Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 65, Hammond, Lake County, 30 September 1918 — Page 1

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Shocking End t) Boys' Outing Comss Yesterday When Cars Roil Dawn Embankment. In a tragedy that plunged many north side homes into grief, five Hammond boys were killed and one injured at 11:05 Sunday morning when eight cars' of a freight train on the C. I. & S. Ry. were derailed and thrown down a fifteen foot embankment at the St. John cross-over. The six boys had spent the night. riding freight trains, and were returning from Kentland, Ind., on top of a box car when the accident occured. THE DEAD. ALBr.RTJARCIlOW. aged IT: employed at Keith Car Kquipment "o.. son of Mr. anil Mrs. Wm. .Tarchov.. 4 13 Cedar strict. ADOLI'H WKTHMl-CI-LCP.. 17.: machinist helper at Gibson, son of Mr. anil Mrs. W;n. Weyhim'eller. .'.30 Cedar street. HOT RHODKS. aged 16: employed at Hubbard Stool Foundries, son of ; Mr?. Clara Rhodes. "32 Hickory street. I'D WARD SMITH, nged 20: had enlisted in navy find was to hav left today: son of Mr. nnd Mrs. John Smith. 343 Pino street. l;o'l!KRT COLOKOVE, aged 15; employed at Standard Steel Car . Co.: son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Colgrovr. 420 Elm street. officials of the New York Central R.iilroad of which the C. I. & S. is the Illinois division, state that the wreck v as due to n broken truck on flat car (Continued on paffc four.) ITS FIRST VICTIM ! E. J. Hawley Dies at Home j This Morning of Span- j i ish Influenza Spanish influenza claimed its first Hammond victim today In the person of one of its very finest young men, E. J. Hawley, 11 "Wnltham street, who on the 8th of October was to sail for overseas service with the Red Cross. Mr. Hawley was taken sick with the dread disease en route on a train from Thoenlx. Ariz., where he had been bidding his relatives good-by. He came to his home in Hammond and had been getting worse. It is reported that his heart was affected, though friends can hardly understand this as he passed on A-t rhys'cal examination for service abroad. The death is a lamentable one. Mr. Hawley was a splendid youns man. He had given all his time to war activities and leaves a wife and little girl to rnourn him and another little one U Boon expected. Mr. Hawley was a great friend of . R- Corbin, former chairman of the Hammond Rod Cross, now overseas in that service. BUT A UBEBTr BO.ND TODAT YANKS BEAT 4-DAY COUNTER ATTACK Uniteo Tress Cablegram. WITH THE FRENCH WEST OF VERDUN, Sept. 30. After four dayj of continuous fighting the Americans withstood the counter attack of fresh German divisions and have resumed their offensive. The fighting is chiefly between the Argonne forrest and the Meuse. The German artillery is becoming more active while our guns are firing point blank from front line positions. .

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t stci vif i ' S3 ; , sRobertColgroVe 5 E.du)ard Srnith . WADE'S TELEGRAM. We desire to congratulate X.aka County on exceeding its qnota to the Fourth Liberty Loan. We note the good work con-Junes. AU Indiana Is proud of the splendid record of lake County and its cities. WILL H. WADE, Chairman Indiana 4th Liberty Loan. HOW IT STANDS. East Chicago $2,900,000! Gary 2.250,0001 Hammond 1, 250,000 1 Whiting 400,000' Lowell and Creek Tps.. . 225,000 Crown Point 125,000 Hobart 50,000 Total .7.200,000 Lake County as a whole has gone over the top for the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. As far as Chairman W. F. Hodges has received reports to noon today the county total is $7,200,000. There are of course several towns and communities shy of their quota but in every one of them the quota will have to be raised. Some great news came to Chairman Hodges and the telegram from Will II. Wade to the county chairman made him feel pretty good. There are some bright lights shining (Continued on page four.) Double Quick Time for the 4th Loan!

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-: ' 5Ik' o . .'-.'Hi . :l Zls .W aV Special To Tub Times. 1 WHITING. IND.. Sept. 30. Former Senator Frank X. Gavit of this city realizing that one of the greatest problems that confronts this country is the subject of alien enemies, has taken up the matter with Senator Harry S. New at Washington. Senator Gavit says: "What shall we do with alien enemies? "The spectacle of our native born and naturalized boys and men going voluntarily in the defense of our country, while the alien enemies take their jobs and get increased wages because of their absence, is a matter of concern to thoughtful men. Wc cannot draft an alien enemy to fight against the country to which he owes allegiance; such action by us would be out-Germanizing Germany. Some solution must be devised. With the present method, alien enemies will own our property and business enterprises. When the boys come home, these men will be their employers. "Peisonally. I have thought of this daily, and daily have asked myself the question: Am I the only man who fully appreciates this wrong; are not thoughtful men of America evolving something into law which shall in some measure at least, right this wrong? Daily it has (Continued on page four.) The man who helps his city and his country by buying a 4th Liberty Loan Eond is for them, the man who doesn't isn't.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918

HAMMOND HOMES TODAY

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STILL SHY Bank Contest Tomorrow Arranged; Saturday's Work Brings $200,000 More Sales; Hard Work Needed. A 100 PER CENT PRECINCT Iltrmr.ii Krilnr, cbnlrman of the 7th prerinct, one of the moat atrenuoua norkrr In Hammond for the Liberty Lout tnrned In today a 10O prr cent report for hi prrelnet and far It la the only 10O per rent precinct la Hammond. Hammond added' another two hundred thousand dollars lust Saturday by the superhuman efforts of its noble Liberty bond solicitors, and this swells the total to $1,:00,000 subscribed to the Fourth Liberty Loan. While the result was a little disappointing to General Chairman Sharrer and his 400 co-workers, who wanted the city to go across In one day's time, it cheered them up to know that in a day's extra work they could go out and induce people to come across with $200,000 more. In order to Bend Hammond over the top by a nice margin a great contest has been arranged tomorrow among the seven Hammond banks. They have coni sensed to an apportionment of $150,000. which they will sell by subscription to friend" of the banks and to their officers. The solicitation will be done by tho personnel of the banks and the amounts have been apportioned according to their resources as appear in other columns of this paper. An appeal is made by each bank and the city Liberty Loan organization to the people of Hammond in general on behalf ot this contest. Tou can show your loyalty to your bank and your friendship for it whether you be stockhi lder or not by going to your bank tomorrow and taking out an additional b.-nd which will go toward the bank's quota. This is a volunteer patriot task. All of you at one time or nnother call on the banks for aid; now they call on you to ltnd your money to Undo Sam. In the meantime Hammond workers are lea zing no stones unturned in their efforts to raise the city's quota. There was a special meeting of Standard S'ctl Car workers yesterday with Chairman Sharrer and his organization, and the fact was brought out that some Standard heads and employes are by no means uuying their proportionate shares. An effort is being made today to remedy this situation. It was pointed out that the rer capits. Standard buy is $68. In other Hammond plants it is much higher. At the little Reatty machine plant, for instance, it Is over $300 per carita. Extraneous effort must be made tomorrow to put Hammond over the top. It Is one of the very few spots in the country that has not yet gone over the top. BUT A LIBEBTT BOND TOPAT LAKE CO. BOY AT CA Arthur 0. Wishman of Hobart Dies of Spanish Influenza. SPKdAt, To The Times. HOBART. IND.. Sept. 30. Another Lake county soldier boy in the person of Arthur O. Wishman of Hobart has fallen a victim to Spanish influenza. He died at Fort Sheridan on Friday and the body was brought here today to the residence of his half-sister, Mrs. HenryOlds. He has one brother. Frank, in the kcrvice at Camp Grant, and another brother. William, here. The funeral took rlace here today. Co. K acted as military escort. He was a member of that company in the field urtillery and had been four months in the service. Arthur was nearly 25 years of age.

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ALL HAMMOND WELCOME. Hammond will celebrate tcnight at Liberty Hall in honor of the Bulgarian victory for our glorious allies. Everybody in Hammond who is glad that Bulgaria has quit is invited to come. The news of the great day in Europe has set Hammond afire with enthusiasm. Whistles blew, bells rung and people paraded. So great is the storm of enthusiasm that the Fourth Liberty Bond solicitors have pledged themselves to sell $100,000 worth of bonds tonight. It will be a great night for Hammond. Come to Liberty Hall!

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Civic Club of Indiana Harday Afternoon to Formubor Holds Meeting Sunlate the Protest to Harbor Citizens. On Tuesday, October 1, the Indiana Harbor postofflce, as such, ceases to exist. From that date East Chicago wilt b' li postofllce ity. The central office will be at the present quarters of tho Indiana Harbor office on Guthrie street. The present East Chicago postofflce will be known as the Chicago Avenue Sub-station. Charles B. Donovan, Jr., now postmaster at the East Chicago office, becomes the postmister for the whole city. Mr. Donovan said this morning that this chance comes about solely as a war measure and is made from Washington in the interests of both economy and efficiency. Tuesday morning a revolutionary change in organization and mail facilities will be made. For the present, at least, the entire force as it exists in both ends of the city will be used. For the past year the situation In thesj two offices has been becoming desperate. Repeatedly has the force been decimated by the resignation of volunteers in'o the army and by the draft. The lack cf men to fill the places of those who have resigned has seriously handicapped the service and rendered the dispatch of business increasingly morn and more difficult. From the standpoint t efficiency and economy no one can doubt the wisdom of the government in making this change. Indiana Harbor gets the city postofl ce :md in time will no doubt get a fine federal building, but East Chicago as an ofi'set will get a much better mail servirc 'ihe central office will be located in the Harbor because the big trunk l'r.es carrying eastern mill pass through 'hat end of the city. Arrangements ha.e been made to put rn a night force in the main office and to r.'ake up the moil for the carriers out from the Chicago avenue cfTce and shoot It over to tho wes. e: d of the city by r.u'or truck. This will make the moml delivery at least an hour earlier in both ends. The postofflce of East Chicago will now become a first class postofneo and will be put on a par with the offices of Gary and Hammond. Ever since the freo deliverv system was adopted each (Continued on page four.) Otto Shinsky. who works In the First National Bank building. Hammond, while on his way home early Sunday morning was held up in a vacant lot just west of 56 Flummer avenue by two negroes. Shinsky said that when the negroes asked him for his money that he gave them all he had. They ther. dragg him into the lot and one of the negroes drew a razor. Shinsky then cried, "Don't do that, you have all my money." But the negroes drew the blade across his throat, cutting it from ear to ear. Shinsky was taken to St. Margaret's hcspital In the police patrol, where it was found that he was so badly wounded that it Is thought he will die. BIT A LTBKBTT BOS TODAT The man who helps his city and his country by buying a 4th Liberty Loan Bond is for them, the man who doesn't isn't. . j TONIGHT TO

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ELIMINATED BY HINDENBURG LINE SMASHED United Press Cableorai LONDON, Sept. 30, 1:23 p. m. The Hindenburg line bis been broken to a depth of twr miles on an eight mile front nrrth of St. Quentin. The French Jold half of the Chemin des Dames WILL WORK AGAINST TURKEY Br United Jress.1 WASHINGTON, &pt. 30. Bulgaria will be friendl to any allied move against Turky and will be practically on the s3e of the allies for the remainder f the war, the Bulgarian minister aid today. BRITISH TROOPi TaKE CAMBRAI United Fresi Cablegram. LONDON, Sot. 30. British troops have entfed the northern suburbs of Cambai, Field Marshal Haig reported tday. They have also reached th junction of the Arras-Cambrai nd Bapaume road on the western :dge of the city. Despite heavy resistence yesterday, American Australian and English gainec ground between Cambrai and S' Quentin. BULGARIA SURRENDERS. United Ftss Cablegram. PARIS, Sep 30, 12:30 p. m. The Bulgarianarmistics has been signed, accordng to advices here today. TURKEY TREATENS BREA: WITH GERMANY United ress Cablegram GENEVA, Sept. 30. That Turkey had daanded money from Germany, thsatening to break relations if it inot forthcoming, was reported hei today. It was said that at a retnt diplomatic conference in Bern the Turkish grand vizar requesd a loan, demanding cancellation of previous Turkish debts to Genany. The sultan, according to avices, said to the minister beforeie went to Berlin that he was tireof German domination over Turkey BUT A1RERTT BnM TODAT ADVISOB ARE APPOINTED Bt;nited Frkss. WASHINGXV. Sept. 30. Four agricultural adtors have been appointed by the diartment of agriculture to furnish dis-ict draft boards in Indiana facts lative to farm labor requir"ments. 1

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GREATEST Hostilities Cease Between Allies and Bulgarians, Austria Bare Now to Soldiers of Entente, Bulletin. United Tress Cablegram. LONDON, Sept. 30Bulgan. has surrendered unconditionally, according to an agency dispatch received here today. Bulletin. t Jl'Z?0 Press Cablegram LONDON. Sept. 30, 3:05 p. m The allies and Bulgarians ceased hostilities at noon, it was learned from an authoritative source here this afternoon. The Serbian legation confirmed Bulgaria's surrender. Bulletin. 1 Bt t:.vited Tress. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 Bulgarian Minister Panarstoff today submitted to Secretary of State Lansing a communication from Bulgaria, asking that the United States use its good offices in helping to conclude the allied-Bulgarian armistice. Inasmuch as the armistice has been signed it was held by the department that further steps by the American government are not necessary. Untted Press Cablegram LONDON, Sept. 30 Bulgaria has laid down cold on Germany and not all the lying and camouflaging that Germany can do will avail. The allies and Bulgaria have stopped fighting. Bulgaria has agreed unconditionally to trie terms imposed by the allies. In the meantime Turkey has threatened Germany because of the refusal of her loan and Austria-Hungary stands aghast at her position. Her breast is laid bare to allied armies. The allied armies on the west are battering the Germans fearfully on the west front. Not a word has come out of Germany today. BCT A I.IBEBTT BOND TOPAT TROTZKY IS SHOT. United Fncss Cablegram. STOCKHOLM. Sept. 30. Leon Trotiity. Bolshevik war ministe., is reported tolay to have been shot In the shoul der recently at Briansk. Hie wound is n'. t serious. The assailant waa ar rested. BUT A LIBTHTT BOND The only Lake county casualty reported by Gen. Pershing today is Leonard D. Perkins, emergency addreca, Ralph S. Wolfe, 356 Wash, lngton street, Gary. Ho Is sererely wounded. BIT A LIHERTT BO D TODAT A Tightwad Patriot is the worst thing that was ever made.

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