Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 35, Hammond, Lake County, 29 July 1919 — Page 1

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Traffic Tied Up and Business Given Black Eye When 15 Thousand Street Railway Employes Decide to Quit Work Today.

(BTJXLETnT.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, July 29. Tnere will be no Attempt mate to operate a tret cars on tne surface -nd elevated lines in Chicago until tha striking1 union men decide to tetara to work. v This announcement was made today by officials of the railways and with tha union men determined not to yield in their decision not to accept anything short of their original demands, a pro. lcnged strike is a possibility. TJnion officials asserted no union meetings would ha held today and that no further conferences are in Immediate prospfct. (By STAIT COBRESPONDEirr.) CHICAGO, July 29. Fifteen thousand Chicago and Calumet region street and elevated railway em-; ployes are on strike today and the city's electrical transportation is tied up. Since four o'clock not a wheel has turned and all elevated; and surface cars are locked up in their barns. j The strike came Kke a lightning tolt to Chicago and the cities of . Hammond, Whiting." East Chicago jsnd Indiana Harbor. Reports late lyesterday indicated that negotiations that have been in progress several weeks would be successful ! and the strike averted. Thousands ,cf Chicago awoke this morning expecting cars to be running as usual and found themselves unable to reach their places of work or busirness. i ; Confident It Was Averted. So confident were many that the strike had been averted that Gov. Frank O. ! Lowden. after a day of conferences with Employers and employes, left the city thinking a basis of adjustment had bren reached. But tho break came when an attempt W3i made to bring the compromise proposition to which union leaders and heads of the street railway companies had agreed before the union men. Car Men Hiss and Jeer. In a veritable bedlam cf hisses and Jeers the car men voted down the offers made them and by acclamation voted to go on strike at four o'clock. The meeting turned into bedlam and before more than the first few sections of the compromise agreement had been read to them they howled down the speaker, thoved their own spokesmen forward end voted to strike. Eight thousand men attended the meeting. Reject 65c Per Hour. The compromise agreement which the m'x rejected would havu given them v ajr'- increases of 65 cents an hour, an ei'ht hour day with time and a half fer overtime and,, other adjustments ?- feting hours and conditions of Inbor. The original demands of the men were for eighty-five cents an hour; an fi.sht hour day; a six-hour Sunday and a sixday week. Except for the matter of salary increases it is probable that an agreement would have been reached, hut the men Hood firm in their demand for the S3 cents an hour wag". The present wage Is 47 cents an hour. Say Wages Were Highest. Laeders of the strikers endeavored to Toint out' to the men that the compromise agreement oftered carried with it the highest wages paid to ny street car men but their arguments were drowned in a roar of disapproval. No attempt has been made by the companies to operate cars, and so far as is known, no such attempt is contemplated. Officials of the companies have made no statements regarding their plans or policies. Eusiness Tied Up. Thousands of Chicagoans du a' their

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Foot and Walker Express Pnnnlar A 3 TTnmmrvirl ' XOpUldr IS IiaminOnu : Greets an Unwelcomed Guest. (BTJT,T1xiN.) E. N. Bunnell this morning pnt on two 20-passenger rord busses on South Hob.. man street to ran between Conkey ave- I , nue and th "f nv. . r. 1 l-1 .Four Corners." Tha '

ics win be free for 24 hours ! tho compan' f'rea 2 n,wmm!!'!' stating " ' j that ".hey were unable to employ such Hammond people who hav been ac '' rri"ed labor- 11 ,s tru' l?customed to depend upon the ,i th? T -.ponHible for for their transportation awoke this the "nr-ground ag! ation and which morning tr - . later W to the walkout.

- ."w I'iust uig up some suostitute for the Green Line. Hun-i l,"-U3 m tne early hours hurried to the! points where they usualy caught the! cars and waited in vain. No ears came, j Were Unprepared Tor It. As had been expected the strike of i street railway men found the public un-j prepared and as a result mnnv Hnm-i 3 . 1.1 . , inond men who work in Fast Chicago I and Indiana Harbor remained at home while others walked, rode bicycles or j went in other conveyances which were j pressed ir.to service. Thousands of men' were late to work this morning. J People On Street Scarce. "With the street ears off the streets. 1 Hammond takes on the quietude of a ' oi peopie on the streets was eyjit noticeable. Fnst side residents had

transportation to the business d'striot, thousands of United States army auover the Gary & Interurban which dia-i to'ir.obiles in Fi ance, which are now continued its circuit around the loop; f,,r sak. xhe paper declares a large but confines its operations to Sibley st. j r-eore.t -f und has been collected for this alone- ourpnse to fccp up the price of the Trying: to Dodge Strike. ' French mar hines. By 8 oclcck the owner of automcbiles j

and motorcycles with !iue cars had rearing on the streets for business.) Many are operating as taxies w ithout j bothering to get licenses from the city.! In case the strike lasts they will be '

rounded up by the police and required to - Icr the Gary lawyer who was arrestpay their tax the same as regular taxf e,j ln Gary at the older of the Whit-!"'ucs'-i ;ns police and brought here by PepISany Bicycles Seen. j viy shertt Olds yesterday morning, 'fore b;.-ycles were to. be seen on the.jj, expiajn the check transactions streets today than at any time since. .,,, r,,nft1,sib! for his arrest.

the days when they were all the rage. I "" u"11 viiv-.v tar more wheels stored away m r.ome , than most people would have imagined, j T re dealers and repair men are doinjf a b!? business ovc.tiau'.ing old bikes; v. hid: have not been used for years It is expected that the South Shore and suburban trains by tomorrow mornir.g will be able to care for much of '"' - i traffic between Hammond and ether j cities which formerly depended upon the! street ears. As a rule the public seemed to take, the inconvenience good natu redly. On: many street corners striking conductors! and rnotormen in "eivies' passed their! time discussing the .situation and ac-! cepting the friendly "kidding" of their! acquaintances. j POPULAR CRY IN TWIN CITY All that can be heard ln East Chicaco and Indiana Harbor this morn- j ing is "'Taxi. Taxi." Everybody owning a truck or a pas senger car if reaping; Sr. the shekels, j The old '"Jit" has been taken out I of the garage and the trucks impro- . vised into carry-a'ls are doing a big busir.es3

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919.

SEES THIEF START. WITH HIS FLIVVER Merrillville Man Gets Machine Back, But Thief Makes Escape. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES MERRILLVILLE. Ind.. July 13. Aroused from sleep by the sound of an automobile passing his houe Monday morning at 1:30 o'clock, Frank Stoltz, of Merrillville. reached a window just in - time to see his Ford start down the plreet -with fu thief at the wheel. Mr. Stoltz grot busy on the telephone and in a few minutes had spread the alarm fcr miles around. Men in their machines cut o?N the escape of the thief, who quickly learned that an alarm had been sounded. As machines began patrolling the roads the man saw that the game was lost so he abandoned the machine at the side of the road one-half mile west of Merrillville and took to the cornfields. Mr. Stoltz recovered his cor. but the thief could not be found, although tha search was continued for hours. GARY PLANT PRACTICALLY IS IDLE That Gary is in the preliminaries of what promises to be its biggest strike in history was in evidence today. Striking employ-s of the Gary Screw A- Bolt U orus are still out. it was learned this morning, and so far no ffer is made for settlement. It is feared that the movtinent may reach the mil's. Eecnuse -r the walkout yester'ifty n-orrir.g, th. i!int was idle yesterday. Tn 3r. interview 7 ith Superintendent C. F.. Carr yesterday, he' stated that eighty per cent of the men were still at work, hut it was learned latter than the plant, was prrtcticalyl idle. He stated that he pec ted but little trouble at the walkout wa3 alnorl? the laborers and a few ma chinists. It is evident that the situation Is mor serious than will be admitted. An effort was made to get into communication with Mr. Carr all morning, but the inquiring reporter was Informed that he was out in the plant. It was evideni that he did not wish to talk. It is reported that the trouble started ... No information is available from the unions in regards to their j lans to take a strike vote, as is being taken in other steel districts of the country. The union headquarters voted to give out no information to the press, uniess through official channels. The situation i, watched with unusual interest. DON'T WANT YANK MACHINES MNTi'.r.r TiONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PARI.. France. Juiy 23. The Solalist newspaper LHunianite today uhlished a series of documents to that French automobile manu facturers have subsidized certain newspapers to ngnt tne purcnase or ,-iRESSLEER HEARING THIS AFTERNOON fJPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 WHITING. Ind . July 23. Roy Kesscourt this afternoon. He is ac ,J hy the bank of hitmg and the Fifft Trust & Savings Bank wit?T obtaining money lrom trem on his personal check when he had no money i in the American Trust & Savings of (Gary on which bank the checks were ! d ra wn. - - -,rTT -r nurr.T fTTTl HOT MILL EMPLOYES fiprp A"M" T7JCT? "F. A $P Affecting In the neighborhood of lOOil employes, raises of throe percent in pay hfs been granted to the hot mill employes of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company in Gary, it was ahr.oinced today. It was thought that the increase would affect all departments but according to W. C. Lloyd, general superintendent the increase wil only be i.oticeable in the pay envelopes of the hot mill. The invrease will go inu effect. August 16. Better call up The Times arid have it sent to your house every night. Then you "11 be sure it will be there.

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Armed I Negroes Arrested . Police Matron Pfeffer. of Hammond Detects Trio on "Way From Gary to Chicago Heavily Armed. Regular Nick Carter work on the part of Tolice Matron .Myrtle I'feffer of tho Hammond police department probably kept down some bloodshed in Chicago today, and Chief Austen and Officer Fandrei stopped a street car and arrested three bad looking Chicago negroes armed to the teeth. Word reached Central station last night that three negroes had just bought automatics and cartridge in Gary and were, headed for Hammond on a Gary and lntcrurban car. Chief Austgen detailed men to watch the cars but it fell to Tolice Matron Pfeffer's eagle eyes to find the men. She saw them headed on the run for a Chicago car at the Four Corners and noticed Central. Chief Austgen and Fandrei responded There were six negroes in the car ar.d three of them ducked. One leaped out of a window. The other two vers gathered in. The three arrested are George renny of 5652 State St.. Chicago; John Armsted. 4030 Federal st, Chicago, and Fletcher Perdue of Chicago, each of these men had a new revolver and many boxes of cartridges v. ith them. When asked I y Prosecutor Clyde Cleveland at the trial this morning in the Hammond city court what they wanted with the guns the negroes said that they had become frightened at the trouble in Chicago and ad come out to Gary to get the guns for protection against the whltft peorle. Judge Klotz fined each man I?60 on his plea of guilty. FOOLISH GIRLS TAKE RIDE WITH YOUTHS Appear Before U. S. Com. Surprise Last Evening and Tell Their Story. Interference by Valparaiso police Saturday night saved two Chicago girls from the hands of a couple of unscrupulous niea, but spoiled what is believed would have been a Mann act case before the night "ended. Tho girls were Agnes lxjrneeki, 1527 Piekson st., and Soph'a Lepck, 152 7 V. PHision st Th men who later gave their names as David "Wallace ar.d Henry Brooks, of Chicago, had met the girls in the city and asked them to take a fifteen minute ride on tho train with them. They persuaded the girls to drink some whiskey before starting and on the train Agnes became sick. One of the men forced tier to drink some more whiskey, which only made matters worse. Arriving at Valparaiso they were looking for a hotel when Agnes fell in a ! faint on the street. Police arrested all of them and yesterday afternoon Chief Specht and Sheriff Forney brought the girls to Hammond, where they were questioned by United States Commissioner Charles Surprise. The federal authorities decided that there was not sufficient evidence for a white slave case and tho girls were released. riNTERNATIONM. NEWS SERVICE 1 NEW YORK, July 29. Altnough price movements were irregular at the stock market opening today the tone soon bei came strong in the specialties, which ad- ; vanced sharply. New York Dock comj mou rote nearly four points to 63; the j preferred rose 31 to 7 4. Steel common sola at 113U. tmt quickly yielded to 112s. PUdwin Locomotive rose nearly one point to 119' j, from which it yielded to U7?. New Haven moved up l'i to S3S; St. Paul common, si to 49s; Central Foundries preferred, nearly two points to "?,; and Pittsburgh Coal, l'i to 7 4JsWHITING SEES AN AUTO COLLISION rfPECIAL TO THE TIMES) "WHITING, ind. July 23. An auto collision occurred at Pteiber street ; anl Sclira.je avenue in Whiting in which the cars were quite badly damaged, but the ocupants were not in- ' jured. The drivers were Stanley Palilinnos of SS09 Houston avenue. South Chicago and Elmer Zerler of 240 1 Magoun avenue. East Chicago, each , going the opposite direction. Each blamed the other for the accident and as they could not settle the differences, the result was that each had the other arrested. The trial is booked for July 31-

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HERE'S ELEGANT MM SOMEONE He Will Have to Be a Paris to Decide on a Helen. Someone has a tough Job ahead of him at the water carnival which is to be given at the Hammond beach on August 21. He will be the judge in the beauty contest. ' Doc Nichols and Ora Highland, who are in charge of the affair, have announced that an elegant prize is to be given the most beautiful we.man wearing the most beats If ul bathing suit. The great question Is: What is a beautiful brtthing suit and how could a beautiful woman hope to win a prize in some of the suits which are called beautiful, especially if some of her competitors appear in those popular abbreviated styles? Doc says the prizes will be placed on exhibition in the store windows Just as soon as the list has been completed. LION STORE ASSOCIATION An association paying sickness and death benefits and providing for numerous recreation and amusement features, the first of its kind in Hammond, has been organized among the employes of the L,Ion store. The organization will be incorporated under the name of "The I,ion Store Employes Mutual Benefit Association." The incorporators are: J. Claussen, M. Herti, C. E. Payne. S. Postlewaite, P. P. Lovegren, C. Gruen, "W. Leitze. D. Semco, J. B. P.itter, D. Hirsch, Mrs. A. Idcorek, Blanche Orcutt and Klla May Mowry The board of directors is composed of Blanche Orcutt. Ella May Mowry. Mrs. Idcorek, S. Postlewaite. J. Claussen, C. Gruen, P. 1. Lovegren, U. Hirsch. D. Semeo and C. Payne. The first meeting of the board of directors was held yesterday evening at the Chamber of Commerce at which the following officers were elected: President D. Hirsch. Vice-President P. P. Lovegren. Secretary S. Fostlewalte. Treasurer C. E. Payne The Idea had been under discussion for a logn time among the clerks and epartment heas of the store an several weeks ago they got together for tiie first definite action. Under the present organization employes will pay dues which, will be used in paying weekly sick benefits to members and also death benefits. Part of the money will also go into a fund to provide amusements at regular intervals. A committee was appointed last night to arrange for the entertainments. At present they are arranging for a picnic which will probably be held at Flint Lake Thursday July 7 This has not been definitely decided and will be announced later. The members of the committee are Mr. Postlewaite. Mr. Payne, Mr. Hertz and Mrs. Idcorek. The present officers will occupy the positions until January 192'"'. TORNADO HITS AVIATION FIELD !N TFK NATION AL NEWS SERVICE 1 MINEOIA. Is- I-. JuJV 2? Aviation officers said today that the damage done by the tornado that struck Hazelhurst flying field last night will total hundreds of thousands of 'dollars. Five aeroplanes, including three of the largest in America, were destroyed, forty temporary buildings were wrecked and a camp city of 300 tents wiped out. The big Martin bomber in which Capt. Roy N. Francis was scheduled to begin a one-stop flight across the continent this week; a giant Caproni triplane and a HandleyPage weighing eleven tons were demolished. Thirty men attempted to hold the Handley-Page to the ground but it was swept several feet into the air by the tornado, carrying a number of men aloft before it crashed. HOME-BOUND AUTOISTS HELD UP AND ROBBED Last night about 11:30 o'clock Geo. Box. of 13418 Bui ley avenue, Hegew;sch .and Mary I.indsey, while on their way home from Lansing in an automobile, were held up at the corner of State Line street and Standard avenue, Hammond. As Box slowed down to take the turn two masked men with revolvers and flash lights stepped out and ordered them to stop, which they did and the robbers took a gold watch and chain, a ruby ring and $9 in currency

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31 Dead, 500 Wounded, War Reaches Loop District, Four New Dead This A. M., Horrible Acts Committed In All Parts of Chicago.

(BTTXX.ET2X.) ("INTERNATIONAL SERVICE i SPBIITariEI.D, m., JtUy ZO. As lews reached here thl morning- cf continued iaca riot disturbances ln Chicago, word wa received at the adjntant-jeneral's efflea that Adjt. Gen. Trank S. Sickson waa lending- telegrams from Chicago to , national gTiara company commanders Uhronghont tha state requesting- ticm to I be prepared for immediate call to servj ice. The commanders are asked to or. j ganizo their companies and hoia them in re&oiness lor call. Instructions were dispatched to the Ninth and Tsnth regiments of the National gnsrd and the rifth and Sixth regiments of tho Illinois reserve militia, who will augment the Ninth regiment, already under arms in Chicago, if necessary. (By STAXr COEEESPONDENT.) CHICAGO, July 29. Twenty-! nine dead were reported by police; stations hospitals and the coroner today and others were dying j among the estimated 500 wounded! as race riots that began Sunday' among negroes and whites cn the' South Side spread to the heart of the business district early today. Nine new deaths and at least fifty injured were added to the grim toll ! of the disturbances as the result of j fresh outbreaks in the early hours, today. i Before 8 o'clock four new deaths and a score of wounded had been! added to the grim toll which the! noting of the past 48 hours has I taken. Alobs Lust For Blood. i Before the sun was up this morning; mobs of white men were gathering in1 the down-town business district mutter-j ing: "Let's treat the negroes as they are treating white folks out on the South Side." One of the first demonstrations occurred at the Federal building where hundreds of negroes are employed A mob gathered there and negroes who could hear the howling irrnh appealed for protection. Expect Militia Today. AVith the situation admittedly growing hourly more alarming. Gov. Frank O. Lowden returned hurriedly to the city and offered the mayor and the chief of police the service of 4. POO militiamen for instant military duty. Adjt. Geri. Frank S. Dickson, after an inspection, reported the troops ready for immediate action. Veterans of the police force declared that the militia would have to be called out before nightfall, and that troops J would have to be used to guard the down town business streets. "Bring the militia into the loop." cried one of the officers. "If they don't there will be a massacre on State street." Mob Rioting Down Town. At this time a mob of 1,500 men. some of the soldiers and sailors in uniform, had been rioting for more thn three, hours in the down town section. As a result one white man and one. negro had been shot to death ar.d a dozen beaten, mauled and stabbed. From the south side, where residents underwent a night of flaming terror, reports of fresh fighting between the races had been received. A negro cut the throat of Joseph Powers, a street car conductor early today and Powers died as a policeman arrived. "William Henderson, colored, was arrested for the crime. White Man Stabbed. An unidentified white man w s found stabbed to death at Vincennes ave. and East 43rd St. There were five knife wounds in his head and chest. An unidentified negro was shot and killed by the mob at Adams and Wa(Continued on page two.)

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'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' CHICAGO, July 2?.-Furiou3 rioting between negro and white prisoners in the county jail, street fighting in the heart of the city and throughout the South Side negro section, and" a barricaded house turned into an ambush for the whites today brought the roll of the racial feud which begun Sunday to the grim total of 31 dead and more than 500 wounded, many of them seriously. Of those kille;' sixteen were white men and fiftse:-. were negToes. Officials In Conference. As the reports of shootings, stabbin:,and killing? poured in. Mayor William. Hale Thompson and Gov. Lowden woe. into conference to discuss the situation particularly with reference to the possible need of troops to queel the roe" disturbances. Both the governor and the mayor earlier in the day, issued proclamations appealing to the citizen:, both white and black t remain calm. Outbreak In Jail. The outbreak iu the county jail cam s when 175 negro prisoners who had be.i hrreed together in the "bull pen" preparation f.r tho customary visitors" day, became enraged and attack' i guards and attorneys who were visitira clients in the Jail. With the walls of tne jail echoing with the howling and cursing cf t.-m prisoners, the negroes broke out of th' bull pen and swept through the corridors of the jail, assaulting guards and white prisoners. Several guards an-l prisoners were badly beaten Palmer House Rushed. Additional guards armed with re vol -eis rushed the negroes and gradually pressed them back into the bull pen Another mob of whites in the dow r town district rushed the palmer hous and shouted threats at negroes employed in the basement. The police dispersed the mob without casualties. Meanwhile 4.500 troops, equipped with rifles, waited in two armories. One hundred taxicabs were on hand to rush them immediately to the scene of an; disorder where they might be needed Officials were hopeful this afternoor. however, that it would not be necessary to call out troops, although the situation admittedly is scarcely less serious than earlier in the day. Shot As He Neared House. Harold Rignadell, the latest victim of the riots, was shot a he approached a house in which a number of negroes were hiding. Police rushed to the dwelling and arrested four women and nine men. The house was found to contain a large number of guns. axes, knives, razors and other weapons, and D00 rounds of ammunition. . Mrs. Kate Alder, one of the negress ?. arrested boasted that she had shot Bignadcll. DEATH CLAIMS MRS. L. DUFFY The many friends of Mrs. Lorenl Duffy will regret to learn of her death at St. Margaret's hospital last night after a long and painful illness. The deceased was the eldest daughter of F. W. Cross for many years a resident of Sibley street. Hammond, and leaves to mourn her. one daughter. Marion, three brothers Harry H Cross, Ray Cross and Leys Cross, an.l one sister, Mrs. J. Hill. The funeral will be held from the residence of her brother, Ray Cross a' 175 Detroit street Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will be held In the family lot at Oak H.l" cemetery in charge of Undertaker Emmerling .