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VOL. XII. NO. 21S.

HAMMOND, INDIANA,

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918.

OellTered oy TJM.S curiir, 300 I month; on street and at nawiatands, aa par copy; back numbers 3c per copy.

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HEAVIES I ARTILLERY

BRDUGH

GARFIELD HALVES

! OUTPUT OF BRICK i . Fuel Administration Cuts 1 Down Ten Clay ProdI ucts to Save Coal.

OiE KILL

BRICK FACTORIES IN INDIANA REGIOri

Firing Starts On 56-Mile Front: in Noyon Sector. Next Few j Hours to Tell Story. I

Br United rnr.? , B- u. r. v,ai; i:.fi:i;t V NEWYORK,"April IS. The French apparently are concentrating the heaviest allied artillery fire since the drive started on a fifty -i six mile front, extending from south of the Somme to the Oise in the Noyon vicinity. The point of the farthercst German advance in Picardy is included in the bombardment which also includes the greater part ot the southern leg of the Hindenburg triangle in this region believed by many military critics to represent the most vulnerable part of the German advance. The next few hours are expected to reveal -whether thi-: cannonading Is preparatory to a major counter offensive hy the allies. On the rianders front Halgr claimed to he holding: his own. He also reported bea-ry artillery flg-hting- on the southern edge of the Inlanders' salient und repulse of attacks there. He emphasized heavy Germany losses in the ftg-htin? around Nleppe wood. Apparently Haigr moved his line Tues. day tack about three miles, which it would appear now runs from about S'llebeke, a mile and a half scuth and east of Ypres, northward to near Lanje. marck. which Hindenburg claimed to occupy. The retirement must have necessitated a similar slight retreat by the Belgians. HAIG REPULSES ALL ATTACKS T UNITED Frr.5 CABI tfi-.WAM.l LONDON, April IS. "German in. fantry attacking in three waves southeast of Kemmel HiU pressed us back slightly at one point but a counter attack xes'tored the situation," yield Marshal Halg reported today. "Shortly after midday the attack had been repulsed at all points. In the E?illeul sector the enemy attacking three times before midday was completely repulsed. "Our line yesterday was Intact on the whole front. There was no change in the British front during the night. -There was hostile artillerying on the I.ys battle front. Local attacks in the Merrls sector yesterday evening were repulsed."

Hobart Two factories: Knladge (face) National Fire Proofing. Porter Hydraulio (face). Miller Gary Sandstone (firs brick). Michigan City Three factories. Maynard National Brick. West and southwest of Hammond on the Illinois side are several brick plants.

British Gunners, Stripped to Waist, Pour Death On the Advancing Huns

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Trestle Breaks and Cement

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WASHINGTON. April IS. Further restriction of the country's less essential mdusmes. which will drastically limit tionwar lurtdins operations for the duration of tin: conflict, was announced ; -Unlay by the fuel adnvinisu at ion. at the head of which is tr. H,rry A. I ianicld. !U l!)e i.suat.ee of order curtailing the maiitifaeture if t.n j.rin-:ipal clay produets from 1 j to as hlgn as per cent. Firnultniicousiy the manufacturing program of this industry was ordered rearranged and divided, placing it on the l'is of a war industry. 1'ate brick, common and paving brick, terra cctta. roofing u!. floor and wall tile and sanitary ware are ordered curtailed 51 pt cent; hollow tile, sewer pipe, and drain tile, .5 per cent, and stoneware, with the exception of cheml-' cal stoneware, is curtailed 1." per cent. Another new order curtails the output of enamel ware 60 per cent. Cut Based on Average. The percentage of curtailment in each case Is based on the average output for the last three years. Yesterday's action fcy the fuel administration, which was approved by the war industries beard, is declared to bfe the forerunner of similar curtailment of practically every industry considered not vital to the war program. Two important things will bo accomplished in the belief of the fuel administration and the war industries board. Portions of the plants affected will be converted for war Industries and men. material and transportation will be made available for war production. That the production of all building matTials eventually might be substantially curtailed was disclosed by the statement accornpanj mg yesterday's orders. Etr a riBERrr bond tot a t HERE'S A SLACKER COUNTY IT SEEMS

St.. Joseph Falls Behind on Third Drive; Did Not Sell Quota on 2nd Drive.

i this forenoon at the Mark plant in In- ; diana Harbor when two spans of a i trestle collapsed ami a gas enpine and j three dump cars with seven men aboard were thrown to the ground, a distance of i twcnty-cifiM 1"e - I Tony ltnci!li. ace. -Z, is eie;oi and ; the SIv injur d nt ti are at the Mercy hospital. ;."iry. Two arc i-aid to be

fatally injure.!. The trestle was built by the James. O I ley wort h Co. which ts constructing the ore docks for the Mark plant. It was made of wood ar.I harl been in use for

two month. Two span?, eighteen feet each, went down. The dump train which fell was carrying cement.

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anion Grand Total of More Than Four Millions Reported by Chairman H, 6. Hay, LAKE COUNTY'S PROUD RECORD

(This does not Include subscriptions from the big Gary steel mills. The Indiana Steel Co. alone Is known to have booked over 8,500 subscriptions.) City. Quota. Subs. Amount. C. Point $ 120,000 1,298 $ 133,330 Dyer 15,000 140 2.3,600 E. Chicago.. 780,000 4,323 1,426,000 Oary .. l,C20,O0O 9,733 1.153,500 Hammond 640,000 3,423 853.S0O Highland -- 5,000 2.10 13,200 Hobart BO.OCO rJO 53,?P0 Lowell 60,000 'OT lao.or? Whltinj 20,000 3,7t:0 402,C'iw-

BtT A MEEtirT BOND TOPAT LET GEORGE 00 IT" SEEMS POPULAR IDEA.

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British artillerymen working valiantly with their heavy suns. With their backs to the wall the British have been nobly resisting the furious onslaughts of the enemy and many dispatches have mentioned the heroism cf their heavy artillerymen who have poured death into the ranks of the roe till their Runs were red hot. The picture shov3 the British heavy guns and the heroes who erve them stripped to the waist and working desperately to mow down the enemy forces.

The Only Response to the Call for Volunteers Is a Negro From Alabama.

AMERICANS MASTERS I OF SECTOR j

ll'vim rRf i"AF,LEi;p.irl WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN lOEEAINE, April 17 (Niffht). American artillery on this front has reduced the German artillery b7 two-thirds, silencing enemy batteries with only a few minutes bombardment. The Americans are now master of this section of Ho-Man's land. Nightly they (Continue! on pas? clx.) LYNCHED GERMAN FORMERLY WAS

?pE'-iat. To The Times. 1 SOUTH BEND. !.D.. April IS St. Joseph county, of which this plare is tho capital, one of th richest In trie tate. is failing brhind miserably in th; third Liberty Loan drive. lits minimum quota is $2.5!n,r0, yet only $700'0O. about one-fourth, has been Fold. Tl:e county also fell below the minimum on its second loan and failed to soil its quota. BUT A. LIBEETT BOND TOP1T

The appeal yesterday by Sergeant

Welch for recruits has met with rej suit". Enter the recruiting office this morning a cidurcd gentleman. lie said he j wanted to enlist. "The quartermaster's oirps of the remount service ".-::'. of the Mississippi rier is open." tiegan the sergeant, per custom, "and d-.-ii't be disappt.inted if you don't go to France."

"Tes. ser: ni, sir," said the applicant. "Ah wants tub. join da infantry. All mah ol' frien's ah In France and ah wants touh go too." As soon as the sergeant recovered from the shock he enlisted the negro, who gave his name as George Murphy. Mr. Murphy, colored, is stepping out to tight to protect the women and children of Hummond from the barbarous Hun. He is not a native, however, but hails from Alabama. didn't read the appeal in T;ie Tives l.-ist night bc.iuse ho didn't arrive in town until today. Otherwise there still "nothing doing" at the recruiting Ftation. "Let George do it." BUT A. L!BEIIItT.o-D TorAT

Dead Bodies Piled On Dead Bodies Horror of Hun Menace and Exaltation of the British Troops As Outnumbered, They Go Forth to Die, Told by War Reporte. They Kill Until Sick of Killing.

Latest 'Bulletins

RESORT RAIDED

BATTLEFOR SCOUTS Story Is Reported Statement Is Untrue and Injurious.

IN UKE COUNTY

Sixteen Women and Nine Men Taken Last Sunday By Constable.

PL'I.T.ETIX. Robert Paul Prater, who was lynched as a pro-Geman at Ccllinsville, 111., apparently v.as an undesirable citizen. Gary police records show that 43 minutes after midnight on the morning of December 14, 1912, Robert Paul Piager, 21 years eld, German, wa arrested in Tolleston by Detectives McElfresh and Shonsil, and charged with grand larceny. Three days later Prager was tried In superior court, Hammond, and was sentenced to the state reformatory at JeiTersonville. "I believe Prager V3S arrested for trying to breai Into Prank Batt's tailor shop," said Sergt. Miller, day desk officer of the Gary police. .n:i'i r. i;?on vi i.i-i :. ind. .prii is. A l.tter bos he.-n received by David .'. Peyton. K' neral superintendent of the Indiana ref"rmator . from Tony fcHaton. chief i.f police at t'ol Hn? il le, 1!!., c-n-t'.rming the idenlillc n titi of !!dert Paul l'ragei-. th cuna; Gormtm who ns 1 nch'-rl there April 4. with the young man '.f tp.e same name v, h. wa.- comiritted to the 1 ml in tin reformatory from l.'ik i inintv for pet it bireony. T,,-m-ber IT. KM-', and bf :iim.- d li'iq nc lit

shortlv rift "i" lii par.-'e February 27.1 i!4. to the Howard ins : i Mi t ion at Ohi-j cato. j

West Hammond's resort? were raided on ?'inday and quite a bag wa? lianled in by deputy sheriffs. At the triiil of the two score yesterday in Chicago a lawyer advocated shooting l.'ep'ity Sheriff Plonke if he kicked down any more doors in makiner raids in West Hammond, but "took it back" when Justice McK" of Oak Park threatened to impose heavy fines on sixteen women and nine men taken by raiders in the suburbs last Sunday. The deputy sheriff laughed. The women were fined $5 each and the men $1 each. -tit I.lBrRTT BO.'.D TOD1T DEFENSE COUNCIL CAN APPROPRIATE

TlMF .F.UTtBAr. At Stati "pitaij. INDIANAPOLIS'. Ind. April 1 S. Gilbert Hendren, state accountant, has decided that it would be legal for the County Council of Allen. Iake. St. Joseph. Vanderburg. and Vi?o to appropriate twelve thousand dollars for expenses of county councils of defense. BTT A T.I T1EKTT BONO TOIIAI DIED FROM INJURIES. William Young, colored. ISIS Madison si reel. Gary, died at th Steel Co. hospital early this morning f i om injuries received at the American Sheet, and Tin Plate mills a few days ago.

F. D. McKlroy. I?oy Fenut roinmls-.-'oner of Hammond, is on the war pa t h. At the meetinsr of th Liberty Bond Saleswomen of the Count v at she Chamber "f Commerce in Hammond last. Tuesday evening one of Urn speakers stated that "m the future riil K.oScouts are to be notified that they will not be permitted to roll bonds themselves and the only capacity they will b able to cssist in the sale, of bonds will be to report to the committees tin names and nd.lr' s?e? of subscT'ber" " "This st a ten-.er. t was very Irjurioiis." said Mr. M.-Hlrov. w hen ho was informed of the statement this ii:"ii,in;'. The Key Scout of the Fnited Slates have done wonderful work in the sale r.f bonds durins tb" three diives and have disposed "f in'olioiis i'f doliai's Worth of bonds." "The P.oy Scouts are autlmrizerl by the government to sell bonds." stated Mr. McElroy," end any action taken to stop them from doiner so will he taken up by liieher officials." Bt'T A MHtBTT POND To TAT ARNOLD FUNERAL. The funeral of J. II. .tn-.h!. 721 Wood avenue.. Hammond, who passed away at "Willniot'svilV. Mo., whii. visiting his brother, will be hei,l at the AH Saints church on Kast Sibley f;trcet in Hammond. Saturday morning at S o'clock. Interment will be made in tb lami'y lot at Ca'vary cemetery in Gary. The remains arrive 1 from YVillmotts-

J v :l!e today.

tin a nsriiTT novo toi.at In Tank Corps. Br t'viTrn Press.'! WASHINGTON. April IS. Martin B Ford, of Gary. Ind.. bs been made a second lieutenant in 1h tank corps.

(Oy PHILLIP Gir.BS ) WAR O nP.KSP INDENTS IIKAPQl'AKTKnS, (Ky Mail) April 2. The battle ot which I have been trying to give a narrative has been on so vast a scale, filled with so many episodes of territlc adventure, and with so many hundreds of thousands of men moving along its lines of tire, that I find it im-. possible to give the. pnture and emotion and spirit of it. Our ma. bine (runners are simply sick' with killinc with shooting men down' like rabbi's. At times, the enemy Hke sheep without a shepherd w aik blindly into their suns only to be mown dow n. "We nit hero who knew that this thins was torn in st upon us. deeping n ar-r every dny with its monstrous m 'n.ice. held our bvc.-ith and waii-d. When at last the thins broke it was more friehtful in its loosing; of o-. rw hclminp towers than even v. e had K'lcssed. , MBIT ABE EXALTED. Since then all our armies have lived with Intense understanding of the preat-n-S! of these da;, s. of th' ir meaniiiK to the destiny of the we? hi, and every private soldier or transport driv r or linesman or labourer has born exalted by an emotion stronger than the effect of drutrs. They do not say much, these men of ours, but there is a queer light In their; eyes, shining out of faces greyed by ! sleeplessness, or streaked with blond. . They Inuirh in the same old way at any Joke r,n the road, and sometimes when shells arc burst iiv: c lose, .as I heard Ku;-ts of lr.uchter following crashes of hik'ii velocities about some proups of men a day or two ata Essex men foueht like demons, say their officers, in our foremost trmenes. and one body of xh"m sent back a message that they were poins to nt;lv: to the death. Tley did, and not a man came bark. LIKE A PAGEANT. They pn marching up to the battle line vviili unfaltering feet, their bands lend-, inp them on to the rdp- ,,f its tire W id it is like a papeant as they p;.s, these long eoi'imns of men in steel hats, ihoi.ldering heavy H'kf, with their, nib s s'uiip and these miles long- of transport, and these endless teams of mule drivers end wagon drivers, and streams of mounted men. ! Men who have just moved up to hold the lines are hoping for an attack, so that thev can smash more enemy divi-; sions. j MOVED BY STIEIi ANOEE. Anger moves in them because the enemy threw us ba. k in places by ov erwhelming odds. Now they swear lie will be stopped and broken. ; Their o n losses do not make them mournful. They wipe out of tic. ir minds for the time the horrors and tragedy, they have seen. Fierce exaltation at the destruction of the enemy, grim pride in : repulsing his bloodiest attacks, resolution to pay back and take back have j changed ihc gentkst fellow into a man j

who handles bis rifio or maehine-gun wilh a secret promise to himself, ready to stop with hm own body another tierman advance. RIFLE BRIGADE'S WORK. Passion lias taken possession of our men, because they know that it the enemv brokf) through them, all they

have fought for would be Jeopardised, and this four years of war would have been in vain for us. That seems to me the only explanation of things that have been done by masses of our men. or by small bodies isolated in rearguard actions astounding things in endurance and sacrifice. Yesterday I saw some of those men, who have been fighting in the battle of Arras, heroes of the heaviest blow the enemy has received since March 21. There were porno London regiment amongst them, and their band was playing tattoos as evening set in amid the great glory of the gold-flamed western sky after a day of storm. SEAS BODIES ON SEAS. The colonel of their battalion it was the London rjfle Brigade came out after a sleep and wash and shave. All his kit had been lost In a dug-out. but he had borrowed a razor from his batman, and nobody would have guess.l that this smiling man, with perfect ly'bright eyes and easy manors, had Just come out of battle, where many of his men fell around him under frightful shelling, where he had been firing a rifle all day long at crowds of Germans, and where he had seen dead bodies piled on dead bodies as the enemy catr.e up in waves against the blasts of machine-gun bullets and the tire of our field artillery. He spoke Just a word or two about the tragedy of losing many of his best and bravest, then put that thought aside and told of their heroic defense and slaughter of the enemy. FOURTEEN SATS OF KILLINC. They go on fighting by night and day from one day to another, falling back i l ist of the time under this tidi and spate of men and puns, but holding them .all the time by machine-gun and rifle tire, by field batteries getting into action as soon as tlc-v have taken up new positions, by desperate little battles in which one or two battalions, or one or t wo c ompanies, hold up wav es of Germain until their own line has fallen bock in an orderly way to now defensive p round. l'or fourteen days they have been killing the enemy as he advances across the open of the old. barren battlefields, nakedly exposed to their fre. Immediately the gaps aro filled up by those grey swarms behind, and our weakened forces Come further back to a new ditch or road from which they fire again, and kill again and fall back again, because the enemy is reckless of the cost of his advance, and his tide never ro.i.c its drift. SO TIE.ED THEY COULDN'T STAND. Our men have been fighting for many dav s and nighis like this after the first storm of shells and gas, until their beards have grown long and their faces haggard and worn for lack of si. 'p, and their clothes have become torn on wire, and covered with dust of mud and chalk. I saw a small party of them today, so weary with thii endless battle that they could hardly walk, and were holding hands like f ired children and leaning against each other like drunken men. but for tho most part they bold their heads

up gamely and show no kind of dismay because so far luck lias been against t hem. BUT A LT PERT T F'SD TOCAT EifrT bond a aafesunrd agalnat (Vtr man laTery.

t'xiTEt Press Cablegram. ! PARIS, April IS. "A strong enemy ! attack In the rcgiop of Corbeny foli lowing' a heavy artillery preparation.

the French war office announced today.

"East of Cauriercs wood to cast of Verdun an enemy surprise was repulsed and prisoners taken. . . "We conducted a successful raid northwest of Ehelma and took a number of prisoners." Exited Press Cablegram ROME, April IS. One Italian merchantman and two smaller craft were sunk by enemy submarines in the past week, it was officialis announced today. United Ff.ess Cablegram. AMSTERDAM. April IS. "What haven't I done to preserve the world from these horrors." the kaiser is quoted es saying during a visit to the Armentieres battle front, in a dispatch to the Lokal Anzeigcr. Bt United Press A CANADIAN" PACIFIC PORT. April 1?. Five officers of the Russian flying corps arrived here today to offer their

I services to the British Royal Flying ! corps. BCT A LTBEETT POND TII'AT BULK OF DEATHS I FROM PNEUMONIA

Bt United I WASHINGTON, April deaths among American mg during the week e 171 were caused by cording to the report c ral Gorgas today. Pea ceding week were 2?i. death rate was recorded Des Moines, la. where monia claiming S2.

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IV Of the 15 troops in trainr.ding April 12. pneumonia, acf Surgean Genths for the preThe highest at Camp Dodge, 01 died, pneu-

Bt'T A LIBtRTT B-CXD 1 etA Y ATTACKS FARMERS.

Br I'viTEn Press. WASHINGTON, April 1 S. Declaring congress members have been catering "to the farmer who doesn't need catering too." Representative Madden, Illinois, today rallied powerful house forces to defeat the senate measure raising the wheat price from $2.2fi to $2 ;.n. At the same time the opposition moved

furtl'.er increase to J2 63 a bushel. J "Wheat at J2.50 a bushed." said j Madden, "means flour at $1S a barrel I and it is an outrage to impose such a! burden upon industrial America." j BCT A I.I BERTT BOND TODAY !

WILL ENFORCE j CONSCRIPTION! Unites Press Cpi.e-,tiam 1 LONLON, April IS. Chancellor of j

the Kxchequer Ronar ljvv, replying to a question in the house of fommons today declared be expected that Trili conscription would be enforced before August 1. BTT A I. ! RK RTT BOND TOtAT TEN MORE MEN TO BE DRFTED

Grand totalS3,0OO,C0O 24.-960 CilS0.4;3 Official figures 011 the third liberty Loan announced by County Chairman Hay today shows that Lake County, not counting the hug? unreported subscriptions from th ; steel plants of Gary, has gone far

over the top. The county's quota was three million dollars and already twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty subscriptions, totalling $4,190,450, are reported. Every one of the nine subdivisions of the county has exceeded Its quota ith the exception of Hobart, and a. partial excuse nja,v be offered for Hobart a scores of its workmen have subscribed to their places of employment in the various steel plants of Gary. When the final returns are in shmvi' t the subscriptions of the teel mills ar. l its 23.011.) employes in Gary. Lake County's total is expected to be augment.:-.) by at least JLTiO.OO more. Hammond will turn in n far bigger bond sale than is officially reported nbovo. Tlx- bHief ifr that Lake county may come within a few thousand of doublingits quota. BUT A LIBEBTT BDMl TODAY BAKER GIVES NEW PROMISE

United Frfrs Gbi,ec,ram. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN" FRAXCE, April IS. Secretary Baker in a letter to the American Expeditionary Force made public today promists to "speed up the transport of the remainder of the great army of which, you are tho van guard." Generil Pershing issued the following statement: "Adding my own high appreciation of the splendid army, your commander in chief wishes to impress the officers and men with a keen sense of the serious obligations resting upon them, while giving fresh assurance? of my complete confidence in your loyalty and courage and sincere devotion to duty. V. Hr-it i have seen here gives me the comfortable assurance that plans for the effectiveness of our flghtin gforces and welfare of our men have been broadly made and vigorously executed." rfad a portion of Faker's letter. "The rtlations of our soldiers with the Bri'ieh and French are uniformly cordial. The welcome of the civil population is met by our soldiers with appreciation." BTT A LinrRTT BOVD TODAY GERMANS GET M0RE GUNS United Press "api.egram (Ey WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS ) AVITH THE BRITISH ARMIE3 IN FRANCE. April 18. Von Quast's freshly arrived guns were pounding" the villages in the areas back of the British lines today. Throughout last night the region along, the LoBassee canal was bombarded with gas shells. North of the Lys the liritish communications are constantly under direct machine gun fre. On the north flank of the Lys battle field yesterday there was a ceaseless struggle. BTT A LIBEBTT BOND T0PAT U. S. ENGINEERS ASSIST BRITISH WITH THE AMERICAN- ARMIES IN'

FRANCE. April IS. General Pershing today received a letter fiom General f'awlinson. commander of the P.ritish fifty army, in which the latter declared it was largely due to the assistance of American engineers that the British B.rmy was able to check the Germans in Picardy. l'T A t.lCKKl T BONO TPT AUSTRIAN TROOPS REFUSE SERVICE

i The Hammond exemption hoard has I recei ved ,not ice that it is to f urnish ten ; more, men to the national army. May

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Bt T"MT!:f I'r.r.s-.l WASHINGTON. Apri' I. Ausuiai troops in the Ukraine have it-fused io do service on the west front or even in Italy, areording to rumors rearhimr ".

drafted men and seven 'state department today. In -ei.lii.im

authentic information sin-wed the Teutons are trying lo convert Ukra tie into a German-Austrian colony.

volunteers leave the lat w eel

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