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LGARDS" FORCE II GARY i Shortage Causes Big Dealers to Apportion Supply and j Change Contracts. "Coal cards' are in force at Ga'y as far as several of the 19 dealers of the ity and tlieir contract customers are concerned In other words, those who contracted for coal when ,the price was low will only get a part of their supply. Coal will be apportioned out on a prorata basis each month at the old (contract) price. When it is gone then the dealer will supply for the balance of each month coal at current prices. This means that those who had bought mine run on contract when it wit a It. SO a ton will get what the dealers can give them each month nd at the. $4.60 price. But whop the pro rated amount gives out for ..he month those who want, coal for the rest of the month will have to buy it jit current prices mine run varying s high as $7.50 a ton to some consumers. The Gary dealers say they are mak(Continued on page, five.) COMMITTEE MEETS TONIGHT The Committee of Ten appointed two weeks ago at a citizens' meeting to outline the. plan for the new Hammond movement, will meet again this evening'. Upon the suggestion of Prof. P. G. Holden. of the International Harvester Company educational extension department, the Hammond AVoroan's club lias ben invited to send ten members to tonight's meeting. Prof. Holden. whose inspiring talks and lectures have been a prime factor in getting the Hammond plan idea started, wiil also be at the meeting which will be l . id in the Chamber of Commerce beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The scope of the Hammond plan is not yet defined, and probably will not l.r until after a city-wide campaign which is to be put on in the third ve-k in January. From now untU after th campaign'the commitee will be busy getting the general outline of the movement before the public and after bavins sounded the people it will be ready to goto work on a plan that will be e d in the meantime. THE HI HAS ft HEW ACT .A? "RobfrHn Crusoe, Jr." Chorus Girls Perform at Big Show. RiiJy jjunday's "Holly Circus" is branching out. N'cnv it's a musical omedy. or. more accurately speaking, h burlesque show. A dispatch "from lloston. Mass., to the New York Ameri- . ti states: "Cp-to-date evangelism and ' musical comedy united forces this afternoon at Hilly Sunday's tabernacle when the entire Ktfbinson Crusoe, Jr., company attended services and five members t.f the troupe hit the trail. J

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"The chonis girls sang several numH . bets they had rehearsed. j Jiaminond saloons wil close prontpt"Sunday said to-niglit he had re- S jy at twelve o'clock Sunday evVning fused a $1,000,000 offer from the,whicU is New Year's Eve. Mayor i-.ovies." :John Smalley stated today that there What could be more appropriate? i have been no requests asking for an

Sunday, the money grabber,' is .a .prohibitionist. And Robinson Crusoe as lost on a desert isle. Governor Ralston ordered a conmcjtat ion of sentence yesterday for John I I-apadat, who is serving a life sentence in the state prison for murder committed in Lake county in November, laytf. Lapadat was tried in the Lake circuit court, found guilty and sentenced to hang on March 29. 1907. Just, one oav before the prisoner was to be ex ecuted Governor J. Frank Hanly commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Governor Hanly stated hat there was insufficient evidence to convict the man of murder in the first degree, as a reason for his commutation. Since that ime the prisoner has maintained a perfect record at the prison and an appeal from the jurors and others connected with the case led Governor Ralston to commute- the life sentence to from two to twenty-one years.

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! ' 5 i Miss Hazel Daley demonstrating just how she did it. . CHICAGO, Dec. 23. Was. phc J.mgr, lingering look at the we.ll turned ankle and shapely leg of Miss Hazel Haley, worth $,",500? This is the question" that Peter Zyla is today asking himself. Judge J. I!. Vaughn,' chairman of the state industrial board, will announce 'his decision upon the point on January 2. Zyla, who was employed at the stockyards, was awarded $3,."0u by the state industrial board upon his claim that he. had' suddenly been .stricken totally blind. An accidental company, which insured his employers against loss under the workmen's compensation act, became suspicious. Acting at the company's 'instigation Miss Daley posed as a motion picture actress and appeared at'Zyla's house with a director and camera operator. Zyla eagerly gave permissio nto film a scene there. "Raise your .skirts a little higher, please," the fake director said to Mis. Daley. She did. and now it is alleged that Zyla took a long and lingering look. i WANT AD RATES Commencing Jan. 2, 1917 CCopy for insertion the same day must be received at this office before 12 o'clock to insure classifica tion. C25c for first insertion of three lines or less. C40c for two insertions. C 60c for three insertions. Q Additional lines , will be charged for in proportion. CNo classified ads will be accepted over telephone unless that person has a telephone and furnishes us with the correct number of same at time of placing the ad. SALOONS OPEN SUNDAY. TO 12 IN HAMMOND extensinon of time and that the m n isters of the city have not presented petitions for a "dry'Xew Year's Eve. He said that a. meeting hftd been called to consider the request, of the ministers of the county to have the saloons closed Sunday but that it hid been postponed and he did not know the status of the matter at present. HOLD THEIR jTIIES Bl'UEAl , j J AT STATE CAIITAI rxDlAN'APOLJS, IXU., Dec -3- The comittee of Democratic senators ap pointed some time ago to confer with the Republican senators on the subject of a division of the patronage of the senate is holding a meeting here today to determine on a course sine the Republicans decided not to dual with them or to divide the .ser-ate job It :s rumoien that the jemocrats are laying pians to use some strong measures in order to gain and retain control of the senate, thus makinr sure of the jobs, but just what will b done cannot be know n until ! after the close oi me meeting: oi committee today. A ll' nePP" ' people wk mrm till thnVu whnt THE TIKES '"

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SPEECHES Declare That President Commits U. S, Without Con- j suiting Congress. j Hy lulled I're.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. i Three United States senators toiday denounced the recent hand1 1 nrr r f affairs as a reversion to secret rlinlnmarv. r j i They declared that not only had recent matters been hedged about by secrecy as far as the public is concerned but that even the senate j foreign re'ations committee has not been given opportunity lo "know" what is going on. The senators who voiced this disapproval of the government were Poindexter of Washington State. Weeks of Massachusetts, and Sutherland of Utah. "My understanding is that the present administration has declared itself an ardent foe to secret diplomacy," said Poindexter. "In practice, however, it has shown itself a past master in the art of mystery and concealment. "There are veiled rumors of secret policies of such vital interest of the toumrv' Avhte-hr the pi estttc-nt -tHfl"Tmn-mit us to without consulting us. TUcre Continued on page lo.l WHERE'S THE FLAG? THATS THE QUESTION illy lulled prrxn.t Pec. 23. Who Rot the button, Ann's age, and who hit Hilly I'atterson probably will all be solved before, the National Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage finds out who got the' banner they swung before President Wilson from the House arallerv. Also the question of ii- li a If la r . w Press Agent. Henry Swinehatt, ho engineered the affair that startled the joint Congressional audience on th:H otherwise peaceful day, admitted today the Union has about given up hope of geeting back its banner. The. day after its appearance in the House, those who flung It to the legislative breeze only to have it unceremoniously jerked to earth, went to the sergeant-at-arms' office to. get it back. They failed to do so. The next heard of the new historic emblem was at the Gridiron dirner several Saturday nights back. when the Gridironers pulled a burlesque of the ineirtent while the President was oo -easing them. The same banner v, ... ; ed in the burlesque. News of this event gave Congressional Union officials hope. They button-holed every Gridiron t'luh member they knew and some they didn't. They pleaded they wanted the grandoldilag to use as a .background when they were photographed in their new homo upon the occasion of dedicating it. They did not get it. TRIPLE SYSTEM BLOCK SIGNALS The Monon automatic block system just completed between McDoel and Bedford is greatly admired. It is expected that the, line from Bedford to Orleans will also be completed within the next two weeks. The eouth end has what is known as the triple system with red. green and yellow targets. When the red light is on it signifies danger and cannot be passed until preceded by a flagman. The green light signifies the block, is open and the yellow the caution signal, meaning to slow up expecting to find the next block red. Some of the blocks are overlapped with the same colors, two caution blocks, and one red. South to the other, or vice versa. Under this system it is absolutely Impossible for 'trains to have a head-on, or rear-end - collUion unless the red" block is ignor-

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ed. Under this system trains are j treasurer and controller; $1,00" for the amply projected in case of a broken j department of public safety for fire rail. . , i maintenance; $500 for same department . ror p0ii(.e maintenance; J350 for depart"DRY" PETITIONS ment of public works to tske care of mrVDrTTT A TiTrtXT ' improvement expense on Washington IrlXCls U JUAi XKJVt street pavement and sewer; J212 for "Dry" federation petitions, each topubic xvorks to raise switch track at be signed and sent to Miss Clara Scars , JA,er fare.! pumping station. 151 E. Market street, Indianapolis, are! ' being circulated by the Woman'? -p. n "IfirnT-ion Christian Temperance Union of Lake' JJeatllOI luXS. JVlUl 03.11 countv, nuking the members , of tiic i

; house of representatives of the Tciii General Assembly, to vote for the pas sage of a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes within the stte of Indiana.

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The crew of. the United States submarine H-3 had a narrow escape recently ran on a shoal near Eureka, Cal. Chlorine gas was generated in men escaped only by huddling in turns together in the conning tower.

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' ! of Jast Chicago, was elected vice YO'L" can t make any soups out of it. j chairman, and I5ert Kssex. of IndianJ.VKK Jl'UTKK has f..und out that aVU ' W!'s 1ct"1 national commitwedding. rings are being worn looser I teeman. Salsbury succeeds Edwin M. than ever r-,e'-'' who "was recently appointed hy j t lovernor Ralston as a member of the AND that ha'f the time i public service commission at $6,000 a

WOMK.N spent their moments wanting something they can't get and the OTNKK half getting something they don't want. ;K that as it may rr.oKIA burglar carried worth of hams off $ijo SltUWINc; that there else in life besides mom is Komelhin SO.MK day we will go to i screen there i show and on the will be ! precio'r. woo jitt.-n i nanus CLASPED in front of hini and THEN and .there we will hav clonic spasm. AVE haven't the faintest Wlea of what they do to have a go,,d time down in New Albany PUT the Tribune of that place said the other day: "PREPARE yourself for a happy Xmas; bathe and clean your stomach." IX New York they ie n v paying y election bets lost on Hughes WHAT can you expect of a town where they still ride in horse cars. DO your New Year's resolving early. PERHAPS its our simple-mindedness but we never could understand how a man COT'UD make a living playing ilium. IE you know any one who is willing to swap a dozen sound, guarantee'!, fresh-laid eggs and a pound of real butter FOR a lirstclass newly remodeled two-story house and 00 foot lot GET in touch with us right away. OUR last chance to wish you a HAPPY New Year THASSAIJ,! W. OLDSJS NOW OUT A special meeting of Oi,e council ,of East Chicago was called last night for the purpose of acting upon certain appropriation ordinances. The following were -passed upon suspension of the rules: Four hundred and fifty dollars for Ihe use' of Ihe department pf finance to pay delinquent street assessments: $100 for the department of health and charities to pay the city nurse one month: $140 for the department of public works to complete sewer labor pay roll: $t"B0 for ' the department of .finance to provide for J salaries for clerks in offices of , city Mrs. 1 M . Kimoall , uo lornieriy lived' on Williams street, in Hammond, died Wednesday at her home in Cleveland and is to be buried with services at Kankakee. III., Saturday ' n f tes noon

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W.E.H0EIS 110 yic'E-c. East Chicago Editor-Lawyer Now on State Bull Moose - Committee. TIIi:. 111 KKAl , AT STATE C AI'II AIIX1JIANAPOL1S, INI).. Dec. 3. Klias 1. Salsbury, of Indianapolis, .was elected s'tate chairman by the Progres- ! meeting here yesterday. Willis ltoe. I year. Whether his being a Bull Moose state chairman will also land Salsbury in as nice, soft a job aar that in which lee dropped re ains to be seen. Vhe committee mee ng was follow i ed by a luncheon an. conference atj tended by about fif".. Progressives t from over the. state. It .'as decided to j continue the party organization and I keep jt active and in working order. They said it would not be afi "aid s -movie ! ciety" for any other political party. but that it would act Independently .fudging from what some of- the Proj gressives said who were present, it would not be surprising to se them booming Hiram Johnson. of California for the nomination for President in lifl'O. V$3V L&7EST bV$ZS MEWS (Hy I nltert Presa tnblegrani.) H Ell I. IN Yla Wirc-lma) Dee. 29. The vlrtorloua pronrria of German troops In lloumanla and Transylvania attended by large rapture, were detailed intoday'a . official tRlrmrnt. In Transylvania the German troopii a "Danced eastward. In the intersected highlands they ruptured by oriiitn in hand to hand enronntra neveral posHionK. one behind the other, aud took 1,41 Hunnlnn prisoners with IS machine giina and three cannon. "On the left wing of the Siluth army A ustro-IIungarlan tmopa of Gen Von Ielmenigen broke down , in the mountain the Mrong rrslstenre of their allied adversaries," the statement anld, "and arrived nt Diimiatreati, twei've miles northwest of Himnlcu-Snrrat." UICKI.IV (Ala AAIrelens to Say. ' ville) He-. 2!. -l-'renrh first, second and third line trenches were ( penetrated around the famous Dead Man's lllll, and prisoners taken ' In an assauir reported In todays official ttatement. IMPORTANT MEETING - SCHEDULED The important matters of state

highways and state hivvay commis- uxuixiiiu xvf UUAXli sions will b discussed at a mass-j Great crowds of young folks and meeting of the 5th and 11th Ward, iin- j their elders are enjoying skating at provement Associations of Hammond! the Hammond parks during; the holiat the Lafayette school auditorium days. The Harrison Park lagoon ' is nevt Tuesday and every person In the-well patronized day and night and

city who is interested therm is invited to be present. Residents of these wards have been following closely the recent Times' articles concerning highways and have invited Represent ative E. C. Davis of Crown Point and, Senator Tom Grant of Lowell to b present and discuss them. The invi - prese tations have been accepted.

NEW MILK ORDINANCE .special to tbE t, ,-., cttv Attorney Gavit has in process ' CHOWX POINT, IV f., Oee. liaThere of preparation an ordinance to be in-;""'" no meeting of the Lake conaty troduced at the nex tmeeting of the board of eonunisxlonera Monday. Jan. Hammond city council which will pro- I- Tie board will eonvene the followhibit the sale of milk except in ssni- ,n Tneailay. and take u matter larv and sealed botles nertalalnir to nUker lieenaen.

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from death when the undersea boat the interior of the submarine and the IH STATE 0 Political Pie- Counter Appears to Be in Season for Rough Sledding Suit is Filed to Enjoin Collection of Fees. TIMES Bl IlKAl, AT STATE C APITA!1XDIAXAPOL.IS, IN'D.. Iwc. 13. With James V. Goodrich, Governorelect, planning to abolish the state oil inspecion department, that institution appears to be in for a season of rough sledding -within the next few months. Not only has Goodrich declared war wn this department, but there was filed in the fedoral court here, yesterday afternoon, a suit asking the court to declare the Indiana oil inspection laws unconstitutional and to enjoin the further collection of oil inspection fees. The suit is filed by the Moore Oil Companjs, the Mutual Refining I'ompany, the Indiana Kefining Com'pjfny, Che T.iona Kenning Company and the Great Western Oil Company. TJie ' complaint says the law is tinconstitutional for several reasons and (Continued on page two.) MASKED BALL SATURDAY EVE A masked ball is to bo held by the Knights and Ladies of Security lodge of Hammond at the Orplieum iiall Saturday evening and more than a dozen valuable prizes will be given. The best impersonators of the following will each receive a prize: Knight. Lady. Goddess of Liberty, Well Pressed Couple, Coon, Flower Girl, Comic Iiady, Comic Gent, Old Maid, Indian, Jlobo, German, Ciiarlie Chaplin and Irishman. MOVES HIS SCHOOL Seeking: a more ad vantageous location for his institution, G. A. Rohlinger, head of the Bohlingjr Success Shorthand school has moved from State street to the Rimbach block on Hohman' street. The classes will open in the new location next Tuesday. In his new location Mr. Bohlinger will give his students that same personal attention which has developed some of his former students into topI notchers as stenographers, lie has a constant demand from employers for i such a product from his "school, and with his system of instruction he guarantees success. The now year I will see a number of new pupils en rolled in the Bohlinger Success School. CSTc" A TTWfl Tn"DTTT ATI Central Park has been flooded for the children of the neighborhood to enjoy ice sports. The Irving school grounds and Columbia Park are two other popular skating places. j WTTT 'TJOT " ' j tJJ i . MONDAY

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RED II Great New English Offensive Is Expected Hear Ypres by Germany, U CAM I. AV. ACKKHMAV United Press staff Correspondent.) BERLIN (via wireless), Dec. 29. Judging from unofficial re ports rrom tne front and diplomatic comment, the peace efforts of President Wilson, the Central Powers and Switzerland, will not succeed immediatey in bringing the war to an end. That the war will not end without the allies making some gigantic effort - to break the German front is indicated by the artillery preparations being made. England in the west and Russia in Roumania apparently except to accept the Von Hindenburg challenge for winter battles. When these battles begin peace talk will probably subside. It is believed in Berlin that England Intends to give "ju wuige a trial as premier. Considerable depends on his efforts whether peace talk la revived in th spring or summer. Germany believes the entente powers will meet defeat in their effort., to break the Teutonic lines. The belief that peace will not come until a'ter the allies have attempted another gigantic offensive is voiced bv the newspapers. "In the west there is considerable artillery activity," one paper quotes. A new great English offensive may be expected near Ypres. In Roumania our troops are again in close touch with the enemy. They have recently made, a large number of prisoners. .In Macedonia something appears to be developing. One concludes that General Sarrail has returned to his original plan of breaking our line in the middle after his attempt on the small wing near Monastir." In the above dispatch bv.Jir. Vck -man the first definite statement from i.erlin that peace is not expected until after another allied offensive the reference to the peace efforts of President Wilson, the Central Powers and Switzerland may be significant. It H apparent that the Wilson note is regarded there as a move for peace. BEGINS (By Inlted Press.) NEW YORK, Dec. 2S. The entire railroad situation which led to threats of a strike of 400,000 trainmen and the hurried enactment of the Adamson lawwas ripped wide open by the brotherhoods this afternoon, in a statement issued by them it was minouiiced that the situation which has resulted in delaying nil benefits demanded by the men would be placed before the brotherhood men for their consideration. PRINCE AND HIS PRINCESS ELOPE Of courre you know what a p; inc.is? Yes, its a dog. And you have heard of a princess'.' Weil, then, it is not to be wondered that Prince and Princess have eloped to live happily ever after and Charles Klee of Black Oak, their owner, lia advertised a reward for their return. It was a Christmas romance and tlvfollowing lost ad in today's Times tells the story: LOST On Christmas day, two ra libit hounds, male and female; reward, return to Charles Kicc, Black Oak. I TEAMSTERS GETJTOGETHER The teamsters uaion ' of East Chicago held their anual banquet ond get-together at the K. of P. hall, olcott avenue, last night. There was a good attendance and a fine social time was enjoyed by ail present. Among those present were Senator Xedjl of Whjtsng, Repi.-senati re Day, Mayor Callahan and Controller Pa-i s. each of whom made appropriate talks. The present incumbent is now entering tipon. his fourth year as president. J- Howard Locke has beeu reappJWBt'i, as business agent and with a mernbefX'JP of a.bout 200 this local is in a fluifish'ng condition.

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