South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 272, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 29 September 1919 — Page 1

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Bethlehem Employes Enter Gates Plant Without Being Molested by Strikers.

B7SOUTHrBETHLEHEil. Pa., S-pt. 29. Less than 20 per cent of the workers responded to the 3trike call at the Bethlehem steel plant this morning. Between 6:00 a. m. and 7:30 a. m.t hundreds of men carrying their noon-day lunch passed through the main jäte and no effort was made to molest them. There was no picketing in the vicinity of the steel plant owing to the vigilance

of the police. The 5,CC0 workers of the Bethlehem Steel Co. at Sparrows Point today refused to strike. The nltjht force was on duty !ast night -vhlle ihe day shifts reported at the usual time today. The old wage scale agreement between the ship workers of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation ami the United States shipping hoard will end tomorrow. The work its have asked more money and .shorter hour?. Marshall Forces. lnwn of the second week of the rtcel strike brought what operators and labor leaders termed the crisis' f the girrantio industrial struggle. Foth sides were ma rshalling their forces for th-? admittedly crucial day. Farly retorts from mills in the storl city district indicated a favorable inorcisc in man power. Ibor lra.-l were confident. however, 'hat a tinge of their real strength would bo frit todav when pnmloyp? f .Tones and Faughlin and the Ret hbdiem Steel Co. answered the ti'-w strike call. Fourth Attnnpt Fnllurv. Jnnp and Inigh1in official reported the fourth attempt to call out their men had been a "psycholc.gtcn! mistake." and that reported today as. uual 100 nipn peroit. Iess pickets, they said, were on the streets this mornini: than at ir.y time during th strike. ! the! C.arnogie Serd most optimistic 'o. a i pea red in this districtThey announced several hundred la ore men reported today, anions them beinr many foreigner?. Prepniations were made for firinsr another furnace, makin.t; a total of Fix of the eleven stacks of the l'dfrar Thomson plant op. ratincr. The West TVnn Steel Co. at r.rarkenridce believed the strike at their plant had been broken by the pledce of Hon men to return to work today. It is said an acreement had l--en reached nmonc native born workmen that a strike does not e-i-t and that men who voted a era Inst returninp to work will be declared t- have quit their positions. Suthrient men. they said, returned last r.ischt to permit operation of all depa rtments. POPULAR SOCIETY WOMAN MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH By Tnlted Press: FORT WAYNR. Tnd.. Sept. Mr; W. W. Harnett. ?,1 year:-; old. wifA of Dr. W. W. I'.arnett. and ;op:lar In society in the city, was horribly crushed and killed in tlu eleator of the Hope Methodist hospital Saturday evening. Mrs. Parnett had placed her little daughter on the elevator and etarted to enter herself, when the f levator, which is an automatic concern, started upward and caucht her between the elevator and the ceilinc of the first floor. It is claimed that it has been known for some time that the !- r ntpr w.ts defective. Murders Money For AMSTKRIWM. Sept. :: Johann -pfclbork, a boy of IS yetrs old. ho was arrested on suspicion at Munich of being concerned in the riurder of his parents, confessed to hiving committed the double crime. He filled his father and mother by hocting thm with a revolver vhile they were in bed, and afterward stabbed them repeatedly with The hoy pe.rv-srd himself of and their pwckvU to the la it coin. l th.cn

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WILSON MAY I MAKE PACT ! STATEMENT!

To Present Arguments for -Treaty Which Illness Prevented Him Making. HY HUGH BAIT.LIK. United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. Sept. 29. Ures't Ti1 nr. n. o T.I, i i.v. j mlts, is expected to issue a statement containing a number of arguments for ratification of the peace treaty, which his breakdown prevented him from making- in speeehps at Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Memphis and Louisville. Before he became 111. it was learned that he had "pomethln up his fleeve" that he was saving ammunition for the concluding addresses of his tour- His Idea apparently was 10 nnisn ms drive for ratification in such a manner that world-wide attention would be riveted on It. returninp: to Washington primed for a "showdown" on acceptance or rejection of the treaty. Illness prevented this climix. It was considered likely today he would take the first opportunity to make use of his prize arguments by the issuance of this statement. Dissatisfied uilh CIioIy There was much talk here today of the Indus-trial conference scheduled for Oct. . either hems called off or postponed. Pissatisfaction has been expressed with the president's choices of men to rt present the ceneral public at the conference. The prospect of it beinp: held failed to avert the steel strike. And the president himself, who planned to address the conference and participate in it. is prevented by illness from so doinp. It was sucrsestod that his breakdown mi.ht cause this "round table" to he cancelled and another one called later, when newlists of representatives, more satisfactory to those who object to the present ones could be prepared. Vvncc I'lrst. Wilson is still holdiner to his portion that the industriil situation cannot permanently be stabilized and food prices and taxes reduced until peace is established by treaty ra tin cat ion.

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Here is Serqt. Alexander Arch, surrounded by relative? and friends at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Luchmundy, 2Z'J N. Sadie s t. The photograph was taken by K. K. Manprold for The News-Times lite Saturday afternoon, shortly after Sert. Arch's arrival home. Ser st. Arch is in the center of the proup. Steven Arch, the youn man s father, stands at his son's rii;ht. His sister. Mrs Iuchmundy, is at the sergeant's immediate left. Mrs- Joseph Yarpo. another sister, is between him and their father. The four children just in front of the so rcreant are his nephews and niece.

LOW CAUSE OF CHURCH FI Lakcville Blaze Totally Consumes Building Valued at Five Thousand Dollars. I-ightning started a fire that completely dej-troyed the Christian church at I,ikeMio Sunday night. The loss was estimated at between four and five thousand dollars. The South Hend department was oalle.i to aid the Itkeville volunteer Department at n. m. and the chemical truck was sent to Lakcville. When it arrived at the fire, the church was being 'rapidly consumed by the flames and the efforts of both departments were exerted to keep the fire from spreading to the surrounding buildings. It was unknown just what time the f.re actually started but when noticed it had gained ri good headway and was rapidly spreading over the en'ire structure. The building, which was of fram? construction, burned to the foundation, leaving only a few charred timbers standing. The rain a few hours hefore aided the firemen in t their fight to save the surrounding; houres or the fire would probably! hae spread to other buildings in :.-- U,l

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Sergeant Arch and Relatives

Will Meet Tonight to Plan Arch Reception

Arrangements for the reerption to be Riven in honor of Serprt. Alexander Arch, the Sooth I'end man who fired tlu first American shot in the world war. and who arrived home Saturday afternoon for a-.ft-day furloii:n. will be made at a meeting of th Chamber of Commerce Arch cele-1-ration committeo at the chamber'

building tonight. ! inc relatives and friends.. The plan The day on which tho celebrationis the committee js to give the ser-

will be held will also be decided

the. meeting tonight. Col. Freyer- relatives and friends before railing muth, chairman of the general Arch, upon him to lie the guest at a recelebration committee, issued thei ception to be tendered him by the

Tico of Them, Deny Mayors of Orange, Each Others Claim r.r Fr.ited Tress: ORANGK. X. J.. Sert 29. nrted mayors, neither of whom William A. Lord, republican. This town has two self-desig-recogr.izes the claim of the other. recently was elected to fill the unexpired term of Mayer Daniel F. Minahan. who resigned to occupy a seat in congress. Hut Frank J. Murray director of revenue and franchises, insists that he automatically became mayor when Minahan resigned.

ifcall for the meeting tonight Monday morning. "We have made no plans whatever for the reception to be given Sergt. Arch," declared Col. Freyermuth this morning. "However, we hope to work out all the details of! the celebration at tonight's meeting," continued the colonel. Sergt. Arch spent Sunday, visitat;Ppant ample time for visiting with - t entire city. OHIO GUARD "READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY" ! r.y Fnired rr?s : j COLUMBUS. O., Sept 2 3. The i Ohio national guard wa-? mobilized j today and "ready for any emergi ency." It was believed the order to : assemble the guard is a reply to the ' threat of 5,000 striking steel work- ! ers in the Steubenville. Ohio, dls- , trict, to march into West Virginia : today to force a strike of etee! workers In Weirton. srsrnxn shipping. Py Fnlfd Press : WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 Sailing of all shipping board vessels for United Kingdom po'-ts his been ordered suspended, because the British railway trike. the shipping board announced today.

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RAIL CRIS Great Britain Expected to Know Then if Isles Must Face a Long Siege n' i:i. Vj. kki;. United Tress Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Sept- 29. Croat Hrit nln, a nation without transportation. expected today that the next 4S; hours would prove the most critical period of the railway strike. Todav ana tomorrow, it was netievea. would have to face a lonp siepe. While all the strikers readily accepted the opportunity for a weekJ end holiday. It was believed today ! that many of them were becoming I j i i a. a Ä K . . v. i . I uisnciiripiiHu un mi- puum. in-.-,- ! tllity and were likely to resume work. t lYomisc Services. I The go ernment promised limit-1 ed service on the railroads today. ' It was expected that naval stokers j and engineers would be utilized in this effort. The depots at Portsmouth and Chatham were scenes of the liveliest activity and tho first battle squf dron had been ordered to proceed from Scarborough to Thames. The completeness of the government's pk ns has surprised the strikers. Sympathy Strike. The most disquieting feature of the situation today was the possibility of a sympathetic strike by the Transport Federation, which will meet tonight. It is feared action may be taken To join the dock workers' union in a general walkout. The seamen's and firemen's union, voting aeainst a strike, has declared it will remain loyal to the government and defeat the machinations of the bolshevik! and hotheads of the industrial world. Situation Unchanged. The traffic situation was unchanged today. Pending the government's attempt to operate train service, travel remained as difficult as when the strike bepran. Arrangements for the distritu - tion of food are proceeding smooth ly, an official statement issued from Downing st. declared. It was stated immediate use would be made of oners ror service wnicn were pour - niK in irom an pans or tne conntry. c LOHEL RYAM LT it i x n i: o-..:. : npn ill n 1 v in Indiana Believed Victim of Heart Failure. Hv Fnlted Press : FORT WAYXF. Tnd.. Sept 29. Iieut. Col. Thomas F. Ryan, head of the recruiting service in Indiana, died suddenly at 3 a. m- today at i the Anthonv hotel here. Lieut Col j Ryan had just been pronvrfed to i me mener rank I nursnay. The cause of death was given ar - I heart failure.

WILL DEVELOP

Col. Ryn was in South Bend J spasmodically several times. Saturday morning looking after thejnrnis fanred back and forth a recruiting station here. It was! -

through his efforts that the drive for recruits In South Bend has exceeded the evpeetations of the war department. Col. Ryan received his education at the University of Notre J)ame. He has been living in Indianapolis since the startinc of recruiting service in the state. Planned Hetuni. Lieut. Col. Ryan had planned to return to his headquarters at In- j dianapolis last night, but was un- s able to secure Pullman reservations, so decider! to remain in the city j over night. It was In Fort Wayne that Lieut. Col. Ryan made a nation-wide record as a recruiting officer. While he was In chirge of this district from October. 1H6, to the spring of IMS there were more men recruited from this district than any other in the country.

kmm) LnMlur-mlh 01E-50 INJURED F1RF

Mayor Smith in Critical Condition After Attempting to Stop Race Riot

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rjy Td Pres: . OMAHA. Neb., Sept. 29. Mirtial law was declared in Omaha

i today. Sixteen hundred soldiers patrolled the streets. Machine I guns were mounted in the vicinity of the court house and in the negro district. Mobs had dispersed and the situation appeared i under control of the soldiers.

Summed up, results of 18 hours of riot rule in Omaha, follow:

Will Brown, nepro, identified by A Apnea Loeback, 19 years old. as tho i man who assaulted hrr. lynched and his body burned, s Clancv 5hot nd killed and 56 others injured. ( Mayor sdward P. Smith in a fur ious condition at a hospital, suffering from injuries inflicted by the mob. Douglas county's court house, newly built at a cost of ?l,nOO,e00 ! In ruins from flre. Xammlv l-mpos. 0rv,s,,, ' ,..1,. .coor, the fate of the neuro when he defied thf mob. His last words, mumbled while almost unconscious from beatings he had rectdvpd, find with -. . . i . . . .... . i tne rone arounu ins ncvi, vn-. "I will plve my lifo if necessary, hut I'll not surrender the negro. I'm going to enforce the law" 1 The mayor's life was f-aved when I the rope was cut from around his nec'r" while he was being lifted from ! th? ground. ... I . IV x.f lilkCM II IIOMWlI. I The mavor was rushed to a hespital in a passing automobile, phy - sicians said this morning that his condition was criticnl but that he probably would recover. From 6 o'clock last nicht until troops arrived this morning the mob was in control of the towns. Men. women and children filled the streets around the court house. Pawn shops and hardware stores were looted to obtain firearms and ammunition. F.very policeman on the streets was overpowered, their clubs taken from them and man seriously beaten. Court Hniio on lire. Sheriff Michael Clark and hi deputies successfully held the crowd, howling for the negro's life, at bay until the court house was set a tire. c.nsnlinp whs noured on the first 1 1 , . f.a tnr.nV, nnnlil.(I iN.iire extinguished this bla?e but the mob obtained more gasoline and soon llames were shooting from the first. sprnr.,1 :ind third storv windows 1 ... .. , t glee T, jail was on the fifth floor. I i iir Sheriff Clark took his prisoner to ! the roof in an effort to escape the i heat from the burning building. Nearlj a hundred other prisoner begged the sheriff to turn over thej negro to placate the mob's fury, in j ordr that t'.ey might be saveu. i ne , ; sheriff refusedj F.-e Stdpers- j j Snipers from the mob were sent 'to the roofs of nearby buildings and tired on the little group huddb-d on the roof of the building, reached the when nan.es rcacneo me imhuhi fourth flo.r tiremen arrived on ine z.-. They were immediately overpoweri ed Mid their ladders hkt, iiom I them. Clark was foreen. to yurrMKir nis prisoner w :in i r r. down a ladder. The mob tore every rtitrh rtnthin? from the black's body r : u " snon as he was seized. Adjust Nv The noose was adjusted around bis neck and his bodv hoisted abut six feet from the ground when shotjguns and revolvers were . i ' the first bullets' loo.e into it. As ! Mrufk the nerro his bodv twitched Hi3 f fV Urge Reissue of Two Cent Coin With Head of Roosevelt Br United Tress: XKW Y'RK. Sept. A lette is: W r urging the governnvnt to r"--ue the two-ren eoin. which is withdrawn from circulation in 174. has been sent to Sec'y of the Treasury Carter Glass. It is planned to m grave on one side of the coin a ba relief portrait Of the late Pres't RoocpyeR T-A-o cent pieces . nuid bo erl in paving for taxea .n srr.all u lt tides. r.ewsr.nrTs ar.d street car fare.

Omaha.

I nri.i.irriN. I i;v T'nired rrr -i : OMAHA. Nch.. Spt. 2. MaJ. j Clcn. Im:irtl V'xm1 tiMlay t-l'-! grnplnvl Mayor 1M Smith tliat be I was rnrotit to Omaha to take rr- ' sofud liarpt ff rrgul;ir armv j tnxp wh- are nttrinpting t qmdl ra' riots. Cicn- WwmI -t.-ited fliat Iif ; linl onlctiMl ailditlonal tniis from j Camp (irant. II!.. and Camp Funi ton. Ian.. to 'iitrain at mr for I Om.-ilui. times while bullets struck Them. Th firincr continued for about If' minutes. The negro's entrails were rposed :tA the flrinc continued. After members of the crowd took the body down they tied It to a police patrol we.gon which they hid ta'Kon from ofl'.rrrs. and draprfed .t thro'iph the principal strertt and tb.P nerrn district. loiter thrv thrrw 'it into the fire which other members j of the mob had prepared. K-rcrn and srnsollne were poured on .i iat" nurnoer or rawmao to- n-i ....- i lumber and the body was t,.sd on j inf ,,M j Soe IIchIv Hum. More lumber w?s heij.fd o.i blaze. A cr )w,1 estimated at " men. wom-n and children siw Ijody burn Tan..' pushed near funeral ovre in an effort to thin m"1 thpieces of the body for souvenir?. The rioters stopped automobiles and toik jrasollne from th tanks to pour onto the blaze. Thirty-one nun u.r- Arrested in connection with tho riot Ink'. Ali wer coNTiNi:r:n on pagf. ni.vf. P AN PRELATE LLu ILL VISIT HERE j Cardinal Mercier of Belgium to be in South Bend on Oct. 23. Cardinal D'fire Mereier. th ous flleJpn relate vrbo ri: I Tiindenburg, the, kair an 1 he cr.t:r rjeFman nrmv, "the most hio'.r. f:- ! ure ewr to step on these her.s" a New York papers put P, comm? to South IV-nd nt. 2". The aur. our r men t Aas mad at .Vntrn Dame Mnnday mornir.c and ear. e .-, i a rulmimtl-'-n of th- e!for'. f t!M university r.urhori'i" to h-v. h.m pay the i:r. ivers.ty ar:d th- -u'v vIt. Although not hire d'nie hn yt hen said it ff rt'r, that th Chamber of Corr.n.'re- in South I-Tid w!;! con, rat- '..Ith the university authorities :r. m'-cirg th rceprjcji to the rardira' i 'i of I most cr.rdnl '.": erdr-rel o a. iter. I.a- -pring wh'r; ;f wi; h v ; -cht earn.eu that Tit- ciruinu tiio favorably of corrdrg here the dirors of the chamter r-an p"ep-ra-tlor.s for hi- jir. Dr. John CavaI ranch, p tint t:m.e 'M'if-r' of re Parrc a o t r d i n 1 r "r a I f of the '""-li h o r ' .' Srlellos Will Md. pf-vonl Belgian soIette in MIh- ; awaka are p'.nr.nlnr to enter?!-, ta j cardinal, altho'urh !t ir r.-"t kr.o-vn I to a certainty as yet whether hr .. .'I i b". able to visit 'he neighboring c v. ! It had bee- hoped that the king au I j ejuer-n of Re'gbim would r 'l i ?A!ih HrJ ar'; 'he csno h e c a m e 'the car n'. nn but the dit. the j ; J been yet. I "As a C.f the ro'.'aj p lir h d r e rr: i r. f d v.-1 r'u'.t the. Iigin i-ter. 1 i j to go i e p j. rihead with fstirr. r r t! the: ' a r s f o r i to their j rht:rehnian. ar-f if they are ur. ; to v hlr.u v.:T. M : h a wa k i th"V ; ir.ten-1 jo honor him at Notre Ibr;-. ' H- will ( here from c;e'. u: I ; and after rr :r. pi -1 1 r ' g h:s v:it u jd g i i to CJ.io (go. ' a': '.-. the 1 .g d a' lv t he : , t . . t b f o r r 1 1 1 r 1 ! srv hi tu Bc'.cium early in November.