Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 1 April 1922 — Page 1

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Secretary of State Board of Health OK's Big Project ISPECIAL TO THE TIHESl CROWN POINT, Ind., April 1. Xh finest tuberculosts sanatorium in the state and one of the best in the country is to be built this year a -nile north of Crown Point. The :.ns have been approved by Dr. r. K. Hurty, secretary of the state oard of health. 3 The county trearurer already has he money to pay for the project. . Bids -will toe opened Monday by , 1 e county commissioners and Ji . ey are satisfactory, the contracts i!l be let and actual construction fegun, The sanitorium is to be ,impleted this fall. . BL1LD FOR THE FUTURE. The people voted for the saniorigin at the 1918 election and subsquently ordered the county to Ssj9 bonds for $100,000 and J300.000 1 1 1 spectively. The bonds have been ' o'd. the moneV is on hand, and the 'anltorlum must be built. , The county commissioners have invited the Manufacturers' Asocia.toni to send a committee to the county seat Monday to be present, it the opening of bids and to advise ' with the board on the- awarding: of j he' contracts. The fact of the matter is that the Wnty is at last 'building: for the pure. The commissioners have pny examples of costly economy. 'Ah a crowded courthouse and S?wded jail at Cdown Point, a wde3 poor farm, a crowded court Ijse at Hammond and over-taxed jilities everywhere, the comm!s.oners see the falacy of skimping : at the expense of prcviding proper facilities for the work to be done. ' Every time the county builds anything it Is too big, according to the lemonrtrar.css that are made. The .panty co-jrthouse was too bis vien it was built but the day the ' ounty moved Into the new building: . t was to smatl and today the worn of the .various departments of the ounty government are. hampered, 'ake for example the shameful quarters in which the. county iriminal court is held. APPROVED BV EXPERTS. ' The plans for the tuberculosis natorium has been approved by , Af. National Tuberculosis Asociaf Ion, the State Board of Accounts, 'he State Board of Health, the State Board of Charities, and the Lake :ounty Medical Society and the Lake County Anti -Tuberculosis Associaticn. HISTORY OF PROJECT. After several years of agitation the sentiment for a tuberculosis i anatorium crystaiired in 1918 when petition signed by nearly 400 people was presented to the board of ; founty commissioners requesting that the county build an institution o take care of the victims of the rhite- plague. The commissioners put the issue ? n the ballot that year and it car- )!!! by a large majority. With its pproval of the project the voters t , tithorized a bond issue of $100,000. These bonds were sold March 18, "09. and netted a premium of $1,ii. C-t of this fund of $101,355 the ommissioners purchased - 104 1-2 : cres of land north of Crown Point 'rem F. B. Struebig and B. F. Hayes for $10. 230.50. James Coleman of Chicago was stnployed as the architect. Mr. oleman drafted a set of plans hich were submitted to the comjssioners who called In the Lake nty Anti-Tuberculosis Socity the Lake County Medical SoThese societies in turn eailr. T. B. Kidner, H institutional etary of the National TubercuAssociation, with headquarters 10 Seventh, aenue. New York Mr. Kldner objected to the plans as submitted by the architect and J begged to offer suggestions to the commissioners. The b.oard of comMissioners instructed 'the architect to draft a new set of plans and specifications to meet the approval f tile State Board of Health, the e Board of Accounts, the Lake i.ty Anti-Tuberculosis Society. Lake County Medical Society Mr. Kidner. fter it was decided to change "plans Mr. Kidner gave an estitte- of the cost of the sanatorium. . said it would cost about $450,000. re Lake County Anti-Tuberculosis ejiety thereupon filed another pet;o for an additional bond Issue . rd this was presented to the votrm at the primary in 1920. The otcra approved of the additional . or.d Issue which amounted to 300,000. The bonds were issued and . eld at a premium and today the " ounty treasurer has a fund of ."iSS, 842.53 for the sanitorium build- ' ig project. K OTERO fS BIDS. A. score -of bids have ibeen re :Ked. The engineer's" estimate fot ,ne administration building, inrmarles and the service and power ullding is $160,000, tncludln.tr conecting tunnels. The estimate on a!enta' cavilion. "A." is I1S.0I3.J )Cr.d on patients' pavilion, "B.'' $16,D'.O. The administration ' building, inf . marles and the power and service oi.Ilding are, large enough to take (Continued on pa&e taree.)

Did You Hear That

"JUGGY" JORXXOC has changed his nickname to "Puggy" Jordan. JIM WANG MICHELSTETTER. writes from 6alt Lake City that the bathing is fine. ROT COXDE and Bodie almost had a pie-eating contest the other night. For further Information ask l i ed Laja. MACE ROBERTS. Hammond boxer plans gym training for business men In his muscle factory at 640 Calumet avenue. KIWANIANS will leave for Toronto soon to attend the International convention. George Geyer and B'll McAleer are going. .13. J. SWEENEY,) 613 Ingraham ave., West Hammond, gets patent covering safety cover and retainer lor sectional flue expander. N. J. CHA if KEN, shoe dealer for 13 years at State Line and Douglas streets, moves to his own building at State Line and Condit street. BILL LOVE, candidate for state representative, says" that the next legislature will not without a little love mond. be complete from Ham THH Hammond Kiwanis club proposes to offer prizes to children for the best gardens. This la to encourage the city beautiful and the kiddies. REV. J. C. O RANGER will conduct a series of genuine o. t. evangelistic meetings at the First Baptist church in Hammond starting tomorrow .evening. BA-TtTON", employe of Bunnell, hits man at Hohman and Fayette streets at 2 a. m. when victim steps in front of Barton's car. jN'o report of man's identity. BEGINNING today and lasting until next Saturday will be National Baseball Week. Stores arc showing goods of all kinds for players, umpires, mascots and fans. C. C. BONHAM keeps an apprehensive eye on the weather reports as the tim draws nigh for him to take hi annual day off to "witness the opening game of the White Sox. WALTER BIELEFELD, treasurer of the Republican county central committee, has aAsessed each candidate sums ranging from .t50 to S2o0 for expenses of the campaign"WHY screen your porches against mosquitoes?" queries Atty. L. L. Bomberger. "Put up bird houses around your home and you won't find a mosquito on the place next summer." $500. THAT'S amount of damage suffered by Stearns auto that turned last night on Indianapolis blvd., Robey. Owned by Chicago party. Crossed wires, started blaze, says Officer Adam Funk. WE know a girl, right here in The Times office, too, who has the world beat for birthdays. This young lady has had a birthday that lasted a week and it isn't over yet. Many happy returns. CLARENCE STARKEY, 602 Wilcox avenue, continues search for brother, James Starkey, who disappeared last October with thraat he would throw himself in lake. Starkey left wife and' two children. TOUNG woman, Indiana avenue rcOnt, falls in faint on Hohman and Ogden streets at 11 p. m. last night. She's given first aid by Mil ton Dermody and A. Snyder, o0 Carroll street. Then taken home. THE EETZ GIRLS have decided to use the big bus instead of private cars for hauling the team and fans to their lost basketball game at LUue Island this evening. The bus leaves the court house at 6:30 o'clock. INJURED. Charles Ragcneskl, East Chicago .occupant of auto driven by E. J. Ward, is slightly in jured when Ward's car collides with machine driven by H- C. Long, lol Waltham St., at Condit and Stat Line streets. TWO local bowlers in a South Bend alley bet $100 on games and won. Then they, were afraid to leave for tear they'd be followed and robSei. They had to keep on bowling unu a policeman Bterred in. Then they went out -with the cop. MILK-FED children. They're at Wallace school. Bill Moore, of Room 11, says his class will challenge any grade in any school in the city to a milk drinking contest. Room 11 S away with 20 qurts a day. Miss Jackson is the teacher. THE youngest campaigner in Lake county is Little Jimmy Dyer, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dyer. Jimmy Insists on canvassing the neighborhood daily and giving the friendly housewives his father's campaign cards. REGARDING the campaign against the short skirt the Indianapolis News says that some of the experienced yearling debs and society matrons have come out flatfooted and knock kneed, according to a Hammond man who visited the capital. ABOUT THE SICK: Fred C. Dietrich, board of works member, baker is on road to recovery after serious attack cf pneumonia: John E. Fitzgerald, banker, recuperatmr

Former Emperor Is Dead

'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE r LONDON. April 1. Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary died today at Funchal. Materia, after an illness of several weeks, according to a Reuter dispatch received here. Death came after a night which gave a false hope of life. The inflammation in the lungs had subsided. Physicians at his bedside stated at dawn that his chances were better than they had been any time since his illness became critical. Then came a relapse and the end. : START WORK ON L Whiting's New Junior High School Construction About to Begin. WHITING, IND., April. 1 The con struction work on the New Junior high school and Steglitz Park, Wilcox school will probably be started Monday morning. The Board of Education has recently sold the bonds for the new school buildings and improvements to Fletcher & Co., of Indianapolis, at a large premium. They also completed the signing of the contracts this week, with the English Eros., of Champaign, 111., who have secured the contracts for the new buildings and other improvements that will make the Whiting school building system one of the best In the state. A new central heating system will also be installed. The Wilcox school and the heating unit will be ready by September 1st. The gymnasiums will also be ready by that time and the Junior high school building will be ready by January 1, 1923. ' FILES BANKRUPTCY PAPERS Harry Hostetter, of Knox, Ind., today filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court at Hammond. Hostetter recently retired as proprietor of a pool room, but Oils debts still pursued him. He attempted to make ji assignment of his few assets for the benefit of the creditors but they refused to ac cept such a settlement. He lists his debts at $2,015.79 and his assets at $S1.33. He claims exemption for $36.32 of his assets. ' sits up in bed as daughter, Laura, read to him. Maj-or Brown, 111 two days, is back at desk. ALL Leglonaires interested in the service drive are requested by Ralph Thorsn, chairman of the drive to meet at Legion Hall, 220 State St., Sunday afternoon at 2. Ca. plains will be appointed for each district. Every citizen of Hammond Is Invited to co-operate in this drive. THE favorite fish yarn of Deputy Sheriff Jake Shurman is the oie which deals with the time about thirty years ago in Wisconsin when ho and his dad scooped up two gunny sacks full of eels from a stretch of back-water. The els were smoked and furnished food for two years. ELLIOTT CONROY of Hammond Is being featured at the Orpheum teater in Gary. Elliott is leader of the orcht-stra and his violin solos have become so poular that they are the best attraction the house has to offer' Manager Hankenson predicts a future for the young violinist. DR. ADA E. SCHWEITZER, director of Child Hygiene in the Indiana State Board of Health, leaves Hammond tomorrow for Rochester, Minn., and Minneapolis where she will attend the American Conference of Clinical Medicine. Her staff will remain in Hammond next week, continuing the work of inspecting school children. THE government compelled the county to spend millions of dollars for draw-bridges across the Grand Calumet river and the canal. The bridges were turned over to the cities. The cities are supposed to keep them in condition. Wonder what would happen if they tried to raise the Calumet avenue bridge? The city should raise each bridge once a month to keep It in shape. NEWELL ROBBINS has succeeded Harry Jportt as manager of Mennett's Smoke Shop. Mr. Ports, one of the most popular cigar salesmen in the city, has resigned to engage in other bMainess. Harry has rundreds of friends In Hammond. His successor is an enterprising young man and a comer. ALL officers of Hammond Building Loan & Savings Association are re-elected at 34th annual meeting. Report of this, the oldest association in Lake county, shows increase in 1921 of 136 share holders ano 3.S26 shares. Assets boosted from $1,308,590 to $1.5o3.9jS. Nine aud twelve year savings plan meet phenomenal success, says A. F. W Redder, association secretary.

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GEN HA1 IS OUT OF THE SERVICE

Native of Lake County Closes 36 Years in Long Distinguished Work WASHINGTON. April 1. Major General William G. Haan, president of the army classification board, retired yesterday from active service in the army after a continuous military career of more than thirty-six years. Major General Haan was born near Crown Point, Ind., October 4, 1863, and was graduated from the United States Military Academy 'n 1880. He Is a brother of Nicholas Haan of Hammond. His early service was with the artillery and coast artillery units. He served in Cuba and in the Philippines from 1138 to 1901, and three times was recom mended for brevets "for conspicuous conduct in action." He served on the general staff from 1903 to 1306 and was chief of staff for the eastern department for a time. General Haan was appointed commanderof the 57th field artillery brigade at Cainp MacArthur, Tes., in 1317. As a brigadier-general, he commanded the 32U division in three manor offensives in France, the Marne to Vesle, Oise-Aisne and Meuse-Argonne. WITH ARMY OF OCCUPATION The general wti commander of the 7th army corps as a part of the army of occupation in Germany in 1918 and part of 1819, returning to the United States in May, 1919. For his services in the world war. General Haan was decorated with the French War Cross With Palms, the French Legion of Honor medal snd the American Distinguished Service medal. The citation for the last named decoration says he took a prominent part in the Meuse-Argonne and In the brilliant and uceseful attack against Cote Dame Marie, covering several days, which deprived the enemy of the key point cf the position. ' f ' Soon after his return from Europe, General Haan visited his old home in Lake county, it being his flrt visit in forty years. He was the principal figure of an observance in honor of the aoldier dead of the nation. Later, he was made president of the army classification board. STARES STILL IS NO APRILFOOL JOKE Judge Cleveland Sentences Hootch Maker to Penal Farm. April fool: It's April fool ever yday for li quor law violators arraigned before Judge Henry Cleveland in city court. "I was living in the ice house, your honor. It's cold there. I wanted to keep warm. So I made a little hooch just for myself." That's what W. E. Staples tola the court this morning. Staples was nabbed last night by police who found a still and several gallons of moonshine at Staple's quarters in Ice House No. 3 north Hammond. "Tou were cold. You made it just for yourself. Well, you made it, didn't you? And it's against the law, isn't it? And you're expecting me to pronounce a heavy sentence on you ami then say "April Fool," and suspend It, aren't you? Well. April ' Fool, the joke's on jou. $10o and costs and 35 days on the rfcnal farm. Next case!" That from Judge Cleveland. "Oh Judge! That's no joke. Tahfs a joil "' ' But Staples didn't get a chance to say more for Bailiff Meu scon pinned .the nippers on him. Continuing their mopping-up campaign to eradicate home hooch, outtits, police this mornin-r got another moonshine spring when thy called on Bob Michaelevich. Ht 1CU Fields tee., at 3 a m. "And we're just warming to th.i Job," said Chief Bunde this morning. 'To fore tha boys get througri It will be hardtr to set a r!nk of vhite mule in this t'jwn than " The figure wasn't completed. In fact Chief Bunde says he is 'going to make the towri so dry that Chief Nill of the fire department won't be able to bleep nights for fear fire will start from spontaneous cimbustlon or perhaps from sulphurous expelttves of disappointed hooch makers. Police making the rad ori Michalevich's place this morning were:. Captain ' Rimbaoh. Sergeants Carlson and Hoflbeck and Officers Hart, Sikorskl, Mroz and Funk. Some of the boys resenting the appelatlon of "sponge squad", which true to that nick name has been sopping up the Illicit moonshine bustnese with greater absorption than ever before, may be cheered by the title of "eponge escouade." ' That's French, Herbert, and hereafter' the moppers-up will be called the "eponge escouade." By the wal, Bill, have you got a chew on your hip?

INSULL REFUSES TO CONFIRM THE REPORT

(ET TIMES STAFF REPORTER.) CHICAGO. 111., April 1. Samuel Insull, president of the Commonwealth Edison Co., when interviewed today refused to deny or confirm the report current In Hammond that the proposed power plant which Is to be built on the lake front just across the state line in Hammond is to furnish power for the electrification of railroads entering Chicago. ''I have' no idea who our Customers will be. The plant has been planned with the future growth of the Calumet region in mind," said Mr. Insull. "We will have power for sale," was his reply to the question whether the railroads would be supplied if they desired It. Construction of the power plant

PLANS OUT FOR NEW EDISON POWER PLANT

CHICAGO, April 1. A new Commonwealth Edison Co. power plant, costing between seven and ten million dollars, is under construction in North Hammond in the Calumet district, according to Samuel Insull, president of the company. The new plant will be an addition to the power house erected last win

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(BULLETINS.) (INTERNATIONAL KEW5 SERVICE1 PLATTSBUKO, N. Y, April 1. Fire early today destroyed several stores In the-main business section. Smoke and water caused heavy damages in nearby buildings. The total damage was estimated at $300,000. BCLLETIX9. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, April 1. Near freezing weather, which brought an end to unusually hevay rainfalls in Indiana, aided today In checking floods throughout the state. Many streams reached the highest point since the 1913 flood, but today they began to recede and fears of disastrous high waters were dispelled. BI'1XETI") INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WILKE3BARRE, Pa, April 1. The start of the coal strike brings with it one condition that may be an annoyance later. Thousands of men of fcreign birth are looking eastward and planning to return to Europe. Manr'TviH not return Czechs find Lithuanians and Poles are planning a groat exodus from the anthricite resrion. FEW DELINQUENTS West Hammond's list of delinquent taxpayers Is smaller this year than ever before. This statement was made yesterflay by City Clerk Andrew Stachowlci on his return from Chicago where he had been making the city's annual settlement with the county. He had just finished the work of collecting special assessments on street and sewer improvements. There were only a few delinquents on the special assessments and these were for the most part property owners who do not live in West Hammond. They purchased lots years ago during the town's first boom and have paid little attention to them since. , - Peter Anker, tax collector for Thornton township had the surprise of his career when he visited West Hammond in making his rounds this year. Instead of the poor collections which have attended the hard times in other parts of the township he found collections better than ever before. Practirall.v all taxes were paid on the first collection date. ST. DISCUSSED AT MEET Property owners of West Hammond are strong for the proposed street Improvements which ere outlined- in The Times last night and which were discussed at a public meeting last evening at the Wentworth school. Practically two-third3 of the taxpayers affected by the improvements were at the meeting and not a word of opposition was voiced although the new pavements will cost the city in the neighborhood of $316,000 according to the estimates

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which is destined to be the largest in the world was placed at an indefinite time in the future by the utility head. He said his company had no idea as to when the project would be put through. Asked if it would be within five years he replied that he did not presume so. He explained tht the company was now spending between seven and ten millions of dollars doubling the horsepower of the Calumet plant in South Chicago and that further additions to this plant weru possible. The Indiana purchane, he insisted, was merely made to givo the Commonwealth Edison Co., as centrally located power site for use when development of the Calumet region warranted its construction. Hammond people need expect no immediate development of the pro

ject. ter and will double the present- 90,000 horsepower capacity. "Eventually we Intend to build a third section, at a similar cost, which will give us a capacity of 270,000.000 horsepower," said Mr. Insull. Marshall & Fox are the architects and George A." Fuller Co. is con structing the plants. BCL1.ETIN. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! TULARE, Caljf., April 1 Two men were burned to death and three others seriously burnt ed when oil with which they they were starting a fire exploded early today in a bunk house on the ranch of the Valley Alfalfa Land company near here. fBlXI.ETIV.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl WASHINGTON, April 1. Entire responsibility for the strike that today has the nation's coal mines closed down, was laid at the door of the miners of th country today by Alfred M. Ogle, Terre Haute, Ind., coal operator. (Bl'LLETIY.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) JOHNSTOWN. Pa., April 1. The-first evidence of violence since the national mine strike went into effect last midnight came today when David Cowan, board member of District No. 2 and two companions were run out of town at WIndbar on tbe Somerset county line where the big non-union mines of the Ber-v-lnd-White Coal Company are located. of the engineers . The only objection registered was by people living on 154th street. Some were in favor of having an asphalt pavement instead of concrete but It was found that the majority favored concrete. However, they are nearly all agreed that the 154th street pavement should bo thirty-six feet wide instead of thirty-two as provided In the specifications. Mayor Paul Kamradt explained that this. can be taken care of If the property owners will bring in a petition asking that the street be made wider. I was stated that construction work would start on the Improvements soon enough for their completion this year. Ordinances must be passed and some legal details attended to before the contracts can be let. This will be pushed as rapidly as possible. GOFF DIVORCE SUIT. Hugh Harding GofT of Hammond, a superintendent in the plant of the Chapin & Co., today filed suit for divorce in the Hammond Superior court. He says his wife, Margaret Grace Goff deserted him February 4, 1913 and that he does not know her prefent whereabouts. They were married at Cedar Rapids. la.. I in May, 1930. The complaint was prepared by Attorney Phil Greenwald. Women's Republican Club Meeting. The Hammond Women's Republican Club will have a social evening and program, Tuesday evening, at the home of Mrs. Herman E. Sas.ie. 928 Hohman St. A well balanced program has been arranged. Refreshments wijl be served. All Republican women are cordially, invited to attend. 3-31-2t NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Starting April 1, 1922. The Lake County Times will be delivered by carrier' to your horn.; for 40c per month. On sale in streets and news stands at 2c per copv. LAKE COUNTY PRINTING : .PUBLISHING CO.

HITS EVER! AVENUE OF BUSINESS

Gigantic Labor Tie-Up Hailed as Showdown Between Capital and Labor BY GEORGE R. HOLMES. STAFF COF RESPONDENT I. N. SERVICEl WASHINGTON, April 1. Without flurry and without excitement, there began today the greatest labor tieup In the nation's history a tieup Involving a.t the outset approximately 600,000 bituminous and anthracite coal miners, and effecting directly every avenue of business and industrial life. From Pennsylvania to the northwest, and from the lakes to the gulf, the nation's unionized coal mines Jn twenty states were Idle today. Only in the comparatively restricted area of the non-union mines were picks still being swung and cars shutlicg coal to the railroads. Under, the watchful eye' of the government, the gigantic tieup will be allowed to run its course, to become the long, awaited "shown down" between capital and labor In the basic coal industry. Having failed In all efforts to persuade the coal operators to negotiate .with the miners, there was nothing left for the government to do, officials raid, but warn both sides to sit back and await developments. To the mine owners; no profiteer ing. To the miners; no violence. "Let 'er go:" might well have been the message sent out from Wash ington to the opposing sides. There will be no intervention from the' government until the pinch of public discomfort compels the government to step in and bring both sides to the conference table. That will be at least two months, possjoiy tnree, yet, according to a census of opinion among authori ties here. Surveys condusted by government departments for the last few weeks indicate that, renerally speaking, business can go through a coal strike of sixty days with very lit tle, if any, discomfort. But it will not be long after the sixty day per iod until reserve stocks of coal will be depleted, and restricted business will compel the government to take a hand. The administration does not view the walkout with apprehension or alarm, at least in its early stages. The enormous reserve stocks of coal on hand In all-industries and public utilities, with consumption daily decreasing because of the approach of summer, are factors that make for an easy beginning. The most serious aspect of the upheaval, as viewed by government officials here, is the depressing effect it will have on business generally. There Is every indication that the strike will prove a long one, officials said, and this wilt tend to make business "skittish" even though there is no Immediate danger of a coal famine. , . Great manufacturing concerns. making their production charts for months ahead, will have to proceed cautiously, if they can pro ceed at all. and this same condition. to a varying decree, will prevail in nearly every line of industry. This will make for an unsettled condition of business that In turn, will make Its effect felt for months to come. As viewed by ndminlstratlons today, a Inn drawn out contest involves these three dantrers to the business life of the country: 1 Inflation of price s-eneraltv. induced by a scarcity of rommodifOont'niird on nsee three. RESULTS IN DAMAGE SUIT Lack of .afety precautions at the crossing over the Monon railroad just north of St. John is charged in a S'iit for $10,000 damages filed today against the raiiroad company by the estate of the late George Toth of Whiting who was killed at the crossing September 12. The action was brought in the Hammond superior court by Micbeel Kozaclk, Jr., of Whiting as administrator of Mr. Toth'j estate. The complaint, prepared by Attoieny D. J. Moran calls attention to the fact that the highway and railroad both run through deep coi3 in approaching the crossing and that view of approaching trains is obstructed. At one time, the complaint states, the railroad company had a signal bell and a red disk which waved back and fort'n when a train neared the point. It Is said that this signal was removed and a different bell was installed which might easily be mistaken for a cow bell or a distant church or farm bell. It la also charged that the crossing sign had been painted white and had no lettering on it at the time of tha tragedy. Toth was riding with John Potasnik in a light Fordtruck and were on their way home from a trip after mushrooms. Toth left a widow and eight children.

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Situation as it Exists in Today's Gigantic Walk-Out

THE GREAT COAi STRIKE The situation in today's gigantic walk-out. the sixth great strike of miners in the history of the American industry, briefly is as follows: More than 400.000 soft, coal miners on strike. One hundred fifteen thousand hard coal workers idle. Operations at a standstill Jn approximately 6,000 of America's 7,500 coal m-ines. Two hundred thousand nonunion miners of the United Stale3 counted on for reinforcements of the union cause. Railroaders several hundred thousand of them, members vf the sixteen major railroad unions promising "moral support" for the miners. Longshoremen promising not to unload any British coal that might be brought ov-ir as ballast. Kansas miners joining in strike despite orders of Kansas Indus' Illinois cqal workers los ally suptrial court. Illinois miners loyally supporting International union aftr long dickering over "separate peace" with the operators. Regarding the union's trik machine as "perfect," John I Lewis, international president of the miners' union, observed the progress of the tremendous strike from the vantage point of union headquarters at Indianapolis. Apparently unworrled. fully satisfied with ths .operations of the well-oiled union machine, Mr. Lewis termed the walk-out "150 per cent effective." INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS, April 1. All Fools' Day dawned silently over America's vast coat fields, for today collieries in some 5,000 coramunitien were stilled by the strike of more than half a milion miners. No "work" whistles pierced ihw early morning air. of the dingy mining camps; clattering tipples were muted, miners trains remained on their sidings, and usually dusty donkey engines were idle, plckit and shovels were stacked. The restless stirrlr.g of m.cs mules, brought from their subterranean haunts to the surface to await the nd of the "suspension i f industry," as they blinker, bewillered, in the unaccustomed light and the movement? of skeleton crews 'left behind by the miners to protect the mines from flooding these were the only notes that broke the quietude of many a mining camp, NO APRIL FOOL'S ERStAM); All-, Fools" Day dawned siientiy because the miners elected that it should be so, but in halting all mining activities, their leaders made it emphatically clear today, the miners are on no April foo'.'s errand. In the gigantic walk-out. launched at one minute pa-Et 12 this morning a walk-out which promises to usher in the most titantic labor struggle In history the miners have begun what their leaders say i. a battle to the finish ta compel "he coal operators to obay a pledge to meet them around the conference board for the adjustment of wage; they are fighting against the announced intention of the mine owr -ers to'slash the workers' pay; fighting to retain the "check-oft"' rj tern, the keystone in the arch of the miners' unionism. OPF.nATORH DETERMINED Drawn up in battle array, on the other hand, is the silent host p? op erators, Just as detaimined as the miners, and bent upon retrenchment in their costs, including wag?. which they have said would reduco the price of coal to the public. Siege tactics are f guring In the initial stages of tha silent strjgirle. The half million snd more mmerj are bulwarked against what their leaders declare in a deliberate onslaught' of "big business" huge financial interests, bent on slashing wages and crushing i-nionism. They are crouched to ward off what ihy hold to be the menaco of the "ouen Shop." ' , What do the rrinrs want? Ellis Searles. of the mine workers Journal, answers the question t"iu: WAST LIVIMi STAXDVKU "They want steady employment. under proper working condition, and at recent rate of wages so thev may earn enough to maintain their families on a rral American stand ard of living." And, in the words of John L Lewis, president of the United Min Workers, the unoin does not Intend to "measure the American standard of living Aith a non-union yard tick." In their r-.'senting" t he slashing cf wages the miners have the "mors I support" of hundreii of thousand of men who comprise the sixte-n major railroad unions of the Umiru States. How valuable this "moni support" assured urd.-r the "defensive ailiance" pact of t:ie railroaders, mine workers anl longshoremen may prove to be, is not. yet apparent. The railroad labor organizations have pledged no sympathetic strike; but, in the viw f the miners, they "might" refuse to haul non-union coal to market, or they might just "forgft" t move U. COINT ON X0-lIO MIFJtt The miners are counting on a "great many" of the nat ion's 200.00 non-union miners to join them, but union leaders say that 'liaiarm with many of the organized workers Is prevented by the "hired gunmen" who, hey assert, guard msnjr non-union camps against union Invasion. (Continued on (age three.)