Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 158, Hammond, Lake County, 26 December 1917 — Page 1
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DDE ORT BY EUTOiS Central Powers Report Gain. Winter Expected Sbertiy to Stop Operations, (By United Frees Cablegram.) WITH ITALIAN ARMIES, Dec. 26. Fierce fighting between Buso and Monte Valbella was in progress today. Despite violent Italian attacks the enemy at fearful cost still held to the two-thirds of a mile gain achieved Monday. The enemy's advance was made possible by an immense concentration of enemy artillery of all calibres which smashed the Italian front lines. The Austrians managed to touch off a tiny salient, the apex of which was at Monte Valbella. On the next attack the enemy consolidated this position. Around Monte Grappa the enemy tried an attack timed to coincide with the Valbella assault but failed to sainOn the lower Piave the Austrian? mainly endeavored to fraterize but were answered by Italian machine gun fire By HENRY WOOD. WITH TTIE FRENCH - ARMIES IX IT ALT, Ic. -S. The Teutons are making their last supreme effort to reach the Venetian plains today, before winter s'ops operations. Since Saturday General Conrad's Austrians have borrt" batlrrins unceasingly against the Italian lines. It U confidently expected the assault will be' followed by new attacks mound Monte Grappa. The battle as developing will decide whether the Italians will be able to Maintain their rrescnt. positions until vprins- Fnow and ice are already check -j. - t,r- ofr-nsie possibilities through nil tii mountain region. The winter, no mhclcss. continue- unceasingly open. The mountain pa?srs are gradu'!y being covered with snow euffici:jl 1?. within a wck" or ten days more to her ok the' eneniy. DOCTORS TO SELECT BOARD OF HEALTH Mi Tr.;c " his promise lo the volers '.efnre cieeiion, - Mayor-elect Brown, w ho goes into offiee January 7, lias slled a meeting of the physicians of ihe 'it;, at the chamber of commerce Tri-jrdey aflernoon at four o'clock for the purpose of selecting the new seeyetary of the board of health. It is said that Mrs. C. W. Campbell. William A. Buchanan and K. A. Gil-r-. n are being considered. Because he 1 is iircn" in practice longer than rny other doctor in Hammond. Dr. ''ampbcll's candidacy is being promoted :inne!v by fellow prn cticioners. Ex-President's Daughter Will Wed Englishman 4 I;.
Miss Esther Cleveland, daughter of the latT President Grover Cleveland, will wed Captain Posanquet of Umdon. the son of Sir Albert r.osano.uet. Miss Cleveland went to London some time ago. where she took a course in nursing nd instruction for the blind, and now she is at the St. Dustan's Home for Bhndert o13i6is.
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East Chicago's First IV ar H ero v i John Sambrook. WHILE braving German sni!i p.s he and a few daring companions ect their way thronah Kire ecLangleroerU.- John- mhroi i Sa e h!s. life and ts recorded as th f rst war hero of East ( hkao. SamhrooVs sas killefj Sept H. hi:t not until recentl-- was his body recovered, and yesterdijv the parente, Mr. ard Mr. John Sambrooks. received the a uthe:. tic news of their Ron's deat ii .'rom t.ie Brit?h government. 'Ihe vounff man enlisted three years ar,o in Itamiiton. Ontario. He had been empli.j eJ in the plant of the Interstate Iron and Steel Compan--. PRISONERS SAW WAY TO LIBERT! (By United Iress.) MUNC1E, I.ND., Doc. 26. Three prisoners in ths Delaware county jail, alt former convicts, one of whom was waiting transportation to the Michigan City prison to serve a life sentence, sawed their way to liberty through two sets of Steel bars and made good their escape early this morning. Posses scouring the country for the men hae reported no trace. Those who escaped: Ed McCoy, bartender, convicted a few days ago for the wanton murder of Frank Butler, negro, under sentence of life imprisonment. Otto Hickory Harris, charged with being one of two masked men who held up George Watson's drug store Monday night and shot at the proprietor's wife. John Wilkerson. serving a jail sentence for larceny. Officers are looking for an -outsider suspected of smuggling a steel saw to McCoy. The men were in the corridor together, it not being thought necessary to keep them in cells. WITH LOCAL INDUSTRIES Some news of local industries: GrasselXl Co. To Increase Stock. At the annual meeting of the Grasselli Chemical company to be held Jan. 24. the stockholders will vote upoi a proposal to increase the company's au:tiori7."d capital stock from $20.0tHMHlO to $50,000,000. The proposal is to increase the authorized preferred from $3,000,000 to J15.000.000 and the authorized common from $15.yoft.rinii to J35.000,000. Standard Steel -Seeks Tools. ( The Standard Steel Car company's Hammond plant is in the market for vertical boring and turning mill machines because of too large artillery contract howitzer mounts it has received from the government. Coke Situation Hits GaryThe South Chicaco stivl nulls are not the only ones in the region affected by the coke shortage. One :ry blast furnace has been down because of a lack of coal. EMPOYEES HAPPY. Employes of Herman Keilner. West State street butcher, today asked The Times to convey their thanks for th Christmas gifts of their employer.'
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It was a sad Christina-; day for Postmaster "William Kostbade and family o" Hobtrt. Uarly Christmas afternoon a message came to them statin? that Gen. IVrshing )iad reported that Mr. Kostbade's son. Edward C. IS years old, had been killed in an exp'osion in France on December 22. Gave Two To Army. The holiday merriment turned to grief and the boy's mother was over come with sorrow. His father, thre-: . brothers and three sisters at home, found the blow a bard one and they hastened to wire the other soldier member of the family. Sergt. Maj. William Kostbade, that his brother in the recular army was dead. Scrgt. Kostbade. !s H1M0I "Uhile making b.is getaway last night; w ith a number of pigeons which he fs J accused of stealing from a resident of j TTny-gOfltrt ra?TTMrpt 'CTi i raVe; -IVITlram Uagowicz, 706 150th street. Hammond.' was sliot in the leg by Officer Fa no, tiet.r the corner of ICOth street and North- j cote avenue. East Chicago. j The officer saw Ilagowicz emerging ; from an alley with several pigeons un- i der his arm. lie slopped the man and upon Cjuestioning him. did rot get aj i I satisfactory explanation. While t'ie j prisoner was being taken to a telephone j booth where the offieer intended to call up the centraf station, he suddenly drop- j ped to the sidewalk and seized the offi-' cer's leg. Fano struggled for a moment then reached for his gun. The prisoner j then broke away and ran. The officer! fired low at the fleeing. man and hit him j in the left leg. Although wounded, he j got into the darkness of an alley and: disappeared. About two hours later he was re-ar-rested in the saloon at the corner of Xorthcote avenue and IjQth street. The owner of the pigeons says that he has been missing pigeons and chickens for several weeks and lie thinks the prisoner is'the man responsible for his losses. LAKE DISTRICT IS THE SEGOi (By United Frets.) CLEVELAND, OHIO. Dec. 26 Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky, comprising the Lake district- finished second In the Red Cross drive for 13.fi00.0lft new members. More than 2.000,000 were, enrolled, according to Ited Cross officials here. The Lake district was distanced by the southwestern district which comprises Missouri. Kansas. Oklahoma. Texas. Arkansas vn1 ,1H!f c'f Tennessee. Close to 3,000,000 members hae been reported in that district. CLERKS QUITTING; CITY HJUJ-EHPTY1HG Salaries Paid At City Hall Will Give The Mayor's Cabinet a Problem. When the Brown administration takes possession of the city hall. January 7. it will have a serious problem to solve in the matter of clerical and engineering help. Those who have not resigned and left before will do so next week, the clerks stated today. Practically every girl and man has future employneVt secured and they claim at much better pay. Some of the clerks are going with the Standard Steel Car Company and other munition plants where the pay is unusually good. The new mayor, treasurer, clerk and controller may have trouble in getting clerks of experience and ability because the salaries the city pays are antiquated. Boy Gets Fine Present. The Arm of Walz & Sliger. Monday evening gave as the Christmas present advertised by them, a $15 bicycle to Iiiiis I.Hzen of ."0.1 Wilcox street.
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lla'J ieibur,j, Miss. Enlisted At Gary. Had he lived Irivate Kostbade would have been 19 at the end of February. He was born and raised y the llubart district, going to ch pi there. In April, when iir came, lie niitened to the recnntinf; o:ti e. at Gary an 1 enlisted. T r-"m CV.-ry vhs sent to Foi t Wayne, then to Fort Strong, then to France. On October SO he wrote to his parents, which was the last letter they received. 'We got the telegram from the adjutant general at 2:0J," said Postmaster Kostbade, who is the first Hobart father to lose a son in his country's service. "It broke us all up." THE RED CROSS AN APPRECIATION Again has Hammond "gone over the top." We have practically doubled the Quota assigned this chapter. This primarily a woman's campaign. Wo knew they wovild make good If given the opportunity, and they have surely merited' oar confidence. On behalf of the local chapter, Z wish to thank the workers for the achievements of this campaign, and also the Xake County Times for the generous use of Its columns, for without publicity, a campaign such as Jtfds mmt fail. . s When all returns are in, we are confident of a total membership of 9,000 exclusive of the Junior auxiliaries. E. X. SHANKLIIT, General Manager. BANDITS t (By United Press.) CHICAGO. J-c. 26. Police officials of northern Indiana and Illinois declared war on the bank robber. They will combat this species of bandit who has cost bankers in this vicinity more than J 100.000 in the last ten days through establishment of "vigilance committees," rifle squads, amateur detective organizations' and closer co-operation of police departments. Thirty-live police chiefs from surrounding cities gathered in Sheriff Tracgrr's office and established an alliance under the formidable title of the Police Chiefs Association of Illinois and Lake County, Ind. They elected the following temporary officers: Chief Herman Schucttlcr, Chicago, president. Assistant Chief John Alcock. Chicago, vice-president. Thomas Stone. Chicago Heights, secretary. - - D. I". Graham. Elgin, treasurer. Among the out of town officials present were Chief Clay Collins. Whiting. Ind.. Chief Peter Austgen, Hammond, and Chief Hennesy and Commissioner Thomas Goory of Joliet. iTHOS McCAY ! WILL RETURN I (Special to The Times.) CROW.V POINT. IND.. 'Dec. 26. I Thomas McCay, former county treasjurerwho has been visting friends here for a monh. will return to Montana ! about- the middle of January. Delbert McCay. Ins son. is alone on the big McI Cay ranch now and as it is 40 degrees I below zero Mr. McCay expects to return to cheer him up. Frank, Mr. McCoy's other son, ts in the army and stationed at Fort Lewis in AVashington. The former Lake county official is in excellent health and looks good for another 73 years. J. E. FITZGERALD PLAYS SANTA CLAUS Among the Hammond people who remembered the deserving with Christmas gifts and who would no more think of Christmas without doing good than the sma'l boy would without hanging up his stocking, was J. E. Fitzgerald of the Hammond Distillery, who distributI ed an automobile load of turkeys in different parts of the city. 1,800 QUESTIONNAIRES SENT OUT; 900 RETURN Eighteen hundred questionnaires, including today's two hundred, have been sent out to draft registrants and of theso lens than a thousand have been returned. It is up to the registrant to fill on C his questionnaire and return it to the draft hoard within seven days or suffer the oonseq lence?. Of 900 still to be returned neatly all have a few lavs of grace.
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Left to right: James K. Wilson, William B. Wilson and Joseph B. Wileoh. All three of the sons of Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson are now in Uncle Sara's service. Here they are shown in uniform. James K. Wilson is a private, William B., Jr., is a first lieutenant, and Joseph B. is .second lieutenant.
CROSS'S WIFE ALLEGES CRUELTYiJEEKS DIVORCE Well Known Hammond Man Is Made Defendant In Suit Filed Today. ' A lack of peace and good w ill was manifest today in a few Hammond homes over Christmas, of the filing of several suits for divorce today is a criterion. According to the complaint of Ku'oy D. Cross who seeks divorce from Lloyd G. Cross, a well known Hammond young man employed. ,in a clerical position by the Indiana Harbor Pelt. Hallway, her youthful husband spent too much money for taxicabs and lost it gambling. Christmas Eve he waylaid and struck her. the petition prepared by Attorney L V. Cravens, states. They were married July 20. 1014. Ah. Mcrrj Xmas, Indeed! Violet 1'arrelV of Whiting states that her husband. Gersld FarreH, a locomotive rng tieer, forcibly ejected her from their home and she'nsks a divorce ami provision for the care of their four child ren. Gavit. Hall & Smith are her at torneys. Edith M. Smith 'Attorney McAleeri charges Edward Smith with cruelty and rsks divorce. . BOY SHOT BY WATCHMAN; SUE CO. FOR $15,030 Suit was filed in the Hammond superior court today by McAleer. Dorsey' & Gillett for Ixuis Tatara by -John Tatara against the Chicago & Erie railroad, asking $13,000 damages. The complaint recites that Iyouis Tetert. aged 7 ! years, was .shot in the le by an Erie watchman. August 14, and crippled permanently. THREATEN STRIKE AT C. & 0. YADRS ; Seventy-five employes of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at the Hammond I yards and roundhouse today threatened that they would strike in the mornj ing if their overdue pay checks did not 1 arrive. The men say they were disI appointed because the company did not j pay Christmas eve., the twenty-fifth i being the regular pay day. When X:nas I passed and no pay checks arrived they i became more rankeled. ' (FORMER HAMMOND I WOMAN BURIED , The reif.aijis of Mrs. Amoss Cunningham were shipped to Hammond yesteri day from Monterey, Ind.. and received ; by Vhdertaker Stewart who laid them to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs. 1 unningham was formerly a resident ; of 1 lamrnond. I HOME GURDS MEET THURSDAY EVE. An important meeting of the Hammond home guard is to be held Thursday evening at tlie orpheum hall and al! who ere interested in joining are urged to attend. The company is to be mustered in and will begin training with arms, rifles having been secured.
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4$Z Latest . bulletins (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Dec. 26. Labor's expected demands from the government when the leaders meet Premier Idoyd George, Minister of National Service Getters and others, Friday, was the "biggest question before Great Britain today. The government has indicated Its intention to ask further concessions from British nnionism permitting heavy new drafts from its members to supply man power to the army. The laborites have Intimated they will accede to such a request but it was not anticipated today they would abandon their safeguards against drafting without a counter "bargain. (By United Press Cablegram.) FETROOBAS, Dec. 26. Germany has asked postponement of peace negotiations until January 24, according to semi-official announcement here today. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON. Dec. 26. Russian-German peace negotiations have been suspended pending consultation of Ocrman delegates with their government on Sussia's terms, according to a Petrograd dispatch printed by The Times today. The Russian delegates, it was stated, are returning to Petrograd. Two commissions to negotiate peace will shortly be formed, The Times correspondent asserted, one to meet at Petrograd and the other at Odessa. Both will consider purely military aspects ,of the situation. A third will shortly be appointed to prepare for prospective European peace conference. (By United Press Cablegram.) LONDON, Dec. 26. Monda'a British air raid on Mannheim, the German city, was the first instance of an exact reprisal policy jor Hun air murder over England, acoralng to announcement today. It was the first six raid carried on by British flyers which did not aim at purely military objectives. l nitcd Press i'nhlegrnm. I.OMIOX. Dff. 2. latent enemy counter attacks in the neighborhood of (oldrploan and of neighboring hcishts broke down with heat) loes to the attacking forces. WASHINGTON. Dec. -'rt President Wilson Is moving to eliminate red tnpe from the government. Secretary link, er'n creation of n war council in fi peeled to xupplnnt such work now be. ing; done by different division of the national defense council. PsdihlNh. nient of n munition chief to KiipervUe . purchase nnd distribution of guns, niu. nltlons, food nnd clothing for the nrmy, will probably absorb the work now done by the munition hoard, placing; over it eccutie authority now lark, ing. offlcinl nj. Col. House in here conferring with the president tori's. ADJUTANT-GENERAL i IS BEREAVED j Letters have been received here frenn I Indianapolis telling of the death of Mrs. I.Smith, wife of Adjutant General H. 1.5. Smith of the Capitol and one of the finest men in the state. M;cli sympathy is expressed for Mr. Smith in tiie loss ; of bis helpmeet.
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ITS TO HE WITH 3 Hammond, Gary, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago Plants To Make Heavy Guns, Shells, Armor Plate And Aeroplanes. Big guns, complete shells, armor plate and airplane motors are to be made in larger quantities in the Calumet region, according to plans discussed by staff officers of the Washington ordnance department. Heavy artillery of the lidd type will be made in quantities even larger than is, turned out at the Bethlehem steel works. The big gun plants arc lo lie located in Hammond. Gary, Indiana Harbor an 1 East Chicago. FLANS ARE COMPLETED. Elaborate plans for converting of al! machine works, steel and iron foundries and otber such plants into factories for turning out completed shells and guns have been completed, and the ordnance staff officers presented them in detail to the business men. A survey-of the Calumet region's advantages for such manufacture, which had been made, was presented at the, meeting also by the ordnance staff officers. COMPUTE BIG GUNS. The Calumet region i-t Indiana already has become a factor in turning out unfinished product in shel:s. tanks, blg-calibcrcu guns and motor parts, but it is the plan of the erflnsnc: department for the munition rlants to manufacture complete shells, motors and big guns. The big plants at Gary. Hammond. Indiana Harbor and East Chicago win bo converted into factories for the manufacture of complete big guns and armor plate. AGE1CIES (Indiana State Council of Defense.) INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 17. Every move made by pro-German agencies m America and particularly in Indians, makes it more mi-essary to meet the kaiser's elusive propaganda and to undo the evil work attempted by the agenu of Prussian militarism." said William Green of Rising Sun, Ind.. a statement at state council of defense heiidjuartcrs. "Here in Indiana we have both good and bad Germans. The bad Germans can be made good, and the time is ripe for doing It. It needs works and lots of it. speeches. literature telling th. truth about the war and hard drives by the forces of patriotism, with a direct and personal demand on every citizen that he line up for America or be counted against her. The newspapers help greatly, but the docmuments and speakers and the element of persona! demand and appeal must he:p. Here is where the various drives for war funds come in. In thsedri ves patriotic Americans put it up to the reluctant, indifferent or disloyal citizen to get riglv or be publicly classified as being in the wrong. "We have reached a stage of the war where the population is made up of loyalists and traitors, and there is no living in the "No Man's Land' that lies forbiddingly between the reaches of patriotism and the dugout of treason. AH our citizens fully realize this situation. The hour has come to make a big drive to force the cold logic of the war into the minds anil hearts of those who heretofore may have been inclined to kaiserism rather than to Americanism. "In Ohio and Switzerland counties tecentlywe lytvc proved in a substantial way what can bedone by educational effort. We find a few citizens who are poisoned by kaiserism. but we have gone directly to the center of infection and we have boldly demanded that the secret agents of treason show their hands and get right. The effect has been good. Educational work did the business." HAMMOND'S BIGGEST DAY FOR BUSINESS Monday was the greatest business day the merchants of Hammond have ever enjoyed. While all agree in this statement somo claim they did four times the gross business of Dec. II last year. Their stocks, e never so Hr?e. were cleaned nut by the eleventh hour shoppers
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