Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 31, Hammond, Lake County, 11 August 1917 — Page 1

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Body Subject to Call of GovGoodrich at Any Tims, Mayors to Center Lake county and indeed the whole of Indiana w ill proceed st once with the organization of a state militia to take the place cf her National Guard Just mustered in to United States service. This will not be a 'Home Guard" and should rot he so termed. It will not be a refuge for slackers. It is to be the regular military ami of the state, subject to the call of the governor for duty at any time. Captain H. S. Norton of Gary has been appointed organizer of state militia for Lake county. He will confer with the mayors and chambers of commerce or commercial clubs of Hammond. East Chicago, Gary. Whiting and Crown Point with the view of organising at or.ee units of the militia In those cities. Each city may organize with the approval of the county organizer one or mora units and other communities in the county, not mentioned above, may organise units. All will be given an opportunity to make good, but only those will be accepted and eventually mustered In -which measure up. The state and county councils of defense appeal to the press of Lake founly for its co-operation and aid in this undertaking. It is felt certain that it will be possible to secure splendid results In Lake county with the assistance and support of her loyal newspapers. All parties in the county interested In the state, militia movement should communicate with Captain Norton at once. Attached hereto is copy of plan of organization which has tentatively been adopted: I General Finn. 1. Local units may be organized in any community where the manifested Interest seems to Justify such an organiiatlon. 2. Various local units will be mustered in as regular units of the state militia as soon as qualified according to adopted regulations A Regulations 1. Strength of 50 enlisted men and 3 officers. 2. Officers and men must pass a fairly rigid mental and physical examination. 3. Enlistment to be for duration of war and for service within the state only. 4. No financial compensation will be (Continued r i page rive.) SENATOR'S DAUGHTER TO MARRY ATHLETE - AMiss Dorothea Owen. Miss Dorothea Owen, daughter of Senator Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma, will be married within the next few months to Cameron Hawkins, of Boston, former Princeton athlete and now chief of the bond division of the treasury department in Washington. Miss Owen is a popular debutante of two seasons, an enthusiasti: motorist and an accomplished golfer.

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FRENCHMAN TAKES PHOTO OF HIS OWN BURNING BALLOON

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4 v. .r??7.r; r. .A Jt-. ."-.V, T . 1 V liy&twgJj tiff uu The descent of the burning: balloon. A French observation balloon caught fire and the skipper,. Lieut. Louis Charles Staehle, launched his parachute and started the lonpr descent. While pointr down he made this wonderful picture of his balloon, which descended much more rapidly than the parachute. Just how th fire started is not known. SE BRINGSJUCK WIPE She Also Has Left $660 Out of $1,000 She Took With Another Man. TIMES' ETTSEAtT AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. IND-. Aug. 11. A skylark of two weeks cost Viola Perumius of East Chicago. $340. according to a story told the police Thursday by the woman's husband. Augrust Perumius, who found his wife at 505 West Washington street. Motor Policemen Schlangen and Dalton brought Mrs. Perumius to police headquarters after the husband explained to Capt. Hulse that his spouse not only ran away from his bed and board with another man. but took his savings of $1,000. The woman seemed contrite when faced by the police and handed her husband the remainder of thu money. Perumius found that he still had $660. As Viola had been a od wife previous to her little expedition to the Hoosicr capita! Perumius decided to take her back to their home in Last Chicago. They departed aim in arm from police headquarters. The other man in the triangle was not found. RECLAIMING 2,000,000 FOR SERVICE WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 11. Reclaiming of '2.l'00.i.t0 ) men rejected for army service is provided for in a bill introduced yesterday by Senator Pomerene. It appropriates $100,000,000 for establishing camps in which rejected volunteers or drafted men will be cured of their alments and be made available for the army. The fund would be administered by a commission appointed by the presidentAttention Grand picnic gtven ty the Arona Boys. Saturday evening, Aug. 11th at Kowalski's Grove, West Hammond. 111. Dancing all. night. Also picnic Sunday, August llth. S-10-2 -BASEBAL WATJKEOAIT VS. HAMMOND, at Ham. znoad Baaaball Park, SUNDAY, ATJO. 12. Championship series. (By United Praia.) CHICAGO, Any. 11. Chicago's list of alleged slackers was increased 37 to. day. Eleven 'were arrested in the old tenderloin district.

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n ire ACCEPTED TZMXS BUE.EAU AT STATE CAMP. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 11. The following Lake county men have been accepted for the second training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison: Gary. Walter T. J. Perring. Elwood Gordon Washburn. Paul Pinkerton. John Lucius Slick. Swift Miller Towny. Harold Griffin Mauzy. William L. Gaylor. Oscar B. Thiel. Bert Ralph Kuss. Frank Adiey Knotts. Hammond. Edward Schottler. Floyd R. Murray. Raymond C. Johnon. Edward James Barrett. Ralph A. Patten. Whiting. Harry Franklin Hughes. Arnold Ralph Exton. Porter Giles Gray. Hobart. Ernie Samuel Martin. Shelby. Guy Worth Dickey. (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IND.. Aug. 11 Truck parties on the rampage, joyriders and road hogs will be under surveillance in Lake county tomorrow. Officers will tour the highways in automobiles to nip reckless and careless drivers. The driver in the big car who crowds the smaller fry off the road will be apprehended along with his foolinsh brother, the speed maniac. The board of county commissioners is publishing today in Thb Times a notice to motorists, asking that autoists take the license numbers of cars that do not give free passage on the road, and warning that the reckless driving that has become prevalent of late in the county will no longer be tolerated. An example of the kind of tactics which aroused the commissioners and the sheriff to action was seen last Sunday south of Dyer. A big truck loaded down with drinking men and girls from Chicago kept weaving back and forth from one side of the road to the other in order to keep cars from passing. Evidently the driver of the truck sought to escape having to take the dust of other machines. He kept a monopoly of the road until nearly 100 autos were stalled behind the truck. When one would try to pass the truck would run in front of it. Autoists are asked to give information of careless and dangerous driving to L. E. Barnes, sheriff, or W. B. Newman, highway superintendent. DOES II COLLEGE EDM PS!? Gary Steamfitter Gets $72 a Week; Tin Workers Get $500 Monthly. Does a 'college education pay? j It may. But in Gary those who; have never even seen a college have a better chance to buy stocks and bonds. 72 For Plumber. Several Gary plumbers and steamfitters have prone for the time being to Rockford. 111., where they are to get $72 weekly as well as free room rent from contractors putting up the army camps for the government. They will work 10 hours daily and will have Sundays off. Contrast this pay with what some school teachers get $72 a month. At The Tin Mills. Serbians. Austrian. and Hungarians, common laborers, are .getting $40 weekly at the Gary Sheet and Tin mills. The more skilled men get even more, while some of the rollers get between $30 and $500 monthly. And yet they say education pays. G. & I. OFFICIAL QUITS JOB Clark C. Metsker. of Gary, formerly of Hobart. who haa been in the employ of the G. & I. Ir.terurban as conductor and trainmaster for the past nine years, has gone "back to his first love." He has taken a foremanship in l large barber shop in South Chicago. Ask Yourseif How You Can Serve Your Country?

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Huge British howitzers ia action in i landers. These ciant guns keep up an incessant bombardment, and the noise is so terrific, and the bombardment so intense and prolonged, that the sound can be heard across the channel in England. The howitzers are considered the most dependable and effective of all weapons in a constant bombardment.

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TIMES" BtJJtEAU I AT STATE CAPITAL. j INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. Aug. U When the members of the Indiana legislature come for the special session, which will be called within the next few days by Governor Goodrich, there will be some interesting developments and conditions. Jesse Eschbach. of Warsaw, representative from Kosciusko county, was speaker of the House of Representatives at the regular session last winter, and he would again be speaker at the special session. But Ech' tch is also the state conscription agent, representing the government in the drafting of Indiana's quota of the national army, and it is difficult to see how he could handle both jobs. Eschbach has his hands full with one job as conscription agent. He has confided to friends that he will be ready for a padded cell in some up-to-date, first-class "bug-house' when he has fin T EIRE PASSED FOR DRIFT The Hammond) exemption board this morning began examination of the second hundred candidates for the selective army with fourteen needed to complete the quota of twenty-seven on the first draft. Twenty-five young men were exammed and eight not only passed the physical tests and were accepted, but have not filed claims for exemption. The eight are: Henry Oscar Anderson. H. 153 Michigan avenue; rressman at Conkey's.. Gustav Fielokorn. 31, 418 Carroll street: concrete mason. Harry Tuttle, 155 Logan street, barber. Elliott LaFayette, 150 State street. etrician. William Paul Lange, 171 Detroit street; time keeper. Alonzo Searfoss, 457 Truman street, meter tester. Christian Vaknnipp. 571 Morton avenue: crane operator. William Charles Blohm, 13. 367 Mlchigsn avenue. In th case of William Rohlm the examiners were lenient in the physical examination because the boy was a anxious to go. He has tried for a year to enlist. Tee Lang. Chinaman. 633 Hohman street, stretched himself as high as he could but was not tall enough and could not be accepted. LATEST NEWS By T. W. TEOIEE (United Press Staff Correspondent.) AMEKJCAN HEADQUABTERS IN rSAKCI, Aug-. 11. A great sham bat. tie daring which Sammies will charge fcrwaid under cover of real Preach barrage Are after trenches and en. tanglements have been blasted by artillery is in the making today. The rehearsal oi one scene of the mimic battle that is to be staged Intro, dnced the Sammies to mining opera, tlons. There was a volcanic upheaval of the earth in front of the American line. With the sound of the explosion khaki clad and helmeted Sammies swarmed from their trenches to occupy the crator made by the explosion while down upon them came a shower of rocks and dirt blown high in the air when the mine let loose. WALTER MEYN REACHES " FRANCE Walter Meyn has arrived safely in France. The quartermaster ser-ct of Hammond is now with General Pershing's expedition. Peter W. Meyn, his father, has received a message from Meyn stating he reached his destination.

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n ished with the conscription work. He has directed the registration of men for army service throughout the state. He has worked out the quotas for each county and district. He has had to make a complete card index of every man in the state who registered. In addition, he has done everything else that was to be done with the registration and the conscription. Hundreds of long distance telephone calls come to him dailj and he could not answer all of them even if he had a dozen ears twice as large and active as his own two. Eschbach has worked day and night and then some, and there appears to be no let-up in his job. His office occupies all of the senate chamber and the north lobby, if he is called in to serve as speaker at the special session it will mean that he must abandon the conscription work, and if he sticks to the job as conscription agent he will (Continued on page five ) Latest 'Bulletins V tilted Press Cablegram. LONDON, tug. II. Arthur Henderson, minister without portfolio and labor member of the war council, haa resigned. It wan officially announced today. TJie resignation was accepted luir.edlatelr. Henderson han been active In advocating participation of Brltlb labor In the Stockholm socialist conference. By I'nlted Tress. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 The Interstate commerce commission today held it unlawful for any company to bill Its interstate freight to points near the boundary of one state and reconslgn them Into the next state to defeat the new Interstate rates. By I'nlted Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 Huge shipping; contracts aggress tin 775,000 tons and an outlay of one hundred million dollars, were npproved by the shipping; board today. The tonnaKe will include wooden vessels and BO steel ships. It Is stated. With Chairman Hurley's signature on these contracts todny and Admiral t'npp's accrplanrr of resignations of five members of the emergency fleet corporation's Irani staff, the (Inal difficulty left over from the Goethnls-Denman retime has been left behind. The contracts are those drawn by Goethals. but which have been held up until Admiral C'npp could study them. I'nlted Press Cablegram. LONDON, Aut. 11. Violent German counter attacks were launched east of Tprcs in an effort to retake ground ruptured by the British, Field Marshal HnlK reported today. All were repulsed. Aronnd Westhoek ridge, taken yesterday by the British, six atfarlfs were made by the enemy. Despite these attacks, however, the British made further grains along the Tpres-Monln road. By Tnited Press. NKW YOBK, Aug. 11. More than one hundred thousand men are working with all haste today in sixteen cantonment scattered throughout the country In an effort to have them ns near completion ns possible when the first of America's new national army will be mobilized. With the settlement of differences which threatened strike troubles In nil the ramps, reports from the sixteen cantonments Indicate that most of them will be ready by the middle of September at the latest. With the completion of the cantonments sixteen Mnew elites," with thousands of buildings, streets enrefully laid out, sewage and water systems, hospitals, (earners and stables will be formed. t'nited Tress Cablegram. MONTIVEDIO, VRIGIAV, Aug. It.

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The government today aelced n necret ; vrlrelesn station which wan dincovered to have a ranse of 300 mtlea The op- ; erator, said to be a German ogenl. j wa arrented. Others, inspected of I having aided him in Bending ont InI formation by wireless, are under ur- ; vf lllance. ; I'nlted Press Cablegram. I PETROGRAD. Aug. 11. A big bat- ! tie Is In progress on tlie Roumanian ' front. The officinl statement from the Russian war office this afternoon reI ported the conflict proceeding along I the Suchltza river. It has been in pro- : cress since 'W ednesday. I ! B v I'nlted Press. WASHINGTON, Ann. 11 Secretary of State Lansing today announced that j no passports will he issued for Amerj leans desiring to attend the Stockholm I socialist conference. The state depart- , ntent looks with disfavor upon the conference and the possibility of Its spreading peace germs In the countries participating. By Tutted Frees. WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 Requisitioning of American merchant vessels has begun. Seven private owned passenger and cargo liners have been taken over by the government shipping 1 board. It ws officially learned today. The board turned the ships over to the - war department, which will use them to transport materials for great engineering work behind the Sammies In Europe. As more cargo carriers are needed either for the war or navy deI partment or for commercial purposes. the shipping boa'rd will take them over, it was stated. By I'nlted Press. WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 Celebration throughout the land will mark the departure of America's first national army contingent to cantonment camps September 4 nnd 5. Secretory Baker toduy enthuiastlcally endorsed the movement to make the Sammies' senijoff one that would he long remembered In every district. While the president will not create a holiday the governors of the states are expected to Issue proclamations urging patriotic observance of mohilisotion day. September 1, originally set for assembling the first group of the S7,000 selected men, has been abandoned. A later date with prospects of less conflicting holidays nnd rallrond traffic will be selected. SLACKERS APPEAR IN COURT M There's justice and kindness even in the operation of the "iron mailed talons" of the government. United States Commissioner Charles Surprise showed that tocay when he allowed George Fridham, a "slacker." to escape imprisonment ty volunteering his services. Fridham had failed to register. He had attempted to slip from under the federal eye by saying he was only 20 years old. Three substantial records were .produced by Commissioner Surprise proving he was 22. Because of ill health of his father. j who fainted during the hearing, and the age of the mother and their destitute circumstances, the commissioner granted him the privilege of enlisting. Two negroes, John Austin and Thomas Baker, and a Russian, Anton Kabona. arrested at Gary, were taken to Indianapolis today by the United States marshal to await trial before the federal court on the charge of evading the conscription law. NOTICE. Knights and Ladies of Security will give their annual basket picnic at Douglas park on Sheffield avenue, tomorrow, Sunday, Aug. 12th. Members are kindly requested to notify all those they meet who are connected with the order also to bring their friends. HARRY G. SYLVESTER, Secy. Adv. The Red Cross the symbol of a cause wide as the world and high as Heaven.

s'MYSTERIOUS HIRE RUINS AETNA MILLS i

LAST NIGH1 ight Blaze Eats Up 6 Mills When Troops Leave; Hits Giincotton Production, Sl'SPECTS ARRESTED The Gary police hold two suspects arrested by guards at the Aetna plant at 4:30 a. m. today. They arc held for Chief Bracdon of the Gary branch of the department of justice. An explosion of unknown origin early this morning resulted in a fire that wiped out the entire producton department of the gun-cotton plant of the Aetna Explosives company, Aetna, just east of Gary. Four mills were destroyed. The loss may reach $1,000,000 and the United States government wi'l sustain a loss of a million pounds or more of explosives pending the rebulding of the plant which will take thirty days. Explosion First. The explosion, which occurred at 12:30 this morning, set fire to the raw cotton department. It quickly spread to other divisions. The powerful sirrn that sounds fire and explosion warnings brought to fight the fre employes and rractically every male resident if thetowns of Aetna and Jliller as welt., as two companies of the Gary fire department. Face Acid Dangers. From the raw cotton mill the flam" quirkly spread to the telpher systerv, and to the nitrating mill, mixed arid plant- and finally reached the nitric acid plant itself. The fire was fought with water from the high pressure mains that are extended from Gary. Ten reels of hose were played on the stream. The fire fighting was under the direction of Wilfred Grant, chief of the Gary department, and Charles Martin, head of the Aetna plant. Assisted by the company's fire brigad--. the Miller fire department and employes orer 300 men fought the flames. The firemen were subjected to danger when the flames reached the nitric acid plant and many of them were forced to quit by the fumes. By hard work disastrous explosions were prevented here. No fear was felt for the thousands of pounds of completed gun-cotton on hand is it was submerged in water, and the dynamite magazines were too remote from the blaze to be endangered. Troops Leave Aetna. Superintendent Martin described the explosion as a mystery. It might have been set off maliciously, he said, but he did not think that could have resulted from spontaneous combustion. From the outbreak of the war until last Sunday the Aetna plant was under double guard, one consisting of a company of former army men and the other of 150 members of Co. C. Second Indiana Infantry, of Crawfordsvilio. With the withdrawal of Captain William Livengood's troops there was fear expressed that the plant would meet with disaster at the hands of enemy aliens. Will Rebuild at Once. "I am authorized to say by the general office in Xew York that the corny pany will at once proceed to rehuil its plant." said Charles Martin, general superintendent. "Work will he rushed day and night and we should be in operation asain in thirty days." Seven hundred men are employed by the company and pending the rebuilding one-half of them will be laid off. their places to be taken by construction crews. SPEEDING AUTOIST .HITS Mi: FLEES A machine going from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour, according to wiinesses, swung around Fifth avenue and Broadway last evening. It hit Stanley Wisniewski and dragged him 130 feet. Wisniewski was taken to a doctor's office. Following the accident the driver abandoned the car. an Overland. Ind. 93796. It is said to belong to Tom Ciora, 1077 Washing-tort street. 12-YEAR-OLD FACTORY WORKER SEEKS DAMAGES Ten thousand dollars damages are asked by Attorneys Gavit. Hall & Smith of Whiting, in a personal injurysuit filed in the Superior court at Hammond today. Charles Kompanek, Jr.. by Charles Kompanek, Sr., his father, is the plaintiff. The complaint alleges that the boy., aged 12. was employed June 11 of this year by the Indiana Box company, the defendant, and a few days later was permanently injured when his leg was cut by & revolving saw.