Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 88, Hammond, Lake County, 30 September 1919 — Page 2

THE TTMK& Tuesday. September 30 1919 PROP This Is to Inform the Citizens of East Chicago, Ind. Harbor, Hammond, Whiting and Gary, that the Social Club "CHASERS OF THE BLUES" will hold Novelty maces everv We at the MASONIC TEMPLE, EAST CHICAGO. Wednesday evening, Oct. 1st., a Monstrous Serpentine Confetti Ball will be given. Prizes will be given every Wednesday night following. urn

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WORKERS MEET AT CIVIC CLUB The "Loyal -workers of the Inland Steel Comrany ... nomo nrti-.ntrd Ivi the men who met in the Civic Club In Indiana Harbor yesterday for the par-1 pose of organizing in such a manner i that the management of the plant might be assured of sufficient workers to run i the n-.iil when they open. William Ixwerman was elected chairman and Karl Filson secretary. The heads of the different departments are interviewing the men in their departments and report that Jsr?c number are signifying their wiHingnc-a to return to work. John H. Kelly, a negro, reported yesterday that he already had the names of three hundred negroes who were willing to go back and that of all'those he had interviewed unly four did not want to return to work. Kelly said that practically all of the negroes wanted to return to work. An electrician also reported that he had the names of "60 men who were willing to go back. Roy Bealle. superintendent of the Mark plant was rresent at the meeting and told the men that the Mark plant was ready to open as soon as a concerted movement could be launched. He also stated that the Mark plant would give an 8-hour day any time that any of its competitors agreed to do so. V. V. Van Swearlnger, chairman of the employees representatives of the Inland, advised that registration of th men who desire to go back to work be delayed a few weeks tn order to allow the. union men to tire of the strike. Attorney William J. Murray stated that the Inland would open when the men are willing to go back, that it ws costing the company thousands of dollars a day to remain idle, that the business and professional men of the town to a body are back of the men who wish to go back to work, and that the men who stopped the Bolshevik parade on May day would see that the men got to work if they cared to go. Mr. Murray objected seriously to the indecision "f the men and stated, "Jf the officials of the Inland were present at this meeting they would begin pulling the fires at once." John E. Howard. In charge of the strike at Indiana Harbor, when told of the meeting displayed only slight Interest. "We have 10.000 registered men Sending Money to Europe Hundreds of foreign born residents of Indiana Harbor will testify to the quick and honest foreign exchange service to be had at this bank. Money sent to Europe and to other parts of the world. Call in and ask for our daily list of foreign money prices. FIRST STATE TRUSTS SAVINGS BANK 137ft AND CEDAR. STREETS INDIANA. HARBOR Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 l'S!SSJkfS:t4

he sat!. "Kive thousand came in this morning to renew their registration. Why shou'.d we worry over a meet ins of 300?" Acting Chief Kd O'Donnel ha? taken additional precautions to protect the families of the workers from violence or threats and now has an auto squad patrolling the residence section of the city day and night to check up on reports of threats on the part of the. strikers. So far the squad has found no one disturbed. In order to avoid congregating an order has also been Issued forbidding the holding of dances in Indiana Harbor. The rolice "re checking up on some of j the reports of threats and tn one. casej found that the man who had reported! his family as being threatened was acting as a union picket. The man w3 T , ".onH In" with both sides. SABOTAGE IN ENGLAND BY EAUS E. SELVES fSTAFT CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE LONDON. Sept. 30. An attempt to wreck trains in the railway strike was reported in an official statement given out at the premier's official residence, in Downing street today. " "Some minor acts of sabotage were reported." the announcement said. The railway service Is Improving. The text of the official communique follows: "Railway service is improving." "Testerdays schedules prepared by the railway company is now exceeded. "Some minor acts of sabotage were reported. "There was one case during the night where red and green signals were altered. Fortunately there was no loss of life. "The distribution of food cont'nues satisfactory, largely due to the spirit of the volunteer workers." The fo'.owing official statement was given out by the ministry- of transport: "The railway services are much -improved. Numbers of men are reporting for duty all over the country. The bus and tram workers may strike but if they do the government is empowered to commandeer the lines." EAST CHICAGO MAY ASK FOR STATE TROOPS Indianapolis Paper Carries Dispatch That Militia Is Wanted. In a dispatch to the Indianapolis! News from Kast. Chicago last night appears the following: ! "Representatives of James P. Gcod-j rich. Governor of Indiana, who have! made investigations here will report tO the Governor that a very large proportion of steel workers on strike in liast Chicago are anxious to go to work. It also will be reported that the men are deterred from returning to their jobs through fear of injury not so much to themselves as to their families. Thfse fears, it is said, follow a system of intimidation and threats to the families of men who announce their willingness to work by committees from the, foreign element in the ranks of the strikers. The Governor will be informed by his representatives that the mills in East) Chicago can be started and operated j only by the collection of soldiers, and it j is possible that state troops will be J asked for. The authorities are willing, to protect returning workmen, but th police force is not adequate to handle the situation in the event of disorder. A "move on" order went into effect Sunday morning, persons being ordered not to congregate in the streets but 'o keep moving. This was generaly obeyed, but the citizens points out that there is a vast difference between keeping the men moving and protecting them if they attempt to go back to work. Mayor Will Dadda. "Leo McCormack. mayor of Est Chicago, would not indicate last night what be will do about calling for stat guards. He said he would confer wbh Lewis Barnes, sheriff of Lake county, and in the event the sheriff could supply deputy sheriffs in sufficient number to successfully aid the police department! tn providing protection to the men who wished to return to work and keep down rioting and disorder the troops would not be needed. The general opinion, however, is that Mayor McCormack will ask for state guards. "The situation in East Chicago is different from that in any other part of the Indiana strike district. There are ' more unnaturalized foreigners here. It is a more fertile field for r-d agitators. About 11.00 men are idle and a very large number of them are not on strike. They were forced from tneir jons auer agitators from Chicago addressed meetings and worked on the frclings of the uneducated and unnaturalized foreigners a very largre per cent, of whom are radical socialists end advocates of ''direct action." Without Jteaaon They Say. TractiraUy everything that the strik- . 1. . .1 u.. . V. t . prominent citizens here say the strike is unjust and without reason.' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 30. Two companies of the Ohio National Guard, located in Akron, are being held in readiness today for possible trouble in the eastern Ohio strike area. Others were demobilized last night by order of Gov. Cox. who ordered their mobilization. Col. Benson Hough and other regimental offleers also were excused from duty.

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REPORT A DEFIANCE OF STATE LAW . Certain Allen County Lutheran Schools Said to be Teaching German.

TTIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. io. L,. N. Hinos, state superintendent of public instruction, is investigating a report by Adams county school officials to tho cftect that certain parochial schools maintained by the German Lutheran .-Vrnrrh tn That county are giving in struction in the German lansuag in defiance of the Act of the 1913 legislature prohibiting the teaching of Gorman and prohibiting the use of the German language as a medium of instruction. Mr. Hines has sent a notice to the schools directing their attenticn to tho law and advising them that it is illcgil to use the schools or school organization tc promote education in the German language. The report received by the state superintendent thit that while in some instances teachers had declined to teach ne language in the schools and to give instruction In the German tongue. In othtr instances older Germans assumed an attitude of defiance asainst the law and in favor of continuing the givini rf instruction in German. The method employed by the teachers Is taid to consist of giving insvruction before 9:00 o'clock, contending that thesa periods are not a part of the school day. THE TIMES FINANCIAL COLUMN Allis Chalmers . 45 7 American Car and Foundry 133? American Locomotive American Smelting 73 American Steel Foundry . 42 American Tel. and Tel. 91) J4 Anaconda 65 Atchison 90 Baldwin Locomotive 142 Baltimore and Ohio 33 'i Bethlehem Steel 103 Canadian Pacific . lol'i Central Leather I'io Chesapeake and Ohio oT'j Chicago and North Western 90 Chicago. Mil. and St. Paul 41'i Colorado Fuel 6S' Crucible Steel 24S Delaware and Hudson 105 Erie 1 5 "i General Electric 167 General Motors 261 Illinois Central 33T Lackawanna Steel SS Lehigh Valley 4 7 1 i Midvale Steel 52', N. T. Air Brake 12G'4 New York Central 74 Norfolk and Western 100 Northern Pacific Si3 Ohio Cities Gas 53' Pennsylvania 4 Pressed Steel Car 04 Railway Steel Springs 100 Heading Sl Republic Iron and Steel SS Southern 103. Studebaker 113 Texas Co. 273 rnlon Pacific 123'i V. S. Steel 107i U. S. Steel Prfd. l''i Westinghouse 5" 'i Willys Overland 33 'n Sinclair S31 CHICAGO IilVE STOCK. HOGS Bulk. $15.00 IS. 50: top. $17 -15; heavyweight. $.15.50 18.90: medium weight. $16. 00 ff 17.15: light weigh. $16.00 ft 17.00; liRht lights. $ 15 50 f? 16.75 : heavy packing sows, smooth. $14.75tj 15.25; packir.K sows, rough. $14.25'? 14.75; pigs. $15.00 16. ('. CATTLE Beef SteersCholce and rrime. $1 S.25 18.00 ; medium and good. $11. 26fi 16.25: good and choice. $14. 501? 17.75: common and medium. $8.00 5il.25. Butcher Cattle Heifers. $S.5'l'gl4.75; cows. $5.50 13 50: bulls. $6.7311.75. Canners and Cutters Cows and heifers. $5.50 6.50 ; canner steers. $5.75 fffS.25: veal salves (light and handyweight). $20.00 n 21.25: feeder steers, $7.00-912.30; stocker steers. $5.25 t').00; stocker cows and heifers. $6,001 fc.00; stocker calves. rS.OOW 10.00. Western Ttanse Cattle Beef Pteer3. $11.00 'n : 15.00; cows and hetrers. ? . o a i i-v - VEAL 50 to 60 lbs., IP-? 19c: 70 to go lbs., 21 at 24c; SO to 100 lbs.. 25 26c: fancy. 27c; overweight kidneys, 140 to 175 lbs.. 12,915c. CHICAGO PRODUCE. BUTER Creamery extras, 62c; lsts. 50i32c. EGGS Current receipts. 44 f 43c: ordinary firsts, 43i-i-?44t-c; firsts. 50'tf52 'ic; extras, 53 f. 54c. LIVE POULTRY Turkeys. 30c; chickens, 2426'sc; springs. 25'ic; roossters. ISc; geese, 21c: ducks, 25c. POTATOES New Ohios. $2.40 2.60. TERRIBLE SCENE IN ALABAMA (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MONTGOMERY, Ala . Sept. 30. Rob ert Croskey and Rellus rhifer. nogroes.

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Jams H. Brown has filed suit against Walker D. Illnes, director general of railroads ar,d the C I. &. L.. railroad company for possession of three American box ball alloys with' equipment which had been shipped to him. The value is placej at $1,200. E. G. Sproat Is attorney for the plaintiff. Frank Koznarski, was made defendant in six suits to foreclose mechanics liens which were tiled for the plaintiffs by Attorney E. G. Sproat. The plaintiff s are Julius Krutul. Peter Tanyon. Frank Krakjac, Perry A. Wilson, Frank Stinae and Joseph Winkler". L'ach plaintiff includes the rlaintlffs of the other suits as part defendants with Zoznarskl. The McGraw Tire and Rubber Co.. has filed a suit on account against C. Pv. Klose, et al., through Attorneys Roe and Fetersen of East Chicago. PROBLEM DISCUSSED IN PHOTOPLAY Frank Keenan's third Independent production. "The World Aflame," at the DeLuxe Theatre, Hammond, his been called an epochal play. It treat of a tremendous modern problem from a point never used before, and it is done so vitally, so intimately and witb sue hhumamty, withal, that one is apt to lose sight of the consummate art in fashioning the theme, in taking to heart its tremendous achievement. "The World Aflame" Is as timely to the universal social unrest as "The Battle Cry of Peace" was to its day of military utpreporednesj. AT ms Th attention of the barsrain seekers j of Lake county is called to the great closing out sale of the Wadas Pcpartmnt store. East Chicago, when the entire etock of this store will be plac ed at the mercy of the shoppers of the ('-". t i-ezion . I ; Fifty cents on the dollar will be the j pu.-.s wrd to this great bargain earn!- j val wherein thousands of dollars worth of Ladies. Misses and Children's Coats, i Suits. Presses, Skirts, Waists, Under- ( wear. Hosiery, Shoes, Etc.. as well as i playedravl shrdlu shrdlu ara ara ar Men's Wearing Apparel w ill be d s--posed of without regard to profit and in many cases without regard to price. A huge etock of ready-to-wear goods bought of the Onderson-Drew Co., of : Gary and South Chicago, tn take it at I your own price figures gives the tored , of high prices public a refreshing op- j portunity to knock the "li" out of the J high cost of living. ! The green line cars will be crowded ; with eager buyers Wednesday and there will be a steady stream of shop- j

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fmds of items viiriea, lor mc , ten days Make your plain t come early and get just "h:tt you want, at j practicality your own r'i''-"- j STEEL STRIKE SUMMARY The ninth day of the national st'f 1 Mrike showed little change in the situ-1 ntion generally, except for a continustlon of trains by the operators tn th-v Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania district. There conditions are rapidlv approaching normal in the principal plants, with more men returning to w ork. The confidence of Wall st. in th" strike's effectiveness was aprarent todv when Crucible Steel rose to a new i high level and other steel stocks were steady with slight gains. The extension of the strike to th---I-J-O-U TODAY MAY MORRIS IN The Bondage of Barbara Al?o Mi?s Texas Gulnan. TOMORROW JUNE CAPRICE ! 1 -IX "OH, BOY!" II"- V?"!1 WWmjl f i Jill IIF ,rm gj) PASTIME TODAY VIOLA DANA IN "The Cossack Whip TOMORROW THE MASKED RIDER .''pi m'

p l.i r.t apparently has hail !i li.. .lY.i-t on fie sitiiatir.n l-n ra 1 1 on The plants continue operation, although Mirr.e depitrtnu-nfs are ctippled. Elsewhere, in Cleveland. Younftstortn. Chicago and Wheeling, the situation ' inrlidnKcl with plants for the most part idle. At Wnukegan. 111., strikers have clhed with deputies and state authorities are ready to dispatch state troops to the scene if necessary. r I WTrN A T lONi ! NTWS SFPVICC! CHICAGO. Sept. 30. Authorities oft Waukegan. the North Shore suburb, j where the plant of th-: American Stt.-l J f-iid Wire Co. is located, are holding ! ihemsiles ;n readiness today to cdilj fur root-, v suppress disorder if the) pr-sent lieatening aspect of the strik-ij of steel workers there results in further j outbreaks. Adjt. Gen. Dirkson. of th';, Illinois national guard, is prepared t' rMspatcb troops at once if thy ai ;; r.teded. The ar.Mr.n of the Waukegan au'ho:--Hies w'll be drtermin-d by development which riay follow today in the wake of nn outbreak late yes'c-rday when 2.uf strikers attacked '-o special deputy shrK.'r. most of thvni business men Waukfgan, who wt"1 stationed a; th American Steel end Wire Co.'s riant to ;.rol-;-t non-union men as they left tliv factory after their day's work. The strikers, it is declared, bombarded the deputies with stones, tore their badges off and threatened thci.i with further vioiem-e if they returned. Aside from the situation at Waukegan interest in the steel strike in the Chicago district, centers today in a report that the big tin plate mill of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. at Gi.y is to be closed down within a week, probably not to re-open until the strike in ended. Announcement is made th;,t the tin plate mill will close for repairs, but the activi'y of union organisers among the men is believed to be a "Victor In tre decision to suspend worn at the mill. Estimates todiy are that about 3.Z(''i nn n are working i" the Gary mill-?. J B MB-E ?J M J H K B B E.Za.H 13 S Q Q E u S2 ii ii h ii i: WHERE EVERYBODY GOES'' IRPHEUM THEAT HAMMOND, IND. Today Chas. Millard & Co. Comedy Skit Entitled "ABarnGocdReascn THE TOMLINS In a Toy Shop. MO ONE Y & CAPMAN Two Two Who AmuseART HUGHES Comedian. THE STRATTCNS Wire Novelty. Ullmaxk, Brink & Hearth Comedy and Harmony Singers. New show Monday. Wednesday and. Saturday. Matinee dally at 2: SO p. m. Night continuous 7 to 11. Sunday and holidays con tinuous 2 to 11. DeLuxe Theatre -TODAYFrank Keenan INWorld I 79 Every man. woman and child should see this picture. It deals u ;. r h t h p prpcpnt timg. WEDNESDAY AND THURS. Dorothy Gish -INNobody Home To Introduce the new Wm. Duncan Serial "Smashing Barriers" which runs Friday and Saturday children -will be admitted for 2c only.

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This is about one-fourth of the usual co.nplement of t'.ie plants. About the frame ratio prevails, it is reported, in the mills at Hammond, Sou'h Chicago ar.J Indiana Harbor. Monday's "test of strength." as the ftUempt of the mills to resume pro-rki-lion was regarded, resulted in littl"! change in tho .situation. Neithei the ranks of the union men or the forces of workmen in the mills were materially augmented, and the dead-lock roiua.ns unbroken. The present working forces of the factories arc being constantly augmented by desertions from tho striker;' cause, not in great numbers but in constant dribbles which before long w:ll assume sUesble proportions. All the plants of the V. S. Steel Corporation and its sudsidiaries and ih' big independents in this district and rhe Bethlehem plants in Eastern Pennsylvania continued to operate today. Elsewhere they are fairly well tied up.

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SUGAR BOWLS TO DISAPPEAR t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. Sept. O. The festive sugar bowl is due to disappear again tron tables in public dir.ing rooms in Cn,caS', ns it did during war-time. V. S. Dist. Atty Cljne will corfer with hotel and restaurant owners today and will ask them to remove sugar bowls from their tables as a means if aiilir.jr in the conservation of sugxr and nvr.id-.ng a serious sugar famine in Ch:-. easco. Dealers declare that an actual lack of available suprly and not hoarding is responsible for a shortage of sugar that amounts virtually to a sugar f.imire here. Take The Times an3 keep touch with (he whole vorld. ID Ill ilk Cement Blocks, Lime, Brick, Cement, Torpedo Sand, Crushed Stone, Cement Foundation Floors, All Kinds of Feed All Kinds of Coal for all purposes Teaming Contractors N The Motorists9 Friend will be a mishty big fea

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