Times (Newspaper) - August 14, 1922, Hammond, Indiana HOPE FOR RAIL PEACE HANGS ON SLENDER THREAD THE WEATHER THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES VOL XVI NO 48 AUGUST 1922 NICKEL PLATE'S PURCHASE LOOMS SIGNIFICANT IN REGION FORD HEAVY PLATE Operators Predict New De- velopment for Calumet Region Predictions of prominent real tate operators that marketing the properties the Calumet Chicago WILL RUSH NEW PLANT Construction is to be started im- mediately on Hammond's industrial acquisition It Is the plant of the Damascus Crucible Steel Castings Co which has purchased a site on Summer just opposite the plant ot the Metals Refining Co Final details of tho which was announced in The Times three weeks were attended to this morning in offices of Mern and Inc when Charles Capper Charles H Capper and Mm Florence Peterson of Pittsburgh took title to the acre tract of land which formerly Harbor Racing Driver Dies From His Injuries DEATH TO Canal Dock Co foreshadows an era of development for the Calumet region unparalleled in the past were lent greater weight today when It was announced that already a large block of the real estate which has lain dormant for years has been grabbed up by the Nickel Plate road company M nr KIW HANOI Late last week it was announced that the deal by which dler ft Nicolson hoped to get control of the acres of industrial perty of the Canal Dock Co had at last been consummated Ninety per cent of the of Canal A Dock passed Into new hands for a consideration of At the same time it was asserted that the new holders would take steps Im- mediately to build up a great trial district Chandler offered to finance any Im- provement demanded by industrial even to building new als and belt lines Hardly had the importance of the deal begun to dawn upon residents of the region when the step wards fulfilment of the predictions was taken by the Nickel Plate The railroad company has selected one of the choicest locations for yards and dock paying for 431 acres The land fronts 700 feet north on street and extends south to One Hundred and Twelfth street The road's right of way is the ern boundary and more than a mile and a half of its west frontage is Lake the remainder being extended along Dorchester and with Innumerable jottings In all directions The yards of he cago and Western Indiana railroad extend along the west side of the double right of way It Is said that the railroad con- templates no ts at but merely wished to place itself in readiness to serve the district when tho expansion which Is bound to does materialize Plans are already prepared for spending lions In developing Lake Calumet in- vo a great Inland harbor To the southwest of the property Is Wolf Lake which is some time to become the greatest Inland port In the world BOOK The Nickel Plate purchase ing so closely upon the acquisition of 60 acres by Henry Ford for an assembly plant site In the same leads to the belief that tho prospective boom is not so far off as tne railroad Intimates Ford's property is In the west part just south and east of the territory taken over by the kel Plate Added significance Is given by the fact that Ford is a heavy Nickel Plate stockholder evidence that there will be little delay Is the fact that back of the big deal are O P and M P Van as bers of purchasing syndicate It is pointed out that these two young real estate operators have been prom In the recent development of Industrial properties of Cleveland isoo TOM The territory already embraces twenty-two manufacturing plants and a number of grain and warehouses The Commonwealth Edison now has the world's lar gest power plant Jn the district and has property for another one on the Indiana side Beside river facilities and the proposed Improvement ofj Lake the transportation con include five belt railroads and practically all trunk lines Ing Chicago from the south and east pass through the territory It is proposed to use 1500 acres of the 1.700 for manufacturing sites and probably 200 acres will be de- voted to small residential districts This small allotment to residences means that Burnham West Hammond the towns to the west will be re- quired to absorb the families of the thousands ot workmen who will be drawn to the district West mond which has been developing rapidly as a residential district is believed to be in line for greater ex- The opening up of rence across the and th construction of a branch of tho Chicago Surface line south on that thoroughfare together with the posed extension of tho Illinois tral In that direction will place Hammond In excellent tion with the factory district For years the lands of the Canal ft Dock have lain and have stood in the way of development Their sudden appearance on the market backed by a live marketing syndicate has so altered the future outlook of this region that real tate dealers hesitate In predicting the extent or rapidity of growth around the base of the lake from all over the district will picnic at Flint near next belonged to F S Betz The Hammond real estate firm acted as agents in the transaction and Attorney Jeste Wilson sented the buyers A guarantee policy was issued by the Chicago and Trust Co The Damascus Crucible Steel listings Co which now has some of the companies of tha country among its seeking a site for a plant the Calumet region some timo Through extensive advertising of the Hammond district which has been given by the rsal estate men the local was decided upon The principle product Is steel ng balls and because of the great demand It Is said the Hammond plant will be rushed to completion The site has excellent railroad as the Plato railroad rounds the property on the south THE EX DOES HAPPEN Extra Several Hammond people were ty glass last night Hammond bound drt Fred Tietje 7253 Woodlawn became Jammed between a street car and another on field avenue Tietje Is held criminal following the statements of passengers who say he narrowly averted other accidents on the trip out from and drove all ths way Those Injured received their hurts when squeezed between the street car and the other tore off the handles of the street the brackets flying through the windows of the bus sending glass in all di- rections They are Mrs S Mrs J L 337 Calumet Mrs B 234 Detroit street and 434 Freeand West mond No one was Injur ed Other passengers were M B 53 Doty Harry Gerber Summer street and Mrs Wilson manager of the E C Co Passengers say that driv narrowly escaped a smash at street and South Chicago and at 100th and Ewing ave He was stopped and warned for his reckless by a policeman at and avenue The bus was south bound on field avenue and attempted to pass bus going in the same A north street car was approaching bus be- came jammed between the two Thousands at Roby Race Track Horrified When Accident Occurs Edward of Indiana Har- one of the most daring and at the same time one of the cleanest auto race drivers Calumet region was fatally injured day afternoon at tha Roby way on the lant lap in which foui cars were desperately foi place Urink died this ing at St Margaret's hospital The crash came on the south turn within a quarter-mile ot tho In the third race of the after- noon Of tha six cais which ed were wrecked and three finished LED ON LAP Brink was leading on the last lap Pressing him closely was Urban In No 15 and them came Nichols and in cars 22 respectively On the turn ban passed Urink Kone of the machines to slacken for he turn as top speed might mean tory Then Brink's car skidded end rolled over Nichols flipped his aside and went over the New man following was unable 1 o see Brink's car because of the dust and tne under car the EAST ST Aug striking railroad surviving the gun battle here Saturday night in which two men were killed faced murder charges this morning in the death of A E night foreman at the Terminal Railway shops here who was attacked by fife men shot and killed Hosea V Nable and critically wounded James an- other of the attacking party Callahan is in the city pital at St Louis LOUISVILLE Aug As a protest against the use of armed guards at railway tions and along the a strike call effective at noon day was issued here to 300 firemen on the Lexington division of the Louisville Nashville Railroad this morning by W G general chairman of the union of the division STRIKE SITUATION Threats of New Walkouts and Burning of Wichita Falls Shops KANSAS Mo Aug Threats of new a of the burning of a bridge in combined to give the railroad situation In the southwest a turn today Members of the Big Four broth after meeting In Parsons to discuss the question of walkout on the Kansas decided to remain at thel posts pending a conference of union officials with rail heads at St Loul tomorrow Big Four men also me at Waco and Has but declined to make any state ments Railroad and civic authorities ar investigating the origin of a fir which late last night destroyed the Wichita Texas shops The loss was well The origin of the fir could not be determined Traffic on the Missouri Pacific between and Pueblo was tied up by a strike locomotive who quit wor because they said the road's ment was not safe Two passenger trains were and others con- The bridgo on the Frisco road across the Sac river In between Springfield and Ash was dynamited crash came SHOCK TOO GREAT He was taken to the hospital hore It was found that his right was broken in two places and is left was crushed above the The shock was too great nd he died early this morning Yesterday's races drew the tt crowd of the season Thirty cars appeared at the grounds a dozen seeing the lon they were up against refused i enter the Even then there ere more machines entered than ad featured previous races There Mere two five mile races ach for light and heavy cars The of these were to be pitted n the twenty-five miles windup The Ford race was won by Wenneston of Chicago with of Hammond coming in The time was 5 seconds This was the fastest of the cay PREMIER TAKES FIRST The first heavy car race was won by Dick Seip of Chicago n his Premier Domka nd The time was 6 38 -5 seconds The second Ford race In which hs fatal accident was won by Urban and took second The time was 5 and 33 seconds The second bis car race went to Earl Warrlck of nd of took second The time was o cars left the track on the north turn at the start of the mile race A new start was made with seven entrants Urban took his race in 27 39 second In second and Ketcham bird Wenneston who grabbed and held the lead for fifteen burned out his engine and had to quit POINT Joseph Patton Dies in California at the Age of 88 TO THE POINT Aus CROWN Joseph Patton former resident of Aug 14 Temporary injunctions re- straining striking railroad em- ployes from interfering with the operation of trains and from were granted by Judge Francis E sitting in federal court here on petitions filed by the Nickel the Milwaukee and St Paul and the Bedford and Terre Haute railroads Ky Aug trainmen and members of the on the berland Valley and all switchmen in the local yards of the and Nashville walked out here at ten o'clock The ber of men affected may reach according to officials of the road Ind Aug The Kistelman Fence employing 600 was ed today because of coal shortage and several other factories here announced they have less than a week's coal on hand 10 MO IE LYERS DIE Youth Is Drowned In Clay Pit TO THE LANSING AUS to wlm and eliding from a post on he was into water arely over his Seymour drowned yesterday in the abandoned clay pit ich of yard SO of the Illinois Brick at Gouwens resided on the oad between Bernice and Oak len He and a friend to the clay It yesterday afternoon for a was astride a ling around in water tho friend saw him last A hort time later he noticed the post on the but Gouwens ad disappeared As he was a poor rhe friend ran to or aid In the meantime people of hs learning of the rownins gathered at the pit Not where the boy had gone own they started In the ecp water with fishing tackles The it la said to be ninety feet deep t places While this was In progress Hugh louat and James Henderson of Lansing walked to the pit to swim hey saw the crowd but supposed hey were merely The boys the water and swam twice cross the pit before they learned f the drowning Mouat who is an swimmer and at once tarted a search He entered thj hallow water and had waded only a short distance when he found he body work was on for some but had been in the water too ong The drowning occurred at about 4 o'clock and It was fully an hour before the body was recovered Famous English Editor Dies This Morning Both Sides Turn Down Final Offers of ment t INTERNATIONAL NEWS probe WM under way here by District At- toner Joseph to whether or not the of trains re railroad WM die to conspiracy It WM will b for MM pressed H speedily M possible Department of for a Jury inquiry Bute re ly tlM op today except the coast Wo were Tla the Union M of oa NEWS NEW Aug private stats lary and railroad officials today are investigating the bombing of a West Shore passenger train last night In Northern J Three were thrown against the speeding toward hawken The bombs exploded against the sides of the cars The being of withstood tho but many windows wero shattered and scores of passengers were injured by bits of glass The taw persons nearby when the occurred said that they saw a motor car ailed with men from ths scene Ball officials declare that strike threw the bombs Union leaders the dead and point to the fact that in the past tho mies at unions have done weird things to unions in the minds of the public By F CORRESPONDENT I N Aug Charles William the greatest er Great Britain has ever produced nd one of the most powerful un- official political personages in died this morning at o'clock at his town residence in Carlton Gardens He was seven years old on the 15th of Jub The end was peaceful The ow was at the bedside The official bulletin did not give the cause of death It that it was caused by ing from a throat This poison Impregnated the blood the vital principally the heart A previous bulletin had stated that the membranous Ing of the cavities of the heart had become Lord was unconscious a great deal of time before his death Lord illness of comparatively brief duration He was brought home from to die in his own home on his native soil FOR LAKE CD JEWS NEWS Aug H Lieu E of McCook overseas and William Stonebreaker civilian pilot e ployed at the same met death early when the plane they were testing for plunged to the ground and burst into flames Both bodies burned beyond recognition and badly were strapped to the scat In the machine They had been in the air about fifteen minutes when the crash came The cause has not been There Is no glass made that is too for the eye We carry only one best S ITT State street Hammond Adv Crown but for a number of years residing at Inglewood died at his home there on last day A telegram announcing the death reaching his relatives here that morning The deceased was eighty-eight years of age and for many years was one of the county eer living on East street His death was due to complications arising from old Three grown children besides a wife survive him Mrs Edward Mrs Win and Mrs Samuel all of this city Mr Patton was a veteran of the civil going through that campaign with signal honors with the exception of Mrs Nicholas of was the only surviving ber of a family of sixteen children The remains will be brought to Crown Point for the funeral arrangements being delayed until such time as they arrive I E Kennal of New arrested by I H B special Is thought to be He gives evidence being subject to the dope habit CONSUMER'S GROCERS AT NEW LOCATION The old The Consumer's Wholesale who have ben successfully operating a chain of stores in Illinois and ana opened branch 35 at Bast State street on a wholesale Idea of selling from producer to thris wholesale string of stores have saved many housewives quite a few dollars in the purchase of the sary commodities for the table Th's being their store in mond shoys that tho original store at 540 Hohman street has patronized and that the people of this have a great deal of con- In the bargains offered ly iby this company The opening saw many advantage of tihe opening sale prices and goods are being dally from the H E former agent at Burnham of the fickle has accepted the Hammond agency succeeding P who leaves for Chicago to accept the city senger agency there Lake county Jews have joined in i arranging a big to celebrate and commemorate the event which has made happy the people of that all over the foral ratification of the Palestine mandate by the League of Nations Tho triumphant ing will be held on August at the K of P hall at 8 o'clock In the evening Leonard J noted cago lawyer and who is president of the Raman I O B of will be speaker of the evening He will explain in detail the terms of the mandate and show how it will affect the ment of Palestine He will take up in detail the problem of the of the Holy Land and dis- cuss the various plans as suggested at the recent con- vention at I Ruman and I who were the gates to the Philadelphia tion from Lake will give their report speakers will also take up various angles of the new questions that must be solved in advancing the great Ideal of a Jewish nation in Carl of will pre- side as chairman Mrs Milton wife of Dr of East will render a vocal A of will perform on the violin and other Interesting events will form the social entertainment for the evening Patriotic songs will be participated in by the entire Refreshments will be served This event is expected to bring out the biggest gathering of Jews of Lake county that have ever All organizations In Lake county are lending their assistance to arouse the interest necessary The meeting will start promptly at 8 o'clock BT GEORGE R HOLMES CORRESPONDENT I N WASHINGTON Aus ing at the cross roads of action and surveying tha wreckage of in all a growing number of administration officials held tbe conviction today ly the federal government will ba compelled to take over the nation's great railroad systems If the public to escape acute fering this winter Hope for a peaceable adjustment of the railroad now in Its seventh week and broadening in Its only by the eat of the threads today This thread was represented by the con- presence In Washington of the leaders of Bie Four who have undertaken to mediate the difference between the roads and the strikers of tbe six federated LEFT CAPITAL The railway executives have left the after turning down two offers of proposed by President the other by the they left a deep cloud of behind them Their determined stand on the contentious and all-Important Ques- tion of seniority rights for the strikers apparently was no way by thirty-six hours of con- tact with President of his and with the strike leaders themselves The executives left Washington with assertions that they can op- orate their trains without the of the striking and In face of the danger of sympathetic suspension of the par of engineers trainmen and conductors Labor remained In ington with assertions that it is for the railroads to contend they can carry on tions with dissatisfaction in all classes of railroad labor LOOK TO WHITE HOUSE And there the situation rested the beginning ot the seventh with both sides apparently looking to the White House for any continuation of efforts at peaceable adjustment Congress will be back In full working array tomorrow and a meeting of the cabinet will be held Prior to the adoption of any de- line of It is confidently expected in tome quarters that the president will go to congress with a on the railroad tion before the week Is out Several irons are in the fire for the promotion of a golf match at the Hammond Country Club for i ber Including Walter Hagen first American to win the British Open Golf and Joe Australian Open pion and fancy shot expert There is no doubt that such a match would be of incalculable to the Hammond club These at present eriaged in a world are among the best golfers In the world Hagen defeated the pick of the British as well as the best when be the British Open this year wood Is a star of the first ing competed In almost every big snatch with credit to himself Ho Is a great drawing card through ills trick golf performing ingly impossible feats with club and balL The Golf Feature which Is managing tho tour of these stars has offered the date to the mond club The consideration will be the only and several plans are already under way to raise tho necessary sum One plan Is to have a large main office so that the people will bcr of mcn th balance of take advantage of this sale ORAK SHRINE 1 NOTICE Members of Orak are requested to attend the business session at i the temple Monday Aug 14th at p m Members of the patrol and drum and bugle corps especially wanted as I have Im- portant news for them DOt Potentate rom club members for the event The other Is to charge sion and admit the public There Is little question about the NEWS Aug The coal strike will be settled by Wednesday and production on a large scale cording to confidential advices reaching government officials Everything looks favorable for a settlement within the next 43 hours between the operators and miners at the Cleveland said a telegram received today by a cabinet o BULLETIN NEWS Aus 14 tions this were that the conference on German Indemnity was on the verse of a breakdown Tlie British French and Belgium premiers met Just before but were unable to break the deadlock The British cabinet was immediately summoned into session to consider tlu possibility of fresh counter proposals champions being able to a huge crowd Golf enthusiasm is waxing In this and the monitors of the club alone will support the fair strongly to put it across There will bo a meeting at the Country Club tonight of several men to ways and means of securing tho match NEWS Ky Aug 14 Twelve men were alive In small mine near ten mlU'S from here last according to word received here by messenger early this ing There is no telephone con- with the camp and de- tails were unavailable BULLETIN NEWS Aug 14 JacK Dempsey looking a perfect ture of arrived In cago today to close the final of his match with In on Labor Day v Articles and the posting of forfeits will be signed later In tbe day BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SOUTH Aug Mrs William C of was killed this morning when an driven by Louis of this was struck by Grand Trunk No 6 NEWS Aug 14 committees of the an- operators and miners will meet In Philadelphia to renew discussions of the differences that have tied up hard coal production since April 1st The date been tentatively set but there will be no change unless President John L of the mine requests 1C NOTED LAWYER DEAD NEWS CHICAGO Aug vy one of Chicago's most noted was found dead this morning in his suite In the stone Hotel Mr Mayer was a ber of the law firm of Austrian anl Platt Mr Mayer was reputed to be a He owned the Stratford hotel and was also a heavy stockholder in both the Blackstone and Congress hotels Word of the famous lawyer's death was flashed to the office of Coroner Peter M Hoffman A cor- physician immediately was sent to the hotel for an autopsy The body was found on floor of his room It was clothed In his night garments Mr had been stricken after he had arisen from possibly to Keek aid for a BUdden illness Mr Mayer wag born in October 1853 He moved with his parents to this city where he graduated from high later entering Yale as a special student and taking up work in the law de- Mr Mayer's most famous legal fight of years was his attempt t knock out the eighteenth amendment on the ground that it was unconstitutional Mr Mayer began his active tice In law in 1812 and he soon won an enviable reputation as a corporation attorney For years he had represented the largest ations In the country He formed the Pan-American Commission oration and the Great Lakes Trans- it corporation He assisted in tho consolidation of a number of banks into the present Continental and Commercial National bank For years he was general counsel for this institution He also represented Swift group of defendants In the famous packers hearing In 1912 The firm of Mayer Austrian and Platt of which Mr was senior occupies offices more than feet of space The firm employes half a hundred assistants and clerks and a law library of volumes
