Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 25

10SS OF RUM TRADE HITS BAHAMAS HARD State of Living Must.Be Read- justed to Make Ends Meet, Tslanders Discover. REVENUES CUT IN HALF Cvmlmiti;m of Cuba Proving Too Powerful. Wppcial Dispateh to The Star. HAVANA, February 28.—The sad Story of & government which bullded #t5 fiscal house on the treacherous #ands of American bootleg revenue ‘Ww§s brought to this thriving rum eenter today by a group of briny- eyed Bahama Islanders. In brief, the story is that the Ba- hamas, having got all nicely adjusted %0 @ scale of living In keeping with thelr importance as assuagers of the @reat American thirst, have more or less suddenly had their rich trade kicked out from under them. And now, loaded down with a costly and elaborate government, th find themselves rapidly going broke and +facing the doleful prospect of borrow- ing money to make both ends meet. Put Blame on Cuba. Naturally, they blame Cuba, whi has cornered so much of the Ame can liquor trade that Cubuns are ta ing an alcohol fuel shortage. In dentally. they also blame the United States, arguin nited States could ‘have to Cuba E Tum exportation stick had it be p really in earnest. couldn't stand pro In the old d. tem the Bahan government roll veacefully alonz on an annual rev uickly jumpe, St & 1and of Homie S0.000 se e HIC seemed like an awful lot of money. And it looked as if, with & little en- couragement, the business would u\ntln:e 1o Erow. ut the reve on liquors ‘The early yearsof the oil in- dustry were chaotic. Every- body drilled for oil. Anybody refined it. There were few standards of production. ent protest | | ith the Bahamas 7 COLLIERIES CLOSE IN ANTHRACITE FIELD 6,000 Miners Strike, Declaring Company Failed to Adjust Grievances. By the Assaciate] Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Febryary 8 —Seven of the collieries of the Le- high and Wilkesbarre Coal Compuny, Involving about 6,000 anthracitg mine workers, were 1dle according to early reports yesterday as & result of a strike vote taken last night. The men alleged that the compyny has falled to adjust a number of grievances. Rinaldo Cappellini, pres- ident of district 1, of the United Mine Workers, declared that the strike is {llegal and that unless the men re- turn to work draStic measures would be taken by the union officers. A meeting to adjust the trouble will be held thly atternoon. 7 CONVICTS RECA RECAPTURED Two Wounded by Prison Guards in Texas—Twenty Missing. HOUSTON, Tex., February 28.— Seven Mexican convicts, members of a party of twenty-seven who escaped from the Blue Ridge state prison farm here Tyesday night, were recaptured yesterday, two being wounded by prison guards. Posses last night were searching the It Marsh country, where the remain- ing fugitives were 'helieved to be hid- ing. The officers were being aided by & large pack of bioodhoun Then they began to salaries. As most In half. t governmental didn’'t eat up all the surplus created a whole lot more public by, Indeed. so optimistic were the thamas that many of the jobs were nded out on a life-tenure basls— | their reciplents being put under civil | service and uxsured of positions s long as thelr conduct was good. —when everybody was sitting Cuba cut’ in on the liquor From a monthly exportation of 0,000 cases the Hahamas have | dropped to a pitiful 20,000. And the vevenues derived from that are only alf t d to be. pro ll‘a(le. TWO HATIONS ASK SEATS AT GENEVA Portugal and Rumania Would Con. tinue Efforts for Washing- ton Treaty. By the Amsoclated Press. GENEVA, February 28.—Portugal and Rumunia have petitioned the league of natlons for @ seat on the naval committeg, which is directed by the council of the league, and, with the holp of the South American coun- tries they are expected to continue the efforts begun in Rome to extend the principles of the Washington treaty. Russia's demand at the Rome con- ference far 400,000 tona of naval weight haa not surprived league cir- cles, which learn that Mogeow is dis- aryntled over the fact that Russia wag not invited to participate in the Washington ence. Further evi- dence of Ri byrat of interest In the league lony 18 glven by the reveipt of & polite note from Foreign Minlster Tchitcherin acknowledging an officlal copy of the pact of mutual guarantees among the membership states, which was elahoruted at the last awsembly and which. M. Tehit- cherin sald, Moscow would be glad to study closely. RUM FOUND ON LINER. Ten-Hour Search on Martinique Yields Seventy Cases. NEW YORK, February 38.—After a ten-loyr segrch of the steamship Martinique of the Colombian line federal agents yesterday found sev- enty cases of whisky hidden in vari- ous parts of the ship. They said they were obliged to show their pistols to force the crew to open the liquor caches. Officers of the liner, which arrived Tuesday from Jemaica, de- nied all knowledge of the whisky. i Rl ey In 1723 the eity chamberlain of New York reported total municipal Tecelpts of L721 (less than §3.600) and total expenditures of £571 Qess than §: MASKED THUGS ATTACK AND STAB ROME EDITOR Senator Bergamini Waylaid as He Enters Villa~—Besten Up and Robbed. ROME, February I8.—Senater Al- berto Berguminl, editor for many yeurs of the Glarnale d'Italia and Dresident of tho Press "Associgtion, was attacked on entering his villy In the outskirts of Rome by a party of masked robbers within the house, who stabbed the senator, beat him about the face with steel gloves and took from his pockets 1,300 lire and his gold presentation medals. His chauf- feur, coming In shortly afterward, found the 'wenator's hat on the stairway, ryshed up and fired a revolver at the robbers, who fed. The ' carabineers, called by the chauffeur, arrested two suspects near the villa gnd took Senator Bergami- nl to a hospital Child’s tongue shows if bilious, constipated DATE FIXED FOR VOTING 0N MINE WAGE CONTRACT Workers to Vots on Thras-Yesr Extension of Present A'f‘filfl.n!. v the Asgociated Press. 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