and my 1936 personal property assessments Til take him for a ride if it's the last thing I do and I do not care how you quote me on this issue Granger was particularly in- over failure to him officially of the North township assessment that will be conducted in County sor George Kochis Crown Point office tomorrow The hearing was announced last by Assessor Kochis following receipt of notice It will be held into Granger's appeal of the reduction which the Lake County Board of Tax Review ordered in Granger's 1936 personal property assessments for 10 tries in Hammond East Chicago and Whiting I am the complainant in that Granger said yet I have received no official notice of the hearing Ail I know about it is I have read in the papers If I fail to attend the state tax toard will be able to do nothing about the matter still Zoercher fails to give me an official notice of the hearing I may remain away purposely to embarrass is if I am not notified officially by him be- fore tha session is called to order Granger feels that he cannot get a proper hearing from Zoercher any more He threatened to take his appeal to the courts if the state board upholds the county board I am not going to stand idly by and let Zoercher pull the county chestnuts out of the Granger said EAST CHICAGO CHAIRMAN ALFRED JONES today called a meeting of the committee on the Calumet Bears game for tomorrow afternoon EAST CHICAGO AND THE lice enjoyed a crimeless week-end with nary a nickel's worth of thing stolen A BUSY SESSION IS EX- tonight as the city council holds only regular meeting for August CAPT NICK MAKAR REFUSES to hide any more brooms since he was accused of larceny in ing charges brought against him THE TWIN CITY LEGION post will hold its annual election of officers tomorrow night HOLTZAPPLE HAS abandoned journalism as a career for a position in an attorney's of- fice PETS STERLING PROMISES A bigger and better Roosevelt High alumni dance next month DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE licenses have been awarded to Lew Churilla Herb Brown Georgs Harper and Necco Meko of the East Chicago Flying club THE EPWORTH LEAGUE OF the Methodist church will hold a picnic Thursday night at Miller teach VISITORS ARE WELCOME TO the meeting of the Third District Democratic club to be held at the headquarters 4830 Alexander nue tomorrow evening The ing will begin at WHITING WALTER H SMITH WHITING attorney his wife and family have returned from a six-week ean tour BOR AV State Tax Board Holds Into Several ters of School MEMBERS OF ST ADALBERT horal and Dramatic club enjoyed annual picnic yesterday in Rolling Prairie Indiana Over- worked muscles were reported ay INDIANA SENDS THOUSANDS TO ILL Tht old bar room tune of Sweet Adeline wafted o'er the night breezes from hundreds of taverns and roadhouses on the side of the state line last night as thousands upon thousands of Hoosiers deserted their arid com- for the more congenial atmosphere of the Sucker state The Indiana trek across the state line was literally a hegira of thirsty souls for the gay spots in Calumet City Lansing Thornton Oak Glen Chicago Heights Blue Island and South Chicago A tour of the Illinois towns by representatives of The Hammond Times revealed that virtually every tavern from the state line on the east to Chicago Heights and Blue Island on the west was filled with Hoosiers This fact was evident in the ber of cars bearing Indiana license plates that were parked around the Illinois gay spots Illinois tavern keepers taking advantage of the tremendous day trade embellished their quenching facilities with as wide a of entertainment as can be found anywhere in the nation dancers young and old and fat were featured in places Others offered man bands stage shows novelty acts community singing and In several of the more popular spots seats were at a premium not withstanding the oppressive heat In reality the Illinois towns re the old but not forgotten days of the prohibition era when a thirst could be quenched with joy there as easily as it could with pure aqua at home WHITING POLICE HAVE IN heir possession a key found on the last week The owner may it by proper identification Col Frank Knox Is Second in of the G 0 P Untied Press WASHINGTON Aug 12 e n William E Borah Idaho was favored as the 1 republican presidential nominee today in a wide poll of republican county chairmen and other local re- publican leaders The pol was taken by Robert H Lucas former executive director of Ihp republican national committee He sent letters to republican county chairmen 300 city leaders and 500 young republicans Lucis asked for a vote on 11 sible candidates listed He received replies representing 1.036 counties throughout the nation Those polled were asked to indicate first and second choices Borah a liberal republican who has supported some new deal ures was named as the first choice ry 247 and as second by 121 Col Frank Knox Chicago publisher was ranked second and Gov Alf Landon of Kansas third Former President Herbert Hoover was sixth Some wrote in the names 01 Col Charles A Lindbergh Gov Winant of New Hampshire former Gov Caulfield of Missouri Gov Merriam of California former Otis F Glenn of Illinois and Risk of Rhode land Choices Indicated Choices indicated First Second Sen Borah 247 121 Col Knox 167 99 Gov Landon 127 106 Sen Vandenberg 97 108 Blank O Lowden 88 107 Herbert Hoover 32 18 Theodore Roosevelt 41 66 Ogden Mills 40 47 Fish 38 55 Sen Dickinson 28 36 Rep Wadsworth 17 30 All others 94 152 Alfred E Smith 1928 democratic was proposed by two ers as a republican ial candidate A MEETING OF ALL rs in the Whiting city and Com- munity bowling leagues will be held at 8 tonight in the Community Center WHITING AND ROBERTSDALE children desiring to be in on the outing to Comiskey park to see the White Sox play Boston row afternoon must register today Jie deadline Over 600 have ALL MEMBERS OF TEAMS IN he Community Twilight Softball eague are to meet in the Com- munity Center tomorrow night at 8 to help select an all-star team for an exhibition game AN ENJOYABLE TIME WAS reported at the family picnic of tho Whiting Eagle lodge in Grove Hammond yesterday Games and contests were on the program WHITING POST NO 80 American Legion will elect new officers at a meeting in the room of Community ter Wednesday evening Delegates and alternates to the state con- vention also will be selected NEW CAUSE FOR DAMAGE SUIT PERU Ind Aug S In a damage suit filed today against the Nickel Plate railroad here Mrs Bertha Flitcraft 32 alleges that the locomotive whistle sounded so loudly that she was paralyzed with fright and unable to get off the track Court attaches declared tins was the newest idea in causes for age suits The payment of for a 9 acre tract to be as a George Rogers Clark school athletic field is satisfactory to the state tax com- mission if that price includes for delinquent taxes and ments against the property bers of the commission ruled this morning in a hearing at the new hall Philip Zoercher chairman of the made that view a ter of record during the course of the hearing His opinion shared also by John Rothrock other ber of the commission present lowed the contention of State ator Daniel D Lynch attorney for the Hammond school trustees that tho included the in the Claude A Sohl president of the school board L L Caldwell super- intendent of school and Attorney Lynch also were admonished by Zoercher to adhere strictly to the law in regard to spending money in excess of the budget ov The admonition was a to a recent hearing on a school propriation for approximately 000 to pay for athletic expenses and equipment in the school system The Hammond Taxpayers association at the time insisted that tho school city spend no money which had not already been provided for in the budget The commission cut the requested appropriation about The trustees made the propriation to meet an emergency partially and to pay for bills in- from the previous board opinion on the athletic field price also was in line with the insistence of the Hammond payers association that the price of plus for appraisers fees include the de- charges Frank Hoess sociation secretary complimented Zoercher on substantiating the con- tention of his organization The Lake Land company owner of the property has contended through its attorney Roy Green of that the school oily pay the following on the tract in tion to the appraisal in delinquent assessments in city back taxes and 5656 in county back taxes The company may fight the issue The school city will now borrow tho money and produce it to the cuit clerk who will turn over the deed to school authorities ments on the field are expected to get under way shortly to have it ready for use when the fall term opens A price of plus had been demanded by the Lake Land company The bat tie over the price considered fair by some and by ers has been raging for a year Acquisition of the acre tract for plus 5220 for appraisers fees is expected to add cents to Hie school cily levy tills year State Tax Board Appeal to Be Heard Tuesday at Crown Point Plant Resumes Operations After lar Summer Vacation TO KILL RUTS FORT WAYNE Ind Aug science is in tX to A will be used to rid the city of rats and mice TO THE HEGEWISCH 111 Aug proximately employes re- turned to work this morning in the Ford assembly plant here ing a vacation and inventory period Production was resumed on the basis of 400 cars a day the rate that prevailed prior to the down This unit now is providing cars for the entire Mid-West taking up the slack caused by the shut-down of other assembly plants in the Mississippi valley With employes working five days a week and with tbc minimum wage of a day prevailing the daily pay roll approximates and the weekly pay roll The local unit will continue to produce 1935 models until the fore- part of November when work will get under way on 1936 models Plant officials declared this morning they expect to maintain the current rate through August and September with a slight sion in view for October owing to the anticipated reduction in de- mand then By November op- will be resumed ing employment for almost men on a five-day weekly basis In event demand for 1936 models swells to the volume of the 1933 level the local xinit will be operated six days a week with employes turning out about 600 cars a day This level plant officials declared should be reached the forepart next year and continued through spring and early summer TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT Ind Aug of the largest in- in Hammond East Chicago and Whiting will pear before the State Tax board here tomorrow to fight a com- encrease of about in their 1936 persona property valuation The hearing will tie held at the of Leon J Granger ot North township who is seeking to make the increase Granger originally placed the able valuation of the affected in- at the he is asking thp state board to sanction row but his assessments were ered approximatley 000 by the Laka County Board ot Tax Re- view Phillip Zoercher chairman of the state will conduct the ings Inland Heads List Inland Steel company at Indiana Harbor largest independent steel mill in the world will be the first to appear It is scheduled to open the session at 10 a m Sheet and Tube com- pany also at Indiana Harbor will be second Its case will be pre- sented at a m The other industries summoned to appear and the order of their hearings Sinclair Refining company East Chicago a m Shell Petroleum corporation mond and East Chicago a m Empire Oil Refining company East Chicago 11 a m Standard Forgings company East Chicago a m W J Holliday and company Hammond a m Union Metal Products company Hammond a m Standard Oil company Whiting 2 to p m Metal and Thermit corporation East Chicago p m Decided Later The hearings will be held in the office of George Kochis county sessor Zoercher will receive the testimony of the industries and of Granger and then will take his findings to Indianapolis where the entire membership of the State Tax board will study them Final rulings are expected within p week or 10 days Their Auto Crashed Tele- phone Pole After swiping a Truck WHITING Aug of two Whiting men killed outright yesterday at Decatur III when their automobile crashed into a ephone pole after sideswiping a truck prepared to leave here day to claim the bodies and escort them to Horse Branch Ky for burial The CECIL FORD 36 of 1841 apolis boulevard an employe of the Standard Oil Co married no dren JOSEPH FORD 31 of 1626 erts avenue an employe of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co single The cousins had left Whiting on Saturday afternoon to spend the week-end with friends in Decatur Witnesses to the accident orated the testimony of Sam Sacks of Clinton Ind and C C Rowlee of Benton Harbor Mich drivers of the truck that tho Ford machine struck the truck glanced off across the highway and rammed into the pole Cecil Ford is survived by three Mothers here Roy and Parker Survivors of his cousin Joseph reside at Horse Branch A cool southerly wind today dis- the intense heat which gripped Hammond and caused the death of William S Hudson watchman of Indiana avenue The temperature at 11 a m day was in the upper 80s as at that time but a cooling breeze which was scheduled to switch to the northwest by after- noon and due north by night brought considerable relief Beaches throughout the region were crowded and highways were clogged as thousands sought com- fort in the outdoors Hudson employed as a man at the Standard Steel ty company Hammond died at his home yesterday at p m ly after he lay down following a that he was not feeling well Survivors include his wife Ida three daughters Mrs Lucille Smith Mrs Ruth Babcock and Miss Edith Hudson all of Hammond three sisters and four brothers James Jacob Oliver and John Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at the art funeral chapel Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery 20 ARE DROWNED CAIRO Egypt Aug than 20 persons were drowned and many were injured when a motor truck skidded off the road to Alexandria into a canal and crashed into a sailing boat day Aato Accident Toll Jan 1 to Aug II inclusive HAMMOND 1934 1935 Total accidents 613 640 Total 255 Total deaths 23 13 EAST CHICAGO Total accidents 403 406 Total injuries 159 158 Total deaths 6 8 WHITING Total accidents 90 88 Total injuries 22 22 Total deaths 1 0 CALUMET CITY Total accidents 165 115 Total 52 Total deaths 2 7 FOR THE FOUR CITIES Total accidents Total 487 Total deaths 38 28 Joseph Gacek Fires Bullet Into Brain After Kissing His Children Hammond police today were at- tempting to establish a motive for suicide by Joseph Gacek 27 years old of 2506 White Oak avenue Hammond at his home at p m yesterday He committed self destruction by pressing the trigger of his 32 bre automatic pistol and sending a bullet through his brain while his wife Julian and two dren whom he had kissed good-bye several minutes before crouched in terror as the gun shot reverberated throughout the home According to information re- by Hammond police Gacek departed from his home on Aug 5 and arrived home about 10 o'clock last night He kissed his dren Stanley and Ann Murzyn then entered the bathroom where he committed the tragic act Dr David Bopp deputy coroner in Whiting was summoned and pronounced him dead The bullet entered the right side of his head just above the car and came out m a corresponding line on the op- side of the head He was re- moved to morgue to await funeral arrangements A large amount of the steel that will be required for the expansion program of General tors corporation will be purchased in local mills according to Calumet district steel mill executives They base this prediction on the fact that tho largest single project of the program will be centered in Flint Mich only a few hundred miles away from this district The Flint job calls for the of the big Buick plant theie Approximately of the expenditure has been allocated for that task Large Sums Pending Another will be spent for a new building at the Pontiac Motors plant in Pontiac Mich also only a few hundred mile away this district About will go for ex panding the Fisher body plant and facilities and an unannounced sum will be expended for the new plant of tho corporation In McCook 111 The Murray Wood Product plant at Memphis Tenn will be At Lansing Mich the old Durant plant will be renovated Announcement of the expansion program was released today by fred P Sloan Jr president of eral Motors corporation He said the program will be started In view of the fact that the jor part of the appropriation will be on Middle Western plants of the corporation Calumet district industries will share ily in material purchases because of ths nearness of this region to the affected plants The program will result in an in- crease in employment Sloan said Sell More Cars There will result an expansion in production facilities of General Motors cars domestically tured especially Chevrolet Pontiac and Oldsmobile The capacity of the plans overseas also will be importantly increased There is In- in this program cally a broadening of the policy of decentralization of manufacturing operations VER EN ROUTE BLASTS Speech Interpreted As a Bid for the 1936 Presidential Nomination IRVING BETZ IS VICTIM OF Prominent Hammond Man Dies Suddenly at His Home Today NEWS CHICAGO Aug mer President Herbert Hoover was en route to New York day but he stopped off here long enough yesterday to un- loose a fiery blast at the New Deal a blast interpreted in many quarters by democrats and republicans alike as a bid for the 1936 presidential ination Mr Hoover alert vigorous and in the best of health in his ing denunciation declared the Roosevelt administration obviously intends to bring about a mental change in the constitution and he demanded a full and frank declaration before this congress ends of what changes the proposes in the tion In the statement breaking his silence Mr Hoover de- The past two years have made it that the administration in- tends to bring about a fundamental change in the structure and ance of powers in our government as distinguished from the normal development of the constitution to meet specific problems as times in the past This has been dent from the surrender by con- gress to the president of powers reaching to dictatorial dimensions and in the invasion of state rights For two years primary liberties of the people have been trampled upon In effect the supreme court called a to part of the tration of powers which has ed in creation of monopolies in coercion in repudiation and in other indirect invasion We now see a demand from the president to not permit doubt as to the constitutionality of a posed law to block its passage We listen to constant urging from prominent members of this that tho constitution must be revised These things can have no other meaning than a intent to change the tion directly so as to authorize such acts and such concentration of powers as to accomplish them Better Suicide It would be better for erty to commit suicide in the open rather than to be poisoned by in- direction Continued on Page Eight SEARING HEAT WHOLE NATION Temperatures Touch 108 Degrees in Kansas Ar- kansas and Tennessee By United A high pressure area moving eastward across the Rocky tains brought respite today from searing heat which tortured the heart of the nation from the Rio Grande to the Canadian border Temperatures that touched 108 degrees in Kansas Arkansas and Tennessee were blamed for four deaths in tho last 24 hours Missouri reported one heat tration Kansas had two ings and Wisconsin one The weather bureau predicted thunderstorms in scattered sections of the middle west said the relief would be short-lived and the cury will soar again tomorrow Goodland and Concordia Memphis Tenn and Fort Smith Ark reported the Comparatively cool weather afforded pleasant end outings for residents of New York and other eastern cities Other high temperatures Oklahoma City 106 Dodge City la 104 Kansas City 104 Omaha Sioux City la Abilene Tex las St Joseph Mo and port all 102 Irving L Betz 46 socially and commercially prominent son of Mr and Mrs Frank S Betz died of a heart attack today at 2 p m at his home 6508 Forest avenue mond His death war sudden though he had been ailing with heart trouble for some time He was president of the Betz Radiator Cabinet company in mond and had helped organize and was president ol the Betz Motor Truck company also of Hammond He had extensive real estate ings in the city During the World war he was chief inspector of the Chicago manufacturing district of trucks sent abroad His headquarters were in Washington but he travelled ex- for the government in that capacity He was born in Minneapolis ruary 28 1889 His wife is the daughter of Mrs Patrick Reilly of Rimbach avenue whose late band was mayor Hammond many years ago Betz was a degree Mason of the Fort Wayne consistory a ber of the Hammond Garfield Blue Lodge of Masons and a member of the Orak Shrine Survivors include his wife two daughters Miss Alice and Miss Marjorie Betz his parents anc two brothers Frank R Funeral services will be helc Wednesday at p m at the residence burial be in Oak Hill cemetery The body may be viewed at the chapel at 5322 man avenue TO HIRE LAKE GO INDIGENTS SOON About additional Lake county indigents will go to work this week on the new W P A projects approved for the Calumet district today Attorney John A Gavit of Hammond Seventh dis- director announced from his Gary office this afternoon He said one crew will be em- ployed Wednesday and another on Thursday By Friday the Lake county pay roll should contain workers including 700 now em- ployed on the six projects started last week Gavit declared Among the larger projects signed to Lake county today is one calling for the employment of 622 men on repairs to Hammond streets The federal government will contribute for wages and the city of Hammond will spent for materials Another large project provides for repairs to secondary bridges in Lake county This job will re- quire an expenditure of by the federal government and wil employ almost 100 men Other projects approved for this community today Lake county sewer construction in federal funds for labor and local funds for materials and clerical work in the county court house at Crown Point ing for 30 workers who will re- in wages from the federal government JUDGE CURTIS DEDICATES NEW HEADQUARTERS Judge Harvey Curtis of the In- diana appellate court will be the principal speaker at the formal dedication of the new headquarters to be opened tonight by the Men's and Women's Jackson clubs of Hammond The club rooms located on the second floor of the Straube ing Hohman avenue have been decorated and equipped for the event Frank K Hosier president of the club will preside He will call the meeting to order at 8 o'clock The Men's and Women's Jackson clubs have just negotiated a one year lease for the suite They will centralize all activities there after tonight Following the speakers program a social hour will be enjoyed bers of the Women's Jackson club will be in charge of refreshments Mr Hosier invites all democrats of Lake county to attend He ex- a capacity PARTISAN RANKS ARE BROKEN TOR invasion of Lower Income Brackets Creates Alarm By H O THOMPSON United Press Staff WASHINGTON Aug invasion of lower income brackets for added revenue today threw crats and republicans con- and liberals into complete disarray for the ate floor battle over taxation this week Partisan ranks were broken in a score of places for the in- evitable when the finance tee reports its revised ably today or tomorrow Usual liberal and conservative were shattered The revised by the finance committee to raise an- in new revenue faced col- between advocates of in- creased taxation en all incomes and those who it should be re- turned to its original purpose of tapping only the higher brackets President Roosevelt returning from a week-end cruise on the Potomac remained silent on the revision His request for increased taxation of wealth had gone en- tirely out of hand with tile ure now involved in an insurgent attempt to write a comprehensive Politics Enters Politics entered the situation in a double-edged way Senators who have been shouting for a balanced budget will find it hard to justify opposition to a which might produce half a billion dollars of badly needed revenue Congressmen who will be up for re-election in 3936 do not relish idea of facing their and declaring they voted to raise their taxes even to the possible extent of dipping into pockets of relief workers who in some cases would be caught in the proposed new rates Sen William E Borah lican of Idaho heralded the com- ing senate conflict by denouncing the committee plan for reducing the married man's exemption from to as a levy upon those who could ill afford it I do not see the justice or ths wisdom of lowering the Borah said Neither do I think we ought to increase the rates on small in- comes Families with small in- comes are now paying more than their proportion of taxes and at Continued on Page Bight WORK HAS BEEN RESUMED IN NEW YORK Despite the Claim of Union Leaders Men Return to Their Jobs NEW YORK Aug Despite the reiterated claim of union leaders that all Works gress administration jobs would be tied up by a strike or organized labor work was resumed on the Astor low rent housing project day Labor leaders meantime defiant of ultimatums issued by President Roosevelt and Hugh S Johnson went into a morning session to map their campaign to pull out workers We are going ahead with our Thomas Murray chairman of the Strategy Committee of the striking unions declared as ness agents met at strike quarters Murray disclosed however that the union leaders had not the slightest intention of joining with white collar workers sented by two left-wing councils of unemployed We are dealing only with unions which arc members of the A F of Murray stated Murray declined to comment on the resumption of work on tha Astor project which was cut down last week when union men walked out on strike It was the only P W A project in New York which was completely halted by the strike As far as I am said Langdon W Post tenent house commissioner in charge of the tor the strike is all over IN SPA PERI
