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ABO 3300,000 Flaw York Workers Fie jge Tiieir Support to toney Movemant IHf X'SITZD FRE5?.1 1 NEW YORK, Nov. 30. New' 'iork labor leaders declared today J ... i that the agitation for a nation-wide; strike to be held Dec. 9th as a; demonstration against the failure j of the California governor to par-' don Thos. J. Mooncy "would beiti 1 at once. Three hundred thousand; organized workers of tRe. Central! Federated Unions of Greater New! York have pledged their support to j the Ivlooney movement. They alsoj threaten to join in the nation-wide i strike movement. j ' Arrangements . are now being! macie for a Mooney demonstration; here Dec. 7th. If proper police protection is assured labor leaders say the parade will be held. NORTHCLiFFE SAYS 11S0! IS ESSENTIAL (Copyright, 131S, ? the United Press.) 1.UNDOX. Xov. 30. Answering the question as to the F.uropcan attitud? t ward the president's peace trip. L.ori Northcliff. foremost British publisher, said in part: "That the president should attend the i i.nference always has been regarded li"ie not as a matter of policy but as en essential factor in the situation. It would be inconceiva-ble that Premier !.!;. rt George should not be at the conf.Tence. ' I cannot conceive t,he cot.feerr.ee trikinp place without Premier' t'lemenc The v, hole Oiscusskn shows the c:ive danger that always exists in international misunderstanding. The United Stales 1ms plp.yed a great part :n the war and the Go-mans live insistently addressed the president. As a foreigner I can express no view nf American politics but 1 may b a!i -wed to say that if these conferences -,. rr- hl without President Wilson the whole Kuropean world would think that there was something very wrong indeed with those conferences." e i n liir, i l Ml PUNISHED Gary, E. Chicago and Whit- ' ing Liquor Law Violators Get Sentence in Court. TIMS' B ' t!5'V. A? STtTH i'riTt.. INDIAN APOLI5. Nov. -The following Lake county men were fined in, the federal court by Judge Anderson esterda: Lynn It. Hays, fjary. one ear in Marion county jail for falsifying in questionnaire; Tanko Saponia, ihrce months and one hundred dollars; Nick 'heckan. fifty dollars and cost?; John Vijakovitz. three months and hundred doKars: John l.azar, Indiana liar-bo-, six months and hundred dollars; Charles Musulfh, 'Whiting, hundred dollars and four months, all for violations of the F.eed amendment. F.rnest Edmunds of Chicago, formerly of Kast Chicago, was fined two hundred dollars for violating P.eed amendment. HAS WILHELM RENOUNCED THRONE? I'NTTF.n rr.Sf ClSt.KTHAM.l .(MsTERDAM. Nov. 30 YVilhelm IIohenzollern has signed a document definitely renouncing the thtones of Germany and Prussia, as well as reieasina 11 officials from their oaths of alleicianace, according to a Berlin dispa t h today. The former kti.-er is reported to be ill with influenza e.'id was unable to greet his wife when she arrived. The kaiser it at bat. Strike him out by buying War Savings Stamps.
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France War Swept; Still France Cheerful Enlisted TIMES Reporter Piclures Scenes Along Motor DriY3 With His Ammunition Train Across France. Stories and Dreams Pale Eetore Actual Sights On long Journey,
Cf France the garden and thej waste, of -cheese and vin blanc, of j polius and red-roofed houses, of; war's maelstrom and Hun doom, of J little desecrated church yards andj cathedral spires, Corp. L. J. Parry; of The Time? writes today in his concluding series describing a 500 mile ammunition train trip across; France. ARTlfl.E HI. By COUP. I. J. PAS.KY (Enllstefl Time Baporter.) In tlic Advance Zon On Aftivo Service, Nov. 3. Today w ?. nvp billeted in a wee 1'rench ' village waiting for the ghost to walk.; A rhp !oe.n't need a great deal oT ! money here. You enn't buy Anything i except a little vin blanc or .omethingl like a cigarette, but it always feels! ffood to henr a few francs jingling: in I your rockets. The weather is miserable, j Once, in a while th sun slips out and I drives away a soldier's bluef. A chapj Ket the, "willies" with so much wet and . cold hut a? n rule you arc kept too busy to think about the weather. W were; detailed with a big parade of trucks to! get supplies from a big supply depot ; and have just got. in. We are rushed with work. Our captain said when we eot here. "We can now expect to be on the job 25 out of 14 horn's." lie was pretty near right and if be had said 26 out of 24 hours he would have been (lend rirht. TRANCE A OAEDIN AND XTJTN. Time Mies fast. To m it only seems tBr United Press WASHINGTON". Nov. 30. General March, chief of -staff, in his weekly conference today declared that T?.6o3 men and 3.451 officers overseas, are the total designated forlemobyi station. He s.iid the army expects to reach a return rate of lT5.f'00 a month in December and later 3tO.0uO a month. Troops in the United States designated for demobilization now number (i40,000 and the gocrnme'U expects to keep prodding the camps until a 1.000 daily discharge rate is obtained. A revised casualty list up t and ineluding November 26 was announced as f ol lows : Killed in action, 2. 363. Pied of v. ounds, 12.101. rid of Piscase. 16.034. Pied of other causes. 1.30. Missing in action. 14.290. "Woundd. 1 S3, including 54.751 severely; 43.10 undetermined, and 92.13S slightly. Total, cxclusie of prisoners, 262.7:3. LAST DAY FOR BREWING BEER CBt T'nitko Press. I vrtv vortK. Nov. so. Hrewinsr n t a n t in -.ew lor;-. ir p-pit' n l i Hi; (til investment of $20ti.OOO,OiM wi win close at with the law midnight in compliana. anaifed by const' lie however will The general pubriot be v. ithout its heor. The brew e have produced enoneh Uer to last two and possibly tinee months. WANTS SHIPS FROM GERMANY Br Umtkp Pfkss 1 r.XFlS. Nov. 3ftF.dwin N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board is negotiating with Germany and Austria for the use of their tonnage to facilitate the transportation of the army back home. He also is seeking to obtain enemy cargo shtp to .aid in providing food for the Czechoslovaks and other allied nations which facA a serious food crisis. NTERNATIONAL PULSEQUICKENS By Fred S. Kergnaon. ri'NtTicn Press t ' huf.cr am. PAP.1S, Nov. SO. The pulse cf international politics is visibly quickening as additional issues are cautiously in ought out in the formal preliminary peace discussion. Tli new i.5iie arising is the equal distribution of the German navy among the allies. It can be stated that the United States is not in favor of this move. They not wishing to deviat from their former course that they w ant nothing out of the war.
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a few weeks since we walked down the gang plank and landed in France. "Foor dear France" as one correspondent wrote it. One's heart knows the whole gamut of emotions in passing through it. I've driven across 500 miles of it and saw it as it ought to be seen. Our trucks ran ahead of schedule and we hafl ample time to see the beauty as well as the waste. In the south of France everything is as it was before Germany dug her talons into Belgium, particularly in the ru-al regions. The red-roofed stone bouses snuggle in among the trees with an air of age-long security. I saw old men, aged women, young boys and girls working in the fields, preparing for the ravages of more war and coming winter, grape, fields galore, mile after mile and mil Rafter mile we passed through wonderful vineyards. We ite lo our heart's content. We picked and ate -walnuts and chestnuts and tasted some of the most delicious cheese imaginable in passing through dairy centers. It made you" want to fuss with a welsh rarebit. "We saw sugar beet fields galore. FIRST SIGHT OF TANK SOLDIXRS. ("hiltiren play in the muddy strsets. just as children h.-ive since the days of the Koreans. They greeted us-Tanks with Vive L.'Ameri(iue and were happy to shake our Viands. AVe actually passed through picturesque old villages (remember this was in the -south of France) where they had r.e-er seen an American soldier. Until thry learned who we were they first looked at its in fear but when they found out. there wasn't enough they could do for us. Did any one ever hear of any one outside of Continued on. page three.)' CBDWN POINT 60! CHOSEN AS MUSICIAN ,i Will Play in Orchestra on George Washington for Presidential Party. f?PEciAi. To The Times CP.OWN POINT. IND.. Nov. 30 Mr. and Mrs. G. C. P.artholomae received word from their son Ernest that he was about to make an overseas voyage on the George Washir.gton. the ship that President Wilson is to sail on this week. Krnest is in the orchestra and the band and he feels very much honored to fel that he will be on the same boat with the president and be one to help entertain him during the voyage. Mrs. T?artholomae will return to Crown Toint during her husband's absence. CITY UUIimSTUTIOH NOT TO BLAME, HE SAYS Only the Property Owners Can Say Whether There Shall Ee New Pavement. Defense of the administration against tho howl of protest ancnt the terrible condition of Hammond streets lame from an unexpected source today. One of the Brown opponents not oiMy declared the mayor and board of works are not to blame for the disgraceful pavements, but placed the responsibility on othT shoulders. "There is no us" blaming the administration for the bad pavements," said Frank O'F.ourke .fornv-r city s'-aW. "Neither mayor nor the 'lo.-ird of public works i responsible, if ti,P people who own the property want to pave their streets all they have to do is to get up a petition aed present it to the board of works. That's according to law and its the only way it can be done. Th'? property owners on a street are the ones who pay for a pavement and they ar,e the ones to say whether they shall have a pavement or not. "Don't ask the board of works why this or that street isn't paved. Ask the property owners. When Hammond property owners decide th"y need a new pavement and petition the board of works tby will have a new pavement and not before,' Thry are the. ones responsible for the fact that Hohrr.an street hasn't been re paved. The people owning property on Fayette or Condit streets or Oakley avenue are not to blame for the Hohman street pavement or the Calumet avenue pairncnt. They are, responsible only for the pavements J of the streets they own property on." Regarding the scarifying of North Hohman and Fayette streets, it was explained at the city hall that the city had planned to put a substantial top dressing on these streets after they had been raked over, but that the orders for material were cancelled owing to war orders and it was impossible to finish the Jobs.
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C. H. Marsh, Who Enlisted in Hammond Last March, Back From Battles in France With Croix Guerre. De "From Hammond to Chateau Thierry and Return" would prove a fitting title for the thrill. ng story of waifare overseas being told by Clyde H. Marsh, whi has returned to hia wife and horie iort h of Valparaiso on a furlough from Fort Snelling. Minnesota, base hospital. Incidentally. Mr. Marsh brings a record as enviable as it fcaturfS are startling, in that he is one American soldier who came out nlive frotn that veritable hell at Chateau Thierry. He is victim of German shell shock, he wears the Croix d" Querre Cross of th French Legion of Honor for distinguished service, and sinjtularly he has lived to reid his ow n death notice!'-. KX LISTED I IHCH 20. Vr. Marsh enlisted at Hammond. March 20, in the meantime having given up a. lucrative position in the mills at Gary. From Hammond he was sent to Jefferson " Barracks, and one week later found tim at Washington. P. C. Thence his'3outneyffed him to Hoboken. N. J., ' from .where he embirked and landed at Brest, France, in May. becom:nC attached top- ibc Ninth Infantry. From Brest to Paris-twas the next step in the program, f. : at the French rapital llr. Marsh's Vrlval was simultaneous ' with, a t'env 'iti air laid, from win!U iSTiAt4tt; rtSiem I ijwr'. TW last link in his forward journey was completed w hen the Americans merged with their French brothers in arms in front lines &t Cantigny, whrre he had his first taste of actual warfare. - ' OXK BATTLE A IT K 11 AVOTHKH. Ore battle now followed clo.elv upon the heels of another until Mr. Marsh found liiViyelf at Chateau Thierry, an l is description of the fighting in th?t neighbothood makes one shudder and at the same time marvel at the savasery displayed by the combating: armies. Here he was gassed and aI.o wounded by a German bullet, and also it was in this vicinity that he won his cross for signal bravery. German sharpshooters in a dugout were playing havoc tvilu the Americans. Mr. Marsh armed himself with a load of hand grenades and edging to a point of vantage. shelled the dugoijt. When the smoiie cleared, it was found there w ere lcill-Pi urau "ri mini: in iiii dug out. For this act he was d-co-rated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French commanding officer. A I (TIM OF MA V. THIXttS. A few days later he fell a victim to shell shock at Flsmes. Thn shell exploded within five feet of him, and for hours he lay on the battlefield, paraIyzci. speechless and bleeding from a dozen wounds inflicted by shrapnel. He was discovered and removed to a field hospital, and from there commenced the round of hospital to hospital until Mr. Marsh landed at Newport News. Va. While there he read In the government's casualty list the name of "C. H. .:arsh" as reported killed, and he wondered. He finally Recalled that a C. II. Marsh of Pennsylvania had been encountered in one of the hospitals badly wounded, and Mr, Marsh knew4 his name had been confused with that of the other unfortunate soldier. L. K. -Myers, chairman of the local Ked Cross, was informed! of the death of c. H. Marsh" and immediately notineld Mrs. Marsh, who. in the meantime had received word from her husband to the effect that he had been transferred to the hose hospital at Fort Sr.ellire. The error was thus correct e i. jrK.ths i" a whistkr. Mr. Marsh is home on leave of absence, by no means a well man. The fleets of gassing are still noticeable in a seyere cough, and the shell shock has so impaired his voice that he is nMe lo fti'uls scarcely above a w hisper. and can only converse a lew mo ments at a stretch. Mr. Marsh's statements bear out the report from overseas that the Kurocans never saw such fighters as the Yanks who went into battles stripped to the waist, and singing and yelling at the top of their voices, throwing tho ftar of Uncle 5am into the Garmans before a blow had been struck. KAISER'S ABDICATION DOCUMENT! f United Press Carlf.gram.1 BEUL1N. Nov. 30. The Abenblsrt says it understands that the document in which the keiser abdicated has Just ieached this city. HINTZE IS AFTER IT. (Bt UvtTPtn Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. SO. Admiral Von Hintze was reported in a The Hague message to the tate department today as in Hollan dfo obtain the formal abdication of the kaiser.
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SUE M'ADDO WHO SETTLES SAME DAY ! I Check for $3,000 Given the; Father of Boy Who Lot Leg in an Accident. William G. McAdoo. general director j of railroads, is prompt pay. j Within a few hours yesterday suit i for S:t.3rA for personal injuries was . fllod against McAdoo in the Superior : Court in Hammond and the S3.r0 paid j in full to the plaintiff. This, of course, i was by agreement, previously arranged.! The suit was tiled by Daid W. ltunn j for his 16-year-old son Howard, who; lost a leg in a railroad accident on the) Chesapeake & Ohio at. Peru. The Bunns nre residents of Chicago. W. J. McAleer represented McAdoo and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. BROOM AS WEAPON 6 MAN S rspEciAt. To The Times. 1 WHTTIN'O. IND.. Nov. 30. Andy Se 7.abala and Joseph Tavich. employed at I tho Standard Oil plant, engaged in aj little bout last night. Andy, it is re-J f,f.rt mmmed n broom nanaie inin half - two anil ft :..;,,,.! f a a l-ncV,l,l t r incnes. i ne Hum ..... the Passavant hospital in Chicago where j lie died. Zabala is being held for man- j slaughter. ! INFLUENZA CLAIMS CROWN POINT VICTIM isrp-it. To Thb TivFts.l ' UP.O'.VN POINT. !tnd . Nov. 30. Th j death of Henry. New son of this city on i Thankseiving evenins was a grat hock and surprise to his many friends, few of whom Knew ne. was 1,1. m was stricken with the Spanish influenza while at work in the mills at Gary last week. He came home, his i'.lness developing into pneumonia. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Ernest Hodge and Miss Juno Newson. The funeral will be held from the home on Saturday afternoon, the carpenters' union, of which h was a member, having charge. ! WELL, WE DO NOT WANT HIM (Br United Press. NTtV YOP.K. Nov. 30. William Hohenfollern could be extradited to the United States and placed on trial for Lis crimes, according to Charles Terry, member of the executive committee of the American Ba r Astoria tion. 11" said the treaties between the United States and Holland would permit such artin. Th" attorney pointed in his statement to the fact that ' wilful murder" would be the 'charge instead of citint specific cases. Th treaty of 17 is given as authority for Terry's statement.
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PEACE CONFERENCE Below r KILLED IN ACTION. JOHN GKATUKIK, C631 Beach t., Indiana Harbor. DIED OF DISEASE. PATRICK OETZINOEK, 14 Plumxuer ave., Hammond; reported In The Times. MISSING IN ACTION. LOUIS MISIK, 3527 Penn ve., Indlana Harbor. HARRY E. O'HARA, 316 Sheridan ave., Whitlngr; reported In The Times. SEVERELY WOUNDED. FRED TLOSE, 537 Harrison St., Gary. ROMAN NOVAK, 121 laSalle t., Hammond. HEBRON BOY GIVES LIFEJOfi COUNTflY Enlisted in Gary When War Broke Out, Was a Camp Shelby Man. r.rECfAt, Te Thb Tims; CROWN TOINT, IND., Nov. 3. Tames Wilson of Hebron, received an '' oin:inl message frotn Washington I H'urSOaV stating that his son Irwin had been killed in action October 7. This is the first toll Hebron has paid in the war and the news mni nine days after the armistice had been sinned. The Wilsons have the sincere sympathy of the entire community. They, like ai others who have sons over there, were looking forward to the home coming with glad harts -when the sad news reached them. Irwin was not yet CI and enlisted at tiary in April. 1917. He was in training at Camp Shelby, Miss., from October until June when he was sent across. Llad bn ,v, j ,of? thrpe time having received a slight i wound in the first, but was soon able to return to the front. ARMY PHYSICIANS TO HELP WITH FLU Two ;ary physicians. Captain C. W. Tarrington and Lieutenant E. D. Sken. now in the U. S. medical service at Ft. Riley. Kas., are expected home in a few days to assist in tho fight against the influenza epidemic at Gary. Mayor Hodges received a telegram yesterday announcing that the two physicians would be discharged in a few days. Captain George S. Green in the mediral service at Camp Hureaugard. is also soon expected to return. S. C. SCHLESSWIG IS REPORTED CEDED rUviTKn Press Cari.egrav. AMSTERDAM. Nov. A report j Berlin inlay declared that Germany j bad eed?d North Schleswig to Den-1 ma rk.
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Gov, J, P. Goodrich Galls lUi People of fniiana As Does Also Food Adminlslralioa Lake county and its cities ar called upon by Gov. J. P. Goodrich to celebrate Victory Week, Dec 2-9, by pledging to conserve fooa and carry out the food program tr be announced during the week. By JA1CXS F. OOOSUCK (OoTernor of Indiana.) The signing of an armistice and the prospective approach of peace, add materially to the International responsibilities of the United States. If. before' the cessation of hostilities, this nation had a responsibility to feed millions of Kuropeaons, with many of whom we were associated in the war for liberty, how much greater la our present and continuing; charge to prevent starvation among the countless multitudes who have no other to lock for sustenance, or for protection from, the greater menace of anarchy and social disintegration. It is the unquestioned duty of these United States to administer to the needs of the suffering peoples of Europe. Only from out our vast storehouses can relief come in time. There may be enough of food i- the world, but certainly there Is none to waste. There are not ships enough nor are they fast enough to carry the wheat and meat long ditances and still save precious lives. It remains therefore for us to continue "to ration ourselves carefully. ' "".in order "fliatTrre world may be savcd further calamity, that a new. free Europe may arise from the ashes, and be nourished until it has time and strength to sustain itself. Therefore I ask and urge the people of Indiana, whose record stands unparalleled in loyalty and devotion to the causes for which this war was successfully waged, to remain firm in the conservation of food, to be abstemious always, and generously mindful of the gnawing hunger df those lately free of autocracy's yoke. Only by such process may we be assured the full fruits of the victory we have won. I most heartily indorse the purpose and . program for Victory Week, December 1-6, and hereby call upon every patriotic citizen to do his part, that this nob'e effort may be successful, in all that it is hoped to accomplish. VICTORT WEEK PLEDOI. I. n. G. Parry, Federal food administrator for Lake county, in promulgating Victory Week. December 1-6, during which is to be disseminated the program of the United States Food Admin(Continued om page two.) START WORK LAYING COLUMSIUIE. LINE Large Force of Men at Work Preparing for New TracA tion Line. Actual construction on th extension on Columbia avenue from th Gary Interurban at Summer street to th Morton avenue line has been started by the Hammond. Whiting ft Easi Chicago street railway company. Th street is being prepared for the lad ing of ties and rails and much material is on the ground. A gang of nearly J0n mn is at work. The street car company has completed the double tracking of Forsyth avenue from Chicago avenue to lnth street and the nw routing of car in Hammond has ben a fact for several weeks. With the looping of -Columbia avenue the company hopes to avoid the congestion and irregular service of last winter. New cars are being put into service from time to tim and when the ten new cars ordered late in the summer will be installed. RESOLUTION ADOPTED. fSPECTAt, To The Times. CROWN POINT. IND.. Nov. 39 The following resolution has been adopted by the board of finance: 'Be it resolved by the board of finance of Lake county, Indiana, that on all personal bonds filed with this board by public depositories to secure. . the deposits of public funds therein that no personal surety shall be accepted unless he shall schedule real property- on the transfer books of Lake county in his own name of a minimum amount of $1,000 for each and every bond on which his name appears, and that in estimating the true value of his real estate th valuation shown on the transfer hook be accepted as being 30 per' cent of the true value. "JAMES BLACK. Pr-s. "JOHN H. CLAUSSE.V. "GEO. O. SCHAAK." Attest: GEO M. FOLAXP, Secretary.-