Hammond Times (Newspaper) - February 25, 1937, Hammond, Indiana EAST CHICAGO WHITING INDIANA HARBOR THE HAMMOND TIMES TRI-CITY EDITION XXXI NO 212 MEMBER OP HAMMOND INDIANA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 1937 MEMBER PRICE TWO CENTS MONTHS PASS BUT NO PLUMS FALL Major Strikes Have Dwindled to 3 Over Night THE WEATHER Generally fair and continued rold tonight and Friday Sunrise it m Sunset p m Moon rise p m Temperatures in Hammond m a m 10 9 8 9 COURT ORDERS ARE ENFORCED TO EET MEN Otters of Yesterday's Strikes Are Now Settled or Placed I COY MAY GO WITHM'NUTT TO ISLANDS U noon Wed I I J p in J p m 8 I P m 25 p m 2.1 i P S p I p 10 p U 10 11 m Noon today Weather fair at noon Under Negotiations By United Press Labor strife in industry ened perceptibly today Two groups of sit-down strikers had been evacuated without shed from the property of their One strike had been settled The Chrysler tion had agreed to negotiate the United Automobile Corkers ending the threat of automobile Three major strikes remained Several hundred sit-down ers were in possession of the las Aircraft corporation plant at Santa Monica Cal The plant wag closed workers had been laid off The management refused to negotiate so long as the strikers remained in the plant The refused to evacuate Detroit Plant Closed Five hundred sit-down strikers the plant of the De- Axle company at Detroit The plant which manufactures axles for Chrysler General Motors and Ford was closed One-hundred sit-down strikers continued their occupation of the Fansteel Metallurgical company plant at North Chicago 111 The protracted dispute seemed locked At Decatur 111 the Wall Paper company resumed operations with workers four men and women sit-down who had held the plant 48 hours evacuated peacefully and were taken into court on contempt charges growing out of their ure to obey an injunction order promptly At Los Argeles Pie Baker Willie resumed operations after his 11 striking bakers had ed peacefully m obedience to a court order filed suit damages against the bakers and their union Press Strike Settled At Springfield O the Crowell Publishing company publishers of such magazines as Collier's and the Woman's Home Companion settled the strike of its 800 pressmen The company recognized che tional Printing Pressmen and union as sole tive of the men and collective gaining negotiations will begin In Massachusetts and New shire shoe manufacturers were Capitulating rapidly to the demands the Leather Workers union for on Page Seventeen TWO ARE HURf BY AUTO DRIVEN BY ALLEGED DRUNK A Hammond mother and her Baughter were injured when the automobile m which they were ing was struck by another car op- by an alleged drunk driver In Pulaski road near Thornton Fractional high school in Calumet City Tuesday night Taken to St Margaret's hospital for cuts and bruises were Mrs 40 of 434 tham street and her daughter Kathleen 22 a stenographer Bruno Kolodziej of 513 Street Phoenix III was arrested by Calumet City police and booked on a charge of driving an auto- while drunk Police said that Kolodziej was driving his automobile on the left Bide of Pulaski road when he crashed It into the car of Dorothy 5525 Alice street ond in which the women were Wing GERMANS ARE ORDERED DEPORTED MOSCOW Feb of 45 Germans detained by police here since October charged with espionage and dissemination of nazi propaganda were ordered deported to Germany today Investigation of the other is continuing Nature of the evidence and date of their coming trial have not been dis INDIANAPOLIS Ind Feb Former Governor Paul r McNutt will take Wayne Coy state public welfare director and haps two others with him to the Philippine islands if President Roosevelt approves It was ed here today McNutt who was named ly to the post of high er of the islands has gone to Washington to confer about his staff and other matters pertaining to the island work it was stated Coy will accept the appointment as secretary to Governor McNutt if it is offered it was learned here Others whom McNutt may take to the islands Margaret an Heady secretary to the ernor in charge of penal affairs who will be assistant secretary Val Nolan United States district attorney as legal adviser and Heiman B Wells dean of the school of business administration of Indiana university as financial adviser Mrs Heady of ington served as secretary in the executive office during McNutt's state administration Wells for- merly of Lebanon cooperated with McNutt in writing a model 1933 banking code and was director of the state department of financial institutions Nolan Is a trustee of Indiana university HAS PROGRAM OF DEMANDS DETROIT Feb Strategists of the United bile Workers Union today lated a program of demands to present to the Chrysler Motor com- pany at their collective bargaining conference the corporation next Wednesday Tentative agreements for the parley were completed during the night after Chrysler the union an- became the second of the big three in the industry to agree to meet with the union in a col- bargaining conference Similar negotiations already were under way with General tors The Ford Motor company re- mained the only one of the big three today on which the union has not made a request for a ing Union officials would not com- ment on the possibility of serving a demand on Ford nor would they a statement attributed to Homer S Martin president of the UAW who said during the recent GM Chrysler Is Acceptance of the request for a parley by Chrysler averted possible strikes in the company's nine plants located in Detroit Windsor Los Angeles and Newcastle and Evansville Ind where about factory workers are employed Sources close to the union today indicated that the demands to be presented to Chrysler Wednesday may closely parallel those served on General Motors The latter de- mands included requests for sole recognition of the union a week time and one-half for over- time regulation of the so-called speed-up in production lines of seniority rights minimum wages and no discrimination against union ers CHRYSLER MEETING IS ARRANGED DETROIT Feb Richard T Frankensteen director of the United Automobile Workers announced today that Chrysler officials had formally agreed to meet with union representatives next Wednesday to discuss demands for collective bargaining The union official said that man L Weckler one of two ler officials designated to confer with the union over its demand had approved a 10 a m meeting in the Highland Park plant of the Chrysler company The union delegates have not yet been named Frankensteen said ROOSEVELT ADVOCATES ARE STIRRED BY PINK SUPS Congress Intrigued at Origin of Flood of Colored Slips Received by Members By WILLIAM K CORRESPONDENT I N SERVICE WASHINGTON Feb Advocates of President judicial reforms today suggested a congressional in- into the origin of a flood of pink green and blue slips calling on to keep hands off the supreme court While 34 senators have publicly opposed the plan to enlarge the court and 28 have publicly endorsed it Senators Clark crat of Missouri and Burke crat of Nebraska today claimed 42 senators now stand ready to vote against the president's plan If the came to a vote today it would be defeated by 10 was Clark's most optimistic tion The private list of the tion concedes only 30 sure votes for the proposal Thousands of these slips signed apparently by constituents have been received by members of con- gress since the battle over the president's program began They have been mailed chiefly from points in the middle west but from an area scattered from vania to Nebraska They Hands off the supreme court Dear Believing that posal to revise and weaken the court would prepare the way to dictatorship in our country I earnestly urge you to use your in- fluence against the measure Chairman O'Connor democrat of New York of the house rules com- revealed Representative Nichols democrat of Oklahoma was collecting the slips preparatory to asking an inquiry into their origin He also disclosed the ter had been called to President Roosevelt's attention Foes of the president's plan laughed at indications the slips were making any impression on congress Senators Johnson re- publican of California and on Page Seventeen YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY AFTER GIRL TESTIFIES SPECIAL TO THE CROWN POINT Feb though he entered a formal plea of not guilty of attempting to at- tack Miss Agnes Mihal before ing her from his car shoeless in the freezing cold on Feb 3 George Kopach 23 of 1109 Taft street Gary has confessed the crime to Prosecutor Fred A Egan it was announced today as the young man was arraigned in criminal court be- fore Judge William J Murray The court heard Miss Mihal that she had been forced to walk two miles from a secluded spot on an East Gary road in her stocking feet to the Country club after resisting attempts to attack her As a result she said her feet were frozen and she is still ing from the effects She said pach came to her home at 662 Washington street and told her a girl friend who was sick was calling for her She got into his machine and he drove her to the East Gary road where the attempt to attack her took place Miss Mihal added ASSESSORS TO GET BUSY TO THE CROWN POINT Feb ty Assessor George Kochis said day that preparations for the an- personal property assessment scheduled to start Monday would commence today at a meeting of township assessors and deputies In his office Instructions will be given John Rothrock representative the state tax board as to daties of the officials The assessors will gather again next Tuesday morning to receive valuation schedules and final mation by of GROCER'S WIFE PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGES Her Husband Professes No Knowledge of Wife's Ticket Purchase CROWN POINT Feb Adeline Kolanko mother of two children and of the Hammond grocer against whom charges of fil- ing false claims were dismissed yesterday in criminal court today is under the shadow of prison bars Mrs Kolanko pleaded guilty to charges of filing false poor relief claims yesterday in criminal court before Judge William J Murray shortly after she was served with a warrant based on evidence ted by the prosecution in her trial The husband Stanley professed to have no knowledge of his wife's purchase of fraudulent poor relief tickets from Frank Kroncke for- mer clerk in the office of North Township Trustee John Mehan Kroncke admitted during cross examination that he had never had dealings with the husband Following her arraignment Judge Murray set March 6 as the date for the finding and passing judgment Mrs Kolanko meanwhile is free on a recognizance bond signed by self Nick Shary Kennedy avenue ser indicted with Kolanko and Adin F Nordyke who is now under a 2 to 14 year sentence on the same charge is the next scheduled to go to trial All three were named by Kroncke in a confession to lice and Deputy Prosecutor Paul J Hawk at Hammond OPTIMISTIC ON Say Price of Steel Would Need Another Hike to Stand the Raise Confident predictions of early wage increases for local steel mill workers are merely wisps rising from the imaginations of false prophets ing to second-guess their way to fame according to a check-up at Calumet district mills Company officials called on the subject this morning universally termed it a canard They said no plans have been discussed to boost wage rates within the next 10 days and none is under consideration As one executive put Raises may be authorized in the future when the new price level has solidified sufficiently to permit wage increases but as the tion stands today conditions are too uncertain to justify another et wage increase The steel Industry at present Is paying the highest hourly rates in its history The average for com- mon labor is 54 cents and that for skilled about cents These new high levels were achieved only last November It seems strange therefore that tation should become so pronounced in such a short period of time for another boost Other officials speaking off the characterized wage in- crease reports as wholly -un- founded They admitted steel prices are going up but they explained that the latest increase was ordered to offset the rising cost of raw rials especially scrap They pointed out that most of the materials ing into their melt have advanced anywhere from 10 to 25 per cent in the last six months If additional wage boosts are to be granted the industry must hike up the cost of steel once more the executives stated They added that in their opinion another increase in the price of steel with the next few weeks would kill the goose that lays the golden egg inasmuch as it would create consumer tance and thereby reduce orders only to actual requirements The mill chiefs are unanimous in their belief that prices should be permitted to crystalize at the rent level before another attempt is made to increase them in order to meet wage costs Their statements indicate by and large that they will resist wage Increase demands until the third quarter approaches which would delay the issue until the latter part of June at least 16 ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION BRUSSELS Feb Five officers and 11 soldiers were killed today by the accidental ex- plosion of three shells in the tary establishment at S BUSINESSMEN FOR REDUCTION OF STATE TAX Lake County Representatives Take Lead in Fight tor Change TO THE INDIANAPOLIS Feb 25 Lake county's industrial and business leaders took hope day for revision of the gross income tax law with the an- that of the 19 democrats aligned against ad- ministrative forces two Lake county Martin Downey of Hammond and Rep Tom Callahan of East leading the fight for their constituents Representatives of ing plants and business houses are fighting for a revision of the one per cent gross income tax because of the terrific competition from Chicago and other Illinois cities Calumet region business men charge the one per cent tax is un- fair and demand a revision to one- quarter of one per cent Line Up Support A caucus yesterday indicated that 19 democrats including Downey and Callahan are not with the ad- ministration on the gross income tax The opposition includes several representatives from the farm bloc who are still dissatisfied with the compromise public welfare revision settlement and others who have special hi mind The amendment of Rep Callahan that churches schools and athletic contests continue exempt and an- other by Rep Harry G Strickland of Greenfield that state banks be exempted because of unfair federal competition brought hasty retreat but once leaders were able to gain their say in caucus much of the protest subsided Both ments were killed However administration leaders claim today to have enough votes to pass the disputed and will fight out the issue on the house floor A caucus yesterday that 68 house democrats will stand by the administration to beat off amendments Amendments to Fail Among those who were fied with the rulings of the caucus yesterday included members of Allen county from Fort Wayne However Stein Thompson and Paul B Sturm Dana majority caucus chairman expressed dence over passage of the day and said all amendments would be killed on the house floor To clear up any doubts in the caucus members minds Clarence Jackson head of the gross income tax division spent an hour in the Continued on Pago Seventeen JINX FOLLOWS PAUL HOFFMAN SON OF SOLON Paul Hoffman 21 son of Joint Representative of Lake and Porter counties Balthasar and Mrs man had the misfortune to break his Thursday while at work in a Michigan City foundry A part of a crane with which he was working fell on his leg causing the fracture He is confined to St An- thony hospital His parents who have been in Indianapolis for sessions were called home Four years ago when the baum building at Crocker burned to the ground Paul was on the roof doing what he could to help extinguish the blaze He slipped falling to the ground fracturing his shoulder in two places HEADS COLLEGE FORT WAYNE Ind Feb 25 Edwin H Schnedler has been named president of Con- cordia college by the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church He will fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Prof Martin L Stoeppelworth Professor Schnedler has been a member of the faculty since 1914 MARRIAGE LICENSES CHICAGO Feb marriage license has been issued in Chicago to Andrew H Hornak 60 of met City and Mrs Anna Peterson 50 of Chicago AND THE MOTORIST ESCAPED DEATH IN THIS with road mart rail driven end to cod A road guard rail plunged through the radiator of this car ripped past the motor up under the ing wheel and tore away the front seat on the driver's side in a freak accident near Springfield the motorist escaped The motorist Ray dell 41 of Columbus Ohio had skidded into the guard rail which split on striking the front of his car one-half going the whole length underneath the car and the other half as shown in this photo dell suffered a fractured pelvis Central Press They Moved FREEPORT 111 Feb 26 Spielman and four members of his family pondering whether to abandon their home to approaching flood waters made up their minds in double quick time yesterday when five skunks moved under their porch The animals had been driven from winter quarters by the flood WATER WORKS FOR CITIES TO 3RD READING Under Governor Would Name 5 Trustees to Hammond INDIANAPOLIS Ind Feb to place management of Hammond and Michigan City municipal water works under member boards of trustees ed by the governor was advanced to engrossment and third reading in the senate today Senator Lawrence B Carlson re- publican Huntington lost a fight to prevent arbitrary dismissals of present board members under the but succeeded in setting as the maximum bond requirement for each trustee The was sponsored by ators Lawrence B Cannon crat Knox and Raymond C Sohl democrat Dyer and sets salary of the trustees at each OF DEAD MAN TO LEARN SLAYER Jack Cerone 23 of 814 North Avers avenue Chicago today was grilled in the murder of John tle Duke Dolf 32 Hammond bookie partner by Chicago police Cerone the last man to have been seen with Dolf when the latter was alive was formally charged with the murder in the criminal court of Chief tice Michael McKinley Cerone was held without bail after Judge dismissed a petition for a writ of corpus by attorney Dolf was found shot to death early Sunday in rear of 3053 Walnut street in Chicago He had attended a benefit dance with his wife to raise a defense fund for James Marcella ex-convict who is to be tried for robbery in Cook county Dolf was paroled a year ago last August after serving a year in Michigan City for participation In the Hammond Loan company up April 13 1934 He has been ing in Hammond since being paroled Despite his parole restrictions Dolf in recent weeks had been re- ported in a Calumet nue race horse book which was recently raided Dolf escaped ar- rest walking out of the place just before Hammond police arrived HAS ROME Feb Desta leader of a valiant band of warriors who held out against Italian dominion in opia was captured today and ex- it was learned here Chance for Federal Aid On Sanitation Is Fading Martin Thinks Present Con- gress Will Appropriate Last Federal aid for sewage sanitation in the Calumet district cities of Hammond Bast Chicago Whiting Gary and Hobart is becoming more remote every day and none will be extended unless the present session of congress appropriates additional funds for that purpose according to Mayor Frank Martin of mond He said the original applications of the five municipalities ing an aggregate grant of and a combined loan of have been pigeonholed for the son that PWA funds have been ex- hausted In these applications Hammond asked for a grant of and a loan of Bast Chicago a grant of and a loan of 625 Whiting a grant of and a loan of Gary a grant of and a loan of 345 and Hobart a grant of and a loan of The aggregate cost of these five projects at the time was and all were taken under ment by the PWA However as numerous other PWA applications had been filed prior to the requests of local cities for sewage sanitation funds they took precedence over local bids with the result that the PWA propriation was exhausted before the Calumet district applications came up for consideration Mayor Martin expressed the belief that congress will allocate tional funds for such projects be- fore the end of the current session so he advocates a joint meeting of local municipalities to draft a operative program enlisting the aid of the state government in applications for federal aid out ol the anticipated budget The sewage sanitation problem becoming more acute every week because of Chicago's determination to end pollution of Lake Michigan by Calumet district cities is ning into a stalemate at the current session of the Indiana general as sembly A is pending there to permit the creation of joint sanitary dis- here and elsewhere in the state for the purpose of combining adjacent cities in one common dis- Local mayors and rlty officials are favorable to the measure inasmuch as they claim it will nol solve the problem satisfactorily or economically Political control is also one of the major problems in Consequently the IB not ex- to pass throwing the burden of sewage sanitation enforcement back upon the state board of health under the provisions of the 1935 act which prohibits pollution of Indiana streams and lakes The latter law still It pending be- fore the state supreme court on a Constitutional appeal from Hartford City where the board of health at- tempted to enforce it Upon the outcome of this test case depends the future action of the State of Illinois The Illinois attorney general has been prevailed upon not to bring damage suits against Calumet district cities until the test case is disposed of In event the law is hold valid the Indiana state board of health will be in a position to enforce its visions to the letter and thereby force local communities to under- take sewage sanitation TWO WHITING YOUTHS HELD AS KIDNAPERS Evening of Fun Reported Resulting in Grand Jury Indictments Frank and Walter both 21 years old both dents of Whiting were learning about federal laws today kidnaping True bills charging the youths with kidnaping assault to rob and leaving the scene of an accident were reported voted by a Cook county grand jury yesterday Last Friday night the pair started out on what was to be an evening of fun but which may have dire results for them After a few drinks in Thornton township they started home by auto owner of the car was driving Near Thornton the car crashed into another driven by Richard Schoon of Lansing III Schoon wanted to call the police The men didn't like the idea They bundled Schoon and a motorist Clyde Greenwald of wood into the car and drove until a wheel fell off over line in Dyer Schoon fled and Greenwald was allowed to go Later Lou Hartman Dyer town marshal and Chief Deputy Sheriff Carlson found abandoned car and traced It The two men were turned over to Cook county state's attorney's men by Whiting police because the accident happened in Illinois Conviction of kidnaping the youths face in prison DEMPKOWSKI REFUSES TO PROSECUTE Walter Calumet City school trustee today refused to prosecute Frank old school boy who attacked his brother Matthew 18 years old eral days ago with a knife Inflicting a deep wound in his back Young lives at street Calumet City and is the son of a former city employe The attack occurred at Thornton Fractional High school during a basketball tournament Matthew a student at the high school was taking tickets and wished to clear passage to entrance which was being blocked by the other youth and several boys When he with the boys he was at- tacked PICKETS PUNCH PLANT OFFICIAL ELGIN III Feb Watch Case company of- tried to break through the picket line around his plant today and was knocked down by four or five union members Seven or eight other pickets joined in punching the man who said he was an assistant plant for the watch com- pany He would not give his name Four Elgin policemen rushed to the gate and ordered the pickets to stop punching the official who was lying on the sidewalk LAKE CO BOYS ARE WORRIED BECAUSE GOV DOES NOTHING Busy Young Statisticians ure There Should Be 300 State Jobs or Faithful With almost two months in office behind him Lake county politicians not to mention the patronage seekers are ning to wonder when Gov M Clifford Townsend is going to shake his patronage tree to give joba to deserving democrats During the campaign the nor did not hesitate to say that Lake county would receive its share of state patronage and that the jobs would begin to fall into the laps of the deserving ones shortly after he took office and could get his feet on the administrative rug But thus far only a few attempts have been made at ing out jobs and only four jobs have been handed out Kates 800 John Shanks county recently stated that figured on the basis of population and democratic strength of the county Lake crats shoul receive about 300 lobs in administration On the other hand democratic leaders pre- dict the t will be much lesa In the November election the county handed Townsend a ity of approximately he was glad to receive Since the election has been won are becoming worried It is well known that both the county man and District Chairman John of Gary were hoping for immediate appointment in not to mention the lesser of the party Indications are today that few jobs will be scattered in the ty At least democrats well with high administration leaders and who have kept in close touch with the political de- clare that the number of plums dropped in Lake county will be far fewer than 300 It has been pointed out that some members of the administration have been elected for second terms and that these of- have their staffs organized and have no Intentions of making changes Few Small Fawn High lights of the party state lhat the governor himself will not his patronage tree overloaded with plums and that many of those ing to receive jobs are destined to disappointment Thus far all but one of the jobi passed to Lake county democrats are small ones Gazela Stodola of Hammond sister of City Judge Joseph Stodola Virgil Thunton of Gary and May Daniel of East Gary have been given clerk's jobs in the legislature George Huish East Continued OH Page Seventeen CORPORATION PROSPEROUS Harbison Walker maintaining a production unit in Indiana Harbor has the largest bank of unfilled orders in seven years Shipments for February are to be considerably ahead of any month in the last quarter of 1936 according to interests close to the company A higher rate of operation in the steel industry as well as larger ing by other industries enabled thin leading manufacturer of refractory materials to double during the past year its 1935 earnings Net income of or a common share was reported for 1936 compared with or a share for 1935 This firm produces fire brick for a number of industries including steel cement copper sugar and locomotive It also manufactures a variety of other refractory terials such as fireclay silica brick and and chrome brick for lining blast furnaces open hearths coke ovens cupolas cement kilns copper smelters boilers and the like The company maintains 27 lories in the United States ing the one at Indiana Harbor IN JURIES WE FATAL EVANSVILLE Ind Feb 25 U.P Injuries suffered when struck by an automobile near her home were fatal last night to Mrs Alma Riecken 64 Her death was the sixth traffic fatality In ville this year
