Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1922 — Page 1

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|SHREGULARS EAUNCHATTACK I ON REBEL FORT fctoffice and Two Hotels Beene of Renewed Fighting in Dublin Civil War. m VALERA IN COMMAND Bensive Preparations to Portin' New Stronghold Made Be- ■ fore Offensive Starts. B BILLETIN’. ■ONDON, July 1. —Liam Lynch, Hunander of the Republican Irreg-H-s at Cork, Issued a proclamation --rung that by night the Irregulars Bl control all of western and southH Ireland, said a Cork dispatch to H Star. Hhe regulars at Dublin are encirHg the insurgents. Irregulars are Hprted to have defeated the Free troops at Drogheda. ■ffJBLIN, July I.—Railroad comHnication from Dublin was cut off Hall directions this afternoon. HjBLIN, July I.—Fighting on a scale was resumed in the cen Dublin today, when Free State K>s began an attack upon anew Bnghold of the insurgents around H postoffice and Gresham and GranHe hotels. Eamonn de Valera is in Lmand of the detachment in the ■sham Hotel. [ational part If $80,000,000 I AUTO MERCER ven Other Concerns in Consolidation With Local Factory. FICERS GO TO DAYTON ■he National Motor Car and Vehicle ■poration of this city has been condated with seven other truck and bmobile companies and a number .arts factories in a hug-' $80,000,000 poration to be known as the Assorted Motor Industries. Offices of new corporation will be at Dayton, o. although none of the plants afed by the merger will be removed n their present locations. [otor car and truck companies en Into the consolidation in addil to the local plant are: Recordand Computing Machine ComBny, Dayton; Jackson Motors CorBation, Jackson, Mich.; Kentucky Heon Manufacturing Company, Bfi rille, Ky.; Saginaw Sheet Metal IS s. Saginaw, Mich : Traffic MoCorporation. St. Louis, Mo.; Hrray-Tregurtha Corporation. BosMass.; P. F. Holbrook Cos., New re: City. board of directors Is composed mwm I. Homer of Dayton, chairHt; Louis Ruthenburg, president; . Gloetzner. Robert F. Wood and fjjt Brandle, vice presidents.

m OF SHIMGLE ROOF ■ SOON TO BE NO MORE Be Prevention Chief Announces ■ Opening of Campaign. Bacob Reidel, chief of the fire preBitlon bureau, announced today he ■ starting a campaign to replace ■ngles with fireproof material on Bfs in the city. Reidel said he has Bt advertising matter on the subB to 10,000 property owners. estimates from 50,000 to 60,000 roofs in the city. Since Jan. .lding department records show B-e than 1.800 fireproof roofs inU M ildel announced fire prevention Bating next Wednesday evening at and West Sts., and Friday eveBg at Morris St. and Madison Ave. Herat scenes of Indianapolis fires ■ be shown. gXTILE CHIEF IS HELD Brant Charges Violation of AntiC Picketing Order. B B V United Xetcg BdANCHESTER, N. H., July I. Bom as J. McMahon, president of B United Textile Workers of AmerK. is'under arrest on a Superior liirt warrant charging violation of ■ - injunction restricting picketing. ■ was released in SSOO bonds. gl! THIS is terrible: Beauty Experts Must Pay $5 jKjf For Bobbing Permit. S By United Xeta CITY, Kas., July I.— ibers. not barbers.” if you please! : favor was broadcasted here by KS-y parlor proprietors when orBEd by the State barber board to tke out permits to cut. bob and dress Wr. The cost is $5. Beauty special■s report that their clients wouldn’t Itronize barber shops.

EOING CAMPING? You’ll find a lot of \aluable knowledge that will jDv r.mate many of the discomforts X# the trip in ■ SUMMER STUNTS FOR S3 BOVS They are written by Dan Beard. Hational Scout commissioner, who B&s devoted his life to life in the Butods and red-blooded boys. fail to read the first of this only in the

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TOM SIMS SAYS: fThey made beer in Egypt 3,700 years ago; but It is all gone. It takes a lot of sense to get by without knowing anything. x man’s friends are Isti TfV surprised when he marries. So is the man.- ’ People .njfafl.-walk in their sleep ought tp sLaep ip their shoes. Nothing,is, border on a woman’s new hat than one. of her enemies. Lots of futdre convicts are living on Easy St. now. Ex-SehatQr Cole is ldO years old. He can remember when the bonus bill was first liM-odubed. There Is always room at the tep for a big strawberry. No matter how much time a Judge gives, he always has some left. The easiest way to lose your memory is to borrow money. Vacuum cleaners are handy for men. A woman can’t hit her husband over the head with one. In London Earl Batty ran into a truck load of beer. We seldom run into that much over here. It must be awful for who speaks seventeen languages to keep a secret in all of them. One graduate got through college by writing short stories. Maybe he wrote them to his father. i “Every girl can be beautiful.” says an advertisement. Tes, but suppose she is broke? In Illinois a gunsmith was held up and robbed. You can’t always get by on your reputation. Washington was the father of his country. But a Vermont man did the best he could. He has 386 direct descendants.

PUBLIC DANCING PUT UNDER BAN IN CITY PARKS Park Commissioners Issue Order Settling Controversy Raised on South Side. COUNCIL BEATS MEASURE Public dancing in city parks was prohibited by the board of park commissioners today. South side citizens objected several days ago when it was proposed to permit dances in the new Garfield Park shelter house, and had introduced in the city council an ordinance prohibiting park dancing or any official from permitting it. This failed to pass under suspension of the rules by one vote, making certain its adoption at the next meeting. “We adopted our order to prevent the council from getting us into a hole by passing that damnable ordinance," said F-ed Cline, vice president of the board.

SHANK REAL ISSUE IN CIVIC BODY’S UPHEAVAL Mayor’s Friends and Opponents Active in Improvement Association. The Shank administration Is the real Issue in the election of officers of the Southeastern Civic Improvement Association to he held at Bradbury and Shelby Sts., at 8 o’clock next Wednesday evening, members said today. Two factions strive to control. One is led by Richard Yoke, brother of George Yoke, with whom Mayor Shank almost had a fist fight a few weeks ago. Leading the other is Robert R. Sloan, city market master and president of the association. Sloan has been president since the organization was born at the Belt Elevation League of the South Side twelve years ago. Sloan’s friends charged today Yoke’s faction want to unseat him. They tried in a “secret" e’ection last Wednesday evening, but were thwarted when Sloan walked In on the meeting, Sloan's friends say. Y'oke and his supporters want control of the association so they can obstruct the Shank administration. Sloan men say. Yoke men say they want new blood in office. PATTERSON IS VICTOR Veteran Australian Defeats British Hope at Wimbledon. WIMBLEDON, England. July I. Gerald F. Patterson, veteran Austral- j lan tennis star, eliminated the last British hope here today when he defeated A. R. F. Klngscote, the British star, in the feature match of the day. The Australian won at 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 4-6 and 6-3.

BABE RUTH HITS ANOTHER Home Run King fiefs His Ninth Homer. PHILADELPHIA, July I.—Babe Ruth whacked out his ninth home run of the season in the third inning of the first New York-Philadel phia game today. One man was on base at the time. Rommel was pitching for the Athletics. Injured in Crash. Harold S. Shulke, 23, 433 E. Morris St., was cut about the face when the truck in which he was riding, driven by Alfred Johnson, 42, 524 E. McCarty, collided with an electric automobile driven by Julia E. Shlel, 68, truck skidded

IMMUNITY FOR CONFEREES MAY END SUITS HERE v— Affect of President’s Word on Coal Strike Not Definitely Known. DAUGHERTY VISIT RECALLED Judge Anderson Is Believed to Have Refused Plea for Dismissal. By BLYTHE Q. HENDRICKS. President Harding’s immunity promise to coal operators and mine union officials from prosecution under the anti-trust act in any agreement to settle the strike, occasioned little surprise in Indianapolis. Whether the promise extended to the cases pending In Federal Court here against 225 operators, union officials, miners and companies is unknown. These indictments were returned Feb. 21, 1921. Harry Daugherty Here Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty appeared unexpectedly to confer with Judge Anderson. Judge Anderson refused to make any comment. On this visit it generally was believed he refused to have the cases dismissed at that time. President Harding’s promise is expected, by many familiar with the situation, to result in a motion for a dismissal of these cases soon.

P. 0. RECEIPTS SHOW BUSINESS IS RETURNING Postmaster Bryson’s Report Shows Last Quarter Was Genuine Record Breaker. CONSIDERED REMARKABLE Sure signs of returning prosperity are seen in the record-breaking receipts of the Indianapolis postoffice for the last quarter by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. Receipts for the last quarter amounted to $832,414.60, breaking all previous records by more than $38,000. This is considered remarkable, since the greatest business almost invariably is done in the last quarter of the year, when Christmas receipts are included. / Big Increase Shown. Receipts for June amounted to $282,562.35, an increase of $46,034.11 over June, 1921. Business conditions in Indianapolis apparently are improving more rapidly than in other parts of the country If postoffice receipts are a good barometer. Receipts for May, 1922, throughout the entire country showed an increase of 14 per cert over those of May, 1921, while Indianapolis receipts showed an increase of 17 per cent. The local increase for June was 19.46 per cent.

CITY RECREATION CHIEF OPENS NEW PLAYGROUND Wading Pool Is Feature of Sport for Children. Edward E. Mcßride, city director of recreation, announced the opening today of anew playground at 1134 Shelby St., on part of tho ground formerly occupied by the city barn The equipment of the playground Includes a wading pool, 18x18 feet. This makes the thirty-fifth playground now in operation. Last year at this time there were- forty-four. OFFICIALS’ KIN HIRED Recreation Department Pay Roll Reveals Loyalty. Four city officials have daughters or sons employed as instructors on city playgrounds, the recreation depart ment pay roll showed today. They are: Dorothea Mcßride, daughter of Edward E. Mcßride, director of recreation; Marjorie Spencer, daughter of Dr. M. J. Spencer of the board of public works; Louis Ranler, son of J. F. Rainer, chief of the ass%3sment bureau and Thelma Carnefix, daughter of Louis W. Carnefix, assistant superintendent of parks.

CIVILIZATION Indianapolis today has its own alligator story. The reptile appeared in the yard of G. E. Hubbard, 212 Parlroiew Ave. Mr. Hubbard captured it and put it in a tub of water. He said the incredulous are welcome to take a look at it. He said it is about two and a half feet long.

Mother Sobs Vengeance Oath Against Boy Slayer of Her Nine-Year-Old Son

By United Xetcg KANSAS CITY, Mo., July l.—ln a weak, sobbing voice Mrs. Frank Carramusa, Friday swore vengeance on the 9-year-old slayer of her small son, Pete. The mother and another son, Carl Carramusa, 14 years old. visited George Hulbert, who shot and killed his playmate, in the Detention Home, where he is held awaiting his hearing in juvenile court. Judge E. E. Porterfield will of

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Police Squads Disperse Parade of 1,000 Strikers By United Pres*

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July I.—Police squads disperseda parade of more than 1,000 striking shopmen here today as the strikers marched through tho streets to a mass meeting.

GET OUT OLD EARMUFFS; FOURTH TO BE OLD TIMER I’rlce of Fireworks Lopped In Half by Decreased Powder Demand. Decreased consumption of powder •In warfare Is one factor in a 50 per cent reduction In price of fireworks this year, Kipp Bros., wholesalers, j said today. With the price cut in two, ; volume of sales Is slightly larger than last year, the firm reported. Board of public safety employes expect to issue twice as many permits ! for fireworks as last year. List year's 10 cent package for 5 cents appeals, they said. E. C. Dolmetsch Company, also wholesalers, reported demand about | the same as last year, due to annual changes In regulations in various cities. Most fireworks used In this section is made at Redding, Ohio. Small crackers mostly come from China.

MONEY IN ADVANCE IS TO BE RULE NOW. SAYS JUDGE Vote Recount Expenses Must Be Ijitd Down Before Action Begins. “If there ever Is occasion for a recount and while I am on the bench, there will be no recount until the money Is laid down,” Harry 0.. Chamberlin, Judge of Circuit Court, declared today. He made the statement when Warren S. Gibson, one of the members of the commission that recounted the Republican votes cast for Justices of the peace for Center Township, asked that William Henderson, negro contestant, be forced to pay the commissioners. The recount of justice of the peace ballots started May 24 and ended June 12. Henderson, the defeated candidate, has not paid anything to the commissioners for thoir three weeks' work and has sent a letter to the county clerk, the tenor of which is ho will not pay. RUSSIAN LEADER SLAIN Antonov, Social Revolution Hnad, Is Assassinated, Says Report. MOSCOW, July 1. —The social revolutionary leader Antonov has been assassinated it was learned today. The details were not revealed. TIRES WORTH $340 TAKEN Sam Weinstein Reports to Police When Ijarceny Becomes a Habit. Sam "Weinstein, a tire merchant at 331 N. Capitol Ave., reported to the police that thieves during the last three weeks have stolen $340 worth of casings from his shop.

‘‘My Pete, my little Pete,” sobbed Mrs. Carramusa, wife of a wealthy Italian produce dealer here. ‘‘lt was a very bad boy who killed my Pete. I want he should go to prison for fifty years. If he goes free I will kill him, no matter what they do to me." Carl went to the cell where George eat by his mother, who kept murmuring: "He is such a little fellow to have done it. He didn't know what he was doing.” But Cajd shot his red-sleepless eyes

arts now carrying revolvers and clubs. The pictures of Policewomen Moriarity and Byrum give an idea of the attractiveness.

When police first ordered the strikers to disperse they refused. Riot calls brought hundreds of police reserves and the parade was abandoned.

REBELS DEMAND 10,000 PESOS OF U. S. GIL FIRM State Department Receives Report of New Attack at Palo by General Larraga. WASHINGTON. July I.—Mexican banditry against American oil camps in the Tampico district is being extended. Consul Shaw at Tampico officially advised the State Department today. Shaw reported the Penn-Mexlcan Oil Company, an American concern near Tuxpam. had notified him that the rebel leader General Larraga had swooped down on the company camp at Palo and demanded 10,000 pesos by July 1, today. Details are lacking, Shaw reported. Prepare for Return TAMPICO, Juiy I. —Federal troops wore rushed Into the Tampico oil fields today to head off “General” Gorozavo, who threatened to return tomorrow to levy trlbuto upon American oil companies. ICE TRUST ORDER JULY 13 Judge Eiohhom to Announce Decision Long Deferred. A decision In the case against the Polar Ice and Fuel Company and eleven other Ice companies, charging the existence of an ice trust will be handed down by Judge W. E. Eichhorn of Bluffton in Superior Court, room 1, July 13, It was announced today when tho four other Superior Courts and Probate and Circuit Courts were adjourned for two months. Room 1 will be opened for the decision, which has been pending since July 1, 1921, and then will close for the summer.

WHOA! It’s a long way from the mosquito ranches of New Jersey to tho broad plains where movie cowboys ride, but Indianapolis is apparently the West to an East Orange, N. J. woman who wrote Robert J. Bryson. postmaster, the following: “Would you please let me know If there are any vacancies in any of the boarding houses on the ranches for a good housekeeper. I have a daughter 15 who could also help.”

‘‘l want to know why you did It.” "I never meant to, I shot at a tree and hit Pete,” George cried, his tears flowing freely now. ‘‘lt’s a pretty story you tell about a tree and a bird,” Carl said menacingly. "You look Innocent all right. You’ll see. When you get out I will shoot you if anything happens to my mother. She fainted several times last night. If anything happens I will come up here and get you, you watch.” t caused just

RAILROAD SHOP WORKERS I WALK OUT; THREATEN TO J TIE UP TRANSPORTATION

RAIL WORKERS HERE WALK OUT, BUT PEACEABLY Veteran Employes in Several Cases Are Reported as Still on Job. ROAD OFFICIALS SILENT Express Belief Matter Will Be Adjusted or Places Filled Easily. Reports from tha seven Indianapolis railroad shops affected by strike orders of Chicago union authorities show most of the men have quietly complied with directions. In some cases railway officials have reported that several men, old in point of service, have remained on the job. At 10 o'clock 500 men walked quietly from their work at the Brightwood shops of the New York Centr .1 (Big Four) Railroad. Beech Grove Shops Hit Beech Grove shops of the Pig Four reported a few of the men walked, out at 10 o'clock. The roundhouse of the Illinois Central Railroad lost two or three men. The Indianapolis Union Railway Company reported 124 employes had left work. The company will employ other men to relieve the situation. Other railroads affected by the order were the C., I & W., the Peoria & Eastern division of the Big Four. Effect Not Feared That the strike will have little effect on the question of food distribution is indicated by reports. Neither will the twenty State institutions be hampered, since all of them are well supplied with coal and food sufficient to last until the termination of the emergency. Fred B Robinson, State purchasing agent, announced all of the institutions are supplied with coal enough to last until Aug. 1. It is believed the public utilities will suffer most In event the strike is extended over a long peritjd. Dispatches from Indiana 'cities show that approximately 15.000 shop workers are affected. In Logansport there are 1,800 men employed. Other Indiana cities are Washington, 800; Princeton. 400: Bedford, 200: Ft. Wayne, 2,500; Anderson, 47, and several hundred more at Terre Haute and other places.

SYMPATHY By United Press COLUMBUS. Ohio. July I—Six hundred maintenance of way employes of the Pennsylvania system today walked out in sympathy with the shop workers. The strike was unauthorized.

ADMIT NAMES FALSE Two Held For Murder of Former Field Marshal In Court. LONDON, July 1. —The two assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, former chief of the British Imperial General Staff, In court today revealed that the names they had previously given were aliases. Instead of James Connolly and John O'Brien the men said their names were Reginald Dunn and Joseph O’Sullivan. They gave London as their home. Both men were held for trial on murder charge. MARKET OPEN ALL MONDAY Full Day for Holiday Buyers May Be Regular Feature if Desired On account of tho July 4 holiday, tho city market will be open all day Monday. If the cooperation of the public warrants, the market will continue to remain open alj day preceding future holidays, Jo.-.eph F. O'Mahoney, president of the Indianapolis Market Association, declared. MAN IST KILLED BY TRAIN John Jug Dies Before Ambulance Can Take Him to Hospital. John Jug, 917 N. Warman Ave., struck by an inbound New York Central passenger train at the Belmont Ave. crossing, died before an ambulance arrived. Nick Dugai, 919 N. Warman Ave., who identified th© body, said Jug is survived by a wife and five children. •

being impressed on George, he is a different prisoner than when first arrested. He still maintains the shooting was an accident, as does Sherman Hanna, 10, who was with George when he fatally wounded Pete, who taunted George by calling him monkey face. “It was an accident.” George said, "I think they should give me another chance. They tell me twenty-one years is the most they can give me. Is it true?"

Trains Continue to Operate While Associate Executives Seek to Devise Substitute j| Means for Maintaining Service M CONFERENCE FAILS TO GET RESUL® Reports From Divisional Points Assert Ur® Members’Obeyed Call to Drop Their Practically 100 Percent in Each Case ® •" ~ America Confronted With Crisis On National Railroad Lin® By United Press AMERICA TODAY was confronted with one of the greatest strllfl crises since 1894. Four hundred thousand railway shop men were called out on ‘ while 680,000 miners were already striking. As the railroaders were trooping from shops throughout the try President Harding was addressing representatives of the mine jflgjf and operators in Washington In an effort to stop the coal which has been In progress thirteen weeks. The public will not feel the strike. In the opinion of railroad 1 ffflU ecutlves, unless more unions join it. Machinists, blacksmiths, bc.:Bß| makers, car men, sheet metal workers and electricians quit their today. Maintenance of way men, clerks, signalmen and stationary men, telegraphers and switchmen are not contemplating a strike.

CHICAGO, July I.—Four hundred thousand shop workers were to the Nation's idle today when they went or, strike against wage re^HH Promptly on the stroke of 10 a. m. workers dropped their tools. All shops in Chicago—the largest strike center in the country—' closed. One hundred thousand men, *t was estimated by union heads, on strike here. Guards appeared as the men left their and were prepared protect railroad property. B

IN KANSAS TOPEKA, Kansas, July I.—The industrial court today Issued an edict prohibiting the picketing of railroad shops where men have gone out on strike In Kansas. The order stated that there must be no interference with men who desire to work In shops affected by the strike. . JI

POLICE READY FOR EMERGENCY IN RAIL STRIKE Sixty Men Armed With Riot Clubs in Reserve at Headquarters. GIVEN SPECIAL ORDERS Sixty policemen armed with riot clubs were held at’ headquarters for duty today In case of disorder In connection with the railway shopmen’s strike. Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff announced he had rescinded the order assigning men to the various shops and had decided to keep all th© men who had been thus assigned at headquarters. This does not affect the order cancelling policemen's vacations and usual days off. The policemen on strike duty were called together at a special roll call and given instructions by the chief. Assignments to the shops. Chief Rikhoff said, were rescinded on assurance from union men there would be no violence. He instructed policemen to break up all congregating by strikers or others, but to us© no force unless necessary. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED Taken From Deputy Sheriff While On Way To Safo Keeping. JESUP, Ga„ July 1. —James'Harvey and Joe Jordan, two negroes convicted of criminal assault and respited yesterday by Governor Hardwick, were taken from Deputy Sheriff J. R. Tyre, near Lansbrldge in Liberty County and lynched, according to a telephone message from Tyre to Sheriff Rogers of Wayne County today. The men were en route to Savannah for safe keeping.

WHAT DID YOU SEE?

J. C. B. saw a fairly well-dressed man "who had on pale blue sox and shoes that didn’t match. Also saw two young men give their seat in a car to a fat woman. S. L. M. saw an old lady wash her face without removing her spectacles. J. I. B. noticed a jewelry counter in a 5 and 10-cent store with not a negro near. E. M. B. saw a window full of organdie vestees with a card reading ‘‘Vacuum bottles, 59c to sl.” P. S. saw a stenographer write eight personal .letters the first day the bosses were gone on tbei^^Mun.

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BY CHARLES R. LYNCH J United Press Staff Correspondent ■ CHICAGO, July I.—The strike <1 400,000 railroad shop men way today. Although the walkout was nBH ffeially scheduled until 10 a. m., of tile workers failed to duty at 7 a. m. The great Pullman shops in Chicago, employing normally men. was operating with only tHH far repairers on duty. Other 4Kf| reported forces were curtailed. IpajS l-sst hope of the United - It---,i-,; for -■• ••• -s -b zero h'>urjHgfßr j walkout approached. Hooper Stays at Poat^H^SßEj duty throughout the , c- h-.-ping thsJpSii, ■> v ■•■'’■■u-tr-ent in the strike. ty- JpjgSS Chief executives of the VHH 1S- re.- country, confegPrejMtfra Bleckstone Hotel, over meeting the strike. A few blocks away In the Northern Hotel, Bert M. of the shop crafts union, wh JSSB I'-a.nce of the railroad to r.ppo -r. prevented ary hojESSL -, ■' a: the conference gJJsHteS beads and railroad •ho boar,!, met with, district of his union. ]^H[ Unable to Find JewelL Subpoena© servers sent out board had been unable to lßw| Jewell to bring him before the rjfijggM The strike today involved jJPwi smiths, sheet metal workerqdEajp. chinists. electrical workers, JlßjYyjßi and boiler makers. 'I ho one ray of hope in t of >f way, stntißHfl||H men and engineers, and freight handlers’ stick-- until '.lie com offered .at the conference are consider'd. Fear was expressed in =AHfIjBCS| road circles, however. :hatIBBSeBB of these unions might joi men. in an unauthorized sBKe. lE® Effect in Doubt. jr* Tha extent to which strike of tkn men will effect transportation wadgg. doubt. Home railroad executives that as far as the publlo was |PE cerned, they would not know a •v’WJj was in progress. A tour of the shops in suburbs showed that the railrfg&ftjj apparently in anticipation of a sTEgfg had rushed repairs on equipmen rolling stock was In good order. of engines, repaired good condition, stood on the covered with canvas, ready to be flgl out to take the place of which c.culd not be repaired in cSB of a walkout. One hundred thousand men—fourth of those scheduled to jok. strike—are employed in Chicago and suburbs. * To Preserve Order. Elaborate preparations were to preserve order and protect road property. "]pl|||i Chief of Police Charles Fitznv * In conference with railroad tives, made arrangements wher hourly reports will be received frjr • ’ each of the shop districts* on whet fls there is any danger of trouble. Extra squads of police were Hfl signed to shop districts. .‘TV; Each major railroad operating , \; i of Chicago hired 500 guards. . The railroad managers that the strike was directed the government, through a against an order for a wage cuf ’- v-.* sued by the United States Labor Board. A •*