Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 49, Hammond, Lake County, 7 December 1918 — Page 1

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OiiiBr Illustrious Visiters Will Be Pressnt at Eig Doings (n Hammsnd Monday, The -weather m-a dusted off his -Jor.g-:-t-nce tcloro-p today and. peering " the future, predicted an ideal Oay v the- great spectacular pageant of the ;-sic Shrine of OrttU T triple- at Ham- : -r. i M? ::ds y a'terncw-n. W ith the Mdinah Orient! band and -Ti'l in the lead the c.iravsn will start 2:30, givirr th candidates the air -.'ere venturing ever th blistering ?Tt. Ir. automobib-s K. J. Jaceby of .;!. Temple, Indiana pott 5. imperial r.tate of the order of the Shrine; itiiiij potentates-, and Potentate V. S. of the ur.ik Shriae. will follow r. ';. ah. .". t in lino of para Up will ihu Orak drum and. bugle corps and . um representing aeh of the allied ' "hp.-. Thr. bid tirm a fond farc--.in-,-; the candidates followed by o;.k Shrine experts to outdo all of its f..:ivr gorgeous .in ! splendid functions this bi:; ev;nt, celebrati'is the allied .cry. The crcmony at Orak Temple a i;fr? the last and greatest of the year. AU f-inolioi.s of tiie kind having been : i.iho: dinated during th w ar, the occas.iir, i.t an extraordinary one. V'!-ori are to have dinner at the Chamber of ii'ir.r-cp and a business j.rS!on will be held at 1 o'clock. .'rr.o"g the lsitors will be the ful--v. in-;: T. P. Ecber of P.ockford, III.; Cel. E. J. Shand. Springfield. 111.; Thoms J. Houston, potentate of Medinah " Tcjrnplc, Chicago; Capt. Trank C. Houn:y. past imperial potentate of Xorth n , ri' a. To '-ntnte Reiter has devoted a great i.-jT ' of attention to perfocimw the plans f..r h ceremoi-.ini. jJc-ret.try George Msilf't a t i . 1 V.". K. Startsnian have ,i-;r'i tfieir tnl-nt-s to make it bi? show v, worth ?! n-. FASHIONED ;. To T:r. Ttvrts.l IN I'.. Dec. T. How the ir ; t ; received Ty I-'m-ii-.' is ju"i beginning '. thi' country. In a let- ! TI 1. t : ' - i'y hi. -s ja rents h"re from Dan i ', -v-;:i wiih th- medical detachment r tlM i'.i.iric. i .-xitten from K- ::m .-. he :-: f : r.cnr. s. I'r.ince. Nov. 15, 191S. M,.iher: -."'.'.-M"i-. it'.- '! I'.nirh'-l. isn't it? f V.'-nbs :-lt v.-f:; til, -m a thing or two " -. We received 'the news of Use . . . ; of ih-" armistice about noon on ti rlr-n(li. JirVry one went wild. ; ;." i ier. wr:-c blow rtig, bells w ere i -. o!Tice:-3 and men" acted like i .i-.u;ipin,-T around, laughing, shaking h.-. Oh. i: was a wonderful thing to 1.-. -. :. it was all over with the good ,i V. right wIito she always has 1 i i-nd always will be 'Victorious. V. .. ; i. tiicr. even the (ifrnian prisoners .lancing around and laughing. One b .. i. h of them put a torpedo on the r-'iis ii-.il shoved a heavy car over it to re -.o it . plode. Thf y were celebrating the defent of their own country and they w fie happy"And the Frenchmen: Mild Wild!! hsol;iifly crazy with joy. 1 was in th" cit in the "afternoon and evening ..-it!i. and the streets were packed. Jverywbre tli.-re was happiness. Flags, fig:; and then more flags came out as if by magic a :id mad'- the t t y a mass of : or-. The pood old Stars and Stripes (Continued on pape flve. WILSON INVITED TO COLOGNE fUNTTEO Tress Cablegram F.ERXK, Dec. 7. President "Wilson is Invited to Cologne to meet delpgatlons from Berlin and ether German cities there for the purpose of brincing about tin understanding regarding the integrity of Germany. German nowspepers are Viewing a universal dread of the various suffrage movuiientF. P.er'.in. according to dispntches, wants to form- a combined and allied German army to march against tho Bolplieviks in Russia. BATTLE FOR KIEF DEADLY f t "x ttf r Press Cablegram. 1 LAP'S ANNE. IV-c. 7. Forces of the Vkrainian National Union occupied Kief aftr a severe battle in which the casualties totalled 10.000. Among those Ki'led Were Gen. Skoropadski and 500 Russian officers. The National Union bow controls all of Ukraine.

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Judge Hardy in Superior Court Gives Indiana Har bor Man a Lesson fori t Child Desertion. A justifiable sentence, said to be un- , usual in the history of Lake countv i courts and a solemn warning to child ! ; deserters and brutal husband, was giv- j j en in the super. or court today by Judge i Hardy when he sentenced Mike Kampa, ! j i i a mum uon oriior, to one to seven years i in the penitentiary. The court suspend- ; j ed the sentence on agreement of Kampa : i to pay $43 a month for the support of 1 ' his three small girls. On'failure to pay ' j Kampa will be sent to Michigan City j without further trial, the court seated. J I The three little girls, the oldest four- j j' teen years of age. appeared in court j j with three women who have eauh provided a home for one of the children. j A fourth daughter, aged 18, who has j taken care of the baby, wept as she ' z told Judge Hardy that her father's brutality had caused the death of her mother and that after her mother's death she was compelled to leave him for fear of be-in? disgraced. The three children are in the custcdv j of Sonhia Dugon of SS32 Escanaba aveI nue. Sophia Shsganowski and Josephine j Kucinska of 4023 Elm street, Indiana Harbor. i That out of his ample wages the father fafled to provide for the helpless children was a fact that angered the coCff fT The children were In court but ! paid no attention to their father. They I w ere well dressed and appeared well ! cared for. PUT JP IB8ES1 Alcoholic Drops Sold to Applicants ,it Is Charged, Without Prescription. j rhillip Kleinman. who runs a drug i store at the corner of 137th and Cedar ! streets. Indirna Harbor, i3 under arrest charged with a violation of the state liquor laws. ' His place was rcpently raided on a search warrant taken out by the chief of police pnd a quantity of alcohol was j taken. Ii is said that this alcohol was I in stock for the manufacture of Hoffj man's Drors. a mixture of about 64 j per cent alcohol and 36 per cent ether; ; that tb-se "drops' were being sold to applicant without prescription; that several men who bought these drops become violently, jf not dangerously, ill .-s a result. The place was invaded by Ofncers Ry- . becki, Budich and Fano and containers f filled w iMi this alcohol were seized. Kleinman lives at 3711 Fir street and lis out on t'.OO bond. His trial .will take i place before City Judge H. M. Cohen. ARE yOU OK ' OFJHE HUUBEfl? Heavy, heavy hangs over the heads of 1,724 Indiana employers. They haven't submitted their annual reports or paid their annual license fees to the license department of the industrial hoard of Inuiana. Miss Kmma Humpke. who attends to gathering the reports and sending the licenses, declares that the employers have been delinquent since October 1 and pre subject to the penalty of $50 for not complying with the law. She Is sending out the second and last notices this week. Every one employing more than five persons in any capacity in Indiana must comply with the law on July 1 or before October 1. Thousands of them did so, but the 1.724 did not. GERMANY IS HUNGRY. H"viTEr Press Cablegram. COPENHAGEN. Deo. 7. Germany has ye.it a note to Denmark declaring thru she is on the verge of a famine. The present supply, the note gays, is only a third of normal. Austria has not food enough to last a month. HARBOR BOY IS HONORED SrwotAt. To Thu Times. ANN ARBOR. MICH.. Dec. 7. A former Indiana Harbor boy was honored here today when L. A. Lundco'-t was ciected president of the senior class at the University of Michigan. Mr. Lundquist was a graduate of the East Chicago High school In 1913 and he was also president cf his class then.

SURRENDER OF GERMAN NAVY BRITISH CREW RUNS BOAT TO PORT

4 , .-f N j: The above pictures were tako:i at the (greatest surrender m naval history, when under the terms of the armistice GcrIkills with ho Well Known Man Gets 2 to j 14 Years for Running Down Pedestrian. (Special To The Times.! Cr.OWX POINT, I.ND., Pec. 7.Wayne Bush of Kouts, a well known ' man of that place, was yesterday in the Porter Circuit court convicted of man-. Slaughter. ' Bush was charged with killing Harold ! Detloff who lives between Kouts and j this city, with an automobile. j The penalty is imprisonment for a; term of 2 to 14 years. ; RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR GABY GROCERY (Spki-iat, To The Times I INDIANAPOLIS. ISP., Dee. 7. Upon petition of the Cudahy packing Co , j & rmnur X- fn on! tha Pinclinr-v T'lnnr I Co.. who filed an involuntary petition In i bankruptcy against Harry Schoenhaut i of Gary Charles E. Surprise. I- - j Commissioner at Hammond, was today appointed receiver by the V. S. district j couit. Mr. Surprise was directed to! take charge of all of Schoenhaut's stock and bond for $5,000 was approved. At-! torncy Glenn J. Harris of Gary pre t tt r I inn J. Harris of Gary presented the. petition to the court on behalf' of the creditors. Grocery & Jlaike! and has been consid-1 ered one of Gary's, most responsible merchants. The creditors claim he has been paying some in full by returning merchandise to them and not making any payments to others and for this reason asked for a receiver. Tho largest creditor is the Cudahy Packing Co., claiming a debt of $2,711.67. The Reliable Grocery and Market is located at 1636 Broadway. HURLEY TO RETURN SOON Bt United - Puess PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 7 Chairman E. N. Hurley cf the W S. Shipping

Board is expected to. sail for home 'a; onus. moms expire iour monies but few days before Christmas." Hin re- j the peace is signed. Congress probably turn is believed to be hastened by the'ill be asked to provide that such men cf Charles M. Schwab to be reliev- r" reeded for supplies or other serv

ed of direction of the Emergency Fleet' Corpora t ion. PAPERS MAY BE FILED TBt United Press. CLEVELAND. Dec. 7. Attorney General McGhee ruled today that incorporation papers of the Pershing Republican League for the purpose of electing General Pershing president, may be filed with the secretary of state. BRITISH CROSS RHINE Eniteo Press Cabiegrav.1 LEEDS. En.. Dec. 7. The British at thia moment are crossing the Rhine, Premier Lloyd George announced in a speech here today. CROWN PRINCE SIGNS IT rUNiTEn Press Oablegh am. BERNE. Dec. 7 The forms! abdicationof Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm, of Germany, was signed at Wieringen Island, December 1, according to announcement by the Wolff Bureau, semi-official German news agency.

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i A u.i'iy was forced to turn over virtually her entire navy to the allird fleet to be held v.a a guarantee aeainst treachery while the Law, Expiring Enlislmenls Mayi Ee Modified to Provide for Purposes o! tts Army, fKr T'virED Press.! WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The American army of occupation no1 consists of the first, second, third,1 fnnrtb fifth ooTronfV. .-... ,v""' .i.y i, thirty-second, thirty-third, forty-' SeCOnd Seventy-ninth, eighty-ninth and ninetieth divisions. The new' divisions of this army of OCCUDa-' J vij u' uv.Lupa-( tion are the Second, Seventh, twena . . . , ... , . ly-eigfath thirty-third and seven-tV-ninth. ! T , , , . , inciuaea in ine armv nr n.-nt-I ,i . . ,-. . ipation is the forty-second or Rain-; ; bow division. .; They are serving as reserve organize- ! tions occupying Luxemburg, Montmcdy,' Eonguyon, and St, Mihlcl and will be held as reinforcement divisions if such action should be necessary. j General March revealed that in all ;,"23 officers and 133.51. men have been j assigned for early convoy home while the grand total actually embarked to utiu planum w oji i-uicer ana j ,,o0J men. a few lairscs. prisoners, civilians eievwi navy of.'icers and 554 navy cn- j listed men. j In the past week the total discharges . In home cantonments reached 7.658 of-. ficers and more tjjari 200,000 men. General March said it may bo necessary to modify the existing law whereabroad shall remain in the army. In answer to questions in regard to ret'lrning convoys March stated three vessels had sailed for New York in the last week. MOONEY STRIKES .ARE CANCELLED (Bt United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 7. "Mooney strikes" are being cancelled today. They had been scheduled to begin Monday. A convention to determine a method of obtaining Mooney freedom probably will be substituted tor the strikes as 1 result of Secretary of Labor Wilson's appeal. Secretary Wilson's appointment of Wm. Penman to head an investigation of charges again?t District Attorney Fickert was accepted as assurance that the whole Mooney case will be aired. WEEGHMAN i RESIGNS JOE f Bt United Tress. NEW YORK, Dec. 71 has. Weeghman has resigned as president of the Chicago National League club, he announced today in a telegram. He assigned his' move to press of business.

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-1 Glimpses of the scene when Gerrr.anj rsurrendi-rcd her U-boats and destroyers to tue allied fleet. One of the German submarines being rui into Harwich with British r,v aboard and British naval "Leers looking at part of surrerrcJ Lboat fleet. peace terms are being decided. The surrender took place about forty miles east of Mav Island, off the Lnjrhsh coast, in the presence of the assembled allied fleet. The German ships steamed between two lines of the allied shins. The German crew s Mere taken cn board allied vessels and British crews placed on board the German craft. The U-boats and destroyers were then sent to Harwich under the British crews. The battleships were interned in a bay in tns Orkney Islands. IBCt.I.KTTN-. I (United I-'f.ess Cablegram. I.OMX1N, Dec. -7. V ( cntrnl XfW I ilnpntrh from AniKteVdnm announced ' today tbnt tbe Hritinh entered Cologne j yratrrday. BCt.T.ETTN-.J Uxited Pr.Esa Cablegram STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7 Documents here nre alleged to reveal n plot for a Ttorld-vrhJe resolution to center in Stockholm. lbcm.etin. United Prsss Cablegram. LONDON, Dec. 7. A Berlin newspa per report that an entente committee hn arrived at Milmshn ten on Brltlah warn hips. Bulletin-. IL'niteo pHEis Cablegram. PAH IS, Dec. 7. A mini noidirra and nallora massed before the chancellor" pnlnce lnt night proclaimed Chancel lor I'.bert ''President of the German Republic.' U. S. WANTS DEFINITE LAW By ROBERT J. BENDER tnt TtHE V """"geORGE AVASHINGTON tUy Wireless). Dec. 7. l 5 d t d 7ant a Xmu:; hnv'formulaTedTt . , , , . w Peace conference establishing the Sea as .n VUCrn;lU':'iai governed by ' tile law au imiii'ii1. , . . , . ,. . ,. ine government, ii. is umcicu. ..um , secure iiie fsiauiiMiim-iu i-i rontrai,and list and a definite blockade. (In the latter proposition is seen a move against future submarine warfare.) President Wilson, according to friends, will make one address in England. It is expected he will be given an honorary degree in Oxford University. ' TKEN KAISER WILL I SAY HE'S LYING ri'NTTEO Tkess Cablegram BERNE, Dec. 7. Kurt Eisner, head of the Bavarian government, has promIsed the Bavarian council that he will publish war office documents with marginal comments in the former Kaiser's handwriting which will convict Wil-' helm of responsibility of starting the nar. irrman newspapers say that the soldiers have decided to support the Ebert government. A c'ispalch sas the Democrat ic-Gcrman People's have been combined. Parties SOVIET HEADS ARRESTED rex'TED Press Cablei-.iiam BERNE Dec. 7. The entire executive committee of the union of workmen and soldiers Soviets was arrested and imprisoned by -soldiers yesterday, a Berlin dispat-h reported today. WATCH THE HUNS HOWL NOW ft'viTEP Press C rlec.ram. COPENHAGEN. Dec. 7. The Berlin Tokal Anreiger protests that Holland has no right to extradite ths former kaiser. RIOTINGIN MAINZ. I'nitep Press Carlforam. COPENHAGEN. Pec. 7. Several persons ha ve bf en kHl- d in street fighting at Mayenoe (Mainz) according to reports received Uirr" today, ilany ships have been plundered. ! i Have you your W. b. 5. quota?

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Hammond Man Gets Sad News of Brother's Death, November 1, While Fighting With -6th U. S. Marines in the Argonne. Another Hammond home was turned into one of mourning today when the sad intelligence reached Charles W. Wilson, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Mott, that his brother, J. Howard Wilson, had been killed in action in the deadly Argonne. November first, while : iightupr gallantly with that gallantj fighting unit, the 6th United States Maj rines. This is the regiment which led i in the fightir:g at Belleau wood, t'antigny and Chatteau Thierry and Mr. J Wilson p-s soc n as lie got over in July J was put in the place of another who j had fallen in battle' in the Sixth. He i fought ever since and wrote his brother that on Oct. 19 he had been lna battle west of the Meuse that lasted 11 days j r.nd was one of the bitterest and costlii est of the whole war for It was her I that the Germans did their most savage . ; -ml relentless fighting. ; Howard Wilson was one of th finest men that ever went overruns from Indiana. He graduated from Wabash col- ' lege in June and only at the w ish of his parents that be finish his college course was he kept out of the war. As soon as be graduated be enlistpd where he cculd get a taste of.real fighting in tho Marines. He could have gone in a score of other units, but German atrocities stirred his tl-jhting spirit so that V.e wanted action and he often wrote of the glorious bat tles he had been in. He was one of the most popular men in college. He was manager of the Wabash college baseball team and an athlete himself. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and a leatTer ii! many college activii ties besides bi-miT a fine student. In the loss of his noble brother, a great sympathy is extended Charles W. Wilson y a host of warm friends. He left this morning for Indianapolis where hris parents reside. Judge Klotz Gives Offender a Ten Dollar Fine in City Court. B. DePaoli, who runs a cigar store at the corner of State and Oakley ave., Hammond, was arrested by the Hammond, police charged with selling cigarettes to minors. At his trial in tlie Hammond city court this morning he was fined $10 and costs, in all 20, by Judge Kloti on bis plea of guilty.'' The fine la the lowest' I could give you on that plea." said Judge Kloti. Hammond people regard the sale of cigarettes to minors as a very serious offense and believe that dealers who so offend ought to get the limit. EAST GHIGHGQ WOMAN 0IE3 OF INFLUENZA Mrs. W..B. Miller, wife of the works manager or the Hubbard Steel Foundry, died early today at St. Margaret's hospital of pneumonia following influenza. Mrs. Miller -was taken to tho hospital late yesterday. The remains are being sent to her home in Milwaukee. Mr. Miller is a Boy Scout commissioner in Eat Chicago and one of the prominent mn of the city. Mrs. Miller j was well know n in social and churrh : circles. REPORTED TO SENATE 1 bt United Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, today reported the six billion dollar revenue bill to the senate. Republicans immediately began a fight to delay consideration of th measure, speedy enactment of which President Wilson urgd in his message to congress Monday. MANY SICK COME HOME iBr United Prews WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 The largest number of sick and wound'-L soldiers received in a .'ingle wvek 3.572 came in l.?t week at Hoboken and Newport News. HE WAS A POOR SHOT. 'United Pres LISBON, Dec. 7. Cablegram. -President Paes wag fired at by cn unnamed assailant w ho was later arrested. The revolver missed by a wide mark.

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A Gallant Hammond Boy Dead in France, Is News Received Last Night by Mother From War Department. Another heartbroken Hammond mother after rejoicing that the war was over and that her beloved boy would soon be home, received the dreaded telegram from the War Department- last night that her boy had died from wounds received in action October 16. Sergeant David Ralph James ia'th-? latest name from this section to go cn the honor roll, the latest gold tar in the flag. His mother, Mrs. Catherine James, living at 318 Sibley street, declares that the last word she received from Strg. James was received by her in the shape of a letter written by him in September. This letter was printed in The Times. In it he stated that he had been gassed in action and was in a hospital but hoped to be out soon. He was a member of the U. 3. 69th Infantry and enlisted the second month after the war broke out. He. was trained at Gettysburg Park and went across in May. He was promoted to a corporal and so splendid an officer was ha that though only IS years old, he was aga;n promoted to sergeant. A mother for whom the greatest compassion and sympathy is felt, four brothers and 3 sisters survive. Sergt. James was born in Hammond and was a typical Hammond boy. The last letter received by his mother was as follows; Somewhere in Franca. My Dear Mother: At last I have found time to write you a few lines. I am enjoying the best of health and hop you and the rest'are doing the same. Well, mother, I have had- my "throw" at the Huns. I was up on the firing line for a few days and I had the pleasure of "going over tho top" twice in on day. The fellows were all singing and Joking when we went over. I would like to tell you some of my experiences out In "No Man's (Continued on page Ave.) RED CROSS SECT. GET55AD NEWS Miss Kacid Lawrence of Indiana Harbor Advised of Brother's Death. Miss Kacld Lawrence, secretary of the Indiana Harbor Red Cross chapter house, has received the Information that her brother, Omar Lawrence, dfed on the battle field of Franca September 11. While Miss Lawrence is grieved over the loss of her brother, yet she manifests great pride in bis heroism and believes that his young life could not have been spent for a greater cause. The young mas was attached to Co. E, 303th Infantry, and enlisted from Baldwin. NT. T.. his home, where withr another brother they lived- with their mother. He was the youngest of the two brothers. Infantryman Wounded. Official notice has been received here of the fate of Private Charle3 Gaycus, infantryman, who met ' with severe wounds while In action September 30. Jhe degree of his injuries had not been determined at the time the message was forwarded to Blazielov Iuvis of 37'"3 Elm street, Indiana Harbor. MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR HARBOR SOLOIER Marcus Miner Wounded in Atcion Oct. 21 Dies in Base Hospital. Memorial services for the deceased soldier. Marcus Miner, grandson of Mrs. Margaret Miner, 3422 Elm street. Indiana Harbor, were held at the Harbor Baptist church on Fir street. The young man was severely wounded In action on October 21 and died a few days later in the hospital. He was one of the original Co. L boys of East Chicago who went into training at Hattieaburg and who subsequently were in the detachment that went overseas. His parents liVe at Muncie and the original information came to them in that city. The young man at the time of his enlistment was living with his grandmother, Mrs. Miner, at Indiana Harbor and in consequence he enlisted with the Co. L boys of this city. He was . well known here and was very popular with his acquaintances. Help the government to pay its debts by buying War Saving Stamps.