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Great Waslern Smelling Refinery to Pul Up Big Flan! Another deal cf great importance in the development of the Calumet region j transpired yesterday when the Great t Western Smelting and Refining Co., of Chicago, purchased from the Forsyth j estate a tract of twenty-five acres lying at the intersection of New York avenue and Indianapolis boulevard, with the I. H. B. Railway, Whiting.; The consideration was $40,000. The deal was negotiated by Messrs. j Smith and Bader of the V.'liiting office; cf Smith. Bader, Davidson Co. and j George V.". Lewis, vice president of the ; company at the East Chicago office. It j was closed by Mr. Lewis and attorney! Walter Smith representing the Forsyth j interests at he county seat yesterday j afternoon. The Great Western Smelting and Re-j fining Co. have a la: :rc well equipped; plant at 41st and Wallace street, capo, and other important plains i Louis. Fan Francisco, Seattle and Chit St. Van Couver. with offices In many leading cities. -rvipir business consists in smelting and refining the. various commercial j metals. Fians are already in hand for j the construction of several mammoth j buildings and the installation cf tie ; most modern machinery. The initial j investment outside ot me lanu -nm w at least 'S:0, 000 and when once under j uv thev will employ a large, body ot ; ski'led -workmen and laborers. The rnt to be built on the new tract will be inferior Tn r.- respect to their other institutions and will take care of the transfer of much of their busir.es handled elsewhere. TOUR IS pii n nit MM BY iiiUili (?prcial to The Time? ) TNDTANAIXH.IS. INP.. Sept. 22. To drive sedition from Indiana and show j pacifists that the ijuickest way to get j lasting pcacu is to help America win the war, t he State Council of Defense j 1s scnirng one hundred representative j men of the state on a stumping tour in j parties of four. It is part of a, national I movement. urbanization meetings are to be held ! in the various counties of th state.! Sept. 23. 26. 27 and 2. At a meeting j of the state count il in Indianapolis Sept. 20 the schedule was arranged and follows in part : Team No. 1 consists of J. W. Cock-1 rum. Oakland City; Kobcrt G. Mi er, j Eloominsrton 13. 15. Shively. Marion; P.obert K. Proctor. Elkhart. This team No. 1 is to visit the following counties cn the following dates: Knox. Sept. 25, 2;"0 p. m. BaPorte. Sept. 26, 2:00 p. m. Valparaiso. S-pt. 27, 2:00 p. m. frown Point, Sept. 2. 2:0D p. ra. Tenm No. 3 consists cf John Chewning. Rock port: Homer Klliott. Spencer; John I. Heilly. Hammond: John W. Spencer. Jr.. llvansville. This team N'o. S is to visit the following counties! cn the following dates: Greenshurg, Sept. 25. 2:00 p. m. Versailles, Sept. 26. 2:"0 P- m. Bawrenceburg. Sept. 27. 2:00 p. m Brookville. Sept. 2., 2:00 j. m. Team No. 1 1 consists of Charles H. Remster, Indianapolis; Bonis II. Moore. Ft. Wayne; John B. Peterson. Crown Point; Judge J. M. Purvis. Tipton. This team No. 14 is to visit the following cities on the following dates: "jllooniington, Sept. 25. 1:'0 p. m. Bedford. Sept. 26. 3;00 p. m. T'aoli, Sept. 27. 2:00 p. m. Seymour. Sept. 2S, 2:00 p. m. jp'am No. 21 consists of F. A. Miller. South Fend; Taul Haines. Anderson: Joseph Convoy, llaramond; Omer Jackson, GreenfKld. This tam No. 21 is to visit the t'olowing counties on the -!iOw;ng dates: Anderson. Sept. 2 5. 7:"0 p. m. Muncie. Sept. 26. 2:00 p. m. Marion. Sept. 2 7. 8:00 p. m. Kokomo, Sept. 28. 7:30 p. m. Team No. consists of L. M. O'Bannon. Corydon: Judge James McCullough, Greenf.eld; Capt. IT. S. Norton. Gary; O. W. Stivers. Liberty. This team No. 23 is to visit the following cities on the following dates: Bogansport. Sept. 23. 2:00 p. m. Peru. Sept. 26. 3 p. m. Wabash. Sept. 27. 1 P- m. Rochester. Sept. 2?, 2 p. m. Hammond Ball Park, Sunday. , o'clock sharp. Pete Heiinincr Da v. Hammond vs. South Chicago. . a21-23

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German Propoganda Distributed From Quarters Operated in Indianapolis Berlin Appeal Is Answer to People Who Call War Unpopular. HERE, IN OUR MIDST WMle it is generally understood that tha organizations whlca were used, by Count von Berns":ortr to influence the congress, are known to the department of justice, their names are withheld. It can he said unequivocally, however, that at least one of the organizations used by Bernstorff had headquarters in Indianapolis, and that at times Indianapolis was used as a center for the sending out of German propaganda. The act of the government in not mating public this organization's name can only be construed as a desire not to chastise these organizations unduly, hut to permit them to see the eror cf their ways and to permit their members to become good American citizens instead of proGermans or German-American." WASHINGTON'. Sept. 22. Th message from Count von H"rnstorff to l!oriin on January 22. 1917. in which he a;iUca authority to spend SuO.fluf) to influence the congress, which was made public by the state department yesterday, is one of the most convincing I roofs of the f-ar-re.aching Carman plot a ,arried cn ir. the 1'nited States that lia.s cniRiav Spirited Meeting m Superior i Courthouse Last Evening Attended by Two Hundred Representative Men and Women of Hammond. Zealous with Americanism, two hundred representative mwomen of all labor, profe: church end civic societies of nearly in and ssional. 1 lani.r.T.l met at the Siirere-r cn: ;rt house a.n night and perifciea me . - im of Speakers 1h "American Alliance. PO.ir.ded home the stoat need of an "alliance of good Americans. Patriotic sentiment ran at high pilch throucrhout the meeting. Attuini v Bavid E. Boone, who with Sergeant William S. Welch mapped out the tie4 a lis ' f the organization, was unanimously chosen as president of the alliance; Jesse E. Wilson, vice president: Charles Pyer. secretary, and Charles Frb?drioh. treasurer. AflMV II F.Alt SPKAKS. Major Thomas F. Ryan, head of tlie Fort Wnvne recruiting district which i leads tlie entire nation in tile nuaihcr 'of volunteers End in which the city 'of Hammond ranks first, commended 'the people of Hammond for their patriotism, but deemed it absolctely necessary that an American Alliance be formed. He stamped the government's approval on the plan. Before beginning his address on the Alliance plan he stated: "Soldiers are just as much under civil law authoi ity as a civilian. If a soldier breaks a law he can be punished by civil author ities. Tins statement was made in ( 'ununuftl on p - He live.) FOUR CENT RUSE IN MILK And now the litle babies must be denied because of the high cost of living rourteen to t ighteen cents a quart 1

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Farmers' Protective association is about to make. For milk now selling at 52.12 per hundred pounds the farmers will demand J3.64 during October and within ninety days, ti or more, it is said. And then the retail price will go up accordingly. Mili is now selling at ten cents a quart and six cents a pint. The dealers say they are dictated to by the producers. Annual dance given by Plattdeutsche Glide, Columbia 41. Saturday, Sept. 22.' Chopin Hall. 9-20-3

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ever been given out officially by the government, and ia second in importance only to the Zimmerman note, which attempted to ally Japan and Me:cio for an invasion of the Vnited .States. llessago Proves Tacts. Its significance can best be emphasized by the. following facts, which the message proves: 1. That the German government through money payments to oiganizaj tions in the United States, had prevlI ously brought Influence to hear on the : American congress. ! 2. That an active organization, subsidized directly hy the German embassy, ' carried on this work. 3. That not only German-Americans, hut others were used to fester the plot. Even greater sicniricance is Riv-n the message when it is recalled that it w.as sent only a wek before the receipt in j this country of the German declaration; of unrestricted submarine warfare. ! which began on February 1. Secretary; ! of State Lansing is authority for the, ! statement that at the time of the send-! ; ing of the message. Count von Hern-j ; st or ft' knew of the intention of the Ger-j i man government to start unrestricted I ; submarine warfare. 1'urtherrnore, the 'note was dated only three days after the! : Zimmerman note to Mexico, which -was intercepted by this government. These things show beyond a shadow ,,f loitht that the German government j tried its best to keep the United Stater; , from ent' ring the war, ana ws.-ii v ""in Cernstori'C hoped, through the use of ey, to IliSi: to vote a: declar-.-d lat enee pacifist consress--air.st war. That war r. with only a few lis. ntmg o.ff;. shows that the plot did not succeed, and that the Iv rnstorlf message went for naught. United States Knew of Blossag-e. Indiea ion.; i' official circles teil.iv i Cont ! uied on rage five.) i FiEGISTRATlGt FOR CITY ELECTION Mayor Smalley Tells Audience the Lavr Regarding Voters' Rights. There .s no registn-.tion of Uher men -r women prior to the city ejection, Nov. ("., Mayor Smalley told an ;: U'l.eiK'e at the Irving school last tvu-itifc-. ilutnmoicl is a city of th; third ; and only in cities of tht; first and second class are voters compelled to i itKisicr lor tno city tlections tnis i in, , The men who are entitled to vote t.ttd j the women, if tl.ey are not prohibited i from rutin by y,e supreme court of the siate. will go to the polls without to.;is;ering. About thirty women and sixty men were in attendance at the democratic j First ward me.: ting at the Irving school. Howard G sclmeidler presided. Mayor Smalley, Judges Barneit and City Treasurer lauelke made speeches. A woman's club was organized. IHSULLS MAY SOON ABSORB G. & I FilianCial CirCleS AliVO With ' Rumors of New Deal in Interurban Circles. That the Insull traction syndicate of Chicago as hinted last May in these columns, had its eye on the Gary & lute rut ban traction system has been dei reloi inr for sometime and it is believed by A. Murray Turner, the Ilsmniotit! financier, that the Instills wii! i shortly announce plans showing that they control the G. it I. system, j As pointed out in Tub Time?, the In- ' :-u'.l interests in this county, the Green , lines and the Gary & Interurban. have Joint trackage and pole rights oa Chicago avenue and by absorption of the ione by tin; other the abolishing of transj fers would be a great thing for the Calumet region. When the oonCholdt rs, who by the way, are relatives or the great Bd,:ur Alien Poe, bought in at receiver's sale in Crown Point this week, it was freelv mmented upon that the Insull inter- ! Bake county legal representatives j present at the sale, though the I took no active part in the puocecdin.-rs. ! It is known for several days that an ! engineering corps have been going over: i the traction properties In the Calumet FOR LAFOLLETTE tlly I nlted Prfs.) ST. PAl'U Minn., Sept. 22. A warrant for the arrest of Senator Bafollette will be asked by the Minnesota a Public Safety Commission if investigation reveals that his speech here was treasonable, Governor Burnquist declared today. Should Lafollette refuse to return here for trial, evidence will be laid before the United Stales senate and his dismissal from that body sought.

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8 John Lynch Draws Razor Had Borrowed to Shave Himself, and When Lawyer Declines to Defend Kim, Cuts Throat. (crecial to The Time?.) CROWN c,..i'ity sa bars w!o-i al-as Mel' e. ll at t lie N..t cnl; ' y r. t ha the 1 t I.r;,r!lfr a ;-aid he d The sui, versa! i..n INT. 1 . t. Ilke ! p ' nip h1 i J.-hn I.yn .' 1. cut !. j "i e re ye tolifds of ddh, alias Bane, j threat in h is "rday ev r.ing. ' 1 the ov.in'y iil: t ' ' pros com r ave money Bvneli, but .limmv a Imitted U t Cedar Bnlse. alt'o d it In self-def. nse ole w.t: pt'crded bj wit'v Att-irhey J. A gh h a con-j Mer'de I of Fast Chicniro. Mead served ru-ti. e rn I.ym-h t!: had just ! he w.eili i not .)rt as 111? 1 a w y e r , a nd w a s s t a r. 1 - tig ou tso'.e t!i he bars atl cell. Bym h approach? said: "I want you to icar yt'aess that I never kllh d iy o: lo t Jimmy M:n in slf-defene. f the charge they Leather. I shot V. I nm innocent of railroaded me to tiie penitentiary kill the policeon an d I d.d no nun. It seems to have been n sort of an ante-mortem stat e a.ent, for Lynch drew a razor h had borrowed from the jail ofiieials to sh.ixe himself and drew the blade across his throat. He do-.l beforo Attorney Meade could cpt aid. I GARY M BUT flF i 225 ft MISSING Fail to Show Up for Draft Examination U. S. Now on Their Trail. i First division exemption board of ths (city of Gary is making a list of sixtyI three men. who failed to report for the last draft examination call. A total of , 225 men were ordered up last week and i ! sixty-three are missing. J Those who fail to put in appearance ! within a short tim- "ill be summarily; ! ordered up for military service and will i have no chance to got exemption. Secret ! service officials and the police will ' search for the slackers. Death is the penalty . for remaining away from military duty after one is ordered into military service. Board No. 1 ha. moved from the i Rejnolds building to the second floor of the posioffiee. All Show Up. Board No. 1 had two more men than) was needed to go to Louisville yester-1 day. Eoxing Thursday. Young B-ennv of New Oilcans and Tom Sheehan of Chicago Heights are to fight ten rounds soenewhere in thU vicinity Thursday evening. Mace Roberts and Young Army will box eight rounds. The place of the light is not announced.

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v.' . v (I nlfed Ir-i fablptrara.) ITTlilK.mi), Sent. 22. Removal of ieiierul Korniloti in the municipal prifoti ra.H decided upon today. (I rifed Prcs sMetrram.) PIlTllliriliAI), Sept. 22. Teiitonio tronp.H have asain started an (Tensive In the ISica reKior? Isclore ihifh Itusti:m troop lmve li.cn forced Itafk, to!a" report dcclsircd. (I'nifed l'r.- Cablecrani. STO( IvHOI.1I. Sept. 22. Tlte Ancrican cm'i:ijy sit I'etrogrrad n under Kti.ard of ;i Isirge detach ittrnt of Himir.ii Moltiiers last h rrk, arid for the past two d.yx tlie American locution here has been unable to communicate with Ambassador Krnnrl". lo npiire Iienlcn i felt here. 'there have Item fro nrrM'al at toeUtioIm from ltnIa for several days. Ordinarily iliU port in lil'eil itti traielern to and from Petrograd. I"nited Press Cnblecrain.) l.nil, Sept. 22. Ship constituting tlie Helginn roast patrol bombpil enemy n:ial works wltli R.-itisfaetory Tf-sjilfs, r.n admiralty Ktatement announced today. Three enemy aeroplanes were downed. (i nitofl l'rps (nblocrnm.) V iHI.IO, Sept. 2-2. Hulcnri.i j ; inns I" nt r sh iiiiiik Mir i i 1 iirlnn in:nl.tr hero today. Retyrnins; j -from ;i Mimmor nriation "somow here in Ampiira," ho di'Inro! I ixnl leeri ij na M t t it ro m is. it 11 i v i ( o f ii I ;i II y v 1 1 U UIh Rftvprnuipnt, hut knoua "there In an earnest ilesire for peace" nmoni all the Ontrnl Power. inr f Am. n. riRovT.i WASH IGTO. Sept. i'2. Germany's, and Austria's acceptance of the Pope's peace proffer failed to nwerre the I nlted Mates -government today in its announced determination to make no peace while Kaiserism lasts. Authorities declare the preparations NEW FIRE IN GIANT COAL PILE i (Ey United Press.) IDIANAl-uBIS. l.M)., Sept. 22. Fire that has been burning for ten days in the giant coal pile of tlie Big Four nt Beach Grove has spread to s second pile and two hundred men are working to prevent spreading of the (lames. Two steam shovels are working and two trains are hauling away coal.. The blaze started from spontaneous combustion in a coal pile half a mile long, twenty-two feet high and a hundred and fifty feet wide. CAPITAL GETS CHANCE TO RUBBER (By United Press.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. Three powerful Italian aeroplanes today gave Washington its first sight of war flying. Three Italian aviators made the f.ight from the American base ftt Newport News, YirgTnia. to the capital in a little more than an hour and a half. VATICAN DENIES THIS STORY (Ey United Press Cablegram.) ROME. Sept. 22. "Tlie Holy Father neither inspired, advised or officially supports an international college of Catholics for peace," declared a formal statement issued to the Vnited Press. "The Pope counsels all peoples to true patriotism as a duty and a virtue." DRIVE CARS FROM DETROIT The Pohling-Haehr.el Auto Sales company last night sent another crew

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tne first time at St. Luke s church, i battle or: trie iris.i coast, bept. ,, acSeventh avenue and Xihode Inland i cording "o Dr. Henry Clarke, a veterstreet. Gary. Father Frank Gmibba. ! nary in the British service who arrivthe pastor, will say mass at 7:C0 a. rn., ed here today. He said the loss of life and hl;h mass will be at 10:00 a. m. j wa3 slight owing to the work of BritSt. Luke's is the new Roman Cath-j ish patrol boats. The submarines atolic parish for all English-speaking j tacked a convoy fleet of merchantmen. Catholics in Gary living rast of Broad- ' he declared . Destroyers were handiway. It is a division of Holy Angels j capped in their gun fire by fe.ar of hitparish, where Father Gnibba was the . ting the merchantmen. first assistant rector. I Survivors of the British merchantNext Sunday 'Bishop Alerding will j man La Negra arri'-ed here today said dedicate the church and parochial th-ir ship was submarined Sept. 3 with Echoolt I a loss of eight lives.

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Leaders In Congress Anxious to Probe Slush Fund, Action Prcba&le Soon, (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Definit' evidence that former Ambassador Von Bernstorff paid out largre sums of money to certain publications is in the hands of Senator Kinfr. Utah. King: told the senate today he had photographic copies of checks and receipts for money paid by Von Hernstorff to the Fair-Play Publishing Company and Marcus Hraun. its editor, anions others. Kins said the srnate may take whatever action it believes n'ecessary in the case. Among; his photofe-ra phic copies he said is a Cerman embassy check for $2,ili10 drawn on a Washington ban!;, payable to the Fair-Play Publishing company and shown to have been paid by the bank. Anothej is a receipt fur $1.31)0 showing that Marcus Braun. pacifist, had received that sum from the embassy. Still another is a letter dated April 20. 1915, acknowledging receipt of 11,000. (By VvtaH Press.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. Congressional investigation of former Ambassador Von Bernstorff's organised anti-war propaganda depends cn Tresit i dent Wilson. Beaders in both tha I house and senate are eager to probe &3 the result of the state department expose, the German slush fund to infkie.ice congress for reace. But neither branch desires talio action that will hamper the state or justice departments in running plotters to earth. This view coupled with the - at xpenditures and the desre for early adjournment may prevent it. Bansing believes Vou Bernstorff wai duped by sharpers who vfere Paid enormous sums of money which they J pocketed Copies of form telegrams and letters from the American Embargo Association and other organizations that opposed the war were sent as evidence. .Still another receipt for $1,000, dated April 9. 1S15. was signed by J. 1". f Bryan, also of the Fair riay Publish ing Co. King said he also has copies of papers sleowing- payments from the Austrian embassy to foreign language newspapers. Among these is a STt'O subsidy paid a Polish paper. King's data is known to be absolutelv aatbentic and shows the Bernstorff webb of influence. The Fair Play magazine 'may be one of the guiding hands of the organization mentioned by Von Bernstorff. The sum paid out to it by the embassy shows that it was a constant drain on the Teutonic funds. ' Marcus Braun is .known to state department official. He is regarded as a leader of some political influence among Hungarians in New York and is a Hungarian himself. The King expose tday coupled with the slat" department's revelations stirred congress to new demands for searching ivrirjuiry into the use of the disloyal 'press in spreading German .propaganda. King's data shows that Yon Bernstorff was operating carl in th Xv-ar and that, the payments cited were almost two years previous to those In 1316. STRIKE HALTS CIO WORK Ties I'p Construction of Consignment Intended for France. A strike of 400 riveters and assistants at the Western Steel Car and Foundry company plant in Hegewisch yesterday tied up the factory and interrupted the construction of 1,600 steel flat cars that have been ordered, it is said by the United States government, for use in France. The presence of federal agents at Hege wisch in the morning: gave substance to reports that officers of the i company had appealed to the govern- : mcnt for help in composing the difficulty ) with its men. The strikers have been doing piecework at wages running as i high as $S a day. They demand a flat j daily wage of $10.20. It is feared that j 400 riveters and assistants, who still remain at work will also strike unless an adjustment Is quickly made. Work on the huge order began ten days ago. The cars are to be delivered in six months. NEW STORY OF NAVAL BATTLE (By United Press.) AN' ATLANTIC PORT. Sept. 22. Five merchantmen of different nationalities, two British destroyer? and two German submarines were sunk in a