Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 17 August 1917 — Page 1

. "a. ws1k.

LAK H 2eliyersd by TIMES cariler730oir month; on streets and at newsstands, -o per copy; tack numbers 3c par copy. VOL. XII. XO. 52. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1917. tJr I 4 W 4 nisi UtfdL giwrnii jmw - mam UNNING TOO

CO UNTY

R Pi ' PVV INDIANA EXEMPTIONS ARE E

EnGHlGOVEHNOR

DIFFEREtyGE II RULIHG

In Soma Exemption Districts is High As 90 of Men are Being Exempted. TIMES' Bl'REAl' AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Au?, IT. According to reports, exemption boards In Indiana are granting a larger percentage of exemptions than those of perhaps any other state. Just why this is so no one seems to be able to tell. But while in many parts of the country exemption boards are exempting not more than 50 per cent of those who ask exemption, the average in Indiana will run far above that f.gure.. In fact, in some places in Indiana it Is said that the boards are exempting: as high as 90 per cent of those men who claim exemption. Most of the exemptions are asked on the ground that the man is married. Many of them have children. Others have no children. Some of the boards appear to be exempting every man that has children. Others even go so far as to indicate that the mere fact that a man is married is good grounds for exemption. In other words, however, the boards are not so liberal. They hold that a married man should not be exempted v.nless It is clearly shown to the board that his wife or children would become public charges in case he was taken in the army. These boards hold that If the wife has an independent income, or if she has relatives who can (Continued on page seven.) RESIGN FROM DEFENSE COUNCILS (By I'nlted Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Many "tig business" representatives on the Defense Councils' subordinate committees are on the verge of resignation today because of the rider attached to the food control bill barring them from selling their own goods to the government. And certainly to the law's Rpplication has halted all work. It is reported whole committees have already resigned, but so critical i3 the situation in the council that officials refuse to talk. The upheaval reaches to the new war industries board and the White Mouse. President Wilson may be forced to step in to prevent collapse of the entire defense council. Attorneys are reported to have told the committee members they could not ierve under the new food bill without laying themselves liable to huge fines or imprisonment. YOUTH HITBY TRAIN. HOBART, IND., Aug. 17. Ray Arnold. 17 years old, fell asleep while riding in a buggy and was struck by a Nickle Plate train near Sidney yesterday. He was carried half a mile on the pilot of the engine, but was alive when found. Ho was rushed to Fort Wayne where he died in a hospital several hours later. He was a son of Ward Arnold. To Arms Your Country Calls. SAYS FLYING'S TO HAVE FINE FUTURE - h.; " . f -Jf4. . . ,. ,s . 1 t - 1 jn ... Brig.-Gen. George O. Squier. Brijj.-Gen. George O. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. navy and head of aviation, declares that three .years of w r have done more to adance aviation than might a hundred years of peace.

1 .c::7r'

FOUR HE

Ei GALLE TO THE COLORS Four members of the Chicago TelePhone Company, Hammond-Gary division, have been called to report for duty in Chicago next Monday. They are members of the sjgnal reserve corps. Company E, Eleventh telegraph battalion. They are: Dewey Carroll, chief clerk, plant department, and B. E. Sewell, lineman, Hammond. Mr. Carroll is 21 years old- and lives with his parents at 17 Sibley street. He is well known here and is an active worker in the Knights of Columbus lodge. Mr. Sewell lives at 329 Oak street, and is 21 years old. Two Gary men. George Doran, a tester, and Fred H. Myer, an installer. GIRL WITH HIS RIFLE Fourteen-year-old Mike Mesko, 200 Calumet avenue, and his companions became vexed at Wallie Augustine, 119 Florence avenue, and her companions yesterday afternoon for throwing stones at him. Mike thought he'd scare 'em. He ran home after his 22calibre rifle. He fired at the ground, but the bullet htt a stone, glanced, hit seven-year-old Wall la In the back and lodged in her lungs. She was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital, where- Dr. Chidlaw operated. She will live. Mike was reprimanded by Police Chief Austgen today. His gun was confiscated. if Til onirnv i IU lOlLUI , A TRYING SITUATION Supervisor Johnson of the Hammond, Whiting. East Chicago Railway company in answer to complaints of people getting on and off the cars at crowded corners, says: "If the people would only learn to get off the front of the car and not try to crowd out the back It would greatly alleviate the congestion. At prominent street corners the people against the conductors' orders will push and jam out both doors, making It Impossible for people to board the car until all are out. This takes time and delays schedules. If the people would only alight from the front Btoop the Jams would be eliminated." WILL ORGANIZE MILITIA COMPANY (Special to The Times.) LOWELU IND., Aug. 17. A company of militia will be organized in this vicinity and will draw men from Cedar Creek, West Creek, Eagle Creek and Hanover townships and the town of Lowell. The people of this vicinity are very enthusiastic over the matter and a number have already expressed their willingness of becoming members and are taking active steps toward its organization. A public meeting will be held here in the Grand theatre on Tuesday night. Aug. 21. for the purpose of taking the necessary steps. Special music will be rendered and a speaker will be present. It is the intention to make this a patriotic meeting. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend and boost the organization of a company of militia. KEEP POSTERS IN WINDOWS Business men should be patriotic enough to allow recruiting posters and advertising material in their display windows, in the opinion of Sergeant William Welch. "The government can't afford to pay out money for expensive posters for a merchant to destroy after being in his window for a week. The posters are aiding him and his business. If it were not for Uncle Sam's fighting forces perhaps he wouldn't have a business. I urge the merchants to keep the posters in conspicuous places. It is the least they can do to help win this great: war," the Sergeant said. NEARINGJ.00 MARK. Hammond's militia company is well on its way to the hundred mark of membership, and at a meeting Monday evening in the Chamber of Commerce all those who have signed and those desiring to join the company will begin the actual organisation work. In the meantime those wishing to join are requested to Join are requested to leave their names at the Chamber of Commerce. Hammond Bll Park. Roseland Eclipse vs. Chi cago Giants, Saturday, 3 p,

ITS

m.? sharp.

8-16-S

SOUTH CAROLINA

V ft f3Ztf-'"" '

This cantonment, which is rapidly nearingr completion, is to be one and will be connected with a target range for big field guns.

ARE YOU CAREFUL WHEN YOU DB1VE YOUR AUTOMOBILE? SMASHES FRIEND'S AUTO. Comets big ones stars and other celestial bodies flew rapidly around Gus Kuezy, manager of Eggers' saloon, 106th street and Indianapolis boulevard, Roby, yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the machine he was driving, smashed Into a telephone pole, knocked It down and finally ended the careening journey in a ditch. He broke his nose bumping about and was otherwise Jolted. The front of the car was demolished. Gus had taken a friend's Overland car for a jaunt. He said he was going only 16 miles an hour. His hat blew off and he attempted to catch It, hence, the broken nose. Police say, however, that Gus was hitting nearer sixty miles an hour than sixteen. TAXI DRIVER HURT. Speeding down Hohman street in Hammond last night Peter Motenas. 33 years old. an Indiana Harbor taxi driver met In a head-on collision with a south-bound street car at the corner of Indiana avenue. H was thrown against the windshield and his face lacerated. He was unconscious when taken to the hospital in the police ambulance. The front of the car was badly damaged. Witnesses say one of the machine's wheels caught In the car track. Mozenas was alone In the car. THREE BADLY HURT. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Policeman James Farrell was probably fatally injured and two other men. thought to be policemen, are in a serious condition at the Washington Park Hospital following a collision between two automobiles at Fifty-seventh and Prairie avenue today. The policemen were giving chase to alleged automobile bandits. AUTO SKIDS; TWO DEAD. MANITOWOC, AVIS., Aug. 17. Two men were killed and three others were injured early yesterday in an automobile accident on the Calumet road between this city and Silver Lake when the car, going at high speed, skidded and overturned. The dead are Melvin Krause, 33, and Herman Kumerow, EO, both of Two Rivers. TWO AUTOS IN COLLISION. TIPTON. IND.. Aug. 17. An automobile driven by Orville Hartman and occupied by his family collided with a car occupied by the Rev. XJ. S. Hartley and family last night. None was seriously hurt, but the cars were wrecked. WHITING- MAN TAKES NAP; IS BURNED (Special to The Times.) WHITING, Ind., Aug. 17. Tony Baba. age SO years, of S03 Schrage avenue, passed away at St. Margaret's hospital yesterday morning as the result of the burns which he sustained on Wednesday night. Baba, who was employed by the Standard Oil company, had been taking a nap preparatory to going to work on the midnight shift. A lamp was located at the side of the bed, and Baba apparently had thrown his arm around and knocked the lamp over. The bed was scon in flames and Baba had half of his body burned, the burns extending from his head below his waist It was thought that there was no chance for recovery from the first, but Dr. Gillespie had him removed to the hospital, where he passed away Just twelve hours later. Baba is survived by his widow, a child eighteen months old. and a baby only six days old. The funeral will be in charge of Undertaker Baran. DIES ON C.LjSsS. TRAIN. George Rahlfs, 3618 South Halstead street, Chicago, died of heart disease on a C. I. & S. railway passenger train last evening while returning from St. John. His remains were taken off the train at Calumet station. East Chicago, and removed to the Huber undertaking establishment. Rahlfs was 45 years of age. married, and a druggist. He had gone to St. John with a society of druggists to attend a picnic. The exertion of a game of tug-of-war is believed to ' have hastened his death.

CANTONMENT TO BE

, ...IV.

The cantonment at Columbia, S. C, as it appears today.

REAL 11 STARTS 0 MONDAY LAPORTE, IND., Aug. IT- "Wo are busy docketing the appeal as fast as they are filed. was the stateraun". of A. J. Hickey, secretary of the district board of appeals, to which Lake County belongs, when asked today as the progress which is being made. It is now expected, according to present plans, to begin the examination of the claims not later than next Monday when the full representation of the bor! will be present. "Few people have any idea of the work that we will have to perform," said Mr. Hickey. "I have done little else since the boards of exemptions began their labors in the 21 counties, composing the district but eiciata letters, answer telegrams, and resnd to phone calls. 'When we begin our work Monday wo hope to continue the work of examining the claims of the present quota is comp!etedt" ATTACKS Br WXX.X.XAM PHILLIP SIMMS (tjaited Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD. Aug. 17. Hill 70 red today with the blood of German divisions sacrificed in repeated effort to capture this important dominating height from the sturdy Canadians. Along the entire new Lens battle the most desperate fighting has been in progress fcr the past 12 hours. The Canadians have repulsed all attacks. At the time this dispatch is filed they have retaken positions west of Cite St. Auguste, from which they were forced by sheer weight of number during the night. Prisoners continue to arrive behind the British lines. The total will probably prove to be greater than first believed. In addition the Germans left a considerable number of guns in the mud. It is as yet impossible to give the number thus captured. Over the flaming bloody field British aeroplanes have been accomplishing miracles. They are acting as dispatch riders between the advancing infantry headquarters guarded by battle plar.es. Von Hindenberg's Nephew Fights for Uncle Sam II' ' fy ". HULUIIIIM 1I'""-"T 1 a ii': 1 1 jf 3 ' i i 5-5 ',?W .Smt3 fAUk T. 5CMUCK Paul Francis Sqhlick. nephew of General von Hindenberg. who is a student in tho Sheffield Scientic School at Tale, has enlisted in the Vnited States Navy. He is now a naval engineer. His mothI er i? a sjster of the German general.

GERMANS FAIL 1

ONE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED IN U. S.

of the best eauip jed in the country. (By I'nlted Press.) A CUI.F PORT, Aug:. 17. German oubmarlnes have widened their scope of activity and are now operating; in the Atlantic morn than five hundred mile off the KnRltsh roast, according to the captain of a British steamer arriving here today. (By lotted Press.) WASHINGTOX, Aug. 17. Rednctlon of 2 per cent of the alcoholic contents of beer is expected to be Hoover's next Rral ii conservation step. Following his order to stop distillation of fcptrlts after 11 m. September 8, Hooter is said to have decided that beer strength must he reduced from Its present 3Vi to 4 per cent of alcohol to sure 35,000,000 bushels of arrain. (By I'nlted Press.) WASHIXGTOST, Abs. 17. A general redistribution of troops to cantonment camps was announced by the War Department today. Following la the full assignment " for Indiana! Louisville, Ky., 14,23d Indiana, 17,510; part of Illinois, 10,134. (By United Press.) WASmiNQTON, Aug. 17. Provost Marshal General Crowder today again changed the dates for the training of the first 687,000 troops In tUe national army. Thirty per cent will go September 5; thirty per cent September 19, and tliirty per cent October 3, and the last ten per cent later In October. Orders to this effect were sent out today. (By United Press Cablegram.) X.ONDON, Aug. 17 The allies will not reply to the peace appeal of Pope Benedict until after consultation in which all the entente powers will have a part. At the same time there is some disposition In certain quarters to leaye the answer to President Wilson. (By United Press Cablegram.) EXE.LIN, Aug-. 17. Recapture of the town Langemarck, taken, by the British yesterday, was announced in the official statement this afternoon. On the east bank of the Meu.se an advance into Courier's Wood in which, six hundred prisoners were taken was announced. Despite heavy sacrifices the English accomplished nothing, the statement said. The enemy penetrated the German's new battle zone near St. Jnlien, the statement announced. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Aug. 17. No wounded Americans from the Pershing expedition landed in England yesterday. The Americans were members of British organizations. The United Press Interviewed wounded America:! members of such organizations several months ago and others have been arriving frequently since that time. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Five more privately owned American merchant ships were commandeered by the government today lor the war department. This makes twelve ships seised within two weeks. Ship builders met with Admiral Capps DENY REPORT . OF A STRIKE Denying the report to a Times reporter today. Manager O'Brien of the Grasselll Chemical company said it was without foundation and that he knew nothing of any stirke. The East Chicago police deny that there is a strike there at the big chemical plant. SWITCHMAN KILLED. Joseph Stackura. 6S10 Houston avenue. South Chicago, was killed last night at the Inland Steel plant, Indiana Harbor. Stackura was a switchman. A string of cars passed over him and he died in Mercy hospital an hour later. FOUR MORE DRAFTED. Four more men have been accepted by the Hammond exemption board and called into the new army. Their names follow: Frederick Carter (colored), 467 Hohman street; Stanislaw Masgawa, 119 Florence avenue; Peter Vasjl, 543 Morton avenue, and Michael Zabowski, 530 Walter avenue.

It is to be a balloon station base and purchasing agents today to prevent competition in obtaining materials. Disgruntled ship yard men protesting against small profits flocked to the shipping hoard office trying to get contracts which. Chairman Hurley has signed but Is withholding temporarily. Pinal touches are being put on plans for con structing hundreds of standard steel ships. (By I'nlted Press.) WASHIXGTO.N, Aug. 17. President Wilson today wrote Senator Weeks Massachusetts thnt he would take up .-gain with te War Department the question of exempting from the draft married men with families. The president's letter warn in reply to one from Weeks calling bin attention to Kreat dissatisfaction throughout the country on this point. (By lotted Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The Federal Trade Commission baa completed its Investigation Into the cost of steel production in the I'nlted States. It will submit Its reporta to President Wilson within a few days. Confusion a nd delay in steel construction planned by the government will soon end, and President Wilson expected to fix a price on all steel products immediately based on the findings of the commission. (t'nlted Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Aug. 17. Heavy bombardment of enemy aerodromes and railway stations by British naval planes was announced by the admiralty today. Numerous fires were " observed following; the bombing of the railway stations at Ostend and Thouront and the aerodromes at Chistelles, the statement snid. The aerodromes at Engel and Dytkerke were also bombed. (I'nlted Press Cablegram.) LOXDOX, Aug. 17 Continued Ger-n-on counter-attacks on the Lens front was reported by Field Marshal Halg today. One assault resulted In the British being pressed back sIlKhtly from points which they had established durlncr the night. "East of Loos early last nlpht the enemy twice counter-attacked, " Hals reported, "the second time presfcins us back slightly from points we had established." (By t'nlted Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The nllled purchasing committee In the Vnited States Is now a fact. The allies have signed an agreement to make their purchases tbroogh the new war Industries board. America's loans to the allies will be protected against hnge prices whleh heretofore the allies have been willing to pay with I'ncle Sam's money in order to get badly needed war materials. B. M. Baruth, Robert S. Lovett and R. S. Brookings of the war board will be actively in charge of the allied purchasers. The agreement was signed in Secretory McAdoo's office. ARRAIGNS LACKERS. Special Federal Agent George H. Bragdon has notified United States Commissioner Charles Surprise that he will bring a number of alleged "slackers" before him tomorrow for examination. Mr. Surprise did not know today how many prisoners would face him. Under the new ruling a "slacker" must be tried in his home district. Therefore, if Mr. Surprise finds a man guilty of violating the conscription law he will transfer him to his home federal inspectors. DO NOT GIVE UP If your results are not satisfactory regarding your spectacles, see us. We are specialists for twenty years practice fitting eyes for the proper glasses. S. Silver. Jeweler and Manufacturing Optician, 177 State St.. Hammond. Ind. 8-17-1 Hammond Ball Park. Second championship game, Hammond vs. AVaukegan, Sunday, Aug. 19th, 3 p. m. sharp. 8-16-3

Tn ATTJiPir

i u niinui

LUAL fHIUtb

13 Stales Unite to Forests! Coal Shortage and High PriC3S This Winter, (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Aug, 17. Governor James P. Goodrich will issue a proclamation calling the Indiana legislature Into extraordinary session on August 27 t legislate against outrageous coal prices. This fact was learned from authentic sources today. The governor, however, withheld formal announcement of his plans. The exact program to be carried out remains a matter of conjecture. Th program will be definitely determined late today at a conference between the governor and leaders of both branches of the legislature.. Despite efforts toward secrecy, an apparently well-founded report was circulated today that Indiana coal operators, fearing stern repressive acts by the legislature and a drastic price-fixing bill, have practically capitulated. Governor Goodrich made no secret today of his intention to go before the special session with a coal bill that not only will fix reasonable prices but also will permit an embargo on the Indiana product to protect the interests of consumers within the state. 0 CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Unless President Wilson takes over the nation's coal mines the thirteen states represented at the coal conference here yesterday will utilize every agency in their power to forestall a coal shortage this winter. This was the decision they carried to their home councils today. Another meeting will be held Thursday, at which more definite action may develop?, if. wffls announced. In n reply to the Federal Trade Commission request that the Illinois State Council of Defense "do nothing to complicate the price phase of the coal situation," Governor Lowden sold he was doing nothing that would cause confusion, and ordered the public hearings on prices to proceed today. (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Illinois conl operators today repudiated their agreement to co-operate with the state fuel directors In reducing eonl prices by formal withdrawal from participation officially or unofficially tn the coal hearings which began this morning. The operators explained they hnd been requested by the Federal 1'rnile Commission not to complicate Federal action in fixing prices, nnd in view of the fact that the Lever food law gave the president full power to regulate conl prices, they felt constrained to withdraw. ..Kwcl Director Carter continued the hearing without the operators and will make an efi'ort to establish a price despite the action of the operators. FIRST LADY MAYOR HAD TO TAKE JOB Mrs. George Horwitz. j Mrs. George Horwitz, a social worker of Philadelphia, was elected mayor of Moorehaven, Fla., thouph she insisted she didn't want the job. Now that she has it, however, she Cleans to do her best and she is row in New York studying civic , government and criminal practice.

K ' " V l: I ' - V 5 i I-. . v. - i "A'-Z W J &

' ,j y. .. .-js, a