Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 75, Hammond, Lake County, 15 September 1919 — Page 1

GOUMTI T BEST READ NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY FAIR WEATHER UTUSBTATIOKAi NXW3 rtTLI. LEASED WXJLX 8XSYX0S. Delivered by TXKSS carrier, 40e par month; on street and at sewstaada, 8o per copy; back Buxn&evs. I 3o par copy. VOL. XIV, NO. 75. MOXDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. A OND-63rd STREET CA LLS TWO SISTERS RARRFHUF

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DIE IN THE Ho Blame Placed On Street Car Crew for Auto Tragedy. A Haxnmond-63rd street car struck an auto at 83rd and Jeffery avenue in South Chicago yesterday killing two sisters and badly injuring a third sister and her husband. The accident, according to witnesses, was not the fault of the crew. By a strange whim of fate the dead girls : are the daughters of James McCrea, superintendent of Chicago surface lines construction, in the South Chicago district and the party was on its way to the McCrea home. The dead: M3SS EAEXIET McCSEA, 24 years Id. 9334 Crandon avenue. M3SS SOU. McCUSA, 20 years old. same address. The injured: W. C. Brown, 35 years old, 741 Marquette road. Kri. Mary Brown., 30 years old, his wife. The two young women died shortly after being taken to the South Shore hospital. Brown and his -wife are In the hospital, suffering- from numerous cuts and bruises. ' TiCTzac TX&X.S or CJLASa. Brown told the police he was driving soMth on Jeffery avenue at Eighty-third street, where it crosses South Chicago avenue, and that before he could stop be collided head on with the street car. The Impact hurled the McCrea girls into the street and their skulls were fractured. Brown and his wife, who ner in the front seat of the small automobile, were hurled through the windshield, which broke their fall Into the street and saved their lives. The automobU. a mass of wreckage, was towed to a garage by the police. John Kelly. 618 East Ninetieth street, the motorman. and H. W. Hand. 724S Cottage Grove avenu.e the street car conductor, were not held. Kelly told the police when he saw the automobile it was too late for him to stop the car. says uTsTdollar IS1RTH 27C 1 Expert Says there is Slow Starvation Going On , In America. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. Sept. lo. The American Collar Is worth but twenty-seven cents i today. Professor Vrn. F. Ogburn, of Columbia Vnlversity, placed this valuation on the American dollar today while testifying j-or th stock yard employe t the '--age hearing before Federal Judge Al;chuler. "Since before the war the cost of living in the United States has increased severity-three per cert." Prof. Ogburn testified. "I base my statement on careful investigation. From June 1. 131S. to the latter part of August, 1319. the cost of living went VP nine per cent. During the same "period of time. I found that wholesale Trices went up six per cent. "There is now a. considerable slow jrarvation in the United States resulting from undernourishment." Prof. Ogburn declared. ACCUSE U. S. CITIZENS. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. American citizens are guilty of two crimes in Mexico, of which Mexicans had been accused, according to a statement from the Mclean embassy today. According to the embassy, Samuel lollwery. an American, has been indicted for bring an accomplice in the robbery of the Atlantic Kenning Co.'s offico at Guayabillo on July 16. and an American named Geisman was responsible for the recent murder of another American. Edward L. DeForcq, in the mate of Fuebla. PEACE COMMISSIN VISITS GERMANY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 1aNDON Sept. 15. An allied commission has arrived in Berlin to confer with the Germans over problems arising from the pface treaty, said a wireless dispatch trpm that city today. The United States is not represented on the commission.

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Speakers at Standard Steel; Strike Blames Newspa- I per for Tuesday Riot. j Charging The Times with responsibil-; ity for the Last Hammond riot last Tuesday morning and with inciting th Standard strikers to violence, speakers 1 at iho mass meeting of strikers at Coy's! park in Hammond yesterday afternoon advocated that w orkers eeaso reading i capitalistic newspapers ' and lend th.?irsupport to labor s organs. j A resolution was unanimously ado'pteJ i calling upon the constituted authorities; to summon a grand jury for an impartial ' Investigation of the tragedy for the pur-j pose of exactly placing the responsibility and punishing those guilty of th-i killings and woundins. These speakers, who were prominent labor leaders of the county, declared that-the strikers offered no violence and they invited and challenged a probe. As they ridiculed Thi Times for attempting to make the trouble appear as a conflict between Americans and foreign ers, a challenge was hurled forth in "any representative cf The Times present to come Rnd get the resolution and publish it." It had been announced that John Fitzpatrick. first vice president of the American Federation of Labor, would be thi principal speaker, but as he was unexpectedly detained in the East other speakers prominent in labor circles of the Calumet region were substituted.! About 500 attended the meeting at whlcti over $2000 was raised for the benefit I of widow s and orphans of the men w ho j lost their lives in the riot last Tuesday. : A.ide from, their attacks upon The' Times, the speakers were conservative, simply advising the men to stand firm for the strike, avoid violence and obey the law. They were assured that they had the moral and financial backing of the labor organizations of Hammond, Lakes county, and the A F. of L.. and that their ranks would oon be greatly strengthened in numbers by the general steel strike. Discouraged with the labor outloaliJn America, fifty foreigner from the Standard district started for their homes in Europe last night. They were accompanied to the Michigan .Central depot in Hammond by 200 of their friends. They expected to proceed to Montreal, Canada, where on Sept. 17 they w ill take the boat for Flume ana Trieste, Italy. The resolution which the speaker dared The Times to get and publish is as follows: "We the members of organized labor from all parts of Lake county in mass meeting assembled do hereby call on. all members- and labor organizations j - Lake county to unite in support of the strike now in progress at the Standard Steel Car Company of Hammond and that moral and financial aid 'be extended. "After hearing an explanation of the events that lead up to and brought about the clash with the Hammond au thorities that resulted in the death o four union men. the wounding of many others and the widowing of several women and orphaning of many children, "Be it resolved that we hereby demand a full and complete and unbiased grand jury investigation and that those guilty of an assault on the life of citizens and upon the principles of law and order be punished without fear or favor." CALL THE HARBOR THE WEAK LINK Steel Union Official Address Gathering of Workers at Auditorium in Harbor. Indlana Harbor is the weakest link in the Iron and Steel Workers union, according to speakers at the mass meeting held by steel workers in the Indiana Harbor Auditorium yesterday. ' meeting was held for th purpose of explaining to the men what the union is fighting for and also for the purpose cf recruiting new members to the union. "Gary. South Chicago and Joliet will go out to a man when the big strike is j called on the twenty-second." asserted j all the officials of the union and they are j expecting Indiana Harbor to do the j same. The local union will now w ork with ; added vigor to endeavor to enlist all the men in the steel plant here prior to the strike. The entire week will be spent in getting new members and next Sunday j there will be a monster strike meeting in the Auditorium at which time the . men w ill he told how to conduct the , strike and how- to conduct themselves j during the strike. There seemed no j doubt in any of the leaders' minds that , the virile, wnnlfi Vi 9 i-n i it (d I The meeting as presided over by Stanley Hoder, representative of the International Iron 'Moulders, and the speakers were: J. M. Mulholland. representative of the Electrical Workers; F. J. Vihd. A. F. of L. organizer; J. DeYoung, secretary of the steel committee: M. Alferox-ich. international organizer for Mine and Smelter Workers, and Organizer Deal, international organizer of Metal Polishers. Mulholland came from Gary and is one of the active workers among the men there. He stated that unless the union were called I. W. W.. agitators, and Bolsheviks they were not active (.Continued on page five.)

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CALL LABOR CONVENTION Great Interest Shown in Pe- i t culiar Position of Presi- j dent in Regard to Radica- j lism. ! (BULLETIN.) JohnT Edwin Nevin I J"" CORESPONDENT I N. SERVICE! I PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15. Oregon i w,lcom,d 'resident Wllioa today Swinging southward from Seattle, th cfcler executive continued hla pechmaiing tour la faror of the treaty of eraaiUea. With more than one-half, of hla "awing around the circle" completed, the president arrived In Portland j today In a well-contented frame of mind. He Is absolutely convinced that the peo. ! Fie of the United States demand the ratificatlon of the treaty without amend, j ment or reservation that would require . re-aubmlaalon. Hla public meetings, hla ! tours through the streets of the various I cities that he already has visited and ' hla conversation with the various recep. tion committees most of whom have been BepubUcans all have strengthened that viewpoint. It Is no secret that the president expects public pressure to cause the opposition to the treaty to collapse in the near future. John Edwin Nevin rsif correspondent i. n. service! ' PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 15. j President Wilson landed today! ith his labor policy fully determined. He spent all of yesterday afternoon secluded in his apartment in the hotel in Seattle. All of that time he spent utilizing the famous little typewriter upon which he has written ill of his war messageVto congress. As a result it Is expected today that the invitations to attend the coming labor congress In Washington will be forthcoming the present week. Not a single word regarding its contents will be forthcoming until the president's message is made public. How ever it is 'possible to state upon the! highest authority that the president plans to make the leaders of the labor I movement in the United State", the cap! talists whose names talk when money is meVitioned and the farmers who hold thtj balance of power in the United States, (Continued on page rive.) I STREET CARSETTLEMENT I No chance for a settlement of the street car situation ln East Chicago Is in sight unless the street car company is willing to concede something to the city. It is not known definitely what attitude the company will take today when they! appear before the East Chicago board of works but the members of the board are expecting the same attitude ast last week. ! If this same attitude is in evidence ' the discussion will be short and the J hearing will be postponed to some future date. Just now long tne company wju continue to appear before the Ea&t Chicagto board before taking some further action to force the issue is not known. s long as the situation continues as it is. the board is not anxious to tae definite action. Any steps to force theissue will therefore necessarily come; from the street car company. If theyj are losing as much money by operating! the cars on a five cent basis as their figures tend to show the company will not allow matters to run along much longer without change. GRILL TO OPEN TOMORROW. Hammond people will be pleased to learn that the popular eating place, The Grill, in the Hammond building, w jn be open t othe pubic tomorrow. Thev have missed the place since it closed six weeks abo. but Mr. Henry Schneider and Fred Donovan. the ' proprietors, had put in a hard year of lt and needed the rest. They are now back on the Job. having spent several wf,eks fining and resuscitating in s'orthern Wisconsin and Michigan and are now ready to start dealing out the eats for another year. During the time the place was closed the decorators have been busy and the restaurant has been completely renovatd and givn a new dress. It la now one of the best equipped restaurants in Hammond. AFFIDAVITS AGAINST HAMMOND MEN. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT. Ind.. Sept. 15 Affidavits against Peter Mak. Jr.. and Hnry Burnhart. the two Hammond men who killed Texas Miller, were filed in the criminal court at Crown Potnt on Friday. The mn are now in Jail awaiting trl.i'

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MTiat is considered a record price for Indiana farm land is recorded from Benton county, when Mrs. W". C. Ditton, daughter of Mrs. Jennie Hawkins, formerly of Hammond, sold 1.200 acres for $480,000 to an Iowa syndicate, being E TSPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 LOWELL, Ind., Sept. 15. The Lake

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County Mutual Insurance company heldiChorus has had more time for rehearsits annual meeting in Lowell Saturday. 0s and Miss Glenn Ethel Stelhorn, the

; There was a good attendance of policy j sololst, has been given an opportunity holders from all the county. The propo- to practice with the chorus, sition of having two sets of policies.) Special lights are being provided in ; viz: one on buildings with lightning rods I the park for tnc entertainment. Spotand on buildings without was voted ' j!Jfnts operated b;- storage batteries, j down. The losses of the company have wjI1 fio(5d th(, sce'ne rendering it al- : been large, but they are in a good ft nan- ; most a9 ,ijcht as AU wm be ln ' cial condition. The treasurer's report rra1..ness for tne opening cf the pro-

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raid out. during year . . n- .-r. C Ealance on hand $ 738.73 The secretary's report shows that dur ing the year Z(i policies er ru ii 39 changes made. S2 cancellations and 23 transfers. Total number of policies in force 1.S41. a gain of nine over last year. Total amount of insurance ln force, $4,307,525, a gain of $300,523 over last year. The following beard of directors wss elected for the coming year,: Jesse Little. D. C Frank. Henry H. Wassman. tv.v. i- t-,,., and Thomas Peace. All j tne 0ia board of directors were elected except N. P. Banks, who resigned and D. I c rcrank was elected in his place. The board oT directors organized by electing the following officers: President Thomas Pearce. Vice Pres. Henry H. Wassman. Treasurer Jessie Little. Secretary John E Fraas. MORE TROUBLE AT LINTON, INDt INTERNATIONAL NfWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sent. 15. Only two of the fourteen district schools of Stockton township outfide I of Linton. Ind.. were opened this j morning as a result of the controver- j sv between the teachers federation and i Trustee James Jloach. according to advjces rorn Linton. No details were j given eXCept IB1 iiuuimri niil I Central Labor Union visited all schools in e.n attempt to persuade non-union teachers not to take up their work. The trustee had employed twenty of 16 teachers required and was proceeding on the open shop principle, to which the Federation objected, demanding recognition, according to inform: "ton received here. TWO BABES DIE AT EAST HAMMOND. Undertaker. J . S. Czeehanski of East Hammond reports the death of Katie eRozko, aged 11 months. $2 Company house, on Saturday. Funeral this morning with interment at St. John's I cemeterj . Frances Magcziak. aged 8 days. ( al tomorrow at St. Andrew's, burial at Holy Cross cemetery. Air vet. reaU.r. he limes?

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35 s"SUs; ? 100 an acre. Mrs. Ditton is one f several children who with Mrs. Hawkin3 inherited an estate of thousands of acres of Benton county farm land. One of her daughters married Charles Jewell, who lived in Hammond several eis ago; . " . . 'SING' TUESDAY I Hammonds frst community "sing" which was postponed last week on ac count of bad weather, will be held tomorrow evening at Harrison Park. The delay has resulted in some additions being made on the program. The . o - Under the direction of George Adkins an immense chorus of scores of voices, made tip Of the choirs of th churches of Hammond, will lead the sieging. Miss Stelhorn of Indianapolis, who is to render a number ol solos, has had over two years of experience in this kind 0f w-ork with the War Camp Community service which is putting on the Hammond event. During the war she sang for the soldiers at Ft. Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis and also assisted in a number of entertainments which were held for them at Madison Square Garden, New York. A quartette composed of four local men have also agreed to sing tomorrow evening nnd several of the men will furnish -:o.-. This is being put in as a surprise for Hammond people. The War Camp Community service extends an invitation to everybody to attend this opening "sing'" and is especially anxious to have every ex-service man present. The boys who were in the army all know- of ti, rrfnt work which the service acj compliFhed and they are assured that ! the work whkh is n-w under way he"e is really a continuation of the g"od work done in the camps BOY HIT BY MOTORCYCLE. Peter Gertich, the four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gertich of S25 Summer street. Hammond, was badl bruised and cut about the face anc body Vesterday afternoon when he wa hit by a motorcycle driven by J. It Stafford of 233 E'etroit street. Ham mond . It is claimed by Mr. Stafford that the hov ran in front of him from in t back of an automobile and it was im-l..?.-,iijie to avoid hitting him. ROBBERY ON STREET CAR Harry Zafos who lives at the Maine Hotel, reported to the Hammond police that he had been robbed .of $100 in currency' and $100 worth of Liberty bonds while on the street car between the South Shore station and State St., yesterday afternoon. Don't throw ynur paper away without reading the want ad page.

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NEW REPORT A. F. L. Secretary Brands Story of Steel Strike Postponement. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON". Sept. 15. The report that the steel workers of the country has decided to postpone thlr general frtrike called for September 22 until after President Wilson's conference of capital, labor and agricultural representatis next month was today charrctrized by Samuel Gompers. president ' of the American Federation of Labor, as ! "entirely inaccurate." The Federation head refused o comment at length on the report, "I know nothing about it." h said. "The fact that the assertion was attributed vaguely to 'a member of my ' party," is in itself sufficient to stamp it us inaccurate " Meanwhile it was learned tha arI rangements are going ahead for the ; meeting f the national committee at f Pittsburgh next Wednesday when plane for the strike will be made. It was I pointed out that any decision to hold up j the strike would be reached at that time. ' The meeting will have bfore it Preslj dtnt Wilson's recent telegram to Gompcrs. asking that action be deferred until ! after the conference. Whether G- mpers I will attend the Pittsburgh meeting he j declined to say, but it was repor-.ed in federation circles that he probably will counsel the steel leaders, either per- ! tonally or by wire, to hold up their j plans until after the "round tabl-V meeting at the White House. However, he. 1 refused flatl yto discuss this phse of the situation. ! rOSTIS BXKTXS STORY. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PITTSBURGH. Ta.. Sept. 15 Denial of the report that the nation-wide strike of steel workers set for Sept. 22 had been called on was maae nm: imj j William Z. Foster, secretary of the- or ganizing committee or me American Federation of Labor. "There is absolutely no truth in he reporL X ord Um received from President Gompers."' said Fbsfer. " ' The national committee which has the Strike In charge will meet her Wednesday and perfect Its plans for the calling out of the men. MANY ARE SUNDAY AUTO E Gary recorded its week-end series of automobile accidents Saturday and Sun.lay. reckless driving being responsible in every case. A number were quite severely injured and it was only a miracle that several were not killed. While attempting to drive his motorcycle in front of an automobile at Twenty-third ave. and Broadway. Ferdinand Cameron. 25S8 Jefferson St., and Tavid Bruno, 264S Washington St.. occupying a fide car, crashed into a trolley pole, wrecking the motorcycle and both were seriously injured. They were taken to the St. Antonio hospital for medical treatment. The motorcycle was being driven at a high rate of sreed. When he turned off Broadway on Eighth at a high rate cf speed, a Jitney driven by C. Kosta. 23f4 Brot-.dway, turned turtle shortly after 7 o'clock yesterday morning, endangering the lives of several pedestrians, damaging thi Ford and injuring the driver. Shortly after .5 o'clock Saturday afternoon Pctro Arvantakis. 1540 Tyler St.. was run down by an autoist at Tenth eve. and Washington St. and seriously injured. He was rushed ,r the St. Antonio hospital and was found to be suffering from severe injuries about the chest. The bicycle which he was riding I was wrecked. A collision between two roras at v. Fifth ave. and the E. J. & E. tracks was reported yesterday afternoon, the occupants having a narrow escape from death and injury. John Maeau. 70.1 Broadway, while riding a motorcycle south on Washington f.t. Saturday morning, ran into the rear fender of an auto driven by Mrs. C. J. Pisor. 541 Monroe St.. and outside of a few scratches escaped uninjured. Two other accidents of a minor nature occurcd yesterday afternoon and last , night, but the details were unobtainable, Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock n I Ambridge car and trailor gave the trolley pole at the corner of Fifth ave. and Broadway a pretty bad jolt when it jumped the tracks and crashed into it, damaging the front of the car. No one was injured. BANK CALL ISSUED (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON. Sept. U. The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business of Sept. 12. FAILED TO GET LICENSE Failing to get a permit from the city to pass out hand bills. John Clurkscn of Hammond. Ind.. was arrested at Fifteenth and Broadway by Officer Kertless of the Gary police Saturday afternoon. This is in violation of a city ordinance and Clarkson will be given trial in the city court before Judge Dunn today.

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SUCCESS Watson and Wood are Headliners at Big Love ' Feast. WHAT WATSON BUS, In a dispute between England anc1 America, neither will be permitted K participate, but this will not r re vent Canada and Australia and the rest r f the colonies from voting so En?lanreally would still have five votes whi, America will have none. Woodrow Wilson played to Er.glau-. because she had the most votes. Hs wanted those votes to help elect hitr first president of the league. I've never seen a single soldier tha:'' come back from France that was ir favor of the league. Government ownership would sp! overthrow for this country. What I want Japan to do is to g't out of Shantung. I will never vote for a treaty of peace that tolerates that infamy. If Wilson had had the sense to tak half a dozen sentors with him to Paris he wouldn't have been in his present position. In one week we voted to appropriate fourteen and a half billions of dollats. or more than it had taken to run this country from the time of George Washington up to Woodrow Wilson. (By STAJf COKJUSPONDIITT.) CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. 15. Lake County's capital seethed with Republican politicians Saturday. They came from all parts of the Tenth and even the Thirteen District to talk politics and find out Who's who in district, state and national Republican ranks. Auto caravans filed into Crown Point from all directions of the compass. The Harrison Club of Gary was sponsor for the big district "barbecue and lovs 'east. .... STAB ATTIACTIONS. The star attractions were S-na'nr James E. Watson and Representative. Will R. Wood. Senator Watson tore into President Wilson and the league of nations in spectacular style and hooted at the idea that no more soldiers ou'.i have to go to Europe if the league pact was adopted. Senator "Watson was introduced by Lawrence Lyons of Brook. Republics r. HON. JAMES E. WAT80M. district chairman. An elderly farni-r brought a grin to Watson's face by ycl1ing. "Now Jim, gie the legue of nationshell." WATSON BITS X.EAOTJE Or NATIONS Senator Watson declared that Wilson was a minority President, as he did r.ot represent the majority of the reople "It was s fiasco," said Watson. "A firm stand in Mexico would have kep' Germany from her ruthless campaign." He criticised Wilson's "kept us out ol war" stand. He continued: "When He did get us in he got us in too la'e and Wilson was the only mm in the world who didn't knew what Europe was fighting about. He wasted $1 2.000, 00,0O'i like water ofir Niag.ya Falls with r.c regard for taxpayers." Watson simply provoked a riot wh'ti he said he was against Wilson, because he was trying to put over a leacue of nations. j "He appointed himself to go to Panand wasn't willing to trust another citi zen." said Watson, "but he took alon 1.400 persons and spent $1,500,000. I1--never paid any attention to any one h" took along. There was a boat ahead of. him to pour oil on the water and a boat. following him with $24,000 worth of automobiles. He went over to make peace and they thought he wanted to make peace, but he wanted to mak" a league of nations. He came home and while he was home the others ma le th-i treaty, and now he wants to upset -it. j The treaty should have been made f.r? then business could have gone on as usual, but Woodrow Wilson wanted to 1 make himself first President of thn world. I haven't the slightest doubt vbciut that. CONSTITUTION END ANGEKED. "To adopt the league of nation i he to undermine the indepen-knef- .if il-. I'nited States. It will umlirtnitu- 1 1constitution. It would be the grralc.-; calamity that ever befell the coun;r: not excepting secession. The Senate !.-t going to do as it thinks patriotic wi.h " (Continued on page three.)

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