Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 67, Hammond, Lake County, 5 September 1919 — Page 1

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! ST. LOUIS REACHED AT i Country Not Any Too Much Interested In Treaty of Versailles. WILSON AT CAPITAL. rifcTMATic-NAL HEWS SERVICE1 XITIXASAPOI.XS, lad., Sept. 5 Seventy-fire tioatmd persons wert at the state fair grounds an tour before the arrival of Preeldent Wilson and his party last nigUt. Tor 30 minutes great throng! stood outside tae six entrances of the auditorium waiting for the doors to be thrown open. When the doors opened tut 7:30 the crowd -warmed la, and in three minutes the south half of the stands were filled. Tour minutes later every one of the 12,000 seats had been filled. Other thousands over-whelmed the guards and, stampeded Into the c enTil taabark arena, practically every foot of which was filled In a minute and a half. Notwithstanding baste, the crowd was orderly. (BUZ.Z.ETXIT.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Sept. S. "Public ffU liala bar been Impeached for less," Senator Sherman of Illinois, declared in the senate this aftednooa, referring to President Wilson's declaration in Co. limbue, O., yesterday, that the labor conference provided by tha treaty of Versailles will be called, whether the treaty la ratified or not. (BULLETIN.) !NTtKAT10AL NEWS SERVICE ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 15. The telegram from the committee of the American -federation of Labor asking' him to Intervene to secure recognition of their claims by Judge E. H. Gary, head of the steel corporation, was placed la his hands during the morning'. Just what action the president will take Is not yet known. Be Is, however, expected to urge the workers to remain at their costs until after he returns to Wash. 25 aft on and can give his personal attention to the problem. John Edwin Nevin i5taff correspondent ! n. service1 ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 5. Admittedly highly pleased with his reception in Indianapolis last night, President Wilson came to St. Louis today to carry on his fight to align public sentiment in favor of the treaty of Versailles, though the entire country is not any too much interested in it. The president's special train reached St. Louis shortly after 4 o'clock this morning, but it was shunted to a siding in the park section so the chief executive could enjoy a few hours extra sleep. CALLS TOS TWO SPEECHES. The schedule today called for two speeches here. It was '"on the cards that the presicftnt would reply sharply to the snior senator from Missouri. Senator James Reed, who has been camraignlng throughout the country in opposition to the treaty. Senator Reed, a member of the president's own political party, has been outspoken in his criticisms of the treaty. It was no secret that ths prcsid-nt e peotfd to nnswer certain of the arguments of Mr. Reed here, In the chief city of his home state. PLIASSD WITH INDIANAPOLIS. t was xery late when the president1 retired last night. 'However, he wis in I t-o way faMgued with his "first day'?' tur. The cxper.cnrcs in Indianapolis1 last night, when he called on the opi onents of the treaty to put up a better rlan or shut up immediately, were most' pleasing. The very fact that the audience in tl:e big coliseum on the fair grounds hid hooted down the meeting's chairman. Gov. Goodrich, because it consider"" he was "talking too long." had been accepted by the members of the president's entourage as most significant. NOT HOSTILE TO OOVEENOK They did not consider it as hostile to the governor, but they did accept it as an indication that the people there assembled were favorable to the treaty and correspondingly hostile to the attitude of the state's two senators, who have aligned themselves in opposition to the ratification of the treaty. The attitude of the president in his r resent, tour was outlined by him today in the following statement: "We have now to make the most critical choice we ever made as a nation and it ought to be made in all soberness and without the sligh'est tinge of party feeling in it. I would be

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FORGET POLITICS AND GET BUSY, HE WARNS CONGRESS Senator David I. Walsh. Senator David I. Walsh, formerly jroverrtor of the Bay State, is the first Democrat sent to the senate from Massachusetts since the Civil war. Recently he appealed to his colleagues to drop politics and tret together in an earnest effort to solve the H. C. of L. problem and give the public some relief through legislation. MAY PAVE If They Don't However, it Will Be a Nice Thoroughfare This Winter. That- the old question, "When are they going to pave jHohman street?'; which has been worrying Hammond people all summer, teems about to be answered. No one has been able to tell definitely but the fact t7iat the Campbell Construction Co., has been making excavations all this week, leads to the hope that something win be accomplished before winter. Just how many times the city's main thoroughfare has been torn up this summer would be hard to, remember, but as one man said "as soon as one gang finished ripping her to pieces and moved on. another bunch followed and took another whack at it." Citizens are becoming -worried over the outlook. The old paving brick which had been torn up when underground work was put in had been hauled away until about all that remained was he strip- between the street car tracks. The contractors have men now finishing the work of -stubbing in" the water connections while about fifty are working south from Hoffman st., where concrete work can toon be begun. As the brick pavement wi'.l have a concrete foundation, this work must be put In before cold weather sets In. "I? the str-eet is to be finished before winter they'll have to go some for the next eight tir ten weeks." said an alderman. "It would be frightful to have to put up with th street in its present condition during the winter and If the contractor knows now that he can t do the work he should say so in order that those holes could.be leveled up." WANT GRADE CROSSING ABANDONED r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 5. Because of a dangerous grade crossing the Gary Hobart Traction company j petitirned the service commission to j dismantle short tracks (rom intersect-j ion Third and Center stre. Is across: Pennsylvania avenue, it is said that I few people ride there and it is very langerous. LOOK WHO'S HERE. ' IMtRNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Is tmlonIsm spreading? Senator Ihcrjas will Eay it Is. He declared in the senate this afteinooa that uulonlsxn io even spreading to "danca ball employes." "If you don't believe it, bere is one of tteir placards," Senator Tboina said. The placard asserted la largo type: "Tho unique ani adobe dance-halls (LeadvtUe, Cel.) aro unfair houses. Wo reciues all union, men not to patronize said houses. Tne unfair gills .ro Kittle Larue, Tessie ray, IJttle Fay. JEazie and Skidclo Babe." Zl'-o plr.card vrr.3 signed "ey "The Ccncert G vis.''

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Latest "Bulletins (BTZ.USTXir.) An Important conference Is going on ; at the city, hall late this afternoon that may end the strike troubles at the Standard Steel Car Works. (BULLETIN.) riNTTK)T'ONL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. Sept. 5. An agest of the American state department has been executed by the Bolsheviki in Petrograd. The state department this after noon received Russian advices that j an agent who had attempted to in-j vestigate a rumored violation of i the American embassy premises atj Petrograd had been shot. (BULLETIN.) (INiEPNAT!ONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Secretary of Commerce Redfield will resign the latter part of October,' i j fn. j ! ne acmuieu iouiy. At the same time the secretary emphatically stated that his resignation was prompted only by the necessity that he resume his priv-; ate business. CHICAGO FIRM LOW BID ON LINCOLN ROAD Commission Holds Up Lake Co. Pave Until Technicalities are Investigated. MNTlRf f Tior: NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. S. Forty-two and six hundredths miles of highway to be constructed of concrete at a cost of $l,615.O'i;:.S0. hae been contracted for by the state highway commission. The contracts, which were let last yesterday, are for roads in five sections of the state and they bring th total mileage contracted for by the commission to 119.1 and the total expenditure to. $4,;67.?57.95. Morris and McTurnan of Fatrmount were successful bidders on the Madison road. S4 miles in Johnson county from Franklin to Greenwood. The bid was JISS. 397.43 and the estimate J315.oi3.39. Other contracts were: National Road, Vigo county, 45 miles; French I.lck route. Lawrence county, 12.4 miles: French Lick route. Warrick county, in. 2 miles; Kanse line road, Tipton and Howard counties. 7 miles. Two sections were held up for Investigation, the Lincoln Highway. Lake county. 11.3 miles, from S'herervllle to Torter county line and Kane line road 2.9 miles in Howard county. It is expected these contracts Trill be awarded after technicalities have been investigated. The I-drrn4 Paving company of Chicago submitted the low bid of 373. 156. 3S on the Lake county road. The estimate was for $418,124.62 TURNS KEALTY Irving Chayken. who has been dabbling in the real estate game since he received his discharge from the Army early .in the summer, is now a full fledged real.- operator. As a sales manager for the John Millan Co., he has been placed in charge of one of the rea! estate sensations of Hammond's history. Tomorrow and Sunday he will conduct the sale of ninety-six choice lots in the heart of Hama-.ond's North Side. These lots, located on Torrence, Towle Cameron, Johnson, and Henry streets, sewer, water, sidewalks, pavement and curb already taken care of. will be sold at prices as low as $175. This follows the revival of the theory that the North Side is soon to be the industrial center of the Calumet region. Lots in this territory were sold for tiOO ten and fifteen years ago and many former buyers are ready to grab off some more. Already "Izzy" has made a number of sales in the territory. A band has been hired to furnish entertainment during the sale Saturday and Sunday and arrangements have been made to furnish hot coffee and sandwiches free on the ground. The offices Vjf John Millan & Co.. are located on Hoffman street, opposite the Frank S. Petz plant. The Times' want ads 'bring asvertise again. Results come with , constant effort.

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in AT ST. LOUIS President is Warned That Workers Cannot Be Pre-, vented Much Longer from Striking. f INTEFN; 1 ICNAL NEWS SERVICE ..ASHINGTON. Sept. 5. President Wilson was today expected to give his prompt attention" to the steel Issue In an attempt to prevent a general strike tn that industry. In a telegram sent to the chief executive at St. Louis the sub-committee charged wit hsecuring a conference with E. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, stated that. "We cannot now affairm how much longer we fchall. be able to prevail upon the men not to engage in a general strike. If the men can no longer he restrained, it is Impossible to foretell what the future may hold in store." The telegram set forth that the "Steel men rely upon their case as It was presented to you last week and your earnest declaration to. bring about a conference for the attempted adjustment of the controversy." A meeting of the president of the 24 International unions, with which the Fteel workers are affiliated, will be held In Washington on Sept. 9, to "take such action as Is deemed necessary." the president was informed and the request was made that he communicate, on or before! that date, whether a conference with Gary is possible. With the announcement that an organized effort is to be made to prevent the county auditor and treasurer from proceeding farther towards collecting taxes on the 1919 assessment, former leheritT Charles H. Friedrich of HaitiI monJ has been kept busy answering in- ( quirics ' madu by persons who are au- ' xious to have a part in the work, i Ho has not selected the secretaxy for the organization which was started at the meeting at the city hall Wednesday evening, but hopes to find the right man soon. Considerable work will fall upon the secretary as he will have to investigate each claim made by persons who are disbatisfied with their assessments. "I'm kept busy answering telephone calls all the time at the office," said Mr. Fridrich this morning. Scores of cases i have been brought to his attention in which property owners believe they have had their valuations boosted to firures which are really absurd. Many of them would be perfectly willing to sell theit property at the prices which the assessors fixed, but they know that they can get only a fraction of the sum. From the widespread interest which is being displayed it will be necessary to hold the meeting next Wednesday evening in a much larger hall as the council chamber at the city hall will be far too small. The petitions for membership in the organisation are being prepared today and it is hoped to have some of them in circulation before the end of the week. Mr. Friedrich lias received calls from citizens of other townships of the county asking that he come there and help j organize the property owners for the j fight against the ttx collection. Howitver. h Kays he ha-s his hands full in 'North township now and can offer little holp. QUITS JOB fINTlHNTONAL NCWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 6. Stan, ley Wyckoff is done! He's through! Indiana will have to get another sugar! distributer. On the heels of the invasion of the governor's office and the mayor's sanctum by a "sugar mob." led by a red-haired woman. Wyckoff announced his decision to quit. It all came about because a crowd of men. women and children, numbering several thousand were unable to get "canning sugar" at an official sale at the PigglyWiggly store yesterday. Sixty thousand pounds of sweetening in ten pound packages soon vanished and the disappointed ones swooped down on the two officials demanding vengeance against Wyckoff. who was in charge of (the sale. Whereupon Wyckoff announces that he adbicates. Take The Timrs and krep ia Jouch with the whole ,world.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICtl CHICAGO, Sept. 5. Fervid love making In the tonneau of an automobile in evening shadows along romantic byroads in the mountains around the village of Fleischmanns. N. T., with Melllssa Brown, a pretty mountain girl, as the heroine, and Luifi Cure! as the lover, is recalled in charges which Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci. the prima donna, is to present in her suit for divorce from Luigl. The lova scenes in the woods are described in depositions of Mellissa, secured by attorneys who visited her at her home near Fleischmanns are now on file in the Cook county superior court. The first accne Is laid on a lonely road near Kingston, N. T., in September. 1!U7. Luigi and his brother, Genero. took Mellissa and Mary Rinaldo. who also has made a deposition, riding in Luigi's car. Mellissa gives the following description of the trip: . "We stopped in a lonely place on the road and spent the time thero talking 6 HOIK DAY fITVTCKNATiCNAL NEWS SERVICE CLEVELAND. O.. Sept. 5. The vanguard of the army of 2,000 delegates who will represent 500.000 miners of the V. S. in two weeks convention here starting Sept. 9, is moving up today and setting up headquarters. Without delay the preliminary work of the convention got underway. Committees on resolutions, constitution and officers reports are hard at work whipping their material into shape for presentation. Nearly 250 resolutions are already in the hands of the resolution committee. The sessions of the biennial convention of the largest labor union in the United States are of unusual moment this year. A wage scale and platform of working conditions will be framed for presentation to the coat operators late this month, which, if not accepted, will mean a complete tie-up of all coal fields in the country November 1. For the first time in the history of the industry such a possibility looms up. Hitherto agreements were made 'by fields and a strike in one field (fid not nffect other fields operating under different contracts. Acting President John L. Lewis indicated today that the six hour day la to

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4 - the latest portrait of him. and loving a little. Luitri rut r, around me and hugged me and kissed! me. inen my cousin (Mary Kinaldv) and Genaro got out and went for a walk in the woods. Luigi a.kd me if I would mind getting into the back scat and I said I would not. "He loved m-: some more and kissed me." The procedure, according to the deposition, was followed in detail the two following nights and the next evening the party terminated at the Cureis home where the girls' stayed about an hour. "We hal to walk home that night two miles up the mountain." savs Melliasa. "What was Genaro doing?" she was liuestioued. "I was supposed not to look." Two nights later the girls again visaed the Curci home and had a chicken and wine luncheon and Uiked a w-hile "And then." said Mellissa. "we went up stairs." Then, she admitted, they retired. be one of the most strongly pressed demands of the miners. "It will give the miners continuity or work, something they hae nexer'haj before." In addition to the opening of national headquarters, heads of a number of the state delegations were here today preparing to open district hiadquarfers. WANTS TRUCKS FOR JITNEYS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' COLUMBUS, O., Sept. j. 'ouncilman Fred Zimpcr has wired Secretary of War Baker asking that 150 government war trucks stored at the state fair grounds be loaned to the city of Columbus to be used as Jitneys during the street car strike. If Baker grants the request the city proposes to place competent drivers in the trucks and route them to all parts of the city. IF HE'S DEAD U. S. SHOULD PAY. t INTERNATIONA. NEWS SERVICE 1 LACROSSE. Wis.. Sept. 5. Corp. Herbert J. Bott. according to the war department, which has notified his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bott her, that they must refund S175 in allottments paid to them since the date of his death. October 17. 191S. ' j But lat Saturday Corporal Bolt came home from France. And now ho has notified the war' risk insurance bureau that he being "dead." they should pay his parents the $I0,0''O insurance due his family. Are you teiding Its Trs

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SUNLIGHT Dangerous Weapons Awe the Strikers As Police Disperse Big Mob. BLAMES RUSSIAN AGITATORS rT!.'l'!tLZL0k,- tWS SERVICE! CX.ETEI.AKT1, O., Sept. 5 "Tae last thing labor wants to do la to strike. Uafortuaately that Is the last thing labor na to do. No matter what the outcome both sides are licked." Addressing- the manufacturing aa employment managers of the chamber of commerce here, Warrea 8. Stone, grand chief of the Brothertoood of Loco, motive Engineers, made this declaration. He was peaking oa "What is the mat. ter with labor f" "The high cost of living is the matter with labor," M.r. Stone declared. "Our present economic system Is p tactically a failure, because It can o longer feed the people. A solution must be found and found Quickly." One element of the present unrest, He charges, Is due to the work of agitators paid by &ermaa and Russian money. "Expel the agitators," he demanded. One thousand strikers in the Standard Steel Car strike zone this morning were dispersed and baffled when the Hammond police dispossessed two strikers of ugly weapons. The strike zone fairly bristled with heavy artillery in the hands of the police and special Standard police and fully seventy magazine guns, each loaded with 45 bullets, preserved order in the midst o what might have become a dangerous mob. WHERE TXOTJBX.E STASTXO. The trouble started on Merrill and Columbia when Hammond policemen started to clear tte walks of the assembled crowds so as to permit passase for pedestrians. They saw one man flash a reolver and disarmed him. Another was found- to be carrying a pi!. of steel wrapped In a handkerchief. Hwas also arrested. The strikers then evidently by a preconcerted arrangement began to call for help by a peculiar signal carried along down the street from picket to picket south on Columbia. Men stormed towards where the three policemen were gathered by the hundred. It is estimated that nearly a thousand were hurrying to the spo'-. An attempt was made by some of th strikers to rescue the arrested tne-n and police reserves with .shotguns wire rushing to the scene. A dozen of horn dispersed the mob and drove them backdown the avenue. Chief Malo's guards then came and ten of them were stationed at Merrill and Columbia and t at Highland and Columbia. Further police reserves were called from Central and in ten minutes the mob was broken up and the shotgun squads were in control of the situation. "NO EIOHT," HE SAID. The police patrol took the two prisoners to jail.' They were booked as Mike Milorovich, carrying revolver, and George Haraimowskl, carrying sluug Shot. Both were put under bond, thdygii E. G. Sproat who defends all thos charged with rifting and disorderly conduct at the Standard thundered that the. police had r.o right to arrest them When Special Judge Tlnkham looked a: the ugly weapons taken from the ali-t s he decided tbat te police were right. ABE E-ISSATISriED. It is pointed out today that American t Continue" oil rig five.) ISENiiERGER TO BE CANDIDATE. (ITEPNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Si.pt- - John Isenberger. of North Manchester, w;!"! be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor. This was leartv-d from an authoritative source today. Mr. Isenberger has long ben active in stJU politic? and twice was candidate for state treasurer. He is a member of the state board of agriculture and a member of the boird of trustees of rurd'j-. University. Mr. Isenberger is the nrsi Tjemocrat to seek the nomination aid be is expected to address an appeal for the farmers' vote. Leonard Clore is expected to announce his candidacy In a short time, party leaders said today, and Charles H. Gije-aihousc is mentioned frequently. John Edwin Nevin st4ff correspondent i. n. servicel ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Sept. 5. Decjaring that when the people of the United Slates understand the treaty of Versailles "they will demand its speedy ratification," President Wilson this afternoon continued what he has termed his "campaign of education." on the subject. As the guest of tht St. Louis Chamber of Commerce at aluncheon In bis honor the president made another speech with the treaty as a whole as his chief topic. He declared that the treaty was the "onlyhope of the smaller nations of the world and that it will, when ratl3d by all of the nations, prevent future wars."