Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 37, Hammond, Lake County, 31 July 1917 — Page 1

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(By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, July 31 England started gigantic offensive in Flanders todayField Marshal Haig struck over a wide front north of the Lys river in Belgium. "The allies captured their first objectives," the British commander reported. "Satisfactory progress was made In all position. Many prisoners were taken." Haigs" report asserted that British attack was begun at 3:50 a. m. today. His assault the second concerted offensive In the Messlne river sector followed the greatest artillery duel In the whole war today. For seven days now British and German guns have been roaring all along this Belgium front The Germans apparently started the concentrated fire, presumably ,Xaring another stroke in "this sector and the British ' quickly repltea- w ith redoubled activity. Mention by the British commander of "the allies" capturing their first objective would seem to indicate that the British were assisted either by Belgium or French troops. The Lys fiow3 northward above Armentierea joining the Lille-Ypres canal at Comines. The canal and the river form an angle in which is located Messine. It was In this section that Haig struck his blow a few weeks ago. In which the Canadians swept over the dominating ridge positions. Since that time It has been apparent were preparing to make full use of their height positions by sweeping the Germans back against the converging water ways over the lowlands. FRENCH FORGE AHEAD (By United Press Cablegram.) FARI3, July 31. Suddenly assuming the offensive today Trench troops swept Xorward to complete success in their first objective over a front of more than a n in the x,aroyere-Chevregay sector of the Chemin-Des-Dames. Tae war official report announced "complete success of all objects has been attained. A German counter, offensive was thrown back." Prisoners taken in the Trench drive included 167 men, two officers and 15 non-commissioned officers belonging to three different regiments. The statement also detailed a violent artillery combat around Cerny and Hnr. teblse elsewhere on the Chemine-Ses-Zames, with infantry very active. In the Champaign a German raid was dispersed. On both banks of the Muese artillery on both sides were active. YBUHG MAN . DEAD AT TEXAS FORT Carl Webby Succumbs To Spinal Meningitis At Fort Sam Houston. (Special toTHS Times.) WHITING, IND.. July 31. Carl Welsby, age 23 years, of Whiting, who went to Pennsylvania a short time ago, is dead at Fort Sair. Houston, Texas, as the result of &n attack of spinal meningitis. The young man enlisted with a Pennsylvania regiment on July 15. He was sent to San Anionio and from there to Fjrt Sam Houston, where his death occurred on Saturday, thirteen days after his enlistment. Ths word was received by Mrs. Maud Jo'inson. sister of the deceased. The remains will bv inferred there with full military ho rors. WHERE'S THAT COOLER WEATHER? (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. July 31. (What promised to be the hottest of the summer was. faced by Indiana today. The thermometer at ten o'clock registered 90 and was going up rapidly. Farmers' are beginning to worry over their corn crops. Enlist In The - Woman's By Conserving Foods-; Army

Revised Auto Death-Injury List In Indiana Sunday 1 killed and 7 hart at Indianapolis. 5 killed and S Injured at Seymour. 1 killed at Pendleton. 6 badly hurt at Merrlllvllle. 1 killed at Richmond and 3 badly hurt. 1 fatally hurt and 3 others at Bedford 1 fatally hurt at Winchester and nine hurt. 3 seriously hurt at Maynardf 1 burt at Anderson. I burt at Evansvllle. II burt on Ridge Road, Gary. 4 hurt at East Chicago. 3 hurt near Dyer. 1 hurt near Scherervllle. 4 burt near Wheeler. 3 hurt near Valparaiso. 3 burt near Flint Lake. 3 hurt at Michigan City. 1 hurt near Hobart.

ARE Y0U CAREFUL THEY BACKED DOWN HILL. VALPARAISO. IND.. July 31. Two ladies killed the engine of their auto on the Sager hill and it backed down the hill. Becoming panicstrlcken the drives forgot to put on the brakes. One passenger jumped out and broke her leg .in three places. The car was ditched. HAMMOND PEOPLE HURT. VALPARAISO. IND.. July 31. A party of Hammond people In a Saxon plunged over a II foot embankment near the- Horn farm. . The car hit a bump' breaking the steering gear as they tried to pass another car. ' The car and its four occupants was half buried in water. None were fatally hurt. CAR DITCHED; 5 HURT. MERRILL VILLE, IND.. July 31. A Chicago car containing F. H. Rost and wife. Wm. Peterson and wife plunged in a ditch near here Sunday and the car was turtled on them. Mrs. Rost's leg was split open and the body of the car resting on Rost's stomach caused him to be taken to the hospital. Peterson was badly cut and bruised. RECKLESS MOTORCYCLIST. SCHERERVILLE. IND.. July 31. A big touring car standing by the side of the road near the R. Bohling farm was hit by a speeding motorcyclist vyho was racing with another atito and tried to pass the standing machine. The youth was picked up for dead and so far has been unconscious. YOUNG WOMAN HURT. DYER. IND.. July 31T--A Chicago Heights car was crowded into the ditch by another machine, north of town, and struck a post. Miss Annie Schaacke was badly hurt and Dr. Rafacs of this cty gave her medical treatment. ROAD HOGS SUFFER. . FLINT LAKE. IND.. July 31. Four young men in a Ford tried to Jam their way between two other cars in an effort to pass them and sideswiped the two cars. They lost control of their :ar and it was almost demolished. None were badly hurt. STEEL A GOLD 'HE Inland Steel is booked so far ahead on its regular lines at full capacity that it is not taking any new business. Its capacity was almost doubled the last year by the erection of new openhearth furnaces, blooming and other mills, and now exceeds 1.000.000 tons annually. The company got Its share of the benefit of sharp advances In prices, but estimates of $1,300,000 net earnings per month, or other amounts, are pronounced unofficial guessing. Being a rather close corporation, it has never followed the United States Steel with frequent statements of Income and unfilled tonnage, confining its pub licity to the annul reports. BARBER RATES JUMPJN HARBOR Since settlement of their recent difficulties which .resulted in a strike Journeymen and boss barbers in North township areworking together to completely unionize Hammond, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Sam Walker of Hammond presided at a meeting in Indiana Harbor where fifteen shops were signed up to the new scale (shave 20c, hair cut 40c). Harry Tuttle has been organizing the town. Shaves had been. IS and hair cuts 30 cents. SQUIRREL SEASON STARTS AUGUST 1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 31. The squirrel season opened . for Indiana hunters today tc continue until December 1. In previous years shooting of squirrels was permitted between July 1 and December 1 but the dates were changed by act of the last legislature

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GET CALL Well, boys, here are the first 100. You are ordered to report for examination for military service on Saturday. August 4. There the doctors will give you the twice over. You will be coolly clad while they do it. Here they are: 1 258 Stafford, Wm. T., 168 Doug las St. 2 2K2 Gurski, Frank K., 70 Dear born St. 3 458 Gustafson. Albert. 534 Mor ton Ave. 4 3403Wawrzyk. John, 116 Cameron St. Sraku, Peter. 33 Company 1436house. 2624 Scheer, Fred C, 157 Detroit St. 854 Schneider. Walter E.. 777 Beall St. 6 81S94 Long. Saylor. 423 Summer St. 9 1S78 Luthlnan. Chas. E.. 35. Sib ley St. 3257 Scherer. Louis. 100 Douglas 10 11 1095 Mrosefskl. Arthur A.. 4SS Hoffman St. 2022 Laup, George E., 73 Sibley St. 3383 Bishop, Lawrence A., 216 CMicago Ave. 3382 Cannon. Roy. 653 Morton Ct 1455 Bult, Peter H.. R. F. D. 3679 Gllck, Chas. J., 47 Rimbach Ave. 3755 Krsal, Joe, 552 Walter Ave. 873 Gucull. Nick. 1100 Columbia. Ave,1S13 Kulik. Jan, 121 La Salle St 2787 Kors. Henry. 225 Hickory St 1858 Jastrzenskl, Peter, 518 Ames Ave. 2389 Scott, Robert D.. 40 Plummer Ave. 3567 Reipllnger. Jos. M.. 99 Wil 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 23 liams St. 24 3637 Pollard, Anthony. 459 Elm SS, 25 1752 Yvan, Wm.. 517 Hohman St. 2Sr 2494 Norton, Thos. P., 79 State St. (Continued on page Ave.). Lawless Negroes Lead To Hold Police In Contempt As Result of Political Scheme. Insidious efforts to stir up hordes of worthless negroes, who have flocked into Gary to live off the earnings of the decent and respectable colored steel workers and building laborers, are having their effect and if carried out Gary may spring into the front page as have East St. Louis, 111., and Chester, Pa. Negroes are being influenced by a political press propaganda that has for its effect the holding of official authority in contempt They are fast getting the impression that the police, who have been hard pressed by the inflow of strange negroes, who will not work, are engaged in persecuting decent negroes and aiding those whose tendencies are criminal. The result is, as can be expected, that there is a reaction as far as the lawless negro element Is concerned, and if the insidious plan of encouraging- tnem to hold the city government, the city court and city police is kept up an outbreak is feared. Arrest Many Idlers. Since the race riots at East St. Louis and troubles elsewhere in the southern part of the north there has been a gradual exodus in this direction and many colored men have come to Gary, Kaf Chicago. Hammond. Chicago and other cities. The majority of them are willing to work, but not a few want to lay around town, hang around saloons and live off the substantial class of people. As fast as these idle negroes are found they are arrested and, if possible, convicted of vagrancy. The police are keen to the evil that may result from the having of hundreds f idle blacks around town, many of them said to be ex-convicts, and they are dealing with the problem with a stiff hand. Chief Forbis. who lived in the south for many years, and who is conversant with the problem, has ordered his men to arrest all idlers. Gary is short of workmen as it is and there is no excuse for men not working. No one knows better than the chief (Continued u page five.)

FDRUlb RACE WAR AT GARY

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They Enjqy Lake Dips In Whiting, Hammond and EastChicago But Do They In Gary ? Not At All

Is It Hot Enough for You? CROWN FOIKT. July 31. The hot wave of the last few days is fairly making the corn to leap out of the ground. You can hear it grow. The thermometer here registered 99 in the shade yesterday. No heat prostrations were recorded. SECOSO BROKEN" AT WARSAW. WARSAW. IND., July 31. Street lev el thermometers registered 100 degrees in the shade here yesterday, breaking all records for this year. Several prostrations were reported. George McCarter, Warsaw city civil engineer, was overcom while working on one of his farms. He will recover. X.APAYITTE'8 HOTTEST OAT. LAFAYETTE. IND., July 31. Yesterday was the hottest day of the summer in Lafayette and there were several prostrations. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the instrument at the Purdue experiment station reached 99 degrees. Fred Hade. 21 years old, employed by the American Express Co.. fell from his wagon on account of the heat and is' in a critical condition in a local hospital. SOUTH BIND MARK VP TO 106. SOUTH BEND, INC. July 31. Although yesterday was the hottest day in the year, the mercury at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon registering 106, not a single heat prostration was reported in South Bnd or Mishawaka. Business, however, suffered greatly and during the hours between 10 and 5 o'clock the streets and stores were almost deserted. 98 IN SHADE AT ROCHESTER. ROCHESTER, IND., July 31. The highest temperature of the season was registered here yesterday when the mercury touched 98 in the shade. PETTICOAT LOST, BUT SHE GOES ON WJTHJTHE DANCE ST. LOUIS. MO., July 31. Guests at the weekly dinner-dance at Sunset Hill Country club are tilling their friends who were not so fortunate as to witness It for themselves of an amusing little incident that lost no.no of its spice through the adroit manner in which the young couple who participated in it bridged what might have been an emharassing moment for them. The dancing balcony was thronged with couples whirling through a peppery trot, when a flimsy garment . slipped down up on the feet of a young woman in the center of the floor. Without losing a measure of the dance, she stepped out, of the petticoat for such it was telling her partner at the same time to pick it up. Suiting his action to her word, he stooped, grabbed the garment in his hand, crumpled it, and thrust it under his coat aU without hesitating in the dance. Then they trotted away towards tho women's dressirg room, while the other dancers who had witnessed the episode smilingly voiced among themselves their approval of the way in which the incident had been handled. W. C. T. U. TO HOLD MEETING The W. C. T. V. will hold a meeting at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Laura Underwood, 700 Connecticut street. "Let Us Pay With Our Bodies For Our Soul's Desires." Roosevelt.

Enemy Country Occupied by. Opposing Belligerents Entente Powers and Their Allies. ' vjv Area in Sq. Miles. German East Africa.. 384.200 German S. W. Africa 322,450 Cameroons 291.950 German Pacific Colonies... 96,160 Turkey 56.800 Togoland 33,700 Galicia 7,700 Bukowina 4.050 Albania 2,500 Tyrol and Austrian Coast Land 900 Alsace 300 Kiao Chau 200 Total 1.200,910Germany and Her Allies. Russia 101,700 Serbia 33.700 Belgium 11,100 Albania ' 8.500 France 8,250 Montenegro 5,600 Roumania 6,100 Total 173,950 STATE TAX TIMES B UREA li AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, July 31. Official figures given out today by the state tax board shows tax board Increased valuations of East Chicago corporations $37,814,595. and Gary corporations $1- ' 029,200 over assessments made by coun- : ty board. The largest increases are as I follows: Inland Steel company, 33,(546,968; East Chicago and Gary Water 'company. $87,450; Interstate Iron and i Steel company, $35,165; Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company, $54.800; Hubbard Steel Foundry company, $99,210; Cudahy Packing company, $60,000; Standard Forging company, $274,607; Grasselli Chemical company. $140,650; Green Engineering company, $42,040; William Graver Taak company, $32,000; Marks Manufacturing company, $75,000; Locomotive Superheater company, $67,328; Indiana Steel company. $1,029,200; Union Iron Products Co., $5,000; Hyman Michaels Co., $3,084; Cal. Car Co., $1,700: Indiana Car & Equipment Co.. $7,890; Goldschmidt Co., $15,950; E. B. Lanman Co., $8,510; IT. S. Reduction Co.. $7,668; American Conduit Co., $7,295; American Steel Foundries Co.. personal property, $57,777; American Steel Foundries Co.. additional improvements, $22,500; Champion Rivt Co.. $25,080; Edwards Valve Co. and Mfg. Co.. $75,130. C. F. Jordan and company, personal property, $2,538; C. J. Jordan Co., additional improvements, $261; Famous Mfg. company. $2,356; .Consolidated Fireworks company, personal property. $9,577: Consolidated Fireworks Co., additional improvements, $1,720; Dickey Mtg. company, $277; Harbison Walker Refractories company, $6,763. Zotal. J3.7S1.595.

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Latest "Bulletins

(By United Press.) NEW YORK, July 31. The X7 sited States Steel corporation today declared a three per oen extra dividend oa common stock and a regular quarterly dividend of one and one-quarter per cent. A regular quarterly of one and three quarter per cent was declared on preferred stock. Vet earnings for the quarter ending June 30 were 990,579,204 against 3113,121,018 In this quarter ending March 31, and 881,126,048 In the quarter ending June 30, 1916. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, July 31. Serious damage to crops if the present withering heat is prolonged was predicted at the agriculture departmeattoday. (By raited Press Cablegram.) lONDON, July 31. Russia seemed today to be recovering from the present poison injected Into her army by the German spy system. Dispatches show. od that oa some sectors ox tne great northeastern front her troops had assumed the Initiative and were vigorously pressing the battle. Xn Russia Ger. man Chancellor SEichaeUs' statement designed to tura Russian against her allies did not create even a ripple of In terest. By United ' Press. NEW YORK, Jnly SI. With traders patiently awaiting: publication of the U. S. Steel corporation's earnings atate. ment for the Jane quarter, the stock market opened fractionally hlnher and fairly active today, v. . stee was unchanged at 124. Reports In clrm latlon are to the effect that the quar. terly earnings will be the greatest In the history of the corporation. In early trading steel and motor stocks were favored, V. S. Steel aellinic op to 12514. By late forenoon trading quieted, a! though all lassies maintained early strength. By United Pim. WASHINGTON, July 31. A two per cent surtax on corporations. Increases In surtaxes on Incomes over $13,000, an Increase of 91 a srallon In the tax on distilled spirits, and nn Increase of SO cents a barrel on beer were agreed on today by the senate finance commit. tee its an amendment to the revenue bU United Press Cablegram. LONDON, July SI. England lost 71,889 in killed, wounded and missing of hrr army forces during July, accord. Ing to the official casualty list publish, ed today. There were 15,549 men and officer killed, 53,445 wounded and 2.S05 missing. United Press Cablegram. COPENHAGEN, July SI. Kaiser1'!!, helm was on the Riga fron yesterday stimulating hMt troops to action by speeches of praise, according to dls. patehea received Were. The German ruler. It waa stated, traveled by motor boat on the river from Mltau to the Riga position. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, July 31. Drsstie reg. ulatloa to prevent publication of any word of American troops laadlag, or other United States military preparations abroad are sow la effect. By United Press. CHICAGO, July 31. Mm, Mary Zvan. alae assumed charge of her hmbaRi saloon today. Before she had been on the job thirty minutes three men slug, ged her and escaped with f 1,300 that waa in the till.

TRADE IS HEARING

1 T Company Is Expected to Put $30,000,000 Worth of Export Business On Books This Month. Further reports that the Baldwin plant at East Chicago is to be built continue to multiply at a rapid rate. A work train with living quarters for a big work gang has been switched into the Baldwin property at East Chicago. The Iron Age. an influential trade paper, says that the machine trade has new rumors of the building of a Baldwin plant at East Chicago, but it has so far been impossible to substantiate.. BALDWIN DOING BIG BUSINESS. Baldwin Locomotive orders are piling up at a rapid rate.' It is provable that the company will put between $20,000,000 and $22,000,000 o new business on its books this July. Most of this will be for export. And oddly enough the United States has given the company its last big order and this too is for export. It calls for 150 locomotives to be used by American troops in France. A HEAt,THYSlGN. The above news is an encouraging and a healthy sign of the times. It will be noted that this export order is not for shells or munitions but for locomotives. The Baldwins are making war munitions in the east -They al ways intended the East Chicago plant for export locomotive trade. FLOYD MURRAY CITY dill Hammond democrats last evening took first steps towards the campaign by which they expect to obtain the reelection of Mayor John Smalley and coworkers at the city hall. Attorney Floyd Murray was elected chairman of the city "central committee, John P. Smith, vice chairman and William Rlppe, treasurer. The chairman is to appoint a secretary. Building more furniture and making more equipment in a shorter time thin any other manufactory of the kind for the government, the F. S. Bets Co. is playing a major part behind the lines in the war. The company has shipped a thousand operating tables recently for government use. The field operating table, as designed by F. S. Betz, has been adopted by the U. S. government as the standard. Twelve hundred lockers . for marine hospitals, 1.200 metal chairs and 5,000 bed-side tables are being made at the Betz plant and delivered to the government. ' WHITING BOARD ISJN SESSION WHITING. IND.. July 31. The Whiting draft board are busy at work making up the lists from the official numbers. Whiting's quota is thirteen and fifty-four have been sent notices to appear for examination. Eighteen of these are to "appear on Saturday, eighteen are instructed to appear on Monday and eighteen on Tuesday. Out of this number thirteen will be picked for the draft army. LAWRENCE BECKER IN HAMMOND TODAY Judge Lawrence Becker, formerly of the superior court bench and now solicitor of the treasury, is in Hammond on his return from Montana to Washington, D. C. Mr. Becker spent two weeks on his ranch in Montana. He states that crops are burning up and ihat cattlemen plan to kill off much of their stock cattle because of a rffarcity of feed. Tho official will leave for Washington tomorrow. WILL RETURN MAN ON DESERTION CHARGE Mrs. Mary A. Taylor of Oary will be granted a request to have her husband, Charles B. Taylor, formerly of Gary, who, she alleges, deserted her, returned to Lake county from Birmingham. Ala., where he is said to be residing. Wife desertion is charged against him In a petition for the requisition of Taylor. Ask Yoursetf How Serve Your Country? , v, ou Caa

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