Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 12, Hammond, Lake County, 1 July 1918 — Page 1

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ToHesfon Horrified at,tasu!t of Dastardly Atiac on Mother Last Friay, . eath following a Caesadan operation came to both the babe anj the- mother. Mrs. Myrtle Porsgreen. wlp was brutally attacked by an unknrf-n man with en axe at Twenty-fourti avenue end Chase street In southw e.Tolleston late Jast Friday afternoon Sh died from the wounds at Mercy hospital Sunday nmrnlrj. The little three year Cld Ron. asleep In Its cradle, rxhn -aj aljo attacked with the same -weapor by the beast splitting its head open, is still nhve at the hospital and hopes are. entertained for his recovery. This is one of the most brutal murders on record that Gar," has ever known. The beast attacked hfc victim -with an axe splitting "pen hei' bead and hacked her body with the blade of the axe leaving his victim in an" unconscious state when she was found hy a. neighbor. Mrs. Blanche Hanford. The deed was done I by a man wearing a !;;ii;:er moustache. Before she died a Catsarian operation, was rerforn-.ed on Mrs. Forsgreen. The. little one was found to be dead making a toll of two murders already. This makes six mu'ders in that vicinity in the last two years: Rev. Kaysr; an Italian stabbei to death in 1316: Severeo Zappa Viut. who was found in that vicinity with If s clothes stripped off and horribly manled. and two little g-irls who were atta;ed and killed. Th country is bilig: combed for the .c8ttu-re .pt.. the mu;Jlerwvbutl dfevsiv has been found to if mg hfm to justice. DESTEflS ESCAPE Hammond -"Police 111 Paid for Xeir Kindness to Five Soldiers of the U. S. A. Five U. S. Foldifrs took base advantage of the kind-hoarted Hammond police last night after thfy had been picked up fcs deserters and were held awaiting: orders from the war department, by sawing off the bars in one of the windows to a cell and escaping'. The Hammond police in the last week or so. have picked up five soldiers who were wanted at the different camps for desertion and had put them in the front ct-11 wher it would be a little more comfortable for them. The police permitted them to have visitors and receive candy, cake and other good things which the girls of Hammond showered upon 'hm. Last Saturday. It Is said, a little black haired girl brought the quintet a cake that she said that she had made herself. Some time Saturday night the soldiers sawed the bars in one of their windows and all five crawled out and scap"!. Jt is thought by the police 'hat the file which they used may havft been In the rake which was brought to them on Saturday. The men who escaped were Lester C Arnold. Co. D 363 In of Trenton O.; Herman Scott. Co. T :i65 Inf., of Hammond: Otto Krauze of South Chicago; Sam Heifer, of Hammond; John Lawlor, cf San Francisco, Cnl. THIS CHAP WAS South Bend Thief Is Captured on Two Charges After Long Chase. In trailing one law breaker two Hammond detectives ran down another in a sensational chase last Saturday. The police got word that a man in Harrison park was bothering some girls, so Officers Bundle and Einsale went to the park in the patrol wagon. The man saw them coming and escaped on a motorcycle.- He tried to get away, but the police chased hint down Hohman street to Fayette, where in trying to turn the corner at a speed of forty miles an hour the motorcycle overturned. The fellow was taken to the Hammond police station and it was found that, his name was William Mitos and that he had stolen the motorcycle from South Bend a day or two before. Mitos was turned over to the South Bend police, who took him back there. NOTICE. The Republican committeemen of Hammond will meet at the Superior Court House Tuesday evening, July 2. at eight o'clck. for the purpose of electing a city chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer. 7-1- WILLIS R. FORD. Secretary.

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Growing Out of Charges of Lack of Patriotism, Is Started by Whiting Man in Superior Court. WHITING, IND., July 1. The I first libel suit based on the grounds j that the plaintiff was falsely ac cused of being unpatriotic was filed j in the Lake superior court at Harn-i mond today by Attorney L. V. Cravens, representing George A. Fedorka, a Whiting business man, I and until recently the street commissionr of the city. The defendants are eight mem bers of the Slovak and Bohemian colony of the city and promoters of a bazaar given to j.aise funds for the Slovak volunteers fighting in ranee. George Fedorka as chairman of the Slavonic National Society at Whiting was accused by these men o being unpatriotic and in a petition sent to the board of works they made charges which Fedorka denounces as untrue and designed to discredit and ruin h!3 name. Fedorka claims that as a result of these charges he was discharged from the position of street commissioner at a loss of $1,500 a year. The defendants In the libel sitit are Joseph.-, . Pi-' Miilton. Jab-n. Ciesa.-V -sx Kussy, Paul Blohunka, Mabej Skorupa. Feter Rustier, Math Spilly and Michael Pillisi. Fedorka asks $10,000 damages from each. The complaint prepared by Attorney Cravens contains a reproduction of the communication filed by the defendants with the hoard of works. It states that the Slavonic National Society of which Fedorka i" chairman decided to give. $400 to the fund for the Slovaks in. France fighting Germany ($1.35 per member) and--that Fedorka called another meeting, notifying only 15" of the ISO members, and objecting to giving so much and as chairman "allowed many unpatriotic and shameful speeches, remarks and expressions to utter and be heard at the meeting." This Is denied as being 83 false report, in the complaint. WILL NOT INVESTIGATE Adminstrator F. O'Bourke Says Complainants Must Give Their Names. Food Mentor Frani O'Rourke has ceased to investigate complaints of violation of food laws and, regulations unless the person making the complaint gives his or her name. 1 1 is not Mr. O'Rourke 's purpose to publish the name of the informant. ' I want the names of the people giving me information so that I can so back and tell them what 1 found out in my investigation." said O'Rourke. "They will know then whether I made an investigation or not. I am through accepting anonymous reports. I am tired of being chasud around by people who are afraid to tell ni their names. One woman who wouldn't fciie me her name told me a barrel and five sacks of sugar had been unloaded at a certain house. I went there and found it was chicken feed and shavings instead of sugar. Another man said that a certain couple was hoarding food. I Investigated and found that the man who made the complaint and declined to give his name was a tenant of the aged couple and had been ordered out of the house because he did nut pay his rent. The old couple wasn't hoarding food and lad liberty bonds and thrift stamps and a good record for patriotism, while the informant hadn't given anything." NOTICE. The workers of the Surgical Dressing Pepartment of the Red Cross are especially requested to march in the parade on the. Fourtl Show the strength of our work by the strength of the numbers in line. Form In Doty street promptly at 1:45 p. m. Parade stars at 2 p. m. The Surgical Dressings Room will be open Wednesday, July 3rd, from 3 until 5 p. ni., and from 7;30 until S:30 p. m., so that workers may get their caps and aprons. There will be a supply of aprons and caps on sale at the rooms for those who have not as yet secured them. Arrested for Speeding. Earl McCullouyh of Gary, was arrested yesterday on Calumet boulevard by Officer Warner for speeding. Buy W. S. S.

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OOOll. rSrE-i.r, To fTnn Times. ETiNSTIlLE,lND., July 1 An appeal to the trailed Spates supreme court from the (decision Priday of the Indiana supreme court, holding' the etate prohibition law constitutional. Is planned by the F. W. Cook Brewing; Company, . of this city, which brought the original suit lu the Vandeibujyf county courts. SrEi-iAf, To Tt'F Times. 1 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 1 Governor G-ocdrich expressed satisfaction when told yrlday that the Indiana supreme court had upheld the constitutionality of the state prohibition law. He sounded a warning' to'rublic officials in certain parts of Indiana, who are charged wfcth the dvety of enforcing' the law's provisions, and who have not been enforcing1 the statute. Former sa.1oon keepers and wholesale liquor deabrrs, many of whom have been operating soft drink establishments Flnee"ne constitutionality of the prohibition Juw has been pending befor the Indiana supreme court, were, for the mors; part, a down-hearted lot when they Siarned that the court had declared thei law constitutional. ITjey Had Hopes. Although many of the old saloon keepers disposed of their stock when the law went into effect on April 2, and (Continued on page five.) death: of well known whiting man TVHITIX'J. Ind.. July 1. William Heinline. aM.-d 62, for twenty years telegraph operator at the Standard Oil plant In Whiting.ndied at the St. P.irnard hospital yeslertf.ay. Funeral services are to be. held tlif.s evening at 7:30 at the Methodist fhurch of Whiting and the remains w.21 be shipped to his former home It I r rt Clinton, O.. at 11 o'clock tonight ovpr the New Tork Central lines. The funeinl is in charge of .Edward Heinline. THE IOJNS ARE TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS ri'NffTm PRFSS CABI.EtRM 1 WITH THK AMERICANS INFRANC WITH ' THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCICS July 1. Attempts of the enemy to.rriake friends with the American troops Kvere reported. "On tie morning of June 25," the report s'ited. "they made signs signifying, 'flood morning." They had depositedljpackages of sigarettes into our barbedf wire entanglements. Our soldiers no not reciprocate these attemptFl'" FOIKJED TO DO BUSINESS WITH SOVIET Pt I'nited Ff.f.ss WAflf.rN'GTOS. July 1 The American gove rnment is ahout to do business witfh. the Russian soviet. This countrytis forced to send Its aid to RusRlathroufcgb. the best available channel, the sovltt being the only sufficient organizatli nr.. Buy a Thrift Stamp today.

Prof. A. S. Bloch of St. Stanislau College, and editor of The Tolonia, is to be the speaker of the afternoon at the ! Hammond and 'West Hammond Fourth j of July celebration in Libert' ha!!. The i parade to the bail win f-.rm on State i selection patriotic Alrst.ister a nana j "America" Hv Audience Invocation Rev. Thos. J. Kissett Selection Liberty Male Quartet lieadlng of the Iec!ara:ion of Independence JlauT laniel F.rown Address T'rof. A. S. Rloch Address Miss Ma rjraret M. Cornell Address Hon. V. S. 7-leiter i Selection Lil rty Male Quartet "Star Spangled Rnnner" Ily Audience Benediction Rev. t ; a da c z Program Committee Mayor P llrown. Mrs. AVilliatn S. "Welch, Frank U'Kourke. 15 il PD u mi CELESITIi The greatest demonstration of its kind ever held in Gary by the foreigners was j attended by 15,000 ptople Sunday to celoI brato 'Vklov-dan," :i Serbian national holiday commemorating the downfall of the Serbian monarchy by the Tuiks many"1 years ago and the denth of Archduke Ferdinand which caused t lie present war. The monster parade, planned to take place in Broadway was not made on account of the storm. The exercises at the Polish hall in Connecticut street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues was packed to overflowing. Captain Klecrkowski. just out of the trcnchc3 in France, made a stirring address to the monster audience that had gathered to celebrate. Other speeches were made by M.-iyor Hodges and Captain If. S. Xorton end others. Over J500 was subscribed and given to the Red Cross and other war benelts. HODGES WINNER OF eMT0RU.1T (WEST rfrEciAL To The Times. CROWN POINT. Ind.. July .Pererrr.ining before the recount was finished that Mayor Hodges could not be counted out. contestants in the mayoralty contest before Judge Harry Crumpacker here withdrew .Saturday and the case was dismissed with Hodges the winner. DEATH OF AGED S. HOLLAND MAN William Middle. S7 years old. retired merchant of South Holland. 111., two miles southeast of Hammond, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself with a clothes line from a bedpost in his room. The body was found by Dr. D. W. Wolzword when he went there to make a professional call. Middle had been ill and despondent since the recent death of his wife, and this is believed to have caused him to take his life. The kaiser it at bat. Strike him out by buying War Savings Stamps.

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Br United Press SIOUX CITY, la., July 1. Thirty-nine v,orerta a lrr-,fn t n 5 V en Vilte and a score injured when the four-story building of the Oscar Ruff company at. Fourth and Dougla3 streets collapsed Saturday afternoon. It was reported at an early hour that all the injured were recovered. "Work of rescuing parties continued throughout yesterday, thirtyone additional bodies being taken from the debris. Hope that persons in the wreckage might be alive was abandoned early in the day. The greatest loss of life occurred in a grocery and market next to the drug store, where a crowd of shoppers hai assembled. Most of the bodies recovered were burned and mutilated beyond recognition and an effort to identify them was launched. FIEM UK CAUSES DEATH J. B. Warren's Demise Is Brought on by Hagenbeck Wallace Circus Wreck. Three days after superintending from his sickbed the funeral of the victims of the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus wreck, John P.. Warren, president and founder of the Showman's L.eague of America, died yesterday at his home. 424 11. 45th pl. He had been ill eleven weeks with heart trouble. At his own request tho Elks will bury him Wednesday in the Showman's lot at Woodlawn v. emetery. beside the circus folk whose funeral rangements he sponsored. . Mr. Warrcti was born In Seymour, Ind., fifty-two years ago. G. iU. NIEL MHED OR BOARD r?prnL To The Times INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. July 1. Upon request cf Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, director of civic and educational publications at Washington. D. C. M. McPnicls, superintendent of the public schools of Hammond, has been named as one of a committee of five representing Indiana as a t-tate consulting editorial board. The board will interpret to teachers the high ideals of America, facilitate the study of the causes of the war, present federal propaganda and act os a clearing house for plans for war work in the schools. The board was appointed by Horace Ellis, superintendent of the schools of the state. HAMMOND'S GREAT RED CROSS SHOWING Hammond made a wonderful record in its second Red Cross drive. According to Chairman A. M. Turner the -city's quota was S3S.00O end $S0.230 was contributed to the noble fund Gary's quota was $65,000 and they took In 1201,000, going over the top $136,000. .Better to have War Savings Stamps in your safe than the bloodstained hands of the kaiser's hordes at your throat.

DEAF MUTES ARE WEDDED Spech-L Td Tee Tu'es ROEiiRTSEuLLi:. July 1. The mat-Hags of Arthur G-olding cf E.oberts1aJe axid Mlas CI ere Millar of Petersburg, Ind, took placs at tie. tome of U,e Uls

ter's parents last Tuesday. The participaxits ar both deaf and dumb and j met at the Indiana State School for tea , Deaf at Indianapolis, where both were j students. Tha groorn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Golding of 1235 Harrison avenue, Robertsdale. His mother and ' brother, George, a tteudsd the. wediing. : Mr- and Sirs. Golding have gene to: housekeeping in Myrtle avenue, Roberts- ; dale, where their home as slre-adj- fined up for them. I I Br United Press. WASHINGTON, July 1. "Exrept for for the increase of artillery activity on both Kldes in the Chateau Thierry Sunday there Is nothing to report," says the American communique today. r United Tres. Cablegram. MOSCOW, June 2. (ranil Dakc Michael hns Issued a manifesto rfecl.ir- ; Ihr thst inasmuch ns the constituent nosembly hux licen dissolved, reituitins ' in the disintegration of Rusxia, it Is j his duty to restore order. The manl- j fesito enlls on the people to overthrow ; the bol.sheiki. j Rr Uxitei? Press WASIIIXiTO X, July 1. Following official verification by the Spanish government of the Turkish attack on the American Vonsulate mid hospital nt Tnbris the' American Korrrniucnt linn demanded an Immediate explana tion from Turkey. The eonflrinn tion i rebelled the state Department Sunday I and the note wan nent out immediate ly through I he Swedish embassy. Wfcul course In to be taken was not divulged. If regul-r noldiera commit trtt the art it constitute an net of war; If it roaiihiK band, it Is po-KiMe the act will be overlooked. The li;-.iteh n ! dieated the hand was Turkish resu-j lars. I fBr United Prks MWhllOLM, July 1. That the .oiet will recartl allied intervention

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i I publif by War Minister Trotikr, aeeorriinc to a dispatch from Vokpoit. Premier Lrnlne Issued a mnlrmrnt declaring that the t cerho-Morak s will j soon be wiped out. The soviet sent a ! siieci.tl repreMentative to the allied en- ! jVojs nt Volosda, as n resuit of which! me j.-mrr arc riprrirn lo return to Meioo. j German invasion beyond the hounds I of Ukraine continues. j In Klnkal they have landed forees and may eck to reach Voloarda where 1 It Is epeeteel they will ma pel, against' the freoho-Slovnks. j In Lake Ladoga. German suhmnrineq have appeared, the flnI possible refng, of the Itusslan Ilalkun fleet. j TBt United Press " WAMUXf.TO.X. July t. Provost j Marshal General (rnurirr'i work or 1 fight order became etTrctive today. 1 Draft boards will check carefully to see I that men employed in non-essential ! work ivill eitlie fnln I. . .. . i mi j or f nier some essential employment. Ei United rnsss.J WAHITOX. ,ly , President Wilson today risked congress for power to take over the telegraph and telephone lines. In a letter to the Interstale commerce committee he said the power asked wns necessary to prevent suspension of service on telegraph lines and to jtuard military secrets and grovernmentnl communication. TBt United Pke3 CXEVEI.AXD, July 1. Eugene V. Debs, socialist lender, was arraigned before .Indue Wextenha ver here today and through Us counsel tsaived the reading of the Indictment which led to hl arrest yesterday. Fond wrs fired In the sum of Sl0,0O0. This !s expected to be given during the day. Indiana over the top Savings June 23! in War

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Total cf Atislrians Captured On Piava flow Amounts to Oier 20,000 Men, rVviTED I'RESei CABLEGRAM. ROME, July 1. -The total of Austrian3 captured-on the Piave is 19,000, according to a smi-official statement today. FBt United Press. WASHINGTON, July 1 Striking suddenly in the upper Asiago last night Italians with the French captured more than 1,500 Austrians, including 50 officers, Rome cables to the Italian embassy today stated. ". NEGROES VALIANT FIGHTERS f United Press Cailbssas. PARIS. July 1. American negro troop.! proved their valtie as fighters cast of Verdun when they repulsed the enemy. Beginning a terrific bombardment shortly after midnight the Boches tfyrcw between three and Jour thousand ghells. It was concentrated on small areas. Many of the shells made holes from 10 to 15 feet across. During this the negroes stuck to their post operating machine guns and rifU's. Keeping up the steady fire, the Germans failed to penetrate. "Dixie luck was with us." they explained. "We all got knocked down lots of times but we got right up." Machma gunners were knocked down btif -orny -two rrg. i ?v?r- were -"r'suKd.s.d Army officers said the negroes fought like veterans and compared well with the best troops on the front. German aids in Alsace were repulsed by Amer ican machine gun and rifle fire Saturday, the Germans suffering heavy losses. In Montaine Americans raided th Germans, capturing an officer, T2 men and infi-.ctir.g heavy losses. 49 CASUALTIES REPORTED. P.r United Pesj. WASHINGTON. July 1. General Pershing reported forty-nine casualties today: Killed. 5; died of wounds. 4; died of disease. 7; died of aeroplane accidents. 1; died of accident and other causes. wounded severely. S; missing In action. 1. Wounded severely. Indiana: H. Coffman, Terre Haute: P. V. Daily. Paoli. H. Ramcy, Richmond, and E. Seinwedle, Gary. FRENCH TROOPS IN ADVANCE f United Prkss CAm.E-lRAM.f TARIS. July 1. French troops advanced their lines slightly on a five mile front northwest of Chateau Thierry and took 200 prisoners. Minor operations on other portions of the Marne and Oi.e front resulted in forty-six prisoners. "Between Montdidier and Noyon Trench raids resulted in twenty prisoners," tho statement said. "South of the Aisne the French took twenty-six prisoners. The French advanced their line east of the Aisne. West of Noyon 200 prisoners were captured." HAIG REPORTS SEVERAL RAIDS lUNtTF.D Press Cablegram LONDON. July 1. Successful raids on various sectors of the Picardy front were reported by Field Marshal Halg today. "A hostile post In Aveluy wood wa3 rushed yesterday afternoon. West of Dormancourt we raided the enemy -trenches and took a few prisoners. A successful minor operation northwest of Albert last night resulted in the improvement of our positions and captifi-e of thirty-four prisoners and some machine puns. A hostile counter attack was beaten off. North of Albert, southcast of Arras and near Merris in tha Ypres-Comine." AMERICAN PILOTS ESCADRILLE f United Press Cablegram ROME, July 1., An escadnlle of American airmen piloting Caprcnl planes from Milan to Rome, 403.65 miles was under command of Captain Laguardia, former New Tork congressman. FIVE PARIS RAIDS IN FIVE DAYS (Unitfd Phers Cablegram PARIS. July 1. German airmen mada their fourth and fifth raid on Paris within five days last night and early today. At 12:45 an alarm was sounded. Aerial defenses went into action. A few bombs were dropped in -the suburbs.

HOBART LADY BADLY INJURED rpPECML To The Times. ROBERTS DALE, July 1. While Mr. and Mrs. Val Brown oJ, Hobart were returning home from a visit with tha former's parents in Myrtle avenus Thursday evening an automobile colMded with their motorcycle, injurlny Mrs. Brown quite badly ' I

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