Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 63, Hammond, Lake County, 23 August 1918 — Page 1

STORM j PERIOD VOL. XIII, NO. G3. BeUverea by TIMES carriers, 400 pa month; on streets lad at newsstands, 2o per copy; back nan-.Tjers, 3o per coyy. JfAMMOXT), 1 VDIAXA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1916. war 3 pa Isa hsj m rat ?r Ii22 &4 BStl IT S .AO -i ?M pi ir V2 t-'S 55a 7-f FOCH TO FOUND nn MA ALL WINTER LONG

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Eslisve Ev3oystion of Noyon Undsrvay, Big Kslfrominl Is ExioG;2j Houriy. is ' '--.-.- PARIS. 1 Von L.c2::n :s o new eu-ieasive , a lines far in t Gerr.ua po:i rear o; Lao nrescr.; ion; in Fie coram- to :n:o tat r.i "i tinn received from the trout early today tiry experts believe the evacuation' cf Noyon is now uader way. Be-t-veen the Ai'sce and the Vesle Gcrr.i: aviutor3 arc nulrinr dcsperal; 1 efforts to keep off allied observi-i ticn plaire and a big retiremerrt ( there is t::;-oc; -:d houriy. j j fiJty : A total of more than villages have been reoccupied by th3 French. Arrival of a Bulgarian : division on west iront is re" ; ported. !

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Foch intends to pound the Germans . ail wiuui la luc vi-w ui -iijt:, tary expert; here today. Several officers here have openly favored a strenuous winter campaign. , One official expressed the view that by keeping up the campaign;

instead of permitting the fight to j J? dwindle to the occasional trench jO clashes the way would be prepared j II fcr a great spring campaign. Just j at present there is some doubt asj the exact intention of the Tc.;-!

ton staff. .Turt at - rc. : tr.iliiary mind a ?T.!io:i.s f t!;- ' h. ios say 1' r'her ca.'-i'. y ftriKir.jr r..-t r.t there is fonw do.aht In l-.oi-c as to th3 fx.iot :r.T(a;a.'"i f taff. S"ir.- :ia- j .0 Ivu'iiO i.s r.i'iing h.-i. k ;u-K.?t W..-1 ho i.. ,; v to ff.we l.ts men and I iterh.l until heestablish a nex e h, i..! i th.: S-.ii.n.O. It i.-i i '.ivvr 1 1 h.it a rf c Basslgny vgion will s ,xxox. r il 1.4 ce:i.--;.!:rf d t-i-.a' can r.Il up 1'ioir fr0;a I n on 'o forced. VuMftil tii.1 i X i.-1. M.S jivl e a r ;t sixe row. ED BALLARD sues tribune; Br 1'n:tei t'iii:.-s INPKVNA I'i il.iS, Ind , A iP 23. Edward SkC.iurd, Chix-asw. hied s.iit f : Jnrr.;i-'fs jitair..U t !'.' Cary V'.rie :n the fodcrul efiurt here V: xi t!"..- basis of a st. :-. ruolls'.-.e year nz ': tl: Tri'..ir.o, A STRING GF WINNERS Mrs. Roy Line xi 'hi-f of 3'oiieo Kami drey. I lor husband !.: hors'-s in t!.o i?..ts Hi fair an-I tiii'eo of the second mon-y. "NMlio trie Great,' h'-at s. firrt r.i.T.i y. -Gold Medal," 2:i: f.rnt n. r . y. "May V- l.ev.v." 2:lii third money. .:'oi her brother, .. in Gary ye.-tor-s a sir in ,7 of f.vo t ho Port .-r eoun ! y i five wc .1 first and -lib t rot, hrce trot rixe ha'.s. pace.. Ibeats. NEW MINISTER TO U. S. FROM URUGUAY Pedro Cosio, above, is the minister from Uruguay to United States. nexw tht t

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Overseas 7i ' f ' c HOBART, IND., Aug. 23. Mrs.1 3. J. Packham has received word that her son Gibeor. was wounded: the last day in July, while fchtir. the Hun in France. j Hobart Township's fine boys, en-; li?ter? '-! thp arrriTr A-irH 11 1 01 1 ' TJrtc - tnT u,,, nH tv.r, .., ferred to the 47th infantry. Later!

vent to Syracuse. N. Y.. andlI,;i'' vhich h,; hacl 'nly had onc wock-

rcm thence to North Carolina. He! W2S 21 years o: iisteci. :?e when he en-; f&rnciAi, To I'EEL., IND. Tki; T.'siiis A liu. 2 3. Fr cd e. ; Ebert was coir.. up T , .XX" n vr s I " r da v I rr.orning in l.is auto when something xxent wrong with the steering wheel of l.is auto and ho lost control of tho n-.a-cii:ne and went into a ditch and turned Beatrice, x ut it bo' wounds a ful. Mr. .l.o was with him. was badly t the face and head. The p not. serious but very pamEhert h; was not badly Two youns g.ris. xve'.l dr. ssc-d and i pretty, were bruised and injur, d in the j Washington Park hospital in Chicago SuxZ'1 today ft.lloxxing a motor tri; j Hammond men which r.do 1 xh n t!io young wciiii'ii leape-d out of the. sp. eding j aute.n.oM'ie. j j They wore found hciplef s on tho pavt- j i meet at East- $7 th street and Jefferv : 1 av nuo by Robert Lex o.e of the Chicago ! Beach hotel. ! i They gave (he names of ITorence Mc- ! j I.i-.do." IS, 552.; South Wells j.trt. and ' Mar a ret McNainonun. IS, 6313 Tire xe-1 ! axenue. The Me.Vonionim pirl n mamo in a stupor eicspne the t physicians, anil they bellex ."oris of t lie ! she niav bo ! suffering from a fracture of the skull. One of the men was James Ryan, said ! to be? n driver of Hammond. I "Margaret and I went rtd.ag with I Ryan and another man." Flore,..: said ! "They t reared us lib e until mo told them to drive us home. They tried to attack us then, and we leaped out of the car." FRANK R. MUNS0N HAS RESIGNED f BY t'NITETO PRES?. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. Frank R. Munson today resigned as member of the U. S. shipbuilding board. The resignation effective S.pt. 1 was a-cc-p.ed oxChairman Hurly. Munson will return duties as president of a steamship line in New York.

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Mishap While on an Auto Trip. I X. B. Shaw. 17 year' old son of Guy C. ! Phaw of fi.ri4 ?ummfT Ktrrri MAmmnnd. t..k n.s f utht rs new ov.riand automo'.uT z:Z 'LicnTVTanUe i i hcu t i'Orn;;.-:;io:".-Ah.'Ie tlri inj-T &!:th or Jtver.nouy avenuo tncy ran 1:1 Jront of a SIichiRan. c'.niral freipht tr.iin and not. huviriR driven the ear much ki!! d their onsine. The 3'reipht bit tlio oar carryinft it. a hundred and fifty feet en its fonder i:i I:ont fit a Jlichit 1 f.rna.-l;ii-r it to smithereens but lr.jurintr I no or.";. DOCTOR'S PATIENTS IfJ DECIDED PROTEST W. Iddings, Well Dr. J Known Surgeon Enlists for War Service.

LOWELL, IND . Aug. 23. All of timers are unanimous in saying that Lake count v and espe-ciallv the south ! lukewarm or sham patriotism is as unend art; much disturbed over the an- popular in the patriotic town now as

r.ouncement that Dr. J. V. Iddings of ,4 .-..Mc,.-,! fr.i i, r- c r-, - i r - I rCr,':; much talk about a txetiticn to the ;iiT---,-.,n i-r i , ra 1 . slatinir that Br. Idding.-j spa re 1 1-. o too valuable man to be from the tx.nimunitv. not only of his large practice, but becan so of lii.j prom ii.f ncc i .- M 1.'.,.-.. y.p ar xvork. llo'is ehairn.an of the Yuar j Cm K Toxvnsl.ip I ;' use Council anel j otiicr activities. While th- best are I none 1e.o gi.od for the buys in service, j still ti e morale f tho people at homo is j of 'QuaI importance ami it, iuaing.large clientele, to use a Hammond doctor's expression, "would consider his goinx from the county a calamity. ' 11 SECOND TIME Hobart Boy, Just Out of the Hospital, Is Wounded Again; Parents Here. f Spec To The Times 1 HOBART. IND. Aug. 23 Mr. and Mrs. H:U. wh.i live about five miles south of Hobart, have received a message irom tne war iicparimeni mat i their son Charles has been gassed and she 11-shoe kee enlisted b?"o He xvar. IS years old and xx ar with Germany broke outHe had been out of the hospital only "'" d.-.ys w r.on ne was wounded a second time. A TtfTCTVR. "RP.TIG PASSES THROUGH GARY Peter A. Eer?. a banker of Lowell, and J. E. Brown, son of County Treasurer Broxvn. passed through Gary this TZntVu.ZTLT rH? JT, Bend Country Club as dinner guests of J. D. Oliver, state chairman of the War! Saving? Stamp committee, where a eon-! feronce was "-.eld with other committees j from Lake county to urge tho payments of delinquent W. S. S. subscriptions The State of Indiana is behind i quota.

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Marine motor truck train. This American olf.cial photo shows a United States Marine motor truck train after its arrival at a French village near the the American sector on tne Franco-American front with &uppliea. ! Possible Murderer Escapes, But May Be Caught in East Chicago. Jake Moilson, a bad Hammond negro, living upstairs at SS Plummer avenue, Hammond, shot a Mexican whose name could not bo learned, two nines through the back in a fight in the pool room at 3S Plummer axenue last nigh'; about 9 o'clock. The Mexican was shot once just below the rioht lung, the bullet lodging in one nf the front, ribs, the other bullet passed through his hip and was found la his pocket where K had dropped. The Hammond police had b:cn cilied to stop a light only a few door;; av. ly from where the shootins occurred and rufhfd the injured man to St. Ma:caret's; hospital in the patrol wagon, ivro lie is expected to die. Iloilsor. foot i.vay but as ha is to leave from K.isi Chicago this morning in the draft it is thought that he will be i caught. ANDTHEYAEE I ' r li- ; i i i - , is i i a m ilijXl.A-' -i i.V AJS XUJJ SAME TODAY LOWELL Ind. Aug. 23 Lowell is rp,-nllin:r conditions in and near tru? town during the civil war and the old I them i'UnniT tile VIWl a. I wealthy farmer near Lowell was an object o of ( scorn elig-ible for military service, ueu to canaua to v eape the areit larrn. r i.ao u .i.fcn o..lu ic. ' 1 r a n.iie along ene- i e.dei uuu i.esi.ie.-. a big barn several other nuudings. om niglit the citizens of Loxvell painted: j 'Motic to Canada" from one end of the j foneo ,i the other and on tho barn j and other buildings in letter hivh. three feet A igllanee committee waited on a "oopper-head- and told him that the next time he was heard to express to rj m pa thy e ae hange-fl. rainst the union he would . HEADS AMERICAN CABLES SERVICE '-4 f ". rJ' J. L. Merrill. J. L. Merrill is the new president of the "All America Cables," which operates the only direct cables service of 18,000 miles of cable between North and South America. This service supplies most of the peneral news for newspaper distribution. i Merrill is one of the best known ' cable operators in this country.

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cCJX. Co ViPW ALLIED OFFENSIVE AT GREATEST HEIGHT By FEED rEEGUSOX I.'NiTcr. Press Cablegram 1 WITH THE AMERICAN" ARMIES IX FRANCE. Aug. 23, 1 he allied offensive is row at its greatest height since July 18. not only in acomplishmer.t but in possibi'itiet.. Although the more recent operations lack the spectacularity of the Scissons and Marne attacks their accompl:hrients are of the; highest. Th rapid adance of the French between the Oise and the Aisne is fast creating a salient in the Boche positions and increasing the necessity fcr an early withdrawal from the Vesle to the old Aisne line. Americans in a small operation last night captured fourteen prisoners and .main a slight advance. The prisoners conrirmed the report that the Fourth Prussian guards had been withdrawn from the Vesle. The Boche arj showing the greatest nervousness in all sectors whore they have been attacked. BRITISH HAMMER 20 MILE FRONT rt'NiVED Press Cablegram. LONDON". Aug. 23. British are attacking on practiealy tho. whole twenty mile front from the Cojcul riv. r to the xicir.ity of Cnaulr.es and making preegress at a number of points, Haig reported today. Si.rht additional advances were mad jn three xxidely separated sectors of tho Flanders front. German counter attacks north of Albert failed. FRENCH ADVANCE ON 25-MILE FRONT rt'NiTEn Press Cablegram PARIS. Aug. 23. 12:15 p. m The French advance continued last night on j practhniy the whole twenty-five mile j front belxxecn the Oise and too Aisne, tiic war office reported today. The en tire south bank of the Oise and tho Allelic haxo heen cleared from the junction of tho Oise i.nd Pivotte to the Coucy le Chateau ford. j j BRITISH AIRMEN D0WN21 PLANES T "N'tTED I'RESS C.xnt.E.,R AM LONDON", Aug. 23. British airmen took an active part in the attack north of Autre August 21st when they attacked enemy machines, kept contact with advancing troeps and flow at low alti- ! tu.le. said the nir ministry today. They silen.-c.-l several German guns, destroy - od twenty-one enemy planes, drove down eight and shot uf.vn a ballon. WAR DRAFT TO GET FREE HAND tBr T'VITED PREPS. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23 There is now little doubt that congress xvill g!-o the war department a free hand in call-

ing int.. service the boys of 1 and 13 WHITING, IND . Aug. 23 At a meetunder the new man power bill. j of the Whiting Board of 'Public . , I Works the contract for the Whiting sew-

MORE HUN PROPAGANDA PLANNED TBy T'vited Pres WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Warning that enemy propaganda will endeavor to use America's great shipbuilding efforts 'as a basis for arousing distrust among the allies." Chairman Hurley of the L'nite-d States Shipbuilding Board today expressed confidence that the entente nations "will discount the German efforts and maintain the solid line for democracy and humanity till the end." HOOVER BACK HOME. By United Press AN ATLANTIC'PORT. Aug. 23 Herbert Hoover, head cf the V. B. food ai-

1 "' x arri-iel hero today aboard o. JJritish lin.r en v.hich there were 1.20u ILenscrs. Accomr-anyii-.s him were hit, seerc tarv. Dr. Alex Taylor and Alex Smith. Hoover said lie would issue a statement from iU; officers .-f tho U. S. gram corporation soon. PERSHING REPORTS SUCCESSFUL RAIDS Br TxirtiD Press. 1 WASHINGTON". Aug. ZS. Successful raids and bombi-.?; eipeditions were .riai'e north of the Vesle on the ralli.i ij ;, ards at Ionguyon. General Pcrshii.c; day. r. north x-1 1 h ictu: r reported in his communique tof nen: y p.! an f Toul. Bor results. was shot down lbs were dropped All our machines JAP TROOPS PUSH , ON IN RUSSIA I'vited Press Ca t;t.nGRAit. TOKIO, Aug. 23. Japanese troops are advancing beyond Mikotsk. the war office announced today. The Japanese official statement also said that Lieut. General Otanti, commander of the allied forces in eastern Siberia, will also command the Czecho-Siovaks operating there and the antl-Bolshevik fort e s in the pro inces. The Cze c ho-Slovaks have askd the allies for big re-inforcements in the r. gion of Nailcal as they are in danger I tnere and want to decisively d' feat tho Eolsheviki before winter sets in r.e xt month, according to a news dispatch. 4 KILLED ON U. S. WARSHIP Br TviTEr Tress. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23 Four men were killed and 10 others severely wounded by tho explosion of ;t depth charge on tho E. S. steamer Orizaba at sea on August 17. the navy department announced. Lieut. Ce.mamnder William Williamson. N'exv York, was instantly killed. Commander It. B. White, In command of the vessel, was severely xvounded BRITISH SHIP SUNK OFF SUNDY HOOK IBt Vvitfo Press AX ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 23 The . British steamship Diomea, a new vessel, .j-as bctn sunk by a submarine about 35" I lruts (ff Sandy Hook. He-r cre w of 104 j mcn and oiTlcers r.-a rhed hero today I aboard another steamship, which picked them up after they had srent ii hours in life-boats. HAMMOND CO. GETS WHITING c r c? act rSpRciAt. To The Times. crage pumping station was awarded te the lowest bidder, the Vnited Construc tion Company of Har-mon-l. the amount of the contract being jl'ij.ixj. It la also necessary for all Whiting I dispensers of ice cream sodas, pop or other non-intoxioatir.g drinks to nov secure a license for this privilege. Th amount of the- license is 25 per year.! HARBOR MAN FINED IN WHITING 'Special To The Times. WHITING. IND.. Aug. 23 Peter Mar-cox-ich cf Ineliana Hart. or was arraigned in tho Whiting city court on Wednesday. i charged with bringing liquor into the state. Marce.vlt.lt was found at 4 a. ri. ! by Officer KilouIIe-n with a quirt of J xxhlskty in his possessie-n. H- wa3

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Allies are Only Three Miles from Old Hinden&org Line of 1916 Today, WITH THE BKITIH IS FRANCE, j Anpr. 23 General Ujnpr i. gradually j ourponorlns the Oerravn ilefrnse on I the whole front fro mthe Sooime northj ward to the Cojuel rivor, de:-pite dej perate relHen-.f -t many points. In j the extension of the atta. ks further i northward the llrlti.vh progressed 1 nearly two mile... opparentlv reaching i Ave miles outhraet of Arras, i They li;ve reached If n m linoourt and j Ciomiecourt. Muny nrisonera -n,-r- .k. en. Braye on the north bank of the Son-, roe has been proctically surrounded. LOXDOX, Aug. i-X It 1. rumored here that the 'ie ho-Slvak forces huve captured Veschniguillnjt, fifty miles east of Lake Euikul. BfT.LETI.V. tl Mteh I'Rt ss i"'6:.r..-,im(l WITH THE BRITISH 1ST X2ANCE. Auf. 23. Prisoners taken by the Britiali in tne last three days totaUe3 6,000. TUTr:-tt V, t -, . "7 - were taxen aowta 1 tho Somme this morniar. j A1TEIA Cafleoraji. Exited Prkss Aug. ZS, 4:00 p. HiPARIS, Aug. 23, j The French advance has swept the j Germans back to within three I miles of Chauny, the highly im portant railway and highway center. General Mangin's. men are reported to have reached the borders of Coucy le Chateau, only three miles from the old Hindenburg line. They are pressing eastward along the roads leading into the town from the Ailetie river. Noyon is beinj attacked from the northwest, southeast and northeast. The French are across the Oise and at Manicamp canal and have reached the edge of Marlinrourt, less than a mile from Noyon. The road from Noyon to Laon will soon be penetrated from other directions. The Boches cling to the hills north of the Oise under the heaviest fire from the French artillery. HUNS USED 47 DIVISIONS rUvtTED Press Cablegram LONDON. Aug. 23. Forty-seven divisions were, employed by tha Germans north of Albert and eight south of Albeit between July S and August 22. it was learned today. TO LEAD PRISONER MISSION TO BERNE ci . l.V.' 4.... .' 'fit rr John "VV. Garrett. John W. Garrett, minister at The Hague, has been desifrnated by PreFielent Wilson to repreocnt the state 1 department and head the mission of the U. S. which will meet German delegates at Berne. Switzer1 1 land, within a month to discuss the

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