Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 79, Hammond, Lake County, 12 September 1918 — Page 1

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VOL, XIII, NO. 79.

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WRITES HIS 0L0 CM A. Murray Turner of Ham- j mond Gets Letter From; Lake Co.'s Great Soldier Whose Division Has Done ! Such Noble Work. A. Murray Turner, president of the First Natlcfhal Bank of Hammond, has received a letter from Maj. Gen. W. G. Kaan of Center township, commander or the American division of 45.000 Yankee troops which did such gallant work In July and the letter will be of great interest to Gen. Haan's many friends throughout Lake county: "My division has just been through a terrific battle lasting eight days (and nights) of continuous fight or pursuit. AVe threw the enemy back during that period about 18 miles and Inflicted heavy losses on him in killed, prisoners end hundreds of train loads of munitions which he can little, afford to lose, canrons, machine guns, trench mortars, and Ammunition for heavy guns. My division was in the big offensive starting at and finishing with the capture, by assault of r,n the river, after which we got orders to withdraw from line for ret. Ve buried in one place more than 500 Bochcs and many more in other places fo we know he lost more heavily by far than we did. -As I am writing i as M a. f rain oi t-.tat that tha Kr t nav a tacked on a puccess. It 35 kilometer Xront witn nig looks as if the Bocho had I made a mistake by forcirg America into th war, he will be sure that American soldiers can beat his best troops. My division beat the 5th Prussian Guards Iiv. which was rut fresh into the line In our front. ""After a few days' rest we will be recruited up to war strength again and then w- will train for about ten days when we will hit the line again. "(Signed) V. G. 11 A AN." SOUTH SHORE KILLS IN Hrman Eschner. 51 years old. of 212 Fhcfneld avenue, Hammond, was hit by a Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend electric railway train about 9:4rt o'clock last night and ins'antly killed. Mr. Escher was crossing th" track at Gostlin and Stat Line street when hit. The remains were taken to Burns' morgue. MURDERER'S TRIAL IN Michael Colandre, Italian, Who Stabbed Watch- ' man, to Be Tried. Michael Colandre, the Italian who in June, 1917. stabbed and killed William C Spradley. a watchman at the steel mills, Gary, will be placed on trial for murder in the first degree in Judge Reiter's court at Hammond next Monday Colandre. the murderer, was arrested and indicted by the grand jury in session at Crown Point the following September and has been out on bail since by arguments presented by his attorney, Ralph AV. Ross. Attorney Ross will be assisted in the defense by Francis Herein of Chicago, second assistant United States district attorney for the Chicago district, and It is thought the trial will occur' several days.

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5337, WOUNDED SEVERELY. FE.ANCES E. ENQLEHAUPT, 3723 Elm, Indiana. STEPHEN SZAEO, 1135 Waining--ton, Gary. Both reported recently to Times. SLIQETLY WOUNDED. MAT HEKCEL, 154 Sheffield ave., Hammond; reported to Times today. TH WARD TELLS WOES TO MAYOR Water Famine and Failure of Garbage Collection Department Mixed in With Discussion of Sewage Disposal Plans. Mayor Brown was told about the water famine and the failure of the garb age collection department of the city j when Ninth warders met at the Wallace school last evening to discuss the plan of the city to construct a sewage pumping station on the south side of the Calumet river at the avenue of that name. Councilman Fatrick Reiiley, the champion heckler, started the ball rolling and a number of South Siders chlm- ! ed and gave the chief executive a few uncornfortable minutcs. The laying of ... the eight inch main on Plumnier avenue to the United Chemical Co., of West Hammond, taking water supply away from the south side of Hammond was cited as the heighth of something or other in municipal administration, rrask Hosier Chairman. Genial Frank Hosier, chairman cf the meeting, oiled the troubled waters by apologizing to the mayor by telling him that it was not the rurpose of the gath ering to criticize. 'We don't want you, in your maiden ,r, ,n m,r south side, to gain the imprcssion that we are trying to heckle you." stated Mr. Hosier. The mayor took Reilley's caustic com(Continued on page two ) TJTiTTTCTT T3 t"D AT T

FLANDERS SUCCESS furth Liberty Loan empowered by j Secretary McAdoo to organize Ham- " , , r.-.ond for the fourth Loan has been alrt.NiTEri Press Cablegram . t r-MTrivr c- 1") Attill-o- i visd lhat Girl Scouts are be.ng organLONDON, Sept. 12. AtMly, jzed to bMt Boy Srouts ln f,curins. Vermand and Vendelles, northwest pledges for the loan drive. This is of St. Quentin, have been captured! ---- by the British, Field Marshal Haig cial seesion yesterday afternoon ap- . j j I proved the organization as perfectel reported today. hy Dr s,iai.rP1. am nPitllpr Bo. or GjrI The British have crossed the Scouts will lie permitted to solicit suh-

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i headTuartr. Th- Federal Governmont the front before Cambrai. During yesterday isued n order that no sothe night the British seized the''-- or rniMtion is to b- permita ted to work at cross-purposes with strongly fortified railway triangle; th regular Liberty Loan organizations

southwest of LaBassee in Flanders. START MASSACRES IN REVENGE United Press Cablegram STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 2 Massacres in revenge for the murder of Moses Uritskt. chief of police ci ietrograd. and the attack upon Pre.r.'r Lenine were demanded by the Bolsheviki. according to newspaper dispatches received here today. MCCORMICK IS EASY VICTOR Br U.vited Press CHICAGO, Sept. 12. Congressman McConr.ick is the republican candidate for senator from Illinois, according to practically complete returns. He defeated Mayor Thompson of Ch!,.,?n hv a plurality of from 5".ooo to , er, 00(1 iienatr,r Lewis was renominated a landslide by the democrats. Notice to Elks. I Regular meeting at S o'clock tonight. All Elks urgd to attend CanIfiidates who have been notified by the 'secretary of their elerteion are re- ! quested to present themselves for Ini

tiation. F. J. O'ROURKE. Exalted Ruler.

HAMMOND, INDIANA.

CONTRACTS LET FOR 119 HOUSES IN HAMMOND By T'nited Press. 1 WASHINGTON. Sept. 12. Contracts for the construction of 119 houses for war workers at Hammond, Ind., were awarded to the Wells Bros. Construction Co. by the Bureau of Industrial Housing j and Tnmsportation today. ! Awards were also made for ! house construction at Bath, Maine, j and Philadelphia. MANY TAKE OUT MARRIAGE LICENSES ! Clerk Wheaton Busy Withi Applicants for Wedding Papers. fSt-ECtAt. To The Times. CROWX POINT. IND.. Sept. 12. Many new licenses were granted at Crown Point yesterday and a number of the men are in the 1S-45 draft. The licenses taken out ars as follows: Carl F. Behrens and Josephine A. Marsh. Hammond. Frank Sukie and Rose Trzepreona. East Chicago. Edward J. Guthrie and Mathilda Kohler. Gary. John Apostleff and Nellie Lysick. Gary. Tony Modola and Ellen Peterson. Gary. Nelson Griigs. Hammond, and Cora Hlttle. Boone Grove. Sebastian Nudolski and Helen Suipraski. Gary. Mose Finnie and Ellen Thomas. Gary. Benis Miliskis and Susie Yankowsky. Indiana Harbor. Harry Diggs and Alice Howard. Gary. Michael Hooker and Maggie Smith. Gary. NEITHER BOY Nfifi GIRL SCOOTS AUTHORIZED j " , . tj.-i j Federal Government Kuies They Must Work Only As Directed. I Dr. H. E Sharrer. chairman of th ' S" riptions until th" word gos '"it froiM tut must co-operate according to instructions givn out by the city chairman and executive committee, fo do no pledKins only to authorized solicitors. You may indicate to these solicitors on your enrd to whom credit for your subscription may be given. FRENCH IN A SURPRISE ATTACK United Press Cablegram FAR1S, Sept. 12. "North of the Ailette a surprise attack by us' captured prisoners.'' the war office announced today. "In the regions of Rheims anJ Prosnes there was artillery fire. In the Champagne and in the Vosges two enemy attacks were repulsed " SIR GEORGE REED REPORTED DEAD L'xiTrn Press Cablegram. LONDON. Sept. 12 Sir George Reed. Australian high commissioner, died in London today. TROTZKY IN COMMAND United Pfss Cablecram LONDON. Sept. 12. Leon Tmtzky. fiolshviki war minister, is near Ekaterinburg in personal command of a lirjje J force, it was learned toiay.'

I THURSDAY,

Pershing Leads New Yank Offensive on Meuse Himself

. ... .. - , General I NEGROES DIE 0! GflS Two negroes. Just up from New Orleans wh-re they evidently had not used gas, were found asphyxiated in Indiana Harbor this morning. The dead: WM FERRIS, aged 52. WM. FERRIP. JR. his son. aged 17. Both men roomed at Thos. Campbell's, 3664 Pennsylvania avenue. A turned on gas jet was found in the room, unlighted. Pr. Teegarden was called but the men were beyond aid. They worked at the Inland. I GIRL TIM AS HUH SPK NEW YORK. Sept. 12. AVcaring on her breast a service pin with four stars o-.i . Miss AVanda Kreutingzer, for sixteen ' years trusted telegraph operator for the Postal Telegraph Company, is under arrest here, charged with transmitting information cf the most important nature to the German government. Miss Kreutingzer. who has operated a irovernnient wire between this city and munitions plants at New Haven, na port and other places for four years, is t.. lmve admitted giving informa tion of ship swings and munitions shipmrnts to oerman hkmu.. The woman declared she did not know j how the information was sent to cer - many, but spoke of a wireless plant in when arrested at her ky she ,..'-.rai nr.rs from her desk and attempted to destroy them. "My heart, i K,i, ar-.H Virgin belong to th- Fathcr-.-,.,.r,,,; T'i,. ff.nr stars ( m laiiu, t-ii- " - . - r.in. slip se.d. rer-r'sentf d four nephews in the United States army, Better to have War 3aving3 UCLUi & Stamps in your Safe than the blOOdstained hands hordes at your throat,

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V1 At Pershin; Attack May Be Major One to Hit Great Industrial Region Beyond Rhine. Br T'nited Tress. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. The launching of the American drive in the Toul sector, where probably a million Yankees are concentrated, may mean the beginning of General Pershing's forecasted campaign of destruction against the German industrial center on the Rhine. Officials here are guarded in their comment, awaiting full details to determine whether the offensive is a major action. It is known, however, that a systematic , destruction Ot if the Rhine industries has long been urged as an oppor- ; tunity of giving Germany an example of the wreck she has 1 wrought in Belgium ana iNortnern France. i Beside offering a short route to the Rhine, the drive from the American sector aitords a chance of preventing '. a 'ir'crl German pressure further north. . . Ei.r .: few dc.J s German liar, matcrnlly ' j slowed up the drive townid the Hinden- ! h-.ir Isn- rind the American drive is : ' " f hf r ",h!n W "I'ff! j arour.d St. Quentin v here they have , lately b.-fn mossed. Released there th

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Metz Is Yank Objective, French are "Pinching In" on Right and Lett ot American Attack, Weather Ideal for Drive. News Arouses Enthusiasm Oyer Country. HUN liUSTfiMTHHEITEREO (By Fred S. Ferguson) United Press Correspondent. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. Sept. 12. The first great American offensive was started on the Metz front this morning and at noon ten villages had been captured. General Pershing, commander, of the American armies in France, directed the attack in person. It started at five o'clock this morning. ONE HUNDRED TANKS USED IN BATTLE. One hundred tanks are going forward. The battle is going well and its objective is the strongly fortified German city of Metz. The Yank offensive was begun between the Meuse and the Moselle rivers, near St. Mihiel. It brings a new terrain into the struggle. THE YANK TROOPS ARE CLEANING UP. The first reports from St. Mihiel were that the Americans have captured ten villages and advanced several kilometers on a fifteen kilometer front (about ten miles). The immediate object of the attack is limited to a specified line. More than "one hundred tanks manned by Americans, aided in smashing the powerful concrete reinforced first line of the enemy in the region of St. Baussant, twelve miles east of St. Mihiel. TANKS GO FORWARD IN SMOKE SCREEN. The tanks drove forward at sunrise behind a dense smoke screen. The town of Montsec, seven miles east of St. Mihiel, was kept shrouded in a smoke screen all morning to prevent German observation. The weather is ideal for the offensive. The allies have complete supremacy of the air. The Americans and the French also attacked on the western side of the St. Mihiel salient, pushing the enemy back in the region of Presnes. This action was on a front of twelve kilometers. FRENCH ARE KEEPING UP WITH YANKS. The French are on the peak of the salient, keeping pace with the Americans, pinching in the sides. The greatest number of American troops and artillery yet involved in any single operation is engaged in the attack.

The resrion of the Meuse and. Moselle is on the Toul front before the important fortress of Metz in German Lorraine. This is the point where the American concentration has been for months. At this point it has been predict

ed the allies might strike the blow,B0MB AMMUNITION STORES

that would be aimed at a drive to ward he Rhine, this being the shortest route to the great industrial valby. General March last week announced that ninety-three percent of the American rifles in France were concentrated under direct command of General Pershing. The American line is within two or three miles of the German border. At some points the line actually touches the Lorraine boundary. The battle front is fifteen miles from Metz. Metz has been an American objective, according to most theories, as the plan of the allies high command. LITTLE ENEMY RESISTENCE. Artillery and tanks both smashed the powerful enemy's first line but little infantry resistence was encountered. Prisoners indicated they have been expecting an attack but did

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not know when or where it would be. The first village wasaken by the Americans within forty-five minutes. Woods and other strong points were enAeloped. The first army's air reserve, working with the French, assumed the offensive with the infantry. At 9 a. m. they reported not a single boche plane in the sky. American observers and bombers worked unmolested under the escort of chaser planes. American driven narrow gauged railway trains and wagons rushed up ammunition. All other work was done by the Americans, making it a complete all-American attack. 4 HOURS OF ARTILLERY. The attack followed four -hours of the most terrific artillery preparation, starting at 1 a. m. There was rain during the night and the flames from hundreds of guns concentrated around the salient brilliantly lighted up the storm clouds. Everything within the salient's fifty kilometer arch was under fire. In addition to the artillery bom(Continued cn pufe two.)