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OL. XI, NO. 279.
HAMMOND, INDIANA,
THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918.
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Unparalleled Atrocity Committed
By German Air Raiders
on Hospitals.
(By 'WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS '
Unites Press Cablegram.!
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES
IN FRANCE, May 23. More than
one hundred women nurses, pa-;
tients and attendants, were killed
or wounded in a raid on a large
number of hospitals by German i
airmen. i
In this latest attack a score of i
huge planes circled over the objec
tive where the Red Cross was
plainly visible, dropping a number
of huge bombs and still greater
number of small shrapnel bombs to
kill nurses and the wounded. The
shrapnel was tur.ed to burst at the j
level of the ground and thus insure
the greatest possible destruction of
life. The enemy commander's ma
chin was brought down.
I visited the place today. Huts were
In splinters at the hospital -where the
bipgest toll was taken had disappeared
and nearby was a crater where a bis
bomb fell on nurses quarters.
Those who witnessed the attack said
they never had seen anything so won
derful as the courage of the women dur
ing the raid which begun at 10:20 p. m.
and lasted two hours. None doserted
their patients. Many of the latter were
bad cases of compound fractures neces
sitating puspension in hangers. The
slightest movement was dangerous for
them as well as agonizing. While the
Huns in an endless chain swirled across
the hospital area, these nurses smilingly
went from one patient to another laying
gentle hands on fevered brows.
The squadron commander who was
brought down speaks English. He said
he did -not see the Red Cross but had
been following a railroad train. He is
being cared for by sisters of the women
he killed. There were some Americans
in the group of hospitals but none was
touched.
FOUND IS NOW
Lake County Official's Rival
on Links at Famous
Springs.
rPPECiAL To The Times!
TTEST BADEN. IND., May 23. Golf
has found a brand new pair of devotees
here in the rersons of G. Mack Foland.
auditor of Lake county, and Geo. Schaaf.
county commissioner. Foland's boy
doesn't care very much for the game be
cause Jack is caddying for father.
The first 18 hole match between
Schaaf and Foland resulted in a victory
for the latter because as Schaaf asser
vates he ate too much lunch and had
new clubs besides having a lot of trou
ble in No Man's Land.
After the match Jack Foland said he'd
cult the game cold unless the governor
came across with a horse so he could
ride instead of walk. A number of Lake
county people are at French Lick
Springs playing golf. These include R.
II. McIIie. manager of the Lake County
Times string of papers, and Herman
Sasse of Gary.
WH SOLDIER WILL
HQT BE EXECUTED
BATTLE CREEK. MICH.. May 23.
Trivate Theodore Kallaa cf Gary, re
cently sentenced to death for rank in
subordination and other offenses, will
escape with fifteen j ear3 In Leaven
worth. . Kallas first escapsd the firing
squad by a technicality that caused a
second trial, in which the coure recom
mended life imprisonment. The com
mandant reviewed the case and com
muted the sentence.
ITabbed at Gary.
Kallas , was arrested by orders of
Board N 1. Gary, by the Gary police
ss a s" :ker. He wan sentenced for
desertion and striking officers. Chief
Bragdon of the secret service and A. L.
Brown of Gary's exemption board No. 1
testified against Kallas. '
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iiE.Mlk' C. GILIO.
Another Hammond boy has made
good in the V. S. Aviation corps, henry
C. Gillo who last year was elected cap
tain of the Colgate University foot
ball squad and left school to enlist,
has been called to Urbana. 111., to take
the aviation examination for captaincy
in the corps. Mr. Gillo is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gillo. 839 South
Hohman street and his father Is con
nected with the E. C. Mlnas comrany.
OXWIU LEfiO
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VICE CRUSADE
CHICAGO, May 23. Sheriff Traeger
hereafter will have federal aid in prose
cuting persons arrested in raids upon
resorts in West Hammond and other
towns along the Indiana state line.
The sheriff and Samuel Insull of the
state council of defense have laid plans
to reduce vice to a minimum. They will
have the co-operation of Hinton G. Cla
baugh, local department of justice haed
here. Sheriff Traeger said:
"Mr. Insull is going to send for the
mayors of all towns and tell them they
must clean up. If they do not I am
convinced they can be prosecuted for
malfeasance of office.
"I will report to Mr. Hoyne and con
tinue raiding Burnham and West Ham
mond. "All person from now on will be turn
ed over to the federal authorities and
dealt with as severely as the federal
laws permit."
LIFE TEH FOB
ISGMUHDMESSER
Porter County Jury Finds
Him Guilty of Murder
Yesterday.
fSPE'-ivi, To The Tim?:'.
VALPARAISO. IND., May 23 Oscar
Landmesser, the itinerant evangelist
who shot up the Hammond city court
room. October 1 killing Fred Bayne,
his rival in love, and wounding Mrs.
Myrtle Pfeffer, a policewoman, was
sentenced to life imprisonment in the
circuit court today. Landmesser was
found guilty of murder.
When the verdict of the jury was read
deputy sheriffs were ready to handle
Landmesser whose violent outbursts
featured the trial which besan a week
ago. Landmesser. however, received the
sctitence calmly, thanking the Jury.
The prosecution of Landmesser was
conducted by Attorney Bremer of Crown
Point. Senator Kinder and Prosecuting1!"
Attorney Charles Jensen of Porter coun
ty. H. E. Granger of Hammond defend
ed Landmesser. advancing a plea of in
sanity for his client.
COSTS U. S. 65
MILLION DAILY
By United Press
WASHINGTON. May 23. The United
States during May will hurl approxi
mately two billion dollars into the war
and a new record for war expendi
tures will have been set. The battle
against Germany to date has cost Am
erica thirteen billion dollars and is ex
pected to reach another billion by June J
1. The daily drain is now $65,000,000.
According to figures being prepared by
McAdoo internal revenues due June 15,
are expected to exceed $4,000,000,000.
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This rate of increase, it was said, will 'Casualties listed by the war department
last until August 1. Then every de- ! today Included fourteen killed in ac
parttr.ent will begin eating chunks out ; tlon. twelve dead of wounds, eleven
of the third liberty loan. The interest; of disease, thirty-nine wounded sev
of the nation's rublic debt has reached jerely agy nine wounded slightly and
the total cf $92,000,000. 'one missing.
C ! ! Hammond Board of Educa- U 1 1 1 a LJ i V With Two Davs Morfi for ' ,VC ,&V
Hammond Board of Educa
tion Drops the Axe on
Eight Instructors and
Gives Raise to Other
Grade Teachers.
i A hundred and twenty teachers of the
j Hammond public schools will find an
extra $5 bill In their pay envelope
j when they assume their duties next fall
j and to make the raise possible the ax
has fallen In nine places where ped-
dogues will be missed the least.
Among the things eliminated In the
i grades is the teaching of German.
' Superintendent of Schools C. M. Mc
I Daniel today announced that the raise
of pay for gra3e teachers demanded by
the teachers and the Hammond Wom
an's club has been provided by the
board of education to the greatest ex
tent possible under existing conditions. J
A saving of $10,000 a year to meet the
increased pay-roll will be arranged by
the following process:
Small increase in the revenue by
reason of the larger school enum
eration. Small Increase In assessed val
uations. Elimination of two assistant kin
dergarten teichers, a maunal train
ing teacher, domestic science teach-
I ., f r a.a -asaistan rausie nupervisor.
assistant art supervisor, the teacher
of German In the grades and two
ether grade teachers.
Col. Meyer, attorney for the school
board, ruled that as the teaching of
German in the grades Is required by
law only when petitioned, and no peti
tion has been presented to have it
taught the coming year, and as the num
ber of pupils taking German has fallen
off. It should be dispensed with.
The board was not able to grant the
$15 increase per month petitioned for.
but gave a $5 raise to start with the
opening of the next school year In Sep
tember. Tho saving of $10,000 must
also take care of new teachers. The
raise amounts to a flat increase of J3.
The minimum will be $S0. the maximum
$33 and the average ?57, Mr. McDan
iel stated.
$80 the Lowest.
For the teachers employed this year
who return next season the increase
amounts to a $10 a month ralso be
cause it has been the custom of the
school board each year to increase the
wage $5 a month for teachers who re
turn until the maximum is reached.
Therefore the teachers getting $70 a
month this year will draw $S0 next and
those now receiving JS0 get $90, etc., up
to $fl5.
The higher school enumeration brings
in $700 and the increase la valuations
$200 per year.
The elimination of teachers was made
in such a way that all branches of
the school work can be kept intact.
The Fr3nkl!n, Columbia and Washington
schools did not have assistant kinder
garten teachers this year so the board
though it feasible to drop the assistant
kindergarten ttachers at the Riverside
school and have the work left In charge
of the kindergarten principal entirely.
One assistant kindergarten teacher
will do at both the Irving and Llnco:n '
x
schools as each school has a kinder- storm of Mackenscn" Germany's third
garten principal. Manual training has and perhaps final drive will be launch
been taugh in the fifth, sixth and sev- ed about Jure l. according to the pre
enth grades and hereafter will be taught diction of Con. Bridges, chief of the
in only the sixth and seventh. By a British military mission here,
similar method one domestic science Should Mackenscn fail to break
teacher can be dispensed with. The
board believes that it can struggle
through without the music and art as
sistant supervisors.
In the night schools only government
work will be done, and that Is pai3 for
out of the vocational fund.
The summer school is to be eliminated drive probably will come about June 1.
excert for high school seniors who have I may come before or after, but It Is
credits to mcke up. I coming." said Gen. Bridges. "We ex-
At the Columbia school a grade tarh- ' rect the enemy to make hi?- greatest
er with a small class is to be drorpel efrort around Tpres and north of Ba
and the rupils sent to other rooms. At raume while a smaller drive is expected
Franklin there is one too many teachers at Amiens."
for war times who will be dropped.
57 VARIETIES
REPRESENTED
By HENRY WOOD
WITH THE FRENCH LEGION IN
THE FIELD. May 23. Fifty-seven na
tions were represented by the famous
French foreign legion when on March 25
it took Hangard wood In one of the
bloodiest battles of the German offen
sive. This action completely wiped out
the progress made in their second drive
on Amiens.
86 IN DAY'S NEW
CASUALTY LIST
TBv Un-itko Prfss.I
WASHINGTON. May 2Z. Eighty-six
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RED GROSS
Loo!
What the Little Old
County Seat Is Going to
Do on Saturday.
Special To The Times!
CROWN rOINT. IND.. May 23. A
bunch of live wires in this live wire
town, always digging up some new war
stunt, have decided to put on an auction
sale on Saturday for the benefit of the
Red Cross thi-.t will make things sizzle.
Everything that you can think of has
been contributed to make this sale a
puccess. Fred Krieter. a patriotic farm
er, has given a young bull worth $300
to be put up. Farmers, chicken fanc
iers, turkey raisers, have all gladly
agreed to give up some poultry and
stock for sale. There will be good things
to tat and the whole durned county Is
invited. ETer.tionr'WthoBty
will be present at the sale twenty of
them. Ever see 20 auctioneers together
in one place? Ever HEAR them. Well,
come on down.
It's for the Red Cross.
iltll ALLIANCE
RED CROSS MEETING
flUIBERTY HALL
Two Interesting Speakers
on Program to Be Given
This Evening.
The program of the American Al
liance Red Cross meeting at Liberty
hall this evening follow?:
Piano solo Melody of patriotic airs,
Mrs. V.". H. Misesrh.
Star-Spangled Banner By the Audi
ence. Address Sergeant Blunt of the Brit
ish Army.
Vocal The Flag Song and the Re
cessional. Mrs. L. L. Bomberger.
Address "Bohemia. Our Ally," Prof.
Jaraslov Zmrhal. former teacher
of Knglish in the University of
Prague.
Amenica By udience.
The public Is invited, admission free.
NOW DATE IS JUNE 1.
Br I'vited Pres.1
WASHINGTON, May 23. "The
through the allied lines an Austro
German offensive against Italy, probably
will follow. Bridges expressed com
plete confidence in Gen. Foch to stem
tho invasion.
"The enemy now has on the western
front about 1.500. MO bayonets. The
I The newly organized German divisions
I and the remnants of the divisions en-
gaged in the recent drives are being
put through training in open warfare.
Should a determined effort to crush
Italy be made by the Germans the al
lies would find it imperative to length
en their Hoes.
YOUNG MEN,
READ THIS
WASHINGTON", May 23. Men sub
ject to the draft under the law just
enacted requiring? registration of nil
youths who line become twenty-one
years of nge since? June last, were
notified today by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowdcr to protect themselves by
nrraiutlnR for registration before June
5, If they are to be nwny from their
homes on rcs;UtrntIon ilay.
Your money gets action when
given to the Red Cross,
With Two Days More for
d Cross War Drive
Amount Contributed To
taled $22,000 Tonight
City Will Go Over Top. .
SEC. DANIELS SAYS:
WASHINGTON, May 23. Secre
tary IJnnleln of the Navjr has Is
suer an nppenl for the Red Croa,.
In part follows:
"In the sreat emergency of the
present war the Red Cross Is doub
ly enlisted. In all it does to help
us win It Is helping to snve and
maintain those Ideals of fnlthful
neHS and honor, kindness and loy
alty, on which its own existence
rests.
"And every man,, itturai and
hild who realizes the peril we are
In and who can help the Red
Cross In no other wot can ct lenst
support the generous efforts of the
iied Cross.
"It Is the best-equipped agency
i the world to bring succor In the
day when only organized and well
directed help can avail. -
With but two more days left to
complete HanTrnond'jr quota. J3S.000 for
the second Red Cross war. fund drive
Red Cross workers are confident that
the city's share will be fully contrib
uted when the final returns are all
In. but a great amount of work re
mains to be done and an urgent call
is sent out today that every man, wo
man and child in the city give some
thing to this noble Red Cross War
Fund. Hammond Is particularly a city
of homes and It Is on the homes and
the individuals thereof that Chairman
A. Murray Turner and his hustling
cohorts depend.
There Is much need of personal ser
vice In this drive. There Is a need of
every one who is wearing the little
quadrilateral honor badge of the Red
Cross seeing that the other fellow
gives. This can be done only by care
ful watching and appeal. The solicit
ors will find it Impossible to see ev
eryone in Hammond, ro it will be nec
essary for all who have not been seen
by solicitors to make it a point to
come to Liberty Hall to make their
contribution or to see the solicitor
in their block.
The Executive committee Is anxious
that a greater number of contribu
tions be received than has been known
in any drive that has taken place In
Hammond and they believe that the
people of Hammond are Just as anx
ious. The soliciting squadrons that are
covering the district on the . Little
Calumet are meeting with much suc
cess. Frank O'Rourke's squadron
held an enthusiastic meeting at Grif
fith .last night and Boone's squadron
brought good reports from the Wood
row Wilson schoolhouse district.
Remember it Is your duty to give
and not only to give yourself but to
urge your neighbor to give and give
liberally.
At the dally meeting of the revis
ion committee which Is combing the
city to see who has contributed and
who has not contributed in proportion
to their Income, took up a number of
matters which are expected to bear
fruit.
And the big American Alliance meet
ing tonight!
HUN DESTROYER SUNK
rus-TTF:r Press Cablegram.!
LONDON, May 23. 'A German de
stroyer was sunk and the mole and sen
plane base at fceebrugge was badly
damaged by bombs dropped by British
aviators in operations, between Slonday
and Wednesday.
British air observers, according to
a previous announcement, have reported
that German torpedo and submarine
craft are immobilized In Bruges basin,
the inland town connected with Osten
and Zeebrugge by canals.
Reports from other sources said the
Germans had been forced to abandon the
Belgian naval bases because of the
bottling tip of the harbor by sunken
ships and the constant fire of bomb
ing planes.
AS STRONG AS
NECESSARY
I TKT L MTED ITERS I
WAiiHl.NUiu.N. May zi. x-iianKet au
thority to raise and send to France any j
number of men he deems necessary Js to
be conferred on President Wilson
through a provision to be written into
the army appropriation bill today by the
house military affairs committee. They
said today the president can have any
authority 'Jie wants and unlimited
money to make America's field army
strong enough to crush Germany.
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"Bulletins
Bt United Press.
WASHINGTON, May 23. Major
General Wood, senior major general on
the army lists, will soon be In foreign
service as a corps commander, his
friends predicted today. Wood early
this year stndiad conditions abroad and
came back with a number of critical
observations which aromed -war de
partment officials. American participa
tion on the west front on a large scale
ia liiely at s comparatively early mo
ment, army officers said today. The
first field army will be assigned its
place on the front, becoming an inde
pendent unit.
United PnEss Cablegram.
By FRED FERGUSON.
WITH THE AJttEBICANS IN PI
CASBY, May 23. The Germans are
taking great precations to avoid losing
prisoners. They have ceased sending1
out patrols and at night withdraw from
their front lines, apparently in an ef
fort to prevent Americans from captur
ing' men vho might give information
regarding plans for a resumption of
the offensive.
Unusual activity continues. A Ger
man last night flew so low over villages
to the rear of the American lines he
barely sklmmad over the roofs. Back
areas on both sides are almost con
lnuously bombed and shelled. Ameri
can artillery dally ontshocts the Boche.
A checking up today showed American
guns havo destroyed eight enemy bat
teries since our men entered this sector.
Ten were put out cf action and two
resumed firing1.
United Tress Cablegram.
LONECST, May 23. British air forces
in raids Tuesdsy dropped several tons
of bombs on enemy strongholds in Bel
gium and Germany, it was announced
today. Soma cf the airplanes pene
trated as far as Metz, it was stated,
bombing the railway stition at that
point. Tho railway yards at Liege and
a chemical plant ct Hannhelm were at
tacked. Three fires were started at
the latter place.
During the same houm sixteen en
emy planes were brought down, two
were forced out of control and two
balloons were destroyed.
rUNiTEn Press Cablegram
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN
FRANCE, May 22. The official state
ment from American headquarters to.
day said:
"Artillery fire has ceased in the sec
tors occupied by American troops.
There are no new developments."
(The War department issued the fol
lowing supplement to the report from
Pershing) :
"This morning Lieut. Ilurtz. pilot in
our air service, fell within our lines and
was killed. This fall apparently was
due to accident."
Our boys are making sacrifices
over there. What sacrifices are
your making for the Red Cross
over here?
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V.,
Slickers and Slackers, Might
owis, Gamblers and Idlers
. Will Gel Shock After
July 1st
Bulletin.
It is estimated that in Hammond,
Gary, East Chicago and Whiting
there are 1,000 idlers affected by the
TJ. S. war department's new ruling.
Many cf these men sleep by day and
prowl by night. Some of them are
gunmen. They are draft dodgers.
News that Uncle Sam is after them
. Is glad news to the police depart
ments cf the Calumet region cltlej.
Bt United Pre:.
WASHINGTON, May 23. All
men subject to the draft hereafter
"must do a man's job or fight"
This rule operative July 1 pro
vides that ail loafers and men not
in useful occupation lists in de
ferred draft classes must engage in
useful war work or be drafted into
the fighting service, Provost Mar
shal General Crowder announced
today.
Those affected will be gamblers,
race track men, waiters, bartend
ers, club, hotel and apartment at
tendants, persons engaged or occu
pied in games, spurts and amuse
ments with some exceptions,
domestic servants, sales and other
clerks of department stores and
mercantile establishments.
Dependent exemptions will not pro
tect men thus classified. Local boards
will do the weeding out with full power
to summon those listed above.
The plan, however, is framed so that
practically all of the men affected can
be replaced by women.
The following classes are named as
closed to registrants after July 1:
(A) Gamblers, bucketshop em
ployes, fortune tellers, palmists,
etc.
(B) Waiters In hotels and clubs.
(C) Elevator operators in clubs,
hotels, stores, apartment houses, of
fice buildings and bathhouses.
(D) Ushers and attendants engag
ed in connection w ith games other
than theatrical.
(E) Domestics.
(F) Clerks in mercantile estab
lishments. The plan is one of the most drastic
ever undertaken and soon will be ex
tended. Men engaged as above and idlers seek
ing relief because of late number draw
ings and because in deferred classes on
grounds of dependency will not be ex
empted. Draft boards will be empower
ed to force registrants to work.
In showing the necessity of this step
General Crowder said:
"One of the unanswerable criticisms
of the 4raft lias been that it takes men
from the farms and useful occupations
and marches them past crowds of idlers
and loafers. The remedy is simple to
couple the Industrial bases with other
grounds for exemption and to require
that any man pleading exemption on any
ground shall also show that he is con
tributing effectively to the indjstrial
welfare of tho nation."
IM CO. TO
PLM TICKET
Influence of Lake Co. Is Felt
at Capital in Determining
Candidacies.
Times Bureau.
At State Capital.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. May 23. It Is
believed that the withdrawal of S. R.
Artman from the appellate judgeship
race was influenced by the announee-
Jment of Judge Willis C. McMahon of
Crown Point that he will seek the
nomination. Judge McMahon was here
yesterday with Miles Norton, chairman,
of the Lake county committee.
It was made known yesterday that
Lake county, now the second largest
republican county In Indiana, .would
demand a place on the state ticket,
and that it would Insist on the nomi
nation of Judge McMahon. It was pre
pared to send a large delegation here
to work for him. The indications were
last nigrTt that Judge McMahon and
Alonzo Nichols of Winchester will re
ceive the nomination for Judge of tho
Appellate Court from the northern half
of the state.
Don't go to rest tonight without
giving all you can give to the Red
Cross.
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