Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 97, Hammond, Lake County, 10 October 1919 — Page 1
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lIn the Meantime Elb. Gary, Johnny , e Tighs and Rockefeller Enjoy the Session. (BULLETIN.) By OIOEGE K. KOLilXSf STFF CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE' WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. TUe industrial conference eras forced to adjourn tocUy until Tuesday. 3T. xnaay resolutions and plans for curing: the economic and Industrial uru : lest Uivs 'been submitted to the conference that the committee of fifteen has teen unable to formulate a report en any of them. Wltnout this report ft cm the committee, the conference can ! tike no action. Thomas L. Chadbourne, ir3 chairman, announced that the con. - ference would meet next on Monii rooming. BT GEORGE S. HOLMES f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N . SERVICE) WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. There were indications today as the sixth session of President Wilson's industrial conference got under way that the conference will be a long drawn-out one, lasting probably for weeks. The organized employers group had their "demands" in shape for presentation to the conference after three days of strenuous toil. The composite make-up of the socalled capital or employers group has made it difficult for Chairman Harry E. Wheeler, a Chicago banker, to bring the different elements together. LABOE PX.ATPOR3I COMPUTE. Labor's platform is complete and in J'. alone is enough work'to keep the conference, through its committee of fiff en busy for days. Labor's demands Mnclud the forcing of Judge Elbert H. :;ary. head of the V. S. ?teel corpora-, lion, to arbitrate the present national pteel strike and a list of eleven principles of labor on which the Gompers ijrroup Is prepared to stay and flglit all 'winter. "MAY AJJOTJRN TOR WEEK. It was reported about the conference today that after the employers get the'r program in. the conference may adjourn ,frr a week or ten days in order to give, the committee a chance to work out its! burden. Under the rules the conference j as a whole cannot consider any of thej many resolutions until the committee J !of fifteen brings in a report on them.. ;o the conference apparently faces I (mining." while the fifteen bame .among themselves behind closed doors. Tfce conference may .or may not aceomplish indnstrial peace but it nas already established social pea-e. i - rnembers of the conference sit at the j 'same table literally. regard ,J' JfTOUpS. QUITS A SOCIETT EVENT it a mall table in the beautiful nnex of the Tan-American Union, sat ljudge Elbert H. Gary, head of the t'n't.d States Steel Corporation. JudKe T,arv munched a delicate Mt or rrencn r.i?trv with evident relish. Across from him. nibbling a chocolate eclair, at Michael Tlghe, president of t ne Amalgamated Association of Tin, Iron j nd Steel Workers, wnose memDers m; engaged in bitterly fighting Mr. Gary in j the rresent steel strike. The judg-i ca:l-j ed him "Mike.- and they told eacn, other funny stories of the steel stories j cf long ago. ' ! Cavin McXab. of San Francisco, was; the only other occupant of the table. 1 T3ET WATCH GOIEHSH. A'. hile Gary and Tighe exchanged I reminiscences. Jhn D. Rockefeller. J...; and Frank Morrison, secretary of th; A. F. of L., leaned over a stone parapet , in the court yard and conversed oag ! and earnestly as they watched the gold-' f.jh playing in the small pool below! them. ! Two hours later Mr. Rockefeller intro- ; duced a resolution directed at the pr ir.- : Ciple of international trades unionism and in favor of individual settlement of; Industrial disputes, embracing the com-) pany union idea. ! At another table sat H. B. Endico't t. noted Massachusetts shoe manufactur-i ex. Mrs. Sarah Cor.boy. of the women; text'le workers; Ida M. Tarbe!.. wno-e vritir.gs some months ago ripped the months ago ripped the Standard Oil company wide open and C. c narrett. a diminutive George farmer, who has charged both capital and labor In the present conference with trying to pa?s the buck" end make the farmer the goat. Other tables held similar groups. For everal hours they talked amieabTy and tticn with aprarent regret returned to the hal of the Americas to resume fighting where they left off.
Noted Flyer Coming to Hammond - . 3 ft Jpc .wis tvfl B7 r ".vvj AVIATOR HCLLI.nSWORTH Aviator V. Price Hol'.ingswrorth reported dead, will be in Hammond tomorrow and Sunday with his own t.h:p to show that he is very much alive. He was formerly army Instructor at Wilbur Wright Field, Daytan, Ohio. Love F4e!d. Dullas. Texas, where he had charge of the finishing board that passed on all flying- officers, transfer red from one stage to another and determined on fitr.ess of all new tnstrucorn. Holllngsworth has Just completed a three months tour of Indiana and Michigan cities during which time he has carried mote than 1,000 passengers without a single accident. He has staged exhibitions at Fairs, etc. feme of the lairs were Ann Aroor fair, liar- I ry County Fair, Hastings. Mich.. Gay iDrd. Mich., etc. Hoilingsworth In all his ftyirig has never had a fall nor ! a serious accident. Hi? total flying j experience covers a period cf three j years and his total hours In the air ex- j c"ed l.S"A . a record few fl rs in this i country can b--;ist Ot. J. FARKOC BOUND OVER AT WHITING Whiting Man Who Killed Wif 's Father, Sent to Criminal Court. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! WHITING. Ind.. Oct. 10. Joseph Farkoc, charged with stabbing his fath- j er-in-law. John Toth. to doath, was held to the criminal court on the charge of murder. He a; taken to Crown Point . ht Sheriff low Kflme9. Stevfe Gvaldi as i aVvituess was placed under $1,000 bonds. ! ftn(J beinK unalll(, to furnish these was' i!so taken to Crown Point. The trouble between Farko and Toth seems to have been money matters. Both ; men hnv their families still in Hungary, for where Toth was to Ie.ive in i a few dys. It in said that the two men : v-re saving their money together and the division of their s-ivings was the; ! bene of contention. Toth died instantly, i sj striouly was he wounded.
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DPA T.TV "RO A T?T ! j ; international" NEWS service. I KOKuM' , Ind.. Uctoi.er It Action : to relieve- h'vusu.g cond.tvn- thrcueh- ' fjUt th state wa asal.cl at the c, (S. ; j session of the Indiana real estat ' s, ion convention here . M uncie w as i t.host.n for th. j,-,, Coi-ve-tion G f;hart of Rokomo. was elected i :ireMd(nt and L. B. Bovd of Gary one ! r, t,jft vice.re(dPnt. L F D v- ; ' ' ' I" ' ' . , " n,iroed Ut th bc'ard o: Surnu'!' 1 t . mY-r-n & "r IX ii i. UXV.ii.ij t PPCTe'WTWrXrm ! XiXLiOXjiN X XU JliJM 1 Kesciuinar her husband's actions of "larpin and scolding her on one of j the public streets in Hammond last j July. Mis. Edna E!dridge has decided j to ask for a divorce. Attorney Ouy n..e meu ner comp.amt m the Hammona superior court today. It states tn.il iney were married November It 191! and that they lived together only about ten months. August 1 yhe says, he once more struck and abused her and that on previous occasions hei had come home intoxicated. She wishes to resume her maiden name. Edna Hoin. and also asks for $1,000 alimony and $15 per week support money during the time the euit is pending.
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Blockade of Germany Is Ordered BY NXWTON C. PARXE STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE ' PAK5S, Oct. 10. The blockade or ; Germany resulting from the refusal of ; Gen. Von dcr Goltz to withdraw his f troops from the Baltic provinces will be rut Into effect at onre. i The surrrnv? council todsy directed the reparations commission Immediate- i !y to put pressure uron Germany to prevent raw- materials from enterir.sp the I country urtil the dispute invotxins tbe Baltic district Is settled. A new r.ote to Germany was tenia- ' tively approod and may be sent ta"cr- i !:n tnr.iirht. Th council was informed that despite denials. Von der Goltz has, teen receiving supplies from Prussia: and that his forces ha? b?n strength- ; ened b officers recruited through the , German war office. 10 HAVE PARK West Hammond Is poing after its soldiers and sailors memorial park in a business HKe manner anu n cvcvled that the bonds will have been sold the land purchased and all details arranged to begin erecting the memorial building as s ,k. ....-aton t flf next Spring . . . v. - ,..,r--. f tv West Ham - mond city council last night an ordina nee was passed authorizing Mayor Kamradt to appoint a park commission j consisting o: five n-.err.b-ys to be ap- ! . . , .i --,., nr proved later ty u.nu. v. One of . the members will serve until next Ap- j ril. Twi. more will serve until April ' is;i, while the remaining two will j ferve until April 3. 1313. Vacancies w;u te filled by appointment at each xpi ration . The board cf commissioners will bo In ih.Tge of the nw park and all the others which the city may iaiei . Tuire. They will employ the help, j purchase the necessary equipment and make the rules and regulations governing the parks and play grounds. I They can contract for work and mater- , I ial up to S500 direct and above that ! ! amount they must aaveriise iur u.uo. A report will be rendrd quarterly to j the council . ' j Mayor Kamradt has not announced t hi. selections but it Is understood that i practically al! of the- obstacle., have I now been removed which stood in the w.-ij of the city acquiring the tract whicbis 'c be parker. Several bond t 'hvokers have already made inquiries j and ar? u;r to purchase the entire I issue of J4".00o as soon as It is offered j for sale . LAKE CO. TEACHERS GET LIFE LICENSES Hammond and Gary Teachrs are Honored at . Indianapolis. INDIAXAi'OLIS. Ind.. Oct. 10. Much of the power of the state board I of education would be abolished under a' pla" proposed at a meeting of the state; boapd- nhlch would sive local Fcho1 authorities jurisdiction in the matter cf sc,cclion of ,oxt books- This stpP w ou'd aV rt sohol board shortages suth as now hlns cxPcrlenccd- 11 was bcliexed. The board approved the appoSntment f va 1,sjs'a ll f'" ing committee hen Jed by Cxifford t. t-n-derburg. Huntington, county superintendent of schools. Huntington College as among schools tentatively approv- ! ed under the terms of the new teacher training law. KUanor Baptist. Hammond. was amonp teachers granted life sta'e certificates. Elementary life licenses were granted to Imogene Conner, Wabash and Mary Werner. Gary. The Michigan life license of Fauline Wolkenste.n. Gary, was validated for Indiana, . THE PLUNGE OF DEATH The Flunge of Dath will be shown in the I'xI.uxe theatre Serial Episode No. 2. of "Smashing Bairlers." today. t, i. sairf to be vcrv exciting and it -sn train nlur.sine throueri a 1 trestle weakened by the flood. Take The Times Mict kep touch with -he whole world
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State Troops At Indiana Harbor Take Women Pickets In Custody Today. An attempted parade of about three hundred women in Indiana Harbor last night about eight! o'clock caused the most excitement j since the state troops have arriven J in the city. The women, wives and relatives i j of the strikers, gathered at the j ! Auaitonum DunGir.g m whicn ; strike headquarters are located j and after obtaining v a number of j picket badges began to form a parade. The police rr-' up the formation before the par:ide began but about thirty i of the women were on hand again this j morning to help with picket duty. They j were taken into custody by the soldiers ! and after being taken to the police sta1 tion were orderjsd to return to their : homes and say there. Oeneral Smith a J r.. num screen tnai no wonmu would be used as pickets soon after the troops arrived The women wer in a I righting frame of mini and asserted that they would be on the streets this I . ... , .v,.,.. MI icriiuun hi luur u inn ft imc uiuj.'ihu strong. The women will hold a mass ! meeting in the Auditorium buildinc this afternoon at which time ail plans will ' be discussed. . ftwflri,. n rhnre of the strike. fatd that the women had no authority from strike headquarters to wear nicket badees and that thoe which were now in the possession of women j had been obtaired from husbands or, relatives. "Strikers will abide by the! agreement betw een General Smith and j myself concerning numbers and sex of pickets," asserted Mr. Howard. Eight arrests were made yesterday and this mornins hy the military authorities. Three of the men were ar-, rested for treating a disturbance and I (Continued on page nine POTENTATE TO . VISIT HIS AIDES Qrk ! Potentate William Earle of fhrine starts Saturday morning at Si" .lock on a tour of the other cities in- j eluded under. his Jurisdiction. He will he acompanied by George Iocklin, R. ! H. McHie and E.J. Harrison of Ham J 1- J i '""I'll, iv. i... rn.ii ii ui mi - : J . Smith of Hcbart . Mr. Earle has a deputy potentate tt Chesterton. LaForte. South Bend. Mishawaka. Knox. Bourban, Klkhart and Goshen and ach of these places will be visited before the party returns Sunday evening. Girl Sent by Serbia to Attend College Here fVid& : MISS M TS A VKI.JITCII One of ten girls sent by Serbia to study in our colleges is Miss Militsa Veliitch. They arrived recently in New York and the sliipnews rer.e.rters
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are authority for the statement that i "We are her" to tir.d out what caused each and every (.n :.- as pretty a 'he strike and to ascertain tht? true workMi s Velj-tc!-.. The)- ( t h - reporters) pus ndition in th mills. No dt finite predict a fluttering of male hearty in j program has been mapned out. but
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Group of strike pickets in East Chicago and mibtiamen patrolling street.
With the city under martial law, peace once more reiarss in East Ch:ajro, Ind. Strike pickets, are still at their posts, but tny are not cn-pag-inp: m violence, or acivooatinp it. The lower photo shows how little groups of militiamen patrol the streets.
I SENATE QUIZ BEGINS TODAY IN PITTSBURG Senate Committee Starts Out to Get a Close-Up View of Strike. (BTJIjJjETrN.) MNTTR NATIONAL NEWS SfRVICE' i PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 10 Just ft Senators Kenyon and McKeUar of the l steel strike Investigating- commission "tepped from an automobile at the gatea " " oi mam D street car. The senators were rashod into the offices of the plant while the i state constabulary rushed tne car ana ; a.tTBBta a. nnmoer ox iiueiKaeis. . . v.v Vtt- .Ha Ihootlnff. Senator Phlpps and Sterling' arrived at the plant everal minute earlier. , 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! FITTSHCKGH. Fa.. Oct in. The senLe investigation into the nation-wide steel strike- was brougnt into the heart ef the steel country today when four tannhfrs of trie commii tee n education i and labor arrived h. re from Washington ; j to "aaot-rtain the working conditions: within sight of the mills. I Tie probers who m lived this morn ing ew re Chairman W. S. Kenyon I Iow a. L. C. rhir-ps of Colorado. V. D. McKellar of Tc nne.-,see, a'ld Thomas i Sterling of South Dakota. Senator W a 1 s h of Massachusetts. ! member of the committee, could not! leave Washington last night. He is e.-j pected to arrive here today or tonight. j Immediately after breakfast the mem- i bers started for the mill sections, where'; they said they would get a clos?-up view! of conditions. Today's investigation, j they said, would be informal and unoffi- ! cial. The largest mill centers were to ! be visited. J A stenographer accompanied the party, j it being the intention to take testimony j in the mills visited. j Although no definte rrogram has been mapped out for their visit here, which will last until Sunday nU-hl, the scnators said they probably would hold hear- 1 ings here. They expected to go to Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday. "We came here to make a quiet investigatiem." said Chairman Kenyon. He made it plain tnat tr.e party eiiti not wish ; to be bothered by strike officials, steel clficiais. or anybody e-lse. "We will mak th" investig.it ion alone," ho said. "We expert to obtain important formation here and will thorough!) vestiKate every angle of th" strike ln-in-s.-i: i Senator rh:rpp
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! injured, said a dispatch receixed at tl'ilr American Flying Club today. Wales and Ooldsborough were caught I - in a sr.ow-storm nnr! y.Ti.Li I. txk. rf -r.. ,1, top of the mountain. i The machine rolled dow n the mountamside into a deep snow drift. Goldsborough although badly hurt. "crawled several miles to the Paulson I ranch for aid. Searchers went ha-k and J found Wales, but h'nas dead before IMS' arrived. j Wales and Gohlborouph wi using! ; a I't-Raveland Four machine, driven by j n 4uG-horsepo ( r Eilx rty n 1
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T John Gindt at St. Margarets Hospital With Both of His Legs Broken. John Gindt, a lineman for the Chicago Telephone, company, was badly injured Wednesday afternoon while at work on Hoffman street, just east of Columbia avenue. G;ndt had climbed a po'e to repair .ome wires when without warning the prole broke off at the bottom earr; ing Gindt with it to the grojnd. j He was rushed to St. Margaret hog- . pi'al in the police patrol where it was found that b tl-. of his !cr. weie broKnd he was injured in"rna!ly. MARK SING LAUNDRY has rp-epcr,d and is now read for busi- I nonrtun St.. phone H-.mnicnd j I Advert: se in lhe Ti:;ies afid aci-j rertise again. Results .come with constant effort.
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U. S. Steel Co. Was Planning 8-Hour Day Before Strike Broke. (BUtlXTIK.) Announcement was made to newspaper men at the military conference with reporters in Gary this morning that a stockade was to be built for the military prisoners which now number almost 100. This is in accordance with military custom and to obviate the necessity of taking prisoners to the Crown Point fail. The stockade will be built in Gary so that it can be guarded by United tates troops. Further activity against the radicals is planned by the military. That it was the plan of the officials of the United States Steel Corporation to establish an eight hour day in the Gary mills, long before the strike went into effect nearly three weeks ago, is the information that was gained from an authentic scource this morning and when the workmen started to talk strike, the officials then decided to abolish the idea for the time being at least. It is known that the office force were working on an eight hour payroll which would have gone into effect the corning new vear. I r. .WTT..e. i - " .j aaa mjLxn, j Yesterday did not bring on any nj ticeable ,har.g ir the. Gary strike sltu- ; a tion and from all outward aprearance.. lit stiu umains j.ractically the same j hoicsale numbers of arrests are belne made r.y the military authorities and ! dozens are bemg quizzed. The coumv j jai! at Crown Point is practicaly full I of strike prisoners and If the "radlcaW ; will make an -ffort to make good their I threats in an attempted jail delivery ! ?-hriff Barnes says he wil have every, i thing ready for them. Working hand In i hand the military, countv. ittate an t government authorities are still continuing their drive to suppress the red element which has been unearthed ir. this city which is said is the center of activity for the radicals. Sensational developments are expected within tVnext forty-eight hours. STEEL CO. OrriCIAiS PX.EASXO. Today the officials of the st"el comjTany are jubilant and state that th tide has rh.ingt d. This morning thr I v'as an ox -"ordinary large number of n en that went back to work in the miM j and nt rate th,,v are comin. ba.,. jit wil! be oniy a short time but what ......s w.u t.e o-ratmc almost notany officials are showing their ir.d.' pendenly in taking some of the strike balk to work is sV.wn by the fact thn t the. th.ir hi- Q ,,wkv r .u. . . ..... . iiuiiurvi Iiel ers were refused their old jobs and were told that if tlvy really wanted to go bao kto w-.rk they would find them a Job out in the yards as laborers. STREET CASS ARE CROWDED. The pres'-ncf of the military forces is already being frit in Gary and ha--greatly aided the resumption of operation on a material scaie. During the f.rst two days .,f the troops arrival in the city, ihere wis some uncertainty It: evidenco as to what the workers wer ! going to do, but now that tiiey h.av ( b'-en assured absolute protection the i arc now going in and coming cut of ! th mills without fear. Street rats, twhich a week ago were practically d -j sorted, are now crowded with workmen and the street car company soon ex- . pects to resune their former schedule, j SPYCHA1SKI IN EVIDENCE, j Alderman Frank Spychalslu. who i- ; now out on $50i bonds for inciting -i ; riot and night heforre-iast wa brough' j before the military authorities for hn- ! ing taken an active part in a "red ' j meeting last night wh-n he and Alder- , man Mat Creskociok voted against, an : i mergency clause appropriating JILSfO from the general fund to th police fund tc. pay the special police sworn In during the strike. This will delay the payment of the special police for a persoi cf two weeks. While Aldr:nan Cr..ivocick has not bcci brought beffire thJ military authorit.es, it is reported thv. he is under stir eilar.ee. It was h-'irned ti;at the report tint, lour s hot s were, fired at a pa'rcl of fUe t-edd'-rs in th vicinity of Tw enty-fit st a c. and Ellsworth st. nigb.i before last is erroiit ou-'. It is stated that the shots "ere f.r'-d by Depu'y ?hen(f Jurcich In an t-tfort to capture an alleged intimioator. The shooting was th" result of plan put in effect by int tpenc rs in an effort 'o capture the rv- : to ha int undated the we-rk-i ruen. who report eel , army auibori'ies Tuesday night that he bad been ihrraf-enc-d with i-.ith if he didn't go to Kurnr; hail and sign up. How Jong tne troops are to rmn r
in Gary Is an uncertainty. With t! " (Contirtu Bae nine.)