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local authorities make urgent demand. The governor commended the police plant for using force in stopping the riot. He expressed regret over the force is the only way to obtain law enforcement under the circumstances.

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President to Participate inj Many Events While in Twin City Territory. John Edwin Nevin staff correspondent i. n service! ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 9. Facing what was expected to prove the! ! most strenuous day to date of his present tour President Wilson arrived in Twin City territory this' morning. Before leaving at 10 o'clock tonight to continue his trip i toward the setting sun he wasj scheduled to participate in the fol- j lowing events: Met by committee at station scorted jn automobile, at head of and j Pa- i r.de through principal streets to capitoi buiidir.g. Hriefly addressing special session of s-tate legislature in. session to consider the high cos-J of living and matti..s ot Male moment. IS AUOiioSILE FA3ADE. Participate as guest of honor at ijiicheon arnir.K'il by tne This functi-.u was uniquu in Speech. Were eh-du'.e-d. governor, i that no! I I.ea('S hoiol at 2 o'clock in the after noon ani ride in automobile parade to Minneapolis whf ;-e he v.. is to make an address at tl- Auditorium. Iteturn to his hotel Ir. St. Paul and dine privately with Mrs. Wilson and a number of personal friends. Address at night mass meeting at S.30 in the St. Paul auditorium, leaving at lu f :r Bismarck. X. I)., where ho will spend no hours on Wednesday. WILSON IS PLEASED. The president arrived in St. Paul In e.-;e'ilent spirits. lie personally was v.!l pleased with the result of two add.'csres at Omaha and Sioux Kails, S. D. His open position as"-"nst reservations ! ion by any of the n-lt ions signatory Mo nby any of the nations signatory thereto, has joined the issues of ha tie between the president and the so-called 'mild reswvatiomsts" In the senate. It icts expected before the treaty actually it. reported to the senate for consideration that a count of noses will be hadto establish exactly where the president's followers who insist on ratification jf the treaty without "the dropping of a c !iima or the dotting cf an 1" stand. The president's attitude is one of complete opposition to changes of any sort other than those that he. notil.ed tne I senate foreign relations committee ne w as willing to act ept reservations to be adopted by the senate as a separate document to ' the. resolution of ratification and which would set forth only what the senate called the disputed -".."agraphs of the A'ersailles agreement Actually meant. That is what the president intends to fight for. That is what he again demanded here in Minnesota's! capital today. ! The president, it is learned, actually is J fullv convinced that the public is be-, hind him in his battle for unreserved i ratification. He has received a great number of messages from all over the miintrv tellinit him so. The very fact that the majority of the members of reception committees that have gre 1 i.e . led him to efeite are Republican?, has "enraged him. his lieutenants say believe that pub'ic sentiment will ell- ' . to hold' a sufficient number of senators in op-, position to textual reservations or, amendments so that all such actually, will be defeated by majority vote when i they are taken up. And it may be said! in passing that the president stil! con-; si ders th,at his original claim that j amendments to the treaty must rocei ve , a two-third vote instead of a majority in the senate has never been changed. Advertise in The Times and advertise again. " Results come with constant effort.

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10 A iHEY PLEAD GUILTY TO CHARGES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CF.OWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 9. Mike Kuchorski. Jake Kuchi-.rpkl and Stanley Kuczle of Hammond vveto on tria' In tne criminal court at Crown I'oint on MonTho defendants appeared in per son, represented bv E. tipioat. and I plc.'id guilty to the charge of receiving stolen goods. John Kuelior: ki was tind Estate1 Farm for 90 days and disfranchised for 3 years. Mike was fined $25 and 5: months in the state farm, but the srnt-i ence was suspended during good be-j havior. and he was parole 1 to Chief of j 1'olice Peter Austgen of Hammond to who mho shall make a report t his con-j duct the tirst of each month. Ptan'ey Kuezle got the same dose of law as. John Kuchorski. of stealing 5 pai The men plead guHty: rs of shoes from a car on the tracks of the Indiana Harbors Belt railroad. . STREET CAR MATTERS HELD i!i ABEYANCE TV. ,! f the -treet enr fnmnanvl o buiid the Dickey Place extension T1., -i r.rc,.-.r, o,...1 1 the statement of President Talmadge I that the labor organization had been no- j titled that the old rata of wages would j go into effect today were the outstand- i mg features of the East Chicago Board: of Public Works meeting est.rday. j The board t.otifi-d the street car com-; runv that tliey r.au loui.a a way iu tinance '.he Dickey Place extension by j bond issue, but the com, -my refused to j build. After President Talmadge'sj statement, the malu - was taken under advisement for another week. A South Shore representative was present at th meeting, but no action! was taken. It is expected that Presi-j dent Wileoxen will be present at the j meeting next Monday. There is no hostility to the South Shore petition for three cents a mile on the main line, but eight cents for the East Chicago-Indiana Harbor run strikes the board as rather steep considering the limited territory that is served. The hearing on the viaduct over th" 141st street railroad crossings was also rostponed to next Monday in order to give both sides a better opportunity to study the question thoroughly. The E. J. & E. representative could see no neessity lor opening tins crossing, out tne city will not cease to plan, especial'... since, this crossing has been kept in mind for years and the city has had live law suits to maintain it. Xo contracts were let, although some were discussed and will probably be awarded at the adjourned meeting today. STRIKE ol QUESTION IS DEADLOCKED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASIIINC.TOX, Sept. 9. To strike or riot to strike was the question upon which tl heads of the 24 international unions with the stec". workers arc affiliated, in session here today had remained deadlocked up to 1:30 this afternoon The union heads met before closed doori , presided over by John Fitzpatrick, chairman of the sub-committee which tried in vain to arrange a conference

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influence to secure- the meeting with the' steel magnate. The text of the president's telegram. r ceived last Saturday, has not yet been made publis. The strike already has been authorized b- the workers and today's meeting was called to decide whether a general walkout should be authorized by the leaders. yCU readinc The Trrtrs?

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"WeSt Hammond Man COn- j ! feSSeS tO Murder Of UniOn ; Restaurant Chef. Tho Hammond police, after an all-day j search, have arrested Peter Mak, Jr.) a, notorious West Hammond man, thirty ; ears or age, siayer ot Texas Miner, who was killed early yesterday morning in back of his brother's restaurant with an iron bar. Feter Mak was arrested last evening at his home in Eurnliam, charged with manslaughter, by Captain Strong, with Officers Bunde. Carlson and Eorchert. Harvey Burr.hardt. a farmer, also of ! Eurnham. was arrested at the same time, charged with being- a witness to the act. j Mak confessed to Chief Austgen. of the! ! Hammond police, last night, but claims'' ! that he did not knov that Miller had . died until t,,l,l co KV tkA rtw tt i i the son of former Mayor Peter Mak of ' West Hammond. j i He claims that he and Eurnhardt had lI1K garoage I rem tne Lnion rest- i nun -UlilCT Ca III O OUt alter them. He charges that Miller took the ; hovel off their wagon and started after! Mak with it. Mak 1 hen claims he. r,i'--..-i i ."iaims

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alley and threw it at Miller, that heas quiet in Hammond" according to j saw Miller stagger, but did not see hitr. latest advices he had received. He had fail, as he claims he. then drove on. j not been informed of any recent clash , Burnhardt tells practical! v thft samc! of strikers and police, he said, story, only that lie said that after they I Whether or not the eleven companies, had started on that he looked back and I state militia just withdrawn front the, saw- Mill. r fail to ,h., .i str.ko zone would again be sent to Ham-j

Eoth men are being hold without b om.i. j ENRAGED ATTACKS fffl Frank Plummet A. Barber, a gunsmlh of 314 avenue, Hammond, went to the Hammond Pol; 'e statin;-; th'S i morning and g tave himself up to SecSee after he had shot Anton P.ar.oiska, 34 i retary Chas. I ti v c shots i n t ears old. of Plum Ihmozska had Barber's home for and feveral times came home from :r.er avenue . been looming at two or three weeks lately when Llarber work he found Uanozka and his wife away On Saturday night he ' together, aited up for them and when they came in he ed Ranozka to leave the ho.i: dei -1 :r Farber's wife said that of Ranozka left she would go. So yesterday when Earber went to j his home he found his wife, baby some j furniture and Ranozska gone but. soon iouiiu mat tr.ey nan moved to Summer avenue. They had bought groceries and charged them to him. Earber then got a revolver and he went to the police station and told officer See that he was going to get Ranozska, but Sergt. See took the gun away from him and as he thought had talked him out of the notion. This morning Barber walked into the police station, threw a twentytwo rifle on the desk and said, "Well. i ve got nim. ou can nnu n:m ua -K m crawling when shot . He was rushed to St.. Margaret's hospital where it was found that he had been shot once 'n the right arm. j once in the right thigh, once in the j right ankle, once in the neck and once i in the right side of the back, the last bullet entering the kidny. Barter is being held under a charge of felonious assault, awaiting the outcome of Ranozska's Injuries.

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News Slow In Reaching the Capital IXDl.WAPOLIS, l.ND., ill for nM.Hintunce had Sept. fume 9 to the I Ktitte holier from Hammond up to a lute. hour this forenoon. Ail.lt. t.en. Harry i : U. Sniitli, lUin received Hr.st informntiun : J resurdina todssj's riotintr from u rerre-; !?riitatie at the lnternatiniil Xcwk Venice, Ktiited, however, that !sucli n 1 ..ti r - It ii nirttil if Hammond local. authorItie aw unable to cope with the. Kituutlon. ' Gov. Goodrich also received first In-! fnr.at:,m of the rioting- from the Int, rnatlonal Xews Service re. resentative who talked with him en route to the train which carried tne Roverr.or to Wabash. Gov. Goodrich voiced re-ri-Pi i;i.t "such an occurrence should .;,,,- , Indiana." but said he beiivofi iv, r'l enmstances indicated tiiat, Hammond authorities were "determined! tr. mi f.-.rci. the law at any cost." 1 The belief M current in state house! circles today that troops, recently vvith- j drawn from tne striivo ioue, '". be returned to Hammond except as a last resort. The governor has no authority to order out the troops unless their presence is requested. U"V. Goodrich indicated that he would keep in with the str.ke situation front Wabash. UETAH-S MKACKK AT CAPITAL. i international r-.EWS service) TVDI AXAi"LiS. Ind.. Se y. Ofib cial circles here this morning were w lthout ' information regarding today's outburst of rioting at ammciw in wh killed and twenty injured. vui wv.v Goodrich had gone to Wabasl v-rov Ind and Frank Eitschert. his secretary, , stated that no mesvage utu omc to had come to the governor's ot.ice irom the Calum- t ctty. i Harry E Smith said that "all morid wa s a matter of speculation here. At a time it was reported that federal I agents had been in Hammond for several j weeks and had uncovered radical acti-j ities that promised the deportation of aj score or more men 01 IAN Blttl!) FORMER WIFE CHICAGO. Sept. 9. 1919 A crowd had gathered at Market ar.d Adams sts . , Women were screaming. Felicemen Fred Valenta pushed his way Into the ring. On the pavement a man and a woman lay fig-iting. scratching, wrest1 ling The policeman took the in to Another ! the Central Detail station. a oman followed . ti.a ...art . j .Tilt 1 1 1 a ?t-anca f W -i "" " ' . . ir.ond. his opponent. Mrs. K . T. Jonn ton ot ..-- i .ith a ., ana iiie oi er woman. Mrs. Strauss. Five years ago. before e.th'-r were married, the now Mrs. Johnson admitted that she gave birth to u child, whose father was Strau.-s. T.n, years ago Strauss took little. Xe'.la out f.a soda and neither w.-re seen until yesterday . Meanwhile both married. But Mrs. Johnson trailed Strauss all oer the middle West in a search for her little child. She met him yesterday. S ie demanded her child. He refused and the. onghtt At the station Mrs. Johnson said the would not prosecute if Mr. .Straus? would return Xc'.la . So Mrs. Straus and Mrs. Johnson left Strauss i;l a cell and drove out to the Chicago Home of the Friendless, where Xella was found and brought to the station. Strauss relinquished the possession. Mrs. Johnson refused to prosecute. The triangle If ft the station together but not speaking. The Times' want ads bring asvertise again. Results come with constant effort.

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ii mat AfPflT 9H K y I II Casualties Unknovn for Long lime Even in Ea5t Hammon i, the extent) of the casualties was not known for ' hours, and the general Impression was that at least six had bo-f n killed. Whn it was Icarr.ed that the dead had been taken to tne h.urns morgue, scores i flocked ta the place in order to It if any of their relatives had been 1ed. Kor several hours only Lawrence ' Dudek had been identified. He had: lived in East Hammond for a number j of years, but had never brought his. wife and fpmily to America. It is said j he ban a wife and two children in Rus- ' sla. j Stanley Skis, one of the men killed j instantly, is a Ituss'an Pole. He leaves, a wife and five children who live at! 177 Company House. t'i relatives at nocn Little could be learned regarding the ; th.rd victim, Ro.-ko. Men who haa ',",1 im lately said that they beat to be his right name, but! not know h ( n iifie iis nuu lecoueu. 111 iico-i :t he had resided. He had been ' among the strikers, but none recalled j I whether he had formerly been employ- i j ed at the Standard plant. It is consid- I I ouuith., ha" t:: a ai! ! I tators during the strike. Dudek was still alive when placed in the ambulance to be taken to the linn, u-i uiru -" ..m to the era ting room. Leaders Against Weapons From statements made by men who! had participated m the parace or tne! strikers, strict orders h?d been issued: by the leaders that no weapons were to ne cairif.1, eu.-ie. .pen: oi iuce.i;ei! Thev sav that they had r.o in tention of committing acts of violence.; but that a the workr.Kn who had re-j turned to work yesterday were being ! held tip as Americans v hile they were being lumped off as aliens, they de- !.. . J U .1... 4 U . A lrf.American citizens in their ranks alfo. ror this reason returned soldiers ' their uniforms were conspicuous among th ranks of the marchers. Relief work to aid the destitute families cf the slain or injured men is un to i.n rier way. but no attempt is being- made to hold any demonstration during the funerals. In fact, the men seem Indifferent and display little interest as to the burial which is accorded their unfortunate brethren. it the mass meeting this. morning all of the men insisted that t n e y had fired hots and leaders were unibif to the ones responsible for starting; no fin ii-o .-ffrav. Anotner tr etjtig is being! held this afternoon at which the situation will be gone over and a future .irse cf action mapped out. It is said CO hat international he crafts concerned epreer.ta lives. of in the strike have ankinsr that he at . wired Gov Goodrich I ouce start an ivestigation of th Hi MAYOR BROWN TALKS WITH GOODRICH nTr.-NATONAL .NEWS SERVICE! WAI'.ASH. Ind., Sept. t'. It will be necessary to again call out the not 1 ;' ate . militia to hand the Standard : Hammond. So the strike : !teel Car Co. ltuation plant This was the belief expressed Major Frown of Hammond in long byi Jis-i tance this afternoon. The governor call - cd the Hammond executive immediately upon his arrival here from Indianapolis. The Hammond authorities are certain they tan control the situation. said Mayor Brown, adding that the strikers fired on the police four times before the rolice shot info the mob. A statement,! signed by leaders of the w orking men. ! declaring they can control the alien workingmen is e:i route to the governor's off.ee at the state house. Maypr Brown said. The governor addressed a farmer's meeting here this afternoon and tomorrow he will go to Michigan Ci'y ffern which pxce he- will keep in touch with Hammond officials.

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, u . AiAHA. l . . j Thre8 kllOWH dead aild ! from 50 to 60 wounded is the ! toll of the latest Standard: : QfaeA rr ctriVo -rin- xnhioVt hos-iCteeA StHKe HOb WIllCll uiuiii, ui a,u y uu XXiSiU- : jland street in Hammond,' four blocks away from the! ;Flant at seven o'clock this! ; morning. BODIES DOT FBAJKIE. First reports went out that ten! had been killed. This was due to the prostrate bodies which lav inj the street and open prairie north of Hitrhlan d street. More serious! trouble is anticipated tonight and! " threats are made by the striker , ,---- rD n j a v ... . I that tomorrow morning they will t c v CAiL a one lrom going to SOEDIESt LEADS MOB. 1 Leaa Dy i nomas bkutia, aged 21, 1 m full uniform and carrying a huv'e . , 0 American flag, a tnousand foreign strikers marrhpH in rrt1rv;, ---4 I vv vuiumia CX-.C Highland before seven o'clock. They were armed with bricks, rocks, clubs and revolvers. They were waiting for the 200 Americans who had asernbied further down the street to go to work. The strikers were ugiy in disposition Thev flaunted the police, called th defied them. i vile names and STREET CAR EMPLOYEE ACTIVE. In this they were egged on by a street car motorman fur whom the police ar j searching iiey attacked the police guards before they were and Standard fired on. The Hammond police and the Stand

iot.ls.rd guards had been warned to expect j trouble this morning. The striking for

eigners were profuse in ti.,-;r threats.! j After nearly 200 workmen had turorched j ito the plant yesterday moriiing and resumed work in defiance oi the striking foreigners a meeting of the radical clement was called. The matter was discussed and the men express,-.! th.ir determination to preent an;.- similar attempts f.t returning to work. Some of the strikers even went so far as to inl at: form the police tnat tney wouid ne out atihani and there would be bloodshed if the men refused to turn back. J ARMED WITS SHOT3'JHS. I Armed with shotguns and with th j i Standard police force instal l .-, ,-. vai able every member of the Hammond ( vicinity of thoi force on dutv was in plant ready for an outbreak of rioting. The greater part of the force had been concent rtJ ted at the intersection of Columbia avenue and Highland street where it was expected that would break. the storm Eefore 5 o'clock the strikers were a'-t ready on the streets. ' A mertmg wr.s! held at the little theatre on Columbia avenue at which the final preparations' for the demonstration were made. Six j abreast in compact formation the i column of strikers marched north on! Columbia avenue. At the head marched, a young man in soldier's uniform bear-'

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DETAILS OF STRIKE RIOT Threats were made yesterday by the foreigners to "get" the pollca. Eight hundred to 1,000 aliens opposed the police and Standard guards. Two hundred men sought passage to go to work at plant. Strikers threw bricks and tired revolvers before police acted. From 75 to 100 shots were fired by police and guards. Three are known to be dead and fifty received woundsRioting followed meeting at daybreak this morning. Street car employe on street car and strikers' women egged them to violence. Eight of the wounded rioters are at hospital. Three dead are at morgue. City authorities decide not to ca!! militia as yet. 1 ; List of Dead and Wounded Tli follewinsr is the revised list of dead and most seriously wounded at noon and it may b increased this after, noon: TEE EEAD. LAWRENCE DUDEK, 65 Company House, at Bums' morgrue. STANLY SKIS, 177 Co. House. KOSKO. THE DYTJTO. STEVE KRATACZ; bullet la cnest. SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. STANLY KAZURA, 2 bullets in back. JOHN no, 1 bullt in back. FRANK NAS3, 1 bullet in thija. WALTER ROOAURAK, built la leg-. BILL" VICHCHOWSKI, bullet In ankle. Rioters Placed Under Arrest The following men have been arrested by tha poUce charged witn inciting a riot. Some of them were slig-ktly wounded." All were brougfht to Jail in the police tfigron: JOE KOLODZIO, 546 Aines ava. WALTER MOTSOM, 192 Co. House. ANDY EOEEK, 132 Co. Houss. TRANK GALIA, 25 Co. House. TKOS. SKUEA, 102 Co. House. rRANK NASS, 502 Kenwood. JOHN ROGOWICZ, 1176 Columbia avenue. ing an American flag. He was Thona Skuba. a returned soldier. There were fully Hi'O men in the crowd as it star'cd, and more joined them on the march until tt has been estimated that the time of the riot there were from 500 to S00 mey engaged. WERE WAITING TOR THEM. At May street the column turner west, marched to Calumet avenue, then south to Highiund st. and east to Columbia avenue. Here the men turned and faced west awaiting the appearance of the workmen who were known to bo forming their ranks in the vicin.ty ot Calumet avenue and Sibley street. This was shortly nfter 6:45 o'clock. A signiiicr.iit fact was the absence of women in the mob. Heretofore thv have been very pronvnent when irotib'e started, but it is held by the police that the strikers knew there would be shooting and ordered the women to stty home. They were in the rear of the (Continued on page, five.)