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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST
THEY INSURE BooTLEGGERS

a recent newspaper dispatch from the
Pacific coast declared that:
Hundreds of men and women boot
leggcrs in California arc protected by in
surance. The commissioner said he had
learned that more than 200 men and 100
women policyholders pay weekly pre-
miums ranging from s. to SIS for partial
or complete protection against hazards
attending their illicit operations. Pre-
miums paid to the company handling the
insurance amounted TO 100000 in 1925,
he said he had discovered.
"The protection accorded to patrons of
the company, Moore said, together with
the fees charged, follow:
Accidental death while in the line of
duty, $4,000 policy, SO per week. $4,000
policy, $50 per week; for time spent in
Jail, policies pay to the holder S. day,
the liquor dealer paying 81 week for this
class OF policy.
For protection at the rate OF $40
day, while confined in jail, the rum run
ners pay a premium of 81 week, or S.
a week for protection at the rate of $40
day"
If the above report is true it is time
such an insurance company ought to be
put out of business along with the boot
leggers
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
BAN PLACED ON WHISKY.
BRANDY, RUM, GIN

After January the use OF
whisky, brandy, rum or gin IN the
manufacture of medicinal prepara-
tons or navoring extracts, is for
hidden by recent Treasury order.
The order was issued by Assistant
Secretary Andrews.
1t will have no effect on the use
of whisky, brandy, or other distilled
spirits by druggists in filling pre-
scriptions or manufacturing prep
arai,oEs upon prescriptions by
physicians. To accomplish the re-
strictions imposed Mr. Andrews or
dered prohibition administrators TO
refuse approval for permits for
Withdrawals for the purposes stated
and to revoke formulas in which
they were used and were previously
approved by the Treasury Depart
ment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
ONE CHICAGO poLIcEMAN's WAY

Hist Do you want to buy some good
liquor cheap?"
With this question Holsea Griffith, 1903
West 18th street a negro, stopped acting
Sergeant James w. Maskell, in plain
clothes as he was on his way home today.
Sure replied the sergeant Just
carry it to where ! am going for me, will
your"
The negro agreed and the pair walked
from l4th and Scion streets to the Max
well street station
Put il right in here" the sergeant said,
indicating closet on the first floor "and
you get right in here, indicating a cell in
the basement
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
LET Us DARE TO WIN THIS BATTLE
(The Continent)

prohibition They
trongde
much whether they have desire drink
kill
which This accounts for most OF the ppocke practice
o young nen--a INC O older.
has stirred
they Much
which
pob in O
thing which will make them
prohibition the
of
S midreced
Prohibition undoubtedly will
Eighteenth Amendment
social
particularly
people who the liquor
ere when i n
o
a
which
God andho mea and native land"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
IN RUSSIA WHERE LICENSE IS IN
FULL FLOWER

Fines aggregating $55OOOO were inn
posed upon $4,000 Russian bootleggers in
the Ukraine district during the past year.
More than $4,000 illicit stills for making
vodka we're conhscated Despite the fact
the government now allows the manufac-
ture and sale of 40 per cent vodka the
peasantry continue to make their own
home brew" which costs about one-half
the price of governmental vodka Al
coholism has increased at an alarming
rate and the government is taking drastic
measures to check it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
CITY MANAGER ON WAGON
City Manager of Cincinnati Warns
Friends Not to Offer Him Drink as
He Might Cause Their Arrest

The new city manager of Cincinnati,
{. Q. Sheriff., in an address before 600
business men of that city is quoted in the
press as saying: 81 am on the water
wagon. Please don't ask me to take
drink. can not be law enforcement
officer and at the same time violator of
the law. Please don't offer me a drink
because | would have to order you to be
arrested and | would hate like poison to
have to do that. / am poor weak hui
man being, remember that and might
fall. And | would hate to fail to do my
duty"
Evidently the new city manager who
comes from Washington has heard of the
weakness OF Cincinnati and has thought
best to warn the people that he is on the
water wagon. His statement must have
been quite shock to some who heard
him.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
RUM FLEET SCATTERED

Lieutenant Commander 6. 5. Yeandle
of the United States coast guard at the
annual Union Ministers Meeting in the
John Street M. E. Church, New York
City, held under the auspices of the Anti
Saloon League of New York, January rs,
declared that the coast guard has cree
lively scattered the rum row heet lying
off the entrance to New York, Long Is
land and New Jersey. He declared that
its activities against liquor smugglers
have fully justified the additional appro-
priations made by Congress ID this
branch of the service and have cur off
the foreign source of supply of bootleg
liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
BIGGEST GAIN IN GENERATION

Erection of new buildings in Ohio,
prosperity of building and loan associa-
tions and manufacturing anG employ
ment conditions the past year have estab-
lished high marks, substan.iating the
contention of friends of prohibition in
Ohio that prohibition and prosperity
have beconle inseparabe in the state.
During 1926 there has been started in
Ohio new construction worth $40l ,434,
800, compared with similar period for the
preceding year, $325,678,o00.
The gains in the few years sine Ohio
became dry are greater in the building
and loan associations of the State than
for a generation before, according to
!. w. Tannenill, state superintendent of
Ohio Building and Loan Associations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
BITTEREST FIGHT AHEAD
Mrs. Pinchot Says Fight for Law Observ-
ance Harder Than Fight to Enact
Dry Laws

Mrs. Corne1ia Pinchot wife of Gov
ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, in an adj
dress before the convention of the Rhode
Island Anti-Saloon League and the New
England Workers Conference for Law
Observance and Law Enforcement in
Providence, X. l., last week, said:
This fight for law observance and
law enforcement will be harder,
longer, hercer, more bitter and cruel.
even more dangerous than the dry
fight and the suffrage fight combined.
We must open the eyes of the patrons
OF the bootleggers until they see
themselves as they are seen They
are responsible for every crime COM
mitted in the service of their appetite.
Since the question is in politics we
must organize to put into office men
who respect the Constitution. and
keep out of office at any cost men who
do not. And we must apply it from
president down to town constable
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
THERE Is NO PLEASING The VETS
(Chicago Evening PosD


On Monday our wet friends are point
ing to the failure of prohibition enforce
men as argument for its repeal
On Tuesday they are printing stats
tics howing the increase in the number
of arrests for violating the law as proof
that it has failed.
There is no pleasing them.
The law is bad because it is not en-
forced.
The law is worse because it is enforced.
II people are not arrested for violations
it ough to be repealed.
If effective enforcement increases the
number of arrests it also ought to be re-
pealed.
You have only to listen to a wet long
enough to hear him answer himself. He
is his own best REUTER-.
TN 1900 the percentage of school pop
ulation in the United States enrolled in
public schools was ia in 1924 it was
82.8."-John >. Tigery, United States
Commissioner of Education
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST

States Attorney Russell o. Hanson OF
LaSale county, in the little more than
year since he took office, has closed l02
blind pigs by injunction An additional
list is waiting the action OF the court. 1t
is matter of further interest to know,
that during this same time, Mr.. Hanson
has collected $4,000 from the boot1eggers
and bhnd-pig keepers at cost to the
county OF but $1,000.
This shows what a states attorney can
do who regards his oath of Office as a sa-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01

full and effective speakers on the platform
today.
Mr.. J. \. Little who has been with the
Illinois AntiSaloon League for five years,
has resigned to connect himself with
commercial firm with his field of activity
in Iowa. He has served the League
faithfully as district superintendent and
field secretary.
The best wishes of his colleagues in the
Illinois League go with him to his new
field
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01
PERSONALS

Major Frank B. Gilbert, former state
superintendent is giving a hundred adj
dresses in the state in the interest of the
work OF the national Anti-Saloon League.
Major Gilbert is one OF the most force
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01

One day last week marine police of
New York seized an ocean going tug
with a cargo of liquor said to be worth
more than a half million dollars.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01

The person who favors legalizing beer
favors decrease in the prosperity, eff
cheney and physical we'll being OF those
who would become beer victims.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-02-01

The good sense and patriotism of the
American people will prevent the brew
ers from realizing their dream OF legal
lied beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-15

man OF North Carolina: Smith of
South Carolina and Underwood of
Alabama Underwood has an
nounced he will not seek reelection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-15
SENATORS TO
BATTLE FOR
OFFICE AGAIN
Thirty-Three viii Be Elected
to Upper House Next
Fall.
Times WGshin0ton Bureau,
1929 Ne1O York AD611tte

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The
Senate is preparing to continue it.
self in office. Senators are getting
ready for the primaries which will
come this spring and the general
election next fall.
Campaign committees have been
appointed by Republican and Demo
cratic senators and these committees
are getting ready to offer aid and
comfort to their struggling col
leagues, regardless Of what later as
sistance they may receive FROM their
respective national political COM
mittees.
The Republican senatorial COM
mittee is headed by Senator Lawr-
ence Y. Phipps Of Colorado, and
the Democratic committee has as
it's chairman Senator Peter Goelet
Gerry of Rhode Island. Both chair
men are many times millionaires
and there is hope that the forth
coming Senate battles may be amply
financed.
To Elect Thirty Three
IQ1rIy-Lnre6 OeudlOrS Will NC
elected next fall, one more than tho
usual one-third of the Senate. Sue
cessors will be chosen to twenty-six
Republican and Seven Democratic
Senators. There are fifty-six Re-
publican Senators, thirty-nine Demo
cratic Senators and one Farmer
Labor Senator now in the Senate.
Because such large proportion Of
the seats to be defended are held by
Republicans, the Democrats are
hopeful they may overturn the G.
o. P. majority.
Some of the most prominent mem
bers of the Senate are UP for re-
election Among the Republicans
are Senators Bingham Of Connect
cut; Butler of Massachusetts,; Cam
eron of Arizona Cummins of Iowa;
Curtis of Kansa; Dale of Vermant;
Ernst of Kentucky; Gooding Of
Idaho; Harreld of oklahoma; Jones
of Washington; Lenroot of Wiscon-
sin; Mckinley Of Illinois. Means Of
Colorado: Moses of New Hampshire,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-15

Norbeclx Of South Dakota; Nye Of
North Dakota; Oddic Of Nevada;
Copper Of Pennsylvania; Shortridge
Of California; Smoo. Of Utah; STAN
field Of Oregon; Wadsworth Of New
York; Watson Of Indiana; Weller of
Maryland; Williams Of Missouri and
Willis OF Ohio.
Reelection Doubtful
The reelection Of some Of these
Senators is regarded as very doubt
full.
Democrats Senators whose terms
expired include Broussard Of Louis
lana; Caraway OF Arkansas; Fletcher
of Florida; George Of Georgia. Over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-15
.I.uCKYv LEFT HANDS

LONDON-Superstition has it
that left-handed persons are lucky.
A medical man has just emphasized
that the, left-handed child who is al
lowed to develop naturally is at any
rate luckier than the child forced
against inclination to use the right
hand, for he states that such forcing
has frequently resulted in nervous
disorders.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
P | AN G UAR D.
ENCANPNENT

Recommendations for the places
and dates for the summer encamp
ments Of 1927 for the District OF Co
lumbia National Guard have been
forwarded to the headquarters OF
the Third Corps Area by Maj. Gen
Anton Stephan. commanding gen.
eral.
It was rec commended that the en-
gineer troops be sent to Virginia
Beach from July 81 to August IA
There appears TO be some question
as to whether the local National
Guard will be sent to Virginia Beach
or Fort Humphreys There has been
some objection in the past to send.
Ing the local engineer troops for
long distances because OF the fact
that # Is believed that 1t can receive
Ifs maximum training closer to
home Fort Humphreys.
The recommendations provide that
the 260th Coast Artillery be sent to
Fortress Monroe. Va. for fits usuas
course OF tfainlng. The only pro
vision regarding. the colored guard
Company A, 1920 Infantry. Is that
they 90 to the same place and dates
as the first separate company OF the
Maryland National C,ta-S j. IL he.
lieved that these troons will train
at either Saunders Rifle Range
MARYLAND or the new Maryland
training camp at Pen Mar
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
RESERVES HERE
SHOW GAIN

Reserve army officers here, espe-
cially those Of the field artillery. are
displaying much interest in the an.
nouncement made By Maj. william
j. Snow, chief. that there was total
of 9.os6 field artillery reserve Off.
GERS added during the past fiscal
year.
This is gain of 1927 officers OF
the reserve during the year. OF
these per cent is in the grade Of
colonel. III per cent In the grade OF
lieutenant colonel and 6% per cent
in the grade OF major.
There were 421 ROTC graduates
commissioned as reserve officers and
1.103 from other sources In 1925
This year there were IA ROTC
graduates and only 60l from other
sources, who accepted commissions
in the field artillery reserve.
Maj Gen. Andrew Hero, jr., chief
Of the coast artillery, believes that
the inspections OF coast artillery
ROTC units have Indicated a gen.
orally healthy condition of training
OF such units under the present War
Department training directive Gen
eral Hero said that the methods OF
fire against moving water and air
targets made 1t necessary to recon
mend certain changes In the present
course OF instruction.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
oNE-ARMED PEDDLER IS
CONVICTED OF STAYING

HAGERSToWN Md. Dec. g.
The Jury in the case OF George
Wingie Thompson one armed ped
der charged with killing Edward
G. Kendall in Hagerstown on the
night of October 8. last last night
returned a verdict OF murder In
the second degree The jury de-
liberated six hours. Thompson re-
mained in court and received the
verdict calmy. He will be sent.
enced later by Judge Frank G..
Wagaman.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
GUGGENHElM DONATES
S7s. 900 FOR AVIATION

ANN ARBOR. Mich. Dec. B.
Aviation development at the Uni
versity of Michigan was given a
boost today with the announce
ment of a gift of $4,000 from the
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the
Promotion of Aeronautics
The appropriation will cover the
completion OF the aeronautlcal
laboratory here and the establish
ment OF the Daniel Guggenheim
Professership of Applied Aeronautics.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
cursor Is FINED 81 CENTS
A WORD BY IRKED JUSTICE

POTTSDoWN, Pa. Dec. S.-Ben.
jamin Coleman, a Ringing Hill
farmer. was fined at the rate of 81
cents word on a charge Of swear
Ing at his neighbor, Mrs. Kate Slo.
vanik, during a quarrel over stray
cows, Squire March, who heard the
case, said that he is going to wage
a campaign against profanity and
he assessed the fine under the old
blue laws of the State. Coleman
also paid the costs.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
TURNS SOMERSAULT,
SAVING LIFE IN FALL

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. S.-Acro-
battles by a window cleaner saved
his life when he fell from a second
story window of baking company
plant.
George Former, q, was cleaning
second story window when he lost
his balance. He plunged head first
to the ground. Doubling his legs
he revolved himself and landed on
his feet, the right one Of which
was broken by the force Of the fall
Christmas cheer II cheer indeed when
Good Fellows get TO work.
The Washington times., 1926-12-03

That alcohol for power be obtained
from beets grown in regions where
they cannot be raised In sufficient
quantities to support sugar factories
has been recommended by a British
commission
The Washington times., 1926-12-03

With capacity or 10000 kilowatts
the largest automatic ilvdroelectric
station In the United States has been
completed in New York state. being
controlled by switch many miles
q vvav
The Washington times., 1926-12-03
She Took First Prize

HELEN LAUTON, 3, rode away with first prize in the
dde kar parade at Miami Fla during the latter days
OF the pageant of progress which opened winter
in the resort
The Washington times., 1926-12-03

The plane which viii open the
new British air route from Egypt to
India is scheduled to leave England
for Cairo on January ! and from
tho latter to Karachi via Bagdad II
days later.
The Winslow mail., 1926-08-06
RACING AV|ATORS STOP HERE
ON WAY TO DENVER, COLO.

Murphy, entertained the air men,
who stopped here overnight, 1eav-
ing early Saturday morning. An
interesting collection of aerial pho
tographs were shown the commit
tee by Hufford, including views of
the midnight sun of the Yukon,
and "stills" of the wreck of the
Norge"
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock
two more aviators, c. T. Alexander
and r. B. Perry, who are also en-
tered in the race from San Diego
to Denver, landed in Winslow. They
were flying an Alexander plane,
manufactured in Denver, a small
machine designed for commercial
and private use.
Perry and Alexander left Amboy,
California, at 500 A M. Saturday
and expected to reach Trinidad, Col
orado by nightfall.
The Winslow mail., 1926-08-06
OPENING OF ROAD Up PEAKS
TO ADD SCENES Of BEAUTY

A road improvement that has
been eagerly awaited for months
by tourists to the scenic wonder
land of Northern Arizona will be
dedicated Sunday, August 18th at
Flagstaff, when the boulevard to
the 1890 foot level of San Fran
cisco Peaks is formally opened The
Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce
has broadcast an invitation over
the state, and many are expected
to attend the celebration.
On that day the road will be
thrown open to cars the entire dav.
and parking space for large num-
Der of cars will be available at the
present end of the road. At this
point entertainment will be fur
nished for visitors during the after
noon.
The scenic vistas that this "road
to the sky" will open will add one
more ling in the vast chain of
scenic marvels that include the
Grand Canyon, Oak Creek Canyon.
the Painted Desert and other un-
spoiled natural sights that make
this section famous the world over
From this winding path over the
peaks may be obtained views to
the south, east, and west over al
most illimitable tracts of pictur-
The Winslow mail., 1926-08-06
u. S. To File Suit
Against Santa Fe
For Peach Springs

PHOENIX - After two years of
investigation, the United States
government has decided it became
known here this week, to bring suit
against the Santa Fe system for
possession of Peach Springs, Ariz.,
and the lands surrounding the
springs, which adjoin the Hualpai
Indian reservation in Mojave and
Coconino counties.
In a recent letter to John B.
Wright, United States attorney at
Tucson, E. M. Parmenter, assistant
attorney general, wrote in part:
"It seems to this department that
the time for bringing this suit has
nearly arrived and that it might be
pushed from this time on. The rail-
way attorneys evidently desire de-
lay, but the bringing and pushing of
the suit should do more toward
bringing about an equitable settle
ment than any amount Of confer
ences and delays. We thus suggest
that the best way to get results is
to bring the suit as soon as posi-
BILE and push it from the start"
For nearly 40 years, or ever since
the Santa Fe main line was built
across Arizona, the railroad has
piped water from Peach Springs to
tank station and claims title un-
der a deed said to have been ac-
quired from Decker and Crozier,
who apparently were squatter5 on
the lands later reserved for the In
dams. The government it is claim
ed has witnesses who will testify
that the persons from whom the
railroad claims to have purchased
the land never lived on it and never
acquired title to it.
On one hand the water is highly
valuable to the railroad and on the
other the Indians set great senti-
mental store by the springs, which
are surrounded by many relics OF
former Hualpai occupancy.
A mass of interesting historical
matter concerning pioneer days
will come into evidence when the
suit to quiet title is instituted.
The Winslow mail., 1926-08-06

Delayed by a fog that forced
their plane to land near Los An
geles shortly after they had left
San Diego Friday morning, A. J.
Hufford, Vance Breese and J. B.
Alexander arrived in Winslow at
7:40 P. M. Friday, several hours
after their scheduled time. Their
machine, monoplane, is entered
in a race against time between the
Southern California city and Den
yer, competing against home thirty
other entries.
All three of the aviators are
well-knOWn in their craft. Breese,
who is plotting the plane, is pio-
neer in aeronautics; Hufford is
employed by the Wright corpora
ton, the founders of which were
originators OF heavier-than-air fly
ing machines, with the title of field
service engineer in charge of mo-
tors, while Alexander is sales man
ager for the Ryan Aircraft COM
pany.
Mr.. Hufford has recently return
ed from five months spent in the
arctic with the Detroit expedition,
headed by Captain Wilkins, an Aus
tralian who became internationally
known by his extraordinary valor
in the British air force in the
World War. The Wilkins forces
have been stationed at Fairbanks
Alaska, and for some time attempt
ed to establish a base at Point Bar
row, but owing to the rough nature
of the country were unable to land
any sufficient supply of gasoline
to make a start for the pole from
the point advisable.
Further activities of Hufford in
clude acting as cameraman fo1
Pathe News, and the pictures Of the
wreck of Roald Amundsen's ship
the Norge" were taken by him
These views are being shown in
theaters throughout the country.
Members of the city's aviation
committee, with city clerk G. l.
The Winslow mail., 1926-08-06
Arizona Is to Get
Sixty Yellowstone
Elk, Says Warden

PHOENIX-Arizona will receive
a herd of so elk from the Yellow
stone National park this fall, D. E.
Pettis, state game warden, an
nounced this week, following re-
ceipt of letter from Arno B.
Cammerrer, acting director of the
national park service.
The elk will be placed in the
Blue Ridge game preserve south of
Springerville, Pettis said. Arizona
is to pay for the cost of trapping
and transporting them to Gardiner,
Wyo., the nearest shipping point,
and the cost of freight on the car
load of elk from Gardiner to the
Arizona destination point, Pettis
explained.