Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 283, Hammond, Lake County, 28 May 1918 — Page 1

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Republican Stale Leaders Hear Singular Hews on Eve ot State Convention. Bulletin-. tDUAPOLI, Ind., May 2S. Hornee Ellis rrlthdrcTr c candidate for the republican nomination for state j superintendent of public Instruction. In his statement be says be acted In the Interests of party harmony. Bulletin-. l.DlAXAPOMS, Ind.. May 2S Shaffer Peterson of Iecatur Is announced n a. candidate for the nomination of Judffe of the appellate court -I.Inst Judge MfJIsbon and Samuel R. Artman is still considering becoming a candidate. At Stats Capital. Times B'-keaV. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. May 2S. One or the Important notes of the republican state convention will be that the republican party proposes to do every possible thing to help win the war. and that it proposes to stand by the president In all things that ro to that end. Hut the declaration, while possessing a patriotic ring, will not be worded so as to bring hilarious Joy to the soul of the partisan . nocrats of tho state. This much became apparent when the leaders of the party arrived in the city and begin making plans for the state convention". No on Platform. It has not been possible to get a line on the exact wording cf any platform declarations, but enough is known to enable one to say that either in the platform or 8o;nwhere else the convention will make the charge that the democrats are playing politics with the war. This kind of politics will be denounced, but in doing so the. convention will not for a moment recede from the position of the republican party that it is the war party and that republicans as well as democrats ought to be called into the service of the government and given a chance to do what they are all anxious to do in winning the war. Hays Is Inspected Today. Will II. Hays, republican national chairman, was expected to arrive here today and the task of platform-building was to be taken up at once. Numerous little conferences by districts were held last night about town for the purpose of lining up th forces hohlnd candidates from particular districts. For instance, the Second district men met to ley plans for the nomination of B. F. Willoughby. of Vincennes, for Judge of the supreme court, and the renomlnatien of Horace Ellis for state superintendent of public Instruction. Other districts took like action for their own candidates. Artman May Re-Enter Race. There was a little flurry last night and this morning when it became noised about that Samuel R. Artman, of Lebanon, might re-enter the race for Judge of the appellate court, northern division. Artman, who is a member of the state industrial board at $1,000 a (Continued on page two.) COMESFROH EAST H. E. Sasse and Miami Hammond Both Formerly of Hammond Wed. Society circles of many cities in Lake county will be interested in learning of news which came today from the east announcing that Herman K. Sasse. formerly of Crown Point, but now of Gary, had been married to Mrs. Miami Hammond of Hammond, The couple were married at Camp Lee. Va where Mrs. Sasses son, Lieut. Harold lammond, has been stationed. She had gone to visit him before Ms departure for France and the wedding took place before Lieut. Hammond left for his ship. Mr. and Mrs. Sasse are expected home shortly from a visit to Norfolk and Nw Tork and will be at home at Hohraan and Mason street in Hammond next month to receive the congratulations of their friends. Mr. Sasse is an extensive owner of real estate about Gary and was born in Crown Point and educated ihere and in Chicago. He has been a great traveler and has many trips to Europe to his credit. Mrs. Sasse was also a former Crown Point girl and widow of the late W. H. Hammond, the Hammond banker who died several years ago. John Cody. 20 years old. colored, residing In Calumet. East Chicago, is accused of stealing $30 and getting away with the money. He clso took pome clothing. He was employed as a Janitor's assistant.

CLIMAX OF WILSON'S SPEECH

WASHINOTON, May 28. The emotional climax of President Wilson's address to Congress yesterday was ren.cb.ea when he said: Hundreds of thousands of oar men, carying our hoarts with them and our fortunes, are In the field and ships are crowding faster and faster to the ports of France and England with regiment after regiment, thousand after thousand, to Join them until the enemy shall be beaten and brought to a reckoning- with mankind." (Bitter Arraignment of One of This City's Most Prominent Physicians by Atty. J. H. Conroy. Judge Fred Crumpacker Talks. Dr. J. T. Clark, one of Hammond s most successful physicians, was today arrested on a charge of peddling apples without a license and is to be tried Saturday evening at Liberty Hall. It Is expected the trial will be largely attended, there being plenty of seats, no admission fee and a promise of sensational procedure. It Is alleged that Dr. Clark, with a number of accomplices still at large. sold apples for twenty-fice cents each o people in the dow ntown district and netted $100 for the Red Cross. lie Has nn AHM. Regarding his arrest Dr. Clark stated today : 'I Intend to fight this to the bitter end. My defense will be that I was out of town Saturday evening and the following day. As a matter -of fact I rpent Sunday with several well known. Hammond clergymen, whom I will name on the stand, fishing at Cedar Lake. I will produce more witnesses to testify that I was out of town than they can that I was in town and should win by a preponderance of evidence. My character witnesses are excellent. Popcorn' George Jones will swear that he hasn't seen me do anything out of the way in years. Of course I don't expect a fair trial and the Judge will probably he crooked but I hope to convince the audience so thoroughly of my innocense that It will demand my acquittal and coerce the court. I will use any means fair or foul in fighting this case and call a Ford a Ford." t'onroy the Prosecutor. Attorney Joseph Conroy for the pros-, ecution stated an example should be made of Pr. Clark. Attorney Conroy said: "Wp are prosecuting Dr. Clark for peddling apples without a license nn the representation that they were grown in the Garden of Eden. You know- what happened to Adam when he ate one of those apples. We understand that Dr. Clark's alibi is that he was not in town Saturday night but we will provide witnesses to prove that he was here in body and spirit working for the Red Cross and all (Continued on page to i iflE ROOSTERS IN SERVICE OF COUNTRY H. J. Millies, Robert DeWeese and Emil fiauer Leaving This Week. Only four of the ante bellum mebbers of the Rooster club will remain in civilian life after this week. The Roosters going into training this week follow: II. J. Millies, medical corps, to Phlladelpha. Robert De Weese, navy, to Great Lakes Training Station. Emil Bauer, to naval officers reserve. Walter and Arthur Hess of the club are awaiting call to the r.avy. having enlisted. Walter Mott goes to the navy after his school year at the University of Pennsylvania is over and makes tho third boy of the family to enter service.

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German Lines Penetrated. Artillery Levels the Boche Trenches. Bl-lletin. Bt United Press. WASHINGTON, Slay 23 American j troops have occupied a German trench sector, Inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and taking some prisoners. General Pershing cabled today. By FRED FERGUSON United Press Carlec.ram. WITH THE AMERICANS IN PICARDY, May 27 (Night.) Three German attacks this morning against the American lines were repulsed with heavy German losses. Two attacks occurred in the Fontaine south of Montdidier sector and the other to the right of Cantigny. The attacks were not only re-! pulsed but the Americans also drove the Boches from their trenches in a counter attack, hold-! ing the captured positions until j ordered to withdraw to their orig- j inal lines. The attacks were preceded by a I pounding barrage through the night. Re- j treating Germans taking an American i prisoner were overcome and the rrison- j ers recovered.. The Germans received j such a hot reception that they did not j attempt to repeat the assaults. Ob- ! servers report heavy losses, artillery, machine gun and rifle fire cutting down the Boches who left a number of dead I in No Man's Land. I The Americans captured 5 prisoners. 1 The fighting was extremely bitter. Orposing forces clashed hand to hand, i Th Germans were loaded do.vn withj hand grenades but the Americans rush- i ed to close quarters and forced thej enemy to use bayonets. Soldiers declare the Germans were j equipped w uh armored breast plates ; which turned a bayonet thrust unless I it was in the neck or stomach. One company penetrated th German lines clear into the ruins of the village , where they remained until called back, j Three Yanks were buried for several hours in their dugout when a high ex- j plosive struck. They were rescued by t their comrades. Prior to the attacks j rear areas were severely shelled. j The field hospital described in n re- J cent dispatch where only the most se-j vere cases are taken was endangered by shell tire. The nurses stuck to their posts as though nothing unusual was going on. I American artillery leveled great J stretcher of the German trenches this morning in retaliation. Heavy cannonading on both sides was s'ill in progress as this dispatch was filed. RAIL RATE INCREASES IN A NUTSHELL w ASHTNGTON. May 2 S. -Following is a summary of the principal provisions of the : railroad rate increase crd.T issued ; yesterday by Director General McAflno to p-n info efTrrt .Tiln,- in- ' Freight rates will go up 25 per cent. Passenger fares will be increased to 3 cents a mile with but few exceptions. Commutation tickets are to be advanced 10 per cent. Mileage and excursion tickets are abolished. Parlor car and sleeping car passengers mutt pay- an extra charge of 16 2-3 per cent of the regular railroad fare in addition to berth or seat charge, and tourist car fares half of this advance. Passenger tickets purchased before June 10. will not be honored after that date, unless on June 10 the purchaser is actualy in transit and completing a trip started before that date. All foreign import freight rates are abolished and cargoes shipped from abroad will have to pay the new- interstate freight tariffs Btter to have War Savings Stamps in your safe than the blood stained hands of the kaiser's hordes at your throat.

UNCLE SAM'S DESTROYERS WILL SOON

U. S. destroyers "Brese" and "Gamble" on the ways at an eastern port. Quantity production of destroyers to defeat the U-boat is now under way. Soon Uncle Sam will have more destroyers than all other nations combined. The destroyer is the most dangerous enemy of the submarine, and is sinking undersea boats faster than they can be built.

s SHELL-SHOCK STUDIED Karl Dupees in Active Service on French Front Recovers from Injury. Karl Dupes, of the marine service In France, writes his parents the P. W. Dupes of Fir street. Indiana Har bor, saying that he had been stunned by a shell shook, while in active service on a front line trench. He had quite recovered however and bore just a few minor bruises as a result of the attack. Young Dupes has ben in France since last January. He has forward a magazine edited over there for his parents to read. It depicts army and navy life, and he adds, "Just as it is." The magazine Is awaited with eager interest. BERT ESGHER AHEAD in recount my Close Race for North Township Assessor As Recount Progresses. CROWN POINT. Ind , May 2S. Bert Escher leads today t.y five j ot'9 in the close recount race for the off ice of assessor of North township and expects to continue to gain over James Clements. The recount commissioners have counted all of Kast Chicago and one precinct of Hosville and Kscher has gain of two. making a majority of five. Thf board today staited on a Highland precinct in which seven mutilated Clements ballots were found, and it appears that Escher will have a new gain thei e. BRITISH RESISTANCE MAINTAINED fCviTEn rrnss Cablegram. LONDON. May 2S. Briti.-h resistance north of Reims at the extreme right of the new Aisnc front is being well maintained, according to information received by the Evening Standard this afternoon. The enerty is said to have progressed further against the French lines to the west. ITALIANS WIN VICTORY UviTErt Press Cablegram. ROME. May 2S. Italian troops broke through Fuccessive enemy defense near Capsolie to the depth of 753 meters Sunday night, the Italian war office announced today. Considerable losses were inflicted on the enemy and 440 prisoners, four mortars and ten machine guns taken. ALLIED TROOFS RESERVES UP Bt Unitet Press WASHINGTON. May ;s. Allied reserves have arrived at the Soissons front and are being thrown into action. In the sector between Lucre and Loos the Germans early today gained considerable territory, but counter attacks restored the situation.

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S Columbia Hotel Manager Has an Adventure With a "Wild Westerner. George W. Coiy. no relative of Butfalo Bill, who recently arrived in Hammond from a larg sheep ranch in Montana, seemed to forget that he was not still in the wold and woolly west when he pulled a .35 Johnson on Adam Owaiuk last Sunday in Hammond. Cody seeing Owanck's automobile j standing in front of the Columbia hotel which Owanek owns, thought he would like to go fishing, so told Owanek that if he would take him over to the Little Calumet river he would pay him handsomely. When they arrived at the river Owanek gently asked for his money Cody eald he had forgotten it and pointed the gun at Owanek who left and stood not upon tha ordef of his going. Judge Klotz flne-1 Cody $33 in the Hammond city court this morning on his plea of guilty. Cody said that he had always carried a gun out west and thought that he could in Hammond but that the gun had now- gone back to the ranch. INDUSTRIAL BAR ZONE CREATED fBT Vvited Tress. WASHINGTON, May 2S. The first Industrial bar zone has been staked off by the fuel administration, it was learned today. In this district which includes New Kngland. Eastern NewYork. Eastern Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Delaware new factories and extensions will be. prohibited unless of th most urgent character. Limited transportation facilities make additional shipments of coal and supplies into this district impossible. HAIL PRINCE'S VICTORY HIS FIRST Bt United Pf.e?1 AMSTERDAM. May 2S German newspapers are enthusiastic about the j Crown Prince's progress in the Chemin des Dames region, pointing out that i this demonstrates the German offensive power 1? unbroken. The advance is j hailed as a Hohenzollern dynasty vicI tory. KING GEORGE CALLS CONFERENCE TBy United Press WASHINGTON. May 2S King George has called an imperial conference of dominion premiers to determine the British war policies for the coming months. Quotas in mn and money from nations of the British Empire and the voice of each at the peac table are to be considered. WELL WHO ARE THEY? Bt United Press WASHINGTON. May 28. MaWity Leader Kitchin today told the hiu that a. lobby of magazine and news- ; paper publishers is responsible for j keeping congress In session to pass a ! tax bill. He declared they wanted the increase In second class postage repealed and that this was their way of getting at It.

CHOKE THE SEAS 'Bulletins Br I'kited Pkess.1 WASHINGTON, May 23. General Pershing's casualty list to the war department toay contains 33 names divided as follows: 7 killed in action, 1 dead from wounds, 1 from drowning, 5 from disease, 13 wounded severely, 6 missing in action. Wounded severely, Ora Z. Ockehan, Keleen, Znd. United Press Cabt.egram WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, May 27 Three American aviators defeated four Germans in a spectacular battle over the lines today, destroying one enemy plane and driving j the others back behind the lines. I L'nited Press Cablegram By FRANK J. TAYLOR. j WITH THE AMERICANS IN LOB. RAINE, May 28. The Germans made a i heavy gas attack on the Lorraine sector today, setting: off SOO large phossgen j gas shells. Tha shells were exploded simultaneously by electricity. The result of the attack is not yet known. I The projectiles used in this attack I were recently brought to this sector. American gas officers who have been watching1 the movements cf the German "gas circus" warned the troops in this sector to expect an attack. This new attack was in the so-called "Luneville sector," some distance to the east of the Toul eector. ri'viTEn Press ("api.eium 1 AMSTERDAM, May 28 Field Marshal Mackensen who was reported to have teen picked to direct the resumption cf the German offensive, has taken an Important position at Germcn headQuarters in Belgium, according to a Cologne dispatch and is said to be co-op-orating with Field Marshal Hindenberg and uartermaster General Eudendorff. Kindenburg is recovering from a recent illness. TFr United Press WASHINGTON, Kay 28. Major. General Leonard Wood will carry his figlit for foreign service to the white house. His assignment to the western department after he had been prepared for a place opposite the Germans provoked a storm among political and military friends cf the general. He had successfully passed physical examinations afte"? returning from a tour of tho west front. East week it was announced cfaciiRy ho would be in France. Reasons fcr the chance were not advanced and the general refused to discuss the case. Bt United Press WASHINGTON, May 23 Declaring that "this is tha supreme crisis of the war," British and Canadian recruiting missions in this country today sent out an appeal to eU 'subjects to Join the colors. United Tress Car:.e-.ram. ROME, May 23. The situation in Slovak portions cf Austria-Hungary is getting worse. A state of siege is said to have been declared in several provinces. SOME THEFT OF SOME CIGARETTES It was reported to the Hammond police that some time during the night of May 26 that the freight dpot at Whiting was entered through the transom and 318 cases of Camel brand cigarettes were stolen. There was a total of 3SO.000 cigarettes, weighing 2,100 pounds and valued at $2,250

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Between Soisson and Rlieims Allies Meet Superior rnsmy Forces, . RfLt.ETIV. .By HENRY WOOD M'site:.! Pftsj Carl.e;fm1 WITH THE FRENCH AKMES IN THE FIELD, aiay 23 assumption cf the German offensive had not developed sufficleulty tonight to establish whether tho attack between Soissons and Reims constitutes the principal assault or Is a covering operation for the real attack further north. The attack Involves tho German Crown Prince's group of armies which were not used in the March offensive and which a lew Cays aco consisted of four armies. Bulletin. P'nited Press Oabizjsvm PARIS, Hay 23 "The Germans aided by the arlval of new forces have crossed ths Alsne between Voilly and Eerry-au-Bac," tho French war offics announced today. "The French and British are facing superior forces but are drawing- back progresively. The battla is ffoing on furiously between La Vesle and the Aisne plateau sector. Reserves have arrived behind this sector. Active shelling is going on in the Champagne regions ana aiong the ri(rat bank cf the Meune. "A heavy German raid on French positions near Cambrette failed." Unitet. Press Cablegram LONDON, May 28. The Germans are pushing their offensive on both the Aisne and Flanders fronts," Field Marshal Haig reported today. "Along the Aisne which was crossed to the left of the British sector enemy attacks of great strengh are developing on the fourteen mile front between Soisrons and Reims. The fighting ir. Flanders is centered east of Dickebusch lake where the Germans made temporary gains against the French troops in the resumption of the drive yesterday morning. The British sector was astride the Aisne in the vicinity of Berry-au-Bach, about twenty-four miles east of Soissons. The Germans previously were reported to have reached Tont-Arcy on th south bank of the Alsne, fourteen milr-s cast of Soissons. Local fighting commenced this morning in the area east of Dickebusch front. On the remainder of the British front a number of prisoners were taken in successful raids Urt night. Both artilleryies are active. Enemy attacks late yesterday carried them across the Aisne to the west of the British sector compelling the west of our lines to fall back. The enemy is developing attacks of great strength on the whole Aisne front. The enemy pressed on the Aisne front throughtout yesterday and severe fighting continue;-. On the right the twentyfirst division, maintaining contact with the French, held its battle positions all day. On the center and left the eighth, fiftieth and twenty-six division in a drtermined resistenco maintained their second line until a late hour. ALLIES WIN AT YPRES United Press Caftigrajl'. By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Hay 23 British end Trench troopa are counter-r.ttr.cking southwesterly of Ypre3. The fighting was ttill ftaderway this evening. At that timo they had already reiikrr. pr-.c-tically all of the ground the enemy wen yesterday. There is a perfect storm cf gaa shelling, creating pockets cf the heavy vapcr which require only occasional and methodic feeding. A considerable ar.a has been smothered In gas by this method. But a proof of its failure is the fact that thp l-'ren'-ii have retaken practically all the territory captured by the Germans yesterday. A counter attack captured the Dickesbusch woods together with a ridge which the Germans overran. A group of machine gunners who were cut off on this ridge refused to surrender and fought like devils all day until the French retook the positions in the Evening. Heavy gas shilling is under way In the Amien.i sector along the Aisne heights. INDIANA AVATOR KILLED Bt United Press HAJIPSTEAD, X. Y., May 25!. Flying Cadet Charles B. Passwatei- of Noblesville. Ind., was instantly killed at Mlneola Field today in a 2.000 foot airplane fall. At that altitude he attempted u tail spin but lost control of his machine and crashed to the ground. :