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T P RIEF RIG HT R.H E Z Y BITS OF NEWS SMUGGLE WHISKY IN BALES OP HAY. Worcester. Mass., Dec. 28. In ternal revenue officers have started an investigation of a report that whisky is being jununrgled into the United States from Canada in bales of hay. In a shipment recently re ceived here, officers say, two bottles of liquor were concealed in the cen ter of nearly, every baje, HONEYMOONERS IN STOLEN CAR LOSE LEGS AND TOES.. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 28. Word was received by Deputy Sheriff De w.ir that H. T. Bryant, accused of stealing an automobile here and driving it to Salt Lake City, has al ready paid dearly for the offense. It is . charged that 'Bryant, wi'h his young bride, drove to Salt Lake City, so'd the stolen car for $300 and stole another. In this car, it was said, they started for Wyoming, but got lost in a r nowstorm. Recently Bryant had to iiave both, legs amputated auu his bride lost several toes' from the ef fect of frost. TURKS GIVE UP FEZ ' FOR GOLF CAPS. Elbasan,- Albania, ,Dec. 23. Mo hammedans of Elbasan are wearing American golf caps instead of" the red fez which, from the lime Mo hammed laid down the religious tenets for his worshippers, has been the immemorial head covering of the Turk. . GIRL'S INCOME TAKES . BIG JUMP OVERNIGHT. , McKeesport, Pa., Dec. 28. With an income of $5,269 monthly, in ad dition to her salary as stenographer in the general offices of the National Tube company here, Miss Anna B. Smith is not worried ovet the high cost of living. . When Miss Smith goes to bed at night the prospects are excellent that her income will be doubled when she -awakes in the morning. The big well which came in on her property with a 10,000,000 foot flow of gas had only been drilled four feet info the Speechly sand. Expert gas men v say' that when the drill reaches the required depth in the producing strata the flow of gas would be doubled and the stenograoher's in come would jump to $10,000 month ly. WIFE MAY SMOKE HUBBY'S TOBACCO. Los Angeles, Dec. 28. Benjamin T. Morton was oooosed to having women smoke, he told Judge Crail.J "She smoked my tobacco, said Morton. "Do you smoke?" asked the judge. "Oh, yes." "Well, hasn't she as much right to smoke as you?", "Of course she hasn't. She is my wife. Wives shouldn't smoke." "Well, no man who himself smokes gets a divorce from this court just because his wife, too," smokes," stated the court. "THE VELVET HAMMER'' LOCAL CELEBRITIES DONE IN VERSE ON . EDITORIAL PAGE. The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 49 NO. 166. UHnt MCa4-clM mttw Ml It. IMS. Jaial r. O. nidar aet f Much 3. !I7 OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919. ' By Mali l vm). DJly. M OO: mn. II.M; Dtlly n4 8i.. SS.M: Miltlii Ntk. mUM tr. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: Fair Monday and probably Tuesday; not much change in temperature. i Hourly Teniprrniurfi: 8 . m t9l 1 p. in... St 6 a. m Ml t p. m.. ,..M 1 r. m ..HO t p. ni SH S m. m ill 4 p. in...; Stt B m. m ..SSI S p. m B 10 . m 841 ft p. m ..:.. 11 . m... SHI J p. m.' IT IS noon SH - 1 m in JVJLfA "r JV INDUSTRIAL CONFEREES GIVE REPORT Tentative Recommendations for Establishment " of Ma chinery to Prevent or Re tard Labor Disrytes Made. National industrial " tribunal advocated POCKET KNIVES DIG CONDUCTOR OUT OF WRECK Three Killed and More Than 100 Injured When Inter urban Leaves Rails. Government Employes Should Have Right to Associate for Mutual . Protection, Report States. v - ONE BED FOR HUSBAND,,.,,, ' WIFE AND HIS FRIEND. Ventura, ; ,Ca1., Dec. 28. Mrs. Dorothy Lewis and Guy Lewis were denied divojee decrees by Judge Rogers in the superior court at Ven tura in a case that produced sensa ' tiona) testimony. Mrs. Lewis - charged that once when she and ncr husband were slaying at the Alexan dria hotel in San Francisco he refused to "get a separate room for a girl - friend of hers who was with them and that the t,hree slept in one bed. - Mr. Lewis asserted that before li4S marriage Mrs. Lewis had Don icejve d, Keelen, a local newspaper man, look up his financial standing, and that she only decided to marry him when she discovered he was worth $4,000, 000. . . J-udge Rogers, in denying the de cree, said that neither of them came into court with "clean hands," and ihat therefore neither was entitled to a divorce. ' FROTH ON "MAD" CAT ONLY MERINGUE PIE. Gwynedd, Pa., Dec. 28. With what looked like froth on its mourn, a big black and white cat dashed through a room in which Darnel Davis, chief of police of Nor.th Wales, and his wife were sitting. Such was not the-case. It seems that tabby had found a luscious lemon meringue pie tlat Mrs. Davis Iiad just baked for her hubby. The cat stuck it head into .the frothy white of gg- top of the pie, and, .finding it hot, beat a hasty retreat. The arm of the law went dessert-f less, also the cat. For, in revenge, Mrs. Davis gave a banquet to the birds of the neighborhood and the pie was the feature of the menu. MANICURE SCORNS ' 25-CENT HOSE HUBBY. New York, Dec. 28. Mrs. Jessie Shepard Husted, who was a mani cure in a New Haven hotel when .she eloped with Mills H. Husted, son of Mrs. Abbe L. Husted, a ..wealthy widow, won a divorce in the superior court at Bridgeport. Judge Webb granted her $4,000 alimony. At the time the couple were mar ried in March, 1916, Husted was a student at Yale. He took his wife to live at the home of the mother in Greenwich, but they separated after one weel? together. . - In September of that year Mrs. Husted caused her husband's arrest on a charge of noiisupport. This was followed by a suit for divorce, 'she alleging desertion and intoler able cruelty. She said that her hus band could give her only 25'ctnt stockings when she was accustojned to silk. Washington, Dec. 28. Tentative recommendations . for the . nstablish ment of machinery to prevent or re tard labor conflicts in privite indus try were announced today by lhe president's industrial conference, with a view to 'obtaining construc tive criticism before a final plan is adopted. . , The plan as outlined now contem plates the creation of a 'national industrial tribunal and regional boards of inquiry and adjustment, which wduld move", to the settlement of disputes before there was any stoppage of production. Decisions would have the full force and effect of a trade agreement between the parties to the dispute. Remarking that, some public utilities, such as railroads, are es sential to the very existence of the people, the conference's tentative statement expressed the opinion that the interruption in such essential public utilities is intolerable. But the conference states that further consideration ,-is required of the problem whether some method can he arrived at that will avert all danger of interruption to service. Government employes, the third class into which the. wag-earning public are divided,, should :hve- the right to associate for mutual protec tion, the statement declared, but "no interference by airy group with the continuous operation of government functions through concerted . cessa tion. of work or threats thereof, can be permitted." To Hold Public Hearings. When the 'conference reconvenes January 12, public; hearings will be held to obtain expert advice as to the drafting of the final recommen dations in the light of such criticism of the tentative report as may be re- While stating that at this time.it was believed more, essential to de vise machinery . for averting - con flicts than to undertake a discus sion of the causes of unrest, -the conference indicated clearly the general principles on which it has based its recommendations. "Our modern industrial organiza tion," the tentative report said, "if it is not to become a failure, must yield to the individual a larger sat isfaction with life. . . . Not only must the theory that labor is a commodity be abandoned, but the concept of leadership must be sub stituted (' for that of mastership . .' Human fellowship in in dustry -must either be an- empty phrase or a living fact. ' , Fending the growth of better relationships between employer and employes, the practical approach to the problem is to devise a method of , preventing or retardinar con flicts by providing machinery for the adjustment of differences. To he successful such tribunals must be so organized as' to operate promptly as welt as impartially. . . xhe plain tact is that the public has long been uneasy about the power of great employers; it is becoming uneasy about tire power of great labor organizations. The community must be assured against domination by either. the plan which follows does not (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) HIS $10,000 LOOT t PROVES HIS NEMESIS. New York, Dec. 28. Inhaling the dust arising from $10,000 worth' of opium and heroin which he was dumping into a bag from drying pans at the plant of the New York Uumine and Chemical company, Brooklyn, after he had broken into the place, John Schunitdki collapsed on the bag and died. tiis body-was found bv the oolice. Explaining the occurrence Bene- uici uaerter. tne piant cnemist, saia that the dust risinar from dried . opium is a deadly poison if inhaled long enogh, and that bciiumtcTki probably knew nothing of the dan ger he ran in trying to steal the drugs. Beaumont, Tex., Dec. 28. Three persons were killed and more thstta 100 were injured late Sunday when an interurban car from the city to Port Arthur turned over, according'' to a telephone message from Port Arthur. All available physicians and nurses here have been summoned. Ambulances are being sent from Port Arthur. Although many of them had brfen injured, passengers on board a 'de railed interurban car near this city, went to the rescue of E. F. Roberts, the conductor, and dug him out of the wreckage with pocket knives. His arms had beefpinioned beneath lhe car and he was helpless. Rob erts was the most seriously hurt of 25 persons hurt, when the car struck a cow and left the rails. 3,000 Immigrants Clamor at Gates of New' York Gty New York, Dec. 28. Moie than 3.000 immigrants were clamoring at the gates of New York Sunday right for admission into the United States. Ellis Island is congested and many hundreds of the incoming passengers are , being detained on board steamships for examination. Immigration inspectors and spe cial boards of inquiry are working day and nght to relieve the unpre cedented conditions. Ln the mean time hundreds of friends and rela tives of the detained passengers from all over the country are as sembled here impatiently awaiting the release of the immigrants. Police and coast guar"ds are on duty at the piers - and the Ellis Island ferry entrance to hoid in check the crowds which gather at tne gates daily. Several attempts have been made by friends and rela tives of the detained" passengers to storm flie piers in an effort toNreach the ships. f Immigration officials claim- that their work is delayed to a large ex lent on Eilis Island because of the cc-ngestion there due to i the deten tion of a large number of radicals and undesirables being held for. de portation. ' ' The greater number of the immi grants being detained are Italians, it was stated. Several hundred Greek passengers are also held. Guarantee Against Price Decline Plan Will Be Sounded Out - Washington, Dec. 28. Business interests, labor unions and the public generally .are to be sounded out as to the sentiment in regard to the gjarantee-aginst-price-dccline sys tem said to, be in use by many man ufacturers and t wholesalers in the sale of - goods. The federal trade commission announced 'that it had" sent out several thousand letters in quiring as to opinion of the plan. The " guaranfeeagainst-pnee-de-cline system amounts to a guarantee by manufacturers and wholesalers in selling goods that should a decline n price occur before delivery ot the goods the buyers shall benefit- by the decline, but if the market should rise before delivery, the manufac turer or wholesaler would assume the loss. ' LEAD FLIES IN IRELAND ON SABBATH Officer of the Guard and Member of Band - of In-' truders Killed in Phoenix Park Shooting Affray. SEVERAL UNTOWARD. INCIDENTS REPORTED . . Another Jolt for the H. C. of L! Girl, After Long Trip, Finds Her Mail Order Suitor Is a' Negro , New .York,' Dec. 28. An adver tisement inserted by a California matrimonial agency brought a little homespun-clad girl from the North Carolina hills to New York, where she found that the man who was to marry her was a negro. This and similar cases wye made public to day by the New York Travelers' Aid society. . ; The girl was found wandering about the Pennsylvania station with out a hat and with all her belong ings bound up in a blue handker chief. The Travelers Aid representative went with her to an address in the Bronx, which was found to be a basement They left a note, giving the girl's address. That evening the man telephoned the Travelers' Aid headquarters and sought to speak with the girl. It was noticed that his voice had a peculiarly-soft drawl. The police were informed, and it was found white women had been lured. to tfiat address. The man ad mitted membership in two California matrimonial agencies D'Annunzio Promises Armed .Resistance to "Last Drop of Blood" Fiume, Dec. 28. Armed resistance to the "last morsel of bread and last droo of blood" ?s Gabrie'e D'An- nunzio's late'st decision in demanding further guarantees from the Italian government to insure the annex ation of Fiume to Italy The situa tion is at a stronger deadlock than ever by reason of the soldier-poet's unshaken obstinacy to remain in Fiume until hisvdemands are met. The national, council has reversed its decision to accept the govern ment's proposal and haf voted to support- O Annunzio, who with a large following of legionnaires, still remains master of the s tuation in side the city. .i Youth Shot Planned to Kill Father 'and Others Martinez, Cal., Dec. 28. Frank Tutt. jr., 16 years old, who was killed by Constable Charles Chap man Saturday night in a pistol duel after he was alleged to have dared the officer to arrest him, had planned to kill his4father, Constable Chap man, A. B. Tinning, district attor ney, and Gus Goethals, justice of the peace, and then commit suicide, it was stated tonight at the office of the district attorney, following a conference with members of the Tutt family. Floods Along Tihine. Paris, Dec. 28. Floods along the Rhine and its tributaries are higher than they, have been for 36 years and great damage is being done by the inundation, according to a May ence dispatch Daring Attempt Made to -Assassinate Donegal Con stableBand Raids Far mer's Home, Getting Rifles. Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 28. (By The Associated Press.) An officer of the guard and one mcmbet of a band of intruders were killed early this morning in a shooting affray in Phoenix park, a short distance from the viceregal lodges In some quar ters the be'ief was expressed that an attack was in preparation against the lodge. About eight men are believed to have made up the band of inter lopers. Four arrests were made. , At 1:30 o'clock tbis-morning shots were heard in the neighborhood of the viceregal lodge. They continued intennittently at intervals for nearly an hour in that portion of Phoeni park between ' the lodge and, the Tiagazine. There apparently, was no direct attack on the lodge itself. The inmates of the lodge at first thought the shooting wa? connected with some sort of holiday revelry. Military Guard Turns Out. As the firing persisted, however, a military guard, consisting of an officer ruid two men, turned out and searched the grounds. Finding noth ing unusual Jherc, they-went through the' park near the main road. While traversing the center of the park they engaged in a sharp exchange of firing with"' the intruders and Lieu tenant Boast, who was. leading,.his. men. fell shot through the heart. One of the attacking party also was killed. He was a civilian about 40 years of age. According to some reports he was wearing portions "of a soldier's uniform. No weapon was lound on or near his body and up to the "present the man's identity has not been ascertained. Pools of, blood were', found on the scene, which is about half a mile from the lodge: Intruders Flee. After the shocting the intruders fled in the darkness.' The four men arrested were not taken into cus tody near the scene of the shoqting, but were apprehended as they were leaving the park about two hours later. They denied having had any thing to do with the affair and it Is reported that no incriminating evi dence was found on them. After the shooting the military brought a machine gun to, the scene. This was fired, in the direction in which it was supposed the men had taken flight. Nobody was hit by the bullets. The bodies of the two men were taken to the George V hospital where an inquest will be held. to-. (Continued on Fae Two. Column Four.) President Wilson Observes His 63d Birthday Quietly Washington, Dec. 23. President Wilson observed his 63d birthday quietly Sunday, much improved in health, surrounded by the members of his family with the exception of Mrs. W. G.-McAdoo, who was un able to he present. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre arrived from Cam- . r i if . "W . Drmge, Mass., ana m.iss luargarei Wilson has been at the White House ; since her father's illness. . j The president took his usual walk i about the sick room and later sat ; cut on the south oortico for more ! than an hour. Part of the day was spent by Mr. Wilson reading many of the- hundreds of birthday greet-, incre ttiaf- fumf from orotninent offi-! cials and friends in the United States ! and abroad. . One Killed, Six Injured in H. C. of L Demonstration Havana, Dec. 28. One man was killed and one woman and five men, including two policemen, were in jured during a clash between the po lice and a crowd engaged in a dem onstration against the high cost of living and excessive housfi rents. The wounded policemen claim that the crowd attacked tnem when they demanded to see the permit for the parade. Witnesses say, how ever, that the police fired on the people without warning. Ammunition Depot N:ar Ogden, Utah, Is Approved Ogden, Utah, Dec. 28. That ap proval of 1,280-acre site for an army ordnance and ammunition de pot near Ogden has been given . by the War department and that con gress will be asked in January to appropriate $96,000 to pay for the itc, was announced in Ogden fol lowing word that Utah's senators and representatives were united in supporting the War deuartment Well, Bye-bye, uncle iVi going Tn Reduce THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. KINGP NAD FOUR MORE ARE CAUGHT ' Two of Those in Custody Are Described by Federal Agents Who Made Arrests as New York Business Men. NEGRO ADMITS COMPLICITY IN BOLD ROBBERY ... .... ..I Implicates George Alexander, White, in Christiansen Af fair Paid Own Taxi Fare to Station. WINNER OF DICE THROW FOR LOVE OF M AN SPURNED Levi Deering, colored, 124 North Twenty-sixth street, confessed Sun day to being the companion of George Alexander, white, in the as sault and robbery of Sam Christian sen, 931 North Twenty-seventh street, and Mrs. Emma Lawson. Christiansen's bookkeeper, .Christ mas morning, according to the po lice. ' " Deering, according to the police, surrendered several pieces of jewelry taken from the Christiansen home. Harry Halstead,- whom the police accused of being Alexander's com panion, was released from jail yes terday and all charges against him quashed. Belle McKenzie, colored, 1606 North Twenty-fourth street, was arrested and charged with re ceiving and concealing stolen prop erty when some of the jewelry, said to have been stolen from Christian sen, was found in her possession. Deering paid $1 to have himself arrested. Detectives Dolan and Hagerman have been trailing Deer ing for three days, but had been unable to locate him. They "spotted" an acquaintance of Dcering's yes terday and asked' the acquaintance to put Deering into their hands. The acquaintance did. Deering pulled up in front of Cen tral police station in a taxicab yes terday afternoon. As he' left the cab he instructed the driver to wait as he'd be out soon. Some time later Detective Dolan came out to the taxi driver. "Better not wait he'll be in there for seven years he just confessed." The bill had al ready run up to $1. Arrest Chauffeur as An Accomplice in the Hamilton Highjacking A. L. Anderson, chauffeur for C. W Hamilton, 1112 Park avenue, was arrested Saturday night and held for investigation in connection with the frustrated attempt to "highjack" his employer's home at 2 Christmas morning. Anderson called at St. Cecilia cathedral for Mrs. Hamilton and her daughter ' after midnight -mass Christmas day, and on the way home told Mrs. Hamilton he "thought there was something fun ny going on at the house." He told her a man had ordered him to open the cellar door at the point of a gun when he was leaving the Hamilton home, half an hour be fore. Mrs. Hamilton stopped at a friend's house and called the po lice. The police arrested alleged accomplices of Anderson who, they say, were caught in the act of steal ing liquor from Hamilton's cellar. Six cases of whisky were stacked up in the Hamilton yard. , Tragedy Bared When Fisher Lass Finds Death in Sea After Losing to Rival. - Madrid, Dec. 28. The love of two Gijon fisher girls for Isidro Lafu cnte, a young blacksmith, has had a tragic ending. The girls resolved to resort to a throw of iJice to determine who should be the sweetheart of ,the blacksmjth, who,' by the way, was entirely ignorant of being the cause of this strange ordeal. , Twenty-two-year-old Isabel Car rena threw the lower' number, smd Immediately renounced her claim U the blacksmith in favor of her rival, Louisa Garcia, who is 25. - A violent gale raged next morn ing and at the height of it Isabel Carrena was seen to put to sea in a frail skiff. The craft was soon in difficulties, but the girl managed to navigate for some time. Then a great. wave struck the skiff, Which sank before he eyes of a large num ber of spectators on the beach.' Any attempt at rescue was impossible, and the girl perished. A letter she had left at her home disclosed the reason for her mad ac,t. She stated in this letter that, haying lost her claim to the black smith's love, there was only one thing for her to do to die. Th blacksmith ndw avers that he was in love with the dead girl, and that' on no account will he have anything to do with Louisa Garcia. This has had the effect of derang ing Louisa Garcia's mind and she is now undergoing treatment for insanity. New Union Pacific President Dined on Leaving for Omaha Baltimore, Md., Dec. 28. (Special Telegram.) Carl R. Gray, who' is leaving for Omaha to take up his new duties as president of the Union Pacific railroad, was tendered a fare well dinner here Saturday night, at which notable railroad men from all parts of the country were present. Daniel Willard made the address of the evening, giving his views on the return of the railroads to their owners, March 1. Mr. Gray retires as president of the Western Mary Western Union Employes , to Get Salary Increases New York. Dec. 28. Thirty-two thousand employes of the Western Union Telegraph and Telephone company will receive salary in creases amounting to $5,000,000 on January 1, it is announced. Em ployes who 4iave been in the service more than one. year will receive a 15 per cent increase and those who have been in the service more than six months, but less than a year, will receive a 10 per cent increase. Only employes earning less than $250 a nonth are affected. EIGHT REPORTS OF GUNMEN AND SNEAK THIEVES Bold Holdup Within Block of i Central Station Stores, Hotels and Autos - Looted. . Two- young men, both armed held up the Golden Star restaurant, 205 SoUth Twelfth street, little more than a block from Central police station, at 1 a. m. Sunday .and made off with $36 from the. cash register. Both bandits ran east on Douglas street toward the police station after the robbery, but turned south on Eleventh street, one finally disap pearing into the alley between Far- nam and Douglas east of Eleventh street and the other turning east on rarnam street. According to Wu Fong, waiter, and Adolph Anderson, tfelmont ho tel, who were in the restaurant at the time of the holdup, both men appeared to be Mexicans about 23 years of a ge. One ''covered" Fong and Arrder son with his revolver while the other emptied the cash register. Seven Other Robberies. Leo Goldman, 523 North Fifteenth street, reported to the oolice the theft of an overcoat and two suits of clothes from his room Saturday. Peggy Hall, Pullman hotel, told tfie police someone entered her room Saturday night and stole a mani cure set valued at $25. The Central Market, 1612, Harney street, reported the theft of 53 pounds of sirloin and 40 pounds of tenderloin from a truck Saturday while the truck stood behind the Castle hotef. They valued the meat at $21.95. Ben Ravitz, 1921 St. Marys ave nue, said his overcoat was stolen from the Winter Gardens, in the basement of Sherman and -McCon- nell's drug store. Sixteenth and Harney streets, Saturday. Ravitz valued the coat at $2o. - Get Two Rings. William Stulr, 123 North Thirty ninth street, reported that, burglars entered his home Saturday morning and stole one diamond ring val ued at $20 and a pearl ring valued at Dr. Charles F. Shook. 614 City National bank building, said some one stole a lapj robe and some tools from his car while it stood in front of Lord Lister hospital. Dr. Shook estimates the loss at $15. James Condon, King hotel, Thir . A w t teentn ana jackson streets, re ported that someone entered his room by unlocking the door and stole a suit of clothes he valued at $35. . Expects Russian Peasants to Revolt Against Reds Ugden. Utah, Dec. 28. Inevitably :nere win be a conflict of the Rus sian peasant - with the Lenine Trotzky radicalism and a new gov ernment will develop in Siberia and European Russia, according to Dr. ETlP. Mills. ' Amfrican iA Cr.-. surgeon in charge of the Irkutsk military nopitai, who spoke in Og- uen. MORE DEATHS SUNDAY FROM LETHAL MIXTURE Others Are Reported Near . Death's Doo r Greatest Number of Fatalities in ' Connecticut Valley. New York, Dec. 28. Federtl agents late tonight arrested five men whom thev claimed to be' the heads of an organized band which they claim to be responsible for the wirespread sale of wopd alcohol con coctions through five states. One of the men arrested was described by the government agents as "the king pin of the ring." Two of the mn . m custody were described as New York business men. ' For 10 davs. since the first fatali ties were reported from wood alco-. hoi poisoning, Col. D. L. Forter, su pervising revenue agent for New York, and H. B. Dobbs, specia; fed eral agent, have been working on the .. theory that the poison that has, caused scores of deaths throughout New England and New York ong- itiated in this city. The arrests to night were made in widely separated - parts of the city. ' Three ot the ' prisoners arrestee are Adolph Panarelli, "a wine and liquor dealer;. John Romanelli, an undertaker, and Samuel K. Saleeby a druggist. ' r . Four Men Arrested. ,. Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 2o. United States Marshal Edward J. Lyden r has arrested four men on federal warrants, two charging violation 6f. the wartime prohibition act and two. illegal transportation of liquor from state to state. The arrests resulted. rom his investigation into the - deaths of more than -56 persons 'in the Connecticut valley since Christ mas from drinking wood alcohol ' -contained . in a mixture sold as whisky. Four more deaths had resulted since 'early Sunday from alcoholic poisoning, three in Holyoke and one -in Chicopee, bringing the total for " the Connecticut valley, not includ ing' Hartford, to 52, divided as fol- , lows: . CHICOPEE, 36, including twtj. women. ' HOLYOKE, 9. . ' SPRINFIELD, 4, including one woman. ' GREENFIELD. 1. - ' THOMPSONVILLE, Conn., 2. - , HADLEY, Conn.. .3. . Those under arest on the federal ", warrants . are , John Nasaizewski of Chicopee and Harry; Shapiro of Springfield, truck drivers, who are charged with bringing the liquor into ' the valley; Adam Ostrowskt and John W. Starzyk, both of Holyoke, . charged with violation' of the war time prohibition act. They will be arraigned before' a Uniled States r commissioner, Monday mortiing. AH" were released under $500 bonds.; Marshal Alfred Caron of the Clii--copee police left today for New Haven, Conn., with warrants charg- , ing murder against four men who have been arrested there. The war- . rants were sworn out, the police say, on information given by Wil- ' Iiam Baker of Chicopee, who , is ' held on a manslaughter charge, and Shapiro. ' Although several new cases of the , poisoning were reported Sunday the -number decreased considerably over Friday and Saturday. The number, however, increased in Holyoke. ' Two More Cases Reported. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 28. Deaths from wood alcohol poisdning todav -remained at 13, thje; total recorded Saturday. - Two. more cases of per sons suffering from the effects of ' poisonous liquor, were listed at hos pitals. Four of eight persons ill here, were reported tonight in a ' critical condition. Chief of Police Farrell tonight anounced that all saloons would be closed tomorrow. Seven men are " being held, four of them charged with, murder. A woman died in Meriden, Conn today from the effects of poisonous liquor. District Attorney Schoonmaker of ' Ware tonight announced the death of three Hadley residents, two of whom :n an ante-mortem statemenj are said to- have declared he-had nought the liquor in the Hsdley hotel. Edward Lyons, proprietor of the hotel, Mr. Sch'.onmaker caid ad mitted buying five gallons dt'the ' itquor from Alex Perry of dncopee. proprietor of the American house, who is under arrest on a charge of manslaughter. i . - One death occurred in He lyoke ' tonight. ; Six Men Are Hld. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 28. Sit men .were arrested in - connection -with the sale of wood alcfthol whisky," which they are alleged to have shipped from this city. to ' Continued mi rffi Tw, C4um Xwi J V fca"i,trt'wi"'ari