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LSU - Jay Wiegel Shot by Ma chine Gun in Leg and Is! Woundftrl in Arm bv ! Shrapnel Is Now in Engrnp brave Hammond boy. Jay Wiegel. sr. of Mrs. W. K. Keilley, 40 AVarren f'rttt, who has been fighting overseas ) nearly a year, has been badly wound1 in France and is now in an English hospital near London. Jay AViesel enlisted in the 171st Infantry of Illinois, which is Col. Sanborn's Dandy First, early in the war and has seen some terrific fighting. Hr-H--l through unscathed until the advancethat was being made in the Marne sector on fugust K when he was shot belo.v the knee by a bullet from a German machine gun nest. At the same time almost a piece of shrapnel struck him in the arm and rut him out of action. The leg wound was the worst and yet he seemed in a fair way to get over both wounds nicely until an abscess ; formed in his leg and an operation was necessary. He was removed to an Englislf hospital near London and the last his mother heard from him was that he was not doing so well. The young man is bearing up bravely, however, and though not large in stature and extra ftrong iUJn?-?UCluci. to pall him out of his illness. Mrs. Keilley has another son Russell in the automotive service but ha has not gbne overseas yet. FRANCES ENSLEHI1IPT 'WOUNDED-PI East Chicago Soldier Boy Is Shot After Going Back into the Battle Line. From across seas comes a letter long i waited bearing the tidings that Francis Englchaupt of East Chicago, who was officialy reported severely wounded after action several months pgo. writes that he was well enough to rnter the field of action again after having received wounds and being gassed. Hp recuperated at a base hospital and received a bullet wound after his entry into the battle again. He is now lookin?: for a suspension of duty and will )- sent home this time. All who know Francis knows his strength of endurance and believe he has done his duty in the fight for freedom. The letter recfved yesterday was dated France. September ISth. Ho is the sm of August Englehaupt of S323 Block avenue. DYER BOY DIES III Fin HOSPITAL Herbert Keilman Succumbs to Wounds Received in Battle. Special To The Timks.1 HOBART. IXD. Oct. 24. H. E. Keilman of this city has Just received the sad news that his brother Herbert, a wol known Dyer young man. died about the middle of September in a French hospital after being severely wounded in action. He is the first St. John township boy to lose his life in the war. TURKEY MUST QUIT OtJTRIGHT fBr Ukiteo Press. 1 WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. Turkey must surrender unconditionally or suc- . imb to en allied drive on Constantinople. Turk agents in Switzerland are in touch with tilled representatives, according to an authoritative source today. Unless complete surrender ia accomplished Turk aid allied troops are prepared to pufh on across the Adrianopls line to Constantinople. OUAF. CASI. HEDEEN of Indiana Harbor, whose death in action was laportod by friends to this .paper last week is tha only name cf a Xake co-anty boy today oa Qen. Ferzhing'a casualty list.

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Co. .Boy Ha Thrilling Adventure . M, V X4- ) I - ', t i-0 A PRIVATE FOSESI KA&ON. ; Lost on a battlefield In France, where j he became separated from his company. ( a Gary soldier came face to face with ; two German soldiers, got the drop on the pair and made them his prisoners. Marching several miles till he heard American voices he'delivered his prison- j ers to the prison authorities. After searenmg m vain lor eigtvi cays ana i nights for h!s company he fell from hospital. , The hero of this exploit ts Private Forest A. Ragon. Co. L, 61st Infantry. A letter from Private Ragon to his wife and chili who are now living in Hobart told of the capture. Young Pagon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Ragon, SOS Harrison street. Gary, who has another son. Chandos S. Ragon. with the Marine corps in France. Private Ragon is the first Lake county soldier, so far as known, to capture a German. By Uviteo Press. AVASHIXGTOX, Oct. 24. President AA'ilson's appeal to Xew Jersey to elect democratic senators was regarded in congress today as a forerunner of an executive appeal soon to the nation for a congress that will work in sympathy with him in concluding the war, establishing peace and laying the foundation for reconstruction problems. Carr.paign issues now are being sharply drawn. Republicans ' declaring the president's peace proposal opposing all economic barriers means free trade are preparing to fight it out. They are also presenting a strong front against peace discussion with Germany on any ground save unconditional surrender. Administration leaders are preparing to combat both these issues. It is believed the president himself will direct the fight. LET FOCH DO IT. ' IJV SIMMS. f 1'nited Press Cablegram PARIS, Oct. 24. (XiKht). Let Marshal Foch and the. allied leaders reply to Germany regarding the latest German peace note to President Wilson, is the consensus of opinion here. HAVE ALLIES AGREED ON TERMS fUxiTED Press Cablegram. LONDON", Oct. 2 4. The ailies have agreed to terms of an armistice, according to information obtained here today. THE UKRNIAN , MINISTRY OUT United Pbess Cablegram LOXDOX, Oct. 24. The entire ministry of Ukrania has resigned, according to wireless dispatches received here, today from Berlin. ' PRINCE MAX HAS THE FLU Uviteo Press Cablegram. COPEXHAGEX. Oct. 2 4. Prince. Max, German chancellor, is ill with influenza, according to advises received here today

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-JB8' United Press Cablegram ! AMSTERDAM!, Oct. 24. : The kaiserin is seriously ill, according to reports her I children have been summonde to her bedside in Potsdam. ANDERSON RESIGNS . FRQMGITY COUNCIL Special Meeting Called by Mayor Brown for This Evening. The Hammond city council after a false alarm plans to have a meeting this evening to accept the resignation of Councilman Anderson of the Eleventh AV'ard who is moving to Chicago, provide payment for some short time. I notes and pass upon the franchise given i the United Boiler & Heating Co. by the J board of works for erection of a travelj ing crane across AVilcox street, i Upon announcement by the mayor j that a regular meeting would be held j Tuesday evening the council gathered in the chamber at the city hall only to have the city attorney inform them that the m,.eting COuld not be legal owing to the fact that lt was the fourth Tuesday of th(9 month instead of the third. Thereupon the council dispersed and the ..- .-p1 . sr,eHal meetinz- for this evPr,jng. Candidates for Anderson s place in the councll ar8 said to be numerous and rYiiff imnttr those mentioned is AV. R. . a-v,n a .ri nA t-hairman of the Citizens' party at Its notntnatlng convention. Henry Reissig is said to have the support of the mayor while J. M. Stlnson is talked of. The board of works having granted the United Boiler & Heating the right to erect a traveling crane across AVilcox street the council will be asked to ratify the contract. The company is engaged in war work and the board of works did not find the objections to its plan sufficient to block the improvement. , TD IKE UP FDBJD5T TIME Xmas Vacation Shortened and Three Weeks Added to End of Year. A week cut off of the ChristmasX'ew Year's vacation and three weeks added to the end of the school year win be the penalty public school children will pay in Hammond for their month's flu vacation. Supt. of Schools McDanlels was in hopes today that the schools will be permitted to open November 4. Meantime the school city it at the expense of meeting the payroll as a decision of the supreme court of the state provides that school teachers shall receive their salaries when the schools are closed by epidemics. Many of the teachers are at their homes where they can be Reached by wire. They are the ones fortunate enough to live within a few hours" ride of Hammond. Others are nursing while still others find the time heavy on their hands and wish they were at work again. To make up the lost month the Christmas vacation will be shortened to a week instead of letting out the first week of June school will continue ! until the first of July. Superintendent i McDaniels stated today. ACTIVITY ON ITALIAN FRONT United Press Cablegram. 1 ROME, Oct. 2 4. French and Italian troops in a powerful attack in the Sette Communi plateau last night penetrated far into the enemy lines, capturing Mt. Sisemol. Twenty-three officers and 70 men were captured. British troops stormed Austrian trenches south of Asiao. taking 214 prisoners. South of the Assi ridge and north of Mt. McA'al Bella Italian patrols took 100 prisoners and four machine guns. u. s. WILL NOTIFY THE HUNS (Bt United Press. WASHINGTON.. Oct. 4. Germany will be notified through the U. S. as to the allied council's agreement with the president's terms and the joint formula for an . armistice. The state department made no comment today on the president's answer. The Turkish request for an armistice is still in the state department's hands. It was held po?sib!e that the armistice will be such as to impose on the Austrians and Turks simultaneous with the Germans.

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AVhat has become of the football fan. the pool shark, the movie bug, the vaudeville hound and tw cabaret lizard?! Have they crawled ofrin a corner and given up the ghost? Or have they new diversions? For three weeks the doors of theaters and billiard parlors In Lake county have been closed and the gates of ball parks padlocked. And fcr three days i the cabarets in Burnham have closed at ten o'clock each evening the middle of the forenoon for them. Has the football fan found satisfaction in smoking his pipe and through the Prince Albert clouds visioning the good old days of Paddy Dris'coll and Johnny Barrett? Is the pool shark spending his evenings making imaginary shots with a broom handle and onions on the kitchen table? Is the movie bug pouring over the lurid pages of the latest movie magazine? Dues the vaudevillo hound console himself with an "Uncle Josh in the City" record on the victrola? And can the cabaret lizard get tight enough by ten o'clock to last him until his sleepy time? These, you will admit, are momentous questions that tax the mind on such a dull, bleak and unlovely day as this. Perhaps you are not especially worried by the ban on life's frivolities ard you may even get a great deal of satisfacWRECK ON THE ROCK ISLAND T Br United Press 1 CHICAGO. Oct. 2 4. Engineer I. L. jMcCiaf was killed and two other trainj men seriously injured early today when an engine ana nine cars ui a. r.utu Island freight train were derailed near Annawan, 111. According to Rock Island officials, a truck from a train passing on another track was thrown beneath the train, causing the accident. GEN. PERSHING REPORTSPROGRESS Br United Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 4. Braving determined opposition, American troops have made substantial gains north of A'erdun, liberating two villages and capturing a number of prisoners. AVednesday. General Pershing rerorted toady. American airmen shot down fifteen enemy planes and one observation balloon. AUSTRIA'S REPLY IS EXPECTED (United Pbss Cablegram ZURICH. Oct. 24. Austria's reply to President AAllson will soon be dispatched, advices received here today stated. The note, it was said, will announce Austria's refusal to negotiate with the Czecho-Slovaks' national council, but will offer to negotiate with the Czechs in Austria. Save for Allied War Drive!

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, - $ sJli ir-t i. Generals Haig, Foch and Pershing. I peoples are a unit in the determi- 1 j nation that the only men they care i to see on such a commission are i Generalissimo Foch, Marshal Haig I GET IT BACK? tion from it, not approving of any of these things. But the fellow who has his money invested is thinking about it and thinking hard. AVhat will they do with it when they get it back? That is the question the football promoter, the billiard hall owner, the movie impressario. the opry house manager and the cabaret landlord is asking. AVill they be weened away and stay away or will they be so hungry for their accustomed pleasure that they will get jammed in the doors the first night? AVell, the answer remains to be seen, or heard. In all probability the football fan will rave as madly over a high school game as he did last year when the state championship struggle was staged. The movie patron will no doubt have a new interest in "Sailing Down the Bushwa with Burt Holmes," "Fatty Carbuckle in Church" and Theda Bara in "The Strawberry Mark." On the other hand the vaudeville fiend will hail with delight his old friends, the KnockDown comedians. Jake and Steve and the La La sister, Minn and Lulu. And it is no doubt probable that Jake and Steve and Minn and Lulu as they count their fast diminishing cash and order coffee and rolls are looking forward as hopefully to the day when the ban is raised. SERBIANS FIGHT ON BRAVELY United Press Cablegram. LONDON, Oct. 24. Serbian troops have made further progress toward their former capital, driving the Austro-Ger-mans across the est Morava river, 00 miles from Belgrade, the Serbian war office announced today. CHAMBERLAIN ON ANSWER Bt United Press. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2 4. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the house committee, declared today "the president's note may be construed as a diplomatic demand for an unconditional surrender, leaving to the ntry of ihe allies the adjustment ot method of Sir said that the president had served notice on military autocracy that he has no confidence in the kaiser cr his associates. WHAT HUN TTTllTTret PAPER THINKS United' Press Cablegram. LONDON, Oct. 24. The exclusion of passenger ships from submarine attacks means the end of unrestricted submarine warfare, declared the Cologne Gazette today. Save sugar, save flour and you'll ,save lives

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w on l I 'v-T" --"Sv -1 and General Pershing. If these men arrange the evacuation Americans may rest assured that it w:!! be satisfactorily carried out. LIKES TO READ THE WANT . ADS. EVEN IN FRANCE Zi. H. Self er of Indiana Harbor has received a letter from bis brother-in-law. Corporal Xeon Kaplan, with Motor Truck Co. No. 412 in Trance is which he tells how busy he is and makes the following significant remark, "We will not be here very long because we are retting them cleaned up." The letter goes on to says "I am getting- The Times almost with every mail and believe me, as much as I appreciate yonx letters, It is no comparison to the home paper where Z find lots of comfort. Z read it from beginning to the end. Z noticed yon are having lots of trouble with truck drivers and helpers because yon always advertise fcr one or the other. Ton see Z even read the 'want ads. There is lots of news ia The Times that Interest me that you would never think of Importance to mention in your letters." HINDENBURG'S OWN ORDER United Press Cablegram. AVITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Oct. 24. In an order to German officers in the field, which has fallen into French hands today A'on Hinderburg refers to negotiations for an armistice. He declared that he approved of the peace movement. He asks for confidence now in his actions. BRITISH-AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW ADVANCE rUviTEO PRES3 Cablegram. LONDON. Oct. 24. British troops with Americans co-operating are continuing their advances cn a front of nearly tw-eny miles south of A'alenciennes. according to the latest reports received here. A penetration of four miles was made at some points yesterday. The line was carried within two miles of the western edge of Mormal forest, the principal defense of the city of Meuberger. Progresl in Belgium has diminished owing to stiffened German resistence. Several additional villages have been taken. In the Vouziers region lively fighting continues. In the Serre region the French improved their positions along the south bank. PAYS $500 TO THE RED CROSS GOSHEN, Ind.. Oct. 24 Rather than take Liberty Bonds to the value of JjGO.the subscription apportioned to him by a committee. Rev. James Hiram Roose. a Mennonit minister, today arranged to pay $300 to the local Red Cross chapter. He said he opposed the bonds because he is a conscientious objector to war. LOCAL GAINS ON THE OISE United Pres.-? Cablegram. PARIS, Oct. 24. Local gains on the Oise front between the Oise and the Serre and north of Rheims were reported by the French war office today.

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Hons Will N) Doubt Turn Down Stipulations for Armistice On Allies' Arrangement rl-JJJ Press Cablegram X-CNDOir, Oct. 24. SpeclU companies of picked troops hava been formed to dispersa outbreaks of ermaa soldiers recently sent to le western front. Many of these new drafts are reported to have murdered their of2cers. The situation is said to have become so serious that the special units are needed to maintain order. Br United Press. Washington, Oct. 24. -Marshal Fcx-h, tor'ther with American and allied commanders left by President Wilson to apply aj-mi-ti-;-terms have agreed upon oiirse tantamount to 'Germany's unconditional surw"il01'' it,thy are accepted. A7IiAT TEE ETJNS MUST EO. From an authoritative soulce it was learned today these terms essentially are as follows: Evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine and Prussian Poland. Cessation o all munition makWg to be insured by committees of allied officials who will be installed in all factories at Essen and other points. Surrender .of the submarine fleet Occupation of all German battleships by allied naval officers CTJTTXNO GEBMf-T CX.AWS The provisions cf the armistice have been drafted to embody the foregoing points and to insure against any resumption of warfare by Germany either on land or sea. Precautions were included to prevent Germany from taking advantage of the armistice to manufacture munitions and to limit German sea power and guarantee against naval outrages. MFUSAI, TO COMMENT SEPOSTED. Government authorities here refuser! to comment on the terms. Occupation of Heligoland may also be demanded before granting an armistice and as a move to render Germany harmless surrender of the bulk of enemy canons and munitions and the disbanding of the army also is considered likely In addition there is a belief that som of the allied rowers would demand thai Aon der Lancken. slayer of Edith Cavel and other purpetrators of the more revolting German atrocities be held as hostages. The disposition of the Kaiser also would figure in the arrangements. He is indicted in England for first degree murder, the indictment having been voted after an air raid in which a number of children were killed. INQLAND-PKANCE DETERMINED. Officials here say Franco and England are determined to fight to the Inst rather than see Germany escape. AVith the United States pouring soldiers Into France, Germany appears doomed to one of the most crushing and devastating defeats of history if she tries to. continue the war until next year. ALLIES NEAR LE QUESNOY United Pr.Ess Cablegram. LONDON. Oct. 24. The attack was resumed this morning on the whole front between the Sambre-Oise canal and the Scheldt. Field Marshal Haig announced. Continuing their progress on this front yesterday- evening the P.ritish crossed the EsoaiP.im river loss than two miles west of l.e Quesnoy, capturing additional villas;. A strong" German counter attack was repulsed. Raismes forest was cleared of the enemy and three villages were captured in that region. There was local fighting west ,i Ti.'Uinai without material change. BOARD OF TRADE HEAD IS DEAD Rr United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 24. A. Stamf.-rd White, president of the Chicago boa rd of trade, died today after a ks illness of inft'ienza.