Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 147, Hammond, Lake County, 2 December 1918 — Page 1

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SOUTH SHORE CRASHES

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Happy Stenopphsrs Victims of Years' Most Shocking Accident, One of the most shocking auto accidents that has ever taken place in Hammond transformed three happy homes last Saturday night into homes of sorrow when a South Shore interurban car crashed into 'an automobile containing five occupants on Columbia avenue. Jive Are Victims. , One girl was killed, a mother is dying, another girl is unconscious at St. Margaret's hospital, a third girl was badly bruised and the driver of the car sustained severe but not fatal injuries. THE DEAD. SUSS BKTTV LEHMAN, aged 20. stenographer in Ordnance Det gpnrtmfnt at Standard; skull fractured; home, 63th and Dorchester, Chicago. THE DYING). MRS." DORA Hl'NDIXG. aged 40, wife of driver ot auto; Internal Injuries, operated on at hos- , pital yesterday; cannot live; home 703S Harper v Chicago. , ,. .BADLY STST. - MISS -"NON1K- BROWNE,stenographer at Standard; bodily Injuries and head crushed; condition serious; home, 71st and St. Lawrence ave., Chicago: still unconscious. INJURED BTT NOT SERIOUSLY. MISS M.nr HVNDING. sg"d 1". stenographer at Standard; bruised about body and head: laughter of George Hunding, driver of auto. SLIGHTLY HDBT. '.KOIUiE HCNDING. driver of car; bruised about head and cut by c!as. Imt able to be up Many Sensational Reports. The auto accident took place shortly a '! r 5 o'rlock on Saturday night and t!..?rc nero many conflict ing reports current about it jcsierdav. the most si national being that a Standard ordn.tneo bus had been l it by a train and nmr.y killed, among them being a num-b-r i.t v.-el Ui:oti Hamniuii'i girl's, but li e victims were all Chicago people. Miss Mary Hunding. n stenographer, employed at the Standayd Steel Car's oi lr ance department and outigest of tl thr--e girl victims with her own(Continued om padre two.) WOMEN - TAKE HEEO OF HillAEE BILL Investigate Unsatisfactory Conditions at Jeffersonville and C. Point. JEFFERSON VI LI.E. IND., Dec. 2 "nt measure that will come before the ci'laUire In which the women of the state are greatly interested, is a bill to stop t!T reckless marriages that are pettfnrmed at JeftV rsonville and Crown Fomt. The women's clubs and organizations have been making an investigation of the conditions prevailing hrc, and in Crown I'oint, as regards marriages and they have arrived at the conclusion that In many instances the marriages arc simply a jest and a mockery of works and for that reason fhey will sk that the system be abolished. Woman to Ask Aid. Three bills have been introduced in as many sessions of the general assembly that would put a stop to the practices, but they have nil been defeated. It is the intention of the women of the state to ask the aid of the Governor and. the leading politicians of both political parties to assist in wiping out this disgrace. The good Indiana women feel that if the legislature is really anxious to do something to add to Indiana's great reputation as a state, H can do so by blotting out the reckless manner in which marriages are performed in Clarke and Bake coifhtics. Marriages are regarded by all ChistTan nations as n basis of civilized so. ciety, of sound morals and domtli- affections. It has more to do with the 'morals and civilization of a people than any other institution. Ret With Leg-Ulatura. The legislature may prescribe who may marry, the age at. which they n-arry. the procedure and form of essential to constitute marriage; the duties and obligations the relations create; Its effect on the property rights of both, prffnt and prospective; and the acts which may constitute grounds for Its dissolution.

ERE'S THE HILL STAY Units ot American Army ot Oc copalion Who Wiil Cross the Rhine River, "WASHINGTON. P. C. Iec. 2 The American army of occupation, under command of Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, w Inch is going to its station German territory, is composed of five regular army, three national guard, and two national army divisions. The force totals about 470,000 men. "With the exception of three divisions, the entire regular army forces under Gen. Pershing, together with the marine contingents, are in the army under Gen. Dickman. I NON REGULAR UNITS The. following; are the national guard and national army divisions with the regulars in the army of occupation. TWENTY-SIXTH DIVISION. (New England National Guard.) BRIG. GEN. FRANK E. BAM FORD, COMMANDING. 51st brigade. Brig. Gen. George H. Shelton 101st. and 102d infantry; I02d nchine gun battalio. iiibui&ajituJSrig; en. C rls. --J L Cole 103d and 140th infantry; 103d machine gun battalion. 51st brigade, Brig. Gen. Beverley V. Browne 1 list. 102d and 103d artillery; 101st trench mortar battery. 101st engineers: 101st field signal battery, 101st supply train. llMst ammunition train 101? t 'ngineer train. headquarters troop 1'ilst machine gun battery. THIRTY-SECOND DIVISION. (Michigan-Wisconsin National Guard.) MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM G. HA AN. COMMANDING. 63d brigade 125th and llfiih infantry; 120th machine gun battalion. 64th brigade. Brig. Gen. Edwin B. ' Winans 127th and 121th infantry; i 121st machine" gun battalion. 57th brigade. Brig. Gen. George I.. Irwin 119th and 120th artillery; 107th trench mortar battery; 107th engineers. 107th field signal battalion. 107th supply tarin, 107th sanitary train, 107th ammunition train. 107th engineer train, headquarters troops, 119th machine gun battalion. FORTY-SECOND DIVISION. ( Rainbow. ) MAJ. GKN. C. D. RHODES. COMMANDING. S.ld brigade. Brig. Gen. M. ,T. I.fnihan 165th and 166th infantry, 150th tr.-ichiiv gun ba t ta 1 ion. Mth brigade. Brig. Gen. Douglas McArthur 167th and K,Sth infantry, 151st machine gun battalion. 67th brigade. Brig. Gen. George G. Galley 1 19th. 131th. IMsf artillery. (Continued on peg's three.) PLOT TO RESTORE KAISER Rri.t.ETix.J n's'iTm 1'rf.ss Cabi.foram.I PARIS, Dec. 2. That the kaiser'a abdication ia but a bluff and the Junkers and workmen's and. soldiers' are fighting among" themselres dne to the fact that there Is no master of the German situation was the declaration of a high authority here today. He declared America should stand behind the allies as American aid is needed worse tod ay than at any time in the history of the European countries. trxtTFn Ft-iess Cablegram. LONDON, Dec. 2. A plot,to re store the kaiser has been discov-! ered and frustrated in Berlin, the Amsterdam's correspondent of the Express wired today. Scores are under arrest. The 'conspiracy was exposed through a telephone leak, knowledge of which came into the hands of Tremier Friederich Ebcrt. Among the conspirators were Field Marshal Mnckensen, General eon Boen, and von Arnlm. Krupp von Sohlen, head of Krupp. and Vrince on Bulow. Philip Scheidman asked the newspapers not to mention the plot. The former kaiser's personal degree of participation in the conspiracy is not known.

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President Wilson, in cente-r; Cot. E. H. Bliss, President Wilson will head the delegation which will represent the L. S. at the woria peace .comerence. Wilson in naminp the delegation decided to head it himself and aot)oinfed Secretary of State Troops to Return In December "WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 The followunits were announced yesterday by General March as having been designated for early return home: IF IM II1 i I'i vision Headqiiartei s 39th, 67th, bTth. Brigade Headquarters 77 th, 131st. 152nd, 173rd. 174th. Kegimejits 1 53rd. 15 4th. 155th 301st. 3n2nd. 303rd. 304th. KIKI.1J Alt I ll.I.l.R-i . Brigade Headqwa rt crs 59th. 55th, 136th. 163rd, 56th. 40th. 65th. 159th. l2n,l fiirrt I Regiments 335th. 327th. 359th, 125th. 126th, 127th. 144th, 338th, 161st, 331st. 332nd, 333rd, 116th. 117th, USth, 143rd. 145th. 325th. 326lh. 327th, 137th, 139th. CO ST ARTILLERY. Brigade Headquarters 34th, 36th. 37th. 30th. 32nd. 3Sth. Regiments 73rd, 74th, 42nd, 52nd, 53rd. 4fith. 47th, 45th. 61st, 68th. 6Stli. 70th. 71st, 63rd. 66th 33rd, 43rd. 62nd, 67th, 72nd. TRF.NCII MORTAR Tt ITT il.IO.V. 106th, 109th. 113th. 303th. 310th, 311h, 312th. 4th. 5th, 6th, 7th. A ATI- 4IKCH AFT. Battalions 2nd, 3rd. 4th, 5th. 6th. 7th. Batteries 13th. 14th. 15th. 16th. 17th, ISth, 19th, 2'"'th. Machine Gun 3th, 11th. I2th. Y(HiK nTTi,io. 140th. 161st, 112nd. 30jst. 302nd. 303d. 334th. AF.RO SQl I)ROS. First Handley-Ta ?e. lltth, 2S2nd. 306th. f.m.im:f,iii. Regiments 1 09th. 212th. t 'headquarters and Companies A, B. C, D. E. and F.) ISI'U, ( OMPAMns. 201st, 302nd. 304tht. A M It I MM K SERVICE. Trains 109th. 211th, 309th. 113th. (less motor battalior.), 54th, (coast artillery). Comranis 136th. 304th. S45th. Field Hospitals 346th. 347th. 344th. Sanitary Trains 391st. 312th, squadron No. 68. MIS4 Kl.lAKOVi ORG A MZ ATIO S. 14th. 212th and 301st train headquarters and military police. 4th and 5th railway ordnance repair portion. S7th d;vw:on. field laboratory. . Dental unit. 3t2th field sequel battalion. S7th division field laboratory. The 92nd division has been ordered to prepare to entrain for a has port. The War Savings Pledge Card is a little note written to Uncle Sam to fiss'ure him that you are with him in the war and that you intend to stay to the finish.

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M. House, above at Kft, and Henry White, at right. Below are Gen. Tasker at left, and Robert Lansing, secretary of state. ' I.ansinpr, Col. E. M. House, Henry j son's personal representative on ; White and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss as many important missions and is

1 tne i tner raemDers. xansine nas cenductedjnany difficult nejrotiations with other r.ati..ns since the war becran. House has been VilYJHK BOYS INTO H By WEBB MILLER (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE AMERICANS IN PRUSSIA, Dec. 1 (via courier to Nancy), Dec. 2. The Third army today occupied about 400 hundred miles of German territory, including scores of towns and villages. The Americans encountered little hostility from the inhabitants. While hundreds lined the streets in fTreves, there was absolute silence as the tired sixth infantry of the Fifth division marched in and occupied the city. The band was playing and regimental flags flying as the regiment swung through the principal streets, led by Colonel Henry Hunt. The people stood staring curiously, or followed quietly Jjchind tho Americans. The streets were patrolled by deputies of the local workmen's and soldiers' STREET CAR MEN WANT WOMEN TO STOP WORK fBT I'StTEP FnF.ss 1 CI.KVF.BAN". .. Dec. 2. The Cleveland' carmen's union tonight will vote en a demand that conductorettes be removed at once from street cars and a strike In case the demand is not immediately granted. President John J. Stanley, of the Cleveland Railway Company, said today that the demand will not be granted. Conductorettes are being kept on the job in pursuance to the national war labor board, which has enjoined the discharge of the women . pending its derision on the controversy, he .aid. ho decision is expected soon. BOYCOTT ON OFFENDING GROCERS frtr t'NiTFn Pr.Kss ClilCAGi'. Dec ?. A call for a general boycott of grocers who do not display food administration price lists or adhere to profits allowed tb.eteupon, was sounded today by Assitsant T'nlted Pistes Attrnev Frederick Dickinson. Dickinson is conducting the investigation into food costs for the government.

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rS . - ,?"i now m versauies. nuiw, a I publican, was formerly ambassaj dor to J: ranee, tienerai cuss wiu j be the military representative. council, who wore white arm bands and carried rifles. During the march through the city, church bells tolled and American airplanes circled overhead. Both the Germans and the Americans maintained a certain aloofness and there was little fraternization. The doughboys maintained a soldierly, dignified attitude. While there was a considerable crowd on the streets, the majority of the people stayed Indoors and peeped through the windows. Not a single German flag could be observed anywhere. The Americans began their march Into Prussian territory shortly after dawn. The Third division crossed the Moselle In the region of Remich; the First near Cravenmacher; the Thirty-second ' farther north, and the Second in the region of Eehtsmlrach. The. whole front advanced with the Moselle as an axis. Before dawn the men were aroused, ate a hasty breakfast and fell in. All the ronds toward the Moselle were soon jammed General Lassiter, Le June and House rode ahead of the advance guard at the (Continued on page two.) ROLLOFHONOR jesxr. The rollowing- lake County names are reported in Gen. Pershing's casualty list: WOUNDED SEVERELY. STANISLAW ESS.t-.AJC, 1633 Delaware St., Gary. JAMES MEHEX.ES, 1525 Adams St., Gary. BBAKS J. JOHNSON, Eaglss Lodge, West Hammond. FRANCES DENHAM, 35 Laporte ave., Whiting. TERRE1TCE CAKNEB, 643 New York ave., Whiting-; reported in Times. XEO SATIRAN, 4323 ITorthcote ave.. East Chicago. MISSING IN ACTION. HOMER FRIEND, 1421 Olcott STS., E. Chicago; reported in Times. PRISONERS FROM ' ULLINGEN GERMANY i'MTED PKESS ('.(BI.DlIUM Hl'.l.l.EG R A 1 K, Nov. 3rt. The first train load of American prisoners released from Vllingen, Germany, arrived her today. They included 7n0 offi cers and 200 orderlies.

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FUEL COMPANY SOLD TO PIOOOREKEM) Affairs of City Fuel Co. Satisfactory Settled and Petition Dismissed.

The affairs of the City Fuel & Supply company have ben brought to a satisfactory conclusion and the business will In th future be known as the Taul Moorehead Oil company. Mr. Moorehead, a contractor, purchased th business from Taul Parduhn Saturday after the petition for a receiver filed by the Texas Oil Co. (Texaco Co.) had been dismissed with all obligations paid in full and a balance of $2,103 above all debts and Incumbrances remaining. The business will go on as usual. Baul Tarduhn demonstrated his financial solvency by wiping: out all obligations twenty-four hours after the petition for receiver had been filed. His books showed that the business has been a profitable one with a growing and satisfied trade. ADD CITY FUEL STORY Attorneys J. K. Stinson and Edwin Friedrii.-h. representing Parduhn. state that the petition for a receiver which has been dismissed was the. result of a misunderstanding about a contract and not a refusal to paj". FATE DEALS UNKINDLY WITH WHiTINS FAMILY Loses Son in Overseas Service ; Now His Sister Dies of Influenza. 'Special, To The Timks. AVHITING, Ind. Dec. 2. Fate seems to be dealing the P.. H. Kleiber family, 413, 119th street of this city, a series of stunning blows. Miss Helen Kleiber, age 21 years, one of Whiting's best-liked young ladies, died yesterday afternoon of influenza at three o'clock. The entire family had suffered from the disease and until the last it was not believed that the decedent's condition was exJracritlcal. Walter Kleiber, the young lady's brother, was killed In action last July in France. He was In the wireless now with the American Expeditionary branch of the service. Walter's younger brother. Richard,, Is Forces in Siberia. The decedent is survived by her father, mother and a half-brother, Harold Nagel of Hammond. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 from the home and burial will be at Oak Hill. IF you n ONE WRITE! Employment Bureau Wants Names of Women Who Went to Washington. The V. S. employment service has been asked by tho government to make a file of the names and addresses of persons In this vicinity who went to Washington to help in office departments during the war. Anyone knowing of a woman In the Calumet region who has gone to Washington or elsewhere In government work, is asked to report her name, local address and name and address of former employer to superintendent women's division t. P. employment service. East Chicago, Ind. NEW CASES FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT Kr:ru,r, To Tub Ttme?. CROWN POINT, Ind., Dec. 2. The following ne wcases have been filed in the Bake county circuit court: 12595 On Note; Commercial Bank (John B. Peterson) vs. Publishers' Subscription Co., George Hershman and Frederick G. T.isitis. 12596 Damage; Albettina Finck (M. J. Smith) v

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Thomas K. fushmsn. 12597 Divorce; Gust B. Krava (D M. Kinder) vs. Mary BnrlUe Kravas. Justice Pence Appeal; Mi'lard I Hertz fJ. Will Relshaw, O. J. Bruce) vs. Farmers' Mutual Fire Ins. Co. 12599 McFctrbh Lumber and Coal fo. . .I. S. Bartholomew) vs. Frank R. Thompson, et al. 1600 John Brown tPatee r Johnson) vs. John K. Barns, et ai. 12591 Divorce; Mary Dowding (Norton & Rose) vs. Percy Dow-d!ng.

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Praises Organization Back ol Greatest Troop Movement In World's History. High Lights In Wilson Speech fBT Vn-.ted Pbess WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 Declaring tor modified private control or tne' nation's railroads under unified and greater pubUc regulation, President Wilson today spoke out against return, to the old conditions of railroad operation. In his annual message to a Joint assEton opening the short term of' the "reconstruction congress" today, the president outUned this and other measures as his policies of readjustment. At the same time he explained Us peace trip to Europe as one it was his duty to make. "May Z not hope," ha said, "that la the delicate task Z shall have to perform Z may have tne encouragement and added strength of your unltd strength." High points in the president's readjustment program outlined in his address are; Passage of woman' suffrage. Use of existing government agencies to effect reconstruction. Immediate resumption of develop, ments of. public work to provide em. ployment for returning soldiers. Radificatlon la the Colombian treaty to Improve pan-American relations. Immediate determination of taxes for 1918, 1913 and 1920 and lifting much of the tax burden from business as government needs will permit. Priority of distribution of American raw materials to war stricken nations. Complete consummation of the three year naval program. "Leave determination of railroad's future to congress, out recommending against return to pre-war conditions of private railroad control unmodified. Railroad control to be studied by congress Immediately to quickly remove doubt as to their future. Reclamation of arid, swamps and cutover land. By ROBERT 3. BENDER (TTnitad Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 2. President Wilson's "re-adjournment" message to congress today is his answer to critics of his peace trip and post-war economic plans. Convening at noon for the "short session" members of the house and senate were in such a frame of mind toward the chief executive as to make his appearance little short of dramatic. In fact the necessity of replying in some measure either directly or indirectly to the most sordid criticism of his plan to attend the peace conference in Europe and clearing up his position on readjustment rroblems, such as railroad and wire control, opening of neural resources and broadened educational opportunities for the youth of the nation. The president's speech follows: 'The year that has elapsed since I j last stood before you to fulfill my con stitutional duty to give to congress from time to time information on the state of the union has been so crowded with great events, processes and great results that I cannot tops to give you an adequate picture of its transactions or of the rar-reacnir.g cnangs vrnicn has been rought in the life of our nation and of the world. "You hao yourselves witnessed these changes as 1 have. It is too soon to access them and we who stand In the midst of them and are part of them sra less qualified than men of another generation will be ta say what they mean or even what they had been. Eut oni great outstanding facts are unmistakable and constitute in a sense part cf the public business with which it is our duty to deal. To state them is tset the stage for the legislative and executive cction which must grow out of them and which we have yet to ahaps and determine. "A year ago we had sent 148.918 men overseas. S.'nce then we have sent 1.950,512, an avej-age of 162,542 eaoh month, the number In fat rising i;i lr. .Tune it ros j 27R.760; in July to "07.1S2 and continu !ng to reach similar figures in August and September in August IS?. 570 ar.c in September 257,425. "No such movement of troops eve before took place and across 3,0f0 mile? of sea followed by adequate equipment j a"'1 supplies and carried safely through j extraordinary dangers of a t ack - dr. n I ers which were sliKe strange nn-l :n -! finitely difficult to gtiard against. J:i hhia movement, only 75)5 r.in we it by enemy attacks 620 of whom (Continued cn page two.)