Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 79, Hammond, Lake County, 20 September 1917 — Page 1

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Mil I Id I Dalscllves, EnpDars and Fireman Among loss Arrested By Police and Special Two railr i-l d cnl a f.ro:-..-!r. a!others h?.t) b--f!i Willi i;. ii-ly 13 ;:r.a since th! return 1 ci-jr::r of o;u:r.-t rcario:i '"car 1 I'.-.." 1 P--it. l-i by : ; ::reTh Indiana Ilr.rlvr l'--.'.t tie active, E'lwar.1 Cr xripl m-.-I i.io thn e ac-cc-i.-.i-iic-'s svrtsif J yc:;:r!.iy in a c!;vfr r:u!i'l-t;p -uili be b.?!l to the Lake county gr'::;l j-;ry . r.;;: ;:. i; birt Thurjhy a f-.I in t!t; c M-txsrc ci' the b ind!'. - r : : 1 fl ; i : n. The !;::-: -ry o? "c ir bii .iiL" captures follc-w: Sffjatlay ITir:-.f, Sept. 10. Tni b: ;! ::s prr..-t..l by rHc? and rfiiroau .1.. tc-ciivrs. Tlv y 1m ,1 pMn'lcrXir'! I Ki 1'ri ? fuvi r. v o. fr.-iRht c.-.rs fr-r t:.-? I"t f.-.yr jvrj i'f t!:.m ?"'r' :0 wi.ri!i cf m- rchar.05.-o. In the : . '. vi'.-i-'l f:t cr $r.(iO w ii s uncovf r- in I,.-.-r.'- f-f th mon. ..:, f., i i f'U pi , i ?. r t j i n p v n TflHIS GOUriTHY Michael Lukoiyski Brings in His fourth Loyal Patriot Tms nlornii ''V,';" c'-ri '" f i r b.o-p r. plve to f.ll the :-ur.; ry hi"h nif -tnt frc-"-1-':-H f'-r n:-," d-cbrt 1 Mi'-i'l I.uho -a .-:-!. ; ; v.:.:--r s-r.-. t. :: t hthi.i !!:. h' :i he b-rwsrht hi- f.osr'h fi n. : h. to .-! V- vrcrur:n:r FtTicn !;: .'. The b 'Ly !' ft to j -h Muc:ilry. T!:r'"-c- of hi? T.r i'lr r?, S'.-iri v.ho i in Fn:i'..'! wi'h th- n.iith.i; corps: 11.-"". . ' nr' i:i. ry nn i 1 ; i i : : i jo . : i- c- ;np'; i;y, ' ' -' .'''.- t.. O"o. Th- fi'h-r hn livo :r. thi" Ciiiiitry ?! jnr.:. If-? r'ii ! th"- Anicritm r"r,Pl: OM r.(.i rc )'.;;: tbo f ri'-:iHR'-3 of ;iie . .3 r. "Th?r in r.o pfvr'ilo too pre At to inf'.ji'f th.it the f;;'.;re h" ;:i''e for n'':;' rs lih'j MysfOf ho cnTiO to this co-m try to r-r j y :. nits,'' a:ti wil OSGAIJISE LEAGUE. The Hammond ''el r Pm-uo e.f C'b.t if Jims i to be organized at a rvieeijri. 3i 'o '-i's t ' : s ve :i i : . . Austin Y7alsh. Drafted. Austin ' . a. ill- r ' ! ; r of the Ha-ao. -. ! ha-ei-:.'! fa a ami its be-t 1. , 1 1 r. i.as hoi :. :'o ' t;,. pft Tumi. . : f . r a t ra ! ii : n ir, - i a nla'-e Will he talo-u r.'-x ! .-',;r.. ;v by ehtin-r v.,,- Them; son Ch-iil-'s lb dido. "V'.'-lfh l.il'f this sea.e-n. "WISCONSIN IS r.O SLACKKIt STATICJUST i c i : w j xslow I Justice John B. Winslow. "Anyone who supposes that Wisconsin is a slacker state end will r.ct ftanJ firmly behind the president in this greatest of a!i battles between autocracy and democracy is sadly mistaken." says Chief Justice 3Av. I. Vinslow of the "Wisconsin Ftiprepic court. Vinslov says that the raoptc of h:s stati fully reaiirto that lxm:.n liberty is at stake and their loyalty cannot be questioned.'

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tea km Station Platform Packed As Local Oral! Ken Start This rooming in First Stags of Trip for Berlin cr Bust, V,"h: liur. Ire.'?; of people rrowdd the .: rrt p -atforiii r n, t!.o streets on -iiher si.ie. ti.ii ty-t :ht yc-ung rnc-n folo.-to 1 f"r the i-.ii' ionn ! army protru'ie.l their liea-'s from the wirrlow? of srecial caches attnoh'-fi to th" ?:5 Morion trasn f. r I..'.t:i.vi!U- I his ii.rnir.g ani shouted "dc o.i-bye" to 1 famiitAnd. T ars ii.arU 1 the foi eweil of niothers i iil their sons, sist-rs and brothers, I'H'eethr rts and lovors, but the sv'.d'.e.r boys v re ail smiK-a and good cheer when the train ruib'fl cut. "Good-bye Hoys, Come Join Vs" and "V riin or Bust", they had written on both sides of the coaches ia chalk. There were thirt y-eicht boys in the party as ordered by the war department hut at th-i last marnent alternates hnd to be s'nt to take the p'.ago of three who l'aiie i to show up. Stan;?iT.i Mnzcow a did nit go because he had not been certifa-d for .service by the disirh-t board. 11 will probably l'Mv-i f-b.e. rtly. Than Kovavich wa.-j esan jr.. c; last nicbt by Dr. "U'cis oT the c-x'-n;pt:..n boar 1 an 3 found to have thre.t ter;ie. :; of fever. He was excused a nd w:ll h"1 sent as soon as he is v.t'l. Iti-r Macio was not sent be(.r.?'1 lie claimed to be an alien and said lie did not understand how to f.le a ciaim f..r exemption. lie will b? sent Cist.' 3. Will. am F. nuettner. Louis Leo Cier-laoko-.vski and Lewis l'.ieber were the al-teTi-.a-e. I'ieb r was i rafted in Cleveland f.nd tisnsferi;d to Hammond at '..is r.q'.;est but lie will not be credited to Hammond. Tl.irtj -ej-tht or forty men will be sent October ", it is said. Trior to that time the board may be railed ujon to till a shortage in tint Hammond quota. There are r.. 132 ymmir men registered in H iinmond yet to be f xamined. The ji'M'' rnmtiit hn v ir.c derided to liav all repistf r'd m. n examined at oticc- tl;e loeal boa:'i exj.ects to prepare for a bu-y ricnth. lty cre.atly increasing its members and havintr seral physicl'ms at worU the board can examine 3,133 in thiriv liajs. 1SHI110HD . BOYS If! FHJIRGE i All Are in Ammunition - Motor Truck Section, Says Jack Gill. There are fifteen Hammond "Sammies" "s'ri. here in Frarme" with the Am.-r-h an expodittonary forces the first known to. arrive with the ia pml ir army. This was learned today when Jack .Iiil. Kiadach buildina', t.ccied a. letter from las brother-in-law, Jim (James .Vorc'istrand, i "Just a few lines." the letter read, "to let y.v.i i.n, w I artived safily in c'oeo.s France. I am feel in at fne and eriy-.-ed the trip 'out' for the wi'ith''? was Knml ail the way. D -n't worry ah. .at trie. I'm just as safe here as 1 would be in dear old Hammond. "There are about fifteen Hammond bovs w i r m in the ammunition trtiek .-.'i'tion that cair.c 'over" with me. Alice! 'iificsi.i! and Fdi Feaity and a Chicago lad and T were up town (the censor ert. out the name of the city) last nijrh?. It's some place. With love to all, Jim." No rust rr. n 1 enlisted a few weeks after war v. as declared. He is well known b ere. The letter wms dated Aus 22. The ne..-,. an, letter both bear the censer's O. K. Crri a rpi-jri BOARD MAKES REFOET TlVltS' III RFAl tr sriii: fitai.. INKIAN'.M' ILIS. lnd.. Sept. 2' The :tate P.aird of nccownts ha.? just mails public a report cliarsrinp that Senator Jiimw J. Nejili of Like county owes the county $17.'J;s t... cause vt deficiencies in construction ot a two-mile strctth of brick roaii.

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Here is John Tavlnr third fro m left in front row), of Crystal Springs, Mis.., and tet. of his rona who are His ten dauahters are now n;a2'1 ji. I'.d Cross work, and it is j.nssirio some cf them will also pi to Franco.

an igiuau TP? 5 M HI Newly Elected Commerce Board Objects to Having! Important Road Paved at Lake County's Expense j and Tells Why. j . i ! East Chicaeo. through its r.ewly elected board of directors of the charnb,.r of romtnercc. is taking exception?: to the im provenK'nt of Calamet avenue; as a township road, at county expense. ' It seem;? that the petition fir the rebuilding e.f this street was tiled with, the county board of commissioners or. June 2S:h and that publication wf.sV ; cured on July .", 12 and IS. A bea-inp for remonstraiK-es was set for July 23 i u; !ippa;-en'ly was not held vntl! t Con. inn. n pae five.) STORY OF JI? S TALK OF TOWN But He Wasn't Arrested at Lafayette or Anywhere Else. Who is .-'ist. r Mary Lu:.e and where has the Koi-.o? These ;.rc the questions Still tltlansw. red o.tic'rtiinit 'he Japanese null who lived in Lake "itti'y for several ueij., c! le i 1 1 e.r m uiey fr Japaaese mi sions. ideniitl i(t La fay. tte that Pister Mary Louise was l'ei.iid to le a man and arrest .-.I there has caused Lev. IletK e.f the. sit. ,I(.:-.ep)i chur. h cf Hammond to communicate with various e.'.hep cities of the stale ir.ciuduiff Kensselae r and Michipan City to Kf t trace of the missionary and fm l w b.nt truth there is in the report. Attorney Cooi-tre .T. F.ier of Ilam-iiie-nd has receive J a mcsraKe from the sheriff ot Tipi"-'Canc.e county staling that a -Ta p nun bad not been arrested at L.ai'a ctte. "The story of the expeisure of the Japanese nun was current in Dyer. Seiu ro;- i' !e. St. John and Hatnittoiid two weeks before the report was printed in the paper." staled Attorney Kib-r. "and we are still seckinff information. Where it originated we have no id-ri. Cut we are anxious to learn because If ?lster Mary Louise who had tfood credentials is what she presumed fo be the misunuerstnndincr should be eurrecud so that in the future it will not affect some other KOod cause." The, story was printed in The Timps for what it a worth, as a report, anl it was only f.fter it had been current for days that it reached print. It was common ' rumor about tow n and talked of everywhere in htirch cirri, s. And the stranire thins is that it can not be traced to its source. Lev. Dergr in Coi'AK all that lie can to learn the origin and the truth. Ov. in? to 1ho fact that Sister Mr ry Louise had credentials lie does not believe the repot t to lie true. Meantime hundreds of church people would like to know. Every can of food put up this summer helps make food shortage next winter impossible.

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:M1 k Hi ii Ii 01 i! By vrzriAax g. empaed (United Press S'r.iT Correspondent.) STi X'Klb LM. Sept. ;o. Gcrnifm agents to- de Vibonsr. city of Finland, not a hundred rales from Pctrograd a piai e of horror. Loyal Russian soldiers threw ten of their officers, including two generals, into ti.e river and then shot at them until all but oic disappeared in the swirling waters. This out, a colonel, w as brained. An. r otf icer was iiiii in his home ami his head half severed. Still another was found lynched in th- woods. The Cerman nfter.ts had spread rumors that Keronsky had requested tr..'.ps of Finmen t(, f.;ti in the eiefense of la.;ros:rad and that General Cassiluf, coicinandinfe" peneral of i'jnland, lia'd refused las appeal. The story was absolutely untrue. Tint the soldiers rose in mutiny dv niuiHiins the democracy , defended. The Herman inspired story spread like wildlirc nrag tin troops. They were moved to the a ns? r almost of insanity. They mu'.ined and stalked forth to sir;;e their officers. Many were thrown instant into prison. Yassiluf himself all hitrh army otT; " ra 1 ( irir 'f -ki and with nine others er !, including GcnCoi tiei K'-renius wete seized. These ten. the infuriated soldiers dra-ixod to th.e Pert A bet brid ;c. There they threw them into the water. And whole they Fwarn eie: ;.. ra tely for the shore Russian soldiers (ired at the helpless off h ers. For ha 1 an hour this tarpret practice at the- of'nirs continued. Then most e.f then wt ro either killed, ove rcome w ith the r wounds, or exhausted by their cff..i s to k. ep afloat. Members of the workmen's and soldiers" txuneil claim that Korniloff exempted an entire' repaniont e.f his men at Tarr.opol. Durin?; the revolt many of the treiop turned the tables and executed tlieir eifficcis. Vhe;i I went to the cable office, and tib i my despatch to the T'nited Tress that the Korniloff revolt had been crushed, the censor remarked: "The lives of his officers are not worth a cent if that is true." The Vibong horror ocoured one week age. .IDT MrtT ill Kill SULCI FBfMM COUNTY Kc.tional Dofenso Leaders Are to Appear at Crown Point Court House. j (Special to The TntE.O CROWN' I'OIN'T. IN'IX. Sept. 20. An important mt-etinsr wiil Va; held at the I court house in f'rmvn Foint on Saturi day . Sept. ClUh at 2 p. m.. wlc-n spaakJ ers sent out hy the state board of ri.V jtional defense will discuss matters e.f j importance concerning- the war. All J members of the county council of de fense, and a'.l committees appointed by the council, ail county officers, townshio trustees, mayors of cities, common councils of cities, all ministers of re?pel and public generally are requested and urged to attend this meeting. Speakers will be sent to every county in the s tate, but this wiil ;o the only meetatu,' in Lake county and it is of vital importance to every one.

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8 1 if (I nited Pre Cables 'rani.) TOKIO, Sept. UH China In expeeteil Tnr1l.v to decide on the nenillns of 20.n- troops to the French front, ne-coi-cJuk: to tclii Murl. x !lpnlcli td:iy Irom ( I nltfil J'resi Cablegram.) . ROMK, Sept. 20. Germany ha announecd nereptanep of the ftrenter piirt of the peace proposals advanced by the Tope, in her reply to the Vatifl'nlted Prc.M Cablegram.) I LOMKI, Sept. 20. Arrival of the first croup of American elvillan phyiIcians to aid in hospital work nan announeed today. They ere nsslsned to hospitals here and In the provinces. (t'nited Press Cablegram.) MKX'ICO CITY, iept. 2f Folk I Croniholm, ex-eharKe of the Swedish ! loKation, on;orp.ed from hlrllnn: today ' for the first time ftineo the Cnited i States bared the famous Von Kckhart , tnessnKe to deny IndiKnnntly that be ' had aided Germany. ''The German I minister nnrr offered or rromised me juiy decorations, ' he ueeiiireel. (I'ntted Tress I nlilesram.) I.flXUOX, Sept. 20. Warninir that unless the allies are able to Import 'supplies to feed the army and elili.-ins, j ictory may slip from their Krisp." j nun voiied by Lord llhomdda. food jeontroller. In an interview with the i I nited I'ress todav, "Uritniii during the next twelve months will re"'ire lt.K;0.(MI( t!ns or a -billion dollars worth of foodstHUs , frem Hie I nitcd States and Canada," j he declared. 'I'h Is Rrrnt supply of foodstuffs, he isaid, would include mostly eereals, su l.ir nnd fcos products. 1 (By I'nited Press.! ; VF.W YfMtK. Sept. 20. The slrike of ; lonXKhoremen which Involved ! men and threatened to tie up allied is'ilppirtK from this port enme to nn jend this afternoon when the men iKreed to arbitrate and return to work. (Hy I nitci! Press.) j NEW A (HI K. Sept. 20. John P. j Mitchell w:is renominated for mayor I of New York In the ItrpuhHrnn priim1ry by 1,1 1! -otcs, practically com. i pl?te returns kIiuI this afternoon. ! (Hy I'nited Press.) j SV FItNCISt(. Sept. 20, Ten : million Chinese treiops on the fihtine: ! frtnt in I-'r:'.nee ns the Orient's contribution to the cause of democracy I is la prospect If (lie I'nited States will j finance China's part of the war. Dr. j Poon Chew, Chinese statesman and j editor, declared today. j (Ky I'nited Press.) i ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Serf. 2l. j Direct responsibility for strikes and ithe spirit of tinrest la the ranks of I labor since the war beean was placed j on the shoulder of unpatriotic prof iteering of American business men by Secretary of Labor AYilsnn toitay, nil(IrcssinK the war conference of American husiness with the I'niled States Ch:niler of Commerce. Labor has been restless, AA'ilson said, because word bns trone forth that the '"iron nnd steel mnnuiacturers nre ' mr.kine two hundred to four hundred i mid ninety-nine per cent profit anil ithnt shippiiiur. mining and many other ; industries are makinij numerous profits. (Ily I nited Press.) i CHICAGO, III.. Sept. 2'. Chicatrei j won the toss fer (tie opening ciwif i of the world's heries. , (Tly I nited Press.) AVSHIGTOX, Sept. 20. The senate today adopted the conference repert on the SI!,33s.fr.0,'KS) bond Mil. The house is expected to aarce to the report tomorrow.

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Fight in France anxious to go to France to f,ht. Bt F.VOS AIHKS Sriit. 20. Hfienosi Aires todaj- rerelved tlie nn f the senate vote of 2.1 to I for a break Midi liermany iih excited demonstration. imil:,r vote Is cxpfilril in tiic lioune of reire:ent!itlves today. (Cnited Press Cablegram.) LOno, Sept. 20. Itritlsh troops drove forward east ot Ypres today in n utromt attack over an exteneled front. Field Marshal HaiiCs report says: 'Mast of Ypres we nttacked on a wide front this morning. We made sat isfactory proerrM and some valuable positions were ruptured." For th? past week Hriti.sh Kns have been pourlna: a tremendous artillery fire on German prtsitions throuirhont the A pre.s sector. Last niftht's llerlin report labeled this "drum fire' preeedin;x nn infantry drive. It reached intensity of destruetivene.ss Inst nlsht just before the Ilritish troops "npnt over. The sector east of A pres mentioned by Haii; as tliat part of the line where the Ilritish offensive slruek includes Frrirmhrrs, Aesthoek nnd Ilodie eronnd taken In the previous offensive of Aueust. (Cnited Press Cablecram.) HE AUQV All TKltS OF TH K AMERICVX .ilOIV I KRAMK, Sept. 20. ltrissadier General Georiie Uiinr;in nnd .Hnjor KiKET. both American nrmy oftlcers. were awarded tlie r'reneb wr cross today for eoura.iie shown under extremely heavy lire in the recent Verdun offensive. T he Americans were observers with the French nriuy. They are Ihc first American officers in the American military service at the front or elsewhere to receive decorations from one of the ullietl powers. The French award raises nt once of (future enforcement of the American I army regulations forbidilintc American j soldiers to wear foreisn decorations. i''M.aler Puncan today eviiibiteil bis war icrosM and the belmet he wore at Aer?un. GOVERNOR'S GDNDmON STILL SATISFAGTOnY IN'DIAXAFOLIS, lnd.. Sept. "0. The condition of Governor tjoodrieli. who is ill at t)e Methodist hospital with typhoid fever, was pronounced satisfactory last night. Information Riven out last night by Dr. Charles It. Sowriers and Dr. llader S. blunt, physicians attending- the governor, had a satisfactory day in most ways. At cne time his fever rose higher than it .ad been on the previous day, but it 'soon went down attain. At 9 o'clock the governor's temperature, w.is 101.6, and his pulse 112. The patient during the day had made some p.ro-rress over the previous clay, the physicians said, but riot much. However, his condition was as pood as could be expected under the circumstances, the physicians said. ' I NEW YORK CANDIDATES IN CLOSE RACE (Hy I'nited Press.l XLW YORK, Sept. 20. With only fifty of 2.000 election distiicts to be heard from, John Mitchell Jed William Dennett by only 43S votes for the Republican mayoralty nomination of New York. See Summers rn Drusr Store prices -page 5. 0-20-1 .Annual dance riven 'by Flattdeutsche Giide, Columbia 44, Saturday, Sept. 22. Chopin Hall. 0-20-3

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New 500,090 Call Will M .3 Army of Nearly Two and Half Million Men, WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 20. Provost Marshal General Crowder is preparing today to summon before the local boards all the remaining 7,000,000 men enrolled under the selective service draft. The first official announcement of plans to call out a second levy of 500,000 men of the. drafted forces was made by Secretary cf War Baker yesterday in submitting a supplemental .deficiency estimate cf $237,416,000. It was further officially disclosed v" Secretary 3aker that the war department's plana under rresent appre.pr' -tion bills call for an army of 2.30), " v. men. TELI.S OF SKCOXD DRAFT. In explaining the estimates. Etc , tary Faker said: "The submisrion cf all these e ' mae j3 mace necessary in order provide increased facilities for .; manufacture, issue and storage of or nar.ee material; for equipment for a-, additional SftO'fl men in an anticip.. tion of a call for that number th..second draft levy); for procuring: a ' ditional rifles and an additional supply of small arms ammunition for machine gran, rifle and pistol ttirgrt practice of an army of 2,300,000 men; for constrti-tioii -work with which the enpineer corps is charged" in France, and for the equipment of special troop operating in the theater of war in L'urope." Secretary Baker also made known today that the war department had practically decided to go ahead with its plan of physically examining t'.-, entire list of drafted men. rejtardles ; of the objections raised by sorae governors whose opinions were aslted. TO EXAM I'VE 7.nOO,f!,0 MORE. Telecrams were sent by Proves' Marshal General Crowd er requertini aovernors to express their views as to the advisability of examining the T.OOO.O'ii) registrants remaining aft": the first 3.000.000 were examined t set rr.en for the first call of 6S7.00i. Secretary Baker explained that it was not intended that the request for executives' views should be r?s;arded in the liijht of a referendum, fie said the war department was inclined to adopt the plan as soon as it could be placed in operation. "A great many men will be held ia uncertainty if we delay exeminins; the men . remaining on the reffistrant lists." Secretary Baker explained. "We should examine these men so trat they will know definitely whether they nr-. liable to be- called for military service and may niransre their business affairs aceordinsly." The war department believes it will be no more difficult for local boar.'. throughout the country to complete the examination of registrants now than it would be later. The Red Cross the sjTnbol cf a cause wide as the worki and hish as Heaven. NEWTON MAY GET XEW YORK POST Hyron R. Xewton. Byron It Newton, assistant secretary of the navy, who has beon prominently mentioned as a successor to Dudley Field Mai one, collector of tbe port of New York, is an ex-newspaper man, an au'-hirity on airships nnd knows all about tin manufacture of counterfeit money. lie was one of Wilson's chief workers at ths time of the president's first campaign.

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