Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 300, Hammond, Lake County, 3 June 1919 — Page 1

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Frank Monson Says Country is Reaping Result of Immigration Policy i . 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Washington, d. c, June 3: "The attempted destruction ofj life and property should cause1 calm reflection, rather than hysteria on the part of every American," said Frank Morison, secretary of the American Federation cf Labor, in a statement issued this afternoon on the bombing outrages. "For years the trade union movement has urged the restriction of immigration, but the workers were opposed by steamship companies, the steel trust and other employers of labor who stimulated immigration at the rate of one million persons a year. riSDED ZN CENTERS. "Many of these immigrants were herdc"! in large cities or other industrial centers. They were encouraged to use their own language anl to perpetuate traditions of their mother country. At election time, in innumerable insurers they were voted en bloc and if they would organize a trade union, or suspended work to stop exploitation, they were enjoined, clubbed and jailed. This ir. nn old story in West Virginia. Colorado. Pennsylvania and elsewhere. COTJNTBT MAPIHO BESTXTS. ----- "This country is now reaping the resu't of its immigration policy or lack of policy during- all these years. "Comb throwing is always a challenge to organized society and should Tc met in that spirit, but the question ri'.ist be traced back tt its root and trented accordingly." Representative Rergor. Socialist, un-d'-r conviction for violation of the T-pionage act. this afternoon issued this stau mont : "The, bomb outrages of the anarchists j are snp-r insanity, of co'lrse. but this Im.mily is the natural result and the logical answer to the insane outrages ?tg; irst the free press and free speech bv the ruling class." Explosion Envelops Occupants of East Chicago In Flames; One Dying in Gary. Kstel Francis, who lives on Commonwealth avenue. Kast Chicago, was probably fatally burned, and Bert Hall. Jr., Hemlock street. Indiana Harbor, was badly burned about the hands Sunday night when their automobile caught fire in some manner in front, of the Galvin garage in Indiana Harbor. Francis Is now in the Gary hospital nd it is feared he will not survive. The two boys occupied the front seat of the Maxwell touring car belonging to Bert Hall, while Arthur Barker and nother young man were in the hack eat. They had driven to the Jalvin g-arage to purchase gasoline at 11:30 O'clock Sunday evening and while waiting the flames suddenly burst forth from the front part of the car.! Hall managed to escape witln burns bout the hands, but before Francis i could climb from the car his clothes were burning and he was shrouded in flames. The two men in the rear seat were not injured and hurried to his assistance, but before the fire could be smothered he had suffered horrible burns. The boys are at a loss to explain the origin of the fire as all were in the machine when it started. "RED" REVOLUTION IS INTRODUCED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl WASHINGTON. June 3. Severe penalties for anarchistic outrages and propaganda and the display of the red flag were provided in a bill introduced in e senate this afternoon by Senator Walsh, of Montana. Whlsh also had read the anarchistic proclamation found In the effects of the "Red" who bombed .tiy. Gen. Palmer's house.

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Crown Point Boy Now On Rhine

s tl-AYTON If. BEI.SHAW. CROWN POINT. Ind.. June ) Supt. and Mrs. C. J. Belshay, of the County Poor Farm, have received word from their son. Clayton H. Helshaw, M. 97 C. 6th regiment. T S. marines, that he expects to leave for the U. S. by the end of June or the middle of July. Private Belshaw is one of the hard fighting Lake county boys, whose activities in several hot battles and subsequent patrol of the Rhineland excite admiration. Many startling chapters in the great war "have been described by Private Belshaw to the home folks. Hammond Man One of States Twelve Field Agents To visit Boards of Review. fTIHES BURSAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. Inj.. June 3. Twelve field agents of the state board of tax commissioners left Indianapolis for their respective territories armed with final instructions of the board, and will begin work with '.rtc county boards of review which have already begun their annual sessions June 2. Each field man will have about eight counties and will act as a sort of a clearing house of Information the state board wishes and will supply it with the Information it needs to assist in equalizing assessments as between counties in Indiana. The agents who receive $50 a week and expenses, are as follows: J. Monroe Fitch, of Muncie; Chester A. Davis, Penville: Willis C. Nusbaum. Indianapolis; Frank O. Maxwell, Crawfordsville; Harre E. Lutherbeck. Lawrenceburg; Nelson K. Tood, Blucton: Charles O. Mauzy, Fowler; Clinton H. Given. Indianapolis; James Showalter. Wabash; Floyd R. Murray, Hammond; T. P. Tillman. Booneville. Each is a republican, with the exception of Mr. Murray who is a democrat. The state board calls the attention of the public to the fact that in its assessments of railroads, interurbans. public utilities, banks, trust companies, building and loan associations and the like, as announced last week aid this week no real estate is included in the assessments, with the exception of rights-of-ways and station sites. Real estate owned by banks and other corporations is assessed locajly. 300,000 ON STRIKE IN PARIS 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl PARIS. June 3. Disputes over the application of the eight-hour day principle have led to another labor crisis in France. Today more than 300,000 men and women are on strike in Paris alone. The strikers are mostly metal workers and men engaged in aviation plants and clothing and shoe workers. Five thousand girls, employed In the Printemps. one of the city's largest department stores, have quit work and are engaged in one of the kind of demonstration that generally accompanies a strike cf Parisian Midinettes, or shop-girls. In the northern coal fields S2.000 miners have quit work. In every case, in addition to the eighthour day, the workers are demanding big wage increases to meet the high co3t of living, which is still rising throughout France. Don't" throw your paper away without reading, the want ad page.

P. R. MURRAY APPOINTED FIELD AGENT

HAMMOND LEADS BANKING COUNTY WEALTH State Board Completes Tabulation of County Financial Institutions.

TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. June 3. The state board of tax commissioners after completing tt tabulation of all its assessments of all the banking', trust companies and mortgage guaranty companies announces the grand total of such assessments in the state at $04. 434.700. The assessments for ach bank in J Lake county, which were assessed at j S100.000 or more for a bank, show that j the First National bank of Hammond I leads all others by a large amount, I and that the Hammond banks lead I other cities by a snug sum. The totals are as follows: Hammond. First National 331.S00 Lake Co. Sav. & Trust 213.700 Citizens' National 141,100 American Trust & Savings.... 101,400 tiary. First National . $227,000 National of America 114.300 v Eaat Chicago. First National $162,000 Calumet .Trust & Savings 122,900 Indiana Harbor. Indiana Harbor National $153. S00 First State Savings & Trust... 105, tuo Crown Point. First National 153.9P0 Peoples' State 113.900 Commercial '. 103,000 Grnnd Totals. Hammond $78S.OOO Crown Point 376.800 Gary T 341,300 East Chicago 2S4.900 Indiana Harbor 258.900 E. FOLIUI PLANE Bunnells & Wickeys To Fly From Ashburton Field To Lake County on Sunday. The first two civilians in Lake county, it is believed, to take an extended trip in an aeroplane were E. N. Bunnell and daughters. Beth and Ruth, of Hammond, and Messrs. Wickey and Thomas," Jr., of East Chicago. They flew from Ashburton Field at Cicero in an army plane last Sunday afternoon to a point hovering over Hammond and East Chicago and return. Lieut. Blair. U. S. A. C who holds the U. S. altitude record, was the pilot. In describing the trip Mr. Bunnell said: "We were 22 minutes in the air and flew at an altitude of 4J)00 feet, at ninety miles an hour, and it was such an exhilarating trip that I am going to buy my own aeroplane and in fact have practically completed arrangements to possess one. Wickey and Thomas are Just as enthusiastic." I. W. W. SHOOTS AT DETECTIVE IN PITTSBURGH f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 PlTTSBUB.au, Pa., June 3 John Johnson ,35, said to be president of the ocal I. W. W. and Internationally known as an X. W. W. organizer, was arrested this afternoon after he had I shot at Detective Jacob Zsler when the I latter entered X. W. W. headquarters. ' The bnllet passed through the left sleeve of the detective coat. All the papers and literature In the office were taken to the police station. The round, up of suspects In the bomb cases con. tinues this afternoon. KANSAS BANK ROBBED OF $43,000 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June a. According to word received by the local police department, a bank near Pittsburg, KiinJ shs, was robbed during last night to the amount of $43.00". The robbers reached the vault by tunr.cling It Is said. PAYROLL BANDITS ARE FRUSTRATED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' CHICAGO, June 3 Three armed men seized a $25,000 payroll of the Royal Tailors Co. today from James Robinson, an express messenger, but dropped the box when detectives opened fire. Forty shots were fired at the fleeing bandits and one is believed to have been wounded.

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SHOCKING r Chunks of Flesh are Blown Through Building Where Soldiers are Sleeping. . (BTJX.X.ETX2r.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HEW TOBX, Jnne 3. The police to. day a search for two young women who were sitting- on the steps of the brown stons residence of Judge Charles C. ITott, Jr., s short time before a bomb wrecked the building, killing William Boehner, a night watchman, who was passing-. Tie police theory Is that the women may either have carried the bomb to the 37ott home, or shielded the movements of a male anarchist. Xt was learned definitely that Boehner was the only victim, par's of scalp at first believed to have been from the body of an aged woman being- identified as belonging to the watchman. Hear the ITott home was found a copy of the same anarchist circular found near the homes of Attorney General Palmer la Washington, Judge Hayden in Boxbury, Mass., and IXaz Gold In Patterson, it. J clearly pointing to a general anar. chlst conspiracy originating- from the same center. - INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK June 3, A man and a woman were blown to bits by a bomS that wrecked the home of Judge Charles Cooper Nott, Jr., of the Court of General Sessions early today. Mrs. Nott, who was asleep on the top floor of the four story brownstone house, was not injured, and Judge Not was in Connecticut. The man, fragments of whose body were scattered over half a block, is believed to have been a watchman named Boehner. He is believed to have been killed by a premature explosion. The woman victim was about sixty years old. POWEBPTJI. EXPLOSIVE TJSED. I Apparently sne was passing me soxt j home in East Sixty-first street, when a large fragment of the brown stone, blown off by the bomb, horribly mangled her body. Boehner was employed as a detective and.it is believed he saw the bomb and was examining It. Inspector Owen Egan, of the bureau of combustibles, annovinced -after several hours investigation, that tin bomb set off on the steps of the Nott home was the most powerful he had ever dealt with in all his investigations of bomb plots. EXf I.OSION BIPS OUT BUItBXNG. The explosion tore out the entire first and second floors of the stone building, carrying down the stairs and leaving Mrs. Nott marooned on the top floor. She escaped to the street by a fire escape. So powerful was the explosion that a large chunk of human flesh was blown across the street find through a window of the war camp community service building, where many returned soldiers were sleeping. Fronts of other buildings along the streets were pasted with bits of human flesh and their windows shattered. The caretaker at the Nott home. man named Vorkins. his' wife and daughter were unhurt. AIMED AT WRONG RESIDENCE. Fifteen minutes after the bomb was set Off at Judge Nott's residence, the news had been flashed to every policeman in New York city and the search for known anarchists was begun. The police feared that other bomb explo sions woulu De reported oeiore naybreak but no other reports were received. Judge Xott. it was stated, at his home, has seldom been on th bench when cases which might arouse the anger of anarchists were in court. Detectives are working on the theory that the bomb plotters made a mistake and planted the explosive in front of the wrong residence. ANOTHER BANK HOLDUP INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 NEW ORLEANS, La., June 3 Police and detectives are continuing vigorous search today for the robber who, in broad daylight yesterday held up the youthful paying teller, Joseph P. Rosamano, on the Interstate ..Bank and Trust Co.. Algiers. La., and escaped with $15,000. Rosamano was knocked unconscious then locked up in a vault. There is no trace of the robber after he took a ferr boat to New Orleans.

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HOUSES ID CHURCHES ARE DYNAMITED IN VARIOUS PLACES

Bomb Fails to Kill Him 4 f? H i-i it, A S A. Mitchell Palmer. CHICAGO r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl CHICAGO, June 3. Detectives and i federal agents are guarding all public buildings and several financial institutions today, while special watches have been stationed at all railway stations and roads entering the city, on the lookout for two men suspected of placing the bomb in the home of Mayor Davis of Cleveland last night, and who. according to reports from that city, are headed this wayl At the same time "flying squads" of federal agents and police are scattered I about the city end are keeping all known radicals and "red haunts" under close surveillance. With these precautions taken local authorities feel confident that no effort will be made by local radicals to add to j tho DomD terror iunu is mo cjjmn-'n of bombs in several cities throughout the country last night, PITTSBURG I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PITTSBURGH. Pa.. June 3. The whole machinery of the local police department and federal secret service bureau was set in motion today to run down the persons responsible for the two mysterious explosions here last night. The haunts of the radicals w ere under espionage and railroad stations were carefully guarded. The police believe the jobs were done by imported talent. It was reported that arrests would soon bo made. Nine persons were slightly Injured and damage of several thousand dollars was done by the explosion, which were believed Intended to kill Federal Judge W. II. S. Thomson and Inspector W. W. Sibrey. In both cases the bombs were placed in houses adjoining the residences of these federal officials. FIFTEEN ARE ARRESTED. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PITTSBURGH. Pa., June 3. Fifteen men. mostly Russian Poles, were arrested today in connection with last night's bomb explosions in which attempts were made on the lives of Federal Judge V. 11. S. Thompson and Immigration Inspector AY. W. Sibray. "very known Red sympathizer is to be rounded up. The police say that one important arrest was made when Louis Rachui ,30, who came here recently from Cleveland, was taken. Dachul could not explain his presence near the scene of the explosion. It was determined today lhat the explosives used were time bombs loaded with shrapnel, particles of which were found imhtsilded in near-by houses. Donald Sibray, 21. son of the immigration inspector, was painfully injured by a flying piece of shrapnel. He was sleeping in the yard of the Sibray home. The handbill headed "Plain Words" was found near one of the wrecked houses. CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CLEVELAND. O.. June 3. With what is believed to be a good description of the Cleveland agents of the nation-wide bomb plot, who late last night explodel a dynamite bomb at the residence of (Continued on. page nine.)

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Unsuccessful Attempt on Life of Attorney-General. Secret Service Stirred To Activity By (Crime. Many Arrests are Made in Different Cities.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON," June 3. Every government agency today was at work in an attempt to run down the perpetrators of the second nation-wide bomb plot within five weeks. With the May Day conspiracy frustrated through the watchfulness of a clerk in the New York postoffice, the second, which result ed last night in what almost proved to be a successful attempt upon the life of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, and in the dynamiting of ten houses and churches in widely scattreed sections of the country, had started the machinery of the government in motion to run down the radicals suspected of the plot.

8 CITIES HIT IN BOMB OUTRAGE More than half a dozen, bomb outrages war reported during th. past 24. boars, hut whether tbey-jw.r all connected with on conspiracy Is uncertain, due to the obscurity of some I of the victims. The list of those agalst whom bombs wars directed I fnllnwn WASHINGTON, S. C. Atty.- Gea, A. Mitchell Palmer; two men belle-red killed. NEW YORK Jadgre Charles Cooper Nott, Jr., of the Court of General Sessions; man and woman killed. BOSTON Justice Albert T. Bay. den, of the Boxbury Municipal Court; none injured. PITTSBURGH Tsderal District Judge W. E. Thompson (although the Infernal machine had been placed upon the porch of a residence two - J A .1 son's home) ; none hurt. PHIZ.ASEZ.FSZA The rectory of Our X.ady of Victory parish, and the residence of Louis X.ajleky; sereral Injured. CZ.ETEZ.ANZ Mayor Harry I Davis; none hurt. HEWTONyiLLE, Mass. Bepresentatlve Xeland Powers; none Injured. PATTERSON. N. J. Max Gold, silk manufacturer; none Injured. This is the text of the "Red" dodger headed "Plain Words." found in Washington and Roxbury, Mass., near bombed homes: "A time has come when the social questions solution can be delayed no longer; class w.ar is on and cannot cease but with a complete victory for the international proletariat. ' "The challenge is an old one. oh, democratic lords of the autocratic republic. We have been dreaming of freedom, we have talked of liberty, we have aspired to a better world and you jailed us, you clubbed us, you deported us, you murdered us whenever you could. "It Is history of yesterday that your gunmen were shooting and murdering unarmed masses by the wholesale; It has been the history of every day in your regime; and now all prospects are even worse. "Do not expect us to sit down and pray and cry. We accept your challenge, and mean to stick to our war duties. We know that all you do is for your defense as a class; we know also that the proletariat has the same right to protect Itself since their press has been suffocated, their mouths muzzled, we mean to speak for them the voice of dynamite, through the mouth of guns. "Do not say we are acting cowardly because we keep In hiding; do not say it"ts abominable; It is war, class war, and you were the first to wage It under the cover of (Continued on page nine.)

"RED" DODGER ACCOMPANIES FIEND'S PLOT

r Blown To Pieces. The terrorist who planted tha bomb at the home of the attorney-general was himself blown to pieces by the force of the explosion. Fifty feet away from the official's residence was found the remains of a limb and other sections or a" body. It was at first believed that the victim might have been some one not connected with the plot, buj detectives were soon convinced by the finding of a circular which when pieced together: " A Remarkable Escape. "Plain words; a challenge to the powers that be. Long live social revolution. Down with tyranny. The anarchist fighter." The attorney general was today congratulating himself on a remarkable escape from death. He was about to retire when the explosion occurred and only shortly before had left the plac where the bomb had been planted. As It was the force of the explosion broke windows and shattered the attorney general with glass. Bomb of Deadly Type. That the bomb was of a deadly type was shown today by the fact that the entire facade of the Palmer residence had been torn away, practically every window shattered and doors torn from their hinges by the force of the explosion. From the bloody remains of the bombthrower it was judged that he was a swarthy man with dark hair of slender build. He wore a collar of a well known make with a Chinese laundry mark which detectives hope to work up a case on. His suit, from its tattered, remnants, was black, with a greenstripe. He wore winter underwear, tan ' lisle socks, and a white shirt of poor quality with green and yellow stripes. Packed With Cordyte. Every effort of the secret service, department of Justice and police headquarters has been centered on Identification of the terrorist and guarding against a similar attempt upon any other official in the capital. Lieut. J. Makee. V. 8. A., who Is an authority on explosives, today, said that the bomb had been packed with cordyte, not dynamite. The latter, he said, would not have done the damage done by the bomb. He said a short commercial fuse was employed as a detonater, and that its unexpected rapid burning gave the man who placed it no time to get away. Kxperts from the bureau of mines and from the war department were endeavoring today to establish the exact nature of the charge, though retarded by the lack of remnants. Nowhere In Washington is there to be found a group of persons more important In public and private life than those closely gathered In homes near that of Mr. Palmer, and all of these were endangered by theblast. If Mr. Palmer had been on the first floor of his home he probably would have been killed, as the living rooms In the front were demolished. He went home last night on foot, but is sure that he was not followed. One angle of search for the man's remains has been unrewarded. The poTlce have been unable to discover any of his fingers. They are continuing to look for them, believing they might furnisfi most important evidence through prints or rings. The head has not been found and it is. believed that it was blown to bits. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, who had returned to his home from a reception Just before the explosion, was one of the first to reach the Talmcr home. Amid the leaves and broken branches which Jittered the (Continued on page nlr.e.)