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Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 17

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SECTION TWO. GENERAL NEWS, SPORTING, SOCIETY," MARKETS, WANT ADS, ft THE WOXtD'S CREAIIST HEWSPAPER FRIDAY. JULY 11, 1919. 17 nHSCAOO AKES MOVIE OF A MAN IN A STREET CAR WITH NOTHING TO READ Copyright: 1919: Xew York Tribune. Inc.

IN RAGE HAND COPS' RAGE FEUD BRINGS CHARGES AGAINST THREE CAR IB DECIDE TONIGHT ON NEW WAGE DEMANDS PAY YOUR $200 AND FAME NESTS IN FAMILY TREE But, Somehow, Chosen House at Bargain Capitol Valhalla. IKl AOS LEFT -ALSO AOS IN CAR To RIGHT OF HIM Trys To Di6CN RtHL ADlrsJG MATTER tJ NEUiPAPeR PASSCNSER OPPOSITE EAP FOOD FOR GH CAR To OP HirsA tisl RUSH FOR CAR DlDrJ'T GET wewsPPER OR AN'r'THlMCa To read! curses'. City Finds Neighbors Buy 1). S. Canned Goods Here.

Fame, Incorporated. That isn't the name on the door plate, but it's the animatine Influpn Colored Men Take White Ones' Beds and Threaten Them. 80 Cents Hour or Strike Is Leaders' Program; Companies Wait. 1 hich makes it possible, as long as the bronze holds out. to get into an actual Hall of Fame, bronze reproduction of I photograph 'n' ev'rything ail for a paltry $200.

In Chicago there ia an organization With Chicago citizens clamoring at xi oi -ortn wens strot Qni As the result of a race feud which has been existing for some time be- tween colored and white policemen of the South "Wabash avenue police sta- tion, three colored policemen, Charles Rowell, "Waldo Baston and "William McCall have been suspended and 1 Chicago's 16.000 surface and elevated road employes expect to determine tonight what their new demands on the companies are to be. Officials of the car men's unions who have drafted the new wage schedules were, reticent yesterday regarding the increase to be asked, as were officials of the and surface lines regard, ing how they would act on the proposals. Presidents Busby of the Chicago Surface Lines and Budd of the the tops of their lungs asainst the high Cook County Press club. The stationery coetof living, millions of dollars worth-saya John I. Phillips is president-f foodstuffs meat and canned goods Frank Furstenheim.

vice president for the most part are being sold out Gus Martin, treasurer; and Carl Mor' of Chicago government warehouses in gan, F. H. Burke, B. S. Herbert, Gus other cities.

Martin, and George F. Roberts, dl- While Chicago has slept 1,000.000 rectors. cans of corn and the same amount of The doorkeeper at the address given beans have been sold to outside firms above says one night a month the club and there is about that much more to does meet In a room there only It Yesterday Mayor Bosse of skipped last month and every now and Evansvllle, bought 10.000 cans then postpones its doings." The room each of corn, peas, and beans. Bids I ia above a restaurant. chartres filed against them by Acting Captain Michael Lee.

xne trouble started after the 3 opposite Passenger LEAU(S CAR ALSO Lewes. Paper oj Seat. fslONCHALAWTLY WALKS ACROSS AiSVE Toward PRi.e ResxRAiivJS eAGte.isjess OPPOSITE PASSerJa(R HOLDS PAPER i- 5UCH PoilTIOisJ AS DOvUiU To SUCCesSFllOr system alike disclaimed knowledge of what the wage demands will be. Other have been received from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron, and Racine, Wis. The state of Indiana is nego On the Trail of Fame.

March 19 house resolution No. 9 was officials, however, admitted a formidable Increase from the present 4S or HeAOLirvies adopted by the legislature, providing tiating to buy enough meats and cents an hour to the tentative 80 cents an hour. It is promised that canned goods to supply every hospital lna' me state will, if it gets the assure chance, accept from the Cook County Press club certain bronze memorial tablets commemorating citizens largely responsible for the growth and development of the state and in honor of commissioned army officers who lost their lives in the world war. The memorials, when given, are to be placed in the capitol at Springfield, the resolution provides. It neglected to state just where In the capitol.

Then the first check came In. It was for $200 and was from a Chicago banker. The trail of the check showed ia the state. at Last. But Chicago woke up yesterday and perhaps may get in on the cheap food ytL Aid.

Anton Cermak, one of the backers of the new city food commission, heard of the government's packed warehouses and announced that he wi.1 urge the six citizens to be appointed by the mayor on the commission to buy carloads of the meat and canned goods and sell it either to grocers or to citizens. "If outside cities can afford to come in here end buy and then distribute Whhe whQ slgned ag -Treasurer iis food at cost, plus freight, to their the companies will define their position soon after they learn what the men's demands are. It was suggested the companies might depend on the national war labor board as their defense in resisting the demands. Since Aug. 1.

1918. the rates fixed by that board have been in effect for the period of the war." As the companies have contended the emergency" has not passed, and have based applications for Increased fares on that contention, they may use it as their argument with the meru Ask Fight for 80 Cents. President William Quinlan of the street car men and President William Mylam of the men addressed some of the workers last night, but did not mention the proposals as formulated. A general conference of the wage drafting committee was had during the day in the Ashland Boulevard Auditorium, Ashland avenue and Van Buren street, but the tentative scales were not announced. It is understood, however, that the committee will ask the men tonight to stand steadfast for the SO cents an hour, eight hour day, and six day week program.

A referendum, according to citizens, Chicago is missing a golden i o'clock roll call Monday morning. There are twenty-two colored policemen traveling out of the station, which was completed about a year ago with provision for separate dormitories for the white and colored policemen. Get Into Whites Beds. After roll call Monday most of the policemen went upstairs in the station, while a few sat around and smoked for a while. The three colored men under suspension went upstairs, led by McCall.

Some of the white men were already in bed. As McCall reached the top of the stairs leading to the white policemen's dormitory McCall said: This discrimination has gone far enough and it has got to stop." A few feet behind him were Rowell and Baston. The three undressed and jumped into bed. "When" the other policemen went upstairs they found the three colored men in bed. They told them to get up, and when they refused a free for all fight was about to start when Sergt.

Casey appeared. He quieted the men and told the colored policemen to go to their own They again refused. Meantime some of the policemen who had already retired began putting on their clothes, and told Sergt. Casey that they would put the colored men out of their room. Threatens White Men.

The three colored men then jumped out of their beds. McCall is said to have stuck his revolver in the front of his trousers and started to walk up and down, declaring that the first man who attempted to bother him would-be killed. The argument continued about an hour, but finally Casey Induced the Negroes to leave the station. When the three colored men ap Cook Cc.unty Press club, and a second indorsement was by Tom Farrell." The banker looked up the stationery of the Cook County Press club and found Gus Martin duly listed aa treasurer. He was not worried about his $200, but merely wished to know a I opportunity with the food right here in the city," he declared.

I urge that Chicago hospitals, penal institutions, and the board of directors of the municipal tuberculosis sanitarium buy at ELEVEN CENT FARE ON OAK PARK 1" ASKED OF STATE BARBERS VOTE TO STRIKE ON AUG. 1 IF DENIED RAISE ARM LEE BUS DOBBIN YIELDS TO MOTOR CAR CHANNON TO PAY $450,000 TO TV0 SONS HE "FIRED" HE long court battle of Harry and James H. Channon to compel the H. Channon company, 150 North Market street, to pay dividends In conformity with an order of Federal Judge Carpenter, Samuel Insull, receiver for the Chicago and Oak Park Elevated railroad, has applied to the publio utilities commission for an increase in fares to and from points Promise All Tips Stop When Loop Grants Demands. little more about things, so he called in P.

M. King, Stock Exchange building, whose business is finding out all about things for about four hundred business men. A Tribune reporter found Farrell in Room 819, 20 East Jackson boulevard. "Really, now, I have nothing to do with the Cook County Press club," he said. I don't know about this man "White, but I understand he's in New York and hasn't any connection with the club.

I merely do engraving work for the club on Its memorial projects." Just Getting Started. Reorganized Transfer Co. to Modernize Equipment. once, and I shall urge the commission to do the same thing as soon as it is appointed." Must Buy Carload Lots. Advices from "Washington yesterday said that householders may take advantage of the sales only In the event that they care to purchase in carload lot.

Municipalities may purchase canned vegetables at the cost price provided they resell the goods to the public at the same price. In the case of canned meats municipalities may make purchases at SO per cent of the cost also with the understanding that they must be sold at the same figure. In purchases by municipalities ten days credit is allowed. Quinlan, would show the men ready The familiar horse drawn busses of How many memorials have you The government has $23,000,000 peared for duty the same night they ended quietly yesterday when Judge Charles M. Foell in the Superior court dismissed the petition, which was filed Feb.

6. 1917. The suit was dismissed upon petition of the plaintiffs and on presentation of evidence that Henry Channon, president of the company, had agreed to pay his two sons approximately $450,000 for their share of the slock. Henry Channon, 86 years old, whose life has been marked with strenuous business and legal battles, seemed quite resigned to the fact his sons had won another victory. He stood in his private office and quietly denied he had cut them off In his will, but asserted just as quietly that they could run their business and he would run his." The story of the difficulties of Mr.

Channon and his sons is written upon the court records. It is recorded he discharged the sons, who held approximately 45 per cent of the stock in the H. Channon company, because they "were bringing in no business." The two then formed the McMaster-Carr Supply company, which prospered. A barbers i strike was threatened yesterday by Arthur B. Raymond, financial secretary of local 548.

A referendum of the 2,200 members shows agreement for a strike, according to Raymond, unless the master barbers meet their demands. The barbers are asking a minimum of $23 a week and 60 per cent, which means a division with the proprietor of all over the first $23 earned. They are demanding also that all Sunday work be stopped. Raymond presented the demands to William McLavine, president of the Master Barbers association. The barbers have fixed Aug.

1 as their deadline, on which they will strike if the master barbers do not yield. Raymond promises to stop all tipping if he can get agreements in the completed?" he was asked. none, yet," he said. You see we are just getting started. But two have been ordered.

There is one for which a contribution has been received from "Walter Greenebaum and a second commemorative of Nelson Morris, for vhirh young Mr. Morris and Mrs. Rothschild contributed. But, really now, Mr. Burke or Mr.

Phillips are the men to 6ee." "I really don't know a great deal about this memorial thing," said Phillips when reached. "Mr. Farrell Is handling that." "I stopped in to see Mr. he eaid three-quarters of an hour later in The Tribune office. "He seemed sure west of the city limits.

If the increase is granted, Oak Park and Forest Park will pay for elevated transportation on the same terms as Evanston 11 cents a ride except that the Oak Park line proposes to 6ell ten rides for $1. The application was made to Judge Carpenter several days ago, but he refused to act until the utilities commission had had an opportunity to hear the company's claims. Mr. Insull represented that the property accumulated a total deficit from Dec. 1.

1918, to May 31, 1919. of $87,982. exclusive of interest on bonds and notes of $126,024. The excess of operating expenses over revenues was interest on receiver's certificates and overdue accounts, $50,786 additional. Mr.

Insull's petition pointed out that the war labor board authorized pay raises to employes which, from Aug. 1, 1918, to May 31, 1919, increased expenses $166,855 and threatens to cost $200,226 more than the pre-war scale by July 3L These financial burdens the 6 cent fare, put in effect by the roads Nov. 22, 1918, has failed, the receiver declared, to neutralize. One-third of the road's traffic according to Mr. Insull, originates In.

or is destined to, points west of the city limits. rorth of surplus meats in storage in and near Chicago. Recently bids were asked on this meat, which consists mainly of bacon, roast beef and corned beef hash in six and twelve pound cans. When the bids were opened the best bids were from the packing Interests, who offered 25 per cent of the price the government had paid the packers for the meat a few months ago. The bids rsre That shows the cupidity of the packers," said Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson.

And that' meat vaa bought with money derived from the sale of Liberty bonds." May Buy for Sanitarium. were told by Capt. Lee that they were suspended and charges would be filed against them. The charges were forwarded to the chief's office and an investigation is now being made. Chief Garrity said last night that he had received the complaints against the men and that he would take action against them when he received the detailed reports of his investigation.

Police records show all the suspended men have been dismissed from the police department by the civil service commission for misconduct and afterwards reinstated. McCall in particu the Frank Parmelee company, which have been familiar sights on the streets of Chicago since 1852, are soon to disappear. This change Is to be one result of the reorganization of the company, which was effected yesterday. Hereafter the name of the organization is to be The Parmelee company. Its capital has been increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000, and it is to become a cooperative institution, for all superintendents and heads of departments in the employ of the company are to be given opportunities to purchase stock on favorable terras.

Armour Interested. John C. Shaffer has retired as president and John J. Mitchell Is no longer chairman of the board of directors. Among those interested in the reorganized company are J.

Ogden Armour and John R. Thompson. Charles A. McCullough has been elected president to succeed Mr. Shaffer.

Mr. McCullough has been vice president of the company and is also treasurer of the John R. Thompson company. He has been with the Parmelee organization for eighteen years. Directors of the reorganized company have not been selected.

The company Is to continue Its old business of handling baggage and of carrying passengers to and from hotels and railroad stations, but Is to adopt up to date methods. The 125 horse drawn busses now in use are to be replaced by 100 motor cars of the latest pattern. The company now has 700 horses, and 500 of these are to be lar has a long record of punishments. The commissioner ordered the sn- VOLLAND SLAYER TO TELL STORY ON ST AND TOD AY Ptrictendent of the municipal sanitarium to hurry to the offices of the government quartermaster at 1839 West Thirty-ninth street to examine samples of the food on sale. On July 29, according to Lieut Richey Graham, is in charge of the sales for the government, 6,276 pounds of rice flour be sold and on July 21 bids will be opened on about 800,000 cans of tomatoes.

there had been some misunderstanding. I will get him on the telephone." After some delay he reached Mr. Farrell. I want you to explain this misunderstanding," sail Mr. Phillips into the phone.

Mr. Farrell Explains. Yes," said Mr. Farrell's voice. I want to make that plain.

The club does nothing about getting the subscriptions for, the memorials. My solicitors get those. "When we get one man to subscribe he can nominate another." Just what do the memorials cost? Two hundred dollars." percentage do the solicitors get on each?" Alderman Traps Cop. Policeman Harry Fellers of the West Chicago avenue station was suspended yesterday by Chief Garrity. He is charged with having received $5 from Ellas Halperin, who has a fruit stand at Milwaukee avenue and Wood street, for failure to press charges against the fruit vender.

Aid. Walter P. Steffen, chairman of the police committee, told the chief that he trapped the policeman by giving Halperin a marked $5 bill, which the latter is said to have used to pay off the policeman after the charges were dismissed before Judge "Wells. Two Groups of Soldiers loop on the new schedule. Candy Plants Stay Idle.

North side candy factories were Idle during the day. So were the workers who went on strike Tuesday. Both sides had meetings. Employes of the National Candy company, 329 West Superior street, remained away from their duties. Theirs was said to be a 6trike of intimidation, as the employers advised them not to appear, fearing scenes of Tuesday would be reported.

The strikers then besieged various other plants, forcing the workers to quit. Workers at the Novelty company, 212 Austin avenue, and in the Shutter Johnson factory, 241 East Illinois street. Joined the strike. Satisfied, Yet Stay Out. Because foremen at the municipal garbage reduction plant are holding out for an increase of from $200 to $300 a year, garbage handlers at the plant refused to return to their work, although their representative told Commissioner of Public Works Charles R.

Francis they are satisfied with the $4 a day they have been promised. The commissioner will confer with the foremen this afternoon and hopes to have to strike if these demands are not meL It will require twenty-four hours to conduct such a referendum. Members of the workers union declare they will stand resolutely for 75 cents for conductors and 80 cents for motormen. If the wage scales are formulated tonight. Joint committees will approach officials of the and surface lines and probably present their case Monday.

Ruling by War Board. The statement of the war board when the present wages were fixed was: The showing made by the company to us discloses that, in order to enable It to render adequate service the fares which it is permitted to charge should be substantially increased." This statement, signed by Wmiam Howard Taft and Frank P. Walsh, who served as arbitrators, concluded with other comments on the dismal future confronting the utilities management. Possibility of another strike tieup like that of 1915 was averted In 1918 by this mediation, both side agree. Just as they agree the new demands will present a greater variance than ever.

So dissatisfied are the employes with their present wage that they already have conferred on their committee power to negotiate and to call a strike. It Is considered probable the surface car men will give their committee the same power tonight if the drafting committee's scales are adopted as satisfactory. 4,000 GOBS AT GREAT LAKES ORDERED TO SEA Great Lakes. IIL, July 10. Special.

1 Four thousand men from the middle west in training at Great Lakes were ordered to sea today by the Bureau of Navigation. The order is designated as rush and will have priority over all discharges and releases. The men will be started for the Atlantic coast this week and the draft will have been completed within seven days. Man power ia urgently needed to fill the ranks on the front line battleships of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, thinned by the wholesale demobilization of reserves and regulars-Rear Admiral Victor Blue, chief of the bureau of navigation, who is now under treatment in the naval hospital at Great Lakes, stated today that order will disorganize training wora m.t Great Lakes more or less for a year. He stated that inasmuch as the fleet must come first always, the station's Interest must be sacrificed to furnish the fleet with a sufficient number of men.

A large portion of the men who will be Included in the draft have only a few weeks of training and are comparatively raw. In his statement regarding the draft Admiral Blue said that men from the Great Lakes training station were the best sailors in the fleet and that the navy expected the majority of Its best men in the future to come from here. SECOND DEPUTY CAN DRAW PAY, ETTELSON RULES Mrs. Vera Trepagnier is expected to take the witness stand in Judge Theodore Brentano's court today to tell the story by means of which she hopes to clear herself of the murder of Paul F. Volland.

the publisher. What that story will be has been forecast in the testimony of the state's witnesses against her. The state practically closed its case against the aged woman yesterday with the testimony of policemen and handwriting and revolver experts, and with the reading Into the records of two statements of the tragedy made by the defendant herself. One of the statements was read from The $200 covers all costs. NOOTBAAR URGES CROOKS9 REGISTRY TO FIGHT CRIME A system of parole registration for known criminals so strict "a criminal would have to get permission from a police captain before he could go out of town over the Fourth of July," is the remedy for the increase in crime in Chicago, according to Capt.

Max Nootbaar of the Hyde Park police district. The captain and Acting Captain Michael Lee of the Fiftieth street district were called before the council police commitee yesterday to explain why robberies Increased from 200 to 400 per cent in their districts during "But couldn't any one with $200 a memorial and get into the Hall of disposed of. Some of the remaining horses will be used in handling baggage, in which work they are to be aided by 49 three ton motor trucks. Doing Business for 67 Tears. The company was organized by Frank, Parmelee and has been doing business for 67 years, during which time Parmelee agents have been on almost every through passenger train that has entered Chicago, giving out baggage checks and attending to the needs of travelers.

Arrive in City Today The 106th engineers and 446th casual company are scheduled to arrive in Chicago at 9 a. m. today at the Grand Central station, from which they will march to the Khaki and Blue club in Grant park to be welcomed by relatives and friends. After being the guests of Chicago's welcome home committee at luncheon the soldiers will entrain for Camp Grant at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Second Deputy Superintendent of Police Charles E.

Frazier can draw his for the remainder of the year, "ven though there is no appropriation Pay him and in spite of the fact that his detectives and investigators iave been taken from him. according to the corporation counsel's office. A opinion to this effect is now being prepared at the direction of Corpora-Uen Counsel Samuel A. Ettelson. A council subcommittee three weeks declared Mr.

Frazier's department superfluous and the city council, there-'we, failed to appropriate for his sal- Fame? yes, it might happen, but well, you know, there is that matter of obtaining a nomination." But P. M. King, who makes It his business to find out about things, says A A. Sprague. and John V.

Farwell, and one of the Mandel boys have decided to wait a bit before buying the niche in this particular Hall of Fame offered them. stenographic notes by Bernard J. McDonald, a police stenographer who took Mrs. Trepagnier's story of the killing the garbage removal system working, tomorrow morning. about an hour after it happened.

March, April, and May. lr r3 S-2 1 11 1 llllllMII KERNEL CO0TIE-. intilrtfiime. JliSl' Sw COS ov-tk FURmTOR.E MA BUN Trying To SEL4. I11L1 II.

iw. iv. I I I ,1 1 hr" IA 773 ttJ I A (JfKRCAtM COLUL T- Mr. Ettelson then held that fail-0r to appropriate does not abolish an "See and declared that an ordinance wouid be necessary. The council then him to frame such an ordi-nce, but the opinion now, in process of preparation will hold that the state prevents the abolition of the of-a before the end of the fiscal year, 31.

1919. U.S. LOOKS INTO SHOE AND CANNED i ii i it i Cm vv I. I Sr I 1v i 1 I 1 i ii i ii ii -j 7 a ji i. iii i i i jt i C0OD5 INCREASE -mw iiii i AWvyi a 1107 1 UA i' Frf we iw 1 1 -v-a -fc.

4. 1 r.HWhftlKl ubklkM I Shoi es 20 per cent Increase in cost P- 1: aririitinnnl 10 ner rent increase Ian.1. Canned foodstuffs 5 per cent In August additional 10 per cent kcrtase Jan. 1. 'ese notations were added yester-to the memoranda of Assistant pi'trict Attorney Benjamin P.

Epstein fc'-s investigation of profiteering and high cost of living. Mr. Epstein an Inquiry during the day to de-tnine why leather and canned goods shooting up in price. shoe manufacturers referred him to scarcity of leather and the in-eased cost of production. The food friers exhibit figures regarding in-ftfed cost of labor.

Open Verdict Returned on Salesman's Drowning An open verdict was returned yesterday by a coroner's Jury which held an inquest into the death of Robert Stayes. 40 years old. a traveling salesman employed by the E. D. Kimball company of 159 North Market street, whose body was found in the lagoon at Jackson park Wednesday.

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