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Show BIG "GIN SPECIAL" GOING TO COAST (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) PEORIA, Til.. Dec. 23. The opening episode of a billion-dollar drama Is to be staged here tomorrow night. A race to the seaboard by the f 7,000,000 gin special to get 185.000 gallons of gin safely outside of the three-mile limit at sea before the bonds expire at midnight January H, starts from here at midnight tomorrow night, bound for Havana. Cuba, via New York. Working feverishly under a heavy guard of railroad detectives, freight handlers are rushing the gin from the warehouse of the United States Industrial Alcohol company to the cars. To make the three-mile limit, the gin special must leave Peoria by midnight tomorrow to-morrow night. With all tracks cleared, the train will start for New York over the L. E. & W. railroad and the New York Central lines. The train will be furnished with a special spe-cial guard. |