Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1918 — Page 1

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Game is Bagged at Handy and Russell Resorts at North End ot Lake. rSrzeixi, 0 The Times. ;ROWN POINT, IND., July 8. With fire in his eye, because of the storm of criticism voiced over the shameless conditions at, Cedar Lake revealed by Dr. John Iddings of the Cedar Creek Defense Council to the Lake County Defense Council in session here last week, Sheriff Lew Barnes and a force of deputies headed by Chief Charles J. Daugherty swooped down on Cedar Lake last Saturday night and started a vice cleanup in earnest. Evidences of truth in the charges made by the war boards were found at the north end o the lake and ten resorts and cottages were visited by the squad of officials. THE HA37DT TEILE TSAPPED. At the notorious Howard Handy place Three arrests wf.',' made. Handy, the proprietor, was arrested with two Chicago women. They were brought to Crown Point and Prosecuting Attorney August Bremer appeared against them and succeeded in getting: them fined $20 apiece and costs on a charge of associating. Handy was ordered ta get out and ioln the army. He promised to do so. OTEIB FXACES AEE VISITED. A number of other cottages and places where it was suspected illegal liquor traffic was carried on were visited. No trace of booze was found. It has been charged that in the past projected raids had been tipped off by parties from Crown Point, and the Lake County Council of Defense is said to be investigating these charges. Yesterday was a quiet day at the lake and there were no evidences of law-breaking at rny of th resorts. It is said that the proprietors of these places took advantage of the absence of Sheriff Barnes on his honeymoon to carry on in wideopen fashion. GUY VQYER. H FHOBITt TO FIGHT Boyle Woolfolk Loses His On Best Bet to Uncle Samuel V' Tloyle Woolfolk. producer of ong nd dan vaude lUe ct and a nui.tbT cf mulcal r 'nc:l's. was In Iliimond Eunday with Guy Voyer. juver.il lead of the LaSalls Musical Comedy company, looking over a new Woolfolk act at the Orpheum theatre, and by the way. the act needs a lot ct looking over. Although a thin and nut very .triking plot is offset by prettv "Woolfol'C girls wearing starrl-.nt? Kowna in handsome scene settings it Is not up to the standard. It may be entirely differen" oiler two wee.k3 of f xi:ig. "oyer leaves th!s (-: for the a.-:ry and hopes to be i?i"'en a chance at tn? c&ieer's tralnin.- school. Before iiiii on the a t lira Ouy v as a mT.'.n; ep-ineer but too d-'iv J handsome for tbjt profession. Wifli the LaSallJ Pr.ick Company he hus n:ade a mtp for himself in the show business, plavn leading part.- ir. n repertoire of ght successful mvnl comedies. Just at present Boyle and Guy are P"lf fiends and t-y u'ry tre!r cl ibn i;b them in VWolf.vjk's ' hummy ai.'". THREE INDIANA , . SOLDIERS JUMP FROM TRAIN ELUFFTOXT. IND., July S Three Indiana soldiers who were on a troop train going .from Fort Sill. Okla.. to a New York military camp. Saturday jumped from a train as it slowed up at Liberty Center, near here, and were at large until arrested by Sheriff Henry Rett, who received word from an army officer to put them aboard the next troop train and send them on to camp. The soldiers gave their names as Chester Wilson of Indianapolis, Frank McCloud of Lafayette and Earl Luthcrman of Richmond. They are members of trench mortar battery. The boys stated that recently they asked for furloughs so that they could visit their home before being sent to the New York camp. Buy a Thrift Stamp and lick the Hurt

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rSpr.riT. To The Times. FORT WAYNE. IND.. July g. Jacob Hermcn. his wife and daughter, all of Hammond, while driving in a Paieo touring car near Mapleton were hit by the Cannonball Flyer on the Pennsylvania Railway. The car end all its occupants were tossed high in the air and the entire family picked up dead. There was hardly enough of the car left to make kindling wood. John Herman was notif.ed by wire in Hammond of the tragedy and loft immediately for th? scene of the disaster. TRIES SUICIDE AFTER PBEIHITH HUSBAND Young Married Woman of West Hammond Rescued When Near Death. "If you believe the Kildebrands neighbors) go over and live with them. God in Heaven knows that I'm not guilty. If you want a divorce I thought this would be the easiest way for you to get it." Leaving this note. Sylva Sauerrr.an. aged 21 years, took a bath, dressed in her prettiest clothes, and prepared to carry out the threats. She was found in a bedroom of her home at 444 Garfield avenue. West Hammond. Saturday, with the gas turned on and unconscious. She was reported to be Improving today and Chief of Police N'.tz stated that as soon as she la recovered he will place her under arrest. Her husbar.d. returning homo and finding: the doors and windows locked, got the police who broke into the house and discovered the woman in the gas filled room. MEN TRAINING AT PURDUE MAY OBTAIN COMMISSIONS LAFAYETTE. IND.. July S. Capt. Thompson. In charge of Camp Purdue, has been notified that in the future the men taking training at thU camp will be eligible for f yrther training at the central, officers' training school, where they will be given the opportunity to win commissions. The men will be recommended by the officers in charge of the local camp. Among the requirements for further training are that the men be not less than 10 years and S months old. be members of the national army. National Guard or the regular army. It is necessary that they, shall have completed a high school course and be proficient in mathematics. j PHONEY MONEY DEN FOOHBJNJAMMOND Entire Counterfeiter Outfit Is Discovered in This City. A surprising situation was discover ed in Hammond nn Saturday when Of fleer Lute raided the rooms of Join P.urke. at 121 Wabjsh avenue. Hammond and found a whole covir.te rfeiter's outfit, consisting of moulds for qunrters. half dris.'.rs, dollars and other coins. In addition brass and lead fillings, acids and other things wev; d .fcuvf rod that made th? pniic ati.f.ed they had happened in a real counterfeiter's den. Purke when arrested said that he had made them f.r another man who was i-omir.s to buy them from him but the other man did not show up. Some T. W. W. literature was also found in !;.nl.-!'f t . ms. GERMAN-AMERICANS MAKE GOOD I I "V1TT1 TrjT-eq r" nT.f'? ' M 1 WITH THi: BRITISH ARMIES. Julv K. German-Americans are making a good record in the American army in France, and are fighting valiantly for America. One in a recent fight started out with five grenades. With one he killed two German machine gunners. With the second he cleaned out a section of a trench and the third killed a German who tried to kill him with a rifle. Another encountered six'Germans guarding- a machine gun. He leveled his empty rifle at they and they surrendered. A corporal wounded in the shon".dr by shrapnel kept on fighting, determined to 'gt a Heine." He got one just before he dropped from loss of blood. Buy a Thrift Stamp and lick the Hun

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Millar & Hamilton of Gary, Buy 40 Acres in W. HamI mond Through Hastings & Woods Last Week. One of the largest acreage deals that has been made in West Hammond in recent years is the tale by Hasting.. Words & Co.. agents for C. A. Stover of Chicago, of forty acres of land just west of the Hammond Country Club on Kurr.haw avenue, to Millar &; Hamilton of Gary. Th.- deal involved close to $20,000 and the property has been subdivided into quarter acre lots, which will be placed on the market within a short while. The property is high, dry at all seasons, is adjacent to the built up portion Of West Hammond and has all of the rublic utilities brought right down to tho property. The fact that the property of the Hamrr.oni Country Club is right opposite the new subdivision makes the property particularly desirable. The ?r.!e was made for the purpose of cleaning up an estate ar.d Miliar & Hamilton have bought it at a figure that will enable them to make prices much lower than any property in the vicinity is being sold for. Ihey propose givir.gr the public the btr.ef.t of th'.ir bargain and there is no question but that the entire subdivision will be sold out this summer. The talk cf a car line being extended from Hegewisch south of Burnham avenue to lS3ih street end thence eastward to Hohman street and Conkey avenue is within the realm of possibilities since the government has begun to finance extensions of the local lines. But the subdividers1;. this property do not count on this. AlreaUy there are scores of tl-.c employes of the StandarJ Steel Car Company who live in the vicinity of this property and find no difficulty in getting back and forth to their work. In fact the property is the same distance from the corners of State and Hohman streets as Maywood. Kenwood. Franklin' addition a:i1 the corners of Hoffman and Oak streets. The rapid development of the Hirsch Stein Company, which now employs nearly 1.000 men. and other industries in the vicinity have create! on insistent demand for large cheap lots in West Hammond. The plat of the new subdivision was prepared by County Surveyor Ray Seely. the streets are to be graded by the Dahlkamp Tear; Ing Company ana vbe properly Is to be marketed by the owners. Millar & Hamilton of Gary, who have had remarkable success in their operations in this district. One fine thinj about the properly is the tact thLLt it is covered to a depth of nearly a foot with a black sandy loam that will make it excellent for gardening purposes. BOLSHEVIKI IN CLASHES SINCE MURDER f BT T'NITCn PRE'. WASHINGTON-. juiy $. Serious clashes between the social revolutionary and the Colsheviki have been in progress in Moscow since the assassination Cjf the German ambasador. The two assassins of the German ambassador were members of the social revolutionist party. YEP! MICKEY FINN PINCHED Michael Finn. 4S years old, a farmer of Finn's Island, at 1 loth-street and the i.'nlumet river, known as "Mickey Finn's pl.ic." was arrested last night while making merry with twenty "friends." who were being -served what is alleged to have hern liquor by Mrs. Millie Shober. Finn's housekeeper. Finn was booked at the Hegewisch station on charges of being keeper of a disorderly houe and selling liquor without a license. Mrs. Shobi-r and the twenty "friends" were charged with being inmates of a disorderly house. A truck load of beer and liquor was said to have been seized as evidence. The prisoners were to be arraigned in the South Chicago court this morning. WANTS TO STARTOPERATIONS ' r--r t'vTTrt PriES f SPRINGFIELD. July S. The Chicago Waukegan and Hammond Auto Transportation Co. today asked the stat public commission for a certificate to start operation of its branch from Chicago to Hammond. The permission has already ben granted for the operation of the line north of Chicago. ACCUSES ENTENTE. . U'vtTv-i PEE'".' CAFLBflROf. J AMSTERDAM. July 8 Official Inquiry by th German government so far permits the, assumption that entente agents were implicated in the assassination cf the German ambassador in Russia, according to a Berlin dispatch todav.

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Indiana Boy Popular Across the State Line Loses His Life in Action; Telegram Received by His Family. Ju3t across the line to the southwest of Hammond the family cf John Gall mourns the death of one of its two sons in the service of the f.ag. Private Paul "William Gall. 17th Co. V. S. Marine Corps. 5th P.'slment. was killed in battle in France June 1G. He was the first Dolt on boy to give his life for his country in the great war. The following telegram from the government gives the official news: Washington. D. C. June 28. S:54 p. m. John Gall. 513 Lincoln UVve., Pol ton. 111. Deeply regret to inform you cablesrr:im from abroad states that Private Paul William Gal! Marine Corps, was killed in action June IS. P.emains will be interred abroad until end of war. Accept my heartfelt sympathy in your great loss. Tour ton nobly gave his life in service of his country. GEOKGF. BARXETT, Maj. Gen. Com. Paul W. Gall was born at DeMott. Ind., August R. lS3o. removed with his parents to South Holland in 1310. In 1316 the family moved to Dolton and (Continued on page two.) DEMAND SENATE ACTION TRv I'viTEr) Preps' "WASHINGTON. July 8. Demand for Immediate action by the senate on the resolution empowering the president to take over the telegraph end telephone lines was voiced today when the senat met. Senator Smith of Georgia Introduced a resclution discharging the interstate commerce committee from further consideration of the resolution. This would bring it immediately bi 'ore the senate. Under the mk- this resolution goes cner until tomorrow. Senator Smith, South Carolina, chairman of the committee, may forestall Smith of Georgia by having his committee report the resclution today without recommendation. He favors an immediate report. He found some support and much opposition to his plan for immediate support. Strikes in the southeast had not alarmed officials here today. The officials are confident that President Konemkamp of the telegraphers can keep his men in line. The situation is being watched closely, however, and if a dangerous condition arises the president will take the lines. MITCHELL'S BODY 1 IS AT HOME TF.V T.'N'TEO T'r.F.'-'':.! XEW TOr.K, July R. The body rf Major John Purroy Mitchel. former mayor of Xew York, who was killed Saturday in an aeroplane accident in Louisiana, will arrive here tomorrow morning and be taken to the home of his mother. Wednesday it will lie in state in the rotunda of the city hall. A military funeral will be held Thursday mrning ar.d burial will bo in the family lot at V.'oodlawn cemetery. Be a War Saver.

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i rr.r Vxited Press VASHIGTO., July S. i'.aidlng aei tiv'.ty la tlie Vosgrs Sunday wan reI ported by General Pernblnjc taday. The Germans ncre vrnrneC to be oil the alert July 4 as the Americans Trcre expected to be active on that date. Bf United Pfess WASHINGTON', July 8 Enemy ftcoutlnjc parties on the Vlago pliteua, the Itclian nar office announced today. .Small actions la the Urappa region Saturday sained ground. North; of Massif prisoner Trere taken and two machine guns and a number of plane projector o::ptared. In the toll C'aprlle region we extended our advance." fl"vrrED Press Cablegram COPENHAGEN, July S. A serious counter revolution has broken out in Moscott, according to a nemi-ofliclal I German news aeeacy. "Severe treet j fichtinn In solnar on between the Boljkeikl and the social revolutionaries.'' ri".v:TF:r Press Cabi. coram AMSTERDAM. July 8. The kalner hearing of the assassination of the German ambitjdor to Kusia, ordered breaking oft of relations with the Russian delegates in Berlin. It is reported. Fearing demonstrations military police re guarding the Russian erabasy In Berlin. United Press rAtn,M?.M. LONDON, Julj- 8. Five German airplanes were brought tlorrn and one machine los In an nir battle Sunday. More than twenty tons of bombs were dropped on enemy positions. TBt United Press WASHINGTON. July S. In less than n month General Pershing will have more 1hr-.n half million men under his direct command on the west front, ready for the fighting line, according to Information received by members j of the senate military affairs com mi tt tee today. The two hundred and fiftyone thousand Americans now in the fighting does not Include Americans brigaded with the French and British In addition nil troops sent over during June are still training. By August 1 nearly !OO.nOO of these will be ready for battle. I I tT UNITED .PRESS ! TORONTO. July S. Immediately af ter the British ship Orisxa was sunk off the Irish coast two submarines were sunk by other vessels In the accompanying squadron, according to word by returning soldiers today. I 'Ft Uxitei? Pre??. ! WASHINGTON, July S. The senate agricultural committee agreed today to a new bone-dry amendment making the prohibition laws even stricter. It provides that no beer shall be manufactured after Nov. 1 and the sale of whiskey wine and beer shall cease after Jan. 1. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ADVANCE AGAIN ri'MTKD Press CABi.nonAM. LOXDOX. July S. Australian troops again advanced on both sides the Somme along a front of nearly two miles. Field Marshal Haig reported today. "The Australians advanced their lines slightly on both sides the Son-,m" the statement said. . UNUSUAL DEED FOR THE HUNS n"viT- Press ('abi.sgram.I WITH TIIF AMERICANS. July S. A note dropped by German airmen on the Toul front contains the information that Lieut. G. A. P. Hyler G. A. Phyler?). Lieut. B.- B. Battle of Columbus. O.. and Lieut. J. Williamson of California, missing American airmen, are uninjured and held as prisoners

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Eooze by Wholesale Found by Polica and Man Drink al Bar As in Old Timas Evidence of astonishing impudence on the part of saloonkeepers was proved yesterday when eleven saloons were raided in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor by police officers of that ctiy and as a result the office of Chief Williams this morning has the appearance of a wholesale liquor establishment. Cases of beer, bottles cf beer, bottles of whiskey, cases of whiskey, whiskey in coffee pots and Individual drinks bottles in small containers were seized in the saloons raided and according to the chief net one place was entered but what whiskey was found therein. . t KTAJTr FIGS VISZTZD. The raid started at about 1:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon and Chief Williams, Captains Sterling end Thrn:pcn' and Orticers .Muha and Zarkovich were buv until 6:00 o'clock p. m. visiting places that were under suspicion and placing proprietors uner arrest wherever liquor was found The following places were pulledStanley Ostroski. 143th and Homer Lm avenue; :iax Adelrnan. Til Chicago avenue; Ceorge Dorosh. 4741 Tod avenue; Paul Cizyan. 4S52 Xorthcote avenue; ICharles Redinger. 334 7 Michigan ave(Continued on pageEv.) w- H. Crawford, with a 91, won low gross in the Saturday golf tournament at the Hammond Country Club and V.'. N". Porter, with a 77, won low gross, iho scoring was ; Gross. Help. X". W. H. Crawford ?i a f, G. II. Clark o n v W. E. Kussell 97 u er, W. X. Porter 3 4 J7 77 Dr. Sharrer 107 14 03 C. Scott in is 'c.C. A. Smith.., no 15 I... Cox 105 12 T. Marsh 105 12 34 C. G. KinEwill 124 15 l) G. D. Peters 113 17 pr, Paige 114 IS G. II. Austin 113 21 ?s 1 1 f 1 1 -r-1 a 1 n 11 mm 1 1 nil1 ir 'Till ALSO DOING IT Blind Pigs Are Raided by the Authorities in the Oil City. . rSr-Ei-tAT- 1" The Tivi-s I WHITING, IND.. July 8 The Whiting police made a raid on seVeral Whiting blind pigs on Friday night. Among those arested were O. C. Bauer. 119th and Indiana boulcbard; Frank Sochrr. White Oak avenue; Adam P.apinak. Center street, and Paul Jurick and Joe Vasclocak. partners, Front street. At Bauer's seven cases of beer was secured and at the other saloons wine, whiskey and rock and rye was secured. All fine saloonkeepers were rut und-r $200 cash bonds. The Bauer case will be tried on Wednesday. He is to be defended by Attorney W. J. McAleer. Hammond. The trial of Jurick and Vasclocak was begun on Saturday before Special Judge Perel, Prosecuter Clyde. Cleveland appearing for the state, but was continued. GARY MEN HAV E ANOTHER SMOKER Th stockholders of the Consolidate 1 Copper Mines company. 22 West T'ifth avenues, Gary, are going to give anothe r one of their popular smokers at thir rooms next Wednesday evening. July 10th. Every stockholder is invited to bring two or three friends. President P.itzler of Kansas City and stockholders of Gary will be present and tell of tho advantages of becoming a stockholder in this promising mining proposition. See their advertisement on another page cf this paper.

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