Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 233, Hammond, Lake County, 15 March 1917 — Page 1

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No Hews of Conference Will Be Given Out Until Parlies ill A"" I a I 1 1 1 1 (BTTLXETIU. ) CHICAOO. March 15. rive railroads nterlntf Chicago tcxiar placed em1or- i g-oes on live stock and perls liable sMpmenti tluit will not reach destination j before th time set for the strike orders. By TJaitefl Press. XKW TOKK, March 15- Directly opjVsite in mocds the brotherhood repi vientatives ready to fisht and the man agers ready to offer compromises the opposing factions in the grave crisis! confronting the railroads of the country, j went into conference at 11 :U0 today, j The brotherhoods, it is declared, are I prepared to force the eight hour dayissue and call the first section uf the strike at 6 p. m. Saturday. Realizing that the strength of the combined brotherhoods must be shown at this time, the representatives of the "Big Four" marched into the conference loom at the Grand Central terminal today and presented to the railway managers a resolution rassed at a recent meeting in Chicago giving the Brotherhood chiefs the right to call the strike. At 12:35 the mtin(f adjourned and tH -mfe-rtnij? ao vmt cat to lunch. W. G. I-ee of the Brotherhood faction, told newspaper men there will he nothing to give out until after 4 o'clock this afternoon, when an adjournment will be taken. A compromise on a basis of raise in usees, but with no reference to the eii-ht hour feature of tl men's de mands, may be offered by th- managers. 1- was not thought probable, nowever, that the men would agree to such arrangements because of the fact that one of 'he most important features of their demands is the shortened day. The Brotherhoods, according to gossip around conference headquarters, are in the final stages of their demands. T'nless they force the railway heads immediately to make concessions, railroad i.rpcials believe, they must face the prospect of seeing a split in tli-ir own ranks. Such a split would give the railroads the advantage of being able to deal with each brotherhood as a separate organiaztion. (By United Press.) NEW TURK, March l.V The first managers arriving at the eight hour day conference headquarters today gave out unofficially" the tip that the railroads' attitude would be concilatory and that they would be inclined to meet the four brotherhoods demand with a. compromise. The only compromise intention the brotherhoods have shown was a statement of willingness to agree to pro rn'o pay instead of time and a half for overtime above eight hours. There was evidence that the railway managers would seek to negotiate over i ..m promise proposals hoping to postpone strike action until Monday when they believed the supreme court may make known its decision regarding the constitutionality of the Adamson eight hour law. AFFIRMS DECISION T STITK C.U'ITAL. 1NTM AXAPOUIS. March 1.". Supreme j ,,-ourt affirms Lake circuit court award-j ing $10,000 damages to Charles II. Fred-i ericks. administrator. Bake against : Mithew G. Baverne. peter Criimpaeker for the plaintiff. Judgment for $10,000 in circuit court.

HUGE COALING STATION

Copy of plans of new coaling station at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone. A huge coaling station, which will serve as a base for Uncle Sam's fleet in the Pacific, i3 now being erected ristobal, Panama Canal Zone. Since the break with Germany extra precautions to puard against dyrvamitbe i-nmnlpted portions of the station have ,--.n -?kpn

NEW DIVISION OF CASES

A sritliig of court c.iscs for the ii.iry superior court to be railed next week by Judge Gro.-nwald !:.is been made up. The filed in the superior court at Crown Point have been transferred 'o Gary, but those filed for Room 3 in Hammond will remain In the. courts of the latter city to be divided between Rooms 1 and 2. The calendar settings for Judge Given watai's court next .Monday are as fol lou s : 1. -.::: S0 4 Haralovi 'h v Xat Creation ?fc i4 South Shore I, Co v Mobie's S41 Hammond Co v AVerbUa Kol Vernon-Sudlow Bi Co v ?7.otak v Volscko T2ii Scharbach v Mahlor T2 Palmer v Kast Gary T1 Tf'4 Steblmis v Foster M2 E Co C! nnn AXTNTTTT. HIS MARRIAGE Armand Pilling of Indiana Harbor today filed suit in th superior court through his attorney "V. J. Murray, ask-I ing annullment of the marriage in which! he entered a month ago. i The complaint says that at the time; of the marriage he and the woman he! married believed she had been divorced I from her husband. but subsequently ' husband number one informed them that i he had jiever obtained a divorce. They j ceased living together and Mrs. Piling; returned to Chicago, but as far as is known, not to her first Yusband. ; M'ALEER AND TINKHAM AT CAPITAL Attorneys IV. .1. McAleer and C. 1?. Tinkiiam of the Hammond building are! at Indianapolis today to look after su- ' preme court matters. Messrs. McAleer and Tinkham have been retained by County Treasurer ) Brown and County Commissioners Geo. ' O. Sehaaf and James Black to defend! them in the alleged election fraud charge for vHU-h. they and Hiii-yMtvtii-ers in the s'ate were indicted by the federal grand jurv. One more link of evidence pointing; to "Count' V. Palmer Sparks as the i slaver of Fred I Higgins near Ham-' moti'l Feb. 20, was forged yesterday.! PeteetUes Dnffy and McCarthy of! First !' p'ltv- Westbrook's office, fo md in Spaiks' room the hat worn by Hig- j gins. i Higgins' hat, rniiar an.l nee kt'e were' inissijig when the bo.h- wa. found and ! all marks of i dep. ti rici : on existing ex-( cepting the telltale button had been i u; from the ciothing. ' The hat was broad brimmed and of ; sa ft gray felt, with a gros grain binding;. It was taken lo the Ashland avo-i hue garage, w here Higgins took a Kisselkar, the property of Mis. .Terr.;.; I.azinski. on Ft b. 10 for sab-. Ti. William White, a iu ch.ini) i :a i. ; -;-tively jdent.ifi..,! t'.. 1'at t he p. of Higgins. lore i;idence Founl. In a steamer trunk in Sparks' room) the detectives found biood stains on a j pair of trousers which the landlady! identified as belonging to Sparks. 1 1 is laidlajly said that Sparks was absent from his room On the night of the mur-j der and the following day. She said I lie left Chicago March 1 and wore a dirk overcoat, dark suit, derby hat. j and carried a Gladstone bag. j A half onnce of rncri irte ani codeine, a particularly vicious urtie corn'ona-; lion Indulged in only by tnose wnos" narcotic appetite lias been jaded by long indulgence, was found in Sparks' room. Several bottles of medicine, from each of which the druggists's ! name had been cut. were turned over i to the city chemist for analysis. 5

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Cheered by several thousand persons and greeted by the glare of red fire, eky rockets, bombs, and the honking of autoe F company, First Indiana Infantry last night returned home to Gary after nine months' service on the Mexican border. Althoug-h due at 7:15 p. m. and not arriving- until nearly H:$M o'clock the repeated delays in the arrival of the special troop train over the Michigan Central did not lessen the crowd nor did it dampen its enthusiasm a bit. Thousands braved the biting March winds to take part in the home-coming welcome and until after midnight Broadway was rocked with the noise of the hearty greeting. GKEAT CHANGE IN CO. F. It was a different company than the one that went out of Gary on June 26. In place of the straggling line caused hy the infusion of a half hundred recruits (Continued on page five.) THE PASSING SHOW "MAKKY in baste and repent at leis- j ure," says the wif "I'VE .bad Jlo ''e,'j," '"et Jj-pcn,! 'ti. . TI1KRE is t-aid to be a shortage of good circus clowns WHY not nail some of them outside of the circuses? WOODS are full of them. TIM-; funniest thing in the world is the man who says, "After all there's no place like home" ANT) then spends all bis time and money down town. Tin; seas arc only free to J F.BF.iMS and fish. IN our quiet and thoughtful Way we often "iider WHAT percentage of the men in the world ARK nly about a tenth as important as 1 1c y HKALLV think they are. THEY were showing off the IS-rnonth old to some visitors "WHAT a cute Job nose ho has!" .-aid ol.e Hl'HHY i-anl; "I'.s, it's just like his mot le t 's" "AND what a funny little way of staggering he has when he walks," said the visitor W I F said: "yep. jfs jst like his fa i h r's" H'CH was -some tit for tat. ":.. CI.T we. shall never t ealize : pern ic tic food situation is until i he Missus TK1KS to force us to chew rice the w. k. f lunk food. A WOMAN" may not know just howto get off a street car but by the KTKRXAh three jox none of them needs any instruction in the art of getting in or rait of a I -BATE ela s limousine WHAT ho: TEKPi: ll.U'TE Wooden shoes shoes have made their appearonce In Terre Haute on account of the high price of leather. The soles and heels are made of cottonwood and are an inch thick. S. FLKT i k. I t?: XTx J

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Wearing hats at left, W. G. Lee and W. S. Carter, photographed daring rail negotiations last summer; Warren S. Stone and (at right) Elisha Lee, representing the railroads. These men are the leadings figures in the big rail meeting now in progress in New York city. Warren S htorie is at the head of the Locomotive Engineers;' W. G. Lee is grand chief of the Brotherhood of Railway lrainmen; W. S. Carter is president of the Locomotive Fireman and Epginemen; Elisha Lee, assistant general manager of tlie Pennsylvania railroad, is spokesman for the railway manager.

HUSTLERS ' MEET WITH THE BOAR Special to The Timks 1 CROWX POINT. IXli., Marcn 15. Hammond is awake to the opoprtunity which will present itself with the organization of the state highway commission this spring of making Calumet avenue from Hie lake. to the Kankakee river" one of the leading thoroughfares of northern Indiana. Calumet aenue boosters from Hamj mond. headed by H. P. Downey, Arnold ! Kelden :ch. Councilman Fowler, Deon!ard K!:oerzer. Willis P. Ford, and j nearly twenty others vis:ted til-; coun ty commissioners in ,"?siim here and presented plans for going before the commission and securing the Improvejment of Calumet avenue, at all places where it is not now widened and paved, land its extension to the Kankakee i river. j The delegation also petitioned for fie construction of the steel $100mm. i bridge over the Crtid Calumet river on ' Calumet avenue. The contract was let j to the Phee Construction Company a ! year ago. The commissioners directed the auditor to notify the contractors and their bondsmen to start, the construct ion of the bridge at once and said that if they didn't the commission ers would. (By TJnited Press.) WASHINGTON, March 1". Government officials., do not consider th Cuban revolution situation sett leu. While there had been no derinre talk of intervention, it is positively known such a step is within the bounds of possibility. . German plotting and sinister German influence in the island republic is not broken. Capture of Joseph Miguel Gomez, insurgent leader, heralded at first as smashing the German conceived insurrection has failed to quell the trouble. Official reports to Washington from mis government uipiuinanc consular and naval officials in Cuba have con-j vinced Washington officials -that chances of a return to peace there, still are remote. Guerilla warfare continues. In some sections it is spreading faster than it is being stamped out. Accompanying it is more destruction of property than officials will admit. Officials frankly admit they ar helpless to a i great extent in the matter of running! down the German plotters against the j United States who have their headuuar- j ters in Cuba j MEN Our catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade quickly, mailed free. Army barbers best paid privates in government service. Write Moler Barber College, 105 S. Fifth ave., Chicago. - -1 - ...

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hJ i2sw A serious accident took place on the South Shore interurban at East Chicago last night when Earl Miller, formerly of Granite City. 111. fell or was pushed off an east bound car and fell so that his hand was mangled by the car and a serious gash was made in his forehead laying bare the skyll. Miller has been in East Chicago since February 14th and until last Monday was employed by the Hubbard Steel Foundry Co. He says that he was returning from Hammond and that he had a dispute with some one but he doesn't know whether he was pushed off the car or not. The man apparently was not intoxicated and it will probably remain a mystery just how the accident happened. He managed to get up from the tracks, after a considerable loss of blood, and made bi3 way to the room of some friends who ere stopping at the South Shore hotel on Chicago avenue. When his condition was perceived, the police and a physician were called. Dr. Spear had the man sent to the hospital and it is probable that he will lose a large part of his band. The police found where the accident occurred, the sp.,i being made by a pool of blood. it was just a short distance east of Northcote on Chicago avenue. Vis mother living at 2122 Dewey avenue. Granite City, was notified. BISHOP WHITE " IN HAMMOND SUNDAY Itisliop Haz.-n White of the Michigan City diocese is to make his annual visit to the congregation of St. raul's Episcopal church in Hammond, Sunday to administer confirmation to a class of candidates. The bishop will preside at the morning service to start at 10:45. There will be special music by the vested choir. I . FOR A FORECLOSURE In a cross complaint filed in the case of Isidor Weil and others against James 11. Tallman and others. Attorneys Knight and Brown of Crown Point ask for a strict foreclosure. Knight and Brown appear for the Peoples State Bank of Crown Point. The original coinplaint was on a note. "WEA.THER. in,.rening cloudiness tonight. Fri day probably rain or mow. Not much change In temperature. I nnt-( tonight near the freezing point. "Wind xhlftlng to northeasterly and hooomliBT freh Frldny

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By I" nlted Ires.) ROSTOV, MASS., March IS riimM Withy Si Co., Mtcamlii agents, received adilcra that the Sagamore, bound for Liverpool, has been sunk. The rnmpJny Mated that no word regarding the condition of the inking had been received. The Sagamore in listed n a steel icrew tteanwr of .S.1D7 tons, built In ISPS, regiMered at Liverpool and owned by the White Diamond Steajoishlp to, limited. By tTnlt ed Press. WASHINGTON, March 15. Senator Stone of the senate foreign relations committee, who opposed the armed neutrality bill, today offered a resolution which was unanimous, ly adopted, asking- that the secretary of commerce to supply to the senate a fall list of all seagoing; vessels that have applied to this, governmeat for registration. At the same time Senator Stone introduced hi a resolution Secretary of Commerce K-edfteld Issued an order prohibiting' the giving' out of any information regarding: the merchant marine. It was made plain this order covered issuance of any news regarding ship construction or register. By United Presa. WASHINGTON, March 7. Dissatisfaction with the recent bids offered by American ship builders for naval vessels has virtuaUy caused the navy department to decide to construct fcr of its five new battle cruisers on a cost basis, plus ten per cent profit to the private builders. The fifth cruiser will be constructed in a government yard, according to present plans. "U" BOAT CAPTAIN FILMS ALGONQUIN 4 Snapshots Sinking of the American Ship With Flag Flying. PLYMOUTH. ENG., March II Pictures of the Algonquin. howing the American flay flying at lo-r stern and painted On both sides, were, taken by the (ii'rman submarine onimander bej bore- a member of the bo.-n bard i ng party from tlj submarine hauled down the stars and stripes, according to an account given to the Associated Press by the Algonquin's first officer, Frank J. Yerney o f Seattle, naturalized American, who was born in Belgium. It was while the submarine was circling around the Algonquin several times that the (lerman commander took snapshots of the ship at different angles. Referring to the hauling down of the flag, Yerney said he del not see what the Germans did with it. "I ' .IS Sank the Algonquin. PENZANCE. ENG., .March 15. Tilt submarine which sank the American steamer Algonquin was the "l"" 3f.

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Duma and Army Has thrown the Government. Over(BULlETrtf.) LONDON, March 15. Kevolution in Bussia is confirmed here. It is said the czar may abdicate, his son succeeding him. BY ED. L. KEEN. (United Free Staff Correspondent.) LONDON, March 15. Revolution has succeeded in Russia. The czar may abdicate. The duraa and the army or at least powerful elements in both groups have overthrown the government. Their object was to drive out of power for ever the pro-German who since the start of the war have been reported as hindering Russia's full participation with the entente against Germany. Three days of intermittent fighting, preceded assumption of full power by the revolutionists. The principal clashes occurred in the cities of Petrcgrad and Moscow. There many houses were burned. Armed forces '.vere re peatedly encouTTre'l. Dispatches from ths Kussian capital today said the ciar's ministers bad I been captv.ied, iaci-ading Premier Stunner and Miaistar of the Interior Propotopoff, Those two were later released. ? The provisional government, it. was said, had established govesum-satal ccmmittaes at Petrcgrad and Moscow. In Petrograd at least the Russian army garrison aided in the coup by rhs revolutionists. The new government in rtcssla is proally. It is likely to be even more proaUy than the former bu.ro aucratic government. One of the main causes for the ov3i--throw of the czar bt-reaucrats was the charge that his officials are pro-OeraaE. I F.EP.LIN (Via S-;- March J An executive committee of t:K dun. S accomplished a succ's-fiil revolt. c. j Russia, including all the ministers that now control the government, according ,o an official statement from Pef-ogra! issued by the official press bureau here. "The duma declares that the ministers and the cabinet do no loncvr exist," the statement so id. The ? '-itctoint wa. dated March 1 4 "Today on t.ft thirl ;:iy of the revolution when order re-nil . swiftly, tho capital i in the hands of the executive committee of the dntua and of troops which are garrison-.-! jn Petrcgrad and which number more tivm Sfi.oOD. all of which support the revolutionists." (TTNITED PT.SSS BtTI,I.ETIir.) WASHINGTON March 15. Submarining of the British steamer lemnca with two ,'.-rr-ic2-."t aboar-X was reports;! to the s;. drpartnett; officially thi-i af tern ;cn y covers 19,!':ng to a ret h e city e n - f giu cent i rrlneei ' LACONIA SURVIVOR VV'-KvAav. 4t iC -rip' 3 1 : -j.'3)i'. Miss Thyllis Barker. This pretty English girl was one of the passengers of the ill-fated Laconia, sunk by a German submarine. Her name is on tha list of those who were landed eafelv at Queenstown. She had teen visiting friends in this country and was returning to England to become a Red Cross nurse.