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HAMMOND, 1VDIAXA.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1918.
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Private FranV: l'a ' i h . Co. C. Oth
f'-tcrv. I', s. ... of Iisuini'.:l. it is
b"-heved holds lhe record-; for wounds;
ic--ived in the war witli ;rman .
'"day bis sist-r. Mi-. .Mary Tt-idaiiti- :
im. I:""' ('onippiiy House. Kast Htn-j
! - i'il, receh r".l a w ire ft otsi the V.'ar
3 x-partnierit for the third 1 im- sin'" last
I'Mte anno'.inciig, that Fratik KaNrli '
) i been severely wounded in ai 'i -n or.
Oct. nn. i
rnhi'-h is one of lhe lna , r Hammond;
1- :- v. ho has fropht all through the
v.r.-. When hi? resitf-nt was brigadO :
t;-,e ! r.ch In t Ma. l-.e was shot,
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PEITATE FB&NK PABICH.
and severely wounded but made a
phenonnnat recovery and got back into
action in July.
Iuring that month lie fousrht at
'aiuigny and I'.ellcau Wood and on the
J'ih of July v a? nain severery wound
ed and r turr'd to a base hospital, lie
had net enough, however, so he declar
ed and was poing Ick to get another
crack at the r.oche. During 'ber be
foucht gallantly with the fighting 3th
in several bloody battles and between
Verdun and the House the lost of Oc
tober he was wounded by shra'pnei
severely and is now in a hospital.
There's a boy who ought to get n,
warm welcome when he comes back. Ho
was employed at the Standard Steel
Car Co. when he enlisted.
ROiX0PHNOR
Th following- i a list of the
casualties reported In 'he cables
today sent by Gen. Pershing:
DIED OF DISEASE.
JOSEPH T. DACY, V. 8. M., 725
Conn. St., Gary.
MISSING IN ACTION.
PAUL J. GOTKE, 214 154th Place,
West Hammond; reported In
Times.
WOUNDED SEVERELY.
LOUIS LAPAKIS, 3364 ElocK are.,
InAi&ca Harbor.
D AXE COLLINS, Torsyth ave.,
'Hammond.
MIKE HODGES, 3S02 Cedar St., In
diana Harbor.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY.
TE.ED SCHMIDT, Hohart, lad.
KAISER MUST
BE PUNISHED
n'N'TRD I'p.r. Cafu.e-iram.'I
LONDON. Dec. IT. ( Hy Rritish Ad
miralty Wirc-sless.) Chancellor Ebert
nf Germany In an interview- declared
that he knew of no provision in law up- j
on which the former Kaiser could bo
given up. j
"We have separated ourselves from
him after decades of bitter struggle."
Ebert said. "And we only desire that
guilt for the responsibility of the out
break of the war should bo finally fixed
in order that h3 should be exposed once
for all."
RAIN STOPS
WILSON PLANS
By ROBERT J. BENDER
Vnited Press Staff Correspondent.)
PARIS. Dec. IT. A heavy rain neces
sitated the postponement of President
Wilson's plans for today.
This afternoon be will confer separ
ately with Edwin Hurley. Marshal Eoch '
and Italian Ambassador I rllere. To
night Wilson, Potnoare and about fifty
distinguished Frenchmen and Ameri
cans will be the guests of Ambassador
and Mrs. Sharp at dinner. A reception
will folio"-
Base
UP
The common council of the city of
Uast Chicago, the first of the two pro
posed amalgamation cities of Ham
mond and East Chicago to take any ae-
, lion on the amalgamation refinance, did
not have much to say about the ordi
nance when it came up for its first
read in at the regular meeting of that
body held at the city hall last evening.
W'Iipii the reading of the ordinance
was finished, a motion was made and
carried that it be referred to the coun
cil a? a committee of the whole and
ih-)t the city attorney, city controller,
city clerk, city engineer, city treasurer
and city judpe be asked to take part in
Mi - conference.
Two Wounded Infanatry
men From City Reach the j
! U. S. on Grant Liner;
Both Were Wounded in!
Action. 1
( By Special Correspondent).
NEW YORK. Lec. 17. ffhtn the
giant Ieiatban. formerly the
Oeutschland. poked her great snout
in the dockway yesterday morning
with the 1.500 wounded Yanks toai'd.
ajnong them were two boys from Ham
mond, Ind : J. Wiegel. 131st infan
try and IZd Maginot. 363rd Infantry.
R-oth men had been wounded in ac
tion. Wiegel tho move seriously of the
two.
1,4 -JI UOINDEI) ON LEVIATHAN.
When tlie I-eviathan docked yester
day morning official figures showed
that there were 1,421 wounded soldiers
.mi board. All were cheerful. About
fifty of the wounded were from mi
ners, that being the largest number
from the Thirty-third Division to come
back on any ship. so far. Only about
10J of the wounded were serious
rases. Four died on the voyage. It
was the leviathan's first trip to the
L'nlted States since the armistice was
signed.
Major-Ceneral Barnett. head of the
t'nited States Jlarine Corps, returned
on the ship. He was ill all the time
the ship was at sea. but had prac
tically recovered when
docked.
CaDtain "Ty" Cobb,
the ship was
thi baseball
star was also on board.
I.ed by Col. Sanborn. Wiegel's reg
iment went over the top on August
S, determined to gain Chippilly ridge
and show the Australians the kind of
stuff their new allies were made of.
It was in the Marne sector and Wiegel
was the recipient of a machine gun
bullet that shattered his leg below
the knee. To make bad matters worse,
he was struck on the shoulder by
shrapnel. The last wound has healed
but Wiegel has been in the hospitaj
ever since and will have to have an
other piece of bone removed from his
leg.
Ed Maginot, formerly of the 333rd.
but .later transferred to the 363rd.
was wounded in the shoulder in the
Argonne
October 31. He was in a nos-
pital in London
h.s parents that
country.
The wounded
Leviathan who
after that and wired
he had arrived in this
brought back on the j
are in need of more
medical attention were taken to lour
hospitals within a radius of a few
miles of the city. The slightly wound
ed w ere sent to Call p Merritt and their
discharges will soon take place, it is
sail. t
Relatives Of both boj s received tel
egrams from them yesterday announc
ing their arrival.
SITUATION IN
S. A. IS SERIOUS
fBr United Press i
WASHINGTON. Dec. IT. Argentine j
and the united States face many vexing
difficulties In their self-assumed roles
as arbitors between Chile and Peru.
Latin-American diplomats declared here
today.
No new developments were reported
at the Chilean embassy and tho Peruv
ian legation but it was pointed out that
the present strained relations cannot
continue long without a renewal of the
recent outbreaks.
PROTEST AGAINST
REICHSTAG CALL
(United Press Cablec.ram.
AMSTERDAM. Dec. IT. The Berlin
workmen and S'diers' council has
protested against the summoning of
the reichstag. demanding that Presi
dent Uehrenbaeh be punished and that
the present government resien. ac
cording to dispatches from that city
today.
Two persons were killed and six
wounded In serious rioting at Dresde'n
Sunday, it was reported.
BY CITY COUNCIL
Opposition Is Slight TUare.
It was notlceab.e. yesterday that the
city officials, so-called politicians and
others interested In the immediate ef
fect of the amalgamation ordinance
were thoroughly discussing the matter,
reviewing party pre-election pledges
and getting a, line on the feelings and
desires of the community.
So far as can be learned, opposition
to amnlga.n17.tlon is very light, almost
insignificant. in Kast Chicago. The
only question apparently la "what will
the council and city oiffcials do?" Th
assurance is frequently given that if the
ordinance passe the council of both
cities, amalgamation will be brought
about in a hurry. '
STREET iPfiOIEMENTS
Executive Proposes "Call
ing" Some of the Howls
Made About Streets.
Msyor Pan Brown of Hammond
wants to se Hammond live down it?
reputation for poor p" vements and he
faors extensive street Improvements
in the spring.
One project the mayor Is out for is
the paving of Hohman street from
Douglas street to Sheffield avenue AS
SOON AS TOSSIBLE. He wants to
see the pavement of the most substan
tial kind with a heavy foundation.
"The macadam pavement is done
for." said the mayor Vday. "We have,
heard a lot of howls about the pave
ments in Hammond and we'll see what
the property owners have to say when
we start street improvements in the
spring. The war is over now- and the
ban is off. We can get materials and
even if they are li .h we must have
the streets. It is a waste of money to
patch up the streets. They are be
yond patching."
EIGHT IN ONE FAMILY
VERY ILLJMNFLieZ!
Mayor Brown calls for Fivt t
Volunteer Nurses for
Immediate Service.
It-seemed strange that such an idea!
windows, that reports should reach the
Hammond city hall of an increase in
the Influenza epidemic. Two families
were reported to Maor Brown as
helpless with every member In bed
suffering from the disease. In one of
these families there are eight mem
bers and not a nurse available to aid
them.
The mayor stated that five nurses
are needed at once and others can be
used. These nurses while doing a
civic and patriotic act will be paid
$3 a day.
The women willing to serve as
nurses will report to the mayor at
his office.
WOMAN l BLACK
SEENAGROSS LINE
Still, She Must Have Worn
More Than a Black Silk
Handkerchief.
Whiting's "Mysterious Woman In
Black" has been seen in West Ham
mond, according to information current
in that town today. Housewives de
clared that she traversed the streets
early Sunday morning and was pursued
by a policeman. The latter, they claim,
drove her into a corner. When he reach
ed to grab the woman she vanished
and left nothing except a black silk
handkerchief.
OCCUPATION
OF GERMANY
CONTINUES
By Webb Miller. s
United Press Cablegram.
WITH THE AMERICANS ACROSS
THE RHINE (By Courier to Nancy).
Dee. IT. 1918. The third army now oc
cupies 4.500 miles of German terri
tory. It supervises the administrat
ion of several hundred villages and
is operating railroads and street car
lines. The army has marched be
tween 200 and S00 miles In six weeks,
following the signing of the armis
tice. Every phase of the occupation was
completed In exact accordance with
plans laid out the week before the
march began.
CONSTABLE
CHAMBERS ILL
Constable Frank Chambers, out of
Judge Cothery's court. Is reported very
seriously ill with Influenza-pneumonia
4
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German troops retreating to beyond the Rhine in fulfilling
These pictures rushed from Eu- The upper picture shows a detach-
rope show the German forces re- ment of German infantry. They
, , . i , .
treating to beyond the Rhine a3 are using: wagons to tarry their
one of the terms of the armistice. equipment. A baby jackass has
PAUL J. GOYKE
WM SOUND
Another Case of Inefficien
cy Seen in Reporting
Casualties.
Paul J. Gyk one of West Ham
mond's favorite boys and a musician
f more than local reputation, is today
another livinn evidence of tl? War
departments inefficiency in reporting
casualties.
Raul, who is a member of headquar
ter's company, 355th Infantry, was two
weeks ago reported missing in action
in a telegram to his parents. He was
reported missing early in November.
He is reported missing in the Persh
ing casualty list today.
As a mater of fact he is not missinq
but alive and well. 11 i people have
three letters from him, dated since the
12th of. November, saying that be got
through without a scratch and his
many friends will, rejoice to hear it.
DIES AFTER
HUNGER STRIKE
IRr Vnited Press!
CTtlCVGO. Dec. IT. After
three
hunger strikes Van Skedlne. 22. a
- . . n Jrofi r.vnder in iail here since
August, died today. He was sentenced house today by Representative Me
to a year in jail Inst August by Federal ! Fadden. Pennsylvania. The resolution
.Indue Landis. His first lumper strike j
lasted only a few days but the second
ottemnr lasted sixteen days. After
fourteen days of the third strike he dj-
.cided to eat but became 111 and died in
a hospital.
SAILORS DIE
IN A FLARE-UP
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 1T.
is dead and three sailors
One man
severely
burned as a result of a flare-up in the
engine room of the transport Bath,
docked at League Island... A bucket
of oily water thrown into the furnace
caused the accident.
BERLIN EXPLAINS IT.
(United Puk.- Cablegram.
BERLIN. rec. 16. (Delayed.) Vor
waerts reports that the Ukrainians
overthrew the Hetmans of the provi
sional government yesterday. It was
accomplished without bloodshed.
ROBBER SENTENCED.
Alpha Wagner, the man who threw
a padded brick through the window
of the Charles Lesser store at 65 State
street and stole a safety razor, plead
guilty of robbery in the court of Judge
Hardy yesterday and was sentenced to
ferve from two to fourteen years in
the penitentiary.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
ARE ENTERED
Two Hammond school buildings
were entered last night. Tools, two
blue Jersey athletic sweaters and 92
cents were, stolen from the Industrial
high school by some one who broke
a window to get In. At the Washing
ton school entrance was gained but
nothing of value has been missed.
Help the government to pay ltS
debts by buying War
Savin5
a
, Stamps.
NETIETI
DIVISION
OUEH RHINE
Br I'n'ited Press.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. The 90th
division crossed the Rhine into Ger
many this morning. The 9'Hh is a
national army corps. It was with the
army of occupation in Lorraine and
will share with the 3rd army the work
of policing 4,500 miles of German ter
ritory. One of the units of the 90th is the
315th Ammunition Train, in which
L. J. Tarry, Times reporter. Is a cor
poral. A number of other Whiting
East Chicago and Hammond boys are
with this outfit which trained at
Camp Purdue.
ANOTHER BURAU
INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON. Dec. IT. A resola-
j t on to investigate the bureau of war
risk insurance was Introduced In the
calls for appointment of an Investigat
ing committee of nine to look into the
recent charges that hundreds c f al-
I otmcnts made made by soldiers nvere
delayed and that tlie bureau has been
negligent in caring for claims.
TOURIST CAR FIRE;
13 ARE DEAD
BT
BON 1 1 EL" R.
T'nited Press.
Ont., Dec. IT. Thirteen
persons are believed dead in a tourist
car fire on the Southern Pacific here.
The. blaze was dis lvered when the
tiain stopped here for orders but had
gained such headway that the train
men could not enter the car.
No names of missing were ascer
tained in the first check.
An attempt to heat water in one
of the berths was believed to have
caused the fire.
DR. HUERTA IS
REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN EXECUTED
Bi United Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. IT. Dr. Hu
erta, who was rushed across the Mex
ican border from Arizona by Mexicans
at Douglas, Saturday night", has been
executed in Mexico as a train robber,
it was learned here today.
GERMANS TO
APPEAL AGAIN
Br United Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Germany
will appeal to President Wilson for
assistance in preserving the integrity
of her eastern frontier, it was indi
cated in diplomatic circles here today.
Authoritative ,-td vices were that the
j Berlin, government will demand "pro-
1 lPrtion nfiTain,t Polish advances into
Posen and reported Czecho-Slovak oc-
I cupation of certain points in. Bohemia.
the armistice terms.
been loaded onto one of the
masons anc s doomed to existence
In Germany. The lower photo
shows German cavalry on th
retreat.
UHEYER
LOYRLJESAYS
Br Unitetj Tress
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. Testifying
before the senate committee Investiga
ting the pre-war activities of German
propagandists. Samuel Untermeycr of
New- York, today declared:
"There is not a shred of basis for the
vague implications that my sympathies
were pro-German before we entered the
war."
Untermcycr's name had been linked
with those of a number of prominent
Germans in testimony given at previous
hearing;.
"At no time did I ever directly or in
directly receive or handle a single dollar
from anyone connected with either gov
ernment or embassy or from German.
Austrian or American citizens charged
with violating our neutrality," said Un
termeycr. "From the outbreak of the war down
to the present time I have devoted a
substantial part of my time w ithout pay
and at my- own expense to government
vork of one kind or another connected
with the war. In all my published ar
ticles and public utterances, both since
tho outbreak of the war and before. I
have eagerly availed myself of the op
portunity to sustain all the war poli
cies "of the administration. It has not
been my good fortune to be able to risk
my life in the defense of my country,
but I have left no stone unturned to
render such service as came to my lot."
WASHINGTON, Dec. IT. A tilt be
tween Samuel Untermeyer, New York
lawyer, and members of the senate
committee when attempts were made
to show that Untermeyer knew that
the purchase of a paper was desired
for German propaganda purposes, fea
tured the hearing of the propaganda
InrstiB-ntlnn todav.
Untermeycr however, insisted that
he did no know that the paper in
j question
was desired for propaganda
pu rposes
PIPER PLEADS
NOT GUILTY
Bt United Press.
MUSKEGON. MICH, Dec. IT. Mito
M. Piper. Insurance man, charged with
killing Miss Frieda Weichman of Chicago-
two years ago. stood Mute when
arranged here today in the justice court.
A plea of not guilty was entered and;
i the examination set for Dec. 13. i
I Constant grilling by the police and
prosecutor took riper to the verge of a J
nervous breakdown
but failed to pro-
duce a confession.
CALL NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY
r t - . . Pdpcc rm.Er,nAM.l
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 17. General as-j
semhly of independent socialists meet-j
ing in Iierlin voted by a great majority!
In favor of calling a national assembly, I
according to dispatches here today.
FIND A REASON FOR IT
II'vitbd Pre?" Cablegram
BERLIN, Dec. 15 (Delayed.) The
German government stated today thnt
Poland's rupture f diplomatic relations
was due to the influence of the arrival
of the allied commission in Warsaw.
A it e c
Lake Co, must buy more W. S. o,
WILL MEET
DEC. 27TH
Direct Primary Law Revi
sion to Be Taken Up For
mally at Capital Later in
Month; Killigrew Meets
With Committee.
At State Cafital.
Times Bi-reai-.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Dec. 17. The
special commission, appointed by Gov
ernor Goodrich to consider possible re
vision of the direct primary law, the reg
istration law, the corrupt practice law,
the absent voters' law and similar elec
tion statutes, determined to call a state
wide public meeting on the subject for
10 o'clock in the morning. Dec. 2T, at the
House of Representatives In the state
house. This action was decided on at a .
fleeting of the commission In the gov
ernor's office Monday.
Those, who care to be invited to at
tend the meeting include everyone in
terested in possible election law changes
by the coming legislature, but specific
invitations will be Issued by the com
mission to every member of the legis
lature, the republican and democratic
state and advisory committees, the coun
ty chairmen of each party throughout
the state and the editors of the state
Following this statewide meeting the
commission will frame such report as it
desires to make to the governor and the.
legislature and probably will prepare
i bills for the legislature, embodying it
ideas. At the meeting here the consen
sus of opinion seemed to be that changes
are needed In the existing direct pri
mary law, which probably would elimin
ate the direct primary feature for the
election of candidates and substitute
therefor the convention system, safe
guarded, however, very carefully with
criminal statutes against the violation of
the ballot box at party primaries, held
for the selection of delegates to conven
tions. Varied, opinions, w ere expressed . by
those at tha meeting concerning srecifli
changes that should be made, but all
apparently were agreed that a registra
tion law In some fc-rm is vitally neces
sary, as a protection for the selections
of the state. Modification of-the reglstra-
(C'.ntinued
UriCe S'en.J
SOCIALIST
Bolshsvik Chiefs are Barred
From Workman's and
Soldier's
United Press Cablegram. 1
BERLIN, Dec. 17. Carl Leib
knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Bol
shevik leaders, today were refused
permission to attend the national
meeting of workmen's and soldiers'
councils. .
Radical members introduced a
, resolution demanding for Leib-
v nttrhf ariJ vr- ia tv,- r(y,t fn s;.
in the conference but were out
voted by a huge majority.
Leibknecht addressed fully S0.0O0 per
sons outside the Prussian parliament
building following his defeat. He was
wildly cheered. Although surrounded
by government soldiers he spoke fear-lef-slv,
cilling for the downfall of the
I nresent lender.' even though they were
within sound of his voice.
Leibknecht concluded his speech with
an appe.il for the proletariat enmass u
proclaim r. scciii and political revolu-
tion.
CONFIDENCE IN
CLEMENCEAU
United Press Cablegram.
PARIS, Dec. 17. The chamber ol
deputies today passed a vote of conn-
j dence in the CHmenecau government
310 to liu.
The vote was taken on the questjot
of whether the armistice terms are ae
ceptable when Deputy Constant asket
wny total immeaiare aemoonizai ion v.aj
not included.
BRITISH BOMBARD
THE BOLSHEVIKI
H'xitbii PriKss Ca bi.kor.am.
j STOCKHOLM. Dec. IT. "A Riitisf
I squadron in the Gulf of Finland Vf'm
' barded the front and rear sectors of tin
j Uolshevik forces, halting the enemy't
! B(lvance-" tnp Hthonisn, official com
j munique, announced.
LEADER 01
WARPATH
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