Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1919 — Page 1

BEST READ NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY RAIN in CSSBNATIOKAL NEWS t rUlL LEASED WZBS SEKVXCX. On streets aixd newsstands, 9r pep copy. Delivered by carrier la Eimmcnd and West Baauaosl, SOo per month. VOL. XIV, NO. 71. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. i j J, 2J LfUCQJn 1 RIOT LEADER ABDUCTED FROM HOSPITALiPflFSfflFCT

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Coroner Graham Holds Inquest Over Bodies of Strike Victims. TROOPS READY SAYS GENERAL TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 10. ! .rry B. Smith, adjutant general of niliana. Is prepared for any emerT.. y call for state troops which may ' me as a result of the strike sltuai'Ti at Hammond. Gen. Smith was . communication with the strike ii.'-trict yesterday. No official word wis received at ho office of Gov. Goodrich from Hammond or Lake county officials In re:::rd to the situation. It was stated h .t Gov. Goodrich, who was out of n.-. city yesterday afternoon, was in ouch with the trike zone over long iistance telephone. (BTJII-ETIN.) Steve Xratacz, the Standard strike leader, believed yesterday to be fatally wounded, was spirited out of St. Marraret's hospital this morula? la Hammond by three men who are unknown to tha police. One posed as a doctor and asked to see Kratacr The other men

Eiid they were relatives and declared ! day morning near the Lyndora hot'l. that they wanted to take Kratacz tojiht-y niado no demonstration of It this

another hoi pit aL He was carried to an uto and driven across the state line. The Hammond police wen not notified of the release of Xratacz- until It was too late to stop ti.e abduction. Peace reigned in the Standard! . ., . . . v j ! strike zone today. - A heavy down- " pour dampened the ardor of the strikers and police, deputy sheriffs, home guards, Standard guards and railway police under Chief Zielke stood ready to protect the 200 men vho marched down Highland street to their work. Coroner J. A. Graham is today conducting his investigation of the riot yesterday morning at the Hammond plant of the Standard Steel Car Co., which resulted in the death of three of the striking workj tt.. f ,-.t men and the injury of probably .

fifty more. , i aliens have said that they were going DISPUTE AS TO TIB.ST SHOT. u , v,-n u' thrt sore ,he Hammonl subpoenas had been served upon fif- police. "hether this is merely one of t-n men as witnesses from the police th" strins of wild rumors which have dT-irtment. strikers. Stantard officials been afloat cannot be verified, but the an-1 city officials. The main point or;-' wiH take no chances, variance between the stories of nicm- A Public funeral will ha held tomorWs of the police force and the rioters i row mowiing at 9 o'clock. The bodies i a to which side fired the first shot. J the three dead strikers will be taken H, strikers either stated that thev did ! frni the Burns undertaking parlors to rot know, or said it seemed to have b.-en j t- Gary's church in East Hammond. ..,, t,. ma r,f TTisrhlnn.j trwtwhfre the services will be held. The

r-rnpied by a bunch of officers. C-3AKD TELXS STORY. Hinll Reese, a member of thp Standard ruird. was the first man called to test-! f . Acording to his story, ho and other j members of the plant police force had taken their place with the city officers to keep tho way open for a force of workmen who were expected to march to the plant at about 7 o'clock. The strikers marched to the corner of Highland irect and Columbia avenue and remained on the street awaiting the appearance r.f the workmen. TRIED TO OET ETEIKXB. Tolice ordered the men back off the rreet but some of them refused to move end he saw several of the officers in a Urugple with strikers. He was Foon occupied with his own affairs for a-stone .. tv.mivn at him by a man in the third rank of tne crowa. ne auagea j . tirvf Kan- revolver ! ana ai - it(r,T at him from the crowd. He sr-anK forward ana strurK ine iranu!" with his gun barrel and then Tried to fret the man who had threatened him. USED HIS BI.ACKJACK. As he tried to force his way info the crowd the men closer around him and (Continued on pase five.) A. C. GROVE BUYS STARKE CO. FARM. Alex. C. Orove of the Mid-Continent rWurities Co. of Gary has sold his Gary home at Seventh and Fillmore streets and purchased a big farm down in Starke county. He moved to it Inst week and is stocking it up with hoes, cattle and horses and sheep and has a f.n drove of seventy-two turkeys that will be just fine for a Thanksgiving dinner and he is fixing up the old farm house and buildings and will have one of the finest farms in the country to show to his city folk friends when thoy come to see him at the farm. Mr. Grove hnd some trouble at firFt in milking his cows but his friends say that he is proving an apt pupil. Are you reading The Tmss?

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Prince Carol of Human!. Workmen March Back Unmolested Rain and sober second thought had a quieting influence on the Standard district over night. If thoughts of revenge are being harbored among the rnn who engaged in the noting yestermorning. Hammond police and Standard guards, together with a number of volunteers, were In readiness at an early hour for any emergency. None of the strikers aurcared on the streets as the times approached for the workmen to march to the plant. In a drizzling rain the ct.rs took their posts anJ walted. Th9 body of workmen appeared on Highland st. and continued their march easlwarai to Columbia ave., then on to the gates of the piant. Far down the street past Morton ave., on Columbia ave., a few men stepped out on the pavement and stood watching the workmen as they crossed the street. Then they disappeared. Chief Malo of the Standard guards had been informed early in the morning that th3 ir.en would remain in their homes. In ?pite of rumored threats which had been making the rounds Tuesday evening, the police did not expect trouble this morning, but did not intend to bo caught napping. N'o trouble Is anticipated tomorrow morning, but it has come to the ears of the police that following the burial of lheirPconiradf.s, the mor5 radical of tho sinkers will march in a body to the cemetery from the church. John "Watzo. ono of Chief Ualo's euaras. missing yesternay on account or sickness, called at the police station today with his wife and four ch-ldren Watzo claimed that Mike Tukhas, Mrs. Stuckowski and Mrs. Rosvich called at him home ycrtcrday and threatened to kill hkn and his family unless they got out of their home. Frightened to death, they left and wandered around all night. The couple and their children were rinini? wet when they appeared at the station and said they had not eaten since yesterday. To prove that the strikers' story that they did not fire at the police is false, the police point out that Frank Nass, one of the injured strikers, was shot by a striker. He was in, the crowd back Nass came from in front of them. As ., ..... tno roue fired one way. to the they say, that Nasi was shot by one. of his own mc n. Investigation has disclosed that George Rosko. one of the slain strikers whose identity was not definitely established until evening, was not one of tho agitators as had been suspected at first. He resided at 135 Company house and had been employed at the Standard plant for a number of years. He was a Russian Pole and not a Hungarian, as had been reported. Hungarians of the Standard district insist that not one of their number was concerned in the riot. AWAIT REPORT OF COMMITTEE v INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 DETIiOIT. Mich.. Sept. 9. Two thousand delegates representing S50.000 members of 'he United Brotherhood of Maintenance cf Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers marked time this morning waiting on the report of the credentials committee at noon. No burincps outside of routine was transacted at todty's session of the convention. Don't throw your pspc.r awa7 without reading the want ad page.

BOSTON

HAS NIGHT OF RIOTING Two are Shot When Police Strike, Stores are Looted While "Craps" are Shot In Streets. BOSTON TERRORIZED With Boston helpless tinder a reign of lawlessness and disorder, officials, business men and clric organisations were seeking- measures today to end the strike of poUcemen. Sesponsl bUity for the looting and other acts of violence last night was being ahiftend today by the constituted authorities from one to another. A partial summary of the crimes and violence of the night follows: Two men shot and one stabbed, the latter la broad day.Ught on Summer street. Women attacked and beaten In dark alleys while jeering crowds looked on. More than two hundred stores and shops broken Into and looted. Xawless gangi roamed about the city wrecking' property, ringing firealarms and assaulting cltisens. Police, helpless against the mobs, made no attempt to even record the hundreds of cases of violence. (BVIUTUr,) BOSTON, SXASS., Sept. 10. The state guard was called out by Mayor Peters today to maintain ordeT la this city as the result of the police strike. Zt was announeed that soldiers would be on the street within a few hours. The action followed a storm of protest by citizens as the result of the looting- of stores and hold-ups last nisrht. BOSTON, Sept. lCs Biotln? 'broke out afresh in the police strike here today. A mob cf several thousand persons attacked three volunteer police, men and before the disorder oould be quelled the three officers were severely beaten. fNTERN ATIONAl. NEWS SERVICE BOSTON, Sept. 10. More than 100 stores had shattered windows today after a night of terror and rioting such as Boston never before experienced, as the result of the walkout of the policemen yester-! day evening. Two men were shot, one probably fatally. Throughout the night and early morning gans of men and boys surged through the streets of the down-town business section, in the north and west ends in south Boston, smashing windows, , pillaging stores, holding up and robbing people and attacking women. The promised volunteer protection did not materialize. Small bands of inspectors were rushed to places where rioting was in progress. THBX ATX US GINIEAX STRIKE. Labor leaders admit that the city Is threatened with a general strike if the police situation is not settled quickly. Sympathetic action is being- discussed by the telephone workers. Boston elevated employes, both of whom were recently on strike: stationary flrenu-n and build ing trades workers which would result in paralyzing all the activities of the, city. j A special meetinjr of the central labor j union has been called for Thursday to discuss a general strike. CONrXEENCE OT BtTSTOTSSS MEN. Mayor Peters, who had been practical (Continued on pHge four.) CARPENTERS Members of the Carpenters Sta'e Council of Indiana opened their annual convention this morning at Weiss hall. About eighty men are present from different parts of the state. Addresses cf welcome were delivered by Mayor Dan Rrovvn and City Judge T. C. Klotz. The session will continue the rest of th week. Tomorrow afternoon the visitors will be taken on an extended automobile trip in which they will be shown the great industries of the Calumet region. Plenty of automobiles will be on hand to carry all in comfort. The calvacade will leave. Stat- nnd Hohman sts. at 1:30 o'clock and the tour will include Hammond. Gary. Indiana Harbor. East Chicago. Whiting and' South Chicago. After a rest at Jackson Fark. they will return o the Hammond beach when; a big fish Tinner will be served. A e you reading lhr Timei?

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: -Ml Mrs. .Enrico Caruso. Mrs. Enrico Caruso, wife of the Italian tenor, received many congratulations at the hotel in New York from friends who had heard the reports of a coming event that had been circulated since her return from Europe recently. "Motherhood is a wonderful privilege," Mrs. Caruso said in confirming the reports. "I had hoped that .ome day I should have a daughter of my own." Mrs. Caruso was formerly Miss Dorothy Benjamin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Park Benjamin of New York city. Mrs. Park Benjamin. Jr., and her sister, Mrs. Fred Godoard. met the Carusos at the dock when they returned from Italy. WIFE'S SISTER SO SHE SAID The Hammond police received word last night over the telephone to come at once to T24 Sherman street where a man was murdering: a woman. O.Ticer Fandrl rushed out there and found Jacob Eolinski lying in a pool of blood from three hatchet wounds in h:s head. Rollnski was brought to the Hammond police station where a doctor dressed his wounds. He was brought up for trial In the Hammond city court this morning on a charge of belns drunk an! was fined J1S by Ju.lge Klotz. lie claimed at his trial that he had got drunk through drinking cidar and had gone home and started to beat his sister-in-law when she took a hatchet and cut him three times in the head pounding him black and blue all over. When the police arrived his sister-in-law said to them. "I've fixed him for you. there he is lyins? in the road." AT H. A. Lampre!!. chairman of the committee in iharge of the Thrusday noonday luncheons of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, announces that nr. W. A. Colledge, a noted lecturer, furnished by the Redpath Bureau will speak at the luncheon tomorrow. His subject will be "The High Cost of Living." Dr. Colledge was loaned by the bureau to the Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury Department last January and served as a vice-director. He was with Henry M. Stanley in Africa; he has traveled in all the countries of Europe; he had. lr. his early manhood, the personal acquaintance of Huxley, John H. Williams, the great London merchant and founder -of the Y. M. C. A. movement, and Henry Drummond. famous scientist and author. From these men and from his own studies he has gathered lecture material which wins for him an enthusiastic hearing wherever he is heard. He was editor-in-chief of the "New Standard Encyclopedia" author of "Interpretative Studies of Scottish Authors", and "The Beginnings of th Modern Drama." Until 1910 he was head of the department of English Language and Literature. Armour Inst, tute of Technology. Chicago and Is now head of the Educational Department of the Redpath Lyceum and Chautauqua bureau. It is hoped that Hammond business men will accord this noted lecturer the reception which his standing deserves. Advertise in The Times and advertise again. Results come with constant effort.

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Well They Can't Live Without Style. 'SNTERNATIONAf NLWS, SERVICEl KXW YOKE, Sept. 9. The women of Trance those who keep abreast of the fast changing styles of the Trench capital are going practically nude. "The new styles leave the wearer practically nude," said Charles Xursman, fashionable milliner, who re. turned today from Paris, where he looked over the new fashions. The new gowns, he said, are cut unbelievably low in front and even lower In the back. Besides, they are of a decidedly filmy nature. Staid London Is even taking them up, Zurz. man said, and he believes they will soon become popular here.

MIND $1 MEfi DIE BY pn?r ELECTRICITY s

Paul Hudson Well Known Hammnod Man, Comes in Contact With Live Wire Hammond people were shocked to hear that this morning while at work at the Simplex works of the American Steel Foundries on Hohman street, Hammond Faul Hudson, a well known oung mar- I ried man vr , i . . , - -:c I , j v.M, miu at I -J .3 Claude street, was electrocuted. Mr. Hudson, who Is an electrician, had climbed a pole to make some repairs when he in some unknown wty came in contact with a live wire and was thrown to the ground. His neck was broken. The funeral arrangements which are in charge of Undertaker Emmcrling have not yet been made. The decedent, has four brothers and two sisters and comes of a family of good connections. At the Swift Fertilizer plant this morning A. Densniski. aged 30. living on Hickory street, was electrocuted by coming in contact with a high tension wire in some way in which plant officials have not yet definitely ascertained. He was a tinner by occupation and married. The body was removed to Emmerling's morgue. POLICE CALLED TO QUELL RIOTS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KCRANTON. Pa., Sept. 10. Police reserves were called out in Scranton today to quell the riots as a result of strike of 9.000 silk-mill workers thrucut Lackawanna county. Thousands of windows were smashed and many persons were Injured as the women strikers marched through the county tu a spectacular labor demonstration. Nearly every silk mill from North I Scranton to Carbondale ij ldlo. The women silk-workf-rs visited every silk mill in the valley on their march and smashed windows, damaged buildings, broke machines and at each mill enlisted ne wrecruits to their ranks. When they arrived at Archbald the marchers numbered about 2.000. JOHNSON SPEAKS IN INDIANAPOLIS. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 10. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, leader of the senate opposition, to the acceptance of the league of nations without reservations who is on a coast to coast stumping tour In the wake of 1'reeldent Wilson's train, will speak at Tomlinson Hall here tomorrow in opposition to th eleague. NEGRO BURNED ATTHE STAKE. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 ATHENS, Ga.. Sept. 10. Obe Cox. the negro accused of killing a white woman here, was found today at noon hiding on a farm near Athens. A crowd of nearly a thousand men took the black to the scene of his crime, riddled him with bullets and burned the body at the stake. The body was burning for over an hour. Several thousand witnessed the incineration. TO FIGHT THE FLU. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE i INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Sept. 10. Plans for organization of an emergency force of 100 physicians to fight a recurrence of the influenza epidemic in Indiana are complete, according to an announcement by Dr. W. F. King, acting secretary of the state board of hea'th. The flu battle will be waged under direction of federal and state authorities. SAY FARMERS DIDN'T BENEFIT. MNTrrtNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 10. Farmers did not benefit by the increase In rrices of many foodstuffs during August, officials of the Indiana Fedctation of Farmers' Associations declared today. They pointed out that while live stock rrier-s droped as much as a dollar at a time prices of dressed meats advanced during the month.

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9? A. Prince of Wales signing Studley Quoit club bock at Halifax. This is the first picture of the Prince of Wales, taken since his arrival in the new worjd, which shows him "off statre" in a natural attitude. Ho is following thu custom of visitors to the Studley Quoit club in Halifax and is sipr.inp: his name in the puest book. He is seen puKlnir a cipraret and smilin;r broadly. WHITING OFFICER SHOT BY, BANDITS Auto Thieves Fire on Police When Latter Make Capture at S. 0. Garage. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES WHITING. Ind.. Sept. 10. Two desperate auto bandits with their stolen car and othtr loot from Chicago were cleverly trapped by the Whiting police, here early this morning at the Standard Oil Garage, where the men had gone to secure fuel. The bandits opened fire on the police and Ofieer Petty was shot in the foot. He was removed to St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond. The men gave their names as George Gray and Frank Moran. A third bandit made his get-away. The auto they had stolen was; taken from foth and Wentworth ave. ( last night and Chicago police came outj to take tho bandits back to Chicago.! They congratulated the Whiting pulice! en their clever capture. I STORY GOMES FROM. AUSTRIA By LTJCIXN AE.THTJK JOKES. (Exclusive Cable to the I. N. S. and the London Sally Express.) VIENNA, Sept. 8. The price of a Jewish girl's escape from terror-ridden Hungary is her honor. This revelation today is the latest tragic horror that is sweeping the. Jewish population of The former monarchy. An American officer attached to the Roumanian army, related how a. Jewish mother of high standing, who had been educated in England, begged him to get her family out of Budapest. The woman's beautiful young daughter was offered to the American as his reward, for the mother pleaded that she was willing to make this sacrifice rather than allow the girl to fall int the hands of the Hungarian police upon the frontier. At the border stations, it is charged, the Hungarian police have been guilty of stripping Jewish girls, insulting them and seizing all of ther money except a sum of possibly 500 kroner sufficient to last them a few days. Mothers in Budapest are offering th-ir daughters to officials of influence ro smuggle them from the country from the "white terror." which now reigr.s just as tho "red terror" reigned in th days of Bela Kun. This campaign of terror has been conducted with more or less secrecy and it is onlv now that the true facts are being revealed. But the world will have to wait for the full story of what the Jews are still undergoing in Hungary. There appears to be a wide-spread conspiracy to suppress tho facts. HOGS DROP ' LOWER IN PRICE. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. Sept. -10 Hog. prices, continuing their downward trend toward pre-war prices, registered a drop of $l.fo at the stock yards today. Opening prices were $1S 75. This is a reduction of 16.00 for the past two weeks.

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Conference With Gary Must Gome or Men Will Strike Within 48 Hours. (BULLETIN.) ' ,.ylERNATI0NAL NEW SERVICEl WASHINGTON, Sept. la September 22 was this afternoon set as the data for a general ,trlie In the steel ijLdns. try. The announcement that they had fle. termlned to put the recent strike rote cf the men Into effect at that time was made by the heads of the twenty.fonr international unions, ta which the work, ers are enrolled, following- the receipt of a telegram from President Wilson which they characterise as "uacatlsfsc. tory." Earlier la the day the committee sad made pubUo the text-f s t el err am to the president stating- that unless he could give assurance that a meeting- fee. tween the men and the heads of the United States Steel Corporation T possible, the strike would be called with, in forty-elarht hours. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON, Sep" 10.-A strike of the steel industry will be called within 48 hours unless President Wilson in the meantime can assure the heads of the 24 unions with which the workers are affiliated, that there is some possibility of a conference with E. H. Gary, head of the U. S. Steel Corporation. This was made plain in a telegram sent to President Wilson at St. Paul, Minn., and made public by the union presidents today. XZPISrS THURSDAY AniaNOON. It was stated by Fitzpatrick that the 4 3 hours dated back from the time the telegram was sent, and would expire with the adjournment of the meeting tomorrow afternoon. The text of the telegram follows: "Secretary Tumulty's telegram of Sept, 6 to Samuel Gompers was ready today (Tuesday) at the meeting of th presidents of the 24 International unions in the steel industry and given the most careful consideration. "After a long and earnest discussion of it the undersigned were instructed to wire you requesting more definite statement as to the possibility of an early conference being arrarred by your efforts between the heads of the United States Steel corporation and of the unions involved. "The conditions in the Industry are steadily growing worse, large numbers of union men being discharged and otherwise discriminated against abused and it will be impossible o hold our men much longer from defending themselves by striking unless some genuine relief is vouchsafed them. Our meetings wiil remain in session here for 4S hours awaiting your reply before taking final ac; lion." The telegram was signed by John Fitzpatrick. M. F. Tlghe. William Hannon and William C. Foster. TOLLESTOH BANK BANDITS SEEK APPEAL Batchelor Bros., Parker and Dan Trkulja Get in Supreme Court. TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 10 Thomas N. Batchelor. Albert Batchelor, James H. Parker and Daniel Trku'jn. sentenced to die in the electric chair at the State Prison on their pleas of guilty in the Lake county criminal court on a charge of having murdered Herman Uecker. cashier of the First State Bank at Tolleston, today filed an appeal in the Indiana supreme court from the action of the Lake county court. They alleg that they were not permitted to withdraw their pleas of guilty, and that a fifth bandit, Nick Trkulja. who was sentenced to a prison term fcr connection with the case, and who pleaded n"L guilty when first arraigned, was the man who actually shot the bank cashier. Uecker was killed June 14, when the five men, with Lee W. Spears and Jan Bierlieh, attempted to rob the. bank. Uecker was shot when he seemed to reach with his right hand for a revolver, after the bandits had commanded all persons in the bank to hold up their hands. Nicholas and Daniel Trkulja were first arrested in connection with the crime, and on June 28, Daniel Trkulja made a signed statement admitting his part in the affair and implicating the other men. Confessions were received from all except Nicholas Trkulja. The four men were sentenced to death July ?, after their pleas of guilty. In appealing their case to the supreme court the four men declare Nicholas Trkulja pleaded not guilty, stood trial and vvas convictr-d of munclaueh' er. get. ting prison sentence of two to fnentyone years.