Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 154, Hammond, Lake County, 10 December 1918 — Page 1

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on i Casualty Lists Still Way Back Due Jo Muddles, Red Cross Resulted, WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The issuance of casualty lists by the War Department has been marked by inefficiency. The overseas' casualty office has not been equal to the task it faced. The complicated machinery for handling names makes it likely that the final rolls may not come before February and there are 120.000 names still to come. As Int.? as Nov. 15 reports of deaths were being telegraphed to 'lie next of k n on an average of one month afl't" the deaths actually occurred. At that, tune the statistical division hail death tables which hud been coming in for fourteen dajs aad had not I'fn n-Pii decoded. In the last week of Novcinbei tlie "War rcrattmrat had r spilal lists dating back to Septcmb r. guing the m.mcs of a groat many men vh had been Mounded, but had been h!e to r.po.t only a very small percentage of th eases to the next of. kin. An honeU a. temp has lxon 'made at home and abroad stnee Doe. 1 to speed up the reporting of casualties, but cable lists coming i.i even now contain initial r ports on soldiers who were seriously wnunikd ) as early in July. MORE THAW 100,000 KAUE3 BEHIND. It is evider.t that the casually lists ran not be completed before the middle of January an J probably not before K(b. 1 Secretary Baker and Gen. Peyton C March, chief of staff, were not well informed when chey told thefc Senate committee on military affairs last Tuesday .hat U cnsuallics would be known by Jan. 1. Careful inquiry at the casually office y.eals that 120. "no records still are to be reported from abroad and that the best the office can hope to do under the most favorable conditions is, to issue jn.nnn reports a week. Not so loop ago this office record was S.000 reports a ntfk. 16,000 MAJOB CASUALTIES YET. It Is true, as the "War Department formally announces, that only lS.onii major casualties still are to be finally reported but reports must yet be made , 104. "00 other soldiers whoso names have been given to the overseas office but have not reached this country. A month or two afro the office here w.s receiving only 1.10 names by rable each day but the transmission of reports has been so speeded up since ih-n that the office is now receiving from 4,000 to 5.000 names a day and on one day -last week it handled more than 7.009 names. To maintain the pace (Continued on rage six Milton D. Holmes, one of the early pioneers of Hammond and East Chicago, a member of the Grand Army of the 11':PiiPlic and a man well known in this renion. died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. K. Jackson, 45-8 Iiaring avenue. East Chicago, at 2 o'clock yesterday aft tinoon. pneumonia being the cause. Mr. .Holmes was ill only a few days. He was born In Cleveland. O., April S. 1S3?, making hit age at the time of his death "9 years, 9 months and one day. For a number of years he was a prominent contractor in Chicago, securing and carrying through to completion contacts for some of t,ie largest buildings put up at that time. For the past thirty years he has been resident in Hammond and East Chicago. About twelve years ago Mrs. Holmes died in Hammond and soon after her death came to East Chicago to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. There are two sons and five daughters in his family. The daughters, who surxive him are Mrs. H. ,J5. Jackson, 4.",2S Ksring avenue; Mrs. C. C. Smith, 4H2 Magoun avenue; Mrs. Merriliold. 4 112 Magoun avenue; Mrs. Ilruce Miller, 413S Haring avenue, and Mrs. Gus Jacobson, 405 Calumet avenue, Hammond. . Neither ut the sons is liing. The funeral with Undertaker Huber in charge will be held at the Congregational church tomorrow. Wednesday, at 2 o'clock. Rev. James Ostema of the Congregational church, preaching the sermon. The G. A. I!, will hold a ceremony at the grave. Hurial will be in Oak Hill cemetery, Hammond. Relatives will be present from SpringPld. Harrrpshre and rrincetcn. 111., and from Lowell, Ind.

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Popular Lad Azvaits Orders for New Trip ".-" 0 i ;-:-" 4 ?I s" 'V " .s!:" 41 S j RUSSEIili M. BARH.ON. I Russell M. Barron, a popular younjr i man in East Ghh aero. Hammond and i Gary, lias arrived in N'f.vi York from France. He is chief fireman on tho U. S. S. Santa Louisa and has made several irips to I'r.mcn. He is nwnitinp orders for r turn and is row takir.p rxamina- ' tion for eiipineer. Mr. ltarroix is a j brother of Mrs. Grant S'-oh y of Ham- , mond and li1. ed with b.is mother Mrs. ' Thos. Mos-, and brother Harry V. TJarroti. 4 V 1 5 Magoun avemio, Kat ''hieaco. He Is a member of the Lake Gounty Federation of Musicians. Crown Point Hotel Keeper to Rensselaer Friend Is Frank in Criticism of Mr. Wilson. CROWN FOINT. ' Ind.. De.-. 30. Does C. r. Tate, proprietor of th Commercial Hotel here Ring a caustic pen? Well, read for yourself the letter he wrote to his old friends, M,?e Leopold, of Rensselaer: "Crown Toint, Ind, Dec. 2, IMg. "Mr. Mose Leopold, Rensselaer. Ind. "Dear T-Iose: ""And Brutus says that Caesar wsa ambitious." I think it was Mark Antony. You know Mark was city at- : torney or deputy- prosecutor under J. Caesar, who said that Mark made a fine l.ttie speech, that has gone clown in history, hut I don't think he ever Convinced anybody that Junius hadn't been going through the honors of the day like a safeblower through a country postofficc, grabbing eerything in sight. Ever hogs. Mose? Believe me. a. hog is some ambitious. When it comes to ambition It seems to me that our Mr. Woodrow has them all beat. He's got Caesar looking like a pi!;er and p hog; like a dyspeptic, w ii.so (.hod too i.nnn. "Wilson's r.ll risht. He's good. He's too good. He's running this game. Sure he is. We don't object to that. We expect him to. Kut that don't let him count his white chips same as very-body else's blue one or let him open a pot on a pair of deuces. We t Continued on page six.) WILL ELECT SUCCESSOR TO E. M. Republican Workers Will Gather for Love Feast in Robertsdale Friday. Lake county republicans will have a combined love-feast and business meeting next Friday night in Robertsdale. All the committeemen and workers in the county are asked to be present, at Lundgron's Point Cafe at the corner of Indiana boulevard and Sheffield avenue at 7 p. m. Secretary John Killigrew of the republican county central cctrimittee urges a big attendance. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a successor to E. Miles Norton, who will, on this occasion, resign as county chairman, because of his appointment to the circuit bench. Pat Lynch, clerk of the Supreme court, and "Deacon" Roach, Secretary State, will be the speakers of the evening and the business of the meeting will be followed by a love-feast and dinner. ,A general invitation to all the republicans of the county is extended.'

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DENIES THE s Br Vnitf.r Press. i WASHINGTON". c. lu. Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the senate for- ' cin relations committee and Prof. Albert lJushntll Hart, Harvard univ:rsit. i today branded as false and unwarranted the efforts of German propagandists to connect them with the German intrigue in the United States before this country I entered the war. Hitclicocii's d'nial was i delivered to the seniite. while Harfs was made before the senate oinniitte e inj vestiKatinp- propaganda. Hitchcock reIf. rred to the letter dated July 22. U15. r ad into the records by A. Uruec Hiel- i axkl of the departm-nt of justice, in I w hich the German consul in Chicago said Hitchcock vioulJ aid in a movement to get an embargo on arms shipmfctits to the allies. Hitchcock declared he introduced the bill protesting against exportation - of j t " , ; - . . - t.mi letter was written. The measure was defeated 36 to 51. "JIv stand wai taken in 1014 s an American for neutrality," Hitchcock! said. "The" Germans in America were supporting, but I never attended their conferences, the senator added. "In those days the country was under a . . .i piouige or neiuramy vi xiii-.nr vj. i prt" sident's proclamation made when the j i war broke out. Vc should no doubt i 1 have remained neutral if German- had ) i i:ot by a series of outrages mado oar attitude difficult and then impossible." j "My Ettitude naturally changed with hangintc conditions. I stood first for a strict peaceful and Impartial neutrality even to the extent of selling no arms and ammunition and lending ho money to either side. "Next, wh"n Germany began a systematic raid on our commerce I -was rady to fight to rroteet our neutrality." He sr.ld he authorized President Wilson's proposal to arm merchant ships. He sail he was author of the armed neutrality resolution which died in the senate en March 4. 1017. "When a morth later the issue was changed from reutiality to war I had charge of the declaration of war and like other Americans had passd from peaceful neutrality to war." He said he did not wish to critic e Fieski but was under the belief tl-.at t li German agents used'rechlessly the names of many public men. He added they reached the height of RbsurditT when they implicated Prof Hart as one of their conspirators. "In my case they knew I refused t- Join their work and I decjined as an American to associate, myself with those who became rartisan? of Germany."' Trof. Hut. appearing, before -the committee at h.s own request, put into the record more than one hundred magaine. articles from his pen, showing, he said, that his attitude had been anti-German. WOULD BAN SUCH NAMES AS 'SHEENY' AND 'WOP' Br Vxitkd Pnr's WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. The department of the interior, bureau of education, is trying to discourage the use of nick names especially designating certain cfasses of foreign born Americans. "Dago." 'Kike,' "Wop,"' and similar names main no hit w-lth the-board of education, which maintains that such distinctions tend to promote lines of cleavage between American born and Americanized foreign born persons and groups. The bureau is sending out a suggested .form for a pledge to refrain from the use of such names. Schoeds an dfactories will be supplied wih the proposed pledge, so that American children and adults may stop to think of the undesirabillty of making sport of anybody because he was not born in this country. WANTS ORDINANCE INVESTIGATION IHt 1'NtTEr Press. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Senator Poindexter, Washington, today introduced a resolution for investigation of the ordnance and headquarters department by the senate military affairs commit-i tee. Hinting at questionable activities which he. intimated might have delayed production of guns and shells for the army. Poindexter said that, "if some traitors and spies had been executed in the early days of the war the lives of better men might have been saved." BILL TO REG.ULTE THE PACKERS IBt I'm'ted Press. WASHINGTON. Pec. 10. A bill proposing drastic regulation of the American, meat packing industry was Introduced la the house today by Chairman Sims of the house interstate commerce committee. It embraces the plan for federal control of refrigerating cars, refrigerating plants and other facilities recently suggested by the federal trade com mission. The time is getting very short to buy W. S. S. The Lake Co. quota is $20 per capita.

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IS STILL A MYSTERY ' A motive for the ruthless murder of A. L. Stewart In front of his home at j j 114 Gonkey avenue. Saturday evening j i was entirely lacking today as the po-j l,i e continued their in estimation of i the shocking ei:m. I S Discovery of aa Iron splice, twelve j ' inches in lenRth and welshing ten I ! pounds, lyinp; in the yard between the j j Stewart and John Newell residences , j strengthened the conviction of the po- ! lice tbwt Stewart was struck on the i l.u-l.' .f fli. li.l Yt- i t li a liaw l.l-irif fractured ht. ' aknll . . . , ,, , , . and caused him to fall, bretklns his i noji on the. sidewalk. The theory that Stewart was misl taken for John Newell, proprietor of the tax'.cab company and his neighbor, I has been exploded, the police declare. It was at first thougnt that some . , driver Newell had discharged might! ... . , . ' . . , " . colored by the statement that a ing Tor a car r.nd pointing across tne street N5tled. "tl'hn lives there?' The " . 1 ICL'1 W. IIlilL 15 :,L! . .CVni3 ., j ' i It is now known that the "stranger ' was merely Attorney H. E. Granger, who desired to see Mr. Newell on business. AUTOMOBILE CHIME Auto Hits Pedestrian Burnham Road and Leave's Him. 9 on William Cl.nton of East Chicago, while driving 'an East Chicago Taxi to Burnham on Sunday along' the Burnham road found an unidentified man lying in the middle of the road. He. ins taken to St. Margaret's hospital, -where it. was found that he had shotUler broken and his skull frar-iu-jed end was bruised r.bout the body. Later he died of his injuries. The mrt who had evidently been hit by an automobile and left alone to" die had some papers in his pockets signed with the name of James Frank Cahill and the address of 1S0O West 32nd street, Cleveland. Ohio. He was about 35 years old. weighed ISO pounds, hid blue eyes, brown hair and were, ihen found, a black shirt, black pants and a black overcoat, and had two gold teeth in the upper left hand side of his mouth. The remains are at Burns' morgue awaiting Identification. STUDYING S. A. SITUATION fBr Exited Press. WASHINGTON. Dec. lo.S;ate department officials are to make a detailed study of the Peru-Chile controversy as a diplomatic preparedness measure. It was learned today. The Latin-A riierica n bureau of the department of commerce made a. report today dscribing the Tacna-Arica region as of little economic value with an area of S.6S8 square miles. The railway over which -Bolivia imported goods valued at J30.000.00 in 1915 was declared to be the object. In 1914 statistics show that thirtyfour retail houses witti a tota" capital of $39,100 wero'Chilean owned and 104 firms with a capital ft I2&3.10O were Peruvian owned. STILL AFTER HARRY THAW Br I'nitkd Press. NEW VOKK, Dec. 10. An appeal for extradition of Harry K. Thaw from j Philadelphia to face the charge of kidnapping and assault in New York will be made to Governor-Elect Smith when he takes office January 1. District Attorney" Swan announced today. Thaw is under indictment here on the charges of kidnapping and assaulting in the case of Frederick Gump ot Kansas City COUNT KAROLYI ATTEMPTS LIFE fTNiTEO Press Cablegram. AMSTERDAM. Dec. 10. Count Karolyl, the Hungarian premier, attempted to commit suicide Sunday, according to a dispatch today. He Is said to have been brooding over the political situate . WILSON CALLS THE CABINET (Bt L'nited . Press. WASHINGTON. Dece. 10. President Wilson has tailed a meeting .of , the cabinet by wireless this afternoon, it was announced at the White House today. At his request Vice-President Marshall will preside at lln conference between the heads of the exeutive. branches of the government. . Lake Co. must buy more W. S. S.

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S V'V SERGE NT Adams anad two rifle Sergt. Harry T stopped 3T5 Germans in the heavy fighting in the St. Mihiel salient. This photograph, the first to reach this country, shows Adams just after he had turned in his Hun prisoners and 01 UISSIIGJN ACTIOS On Day Armistice Was Signed Paul,Goyke Disappeared. An official message rrom the War Department was received lata yesterday announcing that Paul Goyke. ton of Mrs. Anna Goj kc. 214 164th place, West Hammond, had been missing in action since N'o. 11, the day the armistice was signed. Paul Goyke, pianist and leader of the orchestra of the Hammond Orphcum Theathcr, was Inducted into service April 26 and owing to the fact that lie was a pigeon fancier ws sent abroad after two months training, reaching Franc July 9. The Hammond musician ttas a pigeon trainer with headquarters company, 35ilh infantry, and in the bt. ; Mihiel sector for three months. i Ipa letter written Nov. 9 Paul said! that as he v.as the only member of the I company who played piano he spent many hours each day plaj ing in the huts. Mrs. Go'yke was in Minnesota when the telegram arrived yesterday and it has been forwarded to her. Paul's father died some months ago. The Goyke family is a family of musicians. Clem Goyke, organist at DeLuxe Theater. Lieut. Albert C.olke. Julius and John are the brothers of Faul. LIEUT. MURRAY IS SEVERELY WOUNDED Over Two Months Elapse Before War Department Advises Anxious Wife. Another inexplicable evidence of the j 'Inefficiency of the Mar Department in sending news of casualties of American j soldiers is noted in the case of. Lieut. ' Charles A. Murray, whose wife was Miss Florence Shea. , Mrs. Murray was notified today that her husband was severely wounded while in action on Oct. 3 in the Argonne, and a week over two months has elapsed since then. Sh.e ; has cabled Jind her cables have been ignored. Lieut. Murray was in Co. H, riOTth Infantry, 77th Division. . DJESJN DENVER Jesse Brennan Victim of Influenza in Colorado Friday. Jesse Brenneman. formerly of Hammond, died at his home in Denver Friday, Dec. 6. of Spanish influenza after a short illness. Mr. Mr. Brenneman. who is well known in Hammond, worked at the Erie offices for five years and leaves many friends. He leaves to mourn him a wife and two children, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Brenneman of Fort Myers, Fla., a brother, Roscoe. and a sister, Ruth, of Hammond. The remains were shipped to Columbia City. Ind.. to be buried in their family lot. Help 'the government to pay its debts by Stamps. buying War Savingj

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d Two Lone Rifle Bag of 375 Hun Prisoners t I C' 9 PUBLIC INFORMAVOH. T AOAMS tucked a receipt for them in.his pocket He said he deserved no particular praise because the American style of fighting had disheartened the boche end that mpny of them were only too willing to surrender. That Is Adams story. MRS. POTTS GIVEN : S5WQ ALIMONY Wife of Mill Superintendent Secures Divorce in Judge Hardy's Court. - Olive B. Totts. wife of the superintendent of the rolling mills of the Inland Steel company and a resident of Indiana Harbor, today was granted a decree of divorce and ISO.OO alimony by Judge Hardy in the Superior courf at Hammond. Her eldest son, Elton, aged 21. is to receive a thousand dollars a year for seen years. The couple was married March 12, 1SS5, at Steubenville, O. Attorney W". J. j Murray appeared for Mrs. Potts and At torney Dyer for the defendant. S. A. TO BE GOOD CUSTOMER IBt Vnited Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. The best 'hunting ground" for after the r trade will be in South America, SpeRker Champ Clark told the southern commercial congress here today. He cited the fac that before the war Germanywas America's second best customer and commented that If the rumor that Germany is to be excluded from world trade ts true the I'nited States will have less trade than-before the war. "South America." he said, "offers the next best opportunity. It is at our ery door." E. C. WEEKS MADE COMMANDER Wm. H. Calkins Post G. A. R., department ofIndiana. at a regular meeting, election of officers for 1919. resulted as follows: Post Commander Edward C. Weeks. Senior Vice Commander Asa Robinson. Junior Vice Commander Thomas Williamson. Chaplain Comrade Woods. Quartermaster Clark Johnson. Officer of the Day Charles Levene. Officer of the Guard Hyram Dolin. Patriotic Instructor George Streeter. BOLSHEVIK STORM BREWING H'NiTKo Press Cablegram. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10 -Bolshevik at Mcunich broke up a hieeting of the democratic party, stormed a brewery and tore dowrr German flags, accord ing to advices received here today. I Uolsheism . is said to he spreading through, Havana. ROLL0FHONOR Til following Xaks county men, both from Indiana Harbor. ar la tha day's casualty list of Oen. Pershing's BSN FOTZSTA, 4110 Euclid it., Indiana Harbor; reported In Times. LOOTS KOWASKI, 3615 Cedar St. Ind. Harbor; reported in Times. Both men had been reported by friends as severely wounded prior to the receipt of tho war department's newspaper report. EMBARGO ON HOGS. Br T'vited Press. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. The railroad administration today declared a two-day embargo on hog shipments to j the I'nion StocK lards in Chicago. The embargo i effective today. Lake County's work is not done till she has bought more W. S. S.

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Revolutionist Says "We Refuse Peace With Eotenle," According to Zurich Dispatch (United Press Cap eor.m,1 COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10. A desperate but unsuccessful attempt was made by the former Kaiser to commit suicide, it is declared by the Leipsiger Tagablatt. The newspaper says it received its information from a German staff officer who was wounded in frustrating Wilhelm..MARTIAL LAW IN BERLIN. Cxited Press i'abi .kgram. PARIS, Dec. 10. "We refuse peace with the entente and intend to overthrow the present government," Karl Liebknecht, leader of the German bolsheviki, declared in a proclamation issued in Berlin, according to a Zurich dispatch. Martial law has been proclaimed i in Berlin, the dispatch said. j POTSDAM COUNTER REVOLUTION United Press Oahleiram. HAMBURG, Dec. 9 (Delayed). The counter revolution of Potsdam is in full swing, according to reports received here today. It is also reported that the main army I nas esiaousnea neaaquarters in Berlin and is refusing tft flrknowledge the authority of the work men's and soldiers' council. Bolshevist attempts to establish a coup d'etat in Hamburg was frustrated last night. RADICALS WITH GUNS IN STREET ri"N!TEt Press Cable iram. BERLIN, via Berne, Dec. 10. Demonstrations by. the Spartacus group continues. Karl Liebknecht in an automobile with machine guns .leads the processions of radicals through the streets. The Spartacusites demand arrest of the ! Hohenzollerns, Von Hindenburg and Bethmdlin Hollweg. MAYOR DROWN TO. NAME COMMITTEES I Mayor Brown of Hammond expected j tomorrow to have the personnel of the l committees to represent the cities of ! Hammond. Gary, East Chicago. Indiana J Harbor and Whiting in the sanitary dijtrict movement. At a preliminary meelR.jing Saturday the mayor, who acted a chairman, as instructed to appoint a committee on legislation and a committee on ways and means, the ilrst to determine the legal status and the second the advisability of a sanitary district. It was advocated at the meeting that each city treat Its seage before emptying it into the river. The dredging of the river by the government and connecting it with the Sag canal are looked upon as inevitable. Mayor Brown will name one man from each city on each committee. HE WANTS A GUN. ri'MTFD Press Cablep.ram.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 9. The former crown jjrice has decided not to receive visitors unless he is permitted by the Dutch authorities to carry a revolver. it was learned here today. That h still regards himself as an interned soldier is proved by his desire to appear in uniform during a trip here to viit a dentist. A special German cook has arrjved at the crown prince's isle. Hi fs said to have declared he would die f he, were compelled to eat food rooked "ft la Dutch." MAKNG IT TOUGH ,F0R THE HUNS ri'NiTED Press Cari.eo.ram. LONDON. Dec. 10 The Hritish ad miralty confirmed the additional terms announced yesterday in Berlin These terms included the .--ime,rot &U allied mere-hunt vessel - in German ports fully eoaled pnd j: visioned as well as German war sh under construction.