Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 13 August 1919 — Page 2

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ANIAZ ijdlw at yil,u. mi Late, and running at the rate of thirty-five, miles an hour. west bound Pennsylvania freight train broke loose in the middle at the Pennsylvania derot on South Broadway in Gary at 7:45 o'clock lat night, demolishing the station. ting up traffic. f:T over an hour and injuring no. Not knowing how many had been Injured or how serious the wreck wu. the police patrol loaded with officers and ambulances rushed to the scene. Reports reached lh downtown business district that many had been killed and the Hagenbeck and Wallace circus wrf ck at Tolleston in which seventy people were killed was recalled. In fifteen minutes hundreds of people were on the scene. Traffic on Broadway was tied up and service over the Pennsylvania, both east and west was paralysed for over an hour. The wreck -was not only a lucky one but unique. Had it happened a hundred yards further east it would have, caught a heavily loaded street car. Two colored women Mrs. W. M. Powell and Miss Jessie Green, 1714 Pennsylvania street. Gary, who were waiting in the depot for the west bound passenger train into Chicago -were considerably bruised and shaken up. They were taken to the Mercy hospital where their injuries were cared for. They will be able to leave today. The wreck Is said to have been due to a broken f.aJig-e on a wheel. When examined it w&s found red hot. The freight was aa extra and running late at a rate of thirty-five miles an hour. As the broken wheel struck the switch Just tut of Broadway It threw the car in about tbe center of the train over onto the east bound track. The forward section then broke in two. Similar to a small boys when they play "crack the wtup." the last car was thrown clear of th train, crashing into the waiting room and practically demolishing it. The two colored women inside were trapped. It is only a miracle that they were not killedA surprising lr.ctdert of the wreck was the fact tha -..! three of the freight cars left the traek. As fast as the train was going it is a wonder thai there were not mora. Soon after the accident the vrecksr 'ws Mnt for- The track ws cleared and traffic was resumed in about an hour. Aie ycu reacirs: TWa T initio? AT THE Hammond Ball Park ST. MICHAELS VS. COLUMBIA A. C. Sunday, August 17ti Game Called at 3 P. M. BATTERIES: Columbia A. C. Romeo and Herrick. St. Michaels Xowalski and Maroney. n arsliall I

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Shopmen' Warning "Stand firm and wait for victory' is the motto of the striking railroad shopmen, that is now in evidence. The Gary end of the shopmen's strik" has not changed. The Kirk yards w h. r 450 workmen walked out thirtvon days ago is at a standstill. They are firm in their decision not to go back to work until their demands are granted and if is just a case of "watchful ait ins'until they receive the word from "lug'i up" to return to work. ""We have been waiting since the first of the year." said one shopman, "and still nothing has been done. Why shoull we go back to work without our demand.-. All machinists are skilled labor and is it not logical that we are deserving of more money than a hod carrier? They get more money than we do." Labor officials deny that the men are going back to work. They wi'.l not f back until a national agreement U signed. This they say is lMicetor General Hints next move. Word from the Gary mills show that the departments are being more seriously affected from day to diy. Men ar? being laid off for indefinite periods and those that are working are not getting in much more time Vian three days a week. Should the strike hold out anether week, it will be almost impossible for the mills to operate at all. No men are being employed but what is absolutely necessary. DENY THAI CRISIS IN STRIKE IS OVER t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Aug. 13. The crisis :n the railway shopmen's strike has passed. The backbone of the illegal strike !s crushed. With telegrams before him from railway men in every section of the country declaring that the men hai e already returned to work or are planning to do so immediately, J. W. Patterson, general vice president of th-J Railway Carmen's Union, made the above announcement here today. At the samo time Patterson congratulated the shopmen on their loyalty in conferming to President Wilson's request to return o work and settle their wage, demands later. J. D. Sanders, secretary of the Chicago council, who has been directing the illegal strike, declared Patterson's statement was propaganda, without foundation of fact and that the strike question would be settled Thursday when delegates to the national convention vote on the question. MEATS UP IN N. Y. GROCERS REASONABLE (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Aug. 13. Retail meat dealers apparently are exacting big profits from New Torkers. but grocers' prices, on the whole are generally rea sonable, a comparison of current market: prices, with a list of fair prices, pre-, pared by Food Administrator Williams I Indicated today. The "fair price" for high grade sirloin steak per pound, at which the food administrator asserts the ', dealer should make a reasonable profit, is 3S to 3S cents but In the better resi-: dential sections meat dealers charge 45 ! cents. The "fair price" for smoked ham i Is 45 cents, but some dealers are charg-j ing 65 cents. The fair price for bacon I is 47 to 50 cents, but the dealers are i charging 63 cents. The fair price fori pork chops ranges from 44 to 4S cent3 j and the dealers charge 55 cents. I In the grocery store the "fair price" for butter is 58 to 61 cents and the grocer charge is 65. Eggs which should sell at about 62 rents, for the best grades, actually bring 65 cents.

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OF Theatres are Dark and Battle is Bitter Between the Strikers and Managers. v. ' 'N TES-ATiONL. NEWS SERVICE I NKM lORK. Apri! 13. New York is about 93 5 for striking choru.i girls. Fourteen walking delegates of the rrew Chorus Girls' Union invaded Wall street and the down town financial section today to seek popular support and they got it. Oh they got ,t with no trouble at al!. Krokers and bankers went flying out to the street, deserting- million dollar transactions to see the touring carloads of heauty and to shout "Who's all right, chorus girls."' which was Interpreted by the chorus gir',3 to mean that their caue was all right. Here are the chorus girls' demands, formulated at a meeting at which Marie Dressier, wh.i once earned $i a week as a chorus sprite, but who long ago outgrew lights, was elected president of the union. Here's What They Want. Free shoes and silk stockings (.for the th?ater ). Half ray for rehearsals lasting more than four weeks. At present the girls get pay for rehearsals. No discrimination by managers in favor of good lookers. Ethel Barrymore motored in to tell the chorus girls she was with them to the limit and one of the chorus boys forty are members of the union too led shrill cheers with a little bamboo cane. Miss Dressier was first opposed for the presidency by one of th lo vilest girls from the Follies, but some of the girls thought the Follies Queeen would arouse jealousy because of her youth and good locks, so they made it unanimous for Miss Dressier who admitted she had neither. Battle Zs Intense. The battle between actors and producers is steadily growing more bitter, with statements issuing on both sides at the rate of 200 an hour. George Cohan ha3 quit the Lambs and Friars Clubs rendezvous for striking actors, on the ground that he was insulted and has promised to spend his entire fortune helping to defeat the strike even if he has to run an elevator afterwards. The strikers promised today that following the closing of two theaters In Chicago the strike would spread to other cities. GIRL TRIES TO KILL HERSELF A despondent young girl was thwart. 1 in her attempt to snuff out her life in Gary this morning. She deliberately stood in front of a Michigan Central train at the Sourh P.roadway crossing and but for th promptness of a Gary H'-at. Light A Water emploje she would have succeeded in her at'.rmrt. Tedestrians turned their eyes when they saw the young woman step in front of the oncoming train. A man whose r.ame was not learned, grabbed bold of the half-crazed girl and threw her clear of the track as the train whiized by. A short time later a telephone call rfaihed the police station that she had rcmatked that she would try again. 1t.1 eluded her rescuer and had started down the tracks. She was found a short time later by an officer and brought to the police st ition, where she told a pitiful story of the neglect of her paren's, the hurlships of her Iif and of her fatherless hild. She was taken to the home ,f her parents. Her name is withheld ut the request of the police. mm are 41

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THE TIMES FINANCIAL COLUMN Allis Chalmers 40V American Car and Foundry 128 American Locomotive 90 American Smelting 77 American Steel Foundry 42S American Sugar Refining 130 American Tel. and Tel. ?7 Atchison f'li Baldwin Locomotive llf Baltimore and Ohio 42 H Bethlehem Steel B J6 Canadian Pacific 155 Central Leather 100 '-j Chesapeake and Ohio 57 H Chicago and North Western 93 Chicago. Mil. and St Paul - 2 Colorado Fuel 4 5 Crucible Steel F.rle General Electric General Motors Gt. Northern T'r. Illinois Central Lackawanna Steel Lehigh Valley Mid vale Steel N. Y. Air Brake New Tcrk Central -137i 16 Mi -.165 :2i 95 81 43'4 - 51 11 Norfolk and Western lOOVs Northern Pacific SS Ohio Cities Gas . 53'j Pennsylvania 44 Pittsburgh Coal 69 Pressted Steel Car R37 Itailway Steel Springs 02 Heading .Republic Iron and Steel &92 Southern Pacific SB1 Sinclair 55S Tnion Pacific 124 V. S, Steel 103 r. S. Steel Prfd. 11 Wesringhousa 53 s Willys Overland 32 7 CHICAGO X.XYS STOCK. HOGS Hecelpts. in.000: market, mostly 15 higher; top, i23 5", heavyweight. $21.40 9 23.40; medium weight, $31.60 23. SO; light weight. $21.50'o23.50; light lights. $19.50jf22 40; heavy racking sows, smooth. $20.5?l II 35; packing sows, rough. $19.25 S 20.50; pigs. $17.50 19 50. CATTUE Receipts. 9,500; market, native beef steers slow . others steady. Beef Steers Choice and prime, $17.00 1910; medium and good, $13 0017.00; good and choice. $14 To IS. 50; common and medium. $9.7514.75. Butcher Cattle Heifers, $7,751; 15.50; cows. $7. 60 f 14.75: bulls. $S.60Jf 13.25. Canners and Cutters Cows and heifers. $6.253 7.50; canner steers. $6.505 9.75: veal calves (light and handyweight). $20.00 21.00; feed steers. $8.25313.75; stockr steers. $7.50911.25; stocker cows and heifer. $7.25S9.25; stocker calves. $8.00 a 1 1 50. Western Range Cattl Beef steers. $1125(5 17.00; cows and heifers, $9.50 13.50. VEAU1 to 60 lbs.. 23c; 70 to S" lbs.. 24?r2ic; 90 to 100 lbs., "Sff27c: fancy. 2Sc; overweight kidneys, 140 to 170 lbs., liti 17c. coarse. 12t12ic. CHICAGO CASH OH.AIN CLOSI. piir-N No. 2 mixed. $2.07; 3 mixed. $2.0t; 4 mixed. $2.04; mixed. J2 04; 2 white. $2.07 (gJ.OS; 2 yellow. $2.07(& 2.09: 4 yellow. $2.08. OATS No. Z mixed. 73 'c: 2 white. 76 ti S 7i'iC,. CHICAGO TOOBTTCZ. BL'TTEK Creamery extras. 52 $52 v2c; extra firsts. 5151,c. EGOS Current receipts. 37ff3Se; ordinary firsts. 36S 37c; firsts. 40f41c; extras. 4 2'Jfc421c. LIVE POULTRY Turkeys, 25c; chickens. 2S1ac; springs. 33c; roosters. 20c. geese. 20c; ducks. 27Cr2Sc POTATOES New Ohios. $3,00 5 3.50. DEMPSY TO SHOW IN GARY ON CIRCUS DAY Boxing fans who were not lucky enough to see Jack Dempsey put the finishing touches to Jess WlUard at Toledo, on the Fourth of July, will have an - opportunity of giving the slugging world's heavyweight champion the once ovef Bt Gary next Saturday afternoon and evening. Word has been received that Demp,ey will be-in Gary next Saturday afternoon and evening with the SellFlota Circus, which comes to town. Willard was with the Sells Floto people until Dempsey put the K. O. on him seven times in the three rounds . GARY MASONS TO ATTEND PICNIC. Gary will be well represented at the monster Masonic Picnic which is to be held at Harrison Park, Hammond, on Thursday, as a large number of members of the popular order has signified their intention of attending. Among the prominent Gary Masons, ex-Senator Dwight M. Kinder, who ts making a whirlwind race for Vrof' tutor, will greet you on the receiving committee. GARY GETTING READY FOR FOOTBALL SEASON With baseball on the wane and the cooler weather In sight, the call of the srldiron is being heard in Gary and from preparations being made the steel city w il see some of the best teams in action in the history of the city. Foccer is also expected to come into Its own . Fe.i.!s the Gary Work ;e..i. jtr.er departments of the big mills are r- iniz k Steps ade also im--.tr -vny for one of the fastest city teams ever organized and when the line-up is given out. fans will see some star talent. Gary school coaches are also on the Job lining up their 1919 material and report that prospects look bright. WRECK IN THE WEST PEWER, Col.. Aug. 13. Joseph Alexander, of Denver, engineer of Colorado & Southern passenger train No. 2. in reported to have been killed when the train was derailed and two cars turned over a mile from Walsenburg. Col., early today. S. C. Elliott, fireman, and Thurnvin Hotchkiss express messenger, were reported severely injured.

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Much interest centers about the special meeting of the Hammond City Council, which will be held this evening to take up the matter of granting or rejecting the petition of the H. W. and Kas Chicago railyaw to increase their fares to seven cents. Mayor Prown has issued a call for the special session and has invited the publie to be present a'.d have the.r say. Indications now point to one of the siorniient sessions m years As soon as the word spread that the company would ak for an increase the opposition came to the surface. Aldermen have been beseigej by their constituents to learn what stand they are koin to take since the board of works passed the buck to them for tirfst action . Some of the members of the eouncH are of th opinion that the council has no right to consider the matter until :t is firs accepted by the works board. Then they say they cn either ratify the contract or turn It down, relieving the board of their responsibility. At present it seems that a majority of the eouncilmen will oppose the 1n1 crease and the only way they can be brought to favor it is by getting some concessions from the reen Line In exchange. The company affects indifference as to the outcome, sayingit is really up to the car employes to get the contract passed as heir salary raise depends upon the fare increase As a result a number of the carmen are out trying to work up sentiment tn favor of it . 1 WILSON WILL VETO BILL. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. President Wilson will veto before Saturday tho biil repealing the daylight saving law. it whs s'a".ed authoritatively today. The ten days following rassage of th-- bill during which the president must either veto or approve if the measure is not automatically to become a law. expires at that time. U. S. FREIGHTER JLS SINKING. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK. Aug. 13. The American freighter Englawood. S.000 tons, is sinking off Black Deep, near Dover. England, said a cablegram received today by her owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. The vessel was recently chartered from the United States Shipping Board. She was enroute for Rotterdam, carrying a million-dollar cargo. ARE ARRANGING THE DETAILS. T'r. W. K. Nichols and Irving hayken are in Chicago this afternoon arranging some details connected with the Hammond Water Carnival. August 21. If possible they will contract for the Daily News band of sixty pieces. They are also planning to land Walter Eckereall to act as director of event and sit as head referee. COSTA RICAN IS ASSASINATED. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEHVICEl WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Joaquim Tinoco. brother of President Federico Tinoco of Costa Rica, was assassinate 1 on August 10, according to advlcos reaching the state department today. No details were given. Joarjuim Tinoco was premier designate of Costa Rca. a position corresponding to the vice presidency. LEVIATHAN ON LAST TROOP SHIP MISSION f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) NEW YORK. Aug. 13 The United States Transport leviathan sailed on her final voyage as a troopship todav and. according to a report circulated at the port of embarkation office In Hoboken. she will bring back General Pershing and his staff from France. The Leviathan will also bring a contingent of the First division when sho returns early in September. L'pon her arrival she will be reconverted for passenger service. HAMMOND GIRL ACCUSED OF LARCENY. Francis Waggoner. 19 years old, of 105 Wabash avenue. Hammond, was arrested yesterday by Hammond's police matron. Mrs. Myrtle Pfeffer on a warrant signed by (he Eaat Chicago police charging grand larceny. The Wagoner girl who is charged with not having turned in the money she received for sales whan she was employed at Nassau A Thompson's stationery store in East Chicago, is out on $1,000 bail. COTTON IN ADVANCE. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW TORK. Aug. 13. An adiance of sevenUn to twenty roints marked the opening of cotton market today. SCHOOL GARDENER LEAVING THE CITY. Louis Lex. the Gary school gardner at Twenty-fifth and Tyler street school, whose, work in the victory gardens attracted the attention of the army garden authorities at Washington. D. C, leaves Gary today for Cleveland to go into the autmobile business with his brother James. Gardener Lex this season has planted forty acres well cultivated market gardens and attended to by 400 school CHICHESTER S PILLS fill to via m u u iu .t u n 1,1.8. for aa von knows x ftctl. Sliest. A 1-vk RclmM SOLD BY ORLOGfSTS EtOTiGf

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main till the frost was on the pumpkin! and was ready for th harvest he would see the best of gardens ytt produced In other years In spite o fthe dry season. JITNEY GOES ON RAMPAGE. A J:tney went on a rampage at 6th avenue and Broadwav in Gary early this morning, when it s'.de-i? wlpped a Buick automobile, snapped -ffa cast iron ornamental l-ghl po'.e and had Clarence Hall's drug store been open, it would probably have been in there. At a high rate of speed the JUney was traveling north on Broadway and as the driver attempted to pass a street car, it sid-swipned the liujck automobile 0f J. HufTmaster. 716 Conneticut street as he was crossing j Broadway and sixth aven-;e. Loosing control cf the machine the Jitney crashed into the ornamental street light pol at the northeast corner, snapping it off as if it had been a mere twig. The p"!e dropped into the Ford and contir. jed on It? way over the sidewalk, up to the front door of the Hall Drug Store. Outside of a few dents, the Jitney was damaged but little and the driver luckily escaped uninjured. He promised to pay for the damage done and was not arrested. His na.-ne was not learned . To Visit At Former's Home Miss Lulu Loyd. daughter of Supt. Loyd. of the American Sheet and Tin mills at Gary, will leave next Saturday for a visit bark at her former hoem. Morgar.town, W. Va. One Gary Building Permit. But one building permit for Gary was issuej s'nee yesterday, for that to -. he David Glueck P.ealty Co.. a t-o siriy f a:ne fir.t to cost $i,0no a 2o5i v asb-.ngton street. WEST GARY IS IN TOTAL DARKNESS The suburb of West Gary, who is furnished their lights by the Gary Heat Light and Watre company, have been groping in total darkness for the last three nights. Some defect cf the lighting system to the suburb is out of repair and cannot be located. Sickening Case Revealed. Charles Walker, colored. 152S JackHammond V3. Gunthers At Gunihers Park Chicago, 111. SUNDAY, AUG. 17th Reserved Seats on Sale at Mcnnett's TODAY AND A Struggle! A Pistol

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3 INDICrSTJ all - 6 Beix-ans Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION son street. Gary, was arrested by th -Gary police thu morning in one of th most disgusting cases ever called t the attention of the police. A colored woman appeared as compuainin: witness. She charged him with asault and battery with aknife. It was the second time he has been arrest"-! on the same complaint. He w:ll r tried before Juige Dunn in the Cit. Court . Rioters Attack Officer In attempting to break up a drunken revelly yesterday, officer Tanitor was attacked by the participants and knocked cold when one of them h:t him over the h--ad with a sharp instrument. The Gary men under arrest for th asault are Peter Pemonitz. 11 Madison stteet. Phillip Kolnick. of 1616 Carolina street and Mike Chekovitz. 1200 Washington street. DeLuxeTheatre TODAY Catherine Calvert In "The Career of Katherine Bush" Extraordinary Good THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Dorothy Gish In "Nugget Nell" SATURDAY Wm. Farnum In 'The Lone Star Ranger' SUNDAY Mitchell Lewis Ia "Jacques of the Silver North" rm a n a b h a b h n n a t.BTB.n.B. DTBTB.B.BTO.B ic I PASTIME TODAY TOM MIX The Law and the Outlaw ALSO GALE HENRY In 2-Keel Comedy "PANTS" TOMORROW PETE MORRISON In a Big Western Drama u TOMORROW Shot! And Thenof Justice"

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