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DELEGATES TO THB UNITED STATES

Tuniuity Denounces 10th "District Congressman For Mentioning Tumulty.s Name.

(BUXX.ETIX. By United Press. ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. ScatJiiiijly denouncing Representative Wood tor mentioning his name before the house rules committee today, Secretary to the President Joseph P. Tumulty In prepared statement declared Wood should apologise for hringinff Tumulty's name into the proceedings on information based "solely on hearsay and rumor." Tumulty sent the statement up to the capitol with the request that it he read before the commitee. Tumulty said he would appear before the committee "glady and without subpoena."

By United Press. .-SHTVGTOX. Jan.. 5. prefacing a

itatement to the house rules commit-

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REQUEST lOPICKI'S

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MORGAN SNAPPED WITH SPRING-RICE, BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT WASHINGTON

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ny I nltrd l'rM-) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Ger

many has requested the United States to remove Minister Vopicka

from Bucharest. The request will probably be granted.

The department refused to say

upon what Germany based request

though press messages indicated

j that Germany was displeased at

Vopicka's work in behalf of the allied interests before the Teutons captured Bucharest.

Vopicka is a wealthy Chicagoan

and is accredited to Roumama, i Serbia and Bulgaria. The depart-

ment has not decided where to send him after removing him from ! Bucharest.

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anyone and that his Information is based

on hearsay and rumor.

Klfiitherios VenizIos. leader f the Greek revolution, has sent to th' United States a delegation to (jet lift only the aid of Greeks here, but to win American opinion for his cause aitainst King- i'oiistantine. The delegate are now at Washington, where they have presented their ease.

Representative !

- in,uv mentioned the

Wood 01 ' ' ... , . r secretary to the President

Tumulty, a Mr. Bollin. who Woofl said ,r,,iii.-.r-m- aw : Otto

is the presiuem s i Kuhn. of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. and Paul K th federal reserve i

board, when he appeared as first witness in favor of a congressional Invest -nation into charts th.t advance , In-

of the presiuem. o w.

leaked" to Wall street.

After being sworn m v "

effort to give nis ifan.j -

Vnsuccesstui m m--

Wood

formation

belHgerents

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3111 Ull UUl SESSION

Lafayette.

strong

i.inrt locked doors

n executive session

u ! "he had heard

nd and Oshkosh, Wis., brokers receive "nndential advices to ?U short for the market close. He mentioned the F. A. market c, extensive fonnolly & v,, r,r their

s a m-"oi.c.

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THE TIMES exclusively forecasted the plan to impeach Mavor Johnson of Gary. In THE TIMES of January 3 and 4 there were stories telling; of the secret conferences of the slder.nen, whose anger against the mivor had been augmented by his Uismssal of Ca'pt. Nestorovitch. Not many people thought ti:at the council would go so far as it did and when Alderman Duchich got up in last night's meeting and gravely read the charges to be presented against the mayor and set the impeachment machinery in motion his act came as a surprise to city officials and the 300 citizens at the meeting. Then many recalled the exclusive forecasts in THE TIMES telling of the secret plans of the aldermen.

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Left to right: J. P. Morgan, Mrs. Spring-Rice and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador to the United States, holds frequent conferences with J.. P. Morgan, the financial agent of the allies in this country. This is a recent photograph and shows the British ambassador and his wife with Mr. Morgan. It was rumored recently that Sir Spring-Rice intends to resign his post.

HUNNREDS j I nr nnnirp !

GOING UP

SERIOUS ir ARbES 5 ILL BE BROUGHT

Via rA

business. - - . , Mrs firm a Mr. Bollmg. a brother of Mrs.

said, "I am Te"

Wilson. .... cararn. he

. v,d several conferences 'iSCcry Tumult, at the Piltmore , ZJZ Tork One of them at break"'ad hld0 information of the note fast ana before it was sent.

or :. . .. !.-, y,

then asked mat

1 wo

Wood

subpoenaed.

t .m lnformea

he

aid. "that Kuhn

I nforn"ation and "advised friends received information rr0minent

to sell short.

in session

railroad president. -ittpe had been

executive session. lOSfflONJOB? Gov. Goodrich's Probability Eliminates Whitaker's Chances for Job.

INDIANAPOLIS, INT'., Jan. 5 The Public Service Commission sat in an ail-day session yesterday on a petition for a rehearing on the commission's ! o:-der of last August requiring the in- j stallation in East Chicago of a 12.000.- j 000-g-allon filter plant by the Kast Chi-j cago Water Company. The hearing ! will be concluded today. C. H. Oeist of Philadelphia, owner of the corn- I

pany, was on the stand. Joseph A.

Slattery or Philadelphia, attorney ror the Geist interests; C- I. Kirk, president of the, Indianapolis Water Cobpany; C. If. Hard, vice president of the Indianapolis Water Company, anil Leonard Metcalf of Boston were present at the hearing. The city was rep

resented by 13. D. L. Oiazebrook, city attorney; Frank Callahan, mayor, A. P. Tynian and William Murray, rep

resenting the (')vimher of Commerce,

and by I-'rank C t ..-f Whiting.

Ernest Larsen of Hobart, Goes Through Sponge Ice in Deep River to His Death Yesterday Body Recovered.

INDIANAPOLIS. 1ND-. Jan. 5. Th.

Daily Times prints me iu

which if it turned out to

DIVORCE

(Special to The Times.) 1 iOBAHT, INI)., Jan. 5. While skating on Deep River at tn o'clock Thursday morning Ernest Larson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Larson who live opposite Crown Hill cemetery, broke through the ice and was drowned in eight feet of water. The body was not recovered until two o'clock that afternoon. Undertaker Wild immediately took charge of the remains. The young man was twenty-one years of age, and besides a father and mother is survived by two sisters and three brothers, two of whom Simon and Herman are at present located in North Yakima. Washington, they have been notified. The funeral arrangements have not been made.

THE PASSING

SHOW

UEBBV LAI ESt W&R NEWS

Gary Stirred When TIMES' Pre

diction as to Johnson's Impeachment is Made Known

how r"al get along

WE simply don't know poor people are going to

this winter HERE the wiff has c:ill-d on us for the potato we've been carrying around

threatened attack

TO stave off

OF rheumatism. I"P to the hour

Ily I oltril Prfm Cablegram.) HKKI.IN (Via Wlrelesn) Jan. 5. ( nplurr of Slobocla and HoteMi viin announced intodny's war office KtBteinru t. ( lly I nilrd rrfiw ( nblrcram.) m:HLI (Via WIrelcsa) Jan. 5. "Sanguinary Ioe" were Inflicted in Ilrlllsh troop on the east fdgf of by a detachment of AltenlitM-K Infantry which penetrated Into the fourth liostll trench, today'a official atateroent Maid. ;erman forces cleaned oat and blaated severnl (callertes, retiirnlng with Bl prisoners.

A double track street car line and improved service to East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, amendment of the state housing law which has prevented $200,000 in building since 1013. construction of either the deep sewer system or its equivalent, and amalgama-

PLEA IS

o. s. i HIES RECRUITING

Indiana

!..irinc fitorV,

be true, throws cola waiei on mc chances of Ex-Sheriff Henry Whitaker ,f Lake county landing the appointment as warden of the penitentiary: "Edward J. Fogarty. warden at the Indiana state prison, will stay on the job as warden during the four years of the Goodrich administration if Goodrich has his way. according to a .tatement from a reliable source. It is understood Goodrich has asked Kogartv to continue as warden and Eogarty has the matter under advise-

Kailuie to prove the charges of misconduct with other women, which she aleged in her complaint for a temporary divorce, prompted Judge Iteiter in the superior court yesterday afteinoon to dismiss the divorce case of Mrs. Ellis Williams of Gary. She sued for a temporary divorce, whereas he on a cross complaint in which he alleged cruel treatment, asked for an absolute ' divorce. Both complaints were denied. While Mrs. Williams was able t show plenty of evidence that her husband had dozens of letters from other women, and that he associated with them in public places such as the Chicago Hotel, the Stag cafe, the Deutsch-

Fogarty Is a democrat, but "r,f. t Burnham and at Cedar Lake,!

,n(T(irnpH aa one or trie oest pLtntuiy uvr

p-s

wardens in the L.nitea ciaies.

said to recognize the war-

he 13 prisoT

,i,.oririeh is

j(.n's capabilities ana to wish to fogarty in the service of the state. 'Fogarty formerly was mayor of .th Bend for sev.eral terms. His innovations at the state prison have len along modern. humanitarian lines, according to his friends. who ay he has made a wonderful success in" the handling of the men placed in bis charge. "It is said many rebpublicans have been seeking Fogarty's place, but that Goodrich has given it out quietly that if -fogarty wil consent to stay as warden there will be no change at the xtate prison so far as the wardenship

charge of adultery. m Williams holds a good position with one of the big Gary industries.

FOUR CHILDREN ARE KILLED llr I nlted Tress.) M'ALLISTEl', OKLA.. Jan. 3. Death's toll in the mission school house tragedy at Vireton( north of here, went to fifteen, when four children died today'from injuries sustained when a tornado wrecked the school house yesterday. All killed were children.

HURT GML IS

GERMAN iRSEU;

HOBART, IND. Jan. 5. Mr. and Mrs. John Gruel last week received a cablegram coming from Berlin, from their daughter Emma, extending "Christmas Greetings" to them. Miss Gruel was one of a number of rturses who went to Germany six months ago to do hospital work. The time of enlistment for Miss Gruel was for six months, and it is not known whether she r-enlisted for a longer time or whether she is on her way home. Mr. Gruel wished to send a message to his daughter, but It was explained it could not be gotten through at thai time as the wires were busy with messages between Berlin and Russia. The rate for sending a message from Hobart to Berlin is 31 cents a word, but the rate from Berlin to Habart is higher.

Tin- i'nitod States army has at last : :nor. room for the man who likes army life, but would like to do something besides drilling, carrying a gun and digging trenches. With a new order from the quartermaster general of the army, Sergeant W. S. Welch, the recruiting officer with headquarters in the Huehn building, expects a rush of recruits. The new order will not last long, as it

is expected there will be heavy re- I

crultina; for the positions in the quartermaster's department. In this denartmen t. the recruits, once in the

service, may at Ihe trade and work they had when they entered the army and they are paid well for their services. The order became effective Dec. Some of the thirty-three kinds of openings in the quartermaster department are as follows:

Clerks, typewriters, stenographers, chauffeurs, cooks, engineers, firemen, foragemaster. plumbers. saddlers, stablemen, storekeeper auto machinists, farriers, horseshoers, blacksmiths, bakers, carpenters, horse trainers, laborers, overseers cf labor, painters, school teachers, teamsters, tentmakers, warehousemen, watchmen and wheel

wrights.

rgeant Welch since coming to

ammond. Dec. 13, has enlisted twenty-

m.n ror ine service. -Lmn; vi,.

nearly all day interviewing me" " - been given an assistant in Corporal Charles F. .Miller, so that one of the two can constantly remain at headquarters. .His latest recruits are: Louis J. Church, Fort Wayne, infantry recruit. John J. Payonk. Fort Wayne, in

fantry recruit. Pc-ter J. Dubois. Traverse City cavalry recruit. T!.iv Dubois. Traverse City.

cavalry recruit. Wayne Johnson, Chesterton, field nr tilkry recruit.

putting the la-;t

page to bed I THE sword has not been sheathed. j FOR the benetit of the neighbors we have persuaded the son and heir to ail J cur vast estates J TO dehorn his bugle two days in the j .. v.... iint does not prevent us i

wert ovi. ourself FROM plang the snar drum he

got for Christinas should we feel that the neighborhood is GETTING too darned quiet. j OCR old friend Gloomy Gus was on the job today with both feet. WHT sort of a plumber is Tom Dawson anyway does he think be can

i stop the wnue n'.

WITH a hammer. WE cordially detest the raucous cuss who in order to be genial STEALS up behind us and lams the liver out of us WITH a . crash on the back. ARE they wearing the skirts shorter with the breach of promise suits? WE have one suggestion for ending the war TAKE all the kings and emps Into a woodshed in use a splintery barrel stave.

Ur I nlted rresa Cablegram. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 5. Great xljtniftcance wna attached o panMgr by Auntro-German censors to. clny of a quotation from the Vienna newspaper, Arbelter 7,cl(ung, asking the Rovernment to "discover If the entente would be ready to negotiate peace offers after an evacuation of Teutonic troops In the west and If so that the evacuation be in iwl Immediately.

The machinery was set in motion ast night fcy the Gary city council to impeach Mayor R. O. Johnson and the members of the board of public safety on serious charges. A motion was uh-j ruinously passed directing a toi'-iaut-

tion of the cities of North township, : tee to turnisn. miormation ana iue aro the important items of the program ! the charges against tte lliaVOr and which must be carried out to put Ha in- safetv COmmiion.T? 1' Ivj.sB'jrr

and Alfred Carlson, at an ?(!jo,:n-,

f the- cjunci! 10 be iiiav lii'iht.

raonJ ahead in the Lake county race. Third i r nrinntnlinn sin.1 .veo,lrl v

both Gary and East Chicago in loca-i eu meeting tlon of industries an.I buildings for 1916 : held iU'Xt IA

These Are The Charges. Directions v. 'committee 1o

Hammond appears to have been caught napping. The report of E. E. Cole, the building inspector, shows that while Hammond leads in the construction of new dwellings, Gary and East Chicago

have outstripped her for the year in ' seriOUS C :. "! T .' 0 3 afactories, business blocks an 1 flat; .tki.coti J ivi. buildings. j Itt-f uiic a.i Z t, The total amount expended fr build- ', ily in'i Inieirfcri.i

intr in Hammond durine: the vear iust "e letlo

river. t. the

to

i3h .O-.-or In

rju-tut-c oi h I:. Juiv.

the iiiitjor

Conduct tiiiiitv-amlri

I llic city of .ar.

Three Against Safety Commis'-io&ers. Aiiiiiisl iP.trr .-. ' i C"i i.iOii to i:e llj'. U t.i- ''...j iiig Ciijr.; N-H'.ect. Inefficiency. 1-ult.arc to perf.ir-ii their rtufy.

the t.-oiibl

th council !s o lion, but it was

COURTRiGHT NAMED

WOMEN are really hard to please no

matter whiclf way you look at it WE offered the wiff her choice of either a sugared kiss from our ruby lips or a trip to the movies AND she refuses to take the hurdles for either

trying to please thr:n

fiS COMMERCE HEAD Crown Point Elects New Chief to Succeed Clayton D. Root.

The Straube block

costing $35,000, the J 15,000-dome of the i

Service Car factory, the $7,000 PaigeJones Chemical Company plant, three downtown garages, two $l.onO residences and a church costing $5,000 were the only projects of any size in the city during 1916 a year fraught with great prosperity. I,eal by I'ar In Trade.

ieaaing an cue uiits ui couui j

in retail merchandise trade, Hammond has been too satisfied. Inspector Cole,

asked by a reporter for an opinion as to why Hammond is third in tac county in ,Hl,1iny r;i ill Iti rtn rt :

; Georgo

"The state housing law nas prevent- , poii,.e. ed $200,000 of building in this city j Aldeimen, who since 1913." . I month ago to iivp "Double track street car service to ; t,, a disagr- emc: ' East Chicago and Indiana Harbor ' tions, got husy would cause BdO families to live In j Friends of Ne5t .- Hammond who desire to do so." j on Tuesday .1 While the inspector dici not say so. boat d to r.f r It is a fact that the majority of down-j for an :a v. si: a;:t . town property owners are not progres-: dismi? vv.th. u 1

lit-lwv.-:

laoutrl

with th.; adv.-nt of th. and the d:smi.-al 1 through the safety b

Ncitarovilch, j

:,n"o:i :;''. l abia d irato a head

c:ty primaries, y the mayor ird of Capt.

siva and care little for the appear- i bourd

d

JFST no use SOMETIMES,

men :

Mich.,

Mich.,

JOHN F. VODERMARK COMES BACK 2 WAYS John F. Vordermark, once manager of the Victoria hotel cafe in Gary, a pioneer settler, member, of th'e Hot Sands club, which was famed in local Shriner circles, is back in Gary for a visit. Mr. Vodermark. who lives in Los Angeles, is lack two ways. Besides coming to town he has "come back." Mr. Vodermark went broke in Gary. In Los Angeles he became an insurance solicitor. Then he got into the oil business and is now president of a big company owning one of the few gasoline refineries in the southwest. It is said that the former Gary man who with his wife is staying at the i..si,i Mop home, can now write a

I uleir for a half million. Mr. Voder-

mark has been

(Special to The Times.) CROWN POINT. IND., Jan. 5. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held at the assembly room of the court house last evening, the following officers were elected to serve dewing 1917: A. L. Courtrlght President. Henry Batterman Vice President. John E. Fraas Treasurer. Ben Hayden, Wm. Tuthill and Samuel Love werevelected as the three directors. The report of the treasurer was read and the organization was shown to bo in good financial condition, over $1,330 being In the treasury. Clayton 1. Hoot, the retiring president slips out of the official harness tfter three years of excellent and un.iM,,., Kcrvices. and it is through his

abiiitv and strenuous endeavor that the' 'organization has put - through manv of the successful ventures that has "featured the Chamber of Commerce work since Its inception. Plans kio. made for the big annual

Chamber" of Commerce banquet to be

held on Feb. 7. r reaericK xv. one of Indiana's noted orators, the speaker of the evening.

friend o: Nest ii'.

tii vote to

S. ' ed

Mary j

Landis,

will be

t

ance of the main street3 so long as j the dor the'j

they are getting big rents from shacks j mis.--ior.er Gil:.

which would disgrace a frontier town.

E. C. Minas. Kaufman & Wolf, F

Retz. Gostlin & Meyn. M

Schutz, Tony Tapper and those who have put up modern business blocks ! are In the minority.' The Hammond j building, one of the most up-to-date ,; office buildings in Northern Indiana,'! is one of the splendid structures which give the downtown district a t j metropolitan aspect. , j Ailiioes Immediate Action. I Inspector Cole advises that the j I Chamber of Commerce would ;i i'omp- j I

nsn a great ue;ii ioi xi.imofujici o. j ting busy at once to bring force to i bear in the state legislature for amend-j ment of the housing law so as to make j It a paying investment for owners of j twenty-five foot lots to erect business and flat buildings. As the city is j largely made up of twenty-five foot '

properties it is a most important item

Under the present law flat buildm

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-'-a ii .Johns -:-i owing - 'if.',' rivi" condit ci.-? J.tt'.rt ir.nv. ."'ii. a 'a the .?-.--jr-:; .! i ii.- jfsty U: :, : .t !"!:-t TK'U on N j:, -. -ru vi teb'.-? 'i-"i -.ny. -I'ite rafy oi-. ; ... du.-v; r :'. : i . :- r :, a y irliiia nd a -ina. - iio hl rfl'.isi. l.,n kfj who ha?

(Continued on pate five.)

Real Balkan Revolution Imperils Gary Mayor.

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FEDERAL GRAND JURY MEETS JAN. 15

The Fnited States grand jury prob-j ing alleged election frauds m Garj -j ftnd I.ake county will resume sessions I : Tr.nnii- nn January lo. -it i

111 illUlttht'K""-- " . the common belief in Gary that in dictments will be returned against several Gary officials,' steel men and political workers or greater or -ess degree. A half hundred Gary wit-

renewing old Shrine Uesses have already testmea ana i...

(Continued on page seven.) BIT ; CITHFRINR

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THE WEATHER Fair tonlirht and Saturday. Much colder tonight. lawful temperature 4 above. Kreah northwMt winda diminiKhltig tonight.

c-oiiaintances in Gary and in

mond. He returns home in a few days.

A live newnpnper for people who are Mill on earth thin 'a what THK TIMES ia-

are expecieu iu mo the federal jurors.

summoned before

TIMES advertising will enable you to break all jour bualaena record, for the year end. Call a TIMES ad man right away.

The allied industrial committee of the Chambers of Commerce of northern Lake county will meet Tuesday niftht at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce rooms under the leadership of George Hannauer. This committee has' held one meeting and this second meeting wall be addressed by several publicity experts on ways and means of advertising the industrial advantages of the repion. East Chicago will be represented by Messrs. C. C. Smith, C. A. Westbcrg and John R. Farovid.

A rc;il 2!.;lVaii noH-Nii, in Me : fcliupo of . a r-v; in the Serbian quarter ut v.ury li;i brought to a head the mine to impeach Mayor j JoIiiihoii. The erb tire lie nif.-t powerful . nationality ipoliticuily Apenking) In the l.ary "Italkuiis." Aldermen ; Duchich and Keseric, Police Com- . inifxioiicr irl.o itch, I'oliee t np- j tain AcMtorovitch and iriany other city otiiciiilN arc Scrlt. I. list night tlirce hundred Serbs crowded the council chamber to : hear their lender Alderman Duch- . Ich Mturt the impeachment mil- j clilucry :ig;iinst JoiniMon. Several , present wci-e just bacU. from the ( trenches in i;:iric. lost of the ; Scrim are mcmbera of powerful ' fcecret nocietlcs. tirkovltch l. the -t national president of one lodge and apt. cslorovitch ia judge of the j auiremes triliunxil of another one. j Duchich charged in the council j that the mayor and ntcel trust oiri- j ciiil.4 were taking out vengeance on j the SrrliH for voting In a unit for ! I'reaident Wilson. Many of them j nre Maid to have tcxtllied against j the major before the federal grand j jury, alleging Intimidations. It l Kiiid many ' ,4',e Serbx have sworn to bring about the mayor's lie i throncmcnt. They aluo demand estorovltch'n relnta(enient on the j police force, a public trial or hear- j

Ing for him by the aafety board to lie held not at the city hall but at the tiary theatre or some large auditorium where 2,O0 peruona can be present.