Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1917 — Page 1

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U. S. TO CHECK STEEL TRUST AND FIX STEEL PRICES

STEEL GO. BOOSTING THEPBICES President May- Commandeer AH Stee! Products and if Needful the Plants. By Vnlted Press. WASHINGTON. June 18. The goveminent will fix prices paid for stee used in constructing America's food fleet. On the heels of reports that steel plan to make enormous steel prices on contracts with the government, it was learned today that any such move will be met with sharp check. For the last ten days the raw materials committee of the Council of National Defense has been working with the heads of the country's big steel manufacturers fixing on a "reasonable" price for steel plates and shapes. ' - The price determined upon -expected within a few days will If approved by the president, be the one paid by the shipping board in steel ship constructions. If prices determined by the steel companies are not agreeable to President Wilson the government has the authority now to commandeer all steel products, and if necessary the plant turning them out. Reports of threatened high prices In steel for the government grew out of tentative agreements between Gen(Continued on page nvs. POLICE TRAP ALLEGED FENCE In the arrest of Bennie Schult-, 1010 Broadway, Gary, police believe they have caught a "fence" of the three boys arrested last week for numerous south side robberies. The boys. Joe Tomasluniesfl, John Popaditch and Steve Szwaykoski. were sentenced to long terms in the state prison. Schultz was arrested Saturday on the charge of having received Btolen property. RELIEVED Of any and all unpleasantness In your eyes if you have your glasses fitted at S. Silver, Jeweler and Manufacturing Optician, 177 State St.. Hammond, Ind. 6-18-1 TO BE NEW MEMBER OF COMMERCE BODY . E. L. Travis. E. L. Travis, now chairman of the corporation commission of North Carolina, will be the next member of the interstate commerce commission. He will.be named by the president as soon as the bill enlarging the commission from nine to eleven members is passed by congress. Mr. Travis has appeared before the commission hundreds of times in cases involving .railroad rates..

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1 TO ACT FOR Luncheon to Workers at the Country Club Will Pave Way for Grand Push Seven Days Long Hammond to Raise $25,000. , Hammond's seven-day campaign to raise a yearly subscription of $25,000 for the American Red Cross opened today. And it opened hot and heavy. At the Country club this evening A. Murray Turner, the chairman for the Hammond Red Cross subscription, and the committees that are to conduct the campaign will meet for a lunch at 6:30. Cards will be riven out and the method of procedure evplained to the campaign workers. It is planned to ask every man and woman In the city who Is earning money to subscribe a certain amount payable monthly to the Red Cross for the war fund which is to be dispensed under government supervision. .The headquarters of the war fund are at the Chamber f Commerce. The committees which meet tonight follow: Speakers' committee Jesse Wilson, chairman; Judge Reiter, Daniel Boone. J. H. Conroy, John Gavit, C. B. Tinkham. W. J. Whinery, Fred Crumpacker, C. R. Corbln. Publicity committee (for the War Council Fund) Ralph Groman. H. R, Cross. Erie R. R. A. M. DeWeese, Hugh Carroll, Jno. Muller. I. H. Belt Office Slater. Hitchcock; yard N. D. Connelley and Wilcox; shops A. B. Fromme and Sweeney. Monon R. R. Yard, Pat Bradley; shops Briden. Michigan Central D. V. Enright. Lake County Times R. H. McHIe, P. A. Parry. Simplex Carl E. Bauer, G. H. Austin, H. C. Millies. Standard Steel G. H. Vincent, Homer Branch. F. S. Betz Co. Marcks, Austin. Ben Brocker. Mike Kelley. - Street Railway Chas. Lawrence, Johnson. Glucose Company Jno. Noonan, Fritz C. Daley. D. C. Scully. Malleable Plant Harry Wanner. Straube Piano Company. Federal Cement & Tile George Geyer. Champion Potato Machinery Co. Geo. Knoerrer, Leonard Knoerrer. Enterprise Bed Coman Scott. Consumers' Company. Hammond Distilling Company J. E. Fitzgerald. Automobile Garages Sid Kaufman, F. W. Dempsey. City Police Fred Rimbach, George Hanlon. Fire Department Wm. NIU, Jim Ryron. Reid-Murdoch Henry Kraus. Central Signal Company Chapin Company George Chapln, Ray Kreger. Telephone Company O. A. Krlnblll, Leo Carroll. Northern .Indiana. Gas & Electric Co. B. C. Walters, J. H. Mitchell. Saloons Wm. Harrington, Burns. Minas Store E. C. Minas, L. h. Whltzel Courthouse Roscoe Hemstock. City Hall J D. Smalley, P. Lyons. Ahlborn Construction Co. Wiilllam Ahlborn. Grasselli Chemical Company Blyley, O'Brien. Munster Schoon. Illinois Car Manufacturing Co. Milkmen Klitzke. Greeks Berolas Bros. Coal Dealers Daley, Basil Walker. Labor Unions Tom Harle and H. Gabler. Flour and Feed Beiker, Maglnot. Grocers Jacob Brusel, H. Heimke, Gene Friswold, Joe Stodoia. Hardware J. J. Ruff. Druggists Verne Summers, Harry We is. Jewelers Armstrong. A. B. Dickson of Gary, district secretary of the Red Cross War Fund. BOY SCOUTS JGOOD WORK (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IND.. June 18. The Boy Scouts of Crown Point did glorious work in the liberty bond sale, and they brought honor to Crown Point in selling nearly 2,000 worth of bonds, as shown in the report sent headQuarters at Indianapolis. Do vou care enough for our brave soldier boys to help the Red Cross?

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An Appeal to Our, Readers We wish it -were possible this week to personally meet every man, woman and child In this community and talk with them face to face. We would beg of them to respond to the Red Cross appeal this week. We would implore them to GIVE IN FULL, MEASURE PRESSED DOWN AND RUNNING OVER In eager response to the world's appall

ing need in the most frightful calamity In all history.

Picture to yourselves, oh people, your boys at the front!

MEAN THE BOYS YOU KNOW. OUR BOYS! Do you know that our soldier boys are on their way, taking with them the spirit of a great nation to charge across black and bloody No Man's Land? Some of the boys it may be one you know will run ahead when the order to charge comes. THEN A BULLET FOR HIM. Now, will it be your dollars that take the stretcher to the boy who ran ahead? WILL YOUR DOLLARS PUT WATER TO HIS LIPS? Will your dollars hurry with him back to the tender care of the nurse so ready to mother him till he gets well or until the gates of Eternity open for him! Will your dollars brighten THAT FIRST MORNING WHEN HE SEES THE SOFT, WHITE PEACEFULNESS OF HIS COT and settles back, reassured by the smiles about him, to rest Just a bit again? Those may be YOUR dollars if you will for auch Is the glorious, wonderful work dollars can do these daysx Every subscriber to the Red Cross can count his dollars doing Just some such thing. Every member can know his dollars can he hurrying comfort to the boy who has taken the spirit of America so bravely "over the top.'' A ten dollar or a five dollar contribution is such a little thing to do so much maybe you think it's e.11 too little to count Don't feel that way. DON'T LET THAT BOY GO DOWN, CHOKING FOR THE VERY BREATH OF LIFE don't let his call go unheard, Just because you thought a ten or a five dollar bill couldn't do enough.- :.. . - . .. , vJi"'--Subscribe to the Red Cross today, now. Our slogan is "Fight or Give! Put the five dollars you were about to spend so needlessly back into your pocket and give it to the Red Cross. , Oh, dear reader, GIVE to the Red Cross this week? THE EDITOR.

SUICIDE, GUTTING, SCRAPE TS SUNDAY Hammond Has Number of Unhappy Affairs Boarder Hangs Self. A suicide, a stabbing affray, and minor automobile accidents occurred in Hammond Sunday. Fritz Lehman. 70, a boarder at the State Line House, committed suicide by hanelne in his room for reasons un known. His body was discovered by Gussle Hanson. chamDer maia. xTiv. TMnko was stabbed In the stom ach and August Davis in the head In a three-cornered fight at o. a oia ninko is in the hospital. Iivis in jail and the police are seeking Martin Krufa. tv,t,v Skarkos. 35. 110-151st street. East Chicago, was cut about the head when an automobile bearing license tag 9ftsi TlHnois- struck him at Kindel's Grove on Sheffield avenue and sped on wlthouyt stopping. He is In St. Margaret's hospital. Mrs. Pauline Abrams. 30. B57 Ames avenue, Hammond, was injured when the car in which she rode with her husband and Julius Cook, the driver, hit a telegraph pole on Calumet avenue sihlfv street. Cook was talfcin and didn't see the pole. Mrs. Abrams face was cut. GHHT AFTER So great are the demands for Liberty Loan bonds that Gary bankers are buying them from outside sources. The approximate total Increased over Saturday's report shows a gain of $15.250 and 154 subscribers, totalling $1,083.450: subscribers, 8.888. A final report is expected tomorrow. Monday's Beport. Subscribers. Amount. Gary State 3.950 $ 523.9Q0 First National 2.047 280,000 Northern State .-l.500 .140.000 S. S. Trust & Savings 400 70.000 Gary Trust & Savings. 369 30,000 International Trust 125 27.000 Amer. Cit. Bank 251 27,000 First State 135 15.550 Union Trust 111 10,000 Grand total 8.8S8 $1,083,450 WEATHER. Local thunder ahowera thla afternoon or tonight Tuesday fair and cooler; freah southwest winds shift. Inar ta northwest! cooler tonight.

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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917

I WE EXTRA (By United Preaa.) WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18. An American air btt of 30,000 machines la the V. S. program for the, flrat year of the war. (By United Preas Cablegram.) PETROGRAD, Jane 18. Russia trill continue the war and a war program haa been definitely decided upon. (By United Preaa.) ! CHICAGO, Jane 18. The U. S. Is to mvestigate the meat packing industry. (By United Preaa.) BOSTO.N, Jane 18 Red Sox beat VWhl k White Sox la morning; game, 0-4. AVY TOLL ON GOSTLIN STREET 2. ft. fl REVELERS ) Hammond today collected another heavy toll from early morning joy-rid ers on Gostlin street in an effort to reurn that thoroughfare to the peace and uiet it once enjoyed. The fines in the Hammond city court lveled against Chicagoans were as follows: For disorderly conduct, six at $17 each $102.00 For speeding, two at $20 and one at $17. 57.00 For fighting, three at $15 apiece- 45.00 Total $204.00 City Judge Barnett advised the defendants who were arrested over Sunday to return to Chicago without coming in to Hammond when they visit Burnham. It appears they had stopped at the roadhouses, the resorts being closed at present. JUMPS UNDER (Special to Thb Times.) CROWN POINT, IND.. June 18. What might have proved to be a serious accident happened on Main street about 7 o'clock Saturday1 evening when JamesJ Ifyu who was riding on the rear of the bus lumiwd off right In front of th ft re proaching automobile driven by Cha Abbott the florist. Ifyu was thrown to the ground, his hip fractured and Injured internally. He was taken to his home and attended by a doctor. Mr. Abbott is held entirely blameless in the unfortunate accident. Ifyu is employed as a moulder in the Trump Manufacturing .works. Let your children join the Red Cross.

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dent of the National Dunes Park asso - ciation at its meeting Saturday at the Gary public library and Mrs. J. Shee han, Gary, was chosen secretary. Other officers appointed: Miss Catherine Mitchell. Riverside, 111., first vice president; Thomas W. Allinson. Chicago, second vice president; i F. Bennet, Valparaiso, treasurer. The asociation In order to Increase Its membership will appoint membership promotion committee's in Illinois and Indiana cities. One can become a life member for $1. The purpose of the association Is to increase its membership, not its treasury, said Mrs. Sheehan today. The Dunes organization 4s the only organization for the preservation of the sand dunes. Latest 'Bulletins (By ITnlted Preaa rrshlearam.) LODO, June 18. A tremendous German attack east of Menchy le Preux forced the British to fall back from certain advance posts. Field Marshal Halg reported today. "After severe fighting we were compelled to fall back from certain advance posts In front of our main new positions," the statement says. "We still hold Infontry hill." Menchy le Preux, live miles southeast of Arras, Is one of the turning points on the general Hindenburg front, being on the, so-called Drocourt-Quesnt line. It has been the scene of tremendous fighting ever since the British Jumped out Vlmy ridge and drove toward Deuml. (Bv United Pr Cablegram.) invnnv j-. is R.dfn-tm.n ! ..i...i. . - ! - ---- -- . - - - - - - - - j hinted at In Berlin reports. First was the Lutsk sector where resumption of fighting by the Russians has taken place which with thr dispatch of the duma's motion for renewed warfare gave great hope here. Second, was the Berlin statement Indicating withdrawal by the British Salonika expeditionary forces fro meertaia positions In the Strumas lowlaads. The duma resolution for an Immediate offensive was taken sa favorable slga of erystalisatioa of Russian sentiment against Germany and complete failure of the German plots. (By Vnlted Press Cablegram.) STOCKHOLM, June 18. Three Amer. teal socialist delegates to the Interna. tlonal conference were announced as having arrived today for a conference

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Tuesday. They are Max Golfarb, Forts Relnsteln and Davidovitch. Jio explanation was gl ven as to how the three received credentials from American socialists. (By United Press.) SEW YORK, June IS. Mis Honors Mae O'Brien today was granted $225OOO damages against the aged John R. Manning In her breach of oromlse suit. decision of the Jury In the strange V - ane of the 28-year old Irish rose iisainat the 86-year old millionaire was nnnounctd whea th sealed verdict was opened today. (By ITnlted Press Cablegram.) PARIS, June 18. Major GeneralJ Pershing put In an Interrupted day of work at his desk In the American headquarters. It was the first day since his arrival that, he has not made formal calls. (By Vnlted Press.) WASHINGTON. June 18 Russia as a devotee of democracy and Individual liberty must continue to fight against German autocracy, the Vnlted States declared in substance In a note sent to the Russian government before the arrival of the American commission to explain the alms of the commission. (By Vnlted Press.) WASHINGTON", June IS Additional contracts for ten complete steel cargo carrying steamers and twenty-four wooden hulls have ben let by the Vnlted States shipping board.. The total number of contracts to date for the emergency fleet Includes twenty-elght complete steel ships, thirty-two com. posit ships, thirty wooden ships and Includes forty-eight wooden hulls. WILL KNOW IN 24 HOURS AS TO DRAFT (By Vnlted Press.) WASHINGTON', June 18. The American war- machine which is to grind out 625,000 soldiers for service In France is geared up and ready to start today. President Wilson's proclamation of regulations which will start the drtfe is ready to be issued. This proclamation tells in detail how the fate of every man eligible for war will be decided. Publication is expected within twenty-four hours and the selection will begin soon. The proclamation gives rules for exemption. The personnel for the exemption boards in the states was decided today. The proclamation does not set a definite date but the provost marshal's plans are made on the basis of conducting the draft the first week of July. EAST CHICAGO SOLDIER ARRESTED Fate Albright, an East Chicago soldier, was arrested at Elevent avenue and Broadway, Gary, at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, for carriyng conceald weapons. Albright was in civilian clothes and a revolver was found on him.

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"delivered by TIMES carrier!, SOo pet month; on streets and at newsstands, 2o pw copy; back numbers 3o per copy. ACTIVITY Every Man, Woman and Child Is Urged to Subscribe to Great International Relief Body. Lake county sees today the begiruaing of the most tremendous drive for popuar subscriptions of money in its entire history. Between tonight and next Monday night Hoosiers alone are expected to give a million and a half dollars toward the Red Cross war fund for which in the nation is' $100,000,000. In every city and town In Lake county, Gary. Hammond. East Chicago, Whiting. Crown Point plans for a great campaign are complete. LsJ county Is to raise $150,000 and more If possible. Everywhere are evidences of the Bed

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plete order has come out of the medly of half -determined plans, which a week ago caused Red Cross leaders In each city to wonder whether it was within the power of humans to compass the remarkable volume of preUminary detail In seven short days. Willing workers were found at many points. Men and women threw themselves into the campaign with whole-hearted vigor. In Gary and Hammond tonight big luncheons are being given to map out the w eek's' work. In both these cities hundreds will solicit funds. Every publicity-device ever used will be brought into play to reach the people. 'Manufacturers, business men, women, preachers, lodge men, city officials and ' the entire corps of city workers are giving their whole time this week to the Red Cross propoganda and to awakening the people to the fact that they must join the Red Cross and do it today. Make tomorrow your Red Cross day. o field service is required. Count this the chance to do your bit for this county must have two million members of the Red Cross $100,000,000 in subscriptions. President Wilson, himself, is President of the Red Cross and asks that one million men and women enroll their s names as subscribers to the Red Cross at $1, $2. $5, $10, $100. $1,000. $10,000 or $100,000. He does not ask that you do anything . else but pay your subscription and then if you wish to secure. 10, 25 or 100 new subscribers, do so if you

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