Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 106, Hammond, Lake County, 23 October 1917 — Page 1

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"edTtioN VOL. XII., xo. ion T7 7 Li Li 5) URGED By TREASURY You Only Haw Five Days to Buy This Good Thing Gst Busy! - (Special to Tb Times.) WASHINGTON". Oct. 23. For the final spurt In the $5,000,000,000 campaipn th9 treasury department today urged alt patriotic Amerl ar.s to buy Liberty- bonds for Xmas presents. And to buy them now for only five days remain. Do your Christmas shopping early by buying bonds," Is the latest official slogan. In the few remaining days the country must raise $2,750,000,000 more to make the second Liberty loan a success. . Secretarv McAdoo, Samuel Compers and other" big officials today heartily endorsed the Liberty bond for Xmas presents movement. Members of the national society for the prevention of useless giving are enthusiastically supporting the new moveFinancial experts explained today that it is perfectly feasible lor persons to buy a bond as a fclft. If it is registered it should be in the receiver's nume. The coupon bond can be delivered like so much cash. The "Black Watch" Kilties wilt be here Thursday. All out Thursday to pay homage to a (juad of warriors just back from going "over the top" in France, if you please. Through Attorney David E. Boone, president of th American Alliance. Col. Jamieson and his famous "Black "Watch ' Kilties and hia seven "pipers" will visit Hammond. Thursday, arriving at 9:30 in the morning and leaving about twelve hours la.ter. In that time the "Scots" will be the guests of the Chamber of Commerce and between demonstrations will carry on a snappy recruiting campaign. Here Zs The Program. a:S0 a. m. The Maponic Bugle and Drum corps to meet the Kilties at Jlonon station and escort them to the Chamber of Commerce. Concerts on street. 12. 00 m. Chamber of Commerce t play host at weekly luncheon to Kilties. 11:40 r. rn. Kilties band to escort fifteen cr more Hammond recruits to M'mon station where recruits will entrain for Indianapolis. Confer;?:. 4:00 p. m Demonstration on HMiinun street in front cf Cer.'ral hish school. All school children to be present. Persre.nn' I- J- DeVilliers n ho was taken pr is.-ner by U" British in the Boer war and Is now fiehtintr with the British, will feature with fancy rore and vrdinsj exhibitions besides band concerts. Addresses will be made. Public urgJ to attend. T:50 p. in. Bifr street parade. Prominent orators to address people at corners c liberty I.oan while Kilties carrj on recruit irtnf campaign. Patriotic tnusio by bands, including the Kilties' bag-pipers. The evenit. g deninnft rat ion will be one especl.'jy 1'cr all the people. 10:00 I', m. Kilties entrain for Chicacajro. Big CrowA Expected. This inornirtir at the Chamber of Commerce plans were formulated by a committee for Thursday nlRht's demon's ration. Speakers will be Ft-cured to y,ice the call cf the president in 5.1 hscribin k for tho second liberty loan. ;Jr eeacs on patriotism and subjects vital to the interests of America will be made. Addresses will be made at intervals at down-town corners. Arrangements are beimsr made to secure enough speakers to handle the bi crowd expected. On Country Tour. The Kilties are makir.jr an extended tour of the I n-ted Suites. They wear the regulation kilt and have. been heralded throughout the country. They com-' Oirei-t from Chicago when th-y havfc been aidinp in recruiting for the past few weeks.

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0 LTQ U As the nears its second Liberty Bond Loan close and with only four more days to raise the allotment of ; $3,650,000. Lake county workers are putting all the ginger and effort available la the final drive. According to reports from all over the county, everything looks verj' encooiraging. Yesterday one-half of the loan had oeen suoscrioed. with numerous commlttees to report. At noon today Chairman H. G. Hay was unable to give the standings of the various cities as some of the chairmen were late in reporting and he was unable to compile the figures. In Gary last evening all the commtitees gathered In an enthusiastic meeting at the Commercial club and plans for the closing drive were made. S' WIFE SELLS LIBERTY LOAN BONDS Excellent reports were turned in yest?rday by Mrs. R. O. Johnson, wife of'

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the mayor, who is chairman of the Gary CONCEIVED NOTIONS OF HOW IT OUGHT TO BE RUN, NO BROAC ladies' committee. In the drive for gath- VISIONS OF THE CITY'S FUTURE. crinir Garv's s.cond allotment of i ib-1 Wno knows how Brown or Bielefelt or Klotz stanc cn AMALGAMA cring Garjs second allotment of Lib j -j-0N, TRACK ELEVATION, THE DEEP SEWER or ;ny of the big prcb tri) bonds. lems that yet remain to be solved for the city cf Hammond? Vho knows Since the committee started work late ; whether Brown's chief of police will 6tand for a wide open town, with a red last week they have sold In the neigh-(light district such as Hammond had in the administration cf Patrick Reilly, borhood of XT 5H0 to date Of thislcr whether he will favor a clean, decent, self-respecting community such

amount $5,000 In bonds was purchased by Wilbur Wyant. All on the Gary ladies' committee have been working most faithfully and are spending all t"uMr spar moments looking for sales. HAMMOND HIGH TIKES 58.QQQ LIBERTY LOAN Football Is a secondary interest at the Hammond Industrial hlh school this year. The m.ain thing: at present Is the Liberty loan. Kighty-seven students have subscribed for ?j0 bond:; and the student body has taken a $5"0 bond while on the last issue the faculty of thirty-four teachers have subscribed individually $2. COO. Principal McElroy is holding $700 worth of JoO bonds for first payments r.ri'l there are not counted in the total. As soon f,s the first payments are made the bonds will he added. The student body and faculty is taking in round figures eight thousand dollars worth of bonds. THIS SOCIETY BUYS S1.000 BONO The Creation renevo!ent Society, r.an Pctar ZrirysUI No. fiC, C. L. of I., at Indiana. Harbor, has bought a Liberty bond for $1,000, and credit for this patriotic Step i given to Andrew Klo. bucar, president, and Peter Haralovic'.i. treasurer of the society, as they made some warm speeches for the same. These two gentlemen and patriots v-'ould l rflad to call attention of the rest of the ('roation societies' in northi em Indiana to this solemn duty in our country s nerd. REGION CQVEBED WITH SNOW LAYER TODAY It began to pnow in the Calumet rejion laM night about the time folks were, going to bed. flurries kcep.ng up. and iih-n daylight came the town was cov j ered with a blanket of snow. The fall j was just of a thiCKiiess to keep things ! . . 1.1... 1 ... 1 ... il. . Mnnth tKe.A - i a ! WlllLV. Tallin 111 Llic llivuvii n.i... naj a slight fall of snow. 1 The fore part of the morning did not J bring sunshine and the snow and Ice re- : mnined on the ground. Promises of the ' we-,th!r man are that it' will be colder1 tonight. ! HOLDS TWO MEETINGS. The Democratic party holds two I meetings tonight, at 317 Thornton i avenue and at Riverside- school.

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A Peek Through the Periscope Ai the Hammond Political Situation

NUMBER 1. A POLITICAL REVOLUTION WITHOU.T A KERENSKI. The history of the Citizens' ticket In Hammond is well known. There Is no question that at one time there was a well defined demand for a strong opposition party, a demand which manifested itself in the large attendance

at the general and ward meetings which took place previous to the nomin

ating convention. But a gradual change in the personnel of the leaders of the Citizens' party soon became apparent. The party became the place of refuge for all manner of political outcasts and mal contents. The more substantial citizens either withdrew from the movement or became less conspicuous in it. THE PEOPLE WITH AXES TO GRIND TOOK POSSESSION OF THE

PARTY. There was the element that

issue in Hammond for years; then there-, was the insurgency in the democratic party represented by Patrick Reilly and W. B. Mulr; there were the Insurgents from the republican party represented by Dr. Wm. A. Buchanan, Milo Bruce, Elmer Brandenburg and others. Nearly everybody in the part;, had some one he was going to get even with, some visionary plan to pro pose, some axe to grind. Out of this conglomerate crowd there came a babel of tongues, confusion as to platform and policy, uncertainty as to leadership, as Is shown by the resignation of Willis R. Ford, the chairman of the party organization, and the threatened collapse of the party, the weakened party that afterwards labored and brought forth the ticket headed by Dan Brown. IN SHORT, THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION WHICH ELIMINATED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FROM THE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN DEVEL OPED ALL OF THE DISCORDANT ELEMENTS THAT ARE NOW CREAi ING CHAOS IN RUSSIA, EXCEPTING THAT THE CITIZENS' PARTY IN HAMMOND LACKS THE WISE, SAFE AND .CAPABLE LEADERSHIP OF A KERENSKI. This brings us to a very Important consideration. DO YOU DISCRIM IN ATE BETWEEN A MAYOR AND HIS ADMINISTRATION? The mayor is one thing, his administration, quite another. THE MAYOR he is a per sonality, nothing more or less. HIS ADMINISTRATION the mayor's ap pointees. the co-officials who are elected with him, the city council and lasand most Important of all. THE MAYOR'S ADVISERS. YOU VOTERS ARE GOING TO SELECT A MAYOR. BUT YOU DO NOT aiwavr HAVF ENOUGH TO SAY ABOUT HIS ADMINISTRATION. SC

IN SELECTING A MAYOR. WHO IS GOING TO CONDUCT THE AFFAIRS OF OUR CITY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. YOU OWE IT TO YOUR

SELVES TO LOOK BEHIND THE SCEINtS Ainu i-fcnrN wnw nia VISERS ARE TO BE. WHO ARE DAN BROWN'S ADVISERS? Who is the power behind Vn. throne? In the event of Brown's election Is that crowd cf political axe grinders who are running hia campaign going to demand as the price of their support, such positions of responsibility a are at tha mayor's disposal Brown can't turn them down.. . THEREIN LIES THE DANGER. Hammond is a great bigbusine8S or ganization. Its water works represents a' million dollar investment, ttt parks and other public property are worth hundreds of thousands. Its annua' budget is $25,CC0.CO. YOU MIGHT AS WELL LET A CHILD PLAY WiTF

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GOING TO BE THE BIG BOSS OF THE BROWN ADMINISTRATION? VHO IS ADVISING THE SMALLEY ADMINISTRATION? WE KNEW YOU WOULD ASK THAT. AND IT'S A PERFECTLY PROPER QUESTION. PRACTICALLY EVEP.Y BIG PROBLEM OF POLICY AFFECTING THE CITY AT LARGE HAS BEEN PUT UP TO THE CHAMBER OF COM-

jMERCE BY MAYOR SMALLEY. Th.it body has been the referendum committee of the Smalley administration. Matters affecting the interests of a j purely local community have been Teferred to neighborhood improvement i associations. Scores of citizens have been notified by trail to appear at the

city hall and advise the mayor and board of public worts as to their wishes in matters of public improvement. MAYOR SMALLEY'S ADVISERS HAVE BEEN THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE COMMUNITY. BOTH IN THE DOWNTOWN AND OUTLAYING DISTRICTS. THE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION HAS FREQUENTLY BEEN CALLED INTO CONSULTATION IN MATTERS; AFFECTING '-HE CITY'S INTERESTS. RESPONSIBILITY vs. IRRESPONSIBILITY. That is the big issue in this campaign. (Look for article No. 2 in tomorrow night's psper.)

AUSTRIAN IS UNDER BREST Jsm.s Ivivvrin. 413 Vernon avenue.; r( rhirstr.i. nn Austrian, w" tl aU'l l,v his foieman at ih lftil-bard Foundries company plan. t- su.cr: o for a Liberty Bond, entered upon a t.ride against the government and against the L'berty Ixaii movement. He is alleged to have said: "To h 1 with the Lbierty Loan and the L'nl'.ed States. I am not going to S'vc theni money to fight my people with." The foreman reported the matter t.. the superintendent and they called the man In and discharged him. He was then picked up by Sergeant Sjiom n of the Ktst Chicago police. From the wall as the sergeant wen I in he took a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm and I-:m-peior Franz Joseph standing hand In hand. tTnder the picture was tho motto: "We are holding true and fast together." printed in , German. Lovrir. is a socialist and an alien. He is being held for investigation on the part of .federal authorities. WRKHK 11 4 "KTrtlD m XT Tiff Off T3 TCT I W OK 1 11 W IjO i XjKJN , (Special to Tho Times.) j CHICAGO. Oct. 23. The engineer I 8,)d nreman were killed today when the

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oago and Xorthwestern laitroaa was derailed at Northfield, 40 miles north of here. The accident occurred wlin t're pilot of the engine struck some loose plank-j ing at a crossing. The enrr'ne. t wo baggage cars, the mail car. the .smoker and a day coach left the track. Northwestern officials said the engineer was named Kameron and lived in Milwaukee. The fireman's name is j Wright ami lives in Chicago.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBKR 2:5, has been trying to raise the religious OF MEN, WHO HAVE NO PRE Smalley's admin strat.ion ? WHO IS GAPT. HELTON GETS JIHKJH FRANCE A letter datf-r October 7 and warded from ".nn?ivl.ere in I"!iropv' i presumably from Trji.ico, vm rccchoi ily Mrs. A. P. Melton of Gr;. ("apt. Melton said that he had received a letter from Tic? Timej as wt I! as copies 1 of the newspapers. t'apt. Mel 'on. who formerly was city :ier of Oary, ! an eni er cftlcc r and was one c i to go abroad. the fl. st army mn LOSES CONTROL JIFAUT0M0B1LE Driver Then Dashes Into Crowd of School Children at Scharerville. (Special to The Times.) SOHERERVILLE. Oct. 23. In driving up a church hill here yesterday. Niehlas rVjffin l"i-t control of Ills antomobil" and ran :nto a crowd ten children, perioiily injuring onn and lcer:it ins. nnoihei. The clulcln-n saw the car coming ar d attempted to climb! trees to escape. The machine passed j over the body of the one child. ! Mr. Doffln was distressed over the! ! ,,n vir(!.h!. accident and is doing all can to remedy the mlshaD COLD WAVE IN THE WEST j (Special to The Times.) KANSAS CITY. Oct. 23. Kansas, Oklahoma and western Missouri today shivered in tho coldest weather of the year and resorted to wood and kerosene in an effort to solve the fuel problem until the coal shortage Is relieved.

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1017. WAKE UP, YOUR HOUSE IF AFIRE! Good Lord people, what's the matter? Why don't you come across? Do you realize that Hammond is flunking on the Liberty Loan? Ask your boy or girl whether or not it is any disgrace to flunk.' Do you know that Hammond has dropped down to fourth place among the Calumet region cities and that Whiting and East Chicago have passed it? What IS the matter anyway? Uncle Sam isn't asking you to GIVE him anything, he wants you to lend him and hell pay you four cents on every dollar you lend him. Great Scott is there anything fairer than that? Do you know that Uncle Sam has 225 billions of dollars back of that Liberty bond you are asked to buy? You don't have to plank down $50 or $100. You surely know that. You can pay $5 dbwn and $5 a month on a $50 bond and $10 down and $10 a month on a $100 bond. Must Hammond after all the rosts it has sent to the firing line be condemned and disgraced as a city of slackers? As sure as God made little apples that's what they'll call us unless we raise the $900,000. Don't those 67 dead U.' S. soldiers on the Antilles now at the bcttom of the icy sea mean anything to you? If the Violation of Your Flag Doesn't Arouse You, If 70 U. S. Boys Blasted to Death by a German Torpedo Doesn't, What Will? DOHD SALE Cmh66 j Hammond's score Monday evening: j Number of subscribers: 053. j Amount subscribed: $267,150. i The red blood of Hammond seems to have gone to the front. Tho yellow is Tic re. Hammond as yet is a city of financial slackers. Last niht the city wlihh Vis! put a thousand men in uniform, was in-: directly cheering the desperate llohonzollcrns with tho fact th.-:t it had not' yet subscribed one-third of its $.'00,-, 000 allotment. j To see the negative fetti'ude of scores ! of persons v.ith reference to tho liberty: bonis one might almost believe, that the y would rather see Germany win this war than their own country. Pome pco-j people seem not as yet to have grasp- ! ed the simple idea, that the word Liberty pond Is just another name for a I savincs method. j Hammond will be put to its supreme ! test tomorrow when the fifty business j men will sweep the city for investors. It will be interesting to bear just what some of the slackers will have to say for themselves: why they will be unable to save a few dollars for themselves during the next year. ! It , is up to the city as a vhole ! and to the. individuals to show some inlitlntivc In getting their name on a sub1 scrip! ion blank. True !U. have already done nobly, but 30.000 more are to be hear from. Tot accommodate these all the banks in the city will be open every evening until further notice. The names in the "Hurry Hurry" squad who will canvass the city tomorrow all day in districts assigned them by City Chairman "W. C. Pacinian are as follows: Samuel Ableman, Peter Austin. T. i:. Pell. Frank . F.-tz. Patrick Fradley. H-nry Hriden. Dan Hrown, E. X. Bunnell. J. T. Clark. Henry Con key. Peter Pilschneider, II. F. Downey. Adam Ebert.

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PARIS, Oct. 23. French troops achieved cne of t: most important victories of recent months early toda when they swept forward for nearly two miles over a front of two-thirds of a mile, capturing Allemant, Vaudesscn and Malmaison fort. Premier Panleve announced the drive "as a most important success." Three thousand German prisoners were taken in thr. drive, he stated, with twenty cannon. French have now reached the brickyard Chavigncn overoloking the Lo.cn plains.

'.A. J UUIW By I lilted Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Frenrh and Ilritlsh reinforcements nre nrrlvins daily r.t the Italian front from Home, I offleiul cnblfs Mated today. The troop ! movement is being made by trains ! from I'rnnee. Lnrge quantities of mu. ! nltlons and many artillery battalions i accompany the soldiers. I'nitrd Press Cablegram. I'ETnOGHAIJ. Oct. 23. Suddenly as. iiumins the ofTrnsivr, rtuslan troops on the Riga front Tcpt forwnid over enemy front line trenches in the sectors of Skull, Aithasor, Menor and l.emburt, castle, nil which places were occupied, today's oIAclnl statement asserted. The enemy evacuated IllnenterK after the enarnKcmcnt. On the Wcnler sector Russian forces repelled an enemy at. tempt to land forces si miles from Wtrdtr. United Press Cablepram. PAItIS, Oct. 23. French troops lie. Kan a his drive in the Aisne sector to. day with initial victory. "After sev. crnl days' bombardment we attacked 1 powerful enemy lines between Allc nmnt and Malmison," the war oftiee an. noiinrril, "and progressed sarlsfactur. iiy on the wide front.'' By Pnited Press. WASniAGTOY, Oct. 23. Bulgaria is frfchtened r.t the handwriting she sees on the wall and hence is conducting separate pcuce propaganda tlirouili her envoy here, nci-ordins to Greek Minister Georsrcs tod;iy. In nn inter. view with the I'nitrd Press he rx. pressed the opinion that Mclunrlti is already inakln.u: plans for eventuall. ties that will come with n crnsliii'f German defeat, lie openly churned that the Bulgarian em oy at Washington, nt the Instiui'-tioii cf his Bovernaicn (, is trying to influence peace opinion In the Pnited Str.trs so the Bulbar claims to have no communication "It'.i his Koirmmrnt. 'I'he Greek stated that the answer" to the Bulgarian peace tails will come in time, while coiifldrn. tlnl advices li.dlcate that the allies arm around Salonika .will probably he : ready for n 11 ow nKnlnt the 11stro. U. S. BRINGS TSX SUIT AGAINST BHEHHAHS Government Accuses Firm of Not Paying Tax on Tons of Oleo. TEUrS BUEEAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. IXDIAXAPOLIS. IX P.. Oct. 23. The United States has tiled suit in the Federal court here against Jerry L. and Matilda Urcnnan. of Hammond, doing ! business as the Hrennsn Tea and Coffee j store, for about $15,000. The complaint charges that the I'rennans. whose store is at .072 uth iloliman street, sol,; oleomargarine in the' years from 1905 to 1010 on which the government tax of $1,050 was not psiid. j and that in the same years they manu-jjj faetured 90,567 pounds of colored oleomargarine on which they failed to pay the government special tax of 10 cents a pound. The complaint asks for Judgment for the entire sum. John E. Fitzgerald. Henry Gabk r. Geo. Cover. Frank Hammond. George Hannauer. Win. Hastings. Archibald Hessler. Chas. ! Hicks. A. Hirsch. H. M. Johnson. Max Kline, Leonard Knoerzer. Chas. F. Lavene, Henry Loverege. Ttiohard McHie, Peter V. Meyn, Henry Millies, E. C. Minas, F. XI. Mott, John Muller. J. J. O'CaUhan. Mr. Olson. Dr. Ostrowski. Otto Rabe. Andrew Sorocrynski. Dr. IT. E. Sharrer. G-'O. P.. Sheerer. R. ". Slater, Jno. Smalley. i Wm. Thomas. Frank Waller. "W; D. Webb. E. M. Wilcox.Wm. Williams, Henry Whitaker, Jessie 'NVilson, Lee Wolf.

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u & si s a WASWERfFA I RTR A I N TCOOI FP fw si r-rr3a a t i.t.i-' C e fl re db y TIM 3 car rie r T 30T r r month; on streets and at newsstand, ic per copy; tack numbers So per copy. . 3 jmiSk ! Ml" W'HHJiB' j (.eniii. j.iiiilai ian trocps sviuc time I ; April. Pnited Press Cablegram. rKTROGRAU, Oct. 23. Two dread. nniiKhts, one cruii-cr, twelve torpedo boats, a transport and numerous mine sweepers put out cf action or lost is ti:e toll Gerntr.ny lias been forced to pay fcr the occupation of Oesel and Duko islands with the adjacent bit of coast ;;t Hrrdrr, according to a review of Russian naval cperatious made pub. lie today. By HErtBY WOOD (United Press S.aC Correspondent.) WITE THE I2ESCH AEillES ' IN THE PIEI.O, Oct. 23The iafayett. escadrUle of American flyers today participating in an attack on the Aisne delivered in grreat force by th Trench. (This is the firt intimation received teie of what appears to be a general attack by the Trench alon the Aisne front.) (By United Press Cablegram.) XOITUOII, Oct. 23. German troops j made a successful counter "blow against cne new British, post ia the southern portion of Hontaculst rrood, forciEg1 the British to fall back . short distance, Field Marshal Hai; reported today. Tho German assault came early last niyht, the British commander reported. This countor blow is the first the enemy has made in tl?e last two British drives. (3y United Press Cablegram.) IOS30K, Oct. 23 jinotksr combined general effenave blow by British, and Trench troops beyond v.hat used to ba the Ypres rector was forecast in descriptive dispatches from the Britis'i front today. Yesterday's "local attacks" by the allies were held to be the Erst of two preliminary step- to sr.cn a concerted drive, designed to widen the edge of tha wedgre which Kaig had steadily been pusliiEg1 through 1.e Oermaa lines since July 31. TWO-CENT FAKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL I Ily I nitril Press. "iXntAXAIVLJ?. J:io, Oct. 22. The Indiana two-cent, fare lav." was dor'ared i;r.onst it v.. i ar.,1 confiscato: y iy J-idire And-!. 'i in Ftdcra! court today inasmuch as it applied to the i: jiijivillc and 1 mi ... napol is rail,o.oi. The J.trlgc; oviteicd an order which may have a fa r-i eaching' effect on passenger rats in the state, allowing "Williom Kapfs. receiver ff-r t'ne road, tc fix rates which will prevent the line from op-rn t inir at a loss. COSTS 34 LIVES. (I nlted Press .ibVsrnm.) LOXnOX. O-L 23. Last Friday's Tleppciin raid over poutba,st and east Priti;?h counties, including tho London area, cost the lives of 3 1 persons and injured 5fi in all. according to a forma! statement issued late today. Petition Dismissed. (By I nlted Press.) IXDIAXApoLIS, Oct. 23. The pubservice commission today distressed the petition of the Indiana gas Companies to reduce heating units In gas from 600 to 550 without lowering the. price to the consumer. WOMEN TO HOLD BIG MASS MEETING Flans for a erenera! mass meeting of all Hammond women voter" at Jefferson cP.tb rooms Wednesday. Octobe" 31, were made last night at a conference of the Ninth Ward Srr alley club at the home of Mrs. D. V. Knrlght, 220 Detroit street. The meeting last night was addressed by City Judge Fred Rarnett and Ninth Ward Democratic Councilmanic Candidate Frank Mirtin. A good number were in attendance. The next regular meeting is to be held next Tuesday nieht at the home of Judjre Fred Harnett, Kiiraheth street. If You Think THE TIMES Is Doing Its Bit Your Support Is Always Welcome.

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