Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 8 December 1917 — Page 1

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UN ON TO LEAVE Hammond's Honor Roljl is j Growing Under Greatest! and Final Drive Second j Son of Crown Point Mayor j Volunteers. Twenty young: men, sacrificing tnc profits and comforts of civil pursuits to fight for the rights of the V. S. A. and esid the reign of terror in Europe, unlisted this forenoon at the Hammond recruiting station and Increased the number to leave the first of next week to more than seventy. The eeeend son of Mayor Krost of Orown Point to offer his services, two mere members of the. Hammond footban club, and other well known young nen -were anions those applying for enlistment today. Robert W. Mcllie, son f R. H. Mclile. adds another star to j The Times service flag. He is the sec- t ond son in this family to volunteer. lie j soes to tho aviation service. , Jack Cum- : iniags cf The Times Adds still another j star to The Times flag. I . The football players who are going, Into the service are Hugo E. VoIUman, a tackle; Ted Blocker, full back of this; ear's town team. Others of the. team j ho have enlisted are Bernard Plum, ! tackle; George Kohl, end; Howard, full i r ack, and Paddy Driscoll, quarter back, j This make3 six of the squad of six-; te-n. Three members of the team of j 1316 are already In ervice. ! Time Grows Short. Sergeant William Welch has prepared to take care of hundreds of applicants within the next few days. After the 13th of December, a week from to(Continued cn pace five.) BQSTSJiT SSI Colored Boy Presents Himself in Hammond to Register For Draft. A. black skinned, smiling adventurer presented himself for registration for the draft today at the clerk's office in the Hammond Superior court. He gave his name as Ahmed Abdulla, his age tZ and his home, Bebara, North Africa. He has just returned to America after many thrilling experiences. Abdulla showed credentials that he shipped as an able seaman on two , boats which w ere torpedoed. The first j was the Adenwen, which w as sunk nine j miles from Liverpool. The darky swarn for twelve hours before h3 wes picked J up. He credits his ability as a swim-j mer to experience as a pearl diver in j his home in Africa. The Adenwen was : sunk In 1516, and this spring Abdulla the Glenmay ' nearly went down with in the Mediterranean. Abdulla was back of the lines in France for six montns and has seen active service. lie speaks five languages English, Indian, Arabian, Trench-and Italian, havinu picked them up in trips about tho world on every f irm of craft from a scow to a liner. ALLIES CONDEMN HIS PEACE PROPOSALS tgM"yi r V V ijord Lansdowne's suggestyon that the allies give up certain of their war aims and negotiate peai-e before Germany is thoroughly beaten has been universally condemned in England and j America. Lord Lansdowne has been Governor General of Canada and of India, and he was foreign secretary for five years. These and other past services to his country make his critics feel that his letter will have a deplorable ' Influence in America.

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RECRUITING STATION INCREASES

Declarations of War. 1914. July 8 Austria declared war oa Serrla. Aug. 1. Germany declared war oa Bnssia. Aug. 4 Germany declared vrar oa Trance, Belgium and Ore at Britain; Great Britain declared war ca Germany. Aug. 6 Austria declared war oa Sassla. Aug. 7 Montenegro declared war oa Austria. Aug. 9 Serrla declared war oa Germany. Aug. 10 Trance declared war oa Austria. Aug. 12 Montenegro declared war oa Germany; Great Britain declared war oa Austria. Aug. S3 Japan declared war oa Germany. Aug. 25 Austria declared war oa Japan. Oct. SO Russian declared war oa Turkey. Nov. 5 Great Britain declared war oa Turkey. Not. 13 Turkey declared war oa Great Britain. 1913 May S3 Italy declared war oa Austria. Aug. 21 Italy declared war oa Turkey. Oct. 15-19 Great Britain, Trance, Italy aad Sussla declared war oa Bulgaria. 1916 Karch 9 Germany declared war ob Portugal. Aug. 27 Italy declared war oa Germaay. Aug. 27 Kouaiania declared war oa Austria. 1917. April 6 United States declared .war oa Germany. April 8 Cuba declared war on Germany. April 9 Panama declared war oa Austria. July 22 Greece declared war oa Germaay; Siara declared war oa Germany. Aug. lli China declared war oa Germany. Oct. 26 Brazil declared war oa Germaay. y Sec. 7 United States declared war oa Austria. Thrift stamps and war stamp saving ! has begun. All thft banks report the ! arrival of the booklets containing tho . war savings stamps. It has been suggested that every fac-.j tory and corporation that has been in the habit of making a snail gift to their employes each Christinas, give booklets containing war savings stamps which will be worth $5 in 1323, and a thrift Btfcmp booklet with a 13 cent i thrift stamp in it. This, if done, will b with the Idea of promoting thrift among the employes. Concern which give a more valuable present may put more than i

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one war savings stamp in the booklet. j was torpedoed and sunk Dec. G at S p. It is understood that every large ; in., while, on patrol duty in foreign concern in the county as well as in the ! waters. Early reports indicated that state will bo asked to sell thrift stamps : thirty-seven survivors had be-en pickwhen the organization is complete. Cfi up so far. They were taken oft" life

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lias announcea mat every national Dante j been received up to ttns time. They are: and every Incorporated Mate bank or j Lieutenant John Richardr-, Ensign trust company Is appointed by him as ; Xelson Uates. Assistant Surgeon L. 1!. agent and may act as agent or cither Ahankiewicz. Charles Pierce, fireman, first or scond class or both and may first clans; Timothy Twomey, seaman: secure sta mps from the federal reserve j join, Johnson. Henry Stutzke. chief mabank in quantities arnced for. j chlnist mate; Howard Grady,, fireman

Pnys Cath for Stamps.

A first :lass agent Is a bank which ; Byron Flood, seaman, pays cash for stamps in amounts of j "The Jones was commanded by Lieu$1,000 or under which a second class j tenant Commander David Worth Bragbank has the privilege of paying for Its j ley, brother of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, bonds with Liberty bonds or other gov- ! secretary of the navy." ernment notes. ! This makes the second American war Operators of private banks, corpora- ' s-hip sunk by German torpedoes since tions, merchants p.nd seliool officials t the United States entered the war. The may secure tho stamps by applying to j indicated loss of life in this disaster tho national chairman ar Washington j i ? the largest of any American loss at

and receiv.ng a permit to act as agent. ; When plans are formulated it is the i Intension to have? the principal of each j school have stamps for sale and sell ! them to the pupils. SOUTH SHORE OFFICE ROBBED (Special to The Times.) MILLER. INIX. Dec. 8. The South Shore ticket office here was robbed last evening shortly after 6 o'clock when two bandits, believed to be from Gory, pointed a pistol at the heed of Mis.-. 1;. Haaii, the ticket npnt. Frty dollau was takn from the ofl'icj til!. Miss Pe Kr.n .Mod the Gary police of the tobbi:; . L.ery policeman in the Calumet region has been notified - of the robbery. 2,825 Join Army in Day; Indiana in First Place WASHINGTON, Dec. S. Regular army recruiting was again at flood tide yesterday, with 2.825. men accepted, making a total of 27?. 709 since the outbreak of tho war. Indiana jumped to first place for the day with 301 men enrolled. New York was second with 135 and Pennsylvania third with ISO. Build a room in your attic. Bestwall. Paxton Lumber Co. Us; 12-8

FUNERAL TOMORROW OF KENNETH CROSS

1 1 "W" Sri: - 'c . . '. ''- 'i 3 , -.,.,..- .'.V!.v. w . 1 4 i Sit 1 : f1 1 t Th the 1 young men of Hammond mourn ss of one of their mo.t popular j and admirable Iraders and will pay their lust respects to Kenneth Cross (tomorrow. The funeral is to lp lirhl from the First Jlcthodist church at 2 (o'clock Sunday afternoon to Oak Hill cemetery. As president of the Rooster cii'b and secretary of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Kenneth Cross wan prominent in the affairs of the young men of the city, and when scores of his frit-nds answered the country's call it was the great regret of his life that he was unable because of failing health to enlist. He died in the south of tuberculosis years of age. The i-jil bearers at the funeral lomorrow are Virgil Whitaker, R. K Amoss. Walter and Arthur Hess, Ioui: (Molt and Km!l Pauer. By United Presa.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The American destroyer Jacob Jones was torpedoed and sunk Thursday, Dec. 6 at 8 p. ru. while on patrol J ' J department announced today. Only 37 survivors have been picked up The indicated loss is given as 60 1 men, although some of these may have been saved. The official announcement made through the committee on public information said: "The American destroyer, Jacob Jones, rafts. The names of ten survivors have second clas; John Mulvaney, seaman; sou except the subme.rining of the army t ransport Antilles, whicli carried six-ty-sevon down, The small torpedo

sen i The small torpedo noat Alcedo was . torpedoed Nov. D with a loss of twenty- : op.'- of the crew. ! Two weeks later tl:e small destroyer Chauncey. sank following a collision.

twenty-one perishing. nc other, th Cassin. was damaged bj a German ton edn which cost two lies and wounded five The Jacob Jons was one of tho i class destroyers, in IMS by th' Con:p-iny an 1 w She was completed i iil.'injr in li. tj m f i -e only '.at Fehruar? . Soe was 310 feet long, had a draft of S 2-10 feet and displaced 1090 tons. Her speed was over thirty knots. She was one of the new types of oil burning destroyers and was propelled by 'turbin engines. Secretary Daniels was deeply moved at this disaster which hit his immediate family. Mrs. Daniels lo.t another brother in the Ameikan navy during the Spanish-American war. The enlisted men aboard the destroyer Included Albert L Everroad o! North Vernon. Ind., and R. J. Fisher o.f Connersville, Ind. Funeral of Mrs. Klein. Th" funeral' of Mrs. Reglna Klein, who died Thursday at the home of her brother. Samuel Urcawald, at 19 Doty street, jyill be held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence to Waldhcim cemetery by auto. It is requested tViat flowers be omitted.

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Direct Highway From Gary to Michigan City Gets Blow and Other Proposed Road Is Stopped When No Bids Are Offered. (Special to The Times.) CROWS roiNT. Ind., Pec. 8. "No new roads for Lake county next year" seems to be the slogan discovered by the board of county commissioners at their meeting here j esterday. The proposed direct highway from Gary to Michigan City received a blow yesterday afternoon when the Lake county commissioners at Crown Point did not get a single bid for tho Olander road in Miller. This road was to connect the e.Ktern .terminus of Gary (Fifth avenue extended) with the Porter county line, running due east from tho Miller town hall to the boundary. Porter county commissioners promised to build tho connecting link to Bailey town, thus shortening the run to Michigan City. Another road which received its temporary quietus because of the fact that no bids were received for it was the Herbert J. Cornish road in Winfleld township. Poth roads had been favorably viewed and recommended as well as advertised by Auditor Plrnon. Bidders declare, that the high cost of i materials and the discouraging of such i projects by the government is the reaI son they did not bid. The Lake county officials have olready received several letters from j bonding houses urging that road build-wy-tc tlgctmra8eT7- and especially In Lake county, where roads are plentiful. j The idea of this is to leave funds free to push the war as well as not to tie up railroads and building material. Wiliam Olander of th filler town board fears that the proposed additional highway to the lake front park at Miller may be held up until the war ends. Tho contract for the printing for Lake county was let by the commissioners to the AY. E. Burford company of Indianapolis. By HtHKT WOOD (United Presg Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN ITALT. Dec. 8. French troops are in action again today against ever Increasing masses of Austro-Germans who are plainly preparing for Germany's supreme effort to break through the Italian line. The battle all along the Italian front is becoming heavieY. The enemy is massing men. guns and material. Heavy artillery which the Italians' destruction of bridges and roads delayed Is now being brought to the fighting line in daily increasing numbers. The shell Are over Italian positions is daily more violent. More troops in great masses arc being concentrated in various sectors, according to word brought back by Italian aviators. Prisoners just taken declare whole divisions have been remade. Some jcntire!y new divisions have arrived Apparently the enemy is taking the fullest time , necessary to perfect his plans for massing the greatest possible strength in man and material power, preparatory to striking the supreme blow. At tho lower Piave the Austrians every night attempt to throw bridges across the river. Every day Italian and allied artillery destroy (hem. On tho northern end of the line heavy enemy concentrations are apparently bein;r made, behind the Asiago plateau and Monte Grappa the latter constitutin tho Gibraltar guiding the plains. 400 BANDITS ARE SLAIN (By United Press.) EL PASO, TEX.. Dec. 8. 400 Vlllista bandits, commanded by Lope, were annihilated by government troops under Marguis at Santa Clara canyon and Hipolito Villa, brother of the bandit chief, was killed, according to an official statement issued from Juarez military headquarters today. Yillista sources here denied that Hipoplito Villa was killed and declared the bandit losses were light. RIOTING INPORTUGAL (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Serious rioting at Lisbon. Portugal, was reported in state department telegrams this afternoon Americans are Fafe and the navy remains loyal to the government. The uprising was said to Have sprung from political causes.

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I'remier "Ace" in the Lafayette Efcadrille. who has just brought dowEubis fifteenth enemy airplane. Lieutenant Lurbery is wearing the French Croix de Guerre with four palms, the British Military Medal, the French Military Medal and the French Cross of the Legion of Honor, all awarded him for valor.

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Iilcago Warehouse Under Heavy Military Guard is Fired Loss $200,000 (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Dec S. Four Ausfrians were arrested by federal operatives today in connection with the firo which destroyed a government warehouse on the south 'side thi3 morning. Their names and the specific charges against them were withheld. Fire starting on the third floor of the five-story building spread . so rapidly that the warehouse was gutted an hour later. The fire was declared under control shortly after ten o'clock. Another warehouse close by contain-

ed largo stores of rifle ammunition and wm, Jeppeson, Treasurer; Floyd H. other explosives. These were removed j Stephens, Secretary: Robert Li pp. Cap.lurinr the height of the fire by aoldicrs , tain of the Host; Edward Jacob. Prin-

. and firemen. A great quantity of army .ict -.,',1 Tli ln; wast viuwwii wa - - estimated at $200,000. The two warehouses had been under heavy military guard since the United States entered the war. I SON OF "TIMES" MAN IN FRANCE W. L. Louis of The T:r::?, today received a card from hid .-vn, John J. Lou!'-, who is an aviator with the American forces. The card was mailed "Car.- des Aubrais, Lorret," and follows: "Nov. 18. "Dear Father: Am writing th:s on a jerky old train in the middle of France. Tie scenery Is beautiful, but the accommodations are not. Everybody is happy though and the Red Cross women give us hot coffee at the stations. We may not be permanently settled for two weeks. "Love to mother. "JOHN." Alien Enemies Want Permission to Shave DETROIT, MICH, Dec. $. Alien enemies are besieging the United States marshal's office seeking permission to shave off mustaches that look like the kaisers, to Americanize Teuton "monikers' and to move to other cities after losing their jobs. All are being refused, because to grant them would necessitate making new photographs to file at Washington and going through the entire process of issuing war zone permits.

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UUJiBEFV " Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford, Conn., GH1CAG ISO! GATHERING The last opportunitv for admission into the East Chicago Charter No. 141 1:111 AZh ?Iasons wm occur at the ....e, .uviiunjr t-venuig, jeccmier i. j Aiuiuuiiuinirni nas already teen made j of an all day session of this organization to be held on Monday, December IT at which tirno all of the degrees will be conferred on twenty-one candidates. Crown Point Iioyal Arch Masons will assist in the work. The session will begin at 9:00 o'clock A. M. The campaign which was entered Into for Initiation of candidates on the 17th was so successful that a number who were too late with the petitions to get into tho organization at this big meeting expect to enter their petitions at the meeting Monday evening. Should there be nine or more of these petitions another big meeting will be held in the afternoon and evening of fatifrday, Dec. 27th, at which time also all four of the

degrees will be conferred. J lwenty . thousand destitute were Under the present efficient corps of i sheltered ln a few homes which reofficers this chapter is making a record j maine1 standing. P.arriers of tar paper

of this year's work and indications are that there will be thirty-five new members taken in this month. The chapter is officers as follows: Willis E. Roe, High Priest: Martin Peterson, King: Harry E. Rudolnh. Scribe: opal Sojourner; Abe Goodfriend, Roval Arch u, pttel-son. Master ... . 3rd Vail; Charles Picliter. Master Cnd Vai). OUvcr c i;..is;iu .Jas(er lst VaiI. j charK3 And0r5Olli ;uar,j. j HALIFAX DEATH ROLL (t'niteil Vrr Cablegram.) ST. JOHN. N. S.. 1).-. 8. The toll of the Halifax disa.ster was today officially placed at 2,000 dead and 4.000 injured. Reports received here this afternoon stated that the Boston relief train has broken through the great snowdrift and is rushing on to the scene of the catastrophe, after several hours' delay. NEW BANK ROBBERY (By United ' Press.) CULVER DENVER. Dec. 8. Ten thousand dollars was the loot of bandIts who held up the Culver City band today, escaping in automobiles. ATZATOSS, WAKNING, DON'T SHOOT SUCKS TBOai MACHINES If you live in North Carolina and own a 191S model air piano don't go out bird shooting in it. If you do the chances are some country constable or dcDutv sheriff or came warden will sneak un behind you in a flivver monoplane and chuck you in Jail. North Carilina has passed a 1-w forbidding the shooting of any. water fowl from an air plane anC rias -racked on a stilV line to assure its observance. If You Think THE TIMES Is Doing Its Bit Your Support Is Alwavs Welcome.

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CfSIZES Big Boat Sunk Between Hammond and South Chicago This 'Afternoon. (By United Frees.) CHICAGO, Dec. 8 Eight mer, were beleived to have been drowned when the steamer Desmond capsized in the heavy seas between South Chicago and Hammond this afternoon. She carried a qrew of 14 men and the coast guard rescued six. The latter were unconscious and some of them may die. The Desmond was of the type j known as a "sand sucked". She ! plied regularly between the Michigan' shore and South Chicago. The sand she obtained was used in the steel mills in South Chicago, j The steamer was loaded when she turned over near the entrance of the Calumet river harbor. The waves are believed to have caused the cargo to shift. MIDDLE WEST HIT. (By United. Frss.) i CHICAGO. Dec. S. The middle vrestern and central plain states are experi- ! Slicing zero weather here today from I the Alleghanie3 to beyond Kansas and ; south into Oklahoma and Texas. The j mercury is steadily dropping. Points j in northern Wisconsin report TO beiow zr-o. Chicago shivers et six above with the promise of five below by rnoruI ing. Storm warnings were hoisted on the : lakes. A severe storm is expected to sweep all lake3 except Superior today. No boats are enuir,;;r from ports, re- : ports say. ! ! TERRIBLE SUFFERING. (By United Press.) ST. JOHN. N. B., Dec. 8. Ilallroad officials arriving here today say that all trains lo and from Halifax are buried in snow drafts. One of the worst blizzards in yeara is sweeping the country about the stricken city. 20,000 ARE DESTITUTE. (By United Press.) HALIFAX. Dec. 8. A lashing norwestern burdened with sleet howled from the Atlantic all night last night and was still raging today but it failed to halt relief work in this stricken city. were ouiit in tne snatiered windows to shut out the gale. 2,000 dead, 5,000 injured, 20,000 homeless was the toll in Halifax and the suburbs, according to the citizens' committee estimate today. The damage is J30.000.000. Many refugees are going about wrapped in blankets, their own clothes torn in shreds. The wildest weather the Atlantic coast can produce has for the time being rraclically ended the hunt for bodies. j WORST STORM OF WINTER (By United Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 8. Tho worst storm of the winter was sweeping over central Indiana today. A heavy snow covered the ground early this morning and continue! falling during the day. A high wind accompanied the snow fall. Traffic was demoralized in Indianapolis. Street car service was nearly at a standstill. Interurban and steam trains throughout central Indiana were having difficulty in getting through, hours late. m NICHOLAS RFPORTEO ESCAPED (By United Frees.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. That Czar Nicholas has escaped from his place of confinement in Siberia was the rumor the American consul at Tifllis reported to the Btat0 department today, REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL (United Pre Cablegram.) LONDON. Dec. 8. A revolution has broken out in Portugal. Official advices received here today confirm tha

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