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NEW BRITAIN DAIX [/ et '~ALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, This store will open Monday SATISFACTION < 1T WILL CosT You LESS IN THE LONG RUH) The man who pays & consist- ent price for good clothes finds that it costs him less in the long run than by buying cheap outfits, ' e have joy togs for the and stylish, conserv- young ma ative clothes for the seniors, You will be doing yourself a favor to pay this shop 2 visit. Bloch new Fall Suits The Farrell Clothing Fo. 271 MAIN § OLD HOME WEEK FUND NOW $1,500 from First Pa Shuman $50.00. Stein, and B35 0 (Continued 1ge) N K cured tags for Old Home weeck and during the remaining days of the drive will use the tags to secure money for the fund. Mrs. Kimball is at the head of the women's teams and expects to raise a considerab imount of money in this way Ja’meskR. Fletc)zer Is In Critical Condition James R. Fletcher, factory mana- ger at the P. and . Corbin Manufac- turing company’s plant, is critically ill at his home, 165 West Main stre and but little hope for his recovery is entertained. Mr. Fletcher h: reen ill for some time and his condition is reported as failing rapidly Czecbc;:gic;baks Urged Not To Sign Treaty Paris, 8, (Havas.)—The state council of Czecho-Slovakia has urged the \government of thit country not to slgn the treaty of peace with Austria If the solution of questions relativa to the Texchen is not satisfac- tory according lo a Zurich dispatch printed In newspapers here. Sept district Four French Soldiers Are Burned to Death Par Sept. 8, (Havas.) —¥our French soldiers have been burned to death and one seriously injured in a fire near Mayence according to a ‘Wolf Agency dispateh from Berlin. » INCRE PRODUCTION, This Governor Neoed on Ame Greenfleld, Mass., Sept. 8.—Ameri- can ideals having triumphed in the war, the great problem of the country now is To maintain them in peace, Governor Coolidge told the 34th an nual convention of the state branch ¢ the American Federation of Labor nere today. He emphasized the coun- try’s need for increased production Coolidze Tmpresses n Labor Day, Labor men almost generally, ac- cording to President W Nealy, of Lynn, in his address favor prohibition < a war-lime measure but oppose it s a peace-time condition. Dea{ils and fifinei‘als. strongly V merdinger. 15t Gamerdinger Angust G The funeral of A who died at his home on Chestnut street Saturday, W held this after- noon from his late residence Rev. G AV. C. Hill of the South chur~h offi- ciatgd and the burial was in the Fairview cemetery The pallbearers were from the Red Men's lodge of which Mr. Gamerdinger wd a mem- bet. George Mauley. George Mauley, aged 63, a former fesident of this city and who for a £v|1'\r- was employed in the ITumason & Beckley plant here, died vesterday mt Bis home in Plantsville he deceased was a member of Harmony lodge, and that lodze will be in charge of the funeral services tomor- row afternoon Burial will he in Fairview cemetery M Mauley is gurvived by one daughter, Mrs. Carl Graves. Mrs. George Mauley, the wifer of the deceased, died about two weeks ago. Kochador The funeral of Hovanneos. Kochador Hovan- neos v held this afternoon from the J. M. Curtin undertaking rooms at 3 p’clodk and burial was in the Fair- view cemetery. ‘el, 1625-2—Any Hour, Day or Night TARRANT & HAFFEY, UNDERTAKERS ) 33 Myrtle Street. Lady Attendant—Free Use of Chapel. ‘ East ¥nd Office: 53 JUBILEE ST., TEL. 778-12 Orders Taken For Upholstering. 1 K I of tra e str B ha th wi Everett ILLED AFTER HE SENT BOX TO Iroad Conductor I Run Down By Passenger Tra Near ¢ nwich Station. Greenwich, Sept. N.-—F. K. W Waterbury, conductor of a f in was killed 4t the Davis a ilroad bridge today, when he uck by the. third tion of a nger train. A carin t [reignt a hot box. Wagw.r track to reach th aught between the trains. se d started ° car The this city, Wate hury Wagne Sept. of when death (©) om Waterbury in ner, reignt venue was pus- train down he of con- ductor, killed n Greenwich this morn-~ ing by being siruck hy an express train, brings to light one of the sad- dest incidents of the day. The dead man had only been back a shart tinie from taking a box of goodies to his son, Frank Waener, at amp Merritt., The son had rcturned to the “Juitea States Thursday after serving 26 months overseas. The dead man leaves four children, a brother and a sister. He Bad worked for the New Haven railroad 15 vears. New ;faven C;zmblere | lic rai po fin s hlc the in of wk ed Are Fined In Court New Haven, Sept. 8.~ e had told the city court abou il August 28 in places ols on race horses were being 5 were imposed upon almost a sre of defendants today. Kee wio lleged to have headquarters and distributec was fined $200 on others swho kept T ann and on is tormation five counts the race results were re cach find $200 w John After the po- t the where scld 11 the A, kept 1 the each rlaces ounc- still others who placed bets were fined $50 Se! were placed on veral ca ile. $I,000,000 Werth of Cotton Is Destroyed do q Rotterdani, Sept. 8—Fire on cks here today destroyed & antity of cotton. 1t is the great estimated that $1,000,000 worth of the droduct was burned. CROP PRODUCTION. Department of Agriculture Announces Waushington, Sept ~Iforecas s Based On Sept. Reports. ts of crop production of the country’s im- po e toc fo 19 po based on cond 1 were annou rtant crops, ting September itions meed fay by department of agriculture as 1ows 5 Figures in millions—Winter wheat, spring wheat 8 all wheat, corn, 2,858; onts barley, 5- rye, $4.6; buckwhe : white latoes 349; sweet potatoes, 100; to- cco, 1,279,000,060 pound RETURNS, BRANDE Schumann-Heink and Otherr Arrive Back in This Country. New York, Sept. 8.—Justice Bran- deis of the U. S ipreme court, a Swiss industrial Heink the ab, fre ma companied tw fra be sio fer mission Krnestine Schun singer, were who arrived oard steamship Rotte ym Rotterdam, Boulogne and outh. Madame and Mme the ope a passenge the Sfchumann-Heink daughter-in ndchildren whom om Germany. Justice Brandei en abroad since last June on a n to Palestine and the peace rence. wa 18 by a o Br RESCUED AT SEA. % she brought of 224 mem- 1ann- mong today rdam Ply- s ac- and s has mis- con- Man, Leg Broken and Crazed, Found Floating on Raft. New York, Sept. 88-—Ahoard the United Fruit Co., steamship Carrillo, which arrived today from Cristobal was a member of the ctew of the steamship Chetopa who was picked up at sea clinging to a raft. The man's leg was broken and he was delirious and unable to give his name. | st According ry he told the f he was to agments o making f the some repairs to the rudder of the Chetopa which M wa no ti lat Ca Construction Co., and Myron Groht, | were severely burned an Jjust ch sh tri H: left here obile/ Ala., when v and he fell t missed and her rillo ast Saturday the rigging into the sea. the why. Chetopa, Some 1 rescued him. nued er the ( on JAM PIPE BURSTS, MAN BADLY Hartford, Cept 8.—George wley, superintendent of the iron worker, before noon today at ute which is being built eldon strect for the Light Co. They irtford hospital the on Hartford were taken t The bursting steam pipe caused the accident. E pl sh en &0 W o ul AST HARTIORD M ENXDORSE Hartford, Sept. S.—Shopnmien oyved in the Ne Haven opbs in Kast Hartford have vot dorsenment of the Plumb pla: hip of raih ster mechan local shop PLUMB vernment owner G. Curtin, m irman of the rvion tod m ‘ Vi for gave He was con- hours BURNED W. Kent coal lower Elec- o the of a PLAN em- rairoad ed an n for oads, and men’s e 20 LATLE FOR CLASSIFICATION. W ANTED—Girl worlc: no washing kin, Winthrop St to do general Mrs. J. J. 10use- Wit- 9-8-tf W NTED—Your man as prodi clerk in local factory; previou perience not necessary, but wot helpful. Man with good preferred. Work is interestin good chance for advancement. dress in B30B, Herald. 1etion 15 ex 1ld be education & and Ad- own handwriting, giving age, education, experience, etc . Box 9-8-t1 | morning CITY ITEMS Join New Britain Nat. Bank Vaga- tion Club tonight. Open 7 to 8 p. m. Advt. Samuel and Mollie Sweig have sold land at 68 Hartford avenue and 15 Star street to Samuel Greenberg. The sale involves about $8,500. A son to to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zeldes. ilelen Crona has returned to her home in Bloomfield, N. J., after visit- ing her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crona of Park Terrace. Miss Gertrude Bentsz, stenographer in the city clerks’ office, returned to work tod after a two weeks’ vica- tion spent in New York clty. Mr. and Mrs. William Fay have re- turned from Vermont where they have been spending their honeymoon. David Mitchell of Springfield Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. O. of 94 Columbia street. The Sisters' society of the Swed- ish Bethany Evangelical church will hold their monthly meeting in the Church parlors Thursday at 2 p. m. Rev. J. Isaacson of Sweden preached Sunday at the Swedish Bethany church Dr. spent P. Richter, 2 Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Smith, of High street, have returned from their summer home at Ocean Beach. St. Matthew's German Lutheran parochial school opened today with a large attendance.” Mrs. L. Wells, mother of Council- man George Wells, has returned after a month’s stay at Woodmont. Mrs. Elizabeth Oats Florida, is the guest of Frisbie of Sunny Ledge. of Mrs. Daytona, Robert Miss Mary Sheehan, operator at the Postal Telegraph Office has re- sumed her duties after spending her annual vacation at the shore. Mr. and Mrs. David Gagan and daughter, Marion, of Stanley sireea, have returned from a wcek's stay at Momauguin. CURRY IMPROVED. The condition of C. J. Curry, who was quite seriously injured in an automobile accident, Iriday night, shows some improvement today. At the hospital it was stated that he had spent a fairly comfortable night and was on the road to recovery. ROBBED OF $5,000 e Masked Mcen Hold Up Erie Banl Official and Make Th Escape in Automobile. Toledo, ©O., Sept. 8.—Five masked men at noon today held up the Erie bank at Erie, Mich., near here, and escaped in an automobile with $5,000 in cash and securities yet to be estimated. COUPLE AR Farmer Discover Girl’: and Man’s in Body in F Auto, Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 8.—A farmer crossing the fields near Kenmore, a suburb of this city, this morning early found the body of a young woman. TFollowing a trail of blood near the roadway he came to a large touring car in which he_ found the body of a man. Both victims had been shot. The bodies were later identified as those of Norman W, Shear, of Hertel avenue, Buffalo, and h flancee, Mary Messner. They were to have been ried soon. The medical examiner the opinion that they had dered by a third party. ma expressed been mur- 20.000 OUT OF WORK 30 Coal Mines in Pen by Strike. Ivania Closed Scranton, Pa. Sept. 8.—The 30 Delaware and Hudson Coal company's anthracite coal mines in the Lac wanna and Wyoming valleys, employ ing 20,000 men and boys, are tod: closed by a strikee. The issue involved is that brought out ten days ago when the miners of the Carbondale district, numbering nearly 4,000, quit work in protest againts excessive dockage, too fre- quent lay-offs of groups of men for alleged dirty coal, and the use of mechanical loaders. CAN'T WITHDRAW TROOPS. Germany Notifies Entente Powers Sol- diers in Courland Refuse to Leave. ept. 8.—The ed a note Berlin, has addres government to the entente powers regretting that the evacuation by the Germans of the Baltic prov- inces, which has been ordercd by the peace conference, is impossible owing to the insubordination of the German troops still in Courland. ALBERT TO GIVE WILSON FINE SET OF PORC Brussels, JAIN Albert on his coming visit to the United States will offer 1o I'resident Wilson, among other presents, a complete table set of Brus porcelain with reproductions of the principal Belgian nfonuments on the variov picces, SSEL FROM G Hamburg, Sept. 8.—The ing vessel to leave for ates, the three-masted sailed fram Hamburg in ballast for Philadelphia Saturday. The vessel will return with 2,000 tons of mineral oil. Sept. 8.—King TV IRMANY. first sail- the United Reinersteig, was born at the hospital this | AIR PASSENGER SERVIGE PLANNED 20 People Will Be on First Air- ship in South America London, Sept. .5 the Associated (Correspondence Press).—Twenty bassengers and a small cargo are o be carried on the first airship jour- ney from Barrow-in-Furness to Rio de Janiero some time this Fall, ac- cording to an announcemcnt here. Owners of the aerial leviathan intend, if the initial voyage successful, to maintain a reg four day service between the two points, The airship, it is said, will be routed of via Lisbon, ier L.eone (West Af- rica), and thence cross the .A\tlantic to Rio de Janiero. The return trip will be made by way ol ti same points, Sir Woodman Burbridge is reported to have booked three berths for the flight—for himself, his wife and a riend. The price of «hese tickets was 000 each The aivship is known as the It has a gas-bag capacity of 1, cubic more than half of the famous R-34. She is ered the most perfectly constructed streamline type of airship and a speed of sixty miles per hour. is 535 feet in length. Passengers' living quarters are sit- uated on top of the hull and con- sist of cabins of sleeping berths, roof garden and a shelter deck is an observation car below the hull which is connected with the living quarters by means of a passenger lift through the middle of the craft In connection with the’ progress of aeronautics in England, it inter- esting to note that announcement is made by the Air Ministry of the open- ing next February of a Royal Air Force Cadet College for the training of the permanently commissioned of- ficers of the Royal Air Force. Only filty-five cadets will be admitted to the opening class of the college. aminations will be held in November. Candidates must be between seven- teen and one-half and nineteen of age upon entering the school. two-year course is prescribed R-80 50,000 the feet, a here is A Com- petitive examinations will govern ad- mission, Pethany Charch Sold Price Set At $45,000 Involving a $45,000 real estate deal the sale of the Swedish Bethany Evangelical church to Peter Crona, . H. Shields, and J. W Marsland at the city Ramsay orded today re; clerk’s office in one of the biggest re- cent transactions in New Britain's real estate Thistory. The actual imount paid by the purchasers is $10,000, while there is a mortgage of $35,000. Just what is to be done with the property could not be learned today. CITY MF TINGS tenths of a mill tax. The supply committee of the coun- will meet tonight The salary committee of the council will meet Tuesday night to consider an increase in the salaries of the city engineer and the superintendent of the water department, the former being an increase of from $1,600 to 000, the latter from $2,200 to $2,400 The finance committee of the coun- cil will meet Wednesday might to consider the bills of the various de- partiments. . cil MING TO Theodore K. Jahn, of Maple street, has tendered his resignation in H. R. Walker's office to fect turday of this week enter the New York University school of commerce next week. Jahn been employed at Walker's for about months. He is a graduate of the B, H. cla of 1918 and was of the baseball team during year. JAHN ( X as clerk take ef and will has N. captain his senior S MANCINI—ALBAN WEDDING Miss Tulamina Albanese of Cher street and Dominico Mancini of Wa- turbury, were married at St. Mary' church at 9 o'clock this morning. Rev. Willlam A. Krause performed the ceremony at a nuptial high mass. The couple were attended by Tula- mina Albanese, an aunt of the bride, as bridesmaid, and by Joseph Man- cini, brother of the groom, as best man. VICTIM'S NAME (ROCKER. The and run down truck at the corner of Washington and Lafayette streets this morning and who was brought to the hospital hefore the rival of the ambulance, regained con- man who was struck by an automobile the latter was taken to the jail today to see Dossett she told the authorities he was not the man who had robbed ‘the consid- | There will be a meeting of the | pigtiiers Sec voters of the city Tuesday night to | e vote on the appropriation made bY | cen Glec .. the council for the laying of seven- | Goodrich Ttu sciousness this afternoon. He gives his name as Richard Crocker of this | city. His right leg is broken, it has heen found. ACCUSED OF ROBBING BANK GIRL, FRIEND WORKED IN ansville, Ind., Sept. 7 John Dossett, a barber who until two weeks ago was employed in a hotel shop in this city, is under arrest at Hender. son, Ky., on the char of havine robhed the Deposit Bank at Smith Mills, Ky.. last Thursday On that day a bandit entered the bank while | the clerk, Miss Margaret Lilly, was alone. He overpowered her, and after locking her in the vault escaped with $4.000 in c Dossett, who was re cently discharged from the army, had been attentive to Miss Lilly. When e } FINANCIAL | I WALL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS Wall day Street, 1 rally Alcohol, drive forcing U 30 p. m.—The mid- whic included Industrial was cucceeded another . Steel a large frac- tion under the low of the morning and checking *he rise in shippings and oils. Western Union declined 2 1-2 points. Wall street 10:30 m.—Although industrial conditions over the week- end showed no material change, pric at the opening market session, by a. S stock of suggested today confidencs in a sat tory outeome of labor dif- ferences. Last week's favorites, es- | pecially motors and their specialties, also oils and shippings were conspic- uous in the early dealings at gains of Mexican and California petroleums, the noteworthy feature of the 1 hour, other leaders showing few material changes. The close regular. Sales approximated 6 shar New :York Stock Exchange quota- | tions furnished by Richter & Co., membuers of the New York stock Exchange: was ir- 0,000 Sapt. 8§, 1019, High Beet Sugar ska Gold Am Car & Fdy Am Can Am Loco Am Smelt Am S Am Tel & Tel Anaconda Cop A TS Fe Ry Baldwin Loco B & O BR T Beth Steel T3 Co 1 Butte Superior | Can ¥ Cen Leather Ches & Ohio (‘hino Cop | Chi Mil & St Col F & I Cons Gas - Crucible Steel Great Nor pfd Ilinois Cen Inspiration Interboro pfd Kennec Coppe Lack Steel Lehigh Valley | Max Motor Mex Petroleum N Y (* & Hudson | Nev Cons NYNH&H Ohio Cities C Northern P Pac Mall S | Penn R R People's Gas Pressed Steel Carv Reading Rep I & S com Southern Pac Southern Ry Studebaker . 8215 497 191 .20615 com R Texas Oil Union Pac | United Fruit | Utah Copper 8614 { U S Rubber Co ..130 ll'.\' Steel ..1043;5 | U s steel pfd 1151 | Westinghouse 541 | Willys Overland 3315 | LOCAL EXCHANGE PRICES QUOTED (By Richter & Co.) Hartford Electric L So N B Tield oo R DLl | American Brass i | Ami. Hosiery (par 23) | Am. Hardware Am. Silver (par | Billings & Spencer 25 Bristol Brass (par Colt's Arms Co. (par 25) Eagle Lock Co. (pa ) Int. Silver pfd L. K. & C. (par Nat. Mar. Lamp (i = N. B. Machine (par | Niles-Bement-TPond com N, & J. M Co. (par 2 1, & W. (par 23) | Russen Mfg. Co. | Scovil e | Standara Screw com | 8 1L & L. Co | nley Works (par 25) | Tor. Co. com (par Traut & Hine (par 52 55 Union Mfg. Co. (par 108 111 i REPORTS BICYCL George Macholtz, of Cottage place reported to the desk sergeant at [ police headquarters this noon that his | bicycle had been stolen from in front of Murphy's pool room on Main | street. An investigation is being made 38 1 to 3 points. U. S. Steel opened un- changed but soon advanced half a point, Bethlchem gaining a point, with as much for Badwin Loco., and 2 points for Crucible steel | Wall Street Noon—Much of the advanced recorded at the ourset wa cancelled before the end of the first hour on renewal of pressure inst | the leaders. U. S. Steel fell back a | | point, Crucible steel reacted mnearly 5 points and reversals among other steels, as well as equipments and oils extended from 1 to 3 points, Am- erican Telephone also developing marked heaviness. The setback was accomplished by slight offerings, | dealings falling considerably under recent fotals and reflecting lack of bullish leadership. Substantial rallies at noon were led by shippings and oils. Call money opened at 5% per | cent ( Tenewed huying of oils, especially | | | i | | i ICHTER & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange 31 WEST MAIN ST. STANLEY R. EDDY, Mgr. NEW BRITAIN, CONN, Telephone 2640 25 Shares American Hardware 50 Shares North and Judd 50 Shares Bristol Brass 50 Shares New Britain Machine JUDI & CO. Rooms 209-310 National Bank Bldg. W. T. SLOPER. Mgr. Tel. 45, LOCAL STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD WE OFFER FOR SALE 25 SHARFES AMIRIOAN SHARES NORTH CONNECTICUT MUTUAL BRITAIN NEW FOR-SALE A two tenement house, consisting of seven rooms to a tenement, r. This house is fully equipped with shades AGES NOW UNDER CONSTRUC- Wd a garage for one ca and screens, also SEVED TION, COoT” A. GORBACH, RealEstate, GeneralInsurance Booth's Block, Room 6 WHAT I HARDWARF CORP. & JUDD MFG. CO, & CLARK. 50 SHARES LANDERS FRARY GOODWIN BEACH & CO. BUILDING, NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, HARTFORD NEW BRITAIN, Office open Mon. and Sat. Evenings. NDER 300,000 S Mexican-Panuco Oil. Listed and Traded i « Abstract Engineers’ (a) (b) (c) teport. Abstract Geological Report Reports from two disinter- ested and reliable authori- ties certifying company’s present productien. (d) (e) Abstract legal opinion. Balance Sheet of company. Copy of Booklet Sent on Request FITKIN & CO. 141 Broadway, New York City. Pittsburgh A. E. Boston FOR DRY ENGLAND Press and _Pilibli.og Hostile to Prohibition Move Loondon, Aug. 16, of The footlng” is (Correspondence Pr the Associated )—"Pussy- the term newspapers and British liquor interests have given the campaign to make England is the title they have given those members of parlia- ment and American anti-saloon league workers who are presssing the move- ment It has dry, and “pussyfeet! announced that there is abundant money behind the move- ment, and the nucleus of a parlia- mentary prohibition party has been formed by nine members of the house of commons to first fight for the retention of w time liquor reg- ulations while form their lines for more drastic Harrogate, a some S0 mineral the first heen action health springs, object of at number of speakers were sent to spread the “dry" doctrine. It was also decided to pay particular atten- Scotland where, under new locs possible. it was announced, and within a campaign will be in full swin Most of the newspapers have done nothing but ridicule the movement, and urge that owing to the climate British men and women needed stim- ulants and would never voluntarily relinquish their alcohol ady Henry dent of the Britis ance ion resort with was selected and a there ck, tion to regulations, Other plans, the making option is are in vear the t. late presi- Woman's Temper- quoted e the prohibi- omer: 1550 is as pressing the opinion that New Descriptive Booklet Just Issued, Contains: | | | | Equal Rights L. | | | | Co. Stock on New York Curb. (f) Names of officers, directors and prominent men ideenti- fied with company. ) Map of Panuco field show- ing company's leases and new wells recently bought in. Photograph of company’s gushers NOW producing at the rate of 10,600 barrels daily. Chicago TO SUICIDE. ment Shoots Herself. Los Angeles, Sept. §.—Said to haw been obsessed by fear that she wi about to suffer a recurrence of the i fluenza, which nearly caused her deat in Washington last winter, Miss Mai rian Biegert, formerly a clerk in thi war department, shot herself yestei day at her home, 341 North Norman die street. The bullet passéd througl her head. Death was instantaneous. Miss Biegert, who was 24 years old was born in Seattle, but lived thi greater part of her life in Portland where her father, John Biegert, a mert chant, resides. he had been melan: choly far weeks, according to he mother, with whom she lived in thi city. { While Mrs. Biegert was attending religious meeting at Bréokside par] the daughter entered the bathroon and shot herself with a revolver. Thi body was found by the mother up her return fram services. 85,000 RADIUM VIAL IS TOSSED INTO FIR Rochester, N. Y., Sept —A nurs in the Lee hospital here mislaid vial containing $6,000 worth radium two days ago. Electrolytic ex4 perts from Pittsburgh yesterday disf covered evidences of it in the ashef8l ¥ { of dressings that had been burned Although it was fused with the ashefs in burning, the experts expect to ré cover the whole amount GROES PLAN MASS MEETINGS Sept. 8.—Mass meetings ofi will be held in nesrd)] over the country o1 21, according to an ans made by the National Ague. At these meets will be elected to thel meeting of the leagu from Sept. 23 to 25. A programme for the protecs the rights of negroes will by at this convention P N Boston, race defense churches all Sunday, Sept nouncement ing delegates twelfth annual in Washington national tion of outlined FIRM PA HU . FOREIGN tion campaign will do positive mis- | Seattle.—Paying one of the biggest chief by making prohibition appear 1 excess profits taxes assessed a forel to be the sole alternative to a return | corporation doing business in thd to the pre-war position | United ates, the Nippon Yusen Kal The liquor interests say they have | few days ago forwarded a checly not given the question much atten- | for $2.941,000 to the internal revenug tion, preferring to believe that the | department. The check was in pa: prohibition experiment in the United ! ment for excess profits from all bu States will fail and therefore there | iness done in the United Siates dusiny will be no need for action in England. tho year 1918,

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