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NOVEMBER 11,
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VOL. XIII, NO. 120.
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HAMMOND, INDIANA.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1918.
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Italian Aftan&s Takes Place On
50-Mile Front, 15,000
Prisoners Taken.
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Oct. 30, 12:15 p. m.-
-The
S'aliaas have tafcen twenty-five thou
sand prisoners and mors tlian 200 puns ;
Irs their present offaaslva, It was otrl-;
cia-U ancouacEd today, l
Bt I.LETIN.l
U'N!TF.r l'PSS rHif.-,RAM ! '
VTITZ THE ITALIANS, Oct. CO. The !
Ttaliaos and the British armies com.''
ylslely ri'rcin? the Austrian Uue of re- j
istence are advancing1 rapiiily eastward j
tfweea the rr-ilway lines feedinff 'he
t. astrlans on the Piava front.
They have cut cff all lines of eon-jn-ii-icatlon
cn the Venetian plane3.
F.L-I.LSTINV
II'sTTv" 1'HESS CASLCCIAM.
CzCCho-Slovak national council was:
in COmolste possession Of Prague, .
capital of Bohemia on Monday, .a
Vienna dispatch reported today.;
me populace was emnuMaucduy ; bcirg made u js report,:d tha. besides
celebrating. j the girl's shoes being missing, .he ab-
i sence of other of her wearing apparel
(Bulletin-. that she wore 'when he left. home is
, .. . . -,n A . , . t noted by the authorities.
ZURICH, Oct. cO.A State Of: Hfr relatives are very loath to bc-
s-ffrf Vias been oroclaimed in Buda-ilieve that the girl met her death by
... . .. r irvn i
pest touowing tne attempt oi ;
COO demonstrators to enter
the!
, r a i t- i t v TV,.:
palace of Arch Duke Joseph. I he .
demonstrators are demanding a re-!
public.
German troops are reported teiin
. . j
be arriving.
Students in the City have formed ''
rouncil to co-operate
Magyar national council.
Bulletin-. 1
!l 'N:T.n I'KESS t 'ABLE'JRAM. !
ZURICH, Oct. 30. The Turks :
1-ave evacuated the great oil cen-
t-r of Baku on the Caspian Sea a n. Johns, was held last night and it
r- , 'was found that the lungs were filed
v.-ithcut fighting, accorcmg to a;- whSch wplU s.,frn to 1ndi.
dispatch received from MOSCOW tO- rate that death did not occur before the
day.
WITH
THE ITALIANS
IN
!
TUP VlV.J.Ti. Ctc.t. 30. The allied i
" - .lies will he rcsumeu iuuj
advance continues On the whole ' itPClf precludes any immediate arranse-
fifty mile front from the Brenta toi'nei!ts for thfui
the Treviso-Oderso railway. Pro-:
gre-s is greatly accentuated on the j
American troops comprising Ohio !
units' have crossed the Piave and ;
are ready to take up the advance j
v. ith their Italian and British com-!
rades. j
Mora than a hundred villages and;
tomniunities east of the riave have
b-'en liberated. The Italians occupied ,
f oniegliano. an important railway cen- i
tsr fifteen miles north of Treviso, yes-;
t -rday. i ard jirs. Elber DUtz and children, or
The Tenth army is advancing rapidlv j H'i?nSallUt ttnd John DUtz. of Hammond,
eastward, employing many abandoned i wrr, nere Sunday to visit their rela
Austrian batteries to shell the rotreat-. , , vrs. yr. and Mrs. "Wru. Vivia. On their
jr.g enemy. Austrian troops in an ef- ,.( tur'n home they v. ere caught in the
fort to prevent Italian engineers f rom ; f tol.m and somehow, at Lock's Cross-
bridging the streams sneiiea tne roaus ,
When several thousand Austrian
r.r-i,inprs reached an island in
mid-
. . .. . V. .. 1 ..... 1 r- r m Iaa,-
..... -
mg
tiio prisoners subject to terrinc ,
suffered
bombardment. The
prisoners
h?ay casualties.
More than 15.000 prisoners have al-j
... n...ntnJ rA ninrp are f?- 1
resiav iwh ...... - ---
ed to oe on w "'7;'
T'ne Italian twelfth army has passed I
seven miles southwest ot lttorio
hirh is the base of the P.ustrian whole j
system of communication from the:
Vcnecian planes to the north. King!
Victor Emmanuel crossed the Piave ;
with a regiment of Hersaglieri. He was '
grefted with much enthusiasm.
The Italians h-vc extended their of
fensive southward to the Adriatic in- ;
creasing- the width 'f their driv to.
a .front of more tlian 100 kilometers. .
sixty-two miles. They are now pies
sing forward from the Grappa ! the
sea.
The new advance was Begun
last night by the army
under con-
n-and of the" D Aosta. I
At the time of cabling bridgeheads!
bad been established on the east bank ; '
of the lower Piave at two points.
The twelfth army, after n night of:
forced marching captured Fallina. In
co-cpera-.ion v. ,w. .
vancing rrom tcnfgnaro iney arc
threa.ten!ngr th great Austrian base
.cf Vittorio.
LIEUT. FRANK KNOTTS DIES IN
Girl Whose
Body Canal
Gave Up
ETHEL JOHNSON.
010 ETHEL JOHNSON
COMMIT SUICIDE?
I Missing Wearing Apparel
j Leads Friends to Believe
j She Met Foul Play.
Xh3, Ethcl Johnson. th3 Kat Chicago
.rl who?" remains were found floating
tiio East Chicago canal yesterday,
!mav not have committed suicide is lndi-
LUH mc.
T t0 thrm vcr- improbable'
Tt seems to them very
that a cirj of that age. mentally bal-
I . a than a mfr
aneea. wiin no iruuuic uim-i
reiriman,, from hcr mother, should fcei j
it so keenly as to take her own life, j
Her aunt. Mrs. Henry BiinDnaje,
i ins- all of the circumstances and know ;
the girl as well as she did. cannot.
onceive or sucn an aci on :
Sjg.jlt provocation. ;
hc, call attention to the fact that!
NA'- : ' ....:-Vif'-
V1p'Elhel's hiS" torrea snoes. nu ,
v Kil tiic , te. liavp not been'
i wore w nen i-.'j n-it hvj.-.w,
j found. Why she should remove ner
! ,v,.-. onrt leave the rest of her wear-
ins arparci iniau i " "- :
! seems to tind no explanation let alone ,
a plausible theory.
A post mortem
under rlirection of,
peputy Coroner Green, assisted by Dr.
I bodv struck tno canai.
! -r.-p.rv possible angle of the situation
' Is being investigated by Mr. Green, who j
has not yet reached any definite con
. . , K.- tfi antlinri
the authori-
'luMor. turner .t
T
THEIR CUR OVER
Highland
and Hammond j
People Have Narrow
Escape in Porter.
pr;-!L To The Times.
VALPARAISO. IN"L- Oct. SO Mr.
. b . four mi:c3 WCst of town.;
their
' down.
car .turned completely upside;
The occupants were' spilled out. i
but fortunately not seriously injured.
junn LJiiiz suu-reu iiuurita uri in. iitrau
!fnJ was takcn to hls home at Hammond' '
, , ... ... .
The rest of the party were brought back j
to Valparaiso by Frank Chester, of the
Whceltr-Elam garage, who happened 1
'tr.i. -
The car was righted and also
brought back to Valpo for repairs
HOUSE TO CALL ON
FRENCH OFFICIALS
I'ViTHD
PAK1S. ict.
1'nnjs Cablegram
30. While the allies are
:is for capitulation they
C. linany Teuton com
i.icrhig the'r underlings
tliOS"
d
to h. Id l'j k in uc'. in an attempt to
stop the Killed adva.icc on the present
line. j
President Wilson s correspondence
with Germany which ho stated he
would turn over to the other allies has
9 I
been received here. Col. House, al
though slightly indisposed, plans to
n the president and Marshal Foch
tooey.
!r.t--::".'if d naval council r.t
u 1' S ! l rpnrpqcr tf tt Vn- A .
m:ral Benson was in session today.
Seven in nam but one in aim.
FDR U.S.!
j
Known Family Bereaved
By Dealii of Their Gal
lant Soldier Boy,
The sad lntellisencn w.is received in
Gary tiiis mori-.ing annourringr the death
by rncumonia of I.ieut vnant Frank
j Knott5 over there. 'J'h" ov.s came by
j lele;s-ri.m to his parents, 'firmer Mayor
I and Mrs. Thomas E. Knotts, and a let- j
j ter f rm Lirut.'ii.int I'li-il JIake. close !
jincna ana pcno-lniBtf ot l.i uten.int
! Knott.-", written to Mr;. TI;;ke und- r date
of October Sth. Lieutenant Hake had
gone over to visit Lieutenant Knotts
when to his sud surprise it was an
nounced he had just passed away.
Lieutenant Knottj enlisted in the ser
vice early in the war. He went from
Gary to i'ort Benjamin Harrison train-I
it.g school, whrr he was commissioned
lieutenant and then tf Fortress Monroe.'
from where he. went abroad. ;
He was an instructor tor sonic time i'l
heavy field artiilrry and has been to
the from line lren her. in heavy light
ing for over a year.
The news of thia gallant soldier's
death spread rapidly over the city and
the bereaved parents and family are re,-i-eiving
t!ie profound sympathy of the
entire community in the passing away
of him who foupht and died for the free
dom of the world.
OSS
ELECTED TO
COUNCIL
The breech in the Citizens party
, V, , "
of the founders and first chairmen of
the party, and ekcted Henrv HeUsis
j to fill the vaeancy in the council eaus
! ed by the resignation yf A. H. Ander
son. Keiasig rrceived nine votes and
and Ford 5.
The fact that Ford resigned as chair-
i Well
. j man during the heat of the campaign
ay nae caused me administration
feel under no obligations to him
but whatever the reason it is known
that Reissis had the city hall support.
Ford's friends feel that th-y had a
light to be sore, it is -presumed, in
view of the fact that Ford was prom
ised the. support of ten councilman and
only received live votes
On the other hand Ueissi mu;t
have been surprised pleasantly. On a
former occasion when he was a can
didate for the board of education one
of the councilmen made a glowing
speech piecing him in nomination. But
i there wasn't a vote cast for Keissig
l and the councilman whi nominated
! him must have changed his mind af
! ter sitting down.
CONFERENCE
HARMONIOUS
; (C.VITED Pp.ess Capi.eorcsi.
j WASHINGTON. Oct. 30. The Ver
! sailles conference will agree to adhere
! to Pres. dent Wilson's peace terms, in
the opinion of American and entente
officials here today. Any difference as
to the application of the president's
i fourteen points v. ill be threshed out
i in the filial peace adjustment, it was
.. T . ... , . , - ,,
.said, it w nuijuasni-u me ci sanies
conference will close in complete bar-
niony.
ACCUSED OF SRIEERY.
By Unites Press
H t CAGO. Oct. .10. FeliX Gedmin. of
South Chicago. 111., was found guilty
in the federal court here today of a
charge of attempting to bribe George
W. Green, a department of Justice
operative, of Hammond. Ir.d. Gedmin
will be sentenced by Judge Iandis to
morrow. Gr'-'ii charged that Gvlmin offerer)
hir.i $S." t.i drop charges of selling
liquor against him.
ROME FRESH
AUSTRIAN TALK
ri'VTTED Press CAFLErjRAM.
AMSTEltDAM. Oct. 30. Arch Duke
Joseph, n second cousin of the Aus-T-'r-
fivncror. h?.s issued a procla
mation declr.rin.tr that Kail charged
hmi t.i .ffect tomplete independence
of Hungary, which would join the
league of nations, according to a Buda
pest dispatch received here"today.
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WILLIAM
S. RENSON
(g cimed.
SOUTH SHORE
KILLS Ml
George Smolen, 4 S 4 S Homer Lec ave
nue. East Chicago, 4 3 years old. was !
struck by a ioutli fhore car yesterday j
about 11 o clock i"0 lcet west of Co-!
iumbia avenue and instantly killed. j
Smolen ivas out walking with his'
small boy when the accident occurred.
The day before he wandered away and j
his wife reported that he was missing, j
That evening, however, he returned to I
the house. The boy was unhurt. I
About four months ago he was ex- j
omined by a commission of East Chi-
cago physicians and adjudged insane.
He as sent to Logansport anu remained ;
there until about a month ago. He;
came back home, but recently has seem- :
ed to be mentally unbalanced again. '
liesides a wife he leaves four small .
children and it is slid that the family:
is in bad shape financially. I
The remains were taken to Undf rtak- j
er Hums' morgue.
The funeral will be held from their
home tomorrow morning. Interment
will be In Holy Cross cemetery.
Undertaker Burns in charge.
OODCE POLICE,
BOOTLEGGERS HURT
East Chicago Booze Hounds j
Meet With a Disastrous
Experience.
While Officer Hanlon and Horlbcck j
of the Hammond police were looking i
for a certain au-.-molul,.. on Indianapolis i
boulevard last night they saw a car of
that description coming east. ,'
rt.r ltnnlon stenntd out in th- ,o.,i
,,-1,! ihern t.. .Hon. lc.it ir,t.Q.i r.f
T c; - A t -JL tT,r 't'- 1 v.
r? - v rr f Ai Vj: - t . v -
b - - - r i ls( ?l h
,-'f , ; v , - s4- i i f; - , - -, , , n
iRAHK J.COBB f " " ""-i r
rf , r UU . - " 4
7,. i,,., .h- .Iriver turned for hi,,, o.iia many deaths in the past few days
.-i , ... . .. r ... - - - - ...... L ;
missed him by about au inch as he
jumped.
Then they turned for Horlbcck, who
drew his gun and tired a shot into their
front tire. The car. which was going
a boct .'ti'mibs an hour, went about a
hah" : i.le more, tin u ran into the ditch,!
turning or. t
Nick Mih-.U' h or mij i.ast lolst street. ,
Fast Chicago, who was driving the car.
was badly hurt, but the other three men
who were in he car were not badly in
jured. They were Andy Kaminsk! of
1383 Roberts avenue: Steve Vargo of
1389 Roberts avenue, and Laurence
Clabby of Hammond.
The overturned car, which was a fine
big seven passenger suto, was smashed
and in it the Hammond police found
twenty-one gallons of whiskey and two
broken five-gallon jugs of It.
All the men were arrested, charged
with violating the, liquor law.
S. Aids in Iner-Allied Council
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A - J
LL LAKE
Doubt Exists As to Wheth
er the County Outside of
Gary Will Have Flu Ban
Lifted Next Saturday
Night.
The influenza ban will be lifted Sat
urday midnight in about one-half of
the counties of Indiana, according to
a decision of the state board of health
! yesterday.
Action by the state board was tak
I e: because epidemic conditions in ap-
proximately one-half of the counties
affected have subsided to such an ex-
,hat the t,rder U no loner nec"
essa ; .
Whether Lake county will be freed
" n"1 Vet been determined. It is
reported that the state board is not
i disposed to ao so. xne cary oan nas
already neon iiiieu uui crMi
has had
as Hammond ir East Chicago where
(Continued on page five.)
I
Gen. Pershing- reports tho name
of Private Emil llaae, 3330 Carey
rt., East Chicag-o, as killed in ac
tion, previously reported mlsslnff in
action in July. Private Mass's
same ha tten carried for two
month on Tne Times' honor roll
as misslnr in action.
NOTICE.
Effective Nov. 1 price of milk set by
U. S. Government will be quarts 14
cents and pints 8 cents. 10-31-2t
Hammond Dairy Co.
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FRANCE
ofces.
tj9
t it
Z' "-' "Cs , vf" - 1 i
Colonel E. M. House leads the
peace commission sent to Paris by
President Wilson. With him are
Admiral Benson Frank I. Cobb,
editor of the New York World;
Joseph C. Grew, former Secretary
of the American embassy in Ber
lin, and many other aids.
Bulletin-.
H'n-itij Press Cableoham
WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.
American occupation of Aincre
ville, north of Verdun, was report
ed by General Pershing today.
Bulletin.
f United Phess Cablegram.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30. Con
stantinople newspapers declare
that Turkey has already begun of
ficial negotiations with the entente.
The Turkish delegates, it is said,
have left for the conference.
Bulletin.
CNT-iEti Press Cablegram.
ZURICH, Oct. 30. The Austro
Hungarian government of Mon
tenegro fled to Vienna, following
the uprising in that country, a dis
patch here today said.
Bulletin-.
ft'NiTr.j 1'iie.ss Cablegram.
ROME, Oct. 30. The Italians
have reached the Livenza.
Bulletin.
Initio Fr.nss Cablegram.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 30.
Count Andrassy, new Austro-Hun-garian
foreign minister, has decid
ed to begin direct negotiations
wiht Italy, according to advices rer
ceived here today.
WASHINGTON HAS
A QUEER STORY
BY BEND K K.
Br United Press
WASHINGTON. Oct. 30 That Pres
ident Wilson will attend the great
peace conference whenever and wher
ever it is held, id the belief of his
friends. For some days the report
without official confirmation has been
circulating in official und diplomatic
quarters that the president will at
tend. As there is nothing in the con
stitution to prevent his uttendanre for
mer presidents maintaining an unbrok
en precedent, the president will shat
ter one of the many precedents al
ready broken, by his attendance.
Owing to his high position, it was
the belief among allied dilpomats that
he would be made chairman. If Wil
son goes it will be the first time in
the history of the nation that the pres
ident has visited Europe while in of
fice. We are seven,
seven-fold.
Therefore give
r ii
i ATroT niruio
i i f i i i nib ii
YET MADE
PUBLIC
Messaee Amplifies Previous
Hole in Regard to Sop
posed Reforms Bs
ing Made.
Br T'.vited , rics.7
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 Gei
many has sent a supplementary
communication to the United
States on the subject of peace. It
reached the Swiss legation this
forenoon and was delivered by the
Swiss charge shortly afterward.
The new message described what
Germany is doing in the way of
constitutional changes to make the
government responsible to the
people.
It was said that it does not alter t! "
peace situation a It stands today by
making any new proposals.
H is understood to have be-n unso
licited 4ini constitutes a voluntary
i:-."-e orf the part oT Icrma:i; .
The text may not be rna-li nu!!e tm-
i mediate I .-.
The supplementary
p.y of amplifying
messaqe was by
previous state-
m-T.-r of the German government that
.t had politically re forme 3. TJhe not',
which it suppkincii-s declared that th.
r.re?idct5t "knows nliuut these reform' "
! ft -Has rceardod hero, therefore s .
last minute effort to persuade the presi
dent th'U the Kaiser's power has been
eriVclually shorn and that armistice,
dealings would in reality be with the
German people irot with the llohen
zoHcrns. How the government regard.-;
the sincerity of the explanation was no;
f orthcomin g.
The n:.ie v. Inch is quite long is u?i-f;-neii
and directed not to President
Wilson hut to the Fnited States go.-
rnment. It i more of a memoran
dum than ;in official r!onirnt. Thr
was a growinsr belief hie fdav that
the. allies sliold riispatcii thfir aiitiis
the and peace ten-:
j th" fonner being granted on the con
dition that Germany and her al!!?.
accept the latter.
As some express u Germany shonhl
be given an armtstic? only if sh
agrees to the allies peace term.
AUSTRIAN
ADMIT RETREAT
rC.viTED Press Cable-thm. 1
MLXXA. via London. Oct. ::0. Aus
trian troops on the Piave ere with
drawn to new positions in the rear arer
last night, the Austrian war office an
nounced. "In Albania our rear guards have
evacuated Alessio.
"In the, region of Mont Sp:nonc
(two miles west of Alano) we carrie::
out rectification of our positions," the
.Vustrian war office announced toda.
jNEW PROGRESS
BY FRANCO-YANKS
United Press Cablegram.
PARIS. Oct. 30. French and Amei i
can troops attacking east of Retlitl
have penetrated deeply into the Ger
man positions at many points, reach
ing the support lines which were al
most empty of defenders.
French pressure in this region is
beipg accentuated in th neighbor-
hood of St. Ferguex. where violent
attacks are being repulsed.
The French are at the outskirts o'
Chateau Torcein.
WILSON REPLY
EXPECTED TODAY
Bv United Press.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. President
Wilson was reported this morning as
preparing a reply to the last Austrian
peace plea which was expected to be
completed and made public some time
today, probably not until late this af
ternoon. That the president would merely pass
on the Austrian appeal to Ver
sailles for settlement, notifying Aus-
! tna of his decision, was the convic
i tion here.
FRENCH
ADVANCE
ON SERRE
fUviTED Press Cablegram.
PARIS. Oct. CO. French troops n;ar
additional rdvanc-s between the Ols-i
and the Scrre last night, the war of
fice announced today.
HAIG REPORTS
QUIET DAY
United Press Cablegram.)
LONDON. Oct. 30. Apart from petrel
encounters In which we msde pro
gress and secured a few prisoners
there Is nothing to report. Field Mar
shall Halg said today.
For every mother's son.