Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 266, Hammond, Lake County, 8 May 1918 — Page 1

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British Troops Ates on Somnie, French Report Heavy Hun Fighting t Bvli.etis.1 The Germans are all primed for a resumption of the west front offensive on a large scale, it was intimated today in a United Press dispatch from one British front. Tt was stated that the enemy has completed its reorganization andj has ahout l.oou.uuu men m with 912,000 in reserve. FiMd Marshal Hais reported increased activitv br the German artillery in the Meteren and Kemmel sectors early this morning. Kemmel was taken a few days a 50 by the Germans at a fearful loss of life. The on'.v infantry action mentioned by Hai was another siight British advance between the Sommo and the. Ancre Dispatches from the American front In Ticardv reported a terrific bombardment of several town- and oads west of ilontdidier held by the German?, last right. In retaliation the Germans were FheUlns the American rear areas. The Americans were deep in mud as the reu!t of several days of rainfall but the weather has cleared again, rendering artillery and air activity easier. Bulletin-. rUNITEO PRESS jABL1EaRMJ.ft1.t PARIS, Kay 8 Tb.e most -rlolent artillery lira i under way north aud ontn of the Arre rWer on the Amiens front, the Trench war office announced today. , . . German attacks were repulsed and prisoners taken west of Montdidler and in the region of Ilangard. Thennes and Grivesnes. (American troops are officially reported operating west of Montdidler and in the regions of Hangard and Tennes.) (By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS) "ffNTTEn Press Cablegram! WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 8. Australian troops have advanced again north of the Somme. One advance west of Morlaneourt was to the depth of 309 yards on a 500 yard front. The other was on the north bank cf the Somme. three miles south end west of Morlaneourt. 500 yards deep on a front of 600 yards. n"viTEr Press Cabt.egramI LONDON, May 3.British troops again advanced their lines between the Somme and the Ancre, taking several prisoners, Field Marshal Haig reported today. Hostile cannonading occurred In Flanders during the nicht. Enemy artillery fire. Enemy artillery fire increased this morning on the northern rortion of th-; Flanders front. "As the result of "successful minor operations we advanced Oitr line between the Somme and the Ancre. taking several prisoners." the statement sam. -Between Locon and Pobecq on the , southern portion of the Flanders front j and in the neighborhood of St. Julian j northeast of Ypres hostile artillery was active last night. "The enemy artillery Increased in activity in the Meteran.and Kemmel sectors early this mornln?." CRy FRED J. FEHOrsON-) Cniteo Press Cbt.kiram1 WITH THE AMERICANS IN PICARDY, May 8. The American artillery throughout the night was pounding the German positions at Cantigny, Courtemache, Montaine, Mesnil-St. Gorges and all roads and woods in the vicinity. After the extremely heavy fire the Cantieny wood has been torn up by high explosives. The sky was ablaza with the light of American artillery fire. The German guns replied against our rear organizations. The clearing weather has enabled excellent observation. French airplanes hover over the German lines In flocks. The French front Is now a sea of mud and conditions are similar to the early stages of the war when there were, no Fhelters and men were living in mud holes. CLOSE RACE IN NORTH TOWNSHIP The race In North township was so close today that noth'ng decisive could t,e seen. Clemens was pivintr Kscher a stiff battle for the assessorship and Vater and 'Wilcotkson wore not far apart inu the trustee race. AVhile Sulski secured the largest vote from Knt Chicago Wilooekson beat Vater in that city end and also in Hammond. Tf Wilooekson is defeated it will be by Vater's majority at Whltir.

HEADS SOUTHERN ARMY DEPARTMENT

-s' j-- y IK' -i i Maj. Gen. AVillard A. Holbrook. Maj. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook has just been placed in command cf the southern department of the army with headquarters in San Antonio. He was detailed before that as a brigadier commander at Camo Sherman, and prior to that was chief instructor of military art at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. ILL DOCT IT- f H I n " I I I 111 lillfilu II I I 8 11 'III M S I ' W W ILJ H Li I I I I :

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Entire Lake County Medical th;r t!r:!!P,It lhry shou,d ,av" been " i told. They considered it a reflection Society Offers Services to ion thPir "ismty. " I The councilmen were quit annoyed Government "Come andi"0311-" the water mt. had been ; broached with the Public Service CornGet Us, Uncle Sam," TheymiaRi' n vpr their i.nd-. until cny Atjtomey McMahon ir.foiTr.ed them that Say. janv citizen had a right to go before the Commission. I There was a woeful lack of knowlAbout a hundred doctors of Lake j erf-re of parliamentary law in evidence county were present at the Gary T. M.an, consequently the nieetinar borderC. A. last night to consider the call of i on a rQt.nht at times.

the government for medical men in the army, navy and marine corps. Captain Sov.dfrs of Camp Custer cave fin address. While none of the doctors Individually signed up all as a body offered their services to the country, leaving it to the government to select those it desires. In other words the Lake County Medical Association as a wholo vohm'oered. This is the first action of the kind by any medical association in the country. COUNTY COUNCIL MAKES APPROPRIATIONS Meets at Crown Point and Provides for Certain Expenditures. tPPEi-tAi- To The Times CROWN' POIN'T, 1XD.. May 8. The following sums of money have been appropriated and set apart out of the several funds for the purpose specified by the Lake county council at a recent meeting of the Lake county council at Crown Point: Auditor's office. 2 Elliot Fisher machines. $2.G:": filing cabinet for county health commissioner's office, J150; expense of West Creek poor. $200; ornamental street lights, $1.50$. 77; maintenance, $633.50 $2.2i:.t7. Repair of building, (insurance, tax), J 3.100; large library table. Gary court. No. S, ?lo; county jnil: supplies, light, fuel. $2,000; expense of orphan poor in institutions, including transportation, JR.OOrt; public printing and advertising. Jl.on": fair ground (Insurance). $")0O; expense of making school loans, 10.. - cuardians" home, improvements find redecorating. $430; appropriation for s'ate highway commission sonstruction of Lincoln Highway (bond issue) $300,000: Xorth township bridge No. 1. bridge on Lake George road. $6,000; bridge repair fund, $S,f00. County Farm. Repair of building. $6,000; pupplles and maintenance (fuel, light, furniture and farm implements. $13,000: plans and ppecifi'-ntions for new boiler. $60": bond issue for new boilers, water softening plant and power house, $30,000. W. HAMMOND MAN JOINS THE ARMY Says the por.th Chicago Calumet: Harry Zak. of West Hammond. the young man who on April 22, jumped into the river at 92nd street bridge, and who was rescued by the members of the fire tu? stationed there, has enlisted in the Polish National Army. He was discharged by .Judge Swanson yesi lerdcy when he informed "His Honor that he had joined the Polish National Army.

CITY DADS i-GATHEII FOR SPICY MEET! t i

Monthly Meeting of Aldermen Is a Noisv Affair and the Water Rate Question Raised a Hubbub in General. rity Councilman Ileckleman met last ; n'aht j It was one of the funniest meetings ; ever held In Hammond, 'i Of course you understand thera were i ethers ct the meetiner. Mayor Erown , was present. A number of others tried to be vorlly as well as bodily rresrnt. A l"t manufacturers were there but Ilerkleman bossed things. . At least the 20 manufacturers thought Kor instance thn council wanted t" appropriate 5125 for the Liiierty day hand, hut Ilerkleman said "No. the city .shouldn't pa'-' for it." All were iinna- ( irtiotis for paying for It but Ileckleman and so the bill cou'i not he passed ;.".nd t'ne bandmen will have t'j wait f'r t h e ' r mrfiy. ! Heckleman thought the councilmen ; oueh! to pay for It out of their own ' (inckots and offorr-l to pay hi .hare ion the pnt but councilman Highland ' .nid that as the band had not played i for the co.jncilmen alone but for the ; whl city that fc ihousrht that th j citizens o? Hammond were patriotic Icn.Mieh to nav their share." ! The water rates discussion created quito 'a ('iv-,rlon- Th rlf' dads did n"r k n o v about the comln of the Pub lic Service Commission to Hammond until" fhey read It in The Times and Are there no Roberts' Rules of Order in Hammond?. It was finally derided nftr Mayor Prown"s susrereption that a committee from the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers A ssorintion (to before the Commission tomorrow mornin?. A srenernl invitation is extended by the mayor. A delegation from the Hammond manufacturers Asso-iation appeared at the meeting last ntciht; P. W. Mvn was spokesman. II" said they were (Continued on raj?e flve.) Big Scrap on for aClumet Township Rep. Offices; Some Renominated. John N". Duncan, a colored man. was nominated in the primaries yesterday for constable of Calumet township. Other constabulary nominations appear to be: Frank C. Chambers. Edward Krieger. Pete Person. Cothery Again I?amd. Republican voters renamed Justices I". C. Fitzgerald end Joseph Cothery, and chose Charles L. Cl'-ruetis and possibly Otto norma n. who lias a close contestant in Frank Znwadzki. Justice Edward Gross wan defeated as wore Messrs. Laube. Welnner and Kollus. Williams Renominated. Capt. Thomas Matthews pave Township Trustee . J. AVillinms a close rare for trusteeship nomination, but 'Williams is believer! to have won by a slight margin. Township Assessor John Mel-'adden was renominated without opposition. FINAL FIGURES LAKE COUNTY'S THIRD LOAN City. Subscribers. Amount. Crown Point 1,558 $ 212,650 Dyer 297 33450 East Chicago 13,753 2.137.C00 Oary 23,163 2,519,550 Hammond 5,334 1,030,800 Highland 159 9,400 Munster 115 8.G0O Hobart 1,077 100,250 Lowell 1,243 136,350 Whiting 4,723 507,350 Total 58,431 86,779,000 Quotas Crown Point, S120.O0O; Dyer, 15,000; East Chicago, S78O.0O0; Gary, 81,020,000; Hammond, $640,000; Highland, 82.5CO; Mnnster, 82,500; Hobart, S30.0O0; Lowell, 860,000; Whiting, $280,000. Total, $3,000,000.

WAR'S AWFUL WASTAGE SHOWN IN PHOTO

A graphic picture of the toll official photo. Troops and hor?es lined with dead horses and broken PRAISES LAKE CO. Iak9 county ha onco mora por. trayed her loyilty and patrlotlBm by more than doubling' her Quota to tho Third Iiiberty Loan, and hy furnisliing- a precedent to other comniunJtiee, throtteh the enviable record, of a hond Iti the handc of every third person saocf her population. This splendid result was mafle possible only thrcr.jjh the splendid co-operation of the various chairmen, and their loyal organization. Permit me to Join with the citizens of Ziake county, in expressing to these chairmen anrt their many coworkers, our fratitude and pleasura for the showing- made in hchalf of Lake county. H. O. HAT, JR. , , ... County Chairman,. for eoi.vrv trfiasireh. Itrndford. i:!er. Roberts.

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Gary 1.417 23S 1.0S6 Hammond .... 36 4r'l 23 1 llobait 215 26 102 E. Chicago 2:2 114 550 Whiting 2 '7 i3 li"j Totals 2.530 5 1 2.3S FOR AMISSOR. Itlnck. fleeter. Gary l.2 1,120 Hammond 54'J 323 Hobart 2" i 137 Kast Chicago 63.". SSi "Whiting- 16'"' til Center Twp 2V 121 Totals 2,3S 2,150

fob rnoi:cnuit. Hunter. Patterson Gary 2.531 Hammond SI 7 243 Hobart 276 ir5 East Chicago S70 J50 Whiting 2;U 96 Center Twp. 33'1 87 Totals 3,115 1.93? FOR JOINT MOW-TOR. Brown. Holme. Klnfler. Gary 362 S; l.."9S E. Chicago.. 27 K4 65$ Hobart i'" 62 J61 Hammond .. 339 214 503 "Whiting .... 50 ' 10 161 Center Twp.. 157 370 47 Totals ....1.S02 1.452 3,12 These figiiin-" for sixteen out. of j? Hammond p-er'trt ; thre out of four precincts; all others (shown complete. FOB corom:h. Fvn. 4'loral. Snurr. Gary 1.3S3 1.365 247 East Chicago. 131 154 821 Hobart 153 19 44 Hammond .. 10S 215 -Wh'ting K4 3.1 5? Center Twp.. 5 5 5 t 61 Total I.97 1.24 Mikesch received 371 !n Hammond and Oavis 121?. Mikeyrh seemed In all the above divisions listed, 322; Pavis, 5S7. FOR I.F.OI5LATVRE. liar- KlnarPay. FJfleld. rl. will. Gary 120 1.373 1.7?", ?40 Hammond 705 710 579 462 Hobart ...IS 1" 1 1" E. Chicago 770 fi?5 721 325 Whiting .. 227 21 5 171 1 IU Center Tp. 12 23S 141 132 Totals . .3,20 2.r'7 3.551 1.99 Sam- SwanPrirf, hor. on. 'Gary '4t 1.157 S-s0 Hammond IS.". 4it'l 477 Hobart s 107 Kt Chicago. 1S2 S7 7 W'hitinsr "rt 1R! "0 Center Twp 121 79 1.1 Swanscn probably will pick lip strength when country precincts ate turned In,

that war take3 of material and life is are moving up to the front along a wajons.

. Latest 'Bulletins L'nited Press Cablegram! lOJfDON, May 8. "I believe the ne- ; cessity at this hour for tha proserva- ! tion of unity until we are victorious will not allow disappointed persons to embarrass the government," declared tabor Minister Roberts today regarding j tho situation created by the Maurica i letter, f peeking at a luncheon of the i Association of Trade Protection. fT'NlTBD PHF.SS CaET.EORAM.1 WITH TEE AXXUCAN ABUT IN PICAEDT, May 8 Six more Americans hare teen decorated with tho French war cross for bravery in action and under fire. Captain Sydney Graves, son cf Brig. Gen. Grave of the national army, was among them. The others were a lieutenant, two sergeants and two privates. Br T'.viteo rnEss WASHINGTON-, May 8. Today'a casualty lists contained a total of 75 names including 13 killed in action, 3 missing, 2 deaths from accident, 3 deaths from disease, 13 severely wounded and 41 slightly wounded. Corporal Kenneth I.. Diver, Sunman, Ind., Is shown as killed in action; Private Clyde Millard, Kontpelier, Ind., as wounded severely, and Private Clyde L. Noel, rarmersburg, Ind., slightly wound, ed. By Vvttftv Phess 1 rNIIANArOZ.IS, May 8. All present In liana members of the house of representatives were renominated at the primary election yesterday, full reports today showed. Although the vote waa exceptionally light thcra were close races in several districts. TPt T'viTrn Press I WASHINGTON, May 8 Heavy rain drenching Slanders has co-operated with the harrassing of allied guns to block the German offensive, the British war mission declared today. I "The enemy is experiencing great dlfI Acuity with transportation and com. I munlcatlcn services as a result," the j mission adds. "The German is now reI alizing in the old Ypres salient what ; rianders mud really is." ri'viTm Pfkss Cablegram 1 PAWS, May 8. Constantino, former king of Greocc, is reported seriously 411 at Zurich. HAHOND'S E HARE !5 According to A. M. Turner, chairman of the local Red Cross war fund committee, the second Red Cross war fund drive for SlOi.ono.ono will, under the direction of the president of the United States, take place during the week from the 20 to the 27 of May. The allotment for the Hammond chapter, which includes Hessville, Highland, Munster and Griffith, is JSS.OOn. All patriotic people are hereby requested to get in line and keep step with o'ir comrades across the sea in this important war order. All those justly denied the privilege of participating- by reason of financial or physical defects will be honorably and courteously relieved from active duty at this time without prejudice. Those who can and will respond to their limit to this high calling will be adorned with si badge of honor, which they and their posterity will highly prize. i Our motto for Red ( ross week is: 1 Give and work, and work nr.d give. Respectfully submitted. REP "ROPS AVAR FUND COMMITTEE. By A. M. Turner, Local Chairman.

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piven in this remarkable Australian duckboard road that crosses a ridjje HlMOi'S VOTES GIVEN G. O. P. vote in Hammond less the 5th, 6th and 15th jvre-cincts: Wood 564 Hunter 817 Patterson 243 j Reiter ; Hardy 605 804 i,- 3-. O" rieiineuy Mo ran 216 Greenwald 529 Brown .. 350 Holmes - ' 214 Kinder 503 Mcllroy OS Day - 705 Fifleld "10 ! Ha rris & . " Kingwiil 462 Price 155 Sambor 490 Swanson 477 Overmeyer 4S0 AVheaton 516 Bradford .. "68 Tioberts 234 Barnes .. 575 Pavis 126 Evans; .. 19? GIVGI 55 Mikesch 370 Sauer .. 215 Seely 599 Black 549 Meeter 323 Schaaf 76S Claussen 492 Baliley .. 373 F.eattie 337 Godfrey 351 Meyer 241 Hartley .... 442 Boyd 412 Pat tee 360 'TIS I RISKY TUG TO GAMBLE, MUTES You'll Have to Go Down in the Cellar to Match Pennies or Pick Straws. These Chicago men who visited "West Hammond and were on their way home will never even think of choosing straws in Hammond. They were waiting for a car on GostIln street and to vary the monotony decided to pitch quarters towards the street car track, the two closest having the other pay their fares. Officer Fandrel heard the jinjrling of the two-bit pieces and the f,rst thing they knew the trio was at the police station where they were booked as follows : Thiil Casner, 110 East SSth street, Chicago. John Wall, 1S"2 Michigan avenue, Chicago, 2i. Harry Gallagher, S104 South Tark avenue. Chioajto. Judge Klotz, heeding Deputy Prosecutor Cleveland's plea, let the oldest man go. but soaked the other men J15 and costs for gambling. i VON BERNSTORFF'S CIPHER REVEALED Ft I'vitkp Ppfss.) NEW YORK. May S. The Von Bernstorff code, the means of com imnication employed by the German office to keep in touch with Count Von B rnstorff while the latter was directing the sabotage and other German activities in this country, has been desiphered, reconstructed and turned over to the fcovernment bv Attorney Ger.neial Lewis. Ibis was-the code which Huso Schmidt, paymaster in this country of the German foreign office, attempted to destroy by -burning in the furnace of the German club in New Tork Ci

n fob Huntsr, Hardy and Black Win Out, QSfYsr Hoiines Beaten, Evans Leads for Coroner, Republican Winnners RALFH BRADFORD. CLTDE HUNTER. WALTER T. HARDY. JAMES I. DAY. OTTO FIFIELD. J. GLENN HARRIS. A. H. SAM HO R. WM. BROWN. GEORGE O. SCHAAF. EDWARD E. EVANS WILLIAM E. BLACK. CHARLES T. BAILEY. JOSEPH A. BEATTIE. HOBART M. GODFREY. Non-contested winners: Will R. Wood, Virgil S. Reiter, Charles E. Greenwald. J. J. Overmeyer, Lewis E. Barnes. Ray Seely, Joseph Hartley, Leonidas Boyd, Lewis A. Pattee, John H. Claussen. Lake county's 1918 primary has passed into history. The voting was light compared with some of the exciting races recorded. Ralph Bradford, Wm. Black, George Schaaf, Walter Hardy, Dr. Evans, Wm. Brown, and Clyde Hunter have walked home with the bacon. The wets are jubilant over the legislative ticket, which they claim, though some of the men never sought wet support. The legislative winners are: Day, Harris, Sambor and Fifield. ?tate Senator Dwight M. Kinder of Gary, although he is 1,500 votes ahead of William Brown in Lake county, concedes the nomination for the Joint venatorship to Mr. Brown as he believes that Porter. Newton and Jasper counties will show such an overwhelming plurality for Brown that he will wipe out Klnder's eplendid Lake county majority. Jasper county gave Mr. Kinder 13 "totes and Mr. P.; own 794, and Portr county informs Kinder that it has 1,20') votes for Brown. For Proserutorship. Frosecuting Attorney Clyde Hunter was renominated by an overwhelming majority, defeating James A. Patterson, former prosecuting attorney. It appears that organization workers !n every precinct backed Mr. Hunter and this was done. It was said, because the old custom of giving the prosecutor a chance to succeed himself was followed out. A surprise was Hunter's headway in Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, where it was thought Patterson would win out. Superior Judxeithips. Of the three superior judgeships Judge Walter T. Hardy was the only one having opposition, Judges Reiter and Greenuyild braving no opponents. Judge Hardy ran ahead in all reported north end county precincts. In Gary he got 1.535 as compared to 675 for .Tohn T. Kennedy and 4C0 to Daniel Moran. That was a criterion of the vote elsewhere. Judge Hardy in t'n county got 3.57S votes, Kennedy 1,892. and Moran R32. Assessor Black nenominated. County Assessor William E. Black, whose defeat had been predicted by the steel machine In Gary and whose defeat was sought by it. fooled the steel princes and came out ahead. Not that the steel machine has any love for Mr. Meeter. but that it hates Black was the reason Gary city hail and steel machine forces united to trim th county assessor. But in 30 precincts Black got 1,202 Gary votes and 1,120 went to Meeter. Steel Machine Loses. In Hammond, where Mr. Meeter's business connections were expected to advance him Black won out as he did in East Chicago and Hobart. Black is an old campaigner ar.d like Mat Brown he is a hard man to bat. For four years the Gary Tribune, organ of the steel gang, has been preaching Black's defeat. Mr. Meeter, however, made a good showing in Gary and made many friends during h:y campaign. The roronfrnhlp. One of the big surprises of the republican primaries was the showing made by Dr. Antonio Giorgi of Gary, who practically tied Dr. E. E. Evans in the steel city for Gary's favors in the coronership nomination. Dr. Evan?, long in politics, got l.SS a eompa;ed with 1.35 by Dr. Giorgi. Dr. Frederick W. Pauer also surprised hi friends, but Doctors Davis and M kes. h .Continued on raee five)