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HAMMOND, INDIANA,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918.
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THIS WILL BE GOOD THING FOR . ENTIRE REGION
500 MORE HOUSES FOR III CITIES
No Profits to Be Made on i United States Local Mil-1 lion Dollar Project Now Pending. j
The Twin Cities are on the verge of having 500 houses added to their facilities for taking care of war
workers. That many will be built; of the $2,000 type cottage is ap-; proved. j Building of this many hinges on j the decision of the war department, j which now has under consideration! the application of East Chicago-! Indiana Harbor financiers" that 000,000 be devoted to immedite re-; lief of housing shortage. Of this ; sum the local capitalists have, pledged a half million. They askj that the other $500,000 be taken j from the $50,000,000 fund congress j proposes to use in building houses: for war workers. j TWIN CITISS XIST TO AS. The twin cities -were the first In this resign to taker active- steps to share ia the $50,000,000 congress proposes to loan for war houses. Local financiers asked, through Senator New for a loan of $500,- j n.m r.ror.iisir.c to add as much more.)
rrosrects are Very
at Washington, cf
Enterprise of Twin Cities in Seeking U. S. Housing Aid Galvanizes Region While Gary, Hammond, Whiting and other Calumet regional cities have been holding meetings and talking about asking for federal aid to relieve housing shortage that affects all of these important war communities it remained for the Twin Cities, East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, to be the first to put in its application at Washingcn. Twin cities' capitalists and business men pledged a half million and asked the government to put up as much. A decision is expected from the war department and the national council of defense. Speed of the Twin Cities in going straight to the source of aid for it has galvanized the whole region and Gary and Hammond business men propose to follow suit. One argument in aid of the Twin Cities is that while it has 35,000 population it has 15,000 workmen, a clear index to how many must remain out of town because of the need of houses. Another is that the Twin Cities houses the workmen of one Gary industry the Universal Portland Cement Co. Practically every one of the 1200 cement workers live in. the Twin Cities, thus relieving Gary of a tremendous . housing burden.
mm INTERESTS , REORGANIZE !
Bondholders Capitalize Gary - Hammond - East Chicago - Indiana Harbor Line into $730,000 Hoosier Corporation.
"NO GOOD TO ME; TAKE HIM," SAYS WIFE
THESE THIRTY-ODD FEET OF WARRIORS LEFT THREE MORE BROTHERS AT HOME
BUTTE, Mont.. Feb. 21. It sometimes happens that a man over-estimates his own importance which was evidently the case of a Bozeman man of draft ageft who presented the following letter to the Gallatin County exemption board: "Dear United States Army: My husband ast me to write a reckommend that lie support his family. He cannot read, so don't tell him. Just take hl.n. He alnt no " goodv to mo. He ain't done nothIn but drink lcmmen essence and play a fiddle since I married him. eight years ego, and I gotta feed him and feed seven kids of hisn. Maybe you can get Rim to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eatln. Take him and welcum. I r.eed the grub and his bd for the kids. Don't tell him this, but take him.
Placing- of the Gary-Hammond-Indt-ana Harbor-East Chicago traction system on a more solid basis, better transit
I facilities and additional equipment are j in sight as a result of the reorganizatlon of the western divisions of the Gary land Interurban lines, j Tho entira traction system west of
Eroadway has been incorporated In Indiana as the Gary Street Railways company, capital $730,000. Hew Holding- Company. This week an additional incorporation was effected, that of tho holding: com
pany, the Gary Street Railway corpora-i ice reserve up to last evening', consists
TWEBTV FIVE MORE MEN ARE NEEDED
Hammond's enrollment in the s'aipard volunteers and in the public tcrv-
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ARMY IS TO FIGHT
GERMANS
Virginia, authorised capital -U. Fhiladeiphia and Daltimore
tion of
(Continued on page eleven.)
BRIDGES CLOSEO
bright, it Is stated j
getting ine oau
lion loan.
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tup tttf.S rnav state here that the
loral capitalists, who propose to put up! SdMuOnO do not expect to make one dol
lar profit end what's more they ate not g"ir.s lo take any profit. WILL AID SITUATION.
It is probable, if the money is avail- j nb'e to erect 500 houses costing j: 000 ; ach These with nearly 2C!0 homes beins built by the Mark .steel r'-ant people, at a cost of $1,000,000 will help to re-, llrve the building situation in the twin j clue., which have 13.000 workmen and, 0n0 population. If houses were had. 'or r.ll workers in the twin cities it is Pointed out there would be a population j of 55.C00. I
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between Hammond and Gary, Road ! Cammisioner William Xewman of Ham-
, or i,s mechanics end tradesmen and i ; skilled workTs. D. J. Moran. tho en-j j roiling ajrent for Hammond, is of the' J opinion that Hammond's part of the ! j quota of 10. SOS, to be raised for this ! j purpose in Indiana, Is not yet reached.) I Although up to date Hammond's on-
- o iitui tiny ui liiei other cities of Lake county.
Tomorrow is jJVasbington's birthday, and a day of patri-tlc endeavor, and it
Is probable that a considerable num-i
! ber of tradesmen will not work tnmnr. I
gradually rising , rCv.-. Tor this reason. Mr. Moran will!
keep his office open ail day during bus- ! inss hours, and urges all tradesmen' and mechanics who aro r.ut working on that day. to call at his office and'
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Left to right Bn, Robert, William, Llewellyn and Charles Marshall of Frankfort, Ky. These five Marshall boys, all of one family, volunteered when the war bepan. All are over six feet tall, the tallest one measuring six feet three inches. It's quite a representation from one family. But Ben Marshall, , internal revenue collector at Frankfort, says his home won't be so lonesome as one might think. For there are three more boys at home, aged twelve, fourteen and sixteen, and then the boys have five sisters.
ig that the
f the Little Calumet river may it some of the wooden bridges
Latest "Bulletins
' mona r,s siauoneu w ait-mixm enroll in this service, as eucli an a.t , Black Oak bridge. Ciinc avenue and I win bo a proper celebration of AVashj Kennedy avenue. If any danger erlses J jnKton's birtliday.
. Moran. exrecis In Hammond
MEETING
BLANKET IPPROMTION
i State Defense Organization
of washouts it is probanie tnat ayna- , Enrolling agent. J
' u.ite w i:i oe usca iu mow who j nn(j hopes to
1 structures. I Ail of the roads leading to these t bridges aro inundated with three and four feet of water and are iiw closed to traffic. The water has never riser. ! as high in years. The only way out of
! Hammond south Is Hohman street and , iu tlis
Calumet avenue. There are three or j four inches of water over the Calumet ! avenue road, but it is rassobl to traf-
! tic. I The railroad bridges north of High- ! lands are also reported to be in danger. ! i Yesterday the water had risen within a , ! foot of the tails. Farm lands along! I the river are inundated on each side
es to en roil
before the work closes. He ha? set this! mark, because it is his opinion that i t!n is nbout the part of tiie total1 luof that ought to be enrolled in Ham-; mond, considering; the great number! of tradesmen and mechani 'S that c !
city. !
FOR' CITIES OF REGION I
. . . , . . ; for as far as a half mile. The toad; Finally AdOptS ReSOlUtlOn I between St. John and Crown Toinr.j , . i known as the Iteaver Dam, is also unIndOrSlllg United StateS j der several feet or water, it is le-i ported. It has been impassably for j Job fif PusblTIP" tllft War J eeveral weeks. i
LEWIS IS FEELIiG
i:d a
Is.diana Calumet region.
Kast Chicago
uced into congress a bill lor an appro-
pria-tion of half a
With the cold wave and freeze dur
ing the past two days it is expected that the watr may recede. The ice
in the river has not broken up as yet. i
It
A blanket appropriation of a minion i . - i . t l- A
half dollars tor nous.ne i TIMES BTEEAU.
was today stai-
d to be Uary s Pau i"i . y t,
oroMOe homes for thousands 01 mum-; i.vuiAruuw, x-.b. -x. . " i. r About the most lively meeting of the " tlon workers. ... , I ..... .r v, lUAMV AP.PT7.Cl
lias already tiaa miro- t sum council u. uticu.-c i.t.-i .iiinn .vwum
the one Wednesday when the council; SUBMERGED
million for housing In j finally adopted a resoultion indorsing; t y f tt. a nnminiei ra t inn irt t 1 1 : Vi - i
the Twin City. t V" " T. . . " , .7 T, i Thousands of acre along- the Little
The Gary plan is for the Cities or w. ir.g ou u w. ral,lmet river between South H-iiman
street. Hammond and South Ttroad-
way. Gary, were today submerged and' ! rising at tiie rate of an inch an hour' ! the water threatened to cut off all !
blue; he is
ragin to cooperate iu w - ... t-e rvtea for aid.
tio nana num '""5" .
lary
must lmi? a5"""
nana r.iaK-5 r- , rv Fat Chicago and Hammond each tory to all of i,vr. assistance if the munition , cil who were
(By the I'nlted Press
is fourteen and fifteen inches thick. -- ' ' fAmerican will soon have to fight for " llct-a an1 1f:tnii Pon.ntnr I i of
rilinois today demanded that povrrnment ownership of railroads as a preparedness measure. If private ownership continues, he sad. we wll have no adequate means of rushinsr troops to points needing defense. Lewis declared German intrigue will incite Russia to seize Alaska to force-
the two bordering i
the, I'nited States to divide its fishTin?
AGED LOWELL
specinl to The Tme towr.I.U Ind.. Feb. "2. Howell II. Ttii-d" was taken suddenly sick Tues-
nicht and died in atout an Hour.
told
i forces and minimize its assistant to
the Allies in Europe. His address was i
ing the ob of winning the war. The resolution was revised and rewritten
twice before, it finally became satisfac-
the members of the coun-
prtsent. As iinally adopt-
workers are to be housed. ,fa it raa railroads b-tween
Hammond's part in the ar.air to cat j nereas. .mi" - i" thoroughfares. . k. r,r v.iitt.1. , a riot iir.dertakine as our present ., . . . .. ,- ... , ...
4 subscription oi an i --- i n;.i noon npnntuy avenue lor nan i , ,, , , . Wr an income of ?H0 a month for j war. an undertaking whose success must j mU5 n cach fic, o ,.iver was the call for a genera! adv am- of go - !bc 8Urd by gCnCraI ,CSUUS 3nJ nt! under water and impassable. ; ernment ownership advocates in the, rSesentative, of the w ar depart-j by occasional errors, and I WithIn twenty.four hoar8 Calumet I '.onrs debate n tho pending nSTa e m d surveys of the housing -Whereas. the administration at - an Cohlnlbia avBM will be cut off. I ra" roa , T"on 2 ' "i ! 1r.entnae1.1auv , -v.i-, tnas so far accomrllshed . , . . .... i terlng their efforts on section U. cos -
i f -ml ion in i e "- ' . .. .. . -. - "
vast resuiis i i ( ,3 three-fjuarters of a mile wide. iii.-.n of our national resources for!
MAN DEAD j military purposes, and I -whereas, the accomplishment or such
results by the department of war affords the only fair test In appraising T he folio irg su.ts for divorce were il , , c i, i fi!d in the Hammond superior court
tne serxic- today; net head: , Anna Toctzoh . Bruno W. Toet "Therefore, be tt resolved, by the In- j diana state council of defense, that iv ' ' -'
express our confidence in tne sccretar (Continued on page six.)
(By United Press Cablegram.) STOCKHOLM, Teb. 21. A German batallioa landed in Xlrdaaa yesterday, according' to dispatches to tlie Aitonblad today. (By United Press Cablegram.) BERLIN (Via London) Teb. 21. "Pressing eastard from Srlnsk on a front of mora than 4GO miles, we have cleared tlia country of the enemy and taken prisonen, a general several divisional commanders, 423 officers and 8,700 men," the German war office declared today. In addition to prisoners Te look I.3S3 B""s, ISO machine guns, oer -I.OOO automobiles, food laden trains
and other materials. We hnve ocrapled Lcnl after erossinft the froien Sand river." the report mid. -We hme marched thromth Wcnden and are now before Wolmnr. A ntonif attack, penetrated Isolated points nrounil loorBl, lleclilcowrt and Mouancourt last ejenlaB-"' (By United Press.) WAEHIKGTON, Teb. 21 The senate finance committee today reported tht S500,000,000 finance corporation bill. It baa been materially amended and and some portions entirely rewritten. Its chief provision, however, remains practically tlie same. It provides for formation of Jhe government finance corporation with, a half billion to be used in making- loans to persons and concerns engaged in war contracts. (By United Press Cablegram.) PARIS, Feb. 21. A spy organization of the Germans to create Insurrections in Parts during the German offensive has been discovered. Many arrests
have been made, including a draftsman In an arms factory. (By United Press.) PITTSBURG, Teb. 21 The Alleghany was lowering at the rate of several inches an hour today.
PREDICT THAT IT WILL BE BUILT Defense Council Member Says Sanitarium May Be Expected Within Year.
(Special to The Times.) CROWN" roiXT. IN'D.. Feb. 21. The county council of defense has been investigating the desirability of a tuberculosis sanitarium for Lake county and as a result of that investigation will recommend to the county council tht a sufficient appropriation to mads to put through this project. The prediction has been made by a member of the county council of de-
! frtisc that within twelve months a $130,-
i00 tuberculosis sanitarium would be in operation or at least under construction. A movement is under way to call together representatives of all of the commercial clubs of the county for a consid
eration of this project and to present
to the county council, if thought desirable, a resolution favoring an appproprlation for such an institution.
Huns Occupy Halsal, Russian Leaders Order Armies to Resist the Invaders. By JOSEPH SHAPLI1T ( United Press Staff Correspondent.) PETROGRAD, Feb. 20 (delayed), Feb. 21. American Ambassador Francis and the allies' envoys at noon today were preparing for
a quick departure from Petrograd. They were overwhelmed by the news of Lenine's and Trotzky's "willingness" to sign the German dictated peace. They said however that even a separate peace would not mean a break f between Russia and the allies. Russian armies are concentrating at Vitebsk under Gen. Bonchbruyevitch to halt the German invaders. (Vitebsk is a Russian province borderins on Courland and Livonia.) Russian commanders on the whole front have ordered denfobUization halted and wired the soldiers in Tetrograd: "Do your duty; defend the revolution. By an overwhelming majority the Dolshevikl and the revolutionary socialists of the Left in the central executive committee voted to defend Petrograd et ail costs. A mobilization of all workers is being considered. Tho information was flashed to th? Smolny institute that if the majority socialists do not break with the German government tho independent socialists will start an independent war. GERMANS HAVE TAKEN HATSAL. The Germans have, occupied Hatsal. a seaport on tho Gulf of Finland fiftyeight miles southwest of Rczal, and ar-
tContinued on page eleven )
GERMANS AFTER PETROGRAD
Trichinosis Causes Death of Two at Huntington TKINTIXOTON". Ind.. Feb. 31. Mrs.
James L. Crist died at h-?r home northwest of the city yesterday after an illness of several weeks from trichinosis. Death was caused from eating poorly cooked sausage, which contained trichinae. This is the scond member of the family to die from eating pork. A son. Lyman Clifford, died a few daysi ago from tho same ailment. The son bad eaten the sausage as it came from the irrlnder, after it had
i been seasoned. The other members of j tho family of ten ate the sausage rarejly cooked. A daughter and two sons j are seriously ill at the Huntington hospital and the father, a son and a (daughter are ill at their home.
B.r United rre Cablegram LONDON. Feb. 21. German detachments, twenty mile east of Vitebsk, distributed proclamations declaring
'resistence to Germany futile and that
German forces are preparing to occupy Petrograd. according to an agency dispatch from the Kussian capital today.
DRAFT NEWS ANNOUNCED (By United Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. II. Nearly 000,000 perfectly fit men will form America's first line of draft reserve.". There are in Class 1. BQO.000 more thnn originally estimated. Of the 8.116,000 men in Class 1. less than "0 per cn will be rejected. About 4.00n,000 are divided between classes 2 and 4 mostly married men and those with depend-
j ants. Class 3 includes about 7..0,i""i" ! Class 5 takes in about a million men. ! including tho?3 rejected from oih'tI classes.
NEW DIVORCE SUITS.
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day
her
ir., awakened his wife and
be was sick and for her to get him Fome medicine and when she got to bis bedside to give it to him ho was unable to take It. She called a doctor but when one arrived he was dead.
Mr Purdy was about 75 yetrs of age i
and has lived In and around Lowell all his life. He was a so'.d.er in the the civil war. Tie leaves his wife, one daugthter. Mrs. C. It. McXoy of Idaho and one son. Herman Purdy. of Hammond. No arrangements have been made for his funeral as they are awaiting word from his daughter.
NEW QUARREL BREAKS TODAY
Puts Clover Seed in Bank Vault For Safe Keeping
erng the definte lmit to federal control. They lined tip behind Senator Cummins' proposed amendment poovidim? t the end of the war the J president shall name a board of five to manace the roads.
The Senator predicted government
ownership will be th" main issue of the next presidential campaign. Reviewing the breakdown of privately owned and managed roads he said calamity is ahead for the United States if ever an enemy appears on her
borders and railroads under private !
a icry enthusiastic. Jewish mass j ownership are depended on to transmeeting . "On Zionism," will take place: port troops.
this evening. Thursday. February 21, at .
the Synagogue. Forsyth avenue and liSth street. East Chicago, Ind. ' Mr. Leon Zolotkoff, one of the well
MANY ZIONISTS TO j ATTEND MEETING
RUSH WORK ON BIG HOTEL Construction of the quarter-million dollar hotM being buiit by the Standard Steel Car Company on Coliur.lda avenue, is bcinir rushed. The foundation is three feet above the ground now and the structural steel work is soon to be raised.
WABASH. Ind.
Feb. 21. Clover seed
in the opinion
FIFTEEN BOYS LEAVE FOR WAR GAMP TODAY
i as valuable as gold.
of A. L. Urschel. cashier of the NorthManchester bank, so in order to protect his nine bushels from fire and
Further difficulty in the friction between the K. J. T; K-- Co. snd striking switchmen took place this morning x hen ?25 men in the Kirk yards quit
work, causing a curtailment of produc- bank, the clove lion of munitions of war. The. nev'wjnuon which
quarrel hmpes not on waftes but on em- j open. He att-.r,pted to nir.k
known national Zionist speaks and Rv. Thos. Hiiics will be the principal speak- : rs of the evening, l.'r. Jacob Goldman! was requested by the federated Zionist! Societies to preside. j The Zionist Societies of tho Harbor, Hammond snd Cary are expected to be present. The Jewish people of Lake
theft 1-rschel has placed it in safety county, men. women ana cnnarcn arc ,. invited and expected. j denos't. . (
A few nights ago Urschel left the! The "Declaration of restoring raies- ,vl,ere they will enter th
clover seed in the front part or mo , io.t- - . in'ir names 'bank. Tuesday, when he opened the I Critish Government." will be the subject Krneat . 1'eWolf George
peed was near a rear : ot me, evening. .nr. .oookoo win fi I 1 niton . ;nvni-on. Aineri had been partlv prid i sent it from a -I' w ish standpoint and i dor hoof. . t k i K. Jackson.
t oitjn?. Thomas Iline. originally from , and ' Ungland and pastor cf the llnglish Fpis-
FILES SUIT IN FEDERAL COURT
i SAVES HIS j OFFICER'S LIFE j WITH THE AMERICAN" ARMY ,TN j FRANCE, Feb. 15. (Peiayed). The life of a well known office:- wiik the American forces here was saved by the 'quick aotfon of his chauffeur, follow
ing a wound, it has been learned. The officer was wounded in the neck. Medical aid was not quickly available. Grasping the several veins in his hand and chauffeur IieM the ends together for forty-five minutes until medical aid arrived. The officer has recovered.
ILEWIS HEARS
- PETITION INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Feb. 21. Ernest I. Lewis, chairman of the public service commission, today heard th' . . . " .Via V-irtlinrn Tnrttflnn Ga
' and Klectric Company -which asked
for a CO per cent surcharge on pow-.-r bills over $10''.' a month. The company operates in Hammond. Fast Chicago. Michigan City, Indiana Harbor and Whiting1.
127 REPORTED.
iDy United Press TvnrWAPOLTS. Ind.. Feb. 21. Suit
was filed by Martin Kuntz. father of y ' Kuntz who was killed by a United Press.) Ga'rv A-'lnter-irban car at Hammond ' WASHINGTON-. Feb. 21.The war 7" .' -r,,e The uit 1-: f..r t elve- j department today issued an official anlast j int. . . . . r..-...n.m. . -- .... ...
and i hied a K? ins t i r"" '"s ioii luenimea
Vlfteen Hammond young men in tnej
draft who volutin teered to go at once and therefore were able to select the brandies of service they de?ired. today left Hammond for Fo-t Leavenworth
i
thousand dollars
the receivers of tTiC road in Federal court. He aks damages for his son? deatii.
Ttlovtnmt of labor. i as a loke. but could not do
i rA to not the seed in the vault I copal church, will present it from a Smock. Foster Smith. Ralph ,T
VOIR G A It H A G K CAN I? rilO-OEH- I until planting
M. worth $20.50 a bushel. ' i nc meeting w in sian si o.ov v. m. i
. ... .- . -1 . , . - . i j. I c-rlcti-ii, nn,t l:"r!?MOi stnnflnolnf. At,-in r?-!. oti i t- and Arlhnt- T. 1
The meeting will start at 6:o0 p. m
ignal corps, j i
L. Kun jo. i
Fred .
flille. pa til Kikkert. Prt-r Elman. Kdgar S. Kingman, Ralph 'Ward. S'ewart
Sm ith. i
and Arthur L. John
on.
GRAFT IS CHARGED. r I ntted I'ressl VA?HlX'iT'''N', Feb. 21. That graft exist- to an alarming degree among officers fcnd directors ..f fed. nil v sn ve ,i ten,s. -a as announced t-day by Chsirmun G'.a.-s ' the federal re-M-rvc and c-irrnvy .-...mmit t.-e in in-trod-icins amendments to the federal reserve act submitted by the treasury department ,
soldiers, dead as a r.esult of the Tuscunia sinking at 127, including three officers. Eighty-one who sailed on the Tustania have not yet been reported on. Those known to have, been saved total 1.5TL
NOTICE TO ELKS. Important meeting tonight, initiation and luncheon. Final Frrangnient for tie log sh.iw r.evt week. livery Elk should attend. 2-21-1 R. C. SLATER. K. R. Mary Reveg vs. Martin J. Reves, Indiana Harbor.
1000 Barrels of Flour Siezed at South Bend SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Feb. 31. Food Administrator A. Frank Eby. accompanied by a squad of police, raided the building of Nicholas Badowski today and confiscated 1.000 barrels of flour, one-fourth of the supply which it is alleged Badowski has been hoarding for several several months. The administrator is preparing to raid two other places. In which are stored ?50 barrels of flour.
ANOTHER HAMMOND BOY "OVER THERE"
Mrs. Mary Kralewetz. 358 Indiana avenue. Hammond, has received word from her son, Carl, that he has- afried
safely in France and that his cousin. Sergeant Frank Glasgow, formerly of I the Hammond high rchool. is there i with him. Mrs. Kralewetz is a widow. Jo, another son. is in training at Ft. Iul'ont mid txpects to J-aVf foiFrance oon.