Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 10 July 1918 — Page 1

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GO. BSQHB5 IS Thirty-Two Million Dollars Invested In Properties ol Big New independent. Coming on top of the news that the Baldwin company was planning to build its plant at East Chicago business and financial circles were interested in the news of a financial deal being consummated in Chicago of vital interest to East Chicago and the Calumet region. Official announcement is expected before night of the formation of the Steel and Tube company of America which has acquired the Mark Manufacturing company of East Chicago and the Iroquois Iron company of South Chicago and will form one of the largest and most complete independent steel companies in the west. The company will have invested in its properties $32,000,000. Forms Powerful Group. A note issue to provide additional capital has been sold and will be offered today. This new merger and financing marks another stop toward the amalgamation of one of the strongest Independent steel groups in the west. Interested in the new company are interests identified with the By-Products Coke corporation. I'lckands, Mather & ''o.. the Tcungstown Sheet Tube com(Continued on page three.) MULLIGAN WAS THERE WITHJHE EXCUSE And He Wasn't a Bit Rattled Before the Judge, Either. "When the automobile of "W. T. Mullicn. of Brandon avenue, manager of the Hegewisch theater, formerly of the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company of Hammond, reaches a speed of Z'i miles an hour, a device on the speedometer is supposed to rattle. Once it failed, he told Judge I.a Buy vestercy, and that was the time he was ar- : t-sted. "That's a valuable invention." said the judge, as he dismissed Muil.gan. 'but next time be careful or you'll get a rattling good fine." "OVER THERE" CLUB FORMS AND ELECTS Sixteen Hammond men who plan going to France to work .for the y. m. C. A. met last night and organized. Until they are called they will study the things they believe they will need to know "over there" including the French language and how to operate and repair a Ford. Eleven have made application for service with the T. M. C. A. and they re: Sam Walker. Theodore Moor, "Warren Payne. John D. Smith. Rosooe Hemstcck. George Clark. Clark Hammond, Frank Martin. George Miller, Charles "Binder and A. O. Ltaverton. The others are trying to arrange their affairs so 3 to be free to go. Bert Anderson, deputy city treasurer, was elected president and tVarren Tayne, secretary. MINISTERIAL FIGHT GENERAL! fl'VITEP FflFSS fBT.EC;P.AM 1 ZURICH. July IP. Commenfng on ; Foreign Minister Kuehlmann's res'e- I nation German new-spar" rs imply that j the ministerial f.ght i not c-.r.fln-d t the minister of foreign affairs

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Ml 'I liiiUl hiW That Is Appeal of E. Siders Who Storm City Council Which Passes McMahon Franchise Ordinance De ' spite Opposition. News that the Baldwin Company is build a five million dollar plant at East Chicago, bringing an increase :n population of many thousands of peopie to the cities of North township, had its effect today on the street car situation in Hammond by lending weight to the argument of East Siders that extensions are needed on both Calumet and Columbia avenues. With a large delegation cf representative residents of Calumet avenue and Maywood Park in attendance, the cit council last evening passed the ordinance giving .franchise to the Hammond, Whitmc &- East Chicago Rail-way for lines on South Calumet and Columbia avenues, and ordering other imj provements made. Thirteen councilmen (Continued on page five.) BOY BLOWN UP JffDMMITE Peculiar Accident at Cedar I Lake Reported From Crown PQint. r?PEc:t. To The Timf.s. CROWX POINT, Ind., July 1. A very serious accident happer.ed at Cedar Lake on Monday when a lad eight years old by the name of Marshall Kt-d. son of C. Reed, connected with the LibermanReed Paring Companv of Twenty-ninth and Lowe aieiiue. Chicago, who was spending the summer with his family at the. lake, discovered some dynamite caps wl.ii h had been stored in a buildingand was being used for blasting, and in some manner the dynamite, exploded, seriously injury the young Reed boy. He was taken to Lowell for medical attention and at this time, is in a very prvcarious condition. The sheriff's erne at Crown Point was called and assisted in every way possible in the accident, and aiso disposed of the dynami e. j BETTER BE CAREFUL ! WHATJDU PICK UP i Whiting Undertaker Puts i ; Another Man's Booze in j Auto and Is Arrested. j Mike Luowski of ol" Fishrupp ave1 nue. whiting; Frank M'.halek. 564 Kfn ; wood avenue. Hammond, and August J Besert. 550 An.es avenue. Hammond, were arrested on Ames a-venue by Offi- ' cer Lute for bringing liquor into The i stat(. ! At their trial in the Hammond city ; court this morning it was said that LUkowski who is an undertaker was ' driving along Ames avenues yesterday in his pallbearer's automobile when Beserst. whom he knew, 'stopped him land said that he would five him $1.50 ! if Lukowski would drive he and JleI halek home, which Lukowsi agreed to j do. j Besert pleaded ruilty to the charpe ', and was fined $51 and costs, in all $?n. Lukowski and Mehaiek both pleaded ! not guilty and th'ir trial was continued i until July 16. ! They had gallons. 3 Tints cf liquor 1 in the machine. 103 ON DAY'S CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON. July 10. General Fershing today reported lr3 casualties, as follovvs: Kilied in action. HI 15; died of disease. 4 died of wounds, died of accident. ; wounded severely 45. wounded only t-lightly. 1: prisoners, Marine casualties Z. missing. 12. reported today were five, as follows: Killed m ation. 2. died cf wounds. 2 wounded severely, l ,

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f MILK GAN5 ARE THE LATEST CARRIER I Three Hammond Men Are . Found With Booze and Were Full of It. John XI. Murray of 22 riumrr.cr avc- : r.ue. Edward Kinney cf 44! Mich:gv '. aenuo and Hardy P. Letcher cf Hickory street were arretted at Z.20 liiis r;crn:nK ct Hc-hman and t'lait-Mi streets for b ir.g drunk and io la tins the liquor law. These three men had a which large miii they claim can full of whiskev. was gotten from a that was leaking ;n barrel cf whiskey a car on the rip - track :n Mor.cn jarcis at South . Hammond. LetchT admits c nlr.jr the automotive which Officer Pel; r.oaily ran into at m::inigt:t because it had r.o lights. When brought in Kmney had such a bad cut on his hand that a doc"'r had to b sent for. lie said that he had fallen down and cut it. At their trial this norn'.ng in 'he Hammond e:ty court before Judge K'o:z they were aiso charged wuh grand larceny and bound over to the federal grand jury. GIRLS TAKE fie CLUBJi ORGANIZE It Will Be Shown As the Rooster's Auxiliary Until After the War. Forty young ladies of Hammond have . tak n over the Roosters' Club under the name of the Roosters' Auxiliary and : will maintain the organization until the bos come home. Of about fifty original j members Dr. Leonard Moran. Artliur Hess and Virgil "VVhitaker are left, i The girls will meet one or two e-. enj 'nffs a week m the club rooms to knit ' and sew for the Red Cross. As ih. dues j are considerable, it is expected they will I be aided m their worthy undertaking by i their parents and business men. The chief rooster is Irene Van S'.jke. who was elected president. Kathryn jBharrer Is Mce-president, Mrs. Jack I ox .treasurer, and Florence Burroughs s.v- ' ctay. ALL ALLIES WANT REPRESENTTION I f P.r Tvitei PriESs 1 j WASHINGTON. July 1 0. A II the Aljlies today are scrambling for generous I representation on the propaganda poi !'- force which w!i accompany the j American-Allied mission to a.d P.ussia. Britain wants to share eiually. France realizes that she and America are perhaps the best liked by th rtussians and Japan says she ought to be heavily represented as one of the most interI ested of Kussia's neighbors. Russ:a j must be united within herself and unit- ! ed against the Germans. I : ITALIANS MAKE FURTHER ADVANCE j ri'NiTnr. Pr.F-ss Cablegram 1 I POME. July 1 A. Italian forces in ; Albania are still pressing forward on ; the forty mil" front at the Adriatic iney nave maae an a avanc t-l about fifteen mile? since Sunday and are pr--gress ng on both sides cf the. river. "We have repulsed the enemy renter and are advancing." the statement 1 says. AMERICAN LINER IS ATTACKED ' rpr I'MTrn Tress ) ; NEW YC'prt, Jul;- in resumption of German submarine activities was ! reported t"day when an American l n- ' er from Chile, arriving hre today, was jatataeked off Cape Henry Monday evening. Two torpedoes were fired, both ! missing I A LITTLE HUN SARCASM DOPE tUvfrm Fees? CAr.t.rntAM j AMSTERDAM. July 1". Those most 'guilty of prolonging the war are those who regard America s entrance with j satisfaction and relief and who shout ! prophecies, none of w hich is true." dei clared Theodore Wolff, in Berlin ! newspaper. !IND. AVIATOR KILLED. i fBr Us"TTEr pp.rss.1 j NEW YORK. July 10. Rru e M Cul- ; me- of Martinsville. Ind.. was killed i at the army av iation field heie this j afternoon w hen the plane m which he was riding with Cadet Foster dropped j and was wrecked. Foster was uninjured

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a w. t m m 1 E 'MANAGER UNITED EXPRESS COMPANIES Jr v s V .A r r 1 AV. E .STARTSMAX. "Service" is the motto of the Air.trIran Ka.lway Express Company, a consolidation of ail express companies into one corn, ern w hich is elieady resulting m economy and efficiency. AV. E. 5tartsmar., for eighteen years in the employ cf the American Express Co.. and agent fur that firm in Hammond since January. -591. haabeen made manager of the consolidated companies in Hammond. The business offices are temporarily in the rooms on Hohman street, formerly occupied by the M rGarry Jewelry store snd the fi eight offices are at th Erie depot. As s- on a the Tapper Hotel is re-ted the business riff: . s will re in that b-ii'dinK. IB MAY ME YOUR LIST DOLLAR fFT T'VIIE" Pr.E.-f WASHING'!'' X. July K'. Treasury department proposals for war ta.xts that would put the entire iiEr;,,n Cn a ras-s cf rigid economy an: before congress today. One leader in the house said tori a v : "If these suggestions were carried out without amendment the American people would reari.iu.-t their habits of living on a bases cf r con" my never before dreamed f They ar- intended to bring home to the pror-i that this war is a rr.vnacitig tl.ii g that may take our boMom dollars. T!;p proposed dtiubling of liquor arid tobacco and automobiles mot with favor. The proposed doubling on movie admittance tax met with disfavor. The proposed tax on leased wire service is opposed by some as more harm than good. It would, they point out, deprive many newspapers, particularly the smaller, of wire service and would interfere with the l.berty loan campaign. The proposed taxes on servants and on hotel and restaurants are accepted as proper ?nd just." GERMAN ASKS AID FOR FINLAND fl'VlTEP Trkss Cabi.figp.am STOCKHOLM. July 10 General Manr.erheim. military commander in Finland, visited the American minister here and ashed that the Allied conn: ess cend food into Finland. The minister' reply was that the Allies wruM gladly go this but not until German t! oops had been removed. C02TFUSI0N IN HUNREICHSTAG rt'NITEP FPESS C-AF.T.FGRAM. COPENHAGEN, July 10. Confusicn reigned irr the German reichstag after the vice-chancellor announced that Prime Minister Kuehlmann had resigned. The socialist declared they would not vote for the new war loan unless the new foreign minister outlined his policies, whereupon the bill was pent back to the committee to prevent possible rejection. Bt United Press "BONE DRY" DISCUSSION PROVES VERY LIVELY WASHINGTON. July 10 Senator Saulbury t"'day upheld Senator Penrose's point or order and ruled that the bone dry prohibit'on amendment hai i p':a-e in the fo3 til! This led to a lively discussion. ,

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Latest bulletins tBT I'N'TED PF.ESS 1 NEW YORK. July JO Joseph To- j j raoIlT, presidential nerretarr. -will rep- j ' resent the preldent at the funeral of ! former major Mitchell. The Brltlh j ! Ambntiador vrlll srnd I.ieut. General : Rridses. The Italinn fmbasif vrlll he j represented br Genercl C ulljclielnottl and the French bj- Oen. Tulann. The funeral proreimlon Thlcb ttIU leae the cltr hall for t. Tatrlck'n Cathedral tomorrow morntnt Trill haTe only one vehicle, the sun ralnson on -nhlch the body of the dead ail tor will ret. The remainder of the eorteee mill proceed afoot. rR-" T'viTFr) Pp.FSS. TVA.HIr.TO July 10 President ! Wilaon 1nrf- nlgnrd the twelTe billion ! dollar hill. rp-r T'viTitn PrK?s 1 WAHIGTO, July 10. Cecho-lo. Tk have raptured Xklolnsk, an important rsll-way junction near Vlndivnmok, the state department waa oflirlally informed today. The rapture mas effected after a lively flsht with romblnrd forcea of the Red Guard and German and Hungarian prisoners. IBt X'viteh Press WASHINGTON". July 10. Govrrnmentnl price flxlnc; t111 never eliminate proflteerlnir. Food Administrator HooVt-r "e.-lared today in a letter to Senator (lemmons, chairman of (he Semite Fluinre Committee. Hoove' niimmrndrd heavy taxlne as the 01 It mram of returning; money to the people rivrii by profit crrluw. lie declared, however, that thj ptiee flxinK policy vlll be continued because ut tlie khirtnKC" t eaistins in nearly cTery c'4inn:iiillT. TBt T'viTEn Pr.Ess.1 V. AMU "OV July IO.-' P r. . signal corps Is compiling complete dt on telexrsph operations In this country Including; private and leased wires. j ThU activity led to belief that If Pres ident Wilson seizes th trlesraph lines of .he 1 r tion cs a mi'ltnry nrrclv, their operation may be pi iced in the bands of the signal corps. If this Is done It will eliminate the 'objection of both union men and manv j members of congress to plnrlnc wire control in the hands of the postmjkter general. TBr T"nits:t Pf.es. WASHINGTON. July 10. Ramiflra- ! tion of Germany's "slush fund' in the United Mates ore belnc Investigated ! today as the outproTTth of the rhartri that the ew York Hvenlar Mnil ma onnfd by tbe l-frranii Oovernment. It s lronI!y fclnte.' that more arrest, villi be forthruralns soon. I It has Ions been knovrn Germany arranged for the distribution for large ! sums of money in America for propa- ' sanda. i Allen Property Custodian Palmer today is in conference with some of the ' bond holders of the Mail regarding the ' future of the paper. WESTERN UNION MEN ORGANIZE fBT United Press.1 CHICAGO. July 10. Employes of the Western Union from all parts of the country will meet here tonight to organize "an association to represent them In all matters of collective bargaining with their employer?." Information to this effect was obtained from Edgar C. Dodge, chairman of a committee of Chicago Western Union Employers to Chairman Sriith. of the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington. The telegram v. as made public today. WILL BROWN IS ! NAMED RECEIVER ' VALPARAISO. Ind. July 10 Will : Brown, r.and'date 'or state senator on the republican ticket, was this afternoon named receiver by Judge Harry I L. Crumpaeker in the case of Ed Luce ! against George W. Gidley. All are : Hebron men. Mr. Luce sought the receiver and accounting. Attorneys f5r i him are David Fickle, , Grant Crum- ; packer and Will Daly. Mr. Gidley is j counseled by George C. Grgg. D. E. i Keliy and Otto J Bruce. The defend- ! ant w-ill appeal, his lawyers reported, : follow-ing the ruling of Judge Crumi packer GERMANS BEGIN BOMBARDMENT ri'NiTEP Press Caplmbam LONDON, July 10 Following repulse of enemy attack south of the Somme last night German artillery early today began an active bombardment along the ten mile front cf the i Ancre. j Local enemy attacks following artillery fie were repulsed. -We conducted successful attacks in the neighborhood of Merris. advancing our lines a short distance and capturing prisoners and machine guns. "A hostile raid futh of Eucquoy was driven off yesterday"

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i. C. TRA KILLS OLD One of the most shocking grade crossing accidents that Harr.mcnd ever had took place yesterday afternoon when John Burke, for twenty-five years an esteemed citizen cf Hammond, was hit at the Oakley avenue crossing cf the Michigan Central by an eastbeurx fran. He died at St. Margaret s hospital last night. Mr. Burke had teen in poor health for some time and a witness says that he did r.ot seem to see the train which was bearing down slowly on him. Mr. Burke, who has IrVed in Hammond for twenty-five years. leaves besides a wife, one daughter, Beatrice, and three sens, Cul'.en, Emerson an! Donald Burke. The family had Just moved to Chicago yesterday and Mrs. Burke and the children were ur there looking after things and were expecting Mr. Burke up here all day. and did not kr."iv of his accident until about S o'clock last night when they returned. The deceased was a man cf Scotch birth and of sterling character and was widely esteemed. He was formerly in the laundry business. The funeral wtll be held from Burns' chapel tomorrow morr.inir, interment In Oak Hill cemetery. ATTORNEY WALTER LOTZ, ILL FOR M0NTHS, "DIES Able Lawyer Began Practice at 18, and Ran for Atty. General at 22. One of the brilliant minds of the Lake County Bar was lost late yesterday when Attorney Walter Lotz died at his home in 132 Carroll street, after a long illness. Son of Judge Orlando Lotz of the appellate bench, Walter Lotz began the practice of law at the age of eighteen years, after graduating from an Indianapolis law school At the age of 22 he was defeated for Attorney General hy twenty-five votes and a few years later by 3T5 votes. At Maude, Ind, where he practiced before coming- to Hammond. Attorney Lotz represented several railroads and other corporations. He contributed articles for nearly every issue of the Central LawJournal and was one of the staff writers and his services wer sought by several law schools because of his excellent writings. Of a judicial mind. Attorney Lotr was often selected as special Judse in cases In Hammond courts. Includirr the superior court. He died at the ag of thirty-nine. Mr. Lotz is survived by a widow and two children. The remains will be shipped tonight over the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to Muncie where they will be laid to rest In the family lot. Three brother of Mrs. Lotz are her to accompany the remains. They are: Dr. Marrell Eun:h of Oshkosh. Wis, Dr. Rolim Bunch of Muncie. and Capt. Fred Bunch of the medical corps at Hattiesburg. Miss. VON KUHLMANN HAS RESIGNED I 1 1 mtes i fess c vi.r.nn av , LONDON. July 1". P.esignation cf 'German Foreign Minister Kuehlmann many connrmea. is interpreted as a pan-German victory. This view- is supported by the report that Admiral Von Hintze will succeed Kuehlmann who is a friend and supporter of Admiral Von Tirpitz and Admiral Schroeder. leaders of the Belg'an annexationists. However, it is considered here that a pan-German foreign minister is not so dangerous as one r.f the Kuehlmann type who gave Allied pacifists debat:ng material. FRENCH SOLDIERS TAKEJPRIS ONERS rfMTEP Press Cablegram. PARIS. July 10. Artillery in som sectors of the Picardy and Marne j fronts was active. The French took j prisoners I -Seven German aeroplanes and two J captive balloons w ere brought down.-' Better to have War Savings Stamps in your safe than the bloodstained hands of the kaiser's hordes at your throat.

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1 1 DISPATCH Ea:t Gh:c3p Land Company Sellers of Balc'win Site, Have Received No Verification. PRESIDENT SAYS PLANS ARE CONSIDERED PHILADELHIA. PA.. July 10. Admitting that the Baldwin Locomotive company owned a site at East Chicago and intended eventually to build a big rnidwestern plant for Pacific coast shipments, President Alba B. Johnson of the Baldwin Co. denied that any building was contemplated af present. He would not deny, however, that tentative plans were being considered. East Chicago and the Calumet j regiia ia general was thrilled last night with the dispatches corning from the east that the huge Baldwin plant project had been revivified and that the plant was actually going to be built. The rejoicing was tempered, however, by the statement today in Philadelphia of Alba B. Johnson, the Baldwin company's head, that the company does not intend to build now but has taken up the plans tentatively for consideration of the board of directors. Here Is the Dispatch. NEW YORK. July 9 A new locomotive plant is to be bui't at East Chicago by the I-ialdwin Locomotive works on ground purchased several years ago. Specifications for th various buildings are now before structural mills and abricatine shops calling for l.nr.n tons of steel. It is estimated that the plan w:i cost about to.Otl.fOO. th? steel wor alone costing Jl.20fl.nri0: equipment will probably cost between $2.500, 0! and $3.0O0.Of0. The Baldwin works already has large contracts from the government, and It is expected to be a warded an additional contract for (Continued on page three.) HELLISH DEED OF GERMANS !UN?TEZ T'RESS C"ABI E1BAM THE HAGUE. July 10. Fifty-four girl workers were killed when German airmen made a raid on an ambulance station at LaPanne. Eelglum. according to a dispatch from Flushing today. More than fifty bombs were dropped. LaPanne is on the North Sea coat about seven miles back of the allied lins. Five enemy airplanes bombed Constantinople this morning, the Turkish war office announced today. DEATH OF MRS. HOMER B. SMITH , Th death of Mrs. Ar.gie Smith, mo ther of Mrs. John Crawford, occurred yesterday morning at the home of hr daughter in 40 ; Greenwood avenur. Chicago. Mrs. Fm'.th w-as the widow of Homer B. Smith. The funeral services will be from the late residence at : CO o'clock tomorrow afternoon t Forest Home cemetery. Mr. Crawford Is a member of The Times force. Buy a Thrift Stamp today.

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