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..ID LIGISLflTOR James I. Day FaYors Amend-! merit of Frimary Election 4 j Law by Changing Pri- j mary Date. TIMES BIRUAV ATSTATE CAPIT.U, ' INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 20. Some of t members of the coming llgislature !isvi outlined matters of legislation w hich they have in mind and in'whieh they are interested and there is good teason to anticipate that the session will be a lively one as far as proposed ins are concerned. Most of the inemV.rrs who have been heard from Indicate that they will not Introduce any hi. If, or, if they introduce any they will be. few. And there seems to be a general trend in the same direction among thun, because a number of members have expressed themselves as being In favor of certain lines of legislation. James I. Day of East Chicago, a carpenter and a member of the bouse of I representatives from Lake county, says he will favor amendment of the pri- j mary election law by changing the date of holding the primaries to a date ( later in the year. He will also sup-, port a bill to make numerous changes in the workingmen's compensation law. j anri to makSe changes in the law gov erning the state bureau of inspection. Another measure in which he will be interested is one to regulate hours of labor in factories and on railroads. Perhaps the member with the most pretentious program and the broadest platform is T. J. Hudgins, newly electel senator from Clay. Owen and Jlorpan counties. When Hudgins was asked as to what kind of legislation he had in mind for the session he answered with the following list: Safeguardnig the lives and health of working men and women; prohibiting excessive larges and interest on small loans; prohibiting pollution of rivers; good roads: new state constitution; woman f jfrrage: free school books; more pay fr school teachers, on account of the epense necessary to prepare for teachrtg; law to make the public service ommisslon of more benefit to the peop e: prohibition; economy in all departments of the state. William J. Miles of New Market, (Continued on page nine.) Special to The Timas. TIOBART. 1ND., -Dec. 20. More than three hundred friends of Lew Barnes, !ierin-elect. gathered here last night to (flebrale his election with an indoor barbecue and to present him with a magnificent gold and diamond star. The celebration was held in the big garage building which had been arranged for that purpose. Music and professional vaudeville acts were features of the entertainment. While Mr. Barnes made no formal announcements of deputyship appointments, he did assure some of the Hammond contingent that Charles Whitaker, brother of Sheriff Henry Whitaker, and the present deputy at Hammond, would continue as deputy in Hammond, thus putting to rest all speculation on the subject. , .ludge John Killigrew presided as tosstmaster. Among the speakers were Mayor Johnson and Prosecutor-elect Clyde Hunter of Gary. "Cully" Swanson of Hammond, and Editor A. J. Smith of H..bart. In the Hammond contingent were Mike" Warnimont, 'Pop" Clabby. "Tom" Croak and Deputy Sheriffs Albert Morris and Charles Whitaker. The sheriff's star given to Mr. Barnes is said to he one of the finest ever fashioned in Chicago. Six commercial white diamonds flash from the center and the points of the star,' the center stone weighing one and three-quarter carats, and the point stones three-quarter carats each. It was pinned on the sheriff-elect by Judge Killigrew.. and while Mr. Barnes response to the toast was brief it was earnest and sinAre. QRRY INTERURBftN ON OLD SCHEDULE The Gary and Inte'rurban system resumed the half hour schedule between Hammond and Gary todays after a spell of three cars an hour. Gars for Vie winter will leave on the even and ftlf hour, at both place.

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Yaka Hula Hicky Dula. SIOUX CITY, IA., .Dec. 20. Men blushed, women walked out, and young people giggled in Grace Methodist church, when in the course of a concert' number presented by Morningside college, a Hawaiian girl, clad in picturesque seaweed, sidled out upon the "stage," really the pulpit rostrum, and began an energetic "hula hula," with a surfeit of undulant wiggles. The concert committee explained later that it was all a mistake, that the lyceum bureau had "slipped one over" on them by substituting a quartet of South sea dancers for what was scheduled as an "intellectual interpretation of Hawaiian musical trends." THE PASSING SHOW .THE Princes Chi may is dead WHETHER she will be much missed remains to be seen CHEMAY and chimay not. IT would be terrible to be married to Lloyd George HE lays down the law just like the wiff. WE turn from Parliament to read the sad intelligence that skirts are to toe higher and tighter next spring EVIDENTLY something's comins off before long. NOTICE that a New Tork man has presented his wife with a 1150,000 house for Christmas " THIS -will probably make trouble for a lot of us who have only about $149,999 in our jeans this year. HERE'S a man who asphyxiated the bull moose and is now trying to squirt A SALINE solution INTO the elephant WHAT is going to be done about it? NEITHER do we. PTMPLY can't get the paper out on time if Agnes and her white stockings COME ' down into the composing room ANY more than is absolutely necessary. ' A MAN may be dressed in the very height of fashion and look like Apollo YET be a soup-gargler. NEWSPAPER has a long article entitled, "Kissing Is Not a Crime" THIS releases us. girls, from U fear of sinning. ONLY three days left in which to buy him one of those TPvICK ties. AT that we fail to see why some wives should love, honor and obey their husbands WHEN nobody, .eiise dors! REAR! FOR ICE HARDEST The ice harvest on Wolf Lake can commence on 'Friday or Saturday of this week, providing the Consumers company is able to get sufficient men. The ice today was reported to be better than seven inches thick. Ice of nine to ten inches is the most easily handled, but if pressed for time it will be cut at a thickness of eight and a half inches. In former years the ice companies always got men at about fifteen cents an hour, but owing to scarcity of labor it is expected that it will have to pay more probably twenty-live cents, and recruit its ftrrces in Chicago. Skating is again the chief sport with plenty of good ice everywhere. RIB PUNGTURES THIS MAN'S LUNG A lung punctured by a rib which was fractured when a friend kicked him in the chest. Max Tanuk. an East lammond man, finds himself in a very embarrassing position at St. Margaret's hospital. It appears that air is constantly escaping from Tanuk's leaking lung, accumplates in his system, especially Just beneath the skin and has increased his size noticeably. According to report Tanuk has some difficulty in suppressing an impulse to float out of the window like a Zeppelin when the nurse airs, the room 1n the mornin;.;. He is all blown up and it is roally very serious. The police nre holding Theodpftppron, 556 Wolter avrniMt, on mm felonious e?sault.

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DESERTS Slick ' Chicago Youth for Robbery in East Chicago is Given' 2-14 Years Perhaps it Will Be Lesson for - Dips. Michael Depisa of Chicago on trial for conspiracy for having -assisted in a purse snatching in East Chicago, in which Mrs. Steve Pinsak lost $683, was found guilty by a jury, in Judge Hardy's court Tuesday afternoon after less than two hours deliberation. The man who actually got the money got away. The robbery occurred on September 23rd. Depisa was tcr be sentenced today, the penalty being from two to fourteen years. Depisa who is only 21 years of age. said that a Chicago acquaintance hired him to bring him from Chicago to East Chicago on his motorcycle. Depisa testified he was a block away from the scene of the robbery and was tinkering with his machine but was ready to start on a moment's notice when his partner hurried up to him. At Rwby the man with the money got on a street car. near the state line. Depisa stopped to fix a puncture. It was at this time that he was arrested by South Chicago policeman. ALLIES LEAVE THE United Press Cablegram. LONDON. Dec. 20. The allies have not slammed the door on peace; they have simply said to Germany: "Here are, our terms; take them or leave them. It is your move but don't come again in the role of victors." . This was the universal British view today. . The public interpretation is that Lloyd George has furnished von Betn-mann-rHollweg n opportunity to demonstrate his sincerity. If Germany really desires peace, they argue, she knows how to go about it. , Incidentally it was remarked here today how adroitly and strikingly Lloyd George had destroyed Germany's illusion that England is dominating the policies of. the entente nations. Lloyd George's plan for universal national service and civilian mobilisation, molding the nation into an army behind the army, is popularly accepted today as though it were the simplest routine of peace time. Not the slightest thought of opposition is manifest. Impending nationalizing of shipping and mines has been anticipated for some time, and the Welsh miners alone have objected to nationalization of their field. Taking over shipping by the government has likewise been accepted. . AI.X.3 XT A. BLUFF. By Carl W. Ackermaa. BERLIN. Dec. 20. Germany regards speeches of the statesmen of England, France and Russia, as a bluff to impress Berlin with the entente's dj termination. The entente governments cannot do otherwise in view of their past .statements although they are really anxious' for peace. ThiB was the view reflected in all walks of life today, following Lloyd George's answer to the imperial chancellor in his speech before commons. Berlin is not pessimistic. The general view is that statements from London. Petrograd and Paris are not to be taften seriously, when weighed against German progress in Roumania. Not only was this the public view. 'for' officials coincided. One official declared that no belligerent would ever ask a neutral nation to begin negotiations. Nevertheless steps by a neutral now would not be regarded as unfriendly by the central powers. He added, however, that the public state of mind 13 not such now that American interference would be welcome. DIED AT CEDAR LAKE (Special to The Times.) LOWELL. IND., Dec. 20. Mrs. Mark A. Webber, who has been in poor health for the past several months, died at her home in Cedar Lake Mon day night. The deceased formerly, liv ed in Lowell but for the past twenty years has resided in Cedar Lafie. She was a ' woman whom every one liked. ! Although she was never blessed with children, she has raised several rrom childhood to manhood and womanhood. These children , knew he as a mother and well did she perform the duties of a mother to them. She leaves her husband - and many relatives to mourn her. She was "5 yea-s

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Left to right, above: J. AV. Mack, Oaca NEW YORK. Dec. 20. This week marks the climax of the effort of American Jewry to bring help to the stricken and starving members of the race in the warring countries of Europe. , Having raised and expended for their relief to date more than $,- 000,000, there has just been launched the beginning of a new .campaign to raise $10,000,000 more during 1917. Hundreds of workers have been engaged, tens of thousandSj.-of indfridual contributions have been received, ranging from large sums given by the wealthy to the pennies of the poor members of the race. Jacob H. Srhlff, GARY MAYO PATH Johnson Irritated by Alderman and Official Organ Orders Men's Arrest. Mayor Johnson of Gary today instructed Chief of Police Forbis to stop all Jitney men, who haven't filed a bond, from operating their cars. Tomorrow any car operating for which a bond hasn't been issued will result in the arrest of its operator. At the mayors office it was stated that December 16 was the time for the jitney men to have their bonds filed. They are for $2,500 for smaller cars, $3,000 for larger ones. ' In the city council Monday night Alderman W. S. Feuer, one of the Gary Commercial club's leaders in getting a vice commission to probe into city affairs, a movement also having the backing of W. F. Hodges, candidate for the mayoralty nomination, attacked the mayor for not enforcing the ordinance. Mr. Feuer then requested that the jitney men be given until December 20. Mayor Johnson was further irritated last evening when his official organ, the Gary Tribune, printed: "It was intimated last night that there might be a scandal lurking in the crevices of the jitney situation." Then the mayor went up into the air "right." The result today was the order to the police chief. PEDDLER KILLED BY fOHON TRAIN Martin Yalowiti, an aged peddler who had no relatives in Hammond and li-wed at 4S1 Sibley street, was killed today when a south-bound Monon passenger struck the rear end of the wagon on which he was seated and threw him on the tracks beneath the train. " The accident occurred between Russell and Fayette streets at 10:25 a. m. YalowitJ! had been loading fruit into his wagon from a car on an Erie switch track. He had completed his load and was turning around to drive south to Russell street. As the wagon 0f : passenger train struck it. Yalowiti was th'-own under the train and instantly killed. Captain of Police RImbach learned that Yalowlt is supposed to bo survived by a brother wlift lives in Hegewiscli and some children

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r Straus and L. t. Brandeta.. Below Supreme Court Justice , Louisi D. Brandeis, ex-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. Public Service Commissioner Oscar S. Straus. .Federal. Judge Julian Mack, Nathan Straus. Felix W. Warburg, Louis Marshall and Dr. Judah L. Magnes are among the leaders In the movement to raise the large sum now contemplated, and' inspired by them, men and women who hitherto hc.ve played but a small part in the larger Jewish philanthropies brought &bout the consummation of this largest of all charitable enterprises. New York city has played a relatively minor part in the great plan of relief; it is American Jewry as a whole A BOOST BY DE. H. Z. BABNASD. For rood and Drug Commissioner for . Indiana, (Written for tho United Free.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 20. Rica Is an ideal food and is still cheap. It is almost the only staple which has not advanced In price. It is as cheap today as it was a year ago and is full of the finest nutriment. There is every reason" why rice should -be a staple) article of diet in American .homes, even more staple than potatoes, for it is more nutritious, very easily digested and when properly cooked very palatable. Polished rice contains S8 per cent nutriments, a little more than wheat. The practice of polishing rice has been severely criticized and the brown, or unpolished rice, is growing in popularity. Polishing the rice kemal gives it a pearly gloss fancied by cooks; and improves Its appearances. The polishing is a blunder, however, from the standpoint, of food values;, as it robs the grain of nearly all of its fat; much of its protein and most of its mineral salts and no small parts of its flavor. Nevertheless, polished or unpolished, rice is juFt as good & food for the American as it is for the whole population of the world. The housewife who wants to feed her family well, yet cheaply, will use more rice this winter than she has before, and every time she prepares it she will find it easier to cook and more acceptable to her family. In these days of high priced foods, remember that rice, the commonest of all grains, is still cheap. BOSTON VOTES WET BOSTON. Dee. 20. Boston yesterday voted to continue the licensed sale of liquor after the 'liveliest campaign on the liquor question that the city has had in years. The vote in favor of license was 53.459, with 29.997 against. Last year the vote for license was 46,115 and 31,877 against. The no-license advocates who had lost so consistently in -the -past had been aroused to fresh efforts by evangelistic campaigns and the concerted action of temperance societies representing various religious beliefs. BROTHER-IN-LAW DEPUTY AUDITOR A. L Murray of the high school, has received word that his brother-in-law. John E. Reed of Indianapolis, has been appointed deputy state auditor of Indiana. TRAINS ARE LATE Because of the heavy Christmas mall, many of the trains carrying mall are late. Some trains from Chicago to Hammond are all late all the way from thirty minutes to an hour. TIMES advertlstnc will enable yon t break all your business records for the year end. . Call a TIMES ad man

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Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff. that has contributed so liberally f the call of their brethren across the seas. Every hamlet and villagt throughout the country has been enlisted in the cause and committees have been formed in. each. Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsey College, Philadelphia, and affiliated with every national Jewish educational and philanthropic movement- -in America, is chairman of the Philadelphia branch of the American Jewish relief Committee as well as a member of the Joint distribution committee. Col. Henry Cutler is chairman of the Provi(Continued on page two.) WMi$ HEWS (By In Med Press Cablegram.) PARIS, Dec. 20. Great artillery Activity in the region of l.oti vemont and Chambrette's farm, north of Verdun was reported in today's official statement. BERLIN (via wireless). Dec. 20. Stronjr artillery fire and patrol activities at isolated points oa the Sonirae, the Alsne, the east Mease and the. Champagne sectors, were reported in today's official statements. Failure of several enemy attacks by Rnsalan battalions on the east bank of the Golden Bistrlsa river was also reported. I Jvcnlnt of artillery lire at some places on the Iacedoaia front was reported. PETKOGRAD, ' Dee. 2rt. Repulse of enemy attacks by KnRo-Roumanian troops on the left bank of the Danube in the region of Parlatn are reported In today' official statement. Flank fightlnn; was more Intense than usual oa the Dobrudja front the statement aldi "On the Macedonia front there was intense fighting in the region of Orna, Uentrak and I machen," the statement continues. "The enemy was driven back after a half bour bombardment and heavy artillery attack southwest of Brody. Repeated attempts of the enemy to advance were nn. successful. DEIILIV (via wireless), nee. 20. The French general, . Berthelot, rommanding the allied troops in Roumania , has asked for recall from " that division, according to the newspaper ' Hamburger Fremdenblatt. The same article states that a majority of the British officers attached to the Roumanian general staff hove started for England. MOTHER OF 3 WEEKS BABY BURJEHO DEATH Just Before Christmas Tragedy Casts Blight on Gary . Home. This is the.story of another of those tragedies that- seem to come with the Christmas tide. It is about the death of a young mother, who died at .the Mercy hospital, Gary, early today. She succumbed to burns received when a bottle of stove polish exploded. A husband, Ptter Gust, and a baby of three weeks, a daughter, survive. Mrs. Margaret Gus. 1781 Ysn Buren street, was the victim. She was burned Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Gust was in her thirtieth year. The funeral wilt be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Williams and Marshall chapel. Interment will be nt 'in ry Oak Hilt cemetery.

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SYRACUSE BY CHIE A Corpse at Ona Jail, Frank Burns Well in Anolhsr. Gary Chief Verifies Report On the eleventh of October, 1914, Frank E. Burns, claiming to be a horse dealer, was arrested by C Ohlson, a street car conductor, in Hammond, and a charge of assault with intent to commit a felony placed against him. Bound over to the Lake Superior court and sent to the county jail at Crown Point awaiting trial. Burns vanished from the sight of the police. Inquiries by Chief of Police Peter Austgen brought forth the official report from Prosecutor James A. Patterson that "Burns had died in the county jail," and the case against him had therefore been dismissed. CLASSED AS'-D1P." But Burns refused to stay respectab ly dead and buried. Ho has popped up unexpectedly in Syracuse, N. Y.. and found a new home in the jail there. The Hammond police had classed him as one of "the dips" who so fortunately escaped prosecution and their suspicions were confirmed when they received information that he was, in good health and in jail and, very much alive. The police have at all times been ready to prosecute Burns, having as their main witness Ex-Alderman Sturm who detected the man. Burns, according to the police, was caught red-handed attempting to get into Sturm's pockets. At the time dips (Continued on psjco two.).. Emil J. Stenzel and Otto Snyder, two young men arrested in a raid by revenue officers in Hammond last week, are out on bond, Stenzel under $5,000 and Snyder under $1,000. Having waived arraignment before V. H. ?ommissioner Charles Surprise, they were hound over by him to the federal grand Jury which convenes in Indianapolis in May. Ten government men figured in the raid in which nearly a wagon load of tubs of oleomargerine was t aken for exhibits. The two men are charged with selling oleomargerine without having paid the necessary tax; for coloring without paying the required tax and for - not properly marking and branding the article. Dan J. Chapln. an internal revenue agent of Chicago, is out here today on a new trip of inspection. un nrnni r .iiilUliU fLUrLL V; -LDWE HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs. Francis Baker, Injured in Auto Crash, Quit Gary Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. I'rancls A. Baker f Hammond, who Were injured yesterday in a motor accident at 15th avenue and Grant street, Tolleston, Gary, shortly befoie noon today left Mercy hospital today. Until Mr. and Mr. Baker were badly bruised and cut and were removed to the hospital. Wh'.la able to leave the institution they are still suffering from tue effects of tiie accident. Mr. and Mrs. P.aker were in tSir auto when the slippery streets and blinding snow caused an International Fruit company motor truck to collide with them.. Their car was damaged. Tony C. Koszura, 1313 Adams street-. Gary, driver of the motor truck v.-js also Injured. HER BOY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Mrs. Clara Russell sat up all night at her home in 2S4 Michigan avenue, and early today her watchful waitliisf was rewarded when John Cecil Brown rigg, her son, aged 21, came home after four years service in the United States navy. ""If he is as tickled to get home, a.s I am to have him he'll never go back," was Mrs. Russell's comment. The young man has been aboard the man-of-war Raleigh, cruising in Mexican waters throughout the revolution there and at one time was landed for action, taking part in a skirmish. ARREST PASSENGER John Smith, burly negro, was arrested today by Officer Iute on a Gret-n Line street car and charged with carrying concealed weapons. The Mike Inik" incident has aroused the police to special caution. The negro had caused uneasiness among passengers who notired the outline of a revolver which he carried beneath h's ont. ,

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