Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 27 July 1917 — Page 1

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JQolonel Roosevelt Tells Moose Convention He Won't Talk On Same Stage With Thompson. PITTSBURGH, July 27. William Hale Thompson, burgomaster of thej'sixth largest German City in the world," had a rough time in Pittsburgh yesterday. He came here to attend the world convention of the Loyal Order of the Moose, bringing with him a delegation of children from the Moose home at Mooseheart. Theodore Roosevelt also was a guest, and the presence of the ex-President was the thorn in the chaplet that Big Bill expected to place on his own brow. COLONEL WON'T HAVE IT. In the first place, the burgomaster wanted to eat breakfast with the colonel at the William Penn Hotel. The colonel said no and didn't stop at that. He served notice en the convention managers that if Thompson was allowed to talk at the big open-air meeting in front of the Allegheny courthouse they would have to get along without him. The colonel spoke. Big Bill didn't. TEDDT WAS "OUT. The declination of break bread with him did not. apparently, have any effect on the burgomaster. He made a call at Mr. Roosevelt's hotel, but found T. R. out." He declared he would make another effort to see Teddy, but didn't ch to the deep regret of a number of persons who were seeking "listening posts" in the hall. Just under the opened transom of the . colonel's apartments. "INVITE" THREE MONTHS OXD. The officers of the convention had a hard time explaining Thompson's presence to the delegates. The explanation given was that the invitation to him was extended three months ago. before Big Bill's pro-German tendencies became known. The burgomaster attended the convention. He may not know it, but a "committee of safety" was on the Job. prepared to stop him instantaneously if he should give utterance to any expression that might be regarded as unpatriotic. He didn't offend. He simply read a semi-historical essay, bringing in George III.. John Hancock and other celebrities. The Scriptures also received favorable mention, as did .the lowly Nazarene. at whose birth the angels and the morning stars stang together "Peace on earth: good will to men." ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH. Colonel Roosevelt, in his address yesterday afternoon, asserted that the United States government in announcing that the measures of preparedness now in progress are temporary and will be stopped as soon as the emergency is over, is making a "criminal refusal to provide for the future." He summed up what America has accomplished since the declaration of a state of war with Germany by saying that the United States did not now have a single airplane fit to snd across the German lines and that months must pass before one could be manufactured; that America had no heavy artillery to put in the battle line and that Major General Perthing and his soldier

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rv i )( IRVIXG CIIAVKEX. Irving Chayken, a sporting writer on The Times, who enlisted last April and is now at an eastern fort with the coast artillery, is expected home on a short furlough preparatory to sailing for France. It will be a godd-by trip. would have to trust to French and English guns. American submarine chasers operating with the British fleet constituted, he said, only a tiny fraction of the English force. It would be a year aner the declaration of war before America would have a fair number of big cargo ships. "We have not enough rifles . fotjOiir men." said Colonel Roosevelt. "We are painfully short in equipment. We have not yet begun to assemble the draft army, the first elementary officers' training camps have not been finished and the National Guard has only just begun to mobilize. WARNING- DISREGARDED. "We have put a fragment of our fine little regular army into France, and as it is composed almost exclusively of infantry without artillery, it would be helpless against any well equipped enemv wre it not aided by our allies. "This is the sum total of the activities of a nation of 100,000,000 people, and in possession of incalculable wealth and boundless resources, during the six months following its entry (after two and one-half years" warning) into the greatest war in history. "The simple truth is that, relatively to the other great nations of the world, we have in this war exhibited ourselves a miracle of inefficiency and we shall always be inefficient during the first vital months of any war until we learn to prepare in advance. "It is this utter unpreparedness which shftuld convey the real lession to us of this war. And remember that as yet we as a people, acting through our governmental authorities, have not taken one step to avert disaster in the future by introducing a permanent policy of preparedness. DO NOT GIVE TIP. If your results are not satisfactory regarding your spectacles, see us. We are specialists for twenty years prac tice, fitting eyes for the proper glasses S. Silver, Jeweler and Manufacturing Optician, 177 State street, Hammond Indiana. 7-27-1 Hammond Ball Park: Sunday, July 29, Hammond vs. West Ends. 7:26:2 The most recent picture cf the Kaiser and his oldest son to come from abroad shows them marching between the lines of parading German troops in a recent inspection on the Aisne front, the scene cf Germany's latest offensive.

Rapid Stride Made By Banker's Son

Sergeant Walter E. Meyn, son of Peter W. Meyn, president of the Lake County Savings & Trust company, will soon be in France probably the first Hammond soldier boy to rtai the field of action abroad. Walter left Hammond Friday and is now in Xew York City awaiting to depart. The following letter has been received by the Lake County bank where Walter was employed: "Hotel McAlyn. N Y.. July 25. "To the Force: Do not' know date of sailing, but can expect order any day. "Equipment was given us today and believe me It is hot. A pretty fine PYTHUMS " TO CELEBRATE Hammond Knights of Pythias will pay their respects to the flag and country Saturday evening when they parade the streets and hold a public service outside their new home at Hohman and Ogden .-..reets. The parade is to form at the courthouse at 7 o'clock' Saturday evening. It will be led by the police who are to be followed by speakers. A feature of the plane for the parade is the promise that the uniform volunteer guards with their twenty-six piece band (all employes of the Inland Steel Company) will participate. The Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, Civil and Spanish War Veterans, a Hammond band, the Pythian Sisters, Uniform Rank K. of P-, and others will ba in the parade. An added touch of patriotism will be the appearance of volunteers who are to leave next week, including Dale, Ernest and Sickafus, three brothers who have enlistodFrom the ceurt house the parade will move north to Sibley street, east to Oakley avenue: north to State street: west to Hohman street, and south to Ogden. At the lodge home Judge V. S. Reiter and W. C. Belman will speak. There isll we a flag raising with appropriate ceremony. "Tell the people of Hammond not to fall down: that all of the cities of the state are calling attention to the brilliant work Hammond has done throughout the whole campaign for recruits. All over the state she is known as the most patriotic city in the stfte and is called "that patriotic town. t CAPTAIN" RYAN, U. S. A." Hammond is still up and coming. With forty men in line for the company of volunteers to be sent out Thursday of next week and twenty more in sight, recruiting continues as if there were no such thing as a draft. But the draft must be taken into consideration. The local exemption board is expected to receive orders tomorrow to call the first 100 men eligible for the draft to appear for examination. The minute a man Is notified to appear for physical examination is from that time on denied the prlv. liege of enlisting. The Hammond recruiting office received word today that all departments of the aviation corps are open. As 60 per cent of the recent applications for enlistment have been for the aviation corps this announcement should be of interest. Mechanics of all kinds are needed in that department. As many of the forty North Side boys who have volunteered for the new company which will go to Fort Benjamin Harrison for training are members f the St. Casimir's church a military mass is to be "said by their pastor on the morning of their departure. LULU WAS DAINTY, BUT SHE WAS A LITTLE INDISCREET NEW YORK. July 27. Her name was "Lulu" and she was. She swung daintily in a swing. Clothes? Oh. a pair of extra long silk stockings, the summer breeze and the blush of health. But the society for the prevention of vice didn't like "Lulu." They halej Adolph Peret. art dealer, into court. Jor selling the drawing and another entitled "La Chemise Indiscrete." Three judges in special sessions took a long look and decided "Lulu" and the chemise also serve to a great extent to lighten the burden placed upon many communities where the alien population is very large. Ask Yourself How Serve Your Country? You Can

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bunch of fellows are here in the corps, 6. great number of them being bankers. You can write to me at the following address: "SERGT. WALTER E. MEYN". "Care Adjutant General, "Washington. D. C. "ExpeditionaFy Force to France." The eighty-five highest in examinations were selected from the quartermaster corps for Immediate .service in Franca, with Pershing. Walter was one of these. His companions are from all parts of the country. Walter expects to meet F. W. Miller of Hammond in Paris. Miller is Paris official of the Standard Steel Car company.

Hi YGU CAREFUL WHEN YQU DRIVE 'YOUR AUTOMOBILE?

LOGANS PORT, IND., July 27. R. II. Ritter, a bank cashier, was killed when his auto was hit by a Wabash flyer here. MARTINVILLE, IND., July 27. The bodies of Rev. G. Scherr. his two sons and his sister-in-law. killed when their autd was hit by an interurhan car, were sent to Olney, 111., for burial. BLOOMINGTON, ILL., July 27. T. J. Shinkard, a circus man, was killed when I his auto backed down an embankment and turned over. COLUMBUS. O., July 27. Mr. and Mrs. Crane and two children were dangerously hurt when Crane ran his auto into a barbwlre fence after plunging down an embankment. DEATH GLfllfillS -W. H. Well Known Crown Point Artist Succumbs in Chicago Hospital. (Special to Thb Times.) CROWN POINT. IND.. July 27. This city was shocked today to learn that W. H. Hayward. the veteran photographer and artist, had died last night at Wcs-. ley hospital in Chicago wher he had submitted to an operation for gall stones after his health had been very poor for several months. The story in these columns last night saying that his condition was Ferious was a surprise to many people throughout the county. Nearly a hundred gall stones taken from the sufferer by surgeons showed his condition to be desperate. The arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed but it will probably take place on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Hayward was sixty-five years of age and is survived by a wife and three children. Dr. Harry Hayward of Valparaiso and Neva and Nina Dailey. The decedent was one of Crown Point's best known citizens. He was a photographer of national reputation andfeis pictures have attracted widespread attention. FOR WELCH Sergeant Welch, the Hammond re cruiting agent, wishes to set at rest the story tha has -obtained circulation in some itway that recruiting officers are paid a bonus of 50 cents and $1.00 per had for recruits by the government. Tht3 is not true, either here or at any othr station and is a slander on an efficient corps of hustlers. The scrEeant does not eet tmld n c-nt but gets his lit lie old 50 odd bones a month, and it is mighty poor nay for what he does. Second, third and fourth rlni nntt. masters were given a bonus, but the Whiting postmaster gave a;i the money h got that way to the Red Cross. (OllEET SI.SH FOR K. C. (SMI FUND A total of $1,500 has been collected for the K. C. army fund in the Gary district. General Chairman F. T. Jansen reported today. There will be a mass meeting at K. C. hall, 6th avenue and Massachusetts street, tonight, and a final meeting Sunday evening. Father Jansen said. MAYBE THIS THIEF WILL BE SHOT Mrs. O'Donnell. 2320 Adams street, Gury, reported to the. police that she has a war garden a fewi, doors away from her home, and that recently a night thief has been digging up her potatoes

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THE FAMOUS ASTOR BABY IS NOW OLD ENOUGH TO TAKE IN THE HORSE SHOWS

Mrs. William K. Dick, who was Mrs. John Jacob Astor and her son Master John Jacob Astor at the Islip Polo Club horse show. Little John Jacob Astor, the posthumous son of the late Colonel Astor fs now old enough to be seen with his mother at many of society's affairs. He was recently an interested spectator at the Islip Polo Club horse show, a Red Cross benefit The will of Colonel Astor left $5,000,000 for the son he never lived to know. Mrs. Dick it will be remembered sacrificed an annuity of several hundred thousand when she married.

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(By United Press.) WASHINGTON. July 27. In a letter to the United Press today. Provost Marshal General Crowder complimented this service for its "remarkable feat" in sending out the draft numbers on lottery so accurately. The letter says: "My attention has been called to the umarkable feat occomplished by your service on draft, day in transmitting throughout the country information as to each number drawn simultaneously with its drawing. "From a comparison of your press story with the official list, I am surprised by the accuracy with which the task was accomplished. The work of your association in this particular incident but bears out the alertness and reliability which has characterized your service in covering the entire registration and draft." WIS IT PEDDLERS RUCTION? Who murdered Max Hess? AV'as it a peddlers' feud? These two questions are leading ii the mysterious murder of Max Hess, Hammond fruit peddler, last Tuesday near his h'.une on Oakley avenue. Hammond police are untangling the mystery. Max Hess returning to his home at 683 Oakley avenue about 1 a. m. Tuesday, was shot down by two men, suspected as Italians. He was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital where he died a day later. He was shot in three places. The Murderer's Escape. A few minutes after the shooting an Italian ordered a taxi to take him to East Chicago. Only one man escaped in the cab. the other probably ran through the alleys and railway yards. Police secured descriptions and are working untiringly on the case. One Suspect Taken. The next night the police arrested an Italian who was charged with the murder. However, evidence against him proved that he had nothing to do with the affair and he was freed. Peopli living on the street claim to have h;ard about ten or twelve shots. The police found six bullets of Z2 calibre. Mctive Badness Jealousy? The first motive' for the crime advanced was "busintES Jealousy." It is thought that the men were angered at Hess success. Send THE TIMES to your soldier boy. Let him see how we left behind are backing him up. THE TIMES stands for the TJ. S. and President Wilson.

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(By United Press Cablegram.) COPEOTIAOEIT, - July 37. Persistent rumors reached here today of a cholera epidemic raging In many Oerman cities, particularly Hamburg. - (By United Press.) - - WASHINOTOIT, July 27 Between $10,000,000,000 and 911,000,000,000 is ap proximately the dizzy . total the estab lishment will need up to June 30, 1918. With the war department seeking a gross amount of $5,917,873,347 the nary department will probably need between $1,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000, while the expenses of other government branches ran into stnpendons figures. (By United Press Cablegram.) BUENOS AZBES, July 37. An earth, quake of great Intensity Is believed to have caused great damage In Chill, was reported from Santiago In dispatches received today by Law Maciotu . Details j were meagre, but It was known that eremors were felt In Santiago, Cordoba, San Zinis, Kendoza, Kosario and Turn, man. Many walls were shaken down and the populace of several cities fled from their homes. Considerable property damage was re ported, bat no details were given. The Santiago dispatch said great alarm was felt there. The shocks were described as the strongest la years. They started about 10:45 last night. In Buenos Aires slight tremors were noticeable. Ktwi was awaited from Valparaiso which was reported In early dispatches as being the heaviest sufferer. (By United Press.) CHXCAO0, July 27. Chicago rail. roads face a tie-up at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. Twenty-five hundred switchmen, members of the Brotherhood of Ballroad, Trainmen, will walk oat unless they are granted a closed shop in their favor. And an equal number of the Switchman Union of America will strike if the Brotherhood demands are granted, and 1500 non-union switchmen are expected to follow the latter. The Switchman's union is affkdated with the American Pederation of Labor while the B. of B. T. is not. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, July 27. The senate military aSTairs committee today unanimously voted to recommend to the seaate Monday, Immediate passage of the Chamberlain resolution permitting draft of aliens Into the new national army. HEW MARRIAGE LICENSES GRANTED (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IN.. July 27. The following new marriage licenses have been granted here: Elfrin Sanridu and Theresa Wachalussar, Gary. Frank Tuppchio and Helen Zeutschel, Gary. Alex Georges and Esther Vargo, Gary. Joe Korach and Helen Plenksey, East Chicago. . Emmett A. Tapley and Jennie Posey, Gary. Joe "Jerek, Whiting, and Ann Schultz, Chicago. Walter Przymlsinski and Madaline Ortt, Hammond. Carl A. Siewersten, Hammond, and Anna Senkey, West Hammond. Enlist In The Woman's Armyj 1 By Conserving Foods.

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Escapes In Pitched Battle in Finland, Kerensky Playing v A Bold Game, (BULLETIN.) (By United Press Cablegram.) PETSOSBAS, July B7. SnssU's women lighters in their first battle cap tured 102 prisoners, two of them officers, according to dispatches from the Svlnsk front. About 12 of the women soldiers are suffering injuries. According to reports the girls Mweat over the top" in the charge with tierce impetuosity firing as they hurried forward to meet the enemy, utterly without fear. Prisoners captured by the girl scrap. pers expressed the utmost astonishment and chagrin when they learned the sex who had so fiercely attacked their po sition. (BULLETIN.) . (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, July 27-r-rresb Xnssianrtrops are being rushed to the Gall. clan front' to stem the tide of the German advance past Tarnopol they cabled to the Susslaa embassy today. By WM. P. SHEPABD (United Press Staff Correspondent.) PETROGRAD. July 27. The strugl i of Premier Kerensky and the provision: government against the discordant element in Russia has become a fight ti prevent Russia's return to the oil regime, with its rule of absolutism ari l oppression. That Kerensky senses the peril of a counter revolution coming after the military breakdown was indicated today An tw? . ai.ftr?nt ."KfchA. ht$.sde;iv-. efed since Tuesday. "The government is determined not to allow the country to relapse in the direction of the old regime," he said in speech to the workmen and soldiers an J peasants organization yesterday. "Any attempt to return to a monarchy will receive the most severe treatment." he asserted. "The breakdown on th front has created a fruitful soil for a counter revolution." It was considered significant in this connection that Kerensky was in support of the plan to have the provisional government meet at Moscow next Tuesday in conference with all representative civic and social institutions including the old Duma - Once before at the height of the rioting in Petrograd the provisional government considered a proposal to move all governmental activity to Moscow. ' Kerensky indicated the Moscow meeting would be in efTect a national congress to discuss Russia and her problems. He said the government "would explain to the congress in perfect frankness the true situation in the country." The former regime known as proGermanism would be sufficient incentive to Germany" to aid through her countless spies in Russian any movement to restore the Czar. Nicholal Lenine. anti-war agitator and suspected German spy, was again at large today following a pitched battle at Pornea in Finland between government agents and anarchists. A fight occurred at a country palace occupied by anarchists. Kolonta. ardent supporter of Lenine's, with 12 other German spies were taken. RUSSIA TO (By United Press Cablegram.) PETROGRAD, July 27. "Russia will remain a democracy! "The provisional government will remain in power. "Any attempt to throne a monarch will be stopped." So declared Russian Premier Kerensky here today. "The time of the absolute monarchy in Russia is over." continued the youngest dictator in the great world war In an intetview here today. "Russia, her people and warriors have overthrown the most aboslute monarchy In the world for a purpose freedom and they mean to keep it. "Russia will continue her part in the great conflict. German provocators will be shot down. Traitorous soldiers will be dealwith firmly. Russia will not fall down." LEAGUE READY TO QUIT NEEDFUL (By United Press.) NEW TORK, July 27. The American league will irlve up its schedule 'and call oft the world series if the government deems it necessary as a war measure. Ban Johnson declared here today in an interview in which he urged ball players not to claim exemption-

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