Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 153, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1918 — Page 1

Dec. 16-23 Red Cross Week The Last Call COLDER WEATHER VOL. XIIT, XO. 1.73. Ueiivered by TIMES carrier. 40c PI month; on afreet and at ncniitiixli. 3i per ropTi hnelc numbers Se per copyHAMMOND. INDIANA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918. J 55 tS5 & & Vlfr W '4HS $13 1 $m S5 CITI LEAD STATE IN TAXATION RATE

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S3i8 CoioisioflBrs' Figures Rsvs3l Greal Discrepancies, HammonJ Loads Stale in Tax Itete. At Stat: i 'a ttt t... '1HDIANAP0LI3, IND., Dec. 9.: The necessity for a complete ocrhaiilin of Indiana's tax sys-t-:n. including the problems cf the Ftr.e, counties and municipalities, ' is brought cut by figures just com-1 plied by the state board of taxj ccnimissic-ncrs. These figures show great dis-i crepancies in the cos: of govern-; rr.ent in the different counties,' townships, towns and cities. It is pointed out 'i!ko Mint ihe heavier y rriisr' in s:o cVi"Jiiir':,.i everywhere probably bay? i.ot J ct been r.'HCh'-d and it if known ihat in some ; .f the units in t'n f tat-; tax rV.f in-rc-ass. or r n.ilai rt ;!.'. already has, been decided on. I-or example, the city; of Indianapolis It shown as haying the i lowest tax lhle of any city in the state. ( j H increases in cost or municipal opera- j t ion can riof "beTf.T d'iirlnff theeomirfg j car without some very definite relief, j here. ...fticials have said. Th dlmina- j lion of revenues from saloon licenses i "sc. has been another factor In the tepidly mounting municipal tax rates.; fo I unless some sort of MduMoti to the ii!'l"leulty comes, lax rnWs w til re out f ail proportion to i,tf'rrst rates, .is t Ley are now in many instances. I HAMMOND HEADS UST. Hammond heads the ninety-eight t:.'if9 of the state in its high tax rate, with $5. SO levied against each fr,' v...rlh of assessed property. lndiar.apoii each 1100. but this rate must bo in- . i .-ascd in some manner immediately. Continued on page nine.) MA SUFFERS BIG LOSS Pockets Picked of Nearly $2,000 on a Hammond' Car Saturday. Bozo Dumezlch, of 3330 Guthrie street. Indiana Harbor. while getting on a street car at the corner of Hohman end Sibley streets, Hammond. Saturday ):ight, had his pockets picked of $400 in American money and $1,000 in Austiian money and four Chicago postoflice checks for $100 each. Dumezich had the money in a Prince Albert; toba?co can in a side pocket, but. f course, that, is nothing against Prince Albert 'though Bozo will never be able l look at a can of it again without a sinking feeling. HEADS EDUCATORS ON WAY TO PARIS WITH PEACE PARTY V "1 y.'.. "i I " ' - f -rfc Dr. Sidney E. Me:ea. A group of eminent edurstors, headed by Dr. Sidney E. Mezes, president of the College of the City of New York, have jrone abroad with President Wilson and the other peace rieleeates. They have assembled and collected n tremendous amount of data, which will be at the disposal of the American commissioners during the sessions of the peace conference.

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mm kiom si . WW t x I V COE?. J. 1IOWASD WILSOIT. J. H. Wilson, brother of fha. i.-o:i of TIa!i;:T:ond. was killed W. in act-on in the Arj?onn November 1. lie was u n-f-niber of the fighting Clh t". -Mai and had been in ac tion from r .ue.vi Thierry continuo ..ly until t!.e Marines reached the A: Sonne lie w as a graduate of Wnhush Cidlesre, a l'h: lelta Theta nnd manager of tl.e college baseball tram. i X ? ft' 1 J i SKIK.T. II. K. J Mi:s. Ke: grant T. Ralph James, son of Mrs. Cather.ne James. 31S Pibley st., Hammond, died from wounds received in action October 1. in France.' He was a memhtr of the llan.nind high seiiool and enlisted early in the war. As a member of the r.ftth Infantry he fought many bloody battles and was twice promoted for his bravery. A mother, four brothers and three sister" ui Vive h?m. He was only IS years of age. PROMINENT LOWELL BANKER IS DEAD F. E. Nelson Dies in Chicago Hospital; Had a Wide Acquaintance. Special To The Times l.OWELh, Ind. Dec. 9 1 K. Nelson, one of Lowell's successful business men licd at the Mercy hospital In Chicago yct-'t erd:i y morning. He has been in poor hoal'h for some time and went to the hospital to take treatment hoping to benefit his health. Mr. Nelson was about 70 years of as;e and cam" to this country when a yoiin? man. He was a farmer in West Creek township for many years and in ISM movei! to Lowell and accepted the position cf cashier in the Slate bank. He held this position for several years and iatrr was instrumental in the organization of the Lowell National bank, of which li was president for some time. For the past four or five years he has Dtf ii conducting an auto sales room. jfe was a man who had a wide acnuaintance and had the friendship and esteem of all who knew him. He leaves a wife, one son. Ned, of rhoenix, 15. (., Canada, four daughters, Mrs. L. M. Grant, of Seattle. "Wash., Miss Julia Nelson, a teacher in the schools of Superior. Wis., Miss Emily Nelson, a student at Purdue, and Miss Marian Nelson, who lives at home. No arrancements have at yet been madf! for the funeral, hut the services will probably be held Tuesday. RolxfRonor In the list of casualties reported today by the "War Department from Oea. Pershing-, two more Hammond boys appear and one from Indiana Harbor: SEVERELY WOUNDED. HXKEY THOMPSON, 685 HofTman St., Hammond. SCTANLY YVDYS, 2207 137th St., Indiana Harbor. HESEY TONKEHS 343 Hickory St., Hammond.

GARY MM GETS DREAD TELEGRAM lOtto Richter Is Notified of i ! Death of His Brother ! October 1.

Otto Richter, of Gary, has ben notified of the fr.te of his brother, Kdward. who paid the "uprenie sacrifice Oct. l?t, being killed in action in France. Private Hicluer enlisted April 22 and was located with 3";th infantry, stationed at Louisville. Ky. I'rom there he was transferred to I'attle ("reek. Mi. h.. and went overseas in July. n was 29 years old. He was born hi SiHUh Bend and resided here all his life. Hesides his father he leaves the followin;; brothers and siswrt: Mrs. Margaret A! ward, of South T?nd; Marcella, of Mishawaka: A'alter, of South Itend; otto of Oary. Ind., and Krank of the Arnericrn c xpeditiiiuar fores in France. iLAUNGH LAST CAMPAIGN . t. Hammond will launch its last great Red Cross campaign tomorrow night with a big meeting of women at the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 In preparation for the Red Cross Christmas plan to enroll every American in the Red Cross organization. The territory eni iraoed m the drive hi Hammond. Mu lister. Highland. Robertsdale and Griftith. No funds will be .solicited for the Red Cross any more for war purposes. This is merely a membership enlistment. Lir. E. M. Shankltn, manager of the campaign, has sent ou the following statement: : . "The local chapter has every reason to be proud of the work of the women of Hammond and vicinity during the great war work that could not have tif-in accomplished without your co-operation. We hae made refeaU-d rails tor your assistance, which has always been freely and gratefully extended. "We aain ask ou to help us, this time in a labor of vast importance, bus a task that will not reiuire a great iiraount of time. "We will make this a womans campaign as we did last year with such success. 'The plan of the campaign will be explained at the meeting Tuesday night. We ask that you make a special effort to attend. It is possible that we may overlook some one who will desire to aid us in this work, so if your, neighbors and friends hao not received a formal notice advise them that they are wanted and that their assistance will be welcomed. "We know you will want to assist In this, the last Red Cross campaign, and trust you may be able to meet with us on next Tuesday evening." U. S. TROOPS NOW IN COBLENZ T 7n ttf r Prkss Cabt.fcjramI WITH THE AMERICANS l.V PRUSSIA, Dec. S. American troops are In Coblenz. A small detachment went ahead of the main body of the third army at the request of the German authorities there that the Americans occupy the towns immediately after the Germany evacuate to preserve order. The detachment dispatched was the second battalion of the 30th infantry. 4th division, comprising about a thousand men. Their arrival at Coblenz is four days ahead of schedule. The second battalion will declare mnrial law in Coblenz and take charge of public utilties. WILSON HAVING A FINE TRIP By ROBERT J. BENDER (Cnited Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD THE V. S. , S. GEORGE WASHINGTON. IVc. g (Night by Wfe!ess to United Press.) President Wilson has given no indication of hi Views concerning disposition of the former Kaiser but he is enpected to be consulted by international law expert.s in this regard. In view of the fact that British officials favor placing Wilhelm on trial the president's altitude may be most important. The president today held his first conference with Secretary Lansing and Ambassador White The president, it is known, is expectei to take the stand that the league of nations shall not be crowded with minor issues. The weather is warmer, the sea. calmer. GERMANY WILL HAVE 6 DELEGATES United Pkess Cablegram. 1 LONDON". Dec. 12. Phill'p Scheidemann. member of the present German government, today declared Germany will have six delegatesat the peace conference and that thy will be backed by the. national assembly. , Scheidemann said the government is discussing the question of the trial of persons responsible for the war. He said he was of the belief Germany ultimately would become a republic. Lake County's work is not done till she has bought more W. S. S.

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They Learn a Lot About the War at the Annual Feed of the Indiana Society; Guess Indiana Did Everything But Start it. Lake county sent its usual good-siied ! delegation to the annual meeting of i Indiana Society at the Congress hotel i past night and found out a lot of things ' 'here about the war. There were about i twenty present from Crown Point, Ham1 mond, East Chicago and Gary. ! Forty-odd other states may have contributed a little to general results here and there, but you can bet it would have j been a longer, harder war if it hadn't ' been for Indiana." For instance. If there hadn't been a first American soldier to step ashore in France, there never could have been a I 1.900,000th. And who. you ejR, was that, leader cf that stream which went back over (he Mayflower's course to salvage the old world with the blood of the new? Why. that was Col. E. McCarthy Col. McCarthy of Vincennes. InU. Fulled TrlR-jrer Tirst. Or. would you know who fired the first 1 American gun? Easy: It was Sergt. Alexander Arch, and the sergeant signs : South Rend on hotel registers-, i Casualties? Well. you'll find Corp. James R. Gresham's emong the first j three names of the killed in action land the corporal hailed from Evansvllle. ( It was pleasant for members of the I Indiana Society of .CbN.'ago to consider these things last nigh? as they settled 'down to their fourteenth annual dinner in thvCongress hotel with the annual appetite materially sharpened. President Iindis had the pleasure. when desert was cleared away and the moving pictures brought on,-of seeing his aviator son. Reed Landis on the screen. A Hoosiar Ace. Eddffc Rickenbacher, the automobile racer who turned to flying and became an face, was another shown. Is it possible that Mr. Rickenbachcr is a Heosier, too? I'll, huh! So is Maj. Gen. W. G. Haan, who has led a division in almost every big battle 'of the last year. And look who else is here no less a one than Maj. Gen. Omar Rundy, who raised such Ned when the French general tried to get him to take his Tanks in out of the artillery rain and leave the field to the Germans! There was much cheering when Gen. Bundy's familiar figure appeared, for the general is from New Castle, Ind. WANTS 500,000 ' STANDING ARMY rRr T'n-iteo Press J . WASHINGTON, Pec. 9 The war department will soon ask congress to authorize a peace time standing army of half a million men. according to present plans. The department does not now contfmplate recommending universal military training These two facts were larned today from a high source close to both Secretary Baker and Chief of Staff March. No solution has been reached to the problem as to whether or not the national guard shall be reviewed or some other organization will replace It. Assistant Secretary of War Crowell and Quartermaster Gen. Goethals appeared before the house mil'tary committee today but confined their testimony to a plea for speedy passage of a bill to allow them to make settlement of contracts ruled illegal by Comptroller Warwick of tho treasury department. PEACE DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED By FRED FERGUSON (United Press Staff Correspondent.) PARIS. Dec. 0. The peace delegates of all the powers are expected to arrive here by the end of this week. The date for opening the preliminary conferences w-ill not be set until President Wilson arrives.' Paris is becoming more congested every hour. Hotels are jammed. Cots have been crowded into corridors and storerooms. Prices are sky-rocketing. Big electric signs are appearing. The reviving taxicabs are at a premium. So great is the change that Paris is almost on the verge of a panic. The authorities are trying to untangle the w-o-s: cable congestion on record. The me( nical problems of getting news of the peace conference to America are great. TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED IN BERLIN fUNTTitn Pr.rss Capi-foram. BERLIN'. Dec. 7 (Delayed) Twentyeibt persons were killed and fortyeight wounded in street fighting yesterday between government troops and forces of the Spattacus croup. Lake Co. must buy more W. S. S.

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HON. V. S. BETTER. Judge' V. S. Reiter, Potentate of Or ak Shrine of Hammond, with Imperial Potentate E. J. Jacoby of Indanapolis, 1 ead the earan in the' b!e Shrine ceremonial today. An allied victory pageant at Orak Temple, celebrating the part the Shrine played In the war was one o f the features.

EVES' UNDRESS Woman Doctor Lays Morals Court's Work to Half-Clad Girls. The dress, or rather, lack of dress of modern girls, keeps the morals court busy. Dr. Clara Seippel, Chicago city physician, told the Woman's Protective association. "Farents select the right school foe their children, supervise their education, provide money for movies and dancing schools and r.egieet to start thm on the right road to manhood and womanhood. Children of lo' today girls especially seem to be a different species from those of two decades ago. Go to School Half Naked. "We daughters of old-fashioned mothers knew very little of tho present causes or delinquency. W- dressed differently. Now gingham aprons have been replaced by the transparent blouse and children are sent out half-naked to school. "Girls in thin silk stockings, short skirts and low-cut blouses pretty well uncovered at both ends have met the curious glances of the boys and men. It makes them defiant ami leads to all sorts of e il. "Thus the usual remarks of a boy's mother, when she is confronted with the evidence of his sunt, is: 'Well, the girl must have -led him on'' " Buttons Quite Out of Style. Buttons, the physician said, appear to have gone quite out of style, for: "The girls who come to me for examination have to be unpinned all over. Some haven't a bjtton on their clothes. As a result a great deal of my time has to be unprofessionally employed in unpinning and pinning up these, children. "I suppose if It were the fashion, women would wear a G string ar.d call themselves dressed." MRS. PINCHOT . GETS DIVORCE BT U'NtTED PRF.FS NEW TORK, Dec. 9. Mrs. Amos R. Pinchot, wife of one of the founders of th Progressive party, has been granted an intcrloctory degree of divorce. Pinehot made no defense. Under the decree Mrs. Pincl.ot receives custody of her fourteen-year-old daughter and Pinchot is given the son. MEUNICH POLICE REMOVE FLAGS UviTEn Pp.ess CABr.Ecjr.AM.I COPENHAGEN. Dee. 5 Spattacus-j Ites broke up a non-so'-ialist meeting In Meunich and compelled police to j promise removal of all national flags, j The time is getting very short to' buy W. S. S. The Lake Co. quota j is $20 per capita. 1

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ft 'I GREAT SIGHTS AT SOUTH SIOE GYM Bill McAleer Is Going to Show His Rheumatic Knee in Gym Pants. A lot of Hammond men who haven't done anything more strenuous in ten years than push the self-starttr button on a gas bus are going in for this physical culture thing. At the South Side gymnasium in the First Presbyterian church tomorrow evening some of the ambitious athletes; will perform in a tournament being held under the direction of Roseoe Hcmstock, n. young man of many pal ts. Resides being an engaging conversationalist and tho prize story teller of Lake county. Ro.scoe is an amatfaur boxer, photographer. ifTtlutnza nurse and church worker. John Huchcl, who runs forty, miles an hour for three-quarters of a minutes, is (j perform for the. cdifn atioii of the multitude at the tourney and Bill McAleer will expose his rehumatic left knee in a pair of gymnasium trousers. E. G. Sproat and a Mr. Spurgeon are to fight or foot race, as the impulse moves tjietn. Then there is L. L. Eomberger. As an athlete, Roinberg'T is the champion political campaigner of Hammond. Judge Hardy, whose life is well insureij, has entered his name as a belligerent. In view of the personnel a number of physicians are planning to attend as there should be some l.ig fees in sight. Coffee, liniment, hot-dogs and bandages are to be served, the first and second for a nominal charge. The rrograrn of the tourney, as arranged by Mister Hcmstock, follows: Boys' relay race, girls' volley ball pame. ladies' volley bail game, boxing exhibition, men's handball, basketball and volley ball games and refreshments. Whether this last event will be competitive or not depends on whethe r there are enough hot-dogs to go around. At any rate it looks like a large evening and those who can bear the sight of mangled bodies are ur&ed to see the business and professional men's basketball game and boxing contests. RIOTING IN BERLIN. fUN'iTFO Press rABi.rnsAV I PARIS, Dec. ?. Chancellor Ebert' government is bringing more troops Into Berlin in p.n effort to crush the Spartacus movement which has now spread throughout the northern suburhs, according to a dispatch today. Pillagins continues, the dispatch says, especially in the population centers. fir. dispatch from Berlin declared Karl Liehknicht followers had organled a revolution. The reic'n-tag buildins is reported to lia been taken and the trouble appears to have Fpread to Meunbh Rh dy riots continue in Berlin. Another message says that allied Intervention in Prussia may save thi government.

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No Glue to Crime, Theory of Police Is That A, D Stewart Was Victim of Mistaken Identity. Bulletin. Th police have little to rcrk on. Their conviction that Stewart was mistaken for come one else has little support in actual evidence except for an incident reported, by a neighbor woman. The woman atatea that at 8 o'clock she left her home and was waiting opposite the Stewart residence for a street car. Tnere are no street lifhts for a block each way and it was dark. A man approached her, whose action aroused suspicion, and pointing- across the street, next door to Stewart's, asked: "Waoae house Is thatr" She informed it it was the residence of a Mr. Newell. "I thought so,' the man said. The police do not take any stock In this story, however. On the other hand some one may have seen &Zr. Stewart draw money which he left with his wife before returning' to town in the evening. It wiiV Mrs. Stewart's suggestion that be left the money home. "You mifht le robbed," she told him. In a pool of blood on the lawn a few feet from the steps of his home at 114 Conkey avenue, Archibald D. Stewart, for twenty years an accountant with the W. B. Conkey Co., of Hammond, was found with his noss broken and skull crushed, shortly after eight o'clock Saturday evening. Although regaining consciousness he was unable to tell any of the circumstances surrounding what appears to be a brutal and wanton murder. Stewart died three hours after he walked, supported by two policemen, into the house and his only words were, "I am done." NEIGHBOR DISCOVERS HEat. Antone Miller, living at 186 Conkey avenue, discovered his neighbor prone on the grass Just off the sidewalk. He called the police. An officer's flashlight revealed the face of the dying man in the darkness and Donald Stewart, aged 16, returning from the downtown district recognized the man as his, father. The character of the wounds indicate that Stewart was beaten by an assailant armed with a lead pipe, or a club. And the character of the man leads to the belief that he was a victim of mi?-, taken identity. THEORY Or THE POLICE. The theory of the police is that as (Continued on page three ) FIRST TO WELCOME U. S. PEACE PARTY ii 41 4 tlx JA a Urfl V iMr Wip i U. S. sailors wigwagging signals ' from shore. TVhen the liner George Washington steams near the harbor at Brest, France, the first welcome President Wilson and the rest of the peace delegation party will receive will come from the signal flags of the U. S. sailor lads on shore at the harbor. They will wigwag a greeting to the president and sharp-eyod lads with telescopes on board "the ship will receive the message and convey it to Wilson.

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