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(WAfflERlTATR J R A I N ICOOLEPj Delivered j TXMXS carriers, 30o pel month; on afreets and at newsstands, 2o par copy; back nnmbers 3o per copy. VOL. XII., NO. 55. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 121, 1917. COUNTY i ad i kjL L Si STiE OFITS ARE ENOUNCED WU1UCU Ul JU1UUU tf.il U Ui Land, Says Hiram John son in U. S. Senate. U. S. STEEL WAR EARNINGS Charging- that Americana wr fly-lag- ia rranca while war profits were belay hoggishly pUed up at home Senator Johnson of California said In the senate; "W fflre it a dividend upon its preferred stock. Then we permit it to pay all its expenses and all its taxes of every kind and every nature, and then we ffiva it in our time of stress and in our time of dire need, when every man's heart is bleeding" for his loved ones that go beyond tho sea, a dividend eiual to more than has been paid in upon its capital stock. "How the people must love to scorn a Congress that deals thus tenderly with war profits, while dealing- with such severity with the com mon human clay to be put up against the guns the Steel Corporation, to which Is returned under the bill nearly $300,000,000 profits for this year, not of ordinary profits, mind you, but of war profits, computed under the terms of this bill, because, forsooth, it has coined the blood and the bone and the sinew of the land into the dollars that It has made. Can you Justify itt Whence this enthusiasm for taking- our tlood and the tenderness protecting- the wealth that comes from that blood t "England today takes 80 per cent of the wax profits there to run the war. We take do you realise how "xiuch, bed upon the minimum t 53,000,000 war profits for the last yearf We take under the bill less than 20 per cent." i WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 Sentiment In the Senate yesterday leaped toward high taxation of war profits and large Incomes. AN stirring speech by Hiram Johnson of California stimulated the move already under way. "Those who coin the blood of war are those best able to pay the expense of war," he cried. "Those who make swollen profits out of this particular exigency are those who should pay. We are will ing to conscript the youth of this land. We must have the same inexorable at titude toward money." JOHNSON'S ATTACK COKES AS SURPRISE. The assault of Senator Johnson upon the war revenue bill had not been an ticipated and caught the proponents of the measure by surprise. He spoke to a filled chamber and his racing eloquence held all in their seats until he had concluded. He said: "The observations I desire to submit upon this measure are general in char acter, but none the less, from the stand point of some of us, quite fundamental. CONTENTED PSOPM MUST BACK TRENCHES. "The design that I have in speaking In general terms to this measure, in voicing my opposition to the rates that are in this measure prescribed under certain captions, is that ultimately we may do that which is best for all the people of the nation, and that behind the line of trenches which will be ours in the future, we may have a contented people, a reople not irritated by any sense of injustice or inequality in taxa tion, and that finally we may not only conscript the blood of this nation but we may conscript the part of the wealth of this nation that Is coined out of Its blood." DECISIO IS AGAI POSTPONED TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAKTAI. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. Aug. 21. Governor Goodrich again has postponed his decision as to whether there will be a special session of the legislature. He said. Saturday night, that he would an nounce his decision, today. He expected to hold a conference with close advisers and associates, including state officers, last night, but this conference was put off until tonight, and this means that the decision cannot be made before to morrow. A strong effort is being made to head off the possibility of a special session, but those who are watching the pro ceedings believe it will not be possible to prevent it. However, such a thing might happen. It is understood that the Governor and othern are waiting to see just what plan is adopted by the Federal govern ment for handling the coal situation be fore any definite action is taken in re gard to calling the Indiana legislature in session MAY BE CHOSEN G. A. R. COMMANDER s X . f V'-w-" Orlando A. Somers. That a private for the first time will be chosen commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. at the convention soon to be held in Boston, is the belief of the many friends of Orlando A. Somers, of Koko"no, Ind. Mr. Somers' election is already conceded by many delegates to the convention- AVERT WIDE STRIKE OF SHIP BUILDERS :" - -By-united Tress.)" WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. A nation wide strike In steel ship yards working on government contracts will be pre vented by wage increases paid by the government. In his first clash with organized labor on war work Uncle Sam will recognize the claim that increased cost of living warrants a higher wage scale. This developed today from the diffi culty into which the requisitioning of ship construction faced the shipping board. Ship yard owners refused to make new wage scales with the Inter national Metal Trade Union until the shipping board approve the increases. The final decision is to be left to a spe cial commission of three members one appointed by President Wilson, one by President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and the third mem ber to be appointed by the shipping board. Ilfi GETTING NTO WAR TX3CES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. IND.. Aug. 21. With seven companies of the Fourth In diana national guard regiment off for training camp at Hattiesburg. Miss., and the First Regiment of Indiana Field Artillery ready for the start to France. Indiana is at once getting into the war with a good start. The troops that have been ordered to Hattiesburg will be utilized in getting the camp in shape for the thousands of others that will go there a little 'tter. It is believed it will be but a short time until the entire Indiana national guard will be in that camp. Brigadier General Edwin M. Lewis, who will command the Indiana brigade at Hattiesburg, was expected here to day, and he is under orders to report at Hattiesburg not later than August 25 to take over his command. TILLING AUTO LEAPA FEATURE Elgin Six Stock Car in Unusual Performance at Fair. (Special to The Times.) CROWN rOINT. INI., Aug. 21 One of the thrills of the Lake county fair will be the exhibition of an Elgin Six stock car driven by Buck Slavin. A hurdle is to be erected on the track and while running at the rate of sixty miles an hour the machine will leap through the air a distance of seventy feet, it is announced by J. Van Ram short, distributor of the Elgin Six in Lake county. The performance will follow the races Wednesday and Thurs day afte-noons. ill r) NATION ILUEO ARMIES CONCENTRATED il BIG ASSAULT Greatest Battle of World Going On Over 435-Mile Front. DY 1IEMIY WOOD. (United Preaa StnfT Correspondent.) WITH THE BR1TIES ARMIES IN THE FIELD. Aug. 21. Over a front of 433 miles the greatest battle of the world is being fought today. The battle line extends from the scacoaft to the Swiss frontier. Fighting in Flanders, the Anglo French offensive extended to the British offensive, thence to the French attack around St. Quentin. thence to the French offensive at Chemin des Dames. Moronvilliers and Verdun, and concluded with heavy artillery fighting in Lorraine and Alsace down to Switzerland. With three more months of fighting weather this year, Germany's hold on the western front may become pre carious before winter. Underlying the English and French attacks is perfect and co-ordinated strategy. Their attacks have been so timed as to convert all the fighting into one great battle. Germany made her supreme effort in concentration of men and of artil lery in the 1916 assault on Verdun. No offensive had ever reached the in tensity of this one. But the French assault of today in the identical sec tor has surpassed it. The combined French and German artillery brought into the play of death is probably the greatest concentration of weapons for a single attack the whole war has yet seen. During Sunday night's final artillery preparation by the French, although it was cloudy and the French military rules strictly for bade the slightest glimmer of light. I was able to leave Verdun at midnight and proceed to an observation point a greater distance from the city than Duoamont as my way was lighted by countless thousands of gun flashes. Great artillery kept the night con tinually light. It was as though a million lightning flashes blended into one shot. (Hy United Pi-ens.) NEW YORK. Aug. 21. Germany was receiving today the mightlert offensive blow yet struck by the 'allies. On every front save the Russian and Macedonian lines the allies were on the offensive. The great 435-mile western front was a continuous battle line. Italy's 100 miles of fronts from the Adriatic to the Alps was in mo tion with General Cadorna's troops at tacking everywhere. On the French front along the Chemin des Dames and north of Ver dun the Germans massed forces for tremendous counter-attacks. TRAIN HITS AUTO; MOTORBIKES TURTLE; FQURJN HOSPITAL Two Hurt in Grade Crossing Accident of N. P. at Burnham. As the result of a train-automobile collision on a Burnham grade crossing and two motorcycle accidents in Ham mond, four men are in St. Margaret's hospital. Their names foHow: Jacob Olson. 39. 7311 Wabash avenue, Chicago, driver of auto bakery deliv ery wagon, struck by Nickel Plate train on Center avenue crossing in Burnham; head badly injured; bruised and cut. John Farrar. 29, 5420 Wabash avenue, Chicago, concussion of the brain; in jured in same accident. (The truck was a complete wreck.) Martin Howsley, 24, 121 Douglas street, Hammond, arm and leg broken when he was thrown from motorcycle. George Dickson, Highlands, leg brok en when motorcycle he was riding struck an automobile. XiOV'S LEO BBOXEN. Johnny Deavish. 7 years old. 12th avenue and Hayes street. Tolleston. Gary, sustained a broken leg yesterday afternoon when he got it caught in the wheel of a motor truck. The youngster was trying to get onto the machine driven by William Pictor and owned by the Klink newspaper agency. The police took the boy to Mercy hospital. 100 SIGN FOR HAMMOND MILITIA Twenty more signed the enrollment blanks for the Home Guard militix last night, making a total of 100. Of ficers are to be selected during the week. ARE YGU CAREFUL " when you Oil YOUR AUTOMOBILE? WORKING OX MAMMOTH TORPEDO FOR UNCLE SAM'S NAVY One of the giant torpedoes destined for use on American battleship in process of assembly. Torpedoes far the navy are shipped in parts from the factory at which they are made to a barg? : jo-cI In a little port somewhere alonjr the coast. Here they are assembled and then tested. Government officials watch the -seats carefully and reject all torpedoes found not up to tho standard. This photograph was taken aide the barge while the torpedo was being put together. SLACKERS Hi TEARS BEFORE UNITED STATES CMISSIEB Their Loyalty; to Old King Alcohol Chief Barrier to Registration, They Tell SurpriseAre Bound Over and Taken to Indianapolis. Booze was the alibi !n slacker hear ings before United States Commission er Charles Surprisli today. Four men arrested at Gary and one take at East Chicago were bound over to the fed eral grand jury it Indianapolis and were to b taken tSere tonight by Dep uty Marshal Frank.' Barnhart. Joel Roue. 68 yvars old. white haired, sobblngly begged forgiveness for im personating an -of.fACvr at Gary & week ago tonight. ' . Sir, I'vs been addicted to the liquor habit ever since I can remember. Guess it's hereditary. I live in Zlon City. I voted against the saloons so I wouldn't be tempted and when I came to Gary to visit my son I fell. I didn't know what I was doinir," tearfully the old man told his story. It was learned that his son had bought him the first drink. For this the son, married ard living between Ho bart and Gary, wasi reprimanded by the commissioner. Th father was releas ed. Fridham Held. George Fridham, 114 Clinton street, Hammond, was to have been taken to Federal .prison w th the flackers" un riiiirnn nr ru lLnHL Ur dftli STATH1S HELD TODAY More Than Fifty Autos in Procession to the Grave. Hundreds of rootle today raid their respects to the Memory of James Stathis, proprietor of the Columbia hotel and restaurant in East Hammond, who died suddenly of heart failure Sun day. There were more than fifty automo biles in the funeral procession which took the remains from the homo of Mrs. j James Bereolos. daughter of the de ceased, to the St. Jonn cemetery. Stathis was one of the best known Greeks of the county and his estate is estimated at $50.(00. He is survived by a widow and son in Greece, and his daughter. ENGLAND FIRST TO RESPOND TO POPE ROME. Aug. 21. England, first of the belligerent powers to answer the Pope's peace suggestion, presented a formal note to the Vatican today through British Minister Desalis, de claring the Holy Father's plan would be examined in a "benevolent and seri ous spirit." Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, expressed his gratification at the response. The cardinal said he hored all belligerents would admit of agreement on four principles which he said had already been approved by' England, France. Russia, Germany and Austria. He de clared President Wilsons peace note of last December implied all that was contained in the Pope's program. It is not clear what the "four funda mental principles'" ate. So ftr as cable dispatches have shown no common ground has yet bees reached by any of the belligerents officially. FINED FOR DRIVING WITH OPEN MUFFLER Louis Walter, Gar, was fined $3 and costs in city court today for driving his car with the muffler open. s" x s - 1 4 less he raised a $1,000 ball. He was tried last week and given on opportunity to enlist but the army refused to take him. Consequently evidence proving him to be a deliberate "draft dodger" forced Commissioner Surprise to send him to jail to await the pleasure of the grand Jury. Walter Zdonak, 4327 Magoun avenue. East Chicago, gave himself up. He said he didn't know anything about register ing as he lived on a secluded Wisconsin farm during the registration period and that he could not read English news papers. He was granted an opportunity to register. Nick John, Greek, said he was drunk registration day; Joe Williams, negro, was in aiToIedo Jail, but said some one registered him. (His story will be in vestigated.) Walter Abbott, negro, said: "Just careless, boss," when asked why he didn't register, Sam Mavde, Polish, didn' know about it, he said. East Chicago: Walter Dennlson. American, said, "Oh, I was bumming registration day." Deputy Marshal Barnhart arrested Charles Baker last night as a slacker. He gave $500 bond. VOLUNTEER PICKED UP R. C. Johnson Escapes Jail When He Proves He Is Patriot. Accepted as an officer reserve train ing applicant and arresttd in Chicago as a "slacker" was the unique exper ience of R. O. Johnson, associate city attorney, who resigned his position to day. He will enter training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, next Sunday. A few days ago Mr. Johnson was stopped by an officer in Chicago. He had forgotten arid left his registration card at home. Luckily he was able to prove his identity and was released without a stay In jail. Mr. Johnson is well known in Ham mond. He applied sometime ago for the second training camp and passed the examinations easily. PICKED TEUTON TROOPS FLUNG (By United Prean.) PARIS. Aug. 21. German pilced troops were flung violently but vainly against four points of the French fight ing line last night. At three places on the Chemin des Dames special stossstruppen battled desperately to loosen the French grip on and around Verdun, but General Petain's fighters repulsed the assault. All French ground was held, the of ficial statement declared today. "At Cerny plateau the Germans at tacked at three points twice," the of ficial report asserted. "They were re pulsed and flowed back to their trenches with heavy losses. . German attempts at Hurtebise like wise failed. "On the front north of Verdun the Germans carried out an energetic blow. There were counter-attacks of the most violent nature, especially at Avocourt and Caurieres Woods, which were all broken up in the fire of the French. We kept all .war gains." To Arms Your Country Calls. V K' - s Zz i uv-' V TWO BOYS, ONE 15, OTBDMf, MAIMED One Had Worked in Plant Only Five Minutes When He Lost an Arm. Mothers who fear to send their boys into the army should realize the fact that limbs are torn from bodies in the peaceful pursuit of industry in Lake county as well as beneath the flag in the trenches. Whether the danger is greater in France or in the Calumet re gion remains for the statistician to prove. At any rate there is glory to be had wearing khaki. Two Lake county boys have been crippled for life in local Industries this week. Edwar3 Bolda. who states he is 15 years of age, lost his right arm at the shoulder while working in the plant of the F. S. Betz Co. yesterday. His home is at 123 154th street. West Ham mond. His left leg was also broken, but the poor lad bears his sufferings like a hero. A. Koldowski, aged 16, had worked at the Indiana Box Company's plant about five minutes when his right arm was taken off at the elbow. His home is at 131 Indiana boulevard, Whiting. vVasraaE It ITALIANS CAPTURE 10,000 PRISONERS IN GREAT DRIVE By JOHN H. niUIT (United Press Staff Corraspondsat.) ROME, Aug. 21 Italy's prisoners in the greatest of all drives her troops have made in the world war, reached a total of 10 000 today. Semi-official figures places the Austrian losses in dead and wounded at a minimum of this same figure. On the three fronts today the Julian, Carso and Isonzo, General Cadorna's drive was continuing in a fierce combat of men and of guns that resounded ove'r nearly a hundred miles of fronts. Italian airmen reported desperate attempts by the enemy to fill breeches in the line already achieved by the attackers. Prisoners declared hurry calls had been sent for reinforcements from Prussia. (By TTaltsd Prssc Cablegram.) LONDON, Aug. 21 By vote of 1,234,000 to 1,231,000 the La bor Party members today decided to participate in the Stockholm peace conference. (Br trait d Frass.) HUGO, OKLA., Aug. 21. Aroused over Senator Thomas P. Gores attempt to force an amendment to the appropriation bill pro hibiting use of funds in waging war outside of the United States territory, four hundred citizens of Hugo and Choctaw counties to day demanded that Gore resign. The demand took the form of a telegram to Gore at Washington. (Br TJaitsd Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. President Wilson today postponed discussion with his cabinet of the Pope's peace proposals in order to give attention to war work. Br J. w. peox.es (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY ARMY, FRANCE Aug. 21. American tropps were "gassed" for the first time today but it was voluntary. The soldiers donned their gas masks and were sent through regu larly built gas chambers to meet various kinds of vapors used by the enemy in his attacks. The soldiers quickly caught the idea of donning the masks and after holding a few drills were putting on the air filters in four or five seconds. BOMB MIDDLEKERKE. LOXDOX, Aug. 21. British naval aeroplanes at midnight last night dropped many tons of bombs on the ammunition docks at Middlekerke and the German works at Brugeoizs. an admiralty statement announced today. NOTICE. Our business will continue during the alteration and remodeling of our store, 1S3 State street. Charles Arkin, Jewel er. Adv HARK MFG. COiPfli TDBUjLD IT Col. V. J, Riley, Property Agent Given Orders to Rush Con struction ot 1st Unit. Work began yesterday at Berrj Lake on the 200 acre tract owned by the Mark Mfg. Co. and lying be tween its plant and the Standard Oil plant on what is the most stu pendous building project ever start ed in the county outside of Gary. Col. Walter J. Riley, property agent for the Mark Mfg. Co., is beginning the erection of the first unit of 188 homes on the property and a force of engineers, architects and' landscape gardeners expect to make things hum at Berry Lake before snow flies. An Idea of the scope of the work may b obtained when it is said that tho filling in of the swamps alone will cost three hundred thousand dollars. The work will be s revelation to La'.e county people and social economy work ers when it is completed. The archi'.c spent two years in Europe studying lio,. to get the greatest building efficiency in the tract. When all the units arc com pleted the beautiful subdivision for it :. going to be a beauty and will be a pat tern and model for working men's homes. The houses are to cost from $2,000 to $8,000 each. They will l,o the last word. in scientific house build ing. The building scheme is so different from all schemes now in vogue in LaV county as to be as different as day i 1 1 "L J ; . - " urajnage, engineering. isnusrape garaening, nouse arrange ment, concrete work and lighting will make the subdivision, which is practical ly on the lake front, a most desirable one for workmen. The houses will be leased only to the employes of the Mark Mfg. Co. and its subsidiary the Bl Prod ucts company and they and Col. Riley, their property agent, have every reason to be proud of the prospects they have outlined. ECONOMY TO ALSACE-LORRAINE (By United rre.) ZURICH, Aug. 21. Chancellor Mieh aelis will announce German's decision to grant economy t Alsace-Lorraine at this afternoon's session of the Reichstag committee, according to a special agency dispatch here today. il