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RAFTTOLL Gary's Mayor Wires Washington, Appeals Should Be Made , At Once and Often, Advices received at Gary today from J state conscription agent JesseEschbach. attached to Governor Goodrich's office, are to the effect that no time murt be lost if Gary and Kast Chicago are to have their excessive estimates of population for draft purposes reduced. Mr. Eschbach urged that Mayor Johnson. Mayor Callahan of East Chicago, exemption boards from both places and commercial organizations at once wire the federal government stating their cases. The government estimated Gary's x population at 110.000. East Chicago's at 70,000. This is about twice the actual dumber and would penalize both communities by making them give twice as many men as they should. The governor's-aid advises that all the state could do was to suggest to "Washington. Mayor Johnson today sent this telegram to Washington: Gary. Ind., July 16. 19l7. To. His Excellency, President Wilson. Washington, D. C. We feel that northern Indiana cities with large alien registration are given too high an estimated population by war department and hope you will use your influence to secure proper estimate. Gary has never claimed over fifty thousand, but because almost eleven thousand men were registered here department gives us 110.000 population. Of these eleven thousand registrations 4.230 are aliens and alien enemies, about three thousand first paper men and four thousand or less Americans and naturalized citizens. . Cannot we have a revised population estimate in keeping with our actual population? If we do not, it will be impossible for Gary to provide its q'flota r.-lthout drawing upon most of our Americans of war age, while foreigners are exempted. . R. O. JOHNSON. Mayor. GET 4 LIE FHOBTPMS j T " i. . ' lif.nA. And Right m Gary Mayor Johnson and flswimis ' VUUUUIO sioner Ray Make Plans 100 Acre Tract Is Proposed. People of Gary, who have neither the use nor the sight of their seven mile's of frontage on Lake Michigan may get ft 100-acre park there if a movement to be set In motion by Mayor R. O. Johnson and Park Commissioner Kate Wood Ray is successful. Its success would be. the attainment of a park" on Gary beach instead of at-Miller several miles away, as Thb Times, the only uncensored newspaper in Gary, has advocated duripg the past three years. FXOFOSSD SITE. With the ousting from the park board of Homer Car. one of the pro-steel men who does not want a- lake front park In Gary, and the naming of Mrs. Ray, it la believed that the majority of the board as it now stands will serve the people as well as the corporations In stead of the corrorations alone. The site desred for the park is a 100acre strip in the northeast corner of the city east tf Gary harbor and on the lake front. A short road 'would have to be built to it. If the steel corpora tion, which now dominates all but three aire's of Gary's seven miles of lake coast, and from whicn the people of Gary are barred, will sell 100 acres of Us. holdings this park may be attained. If it does not sell the land the acreage can be condemned. There is no disposition to antagonise the corporation, but the matter probably will be put up squarely to the directors in New Tork. and the stockholders throughout he country. It is a fair proposition. Mayor Johnson and city officials point out that even the corporation that created the city have b-

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Miss Pauline Diss ton as "Hawaii. - Miss Pauline Disston of Philadelphia, costumed to represent "Hawaii," was a pleasing: performer in tha biar Red Cross pageant held at the heme of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, at Newport, R. I. The affair was one of the most elaborate outdoov spectacles Newport has enjoyed for some while and Miss Disston was an attractive it. 15 Thousands Give the One Piece Suits Once Over. New the Hammond's Lake FroA Park beach was Mecca for thousands and thousands yot people yesterday. They came. In droves and batallions and everybody wanted to and did give Lthe one-piece bathing "suits the O. 0. There certainly was come Jam in the park and in the water. It is estimated that lully 2.C09 bathed during the afternoon and many of Hammond's fa'rest and 6ome of the fairest from othe cities ii. the vicinity dedicated their new bathies yesterday. : ' At Hammond Beach Inn the crowd was tremendous and as many as . three .hundred machines were parked around the popular eating place at one time. ' There were no accidents reported and Cnlef Austgen.9 pollCeme. worked to death, kepi good oraer in me par. THIS WAS A FIERCE - Hi VICIOUS BATTLE A Lizzie and a Henry Come Together Savagely in Hammond. . Two" men in a Lizzie crashed into two others in a Henry at Standard and Madison, in Hammond last evening, and the two rattling good cars were terribly damaged. The engagement lasted several minutes and sounded like the British fleet trying to get into the Kiel ?anal. A great , crowd of people witlessed' the battle and after-the Henry hd Lizzie were separated the Lizzie tried valiantly to bite Henry on the radiator several times. The gladiators were licensed In Illinois Nos. 231562 and 76970 and the captain of the Henry was torpedoed In the right leg. Further casualties there were none, nor did any one get the movie rights. 0.5.1: E AT Gary and other Lake couaty applicants for entrance to the second offi cers' reserve training camps have been notified that the board of army officers to examine applicants will sit at the Hotel Mee in Hammond on July 30 and 31. The boards will go over all recommendations, military discharges and determine the physical and mental flitnesa of applicants.

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M AUTO T Well Known Hammond Man Claimed by Death at -St. Margaret's. William H. Hesterman, 61 years old, 4 4 Clinton street, died yesterday at St. Margaret's hospital from injuries received in ,an automobile accident a week ago. " ' Mr. Hesterman was run down by a motdrlst and jiever recovered from the shock. He leaves a wife and four children: Mrs. W. Snyder. East Chicago; Mrs. Z. Polen. Hammond; Miss Amanda Hesterman, Hammond: and William Hesterman, Jr., Hammond.The funeral will be held Wednesdayafternoon at. 1:30 o'clock from the German Lutheran church. Burial will be made at Concordia cemetery. Mr. Hesterman lived la Hammond twenty-flve years. He was an employe of the Hirsch-Stein factory. . Ill LOCAL HOSPITAL Richard Sallls, Chicago, a clerk, 21 years old. is near death at St-. Margaret's hospital, Hammond, as a result of losing1 control of his auto Sunday, the machine plunging into a deep ditch, overturning on him and two friends. Sail is is injured seriously internally and his head is badly lacerated. The accident happened on Edgeworth avenue, Chicago. The condition of the other occupants Is not dangerous. Joe Weer, Indiana Harbor, 26 years old. an englneer.riding a motorcycle in the Harbor last night, was struck by an automobile. His left leg was broken. He was taken to St. Margaret's hospital. DEATH COMES TO CLAIM MRS. WEBSTER Woman of Sterling Character Is Dead at Home of Her Sister. Mrs. Lin a Webster, a much-respected resident of Hammond for more than thirty-three years, passed away early this morning'at the home of Mrs. Louis Scheer, her sister, at 522 Summer street. She had been ill for fourteen months. Mrs. Harold Cross, a daughter, and two brothers and a sister survive. The brothers are .Martin and William Linz and the sister Mrs. Schrer. The grandchildren are Haroldine , and Florence Cross. Mrs. Webster was a woman of sterling Christian character, a member of the Baptlst'church for years, and loved by countless friends. Five years ago this month. Walter, her only son, was drowned in the Kankakee river. Fu neral arrangements will be announced tomorrow. PUT IN CAR FOR A JOKE Osseou3 Relict From Some Medical College Found in Freight Car. Hammond was considerably startled this morning when the story was circulated that part of a human body had been found in a freight car shipment to a local manufacturer. The story lost all its interest, however, when it was learned that the find was merely two human bones which looked as though they had been put In the car by some Jokers at a medical college. One of the bones was a femur, that had been severed by some expert surgeon. INSTALL NEW X-RAY MACHINE St. Margaret's hospital has Installed the latest up-to-date part on an X-ray photo machine, the Cooledge tube, which cost $320 and completes the apparatus valued at $2,000. The X-ray is one of the most wonderful of modern inventions. It greatly alleviates the physician's work by showing him on a photographic plate exactly the trouble. . The hospital has found te machine invaluable. Pictures are taken of cases outside the hospital also.

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BY GEORGE SfARTIX. WASHINGTON, July 16. Evidence that millions in German gold are still being poured into effective propaganda among Americans has been laid before the state department by a statesman of international reputation, it was learned today. In an Interview with the United Press this statesman, whose name can not be mentioned, said. "German pa pers are being puolianea ' unninaerea under the very nose of the American government every day. . - "Hundreds of minister are- using their holy offices to turn Americans into German . sympathizers. "The condition is not local, but country-wide. "One of the biggest papers in the pay of the kaiser Is published in the east." A danger situation Is resulting from the machinations of these propagand Ists, he asserted. "They are keeping us in an atrnospnere of hatred." The alleged pro-German operations of German churches in Nebraska, he added, are only surface outeropplngs of a honeycombing propaganda embracing more than one religious body, hundreds of individuals and many newspapers throughout the country. Careful investigation has failed to disclose the source of the money at the rioters' disposal and as yet no evl dence of the use of German money Justifying the. arrest of higher-ups has been found. . In tlie future. oft(c!als said.' I. W. W. agitators will 1 :jjid as .anarchist and imprisoned until seme connection can be established between the central organization behind the trouble and the German propaganda which gov. ernment agents feel sure will be u covered. . T IS 2,544 Members in Red Cross Unit in County Seat District. (Special to Thb Times.) CROWN POINT, IND.. July 16 R- B. Bradford, chairman of the membership committee of the Crown Toint Red Cress, has compiled some Interesting facts about the local chapter. He says: "The Crown Point chapter embraces the city of Crown Point, the towns of Hobart. Lowell Dyer. St. John Schererville and the unincorporated parts of the townships of St. John. Ross, W infield, Center. Hanover, West Creek. Cedar Creek and Eagle Creek, and has a membership at the present time of 2,544. Our oldest member is over 96 years, our youngest is less than a month, and w have about twenty life members. We nearly doubled our apportionment alloted to us for the Red Cross war fund, and have a big workroom for the women workers in the courthouse, fully equipped and turning out quantities of supplies, both for the base hospitals and the comfort of the boys at the front ' "Judge McMahan is chair of the chapter; Mrs. H. H. Wheeler, a member of the County Council of Defense, is vice chairman, and chairman of the committee on hospital supplies; Mrs. Herbert S. Barr is chairman of the committee on supplies for soldiers." MARRIAGE LICENSES. (Special, to Thb Tims.) CROWN POINT. IND.. July 16. The following marriage licenses were granted here Saturday: Nick Schierl and Lucia Manuale. Gary; Frank Kopanda and Frances Surovek. Indiana Harbor; George Milosovich and Annie Aakovich. Gary; Roy Benson and Mary Wright, Indiana Harbor; Oscar M. Brenner and Fayne Black. Hammond; Fred Troppmann and Erma Schwerin, Hammond: Wm. Winter, Chicago, and Bessie Goldberg, Gary: Sam Hlrsch, Gary, and Sadie Winter.. Chicago. SIX ARE HURT IN ACCIDENT . - (Special to Thb Times.) WHITING, IND., July 16. An automotorcycle collision near the., Forsyth corners Sunday afternoon resulted. Joseph Weber. Chicago, riding cycle, broken leg: C. W. Rossman, Harvey. 111.. and four friends bruised. . The Injured A-ern taken to Dr. Putnam's officS at Whiting. Representative J. Glenn Harris of Gary, a member of the law firm of Harris & Ressler, has been called to Flora, Ind., .because of the serious illness of his sister.

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lor, Michaelis, is not a Von. Latest . "Bulletins (By United Press.) WABHTSOTON, July IS. Arrest ot Oenuaa rioters and Inciters among tne I. w. W. disturbers In Arizona and Montana was reported to the department of justice today. The men arected have not yet been officially accused of representing German Interests but were taken Is custody under the provision ot the president's "alien enemy proclammation" for examination. (By United Press.) XLAKATH TAUS, OBE., July IS. Every I. W. "W. in Klamatn county will be arrested, Sheriff Humpnery announced today, as a result of a "fire which destroyed a mill and elevator with 25,OOO bushels of wheat here. The loss was estimated at $160,000. Today the city is practically under martial law.; The sheriff and 200 deputies raided the X. W. W. headquarters immediately after the lire. (By United Press Cablegram.) PET&OOKA9, July 16. Russia's advancing armies from July 1 to July 13 captured ""834 officers and 35,000 men with a vast store of military supplies o all kinds, according to- a war office statement today. Xa yesterday's fight ing alone 16 oil ice r ana aw Oerman troops were taken. ..The war office listed this, additional hootyt 93 guns, 28 trench mortors, 403 machine guns, 43 mine throwers, 45 bombing" mortors, 3 fire throwers and 2 aeroplanes with a quantity of other material. (By United Press.) WASHXirOTOrT, July 18. German troous are being withdrawn In large numbers from the Italian and French front and sent to Riga to start a counter offensive against Russia, according to dispatches today at the Russian embassy. The Russian Baltic fleet is be ing prepared for action. tn-r rrnitad Pr.ii Cablegram.) BERN'S. BWITZ.. July 16. American warships convoying the first American expeditionary army destroyed four oij the latest type Oerman submarines, according to a report in circulation here today and which purported to bare or iginated in Germany. (By United Press Cablegram.) ROME, July 18. Occupation of Bollna (in Oallcla) by Russian troops was reported today. The Austrian, it was said, had been thrown back iato the Carpathians. Dolina is an important Galidan center, being another of the key cities around Xmberg which lies thirty miles to the north. (By United Press Cablegram.) PARIS, Jujr 18. Desperate fighting In the Champagne in which powerful Oerman attacks first progressed around Moats Hut and Teton the tide then turning, throwing the inlanders back to original positions, waa detailed in today's official statement. Heavy losses wereinfUcted on the enemy. "In the ClBlmpe7W,', tha war ozfla

1 ' 1 ft ft Sv ThnANN - MULLwCO. t hitherto unpublished picture of von said, "The Germans bombarded our po sitions violently and around Mount Kaut and Teton launched powerful attacks on the positions which the the Prencn took Saturday. After an all night bat. tie the French recaptured their previous j gains, however. "Betwtes the Somma and the Aline. German raids were repulsed. South of Corbeny vigorous in lighting the enemy was hurled back." . Reports . circulated around Hammond today strongly tended to prove the ru mor growing In this vicinity of late that I. W. W. agitators were working in the Calumet region. One factory head said today that he had several of the men In his employ and that theyvould be discharged upon any attempt of theirs to stir up the men, He aid he would not only discharge them but notify the police. - As a. precuation, the factory man said "it behooves every concern to .take the same steps." A step now will mean the probable saving of our industries," he said. BRITISH STEAMER IS SUNK (By United Press.) NEW TORK. July 16. The British steelsteamer Kioto. 61S2 tons, under charter to the International Mercantile Marine Co., New Tork, has been sunk by submarines, according to a cable received here today. AUSTRIA WANTS PEACE (By United Press.) WASHINGTON. July 16. That Austria is becoming more anxious for peace is borne out in both official and diplomatic messages received here today; The report stated that Austria during Germany's cabinet crisis attempted to interfere in behalf of HoMwegg and drew bitter attack from some of the German pressj t This information coupled with reports that the American offensive is rapidly demoralizng the Austrian forces along the Dniester diverted official attention from Germany to her ally. NINE MEXICANS , ARE DROWNED (By United Press.) GALVESTON. TEX.. July 16. Nne Mexicans were drowned near Tampico, July 7 when a launch was run down and smashed by the tug Gulf Port, according to information received he're today. Make It The Last War.

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Every. Nation Has Changed Pre - miers Since Great War Started 3 Years Ago ' y ATHTTB E. UAITH - (Ualta Fnsi Staff Correspondent J AMSTERDAM. July 16. Appointment of Dr. George Michaelis as German chancellor has not appeased the Reichstag reformists. All word reaching here today Indicated that there was continued dissatisfaction over the fact that the element in the German parliamentary body who forced Von Bethman Hollwegg's fall were not consulted in the new chancellor's naming. There is no evidence whatever to show that the new chancellor was any more inclined toward democracy than was his predecessor. New element has now entered In the German crisis. The public entrance into politics of the German Crown Prince. Field Marshal Hinderburg and Quartermaster General LudendOrfC show the unveiled influence of the militarist thought to be exercised over the Reichstag and other civil authorities In Germany. . ' With Hollwegg's fall the list of pre miers of all belligerent nations who have have been swept, from their places during the v ar is complete. Every nation has. now changed leaders. Hnl!. wegg was the last to go. It was "recalled here today that be fore the German break with America Count Bernstorff repeatedly declared in Washington that there 'would be no peace until all the before-the-war premiers had retired." - - - The men who might be responsible to a public demand for peicf. however, are not now in control in Germany. By Vnlted Press. WASHINGTON. July 16. Three men were killed, including one American, and five others, including two American guards, were injured in the submarining of the American steamer Grace, owned by the Standard Commerolal Steamship corporation. New York, , the state department announced today. Although the i.u!marine was not seen, the ere . v?av the .wake' of the torpedo. " The five men injured were burned by explosion of -the petroleum cargo. All -Jaave been landed and placed in hospitals and the. remaining survivors are also safe ROUPalANIAN HIT BY AUTO A Roumanian who at the time was probably under the influence of liquor was hit by an automobile on Block avenue, nenr the corner of Washington street, Indiana Harbor, last night and received serious injuries. The driver of the car must have known ef the accident but apparently he did not stop. The injured man waa found unconscious by Officer Rybowiak. Dr. Sauer was called and from a cursoray examination he had the man taken at once to St. Margaret's hospital. His right fc-ot near the instep was broken, one of tnte bones rrotruding through the flech. Other Injuries were sustained. I . The man could not give his name. LEO BITTEN BY liiEY Leo Somoaskl, 3S15 Butternut street. Indiana Harbor, is in Mercy hospital, Gary, in a critical conditon as a result of being bitten by a monkey on Cedar street. The boy says that a medicine man was on the street with two monkeys and that one of the animals jumped on him and bit his hand. He went home, but it was not long before the hand began to swell and then Dr. Ostrowski was called. The doctor says that the boy is poisoned. The po!ice went out on the case and found on the street an Italian by the name of John Corel o. . ?tret. Chieasro,. with a hand organ and a monkey. The boy's descripton, however, did not fit the man and the Italian w&s released. The medicine man ha not been found. , RELIEVED Of any and all unpleasantness in your eres if you have your glasses fitted at S. Silver, Jeweler, and Manufacturing Optician, 177 State St., Hammond, Ind. 7-XS-l

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