Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 16, Hammond, Lake County, 6 July 1917 — Page 1

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IB ID ARRESTED Eight Places Raided, Slot Machines Are Taken and Will Be Smashed. (Special to Thb Times.) CROWX POIN'T. IND.. July 6 Sheriff Barnes and a dozen deputies last evening raided eight places at Cedar Lake, arresting seven men and three women and seizing thirteen slot machines, under orders of the superior court grand Jury at Gary. Everything that had the semblance of irregularity was raked in. Justice of the Peace Levi E. Bailey today ordered the slot machines destroyed and each of the following were fined $38 for operating machines: Edward Morarity. John Kennedy, Robert Russell. George Hetzler. Christ Larien and John Hennan. Three women were fined $20 each for prostitution. Robert Russell. Edward Morarity and John Kennedy are held under bonds of $500 each on charges of conducting houses of ill fame. The prosecution is being conducted by A. A. Bremer. Deputies out of Sheriff Traeger's office are either not so efficient as the Lake- county sheriffs or out of luck. They raided the. Burnham resorts three times Sunday. It is reported that each time the women were secluded in a garage to the rear of the houses. It Is known that the attention of the Gary grand jury was directed to the notorious Buck Moriarty and Russell places by people who live at Cedar Lake and the Moody Institute people asked chairman H. G. Hay- to get after the vicious resorts. DREDGING RUINING HUNTERS' PARADISE (Special to Thb Times.) HEBRON, IXD.. July 6. An eighteen pound cat fish was dragged from the Kankakee River by one of the three big dredges at work straightening the channel so as to drain thousands of acres of fertile land and incidentially ruin the hunter's and sighers paradise. The dredges are- digging a channel 200 feet wide and 30 feet deep at upper Hebron at present. They will cross Lake, Porter and Jasper counties. They are at present at the Hebron bridge. SHORTAGE OF STEEL Although .the Standard Steel Car company has" orders ahead for months, only one of the two tracks in the wooden car department are working today because of a shortage of steel which has caused many of the workmen to(be Idle for the past few days. Hammond Ball Park. Ham mond vs. Jack Stahl's, Sun day, July 8th. 7-5-3 NEGRO QUARTER OF

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The burning of the negro quarter of East St. Louis, I1L Mobs of infuriated -white men set the torch to the negro quarter of East St. Louis during the recent race riota Photo shows the flames lighting up the sky on the night of July 2. The negro district, bounded by Fourth street. Railroad avenue and Seventh and Thirteenth streets, is today a mass of flame-swept ruina.

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MAKING SHELLS TO BLOW UP GERMANS vv4 This British lass smile3 pleasantly as she contemplates the consternation that will reign in the German camp when thi3 hupe shell, on which she is putting the finishing touches, makes its appearance in the Teuton lines. The death dealer, which is almost as bie as the girl, is only one of many of equal size seen in the ph'c4;o. E'S THE I M. C. S. . ALLOTMENT Gary, Whiting, East Chicago and Crown Point have over-subscribed their allotments to the national T. M. C. A. war fund of $3,000,000. Hammond, Indiana Harbor, Hobart and Gibson so far have flunked. j The national campaign started some weeks ago. A county committee was j formed. A. Murray Turner is chairman and Charles Lavers of the Gibson Y. M. j C. A. is secretary. Gary was excluded ' from the county campaign, it having . raised $11,000 in a whirlwind drive ofj its own prior to the forming of the, county district. Chairman Turner has worked valiantly to bring the fund upj to allotment and will do so yet if possi-, ble. I Results of the drive to date in the district according to Secretary Lavers, as follows: 1 Raised. Allotmt. , Whiting $1,300.00 $1,000; East Chicago 1.200.00 1,000 ' Crown Point 260.00 - 250 Hammond 1,220.25 2.000, Indiana Harbor 600.00 1.000 Hobart 43.00 250 Gibson 5S1.00 1.000 ! The national association has asked for an additional $2,000,000. Camps for the betterment of social, physical and moral conditions in the army are being erected by the T. M. C. j A. at various cantonments, both, in Europe and United States. At present there are 25 Y. M. C. A. secretaries in London and Paris. - j The fund is raised by popular subscription. EAST ST. LOUIS FIRE

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STATE! AL MIS Probable Session of Legislature in Near Future Coal Operators Refuse to Cet Down 08 Their High Horse. TIMES BUREAU, AT STATS CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. IND., July 6. More and more the probability of a special session of the Legislature looms up in the near future, for the purpose of handling the Indiana coal situation. There was a conference at the state house, yesterday afternoon, between a number of Indiana coal operators and the coal committee of the state council of defense, at which an effort was made to arrive an an agreement on coal prices in this state, but nothing was accomplished. The operators simply stood pat and made no concessions.' They declared that they proposed to stand on the agreement made at Washington last week under which the price of Indiana coal at the mines was placed at $2.75 a ton. This is a higher price than the operators had been charging for coal before the conference was held at Washington, and it is difficult to see just how the people of the state are to get any benefit out of -an .arrangement tht permits and authorizes an increase in coal prices. What the public wants and what Governor Goodrich, the public service commission and the state councilof defense have been tryingfor is a reduction in the price of coal, and they say they propose to continue the job until the coal operators come down off their high horse and listen to reason. Present coal prices in the state have been denounced by the public service commission as outrageous and unfair, and the proposed increase has been referred to generally here are nothing short of highway robbery and sandbagging on the part or tno coal operators. The operators continue to stick to the attitude that they propose to get all the profit out of their business that they can pull out of it, regardless of how it affects the public. There was a auiet little conference, following the meeting of the operators and state officials, yesterday afternoon, out of which there may come definite action. Governor Goodrich, Will H. Hays, chairman of the state council of defense, and a few others were there. There is a suspicion that plans may have been made for calling a special session of the legislature to deal with the coal operators and the coal question in general, unless the Congress takes action within a short time. Confiscation of coal mines and state control of their output and of coal prices are among the remedies suggested in case the legislature is called in special session. SUBMARINES Are invisible war craft, we make invisible bifocal lenses in Kryptok and One Piece, they are marvels of Lens manufacture. We would like to show these to you. S. Silver, Manufacturing Optiction, 177 State St.. Hammond. Ind. 7-6-1 SWEPT RUINS NOW

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Twenty-Two Years of Age, Strong, Capable, American-Born, Mrs. Clinton Short, Operates Gates in Railroad Tower. More than the rarades and patriotic speeches, the martial music and waving flags, does the nightly vigil of Mrs. Clinton Short, a true "soldier's wife, drive home the fact that America is at war and bending its back to the tremendous task at hand. Mrs. Short, an American woman from Knox. Ind.. is .only tweytny-two years of age. Her husband is in Company H. 164th Indiana Infantry and may be on his way to France if not with Pershing now. Mrs. Short Ijas been employed since June 16 as tower woman for the Nickel Plate railroad at its Sohl street crossing in Hammond. She goes to work at 6 o'clock Iry the evening and remains until 6 in the morning. The railroad is so well pleased with the service she renders that it has decided to hire all the women it can. Rugged with the good health and physical powers of a strong farm girl, Mrs. Short has little difficulty In handling the gates and has no fear of being molested. The door on the ground floor of - the, tower. 4 .locked tfirom within and should a prowler succeed in breaking in and climbing the steep stairs in the dark he would bump his head on a second obstruction a trap door bolted from above. And Mrs. Short is prepared to do battle should both barriers be penetrated. It Is very probable that an intruder woulj have to be carried away feet first if he broke through the trap door. Some physician might have .a night call to probe for a bullet. Little Alta Dorothy, aged 14. and Clinton Short, Jr., four months were Mrs. Short's companions last evening when a reporter made a visit: The climb up the steep stairs negotiated after the unlocking of doors and the unbolting of the trap door by , the towerwoman credentials being shown (Continued on page five.) P. W. MEM BUYS CHICAGO PROPERTY Peter W. Meyn, president of the Lake County Savings & Trust Co. of Hammond, has purchased of W. D. Kerfoot & Co. of Chicago, 600 by 125 feet, east front, and 150 by 125 feet, west front, on Avenue M, and 375 by 125 feet, west front, on Avenue N between 133rd and 134th streets, the price being withheld. The purchase was made as an Invest, ment and Mr. Meyn will eventually improve the lots with moderate-priced dwellings. LATEST MEWS By United Preu. WASHINGTON, July . Chairman Bent of the home military committee today introduced the administration bill authorizing establishment of gigantic air corps. Hearing on the bill will begin Monday. Dent expects to report the bill out next week. The bill authorizes the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, repair and operation of a huge corps of aeroplanes. It authorises also the purchase of aviation grounds and gives the president, full authority oyer the proposed air fleet. By United Press. WASHINGTON, July G German Insurance companies and other German Interests in the United States are responsible for a large jpart of the news leakage into Germany, according to Secretary of Commerce Redfield today. "As long as they are to be allowed to operate in this country we should certainly keep a close watch, on them," he said. GX.OBE, ARIZ., July 6. Although three federal cavalry troops and a ma chine gun company maintain order here today the situation is still threatening. Reinforcements for the strikers continue pouring in. Hammond Ball Park. Hammond vs. American Giants, Saturday, July 7th. 7:5:? Ask Yourself How You Can Serve Your Country? Every can of food put up this summer helps make, food shortage next winter impossible,

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Mrs. Louise Closser Hale. Mrs. Louise Closser Hale, the well known American authoress, has conceived the idea of mobilization of the nation's jam for Use by the men in the trenches. Men on the firing line crave sweets. "If American women," says Mrs. Hale, "could have been in France last summer when I was there, and seen the wistful look in the soldier's eyes when he asked for some chocolate or jam and was told there was none, they would appreciate the seriousness of this seemingly trivial project."

Latest 'Bulletins By Vnited Fress Cablegram.) SALOMKA, July . By a sudden night drlvr, Teutonic forces on the Macedonia front succeeded in getting; a footing rrct of Bolselt, but were Im. mediately driven out, according to announcement here today. Bolzell on the extreme rlKbt vrlng of the Macedonian fighting front was captured by the British last April. By Inltfd Fress Cablegram.) LOXDOV, July 6 Repulae of an at. tempted raid on British lines la the neighborhood of Bullecourt was - reported today by General Halg. By I'nlted Fres Cablegram.) PARIS, July 6. Germany continued her offensive against the French lines today with heavy artillery are. There were no maurd Infantry attacks af. ter the repulse Inflicted early la the week. (By I'nlted Press.) WASHINGTON, July . That an American navy vessel has sighted what was apparently the perloscope of a submarine close t oHamgtoa Road was reported to the navy department today. Other vessels at once took up the search for the submarine. Secre tary Daniels ordered that the most thorough investigation proceed. If the object seen was a Ferloncope it was not that of an American submarine, ac. cording to Intimation at the department, though no statement was made as to whether our undersea boats were operating In that vicinity. (By I'nlted ,Pss.) WASHINGTON', July 6. American shipping losses due to submarine act. lvlty during the first six months of 1917 amonrtteri to eleven times the total losses of the two previous years, an announcement to the I'nlted Press from the war risk Insurance bureau, said today. Since January I, 1917. the bureau has Insured 9441,761118 of American cargoes with a loss of $0,200,000. Previously the bureau had lost S-SOO,-OOO due. to submarine sinking. Millions of , dollars are saved to American exporting firms every month by the bureau In Insurances - rates. American insurance firms as a rule are refusing to insure cargoes entering the war sone but w here they are willing I to take the risk the premiums run higher than IS per cent. (By I'nlted aPress Cablegram.) TOKIO, . JAPAN, July 6. Endless chnos In China seems to lie ahead. i Dispatches today revealed the make, shift monarchy tottering on Its throne. President LI of the former republic, has escaped his pursuers. The southern provinces are planning revolt. sin. der the new government. An armed clash impends between Peking and Tien Tsln between the two factions n

the monarchists ranks. The itaonnrchlnts have so far failed to force President Li's resignation General Chang Shun who Is attempting dictatorship under the restoration of the monarchy la Issuing one proclamation after another. (By I'nlted Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, July . Eltmina. tton of possibilities of a coal . famine In Indiana and a general reductfon in prices was the indication here today. The I'nlted Press waa given information to this effect todsy by a member of the state council of defense who asked that his name be not used. He told the I'nlted Press, following a secret conference of members of the defense council that the Indiana coal question will soon be solved. "Prices will be reduced and possi. btllty of famine will be eliminated,' he said. (By I'nlted Press.) CHICAGO, July 6. I'pon complaints bring received from authorities at the Great Lakes naval trainitig station, I1L. that recruits were being furnished with liquor. Assistant V. S. District Attorney Epstein accompanied by an Internal revenue agent left for that place to Investigate today. Naval authorities charged that 'blind pigs' are located near the naval station. (By I'nlted Press Cablegram.) ROME, July . Indication that Italy Is resuming her offensive was contain, ed In today's war office report detailing a "pushing forward of the advance line and capture of enemy outposts around Selo, Wednesday.

United Press CtWwram. BEBXIK (Via London), July &-Ztn-perlal Chancellor Von Bethmann Holl-weg-probably will address tbe reichstag Saturday or Monday, It was announced aere today. Previous dispatches from Germany have Indicated that Hollwes would take an early opportunity to answer Premier Lloyd George's speech at Glasg-ow in which the British statesman declared peace without victory waa Impossible. By United Press. SAN rSANCISCO, July 6 Indictments cbarg-lng approximately 100 persons wlj bcompllclty in plots to stir np a revolution in British Indian were ex pected from tbe federal grand jury to morrow, secent investigations by fed eral authorities, it is reported today, have connected fifty Hundus and many prominent Americans with tbe conspir acy. Members of the former German consulate staff here are linked with the plot, according- to the reports circulated here. By United Press. OTTAWA, CAN, July 6. Conscription passed second reading' in tbe house of commons today and received the assent of Premier, Borden that it would be enforced. Antl-conscriptionists are expected to attempt to delay passage of the hill on third reading. To Arms Your Country Calls.

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CHOSE! WAS1GT Full and Authentic Information Is Given Regarding Operation of District Exemption Board, APPEAL BOARD FOR EXEMPTION Doctor Charles C. Terry,,' South Bend. Labor IX. Xu Bay, Peru. Agriculture William lwon, Chase. Industry John W. Lees, of the Inland steel Co., Indiana Harbor. Lawyer Andrew j. Hiciey, Laport. f Estimated Total County. Population. Keglst'n. St. Joseph 102,574 10,530 Lake 4. 145,535 12,383 Porter 21,535 1,C30 Laporte J . 51,205 4,352 Marshall 24,175 2,055 Starke 10,663 907 Pulton 16,873 1,435 13,312 1,132 Jasper 13,044 1,109 Newton . 10,543 - , " 98 Benton 12,683' ; 1,073 Warren 10,899 926 White 17,602 1,436 Carroll 17,970 1,527 Cass 37,696 3,204 Miami 30,084 2,557 Howard 35,536 3,106 Tipton 17,459 1,484 Clinton 20,674 2,267 Tippecanoe 41,087 3,492 fountain 20,439 1,737 Total 679,253 50,553 By United Fress. WASHINGTON, July 7. Tbe last pre. limlnary of the draft bean" today. Prom every section of the country numbered registration lists were reaching- the provost marshal general's office. Posting of those numbers yesterday caused a false report that the draft was already in prog-res s, Provost Marshal General Crowder is training- the resources of hla oganization to start the draft drawingnext week. He pointed out today that the rumors yesterday were founded upon the action of the local boards in fixing- key numbers to their lists. Lake county's exemption boards are well on their way of completing their arduous task in administering the selective draft of giving serial numbers to the men who registered on June 5. These numbers will be posted throughout the county early next week in all probability. No drafting has been done as yet and none will be done by Washington for several days at least not until every precinct in the United States has turned in its serial draft numbers to the provost general. SELECTIONS ABE EEPOETED. Reports current today that selection? already had been made probably arose from the fact that many boards have numbered their registration card3 and in some cases probably already are publishing the lists as required by regulations. The last district, will have to complete this work, however, before selection can begin as the administration is determined to leave no loophole for Juggling of the serial numbers. It is for that reason that public posting of the lists and the filling of duplicate copies with the provost marshal general has been required in advance of selection. CABS USED IK SELECTION. The care with which the numbering of the registration cards is being carried out mak-2 It certain that the drawing will be based entirely upon the numbers. No names will be involved in the actual process cf selection, which will closely approximate, it is understood, the jury wheel system. Registration card numbers now held by Lake county men will not stand as far as selection for draft is concerned. A new method or numbering devised by war department officers at "Washington has been Instituted and is now being carried into effect by local registratio nboards. Men of draft ag3 who registered will be numbered by divisions. Numberization will be made without regard to alphabetical order. The registrants foftowing the numberization will have a new number which will govern. ' HOW STSTEM WOBKS7" As an example of this. John Jones (Continued on page five.)