Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 279, Hammond, Lake County, 23 May 1918 — Page 1

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Unparalleled Atrocity Committed By German Air Raiders on Hospitals. (By 'WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS ' Unites Press Cablegram.! WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 23. More than one hundred women nurses, pa-; tients and attendants, were killed or wounded in a raid on a large number of hospitals by German i airmen. i In this latest attack a score of i huge planes circled over the objective where the Red Cross was plainly visible, dropping a number of huge bombs and still greater number of small shrapnel bombs to kill nurses and the wounded. The shrapnel was tur.ed to burst at the j level of the ground and thus insure the greatest possible destruction of life. The enemy commander's machin was brought down. I visited the place today. Huts were In splinters at the hospital -where the bipgest toll was taken had disappeared and nearby was a crater where a bis bomb fell on nurses quarters. Those who witnessed the attack said they never had seen anything so wonderful as the courage of the women during the raid which begun at 10:20 p. m. and lasted two hours. None doserted their patients. Many of the latter were bad cases of compound fractures necessitating puspension in hangers. The slightest movement was dangerous for them as well as agonizing. While the Huns in an endless chain swirled across the hospital area, these nurses smilingly went from one patient to another laying gentle hands on fevered brows. The squadron commander who was brought down speaks English. He said he did -not see the Red Cross but had been following a railroad train. He is being cared for by sisters of the women he killed. There were some Americans in the group of hospitals but none was touched. FOUND IS NOW Lake County Official's Rival on Links at Famous Springs. rPPECiAL To The Times! TTEST BADEN. IND., May 23. Golf has found a brand new pair of devotees here in the rersons of G. Mack Foland. auditor of Lake county, and Geo. Schaaf. county commissioner. Foland's boy doesn't care very much for the game because Jack is caddying for father. The first 18 hole match between Schaaf and Foland resulted in a victory for the latter because as Schaaf asservates he ate too much lunch and had new clubs besides having a lot of trouble in No Man's Land. After the match Jack Foland said he'd cult the game cold unless the governor came across with a horse so he could ride instead of walk. A number of Lake county people are at French Lick Springs playing golf. These include R. II. McIIie. manager of the Lake County Times string of papers, and Herman Sasse of Gary. WH SOLDIER WILL HQT BE EXECUTED BATTLE CREEK. MICH.. May 23. Trivate Theodore Kallaa cf Gary, recently sentenced to death for rank insubordination and other offenses, will escape with fifteen j ear3 In Leavenworth. . Kallas first escapsd the firing squad by a technicality that caused a second trial, in which the coure recommended life imprisonment. The commandant reviewed the case and commuted the sentence. ITabbed at Gary. Kallas , was arrested by orders of Board N 1. Gary, by the Gary police ss a s" :ker. He wan sentenced for desertion and striking officers. Chief Bragdon of the secret service and A. L. Brown of Gary's exemption board No. 1 testified against Kallas. '

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- jf . - - i vi -fc . I' ' j ' ' s iiE.Mlk' C. GILIO. Another Hammond boy has made good in the V. S. Aviation corps, henry C. Gillo who last year was elected captain of the Colgate University football squad and left school to enlist, has been called to Urbana. 111., to take the aviation examination for captaincy in the corps. Mr. Gillo is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gillo. 839 South Hohman street and his father Is connected with the E. C. Mlnas comrany. OXWIU LEfiO lH BORDER VICE CRUSADE CHICAGO, May 23. Sheriff Traeger hereafter will have federal aid in prosecuting persons arrested in raids upon resorts in West Hammond and other towns along the Indiana state line. The sheriff and Samuel Insull of the state council of defense have laid plans to reduce vice to a minimum. They will have the co-operation of Hinton G. Clabaugh, local department of justice haed here. Sheriff Traeger said: "Mr. Insull is going to send for the mayors of all towns and tell them they must clean up. If they do not I am convinced they can be prosecuted for malfeasance of office. "I will report to Mr. Hoyne and continue raiding Burnham and West Hammond. "All person from now on will be turned over to the federal authorities and dealt with as severely as the federal laws permit." LIFE TEH FOB ISGMUHDMESSER Porter County Jury Finds Him Guilty of Murder Yesterday. fSPE'-ivi, To The Tim?:'. VALPARAISO. IND., May 23 Oscar Landmesser, the itinerant evangelist who shot up the Hammond city courtroom. October 1 killing Fred Bayne, his rival in love, and wounding Mrs. Myrtle Pfeffer, a policewoman, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the circuit court today. Landmesser was found guilty of murder. When the verdict of the jury was read deputy sheriffs were ready to handle Landmesser whose violent outbursts featured the trial which besan a week ago. Landmesser. however, received the sctitence calmly, thanking the Jury. The prosecution of Landmesser was conducted by Attorney Bremer of Crown Point. Senator Kinder and Prosecuting1!" Attorney Charles Jensen of Porter county. H. E. Granger of Hammond defended Landmesser. advancing a plea of insanity for his client. COSTS U. S. 65 MILLION DAILY By United Press WASHINGTON. May 23. The United States during May will hurl approximately two billion dollars into the war and a new record for war expenditures will have been set. The battle against Germany to date has cost America thirteen billion dollars and is ex pected to reach another billion by June J 1. The daily drain is now $65,000,000. According to figures being prepared by McAdoo internal revenues due June 15, are expected to exceed $4,000,000,000.

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This rate of increase, it was said, will 'Casualties listed by the war department last until August 1. Then every de- ! today Included fourteen killed in acparttr.ent will begin eating chunks out ; tlon. twelve dead of wounds, eleven of the third liberty loan. The interest; of disease, thirty-nine wounded sevof the nation's rublic debt has reached jerely agy nine wounded slightly and the total cf $92,000,000. 'one missing.

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Hammond Board of Education Drops the Axe on Eight Instructors and Gives Raise to Other Grade Teachers. i A hundred and twenty teachers of the j Hammond public schools will find an extra $5 bill In their pay envelope j when they assume their duties next fall j and to make the raise possible the ax has fallen In nine places where peddogues will be missed the least. Among the things eliminated In the i grades is the teaching of German. ' Superintendent of Schools C. M. McI Daniel today announced that the raise of pay for gra3e teachers demanded by the teachers and the Hammond Woman's club has been provided by the board of education to the greatest ex tent possible under existing conditions. J A saving of $10,000 a year to meet the increased pay-roll will be arranged by the following process: Small increase in the revenue by reason of the larger school enumeration. Small Increase In assessed valuations. Elimination of two assistant kindergarten teichers, a maunal training teacher, domestic science teachI ., f r a.a -asaistan rausie nupervisor. assistant art supervisor, the teacher of German In the grades and two ether grade teachers. Col. Meyer, attorney for the school board, ruled that as the teaching of German in the grades Is required bylaw only when petitioned, and no petition has been presented to have it taught the coming year, and as the number of pupils taking German has fallen off. It should be dispensed with. The board was not able to grant the $15 increase per month petitioned for. but gave a $5 raise to start with the opening of the next school year In September. Tho saving of $10,000 must also take care of new teachers. The raise amounts to a flat increase of J3. The minimum will be $S0. the maximum $33 and the average ?57, Mr. McDaniel stated. $80 the Lowest. For the teachers employed this year who return next season the increase amounts to a $10 a month ralso because it has been the custom of the school board each year to increase the wage $5 a month for teachers who return until the maximum is reached. Therefore the teachers getting $70 a month this year will draw $S0 next and those now receiving JS0 get $90, etc., up to $fl5. The higher school enumeration brings in $700 and the increase la valuations $200 per year. The elimination of teachers was made in such a way that all branches of the school work can be kept intact. The Fr3nkl!n, Columbia and Washington schools did not have assistant kindergarten teachers this year so the board though it feasible to drop the assistant kindergarten ttachers at the Riverside school and have the work left In charge of the kindergarten principal entirely. One assistant kindergarten teacher will do at both the Irving and Llnco:n '

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teacher can be dispensed with. The board believes that it can struggle through without the music and art assistant supervisors. In the night schools only government work will be done, and that Is pai3 for out of the vocational fund.

The summer school is to be eliminated drive probably will come about June 1. excert for high school seniors who have I may come before or after, but It Is credits to mcke up. I coming." said Gen. Bridges. "We exAt the Columbia school a grade tarh- ' rect the enemy to make hi?- greatest er with a small class is to be drorpel efrort around Tpres and north of Baand the rupils sent to other rooms. At raume while a smaller drive is expected Franklin there is one too many teachers at Amiens."

for war times who will be dropped. 57 VARIETIES REPRESENTED By HENRY WOOD WITH THE FRENCH LEGION IN THE FIELD. May 23. Fifty-seven nations were represented by the famous French foreign legion when on March 25 it took Hangard wood In one of the bloodiest battles of the German offensive. This action completely wiped out the progress made in their second drive on Amiens. 86 IN DAY'S NEW CASUALTY LIST TBv Un-itko Prfss.I WASHINGTON. May 2Z. Eighty-six

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ULL FO RED GROSS Loo! What the Little Old County Seat Is Going to Do on Saturday. Special To The Times! CROWN rOINT. IND.. May 23. A bunch of live wires in this live wire town, always digging up some new war stunt, have decided to put on an auction sale on Saturday for the benefit of the Red Cross thi-.t will make things sizzle. Everything that you can think of has been contributed to make this sale a puccess. Fred Krieter. a patriotic farmer, has given a young bull worth $300 to be put up. Farmers, chicken fanciers, turkey raisers, have all gladly agreed to give up some poultry and stock for sale. There will be good things to tat and the whole durned county Is invited. ETer.tionr'WthoBty will be present at the sale twenty of them. Ever see 20 auctioneers together in one place? Ever HEAR them. Well, come on down. It's for the Red Cross. iltll ALLIANCE RED CROSS MEETING flUIBERTY HALL Two Interesting Speakers on Program to Be Given This Evening. The program of the American Alliance Red Cross meeting at Liberty hall this evening follow?: Piano solo Melody of patriotic airs, Mrs. V.". H. Misesrh. Star-Spangled Banner By the Audience. Address Sergeant Blunt of the British Army. Vocal The Flag Song and the Recessional. Mrs. L. L. Bomberger. Address "Bohemia. Our Ally," Prof. Jaraslov Zmrhal. former teacher of Knglish in the University of Prague. Amenica By udience. The public Is invited, admission free. NOW DATE IS JUNE 1. Br I'vited Pres.1 WASHINGTON, May 23. "The through the allied lines an AustroGerman offensive against Italy, probably will follow. Bridges expressed complete confidence in Gen. Foch to stem tho invasion. "The enemy now has on the western front about 1.500. MO bayonets. The I The newly organized German divisions I and the remnants of the divisions engaged in the recent drives are being put through training in open warfare. Should a determined effort to crush Italy be made by the Germans the allies would find it imperative to lengthen their Hoes. YOUNG MEN, READ THIS WASHINGTON", May 23. Men subject to the draft under the law just enacted requiring? registration of nil youths who line become twenty-one years of nge since? June last, were notified today by Provost Marshal General Crowdcr to protect themselves by nrraiutlnR for registration before June 5, If they are to be nwny from their homes on rcs;UtrntIon ilay. Your money gets action when given to the Red Cross,

With Two Days More for d Cross War Drive Amount Contributed Totaled $22,000 TonightCity Will Go Over Top. .

SEC. DANIELS SAYS: WASHINGTON, May 23. Secretary IJnnleln of the Navjr has Issuer an nppenl for the Red Croa,. In part follows: "In the sreat emergency of the present war the Red Cross Is doubly enlisted. In all it does to help us win It Is helping to snve and maintain those Ideals of fnlthfulneHS and honor, kindness and loyalty, on which its own existence rests. "And every man,, itturai and hild who realizes the peril we are In and who can help the Red Cross In no other wot can ct lenst support the generous efforts of the iied Cross. "It Is the best-equipped agency i the world to bring succor In the day when only organized and welldirected help can avail. - With but two more days left to complete HanTrnond'jr quota. J3S.000 for the second Red Cross war. fund drive Red Cross workers are confident that the city's share will be fully contributed when the final returns are all In. but a great amount of work remains to be done and an urgent call is sent out today that every man, woman and child in the city give something to this noble Red Cross War Fund. Hammond Is particularly a city of homes and It Is on the homes and the individuals thereof that Chairman A. Murray Turner and his hustling cohorts depend. There Is much need of personal service In this drive. There Is a need of every one who is wearing the little quadrilateral honor badge of the Red Cross seeing that the other fellow gives. This can be done only by careful watching and appeal. The solicitors will find it Impossible to see everyone in Hammond, ro it will be necessary for all who have not been seen by solicitors to make it a point to come to Liberty Hall to make their contribution or to see the solicitor in their block. The Executive committee Is anxious that a greater number of contributions be received than has been known in any drive that has taken place In Hammond and they believe that the people of Hammond are Just as anxious. The soliciting squadrons that are covering the district on the . Little Calumet are meeting with much success. Frank O'Rourke's squadron held an enthusiastic meeting at Griffith .last night and Boone's squadron brought good reports from the Woodrow Wilson schoolhouse district. Remember it Is your duty to give and not only to give yourself but to urge your neighbor to give and give liberally. At the dally meeting of the revision committee which Is combing the city to see who has contributed and who has not contributed in proportion to their Income, took up a number of matters which are expected to bear fruit. And the big American Alliance meeting tonight! HUN DESTROYER SUNK rus-TTF:r Press Cablegram.! LONDON, May 23. 'A German destroyer was sunk and the mole and senplane base at fceebrugge was badly damaged by bombs dropped by British aviators in operations, between Slonday and Wednesday. British air observers, according to a previous announcement, have reported that German torpedo and submarine craft are immobilized In Bruges basin, the inland town connected with Osten and Zeebrugge by canals. Reports from other sources said the Germans had been forced to abandon the Belgian naval bases because of the bottling tip of the harbor by sunken ships and the constant fire of bombing planes. AS STRONG AS NECESSARY I TKT L MTED ITERS I WAiiHl.NUiu.N. May zi. x-iianKet authority to raise and send to France any j number of men he deems necessary Js to be conferred on President Wilson through a provision to be written into the army appropriation bill today by the house military affairs committee. They said today the president can have any authority 'Jie wants and unlimited money to make America's field army strong enough to crush Germany.

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. ,' T : ' t . If , 4.- : s or j.- v. - . Latest "Bulletins Bt United Press. WASHINGTON, May 23. Major General Wood, senior major general on the army lists, will soon be In foreign service as a corps commander, his friends predicted today. Wood early this year stndiad conditions abroad and came back with a number of critical observations which aromed -war department officials. American participation on the west front on a large scale ia liiely at s comparatively early moment, army officers said today. The first field army will be assigned its place on the front, becoming an independent unit. United PnEss Cablegram. By FRED FERGUSON. WITH THE AJttEBICANS IN PICASBY, May 23. The Germans are taking great precations to avoid losing prisoners. They have ceased sending1 out patrols and at night withdraw from their front lines, apparently in an effort to prevent Americans from capturing' men vho might give information regarding plans for a resumption of the offensive. Unusual activity continues. A German last night flew so low over villages to the rear of the American lines he barely sklmmad over the roofs. Back areas on both sides are almost conlnuously bombed and shelled. American artillery dally ontshocts the Boche. A checking up today showed American guns havo destroyed eight enemy batteries since our men entered this sector. Ten were put out cf action and two resumed firing1. United Tress Cablegram. LONECST, May 23. British air forces in raids Tuesdsy dropped several tons of bombs on enemy strongholds in Bel gium and Germany, it was announced today. Soma cf the airplanes penetrated as far as Metz, it was stated, bombing the railway stition at that point. Tho railway yards at Liege and a chemical plant ct Hannhelm were attacked. Three fires were started at the latter place. During the same houm sixteen enemy planes were brought down, two were forced out of control and two balloons were destroyed. rUNiTEn Press Cablegram WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 22. The official statement from American headquarters to. day said: "Artillery fire has ceased in the sectors occupied by American troops. There are no new developments." (The War department issued the following supplement to the report from Pershing) : "This morning Lieut. Ilurtz. pilot in our air service, fell within our lines and was killed. This fall apparently was due to accident." Our boys are making sacrifices over there. What sacrifices are your making for the Red Cross over here?

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Slickers and Slackers, Might owis, Gamblers and Idlers . Will Gel Shock After July 1st

Bulletin. It is estimated that in Hammond, Gary, East Chicago and Whiting there are 1,000 idlers affected by the TJ. S. war department's new ruling. Many cf these men sleep by day and prowl by night. Some of them are gunmen. They are draft dodgers. News that Uncle Sam is after them . Is glad news to the police departments cf the Calumet region cltlej. Bt United Pre:. WASHINGTON, May 23. All men subject to the draft hereafter "must do a man's job or fight" This rule operative July 1 provides that ail loafers and men not in useful occupation lists in deferred draft classes must engage in useful war work or be drafted into the fighting service, Provost Marshal General Crowder announced today. Those affected will be gamblers, race track men, waiters, bartenders, club, hotel and apartment attendants, persons engaged or occupied in games, spurts and amusements with some exceptions, domestic servants, sales and other clerks of department stores and mercantile establishments. Dependent exemptions will not protect men thus classified. Local boards will do the weeding out with full power to summon those listed above. The plan, however, is framed so that practically all of the men affected can be replaced by women. The following classes are named as closed to registrants after July 1: (A) Gamblers, bucketshop employes, fortune tellers, palmists, etc. (B) Waiters In hotels and clubs. (C) Elevator operators in clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings and bathhouses. (D) Ushers and attendants engaged in connection w ith games other than theatrical. (E) Domestics. (F) Clerks in mercantile establishments. The plan is one of the most drastic ever undertaken and soon will be extended. Men engaged as above and idlers seeking relief because of late number drawings and because in deferred classes on grounds of dependency will not be exempted. Draft boards will be empowered to force registrants to work. In showing the necessity of this step General Crowder said: "One of the unanswerable criticisms of the 4raft lias been that it takes men from the farms and useful occupations and marches them past crowds of idlers and loafers. The remedy is simple to couple the Industrial bases with other grounds for exemption and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that he is contributing effectively to the indjstrial welfare of tho nation." IM CO. TO PLM TICKET Influence of Lake Co. Is Felt at Capital in Determining Candidacies. Times Bureau. At State Capital. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. May 23. It Is believed that the withdrawal of S. R. Artman from the appellate judgeship race was influenced by the announeeJment of Judge Willis C. McMahon of Crown Point that he will seek the nomination. Judge McMahon was here yesterday with Miles Norton, chairman, of the Lake county committee. It was made known yesterday that Lake county, now the second largest republican county In Indiana, .would demand a place on the state ticket, and that it would Insist on the nomination of Judge McMahon. It was prepared to send a large delegation here to work for him. The indications were last nigrTt that Judge McMahon and Alonzo Nichols of Winchester will receive the nomination for Judge of tho Appellate Court from the northern half of the state. Don't go to rest tonight without giving all you can give to the Red Cross.

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