Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 133, Hammond, Lake County, 14 November 1918 — Page 1

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Seek to Abolish Slock Exchange Lands, Cancel War Loans. Bulletin-. Uxited Press Cablegram FARI3. 1. 10:30 m. The al lied armies ca the west front followingthe evacuation of the Germans are reported to hT started forward thii rooming. Strassbarg, Mets, Colmar and raxioua towai la Alaace-torTalne are eipeeted to t occupied Sunday. Oermaaa are being- replaced hy local authorities la the Alsace-Lorraine towns as rapidly am they are being- taken. &eoccupatloa of the restored prorinces rlll he carried out precisely the same as that of Northern. France and it is considered that Alsace-lorralne has teen occupied hy the enemy for fortyeljht years Instead of for four years. f United Press Cablegram. LONDON. Nov. 14. The German revolutionists are growing in power, reports here indicate. A Wolff bureau dispatch declares the German eastern high command has acknowledge the authority of the workmen and soldiers. A new Prussian cabinet has ,been formed by the workmen and "soIdfwsT" according hagen report.- Eugene Arnst' is minister of finance; Otto Braun and Adolph Hoffman are joint ministers of agriculture and the other portfolios are held by Count Hirsch and Heinrich Strosbel. The Independent Socialists will seek to abolish the stock exchange, cancel war loans and divide the land. German newspapers conliue their bitter denunciation of the terms of the armistice. IILIT D HEMS DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. A peace military policy for the country must be adopted soon. The general staff of the army had already turned its attention to this subject and will be prepared on short notice, members said today, to make a recommendation in the event the congress asks advice. AVhether the present congress will undertake to deal with this subject or will decide to pass it along to the Sixtytixth congress, which will be Republican, has not yet been decided. The chairman of the committees on military affairs expects to confer with the general staff within the next few days, and nfter that conference a decision as to whether legislation on this supbject will bo rtttempted between now and March 4 Yvi!l be reached. The inen who entered the present army for the duration of the emergency, whether they volunteered, entered through the national guard route or were called into service under the selective draft law. are not a part of the permanent military force of the United States. When they are retired to private life, as they will be, sooner or litr. . :c country, unless a new military establishment shall have been provided in the meantime, will be left with a mere shell of a regular army and without any national guard army. KIOUIAB AKIT SCATTERED. The old regular army, which existed when the United States entered the war, was, torn to pieces by the military authorities in the process of building up what was originally known as the national guard army and the volunteer army. More than half of the commissioned officers of the regular army were shifted to one or the, other of the other armies and the best material among the noncommissioned officers was transferred either to the national guard array or the. volunteer army. "Jen twe 'sssinff of i.I?s emergency

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Fights iu Great Battles Uninjured; Dies of Disease -.v .. - Z' - k :- . . ; : : .. .- -.. - ....... -a--TXXYAYE EDWASD LARSEN. Trivate Edward Larsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Larsen of 10S1 Garfield street. Hammond, is dead In France of pneumonia, according to a letter received by his mother from an army chaplain. IJdward was a members of the 12th Field Artillery, a command which wen fame when it. laid down the barrape for "the devil dogs" at Chateau Thierry and started the greatest and most successful offensive In the history of the world. The 12th Field Artillery has been cited on six different occasions. William Flags, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Flagg. 496 Trankle Court. Walter Popper and Chester Hilton are Hammond boys who were members of the -eoMd, F4ig-f -did -nt ret to France with his company however but was sent to the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. D. C with pneumonia and is still a patient at that institution. BEEF TRUST GRILLED BY AUSTRALIA Br United Tress. LONDON', Oct. 31. (By Mail) Contrasting the high prices asked for American meat with those required by Australian packers, members of parliament are demand investigation of the Chicago beef trust. They are supported by the British press. As a pa.t of the debate, J. R. Clynes, British food controller, has declared a gross misrepresentation the charge of H. H. Cantley, member of parliament, that the food control department of the two nations have been run together to a great expense and that American influence in the direction of policy has been very strong in the interests of the American meat trust. The Australian meat situation is cited as reason for the requested probe. Australian mutton, it is declared, was commandeered by the government at 12 cents a pound, plus two cent efor delivery and could have been sold at a reasonable prof.t for 19 or 20 cents. Instead it was sold for 26 to 40 cents a pound. Australians were Indignant. Sir John Tavoncr, former agent in Australia, declared investigation proved that the Australian meat and its low prices had to counter-balance the high American prices. STRIKE OIL AGAIN. W. J. McAleer. president of the North Central Oil Company, received news today that the company had struck another good oil well. This is the third good well for the company. The oil is light, of high gasoline content, and sells for $3.73 per barrel on the Held. The grade is equal to the best Pennsylvania oil and second to none in tho U. S. A. The company owns and controls 3,000 acres of land in this field. All of the property around this field is being- rapidly purchased by oil men and they are now drilling on all sides of this field. The Lake county men are convinced that they have about all the pol on their holdings, in this shallow field, which is about 6C0 feet deep. They are further convinced, according to the geologist report, that there are two more pools, one at 1.4 00 feet, the other at 2.000 feet. This oil company's holding is not a wilel-c.it enterprise hut is proven fact and is now an established oil field. THREE NAVY MEN KILLED Bt United Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Three navy men were killed and one injured here today when a sixteen inch steam pipe exploded in the hold of the U. S. transport Louisville, at her pier in North river. The dead are Lieut. Alex Waller, 30 years; Sylvesfer Pennemoyer, machinist, and Paul Turner. 45 yrs.. fireman. Harry Mercer waa seriously lr.lured.

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BE WASIIIXGTON. Nov. 14. Officials here estimate that the total casualties of the American expeditionary forces In the war will not exceed luO.COO, Including tlio men killed in action, wounded, died of wounds, distaso and accidents and the missing who never ii'.l bo accounted for. Some of those who have been missing probably will be accounted for when tho prisoners are returned from Germany. It was said today that it probably will be several weeks before the record of casualties can be completed. It is regarded as almost certain that many ef the casualties in the recent heavy fighting by the First and Second American armies have not yet been reported. An unofficial tabulation of published casualty lists, including those of Nov. 12, shows a grand total of 71,330 men. Careful estimates niu.de today, based on knowledge of the battle conditions faced by the First and Second armies in the days immediately preceding cessation of hostilities and on the average lists heretofore, lead officers to believe that all unpublished and unreported casualties will not exceed 30,000. 0. S. TAKES OFF ' DAH UPON FLOUB Our old friend, the white loaf, will be back on the table immediately. A foad administration order Issued yesterday made this possible. This probably will be the iirst real evidence in these parts of the triumph of allied arms. And it will not be long before the sugar bowl resumes its place on the restaurant table and lunch counter. In Louisiana and other sugar beet producing states the sugar lid already is lifted, the Individual allotment for household use being increased from three to four pounds monthly. For the remainder of the country the three-pound ration will continue for tie present. "Shoot the Wheats." As a result of the order "victory" products will disappear from the market. One can now order a "stack of wheats" instead of "victory cakes" as formerly. Oyster crackers again will make thfir appearance. Rolls, cakes, and pastries will again be 100 per cent white wheat flour. Breakfast foods and cereals also will return to their pre-war status. T'tie substitutes loft on the dealers' hands, according to H. A. Wheeler, Illinois food administrator, probably will be shippsd to Europe. With the Mediterranean now clear;d of submarines, Europe can draw on t'ne wheat resources of India and Australia. MUTINEERS STILL CONTROL BRUSSELS United Press Cablegram. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 14. The German garrifon at Brussels, which mutinied yesterday Is reported to be still in control of the city. The soldiers have hoisted the red flag. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. 13 said to have taken refuge in the residence of the Spanish minister. The latter has appealed to King Albert to hasten his troops to the city to restore order. FOUND DEAD IN BED. Vv'alter Earl. 37 years old, of 373 Truman avenue, Hammond, was found elead in bed yesterday morning w nor. called. Mr. Earl, who was a teamster for the Forsythe Teaming' company leav.a mother, one daughter. Ethel, and one .son. Kenneth. 12 years old. also brothers and sisters to mourn him. The funeral will be held from Stewart's chapel at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Undertaker Stewart in charge. KOENIGSBURG PUTS TO SEA United Press Cablegram. J London. Nov. 14 The warship Koenigsbcrg has put to sen, with workmen and soldier plenipotentiaries to meet representatives of the British admiralty, it was stated in a wireless dispatch from Berlin today. KARL NOW IN SWITZERLAND United Psess Cablegram. ROME, Nov. 14. An Italian lieutenant returning from Austria where he was a prisoner for two years, declared positively today that Emperor Karl and his family had gore to Neufcha'el, Switzerland, where Karl his assumed the title of count. DECEDENT IS . IDENTIFIED Th man w ho" was hit by an Erie train Monday night and later died at St. Margaret's hospital has been Identified as Joe JVaruellis of 3604 Deodar street, Indiana Harbor.

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D8c:eres That Kaiser's AMicaticn Has Never Bean Publicly Proclaimed. OF COURSE HE SAVED HIS HIDE El'bt.ETIN. Br L'kited Press WASHINGTON. Nov, H.The German Crown Prince has arrived in Holland and has been interned, the state department learned officially this afternoon. 1 Cniteo Tr-Ess Cablegram AMSTERDAM, Nov. 14The belief was expressed Iherp today that the former j kaiser has not abdicated, ! but is merely seeking refuge j in. Holland atritil counter j revolution is started. Tn j support of this -belief it is I pointed out that the abdication never was proclaimed land that "Wilhelm has never ; officially taken leave of the j German people. MUCH UNREST IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES United Press C telegram. LONDON. Nov. H. Considerable unrest is reported in Holland, Spain and Denmark, -where socialists and antimonarchists have begun acgitation in favor of establishing republics. In Holland. Troelstra, leader of the Dutch socialists, has summoned a cuuncil of that party for Sunday to discuss the I election of a workmen's and soldiers' council which, if formed, would bemnw the rupremo authority of tho countrj . RESOLUTION FOR PEACE CELEBRATION Br United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. ll A joint resolution invitinir Generals Foch, Hals. Diaz and Pershing and other allied leaders as well as representatives of the reorganized governments of the Central Powers to 2.n international peac! celebration here next .July 4. was introduced in the house today by Representative Fcss or Ohio. ! DEMAND KAISER ! BILL'S SURRENDER f . I United Pr.ESd Cabi.e-.ha!t. ! LONDON, Nov. 14. Hollanders in j London have cabled Count Vor lientinct J demanding surrender of Count Willia'.n llohenzol'.ern for trial. FOCH SENDS NEW DEMAND TO HUNS j n'NITED FRESH C A RLE-in A M. ! LONDON. Nov. 14, vi:20 p. m. Mar-! shal Foch today wirelessed the German! command demanding stoppage of acts of violence and pillage against the in- j habitants of Belgium, particularly in j the region of Brussels. TVO GET U. S. D. S. M. t IBy United Press. I WASHINGTON". Nov. 14. The Arnerican distinguished service medal was pre-ented to Marshal t ocn, Marshal Joffre and Genercl Retain yesterday by General Pershincr, French cables announced today. TURK USURPERS FLEE. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. Enver Pasha. Talaat Pasha r.nd Djemal Pasha, have mitrte their escape from Constan-t:nc-'-w itli considerable public fund-:, a Z'i ch dispaeh to the French high commission today reported. RELEASES BAN ON TRADE EXHIBITS f Br United Press. WASHINGTON". Nov. 14. Chairman Maruch of the war industries board toI day released the ban on all- trade exI hibits including automobile shows. You should give twice what you did before to the United War Work agencies.

LEADERS ARE GALLED J- D. Oilvfr. state director of the Lake sounty War Savings Committer-, lias called a meeting of the loading patriotic and industrial citizens of va.i ri.-.us parts of tk? county to be held at i i the ilaium r..l Country Club tomorrow a.tt-rnon at or.rt o'clock. Luncheon; will be t-erved at that time and thr: ! will be discussion as to how best Lake CilUtlty';! .cuota tn lh Valinml Wn r ; j Savings drive may be completed. Tho ! drive is nearly a million dollars short t.nd must be completed by the last of the year. Among those present will he M. L. Foley, chairman of the State Council of Defense. E. Herins, vice director of the Indiana Savings Committee and C. R. Kuss of Gary, the ounty chairman. The Lake County Council of Defense will also be presGEWSORSHiP IS STOPPED Br United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. George Creel, chairman of tho committee on pulic information, today issued the following statement regarding censorship regulat ions: "It has been agreed that there is no further necessity for the operation of the volunteer censorship under which 1 the press has guarded from the enemy ! the military policy, plans and troop shipments of the United States. The agreement may be considered as no longer binding and the card carrying the request of the government is herewith canceled. The secretary of war. secretary of the navy and all others connected with the direction of America's war efforts join in sincere acknowledgement of the debt of gratitude owing to the press of the United States for the discharge cf high responsibility. Without force of law and 'under no larger compulsion than their own patriotism the overwhelming majority of newspapers have given unfaltering obedience lo every desire of the government in all matters of military secrecy, carrying" through successfully a tremendeus experiment in honor and truvt." G. 0. P. ANNOUNCES A LOVE FEAS1 Messers M. E. Crites, Abe Ottenhcimer and YV. A. Fusy of East Chicago, composing the members of the committee boosting the East Chicago Republican love feast announce that tiie Republican workers of K. Chicago end Indiana Harbor will hold a love feast at Carl Lundgren's. 114th and Indianapolis blvd.. Kobertsdalc, Friday evening. November 13th at 6:00 o'clock. This ;s the only invitation which would be extended to the Republicans of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor and it is desired that all Republicans interested in the success of j the Republican party attend this meeting. j The supper will be Fcrved at six p. m., promptly and a number of four minute government mcu will be called j upon to address the meeting, j This is our first meeting of the 1920 ! campaign. A SPECIAL THANKSGIVING PROGRAM Plans are on foot now that the world war is over, to hold a nation v ide special Thanksgiving Day program. A. B. Dickson, general secretary of the Gary Y. M. C. A., has received from general headquarters, announcement of preliminary plans of the proposed mammoth national thanksgiving in sons and prayer. SeeretE.rj- Dickson irt a day or tvro w ill make public the nations I program and Gary will as she always has done, do her share in the great program. 40 KILLED IN STREET BATTLE United Press Cablegram. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 14. Forty persons were killed and injured in a battle between German soldiers and Belgian civilians in Brussels Tuesday, it was reported here today.- The Belgians fought from housetops. WET FORCES WIN INM1NNESOTA ST. PAUL. Nov. 14. Rac'icsl changes from unofficial returns in the Minnesota I proniDltlon eieonon. ua snown oy me oij ficial canvas, give the v. et forces victory j by a margin of 4.977 votes. Amorg the mistakes reported was a loss by the drys of 1.000 votes in Lac Qui Parle county. Th-? total vote of the state is given as 376.120. Tho dry vote polled 1S2.200. The law requires a two-thirds majority. Glaring errors were found in nearly every county. The dry amendment appaife ently was safe until the canvass.

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MIGAN y Reports Made at Hammond j Chamber of Commerce ! Luncheon on Progress of United War Drive. That every shoulder will have to be placed against the wheel to push Hammond's latest war drive ocr the hill was indicated today at the members' council luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce when workers made reports to Dr. II. E. Sharrer, the chairman. Certain regretful conditions were mentioned and it was decided that while a "third degree" committee would net be sent out some things would be made public if certain wc-ll-fixcd citizens didn't "kick in." Hammond's quota is $70,000. There is a disposition em t lie r:rt of some people who were wildly jubilant the day peace was declared and took an active part in the celebration to consider the time for givin? ended with the signing of the armistiegc. The- hundreds of Hammond boys in France would have to get along without "Y" huts. The Salvation Amy. the Knights .A Columbus, the Jevvish Association and tho o: iior forces contributing to their contort and guarding them from tho evil iniluences that follow armies if the we r-l'aittned slackers were r.ot smoked out. The factory and railroad workers. wcYe. the first to the front in this drive as in others. Re-ports from the factories, railroads and banks follow: Bcatty Machine Co. S 700.00 Champion Potato Mchnc. Co Enterprise Ded Co. Feil Mfg. Co. Hammond Pattern fc Model Hammond Distillery (3 ei:.(ilaminond Cornice Vurk3.r Lion Store Like County Times La Vendor Cigar Co. Nowak Mining Co. Northern States Life Ins. Co Nat. Biscuit Co. Swift & Co. Straube Piano Co. Railroads. Indiana Harbor Belt E., J. & E. Michigan Central Banks :oh).ch 100.00 2.400.00 150.00 2.50 OG.on 031.32 169.60 100.00 260.50 20ft. O'l CO.OO 70.00 ooo. oo a.iia.si S6.00 000.00 l.G?0.00 HOSPITAL TO BE BUILT 9 MILES FROM MILLS Plans -that are proposed for the "T. B." sanitarium in Lake county are- to build it not nearer than nine miles from th southern border of Lake Michigan or tho great mills territory. ,The state headquarters of the antituberculosis association will furnish plans for the building without charge as given cut by Herbert Graham, one I of the biSTgest end most enthusiastic i promoters and boosters for the sani- I tarium in Lake county. j The choice of a manager will rest j with two men of distiction in the war- ' faro egalnst the white plague: Chas. Emerson, -dean of tho state medical college and Alfred Henry, last year'a piesident e.f the Mississippi on "T. P.." and the presiding officer of this year's conference. Thesa men. it is stated, being without bias as to any location, in Lake county w ill select fairly. ANARCHY WANING I1T GERMANY Br United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. Anarchy is! waning throughout Germany, according j to Berne advices received here today through diplomatic channels. The newgovernment seems to b-s in control and has the situation well in hand both in j regards to the civil population and the j demobilizatiqn of the army, it is declared. j BAD FIREIN OHIO. I Bt United Press ! UPPER SANDUSKY, O., Nov., 14. j Damage estimated at $325,000 was caused oy lire wnicn swept me neari ui the city early today. 5 TRAINMEN KILLED. TP.t United Prtrse. I OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA.. Nov. 14. Five track repairmen were killed and one injured today when a Katv freight j train struck a gasoline motor car on a curve near Arcadia, twenty miles northease ci mis ciij. MOllE PRINCES QUIT. Cnited Press Cablegram. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 14. Prince Joachim Ernest of Anhalt and Frince Leopold of Lippe-Detmold have abdicated, it was announced from Berlin today.

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Wits Rensselaer Man in HafUQiontl Eut Fails to Keep it. One sure sign that the war 13 over and that the patriotic "con" men who work outef Chicago into Indiana no longer think it is necessary to lie idle is seen in the story told by Dave Halstead, a Ja?per county fanner. A confidence game in which he says he lost $11,371. came to light Tuesday when David L. Halstead, a farmer' and sto.de dealer cf Rensselaer. lad., charges that two men giving their names as J. Martin and William H. Peck succeeded in swindling him out of $9,371 of the mono- and the remainder he lost in si.Iliiv: live stock below what he had paid for it so that he tould meet the demands ot the trs."igvrs. H- iiET SOni3 TOT.Y CUTS. ilie- .-iftidavit.s ch&rge Martin a::d Peck v. Kh bunco steering, obtaining money ly falso rrostenns and grand larceny. I'lor.i tho lomim: Ui v Inch the two s-trargcrs procured 1 1: - :io: .-y detectives brieve that Hu!r,i v.-as -x a company of tv.o shrewd coruiucne? men. Halsteal v. a- v.ith them. Oct. 23 to Nov. i and tlio deals in which they procured his cash took place here. Besides the- loss of the mor.py whirh the tv.o men got from him Halstead has a i-.ortgago for $1,300 on his farfn to rct and also notes amounting to $3,000 which hu ov.es to a Chicago live stock com pan.--. HS WLTJ A SilCKXtX B'OOSE. Ha.lstcad. who owned some land in Michigan wl ich he wished to sell, met IVck in Rt-iisselaer. Peck, who wis fashionably dressed ttnd looked prosperous, said he wished to purchase the land for a client living in Detroit. Mich. He made an engagement to meet Halstead in a hotel at South Ik-ad. Jnd.. on Oct. 20. Halntead met Peek tn-i while they wcra talking over the rale of the land Peck, it is faid, su-fgestcd they tike a walk. While in a residence .section of the city Peck found a pursa on the sidewalk cnlainint' $S3 and s-cv-eral certificates for stock in an oil company. PTJKSB LEADS TO "DEAXi." The purse was supposed to belong to J. Martin, who happened to be- stopping at the same hotel. When Martin was seen ho claimed the purse and vished to gie Jliilsiead and Peuk a reward oT 54 0 each, whrch they refused, but Peck, it is assorted. suKku that Martin u'.ightly apply tho reward on the oil stock, if it was any good, nr.d they (Continued on vazc- two ) HAMMOND MEN DIE H SERVICE News cf the death of Frank Laws, of Hammond of rncumonia was received on Wednesday from Camp Ililli. Long Island, N. Y. He had enlisted in the aviation branch of the military service and left Hammond only two weeks ago. Ho would have become twenty-one years, of age next January lie was adopted by his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. John Laws, of 704 South Hohman street, and is survived by hi' own father James N. Caldwell and brother John F. Caldwell; also many relatives in 'he Laws family of which his mother was the oldest daughter. No time has been set for the funeral servicd as no definite word has been received from -he government concerning: the arival of the body. He graduate-1 from the Hammond high school in 19 1C He .was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church. He enlisted in the aviation branch of the service and wa called to Camp Mills, Long Island. Oct. Z'i. His death occurred Nov. 13. GIBSON FIREMAN XILLED IN FRANCE Mrs. Thomas Highland of 6S0 Jesse street, received word yesterday that her brother. Walter L. Byrne, was killed in France. Oct. 12. Employed as a fireman at Gibson Mr. Byrne msde his home with Mr. and Mrs. Highland. He was twenty-three years of a and enlisted last May. Death was due to wounds received action. U. S. TROOPS ON WAY TO METZ United Pr.Ess Cablegram. LONDON. Nov. 14. The American' have begun their march to Meti and Strassburg. according to advises received today. President Poincaire. Premier Clen-.-enceau and Marshal Foch will personally accompany the Americans In thloccupatlcn of Alsace-Lorraine, it wa'i stated.