Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 9 June 1917 — Page 1

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iL iU VOL. VI NO. 22 SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917 EIGHT PAGES SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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BY. CD T BYFLYERS Germany's Overlord NearDealli, Von Hlndenburg Present Three Officers Killed (By United Fress Cablegram.) LONDON, June 9. Three German officers were killed and the Kaiser himself barely escaped when the railway station at Ghent was bombed by aeroplanes recently, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company, Von Hindenburg, the commander-in-chief of the German armies, and the German Prince Eitel, were also present at the station beside other members of the German general staff. None of them was injured, the dispatch said. COUNTY 1ST BOARD MEETS Hon. J. B. Peterson Named Head of Important Lake , County Body. . (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IND., June 9. First pteps were taken here yesterday arternocn for the organization of the Lake County Council of Defense when each member of the board appointed by Judge W. C McMahon met at the couta house and elected officers. Hon. JohnVj B. Peterson was elected chairman andl Mrs. Jennie Wheeler was made secra 1 tary. Judge Peterson In his opening statement outlined the work of the council whose duty it is to co-operate with the etate council named by Governor J. P. Goodrich. One of the first duties of the County Defense Council will be to assist in the Liberty Loan campaign which is said to be greatly under subscribed considering the Initial allotment. Captain H. S. Norton and Judge Ofa L. Wildermuth the two Gary "members of the board also addressed the gathering which holds meetings on the first Monday of 'each month. Special meetings will be called whenever it is deemed necessary. The county - defense council will find Its duties important and numerous and the county is to be congratulated on having a board with such a personnel. WHAT'S WRONG WITH BUILDING? The Calumet Building & Loan association. In order to find an outlet for money, had to loan $17,000 in Gary, It was stated today, an Indication that there is something wrong with building in Hammond when local concerns do not find a market for their money at home. A few years ago it was commbn complaint that money was too hard to get to encourage building. This year, with plenty of money available . and the most prosperous of times. Building has taken a slump. Building materials are as cheap as they will ever be again. , Labor will never be secured again at a lower price. There is a big demand for improved property and rents are at top notch. There is nothing wrong with building as an investment. Evidently there Is foolish horading of money. Dollars m the family sock of a safety vault earn nothing. ACTRESS, LOBSTER WINE AND A NIGHT IN A GARY HOTEL An actress, a lobster, a wine supper, and a wild night In Gary those were the milestones in the racy career of Alexander L. Moyle as presenN ed In a divorce court. Moyle is assistant manager of the United States Ball Trading Manufacturing Company and Mrs. Moyle received a decree from Judge Thompson in a Chicago court. The affair started when Moyle received an, introduction to the actress, the evidence showed. He met the lady of the stage in a cabaret and they ordered lobster. Either the lobster or the wine, or both prompted them to go to Gary, Mrs. Moyel alleged.

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First of Series of Articles Showing How Wonderful Soma Gary Institutions Are Deals With Binzen Bar on U. S. Steel Site. EFFICIENCY AT GARY-No. 1 Gary schools, Gary steel methods, and Oary housing- facilities aren't the only things that are carried to the highest degree of efficiency. There are other things. Thns one would not expect to find efficiency In conducting a saloon, yet oddly enough It can he found at Gary. This is the story of one of the most offi. clently managed saloons in America. THE TIMES has from time to time, year After year, devoted space to the wonderful steel, school and city model efficiency schemes that exist at Oary, hut it has found that efficiency is also to he found outiide of the conventional channels. This is one of a series of Oary efficiency articles that will he printed at la. terrals, most of them to touch on efficiency that is not common place. IF ANTONE Imagines " that a s&lodn can't be any other than a "wet" . goods emporium operated, by a mediocre man. unskilled in business save to sell drinkables and get the money, let him attend to this story of a saloon at Gary that is said to handle more money daily some days than certain Gary banks. It is a saloon that requires a business office, an "auditor." and at times Its own police force to watch its "bank." The telephone, the adding machine and other devices of modern office equipment are to be found in this establishment known as the Binzenhof. Jn Oood Location. The Binzenhof is located at 4 th ave nue and Broadway and is said to be the largest saloon in Indiana as well as the most efficiently managed. It is the first business house that one mets after leaving union depot, and it is quite adjacent to the monster Gary steel plant. Being almost at the rrain gate of the greatest steel plant in the world, In the main street and on the path to the mills, and with no other saloon save one within a mile of big industries, it possesses a stragetic location. Beyond the mile-limit there are 150 other saloons, but it is the Binzenhof that gets first chance Rt the trade of the 9.000 employes of the steel plant and the 13,000 employes of adjacent mills who happen to pass its doors. This may explain why it does such a large business. Pays $3,000 SentaL The rental that the owners of the Binzenhof pay to the U. S. Steel Corporation which controls another saloon site in Gary is said to be at least $8,000 annually. It is New York or Chicago rental set down in Gary, but despite this the payroll of its large force of employes every saloon man in Gary and Lake county mivously regards the place a gold mine. The lessees besides getting the use of the saloon sublet a storeroom, which helps to pay off a part of the rent, as well as a hall upstairs, which is seldom used. Binzen Bros. Son It. When the Steel company officials decided to permit a saloon near the mills It Is said that they looked around for efficient, capable and trustworthy men to take over the place. So, some ten years ago Teddy Binzen, formerly chief of police of Joliet, Hi., and his brother, Michael, assumed the operation of the saloon. They have conducted it ever since, the license usually being taken out in the name of one of the brothers. Place Well Conducted. Probably no other saloon in Indiana hews so closely to the line in obeying the law. There is no disorder, no gambling, and no seats, bench or booths within. The Binzens are model bonifaces. The saloon closes on Sundays and holidays a detail that 99 per cent of Gary saloons do not follow! It Is said that the excellent law observance of the Binzenhof management has never drawn a single rebuke from its landlord, the Gary Land company, of which E. J. Buffington, president of the Indiana and Illinois Steel companies, is the head. As a result of this conscientious hewing to the mark no one has ever uttered a complaint that the saloon wasn't conducted as the law directs. Busy On Fay Days. The saloon is open at the usual hours in the morning to take care of any of the trade that wants accomodation, but during the day, save at noon, and in the latter part of th evening business is very moderate. It is In the morning (Continued on page five.)

NOW FOR THE U. MARINES Next week the United States Marine Corps is to receive the benefit of the greatest recruiting effort that has been made in its behalf since the war began. . - Lake county should contribute at least a score of recruits to this most desirable and spectatcular branch of the service. The following telegram received by THE TIMES is selfexplanatory : Washington, D. C, June 8. Editor P. A. Parry, TIMES Newspapers, Hammond, Indiana. There are no better soldiers in the world than those In the United States marine corps familiarly known as "Soldiers of the Sea". They have won their place hy their splendid hearing, courage and bravery. Always among the first and often the first to land whenever the countyr needs trained armed men they have borne themselves in such a manner as to win complete admiration and fullest confidence of the American people. Service In the marine corps is a badge of honor and promotion in the corps can' be attained only by merit. Zn no other military service is promotion more certain to a man who demonstrates his party. June tenth to June sixteenth has been designated by the marine corps recruiting service as marine' corps week and a special effort will he made during those days to add four thousand recruits to the marine corps, the number desired to bring the corps up to the strength lately authorised by congress. Young men with real American stuff ready to serve in all parts of the world on land and sea will find in it a place where they can serve their country in a way to win its gratitude with the opportunity of winning distinction for themselves. (Signed) JOSEPHTJS BAXIEX.S. X bespeak your generous cooperation and support by pa. trtotic organizations, business houses and Influential citizens in making successful this extraordinary recruiting effort. ( OEOXOE BABNETT, major General, . Commandant TJ. S. Marine Corps. Who will bethe first to join the marines ifom Lake county? Who will be the men on the roll of honor?

BETZ PLAIT HAS LARGE WAR ORDERS Orders for 1,000 operating tables and 5,000 bedside tables are among many allotments given the Beta Company by the council of national defense for the government's war needs. The Betz plant which now employs 700 people has the greatest capacity of any surgical supply plant in the 'country and it is expected the present orders will be followed by many more. The orders for surgical instruments have not been given out yet but are expected soon. ELKS' FLAG DAY EXERCISE THURSDAY Hon. Frank Cumerford, a member of the Illinois state senate for a number of years, is to deliver the main address at the Flag Day exercises of the Hammond Elks at the Orpheum theatre, Thursday afternoon. While the annual event has always been well given sfnd attended there Is added Interest this year owing to the fact that America is entered in war. An elaborate program has been prepared. CHLORINED WATER; NO TYPHOID FEVER Hammond water has been chlorine treated for a month and strange to say the only complaints made of the chlorine taste in the water were received at the board of health before the treatment was started. During the heated debate the public imagination was stimulated, apparently, and for ten days after the passage of the appropriation for the chlorine plant the board of health was kept busy answering the telephone. The water Is bitter with chlorine," one claimed. It was a week later that chlorine was used for the first time. Since that date there has not been a case of typhoid fever reported in the city. Help Your Country By Buying a Liberty Bond!

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IF BABY LLOYD KEET IS FOUND IN WELL (By Vnlted Press.) SPRINGFIELD, MO., June 9. The body of Baby Lloyd Kaet, 14 months' old son of J. Holland Keet. millionaire banker, kidnapped May 30, was found this afternoon in an abandoned well on -the Grenshaw place eight miles southwest of Springfield. The Grenshaw place was mentioned as the proposed rendevous of the the Reilly gang In their scneme to kidnap C. A. Clement, a Jeweler, according to confessions by Claude Piersol and Taylor Aflame, two euspects held In connection with the case. Both men however, denied they knew anything about the Keet case. Authorities have thus far been unable to fhake their stories, but they believe Piersol will ultimately confess part in the abduction. That the baby had been thrown into the well shortly after its disapeparance on the night of Decoration day was evident from the fact that the body was partly decomposed. It was wrapped in an old undershirt and probablyhad been in the well for several days. MS-DEATH Erie Railroad Man While Being Initiated into the Brotherhood at Huntington is Calledy Death and Dies in Anteroom. .Special to The Times. HUNTINGTON, IND., June 9. While being made to dance in a copper soled pair of shoes into which an electric current had been turned, William Nelson, employed at the Erie roundhouse as an engine wiper and living at 1045 South Jefferson street, died suddenly at the Becker hall, when he was being initiated Into the Brotherhood or All Railway Employes. He fainted in the hall and was carrkSC Into one of the front rooms. He was given stimulants, but these failed to have any effect. Dr. R. S. Galbreath responded to the call for a "physicianand by the time that ho arrived Nelson had died. Dr. F. B Morgan, deoutv coroner, was then called and he pronounced the man dead He ordered a post mortem to find the cause of death. The post mortem was held at the Bailey morgue. Nelson seemed to be in good spirits as only a moment before he fainted he was laughing and enjoying the initiation. Suddenly he fainted and Jack Heavey, conductor of the order, and several other members carried him into one of the front rooms. Twenty minutes later he died. No one seemed to know of any previous illness of the man. He was not subjected to a medica? examination before Joining the order as the order does not require it. (Special to The Times.) WHITING, IND.. June 9. John Wenglarr of Whiting wants to Join the army. He says his ambition is to serve Uncle Sam, but John must serve out a $100 fine assessed against him in Hammond superior court first. He is at liberty now under $500 bond, furnished by his brother who says, "He go stay in jail before I pay his fine. He no guilty of cutting all to pjeces horses harness but he is fined and got no money and say b,e won't pay me If I pay, so he go to Jail." John's brother took him to the Hammond recruiting station this morning. If he went to war he wouldn't have to go to jail, thought the kind brother, and he was willing John should go to war but when asked by Sergeant Comstock if he was going he shook his head emphactically no. John can go to war after serving cut the sentence.

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Captain Guynemer (right) interviewing a captured German aviator. K Capt. Georges Guynemer, France's most famous and successful bird warrior, ha achieved unquestioned superiority over all airmen of any nation.; An official dispatch states that he now has raised his total of enemy machines destroyed to forty-three. He recently bagged four machines in one day two of them in less than one minute of righting.

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GREETS THE KING (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, June 9. Major. General Pershing, commander in chief of America's expedition to France, was formally received by King George in a private audience today. General Lord Brook made the presentation. Pershing and his staff got down to work early today conferring with British military officials and preparing every way possible for their transfer at an early date to the French front. London newspapers overflowed the customary bounds of enthusiasm in greeting the American general and his men. "The landing of Pershing is a historic event." declared the Dailx Expdess. "He will learn from Admiral Sims how affectionately Great Britain welcomes America's aid. His arrival is a reminder that while we are hammering the United States is preparing with enthusiasm and ardor to hammer, too. "The cheers that greeted Pershing had behind them a spirit of national welcome," declared the Daily Mail. "There is not a mail in these islands in whose heart they do not find a ready echo." The London Times asked for an opportunity for a public welcome to Pershing, declaring him the standard bearer of the republic in the crusade. TALKS ON LIBERTY BOlfjJT THEATER Tinkham, Whinery, Wilson and Conroy to Make FourMinute Speeches. As Lexington had its minute men so has Hammond its "Four-Minute Men." Attorneys C. B. Tinkham, W. J. Whfnery, Jesse E. Wilson, and Joseph H. Conroy have valunteered to speak at DeLuxe theatre on the Liberty Bonds under the auspices of the Federal Reserve banks. Harry E. Johnson Is the county chairman and Frank Hammond the city chairman in Himmond. The first of the four-minute speeches will be made this evening at DeLuxe theatre by C. B. Tinkham. The others will follow the first three days of next week, starting-each evening at 8:15. The schedule follows: Tonight C. B. Tinkham. Monday W. J. Whinery. Tuesday Jesse E. Wilson. Wednesday Joseph H. Conroy, Are You Patriotic? Then Buy a Liberty Bond?

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'w-" "-Yatifr .IK Latest 'Bulletins (By United Preas Cablegram.) ZLR1CH, June 9. Emperpr Charles has naked Dr. Alexander Wekerle to undertake the formation of a new Hon. earlan eitbfnet, according to dispatches today from Budepent. Prrmitt Tlaz'a resigned several weeks ago and reports at tbat time indicated he would be succeeded by Count Androssy. Later It nppenreU the count had been unable to attain a ministry which he felt would snrvlve. (By I ulted Press Cablegram.) PARIS June 9. (!frmny' continued counter-offensive blows ngoinst theFrench lines were attain fruitless after severe night fishtlnt, the war ot. iio reported today. x North of St. (luentin during the night artillery Are was very active, the statement said. .On Chemlndes Dames from aoutli of Filzln to east of ferny the enemy renewed his attack with ac. ronipanimcnt of artillery Are In all seetors. Northeast of Orny four successive attacks were broken up. North of F'roldmont two German raids were checked with heavy losses. (lly I'nlied Press Cablegram.) BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS. (With the British Armies in France.) William "Redmond, Irish nationalist leader, brother of John Redmond, died in an ambulance today while on the way to a sospital back from the fight. int lines wher h was wounded. W. G. SHEPHERD. (Dj- !. ill 'erf Press Cablegram.) PETROGRAD, June 1. Four regiments of the Seventh Russian army refused to obey orders of their officers today. One additional regiment was, teported to have arrested Its own officers. , Minister of War Kerenslry ordered urrests of all responKible for the incident. They will be court martialed. (By United Press Cablegram.) ..LONDO"Vi June 9 A powerful at. tack by the Germans on a front of six miles, covering all the ground just won by the great Belgian drive of the Brit, ish, was completely downed by British fire. Field Marshal Halg reported today. (By T'rited Press Cablegram.) 1.0XDOX, June 9. Foreign Minister Arthur J. Balfour reached a British port today, bark from his special mission to the United States. NOTICE All Jewish citizens of Hammond are notified that the balloting for a delegate to the Jewish Congress in Washington, D. C, will be'held Sunday, June JUth, from three to five r. m. at the Beth-AJ school rooms. Any man or woman of the Hebrew race over 21 can vote. 6-9- MATER RUEBE.V, 311 E. Sibley. Help Your Country By Buying a Liberty Bond!

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PATRIOTIC 11 Lake County's Quota ot II, S, Loan Will Probably Be Oversubscribed Shortly. Bully for old Lake countyr Leading the state and the nationin recruiting, doing more than her share in Red . Cross activity and war Y. M. C. A. work she is also rapidly subscribing her two million dollar quota to the great U. S. war loan. H. M. Johnson, cashier of the Citizens' German National Bank of Hammond and chairman of the Liberty Loan subscription for Lake county today made his first official report. Gary leads the county. She has already subscribed half a million and will probably make it a million before she 13 done. An energetic spirited campaign is being made by Gary's leading business men and steel subsidiary officials to swell the total in a way to bring great credit to Gary. The total already subscribed in Lake county proper reaches a million and a Quarter. But this does not take Into consideration the great amount of bonds sold through Hammond manufactures to their employes from Is'cw Tork and Chicago financial centers with whom they do business. It is estimated that this sum alone will reach three or four hundred thousand dollars and if credited to Hammond as it really should be because Hammond people are eubLscribing would bring the city'a total up to three-quarters of a million. The same condition obtains at East Chicago and would bring its total up to a quarter ff a million. The subscriptions up to and Including yesterday are: ' OARY. First National Bank $ 240.000 Gary State Bank 200,000 Northern State Bank 25,000 So. Side Trust & Sav. Bank 10,000 International Trust & Sav. Bank 10.000 First State Bank of Tolleston 15,000 Gary Trust & Sav. Bank, (included In First Natl. Bank) Total $ 500,000 HAM3Z02TD. First National Bank 160,0flCitlzens German Nat. Bank 100,000 Lake County Sav. & Trust Co. SO. 000 Hammond Trust & Sav. Bank 10,000 American Trust & Sav. Bank 10.000 Northern Trust & Sav. Bank . 5,000 Total $ 365,000 WHITING. . First National Bank 30,000 First Trust & Sav. Bank 10,000 Bank of "Whiting - BO, 000 Total 9 90,000 CKOWN POIITT. First National Bank 60,000 Teoples State Bank 15.000 Commercial Nat. Bank 5.000 Total $ 80,000 I2JDIAUA HARBOR. Indiana Harbor Na. Bank $ 55.000 First State Trust & Sav. Bank 20,000 Citizens . Trust & Sav. Bank, (included in Indiana Harbor Nat). Total $ 75,000 EAST CHICAGO. First Calumet Trust & Sav. Bank $ SO.Ono First National Bank 25,000 East Chicago Bank , 20,000 Total $ 75,000 LOWELL. State National Bank 10,000 Lowel National 7,000 Total $ 17,000 j DYER. ' First National Bank 5.000 Total . $ 5,000 EOBAST. First State Bank $ 5.000 American Trust & Sav. Bank. 1,000 Total $ 6,000 HIGHLANDS. Farmers & Merchants Bank $ 3.000 Total . $ 3,000 WEST HAMMOND. West Hammond Trust & Sav. Bank : $ 10,000 Total $ 10,000 TOTAL $1,213,000 Hammond Ball Park, SundayHammond vs. Ideals. 6-7-J 'Are You Patriotic? Then Buy a Liberty Bond?