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New Ulm review., 1921-02-23
FEDERAL JUDGE
RENTS PENALTY
BOOTH DECIDES SO-CALLED
LIQUOR CASES IN FAVOR
OF PLAINTIFFS.
APPROXIMATELY 100000 WAS
TOTAL SUM INVOLVED.
APPEAL UNLIKELY.

A decision of far-rea ching import
ance was made by Federal Judge
Wilbur F. Booth of the United States
district court at St. Paul, Friday, when
he decided the so-called liquor cases in
favor Of the plaintiffs. These cases
were very important and the outcome
of the trial was watched with great
interest throughout the United States,
as millions of dollars are involved under
the provisions of the Volstead Prohibit
ton Act
Threatened to Seize Property.
1t will be remembered that John
Schneider, John Zischka, Martin
Schnobrich, Veigel Brothers, Arthur
Schleif and August Boyer, all of this
city, were called upon to pay the sum
OF S3,215.63 in each case as tax and
penalty, following their trial at Man
kato for having Intoxicating liquor in
their possession. Through their at
torney, Alfred W. Mueller of this city,
they Immediately applied to the Judge
Booth for an injunction restraining
r. J. Lynch, collector of internal reve-
nue., who had threatened to seize and
sell sufficient of their property to
collect the tax, from proceeding further
IN the matter, on the ground that the
attempted collection Of the taxes was
illegal and without authority in law
and violative of the Constitution of
the United States.
More Cases Come Up.
Attorney Mueller later appeared for
several other former New Ulm saloon
keepers, who had not been arrested,
but whose places OF business had been
entered by prohibition enforcement
agents, and in some eases SAMPLES of
so-called "bitters,' alleged to have
contained more than one-half of one
per cent of alcohol, were taken by these
federal officers. In these cases no
arrests were made, but the former
saloonkeepers each called upon to pay
taxes of S2,318.74. 1t was the con-
tention in these cases that the ex-
saloonkeepers, who were called upon
to pay these taxes, were entitled to a
trial
Violates Plaintiffs Rights.
Judge Booth, in deciding the matter,
holds that all of the amounts assessed
against the former local saloonkeepers
are not taxes, but penalties, and that
the method followed by the collector
of internal revenue in an endeavor to
collect the various amounts, is not
proper and violates the constitutional
rights of the plaintiffs in attempting to
deprive them Of their property without
due process of law. The decision is a
rather lengthy document, covering a
dozen or more typewriter pages, and
in it several fine points of law, raised
by plaintiffs counsel, are elucidated
by the court.
About $50, 900 Involved.
The total amount of taxes and
penalties involved in the suits, and
which it was attempted to collect
in the cases represented by Attorney
Mueller, including number of former
saloonkeepers of Springfield and Man
kato, is approximately 100000.
Appeal Unlikely.
Judge Booths decision practically
disposes Of the matter, unless the
federal government should attempt to
have>his order reversed by appealing
to higher tribunal, which, however,
is not likely, as the decision is very
clear. .
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23

MONDAYS OPENING.
South St. Paul, Mimi, Feb.
Fl, 1921: Cattle, 1900. Beef
steers, stockers and feeders,
better grades she stock mostly
Csc higher; Gamers, cutters
and bulls, steady. Calves, 800.
Fifty higher, top 5000. Hogs
1900. Market about steady,
spots Csc lower, range $500 to
$3.50; bulk $s.25 go 1925.
Pigs higher, bulk SIC. 90 to $1o.-
rs. Sheep, 400. Market
strong and mostly soc higher,
top lambs $s.75, prime light
ewes $500, choice yearling
wethers, $6.75 to 500.
Sharp advances on all kinds of sheep
and lambs featured the live stock trade
at the weeks opening. The report
circulated last week to the effect that
half million carcasses of sheep and
lambs were. to be booked for export,
and lighter receipts in the aggregate
at the start Of the week, were among
the chief reviving factors in the sheep
trade. Another development of en-
couragement to producers is the open
ing up in demand for stock and feeding
cattle with the approach of spring, the
resultant competition being "a factor
in improving prices for most. kinds of
beef and butcher cattle, and leading
many to believe that the low spot"
has been passed in cattle and sheep,
although there is much unemployment
and considerable depression in IN
dustrial circles, which is tending to
curtail meat consump ption, particularly
beef and mutton
Recent,advances in the cattle market
attracted some increase in receipts at
western markets on M onday and while
this brought about decline, on some
classes at Chicago, local supply was
limited and most grades Of beef and
butcher cattle advanced fully 25c.
Best steers here brought $7.25, with
bulk Of the common and medium kinds
at $500 to $500 A few heifers
brought $500, and a load of white
faced cows, averaging $50 pounds, went
| to city butchers at $6.75. There was
fair showing of sales at $6.25 to $3.50,
and the bulk Of the,she stock sold from
$500 to $500: Gamers and cutters
were steady at 1925 to $3.50, and a
/! range Of $3.50 to s4.25 bought bulk o1
the bologna bulls. Best light veals
brought $500 Stock cattle were ii
good demand at strong to Csc higher
prices.
A fairly stable market prevails or
hogs, range today being from $500 tt
$3.50, with bulk Of sales at. $8.25 te
1925. Pigs sold up to $1O.25. Choic.
lambs topped at $8.75, with a gooe
kind XII at $8.25 to $3.50. Best handy
weight yearlings sold at $6.75 to $500
and few light ewes made SIS. 90. On,
load OF good feeding lambs sold a
j s 90.
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23

Mr.. and Mrs: Otto Meyer returned
\ Monday evening from ST Paul, whittier
they went last, week TO assist the for1n-
er's brother, Prof Albert II. Meyer,
observe his 10th birthday anniversary,
which occurred Thursday. Prof.
Meyer isstill enjoying good health and
the years do not seem to weigh heavily
upon him.
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23
PURSE FOR PROF. CHURCH.

I /. Z
Several Of New Ulm' most promi-
nent citizens agreeably surprised Prof.
Rollin Church the fore part of this
week, by presenting him with a sub
stantial purse to show their apprecia-
ton Of his work for the high school
basket ball squad. Mr.. Church has
been coaching the team for the past
few weeks and it is sincerely hoped
that he will continue to do SO. Students
OF the high school realize q fact Of which
not all Of the older generation are
aware, namely, that we have very
good reasons to be proud Of having such
an able, coach in charge OF the team,
which we hope to send to the Carleton
tournament to bring back the prize
cup at last.
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23

Little Luverne Glaser returned to
Comfrey, Saturday, having recovered
from the effects Of an operation per-
formed upon one of his limbs at the
Loretto Hospital here some three
months ago. Although only II years
old, the little fellow bore his affection
~ a :, ,,}l,, rts& Eat r VI Es%ss 5s u
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES.

i =
N onday of next week is the last day
on which the current personal property
taxes may be paid without penalty.
After that date, 10 per cent of the
amount inc of the tax will be added as
penalty. County Treasurer Henry j.
Berg and his assistant, Ed, ]. Berg,
have been kept quite busy of late,
filing out tax receipts. In order to
relieve the rush during the last hours of
grace, people who have not as yet paid
their personal property taxes should
do SO before Monday, if possible.
Miss Mildred Burg Of Nicollet is
convalescing nicely from the effects
OF an operation for appendicitis, per-
formed upon her at the Loretto
Hospital here, Monday morning.
New Ulm review., 1921-02-23
SHEEP PRICES GO
SHARPL Y HIGHER /
LIGHTER RECEIPTS AND 4
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BULLIsH FACTORS.
MOST CATTLE OPEN HIGHER.
HOGS FAIRLY STABLE,
THE NJ e s
MONDAYS OPENING

(By U. S. Bureau of Market and
MINI. Dept. of Agriculture.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
| POLICE BELIEVE
RUSSIA RESPONSIBLE

NEW YORK, June 23.-Support Of the
theory that at least a portion of the
vanished fleet" of a score of merchant
vessels had been seized by agents of the
Russian soviet government was offered
today by the New York police depart
ment.
The police bomb" squad was said to
have discovered a plot more than a year
ago to start mutinies among the crews
of merchantmen to seize the ships and
take them to Bolshevist ports. This in
/ formation, 1t was stated, was turned over
20 the department Of justice at the time.
Much Of the information was alleged
to have been obtained in a raid in which
coo men and women were arrested. Many
of these have since been deported.
These documents are still In their
possession, police said The plan, out
lined in the documents, was to ship
enough men on the vessels to be seized
TO overpower the rest of the crew at sea.
The Russians then were to take charge
of the vessels and to direct them to
soviet ports.
The headquarters of the United Russian
Workers was at 1873 East Fifteenth street,
when the raid was made, but it since has
moved
The documents were found in secret
compartment in the headquarters office.
They showed that prior to the raid a
meeting Of the principal heads of the
unions of the United Russian Workers
was conducted at which resolutions were
adopted instructing all members of the
organization, who were out of work. and
particularly those who were seamen, to
meet secretly and receive instructions
as to the ways, means and time for seiz-
ing the vessels.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
Garbage Plant
Due to Suffer
Extra Losses

Troubles at the garbage plant never
cease, might be the headline over the
latest difficulties which the board of
sanitary commissioners are facing in
their attempts to make the city's $175.00O
garbage plant live up to the boast that
It would pay for itself which Mayor
Charles w. Jewett was making a year
or so ago.
The garbage plant would make money
through the production of grease and
tankage and would make it so fast that
the city would never notice that $4,000
it let go of for the plant which was
appraised for taxation purposes at
$4,000, it was said Then the bottom be-
gan to drop out of the grease market
and last year the sanitary board had
to report a deficit of around $4,000 in
the operation Of the plant.
Now the tankage market is about to
completely disappear, according to Lu-
cius B. Swift, chairman of the board.
The contract under which Rauh & Son
having been buying tankage the past
year has enabled the city to dispose Of 1t
at around S14 per ton. The contract ex
pires July / After that there is no mar
ket In sight and it win be necessary to
dump the product on the ground outside
the reduction plant, Mr.. Swift said.
With grease bringing only 2.1 cents
per pound, whereas the normal figure is
around 6 and cents and very little op
portunity to sell it at all the outlook
for a prosperous year at the garbage
plant is not bright, city officials admit.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
WYCKOFF SAYS
COUNT AGAINST
HIM NOT TRUE
No Basis for Statements in
Conspiracy Charge, He
Declares.
BUSY WITH ROUTINE

There is no basis for the state
ment that have anything to do with
fixing ice prices in Indianapolis or
in any place in Indiana" Stanley
Wyckoff, former Federal food ad-
ministrator for Marion County and
now secretary of the Indiana Ice
Dealers Association, declared when
informed that he had been named a
defendant in the suit brought by
Attorney General U. S. Lesh, charg-
ing a combination In restraint OF
trade among the ice dealers.
There Is not a word Of truth in the
statement made in the complaint Of the
attorney general that have transmitted
ice prices to dealers In the State. There
Is no foundation fov such charges. Moth
ing OF that kind has ever been done In
this office.
IAN we do in this office is take care Of
the distribution of ice where there is a
shortage as there is at South Bend now.
The dealers quote their OWE prices"
Mr.. Wycoff said the price in most
Indiana cities is higher than that in In
diana polls, with the exception of Evans
vile. where the price is lower. He said
he hed just received the list of prices Of
ice ia 500 cities In the United States and
that most OF them are higher than in
indianapolis. He said prices lower than
those In indianapolis run only per cent
or 10 per cent lower.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
STOP DUMPING
ON BOULEVARD
Proposed New Ordinance
Would Require Permits for
Using Parks for Refuse.

Dumping Of trash Of any kind within
500 feet Of any boulevard or park prop
erty without q permit from the city park
department would be prohibited by an
ordinance which the board Of park com
missioners today instructed Its attorney,
J. Clyde Hoffman, to prepare.
The beauty. Of aDumber Of parkways
ID being marred by the promiscuous and
unregulated dumping OF refuse, said Su-
perlnteneent OF Parks James L. Lowry.
Under the proposed ordinance, dumping
in order to fill In low places would not
be stopped because the park department,
with certain regulations, would permit
II. he said
Resolutions for the acquisition of the
Lauter Memorial property at Market and
Bloomington streets and Of the play
ground site at Fall Greek Parkway, south
drive, and Central avenue were con
firmed
"A resolution for a bridge over Pleasant
Run where Pleasant Run Parkway, south
drive crosses just east Of Ritter avenue
to replace an antiquated and dangerous
wooden span was adopted. The new
bridge will be Of concrete and forty five
feet long. A dangerous approach to the
bridge will be eliminated by changing the
location Of the bridge and part CT the
drive, using a plot OF ground 26 by 20
feet which Walter Jenny has agreed to
donate.
The National Refining Company was
refused permission to place sign board
in front of their filling station at Fail
Greek Parkway. south drive and Meridian
street
Lights and toilets wero ordered in
stalled in the Claypool Park.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
100000 MORE GO
TO GARBAGE POT
Huge Sum Will Be Spent on
Automobiles.

Specifications were adopted and bids
ordered advertised for equipment with
which to complete the motorization Of the
city garbage and ash collection depart
ments By the board of sanitary commits
sioners today. The cost will be around
$4,000 which IS to be met with a bond
issue, legal preliminaries to which are to
proceed simultaneously with the taking
of bids on the equipment.
Three truck tractors, eighteen trailers,
similar in type to those which have been
in use in the ash collection department
for two years, two extra trucks for haul
ing garbage from hotels and downtown
eating houses and two tractors with
graders attached are to be bought The
truck tractors and trallers will form
three new collection units. The trac-
tors are to be used on the ash dumps
to haul trailers from paved streets onto
the ash piles so as to save the truck
tractors from the strain Of being driven
over the soft, uneven surfaces and the
graders viii be used to smooth the
dumps.
The tractor trucks and trailers may be
used in either ash or garbage collection,
It being the plan of the board 10 use
most of the equipment on garbage In the
summer and ashes In the winter.
The bids will be received July 10. Ad-
vertising was ordered ON June so, July l
and s.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23

Wartime LGbOrerS
FLGyed in Senate
in Bonus Fight

WASHINGTON, June 23.-
Playing wartime lahorers as "stay-
at-home-sIackers," and cost plus
contractors as "profiteerlng .pl-
rates." Senator McCumber, North
Dakota, today urged the Senate to
pass promptly the soldier adjusted
compensation bill.
conscrlption of labor In war
tIme-the patriotic duty as be
tween soldier and civilian being
concurrent and equal, wsls the
principle upon which McCumber
based his savage attack on "war
profiteers of all classes"
"If ever there Is another great
war" he asserted, "that principle
will be invoked"
"The blood of the patriotic SOL
dier must have boiled with indIg-
nation to feel that while his Gov
ernment estimated his services, in.
cludlng his board and clothing at
about SO day, with all the risks
and hardshIps," he continued,
"any man who could saw rough
board or drive nall qualified as
a carpenter and received his $40
a day, whether he was so per cent
or 5 per cent efficient.
"LeaVIng out Of the computa;
tion every VestIge of sentiment
every element Of gratitude, and
applying only the rigid rule Of
mathematics we cannot deny that
by allowing the man who fought
for his country, who placed his
life In pawn, the Increase In his
compensation provided in this
bill. We are still giving him for
his services, with all their risks
and hardships a compensation
much below that which the COM
mon Iaborer In the United States
received during his absence"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
CARBIDE CANNON
ALSO UNDER BAN
Police Fourth of July RegH-
LGti0ns ErGcting.

Several boys and girls who have
bought or had their parents buy for
them type of toy cannon which is dis
charged with carbide gas instead of
powder, in the belief that they would
get by the police ourth of July regula-
tions, are doomed to disappointment, ac-
cording to George w. Williams. execu-
tive secretary Of the board of public
safety.
A sporting goods house has been sell
ing the cannons for $3.50 each and tell
ing the purchasers that since they did
not shoot powder they do not come un-
der the fireworks ban. The board of
public safety, however, absolutely pro-
hibits the use Of toy cannOns or fire.
arms of any sort. Mr.. Williams said,
and persons who have applied for per-
mits for use of this kind of noise maker
will be denied.
Some citizens, according to information
reaching the board Of safety, have been
buying an assortment Of fireworks put
up In cut rate package by a Cincinnati
firm, which advertises that all the articles
In the lot will pass the< regulations
everywhere. Most of the items, how
ever, can not be used in indianapolis,
Mr. Williams said.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
Vanishing Ship Mystery
May Remain Unexplained
Unless Due to BOLsheUists

WASHINGTON. June 23.-The fate of
the vanishing ships today threatened
to go down in history as one Of the un-
explained mysteries OF the sea.
Officials of the Department OF Com
merce admitted that the search for a
twentieth century pirate. undertaken
after all other theories to explain the
disappearance of half a dozen boats off
Cape Hatteras failed, so far had pro-
duced no results.
I've heard many tell yarns of the
sea-" said Eugene T. Chamberlain, COM
missioner of navigation. But in this
case the facts are there. The Carroll A.
Deering and the Hewitt met some strange
fate beyond that Of ordinary vessels com
ing to grief"
The Deering was the schooner that
sailed on the shoals, abandoned appar-
emily In calm seas and with the ship and
cargo in good condition. The Hewitt
and her crew dropped completely out Of
sight about the same time.
"Of course we don't say fatty that
these ships were victims of piracy, but
we have and are investigating that
angle" Chamberlain said.
That American navigators are not the
only ones to admit piracy as an explana-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
COLGATE WILL
SEE GOVERNOR
Head of Soap Company to Dis
cuss Purchase of Indiana
RefOrmatOry.
Special to The Times.

NEW YORK, June 23.-Henry A. Col
gate, of Colgate & Co.. may go
to indianapolis within the next few days
to confer with Governor Warren T. Nc
Cray regarding the Governors second
request for abrogation Of the contract in
which the company agreed to buy the
site Of the Indiana Reformatory at JEFF
fersonviJle.
1t was learned at the offices of
Colgate & Co, here that Mr.. Colgate may
before the end of the week discuss with
the Indiana Governor the companys re-
fusal to accede to the first request
Although executive officers of the com
pany refused to make a definite state
ment, 1t seemed to be their intention to
hold their position outlined in their
first refusal and await action by the
Indiana legislature.
Colgate & Co., it was said. has de-
posted $105, 900 with the State govern
ment as initial payment on the reform
atory.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
MAN, IS, KILLED
BY FAST TRAIN
Fred Wolf Walks in Front of
Pennsy Flyer Near
Ben Davis.

Pennsylvania passenger train No. SOC,
inbound from st. Louis. today struck and
killed Fred Wolf, 65, who lived with his
son-in-law, John w. Gregg, 236 South
Lyons avenue. while he was crossing the
tracks near Ben Davis. The man was
decapitated and every bone in his body
was crushed. The body was taken to
the city morgue by order of DIR. Paul f.
Robinson, coroner.
Motor Policemen Mueller and Finney
investigated. They were unable to deter
mine II it was a case Of suicide or If
Wolf thought he could get across the
tracks ahead of the train. The train. IN
charge Of Henry Sacks Of Terre Haute,
engineer, was travelling at a high rate of
speed. Wolf walked from the north on
a road that crosses 10th the interurban
and railroad tracks at Stop 3, and walked
directly in front Of the railroad train.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
COMPANY HAS NO
WRITTEN CONTRACT

Governor McCray recently sent a sec
ond letter to Colgate & Co. asking them
to relinquish their agreement to buy the
State reformatory site The Legislature
provided that the reformatory should be
removed from JeffersOnville to Putnam
County, but the removal commission held
the law unworkable after the present
site had been sold to Colgate & Co Gov
ernor McCray says there is no signed
contract between the State and the com
pahy and that he is requesting that Col
gate & Co. not take possession Of the
site Oct. 81. 1922, the stated date for
the transferral.
The Governor said he did not expect
Mr. Colgate before the first of next
week.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
WOMEN TO OPEN
HEADQUARTERS
Democrats Will Make Appeal
TO New Yeters to Defeat
Shank for Mayor.

Mrs. Grace Bodenmiller, director OF
Organization fer women for the Demo
cratic city committee, today took up her
work In the committee headquarters, 205
Peoples State Bank building, and from
now on until the close Of the campaign
she will devote her entire time to the
success OF the ticket. She has selected
as her assistant Mrs. Mary Steenbergen.
who was connected with the Democratic
State committee last summer and fall
81 am going TO stop this propaganda
that Shank will be elected. " said Mrs.
BodenmiIler THAT cry is being cir
culated about the city by over confident
Republicans and am going TO convince
the voters that It Is our ticket. and not
Mr.. Shank's, that is going to be chosen
this fall."
Mrs. Bodenmlier is a veteran in politi-
cal experience and IS counted as one Of
the best organizers in the party. She was
connected with the State committee In
1908 and 1910 and was secretary in Gov
ernor Samuel NJ Ralston's office during
his administration. She was also secre-
tnry I nthe fish and game department.
Last year she was in charge of the office
for the State committe.