Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 26 May 1917 — Page 1

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Conductor" and Mechanician Meet Tlislr Fale Bsfwesn Grown Point and Cedar Lake. (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT, IND., May 26. The famous letter "S" curve on the old Cobe cup race course claimed ;ts first toll of death yesterday, after being the scene of numberless accidents to automobiiists. Heretofore while many cars have been demolished, it always turned out luckier for the driver and up to yesterday no fatalities had occurred. Testerda vjafternoon, ,howey.er, while, Tames Foley "of 4727 "Langley avenue. Chicago, accompanied by G. H. Grady, 4705 Cottage Grove avenu?, in a 'big eight-cylinder Cole car were attempting to negotiate the treacherous turn the car went over the embankment, turning turtle and instantly killing Foley. Grady was quite badly injured about the face and body but was luckily thrown clear of the wrecked car. Foley's neck was broken and his chest bones fractured, his injuries causing almost instant death. Foley was a street car conductor in the city, operating on the Cottage Grove avenue line for nearly 10 years. Grady was employed in the Cole Motor Co. works in Chicago and is said Xqf have been a mechanician for one of tVuP drivers in the Cobe races here. BotJh men had been to Lowell in the interest of the automobile business and were Returning to Chicago when the fatal accident occurred. The coroner's inaKicst had not been held as yet. J TWENTY-SIX DIE IN KANSAS TORNADO (By Inlted rr.) U'lCHITA, KAN., May 25. TTwentylix bod'es. victims of the' tornado rhich wiped Andale, a tow'n twentytwo miles northwest of heVe off the nap late yesterday, have een recovired and Identified today, -hile every train from the stricken section brings In additional Injured. (Officials beUeve that the death liNt will reach Shorty one. Other bodiep are believid to be in the wreckage vhich littered the land for miles. Mans of the scores If injured are expected jto die. THEWEAfrHER i Thunder nhontra this afternoon or tonlxbt; probably fAlIoired by fair Sun. iHjt (nmrnhiit waVmff tonlKhti pooler Sundnyj fresli oothrniit to aouth itintli Bhlftlnis to (Trrsterly. All men between ages of II and 30, Inclusive. nrJst register. Any perseii failing to register or who registers faIsely shall be guilty of a misdemeanorIn case f' temporary absence from his legal residence, a man must register by mail Hours of' registration shall be between 7 a. rV and 7 p. m. June 5, 1917, at the registration place in their home frecincts. Those who are too ill to register are required tov apply for instructions before June 5 as to how they may register by agents. Those absent from home on June 5 shall, when in cities of over 30,000 population, apply to the city clerk of the city wherein they may be sojourning.. The registration dcy, while not a holiday, shyu'.d be made "a sreat day of patriotic, devotion and obligation, when the tuty shall lie upon every man to see-to it that the name of every male ierson of the designated isoa in written on thM List of bonnr."

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' - 01 DEAD, Man Killed by Fail From Speeding Car Last Night. The toll of motor deaths at Gary has been Increased by one more victim. There are two more on the injured list. As a result of the latest death due to the speed craze the police have received stringent orders to arrest all speeders, regardless of who they are. and ten citizens have already been gathered in. ralla rrom Car. A machine whirled around the corner at 21st avenue and Jefferson street late yesterday afternoon. In it were severa men. As the car swung into Jefferson street one of the passengers was spilled out. hen aid reached the man he was found unconscious. He was rushed to Mercv hospital, where he died in p. short while. ' The police learned that the victim s name is Stogan Parrpovich. '--3a iladison street. They are loo'ing for the man who drove the car, it is said he is a bartender. Two Are Injured. Jacob Miller, 2593 Broadway, and Steven Ladonie. 2551". Monroe street, were injured last eening while riding on a motorcycle. Millar's machine -crashed into an utb driven by '"Julius Grathouse, 9 32 Broadway. The police took Ladonie t j Merty hospital. iimyST. SALE IS , The big May street lot saje which has been in progress today and will continue tomorrow between the hours of eleven in the morning to fix in the afternoon is already a demonstrated success, according to the late reports received from Hastings. Woods & Co.. the agents who are offering the property for sale. While there are still many desirable lots left close to Carroll street on May street and also on Becker and Bauer streets the sales yesterday exceeded all expectations, and many choice lots were sold. The fact that street after street In this locality has been built up with attractive homes, that the ne w20-acre May wood park, only two to three blocks away. Is being planted with trees and schrubs, that the new $300,000.00 manual training school will be opened during the coming September, all add to the interest in this property. In discussing the matter today a representative of Hastings, Woods & Co., said: "Every lot on May, Carroll. Bauer, Becker and all streets north of this property have been sold by the original owners and ninety percent of them are built on. This means that there is solid development right up to this property and that these lots must, in the very course of events, be the next to develop. Many of them are already built on. This is. accordingly, no pioneering rroject. This is what is making this sale one of the most active that the citv of Hammond hss ever known. "The proposition of' offering lots with all assessments paid in full is making I a rrput imnrosRirm for the reason that many purchasers of lots in other sections of the city have had to pay endless assessments before clearing up their property. The idea of soiling prop- ! erty clear of assessments is common in Chicago but not in riamrnond. "The proposition becomes one, simply, of the amount of the original purchase price. Nothing to pay after that is taken care of. In time most Hammond property will be sold on that basis." After tomorow's sale It Is expected that practically all of the remaining lots in the subdivision will be cleaned up. The Columbia avenue frontage has been taken off the market and will not be sold. This is business property and will not be marketed until the rest of the subdivision is sold out and at least partially built up. DIES OF DROPSY (Special to Thb Times.) fai WHITING, IND.. May 28. Mrs. Ma Homuth, a daughter of "Grandma" Wuestenfeld, died from dropsy this morning. She was a Chicao resident, but w;is well known here. She was 52 Stars old. Mrs. Homuth is survived by a husband and a son. The funeral will be held next Monday afternoon. Complete burial a rrusasaaati have not as yet been mad.

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.. SHOCKING DEATH TO OHIO (By United Tree. AKRON". OHIO, May 26.y-Five young people .two girls and thre men, were instantly killed at mldnjght at Mantua, near Ravenna, wh-fi an automobile was hit by an Ffe train. One man was injured. Parts of the automobile were scatter! 1.000 feet along the track. SpTS FLEEING WIFE; iuHEN WOUNDS HIMSELF Man Will Probably Die in Attempted Murder and Suicide. Walter Gaffney. 30, shot ins wife.' May. 22. in West Hammond today noon j and then turning the revolver on him- j self fired a shot which entered below ' the heart and will probably result in j nis deatn at St. Margaret hospital. The woman .will live... , Sb- -wars- hot in the arm. T . .. - T . . - ... accoro-.ng io in-; ,." vuiaiMeu uy Lniei .uz oil West Hammond. Mrs. Gaffney left her husband in Chicago and came to est Hammond to live with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. August Hillman. at 120 Mate street. She had had Gaffney arrescea in unicago and he was out under bonds. This jioon Gaffney entered the Hill man home, revolver in hand. "May, I ! came down to kill you," he said. Mrs. ! Gaffney screamed and ran past him to I the street. He followed to the door j and fired four shots. Her arm drop-'

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in a iaillt. OanneV turned the nistO an himself and flred, aiming at the heart. The bullet missed that mark byless than two inches. The wound, however. Is believed to be fatal. Gaffney lias not regained consciousness. His wife is in a room near his at the hospital. FLAG RAISINGS Hessvllle will raise a bijr flag Monday evening at the school house lawn. A squad of East Chicago troops and a trumpeter will salute as the flag is unfurled and patriotic addresses are to be made by Attorney Pavid Boone and Sergeant William Welch. The first railroad flag raising In Hammond w-111 be next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Nickel Fiate railway station. Through Agent Peter Thlmson the company sent a beautiful American flag and raised a flag staff In the station court, and elaborate preparations are being made to raise the emblem. Trumpeters and soldiers from the East Chicago troop will sound the "call to the colors" and patriotic Speeches will be made. Everyone Is cordially Invited to participate. .Special Invitations have been sent to all railroad companies. PLANT VI.CTIM OF A FIREBUG That his firewords plant was Intentionally destroyed was the opinion of ljuis DeRudder, owner of the DeRudder fireworks plant near Roby, which was utterly destroyed Thursday by an explosion and fire, at the coroner's in quest this morning. Mr. DeRiwider said that the building j which first blew up was practically empty of powder and explosives and could not have exploded without being set afire.' A watchman was killed, another man thrown 100 feet and seyeral girl employes injured in the explosion which shattered windows In a radius of a mile and could be heard as far as Gary. The plant Is a total loss, which Is estimated at 9.000. Girl Refuses to Recite "Deutschland Uber Alles' SOUTH BEND, 1XD., May 26. Be. cause she held It little less than high treason for an American Blrl to recite the poem -Dentschlnnd Uber Alles. Miss Lena Johnson, a pretty St. Joseph, (Mich.) hlah school girl, nan been din. missed from her German class nnd may not receive her credits. That the bonrd of education had taken this action re fuftinc Miss Johnson permission to reenter her class after temporary expulsion became ksonn Wednesday afternoon nnd cnused considerable comment. Mlns Johnson vrss willing to recite any other Gorman poem, but flatly refused to recite the one assigned her.

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. EMBJtfVO Uniftd States'- i OFFICERS unrtea ewnes army omcers in change of the training of the officers' reserve corps at Fort Benjamin Harbison, near Indianapolis, express great pleasure at the progress being made by the men. The embryo officers are already beginning to have the look of veterans, though they have been in training only since the middle of the month. is

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Ee turning from a INDIANA. CITIES ARE AFTER DISTRICT CAMP , By Vnlted PreM. INDIANAPOLIS. Mav 28. Indiana citles preSented their claims for the divisional camp of the Ninth army dls-! tr!rt n. nr h.,rH ' appointed to aelect a camp site. Col' EJwin M. Lewls is chairman of the Coj commission appointed to hear the claims of various places for the camp. It will be located in Indiana or Kentucky and the Kentuckians have already had an oportuntty to present their side of the question. Many . Indiana cities are after the camp. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Col 1 t..v. meeting. Cities in the southern part of the stare are making a strong plea for the camp on the grounds It would be centrally located for this army division which comprises Indiana and Kentucky. Army men wish to have It located close to a fairly large city in order that supplies may be purchased a.nd handled and a place of recreation offered for the men while they are In training. Indianapolis has offered XUverslde park as a site for the camp. Grounds adjoining Fort Benjamin Harrison and another site on which the Indianapolis motor speedway is located were also suggested by the Chamber of Commerce. The government must have at least 2.000 acres for the reservation and would prefer at least 6,000 acres In order that an artillery range may be used. A stretch of at least two miles is needed for this. The army board will make its recommendations to the war department and the final place will be announced In Washington early In June. The camps will be used first for the national guard mobilization and later for the conscript army. M'GARRY SALES LARGELY ATTENDED The John E. McGarry Jewelry auction ale is the talk of the town and on Monday will enter the -second week with society flocking to the popular store. The sale has become not only a fashionable fad but Is largely attended because of the genuine bargains obtained. The purpose of the big sale is to prepare for the complete remodeling of the snop which is to include a new front, and to make room for an entire Hallmark .stock. Mr. McGarry is one of the 643 Hallmark jewelers in the United States who go to the factories and dictate the price, cash in hand. He intends no longer to buy of Jobbers and states that through the Hallmark association he can buy as cheaply as the Jobbers. He will clear out everything of his up-to-date stock to put In a complete Hallmark stock, he states. and the patrons of the auction sate are getting in on a good thing. The sale is being conducted by Jonn F jui.-- a..i - v.ii. .ii. - Palm Beach where he conducted a big diamond sale, over $200,000 worth of gems being disposed of. The sales at the McGarry store on Hohman street are held at 2:30 each afternoon and 7:30 each evening. All goods sold during the auction are guaranteed, the same as is Jewelry Isold at the McGarry store any other ' time. CALLS GRAND JURY Judge Greenwald of Gary superior court, this afternoon isued a call for the first grand Jury which is to con vene next Tuesday.

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tttV if fire-mile hike and target practice at II II0fHlES REGISTER FOR DRAFT I1UW UCU IUCU XJKJ XI UU AJV W Be Exempted From Military Service. Eon't married men desire to be exempted from military service in the j conscript army ? i Fourteen men of military age who ! n r a nnn.rMAnt, hav ro-lclrH flnr. Ing the past three days In Hammond via the United States mail and of these only four have asked for exemption. Three desired to be excused because of physical defects whtle the third stated he was the sole support of his family. But the others nearly all married are willing to go if called. They applied at the clerk's office In the superior court for registration. Under the law non-residents may take this course of registering. The applicants answered all questions asked and the register cards were immediately dfspatehed in the mail for the home addresses to be put on the registers at those places June 5. The married men cither took It for granted that the state of matrimony is itself an excuse or desire to be drafted. GERMANS ATTEMPT EXPLOSION AT RIO (By Vnlted Prews Cnblcarram.) RIO DE JANEIRO. May 25. An attempted dynamitting of a government depot near here today by Captain Vending and eight German seamen from the Interned German ship Coburn, caused tremendous excitement and added to the war spirit against Germany. The Germans were arrested. How near Brazil is to a declaration of war against Germany was indicated by today's announcement that the Brazilian fleet is now patrollng the Atlantic. The Brazil congress continued its se'eret discussion of the lnatrnational situation. CAUTION Business men of this vicinity, who regularly each pay day cash Standard Oil Company (Indiana) pay checks as an accommodation to their customers, have recently been made the victims of unscrupulous persons who have put Into circulation worthless, Imitation checks with forged signatures thereton, and in an effort to rrevent in the future , such deception, all persons concerned j are ca.itloned to first examine our payro,, che.ks. 0n3 feature of protection I " wnicn Jurrjunu3 our r'Hroii cnf-CKS is indicated py ine words "Standard Oil , . .onlr)nv. ..trr-mrUf A in eal, rh.rk . oni pa n y . t intervals of nhntit 1 1'. in T 'nHpr tVi circumstances all persons handling our checks are cautioned to protect themselves by this examination. STANEDARD OIL, COIIFANT, (INDIANA). S-2S-6 J. P. Dudy, a tower watchman at the Michigan Central railroad crossing at Madison street. Gary, was found dead sitting in his chair, by W. E. Brown, a member of the Salvation army at 2 o'clock yesterday. This makes the fourth person found dead I in Gary in the Jast forty-eight hours.

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(By 1 nited Pre. WASHlSOTOX, May 26, The irnite finance committee today relieved the auto manufacturers of the proponed tax of 5 per cent on their Irs and transferred the burden to the- nuto owner. The committee also lopped oft the houae provision heavily IncreaHlng taxes on incomes ofr $40,000. (By United Presa Cablegram. BKKLIN (By Way of London) May 2. Complete repulse of British forces In n battle nt Lion iran nnnounccd In today's official statement. Prisoners and machine gum were taken by the (crirana. (By United Presa Cablegram.) PKIJ, May ,2. Further .progress around Mount (ornlllrt and takina: of 120 t.rrman prisoners there was reported In today's oflclal statement. osrrneral offensive movements were detailed.. A Inns; the C'hemln lira, Damn, the. war office said, there was consider, able artillery fire. West of Cerny two German attacks were repulsed. BY JOH H. HEARI.EV. (By United Press Cahlegrrnm.) no ME, May 20. The Itall.-'T' troop today stood victorious an the masters of the vast fortification system which Austrlans hnve been constructing ell winter to bar the way to Trieste and Lai Back. Last November . C adorns pushed a thrnstlna; salient forward In the Cnrao nnd his objective Trieste wan made plnlnly apparent to the enemy. Then enme the (crip of winter In the mountains, forcing a cessation of mass, ed fighting activities. Through all the snows and bllrsnrds the Austrlans worked nnreaalnarly, fortifying; against the Italian weda;e. hollowing out vast underground pasaaaes, cementing rocky barricades and bring up artillery. (By United Press Cablegram. ..LoSnOTV, My 2. Slight Improve, nient of the British position to the right of the River Scarpe was report, ed by Halg today in a statement ruralInar a continued general lull of the western front. "Xorth of Coureacourt nnd east of Armentteres at night hostile raiders were repulsed, he said. "To the right of the Scarpe our positions were slightly improved. At night between C'rolslllrs and the Scnrpe hostile artillery Increased.' (By United Press.) NEW YORK May 26. Answering the call of Major General Goethals, steel kings of the United Statea enlisted un. der the flag' of America's emergency shipbuilding; proarram and it assumed the pretentions of reality for the first time. An army of workmen today MBrfed pnttl.g the first emergency SUI f vvnuiii'-w . i. a la. MMiiHfAH across th, river from Newark (By United Press Cablegram.) ROME. May 24i. A totmi of .22,410 Germans and Austrlans were taken prisoners by Italian troops during their advance along the Julian front between May 14 and May 25, according to of. flc-la figures announced today.. - MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR OLD SOLDIERS A memorial service is to be held at the Hammond Christian church at 11 o'clock tognorrow and the veterans of

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BHiTISH Sixteen German Zeppelins and Aeroplanes Deal Death From Sky Yesterday. By ED X.. XEEIT (United Press Staff Correspondant.) LONDON, May 26 Death-dealing German attacks by sixteen enemy air craft, resulting in the killing and injuring of scores of women and children and followed by battles in the clouds between British arid enemy machnes, yesterday marked the bloodiest aerial attack on England since the war's opening. Details were revealed today in admiralty and home defense statements. The c. -ualty list was officially fixed at seventy-six killed and one hundred-tac "twenty-seven women and twentj--three children were among the dead and forty-three women and nineteen children among the wounded. Koyai flying corps machines which arose to batt'e with the invaders as they winged their way across .England downed three of the Germans. Royal naval air service planes "at Dunkirk, called into action immediately, swung into "battle array above the channel. Here a series of thrilling encounters occurred. One British machine gave battic with three of the enemy air craft and shot one of the trio down. The two sped on with the other raiders to encounter nfbre naval planes over the Belgian coast. Far aloft the two forces sailed, maneuvered and fought. Before the enemy forces could escape two twin engine machines were -shot to the ground. Of the sixteen air craft participating tn the raid three wera therefore accounted for. (The home defense statement named the raiders as "aircraft" which might be either aeroplanes, Zepplins or both.) Assuming all casualties In this raid were of non-combatants the total number of'civilians killed since the start of the war by German air raids Zepplins and aeroplanes is raised to 305 killed and 729 wounded. The only other raid which approached this present one In destructiveness of human life was that of March 31. 1916. Six or sven Zepplins took rart in this raiding force and their depredations ex-: tended over six eastern counties, the victims totalling fifty-nine killed and one hundred and one injured. GRANDER GrTS 1,5011 VERDICT AT VALPO I (Special to The Times.) ! VAI.PARAIS. IND., May 26. A verj diet of J 1.500 was returned by a jury in the i'orter county superior court yesterday afternoon for the plaintiff in the case of John Komanchek versus tht Scliulze Baking company of Chicago. Komanchek. w hose home is in Gary, was represented by Attorney H. E. Granger of Hammond. The G"ary & Southern Traction company was named as defendant with the baking company but no verdict was returned against it. The attornes for the defendants were Peters of Hammond, YVildermuth of Gary. Dan Kclley ff Valparaiso and Cravens of Chicago. rtomanchek was injured when a Schulze Baking company truck struck a wagon on which he rode and pushed j it in front of a Gary & Southern car in j Gary, according to the evidence introj duced by the plaintiff. He has been un- ; able to work since he was hurt. i , the civil war under the, G. A. Ji. banner ! aro planning to attend together with the Spanish-American war soldiers, the j Women's Belief Corps and a squad of national guard under "Major Noble. The old soldiers will be taken from the superior courthouse to Sibley street and Calumet avenue In automobiles where they will form In line of march and walk to the church, led by a brass band. The children of the Sundayschool will line streets and wave flags in salute. The Boy Scouts are to act j as marshals. Rev. C. J. Sharp will de liver the sermon. TTME9 ads aro persons! snesnages t the people of this nnuitj from the acrckaata.