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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-16
HELLO CENTRAL!

just "A years ago you took up your
station in Atlanta and now you are
on the other end of the line for $4,000
transmtters in your city. The first
call you ever responded to was on
October 2 1881 when Mr.. Anton Kontz
called to B. w. Wrenn, "1'm hungry,
send word to Henry Durand to get
me good dinner" There was sur
pr:sing thrill in this transmission tor
both sender and receiver. Now the
Bell Company sets their goal for 100,
900 telephones in much shorter in
terval than for this $4,000.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-16

Mrs. w. D. Branch and Mrs. Purvis
of Della spent Friday in the city.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-16
TILL DEATH DO THEN PART

Mrs. Georgia Hacket Ruggles Of
Los Angeles made a will within sc
days of her death that will not be hon
ored by the California law, which pro-
vides that no church can inherit by, a
bequest made on the edge of the
grave. In this case it will be Christian
Science church that will be the loser
though the law intervenes more fire.
quentlv ip the case of Catholic adher-
ents where the interest of the dying
one is often more concerned with his
soul and the church than with the
claims of his relatives.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-16
ANIMAL TRAPS

A new society that aims to check
cruel methods of trapping the fur bear
ing animals is called the Humane Trap
ping Committee The steel traps that
do not kill the animals are considered
more cruel than those that cause quick
death. A national headquarters in Wash
ington is being arranged to obtain en-
actment of state laws against the non
killing traps.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-16

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Crawley announce;
their marriage which occurred April
9th, as a great surprise to their many
friends before they leave to make the r
home in Griffin, Ga. Mrs. Crawley was
Miss Clara Eohl.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
LEGAL NOTES
Edited Wayne Wheeler
and Edward B. Dunford. Assistant

of synthetic GIN will be unduly punished
and the fear that injustice will be done
because a liquor criminal may be pros
ecuted in both state and federal courts is
not convincing. Scores of other laws
carry the same kind of punishment in
both state and nation. AS a matter of
fact, practically no case has ever been
tried in the federal courts where the de-
PENDANT has been honestly prosecuted in
the state courts, and vice versa TIE oil
legal manufacturer of synthetic gin" was
punished by imprisonment, under the old
revenue laws, of not less than six months
nor more than two years for first offense.
Why should violation of the Constitu-
ton be treated as trivial offense?
The Stalker bill is in harmony with
effective state laws which are dealing
with the outlawed liquor traffic effective
ly. The nation should not lag behind the
state in making law with effective pen
alties.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
TERRY LOSES HIS SINECURE
Beer Runner Leaves Good Berth
in Hospital for Hardships
in Jail

Terry Druggan, Chicago beer runner
and brewer, has been ousted from his
comfortable quarters in the Cook County
Jail Hospital. Warden Westbrook despite
Ierry's protestations moved him into
cherries cell TO spend the remainder of
his one-year term for defiance of federal
beer injunction.
When first incarcerated by order of
Federal Judge Wilkerson, Terry devel-
oped a series of Illnesses. Physicians de-
clared he was too i'll for the hardships of
Jail life so he was transferred to the Jail
hospital where he had clean bed instead
of Jail cot and did not have to work.
Recently DR.. Frances Mcnamara, Jail
physician, gave Terry second e.amina-
ton. He found his health much improved
and the warden acted accordingly Terry
couldn't see what right the warden had to
move him but he was moved anyhow.
Frankie Lake, Druggan's parner, is
having a better time of it. Instead of
suking and soldering as Druggan did.
Lake behaved checrfuly. He took his
turn on the jail scrubbing crew and then
did his bit in the jail laundry and as a re-
ward was given job as hospital attend
ant. If Druggan wants to get the same
standing the jail officials say he must
work for it. Terry had another privilege
which has been taken from him, which
was that of going out of Jail daily for
treatment by dentist. His teeth are
now in shape to serve him until his term
is up.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
FEWER WOMEN IN PRISONS NOW

Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of
Corrections in New York City, issued
statement to the press on January 19 in
which he gave figures showing that the
daily average number of women in New
York City prisons has decreased nearly
SO per cent since prohibition became eff
fective. The average daily census of wo-
men prisoners in all of the city's penal
institutions during the FIVE years of pro-
hibition was 374, while during the ten pre-
prohibition years up to and including
1919, the daily average was 743. The de-
crease, the commissioner pointed out to
reporters, is even more remarkable than
it appears at first glance when one consid-
ers the concurrent, steady growth of the
city's population. The total daily aver
age of all prisoners-men and women
is lower in the five prohibition years, and
the daily average for men shows slight
reduction, but it is because the number of
women inmates of prisons in the city is
almost cut in two that the great change
is noted
SO far all the women to whom much
credit has been given for helping to bring
about prohibition can feel that they have
helped their own sex to live better and
more useful lives. The outstanding of
lenses for which women are arrested in
New York City are disorderly conduct,
intoxication, vagrancy and beggary, So
Letting in violation of the narcotic and
health laws.
The charges of vagrancy and beggary
and intoxication have been reduced enor-
mously among women during the past FIVE
years. No New Yorker needs statistical
table to prove this. Anyone with mem
DRY can go back to the good old days"
when Madison Square, Union Square and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
MINORITY REPORT ON STALKER
BILL H. r. 1913

The minority report of the Judiciary
Committee, signed by two members out
of twenty-one, indicates about the pro-
portion of sentiment there is for and
against the Stalker bill to increase the
penalties in the national prohibition act.
The Volstead Act provides no mini
mum penalties and that is the reason why
ridiculously low fines have been imposed
by some of the judges. In such places
the bootlegger has no fear of conviction
under the law. The testimony before the
Judiciary Committee showed that prac-
tically all of the state prohibition laws as
we'll as the federal statutes relating to
violations of the revenue laws fix mini
mum penalties. The proposed law
makes it harder for the boot1egger but
more effective for law enforcement.
The argument that the manufacturer
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
DRY AGENT is POISONED
Indications Are That Liquor Containing
Poison Was PLANTED" In Order
to Get" Him

E. N. Smith, member of the dry
squad, is in the Allegheny general hos
pital at Pittsburgh in serious condition
as the result of tasting booze garnered
from one of three bars which he raided.
1t is believed that the liquor was pois-
oned purposely and planted for the agent.
An investigation is being conducted
The proprietors of the places which
were searched were arrested with their
bartenders. Two additional saloons in
the Brownsville Road were also raided
and their owners and bartenders arrested.
Quantities of liquor were taken from the
FIVE bars.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

the public meeting places on the far east
and west side in the early morning hours
were full of poor old women dereicts who
had spent the night on park benches sleep
ing off their sprees.
Few Women DRINKS
So changed are conditions that il gives
one a painful shock nowadays to see
drunken woman on the streets, and one
of the most outrageous results of the re-
peal of the Mullan-Gage law (the state
dry law enforcement act) is that they are
more frequently seen than they were two
years ago.
The figures given the press by Com
missioner Wallis show that the lowest
number of arrests for both men and wo-
men in the ffteen-year- period under OBJ
servation was in the year 1920, the first
year of prohibition. During this year the
law was really enforced Between SO per
cent and Is per cent of New York saloons
went out of business and as a consequence
the old hangers-on, the can-rushers and
corner loafers and the back-parlor crowd,
were left high and dry without place to
loaf, and went out and looked for jobs
Women critters got work or stayed
home and took care of their children, and
the result is told in the figures Commits
sioner Wallis has just given out. The
warning of these figures which are show
ing tendency to creep back to pre-pro-
hibition heights, is that New York first
of all must have a state prohibition law
to back up the Volstead law and that this
law must be enforced by the state and city
authorities. The astounding reduction in
arrests with prohibition but partially en-
forced is a prophecy of still greater reduc-
ton in crime with the more faithful en-
forcement of the prohibition law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
SHOWS CHANGE IN SENTIMENT

Superintendent Shumaker of the In
diana Anti-Saloon League and editor of
that states edition of American Issue,
has been sued for libel by a defeated
candidate for prosecuting attorney be-
cause he was dubbed wet by Mr.. Shu-
maker. A few years ago it was not an
uncommon thing for candidate to be-
lieve that his chances for success at the
polls were enhanced if he were advertised
as wet. There has been a marked change
in sentiment in this respect since the ad-
vent of prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

New York City is soon to have an
other mammoth hosiery on Seventh
Avenue and the early Fifties Speaking
of hotel sites, it is interesting to note
that the famous Hotel Ambassador, Park
Avenue, New York City, stands on the
site of an old brewery.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

-y7Chief Justice Floyd E. Thompson of
the Illinois supreme court recently de-
clared that There has been too much
mollycoddling of the less than one-third
of one per cent of the population which
is deliberately criminal" He gave it as
his opinion that fines are useless as a de-
terrent to crime
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
RAID ON GRIFFITH PLACE

Nineteen men were arrested and three
automobiles carrying $40 cases of Scotch
whisky were seized in a raid January 20
on the D. w. Griffith estate at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y. This estate the scene of nu-
merous motion pictures, recently was sold
by Griffith interests to private individuals.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

A speaker at the annual meeting of the
Illinois State Society of Optometrists de-
clared that if you wear glasses you will
not crave liquor. He should have added
that if you do crave liquor and get it from
bootlegger you may never need glasses
at all.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

The LaSalle County w. C. T. u. and
many church and civic organizations
have passed resolutions expressing appre-
citation of the work of states attorney
Russell O. Hanson. Support and encour-
agement by citizens, is very helpful to
conscientious officials. The other side
never neglects to bring pressure against
them.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

Here is a new trick. When Moline po-
lice raided bar the proprietor dumped
two glasses of alleged hootch into a bar
rel of water. This, of course, made the
alcoholic content of the barrel legal, put
ting the percentage safely below one-half
of one per cent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
PROHIBITION
Continued from Page y

The Norwegian government is consid-
ering legislation to prevent the participa-
ton of Norwegian vessels in the rum-run-
ming trade to the United States, which is
characterized as "a discredit to the flag"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

DR.. Paul Kammerer, famous scientist
from the University of Vienna, in lee
ture under the auspices of the Chicago
Woman's Club, said: "If Americans
would conscientiously obey their prohi-
bition law in a few generations there
would be no need for it. Their descend
ants would lose the taste for alcohol"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

County Judge John B. Crabtree, 46
years old, died on January Goth as the re-
suit of stroke of apoplexy he suffered
while at work in his chambers at the
court house. Judge Crabtree had one of
the best records for prohibition law en-
forcement of any county judge in Illinois.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

The new president of the American
Federation of Labor was present at the
recent enforcement conference in New
York City addressed by Judge Gary and
Mayor Dever. Josephus Daniels, writing
of this meeting, said: William Green,
successor to Gompers, is an advocate of
temperance and law enforcement" He
added, 81 do not think the captains of in
dustry and labor are urging law enforce
ment because they fear bolshevism. 1t
can never come in America. But they see
that if respect for the prohibition law goes
to the point of notification, we no longer
have government of liberty regulated
by law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

Chief of Police A. E: Bargren, of Rock
ford, has received letter from E. Thiele,
state director of the National Association
Opposed to Prohibition, warning the
town against solicitors for the Rational
League, rival wet organization.
The Issue hereby warns everybody
against the N. A. o. P. Now if anybody
gets stung by either bunch or booze
boosters it is their own fault and not
ours.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

DR.. William A. Evans says that the
combination of delirium tremens and
pneumonia which was usually fatal in the
old days is not frequently seen now He
believes that as prohibition becomes more
effective as time goes by this form of
pneumonia will disappear. He warns that
the person who wishes to avoid pneu-
monia had better get on the water wagon.
Paarvo Nurmi, the runner from prohi-
bition Finland who is breaking all rec
ords in America, is a total abstainer.
Jack Dempsey, world champion pugilist
declares that he does not drink intoxi-
cants. A sports writer in the Chicago
American says that the days of the boozer
and the roughneck and the crook in pro-
fessional baseball are pretty we'll gone.
Alonzo Stage, Chicago University foot
ball coach, says he does not bother to
train players who drink It is getting
clearer all the time that you can't drink
and win in athletes or in any other field.
Evening star., 1925-06-08
PLANS FOR ADDITION
TO SIBLEY. HOSPITAL
Building to Provide 110 Beds to
Be Erected, Adjoining the
Present Institution.

Architects plans have been drawn
for 102-bed addition to Sibley Hos
pital, to adjoin the present building
on Pierce street.
These plans now are in the hands
of contractors for bids and further
action waits on the receipt of
estimates.
The new building viii he "T''-
shaped. ~ by l42 feet. with four
floors and ba sement 1t has been
designed To conform with the existing
buildings.
The basement will he devoted to the
dietians' department. dining rooms
of nurses and staff. and kitchen.
The first floor viii contain 81 beds
for ward patients. The wards range
from semi-private rooms OF Two beds
each TO rooms with nine beds. There
will be 20 private room beds on the
second and third floors.
On the fourth floor there will be a
large nursery. with provision for 72
cribs. There will be high tempera-
ture room for delicate babies and an
isolation room.
A two-story power house and laun-
dry building will be erected adjoining
this addition.
All plans for the new building are
in charge of DR.. g. Ellis Williams of
Frederick, Nd. acting president of
the hospital association. who was in
Washington today comforting in re-
gard TO them.
Evening star., 1925-06-08
LAWYER SENTENCED
ON HOLD-UP CHARGE
Accused of Part in Robbing of Man
of $180-Appeals for
New Trial.

Sidney A. Schwartz. 80 years old,
member Of the bar. was sentenced to-
day by Chief Justice Mccoy in Grim.
incl Division 10 serve six years in
the penitentiary as the leader Of a
"hold-up" gang. Schwartz denied his
guilt, and told the chief justice that
despite the decision of the jury he in
tended TO prove his innocence. He
noted an appeal to the Court OF Ap-
peals from his conviction and sen
tence.
Schwartz was indicted with two
young men. Charles B. Mcdonald and
Theodore w. Merritt. on charge Of
highway robbery. They are said to
have held up John Work in front of
his home early last December and re-
lieved him of $3.50. The boys turned
States evidence and testified for the
Government.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Fihelly. Horning and O'Leary con-
Quoted the prosecution. while the de-
fendant was represented by Attorneys
Abner Siegal and S. Herbert Gesy.
Evening star., 1925-06-08

Continued from First Pagel
main for the present in its quarters in
the Interior Department building 1t
was learned today that in the interest
of economy and the elimination of
duplication. combining of the Bureau
Of Mines with the Bureau of Standards
in the big Standards area on Con
necticut avenue would save the Gov
ernment much money and would
eliminate overlapping of work.
Laboratories OF the Bureau OF
STA ndards and the Bureau of Mines
now carry on analogous investigations
into the same subjects. For example,
the Bureau of Sta ndards conducts re
search In the use of gasoline and
lubricatinc oils in gasoline engines
and the Bureau of Mines carries on
research generally in the gasoline and
petroleum products. Other duplica-
lions mentioned include investiga tions
into the quality of materials for the
manufacture of porcelains. the quail
ties of fuel. statistics of mineral pro-
duction, statistics of explosives pro-
duction. safety appliance investiga
tions and many other scientific in
quiries which are very similar in
character and scope.
II the Bureau of Mines is consoli-
dated on July /. or thereafter. with the
Bureau of Standards. 1t will affect
about 200 employees in the Washing
ton office of the Mines Bureau, one
fifth OF the entire staff of approx
mately 900 on the pay roll of the
Bureau of Mines. The appropriation
for the Bureau of Mines, totaling
about 1900. 900. will go to the Depart
ment OF Commerce when the transfer
is made.
The entire issue of available space
for the overcrowded Commerce De-
partment facilities is understood to
have caused Secretary Hoover to con-
duct further inquiry into the possi-
bility of construction of q building
for the Department of Commerce. The
present building Is rented. Mr..
Hoover favors the new building to
house all the departmental facilities,
including the aPtent Office. which was
transferred from the Interior Depart
ment TO the Commerce Department
on Nav /. the Census Bureau, now
in q temporary building on the Nah,
and the other Commerce Departme Mt r
activities now being operated in rented
quarters. Part of the Hurley Wright
building at Eighteenth street and
Pennsyiva MIA avenue is being used by
the Commerce Department. 1t was
vacated a few weeks ago by the
United States Railroad Administra
tion.
Mr.. Hoover plans TO announce the
personnel of the committee TO investi-
gate the Bureau of Mines within few
days. but it was said at his Office to-
day that his recommendation 70
prominent mining orga nizations TO
draft individuals from these organi-
zations for the committee must be
taken up by the executive boards of
the mining bodies before the person
mel of the committee can be finally
decided upon.
Evening star., 1925-06-08
MATE THROWN THROUGH
WINDOW OF PILOT HOUSE

George Windsor. first mate of the
excursion steamer Charles Macalester.
was thrown through the window of
his pilot house today when the rudder
chain of the vessel snapped while
backing out into the channel and per.
mitted the ship to drift against the
sea wall of the Speedway.
Windsor was at the wheel at the
time and the concussion of the Mac
alester drifting against the seawall
percipitated the mate out onto ths
deck before he could brace himself
He suffered slight contusions of the
body and was taken to Emergency
Hospital in taxicab after the boat
had been redocked. Later he wa
sent home.
The collision occasioned little ex
citement among the passengers and
after the rudder chain had been re-
paired, which required but a shor,
time, the Manchester continued down
the river to Mount Vernon. The sea
wall was not damaged.
Evening star., 1925-06-08
CARNIVAL BRINGS ST 900
TO BUILD SWIMMING POOL
Congress Heights Citizens Asso-
citation Succeeding in Drive
for Public Tank

The Congress Heights Citizens AS
socia ton has raised approximately
1000 by the carnival IL has been
conducting in Wilson Park, Nichols
avenue and Portland street south
east, for the last week to raise funds
for the building of a public swim
ming pool in the vicinity, DR.. +. E.
Richardson, president of the associa-
ton, announced today.
Rather than go through the long
process of appealing to Congress for
funds for the pool, the associa tion
decided to build IT'S own pool from
money to be raised by the carnival
or other means.
The carnival will be closed Wed
nesday with the announcement of
the winner of the prize baby be-
tween the ages of 6 months and
year and the most popular young
lady. Silver loving cups will be pre-
sented the prize winners. Voting in
the two CONTESTS was begun this
Evening star., 1925-06-08
LIQUOR ROW SEEN
IN Staying AT INN
Killing Followed Attempt to Get
Beer Proceeds, Is Po-
lice Theory.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June s.-Attempted col
lection at the point of revolver of
the illicit proceeds of beer running
was the best theory obtained by au-
thorities in the killing OF Harry Hass-
miller. affiuent loop hotel resident. and
the critical wounding of Walter
ODonnell, gangster, in an Evergreen
Park inn.
Hassmiller gave an assumed name
at the hospital where he died. Salts
fed he Is an aristocrat Of the Chicago
rum dispensing business, the police
were unable to trace his identity by
means of witnesses or fingerprints.
City and county officials pieced to-
gether an account of the shooting
from the stories of witnesses in the
inn.
Hassmiller and ODonnell arrived at
the inn after midnight, bent on forcing
collecting of beer.running fees. ac-
cording to the police version. Hass-
manded money OF Thomas McIaugh-
lin, the owner. who shouted to his bar
tender to give them the money.
Hassmiller placed one of his weapons
on the counter as he reached for the
cash, and as he did so a bystander
seized 1t and started to shoot. Hass-
miller was shot five times and O'Don-
nell twice.
Mclaughlin and several men were
held for questioning. Accounts Of the
shooting given by witnesses showed
discrepancies.