Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 56, Hammond, Lake County, 15 August 1918 — Page 1

FAIR WEATHER VOL. XIII, NO. 56. Delivered by TIMES carriers, 40o pet month; cn streets and at newsstands, 2o per copy; bacS: namben, 3o per ooy. HAMMOND, 1VDIAXA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 191S.

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a Vote of 10 to 5 Ham mond City Council Passes Ordinance Putting into Effect the New Government Franchise. THEY OPPOSE IT. Here are the ive members of the Hammond city council who went on record last evening as opposing a war measure of the United States government: LINDLEY C. SMITH, third ward. WM. C. HAMAN, fourth ward (Robertsdale). ALVAN H. ANDERSON, eleventh ward. CHARLES H. LUTHMAN, at large. ELTON W. STOCKER, at large. Why? Was there some ulterior motive ? the smoke of battle cleared ft wji y Inst evenir.K at a brief but rpicy Kssion of the city council the r.cw t street ur franchise was a fact except i f"r the signature of Mayor Krown, which i he mayor s:ited tod-iy will be attachei j iviil-.out deliy. ! Ten councilman vot'd for the final j ra;ra;e of the ordinance ratifying the j new ee.ntr.iet between the Hammond, j "U'hitiniT & F.TSt Chicac" Streft Rmiwav j ('r.mpar.y and the Board, of Public j "Vo;k.. and five vored against the measure. The- vrtts fol'.ov s : j THE rBOfJKESSIVES. j Tor Kcclcr, Stiller, Kighlazd, i Ksckolcta, Eraca, Slartin, Cloyd Smith. Allaa, Hopm.in and Jteilloy. TKS OESTBTJCTIONISTS. Against Ti. C. Stnlth, Kamau, Anderson, Chas. H. Luthman and Stocker. ! EUTKTIAN, THE JTJG-0LEH. ! Thr -rte C'f the five euneilmen asrainst ' the adoption of the franchise is difficult 1 ? expiam. l.. ,. Mfitn ana Aiiaf rstn or employed by th-- Xew York Central hines ai.'d Storker by th Baitinvre & f-hiei and the railroads are under govfrr.r.fr.t cntro! and opratie-n. The I e rdmar.ee is n gove rnm.-r.t measure. I.-j'linun as a memb'-r .of the Board of j We-rks signe-i !e franchise- ?nd re- j lurred it to the council for ratification. As councilman he then voted to have it i s-nt ba k t 'he Be.ard of Works fori r mt ndment. and then as a member of' -he board refused to amend it and sc,nt j i' back to tha council for ratification, j Then as a councilman he vou-el against! tr.e franchise- which he as a member of I the Board of Work, had approved and j sUne-d. ! Councilman Louis Heoke'.man took the! initiative when the special matting openeei last evrn.ns and insisted that the I letter from Pre-sident B'.dlitz of the gov- : ernment's houiinsr and trnsp,rtation . bureau, urging adoption i-f the f ran- ' rp.ise. be r"a I. When the clerk failed! to rea 1 the heading of th leite r show- ! that it came from the bureau of j housing and transportation of the department of labor Hcckelman demanded j ihnt it bo read also. j Councilman Bruce, the new member of ! ':he council, was one of those to speak, j After inferring that Attorney Conroy. j representing the city attorney, had "run! to The T:meV he slated that he was ; rpposed to grivinfr away the city rtrcets ' te the street car company for thirty-five (Continued on pae two.) FACTS ABOUT THE STREET CAR FRANCHISE The H. W. &, E. C. Street Railway has already signed the contract with the government for a loan of nearly 300.000 to build the extensions and new cars. This is the first loan made by the government to a street car concern during the war. The survey for the Columbia avenue extension has been made, steel ordered. 50 laborers hired today, and specifications for ten new cars to cost $12,000 each drawn. Priority orders for steel ajl cars have been issued. The work would have been started n month aso anel the line completed by now but for the opposition i;i the council, headed by Luthman. Ander-pe-n. Stocker. L. C. Smith and Haman.

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LL Patriotic Councilman - Soldier Puts Luthman Et Al on Grill and Suggests They Put on a German Uniform. In cr.e of the bitterest and most scathing public denunciations ever heaped on public officials in this or r.ny other city. Alderman Sam Skufakiss, elected on the socialist ticket and now one of the boys in khaki, writes , 1 a: j the Ti..:e3 from Camp Taylor regarding opponents of the s-trcct railway franchise extension as follows: Camp Taylor. Ky., Aug. 1-. 131S. Editor Lake County Times: Lar Sir It was a shameful disappointment to all of the Hammond boys at this camp. Bui personally I was not surprised a tut at the action of the city council in refusing to ratify the contract for an extension of the street ear line. A fovornmcnt demand, and a hundred pc r ci nt -.prove-m-int to the Ci f at 4 SOLDIER SAM SKl'FAKISS. Why should I be surprised, when I know that, members of the German alli.-ir.ee are controlling the city of Hammond? How could I bo convinced that th.-y are loyal American citizens, when I know that they are abolishing offices, destroying the effieiency of different departments of the city m order to keep certain me-n cut of offices because they have used certain funds to buy Liberty bonds. Anel now di.--T!-.-o:n th-; gr"at patriotic spirit of the thousands of Hammond bo-. in khaki that gives Ham iron. 1 the honor of being knwa as the mort patriotic ciy m U. S. A. Ungrateful to the gocernm--nt for miking Hint men el an industrial center over night that will give employment to one-half of its total population. The, Treat rift of $500,000 for homes and now the $C0O.O00 for t ranr-poi tat ion. an alle-wance that no other town was lucky enough to get. Ungrateful to their sons who fight their battle in France, the city elads have sent an uneiispulably hurried government eleni.mel to bo eleiayed by the members of the board of public works where the opposition ons.nated. Every member of the council knows that if the government was not in back of the preposition the street car company would no: build a foot of track in any street oi" Hammond, and the city could not forco them to do it. That the government aims to win the war and not to accommodate any local neighborhoods, but to bring workingmcn to and from the munition factories from distant points. That the government loans the money to the. street car company with the understanding" to get it back in a certain length of time, so it would not bo fair to ask the company to spend all that money for a privilege, for wartime only or ;i months after, as L. C. Smith wants. Every councilman knows that It is an improvement cf one hundred per cent more than we expected. I would not call it selfishness, but a bold non-patriotic move! And any citizen who would oppose this because he wants the car lino on a different street than that of where the government wants it or anyone not willing to sacrifice something he had never had or has no chance of getting had better put on a German uniform, come right out and win an iron cross from the kaiser. Yours truly. TRIVATE SAM SKUFA KISS. Councilman of 6th Ward. CHih Co.. 3th Bn.. lel'th Bgd.. Camp Taylor, Kf. ! . H-.- United I'p-ss 1 WASHINGTON. Aug 13. Three men

were drowned from the U. S. Supply on sian upper house in unseating LichnovvAug ist 11. the navy department an- j sky. former German ambassador to nouncd today. j England, received royal approval.

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ROSS TOWNSHIP JOT IS KILLED Harold Goodrich in U. S. A. Since Last August, Falls in Action. fSPECMT. To Thr Times. MERRILLVILLE. I NO.. A up. is. i One of Ross township's gallant heroes i hap succumbed to wounds received in j battle on July IS on the firing line j some where in France. Harold Goodrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. SXTLiZlnn. a cablegram est onlay announcing the I death of Harold. He had he. n service since last August ai..l , iirst Lake county boy out side in the ; the : th. whilcities and towns to lose h:s life fighting fcr his country. Government's Housing Bu-j reau Is Last Word in Business Like Appraising; Federal Scouts Have Visited Hammond. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. As an incidental result of the war Uncle Sar.i is learning how to buy real estate without being swindled. Almost no scandals have come to liht since the administration starteel to conduct the war on a business basis, and should any develop in the future it is a safe wager that they will neit touch the Bureau of Industrial llou&ing. which l.i charged wi'h the task of providing living quarters j for tnousands of war workers, nc-t only in Washington, but in several industrial centers in various pans of the country. Some $ll.0OO.f.r.', w ill i this bureau within the expended by nelar y-ar. of which a large proportion will go for j land. j Story Never Told Before I The story never has ben te-ld of how j this land is being bought of the complete system which has been elevised to ! protect the government against the I rapacity of local sharks who might ! think that the necessities of the gov- ! (-.rnmfft provided tl-.-m with an exceij lent e hance for pre. rite ering without i their names "getting into the papers." ! The system is new to the government, I although it is not unknown in the real I estate business: and it may b" said that ! to the real estate men themselves should go the credit not only for in- . venting the system, but for following it with a thoroughness and loyalty which are bevond praise. A Washington real estate man is responsible for t'-.e adoption "f the sysI tern of the government, but the proj fes-iional real estate world at large is j entitled to high credit for its hearty t co-operation with the officials of the t'Tontinued on Page Five.) 91 RECEIVE U. S. COMMISSIONS TBr TviTT:r Press. WASHINGTON". Aug. 15. Ninety-one enlisted men of the marine corps received toiiav commissions as second j lieutenants at the graduating exercises ' at Quantico, Va. I MANILA REGIMENT READY FOR ACTION rP-v United Press. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. The 27th I infantry from Manila is arriving at I Vladivostok today. This regiment, j composed of from 1200 to 1300 regulars, is landing in Siberia to co-oper-! ate with the Cz-cho-Slovaks and Jai panose forces in Siberia. iPICARDY DRIVE CASUALTIES rUNTTEO Press Cablegram LONDON", Aug. 13. Total casualties since the start of the P'cardy drive. Ausrust S. w-ere less than the number I of German prisoners. Thirty-four thousand German prisoners have, been taken on Haig's front since August S. The excess of German losses over those of the allies is greater than in any previous battle and the percentage of killed is enormously greater. I LICHNOWSKY GETS HIS rUv-rTTtn Press CARt.EOR m.1 AMSTERDAM. Aug. 15. The " Prus-

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Whiting Men Heroes for Their Country JOHN SANTA. ,i f' i Voc 4 IHOS, MUIDOON. fecial To The Tive?. WHITING. IND.. Aug. 15 Private John Stana of STC Fischrupp avenue. Whiting, who was killed in at t ion July 15 enli.-t.--d in May. 1917. with Co. E. 6th V. S. Engineers. Previous o this he had worked in the car shops of the Standard Oil C". Mr. Santa, who was twenty-five years oil. was a member cf th.3 Sr. Johns Slovak church. Ca'holie Order of Foresters of St. Benedict's Cc-irt, No. 1"?5, and aise of the Catho'ic Turner Society. In a letter written to a friend on July f he suited that be had then been in the tr'neh-'s nine weeks. Canta leaves a mother in AustriaHungary and n.any friends in this city to mourn his loss. Corporal Thomas Mu '.do-on of Cleveland avenue. Whiting, son of Mrs. Marie Muldoon who was severely wounded in action July ZZ, enlisted in May. 1517. with Kth Field Artillery. Battery D. He was recently made a first-class gunner. Mr. Muldoon has been in France the past seven months. DEMOCRATS HILL MEET If HAMMOND I Democrats of the Tenth district have been summoned to a meeting which will he held at Hammond tomorrow after noon when Walter Chambers, publicity man for the state organization and the boilerplate man. will talk te the committeemen anel workers of the district. State Chairman Fred Van Nuys will be present. Miss Julia Landers is to address the. women. All the state candidates will be present. GERMANS IN FURTHER WITHDRAWAL rT"N;TEr- Press Cablegram. LONDON. Aug. 15. 3:37 p. m. The Germans have withdrawn one to two miles on a nine mile front at the western edge of the Flanders salient, according to information received here this afternoon. Vieux-Boreiuin was evacuated during the withdrawal. The French are reported to have captured the entire Lassigny-Massis defense !n this region. The number of German Infantrymen is said to be far below normal strength and their total m-npow-er is rapidly diminishing. Thirty-five enemy divisions 420,000 men and only fifteen reserve divisions now remain on the Haig front. Germany cannot undertake anether offensive this vear. Anderson Brothers. 1332 Fillomer St.. yesterday took out a building permit for the erection of a two story tile flat to cost 1-4,500.

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REIARKBLE ACCIDENT Oil Can Falls From the Clouds Injuring Aged Indiana Woman Yesterday. RUSHVILLE, INS., Aug. 15 Neighbors, who are caring- for Mrs. Susan Ting-ley, aged alnety-tbrce, are wondering1 whether an oil can which seemed to fall from the sky and which struck the aged woman on the foot as sha was sitting la the yard at the rear of her hom, fell from an airplane passing over the city. The can struck with such force that it is cot believed it could have been thrown by any person. It was labeled "lubricating oil." Ko airplane was reported In this vicinity at the hour the accident occurred. TOURIST COUPLE HIT m STREET CAR i iHobart Township Is Scene ! Yesterday of Motor Accident in Which Two Are Hurt. Special To The Times. HOEART, INP.. Aug. 13. While Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Houtz of North Webster. Ind., were retu ar.lng from a trip to Spokane, Wash., their auto was hit by a Gary & Interurban street car. The accident happened east of East Gary where the street car line crosses the Lake and Porter county line. An ambulance was called Xrom Ho- , hart and Dr. Mackey gave medical aid. I Both Mr. and Mrs. Houtz were taken j to the Mercy hospital at Gary. Mrs. j Houtz suffered her left wrist broken besides internal injuries. Mr. Houtz I had his nose broken and was cut and 1 bruised about the body. Their car was I just about demolished. Blame for thei ! accident lias not yet been placed. tl i STREET COMMISSIONER? There Is one city job that an army of applicants Is not fighting for. That is the p.ositicm of street commissioner, vacated this week by W. F. Brunt. William Norman, who lives on the north side near Douglas Park and for years had a milk route, is said to have been decided upon by the boaid of works as the next street commission if he will accept it. The job was turned down by John L. Kuhlman. for fifteen years the street commissioner and a democrat. Kuhl- ! man went out oj office when Mayor i Brown entered into his administration and cbaned house at the city hall, i Kuhlman was approached recently and I paid he would not accept the job under ; any consideration. "I would not e-are to say who apl preached me." said Kuhlman when askj ed concerning the offer. "It was not the mayor or the board, however." Kuhlman is now in in the automobile tire and accessories business and has Just moved from Hohman and Truman to Hohman and Hoffman street?. Mr. Brunt has made an efficient street commissioner despite the way he has been handicapped in his duties. BAN TIE KAISER'S "PHIZ" THEY BAY Sri.r-Ai To The Times. CROWN POINT. IND., Aug. 13. It does not pay to have a picture of the Kaiser around one's prem-ses at Mils time as was demonstrated to Wm. Hubkert. lately employed at the Steinemann meat market in this city, on Sun day. Prior to coming to Crown Point Hubkert had resided in Chicago with a brother and had a picture of the Kaiser in his room. On coming to Crown Point j the picture was left hanging on the ; wall. The federal authorities got wind j

of it and the nrst time Hubkert came j fighting was limitci to artillery exChicago they nabbed him. He is an j changes. alien enemy and will not be allowed to

re-stimf work in Crown TV.tnt lint a ' - strict watch will be kept over him. SOME MORE HUN ASSASSINATIONS United Press Cablegram. WASHINGTON. Aug.. 13. Anti-Bol-sheviki terrorism in Russia Is spreading frrm the Moscow district and Petrograd to the German occupied Baltic provinces, according to advices today which reported the killing of a German official in Livonia. The Strassburger Post calls it a political murdT and it is believed to have been committee by two prominent Russians. The assassination is held significant.

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SOLDIERS FOR Americans Are Going in to Whip the Hun With Their Full Man tength and Do a Job of It. Br United Tress WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 An American army of 4,000,000 men in France working in conjunction with our allies and under one commander in chief will "enable us to through the German lines go j General! wherever we please," March declared in his testimony before the senate military commit - te which was made public when ! Senator Chamberlain reported the! j new manpower bill to the senate at noon. With the bill Chamberlain submitted a report . recommending quick action and quoting much testimony given ' by the military authorities behind closed doors and hitherto unpublished. "If we drag along with this bill we will be playing: Germany's game," March is quoted as saying. That heavy Inroads will be made in the ranks of young men below the age of twenty-one is indicated by March's testimony. He believes young men between the ages of IS and 21 are better qualified physically and the majority of them unmarried and without incumbrances. The president has announced the military policy of America from this time, is centered on the western front. The purpose of America is to furnish enoug hmanpower to whip the Germans from now on. The only way Germany can be whipped Is by America going in with whole strength. The policy of the war department is to put the maximum number of men in France with the idea of shortening the war. Figures furnished by Provost General Crowder show the men to be obtained in the new bill 2.300.000 to be in France by June 30. 119. Secretary Baker was quoted in the testimony as supporting March's position throughout. In summing up the bill Chamberlain said the committee believed that in view of the fact that civilization itself was at stake it was necessary to drawn upon the younger men. Re-ferrlng to the work or fight amendment Chamberlain said in view of the' fact the bill calls for all men between ' the gase of IS and 45 exemptions will i be granted those more valuable to the government in production of things essential to the prosecution of the war and that when they cease in good faith to follow the essential occupations they are to be subject to the draft. j The Justice, of the provision, the com- i mittee believes, will appeal to the good j sense and patriotism of the people. GERMANS WILL RETIRE, WHERE?

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f By United Press j the Germans during the last forty-eight LONDON, Aug. 15. German with- j hours, drawal from forward positions north of! The boche heavily bombed American the Ancre indicates a retirement of con- j front lines and rear areas with great siderable magnitude in the opinion of ! fleets of aeroplanes. There was little, military writers today. ; infantry activity. A few patrol enSome believe the enemy will retire as ' counters occurred, but no big operafar as the new Somme line. Others be-! 'ions have beer, attempted elnce the

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tor oecween ij.eaunioni. aiiu nai't-i turn i Bucquoy. ! Meanwhile the French are progress-j jnK n a flanking move northeastward ! along the Oise valley. Ribecourt was j captured. On the remainder of the front the; --vw-a a. -n -v -v i Lflll-U L1 Wl'il.ljjwxxaj u a ON DEFENSIVE rUNiTrr Press Cabi.f.cr.m 1 WITH THE BRITISH IN FRANCE. Aug. 15. The German withdrawal toward Bapaume apparently is still under way. The Boches have their back towards Amiens Cathedral which today was rededicated. It had been unused and locked up and protected with sand bags since the civilian evacuation of Amiens in March. The rc-opening coincides with the great feast of the assumption. Germans are still on the. defensive both in the air and ground. Airmen captured say the German command is suffering from inability to fill losses.

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President Goes to See Colonel House, International Problems May Be Reason Bulletin-. TWA.Jrl.UNITEn Press. MAGNOMA. 1CASS., Aug. 15.Resident Wilson, accompanied by Ca , i"a and Ad"l iclf y"oa' Prlrat. physicUn, arrived here today i.2.1",1?1'' WWch W" unezpectl. is said to be for the purpose of resting from hi. war labor. whU, vls.t CoL E. Jt. House who he ha. not seen for several months. itt . ,lBT rNITED Press WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 15. Without direct evidence for con- ! victl0n there ws a distinct feeluS m oniciai quarters here today tw a; . 3 ( t uiwiuaut events ot first j magnitude are brewing 1 President Wilson after a Ion" conference with Secretary of Sta'e Lansing yesterday afternoon Vft on a special train to confer with his personal advisor Col. House at Magnolia, Mass. It was officially announced the president is "out for n rest." Among other subjects it is believed President Wilson will discuss with Col House was the peace drive reported to be coming Xrom Germany. Although there was no thought that whatever Germany proposed would T acceptable, it was expected Col. Houre and the president would study the matter. There was also the matter of Turkey's alliance over the Tabriz question. At the same time there are somo casts of extremely delicate international problems breaking out in th wcrld situation, any one of which might prove a poser at this time. Among the problems that may be found are: 1. Threats of Mexico to almost double her tax on oil and to enforce measures against foreign oil interests despite objections of Great Britain and the United States. 2. The distinct hostile attitude of the Bolshevik! leaders in Kussia to the allies and the arrest cf allied consuls. S. The increasing gap between Bulgaria and her Teutonic allies and a growing possibility of an armistice between that nation and the allies. Bulgaria meantime is growing bolder in denouncing Germany and Turkey over territorial questions which have completely undermined her morale as far as aggressive fighting is concerned. 130,000 HUN PRISONERS SINCE 15TH OF JULY "UNITED PKESS -ABt.Ee5RAM PARIS. Aug. 15. Including 10.000 Germans taken by General Humbert in the operations which are still developing, prisoners captured on the western i front since July 15 total 73.000 and 1.700 guns have been taker, by the allies, the Echo da Paris estimated today. BOCHE BOMBS YANK LINES "USITFTt PPFS1 CBIEGBV WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE. Aug. 15. More aeroplane bombs than artillery shells hive been thrown into the Vesie river sector bv fighting quieted down. Artillery cn both j sides of the front was active last night. CASUALTY LIST TRY United Prfss. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. One hundred and twelve casualties were announced by the war department today, including: Killed in action . 17 Wounded severely J.CROWDER SENDS OUT NEW CALL TBt Uniteu Preps WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. Provost Marshal General Crowder today Issued a call for 12,000 limited service white men for entrainment August 30 to 31. SCHOONER IS ATTACKED OFF CAPE fRv United Presc WASHINGTON", Aug. 13 The schooner Barrett was attacked off Cape May. North Carolina, by a submarine yesterday afternoon.