Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 234, Hammond, Lake County, 16 March 1917 — Page 1

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Special Session of Lake County Court at Crown Point This Month Will See Appropriations Asked for Many Things. (Special to This Time?.) rnOWX POINT. 1 N D. . March 16. Appropriations for the new Gary court. for a number of voting machines and f. r small bridges and repairs, will be asked of the county council when that body is csllC'l into special session the latter part of this month. The session will probably be called for Monday and Tuesday of March 26th and 27th. i Th budget for the Gary court will include everything that is necessary to maintain the court. The county commissioners are said to h. figuring on petting an appropriation to purchase eight voting: machines, which cost approximately $?50 apiece. This limited number will be asked to Rive the machines a trial in Rake county and if they prove satisfactory in the , -lection next fall, it is expected the county council will be asked to buy an additional sixty machines to take care of the whole county in all the elections. THE PASSING SHOW AT that we feci that we are not -wholly unprepared for war WE ate four navel oranges last night j, rid got all the dandruff out of our MILITARY hair brushes as a war rieflsure rOMK on you spies! I'NTLF. SAM is to establish a naval tee at Coco Solo near Panama. ,1FST sounds like Sec. Daniels and the hon. Grape juice Bryan. NEVER did take mu'h stock in the lady barbers ALWAYS used to make us peevish to have mother cut our hair. WISCONSIN is the horne of freak things including Lafolktte the human What-is-it. POTATOES require a warm climate pays an exchange TKS and rotato speculators ought to have a hot climate THE hottest, in fact! "SUFFRAGETTE'S husband,", says the New York Mail "IS a patient old galoot who hasn't pot a button on his old union suit." THE bull moose in Russia are just pimply raising the old Ned that's all tlvre is to it THE four year old heir to all th snimony and estates of a friend SHOCKED him by sizing up a cow and asking where she kept all HER milk bottles. NOW if the weatherman would only turn on the tine weather tap AND go out en a strike' 1 if course it was an Ohio paper that carried the following: "IT has been reported over town that this is the 3rd trip of my husband to the penitentiary but I wish the public to KNOW this is the 1st time he was c. r in the pen" EMMA MEYERS ALL right Em. we forgive you. TORNADO PLAYS - ' - t - - i

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V. V Vic . .. :xNi v. . H f "9 ' r ' i 4sr 1 - Vi 1 5W4 Lord Cowdray. Lord Cowdray, better known as Sir Weetman Pearson, is at the head of Great Britain's ministry of the air, and is the first air minister in the world's history. At present aeronautical supply is the sole work of this branch of government. Lord Cowdray won fame and fortune as an engineer, and made millions in 'oil operations in Mexico. BOARD (BEOS VOTING MACHINES Increase in Vote Will Almost Make Them Obligatory for Lake Co. CROWN POINT. LVD.. March 16. When Governor Goodrich signed the women's suffrage bill he signed an argument for voting: machines in Lake county. The large vote in the county and the large foreign percentage makes the returns unwieldy to handle. Already the county commissioners ar-s figuring' on rec (striding the precincts, particularly those in the cities, which means additional election boards and additional expense all around. Vnder the old law this redistrici inK would have had to he made this month, hut a new law require? the rearranging of the voting precinct lin-.-s to he mad not later than June. With voting machines in Lake county the casting of ballots would be a simplified matter. Not only would additional precincts be avoided, but of the 7 rt r nlready in existence many could be cut out all together. v HARDY FOUR TIMESSUSTAINED The case affirmed in the supremo court yesterday upholding the $ 1 0.iMl't verdi. t for the Byron E. Fuitz estate, is the fourth out of five cases in which Judge Welter Hardy of Hammond, has been sustained by the supreme court. In this c-.se he was sustained in every point. The case recalls the death of Eultz while employed by Contractor M. Iavene on the Tapper building- in Hammond in Aueust, 1909. In the first, suit for damages before Judge Becker, a jury returned a verdict f,.r $.".'hki against I.avene and the Pennsylvania Casualty Company which insured the contractor's employes. By agreement of attorneys a new trial was eranted and renewed before Judge Hardy in I December. KM 4. Attorneys Peter 1 Crumpacker are! C. B. Tinkharn of!

Hammond, and Attorney C. N. Saum of Watseka. HI . a townsman of Eultz. By United PrPess. represented Charles Fri'dri. h of Ham-j EL PASO, March 16. Two Americans mond. administrator for the i u Itz . were murdered by Villa and his followerdate. ers last week at Magistral, according to

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Information comes to THE TIMES that a well-dressed couple is soliciting money for the Newcastle cyclone sufferers. GIVE THEM NO MOKEY! If you want to contribute send it to your local Chamber of Commerce or the Indiana Red Cross. TURN THE FAKERS AWAY. Railroads Not Accepting Freight Today 1,000 Men Expected to Go Out in North Township Tomorrow Evening in Strike. Paralysis of freight traffic, industry Rnd commerce appeared almost inevitable in Hammond today with the railroad strike order apparently bev.md recall. At fi o'clock tomorrow evening nearly l.'Kr ,,.,, engaged in the transfer and .witching work of freight service on railroads in North township are expected to obey the strike order of the four brotherhoods. In anticipation of a complete tie-up railroads in Hammond refused to receive freight of any description after 10 o'clock this morning:, and the only freight that is moving this evening is that accepted before the blanket embargo was affized: The engineers, firemen, yardmen and switchmen in transfer and switching crews of eighteen railroads enteringChicago which 8 re engaged in terminal work are members of the first group ca lied out at ti o'clock Saturday evening'. The crews of the 15. & O. C. T. Ry., are not included in the order, it is stated, a their agreement does not come under the head of the others, and it is rumored they will keep a portion of the Indiana Harbor Belt freight moving-. The Erie, Monon. C. & O., E. J. & E. and Chicago Belt Railway, Chicago Junction and Pennsylvania, yards will he quiet. Between t"0 and 70a men are affected at the New York Central and Indiana Harbor Belt yards at Gibson and the L C. I. Th.- Micbiirun Central is not in the first order. j It is freely predicted that Ham-I moud's industries will have to clr.se if j the strike comes up to the expectations of the brotherhoods; that the coal shortage will become acute if cold weather continues; that auto trucks and automobiles will have to be depended on to bring- in the supply of edibles and milk and that food prices will soar. Some railroad officials today questioned whether a majority of the trainment would respond to the strike order, not caring- to lose the privileges of seniority. The railroad men, have no local grievances and their relationes with their superiors tn local offices have been the friendliest and the result of years of association. Union yard hostlers are also ordered out. It is estimated 1 "" men employed hy the Erie out of Hammond will go out. The Mexican Situation 1 information received here today. The t victims were L. A. Winn of New York, i and-Bert Siegel of Pittsburg, Pa., both! employes of the National Mine and j Smelting company. It was said the Americans were tortured and their bodies burned. '' v do when it sets out to play strange cyclone which killed a score, serious-

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Gun on German submarine of the type that fired twenty shells at the Algonquin This is a closeup view of one of the gruns carried by German submarines. It is the sort of gun that was u?' with such deadly effect on the American ship Algonquin, and that will be used without warning on any Americ ship in the submarine zone if the German government kt-eps its promise to ignore international law.

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Ambush of Police by Sam Howard Who Shoots Up East Side, Takes Woman's ; Hair and Overpowers a Watchman, Fails. After Sam Howard of 4302 Forsyth avenue, East Chicago, won a combat with a lady, overpowered a night watchman and terrorized the neighborhood at Calumet and Michigan avenues in Hammond with revolver fhots. he led police a merry chase across the river late last evening. Employing- military strategy Howard dodged in and out and behind a telephone post on Calumet avenue near One Hundred and Fiftieth street. Officer Emll Bunde jumping from the police patrol came upon the disturber unexpectedly. Face to face with the .ns calibre revolver which Howard held ready for service, Bunde was for the moment in dire straits. Before he could draw his own gun or lurch onto the desperate ian Bunde expected that he would be shot and so he adopted the tactics made famous by John Mason, the actor, in that mental telepathy play, "The Witching- Hour." A street lamp threw a circle of light on th two men one cornered, armed (Continued on page Ave.) DEATH OF MISS ETHEL HOFFMAN The alumni of the Hammond hig-h school, graduates of the Chicago Business college, employes of tiie E. C. Minas store, the congregation of the First Methodist church and many other people wiio knew and loved her, today received with sadness the word that Miss Ethel Vivian Hoffman had died at her home In 446 Summer street where she had been bedfast since the first of August. She passed away at 7:45 this morning-. A sweet Christian characted. Miss Hoffman endeared herself to hundreds of Hammond people who in the hour of bereavement share the grief of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoffman, her brother. Chauncey Hoffman, and j her sister, Mrs. J. .1. McCarthy. Taken j ill last July Miss Hoffman was compelled to resign her position in the office j of the E. C. Minas Company which she had held for seven years as stenographer and paymaster. Miss Hoffman was born August 21, 11S7. at Boone drove, and was educated in the Hammond public schools. frraduafinsr from the higrh school in the j las of 1 HOT. She completed her husi- ' ness education at the Chicago Ihisiness college. Since March .". ISu.l. she 'was an active member of the First ! M t bo-list church and Cue fuuera! s-u-v-; f(- is to he hill there Sunday :,f:er- ! noun at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Rass- tt j in charge. Interment will he made at jl'ak Mill .emt-iy

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.' M', rS : Ik '."J SlTUflTlQ (By United Press.) LONDON', March 16. I'p to noon the fate ,,f the individual members of the former imperial ministry in Russia had not been made clear in Petrograd advices. One dispatch declared that the majority of the ministers had been re leased, but that Minister of the Interior Protopopoff had been detained, earlier dispatches had reported his execution by the revolutionists. LATEST NEWS OF THE WAR IN EUROPE By United Press. WASHINGTON, March 16. Because some foreign governments are Inclined to object to harboringAmerican armed merchantmen, this froverament has inquired of the European nations whether they would agree to admit the vessels to their ports. United Press Cablegram LONDON, March 16. The czar of Russia is at Tskoff and the empress is at the Imperial palace at Tsar, key, according- to latest information from Petrograd this afternoon. The empress Is said to be in perfect safety, contradicting1 earlier rumors that she had been detained, by the revolutionists. WASHINGTON, March 16. Suspicion that German seamen had a secret wireless on board the interned liner Kronprins Wllhelm at Philadelphia was at the bottom of a shooting- affair between the German seamen and United States guards last night. LONDON, March 16. An English destroyer of an old type struck a mine in the channel yesterday and sank, the admiralty announced today. One man was killed and 28 were missing. STOCKHOLM. March 1. Twenty were killed In Mondays ficlttlDB- In the IVtn.srrnil revolution ami 120 were tvonnded, according to Information received today from the liiiHaian capital hy the neTTjipaiMT Kxtrnhladt. According tn thin Information the mob on TueNda.r alo destroyed several bnkerlc and the railroad line to Finland wa blown up at several polntn. BASKETBALL RACE IS ON fpecial to Thr Times.) PI.OOMIXCTON, IND., March IS. The following seoores have resulted in the state basketball turnament here to la y Kokomo. IP: South Rend, Milucie, "1; Rinton, -S. I lionminir . "li, 1.'.".; f -a iVyc' t Martinsville. 27: Wnshit-t-: in. Wabash C.dleRe Che Chit., evening. March 2- at the First Oist IT.-,:.ime;vl I'r! l!i-

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! ..... . ''-' -iyli, 1 !. ' j to 4 1 . f V . -A. 'ft Latest on JR. R: Strike (BULLETIN.) VICXSBUB.O, MISS., March 16. "I suggest that President Wilson put the railroads of the United States under mlitary control," said W. I.. Parks of Chicago, vice president of the Illinois Central railroad, here today. "The president has this power and it is the , ojUy ,olatlon of tfle proDlem," he said, j discussing- th proposed strike of the j brotherhoods. (BULLETIN.) WASHINGTON, March 16. The government has acted in an effort to prevent the progressive nation-wide strike scheduled for 6 p. m. tomorrow. Secre1 tary of the Interior Lane, Secretary of Labor Wilson, Samuel Gompers, presii dent of the American Federation of Labor, and Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, were this : afternoon named by President Wilson ; to confer with brotherhood chiefs and railroad managers in a final effort to avert such a calamity. All will leave at once for New York. Following- a meet- : ing of the cabinet this afternoon at 1 which the strike situation was discu&s- ; ed. Secretary of War Baker issued the , following statement: "Acting under a plan suggested by the National Council of Defense, Secretary Lane, Secretary Wilson, Daniel Willard and Samuel Gompers, all members of the advisory council of the Council of National Defense, will go to New York to confer immediately with representatives of both sides." (BULLETIN.) CHICAGO, March 16. More than 1,000 general and local chairmen of the four railway brotherhoods met here at noon to hear the plans formulated by their leaders for the progressive railroad strike set for tomorrow evening. While they were in session behind locked and guarded doors, railroad managers and executives of roads entering Chicago were conferring on means of defense against the strike. The brotherhood members were polled before the meeting was called in order that no railroad sympathizers might be admitted to the session. As the afternoon wore on little information was permitted to leak from the meeting, though frequent cheering was heard from the room. ERIE TIED UP COMPLETELY Ht'NTINGTON, I.I Mar. h 1 r, . - If a strike comes it cannot tie up the I Erie railroad more completely than it ! was tied up Thursday. Because of the threatened .strike of trainment nobody can ship any kind of freight, either perishable or otherwise. The Erie has informed all connect ing lines of the C. fc E. division that i no freight will be received from them, j The connecting lines have served the same kind of notice on the, e. & E. That was the-way the situation stood Thursday. Not even perishable goods could be shipped. It is understood that the C. A- E. division made adequate preparation for the crisis by cleaning- up the divis ion of all kinds of freight. Practically everything easti.otind has been hnstl- , ed off the dis i.-'ion nn i is now w ll on Ms wav to New York. This even in- : lilies th-- sit 1 piii-ii i s from Hammond , and (he I. in mills hetwe. u 1 t u ; ; i 11 1 on an.l ('hic'iro. Eve ; : h j; iias l,..tid, and moved -apioly

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ACITODAY if Strike Comes Wilson Will Go Before Cconfry and Placs Blama for It (UNITED PRE S3 B TrZITHT.) CSZCAOO, Martxh 16. A strong- radical elanuint of the railway brotherhoods 1 opposed to the progressive strike favored by the national leaders, and were prepared today to advocate an immediate nation-wide strike, according to James a. Downey, a local foreman of switchmen. Several conferences of radicals were held today in which such procedure was demanded. BY BOBXET J. BENDER. WASHINGTON, March 18 raced by the gravest domestic situation which has threatened, the country in many months, President Wilson today called his cabinet into session at 2:30 to determine a course of action in the fightingbetween the railroads and their employes. The president's hands, it is admitted, are tied In so far as adopting any drastic measures to ward off the threatened strike of the brotherhoods. He appeared to have hut two courses, a patriotic appeal to both sides In the controversy to make concessions in view of the grave international crisis and prevent the impending- tienp. The other course was to summon to conference with him representatives of railroads and brotherhoods in an effort to mediate their differences. Announcement of the president's plan is expected at the conclusion of the cabinet meeting, Hj I nited Press.) WASHINGTON-. March lffPresi dent Wilson will act on the suggestion by the railroad brotherhoods or managers that he mediate the eight hour strike set for Saturday if r-.rffet ions' reach him. This can be stated on highest authority. No su. h request however, had reache.-i the white house up to mid-forenoon. In event that all moves fail and the strike does come, the president will tak- occasion to inform the country us to where he believes the blame rests f.,r a situation of perilious possihiliti. s wher by the transportation systems of the country are tied up 1:1 the t a crisis. a rea t (By I nited I'n s0 NEW YcliK, March 1 '.. I nl : ca t ion s that President Wilson niny be asked to mediate in the t nrer.t.Mied riilwav strike scheduled o btKin tomorrow evening developed today, when the railway managers hurried:;,- went into conference shortly after W. ;. 7,ee, speakinjr as president of the Botherhood of Railway Trainmen. snpKested the step. The brotherhood chiefs followed the example of the managers ami also went into informal conference. I.ee made his statement in talking with newspaper men :.nl the quickness with which the railway managers went into tor.ffretice led to the belief that it was being favorably considered. SHOCKING- MATRICIDE (By 1 nited I'rexx.) EAPORTE. INI., March lfl. Amos Casteele, aged 70 years. Killed his asred wifo with a hammer, set tire to the home and then ended Ms own life by shooting himself tbronpii the head. The tragedy occurred at New Carlisle, thirteen miles east of here. The couple had been separated for some time and this mornins; Mrs. Caste, le came to see hr husband iu an effort to adjust their difficulties. HE WILL. CONTROL TRANSPORTATION IN TIIE EVENT OF WAR . : . s Daniel "Willard. Daniel Willard Vs pr6tdent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and a member of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense. In the latter capacity in war tine be couid be of immense service to il country in controlling ail railroads as Colonel Thornton has control of all railroad transportation in Iin-ltuid.

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