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THE TY TIME VOL. XIL, XO. 31. DeTlverd by TIME 3 carriersr30c rsr month; oa streets and at newsstands, So per copy; back numbers 3c per copy. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, .JULY 24, 1917. HFAJ id GRASSELL RUSSIA TAKES STERN MEASURES AGAINST SPIES RIOT STIRS

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ORDERS THEM TO ISHOT German Provocateurs Will Be Gleaned Out to Save Southeast Army.

(By United Press Cablegram.) PETROGRAD, July 24. Russia has reached the limit of her patience with rebels and German spies. Xo longer will they be tolerated. Orders were issued today by the new provisional government directing loyal troops to shoot to kill any mutineers In the army or German spies. Clothed with unlimited power the new people's cabinet was prepare today to invoke measures of bloodshed to stop the rout of the southeast army and to clean out the nest of German provocators scattered throughout the nation. Premier Kerensky arrived on the front today and was expected to Issued orders to loyal troops to shoot down without mercy any of their fellows who yielded to German propaganda. The vigorous policy of repression of traitors and of German sympathizers Is the peoples own plea. The tfll Russia workmen's and soldiers" and peasants congresses formally approve It. A par liament all who disobey the provisional government battle orders "will be regarded as traitors and cowards" and "show no mercy" was Issued today. BRITISHERS TAKE -OFFICE AFTER CABINET SHAKEUP I fl U CRC GEDDES. JVIN3TON 3PCNCXR CMURCHU1' dwim samuu. Moft&oj Sir I'rio Geddes. who once worked on an American railroad, has risen to new power in England in the recent cabinet shake-up, for he has been named first lord cf the fdmiralty, a .nost difficult position. Winston Churchill, who has beon in the cabinet before, and whose fuilurrs in the defense of Auweip iul the Gall'poli campaign w-re supposed to have .ulned his polit'cnl prospects, was named riiin?stti of munitions, while Edwin Samui Montague, a Jew, and former member of the cabinet, was made secretary for India. He succeeded Austin Chamberlain, forced from office on the investigation of the failure In the Mesapotamia campaign.

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TAX BOARD TAKES UP APPEALS

Tax Board Inquires Regarding So-Called High Handed Methods of Gary Concerns of the United States Steel Corporation. tnass BTJBEATJ, AT STATE CAFXTAZb IXDIAXAPOLIS, IND.. July ! Gary figured in the hearings of the state tax board today when the charge, made by Edward Simon, county auditor of Lake county, that the corporations of the county had refused to give figures showing their valuation to the Lake county board of review and that the board therefore could not reach a fair valuation interested Strange K. Cragun, of the tax board and he made some Inquiries concerning what had been done to counteract the so-called high-handed methods of the companies operating in Gary. Simon'had charged that he had been unable to get information from officers of the firms in question when they appeared before the county board of review and that when he had questioned them concerning the actual values of their plants he had frequently been met with the reply that '"they didn't know." Simon appealed from valuations affecting the Indiana Steel Company, one of the largest steel corporations in the world; from the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company and from the Universal Portland Cement Company. In each case, he declared, improvements had been made In the plants of these companies during the last year, yet the appraisal finally fixed by the Lake county (Continued on page five.) HER LAST TRIP A Sixty-Year-Old Woman Thrown From Son's Machine. (Special to The Times.) REXSSELAER. IXD., July 24. Whether Mrs. Fred Rishling. aged 60, will recover or not is unknown; that she will never take another motorcycle ride is a cinch. Danna her son coaxed her to ride on his motorcycle with him and as he tried to pass an auto the old lady was thrown off the back seat breaking her hip and injuring her internally. HIS'"GUE5S" Drafted Man and Sweetheart Find Roosting Place in Bed of Muck. ROCHESTER. IND.. July 24. When his number was drawn Aubra Emmons of this city remarked that he guessed he would take his car out and run itj into a ditch, and he did. Returning j from Peru last night he attempted toj take a turn too fast and his machine went over an eight-foot embankment! through a wire fence, and turned over in a bed of muck. Miss Verla Granstaff, the other passenger, was thrown clear of the car but Emmons was caught underneath. WHITING CAR INCOLLISION Special to TIi Times. CROWN POINT, July 24. Afiolph Blakeman and Abe Winer, driving a large Chandler touring car belonging to the Bleode garage, met with an accident while coming from Chicago on Sunday afternoon. While on the Lake George boulevard near Hammond they were run into by a Whiting automobile, severely damaging the car, but the occupants escaped injury. The machine was left at a Hammond garage for repairs. GARY COUPLE . IN ACCIDENT VALPARAISO, July 24. An automobile containing a Gary man. wife and child, was ditched yesterday afternoon near the home of Charles fhares, north of town. The car skidded on the wet road and went into a fifteen foot ditch. Mr. Pharea collected other men and removed the- car from the ditch. Xeither the car nor the people were hurt.

OFFICIAL FIGURES

TIMES Bl'REAV, AT STATE CAPITAL, IXDIAXAPOLIS, July 24. After all credits have been made and deducted. the following is the official net nun ber of men Lake county (outside of Gary and East Chicago, will have to furniskFirst District. Whiting 13. Secc-nd Dis;iict, Hammond 27. Third District, Crown Point 13. DRAFT CALENDAR. Summons to Report, Physical Examination, x e m p t i ons, and Call to Colors Are Next Steps. PTASHIXGTOX, D. C July 24. Here are the remaining processes under which the new national army will be formed: Official tally sheets are scheduled to go out to local exemption boards today. Middle western boards ought to receive them a day later. Three days after receipt of the tally sheets local boards must call for examination twice as many men as the quota calls for. Five days after the notices are sent out, the first third of the candidates must appear before the boards for physical examination. The next day, the second third must appear. The next day, the last third must appea r. Wtihin five days from the time they appear, persons desiring exemption must file their claims. Ten days from date of call, absentees must submit to examination. Ten days after filing notice of claim for exemption, persons claiming exemption must submit proofs in affidavit form. Claims for industrial exemption cannot be made until the local board certifies an appeal to the district board. Five days after this appeal has been filed, the person claiming exemption must file his claim. , Xot more than five days lter, he must submit proof of his claim to the district board. About Sept. 1, those found physically fit will be called to the colors by the president. MAX HESS SHOT 001 Two men who escaped shot "in kill" Max Hess. Hammond fruu dealer, about 1 o'clock this morning near the corner of Clinton street and Oakley avenue. He will probably die. His assailnnts are believed to be East Chicago mD. Mr. Hess was on his way home to 6S5 Oakley avenue. Xear Clinton street ;he two desperadoes opened fire, both discharging five or six bullets. One escaped in a taxi. The victim was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital, where Dr. Chidlaw operated and extracted a bullet which had entered the left arm, glanced through the forearm Into the abdomen, punctured the stomach twice, made five holes in the intestines and lodged in the right lobe of the liver. Hess was also shot through both knees. His condition at 3 o'clock this afternoon was reported "very dangerous." Italians Sunpeeted. Police are searching for two Italians who are thought to have attempted the murder. The man who hired a taxi to "hurry to East Chicago" a few minutes after the shooting was an Italian, according to one of the chauffeurs of the City Taxi company. Only one man was tken away in a cab, the other apparently escaping through the alleys and railroad yards. Police were on the scene in a few minutes afterwards and thoroughly combed the vicinity. " Clues are strong and it is expected that the gunmen will be found. Motive Jealousy f It is probable, according to police, that the men were jealous of Hess. "Business rivals," said one authority. Hess is only 22 years old. NINE MORE ENLIST. Xine more Hammond youths volunteered and left today. They are: Vinson Williams. Edgar Thorton. Edward Kuhlman, Seymour Stone, John Almac, red Roberts, Paul Baldyta, Wagoner Kaben and George Fraizer. "Hammond men enlisting in the infantry will be sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison fof training. This will give them an opportunity to visit their homes frequently." All Hammond recruits will be assigned to the same company." Sergeant William Welch, Hammond recruiting officer. K. OP C. NOTICE. Special meeting Tuesday evening, June 24. 1917. Business of vital importance. ' 'Each member should make an effort to attend. -7-23-2t IX F. O'COXXER, G. tC

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Emperor Charles of Austria (left). Kaiser Wilhelm. and diagrammatic riew of the Germanic fortress. Thu Austro-Germanic military position is depicted as two fortresses, Austria-Germany and Turkey, connected by a barbican (Balkania). Across the barbican stands Constantinople, barring the Dardenelles and Bosphorus. and preventing communication between the eastern and western allies. The territory seized by treachery or conquest is shewn &3 three outworks. Two of these are now considerably shattered. .

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GREATEST SECRETSERVICE

(By United Press.) WASHIXGTOX, July 24. Vncle Sam doesn't make as much noise about his secret police agents as Kaiser Bill does about his Wilhelmstrasse but the star spangled sleuths get there just the same. The United States has one of the biggest secret police systems in the world. It centers In Washington. It is composed of: 1 The Bureau of Investigation. Department of Justice, headed by Bruce Lielaski. In peace times this organization hunted white slavers, anti-drug law violators, and other offenders. Xow it hunts German spies and pro-kaierites. 2 The Secret Service, headed by Chief Flyrm. Its main duties are to catch counterfeiters for the treasury department, and furnish the president a secret service squad. 3 Secret police systems of other government departments such as post office inspectors to nab mail law violators. The army and navy have their own means of getting information of rr.ilitary value. The biggest job right now is war work. The secret service throws its tenticles in every direction feeling for Latest 'Bulletins Washington. July 34 The Navy department today requisitioned seven oil tankers and ordered them to report at Atlantic and Pacific ports to meet urgent needs of ths naryi By WILLIAM Q, ESIPAED. (By United Press Cablegram.) Fetrograd. July 24 Representatives of all & us si a last night unanimously approved delegation of "supreme oathcrlty" to the Suslon provincial govern ment, Confirmation of all measures whichthe new Socialist-collation cabinet may make in putting down mutiny at home and In the arriy is thus given, (By United Press Cablegram.) Washington, July 21 The inter-stata commerce commission today ordered all railroads engaged in interstate commerce to cease charging proportionately lower freight rate on commodities ship

plotters agairrst the president. The bureau of investigation musses disloyalist schemes. The army and navy sleuths dig into enemy war plans. In their hunt for anti-American agitators. Uncle Sam's secret police mingle with crowds, participate in mass meetings, use the telephone. If a mob gathers, the chances are a quiet gentleman with a badge in his pocket is among those present. They incline an ear to the ravings of pro-Germans and by mysterious methods become aware of what America's foes are doing in Berlin as well as in Xew Tork. Through channels Sherlock Holmes could never discover reports come regularly to Washington, and orders go out. Many kaiser boosters, although they remain blissfully ignorant of it, are watched by the government as a cat watches a mouse. Their doings and sayings are systematically chronicled and filed away for reference in Washington. Detailed reports come in, dealing with actions of persons thousands of miles away in alien lands, and right here at home in Chicago, Xew Orleans or Loa Angela If the kaiser says anything

worth, while in his sleep, .Washington has a good chance of hearing it. ped from eastern cities to the Pacific coast and on foods from western cities to mid-continent points. The order is effective October 15, 1917. (By United Press.) Buenos Aires, July 34 An American fleet due to arrive late this afternoon will receive a warm welcome under plans completed today. (By United Press.) Amsterdam, July 24 Germany stoppad all exportation of coal to Holland. Holland in the past has received practically all coal supplies from Germany. I'nlted rrei Cablegram. PARIS, July 24- Tarnopol, evacuated by the Rnfmlann, was in flames yester. day, a dispatch to the Echo.Parls as. erted yesterday. United Press Cablegram. LONDON, July 24. A vote of credit for 650,000,04X1, approximately $3,150,. 000,000, was Introduced In the house of commons today by Chnncellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law. By United Press. WASHINGTON, July 24. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo today submitted

L'S IS ACCEPTED (By United Press.) Washington, July 24 Sweeping steps were taken by President Wilson today to end delay in building America's great merchant marine. Two resignations, General Goethals, manager of the emergency fleet corporation and Captain White, member of the shipping board were accepted. Chairman Denman of the shipping board was asked to resign. At the same time the President announced the appointment of Edwin Hurley of Chicago as chairman of the shipping board and Admiral Capps, naval constructor, as general manager of the fleet corporation. Baingridge Colby, of Xew Tork. was named in White's place on the shipping board. "We will Btart with a clean sheet." the President explained in his letter to Goethals accepting tahe General's offer to resign. Washington was completely surprised. to congress it new $3,000,000,000 war revenue budget Ave minutes before Chairman Simmons of the senate finance committee was to have introduced the $1,673,000,000 war revenue bill Just completed after weeks of labor. Sec. retary McAdoo conferred with Senator Simmons regarding- the additional estl. mates of $5,000,000,000 by the war de. partment, and the conference resulted In Simmons holding up his report on the $1,672,000,000 bill. By United Press. CHICAGO, July 24. "Chicken Joe" Campbell, convicted murderer of Mrs. Odette Alien, wife of former Warden Allen of the IljSnois prison at Jollet, today was granted a writ of supcrsedas to stay his execution on the gallows this Friday. The stay orjer Issued by Chief Justice Carter of the state so. prene court will be effective until the upper court has passed on the appeal from the sentence convicting Camp, bell. . . By United Press. WASHINGTON, July 24 Whether severe Inflammation of the ears that caused Mrs. Thomas Marshall, wife of the vice president, to go to n hospital will necessitate r.n operation, will be determined ' physicians todsy. The vice president is constantly at her bed. side. Mrs. Marshall's condition was unchanged today.

DEFENSE B'D

TO ACTION LIST NIGHT

Battalion In Charge of Major ' Hannon In Charge of Sit-' uatlon Which for Time Was Ugly. The second battalion of the second Indiana infantry, with Captain Hannon in charge as acting major, is in charge of the plant of the Grasselli Chemical company, East Chicago, as a result of the riot which occurred last night about ten o'clock, following the strike which was called, last Saturday, when J. W. Lees, superintendent of the Inland and member of the Indiana Council of Defense got busy. Soldiers are guarding all the gates and are patrolling various departments of the industry which covers over 390 acres. Of the 1,400 men employed, about three hundred participated in last night's disturbance. Agitators Busy At Plant Agitators were busily at work Saturday night and Sunday among the employees and the number of strikers materially increased yesterday. At nine-thirty a large crowd of 'men. congregated at the plajit and under the supposition that men were being surreptitiously conveyed to the gates the strikers began to stop autoeiobiles that were passing by. Touring cars bearing both Indiana and Illinois licenses were halted, their occupants scanned, drivers questioned and otherwise put to considerable annoyance. Rioters Attack Auto. Finally, that thoroughfare, which Is the main artery south, was becoming congested and trouble seemed Imminent. The police of the city were called and upon arriving at the .works found a force of between two and three hundred men congregated. They were told to disperse but did not obey the order. A car drove up, was stopped by some strikers at the edge of the crowd and almost Immediately a brick crashed through the windshield. Chief Struss -was on the ground and luckily enough saw the man who threw the brick. It was Joe Kish who lives at 4S32 Melville avenue. "Arrest that man," said the chief to some of his officers. As Gould and Muha approached Kish, a stbne was thrown at them and hit Muha on the leg. Hammond Police On Job. Some one called out: "There's only a handful of the cops. Come on boys." This was the signal for a general attitude of resistance. Meanwhile, the Hammond police had (Continued rn page live.) HELPS FOUND NEW POLITICAL PARTY Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, well known writer and lecturer on social Eroblems, is now engaged with her usband, J. G. Phelps Stokes, in the organization of a new political party, which is expected to come into being in September. Before her marriage to the millionaire' Stokes she was a cigarmaker in Cleveland, receiving eicht dollars a week.

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