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Show HILLSTROM IS BURIED; I FUNERAL TYPICAL ONE CHICAGO, Nov. 21. -They'ro burying Joe Hillstrom tomor- wM low. It's n big event in Chicago's "rebel" ranks. .Jm The ghetto, the slums, the lodging house qunrters nnd the mnnu- ;JWJi fncturing districts nre buzzing with preparations for tho funeral mm of tho Industrial Workers of the World song writer who was iH executed in Utah after conviction of murder. Anarchists, nihil- lyH ists, sabolngists and secret organizations whose oxistence is based Iffl on opposition to present social nnd economic systems, nre taking SjK part in the honorary rites over the body of their dead comrade. t Cs Handbills in u dozen different languages have been circulated, iiH urging large attendance nt the West Side Auditorium at 10 o'clock gfll tomorrow morning. Today hundreds of persons passed Into the SiD undertaking rooms nnd viewed the body of the poet whose full H name was Hillstrom. iBB An Industrial Workers of the World band of forty pieces will furnish funeral procession music. The Russian mandolin club will 59 provide music during the services. Hillstrom's own songs will be '1 0B' sung nnd played. !Bl Black bordered handbills tied with cord in the organization "fRf color of red and black have been circulated with the program for irflU tlio oxcrcisos. In black typo on the front of one is the inscription : k OK "In memory of Joe Hill, nuirdcrcd by the authorities of the ft 9! btate of Utah, November li), 11)15. He died that men might live. 'W& We never forget." blsK O. N. Hilton, attorney of Denver, who defended Hillstrom nnd LijHl who represented the defonne in tho Haywood, Puttibono and Moyer JraE trials, will deliver the funeral oration, which will be folk wed by ign9 addresses by James Larkin of Dublin, tho man who led tho last jMLU dock workers' strike in England, nnd Willinm D Haywood. MBA Bill Lorton, ono of Hillstrom's companions, accompanied the ' EHfl body from Salt Lake City to Chicago. . - tyQM I il |