Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 260, Hammond, Lake County, 1 May 1918 — Page 1

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Congress Plans to Spend Sixty Million Dolilrs In Various Parts of Country tor Industrial Homes, WASHINGTON, D. C, May 1. The government is about to appropriate another $60,000,000 for housing industrial workers. A bill authorizing the secretary of labor, under the direction of the president, to spend that amount in furnishing living quarters for employes engaged in war work, including government clerks in the District of Columbia, is now before the senate. A month ago the Emergency Fleet corporation received an appropriation of $50,000,000 to provide houses for shipyard workers. The housing question is now one of the most important factors in the American war program. The chief obstacle to speedinc up war work is the lack of sufficient houses in towns where munition plnnts are located. American workin n refuse to stay whnre they cannot ch'.aln decent living cor.ditios. MUSHROOM SITriTITIOIT PLANTS. When the war first broke out In Euiope the belligerents turned to this country fcr munitions. Munition plants sprang tip all alone the easrorn coast p.ri'l In the middle west. There was r.o time to lay out model towns and vilIntf s: to install elaborate sewrago systems and filtration plants and to build schools, churches and moving picture theaters. Besides, it was at the time of the great labor depression, in the f.rst vear of the war. and munition makers were confident that American workmen would be glad to an opt the towns as they found them. APPALLING LIVING- CONDITIONS. They were right. Men Who had families left them where they were and obtained jobs in the new plants, living wherever they could find room. For the men without families it was not so hard. They were used to changing their habits rt a moment's notice. Hut conditions in theso munition towns were such as to make even single, nv-ri discontr nded. In one Connecticut town durig the first year of the war workme were compelled to sleep in railway wilting rooms. n t i VASSAB WOMEN INSTRUCTOR ARRESTED fiS PROPAGANDIST POt'OHKEUPF I K. X. T.. May 1. Miss Agathe "Wnholroina Kicharth. instructor rf ;."tor.nn st Yasf-ar College, was l-"t ti:sht taken into custody by l ed-ral ;tp-n;s chirC'"d with ctmilatinsr I ro-Otmsn pre raer.nda. Miss Kichrath is charged with justifying the sinking of tiie I.usiania. on the ground that it was loaded with l ull' ts "to kill our Gri::n fathers." S'he also is charged wi'h justifying the invasi.-n of Belgium. It lins beett !n "v. ti by the K deral nents th.-t she l.;is bad f refill' nt n.'etinr with Jir. Jc-M'i h S'nitx ;im1 1 inrich Bokisch. two 1'oughU. r r sic rejiid'-nts tak-n into U!: toil a y by t;ic 1-V".eral ag'n'st a wenk n go. Agents of the Popartm' nt of Justice lavo been patherinjr evidence against seeral pronnnent Foushkecpsians, and the taking into custody of Stuiz and Bokisol) and Miss Richrath is said to be the first result of their labor. President Henry Noble MncCracken of Vass:ir said Miss llicbrath had t-en under d-srvat:on for wf-ks. WHITING SADDENED BY THIS DEATH Special Ti The Times. WHITING. INP., May 1. People of this city Merc saddened to hear today thai Mrs. Henry S hrage. Jr., wife of Henry Sohroc Jr.. of Whiting died at St. Bernard hespttal in Chicago yesterday of pnruii'.oroa after sn iilmss of only two cpiys. She loivfs besid.-s her liuband a five jenr old si n. K nry Washburn iJchrage. The f'.it.erai wiil be held from I. eke Park aver ;e, Chicago, to ak Hill cemetery, Hammond, vhers she will be buried in the family lot.

Between 2000 and 3000 Indiana Boys Are Seeing Some Hard Fghting in the First Line Positions in France These Days.

WASHINGTON", May 1. Without any violation of the censorship obligations it can be said that Indiana is represented in the allied linos in ricardy, just east of Amiens in France, by between 2,ri00 and 3.K0 men. These men are in all branches of the service. The exact location of the 150th United States field artillery, formerly the 1st Indiana artillery rcgentment. may not be definitely given, but it may be said with assurance that this organization is holding an important position on that front line. The other Indianias there are of the more, than 17. 000 Hoosiers who have enlisted since April 6. 1917. and who were assigned to the various branches of the service. These assignments were, with few exceptions, to regular units, artillery and infantry, and a majority of these volunteers are now at the front and scattered through the regular array units. Renewal of Drive Expected. The war experts here say It Is only a question of days until Germany will renew her drive toward Amiens and then the young men from Indiana will have to bear their share of the greatest battle that has take place since time began. The secretary of war Is In receipt of many requests that direct information as to the activities of these American troors. that 1 to- say. direct official communications from General Pershing's headquarters, be supplied the people here at home. He his indicated that he is in sympathy with this demand and it was said authoritatively today that there was the probability that within the next few days the President and the secretary of war would tome to a nnal decision on this point. Under the fighting arrangement that has been entered into by the allies, the American forces, as is now well understood, are brigaded with the French and British troops. This means that they are under the direct command of the high French and British officers and (Continued on page seven.) sSroIoWowF transportation problem Orders 22 Motor Busses to Carry Men to and From Their Plant. The Standard Steel Car Comrany has laid out a large program for operating motor buses to take rare of the increased force of men which they intend to employ. Twenty busses are to operate on Columbia avenue to the South Shore and Michigan Central Railways with whom arrangements have been made to run their trains to a Columbia avenue station which both railroads Intend building. It might be necessary to run some buses to the towns of Highland, Mun-stf-r and surrounding smaller towns in order to get enough ir.cn to suprly the nee. Is. The Standard Steel Car Company officials and the army officers liww located at the- Standard plant have decided on the above means of transportation as the most logical, most, satisfactory and efficient service that can be obtained. The buses are being built at the plant of the Champion Potato Machinery Company, and each bus has a seating capacity for twenty-two p.-op and until r c-xtrem needs forty people can be ( a rri d. The Champion Fotnto Machinery Company is now figuring on supplying more of th" local industries with buses. The Standard Steel now has a three and a half ton truck and several smaller trucks. ! SENTENCED 5 TO 14 YEARS John Brown and Joe Tosce of Ind:ana Harbor, found guilty of highway re-bbcry were today sentenced by Judge Hardy at Hammond. The pair j had been convicted of holding up Domj in:k Bonomo at Gary last January. 'They did not succeed in robbing their I victim, however, as he shot both of them. Brown and Tosce eae'n received a sentence of from five, to fourteen years. MOBILIZATION OF NEW DRAFT I TRY Tnitf.1' Press. i WASHINGTON, May 1 Provost MarI shal Crowder today ordered the mobiilizntion on May 1". of S.f'o drafted ! men to begin a two month's c ourse of training for special army industrial ' work.

BOY VETERANS OF FIRST U. S. CLASH WITH EXE MY IX FRAXCE RETURN; NOW THEY'RE SELLING LIBERTY BONDS; 'AMERICA WILL WIN," I

Fifty joang Teterans of General Pershing's army Mho have returned to the United States to sell Liberty bonds. Right from the front line trenches, with the mud of Flanders, Picardy and Lorraine still on their equipment, fifty American war heroes hav come home to tell the United States wha-t our army is doing on the other side and what we must do to back that army. They are busy thi3 week selling Liberty bonds. "America will win," is the message they have brought home.

GOVERNOR GOODRICH

Times Bureau. At State (.'apitai.. INDIANAPOLIS. INP. May 1. For the first time, as far as can be recalled, an Indiana Governor has made an impartial, non-partisan appeal to the votres of the state to be sure to go to the polls-on primary: day, Tnesday. nd help to nominate the tvst men for the various offices. Governor Goodrich's proclamation is very unusual and extraordinary one. the like of which has not been seen before in Indian;!. Trie proclamation Is intended to hp for statewide consumption, as primaries will be held in all counties n.- xt Tuesday. The Governor finds justification for HOME GUARO SH C. H. True Entertains Guard and Men of Affairs at Club Last Night. I The Hammond home guard, Capt. AY. i D. ration, cap'ain, were guests of C. II. True at a smoker at the Hammond Country club last evening. Fifty members and invited guests. -men interested in the organization, were I present. I I Th"y were addressed by Captain Gor-, ' by of the Illinois reserves, on the im- ' mortnnce of universal training. H i cited the advantages to the young man;; j the community, the state and the nal tion having its young men learn respect, : ' obedience, and honor to those things to which respect, obedience and honor aro ; due. Caprain Gorby dwelt on the timely ! applicability of George Washington's 1 farewell address. especially quoting ! from this address he passage "A na-. tion to be free, must be strong," and "A nation to be free must be trained and, must be disciplined." j ' The address made an impression on ! the men and the -talite to the lvme guard ! rganu-.ation of this get-together me.!--ins was decided. It is imperative to i the safety of this district that this orcanization be recruited to its full j strength, be sworn into service, and j its training continued and hastened with j i all possible speed with the co-opera-( tion of the business men and all men of affairs of this district. i George Hannauer made a sh-tt 'spirited address. t After t lie talks a buff' t 1 :m h i se rve d. and SOUTH SIDE TO HAVE REB GROSS The women of the South Side of Hammond are going to start a branch of the Red Cross at the Hammond In- j dustrial High school tonight at 8 o'oio k. All women are invited. Mrs. J. H. MoGuire found that there were so many women in that neighborhood who wanted te do their bits towards wi-r.ning the war, but having so many little ones to look after they found it hard to get down to work in the Red Cross rooms as often r.s they would like to. So she got the women together and they canvassed the neighborhood with gratifying success. Miss Patterson, secretary of the Hammend Red Cross, and Mrs. W. T. Hardy are going to the high school tonight to organize the new branch which will meet every Wednesday nt 7 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of doing every kind of Bed Cross work..

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his proclamation in the fact that the people of the state appear to be taking little or no interest in the primaries, but are allowing the primary campaign to drag along and take, care of itself. Of course. thi3 lethargy cn the part of ihe people would mean that the crafty politician and the spte interests could have easy sailing at. the primaries and nnke. nominations to suit themselves. It has always been common for voters to remain away from the primaries and refuse to vote, and then kick and complain afterward if bad nominations were made. Such piople lnve only themselves to blame for thFJ results, and it V.utii i n ed ..n p a s even.) HAMMOND REACHES OVER MILLION MARK Efforts Made Now to Make the City 20 Per Cent in the Third Drive. Hammond passed the million dollar mark y. st'rd.iy in -its r.rd Liberty Lean dri'.e, the vxact "Suros, according to Chairman H. K. Sharrer, being $1,011.f'fiii. The number of subscribers to the loan breaks all former records and is 6.121. But Hammond has not stopped. The executive committee wants to have Hammond a per cent town and has begun an intensive campaign to reach that point. Tiie city needs $C50.r00 more subscriptions to be "On per cent and every man, woman and child is a.sked t. do his level best the rest of the week to make this figure. A little effort on the part of every one will do it. 100 SHOULD SEE. THISJI8E PICTURE DeLuxe Has "Spirit of Red Cross" With Other Good Picturts Tonight. Charles M!:helstefe j-. th patriotic manage r of tin- JVt.uxe theatre w ill run a two-act drama called "The Spii it of tJ.e Red Cross," tonight and Thursday, w ith the c tl'.er fine pictures on Ins h.W. This picture is wade for the United States government find will be shown in every city in fee country within the next month and is weij worth see:ng. A reporter for The Times saw it today and believes everyone in Hammond should see it. Mt shows the good work that the Red Cross is doing botli over there and here, and hew to l. h it means to the boys over there to have the spirit of th. Red Cross go with them. In view- of the convne drive it would be well to have those interested In its success visit the shew to get a line of argument. HOBART SOLDIER SECURES DIVORCE Soldier Harry MoClaran. of Hobart. who was employed by the N. Y. C. St. B. rtv. befo-e bemar drafted, secured a divorce fro-,, I.U1 ton MK'lnran in Judge Reiter's court yesterday. MoClaran charged that his wife associated with other :;if n while he was in the army. His attorney was L,. V. i "ravens.

EDDIE "HICK" PULLS SOUEGBEAT STUFF Noted Auto Racer Well Known Here, Bags a German Plane. United Press Cablegram "WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. April 30. Captain Norman Hall and Eddie Blckeribacher.Arnerican aviators, yesterday divided the honor of destroying; a German machine over the German lines. Each modestly gives the other credit for the feat. The German craft was sighted about 6 o'clock in the evening at a height of about 1.800 meters. As the two Americans rose to the attack the enemy opened fire. The Americans pursued the enemy over the lines, firing. The German craft dived to earth, spouting flame and smoke. The Americans by this time were flying so low that their machines were struck by infantry bullets but they returned safely. Hall, a native of Iowa, was formerly a member of the Lafayette Esquadrille and has several enemy planes to his credit. Rickenbacher was a professional auto racer. BY FBZD S. rEBGTJSON. M'-.ttep 1 rr.ss Cablegram. WITH THE AMER1CA-N ARMY ON THE FRENCH BATTLE FRONT. April ",0. (Night) The Germans brought up additional artillery following the arrival of American forces in the line here. Fierce duel are in progress. One village has been entirely wiped out. The Americans are digging in. In the last forty-eight hours the American guns have raked the roads and villages in the rear of the German lines and have barraged the front lines. The Germans poured in high explosive shells in retaliation, the duels continuing through the niEht. The Americans ultimately neutralized the German iire. The American-French front is steadying. Trenches soon will be improved and dugouts constructed and it will become the old problem of trench war instead of the new half-irench, half open warfare. While the exact location of the American troops before Amiens has not been officially announced . from American sources the French war office a week ago referred to Franco-American petitions between Hangard and Hailles. Hangard is on the north bank of the I.uce river between nine and ten miles east and south of Amiens. FIXES PRICES ON RUBBER Bt United Press. WASHINGTON. May 1. The government today fixed a standard price on crude rubber and assumed complete control of the sole and manipulation of all storks through an order issued by the war trade board. The order is effective today. CAPT. H. H. RAGON SERIOUSLY ILL Kpecial To The Times. BOWELB. Ind, May 1. Capt. H. H. Ragon. the oldest living editor and former school teacher in I.ake county, i seriously ill at this home in Ixwell. Members of the family have been summoned to h! bedside. Elmer E. Raeon. of the Gary "tiing Times arrived last night. Tion will lone nil if Germany Trlns. Buy Liberty Bonds.

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Latest 'Bulletins By United Press. WASHINGTON, May 1. Secretary Xi an sins' will appear tomorrow before tha senate foreign relations committee to tell the administration's Utuda with regard to war on Turkey and Bulgaria. United Tress Cablegram. . A1STX:kxa2l VL&t -rrenclj. refugees declare tlfat 25,000 Belgian men and BOys are forced to work under the whips of German sentriss in the regions of Valenciennes and Maubeuffe. The mortality among' them is heavy. Un.tlp Press Cablegram tONDON, May 1. Local enemy attacks on one of our posts in the neighborhood of St. Julien (three miles northeast of Ypres) yesterday wer repulsed by machine guns, Field Marshal Ha.ig reported today. "Enemy posts in the Meteren sector were raided last night and prisoners taken. Tie Trench improved their positions around Lccro by a successful minor operation." Unitfu IT.tsa Cablegram PARIS, May 1. Protests against the jbombardment of churches by Germans are regarded as "inexplicable" by Ger many, according" to tha Cologne Gazette. "Germany is sorry that shells from her 220 milometer guns struck a church on Good rriday," the article says. "Eut inquires how Paris could expect a gunner 120 kilometers away to differentiate between churches and. other structures." Bt United Prxps. Today's ' army casualty list containing" 72 names ! showed 8 killed la action, 3 dead of disease, 1 from wounds, 1 from accii Cent, 1 from other causes, 2 missing, 5 ; severely wounded and 51 wounded j slightly. rUx:TFr I'i.ess Cablegram. PARIS, May 1. Artillery was actlye near Vlllers-Bretonneaux and on both sides of the Avre, the Trench war office reported today. Xrench patrols brought in prisoners In Lorraine. xOn the remainder of tha front the night was qtuiet. TJKICH, Kay 1. Emperor Karl, rorelgn Minister Sarian and their staffs are going- to German headquarters to confer with the kaiser, according' to advices received from Austrian sources today. The greatest importance is attached to the conference. It Is believed the future of Ukraine and the Balkans will he discussed. it"-" 'VEl ' I WtPS Cll!!.E-IH! 1 LONDON, May 1. The News declared the jovernment has decided to hold the Irish conscription policy in abeyance at least for a few weeks to seo how the home rule takes. fU.S-TTnu r EtSS CABLEGRAM LONDON, May 1. The enemy's effort to break down the resistence of the British army undoubtedly will fail if all continue to show the resolute and determined character of the 19th division, Field Marshal Halg declared today In a general order conarratulitingtho second. H'.-.'.ti-o-. rr.ESs Cablegram. THE HAGUE, May 1 Gabreel Principe, whose assassination of the Austrian arch duke, rrancis Ferdinand at Sarapevo was one of the causes of the great war, died Tuesday of tuberculosis at fortress near Prag-ue, it was learned hero today. rUvij-F '. Press Caft eoram 1 PARIS, May 1. Artillery was active near Vlllers-Brotennanx and on both sides of the Avre, 't?ie French war office reported today. French patrols brought In prisoners in Lorraine. On the remainder of the front the night was quiet. Buy bonds and shorten the nnr.

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Senator Nedfi Wins Again In Porter County Court Yesterday, rBrr.i.ETiNVALPARAISO, lira., May 1 Victory agrain crowned the efforts of the e.er in the case of the State vs. Oacci a. NedjI here yesterday when Special 3ad"9 Snxf Bernetha sustained a motion "W quash the ctate's affidavit. The state then asked jerniission to file a new affidavit and the court held that Nedjl should he g-iven an opjortunity to elect which county Porter or Lake a new prosecution should he instituted if the state Is permitted to file one and gave the defense time in which to determine on his election. This Is a second victory for the defense as a motion to quash the first indictment was sustained fcy the court earlier la the year. County Surveyor Ray Seeley who recently was exonerated of all charges of falsely certifying to road accounts in the Lake circuit court at Crown Point, made by James H. Ward of Gary and the Gary Evening Post, today began important proceedings in Superior Court No. 2 in Hammond. By his attorneys. Tinkham and Tinkham of Hammond, Surveyor Seeley demands judgment against Ward for ten thousand dollars -damageiior-cialicious prosecution. The complaint calls a spade a spade and nays that Ward, who peddles pianos in Gary, has maliciously and falsely charged Mr. Seeley with unlawfully, feloniously and knowingly certifying as correct to the Board of County Commissioners false and fraudulent claims. Ward accused Mr. .Seeley of knowing at the time the claims were made that he. Seeley, purposed to cheat and defraud Lake county. The complaint goes on to say that Ward caused Seciev's arrest and trial and that he was, after a lengthy trial, cleared in a few minutes by a jury and found not guilty and afterwards discharged by the court. Ward is accused in the complaint of causing Mr. Seeley to incur an expense of $3,000 and preventing him from transacting his business for four months. It is quite probable that libel procedings will lie brought by Mr. Seeley also against the Gary Post. The scandalous charges preferred by the Post against Oeorw Schanf. Mat J. Brown, Janes Black. Ray Seeley have so far resulted in their cxoner.it i n after they had been forced to stand trial. The chc-r-tes preferred by the l'ost against Senator Ne.ljl, now- on trial in Porter county, have, so far resulted in victories for Nc-d.il's lawyers. TRENCHES BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FLANDERS. May 1 SLaggered by the allied 'i blow- before Ypres Sunday, General Von A mm sparred for time yesterday and last night, utterly unable, to push en. Save- for considerable shelling in the back areas westward to H.iztbrouck and except for small raids and outpost clashes, the last li'rnty-fnir hours have been conspie uops:y calm. The Germans doubtlessly- will try again to turn the pest C'f hills southwest of Ypres, but Sunday's jolt compelled a shift of the enemy division. This shift will require hours and perhaps days cf preparation, depending on the severity of t?.e drubbing they have received. Three German babies have been found in the German trenches in Flanders by the British. They have been placed in the British hospital there. PRICES SET FOR INDIANA COAL Bt United Prep? INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 1. Prices of Indiana coal will be practically the same next winter as they were last, according to announcement of the state fuel administration f day. The prices follow: Indiana field mine r'tn, $2.45; prepared sizes. $;..".."; s re-enine, $2.1,". Brazil RHek mine run, $3.40: prepared sizes. $3.70; screening. $2.15. The only change is the addition the new classifications if prepared sizes and In Increase of i cents on m'ne ran of Indana field.

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