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Founder of Gary Expects Many Serious Problems to Confront the Amsrican People. NEW" YoKIv CITY. Jan. 2. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the Fnited States Sl-d corporation. In speaking of the financial outlook for 191" makes tlie foi'iiwinc s Ignificant statements: il l So far as I can see there arc no lr:.J ;cations that the prosperity In this country will be checked in the near fu-tn-c if the war continues. The demand r.,-ut3 In Twit Iftcrasinfl:. R.nd .. m,ri, o,,-i 1 : . S Ol ( O l " ' .i:l,.-0"-i iii capacity I? practically taken for 1317 u-.'.i n iihtnntial part of ISIS. 1 do not think the short crops have had. o v. :'. have during- the rtxt year, very .1 n-U ri -1 1 1 i i inTiuenoe on i.ie ii.ua.i.oii. j r,r.i -a :t n t sn;nr or FnecuiaLiuii : V . v- . . . w ....... ' i uiger-poi nt. but Is not controlling, so far as enteral business is concerned. J.i ih:.- respect there is a difference between t'ne present and the past. (). In my opinion, the endin? of of the war will have an immediate efffect upon American finance ant industry. Probably it will be slight -ftt first. tut 1 fear its prominence will rapidly Increase. As to industry. I think there w i'.l be a reaction, perhaps not serious flt r.rst, iu noi ic! -iiL-ic xn , ..j .w.... ; ' within a year. The longer effect will be very serious. In my opinion, the j awful destruction which Is soinp on j wi 1 adversely affect business londi-j tionn throughout the world. This , country will be able to emeree from i the difficulties more rapidly than any nih.r nation, and the time necessary! will depend upon circumtancesin-c'.uding-particularly. the attitude of the government of the United States. Tre ."ect upon finance will depend largely upon the attitude of financiers, hankers and capitalists of this country between now and the close of the war. If our cash resources are properly guarded, kept in licfuld shape. and largely within the control of our own ,.., v -en erinus tc-'Opie. o..sa"iei. u money snnrlaee may tie avoiuen. nine likely to be several serious pruurontroimng i'"" " tfdu rinsr tho readjustment periou, inc uding the labor situation, me reaujustment of wages, restoration to a lair basis, the cost of living, the sudden and material lowering of prices generally, the dim'.nuation in demand for "the products of this country, both for domestic and foreign use, and. in fact, the jars and Jolts Incident to a .Continued on pa' io.i 1Y CHOOSE ALPHO By United Press. WASHINGTON. Jan. 'Z King Alfonso of Spain, by flatly refusing to participate ir President Wilson's note to the belligerents, is believed by allied I'ioloinats today to have become the roost likely ultimate peacemaker. Alfoi.so slands out now as the leadiosr neutral of the world who can un-c.-'ttake. peace negotiations with a free hand tmd without complications. Wilson Mas strongly urged by his advisers in f.ilie.1 countries not to make a move .at 1 his' tine that might be interpreted as a peace overture. Such action, he was told, would serve to lessen his strength as a v ssible mediator in the future. Allied diplomats reading the note of Spain replying to Wilson's proposals, say there is no doubt that Alfonso had cbarly in mind a desire to keep his hands free for future action when the time is more opportune. EW BIKING HEHJGHMEUT With the opening of the new year's business today, the realignment cf business interests in the East Chicago bank became effective under A. T. Collison. the new president. Henry Schrage Sr., and F. Richard Schaaf. president jmd vice president, respectively, sever their connections with the bank, a step Hist was prepared for several mouths 1151'. I'nder the. new arrangement Mr. Schaaf will be enabled to devote his banking time exclusively to lie Citizens' Germany bank at Hammond, he being president of that institution. The h.tter bank has had the most prosperous year in its history under ..Mr. S- haaf's pi sidi m y. K. OF C. NOTICE Special meeting tonight. Important business and stag pedro party.

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Rev. Berg of Whiting, to Take Place of Veteran Hammond Priest Who is Compelled to Give Up His Ministerial Activities. News of the pastorate changes at St, Joseph's Catholic church &t Hammond and at the Sacred Heart church at Whiting last Sunday came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. Acc irdinsr to those a.ncuncetrieits made from the pulpits Father II. M. Plaster. wlng to 111 health, is compelled to g-ive up all priestly activities. Father John Berg will succeed him and expects to take up the Hammond pastorate about January l"b. Father V. mier of w.rt tVavce, secretary to the Rt. Ilev. ISlshop Alrding-, who has j preached in Whiting: sevcrftl occa- j sions will beconio the pastor of Sacred j Heart congregations. j In both congregation? where the announcements were made, jarlsh'n-j ers were momentarily dumbfounded j by their sudden loss. For mor than j thirty-one years Father Planter had) ministered to hi? his flock. I'nde.r his hand the congregation developed into' one of the largest ana uu; ui iue mi'ft I exemplary ones m tne ii cese. -o, 1,,.! more loval Darshoners than had Father Plaster. When he j jcft Hammond seeiai w e.v ,t

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winter, it was not believed that his; resignation was near. TT j4 iifTerin-' i a rheumatic he-art. .. Tiie Rev. Henry M. Plaster was born i THE PASSING SHOW I0 your eyes ever get strained LOOKING out for No. 1? AX Ohio editor says she's pretty if she's pretty in a flannelette nightie IN our stupid way we often wonder where some editors G5:T all their information. TH.E Spokane lievidw editor wants to know "how long a kiss should be" and the chances are that HE'S past forty, is slpwly getting bald and puffs f earf ully if he has to run half a block for a street car. WE intended to make a New Years vow to tilt only when the exigencies; of the pot demanded AND forgot all about it AVKUU here's to prosperity! ABB MARTIJ remarks- that the mother seal protects her pups till they reach maturity and then ASKS what the modern -mother is LhiTiking of. COLl-KGH professor has gone t Asia Minor to dig for the Sches of Croesus PKOKABIA' his wife informed him that they had to have a couple of ton.-i of Pocahontas right away. IN'STF.AD of tr.ying to get hi-: 1 on the front page as most of them en an FAST CHICAGO man asked to have it on the editorial page because he said there WAS so little to attract attention on it that HI-; believed his ad notice there would get more WONDEll what he meant? FINCK married men found out that the abolishing of petticoats made no difference in the cost of what it takes to clothe a woman THEY take very lingerie styles. little Interest In JIIP.S and tight skirts are coming in! HF.L.LO hips! HIP, hip! IK)OSK (la.) Republican says, "Mrs. J. T. Miller read art article on 'Personal Iievils' seventeen were present" 'SNOl'GH devils' for one reading WHEN you can't stop a woman from crying by warning her that if she doesn't stop IT will make her nose red THERE'S really something serious the matter, men. HEGEWISCH BOYS FIND MAN DEAD IN A BOX CAR Small boys of Hegewisch were thrown into & panic of excitement Monday when upon their return from skating they discovered in a box car the body of Steve Scheck, a laborer, who had lived at 3E26 133rd street. The boys rushed to the police station, and for a time a murder mystery seemed about to develop. Police investigation revealed that t:check. who was termed a "floater.j' had crawled into the car to keep warm and had died of natural causes.

r ItEV. JOHN" DKRG. Tliihnmif la on Atarcli 51. 1S33. Seminary, rilienu ?l. rmra-.s or il eb 1 LIS . 3 and iwas ordamea . ., , . . . ... , - n"Ki - '.' "-h -h.ivi..i and lj- 1SH ' Ilons 111 Jnniana unin aususi . .. T , . 1 .V,A n..a,nntA at "c - .... (Continued on page two.) T 0 All Night Revel Occurs in Place Where Dandy Joe Hogerty Was Shot to Death Bullet Holes Are Plugged Up. If Chicago was sober, sane, dry and ijuiet Sunday night, it was ringed about with revelry that ran riot in the suburbs In the Indiana filsh resorts. OBKside the limits of Mayor Thompson's authority the cafes and roadhouses welcomed the New Year celebrants from thirsty Chicago, and "everything went." At the Hurnham Inn was gathered one of the maddest throngs to be found anywhere. An,1 tne wildest merriment I the loudest shouts, the funniest songs, ' came from a group on the very spot j where, a few weeks ago, "Handy Joe" j Hogerty, noted character of Chicago's ; underworld, fell before a gang of gun- ! men with fifteen bullets In his body. The bullet holes in the walls had been plugued up. but they could be olain'y seen. The blood stains had . .... n scrubbed from the floor, but I everybody kjiew where they had been. And around the tahle beside that tragic spot men in evening clothes and women In daring gowns drank champaign and laughed and sang the New Year in. The "Hogerty corner" was the merriest, but the whole house was an uproar of Jollity. Only wine was sold, and the tables of the evening bad been reserved weeks ahead by parties from Chicago. One could look around the room and easily imagine himself in anyone of the dozen big cafes "in the city." The Hurnham is run by the mayor of Burnham, but it is not the only oasis. Across the way is Ike Bloom's place, the Arrow Head Inn. and it was not a whit less hilarious. Usually the Arrow i Heml does not open except in the warm season, but it was opened last night to accommodate the crowds. The celebration began early in the evening, was at its height as the New Year was rung in, and lasted till dawn. Eating and drinking, music and dancing, and songs by the celebrants as well as by the professionals lafted the whole niht long. ARIZONA HAS TWO GOVERNORS By Vait4 rres.) PHOENIX. ARIZ., Jan. 2 Today Arizona has two governors, two ex ecutive offices and will soon hae two staffs of appointive stat offices. This situation will continue until Thursday at least for attorneys for Governor-elect Campbell and Governor George W. P. Hunt reached an agreement today that the application to the supreme court fer a premtory writ to oust Hunt will not be mad before Thursday. Meanwhile all state business is deadlocked.)' Some officials appointed by Hunt are arranging to .have tln-ir offices occupi ed day and ntghr. to prevent Campbell's j

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Sensational Evangelist Expects to Shake New York's Vitals When He Starts, on World's Gayest White Way. ! , BY UEOROK MARTIN (Inlted rru Stall lrrrIndent.) NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Powerful forces, both sinister and benigh, are lining up iiere for the case of Billy Sunday" versus Broadway, Wall Street, Bohemia, et al, which goes to trial 1. What sort of reception Sunday and his old time shouting Methodist camp meeting style will get in 'the world's gayest, richest, wick-i g mQst material city, IS the eK nf vrnrh cnnilatinn amnncr o,v.v.. . the residents. He Will be the blg-

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bCCll lui yceua, aiivj i jh-uii-h." that great naabs will literally fight to get near his giant tabernacle. It will be a battle royal; and preparation.! are bfclug made accordingly. Billy' and ifroadway have been sparring for position for several years; and now at lasl. the evangelist is coming to fight the Uevil In his own home town. Broadway, as Broadway, seems to have paid little heed to Sunday's plans. But scratch the surfaee and you find that -what Cyclone Davis calls The Boys Of Booze And Boodle are not asleep. The bellige'-erit Billy, though busy with' Boston l'-f" watching1 carefully every move in his preliminary campaign here. Already a small army of Sundayites are organizing the Big Town. On January nth a brigade of the evangelist's most remarkable trail hitters from every city' he has invaded, will inarch on the metropolis and take it by storm. This is one of many of the preliminaries calculated to create atmosphere for Billy's coming. "Billy Sunday, Incorporated." with John l. Rockefeller. Jr.. as one of the principal stockholders, is officially in existence In New York City. Plans for the erection of the mammoth tabernacle, the great pine, and sawdust temple for the spiritually unwashed, are w-ell under way. Soon it will rear its rough hewn dome abovt the t'pper Manhattan hinterland of that Great And Gay White Way whose gleaming searchlights ever beckon the pleasurelorn from the far four corners of the earth. Commiteemen and women have di(Continned on page flve.i E ON RUTH STREET BURNED Residence of Martin Frame Partially Destroyed Sunday Night. Fire, tisible from ail parts of Hammand. partially destroyed the twostory frame dwelling of Martin Frame a postofifce employe, at 25 Ruth street Sunday evening, with a total damae to the house and furnishings of near! $2,000. The building and furnitutl were covered by insurance amountii to nearly $4,000. Tne origin of the blaze was an oj fire place where a coal fire was burn so briskly that It spread out of grate. The Are had reached the ond floor and was bursting oat of roof when first detected by neigl and reported to the Hammond West Hammond departments. Frame, hii, wife and their two cl were visiting with relatives o key avenue at the time and th no one in the house. Oeorg of the Chapin Company, was the first on th"iv, scene and Sandow's act by removing while firemen and"volunt removed the furnitiSj-e fj floor and a large portT belonging to roomer. floor. The auto serv Central station was at the scene and th truck came soon afte the entire second flo and became almost before the fire could "Die destruction of th only partial. Herman Maier, tac mond high school an promise, Kenneth Crri Richard Scott were rooms on the sec idence and sustained icles. The house nj in 1912 and was construction will b In the meantime the in the home of l'r. t 36 Ruth street, as tie: leaving today for a w the south

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DISPERSED Berlin Declares That Wilis' Note Is Hot Deserving of A Written Rejoinder. BY CARL W. ACKER31AN (Inlted fresa Start Corrrnpndeat. BERLIN, Jan. 2. Berlin's peace hopes are dispersed. Now it is war to the last drop of human blood. The allies note is not deserving of a written rejoinder. Summed up that is the Berlin press opinion and it typifies the opinion of the man in the street. There is apparently an unanimous decision that Germany's answer to the allies' rejection of peace must be force of arms under. Hindenburg's leadership. Privat' ly the editors of Berlin ngpapers are even more bit their denunciation of the e ?" course than their print nig ments. On. New Yrsks vrritthey were all at the; txiXX ing editorials. t ;L of The German jroia dis aid fr,r text on TueadaT.t,Tirt terc celebrMion - w - Mu not occur unt y.r s c of New r, , gy as ZrA h was every America .rticlal tet " "n not ret'vw reply for tra .X n " ' to the atttissioa to of and foreign Ttice larga Moldavi Captures western toaay ,i aro ff, continued prisoners Ir arouna r ocaj , lnatc- occUPofficial staterl'pld 0nT" ,tUl I J IV -..O H. . tion of all xstir'i resists theF 'fJ.

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