Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 5 October 1918 — Page 1

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War Board Calls County Health Officials to Get Busy in Flu Fight. Special To The Times. CROWN POINT. IND., Oct. 6. The Lake County Council of Defense sot after Liberty Bond slackers yesterday end had a number of well-to-do Lake county men on the anxious seat for com. time. The interviews between tho defense council and these men netted bond sales of nearly $5,000 and next Monday a number of other bond slackr have been cited, one of them being a prominent Hammond man. who is estimated to be worth $100,000. has two motor cars, spends his winters in 1 loriua, and in all the four Liberty loans has paid $10 on a $100 bond. He has repeatedly refused summons to appear l.efore members of Hammond's bond ortanizations to explain his attitude and the council has ordered him to show up ca Monday. . The council lifted the ban on the Mcllroy-Friedley establishment in Hammend and cited other Hammond men to appear for alleged violation of the closing order. To Combat "rio." The defense council at its meeting; -. to ask Dr. Raleigh County Tiard of "Health, and his representatives in the cities of Hammond. Gary. East Chicago, Whiting and Crown Foint to meet with them on Monday at 10 a m. to discuss the ways and means of combating the Influenza epidemic. The disease is keeping hundreds of reople in these localities away from their work and is spreading rapidly, end 'stringent methods are to be employed to check the spread of the epidemic whenever possible. The council also met in executive sesion to take care of the granting of building permits, which at this time must be presented on an application blank, to the council when in session. To individual member of the council can grant permission. On recommendation of the county council the matter will be taken before the state council and from this body must go to the authorities at Washington. It was the ense of the council that this method of procedure will cause delay, and E. W. Wickey-was delegated to go to Indianapolis and consult with the state council end. also to Washington and interview those In command and ascertain if a (Continued on page five.) Bed Cross War Fund Notice The second Red Cross War Fund Fledges are now due and payable at LIBERTY HALL. Those knowing themselves to be in 'arrears w ill conserve a fund sorely needed at this time by saving the committee any expense In appealing to ach one personally. Our boys are in the great fight today. Let us, without delay, fulfill our pledge to bind their wounds. T. W. OBERLIN, Chairman Red Cross Chapter. A. M. TURNER. Chairman Second Red Cross War Fund Committee. 10-3-3t Voters' Attention. This is the last week to register. Jt you do not register before Monday. October 7th. you cannot vote Nov. 5, 1918. Republican registering places are as follows Four Corners, State & Hohman, Thursday and Friday evenings. 7 p. m., to 10 p. m. Saturday p. m. from 1 to 10. South Side Max and Levi's place, Douglas and Hohman, Friday from 3 a m.. to 9 p. m. North Side Northern Trust and Savings Bank, and corner Ash and Hohman, Frady evenig, from 7 to 10. 10-4 W. C. ROSE. City Chairman Republican Com. NOTICE. After this date. Oct. 5, 191S, non-resident notices will not.be accepted for publication in this paper unless raid for in advance. 10-5-2t LAKE COUNTY PTG. & PUB. CO. VOTERS LAST CALL. Voters are hereby warned that the Registration Board at Crown Point will positively receive no applications for the coming election after the hour of five o'clock on next Monday, October 7th, 1918. If your registration is not filed witn the Board at that hour you cannot enter the polling places on November 5th. 1V"2t (Signed) LAKE COUNTY REGISTRATION BOARI?,

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ACKS SHE REFUSES TO CLAIM EXEMPTION FOR Wi HW HUSBAND Ind. Harbor Woman Sues for Divorce Charging Cruel Treatment. .L W A.Cl'l. A' A. 111. mi, " 11M j works as a roller at the Inland Steel mills, received an average wage of $35 a day, which amounts to about $11,000 a year. June 29 he married liable Gillespie at South Bend and September 2S, according to suit for divorce filed by Mrs. Fairman through Attorney W. J. Murray at Hammond today, tfiey separated. Mrs. Fairman claims that September 27 Fairman asked her to claim exemption for him and she refused because she did not think it right. He became angry, she alleges, and the next day hit her in the eye and threatened her life. THREATENS TO GLOS. CRIMES, SHOWS Mayor, Brown, Hammond, States That Public Must Observe Precautions. "There are SOO cases of Spanish Influenza in Hammond, and if the people don't take precautions we will have to close the schools, churches and theThis was the announcement of Mayor Brown today, who is working with Dr. Buchanan of the Board of Health to impress on the people the need for caution against the epidemic. The theaters have been asked to run signs requesting people who have the "ilu" to stay cut and those who have to sneeze or cough to use their handkerchiefs. "The people are entirely too careless," stated the mayor. "Anyone ill of influenza has no business to be out of the house exposing other people. Theri are more cases in Hammond every day." TS ST. JOHN 1 UNSHIP Wide Awake Towns Roll Up Fifty Thousand for Fourth Liberty Loan. S?EciAt, To The Times. DTER, IXD., Oct. 5. Chairman Stommel of St. John township has practically completed his Fourth Liberty Loan drive in the township and puts the figure at $30,000, a magnificent showing, and which has been accomplished only through fine greneraiship on Mr. Ftommel's -part. The f.gures are as follows: Towns. Subscribers. Amts. SchererviUe . 120 - $13,300 Dyer 125 16,-00 St. John 100 n,5ao S45 $47,000 There are a few reports to come in yet. which Chairman Ptommel expects will bring his grand total to $50,000. MATTY GUTS LEO'S fflBLl SUIT And His Arm, But He Does Not Care So Much About the Arm. Matty King of 145 riummer avenue and Leo Shaw of 5S riummer avenue got in a fight last night and Matty drew a razor and slashed Leo across the stomach and in the am. ruining j his new fall suit and cutting his arm. j Leo became much peeved over the J injury done the suit and in a rude and l angry manner picked up a beer bottle and hit Matty1 on the head, knocking her flat, but doing no material injury to her fall suit. Just then Officers Bunde and Einsele of the Hammond police, who someone had called, arrived and put both parties under arrest. They are charged with felonious assault. Both parties are negroes. VON SOLF IS FOREIGN SECRETARY Unitrd Fress Oabiegram. AMSTERDAM. -Oct. 6. Dr. Von Solf, secretary of the colonics, has been appointed German foreign minister, according to an official dispatch received from Berlin today. He succeeded Admiral Von Hintze, who was appointed only a few months ago.

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Steps Taken to Prevent the Spread of Influenza Epidemic Throughout Civilian Population. Precautionary Rules Issued. HOW TO AVOID INFLUENZA 1. All colds, however slight, should be treated as possible attacks of influenza. Patients affected by colds should stay at home and sterUize discharge from tha nose and throat. 2. Avoid feeding1 or spread of the disease. 3. Avoid crowds. 4. Begmlate bodily functions and keep them so. 5. Avoid the breath or expellsd secretion from people suffering? from colds. 6. Wash out the nose and throat two or three times daily by a nasal spray or douche and by gargle with a "normal salt solution" (vi teaepoonfnl salt to one glass (8 ounces) clean water). 7. All these In attendance on patients vrith influenza should wear masks. 8. Clotfcinsr should be warm and gested. Drink water freely. Owing to the increased obligations upon the Red Cross in the present epidemic of influenza. Lake Division. lied Cross headquarters is using every facility at its command, not only to assist the medical corps at military camps and training schools, where assistance is being requested, but isalso taking steps to prevent the spread of the epidemic to the civilian population. The division Department of Military Relief has already furnished emergency supplies of cots, blankets, medicines and influenza masks to the principal army camps in the Lake Division states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and is preparing for possible requests from small camps and college training schools by getting additional emergency supplies lined up. This department, through its representatives at the camps, is keeping in constant touch with the whole situation. The division Department of Xurslng is still assigning nurses to meet the (Continued on paga two.) SERVICE EXTEHSIDHS IN MITWDOD FINANCED PubHc Utility Companies Over Country Not Able to Finance Extensions. In order that th purchasers of lots in the Maywood addition would not have to wait for gas and electric service after building homes the Hammond Realty Co. financed these extensions for the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. to the extent of J2.500. Thus the Hammond Realty Co., through their local agents. Hastings. Woods & Co., are standing directly back of the twenty-five or thirty home builders who have erected houses in this attractive subdivision. The problem of securing service extensions is so difficult that there is little probability that subdivisions, the owners of which are not willing to finance these extensions, will have any development during the remainder of the war. The public utility companies over the country have had so many increases in the cost of coal and materials that go into the production of gas and electricity that their earnings have been practically wiped out. This makes it impossible for them to secure money needed for extensions; for the credit of utility companies is guagingly they have been given permission by the Indiana State Utility Commission to require the consumer to put up the money for necessary extensions. This policy has been adopted even in the city of Chicago where the public utillities have almost unlimited resources. Hastings, "Woods & Co. are very fortunate in the matter of public utilities in the subdivisions which they represent. In the Maywood addition the work of construction will commence a.t once that will provide gas and electricity for 140 building sites. Even the government has not yet provided for the utilities for the 103 dwellings that are now being built opposite the Maywood addition by the Burea- of Housing and Transportation.

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1HERE IT COMES Small American tanks v.'lth their "Treat 'Era Rouh" crews are playing an important part in the cracking of the Hun line, especially on the Verdun scoter. Veritable fleets of these little lani cruisers swarm toward the Iiuni and cause them to lice in terror ir. most cases. mmmn si.' The driver Jill HLL JAGK1ES PLAY The Blue Jackets b.nd the greatest drawing card Liberty Hall has ever had entertained several thousand people who tilled the big auditorium and sUud outside the doors and windows last night. . ! In charge of Col. J. A. Garrard, tho! twf lfth Great Lakes band reached Ham- j vf.t(f.i.,1-ir niinn a n rl v n a lm'.f ! lilL' .UrtM'IlK i.'IUllli--'-Hl''ii i-ii ' n . v ! . i Liberty Loan committee. Dr. 11. K. Kharrer, chairman of the Fourth Liberty i Loan, entertained the thirty blue jackets at the Country Ciub and after the evening concert at Liberty Hall 'hey wire the guests at an informal dance at the cluh. In the paint shop at the Standard Steel Car plant the blue Jackets gave a ; concert for 4.000 employes and in "' ! minutes Dr. fharrer and tus co-wor:.f is raised $130,100 for the Fourth Liberty Loan. j The band played next at Vie American Maize Products plant, where Manager Daly treated them to soft drinks and smokes. The band left this morning for North Judson and every member of the organization declared Hammond to be the best town they had visited so far in their tour. They said they could r.ot. speak highly enough of the treatment given them in Hammond. The work on the Liberty loan continues. Several families in Hammond will bo exposed unless they go to tluir banks and subscribe before October li. ALLIES ARE NEARING VOUZIERS United Press Cablegram -PARIS, Oct. 5. 4:11 P- Franco American troops driving northward against Vouziers are now within less than five miles of that important German base. Enemy long-range guns covering Vouziers, which had been installed near Sugny and between St. Etienne and Semide. are being withdrawn. The Germans are reported to be evacuating the entire Moronvillers grove. wnerai -Uf, n on the Oisc region south of St. Quent.n ana is increasing ma v'tomc the northern defense. , ''NEW OFFij-N "J- V Xj AGAINST AUSTRIA P'viTEn Press Cablegram WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Indications today pointed to the development of a claw-like offensive against AustriaHungary, one claw being the allied forces in the near east, the other th" Italian army. Such an attack would it is believed, result in a speedy offer for a genuine peace offensive on a retirement from Belgium and northern France, some believe. This plan would provide for German retention of a hold on Russia and authorities declare it must be combatted. The German retirement in the north and the big American advance in the south forecast the ''downfall of the Teutons, military men say.

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.4. rt WJsv IN 1t" ' 4L X !-: Mi it'V ' 4 55" j '.y St', i and gunner in their positions in an THOUSANDS If PERIL AS SHELL PUNT LETS GO , Blowup Starts a Dozen Ex plosions in Shell Factory Near Perth Amboy. f Brt.I.ETIN". By United I rks?. ITEV7 YOriK:, Oct. 5 Scores of psrsens are bclisved to be dead and many others are la hospitals in New Jerssy and the nation's greatest sueil i I leading plant, the prcpsrty of tha T. A. I i Gillespie Co., a Slors-antown, IT. J., was ! j in rnin, the result of an explosion of ' trinitrotoluol last niTht. Explosions were continuing- early to- I day. Military authorities have taken ; charge of the territory. All means of j communicaticn have been swept away, i The property damages will run Into -tae j millions. The plant alone, according1 to i estimates, was val-asd at eighteen mil- j I lion dollars. VThat remained cf tho j j plant was crumbling1 under tho explo- ! I sioa of shells or was being eaten np by j fire which could not be controlled. j There were thousands in the plant at j the time cf the explosion. As thOLO not ;

hurt dashed from their positions other 1;,,nfl ljCran sn president of the Hamblr.sts followed. It was stated the total j nionj Country Club and has figured number of casualties would reach 00, . iari-eiy in Hammond's development since including dead, severely injured and ' no .anie U) the city, persons slightly hurt. Of these 300 might j

bo classed as hospital cases. BERTH AMBOY, N. J.. Oct. 4 A dozen explosions at the big T. A. Gil(Continued cm pa; two.) AMERICAN TROOPS j TAKE GUNELS fUVITED BRESS LCiNDON, Oct. Cablegram. 5, 4:30 p. in.Americans have captured Gunel, it was learned this afterncon. The above town is three miles west of the Meuse. The British line between Armenticrres and Lens follows the Armentierres railway southward to the vicinity of the Haute-Deule canal, then turns northward near Marquilles. according to in formation received hero this afternoon. The Germans are expected at canal to make a American forces attacking on an eight mile front between the Meuse and Aire rivers have advanced two miles today, battle front dispatches said thi3 afternoon. , It is estimated the Americana have taken between three thousand and four thousand in the Argonne-Meuse fighting. FRENCH MAKE NEW GAINS fUviTED Pre" Cablegram. PARIS. Oct. 5. The French made additional progress north of St. Quentin. northwest of Rheims, in the Champagne, estcrday, the war office announced today. The Germans in the Monts region threatened with envelopment by the Franco-American advance toward the Ames river have evacauated the easternportion of that arra.

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r H f;;i N - A t -4 r.m tvi f,a COUNC Si. t 7 ..4Jj.&ir t ( ' V 4 : - i 3 It' ,:'.t'-"i 4" 3 . V, ' 'j American tank. IH. M. JOHNSON RESIGNS GASHIERSHIP Prominent Banker Out of Citizens' National to Go into Other Connections. Harry M. Johnson, for yeans cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Hammond, lias resigned his connections with the bank to go into other business. His notice to the directors makes his resignation effective Nov. 1 or until such time as a new cashier is elected. He expects to make an announcement of his plans in the near future. Mr. Johnson came to the Citizens' from Lowell nearly ten years ago ana in;s been one of the most prominent figures in commercial, business, social and lodge life in the city ever since. It has been largely (1 rough his instrumentality that the Citizens' National Bank has achieved its prominent financial position and h;s fact personality and energy made him an ideal cashier. 1-Iis acquaintance over the region, throughout the state and in the Seventh Federal Reserve district is extensive. I lei was county chairman of 1st Liberty HUNS ARE NOW FIGHTING DESPERATELY Unitet Press Cablegram ! LONDON, Oct. 5. The Germans are fighting pesperately in the Champagne l to defend their valuable communication lines behind the front, battle front j dispatches said today. The tide of j battle is swaying back and forth. North of St. Quentin the allied area is being gradually widened. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS BEATEN Unitet Press Cablegram LONDON. Oct. 5. Repulse of AustroGerman reinforcements in the vicinity cf Vranjia was reported by the Serbian war office today. GREAT BRITAIN IGNORES REPLY fUviTED Press Cabt.kgram. LONDON, Oct. 5. The Telegraph declares it has information that the only reply Great Britain has made to the Austrian peace proposal consists of Foreign Minister Balfour's speech of September 16. 10,000 DESERT ' TURKISH ARMY Un-ited Press Cablegram. ZURICH. Oct. 5. Ten thousand deserters from the Turkish armies assembled outside Constantinople and demanded the resignation of Talaat Pasha, Turkish grand visor, and the minister of war.

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General feared fn Weekly War Review Tells of Excellent Military Situation BtrLt-ETlN-, Bt United 1'kess.J WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 5. Gen. March, chief of U. S. A. staff, says that there are today in various army camps throughout the country 100.CO0 cases of Spanish influenza. fBr I'MTED Fress 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. The American advance between the Argonne and the Meuse threatens the main railway system of Germany to the western front. They are now eighteen miles from that railroad. General March, chief of staff, today, pointed out these facts along with tlie statement that our drive has compelled the Germans to throw -many divisions" I into its rath. General March announced troops overseas number 1.S50.C00. Last month's shipment was 250.000. The 27th division was the one trapped in the fighting near St. Quentin but was later freed. The military situation along the entire front for the past week has been "excellent." ' the general said. Two American divisions shared in the fightimr nroi!r hnrt;n in j lancers a ten- mile salient has been driven into the boche lines and seventy-live" miles of Belgian territoryhas been claimed. Allied pressure is forcing the abandonment of Ostend-Zee-brusge. The allies'" are within five miles of Lille. There are 100,000 cases of influenza now in army camps, he added. NEW DRIVE IMPERILS GERMANS TUn-ited Press Cablegram PARIS. Oct. 5 The French and A ..- erican drive in the Argonne- "!: pagne and Rheims is Imperiling '!" Germans in the Argonne and i'.i thnewly created pockets nofthcast of Rheims. Franco-Americans are now strongly established on the Orfeuil tableland. The French have reached the Arne stream and are threatening to envelop the enemy still holding ground between Rheims and the Suippe river. This operation is in conjunction with General Eerthelot's drive north of Rheims. The American advance east of the Argonne is timed to progress with General Gouraud's right and is menacing the Germans in the great forest, evacuation of which is expected. BULGAR CROWN PRINCE REIGNS United Tress Cablegram ZURICH. Oct. 5 Crown Prince Boris has assumed the reins of government in Bulgaria, following the abdication of King Ferdinand Thursday, according to a dispatch received from the official correspondence bureau in Vienna today. ALLIES IN STEADY ADVANCE ON HUNS By FltED FERfUSOV WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY, Oct. 5. Resumption of the American first army attack on a 20mile front west of the Meuse together with a five mile advance of the Americans east cf Rheims has brought the .mericans within smashing distance of the German lines at two important positions on the west froift. In the Champagne the Americans crossed the plains beyond Mont Blanc, and reached the outskirts of St. Et-ienne-Arnes. East of the Meuse General Bul'ard's corps has reached the Krimhilde- Stellung line. Some American units advanced about a mile and a quarter, while others progressed more than three miles. BROUGHT 1 LIQUOR INTO GARY O NTRAIN Will Smith, a Gary negro, this morning at one o'clock was arrested at the Pennsylvania depot with six quarts of whiskey he brought from Illinois. The violator is in jail to await trial. OIX0FHM3I? The only casualty from iake county reported on Oen. Perhingr' report to the war department today KILLED IN ACTION. JOSEPH EEAE, Gary.