Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 14, Hammond, Lake County, 3 July 1917 — Page 1

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Every City In Lake Go. Rendezvous for Filthy Beggars From licago WSa Are Weii-toDo It is estimated that $50,000 a year is given to Chicago bams and cripples by Lake county cities every year. Beggars, street fakers, ioafers, pan-handlers and other like trash are not wanted in the cities of the Calumet regon but they come out in droves. For sometime the streets of Hammond, East Chicago and Gary have been conspicuous by the daily appearance of beggars, cripples and bums of all descriptions. The only remedy is to refdse to give them a cent. From this time on pass "em up. Th drunken slovenly bum whines, "Please" mister, give mil SrTS1fo Chicago." "Usually he gets it. He looks as If he needs the dime or pennies the generous person might fling him but invariably, as has been proven, the bum could buy and sell a greater per cent of his donors. Greasy lousy cripples dressed so as to excite pity and compassion are insulting and many of them rich. On the corner one sees a poor "down trodden" woman, who has borrowed a couple of sickly looking children to afd lje-r game, patiently grinding away at a squeaky organ. Holding out a battered tin cup she wails, "Oh, sir, please help a woman with children and no husband. The sight, of course, is pitiful So again Mr. Generous digs. This woman could probably buy and sell him too. A few weeks ago one of these roor "unfortunates" was caught stealing a package from one of the stores in Hammond. She was ordered out of town. The next night her mother appeared, and she was told by the police to get out. There isn"t one out of a score of ther who isn't able to earn a living legitimately. AITS THE PUBLIC KICK. "When an officer drives one of these fakes from the streets there Is immediately a kick from the people. Trobably the same person who complains about the number beggars on the streets is he first to register a complaint against an officer who is not only doing his duty but favoring the people by driving out the undesirables. "We would gladly drive out every beggar that stops in the city, but as soon as an officer uses a bit of force, which is absolutely necessary as the bums as a rule are most insulting and obstinate. I get a kick from someone who watched the officer. Eighty per cent of the street beggars are rich. They Average between $50 and $100 a week at their game, and the public (Continued on page five.)

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Capt. and Mrs. T. J. Carey Evans. Cant. T. J. Carev Evans, a British fighting man on the French front,

recently secured a leave of absence of sufficient length to permit him to return to London and marry Miss Alwyn Lloyd-George, a daughter of the RHtiRh nremier. The weddine took place the middle of J une at the Welsh

Baptist church in London.

WEDDING HASTENED THAT HE MAY FIGHT X-ff 4 . v sfMargery Maude. Miss Margery Maude, actress, and daughter of Cyril Maude, the English actor, will soon be married to Joseph Warren Burden, a member of a family long identified with New York social and business life. The engagement has just been announced, but the marriage will be hastened, as Mr. Burden expects to bo called into army service. GARY OFFICIAL - MEHY-TOlil? Ted Sloan. 28 years old, night yardmas;ter for the-E. J. &. E. railroad at Gary, was killed by a Xew York Central passenger train at Gary at 4:55 p. m. yesterday while on his way to work. Mr. Sloan, who lived at Kirk hotel, has a brother living in Gary. "Williams and Marshall will have charge of the funeral. THEY DON'T LIKE TIE NEW LAW CROWN ROIXT, IXD., July 3. The poultry dealers and commission men are not very enthusiastic over the new license law, the purpose of which is to stop the practice' cf stealing of poultry. The dealers state that its provisions involve too much red tape. Dealers in poultry are required to obtain licenses from the elerk of the county circuit court. The greatest complaint is of section 3 of the law, which reads: "Every person, firm or corporation licensed to deal in poultry shall keep a record in a rook open to public inspection and keep for that exclusive purpose, showing the number of fowls of each varSftty purchased and the weight in pounds of such fowls, the persons or person from whom purchased, with postoffice address and the date of purchase." Hammond Ball Park. Hammond vs.' Merrimacs, Wednesday. July 4. 6-28-5 f .fat 11

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NOTICE. Tomorrow being a holiday, there will be no edition of "THE TIMES issued, in accordance with its life-long custom of giving its employes a holiday on Independence Dav. A Philadelphia chemist's services are needed to unscramble the constitutional convention registration eet; in I-r-ke county. So far the only intelligent efforts in that direction have been made by the Equal" Franchise league. While all banks have been supplied with registration blanks which it should be a very simple matter to fill out and mail to the registration b6ard at Crown Point, the re -districting of the entire county from 112 precincts to 1S2 and the fact that the outlines. of the new precincts have not been made public as yet has complicated a situation about which the public has had little information at best. About a hundred Hammond women met at the superior courthouse last evening to - hear Dr. Effie McCullon Jones of New York City, representing the National Equal Franchise league in its campaign for the constitutional convention in Indiana. They were told that the status of prohibition and suffrlf? in statejdepended. upon the choica of delegates to the constitutional convention and that they were Instructed by the attorney general to go ahead and register despite the injunction proceedings now pending In the state supreme court. But the question that could not be answered was "How can either the men or women of Hammond register when they do not know in what precinct they live?' It was stated that a prominent local attorney has said that the board would be bound by the law to accept the registration cards with only the name, street address, state, county and city if It were impossible for the voter to know what precinct he or she resided in under the new distribution. But in contradiction to that was presented the fact that thirjeen women of Hammond recently made out their registration cards, had tfiem signed by ia notary and mailed to the registration board only to have them returned with the information that they could not be accepted unless the precincts were given. HAMMOND'S CELEBRATION A program of exceptional merit has been arranged for Hammond's celebraI tion of the Fourth of July at Harrison park tomorrow, starting at ten o'clock in the morning. A military flag raising, patriotic addresses by well known orators, band concerts and other features will mark the day. Teople are urged to take their lunches and stay the day. Weather permitting, the day should draw thousands to the park who wish to not only "participate in the celebration but bask in the sunshine and feast on the beautiful lawns. The Hon. Frank Comerford of ' Chicago, ex-state senator and known as one ot fhe ablest orators in the middle west, will be the principal speaker of the day. He will speak at 2 o'clock. His subject will be a patriotic one. Mr. Comerford spoke at the Elks' Flag day exercises and made a decided hit with all who heard him. At ten o'clock in the morning a military flag raising will be held. As a salute is fired by the soldiers and to the "Call to the Colors" by trumpeters the flag will be hoisted. An address on the significance of the flag will be given by Rev. A. G. Basset. Superintendent of the West Hammond schools, A. G. Deaver, will also speak. Mrs. William "VVelcn. wife of ths Hammond recruiting sergeant, will recite a group of patriotic readings. ISSUES ORDER TO BOARD Judge V. S. Reiter in the Hammond superior court today issued an order ts the election commissioners of East Chicago to issue a certificate of nomination for the city treasurer on the republican ticket to Walter O. Harmon, present city treasurer. The election commissioners had given the nomination to Alderman John Bochnowski and his nomination was contested by Harmon. A recount was made. Fireworks being prohibited for sal by the mayor's orders, in order to help conservation of ammunition; th Fourth of July celebration in Gary will be devoid of all noise save that made by orators. Company F of Gary, will take part fn the Fourth celebrations at .Lowel and Crown Point, v

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Armed German driving French women of occupied territory to the Gelds to work. German efficiency again asserts itself in this picture, just received from Moy, France, occupied by the Germans. While the allies are compelled to feed the people of Belgium and northern France in order to keep them alive, armed Germans drive women like horses to work in the fields, in order that the German army may be supplied. - Every woman who is able to walk is compelled at the bayonet's point to take up the hoe for Germany, even though she knows that by so doing she is lessening the chances of victory for her beloved France.

READY FOR HUMAN LOTTERY BY WEBB MILLER. WASHINGTON, July 3. Completion of preparations for the human lottery of the draft within two weeks was the plan upon which all energy was ceniered today. As the first move telegrams were sent out today to each local board to rush their organization and complete their preliminary duties by next Saturday. By that time it is hoped to have everyone of the 9. TOO. 000 registration cards designated with their key number and copies in the capital. With this tremendous task finished everything Is ready for the lottery of men. In an office of the war department the numbers will be chosen at random. As each number is pulled out it will be flashed by telegraph to every local board in the country. With the exception of New York Cty all of the exemption boards have been appointed. T PATIENTS SINGE FIRST IF YEAR All records of numbers of accidents have been broken in the first six months of 1917 at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond. For the first half of the year the records show 426 accident patients divided as follows: Gun shot, 19. Amputations, 37. Skull fractures, 17. General fractures, S4. Burns. 29. X-Ray cases, 21t Of this total of 462 Accident cases, only eighteen died in twenty-four hours. Eight hundred and forty-seven general operations have been performed at the hospital In the last six months. The total number of patients taken care of at the hospital since January 1, is 1358 as compared to 949 for the name period last year, an increase of 409. An emergency ward was opened in the basement last winter and It has never been possible to close it. The daily average of patients is from 140 to 150. It has been neceFsary to send for seven additional sisters from Lafayette because of the heavy work. There ar6 thirty-two sisters in service at St. Margaret's at present WEATHSil, Fair ton'.ght and Wednesday; much change in t;:npeiature. not The Red Cross the symbol of a causa wide as the world and high as Heaven.

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WOMEN OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY ARE WORK IN FIELDS TO AID THE FOES OF FRANCE

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United Press Cablegram. FETBOQBAD, July 3. Russia's offensive today forced the enemy back across the Strlpa river In Galicia, penentratsd three lines of enemy trenches and. took 6,300 additional ' prisoners. The war office announcement Indicated sweeping gains everywhere, including' the occupation of a town and a village and two heights. A continuance of the offensive was taken to moan that the enemy lines have been penetrated here. Official dispatches declared the count of prisoners is still incomplete and will go higher than the 19,000 so far taken. By United Press. EVANSTILLE, INS., July 3. Three thousand miners n five ' counties of western Kentucky struck today for an eight-hour day, recognition of the union and higher pay. Armed guards are pro. tectin; the mining' property. By United Press. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL., July 3. Bodies of twenty-one negroes, one a two-year-old girl, had been recovered by noon here today. Officials still estimate the dead and dying at one hundred, but admit it may go higher. It is not expected the exact number of dead will ever be known, as many bodies were burned, while others were thrown Into the Mississippi river. United Press Cablegram. LONDON, July 3. Simultaneous resumption of all allied offensives, now that Russia has at last resumed fighting: activities, was expected here today. Petrograd dispatches detailed no abatement in the Galiclan attack today. United Press Cablegram. STOCKHOLM, July 3. Germany fca apparently opened submarine warfare on Swedish fishing' boats. Advices today showed that Sunday for such craft was sunk by gunfire of German Uboats outside the German blockade zone. The Swedish crews barsly escaped to their boats. The submarine commander declared all neutral shipping' would be destroyed on sight. United Press CablegramPAIS, July 3. General Pershing' announced today he had taken up with the British government the alleged evasion of the American censorship by which the Seuter's news agency had prematurely announced arrival of American troops in France. In addition, he said, he was personally conducting a thorough probe of the facts with the publication of this unauthorized news by the Associated Press in America, i "Nobody feels this outrage more. strong, ly than I," he said. "A premature publication of the news imperiled the lives of thousands .who were afloat at the time." j By United Press. J AKRON, O., July 3. Two women ' were killed and two women and one . man ceriously injured today when a street car cn which the brakes failed to work, dropped down a hill and crashed into another street car. BY W. S. TORRE ST. A FRSrsrCH PORT, July a (Delayed), July 3. Envied cf all thsir comrades, a certain battalion of General Pershing's crmy was putting- an extra finish shine on their guns and bayonets and an added brash.' air to their uniforms to-

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day. They prepared for a friendly in vasion of Paris. ' By Fnited Press Cablegram.) BIEXOS AIRES, July 3. Argentine has Instructed her minister to Germany to demand Immediately the reparation and Indemnity promised for Inking the Prapagldo according to authority. Thus far Germany has not gone beyond a promise. njr 'United Press Cablegram.) PARIS, July 3. A battalion ot Amer ican troops arrived In Farla early to day. Only a moderate crowd gave them an rntkasiantlc greeting. Parle, inns -were not advised of the arrangencntn for their arrival. The battalion Is the one -which Is to parade in to. morrow's celebration by Paris of Independence Day. (By United Prcas Cablegram.) PARIS, July 3. Germany launched another tremendous offensive blow at the French lines today, centering two simultaneous thrusts on the Cbemln des Dames south of Loan and again around Verdun. G S One Issue Taken at Par Sale to Be Continued Day to Day. Special to The Times. CROWN POINT, IND., July 3. The Liberty bond issue having hit the market heavily, only one of the highway improvement bond issues was taken today, and that without premium. The People's State bank of Crown Point bid par on the J14.000 issue and received it. The sale will be continued from day to day until the other two issues are placed. One is for $24,000 and the other $60,000 at 41 per cent "interest. The sale is conducted by Treasurer M. J. Brown. ' SOUTHEAST OF GARY Bodies of the two Chicago men. who were drowned while fishing in Deep River, between Gary and New Chicago, were recovered yesterday afternoon near New Chicago. The men, last seen alive last Saturday evening, were reported missing Sunday noon! Yesterday D. C. Comstock of Chicago, reported the drownings at Gary and Capt. Aydelotte and Game Warden Harry Sommers went there to supervise the use of dynamite In recovering the bodies. They were found with grappeling hooks Just as the Gary men arrived. The victims were Tom Kohnel and Anthony Nemlncenel. They had been fishing and probably had their boat overturned Saturday night. Water is thirty-five deep at that point. - NOTICE TO PUBLIC. , Groceries and Meat Markets will close at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday and we wish to thank the Merchants and the Public for their kind assistance. MEAT CUTTEF.S UNION NO. 542. 7-3-1 HARRY YAUX, Pres.

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Negroes Leaving Homes to Escape Flames are Shot Down Like Rabbits. (By United Press.) EAST ST. LOUIS, July 3. The sun rose today on a city fire-s-vfept and running with blood. One hundred negroes and two whites were believed dead and more" than five hundred seriously injured as the result of one of the worst race riots in the history of the country which followed the murder of Detective Sergeant Coppedge yesterday. T&OOPS ORDERED TO SHOOT TO KILL. , Today the city was under martial law. Troops have been ordered to shoot to kill in case rioting is resumed. Estimates of property loss from fire wheh were seen simultaneously in a dozen places last night is placed at more than a million dollars. Col. S. 0. Tripp, personal representative of Governor Lowden and in command of the militia-here, "told the United Press today he believed the situation was well in hand. DEAD BODIES OP NEGROES LINE STREETS. .Rioting which began early -yesterday reached its height between six o'clock and midnight last night. A United Press correspondent counted the bodeis of seven negroes in the street within a block of the intersection of the town's main business streets at 7:30 o'clock. Anrher negro, beaten into insensibility, was hanged to a post a block from the corner while a squad of twenty-five militiamen looked on helplessly. BLACK BELT ZS A 2SASS OF rLiKES. . A. crowd was dragging an aged negro who had been beaten nearly insensible at the end of a rope. It was surrounded by the soldiers and the entire mob of about 250 arrested and hurried to Jail. The black valley, a negro tenement belt, running through the heart of the city, was a mass of flames at 7 o'clock. Hundreds of negroes crowded in their homes until driven out by the flames. As they ran out they were shot down like jackrabbits. Many of ,the bodies were dragged to the creek and thrown into the watf SIGHT APPALS U. S. orriCER who sees it. "It is the most terrible night I ever witnessed." said Adjutant General Dickson of the Illinois National Guard who arrived here shortly after midnight. Fire fighters aided by many units from the Missouri side carried on an unavailing fight against the spreading flames. More than twelve blocks were burned. EXPERIENCED FLYER IN AVIATION CORPS i Lieut. J. H. Towers. Lieut. J. H. Towers is the expert aviator member of the joint technical board of the army and navy and of the aircraft proauction board of the council oi national aetense. lie has been fij'ing ever since airplanes wore known as practicable, and his exMates and Europe.

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