Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 79, Hammond, Lake County, 16 October 1918 — Page 1

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satisfaction Rife in Germany! Over Kaiser Rule, Wash- j Hears. I By United Frfs?. I WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Upon: a growing dissatisfaction in Germany over Kaiser rule, autnonues here today based the view that the , Kohenzollern power will soon crumble and that the Wilson peace' terms will then be accepted. j The Teuton press is voicing dis-j satisfaction with things as they arej in Teuton politics. Comment isj becoming so general the censor I does not dare to kill it. The state! i department is keeping a careful! file of German press comments; gathered by its agents. The de-; partment withholds this generally J less it raise American ideas of an early peace unduly. j The government is now proceed- j ing with its war plans as though j peace notes had not been exchang- j ed. Disregarding peace prospects they are arranging "force without stint." WANT WAS STOPPXD. Violent anti-dynastic manifestations occurred in Berlin Thursday, according to the London Times. Great crowds; Mthsred the whole length of Unter der T.inden. also in front of the imperial j palace, smashed several famous Hohen-1 zollern statues and surged around the Bulgarian legation, shouting: "We want f?aee?" "Stop the war!" "Down with; he Hohenzollrrn? "' This is the story! of sn oye-witr.ess. ; IEI2GEAK CONFIRMS 5T03.IES. j Another teiofram from The Hague: r..-.nnrmine renorts of strikes and '..rronstra'.iis in Kssen beginnirg , T'lUi'day ana continuing to saiurua) y revolutionary songs were sung and ar-J placard i carried saying: Down with " "We are he OT.r." "We want pcaca 'i in? of starvation." The informant who left Essen Suniry rr.T'rnins; fays he is convinced the revolution is afoot. He feared he would unable i rture. to leave if he delayed his def United Pre?3 Cablegram. PARIS, Oct. 16. President Wilson pins Prussia to the wall, according to French opinion here. Some newspapers declare the president's note is one of the most historic of the war. Popular discussion accords President Wilson the highest praise. Many believe the note will go far towards assisting Austro-Hun-gary.and Turkey to shape their courses of action. TERMS OF SURRENDER NOTED IfNiTED Press Cablegram. LONDON, Oct. 16. Complete German disarmament and disbanding of the army and allied occupation of Metz and other German towns are the terms of enemy surrender which must be met before an armistice can be obtained, it is reported here today. Military authorities think it is also necessary for the Germans to surrender their fleet and permit the allies to occupy Heligoland.

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FIFTH CONGRESSMAN TO BE GIVEN BARS 3& iir-1 1 Representative Tom Connolly Representative Tom Connolly of Waco, Texas, is the first Democratic member of congress to receive a commission in the army. Four Republican member.! have obtained commissions. Connolly has been made captain and is to be adjutant at Camp Meade. He is a Spanish war veteran. LAKE CO. GHWAYS . "ri. IndiaiiapOllS - ChlCagO MOtOr Mail Route Through Lake County Also Used for Motor Convoys; to Be Kept Clear of Snow. Koads and highways leading through Thay er, Shelby, Crown Point, llerrlllville. South Gary, Gary, and Hammond I are on the motor mail route from Indi- ,' anapolis to Chicago to be in operation this month. All the equipment has been ordered. Lake county postmasters have been informed. VThore The Route Is. The through route from Indianapolis to Chicago will follow the old Michigan road for fifty-six miles to the town of Middlefork and thfs road, built many years ago as a post road, will again revert to use for more modern methods of transporting mail. The route will pass through the following cities an! towns: New Augusta, Zionsville, Whltestown. Rosston. Kirklin, Boyleston, Michigantown. Middlefork. Greetingsville, Sedalia. Rossville. Edna Mills, Monitor. Lafayette. At Lafayette the route passes along two divisions to Chicago, one touching the following places: Thayer, Shelby. Crown Point. Merrillville. South Gary, Gary. Hammond. South Chleago and Chicago. The other division passes through Demotte, Vlrgle, Kensselaer. Collegeville. AVolcott. Mor.tmnrpnp i. West Lafavette and Lafayette. The highways transport committee. (Continued on page five.) RESOLUTIONS FOR FULL REPARATION By United Press.! WASHINGTON". Oct. 16. A resolution declaring for entire reparation !n devastated territory has been adopted by the French senate, according to diplomatic dispatches received here today. MAYO CLINIC HAS NEW VACCINE Bt United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 16. Dr. E. C. Rosenow, of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn., here today at a conference of physicians said he might announce tomorrow the discovery of a vaccine to combat Spanish influenza. CONGRESSMAN DEAD. OF FLU -tBT LOUIS. United Tress. ST. LOUIS. Oct. 16. Jacob Meeker, congressman from the Tenth district of Missouri, died of Spanish influenza this morning here. He had been ill since Monday. The congressman last night was married in the hospital to his private secretary when he realized death was near. Double Quick Time for the 4th Loan!

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NOTICE TO WOMEN. The Red Cross of Hammond requests that all women who are willing to serve as nurses no matter whether or not they have had professional training, telephone their names and addresses to Mayor Brown's office immediately. Compensation will be arranged. Your prompt cooperation may save human life. DR. T. W. OBERLIN. Chairman Red Cross.

NOTICE TO SICK. All people who are unable to procure medical assistance or nursing are requested to notify the Mayor so that aid for them may be procured. MAYOR DAN BROWN. Hammond. DECREASE County Health Officer Believes That Raging Epidemic Has Reached Its Peak in Lake County. The prediction of county health officer Dr. R. P. Hale of East Chicago is Justified this morning by the email number of new cases of influenza, that are reported. The epidemic Is under control. The good work of the physicians of the county, the preventative measures that have been published in The Times and largely adopted, the closing of public places and the excellent weather are responsible for improved conditions. Contrast Xn Noted. The stringent action of th state board of health end city and township local authorities and the results that are apparently being obtains dare contrasted with the late action of Illinois and Chicago authorities that are now Just entering into a widespread prevalence of the disease. The sunshine and its warmth are Indeed a God-send to the localities afflicted and will be the means of saving great expense and further cost of llf. Dr. Hale sends out word, however, that not the slightest relaxation must be permitted In the fight against the disease. He does not want the indolence prevailing on the west side of the rtate line to exist in Lake county. it HARBOR MEN STILL PERSISTENT Last right Officer Hanlon of the Hammond police stopped an automobile with six men in it on Indianapolis boulevard and found in the car & ten gallon keg of whiskey. The men arrested were Joe Golik, Joo Turkal, Nick Vujnovick, and Jacob Kliceh of 2302 137th street, Indiana Harbor. Louis Ofradovlch of 9351 Ave. N, South Chicago, and Isadore Haiilavick of 8478 Ewing avenue. South Chicago. Golik, Turkal, Kliceh and Ofradovlck were each fined $130 and the case against Hanlavlck was nolle prossed and Nick Vujnovich's trial .was set for Friday morning in the Hammond city court by Judge Klotz. Two Mor Taken. Toan Duma and Floyd Duma of 3i48 Elock avenue, Indiana Harbor, were arrested last night by Captain Strong at the corner of State and Hohman street, Hammond, charged with bringing liquor ir.to the state. They had 10 quarts of whiskey In a suit case. Both Toan and Floyd were fined $80 In the Hammond city court this morning by Judge Klotz. NEW AUSTRIAN CABINET FORMED? Bt United Press NEW TOYRK, Oct. 16. Count Silvls. Tarnoica has been summoned by Emperor Charles to form a new Austrian cabinet, according to unconfirmed diplomatic reports reaching here today.

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America is enlarging her army of nurses and physicians for field service with the same eigantic strides with vhich she is building p her array Li France. The U. S. GRAND JURY, REUS OF LAKE CO, Is Busy at Indianapolis this Week Probing f5 Liquor Violations. The United States grand Jury is in session at Indianapolis this week Investigating 75 Lake county defendants charged wTVh transporting liquor into Indiana. It is expected there will be nearly as many indictments and that a great number will be Indicted on more than one count. However, there will be no Indictment returned for Max Hirschman. the exsaloonman, because he killed himself at Michigan City after he had been bound over by the Vnlted States commissioner at Hammond. Two others have taken the suicide route and. it Is feared "that there may be others who will attempt self-destruction rather than face a term In fhe penitentiary. The twenty-three men on the federal grand Jury come largely from the "dry" portions of the state where there Is no sympathy for liquor violators. In a majority of the cases Special Agenf G. W. Green of the department of Justice has secured signed confessions, which will expedite the trials when the men appear before Judge Albert B. Anderson. AMERICANS CAPTUPvE ST. JUVIN HEIGHTS BY FRANK J. TAYLOR. United Fkess Cablegram. WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST AIlMY. Oct. 16 The Americans have captured St. Juvin Heights and have advanced northward. Two hundred and forty prisoners were taken. The Americans widened their breach the Kreimhllde line In an all-day fight, netting their biggest day along the Aire. The doughboys stormed St. Juvine. There was bitter fighting between St. Gorges and Landres, where our troops penetrated formidable wire defenses in the face of terriflc machine gun fire. v.!i- v,a ?.feuse our tanks helped clean ! out the machine gun nests and led the infantry in Its assault. The Germans desperately are throwing in reinforcements in an attempt to prevent a complete break through by the Americans near Grandpre. Two German counte attacks were defeated. LIBERTY LOAN IS GATHERING MOMENTUM f Bt T'nited Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 Overcoming the handicap of peace talk and influenza with the Fourth Liberty Loan today was gathering its greatest momentum of the campaign. ' For the first time since the advent of the campaign treasury officials were optimistic. Early reports wrre of decidedly encouraging tone. There are a number of large subscriptions. Chicago loan officials telegraphed that the pledges of great sums were pouring into the committee's headquarters while at the same time there was no decrease in the number of small contributions. The work throughout the country was expected to show encouraging results in tonight's total.

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greater the number of nurses, the smaller the number of casualties. Every effort is being made to keep the sacrifices made by our boy3 down to the minimum. The photo PELIISHER liSEUP1 Special. To Thb Times. CHICAGO. Oct. IS. Another physician's license has been removed from one of the various "doctors' offices" backed by Emil Fellisher of Hammond. Ind., proprietor of a "medical museum" end well known to students of quack history. The latest raid on one of Fellisher's shops occurred in Joliet, where M. A. Chaiken, an assistant registered pharmacist, was fined J$T5 and costs yesterday for practicing medicine without a license. On the wall was the Illinois license of Dr. E. D. Porter of Indianapolis. Dr. Porter's license in Illinois has now been revoked. A few weeks ago the state authorities raided another Pellisher quack shop In South Chicago and arrested one M. C. Peiderman, who had been practicing under the license of a Dr. Farver. said to have received $10 a month for the uso of his license. T DRAFT TO CMDSlHTtl Thirty Young Men From Thence to Go to South Carolina Next Week. Speciai, To Thb Times CROWN POINT. Ind.. Oct. 16. The following men will leave Crown Point next week for Camp Wadsworth, S. Carolina: John I Knight, Crown Point. Ind.; John W. Knight. Crown Point, Ind.; , Raymond Warneld. Lafayette. Ind.; P. M. Scholler. Dyer; Webster Schofleld. Crown Point; Wm. H. Smith, Shelby; John A. Gerner. Lowell; Chas. E. Tanner. Crown Point; Elliott E. Hough, jpaumer; John Goodness. Lowell; Edward A. Austgen. Cedar Lake; Arthur IT. Crisman. East Gary; Sanford E. Bailey, Miller; Cle Hauser. Miller; F. G. Graf. Hobart; Henry F. Uhter. Lowell; Robert F. Zauder, Hobart; Peter Grusel. Griffith; Frank C. Schmidt. Gary. R. F. D. ; Wm. Wojford. Lowell; i Godfrey Allen. Miller; John Teter I Grove. Dyer; Matthias N. Klein. Sedar I Lake; Arnold. V. Bixemann, Cedar 'Lake; Paul Witt, Hobart; John Siem, Crown Point; Elmer B. Ballantyne. Hobart; Rudolph Mikuta. Crown Ft. FEDERAL FARM LOAN BONDS ARE ABSORBED Bt TfviTEr Pr.E?s. WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. Treasury officials today issued an order absorbing all federal farm loan bonds, thereby eliminating their competition with Liberty bonds. The order announcing that no more farm loan bonds will be offered to the public simultaneously placed complete treasury control over every issue of stocks or bonds over $100,000. In effect the United States treasury becomes supreme in deciding where the nation's finances shall be used. Put a larger Service Star on your Pocketbook

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shows one of the groups of American nurses arriving in England on it's way to join Pershing's forces. The general has praised the work of these intrepid women. S 10 CLOSE Illinois Health Officer Said to Have Issued an Order Today. According to orders issued by Dr. Drake of the Illinois State Medical Board from Chicago through Acting City Attorney S. K. Markman of West Hammond, all saloons in "West Hammond and Burnham are to be closed until the epidemic of Spanish Influenza is over. Mayor Paul Mamradt said early this afternoon thai he had received no order to that e."cct from Chicago. STEEL FOUNDRIES HEADJSPRDHDTED Lieut.-Col. R. P. Lamont, Now High in U. S. Ordnance Department. WASHINGTON". Oct. 18. Major General C. C Williams, chief of ordnance, announces that Brigadier General Samuel C. McKoberts Is relieved from duty as chief of the procurement division of the army ordnance departmert. Lieutenant Colonel Robert P. Lamor.t succeeds him. General McRobarts is to undertake important work oa the staff of the chief ordnance officer with the A. E. F. In France. Lieutenant Colonel Lamont la civil Ufa was president of the American Steel Foundries Company of Indiana Harbor, sloned February 4. Il2 1318. commisHUNS ARE FIGHTING WITH DESPERATION By Fred S. Frrsuson. f United Press Cableowam. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORT HOF VERDCN. Oct. 16. Americans are battering another breech In the Kriemhllde line in the retfion of St. Gorges. The enemy is fighting with the utmost desperation. A break between the Alsne and the Meuse rivers means collapse of the entire German front in this sector and the enemy's left flank would be shattered. Burency Is under American shellfire and several big railway centers have been repeatedly bombed. Hun communications are being harrassed constantly. The Americans are narrowing the avenue through which the Germans can withdraw. There are no Indications that the enemy is caving in before the Americans. If he does it means the finish of the war will be on French soil for communications between the German armies will be cut and they will be doomed. ALLIES GET BIG BAG YESTERDAY United Press Cablegram. LONDON. Oct. 16. In Flanders the Allies took 12,000 prisoners and between 200 and 300 guns in Tuesday's fightinj the Express declared today. The prisoners were equally divided between the Belgian, British and the French. The British took ffty guns.

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SOURCES j London Believes That Amster dam's Report is Approximately Correct. BULLITLV. LONDON, Oct. 16. The Nieuve Rotterdamsche Courant published a telegram from Hamburg saying that Germany has capitulated. fBt'LLETIX. LONDON, Oct. 16. Ac cording to an Exchange Tel egraph dispatch from Amjsterdam, it is reported from iBerlin that Germany accepts all of President Wils son's conditions providing the interests of the German people are safeguarded. r Bulletin. J LONDON, Oct. 16. The report from Amsterdam that Germany has .accepteql all of President Wilson's conditions is believed here 4. 1.. " 1.-1 jtu ue approximately correct. (B'JLLETIN-.J LONDON, Oct. 16 There is a persistent revival of reports that the Kaiser has abdicated. f Bulletin. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 16. German newspapers declare that President Wilson's note dashed the hopes of peace which were aroused by his first reply. Some say Wilson's language is excited as a result of conference with the allies. fU.viTsn Press Cable', ram. PARIS. Oct. 16. The French are driving forward at vital points north of Laon and in the Champagne. The enemy is being pushed back upon the Ardennes country. Latest dispatcl.es from the battlefront Indicate that the fifth army now under control of General Gulllaumat is making progress toward Mount Cornet and Vervins. Further to the right In the Champagne Rethel Is being more outflanked while the Germans are unsuccessfully endea'oring to prevent the French from crossing the Alsne. Vervins is 23 miles north of Laon and 13 miles from the Belgian border. AMERICAN TROOPS IN BITTER BATTLE Br United Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Capture of Hill 223 by the American troops after It had changed hands three times Is reported in the communique from Gen. Pershing. The report shows continued advance on both sides of the Marne where French and American troops engaged in hand to hand fighting with the enemy. Capture of a number of prisoners is noted. FIRES MAY BE INCENDIARY United Press Cablegram. DULUTH. Minn.. Oct. 16.--Susplcion that some of the devastation of foresi fires In northern Minnesota were of incendiary origin was admitted today by officials who have toured the stricken districts. More than 60 bodies have been found and the number Is expected to be lncrssd.

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