Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 13, Hammond, Lake County, 2 July 1918 — Page 1

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AMERICAN TROOPS IN BRILLIANT

Penetrate Hun Lines to Depth of Half Mile and Take 450 Prisoners, By LOWELL 1IELLET j (United Press Staff Correspondent. WITH THE AMERICANS ON I THE MARNE, July 2, (10:55 a.' m.) American troops advanced on j a two mile front west of Cheateuj Thierry last night to a depth of j half a mile, taking 450 prisoners i and inflicting the heaviest losses j on the enemy. Our men took the j village of Vaux. Hill 192, LaRochej wood, and penetrated Clerembaut j WOOG. I r u:A tr,,- it.A Amorlran i vuiiu: j attacks on rlill U4, conducted simultaneously with the American j attack on Vaux are reported to; have been successful after a bitter ; battle. j The shelling preceding the ad-; varce lasted from six o'clock yes-j terday morning until six o'clock, last night. ' Then the infantry; swept forward and obtained its ob-;,-4-;-..P in fnrtv mmutes. jv-v-i-awi-j j - - - a The village of Vaux Is less than two miles west of Chauteau Thierry. Hill 132 is about a mile northwest of ClerembUt WOOd. The advance was made cn a front of three kilometers 1.S63 miles) and reached a maximum of a kilometer (.521 milesl- Before the advance the n eruns swift the hack area

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German lines, completely neuuiwn , Cprmfin arlillet'V. The roncentratinz f.ro on Vaux hit!' every building When the troops reach- j r ed the town they found tneir maps mor valuable than their photographic; information. as thu artillery had wiped out snv resemblance to houses. Twentythree minutes after their departure from their trenches the Americans were in 1 Vaux. After the success of the advance, combardment of the rear areas was resumed to prevent German reinforcements beingrushed up. ITALIANS TAKE 2000 PRISONERS I'MTEP pFESS CMlI.rottAM.' WITH THE ITALIANS. Ju'y 2. Further Austrian attempts to recapture Monte Di Valbelia are developing. The enemy left at least 1.50O dead on the f . ' r " s after yesterday's assault. Near ly 2. "00 prisoner? were taken In two i days. Capture of Monte Di Valhella i and Col DI Chel was the result of j th perfect eo-operstion between the j Italian infantry and artillery. The en emy's losses were w ere light. heavy while our's The Austrian'? emploved 4S.onA men. MARINES' LEADER MAPS OUT ATTACK r X 'If .r ft: '- i - ' L tr JS I 9 . General Doyen. Seme of the credit for the wonderful showing- of the U. S. marines against the Hun is due to the efficiency of the oSkers in charge of the "devil dogs," as the Germans call the marir.es. I his photo, a new one. I pives a closeup of General Doven of i the marines, mapping out his plan of j ttack before starting something.

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TO BECOME CHIEF MILITARY CENSOR 4 - 1 Col. Marlborough Churchill. Col. Marlborough Churchill, head of the military intelligence section of the sreneral staff, U. S. A., will assume hereafter the duties of chief numary censor. li wnl succeed MaJ- en. Frank Mclntyre It is believed that Colonel Churchill soon will be promotpd brigadier general. to the rank of Booze News Is Plentiful here's a. lot ok boo.e Just before daylight this orn'.nft Offk Singer and 'V'-lkman stonnei an automobile on Indianapolis boule- ! vard driven by Peter Mazrmas, of 1257 Michigan avenue, Rnseland. with John Poshko of 2:? Deodar street. Indiana t I . i rumor and Morris Krernan of eaar street, Ind;ana Har singerj. as pasin this car was nd three k35 i'1 callons of Borderland I Sv.g containincr 5 sailons . ujki.v . i case of Borderland bo'ir2 hi.fllea nf TJocco tin' ! '-n wnrsKv, n. 6 ! tttea of malt and nine bottles of beer, j These jroon hy men will be tried thi after Judse Klotz in the Hammond j rity cou r t 5" IL ARRESTED. R. Musuln. Charles Indiana this moriboulevaid was arrested ear! r.ing by Off icer Singer and Volkman beer into the state for bringin Musuln had Tl -bottles of heer up in a gunny sack in his car. GARY M.V.V ARRESTED. Jack Ovader. who lives on 17th avp. Caty. was arrested by Off-;.-?- Miller at the South Shore dpot for bringing liquor into the state. uvaoer narl l gallon and whiskey with him. quart H! LOST HIS ILL !Sam Ableman Finally Hears j From His Sire Now in ! Pommerania. j Sam Ableman has received by way of the P.ed Cross the f.rst word he has got , from his father In Europe in two years. When the war broke out he was on his t'ig estate in Russia and in one of th ; German drives he was swept in!o PomI merania. "I ve lost .vcr,vtaing." he wired through the Rej Cross, 'but I'm ! well." i "That doesn't mean," sail the genial ; Sam, that he has lost a cow or a rock1 ins chair. He has lost everything i money, estates and all and he was a : wealthy man." j Mr. Ableman would like to get his 1 father over here, but finds it will De I impossible. H is trying, however, by the aiti of the Rod Cross to send a i stated sum of money to the old gentiei man monthly. SUBMARINE PLOWS THROUGH '

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ri'VTTnn Pr.rss Caei.cc.ram. 7 I LONIti.. July 2. Two hundred andj thirty-four members of the crew and medical complement of the Canadian hospital ship. Llandovery Castle, topedoed and sunk Thursday, were still missing eailv today. Pi.trol boats and oestroyers are searcmng tor survivors. stories of twenty-four survivors indi- i cate that German spies in the l.'nited 'states and Canada hav telegraph sr.Q w ireless communication with Berlin 1 The submarine plowed through the wreckage tipping over the lifeboats. ! One lif boat containinsr twelve women nurses was thus turned over and the women drowned. ;

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Q pi n n n l. ' f t r Ik... L : Another Cedar Lake Man Is ; Sent by Lake County De-. fense Council Before Fed- j eral Authorities. NOTICE. As an example of t'ae ralltrtiy mail cerrice given patrons a special delivery letter mailed at Crown Point last night with a full account cf the council's action on important matters, mailed to this office and which should have been here at 7 a. xa. has not yet arrived this evening. CROWN POINT IND., July 2. The Lake County Defense Council ! at its fortnightly meeting here yes-! terday made Joseph Kubic, a Cedar j ! t m!,o up notice. Kubic, it is said, cursed and; swore at Mrs. Brennan, a War Sav-1 ings Stamp solicitor, last week ; when she visited his home and the j solicitor naturally reported Kubic ' to the authorities. I It didn't take Ion? the Lake tun- ! ty Defense Council to dispose -f Kuhi-". ; They foun.l him puiity a charged and decided that for t!v- Mko of an N.ampie ; to those who are too free with their j mouths when approached by war solici-

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the Federal authorities to take cognizap.ee of. It seems that when Mrs. Brennan asked Kubic to buy War faying Stamps he roundly cursed her. The Defense Council determined from the reports that. oam to it from Cedar Lake to take action on the alleged i'lenal toncjitic-r.s found at Odar Lak- an1 a hie ci-an-ui impends. The coun i! intends to use the same drastic means rec: miende.l in th- West Himmot.d procedure and hung up the dansr signal. LEFT FUNDS FOR TOAST WITH P ( By rEANK J. TAHLOS ! (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN 1T.ANCE. July 1. This is the story of I r mn ti who was born to be a kins. Id his way he was one, and he di-tl , : ! Knight of chivalrous :-avs should d I He did everything as he considerourl't to be done, on a knightly sea!-. I H-- vs an aviator, because a ia'.ors laie the knishts of the army. He was On -, fightinfr aviator because ir.ey l-i'iy trsic, romantic, galiantest part cf , av iation. t l was no cheap chivalry this man I had. He lived beyond all that was sorj f-jj, and his comrades admired his ability. They believed in hi:a as he bei lieved in himself. One day in a fight high high above the clouds ho was wounded. He had ! been protec'ing an observer, and despite his wound he slav ed on the patrol until : it finished. Coming back homt he faint- ! ed. and his machine crashed near the ' a iation field. because ' t His storv does not end here ; ho was born to do things as knights do i them. They buried him as a knight of ! the air should he buried. Then they gathered together his pos- ; sessions to send them to his mother in America. Among them they found an envelope, a check and this note: "Comrades. I d.ed righting and I am satisfied. "Enclosed is a check to pay my debts and buy you each a bottle of champagne. "Drink a toast to victory and sweep the Germans from the skies. Here's to J ou." His comrades aie sweeping down the; Germans ordered. but the champagne is NEXT P Miss Margaret M. Cornel! federal food demonstrator for Hammond, will give the first of her demonstrations on war fooos at Liberty Hall I- riaav afterj noon at " o'clock. Everyone is welcome i and all women in the city are urged to j come as the government has sent Miss 'Cornell to Hammond with p.n important messasif and important .work to . It ' is vital to th success of the work to hav'e a big representation of Hammond women. The more the merrier..

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2: 0 f This :s the first photograph taken cf the submarine which has Veen sinking: ships off th Atlantic coast. It was taken by LIBERTY HILL I DIRECTORS MEET; Matters of Importance Regarding the Building's Welfare Taken Up. At of d: a k r "ID-1 an important meeting- of the hoard rectors of Liberty Hall last evening: :t of buf-in-ss was taken care, of he in'e'.ins showed tliat the Liberty I1.-1U na.. ic cniti. an insttrutu-.n that isi a! 'nan's size j take tare f in a'.l its! various ran:;:icat;oris. Heports of committees showed that ; llamm-md to h-ive a rousing celebrahtcps were taken to prepare a r ster for Liberty! 'iL-il! containing the name, of all thosel J who fall in the war. A historical record :'! also be k-pt for th1? ar-hives cf the ha.;. A puM:c j-resent.it i.-n of the war ser vice cross t'.i be given by the French gov- j . ernm nt to M : .una Lietgan of West i Hammond w ill be arranged if possible. providing- the I- ren; h ambassador in i Chicago is willing. i A nv'-. -eruent was set ' mnsi! business and prof 'spent! thir vacation" d by H. E. W.nr. n and j wanted. Jesse Wilson taking Lis vacation .f -ifarm. working from 4 a. S All these willing to p. jiriotie act are asket to j crty Hall recretary s. foot for Harasior.nl m. to e . arm vvoik intct-rs arcstart today .v f k s i n a " sundown. "rm t ! f V Hi at this- pahi Libfarmers b. t t i o c.i for service au:-.:-ts and per- ! i loa i their ma VOllinte .'f e v. llilr.K war serv become le :i fa mm end. I i urgent. Sergeant i has Riven b.is on tiro time , need a m.tch.n" to go liere ! lost eery dav. and if auto:fy the hall it is b-heved! t-. 10ri car. be found v,0l 'T tars at the disposal of organization. FiGHT TO ABOLISH CITY SEALERS OFFICE ' A C: r-tt t t.- nh.-ilieth t'.fl c.ffiee nf eitv staler in order to cut down the payroll j i w ill be made in the city- coun--ii tonight. ! if Councilman Reir.- y 1 statu! intentions. The "arm s office on is Ins held by M. D. Met z. The touncilman states that there Is no reflection of the efficiency of the city sealer, but that since January 1 he has I received $f.nn from the niy and taken i in a i I "0 in fees. i Mr. Mcti dc-Iares that the office of :citv sealer is verv necessary. "If the "''ffice is abolished the people will have 1 no assurance that, they are receiving correct weight or measure. The very ! fact that there is a city sealer causes - ! '-'''"'" ALLIES IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS fl'N:TF.r Press CarlE'-ram PARIS. July 2. French and Amer ican troops improved their positions I west of Chateau Thierry last night, j iatking the village of Vaux and th ; heights t : the west. The Americans took ." prisoners, mciuaing a .uiicers. un-!,he t rencn w-ar oune anouncea. i - se - j tvveen Mor.tdidier and Xoyon the ; French took prisoners in raids. German attempts in Alsace were repulsed. ! PERSHING REPORTS 81 CASUALTIES Pf.ess." luly 2 General By T'niti: WASHINGTON, rcrshinsj today reported SI casualties S as toijows: j of disease. 1: severelv wounded. wounded slightly. 2: wounded decree undetermined, missirisr in action, 1. The kaiser it at bat. Strike him out by buying War Stamps.

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a menher of the crew of a merchant vessel whirh was sunk by the L-Loat. He ha l a- small camera an-i nanappd to pet a snapshot of the enemy sub LOO 'Vwn things of great interest and Im porta nc to the residents of the dis ! trict between the southern outskirts of Hammond and the Little Calumet river. j j d, Hessviile and the Wood row U,lson pc"f,I dlsilri't- wlU lake I'laca tomorrow. First, the five year time limit exempting them from taxation by Hammond expires and they become completely an. m-v d to the . it y. v 'ond. the quo warranto proceedings I ,-,f the city to dissolve the corporation of Htown i ssvil!.- and oust the Hessviile ff:. i.iis will be up i r trial before L. itt r. the seventh of April. 1911. th ! Hessviile territory and that south cf nnmmoni to tne iirtie i n.-jn't river was nit t-i i'iii;j;-'u in m x l a 1 1 1 ii i l'i i l l?y 11.11- j d into Hammonti bv annoxatton. l aities living in the annexed j territory tiled a petition of remonstrant e j in the circuit court nt Crown Point anil : :: was hoard by Judge McMahon. July ! 1 f 1 :t. The c-urt rondt-rctl judgment ! for Hammond, tlecljrii.g that the terrij tory in question was properly annexed j to Hammond. By agreement of the parties living in the annexed territory I land the city the latter was not to oxer i .... . cise any jurisdiction over the iormer for five years. The five year period elapses tomorrow. In January of this year Hessviile and the Wood row WiU'.n sch.iol district started ineorporatioii proceedings anil set themselves up as a separate town. 1 T hie r vo c r: m v c is hr-mir n'lli kett ! :i the courts and the case will be heard tomorrow. Hammond declaring that thr can bo no such incorporation as Hessville ns that territory is n. part o; Ham monti. having been annexed. When the H. ilic and Saxony school districts become a part of Hammond tomorrow they will bring an addition to the city's valuations of a million dollars. In turn Hammond must furnish tire and police protection and water. SWEEPING STREET GAR ORDINANCE PREPARED An ordinance granting permission and requiring the. Hammond. Whiting - East ; Chicago Railway company to huii.img ' extensions on Calumet and Columbia J avenues and to double track from the ; Hohman street bridge over the Grand i Calumet river to East Hammond and j East Chicago will be introduced to the I city council tonight by City Attorney MrMahon. j Tito ordinance provides for ten-in'nute I service ant clean and safe cars. ; - These improvements must all be made by October 1 and ten-minute service ' provided then or $100 penalty will be ! extracted Trom the company for every 'day after that date that it fails to comply with the ordinance. The ordinance will be given a hearing J by the public service commission, according to the city attorney. The pur- ' pose of i'z passage is to get something 'ta base complaints upon. , ' GERMAN -AMERICAN ALLIANCE IS DEAD Rr Tvitkp Press. 1 I WASHINGTON, July 1. Without disjr;iion or a r.tli call the senat today I VoL- d t reoeal the net incorporating the r.alional tin wan ailiar.-.-. NEW ITALIAN ATTACK. fl'VlTcrv PRE55 CAR'.EOBiM.l ROME. July I. An Italian attack in the mountain resion beean early this morning alreadv bs netted 5l( prison-

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SavinctS erations hf?.m et dawn this morning v lelded otirt pristners and many malchin puns." th" t;.iemPnt said.

- marine before it submerged. This picture was enlarged from the small print and shows plainly the outlines of the boat and the puns mounted fore and aft. Latest 'Bulletins Br United Tress. WASHINGTON, July 2. A second

! list of Marine corps was issued today;""" "'-"" ior war work housing- the I totalling 29: Bead from wounds, 2; I Calumet reg-ion, hub of munition mak-

wcunded in action, 1; missing-, 26. Wounded severely, E. SI. Seston, derson; Gocssens, Mishawaka; ; wounded slig-htly, J. Sunne, Mentone.

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I seventy persons were killed In an - plosion In a munition factory. The j women workers behaved splesdittty. ! Br T'viTF.n Pp.ess. j WASHI1TGTOW, July 2. Advocatin ; permanent g-ovemment control of all I communication systems, Secretary Bak- ; er today urped the bouse commerce com. I mittee to report ccily oa the resolu- : tion empoweiing- the president to take i over telegraph, telephone, radio aysterns and uryed them not ta put any ! time limit on th.e resolution. j "If I had my way I would not put ' any time either in this resolution or i subsequent legislation." ! TBT fNtTT.IV Pf.es 1 WASHINGTON, July 2. General Per. ! . , . Vta VtttVaTlt , B"26 maB .-j-- ' . .7 . ! work of the Americans last mgm ana . officers here are elated. The co-opera, i ticn amen? the artillery and the Infantry was splendid. Officers commended the recent actions in the neighborhood where the Americans have struck terror into the Germans. Purther ; actions to push the Boche from his po- j siticn are expected. Poch is nibbling at ' . ' the enemy fcrces. He has thrust at tne j i Teutons continually ior many aays. ! tsnding to throw the German plan of , i concerted offensive into confusion. , TRt Uvitetv Press 1 1 WASHINGTON-. July 2. With the exceptlon of a brief air encounter during which an American aviator shot down : a foe machine, yesterday was quiet on the American front. j rt'NITFO FSFSS CvPT.Cr.RAM WITH THE BRITISH, July 2. A British counter attack shortly after midnight is believed to have driven the Germans from the point where they ob talned ft foothold northwest of Albert i yesterday. ! i -gERNE, July 2. Three hundred j czeko-Slovak soldiers captured by the Austrians at Montello were Immediate ly hanged, according to Vienne. ri'MTFin Press CabixoramI AMSTERDAM, July 2. Six percens j were killed and sixteen Injured in the . allied tir laid on Mannheim, June 29. according to a Berlin dispatch received today. Some damage was dor.a. ; The dispatch, said c! image was done In the raid on Karlshrue. j BOLT SHATTERS FLAG POLE Electrical Storm Does Considerable Damage at Crown Point. r.SrECtAi. To Tkf. Times.! l CROWN POINT, Ind.. July 2. The terrific electrical storm which visited ... t this region early on Sunday morning rlayetl havoc with the flag pole on the court house, lightning striking the shaft and spliting It severely. This makes the third time the pole has been struck, and as it takes in the neighborhood of ttOO to get a new pole the damage is not easily repaired. The large American (lag which had recently been put up was also badly damaged. WEBB TO BUILD FLAT BUILDING w. n. Webb of the Standard Steel i Car Company has taken out a permit to build a ten thousand fat building at 91 Highland street, adjoining his home. Buy a Thrift Stamp today.

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mm ! Another Chunk for ! Region Almost Assured, ! Mayors Get Busy, Washington, D. C, July 1. W. J. Whinery, . Hammond, lr.d. Fifty million additional for housing. Important Calumet necessities to be presented this week. Can committee come? WILL R. WOOD, Congressman 10th Dist., Ind. I The general housing committee of th cities of the Calumet region most assuredly "can come." In fact it was on its way a few hours after the above telegram was received and will confer with the senate committee tomorrow, showing the needs of government aid in housing in the Calumet region. In the first appropriation of a hundred miling in the middle west, was overlooked except for a half million dollar allot- ; ment to Hammond. I The rnn m i t . : l r-. ' -Mccormacn and -Miorney writes of East Chicago, llayor Hodges and H. L. Arnold, cashier of the Gary Trust & Savings Bank, o Gary. Julius Friedman will repipsent the East Chicago Chamber of Commerce. There is doubt that Hammond will get any more than its present allotment, but the presence of the Hammond men' on the delegation will make it stronger for Gary and Fast Chicago to connect Hammond will do all in its power t. get an appropriation for both East Chicago and Gary, for the committee realizes that the time to strike is now when the iron is hot. AIRMEN MAKE 6TH RAID ON PARIS ft "vite: Press CAKt.Er.r.AM PARIS. July German airmen made their sixth raid on Paris in a.) mativ tii'. a around jn'dniirlit. WLYER'S BROTHERS IN THE WAR, TOG The Baer brothers. Paul (above), Arthur (right) and Bud. Three sons of A. 1. Baer, an engineer of the Louisville and Nashvili railroad, are fighting: Germans. Th most famous of the trio is Paul Baer. the birdman, who after dropping five) German planes was himself captured by the boches. Arthur Baer is quartermaster aboard the cruiser Charleston and A. W. (Bud) Baer is in th frun sighting department, Wash;ng' ton navy yard, having served tw years on an American submarine.

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