Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 230, Hammond, Lake County, 12 March 1917 — Page 1

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U. Will install New Eleclrical Inventions, Possibly Will be Smoke Screens, By CABL GKOAT (United Press Sts-ff Correspondent.) u-SH1(;Tiv. I. C. March 12. The "armed guar.i" fv-r FniKd States ships j v. i;l be the American navy Kinini-rs. j The official statement shows too that it is the intention cf the sovrrmm nt to j prra, not onlv passensvr steamers but) t also to provide guns and nai y gunners for munition ships. The statement to the foreign diplomats declared up definitely the question of whether navy gunners would -be used. The state department holds that the presence of these aboard will not give the vessel the status of warships. The vessel becomes a worship only when used definitely for purpose, the deI artment ruled. The stat department held that re(ContlnueiJ on p.ise two.i HOBY FISH DINNER RESULTS IN DEATH ! Auto Party Conies to Grief in Chicago 1 Dead; 2 Injured. A Ttoby fish dinner took snother toll cf dead and dying yesterday. Followinga trip to a fish resort at the lake Miss Wavey Anderson. .12 years old, 2911 Broadway, was klied and two other women injured yesterday -when n automobile owned and driven by Jeremiah Galvin, a saloonkeeper at 2To0 Broad -way , crashed into tie- retaining wall of the concrete brilge on tin: outer drive in l.thcoln par:--.. Th Injured were: Mrs. I"1I Krftiinnnn, 2: years o'd, 1218 Grace street; left ler brokn; cut and bruised about body. Ml. Anna I. Wilson, 41 years M, S52 Melrose street, a widow; right sho'ilJar fractured; head, face and body cut and bruised. NOTICE TO READERS. At the request of the TTalted States Oovernmeat THE TIMES newspapers today and tintil per. tnltted to the contrary, place the melves under a aelt - Im posed censorship and refrain from printing1 news of ateamboat arrivals and departures; all a renin? of ships and all movements of ships at any port whatever. This patriotic service tt publishers of THE TIKES gladly render notwithstanding the fact that President Wilson has no authority whatever over the press.

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Douglas W. Petit (above) and Graham Bullen. Douglas W. Petit, son of one of Milwaukee's richest men, is on his vay to France, where he will serve as an American ambulance driver on the fields where his ancestor. Field Marshal Petit, was; ranked only below Marshal Ney in the army of the jrreat Napoleon. With him has pone Graham Bullen, also of Milwaukee. STATE W I iam rn en pro'r ihitiori W f '.' -'lll 1 tic an-1 woman's ? advent ot suffrage in hi w h'-n an n w ho ti'.'rd Indiana j rsterday a ud ie n -e of rn en a ; : t e mo' 1 -ore the auditorium of the First Methodist church applauded to the echo an address by Mrs. Ctilla J. Va h'nK-er, stale president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Fr. ion and leader of eci'ia! f ra neh ise ad cn.-a tes. 'Known an "the crentest wo-nai in Indiana," Mrs. Vay hintrer is toarinw the state in an aapeal for n a lion 1 e prohibition and t. uri;f the w omen t especially prepare themselves by courses of study for the use of the ballot. The W. C. T. F. has Issaed text books for the use of women oters. 'At the dose of the meet in tr y .- terdny sixty w omen apr.Iied for membership in tie local Woman's Christian Temperar.ee organization. Mrs. Vayhinrer told the an licine in case the Unite.l sutrj becomes involved in a desperate w-rr national prohibition wiil come as a nhiit.iry mea.su re. She spoke as follow!": "I would be less than human if I did not appreciate the kind words of the pastor this afternoon art I rim J equally reminded of the fact that it j is a Rreat tiien-.e. it is a Ki'eat aue, ',t-ni..li ha W. m .i ' t. C'J . ,- t- t rl . . . .. ane Fnion represents: it is no man, it is no woman in the work, but it is a cause we started out to espouse, a cause in which f he Lord Jesus Fiirist was interested, ami we took as our motto in the very beginning: "Not. by might, but in poaer and the &.ir spirit as was Me, the Ford e: Host." if.. iji;i'.i.;'.:s...- .r mmur' mm . - -.

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Lake County People Should j Seriously Consider Matter of Constitutional Convention Delegates to Be Chosen This Year. TIKES EUH.EAU, ! AT STATE CAPITA-. ! lXUIAXAI'uI.lS. I N I .. March 12. j W illi the constitutional oiiivmt ion cm-I ms hi. in;- rest thivuKlmut Indiana is j now lat'Kely entering on that i-vfiit as j being th-.i one that should and pruba bl v j w ill givo the people of the state more i concern in the next year than anything ' else. Although there is a general mu-i tin ipal campaign and rleiiuii on tins year all over the state and politicians i I i,: .-ill of the .! and towns will be deeply nit. rested in that subject, yet the framing of a new constitution for the state is of such gigantic importance to the entire public that many persons are giviiiK only a side glance at city and town tleetions while they study the constitutional Coin eiition proposition. It is pointed out by leading people of the state That it is the duly of every person in Indiana to give this subject careful stud;.", and especially In see to U that the right kind of men are, electe d .hp delegates to the coti i-nt ion. The election of delegates will be lold on liethird Tuesdny in next September. The convention will be b-Id in the hail of the house of representatives at the (Continued on page five.) BIG WELC "As I look down th's afternoon ;. mi r;i'le.-:s us they I of tiie women, my into m v a a a ! e r ee the :t-',e white a ai on t h ii breasts heart iioeS out in pra of i;..d f"r the ureat ortr.-. nUa- ,,, ..,..., Mwc in tiie woi id, or-j lized i 'i - ti ; 'ty-t u o co;;ntrb-s of hi-' I be, cii: r ilia: forty different depart-) m nts o w ork. every one of whb-h ha a deoartim then as I ; tee riOon 1; tiia.ir mai that itah minded thi little w h i times I l a nt for that work aloio-. ook into yo-ir faces thi S' ems to me there is And pei''r that indicit ate r'Ll'.t. .'.. llhOTO.ill as I ' r:bb,,m, of ni e a k ed (t : ;e n ' Tr.empii, I am ream at the n y, i ii a 1 1 y to join us m our reat nork ami t' I am : t. 1 in so that r. ally I have ra.t t! long in the Womeny C pf ranee Fnios..' Hit do have always sa hi to mj y say ;., nie, nanv thinns time o beris'ian T-tu-yo'i know I -If I haver, t time not to belong to tie Wune-n' Christian Temperance Fnion. Win d"ar w li i t a be ma k sler.s. do Vfc.i h-'iow il..ji litr'.. I bow makes a longer speed, and i M.r.-. 1. i.a.ia x coum poss 1 1, i y j that littlr whit.? how as irl chains on-your breasts spea Eri'tit cause: it speaks to liokeeper in your town as you wa to a loo idowi n the street, if. iciis him that Jon hate the liquor traffic, and that joil he, c the man who is crisap(.,j jn jt enoush to try to put him o:.t of the business: and as you wp.lk on down the street you meet the girl who has romp astray from the world of honor and love, but that little white b w tells her tha tinder it beats a heart that heats li (Continued on pace fwn.1 FRED" ON LAST MARCH :,. i . ..- t-J"i 1

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i -.v , n 52 If J i r ' f St '' VK Chicago Police Now Seeking Valentine Guerra and Everet Are ' Del1 Bur-1 get, Manufacturer, Who Testified It Inquest. i I Valentine 1 "el Guerra and Iter par-j amour, K. Bu-Ret. are said to have dis-j ! appeared, accordinic to Chicaso reports. I j A new chapter in the life of Miss pel . i Guerra. linkiii"; ii'-r more closely to; ! Fred I- JiiKKii.f, vi.-tim of the Ham- j , mond murder, in his role as automobile! thief, was revealed yesteidac by Her- j nciiiit John .1. McWayi.e of the l ntral ! detail station. j ' Jn March. FM." I was working ont j of tiie Ktmlewoo,) station," sai l Ser-,' Kea-if M.'W.iMi" yesterday. "' die nittiit, : at Sixty-third and Hals'ead streets, l' i-eenunre I an aiitoinold stolen from Attorney I .mis Co'un. we.-e four children, a In tin- niachine man and a wonia ud b 2 n ti.' h - an. 1 stopped the ca n A r the numbers, man started to "Ti 1 to. ma. hire and followed him. firing hull' I can eh t tlv man una dozen snoi der' a chicken c a p. lit Rave tae ! Ceorce Smith, and his address i'arnell avenue. ene was taken to tiie stall and ad .Continued on page toa TWO FAMILIES EViCTEO Bl FIRE 'Lawyers' Home Visited by j Flames in Hammond This Morning. Fire, tv Inch" it is believed had beeh smouldering betwej-n vails for sever- : al hours or was due to some form of! j combustion, broke out very suddenly in! ! two-flat brick dwelling in 833 Hohmsn ; I street, in Hammond, at half past seven; ; morninf, ! j he blaze appeared ouickly and j spread so rapidly th-t Mr?, loseph C. .ti ro y. v.-itc,i)t .y.'ornev . onr.., w u .-no. b-ft on aif early car .'or Valparaiso, wis rly overcona p. sV. j tjlP first floor apartment which th ! roys occupieu ami i. unu m-ium-home of Mr. and Mrs. Itavid Kirs-,;., next door. The owner of the buildir.tr, Mrs. Ida Porman, and her family lived in the upper fiat which was damaged mora byfire than the lower apartment. The damage to the buildine by fire is estimated at $."iU'i. while the loss to the occupants whose furniture and personal effects! were nearly all ruined by tire and wa- ! ter. is much greater than that. j The actual damage by fire was confined to the dining- rooms of the two (apartments and bedrooms. The cut glass. ! linens and laces belonging to Mrs. Conroy were destroyed. Mrs. Conroy bad trouble in getting: Rex, a pet dog out of the burning dining- room. The blaze having spread between floors and walls, the fire departments worked for more than a hour before firemen were satisfied it was entirely extinguished. The lire may have been due to a defective flue or to combustion of soot in the flue. The frame work of the coal bin. near tiie furnace and chimney, was Die i'.rst o. be at ' a "I..- I by the blaze.

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Scores Dla and Buried in Ruins o! Indiana City Today. Many Odd Pranks in Indiana Tornad Tr.e 9finu seemod to zig- tr.y through one stretch cf teirl'ory Alternate houses were wrec'-iac1.. Thoso left standing' didn't losa even a window. A pair of trousers were w hissed from one house near the resi-tenca of former Mayor Earnaru. Thtii.- owner found them, without a speci o' riit on them, and neatly tv;asi.i, 'xng-. ing ty th8 mspendar3 in ti;i too ;; j tre8 seveial liiocSs away. A main building vf the -il-r ;r.c light company crumbled "uv.f c. ::; nt-.- j of cards. Nearby a gri'yanHc s -.i-:;i- j staci. didn't lose a steadying v.irs. J i (Ey United Pros- Stuit Coi-resyoitt-ar.) NEWCASTLE, I.ND,, Mated 12. With 46 bodies already recovered search continued today for further dead in the wa.ke of the j cyclone which swept down on this city late yesterday destroying 500 homes and causing property damage estimated at more than a mil- ' lion dollars in this vicinity. It is believed many racp.: b-ivilc; i are in the ruins. Twenty are uv.;zI ing. - ' - - t Manufactur-insr p'atifrt were cloia d today, while workmen aided ;hrm c,:mPanics of militia and ! s,.e.'ial ri..;!.;rI men in lv-eaing guard are! tie j debris, strewn over a dis'rlc. . wide ami 15 miles h ue i' nJ ;ni!'-s I The cyclo-ie swept thrcuch ) dcni-e distri ct of ew Ca.-I'e an j a prosperous l'.:-ming coun'ry r 5il 1' puysi.-ians ana. nurses; from i.em iile.-r-ing towns took care of tiie . :-, , 1 ju improvised hospitals. Fifty v ere si icusly injured a!id 100 mora M'shii .- hurt. Martial Isw now exists in the sirieken distric. No on? ;.t pertr.i .te-l t j- ).s il; on rh excep- wi'n pmscs irmn tip; nnvor militia officers. f:erial reports of b iri were received but n one- wi3 1 by roiice or militia. treat suife-,-in. wn. r.- por'.-il tin; niv'h'.. Xi v .-oi cold .iii-l no t.r -r I '.'. ed i:l '.he bousi s or- s.funi, dancer cf starting a r'nilhicr Lights w.-r--! out and no water -ca -curabh! b a ause the waif.' main. i r,n : Vi-ei"' la 1 bi rsi. d. Til" 5-tc.rn: itself la.:." r):--. f- :1, .-econds to a minute, according to vii u s ' ill .-: 1 Miraculous escnpea and i eirJ ,iv;v: cnci'S wer. picn'iful. A vor.iaii fo the only tree jn a block that wr n blown down. Ora Smith was printhib.'. rn ir. It was torn .tf. ami carr in,: Smith with it landed in a pon Smith wilt j4 I ...-U.';' ' - W V AjoT 1

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