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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
PITH OF THE
VICTORY NEWS

Britain realized $55o,0oo, ,oco from the
sale of surplus stores and property.
Private Lawrence Perimutter, only
member of the American Expedi-
tionary Force convicted CT treason,
is freed by Secretary Baker, who
finds the evidence against him made
quate.
1t is officially announced in Viadivos-
tok that Japan and the United States
have reached common ground for
Joint action in Siberia. Rebels in ths
East have cut the Amur line, isola,-
ina Rlagovestchensk, and the Bolshe-
wiki have captured Ton1sk and de-
clare the road to Irkutsk open.
Delay by the Germans over signing the
protocol is beginning to anger the
French, who are urging that date
be set for the German reply. It Gs
held in Paris for putting the treaty
in effect.
Republican "miId" reservatonists
threatened to bolt the Lodge treaty
program and join the Democrats in
compromise that will bring early
ratification. They announced that
they were willing to modify the pre-
ambe to the Lodge resolution and
TO change Article X. to meet PresI-
dent Wilson's views.
President Wilson has signed the Edge
bill, authorizing the creation of cor
porations for the purpose of financ-
ing American export trade. The
measure was passed just before the
Christmas recess OF Congress was
taken.
The Presidents proclamation definite
Iy fixing March as the date for the
return of the railroads to their own
ers will cause the leaders of or
canized labor to reoouble their ef-
forts to obtain favorable legislation
and some assurance of wage in
creases for the railroad men before
that time. ..
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

NGToN.-secretary Daniels
ordered the Navy Board of Awards TO
reconvene to revise the medal list. An
admiral and a captain refused decora-
tiOnS. -
NEW YoRK-With the government
placing surplus flour on sale and the
arrival here of sugar from Cuba, as
we'll as the expected arrival of supplies
from Puerto Rico, experts predict q
decided reduction in the prices of these
commodities.
ALBANY, N. Y.-At a secret session
of the Lusk Committee startling evil
dence was heard showing the spread
of Red propaganda upstate.
WASHINGTON. - The announce
ment that the President had ordered
the United States Shipping Board TO
turn over to Great Britain the remain
ing seven German ships held here
caused sensation in shipping and
political circles in Washington.
NEW YORK. A wireless despatch
from the commander of the transport
Buford, with 249 anarchists on board,
stop at the Azores, but gave no hint or
the ultimate destination. The captain
added that his passengers are obedient
and contented and that so far the voy-
age was without incident.
TREAL.-Canad!an shipbuild-
ing increased from Is vessels in 1911
to 50 at the end of June, 1919, accord
ing to report of LlOyd's registry just
made public here. The corresponding
tonnages in 1911 and 1919 were given
as 14,1S4 and 1851 respectfully
ToKYo.-Marquis shigenobu oI>u-
ma, Japan's venerable statesman, is
strongly in favor of q renewal of the
AngIO-Japanese alliance.
LONDON. - British tourists may
once more visit SwitzerlandNNithout
furnishing personal and financial ref-
ercnces and medical certificates hitN
erto required. =
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
Events That Concern the Two
Hemispheres Recorded So as
to Be Read at a Glance.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS EPITOMIZED
Paragraphs Which Picture Executive
and Legislative Activities at the
National and State
Capitals.
PEACE BULLETINS

John Moffat, back from Europe,
warns America against possible men,
ace of Bolshevism in the Far East,
but says China is a rich field for
American ideals.
Chairman Payne of the Shipping
Board announced Great Britain will
obtain at once seven former German
ships seized with the Imperator and
since under control Of the Shipping
Board.
William Westerman, president of the
Rotterdam bank, who has just re-
turned from America, has launched a
movement for an international con-
ference of bankeSr at The Haugue to
settle after-the-war problems.
A discussion of the governments
policy in the chamber of deputies to-
day was followed by a vote of conf
dence in the ministry, 126 to 6. There
were nineteen members absent.
Paris celebrated her first peace
Christmas with great animation and
enthusiasm Great crowds thronging
the churches and theaters. The boule-
wards and principal streets of the
capital were filled all night with cele-
orators and the popular restaurants
were carried by storm.
The final date of the repeatedly
postponed exchange of ratifications of
the Treaty Of Versailles now depends
upon the speed with which the allied
missions in Germany can verify the
German figures of available floating
dock tonnage demanded by the allies
as compensation for the sinking Of the
German warships at Scapa Flow, the
associated press was Informed to this
effect at the headquarters Of the Ger
man peace delegation.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
FOREIGN

Detroit United Railways withdrew
a request that it be permitted to make
a charge for transfers. stating that be-
cause of improvement in its operating
condition it now finds itself able to
operate profitably on q fiat fiye-cent
fare.
Serious news comes from Damascus,
where great excitement is reported
to have been caused by the imprison-
ment by the British authorities of
General Kassim. commander in chief
of the native troops. All foreigners
have been warned to leave the city.
The residence of the chief of the
conservative party at Las Palmas,
Canary Islands, was damaged by the
explosion of a bomb, according to Il
Madrid dispatch. 1t is stated that a
state of siege will be declared soon in
the province of Catalonia, Spain.
Finland is reported negotiating for
loan of 100000 pesos gold with
Argentina to buy Argentine cereals
and cattle.
A heavy gale is raging in Sicily
Many vessels are reported to have been
sunk in the Mediterranean, with heavy
loss Of life.
James O'Grady, who has been con-
ferring in Copenhagen, as the repre-
sentative of Great Britain, with Maxim
LitvinOff, BOlsheviki representative,
with regard to the exchange Of pris.
oners, has returned to London. His
purpose, it is asserted, is to confer
with the foreign office here
Fire destroyed the first floor of the
palace occupied by the Marquis Roc
ca Giovine in Rome. Marbles, tapes.
tries and paintings estimated to be
worth $3OGOOO were lost.
The worlds record for speed, forty
five miles an hour, was attained by the
British torpedo boat destroyer Tyrian.
The record was made during a fou:
hours trial in deep water.
Floods are assuming disastrous pro.
portions in the Nancy district. The
light and power plants in the city are
out of commission and the offices of
two of the newspapers are tloodea ny
70 the second floor.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
INDICTMENT FOR
KAISER FRAMED
Denial Is Made of Report That
the Dutch Will Not Grant
Extradition.
QUESTION IS NOT DECIDED.
Former German Emperor on Trial
Soon, Says London-British Will
Insist That He Be Arraigned
in England.

London.-Wilhelm, former Emperor
of Germany, will go to trial.
A-definite decision to this effect has
been reached by the Supreme Council
of the peace conference in Paris, ac-
cording to information received from
Paris and confirmed by news agency.
The allies, it is declared, will make
a united demand on Holland for the
extradition Of the former war lord ear
ly in January and in the event Of re-
fusal "steps will be taken to enforce
the demands"
Bonar Law reiterated in the house
of commons the intention of the Brit
ish government to proceed with the
trial of Wilhelm. The law officers of
the crown, he officially announced,
have been consulting with French and
Belgian legal authorities and have
completed the case against the former
ruler.
The indictment has been framed and
all is ready to force the surrender of
the head of the house of Hohenzollern
as soon as the protocols to the treaty
Of peace have been ratified.
The present position Of the Kaiser,
Mr.. Law Informed the house, is that
he is fugitive in Holland and that
no steps have been taken as yet to Sc
cure his surrender.
1t is learned that Holland, contrary
to reports, has made no comment on
the merits of the case drawn UP by
the allies.
1t is not known, it is declared, what
the attitude of the Dutch government
will be to the request for the sur
| render.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
DEATH WAVE DUE
TO FAKE WHISKEY
Police Start Wide Investigation
Based on Statements Made by
Hartford Saloon Keepers.

New York.-ToOd alcohol, said to
have been made in The Bronx and sold
as whiskey, spread death and blindness
in cities of Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts.
Latest incomplete toll of the lethal
beverage was as follows:
Holyoke, Mass-Four dead, many
dying in hospitals. One arrest.
C.icopee Falls, MasS.-Fifteen dead,
including one woman five dying, many
seriously i'll. Two arrests pending
autopsies.
Hartford, Conn.-Ten dead, two
dying, five others in hospital suffering
from various degrees of blindness.
Four arrests on charges of murder /;
one arrest on a charge of Prohibition
Law violation.
Four deaths due to wood alcohol
were reported in Chicago.
More deaths and reports of many
more Illnesses as the result of Christ.
mas celebrations with that poison were
expected by the doctors and police
VI Tic ClliSS 1liSAO was
no way of che cking up either on the
total number Of deaths or on the total
number of those stricken in their
homes.
Many victims were found dead oe
blind in their beds. Those who were
reported to officials as still alive but
Ill from the effect of their potatiOns
were suffering agony. Invariably they
were in conyulsiOns. Many were
paralyZed.
Police, medical men and United
States authorities in the afflicted area
Immediately co-operated in caring for
the sufferers and in trying to bring
those responsible for the wholesale
tragedy to justice.
Four men were arrested, charged
with murder, in Hartford. They are !:
Jacob Bronerwine, saloon proprietor,
who, the police said, feared TO sell the
liquid in his own place because Of a
previous arrest and fine under the War
Prohibition Act; Frank Rose, saloon
proprietor, 277 Windsor street, Hart
ford, where the police assert some OF
the poison beverage was sold; Saul
Joseph, bartender and partner. of
Bronerwine, and Nathan SalSberg,
peddler and bartender.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
LLOYD GEORGE TO
FORCE IRISH PLAN
Ireland May Have to Accept.
Believed Ulster VIII
Agree.

London.-Treland may have to ac-
cept Premier Lloyd Georges new
home rule plan, introduced in the
House of Commons on Monday,
whether she likes it or not, an official
close to the British premier declared
in an interview.
The premier is prepared to force
acceptance of his measure, this official
asserted. Its passage by Parliament
was assured before the measure was
submitted, he added.
Lloyd George, according to the Of
fetal, Is "heart and SOUL for passage
of some legislation which will at least
start settlement of the Irish question,
he continued. The premier regards
this problem as second in Importance
only to winning of the war
1t was believed in government cir
cles, according to this source of In
formation, that Ulsterites will accept
two legislatures, one for Southern
Ireland an another for Ulster, with a
co-odination body TO be known as a
National Assembly.
Il Ulster accepts the plan, and its
Parliament is threatened by the Sim
Fein, the "entire British army" is
available for protection of Ulster, it
was asserted.
The government realizes that it is
impossible to force the Sim Fein Sec
ton of Ireland to organize a Parlia-
ment, the official said, but, he pointed
out, it would be easy TO offer them the
chance to deal with the Orangemen
through q legislative body and grant
the Ulsterites protection in case there
was any attempt to interfere.
For the present, it was said, the
premier is forgetting Ireland" until
resumption of Parliament, which has
been prorogued by the King until the
New Year. The premier's home rule
bill already has been drawn.
Lloyd George, it was said, will de-
vote his time now to domestic ques-
tions, the Continent and the Peace
Conference. He plans to leave for
Paris to discuss peace problems early
in January.
The premierss advisers have assured
him of speedy passage of the Irish
measure-probably within two months
after the reassembling of Parliament
and by that time, it was hoped, most
of the international questions will
have been settled.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
SPORTING

Charles NJ Wood, Jr., won the ma
tional indoor boys tennis champion
ship from Valentine Gress in straight
sets.
Germantown Cricket Club has aban-
doned its campaign for the national
tennis championship, leaving West
Side Tennis Club, Of New York, alone
in the field.
Two American fighters-Pal Moore,
bantamweight, and Johnny Griffiths,
welterweight = decisively defeated
French opponents in the ring at Albert
Hall, London. Moore forced Eugene
Criqui to quit in the fourteenth round
and GriffithS scored technical knock
out over Francois Charles in the
third.
The 1920 football schedule for Uni
versity of Maine, as approved by the
faculty committee on athletics, was
announced as follows: September %,
Boston University at Orono; October
2, Harvard at Cambridge; 9, Brown at
Providence; 16, Rhode Island at
Orono; %, Bates at Orono 80, Colby at
Orono; November 6, Bowdoin at
Brunswick; 10, New Hampshire at
Orono.
Bill Brennan, the Chicago Celt, ad-
ministered a severe lacing to Sailor
Petrosky, of California, in six rounds
in Philadelphia at the Olmpia A. A.
Brennan was master of the situation
from the outset, but the plucky sailor
never tiinched and kept coming back
for more.
The adoption of boxing as an in
tercollegiate sport will be urged by
the University of Pennsylvania athletic
authorities at the meeting Of the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
in New York.
Louis De Ponthieu, the French
featherweight champion, knocked out
fancy Lee, the British champion, in
the seventeenth round of scheduled
twenty-round bout at Paris
An unusually fine program of events
has been arranged by the One Hun
dred and Sixth Infantry post, Amer
lean Legion, for its first annual indoor
tythird Regiment Armory, Brooklyn,
on Saturday evening, Jan. "a.
Vitor Ritchie knocked out George
Burns in the ninth round of q sched-
uled 10-round contest at Poughkeepsie.
frankie Brown of New York won
from Johnny Downes of South Boston
in twelve fast rounds at Lowell.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
NATIONAL THRIFT WEEK.
Industrial Department of the Y. M. c.
A. to Launch Campaign.


New York.-To help the American
family think straight and act wisely
about money matters, the Industrial
Department Of the Y. NJ. G. A. will
launch a campaign for a National
Thrift Week, beginning January II,
Benjamin Franklin's birthday. The
government, the American Bankers
Association, the National Credit Mems
Association and other organizations
and clubs representing commerce and
industry have offered their heartiest
cooperation in the hope Of making
permanent the results of the govern
ment's highly successful program of
thrift and sound investment during the
war.
The Y. NJ. G. A. will aim to demon
strate by concrete examples the de-
STABILITY and absolute necessity of
thrift not only on the part of the in
dividual but Of the communities as q
whole, If the country is to recover
from the effects of the war. On each
day Of the campaign some phase Of
the thrift program will be stressed, be-
ginning with Bank Day" when the
service which the bank renders to the
community will be emphasized. The
other days of the week have been des-
ignated as Thrift Sunday" National
Life Insurance Day." "Own Your Own
Home Day." make A Will Day."
Thrift Industry Day." "Family Bud
get Day" and PAY Your Bills Day."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
WASHINGTON

Railroad officials asserted freight
rates will be advanced after return
of roads on March l.
The return of the railroads on
March 1 may precipitate general
strike of railway employees.
In filing their income tax returns
for 1919 taxpayers may get the aid of
thousands of employees of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, trained in the
intricacies of the laws. Revenue Of
ficers will be sent into every county
in the United States to assist the tax
payers. The filling time is from JAN.
/ to March 10, 1920.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
states that he courts the fullest pub
licity concerning the award of decora-
tions to officers and enlisted men of
the navy.
Alleging that the concern wrongly
advertised underwear as fine natural
WOOL when composed partly of wool
the Federal Trade Commission has
cited the Hines Underwear Company
of Cohoes, n. Y, for alleged unfair
methods Of competition.
President Wilson spent Christmas
quietly in the White House with Mrs.
Wilson and his eldest daughter, Miss
Margaret, and although the usual fes-
tivities, including a tree for the chill
dren and music, were omitted, he in
formed DR.. Cary T. Grayson he had
Thoroughly enjoyed" himself. His
dinner, including turkey, was served
to him in his room by Mrs. Wilson.
Published reports from Mexico City
that the Mexican authorities are plan
ming to bring a new charge against
William o. Jenkins, American Con-
sular Agent at Puebla, that he de-
livered arms and ammunition to ban
dts who captured him." aroused much
interest in official circles.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09

Arturo Toscanini, the most famous
conductor in the world, will assume
complete charge Of the Chicago Opera
Company next season.
Decision of the United States Ship
ping Board to prohibit the sale Of
liquor will mean the loss of thousands
Of dollars, because privately owned
craft will sell liquor and win business
away from the government.
The Christmas spirit had no effect
In checking Chicago's crime wave. A
gang of thieves broke into the ware
house of the S. L. Ottenheimer Com
pany, and carried away in an auto
truck more than 100000 worth Of
liquor.
Six men are dead and three are dy-
ing from the effects of ''whiskey"
which, the police believe, was purchas-
ed in Windsor street, Hartford.
Christmas greetings from Secretary
Daniels were flashed to American ma
val craft in all parts of the Pacific and
China and Japan seas by the naval
radio station in San Francisco.
More than 100000 has been appro-
priated for Jewish relief work in Eu-
rope and Asia, according to an an
nouncement of the Joint Distribution
Committee for American Funds for
Jewish War Sufferers.
The Chicago post office laid claim to
being the champion Christmas mail
handler of all post offices Of the United
States. The claim was based on the
estimate that it handled 24,000,000
Christmas letters and more than 2,0OO,-
600 Christmas parcel post packages
Three men in Chicago, two of them
dealers in grain alcohol and the other
a seller Of BARRIERS supplies, were un-
der technical arrest and the Federal
district attorneys office had started an
of several officials of the
revenue department. 1t was
charged the men sought to bribe depu-
ty internal revenue collectors to per-
NIT them to color and flavor $50 bar
relS of alcohol and sell it as whiSkey.
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Just League Prepares Bills.

SaSt League prepares BllIS.
Increased representation in the leg
lslature for Baltimore, which would
put the city somewhere nearly upon
an equal basis of franchise with the
rural sections of Maryland, is provided
in two bills prepared by the Just Rep
resentation League for Introduction at
Annapolis this winter Along with
Baltimore City, Baltimore county,
Frederick, Washington and Allegany
counties would each gain membership
that would meet their increased and
increasing population, and the entire
system of representation at Annapolis
would be placed upon a fairer and
more equitable basis.
The Plan In Detail.
The membership Of the legislature
as at present constituted and as 1t
would be under the proposed legis,
lation, is shown in the following table:
Under proposed
amendment to
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
GENERAL

A New York brand of whiskey has
killed IS men in New England, s Of
them in Hartford. The liquor, which
was thought to be whiskey, had been
compounded probably with wood alco-
hol.
J. V. Priest, mining man, arriving
at New York OH the steamship GARLIC,
reported finding of new gold region
in Colombia, South America
LieutenantS Connolly and Water
house, who lost their lives after being
forced to land in Lower California,
Mex, were murdered, according to
testimony before the senate sub-cOm-
mittee investigating Mexican affairs.
A $2000,00O Christmas present for
the starving people Of the Near East
was voted by the executive committee
of the Near East Relief Cleveland H.
Dodge, treasurer, announced the ap-
preparation was made in response TO
urgent pleas for help from Alexander
I. Khatissian, premier Of Armenia.
The boldest Jail delivery in the his
tory of Ohio. according to local police
authorities, was staged in the Lucas
county Jail, in the heart Of the busi-
ness district of Toledo, when a convict
ed murderer and two noted crooks eS-
capped and deputy sheriff was shot,
probably fatally.
Bishop Burch announced at the
Christmas services in st. John the Di-
vine Cathedral that $250,000 had been
donated by three persons whose names
were withheld, toward the fund for
the building Of the nave of the cathe-
dral.
Daniel WhitlOck, night watchman at
the plant of the National Biscuit Com
pany, Cambridge, Mass, was shot four
times by four men who had entered
the building in an attempt to break
into the safe. The men were discov-
cred by Whitlock as they were about
to begin work on the safe and fed
after shooting him.
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Democratic Caucus Called.

Chairman J. Hubert Wade, OF the
Democratic State Central Committee,
has sent out the formal call for the
caucuses of Democratic Senators and
Delegates, to be held in Annapolis on
the night of January 6. The presiding
officers Of each branch will be chosen
and elected the next day, when the
Legislature convenes.
The Democrats are in doubt about
their choice for President Of the Sen
ate, but the fight seems to be setting
down to Senator Frick and Norris
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
ROECkLlNG SENT TO JAIL.
German Steel King Pays Heavily for
PiIlage in France.

AmiHns.-A court martial has sen
fenced the German officer, Robert
Rocking, administrator of mines at
Karlsruhe. to ten years cofnement,
fifteen years of exile and fine of 1O,-
100000 francs Oominally $2,0000O0),
upon his conviction of a charge or or
ganizing the pillage of factories in
eastern France. 1t was testified at his
trial that he collected machinery and
other material and blew it up.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09
MAY RE-ARREsT JENKINS
New Charges Being Trumped Up by
Mexican Government

Washington.-That the htest charge
against w. o. jenkins, American con-
suIar agent, apparently has been
trumped up by Mexico to retain her
hold on that official was the belief
expressed in official circles. 1t is re-
ported that Jenkins has been charged
with giving arms. to the bandits by
whom he was recently captured, and
that his re-arrest on this charge was
likely.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-01-09

In October shipment OF steel was
made from the United States to Mex.
leo for the manufacture of dies by
the Mexican Mint. Heretofore British
and German steel has been exclusively
used for this purpose. The dies are to
be employed for new issue OF 10
cent copper pieces, which the govern.
ment is to issue in an effort to relieve
the shortage of currency.