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FAIR
WEATHER
VOL. XIT.XO. 211.
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HAMMOND, INDIANA,
COUNTY
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
REMEMBER THE WHEATLESS
DlY AND KEEP IT WHOLLY
ellvered by TZUX3 carrisrsTQo"!?-.!
month; os streets and at newsstands, Sj
per copy; back nnmbtn 3c per copy.
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Feed Your Own Town,
Advice of Suffragist
fit
Sixty Houses as Starter To be
Eullt by Employes on
Davidson Plan,
OIL CITY ACTING;
IS NOT TALKING
How YTMtiay lias let out to extend
partial relief to housing condition
there aa -well in East Chicago-Ix-dla.ni
Harbor, which taa identical in
terest with, it, is told here. It is a
inoTement that le noteworthy hecau.se
it Is being financed hy small ub
soriptlons from employes, not seek
in y the huge profits that some lend
ers often demand, hut who want rea
sonable earnings and who have the
community's interests at heart.
Whiting is setting out to build its
houses, not waiting for the govern
ment to act or not act.
$4 all
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INSURANCE SALES
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By A STAT? COB.BE SPONEE NT.
WHITING, IND., March 1.
This community iu the northwest!
corner of Lake county, the leading
oil refining center in the mid-west,
has set out to apply practical
methods in alleviating the lack of
housing conditions.
It is being accomplished through
a corporation that is unique in re
spect to its organization: neither
banks nor industries nor capitalists
are financing it.
The Home Building company of vrhit
Ine. Ind.. as it is soon to bi incorporat
ed, is a concern that has Its stock!
Ci.Tused in small holdings anions em
ployes cf the great Standard Oil com
pany's works here. As a startor they
are going to build between BO and 60
homes in YThitins. StiesHtz park and
Indiana Harbor to be sold ca e&sy pay
ment plans to workmen.
WHITING'S POSITION.
This is ho-sv VThitins Is situated with
reference to her own needs and the 'de
mands made upon her:
1. There are 4,000 men employed
in the Standard OU plant here, 1,000
more than were working a year a?o.
2. Of this number 1,500 are un
able to live in Whitinff because of
lack of houses.
3. Just back of Whiting Is the
new Sinclair oil refineries, soon to
employe 500 men in the first unit.
"IVhltiBfT must house nearly half of
these men.
, Completing Just east of Whit
ing Is the Mark stel plant, first unit.
While the company Is putting up 200
houses at ITorth Harbor, still Whit
lug and Indiana Harbor must house
part of the 8,000 employes. Eveutn
aUy the Mark tube works wlU have
between 8.0CO and 10,000 men.
5. 2To one buUds bouses for rent
in Whiting-. There are no apart
ment houses.
6. so far, outside of the Mark
people, corporations in North town
ship hare not built houses during
the war.
7. whiting- is -retting another
new industry, the Great Western
Refining company's smelting works,
which will soon need homes for 100
men.
8. Due to the strain on it raUway
and traction serrice no longer can
get to work in time the extra forces
of war workers. As a result Whit
ing plants, Uke those in other near
ly towns, lose heavily because
workmen soon go elsewhere, being
unable to afford to live at a distance
in Chicago.
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CDUHTY BOY
WOUNDED
Hobert Mark Beatty, Ham
mond Boy Son of Em
ploye of Grasselli Chemi
cal Co., Reported Severely
Wounded in France.
' V r , i
MIS HILDA-LOINES
Misj Hilda Loinfs. who Snows some
thing about farming-, has boon named
chairman cf ths food production com
mittee of the National American Wtx
an Suffrage Association. She has map
ped out a plan to interest til members !
of the organization th cjg"ho-j t tho I
country to cultivat" their garJn. 5he !
believes many town? vbici. j r now i
The United States entered into the
war with Germany April 6.
liobert Mark Bratty. a nineteen year
old boy read the news.
Uncle Sam needed volunteers and
he made up his mind to enlist. For
four days Robert taUc-d to hoy friends
about goin? and cn April 10th with
several companions he prrs-ented him
self at the recruiting office, passed
the examination, and left for ' training.
August 23 he reached France. Fort
Thomas and Fort Wadswoith being but
ytoprint-; places enrute.
February 16th he was wounded In
action with a trench mortar battery
In Pejpshing's army holding the Amer
ican sector.
Among the f.rst to leave after the
declaration of war he was the first
United States soldier from Lal:e county
to he wounded with the forces uf G?n
eial Pershing.
Mt Poor, IJrnve Boy.
Mr. Robert S. Beatty, his mother,
slid from a chair '..o the floor in her
home at 357 East State street, last
evening, when a reporter brought the
n ws that her son had been wounded.
"My poor, brave boy." she robbed, "my
poor brave boy."
Th news brought concern to scores
of Lake county mothers who feel sure
that their sons who enlisted In th )
spring cf last year in tho coast artil
(Contintied on rase five.)
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Capt. Warner Sayers.
Ninety-four per cent of the sol
diers at Camp Zacharv Taylor have
been insured. It's the banner camp.
As a result of establishing this rec
ord Lieut. Warner Savers, Louisville
athlete, has ben made a captain. lie
headed the insurance drive.
AS flLLliS
FLIER IN
WRECK ST
GROOM
The Louisville, flyer on the Monon
went in the ditch at Erookston, Ind., one
hundred and Fix miles south of Ham
mond laet night. 'Four cars were thrown
off the track but fortunately no one was
seriously injured. Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Knoerzer of Hammond were on the train
that left Hammond at 0:45. They were
enroute to West Baden. While shaken
and slightly bruised and reached West
Baden safely.
William Newman." William J. McAleer,
Frank Barker and Manager Llnnemann
of the Indiana Gardens Rink were re
turning from Indianapolis and because
of the wreck it took sixteen hours to
make the trip.
WRECKED 111
SMASHESJNTO TOWER
Peculiar Railroad Accident
Reported South of Ham
mond Yesterday.
N. 0. B
Ml
ON WAB BOARD
raying ,m;u
get them for r
more vfgi.-tsMpf
'5 for vesetabi :3
3 if tiny will 3
can
t ow
GREAT SALE EiS
Shelby Ranchman Named on
Lake County Council
of Defense Today.
Hundreds Stand for Tlfree
and Half Hours at a Re
markable Meeting of the
American Alliance When
Soldiers Tell of Atrocities.
' The greatest sale drle - e
ever known in our store," said Messrs.
Kaufman &- Wolf today In 5pc3k:i;g cf
their sexi-annsa! mill end sale on this
wpic.
It has been found necessary to ch: se
the sale tomorrow b'.-caus the supply
of mill-end goods has bn entirely ex
hausted ru.fi the silo will close earlier
than originally Intended.
Though the sale- lias bern in vogin
for fifteen yars th" business done this
week has liceti so much greater than at
ony other sale the store his hrol, there
is no -comparison with former years.
The bargains offered were eagerly
bought by tho public which is showing
tho effects of war economy and conserv
ation. The mill-end sale has made room for
j tho supplies of rpring goods; whb-U
will ho on (Jipplay after the U -hc. of
1 th 5:8 ic.
C.pecinl to The Ti:t
V ROW N. POINT, Ind.. March 2. I he j
appointni'-nt or e:j i. fr- n oi cn-i- j
j by as a member of t'.i" Lake t'ounty j
iv! ' C'oun.-il of h'ef'nse was made by Judge j
'rs. TV. C. MfMnh-'ti of the Like Circuit
; court. Mr. F.rown :s one cr l.aKe coun-
tys most r rommen-. men. along I plans for
i agricultural ami o isiness jin-s ana
' Ti. wilt ro ove a valuable ecqV..iti"n
that war h-viy. ii s.jcce.as . j. tra'g
fot rncr Lalie e c unty agent and is onl;.
T o hundred mn and women, un
able to find seats In the crowded 'audi
torium of th" Masonic Tern-:!'- at Ham
mond last evening stvo 1 In tho aisles,
the doorwa y?, rjijeesed het :v en the
seats and the walls, for thrco and a half
hours without ft thought of f'itigu.
Not a person left "h h.ill nn';! 11:30
when the Indi'-tm'-nt .f the sniase Hun
v.as complete, mi'l the trial of Ormany
by ruhli-; ac-'ilm ndc with the ver-d!.-t,
'";ui:t y." The punishment that
Tho hundreds of j.eople present de
termined upon was "ua!-i."
The people, members of th.'? American
Alllanc. were culi-watered In t he face
with the awful truths of Crmany's
world conquest. rulhies war.
of ' c.,,.. , ... ,. . ..... ...
I'uiioHti i ,sri,, the war
analytst of the Cliicatro I'ot and the
(Special to The Times)
t ST. JOHN. Ind.. March. 1 What rail
road men say is one of the most pecul
iar accidents in railroad history occur
red here yesterday afternoon at the C.
I 6c S. end Monon railroad crossings
when a northbound C. I. & S. freight
due t; the breakdown of tho a truck
crashed Tntt th TT" tower, a twenty
lever structure and demolished It. Ja
cob Soecker, the tower man. suffered
not fatal injuries. Five other railroad
men who happened to be in the tower
had miraculous escapes.
HELPS LEAD "BIG
DRIVE ON JiUSS'
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KlICE
STOPPED
General von Liasenea.
It's hard to see why it would Le
necessary for any of tha Teutcc
leaders to be lookinji through a held
periscope in their -?r7e" into Rns
sta: Ihrthere '"GeKtrab TOrr-i-iT
sender peerine throneh one before
the "capture" of Kovno ii Lirh:.?n!3.
GIFT TO GENERAL
CAUSES INQUIRY
,
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! Latest n
'Bulletins i!
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Soviet Demands "Holy Warr",
Delegates Protest Against .
a German Peace.
By JOS. SHAPLIH
(trmted Preaa staff Correspondent.)
PETROGRAD, Feb. 27 (night.)
Soviet commissaries are arriving
from many large Russian cities de
manding that a "Holy War" be pro
claimed against German invaders.
They advocated arming oi the en
tire population.
, The . delegates protested signing
of the German peace terms. Some
smaller villages and cities favor
the peace pact.
STOP GERMAN OFFENSIVE.
(tToitea Presa Cablegram.)
PETROGRAD. Feb. 28 (evenings
Largo enemy forces were thrown
against the Orsha front, it was reported
here.
Thousands of workmen from irosco--v
dug several miles of trenches beyond
Orsha. A battle is expected momentari
ly. Civilians are leaving.
The German offensive has been stop
ped, due to resister.ee of the Russian
revolutionary forces, the Bolshevik! offi
cial statement declared today.
cERMximitnnroFFr
("United Press Cablegram.)
LOXDO.V, March 1 Pskoff is in C
man hands, despite contrary rumor
change Telegraph dispatch from .,
grad declared today.
(By United Press.)
CHICAGO, March 1. A package- of
toilet articles, aid to have been sent (By United Press Cablegram.)
by tha Armour Soap Works to General j ZURICH, March 1. Austro-Kucgary,
E. II. 1 lurnmer in charge of the can- i declarfjig It is acting on the request of
tonment at r'ort Dodge, la., gava the i Ukrainia, la intervening militarily In
federal tr.iuo commission investigation j that country, -was reported here today,
of the packing houses a sensational turn ! Tha operations began yesterday,
toda". j
Switching suddenly from reading let-I rBr United Frees Cablegram.!
ters intending to show that packers re-!
ceived tips from food administration
officials, Francis J. Heney read a num
ber of letters from the contract files.
These purported to show that the Des
Moines manager for tho Armours who
said ho received from Gen. riummer
"exclusive right to build a sub-braneh
adjoining the commissary at Camp
Lou6A". suggested sending the general
Ml
DEFENDS
GARFIELD
a little package of toilet articles and
LCNDOH, lilarcn 1. English troops j
successfully raided enemy positions j (By United Press.)
north of the Tpres-Staden railway last WASHINGTON", March 1. A situation
night, taking a lew prisoners, rield j so serious that it threatened the allied
Marshal Halg reported today. There j cause existed about January 13 when
was cannonading during the night American lines of communication wi;h
around Vaccruerie and east of Ypres.
wrh Mr. T;r-i".vn on the rit-fense board
tho farmin:r interests of Lake county
wll! have a splendid repi esentation
the!
I
1GILUHIET PARK
TO CLOSE D
Pari: Ftc
Y n rds
Calumet
where over half a million horses have
been shipp'-d ti tho .Mli. s Is to cV.c
temporarily sh'vtH acordinr to .cup
I erintendent Jac k Neal this mot ning.
Th" cause of closing rp the .'l'iitiet
Pa; k Stock Yards is duo to the fact
These are the conditions that Whiting j that the government have not e-iough
faces. Whiting could be a far bigger boats to carry Die la-g shipments of
town were these (1) corporation help j horses to the other sid. B..H that
and it is reported that the Standard Oil wer" for.nerly used for shipping horses
4. v,.,f tn rtenrt from its traditional ! are now. being used to carry
Aiv-.-bwu-- -
methods and supply houses or money "on.
for them; (2) were there housing invest- j lt 's said.
ments by local capita-; uj were pusi- --.-..v . a.. .. -rj uuu
ress Interests more aggressive. That;flDOU eeits. mere are still a
would mean more houses and between i fe"' shipments of horses yet to be
onrt anil in. 000 more people would live ; " at-rafe i awm two anu
h ere had they house?.
i rilS in iPn 1 irav in n-t-i . 1 T . - U - i
n of J'din Frown, r-redent r,f th t ,. " ' nmt-
1- , , v . . . v.-ar r itm ss- d and tol l l v f.-o re-
Fijst Nationni hank of crown Point. !. , , .,,
i Scoteh-Cansdian, and Svrgear.t Vann, an
I American In the K'lgiHn nt u-y.
j Uses "Trench Talk."
so wroug.it aid Sergeant McKay he-
I come as lie udd or tlie way m hich his
(romrades we;-e hut rh Vr , tn jiar.
i harous Hun from the hcciniiinr' of the
war v.-hen methods were kt rndu"ed that
put the cannibal saviges to slnmr, that
he fell In to 'trench ".ilk." The aVid
lenc gasped at the langunse "tuit j
forced home more than anything else
the. horrors of "Over There" and the
damnable hypocrary of tho Potsdam
"kultuj-e." His regiment went int.. otv?
engagement, with S'O men and came out
j v. ith sixty-three.
"Wo went over there o Pght like
(Continued on Pap;e7 f our.
BAR ASSOCIATION
ENDORSES KENNEDY
Well Known East Chicago
Lawyer Boosted By His
Fellows for Judge.
i
a few bars of soap. !
"These wlii bs highly pleasing to Gen.
riummer." the letter read. "He is a
particular old codger and I Imagine is
very fussy about such things."
Heney read another .letter date Camp
l"cdgc, Oct. C7, 1917, and signed, "W.
H. 1'iuminer." according to the official
record, saying "the package had not
arrived. You already know my loyalty
to the Armour product!. Nothing else
will do."
The office, according to the evidence,
was evidently prodded to look after the
general's package. From Des Moines
it was reported "Gen. Plummer's pack
age received Saturday, sent out today."
IBy United "Press Cablegram.)
TOKIO, Ilarch 1. Tho Japanase am-
1 bassador at Petrograd today officially
notified bis government the allied -a-oys
are leaving tiie city.
"Dispatches from the U. P. correspond
ent at Petrograd received early yester
day announced that Ambassador Trancis
together with the Japanase, Brazilian
and Siamese envoys left tho Russian
capital Tuesday for Vologda.
and
:muni-
food stuffs
army supplies
Calumet Tark .;!; close down
The East Chicago and Indiana Harbor!
Bnr .Association met in the council
chamber of the East Chicago city hall j
left evening. j
President Drissey appointed the fol-j
lowing standing committees:
Pules committee Judge Ityman M j
Cohen, JudKO llli.nu A. l'uzy and j
YiUi? F.. Roe. ,
Membership commit tee Judge yv
Jordan, A. J. Fritz and I.. W. aaric. ' j
The candidacy of J. D. Kennedy for1
judge of superior court, room z. was en
dorsed by a unanimous vote.
A committee was, appointed to con
sider advisability of holding a fish din
ner in the near future.
The next meeting of association is to
be held in city court at 10 a. m., March 2.
MOST STAELZ CITY.
With reference to housing invest
ments here this much may be said:
VT biting Is the most stable city in Ia
Aianal Not once in a quarter of a cen.
tary has the great Standard Oil refiner
ies here been shut down for a single day
due to industrial depression Elsewhere
In the region in "94 in 07, in the great
war panic during the w inter of '14-15.
when steel plant. and car works were
boarded up, the Rockefeller plant con
tinued its even tenor, its workmen draw
ing their usual pay.
So stable is Whiting's foundation, so
steady is the inflow of Standard Oil
gold (the payroll) that here cs no where
three trains a week has been sent out
! to eastern shipping points for stveral
j month?. This clo.-ing order " ill only
! be for about in n month and the yards
will he opened for business again. The
for the time being.
CLAIMS CAPTURE
0FAMERIANS
(By United Press Cablegram.)
EERIJN' (Via London) March 1.
"Near Chavlgnon our storm troops cap
tured ten American prisoners," the war
office announced today.
Chaignon is a small town in the
Aisne district, about tel miles north
east of Soissons. The e'erman lines in
this s- ctlon lay through extensive stone
A JPaul G. Moorehoad, Ham-' vrics which havc been strons,y forU-
PERMITS TAKEN FOR
TWELVE NEW HOMES
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 1 American
Consul Treadwell and the staff at Pet
rograd have left for Vologda, turaisur
over the effects cf the consulate to the i bince then " has been possible to load
France were "absolutely destroyer,"
Representative Rainey of Illinois toli
the house today in defending the fuel
administrator. "Our lines of communi
cation were destroyed, not by sub
marines, but because our transportation
system was clogged." he said. "The
whole story cannot be told. When it Is
told there will be members of this
house who would be glad to expunge
their criticism of the coal order."
A delay in Introducing the order a
desired by the senate would have been
impossible, he. said, for it was vital
that 2D0 waiting ships bo coafed and
started immediately. Every waiting
ship had been bunkered in less than a
week after the order, he continued
move-
Norwegian consul general. No vronl has an(1 coal 45! ships carrying 2,000,009
tons cf food Rnd supplies.
Rainey intimate! that the problem is
not one of production but of transport
ation of con!. ,
come from Ambassador Prancis'
monts.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, March I. Carrying '
869,533,393.25, or 313,531,599.03 more ier. He has been wita the troops la
than last year, the largest legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill in the nation's history was reported
to the bouse today.
MANY GREET
WILL HZ HAYS
mond Contractor, Plans
to Erect 50 Houses.
! The. Herman raid in this'sector was
j mentioned in the Freeh report of a vlo
! lent attack following a heavy bombard
j ment. The French said the enemy was
! beaten back in hand to hand fighting.
VICTIM OF BILLARD
CUE REOVERING
Frank Betiak. 5"3 Ames avenue, who
was struck ever the head with a hi!- I William R. Wilrox. former chairman
liard cue and severely injuted in an ,f the omrr.ittee, attended the lunch
East Hammond poo! room last Monday f on f Hays. The luncheon followed
night, is still confined at St. Margaret's" ' -j. trip to Washington bv Ha s and
The ball has started rolling.
Twelve permi's were secured today'
by Paul G. Moorehead. n contractor, for.
thp const ni' t ion of homes fn Hammond
o cost from to """.Dr.'i. i
Mr. Moorhead came- to Hammond a '
year ago from (lary 1-catise h 'he-'
'ioved th pnv-pects to h Ji.-.tter in'
1 Hammond." He cunstruccd eighteen
(Br the I'nlted Fren (houses last yeiv .ind t.o'M tlum at a.;
XEW YORK, March 1. Former pro-i profit. He expects to build p,fty houses'
gi cssivrs and old guard republicans ' this year and has already started thrc e.
Joined today in greeting Will H, Hays. The fifteen now under construction and j
national republican chairman, at a i to be started soon are on Grover street.!
luncheon at the bankers' club here. Hyslop rlace, 142nd street. Mason street;
Tranc for nine months.
"I Itiow of no gentle method of con
ducting war," he said, 'ana we cant ex
pect our armies to go through It with
out getting hurt. The public must know
(By United Press.) the truth no matter how painful. Our
WASHINGTON, March 1. Stephen T. oj In Prance can't understand the sup
Burnett, New York, has been named rep. pression of news."
resentative. of the war trade board in Gen. March said he could tell noth
Argentina. He will have charge of com- iJS" of Gen, Pershing'a artillery except
merclal investigations relating to read- j that lt was "some artillery."
justment of trade between the United ' The morale of the soldiers, he said, Is
States and Argentina. ! better than lt was on tha Mexican
j border.
(By United Press.) j
WASHINGTON, March 1 The senate
military affairs committee today report
Continued on page five )
hospital, jfo wi'l recover.
His assailant, Martin 1-af.off. furnish
ed a $100 bond for his f ppearani e be
fore Judge Klotx in th" eiy court rf i
Tuesday morning. He Is charged with
committing a felonious assault.
precede a trip to New Haven where
H;i;,a will see former President Taft.
lie will he guest of ) oivr tomorrow at
h luncheon by Senator Calder at the
I'nion hoagiif club. State Chairman
jlinn will he present at this luncheon.
and Summer street. He is also erecting
a cement block ftetory huildinar for th 3
Hammond Malleable Tron 'Works.
"I soli every lioue last yea p before
they were finished and have twenty-live
people urging mo to build houses for
them now." said Mr. Moorhead. "I
don't find the increased cost of labor an
offset. I am building the houses at the
same price as last year."
U-BOAT TOLL
FOR THE WEEK
SHOWS INCREASE
LONDON", March. 2. The British
admiralty report for the week end
in? shows an increase in the num
ber of vessels sunk by submarines
or mines.
Over Under
1600 1600 Smlr.
, tons ton3 craft
First forty-seven .. 76 4
Forty-eighth '
Forty-ninth 10
Fiftieth 3
Fifty-first 1-
Fifty-sceond It
270
Total S2:
Grand total
1S4
3
4
1
1
234 200
1,315
(United Press Cablegram.)
LONDON, March 1. The British and
ed favorably a bill putting the country' j Prench embassies have departed from
; dumber production up to the president. Petrograd, according to an agency Ois.
patch from tho Buislaa capital today.
FASIS, March 1 The basis for
j thousand trained Siberian cossacks will i Japan's intervention in Siberia has been
! oppose any inf nn-reincnt on Siberia's decided tha Petit Journal declared to.
; soverignty according to Cel. listcovky j day. "The United States has recognised
i of the Russian Railway Guards, when j lta utility. Only the details remain to
ho pased thrcuyh here today on hi3 way . be settled."
to Washington from Russia.
(By United Press.)
SAN TRANCISCO, March 1 Eighty
"llTJZrl ILL TRAIN LOAD OF
on the part of the Siberian people," he
said. "The more radical in Vladivostok
threaten to burn the immense stores of
supplies there rather than have them
captured."
(By United Press.)
AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 1.
' Maj. Gen. March, new chief of staff of
' the United Sates army, believes the
censorship over correspondence .at the
front is too strict. He made known his
belief when he disembarked from
POTATOES AFIRE
(Special to The Times.)
DTER, 1XD.. -larch 1. While it wn-,
waiting on the Monon side track for a
north bound train, a freight train of 22
cars loaded wit hpotatoes was set afire
last night end a big portion of it de
stroyed. Fire In one of the ears to keen
the potatoes from freeiner caused ' the
blaze. The volunteer fire-department of
Dyer' did good work in snibduing the
flames,