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Sol Josepli Denies Knowledge of 200 Pounds of Sup j Gonfiscaled by Official. j fF'EC'T. To Tht: TiMf tF.OWX POINT. IND.. July 13. A srecial meeting of the Lake County Council of Defense was held yesterday afternoon with all the members present. The first matter to come before the. council as a man to have charge of the employment bureau of the V. S. Public Service Reserve for Lake county. s this work is now handled through Fouth Bend, which has been found to be impracticable. Several applications were received by the Lake County Council of Defense but it was the sense of the council that further investigation of th matter was necessary before an aprointment could bo made. No Action Taken by Council. Sol Joseph, a Gary painting ccntracTor. was cited to appear before the council In regard to sugar hoarding, 200 rounds of sugar having been confiscated from his residence by Food Administrator Roy G. Parry. Joseph denied all knowledge of having the sugar, saying his wife did all the purchasing and had stored the sugar unbeknown to him in glass jars and boxes in the pantry. Joseph says the sugar was bought from the Gary Grocery company. Sth and Mass. streets and !iat his wife claimed Ignorance 0 violating any law. After due questioning from the different council members Joseph was Instructed to deliver all his grocery tills from January 1st. to Food Administrator R. G. Parry. No action was taken by the council. Closing Order Is Modified. J. R. Thompson of Crown Point, manager of the 5 and 10 cent store, gave his views on the closing order Issued by (Continued on page seven.) MINE DIE SUPS BLOOMINGTOX. ILL.. July 33 William and Elijah Gordon, brothers, and their wives were killed Sunday night when their automobile was struck by a Bis Gour passenger train two miles west t! this city. DUBUQUE, IA.. July 23. Charles Nrth. lfi. and "William Cashman. IS. were killed and Howard G. Derrer. IS. probably fatally injured, when their nutomobi'.e was struck by a Great Western train near Kent, 111., Sunday night. MARINETTE. WIS., July 23. County Clerk E. N. Wazek was killed, his deputy Miss Minerva Lynes. so seriously injured she may die, and Miss Anne Sullivan of Menominee. Mich., seriously hurt when a Northwestern passenger train struck their automobile in Menominee. I! IS PI1E0JDER AUTO Plumber Is Found Uncoil -scious in Ditch and May Not Survive. SrnciAi. To The Times I HOBART, IND.. July 23 Mr. Henderson was very seriously hurt last Saturday afternoon while returning home from Gary where he is employed as a plumber. His car turned turtle in the ditch near the Nelson farm north of town and he was pinned under the machine. He remained under the machine for nearly an hour before being discovered. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and was found to have hJ collar bone broken and several ribs f;actured. He is in a very critical iunditicn. WOMEN KILLED BY MICHIGAN CENTRAL TRAIN While leading a cow across the Michigan Central tracks at Tolleston yesterday Mrs. Mary Frusick of 2754 West Tenth place caught her font in one of the rails when an on-coming Michigan Central east bound train run over her mangling her in a terrible shape. The body was taken to the S. and S. undertakers at 17th and Massachusetts street.

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NAMED TO COMMAND DIVISION ABROAD Major General George B. Duncan. Major General George B. Duncan was recently promoted from the jrracie of bripadier general "for efficient work in France." Now he has been placed in cLarpe of the ?7th division at the front. Ha was one of the first two American officers decorated with the criox da gudrre. SCHEOULE OF PRICES THIS WEEK Br United Press 'WASHINGTON. July 2 3. The food administration expect3 this week to have in the hands of every mill in the country a schedule of prices at which Sour and wheat from the 101S wheat crop may bo sold. This, it is believed, will guard the public against extortionate profits. The prices aro for carload lots. It is believed that competition in many instances will lower these prices. It is necessary to add the uost of price of packages. This averages 65 cents a barrel when f.our is shipped in small packages such as two-pound cotton sacks. Freight will also be added. The jobbers may sel lat not more than 25 to 50 cents over the delivered cost to them and the retailer at no more than $1.20 over the pr.ee he pays. Each invoice fro mthe mill will contain a list of food administration prices so that buyers may readily make comparison. Prices to the retailer from the mill at principal points Include: Chicago, $10.14. BARNES CAPTURES BUND RIG MEN They Were Storing the Stuff i That Stingeth, in Illinois and Selling It in Ind. TSfeciai. To The Times CROWN FOINT. IND.. July 23. Sheriff Barnes and his deputies swooped down on an illicit booze picnic resort on the state line near the Kankakee river last Saturday night and uncovered a novel arrangement.. He found two Chicago men named John Hcak and John Bcnsenberg at a tiny place called Illinois and it may take the services of the county surveyor to determine just where it is. The liquor was stored on ice in the state of Illinois but just on the line or this side of it. the two Chicagoans were selling it to thirsty autoists. Heak was tried at Crown Point an fined nearly $100. Bcnsenberg was held for trial until the first Saturday in August. Among the spectators at the trial was Ira Gardner. Ira is sorry he came. Sheriff Barnes remembered that Gardner was indicted by the Lake county grand jury last fall on ftv counts and nabbed him. Gardner win repose for a part cf the heated term, at least, in the county jail. 133 INDIANA MEN ON CASUALTY LIST !Bv Uviteo Press j INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July "3 Rec- j ords of the Red Cross show- that the names of 133 Inditna men appeared j on the casualty lists up to July 1. This included men in the army and navy. Of this number 66 paid the supreme price of losing their lives in service sixty- j three were seriously wounded and four were taken prisoner. The toll of thf month of July undoubtedly will about double the number on account of the larger scale of operations In which tht Americans are being engaged.

HONOR ROLL FOR LIBERTY HALL DOiTORS 1 j Liberty Hail is to have an honor roll and those who contribute a dollar a month for its upkeep will have their I names inscribed theron as long as they I pay their dues. This step was determlnj ed upon last night by the board of directors at their weekly meeting when a I deficit was reported. It is .found that at I least $30i'i per motnh is necessary to pay ! I the expenses of the hall and the need is j urgent and must be met at once. The 1 twelve directors started the ball rolling j last night and the chairman was instructed to appoint a committee im- j mediately to solicit names for the honor ! i roll. This is a patriotic duty which the ! j people of Hammond must take care cf ! j immediately. A contingent fund is ab- j j solutcly necessary. The decorations, j stenographer and bookkeepers, services, j i lighting, are expenses that must be tak- j j en care of. In addition it is often need- I ful to pay the expenses of speakers, j music, bands and little gifts for draftees ! j going away a swas the case today. The j : -13 men were all given two cigars, j cigarettes and gum tied up in ilag3 and j many other such little expenses that j cannot be defrayed ail the time by the j directors. I j The matter of furnishing auto for the j I service of Sergeant Wm. Welsh w ho Is ! I called here and there on a staggering ! j multiplicity of duties that are all out- ' side of his work, but which he is pa- ; triotic enough to take upon his shoul- I ders must be provided for. It is a shame that he has to be without the serJce of j a machine. Dr. Sharrer brought up the matter 0 writing postal cards to our soldier boys. ; It was suggested that postal card 6ta- j tions bo established in different stores j and on Saturday night patrons be furn-j lshed with addresses and send a lino of cheer to the boys at cantonment and overseas. The matter of ringing the Liberty j Hall bell and ringing of church bolls j and blowing of factory whistles when t our boys win a victory was .favorably acted upon and will be carried out. All factories, churches and railroads asked to co-operate with the secretary of Liberty Hall when she notifies them of an hour in the day when the stunt is to be pulled off. Many other matters of welfare of the hall w er discussed. Chairman McHie of the heating committee reported progress. The committee is badly in need of radiators however and there Is not the response along these lines inere must oe. i THIS HUH IS VERY JPTHIRSTY He Ought to Ee on the German Firing Line Facing American Troops. Gustav Tamert, a German alien 40 years old of Hammond, told Oswald I Wagoner of the Federal hotel yesterday i that he hoped the war would List five or six years so that the Germans could kill all the Americans. Ho was arrested by Offlced Palmer and is being held for the government. Probably Tamert doesn't want to work and takes this means of getting nice fuod and easy times at a German internment camp. With 223 Hammond boys ge.;ng to war. it is a good thing Tamert is nr.t !"oce cn the s'rerts tidav. JULY 23, 1017 Kereasky glvea unlimited power for rcettablisbment of public order in Kussia. Germans penetrate French lines at Casemates plateau. JUIT 23, 1916. Russians report successes in Eija sector. Turks report victory oyer British near Suez cacaL JULY 23, 1315. Germans pressing- hard against Russians defending' Warsaw. Severe f.yhtltg la Arg-onne and Vosges. Italians and Auctrlaas in fierce fight, inff on Zsonzo. Hot skirmishes at Dardanelles. JUZ.Y 23, 1914. Austria sends ultimatum to Serbia, demanding answer by July 25. War is considered almost lnevltabla. Sink a submarine! One certificate filled with War Saving Stamps will pay for a depth bomb.

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SVlcnsler Throng Participates In Departure of 200 Odd for Camp Taylor. TO THE PARENTS OF THE BOYS WHO LEFT TODAY Tiis soldier tas 23 chances of coming' homo to one chance of being1 killed. lie has 93 chances of rocoverin? to two chances of flying. Ka has only one chance In BOO of losing a limb. He will live live years longer because of physical training. Ho is freer from disease In the axrajr than In civil life. Ho lias batter medic 1 care at tae front than at home. Zn other wars from ten to fifteen men Oled. from disease to one from ballets. Zn this war one man dies from disease to every tea from bullets. This war 1 3ss wasteful of life than any other In history. Two hundred and four Hammond men left at 305 this mornins on a special train over the Mnon for Camp Taylor whre they will train for service in the United States artillery of the. national army. Of the 223 called in the Julv quota of the draft, fifteen n ere traneferred to other boards. on: d;d not receive his notification in time t.: catch the special and nine are tern-

areiporarily disabled and will be sent out

j as soon as physically fit. Rev. Thomas Eassett. D. E. Boone and Rev. Thos. Stroczynski were tho speakers this mornins at Libei tv Hall i where a farewell service was given Members of the Hammond the boy , Woman's Club pinned a bouquet in th? J buttonhole on the lapel of each bov's j (r.at and a committee organized bv ! Pr. u. E. Sharrer cave each boy two c.srars. a package of cigarettes, and an Am?rk package of tobaec Has.

An immense crowd had gathe.-ed in ihave resumed the initiative the downtown streets and followed' , , .

the boys as they marched to the depot. led by the Masonic drum corps, a ' .... ' 4 . ' ' . . . V V 11 . .7 . CO. 11 L J Welch, the Liberty Hall directors and j the home guards. j Fully five thousand people packed the streets about the depot. The train pulled out ten minutes earlier than schedule, as it was feared accident might occur because of the immense Jam. Its earlv departure was asur the 204. who made a football rush r 1 h rough the rrwd and pu rsued the train down the track, finally catching it amid the cheers of the onlookers. As the train left the station the men aboard waved the flags given them an3 appeared in. good spirits nnd ready for the fray. ) This was the largest single delega- ! t'.on tn leave Hammond f r the army in a day. ' The names of the men who went this : morninsr are as fellows: Will lain Conrad Spear.', Jacob B'.awst. ! John G. JlcLaughlin. Dan'el J. Boyle. 'William A Fox. Arthur Paul Koh'.er. ! Nick Caiapoclias. -sarra Thomas Pa - (Continued on Page two.) I50,CCO COLORED MEN CALLED ! . " ALjLji!jU 1 (Br UviTr.r- rnpss. ll'-SIIl'.-'.Tr.V Tn'v -1 r,., - .... 4 ...... . m. 1 we..-- j Provost j .unrsr.ai ufm-in wudj ifsu-u a cVil fer r.0.395 colored registrants fo- j entrainmcnt Augist BURLESON TO DIRECT. j WASHINGTON. July 23. Official an- ! ncuncement was made this afternoon ! noon that the government will assume 1 control of the telegraph and telephone j systems within the United States July J 31. Piesident Wilson today signed an ; executive control placing the power of j administration of the- lines in the hands icf Postmaster-General Burleson. HAMMOND MAN DROWNS IN ILL. RIVERA.T OTTAWA Special To The Times. OTTAWA. 111.. July 23. A man. apparently 23 or 40 years of age. was found drowned in th Illinois river here. Citizen papers bearing the name of Andrew Janchitz and taken out in Hammond. Itid.. were found in his clothes.

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These Hammond Boys Took Goat With Them It's Name's "Dynamite"

is 4, k A. i Among the two hundred odd j Hammond for Berlin this morning 1 . rj j ti.i: a u . igan avenue; Fred Magandze, 499

606 Howard avenue. Edward Krall will have charge of the little "nanny" who marched along as fine as any soldier could and the little mascot entered into the spirit of the adventure as much as any of her patriotic sponsors.

United Fatss Cablegram. LONDON, July 23. The French and American troops iCeiWeen Uie UUIXI4 ctllU OUIO L.,.,; and are attacking fiercely along the entire front (about fifteen miles) it was learned from an author itative source this afternoon. British troops captured -JPetitschamps near Marifaux taking some prisoner ' rri in EERLIN CLAIMS VICTORY IN ALL ALLIED ATTACKS BERLIN (via London). July 22. Ths j war office claims that the fighting in France on Sunday resulted in "a complcte success for the Ge-rmnn arms." , The official statement issued today do- ! trrihr. numerous heavy operations on all parts of the salient between Soissns land Tthelms and declares all assaults o,f i the Hilled forces were repulsed. THE GERMAN w O U is ujuu uku w u HOSPITAL TRAINS . - . .. m GENEVA. July -i r.auwav era. in. between the Itiiinp towns is greatly uis-1 -.ni,p(i ow ing to the number of !

j wounded arriving daily from the French ; yesterday when a Grand Trunk passenfront in hospital trains. Trains from;gfr tpaJn hu ftn auto containin(f H

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Uxtted Press Cablegram. I I ON DON Julv 23. Buzancv Is re-I TUvitcd Pres Caht.e-.bam .1 pored to have been captured by the! LONDON. July 23. 1:50 a. m.-The Americans. It is four miles south ofjrman artillery in the Rheims and otssons. The French are reported to ! Soisson region is comparatively Inac-

l.ave captured Oulchey-Le-Chateau. The reports are unofficial YANKS CAPTURE JAULGONNE M rUVTTEi' PPESS CaIILEGR.vM ' LONDON. July 23. 2:15 p. m. The Americans have captured Jaulgonne on the north bank of the, Marne and are

1 , w? v. A -5 Hammond boys who started from were: H. R. Gluth, Florence tr 1. tj c ?r Tnr:-u Murray street, and Edward Krall, continuing their advance. They took 30 prisoners. A German counter atj tack at Zandlers was repulsed. Th! i French hold the entire Marne bend from Chassins to Pielop Between th; Aisne and the Ourcq France-American troops are progressing. The French are reported to have gained oil the ground they lost yesterday at Grisolles. Along the Marr.e valley the French 1 are experiencing difticutly m crossing the Verneuil. owing to artillery and machine gun fire. They crossed at one lace late yesterday. CROWN PRINCE GETTING PINCHED Br United -Tress. PARIS. July 23. 10:50 a. m. As a result of the Allies' bombardment from both sides of the P.hcims-S .-issons sector the German Crown Prince has only a seven mile passage for withdrawal of . . . . , , . v ... .11.111 L11G front today The width of the salient is about tweny-five miles. GEN. PERSHING'S CASUALTY LIST (Bt Wited FltESS WASHINGTON. July 23 General Feishins's casualty list today totalle.l IOt as follows: Killed in action, 24; died of wounds. 3. died of disease. 5. died of accident. 5; wounded severely . missing. 1. ! Twenty-three Marine casi les were 1 reported toda Killed in action. 4; died of wounds, 3: wounded severely, 15; missing in action. 1. TRAIN HITS AUTO; THREE INJURED SpnriAt. To The TIME3. MERRILLV1LLE. Ind-. July 23. A .vw.r a.-i.lent t.if nie- ,,. 3iueiier, his wife and child of Madison, 111. Mrs. Mueller's back was broker Mueller and his son were very and seriously injured. GERMAN "WITHDRAWAL IS ANTICIPATED tive. indicating withdrawal of the I guns, according to authoritative infor1 mation received here today The War Savings Pledge Card is j a little note written to Uncle Sam to assure him that you are with him in the war and that you intend to stay to the finish.

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Huns are Withdrawing Toward tie Vesle, Roads o! Retreat are Congested BulletinUnited Press Cablegram LONDON, July 23. French forces opened an attack on a four mile front northwest of Montdidier at 8:15, capturing two villages. I'vtted Press Cablegram PARIS, July 23. 4:30 p. m. Allied aviators have set fire to Fere and Fisr.es, the points of enemy concentration within the Soissons salient. More than 32,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on the two cities. The allies are still progressing at several points on the front and the Germans continue to withdraw towards Vesle. By WEB 3 MILLER rT-,-?TE Press Culeckasi. PARIS, July 23, 3 p. m. Oulchy-Chateau, the dominating point on the line between Soissons and Chateau-Thierry, is reported to have been captured by the allies this morning. Additional important gains are said to have been made in the Soissons region. The Gfrmans are fighting desperately to prevent the allies from trapping them in the Rheims-Soissons pocket. Bt'LLETIV Uvited Press Cablegram 1 WASHINGTON, July 23. The name of C. Bocca, Gary is reported on the Pershing casualty list today as severely wounded. Bulletin-. r United Press Cablegram. WITH THE FRENCH IN THE FIELD, July 23, 2 p. m. The German retreat northward from the Marne continues. Allied aviators report great congestion on the road sixteen miles north of the Marne. The Germans are fighting a heavy rear-guard action and are holding desperately on the flank to prevent being squeezed in the great pocket by the French and Americans advancing north of Chateau Thierry and the French, Ilians and British advancing nortn of the Marne. It is estimated the Germans already have used 720,000. FIGHTING IS DESPERATE. WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE. July 23. Despite stiffening resistance the allied advance continues generally in the Sois-sons-Rheims salient. American troops are pushing forward on a five mile front. Franco-Americans are making some progress north of the Marne. French, British and Italians are moving slowly on wide sectors, between the Marne and Rheims. Between Oulchy-Chateau and Soissons the Germans are making desperate efforts following unsuccessful counter attacks. The battle has now developed into an artillery duel. One unit which fought for thirty-six hours without water arrvied at the front line just five minutes before the time set for the attack on the morning of the- eighteenth.- At the end of the first day they had taken 2.6"0 prisoners and had captured twelve batteries. The first day this unit advanced more than five miles and the second day more than six miles. THREE ARE FINED. Three men driving separate truck, were arrested by Officer Warner on Calumet boulevard and fined $S each in tne Hammond city court by Judge Klotz. They were Avrill Martin of Chicago. Henry Eoswlnkle of 36S Indiana avenue. Chicago, and Julius Aukes of Chicago.