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"ROBERT EDGREN Contrasts the Teams Harvard-Oregon Game Reto dnl LX. NO, 21,316—DAILY, See Sporting Page Copyright, 1919, by Th 0 Press Gor’ (rhe ‘New York World), f “Circulation Books 1 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1919. Pest Office, New Open to All. Entered ax Second-Clase Matter 12 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS, PLANS MA DE FOR A WET NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION TO-NIGHT WILSON NOT T0 RUN AGAIN BUT IS NOT OUT OF POLITICS: URGED 10 MAKE STATEMENT Not Likely to Do So Until After Peace Treaty Fight Ha8 Been Settled. BOOMS KEPT WAITING. Curiosity About the Type of Man He Will Favor as Party Candidate. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (Copy- right, 1919).—President Wilson is be- img urged to say publicly that he will not be a candidate for reelection, but just when he will do so is some- thing which he alone can decide. He has arrived at no decision as yet. Publication locally of a story to the effect that Mr. Wilson would make such a pronouncement at the Jackson Day Dinner of the Demo- crats on Jan. Sth, drew no direct do- aial at the White House, except that | officials there gave the impresston| that sugh an announcement were made ft would hardly be at the Jack- son Day Dinner. There were sundry remarks made, too, about the improvement in the President’s health to the general ef- fect that Woodrow Wilson war by| no means unable to make the race for a third term if he cared to do so. ‘This, however, is unquestionably omly a reflex of a certain sentiment that has held sway in executive quarters to the effect that it would be unwise for the President to make any statement about the matter of a third term because of the disintegr tion of his influence which might follow. Until the treaty and League of Na- tions is disposed of by the Senate, for instance, it is reckoned wiser for Mr. Wilson to maintain silence about the futuro no matter how much the various aspirants may be clamoring for a statement that would be the, re- lease signal, so to speak, for their Presidential ‘oor. CURIOSITY ABOUT TYPE OF MAN HE WILL FAVOR. On the other hand, several of the Democratic aspirants to the Presi- dency are going whead regardless of any statement from the White House. In fact, it is so widely ac- cepted umong the Democrats that Mr. Wilson will not run for a third term that the only thing that is awaited with tense interest is what Mr, Wilson may choose to say about the type of ian who should be given the standard of the Demooratic Party im the next campaign, It is confidently expected that Mr. Wilson Wil bluze the way with a statement of principles which he himself considers fundamental in this day and age. On the other hand, it is very likely that the President will not take any part himself in the nomination contest, The fact that Wiliam G. McAdoo, his own son-in- law, is being pushed forward as a candidate by many Wilson Demo- crats is one embarrassment, and the fact Mit the L'resident himself does mot believe the Democratic Party (Continued on I —<= rth Page.) THE EVENING WORLD GERMAN BATTLE LOSS IS 1,500,000 IN DEAD ALONE This Does Not Include Soldiers Who Lost Their Lives in Prison Camps. BERLIN, Dee. 31. FICIAL © statistics made O public to-day place the number of Germans killed in battle at 1,500,000. These fig- ures do not include those who Boke ine eit camps. ‘Stolen’ Wine Is Recovered Police Helping Speed 1,500 Cases of Champagne to China Find Missing Fizz Was Bookkeeper’s Error. The New York Police Department | went into a high fever of activity to- day on behalf of the thirsty Chinese. Champagne worth a doxen Shan- tungs in the ‘estimation of anybody but a Prohibitiontst was being ship- ped shamelessly to the heathen while the police, instead of stopping the outrage, actually lent a hand to see that not a bottle should miss the boat. The excitement started when bookkeeper for the Urbane Wine Company, No, 116 Broud Street, called up headquarters and announced hys- terically, “Somebody's stolen a bundred cases of champagne!” Away went the chosen detectives. One thousaml, five hundred cases, twelve bottles in,each case, each ibot- tle worth all the money that, a parched Broadwayite has in his pocket or can tborrow, were being trucked from Broad Street to the pier. But nobody could find a trace of the missing hundred cases until—— “Hero it is!” shouted the book- keeper. “f've got it—l've got it all!” ‘The only thing in sight before the bookkeeper was his ledger. “Where's the ooze?” Detective Sheridan. “Right here,” said the clerk. “It was right under my nose all the time,’ “Where?” repeated the detective blankly, “Here, J tell you—in the ledger,” said the clerk. “It was just a mis- take in bookkeeping.” “Well,” said the detective, “I don't delieve I care for any, Don't fancy the brand. Drink it yourself if you like your booze in the shape of a double entry.” demanded HEAT COOLS THE AIR, COLD WARMS IT UP AND RAIN DRIES IT Moreover, North Wind Really Blows East, Take It From the Weather Man. St. Louis, Dec. 31. R. W. J. HUMPHREYS of the Government Weather Bureau at Washington, in an address before the Meteorologi- cal Section of the American Asso- clation for the Advancement of Science to-day, usverted that air pushed north blows east because of the defective. effect of earth’ #rotation, and that rain: the the water from it Heating free atmosphere the Iries Lecause it removes xtme Will Not Be Published To-Morrow, Jan. (New Year's Day) and cooling warms it, he This he explained by saying warm- ed air will rise and oool, and cooled air will fall and become warn by compression, erted, THE, WoL BURPAL, heaer” «Worl ? ¢ ing, 83-63 Park Reokman —4u00 ces oven day and oliere’ cheulee foam for bagiags thd louey widens ud be In a Ledger BUT MILLEN Gift to District of New York, said “I do not think the p! New Year's Eve patrons of hotels drink when that man happens to articles is made merely as a subte event that an arrest is made the “gift” was a genuine one and not with the Buyer and seller. Collector Edwards holds that it a sale. He can see no rehson why “Take the case of a wholesaler, gets a bill for an expensive sult of five gallons of booze?” presentation a trusted customer five gallons of whiskey. NO CRIME TO GIVE AWAY FIZZ, NIUM ISN'T HERE |Col. Porter Says Hotels Will Be Watched and Must Prove Liquor Served Is Genuine Friends. ANIEL L, PORTER, Supervising Internal Revenue Agent of the to-day: lan of giving away free liquor to will be carriéa very far. There is nothing in the law that can prevent one man from giving another a be an old-time friend. “But when money is passed, and it appedrs that payment for other rfuge for selling that liquor, in the burden of proof to show that the a blanket to cover a sale will rest “We have not yet reached the millennium and for that reason I do not believe drinks which command such high prices these days will ‘be ‘given’ away by one man to another to any great extent. “Barnum's theory about one being born every so often is the only explanation I can think of for the belief that has spread that there will be a wholesale giving away of liquor this evening.” will be extremely difficult to prove * cannot be accomplished. said the Collector. “Say he ‘gives’ The next day the customer clothes and an overcoat. How are you going to prove that the transaction really involved the sale of ——— Noise, Big Crowd and BIG Prices. Indications for to-night—WET. Big time to-night! Big Whoop-up! Big Noise! BIG Prices! That's what it looks like now for long up and thoroughfare, fish- confetti, Big Crowa! Broadway—the down the main horns, line trumpets, foghorns, pretty girls, handsome men, cops, au- tomotfiles, rattlers—all kind of big naises, shrill noises, bells ringing, chorus singing, hand shaking, thirst slaking, jingling glasses and jostling masses. o And in the hotels and cafes tables are reserved for a high old time at the stroke of twelve, with dining and wining and dancing before and after. If the arrangements hold good—com- mensurate with the ice that has been ordered—there must be more cham- pagne stored in the village than there was left in France after the Germans got through their guzzling campaign; more Scotch than evér was dreamed of and talk about ‘comin’ through with the rye!” Prices for covers and “corkage” in the moveable feast class, The av- erage price for a New Year's spreaa at the witching hour when church bells ring and graves are supposed to yawn is anywhere from $7.50 to $15. At the Ritz-Carlton it is the higher price; at the Astor the highest is $10 and the lowest $7.50. At the Biltmore and Commodore the price is $7.50 flat. All sorts of people have engaged tables, At the big hotels they are mostly the guests and at the cafes mostly from out of town. New York 1g going to celebrates its\Happy New Year at Home, It’s a foregone conclusion that ev- erybody who has had a table set apart for lim and his party is going to bring his own booze, And it's an- other foregone conclusion that any- body who hasn't got any booze isn't horns, joise makers, bi going to sit and drivel the. merry hours away, for there won't be any merry hours—with John Barleycorn absent, ITLL BE PACKAGE NIGHT ALL NIGHT, TO-NIGHT, Churchill's, all the a big tin & a drop of Hquor to be sold at them! I be puckage night troni will thelr own pack- es in wit and will bring an. out with them, That other pe what they did last Sunday morning a barets | (Continued mn, 5 1 Pa ¢.) MORLD HENT A Wed ‘ayn Lean, Sportal lay, Raa Pola There'll Be Big Time, Big! TIME, CROWD, PRICES ALL BIG ‘ASCHTY “WHOOPS” FOR 1920 WILSON TO HAVE QUIET NEW YEAR’S; NO ‘WATCH’ PARTY Overlaxed Himself in Celebration of Brithday, Says a White House Announcement, WASHINGTON, Dee. tESIDENT WILSON will spend a very quict New Year's Day, . White House officials disclosed to-day that the Prestdent over- taxed himself on his birthday, Sunday, when he celebrated the oceasion by having the members of his family present, Conse- quently it is considered improb- able that he will hold a watch party in his sickroom to-night, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B, Sayre, who came to the White House for the President's birthday, are expected to remain oyer New Year's Duy. NEW YEAR GIFTS MADE BY HYLAN Appoints Three Magistrates—Puts Michael Fogarty on Parole Board. Mayor Hylan to-day announced the following appointments: Harry Howard Dale, No. 296 Hooper Street, Brooklyn; reappointed City Magistrate for ten years to succeed himself, Lwarence C, Fish, No, 443 Washing- ton Avenue, Brooklyn; City Magistrate for ten years, A. V. B. Voorhees, No, 1655 Cropyey Avenue, Brooklyn; reappointed Justies of the Court of Special Sessions for ten yeara to succeed hinwelf, It 48 explained at the Mayor's office that the post to be filled by Fish, which ls newly created, has been recomended by the Board of City Magistrates, Fish will sit in Brooklyn, The Mayor also announced that ho rty of No. 119 Fussell Street, Brooklyn, successor to Alexander McKinney as a member of the Parole Board, The salary of Pa- role Commissioner 1s $5,500, In con- nection with this appointment, the Mayor ys Fogarty has beon a promi- hent resident of the Greenpoint acction for the Inst thirty y has been a |manufacturer of aten 5 at Nos, 127 to R31 West 33d Manhattan, He wa Constitutional Con delegate tion in 191 | PRISONERS 10S SEE HANGING. ge? to Chicago Jail to Attend tor Moral Efe: CHICAGO, Dee. wo hundred | prisoners, hardened eriminals, held in the Cook County jail, will start the new y Friday by watching th hanging af one of thei wie number, Raftato | i Durrage, for the murder of 4 man and bas » | —-——_—— + PAIAMA-CLAD BOY PERCHED ON HIGH SILL TWO HOURS ie Gala Ne eee Dare Not Break In Bar- | ricaded Door and Fire- men Are Called. IS SPREAD. \LIFE NET \Crowd Watches as Ruse I Employed to Save Youth From Death. v Dressed only in pajamas, Henry Moore, elghteen years old, perched on the sill of a fourth floor window at No. 29 East 124th Street for two hours this morning while police, fire- men and civilians planned how to keep hinx from famping or falling to death. Moore had returned a week ago from a year's travel in the West and Mexico and went to his mothers home. His father, a prominent real estate deuler of Harlem, died re- cently. During the week the boy had. been acting strangely, his mother told the polieey and shortly after midnight this morning barricaded himself in his room and refused to come out in anawer to the pleadings of his mother and sister. Finally Patrolman George Hearle of the Kast 126th Street Station was called>in, When the patrolman de- tmanded admission to the room Moore opened the window fac- ing Madison Avenue and sat on the sill) with bis feet dangling outside. Hettrle went to the street and #houted to Moore to climb back into the room, The youth did not obey. A crowd fathered, while several auto- mobvilists turned the power lights from their machines on the boy. A call was sent to Houk and Ladder Company No. 14, and firemen brought |4 ladder, but it proved too short. The firemen spread u life net below the window, and an extension truck was vummoned. A score of civilians aided the firemen in holding the net while the extension ladder was being raised. Three policemen went to the Moore apartment and waited until the fire- men had almost reached the window outside. Then they smashed In the door and seized Moore, whose at- tention had been given to the firemen. Dr, James McLean of the Harlem Hospital had been summoned and was waiting in the apartment. He at- tended Moore, who was weak from the cold, and then took him to Beile- yue Hospital for observation. BABE DROWNS IN WATER PAIL Was Playing With Christmas Gift Aboard Ship When Accident Occurred, A one-year-old baby was drowned in @ pail of water on the Holland-Amert- ca liner Nieuw Amsterdam, according to passengers who arrived on the ship to-day. Mr. and Mm, John Pustus, Holland immigrants bound for Des Moines, left thelr baby in the third cabin stateroom with their three-year-old daugiiter while they went to dinner on Dec, 26 ‘The baby was playing with @ sailor doll which had been given it on Christmas day, Losing the doll on the floor, the baby sought to ‘each it and fell head st In the pall of water, The three-d Yeur-old sister was crying in the state- room when the mother and father re- turned. ‘The body was buried at sea the following evening. ‘he Nieuw Amsterdam In the first cabin, 209 In the third. —_ ANDREW MILLER. IS DEAD. Pablisher and Gpertemas Victim of Bronchiti Andrew Miller, Presiden brought 390 280 in the second and of Life Pub. | for party jndorsement SENATORS CONFER ONRESERVATIONS: HOPE IS RENEWED Pomerene Discusses Treaty With Lodge and Hitchcock Meets McNary. |MEETING ON: TO-NIGHT. Democratic Members of For- eign Relations Committee Will Hear Reports, mise proposals for ratifying the Peace conference between Senators Lodge and Pomerene of Ohio, a Democratic member of Foreign Relations Comimittee, who voted at the last ses- sion for ratification with the reserva- tions framed by the Republican ma- Jority. e Both Senators declined to the conversution In ¢ the discuss ail, but it was understomd (hut several definite mod- ifications on (he majority programme were considered, Senator Pomerens suid he was hopeful that a compro- mise could be worked out Senator Hiteheovk his talks with Republican and Democratle Senators fn (ho light of suggestions made to him by Senator McNary of Oregon, # leader of the mild reservie tlon group of Republic These suggestions will be discussed among other things at a conference to continued night between Senator Hitchcock and Sen- ator Pomereno and several other Democratic members of the Morelgn Relations Sophias GEN. woop } ENTERS 1920 RACE OPENLY) Files Ranaunee ied in South Dakota—Coolidge Won't Run for Vice President. PIERRE, 8. D.. Deo Ieonard Wood to-duy announcement of his Republican Preatd with the South State, a1 filed andid, vtinl Dakota for the mination Secretary of This was the laet day for coptances. Gen. Wood, ov iran Jonhnson of California, Lowden of Ulinols, of Wa and hington, tor are Milea Poindexter avowed candidutes at the Mar Democratic primary, ‘The third term, “if he decides to become o candidate. James W. Gerard of New York, filed h’# petition as an independ. ant candidate for the Democratic dorsement BOSTON, Dec, %1.—Letters tn which Gov. Coolidge declines to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Vice President at the March primary clece tiong in South Dakota were made pub- lic at the State House to-day. The first letter was sent to Secretary ine of State ©. A. Burkhart of South Da- kota on Deo, 10, after Coolidge had been notified that the Republican State con tion in South Dakota had proposed his name for Vice President Tt sald in part “It was enurely unexpected by me that my name should have been pre- sented to your Governor, + It is mot, however, my desire to appear as a can- didate for the office of Vice President | of the United Stat fore, make the de I shall not, there- aration which your laws require from a candidate i See WOE AHEAD FOR SMOKERS. CHICAGO, food fourlens Ushing Company, for steward of the Jor the spo: at his home He had been iil bronchitis, but that he was |He was sixty Mr, Miller was one | derwrote the proposal to xend an lean polo t Bugiand aft | British viotory ut “Meadow rook in an i | war yeurs y Club and promi- if world, died to- | No. 850 Park Avonte. a ral days with regarded (t Nightly | office yesterday, | nent ay #0 nt his of those who A tablished the Millstream Stud, ch Imported the $80,000 Wrench | stallion Adam Ww this counuy, [Bow Bas GOOD DIGESTION mares you (eal — clean and law : ment” {# the platform on whieh Lucy ‘ of the cigar. wblivan nomi he mailed her| f Seoretary of © Armed Deputles at Lackawanna. LAOKAWANNA, N.Y, 1 Fifty deputies armed d here to-day to suppress dis- by steel strikers wh Mayo) Informed —¢ Smith and ¢ Bradley of Krie County hy was streets ure TAKE BELL-ANS ATTEN MEALS and 9) e_ WASHINGTON; Dec. 31.—Compro- | Treaty were discussed to-day at a) Wood Alcohol S Saloons—More Scattered reports from points in | his warning to the public to refrain he believes that saloonkeepers, findi | liquor because of scarcity of suppl. DIVORCES INCREASE, ALSO MARRIAGES, Four Thousand Marital Suits Filed in Manhattan — 39,995 Licenses to Wed, on IGURBS obtained to-day F from County Clerk Schnpi- der show that the year 1919, which departs to-night, has been @ strenuous one from @ runrital standpoint in New. York County. Pitty per cont, more divorce suits were begun in this county this year than for the year WX The 1919 total was 1,235, In all 4.000 | cases of marital difficulties, in- cluding suits for separation and annulopnis of marriages, wero begun in 1919. Tho total number of sults of ali Kinds begun jn this county this year, papers for which were filed * with the County Clerk, numbered 38,388 as aguinst 31,706 in M8 and ‘B7,287 in 1917. OOO Mi Ken Licenses; an erease of 4,549, Inseed in 1019 Up to 2 o'clock this afternoon 39.995 marriage Heenses had been Issued in Manhattan for the year 1919, Last year the number of marriage liconses issued in Man- hattan wus 35,446. The record was in 1917, when 41,968 licenses were ssued. Marriage License Bureau experts suld at the time that the rush to matrimony was cused by slackers seeking draft exemption, “The saine experts gy this year's increase of 4,549 over last yeur 1% due to the desire of the repatriated American soldier to found a home and settle down. “The best cure for ‘bachelor- hood," sald one soldier, “is to go to Europe und give the charmers there the once over, ‘They're all pretty sad specimitns when com- pared with their American _ 12.01 A. M. JAN. 17 \ZERO HOUR FOR WETS | isters,”* | Constitutional Prohibition Goes Into Effect Then, Not on the 16th, Roper Rules, WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.—January 17, —And not January 16—will be the birth- day of constitutional prohibition, the |hureau of Internal Revenue hag de- | clded, Enforee bition ment of « art er Rop Ainendment {tutional AM said. in the t tive oxuctly th state ratified |t, eems to know at What hour the 36th state acted county, except that Pes for mal use and in bonded warehouse, must be re- wed to the National Prohibition Com- with 10 days after Jun, 17 ermits to transport any lquor during prohibition must be, ob- } tained fron the Nera! nt prohl~ January The Commilasic wt tut | ul nena Db cur after the 1 C lone strc of January 16, 194) constitutional Belis"—-Harrig ‘Theatre, Joy~ Wes ve an, hbiewouts delightful comedy, \ stances, buylng anything they can get and taking chances, = © Deaths from wood alcohol polsoning IN YEAR 1919 HERE MORE KILLED BY ALCOHOL; RAIDERS SEIZE NEW SUPPLY OF “WHISKEY” IN NEW YORK ‘Many Cities Report New Deaths From Poison Drinks Made Here— till onSale inMany Arrests Made. the vicinity of New York of deaths, . =“ and blindness from indulgence in wood alcohol shipped from or bought ‘in this city indicate, according to Federal revenu® agents, that this is the centre of the poison whiskey manufacturing industry. Coi. Daniel L. Porter, supervising revenue agent, repeated to-day from indiscriminate drinking, because ing it impossible to stock up on pure ly and high prices, are, in many in- oveurred to-day and last night in Philadelphia, Newark and Red Bank, N. J. ‘Two men were taken to tho Clty Hospital in Newark suffering from wood alcohol poisoning and Joseph Levy, a saloonkeeper at No. WoL Mulberry Street, was arrested, with selling polson Nquar ter one of them. Police court developments In New York to-day go to show that people who want a drink ang still willing to risk getting wood alcohol, Many per- sons charged with intoxication were afraigned in all the courts in the clty and almost without exception they said they purchased tie foundations of their jags in open saloons, Magistrate Schwab had six cases of intoxication before him in the | West Side Police Court, picked’ wp during the night on the west side be- tween Columbus Circla and West 100th Street. The arrests were made because the subjects wore helpless FREED ON OATH TO GET ON THE WATER WAGON. “I'll let you all off if you'll take an vath to go on the water wagon,” said Magistrate Schwab, Five persons suffering acutely from the morning-after effects took the swear-off oath, but a man giving the name of Charles Goldberg ball ‘ot for me," he said. ‘It's al @ little more than two weeks to ‘Dry Wriday'—Jan. 1%e-and I've promised + myself to take advantage of the in- terval.” Magistrate Schwab fined Goldberg $2 and Goldberg paid \t cheerfully. His characterization of Jan, 18 as “Dry Friday” made a hit with court attendants and spectators and before noon it had spread all oyer the Ten- derloin, That dealersin New York are finding ® ready sale for liquor described as whiskey was shown when L. Bush of Trenton was urrested carly to-day im Trenton en route to his home from New York. Bush was driving a ear ad was held up by a suspicious po- liceman. In the tonneau of the car the cop found five tin cans, each contain. ing five gallons of colorless liguid which Bush said was whiskey, but which smelis more like wood alcohul in the judgment of New Brunswick authorities, In addition to the cans of alleged whiskey the policeman found a gal- Jon of sugar syrup and two gallods of coloring matter. Bush had a loaded revolver In his pocket and was placed under arrest and held in $2,000 bail on a charge of carrying concealed weapons and driving an | utomebile without a license. He suid he bought bis cargo in New York. SEIZE FIVE GALLONS OF LIQUID LABELLED WHISKEY. Cosimo Di Antonio was arrested early to-day by United States Mar- shall Power at No, 763 Kast New gallons of a liquid labeled whiskey and 16 barrels of a liquid labeled wine were found on the premises, {He said he bought (the stuff dast Spring and denicd charges that he has been selling it. Added force was given to the warning of Col. Porter against in- discriminate drinking by a discovery made by Fovenus agents in @ @aloon