Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 30, Hammond, Lake County, 4 August 1917 — Page 1

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WORLD'S

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HAVE H New York Central to Spend Fully Two Million Dollars In Making Hew Yards. Calumet region will have in Its center the largest and most complete railway transfer yards in the world. The question of rebuilding the devastated Gibson yards which were completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday, will be taken up at a special meeting of the executives operating the New York Central. Michigan Central and Indiana Harbor Belt railroads in Chicago next weekWill Cost Bullions. If the evecutive board decides to rebuild the yards which were considered one of the biggest in the United States, it will mean probably an expenditure of over $2,000,000, according to an official today. The yards before the Are held several hundred freight cars, three transfer platforms, each 900 feet long and sixteen feet wide, and miles of running track. The fire demolished 100 freight cars, three platforms anr practically all the track. The loss is estimated at over K00.000. If the board decides to rebuild the platforms will be made much larger, in order that electric trucks and other modern transfer conveniences may be used in transporting the great amount of merchandise. Between SO and 100 men were employed in the yards before the fire. This force would be greatly increased if the Improvement is made. Tards Bevealed Congestion. The Oibson yards greatly relieved the tangled congestion in the Chicago railroad yards. If the executives decide not to rebuild the three roads will be forced to again transfer freight in their Chicago yards. It Is estimated that between $3,000,000 and $10,000,000 worth of freight was transferred at Gibson yards weekly. Are Transferrin? Now. Using fiat cars as transfer platforms a. fair amount of merchandist is being handled. A gang of men is busy working daily cleaning up the devastation and laying new tracks. Will Rebuild Immediately. It is thought that building will commence irr mediately if the directors consent to the reconstruction of the yards. (By United Press Cablegram.) ZURICH, Aug-. 4. All Hungarian members of the LanSttrnm under 52 years of age were ordered t o report for mobilization in twenty-four hours, according to Budapest dispatches. EFFICIENCY EXPERT AIDS OUR COMMERCE r 4 i MA , Id r Burwell S. Cutler. Burwell S. Cutler, of Buffalo, N. V., recently desipnated acting chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce to succeed lr. EJward Ewing Pratt, resigned, left the presidency of a large business to accept the post of assistant chief of the bureau at a nominal salary. Mr. Cutler is regarded as an vfTl.-i -?::cy expert and is injecting lu.v .-..: r.-.ethods into the orj. ani-iti . if t!.c-r.e-.v export liccr.se turc-u. recc.liy msde a part of the dcjiai C.ic.t of coicmci cc.

AHSFER SYSTEM

BIGGEST

TIMES' MAN'S BOY TO BE ARMY FLYER - sv V I s S I JO HIT J. LOUXS. After passing through the most rigid physical and mental examination for five solid hours that a. man could imagine. John J. Louis, son of L. W. Louis, a member of Tun Times staff, has been commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States aviation corps as a flyer, and will go to Washington shortly to take up active service. The examination was a corker. To have a young cannon fired off behind your back as you enter the room on what you consider a little social call to see whether you would jump or not. is a nice little test. John Louis never batted an eye. His reflex action was o. k. They then blindfolded him, put him in a rickety swivel chair, made him stick his head down between his knees and spun the chair around forty miles an hour and John stuck. They they spun it in the opr-osite direction and tried a dozen other stunts with him. They had him on the floor, stepped on his hands with a rude heel, fired off a few more cannons and began shooting questions at him to see if his mentality was clear, but John was as cool, as a cucumber through it all. and absolutely and eternally refused to get excited. Five hours of it you know. Toung Mr. Louis is general sales manager for the Daniel Frey Co. an advertising illustrations corporation, and only 22 years of age, and a son to be rroud of. DRIGH TALKS M Indiana's Executive Sees Need for Imperative Action on Coal Situation Because of Congress. TIMES Bl KEAl", AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 4. Governor Goodrich was in Chicago, yesterday, for a conference with Governor Lowden, of Illinois, on the coal problem, and if he gets back here today it is barely possible that there may be some kind of definite announcement as to whether he will call a special session of the Indiana legislature to deal with that problem. As has been stated before in these dispatches, it will cause no surprise if the Governor issues a call within the next few days. The coal situation is such as to call for immediate and drastic action, and the longer Congress waits without doing anything ths more necessary does action by the individual states become. When the coal problem came to the front weeks ao and a demand was made that the coal operators cease their hold-up methods in making outragecus prices for coal, these operators declared that they could do nothing to give relief because the railroads were not f jrnishing them with cars to move their coal. They said the car shortage v.-as the sole cause for high prices f.ir coal. Give thrn plenty of cars to move their coal, they said, and prices would come down. There is where the state' authoi ities sot busy. Th governor called conferences and sought to jrpt the operators t make an agreement that would reduce coal prices. The operators refused, blaming the rr.iiror.ds. Then the j public service commission made an inj vestisation find found that the pricharged by the operators for coal j t ere outrageous a ad u.u-eas-.na'il . I The operators took offon.-e at this ! ("sisrnation of their prices. :. r f u ;- 1 to hive anythr.-tii to ',., with .:! Ipiili'ic service c(,ni:ni.'. i :. ! Th -pcrnlois .". " l .: !, r--d t).at ii-y were inr.ktr.js bin nvn-y and that they pi-oposed to continue to mkc. big (Continued t ,i nnsf i!vf )

w to EXEMPTION JWEMMY

Two of Twenty-two Candidates Accepted by Hammond Board on First Day of Draft Examinations. FIRST DAY SCORE OF HAMMOND DRAFT Vnrabfr examined ... 22 Claim exemption been use of dependent 12 Physical deficient 3 Aliens (can't le aot-epted 4 No claims to urmptlon and accepted 2 Quoto needed 27 Number yet to be examined 7S Hammond draft machinery today began the work of separating the wheat from the chaff and before press time this afternoon nearly a fourth of the material in the first hundred had been exhausted with two soldiers for the new army as the result. It will possibly be necessary to call & second hundred. Half of the candidates were married and claimed exemption because of dependents. Three were physically deficient and four aliens. Only two men appeared anxious to go and they fortunately were perfect physical specimens. They ai'e: THE TWO ACCEPTED. Taylor Lone, 423 Summer Mrect. Robert Dun Scot, 40 Flummtr nve n ue. Robert Dan Scott is a negro and exceptionally well built. His black face shown and white teeth glistened when he entered to take the examination Asked if he had any dependents Scott said yes, but added that he hadn't ween them for "moh than a yeah." He didn't claim exemption and said he would b ready when they called hint to go to wa r. Taylor Lon?. a clerk for the Indiana. Harbor Belt Railway, was pronounced a perfect physical specimen by Dr. William I. Weis, the physician member of the board. His chest expansion was four and a half inches. When W. R. Osborn. clerk of the board, asked Long if he claimed exemption the can didate colored up and shouted "No." He appeared to take the question as an insult. No. 3749. the last man on the draft list whose chances of escaping were the best, enlisted. He notified the board that he couldn't wait. His name is Frank Jose Ryzewiski and he lives at 2SS Hickory street. The list of those .examined to date follows: William T. Stafford. 168 Douglas; street: claimed exemption, dependents Frank K. Gurski, 70 Dearborn street; alien. Fred Charles Scheer. 157 Detroit, street: physically deficient. Walter E. Schneider, 777 Beal street, claimed exemption, dependents. Taylor Long. 423 Summer street; first, to be accepted. Charles E. Luthinan. 35 Sibley street; physically deficient. .Arthur A. Mrosefskl. 4S8 Hoffman street; to be re-examined. Lawrence A. Bishop. 216 Chicago avenue, (now at Ft. Thomas, enlisted) Roy Cannon. 533 Morton court; claimed exemption, dependents. Charles J. Glick, 47 Rimbach avenue; claimed exemption, dependents. Joe Krol, 522 Walter avenue; alien. Nick Guculi, 1100 Columbia avenue, alien. Jan Kullk. 121 LaSalie street, physically deficient. Henry Kors, 225 Hickory street, claimed exemption, dependents. Tcter Jastrzenski, 51S Ames avenue, alien. Robert Scott, 40 Tlummer avenue, accepted. Joseph M. Relplinger. PO Williams street, claimed exemption, dependents. Anthony Pollard, 459 Elm street, claimed exemption, dependents. M. Reed Emmit. 627 Charlotte street. claimed exemption, dependents. Olen C. Granger. 215 Highland street, claimed exemption, dependents. Karl V. Fisher, 1012 Hyslop place, claimed exemption, dependents. Taul Lipinslci is chairman of the exemption board. LOWELL GIRL GETS LICENSE TIMES HI KEAl . T STATE C A 11 T A I.. INDIANAPOLIS. INrt. A us. 4. IsHlifl M. Watcn rf Lowell in Lake viur.ty was gnuited a state piiicci 'icense todr.y hy the state bof.rd of 'i:cd "! 'x!.i'n'-r. SV1 st i am'-n:-,' r'.'f h'trhevt i" the rl;io of 34 nnd ws 1 n of tw:i flrls in th;- class to take ;he examinations. n-:-.i:i-M'ncl Hall Park: Sv.ntl v, August T(lopl7. a, 11am-8-2-3

YARDS FOR CALUMET

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BATMOJTD ETOI'IBSEAKEE, Raymond Stonebreaker in uniform, and Walter Meyn in civilian costume, had their picture taken on Governor's Island just before the latter sailed for Fiance to join General Pershing's army as a sergeant-clerk in the quartermaster's corps. I Both are Hammond boys, StonebreakLLOYD GEORGE SEES EOF (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON. Aug. 4. Premier Lloyd George today "saw the sunshine of victory" aheat for the allies in a forceful speech commenorating the third anniversary of the war. "Nobody, in Britain. France, Italy, Russia, even in Germany or America has any idea how near the summit of hope we are." he declared. Lloyd George " likewise declared Germany had planned to treat the German conspiracy to achieve her schemes of world domination through might. "While the plot miscarried the Rrussians are determined to succeed the next time. There mustn't be any next time. Let this generation eliminate war," he said. "Germany never subscribed to the Monroe doctrine. We knew her ambition as to South America and a year after a German peace Germany would start realising them. "If Britain had not gone into the war with her whole strength the Monroe doctrine would have been trebled as "a scrap of raper.'V UNITED POSSES AFTER RIOTERS (By United Press.) " W'EWOKA. OKLA.. Aug. 4-One hundred and fifty armed men headed by Sheriff Gratl of Seminole county left here today to Join posses from Ada. Okmulgee and Sasakwa for a concerted drive on the anti-draft demonstrators who are spreading terror throughout southeastern Oklahoma. The posses plan to moholize at Lone Dove, the reports indicated that more than 600 armed men will be in the l united posse. Governor AVilliam said that state troops would not be dispatched until more definite reports were received that actual fighting was taking place. The Katy bridge south of here was burned early today by anti-draft rioters. Crew of a freight train put out the fire after it had destroyed half the bridge. Traffic will be tied up for hours. A posse of citizens is headed for the bridge region. Reports of various skirmishes between citizens and scattered mobs early today told of no fatalities as yet A gun fight between 80 mob members and an equal number of citizens near Stonewall afforded an exchange of many shots but none was injured. THESE BOYS ARE MODEST (Ey United Prass.) NOR WALK. CT.. Auj? 4 Twenty conscr.pts who appeared for examination here todav said they dicn't want to strip in public nnd asked for private exam I inations. Their request was refused City Proc .cuter R. C. Johnson secured conviction today in city court ag.iinst Frank Otsse'.tta who wa? charg- ! eii with driving a truck over Calumet I boulevard. The defendant was fined j $12 I SrECIAL Table I)r Hote Dinner every Sunday, r. HimTiond Cafe, 141 Stute St. 8-4

WALIEB MITK. er having been in tjie service for several years. Stonebreaker is the son of Dr. A. Stonebreaker of Conkey avenue. He expects to go to France soon. Meyn is the son of Peter W. Meyn, president of the Lake County Savings & Trust Company.

HANG AfiTI-DRAFT LEADERS, SAYS IDMISDN (Br Vnlted Press.) WASHINGTON. Aug. A. Ke!stance o the draft "will InMantly encounter federal troops' Provost Marshal General Crowder announced thl afternoon. EliKlblea evading the draft', vrll! be treated as deserters. (By United Press.) ; WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. The; government is ready to go the limit: to suppress anti-draft uprisings and -will use troops if necessary, it was officially hinted today. The war department joined with the department of justice and General Crowder in considering steps to meet the situation. At the same time denunciation of anti-draft campaigns carried on by congress under postal frank privilege broke out among house members today. "The rioting in Georgia will stop when the leaders are hanged without a trial," said Congressman Adamson. Representatives from Oklahoma and North Carolina declared they did believe the anti-draft uprisings In thos states were serious. THE TROUBLE IN RUSSIA (Ily l nitcd Prraa.) A PACIFIC PORT. Aug. 4. "Most of the trouble in Russia has been caused by Russians naturalized as Americans who have returned to Russia since the outbreak of the revolution," Charles Edward Russell, socialist writer and lecturer, declared today. Russell, a member of the American mission to Russia, has just returned here with the mission. Russell said Russia had been flooded with German money and the Russians from the United States had spread the report throughout the country that America had entered the war for sordid reasons. "These propagandists." Russell continued, "who retend intimate knowledge conditions and American motives inform their countrymen that the government of the United States is more oppressive than the old regime at Petrograd. "The red flag -waves from one end of Russia to the other. The situation had improved considerably before the commission left Petrograd and more and more the Russian socialists were beginning to realize that the world must be niade safe for democracy before any sound progress can be made towards social betterment." The report of the finding of the mission will not be made known until it reaches Washington and confers with President Wilson. 200 ENTOMBED IN MINE (3t United Tress.) CLAY. KV., Aug. 4. Following a gas explosion in the n -ine of the Western Kentucky Cal rn. pany it was reported r.-.any miners entombed today. Most of the miners are negroes. It is feared many will perish as the mine seems to be on fire. One report says 2o0 miners are entombed. Soldiers on strike duty have the situation in charge. About 30 negroes have been rescued, all are badly burned and three may die.

REGION

IRE YGU GftREFUL A. xjJM.rVI. COLLISION. LAPORTE. IND.. Aug. 4. Mrs. Samuel H. Eeal of Michigan City, was injured and disfigured for life, if she should survive, and her husband severely cut and bruised in a frightful automobile end motorcycle accident on the Michigan City road a short distance north of Summit at about 11 o'clock last night. Mrs. Beal has her jaw broken in two places, and Is so terribly injured that she may not recover. Proceeding up the hill toward Laporte the motorcycle, with side car attached, ran head on into a Ford auto going in the opposite direction. The terrifllc impact threw Mrs. Beal. who was in the side car, against the front end of the auto. Her chin struck and carried away the filler cap on the Ford Radiator, and she is said to have been thrown through the windshield. Both were unconscious after the accident and Beal was found lying across the radiator of the Ford. Latest 'Bulletins (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Attff. 4. A charge of desertion and trial tocfor a military court faces eligible men In Oklahoma, Georgia and other states who forcibly opposed the draft. Tha goTcrnmeat intends to act promptly and forcibly, according to an official directing' opera, tions of the selective service law today. General Crowder today conferred with Attorney General Gregory over tha question. "I am not very much Impressed with these uprisings, as X believe that over 99 per cent of tha peo-ple of this country are in sympathy with tha conscription law," taurcttiwan. - "Any eligible man talcing part In such movements makes my work much easier. We will certify them into the national army, order them to camp and if .they fail to answer treat them as ordinary deserters. "Then they will not have an apportnnlty to face an exemption hoard of their neighbors hat will be mad to face a military court." (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Aug. 4. Despite heavy continued rains last night British forces moved forward over the much and slime of Flanders to new positions east of tha Karteke; river and Cabarstfleld, Mar. j shal HaJ.gr reported today. To tha south of the "Flanders front east of Konchy La Pretax, the British, commander reported recapture of British positions lost in tha German counter attack Thursday. (By United Press.) WASKINQTON, Aug. 4 Tha United States will call into active service to. morrow its last group of national guardsmen, numbering 75,745 coldiers. At tha same time all militia troops not now federalized will he automatically summoned. With this latest call the country has an estimated total of 400,. 000 national g-aardsmen ready for intensive training In southern camps. The Indiana contingent of 4,149 men will train at Hattiesburg, Miss. According to present schedules training camps will ba ready Aug. 15. Those called tomorrow will hold themselves over in home camps Just as troops called earlier. (By United Press Cablegram.) PAB.ZS, Aug. 4. Overcoming the handicap of a steady rain and resultant mud, French forces last night advanced beyond Cabaret and tha Korteker and explored farms behind tha enemy's lines, tcday's official report declared. German patrols were repulsed. "North of tha Aisne tha night was calm," tha statement said. "On both bants of tha Meuse artillery was active. Around Avo. court two German raids failed and we took prisoners. Zn tha Argon the Germans wera also unsuccessful.' (By United Press Cablegram.) BOMB, Aug. 4. German is informing' neutrals who are consider.ng closing their frontiers against tha Teutonic nation that such an act would be considered causa for war, it was reported here this afternoon. Tha German threat. It was said, has been directed especially against Holland. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Aug. 4 "If Sngland hadn't gone into the war with her whole strength, tha Monroe doctrine would have been treated as a "scrap of paper" by Germany, declared Premier Lloyd George at Queens hall this after, noon. (By United Press.) MOSTON, Aug. 4. Major William Hoffman, U. S. A., retired, shot and killed his wife early today and then committed suicide in his apartments in Dorchester. Both died in a few minutes. The cause of tha act is not known. LEWIS APPOINTED (By Inlted Pre.) INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 4. Governor Goodrich today decided to appoint Colonel Edwin N. Lewis of the regular army as Brigadier General of the Indiana National Guard in federal service.

SHOCKING EVIDENCE

S HEARD Coroner's Inquest' Brings Dul Biggest Sensation In Sikora Death Story. Mike Slkora, dethroned Slovak leader of Eajit Chicago, widely known In every city in the Calumet rejion, was today arrested for the murder of his wife en a warrant issued on affidavits by Deputy Prosecutor ThorrtatSlkora Is bound over to the Superior court on $15,000 bail and the prosecutor will ask the fall grand Jury for an indictment. The bail was furnished by the rich saloonman himself and ar ranged by his attorney, V. J. McAleerThe action of the deputy prosecutor followed sensational testimony at the inquest yesterday afternoon into the circumstances of the death of Mrs. Mary Sikcra. At the conclusion of the inquest the remains of the woman were laid at rest for the second time this week. They had been exhumed by the order of the coroner after angry Slavs had protested to the police, coroner and prosecutor. Mrs. Jennie Georgl on the stand at the inquest told the coroner of cruel treatment suffered by Mrs. Sikora and stated thit at one time the woman had had her throat cut from ear to ear and said Sikora had attacked her with a knife. Mra. Georgl stated she had talked with Mrs. Sikora to days before the woman di.sd and that the saloonman s wife complained that her husband had "kicked h r all over" and that she was sore In ail parts of her body. Mrs. Sikora wore a shawl over her head for sometime shortly before her death. Mr-GeoTgr8aId,'-'ftna"1t'coi;;:ealed a wound sh said her husband had inflicted. "For the last two( months Sikora beat her every day and sometimes two or three times a day, Mrs. Sikora told me," said Mrs. Georgl. Mrs. Jeannie Given -was another witness. She said that Mrs. Sikora had gone to a doctor (Mrs. Given's son; crying and said: "I'm awfully licked. Mike beat me. He wants to kill me." John Mcdoe. next door neighbor to Sikora, sa d he had seen Slkora beat his wife. He heard her scream the night she died but did not know what was going- on in the saloon at the time. He said the beatings were dally occurrences. Dr. D. F. Johns, coroner's physician who conducted the post mortem, said that he fcund a scar on the head of the woman's body the size of a dollar, a cut across the nose, and other marka including a. bruise on the abdomen the size of a man's hand. Beneath this he took out a blood clot three inches long. He stated the clot had been formed recently. This evidence was of interest in view of the rumor that Sikora had struck his wife with a chair in tie stomach. Coroner Graham recommended Sikora'B arrest. The warrant charges murder by means unknown. Attorney McAleer withheld Sikora and his daughter, Julia, from the stand. APPEALS TO TOWNHSIP TRUSTEES (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Aug. 4 Appeals are fceing made to township trustees to make every effort to provide clean comfortable school houses for children by State Superintendent of Instruction Horace Ellis and Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health commission. The letters being sent out state in part: "Without: health the child will fail. In no small degree the future of our country is in your hands. Surely you will rise to this duty. "Soon your schools will open. Practise no fa.se economies in .connection with schools. Don't hesitate to pur chase with honesty and care all necessities. Don't wait until a few days before the school opening date to make, repairs. Banish dilapidation and dirt. A dilapidated, dirty school house is a menace to health, efficiency and life. Secure a good water supply. Children need plentjr of pure water in order to grow prorerly and to keep in good health. Ta deny children an abundance of pure water is an assault upon them. Don't assault children. Outhouses must be in good repair clean, screened and with good walks leading to them. This Is a legal, mcral and physical necessity." WHITING MAN IS FINED (Special to The Times.) TVHITIN3. IND., "Aug. 4. Louis Baumwohl of Whiting was fined $16.10 In Justice Jordan's court in East Chicago on Wednesday night for assault and battery upn J. Campbell. Upon payment hi was released. HARBORS BILL UPTO WILSON WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. The conference report on the J27.00O.00C rivers and harbors bill was accepted yesterday by the House. The Senate agreed to it Thuisday. It now goes to tha President.