Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 57, Hammond, Lake County, 16 August 1918 — Page 1

COUNTY

HrrLRAiNj JL JLM.JUJ

VOL. XIII, XO. 57.

tOtilL w W i 1 a i l4Lr

u Karbcr, Gary and Hammond Men Up In Federal Court Today on Various Charges, Sensational charges were rnadej in Hammond by a United States j officer today when he said that ; whiskey selling, open gambling, J cpium smoking, prostitution and J every form of law violation prac-' ticei by the underworld can be found on Deodar and Cedar streets j in Indiana Harbor. The charges! were made today by George W. I Green, special agent of the Depart-! meat of Justice,. jnjcharge of gov- J eminent investigations in Lakej county, in the Federal court in Hammond. j LIKE BAEEAKT COAST. Grcpn compares ths two streets to thi Bartiary Coast of San Francisco in i:? rany days and states the whiskey f-indition in I-akc county is the worst ; in the state .owing to the wholesale j violations in Indiana Harbor and the j proximity of South Chicago. The federal agent also takes a broadside at the Lake county lawyers who defend whis key violators ana smies umi mi. i single lawyer has volunteered to aid the I government in prosecuting the cases. 1 POLICE ABE HANDICAPPED J As an indication of the existing con ditions existing. Green states that one j Kast Chicago policeman is in St. Marearct'J hospital with twenty-seven kr.ifo wounds and two have been buried in the I rast few months, while five policemen l have quit their jobs. He states that j Chief of Police 'Williams, with half of a po'.ioe force, is doing all that he can j hut that he is unable to cope with the j situation owing to the lack of co-opera-j Tiim of the city court which takes a very liberal interpretation of the dry law. j 'ireen has been threatened because j his activities in the Harbor. Kut he is J chaincd-lightning with a revolver and j will shoot quick and to kill. j

t i

UMrfBAh AT HARBOR l i

n m n a ii i i? k: n i

OAKY MAN EELD. j Paul Melka. who conducts a second . United Press Cablegram hand store on 11th avenue in Gary with ! BROOK. 1ND.. Auff. 16 At the State jlin Dobra as a partner, was held un- j Council of Defense meeting at Hazeldcn. .1 r $2,000 bond for the Federal grand , George Ade's home, attended by all the jury by Commissioner Surprise and his mtmbc-rs of the Lake County Council auto and its load of whiskey will be of Defense, the question of the advisahfcld at the Hammond police station for i Mlity of the Lake County Council of the Federal authorities. Melka's place defense ordering all business houses in wks raided and valuable evidence sreur- ; Lake county to remain closed in tho ed by the Gary police that he has been - evening four nights a week came before running a blind pig. Melka had on his ; the council and a number of small busiauto when arrested by Hammond police j ness m n on the South Side of Gary 11 gallons of w hiskey and 35 quarts of j w ere represented by Arthur Jones of

cognac brandy, lie has signed a full confession. ANOTBEB HACBOB CASE. Niek Andre of Indiana Harbor was arrested by the U. S Marshal for bringing one barrel of whiskey and other liquors from Chicago. Andre has signed a full

confession and Special Agent Green will j the entire councn to present their side also ask the indictment of the Maryland j of ,h,s case and he declared that the Distilling Co. of Chicago for cntriwr j matter never had been properly preinto a conspiracy to violate the Federal (scnted to his council. The state council

i Continued on page three.) Tighter and Shorter! Help! Honestly we fail to see how it is going to help the coal situation but skirts are to be at least three inches shorter and much tighter this Winter. The ne"s was brought to American women here today by Miss Margaret Dreaker, foreign buyer for a prominent American firm, who arrived in New York last night from Frince. All designs look toward the conservation of cloth. Prevailing colors will be brown, green, navy blue and toupe.

SPECIAL

PROMINENT CAPITAL GIRL TO BE NURSE 'if' tic 4i tv. i ftlitiltiii i i Miss Agnea O'Gorman. Miss Agnes O'Gorman, daughter of former Senator O'Gorman of New York, has announced that she will go to Washington soon to enter upon a three-year course in nursing. Miss O'Gorman has been at Westport on Lake Champlain. She is well known in Washington society. Matter of Closing Business Houses in Gary Four Evenings a Week Is Brought Before the State Council of Defense. Indianapolis, an attorney, wno declared i that, the South Side merchants would ! just about be put out of business by the order. I Peterson Presents Case. John B. Peterson, chairman of the Lake county council, was present with referred the natter to tne Lake county council with instruction as to how the case might tnen re appealed to the ! state b'-dy in event of a disagreement, j The public was advised in resolutions j presented by Isaac D. Straus of the 'danger of fires now that the fields are ! so dry. He said that he has seen three 1 disastrous fires recently, starting ap- ! parently from cigar stubs thrown along j roads by careless travelers. ! Mr. Ade. Arthur W. Brady and the I Rv. Allan B. Philputt were appointed on a committee wmen snau taKe up the advisability of asking for the discontinuance of German language teaching and use in all Hoosier schools and the speaking of the German language in church and other services. Strike Question Discussed. It was decided to ask the war labor board at Washington to take a hand in the strike of 1.000 employes of the 'American Sheet and Tmplate Company at Elwood. which, it is said, is seriously retarding war work at the pUnt. The decision was taken on the advice of Charles Fox. a member of tho labor committee of the council, who investigated the situation at Elwood. You'd like to take a punch at the kaiser you say? Then buy a Thrift Stamp.

K t.

uir nn

LHl uU.

I niircTinRi

ilULUlEUil ! PHMCC liD

limn a ill

uu lu ui

HAMMOND, INDIANA,

AGENT

STATE ISSUES HEW WARMING Some Points (n Lake County Haye Organized Their War Labor Boards But Others Haye Not Done So.

T..MES Bt'KEVf. At Statk Capital. INDIANAPOLIS, IXD., Aug. 16. Notice was given here today by L. C. Huesmann, federal state labor director for the war, that Indiana communities that have failed to organize their community war labor boards would be the first called on to provide war emergency workers, under the new system oX federal war labor control. The state has been divided into 10S districts and In each district is exrected to organize such a board. Hucsmarn urged today that these boards re organized by August 21. at which time labor recruiting, under the new scheme of supplying the vital industries, will begin. In accordance SHORTAGE OF WATER CONTINUES IPJ CITY The whole inception of the citizens' movement in Hammond was the inadequate water supply. Yet, under the first year of the new administration, water famines on the south side have been worse than ever before. Kut th administration has failed to I put into effect the chief formula of L. L. F.omberger. its chief exponent. ir. Bomberger said that universal meters would so conserve the water supply as to provide enough for all. The major blame for the present water shortage is the fact that the city has laid an eight-inch main on Tlummer avenue to the United Chemical plant In West Hammond, tapping the sixteeninch Hohman street main and about cutting the supply in two. MIRACLE SAVES HIS LIFE FOR ARMY A miracle spared the life of Ralph Burge. aged 30. US Truman avenue, and he i grateful. A few weeks ago Burge was struck by a Monon passenger train en tho Hohman street cro.?incr r.nd knocked twenty feet. But his Injuries only consisted of three broken ribs and bruises. Burge. a lather, was In the Julv quota of draft men but because of his Injuries could not go. Now he Is ready to leav with the August draft boys for Camp Sherman, Ohio. He is tho last of the old Class 1 men. BOY TAKING THE PASTEUR TREATMENT Pasfur treatment !s he'rj? given to even-year-old Eugene Johnson by Dr. W. H. Mikesch. The pnron's. Mr. and Mrs. W B. Johnson of Maywood avenue, were informed by the Times that a little dos which bit their boy in Fort Worth, Texas a few- days ago had developed rabies after Mrs. Johnson and the child had lft Texas to Join Mr. Johnn in Hammond. "GREAT BATTLE NEXT SUMMER Br United Tress 1 WASHINGTON. Aug. IS. "The great battle of the allies" probably will be fought next summer. This was the interpretation rlaced on General March's statement before the senate military committee that 2..'.00, 000 men available under the new draft would be in France by June, 1319, and with 4. 000, COO Americans then there the Allies can penetrate th-s German lines at will. Little expectation is held that the war will end this year. HUNS SLIPPING LITTLE BY LITTLE fUviTET Press Cablegram PARIS. Aug. 16. The Germans are giving way north of the Avre. little by little. The French are progressing and threatening -to envelop the enemy at Rove where the strongest pressurts continues. Hostile airplanes dropped many bombs in the Paris regio . ast night, inflicting some casualties, it was announced today. THINK THEY GOT THE U-BOAT By T'vited Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 Naval off!cials on the scene of the sinking of the Dorothy Barrett by a submarine believed they destroyed the U-boat although the navy department is without complete proof.

FRIDAY,

ILLS INDIANA

with the requisitions filed for unskilled labor for war work. Thirty-one districts already show complete organization of the community war labor boards, as follows: East Chicago. Whiting, Indiana Harbor, Ham - mond. Laporte (Including four northern townships of Laporte county). South Bend. Fulton county. White county, Whitley county, Huntington county, Adams county. Cass county. Jay county. Auburn. Elkhart (including six northern townships of Elkhart county). Marion, Fayette county, Bartholomew county, Decatur county. Clark county, Tipton county. Montgomery county. Clay coun(Continued on page two.) Dog Catcher Officer Xagle in endeavorin to shoot a vicious dog at Sixteenth avenuo and Kentucky street. Gary, yesterday, missed his mark and shot a woman by the name c'.Mrs. Eva Kitick, the bullet lodging in the arm. causing a ' severe flesh wound. A physician was ! called and pronounced the wound not i serious and the dog catcher Is going to get the dog with better markmar.ship. Latest bulletins TRY T'vited Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. Forty, three casualties were announced by the war department today, including- eighteen killed in action and twenty-flye severely wounded. I By WEBB MILLES j United Press Cablegram. 1 j PARIS, Aug. X6, 10:10 a. m. General number is now in possession of the en. jtlre plateau south of Zassigny, domlnatI ingr the whole southwestern corner of ! tho battle front. His troops have work- ! ed their way to within twenty-live hunj dred yards of X.asilgny and are now jpushlngr down the southern slopo of the plateau. The enemy's positions from Bray to Ziassigny are unfavorable. His railways are not available and his transports are congested. Chaulnes is under heavy British fire. rUVITED PKESS CABI.EOR AM 1 PARIS, Aufr. 16 (noon) rurther progress toward Boye in the conter of the Plcardy battle front was announced j by the Trench war office today. ! t JUvited Press Cap'.korm I LONDON, Aug. 16 British troops are slowly encircling Albert, the official report of Haig indicated today. j The British have crossed the Ancre ' on a wide front to the northward. DEATH OF AN AGED WOMAN Mrs. L. W'ildermuth. 72 years old. died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Loise Sachse of 112 W. State St., Hammond, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. W'ildermuth who has lived in Hammond for the last "6 years is well known and leaves many friends. Besides her daughter she leaves three sons to mourn her. They are: Louis of Chicago. Otto of Hammond and Chris W'ildermuth of Denver. Colo. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from their home. Interment in Concordia cemetery, Chicago, Undertaker Niedow in charge. BOLHEVIKI CLAIM VICTORY ri'NTTEr Press Cafleir am. AMSTERDAM. Aug. 16 The Bolshevikl clcim defeat of the allied forces r.tar Onega, 100 miles southwest of Archangel, in an official statement Issued at Moscow. Other successes asainst the Czecho-Slovaks are reporcd today. ALL MUST REGISTER TBr United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Regardless of any grounds for exemption that may exist all young men who have reached the age of twenty-one since June tth must present themselves to their local board for res-istration Au. 24. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced today. Persons who expect to bs absent on the day of registration should apply to their local boards for Instruction.

'MISSES DOG, HITS MAN

AUGUST 16, 1918.

RUSSIA IS CENTER OF S fEY United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.Battling against Germans. Austrians and Bolshevik, small allied armies are nonetratine ,, , , , aU corners of Russia, today, seeking to save the people from oppresion of the i common enemy. It is learned that these . . ,,,. .,,,. j,.i moves will depend entirely upon cevelopj ! mtnts in Russia and forces will be J cryw here to take every opportunity which may arise. British troops have crossed the Caspian Sea and reached Baku, center of southern Russian oil fields. Allied forces in Northern Russia are one hundred miles south of Archangel and still going, while American regulars have reinforced allied troops in Vladivostok in preparation for activity in eastern Russia. Czecho-Slovaks are battling alonf the Volga. British troops reported landed on outer defenses of Baku expect to see hard fighting before their prize is given j up. Turkish troops at Bathun are preparing an advance on Baku, according to rcrorts here, and German contingents probably will accompany them. Under the Brest Litovsk much territory in the region was ceded to the Turk3. Armenians resisted bitterly. Both Germany and Turkey want Baku for its oil and its rroximity to the Indian frontier. Allied troops have progressed a hunfired miles or more, fighting Lenine's troops all along the way. KANKAKEE RIVER NATURALIST DEAD j LOWELL, IND.. Aug. 16. Leonard S. Burrows, founder of Burrows Camp at tho Kankakee river, died last night at midnight at his home near Kouts. Tho deceased was about 60 years old and came to tho Kouts district some fifteen years ago. Buying a piece of land along the wooded forests of the Kankakee, he built a camp which soon became known far and wide and was the rendezvous of trappers, fishermen, politicians, naturalists and lovers of the wild. To the credit of Mr. Burrows Is given the honor of discovering the monkey-face Owl, which was accorded such a curiosity by bird men that a specimen Is now in the Lincoln Tark zoo, with the inscription over its cage, "Native of Porter county. Indiana." Surviving Mr. Burrows Is a wife and several children. BOOZE FILLS POLICE STATION There is an increasing: demand among the general public for this service and the U. S. Government headed by President Wilson Everybody who vlsted the East Chicago police station this morning were fairly obliged to climb over Jugs, bott!es( casks, half barrels and other styles of containers, ail of which apparently contained the outlawed booze. This swr.jr. piled up at the station, was the result of several more raids made at Indiana Harbor last night. The men who are before the city court today charged with violations of the state dry statutes are: Louis Szllagyl, 3319 Watlingr street: John Sopslc, 3490 Guthrie street; Joe Cudlavich, 3S03 Beach street; Nick Dujmovich, 3512 Cedar street. Captain 0"Donnell and Officers Bu("ich and Zarkovich w-ere instrumental lr. making mist of the arrests. OVERCOME BY HEAT. J. Grose cf 264 Sibley street Hammond, while walking along: State St.. last night about S:30 was overcome by the heat and dropped to the street in front of Kussmaul't sporting good3 store. He was taken to his home by the po lice patrol where he Is doing well. L. A. HOLDAARRESTED Louis A. Kolda of 105 Wabash avenue. Hammond, was arrested by Officer Spencer charged with disorderly conduct. It was said at his trial this morning: in the Hammond city court that Holda came home drunk and beat his wife and daughter up and drove them out of their house. Judge Klotz fined h'n? $36.10. ATTENTION SCOUTS. All Scouts who possibly can do so should be at Liberty Hall Saturday at half past twelve. We shall hike to East Chieaso and there attend a free show. In the evening- East Chicago will fur--ii.h free eats which we shall cook over open campflres and then hik; home by moonlight. All Scouts wel come sr.d bring your smile-

FOMENT

HARBOR

GENERAL'S SON TO , JOIN HIS FATHER r .v,v. y Maj. Sidney C. Graves. Major Sidney C. Graves will go with his father. Major General William S. Graves to Siberia. General Graves will lead the American forces there. His son was graduated from West Point in 1915. He has been decorated for bravery in France. He was selected for the Siberian mission solely on his military recordWAS NEPHEW OF EASTJCHIGAGO MM Harold Goodrich, Member of Co. F, in Gary, Patriot to the Highest Degree. Harold Goodrich, soldier from Boss township, who was killed in action as described in these columns yesterday was a nephew of Frank W. Clinton, hardware merchant. East Chicago. He was a member of Co. F. in Gary. Besides glvinj hta life for his country, the young man has Just about finished paying for a hundred dollar Liberty Bond. He was patriotic to the highest degree, enthusiastic in his assurance that the Yanks would tun the tide and would very soon wipe the Hun nationally from the face of the earth. Harold has given all that he had even unto his life's blood that demo;racy might live. He. made the supreme sacrifice for the success of his companions in arms. LT iTS OF GARY IS MISSING W'ord has been received thit Lieutenant Howard G. Miyes. formerly cf Gary. ! who left a sood position In tho Garyj steel mills to enlist In the aviation de-; partment at the beginning cf the war, j has been made a prisoner by the Gcrmans. Mayes is well known among Gary steel '.

: ymt n

"V - w -

JVVi'

men. He came here several years ago! to work for the American Sheot and Tin- jNO ReSpOHSeS Made fOI" StU-

fiaic uiti pauy , men ait i 1 1 yjm y ti.cet i works. Chief Engineer Kalph Rowley ! of the Gary works said last night that j Mayes was working for the Indiana Steel j Company here when war was declared ! by the United States and went at once to Chicago where he enlisted. I He was attached to the 01st United I States Aero squadron and went to

France Isst November. His wife went j Hammond girls who were interested in to Chtcago when her husband enlisted th s,udent Nurses' Reserves and Mrs. and now lives at 2647 Washington boulc- u!;ee!(I' is vry much disappointed at vard. that city. She has two brothers Laflfc county's showir.s: At the besinin the army. nin' of th" drive many young ladies

Lieutenant Mayes was first reported 1 missing in action. Yesterday the dispatches toll of his capture by the Huns. No details have been received. FILM LATE BUT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER j The film. "Perlin via America." didn't arrive until after eight o'clock last evening at the Hammond Orpheum theatre and the management was compelled to apologize to the daylight audience, end substitute another show. It is being shown today Manager James Michelstctter has put in a claim for $153 damages with the film company.

Delivered by TIHIS carrier. 40o per month; on street and at newsstaats, 2o per copy; tack stun'bera, 3o per copy.

U. S. ILL HEIR PLANNED Baldwin Hot Only to Haye New Plant at E Chicago But One Also In South, rSFEriAt. To Thej Times.! PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16. According to reports from Washington negotiations are progressing between government officials and representatives of The Baldwin Locomotive Works looking to the erection of two new locomotive plants by the Baldwin concern. The plans under consideration it is understood provide for the construction of one plant in the West and a second plant in the South. The western plant will probably be located at East Chicago where the Baldwin Co. some time ago acquired suitable land. In fact the foundations for the East Chicago plant were ready for work when work was suspended. The location of the plant to be erected in the South has not been announced. TmCLE BASTE TO FINANCE BALDWIN COSrSTSTCTIOIT WORK. The plans as reported from Washington provide for the financing: of the construction of both plans by the Federal government, although details have not The evidence and arguments before Chairman Edwards of the Indiana Public Service Commission at tho Oary Commercial Club on the petition- of the Gary Southern Traction line to increase the fares from 25 cents to 35 cents from Crown Toint to Gary was completed yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and Commissioner Edwards returned to Indianapolis, and probably a decision will be rendered by the last of this month. Mayor B. V. Hayes. City Attorney M. J. Smith and A. L. Courtwright of Crown Point Chamber cf Commerce represented the city of Crown Point in remonstrance of the increase. The petition does nft I affect the fare Inside the Carv ctt limits. I S WOEFULLY BEHIND i dent Nurses' Reserve; Quota Unfilled. rSLI-T T TO Tf'K TlMM 1 CROWN' POINT, IND.. Auj. 16 No responses have been received from the. i were tr.teres.tea but when it came to ! actually enrolling only live girl3 have filled out tne blanks and itiojt of these are from Crown Toint. Lake county's quota is 20 and Mrs. Wheeler was in hopes of riouhiing tliis find sincerely hopes before the end cf the drive cn S.iturdav that the required number will te furnished. Tf thn t-i.i only understood w'hat a w-onderf ul opportunity had been presented to them, n rharce to earn n fino llvelyhood after the training is ulven gratis moro responses would have been made. Patriotic women, come forth and snow your patriotism in tho noblest t a'.'.inif thcrc is. Buy a Thrift Stamp and lick thi Hun.

111 ICE

(Continued on page two ) HEARING IS ENDED