Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 195, Hammond, Lake County, 11 February 1918 — Page 1
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All Anxiety Set at Rest in Family By News Today From War Department (BULLETIN.) (By United Press. WASHINGTON, Teti. 11. This POTrnment still was unable to announce the Tuscania death list today. Press dispatches based on careful checking of
announced survivors against the ship's
roster, showed 342 unaccounted for in official cables, so far compiled. War department reports show no changes in the origrinal statement that 113 officers and soldiers lost their lives.
Aviator Joseph McKef, of Hammond, the only Lake county boy on the torpedoed Tuscania. has been spared to hi. country. Word from the adjutant-general'c of
fice st Whitinsr was received today by I
J. J. S. MrKee, 14 Waltham street, officially reporting the boy to be anions the survivors of the U. S. transport Tuscania which wa sunk by torpedo iT the Irish coast Tuesday.. Vntil today the flyer was among the missing and his parents and sisters w ere torn with anxiety. He was the last of the Indiana boys to be listed In' tii dispatches and concern for his safety was state-wide. A member of ; 123rd aero squadre:). Aviator Mcle.-, who is twenty-twu years of ape, was on his way to France tn complete his training before taking active part in the war above the clouds. He enlisted at Indiana Harbor April 6. having been employed with the Seifer Ft.rntture Company. At that time his V-o:ne was in Indiana Harbor where his father holds the position of foremen with the t'nion Iron Products Co. Since then the family has moved to Hammond. Joseph is the only son. His sisters are Mrs. H. E. Henderson of Oskosh. Wis., and Harriet and Helen who are employed in the offices of the Genera! American Car Company. Mrs. Henderson hurried to Hammond when she learned of the sinking of the Tuscania and is now at the McKee residene The suffering that Mr. snd Mrs. STKee have Rone through with sim e the sinking of the Tuscania has been t"ri ible. Mr. McKee has not been able to work and Mrs. McKee swooned again and again. It is a happy day at the McKee home.
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City Administration Fails to Observe Law and Fearful Muddle Will Now Take Place About Titles.
GQESJTD MUN01E Fr. M. M. Day Lost to S. Albans at Indiana Harbor.
Somebody blundered!
And as a rcsuU the annual sale of property for delinquent taxes held at the city hall this morning might as well never have take place. Kor it was illegal. The list of land and lots according to the law as stated, shy different lawyers provides that in cities of over 10.010 inhabitants the delinquencies must be advertised in a daily newspaper where there is one. The law also provides that the lots shall be advertised for twentyone days before the sale. The first advertisement was dated on January 2 4 in the Lake County News a weekly paper, but the issue- was not put it. circulation until the 2Sth of January. Thus the sale of property at the city hall this morning was illegal for two reasons. I.auers declare that the bad double error not only knocks out the sale of whatever lots vAto sold, complicates lax titles which would have been given this year, but puts the tax collecting department in a pretty rickle. There are those who declare, however. :hat the sale was legal and it didn't seem, to make much difference with the buyers as a whole the list, was pretty well cleaned up. Blocks of choice lots were, gobbled up at a time and the. fale which was held in the council room, did not last more than an hour. A list of the lost remaining unsold is now being compiled by City Treasurer K. I'ielefeld. The principal bidders at the sale was the Gostlin & Meyn Co.. Hammond Savings and Trust Co., and
Hammond Finance Co., of Hammond, and Julian H. Vouche of Crown Point, Ind.
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.American solditrs aboard a transport bound for over there. These American soldiers sailing for duty in France won't let submarines worry them while on the trip. In spite of the recent Tuscania disaster and in spite of all that the U-boats may try to do, it is certain that our boys will reach French soil and have a complete revenge. Transport travel will be safer hereafter than ever before. The photograph shows the men wearing their life-preserver3 as the ship approaches the submarine infested waters.
RUSSIA IS BUT OF IE-111
Choosing of Republican National Chairman at Indianapolis Tomorrow Is One of Issues Rather Than of Men.
Fr. ST. M. Tay, pastor of the St. Albans Episcopal church, Indiana Harbor, has resigned his present charge nd will on the first Sunday in March, assume the duties of pastor of the Kpiscopal church at Sluncle. Father Pay has seen his church grow from a list of eleven communicants to 3U4 communicants, and about two years ago he completed one of the most artistic church homes to be found in this country. During his pastorate the property at the corner of 13th and Kim streets has increased in valuation fully JlK.Ortn, due to the new edifice and the improvements made. Not only the church organ ization. but the community will regret to lost a pastor so dearly beloved and a citizen of such sterling qualities.
The announcement to the Episcopal i chairman
people was made yesterday.
(By Times' Indianapolis Correspondent.) ST. LOUIS, Feb. II. Out of the meeting of the Republican national committee, which will be h!d h'-re tomorrow, will come a solution of the
question of whether tlv? Republican i party shall be manage,! l,v the old re
actionary and standpat crowd that drove tike pariy on the- rocks of disaster in 1.312 or whether it shall be managed by the progressive element that has rejuvenated the party and made it once more-; factor in the political life of the nation. That, in a nutshell, dose ribes the real situation. It is not a matter of candidates for national rhalrmnn. The man who is chosen to till that position will be only incidental to the main fact. Whit the national committee will decide at this meeting is whether the Republican party thai I go forward or backward. The issue is clearly drawn and the lineup will be unmistakable. Adams and Hays. John T. Adams, of Iowa, is the candidate of the reactionary element for national chairman. The progressive Republicans believe Will H. Hays, of In
diana, would make a good
57,9.0-STOLEN FRDM UNDERHIS PILLOW Great Are the Trials and Tribulations of This Saloonkeeper.
I l nltrd PreKM iihlrcrnin r j AMSTERDAM, Feb. 11. The Russian lllolsheviki government has definitely
withdrawn from the war and ordered complete demobilization of ell Russian forces n all fronts, it wan reported today. Dispatches from nrest-I,itovsk,"vhil refusing to sign a formal peace paci, asserted 'the war with the Central Powers is ended."
UWREST IS GROWING
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With Sunday and Sronday closings and ApriJ 2 near at hand tin woes of the sal. r, nkc erer are great. Hut this is too much. Henry Geib was sleeping the sleep of the just at his home on Rauer street. Hammond. Enter through a window a gentleman with rubber soled shots and long tapering fingers. I'nder the pillow on which Henry's unconscious head lay creep the fingers. Slowly they slip away clutching a bank roll and checks totaling $2,300. Ocb, proprietor of a saloon at 40," East State street, spent the Sabbath endeavoring to get the names for whom he had cashed the checks Saturday at his place of business, it being a railroad payday. The checks were issued by the C. I. & S. Ry. and the saloonman (arnestly requests all of his patrons for whom he cashed checks to give .him the ir names and the amounts ns soon" as possible so that he jnay notify the banks.
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BOMBEOJOSPITALS Serves Two Years As Pay-
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DRAFT EXAMINATIONS -BEING HELD TODAY
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Another Hammond bay is home with wounds earned, in the big war and tales of the trenches. Avon Mcdonald, son of Mr. and Sirs. N. R. Stardonald of 172 Highlind street, is on unlimited furlough after two years of active serviie as paymaster in the .Canadian army. It was Sergeant Sinedonald's duty to go into the trenches to pay off the men and while aiding an injured soldier he was wounded. The pa master-sei Keanat spent live months in four different hospitals which were bombed at total of twelve times during that period. Slacdonald leaves for Winnipeg. Canada, where he was connected with the Great West Life Insurance Co. prior to the war. His position is open to him when he is discharged from service. The yoting soldier brought home with him a gas mask, hand grenades and other relics of war.
By WM. PHILLIP SIMMS. (Copyright 1SKS by United Press) 7.V RICH.. Feb. 11. Unrest is growing daily thi o'ighout the Central Empires. Germany and Austria must have pence or go under. The people of both countries d-mnmi it. If the allies stand pat on the Wilsonian program and make a stone wall of the western front the end of the war is in sight. This sums up the situation as seen from here at this time. It doesn't mean that Geramny is on the brink of a r e o 1 u t i o n . Rut it does mean that the people are tired of war and opposed to the pan-German policy of conquest. They are angry over the privations at home ;!nd the losses of menfolk at the front. At the same time they believe. President Wilson is sincere in his statement of war aime. There is no doubt but that the Miasms of the German people are beginning to see the the diplomatic blunders of the allies have kept them bound to the war party this long. For instance, Philip S'-lincldomann, eighteen months ago. threatened something little short of a revolution unless the junkers changed their tone. Shortly after this the allies published an intimation the war would not stop until the Central Empires were disrupted. Thereupon Sohnejdeman automatically alligned himself with the government. Like rats in a corner they intended to ficht. Today the masses is Gtrmany and Austria are in a mood to listen to reason. ,
(By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Teh. 11. Today
1 probably. Is the last of the woriless Mondays. Transportation and fuel ccn. ' ditions have been -eatly improved by
warm weather. It is considered almost certain the order will be rescinded in the east tomorrow.
; (By United Press Cablegram.) ! AMSTERDAM, Peb. 11. "May tis be the first of a series of blessed conclusions of peace," declared German Porw ; eig-n Minister Kuehlman just before tfro 1 peace pact with the Ukrainian pact was j signed.
j , (By TJnited Press.) WASHINGTON, Pcb. 11. The V. S. employment service has decided to 1 adopt the Australian policy of advancing transportation to "moving" labor to aid ayx-icultural districts and ship yards. ! An appropriation of $500,000 has been I asked of congress.
(By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Ten. 11. Reorganization of the war elepartment was practically complete today as the president planned conferences with congressional
I leaders on the bill giving him unlimited
ability to slash red tape. The new plan already revealed in part mattes the chief of staff with the new
i war council the immediate advisory of
the secretary of war and makes the general saff more important than affair.
(By United Press Cablegram.) COPENHAGEN, Pen. 11. Threefourths of Finland Is now in the hands of the anti-Bolshevikl forces, it was announced from headquarters of the white guard today.
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WHAT'S A R. R. PRESIDENT NOW
WASHINGTON, Peb. 11. Director General SIcAdoo will enforce civility along with efficiency in all branches of tha railroad service. Two hundred inspectors will be started over the railroads under government operation tomorow to check every employe. The recent case of a railroad president traveling to Washington led to the order. A long line of diners was waiting' on the over-crowded Pennsylvania express. The magnate and hi 3 wife pushed ahead and were recognised by the conductor. Two persons rose from a table. The president and his wife were passed into the seats. Protests "from those who had waited half an hour were met with the curt reply: "Why, that Is Mr. of the Railroad." Protests were sent to Mr. He. Afloo. The conductor was summoned to Washington and ordered to give preference to no one, under penalty of being discharged.
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sense a candidate lor the place, there is . TWO IrlTlS WHO UlUliaer llltO
Room Full of Unclothed Boys Flee in Panic.
' a strong movement among th
sivc Republicans to elect him. j John T. King, of Connecticut, is the j 'active candidate against Adams. Some I sa lie is the Rooscelt candidate.! . Whether this is true will develop ivnen : a large number of the leaders arrive.1 ; Th- general impression seems to prevail, however, that the same reaction-' ary it nst? that fuor Adams w ould not be at all displeased with King as the national chairman. King is a "Rig Interest'' man. who has been close to Murray Crane, of Stassaehusetrs. rrane. a every political observer knows, is and has been the real political brains of the reactionary element. He and Senator P.oise Penrose, of Pennsylvania, have "played ball" together in politics for ye-a rs. both reprosenf.ng the brg trusts and big interests, i Both few Adams, j No long ago there were signs of a ! political break between Crane and Poni rose, and it looked for a time as if i Crane would lose the co-operation of I Penrose. Hut in the contest for na
tional chairman. Crone and Penrose both are for Adams, who represents (Continued "on pace seven.)
The SV. S. S. campaign gives even the numblest of us a chance to do something to win the war.
The second 2"0 draft registrants of the first class were examined today at the superior court house1 in Hammond by the exemption board and doctors and dentists of the city who volunteered their services. At noon only two men bad been rejected and they were brothers. Each had an eye missing. A third man with only one leg was not rejected but his case referred to the medical advisory board as it is possible he could be used in some branch of the serv ice". All doubtful cases are referred to the higher board and there are few rejections at Hammond. Consternation reigned in Room 3 where the examinations were being conducted, when two young ladies entered. There were over a dozen young men standing about the room in the together." They made a frantic dfYe for wearing ppparel of any description and the girls turned and fled. They had entered the room by mistake, getting by the guard. Where they desired to go or what they wanted will never he known for they ran out of the court house and down the street in utter panic.
Forecast' for a Week. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the weather bureau Saturday, were: Grt'at Lakes region: Weather, unsettled weather with snow in north, rain in south part Monday, followed by colder Tuesday and Wednesda y ; seasonal temperatures thereafter except for brief periods of low temperature at end of week. Rain or snow anain about Thursday.''
A.B0UT 300 NOW REGISTERED At noon today in the neighborhood of three hundred alien enemies had been registered in Hammond and at the present rate they are flocking in, by Wednesday the close of the registration, the list may roach the four hundred mark. Saturday was the busiest day since the registration started Monday of last week and the police believe they have
i broken all records. Ninet y-one registrants were cared for and Cln-f AustI een. Captain Rimbach and Desk Ser- , geant Oscar Rorchei t were busy up
until nine o'clock at night. Mr. Rorchert who has had charge of taking the finger prints for identification, took over two thousand during the day besides aiding in the other work. Ry the time Mr. Borchert Is through he will have become an expert.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TO SPEAKAT BSD X Miss Mary Frances Patter -
j son of California In Ham- ! mond Next Thursday.
Miss Mary Frances Patterson, head of the department of home economics at the University of California, will
! speak at the Red Cross rooms on Thursjday afternoon at 4 o'clock. i The University of California is one
of tha most patriotic centers in the country. Hundreds of students have enlisted as well as a large number of the professors. A special session was held last summer for the purpose of doing Red Cross work for which the faculty gave Uieir services and the entire cycle of Red Cross training courses was given. Sliss Patterson, herself, gave the surgical dressings course to a class of over cisrhtv people. Thousands of students
r work in the workrooms regularly, and . among themselves have raised $45,000 I for the Red Cross. ! Every one is welcome to come and i hoar the inspiring message from our ' western co-workers. Four o'clock Thurs
day at the Red Cross rooms, fifth floor, Hammond building.
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PICKPOCKETS NOW
Lays Down Basis for Negotiations and Says Austria Concedes Principles, By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. President Wilson today openly invited Austria to further discussion of peace with the United States. In a remarkable address to con-, gress in joint session the president laid down the basis for such negotiation. Austria, he said, seeing and conceding the essential principles involved and the necessity of candidly applying them can respond to the purpose of peace as expressed by the. United States with less embarrassment than could Germany. The president was gratified, lie ."aid. at 'the friendly tone" of the Austrian premier. He characterized Count Hertling's reply as vague and confusing, full of equivocal phrases and "certainly in a very different tone from that of Count Ozornin and of apparently of an epposite purpose." No peace is possible, be declared, on Hertling's basis, "individual barter and concession." The address was another tiroaasice in the presidenPs world campaign of "open air democracy." It embodied an open bid to Austria and a powerful streke at the Gorman militarists. It aimed to widen the wage between the Teuton peoples and their junker ruler. "Until such a pcaee can be obtained, we have no choice but to io on." Germany, the president said, is trying to arrange a peace following the "methods of the cotigres.fat Vienna. We cannot and will not return to tliar." On the other hand Count C'zornin. the Austrian premier, he said, "seems to see the fundimental elements of peace with clear eyes and does not seek to obscure them." He expressed belief that Czrnin would have gone much further in his reply to the president's last speech "if it had not been for Austria's alliance with and dependence upon Germany." The president laid .down the lasis of future negotiations on the following terms: First: That each part of the final settlement must be based on the essential justice of that particular case and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent; Second: That peoples are not to be bartered about as if they were nore chattels cr pawns in a game, even the great game now for'ver discredited in the balance of power: Third: Every territorial settlement involved in this wr.r must he made in the interests and fcr the betterment of the populations concerned ami not as a part ef any mere adjustment or compromise ef claim among rival state's; Fourth: That all well defim-d aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be' accorded them without introducing new er perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world. "A general peace if rested upon such terms," he said, "can be discussed."
Unless the crowding of 1.10 passengers on a car that seats less than half
that number is stopped thousands ofj
dollars will be lost through ihe operation of pickpockets on the II. W. & K. C. Ry. this spring and summer. That is the policeman's prediction. Many ears are said to lie in the barns with broken axles ami others with bad motors. If Ihe good motors were taken
from cars having broken axles or the j good axles taken from cars having bad j motors and put on cars with good mo- (
tors and broken axles, some cars could be restored to service. Slotormen and conductors resent the
remarks of Dr. William Nichols who. spoke at the transportation meeting of ' citizens Inst week. They claim the poor; service is not the fault of the rrews :
and that Nihols doesn't know: What he is talking about.
NO FUEL SAVED THIS FINE SPRING DAY
It was a springsome spring day today, this fourth of the fuelless Sfondays. Crowds turned out to enjoy the day. the first warm, sunshiny one in months, but there was no business. In compliance with the fuel orders business houses we e shut down. Rut they saved no mere coal today by being closed than had they been open. 1
Employes Clean Streets. Employes of the Lion Store turned out in force today and removed the snow- on the streets in front of the store. The snow was hauled away by the street car company.
MANY BUILDING ' CONTRACTS TAKEN
Ruilding permits aggregating JSS.OOO j
wore taken out at the city nail in Hammond thi.'. morning and according
i to luiildiig commissioner Nitz. with the jhrepk of th wreather. he expeets a j '. v..m ia the building line. For the ere ion of an o!Y' o huilding costing i c2o. -. 1. fhe Sta'id.ird Steel Car Com
pany ... '.it .1 a bul ling permit. R. C. Witters, buildir.g contractor took out permits for four bouses costing in the neighborhood of $4.0im) each. They are to he erected on Aatrhinson avenue and West Sheridan addition.
VISITING A . ' - PARISHONER An item in Saturday's paper relative to the visit of Rev. Peter Rudnik of St. Stanislaus Parish. East Chicago, to Hattiesburg. Sliss.. in Saturday's paper stated that Rev. Rudnik had been visiting his son. Of course Father Rudnik has no son. He was visiting the boys of his parish who had enlisted and the Hattiesburg correspondent was woefully off the scent.
"THIRTY"
FOR OLD ABDUL
(Bl United Press Cablegram.) COPENHAGEN, Feb. II. Former Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid is dead, according to dispatches received hero today. He succumbed to inflammation of the lungs.
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