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S STOPPED Across the Line Carnival Girls Put on Their Raw Exhibition in Burnham and Are Arrested With Two Gary Steel Workers. It has gotten to t-.r yrate where I3urnhan is more fastidious than her neiphbop to the south. West Hammond. In fnvt Kurnham morals were severely s'eked by ih- carnival exhibition? which hae so eUt.-j the Indiana visitors on AVent worth aven'i this week an'l as a result arrests were made and l.eavy fines imposed witli Gary men iTincipals. Meantime the ood people of West Hammond ere wishing their officials would become aa active. When James Lynch and Harry Kortier rmergeJ from Gary vesterday, plethoric !th the stuff steel workers roll in these war-times, they sought an ar.tiriote for ennui. They found it across 'l,e state line at the carnival. Two con'nrtion d.imsels caught their eyes and little difficulty was had in arranging v- hat rasses as an introduction in some c'Tcle? rf society. The two men and the girls piled into I.nch's automobile. On Green Bay av-nue at lurnham they storped to put in i "private show." The blaze Burnhnm cops, considered the affair too ft-ons for the villece and pinched the troupe. Lynch and Horner each raid V.'i and thp carnial women. Eva Baker and Louise Moward. $5 apiece. Mobs filled the carnival enclosure last ncht nnd the '.ance shows did a landoffire business. The West Hammond chief of police T.as in C'hicagro again today and Mayor Kamradt as well, so they could not be reached. The chief has a s-rr-.t deal of business in 'hicago this wc-ek. Lowell Aroused With Entire South End of County Over Alleged Shipment of Sugar to the Food Director. Ki'Erui. To The Times 1 CROWN POINT. INT).. July 12 The most serious of charpes are to be preferred next Monday at the. fortnightly meeting of the Lake County Defense Council against George Hoevet of Lowell, one of the best known men in the southern part of the county. Hoevet who is the Federal food administrator for Cedar Creek township is accused by Lowell citizens of receiving hundreds of pounds of sugar from Chicago in violation of federal restrictions. The sugar is said to have been shipped oer the Irdiatia and Southern railroad to North Haydon, just west of Lowe!!. The sugar came from Chicago and the wholesaler who shipped it will probably be cited to appear before the Cook county war board and explain his transaction. State Food Administrator Barnard has been notified of the alleged vicSatlon. Word comes from the south end of the county which is perhaps the most intensely loyal section in the county that Lowell people are in a white heat over the affair. Lowell refuses to teke all war activities anything but extremely serious and the scandal is as yet unexplained by Hoe-vet who was formerly in business in Lowell and has always been highly regarded. 52 CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED (Rt 1'niteh Press 1 WASHINGTON. July 12. General Fershing today reported S2 casualties as follows: Killed in action. 13: died of wounds. T: died cf disease, 7; aeroplane and other accident?. I: wounded severely, 15: wounded slightly, 1; wounded. I, fr.!!ng, 6.

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MAKES PLEA FOR SAVING OF STEEL X J. Leonard Keplogle. J. Leonard RepIog'k. director of steel supply on the war industries board, is urginjr conservation of all steel for war use. He recently cornpiled figures to prove that the allied povernmer.ts would need all the available output for war purposes alone. Prepared to Battle for Car; Line on Calumet Avenue i and to Oppose the City's; Scheme for Draining So. ! Side. i The veto of Mayor Brown is being sought today by business men and property owners who claim that it alone will sa-. e the city from one of the most costly blunders of its municipal career. By refusing to sign the franchise ordinance framed by City Attorney McMahon and passed by the city council j Tuesday evening1, ordering street car extension on both Calumet and Colum-1 bia avenues, the mayor can prevent Hammond fro:.i being placed in the light of objecting to the government's J pian for extended and better street car service, it is argued. W. J. Whinery chairman of the Chamber of Commerce housing committee and a member of the inter-city delegation that visited Washington, gave warning last nipht that by adopting the wrong attitude the. city may Jos.. everything. He spoke at a meeting of the Kleventh Ward Improvement Association. Mr. Whir.ery reviewed the histcry of the effort to obtain better transportation nnd housing facilities, and stated that, the recommendations of the government came after visits of various sets of experts to the city and adjoining towns. He said he considered the passing of the franchise ordinance Tuesday evening was a grave mistake and feared (Continued on paste five.) m i.im HAS BEEN I0EMFIEQ Steve K. Kentros Was Leader of Macedonian Greeks in Hammond. Steve Christ Kentros. whose name was reported by Per-shlng as Kenololas, leader of the Macedonian Greeks in Hammond, who was reported to have i fallen in action yesterday by General Pershing on the west front in France, came to Hammond eight years ago. He lived at the Columbia Hotel and was a painter at the Standard. Kentros led a company of Macedonians against the Bulgars in the first Balkan war and was a fighter of great reputation there. AVhen the war broke out in 1914. he enlisted Immediately in the Greek army and has been fighting ever since. "Wh'n he was transferred to the west front in the American army is not known but he was an intense I". P. patriot and probably pot transferred from the Greek front when this country got into the war. His two brothers are both fighting against the Turks now. Kentros' best friend in Hammond was Geo. Adams, who runs the poolroom at 56S Morton avenue.

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USE HAY Hearse No Longer Popular, Booze Vehicle Has Succumbed to the Old Fashioned Farmer's Hay Wagon As Latest Conveyance. HOW BOOZE HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN In a aearte. la a hay wagon. In a pallbearers motor. In a limocrinc. In aa egg crate case. la a toaby carriage. la a milt can. In suit cases galore. Help: A farmer's Dobbin and a load of hay carried in a dozen cases of beer to Indiana Harbor. Two more -new liquor cases were before the Kast Chicago city court this morning. One was that of a young man. nineteen years of age, by the name of Stanley Valski. who was caught with a grip containing about two and one-half gallons of whiskey. He said that he was acting as the agent of a Harbor m?.n who until the dry law went into effect ran a saloon in t hat end of the city. He was held for investication by Federal Inspector Greene of '.lammond. The other was that of a woman who was arrested at 136th and Elm street last night. She was apparently coming in from some point with a small load of hay. She was drUing an old horse hitched to a one horse wagon. When the wagon was searched It was found that under the hay were eight cases of beT. the bottles sacked. She gave her name as Mrs. S. Vanlinich. 13Tth and Deodor streets. Indiana Harbor, and it is reported that she Is the mother-in-law of Nick Meyer, formerly in the saloon business. HE WAS DAZED. Early this morning a Hammond police officer ound an IIlinol3 automobile In the ditch at Calumet avenue and lth st. In the back seat bleeding from the mouth and nose was a man in a sitting posture. When questioned by the officer the sutoist said that he wes from Chicago and the last thing he remembered was that he had been driving along the road. "When he recovered consciousness he was sitting in the back seat of his car, and was unable to bay how the mnehine fell in the ditch or how he happened to be In the back Sf-at. In fact he remembered nothing about what had happened. Hi3 machine was pulled out of the ditch and to a Hammond garare and the man got on the train and went to Chicago before any one got his name. Na booze was found in the car. LUKE GO. RESULTS Indiana Harbor and Griffith are the only Lake county communities that have pledged their quota in the War Saings Stamp drive. A full county report to date is: Pledged City. Chairman. Quota. and Sold. Gary, Harry Hall$l, 000,000 $ 660,000 Whiting, F. K. Smith 160. 000 102,SfiO Ham'd, G. D. Peters 540.000 200,000 Ind. Har.. J. W. Les 350.000 350,000 K. Chgo.. J. Farovid 350.000 123,000 Hobart, F. H. Davis 40.000 22.374 C. Point, J. E. Brown 50.000 33.000 Griffith. Malmstone 10.00'i 10.045 Lowell. P. A. Berg- 24.000 14. SI 5 Pledged Township. Chairman. Quota. and Sold. Calumet. BothwelI$ 23.240 j 5,280 C. Creek. .C. Gragg. 20.000 15.325 Center, Ella Goff 10.000 5.620 E. Creek. J. Turner. 10. 000 S.OOO Hanover. A. Smith. 10.000 Ji.fiOO North. P. Beriger.. 10,000 9.5S5 Hobart, O. Stiefe 20.000 13.700 Boss. A. M. Boyd.. 32.0OO 15,140 St. John, E. Keilman 2fi.000 17.330 W. Creek. M. Hayden 20.000 21.367 Wir.field. I. Stewart 14.000 6,660 Total $2,706.00 $1,748,661 The township's reports are exclusive of any cities mentioned nbove, which may be in such township.

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Scenes following train collision near Nashville. Center, removing injured and dead. At least one hundred person3 were killed and aa many more injured, a score seriously, in a head-on collision fcetv.-een two passenger trains on the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, at Dutchman's Bend, five miles from Nashville. A3 the crews of both locomotives were killed, the exact cause of the accident may never be established.

THEY LOVE THE FOXY PEDDLER War on Out of Town Fakers and Peddlers Brings 0it Example That Housewives Propose to Get All They Can For Their Money. For ten years this newspaper has campaigned against the out of town agents, peddlers and grafters. Queer things happen in such a campaign. Tho other day a peddler came along with a home soldering outfit and was giving a demonstration to the 1. n. a. She had nothing in the iine of kitchen utensil3 which needed soldering so the fellow took a small punch out of his pocket and punched a hole In the lady's new dis.hpan. Then, after he had shown her how simple it was to mend such a leak, the good woman agreed to invest. She handed him the Quarter, he handed her the outfit and started away. Then she called him back. "Hey." she said. "Where's that little thing I use to punch holes with?" FOREIER HAMMOND J0H5 KILLED Howard Dickinson, Son of First Mich. Central Agt. in Hammond Is Killed. Friends of W. W. Dickinson, formerly first agent of the Michigan Central r.ailway at Hammond, for many years, but now freight and passenger agent of that road at Grand Rapids, Mich., will regret to learn that Howard, Mr. Dickinson's second son, enlisting last year in the marines, was killed in action on June 7. The young man was born in Michigan City and received part of his education there. He has a brother Ralph in service at Fort Kearney. REPORTS CAPTURE ! OF PRISONERS I n'NTTn Frets Cablecrm.'!. j LONDON. July 12. More than 120 prisoners and ten machine guns were captured In a riinor operation south- ' west of Merris. Haig reported today. ! Successful raids were conducted else- ! where.

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jiiiii l i ii n PROFITEERS TO BEAR HEAVIEST TAXES ! Taxes and Luxuries Used byPeople Is a Secondary Consideration. TBT T'NITKD PPE5S WASHINGTON. July 12. War profiteers will bear the heaviest taxes under provisions of the new war tax bill to raise ei?ht billion dollars, taxes and luxuries used by the people will be a secondary consideration. Such is the Intention of the b.ouse ways and means committee which is drafting the measure. The rchedule for taxes and luxuries submitted by the treasury department and said to have been lifted bodily from French and English laws is conceded to bo an excellent basis for that kind of levies when they become necessary, but congressional leaders say the tme has not yet arrived. A majority odf the house committee has thrown the schedule into the discard, mainly because it has been forced home upon them that the people would be asked to pay heavy taxes on many articles, the manufacturers of which are rrowing rich on profits. The profiteers, it is declared, must disgorge and return to the public some share cf the huge sum they are taking. After the war profits tax r-vhedules had been draw n the remainder ' to make up the eight billion dollars will come from luxuries. These luxuries lax wll! be based on the department's suggestion, greatly modified. For instance the proposal to tax gasoline ten cents a gallon if adopted at all is likely to be modified so as to require users of rUasure enrs to pay the tax while commercial users escape. Congress is hearing from the country on the proposed taxes. Hundreds of protests are pouring in, principally against the clothing tax. WILLARD MAY HEAD U. S. DELEGATION Br United Tskss WASHINGTON. July 12. The great problem of a working arrangement between the inter-allied economic miss'ion and the Russian business interests is near solution. It was indicated that Daniel VYillard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, may head the American branch of the mission.- The L'nited States Chamber of Commerce, conferring with the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, throughout this week, is determining not only the plan of operation but also much of the personnel.

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ition ! G1TY HALL HAS AJEP MYSTERY Hank of Golden Hair Found in Waste Basket; Whose Switch Is It? Hammond city oflicials and police are agog over the mystery of the woman's hair found in a waste basket of the city treasurer's office today. A yard long, the big head of hair is golden, uncombed and was apparently cut or chopped off near the scalp in haste by unskilled hands. The Janitor, in emptying the waste basket this morning, made the discovery. There are no golden haired stenographers employed in the city hall so it must belong to an outsider. The police are convinced the hair Is not a switch but is so valuable for such purposes that ordinarily it would not be thrown away. When hair is cut to be sold for a switch it is first washed and then braided. The only theory so far advanced i that a woman l!!ns in masquerade as a man and wearing: men's clothes, was arrested and fcaiingr her duplicity would be discovered cu off her hair with some cf the tools lying about the station and threw it into a w-aste basket which the janitor later carried to th treasurer's office. If you have a better theory it will be welcomed by the police who are sorely puzzled. The police have so far deduced one absolutely sure theory. The bank of hair does not belong to Charley See. GERMAN PATROLS ARE REPULSED rt"NiTKT Press r.Km.T.nnAVt WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARXE, July 12. A large German patrol which attempted to raid the American lines near Chateau Thierry was repulsed yesterday afternoon. Presence of new enemy units in this sector was revealed. Aside from the raid no infantry action was reported. DEATH OF OSCAR PETERSON rSPK'TA r. To Ths Times.! ROBERTS DALE. IND., July 12. Oscar Peterson, one of Robertsdale's oldest and most respected citizens. passed away at his home in Roberts avenue Thursday morning at fc:.10 o'clock after an illnes of seeral months. Ho is survived by his wife and seven children, fie sons nnd two daughters. The (funeral will probably be held Saturday afternoon.

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ALLIES II Fisrcs Fighting Took Place On Austrian Troop's Right Wing. Rout Is Now Complete 10. E!.-Lt.ETlN. WAMIIVCTOV, Joly 12. Berat has fallen before the adi ant ing IHiina, nnitlal cable to the ItlLn fmb.ny reports Herat Is a atrnteKie renter of the rosd to Siberia and was the immediate objective of tlio allied offensive In Albania. A great quantity of war booty nnd prisoners were tiiken. Bl-ulf.tix. I.OXDOV, July 12. Activity ! deTelopin "long the whole Balkan front and there are increasing Indications that the Albanian fighting; may spread to the entire SCO mile line from the Adriatic to the t.ulf of Iteindina. The Italians have crossed the Semlnl river and are Hearing: the new Austrian defense line. The Infantry has progressed at lenst twenty-five miles north of their original line and the cavalry has advanced even further. The right wing of the Austrian retreating on the alaty mile front from the sea eastward is said to be falling b:ick so rapidly tht the retirement In some places borders on n rout. Great quantities of materials are falling Into the hands of the Italians and Albnnluns. Resistance by the enemy Is becoming weaker and whenever n temporary "land Is made the Italians succeed In inflicting heavy casualties. fPrEctAL To The Times ROME, July 12. Austria's defeat in Albania is proportionately overwhelming, a reverse of the Piave rout, battle front dispatches here today declare. in a three day advance cf from twenty to twenty-five miles the Italians and their allies swept forward to the Semini, according to messages. Italians have almost enveloped Berat. Its surrender is expected momentarily. Fierce fighting took place on the Austrian right wing. After three days the Italians succeeded in penetrating into Fiery. The Italian cavalry advance was so rapid the Austrians were forced to flee from towns abandoning an aerodrome and several airplanes. British monotors and airplanes assisted In throwing the enemy into confusion. Airmen demolished three bridges over the Semini. ROOT SENT TO FEDERAL PRISON Hammond Ordnance Inspector Violates Mann Act and Gets a Year. A plea that he be allowed to join the army failed to save rtalph Koot, a government ordnance inspector In the Standard Steel Car plant at Hammond from going to Leavenworth penitentiary for violating the Mann act. P.oet pleaded guilty to transporting Bethel Haines, 17 years old. from Hammond to Chicago. She caused his arrest. Root is married and has two children. When he offered to pay his own transportation to the trenches. Judge LanJ! said: "The American army is no refuge for criminals. It Is something we are proud of." Root was sentenced to a year and a day after his past record was exposed to the Judge. He was arrested in Hammond over two monthsago. TUKISH REGULARS WERE RESPONSIBLE fBr United IT.ess. WASHINGTON, July 12 Turkish regulars were responsible for the outrages against American property at Tabriz, according to information furnished the state department by the Spanish government. This tends to aggravate the situation between the United States and Turkey and if confirmed by the response expected it will probably prove a cause of war. Chicken raisers: Put Biddy to work in the munition factories. Every few cackles means a Thrift Stamp.

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