The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-14
RAIMMON[)'S 8
MAYOR TAKES
NEW ACTION
Hammond, Gary and {, Chicago
ReVeIeTS and JoyTideTs To
Be Protected No Long
eT" Says Mayor.

Mayor J. D. Smalley of Ham
mond after a series of conferences
with his police board over the
situation in No Mans Land across
the state line-otherwise known IS
''Burn-em" has determined to fight
it with new deterrent-publicity.
In this crusade he is promised
the cooperation of every police
chief and policeman in the Lalu-
met region. Alter being turned
down by the Cook county sheriff.
Hammond's executive expects the
aid of Gary, East Chicago and
Whiting in the fight.
TO FIGHT TRAFFIC ON GoSTLIN ST.
Mayor Smalley does not expect to cr.
the Burn-em resorts, which shame PEI
for their viciousness cut CT business,
but he proposes to stop tho traffic to
and from the places as far as Indiana Ia
concerned and turn the white and plti-
less light of publicity on all persons ar
rested in connection with any violation
of city ordinances on the highways
leading from "Burn-em'' or to it.
The Hammond police. driven to des-
peration by the increasing orgies along
Gostlin street to vice highway across
the state line where the Mann act is
violated every day. have all been called
in and the something doing" sign hung
up.
The most shocking reports come to
the Hammond police station. Early
last Sunday morning young woman
absolutely nude was driven in a high
class car with three men from Burn
ham east on Gostlin street in the direc-
tion of East Chicago. Before the police
motor squad could reach the street the
car had disappeared. Mayor SmalIey is
appalled, at the insidious march of vice
in Hammond and neighboring cities due
to the presence of the Burn-em district
CHIEF HAS LONG LIST OF NAMES.
His detectives have furnished him
with the names of sons and daughters
of some of the leading families in Ham
mond East Chicago and Gary who slip
across the state line to indulge in
carousals-
1OlICCiN6n ana IESluG1lS along Ire
street have seen these young people
piled with liquor return home in the
early morning hours in speeding autos
and shouting at the tops of their voices
and it has been determined to at least
put an end to the practice. They will
protect society people" no longer.
MAYOR MAKES NO BONES ABOUT IT
Ny Investigations" said Mayor
Smalley. "astound me. These young
men from Gary. East Chicago and Ham
mond can be arrested for Mann act vio-
lations 1 am determined to make Cost
lin street something else besides the
pathway to hell We are going to make
arrests and we will refuse to shield any
one. If there is any rowdyism or speed
ing on Gostlin street. or singing. we are
going to make arrests by the whole
sale We will build new Jail if the
one we have isn't big enough to hold
the ordinance sfolators. The police will
furnish tho newspapers of the four
cities in the region with the name and
address of every person arrested. I
won't spare my own relatives
SEASON OPENS IN PULL BLAST.
With the opening up of the summer
season Burn-em is fiourishing like a
green bay tree II IS estimated that
fully 1900 autos from Chicago and tho
cities of the Calumet region visited No
Mans Land last Saturday night Fully
a thousand Of them returned via Cost
lin street on Sunday morning The
scenes along the street on these morn
ing-after hegiras are reported to the
police to be indescribable.
Mayor Sma1ey says he will fight the
evil with publicity.
This is his last warning.