Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 88, Hammond, Lake County, 2 October 1917 — Page 1

rWMEgTFAT R I R A I N fCCOLEfl) 5' Delivered Sy TIMES carriers, 30o p mosta; on streets and at newsstands, 2a per copy; tack numbers 3c per copy. VOL. XII., NO. 88. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.

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American Federation of Labor to Settle Strife Augmented, at State Feeeration Keel TIKES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, 1ND., Oct. 2. The politicians, office holders, lawyers and others who were ousted as delegates to the annual convention of the State Federation of Labor at Anderson last week have announced that they will take an apeal to the American Federation of Labor in an effort to gat themselves reinstated in the state body. lor several years there has been much strife in the state federation over the fact that a number of men who formerly worked at their trades had accepted po: it teal jobs and appointments, or had turned politicians and were attempting to use the labor organizations for rolitical purposes. There was also a complaint against the presence on the floor of the conventions of former labor men who had since become lawyers or Joined other professions. V resolution was introduced in a session at the Anderson conv,af hereafter no - vention r. ., aii ne enisii'ie : ,v, tate federation of labor , conventions unless he- Is actively eneased in working at the trade he rep resents as a delegate. It also barred out politicians and the like. The resolution was adopted and the crowd of labor politicians who have m8de it a point to capitalize heir influence in labor circles for political bene fit were ousted from the federal. These men now Insist that the action tnat me ; of the convention was illegal na mai. they M il asK me -- of Labor to unJo it. DEFENSE CMU Meets at Crown Point and Takes Up Many Important Matters. (Special to' The Times.) CROWN POINT. IND., Oct. 2. The October meeting of the Lake county council of defense was held in the court house on Monday afternoon. Capt. II. S. Norton,. Judge O. L. Wildermuth of Gary. K. W. Wickey, Kast Chicago; Jen'nie Ward Wheeler, J. B. Peterson and Stephen J. Craig of Crown Point. A bulletin was read from the state council of defense in regard to the conserving of timber and railroad ties which heretofore have been burned, the fallen tTmber in the different parts of the county could be utilized for fuel. A committee composed of Geo. Hannaucr of Hammond and C. H. Doorley of Gary and Edward Simon, auditor of Lake county, was appoimea iu iw after this matter. V bulletin relating to help clerical and otherwise for the local exemption boards in the different parts of the county was read and discussed. Capt. Norton was appointed to look after this vork for Gary. J. B. Peterson for Crown Point. L". W. Wickey for the north eid cities. Letters were read from L. 'r Breyfcle of the Lake County Agricultural Society and F. F. Heighway of the Lake county board of education, asking that the Lake county council of defense O. K. the expenses incurred by the county agent and for which appropriation was made by the county council at a recent meeting, but which the state board of accounts refuses to sanc- . , t-1,,. ,-ntv council of defense Urouy approved the work of the county agent and will get in touch with the state board or account letter or by a personal u. her of the defense board. ember ot tne ueic.. The county auditor w ill be asked to CE1, a meeting of the coun y cou ..... that an appropriation i - current year expenses ror ui, county-council of defense can be made The next meeting of this board will be held the first Monday in November. APPROVES CERTAIN SOCIALIST AIMS BV JOHN II. UK ABLY. ROMP Oct 2. Pope Benedict is apparently' seeking support of h Peace plans from the people of belligerent nations, since his appeal to the rulers has so far been ineffective. Direct aj. proval by the holy father of certain socialistic aims was attributed to him in two separate statements today. The greatest significance was attached to an editorial in the Osservatore Roumano, a newspaper frequently v..rriM as the Vatican official organ. and which it was benevea appiovea by the pope. The editorial declared the holy see was in "agreement witn the .iit of Italy and elsewnere insofar as they were seeking to safe guard democratic liberty ana protect constitutional rights by legal means."

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a T .oii .ill Loirnn street, a switch man, will leave soon for Bu-.isia wit fnitP.1 States engineer corps. where he will "do his bit" by build ing railroads. Meets Shocking Fate. George A. Yerk,' S3, of Pullman, a collector on the South Shore lines, was electrocuted late last night while uncoupling cars near the Hammond interurban depot. Soldiers See Picture. Thirty-six of the soldiers at Kast Chicago were guests at the Hammond DeLuxe theater of Dr. William E. Nichols at an exhibition of a patriotic moving rlcture and put their of approval on it. Stamp . Judge Erwin Weaker FT WAYNE. Ind.. Oct. 2 Judge j Richard K. Erwin. chief Justice of the Indiana supreme court, who has been ill here for several weeks with cancer of the liver, is in a critical condition and it Is thought he may die soon. Hunted in City. A-hunting they would go and they were arrested for It. Guy Ei.-k and Rock Rendite, Italians, East Hammond, were granted a continuance of trial until Friday morning in city court today for having fired shotguns within the city limits. Hammond Man Agent. TIMES' BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Oct. 2. The ... .. t . . : . v -.t Keitn Haiiway tquimmi 10..... v.. , '.,kri,.H tn do I business in Indiana and William Tan,.f Hammond has been accredited agent. New Democratic Club. Fifty men formed a temporary Demo" men s club in the First ward last night. Next Monday night a per- . 1 1 1 n.mnrpt i- organization in IIIO I J' 111. v -. - r j be completed at a mass meeting ai Irving school. I x lit? I d.J icb j i. 1.111 - t The ladies of the First ward will

meet -Wednesday afternoon at irins.up. getting our machine gun and am-

. , in tha interests of Mayor John D. Smalley and his ticket. Commissioners Meet. (Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT, Ind., Oct. 2 The county commissioners met for their regular monthly meeting on Monday, hirty liquor licenses were granted, all being renewals. The commissioners will spend the rest or tneir in regular routine business, such as allowing of bills, etc. Praise These Hosts. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Oct. 2. Hammond golfers defeated Michigan City 30 to 23. at Hammond. Saturday everi'ing the Michigan City players and their ladies were guests of the Hammond Country club at a dinner-dance. The Lake county people certainly are royal entertainers. All Records Broken. The month of September. 1917. has broken all records since Indiana Harbor East Chicago. Ind.. became a port of entry. The number of clearings of vessels were 43: receipts were 619.690 tons. Oil shipments amounted to 515.660 gallons, according to M. G. Sternberg, deputy collector and inspector. To LaPorte for Trial. LA PORTE. Ind.. Oct. 2. "Curie" Davis, who stole several suit cases during the LaPorte county fair, has been arrested in Hammond. Dav.s was with the Rice Carnival company and rold the suit cases the last day he was in LaPorte. His home is in Hammond and when he went there the authorities landed him. He will be brought to LaPorte for trial. Governor Is Convalescing. rnrtrich. who has been ill -ore n a . .. . ..- . dist hP'11 convalescence in for more than a -manth at the Metlio- : nnnn fiis - verv good shape." Dr. Bader S. Hunt, - r .. a-.o- nhvs c ansT anor tne ii"'ui" ' V, ,act niErht "After a restful j nounced last n.?ht. no eJeva. nignt ;, . toda... te phvs. i. " , -7, . nouri; cian said. "He takes noun.-n-n. well and is entering upon valescence In very Meyer Will Help Him. A few days ago a siorj in Tives told of a patriot who was anious to eerve his country, but was kept back because of a dependent mother. He asked some one to lend im $300. agreeing to pay obck 're' debt at the rate of $30 a month. The ..... no . tn he used to purchase a t,n.inr hnuse for his mother in or der that she might live properly while he was gone. Yesterday Attorney LeGrand T. Meyer agreed to "help out." "I can't go. but I want to help some one who is willing to go." the barrister said. The young man will leave Friday. The Red Cross the symbol of a cause wide as the world and high as Heaven-

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WRITES TIMES A letter from Private Joe Macguire of Hammond written from r dugout of the trenches on the fighting lront of France has been received by Rev. I '. J. Sharp. pastor of the First Chris tian church. It is dated September 6. Since, that date Private Maeguire sustained a serious wound from a shell , ...v.i.,1, striii-W Vila hand. . It Is now in an army hospital. The letter is the first written by a Hflmmnnil lr-.T' In th tr.nrhA Mao ; guire left Hammond before the declaration o war by the Lnited states and enlisted in a fccottish regiment in Canada nearly a jear tigo. He was the first Hammond boy in the trenches, the first to write home from the trenches and the first to be wounded in trench warfare. The letter follows: "Somewhere in France, Sept. 6. 1917. "Mr. C. J. Sharp, , Hanv.nond, Ind. "Dear Mr. Sharp As I have a fewmoments to spare. I thought I would drop a line to you and my friends of the First Christian cnurch. "My home fev the present is in a dugout formerly used by our enemy Fritz, and when he had it he was good enough to put some beds in and fix it up comfortably. There are ten of us in this one; five sleep on the beds and the other five on the floor. I prefer the floor on account of the insects which are a little too common. Since my arrival in Fiance I have slept in every kind of idace . . .. Imaginable and even Fritz's lonashells bursting all around our dugout do not keep me awake just as long as I can hear them sing over my head. 1 don't mind them. It is only when the shrapnel gets a little too personal that I duck. Fritz sure gave me a fine reception on ny first night in the trenches. He sent over a nice barrage of shrapnel and gas shells for over half fin IlA'ir Arirl T nm . s Unit - m. nan tig 'shaken as I ex TeCted to rS Out- rrr poral and four of us were 200 yard from nur riittmtif nt t v :,,- - viv nine uc upc uru 'munition from the timbers when shrannei siflrten n i- ' I a t u - ...... poral took the lead with the pun after we had put our gas masks on and when we arrived at the dugout said he was much surprised to see that we had not taken cover instead of 'following' him. Now I want to thank you all very much for the papers I received. I enjoy reading them so much and wish you would change my address In the Hammond Christian to the following: "Private John Maguire. 10450S9 No. 2 Co.. 15th Canadian Battalion. I!. E. F., France. "We still wear the Tartam kilts and I am proud to wear it because Fritz does not like it at all. "I received one of the testaments and keep it with Trie always now and j hruic ii us pari oi my equipment with which to fight our common enemy. I will close now. Hoping the censor does not cut any of this letter, I re:main, "As hsonv a vv PRIVATE JOHN MAGUIRE." LAKE CO. MEN ARE CALLED r Qr.i"i a 1 Turn Tt . c--CROW.V POINT, IND., Oct. 2. The following is a list of men ordered to report to the local board for military duty and for transportation to the mobilization camp at Camp Taylor. Louisville. Time to report at Oct. 4. 1917: 536 Harry Goodman. Miller. 1732 Ernest Jones. Shelby. 1563 Henry D. Meyer. Ueecher, 111. 616 James Ryan, Miller. 1676 Huron Ostnon Nichols. Lowell. 437 Wm. A. Papka. New Chicago. 10 Ernazeo Dugo, Griffith. 1045 Clement J. Beem, Crown Point. 16&3 Thos. J. Seramur, Lowell. 601 Anton Olson. Miiier. Alternates: Alva Searle. Schneider. Raymond J. Keilman. Dyer. Ralph Phillips. Crown Point. Lawrence Koyinskl. Jlerrill ville. Jake J. Itjel. Hobart. George Tabbert. Hobart. STEEL TO GET 8-piTTSP.i-nnH r.-t Although de precating the necessity of a strike to . . . . j .. T." 1 - AT i - ., of the American Fed- ; T.ration ))f jbor. in an address at the !.Uni.,n ubr Temple here. urged i.unjon steel.workers of the Pittsburgh to rfe,,,,,.!,! an eight-hour day. ith .im and one-half for all overtime. Several thousand workers of the steel industry, including many striking employes of the Jones & Laughlin Steel company, attended the meeting. SKULL IS FRACTURED. Jess Coner. Indiana Harbor, lies on a St. Margaret's hospital cot w'ith a fractured skull. He doesn't remember howhe was hurt or when. He'll get well, doctors say. He was brought to the hospital from the American Steel Foundries plant at Indiana Hrrbor yesterday afternoon.

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.Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (third from left, front row). Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (at her right) and Mrs. , Antoinette Funk (at her left). The woman's Liberty loan committee, whose membership is made up cf patriotic women from all over the country, met a few days ago in Washington, and laid plans for a big drive for subscriptions for the second Libertv loan. The photo was taken on the White House grounds, just after the committee had paid a visit to President Wilson. The leading workers on the committee are Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, wife of the secretary of the treasury; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the noted suffragist, and Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Illinois.

LIEUT. O'BRIEN Not Killed, French Govern ment Notifies Lowell Mother. (Special to Tkb Times.)

LOWELL, IND.. Oct. 2. Mrs. Maggie today. The Jlst hrlnRs the total vie. O'Brien, mother of First Lieut. Alva : tinis of the Germnn "baby killers" since O'Brien, who was officially reported j September 2-1 up to 51 killed und 249 In. missing by the British government I Jurcd. about a month agro has been located. J ..Irs. O'Brien has received official notice Vnlted Press Cnblearnni. Irom l.3 French government that he I.OVDOV, Oct. a. -Violent German has been locaud and that he is being ! counter attacks by great forces of pc. held as a prisoner by the German 1 dally picked troops against recently forces. H' is one of the best aviators gained British positions along the engaged in the present war, and was in j bloody Vpres sector were nil renulned service for the British government and j by British defenders. Field Mnrshnl was sent out for duty with other avia-jHnijs reported todny. No less than live tors and was captured by the Germans, j of these blows were struck by the en. Official notice was immediately sentiemy during the night between the to hi smother. Mrs. O'Brien is making f Ypres.Menin road and the northeast her home with her daughter. Mrs. Ben ! corner of Polygon Wood, the command. Worley, south of Lowell. The notice j cr In chief stated. The some driving of his beir.g found also contained the : determination In counter blows was re. congratulations of the French govern-j ported from Vonnebeke to the south of ment. The news came as a great wel-jthe Ypres. Routers railway. Ilalg de. come to her and relieved the great j dared the enemy had suffered heavy anxiety fhc has had since receiv ing ' losscji. From the German tactics of nl. notice of his being lost. One good j most feverishly Inspired counter at. feature of the report is that he is un- j tncks plus Ilalgs silence on his moves wounded. The many relatives of Lieut, j during the past few days, It was con. rrprl.n ore reioleinsr over the fact and ! .luntlr predicted here today that an.

will look forward with great the time they msy be reunited. Joy to FREE EVENING SCHOOLS DRAW GOOD ATTENDANCE Enrollment at the free public evening schools of Hammond has been exceedingly good and the jnterest mani fested by the older pupils is very pleasing to those in charge. The industrial chemistry class is directed by Mr. Thurston of the Centtal Chemical company. He Is a graduate of Cornell university and has had years of practical experience. Those Interested In chemistry are urged to enroll at once.

r 7 ' "' !, hBTe done much toward crippling The class in Spani-h is in charge of j TV" t,T,nw f Germany's V.boat Mr. Friedberg. a graduate of the J!ewj Then bncklnB of povr York Language school, who has spent; mM he mav'movc a Strang.

several years in Mexico. The home millinery class fs in charge of Miss Elinor Culver of Chicago. All women in the city are eligible for enrtrance Into this class and are urged to enroll early. FIND BABY DEAD: Geo.gia Kirker. vear-old daughter

-of Mr. and Mrs. James Kirker of Oilers. Decision of stevedores to Join the

Wilcox street. Hammond. was found "dead In bed this morning. The babe had died very suddenly of congestion of the lungs. The funeral Is to be -held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 from the residence with burial in Concordia cemetery. Members V mmond Lodge 570. L. O. O. M.. nre hereby urged to be present at the regular m. "ting Tuesday evening, Oct. 2nd. businpfs of importance. Immediately after y,etin8 there will be a banquet and siyoker and other amusements. Tour ryresence will be appre ciated. 10-1-1 (C. BECKER. Dictator.

FOR LIBERTY LOAN

Vnlted Press Cablearam. I.OXDOX, Oet. 2. Ten killed and 33 injured was the toll of dead and mnint. ed left behind by German nlr raiders In the sixth raid In eight days. Inst ! night, the official announcement stated other big British drive Is pending. By l nited Tress. WASIIIYGTOX. Oct. - The allies with America's aid are likely next yenr to take the offensive on the seas. This .i-luction Is drawn In espert quarters here todny ns the result of recent nl. lied military operations. vnn tun. land striking r.t the rail arteries lend. Ing to Germany's Ostend nnd Zeebrugge hn.es. such nn offensive It Is felt, could be used In telling fashion. Much will depend, however, on the success Eng. Innd meets In her Menln road opern. tions. It Is a question In military minds whether she will be able to cut the rail arteries before winter. Even then tiermnny eon feed the nest from which her sobmnrlnes emanate. But If England enn accomplish a fierce blow ut the communication lines she ling process nna lump om me nomc the ocean pests, though she mustJ ntlll maintain n mighty land force to back the sea operations. Vnlted Press Cnblecrnm. BVENOS AlHES, Oct. 2. Food prices already doubled by the general strike trebled today when the last line of communication between the city and the outside world was closed by strlk. ! strike tied up the entire port of Buenos Aires. All railroads are already stop. prl. The government still withheld a declaration of martial law throughout the nntlon. Such a step had been ad. ertised as likely to be made effective vesterday. No explanation was given of the delr.y. Great suffering has been caused nmone the poorer classes by scarcity of food, particularly milk. By Vnlted Press. WASHINGTON". Oct. 3. A eompro. mlse wage advance offered the bltum. Inous coal miners In the Joint confer, ence here today was rejected by the Vnlted Mine Workers. Efforts to reach a'satlsfactory adjustment will continue. Vnlted Press Cablegram. FA HIS, Oct. - French troops threw back with heavy losses to the enemy two strong German attacks nwouad Baumont, today's ofllclnl statement un. nerted. Artillery duels were reported rrted. Artillery duels were reported round Craonne and Muese. ... A. .. ih Vnlted Fred Cablegram. If t arou PETBOGHAD, Oct. 2. The B," islan 1L

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n 'ft:. it V i -? $ Jt t' ' T I V 'J -1 VI f: Ski a v . offensive In the Hlgn sector oannce mile ngainst the Teutons today,, the war office stated. "la the Riga region south of the railway from Kronehberg to Spttnli and In the Groundull sector our vanguards advanced a mile,' the statement declared. By lnited Pres. WASHINGTON', Oct. 2. The senate today paused a bill restoring to long, shoremen the right to workmen's com. pensation under state law. The bill In. troduced by Senator Johnson of Call, fornia remedied a defect In the judicial code which barred longshoremen from the benefits of the workmen's compen. satlon law. X'nlted Press Cablegram. PARIS, Oct. 2. In reprisal for recent German raids over Dunkirk French air men last night bombed Stuttgart, Treves. Coblena and Frankfort, an of. ficinl statement announced today. PARIS, Oct. 2. The German air raid on Dunkirk claimed "numerous civilian victims," according to an of ficial statement today and did serious damage to the city. The German attack was enforced. Treves, Coblenz and Frankfort all lie in the same general direction from France and are respectively about 65, 120 and 160 from where the French fiEhting- line is now. Treves is in Kheinish, Prussia; Coblenz is in 5 miles further inland and Frankfort still beyond in Prussia. All three are very old cities, rich tn architectural and historical interest. BE HE TIE . 11 W. GHKS CHICAGO. Oct. 2. The federal gov. ernment made public today the exact charge on which it hopes to convict 16C I. W. AV. members indicted here last week. These charges, according to the district attorney's office are: Prevention of plans to keep American armies in the field through interfering with equipment, transportation facilities and construction work at cantonments. Prevention of the manufacture of . . n c- iii ?in m i t i.TT, r i rl nthor TTi unit T.,nc Prevention of the harvesting of grain crops throughout the country. Attempts to stop enforcement of the conscription law. Agitation of strikes. Agitation for destruction , of government machinery and munition plants. Agitation to tie up food products. Using the mails to defraud. The mysterious black badge found in the possession of 'William Haywood, International secretary and treasurer, when the Chicago offices of the I. V. W. were raided early last month contained most of this information officials say. nder the charge of using the mails to defraud officials presented evidence to the grand jury tending to show that I. "W. W. members answered help wanted advertisements from farmers only to go to the farms and delay work or attempt destruction of crops. Vhen the new federal grand jury which will investigate alleged anti-war 'activities a court clerk made the charge that George Berger, one of the prospective jurors, had made seditious utterances. Berger was excused at his own request but aske da public hearing on the clerk's charge.

2 LIBERTY LOAN BILL nULLiiio

Lake County Ready to Msk Eig Showing; Cities Organize. Lake county is ready to put its shoulder to the wheel to make the sec ond liberty loan a. success. This loan is $3,117,000. an increase of fifty per cent and that means just that much more work and effort. The campaign has already been started in the county under the direction of the Liberty Loan county chairman. II. G. Hay. jr.. president of the Gary Stat-3 bank. Gary. In Hammond, dary and Crown roint chairmen have been name 1 and organizations to effect sales h.ive been accomplished; in other communities Chairman Hay is getting the work under way. - Await Quota. No news has reached the Lake county committee as to the share of the county. It may be on the basis of $30 for evtry man, woman and child; then again it may be on the basis of 8 per cent of each bank's resources. That's the way it was in June. Thus Gary's banking resources then were $8,000,000. The city was asked to raise $640.000 S per cent quota. It raised a million. In round numbers i3 basis will be f 1.000,000 if the 8 per cent formula is used or $1,650,000 if the population plan is worked out. Whether liberty loan bonds will be handled by the banks on the easy-payment plan i3 also to be determined. Chairmen Named. Gary, Hammond and Crown Point have already announced the heads or their bank sales committees. They are as follows: Gary S. J. Watson, president North- . . . , . em State isar.K. cnairman; j. v. Al bright, president International Trust and Savings bank, vice chairman. Crown Toint S. A. Love, vice president Commercial bank, chairman; John E. Friess. People's State bank. vice chairman. Hammond C. W. Bclman, First National bank, chairman. Literature Bsceived. Chairman Hay as well as some of thbranch chairmen have received a largo quantity of literature, posters, blanks, etc Arrangements will be made to place the government posters on placos where the signs "Fost No Bills" are seen. CAPITAL (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2. William CI. McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, today called'ipon a great crowd which filled Tomlinson hall "to give the boys who have given up their lives the means of defending themselves" in appealing for support of the second Liberty Loan. "We want to let the boys who are giving their lives know- that the line of communication 3.000 miles wide and imperiled by the deadly' submarine is -protected." he continued. "We want them to know that America will back them with the entire resources of this country; that, of need be we will surrender every dollar of property t.iat we have to the government. We must be willing to sacrifice all our money for them as we know that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for us." The secretary pointed out that tho government does not tsk a dollar except in return for a safe investment. "If one single loan offered to the American people should fail it . would be a mor fateful disaster than the loss of a (.'at battle," McAdoo asserted. "The thlf.g underneath every war and without which war cannot progress, without which national security cannot be achieved and without which the wheels of governmen stock, without which business and all affairs of American life cannot live is money." TO DISMISS GREAT LAKES SUIT (Br TJnited Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. The government entered a motion in the Supreme court today to dismiss its anti-trust suit against the Great Lakes Towing company. Action of the government indicates it is believed the intended course of the attorney general toward other combinations against which anti-trust suits have been started. It is understood that. trust busting will be delayed until after the war to prevent interference with efficient Industrial organization. The government plana Is to protect the public through price fixing. REPAIR CROSSING. Much needed repairs are being made at the Michigan Central crossing on South Broadway, Gary. A large force, of men are being employed today in hopes of rushing the work to completion. This will be good news to th hundreds of automobilists who have had ta contend with the bumpy crossing for months past.