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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27
NEWS OF MIDDLETOWN.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Middletown, Feb. 27.-Miss Jennie
McCleary, who for years made her home
in Middletown, died in the hospital at
Chester, Pa, last week, aged AZ years
The body was taken to Milford for inter-
ment.
Mrs. Spencer S. Holton observed her
S4th birthday anniversary on Sunday last
Mr.. and Mrs. Holton celebrated their
golden wedding early in the winter.
James T.. Lewis has returned from
business trip to Oklahoma.
Pleasant Summit w. c. I. u. will hold
its next meeting at the home of Mrs. Jane
Jewell on Thursday, March IL.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27
NEWS OF LAUREL.
Special Correspondence OF Every Evening

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
Laurel, Feb. 27.--Miss Mary Adelaide
Bacon, employed at the du Pont office
in Wilmington, was compelled to come
home, Monday afternoon, and is confined
to the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Julian Bacon, suffering from the grip,
complicated by nervous breakdown.
Charles III. kenney of Philadelphia
is here visiting his sister, Mrs. James
ID. Spicer Before returning he will visit
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Shiles near town.
Samuel o. Adkins Of Wilmington is
here visiting his sisters, Mrs. Eva A.
Barnette and Miss Mary Adkins.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27

Don't stay stufIed-upl Quit blowing
and snufiiingl A dose Of "Pape's Cold
Compound" taken every two hours un-
til three doses are taken usually break
up cold and ends all grippe misery.
The very first dose opens your clogged-
up nostrils and the air passages of your
head; stops nose running; relieves the
headache. dullness, feverishness, sneezing.
soreness, stiffness.
"Pape's Cold Compound" is the quick
est, surest relief known and costs only
few cents at drug stores. II acts
without assistance. Tastes nice Con-
tame no quinine. Insist on Pape'sl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27
NEW YORK FACES TEETH FAMINE.
BY Associated Press to Every Evening

bE -tssutlattu frtsS % Every Evening
New York, Feb. 27.-New York faced
the possibility of false teeth famine
today when 500 members of the Dental
Workers Industrial Union struck for 4
"A hour week and a so per cent increase
IN wages. Strikers officials claimed that
some Of the members worked 20 hours
a week.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27
Concert at Harrison Street Church.

A concert will be given in Harrison
Street Church on Thursday, March ii,
at SIS O'Clock. Miss Isabella b. Wales,
]. A. Thoms, Miss Edna A. Bradfeld j,
and Miss Mabel S. Haley will be the
soloists
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27

nit Brown of Altoona, Pa, were guests a
part of the week of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Brown in ChestertOwn.
Mrs. Charles Z. Smith, mOther-in-law Of
Rural-Carrier Fred ;. Russell, fell from
chair at the home OF her daughter, where
she, is spending the winter, one day this
week and fractured small bone in her
left arm.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27
PROPERTY CHANGES.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Laurel, Feb. 27.-Howard II. Dicker-
son has sold the cornersproperty at West
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-27

in tam shape. suitable for girls
and misses, in many beautiful
shades.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-21
BETTER THAN CA[O|MH
Thousands Have Discovered
d.. Edwards Olive Tablets
Are a Harmless Substitute

Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets are the
result Of Or. EdWzrds' detamnation
not to treat liver and bowel complaints
with calomel. For II years he ussd
these tablets "a vegetable compound
mixed with olive oily n his private
practice with great success
They do al tie good TIT 0l0lnel
does but have no bad aftepedecfs. No
.pains, no gripping. NJ injury to- tie
runs a dsng1 frum add food
fSey sfimuia1e the liver md boweA
TIE d. Edwards' Olive Tahle43
vlcn yuu feei "bgy" and heavy.
~ nv they clcar c3ouded 6zn md
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-21

=. eases Of blankets and cots
- 1T to Aledo today by the
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19

One, received from a writer who signed
u woman's name, read, in part:
Our brother gladly gave his life in
a worthy cause He failed You must. be
removed. You'll hear from us again. -
This was reference to the dynamiter
who blew himself to bits last summer
while trying to assassinate Palmer in
his home
LIBERTY LOVING PEOPLE"
VOICE OF LETTER.
Another letter sent more recently. from
Baltimore read:
"Our mutual position is pretty clear.
What has been done by us SO far is
only warning that there are friends of
popular liberties still living, only now
(underscored} we are getting into the
fight and you will have a chance to see
what liberty loving people can do
Letters decorated with black hands and
red ink, intended to represent blood, are
obviously from cranks and get little
serious attention from the justice of
ficials unless they are very unusual
Generally such letters betray that they
are written by disgruntled foreigners
because of the mistakes in grammar and
spelling
The threatening letters arrived in large
numbers just before Palmer started on
his recent trip to Indianapolis In con-
nection with the coal stxike.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
$4,000 BARRELS
WHISKY SEIZED
Government Charges Tax
Fraud Against Kentucky Firm.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 19.-Oflcers
of the internal revenue department to-
day seized the entire plant of the Wathen
distillery and $4,000 barrels of whisky
charging that an attempt to defraud the
Cover nment has been made on the liquor
taxes
The entire plant and the whisky, the
total value Of which is estimated at be-
tween $2.O00,O00 and S3,00O.00O, are sub
ject to forfeiture to the government.
Government agents charge that thou
sands of cases of whisky were placed in
the free warehouse after 1920 tax was
passed on the liquor for medicinal pur-
poses. 1t Is charged that this whisky was
later sold generally at $3.50 case to any
one who would purchase it. The tax on
it would thus have been S6.40, and the
government alleges a swindle of $l06,000.
1t was announced that warrants would
be issued for R. Z. Wathen, head of the
frm and for w. f. Knoblekamp, man
ager of the firm. KnOblekamp also is
president of the Louisville baseball club.
They will be charged with defrauding
the government of whisky taxes, of fail
ure properly to label whisky, selling
without a license and violation of the
wartime prohibition act. These offenses
carry peanlties of fines up to $4,000 and
Imprisonment up TO two years.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
RHODE ISLAND
TO TEST u. s. LID
Supreme Court Grants Right
of Liquor Law Hearing.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The supreme
court today speeded up It's hnal decision
as to whether constitutional prohibition
is valid.
Announcement was made that the ap-
plication of the state Of Rhode Island tu
institute original proceedings in the court
to test the validity of the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead law enforc-
ing it had been granted
Rhode Island, in making the applica-
tion, claimed the law could not be en-
forced in the state against it's consent, as
the state had rejected the prohibition
amendment. Enforcement would be a Sc
Tious infringement upon the police powers
and sovereign rights Of the state, 1t was
claimed.
The supreme court was asked to ad-
vance arguments in cases testing the con
stitutional rights of states by referendum
to override action Of legislature In ratify-
ing the prohibition act. Ohio and prohi-
biiton leaders OF the state Joined in max
ing the motion
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
BRITAIN UNMOVED

LONDON, Jan. 19.-Early newspaper
comment on dispatches from Washington
reporting the testimony of Admiral Sims
before the senate naval affairs commit
tee was not inclined to give the affair
undue significance.
The admiraPs statement that he was
warned not to let the British pull the
wool" over his eyes and that 1--WE would
as soon fight the British as the Germans" ,"
was not interpreted as cause for alarm.
WARNING NATURAL,
SAY NEWSPAPERS.
The warning, some newspapers pointed
out, was natural enough in view Of a
certain amount of anti British sentiment
which existed in the United States at the
time it was given
1t was pointed out that when America
did enter the war she came wholeheart-
edy and was unstinting in her efforts to
aid Great Britain and the allies.
The American navy, particularly in the
opinion of some newspapers, placed itself
unreservedly under control of The Brit
ish commanders and did wonderful and
unforgettable service"
PERSHING FIRST
TO HIT BRITISH.
Many statements may be made in the
UnlteQ states Whlcn viii De hurtful TO
our insular pride" the Evening Telegram
said.
"Pershing, that fine soldier, gave US
the first blow when he declared America
won the war. Now, Admiral Sims hits US
in different fashion by revealing the
spirit in which some Americans went into
the fight.
"We1l let every American thank God
lit was the Germans they fought and still
let them think they won the war"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
M. MILLERAND
MADEPREMTER
Governor of Alsace Accepts
French Leadership.

PARIS, Jan. 19-Alexandre Millerand.
governor Of Alsace, today accepted the
offer Of President Poincare to head the
new French cabinet.
Millerand himself will take the port
folio Of foreign affairs in addition to
his duties as premier. The remainder
Of the cabinet he named as follows
Minister of war, Andre Lefevre.
Minister of marine, NJ. Landry.
Minister of the interior, NJ. Steeg.
Minister of public instruction, Andre
Honnorat.
Minister of finance, Francois Marsal.
Minister of commerce, NJ. Isaac.
Minister Of labor, Paul Jourdain.
Minister Of Justice, NJ LHopiteau.
Minister of public works M. Letroquer
Minister of hygiene, NJ. Breton.
Minister of liberated regions, NJ. Tour
on.
Andre Tardieu, former French high
commissioner to the United States, re-
fused to retain his portfolio as minister
of liberated regions.
All the new ministers except the heads
of the departments of finance and agri-
culture are members of parliament.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19

"a thorough investigation should be
made of these charges" Secretary Dan
iels said. IF the senate doesn't make 1t,
some other tribunal may be asked to-
The committee authorized the medal
award investigation committee to in
quire fully into the facts placed before
that committee by Admiral Sims on
Saturday that he was sent to France
with orders mot to let the British pull
the wool over your eyes"
The conduct of the war by the navy
department also will be gone into.
Senator Pittman, democrat, Nevada, of
fered a resolution to have the full navy
committee take up the case. This was
defeated. second motion by Pitt
man to have separate subcommittee in
quire into the question was defeated
Senator Walsh. democrat, Montana, Of
fered a resolution to have the medal
awards committee inquire into the
charges.
This was passed without a record
vote.
The committee will begin the probe
following the completion Of the medal
awards investigation.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
HELP REACHES
DISABLED u. S.
ARMY STEAMER
POwhatan in No Immediate
Danger-British Ship TOws
Her Into Halifax.
271 PASSENGERS ABOARD

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-The American
transport Powhatan, disabled by leaks
which have flooded her firm room today,
was / ndistress about 500 miles east of
New, York.
The latest wireless from her comman-
der, Capt. Randall, reported that she was
in no immediste danger and that the
White Star liner Cedric was towing her
to port and would take off 271 military
and civilian passengers as soon as the
heavy seas abated.
The first message from the Powhatan
said:
"Ship leaking in fire room Fire room
flooded. Steam not sufficient to operate
pumps. Assistance requested Northeast
gale blowing"
HELP ARRIVES,
SAYS WIRELESSS
Later another message announced the
arrival of the Cedric and asked for tugs
from Halifax.
At IL o'clock this morning this radio
from Commander Randall of the Pow
hatan was received:
40. K. now Water not flowing in.
Passengers uncomfortable on account of
no heat or light. Need no further
assistance"
Col. Mitchell, in charge Of the army
transport service here, said three coast
guard cutters from the Boston district
two destroyers from Newport and two
army transports, the Northern Pacific
and the Martha Washington. had been
ordered to the Powhatan's assistance.
The two transports are homeward
bound from Europe with the last Of the
American expeditionary force aboard.
267 ARMY MEN
ON POWHATAN.
The Powhatan's passenger list in
cludes 1S3 military, eighty-four war de-
partment, two navy department and two
commerce department passengers In
cluded among these are seventy five for
mer service men who were en- route to
France to begin the work Of removing
soldier dead to this country. They are
in charge of Herbert S. Foreman, former
artillery officer Of the Rainbow division.
The Powhatan formerly was the Ger
man liner Hamburg. She was used By
the former kaiser in his visit to Eng
land in 1906 and carried Theodore Roose,
velt and his party to Europe in 1909
The freighter Yarmouth. with a s., 000,-
600 cargo Of whisky. gin and champagne,
bound for Havana, was reported sinking
thirtyhve miles off Cape May today
coast guard cutter and two steamers
were sent to her assistance.
The Yarmouth is operated by the
Black Star line, a corporation recently
organized by negroes here
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
Martens Quiz
Starts Without
Legal Counsel
Senators Object to Stevenson
Who SerUed Committee
in NeU York.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Opposition to
Archibald Stevenson, counsel for the
Lusk legislative committee when 1t in
vestigated soviet Russian activities in
New York, caused the senate commit
tee appointed to probe alleged bolshe-
vism and propaganda to proceed without
legal assistance this morning.
Senator Moses, republican OF New
Hampshire, chairman of the committee,
said counsel would be selected later.
When Stevenson was suggested as
counsel, Senator Borah, republican of
Idaho, opposed him. Martens was repre-
sented by former Senator Hardwick of
Georgia.
WARRANT READY TO
SERVE ON MARTENS.
Frank Burk, assistant chief of the
Washington bureau of the department of
justice, is waiting at the capitol with a
warrant for the deportation of Martens,
it was stated at the department of JUS
tice. Department officials said Burke
would serve the warrant on Martens as
soon as the senate subcommittee hears his
complete testimony.
Martens probably will be taken to the
immigration station at Baltimore, where
he will be interrogated and possibly
released on bail until transportation IA
cilities are secured for his deportation
to soviet Russia.
MARTENS FIRST
WITNESS CALLED.
Martens was the first witness called
by Senator Moses. Former Senator
Hardwick Martens counsel, stated the
Russian envoy had prepared full and
complete statement" which he desired to
read to the committee.
Accompanying the statement would be
many documents in English and Russian,
Hardwick said.
In the statement Martens will deny
specifically that he had been identified
with or instigated any movement or
propaganda involving any resort to vio-
lence or any attempt whatever to over
throw the American government" Hard
wick said. 1T will show that he has
acted with scrupulous propr!ety and in
full accordance with international law as
a representative in this country of the
Russian people"
Hardwick said he himself had super
vised the construction" of the state
ment
Al Senator Borah's suggestion, Mar
tens was permitted to proceed with his
statement Martens spoke In English
with a pronounced accent which did
not however, prevent him from being
clearly heard and understood.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
HEADS
MAP POLICIES
TOWARD REDS
AmericanizatiOn Committee of
Veteran Organization in
Meeting Here.

The attitude which the American le-
gion will take toward the activities Of
reds the I. W. w and other organiza-
tions of doubtful Americanism was be-
ing mapped out at a meeting of the
Americanization committee of the legion
and other legion officials at national
headquarters here today. The committee
was expected to issue statement setting
forth the policy of the legion for the
guidance of individual posts which have
been taking a vigorous part in upholding
American principles.
Members Of the committee discussed
the action Of posts in all parts of the
country In preventing the holding of
meetings which they believed to be op-
posed to American principles.
NATIONAL COMMANDER
ATTENDS THE SESSION.
Franklin D'Olier, national commander
of the legion, attended the meeting.
Commander D'Oner received a letter
from Jack Kearns, manager of Jack
Dempsey, heavyweight champion prize
fighter, in which Kearns contended that
Dempsey was not a Stacker" in the
war and that he Is being wrongly ac-
cused by some members of the Ameri-
can legion. He enclosed a newspaper
clipping in which it was contended that
Dempsey was not a draft dodger and
that he obtained exemption on legitimate
grounds. Mr.. D'Oner said that there
was nothing for the legion to do about
the matter.
COMMITTEE MEN
IN MEETING HERE.
Members of the legion Americanization
committee who were present at the meet
ing were Arthur Wood, New York
Frazer Metzger, Randolph, Vt; Philip
R. Bange, Grand Forks, n. D.: Edison
K. Bixby, Muskogee, Okla; Edward A.
Fitzpatrick, Madison, Mis-. Hiram
Bingham, New Haven, Conn; John Mac
Vicar, Des Moines, Ia. Other legion Of
icials present at the meeting are Kirk
Smith, Jr., Atlanta, Ga. Augustus H.
Gansser Detroit, Mich. Robert L. Moor
head, Indianapolis Edward Orton. Jr.,
Columbus, o.. Henry f. FREEDMAN,
Little Rock, Ark; DR.. Edwin f. Henry,
Omaha, Neb.; B. NJ. Roszel, Vermont
J. F. Herman, Providence, r. l.; F. NJ.
Sieh, South Dakota; Henry Breckenridge,
Washington D. c., and John Thomas
Taylor, Washington, D. c.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19

Threatening letters are received al
mist every day." said Robert Scott, con-
hdential secretary to Palmer today.
Although many are obviously writ
ten by cranks, there is no doubt that
there is real danger"
The pbeau of investigation has
charge of taking the necessary precau.
tions to guard Palmer, Scott said
Immediately after the attempt to as,
sassinate Palmer last summer by dyna-
miting his house, the bureau assigned
one Of its most skillful operatives to
guard the attorney general. This man
now goes everywhere with Palmer, no
matter how short the distance.
LETTERS OVERFLOW
LARGE FILE.
On trips which take Palmer out of
Washington, other operatives are as
signed to guard, when necessary.
Meanwhile, still other agents of the
investigation bureau are continually en-
gagged in hunting down the senders OF
the threatening letters which now over
flow a large file in the Investigation
bureau.
"These letters have been sent from
practically every big city in the coun-
try" said Scott. Occasionally a name
is signed, presumably a false one, but
most Of the letters are without signature.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
DEMOCRATS SMILE
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIddS,
taR Corresnnndent of the Intarnafir
t@7-A NNA kIV111O1HO UI tIAO AAIUcI M tIulAI
News Service,

News Service.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Democrats
here are smiling broadly over the
"tirade" of Vice Admiral William s.
Sims against Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the navy.
ut is simply the opening of the cam
paign," they charged, "and the begin
ming of the opposition party's attempt
to Investigate the democrats out Of the
whitehouse into political oblivion"
A careful canvass of leading democrats
in Washington indicates that this and
the composite opinions which follow is
the view generally accepted by the ad-
ministration.
They point out a number of things
which, they say, plainly indicates a wide
spread plot to discredit administration
officials in their conduct of the war,
and, if possible, to bury the fact that
the war was won under a deluge Of
probes, Investigations, legislative in
quiries and alleged scandals
HOW THEY SUM UP
ADMIRAL'S ATTACK.
Admiral Sims, they point out, might
have summed up his entire letter, which
democrats charge was to the public and
not to Secretary Daniels in a paragraph
towit; that he naturally considered his
"sector" the most important in the war
and, in his opinion, ne should, therefore,
have been given everything he asked
regardless of needs elsewhere.
The attitude of Admiral Sims and that
of Gen. John J. Pershing, now declared
to be a receptive candidate for the re-
publican nomination for the presidency.
democratic circles observe, are distinctly
at variance.
The admiral's suggestion that the
navy department consider our naval
forces as but one relatively small item
of an allied naval team, and that our
mission was the protection of all lines
OF communication and not the United
States lines of communication alone"
they insist should be studied with Gen
Pershing's reply to Marshal Foch and
the allied staff when he was asked to
consider the American army as a rela-
lively small item of an allied team"
and let the American troops be amalga-
mated with the British and French.
Pershing's emphatic refusal and his in
ststence that the Yankees should fight
as an American unit, democrats aver
received the unanimous approval of re-
pulicans and democrats alike through
out the land.
QUOTE REPORT
AGAINST HIM.
Administration officials are putting the
hypothetical question:
Suppose Secretary Daniels had taken
Admiral Sims advice and the American
navy had | ,en amalgamated with that
Of Great Britain, for the protection of
allied lines Of communication and not
the United States lines of communica-
Continued on Page Three)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
Legion Political
Tool of Republicans

CHICAGO, Jan. 19-The American
Legion is the political creature of the
Republican party" John Fitzpatrick,
president of the Chicago federation of
labor, charged at a meeting of the labor
organization yesterday.
''The members Of the legion are not
real soldiers" he declared. Real work
ing men who fought in the war should
join the World War Veterans of the Pri-
vate Soldiers and, Sailors Legion.
Officers of the American Legion here
have announced in faver of ignoring
Fitzpatricks attack
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
ASK NEW TRIAL
FOR HARRY NEW
State Objects to Plea of
Attorneys.

Los ANGELES. Jan. 1e-Another eff
fort to save Harry S. New, Jr., now un-
der conviction Of second degree murder.
for the Staying of mis- sweetheart, Freda
Lesser, was begun here today with the
filing by his attorneys Of a motion for q
new trial. The expense Of the trial, If
granted, will be borne by United States
Senator Harry S. New OF Indiana.
New was scheduled to come before
Judge Craig today for sentence. The
law provides that he may be sentenced
to from ten years TO life.
The state will strenuously oppose the
granting Of a new trial
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
BLAST KILLS 3:
SEVEN INJURED
Iron Mill Boiler Blows Up in
East Chicago.

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. Jan. 1s.-Three
men were killed and seven others in
jured, one probably fatally, today in a
boiler explosion in the Interstate Iron
and Steel Company's plant here.
Officials were fearful that several
other men, who could not be located
after the explosion, might be buried in
the debris. The injured men were
rushed to a hospital at Hammond.
The explosion was terrific and com
pletely wrecked the 9-inch mill Of the
plant. About fifty men were in the mill
a the time of the blast and many
suffered minor hurts.
Early Identification Of those killed was
impossible because Of the condition Of
the bodies.