The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 11

LIQUOR MEN NOW FACE WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—(By United Press.)—All hope of congress coming to the aid of the liquor interests before constitu- fional prohibition becomes effective vanished today when the house agricultural commit- itee voted 16 to 3 against a repeal of war ‘tine prohibition. The action was taken on al ai by Representative Gallivan, Massachu- setts, and means that his measure will be permanently pigeonholed by the committee. BY RALPH F. COUCH United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Bonded liquor held with the expectation of the war-time ban being lifted, now is “eating its head off” in warehouses at the rate of three and one- third million dollars monthly in carrying charges, it was conservatively estimated here today. Owners of the liquor today flooded government officials from under.” The telecrams began to clog the ficient quantities to consume 67,000 Washington wires as President Wi!-| 000 gallons in a reasonable time fon let it be known he can not le-) Are Up Against It gally lft the wartime ban while! W°] ‘To redistil! for the alcohol it con framers bas bald for innate, *! tains is commercially impracticable ee rhe 4 | Pure alcohol at the distillery now Tt was the decision of the supreme/ brings 57% cents @ gallon. Tt takes Geourt yesterday which precipitated) 14. gavons of whiskey to make one Pthe rush of telegrams. In this de ib ct| Stilon of alcohol. And to get two Tision the war-time prohibition act gallons of whiskey out of bond costs was held constitutional. It seemed “| $4.40 in taxes, The tax is $2.20 per the blast the last hope of liquor deal! cation for non-beverage purposes ers for a short wet spell before ‘een ‘The $4.40, of course, does not include Dig drouth begins January 16, when | tn. cost of the whiskey constitutional prohibit! hed : uled to become effective . oP ngetilinre fennel a it ° vonded supply th of the whis Unable to Answer key by toilet supply manufacturing Government officials today were| plants as a base for bay rum and unable to give an adequate answer to| perfume if the price does not mount the question of what to do with the/too high. Also drug stores will need bonded Nquor, at least from a supply, but this need is small {1 point of view of the owner, hoping | comparison with the amount in hand to get back part at least of | Officials said today one estimate ‘vestment and to put off the carrying | is that the non-beverage uses now charge. known would consume the bon 3 ‘The estimated original investment | stock of whiskey in 160 years Stoday was placed at approximately | ¢ny © the whiskey would m 1$53.000,000 for 67.000,000 gallons Of an investment of something like $100 Bquor with which the owners now), gation in the 160th year, according weem to have been caught. This ne statistician in addition to the carrying charge. The bonded supply includes 63,942,931 ‘ te ce eetuar, aoeeetion 0, y by export is alight. The law 4,500,000 gallons of gin and sllghtly| Or°/anuacy 18, Dealers now are ex. Teas than 500,000 gallons of rum fast as possible. In )These are government figures totalled 323,000 ga “I have discussed the question of} o¢ at) kinds of beverage liquors, com the bonded liquor with several off) merce department records show ‘cials,” sid Federal Prohibition Com-| this was valued at $1.25 per gal Missioner Kramer. “It constitutes | according to reports to customs lone of the big problems resulting | iectors. In some cities whim from the decision of the supreme! is bringing $40 a gallon in court. I am not yet prepared to say| ger” sales ibility of getting any great t of the stocks out of the fre The difficulty is that under the|to the problem. Under tax laws war-time law liquor @n legally be wt may remain in bond only withdrawn from bond now only for|eight years. At that time it must exportation and for non-beverage | be removed and the tax paid. Much ‘And no one yet has found| of the whiskey now in bond has been UB non-beverage use for liquor in suf-!in nearly eight yearn. GERMAN REPLY {PEACE OUTLOOK 4" AVOIDS TROUBLE GROWS BRICHT Allies to Make Peace Effec-| Troublesome Disputes Are tive Before Christmas Now Being Settled BY HENRY WOOD | BY ED L. KEEN PARIS, Dec. 16—Danger of | (United Prose Staff Correspondent) as the result of Germany's atth tude toward the protocol of the peace treaty, was finally averted to optimistic forecasts by officials of today the foreign office today concluded by Christmas, according the * eme cyuag Sy" ¢ The special commission of German toco! vered by Baron Von Lers-| cuss with allied represen es in ner yesterday, was “most concilia-| Paris the matter of reparation for tory.” and that a reply would be dis | sinving of the interned German fleet patched to Berlin “as s00n a8 PO% lin goana Flow, is prepa sible some of the docks, dred The council is mak led t ents to have the Germans sign the| Wa, anid. In the event protocol and make the treaty effe offer suitnian: tue aniaaaasean Mie ctn ini trees thorized to negotiate further. Semi-official forecast of the Ger The German y to the man note yesterday showed the Ger r ’ repty t ’ man government was willing after certain comparati note demanding signature sign peace tre rotocol, which was for concessions, but it was not until the |™ ; a to the peace confer Mietaess ecunell met to that it|ence in Paris yesterday, was to be Was officially learned there was no! taken up by the supreme council to Bfurther cause for ¢ tion of | : tions for inv of Ger the “unofficial } | orde joint seasior afternoon nfirmed in of nd German 1 expert terday by th sation will take 460 Old tex ax the first Scapa Fe eh } ; stria Seeks Food dssen ae nce the council took up the m of | jeaders are now planning to launch assistance for Austria ve campaign to force the was rea » make pea th the i | absolute 1 lift the economic q to be aa i] blockad: et Russia ! After Chane Renner had ad-| War Minister Churchill told th { dressed the coun: half of Au that Great a tew | | tria, the council red mear ite the for sending 30,000 tor t tes, France or Japan Trieste immediately 6 that a ular food sur " for Austria be drawn sing year to pern «YOUTHS ARE HELD ON ' CHARGES OF. ASSAULT ume “normal lif The council decta am enpe ) mamtain Austria's territorial | same ire are in the cit il ar from that countr he brothers are said to have met (Vorarlberg was the westernmoat| Fine on Avalon way and Yancy at district of the former dual monar Monday afternoon and beat him up of Austria-Hungary.) \because Vine, had reported — the in addressing the council, Renner| youths for disorderly conduct in expressed the desire to have created |their rooms several days ago Danubian confederaion, to consist Patrolman W. L. Pendergast made of Jugoflavia and CzechoSlovakia. the arrest. <= ™ The Seattle Star === SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919. MOTHER IS HELD FOR M The Great American Home | The Great American Home | J/ANNUNZIOIS WOMAN ALTERS STORY VAST LOSS OF MONEY On, WHAT CHA GOT, DADDY P with telegrams demanding what they should do to “get out Federal Judge Orders Hear- ing Delayed Indefinitely INDIANAPOLIS flals of the United Mine America today was charges were based on alleged injunction imnued by Judge Anderson during the bituminous coal now be called up at what can or will be done with it.” There is one more perplexing angle} Judge Anderson upon request of counse ed Mine Workers, defendants are using all th The requets was concurred in by attorneys, except in the case of Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas district of the Miners’ und leader of the “r ment within the organiza | Howatt’s case was continued until | Jearly next spring.” he in keeping some a miners on strike INFORM MINERS OF SETTLEMENT Word Being Sent Thruout State Tuesday possible resumption of hostilities dcutocst, Tid, th--Seae ‘wallne| mbers of the thruout the stat eo were being of the confer officials here Mine Workers ked Governor I |the railroad administration, It is} Milwaukee Places Embargo on Freight : AGREE ON NEW Announcement | WIFE CRUEL, DOES NOT LOVE HIM, HE SAYS Franciaco that de ig not community prop. F HER BABY SON IRDER ‘ OUT OF FIUME Italian Regulars Occupy Port OF BOY'S KIDNAP ING and End Daring Episode | BY MIL W. VAUGHN PARIS, Dec, 16.—-One of the most United Press Staff Correspondent. daring and romaniic epotes in bie ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 16.—Mrs. Esthet of Gabriele d’Annunzio from Fiume Blake, accused of sacrificing her little dumb son, and the occupation of that city »»| “Buddy,” in an insane belief she could thus win back ao ‘ her husband’s love, today admitted the boy was not ‘The portaviator dictator's with kidnaped, as she first declared, according to Dr. drawal followed an agreement reaches Louis Souder, county physician. sald. The Italian troops occupyir Souder said Mrs. Blake admitted walking out on the the city were commanded by Gen.| municipal pier at Ventnor with the boy Friday night and Cavigia, former miniater of war, that she declared, “I guess he must have fallen into the® water. tay Annunzio at the head ofa rand’! Mrs. Blake, who is charged with “willful murder” of fives on September 12, ostenaitly in viola-|Year-old James W. Blake, Jr., has been ill in an Atlantic — tion of 4 of the Italian govern-|City hospital since Friday night, when she had asserted — two negroes attacked her and “Buddy” on a street in Vent- ment Italy made half-h forte to expel him, but an fast as Thad _ 8 bo: ais Askapesanin Wendt choking her into unconsciodsness and stealing the boy. DADDY'S HAT up euick ! 4, until within a sb tin, military or went against the poet they joined| According to Souder, Mra, Blake - he had a formidable The poetaviator grandi Dy true,” he said “She b an crying. nex the entire Dalmation cx and/and said, ‘No, it isn't. I can't re ‘important cities, At first Italian | He! popular sentiment was overwhelm-) was running ahead of me, carrying peak, 4 ingly in d@'Annunzio’s favor, but his y purse “a ne just have ¢ Rotivitien: sea" grustad ion. hiterne| tenes | guess me must have’ Makes Meat Market Pro-— his f rt time| started to repeat the “kidnaping t | story to him | “I told her she knew that was not announced it was hin intent Jand I went down on the pler into the water tional situation that becarne embar ! n According to Police Chief Sprague rietor Cough U russing to Italy and sentiment veered | wiiiam Hepper, a street car conduc p 9 Pp against him oa i tor, declares Mrs. Blake and her son | i< At the recent conferences in Lon-|rode on hin car just before the boy| A lone masked bandit obtained | don the Adriatic question was dis-| disappeared. Mrs. Blake was ner-| $300 in cash when he entered th@)g “ ppear 2 is cussed with Italian Foreign Minister | vous, Hepper sald, and told him “the! Kosher meat market and grocery Selaloia. It was understood he was! chiid annoys me so I've got to get! store, 173 16th ave. late Monday presented a memorandum, which he! 4 of him.” evening. me | Was to place before the Italian cabi — s jetor, em definitely nettied at « resumption of Woman Jumps From the police. ‘The burgial ail Chrixt . ring a striped handkerchief gto Window to Death iis tice for a mask. Clayman made to stand with his hands in @ SAN FRANCISCO dec. 16 Miss A RANCI x “* air while the highwayman rifled MINE CONTEMPT Congressman Wages Fight vf an’ Poor an Xeon of Mere stow a, to orga ae from her room on ‘layman described the burglar ppealed | She had been at the hotel since De man known $$$ : y/cember 5. The motive for her act is iooin tars myatery About $100 and eeverat’ RENO DIVORCE RECORDS sae carne [fecin” ‘inee were amone Mr | SHATTERED; MARRIAGES CASE CONTINUED Against | Waste of Paper 1225 ihren he Netto ome tae eth a circulations do not go thru the mail| to the police to loc ©} and the bill would not reach them. | q politan papers to make big profits » present paper Pilon The desire of large me rere frinked” hin pocket bition. |rency. He said he « responsible for t Randall grermes, F sah «aah ist, mugKeRted reduction in print last night, and thoug tf Siminating clgaret, edvertia wile ‘ho. as eutertatsay der, ‘ah OUTNUMBERED 3 TO pe hia bil W. Y¥. Morgan of the Hu excuned heraelf for few moments,| Se F. MILK MEN RAISE . Dec. 16.—AN records for luce the size of newspapers (Kans) News, said that and then failed te 2 coene wack oon! PRICE ONE CENT QUART) Suns ivrces in tore afterward Sellers discovered the The big papers are profiteering, have been speeded up. at the expense of the smaller papers! still is ahead of product of his money. The woman is de SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.—Blam-| 115 cases were placed on and it is the dut © government Representat m Manaa.| scribed as 40 ye ld feet 19\ing their action on a 4cent raise by | This exceeded the October record to protect ther Ny asserted. | chusetia, euggested that congress and |inches tall, and has a broken nove. | the pr ers, milk retailers today |11. The divorce suits were The present © in due to the! the government departments she announce increase of 1 cent a times the number of marriage I rape of big p here In DUYINE | economize in the une of paper The largest statue in the world quart. This brings the price here to censes issued. Taking into Mp. everyt can get thelr) sorgan ‘told of the vast amount of | will be carved from the natural rock | 16 cents. This raise was in the face en non-judictal days in ~— ; ‘ys * < oF 3 - bed. | government publicity and con. | in the inland sea of Seto, Jar It} of the prospect of milk shipments a during November, a divorce gressional franked matter flooding! will be effigy of Nichiren, the Jap-| promised from Stockton at 13 cents s filed every 90 minutes of Bo out of busines [the newspaper offices anese patron saint ‘a quart The increased ize of newspapers Smeets Se eee BRO RaRE RS Ra RARE Ra Ra RATERS Pe Ps NSPE EERE eee business demanda, Business held up| b the war i now engaged in a general resumption and desire to ex Suey te earn ae calor ote A Christmas Gift is measured wy by the pleasure it * brings to the recipient—why not a gift mtial to the life of 500 «other ere thruout the country I am rues, for all the family that will give pleasure all the year ‘round?—the gift of a NEW EDISON || Kansan will be forced to suspend 1421 Third Ave., Between Pike and Union in Representative Randall, California, tated 90 per cent of the big nel PLACE EMBARGO. ON SHIPMENTS § O-wW. R. & N. and N. P,) Announce New Order a an We have ready for your Christmas selection 2)! new models, every one a period style, a real t ment of American ¢abinet style. We ask come in and hear you orite music on one of the twelve distinctive New Edisons. Terms Will Be Arranged to Suit Your Convenience PORTLAND, Dee, 16.—The 0.W R. & N. a orthern Pacific rail roads have placed an embargo on all shipments of freight with the ex ception of furl, perishables, live. stock and foodstuffs CHALET—The new portabl reo will have the effect design of the genuine $95 stopping rail ship. Hedison at ..ssseeeeee The emt of practica ments of lumber from the mills of Ore and Washington and, ac caaiag 4 ot the West Real Coast Lumb. association, will i. throw between 80,000 and 100,000 Music men out of employment in the mille The Edison is a distine- tive musical instrument. Equipped with the genu- and camps of the two states Shortage of cars ts responsible for the embargo, mr 4 offictals de lured, and there fe no prospect for immediate relief. There is said to 4 3 be plenty of empty cats in the ine diamond stylus and east, but no effort is being made by | other Edison improve- ments, it produces music so accurately that there is no difference in the voice and the re-created HEPPLEWHITE —One of th ic by the New Edison, Pes! Y&!Ue8 ine the Uldison ste $167.50 New Edison Re-Creations Just Issued for the Christmas Season charged, to move ther westward Due to the car shortage a number of mil in Oregon and Washington} output of have been closed, and th others has been greatly diminished | THE SHERATON—A distinc tive period design in fine ma- egies ---$200 FREIGHT WAGE j WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—-A | 1 a ment has been reached by the rea ly Night, Christmas More Candy—One § MGA Went : ne Jaudas’ Society railroad brotherhoods and the rail i Night Saxophobia---Fox Trot oy i road administration, on the oie pi Frieda Hompe! Foes ee ee” ett | EAE NE of wages to maid employes in the No. 80507 7 vs sft by pe ene : Christin Bells Are King No. 5053 $1.15 | Recognized Makes His Vinit THE CHPPPENDALE -~ This de Billy THE CHEPPENT is. 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Albert Lindquist $ $i apecial allowances formerly applic able be » terminals are onsed with agreement provides that special allowances for switching and simular work at terminals shall re main in effect at the old rates,