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Committea Members Refuse to Slate What Stand Ttiey Will Take, IU Ll.KTIN.) (By I nlted I'rt-fx.l IXDI X POMS, Jan. 15. Thf wnate Judiciary committee today reported favorably on Senator Kinder Hill to remote auperior court No. :t from Hammond to Gary. (By United, Press.) INDIANAPOLIS. 1X0, Jan. 15. The fight between Gary and Hammond for Superior court No. 3 will be taken up by the senate committee on organizations of courts late this afternoon. The bill. Introduced by Senator Kinder, provides for the removal of the court from Hammond to the Steel City. Upon first consideration, the committee reported favorably on the measure but the senate sent it back for further consideration after a hot fight on the floor, the opposing side led by Senators Kinder and Nejdl both of Lake county. Large delegations from both Hammond and Gary appeared at a public hearing held on the bill by the committee last week. MEMBERS ARE MUM TIMES BI RFAl AT STATE CAPITAL. (By 1 nlted Pre. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 15 The Gary court removal bill will be taken up by the court organization committee of the senate Immediately after this afternoon session. Senator Mercer, the chairman, announced. Several members of the committee refused to state what stand they would take on the meafure. Kinder's bill chang-ing the date of primary will pet quick and fovorable action in the house it was stated before the session opened late this afternoon. HAMMOITD STICKS TU 11 1 The report of the senate committee on the Gary couprt bill was expected to be made this afternoon, and on it will depend whether the fight will have tn rn to the floor of the senate or not.

A fpeciai meeting ui iuk .....v,.... , Chamber of Commerce was held Satur-kand their escort, in the second. Th-jj day afternoon at which it was decid- j cars were thrown by the force of tin- j ed to send additional members to In- irnpact through a wire fence and onto dianapolis to assist those remaining! , , . it,. m the Michigan Central ra;lr-ad tracks, on the ground to "educate the com- j J mittee members ; nd the senate in gen-(tearing down one of the gates at th-j eral on conditions1 in Lake county. base but not overturning. That H-el , , n tho otat en ni t fi 1 . . f

""'""s - from Hammond today were A. M Turner, and Attorneys W. J. W'hinery, Fred Harnett and J. F. Heiliy, and At torney Frank Gavit of Whiting. Attorney Jesse Wilson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, is back and said that he is satisfied that with a big enough effort the bill can be killed on the floor If not in the committee. GOVERNOR WIRES The following answer to It. K. Woods telegram was received today: Indianapolis', Jan. 13, 1917. Hon. Roscoe E. Woods. Hammond, Ind.

Hear Sir I have your telegram and ! garage which operates a line of yelnote what you say with respect to the ! luW ll,--;- Their ear was going south Gary court bill. The difficulty with j "n Oakley avenue and the driver. Gorthe situation there has been that Tour i n Voorheis, did not stop when he

own representatives who were suppos- the other auto coming from the. el to know the sentiment of the people,' west on Logan street. thinking the came down here and unanimously ad- ! driver would observe the north and! vocated the bill. It is a little embar- ! south traffic rule. rassing, 150 miles away, to tell them j M. Morea, 372S Prummond street, In-j that they do not understand the senti-idiana Harbor, was the driver of the !

went of their own people. Yours very truly, J. P. GOODRICH. Governor. EAST CHICAGO GETS BUSY East Chicago has taken a stand In regard, to the bill now before the general assembly providing for the removal of superior court No. 3 from Hammond and Crown Point to Gary. At a meeting of th board of direct- j ors of the Chamber of Commerce held ! Friday noon, the resolution of the Hammr.H eVe.mher was endorser! Hn,1 tT. I grams sent to Senator Nedjl and Repre-' sentative Pay. Friday morning as a result of the activities! of "Lester Ottenheimer and others, and even 100 telegrams protesting against the passage of the bill were sent to Senator Wm. M. White and to Governor Goodrich. INFANTILE PARALYSIS DEATH AT GARY The funeral was held today at Gary of Raymond Gee, five months' old, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Gee, S57 Mm street, the first victim this year of the dread disease, infantile paralysis. Un dertaker Finerty was in charge of the funeral, which took place at Gary Oaki Hill eemeterv. I Little Raymond had been ill several! weeks with the disease..

SAYS GERMAN COLD MAKES PEACE PARTY

' si I V "Sf -'. . 4 'Vat-. Sergius Michailow Trufanoff. Serous' Michailow Trufano, v.ho up to the beginning of the .var -was a chaplain of the imperial court in Petroprad, and an intimate of Gregory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant priest and court confessor, recently declared that German gold was at work creating a peace party in Russia, and that this accounts for Rasputin's standing for a separate peace. He says the czarina, who is of German extraction, sympathizes with the cause of Germany. wei MiaKen ana rru:s.--d, but nor. serioiisly injured. Saturday evening in the! violent collision of twe liiigan street and (-ulO taxicabs a I avenui; in Hammond. A party of Indiana Harbor men -urr. in one machine and three young ladies: accident did not result in greater nei-i sonal injuries. Considering the speed i -.P -. mn.ilitni.a Qrl 11i T,...... .1...,. t ' ' L ill JUU.V it i i o aJO Lilt" i i i , "I i , .X 1 1 - age they did, is little less than mir aculou.-t. It is estimated both ears traveled twenty miles an hour. Raymond .M-ttf, teller in the Hammond Savings & Trust bank of Hammond, was accompanying three young ladies to the Erie il. pot where one of the girls. Miss Kuby ImMar was planning to take a train to her home in the east. Miss 1 hi Mar and Miss Nettie Brock had been tie; guests of Miss Irene Van Hlyke a.t the home of Mr. and Mrs. I". K. Van Slyke. in 4",0 Michigan avenue. The three young ladies, with Mr. Mette. were in the taxicab which was owned by a Fayette, street taxi in which the five men from the Harbor rode. The auto was owned by; the Galvin garage. Mat Pillon. 3666 1 Elm street, Al Sir! In, 3510 Fir street,' Ben Baer and two others. named ! Gaust and Snyder, respectively, were' in the machine. Hillon received cutsj about the face and Sirlin was cut and j badly bruised. Voi.-iheis bled from the nose. I Raymond Met to is a graduate of the' Hammond high school where he won; honors in athletic competition and la-! ter attended a university. rip a Wft Ilf T" "FTP "ft "All VXXiCJij XAUTXij. RESUMED TONIGHT The protest of LonM .Mcl'ifimut as a citizen against the proposal of the Gary board of works to grant a franchise to Receiver C. D. Davidson of the Gary and lnterurban railroad resulted in a hearing today. C. O. Starr, of counsel for McDermut, contended to the board that a receiver had no right to a franchise and that tiie Un ted States district court would hardly rati-j fy it even if the grant was passed. K. OF C. NOTICE Regular meeting tonight. The .eoturer has arranged for Father Quille and his boys to furnish the program for the evening. Come and be a boy again, j There will also be smokes and refreshnients for all. 1-15-1 ENTERTAINMENT COM

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A PITIFUL STORY" BEBLI3C, Jan. 15. The Vossisch ZeUunsr publishes the last -will of Xiievt. Otto Hegerer, a German, reservist, killed on the Somme. When the vmr broke out the oflicor was about to be married and he had to leave for the front on the eve of his vceddinar day. Since then he had made many vain efforts to obtain a short furlough, but ha only succeeded early this month. As he was leaving the trenches to hasten home and to lead his fiancee to the altar, a British shell tore off both his legs. Ee was brought to the field hospital behind the front in a dying condition and when the surgeons informed him that his death was but a Question of a few hours he dictated his testament which makes his fiancee the sole heir of his fortune of several hundred thousand dollars. To his will ho attached the following latter: "My love, in the last hour of my life I want to tell you that I am dying for my country and do not complain about my fate. Do not mourn my death. My wish Is that you marry some honest man, if possible, a war invalid, for whom you may make life pleasant with your love and the money I leave to you. I do not want you to remain single, because the fatherland needs the children of noble mothers after this cruel war. Prom heaven X will watch over you and bless your little ones as if they were my own children."

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Burnhem Cop Greeted With Guns as He Pulls Revolver On Them and Fires. In a round-up at the1 early breakfast' hour today Burnham and Hammond police took into custody Tom Enright, Sunny Dunne. Charles 1orron and Eddie Addison wlin are believed to have been members of the stockayrds gang which emptied their revolvers into Joseph Hogarty and killed him at the Hurnfvuii Inn on tin- morning of November ;!::. Hy the arrest of the four men the police hope to bring an accounting for the sensational murder in the all-night road house. uno shot was fired by "Smithy" the pugilistic cop in the capture of the four men today who made their presence known by assaulting a bartender, laughing into the muzzle of the gun lie pulled on them and breaking the front plate glass window of the saloon on the Hammond side of the state il ine. "Smithy" with the aid of Webber, another I?urnham officer, took three of the men into custody while two men from the Hammond station arrested the other, F.d Addison as he sought to escape by hiding in the Gostlin street car barns. The shot which was fired did not take effect. The Chicago papers today played up the affair as a gun battle in the Burnham Inn. In reality it happened a half mile west of the cafe in front of the saloon of "Frankie" Marr at the state line. officer Charles Smith followed the four mcnt out of Marr's saloon, having recognized Tom Enright and the other "bad" men. Smith was alone at the time. As the quartette got in a waiting taxicab and the door shut behind them Smith pointed his revolver in the chauffer's face and told him if he started tho "r lie would blow his brains out. Hunne opened the door of the taxi and with an oath raised ;v gun towards Smith who, however, had the drop and fired, causing the other to drop his revolver although the shot missed him. Smith then slugged Dune with a blow on the jaw and the latter was unconscious for fifteen or twenty minutes. Smith with the aid of another officer handcuffed Enright and Morron an dthe Hammond police captured Addisdon. It is believed that the gang was responsible for the breaking of a windowin the saloon of W. F. Conrad at 24 1 Ilohmati street by throwing an empty beer bottle as they passed the place in the taxi. OK MINSTREL SHOW ft HUMMER With Director Ralph Hamilton who put the Shrine minstrels over the jumps so successfully last year on the job, Orak Temple's big show is rapidly round into shape and the rehearsals that have been held are proceeding with a vim and pep that guarantee the greatest minstrel shbw that Hammond has ever seen. , Fine as the show was last year this year's will simply put it all over last year's, for this year young women some of Hammonds fairest maids and matrons are to ligire prominently in the great musieal-comedy second part and there is a double-six dancing act in which six Hammond girls and boys take part that is a dandy. The operatic finale of the show in which the Misses Haefer and Wolters

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New Ind. Harbor Steel Go, 's No, 1 Bessei&rJsFired. With the lighting of tires and the! blowing of steel in tho new Bessemer j plant of the Mark Manufacturing (o-n-j psny of Indiana Harbor the Calumet j region's second new Bessemer mill has j been placed in operation. On December j 31 the Gary Bessemer was operate ! ) The new Mark l'.eSsemer is located at carry tho soprano lead is one of the most beautiful bits in the show. If there is a seat left in the orphoum theatre next Monday and Tues'iay nights Manager Jack Boveridge wilt cat them alive at the close of Tuesday night's performance. Ticket reservations were cleaned up like wild-fir-when the box office sale began this morning. The requests for reservations have come from Gary, East Chicago. Chicago, Whiting and a dozen other places. Those who have already bought seats would do well to make their reservations early for the jam has already begun and where it will end nobody knows. It will be SOME show. FLIVVER OH THE BOTTOM OF THE Icl KOI1ART, IND., J3n. 15. Sunday afternoon Everett Newman gather, d three of his chums, Fred Bowlby and Wm. and Eddla Wallenberg together and they prepared to do some speeding on the ice on Deep River in Newman's Ford car After spending the afternoon on the ice and were returning to town the car broke through the thin ice near the Nickle Plate bridge. The boys ail received a nice cold bath, but the poor flivver lays on the bottom of Deep River in five feet of water. Mi LAW WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The supreme court today held that the Mann Whito Slavo law applies to non-commercial vico and is constitutional in upholding a state court trial resulting in conviction of Maury I. Diggs, S. Brew Caminetti, and L. T. Hayes for violation of the law. The question before the supreme court was one of Interpretation of the Mann lav. Diggs and Caminetta sentenced to prison and fined for transporting Lola Harris and Marsha Warrington to another state from their California homes pleaded in their appeal that the law was not intended to apply to non-comnif rclal vice. L. T. Hayes convicted for transporting a girl from Oklahoma City to Witchita. Kans., appealed his conviction on a similar plea. All the men wett married. The case itself was one of the most bitterly fought in the criminal history of this country. Justice Day read the opinion. "There is no ambiguity in the law," ho said. "It covers transportation of a woman for immoral purposes including purposes of debauchery. The plain terms of act must pre vail."

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the !!' nt l" the Iroquois Iron company at the mouth of the Calumet river, South Chiengo. This is the iron departmrw tU' th new Indiana ITsTbor ctrr poration. which is also building another Bessemer at Indiana Harbor. 4 Bessemers No; 2 More Soon. This makes the fourth Bessemer plant in the r. gioii, the ybejng located at the Indiana Si'.l company, Gary; Illinois St. el company, Wisconsin Steel com1 a n y and Iroquois (Mark) Iron company, South Chicago. The C.-ry Tube company will build one at Gary this spring and the Mark Bess, ii.- r at Indiana Harbor will make thai Sixth 'lie. The Wha!-You-May Column MUSH Mush is a soft, flabbj-" material frequently used as a food and sometimes as conversation. It is found in most pantries and many heads. As food, mush is admirable; but no man should use it otherwise unless he loves the girl and intends to marry her. Mush should never be mixed with anything but milk and true love. Some folks say mush is a vegetable. Others say it's a dessert. But anyone who has bought any lately knows what it is. It's a luxury. Mush is queer stuff. It has to be mixed the day before and allowed to sit and think about itself all night before it's fit to eat. But that's all right. That's fine. It proves that mush is a shrewd, calculating food with a lot of good common sense. It is deliberate. It waits till next morning to decide. Can you imagine a Bronx cocktail doing that? SAO ACCIDENT TOSWITGHMAN Roy Sweeney Fatally Hurt; Dies at St. Margaret's Hospital. Roy Sweeney, aged 2S, a switchman employed by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway, was fatally injured yesterday morning in the Michigan avenue yards at the harbor. Both legs were amputated when a freight car passed over himand he died at St. Margaret's hospital an hour later. He is survived by his father, Mr. and Mrs. James Sweeney of 261 Truman 'avenue, Hammond, where he made his home. Sweeney was not married. A live nwnpnper for peupl trho are still on arth that" what THE j TI5JKS i

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"VTHEV Billy Sunday was har-mguing Eontoit be said: "I TAKE off my hat to Boston" AND then Boston voted for booze QUESTION: What has Billy done with his lid? .SOME of tho little family spats ARE exceedingly nifty LOCAL man was accused by the wiif of marrying her fur le t money "WELL, Heaven knows I had to have Home reason," the poor boob retorted. ABE MARTIN tells of n man who got a job as yell-leader its a troupe of evangelists. IF we were a legislator we would make it a statutory olieiiso for a BI LL collector tc lecture. -ter on with a OUR guess is that Till-: adviniiagc In being deaf is that j YOU can miss the bras LUKE M'LUKE puts it quite effectively when he says that a working girl will GO out on strike for an eight hour day AND then let some jap talk h'-r into marrying her only TO work her eight, ever after. n boms day THE Decatur Herald sai 'Born to Mr. mid Mis. Markham, a son northeast oj Clinton. It wil be 3tx 40." Great nights for sleeping eh? SOMEBODY says that a woman cm always pin rrfbre hair on her head but if a MAN'S hair won't grow HE has to go without any. PILE TAKES LIFE WITH RAZOR Lake county's pioneer nel! digger and the man who dug the first well in Garyis dead of his own hand. Going to the barn at the rear of his home in 113 Williams street. Hammond, Fred Gastel Sr., father of Fred Gastel Jr., who is a prominent real estate man at Indiana Harbor, early today sliced his throat from ear to ear with a razor. Ill health is believed to be the motive for tho act. although the elderly man appeared in good spirits yesterday when his family entertained company at the house. Old residents of Gary w.ill mourn the death of the man who dug the first well in that city and Hammond remembers Fred Gastel Sr., as a gardner for M. M. Towle Sr., and its first professional well driller Mr. Gastel lived in Hammond more than forty years.. The deceased man was born in Germany and began hia residence in Lake county at the age of seven. His first home in the county was in Tolleston and he came to Hammond in lStil. He is survived by his widow and' four children: Fred Gastel. Jr.. Mrs. E. B. Kinss-iand of Chicago; William Copper-

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To be Manifest n Sponsors. SPEAKERS AT MEETING At coruT hocse jr. s. m'.. - . .e a . in . At Ml!?. W. J. M'ALKF.R-lf. s. ..... ! y, 2 .:: p . m . At MISS MA RIE STOUT- !,., .. ; , Wigeiif, 2:, In p. n,. A t K. OF V. 1 A LL C. c. Kirk, , a: rick. S:.,(t p. rn. At ASSEMBLY HA LI, P. ;. -Hoi.!. : A. E. Winship and 11. S. Mo'.lc,. Tl F.SIl VY, J l. At F. S. BETZ CO. P. G Ho'-l-i U'a.o m. At MRS. A. C. EHRET Mis Ze l.i Wigeiif. 2.30 j). in. At MRS. . I. MODJKSKA-Viss Grace Smith, 2:30 p. m. At MRS. A. D. STEWART If. R . MeKeene, 2:30 p. m. At MRS. W. M. BIGGER V R Hatch. 2:30 p. m. At MRS. J. J. RUFF W. I a;, -Kee, 2:30 p. m. At CENTRAL H. S. GIRLS Dr. A E. Winship, 3:00 p. m. At CHAMBER OF C OMMFRCF -TEACHERS C. W'. Farr. 3:00 p ln At AUBREY THEATRE H. ;. Keene, S:00 p. m. At WALLACE SCHOOL P.'G. Holden. S:oo p. m. At RIVERSIDE SCHOor, p I Hatch, s:00 p. m. At CENTRAL SCHOOL -W. D. M.Kee, 8:00 p. m. At ALL SAINTS HALL C. W. Fa'T and Mrs. G. H. Mathias, 8.00 p m At PRESBYTERLAN CHURCH 'Dr. A. E. Wfnsbip, S:00 p. m At ALICE CLUB 1. A.' Hovne. R-00 ; P . m . Tin's is inspiration vs mom?. for HamMore important than the city's ooart fight at Indianapolis, its transportation problem, its health, police and flr departments, more important than its hanks and industries, is the Hamuond Plan that Is to be launched this week. Every man and every woman owes it to Hammond and to him and herself to attend at least one of the L"0 meetings scheduled this week. The b'egest and most Important of all 5- the mass meeting in Assembly hail in the Huehn building, sclled'iled f., s o'clock this evening. Announcements regarding prize contests in w hich the whole city can o.i -tieipate, will he announced til ist even ing, ana in order that they may fuly understood, it is desirable thai wanting to partieipat be at the n meeting tonight. But the prize nouncements are only incidental to big thing that is to be laid bef I t. public this evening. Admission is fr The first of the week's series b meetings was held at 3 0 o'Koel t hi morning, when II. S. Mobley of Chicna... addressed the lawyers and others who were In the court house. His audi. made, up of persons from all parts of the county, was partially indifferent to his subject at first but before he close, ; every man and woman n as eager for every word he had. There are fourteen speakers in H inmond all as good aJ Mr. Mobley. lie will be heard again this evening at Assembly hall where Trof. P. G. Holden. A. E. Winship and Mrs. G. H. Ma this will also address the mass1 meeting, w . C. Belman has been selected to preside at the meeting. A schedule of meetings for .very day this week has already tieeii arranged. In this1 schedule are pbou eighty school meetings. Any person wanting to arrange a home-neighborhood meeting can do so by telephoning the office of Supt. C. M. Mi Daniel, Xo. 415 . elift of Canada, and Mrs. II. F. Fiegenschuh of Hammond. It is said he leaves a number of properties and had no cause to have financial worries. Funeral arrangements have not hi en completed. Hi3 remains were Jdiseovere.l th's morning' by his wife. FATHER QUILLE AND HIS BOYS Tonight Father Quille and "his boys" will be headliners at the regular meeting of the Knight of Columbus. Father Quille and the urchins who'u he ha picked off the streets to give them a home, has been In Hammond on former occasions before Unity council, always accompanied by his "bunch." The program which these youngsters put up always provides an evening':' good entertainment. On Wednesday the members of Unity council are to hear Prof. P. G. Holden, in a talk on the Hammond Plan. Next Monday evening Unity council will give a big1 reception to Father John Berg the new pastor at St. Joseph's Catholic church. Whiting and Twin City council and all the priests of the county have been invited for th.occasion. THE WEATHER Snow and not no cold ton)ht and Toendny !owft temnernture toolght prolfMy 10 above. North to north, wfrt wlnil lnerelng by Tuesday.