Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 29, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1918 — Page 1

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14,000 Ton Warsliip Believed ta Have Been Kit fey Submarins, Number Lives Lost Yel Unknown BULLETIN. roiVT O WOOD. F!re Island, July SO. The iuurtcrmaster of the Diego, torpedoed I cited States 'miner, went doivn with the ship, tandlnR t h!s pot on the bridge. Hla lrst net wa to sr.lute hi superior officer ns the ship went down. Men stood on the ship's deik In battle formation and simply walked clT the deck Into the ocean ns the craft slid under the water's edse. Discipline n;s described m perfect ntl the "Star-Spanstte J Banner was sung; by n!I linndsus possible death approached. BULLETINII. D. Mlnnick. advertising nianaser for the E C. Mir.as company, of H:mnanil, Is deeply concerned over the sinkint? of the V . Armored cruiser San Diego, foi he has n brother, Harold, who Is a first machinist's mate on the battleship. Mr. Minnlck'a home Is in Spoknue, Wnsh.. sad It w-.. there his brother enlisted from, 15 months oso. WASHINGTON, July 20. The United States armored cruiser San Diego was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine ten miles southeast of Fire Island Light at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning. There was no loss of life so far as known. The San Diego formerly was the California, built at San Francisco in 1899. The cruiser is 13,680 tons, 502 feet long and has a speed of twenty-two knots. Her main armament consisted of four eight-inch guns in turrets and fourteen sixinch guns. The San Diego was bound from the Portsmouth (X. H ) Navy Yard for New Tnrk when she was sunk. Capt. H. H. Christy was in command and on board were fifty-one officer?. 1 030 enlisted r-en and sixty-three marine.-. The vessel had been undergoing repairs at the r.avy yard. SUNK BY TOSPI30 IS V. 8. BELIEF. That the United State cruiser San Diego was sunk by a torpedo is the belief expressed by the captain of the vessel in hi3 report to the navy department today. A statement by the navy department says: -The captain of the San Diego reports that he is inclined to the belie that the ship was sunk by a torpedo. There are no conclusive factors, however, on which to base definite opinion at present in view of the following circumstances. First, r.o torpedo was seen, second no convincingevidence that a periscope was seen, no submnnne appeared in spite of the fact that three unarmed rescue ships were in the vicinity for about two hours, .fourth, the ship was struck on the port side which discourages the mine theory; fifth, the weather was fine and the sea blue. FAULTY AFFIDAVIT GAUSEJSF DECI51 Special Judge Sproat States That He Had No Alternate in 0. Bauer Case. rSPECIAI. To Thb Tim s WHITING. Ind.. July 20. A faulty affidavit lost the case of the stateversus Ot'o Bauer, in which Attorney E.. G. Sproat presided as a special judge. The affidavit charged Bauer with "unlawfully selling blank dozen bottles of br-er and keeping and having In his possession blank dozen bottles of beer." Under the prohibition law a person is entitled to a dozen bottles of beer in his own home, the judge stated, and the evidence showed that the beer was found stowed away in the premises where Bauer lived. There was no evidence that Bauer sold it. When At'ornevs Gillett and Dorsey for the defense made, a motion that the court find for the defendant owing to the fact that the affidavit was faulty the attorney for the Ftate admitted to the court that he was beat owing to the fact that he had r.egleeted to fill In the affidavit. If others fight you can save. Join the War Savers army.

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Clark Road and lltli Avenue Is Scene of a New Outr U.C. At nnon yesterday the alarm was given that a white woman at C!ark Road and 11th avenue Gary had been attacked by a burly negro while she was leadinj a cow to pasture, the brute Jumping from behind a bush boating her with a club. The woman's screams alarmed the neighborhood when the alarm was turr.c-d in to the police who rushed to the place but the negro had made good his escape. The woods was searched for five hours for the culprit and was seen by Robert Marshall when he stuck his i fad from a clump of bushes and chase was made for him but he eluded the officers and is still at large. The woman's name was Christina Carolina and when examined by the physician who was called it ws. found that the negro had with a club beaten her up quite badly c.i her shoulders and arms. Col. Walter J. Riley Chosen on Republican State Executive Committee; Will Serve Coming Campaign. TlilES 13" RE A TV At State Capita:.. INDIANAPOLIS. IXD., July 10. Just before departing for h!3 home in Huntington late Friday, Chairman Edmund M. Wasmuth, of the Republican state committee, made public he !!"t of appointees to the execu'ive committee of the Republican party for the coming campaign. The men selected all are of the highest type of citizens in the state and practically all of them are widely known, not only in politics, but in many other lines of civic endeavor. Including war work of various kinds. The men selected follow! Walter J. Riley, F.ast Chicago; E. C Ludwig. Fort Wayne; Rudolph Leeds, of Richmond; Will G. Irwin, of Columbus, and Schuyler A. Haas, of Indianapolis. Mr. Irwin Is known to every banker in the state of Indiana and his service as a member of the state council of defense and as county chairman for Liberty loan activities in Bartholomew county have given him added prominence since the war began. He was the recommendation Governor Goodrich arid the state council of defense made originally to Washington for the position of fuel administrator for Indiana, but politics at Washington and in Indiana prevented his appointment, and later Evans Woollen, a Democratic member of the state council of defense was appointed to the position. Mr. Haas is chairman of the Indianapolis board of public works and !s well known in Republican politics, where he always has been an active worker. Mr. Ludwig is the legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and i.s state chairman of the ;.o:nt legislative board of the four big railway brotherhoods. Mr. Riley is a banker of Lake county, well known to Republicans everywhere throughout the state. Rudolph Leeds, of Richmond, is a former Progressive and will draw many former Progressives into closed line, if that is possible, with the. present Republican organization. The selection of the five men apparently will fulfill every demand that the personnel of such a campaign committee should meet. Republican state officials are planning trips to Greensburg. North Vernon. Columbus and Brook, for organizational meetings next wek. NOTICE. Replying to an article published in The Times on the evening of July 15th. : 1D1S. in reference to the Newell Broth- . ers. whose taxis were employed by certain people in the delinquency of certain j girls, wish to say: As the public knows, we do not and cannot inquire I anout the business or morals oX those , hiring taxis. Who would thir.k of i charging criminality against the street car company for hauling delinquents from Chicago to Hammond because the rolice should apprehend some of them? t We, therefore, denounce ns absolutely j false anything said or published that in ! any w ay connects us w ith the crimlnali- j tv of the persons concerned. (Signed) JAMES Y. NEWELL. J 7-20- JOHN W. NEWELL, j FRESH CALL ISSUED. TBt United Press WASHINGTON. July 2tV Provost Marshal General Crowder hiis issued a call for lO.nOO registrants to entrain July 25. to August 2.

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Street Cat Franchise Redrafted at Board's Suggestion But None of Government's Requirements Are Altered. L'r.less opposition develops the board o public works and the Hammond. Whitinc & East 'hicapro railway will sign the war-time franchise whereby the street car company commits itself to begin at once and carry out with the greatest speed possible the plan of the t'nited States goeinment for increasing the transportation facilities between residential districts and munition factories. Conferences yesterday between the board of works, the franchise committee of the city council and representatives of the. street car company resulted in a redrafting of the proposed franchise as originally presented to the board. None of the government's plans were tampered with, however, and the recommendations of the staff of expert engineers ent to Hammond by th--Department of Labor at Washington to purvey th situation, remain unchanged. The administration has evidently seen the folly of tinkering with T'nited States government war measures. Signed by the board the franchise must go to the council for ratification after being duly advertised The temper ccf the people !s aroused and no unnecessary delay will be countenanced THERE IS A WAR GOIfi 0'. The Fnited States is in this war the sarr. as France, although four thousand miles away. At least twenty-five and probably more Hammond boys have been in the new battle of the Marne and are there still, no doubt, driving back the Hun hords. If Genera! Foch and Pershing wanted (Continued on page five.) SKUFAKiSS GALLS MASS MEETING njJtMMOND l Growing District, Thickly j Peopled, Has No PubI lie School House. i Sam Skufakiss, socialist councilman of tho Sixth ward (East Hammond), wants to put over his pet project before he goes to the army Tuesdiy. And it i3 conceded to be a worthy cause. With this in iew Councilman Skufakiss has called a mass meeting of East Hammond residents at Stadola hall and invited the board of education to attend, the time being set for 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The project is that of getting a public school building and playground for East Hammond. With the building of 200 new homes, a big hotel and other increases in the population of that community the school accommodations are inadequate. Unless a school house is built East Hammond children will have no place to attend school, the councilman says. Until now East Hammond children have attended the Wallace school in Conkeyville. while the little tots had a four-room school in a store building which was remodeled to some extent to accommodate them. "'East Hammond's greatest need aside from clean streets and alleys and general sanitary measures by the city is a school building." said oni East Hammond citizen today, "and we are all back of our councilman in this move." "!t will be a source of great satisfaction to me when I enter the army to kn"W that I have been able to hasten the time when East Hammond will have a ruhlic school.'' stated the councilman. MOTORCYCLE RAGES AT CROWN POINT !?T-E-tAT. To The Times 1 CROWN POINT. IND. July 20 With good weather prevailing, the best motorcycle races ever pulled off in the county will be witnessed at the Lake county fair grounds Crown Point, tomorrow iSunday). There will be 8 races, starting at 1:"!0 sharp and about IS riders have already sent in their entries, among them being Ray Creviston, one of America's best professional riders, who holds many speed records. Riders .from Chicago. South Bend. LaPorte, Michigan City, Logansport. Rochester and from other points, together with home riders will be in the races and without a doubt they will be the best races ever staged. If you want to see real sport don't fail to take a trip to the races. There will be refreshments on the ground and music by the Crown Point band.

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LOWELL JACKIE DROWNS ! JIT SMfflE IMSEi Mrs. Salina Stenerson Gets! i Sad News From Navy Department Today. i Special To The Times. LOWELL. Ind.. July 20. Lowell today learned of the first death of or.e of its boys In the war. A telegram was received by Mrs. Salir.a Stenerson. a v. idow, statin? that her son, William, aged 13, was drowned yesterday at a submarine base rear New London, Conn. The young man enlisted in th. navy n year ago. His remains are being shipped to Lowell. William Stenerson is survived by his mother and three sisters. u. s, MITDB POTION HELD Find Nothing; Boy Mayor Is j Released; Good and Peeved. Mayor Johnny Fatton of Burnham is peeved today. Federal operatives searching for a hundred thousand dollars in loot stolen from box cars in the Calumet region placed the boy mayor and five suspects in custody last night and raided exerything in Burnham from Colisimo's down the line. Eut the operatives found nothing- The former resorts were deserted and 'the cabarets quiet. It was a changed Burnham from a year ago. When the mayor was released nd returned he made the followlns statement: ' I didn't havt nothing to tell them. I don't know fi-x thing about the crooks. This is the first time in my life I've ever been arrested or called a thief. It's a darned shame." The raid was projected as the result of complaints that soldiers and sailors hive been permitted to purchase liquor and to associate with the women. In the morning a telephone message was given the authorities in West Hammond. Ind . asking co-operation. The raid was to be undertaken immediately. But before the deputies and federal agents could rt there the women had been "tipped off." Doors were smashed and walls pierced in the search for evidence of liquor selling, but nothing of value was discovered. Raids were continued in four saloons, but no evidence was developed. A clean sweep of the district had been made when the denizens fled. NORTHERN PART TO CETJITHBIICITE No Word However on New ...at:c:i Has Eccn Received Here. Officials of the state fuel administration have received no word from Washington regarding the distribution of the state's allotment of anthracite coal, but the opinion is expressed In the state administration office that the distribution plan as announced at Washington would result in communities distant from the Indiana coal mines receiving preference in the disposing of anthracite. Cities in the northern part of Indiana probably will be supplied with, greater quantities of anthracite than cities of the same size nearer the coal mines in the southern part of the state, according to the state administration's interpretation. The cities r.car the coal mines have been able to obtain bituminous coal at a cost much less than distant cities because cf the difference in freight rates. Many persons in the northern part of the state have equipped their homes and business places for the use of anthracite. It would be Imposing a greater hardship, it is believed, to require these rersons to change heating devices for the use of soft coal than it would impose on residents of southern Indiana cities and towns to confine themselves almost exclusively to the use of soft coal. GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED By FRED FERGUSON WITH THE AMERICANS BETWEEN! THE AISNE AND THE MARNE, July J 13. 11:00 p. m. American troops ad-i vanced on a front of several kilometers j southwest of Soissons late this evening. ' Fighting is still in progress at the hour of cabling with the Americans advancing. The assault was made east of Coeures and extended over a wide front to the southward. German counter attacks in the region of Soissons were repulsed. The French and Americans made further advance northeast of Cliaumbum. You'd like to take a punch at the kaiser you say? Then buy a Thrift Stamp.

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PARIS, July 20. Confirmation of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt's death during an air battle was contained in a note dropped by German aviators in the aviation camp to which Roosevelt was attached, the Paris Journal announced today.

FRENCH IN THE SUBURBS OF SOISSONS f United Press Cablegram.! PARIS. July 2f. 4:30 p. m. French and American troops are nearing the highway from Chateau Thierry to Rheims in action between Fossoy and Neuvllle. It is apparent thvy will soon render Chatillon-Sur-Marne untenable and force the Germans to recross the river. Despite furious fighting the French are clinging to the suburbs of Soissons. less than a mile and a quarter from the city proper. The allies' counter offensive may become one of the most decisive stratfgic operations of the war. It already has resulted in stemming the German offensive and demel isliing the enemy's front for a generalization attack on Paris which has been striding since March. THREE MORE TOWNS CAPTURED United Press Cableira vt LONDON. 4:36 p. m. After heavyfighting the French have recaptured Marfaux (eight miles southwest of the city of Rheims and Boixdemissy and Porta-Binwon. it was learned authoritatively this afternoon NEW REPORT ON CZAR'S DEATH United Press Cablegram. LONDON July 2T A message published today by the Regional Council cf the Ural district, states that Nicholas Romanoff, the former czar, was shot Julv 15 by order of the president cf the council and that th decision was accepted as regular, a wireless from Petrograd today state?. BRITISH GIVE HUNS FITS n-viTBTv Pnrss riBLIiRAV 1 WITH THE-BRITISH ARMIES IX FRAXCE. July 20. While the titanio struggle is thundering back and fnrth lo the southward British artillery fr"m the Marne vallev northward is giving the Germans fits. The Crown Princess of Prussia and Bavaria are having a very thin time fhooting the allies. FIERCE BATTLE FOR SOISSONS

By FRANK J. TATLOR , Severn v-mree pm.-, ... person IT-MTi ft:v r,wri..i were killed In the Hagenheck-Wallac? WITH THE AMERICANS BETWEEN j circus wreck or died from injuries reT11E AISNE AND THE MARNE. Julyiceived thrn. were filed In the superior 13, 10:15 r- m, The American-French j court at Hammond today by Attornev offensive is developing into a desperata j Fred Barnett w ho is administrator in battle for possession of the highway each case. It is expected he will file from Soissons to Chateau Thierry. Some death claims against the Michigan allied units already have crossed the Central railroad

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7 4 J-V "4 ' 'ifh fUp, , t z J s V' f A If road. The Germans have been strongly re-ervfor'-cd by reserves. The element of surprise was long since lost to the French and Americans. The lighting is now man to man and gun to gun. The fighting is particularly bloody south of Soissons. One American unit captured more than 2.S0O Germans in this region. The Germans are attempting to rush men and material into 'he line under terrible shell fire. A, the south end Franco-Americans advanced northwest of Chateau Thierry capturing a town. The fighting is increasing in intensity cast of Courchamps. PERSHING'S LAST NIGHT REPORT t r F.T Vnitei Fsrt? 1 j WASHINGTON, July 20. Reporting 1 under date of July 1?, General Peshing j today Informed the war department that "between the Aisne and the Marne our troops continue to make progress." Five officers and men have hern awarded the distinguished service cross for gallantry in action. SUES HUSBAND WHO IS A DESERTER, FOR DIVORCE Action was brought in Gary superior court this morning by plaintiff's attorney. James divorce Es ther J. (Mauck) Hammer from her husband. Louis J. Hammer, who were married in Hammond August 17, IS! 7. and separated August 22. 15! 7. The defendant was a soldier and a few days after his marriage was arrested by military authorities as a deserter who represented to his bride that he was out on furlough. ASKS DIVORCE AND PARTITION OF PROPERTY In Gary Superior court through her .- attorney Clarence Bretsch. Ethel Stamjpr yesterdav filed suit for a divorce j from her husband, R'-scoe Stamper, on i grounds of cruel and inhuman treat ment. The defendant also asks a decree of partition of certain property which is described as a house and lot in Garv valued at $o.50o of which the plaintiff asks for title of one-third. 73 ESTATES OF IVANHOE DEAD FILED IN COURT

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jGU 1 3 American-French Troops Advance 1,000 Yards Utter Hun Counter Attack. FIGHTING GROWS MORE BITTER By FRED FERGUSON fl'vTTEri Phess Cablegram WITH THE AMERICANS BETWEEN THE AISNE AND THE MARNE, July 20, 2 p. m. Bitter fighting is under way on the entire offensive front. German resistence is stiffening and some towns have changed hands two or three times. Americans and French have advanced in the Marne region throwing the Germans back toward the ! river. To the northward the fierc est fighting is centering on the line south of Soissons. An, advance of nearly two miles has been made south of the Marne. ..One American unit fighting southwest of Soissons captured ninety-one officers and two thousand seven hundred and ninetyeight men. Another captured thirty-one officers and two thousand two hundred and twenty-nine men. Three Americans captured a German colonel, two majors and sixty men, trapping them in a dugout. , GERMANS DRIVEN BACK. rUvtTFtn Press Cafi.f.'IP.at: 1 ; WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, July 20, 3 p. m. ! The Germans retreating before the j Franco-American attack south cf l the Marne are retiring northward ; across the river. ITALIANS IN NEW VICTORY. United Press Cablegram. ROME, July 20 The Italians have recaptured Montstabel and reoccupied Corno di Cavento. the war office announced today. The enemy left many dead and much materia lbehind and numerous prisoners. BRITISH ADVANCED 2 MILES. Uvrrtn I'ftsss Cablegram 1 LONDON, July 20. British forces in capturing Meteren yesterday advanced on a front of more than two miles, taking four hundred and thirty-six prisoners, Field Marshal Haig reported today. fUviTEo Press Cablegram LONDON, July 20. 1 :55 p. m. Franco-American troops after repulsing the most violent counter attacks on the whole front from Soissons to Chateau Thierry rushed forward and are still making satisfactory progress. Prisoners taken by the allies on this front total more than 18,800. Counter attacks indicate new reenforccments by the enemy. On a seven mile front east of Rheims, French and Americans advanced a thousand yards beyond their original lines made yesterday. At Main-de-Massiges the allies reestablished their old line. Th-; French and Americans after the most desperate fighting yesterday advanced more than a mile on a twenty mile front from southwest of Soissons to Chateau Thierry and now dominate the highway. TBr I v.-rrr. P'l.s? i WASHINGTON. July 20 The American divisions ensaged on the larger fronts of the present off'-nsive are the first, second, third and fourth regulari and the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth national guards. In addition the fortysecond national ruard is on the light flank the Champagn-; front fofrftlvr with a colored reelment from the nlnty(Continued on pai;e five