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COLDER

WEATHER

LAKE

COUNTY

VICTORY LOAN PROGRAM NEXT

VOL. XIII, NO. 254.

HAMMOND, INDIANA.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1919.

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INDIANA D

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CRATS FOR WILSON AND HIS LEAGUE

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN AT STATE MEETING

Hammond Tailor Fights With the Immortal Fifth

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Hammond Woman at Luncheon Given for Mrs. Geo. Bass a Special Guest.

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TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, IND., April 9. It is generally supposed that Homer S. Cummings revealed the

otinrii ratnTiaifrn issue that he.

- was announced to be bringing to Indiana Democrats as their national chariman when, shortly after his arrival in Indianapolis yesterday he declared that anyone other than friendly critics of the

i . f nafJnne o: TirrtnnQPrl 15 to Immortal name In France. The dlvi

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be classed as opposed to any league of nations at the present time. No one has come forward with any suggestions about what else he can leave with Indiana democrats at the present time by way of campaign thunder, and his public statements are supposed to reflect the subject of discussion with hi3 party workers, TOB A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. "If tha covenant for the league of nations is adopted the campaign issues

for 1920 Trill rest on economic i'-i construction Issues." Mr. Cammings,

declared. "I have every reason 10 Delieve the league of rations covenant will be adopted; but If It Is not, then the league of nations proposa'. will be the campaign Issue." Further than that deponent eayeth not. was the comment of political observers outside the Inner circles of Indiana democracy, and those were busy sharing much of the national chairman's time during: his two days stay In Indiana. EATS COTJXDITT COJtE. The expectation of the simultaneous

(BULLETIN.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SCRV1CE1 MINEULA, Texas, April 9. Two white persons and two negroes were killed by a cyclone which swept over this district early today. At least a dozen persons were injured. Storms swept over most of Texas last night doing heavy damage in many districts. The heaviest snow storm of the winter is raging today.

MADE COUNSEL FOR WAR FINANCE BODY

ISADOIIE LEVIS. Sw'mm'.ng the river Meuse In the face of withering machine gun and artillery fire, building- bridges under the greatest difficulties and then advancing nine kilometers Into the enemy's territory are Just a few of the exciting events which Isadore Levin, of Hammond, participated In whe. the Fifth Division was winning an

s'.on is cited In General Orders No. 73.

q copy of which has teen received here. Levin and his comrades in the thirty days precellr.g the signing of the armistice are credited with being undr fire twentyseven days. They capture! 37 big- (runs. 41 machine guns, ever 900 prisoners and wrested 190 square kilometers of territory from the enemy. Levin Is a well known Hammond man, having conducted a tailor shop with his brother, Theodore, at 673 Calumet avenue. On November 1, 1916 he turned the shop over to his brother and enlisted, being assigned to the Seventh Engineers, with the Fifth Division. He Is now with the Army of Occupation in Luxemburg.

LAKE CO. HAS FIRST CASE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS Wife of Soldier Dies in Whiting; He Loses Brother Also.

spe:ial to the times) WHITING. Ind.. April 9 Sleeping sickness caused the death of Mrs. John

F. Wilson, ape 2S yesrs. wife of John F. Wilson, who is with Pershing's forces In Francs as a member of the 17th Machine Gun Battalion. The victim of this Illness, who leaves besides her husband a seven month old baby, went to Michigan City about three weeks ago to visit her mother, rrrt stvchalski. She was taken 111 and

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HAMMOND SETTINGPACE ONCE MORE

City's Patriotism Did Not Die With the Furling of the Battle Banners.

Louis H. Wchle. Louis B. We.hle "of Louisville, Ky.,. has been appoints i general counsel of the war finance corporation. This lepal division will pass on regulations governing advances to export

ers unuer ir.e rccv.-n- cunifrtfsaiuiwi authorization of (1,000,000,000 for ! ln his tour-

Leading the country ln percentage of enlistments during the war. Htamoml Is now setting the pace for the rest of the country ln finding employment for

returned soldiers. In other words, Hammond's patriotism did not die with the furling of the battle flags. Lieut. Kolb, u field man sent out by the War Department to test the efficiency of government employment bureaus, fairly bubtied over with enthusiasm yesterday when he visited the Hammond office and found out what is being accomplished here. His stay was brief, but he will return later for a more detailed study of the local situation, which he said wa

the first bright pot he had encountered

NURSE LAUDS U S. BOYS FOR BRAVERY

promotion of foreign trade.

HARBOR Ml

It was recpssary to remove

her to the

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STREET RY. COMPANY WINS CASE

Fall From Street Car Not Responsible for Death of Mrs. J. Carrigan.

Following a brief deliberation, the Jjry ln the damage suit of Joseph Carriga.n against the II., W. & E. C. street railway found for the defendant. Carrigan was asking for $10,000 damages berause of an accident in 1914 ln which his wife fell from the steps of a car on Conkey aenue in Hammond It was attempted to show that these injuries were responsible for her death at Ambla ln Benton county some time later. She was sixty-one years old and evidence of her neighbors tended to disprove the contention of the plaintiff. The trial was held before Judge Reiter ln Lake Superior Court No. 1.

VETERAN HOTEL MAN DIES IN ARKANSAS

Charles Sigler, Well Known Over County, Dead at

Sixty-Eight. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CROWN I'OIN'T. Ind., April 9 Charles Sigicr. one cf Lake county's best known men and a resident of the county for 25 years during which time he conducted noted hotels at Cedar Lake, died on Tuesday at Heber Springs. Ark. Ills wife and son Cecil preceded him ln death several years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Arthur McLaughlin of Cedar Lake, survives him The decedent was about 65 years of age. The remains are to be brought to Chicago for burial. Mr. Siglr-r was

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malned in this comatose condition ror over a week, passing away yesterday. Valentine Stychalskl. Whiting, brother of the deceased, appealed to the Red Cross about two weeks ago to have discharge papers mad-s out asking for the release of Wilson on the grounds of dependency for his wife a-nd chi.3. These were forwarded to Pershing a little ever a T;ek ago by the Home Service - department of the-Red Cross, Whiting.

Wilson will have a saa Bokw-i..

for In addition to losing his wire

will also learn that his brother.

Wilson, was also burled

INJURIES SEVERE

Mike

about two

who was a

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widower with two children, was discharged from the army as well, but died with tuberculosis a short time after. Wilson's parent, reside in Steiber street and It was with them that Mrs. John i,.v,v lived since her nus-

W lisun, nn

The recent

honrt lm been ln service.

j ,u r.r iv.ir son Mike Wilson

also lived w.th his parents, make the latest death In their family a crushing blow.

MANY GIRLS USING

NARCOTICS ARRESTED

! Internal Revenue Men in

New York Find a Hundred Using Coke.

Arthur Lee Victims of Car;

Crash Monday Hurt Inter i&lly. . V The latest rtf'ft rom Arthur Lee. an Indiana Harbtr- TrJ, who was hurt ln the s'reet carVi Jin Friday morning, is that Mar s ar 4-more aerlcus than was first supposed. He is confined to his home and he seems to have suffered internal Injuries not at first apparent.

Mr. Lee Is an old resident of the city and was for a number of years connected with both police nnii fir departments of bf'th ends of town. Ha was on h.s way to East Chicago from the Harbor ami was riding in the vestibule cf th; car risht back cf the motorrnan. Dr. faucr is in attendance and finds that Art's head and chest and back are badly bruised and that indications point to internal '.Juries.

SIDNEY DREW PASSES AWAY f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NE W'YOKK. April it. .liney Drew, noted actor, d'ed at li s tornn hre todav after a brif iline'. Pw wi. eprearing with h!s wife at Detrclt when he became 1:1 last Friday.

DZ&ITER PLACES MEN.

According to returns received by H- J. Dcrner, examiner ln charge of the Hammond bureau, twenty men were placed

out of twenty-four referred to employers in the last three days. A large percentage of these were returned soldiers Mr. Derner says that, through the spirit of cooperation -which has developed between the bureau and local Industries, at least seventy-five per cent of the soldiers can be plac'ed ln good Jobs. To facilitate this, many factories have limited the

employment of new help to soldiers. SHORTAGE IS MAJTT &I2TZ3. Twenty-five men could have been used this morning but only fifteen places could be filled because of shortage ln certain lines. There Is a scarcity of

skilled mechinlsts In the Calumet region. Many are wantd at plants tov 'ew are out of employment. There is practically no demand for truck drivers or clerks and Mr. Derner spends much time ln urging men to try out lines of wcrk other then these. Many cf the men hol? out for a while but are finally

persuaded to forget their old employment for, the present at least. Little success attends the efforts of the employment agencies in getting the right men to go to the farms. The men who want to go to the country are generally not tha kind wanted by the farmers. On the other hand tho men from the farms who have been working In industrial plants for a year or ti are loath to return to their old Jobs. NO DEatAND TOB OFEBAIOKS. Many of them have saved a little money and are determined to hang around Industrial centers in the hope that factory work will pick up again. Many of them are merely machine operators, for which there is no demand as skilled machinists are being placed back on the machines. These men are due to bo greatly disappointed as it ia believed that they have served their purpose in the manufacturing world and should return to the farms where better wages and working conditions than they have

' been accustomed to await thrn. It is

hoped that they realize their status be-

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RESTRAIT UNKNOWN ORGIES ARE

NAMED U. S. CIVIL

SERVICE MEMBERS I fon the farm help shortage becomes

KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' NOTED GUEST

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. April 9. 1 wo pretty

Unnwn hv evervbodv who used to visit ! vmniz tirls and a number of youths in

Cedar Lake. He was a veteran hotel

man and when the Monon built its big hotel at the lake he was made proprietor.

SAND HILLS ARE WASHED INTO LAKE

MICHIGAN CrT Y. April 9. The famous sand hills along the lake front here are ln the way. Summer resort promoters have commenced washing them down with water, and this sluicing is to continue for a period of several vears. The first hill attacked Is seventy-five feet high. Others to be removed ere 200 feet high. In all, three

For the first time ln its history the' miles of these mountains ui r.

the early twenties were mun vi users held today following a series of raids In which six physicians and four drucctsts were arrested on charges of

v-lnlBtlnir the federal law against

sale of narcotics. Internal revenue detectives said they could have brought 1n more than a hundred young girls

who have been obtaining cocaine.

phine and heroin and other drugs prescriptions from physicians.

MAY

BY JULY 1st

Hammond Knights Templar lodge will be visited by a grand commander, when George S. Parker of Anderson, grand commander of the Knights Templar of Indiana, attends the local meeting tonight. Mr. Tarker visited the East Chicago lodge last evening and tomorrow evening will be spent with tho Gary lodge. The order of the temple win be conferred upon a class of candidates this ever.irng and following the session

be razed to make way ior uny.uments. This Is believed the first attempt, on a large scale, to wash down sand hills In this section of the country.

CHICAGO ATTORNEW DEAD IN HAMMOND Attorney J. C. Wilson. 42 years old.

but very well Known in

cf Chicago.

yesterday afternoon

1s expected.

Kanntifft will Ya sprvtl bv thft lni!i TTammcnd. died

of the Bastern Star. A large attendance 1 of pneumonia while on a business trip

I to Springfield. HI.

Funeral will be held from Bownscn's fndertakeing rooms. 42nd and Cottage Grove avenue tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. Mr. Wilson is survived by his father, J. Wilson.

ARRESTED FOR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

John Jurivleh of 531 Summer street. Hammond, the man who beat his dog half to death Sunday, then left htm f ed to a tree to die the bst he could, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Court Bailiff James Trost of the Hammond police, charged with cruelty tinlmals. Jurlvlch Is out on bail to appear for trial Saturday morning In the Hamjnond city court.

CHAUFFEUR IN ACCIDENT

Atty. W. J. Whmery Says

Interpretation of Ordinance May Decide Appeal. Atty. W. J. Whlnery, who is preparing

the record and briefs in the appeal case f the Calumet Coal Co. vs. the City of Hammond, expects that by July 1st the United States District Court of Appeals in Chicago will have decided the matter of such vital interest to the Detroit st. property owners. He of course declines to make a rrophesy an the outcome, but. says it is a question of how the ordinance stands up. It is not a question of facts, but one of interpretation of the ordinane entirely. A reversal Is hoped for by the city.

FUNERAL OF MISS PEARSON

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Miss Pauline McVey. Miss Pauline McVey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. McVey of Washincton, Red C'ro6S nurse who tvent overseas, has returned home full of praise for the U. S. boys and anxious to notify the American, mothers that their sons were "game clear through." Miss McVey wa3 with th JTirst and Second army corps and a member of the Yale hospital unit which introduced into the American army the mobile hospital unit. The mobile hospital, it is claimed, made it possible to cut down one-third the cumbr." in the mortality list of the army.

BIG THING FOR NORTHERN

STATES LIFE

FEARFUL

Aristocrats Do Not Even Try

to Save Wives or Daughters from Death.

By KSS. CI CI I. CBSSTSSrOIT (BxclnaiTe Cabla by tha X. N. s. and the XoBdoa Sally Express.) WARSAW, April 7 (Delayed).

A constant stream of fugitives is

pouring into Warsaw, each of them with fresh tales of B

horrors. The people abroad have

no conception of tho deep feeling of dread which name "Bolshevism" inspires in Poland. Already the Russian Reds are at the back door of Poland. Russian refugees, who have escaped through the Bolshevik lines into. Poland tell stories of miraculous escapes and hair-raising adventures. TAXES Or EO&BOB TOI.D. One-half of the 600.000 peorle left ln Petrograd are less than half ed, and great numbers ere dying daily frcn starvation. The wood pavements cf the former Russian capital are being torn

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Merger for Lake County Concern Gives it Ten Million Insurance.

At Rockford, I'.l., last r.lgn't. Dr. H. E. Sharrer, president of the Northern States Life Insurance company of Hammond. Ind . with directors all over Lake county, presented a proposition to the officers and directors of the Forest City Life Insurance company of Rockford. 111., for the consolidation of the two companies, with a capital stock of $100,000 and creating a surplus of $00.000. giving the combined companies

in assets ana many uw.uuu to aIjust domestic tangles

which preposition

ENGLAND FACES BIG PROBLEMS

Ireland, Egypt and South Africa Tangles Confront England after Peace Conference Is All Over.

Floyd MacGriff (staff correspondent i. n. service! LONDON, April 9. While Americans go heme from the war to readjust many Internal problems, the English will come from the peace conference at Paris tface knotty imperial problems as w eli

COSTLY FIRE

TAKES PLACE LAST NIGHT

Fire started in a garage at B74 Moss ave., which was owned by Peter Marynowskl. about 10:30 o'clock last night and srread to the two adjoining homes on each side, burning Ihcm to the ground. The cottage at 576 was burned at a loss of $2500 and the cottage at 672, which was cwned by O. Stambowski, sustained a loss of over $2000. In tho garage was a truck valued at $S500 and a buggy valued at $25. which were both totally destroyed. Fire department No. 4 responded and

worked hard to save the homes, but the I

f.re had iti much of a start when they arrived that not much could be done.

of insurance in force

was accepted by a unanimous vote of the board of directors. The entire capital, assets and reserve together with all the insurance of the Forest City Life will be thus merged Into the Northern States Life Insurance company upun a meeting of the stockholders of the Forest City Life ordered to bo held in Rockford on May 12th. and the approval of the Illinois State Jnsurnnco commission. " . The two companies will be consolidated under the charter cf the Northern States Life Insurance company with the Homo Office here at Hammond, Ind, and continuing the rresrnf management, with the addition of A. P. Warner, who is president of the Forest City Life, who will come to Hammond and take up active service with the company as an officer, and also there will be elected additional directors from the directorate of the Forest City Life to act until the close of 1313. Ths is a big stroke in life insurance

. The first of these, cf course, is Ireland. The second may well be Egypt. The third and fourth will be South Africa and India. Canada. Australia and New Zealand

seemingly offer no problems of major I importance, though the agitations of ! Tremier Hughes, of Australia, at th ! peace parley, have been a factor in I forcing through a policy cf InipeiiHi preference ln tariff and import reguiatlons regarding the colonics.

In addition there was & recent whisper of Bolshevism in Australia ond some diporders at Brisbane. The policy of the government still remains undefined as regards Ireland. Th government has proposed Irishmen for Irish affairs, hut Ireland has replied that It will have nothing to do witii a handpicked Irish colonial organization. The Sinn Fclnors hare their rar!iment and cabinet and have announced a policy of resistance to the government

and has been carried on quietly by Dr.l" HfsuiimMrr. Pharrer since last Stptember. It is j

quite a compliment to trie executive ability of the management of the Northern States Life Insurance company and will rlace them as one of tho soiirl companies in the insurance field, and

I also make them one of tho strong finan

cial institutions of northwestern Indiana.

UXORCID

DECLARES

CORONER

Hn:y Hewlett, a chauffeur of 515 Hnst 3Tth street. Chicago, while driving west on Indianapolis boulevard last night ran Into the ditch hitting a telephone pole, breaking it off. Hewlett was shaken up and bruised but not badly bur

The funeral of M;ss Moliie Pearson, who died Monday at Pt. Margaret's hospita will be to Id from Stewart's chapel tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Rfv. Sharp will officiate. Interment will be held 1 nOak H.il cemetery.

A e you reading The Times?

Martin A. Morrison, above, and Georje K. Wales. Amonjr the recsr.t important appointments in Rovernment service are thoso of Martin A. Morrison ol Indiana and George R. Wales of Vermont a members of the U. S. civi! service commission. As member of that body they will have jrreat responsibilities in handhnjj civil service problems rfurir tho reconstruction and readjuitoeiit period.

That Sam Marino murdered his wife in Hammond and then committed suicide by 6hooting himself was the verdict of Coroner J. A. Grfcham at the inauest this morning on the double killing which occured .Sunday night. No developments not already known to the public were brought forth by the investigation and

BRAKES MAN

WORK; THEN DEATH Penn. Train Hits Auto; the Driver Is Killed Because He Took a Chance.

TO WELCOME WOMEN

fWill Be Greeted by Lake

County Citizens in Gary This Evening.

NEWCASTLE. Ind.. April 3. Elbert May. age thirty-six. of r.ear Mays. Rush county, was killed Instantly late Monday when an automobile in which he

the coroner Is of the opinion that it was j was riding was struck by

a Prnnsyl-

a "love tangle" which the Italians have vania tram near imnreitn. i ne Draa-.s soUed ln their own way. on the machine had net been working Coroner Graham is now investigating rroperly and it is believed he could not the death of John Ripley, which occurred stop in time to avoid being hit. The tv, T-st Chicago street car i body was taken to Kn'ghtstown and it

collision. The inquest will be held Sat- ! was several hours before urday momlr-t w& male.

identification

Not only the men of Lake county, but the women as wrll are cordially invited tonight to be present at the Gary theatre to hear Senator James E. Watson, who will fpeak on the League of Nations. Mayor W. L. Hodges will introduce the speaker, and Chairman .1. J. Killigrew of Crown Point wlil have charge of tharrangements. Senator Watson will reach Hammond from hi? speaking trip down state at four o'clock and will be driven by auto to Mary. He will not be able to arrive in time for the district republican meeting which was arranged fc Gary this afternoon, at which l!str!ct Chairman I-nwrence Lyor. s presided.

Arc you rcacinz The Time: ?