Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 26 April 1918 — Page 1
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Hun Hordes Cross Kemmel-Ypres Road. Fall ol Ypres is Now Expected, TT'NiTrP Pr.ESS t"Bt.FGRM.1 WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FLANDERS, French troops are April entirely 26. surrounaed on Mount Kcmmel. They . . . , are still fighting. After eight hours) , . , r . fighting yesterday, German storm t . , , . , i troops wecigea truer way between ' , , . . , , , the French and British ranks and! , , , , i crossed the Kemmel-Ypres roads.' : Uxnr:;' rrs? Cablegram. (By HENKY WOOD.) WITH THE rXECH AR2UES IN THE FIELD, April 26. The Germans are- continuing the development of their assault against Amiens with increasing violence, aiming eventually at a separa. Thit is an indication or Einiemmr's j determination to force a supreme, deel- ' been induced by the fact that preceding j the present attack the Germans already i
men, of which approximately do divi- j Anglo-f rench made a savage countonss were first c- second class. j ter attack, both allied flanks en-
The German drive toward Amiens is increasing. In the meantime the allies have had time to take the greatest defensive precautions. In consequence the victorious outcome Is likely to rest with the ride having the best generalship, the most munitions and the most reserves. As the result of unifying the allied command, Foch i3 consistently opposing the present attack as heretofore with the minimum forces necessary, prefer. ring to loie ground rather than to use- ! lessly sacrifice his reserves. The two j preceding German drives lasted ten days i each with five day intervals for organizing bu' it is considered doubtful that the Germans with their limited number of fresh divisions left from violence can exceed the precedents. War Review Severe infantry nnd artillery fighting progressing cn practically the entire northern battle area, rielcl Marshal Eaig's report Indicated today, while the operations on ".he British front in Picardy are limited to local actions and can. r.onacling. On the northern edge of the Flanders battle front the Germans obtained a footing on Mount Kemmel. Tills was the culmination of an all day fighting. Between Eailleul and Hollebeke, Kemmel is about lour miles northeast of Bailleul and seven miles south and west of Ypres. If the enemy completely established themselves on this, height the British must defend Ypres from the south on low fiat land. Haig conducted a successful minor operation on the extreme western end of the northern battle front, west of Merville. On the southwestern sector of the rlanders theater the German are heavily shelling the British positions on the ten mile front between Givenchy and the Lys river. BUT A lIBEBtt MSB TOP4I FRENCH ARE sunn United PhEss Cablegram. LONDON. April 25. German forces f-.rve obtained a footing on Mount Kem-r.i.-l. on - of the most important heights in Flanders following an all day battle on a ten-mile front. Field Marshal Haig reported today. "After severe fightine throughout the i!iy on the BaiHeul-Hollebeke sector, toe eremv obtained a footing on Kemmel Hill." H.'ii-" said. "The allies gave, nur of Dranoutre, Kemmel nnd errtraat. ",Y successful minor operation we? t of Mervi!!e resulted in the capture of j fifty enemy prisoners and three inachltv; ; g-.nis. I ' From the Lys to Givenchy there is 1 hostile artillery firing. South of the. Somme hostile posts holding positions poutheast of Viilers-Lretonneaux were cleaned out. The enemy's artillery is active and is usin pas shells." BT"T A t.lBrHTY BOND I"nttfi Tress Cadi ehramI WASHINGTON, April 26. Permission to charge rates oqnal to thosa of competing steam railroads was granted to nine electric railways in the miduls west today by tha interstate commerce commission. The Chicago, South Bend tt northern Indiana Hallway Company was one of the interurbans.
HUNS GET KEMMEL rr.viTEn Press ('An i.e.-, ram LONDON, April 26. The Germans have occupied Mount Kemmel, according to the latest information received here. This information however is unofficial. It is 4 miles south and west of Ypres. TURN VALLEY INTO HELL L'nited Tress Cabi.eohan: LONDON, April 26. Although the Germans have reached the crest of the hill the remnants of the French garrison are still there. The French also hold the village. In night fighting at Mt. Des Cats, ! fiv mil; tn thp wfct ihf FrpnrVi , , . , . , , . raked the elopes with machine . Suns and held out against terrible . odds preferring death of capture, , iU ,. , Today the German line apparently ' y. , . runs west of Kemmel but the ulti- . . mate winner is still a matter of doubt. Similar fighting surged about Villers Bretonneux, the British fighting like lions, retaking the
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way as the Germans took Kemmel, working around the sides until it was surrounded. In the Kemmel fighting the filading Von Eberhardt's Alpiners, turning the green flowered fields of the valley into a sizzling hell. The Germans paid dearly tor their gain. YPRES STILL IN BRITISH HANDS 1"nitet Press Cablegram LONDON, April 26. The Ger- ! t, A 4. ii J intma nave ctuvautcu iwo inuuaauu yards on a 1,200 yard front in the Kemmel sector, capturing the "very important ground of Kemmel Hill," Major General Radcliff, director of military operations, announced this afternoon. "It is possible to hold Ypres even with the enemy on Mount Kemmel," Radcliff declared, "but it will be inconvenient and we hope to get him off. "In the Lys sector the net result of the engagement has been very satisfactory. As usual the Germans used a lot of troops with very heavy losses and gained absolutely nothing." BUT A IIBEETT BOND TOT-AT MICHIGAN CUT UAYOR RUN OUT OP DISTRICT ON ALIEN ENEMY CHARGE - WASHINGTON". April CC. Frederick "' Vtillpr ATn 'Ctr cf "Mirliiiran Citv. Tnd . I u ho was arrested as an alien enemy ' when he came here Tuesday to discuss . prospects of the completing Lis natural ization as an American citizen, was r I leased last niht. Mayor Millir was accompanied out of i the District of Columbia by Justice Department officials. It was stated officially that, since Miller was registered as an alien, he I had technically violated the law in com- ; ing into the district, but had not done so with any intent ion of wrong-doing. Bit A I.1BKBTV BO.ND T-li'i!-MANY ARRESTS FOR Men But Fewer Worn en Fall by the Wayside in Hammond. There were nine men arrested in Hammond last nisht by the police. Captain Hanlon states that there has been over tiiree times as many arrests for drunkenness since the state went dry as before, but on the other hand. Mrs. Myrtle l'feffer says that she has not had one woman in the station who was drunl since the saloons have been e'osed. -" big changre has come about in Hammond. There are literally hundreds of V iuns men now who go down West state street into West Hammond every night where wine and women reign. Many of them come back drunk.
WAR CHEST MOIEMEN. IS PROBABLE
K. W. Wickey of Past Chicngo lias just returned from Indianapolis whore In- was in attendance at the meeting of the State. Council of Defense which took into consideration the matter of a state-wide campaign to provide a war hest for the various counties and municipalities. This matter was very thoroughly Investigated and although formal' action in the matter recommending the plan will be delayed for a time yet Mr. Wickey believes that the State Council of Defense are favoring this movement. The plan is to specify some period of time consisting of a week or ten days and recommend to all parties of the state that a plan be taken up which will provide funds for nil campaigns except the liberty loan and war stamps during the continuance of the war. This matter has been considered 8t various times by cities of Lake county nnd this region will doubtless fall in line in such a cmpaign if a state wide moenient is brought about. BIT A I1BERTT MM) TOt'AT GERMAN PAPER IS COMPELLED TO QUIT Force Demokrat to QuitPublication. EVAXSVILLF. IXD., April "6. The Germa Demokrat here will suspend publication within a month as a result of in indignation meeting of 200 business men here yesterday afternoon in which Fred Lauenstein, publisher, was censored and the suppression of the paper demanded. The Demokrat has been published for fifty-four years. The German Demokrat came under lire when advertisements appeared advising the German-reading resident of the city and county to support the paper 'hecnuse it unswervingly supports Teutschtum' and its holy hights," and urging the readers to buy their goods of advertisers in the paper "who thus show they want the trade of the GermanAmericans even during this war." W". i:. StiHvell led the attack at the meeting. Ho demanded suppression of the paper, saying: "We can not permit anything or anybody to place an ohstacle in the path of our boys in France. He declared that Iauenstoin's wife, who j is Indiana chairman for the counties in the I'.ightli District in the liberty Loan fampaii-n, is "doing a.l she can to aid our boys who are fighting while you are doing all you can to hurt them." Ee Supports "Deutschtyin." Lauenst. in replied. c la i m i n g "Deutschtiim" means "German characteristics." "German manners" or "German customs." and not Germanism or German patriotism. The men present saw no difference and proclaimed it with Jeers. He said the advertisements were "illlor" for the paper and that their wording had not been" changed since 1316. Lauenstein said he would suspend publication of the paper, but was Inclined to fight the proposition that tlx? papcr should suspend because of disloyalty, declaring it has not been disloyal and that it has abetted the government in all important war work. The meeting accepted his agreement to suspend publication "because the Demokrat is printed in the German language." BCT A LIBEKTT BOND TODAT BUY COAL NOW 00 SUFFER LATER ;Fuel Head Urges Consumers To Stock Up Now As Supply Is Very Low. "There is absolutely only one way to avoid the grief f,r.d hardships of a coal famine and that i.i for every consumer that Is financially able to immediately make such arrangements as possible to Set coal in storage during the next four months. This assertion is the keynote of the nrgumr-nt presented in support of a resolution urging every consumer of coal, steam and domestic, to' place their orders for the next winter's fuel supply ow-. by Will J. Freeman, chairman of the coal productipn committee, to the Indiana state council of defense. The council adopted the resolution, which is in line with public pronouncements being made by the state and federal fuel administrators. Mr. Freeman further called attention to the fact that the March car supply at 1 Indiana mines was lower than for January, during the severe blizzard. He said 1 mines are working at but 60 per cent of their capacity, which renders It impossible to store up a surplus for emergencies. In view of the car situation, he added, there is no reason to expect coal shipments will increase jater on. Bt'T A LIBERTY BOVD TODAT Itonrln unfrRunrd your national nnd flnnnrlnl f ntiire buy tliem. Every bond sold mennaa a new nail driven In the kaiser' coffin
1BERTY-V1GT0RY
Countless Thousands March Though Skies Are Over castStreets of City Are Jammed With Visitors. A meeting of the stock holders of the patriotic corporation of Lake county which has loaned the United States government $6,000,000 within the last three weeks and stands ready to give millions more, was held today at Hammond. These bond holders of the third liberty loan came streaming into Hammond on trains. Interurbans, street cars, by automobiles and even on foot this afternoon to participate in one of the Kreatest parades the county haa ever held if not the greatest. Throughout the morning a drizzling j rain which started yesterday afternoon continued to threaten with laden skies the attendance was perhaps cut to a third of what it would have been with sunshine and spring warmth. At 2 o'clock the streets were crowded from Harrison Park to State and Hohman streets along the line cf march. Sixteen towns and cities of Lake county occupied sections of the parade and many were led by their own bands. Gary and East Chicago were well represented and the police of those citis aided the Hammond rollce in handling the crowds. It was the first get-together demonstration of all Lake county in years. The towns and cities were unified for one common cause doubling the Liberty Loan quota and showing the unfalging patriotism of the great industrial region. West Hammond and Hammond school children participated and most of the industries of the two cities were represented by their employes In the line of march. The day was dark and dreary but the spirit of the people refused to lower. Gott wasn't on the side on the Huns after all, for as the parade got started. C'ld Sol's smiling face appeared and warmed and cheered the hearts of all. This evening at Liberty Hall County Chairman Hay will preside at a meeting in which all towns and cities of the county will report on what they have accomplished in the Third Liberty Loan. With the Jackles' band and drill corps from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in the lead the parade started moving at 2 o'clock and concluded shortly before 3. Marshals instructed the men on the side, viewing the parade to raise their hats whenever the colors passed and they stood bareheaded for the most part as the parade was a mass of flags. Crown Point, St. John. Dyer. Schererville, Hobart, East Chicago, Gary, Miller, Highland. Munster and other Lake county towns passed in review. The British tank, a battle ship, and a miniature railroad engine, were features. The engine was a part of the big Indiana Harbor Belt Railway portion of the parade; and carriea the announcement that the 1 H. B. had 2,000 subscribers and JU5.000 for the Third Liberty Loan. The Red Cross in costume carried a great sheet in which money was thrown. The Masonic drum, bugle and drill corps was In the parade. The schools, both public and parochial made a splendid showing. After the parade the Jackie's band gave a concert in front of the temple. FT T A LIBEBTT BOND TOI'AT SPISAK WINS RACE J'hn Splsak. the Whiting. Ind . roller "katlng champion. skated against "Cratv lk" on a motercclp at th Indiana Carders rink at Rohertsdale list nlpht, defeating the motorcyclist by almost t wo laps in a two mile race. Th novelty race was attended by a laige and enthusiastic crowd. The time made by Spisak was 7 minutes and 20 seconds. M;k" HIavaoh. the Rohertsdale rhampion captured the on mile event amontr a fiebl of contestants. The time was 3 minutes and 55 seconds. Young Cantier again captured the Skate bovs race in the exceptional time of 4 minutes flat. Canner has been showing such fine racing form that he is to be p in the clas I? events in the future. BCT A I.IBMTT BIND TOP AT BOYS ARE REPRIMANDED ut When members of the Central fir j department No. 1, responded to a call at Ifohman nnd Con key avenue in Hammond yesterday afternoon, instead of i fire they found seven small boys, j two of whom had taken part in turn- j insr in the alarm. Chief Nill took the sito the police ' station where they admitted turninsr ' in the alarm. They were nil South I Chiraeo boys havinsr come to Hammond j to attend a funeral.- After being reprimanded they were released and sent home. BCT A MBFRTT BOND TotAT ARREST AT GARY The first arrest in Gary for violation of the new dry law was made last night when John Priselac. 1700 Delaware sereet, was taken Into custody. Prislac conducted a saloon until April 2. He gave bond for his release.
Billy Sunday Who Flayed the Kaiser Today In Hammond
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A Latest 'Bulletins IBt T'vited Tress. WASHINGTON, April 26. Army men riewed the north end of the western front line today as presenting mere dangerous elements than the struggle In the Amiens sector. Selnforcements sufficiently strong apparently have been thrown Into the Amiens battling but there appeared to ; be xnoro weakness in the British front , to the north. Becapture of Villers-Bre- j tonneaux by the English and Australians showed that the Germans had only a ' slim grasp on it but it is likely there j will be further bloody fighting there j and It Is possible that it will change j hands more than once again. j TRY T'vitfd Press i WASHINGTON, April 2S American i aviators In France have clowned 339 enemy planes from the time the United j States entered the war np to March 8, : 1913, according to unofficial reports ( from Trance. i rt'viTEP Press Cbie5Jam EOME, April 26. Mount Stromboli is in violent eruption. Palling lava has ' set fir to vineyards and it i3 believ- . ed some lives have been lost. i rT'VTTED PPESS CABI.rRAM MOSCOW, April 26 The Germans are steadily withdrawing troops and sending them to Prance. Polieh citizens refuse to enlist in a proposed Polish j corps. rt'VTTEr. tess CP7.Ec,nMl COPENHAGEN, April 26. A British airman bombed Z?ebruggee mole while the kaiser was inspecting the results of the recent raid there. fP,T TviTF:r, PrtKSs 1 NEW YORK, April 26 An ash port carelessly left open was believed today to have flooded the American liner St. Paul, sinking ber at her pier. However,! no official announcement as to the cause of the accident which probably cost j three lives has been made. Work of ! raising the vessels was progressing rap - ldly today. Meanwhile an investigation to place ...-a-.iviih , .invi.ir . i.- ! Ing conducted by army men. "i BY PRANK J. TAYXOB. fT'VTTKn Ppt-.s Cablegram 1 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN X.ORBAINE, April 25. (Night) A French general will decorate with the French war cross the colors of ths in.Hrin res-iment which defeated tha a tt.rk bv nicked Geraiaai northwest of Toul two weeks ago. Individual members also will be decorated. The citations and ceremony are i.h.i,iad frti stTinr1a.v. This is tha first time an American regiment has received the French war cross. TBv VviTm Pp.rs.l WASHINGTON, April 2f. Nine killed In action, five dead of wounds, three from disease, thirty-three wounded severely and twenty-live wounded slightly, were reported in today's casualty lists from General Pershing.
; What Billy Siwdav Said
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Germany has been licied ever ! she turned from Christ to Krupp. since You're a blackguard and. a slacker If you won't help our country in its hour of need. America's emblem Is not a ten dollar bill but the finest piece of bunting in the world sprinkled with stars. We'll never shield or spike our guns until the world la free. X say down with I. W. W. and socialist propaganda. If those guys don't like the way we do they can tak9 their darn, ed carcasses and go back where they came from. ' When you pour sunshine Into a rat hole you forever destroy It as a hole for a rat. We have no use for republicans or democrats now. We're all Americans. Later on we may shift back to our various parties and when we do cf coarse I'm a republican. Z had a talk with President Wilson be1 fore going to Chicago. X said, "Bank on me and To to bed and rest easy so far as your Uncle Puller is concerned." There has never been a ship wrecked ' eff Plymouth Bock. i No army ever won a victory with a . flag at half mast. ! We've started out to get the scaly snake. We couldn't lift our head a decent nation if we'd submitted when Ger- ! many spit in our face. j Germany made the mistake of her life ! when she said the neutral nations of the world couldn't have the freedom of ;-ne seas ana iu our snips, ii j. a Deen J running the thing we'd been in the war two years before we were. I rate against fatalism, Hell against Heaven. Germany is the outlaw among nations, She stole everything she ever had. ! Tn9 Kaiser eat his Christmas dinner ; la Eeriinr wny tne nig stiff will be ! lucl'y lf he ever eat" dlnner la BerUn again. Tbe VaiteA States will never com - promise with that bunch of pretzels and sauerkraut:, we win riu tne wria or the curse of German mili-arism. If your boy or HU3Bana or brother sleeps cencatu a mtie wane cross over there I don't ask you to dry your tears, but be proud of the fact that he bared his breast to the bullets that freedom "f111 not dle The men, women and children killed in this war equal the populations of j Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, j Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Wy- ! omif e ad owa The Yanks will give that hot-dog crowd a run for their money. The Kaiser says he and Ood are partners. The Kaiser's the biggest liar this side of Hell and if I'd been the Lord he'd been croaked long ago. He raised a Hell on this earth that makes the real thing look like a side show. He is deiContinued on page two.)
Famous Evangelist Before 5,000 People 8l Hammond Tears Hide off tiie Kaiser.
Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, before a crowd of 5,000 madly enthusiastic Hun-haters in Hammond's great Liberty Hall this morning literally walloped the everlasting daylight cat of the kaiser. He skinned the Germans alive and flayed Prussiaism as only Sunday can. His excoriation was a masterpiece. Yankee soldiers with their ginger, pep, tabasco and jazz will make that God-forsaken, good-for-nothing skunk, the kaiser, and the hotdog, sauerkraut, pretzel crowd sorry they turned the German eagle into a puking buzzard and made the real Hell look like a sideshow. USHEES IN CELEBRATION. That is a composite sentence cf Invectives by the inimitable Rev. William A. Sunday, who ushered in Lake County's Liberty Day celebration at Hammond with a violent denunciation of the war lord of Germany, speaking to more than 5,000 people in Liberty Hall at ten o'clock. Hundreds who sought to see and hear Billy Sunday were turned away after 3:45 when the tabernacle was filled to every nook and cranny with more than a thousand standing packed in the aisles and alone the walls. THE AUDIENCE HEADY POB HIM. It was an audience waiting to laugh, cheer and get hot under the collar with the famous evangelist who came to Hammond to give the Kaiser Hell. Billy, appearing tired and worn from his strenuous Chicago campaign. threw aside fatigue and plunged into his talk, announcing the te,xt as taken from a message of President AVilson to congress, as follows: "There was but on? choice and we have made it." A sea of upturned eager faces greeted Sunday. Mill workers from East Chicago and Gary, farmers and their wives from Lowell and Crown Pom?, men and women cof many religious faiths and various nationalities were there, all anxious to hear the widely a 1vertised Kaiser-hater and his oral artillery bombardment of Germany. INTBODUCED BY SHARKER. Kodeheaver, the trombonist and chorus leader, had concluded playing Dixie and Yankee Doodle and teaching the crowd to sing the "Brighten The Corner Where You Are" chorus. Brewrter, the Sunday pianist, had demonstrated the volume of music it is possible to pet from the instrument on which he is so proficient, and Dr. H. K. Sharrer. Hammond Liberty Loan chairman, had made a brief introduction. Outside the crowds swirled about th great tabernacle, tilling the streets an 1 encircling the great tank that stood by the courthouse ready to crush over the. streets in the monstor parade. A corps of riite men fired a salute. The .Tackles band and drill corps were on their way to the temple. BIEI.Y HITS HOT CLIP And Filly S'. :i':av launched with thnt j appealing personality of his and ynamic power into a tirade of the world's greatest enemy and the devil's rival. He spoke for one hour and it seemed ten minutes to the rapt auditors. The words fell from his i:ps nt the rate of 200 a minute. At times ho hecame almost Inarticulate ns ' adjectives had become jammed if the in hi3 . l!irPat. ! Compared, however, to the emotional j r;ir0xysms he attains on. revivals Sunj day w"as reserved. untv and Ma Sunday had reached the i 11 ju?'t b-fore ten o'clock in a limouFine sent t,-, get them. It was their first j visit to Hammond in nineteen years when Sunday held a revival mcetinc in !th, Hchman Opera House. Both Billy j arui Ma toij the crowd about the former j visit and Ilodeheaver asked all those in ' t.-n ,vv,,, had attended the wth,,so iany years aRo to hold up th hands. More than a hundred people responded. After the evangelist had concluded his address. Ma Sunday was called upon by Dr. Sharrer for a few words. She s.-:d: "I like Viiu. I liko the way you come out on a rainy mornintr. I like the way you Imilt this hall and went over the top in the Lib. rty Loan the s,-eui(l time. When I was lK-re liinet. n years aco I had my little boy with me. Ho M now Lieut. Geo. Sunday .f ihe Putted States army." With the Jackies band playing m front of the bIl and preparing to enter. Billy. Ma, Body, Brewster and the uth. r members of the Sunday party waved good-bye amid cheers and re-entered thu big limousine.