Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 26, Hammond, Lake County, 29 June 1918 — Page 1
WARMER Savings Stamps You Do Not 3ive You Receive WEATHER V OL. VII, NO. 26. JUNE 29, 1918. TEN IMAGES. JiCli?tCl33 TTT SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.
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Hammond Pro Hun Black Arrested for Rank Treason by Deputy United States Marshall Frank Krose, colored, of Hammond, has the distinction of being the first negro arrested in Indiana for alleged violation of the espionage act. Krose, according to officials of the department of justice, has been one of the worst offenders among the alleged pro-Germans in the state. now rat mabjok co. jazZi. He is now in the Marion county Jail awaiting- the action of the federal grand jury. C. E. Whicker, deputy United States marshal, arrested Krose at Hammond yesterday. Whicker also arrested Joe Freppo, an Austrian. at Terra Haute, on a presidential warrant charg Ir.g him with being a dangerous enemy alien and Preppo ""'ill occupy a. cell in the Marlon county jail until further action in his case is. taken at Washington, lie probably will be interned. HAS "VISITED QESUCANT. Krose. according to information given L. Ert Slack, district attorney, has been a firm supporter of Germany by his talk among th-i colornf population of Hammond. He has been in Germany once, the officials say. It is charged that he v.rced members of his race to join the Industrial Workers of the. World, that he declared Belgians had r.ot been mistreated by Germany and that he said Germany has already won the war. A FINE X.XTTX.E LIAR. He is alleged to have said the murderer of President McKinley was not executed but was raid a large sum of money by the government and permitted to leave the country. Other assertion attributed to the colored man are to tii effect that tho government was running troop trains back and forth across the country to deceive the public, that Liberty bor.ds are a fake and that the Germans are "the best people on earth." Krcse is about thirty-rive years old. KKOSE EMPLOYED AS iiEOEIE. Krose was employed as a laborer at the Indiana Harbor Belt Ey. yards, and his particular brand of German propaganda had all the earmarks of a darky's imagination. Employes of the railroad gave affidavits to Agent Green accusing Krose. who admitted having been in Germany, of using seditious language and talking in favor of Germany and against the United States. - Krose persuaded Harry Cantor, a machinist at Gibson, to join the T. W. W.. (Continued on page five.) Cream of Lake County's Manhood on Way to Camp Sherman Admired by East Chicago Citizen. Here's a man from East Chicago who happened to see different embarkations of Lake county boys enroute to Cirep Sherman at Chillicothe. Ohio, and here is the way it impresses him: Elwood. Ind., June 27. Editor Times: On approaching the Pennsylvania depr.t at South Chicago at 9:40 this a. m. one of the happiest experiences of my life befell mv hare m the form of what coulo be called harmonic sinkingthe volume of the vnj.-es convinced in--that a well trained male .-horn?; wa on its way to some o!?teddfod (contest singing festivities with the determination to bring back a valuable prize, but lo and behold, upon entering the dpot I learned from Mario Santorl that the supposed "choir" was no other than 50 ncb'.e sons of East Chlca f, End Indiana were to leave on the ten o'clock train to Camp Sherman, Chill'coth. Ohio. Never could there be higher spirits of enthusiasm manifested by any body of men. than was shown by these sturdy East Chicagoans. Yes. we admit that our sanguine qualities cannot be challenged, was the remark of on of the boys, and with those attainable q-.ialitles to our credit.' we are off to prepare ourselves to attain the .Continued on page five.
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LEADS ALLIES OX XEAR EAST FKOXT ' i t x ' . - (icm-ral Franchet d'Esperey. General d'Esperey succeeds General Guiilajmat as commander ia chief of the allied forces in the near east, as the Saloniki front is technically known. Some action may be looked for in this reeion this summer, as some hundreds of thousands of British, French and Greek soldiers massed here have done nothing but rest for a vear. 10 ILL Woman Who Tries to Save Her Honor Hit With Axe. Boy in Protecting Mother May Die From Wounds Inflicted. Two deaths will probably result from one of the most shameful attacks ever known in this rart of the state, which were committed by a foreigner with a kaiser moustache last evening near Tolleston. Mrs. Myrtle Forsgreefi Is dying at Mercy hospital, Gary, as a result of an assault with an axe while endeavoring to defend herself from being outraged by an unknown man. and hf-r three year old son who was found with the mother is in an unconscious condition by being badly bc-aten about the head. The assault on the mother and son occurred at Twenty-fourth aenue and Chase street an isolated spot in the outskirts of southwestern part of Tolkston. Th" discovery of the two victims was made by a neighbor Mrs. Blanche Hansford at four o'clock yest-rday who found Mrs. Forsgrecn on the ground near the north side of the house in an unconscious condition with her clothing disarranged and near by a broken axe was found which told the story of how the woman was assaulted. A push broom was fount near the prostrate body which appeared to have been usfd by Mrs. Forsgreen in defending herself. George Mejers. nine years o!d, states that be saw a man leaving the Forsgreen home about liftt-cn minutes before tho discovery of the mother and son. The description of the man as given by the little boy was that he was white. 40 years old. a foreigner, wearing a blue serge suit, brown fedora hat and a 'Kalscr" moustache. HECKLEMAN NOT j THERE; QUIET IN COUNCIL ROOM Councilman Eouis Heckelman was conspicuous by his absence lact night when the Hammond city council had a second special session and passed the motion to borrow S60,non to replenish the city treasury. It is stated that other members of the council got busy with H'ckelman's constituents and brought pressure to bear upon the man who opposeel the borrowing. OH, PASS THE HASH. height cf affluance in Hammond. At one market today live chickens sold at sixty cents the pound
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WAR SAVINGS TOTAL TILL NOW C - reports of th) sale of War Savings Stamps to noon today are as follow s: Wrnfield $ 6, 50 Gary 605.401 Whiting SO. 000 Hammond 230.000 Hobart 7.000 Crown Point 15.000 OrLTith 1.000 E. Chicago-Indiana Harbor. 2SO.00O Lowell SO.ooa Eagle Creek S.500 ALPH ROOT He Deceived Pretty Bethel Haines, 17-Year-Old Movie Studio Girl and Coming to Hammond She Met His Wife and Children. Ralph Root, the government ordnance inspector at the Standard Steel Car Company's Hammond plant, arrested a.t the request of Mis3 Bethel Haines, a pretty 17-jear old girl of St. Charles, 111., after a sensational scene in a local hotel between the man, his wife and the giil, was bound over yesterday in Chicago to tha federal grand jury to await trial for violation of the white slave traffic Jaw. Said Ha Was Unmarried. Miss Haines met Koot, Sunday, May 58. while-in Hammond on a visit with friends and he represented himself to be a single man. Miss Haines' s:ster end Albert E. Beardsley of Chicago, were with the girl when she met Root and the latter persuaded Beardsley to quit his position with a Chicago firm, assuring h::r. a better place at the Standard. The Inspector also told the gtrl to leave her j.jb as office girl with the Virginia Snow Movie studio at Elgin. I!!. Then, the gay deceivtr left his newfriends and went home to friend wife. Tree W itb Fake Job. Bethel returned to Hammond the following day prepared to go to work In the offices of the Standard but r.oot was unable to secure a position for her and did not work himself that day. Early Tuesday morning Beardsley came o town on the same mission but failed lo find either Koot or the cir!. H was told at the plant that Root had ro authority to offer anyone a place on the payroll, but when he explained that he had resigned his position in Chicago they found cmplovnient for him. Beardsley learned that Root had been seen at the plant late Monday and the giii had waited for him while he made a quick touch, stating he must have $100 to send to his sick mo'her. He Spent Eer Money. Root end Miss Haines registered that night at the Beilin hotel. Chicago, as man and wife, according to federal Investigation. The next morning he accompanied her to Elf-in. 111., where shdrew $10 pay due her. With this $1 Root entertain'-d the girl royally and that night they were at the Rigi hotel. The following morning Root took the girl to the south side where she was to live and work in Hammond. On coming to Hammond Wednesday Bethel, the girl, found no job and became suspicious of Root's actions and afraid b" would not marry her as be had promised. She did a little sleuthing and found Ron s wife at the Majestic hotel and saw h:s h:IJrrn. Rut it was not until Root had refused to give back the $10 he borrowed from hrr that, the girl exposed him to his wife and secured his arrest by the Hammond police Root was held in j-iil while the cose was investigate by G. W. Green of the department of Justice. Girl's deputation Good. The girl's reputation in her home town was of the best, the investigator learned. While he was in jail in Hammond Root would reach through the hats and jostle a baby carriage containing h:s youngest child, while the wife counseled with lawyers and arr.inged bail. THIRD GERMAN RAID IN 3 DAYS 'United Fress Cablegram. PARIS, June Germans made their third air raid in as many days nn Paris at midnight. Though bombing the city two hours no casualties were reported. A raid warning was isued at 10.50 last night. ""Enemy airplanes i aided the Tat is region and were violently bombarded by anti-aircraft batteries. ?ome bombs were dropped but there were no victims." LAWYERS TO AID NEW REGISTRANTS The Hammond legal advisory board has notified r.ll associate attorneys to appear at the 'oirth-iuse Tuesday and Wednesday to make out questionnaires Ox" new registrants. Buy W. S. S.
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ians in the battf of th Piave front Pio. r.nw in Washington. '.;Hwil) soon I v (ixds'i -hi ii. a v. ..vr iu i i.e some of hi vivd and ,!nteretir.g ex (By T'vsted Pr.rss.l WASHINGTON. June i'.' - -The first American troops landed in Italy yesterday. Chief of Staff March ' ejjto,uid tediy. They ere msi..'.y salivary forces. This outfit Is distinct from what Gen. Pershing wii! send. At the same time General March announced the first national army division the 77th raised in New York the f.rst such division to take over a sector on the west front had done so this week under command of General Evan Johns jti. Five American divisions brigaded with the British have been turned back to Pershing. No announcement of the to'al overseas shipments was forthcoming today. The Sith division. Missouri rational guardsmen, is one of those whose training under the British is finished and is now being used by Pershing. It is under command of Maj. Gen. William Wright. FUNERAL OF FAMOUS CORNET PLAYER TO BE HELD AT MOUNT HOPE The funeral of Mr. Herbert Hutchins of SAS Hohmcn street, Hammond, who died yesterday, will be held In the chape! at Mount H pe cemetery Chicafto. Jlonday afternoon at 2:3 Oo'clock, Key. Hoffman, cf Joliet.' officiating. Mr. Hutchins leaves besides a wife, one son Herbert Hutchins. Jr., and two daughter?, Mrs. F. Hagedorn. of Hammond and Mrs. F. If. George of Fort Wayne. Mr Hutchins had a national reputation cs a cornet pyer and teacher and up to a few yeats had been with the Chicago Musical College from its beginning and had played in the orchestra of the Illinois theatre for 25 years He was a member of the facutly of the Hammond Musical College for two ; ears before Ir.s illness. HAMMOND AND WEST IN JOINT CELEBRATION Fourth to Be Obesrvec in Accordance With President's Proclamation. Hammond and TVest Hammond will Join in a demonstration of patriotism the afternoon of the Fourth of July, s-tartlng with a foot parade forming on Mate g.ine street and proceeding to Liberty Hall where a program of singu.s: and speeches will be rendered The 'reakerJ.T the day will be announced Monday'. ; Mavor Pan! M Kamradt of We-t Hammond and Mavor Pan Brown of H-nimond will issue proclamations for the day and nil places of business will he closed during the parade and meeting. Sergeant William "Welch and D. E. Boone are completing arrangements for the day and will make final announcements the first of next week. Hammond and West Hammond will observe the day in accordance with President Wilson's proclamation, it was decided at a meeting of representative citizens in Liberty Hall last evening. The kaiser it at bat. Sirike him out by buying War Savings Stamps.
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ana pian"? in mine several aaarosses perienres on th Italian front. FOURTEEN IILIST IN (BIO MECUIC COURSE Six Left Hammond Yesterday and Eight More Go Monday. Six well known Hammond boys left yesterday for the army auto mechanic training' echool at Purdue at Purdue university yest-rday end eight others leave Monday. These who departed yesterday were Roscoe Parry, Earl K. Cone, Joseph A. Albert. Adam R. Ebert. Walter W. Eohde and Malcolm Galvln. Those who leave for the army automechanics school at Valparaiso are: Frpd H. rfrommer, William E. Montouffel. Harold E, Throop. Henry O. Klee. Ed J. Olynlczak and Peter Qlndle. Those who go to a similar school at Richmond, Ind , Monday are George Harvey and Charles Crumpacker. The young men were voluntarily Inducted Into service by the Hammond exemption board which called for volunteers. ALIEN MOTHER HIS FIVE SDNS IN ARMY 317 Alien Enemy Women Are Registered at Hammond Police Station. Mrs. Pfeffer, police matron with Capt. Rimbach and officers Eorchert and Eunde has been very busy for the last week registering S17 German alien females. Because these women registered as German aliens it does not necessarily mean that they are enemies, the greater part being very good Americans and having sons who are now fighting in France, for the United States. One woman w ho registered is said to have five sons in the army. Over 350 male alien enemies were registered in Hammond; more than !n any other city In the Calumet region. CZAR KILLED BT B German Embassy at Moscow Confirms Murder Report, Says Stockholm. United Press Cablegram 1 STOCKHOLM. June 3. The German embassy at Moscow confirms the murder of Nicholas Roman off. former czar, according to a dispatch received here today. A newspaper declares that the Red Guards ordered ' the royal family to prepare to leave. While en route to the station Nicholas heatedly protested against transfer to an unknown place, whereupon the Red Guard escort bayo- ' neted him. .The empress and her daughters were not molested. The czarovitch was taken to an separate unknown ! place. Countess Erassova, wife of Grand j Duke Michael, was imprisoned in Butir penitentiary, j The Bolshevik alliance with Germany I will be creator than ever if the allies invade Siberia, i 'If forced to choose between 4he evils of German and Japarase invasion j we prefer the former because there is I a chance of revolution in Germany." jwar Minister Trotzky deCiarf,j at JI3S. cow this week. Buy a Thrift Stamp today.
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PIAVE FRONT IN MAY i Austrian guns captured by the Ital to this country by Colonel Domecico in i.nicago ana vicinity, giving "Bulletins L'.vitl;! Press Cableguaii. ROME, June 29 Lively artillery fighting; In tbe mountain regions and connlderable aerial activity vrui reported by the Italian irar office today. "Allied sirmen bombed railway center and troop concentrations and brought down three enemy planes. On the Af,taKo artillery fishtlns vn lively. ElneTTherc It was moderate.' !Bt Vnited Press.! WASHINGTON, June it Anstrlan losses in the battle of the Piave arc estimated r.t 2T,00 by tht Italia y -- preme command, Rome cuMe today otated. By SIMM?. WITH THE AMERICAN' ARMIES IN PRANCE, June 20. The Germans put dono a barrnae on the new Hrltish positions east of Vieppr fore-it from 10:30 last night to 2:'t0 this mornlns, bat up to 7 o'clock this morning; there was no Infantry attack. fUNiTED Press Cablegram LONDON, June 29. Prisoners taken In the British advances east of Nleppc forest yesterday reached 400. The total prisoners east of NTeppe forest was more than 44M," the statement said. rUN'ITED PKF.SS (.'AFuEGRA.M. THE H 4 GTE, June 29. A dispatch from Budapest dated Thursday declares the strikers In that city hove returned to nork without exnctlnsr any n err conditions. After nn Interval of four days newspapers will reappear tomorrow. f United Press Cab:.egram. AMSTERDAM, June 2 Germany Is about to strike another surprise blow nt the Allies, accordin-r to General von Ilebert, who commanded the German nt I.ods. In the same interview von Liebert referred to the Austrian offensive as a painful failure. "It will not be Ions before another German hlow wlll surprise the Allies," the German admitted. "We must iclrait the painful thought that our Allies fnilrd at the Plave." EIGHT-ONE CASUALTIES REPORTED TBt United Press! . .WASHINGTON. June 29. Thirty-nine Marine casualties today were divided a follows: Killed In action. 24; died of wounds, wounded. 7. ! H. E. Green. Indis napolis. died of wounds. General Pershing reported 42 casualties: Killed, 5; died of wounds. 32; died of disease, 2; died of accident and other onuses. 2; wounded severely, 14; missing in action, 7. (No Indiana casualties.). IASKS COURT TO SEVER COMMON LAW MARRIAGE Bolshevik circles. If such exist in Hammond, will be rained to learn that ' marriage without benefit of clergy is ! not always a grand end glorieius sue- ! cess. i June Smith has filed suit in the superior court through her attorney. Jos. L. Lash, for divorce from Phillip Wade Smith in which it is stated 'that May 23. 150S the plaintiff and defendant entered into a common law marriage and lived together at intervals until May. 191S, at which time they separated. They have two children. Mrs. Smith asks divorce and $1,000 alimony. Other suits filed: Lelia Vance vs. Robert W. Vance, staying out late. Gladys Lindley vs. Carl Lindley. cruel and inhuman treatment. Goldie Dunbar vs. James Dunbar. drunkenne.es. If you're not in khaki you ought to be carrying a War Savings card.
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Chairman E I Lewis of Public Service Gommisslon Tells Wh; Reporters Were Excuded The Times acknowledges the receipt ot the following letter from E. I. Lewis chairman of the Indian Public Service Commission : "Indianapolis, Ind., June 2S. "Editor Times: "I see by an issue of your paper that there is a disposition to take exception to the rolicy adopted by the Public Service Commission of Indiana in re- ' gard to the Ivanhoe wreck investigatlci the exclusion of the public from thinvestigation made by the Indiana Ccmm;s6ion and the Interstate Commerce Commission. Of course. I can write to you on a better basis than almost anv. one else. for. as you know, 1 am an old newspaper man. My fcelir.es. therefore are Identical with yours in matters r.f' his kind. It has always been the Policy of this Commission, and I believe cf all other state commissions, in making investigations of wrecks, to hold the hearings behind closed doors, and when I came on this Commission, there was a question as to whether this policv should be continued or abandoned. What taw Enquires. frtcrt We?r' iS Cxplicit 9 not forth ,nve"-"ionS made, not for the purpo.-e of returning a coroners verdict or indictment of Lrre on anone. but for the Purpose of ?er have some-?0 PUrP8e ht is to eliminate a rcpetifon of such accidents. Reasons Tor- Caution. here h " Cth there have been revealed some points of interesting psycholc-v- .h,. poir"s noic,. that must bo taken into consideration: Flr if tJl witnesses end companU,, for these accidents are called into oPen session, they are fearful of n:akiJ " cban breast of tho Ritlfjon aRJ not tell as they will behind closed doers. lhe exact facts Secon(j are being trailed assiduously hv Iawvers seeking grounds for damage suits. 'and by a varied assortment of ambulane., chasers, the character of which are of course familiar. Simply to Protect Service H"U,rv, ir'Ve"tipa,ion? have nothing to do w.th anything except the protection of service, and therefore. I have flnal'y comc to the conclusion that the cl, ! session is the ritrht thing in the-- ,a.. tors. In the Eroad Eirrle. and othe r'b r nreck investigations, we were able ... pet facts tjiat oren investigations he'd by coroners and others were not able to touch. For instance, in T Ti -. T?--rt-3 t--rle case we found that tho motorman (Continued on page five.)" LAKE CO. CASE IS AFFIRMED TIMES' extras were on the streets in Calumet region cities yesterday at 2 p. in. jrl-ring tho sews of the supreme conrt decision and gave"1 the news first to the public.
Tivrs Brr.EAr. At State ("ArrTvr.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June ri The supreme court stood four for the constitutionality of the !iw and onn against In the prohibition ruling. Judge John y. Spencer dissented and wrote a dissenting opinion. The prevailing opinion was written- by Judge Howard L. Townsend. It was concurred in by Judges Moses B. Lairy and Lawj son Harvey. Judge David Myers concurred in the conclusion, but not in all the reasoning of the opinion. In his dissenting opinion. Judge Spencer held that the decision of the supreme court in the Beebe case in 185". H herein it was decided that the legislature is without pewer under our Cohstitution to enact n prohibition law, established a rule of property in this state under which the brewing company had acquired its rights and that under the rule of star decisis the brewing company should be protected. take County Case Affirrnefl. The supreme court also decided the ca;e appealed from Lake county, entitled Valentine Pisarski vs. Clyde Hunter, prosecuting attorney. The Lake tperior court held the "dry" law to be constitutional and the supreme ourt affirms the decision of the !,wer cuit. No opinion wa.- written in the Lake -county case, it being disposed of by tb principles laid down in the opinion in the case brought by the I w. foil Brewing Company against Edcar Schmitt, chief of police, of Evansvllle. 1