Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 278, Hammond, Lake County, 7 May 1919 — Page 1

'ME FAIR 1 WEATHEfc wise VOL. XIII, NO. 278. HAMMOND, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919. INTERNATIONAL! NEWS ULL LEASED WIRE SERVICW. Oa streets and news stands, ic per copy. Delivered bj carried la Hammond an) West Eammoad, 60o per month. BSBBBSBBMaalaMiABUMStetaBnBtaUia Jl

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SISTER CITY ALSO LOYAL TO GOUNTR1 Bolshevists Agitators Can't Find Any Place to Meet Across State Line. Red propagandists find no -welcome awaiting them In West Hammond. Barred from holding public meetings and with, the police force ready to copo with any situation their efforts have come to naught, and the, few which -were trying to hatch trouble there have gone elsewhere or are keeping quiet. Fearing that tho tMshevist agitators, when ousted from Indiana cities of the Calumet region, would transfer their activities to the Illinois side of the line, eteps were immediately taken which forstalled any such move. City Clerk Andrew Stachowicz has been instructed to issue no permits for public meetings unless the purpose of the gathering is explained satisfactorily to him. Any eusplcioua proposition will at enca & referred to Chief of Police Nitz for Investigation. The owners of the five halls in West Hammond have been instructed to observe to the letter the city's ordinance requiring permits for meetings in their buildings. Modern rifles stacked in the West Hammond police station add emphasis to the announced policy of the authorities. The new guns were rushed thero and the boys are practicing dally on the lifie range. They will mako short work cf any disturbance which takes ugly proportions and which requires drastic measures. Citizens have placed the stamp of their disapproval cn activities cf the Reds and will back the police force in any emergency. MASONS ARE ALL INVITED TO SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. May 7. Every member of the Masonic fraternity In Lake, county is expected and urged to attend the corner stone laying at Crown Toint. Saturday. May 10. An open in- . vitation is also extended to all others v ho wish to make the trip. An Erie tram has been chartered for the occa- . sion and will leave Hammond at 1:30 and ave Crown Point cn the return at 5 o'clock. The train will stop at Grifflth to take on passeengers. and to avoid congestion at the Hammond ticket of- j nee. a representative of the Erie will sell tickets on the train. The Hammond Ccmmandery Knights Templar. Orak Shrine Patrol and Drum corps, in full uniform, together with Garfield and McKlnley lodges and tho Eastern Star, will entrain at the Erie ; depot. Hammond, at 1:30. The parade at Crown Point starts at 2 -.30. and will be headed by Ralph B. Bradford. Past Master and Grand Marthai of the day. Dedication ceremonios will be held at 3 p. m. Grand Master Thomas B. Bohon. of Jeffersonville, Ind., and other officers of the Grand lodge will be in charge of the laying of the corner stone. Orator cf the day: Julius R. Kline. Thirty-third degree Mason and Past Master of Von Rensselaer Lodge of Perfection, Chicago, one of the noted speakers of the fraternity, in this section of the country. The Engleside quartet of Chicago has also been engaged for this occasion. The entire affair has been arranged and is under the direction of the Crown Toint Masons, headed by Daniel Steeb. K. M., and Ralph B. Bradford. Fast master and Grand Marshal of the day. ROBBED OF 9 HIS MONEY Balent Gabor. of 13 Hickory street, while on the corner of Plummer avenue and State Line street, last night was hit over the head by a negro with a billy and robbed of $35. Gabor had several bad cuts on his head, two of which had to be sewed up by the doctor. Death of Young Lady. Clara F. Williams, the 20 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Williams, died at ttielr home, 101 Hanover street, Hammond, yesterday afternoon after a long illness. The funeral will be held from the residence Friday afternoon at 2:30. Interment will be held In Oak Hill cemetery In charge of Undertaker Emmer-Ung-

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SPECIAL SESSION CONGRESS Instructions Cabled Today From Paris to Issue the Formal Call. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON". May 7. President Wilson today called an extraordinary session of the 66;h congress for May 1?. Secretary Tumulty received cabled instructions fror.- Paris early today to issue the formal call. The date caused a distinct surprise among congrerslonal circles. It was known that the call would be forthcoming within a few days, but May 26 was the earliest" date that was speculated upon. The calling of the session for May 19 means that the president will not be in Washington to address a Joint session on that date. When he left for his ! second trip to Paris it was known to be his intention not to call the special session until he could be in Washington. What may have caused him to change his attitude In this respect was not revealed. The White House today claimed to be without any information on the definite date of the president's return, but it was assumed that he would remain in Paris until the Germans have signed the peace treaty. It is believed that the president Is calling a special session for so early a date yielded to pressure from Secretary Glass, who for some time has been anxious to have appropriation and supply measures, that failed of passage In the last congress, got out of the way. It Is known that he has been In communication with Paris for some time and that he has urged speedy action necessary to putting the finances of the country in shape. "ZERO HOUR TOMORROW" -CONTRACTORS Men Are Given Till Thursday Morning to Return to Work. Members of the Lake County Contractors & Material Men Association refuse to back down from their first stand la regard to the strike of building trades laborers. The men asked for Increases to seventy and eighty cents per hour, whereas they are now rcclvinj; sixty and seventy cents. Seventy-eight members cf the contractors association were present at the meeting Tuesday evening at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. It was unanimously voted to refuse the demand of the laborers. A committee was ap pointed to cal up the leaders of the laborers and notify them of the employers' declsisn. The men were given until the morning of Thursday, May ?, to return to their Jobs. In case of refusal, the employers state that they will continue their contracts and will hire such men as will work under the present scale and working conditions. Construction work has been tied up since last Wednesday by the strike, but rainy weather during the greater part of the time has rendered th walkout utmost harmless to date. With improved weather conditions, the contractors feel that they should get busy at once. BROTHER OF AUTO Co. Seat Shocked at Death of Prominent Business Man. tSPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN POINT. Ind., May 7. Crown Point people were shocked beyon'd measure to learn of the sudden death of Edward Houk, one of Crown Point's prominent business men and brother of Miss Alma Houk, who was killed at the Michigan Central R. R. crossing a week ago on Sunday. The death occurred shortly after six o'clock in the evening. Mr. Houk returning from his day's work as usual. He complained of feeling 111 and a doctor was summoned but death came before medical aid reached him. The death is a particularly sad one following so closely upon the death of his sister and the sympathy of the city Is certaintly with the bereaved family. He leaves a wife and small son. The family have had several particularly sad deaths the rast few years and the members of the family are certainly having more than their share of trouble. For Indiana Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler tonight: light frost In north portion; warmer in northwest portion Thursday.

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THE MAYOR Hammond Alderman Want City to Give No Further Leeway to Bolshevists in City. Voting to stand behind Mayor Brown In any emergency steps which he may take in preventing or quelling disorder the Hammond city council went on record last night as being- squarely opposed to allowing- bolshevlsts further leeway In their work. -"Nip them In the bud." was Councilman Re'lley's curt advice. Sam Skufaklss of East Hammond, the only socialist alderman, made a special request that he be allowed to go on record as supporting the motion of L. C. Smith which embodied the vote of confidence and support Further evidence that Mayor Brown will have plenty cf support in curbing bolsTnevism came In the form of communications from the Soldiers and Sailors club and the former Home Guards. The Home Guards which are being newly outfitted and augmented offered to do police duty In the city providing of course that city will stand any incidental expense which Is Incurred. The Soldiers and SallorsCJub sent a copy of the resolution passed at their meeting last n'.ght in which they offered their services as a body to assist the mayor and police In suppressing eny Insurrection or disorder which may arise in handling bolshevlsts. Several appropriation ordinances were introduced and passed, among them being one for $65,433 to pay outstanding short t'.ras notes. The Department of Public Works received $5,009 to be used in cleaning sewers and $2,000 was appropriated to pay the salaries of inspectors on proposed public Improvements. The council voted to appropriate $125 to hire a band for the G. A. R-. Memorial Day Exercises. In this connection a resolution was Introduced which empowered the mayor to invite me G. A. R. of Indiana to hold their next state encampment at Hammond. The veterans are now In session at Elkhart. It was voted to present a petition from the council to the county commissioners asking that the Hohman street bridge be refloored with creosote blocks. Several other matters relative to street Improvements which require county co-operation were referred to the board of public works. Alderman Heckleman was booked to receive a reprimand from Mayor Brown for blocking important action of the council at the last session. A motion was made to strike this from the minutes and it would have gone through nicely but Heckleman object ed and the motion was lost when the vote was taken. However, in the more important work of the evening the reprimand was passed up. GALLED BDOTLEGGER Joe Silverman, Brother of Little Mike, Now Lands in Jail. Joe Silverman, brother of Mike Silverman, who is In the East Chicago Jail on the charge of being a Bolshevik was arrested last night on a search warrant charging that his place was being conducted as a blind pig and liquor was being kept and sold therein. - The soft (7) drink parlor Is at 4848 Alexander avenue, Calumet, and when raided by officers Maybeck. Welnstock and "Matthews, about sixteen quarts of boozo was found, with glasses, etc. Joe was placed under a cash bond of $400 which he furnished himself. Hearing will be before Judgre Cohen at the city court. Chas. Morlts was also taken into custody at the same time. SAYS MEETING ' IS FOR I. W. W. Joseph Levlnsky, of Hammond, a member of the I. W. W. which had advertised a meeting In the hall at 144 Indiana avenue for whose upkeep they pay 50-50 with the socialists, for next Sunday, denies that the two organizations have anything in common and declares that if the city authorise i J .M1 -all rtff maMtlncr I as far as he can. Levlnsky says he is not a bolshevlat or a red flag man.

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'BULL' ORATOR RUN OUT OF GARY BY POLICE Last night a meeting in Gary Bolshevists billed to meet at Roumanian hall were put to flight by a mob of Amelrcanlsed foreigners. Liza DxigorskJ. a bolshevlkl orator from Akron, Ohio, appeared to make a speech at Roumanian hall. Twentyfive men and rour women were present. On the outside of the hall were several thousand foreigners entering their protests in such "treat 'em rough" manner that they broke up the meeting- and the speaker escorted by Capt. Vowika and five policemen, hurried out the back way and was taken to the Pennsylvania depot where it was found there were no east bound trains. He was taken to the Lake Shore and It was found no trains were going- east. Then he was taken to the South Shore and sent to Chicago with the admonition by the police to "get the hell out of here and stay out." He got out and so did his followers at the hall, where they had congregated. LAKE CO. BUYS SEVEN MILLION Tremendous Oversubscription is Victory Loan Is Promised by Chairman. - -" Lake county has nearly oversubscribed the Victory Liberty loan two million dollars, acordlng to County Chairman F. R. Schaaf this morning at Gary. Final figures on the total will not be given out until after the drive expires on May 10, for there are still some returns to come in. but with a $550,000 subscription by the U. S. Steel Corporation of Gary, and a $70,000 subscription by the Standard OH Company of Whiting, the figures are brought up to seven millon dollars. "It is doubtful," said Chairman Schaaf, "whether any county In the state will be able to equal Lake county's obersubscriptlon. Lake county's total nearly doubles any othfr county, ith the cxecption of Marion." DRUNKEN DRIVER IS ARRESTED Paul Funcik of Ind. Harbor Runs Over Hammond Man With Auto. Paul Funcik. 2107. 137th street. Indiana Harbor, Is out on $2,000 bond in Judge Klotz's city court In Hammond this morning charged with a serious crime. Funcik. while driving an auto on Columbia avenue last night, while drunk, ran down Joe Klann, a bicyclist living at 353 Oak street, and the latter is at St. Margaret's hospital in a critical condition. After Funcik ran over Klann, he tried to escape, but was stopped by Officers Warner and Carlson. He is said by the officers to have been drunk. Klann is injured internally. Times news service Is the best ihat money can buy and honest effort can furnish. THE WAY TO STOP THE REDS The Times believes that the way to stop bolshevism in Lake County is to stop the haranguing of excitable foreign-born by speakers in Russian, Croatian or any other foreign language. These inflammatory speeches are against the United States and the. constitution. They are seditious. These foreign speakers go the limit The police cannot understand them. They would not dare to say in English what they rant in a foreign tongue. Good old United States is the only language for Americans. The minute any man talks to a crowd in a foreign tongue clap him in jail. Arrest him for provoke, for he is inciting a riot

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PLEDGE TO THE FRE If France Is Attacked by Germany Again United States and Great Britain Will Go to Her Aid. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICI) PARIS. May i. A itiigmy summary of the peace treaty was made public this afternoon simultaneous with Its presentation to the German delegates at Versailles. At the same time President Wilson made public for the first time the exact nature of the pledge he and Premeir Lloyd-George of Great EritaJ ngave the French government, respecting the aid of the ITnited States might render In case France is again attacked by Germany. "In addition to the securities afforded In the treaty of peace," said an official statement issued on his behalf, "the president of the United States has pledged himself to propose to the senate of the United States, and the prime minister of Great Britain has pledged himself to propose to the parliament of Great Britain In engagement, subject to the approval of the council of the League of Nations, to corns Immediately to the assistance of France In case of unprovoked attack- by Germany." t. """Under the provisions of the treaty: Alsace-Lorraine goes to Francs. The Saar valley will be temporarily Internationalized. Danzig Mill be permanently Interna tionalized. Germany renounces all territorial rights outside of Europe. Germany recognizes the Independence of Poland and Czecho-Slovakla. The German army is reduced to 100, 000 officers and men, and conscription within Germany is abolished. The German navy is reduced to 24 warships and no submarines. Germany may have only 100 unarmed seaplanes to search for mines off her coast. Germany will pay an Indemnity, the amount of which is not jet fixed, the initial payment to be 25,000.000,000 marks, about $8,000,000,000. Germany cedes a large part of her merchant fleet to the allies. Germany agrees to the trial of the exkalser. The disposition of the surrendered German fleet, the German colonies and the German cables Is left to future action. The Lea gru of Nations becomes a living organization. FBEAKBLE. The preamble names as parties of the one part the United States, the British Empire, France. Italy and Japan, described as the five allied and associated powers, and Belgium, Bolivia. Brazil, China. Cuba. Ecuador. Greece, Guatemala, Haytl. The Hedjaz, Honduras. Liberla, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland. Portugal. Roumanla. Serbia, Slam. Tzecho-Slovakia. and Uraguay, who with the Ave abore are described as the allied and associated powers, and on the other part, Germany. It states that: Bearing in mind that on the request of the then Imperial German Government, an armistice was granted on November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, by the five Allted and Associated Powera in order that a treaty of peace might be concluded with her, and whereas, the ailed and associated powers being equally desirous that the war in which they were successively involved directly or indirectly and which originated in the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on July 28th, 1914, against Serbia, the declaration of war by Qermany against Russia on August 1st. 1914, and against France on August 3rd. 1914, and in the invasion of Belgium. BALLARD GETS 1 CENT JUDGMENT VALPARAISO. Ind.. May 7. A case wherein E. O. Ballard, an attorney of Gary, brought an action against Samuel D. "Wechsler for $450 alleged attorney fees earned in a case tried before the circuit court of Porter county, which has been on trial In the superior court for the past three of four days, was ended at 9 o'clock last night when the Jury reported to Judge Crumpacker. finding the plaintiff was entitled to once cent. This verdict, it Is understood, was returned In order to make the defendant pay the costs of the trial. HAD HIS IN A SUIT CASE George SirwiskI of 'White- Oak ave.. East Chicago, was arrested last night on Calumet boulevard by the Hammond police, charged with violating the liquor law. Sirwiski. who had six quarts of whiskey in a suit case, was fined $80 In the Hammond city court this morning by Judge Klotz.

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Summary of Peace Treaty l INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PARIS. May 7 It Is the long-est treaty ever drawn, rt totals about eig-hty thousand words, divided Into fifteen mala sections, and represents th combined product of over a thousand experts working- continually tinouga a series of commissions for the- three and a naif months since January eighteenth, the treaty printed In parallel pages of English and Trench, which are recognized as having- equal validity. Xt doss not deal with questions affecting Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey except Insofar as binding- Germany to accept any agreement reached with those former allies. Germany, by th terms of th treaty, restores Alsace-Lorraine to Trance, accepts the internationalization of the Saar basin temporarily and of Danzig permanently: agrees to territorial changes towards Belgium and Denmark, ' ana in cut Prussia cedes most of upper Silesia to Poland, and renounces all territorial and political rights outside Europe, as to her own and her allies' territories, and especially to Morocco, Eg-ypt, Slam, Liberia and Shantung. She also recognises th total independence of German-Austria, Czecho-Slovakla and Poland. Her army is reduced to 100,000 men, including officers; conscription within her territories is abolished; all forts fifty kilometers east of the Shine raced; and all importation, exportation and nearly all production of war material i sotpped. Allied occupation of parts of Germany will continue till reparation is made hut will be reduced at th end of each, of three five-year' periods, if Germany' is fulfilling her obligations. Any violation by Germany cf the conditions as to the sone fifty kilometers east of the Rhine will he regarded as an act of war. The Germany navy Is reduced to six battleships, six light cruisers and twelve torpedo boats, without submarines, and a personnel of not over fifteen thousand. All other vessels must be surrendered or destroyed. Germany is forbidden to build forts controlling the Baltic, must demolish Heligoland, open the Kiel canal to all nations, and surrender her fourteen submarine cables. She may have no military or naval air forces except one hundred unarmed seaplanes until October 1st to detect mines and may manufac ture aviation material for six months. Germany accepts full responsibility for all damages caused to allied and as. sociated governments and nationals, agrees specifically to reimburse all civilian damages, beginning with an initial payment of twenty billion marks subsequent payments to he secured by bonds to be Issued at the discretion of the reparation commission. Germany is to pay shipping damage on a tou-f or-toa basis, by cession of a large part of her merchant, coasting and river fleets and by new construction. And to devote her economic resources to the rebuilding of the devastated regions. She agrees to return to the ninetaenfourteen most favored nation tariffs, without discrimination of sort: To allow allied and associated nations freedom of transit through her territories and to accept highly detailed provisions as prewar debts, unfair competition, Internationalization of roads and rivers, and other economic and financial clauses. She also agrees to the trial of the ex. kaiser by an International high court for a supreme offense against International morality, and of other nationals for violation of the laws and customs of war, Holland to be asked to extradite the former and Germany being responsible for delivering the latter. The League of Nations is accepted by the allied and associated powers as operative and by Germany in principle but without membership. Similarly an International labor body Is brought into being with a permanent office and an annual convention. THIS OUGHT TO STOP BURGLARY Crown Point Judge Sentences Hammond Negro to 10-20 Years in Pen. tSPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN" POINT. Ind.. May 7. Will Jones, a Hammond negro, was sentenced to from 10 to 20 years in the tates prison by Judge Smith in the criminal court on Tuesday. He was found guilty of burglary. On March 23rd after a visit to Burnham he entered the home of Mrs. Timothy Geary in the night and ransacked the place. Judge Smith decided that such a bad nfgro should be behind the bars. Schlsnsky Is Acquitted. Joe, Schlensky of Gary was acquitted of the charge of grand larceny In the criminal court on Monday. Judge Smith finding that the cldence "shown was not convincing enough to convict. Schlensky was arrested for stealing a $100 Liberty bond and $30 in War Savings Stamps from Mary Kalvaite.

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GOING 1 Germany Finds Out for First Time What Allies Will Require of Her for Four Years of Bloodshed. SEND TREATY COPY BY AEROPLANE t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! VERSAILLES. May 7. The German delegates arranged this forenoon to send a copy of the peace treaty by aeroplane to Weimar, the courier leaving here and transmitting the terms to the German cabinet simultaneously with their presentation here, the Central News Agency learns. (Th distanra fmm i'm..m.. Weimar by the air route is" approxwlv Jnataly ;. .-iolW. An avlato couM I1 make the trip in less than 4 hours.) (BTJUiETiar.) The International News Service Is in a position to srsat that when the treaty summary is published this afternoon it will be found that Germaav -m-imr n.v. good. In addition to monetary payments. Tinuiiy piece 6y piece machinery and other materials, such as llvs stock and household furniture which she stole In Belgium and northern Francs. She must also replace works of art, and rebuild with German labor historic edifices destroyed during the war. The world-famous library at Louvaln probably will be included. Por a designated pexdod of years Germany will be compelled to supply coal and coal tar products, dyestuffs and other essentials to tho devastated reg. Ions to make good robberies which neither time, human hands nor money can replace. John Edwin Nevin staff correspondent 1. n. service VERSAILLES, France, May 7. Germany heard her fate this afternoon. In the very city where the Prussian empire was created, the new republic of Germany was told the penalty she must pay for inaugurating a four years' orgy of bloodshed and rapine. The scene was most impessivc. Months of the hardest effort on the part of the allied and associated powers was crowned with a successful agreement on how peace should be restored to a war-torn worjd. ITALIANS BUSK TEOU EOME. The Italian delegates, who had rushed from Rome to Paris at the last minute, were present. The Germans, headed by tholr junker leader. Count von BrockdorfT-Rantzau, filled the central portion of the picture and were seated at the foot of, tables which ran through the main dining room of the Trianon palace. The great room was flooded with light which streamed through the windows of the sun parlor in the rear. The arrangement of the tables followed the lines of the clock room at tne Qual d'Orsay in Paris where the treaty was communicated to the smaller rowers yesterday. CLEMENCEATJ AT HEAD. At the head of the table eat Premier Clemenceau. On his left was President "Wilson and on his right Premier Lloyd George. All of the participants were in civilian attire save the generals who wore the uniform of th evarious armies. There was no special diplomatic dress. Facing the blsr three were the German envoys who watched nervously through the twenty minutes program the men who held in their hands tha future of the German nation. WHERE DELEGATES SAT. Ranging down the table from Premier Lloyd George came the delegations in the following order: French. Including Marshal Foch: th British, Italians, Belgians. Brazilians. Portuguese and Servians. On the opposite side of the table ?fr the Americans, with Secretary Laniuc (Continued on page eight.) The Times' want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed.