Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXINo. 313 POPULATION 29,919 RATIFICATIONS OF VERSALLES TREATY - ARE TO BE EXCHANGER ON JANUARY 6TH Them a Letter Al::eemgtoMce Their Demands to 400,000 KhToHAvu&HeNaflTwHuB&n Will B¢ Resumed the Following Day—Allied Troops Will Proceed on January 12 to the Territories Which Must Be Evacuated By the Germans. Paris, Dec. 30 (By the A. P.)—Ex- change of ratifications of the treaty of Versaflles will take place Jan. G at the Quai d’'Orsay. Baron Von Lefsner, head of the German delegation and Paul Dutasta, secretary of the peace conférence, tonight settled all points in connection with the signature ex- cept that relating to naval material, which it is expected will be solved The Germans will sign the protocol and at the same time the allies will hufid a letter to them agreeing to re- duse their demands to 400,000 tons if the-16tal availabie tonnage has been overestimated. or Germany is gravely mendeed cconomieally. In anv case, after Lhe signature, the allles will get 222900 tons of material, and the bal- ance baged v the report of v-'xpe"lls who are now checking up at Danzig, Hamburg and Rreme The Brithi prime minister. David Lloyd George, will be present at the ceremony, which will be carried out without any display. Diplomatic rel> tions with Germany will be resume: on the foliowing day. when the French charge d'affaires will go to Berlin /1 French consuls will resume tueir posts. Allied troops will proceed on Jan. 12 to the territories which must be evac- uated by the Germas or where ple- biscites are to be held. It is estimated that 160 trains will be needed for this purpose. Ellis Loring Dresel, an member of the wpeace conferenc expert on German affairs, it s toed, will go to berlin as ratifications are exehanged. be accompanied by a staff, presumed here to be pedient until diniomati the United States are resumed. He wag appointed acting comiissioner and charge daffaires in October. soon as e will This is etmporary ex- relations wiih THREE MEN RESCUED FROM STEAMER ANTON VAN DRIEL , N. Iy De s and half frou vivers of the crew ot the Belgian eteamer —Three ex- Anton Von | on ‘the and | lung as 1! burred They com- ship beneath them v piece by piece. under the qless pounding of Lerrne ‘sea whieh swept incessantly over them. The rescuc of the three survivors their steamer tue entrarc hud watched wad accomplished by the Ingraham agdinst tremendous odds. The spot wnerc the Anton VYon Driel was ‘ged is & mass of rocks and ledges ng far (o seu on the foot of ous cliffs. It was regarded by a sible to any craft est weather and the! hrought doom to e Peiginn ship was still raging waca | e Ingrabam arrived. Attempt after wttempt made by (ke rescuers to reach the wrec and each time. they were bLeaten back by the furious s R was onl fter hours of effort and at the immineni peril tebiv, lives ! that the mén of the Ingraham reaca the three gurviyors und brought thent to valéty. " £} 2 ortly after the Van Driel was| ed on the rocks on Sundav even- exter ecipit attempt to make the Lrief. journey through the giunt breakers to the shore. Almost instanily the boats d dashed to pieces| Four men had pre- to stick to the wreck and a A freal: of the waves, :was swept back to the deck of the steam alter the lifeboat in which he had em- | berked twos smashed.. The.remaining four were drowned. Surday night and Mon- day the five ciung desperately to the bridge of the wreck. Overhead the fisher folk on the mainiand watched thelr battle for life from the tops of the cliffs, powerless to aid. Orn Mon- day afternoon two of the survivors losl consciousness and were instantly swept o thetr deaths. The remaining three, including the man whom the seg had once before refused to accept, he? out for negrly twenty-four hours lon;r and were' saved. METHODS OF PROCEDURE ,OF COAL COMMIS'CON[ Washington, De ative ‘o wages and p tumin’us coal indusiry 1 be started Jenuafy 12 in Washington by tie commission of three, (cpresentative of the miners, operators ond public, ap- pointed by Pregident. Wilgon .un- der the recent coul strike settlement. The commission in ¢ 'nouncing to- night its decigion to co.duct hearings gaid thai telegrams had been sent 1o Thomas T. Brewsters of St. Lou ebairman of Ule scale committee of the Uentral Competoiive field operat- o popresenting the states of Tndiana, Ohig. lllinolg and Western f‘c’nnn‘l»! vania and to John I. Lewis, acting| regident of the United Mine Work- of America, advising that that the first hearing wasd “for the purpose of having the mipers and operators scale committees of the central competitive field present their relative reports: Opening of the hearings, the com- mission sald, was delayed in order to permit the miners to conclude the work of the special convention which bas been called to meet in Columbus, Ohio, beginning January 5. —Hcarings rel- ces in the bi- WHAT DID WE GET OUT OF WAR? “PROHIBITION AND THE ‘FLU'* Chicago, Dec. 20.—Chicago socialists tonight atiended a reception to Victor 1. Berger of Milwaukee, who was de- nied his seat in congress but recently re-clected. The meeting was ar- ranged by national officers of the so- clalist party. Berger asserted that his re-election was his vindication and declared that if he again was excluded from ' con- he would be a candidate and again would be re-elected by an even larger majority, “What dig we get out of the war?” he asked at one point. “Prohibitien and the a.voice. Berger said: “President Wilson only repeated in Soptember. 1919, what .I sald in 1017, that the war was a cap- italists’ wur. Judge Landis gave me twenty yéurs for it TRUST TO YOUR NOSE . ‘ IN JUDGING CANNED GOODS ‘fln’” shouted Boston, Dec. 30.—“Trust to..yeur nose’ in judging canned gbods, the word sent out to the general pub- lic today from the annual convemtion here of the Society of American Bac- teriologists. The delegutes were dis- cugsing a paper by Dr. J. . Esty of the National Canners’' Aesociation up- on “Resistant Bacterio Causiug Spoil-' age in Canned Foode."” & ' of manocuver and drill | waters, to keep the e lifeboats were lsunched n anfforming tictical MANOEUVERS AND DRILL FOR THE ATLANTIC FLEET Washington, Dee. 50—Four months in southern ships at fighting pitch and train the great number of recruits, constitutes the programme for the dreadnoughts. desiroyers and | submarines of the Atiantic fleet which will 'sail for Guantanamo Boy January S.. Final arrangements for departure of the ships and the complete pro- gramme of manoeuvers were an- nourced today by Secretary Daniels onference with Admiral Henry I>. Wilson, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, Making their dezvous in Chesa- peake Bay. seven of the eight dread- noughts of thé fleet, including the Pennsylvania, Admiral Wilson's flag- ship, accompanied by a number of de- stroyers, will depart the same day for Guantanamo. {o be) joined there by the North Dakota, now returning from, the Mediterranean. Approxi- mately thirty-five destrovers and Af- teen submarinex have been ordered to Cuhan waters to take part in the manosuvers, “After 2 month of dvill ana smal arms practice at Guantanamo. the seventh - battleship division, including the Penngyivania, Oklahoma, Nevada and Arizona. will sail {for Barbados, and the fifth d'vis'on. compris Ttah; North ' Dakota, Florida elaware, | will go to Trinidad. manoeuvers e Tater the'two divisions will vi Co- lon, where/ they will remain from February 25 to March 4. The dread- noughts then wiil return to . Cuban waters for target practice ang fur- ther manoeuvers, which will continue from early March until the fleet sails for .home waters April 26. The destroyer squadron also will visit the canal, leaving there just be- fore the battleships arrive, and in ad- dition numerous West Indian ports between February 4 and March 7. It then will go to Guantanamo Bay for gunnery and engineering gxercises and fleet manoeuvers after the bat- tleships return from the maining there until their with the rest of the fleet. Particular attention will be given, it was said, to experimental aviation work and developing the tactics of cooperation between naval air forces and the fleet. The air detachment will be composed of units based at Pensacola and other gulf ports and wiil make extensive trips to West In- dlan waters. The entire detachment i sscheduled to visit Colon, while the battleships are there, and per- route. departure SENATORS IN CONFERENCE ON PEACE TREATY COMPROMISE Washington. Dec. 30.—Peace treaty compromise talk reached a more form- al state today when Nenator McNary of Oregon, a leader of the mild r vation republicans, discussed various compromise subject suggestions with Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the acting democratic leader. It was said tbat although no defin- ite agreement came out of the con ence, the conversation took a hopeful turn, afterwards bothe senators seem- ed confident that a middle ground could be foun that woul insure r: fication ecarly in the year. Modification of the reservations ap- poved by the senate majority at the last session, so that affirmative ac- ceptance by the outer powers would not be be required as understood to have been the principal subject con- sideted. A new preamble which would declare the reservations effective un- less other nations objected within a limited time is said to have been out- lined, with both senators indicating that they might accept it. TROOP A, CAVALRY, C. N, G, TO BE ORGANIZED IN NEW HAVEN Hartford, Conn., Dec. 30.—New Ha- ven is again to have its Troop A, cavalry in the Connecticut National Guard. An order from the adjutant general's office today announces that the petition of George M. Wallace and seventy-two other residents of New Haven that they be allowed to organ-, ize themselves into such a troop is granted. The order makes the follow ing appointments subject to the regu- lation of the war department: Captain of Cavalry, George M. Wal- lace, New Haven; first lieutenint of calvary, Wiifred H. Tiernan, New Ha- ven; second lieutenant of cavalry, Thomas J. Reilly, New Haven. All are assigned to duay with Troop A, with rank from December 2! CITY-WIDE, RAID MADE _ ON SALOONS OF PASSAIC . Passaic, N. J,, Dec. 30.—A city-wide raid on the saloons of Passaic was made by the police tonight after six deaths had been reported durine ime gly from wood alcohol poisoning. City Commissioner Abram Preiske ordered the police to raid every place in“the city where alcoholic beverages might be found and confiscate all liquor dis- g the canal, re- | ORWICH, CONN.,-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1919 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS " PRICE TWO CENTS | Condensed TeiegramsA ® Bujuuejd 94 03 pa;.mdu‘ st Jizeag rubber embargo. The dollar was quoted at 10 francs 721-2 centimes in Paris. Sir William Osler, noted - English physician, died at Oxford. Followers of William Jennings Bryan are becoming active in New Yotk. United States Rubber Co. reported going to advance prices - of tire on Jan. 1. | French Cabinet approved the French tloan bill framed by Minister of Fin- ance Klotz. Russian soviet government sent a formal peace offer by wireless to the Polish government. Spanish railways will buy new roll- ing stock as a result of an increase in tariffs of 20 per cent. Henry M. Tilford, who died at his home in New York, Dec. left an :estate valued at §22,000,000. Wholesale dealers predict 15 or 16c ja pound will be the ruling price of lsugar in New York in February, 1920, Arabian volunteers and French de- tachments ciashed at Baalbeck, Syria. | Losses suffered by both sides are se- vere. It is understood that three new lin- lors cach of 16.000 tons are being built in Scotland for tine Canadian service, - Fire destroyed the Sheldon black in the heart of the business di.trict of Watertown, N. Y. Loss amounted to $150,000. Thirty of the 57 alleged radicals held in Detroit will be started on their way out of the country within the next few weeks. About two-thirds of the exportable surplus of the Canadian wheat crop was sold and export through the Ca- nadian Wheat Board. | Half the Imperial Hotel, housing 40 American tourists, were burned out in Tokio. There were no casualties among the Americans. Steamship President Wilson arrived at New York after a stormy voyage. The 600 pasengers: were sure the ship | was going to founder. Parcel Post sales from army retail stores, discontinued Dec. 10, to relicve the mails during the Christmas rush, will be resumed on'Jats IS 9 i Seven men leld up the People’s {Bank at Ottawa Lake, Mich., and es caped with $7,000, after shooting the cashioer, Harman Rothfuss. - Safe blowers robbed a store at Mar- mora, near Petersburg, Va., of money and securities amounting to $15,000 and escaped in an automabile. \ el Plainum valued at from $50,000 to! $75,000 was stolen from a vault in the | plant of the Roessler & Hasslacker) Chemical Co., Perth Amboy, N. J. i When Admiral Jellicoe leaves Can- ada within a few days, for a visit to the United States it is understood he will be accompanied by Sir Robert Borden. Major General Omar Bunday, who commanded the Second Division in! | France. was badly injured twhen thrown from a spirited horse at Camp Lee, Va i U. S. Sugar Equalization Board, is reported says the orgy of profiteer-| ing from which the country has thus far suffered is due directly to A. iMilchel Palmer. Dr. Brewster, missionary and di rector of the American school in Sa. lonica, is distributing $10,000 of Unit- ed States money among Greek refu- gees in Bulgaria. Captain -S8herman H. Boles of the TUnited States air serv died in the American hespital in Paris of pneun- monia on Dec. 21. He was a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretarv Baker announced all but 4775 contracts made by the govern- ment for war matd were liqui- dated by the War Department at a saving of $1,891,981,000. Canadian Industrial Reconstructicn Association advised Canadian business men to reduce imports from United States to improve the xchange rate between the countries. 1 Pilots at Kingston, Jamaica, struck | on Christmas eve and remained out until they were assured regulations fixing pilotage scales and fees would be changed in their favor. MODERN METHODS IN # INDUSTRY OF SERBIA New York, Dec. 30.—Schools for the teaching of modern methods in indus- try and agricuiture have been estah- lished in Serbia and form a larze part of the war relief and reconstruction work in that counmtry. it was ‘an- nounced by William J. Doherty, com- missioner of the Serbian relief com- mittee, upon his return today on the steamship La Savoie. Mr. Doherty stated that there are at present 500,000 children in Serbia who must be cared fer. On his arrival.Mr. Doherty was tn- formed of his appointment as perma- nent commissioner of the Sérbian re- lief committee. He had been in Serbia since last September. A LARGE INCREASE IN - BIRTHRATE IN PARIS L] Paris, - Dec. 30.—(French Wircless Service). A large increase in the birth rate is shown by statistics for the month of December, the rate in Parig having doubled since the begin- ning of the year. Last January the birthrate was 9.5 per thousand, while for the’present month the rate ex~ ceeds 18 per thousand. Deaths have decreased ffom .8 per thousand in January to 14 per thou- sand, this month, The number of rmar- riages is also increasing. 3 . Cost of Living is Hgh in Lawrence Has Increased 84 Per Cent. There, Against 82.2 Per Cent. In the Entire Coun- Boston, Dec. 30.—The cost of main- taining a reasonable standard of liv- ing- for wage earners has increased 84 per cent. in the past five years, the national industrial con- ference board announced today. The board made public a few days ago a report showing the cost ef living in the country as a whole had advanced 82.2 per cent. in the same period. Figures ~previously ~announced for Fall River gave 73 per cent. increase there.on items identical with those used at Lawrence. Both Lawrence ! and Tall River are principally textile cities. = A steady income of $26.65 a week is required to maintain in Lawrency a family of five persons at the ini- mum standard, it was stated. The report was regarded as of especial interest at this time because of the controversy between President Will- iam Wood of the American Woolen Company and merchants of Lawrence over the former’s charge that mill em- ployes there were forced (0 pay ex e prices. President Wood an- ifunced Jast night that he would open a store at Lawrence shortly to sell necessities at cost to employes of his company. The percentage increase in costs of principal necessaries the eountry and in Lawrence shown ™ hy the board’s investigation follows: Ttems Lawrence. Nation. | Food . 9 Shelte - Clothing . Fuel. heat and light Sundries .. The board announced that its stand W ard budgets were designed the needs of a man, his wife children under 14 years of minimum, but reasonabie standard of living. No provision was made for savings. These needs. aggregas 79 for a year based on b vailing at Lawrence Jast mon Vood made up as follows: sheiter $182; clothing 61; heat, and light, $§ $26624. 1 An exact eomparison of es could not be made, the rep because of changes in style or quality. S ther studies have indicated, how- ’ it continued, “that the percent- ages of increase for garments as well as for vards goods tend to rise in al- most directly inverse ratio to their original selling price.” Tt was estimated that the cost of garments in the minimum budget had increased 115 per cent. “The yards goods used, although less importart than girments bought ready to wear,” according to the report, “had increased in price 165 ger cent.” ° * The data from which the report was compiled was obtained in part from social' and eommunity organizations, od and clothing merchants and from a’group of 3 operatives in onec of the mills. - After a reference to the fact that a'state survey in 1818 that 35,- 749 operatives canvassed in Tawrence, 5,034 were foreign horn, the he general aprearance of the operatives indicates that merican customs are exercising a considera- ble influence on their standards of liv- | ing.” HARD LUCK FOR “HIP POCKET' PARTIES” IN CHICAGO Chicago, Dec. 30.—Plans for pocket parties” to relieve the dryne of New Year's eve in Chicago zone the way of other dear, de hopes for ushering in the New Year in a tide of vinous. distilled or brew- ed h A Police Captain Moran Collins, in charge of the police who are active in the Loop district, had heard that invi tations were being extended rather openly by cafes, bidding their patr to come and “bring your own. Whrereupon that officer today issued an: crder stationing policemen in all piaces and cafes New Year's eve to greet each incoming patron with the request that he stand and deliver gny liguer he may have In his immediave possession. The state search law gives the police that right—and the law was upheld recently by the supreme court. And as for the nlaces and cafes whatever liquor tg*y have on hand in anticipation of an onen season fi rcisterers at the birth of th New Year h. been seized by federal agents, who locked it up and took the keys away. FRENCH SENATE VOTES GOVERNMENT CREDITS Paris, Dec. 30.—The senate today unanimously voted the government credits for three months and the new loa bnill passed by the chamber of deputies yesterday, providing for the| issuance of 5 ner cent. bonds redeem- able during sixty years, with ings every six months to designa bonds. to be redeemed in each vearly period. Discussing the loan Alexandre Ribot asked Premier Clemenceau regarding guaranteeing of the German indem- nity by the allies. The premier re plied: “That cannot be taken un n because of the situation at Wash ton.” M. Ribot commented: “T hope that when we have nut order in our finances our allies will consent to aid us, or rather to stand their share of the defense of the common cause.” HAPGOOD GIVES HIS VIEWS ON SITUATION IN RUSSIA New York, Dew. 30.—Norman Hap- good issued a statement here tonight in explanation of his resignation as minister to Denmark, in which he cat- egoriacaliy . deniad sympathy for, or having had relations ith, the Soviet government of Rus- a. He declared his views have not changed regarding the m of the blockade and that h lieves bolshevism is strengt it, not only in Russia but elsewhere, | “in proportion as Europe suffered from the inability to get raw materials and | ftod from Russia and to send manufactured articles in return.” OBITUARY. Robert E. Ford. New York, - Dec. - 30.—Robert E. Ford, eldest son of the late Patrick Forq, the founder of the Irish World died at his home here teday follow- ing an attack of apoplexy. e was 54 years of age, and was a mamber of the executive board of the Friends of Irish Freedom. . her in Lawrence, ; . {as British | | ed States Viscount Edward Grey left! clothing | report i Led a Wid Life Whilt_a_o‘q Parol Donald Hammond, Son of the Dean of Cornell University, Sentenced to Term In State Prison. New ¥ork. Dec. 30.—Charged with violating his parole by forging checks, committing thefts and getting- drunk, Denald Hammond, 24 year old son -of William Hammond, dean of Cornell university, was sentenced. today to a term -of three and one-half to seven years in state prison. Hammond was placed on probation under a suspende. sentence last August after he haa pleaded guilty to forging a check for $2,000 in the name of Norman . Brad- ford, Jr., a wealthy Newport, R. L, clubman. - “You have been: living -by you. wits” declared Judge Wadhams, 1n imposing sentence, .“and your . win- ning. smile has kept you out of jail up to the present time. It has aided ou in youi-crooked work, ut theire s nothing farther that ¢an be ho er for you by lenient meihods.” Hammond's escapades since being n probation took him to At- lantic Ci Maine and New Hamp- shire. Finally " his friends virtually deported him to "‘Canada in an effo : to make him “go straight” Thre Kt in Manitoba proved too tame for nim however, he went to Bost | where he stole §15.000 worth of hone pleaded guilty n the name of an d ieged murderer he met In the To-.»- prison. and succeecded in obtaini® - # spended sentence under that nam . Hammond has a lo war _ record { Oe enlisted in (] an army 1911 ¢ t Ypres. 1ic came back {o country withou: beinz dis ‘ater roturned to Engiand, wher: ned the Royal { Air force and was again wounded His vicitms are said to mlude a nur:-| ber of this city, New- | peeple in port and Atlantic © VISCOUNT GREY TO SAIL FROM NEW YORK SATURDAY Washington, Dec. 30. — Completing three months of service in Washington i dor to the Unit- y on the Aquita- On reaching Lon- | will report to his is work in the United count Grey announced that| of the partial failure of his! sight it would be impossible for him to undertake the duties of a permanent amt d sion therefore “comparatively short.” A later he presented his cre- ecretary Lansing at the| rtment, President Wilson's | ing ch_at the time that a call at' the White House was .deemed inadvisable. It had beed thought pcs- sible that -the ambassador might see o president -before departure put & i view of ccntinued insistent sickness no appeintment was arranged. While no official annguncement has been either here or. in London {it that when Viscount Grey has reported on work to be done by the representative here a he promptly named, ival here of an accred JAPAN IS SENDING { NEW TROOPS TO SIBERIA: having expressed | Washington, Dec. 30.—Japane:-| troops now bel ni into Siberia are | believed at the state department to be largely replaccment units. It was s officially tive to i | Some of e officials be used to remn which are thre. superior forces of bolshevik. declared, however, that Ja not undertaking any aggre in from Japan, probably some by said, v outpo: che-Slovak forces, to the vhich the joint allied military dition was sent, soon wiil be i Replving to sug: v that wi the reiurn of the Czechs it wouid | possible to t American troops from A aid the Ame railroads / mission still would of nain to direct the operation th roads and that a military | rd for the road wouid I ry | or the present at least. The American ferce numbers about 000 men, made un of volunteers re- | cruited since the armistice to replace | the seiective service men first -sent into Siberia. PREDICTS THAf INDUSTRIAL i ACTIVITY IS TO CONTINUE! Washington, Dec. 30.—Continued in- dustrial activity is predicted by the committee on statistics of the Cham- her of Commerce of the United States| in its annual end of the year review! jof ss and crop conditions. Man- | { ufacturers, the report said, have orders | in excess of their capacity and in the tretail trade there is a feeling of con-| | fidence of the continuation, until an-1 | other harvast at least, of the demand for all classes of commodities. Farmers are reported = unusualiy prosperous because of the high priece | of their nroduct: The liberal spend- | ing of the er, the review asserted, the hackbone andsustaining power ! lof the present volume of business| throughout the country as they are! payin gmostly cas and are purchasing! {improved farm machinery and pure bred livestock than tver before. i “Great activity in building,” he | | committee -added, “Is reported in sec-; tions except where crop failures were | { extensive. copper mining s in a p | state. and silver minine is deing w production 18 “good.” 11, | $7,000,000 FOR NEW COURT HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY New York, Dec. 30.—The board of ertimate today appropriated $7,000.- 000 for the construction of a new courthouse which is to be hexagonal in design. The building will be sit- uated on. the. courthouse site back of | the Municipal building. . It manners make the man that ex- plains the undone condition of some men. A LVELY in New York last Septem- | ! IS PREDIC High Prices Are Being Paid For Tables Along the Great White Way—Hotel and Restaurant Men Predict the New Year Will Be Welcomed With “Private Stock” Whiskey, Agents Are Hunting Through Greater New York For Poison Liquor. New York; Dec. 30.—Two.- score federal agents were despatched to- night on' a hunt _through New York and the other. sections of this internal revenue, distriet for poi- Greater son - liquor. = Manufacturérs of per- fumes, hair tonies, flavoring extracts and fum were investigated on a wholesale basis to “nail down” non-beverage alcohol, in -an effort to prevent recurrence of Christmas wood alechol tragedies. Hotel. and restaurant men through- out New York tonight predicted the bieggst New-Year's-eve -ever witness- ed in this city, and ‘“private stock” wh v, brandy, rum nad- wine- were announced as welcomers for . despite the dry law and its en- forcement. High prices are heing paid for T mg the Great W] i lebrators d e- Z John is to Dbe their guest mor More deaths reported here ‘and throughout the country today, al- though in far iess volume than the after Christma indicated that wood alcohol s continued to leave the Additional arrests & here and in s Chemical’ anal | sis of the braime of five men who died from the oliol liquor, showed to- day that od alcohol caused their death _Louis Di Vito, Joseph Giuseppi and Vitele ilo, who were arrested ‘last night when officers discovered i gallons of wine on their ' premises, e arraigned in court today charged th viglation of the war time prohi- tion and held in $500 bail each for hearing J (5 New York, New Jersey and New England ofcials were in conilirence on the wood aicohol situation late in that is put over the bars nowadays. “Unscrupulous men, tempted by the unbelievably high prices bootleggers W)!.l pay for alcohol, are selling drinks that will kill 2 man as quickly 48 so much. carbolic acid. I don't think there- is a saloonkeeper in tie i world who would seel this stuff if he knew what it was, but. those who buy it are ignorant. “"Many saloon keepers confronted with a holidoy demand for whiskey have 16t no stone unturned to get [somethMg they could sell. I haven't any doubt buf these -eighteen barrels seized tonight -would have been sold over New Year's day if our men had uot found the stuff. “Speaking ficer and not want to warn ey that much of the key in New York law enforcing of- prohibitionist, I ody in New York tufi sold as whis- nk poison.” WOOD ALCOHOL CAUSE OF 8| XMORE ARRESTS New Haven, Conn., more arrests in conn sale or manufacture o tuted the tangible developments Connecticut teday in the investizs tion of wood alcohol poison cascs. additional deaths had been reported, the list remaining at 16 in the state, 13 of them in Hartford, agents of the department . of Justice and three policemen raided the Panama Cafe, in Front street, Hart- ford, this afternoon. Four men wers arrested and ten gallons of wood al- cohol, a still ang a quantity of rais- ins and caramel were seized. The men were locked up on charges of making illicit whiskey and the Hart- ford police began a search for F. P. Denelio, proprietor of the saioon. who the liquor consti- in the day and a wider and derper ina| V&S Dot there when the officers en- res n has been planned; into tered. Information regarding the poison it was amnounbed at | Place came from a truckman who had rnal reveue office. LEGIQ&ATION TO REGULATE THEAALE OF WOOD ALCOHOL| Washington, Dec. subjecting the manufacture and sal of wood alcohoi to the same tion: mended to congress 2§ a resuit of ihe many fatalities from the use of. wood c restric- alcohol as--a Beverage, .Commissioner Roper-of the hureau of internal reve- nue announced tonight. 7 The form of the proposed legisia- tion has not been . decided - definitely bureau.. Tt .is understood, pwever, that offielals have: in mind the pdacing of a.heavy tax on manufacture ond of wood alco- hol ‘and’ requiring . of permits*by all persons engaged in the ‘traffic. This weuld provide the gover: n by the autiorities in n of the regulations. it had become obvi case Officials ous that weaknesses in the national| prohibition amendment as well as t 30.—Legislation | as grain alcohol will" be recom-! the rnment with a1 ing wood alcohol, been hired to take some liquor away. The two others arrested today wer Angelo Amato and Saivatore Espo: to, of this ci tioning by the authorities in regard Yo the distribution of poison liquor. Nine others are under arrest here on varfous charges, while the police and Y, Who are held for ques- jrevenue agents continue their inves- | tigation into the woed alchol liquor i traffic, MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FOR SALE OF WOOD ALCOHOL .—Sam Darl- Hartford Marsh Alfred T. Carqw of the Chcopee po- lice tonight on' charges of manstaugh- ter. growing out of the large number of deaths in the Connecticut valley as {2 result of drinkir uid ; were ited Ronald C. Lindsay, | definite record of ‘the 'movement of | ynder 10,000 bonds. wieh ey o | counsel, be in charge of the em-|wood aicohol from manufacturer t0{ynaple to furnish ' early £t @ R e e urnish " early evening, and will be arraigneq in police court ! tomorrow .morning. é_ According -to Marshal Caron, Darl- {ing and Saunders came to Chicopee this aft on to “settle wp some bus- it S ine: A g e 2 v internal revenue laws must be reme-| i o8 0T lh:mpo(:{imth S'I;[[ij,;s Tr(;t\i died in so far: :as Wood -aleohol. 18| ey were met with warrants’ charg- concerned. Tederal authorities under Seiks i g law, it was said, apparently are without one legal thread upon which - {0 prevent persons dealing in the poison. “It is obvious” said Commi ing them with manslaughter. Tarlier iin the day, State Detective David J. Manning, Jr., of Springfield, had been to Hartford and questioned Darling and Saunders regarding their alleged Roper, “that wood alcohol -is in no‘s;‘;;&' ‘“D:";?n é"*i’fii"'.‘%‘,‘.‘é;?:,fiin‘“:, HYL sense a liquor or beverage as de-|_ 1o ia. Dading . , A scribed in either the prchibimn,;gffs “f‘l:g““?';igo }:H;r: qcr‘;d faflm}:- amendmant or the internal revenue| J are also facing charges in laws, nor can it be considered a nar-| uch. In most of the states, if not all, woo alcohol is recognized as a poison and stringent laws have been d regulating its use and safe- the public from its abu. : . however, for of federal : The deparme reau of chemis agri v, which is en . also has informed Con - Roper that it has mo cffec control over the distribution of wood alcohel and that so far is con- cerned- entirely new leg tion - is necessary hefore the new m b deait with effectively. SEIZURE OF 18 BARRELS.OF DENATURED ALCOHOL New York, Dec. 30..—A conversation =3 ! 4 £ “goove neck th enforcement of the pure food and aée can| | Connecticut. were asked to zo to Chi- nel DD et 5 copee o close up. some business. Tp- e e e Pionisions, of NS on arrival in Chicopee, Marshai Ca- be a deadly poison and|foR had the warrant readiness. hould be regarded and ~ treated as = MOONSHINER IN NEW YORK FOUND ASPHYXIATED New York. Dec. 30.—Oscar Swensen was found dead of gas poisoning in his lodgings here today. the victim of his home-made * moonshina A a .tube of dark on which The police “Dboiled o | 1 jer i i unlighted V. eiieve that the ing | the gas to i { 14TH DEATH FROM WOOD ALCOHOL IN CHICAGO 30 fourtssnth e Christmas from e between a bartender and- drayman,|effects of drinking wood alconol was overheard by two intérnal revenue| reported io the police todd The agents in an East Side saloon, led|victim had been ~unconscious since tonight to the seizure . of eighteen| participating in a Christmas eve barrels of denatured alcohol and thej arrest of two men in Brooklyn. Col- | officials - who today began an olnei Daniel L. Porter, supervising!inve ation of the wave of “bltnd internal revenue agent, said if the!dea dect at* federal legisla- poisoned liquor had been consumed 2 ould be necessary to stamp out 20,000 men. The names of the men arrested are being withheld, Colonel Porter added, | until his men. have rounded up sev- eral others Who are believed connected with a plot to sell deadly alcohol over New York bars. While hibition, the two revenue agents over- heard the bartender teil the drayman “two barrels,” as he had $2,000 in the cash drawer to ‘When the drayman said he would go after them at once the government men followed him to a found the “boss” wanted pay ‘for them. Brooklyn garage, where they eighteen barrels of liquor and arrested the drayman ard his assistant. The drayman, acecording to ‘Colonel , told him that they had deliv- P ered four barrels-to an East Side sa-| loon keeper, who, when he Jiscovered that he had paid $4,000 for poison, de- clared the deal off. s i The revenue chief said he believed that the men arrested had a minor part in the deal, but ‘that they had given information ' which he hoped would enable him to arrest four Ital- ians who owned the deadly liquor, and who had hired the drayman last Sun- doy night. “We'l catch deal,” continucd Celonel "Porter, this atrocT>us plot should an convince ey it would easily have killed|the e to be the in the saloon seeking evi-} dence of violations of war time pro-| the 'leaders in this| “but ‘man in: bis right senses that it | STENOGRAPHER MAKES RECORD OF 324 WORDS PER MINUTE & = ' l New, Yo 30.—The. world's official shorthand speed record was | broken today by Nathan Behrin, an official stenographer ' of the supreme court of New York countv, who wrote 4 words per minute with The contest was held unde {nzement of the Certified Reporters’ Socfety of Neowk York +he annual convention of the i York Shorthand Reporters’ Aszocin- | tion. Mr. Behrin held the farmer offieial speed recerd, having written 27R words {a minute in a, test held in 1913, | APPOINTMENTS TO STATE * COMMISSION ON SCULPTURE/ Hartford, Conn., Dec. 30.—Governor. Holeomb today appointed Col. Franeis Parsons of this city and H. Siddons Mowbray of Washington, this state, to fill the vacancies on the state commis- sion -on_seulpture until the third Wed- nesday of January. 1921, whea the reveral assembly will be in session. These vacancies were caused by .the failure of the. legislature at the last seszion to take action on the resolm- tiohs: for their reanpnintmcats. It was an oversight and was not discovered until too late to correct