Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 276, Hammond, Lake County, 4 May 1917 — Page 1

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REPORTED PROBABLE Government Leaders Arouse People By Declaration of Standing With Allies. By WILLIAM O. SHEPPABD iTnited Press Staff Correspondent.) rETP.OCiR.1D. May 4. Open rupture between the provisional government heads and the workmen's and soldiers' committee came today. The workmen and soldiers demanded that the government take them into its confidence. The tensity of the situation is growing hourly. The first clash between the two elements came yesterday. The greatest feeling of indignation was aroused among the workmen's and'the soldiers delegates by announcement of the provisional government that it intended to stand by the Czar's contract -with the allies. At yesterday's meeting of the council of' ministers 2,000 soldiers with loaded rifles guarded the building where the government leaders met. Throngs of citizens gathered there in a gigantic demonstration against Foreign Minister Miiukoff. Speakers from the soldiers and sailors' delegation exhorted the people to join in their demand that the government take all people into its confidence. A great mass meeting of protest is in preparation for tonight. There can be no disguising of the tensity of the situation. ABUSED AS "SLACKER" IT'S ALL A MISTAKE Lawyer Finds Yellow Paint on Door, But He's in Officers Reserve. . fellow paint was smeared over the doors and windows of the law office fif Lester Ottenhelmer in East Chicago because he failed 0 join Campany L of the Indiana national guard. "Coward" was printed on the woodwork and The young attorney, who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been roundly abused. He had an altercation about the reflections on his character with Grant Pchlieker, son of a former mayor, but denied they came to blows. ' I did intend to join Company L. which is a new organization," Ottenheimer explained. "We drilled a few times, but I never signed an application blank or too kany oath. I decided to attend the officers' reserve training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. I was examined in Chicago and my application was approved. The yellow paint was used by some one suffering from a misapprehension." II. BERRY WINS BIG HONOR THIRD TIME '.ma 'f .... , : - Pi Howard Berry. Howard Berry, Pennsylvania's athletic star, added to hia honors recently by winning the pentathlon at the twenty-third annual Penn Velay carnival. It was Berrv's third suc cessive win in this event. He had j little trouble in outdistancing his j competitors and took four firsts in j the five events, winning third place ' in the other. i

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RADON TIMES BXTBEAX7, AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, IXD., May A. The public service commission has called all of the coal mine opeartors in Indiana to attend a conference at the state house next Wednesday at 10 o'clock to discuss the present coal situation in the state. It Is the intention of the commis sion to get at the bottom of the trouble, and it will seek to oMain from the operators all possible Information as to how the coal shortage and high prices in Indiana have been brought about. Coal operators have always resorted to the favorite excuse that there was a shortage of cars and that they were unable to make shipments. They always give this as the reason for high prices and shortage. If the present condition is caused by a car shortage it is within, the province of the public service commission to correct that trouble, and It proposes to do so. Only a few days ago the retail price of coal In this city was boosted 50 cents to Jl a ton on all grades and kinds. Some of the operators said this advance was caused by the fact that they were compelled to increase the pay of miners a week or so ago. But it has been figured that 25 cents a ton increase would pay all of the Increased cost under the new wage arrangement, and people are wondering why it was necessary to boost the price $1 a ton to meet an increased cost of 25 cents. It is believed that the public service commission is in possession of importart evidence in connection with the coal si-.uation, and it would not be at all surprising If intersting things transpire in its investigation. GENERAL OFFICES TO Illinois Car &Mfg. Co., Employing 500 Men, Two Years' Work Ahead. The Illinois Car & Manufacturing' Company with more than 500 employes has moved its general office forre from Chicago to Hammond and is burMr ipg a two-story office building at llA plant on Dearborn and 142 streets. The president of' the company. P. If. Joyce, win nave ins oiiices in tne new building.''Orders ahead at present will' keep the industry In full operation for two years, the president stated today. The fires In the furnaces are never out. The bringing of the general office force to Hammond 1s considered of great importance in a business way to the city. Not only are new families brought to town but the plant is made solely a Hammond Industry. The city in which the general office of a concern is located gets the credit and advertising of being its home. The Illinois Car & Manufacturing Company is one of the most dependable industries in the Calumet region. It has not been closed down since it its started, has gradually increased force from 100 to 300 and then to 500 and has no off season. It employs Hammond labor in preference to any other. - WE ARE The only complete!;. oci'iipp-M optica! f.rm in Lake cotipty. We ma.!.'- ail our own lenses. S. ?ilvr. Jeweler f: oi.ti-mnrit, ITT State St.. Hsmmond. Ini '5-1-1

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The Indiana Harbor Belt Railway has taken over the operation of the New York Central lines' roundhouse, locomotive shops and store house at Gibson and the force at the general offices will be increased by fifteen or twenty clerks under Auditor Osborn to care for the work formerly done at the X. Y. C. offices at Cleveland. Assistant Master Mechanic E. P. Gilman will go to Kankakee, 111., to take charge of the N. Y. C. shops there and Master Mechanic Cole has entire charge of the shops at Gibson. The jurisdiction of General Manager George Hannauer and Superintendent J. W. Smith now extends throughout Gibson. SOUTH SHORE GETSJflCTORY State Industrial Commission Orders Lak6 Erie and Chicago Belt to Exchange Freight With the Interurban Company. "Word has been received from Indianapolis to the effect that the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend railway has just won its long pending suits against the Lake Erie and "Western, and the Chicago Belt Line before the Indiana public service commission to compel these two roads to enter into reciprocal exchange of freight and to establish joint rates same as steam railways are compelled to do. Both the Lake Krie and Belt lines have heretofore refused to do business with the South Shore or to allow switch track connections and fought the South Shore desperately in the hearings before the Indiana commission. Now they will have to permit the South Shore connection's and agree upon equitable tariffs over both lines. The victory is a big one for the South Shore and will insure that company traffic connections with every road it crosses between South Bend and Pullman and will at the same time open up to the South Shore connections with every industry in Micihgan City. The South Shore officials have a right to feel mighty happy over their legal victory, as it puts them on the map in earnest in their freight business. CHICAGO BOY RUNS AWAY Claude Rosairie. 4540 Monticello avenue. Chicago, came to Garv todav n j get his son, Horace G. Itosaire. The I boy who is 14 years old had enlisted In the army.- He was allowed to go with his father to the recruiting office J in Chicago, where his freedom from ! the army may be procured. "He is the baby of the family," said Mr. Rosarie, "and his mother is heartbraken because he went. Last week we gave two of our boys to the army and we think that the little fellow should stay home." POOR CHAP WAS LONESOME One linely recruit boarded the Fort I Wayne train this morning. His name! was faui oeuz. This is the smallest number that ; Sergeant Welch has sent from Ham- j mond for several months. His daily average.accordlng to statistic;, is between ten ind fifteen. Yesterday sixty- j p"vn left for. For Wayne ;j1 all but : i!' -if pa"?ei) cnnivt'intion. As v.ar proni'f ? t'le-n Cro-vn Point high reboot boys tins Company j j:-o'ip and other srts of friends are to i 1i- ken?- tosrethT. ' '

VERY TENSE SITUATIONlSfll HIFUS

EXTRA (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, May 4. The nous this afternoon struck out the censorship clause of the spy bill by a vote of 220 to 167. The clans was killed through adoption of an amendment by Representative Oiar of ' Pennsylvania providing elinv tlon of the censorship feature. -Speaker Clark and. other Democratic leaders and Miss -? kin voted for the amendment. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, May 4. Incomplete state department statistics today show, d that Germany had sank or attempted to sink at least 22 American ships and sacrificed over 300 lives including women and children, daring the war. By EOBEBT J. BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 4 That Pres. ldent Wilson should be empowered to serve an ultimatum to neutrals of the world, warning them that continued reexportation of American foodstuff Into Germany would be met with a complete i severance of commercial relation, was I demanded by Senator Walsh of Montana 1 on the floor of the senate today. How About You, Mr. Restaurant Man? COLUMBUS, O., May 4. Keres' a potato "tip" save It! Bid you ever notice how the eyes on a potato are mora numerous at the tipf Someone suggested to Governor Cox that each eye is the seed for k sprout. The result Is that every Columbus hotel and restaurant, at the Governor's request, is paring1 off the potato tips. They are being- distributed to backyam gardener, thus, conserving' the scanty potato supply. Governor Coi Is now trying to get restaurant men In other Ohio cities to the same. "Columbus alone Is yielding many bushels of tips every day under this plan," said the Gov. ernor today. FIVE SLAIN State Investigator Here to Probe Cause of Numerqus Deaths on Crossing in Past Two Years Coroner Communicates With Manager. A safety investigator called today at the coroner's office in Hammond to determine the merits of the fight Coroner J. A. Graham is waging against unguarded railroad crossings in Hammond. The investigator, William Claire, will seek facts of the killing of J. C. Sheridan, a Gary taxicab driver, cn the Kennedy'avenue crossing of thj Michigan Central at Gibson. Monday night. The coroner has written the following letter: "K. IX Bronner. General Manager, "Michigan Central Railroad, "Detroit, Mich. "Dear Sir: In the last two years five men driving automobiles havebeen killed at the Kennedy avenue crossing of the Michigan Central Railroad at Gibson. This crossing I consider a veritable death trap. There ai'e no gates nor automatic bells and at night it is as dark as Pitch. 1 have written the state safety commission in re this murderous . crossing, suggesting there be gates placed there and the approaches properly lighted. "Hoping you will remedy the evil - and thus protect automobilists who travel over the crossing at night, "I am, 'J. A. GRAHAM. 'Coroner of Lake County. Ind." Sheridan was killed while driving in a closed car at eleven-thirty at night with a high wind blowing. A fast train struck his auto demolishing It and his slain body was badly mutilated. ASSAILANT RUNS AWAY White walking through the woods near Eighth avenue and Fillmore 6treet in Gary, Mrs. Andrew Tokes. 26 years old. 1289 W. 19th avenue, Tollesto1 was struck by a man who attempted attack her. ( hildren passing through t',- woods enrou.te to Holy Angel's school frightened avav the ass.;i!ant. Mrs. Tok;: was badly cut about the! bad and covered with Mimil. The po-' lic rut a Orwg net in the woods in.j r-e?.r:h for h?r as-tcilant.

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This la a picture of Lieutenant Clarence C. Thomas, formerly of the battleship Florida, who as commander of the naval gun crew ofthe oil tanker Vacuum lost his life when a German submarine torpedoed the vessel. With nine men of hi3 crew he left the ship in a small boat which was not reported again- Lieutenant Thomas is the first American naval or military officer to los his life la the war with Germany.

RECRUITS IN EAST ENJOY HOI PAPER John Reed, Walter E. Jones, Wilbur E. Stone, William Hale, Clarence Jones, Harry Jones, Paul H. Stewart and Harry Derner .are "somewhere in the east" at a fort which owing to the g"oveanment's desire that the concentration points be given no further advertisement will not be stated in accordance with the self-irroposed censorship of Thb Times. " The Hammond boys have written telling how they enjoyed reading Thb Times. "We never appreciated the home paper fully until we got away from home. We can't tell you. how good it is to read about the people in Hammond." they state. ' $2.90 PAID BY ONE RETAILER The consumer paid 85 and 90 cents for old ' potatoes today in Hammond, the price varying at different groceries. The story carried in Tub Times yesterday that old potatoes were sold at $2.50 a bushel to retailers did not refer to local grocers. Old- potatoes were sold to the Chicago retailer at that iprice Wednesday while local dealers were forced to pay a higher price. The lowest , instance, $2.90, was paid by Kaufman & Wolf. NOT CLUB ACTION "We wish it distinctly understood," said a member of the Hammond Woman's club to a Times representative this morning, "that the action and attitude regarding the Chlorine treatment of the water as voiced at recent council meetings in opposition to the steps taken by the city, afe by no means the sentiment of th'e Hammond Woman's club as a body. They were simply members of one committee." WAR BONDS AT BANK FOR SALE If you want to do your share in the war and are too old to enlist, or have ti r. nther wav nf Arkino" il vnii run hnv

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buy them on installment. German National bank o received authority today The f'itizeiiH Hammond to conduct sale for the bonis ami full ;jarti-u !?.-; regarding the plan is ?riveii in tlir lunks advertisement un a'lsotlH r pastof th"-s i-.'lut..

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"rr" s ',1 il$ Ml 1 K e - A 4'. '.? '',: '. SJ . . , , LAV n .-",':"! Latest Bulletins By I nlted rreas Cablegram.) LONDON, May 4. Loiut of life ta the torpedoing- of the Amerlcia steamer Kocklnaham was reduced to the two miRbera of ber crew killed outright In the attaek, when the third' boatload of survivors was picked up today by a British ship. The third boat carried tbe fourteen men heretofore listed as missing. (By T nlted Prea Cablegram.) LONDON", May. 4. Denial of the Exchange Telegraph dispatch that the Chilean minister at Berlin had been banded his passports was made In Ber. In dfnpatches received from A muterdam today. I By I nlted Press Cablegram.) PARIS. May 4. The French Liner, Rochambcau, recently arrived at a French port, narrowly escaped a torpedo fired by a Cierman submarine, according; to one of her passengers today. The torpedo passed tea rods astern and the ship t mmcdlately ' fired a dosen shells at the sub. Whether these found their mark Is not knon. As soon as the torpedo wes sighted the officers sound eC the alarm and all passenaers were hurried to the life boats. Only the peed of the hip saved her, It Is believed. . (By Vnlted Press Cables ram.) COPEVHACEV, May 4. Germany's war managers are playing their shrewdest publicity game for the purpose of causing a relaxation of prepar. atioo, or Germany Is actually beset with the worst internal disturbance any belligerent has been compelled to deal with since tbe bar began. Private advises today from sources which appeared authentic emphasised the seriousness of the situation and carried the broad hint that the one so. Intioa may be appointment of ount Von Beraatorff as successor to Foreign Secretary Zimmerman. The appointment would be with the Idea that Von Bernstorff would attempt a reconciliation with America. LONDON. M.iy 4. Tbe tremendous we'alit of (irrnisn rcrr es imc iol.Mll Into k 1 1 - - nt h Itrlff-I, .1 vnnce bns forced Kfisrht falling; hnrU f of ttritlnh trin frn- !"!iltiril poxi- ' (inn raptiifil f rxtert'n J . j 11c !atTii;ut of Jl::r"ial Hals to-

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FRATERNIZE FURJOITH Combatants Are Heeling Uik armed In No-Hans Land, Fighting Spirit Subdued ------"SBBmasS By WIXLIAM EHEPPASD (Taited. Press S taff Correspondent., PETROGRAD. May 4.A virtual armistice exists along plmcst the entire Russian front todav. .. v.-

been fired on the Austro-Russian front in more than a month. There has been no real activity on the German-Russian sector. At many places German and Russian soldiers are fraternizing, meeting" unarmed in "no-man's land." So general has become the habit of fraternizing and so completely has the fighting spirit been subdued that General Gourka. commander of the Russian forces on the Minsk front today issued a formal statement warning his forces to beware of a German ruse. He contended the German friendlines. t,oc -of their plan to obtain information of ir.ussian conditions. Soldiers arriving for the Duma meeting are authority for the statement that there baa been absolutely no fighting on the Austrian front. ' day reveals progrera on an eutlrelr new sector from that In which the British drive of the -lft , vn. battered northeast of St. Quenttn and northeast of Hargtconrt. The latter ctty Is two miles from th. main Grrnai line of ramniilniiiin between Cambria and St. Quentln. But lHtle fighting has been reported from this sector for the past ten days(By I cited Press.) WASHINGTON, May 4-Hf.rr n.lnlig of practically the entire or!h s'a has been under consideration between, the allies and the I nlted State as an efficient means of meeting Ger many's submarine campaign. It became known today. In addition there has been official connlderuUou of means of wrecking the I -boats at their bases. (By United Pre.) CHICAGO. May 4 The French commission arrived nt the Grand Central station In Chicago today at 11:50. Several thousand, cltisens were on hand to welcome tbrm while Mayor Thompson and Lieut. Gov. Oglesby extended the formal greeting of the city and state. Accompanied by state and city officials and escorted by the First Illinois cavalry tbe commissioners motored to the Chicago club where they were to have luncheon. By United Press. ..WASHINGTON", May 4. German so. ciallsts in this country who attempt to force or Influence a separate peace between Russia and Germany will be dealt with to the full extent of American law, it their acts can be proven. The state department Indicator this unmistakably today following publication of charges by J. G. Phelps Stokes, wealthy socle lint, that some or the German wings of the American socialists are trying to force such n peace. United Press Cablegram. BERLIN". Mry 4. The British offensive Is being wnged by at least sixteen or seventeen full divisions (320.000 to 340,000 men) on n front of eighteen miles, but b-s so far failed, today's ofclal statement declared. By United Press. WASHINGTON, May 4 Over-sub. scriptlon for the first Issue of the "liberty loan" Is practically assured.. Over one thousand applications for suhserlptlo nto tbe S2.CKM,0!0 loon were received over night In answer to Secretary Mr. Adoo's telegrams to banks, clearing houses and trust companies. It wss announced today. Not even a rough estl. mate of the amount subscribed was available. United Press Cablegram. RIO DA J VNKlKOMsy 4 Brazil Inclined today to a declaration of war against Germany. Appointment of Under Secretary Dantc.s as temporary minister of foreign affairs succeeding Dr. Muller was everywhere regarded as strengthening the pro-war advocates' demands that Brasll go further than her break in relations with Germsny. Dantaa is known as favoring hostilities. Senator Barbosa, lending agitator of war, Is to address congress on the in. ternattonal situation tomorrow and is expected to precipitate r. violent debate. Dr. Muller today followed up his retirement from the cabinet by resigning his enndidacy as president of tbe Military club, one of the strongest of Brazil's political organisations. He gave as his reason a desire to avoid any Internal dissension in Brasll In the face of the present International crisis. BANK CALL ISSUED By United Ppcks.) WASHINGTON, May 4.- The .or., troller of the currency isrued a cn' ri n statement of the condition of all National banks at the close of b.isines on May 1