Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 51, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1917 — Page 1
ARE YOU KEEPING WHEATIESS MEATLESS DAYS FOR THE WAR?
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EFORE YOU CELEBRATE NEW YEAR'S READ T
CONDEMN' NEW YEAR ORGIES
THIS EYE IS GIFT ' OF BILLY SUNDAY
State Food Director Out in Strong Language Against Gluttony on New Years' Eve.
What Barnerd Says
"May the drunken stupor of every intemperate traitor who wastes food on New Year's eve, in an idiotic demonstration of his own gluttony, be haunted by the emaciated faces of starving orphans and agonized appeals that come from helpless warriors fighting the Hun off their native heath. While these beasts mess over food they cannot eat, and would not touch were they sober, life itself is ebbing from helpless men, women and children who might have been saved with less than what is then thrown away.. How any person may expect to retain one iota of self-respect and indulge in this barbarism this year, I cannot understand."
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William H. Hetiterbaugh.
Note the right eye of William II Heuterbauph. He invaded Filly , Sunday's pulpit at Atlanta, Ga.. when I Billy was pillorying the kaiser. He lunged at the athletic evangelist and ! was stopped ard given the enlarged : ye with the same motion.
IIS GRANTED ! AN INCREASE j
j TIMES BUE.EAU. 1 AT STATS CAPITAL. I INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 29.
' The Public Service Commission ; i today granted the Northern Indi-'; I ana Gas and Electric Co. authority j i to increase its Hammond, Whiting j I and East Chicago gas rales to sev-j enty-fivc cents for all over f ive ;
hundred thousand feet monthly,; with ten cents discount if paid by : the tenth of the month. The pres-; ent rate rate if fifty-five cents with ten cents, discount. Increase effective during 191S. i
FRENCH EXHIBIT GUNS CAPTURED AT CHEMIN DES DAMES IX FliOXT OF FAMOUS SOISSOXS CHURCH Hundreds of German guns hare " "
teen arrayed fcr exhibition in front of the famous church L'Jean des Vignes at Soissons. They were captured in the fighting along the ChemJn des Dames and attract thousands of etirious Frenchmen.
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BECOME SACTIVE j (By TJnlUd Press Catlefvam. ) ! ROME, Dec. 29. Vesuvius is, ' again in violent eruption, accord- j j ing to word received here today, j
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BRITISH LOSE ! DESTROYERS j t (Br United Press Cablegram.) ' : LONDON, Dec. 29. Three Brit-i j ish destroyers were mined and sunk on the Dutch coast last night, j j according to admiralty announce-;
,'ment today.
Thirteen officers and one hundred and eighty men were lost..
1'renchmen crowd to see German death dealers.
REPORTED Trains Stalled, Street Cars Tied Up, Mails Held Up and Winters Rigors are Felt, (BULLETIN.) (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Pec. 29 Central and northern states which hare teen experiencingzero weather for the past rev flay, van g-et reUet "tomorrow tha
j weather hnreaa stated today. i Two unidentified men were frozen to i death here today. I The low temperature which centered over the Great Lakes region will move eastward tomorrow and include iTew York state and New England, Zero j weather was reported as far south to- ! day as northern Oklahoma and
Arkansas. The coldest official temperature was 36 helow at Duluth, Minn., and Bismarck, N. .
Fearful Clamor at Pie Coun- J GERMANY LOSES ZEP.l
ter Stirs The Old Town To
Its Innards; 0 What Will!
The Harvest Be?
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Latest bulletins
.Kscarin? sub-zero weather i- four degrees Calumet region is suffering from wfcat is claimed Vy old timers tl heaviest snow fall in years. la t!ie l'i 48 hours over 2i inches of snow has fallen and as a result traffic early thimorning: was completely demoralised. Chicago r"rers didn't Ket here till noon and all mail Am uoset. Steam roads runninc out of all niie
(By Unltecr Press Cahlegram.) j tho 'strict Verc from three to ten
AMSTEBD&M, Dec. 2D. Delayed U- '. ' ' sencauie. Thre
-i.v..,8an ventral passenger trains east-
Passengers
(Special to The Times.) j 1XDT4N-APOLIS. IND.. Dec. :3. To'.
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those ho .Mnstdvr a gorge or iooa " ; fcr a job yet?
'food of boor.c essential for a proper; induction of the New Tear, the Indiana!
!.r, food adrnunsiraioi. j-i .
K. Barnard inako the following dress:
(By United Press Cablegram.) COPENHAGEN. Dec. 29.t-De-
j struction of a German zeppeiin by! ! fire off the coast of Jutland was j
!reported here today. The airship Have you asked Mayor-elect Broivn . ,, . Tti- c. t r,vr.,.v- r.. . . ...k.
ui nameb iGii into tiie uorui oca." " .-. .1 "umdi. .-u- ' marine was sunk, by the fire of guns of
Arriving in London Report Destruction ol U-Boat Seaman Reports Capture of Four German Submarines.
patches from Brest.Utcwck: received to-
I day rla. Berlin, declared the Kusr.o-Ger-man peace discussions were contlnning
vard hound, leaving. CWcasabcforc one
ocioeK tins morning, were sts!!ed until
y a i in ncr n j-t.-in i -.
Thursday. "Special questions" are n. "'""-'n. i.eports Irom Uer consideration. The dispatches as. h little trouble in clearing
weivn-T ana ine AvestDound trains were
i serted that the dellheratlona had pro
' gressed to the point where a brief suapension would shortly he necessary so ; that the delegates might communicate j with their respective governments.
Well, there arc about 5'jit who hae.
The citizens party of Hammond
a i at present is tempest-tossed. For mot
! than a month the inner circle has
l bombarded bv office-seekers, the friends
Try and keep, in mind t5at every , t,f 0ff lce-seekers and petitions requestounce of food you waste and eating :Jns surh and fuch an a,poin,mellt allll
wbsi is rio. '-"".' still .Mayor-elect Dan Erown has not au-i Vhysival health is vastage-is just that , unccd nls seleclion . macli aid and comfort to the enemy., turmoil Rmwn i TVioca C!o1 nnnlraQr.Ar Will
who is in this rritical moment . " " -,t , , ' wOw ai.vu.x,
SiWELL THEY WOKT
. KILL LITTLE PIGS
an American passenger sieamer
ap-
: i (By United Press.) a distance of about 1.500 yards directly' WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 The state In the wake of the ship. ' department today announced the Bolshe-
Qulckly. ; viki arrest of Manager B. B. Stevens of
the Fetrograd hranch of the National . . .
--""h'i.1 uu iii-j fcuiu ui ",l";City hank of New Ttora, xogexner wim
Tire Shots
Tlie steamer was brought about
rroaching ' the British - can Thursday. I si,arply and the two guns YireU with
according to reports ot the I asscngers , only an neterval ot two seconds between ; an accountant. The two men were and gunners aboard. j sliots. The second shell exploded and 1 marcned throngh the streets to the hank
snm wac rin.t'ppn a ill ;reerr - ...... ....
j but even he is nagged enough to wantj to resign, sometimes. The stories that j j he was about to make some fearful)
Anyone
wastes food, is more than a slaciier he is to all intents and purposes a traitor to his country.
"This may soaii'i pien dui "- blunder by appointing: incompetent men is God's truth. It takes such a little wUhout any training for the important
bit or savins irom wi. i ,ly officea have fa;ien of thei a i ; . t. . ,-i.tv. u
fuch a tremenaous em i -" weight. Everv
supply of food, that tnere is no excuse imaginable that will justify any one in)
about noon in a frv smooth se.T. i-tic : "'B
i weather condition" Mere such as to make j t,ic submarine was visible. the best isibiltty. A pcris-cope was j The convoy signaled to the liner: "A sighted by the watch on the bridge and j dir,rt "it-" i the submarine was seen plainlv by the! The watch on the bridge and the gun-
Be a Little More Careful ! passengers a3 it mto i"1!1 t
About Serving Pork In
i and there released. The state departI ment will take no action In view of the I release.
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shirking his part. "E-en after our soldier boys are supplied, we have not scut them enough. For they are depending upon surport from America's associates in this war. mid this support; cannot t"3 forthcoming except that the armies of our associates are kept in fighting spirit, AND THE THOUGHT OF STARVATION HOVERING OVER THEIR HOME IS MORE THAN ANT HUMAN BEING CAN
CONTEMPLATE 1VHIUE CONTINU-j 1NO EFFECTIVE WARFARE. j "If there must be an orpy on ??ew j Tear's eve. let it be one of drink and j ttot of food. I do not want to be. rnls-i understood. I cannot accept the idea that these drunken revelries are cssen-i
tial to anybody's happiness. But I say If the temptation is too strong for you ta desist altogether, try. at least, to
ow n
weight. Every day or so some one rushes madly down the street to dispense information of the appointments with an "I got this straight." But there isn't anything certain yet except that there is one of the hlamdest scraps on for offices the town has ever seen. They are "telling the mayor-elect what they think of him and he's telling them what he thinls of them. Even the physicians of the city had a rather warm spell at the meeting called by Brown for them to select a candidate for the office of secretary of the board of health. There appeared to be one or two insurgents among the doctors, but they were declared out of or
der and a vote taken. And the f-trange i
thing is that the present occupant of the office, Dr. "William I). Weis. a dem-
i oorat who has hcen a good health 'of
ficer, secured the most votes when it is apparent the meeting would not have
The Future.
fSpecinl to The I iiuet) IXDI.VNArOUS, Pe- Z0. 1317 'f wo RockviI.e -n-'iffpers v ho
admitted havi:'.; l.ilied l':.t!e pit" j
a Chris'iniaj lur.i ti. f"!t t!? teeth of the fcod regulation, v. her? they were required to tU t!: ta:-(.a.ies of the pis' from th iv I- i ' c-.unters, .! d':'-.rlhute 1 he t. fe t the desert ns !:. . T. '-unty food ad ministrator for rarke cour.tv reporte-1
mWl HAMMOND M IND, HARBOR LEAD IN RED X QUOTAS
(By trnited Press Cablegram.) PITEOOBAD, Dec. S9. German delegates to the Brest-tltovsk peace conference were reported today as having privately agreed to a popular vote to
ox
not over several hours late.
Experiences of Street Car Idaes. The South, Shore electric lines experienced no trouble and handled its traffic, on schedule time. The Hammond. "Whiting and East Chicago street car service was severely hampered carly this morning but soon managed to run its cars regularly. The Gary Interurban line was stalled for hours and not until noon was the service again regaining normal condition. Snow plow were quickly put into action by th steam and electric roads and by nocn traveling was almost regular. Country Boada All Blocked. Country roads were blocked by ti,.drifting blankets of snow and traffic in cits" streets as seriously hindered. Tedestrians found it disagreeable in getting through the walks. . In tram places the snow had drifted as high as four feet.
i ne iciepnone company reported "very
Telegraph Mires were
i determine the future disposition
Alsace Lorraine. ! lltu? trouble.
Snca a concession was not formally j not Hampered, i mads In the announcement of terms as; The weather bureau announced today
outlined
hy Count Cternin and the "moderate weather for the next
Results, tabulated Christmas
far as the have been quota.
In the
in so
in the recent Red drive, are as follows:
future it is the plan of the
society to maintain a steady campaign for members, instead of having the
were: "Wtis,
leave wheat flour products, meats, fats. neen ca:ica n me major ma not. intenaand sugar off your menu. If you have ed removing Dr. Weis. The three high-
cam scark of American manhood or est doctors in the voting
womanhood in you, you will do this. It cannot be too often repeated nor emphasized too much food is too previous to waste and such celebrations as have disgraced our civilization in former years, are wholly inexcusable now. If It was lnsobrIctyAhen, it is treason now."
the Jnc.iden'. to Harry E. BarnarJ
federal food administrator
ana, and received the approval of tinadministrator for hat he had done. The saloon-keepers acted promptly after being informed that if necessary a United States marshal would be summoned to execut the order for the removal of the l:ttle piss, even aft'T
wel-
ross Ham
mond, which started with 6.200 intrabrs. came up to !'.000: Whiting added 500 rew- members to her already splendid record: Crown Point, Lowell
! 00; East "lu-ago, 1,000; Indiana Hari bor l as a total of 10,000 members, and
or Jh-'.'i- I jry added over 000 names to her list. Metcalf. Simpson, Highlands and their
j Tho lake division, which embraces . committees, the splendid results thot i Ohio. Kentucky and Indiana, was tlie are evident could not have been acI first district in the country to rxced its I com pi ished.
declaration that it had heen covered in i hours with probably slightly increasing private conferences was regarded here i temperature." .. rnrther evidence of a favorable step i Tncla Sam On Tha Job.
toward general peace. Tha Central Powers' reply in general caused a good impression here.
large drives, and members will b
come, and acceptable at any time. j ". Oliver Holmes of Gary, district chairman, today stated that w ere it not for the untiring efforts of Mrs. t Erickson and Mesdames Miltimore. I
15: Buchanan. 14; Oberlin. 12. Which !tnr anlmnls '' l,rip" roasted and weie
one the mayor-elect will select is un-
ASKS MERCHANTS STOP BOND TRADE WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Merchants of the country are asked to discontinue the sale of merchandise for Liberty bonds In a statement issued yesterday by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. Secretary McAdoo's statement follows: "It has been brought to my attention that r umbers of merchant? throughout the country Bre offering to lake Liberty Loan bonds of the first and con(i issue at par. or even in some cases at a premium, in exchange for merchandise. Whil I have no doubt that these merchants are actuated by patriotic motives. I am sure that they have failed to consider the effect which the acceptance of their offers would have upon the situation. When the bonds are exchanged for merchandise, t defeats th- primary object of their sale, it d is-ourases thrift and increases expenditures, thus depriving the govern
ment of labor ami mntial needed fori
known. He may not appoint any of these. The new mayor has a wide range of candidates fcr the office of. controller. They run from a barber to a hanker, and a few who haven't any especial calling. Three members of the board of health
are to be appointed and the mayor can ! not appoint a secretary except by under- j standing with the members that when j they organize they will appoint a certain !
one of their number.
reaay to serve tnetr purpose or tempt- i
ins the thirsty. 1 hey laughed when told of the government's plan to save and increase fats hy insistirry that piss be fattened to a minimum of 200 lbs, but their Mnile faded. Mr. Rogrs re-
pnf. w iien nicy icarneci or the pen-i
alty of the law atta'. bed to violating the provisions of the food control law and of the proximity of the I'nited States marshal's office.
SHARPE pnrrnv
j DiLLU I I n pnn i i
UmbAL
I office and bought some wool.
September 1 he began buying in quanta ies.
DESPERATE FIGHT TO RETAKE JERUSALEM
By "WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE BRITISH AKMTXS IN tut! vtT.T.D. Dec. 29. Winter's cold
has practically frozen up all fighting on the British front. With the lines "burled j
under snow today and the thermometer far below freezing thera was little chance for fighting. The Germans heavily shelled British trenches near Bullecourt and southwest of Bourlon yesterday. Later the Homoge sector was the object cf a gas sheU attack. StiU later in the night the Germans sent a brief barrage fire north cf PoelcapeUe. The shells started flying about 1:15 a. m. and continued about half an hour.
One of the first evidences of the fact that all the railroads are now one rail road under government control and
i competition has been abolished w as seen
by the traveling public in the Calumet
(Continued on page five.)
SHE'S PROMINENT CAPITAL HOSTESS
M'JIDOO GETS TASTE OF MIL. OBSTACLES By KOBEBT 3. BENDEB (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Dec. .23. Director General McAdoo today began the movement, of war freight throughout the country without Tfgard to individual lines. Simultaneously the railroad war board through, which he will direct nil operations for the present worked on a definite organization rlan for the future. McAdoo got a taste today of th; obstacles in winter lailroading wben a cold wave and snow swept the Atlantic
I seaboard. At the same time the storm;
emphasized the advantages of fedcraliz-j
Tr - - - - , TUr TUfrc t ! cr' control by virtue of which McAdoo! If You Trunk THE TIMES Iji s aMe to ,vir slI r..outine j Tt- TJCf V.. c:,,-rf t. At .. ... ...... i
vuiut; u jji'. .uf'i-i i J or infin to inoe traitic ry the most con lTjVS YdcomC j lenient and expedition roules."
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(By United Press.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 29. Four Turkish 'army divisions upward of G0.0n0 men reinforced by Austro-German
troops from tho Russian and Roumanian fronts have become a desperate
(By United Press.) jtampaign to retake Jerusalem and drive
WASHINGTON. Pec. :9. Months de- the British from the Holy Land, ac-
lay in buying wdoI for national army cording to official rcrorts reaching uniforms and overcoats was admitted Washington today. by Quartermaster Sharpe before tho, Heavy fighting is in progress over a s"nat ; military probers this .afternoon. I line extending from Jaffa through This dclaycainp emmanders have Us-! Jerusalem and along the Jcrico road altificd. has resulted In tho death of most to tl. river Jordan, The Turks score of soldiers who suffered from lack vainly break the British grip on the of proper cfot'iing and blanket. j Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad. Effort to ?lirpf said it took from April "3 to turn the British flunk in the neiebbor-
t August 1 to'arr.mge f,.,r wool purchases, j h'.'d "f P' thany northeast of the holy j No ' considerable quantity of wool wa! fity tailed. I bought until September 1. Hre is At some, points alonsr the lino Gen
eral Alb'iibys expeditionary forces are outnumbered two to ono. according to official reports he is making a determined stand afrainst combined Turko-
from the
r purposes.
(By United Frets.)
i WASHINGTON, i.ec. The I. P. ilcmroyer 1-annins. aided by the V. f. destroyer Nicholson. whs officially credllo.t with rntiir. oT flirt fir-tf
man submarine rrlwwr. Th t ' Sha rI"S record, of the transaction
occnrr.wt in XV.vmh,. an.-l .-.nU f.n...! April .1. Received S b'ttf r
gave only scant news of the capture. i Boston Woo! Trading association offer Vnr r.m ihi..t..n.. 'ing all wool control hy its prevallinj
. nrices (Shartw mmln ffort to Irani I Austro-German division
Kti i i i i i w -i c- i.,m'-it (-Jrit-oilT. .in. ' ' - - i- - -
cr having been cared foT aboard the de- ! "ow much "lvo1 was involved )
strnvfp the Cermsnis chef rcl h Ami. ' He referred the matter to Secretary
mn crew- as they j.it off after the dc- I'!,kf'r ,urn fcn.l it to lhbtroycr rcachcV Por. j munitions board. The account of the ' capture dffTer ! June ij Sharpe asked if fund were
little from reports already marie ex-! avajlabfe for wool purchases mid the ; tliousand pounds of :--.iga r were dcccpt there v. as no mention of the claim ; same month Rot authority to go th-ad. j t' " e1 this afternoon in a fire at tie that the Teutons themselves had open-j July 13 he dis us-d with the na- j fectoi y of K. J. Brach ard Son. coned tho Valves after surrendering. The. I tional defense council the advisability -ect ionc-rs.
indications were that th" depth -hnrs; ! of purchasing wool from the I".ostiui
HE BECOMES VAGRANT TO EVADE DRAFT United States Marshal. C M. Mikesell of Indianapolis yesterday arrested Anton Gatz, a Gerniaf. at East Chicago, who had been held by the police of that city on the suspicion that he was a slacker. Gatz is said;. to have become, a vagrant in order to evade the draft.
GOVERNOR'S
(By Ualtod Press.) WTNCHKSTEK. I.NP.. 1'cc. 2f. Mrs Elizabeth Godrith, mother of Governor James I'. Goodrich, died at tho gocrnor's home lu re today after an illness f several months. Governor Goodrich wa? at the bedside of his mother when the end came.
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DESTROYED CHICAGO. Lec. 2iV. 1 rl 7. Se en t y-
j had blasted the shell like sides of V-boa tj nd she sank.
ti e ;
I
conce rii.
AuKUSt 1 he es'ab
j Enlist In The Woman's Annj
-ishcd n wo,,! btixins i 2y Ccnservins roods.
GIBSON GIRLS ANGELS OF MERCY Stenopraphei s and other sni. at the ;ibson railway offices this noon acted as anscl." of mercy to soldiers in trains unable to procred b"causo of the st"i ni. The Rirls save the soldiers their lunches and went without a ti""fiiiiv me;)! themselves.
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Mrs. Breckinridge Long. Ore of the most accomplished hostesses at the national capital is Mrs. Breekinridjre I.onp, of St. Louis, wife of the second assistant secretary of state. Mrs. Lon ami her husband wiil entertain all MisFourians at the capital on Chris'ria!
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