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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
FIVE VETS SIGNED
MINORITY REPORT
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS
ATTACK WARTIME AND Ma
TIoNAL PROHIBITION.
MAJORITY COMBINES BILLS
Chairman volstead Declares No Effort
Will Be Made to Pass Separate
Measures for Enforcement
Of Dry Laws.

Washington, July 8-Plans of dry
members of the house judiciary COM
mittee to try to rush through as a
separate measure the Volstead bill to
enforce wartime prohibition have been
abandoned. Representative Volstead
announced that no attempt would be
made to pass a bill to enforce war
time prohibition apart from constitu-
tionaI prohibition. Instead Mr.. Vol
stead will ask the house to consid-
er the combined bill.
He already has drafted a rule Civ
ing prohibition the right of way in
the house and limiting general debate
on the bill to one days session. The
chances are, that the prohibitory legis-
1ation will not come up in the house
before next Thursday.
This means that in all proba bility it
will not pass this week, as hot fight
is in prospect over the right of con-
gress to limit the alcoholic content of
potable beverages to one-half of one
per cent as provided in the Volstead
bill
Vets Throw Down Gage.
The gage Of battle was laid down
by five wet members of the judiciary
committee who signed a minority
report, in which the integrity of both
wartime and constitutional prohibit
tory enforcement was challenged.
Their report is a carefully prepared
legal document, naming three grounds
on which the constitutionality of dras-
tic enforcement Of prohibition is at
tackled. The five are Representatives
Igoe Of Missouri, Steele of Pennsyl-
vania, Gard of Ohio, Democrats, and
Dyer of Missouri and Classon of Wis
consin.
The three grounds in their report
challenging the legality of the pro-
posed legislation are:
THAT under the war power con-
gress cannot now enforce wartime
prohibition because the war is over.
2-That the states are given con
current power with the federal gov
eminent to enforce prohibition, which
the proposed legislation fails to recog-
niZe.
udI COA6ICSS HAS uO IlSut 10
define "intoxicants' or to prohibit the
sale of beverages which in fact are
not intoxicating, as is proposed by the
Volstead bill,
Keynote Of Battle.
It is understood here that this min
ority report has been prepared after
collaboration between the wet mem
bers in congress and attorneys repre-
senting the liquor interests, and that
1t sounds the keynote OF the legal
battle to be made in the courts against
prohibition enforcement, after con-
hac n ccnd tho 10
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
GOVERNOR PARDONS
THIRTEEN PRISONERS
OF Alleged Cruel Treatment
at Camp.

Charleston, w. Va, July 8. Because
Of alleged conditions existing at a
state road camp at Sissonyille, in this
county, Governor CornWell pardoned
the whole crew of prisoners employed
there, numbering Is.
The governors action followed in
vestigation of charges that conditions
were not only unsanitary but that the
prisoners were inhumanly treated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
HINDENBURG MAY TESTIFY
AT TRIAL OF KAISER
Number Of u-Boat Captains and Stay
ers of Edith caveII Are to
Be Prosecuted.

London, July 8.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg may be brought to London
to testify in defense of the former
kaiser, the Daily Sketch reported.
1t also was said that a number Of
U-boat captains and the slayers OF
Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt were
expected to arrive at the Tower Of
London in few days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
PROHIBITION FAILS IN
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

Dlfferences Between Commons and
Senate Prevent Ban on
Liquor Sales.
Ottawa, July 8.-Parliament ended
long and eventful session when it
was prorogued. In the closing ses-
sion Premier Borden announced that
the prohibition bill would not be
passed owing to differences between
the commons and the senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Father Was Wrong

/ was over at my girls house and
it being a rather late hohr and every
one in bed, we were having pretty
good time when laundering voice be-
longing to my future wife's father was
heard from the top Of the stairs, say
ing, Mary, you had better come to
bed, Henry might want to go home."-
Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Abyssinia Flag UnfurIed.

Washington, July 8-The flag OF
Abyssinia, one Of the worlds oldest
governments with history dating
back to the days of the Queen of
Sheba, was unfurled in Washington on
the arrival of delegation from that
nation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
His Answer,

The teacher had been reading to the
class about the great forests of Amer
lea.
"And now, boys" she announced,
(which one of you can tell me the pine
that has the longest and sharpest
tpeedles"
Up went hand in the front row.
SWELL, Tommy"
''The porcupine !'-Tit-Bits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Several Killed, Many Hurt.

Copenhagen, July 8.-Several per-
sons were killed and large number
wounded In disturbances at Kattowitz,
Upper Silesia, according to dispatches
from Beuthen. Germans and Poles
took part in the disorders.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10

With your fingers! You can lift of
any hard corn. soft corn, or corn be-
tween the toes, and the hard skin cal
luses from bottom of feet.
A tiny bottle Of "Freezone" costs
little at any drug store; apply few
drops upon the corn or callus. In
stantly it stops hurting, then shortly
you lift that bothersome corn or callus
right off, root and all, without one bit
Of pain or soreness. Truly! No hum
bug!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
At Toledo.

Girl-It doesn't seem fair to call
just one man the catcher! Why, every
player on the team catches the ball!
Escort - Sometimes. An what's
more, and it's fair, too, there's really
only one hitter on this club.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Don't Forget cutlcura Talcllm

Don't Forget cuticura TaIculm
When adding to your toilet requisites.
An exquisitely scented face, skin, baby
and busting powder and perfume, rem
dering other perfumes superfiuous.
You may rely on it because one of the
Cuticura Trio (Soap, Ointment and
Talcum). 25c each everywhere.-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
EIeetinu Ills.

Leary-Still waiting for your ship
to come in, chi"
Weary oh, they've come in. Whole
fleet of 'em. All hardships. Philadel-
phia North American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10

angles by the
s o f t curved
lines of health
a n d beauty,
there are evil
IDENTIFY t h o u
sands of men
and w o m e n
who k e e n ! v
feel their ex-
cesSive thin
ness.
Thinness and
weakness are
often due to
s t a r v e d
nerves. Our
b o d | e 8 need
m o r e phos-
plate than is
contained in
modern foods.
p h " s | clans
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Asks DAYLIGHT ReneaI va+o

New York, July 8.-President VII
son was asked to veto the bill repeal
ing the daylight saving law in a wire
less message sent to the George Wash,
ington by the dry goods association.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Thin PEOPLE
SHOULD take
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Phosphate to
Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, vigor
and Nerve Force.

Judging from the countless preparations
and treatments which are continually be-
thin people fleshy, developing arms, neck
and bust, and replacing ugly hollows and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
$4OO, 600 for FIvjno prIzes-

%T0OsOOO TOT Tying rfIZeSs
Paris, July 8.-Henri de La Meurthe
Deutsch, president OF the Aero Club
Of France, has given the club 2,0O0.-
900 francs ($400,00O) to enable it .
organize aviation competitions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10

At the present price It's no trick to
carry all your eggs in one basket.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
Didn't DissembIe Either.

Personal in Baltimore Sun-A. L. G.
Come back-all is forgiven. Father
kicked the wrong man. Ada.-Boston
Transcript.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10
HOME BEER ILLEGAL IN
IOWA, TOO MUCH KICK
Attorney General Declares That lndi-
viduals Must Cease to Manufac-
fIIra Rauaraca

Des Moines, July 8.-Attorney Gen
eral Havner, of Iowa, declared that
manufacture of home made beer for
personal consumption is illegal in
Iowa, and that private stills must be
abolished or prosecution would fol-
low. The home made beer tested here
contained 8 per cent alcohol
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-10

An Odd Person.
slow modestly she dresses and how
sensibly." Eyes; that woman will do
anything to attract attention.
The sun., 1919-07-08
GANGSTERS MAUI
SOLDIER PATROLMAN
Patrick Hackett, Attacked,
Hits Passerby With Shot.

After eighteen months service in
France as a military policeman with the
Seventy-sixth Division Patrolman Pat
rick Hackett came back to New York
unframed a fortnight ago and resumed
duty as a patrolman attached TO the
East Fifty-irst street station. Early
yesterday he was badly beaten by
gangsters and saved from possible fatal
injuries only by the arrival of Detective
Michael Fitzgerald OF the Fifth Inspec-
ton district.
His alleged aSsailants-John Burke, a
bartender 226 East F'orty-sixth street,
and Thomas Burke, a chauffeur. 500
East Forty-third street, were later held
in $4,000 bail by Magistrate Tobias in
the Yorkville court to await action by
the Grand Jury. The two officers and
their prisoners were all mauled In the
fight and a bullet struck John Maher
227 East Forty seventh street, who was
passing Maher was taken to Flower
Hospital.
Hackett. who is slight OF build saw
five men standing at Third avenue and
Forty-third street and ordered them to
move on. They obeyed after a few
slurring remarks. when Detective Fitz-
gerald stepped from a doorway near by
Hackett started south on Third avenue
AZ Forty-second street one of the gang
feint for his head. The policeman raised
an arm to ward off the blow and his
| ssailant seized his nightstick, hitting
Hackett over the head with 1t and bring
ing him to his knees. The patrolman
chung to the attacker despite a continued
shower OF blows and managed to draw
his revolver He empted It wildly. AT
this juncture second man came up be-
hind Hackett and began beating him.
Detective Fitzgerald, who was a block
away. came UP on the run and knocked
down one OF the gangsters. who later
gave the name OF John Burke. The
other was also overpowered. He said
his name was Thomas Burke, but the
two are not related. When Maher
| crawled up and explained that one OF the
| bullets from Hackett's automatic had
hit his leg the two policemen called an
ambulance. DR.. Neary. who arrived
from Flower Hospital, patched them
both UP and took Maher with him.
The sun., 1919-07-08
u. S. TO BUILD RADIO
STATION NEAR HERE
Long Island or NeUark viii
Get One of Big Plants.

Contracts for the erection OF three
high power radio stations. one to be at
a point on Long Island or near Newark.
\. j., have been signed by the Post
Office Department at Washington, Il was
announced here yesterday. They are to
Do the first OF a chain OF wireless COM
municating centres in various cities, to be
used primarily for the direction of m All
carrying airplanes handicapped by fog,
II was stated by Emil j. Simon. in
charge OF radio apparatus for the War
and Navy Departments.
The two other stations already con-
tracted for are to be at Cleveland, Ohio
ana Bellefont, Pa. Appropriations for
the three are already available Others
are 10 be put up at Washington and Chi
cago as soon as Congress provides funds.
Each station will have steel towers
zoo feet high and 800 feet apart. Their
range OF communication with airplanes
will be 400 miles and between stations
about 700 miles. The difference in range
Is due TO the lesser sending ability OF the
aifplanes' wireless equipment. The
Bellefonte station will be ready about
the middle of October and the two others
early in December.
Lieut. Clark A. Edgerton formerly an
army aviator who is in charge OF the
air mall experimental work at Washing
ton, Will direct the activities of the radio
stations. Their establishment Will en-.
able the Post Office Department TO main.
tain communication between cities hav-
Ing airpost delivery, independent of tele.
phone and telegraph service.
The sun., 1919-07-08
MAYOR WOULD STOP
STREET LETTERING
Tells Enright Not to Let Up
on Motor Speeders.

Litter in the public thoroughfares O..
the city and excess speed on the part Of
drivers of motor vehicles furnished the
topics for a letter from the Mayor to
Police Commissioner Enright yesterday.
The Street Cleaning Department is
bitterly complaining because OF the large
volume OF paper that is strewn about the
streets and parks of the city," the Mayor
wrote. 1T should be discontinued The
police should give immediate attention
to violators OF such ordinances and
summon the offenders to court The
people want the city streets kept clean
and must aid in this work by refraining
from throwing their refuse into the
streets"
Commissioner Enrght also is in
structed not to discontinue his crusade
for putting an end to speeding in the
streets
Pedestrian should have some rights
and the police should do their part to see
that they have the opportunity to exer-
else the rights and privileges guaranteed
to them by law and not be run down by
speeding vehicles" says the Mayor.
The sun., 1919-07-08
DEATH CHEATS LAW
IN TRAFFIC CASE
Vioiator Who Euaded Sum-
mons Found at Grave.

For the last time yesterday the case
of Louis lie Orto. As years old, OF 2S5
Elizabeth street. was called in the
Long Island City magistrates court.
Magistrates have been calling the
case on every examination day since
May 10 last On the day previous to
that lie Orto had been summoned to
court by Motorcycle Policeman Martin
Clair, charged with violating the traffic
regulations in driving around a street car
on the wrong side When lie Orto did
not appear after the case was called the
second time a warrant was issued for
his arrest to Policeman Clair.
Yesterday Magistrate Miller called the
case and then Patrolman Clair stepped
up and said: IT guess you will have to
dismiss that action"
why So" said Magistrate Miller.
This mans case has been called so
often that it is about time that he was
brought here and the case disposed of
some way or other. ! will not grant
your request except upon very good
grounds"
Your Honor. I caught up with the de-
PENDANT on Saturday" replied Patrolman
Clair, land found he was being buried.
am sure we cannot bring him here"
Case dismissed" replied Magistrate
Miller. your reason is certainly good
and sufficient"
The sun., 1919-07-08
ESCAPED TORPEDO TO
BE STABBED IN FEUD
u. S. Sailor Is Victim of New-
toWn Creek Gangster.

Old time feuds between youths Of the
iGreenpoint section OF Brooklyn and the
Hunters Point section of Queens Bor-
ough resulted in pitched battle under
the vladuct over Newtown creek at Bor-
den and Vernon avenues. Long Island
city, about o'clock yesterday morn
ing. In the ARRAY Philip Reilly, 81. a
first class seaman in the United States
Navy, whose parents live at al Fifth
street. Long Island City. was stabbed.
He is now in ST. Johns Hospital, Long
Island City, where II was said that prob
ably the left lung and heart had been
pierced. Reilly's condition was too seri-
Gus to permit an operation.
Detectives OF the Hunters Point pre-
cinct were making strong effort all
yesterday to get some clue to the person
who stabbed Reilly. A former amateur
boxer of Greenpoint was taken to the
hospital, but Reilly failed to identify
him as his assailant.
According 10 the story OF Reilly he
and some friends were about to enter
a restaurant on Vernon avenue under
the viaduct wher they were set upon
by crowd from Grcenpoint Reilly
was singled out for attack and while
his companions were held at bay with a
revolver in the hands OF one of the
Greenpointers Reilly was stabbed. He
was left lying on the street pavement
and Patrolman Breen OF the Hunters
Point precinct had him sent to the
hospital.
Reilly has had good record in the
navy. He was home on a furlough his
leave expiring last evening. During the
war a transport on which he was doing
duty was torpedoed and Reilly was in
the water twelve hours before he was
rescued
The sun., 1919-07-08
FLIER TOO SPEEDY
WHILE DRIVING CAR
NeD Automobile a Hoodoo,
He Finds.

Alexander P. Seversky of sos West
II 9th street. who described himself as a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in the British
Air Service. was fined s25 each on two
charges of speeding his automobile
along Riverside Drive by Magistrate
House in the Traffic Court yesterday.
Seversky. who was born in Russia, ex-
planned that he had been driving a mot
tor car about town for the last year
and that he had never ran afoul of the
police until he purchased a new ina
chine early this month.
Il think it's a hoodoo." said Sever
sky, FOR l had two summonses served
on me the first three days l drove it
"A good many men find it much
harder to navigate at a legal rate OF
speed on the ground than in the air" OBJ
served the court in imposing sentence.
please be more careful next time"
A fine OF s25 was also imposed on
Alexander Fernandez of 695 st. Nicho-
las avenue and chancellor of the Cuban
Consulate here. He was served with a
summons on Central Park West July 4,
when Motorcycle Patrolman Best found
ne was bowling along at a twenty eight
an hour stick. Fernandez explained that
he was hurrying to get TO the races at
Sheephead Bay and that he missed the
Arst one because of the delay over the
summons.
Ben Ray, a manufacturer. living at
e51i Creston avenue, The Bronx, pleaded
guilty OF speeding as a THIRD offence In
one year. In consideration of his sur
render OF his owners registration card
and operators license and in view OF
the fact that II was discovered his
speedometer registered five miles slow
the court fined him 500 instead OF
sending him to Jail.
The sun., 1919-07-08
TRAVELLERS ACT AS
THEIR OWN PORTERS
Westcott Drivers Strike In
creases Baggage Jam in
Grand Central Terminal.
PICKETS GUARDING DOORS
Nacationists See No Indica-
tons of Improvement in
Conditions.

Passengers arriving yesterday at the
Grand Central Terminal, where the
Westcott Express Company has the ex-
elusive privilege Of soliciting tho work
OF delivering baggage, were greeted with
sign reading, "Westcott Express Co.
closed account labor troubles" and
had TO make their own arrangements
getting their trunks home. Some per-
sons loaded their trunks on taxicabs
and others set out to find independent
eNpressmen who were willing to brave
the picket line which the striking driv-
ers of the Westcott company have main
tained about the entrances to the ter
minal baggage room for the last three
weeks. Meanwhile. a large accumula-
ton OF trunks. about 40 per cent. over
the usual number for this season of the
year. remained in the station, where
extra space has been commandeered for
storing the excess.
Oficials of the terminal disclaimed
any responsibility for the existing sit
uation. They were ready and willing
they said. to deliver incoming baggage
TO any person who presented the check
for 1t and an extra force of men is OH
duty to load trunks on taxlcabs or ex-
press wagons Through baggage, they
said, was being diverted around New
York to avoid transfers here and the
railroads. responsibility for incoming
baggage ends when it is ready for de-
l'verty at the terminal
Meanwhile every traveller who arrives
al the Grand Central Terminal with bag
gage Is inconvenience and persons who
are short Of time are frequently obliged
to leave without their possessions, as
IL is not uncommon for taXicab drivers
who sympathize with the strikers to re-
fuse to handle baggage and the hiring
Of an Independent eXprcssman generally
nece estates a long search.
No one about the terminal was able
to say yesterday whether any steps were
being taken by the Westcott company to
I'll the strikers places or to negotiate
with its former employees and appear
anCes indicate that the situation bids
fair to continue indefinitely at the eS-
pense of inconvenience to the public.
With the season of heavy vacation travel
just beginning the difficulties of the sit
uation are likely TO be accumulated.
The sun., 1919-07-08

He was the father OF eleven children.
He uttered low moan and fled from
the place. AS the clock struck three he
returned to his home. He met the doc
tor at the door.
How may altogether" he asked.
Three" said the doctor. 'all boys"
Just then Gus, the oldest boy, came
running.
Papa" he said, "our rabbit has ten
new babies!"
Holy suffering saints! :" cried Cataldo,
how about the cat?"
Just then the cat came strollng
through the hall She carried two brand
new kittens In her mouth.
Cataldo now has tweny-sevenh mouths
to feed. He makes s4.20 a day, but is
now working on part time.
He can't figure how the dickens he Ia
going to fed them all.
The three new boys were christened
that same night at st. Rita's Church,
and were named Benedict, Filedel. Jr.,
and Thomas. The rabbits will not be
named. As soon as they get little big
ger they will be eaten. The cats prob
ably will be drowned
The sun., 1919-07-08
FEELS Y. M. c. A. CLERK
IN HUT; STEALS $500
Thief, Stopped by Policeman,
Escapes, Dropping Loot.

An unidentified stranger entered the
Y. VI. c, A. Eagle Hut Sixth avenue and
Forty -second street. early yesterday and
told George Bisset. the secretary, that
he had left suit case there several
weeks ago. They went together to the
baggage room, where the man turned
suddenly and knocked Bisset uncon-
scious, Then he stepped quickly to the
safe under the counter in the writing
room, unlocking it with the key he had
taken from Bissets pocket. He worked
so quietly that none of the soldiers and
sailors asleep there was awakened. The
stranger took $500 from the safe, placed
it in suit case and tiptoed out OF the
building.
Patrolman Kahn ot the Mercer street
station, met man carrying a suit case
along Waverley place about an hour
later and asked him what he had In It.
The stranger at first became indignant,
but seeing the officer was unmoved, he
dropped the case and took to his heels,
running toward Sixth avenue. Kahn
fired half n dozen shots after him, but
mono took effect Cash boxes contain
ing the stolen $3.50 were found when the
suit case was opened at the police
station.
The sun., 1919-07-08
FLIERS, HUNT WOOD
PULP IN LABRADOR
Expedition Leaves Here to
Locate Resources.

Exploration OF the interior of Labra-
dor, to ascertain the wood pulp re-
sources OF that little known country is
TO be made by aeroplane. An expedition
under the command OF Capt Daniel
Owens, who served two years with the
Brttlch Air Force, left here last night
TO do the work. Capt. Owens took
forty men with him and they will go
north from NoVia Scotia by steamship.
Four aeroplanes, each one eouipped with
wireless. are relied upon for the neces-
ssry observation. DR.. II. l. Tiss OF
Boston will accompany the party as
surgeon.
Capt Owens said yesterday that
photographs OF all the large forest
tracts would be taken and that they
would be used as a basis for estlmatins
the stand Of timber. He explained
that he hoped to finish the work in SIX
weeks and said that, with the old
method 1t would take from five to sin
years.