Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 46, 5 January 1920 — Page 1

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BERBER CLAIMS ARE UP (By Associated Press) " WASHINGTON- Jan. K Patunitn to work today after two weeks' holiday uss races one or the busiest sessions Jn history and a staggering array of problems awaiting solution. , In addition to innumerable domestic matters, some of which will have a far reaching effect on the industrial life of the country, there are international i questions of far-reaching import that

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wore rau and the only break in the long session that numbers can. look forward to is the brief, recess that will be taken coincident with the holding of the-national party conventions during the Bummer. Expect Partisan Politics. But despite the mass of work ahead f there were indications a plenty that ample time would be found for parMisan politics and no angle of the 'coming presidential election would be 1 overlooked. Besides the treaties with Germany and. with Austria international prob- , lems to be considered include the proposed alliance with France, the Panama canal settlement with Colombia, treaties with Poland and, possibly, ; Turkey. Important domestic legislation await- , log action includes the railroad reorganization bill and the oil, coal, gas C and phosphate lard leasing bill, both of which now are in conference; army

reorganization, shipping legislation, control of undesirable aliens and on : scores of ther subjects. This afternoon the senate planned to resume consideration of the sedition bill of Senator Sterling. Republican, of , North Dakota, and to begin work on the house water power development ; measure. The house, before taking up various appropriation measures, expected to vote on the question of seat- :. Ing Victor Berger, Milwaukee Socialist i who was ousted last session, but reelected at a special election held re- , cently. Leaders predicted a prompt ; rejection of the re-election certificate. t Representative Mann, -formerly Re'publican s leader of the house,, an- , nounced that he. would oppose fuiftcfcj

tion to witnnoia Mergers seat. . . J "I am opposed to any summary action which would .deny Berger his Beat." he said. : Chairman Dallinger, Massachussetts of the elections committee, which recommended Berger's. rejection at the

special session was ready today with a resolution which would deny Berger lis seat on the ground that he has toee.1 "guilty of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. NEW PLAN WORKED OUT FOR PACKERS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. A new plan for government resulatlon of the meat industry, including packers, stock yards and livestock commission mer chants, was presented today by Sen a tors Kenyon, Republican, Iowa, and

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Senate Agriculture committee, when it began consideration of their pending bills which have been attacked by th packing and other interests. The substitute measure would provide government "registration" instead of licensing, but with broad federal . regulation through a proposed federal livestock commission, composed of three members appointed by the president. Instead of a single official. Repairs Made to Parks, Hollarn's Report Shows Richmond has 175.33 acres of parks, according to the annual report of Edward Hollarn, city park superintendent, which was made Monday to the mayor and board of works. The acreage of the five parks is as followss: Glen Miller, 162 acres; South Seventh street two acres; Tenth Street, 2:14 acres; Starr, 1.14 acres ; Riverside, four acres, and West Seventh street, four acres. There are 65 specimens in the "zoo' at Glen Miller park, including five aligators, Jhree bears, five deer and five elk. Sufficient crops were raised in the park to feed all of the animals, the report 6howed. Extensive repairs and improvements to the park grounds and buildings have been made daring the year. Week of Prayer Starts Tonight in Lutheran Church In accordance with the call sent out by the federal council of the churches of ChriRt in America, Kicnmona churches will unite in observing the weke of prayer this week. The week closes next-Sunday. . ' A. H. Backus and Lester W. Carlander will speak at union services In the Second English Lutheran churoh, Monday evening. Both will talk on "The Church Awakened by National Self-Examination'. Following is the schedule for Monday and Tuesday-: Monday, Jan. 5 Speakers: Rev. A. H. Backus, Mr. L. W. Carlander; chairman. Rev. O. R. Isley. . Place, Second English Lutheran church., ' Tuesday, Jan. 6 Speakers: Rev. J. J. Rae. Rev. Addison Parker; , chairman. Mr." J. H. Johnson. Place, South Eighth Street Friends church.

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Mrs. George Barnett. Mrs. George Barnett, wife of General Barnett, commander of the U. S. ma rines, sponsored the U. S. transport, "Chateau Thierry," launched at Hog Island recently. The honor was conferred on Mrs. Barnett in recognition of the heroic work of the marines at Chateau Thierry. MINERS CONSIDER SCALE DEMANDS IN COLUMBUS MEETING (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 5. More than 2,000 delegates, representing the 400, 000 soff coal miners cf the United States, were assembled here today for the convention, which is to discuss the settlement of the nation-wide coal strike, terminated on Dec. 10, by a truce proposed by President Wilson which gave the miners a 14 per cent advance in wages. Plans are to be formulated for pre senting to the commission of three men appointed by the president to con sider all matters In dispute and report within 60 day??, final terms of settle ment. John P. White, one of the mem bers of tho president's;' commission. was here today to attend the meeting their atitude in the big controversy before taking up with the scale com mittee , In Washington next week, hearings on the miners demands. The miners are not satisfied, with the 14 per cent advance, but are confident the commission, upon investigation, will find they axe entitled to more, before a wage contract is finally reached. They have gathered a mass of data, relative to tho increased cost of living in mining districts, which will be presented to the commission. The Columbus convention, it was pointed out by the officers is not called for the purpose of ratifying or rejecting the action of the officers lnj accenting the proposal of the presi dent. President Lewis and members of the policy committee take the posi tion that there was no other course to pursue. Not to have accepted would 'have meant defiance of the government, they point out. Radicals May Agitate. It is expected that the radical ele ment in the convention may take ex and the appointment of the president's, commission, but they are saw to constitute a small minority. The report of President Wilson and Secretary Green, giving a history of the controversy from the time of the Cleveland convention last September, up to the present date, is expected to be presented to the convention today. Alleged discrimination on the part of operators In Alabama, Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, Colorado and parts of Illinois, against union officials. Is expected to come before the conven tion. Miners charge that this dis crimination constitutes a violation of the agreement or Dec. 10, wherein It was stipulated that the men were to return to work under the same conditions which prevailed before the strike, with the exception of the 14 perwnt advance. Secretary Green said the alleged discrimination had been brought to the attention of Attorney General Palmer. In a statement Issued last night, acting President Lewis replied to a speech made recently by Congressman Schuyler Merritt of Connecticut, in which Merritt quoted Lewis as making statements, Indicating a combination between miners and operators for control of the industry. Congressman Merritt has since admitted attributing the statement to acting President John L. Lewis, and says the statement was made by former President Tom L. Lewis some 19 years ago. He is said to have written John L, Lewis, apologizing for the mistake, Lftwla savs he has not vet racrf-rrA Tom L. Lewis formerly of Columbus, is now commissioner for ; the operators of West Virginia, John Lewis says. "Congressman Merritt's admission of his ; mistake is onyl further proof of how the public has been misled and misinformed about miners throughout all of the recent controversy" said Lewis. MORE DEAD IN ALASKA (By Associated Press) JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 5 Two additional bodies today had been recovered from the debris of the landslide which wrecked a portion of the main street of Juneau, Friday. The dead now number 3. Two others injured by the slide were reported in a critical condition.

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MEXICAN TREMORS; MANY CITIES SHAKEN (By Associated Press) . ' MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5. Ten states were shaken by the earthquake which on Saturday night destroyed at least two villages and caused many deaths In the state of Vera Cruz. These states were Mexico, Puebla, Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Morelos, i Jalisco, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo and Queretaro. They stretch from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec In a northwesterly direction a distance of nearly 500 miles and from the gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. ,. v.;: ,; ' ' ,. i . Reports received up to 11 o'clock last night indicated the center of the seismic convulsion was In the neighborhood of Mount Orizaba, a volcano situated about 70 miles' west of Vera Cruz, on thellne between the states of Vera Cruz'and Puebla. , It was in this neighborhood that the, most serious damage was done. Teocelo, a village 35 miles . northeast of the volcano, i has been virtually destroyed and a similar fate befell Couztlan, a Bmall hamlet in that neighborhood. ' ' Many houses and churches in Jalapa, a city about B0 miles northwest ." of Vera Cruz, , were damaged, while reports, from Crizaba, a city 10 miles south of the volcano, state that several business blocks and churches near the center of town were cracked. In the of Criaba the Bhock was very severe, many persons being reported killed beneath their wrecked houses. MADRID, Jan. 5. Earthquake shocks were felt in the interior of the Canary Islands yesterday, according to dispatches from Las Palmas. Great crevices were opened in the earth. rfom which columns of smoke are issuing. A volcanic eruption is feared. Bandits Charged Corruption In Mexico U. S. Relations (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Charges that President Carranza had paid Henry T. Fletcher,. American ambassador, $1,000,000 to "uphold the Carranza government, were circulated in Mexico in an effort to create L utilities toward the United States, Mrs "?ora Lee Sturgis, of Washington, forv ght months a prisoner in a rebel bandit camp, with her husband and mother, testified today before a senate foreign relations subcommittee, investigating the Mex ican situation. "When the bandit chief told me that story and said he got It from Santiego Rodriguez, a Zappatista, who had been sent from Mexico City to help obtain the release of my husband and mother, I told Mm to hi) face that it was a lie" Mrs. Sturgia said, ' v, , . :; -. "The bandit threatened to. keep met. and mytisDancTTirTiIs - camp three months longer on the pretense that he believed the lie about the million dollars." . - DANIELS ASKED FOR AWARDS SHOW-DOWN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Representative Lufkin,. Republican, Massachus etts, of the house naval affairs comvi i 4 4nr rA nrAri a rnonl ii H on i nn a V caUlng on SeCretary Daniels for information relative to awarding decora tions in the navy for war service. It asks particularly for information for any changes or substitutions made by the Knight Medal award board, and a complete list of changes and Eubstitutions made in the board's renort bv the secretary, together with the names of naval officers assisting hiTTi in this revisoin. A joint investigation by house and senate is planned, should it be authorized and the navy department expected today to have complete data ready to transmit to congress by Wednesday. FOURTEENTH CENSUS GETS GOOD START (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. The fourteenth decennial census got off to a good start all over the country, despite snow storms in the far northwest and heavy rains in the south, Director Rogers announced today. By Feb. 15, at the latest, William C Hunt, chief statistician of the divi sion of population, expects first results of the count in large citiea. The first city to make complete returns will be the first announced and it Is thought that Washington, D. C, will have this distinction, as in former years. Official returns of the national population are not expected before September. CURCI SUIT OPEN (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 5. The divorce suit of Mme. Gall! Curci against Luigl Curcl opened here today. The first day's testimony was given over to the unraveling of technicalities and none of the sensational charges and counter charges made by the opera star I and her husband were aired. Mme. uam (jurci cnarges ner nusDana wun: infidelity and names Melisea Brown and other women as co-respondents, Curci in a counter-suit, charges the 6lnger with Infidelity. FIRE CAUSES $100,000 DAMAGE TO SHIP (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 5 Fire of -unknown origin caused damage est!mamted at $100,000 to the steamship Pretoria at her pier on Staten Island shortly before she was to have sailed at dawn today. The Pretoria Is a former Hamburg-American, liner recently turned over to Great Britain by the ' United States government after serving as a transport. This was the third ship fire of undetermimned origin along the Staten island shore in the last few days.

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W. C. DENNIS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Jan. 5. Re turning to take up the practice of law at Washington, W. C-Dennis, of Richmond, Ind., for three- years legal ad-, visor of , the Chinese government at Peking, i has arrived here on the Pacific Mall liner Venezuela. With him are Mrs. Dennis -and their two children, David and Katherine. They wm go to their home before proceed ing to the capital. , ;. The youngsters, both of whom sneak Chinese, pronounce Christmas on. the high seas as a fine treat for any little Doy or girl, although they could hard ly reconcile themselves to having Santa Clans fetch his pack down a ship s smokestack instead of a chim ney and the reindeer incident had to give way to an airplane -for the pur pose of Kriss Kringle's visit. Mr. Dennis has severed his connec tion with the State Department, he said but win continue to keep in touch with Chinese affairs, at , Washington He said that China is determined to bring about the return of Shantung to her by Japan and will go any length to enforce fair treatment by the Nip ponese, uiven moral support by the United States and the "settlement of differences between the north and south China faction, the Oriental republic he said, is destined to become the foremost producing nation of the world. The party will stay here several days, sightseeing, before returning home. At the home of Mrs. D. W. Dennis, mother of W. C. Dennis, Monday, it was said that Mr. Dennis was in the states, but his future , plans were unknown. , IN KRUEGER CASE A motion to dismiss tho case against Dr. F. W. Kruegcr for alleged manslaughter has been filed by the prosecuting atorney with the county clerk. , The motion has been sent to Judge Gause, of Newcastle, who sat on the ca3e. Dr. Kruegcr was indicted by the grand jury on charges of voluntary manslaughter, but tho jury was un able to reach a verdict, 10 of the Jury men being for acquittal, and two for conviction. Revised Budget to Come Before City Legislators Passage of the right and left ordi nance, designating the traffic rules of the city, probably will be made at the first meeting of the council this year, Monday evening, when the ordinance comes up for the third reading, it was said today. Approval of the amended budget for 1920 will bo made. The salary ordinance for this year will be presented an in all probability the rules will be suspended and the ordinance passed. It Is understood that several Increases in salary for city officials will be included in the ordinance. . PAINTERS PLAN TO OUST AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERS (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 5. Representatives of the local painters union announced they were making pln-na to oust all members who hold membership in the American Legion JELLICOE IN UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Viscount Jellicoe, of Scapa, Admiral of tho Brit ish fleet of Jutland fame, arrived here, for a visit at the capital, as the guest cf the navy department. Weather Forecast j For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Cloudy and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Probably snow in north and snow or rain In south portion. Today's Temperature. Noon ,....21 Yesterday, 'Maximum , .. 18 Minimum For Wayne County by W. E. Moore unsetuea ana warmer wun bdow tonight or Tuesday, possibly turning to rain. General Conditions-The cold wave is now breaking east of the Misslss UppI river, except on the Atlantic coast, - It Is considerably warmer over the west where temperatures have risen to freezing and above. General cloudy weather Is developing along the Mississippi valley and will reach here tonight with ram over the south and north. Cold weather continues over the southern states, freezing tem perature at Jacksonville, Fla and 22 above at Atlanta, Ga, Medicine Hat reports 42 above, where a warm wave has developed. Snow which will ar rive tonight or tomorrow . morning probably win not . be . heavy as the barometric pressure . is far . above normal,

RADICALS IN COURT; W, D. HAYWOOD DEFIES . . ANTI-STRIKE LAW

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 5. More than one hundred alleged radicals arrested in the New Year's raids by state and city authorities . today were arraigned tn criminal court, and a special grand Jury began untangling the masses of evidence seized at headquarters and meeting places or obtained in the past five months. Agents of the federal department of justice spent the day preparing evidence for submission tomorrow at the hearings of 224 red aliens held for deportation as a result of the New Year's drive and the national crusade a day .later. Officers today still sought foralleged reds for whom warrants were issued, but John T. Crelghton, special assistant , attorney general, said another concerted drtve against dissentients would not be made until present cases were disposed of. William D. Haywood, secretary or the Industrial Workers of the World, under sentence to a federal prison, and for whom state officers had searched since New Year's day, announced in a morning newspaper that he would surrender today. The federal officers said they did not want to arrest Haywood. State's Attorney Hoyne, who directed his arrest, made no announcement of the charge against Haywood. "Regardless of recent official statements to the contrary, I wish to say that there has been, is and can be no connection between the communist party of America and the communist labor party and the Industrial Workers of the World," Haywood 6aid. "The communist parties are political organizations. The I. W. W. is an industrial organization. Our methods are totally different." He said that the communist manifesto regarding overthrow of the fed eral government never had been in cluded-in I. W. W. propaganda. Defies Anti-Strike Law. Haywood also said that if the state's attorney sought to invoke' the new state syndicate law against strikes, "and I understand he is working to ward that end, he will have the fight or his life." In that connection it was comment ed that the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday adopted two resolu tions against the federal raids. One asserted that the executive board sus pected that the raids "were a part of a gigantic plot to destroy organized labor by the employers," and the other that they were "repression" . resem bling "czaristic methods in Russia," and "terrorist tactics." NEW YORK, Jan. B.Contimiatlon of the raids on communists was ex pected here today. , . " f . - ; iaRjf -aouut ouu warrants remainea vk. pe served. At least 68 local branches of tue-T-otmrrantst "ami communist" labor parties which have not been raided. are said to be in existence in Greater New York. a Tea concentration camo near here has been urged by local officials. because or the overcrowded conditions at Ellis Island. It was said a reauest would soon be made to Secretary Ba ker that he designate either Camp Up ton or camp Merritt to house the prisoners. RED "CHIEF OF STAFF" ARRESTED (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Gregory Welnstein, chief of staff for Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self styled ambassador to the United States of the Russian Sov let "republic, was arrested on a deportation warrant today by agents of the department of Justice. Weinstein. ac cording to department of justice offi cials, is the most influential Russian communist, next to Martens, in Amer ica, weinstein was taken into cus tody at the "Russian soviet embassy,' where he was head of the diplomatic department. An exile from Siberia, he arrived here with Leon Trotzky, Russian Soviet minister of war, a few years ago, and is his close personal friend. He was formerly editor of the Novy Mir, the organ of the Russian socialist federation. Speaker to Start Work of Near East Committee A noted speaker, who knows the acute conditions in the near East. will address a specially invited group or people in the nigh school auditorium at 10 o clock Wednesday morning. This meeting will be to make local people acquainted with information on the near East and also to acquaint a locally appointed committee with plans for funds. These meetings are being held all over the state. The Rev. J. J. Rae will preside at Wednesday s meeting. Other mem bers of the local committee Include J. H. Bentley, Mrs. J. S. HilL Howard Dill and William Dudley Foulke. Fol lowing the meeting, a luncheon will be held by special representatives of the national organization of the Near East relief campaign and the local committee. It is planned to start a drive for funds later. Although only a spe cial group will receive invitations, the general public Is invited to attend Wednesday's meeting. REYNOLDS RESIGNS. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 5, James B. Reynolds, of Massachusetts, secretary of the Republican national committee, announced his resignation to take up the management of the campaign of Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, for the nomination for president. MAYOR TAKES OFFICE. (By Associated Press) . PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. Simple ceremony marked the ' inauguration today of J. Hampton Moore, as Mayor cf Philadelphia for the next four years, terminating a career of 14 years In congress from tho Third Pennsylvania district.

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Ski Lady Acheson. Viscountess Acheson, one of the handsomest and most popular women in London society, is American born. the daughter of J. Ridgley Carter, long secretary of the U. S. embassy at Lon don and afterward U. S. envoy at Bucharest. Her husband. Lord Ache son, who visited America recently, has been decorated with the croix de guerre. CITY MUST PRACTICE ECONOMY" BESCHER, IN ANNUAL REPORT "The city of Richmond is in a very healthy condition, and is not by any means bankrupt, but we are just tne same as an individual, 'busted' between pay days," said City Controller Baltz Bescher, In his annual report, submitted to the board of works. Monday. "I would therefore recommend great care in our expenditures, in order that we may get through without making any temporary loans, as prices are continuine ui and then up again, ne continued. The report follows: Receipts for the year 1919: From taxes, J205.211.48; dog licenses $78.75: theatre and show licenses, $460.00; peddlers' licenses, $70: milk licenses, $91: plumbers' licenses, $72; miscel laneous licenses, $3Z3; market rents, $570.3$; building and moving permits, $1.518.80 beating? and wiring. $257; clt eetlrt. feesi-etc, $1,387: police wafdaand'HnesriBBTTlirereBron-'de1-posits. $306.25; penalties, delinquent assessment, $218.12; oiling streets. $3,112.43;. street department, miscel laneous, labor, etc., $1,081.56; lignt plant, , part sal., $2,600; benefits and damages, $266.50; temporary loan. $5,000: miscellaneous receipts $743.30. total receipts for 1919. $223,531.64; balance, beginning 1919, $4,024.19; total receipts and balance, $227,555.83. ' Disbursements, 1919. Salaries, officers, $27,721.76; office expenses, $555.30; advertising $374.82; interest, bonds, etc., $1,837.44; tem porary loan, $5,000; paid improvement bonds, $93.19; gas and water hearing, $204.74; purchase gravel land, $5,000 damage suit, $200; bonds sinking fund commissioners, $25; ground rent. schools, $250; municipal league, $134 43; department of law, miscellaneous, $298.54; public lighting, $16,982.35; street department payroll, $22,548.18; trash contract, $8,744.12; stone, gravel and oil, $4,980.95; city's part improve ments, $5,196.59; miscellaneous, street department, $4,062.62; metered water, $1,556.28; engineer, miscellaneous and office, $382.18; markets, miscellaneous expenses, $299.64; fire department payroll, $30,157.99; fire department, miscellaneous expenses, $1,449.80; gas oline and oil, $241.55; fire hydrants, $18,904.40; coal, city building. $770.16: miscellaneous, city building, $2,153.01; police payroll, $26,075.11; police flash light, $486.00; police boarding, $146.10, police automobile, $1,165; police, mis cellaneous expense, $1,242.96; city physicians, $27.50; coal. Home for Friendless, $200; Reld Memorial hos pital, $3,000; miscellaneous, depart ment of health, $1,131.43; miscellan eous, dairy inspector, xzp.58; miscel laneous, parks, $1,800.25; payroll. parks, $5,158.97; garbage contract. $4,953; special judge, $27.50; city court, miscellaneous expenses, $43.35; damages street opening, $100; Improvement sinking fund, 1 per cent taxes, $2,052.17; miscellaneous board. $49.96; total, $207,810.92. Total receipts for the year 1919, in cluding balance above, $227,555.83; Continued on Page Twelve Counsel Looks for End Of New Trial This Week LOS ANGELES, CaL, Jan. 5. The trial of Harry New, accused of the murder of his fiance, Freda Lesser, today entered upon its fourth affd, what attorneys hoped, was its final week. Three witnesses, all alienists, yet were to be heard for the defense, while the prosecution ' announced It had a number of witnesses whose testimony It expected to offer in rebutal. Dr. E. O. Sawyer, third of the alienists called by the defense, was under cross examination when court adjourned Saturday evening. Thomas Lee Wool wine, district attorney, has announced that he expected to call several alienists and a num ber of laymen to testify as to New's mental condition. Each side has asked an entire day for argument Back to Schools," Dirge of Gty's Children Monday "Back to the schools" was the chant to which hundreds of Richmond school children returned to the 11 schcsl buildings of the city Monday morning, following the holiday vacation. Earlham college and the high school also ended their mid-winter vacations Monday.

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GETS SMASH FROM COURT Highest Judicial Body Rules Manufacture or Two and Three-Fourths Percent Beef Illegal. ;;;';,r; WAS WETS' LAST HOPE fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Th supreme court today declared constitutional sections of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act. prohibiting the manufacture and sale of "beer. ' wine, or other Intoxicating malt or . vinous liquors," containing one-half of one per cent or more of alcohol. Beer containing 294 Per cent of alcohol is Illegal under the war-time prohibition act, the supreme court de" cided today. " ' Dismissal by the lower court in New York of injunction proceeding brought to restrain government officials from interfering, Jacob Ruppert, a brewer.: in the manufacture of beer containing approximately 2.75 per cent alcohol, but alleged to be non-intoxicating, wai sustained. Associate Justice Brandeisv who rendered the opinion of the court, said the right of congress to suppress the liquor traffic was not an Implied pow er, but a power expressed ly granted. The court was divided, five to four. Associate Justices Day. Vandevanter. Clark and McReynolds dissenting. Under the war emergency, conrress has a right to stop immediately th saie or intoxicating liquor, the court held. - Dissenting of Opinion Given. - ; Justice McReynolds, In a dissenting opinion, said that the eightenth amend ment had not yet come into effect and that the federal government had no general power to prohibit the manulactur and sale of liquor. Justice McReynolds took the osition that the war emergency under which national prohibition was made effective, bad passed. In deciding the New Orleans and Baltimore cases. Justice Day, In an unanimous opinion held that tha manufacture of beer containinr 2.7S alcohol was legal until the enactment of tho Volstead act. - - , ; The indictment ' brought against the Standard Brewery at Baltimore and the American Brewing company at New Orleans for manufacturing 75 percent Deer before the war-time prohibition enforcement act' became ef-' iectjve, were jordared dismissed. : ': WILSON TO ISSUE "IMPORTANT WORD" (By Associated Press) " WASHINGTON, Jan.' 5. President Wilson will send an Important word of greeting to the Democratic dinner on Jackson day, Jan. 8, it was announced today at the white house. No information was available at the white house as to the form the president's message would take. Secretary Tumulty declined to amplify the bare announcement that it would be "an important word." Some friends of the president believed here that he would take this opportunity to give his views as to future policies. There was wide conjecture as to whether the president would discuss the third term question. On this the white house officials were silent, but some of the president's friends have insisted throughout that he would not be a candidate ' under any circumstances. They regard it as probable that he will make this clear in his message. , Council for Newberry Asks Indictment Quashed (By Associated Press) - -' GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 5.-1 Counsel for Truman H. -Newberry. United States senator from Michigan, and 134 others charged with violation of the election laws in the senator's Selection in 1918, today presented argu ments on a general demurrer asking that the federal indictments be quashed. The general election laws of the United States were attacked as un constitutional and it was further argued that "overt acts" enumerated in the Indictments were not In fact violations of the state laws. The government's answer was to be filed by special prosecutor Frank C. Dailey. Dry Goods Worth $600 Taken in Cambridge Robbers entered the store of Morris and Krahl in Cambridge City early Sunday morning and escaped with approximately $600 worth of merchandise. ;. . Officials of the store, which deals in dry goods and men's and women's furnishings, said that practically all the loot taken was of this nature. The store also serves as the Pennsylvania railroad station, but nothing from the station was taken. No clue to the robbers has as yet been found., , YUMA ARIZ, SUNLESS FIRST TIME IN FORTY-FIVE YEARS : YUMA. Ariz., Jan. 5. The sun failed to shine on Yuma Saturday for th first time In 45 years, according to persons who have lived here . that long. Rain fell throughout the day.." A hotel, which for a .quarter of a century has displayed a sign offerfni free board .every time the sun failed to show itself, prepared to do a rush?1 Ing business, which failed to mate rlalize. the management reported ; '

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