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FAIR

WEATHER

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LAKE

TIMES

VOL. YIT. XO. S.

FEBRUARY 30, 3938 EIGHT IGES

SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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BSaGUD

SIXTY THOUSAND

STRIKERS

G. O. P. COMMITTEE HEAD IS OXLV 3S

MAND

OSEO SHOP

Strike Leaders Say Carpenter Head is a, War Qb-structionist.

(By United Prats.)

WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. Asi

the walkout of woodworkers in eastern shipyards grew rapidly to

day, President Wilson prepared aj

definite proposal to end the strike. The president expects to drive at the heart of the trouble and appeal to the loyalty of the men in getting them back to work while the

government gets its ship program' ready. j Jt is agreed the president alone may j s'ttlA 'ho trouble. J There will be no conscription of labor; r.orv. Woodworkers threat that they t euld be Joined 1n forty-eight hours by. from eO'OO to lO'j.CO ir'-n workers v. ore I rr.et with vi, concern. All trades but tlx? i veii'horkTS ere under iron clad agree-i j.-Tit of the government, j The strike followed the shtrpfng j board's t'. f usal to concede an uncondi- j tional closed shop. The workers refused to arbitrate. Greatly concerned of t!" effect on public opinion of the strike) leaders started a drive on Hutchinson, j J;- id of the carpenters and joiners, who . it is said since the start of the 'war,! hns obstructed government work. It is j s-.iid only a part of tho carpenters of!

tir.:on labor are in sympathy.

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THEY WERE NONDESCRIPT ROOKIES NOT LONG AGO XOUr LOOK AT OUR NATIONAL ARMY SOLDIERS

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Will H. Hay-. The new chairman of the Republican national committee, Will H. Hays of Sullivan. Ind., is only thirtyeijht years old. In the Hoosier state Hays has been regarded almost a majric campaipn manager and the G. O. P. looks to him to electrify the country in the coming1 presidential campaign.

W. B. COHKET. CITY'S FIRST PROHIBITIONIST

PERSHIMG -" MAY SOOi ADVANC

i Twenty-Year Dry Clause j Elapsed January Twen

ty-Fifth

C-:r! g ra t j '. a ' e T lamir, ond s prohibitionist W. I.!. tonlv"

: o n e

Twenty years ago when nearly all of us so: drunk Saturday nisi as a matter of course and journalists v.-ere rated acecrd;n; to their daily consumption of ai"oV:c Mr. Con key had a vision. He saw a dry town, a dry ftat" and a dry nat:on in the distart future

Know -n sr the v.-eakns of the printers ing en

I and pressmen of that day Mr. '.'onkt i souc'.it to protect thero y e..T'-t.nsr

pro- ision that no saloons -vere to he I Mr. Moran ha ing

I located in the vicinity of th b g print- ! of the secretaries o

! infs and p!bli?h:T")T plant i.e was t United Press War Expert ! buu n the s'-.,th part of t , . . I As Hammond was down r:i t".i rnotiti Savs That American Com-' at tn tim ing to the - b.irvi

Attorney Who Is Sacrificing Time and Money for U. S.

Denies Pro-German Yarn

Reported by Ray Abbott.

There was a lare gathering of trade union men st tin- Labor Hall on Hohman street last night to attend a meetins conducted in the interest of the I'nited States Public Kervlco licserve and the United State Ship Yards Volunteers. AfUr the meeting was called to order by the presiding: officer. Mr. Carl Mullen, he Introduced Colonel LeIrand T. Meyer to the audience. Mr. Meyer made a vry able and patriotic speech, expressing a firm conviction of the. loyalty and patriotism of trad union men and tailing- their attention to the fact that the German soldiers fought for tha kaiser who was a ery poor thing to fight for while the Allies were fighting for the defense of their respective countries and the freedom of peoples. The speaker also quoted a wonderful speech made by General Tershing at the tomb of I.afayett. in France. The j.r.-h consisted of four words, "l.a-fajett:-1, we are here." This is truthfully said of a part of our soldier boys, and American labor would be ablo to make the same speech because" if it Id liEHU in the right sense ships will be built and supplies produced. Then Daniel ,T. Moran. Government Kr.rolllng A pent fcr Hammond, explained the methods end purpose of the enrolling of mechanics and tradesmen and answered many questions concerning the project.

In the course of the discussion Mr. 1 Kay Abbott, an electrical worker, resid-

mg at Tollcston, t)roe and stated to Mr..' i Moran that he had heard it said that j

rvery person that enrolled a man was paid thr?o dollars for getting the workj men enrolled and if this was not a fa'-t ! it ought to bo dmicd. Mr. Moran stat

ed that lie did not get a ccnf. not even postage for the letters whi'-h he wrote concerning the work, although he did get a few f ranked fin elopes in which to send in the record card5. Mr. Moran also stated that if he was getting three dollars a b?ad for enrolling men in this project, that he would be out with a rope in the street and lasso-

h man that went by and hauling

him into his office. This created some

laughter.

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TOOLS DO!

Could any soldiers look more fit? ' At any national army cantonment in the country you'll see our boys as ft and fine-looking as these pictured. They're hard as nails and hungering for their go at the Fritz. It's just a few months since these boys were green rookies without military training or any preat knowledge of drill, discrpline or outdoor life.

DAMAGE SUIT ENDS II COURT

BUSINESS AS USUAL. Local people will note that the last cf the fuelless days are past and that on Monday business conditions will be normal. All the stores will be open for business and theatres, saloons and places of amusement will cater to the general public, as on any other day.

i i Latest bulletins

East Chicago City Official Well Satisfied With OutCome of Damage Suit Tried in Hammond Court.

BELGIAN

UPRISING

East with

er-

i-uv officials and citizens

I Chicago are very well satisfied

the Judgment that was rendered yest

dav morning in Judge Hard's court

Hammond, in the case cf Curtis A. Wood of Chics go. asalnst the City of Last Chicago for damages sus'a'.r.ed on the v-ntn.r of Nov. 6. 1315. when Mr. Wood

(By TTaltea Presi.) WASHITTOTOIT, Teb. 16. T7priin apainst the Germans ia occupied Bol-g-ium were reported to the Belgian legation tod7 from Havre. German authorities -were forced to order out troops at Antwerp, Brussels sad other cities. The manifestation nere precipitated hy the new Gcriujinophlle" politico! pnrtr nctlllle. to nnrd olt political economy for Flanders. The Iblef Justice and two associate JiiNtlers of the Court of Appenls at

(By I nlled Ire Cablegram) (OPEVHAt.KX, Feb. Ki. Warsaw has been placed under martial law by the Germans as the result of high feclIniT of the Pol l.i h population asnlnst the Central powers, dispatches rebelled rcrelved here today declared. AX ATLANTIC POUT, Keb. 16. Report that one officer was killed and several sailors injured when an explosion took place aboard the Dattlcuhlp I tab were denled. The officer was killed by a fall through the hatch. l.O.VDOX, If. . Sir William Robertson, chief of start of llritlsh armies, has resigned It was announced this nftrrnoon. He will be succeeded by Sir Henry Wilson.

(By United Press Cablegram.) GENEVA, Teb. 16. Many socialists

j wero arrested In police raids at Berlin j and other German cities, according to

reports reaching" here tod37. Seasons for the raids are unknown.

Hurley's Patriotic Plea Fails to Keep Men at Work for War Purposes, (BCL1.ETIV.) (By United Press.) WASHIVC'TOV. leb. 16. St ri kin shipyard workers, granted draft exemptions because of their work, will i, put in the army If the walkout con tlnue,, official, of the provost mar sbal's office said today. "raft official, were uncertain a, , when said action would be taken. (By TTnlted Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-As fast as men could be called from work by agents of the Marine Woodworker's Union, shipyards on the port of New York were being denuded of woodworkers. Forty shipyards, visited before ten o'clock today, showed more than 6,000 men had laid down their tools, John Stuart, secretary of the union, declared. Stuart says the men ask onlv tht h

Rovornmont consider' their demands I made sometime ago. He says they have been ignored and that the workers wiU

return whenever the government indicate readiness to hear their demands, rhe strike ties up work on many ships. A patriotic plea by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board failed to kep the men at thoir work. President Hutchenson of the Fnited Lrotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners did not act on it. Labor leaders say that Hutchinson action is dangerous -.o labor, that It courts popular sceptism over labo-'s honest intentions. -Conscription of labor for work In private plants, resardless of whether th p;;, arp v. orking on government cen'rafj" said Secretary of Labor Wilson todav. r-ie wool, plant should b0 taken over oy the government before conscr'n'mslabor." "

and

llrussels were arrested by German u-

nartv of five had an automobile , tuortir, February P, following; the

learned that some I ;tCr;dcr.t st 141st street and the can.ii.

the labor unions

j had been appointed enrolling agents, in-

! quired of one or the to"n preen'.

out

mander May Advance on Twenty Mile Front of Operation.

the Ilamsriond rir-in

its in i d . t it was t.ft d ' i the restrio'iop. In ti,e property in the Vr.ilv ( Conke; ville) the;C'-ear

? pi ant. :re.ni Ti-'uit !o get deeds to a ' 1 lin sdd.t: on provision was

con-

. cerning the three dollar a bead propoi sition, and this secretary. Mr. Gcorsre

immediately coiiflrnied Mr. ilo-

( tipp.

lurnine vesterday iiiorniri;

mont of ri'0 for plan.: iff.

Plain' iff cas- viai has . claim tha" 'he street,

v. ith a

juds-!

(By United Press Cablegram.) AMSTERDAM1, Teb. 16. In an Interview with the Nene Preie Presse, Talaat Pasha, Turkish premier said: "President Wilson's speech offers the

SUB' FIRES

By J. W. T. 11AS0K (Written for ths United Press.) M-;w TOniC. I'tb. 15. Secretary fakers announcement that the United ftates will soon have half a million troops io. France, means t hat General I'rshing v. ill be able to conduct offens:e operations on a front of twenty fciles, which is approximately the maximum desired in trench operations. V properly conducted offensive rein ires the uo of six thousand troops rT n.ile. for the first series of forward tiiovonicnts. A major advance along a front of t v ent y 'miles should necessitate an army of l.'u.O''".' mti, with more, in r.scr-.e. t;..iora! l'ershmg could undertake, rperations of tins magnitude if he had five hundred thousand men tinder htm. and allow a- tl.r same time for the

adequate liolcing of the. rrencnes on

both soles of the offensive area, with a strontr reserve force to make good

casualties.

the service he

government has t"-fn performed without

Home. wood or i pay, and because of his desire to heip.

Investor is said i he has for the last two mt!tM Krcauj

'; .nstrted. 1 Th s time l.mit was tip the CJth of . January past, but with the state-wld prohibition poirgr into effect April 2 I there is no chance for saloons fti Con-

K'-;. vir.c, n do Park ! Kenwood. In f.ict on

'to l-,av eietfd a brick building for I neglected his own personal business atid

the nuroose of r,r,e.,;1!r a raioon aftr be feels seriously the cnargrc tnnt no i-s

t1 t'm t',i:t iiin(H nniv to havo t!sp 1 KiaiTiff- naid three dollars a

state go dry and thwart his plans. j rolling men in this patriotic scrvlc As a result of Mr. Conkey's foresight

the district from Carroll street south I

to Standard avenue between the State Line and Ca!umt avenue, has only one stion and tlitst existed pri'-r to the locating of th ConUey plant.

Iteal e.tate men state tnat bcause !

1 larjc'.y althou s'u

thorouphfare. m not bar- . . ... rr. . ... ...i 1 .... r

o that trail io v.i.'i..'i nm' -'

ord and supplies snd that he likewise rondi t ions. Tliere was no iri.iKo acre.-, u-j r,icl, hi. ,vwn nostaire. ! th ranal and to keep from goltl-f cot-

Mr. M.oran

mueri v. r.ei

rail's declaration that ail lie pot wes not. an ei,rn

certificate of appointment and some rcc- rlcad"d

ii.i. nriir9tc he. .n nn,i It necessary to make a Sharp i

' . r.t ll ivnr all f,r. t n the left ltltO ill? Saild. With th"

cause Muvc .''- uetm.".'?. . vv. ...

has performed for the

court a action against the propasnn-

Tt was a jury trial nr.u hip Ji'.' dists. I he Lhler Justice has nren or-

hursaav r.i-iin, tiered tleoorien.

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February 4 German troops rdurrl I i""""""-' uevoymeui, ,U hundred Actlrlsts r. ho were l.rlne ! Turkey's territorial integrity Is not renu,nhndled l.y Infuriated crowd t ! strtctetl aftd lts soverignty preserved. AnCnerpt. The litunllun Is el, a rafter- "Pr,,nlM 0a W speech floes ired by the Belcium IrKotion n, -close;110 aUOw the POSslblUty of discussion." to a rei olutlou.'' ( ! (By United Press Cablegram.)

"ROME, Teb. IS. Germany has counter, manded transfer of troops from tha east to the -west front, because of the failure cf the Brest iatorsk peace negotiations, according to dispatches from Russia, published today.

would like to know very j the embankment, th driver. Mr. Curtis'

head for cn-

tnere are n,, property value more demand.

sa .

oat

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HER TWO BOYS

ABE U. S.

and 1.

Continued ragt j

TWO MORE i wmmm

imiiiiiiuiiu soldiers BOYS HEADYI

EAST GARY BRIDGES NOW BENEATH WATERS

(By United Press Cablegram.) COPENHAGEN, Teb. 16. "Heal peace

(Special to The Times.) V k 5T i 1 41i V Frh. Ifi TJIsInf iMttrt

r...' r Tifti.Voi 'negotiations between the Central Pow.

Ul Ilia i.irtc -.... M11111111.L

have cut off this town from all road communication with the rest of Lake county.

QUAIL HARD HIT BY WINTER

IN DIAN APOLI?, IND.. Feb.

After ihf first half million Americans ! Hundreds of quau and "-iter Katne. na - e Ke; in-o action, it is not probable that j been killed by the cold weather which t'mse a.-maiiv entrsE-M in fighting will ! Prevailed throughout Indiana d'.inng evoced that number for at least a year. ! Jaun a i y. a.-.-ord.ng to tnfvrtr.ation T!ie n-iwcoiuers will be used to fill' up i reaching here from depuUea over the depleted ranlts. and to act as reserves. I 'tat" to.4a: . 1-Vanee has not more than two million i n il'0:v- ther usuaI ruo1 SUP.or Mctuallv in the trenches and tun P wk by th !,evy now faU number can be accepted as the probable and -P4 the fns'd ,w!ath u

One Is Already in France and He Thinks the French People Are Fine.

Admir

MUler Bridge Submerged.

The bridge across the Little Calumet on the East Gary-Miller-Cary road Is

closed to traffic, the crossing being be- j neath the high waters of the swollen river. Similarily the second bridge on j the Hobart-Fast Gary rocd is blocked. Town an Island. J jjot of Fa t Oarj s residential parts

a 'are above uic inr-aiiucr line, our witn j

the Snellen condition of the Little l.alurnet and the Peep river the town is irttially an island. Mater is hish along the Michigan Central. Gary and Interurbarrand Pennsylvania spans.

ers and Roumania have not been opened, but preliminaries have begun," declared a German dispatch received here today. It added that Poreign Minister Knehlmann soon would leave for Bucharest, former capital of Soumanla, now in the hands of tie Austra-Germans.

maximum of her rresent righting strength. For America to send an army across the Atlantic eaul to t went -five per cent of tho French forces and keep that army up to It? full streuh would be one of the most remarkable attainments in military 'history.

At the same Mmc. it will bo necessary f'-r America's half million to cooperate'

doctors near the Aniet lean zone if the chances of full ictory are not to be thrown av, ay. In Lorraine, opposite the American trenches the German general staff is concentrating a new army to oppose the Americans. Germany had not more than one thousand men to the mile along the Lor-

raitie front previous to the arrival ofj General Pershing in France. Pince then, I

.Private Leonard Msd. Mi, to Mrs. R42 Aloe street, tii's letter from n France to The

is certain that a large portion perish

ed. Some farmers protected flock on !

their places by scattering feed.

"Ma." wrote Schramm at Fort Conrad Schramm, Hammond. "mi'-e F.rot'iiev Charles :

T.mes." And so Mother Schramm who is equally proud of her boys come in the

Fiance Not Dependent.

now th'. morning with tne letter and

i told The Times all about the boys he has given to her country. I Charles is in France and Leonard

His letter to his moth-i

ri-eDS.rat-.-ry t" o.nii'.g

iSiram's fleet on the Atlantic. Kdward ! Young and Joe A inkier, both well i known and popular Hammond boys i who have been stationed at the Great i Lakes Naval training school and talented members cf the Sousa's band tare home on a short furlough. I Tuesday they are scheduled to ltave for New York where with 2-' other (musicians from the Great Lakes ' they w-H board a battleship and later join the fleet. Mr. Youiijr who is a I son of Barney Vouns. of this city.

whose fame as a musician spread afar. !

na i-een nun. .- - : " , jtuicr and aift in coniV-rringr the hon-

j Pi?(dltL uo.ik ' 1 - " " ers himself very lucky to join K3 as

ELKS GO TO GARY MONDAY

I Quite a number of the East Chicago.

Hamond and Whiting Klks will go to Gary next Monday evening upon invitation of the Gary lodge cf Elks to meet th district deputy grand exhalted

(By United Press.) TOLEDO, Peb. 16 The flood situation has improved. Two hundred men

worked all night to protect the power plant of tho light company. (By United Press Cablegram.) BOMB, Peb. 16. "That peace Is nearer than ever" was the unofficial opinion at the Vatican today. The Vatican has learned from papal nuncios. It was saftl, that President Wilson's latest speech favorably impressed the democratic and

pacifist parties in Austria and Germany, particularly the former.

M DOO

(By United Press Cablegram.) LOXDO.V. Feb. 2. An enemv submarine bombarded Inner this n-omiiu killing a child, injuring three mon and women and three children. Lord I rene', announced today. Bombardment lasfd about four minutes. Thirfv shells Mr Hrcd. This attack, followed twenty-four after German destroyer raids on tha British submarine patrols in the Straits of Dover. A trawler and seven drifters vcre sunk. The attacks are believed to hae been operated from German navai bases on the Belgian coast.

"We took elecen prisoners. North of Lens there is hostile artUlerying." "(By United Press Cablegram.) AMSTERDAM, Peb. 16 A member of Relchsrat from South Tyrol has been arrested In Trent for aUeged wide-spread Italian spy plots, according to reports. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Teb. 16 Judge Advocate General Crowder officially ap

proved the death sentence of fl?e negro soldiers for participation In the Houston riot. WASHINGTON, Peb. 16 Workless and heatless Mondays will continue n New England, the federal fuel administration announced here today.

By I nited Pril WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. C relation

ores King -vim mies'

tl,.. War Risk Insurance is

i the heart and hopes of many

) fiance. i A large number of soldiers applying

for insurance have named their fiances as beneficiaries, but have been informed that this is against the rules cf War Risk Insurance. Only a wife, husband, child, grandchild, brother, sister, adopted brother or sister, stepbrother or stepsister, parent, grandparent or stepparent of the

! will soon sail.

i er which Mrs. Schramm 'Leonard to read follows; Dear Mother: ! I just received a letter

ors of membership on a to be Initiated the ISth.

large class

had

nt to

HAIL THE SNOW.

pi ATTEMPTS TO

so long ago since I h jve not heard 1 home. I am working every day.

o nHmdenl.urg has Riven cieep at .en- :ns,.roJ can be named as a. beneficiary. tioti to the problem of defending German ' soil s gainst au American offensive. Fori War-Pavinss help the country's in-

th! reason, there must be intimate , dustrious on a wcr basis gradually. The

Franco-American cooperation. despite

Generel Pershing's ability to take the Initiative alone.

government could shut down all toriea ma'.ctng non-essentials at

woop. j ou know

m you and

Mas very glad to hear from home fo

it sure made mo feel happy, for it lias

been from

Just as if I were working in Hammond. I just received my pay, mother, and the amount which I have received was one hundred and eighty-two francs, and when a sold er receives h's pay here I tell you if surt dos make him feel happy. And I really must say that, the people over heie at e very nice. Weil, mother, I guess it won't be vei y long any more. 1 guess the war will end soon, and we will all be at

ac- non-.e soon.

one Your loving son, 1 CHARLES SCHRAMM.

i they are bosom friends. Joe. it will

be remembered was drummer at the

i Orpheum for several years and a!"jo

I assisted i:i a popular dance orchestra.: j - ! Sou." mote of th" beautiful.

Thrc in', hi s of snow was added last . : -V.. ..l t S l A - o 1 n 1 M r- ro K

ATTACK LANDLADY ; . anks almost depleted by the February I o.ftn- tx-1iO-i ome f"lhs mistook for nn

Half crazed by drink, Frank Sesko-

wiehkes, SO yesrs old. attempted to attack his landlady at &t'l Kenwood avenue in Hammond last night and but for the fact that she was an extraordinary agile and strong woman, be. might have done a great dal of harm. She, finally was able to free herself from his grasp after a strutsrle jind ran out into the street f..r h"!p. The man was subdued and brought in the police station by a man gi in? his name as John Paul. He is being held at the Hammond rolice station pending his condition and an investigation.

early spring. Traffic was hardly offected, however. However it is necessary that the enow shovel be brought out of the cellar once more to clean thesidewalks.

(By United Press.) HELENA, MONT., Peb. 16. Ratification of the national prohibition amendment was ready today for the senate

of the Montana special legislature. The house ratified it with but one dissenting vote yesterday. (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Teb. 16. Pederal authorities co-operated today in a complete probe of the blazes that destroyed the Pugh Terminal Warehouse. (By United Pres3.) WASHINGTON, Peb. 16. Rumors of the death of Gen. Calidorn were reported today.

FUNERAL OF W. HAMMOND PIONEER Melnard Kaelin, a resident of West Hammond for twenty-five years, died Thursday ' night at S:30 p. " m. at US Wentworth avenue, following- a lingering illness. Death was due to cancer of the stomach. Besides a widow two sons. Otto and Edward, both of Hammond survive. The funeral is t' be held at eight o'clock at the c.

Jospeh's ohuich with interment in H:.

.loseph a cemetery. Mr. Kaelin was a member cf Hie Catholic Order of Forresters.

(By United Press Cablegram.) AMSTERDAM, Peb. 16. The. Bulgarian government has resumed diplomatic

i relations with Russia, it is reported.

WAS PRESSMAN IN HAMMOND

- (By United Press Cablegram.) Edward "A -I. munition" Wheed. liane- j LONDON, Peb. 16 A successful raid cd yesterday for murder, was for a I carried out by .British troops In the time a resident of Hammond, six years j Ypres sector, Pleld Marshal Halff reago. He worked as a pressmen in ported. the city. "Onr casualties were slight," he said.

FROEBEL BEATS HAMMOND HIGH Froebel school of Gary last evening defeated the Hammond Ilisdi school basketball team at llamin-uid, 3.1 to It. The score at the end of th" first half was is to t'. in Frocbel's favor. The Frcelv-i .second team deflated. the Hammond second team 10-?.

The YV. S. S. campaign gives even the humblest of us a chance to do something to win the war. ,