South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 2, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 January 1918 — Page 12

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMEi fr INDIANA AND MICHIGAN STATE HAPPENINGS IpBOR TO WIN 3E

T ABOUT ITS LIGHTS Its Electricity is Bi-product That Must be Used Or Thrown Away. flAUY. In1 . Jan. 2. Gary i;s on of ihe fpw cit::-; in thr couri.-y that tan jnui its j;n-r at th fjr aIminl.vtratfun'jj orlr to rl;.vr' f 'liktk-x nights" in rrd-r to conrve fuel. It is not bTa::s the rity is unrrttrjfitir, hut hT,t li-Sf if it I'HS nt ijv. the If trie ity it h?. on har.fl to lUht tin- city, thf current will iliiv.' tu ),f lii-Mputed ii the blue, thin atino.-phore. Th peculiar mnditiin the dir',f,t result, moreover, of war necessity. The ro ernmnt fiiu- have Mr-el. jn order to have i teel it muyt have rokf ; in order to have coke a erLuu amount of er.a.1 must he hurned and in the coking of th c ,11 x many fy-produ ts are formed that it would he sheer waste, not to iis-e f, rytliinic. When val is eoked, there are TT.o i'V-prodiicts taken off. The most worthies of thfs1 is pas and the most valuable is benzol. The as obtained here drives C. engines in the Iower ho-:-.ost t-m h of ::::,0 00 hrsejiower, besides running the blowers fr the blat furnaces and performing other tasks. The jas engine?, r turn, generate ele trioity..not only that is usel fnr the steel mills in which there are 1J blast furnaces ontlnuously turning; ut ;i iron, but also enough to operate the cement plant, five miles away; a bridge ronipnny's plant; some iK tin mills: lishtim? for the entire city and to run a couple of Mreet car incs Tile roke ovens also make enough ns for all purposes too much, in fact, for at each end of the steel mills there is a four foot exhaust pipe which h'nds a tongue of fame, four feet thick, "o feet into the air at all times when the ovens are running full blast. Hence liary is in no danger of becoming a dark city because of "excessive use" of its li'ht sources. FIRE NEAR CAMP STUART; THREE DWELLINGS BURN NKWOUT NT. WS, Va.. Jan. 2. Three dwellings near Camp Stuart on the outskirts of the city where tr,00' soldiers are quartered, were destroyeri 7-jesday night by Tire. Soldiers and llremen prevented the flames from reaching the camr building.

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vteiii i" Isfort Utilities (oninii.ioii I'nr It Apprmal. Nwü-Tirn1 spA-ji Sorrir?: INDIAN ATOMS. Ind., Jan. 2. A new set of standards for electric utilities within the state is before the Indiana public service commission awaiting approval or disapproval. According to those favorable to the new standards they are of such excellent construction, engineers in several parts of the country have given them their ar;,roval. The standards have to do with records and reports, meter?, meter testing equipment and facilities, rne. ter accuracy, information for consumers, adjustment of bills for meter error, incandescent lighting, deposit by eustnrners, operation and maintenance, standard 'frequency, standard o!tae and permissable voltag: variation, voltage surveys and reeords accidents, rounding of low ' potential current, extension of lines, pole identification and many other to i:cs. One result of adoption of such a new standard it is said would be to make the electric service conditions in all parts of the state the same. 20 KILLED IN MICHIGAN FIRES DURING 1917 New"-Tirnei Special Servbf : LANSING. Mich., Jan. 2. December, according to the report of Insurance Commissioner Kllsworth, fron the standpoint of deaths and injuries from fires, explosions and the careless use of gasoline and kerosene, was one of the most disastrous in many ears in Michigan. The report shows that 2 persons lost their lives and 10 were seriously burned or injured from above causes during the month. The report also shows that 20 public buildings were burned or partially destroyed in December as- follows: I Six schools, six hotels, three churches, three halls, one theater and one hospital. 132 MURDERS IN DETROIT IN 1917 DETROIT. Mich., Jan. 2. The year II IT established a new record in Detroit in the number of deaths by violence and in monetary loss resulting from tires. Deaths due to violence in Detroit and surrounding territory numbered 7S5, of which 7.12 resulted from murders. 12S from automobile accidents and 110 suicides. The fire loss for the year totalled $3,773.5r.9. the heaviest in the history of the local tire department. It compares with Jl, 672,228 in 1016. The heaviest individual loss resulted from the fire in the Detroit Railroad levator, March 9 $662. 1S7. to twenty percent on Take Care of Your Teetli Your teeth are a very important fart of vo'ir body, as well as one

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NC -Till)S Speeljl Servi'f : .ML'SKKGON, Jan. 2. rresent higher prices of coal in this city are hut temporary, local dealers believe, the fuel now on tale having been purchased at the higher figure of last summer, and just now being received here. ML'SKKHOX Hi:i(lHT Chief of Police m. L. Phillips has issued orders to all enemy aliens of this city to turn in to headquarters all of their firearms. The weapons, it is planned, will be returned at the close of the war. M IK KGON George House, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. IJ. Rouse of this city, who enlisted in the naval militia' last summer, Is now stationed on the new 1. S. dreadnought Mississippi, at present getting her crewtor the maiden trip of the vessel. HI; IIAI'ID.- On Saturday the K. of subscriptions totalled $1.fojrj.ni, with a few more places to hear from. M. J. Ward reports that the V. M. , a. (irive mi Mecosta county netted $ .",."'1.7.". The Red "ross membership has reached 1 .- 000 with the quota, 1,000. MTSKKGOX The local draft board is being swamp d v th quiz lists, the questionnaires rt ling in with a veritable Hood, for ,ng the loetnb is .of the ronmi i.-sion to work from early morning until midnight each evening to keep pace with classsilication of the questionnaires. PIC; ItAPlDS In a letter from England to Walter Poster in this city many prices are quoted to show the hiiih cost of living. Bacon is two and four pence per pound (6üc): butter. '.( cents; tea is $1 and one is allowed to buy only two ounces at a time. Sugar is six pence per pound and one pound a week is allowed. This is near Oxford. EATON RAPIDS In special election here Monday M. P. Hromellng was elected commissioner and the proposition to bond the city for $o0.000 to buy the Smithville waterpower was defeated by a small majority. OWOSSO The coal situation has again become acute here according to the county coal administration. With the mercury around zero many homes are without fuel and others have only a few hours' supply. Some factories mav have to close. MANISTEE As a further means of practicing fuel conservation three local churches of different denominations have cooperated and will hold their regular Sunday services together. A minister from each church will assist in conducting the services. RIG RAPIDS Thomas EazelT. considered the oldest man in this vicinity, passed his 96th birthday rnniversr.ry Dec. .0. He has resided in this city r7 years. He was born in Kent county, England, and ;is a sailor in his youth went to China with the Nankin expedition. TIG RAPIDS Fire totally destrc.ved the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Williams, four miles south of the city. It is thought the blaze originated from sparks from a defective ehmney. They lost theh household M'Ods, groceries, too in money and 10 bushels of rye. FOURTH ARREST MADE IN ALMA MURDER CASE Niwt-Tltnos Special Service: ALMA. Mich.. Jan. :. Dorsey Push, alias Dorsey Willis, for whom oMicers have l.een looking in connection with the mystery surrounding the death of .Mi.-s Peatrice Kpler of this city, has been located in the dated States army at Camp Logan. 111., and has been placed under arrest on a charge of murder. Push is the fourth to face a charge of murder in the Alma murder ease, which is exciting statewide attention, and has proved a puzzle to the best detectives in the state for over a quarter of a year. He is now in solitary confinement at Great Likes, 111., where he will remain until the army red tape i.s unwound . The charges against I'uh were made by Deputy Murphy, who has been on the trail of Push for over a month and located him after he enlisted in the army in the middle of December. The chase which Murphy made to locate Push is only paralleled in the case by the hunt Davit! Peaudry made, which caused the round-up of Albert Eichorn of Ithaca. Inex Johnson of Alma, and Joe F. Preenan of Flint, on charges of murder in the case. These three were arrested two weeks ano and are now waiting for their hearing Tuesday. Jan. S, It will probably be several days before the army red tape is unwound and Push returned to Gratiot county. All four of those now under arrest were implicated in the murder, according t,nt the confession of Mrs. Hiram Gilsor. Alma woman, who is now in detention at Ithaca as a highly important witness for the p rosecution. EX-JAPANESE ENVOY TO MEXICO IN WASHINGTON

WASH I Nt IT N. Jan. L K. Ohta. former Japanese charge at Mexico City, arrived here uesday to confer with Japanese embassy officials about the tuation in Mexico before returning to Tokio. Mr. Ohta tv. et Minister Ifavori. Japan's new envoy to Mexico, at Laredo and pvf him a -eview of condition. The minister is rnw on the way to 2ucxjco City.

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LOSS OF MEN BY WAR! Lahr Shortage l- Kein? loll in !ublic swMlcc. Ntwo-Tinjes Special Serrice: INDIANAPOLIS'. Ind., Jan. 2. All the- big state institutions are feelintr keenly the loss of men to various branches of the fighting forces, and the general labor short- ! ae in this part of the country according to reports arriving at the state house. All possible efforts; have been exerted by the superintendents of the big state insane hospitals, penal, correctional and educational institutions to get and keep experienced help for the past several months. They have been only partially successful. To fill the places of the present tmployes as they leave i.s becoming harder all the time. There is little prospect of relief in the near future, it is. said. What is being done at the Indiana reformatory was told to Gov. Goodrich by Ü. David C. Peyton, superintendent. He has several in mates employed as oilicers. and; three men sentenced for various lav. violations are acting as school teacher.s for the less educated prisoners. !WAR BOARD WILL BUY STUMPS FOR FUEL CONSERVATION News-Timer S peel ill Service: i EANSIXC, Mich.. Jan. J. Plans J on w hich the Michigan war pre paredness board will be asked to set aside $25,000 to $50,000 for u jrt-.olving fund to be used in purj chasing wood for fuelless homes in Michigan are being made by James i McBride. state director of markets, and A. C. Carton, secretary of the public domain commission. It involves commissioning an agency to purchase pine stumps to be distributed over the state. (leorge A. Prescott, federal food administrator, has 4 00' acres of "stumped" land, and has promised to give it to the state if the plan, is adopted. When the data is gathered, a concrete plan will be drafted. Then the war board will be asked to set aside the money to make the original purchases and shipments. This will be supplied at coet to the people of the state and the money as fast as it comes in rexpended for more pine stumps as long as the situation remains acute. JUICE FOR MOTORGRAPH SIGN ORDERED CUT OFF News-Tiines Speeial .-'ervlre: INDIANA PO EIS, Jan. 2. The state fuel administration has order-: ed the Indianapolis Light and Heat Co. to cut off the power which operates the motograph advertising sign of Henry D. Pierce at Market and Pennsylvania sts., and issued a further order to the Merchants Heat and Eight Co. not to supply current for the sign, it was revealed today. Mr. Pierce is charged with having disobeyed the lightless night orders and operated his sign on sever. 1 occasions, asserting the signs was a business enterprise in itself, covered by contract. He said the lightless night order would cost him from $3,000 to $4,000 a year. Mr. Pierce has taken the matter up with authorities at Washington. INCOME TAX COLLECTOR ON JOB IN INDIANA TODAY INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Jan. 2. The task of collecting individual and corporation revenues, the newliberty taxes imposed by congress during its special session, will begin in Indiana We;ineday. Headquarters of the sixth district, which includes S3 counties in the state, will be in the federal building in Indianapolis. All persons or representative?! of corporations will be required to call on or write to the federal collectors for the war tax return blanks. However, for the benefit of persons j in counties distant from IndianapoI lis. Revenue Collector Peter J. Kruyer is arranging to send collection crews to county seats on dates to be advertised ahead of time. All returns must be in my March 1. All single persons whose incomes exceed 11,00 0 and all married persons whose incomes exceed $2.000 are subject to the tax. The minimum rate of taxation is two percent. All persons who attempt to evade the tax, it was declared at the collector's office Tuesday will be vigorously prosecuted. The state council of defense also announced that through its county councils it would work with the deputy collectors in apprehending and prosecuting evades of the liberty tax. FRANKLIN COLLEGE AWAITS COAL SUPPLY F PANK EIN, Ind. Jan. 2. Franklin college here will not reopen after the Christmas vacation until a supply of fuel is received, it was announced here Tuesday. All pipes in the institution have been drained and other steps taken to protect apparatus and equipment. There is a --mall amount of coal on hand, but not enough to heat any one building in the college group. At least one month's supply of coal is deemed necessary before it is considered safe to reopen the school. ofT.cials of the institution say. '"ATTLIIMAX 5IIi. NEW VOKK. Jan. Silas H. Reynolds. 4 9 year old of Darwin, Cl.. president of the Western Cattiftnen's association, died in a privat sanitarium here Tuesday. He came to New York for medical treatment throe raoaths ago.

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A. F. of L. Head Declares Nation Organizing Its Industry Best is Victor. WASHINGTON. Jan. In a New Year's greeting to all organized labor. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, calls upon representatives and organizers to make plain to their fellows the issues involved in the war and the obligation that devolves upon all citizens. He also emphasizes the importance of seeing to it that the spirit and methods of democracy are fixed at home while the country is lighting to establish them in international relations. "War means victory for our cause, or dangt r to the very existence of our nation." says the address. "With our nation at the stake, individuals cannot interpose opposition to the war a war declared by the will of the nation's representatives. Fnder the exigencies of war, opposition to the war declared by constituted authority becomes treason. Must Protect Rights at Home. "While this is true, there is even more than ordinary need for the maintenance of the rights of men and women, and for careful scrutiny and the fullest discussion of policies and methods before thenadoption. The time for labor to interpose its needs and contentions is while policies are in the making. "The lighting and the concrete issues of the war are so far removed from the people of our country that not all of our citizens have a full understanding of the issues involved. An understanding of the principles of autocratic force, which the central powers desire to substitute for the real principles of freedom makes clear to all citizens of this republic the effect of our possible defeat upon their own lives and activities. "In addition to the fundamental principles at issue, labor has an additional interest in the war. This war is in the last analysis, a people's war labor's war. The fina: outcome will be determined in the factories, the mills, the shops. the mines, the farms, the industries and the transportation agencies of th various countries. That group of countries which can most successfully organize its agencies of production and transportation, and which can furnish the most adequate and effective agencies with which to conduct the war, will win. "The workers have a part in the "war co-equal with the sailors and soldiers in the trenches and on the ships. ''Continuous production is an indispensable pre-requisite to production of necessary war supplies. The government as well as the workers themselves, is vitally interested in maintaining such conditions that there shall be no occasion for interruption in production. lmh Sides to lk Fair. "The chief responsible agents of the government have shown a desire to be fair, and an understanding of the human elements involved in this problem. The organized labor movement has also shown an equally broad understanding and grasp of the situation." Mr. Gompers quotes at length from the declaration adopted by labor's representatives, meeting here on March 12, and from the resolution of the Buffalo convention of the American Federation of Labor, outlining the attitude of organized labor toward war work. PAULIST CHOIR ON TOUR TO AID WAR STRICKEN CHICAGO. Jan. 2. In a nationwide tour to raise $100,000 to aid in the rehabilitation of razed French and Pelgian cities, the Paulist choristors. Chicago's famous choir, departed Tuesday for the east. The. trip will last six months and will include all the large cities in the United states and Canada. The campaign, which is' also designed to spiritualize and stimulate the martial spirit of the country, has net onlv the approval of Pres't Wilson and the Catholic heirarchy. hut hns been launched with the special blessing of Pope Benedict. Tfce Q.oIeJjr:r Ton Get a Fre TrUl of PjTamld ltle Treatment the Better. It Is Yat You Axe Lookias JPor Don't talk operation. If you can't trait for a fre trial of Pyramid Pile Treatment get a floe box at any drug" etor and get relief now. If rot near a etore send coupon for free trial package In plain wrapper, and get rid of itching, bleeding anl protruding" piles, hemorrhoids and raea rectal troubles. Take noenbstltute. FREE SAMPLE COUPON riTtAMTD Dnuo corPANT. tv Pyramid Puildinjr., Marshall. Mich. Kindly end me a Free sample cf Pyramid Pile Treatment. In plain wrapper. Name . . , Street

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