davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20
{. CHICAGO
CLUB ACTIVITY
BASKETBALL

Much interest IS being evidenced in
the basket ball activities of the East
Chicago club. The teams are practicing
two nights a week in the Mckinley
school gymnasium
Manager E. D. Mooney in announcing
the schedule reports that twenty men
are trying for tho teams. among whom
ere Robinson. H Phillips. Williams.
Gibbs. Hitchcock Watts. Given. Bigney.
barrow Felix p Phillips. Lewis, /.
smith. Miller. Hermansdorfer, =. Smith
and Cohen.
The club represents East Chicago IN
the Northern Indiana League organized
recently and in addition to the league
games Manager Mooney has scheduled
the following games TO be played in
East Chicago during December.
Dec 6.--PoHsh American Athletic
club Ctvo teams).
Dec. 11.-South Bend Y NJ. c. A
Dec 17=HulI House Tigers.
Dec. 25-American Legion Of Chicago.
Dec 27-Haugen Socials.
Practice viii continue every Monday
and Thursday evenings at seven o'clock
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20
HAMMOND
TEAM GOING AT
FULL STRENGTH
Old Man Jinx Bumped Off
His Perch; Paddy Dris-
coll to Be In Toledo Line
up.
By IRVING CHAYKEN.

The Hammond football team IS going
at fun speed at last With the crucial
game Of the season against he Toledo
aggregation but q few DAYS distant the
teams form in every department has
caused a new vein Of enthusiasm and
conhdenfee to inlndate the clubs great
following. The extent Of the beating
the chesty Maroons are TO got Sunday
seems to be the only speculation. The
visitors are coming with plenty of money
end a great deal will change hands when
the contest is over
The Improvement IN the condition OF
Shorty" Des Jardien. star center of the
Parduhn's stars. who was injured in the
great battle against Canton two weeks
ago. has boIstered the added hope of the
faithful ones and the visitors will md
plenty of takers when the old green is
shown UP for sporting purposes. A few
more days Of rest and Des Jardien. who
- considered the best center in profess
sIonal football. viii be straining every
energy TO vanquish both Toledo and
Canton.
With their captain out to run the sig
nails. the Hammond pigskin chasers are
running through some Of the hardest
workouts they have received thus far.
The squad as whole is in good condi-
ton. the physical odds being much bet
ter than they were against the Detroit
Heralds.
King Hoodoo. who has been following
the Hammond eleven all through the
present season, has finally fallen. The
one point victory Of last Sunday means
that the monarch which covers the des-
tiny and the outcome OF football is dead.
so far as the local players are concerned.
Urged on by THE TINES and the solid
backing of the famous Paddy Driscoll.
who will no doubt be in the lineup
against Toledo. the team knows II must
unite tho eleven parts into 8 compact
organization which will be capable of
beating any grid eleven in the country.
1t is well known that Parduhn has
plenty OF good material and with the
material working with tho pep that has
made them famous In the various coll
leges. the performers need no sledge
hammer to knock into their minds that
overconhdence is the one great fault
with the entire club. Now with this
realization ground into every man. the
stars should play better football than
they have shown all season. Driscoll.
IN a short talk 70 the large squad last
night. told th@n that instead Of saying.
We can win easily" the slogan should
he changed at once to we will win"
That the change will bring speed with
amazing alacrity IS a sure born fact.
Tickets for the Toledo and Canton
games have been put on sale. and Melvin
Nonnett the local ducat handler, reports
a large advance sale Of the finest seats
at the Cubs park.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20
JiOnette
Wants That
Shade Off

Frankie Jiometti is all ready 70 re-
trteYe himself from the shade which was
awarded him at LaSalle Ill. a few
weeks ago when Johnny Hagen threat
cncd his title as bantamweight champion
Of Chicago. Jtometti has been under
going strict training since his battle at
la Sale and viii come 60 Indiana Har-
Dor in fine condition t. regain the pres
tige which Hagen took from him in the
former fight.
Jiometu IS bantamweigh champion
among the Chicago Italians and has
claimed the bantamweight championship
Of tho entire city until the recent shade
which Hagen won. tt the Italian can
best Hagen IN the ton rounds Friday
at the Indiana Harbor Auditorium Re
VIII again have a claim on tho city
championship.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20
Willard Wiring Richard;
May Want to Box Again

NEW YORK. Nov. 1e-Jess willard
who lost his heavyweight title to Jack
Dempsey in Toledo on July 4. may be
thinking seriously of returning to the
ring. Tex Richard VINO promoted the
fiEht has received a number Of tele-
grams from the former champion. ask
ing him TO visit the big fellow at his
home in Lawrence. Kans. Willard. how
ever. did not divulge the reason why
he IS so anxious to see Richard. Tex
announced that he doesn't want 10 do
any more promoting at present. He may
attend the Beckett Carpenter battle in
London
. 70 1-ntt reading Lie -Tr-ors2
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20
STANDING.

Better cali up The Times and
have it sent to your house every
night. Then you'll be sure i will
he there.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-20

Better call Up The Times and
have it sent 70 your house every
night. Then you'll be sure it will
BE there.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
BAKER WARNS HOUSE
ARMY COMMITTEE
Says Without League Army of
$4,000 Child's Play.-Ev-
cry Big Nation Armed to the
Limit.

Washington, Sept. 23.-.'Unless
the league of nations is formed the
peace time army of 100000 proposed
by the War Department will be only
child's play" the House military COM
mittee was told today by Secretary
Baker.
Without the league" he said, "ev-
cry big nation must be armed to the
teeth and we viii have the old story
Of the balance of power"
"The president" commented Rep
resentative Crago, Republican, Penn
sy vania, "says we will never have to
send troops to foreign lands with the
league Of nations, but we never did
under the balance of power"
I'VE are just returning 100000
who were sent under the old condi-
tion," said the secretary.
Gen. Pershing has neither approved
nor disapproved the War Department
bill, Mr.. Baker said, adding that the
commander Of the American expedi-
tionary force had been asked to form
ulate his recommendations soon as
possible.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
PHYSICIANS WANTED
TO FIGHT THE FLUE
DIR. Leathers Issues a Card
That Will Be of Interest to
the Doctors.

That the public health authorities
are watching the Influenza and will
take every step to fight its spread
should the disease develop this fall, is
indicated by the fact that DR.. w. S.
Leathers is now arranging for physi-
clans to serve in the suppression.
DIR. Leathers yesterday issued the
following to the doctors of the state
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, u.
S. Public Health Service, wires Or.
w. S. Leathers, Executive Officer,
State Board of Health, to Secure
names of one hundred physicians who
will volunteer to serve for the con-
troll of Influenza in the event this is
necessary. The remuneration for
this service will be 5000 per month,
in addition $4 per day for subsistence,
and also travelling expenses.
This will be a purely voluntary
service on the part of any physicians
desiring to help the State in such an
emergency. / sincerely hope the ply
sicians will respond to this call so that
we may use them in fighting InGuen-
"a, II conditions become such as to
warrant the State Board Of Health in
calling upon them"
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
WEDNESDAY - THIRD DAYS
STRIKE REPORT

Reports from all steel centcrs
recorded little change in the align
ment of the opposing forces of the
abor unions and the steel companies.
At Birmingham, Ala, the strikers
gained.
At the Mahoning Valley of Ohio the
strikers success is complete. The in
dustry, which is the backbone of
Youngstown and a score of neighbor-
ing villages, is paralyzed and all it's
$4,000 wage earners idle. Elsewhere
the struggle is being carried on with
varying success, the issue still being
doubtful on the great strategic sec
tors radiating from Pittsburgh and
Chicago.
In the Pittsburgh district the Car
negie Steel Company announced yes
terday that the situation CLOCKS good'
and backed up its opinion with
claims that men were returning to
work IN considerable numbers. AS
usual these claims We're stoutly de-
MED by William z. Foster, chief of
staff for the unions, who reiterated
his assertion that the strike was
spreading, claiming that two addi-
tional large plants had been c'osed
and that Homestead would be idle by
the end of the week. The strikers
placed pickets around various plants
for the first time.
The situation around Chicago is
more definite than that in the Penn
sylvania region. A majority of the
mills are closed and those which are
still operating are doing so with re-
duced forces. The threatened sympa-
thetic strike of the lake seamen
seemed nearer as the result of the
refusal of the crews of IL ore freight
ers to dock their vessels.
In the meantime the United States
Senate committee which will investi-
gate the strike is preparing for its
first meeting today, when John Fitz-
patrick, commander-in-chief of the
strikers, will be the principal wit
ness. 1t was reported from Wash
lngton that this committee would also
investigate charges that Secretary
Foster has I. w. w. affiliations and
that there are more sinister motives
involved in the strike than the quas-
ton of labor unionism.
Rioting and disorder still mark
the progress of the struggle, but so
far only sporadica,ly. The latest out
break occurred yesterday at Cleve-
land, where four men were stabbed in
battle between strikers and non
strikers, two probably fatally. At
Farrell, where the gravest disturb
ances to date have been reported, the
town executive, Burgess Moody, is
under special guard as the result of
numerous threats against his life, and
the streets are patrolled by large
forces of state troopers and. deputy
sheriffs.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
PRESIDENT WILSON
In MEMPHIS NEXT
SATURDAY, 27TH

Next Saturday Memphis will enter
tain men of international prominence
principally in connection with the
presidential party.
Led in rank by President and Mrs
Wilson, the dignified and influential
congregation will include the high
officials accompanying the chief exc
cutive's party, such as Secretary J
P. Tumulty and Rear Admiral Gray,
son, also Senator Mcclellan, Congress.
man Hubert Fisher and his eight oil
ten associates on the House military
affairs subcommittee, Cows. Roberts
Brough, Bilbo and Russell and Their
wives, six Swiss statesmen under g
Allenspach, chairman, as official rep
resentatives of their government and
various other military officers and
aides.
The assemblage in Memphis Satur-
day of these national figures will
be the result of a coincidence, By q
strange freak of fortune the date fol
the presidential address on the league
Of nations comedies with that of the
final inspection of Park Field by con-
gressmen, with the date of the Tri.
State Fair, which probably caused
one or two of the governors to como
and the visit of the Swiss delegation
to make an economic study of fac.
tories and the cotton industry.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
VILLA PREPARING
TO START WAR
Talks About Carranza Worse
Than American Oil Operat-
ors Sometimes Do.

Washington, Sept. Francisco
Villa, General in Chief" of the revo-
lutionary forces in Mexico, in man.
ifesto for the nation copy of which
has just reached Washington, assails
President Carranza as "a traitor" and
calls upon Mexicans to join him in
new campaign against the regime of
Carranza. This manifesto which is
dated zen campamento" in Durango,
begins:
''To the large number of crimes
against the democratic regime, against
the tranquility of the country and
against the security and welfare OF
its inhabitants, Venustiano Carranza
has only now added a new offense
against the dignity and sovereignty
of Mexico"
This new offense consists in permit
ting American troops to cross the bor-
der in Juarez last June for which
Villa blames Carranza and General
Rodriguez.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 23-Attor-
ney General Collins declares that in
his opinion the recent declaration OF
statement of cotton seed prices by
the permanent committee" as given
out recently, is an echo of the old and
notorious "Plato" organization.
Discussing the question Attorney
General Collins observed:
eff the farmers of Mississippi sci
their seed at the prices the mills are
now paying, a profit of at least $25
ton will be made by the mills.
think that a civil prosecution will
amount to little or nothing. The only
proper way to proceed will be by af-
fidavit in a justice court or by indict.
ment by grand jury, and / have adj
vised al persons who have written or
telegraphed me on the subject that ]
will assist in all prosecutions to the
limit of my jurisdiction.
"Penitentiary stripes are the only
thing that will break up the cotton
seed trust, and criminal proceedings
ought to be instituted, where suffi-
cient evidence is secured, as provided
by chapter 1913, laws of 1916"
The statute referred to by Gen.
Collins fixes the punishment on con-
viction at fine of not less than $100,
nor more than $4,000, and imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than five
years. In other words, conviction,
fo lowing an Indictment, is conviction
of felony, and as felony only can
the court deal with it, it has no OPP
ton,
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
DEMAND cARNER.s SCALP.

Lexington, Miss, Sept. 23.-Call-
ing upon the attorney general of Mis-
sissippi to enter suits against the oil
mill men of the state for alleged VIC.
lations of the antitrust laws, urging
Judge Elmore to reconvene the
Ho mes County grand jury in order
that certain evidence in hand con-
cerning local oil mill operators might
be presented, and demanding the res
gnation of P. p. Garner, Mississippi
commissioner of agriculture, mer-
chants, citizens and farmers of Lex
ington and Holmes County held a
spirited meeting here today.
R. w. Gulledge was made chair
man and Noel White secretary.
The motion for Attorney General
Collins to start prosecution against
the oil mill men was carried unani-
mously.
A committee of five appointed to
confer with Judge E,more relative to
reconvening the grand jury reported
that he had called the jury for We'd
nesday, when evidence tending to
show violations of the antitrust laws
will be placed before the body for
action.
Action against Mr.. Garner, it was
explained, was taken because of his
apparent friendliness to the oil mill
interests.
Prices 'sfixed" for cotton seed and
sent out from Jackson several days
ago, and which reduced the figures
paid to $50 for hill wagon seed and
.$53 for de,ta, aroused the Holmes
countians to high pitch of indigna-
ton.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
.SIX-HOUR WORK DAY
DEMAND OF MINERS
Flat Sixty Per Cent Increase in
Wages-Double Time Holi-
days-Want to Work Only
Five Days Each Week.

Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 23.-De.
mands for so per cent increase in
all mine wages, a limit of six hours
upon the days labor underground, q
five-day week with time and a hall
work on Sundays and holidays and
important improvements in conditions
Of labor were adopted this afternoon
by the convention of the United Mine
Workers of America. The conven-
ton then adjourned to await the re-
suit of the joint wage schedule COM
mittee with the operators of the GEN.
tral competitive district, which opens
in Buffalo Thursday
Should a satisfactory new agree
ment be reached by the representa-
tives of the miners and operators at
this conference, the convention will
be reconvened at Indianapolis to ac-
cept or reject it. Should no agree
ment be reached in time to be ratified
and come into effect by Nov. /, a
general strike of all bituminous coal
miners in the United States will au-
tomatically ensue on that date, which
may extend to the Canadian coal
feds if the international executive
board and the representatives of the
Canadian district so determine.
No Double Shifts.
When a decided increase in wages
is demanded to meet the heavy in
crease in cost of living he miners
delegates were not less interested in
providing regular employment for all
members of the union through the
year, voting not only to restrict the
number of working hours to 80 per
week, but also to prohibit the employ
p.oyment of double shifts in produc-
ing coal with this aim in view.
Acting President Lewis stated to-
day that he confidently expected that
an agreement would be reached with
the operators at Buffalo by negotia-
ton. ''That is" he continued, ''un-
less the operators see fit to disturb
the entire domestic equilibrium of the
country by refusing to negotiate on
basis of our programme"
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26

strike is spreading and that thousands
Of men who worked yesterday Joined
the wa kout today. Predictions were
made that plants still in operation
would be closed tomorrow or Thurs
day and that no gains were made my
where either by the United States
Steel Corporation, the principal fac
tor in the struggle, or by independent
concerns.
Representative of the Carnegie
Steel Company, the largest subsidiary
in the corporation, admitting that
some of its plants were closed be-
cause of the strike, claimed that the
situation was better than yesterday.
According to an authorized summary
of conditions within the Pittsburgh
district, more men were at work at
Homestead, Clarion, Duquesne and
other places.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
RIGHT TO STRIKE
IS DEFENDED BY
LABOR LEADERS
Cummins Railroad Reorganiza-
tion Bill Denounced by MIR.
Gompers-Plumb Refers to
Possible Revolts.

Washington, Sept. 23.-Three of
the foremost leaders of organized Ia
Dor, before the Senate interstate COM
merce committee Tuesday, denounced
in unqualified terms sections of the
Cummins railroad reorganization bill
which wou prevent railroad workers
from striking.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, War
rem s. Stone, chief of the Engineers
thor of organized labor's solution of
the railroad problem and general
council for the railroad brotherhoods,
in turn presented varying arguments
but all emphasizing the single point
that in their view no power could
constitutionally prevent men leaving
work at their will.
81 do not wish to live single day
after that right has been taken away
from working men," Mr.. Gompers
said with more than touch of indig-
nation. He served notice to the COM
mitee that the anti-stlike provision if
enacted as law would not be obeyed.
Would Make Law Breakers.
with full sense of my response
bility," he told senators, II say that
should have no more hesitancy
about participating in a strike after
its passage than do now. It would
not stop strikes; it would just make
law breakers"
There was considerable reference
to the Plumb plan, which provides for
government ownership of the rail-
roads and joint operation by the pub
lie and employees, when its author op-
ened his statement. He declared that
strikes would be beneficial in the fu-
ture, because workers would use
them to force down prices instead of
merely to secure a greater share of
the cost of production and allowing
prices to increase. Puzzled senatorial
questionaires deaf at some length on
this theory, but did not shake his con-
clusion.
Refers to Revelation.
Likewise Mr.. Plumb made refer
ence to approaching revolution should
conservative labor forces not se-
cure concessions of the type embod-
led in his pan and this occasioned
more querying.
Mr.. Stone attacked the CumminS
bill in its entirety. It's committee on
wages and working conditions he said,
was 'mere buff" it cinched "Bu-
reaucratic control" en- the roads; it
distorted procedure of the interstate
commerce commission in order to give
the comission mandate to fix rates
on the basis of inflated capitaliz-
ation," and had a transportation
board "just to take the blame off gull
ty railroad officials for denying
rights to labor"
Is Frankly Vicious.
Frankly vicious" he said, "were
its provisions against strikes in inter-
state commerce. 1t constituted ian
implied repeal of the Adamson 8-hour
bilps and it's division of railroad sys-
TENS, into 25 or 80 systems was illog-
ical and artificial"
"I'm sorry / haven't had time to
go more fully into study of it." he
said in c osing his analysis and a roar
of laughter swept the committee
room.
The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-09-26
SECOND DAYS REPORT

Organized labor gained ground i'll
Chicago, Youngstown and other west
ern centers on the second day of the
great steel strike, which was marked
by increased violence but, according
to officials of the United States Steel
Corporation and various independent
companies, made but little headway in
Pittsburg and other eastern mills.
From the south were received decid-
edly conflicting reports such as from
Birmingham, where union leaders
claimed 1000 men were out and
plant officials asserted there was
such a surplus of labor that hundreds
of men were set to sweeping floors
for lack of other tasks.
In the Chicago district, where
union leaders claimed an additional
10000 men had gone out, more steel
plants were closed in South Chicago
and Indian Harbor, although at the
latter pace officials of an 'independ-
ent" explained their shut down had
been ordered merely to avoid respon-
sibility for industrial warfare. Yes.
terday only the Gary mills of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation, .ome
small plants in East Chicago and five
independent mills in Hammond at
tempted operation.
In the Youngstown district proper
strikers achieved their most marked
success, causing complete suspension
of work in every pant on the Mahon-
in Valley by calling $4,000 men away
from their posts.
Union leaders heralded spread Of
the strike, declaring that whereas
only 284,000 of the half million work
ers affected had marched out of the
mills on the opening day, their ranks
now numbered 327,100. They pre-
diet that today or tomorrow would
see the closing of many more pants,
and announced they hoped to extend
the strike to Great Lakes seamen and
union trainmen.
Industrial leaders, while withhold
ing their own figures, challenged the
claims of labor's leaders. Represen-
atives of the Carnegie Company, the
largest subsidiary of the United
States. Steel Corporation, declared
that the situation was "much improv-
ed" An estimate was made that in
the Pittsburg district alone 21,0OO
men had returned to vat and furnace.