Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 311 POPULATION 29,919 llfl% SHIPMENTS FROM HAVEN T0 CGHICOPEE SxMtnAnutedlnflmCitylnConnectionWiththeSaleof Wood Alcohol “Whiskey”—Two Barrels Confiscated In ‘Suburbs—Total Deaths In Connecticut Valley, Excluding Hartford, 52—Four Arrests Made In Chicopee—One ‘Woman Died In Meriden, and a Man Is Practically Blind! as Result of Drinking Liquor—Three More Deaths In Newark and One In Cleveland. New Haven, Dec. 28—Six mentotal recorded arrested here today in connection th the sale of wood aicohol “whis- ey’ which they are alleged to have shipped trom’ this city to Chicopee, Massachusetts. The arrests were made at the request of District At- torney Joseph B. Ely of Westfield, s, who telegrapaed that the men Su's# 1y forenoon. Two more cases of p..sons suffering from the effects of poisonous liquor were listed in hospitals, making eigh(l persons known to be here from that cauze. Four of these were re- ported tonizht in a critical condition. Chief of Police Farrell tonight an-! nounced that aithough he had been nted for homicide in Mussa- by State’s Attorney Alcorn to chusetts.” he closing of all the saloons in Those held are: Nichoias Russo,| would take o action at Yominick Perrotti, Frank Lucibello, | present, as he did not believe the john Pinto, William Guangi and Har- ry Vincent. They were locked up at the direction of Coroner Mix of New laven county. United States Com- fssioner Lynch al=o lodged charges violation of the fon act against the six men and fixed hds at $10,000 each. state statutes covered any such action| bp a police offici Alcorn sent| e chief: all towns in| v asking them to’ order saloonys closed. No further arrests were made here S are held in con- nection with the wood alcohol “whis- | The arrests were made by a large|key” sales, four of them being charged squad of police officials, including A.|with murder. ¥, Foote, Massachusetts commissioner| Another death was added to the C! of Police! Connecticut total today when a wo- Haven, three | man died in Meriden from the effects | of polsonous liquor. {of pubiic safely, fifp T. Smith of agsachusetts stat i ocd] police.and revenue agents. They taried activities | soen . after|FIVE MEN ARRESTED fanigin morninz. four automo- OF ORGANIZED BAND| les Beu u~v(l in going to various s ts of the city and suburbs, Vincent fd Guangi were the first ted, | the tier being taken in a k‘admgi tdewntotvn cafe. Perrotti was arresi- - at his home in Westville,. where an pliicit diquor still was found and seiz: red. Twd barrels of a compound belicy- New York, Dec. 28.—Federal agenys ¢ tonight arrested five men whom they claimed to be the heads of an organized band which hav been re- sponsible for the recent widespread | le of wood alcohol concoctions through five state: One of the men rrested was descr W1 by the goy- ted 19 contain wood alcohel were con- | crnment agents ag » kingpin of the ‘fiscated o a barn on the South End|ring” T the men 1 custody Road. just outside of the Ac-{werc described as New York business wirding to the polic four barrels of} 1 Jiquor. were. shipped from a barn to c ten days, since the first sChicopee, Mass., * a large num- i je e reported from wood iber I died ing @ wood | poironing, Colonel Daniel L. ixture, §iX men held | supervising rev are alleged 1o have been tho nvn\(r;y York and 11. of the liquor stored ih the . They | ed » four said. ue agent for New | Dobbs, special federal agent, have br(‘n working on the the- ory that the poison which has caused ores of deaths throughoui New nd New York, originated The arrests made toni; widely sep $1.050 a barrei sent 1o Chicopes ¥OUR ARRESTS OF LIQUOR | this MEN AT CHICOPEE MASS. | were fo! eff varts of the city Mass., l'uA 28. l,ndrd; e Stutes Marshal Edward J. Loyden to-| THREE MORE DEATHS IN day arrested four men on federal war- NEWARK: TOTAL NINE rants charging them with violation of wa: time prohibition and t p ] 2 illegal | Nowark, N. 1., Dec. Three more tranportation of liguor from state to| deaths from wood alcohol, poisouing. state. The arrests. resulted from. making a tetal of nine here’in-the jast{ it fata the Teaths of more| thrce . weeks, were rcported o the! thun fifty persons in the Conupecticut police tonight. “ 1 wood aleohol| * (‘ounty Prosccutor Iarrison and contained in 2 + sold as whis~ Cellector of Internal Revenue Churles key. One other arrest was made bY| Dufiy have started investigations to the Thompsonville, Conn., police. find the source of the poisoned liquor. Five more deaths had resulted since e Srilie carly this morning from alcohoile, oNE DEATH IN CLEVELAND: fsoning, thrée in Holyoke and one| “Uob e ™ o dare N HOSPITALS n Chicopee, bringing the total for the Connecticut valley. not ineh 4 5 = Hartford, to divided as follow | . Cleveland, O.. Dec. —The first Chicopee 38, incii two women; |j:;;f{' f-‘fif,smfi:lm “_;:ijj” poanine o o o B o g dmitted to hospitais, occurred asville 4 L4 l\o(l OUne new case S repor tea. { Those under arrest on the federal| A man found unconscious in'a hotel| Arrants are John Nasaizewski - of | Va8 taken to a hospital, wher Gl and iro * of “ 1 Springfield. who are{SUERL | . i } S atced icharged witk: bringing the liquor into| 10045’s death brings the total since Nov. ithe valley; Adam Ostrowsli and John jiin sl ‘W. Starzyk, both of Holyoke, charged 'with violktion of the war time prohi- Poition act The Thompsonville ~police placed | onard Montana, a saloonkeoper of t town, under arrest on the Lhm'gel {llegally selling liquor, Chief of ! uted to wood alcohol poi g re- lice P. J. Rogers’said that Montana | vealed tonight that in the last three wfated he bought five gallons of the, Months federal permits to manufac- cbneoetion from Bronerwine's saloon | ture perfumery have been issued to id Hartford for $140. vupproxxma[ely 2,000 persons, of who!:n, Marshall Alfred T. Caron e imate manufacturer 1 Fhigonse police left this afernoon for| ™ ording to the police, the holders charging murder_against four men |Of Permits are entitied to buy what is who have been agrested in that city.|KnOWn as “cologne spirits” at $4.80 a The warrants were sworn out, the, “allon, and those who hm'ghlrn for lice say, on information given by | ther than the making of "perfumes liam. Baker of this town who Ly ive made purchases amounting to ruider arrest on 4 mansiaughter NUndreds of thousands of dollars. i g nother death in ork fro ‘3'2'1'5.'" and Harry Shapiro of spring- | poisorious liquor was reported today, Although several new cases were! that of Bugene Massielio, who drank a reported today in the valiey, the num- | £108¢ GURTOR S0 RS TR 00 ber decreased considerably over Fri-, oo 5 day and Saturday. In Holyoke, the, “onn C. Varehl, a farmer, who died ;;r;:;{;n":‘h’;l":z‘#“:“‘of‘"mg:"xj:lgo‘;:filj’;‘}' shortly after being taken to a hospi- auor bough in that city, may have been | b, I8 Delieved also to have heen 4 cdisumed since Fr¥day. when the first |} o“ove Supieot of £igns of the poisoning became o A SUSPICIOUS NUMBER OF PERFUMERY MANUFACTURERS New York, Dec: Investigation by the police of numecrous de v it ol of the JEREIE oetes Ot Foiso RABBI BERKOWITZ DEPLORES R, “EDUCATIONAL BANKRUPTCY” E 3 ! NAL | S Baltimore, Md., Dec. 28—Dpploring | bN! WOMAN DEAD, ONE the ince of a u‘? tion bordering t on ducational bankrupt and is- i : g e L suing a “call for teachers who would | Meriden, Conn., Millam G Willlams, {Martin Catron, aged biind and in a critical condition In| the Meriden hospital, and Charles| olland, serlously sick at his home n South Meriden, but now reported lon the road to recovery, is the net| esult thus far of the sale in Meriden f liguor, said to contain wood alco- hel. always uphold the high standards of the American nation against present adverse influences. Rabbi Henry Ber- kowitz of Philadélphia at the open- | ing session of the Jewi Chautagua tonight declared the present futile and inadequate. The opening service was conducted | by Rabbi Montague N. A. Cohen of Yor, Pa. Teaching of miracles, such as the creation of the world in six Dec. —Mrs. aged 48, dead; 49, practically An autopsy was held in the matter!days and as the parting of the Red the death of Mrs. Williams andjSea for the children of Isrzel —was Coroner Alix took the contents of the|condemed > by Rabbi Louis mlomach: to New THaven for an L. Mann of ven, Conn, He also took the bottle from w ¢ had taken the liquor which c Anuthcr V.cum in E-stou. Pa. led her death, ft beinz ahout —Wood alcohol | ull. Eugene B. Havens, the n su claimed another r from which th or wagj victim hen Joseph | was tak to New Haven | Zimmer, merchant, died appear before!in a hospital shortly after being ad- conducting the | mitted, totaliy blind. e police 7 in that oit { rested Peter € a former police- It i8 #aid tha: Mr. Havens obtained | man, and h rom whom thej e liquon Wom New ilaven parties.|supposed whiskey aimed to have He reported to the police that he had!been purchased. a dozen hottles The 1i = "“_” i Victim in Jersey City. ngnae hree + o 1 cases developed from drmklng' £ Do, 20 One man is deas 0 women are in a crn.k'al cenditior in the Jamaica hos- | pital tonight as a result of drinking | r from bottlés containing similar! The police are trying to lo- bottles, v e S itked .t !a wood alconol concoction The wo- R ooF ihe ot i were found in an unconsc R Rt diijon in a room which also con- ' i tained two orie-gallon jugs in which g o small quuntity of the coloroless PoLlcE ASKED TO CLOSE liquor rel ed. A f ear old girl SALOONS IN HARTFORD| was Ill im the sume room hut the child I éaid her sizkness was caused through Hartford. Conn.. Dec | deaths from ona S ning were reno-ied here ¢ st of dead remaiiing. at today. 13. the The most undesiravle seats at the heatre of war are on the front tier. Jehn Rickiefs, the fourth prisoner, made his cscape during the pursuit. was the state vrison authorities were | | notified and a large number of police | up the hunt. It is belicved he b little chance to get away and will be taken between this city ad been the neighborhood actinz s { Patrolmen Bonin and Scheurer were sent to the section in an automobile el!lo, who drank als i which per 4 Prisoners Escaped From State Prison Three Were Recaptured By Police In Meriden—Frank Land of New London Among the Recaptured. Wethersfield, Conn., Dec. 28.—Four prisoners ‘escaped from the Connec- ticut state prison this morning by sawing their way through the wall of a bath house and scaling the wall af- ter they had eluded three guards. One of those who escaped was Edward Slattery, sentenced from Bridgeport to life imprisonment for murder in the second degree. The other three who gained liberty" were serying sentences for burglary. They are: Charles Dewey, 32, sentenced from New Haven in 1911 for burglary and robbery: John Rick- lefs, 32, sentenced from Bridgeport this year for burglary; Frank Lana, their senténced from New Londpn in 1917 for theft. Slattery is 28 years old and started serving his life term in March 1917, - £t the escape of the prisoners was discovered by guards, Deputy Warden Parker sent alarms to the police of Connecticut and Massachu- setts cities. A reward of $100 ecach for the capture of the convicts: was announced. Prison officials believe that Dew engineered the break for freedom. He had escaped from the prison once be- fore, on April 3, 1913, when he con- le‘.nlvd himself in a case of shirts and rried by guards from the pris- on and put on board a train. Two vears Jater he was found in prison at Columbu Ohio, serving a sentence undm the me of Charles Berry. It said that he was traced to Ohio byq ietters he sent to a young woman in New Haven. THREE ESCAPED PRISONERS RECAPTURED IN MERIDEN| Meriden, Comn,, Dec. 28. — Edward} Slattery, Chari¢s Dewey and IFrank and, three of four prisoners who es- | ped from the state prison at Weth- ersfielg- this morning, were captured by local police tonight just north of this city after a running chase in which three shots were fired, and Hartford. A man living on the North Colony fied the local police by and came upon the men, who fled into a woods. The officers gave chase fir- ing three shots al the fugitives before threc of them surrendered, = In. return- ing to nolice headuua with the priscners, Land juun; o A- tomobhile and ran several blocks hefore he W capturéd by Patrolman Bar- trom, who saw him running. The Meriden nolice stated that ne word of the escape of four prisoners had been sent by the prison officials and that the telephone m the Coiony road resident infermation they had received on the case. DR. VERMILYE MISSING BR!DEGROOM, IN HOSPITAL York, Dec, 28.—Dr. William Vermilye, who failed to appear to marry Miss Ruth M. at Monson, Mass., and is now | Cumberland ~ Street New 1 Keeney, a patient in the Hospital, refused to make any com- ment tonight, when informeq that, his wife had been located in Harrisburg, Pa., where she daughter. Information that Dr. Vermilye had a wife with whom he had been living up to the time the physiican gave up private practice to take a position with the United States Shipping Board in the south, was given by Mrs. P. E. Zindell of Brooklyn, wife of a son of Mrs. Vermilye by a previous marriage. She said that Dr. Vermilye and his wife had lived in Brooklyn, but Mrs. Vermilye had gone to Har- risburg six months ago to visit her daughter and was still there, Miss Keene) who has also been a patient in the hospital since last night, when she fainted and became hysterical because Dr. Vermilye re- fused to see her or explain his failur to appear for the wedding, left the in- itution today. She and her father again attempted to interview Dr.{ Vermilye before leaving the hospital but he refused to see Xhem When hospital officials, who say the physician is there to nundergo a slight operation, informed newspaper men that he would see no one except rela- tives, they'sent Dr. Vermilye the fol- lowing note: Your wife, said to be located Harrisburg, Pa., has made charges| ps you would be giad to clear up. Will you please make a de- finite statement and clear up the whole matter.” Dr. Vermilye's reply, which was written on the back of (he note, said ‘I have nothing to say.” ‘When Mrs. Zindell, who lives at the | Vermilye home in Brooklyn, was ask- ed if it is true that the physician has a2 wife, she said: “It is. Her name is Mrs. William|{ Grey Vermilye and she is at present staying with a daughter at Harris-| burg, Pa.” “Has Dr. Vermilye and his \ived here with you?” “Yes,” she responded. Mrs. Vermilye left this house about five months ago because her husband was in the ser- is living with her | in wife ve you ever heard of Dr. Ver- milye or his wife getting a divorce?” “No. So far gs 1 know they are 1l married.” Mrs. Zindell said she did not know s Keeney but had well educated girl.” When questioned further as whether there was any doubt as the woman in Marrisburg being Vermilve's wife, Mrs. Zindell replie ‘[ have no doubt at all but that s i% his wife,” The woman said that Dr. Vermilye and Mrs. Vermilye had been married about twenty-five years. Mrs. Vermilye, it was learned to- night. is the second wife of the phy- cian, his firgt wife having died. TWO WOMEN RESCUED BY FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN New Taven, Conn. Dec. 2 Two women werg rescued by fm.‘nwn and policemen from' the third floor of a vurning building on Congress a here tonight, where firc caused age of $40.000 in two jewelry store two shoe stres and a feed store. | per “heard she is a|° lensed Teiegrams doliar wu_q—u:tld at 10 francs 56 1-2 centimes in Paris. England’s largest trades unions begun fight on unauthorized strikes. Alsace reports great inundations. The river above Strassburg overflowed its banks. Railway station at Marseilles, France was destroyed by fire, according to re- ports. A Hamburg shipping company an- nounced it will soon open a line to London. Frnace’s nation credit loan was over- subscribed the first day, according to cable reports. Since the armistice Britain realized $555 000,000 from the sale of surplus stores and property. Chicago railroad officials asserted freight rates will be advanced after re- turn of roads on March 1. It is reported the Standard Oil Co. closed contracts in Rumania for 500,000 barrels of refined petroleum. Nine wireless stations are to be es- tablished in Cuba by the Government and on on the Isle of Pines. Municipaiities of Manitoba, Canada, authorized appropriation of $1,500,000 for road lmpro\enenl in 1920. W. 8. Miller, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Co. of California, will resign Jan. 1. Spanish Government has taken ove control of important deposits of plat- inum discovered in that country. An engagement was reported be- tween Polish and Bolsheviki forces at Taiga on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. French Cabinet approved a bill for the turning ahead of clocks one heur beginning Feb. 1, as a means to save { fuel. War Risk Bureau began work get- ting out increased checks provided for by tge Sweet bill signed by the Presi- dent. Japan has decided to discontinue the issuance of passports permitting “pic- ture brides” to proceed to the United States. Finland is reported negotiatin} for a loan of 10,000,000 pesos gold with A gentina to buy Argentine cereals and| cattle. President Wilson will take no action on the sugar cqualization bill yntil he has heard from the Sugar Equalization v.| Board. American ships carried during Oc- tober exports valued at $231,041,986 or nearly half of the total ocean-borne ex- port trade. . | mation, the theory late tonight is that} Gold holdings of the wheat belt re-! ;e}é i) sl Tt 15 Supposed” that an shot ‘was fired which Liguten- and two pfivates waent to that they reached the person who fired the port-weather ‘@onditions - unfavorahle, owing tb the alternate thawing and freczing. Arturo Toscanini, the most famous assume conductor in the world will complete charge of the Chicago Opera (0. next season. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Chief Engineer Peckitt, of th State Railways at Cairo. The as- sailant escape Shoating Affray in Phoerix Park, fluhlm AnOfliceroftheGuardlnd Intruders Were Killed Dur- ing the Exchange of Shots. Dublin, Dec. 28 (By- the -A. P. officer of the guard .and one. member of a band of intruders were = killed early this mprning in a shooting af- tray in Phoenix Park a short distance from the vice regal lodge. In 'some quarters the belief. was expressed that an attack was in preparauon against the lodge. About eight men are believed to bave made up the band of inerlopers. Four arrests were made. At 1.30 o'clock this morning shots jwere heard in the neighborhood of the vice regal lodge. They continued in- termittently at intervals.for mearly an hour in that portion of Phoenix. Parh between the lodge atnd the magazine. Apparently there Was no direct attack on the vice regal lodge itself.. The in- mates of the lodge at first tholl—:ht ‘the shooting was connected with ~sbme sort of holiday revelry. As the firing continued, however, a military guard, consisting of an officer and two men. turned out and searched. the vice regal grounds. Finding noth- ing unusual there, they went ‘through the park near the main road. While | traveling the center of the park they qenr‘avml in a’ sharp exchange of firing with the intruders and Lieutenant Boast, who was leading his men, fell, sshet through the heart. One of the attacking party killed. He was a civilian about 40 ve According to some re- por s wearing portions: of soldier's uniform. No weapon the present the man’s identity has not been ascertained. found on half a mile from the-lodge. After the shooting the intruders de- camped in the darkness. . The four -men arrested were not taken into cus- tody near the scene of ving er. the park about two eropretd that mo incriminating evi- { farewell to his parents, who had been pavins him a visit. In the absence af all officia] infor- no 3aid against. thv‘ | wasfintended; I'isolated ant Bo investigate. It is hat thought shot but became invelved. in- a strug- gle with a passerby. lieutenant, was . killed. It is reperted that the gead civilian was a laborer home through the park. He bandages on his face, the police say. ‘Ohe Member of the Band of | also was & was found on or near the body, and up to Pools of blood were the scene, which is about the_shooting, but were apprehended as they were hours They denied having had any connection with the affray, and it 1s| the cost of cloth of §9.09 who, with the who had been treated at a Dublin hospital and was walking wore ,HiGH.,PR 75 F LA Gwen By President William M. Wood of the American Wool- en Company—People Will Not Accept Good, Durable Clothes Made of the Coarser Wools, But Insist Upon Clothing Made From Fine Wools—Cost of Cloth For a Suit of Clothes In 1914 Was $4.58, Now $13.67—Mak- ing of Suit In 1914 Cost $4.98, Against $14.47 in 1919 —Release of Wool to the British Government a Contrib- uting Factor. Boston, Dec.. 28.—The ‘insistence of - the public upon cloth ‘made from fine Woois is a large factor in the present high prices ‘of ' clotliing, according to William "M. ood, president of the now everybody = demands the finer cllolhes and nohody will take anything el e recently made up a sample of cloth in which coarse wool was used Americar Woolen ‘Company. Mr. Wood ?}‘,c";; warp only. The appeangnce of who recently charged that some of the from t ple was but slightly different merchants in Lawrence were raising prices with every increase in: wages in the company’s mills in that eity, gave his:views on the cost of ¢lothing in.a statement tonight: “If our people would consent.” was his conciysion, “to wear good. substan- tial, durable clothes made of the coars- er wools, clothing could be purchased at considerably lower prices than those which now prevail.” His statement in part follows: “It is generally thought that the oest of cloth is the controlling factor in the clothing. but the fact is that the cloth cost is less than hal? the cost of a completed suit. “In the last five yvears the price of cloth in' the ordinary suit of clothes has advanced a little less than the cost that made of finer wools It had in a marked degree the smooth, soft texture of fine wool. Its cost ‘was con- slderably less than' the fabric made of the finer grades. As a cloth ic Wwas good, strong and serviceable. Be- fore the war it would have sold read- By, Dut we were absolutely unable to put in on the market, “To our suggestion that when peo- ple were complaining so of hi hc) prices, this cloth that would made a difierence of five dellars or more in th' cost of a suit ought to sell readily, the reply was that five dollars in the cost of ‘the cloth for a suit of clothes did nox unt at all these days. OW, note.the effect of this de- mand on the price of wool. The finc Wool comes in part from our own of labor and other materials that go ire- | COBNETY, but chiefly from Australia.- to making of a suil. The following|The coarser woos are large South figures show this which I have from a manufacturer and merchiant of ciothing of the highest promincnce in Boston. -“The cost in 1919 of the cloth for a American and domestie, “In. March, 1917, just before we en- tered the war, the different grades of wool were selling at prices \nmethin" like this: The coarser gra 5 suit of clothes of a particular grade |Cents a pound, the finer grades (do- is :$13.67. The corresponding cost in mestic) § per pound, the finest 1914 was $4.58, showing an increase in | Australian wools, $1.65 a pound. Now these same grades of wool are selling: The coarser grades. at “The 1919 cost of making this suit 55 cents a dence was found on them. is $14.47. The corresponding cost | Pounjd, the finer (domestic) at $2 a After the shooting the = military | in 1914 was $4.98, shawing an increase | Pound, the finest American at $2.75 a brought a machine gun to the scene.|in the cost of $9.49. Dmmd : This fired in the direction which “Why have the costs and 1)nces of “While the domestie finer grades it was supposed the men had taken.|everything, and especially of clothing|have increased from $1.25 to $2 — an Nobody was hit by the bullets. so0 generously increased? increase of 75 cents, and the finest The bodies of the two dead men| “Tn the first place, war is always fol- | Australian from $1.65 to $2.75—an in- i weer taken to the George V. hospital.|jowed by a period of high prices. War {where an inquest will be held tomor- crease of $1.10, the coarspr grades have means the destruction of . Lo the neces- from 75 cents row. Licutenant Boast was only 20fsaries of life in enormous quantities, | to c of 20 cents years old. Te was mentioned in Sat-) together with the diversion of the pro- |a pound. urday’s court circular s having been | guct of Industry from its usual chan-. “Bui besides this inerease of de- invited to dine with Field Marsial|p, It needs no argument to-show | mand for the finer wools and shortage Viscount French, lord lieutenant and iy, when cloth and clothing are | in the world supply, the action of our sovernor general of Treland Saturday|gsavce, this scarcity always means town government ha¥ still further con- evening turday he had bidden high prices. “Ancther factor of considerable ef- ject in_ bringing about Righer prices is e mgn t{ttq%bffl&tbl! bth state tributed to kcep the prices up. “During the war, agents of our ernment purchased from the Bri government: sore - hindréd: . millions 1 _When the beyond these eaises which re- ! t i the generstl dcale of high prices re are, 1 believe,” ain factors ; which have affeetéd the manufaciure of ¢loth particylarly and which are un- doubtedly reflected in the cost of cloth and- of clothing. . “In the first place, in a measure dur- mg the r, and to a greater extent se, there has developed a curiousl: istent demand for cloth made from the finer and more -expensive Wwools. People will no 1 er buy.cloth made ferzed tio thirds of this wool hack the British government, the one ti which our government held they fered only in_ limited quantities, the keen competition for which carried it to tremendously high prices. “I am not. eriticising government of - ficials. They doubtless felt justified both in returning this fine wool to England and in getting the highest price possible for the woois they have on hand. But when you put the ques- of- I ed o A Fai s 2% |of the.coarser and consequently chedp_ | Hon, why our I)io{))‘.r_‘nl;:\;\;zi‘cn;‘p‘:)l‘,\(:‘hiig‘h i i i No official report has been made by |er grades although . clothing made |prices for fine clothing W y in- wem e il iy & paris next|the olice on the dccurreRce. which | £ron . thase wWooise i both. serviceable on having, you must not forget ates, preparatory to putting the peace| VoL e explained at’the military in-|and sound. Before the war the demand | that one of the reasons for it is that Hreaty into effect. [ nE (e PEICE| quest. The military officihis refer all | for these finer grades of cl was | the government is holding the wool i G inquirers to Lhc Imhcc chiefly—indeed . nlmost ' exciusivel: —l\\ninh it bought at war a i i T rofit.” Poisonous od#rs from Mount Aso, from the more fastidious in taste, but ) pro: an active volcano in Kyushu, Japan,|/NTRUDER X!!LED WORE have injured fhe cattle of the sur- BRITISH ARMY UNIFORM rounding country. A Soviet republic, special mission to the Italian Govern- ment, arrived at Naples, according to a report from Rome. {ported finding of a new gold region in Colombia, South America. A statement confirming reports that Col. of the B. R. T. would retire from the| system was issued at the B. R. T. of- fices. First indication of a serious break in ranks of steel workers and predictions {of an immediate end of the steel strike, that practically tied-up Cleveland Slcsli mills, was announced. Syndicalists in Spain are revolting against their leaders, whom they ac- cuse of withholding 6 000,000 pesetas, which was paid in dues and of which there has been no accounting. Decision of the United States Ship- ping Board to prohibit the sale of li- qour will mean the loss of thousands of dollars, because privately owned craft will sell liquor and win business| away from the government. Detroit United Railways withdrew a request that be permitted to make a charge for transfers, stating that be- cause of improvement in its operation congdition it now finds itself able to operate on a flat five-cent fare. Lieutenants Connolly and Water- lhou=e who lost their lives after being | forced to land in Lower California, ; Mex., were murdered, according to| i testimony before the Senate sub-com. jmittee investigating Mexican affairs, INCREASE IN COST OF LIVING SINCE 1914 IS 822 PER CENT. Eoston, Dec. cent. in the American wage ear betwe X 1919, is shown in charged with a T. S. Williams, former presmemf London, Dec. hange Teleg ph from Dublin | tHe vice regal lodge in Phoenix Park was Liertenant Boast. of the attacking party laressed in an old uniform of a pri- {vate in the British army. is renorted to have been riddled with bullets. The Exchange Molgarapl's. corre- spondent says it is understood that ripinz at the vice regal lodge contin- ued for only a few minites and that the firing took: place from -the main voad at a di of a mile from the lods i i ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A London,: Dec. 28. Several untoward the daring attemnt w s w Evening Tdogram. A s made to assassin- A sitting with his family in a bed- room. Nobody was injured, hallet stru a sleepin~ A band i At Killarney { and wounled on Christma was shot CLEMENCY FOR WITSCHE' ‘Washington, Dee. ”S.—Recommen- dation will be made to President Wil- the courtmartial sentence of death or Witsche, former German naval officer, for plotting against the Un States, be set asid~ and that the offi er be tried for violatlon of the ex onage aw by uerai cou 28.—A desnatch to the N that the officer killed in the attack on The member killed ~ was His hody arce of nearly’ a quarter CONSTABLE AT BALLYBOFEY enits are reported from Ireland by but the a bed a few inches from farme ‘I d son by the départment of justice that imposed some fourteen months ago on 1 WESTERN CATTLE GROWERS APPEAL FOR MEAT PACKERS WHY ADMIRAL DECKER DECLINED NAVY CROSS Dec. 28.—Statements Admiral Decker, former N lur)\l made to the and -his tants were nstrumental in preventing Spain from ing the central powers during the offensive of March, 1918, s hampered by sador, during investigation of Washington, Dec. 28.—Member twelve western cattle growe So- ciations have appealed to President Wilson, through former Secrct Me- Adoo, to upset the arrangements made 7 by “Attorney ‘General Palmer to com- promise the government's = anti-trust proceedinzs :.lg:xins'. the meat packers, John Miller of Fort Stockton, Texas, president of the Pan Handle Cattle association, announced here today. The growers; Mr. Miller said, Washington, madr by i probably will the c: the investigated sional : naval decorations, mitted to the president through PR R e e % Adoo a series of charges to the effect | 0 TP e, said. to- .that the. compromise does not giveyyioy them any redress for their chief r Admiral Decker's statements ance, allege is the control ined in a letter to Secre- of stoc! made public yesterday. to the : ng forth the reasons which They ask tk prompied u taken out of the hand}. of the attorney general and that new suits be brought with ' Francis J. Heney of San Fran- cress for # isco, former attorney. for the federal ate a constable at Balivhofev, County | 15¢0 e s a special prose- . Donegal. The assailant fired a pistol g‘:}"‘if ComunlsHCES Al R e D ices that were mrl’orrvcd by {from the street at the constable, who 4 Gk che and ne ei- to keep Spain A(-co!‘din;z to Miller, the matter was “We adonted the mat v £ of those who eve while ¢ nz other constabl Edipyiitne) e Jimont Rit e e of the oppo- el 8 SoNElem SUble. feht the- o tr. Miller’ said that in ddits e ¢ S Of) similar ez s in Co ammunition have been =tolen from flw!:-;flgg:,mqm;‘:\‘&? Cfolrne states i Dangarvan railwav station. The con- [ OX ' - =My ; y Sh joined in ‘the presentation, Confer- | dminisirati Eag Tl At helieved sas intended | grces with McAdoo upom -the subiect |, The letter co g nratunting- il e b were held b the growers' representa- | 0iC, 0 " Tofficials at PRESIDENT TO RECOMMEND tives in New York last week. and then | 1P 3 Madrid during the v Mr. Lufkin said hers of the com tairs from the ho | the matter was brouzht to Washing- j ton. | TWO 18-YEAR:-OLD GIRLS whom he hed d cd Rear Admiral i HELD FOR PASSAIC MURDER | Decker's letter had expressed them- > as in full agreement with his Jersey Cit 28 —Two s deserved c.gh»e(‘u ar gl and two| ths are under e tonight _in e BILL FOR BEER AND LIGHT WINES IN NEW JERSEY onight K igl al of i tatement is the national in-| Ly e ation | New Brund d ased | \yitsche, who is said - by officials } Was { preambie of 3. the Jlecent Investisulions. = Ihere 10 have heen captured in No-|nest day 2wy > in New st B R gales, Arizona, ¢ in 1918, is now | handbag 5 here tonigh - sinee November gaiie- 1831 hoing held. in: the military prison.- : SR jwno 6t. ‘since Matohi 1919, ‘when|DOIne Deld. i the miliary prison ‘ocked. up. wsure at the prices dropped temborarily, and 3.8 perl gential disposition of the findings of | The prisoners, wio are held on a| atare cent. since last July. st of the five | the courtmartial which fried him. De- | teehnlcal charze of being - di tacit rajor items. in the - family budger | Partment of justic officials refused to B since July, 1914, was: Food 2. per | night to give in dptm:l the natpre gy Rt T 88 e “lothing 13§ the charges' against the man o aa e il O hent §6 peefficer. Reports were not denied that Ok dounts Ot ahb s er S evidence i@ possession of the govern|20. of 2 ment' had. conncted him w 1~n°N“ e = T “Black Tom” exelasion .at Jor: A BOY KILLED WHILE fand with propazanda . designed oia FACTORY. BUILDIIG COASTING AT SIMSBURY Souge the negro. poplation of thef AT.WINDSOR BURNED o 5 Simsbury, Conn, Dee, 2 Zackera, 11 years old, was today. and-Jehn Florio, critically injured in: a .coasting" ac dent. Phe ‘two hoys were sliding ‘down a hill on 4 sled and struck an automobile, _PresiTent Wilson, it was. said, after | going. over the’ findings of the caurt-| martial, was not convinced . that . the case was one within'the juyisdiction of the military authoritles and for thatf reason has asked -the opinion of At- torney Qeneral Palmey Windsor, Conn., Dec. 28 -Wire de-/clect 1 e stroyed a large = three rame ; Workin enth | building known. as the Best' Manufac- | amendment 3 to turing company. building ner: zoday ! and tIu‘ the en- with a loss of $20.,000. contained and st The structure printing shop," lod3e rooms | congre ro that ti ,n W in om:ct. st