Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 7 October 1918 — Page 1

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VOL. XIII, NO. 71. PUT 01 PUBLIC Picture Sliows, Poolrooms are .Shut Up Tight By OrdeT State Board of Health. COPY OF TELEGRAM. Dr. Raleigh P. Hale, Lake County Health Commissioner. You arc hereby ordered to close all schools, the churches and all places of public amusement and forbid all public meetings in your county until further notice on account of the influenza epidemic. You will require physicians to report all cases of influenza to the local health officer. DR. J. N. HURTY, State Health Com. KEEP CHILDREN HOME Pnrent are warned that all children nhould be kept at home for the Juration of the closing order Issned by the Board of Health. Dora ahould not consrregrate on vacant Iota and play ground and may be arrested If they do ao. Strict complicnce with the aplrtt of this order Trill nld materially In meeting the problem vrlth which we are dealing. W. A. BICHANAX. M. D. Secretary Board of Health. UP TO LOCAL BOARDS Times Bureau. At State Capital. INDIANAPOLIS, IHD, Oct. 7, 2 p. m. Dr. J. N. Hurti aaid today that tho order closing theatres, churches and Bchoola was advisory aad not compul. cry, lea Ting such action to local health authorities. . All Lake Co. schools, churches, theatres, moving picture houses, poolrooms and all places where people congregate were Ordered closed today by Dr. Raleigh P. Kale of East Chicago, county health commissioner. A ban was placed on all public gatherings of any nature and the order is effective today. The order to Dr. Raleigh came from Pr. J. K. Hurty. the Indiana Health Commissioner. Dr. Hurty and the state board received a telegram from Washington directing a similar movement in every city and town in this state and practically every state. At 9 p. m. last night telegrams had ben filed at the Continued oni page two.) LIBERTY LOAN SLOWING UP Bt United Tress. WASHINGTON'. Oct. V. Facing a necessary daily average of $425,000,000 to attain the minimum of six billion dollars, the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign today went into the second lap. Treas ury officials say over-Sunday reports provide little reason for optimism. The quota is larger by 200 per cent than mix sum that the Libe: " San workers l.ave been called upon to .aise in two weeks of any previous campaign. Treasury officials admitted that no stone can be left unturned if pledges sufficient to amount to the minimum sum are to be attained. NOTICE. After this date, Oct. 5, 1918, non-resident notices will not be accepted for publication in this paper unless paid for in advance. 10-5-Jt LAKE COUNTY PTG. & PUB. CO. Double Quick Time for the 4th Loan I

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This Is Fellow Who Fooled You Sunday 1! -.IS" 'tL- - .-fa Sf ,WIMCt U , BADtt-4 WHITING SOLDIER DIES OF While Home on Furlough Julian Fruth Succumbs to Malady. ' Special To The Times. 1 WHITING. Ind.. Oct. 7 Julian Truth, age 14 years, home from Camp Taylor, Ky., on a furlough, died at the home o.f his cousin. 418 FlshrupD aveenue on Saturday at noon, as the result of Spanish Influenza. When Truth left for the army two months ago he weighed 276 pounds. A few days ago he came home on a furlough and remarked to his friends that he had lost 76 pounds, and that he was now feeling so much better. Feeling that it might be some time before he was able to get home again he wired for a five day extension and this he was grranted, his time expiring on Monday. On Thursday he was taken ill with the result that he succumbed on Saturday at noon. Truth has been a Whiting resident for several years and before leaving for service, owned a barber shop on Indiana blvd., next to the Whiting laundry. He was a very fine fellow and his death Is very rr.uch to be regretted. He was a member of the Slovak Lutheran church of Whiting, from where the funeral will be held. Ha was a member of the Replacement Division of the Field Artillery at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. HESSVILLE WINS IN ANNEXATION FIGHT City of Hammond Losees Quo Warranto Proceedings Against Ambitious Town. Judge V. S. Keiter in the superior court this morning decided for the defendant in the suit of the City of Hammond to oust the Town of Hessville and its officials and determine the legality of the annexation proceedings by which Hessville grabbed off all territory south of Standard avenue to the Little Calumet river. The court came to the conclusion that the quo warranto proceedings of the city were not applicable and the Issue should have been raised by injunction. Judge Re;ter sustained the demurrer to the information. The case was argued July 6. the last day of court, and taken under advisement by Judge Reiter until today. fcMthon & Conroy appeared for the city and Fred Crumpacker and Judge Fetterhoff for Hessville and the Hessville officials. It Is presumed that Hammond will now prepare to instigate injunction proceedings against Hf-ssville. If You Don't Buy a Fourth Liberty Loan Bond Uncle Sam will be mighty inquisitive I

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HAMMOND, INDIANA. OK, JLB0U1 THAT EARLY It Was a Swell Day for a Parade and Breakfast Tasted Fine. Hammond celebrated the surrender of Germany and the end of the war between tha hours of 4'and 9 o'clock Sunday morning. As a matter of fact Germany hadn't surrendered and the war was still on, but it was a dandy celebration anyway. Whistles blew and bells rang continu ously for more than half an hour and ! a parade was organized by leading patriots and marched through the streets for hours, growing continuously. A bulletin at 6 a. ni. in front of The Times office stating that there was no truth in the report that Germany had quit brought the celebration to an end, though some of the deluded kept on parading. A Chicago newspaper is doubtless responsible for the excitement. When the long expected German peace offensive broke it sent a telegram to Mayor Brown stating that Chancellor Max before the Reichstag had advocated the acceptance of President Wilson's fourteen terms on which peace could be negotiated. Added ; to this unusual proceeding, of wiring a mayor in the middle of the night was a i report said to be circulated by the Erie night telegraph operator who caught a message going over the wire and making a diplomat and international lawyer out of himself Interpreted it to mean that; Germany had surrendered. The demonstration gave a lot of peo ple much-needed early morning exercise and fresh air. , E FELL FOR IT TOO At. 3 o'clock Sunday mornjng the whistles of all oT the Gary mills blastci the news that Germany had asked an armistice to discuss peace. In thirty minutes after the whistles blew the streets were thronged by thousands of people cheering the news. Parades were formed and the masses went wild. The same stories that Turkey and Austria had surrendered were circulated In Gary as in other cities of the region, and it was a disgusted lot of people who later found how they had been deceived. EVEN GROWN POINT WASJLSD FOOLED Big Celebration Is Staged in Afternoon in Which Hobart Militia Takes Part. fSPETAI. To The Times.! CROWN POINT, INp.. Oct. 7. Crown Pointers were awakened about 4:45 on Sunday morning by the ringing of the fire bell, followed by the blowing of whistles and ringing of other bells. Every one was of the opinion that there was a bad fire but on closer investigation it was noised about town that Germany had surrendered. A large crowd congregated on the court house square, paraded the streets headed by the Chamber of Commerce band until daylight. On receiving the morning papers it was learned that Germany had not surrendered, but would sue for peace and the loyal Crown Pointers thought that news was worth another celebration which was pulled oft at 3:00 p. m. The Hobart militia come over and helped celrbrate and the tow'n turned out enmass. Another parade was formed which I marched down the principal streets and disbanded to listen to patriotic addresses by Messrs. O. J. Bruce. A. L,. Courtright and C. W. Allman. The filling of Crown Point's Liberty Loan quota was a point dwelt on at length by the speakers and it is to be hoped that the slackers will come across so the hands on the clock can be turned to $400,000. Now is the time to show the Kaiser he is beaten. 0 ITALIANS . ADVANCING IN ALBANIA United Press Cablegram. PARIS. Oct. 7. Austro-German troops defeated by the French and Serbians in central Serbia are retiring northward in disorder, the French communique announced today. Vranje has brri captured. The allied advance in Albania continues. Whadda Mean "Afford?'

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'J . : 'JT JVast fleets of trucks are used in every branch of our army abroad. Our soldiers are saved many a a weary mile of marchinr; TWO MEtT DEATH IB MTO ACCIDfllT Liquor Is Undoubtedly Responsible for the Fate of Two Ind. Harbor Men. An unfortunate automobile accident, in which It. B. Douglas, foreman of the ordnance department of the Standard Steel Car Company, inadvertently caused the death of two men and badly wounded another, happened early Sunday morn ing. The dead are: FRANK ZICKORA, both legs broken, died two hours after being taken to the hospital. JOE JOLOS, both legs broken, head and face cut and abdomen pierced, died this morning at hospital. Jimmie Mlnnrish suffered a broken leg. These men, who live at 3610 Cedar street. Indiana Harbor, were on their way home when they ran into the car of Phillip H. Tracy of S North LaSalle street. Chicago, knocking both cars in the ditch at the side of tho road on Calumet boulevard. Unable to get their car out of the ditch, the men. whom it is said had been drinking, started to walk along the boulevard and had gotten about halfway across when they were hit by Douglas's car. Mr. Douglas said that he was driving south on the boulevard when all of a sudden a man stepped in front of his car and was hit. and. turning to right to avoid him. he ran over the two other men, who. Mr. Douglas thinks, must have been sitting down as he saw no one until he felt the car bump over them. Mr. Douglas at once stopred his car and went back and did "what he could for the men and called the Hammond police for an ambulance, and th" patrol was sent and took the men t-i .St. Margaret's Hospital. HOW THE BRITISH WILL ANSWER IT n'XITKO PREPS CRI.Kr;R AM.l WITH THE BRITISH IN FRANCE. Oct. 7. The British army is ready today to answer Germany's peace proposal as it answered Austria's a short -while ago. Interviews with officers and men show that something more definite in the way of peace offers is necessary before serious consideration will be found. German resistance along the present front is believed to be a gigantic rearguard action to hold the allies until the Velrnciennes line is completed. Roads between the Hindenburg line and the no-"-west are jammed with traffic of all s.orts. 94 ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED Bt United Press. NEW YORK. Oct. 7. Ninety-four men missing in the explosion which destroyed the Gillespie shell loading plant were believed today to have perished, investigators fear that only two or three of the missing men had a chance to escape from the building where the blast started. Buy It Like a Man!

jw r ffA m American soldiers boarding trucks. by these trucks which are called I into action to carry the boys from camp to the trenches and back. ! The photo shows a lonr line of "FLU" BLIGHTED THEIR He was ill for three weeks with the "Flu" and she refused to get his meals for him. and in addition threw a dish at him and told him if he didn't leave her she would hurl his clothes out on tho porch. These are the charges made by William John Timm of Hammond who filed suit for divorce in the Hammond superior court today. His attorneys are McAlecr. Dorsey & GiUett. John and i Clara were married October. 1913, and I separated this month. U. S. TROOPS CONTINUE ADVANCE United Press Cablegram. 1 WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY. Oct. 7. Both wings of the American forces between the Argonnt and the Meuse ' river continue to advance despite the sreat efforts by the Germans to increase their resistence. A German counter attack against our right center near Cunel (three miles west of Breiulles temporarily slowed up our progress. An extremely heavy bombardment and the stiffest kind of fighting is underway along this whole front. GERMANS RESISTING POWERFULLY United Tress Cablegram. PARIS, Oct. 7. French troops have made further advances northeast of Rheims, capturing St. Masmes and penetrating Heuvine (about thirty miles northeast of Rheims by rail) the war office announced today. The Germans are offering powerful residence all along the front, particularly in the vicinity of Bert ricourj,. Violent narliting continufd throughout the night north of St. Quentin where the enemy made numerous counter attacks. LOAN IS SET ON FIRE BY HUN TORCH f United Press Cablegram. PARIS, Oct. 7. The Germans have applied the torch to Laon, as they are j being pursued by the Allied armies. Numerous fires back of the enemy lines Indicate the Hun is preparing to retreat on a large .scale. SERBS PURSUE AUSTRO-GERMANS United Press Cablegram. PARIS. Oct. 7. Serbian troops are continuing their pursuit of AustroGermans. "We have taken 1.500 prisoners up to the present time, together with 12 guns and 30 machine guns," the Serbian statement said. GENERAL HAIG MAKES REPORT United Press Cablegram LONDON. Oct. 7. Local fighting north of St. Quentin and between Lens and Cambrsl was reported by Field Marshal Haiff today.

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I ar -ire w trucks of the Motor Transport Service taking on the members of the Seventh Infantry relieved for rest somewhere in France. WHAT WILL WILSON REPLU1IS TOPIG German Peace Offer Seen As White Flag Trick to Divert Defeat. PARIS. Oct. 7. All eyes in France today turned toward America to Washington and Wilson. "What will President Wilson's replybe?" the people arc asking and wondering, now that they know that the central empires, particularly Germany, are seeking the cessation of hostilities and peace through tho President of the United States. The feeling is general that the central empires, bent upon the greatest gamble of all times, have attempted to bring about by one stroke the termination of their losirfg game by trying to seek the good offices of President Wilson as intermediary. Paris went to church yesterday as never before since the opening of hostilities. In the dark days when the Germans occupied Chateau-Thierry; when their bridgehead south of the Marne was j like a leveled pistol at France's heart. menacing France's very lif Paris re(Continued on pap. two.!, SHIP PRODUCTION BREAKS RECORDS Bt Vnited V "WASHINGTON. Oct. RESS. 7. American ship production has broken all records. The output of American shipyards for the twelve months ending October 1 wrill be 70 per cent of the entire world's greatest annual pre-war output, accord-" ing to the figures available here today. Germany and Austria have lost 33 P"r cent of their tonnage since America j entered the fisht. The Teuton loss by j seizure is 3.7P3.O0O drad weight tons. 1 America's output in the last twelve months aggregated close to 2.300.000 dead weight tons. German tonnage is now believed to be approximately 10,000.000 tons. Many of these ships are too small for transAtlantic trade. YANKS MAKE NEW PROGRESS (By Fred S. Ferjtusnn . United Preps Cablegram. "WITH THE AMERICAN FlftST ARMY. Oct. 7. The Americans have made some additional progress In the Aire valley despite strong resistence. The Germans have brought up strong artillery reinforcements against our left and center. Captured documents fstablish that the enemy plans to hold the Klein-Hilde-Stellung- line at all costs. Htavy resistence is beiws: encountered near the Cunel-Brieulles road, running westward from the Meuse and in various woods and hills. FIRE AT ROCK ISLAND Bt United Press. ROCK ISLAND. ILL., Oct. 7. Fire starting in the cook's house of the big commissary maintained by the Walsh Construction Company at the Rock Island fersenal. destroyed the cook house and bunk houses for 400 men shortly before noon today. The loss has not yet been estimated

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AMERICA MUST PFTii 4! IJM 1 ki iin l io. UOO ALLIES UTra ty TMIS crriir, 40e pat month; on atraeti and at newsstands, 3a par copy; back numbers, 3c par copy. Voles ol the Nation Practical . Unanimous in Answer to Hun Peace Piffle. Br United Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. America's temper toward a made in Germany peace was clearly reflected today in thousands cf letters and telegrams pouring into the capital to senators and congressmen. By actual count less than one-fifth of one percent of the messages received even suggested seriors consideration of the AustroGerman plea. ! The voice of the nation as heard j in congress is practically unanim ous against any parley with the foe until he has been smashed into helplessness. This feeling is stronger in the middle west than elsewhere. Many of the telegrams received today demanded personal punishment of tho Kaiser before peace is discussed. From every quarter comes the word that America is in the war to the finish. Of this J. .Ham Lewis said: "The people of this country of whom it was once said that they were luki; warm toward the war are today comrr.itted to it as they were never committed to anything else. Their answer to th Berlin intriguer is plain." "This is no time to parley on peace." declared Representative Foss, chairman of the National Republican Congressional committee. He called attention to the fact that peace now is only an adjournment from one war to the next. ' The Swiss minister delivered Prince Max's peace negotiation plea to tho president shortly before noon. Apparently the only matter undecided this forenoon was the form of reply and whether the allies should be consulted before the answers are dispatched. Whether the president will include in the answer the statement that peaca may be had if an unconditional surrender is made is a matter of speculation. That this country demands an uncondition surrender as a preliminary to any peace conference was clear from thi white house telegram today. WILSON WILL REFUSE TEUT "PEACE OFFER" Bt United Press. 1 WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. President Wilson's reply to the Teutonic peace offer will be a refusal to accept, according to strong indications from a high governmental authority today. This authority who predicted accurately the rejection of the last Austrian note, said today he "assumed" the answer would be a rejection. The state department declined officially to comment on tho peace note situation. It was olTicia'ly noted that tho Swedish minister had delivered th- Austrian note at about tho same time the Swiss minister who had received tho German note was calling at thi white house. GERMANY DOES NOT ACCEPT. United Press Cablbcram. PARIS, Oct. 7. Germany does not accept the Wilson terms for peace in Prince Max's speech to--the Reichstag, authorities here declare; he merely says they form a basis for negotiation. Full reparation and guarantee of future peace must be assured by Germany before peace can be considered. French newspapers assert the newr peace offer to be a trick to cheat th-s allies and point out that an armistice would give a beaten enemy a chance to recuperate his strength. Whadda Mean "Afford?"

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