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a .fa Kandsoma Evangelist Gonduofs Whirlwind Campaign On Closing Convention. lie looked like an athletic movie nctor In the pink of condition except for a too extensive waist line. Ho i?poke with a droll and a southern accent when he didn't contort his features and shout, lie fumbled a handkerchief with one hand while the other toyed at hij wavy disheveled lilack hair. His'ojes were those of the zealot. Perspiration and egotism oozed from the alabaster brow. And through his religious monologue he paced back and forth before his audi ence - - - - It was the evangelist Bod Jones ppeajiin? to the Indiana State Tlndeavor convention and townspeople of lI;Hnniond at the Masonic Temple, Sunday afternoon. Needs Hell, Tire aad Damnation. "The per cent of good women in America is on the decrease." cried the evaneelist, hitrhins at his belt, wavin the handkerchief and pulling his hair. "Women always live on a higher or lon er plane than men. When they come to the plane -of man they go lower. "The two can not meet on the same plane. The first death by eruciiixion was hatched in the brain of a deteriorate woman. A woman robbed Samson of his strength, rhnronh went to hell 'because of a voluptuous dancer. There are men in Hammond poins to hell in the arms of women on the hall room floor. It is up to you girls to live up u the old time standards of womanhood. - There Is no such thin as roKu!atin?r Ood-less pleasure. Thj thins' that satisfies today will tint satisfy tomorrow. In the old days things were either black or white. With reople now they are a dull gray. What America needs is about six months of hell, lire and damnation Preparations for Hammond's "safe and sane" Fourth of July celebration at Harrison park are being completed. An excellent program for as v';i day affair is being arranged. Starting at ten o'clock in the morning a flag raisin?, music and appropriate speeches win pleasantly pass the time, tn the afternoon an cratiou by I?rank Cumerford will feature. An unique part of the profgram ..will be a readinir by Mrs. 'Wil liam V lch, wife of recruiting Sergeant eicn. .Martial music iy a rami anpatriotic soncs by the people wii; inter sperse program. HAMMOND BOYS MOVE (By Irvingr Chaj FORT VA en,j July 1.--Nine ! students who voluntered for forn service in the field artiiicry, arrived here Friday from Syracuse. X. Y. They .are planning to visit Washington. T. C., which is a few miles from the camp. The eleven members from Hammond w-ho joined since the outbreak of the war and whose named appeared in Ttrs Timer. last k havo been distributed throughout the companies. When we left Syracuse the regimental band played "The Star Spangled Banner" as tho liag was being lowered-at re treat. FOUR RECRUITS ARE ENLISTED Carl Kowolski. the only man who vol unteered after the "enthusiastic" Fri day night patriotic parade, can after all. Sergeant Welch has four that Carl is married and has three chil-j our men left today. They are John F. ! Palusko and Joseph Cieranako. "West Hammond; John Rirciienstein and Pen Haley. Lowell. Puring recruiting week Sergeant Welch enlisted fifty men, half of Hammond's quota. C. D. ROOT APPOINTED j TIMKS llinEAl' j AT STATU CWriTAI.. i INDIANAPOLIS. Jure 30 Governor I Goodrich has appointed. Clayton It. Root of Crown Point, a member of the state board of forestry.t Other mem-j hers are William A. Guthrie, Tndiai'-' university; Morton V. Wilson. An.lcr.i son; Richard Liebcr, Indianapolis.

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HAMMOND. INDtAiNA. liuuy ! iy ily I'ntipd Prf a'tlfK ram PETROG RAD, July 2.- Russia's offensive is now fully underway. In twenty-four-hours' of fisrhting 8,361 prisoners were taken. Today a great artillery preparation was roaring- all alone; the Ualacian front. The town of Kominkahy wa captured. Jlore prisoners are coming back of the lines hourly. News of the Huss:an offensive i was hailed by allied attaches joyfully. I General Erusiloff i3 drivjng'agrain at i the Galacian city of Lfmberg in the same region where the Russian off t naive of last summer, mashed through to Ha'icz. The front over which the fighting is now- being- pressed by the Russians totals about twenty-live miles. Berlxa official statements of Satur day grava tlio first hint of resumption j cf Cg-litins- of each magnitude as to be an offensive. Sunday niglit advices confirmed tills, declaring- an ambitious tlQW struck by General EmsilofT along1 a front of approjiiiaatcly eiffhtcen end ons-half milss. Oa all this Una Russian troops succeeded in storming- th? first lias trenches, but the Gerraan ! statement Insisted thC7 vero later oust- J ed. "liis was along- the Cprer Strlpa. rig-htls in this ssction has not fig--rrscl ia lh war news for nine or tea! months. This is tho first general fight- j ing- by tna Hnssians since the over throw of the czar. Deputy Sheriffs Olds and Stults todaymade the following arrests, eight in number, at Gary, in connection with true bills returned by the grand jury: House of ill fame-; Gus Pyrakaquis, 1523 Adams street; Jack 1'crrell, Tenth and Jefferson street. Letting property for immoral purposes Christ KUinois, Kiniako3 Lainsos. Toney Lainsns, Kiniakos Folliss, 15-S Adams street. For buying and receiving stolen

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anil I'.roadway. Each of the defendants was released on $1,000 bail. HERE'S YOUR BUTTON The Ilarrunond Chamber of Commerce has secured nearly TT0O more registration badges for those who registered in Hammond and did not reeeive a registration button. Tl!ey will be given out at the following places upon presentation of a Hammond registration card: riuehl's, 725 Indiana boulevard. - Haziett's. 1204 Reese avenue. Rose's store, 2S6 Ilohman street. Keeler's office, 420 Ash street. Nelson's drug store, f.3 4 Hohman r Wyman's. T',7 Alice street. .Smith's place, 40 Sibley street. Thorn a's, '.Z7 Columbia avenue. Lurii-'s grocery, 567 Morton avenue. I'irie's. 733 Hohman street. USE AUTOS NOW The Hammond Iaundry I.-1 doing away with horses and wagons and substituting automobiles order to meet the demands of thair large increase in business. All shirts and. collars are

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and Sanitary, the use of pins being entirely discarded. The large number of new customers is god . evidence that the efforts of the new management is appreciated. HERMAN ALLEN DEAD Herman Allen, 25 years old. dropped j bearuing house,' 17i Michigan avenue, i Ifarnmond, Saturday .night. He leaves ! no relative? in this vicinity. The Ho-i-; carriers' union will have chari;e of the! funeral. BETH-AL SCJlg51'

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CEH. PELCTICR. Father of 3 Eliot When Stunning From Bos Car Early Euiidaxiorning. A blast from a Winchester riot prun, "said to have been held in the hands of Special Awent J. M. .Lambert of the Wabash railroad, early Sun lay mornins ended the life of a Gary man while Lambert and another officer were on watch for box car thieves, w ho have been numerous lately. j According to Lambert, who 5s from 1 Detroit, and his partntr, G. M. Ow.-ns 1 id Cave man law evailcJ at Cafumct, bov.-ski of EOI'v-iAiexander avenue and tried to settle tfe argument by way of a k t ; i The fight twk place at the corner of 140th and Melville avenue when Nick Churill't pu' 1 bis knife indicting three or four ep wounds on Rarbowski, making foi his escape. r'or.tMiii' Gieseiiing arm Officer Se,,i.tt Responded to the call. Tr. Ti'wnsley was jmmmonot d and the wouie! man taken to Sr. Margaret's HoFriuil in the lluber ambulance. Vr'-n oxnmnaticn of his wounds one in the side was found to be very si -rious and may prove fatal. Churilla who is stlU at large, has a police report. The police are on his trail and expect to have him in custody before night. . mi Tifty men are engaged in searching the Little Calumet Eiver at East Gary j for tho body of two CMca?o men wno were dro-srned there late Saturday ni&'ht or early Sunday morning- 'while fishing-. Karnes of the victims havo not teen learned. LITTLE VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT HAS RECOVERED Little Vincent. Pirisi is w'll and ! happy niore. The five-yc-.T old be,y was severely injured two mouths ago when his father and sister wtre kU'.fd on the ttbw.w. cr-v--s:r t y a ;x bit . up W1 automobile in which t:t j,was riling and the boy a.j (With both le-js broken 'and t ;,. .;; j r i i rain nsh- ; splintered. The revering of t was ruptured arid ' rp.o of t , subs tance csrar.ed. Tho. l.ov was rhw : ed to St. Margaret's ho-wt.l and Dr. .W. IT. iM-A ..,. a i ott.ndjnrc. . Dr. Mikese.h nermittej? il'e b.iv t rr, Mikeseh permitt i e-.e hospital last wrk

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i unae-r cotr.uianu t.i e.ai n. t-nipie-uy. x no , j company is rccnntcd to full w a r I j strength, having lj'J members, who will j i j arado in the morning and drill ia the! afternoon at the fair grounds. j Two prominent speakers' have been! engaged. Hon. Patrick eJ'Donm-ll of Chi-j case a celebrated orator, will speak on ! "Americanism" and in the evening Re-vJ Chas. A. Caton a noted Red Cro.-s work-! er will givo an address en Red Cross wont. SHIPS -TO BE REQUISITIONED 4 Hy I nUvi rrcs.) WASHINOTON, July 2. Announ '-' nieiit to ail ship owners to be prepared ! for the requisition, of their ships by j the Fnited Slates government is ex-peete-d to ssue.l by the department i &f cn;ij.nerce today. A NE " PROPOSAL in.v.lnifeil I'rrnH Cablegram.) TOKIO. July 2. A ..proposal- that Japan nt o; ic f e with the- I'nired S'at is for Ci.eiSt !mr.?e of i he -' Phii ippine islands to Japan for the - south-sea islands seized hy the mik idt fr.o:n -3 - rmany, was mad in p n lian'ht today 1U! OppOf He expi-e i extlriii;; on ist-iiii?-. d tiie belie! would coti.se that th.t :n sir. RIOTING IS SP10US. (Py I ni'ed PrsN. ( N EAST ST. LOF1S. ' H.I... July 2.--heiti - before a m. rioting got eond contrei of poliel an! i thr in. ; t he lo-a ' r- ki : S:te rn j tf lr-r " t Of the e. within fifteen i.i!:n:lif. rr tli t iiitne -n were 'diss mud by and fcoovd.- All saloons w.-i.e ? vd. r ef the mayor, a J' t ; re r, a 'white merchant'. Wil" .a :,n.l :ied fiwii after S3 -Iwl -A ,'S- e- ' stoo 1 It' ee'o'.t oT'i.d .-ice.

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1 A ' t " kij Train for Paris Si -i J1 By United. Press. AN ATLANTIC POUT, July 2. One cf four German fyjinariass' was suai ' . . . . . - , .. ,i hr 4.-i - r - r -: ar-lvii h.cr-2 from tnAsv. Thfl hltf liner evaded i":'n.snr;-!t'j trrnt-'os. Ca cf tio Aiibo's shots carried r,w&y the periscope and the fdlowing- one struck tlie There was a tis explosion and 4 illUl. tho stilj went down. ' By TTnited Press. " CHICAGO. July 2. Charles Baird, ' cash-ier of tho Xationsl Tea company, . -t t. - a n Tin n vraa busu ujr uv. v tered Hump's private hani today and robbed of between $10,COO ard 520-OCO which ho carried. Ey TJnitoa Press. WASKISrGTOIT, Jtily 2. Brys won tho first round in the senate fijht when tho sencto agricultural committee today voted eight "to thrcso to rejsct Senator J Chamberlain's amendment wiJch wouia Ulinunata beers r.nd wines from the proi vLtion uct. Immcaiately afterward tho senate committee rassea benaxor Gore's ameniis-.cr.t which places the fate 1 cf boer and. wins in the president's j hands and jrcfciUis th manufacture of ! distilled licr.crs. Vnitstl Press Cablegrrarn. n-rTtT,!1-. Via ioncton, ijw : . v-Hlrr cf i:cmint,ky in the Bussian offensive in Cralicia was ucu it tta tTit offlce to 'Jay. "The Russian attaei was caught r.p with," tha state-ir-nt ccntinu.eC, "and we prepared by a new barring- position. A fresh attack vrr.s thus frustrated." By United Fres3. WASHIK3TON, July 2. Enssia's attaat some wevfia e '- the reorrraniaticn cf tho Slav army was under way. Ey United -ress. CHICAGO, July 2 An enthusiastic crowd greeted tho BsUtfttitt Mission oa its arrival hero today. Keasera of the party raid America's entrance into the var means "salvation to Belgium. TJnited. Press Cablegram. lOKLON, Judy 2: British stood pat around I.en today awaitlnff consolidation cf their new positions and hring-ing-I up fresh supplies. Haig-'s only report r.r a siieceqaftil raid around Kargeconrl: in which a number of the enemy werouReil and taken prisoners i wr3 reported. An enemy raid near leas was itiichly driven out. TJnited Press Cablegram. SKAKGHAI, July 2. Kauan Tung, former emseror of China deposed hy the revolution, today announced his succession to the tarone again and as- j sumption of the government. Ia Pakin:? martial law was proclaimed throughout tho nation. President Id Yna-J. Iluaff has- been formally orlered to reli-ititiish all authority. TJnited Pre3S Cablegram. PAEI3, July 2. Only two Trench shops of mere than sixteen hundred tons war-a rank in the wek ending: j-ace 24, aecordinff to -official report. Daring" that seven days 1,033 ships entered Preach pert a and DCS departed. United Press Cablegram. . ' WAEIIIraXCIT, . Jaly 2 The . Chi--sa monarchists nisv have accompivhed a cottp e: etat eiclodffiitj Presl. 1 dcr- li Yuan. Hung, according to state aer.-irtir.'esil; infermatian today. r I 7ILTHEI TaiA tin.'srht T-aesday, not much I ch.r ia tsmrcratttrs.

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"Delivered ty TIMES carrier, 30o per month; on streets and at newsstand, So per ccpy; back nasiten 3o rer topy. kJ One Million Ben M to Brawn In First Lc7 Rfffikfii- Two .' rWssks, By WSSB MILMB (United Press , Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 2. President Wilson today created and set into motion the gigantic machinery of the draft n..t 1 1 i ' r i nuxes anu reguiaiions ior ex emption and the time for the be ginning cf the draft were' fixed. It is believed that one million men will be drawn in the first levy expected wi'whin two weeks. Only a very small group of classes of men is exempt from bearing arms. Others claiming exemption must appear before' the board whose every action is hedgetl with double face gtiards against unfairness and wide open to the public gaze. The following classes are exempt upon proof: Men indispensible to industries that are necessary to the military establishment of the national interest. lien with wives, children, parents,brothers and sisters dependent upon them solely for support. Members of well recognized religious sects whose creeds forbid bearing arms, students of divinity and ordained ministers. , Legislative, judicial and executive officers of the United States or the states of the union. Men in the army .or navy, of the Vnit(Continued on pne three.) DEATH TOLL S.S. COLUMBUS (3y Unitea Presi.) " . MILWAVKLE, WIS., July 2. Fifteen are known to be dead and 23 injured as a result of the Christopher Columbus disaster in the Milwaukee river here Saturday. Reports state that from 25 to bO are raissing. Three investigations are on today. The county coroner and district attorney aer calling witnesses for Thursday's inciuest. Federal inspectors are probing to ascertain if any ,- licensed navigation officers were res.asible for the accident. . T. J. Larry, department of fystice, is nvestigating to determine J radically the same thing and twill make arrests if indications warrant. GIRL TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE Officer raided a house at 3506 Tuclid avenue, Indiana Harbor, Saturday night and obtained evidence of liquor beirg sold without license. A girl of 21 years, who was being used as bartender, turned state's evidence and her name was withheld. Judge Fuzy gave the man $50 and costs in the city court this morning. FOOD BILL AMENDED (1y l uited Pre.) WASHINGTON, July 2. The senate today amended the food bil to include control of cotton and its products. This would hit clothing. It also vote4 to incjude wool, skins, hides and their products, thus placing control over all wearing apparel, including shoes. Hammond Ball Park. Hammond vs. Merrimacs. Wednesday, July 4. 6-28-Patrolman Joseph Wrsaykov was taken sick last night while on duty and was taken home. BAVARIAN PRINCE IS HOLDING LENS Crown Prince Rupprecht. Crown Prince Kupprecht Tana is in command of forces defending the Frc arid industrial center o

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