Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 74, Hammond, Lake County, 10 October 1918 — Page 1

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WEATHER VOL. XIII, NO. 74. rumor RIFE FOR FBI DAYS Washington Thinks li Hay Be - Pari o! German Peace Offensive. Uxitet Press Cablegram. 1 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10. Rumors are persistent here that the Kaiser has abdicated. Rumors of the Kaiser's abdication or serious illness were first current in Europe several days ago. In connection with this it is noticed that reports of overthrow of the Hohenzollerns were expected to be circulated at the same time the German, peace offensive was launched. Recently the Kaiser was reported so ill he was forced to cancel all engagements. A few days later word was received that he had been at Mannheirn to make an adtfrfiss and was forced to flee an air xsjd, hiding in a cellar. HIS SUBSCRIPTION Indiana's Governor Points Out That Every One Should Do Same. Time El-real'. ATINIASa" !"XND, Oct. 10.-GOV-ernor James P. Goodrich stepped into the Marion county Liberty Loan drive i.iri.-v with a SIC, 000 subscription wnien doubles his subscription to the Fourth 3 iberty Loan. Previously the Governor had subscribed $1,000 in Marion county nid $10,000 at his home. Winchester. It.d. In doubling his subscription. Governor Goodrich point 3d out that everyone sble to do so should do the same in order that there may be no doubt in Berlin that the American people are wholeheartedly back of the w ar to the finish unconditional surrender for the Germans. The loan has been moving slowly in Marion county and It is expected t'..f.t the action of the Governor will fVed up the loan considerably here. A conference of. the Republican state f.)TMn!ttee will be held at state heado mrters Friday afternoon. Final plans j-jr the last stages of the campaign will fc, discussed and arrangements will be r.ftie for an intensive vote-retting movement In the short pre-election juried. The Republicans are planning to bring United States Senator Lodge end Congressman Julius isann to inuiana if possible. scherervilleIsstilljelle 'em Toeny Village in St. John Tp. Has Already Over Doubled Quota. Special To The Times. SCHERERVILLE, Ind., Oct. 10. Here's a town that doesn't know when to stop. When Chairman Aug. Stommel ot Iyer was told that St. John townships quota would be $40,000. he said: We'll raise it if we can. fo he split up the, amonunt among the three towns. Dyer, Scherervtlle and St. John and told them to o to it. Scherervllle hopped to it and has so far bought $23,000. There are a few dozen people in the town, but that doesn't make any difference, it has doubled its quota and may try to raise the whole township's quota itself. One Srhererville man says: "Why are we raising this amount? Because Liberty Bonds are th best investment there is and because everybody in Scherervllle. young and old, wants to help win the war."

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French, British and American Troops Smash Through German Front, (United Press War Sammiry.) The greatest victory in military history appears to be in the making. French, British and American troops are reported to have effected a complete break through nearly half of a fifty mile front in the vicinity of Douai. The Germans are in utter rout. Cavalry and infantry. Many prisoners and much booty have been taken. The army suierea neavy losses, wore mam 12,000 prisoners were taken in Tuesday's operations alone, according to official reports. , The great German center of Doual appears to be irltaln the allies Rrnp. Bohaln and Busigny have fallen and everal Important transportation renters are being rapidly approached. It Is believed unlikely the enemy will be able to reorganize bis forces before the Valenciennes, fifteen miles back. Is reached. French und Americans are batterins array on an eighty mile front between Rhelms and Verdun, progressing In wide sectors. The Argonne pocket has been wiped oat, the French and Americans now being within two miles of Grandpre with Its control of the path sod railway through the forest. The trapping of the Austrian army in Albania Is nearer realization. Capture of I.el Basam by the Italians Is officially admitted at Vienna. DOLLAR DAY BIG SUCCESS, L Hammond's Fifth Annual Dollar Day sale has broken all records and merchants who advertised in The Times special Dollar Day edition yesterday are reaping a harvest. Enthusiastic shoppers stood in line long before the stores opened waiting to be the first over the top. Purchases are not confined to dollar merchandise. People are buying regular lines that spell money. Money is plentiful women were seen to reach down and take from their stocking bank rolls of bills large enough to choke any horse on the street. The weather being ideal shoppers are flocking to Hammond on every street car, interurban and train from all parts of the compass. The merchants are to be warmly congratulated for their giving t.e public such splendid values for one dollar. On the street and in the store the expression was freely heard, "we hope the merchants would have a dollar day every month." WHAT FOCH IS TRYING TO DO IBT Vnited Press. WASHINGTON'. Oct. 10. Foch is striking to bring upon Germany a semblance of Waterloo to emphasize allied determination for unqualified peace. The spectacular victory on the west front will carry to Germany more than anything else the futility of her dreams to conquest, military men declare. Already the smashing has reached the German people and public opinion is seriously affect e3. All exempted men are being taken and replaced by prisoners of war. All available advice cf authoritative kind indicates the elimination of militarism in Germany will not be accomplished until the people see the horrors of war on their own soil. To this end Fch is striking rapidly.

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1 Belgians continue pressure along coast, from which the Germans are preparing retreat. 2 British take Cambrai, capturing 8,000 prisoners and much booty. 3 French north and northeast of Rheims make steady gains and take many prisoners. 4 Americans push steadily forward and take many prisoners east of the Argonne forest. mi SOLDIER DIES OF FLU AT G1HP SHERHU Word was received in Gary this morning announcing the death by Spanish influenza of Private Peter J. Keho at Camp Sherman, Ohio, which occurred on September 8. Soldier Reho is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T , v. Tn CIA t " n r.-, 1 1 n o ctrpiit Hfirv the mother and brother, John, being at ; the bedside when death came. The body! will arrive in Gary today or tomorrow for burial. a I

Soldier Reho went with the draft from.' tjoa of establishing a rationing SySGary on August 25 and was a member.

of 22nd Co., 6th T. R. Brigade. 15. X., lGSth Depot FORMER WEST HAMMOND M KILLED IN ACTION ciem r. coyke. 2X4 151th street, has' received word from his mothe" Mrs. j Joseph Goyke, who is stayii .t with her

age mother, Mrs. M. Warras. at E-e- An educational Campaign to acIano. Minn., telling of the death of his .

uncle. Sergeant Casimer Warras. who in ection in France recently. Casimer v arras was Dorn in west Hammond and educated in the St. An drew school of that city. He will.be lemembTed by a great many West Hammotwf people, ior ne wa3 a restueni oi that town up to a few years ago. when ttie family moved to Delano, lie enlisted in August- of last year and was tsatloned at a southern camp, going to France in March after being made a corporal. He had been over the top twice. YANKEES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE Br Vnitei Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. Continued advance by the Americans cast of the Muse to the outskirts of Sivry and penetration of the German lines west of the Meuse with capture of 2.000 additional prisoners Wednesday, was reported by General Pershing today. , TRYING TO FOOL THE CZECH-SLOVAKS Br T-niteo WASHINGTON. Oct Prkss 10. Germany is approaching the Czecho-Slovaks with proposals for autonomy, according to information ta the state department today. This Is taken to be an effort to remove their power in Russia.

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EASLESS SUNDAY FOHJLL WINTER Advance of Allies Calls for Extra Gasoline; Weekday Mortoring to Reduce. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The "motorless Sunday" is likely to be with us until Spring, at least. Gasoline conservation will be necessary fnr ihfy J,,rlt:r.n nf Vi war hnf fuel administration has no inten- ; tem The reserve at the front has been so depleted by the advance of the allies that there was in France only ninety days' supply when new demands for gasoline were made on the fuel administration. lt is the intention gradually to curtail pleasure riding every day in the week by pledges. COIT.pany tne picuye system nas De.:tri niters anH nrc nrnna. j b" v ' t r - ' ganda. j j EXPECT ALLIED DRIVEON TURKEY TBT T'nited Press. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. An allied drive on Tur-cey is expected soon unless the internal unrest there breaks into open revolt, authorities here believe. ! Greece with 500.000 froops now under ' arms and 200,000 ruore waiting for j equipment, is preparing for an on-! slaught. Bulgaria's collapse will not cause Greece to ceafe fighting, officials j declared. A peace proposal was tender-j ed Greece by Bulgaria several months i ago : became know lure today, but the' offer was glvei no consideration. A delegation of revolutionaries from Smyrna and Greecian islands under Turkish rule is reported to be in Athens arranging for liberation of their countrymen. RENEW ATTACK IN LAON REGION United Press Cablegram PARIS. Oc 10. Renewal of the attacks in the Laon region was announced by the French war office today. Progress was msde there as well east of St. Quentln and in the Champagne.'

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Parmenter - Barnett Packing Company Began Killing Pigs on Saturday for Export Trade. Hammond has an infant Industry that promises to develop into lusty youngster. It is known as the Parmenter Barnett Tacking Co. It is capitalized for $25,000. To begin with its business will be principally the killing of hogs but that docs not reveal the real opportunity back of the business. The government does not allow the killing of sows that are about to have a litter of pigs. It is a measure of conservation to pave the little rigs that they may become big pigs with prospect of being hams or sausage. Now when a farmer comes into market with a ear load of hogs, it may be that he wants to sell out all of his pigs, sows and all. The buyer has to take the lot. It is then necessary to resell the sows for the above mentioned reason. These are disposed of at bargain prices. Now this new company is composed of expert hog buyers who have seen this opportunity. These brood sows will be bought, shipped to Hammond, fed and cared for until the litter of little pigs arrive and then they will be killed and the little pigs sold for what they i 1 1 bring. The company has purchsed the two and a half acres on Columbia avenue and the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks and about twelve or thirteen buildings known as the Rothfisher plant. Tleft lisr. hppn 1 liorntlirl! v T-rrmfrArl repainted, whitewashed and improved until a first class plant has been made out of it. The first killing took place i Saturday. The company, will cater to f the foreign-American trad-5 for slaugh- ' terered pork. 'Two car loads of hogs arrived yesterday. The officers of the company are Geo. M. Parmenter. president; B. II. Barnett. secretary; A. J. Campbell, of Hammond, treasurer. Buy It Like a Man!

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to the Sea x V .li B Xtajr'n . t 2 vA I :; AND WIFE DIEJFJFLeZA But a Short Time Elapses Between Peaths of Harold and Ruth Wallace. Two of the saddest deaths in Hammond from Spanish influenza were those of Harold I). Wallace and his wife. Ruth Wallace. 20 years old, who died within a few hours of each other this morning at tho home of Harold's father. Edward Wallace. 262 State street. Hammond. They leave an eight week's old baby. Mr's. Wallace is the daughter of Herman Tegtmier of Crown Point and had many friends both in Hamniond an8 Crown Point. The remains -will be taken to Crown Point tonight by automobile, where they will be buried in their family lot. Undertaker Burns will have charge. TURKS SAID TO BE NEGOTIATING Bt United Pres? WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Representatives of the new Turkish government are negotiating with the allies as to the terms upon which they may withdraw Xrom the war. it was sa;d today. The new Grand Vizier has representa;tiCS HOW m tourn with tne aines. jig THIS MORE CAMOUFLAGE? United Press Cabi.f.gr am. LONDON. Oct. 10 A Central News Dispatch asserts it was reported from Berlin that as a result of Ge-rinnn press comment on the new situation, the government majority In the Reichstag had adopted the whole of AVilson's conditions as a basis for peac

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Create a R AME2ICA MUST FEED 4 110.000 OflO Al!iFi SUTere4 by TXMXS carriers, 40o P month; on streets and at newsstands, 2o par copy; back aunten, 3c per eoy. Scores of Towns Fall - ana Kriemliild Una Is Smashed By Yankee Troops. IOXDO.V. Oct. 10. 3i.irt n ', n Ish cavalry Is on the outskirts of LeChateau, according to battle front dispatches received here tMs afternoon. Btri-LnTt.v. PARIS, Oct. 10. 3:4- p. tn The Germans ire reported la be withdrawing on wli'e sectors clonic the whole one hundr-d mile front between Cambral and Ruelnts. They are employing countless machine gnns to slacken the allied push. Towards Guise the allies am accentuating their prosress and are reported to have reached the Cambro-Oise eannl. This represents an rd Jiticisf.l advance of about four ikIIm narrheaaf of St. Quentln. The rail'vay fsou Laon to Manbcug by way tif Ooise is now under fire. Xortlirast of Vsllly Gen. Mangin is advancing on the road toward Craonne. BULLETIX.1 .L""2" pRESS CABr.EORAM.l WITS TEE AMEHICAIT ABMY, Oct. 10. Heavy tgbtiaff la u. dor way between the Meni aai th Arg-cnno where tho Genua ns sro ruih. lug- In reinforcements and concentrating artlUery. The enemy ts frantically reinforcing the sidee cf what renalne of the Argonne pocket while withdrawing- la the center. More than 200 allied bombing planes, 100 battle planes, and 50 chasers are in action. Tho Pranco-American air hordes simultaneously attacked the cantonment area east cf the Itteusa where the Germans are massing for counter attacks, shooting down twelve boches with only one castualty. Several towns are burning. AMERICANS THROUGH KRIEMHILDE LINE By FRED FERGUSON (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY, Oct. 10. The Americans are through the Kriernhilde line on a front of nearly four miles. They have smashed the last organized German defenses in this region west of the Meuse and are advancing northward with only natural defenses between them and the Belgium frontier. The Argonne pocket has been wiped out by the Junction of the French and Americans at Lancon. The Americans are moving up through the forest with the engineers blazing the way through the woods and tangled masses of wire. Continuous Yankee artillery fire cracked the Kreim-Hilde line near Romagne. The infantry storming the Romagne hills found wrecked German artillery in tho demolished positions. The remaining defenders, unable to retreat through the American barrage, crawled forward to surrender. The American advance was temporarily halted by great masses of German infantry, backed by machine guns. The Komagne heights, now American, dominated enemy positions for miles to the rear. ALLIES ARE NEAR GREAT GERMAN BASE ' United Press Cablegram. LONDON, Oct. 10,-Allied troops are within two miles of the great German base of Le Cateau, Field Marshal, Haig announced today. The British have begun to advance eastward from Lens and have captured Sallaumiaes and Novelles, about two miles east of that city. Le Cateau is only fifteen miles from the Belgian border between Valenciennes and JIaubeuge. It is seventeen miles directly south of the former city. ARE TRYING TO BEAT DIPLOMACY Bt T'nitfd Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Military plans of America and her allies contemplate smashing back the Hun to his home defense lines in the west before diplomacy by CConMnued on car fl.

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