Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 113, Hammond, Lake County, 22 October 1918 — Page 1
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German Newspapers are Much Pleased With Dr. Soil's Answer to Wilson, BULLETIN. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 22. A revolution has broken out in Bulgaria, according to Vienna dispatches received today. Fighting is going on in the streets of Sofia between laborers and troops. Three thousand people have been killed. Bulletin. 1 HOTTED Press Cablegram. PARIS, Oct 22, 1:45 p. m. "The Austro-Hungarian government soon will reply to President Wilson's note in as much as he has not answered the question concerning possible conditions for peace negotiations," declared a semi-offi-cia ldispatch from Vienna received here today. Bulletin. 1 l"VTT:r PR'f Cableoram COPENHAGEN, Qct. 22. The German press generally considers Dr. Solfs reply "to President WilEon as a satisfactory basis for further negotiations. "Should Wilson demand impossibilities we must reckon on continuation of the war," the Tageblatt declares. CHILDREN SHOULO TjKEJDIiTAGE Those on Farms Have Good Opportunity As Schools Are Closed. Br COTTXTTT AGENT. CROWN rOINT, IND., Oct. 22. While the schools of this county are closed because of the Spanish influenza, the Vupils who live on farms have an excellent opportunity to select sed corn from the standing stalks and put into rractlce some, of the things they have been taught this fall in their agricultural classes. With the rush of fall work now because of the bad weather last month, the boys and girls who have learned how to select good seed can help their fathers, some of whom have not selected their seed, and at th same tuna can render a distinct service to their country. Seed selected before heavy frosts and properly stored will help increase the yield next year, which means more food for America and her allies, says County Agent Place. Select teed from stalks that are free from disease, says the county agent. It should be taken from ears that are about four feet above the ground. After it is gathered, every ear should be put in the seed house, so that no two ears touch. Then it will not mold or spoil because of the large percentage of moisture. Do not under any circumstances leave it hanging in a tree, on tho fence, over a clothes line or other places outdoors. The weather man is no respector o seed corn and a heavy frost is liable to kill the germinating powers of tho seed. If there Is no seed house on the farm, an upstairs room is the next best place. An attic usually is too 000I for it to dry and a cellar is too damp, causing the corn to mold and retain its largo moisture content. Get your seed now and store it properly, is the final word from the county agent. We want no more seed sltuilions like that of last spring. TO SAVE SUGAR. Te fresh fruits without sugar. Cook dried fruits without ad-1i-riinal sugar; they already contain sugar. Can more fruit without sugar; put up fewer jams and jellies. Use less sugar In tea and coffee: you will soon learn to l;y it better. Avoid such luxuries as candy, cakes, chewing gum, sweet drinks r.d sodas. Use honey, maple sugar and sirups and other sweetening when available. Cut out all desserts or other d!shs that require much sugar.
ANOTHER ANGLE OF SALOON TANGLE Great Lakes Officer Here to Watch West Hammond and Burnham.
Another angle of the West Hammond saloon tangle came to light thie morning when Lieut. I.. It. Melnlkoff, U. & N.. Great Lakes station, arrived in West Hammond today on request of the Illinois state health officer. The officer will remain, in the state line territory until the epidemic ia over. He ordered the saloons closed at 10 o'clock and permitted not more than ten to be in the places at one time. In a Burnham t-a-loon on Sunday Lieut. Melnikoff found ,"00 people at one time r.nd had to break a window to get in. He. declares the saloon question on the Illinois state line sidfl the outcome of a fight between Sheriff Tragcr and States Attorney Iloyne. BIG BILL IS FINALLY LANDED Hammond Police Nab Him While He Was Haul- . ing Liquor. Big Bill Subotich of Indiana Harbor finally grot his. Bill has been sought by the Hammond police for months because they believed he was active in illicit liquor traffic. He has gone bail "for many a Harbor Uquor trafficker. So last night. Bill, whose home address is 35D0 Guthrie St.. was arrested on Calumet avenue by P. H. Voight and J. Harris, special agent of C. fe O. R. It., charged with bringing liquor into the ste. Subotich had IS gallons of whiskey in his machine. He is out on $500 bonds to appear or trial October 26th in the Hammond city court. " . - . WILL, IT WHS HOT OP WINE Gary Man Trapped While Bringing Liquor into the State. Vincent Cesare of 1541 Washington St., Gary, was arrested yesterday afternoon by one of Hammond's motorcycle police on Calumet boulevard charged with bringing liquor into the state. Cesare had 100 .gallons of wine in a bakery wagon. He was fined ?130 in the Hammond city court by Judg Kotz and the liquor confiscated to be destroyed. JACK FOX RETIRES FROM BUSINESS On ins to ill health. Jack Fox. one ot Hammond's pioneer merchants, has reand sold his stock of men's furnishings to a Chicago dealer. For eight years Mr. Fox conducted a haberdashery in the Hammond Building with a splendid trade and satisfied customers. With his two sons in the service of the country and feeling the need of a change. Mr. Fox decided to retire from business. Becauso of the difficulty In getting help he wtis confined too much to the store. Mr. and Mrs. Fox will visit a health resort in the near future, staying until Mr. Fox is recovered and return to Hammond. BATTLE IN VOUZIERS SECTION RENEWED H'xiTEn Press Cablkop.am.1 PARIS, Oct. 22. 4:fo P- m. The battle in the Vouz.ers region was resum ed today with redoubled violence. The Germans who are u:n? enormous' numbers of men in their determination to prevent flanking of the Argonne- j ! Massif on the north arc suffering) heavy losses. ! General DeGoutte's army is reported ! to be advancing swiftly in Belgium. ADVANCE OF FRENCH ON A VIDE FRONT United Press Cablegram. 1 LONDON, Oct. 22, 3:li p. m. French troops operating north of the British army in Flanders advanced on a wide front this morning and are making px- I i client progress, battietront aispaien i es reported today. , BRITISH TROOPS REACH SCHELDT United Press Cabi.E';rm. LONDON. Oct. 22 British troops have reached the Scheldt river on a. I five mile front north of Tournal. Field ' Marshal Haig announced in his "spe cial Belgian communique today. The British advanced ahout a mile between the Scheldt and the Lys, while the French improved their posij tions along the latter river. The Germans, it was announced, abandoned all thelr coast defense guns.
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Tenth Distritc Congressman Seized With Spell on the Floor of House; Doctor Is Not Found for an Hour or So. WASHINGTON", Oct. 12. Representative AVU1 T!. Wood, of the Tenth Indiana district, was seized with a fainting spell on the floor of the house yesterday and had to be carried to the cloak rooms. Mr. Wood had been complaining of dizzy spells, but remained on the floor because he had arranged to make a speech on the $6,000.0u0,000 deficiency bill. Atttcndants were unable a first to find a physician for Mr. Wood because of the scarcity caused by the Spanish influenza epidemic and it was fully a j half an hour before medical attention could bo given him. Representative i Lazard of Louisiana, a physician, finally I arrived, but was unable to diagnose Mr, Wood's case at once. Lake County Defense Council Will Have Warm Session at Next Meeting with Slackers Who Ignore Order. . Special To The Times CROWN POINT. Ind., Oct. 22 The session of the Lake County Council of Defense yesterday was for the greater part executive and the time spent in executive session s used by those who were cited to explain why they had not bought I-iberty Bonds. . So far the council has ruled against publishing the names of those cited before the body for failure to subscribe to the bond i?sues but there is a feeling throughout the county, especially in the north, that the practice obtaining in other councils of defense should be carried out in I,ake county and that is to give th fullest publictty to these cases in order that they may serve as a warning. Yesterday at the council meeting the net results of the citations howed (Continued on paga two.) WAR PROFITS IN TAX BILL DISCUSSED Bt United Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. The senate finance committee today suggested and eliminated from the "eight billion dollar war tax bill the alternative war and execr-s profits clause written into it by the house. The committee adopted an amendment which t,til provides fur war and excess j refits but w hich does not Kive the taxpayers an alternative method commuting tax or the treasury department the right to say whether a icncern :-halI pay war or excess profit tax. It reduces lomewnat the excess profit rate in accordance somewhat v. ith the views of Secretary McAdoo. Under the house plan a concern would pay which ever of the two taxes was higher. It provide. that upon excess profits up to twenty per cent tax shall be paid and on excess profits of over twenty per cent a tax of sixty percent. Upon war profits the house tax of sixty per cent is retained. LODGE CALLS IT CLUMSY TRAP Bt l'N!TK! Press.) WASHINGTON. J t. Th Ger man reply is a "clumsy trap" akwardly set to involve us in diplomacy, declared Senator Lodge today. He said there should be no reply from the United States except the same unconditional surrender which was exacted from Bulgaria. "It seems to me unbelievable that any one should be taken in by the last German note," said Lodge. "It is varnished over with a little false flattery directed to the president and people of the United States, which can deceive no one. In other respects it is a clumsy trap, akwardly set, to involve us in diplomatic discussion of all things to be avoided at this moment."
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Operated Machine Gun Against Yanks; German Women Now On a Vacation
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Oct. 22 Germany's latest peace mond as president. note reached correspondents' head- , "According to the report of Senator . . , urant who is on the ground," stated Sir. quarters last night just as thejMcAlwi. today w.eM Vo drneJ in siren let us several sharp blasts, at 4SS icct ,vIlie w-eii no. i drilled in warning that German bombers &t 573 feet and :d. 2 shows even be-ttcr
were paying a visit. An American lieutenant war, wounded, when an enemy shell made a direct hit on a dugout adjoining that of Maj. lien. William G. Haan of Crown Point, in- ; diana. commander of the Thirty-second rhirty-SCClilld Division. Gen. Jiasn was i ijuim hut the dugout was destroyed horse was killed. and 01 HOUSE run up DECATUR, man Evangclii Schumm, nine was destroyed plosion causeIt is said ' D., Oct. 22. The Gerhrick school house at niles east of this city. ;arly Sunday ly an ex- J "by nitroglycerin. j 5 teachers in the school I oluntarily t" cease the j had refused teaching of th- Germa nlanguagc. The church, in connection with which the I school is conducted, has been in tho charge of tho Rev. George Meyer. The! school taught German continually since j the outbreak of the war, and no attention had been paid to repeated dsnnnli i from, the people of the settlement thai: the practice be stopped Officials of the congregation from Schumm and Decatur already have started an investigation, and have offered a reward for information leading to the arprehension of the dynamiters. BRITISH TROOPS NEAR TOURNAI Un-itep Press CmxonAv..l LONDON, Oct. 22. British troops Brnow within less than a mile of Tourpal. Field Marshal Haig announced toda The Germans in that region were driven out of Oroq and the woods near Frey ennes. The left bank of the Esraillon was reaches south of Thiant. five miles to the south of Valenciennes;. THUNDEROUS . DENUNCIATION BT l'NITET PFKSS.J CHICAGO. Oct. "2. Newspaper editorials throughout the country today generally regarded the German reply to President Wilson as a mixture of effrontery and efforts at conciliation and branded it characteristically Prussian.
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percent of th highest gra'e luhrieating oil. an excellent grad; of panuffin and I t,, tl,.. hr.Kt i-milo f !nnvl. vania oil which is drilled ot an average of 2,:P' f et. The drilling of our wells is very economical owing- to the fact that they are shallow and all (.hale instead of r'Ck. With the development the North Central Company already has mado and with the producing wells of other companies on lands immediately adjoining its property wo now have seven offset wells to drill in. The property is of immense value and the stockholders are very enthusiastic." LIEUT. LOUIS TELLS OF AEROPLANE ACCIDENT L. W. Louis of The Times, whose son. Lieut. John Louis, was injured in an aPropinne accident in flying over the jiun !nP,. in which Lieut. Louis's pilot was nied. has written his father that h j , convalescent and outside of scars ahot the head, which he w ill w ear aJ lon,, ES nf i;Ves, will food he all ri:j!,t. n has been invalided to Nice n the Mediterranean sea for several w e e k s in o r d r r that h e may benefit of the sea air. have the GERMANS STRENGTHEN FORCES fly Frank J. Taylor. WITH Till: AMERICAN ARMT IX FRANCE, "ft. 22. The Germans continue to strengthen their forces op- ):. in ? the Ainej jeans in the Aruinn--Meuse region by rushing in units of new divison?. A captured order ifsued by General Von Dor Marwitz appealed to the H in soldiers to hold th ir sectors at all co.'ts which he declared is nifist vital to German military movements. Prisoners report their officers are (ittfrmined to hold back the Yankee push. The clearins out f the Tt-ppe wr.d I which the (:-i;ir;;il..o s accomplished; j esterday r-f t-'ntooji in three hours d?8pite heavy macliinf pun and artillery j fire has removed one of the most scrions obstacles t their continued pro-1 gresi
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,jvvij 3f - fire. The three women In the picture were at the time operating: a machine frun against the advancing: Americans under armed guard. It is stated also that these three women were captured. Delivery Official Nofe indicates Possible Difference With Wireless Version Bt-LLFTIV. By CHARLES B. DRISCOLL Bt United Press. NEW YOEK, 9ct. 23 Allied occupation of Germany for at least three, or four years is an essential condition cf cording' to Stephene Lauianne, member of the French high commission In the United States. Commenting- upon the G-orrrTan note Mr. Lauzanne eaid the German people unquestionably are uader the Impression that barbarities are part of natural consequences of tear. Of this the German people must he cured. TBr United Press. j WASHINGTON, Oct 22. Delay m delivery of the official note to the state department today gave rise to belief that there had been some difficulty in decoding it and perhaps there was some difference between the offitial text and that sent out by a Naucn wrreiess. President Wilson while waiting for the official text of the German note to be laid before him took a long walk this morning, accompanied only by two secret service men. President Wilson will act with extreme caution in handling the situation nrislng from the latest peace response. A rause will be taken to see whether J the Teuton reply will stand the. test. it is deemed linely, however, that after the president has an opportunity to study the official teit of the ftcrman note some indication will be given as to his attitude. The note as seen by intimates of the president indicates a confession of defeat. Others close to the president sawin the noto a compliance of his request for evacuation. Germany's attempted justification of her wanton acts of cruelty and destructio non land and sea stirred resentment j here. Military men and others say that while there may b trickery in Germany's recent maneuvers the militaryeconomic situation confronting her is si had that there can he no question that she is making a sincore drive for peace. From the president down all are satisfied to leave in the Hands of Foch ad- , justment of any armistice. NOTICE. Any one. spitting or smoking street cars v. ill he prosecuted n the This rule will he strictly enforced. By order of the HAMMOND BOARD OF HEALTH. 10-22
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REJECT IT Newspapers A!! Orer I), S, Condemn Soil Reply, The Ra tion Thunders "No". ' Bulletin. United Press Cablegram. LONDON, Oct. 22. Lord Nortkcliffe, speaking a a luncheon in the American Officers Club today, characterized the German reply as an attempt to gain time and confuse the issue. i "Unless we face resolutely and clear mindedly the present peace offensive it may become more dangerous than the military offensive last springs" he said. He declared his belief that President Wilson will handle the German note as it deserves. Bff.LETIX.l H.'N.'TKD PllESS CAbLE.lR.UI.; LONDON. Oct. 22 Pointing out that it contains no offer of unconditional surrender, London morning newspapers rejected the reply of Germany to President Wilson. Claims of Germany's democratization were discredited. Treachery and a desire to kill time by talking in order to get the fighting forces in shape again was seen generally. The note was regarded as vague. and in wide variance with the ideas of President Wilson. United Press Cablegram PARIS, Oct. 22. "Tho German reply gives no satisfaction to France," a high government official stated today. "President Wilson stated the allied . command should dictate the conditions of an armistice. Germany asks it on the basis advantageous to Germany. She agitates the question of honor after the most numerous lies. I am sure President Wilson cannot be pleased that Germany attempted to make the world believe he was hasty when he denounced her murder. She would like to indues neutrals to verify things which have already been verified, thus to gain time and prolong the conversation. "Berlin vainly waited for Improvement in tho military situation. Then Von Hindenburg brought bad news to Berlin which consequently set forth in its reply a more ardent desire for an armistice. "It is possible that President Wilson will make no reply. In case he does France is utterly confident of his decision." FOCH TO DECIDE MATTER. TBt United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Germany must come to military terms with Marshal Foch. This was the outstanding feature of developments here up to noon today following the receipt of the latest reply to President Wilson. The next logical step appeared to be an announcement from Foch of the. terms on which he would consider an armistice possible. Whether the president will request Foch to make this statement at this time is purely problematical. It is believed In military circles thut Foch's minimum terms will include allied occupation of Metz, Strassburg and Coblenz. Meantime public pressure from the entire nation in the form of telegrams and editorial opinion was combined with the strongest demands from congress expressed by members individually that unconditional surrender be m ide the only base for further negotiations. RoiifHonor Gen. Perilling today In his daily casualty list reports: FAUX SPART, 1412 Adams St.. Gary, as missing- In action sirce last July.