Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 282, Hammond, Lake County, 27 May 1918 — Page 1

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25 PERCENT ILL RATE Increases Necessary to Meet Operating Expenses of Country's Railroads, Br Ukited Press. WASHINGTON, D. C. May 27. Twenty-five percent rate increases on class and commodity freight rates will go into effect June 25. Railroad fares will be raised to three cents a mile, June 10. Some heavy commodities will take raises of more than twentyfive percent. The announcement came today from the railroad administration following a statement that railway employes wages will be raised according to recent recommendations. The increases were necessary, it was said, to meet hisher operating expenses, estimated at about $830,000,000 more than last year. This included wage increases cf $300,000,000 annually. Traffic in heavy commodities which form a big part of the railway business n il! bear inereasj not based strictly on tho twenty-five per cent ruling. Some of these advances are: Coal, fifteen to fifty cents a ton. Coke, fifteen to seventy-five cents a. ten. Buildfng Btone, two cents per hundred weight. Grain and mill products, twenty-five percent. Live stock, twenty-five percent but not more than 7 cents rer hundred pounds. All exports and Imports will be can(Continued on page two.) Real Tight of Convention Will Be for Office of State Superintendent of Public Schools; Strong Fight Is Made Against Ellis. Times Bureap. At Statf Capital INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 2T. republicans In considerable numbers are arriving from all over the state to be on hand early for the Republican state convention, the first activities of which will take place tomorrow, and continue over Wednesday. Nearly all of the candidates for state nominations are Jiere and have established headquarters at the Hotel Severin, where they will meet delegates and friends and boost theT candidate. Each candidate. of course, is surrounded with his bunch of boosters and rooters and handshakers, who will do their best to their favorites. It is evident that the real fight of the convention will develop over the nomination for state superintendent of public instruction. Up to within the last few days Horace Ellis, the present state superintendent, had no opponent for the place, and it began to lock like he might be renominated by acclamation. But things have changed around, and Ellis will be lucky if he does not find at the close of the convention that h 13 open for engagements in another line besides being state superintendent. There is a very strong movement to beat him. and it appears to have en(Continued on page seven.) FORMER HARBOR CHILD IS HURT PAUI.T STE MARIE. CAN.. May 27. Medeline. the 4-year old daughter of Mr. and MrsrTred E. Gastell, formerly tf Indiana Harbor, was ser.ously burned by falling into a boiler of scalding water yesterday afternoon. Madeline was visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Prlletin. Bruce street. Doctors were summoned at once and the child was removed to her home on Queen street. Today she is said to be in a very serious condition.

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Bulletin 1 Between Arras and Albert the German nrtillery in poundloc furiously. The Somme area la quiet eioept for Kas !Uc lllntf. Several German raids were repulsed betiTten SorbJe and Sullloy. The Belgian front Is brronlnf more active. Friday nlsht and SnturUay three Herman raids were burled back. By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS L'sited Tress Capi.f.or m WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 27. The German blow in Flanders which got under way early today is reported to have progressed in spots but it is too early to know actual results. The attack was a powerful local blow by General Von Armin's army against Scherpenburg (a mile northeast of Locre) where the French wrested considerable ground from the Germans a week ago. The allied troops are fighting brilliantly. The battle began with a heavy bombardment of the Ypres-Comlnes canal to CLEMENTS GUNS JWENTY VOTES Recount in North Township Is Going Against B. E. Escher of Hammond. TSpecial To The Times CROWN POINT. IND.. May 27 In the Lake circuit court the recount is in progress in response to the petition filed by James Clements. East Chicago, who is congesting a majority of three votes received by Bert Escher. his opponent for assessor of North Township. Those who are watering the county say that it is a safe bet that Mr. Escher is beaten. The report Saturday night that in two Indiana Harbor rrecinets. the 16th and ISth, there were in each ten more votes returned for Escher than there were votes for him on the ballots. This discovery gave Clements twenty otes to the good at once. The county will probably not be completed until tomorrow but unless something unforseen occurs Clements is expected to come out a winner instead of a loser by a margin of three votes. s DUTY TO II Then Michigan City Cops Decided That They Felt Sorry for the Dog. MICHIGAN CITY. IND.. May 27. John Alguire of Indiana Harbor was arrested at 1:15 this morning by Patrolman George Spencer on the charge of drunkenness. At the time of the arrest Alguire was seated on a bench in front of Ail Murrey's grocery store at 215 i Franklin street. The officer got tho j stranger up and found that he was too wobbly to go his way. "This man," Patrolman Spencer reported on the arrest sheet, "was arrested by me at 1:15 a. m., drunk and singing to a dog." The officer listened to the ode to the dog for a few minutes and then interrupted the singer with a demand that he move on or go to jail. According to Sergeant Gleason, this Is the only stanza that Officr Spencer could remember: "The pup, the pup, tie beautiful Pup, Drin ting his milk from a china cup. Frisxlny around as lively as can be. Pirst grnawlnff a bone, then bltlajr a flea. Jumping1 and ronnin? after t pony, You beautiful pup, youH soon be bologna." In the city court this morning. Alguire was fined $1 and costs, and was committed to the county jail because he had only about two-thirds of the required amount of $11 to pay his fine and costs. Alguire had been employed at Indiana Harbor and quit his job to visit his brother near Coloma. Mich. He came in late yesterday afternoon on the South Shore and found that he could not get away on the Pere Marquette until 1:45 this morning. So he rambled around and in the meantime emptied a bottle which he said he brought with him. The trial of Roy Jacobs. 327 Henry street. Hammond, for wife desertion was continued in the Hammond citycourt this morning until next Saturday and he is out on bond.

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1 the French frontier. The artillery opertI ed up at dawn and in the midst of a (haze covering the Flemish lowlands the j German infantry swept forward in sucj cessive waves. HUNS STRIKE ON 2 FRONTS United Press Caplegthm. LONDON, May 27. The Germans struck early this morning on two widely separated fronts. "Strong hostile nttacks following a bombardment of groat intensity were made this morning on wide fronts between P.heims and Soissons," Field Marshal Haig reported. "Attacks were also made against the French between Locre and Vormezeele. "There was considerable hostile artillery fire on the British front last night." ARTILLERY FIRE GROWS IN INTENSITY United Press Cablegram. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 27. The rumble of artillery continues to grow louder, particularly around the valleys of the Somme and the Scarpe and in the Ypres region. Weather conditions have improved. Prisoners are still saying Haekensen is on the west front and will have charge ! of the coming offensive. j The fighting spirit among tho allies is perfect. They are thoroughly confident that the Germans will have little success in the coming show. ONE MM KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Albert Graczyk. aged 60. 1SS Fort Wayne avenue. Hammond, was instantly killed when a bakery auto delivery truck driven by Bruno Grznek. 1ST Gostlin street, overturned on Burnham road this afternoon. Graczyk wns thrown through the windshield and his neck broken when the machine went into the ditch. Grznek. proprietor of a bakery bearing his name, had supplied Graczyk, one of his customers, and asked the latter to go with him to Hegewisch. They had been in Hegewisch for'two hours when they started home. The truck was proceeding at a moderate rate of speed when the driver apparently lost control and went into the ditch, overturning. Four of Graczyk's sons arc In the army. BURGLAR CAUGHT By SI E Jailed After Housebreaking Feat That Ought to Send Him to the Pen. Henry Kelley was arrested by Officer t ... ii. . i . ... "u in iiaii i.vn i ant mis morning I about three o'clock after an exciting i man hunt by the Hammond police. ! The polite reciived several hurry calls fn.rn people in Homewood that burglars had been in their houses. The j last one was from Mrs. R. II. McHie. ' S64 Hohman street, who was awakened J early this morning by a man who stood beside her bed with a revolver and told ! her if she made any noise that he would kill her. He then looked over the room, taking several things and demanded to know where she kept her money and jewelry. Mrs. McHie replied that she had none and so he eft after taking a few more things and warning her to keep still or he would kill her. Officer Law after catching the thief took him over to the McHie home where Kelley admitted taking the things and said that he had entered a great many homes on Carroll street. Warren and Webb. Earlier in the evening he went into the home of Peter C. Van Wairden at. 110 Carroll street and stole a pair of pants. Mr. Van Wairden came to the police station this morning and brought Kelley the rest of the suit. It has been found out that this man J Ker.ey is an old offender as he has sp-nt most of his life in the penitentiary and had broken a parole in Charleston. Tenn. He has only been out of jail for three months. He will be held until the Hammond police can learn more about him before he is. prosecuted. CAN'T DO IT, JULIUS. Jul ius Rzepa. 141 Sheffield avenue,, was fined $11 for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk of north Hohman street, by Judge Klotz this morning in the city court.

CENTS jMagniificent Showing Made By City; Chairman A. M. Turner's Methods Net a Vast Sum. He Issues a Statement. Hammond today wound up its second Red Cross War fund campaign in a blaze of glory with subscriptions in and accounted for totalling more than $55,000. Chairman A. M. Turner who so vigorously and successfully conducted the campaign stated today that contributions on the last day have been so great it is impossirle to give the exact amount but that he conservatively estimates the grand total at no less than sixty-five thousand dollars. Employes of he Standard Steel Car Company gave between sixteen and seventeen thosuands dollars r,rf tv, Jump from forty to sixty-five thousand dollars over Sunday is accounted for oy those and other contributions of wage earners. A. M. Turner and a staff of workers have devoted their entire time to the campaign and the fact that the quota cf $3S.00' was nearly doubled is due to their tireless efforts. At Liberty Hall Saturday evening a concert by local talent was given and largely attended. Meanwhile a novel method cf raising money for the Red Cross was being demonstrated on the streets and in the stores by Dr. J. T. Clark. Sam Abalman. Joseph Myers and D. E. Boone. The four men sold a barrel of apples at twenty-five cents per apple, assuring- every one that the apples were from the Garden of Eden and assured those who ate them a hundred years of life. The barrel of apples netted a hundred dollars for the Red Cross. Joseph Peterson has given the Red Cross two mounted eagles to be auctioned o ff . The following statement regarding the drive was made today by Chairman A. M. Turner: "Hammond's Rumper Contribution to th Second Red Cross War Fund Is but an expression of sympathy with ine Kea trnsj nd approval of the plan to prosecute the war until it is won "Too much praise cannot be given to the army of generous donors, w ho had but to be given the opportunity, regardless of their sacrifice, to aid the caue they believed in. "As usual the women did the major portion of the soliciting outside of the large industries, to them no thanks is necessary or expected for theirs was a labor of love and devotion to the cause. "The duties of the committee in charge of the Drive consisttd largely in covinting and accounting for the Oow of contributions which came tn a deluge from nearly twenty thousand w-illing ar.d anxious people within the city and adjacent villages to the south, for this difficult task the credit is due to Gfe Clark and his able assistants for their skill, patience and untiring labor. The assistance, given by the LAKE COUNTY TIMES was wholesome and priceless. "The wisdom of the building of Liberty Hall has again been proven, the building was worth its cost for this drive alone. "Those directly in charge of the drive wish to express their keen 1 appreciation for the courtesy and irenerons response shown them by an those who gave of their money and time without stint to the Second Red Cross War Fund. "A. MURRAY TURNER. Chairman "Second Red Cross War Fund Committee." BONUS SYSTEM FOR EMPLOY ESJT HIMHOND Many Inducements Offered for Men in the Ordnance Department. "If your heart pumps red blood kick in and play your country's game." This is an appeal by the Standard Steel Car Company, which is seeking toolmakers. machine operators, machinists, machinist helpers. and unskilled men with mechanical or construction experience. A machine operator's school for advancement of unskilled men, a bonus system to be inaugurated soon for meritorious employes, free transportation for employes on a special train from Englewood to the gates of the plant over the Nickel Plate road and free motor bus service together with high wages are some of the inducements offered. The Standard has a $100,000,000 war order to fill. The new employes are needed in the ordnance department. These are Red Cross days. Give!!!

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The launching of the "Bonham." Wooden ships have been launched at the rate of more than one a day for the past four weeks, according to a Washinprton official report. Th "Bonham" is the largest wooden steamer put in the water for the Emex gency Fleet Corporation, being 4,700 tons net deadweight capacity.

WOMEN MEET TO DISCUSS WAR WORK Hammond Scene of Representative Gathering of Lake County Women on Saturday. South Bend Woman on State Defense Body, Addresses the.. Audience.

The most -important meeting held by Lake county women during the war was held in Liberty Hall at Hammond last Saturday afternoon when the women's section of the Lake county council of defense, including members of all committees and members of the township councils of defense, was present to list en to an address by Anna Studcbaker Carlisle of South Rend, the only woman member of the state council defense. The attendance was cut down because the great part of the woman workers of the county were busy cleaning up the last day's work on the 2nd war fund drive of the Red Cross but what the gathering lackejsjn quantity It amply made up for in earnestness and enthusiasm. Sirs. Wheeler Introduces Speaker. Mrs. Jennie Ward Wheeler of Crown ! Point, of the Lake County Council of J Defense and one of the most energetic and forceful women war workers that Lake county has produced, was chairman of the meeting. She deplored the fact that more were not present to hear Mrs. Carlisle but showed how they were busy with Rod Cross work and other war activities. BAD PLAGE FOB BRICKBATS HERE Rtchard Bradley who works for the I. H." B. R. R.. Hammond, and who recently came from Nashville, Tenn., has found out to his sorrow that it dues not pay to lose your temper and throw brick bats, at least in Hammond. Bradley, with a friend of his. went Into Henry Foss's soft drink emporium and asked one of the waitresses there to have a drink with him. which Bradley said she did. Mrs. Fvs said that he was impudent to her and followed her back into her kitchen where she went to get rid of htm. Mr. Foss then threw him out. This incensed Bradley and he picked up a stone and threw it at Foss but missed him and broke a plate glass window. He was fined $20 by Judge Klotz this morning in the Hammond city court which he raid and promised to pay for the glass so was released. SEVENTY-ONE ADDED IN REVIVAL MEETIR6S Despite the war work and hot weather the revival meetings at the Christian church are being well attended and good results attained. The additions to flate number seventy-one. and thirty-eight mora were converted yesterday. Evangelist C. R. L. Vawter is conducting the services and will be heard each evening this week excepting Saturday. Mrs. Earl Robertson is superintendent of the personal work. A delegation from the South Chicago church was present last evening and the Hobart church will have a large representation at the meeting Thursday night. NINE KILLED IN ACTION f Bt Unttfo Preps. J WASHINGTON. May 27. Niineteen names were on the casualty list today. They included nine killed In action, four dead from wounds, one dead from disease, two wounded severely and three missing in actiop

UNE 10 Mrs. Anna Studebaker Carlisle was given a fine reception when she arose to speak. She pointed out that one reason her heart was in the work of war was because she had a daughter in Red Cross work in France and two boys in the navy and another about to go." She reviewed the causes of the war and spoke of Germany's infamous part in it. She told of Russia's humiliation and Belgium's suffering and begged the women to do all they possibly could to "carry on" at home in food conservation. Must Prepare Tor rive Tears. She said that the women must work as if the war was to last 5 years and that they must work out their own problems. She advised co-operation with the Red Cross and said that the women must do all in their power to Americanize the foreigners. Tho registration of women for war work and baby saving must be looked after properly, declared the speaker. Mrs. Carlisle said that nothing must go to waste and that Germany would yet be amazed at what the American woman was doing to win the war and win it through patriotism and loyalty to the government she must. Con t i n ued m Page

RED CROSS TOTALS, Gary $152,140 Hammond 65,000 Indiana Harbor 30,000 East Chicago 23,000 i Whiting 18,000 Crown Point 15,000 West Hamrriond-Burn-ham 9,000 Lowell 2.500 Hobart 1,750 Griffith 900

SINN FEIN PLOT IS UNCOVERED U-vrrrn Press Cablegram 1 By WEBB MILLER. DUBLIN. May 27. Discovery that parts of the Sinn Fein German riot provided for releasing of hundreds of Austrian and German civilians now interned in Ireland and for arming them against the English, has been made by the British, according to officials today. The conspirators planned to arm these enemy civilians with weapons delivered by German submarines. Despite the arrest of their leaders Sinn Feiners were active Sunday. Companies of them drilled at many points around Iublin. In the outskirts of Dub'in I observed companies of Sinn Feiners drilline. Lookouts were stationed along the road on bicycles. Small bovs marched behind five and drums carrying the Sinn Fein colors. CAN'T BE DONE. Paul Eichbaum. of 2101 N. Kedzle street. Chicago, was arrested by Officer Warner for driving a truck on Calumet boulevard Cunday afternoon and fined $12 in the Hammond city court last night. Mrs. Long of 163 State street reported to the rolice that a roll of window screen 350 feet long had been stolen from her place.

TAX BILL NECESSITY

Four Billion Not Enough to Take Care of Country's New Budget TBt t's-tTED Press WASHINGTON, D. C, May 27. President Wilson today called upon congress to sacrifice political expediency and drive through a tax bill. Appearing before a joint session on Washington's hottest day he delivered his second strictly business message since America's entrance into the war. His address follows: WANT MOSS SESOUBCSS. "It is with unaffected reluctance that I come to ask you to prolong your session long enough to provide more adequate resources of the treasury for tha conduct of the war. I have reason to appreciate as fully as you do how ardorous the session has been. Tour labors have been severe and protracted. You have passed a long series of measures which required the debate of many doubtful questions of judgment and many exceedingly difficult questions of principle as well as of practices. HT7ST Dp DUTY TO PT7I.I.. "The summer is upon us in which labor and counsel are quite ardorous and constantly apt to be impaired by fatigue. Elections are at hand that we ought as soon as possible to go and render an intimate account of our trusteeship to the people who delegated us to act for them in the weighty and anxious matters that crowd upon us In these days of critical choice and action. But we dare not go to the elections until w have done our duty to the full. DUTY STANDS NAKED. "These are days when duty stands stark and naked and even with closed eyes we know it is there. Excuses are unavailing. We licve either don our duty or we have not. Th? fact will be gross and plain as the duty itself. In such a case lasitude and fatigue seem negligible enoug-h. "The facts suffice to freshen the labor. And the facts are these: MUST HAVE NEW REVENUES. "Additional revenues must manifestly be provided for. It would be a most unsound policy to raise too large a proportion of th--m by loan and it is evident that J4.Onfi.ono.O0O now provided for by the taxation bill will not of themselves sustain the greatly enlarge budget to which we rrrist immediately look forward too. We cannot in fairness wait until the end of the fiscal year to apprise our people of the taxes. THE COCNTRV MIST KNOW. "We cannot get Increased taxes unless the country knows what they a:e to be and practice the necessary economy to make them available. Deflnilcness. early definiteness. as to what th tasks a;e to be is absolutely necessai y for the successful administration of th treasury. It cannot frame fair and equitable working regulations in haste and it must frame its regulations i:i haste if it is not to do it j great task until the very ev; of it 3 performance. MARRED HV IMQHT1ES. "The pi -sent tax laws are marred by iniquities which ought to be remedied. Only fairly equitably distributed taxation of the widest incident and drawing chiefly from the sources which would be likely to (ifnk.raiii,credit by their very abundance, can prevent inflation and keep our industrial system free of speculation and waste. We shall naturally turn therefore. I suppose, toward profi-s and incomes and luxuries icr the additional taxes. LEVIED OX 101S IM'OMEs. "But the war profits and incomes upon which the increased taxes will be levied will be the profits and incomes of the calendar year 191?. It would be manifestly unfair to wait until the early months of 1&19 to say what they are to he. "Moreover, taxes of that sort will not be paid until June of next year and the treasury must anticipate them. It must use the money they are to produce before it is due. It must sell short time certificates of Indebtedness. In the autumn a much larger sale of lonrr time bonds must be effected THE BANKERS MI ST KNOW. ..hat are the bankers to think of ttie certificates if they do not know certainly where the money j.-j to comfrom with which to take them up? And now are investors t.j app.-oach t! pu -chase of thse bends with anv s.rt ' confidence or knowledge of thfir ov 1 affairs if they d. not know what tnv.-., they are to pay and whit -,, rand adjustments cf their business they must effect? "I cannot assure the country cf successful administration of the tren -ury in 1918 if the question of furth. -taxation is to be left undecided tint.! 191!V WINNING OK WAR EVERYTHING. The consideration that detonates every other now and makes every oth. r seem trivial is" the winning of the wa : . We are net only in t'.ie midst of trie war; we are at the very peak and crisis of It. "The great enterprise must be push-

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