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VOL. in, X0. 6.

INTERN'ATIOVAt, NEWS FULL. LEASED WIRE SEUVICR.

MARCH lo, 11)19. TWELVE PAGES.

Income Tax Is Now Due

SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION jj

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SOLDIERS AND

SAILORS

FATHERS BILL FOR

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Anyway! Grace and Myrtle Discuss the Blonde-Brunette Kissing Question With Booze Reporter.

"DRY" HEAD

HOW GERMANS DELIBERATELY DESTROYED FRENCH FACTORIES? SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THE PEACE CONFERENCE

lli PRESIDENT

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North Dakota Congressman i Says U. S. Owes Debt to: Soldiers and Will Intro-:

due Bill.

Fy BAST J. CAMP3EII j I. ST. S. Steff Correspondent.) j WASHINGTON, March 15. A bill providing that all American: soldier, sailors and marines who; served in the late war receive one: year's additional pay from the timej of their discharge from active j service, will be presented to the next congress by Rep. Baer, inde-j pendent Republican, of North Da-j kota, he stated today. j "I have indisputable evidence; that an overwhelming number ofj discharged soldiers, especially;

those with dependents, are in pressing need of funds to reinstate!

them in civil life." Baer declared. DELAY IN PA7MSST. He said that hi'- attention has been

i o.:id to an Increasing delay in the ray- ; m-nt to discharged service men of tho , jmi bonus to which they were entitled ; by a provision of the revenue bill pass- j U during the final of the. last couj press. To securo this bonus, the ex-sol- I ilier. the ex-sailor and the ex-marine j must mail his application for it. with ! lis dicbargc rrers. to an agency in j Washington o? the war department. In- ! dcr such a sstm. weeks are likely to J . lapse before a check for $60 is received j hy discharged service men who have re- j turned to parts of the country rcmo-.e from Washington, j DEBT TO SOLDICKS. j 'The American nation ow es a debt to ! j soldiers, sailors and marines which j must bo raid-' Baer continued. "Aro I to continue to permit men who 1 fnustht and bled under the American flag to be entangled :n red tape? A grav? : i- ponsibility rests upon congress. The Inst congress failed to enact Important ! '-gislatlon affecting the immediate and j future welfare of those who saw service j in the war. Let us trut lh3t the next 1 congress, w ill speedily pass such lcgls-j i'ion. 1 j Baer Isaid h would also introduce in l t'r next congress wtilch would (tral'yt multiply the opportunities of dlscharg.-d I service men from vocational cccupa-! tlons. !

THK girls are. just naturally stirred up over that Hoston tooth shark who said it was dansrous to kiss blondes. The state line booze traffic being a little dull, the editor running his hand through the place where the hair used t' be. sent the bioic reporter out to git a little interview. Grace and Myrtle were quite ready to discuss the Question of kissing, any hour in the day or night. "Huh, What do you know about this poor, misguided dentist in Hoston what says kissin' blondes ain't good for the system that it's ruinous to the health more'n kissin" brunettes. What do you think of a poor fish Hke that?'' The blonde stenographer stopped erasing a, misspelled word long enough to query the brunette tiling clerk along these lints. Just a Poor rich. "Why. CriiO''," said Myrtle, the brunette filing clerk. "He isn't a misguided fish at all. The paper says he is lr. John W. Kenny, and is very prominent in Boston. He must know what he's talkin' about when he says brunettes is safer." "Oh. well.' this from Grace. "Somebody's always taken a fall out'en us blondes. I bet a" set o' Follies tickets this guy is married and that his wife is figurin' on bein' a brunette this season, and he's trying to grt off well on both feet. Either that or he's been disappointed by fomo blonde. I. for one, would never marry a dentist anyhow. Wouldn't Tbat Be rise. "And he says.' says Grace, warming up to her subject, "that no daine should let a man kiss her without first knowing the condition of her e.eth and gums, and his'n. too. That's sure a rich mouthful. Picture, a swell guy askin' mo to Hiss ihtin --weJ-W lt-r-eMr .harrew. lis Smarty and ma opening his mouth and lookln' at his teeth like I wuz buying a horse. "And then I should ask him to have his upper molar crowned or something, and then bring a certificate from his dentist saying as how there Is no danger from peoria or pie-or-ia or whatever It Is this Boston dentist is yelpind about." "If he was a gent h'd do It; that is. if he thought anything of you or himself," said Myrtle. Ready to Take Chance. "Tps, he would.' snapped Grace. "Can you see this guy. if he wanted the kiss right away waiting for this dentist's O. K. and takin' a chance o' me changing my mind. 'And as for brunettes being safe that's funny. I know some men that say it ain't safe to kiss no girl blonde or brunette." "Or only peroxide." added Myrtle, with a sarcastic sniff.'

Sheriff Finds Illlicit Still on Plantation Operated and Partly Owned by Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League. (By International New Service.) MONTGOMERY. Ala.. March 15. Sheriff P. C. Hubard of Lowndes county and two deputies have seized a fifteen gallon illicit still on the plantation operated and partly owned by Dr. Pcrly U. Baker, superintendent of the AntiSaloon League of America, near Hajneville. In that county. Three quarts of whiskey and forty gallons of mash were destroyed by the sheriff. Jvhn Roberts, a negro, is under arrest, charged with operating the still. Under the new Allen law, the Baker plantation, as the site of an illicit still can be seized t,nd eold by the state, one half of the proccedo to go to the sheriff of the county. if the sheriff rrcsses the case, as it is reported he will do, the Baker property will be the second subjected to such proceedings in tho slate under the law which Eupt. Baker was Iirgely instrumental in having passed.

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Bulletin. (By International Kewe Serrlce.) NEW YOBK, March 15. With reference to netrepeper storiee that tho leag-ae of cations Is not b In. eluded In the peace treaty, Joseph P. Tumulty, Eeoretarjr to the president, who was here today, gave out the following statement: "X cabled direct to the president at Paris asking him If there was any truth In these reports and Z am this morning in receipt of a cable from the president stating- that tho plenary council has positively de. cideel that the league of nations is to be part of the peace treaty; that there is absolutely no troth In any report to the contrary.

German soldiers destroying the machinery of a silk mill owned by 51. Cattelmain, at Bonssieres, near Cambral

struction was wilful and deliberate, and was carried out at the behest of German manufacturers, who took this opportunity to destroy their competitors. Much

Machinery in French factories worth millions of dollars was wantonly destroyed by the Germans durinp their occupation cf the invaded territory. This de-

photorrraphic evidence on the same order as that shown above has been gathered by the French fcr the consideration of t reace conference.

MAYOR BROWN

HAMMOND COP

FOLAND CALLS A

FINED FOR ASSAULT

SPECIAL SESSION

Crown Point Circuit and Commissioner Courts Are Busy.

ISPECiAt. To The Tives. CROWN POINT. TNP.. March 15. County Auditor (Jcore !r. Folantl will call a special session cf the Lake oounty couricil to make an appropriation for the enumeration of all voters in "Lak-1 cotfiUy. 1919 beinff the year when tills Stakes place. The township trustees of Lake county takes the census of the voters and it is necessary (hat the County Commissioners establish the compensation to TKe paid then). The township trustees will proceed with the enumeration as provided hy law, on per capita of persons enumerated. The

township trustees of Calumet and North townships will receive C cents and Ho-

, bart, Ross, St. Johns, Hanover, Center,

Winfleld, West, Ea&le and Cedar Creeks will receive 7 cents. The enumeration takes place every fi years. OAST MAN OH TRIAL. Special To The Times. CROWN POINT, Ind. March 15. II. .v Barr wl'l act as special judi?e in the ease of State of Indiana vs. Jim Alvis, a Uary man charged with assaulting Anna Gileott Pappas of 1705 Pierce St., Gary, a 16 year old girl. Albls Is out on a $3,000 bond. The case will be tried next Friday in the Juvenile court.

Policeman Jos. Ulandowski Found Guilty in First of Blackjack Suits.

Of icer Jok Ulandowski, of the West Hammond police department, was yesterd iv fined 510 and costs by Judge McKce at Oak Park for assault and battery upon Jack Kollin?. KoilinK testified that Ulandowski had "sapped" li)in wjithuut provocation. Chief of Police Nitz was present and advised Ulandowski to appeal the case. Hond was liled for the appeal.

NOBILITY'S ESTATES ARE BEING CUT UP (By International News Service.) GENEVA, March 15. In accordance with a ia w passed by the new Socialist

government of Hungary the irreat landed , estates of the nobility are beinj? cut up and the ground is bein distributed to! the workmen. The estate of Count!

Karolyi. famous Hungarian statesman, was one of 'he first to be divided up. said advice? from Budapest today. Conditions in Austria are growing worse. Meatless'Veeks have been intro-fi-T.-rvi imi the lack of coal Is interfering erlously with railway traffic.

PINE STREET TO DEDICATE NEW CHURCH Tho new Pine st. Presbyterian church of Hammond, which the members have worked so faithfully to get the money for. will be dedicated tomorrow. The church, which is a fine brick finished building with a capacity of 600 people, cost with the lots it was built on $24,500. It has a large basement for social service. The morninR and evening sermon will be preached by the Rev. Andrew C. Z.-nos. P. D.. LT. D. At the 5:00 o'clock service five minute t?lWs will be, given by pastors of Hammond churches and visitinsr ministers. The pastor. Rev. Mahlon II. Krauss. sinco beins: called June 1st. 1919. has worked bard with the rest of his flock to raise the nloney necessary to complete the payment of the church.

TO ORGANIZE MOTORBIKE CLUB At the Hammond Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evenintr a local motorcycle club will be organized. Riders or prospective riders are Invited to be present.

WILL ARREST DRIVERS Beginning next Monday. Chief Austcen of the Hammond police department has issued orders to nil his officers to arrest all drivers of automobiles hleh have not their 1313 license.

OBJECTS TO CAFE SINGERS

Through the office e.f Mayor Dan Erown have come complaints about the entertainment offered at the Hammond Automobile Show in Liberty Hall which clones this eveninr. Manager George Knoerzer in reply to the objections today stated that he was amazed and chagrined and felt sure that the people who protested to the mayor had not attended the. shower thev would praise instead of crltlcz". Mr. Knoerr.er assured Sam Hare, manager of Colisimo's Arrowhead Inn who has provided the entertainment free of charge, that great majority of the people appreciated the performances. 31 KTROPOL.IT A OPF.R SINGERS. In fairness to the automobile show t must be said that the entertainment has been splendid and of the highest order. Isst evening the hall was packed with an audience that listened In rapt attention lo selections from the operas by artists of quality. The mirfed quartette from Colisimo's was made up cf singers who have appeared with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. They began an engagement in the cafes after the close of the opera scascn. "We donated our services to the auto show." stated Manager Hare. ' because the automobile public are patrons of ours and we desired to show them this courtes." MtVOB ATTEDS SHOW. Mayor Brown paid the auto show a !sit last n.ght after telephoning; tbout the objections, but did not stayto hear the. entertainment. Mr. Knoer?er stated. Exhibitors resent the fact that their show should be criticized merely because the entertainment was secured from the cafes. "Suppose I brought a girl act from a vaudeville house with a lot of halfdressed women and no talent?" suggested Manager Knoerzer. "Or had a woman In white tights play an accordion and sins in a squeaky voi'-c? Or preeentfd sme low comedians or a vampire moving picture." Instead we had singers and they were artists and I wish that people who knock a local affair would see it and know what they are talking about before they start to use the hammer." The rain this afternoon failed to dampen the ardor of the exhibitors who prepared for the bis closing night. A ten pitce orchestra will play and in addition local talent has been secured, including a string quartetteKxh;bitors report many sales and declare that In attendance, business and enjoyment the thow has been a great and glorious success.

GOODRICH

SIGNS THE COURT BILL

(By International News Serrlce.) ! INDIAXAPOLIS. Ind.. March 15. !

GARY LOSES TO STRONG CONTENDERS

THREE SURVIVORS OF

CIRCUS WRECK RETURN

Gov. Goodrich tiday sigtied several sen-j

ate and house bills passed by the recent

Stecia!, To The Times LAFAYETTE. Ind.. March 13. Jefferson, one of the powerful contenders

for the Indiana high school basket tall; championship, defeated Emerson, of

to 15 in a close

State That Mrs. Hattie McCree Will Be An Invalid for Life.

i Gary, this morning 21

al- aiid exciting match

this ofternoon. i

I The

session oi in? eiait; irgisiaiuit. auu ai -i

lowed several others to become law j called at S

without his signature. The time in which the governor may act on the bills still before htm expires t midnight tonight. Chief among the measures signed hy

the governor is the senate bill creati;!; T"e schedule for today

a live stock sanifary board and a veleri- SCOEITIITG

nary examining t'oaru. 111 aiu Miit'i S 00

the bill providing for a commission on

child welfare and social legislation.

The criminal court bill, giving Crown Point a criminal court also got his signature. It is reported that Martin J. Smith will be the new judsre.

game

Three survivors of the KagenbachWallnce circus wreck between Gary and

j Hammond last June, are at the Ham- ' mond Orpheum Theatre today and toi morrow. Thev are Mr. and Mrs. Chas.

jand Crawfordsvilio will meet at 2 o'clock j Hooncy and Miss Elizabeth Kock, bare

back riders.

was

Craw fordsvilie dls-

to 1. Jefferson

By JOHN XDWZZT NEVUS (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent. i

PARIS, March 15. President j Wilson will issue an official state -i ment later ia the day on behalf of the American peace delegation

denying that the Americans ever even considered the proposition of separating the league of nations from the peace treaty. The position of the American delegation is that, when the first session of the conference was held, the program provided that the league of nations constitution be an integral part of any peace treaty. This action was made final and approved by the" entire conference. ; The American delegates hold that the league of nations matter has been entirely settled and that therefore It be the nrst feature incorporated in any peace treaty, preliminary or otherwise.

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Jeffersovj vs. Emerson tGar). j Crawf ords vil'o s. Logansport. ! Kokumo vs. Blooinington. j Winner Thorntow n - Huntington ( s. Columbus-Rochester. j APTXBNOON. I

lnn-r at s a. m. Saturday vs

1s as follows:! Mrs. Kooncy'a sister, Mrs. Hattie

McCree, ia an invalid as the result of

the wreck. Mrs. McCree's back was broken and after several mouths in St. Margaret's hospital she was taken to her home In Toledo. O., by hr husband. Keno McCree. whose foot was smashed and back injured. The McCrees have not received a

Saturday. j renny jtrom the railroad company, Mrs. Saturday vs. ! Hooney statV Just making their start Saturday. i irl they had not saxed enough money

! to keep them and feel the v are entitled

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to some recompense, from the railroad j noon e went to the hotel Crillon for

company.

Student Body and Faculty!

Gather in School Hall to Show Their Regard.

i dfeatd Columbus twenty to slx-

Teachers and pupils of the Hammond Industrial High School yesterday afur-; noon gave a demonstration for Mr. and: Mrs. Frank V. McElroy, the retiring', principal and his w ife. Mr. Mciilroy j will take the position of assistant super-j tendent of the public schuois at llock-j ford. 111., the first of April. I Mr. and Mrs. McElroy were presented ! with a main gany chair, a tea pot and J

a ca-sserole by th teacners ana rupus. The pupils sung songs adapted for the occasion by Miss Reynolds, supervisor of music. Mr. McElroy made a short taik thanking the teachers and pupils for their kindness and stated that lie deep I y

apprcciajed the loyalty of the pupils j and patrons during his ten and a half j

years as principal oi ine n.-immonu nigti School.

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GERMAN FINANCIERS HOLD A MEETING (By laternatloual News serrica.) BERLIN'. March 11. VIA COPENHAGEN ANT) LONDON, March 15. At a meeting of financiers today, with Count von Eernstorff. former German ambassaiAr to the L. S. presiding, a demand wal made for the applicai.on of President Wilson's fourTXVU points to German economic problems and tho immediate establishment of credits abroad. Protest was made against the setting up of a separate state In Rhenish Prus-

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w inner at 9 3. m. 3 :"' "Winner r.t 9 a. m. w inner at 10 a. m

ITIOHT. JFinals. ?:0fl Winer at 2 p. m. Saturday vs

winner at 3 p. m. Saturday. j Chas. Rooney, his wife and sister, Plr.ominKMn was assured a place ' were in the front end of the last of the in the smi-tinals of the state hJsfn ; wooden " circus sleeping cars through school basketball meet w hen they de- ; which the engine of the dead-head equlpfrated Kokom.j t wctif -three to four- -nt train plow ed Engineer Sargent teen j t-slecp at the throttle. Thorntown will meet Eloomlngton j These three were not even thrown at three o'cloc k In the semi-finals of i frcm thir berths and received no Inth lat- basketball meet, they havinsr ; juries. Mr. and Mrs. McCree. also bare-

! back riders with the lug Rooney act, i were farther bfick in the same coach. ! The front of the engine, stopped a few ' feet from them. A score or more occu- ! rants of that coach were killed outright, j burned lo death, or died of injuries, j Chas. Rooney v.a. r- l rn-d for a after the accident to be among .he miss-

" s are playing in vaudeville this j season." stated Mrs. P.ooney, "in the hopes that we can forget about the hor

rible wreck.

"When we came to Hammond today,"

said Miss Elizabeth Rooney. "it cams back to mind as though It had Just hapraned. I could see the half-clothed men, covered with blood and burned flesh.

crawling on the cind i s about that fun- j eral pyre, crying like animals, unable!

I to walk because of broken limbs. And j icers of the , t could hear the agonized voices calllnar'

Central Labor Union of Lake county ffrorn lhe wreckage as the names reached! w ereinstalled at the last meeting of the j helpless victims. ' organization as follows: -Poor Mrs. .Tosenb I'nvl. I

babies were burned to death in the car!

ession of the suprem xror

council this afternoon. President Wilson was given all information concernir.g the work accomplished by the council in his absence. This covered all terms for Germany that have been tentatively decided upon. President Wilson, it Is known, is anxious to take up not only the terms for Germany, but also thess that will be given Austria. Turkey and Bulgaria. It Is believed these latter terms will be framed in the next three or four days. President Wilson -was busv everr minute today. Most of the morning h was dealing nUh a mass of correspond-

ivpuns inat awaited him. At

OFFICERS INSTALLED BY

CENTRA

LABOR UNION

Labor H.

Body Chooses Fred! Dietrich for its j President. !

The recently elected

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HOW TIMES ADS. WORK IN GARY The People's Hardware Co., 666-674 Broadway, Gary, inserted an advertisement in The Times, featuring Cyphers Incubators. This morning the firm ordered the advertisement discontinued in a letter stating: "Kindly cancel our ad on Cyphers Incubators as our stock on same is exhausted." The Times covers Lake county and incubators are used largely by farmers. The People's Hardware Co. knows how to advertise.

President Fred H. Pedtrick. Secretary V. U. Huddleston. Financial Secretary and Treasurer Howard Lock. Headquarters of the new central labor body embracing every trades and labor in the county, including the iron and steel workers organizations will be at Gary, but meetings will be held in rotation at East Chicago and Hammond. Constitution and by-laws of the district iron and steel workers have been adopted from the different lion and steel lodges in the district and officers will be elected the first of April. Four hundred members of the new lodge of railway clerks are expected when the new union is complete.

FUNERAL OF MISS NAGDEMAN The funeral of Miss Ros Nagdenian, who died at her home on Michigan avenue. Indiana Harbor yesterday, will be held from Wienstien and Nierman chapel at 3fi West T2th street, Chicago. Monday noon sharp. Interment will be in Waldheim cemetery.

from which we escapeu. "Before that wreck I always felt so safe on a train, but now at night every stop and start awakes me. Just because the performers who weren't injured went

mustn

forget that terrible thins- so easily."

conicrence with the other American delegates. At 3 o'clock he attended the supreme war council. The president spent the past 24 hours "catching up." In addition to securing information for his own use he has been questioned by the French and British representatives on a number of big questions that have arisen In his absence in ordor to get his views. It was expected that Premier Orlando would meet the president on Frldav f-

ever, it was expected that Presid.r.t Wilson would confer with the Italian statesman today or Monday at the latest. The German terms are the most urgent matter on hand while the Italians are concerned mostly with Austria and Scrvia. It is believed that the conference will have reached definite decisions on practically all of the questions affecting Germany hy Wednesday, and the Ger-

j mans may be called in about Starch 25. ! One troublesome question that will j probably be threshed out in the meani time involves the old secret treaties, ! which the European delegates regard as j "gentlemen's agreements," and President Wilson's fourteen points which call j for the wiping out of all secret arrangcmerits.

While French Is accepted as the

! language of diplomacy many cf the con

ference discussions are carried out in English. Some time has been lost through this arrangements as rremic-r Orlando of Italy does not under'sVnd

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and finished the season the people , . V . TV V- conver-t-r ,i,iT- i . .u C, satlons translated for lum. stn t think that they w ere able to I

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ATLANTA. Ga.. March 15. Five thousand railway clerks and office employes from the railway stations, offices, yards and shops are today on strike in this section, according: to union labor leaders, practically placing all freight movement In and out of Atlanta at a standstill and greatly hampering passenger traffic. Is. Tj Winchell. regional railroad director for the southern region. In a statement published this morning, declares the strike "an approach to revolt against the government."

W. HAMMOND FACTORY SUES WESTERN UNION

The Times' want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed.

The "Western Union Telegraph Company was sued for $100,000 damages In the Superior Court of Cook Co. yesterday by the United Chemical & Organic Products Company. Attorney W. R. Helfferan Jr. said the action was based on the alleged failure of the 'Western Union to deliver cablegrams Bent by tho company to representatives in Havana. As a result, it is alleged, contracts amounting to J100.000 were lost.

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