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New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Light Vine Bill
. viii Pass, Ed,cards
Replies to "Drys'

Replying to the published statement
Of James K. Shields, president of the
New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, in
which Shields is quoted as saying it
would be useless to introduce in the
New Jersey Legislature bill to legal
ze the sale of light wines and beer,
Governor-elect Edward l. Edwards
said yesterday in Jersey City:
81 was elected on a wet platform
by a majority Of $4,000. A majority
of the Legislature is wet. The thirty
one Assemblymen of Hudson, Essex,
Atlantic and Passaic counties are wet,
so bill legalizing the sale of light
wines and beer can be passed.
81 have been asked if | shall employ
special counsel to test the validity of
the prohibition amendment Certainly
shall not, the Attorney General is
the proper one to start such a pro-
ceeding.
81 said during the campaign, and
have repeated, that if elected ! would
direct the Attorney General to start
proceedings to test the constitutional
ity of the prohibition amendment.
Il am not taking any part in draft
ing the proposed law to legalize the
manufacture and sale in New Jersey
of light wines and beers. Lawyers Ike
Senator Thomas Brown, of Middlesex,
will attend to that There has been
no committee appointed to draft the
law and there is no special committee
that I know Of
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
n Dead Of " W0od Alcohol
", Manhattan in so Days
City Tests All Popular Recipes
for Home-Nnde Whisky; Pre-
diets Boom for UnHertnkers

Substitution Of wood alcohol for pre-
prohibition drinks probably has result
ed ia several hundred cases of poison
ing in the city since July /. Chief Med
zeal Examiner Charles Norris said yes
terday at his Office in the Municinal
Building. Between November and
December 20 twenty seven fatalities in
Manhattan alone have been due to the
consumption of the fuel as a beverage.
fifteen being within the first twenty
days OF The present month and twelve in
November, according to a compilation
OF cases actually reported after chem
ical analysis
Definite figures to cover an admitted
tendency to use the liquid as
a beverage were not available, the ex-
amlner said, because of the difficulty
OF diagnosing cases such as these.
only a chemical analysis accurately will
give the cause of death or illness. How
ever, he stated as his opinion that in
many instances deaths or illnesses re-
ported as due to- apopleXy, acute abdo-
mlnal trouble, or even meningitis and
appendicitis, were really due to the
drinking of wood alcohol concoctions.
Matthew Berrian, forty-three Years
old, o. 219 West Twenty-eighth Street.
was removed to Bellevue Hospital from
his home last night in a serious condi-
ton, which, the doctors say, resulted
from drinking wood alcohol. Berrian
fell unconscious on the steps of his
residence and was found by Patrolman
Joseph Parker of the West Thirty
seventh Street station.
Figures Prior to July
The compilation of cases analyzed
and found due to wood alcohol poison-
ing showed that prior to July there
were but twelve such fatalities in Man
haitian. In the whole of 1918 but five
We're reported in the same borough.
For 1918 and most of 1919 Brooklyn
reported four such cases, the Bronx
seven, Queens none and Richmond one.
The difference in the number of cases
reported after actual analysis as be-
between boroughs is due, Dr. Norris ex-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
tions he may make-if he makes any
at all---arc fo ha dacidad

tions he may make-if he makes any
at all-are to be decided.
The Governor said to-day that he had
given the subject much consideration.
He may call into the proposed confer
ence attorneys who have made spe-
clal study of the question. Whether
the state should be called upon to en-
force Federal prohibition is one of the
matters likely to be decided by the
conferees. Governor Smith always
has opposed prohibition, and for that
reason anything he might say about it
in his message is looked forward to
with interest.
The disposition Of the present Ex-
else Department is a question that is
causing not only the Governor, but Re-
publican leaders Of the Legislature,
some concern. The Governor has not
indicated his opinion in the matter, but
the Republicans will make every effort
to retain the department as prohibit
tion enforcement bureau. They con-
tend that the Federal government can
not enforce prohibition without such
a department in each state. They also
say that merely to call upon the police
powers of the state t. enforce prob BIZ
ton, which the Anti-Saloon League has
said it would be satisfied with, would
be useless. They declare the local po-
lice officials always have made poor
work Of enforcing dry" or excise laws.
While the Excise Department has
funds to last it only until April, it is
believed that. if no provision is made
for its continuation, its legal bureau
will have to be retained at least for a
year, to clear up 500 excise violation
cases in the courts. The department
has about $1,000 worth of seized liquor,
which it cannot dispose of except by
destruction. unless the ban is lifted.
1t formerly sold such liquor for me-
dicinal purposes to hospitals.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Texas Border Country
v ell Suited for Bandits
Bad Roads and Lack of
transportation Make 1t
Like Mexico.

Zapata County, Texas, where a re-
cent raid Of Mexican bandits was re-
ported, is q wilderness of low, sandy
hills, overgrown with cactus and mes
quite. No railroad enters the county;
there are four little towns, of which
the largest are Zapata, county seat,
which boasts Of new two-story court
house, and San Ygnacio, sleepy Mexi-
can village, where they still haul water
from the Rio Grande in burro carts
for the towns use.
To reach these outpost villages the
visitor travels by an incredibly bad
road from Laredo For fifteen miles
he passes scattered onion fields, irri-
gated 10 degree Of fertility. Then
iOr fifty miles he winds among thorn
s'fewn hills, passing now and again
Attle isolated ranches, built like forts,
where the Mexican inhabitants peer at
strangers suspiciously and try TO de-
eide whether they Will return later to
sfeal their goats.
A military telephone line struggles
aong the road on poles not much big
ger than rake handles.
The inhabitants, who ranch in
aesutory way and farm even more
casually, still use OK carts in many
fai' VI Nue country. customs guards
patrol the river front and watch the
lords OF the Rio Grande. 1t was one
.. ., these, half-bred Mexican named
chamberlain, an excellent rifle shot,
Sao helped the cavalry beat off the
''andlts at San Ignacio in 1916
hacial!y and geograp phically the
country seems far more like Mexico
m man 1t does like the United States.
mere are small detachments of Amer
Nan soldiers here and there along the
s' aNer' whose principal amusement,
when they are not chasing bandits, is
auhting small deer and quail, which
'soound in the country.
Al along the river there are innu-
@elaole deep-washed arroyos over
sIowh s1!T with mesquite-ideal country in
snicn to hide and almost impossible
'Or pursult.-Lawrence Journal World
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Complaint Of Girl
Caused "Dry" Raids

Many additional arrests for viola
tions Of the wartime prohibition law
were forecast by United States Mar
shall Power, as the result of raids made
Wednesday night in Brooklyn. On
Marshal Powers, orders deputies ar
rested four men and took them to Ray
mond Street jail, whre they are held
pending examination by Federal au-
thorities. They were characterized by
United States District Attorney L. ".
Ross as the most important arrests
made since the coming of prohibition.
According to the district attorney
a store on Fulton Street was doing a
rushing holiday business in homemade
synthetic whisky, made from raw al
cohol, Drowned sugar and water. In
formation concerning the place had
by a little Brownsville girl, who COM
planned that her father was still coming
home drunk
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
everything O. X" on Blu.
ford, Which Is Heading
for Azores to Avoid Rough
Seas. Says Radio Message
No Seasickness Reported
Weather Not Disagreeable,
Mess Excellent, Service
Fine, Washington Is Told
Ne,r York Tribune
WASHINGTON Purenu

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-The Red
Arks Buford, carrying 249 anarchists
ssnorted from the United States to
selshevik Russia, is headed for the
a,nres 20 avoid rough seas, the War
nepartment was advised in radiogra.n
received to-day
"The Reds are contented and every
hing is Q. h" the wireless message
The ultimate destination of the Bu-
.sord has not yet been disclosed by the
Var Department.
The rad.ogram. dated "At sea. De-
,ember "a" and addressed to Major
Gsneral F. T. Hines, chic; of the EN-
bsrkation Division OF the army, said:
The Reds are contented and every
thng is O. X Even on leaving the
island CELLS Island) there was no dis
,.rbance and 10 cursing as stated in
the newspapers. They are allowed on
deck for exercise in the morning and
srsin in the afternoon. They are
ebedient and respectful.
The weather is moderate, with rain:
he ship steady. average eight knots.
Her course is southwark for the Azores
that rough seas may be avoided. Deal
inrs with the Reds are through Berk-
man, the leader. There are no signs
Of seasickness. Mess for all classes is
excellent, the chief steward and stew
ards crew being exceptional. Special
attention is being paid to ventilation
and the berth ompartments are strictly
clean and orderly. -
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
In Presence Without NV
Consent Arrests Him
Then, After Six Policemen
Overpower Arrester. He Goes
to Observation Ward

Two we'll dressed young men entered
the Clymer Street police station in
Brooklyn last night. One of them ap-
preached the desk, behind which Lieu
tenant James Londrigan sat. The
other remained in the background,
waving his hands frantically and wink
ing at the amazed lieutenant.
This man Is my brother" said the
hrst, pointing to the wildly gesticu-
ia.ing inquire. II am arresting him."
What for?" demanded the lieuten-
ant.
"For being in my presence without
my permission" was the reply.
oh, ho!' quoth Londrigan. sudden
light breaking. "Well. suppose you step
into the back room for a minute"
Not all the police in the department
can make me step into the back room"
came the answer. Il want this man
arrested"
a The estimate Of 1sidore Feldman, of
e!7 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. was too
high. Ten minutes later he was in the
rear room, and it had taken only six
policemen to put him there.
Abraham Feldman, the brother. told
she lieutenant that Isidore had been
queerly last Tuesday. Last evening,
the brother said, Isdore had invited
him to SO to the police station with
him. Abraham accompanied his
brother. he explained. to humor him.
The police were still replacing the
overturned furniture when DR.. Glisten,
of Williamsburg Hospital, arrived.
After examining Isidore he had him
sent to the observation ward in Kings
County Hos pital.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
10 Steam Trawlers Bought
Fisheries Company Increases
Fleet to TWENTY-FIVE Vessels

The East Coast Fisheries Company, of
7 Wall Street, announced yesterday the
acquisition of fleet of ten modern
steam trawlers from the French gov
ernment. The vessels, all of steel, are
the last word in elegance. Shower baths
are provided.
The addition, which is steaming up
the coast from Savannah for the banks,
will increase the company's steam feet
to twenty-five vessels the largest aggre-
cation in the country. They will be
600 pounds of fish week.
The Pelican, one of the company's
feet, which holds what is believed to be
the worlds record of 100000 pounds
of fish caught in eight weeks, reached
New York yesterday with haddock, cod
and halibut, from the Newfoundland
hanks
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
''Liberty Walkers in Court
Five Held in $500 Bail for
Hearing Next Friday

The three women and two men ar
rested Thursday as a result of the
amnesty for political prisoners de-
monstration on Fifth and Sixth ave
nues were held in $500 bail each for
a hearing next Friday, when arraigned
before Magistrate Corrigan in the
jefferson Marnet Court yesterday
charged with disorderly conduct.
They said they were julius Fried
man, twenty-one, and Samuel Fried
man, twentythree, of 703 Madison
Avenue; DR.. Gertrude Kelly, of 5o7
Madison Avenue; Mary Duffy, of ga
Smith Street, Jersey City, and Gladys
Greiner. Of Baltimore.
Hearing Of the case was adjourned
on the motion Of Gilbert E. Roe and
Arthur Hayes, counsel for the Gree
Political Prisoners Committee" Of the
Peoples Freedom Union, 1873 West
Thirteenth Street. They asked that
they be given more time to prepare
their clients cases.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Foreign Languages Kept
From Nebraska Schools
State Supreme Court Upholds
AmeRicanization Statute to
Bar Alien Tongues

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2s.-Constitu-
tionality of state law, des gned to
curtail use of foreign languages in
Nebraska schools as an Americaniza-
tion measure, was upheld by the state
Supreme Court to-day.
The law, which applies to all public,
private, parochial and denominational
schools in the state, provides:
That foreign languages shall not be
employed in giving instruction on any
subject to. pupils below the ninth
grade.
That foreign languages may be
taught in the ninth and higher grades.
Validity of the law was attacked
by the Nebraska District of the Evan
gelcal Lutheran Synod of Missouri,
Ohio and other states, and by ST. Fran
els Catholic Church. of South Omaha,
whose attorneys charged among other r
things that its operation would inter
fere with religious liberty.
The court held that the act does not
prohibit teaching of moral and reli-
gious matters in languages other than
English.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Observation-Disclosures
Drunks' Fewer This Year
''ew York and Philadelphia
Note Decline, but Detroit
Finds Increase

ch ,.e;sserday was a different day after
Um''slmas on. ,,s in the police courts through
ssSl., Ss, .he country. In New York the
a'"'5 u.o',ef' In the Yorkville Court pro-
nuts; uhgu only two persons charged with
srol sronc intoxication-and neither was
nned-while last year on December 26
wv sn'y-SM prisoners were arraigned in
sloo S same court and paid fines totaling
o,d IN i Philadelphia the police missed the
pn rsnora ,asnioned day-after, and complete
,as salcts showed that only sixty-six per
vh;s. SJGs were arrested for drunkenness,
nto a"e >. IN wet" years the number ran
"so the hundreds.
o,,"h Ds,rolt had a different story. Dis
bSInes had h from that city said that there
ne.. peeh eighty arrests of intoxicated
the 'Jns' J' while on December 26, 1917,
cS,;oaa tle gay following the city's last "wet"
'Siihas, only three were arrested.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Moscow Declares Calician
Forces Are in Rebellion
Against Denikine; Volun-
teers Attacked in Rear
Road to Irkutsk Is Open
Revolt Against Bolsheviki
i'll Turkestan Reported
To Be Growing Serious

LONDON, Dec. 26.-The Bolsheyiki
have captured Tomsk and also the
towns of Fastof, Vassilkov, Krement-
chug, 1zium, Belovodsk, Makeeveka and
kokpekhta. according to a wireless dis
patch received tonight from Moscow.
The communication adds that after
the capture of Tomsk the Reds ad-
vanced from Novo Nikolaevsk to the
main line of the Transsberian Rail
road and occupied the station of Taiga.
taking an enormous amount of booty
and number of prisoners.
"The road to Krasnoyarsk and Ir-
kutsk is now open and Admiral Kol-
chak's army in this region has ended
Its existence" says the communica-
ton
Blagovaeshtchensk Cut OFF
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
a Moscow wireless despatch, have COM
pletely severed all communications on
the Amur line and MISREPRESENTATION
has been completely cut off.
The despatch adds that Galician
troops, intended for the defense of
kiev, have revolted against General
Denikine, the anti Bolshevik leader in
the south, and attacked the volunteer
army in the rear
1RKUTSK (By The Associated
Press) The uprising in Turkestan
against the Bolsheviki becomes more
serious every day, according to wire
less message sent out by the soviet
government in Moscow The anti Boil
shevik forces have occupied the cities
Of Khokan and Skobeley, in Ferghana
Province, and are advancing on Tash-
kent.
Instructions by the Social Revolu-
tlonaries have occurred in various
points in the province Of Irkutsk and
Irkutsk city.
Radical Element Aggressive
Social Revolutionary elements have
formed a government at Tcheromkova
and are becoming aggressive. 1t would
cause no surprise if an attempt were
made to overthrow the Kolchak regime.
The political situation is considered
acute. Admiral Kolchak has been de-
layed on his way to Irkutsk, and is be-
lieved to be west of Tcheromkova.
The General Staff of the All-Russian
government announced to-day that an
attempt by the Bolsheviki to occupy the
Litvinova station on the Trans Siberian
Railway, just west of Taiga. was re-
pulsed by Siberian and Polish troops.
The Bolsheviki have been defeated at
many points, leaving machine guns and
prisoners. The Siberians and Poles are
in possession of the Litvinova- -Taiga
reClOn
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
81 Killed by
$1,000 a Bbl.
Bronx Liquor
Continued from page 1

had been traced to Hartford. where if
was purchased earlier in the week.
Until autopsies have been performed
on the bodies of the victims no state
ment will be given out by the police.
1t is expected Medical Examiners Sam
uel +. Fletcher, of Chcopee, and
frank A. Woods, Of Holyoke, will per
form the autopsies late tonight.
Suspicion was first aroused earlv
this morning when three of the men
were round dead in bed. and reports to
police headquarters later showed that
others We're affected with similar symp-
toms The Chicopee, Holyoke and
Springfield police at once began their
investigation, and Captain Frank
guilty, of this city, went to Hartford
IN the afternoon to ascertain from the
pollce there whether or not any of the
ilquor had been sent to this city.
CHICAGO, Dec 26.-Four men were
found dead to-day from drinking wood
alcohol as a substitute for whisky on
Christmas Day, according to the police.
Two died yesterday and two to-day.
JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 26.-Fourteen
cases of wood alcohol, thirty light bot
ties of whisky, thirty quarts of tequila,
three bottles of champagne and two
gallons of other liquor were seized by
fiscal guards on the Mexican side Of
the international line near here TODAY.
lhree armed MeXlcans were arrested
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
5000 Barrels Of Whisky
Rushed to SenpOrfS

PITTSBURGH. Dec 26-Five thou
sand barrels of whisky were being
loaded here tonight in the hope that
it might reach the seaboard in time
to be shipped abroad before national
prohibition becomes an accomplished
fact January 16.
Distilers said it was the first of
large amount of liquor held in this
district which had been sold in Europe.
but they had little hope of getting
more than one-tenth of it out of the
country. More than ten million gal
Ions, it was said, were still in ware
houses in this vicinity.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Told They're Headed
For Russia, Tlco Reds
Decide It's q Victory

BALTIMORE. Dec. 26.-Some of the
7assries OF sovietism turned up before
Judge Rose IN the United States Dis
trict Court to-day, when two radicals
appeared on habeas corpus proceedings
They said they wanted to go back to
Russia, and when they were given as
surance by District Attorney Dennis
that they we're headed in that direction
they decided to dismiss their petition
in the belief they had won a victory.
They were Gregory Moroz and Kazi-
mer Benecewich, who were scheduled
to sail aboard the first Soviet Ark"
but whose departure was delayed by
habeas corpus action to obtain their
release. immigration Commissioner
Stump said they would be sent to Ellis
Island az quickly as possible, to sail on
the second transport.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
Saloonkeeper Victor
In Seizure LulU Test

POUGHKEEPSIE, Dec 26.-Isaac
Snyder, Poughkeepsie saloonkeeper,
to-day won the first test case of the
state search and seizure Jaw, heard by
sheriff's jury.
The action was on application for
warrant of search and seizure brought
by the State Department of Excise and
was to determine whether raid by
the department and the confscation Of
$500 worth Of beverages, following the
alleged sale of a glass of cider, would
stand in law. Witnesses differed in
their opinion Of the hardness Of the
cider.
The court ordered the return of the
contiscated goods and the application
for warrant was denied
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
''Reds' 'Urging Revolts
In Oil Camps of Texas
Waggoner City Put Under Guard
TO Meet Reported Invasion
of Radical Force

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, Dec. 26.-
Radicals are spreading Red propa-
west Texas and are making an organ
ICED effort to create discontent among
workmen, Department of Justice Off
cials announced to-day.
Reports that radicals we're planning
an invasion of Waggoner City, four
teen miles northwest of here. last
night caused heavy guards to be sta
toned about stores and in the out
skirts of the town. Several persons
were arrested
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
SI2. 100000 asked Before
Li0u0r Can Be Skinned

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 26-A bond
of $12,5O0,0oO will be required of the
exporters of 10000 barrels of whisky,
bound here from Louisville, Ky, before
their cargoes can be shipped, according
to custom house officials. The bond
will be demanded, it was said, TO pre-
vent the return of the liquor to the
United States in any form.
The cargo will be shipped to France
on the steamship Western Comet.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
@fosecutor of l. W. W. Opens
Gift Packages With a Pole
Special Corresnonden,

pa,, cpecso< Correspondence
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 2s.-Fred
toet'son' United States District At
sra;sy for Kansas, whose activity
e"~.at e~snst the I. w. w. resulted in the
ssn.Iion snvlction Of many of it's members re-
NIL opened his Christmas packages
ss;n. io-foot pole. following the re-
sbRs OF warnings that internal ma
vo.s. might be sent to him. The
.tts. shat arrived were threatening
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
u. S. Diplomat Resigns

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-E. Carleton
Baker, of Alameda. Calf, American
Consul General at. Mukden, has re-
signed to return to the United States
and enter business. Mr.. Baker recently
was ordered transferred to Bombay.
but chose to retire to business. He
has been In the consular service. sinoe
1905.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
y. S. Red Cross Trains
And Officials Are Safe

1RKUTsK, Dec. 2s (By The Asso
clated Press) ).-Trygve R. Hansen,
United States ViceConsul at Omsk,
and Joseph H. Ray, Consul at Irkutsk,
have passed safely Taiga, forty-eight
miles southeast of Tomsk, together
with Red Cross trains.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
State Leaders to Study
Prohibition Enforcement
Corernor to Confer With Legal
.AdriserJ on Recommends
fions; Officials in Quandary

Special Correspondence
ALBANY, Dec Ex-Governor Smith
will within the next few days take up
with legal advisers the question of pro-
hibltion enforcement. Recommends
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
King Alphonso and His Queen
Will Visit South America

PARIS, Dec. 26.-King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria Of Spain will sail for
South America next June, according to
the "Eclair."
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
No one
bought you
q suit

and - yes. you could
stand a new one. Suits
that will fit your per-
sonality as well as your
purse, and tailored from
a groundwork of ST.
perior, all-wool fabrics.
Correctstyles and prices
lower than those of
other good shops.
S29.75 to S64.75
Overcoats
$29.75 to $4,000
E7ae7rss-Fifth Floor, Front.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-27
And they
forgot about
shoes

and so have you-
Look, you're down at
the heel, a condition
you'd not experience to
save your sole! Rich
tan calfskin, and a COM
fort affording last which
does not sacrifice smart
ness, are combined in a
shoe at $3.50. These
are not to be confused
with the shoes at sirai-
lar prices you've seen
in the other shops
round town.