Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1919, Page 1

57 DIE FROM HOLIDAY Christmas “Cheer” EVENTS IN PROSPECT ARE VITAL es and Arrests 6 persons are dead Dispensed in Ilicit Trade Thru New England Claims Thirty Are Made for Man- hter in General Roundup Today (iy The United Press.) and 148 ‘blind or seriously ill from ohol since prohibition became effective. The total TOUNREST: Chicopee—Fourteen dead, 17 i Holyoke, Mass. dead, two in. ! Government Hoping}, Conn.—Thirteen dead, eight for Solution with) Sew vor —Fisteon acan. Memphis--Eleven deaths. End of Year That Set Strike Record Richmond—One dead. (By United Prenn.) e—Two dead. ive de New York officials are secking deal- ers who shipped many barrels of poison- ed whiskey into y England, obtain- [ing $1,000 a barr The cases of sus: WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. —} pected retailers in Chicopee were post- poned until January 9. Events, with a vital bearing om the |". 0st" cress were industrial situation, are scheduled for the last week of 1919—a year : of strikes and lockouts. On the} Nreiv yor Federal outcome f these or ./ agents, health MetHorities and the po- ornmont pat poe evens hinge gov | Hee of many cities in the enst have x Me’ ©! been stirred to action against traffic roarked with industrial ace and rec-! ” | ord production. y"’ made from wood aleohol, Enghind. in “whiskey The events, all of w 424 Svill pet’ une following a wave of death and blind- derway Monday, are: ness from this canso in Massachusetts | Fim aatert of President Whson's in.| na Connecticut. The death list of vie- |tims of Christmas “cheer” in these dustrial commission appointed to work states totaled at least 41 out means for preventing trouble be. | SY sept v4 a tweon seapltal and tahor. Thi ‘repo (| Officials declared tt probable that un- report | reported eases by the score exist from hantatenardhcboal. seen’ iaaued by agencies coope eating in Haijroadiinton heads snect -Monday| No Seht- to outlgie tuFthor action on their wage}, Deru F |the Bronx d hemi industriously engaged in running down | Tho -industrial commission's — rey pus eOURy, 2 Ba palesh report! oth manufacturers and dispensers of | will propose a new sc’ T ae Se ee act SF machivery | nitoit whiskey. Two agents said a fll ists visited the White Plains hospital an linterviewed threo men who, altho con- xeious, have been paralyzed since | Christmas eve as the result of drin| : om | dead, physicians today said that others | jing a pint of whiskey. The liquor w: purchased in Manhattan and arrests! wha’ drank wood alcoho} on Ch pal {are expected to die shottiy. pur dead, six ill, made in New} (hy Annocinted F Y w Miles of nis ¥ enue ‘Collector } ed that his are expected, | "|MORE WILL, DIE AT HARTFORD, REPORT (By. United. Pregs.) HARTFORD, Der, 27-—Besides 13} cay are Presa.) PARIS, Dec, 27.—Revolutionary Socialists. have formed .a committee of government in Irkutsk, Siberia, WARREN, *Penn., Dec. where the All-Russian government of | sult of a Christmas spree on wood al-) Admiral. Kolchak established head- {cohol two men are dead at Emporium. quarters. after being driven from Omsk, according to news received to- day in French circles. The revolutionists took possession of the Irkutsk station on the Trans- Siberian railway, the reports state. ALLIED REPRES®: ARE te AT IRKU iy United Prens, WASHINGTON, Dec. o7—An up- rising was started by social revolu- tionists 6n-Christmas at Irkutsk, Si- beria, now the capital of the Kolchak government, it was said In state de- partment advises today. The Kol- chak forees continue to hold the cit) The American Red Cross party there was reportéd safe. Allied repre- sentatives have not yet left Irkutsk. The Bolsheviki are reported to be demolishing wooden houses in Pet- rograd and wooden ges for fuel. HUNS TO INSIST ON DETAILS OF SHIP INDEMNITY (By Aswovinted Press.) BERLIN, Dec. 27.—The entente's last note demanding the signing of the protocol to the peace treaty was diséussed by the cabinet today. It is | evident that the government is deter- mined to have the entente demand for an indemnity, tonnage for German warships..sunk at Scapa Flow pre cisely indicated. , —— Cc. A. Taylor, court stenographer, was here from Lander to spend Christmas with his family. LEAGUE WILL BE | MADE ISSUE FOR. 1920 CAMPAIGN Organization Already Active to Force Can- didates to Declare Themselves on Peace Regardless of Senate Action (By United Press. ‘Dec. -27.—An organization to force the League of Nations into the 1920 campaign as_an issue regard-| less of whether the senate ratifies the treaty or not, has been| perfected by senators opposed to any form of ratification. | Branches of the.organization already are working in six states.| ‘The movement is non-partisan, say, its backers. Its purpose) is to put on record all candidates. for office ori the league issue. (By_ United Press.) \PROBE STARTED BY BRONX ATTORNEY (By Associated Press.) | NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—District At- }torney Martin of Bronx county today | began a. search for men who are alleged | jy to have sold their “whiskey” made from | } wood aledhol which, transferred to New! England,» was responsible for the deaths of over two score persons. Al- /thoe not yet officially notified that the 'New England officials had traced the source of the “poison, whiskey” to the Bronx, Martin laid aside all other husi ness to attend to the new menace, | CIMCOPEE DEATH | ALONE oe REA Associate: cuicoreE. Mass., 2 ldeath list due to drinking poi liquor up to noon here at. Holyoke and | Springfield 36, with additions ‘hourly expected. Acting |Caron of the Chicopee police express lthe belief that the death list in Chico- ‘pee alone would go close to 50 before tall cases were accounted for. HOTEL PROPRIETOR |SURRENDERS TO POLICE Alexander Perry, proprietor of a hotel where the police believed many | lof the victims obtained the liquor, gave |himself up to the police today. He and his brother, Cha nd William. Bak- | cr, a bartender, were arraigned on aj charge of manslaughter, i } | All pleaded | (not guilty and were held on bonds of \'s10,000 each, ‘Technical charges of selling liquor illegally also were placed against them. Thomas Oczkski, proprietor of a sa- loon at Chicopee center, also was placed under arrest charged with manslaughter. The stomachs of six bodies on which autopsies were performed will be sent, (Continued on page Eight) WASHINGTON, was swelled by 57 deaths in the last two days from poisoned whis- key in New England. Fifty-two are dead and 100 blind in New York .___. City. Reports today show the tg casualties: GREATEST OF UNCLE SA) SUP! built in the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn. the largest and most powerful battleships affoat. robe the ayitide grinkments armaments. CHOICE, ALL REPORTS. TO CONTRARY, CLAIM Statements Discouraging Candidacy of | ' Army Commander Scored by Nebraska | Admirer Who Predicts Selection ited Press.) FORMER SLAVE BORN IN, 1791 DIES.IN W.VA. (By Anaocinted Press.) PARKERSBU RG, W. Va., Dec. —William Peyton, negro, one of the oldest men in the United States, died yesterday at Little Hocking, Ohis, at the age of 128 years. As a slave and freed man he served one family thru six generations, it is said. Peyton was in full possession of his faculties until within a few weeks of his death. SCHOOLS OPEN AGAIN MONDAY The city schools will open Monday following the two weeks holiday vaca- tion. Three teachers have resigned during the holidays, Miss Mary Liggett, Miss Luella Benson 1 Miss Irene} Shea. Their places except that of Miss | Shea will be filled by substitutes Mon- | day, and new teachers will be secure ‘as soon as possible. NAME OF wooD PUT ON BALLOT _ BY NEBRASKANS| (By Associated Press.) LINCOLN, Dec. 27.—A voters’ peti- tion asking that the name of General Leonard Wood be placed on the Re- publican . ballot at the primaries in April when voters express their pref- erence for presidential nominees was filed with the secretary of Bete of Nebraska today. ‘Lincoln Women to Renew Boycott of Eggs by Request’ (By Asnocinted LINCOLN: ‘Nebr. Dee. "37. Lincoln women were called upon today by lo- cal.wowen’s club to resume the hoy+ cott on eggs in an effort to force lower prices, f * WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Sunday ; slight- ly colder tonight. VOLUME Nv. ERDREAD ACGIUTS NEARING © was launched April 30, The Tennessee is 624 feet (By Associa LINCOLN, Nebr., Dec. tee, made a statement today which say that General Pershing will not b statement was in reply to a remark |his belief that General Pershing would not t candidate for the presidency. “a 1 Dawes did not say that Gen- jeral Pershing would not accept the nom ination for president,” Woods said. “Of [course he is not ,i candidate but when the Republican convention is held in zo next June, the people of the States will demand that he be for the next president. The | people will draft him because he is the best qualified man for the position in ‘ONE HELD FOR BROWN MURDER GAINS RELEASE By U United Prew MOU NTC .EME) » Dec, 27. loyd Prevost, held in connection with the murder of J. Stanley Brown Wednesday night, was released to- day for lack of evidence and indica- tions point to Mrs, Borwn also be- ing released soon. Mrs. Brown today attended the fan- | eral of her slain husband in the cus- tody of officers. YANKS SLAIN BY MEXICANS, SAYS: PROBE WITNESS EL PASO, Dee. 27.—-Lieutenant Ceeit| Connolly and Frederick Waterhouse, | \.American aviators who lost thetr lv jar er being forced to a end In Lower} | California, Mexico, were murdered, ne- |eording to testimony before the senate subcommittee investigating Mexican af. fairs, om by Joe Allen Richards, ;Richards, an American, discovered the) | bodies September 21, on the beach at! {Baya De Los Angeles, | | COMP LETION—The_U. 1919, and when complete 27.—Mark W. Woods of Lincoln, chair- | man of the recently organized Nebrasa-Pershing-for-President commit- | | Dawes, retired, of Chicago, which latter was quoted as saying it was K.-C. READY FOR PREES ON WOOD ALCOHO Authorities Stirred to Action ds Death Toll Piles Up in East ° ——- The Casper Daily ~| Crthune | Aaron | 8 eons tial CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, DEC. 38, 1919 NUMBER 65. NAVAL DECORATIONS WILL BE PROBED BY SPECIAL COMMITTEE ‘Decision to Investigate Entire Subject i Reached at Conference Today; Daniels Reveals That Other High Officers of Serv- ice Are Backing Charges of Sims «ny y Anne WASHINGTON, Dec. tions will be investigated by a jo | mittee when congress reconvenes, ‘of Massachusetts, said today after con senate naval committee. aelated Press.) 21. The whole subj int senate and ec of naval decora- ouse naval sub-com- Representative Lufkin, Republica#, ferring with members of the Associated Prean.) \tlons to be made by the Knight board after no fac ‘obably | will be acc eoretary ald today. ‘The secretary added that he ef ther would forward the report to the | president or act for the president in ac- | cepting it. Daniels also disclosed he “had S. S. Tennessee was will be one of length and 97 at its extreme breadth that Wilson, | formetly commander at Brest, and Rerr | Admiral Mayo, Who commaded the At. lantic fleet during the war, supporting the position taken by Rear Admiral |gims and other officers with regard to |decorations. The letters called atten: tion to what officers said were certain inequalities in the published listgnd ree- ommended that a review of particular ae be made. aa en NEGROES GIVEN THIRTY DAYSTO | LIVE BY COURT said that “no man has the right to ea candidate for president.” The| attributed to Brig. Gen. Charles G. | cution of negroes in connection with the insurrection at Elaine, Arkansas, Was postponed 30 days by the su- preme court peUev mes IVY DIVISION OF | ' WAR VETS HOLD ° REUNION TODAY (py fore ted Pr NEW‘ YORK, Dec. 27. mer sole | diers from many states assembled in | New York today for a reanion. and | smoker of the Ivy division tonight, It will be the first “get together" |;meeting of an army division that , fought oversea: |} Brigadier General Benjamin | Poore, president of the Ivy associa | tion, now stationed at Fort Russell, | Wyoming, will preside. MAN WILLING “TO PAY BILLS OF ONE SOLON (Snecinl to The Tribune.) THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., Dec. Believing that some members of the legislature will not be able, for finan- clal reasons, to attend the proposed special session to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, such session to be held without expense to the state for the truvel outlay and time of the members, John M. Hench, an attor- ney of this place, has volunteered te pay all the expenses of one such member and suggests that others do Dpto age likewise. | Mr. and Mrs. Neal Tyler and children} ues were here from Kock River to LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 27.—The exe- Ia A. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-—-The revised report on naval decora- STATE 10 oELL NEARLY 22,000 ACRES OF LAND | Large Tracts to Be » Auctioned in January Now Being Adver- tised in Six Counties of Wyoming The state of Wyoming, thru its ‘stato land boards, will sell over twenty | thousand acres of its state and school lands in six counties in the state dur+ ae the month of January. These sales re set on the following dates at the |diftorent county seats and are being ad- jvertised in the newspapers at each {county seat: rona county, 71 acres. | Fremont county, {1,083.80 acres Converse county, Casper, January 12, Lander, January 13, Douglas, January y, Lusk, January 16, county, ; sao) 416.29 acres te counts 0 a6 acres Total, 21,935.41 acres. | The lands praised and must |xell for three-feurths of their appraised | value under the oming law jrauat sell for not less than $10 per acre, The sales will be conducted by A. Bak- lands, wha Torrington, January Wheathind, January public sale jer, commirsioner will bo present ; FUNDS BRI o! <> — G GOOD PREMIUMS At the meeting of the € | Building and Loan association held last | night $18,000 was sold, the purchasers being James Gallington, Harry Parsons {and Harry Seibert. The money brot |a good premiu sper Mutual REE {| Irl Stover passed thru Casper yester- | day enroute to Olney, 1, where he wilt visit with home folks. He will return | to Wyoming in March and will be act | spena Christmas, will return_home to- companied by his wife and three chite morrow. BIG INITIATION A large number of visiting knights are expected to attend the Knights of Columbus initiation and banquet to be held at the Odd Fellows hall Sunday at- ternoon at 1 o’cl6ck. Only the initiatory ceremonies will be held at the Odd Fellows hall, the ban- quet taking place at the Mullin club rooms at 8:30 o’clock euueey. evening. | Covers will be laid for 151 a | { Max Hirsch and wife leave today for} New York, where they will spend some time in the big markets of t ropé lis purchasing new lines of me ndise} for their popular Casper and Lusk ores. After they have completed their New York engagements they will go di-! trectly to California, returning to Cas- per about March 1. LOS ANGEL Dec, 27,—Albert Kansas City rhe ice ure wood, when she can talk coherently. peel hospital. The second clew lies in the murdet { prints on the car have been copied. pinning their hope « 5 dren. OIL BROKER OF | KANSAS CITY IS MURDER VICTIM Wife of Albert Norwood od Collapses and Is Unable to Aid Los Angeles Police in Running Down Husband’s Slayer (By United Press.) Norwood, wealthy oll stock broker of murdered in front of his home here last night. of arresting the assassins upon Mrs, Nor- he is suffering from nervous collapse at & rers’ car being found abandoned. Finger ,