Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 9, Hammond, Lake County, 27 June 1918 — Page 1

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Reporters Are Excluded From One of the Most Important Hearings Known In StatePublic Is Vitally Interested. THE VITAL POINTS OP WRECK INQUIRY Whtther the circus train bad a hot box or not running: so short a distance and running' so slowly. Why the circus train did not pall clear of the main line onto the switch hefore stopping. Why the flagman of the circus train went ahead to see the hot box before going hack to make the proper precautions and warning. BrLI.ETIV. Attorney John Gavit, representing Alonzo Sargent, engineer of the troop train, and bis fireman, Gustav Kiauss, i declined today to have them testify be- j fore the commissions as they are un- J fler Indictment. The commissions stat- i ed they will not Insist upon the men testifying. j Astonished newspaper reporters, tnchiding K. E. KcIIenberger. one of the j editors the Railway Age. found I themselves on the outside of a closed , session of the public service commission mid the interstate commerce commission when the Joint investigation of the Ivanhoe horror began In a room of the mperior courlhotiwp t- Hammond this morning. Attorneys for the Michigan Central railw y were within the doors barred t the newspaper men. Learning that they were to be excluded the newspaper men protested that the action was unprecedented, that th pub'iie was vitally interested and that the majority of executive sessions resulted in "white-washing" at least in Chicago. The commissions went into private session to make a final decision s to whether the reporters would be excluded and J. "W. McCardle of the Indiana public service commission announced their finding, Mr. McCardle stated that the commissions felt the public had been fairly well informed by the press of the circumstances of the wreck and that the T'lblic would be represented at the joint investigation by the federal men present. He stated that the two stenographers, the two attorneys for the railroad and the commissioners would be the only ones permitted to attend the hearing. After the morning session of the investigation had adjourned Commissioner M-Oard!e stated that the evidence of 'he first witnesses contained nothing of which the public has not already been Informed by the newspaper investigations 1-amnion r ernes, signalman at me i Ivanhoe tower; John Gasper, engineer or rhe circus train into which the empty trop train crashed taking a toll of fifty-nine live?: Curtis Aust, head brakemn of the circus train and Thomas Phillips, fireman of the circus train, were the witnesses before the two commissions this morning. The personnel of the commissions v ere as follows: Interstate commerce1 commission. W. D. Anderson, (J. H j tarbird and G. L". Ellis; the Indiana j public service commission: J. W. Mefardl", Edwin M. ' '01 r and David Mat- 1 thews. The Michigan Central railroad! had Attorneys' Charles McFadden and: I,. V. Cravens within the closes nors. i General Superintendent. Henry Schero; Superintendent of the Western Division. ; p. w. Ponahie: Superintendent of Motor Power. Walter II . Flynn. and other Michigan Central officials vvere in the corridor during 'he session. J R. W. Johnson and if'ir Timm. the! conductor end flagman respect i vely. of' the ci" ..... - r ... J Wr,-m! the t-en)!Yiis.ion3 at the afternoon session and reecived a s-arching examination, if the length of time they were in the barred z- n was any indi cation. It was stated the commission we nt i into many phases of the wreck: the , oiriers under whiih the circus tram' tiaveied. w-hv the nagman of the circus , t-ain went ahead to see the hot box , before going back f give warning to ; approa hing trans: whether there was . r. hot box or not: why the circus tram stopped before clearing the main track and the physical condition of the' dozing engineer. Alemi Sargent. At former probes in Hammond the public service commission has welcomed the reporters and Commissioner McCardle told newspapermen today that so far as he personally was concerned he would prefer to have the.in present. During the street car hearing Mr. McCardle was ver;" fair with the newspapers in giving them access to information. Eliminating the public service commission from the demand that the hearing be rrivate. tho suggestion must have come from one of three sources, the interstate commerce commission or the attorneys for the Michigan Central railroad or federal men present. The attorneys for the Michigan Cen- ( tral railway declared they desired the; newspapermen present as they had) nothing to conceal and the public is vitally concerned.

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SUCCESS fl"NiTEi Ff.ess Cabt.f.'-.k am WITH THE AMERICANS IN" . FRANCE, June 2 6. An American ; bombing squadron blew up the railway ; station and yards at Conflans. twenty : miles east of Verdun this morning and returned safely. Major Harold E. Hartley became an ' ace last night when he brought dow n a I German plane. He had brought down four while serving: In the royal flvmg ; corps'. Hartley with two other aviators ran into four enemy bi-plancs and a monoplane scout. He dived at the scout. ' driving it to earth. The other two fly- i ers tackled the bi-plane. each driving one to the ground out of control. One ' machine had fourteen shells shot through the body. He glided safely : back to the American lines. j The Bodies artillery hits it up at a great rate in the Woevre sector today. American gunners in retaliation deluged the German positions with high ex-! plosives and succeeded in making a dl- j i rect hit on an ammunition dump, blow- , ing it up. I BUREAU CRUSADE I the hou"sJ. F. Kelley, representing ng bureau at Washington, was in Ham. I mend today to organize a C S home registration service and to put into motion nlann that would crovide for a house to house canvas of the city in

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. - i on all housing facilities. This new board about to organized will be a federal board with powers and privileges delegrated d.rect from the derailment of labor.' It will mainlain an offire in this city where ail housing data will be kept and where employes, without charge, vviil be assisted in finding sui'able rooming or housing facilities. The, office of tne noard vvia worii in direct co-op- ; eration witn manuiacturers and with landlords and property owners in finding the best possible places for al! classes of employes. The house to house canvass for rooms, vacant houses and vacant buildings that can be converted into housing quarters will be started within tha next few days and a "rent a room" publicity campaign Inaugurated. It is urged that citizens and residnts of this city must help solve, the ! housing problem and that Individual j co-operation can be goven In no more j affective way than t make pome sac- j riflce if necessary and arrange to rent j one or more rooms. ' ' Mr. Kelley while here took up the I details of the work of this board with ! the housing committee. with jP?se Wilson of the chamber of commerce ! and W. J. Whinery of the chamber of commerce At the meeting of the chamber of ) commerce yesterday the matter was reJ ferred to th housing committee, and ! ; the personnel of the board will be de- ' termined probably today. I A meeting of this board will be held at once and suitable quarters for the j manager and secretary will be secured. : Then the survey will be started and it ! is hored that the investigation may be completed within ten days. ! Uocal men know about what this j survey wi'l reveal and it is believed j that the report which goes into Wash- j ington as a result of this work will; constitute a very strong argument in backing up the appeal of our housing i committee for a more reasonable allot-; nier.t of furds to help solve our lions- ; ir.g problems. WATER QUIZ TO START AT NINE j Mayor Brown, by reason of the fact that the Public Service Com-; i mission now in session here will. be engaged tomorrow on the Ivan-! j-oe wre:k qu;Z( announces that the . . hearing on the water inquiry set for ten 0-ciock at the City Hall Will begin promptly at rMlh. O'CLOCK instead. All Water users are requested tO, note the change in time and re-j member the place of this most im-j portant hearing at the City Hall. 6-: 7-1 NOTICE OF ELKS. Important business meeting and initiation tonight. Every Elk should attend. j 6-2 7-1 F. J. O'ROVRKE, E. K. ROME CLAIM NEW VICTORY rT-y:T;r Press "" ft .v..rt am TtOME. June 27. "We extended our bridgehead at Capo Sile and took 503 prisoners."

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Br T'xiTF.n Press WASHINGTON, D. C. June 27. The following are the first 50 numbers in the new 700,000 twen-1 ty-one year old men draft drawing: 246, 1168, 818, 1091, 479, 469. ". 492. 154, 529, 355, 580, 750, 10 599, 29. 210, 445. 305. 259, 1007,; 1153. 410. 298, 361, 17, 323, 370,1 74. 961. 836. 618, 136. 969. 1001.! 322 1195, 145, 737, 664, 470. 482, 777, 1154, 988. 207, 617. 767, 692, 1117. S ATTACKED ; Fourth Negro Attacks Him After He Had Placed Three Others Under Arrest. A murderous assault that is likely at any moment to be declared a fatal one was committed last night about 12 o'clock on one of Indiana Harbor's most trusted and faithful patrolmen, Steve Fano. a man who has been known to law-breakers of East Chicago for the past six or eight years. j Steve, as he Is familiarly known by f""1 very t"slns man and cltlien liai inff Keen Irfln.prrftH t . i tVtnt rllnn ... . just a few weeks ago. He left the staI tion shortly after midnight and walked j east on Guthrie street until he camo to : No. 345S where he found a crap game openly in progress by four negroes. He took three of the men into custody and when on the sidewalk in front of the above number the. fourth negro a' tacked him with a knife. As a result, Steve is just hovering between life and death w ,,h rractically no hopes for his rccov ery. The murderous thug stabbed him. cut him. and stabbed him again and again, with murder apparently in his heart, until Steve received nine stab wounds I and a long cut across the abdomen that penetrated clear to his vitals. As soon as he could, after being set upon, he drew his gun and fired at his ! assailant. Ths. negro was seen to stagger but to recover himself and speed away. Then Steve became too weak to nre again. Tho tragedy occurred within a couple of blocks from ths rolice station and upon hearing the shot Officers Downey, Shapron and I.ee ran to the spot where they found the patrolman weltering in his own blood. They carefully took him to the station, called Dr. Teegarden and made him as comfortable as possible, Th'5 ctor came hastily and after t staunching the row or diooci naa sieve rushed in McGuan s ambulance to St. Margaret's hospital. The officer is receiving the best of care but at noon he was very low and it was believed that hn would not rally. The three negroes that Steve had in hand were arrested by officers and are now in jail. Their names are .TcffcrsTn McDonald. Jack Lett and Halhert I.ce. The report i;; that the name of the man who did the cutting was Red Brown. Brown has not been captured. He is quite dark, about 2i to 27 years of age. 5 feet 7 inches tall, slim, weighs about 15H lbs. and wore light clothes and cap. GARY MA IS KILLED li AGII (Br I'nitfd Pk.ssI WASHINGTON. D O. June 17. The war department, reports that J. Maguiers of Gary and M. Webber of Madison vvere killed in action. Taul Kiegcr. 104 Oak street. Hammond, was lcrorted wounded severeiv. T. J. -Provenc- Clinton. died from wounds; A. E. Benbow, Muncie, woundcd severely. ! VIENNA ISSUE A REPORT l'viTf:r Press Carler m. WASHINGTON. June 27. "The hotly contested Col. Del Roso held by us by ! June 15, was again attacked strongly j hut vainly." -the war office announced J today. "Near Conton de Piave the Ital- ' lans were prevented from reaching our jbank." iU. S. TROOFS TO ITALY TBr T'vitep Pkes 1 WASHINGTON. June 2 7. General Pershing has selected a regiment now In France for service In Italy.

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One body of Austrians captured by Italians. All of the thousands of Austrians made prisoners by the Italians show the effects of years of war with lack of proper food and sanitary conditions. The men appear paunt and exhausted. The above picture shows one errouo of Austrians rc-centlv captured alontr the Italian front.

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West Hammond - Indiana r Harbor White Slave Case Abruptly Ended in Judge Anderson's Court Yester - day at Capital. At State Capital,. Times Bureau. INDIANAPOLIS. INP.. June IT. The trial of a w hite slavery case was ab - . , , , , . .... ruptly terminated in federal court od-

nesday. and Hie defendants. Nicholas. ..j admire very much tho work of Tamasevieh and John Abazov ich. were ! this unit. X came especially to fellordered discharged by Judge A. B. An- j citate It." derson. when it was brought out in tes- ' timony that the principal witness for ! INiTEr Tress Cr.'.tenAM.

the government was the wife of Tamasevieh who .is prevented by law from testifying against mm. Tamasevieh and Abazovicn indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of transporting. Mae Mcfherson. twenty years old, from Wet Hmmon1. Ill . to Indiana Harbor. Ind.. for im moral purposes. The hearing was un(It way before Judge Anderson and a! jury when the defendants' attorney.!

Stephen A. Clinehens. objected to cer- j WASHINGTON, June 27. The sentaln ouestions asked the irir! bv L. Krt ! ato asricultuxal coiamitteo tocliv

Slack, district attorney, on the ground that she was the wife of Tamasevieh. (Continued on page four.) FUST GIMP PUBDOE BOVS SPLIT OF!

Men at Eastern Camp Are'dl8patch 01 a cctajni"lon to BussIa to I I check n t on Suatlin needs and rln-

Brigaded With Many Other Companies. By L. J. PARRY (Enlisted Times Sport Reporter.) CAMP MI LLP. N. J. June "7. I know what we are fighting for now. I saw her in New York harbor looming up like Bill McAleer's ring on a wet night. She is the Statute of Liberty and while we were being ferried over from to we gave the old girl the o. o. Well, your little old Purdue training detachment is split forty ways. For inst3t-.ee all the Lowell boys are in i another company. I'm engine expert in I No. 315 Ammunition train. A. E. F. Bill j Glover of Cmn Point is in the in- ; j ran try. Jerry Blum cf Hammond with j a trench mortar lompany. Garl Dnne-

its of ,ary is with a field artillery ci Bolshevlkisxa is thrown off. company. All divided up every which Thero were disorderly SC3E63 at the old way. labor conference today when Kereasky We nre getting our kits. ' O. D.." and other foreign delegates were iaovercoats. extra blankets, wrapping troduced. Sriish representatives proleggings, wool suits. n?vv shoes, guns. ; tested and questioned Kerensky's cre-

camp kit and the Lord knows what, j The eats are fine. There are men here ready to go. Great sight, trans-

ports an camounagea in ,vsw ork nar- Bt Vvited Press f rtaiuffieu m aitena to arrange plans ror bor. Everything's war. Wonderful ac-1 WASHINGTON, June 27. Drawing' j fourth of July and consider other mattivity. I could tell you things e ?azzle cf draft numbers for America's class of its of importance. you but what we are sending ov er from ; 1913 waa completed in two hours to- j 6-2-2t J. T. Hl'TTO.V, Presi lent, the old 1". S. A. is going to rut the day when 120O pellets were drawn1

rough s'uff the boche has been pulling ' nn the hnn-mpr We mnv Vie v,a-a f u-e week-

jm hub i - 1 1 -"ties x. i jut w uim tBr t.'.vtTED Press. WASHINGTON, Janen 37, Irkutwk, ' been captured by Slovaks after a short i Sg-ht with the Red Guards. j

H'nitet"" Press Ca BT.r-,n am ! mane's assertion that pii.-e Is niiliBOSH, 0"un 27 Italian loroesi j tarlaly impossible, Uerr Hausana scid ' made further grains ca the lower Piave,xthat "thousands of soldiers think the

taking- 600 prisoners, it was semi-of-Flave we crossed

the river and took 100 prisoners," it ; Chinese is not completely otaiaa!:le," I was stated. "We enlarged the bridge- ' continued Neumann, "even if we sacri- ! head, taking 500 prisoners. Elsewhere , fi.ee our man." i we crossed the river and raided enemy; A Berlin dir-o-itch r.-.vs that e;n-

i ontpo"t'-" i I'nited Pr.r.ss i'apli!'-,r. By LOWELL MALLET. WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE HASNE, June 27. 4 p m. Premier I Clemenceau today personally congr, Clemenccaa today personally , nlated the American unit which stopped! !tho German rush toward Paris. He ar- j : rived at headouarters this moruln? : , . . , .,... i and after being: Introduced said: j COPENHAGEN, June 27. rhe greneral opinion prevails among: members of the German rclchstag- that Foreign ; Minister von Xuehlmen will, be com- ' pelled to resign. The conservative press ; is attacking him violently and asking' ' his removal. Chancellor von Kuert- : llngr's speech Is received by the press with Ditisf action. Br V.vitfp Press. ! agreed cn a prohibition amendment as a substltuto for tho Jones bone-dry amendment. It provides that the sale of whictey and manufacture cf winos shall stop June 30, 1919. The manufacture cf beer Is to stop three months after passage. The voto was 8 to 3 in favor cf the amendment. Bt Vniteh Press. I WASHINGTON, Juno E7. American action as to Busaia will occur soon. Tho first steps will probably bo tho! check up clres. tl'NTTBD Press Cablegram LONDON, June 27. Successful minor operations and hostile cannonading' was reported by Haig today. "There was hostile artillery lnclud. J ing gas shell at Givenchy and in the northeaster portion cf Nieppe forest, i VT7 t e f VftiiT-TtArinln tnrr.AGf nl m Inftr ' operations resulted in the capture of socio prisoners and machine guns. ri'NiTSD Press e'Ari'.Er.rt m 1 LONDON, Juno 27. Alexander Ecrensky, Russia's . "man of destiny," told friends today there are d:flsite inriications that order will be speedily reestablished in Russia, with the aid of the allies ani America, resulting in the said it Is possible that Krissia Is reaay creation of an "east front" again. He to Join the allies as soon as the ycka Centlals. Eventually the chairman was! ellowed to welcome them. , from a bowl la the senate office buildl.ir (Hirtmer iviirv l 3rr m-f ' lar. ! jta the seiectio enrice. The first num.

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wawaa ber for the 21 year eld registrants was 2 IS and the last 25. t'xiTED I'riEss C a r. l e r. . m . 1 AJCSTEEDAjH, Juno 27. Speaiin? in he relchstasr regardin? Vcn Kuehlsame," according1 to a Berlin cUspatch. "An absoluto victory over the hordes ; of North and South Americans and Tin:: i0U3CBts of conservative j fan-German r.ewsr;pcr3 oa Von i Kuehlir.3 nn'c speech his rtt.remet is j expected. -rm itthtm IMPROVING POSITIONS ri'NTTrn rREs Cf:.kc-.rm J WITH THE ITALIANS. .Tune 27. Most of the fitrhtin.at t vlay fined to the mountain sect w.-is rr r en be th sides of the Brenta river. The Italians are jmpr-iv ing their positions there for as long n the :;. Itrians hold their present line in that i sector and Italian advan-e across the l Piave would leave their f!.-nk and the ! rear communications e-x-pefe.i to the j enemy's reserves in the Vppe.i Brenta : and Piave valleys I It Is reported that Kir.peror Karl presided at the final council and dej eided '.m the Austrian : across the Piave. '.v it hd ravval 7 ! FIGHTNG- IN MINOR OPERATIONS FtNiTEr Press C A HI. Be; RAM LONDON. June 27. Figh.t g on the Ilalian front i confined to iv ations. Paris reports successful London mentions only art nor r,peland aci tivity. SO CASUALTIES A dti tj TtT-si-kT" nnn i Bt Ixite? PPilS- 1 i WASHINGTON. June 27 : casualties w re reported by Pershine: today: Eighty y Genera! 6: died of I Killed. 25; died of wounds (disease. 2: died from aen plane a'-ci uenis. -. aiea iroiii accidents and oth er causes, 4; vvcunded severe! c, 31 wounded degree undetermined. 4. FINAL WEEK OF CIRCUIT1 C0UPT r.rn.'-iT. To Tt'n T---"- t CROWN POINT. IND.. June'?: This is the last week of court in Crown Point and a general clean up of the docket is in order this week. An adjourned term of court will be taken up on Julv loth when the much courted Singleton ditch case will come up for a final hearing At least it is hoped it will he a fjn by the attorneys. LIBERTY HALL. Important Meeting- Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid Association, Thursday, June 27. A!! rarents and friends of the bovs who have gene to the front are urgently ' None so poor but can buy War Savings and Thrift Stamps.

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U. S. Steel Has Ko Love tor Indiana and No Particular Interest in the Stale, Just how much love the U. S. Steel Corporation and E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors, ! has for Indiana and Gary is seen by a speech made by Judge Gary recently in Duluth, Minn. At the Hotel Spaulding there after the Duluth dignitaries had asked the steel corporation to make that city a basing point for the steel industry Judge Gary said: "Why did the Steel Oorroi atlon build a pl?nt on a sandy desert "long thj southern shares of IUMichigan? Because of a love for Indiana ? ""h no. none of vis have any par-ticuL-ir interest in that siatc. i was purely a business proposition "We would much rath-, r hav e spent the money expended in Cary right here in Duluth. ur friend are here. But the propopit ien would have I.', en a failure frvm a business point of view. "There fuel was easily obtainable, as were other things which ;.re necessary to the making of f. The;e was a market. I'or the tnsnulacture of pip iron Iihuh is well suited, perhaps nc.-irly a well as almost any other city. But Birmingham can manufacture piS iron Sr.05 more cheaply per ton than can Duluth. As to steel products. Duluth is behind Gary by OS per cent, Bittsbuigh by 13 per cent. "Pittsburgh cos's could be greatly reduced if we had modern coke ovens there. It would have paid us to invest in those ovens rather than in the Duluth plant, hut we felt an interest in Duluth and you have the plant." Judge Gary's speech will create s. storm in Gary, his namesake. It will also inculcate a deep feeling of love for the v. S. Steel Corporation in Indiana which permitted the trust for a pittance of $25 an acre to gobble up precious lake front ag? amounting to hundreds of acres worth all th- way fron fne '" t'-n thousand dollars an acr. fSFE-iM. To The Time' J bALllJiUKE, MIL. June 2 7. A Ham mond soldier, Walter A. Whalen. stationed at Camp Holabiid. caused the arrest last night of Julius Schnoor. aged 67. an employe of the institution, whom he charged vwth cursing the govcrnniriii and President Wilson. The soldiers. Walter A. Whalen and Dclose tuires. summoned I'atio'.nun McKevv. who took R-himor in charge and locked him up a' the Northeastern Station. This morning Pchnoor was given a hearing before Magistrate Rohleder and on the statement of the two soldiers he was turned over to the I'nited States authorities. BASKET PICNIC FOB WHITIK GELEBRATIDN Parade at Ten O'clock to Be a Feature of Independence Day Progarm. TPfS'.-iai. To The Times. 1 WHITING, IND.. June 27. Whiting is to have a monster celebration on the Fourth of July, this to be under the direction of the Liberty Guards which were recently organized In this city. There will be a parade to begin at l1) o'clock in which every organization is asked to participate, the lodges to carry their service flags. The band will take a prominent place in tje parade which wiil disband at the Whiting park where ther will be games, contests and various e.ther ainusoni'nl?. An eld fashioned I basket picnic dinner will be held at tho tin i k. RAIDS IN THE VOSGES REGION Br CyiTFir- Press.. TAF-IS. June i7. Fairly active nr tillery fighting north of the Aisne and three Fiiceessful inids in the Vosge., region resulting in th0 capture of prisoners was reported by th-e French war office today.

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