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1ST TOTAL I HAL ESTIMATES Secretary of Treasury-Mc Adoo Submits His Annual Report to Congress at Noon Today fBf-LLETIV.") (By X'nlted IrM. WASHIXGTOX, Dee. 4. Legislative proposal. Intended to anatter the blgh rout of Ilvlngr marked the reopening of conarre today. Representative Kitgerald of w York, leader of the embargo forces In. traduced four plana two of them calling for food export embargo, the other two for regulation of cold storage and for reduction ot parcel post charges on food. ' Representative Fair of Pennsylvania, proposed an embargo on wheat and Representative London of Sew A'ork, a socialist, worked on measure propos. ina- a Virtual food dictatorship, with an Incidental food eiport ban. Conx-reasmea from Industrial centers, favored the price control, plan. Representatives of the farming districts wsiled against the WU and threaten, ed munitions embargoes if they are molested In their prosperity. By Talted Press.) "WASHINGTON'. D. C. Dec. 4. It will take 11,651.819.654.03 to run the government of the United States from June 30. 1017. to June 30, 191S. This is the eetimate of the heads of the various branches of the government of the country submitted to congress today through Secretary of th Treaiury MeAdoo. Of this grand total of more than a Continued on page t mo. VERV LATEST im'ES NEWS WT I Med Press Cablegram.) ' ATHESS, De. 4. Eight batteries f Held artillery will be delivered to the allies as soon as a protocol haa been formally drafted between the government and Admiral Do Fernet la drawn op. Those in t -jh with the palace today said ' "jWf relations have been re. ' between the allied com mander Vice Amlral Da Fournrt and the Greek g-overnment. (By rnrted "Press Cablegram.) 'COPESHACCT, Dec. 4, German artillery has already begun bombardment of Bucharest from a range of eleven miles, the newspa. per, national Tlndendes. declared la dispatch, from Berlin today. Tr. dispatch assertn ' the German a""!Y'.''1 their p on Roucapital Sunday. WEATHER. . I nsettled this afternoon and tonight, with probably fight showers. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler. Moderate fresh southwest shifting to west winds. TO RULE HAWAII'S MOTOR DEFENSE Brig. Gtn. Charles G. Treat. Brig. Gen. Charles G. Treat, th new commander of the U. S. land forces in Hawaii, is now on his way to the islands and will carry into execution elaborate plans for the improvement and extension of all the io3ds cr. Cahu.

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SICK IN ENDS HIS OWN LIFE Tired 'of lifs because of his i!l health Nicholas Kanchlns. 32 years old. ended his life yesterday morning at his boarding house. 1606 Washington street, Gary. Kanrhins left a note saying his health was bad and he didn't care to live any longer. He willed his valuables to his boarding house landlady, Anna Bodnar. Kanchin's remains were taken to the Williams end Marshall morgue. ODOFELLOiS BIG SUCCESS Lake County Odd Fellows Flock to East Chicago Where Indiana Grand Master I. 0. O. F. Gives a Splendid Address. I.st night at the First Methodist church at East Chicago. Dr. A. A. Spears, of Braiil. Ind., grand master of the Odd Fellows of Indiana, gave the address of the evening, which consisted largely of an exposition of the relations of the principles of Odd Fellowship to those of the Church of Christ. The auditorium of the church was filled to its utmost seating capacity and the speaker held the rapt attention of his audience from the beginning to the close of his address. He asserted that the order was based upon the great principles of friend(Contlnued on page two.) WOMAX says she dressed for a party in 10 minutes and liii: .; --.-:. seconds Jt"DGIN"G from what we saw at the party we wonder WHAT delayed her. ISN'T it Just dear that the loudEpeaking etump speakers are HAVING such a grand rest? CKRTAINX.Y is a fast day and generation we're living in HERD'S a couple engaged for 30 years who were married a couple of days ago. NOT all eggs are 40c the dor. VIDE the carp's! A DODDERING old man named Cotton SAID "the dance of the devil's begotten" A YOUNG girl who stood by SAID "Don't mind that old guy. TO the pure rotten." almost everything's SOMEHOW' or other, we wonder why, whenever "we pass a mail box w? ALWAYS fiddle and feel around in our coat pocket for a letter. THE Zeppelins are doing poor work NOT hitting nearly so many old women and hospitals as they used to. EVEN the old standby salt-horse and cabbage is getting scarce MASSIL.LON. O., Independent carries this ad ,. "WANTED man to drive laundry wagon and two girls" THAT Ohio is a cruel and unusual state. STEAMERASHORE . (By I'nlted Press.) ALfiOMA, WIS.. Dec. 4. The Goodrich lake steamer Carolina, is ashore off the clay banks, about ten miles north of here. She went aground during a fosr. The crew is In no danger. There were no passengers aboard.

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THINGS FIB III HAMMOND? Subpoenas for Giles Warner and Martin Linz to Answer Question. Who has been "fixed"? This la a question that City Judge Barnett and Chief of PoliceAustgeh of Hammond want answered. In the city court this , morning. Jacob Gruener Jr.. appearing on "a charge of having kept a gambling device in his saloon on Sheffield avenue, told Judge Barnett that slot machines had been put in his place by Giles "Warner and Martin Linz. "They told me it was all right and that they had things" fixed," said Graener. "I will continue this case until Saturdayx morning and issue subpoeneas for Giles Warner and Martin Linz," announced the court "I want to know who has been fixed." OfTiecr James Trost who arrested Gruener stated that the latter had a large slot machine and a small one in his place. Officer Lute tes'tified that Officer Warner and himself had played the machines. Gruener admitted having the machines in his saloon. CAPTAIN'S BRIDE SPENDS E Romantic Winter Ahead of Couple Married on Thirty Minutes' Notice. A honeymoon spent amid the creaking of chip's wlndlesses, the sound of steam chiping hammers, and the smell of fresh red lead is in prospect for Captain William B. Leith and his bride, who was Miss Sarah Gould of 1818 West Superior street. The good ship Barge C of the Standard Oil Company Is, being held up for the winter in the canal, and Captain Le'th, as befits a master mariner, is standing by the craft while navigation remains closed. Also is the new "Mrs. Leith, who is as interested in things nautical as her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Leith were married at Crown Point Friday after a thirtyminute telephone notice upon the barge's arrival in port. E TO LAFAYETTE IS Zr.nager Clarre Rhoads of Pine Village Signs' Up for Game. Hammond will not load up for Pine Village when the two football clubs play at Lafayette Sunday, it was announced by the management of the Clabbys today. The same line-up to a man that began the game against Cincinnati will be used. A special train beefing the team and fans will leave at 8:30 over the Monon for Lafayette Sunday morning and re turn shortly after 10 o'clock in the evening. Seats In the section reserved for the Hammond rooters will bp placed on sale at Monnett's Tuesday together with return trip tickets at $2 each. This makes the entire cost of the trip, not including meals. $3. Manager Rhoads. the eccentric millionaire owner of the Fine Village team, wa3 in Hammond Saturday night and signed up for the game at Lafayette. The traveling passenger agent of the Monon signed up for the special train at the eame time. The winner of the game Sunday receives sixty percent of the net and the loser forty. MOVIE SPECTATORS ARE SPAT UPON Patrons of'DeLuxe theatre in Hammond were angered yesterday afternoon by some creature or creatures in the balcony who spat over the guard into the crowd below. It was done time and again. Refuse was thrown over the rail repeatedly and the ftpitting kept up for a period of twenty minutes. Other disgusting conduct was indulged In. Manager Michalstatter says he was unable after aa investigation to locate the offenders. K. OF C. NOTICE First degree and big lecturer's program tonight. Arrange for visit of Supreme Knight J. A. Flaherty

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OlFM OF CAPITAL MINENT German Officers in Berlin Wire less Say Morale of Roumanian Army Is Completely Broken BY CARL W. AC HERMAN (United Press ' Staff Correspondent.) HEADQUARTERS OF FIELD MARSHAL VON MACKENSEN, 50 KILOMETERS FROM BUCHAREST VIA BERLIN, wireless to Sayville, Dec. 1. German troops today were within ten miles of Bucharest and the Roumanian retreat is so precipate that German advance columns on Thursday and Friday, hotly pursuing them, lost touch with the German infantry backing them up. The slower moving infantry was unable to keep up with the advance" column in pursuit.' Officers all declare the morale of the Roumanian army is completely broken. It is not expected they will be able seriously to defend their capital. Field Marshal Von Mackfensen and General Von Falkenhayn. however, are taking no chances. Every road leading toward the Bucharest capital from the south, the west and the north is packed with German, Austrian-Hungarian and Turkish troops carrying al! equipment necessary for a siege of the city. The above dispatch puts the German force encircling Bucharest closer to their mark than had ben ever hinted! in official statements. United. Press Cablegram. "AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4. The Argus or Argesu river was reported in previous dispatches to have been the line adopted by the Roumanians south and southwest of Bucharest. . The lower reaches of the river are within a scant fifteen miles of the Roumanian capital. Roumanian statements have indicated the stoppage of the German assault at the more dangerous ps.rt of this river line that is, at the fifteen-mile point, but have tacitly admitted progress of the Teutons in the upper valley. Ackerman's dispatch was written Dec. 1. Since that time Russian officials have detailed a strenuous effort by Russian forces to stefn the tide of this advance. The point of the great menace to Bucharest was to the south and this is probably the section where Ackrman's dispatch puts the Germans within ten miles of Bucharest. Tho Russian statement of last night claimed retirement of the German-Bulgarian forces in this section after the defeat and capture of the allied, forces of prisoners and booty, including at least 26 guns. In the lisht of Ac'vcrmmn's dispatch intli ..ng that t;t Uermnu advance skirmishers we -3 pursuing the Ro'jrtanians so hotly thut they lost their con'.act with the infant'y forces backing them, the Russian victory becomes more apparent. , Presumably It was this advance skirmish gu"ard upon which Russian and Roumanian troops inflicted defeat, probably because of the very fact they lacked infantry backing. FORMER ROSS MAN James F. Bothwell Called by Death at His Home Yesterday. James Fremont Bothwell, 6Q years old. husband ofMrs. Clara Bothwell. 316 Johnson street. Hammond, passed away Sunday morning at 8:25 o'clock at the family residence. He leaves a wife, one son. William of Hammond, and two brothers and one sister to survive. Funeral will be held at 1 o'clock from the late home at Hammond Wednesday and services will be at his former home, Ross . Station church at 2:30 o'clock. Interment being made Sn the family lot at Ross cemetery. Williams and Marshall, undertakers, of Gary being in charge.

Victim Tells of , Shooting After ' . Wound IS Dressed. "I am certain the fellow fired seven shots," said George Robbins, of Manilla avenue, one of the jurors impannelled in Judge Hardy's court. Mr. Robbins was the first orre to lay hands on Inik to disarm him. "A number of us jurors were in the jury room when we heard the first two shots. I looked out of the door and saw Lew De Bow approach Inik. He was walking wist in the corridor. Inik watched him and when Lew De Bow stepped up to him he fired three times. Inik had his back turned to me and I jumped on him reaching over his shoulder for his gun hand. I grabbed his wirst, but it was so big around, I could not get a good hold of it. He stooped and I bent over with him. I tried to keep his,, gun pointed toward the floor but he was too strong. He managed to twist his hand and he fired. The first shot missed my head. The second shot followed. I don't remember that it hurt. I finally got the best of him and - other jurors came to iny assist ance .to help subdue the man." , . GARY IAN IS KILLED VALPARAISO. IND., Pec. 4. Jan Preis, age 34 years, and a Russian, only lately discharged from the steel mills. was almost instantly killed shortly before 9 o'clock last evening when a Valparaiso-bound Gary & Interurban car struck him, the full force of the blow being received in the face. The accident happened almost at the same place where the young man was struck last Sunday and about the same reasons are given for the accident. According to the motorman of the car, Cotterman, the weeds have been allowed to grow up very high about the right of way in that vicinity. Preis was not between the two rails when struck, but right at the edge of the left rail, and the edge of the swiftly moving car strtrck him full in the face, knocking the Jaw to pieces. He 'was immediately placed aboard the car and rushed toward the city, but died on the way and waa taken to the undertaking parlors of Bartholomew. DEATH OF WELL KNOWN LADY (Special to The Time?) LOWELL JND., Dec, 4. Mrs. C. C. Pattee, who has been in very poor health for the past year or more died at her home in Lowell Friday night at the age of 73 years. She has lived in Lowell and vicinclty nearly all her life and was well known all over the 'southern part of the county. She was a member of the Lowell M. E. church and since Joining the church when a young woman has lived a Christian life in the fullest sense. She leaves to mourn her death her husband and one son. one daughter, one sister and a large number of relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at her late home on Washington street yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock and they we're attended by a large number of sorrowing relatives- and friends who gathered to pay their last respects to a woman they had loved and respected in life. Rev. V. B. Servies, pastor ot the M. E. church here preached the funeral sermon. Interment was made in the Lake Prairie cemetery THIEVES BUSY Jacob Kasper reported to the police that burglars entered hia residence in 293 State street, and stole a revolver, two diamond studs and other articles of value. Seventy-five pounds of fish was stolen from an ice box in the Chas. Stowman saloon. WARNS , AUTQISTS Chief of Folice' Austgen today issued a warning to Hammond automobiiists to take better care that the lights on their machines are on when darkness falls each evening. H states that motorists are becoming rary careless and arrests will be made.

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Hammond's Biggest Sensation Rouses Community to Need of More Caution Willi Demented, Grazed Whiting Man Commits Terrible Crime In Corridor of Hammond Courthouse.

A "harmless' ' crank, tolerated by the community although he showed every evidence of being insane, today attempted the lives of judges and attaches of the superior court in Hammond and succeeded in wounding Charles E. Greenwald, who sits on the bench in room No. 3; Lerrf DeBow, a bailiff of room 2, and George Robbins, a juror. None of the men is fatally injured. Mike Inik, of Whiting, who did the shooting, ha3 on his person

i. iUUl jcvwvcib, a saore, a nammer, a butcher knife, a black jack, an iron hook and a hun dred and sixty-five rounds of ammunition. He was dressed from head to foot in a suit of galvanized iron covered by ordinary street clothes. Using two of the magazine guns he fired seven shots before he was overpowered, and held until the police came to place him under arrest. Judge Charles Greenwald had just cursed Inik as a nuisance and 'ordered iim to go back to Whiting and "take a bath," when the insane'man opened fire. The first shot, evidently intended for Prosecuting Attorney Tatterson. whom Inik appeared to especially dislike, missed that official by inches and struck Judge Greenwald in the fleshy part of his right arm. Greenwald was not five, feet from Inik. He ran through the door leading into the clerk's office and, aiding Cora Anderson and Martha Kalas into the vault, closed the iron door. Patterson escaped into a room to tbe right on. the west side of the corridor. Two shots went wild. Inik then fired upon Bailiff DeBow, who had been attracted to the door of jury room Xo. 2. DeBow was shot in the hip and sustained wounds on the scalp and wrist. George Robtins, a juror, rushed to overpower the maniac and after forcing the latter to the floor received a bullet in the face which left'flesh wounds across the nose and right cheek. It is believed that the burden ot the armor and the cumbersome weapons which Inik carried Interfered with his aim and was alone responsible In preventing him from committing wholesale murder, as appears to have been his intention.

jujuicu itu jean tfcu uy a lan ircm a scanoid at the Standard Oil company's plant in Whiting, for which he received a judgment of $1,600. Imk displayed evidence of being.unsound metally when he not only refused to cash the check but persisted in the belief that the case was still in court, even, after his guardian, Fred Smith, made a settlement at the order of the court. His Imagined grievance against the courts has rankled in Inik's min.l ever since. For the past month he had been almost a daily visitor at th superior courthouse and' the patience of officials had been utterly exhausted, Xo one thought him to be dangerous, however. Early today Inik came to Hammond loaded for bear. How he concealed his military equipment Is a mystery. It was a mixture of medieval and modern fighting paraphernalia. The galvanized armor suit had a bre-ar. plate, a back covering and shin guards. Inik first visited Prosecutor Patterson in the latter's office. He i.V. on the table before that official a bundle of documentary data concerning men killed and injured at the Standard Oil company's plant in Whiting. Inik wanted Patterson to prosecute the Standard Oil company, and tba&Jiad been the theme of many a previous interview. "I haven't any time for you this morning," Patterson told him. "I'm too busy." ' The next official Inik waited on was Judge Reiter, who dismissed him as Patterson had. Reiter attempted to present a petition. Court adjourned for the noon recess and Inik remained in the building. He approached Judge Greenwald in the corridor a few minutes after 1 o'clock. There were jurymen in the hall and ante-rooms, the clerks were at their work and .- number of witnesses were waiting to testify in cases. Judge GreenwaJu stood near the door leading to the clerk's office. 4 Inik had spread out the dacuments he carried and the judge, thoroughly exasperated with the fellow, "bawled him out" in no uncertain terms. Patterson walked up and began to look over a typewritten petition which Inik had laid on the shelf at the clerk's window. Greenwald had started for his courtroom and, seeing Patterson talking to Inik, turned and retraced his steps. "Don't pay any attention to him," Patterson cried. It was then that Inik produced a thirty-eight caliber revolver and fired point blank at Patterson. The bullet missed the prosecutor and struck Greenwald in the fleshy part of his right arm. As Greenwald and Patterson ducked out of range, Inik whipped the revolver to the north side of the corridor and fired the shots that might have cost Lew DeBow his life had any one of them gone an inch to the left. George Robbins, an auto liveryman in Hammond, who was serving on a criminal jury, rushed out and grapple1 with Inik, receiving the wound across his face. . , Henry Meyer, Staley Donaha of Crown Point, and Charles Kenning o? Lowell, were jurymen who helped to overpower and hold Inik while F. O. Coleman of. Crown Point, called the police. Officers Einsele acd Bun-Jo made the arrest. DeBow and Robbins were taken to St. Margaret's hospital. Dr. J. A. Graham operated on DeBow, extracting the bullet, and Robbins was able to leave the hospital a short while later.

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