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(TIjt? Dillon ^ | THEDILLON HERALD, l^LOX, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOItXIXG, JANUARY 1, 1020. ^ ^ VOL.24. NO, 17. ^, P6 DEATH m FROM lOOYCOHOl POISON CLAIMS OVER* DURING HOLIDAY SEAM. Death List Extends from O&ii to, Ocean and the Lakes to% Ite Gulf. \ Victims of wood alcohol poison w, were counted by the hundreds du?L iug the holidays when the nation! avnlrA onHHcnlv tn tha trr-a vrt YiorJrl i* ?i v*tv guuuvut/ vv vnt O1" ' v i which has followed closely in the | wake of prohibition. Every section of the country had its list of dead?mefk and women killed by the poison sold to them as . whiskey. Each hour the list was growing larger. Each community had believed its case was isolated and peculiar. It suddenly developed that the evil is nationwide. This crisis was revealed when Hartford, Conn., flashed word tkat thirteen men had died there from wood * alcohol poisoning and called on the j police of New York to trace the source1 * of the "murder whiskey'' believed to j have been sent oui of this city in J large quantities. All governmental agencies were in- J stantly aroused to action. The police, Secree Service, Internal Revenue j Agents and federal prosecuting officials united In running down the illi-1 cit "moonshiners'^ who are turning: wood alcohol into fortunes. Chlcopee, Mass., Dec. 28.?United! States Marshal Edward J. Leyden, to- j day arrested four men of federal war-! rants, two charging violation of the; wartime prohibition act and tw0 il'legal transportation of liquor from; State to State. The arrests resulted j from his investigation intgthe deaths! of more than fifty persons in the Connecticut wood aleohol contained in a mixture sold as whiskey, \ Four more deaths had resulted since early this morning from alcohol poisoning, three in Holyoke and one in Chicopee, bringing the total for the Qkmnecticuf valley, not including Hartford, t0 f ifty-two, divided as follows : Chicopee, thirty-six, including two women; Holyoke, nine; Springfield, four, including one woman; Greenone and Thompson vilie, Conn., SHr:?wM Those t^hder arrest on the federal varnnft nr* Tnhn Kanair^wnki nf r Chicopee, and Harr Shapiro, of j Springfield, truck driver, who are! charged with bringing the liquor int0 the valley; Adam Ostrowski and ) John W. Starszyk, both of Holyoke, charged with violation of the wartime prohibition act. They will be arraigned before a United States commissioner Monday morning. All were released under $500 bonds. Men Charged W ith Murder. Marshal Alfred Caron, of the Chico-1 pee police, left this a/ternonn for! New Haven, Conn., with warrants! caarging murder against four men j ~ Who have been arrested in that city, j The warrants "were swo.rn out, the police say, on information given byj William Baker, of this town, who is * held on a manslaughter charge, and, Harry Shapiro, of Springfield. Although several new cases of thef -? poisoning were reportea toaay in xne| valley, the number decreased considI erably ever Friday and Saturday. The' | number increased in Holyoke, giving | the Impression that some of the liquor bought, in that city may have been consumed sipce Friday^ when thefirst| ? signs of the poisoning became evi-; dent. 4. Hartford, Conn. Dec. 28?No addi-i tional deaths from wood alcohol 1 poisoning were reported here today,! the list of dead remaining at thirteen, | the total recorded Saturday forenoon.; Two more cases of persons suffering 2. from the effects of poisonious liquor; were listed in hospitals, making eight, persons known to be ill here from that i cause. Four of these were reported tonight in a critical condition. No further arrests were made here today. Seven men are held in con-1 nection with the wood alcohol "whis- j key" sales, four of them being charg-j ed with murder. Another death was added to the' Connecticut total today, when a worn- j an died in Meridian from the. effects of poisonous liquor. Six Men Arrested. N^r Haven, Conn., Dec. 28?Six jgjgfpPrere arrested here today in con-j neetion with the sale of wood alcohol , "whiskey," which they are alleged to t^yfave shipped from this city to ChicoMass. The arrests were made at | JHbie request of the district attorney of r VVestfield, Mass., who telegraphed that the men are "wanted for homlcidfe 'n Massachusettes.'' Two barrels of compound believed to contain wood alcohol were confis-i cated in a barn on the outskirts of the city. According to the police, four! barrels of liquor were shipped from the barn to Chicopee, Mass., where a large number have died from drinking a wood alcohol mixture. The six men held are alleged tG have been - the owners of the liquorfStored in J the barn. They received $1,050 a barfckrel for the four barrels sent to Chico- { ^Hbee, it is said. BjKlflifcark,x N. J., Dec. 28?Three ASKS FOR DEATH PENALTY. Aili-Saloon League Wants Violator* Punished. ttlanta, Dec. 29?Calling on Congn8s to provide more rigid enforcenit at of the prohibition laws to prevei t further loss of life through wot'", alcohol, more than 100 southern drjj leaders passed a resolution to that effect today. The resolution, which wa) introduced by E. Y. Clarke, southern campaign director for the Anp-Saloon League, also called for the de^th penalty for those found guiity- of selling wood alcohol- in jjthfBkey and also demanded greater 'ttfehrity on the part of government, Steft and city authorities in enforcIsfUtie law thn cnnpliiHinff nara. ?*?o ?' r""* graph or the resolution states that the rolibition enforcement conferec< i^respect fully calls the attention of'inkCongress of the United States te ttnpiting conditions and most e^rnt hi* urges that sufficient funds and ' sufficient number of law enforce nent officers be provided t0 insure troper enforcement of the laws now >n' the statute books, >to make impaeible a repetition of this Christmas ragedy., [PRIMARY At yL ATT A. W. Iflis Bethea Receives Nomination hfe Mayor Over T. W. Berry. In Uie municipal primary held at Lattajyesterday W. Ellis B<thea was nomiited for mayor over the incumbent j. W. Berry by a majority of 14 vnt?K IVollowinp iR thp vote' ?u r>a?t for irfcor and aldermen: For Mayor: W. Ells Bethea 78 T. W.jUerry _J; 6^ | For Alderpien: # Geo. 1 Bethea _l 83 H. A. Bethea '?Iff D. M.foew -1 10) 0. J. Anegan 108 P. C. Ienry ? 107 L. D. 4?nship - 85 more dlaths from wood alcohol poL oning, liaking a total of nine herein the l^S three weeks, were reporftd to th# oiice tonight. Coil y-rrosecutor Harrison aid Col-lect r of Internar Revenue .Charlie Daflr have started investigations to trig the source of the liqtior which i lUsed the deaths. 'laims Another Victim. East ir Pa., Dec. 28?"Whiskey contain if wood alcohol claimed another v :tim here tonight when af-local sbo iperchant died in a ho&atal shortly after being admitted, tofclly blind. 1 he police arrested a tomer policem n and his wife In connection with th| case. With! two weeks three deaths fcave occtirrd hCre from the same cause and an Eastonian died in -Battle Creok, iich., where he had gone t0 spe id,( iristipas with relatives after drii kin; "whiskey" he took with hin. De tli 1st Reaches Fifteen. r? rvo/. 9fii Th-ifii-ct vp?GiaiIVl, v.j i/V/Vi ? wr ? i ? ? *->* dealh hire from alcohol) poisoning sin? Ciristmas when several cases weii Idfrnitted to hospitals, occurred todfyv One new case wsp reported. Afraan found unconscfcus in a hotel ' as taken to a ho^pitdl where physicii us say his chances oj recovery are slig t. T( Hy's death brings /he total since Nov inber 1, up to fi^tden. Another Death Jteported. Cllcago/Dec. 287-Another man was eported dead todiv as the result of d inking wood alcohol. If authenticat d ay a poison lifuor death Chicago 1 total of Christinas poisonings to d le number 9,*of 35 since July 1. Ti lay's victim wa^73 years old. Ei iployers were ^sked today by Coro er Hoffman tj address their worMrs tomorrow and warn them agaii it the use of rood alcohol and othe| questionable substitutes for whisi)ey. The coroner and members of his Aff also will fiake a tour of industqal plants issuing warnings agaiqit poisonous liquors. May of the deaths ocurred among laboring men whtfm the community couldjhot afford fp lose, said the coroner.! >Teni 2.A<H^i>ermits Issued. V? \r?r.ls n*. 0 0 In vocti frotlnn *,w? I VI nt *^|V? -w VWV*p?V?V.. by tl^ police ofnumerous deaths attribu(jd to wool alcohol poisoning revested toniglythat in the last three monty; federal permits to manufacture yerfuraeij- ha ve been issued to appr imately^.ODO persons of whom it is iid> not,more than fifty are legit+n: 4e masufuturers of perfumes. Ac rdinr to t/ie police the holders of pe iiits are eititled to buy what is know ap 'oololne spirits' at J4.80( a ga on, end ?iose who bought it for o her than the making of purfume -ha^e male purchases amounting ti hundred^ of thousands 0f dol-( lars. An ther'deal 1 in New York from| poisoi oys liquo was reported today, that ft Eugene Massiello, who drank [ a lafjo quantit of "wine ' before he, diedlAn gutopir will be made tomorrow.^ | | Joih C. Varefcl, a farmer, who died shorjf after b4ing taken to a hospital, is believed also t0 have been a victim of wood alcohol and will also be tid sobject-jof an autop^v. iBn .! JSEIillG Palll " I CHARGED TO SIX JARRETS MADE IN NEW YORK Lj 7 * DRIVE. Captua of Score or .More Expected i 7 hjr Officials of Gov" I eminent. Nei York, Dec. 28?With six men in cuiody, alleged ring leaders in a consipacy to flood New York, New Jersqf and New England with poisonouj substitutes for whiskey, federaljattte and city authorities were uniti tonight in a various pursuit of tie purveyers of the poisonous bevfafes which have caused scores of diaths end hundreds of cases of bliifntss and illness. The capture of at kast a score or more of the poison disposers is expected according to th*'federal officials. fyi the meantime the toll of death and serious illness caused through drinking wood alcohol and other illicit concoctions continued to mount inWew York and adjacent cities. | During the day four more deaths were i recorded, one each from Newark, Elizabeth, Passaic, and one ffom New York. In addition, two men and a wouan w|re picked up unconscious on New York streets and two men in ipatsaic in similar condition, all four jlping critically ill tonight from alcololic poisoning. Thoroughly aroused by the ever growing list of fatalities the authorljties 1ield several conferences during i the day at which cooperation wa6 jpl^ined between the different federal Janf municipal departments. Col. Daniel L. Porter, supervising revenue agent for New York, who is at the head of the campaign for the federal government, declared tonight that York city is the headquarters for the country in the Illicit liquor industry and that it is impossible as yet to tell how far the ramifications of the trade extend. The two most important arrests made so tar, according to the federal agents ar^ those of John Romanelli, a Brooklyii undertaker and Samuel Saleeby, a Brooklyn druggist, who are accused M the poison throughout New England The two men were released toniglTt op $25,000 bail pending further examination. > The remaining four men are Aloph Panarelll, a fohner saloon keeper, Carmine Licenziato, Amendi0 Delooma and Luigl Puca, Italian grocers. Panarelll has made a statement to the authorities in regrd to the method employed for the distribuion of the liquor in New England/&4 it was stated tonight he mayAX* witness for the government. Two of seven barrel of liquor which Romanelli is accused of having sold are said to have beeh bought by I a Bronx saloon keeper. This man, ac i cording t0 Colonel Porter,, came to ; Panarelli after the sale and denounced him for having charged Vim $3,200 for wood alcohol. Panarelli, who acted as Romanelli's agent claims, Colonel Porter said, that he took a sample of the liquor 'to a druggist who confirmed the saloon keeper's word that it was poison. He said that he then warned Nathau Saizberg, a Hartford, Conn., saloon keeper over the long distance telephone not to sell any of these barrels of the liquor he had bought. Saizberg told him, he^'ontinupd, that he had sold a barre^ j a dealer in Chicopee, Mass., and smaller quantities to other dealers in Hartford but that he : would try and recover as much of [the liquor as he could. Later he was |informed by Saizberg that he had got back almost all except a half barrel which had been sold in Chicopee. AfI ter reading of the deaths from wood alcohol poisoning in Connecticut and ! Massachusetts, Panarelli went to a 'lawyer and on his advice surrendered himself to Revenue Agent Dobbs. A still and ,500 gallons of liquor were seized tonight in a raid in the ! basement of an apartment house in ikn 13 ran 7 ktr nltv th voo | UIC OIVIIO uj VIIJ uvvvvvt?Vfj. A li* vv , men were arrested who described , themselves as Louis Dezito, an ice (dealer; Vitele Cello and Joseph GuisIseppe, laborers. , Another death that of John Smith, 56, was added tonight to the toll of wood alcohol poisoning. He lived in a Fulton street house where four others have died from drinking poip[onous liquor. Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 29?Five men held in New Haven in connection with the sale of whiskey alleged to have contained wood alcohol and which it is claimed caused the death of nearly 60 persons in the Connecticut valley, were brought t0 this city tonight and arrested by MassaaVmicaHc oiHhAritioe nn pharp-p nf homicide in causing the death of Michael Bednarz of this cilv. They were all held without bail and will be arraigned in court here tomorrow. Chicopee, Mass., Dec. 29?M. Edward Lyons, proprietor of the Hadley hotel in Hadley, was arrested this afternoon on three warrants sworn out by state Detective Joseph V. Daly of Northampton. The arresfcrfesulted from thP large numb^l of deaths throughout this sectij^t.om the drinking of "whiskey"^^^B^v 'COMPROMISE TALK ! I ON PEACE TREATYi 1 CONFERENCE OF SENATORS IN WASHINGTON. j' 1 I 'i President Wilson Has Not Been Re- ; quested to Call Meeting of Council. \] Washington, Dec. 30 ? President', j Wilson has not been invited to call1 ^ .the first meeting of the council of', the league of nations after ratifies-1, tion of the treaty of Versailles has;, jbeeu completed, state department of-i< j finals said today. I There was a suggestion some time ago that the invitation be extended to hi;u but the question Mas not de- j tervnlr.ed at that timfe. Some admin- , islration officials belleve he will ac- ( quicsce in a request from the a^ied , roiyejo but the United States will . have 110 part in the meeting of the coucil by reason of the fact that the treaty has not been ratified by the senate. The treaty provides that the first meeting of the assembly of the league shall be called by the president but ihe assembly is not expected to ; n.eet in th*? Immediate future. The, council however, must assemble in aI.' fortnight after ratification is com-!1 pleU.d at Paris as the carrying out of j some provisions of the treaty are en--' trusted to it. .Feace treaty compromise xaia reached a formal tage today when Senator McNary of Oregon, a lfeader of the mild reservation Republicans, discussed various compromise sugges-j' tions with Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, acting Democratic leader. It was said that although no agreement came out of the conference the conversation took a hopeful turn. Afterward both senators semed confident j that a middle ground could be found j that would insure ratification early j in the year. The reservations in the majority i program dealing with Article 10,!> Shantung and voting power in the league of nations, it was said were discussed. During the day Senator Hitchcock\ saw a number of other senators and | Senator Swanson of Virginia, a Dem-| ocrat 0f the foreign relations commit, tee was present during a part of the! talk with Senator McNair. Later Mr., | McNary conferred with several on frhej {Republican side. o STANTON-McCALL. Mr. Edgar Stanton and Miss Lillle J McCall, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David McCall of the Red Bluff section of Marlboro county, were quitely married at the Baptist parsonage at McColl Thursday, December 18, by the Rev. J. A. McMillan. Mr. Stanton holds a position with| [the Stanton Garage at Clio. Mrs. Stanton.is a very charming, young lady and W'U be greatly miss-J ! ed by the younger set of her section. | The young couple will make their j home at Clio. We extend to them our( 'best wishes for a long and happy life.: o Domhoff-Alford. Miss MarthaJlomhoff and Mr. A.j ^Pierce Alford trare married at Sum-j ter last Saturday afternoon, the cere-; ! ntony being performed by Rev. Mr. J Marion, pastor of the Presbyterian; | church. After a brief honeymoon the; j couple arrived in Dillon and spent; the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Philip! ! Osteen. The bride is a native of Newi j York, but has been in Sumter several j I months where she is popular among. I a large circle of friends. The groom jis a well known traveling man and I has legions of friends not only in Diljlon but all over the state. Mr. and I Mrs. Alford have returned to Sumter I where they will make their home. o Mrs. T. A. Guy 0f Fayetteville died| [Saturday, December 27th. Mrs. Guy,; before her marriage, was Miss Mary j Butler, formerly ot Dillon. She had ;been married nearly three years. She leaves besides her husband, two brothers, W. T. and R. C. Butler of |Fayetteville and one sister, Mrs. J.j | C. McCormick, of Dillon. have contained wood alcohol. Lyon is charged with manslaughter in causing the det th of Michael Schinski of Hadley, who died Sunday. It is alleged he drank some of the poisonous liquor said to have been ' purchased in the Hadley hotel. Lvon1 was released under $6,500 bond on this charge. The other two charges! j refer to illegal liquor selling. He will I be arraigned In district court in North1 ampton tomorrow morning. According ta District Attorney John H. Schoonmak??r of Ware, Lyons se-[ [cured the liqudr from Alexander Per-1 ry of this town, who is also under arIrest on thP charge of manslaughter. Two of the fiv>; gallons which Lyon Is claimed to h?ve purchased wer*; sold, the other l.hree being destroy-1 ed. I Although several persons are 111 In' hospitals and hoines, no new deatlis resulted today. Many of those ill can not recover..FiftyX.even persons have died in th* Connecticut val'oy from SUGAR WILL ADVANCE. Advance Crop Will Bring Twenty Cents a IJbund. 1 i New York. Dec. 29?The public probably will have to pay 20 cents a pound for the advance crop of 9,000000 pounds of Cuban sugar, now being delivered and distributed here, according to a statement today by Federal Food Administrator Williams. "This is due to the fact that dealers here are required to pay a higher price to the Cubdn producers for the crop which is in advance of the regular output," said Mr. Williams. "We 1 can not control the prices charged by 3 Cubans." i After one other shipment next ! month, it is expected that the regular 1920 crop of Cuban sugar Will com- 1 inence coming into me unuea auuetj and with the delivery of the regular ' crop, Mr. Williams said, he and his 1 aids would try to keep the price dowu ' to 14 or 15 cents a pound. < o PROHIBITION INCREASED SHE DRUG ADDICT. j New York, Dec. 29?Health Commissioner Royal S. Copeland, upon reading reports tonight that there , have been more than 255 person^kill- j ed in various cities by drinking wood . alcohol, declared that in the past few ( weeks thousands of habitual drinkers in this city alone have turned to . drugs because their fear of wood , alcoholic poisoning. "In New York city,'' said the com- ( missioner "there are between 100,000 and 200,000 drug addicts. I dare not 1 even roughly estimate the 4 number throughout the country. The advent of prohibition has more than doubled the number nf drug fiends. Prohibi tlon without governmental control of the drug trade is ridiculous. "Back of all this hellish misery caused by the illicit sale of heroin, morphine and cocaine, all of them de- 1 rivatives of opium, there is what I call 'the drug ring.' The headquarters of the group of men comprising this ling in New York. For months now the health department has been secretly tightening the meshes of a net about these men and before long I hope t0 bring them to justice. Who these men are I am not prepared to say just now. "Hundreds or thousands of pounds of crude opium, grown in India, are shipped to this country via China. Here the opinum is manufactured into its derivatives. There is absolutely no medical use for heroin. Then-the morphine, heroin and cocaine is ship-1 ped out of America and smuggled i back by the way of Mexico and Canada. It is imperative that there shall be worked oilt some system of international control of crude opium. Hhe * -1 Mt t-i 14 tr. arug evn win persist so iuu^ cvo u is possible for American manufacturers to prepare the opium, ship It away and then regain control of the drugs through smuggling. I'rges Federal Control. "It is Inqimbent upon the federal government, upon the heads of other governments, upon the league of nations, upon every official body that can be considered to push some plan 1 for the control of the parcotic- evil. 1 Drugs are so easily concealed; the! drug bootlegger is rarely caught. The physician and the health departments can heal some of these poor victims, but without strict governmental control as to prohibit the possibility of illicit possession of narcotics, the problem will never be solved. The evil growing is rotting the wrole social fabric. It is only the poorest classes that the health departments can reach, and even when cure^ the patients are likely t0 return to the drug upon the first physical pain, moral suffering or social disaster." Dr..Copeland declared that at t Jl Riverside Hospital the health dV&fiM ment is treating about 900 c^^flNRfl that at the narcotic clinic jMERHSH patients are daily beine^^lH^^HDK ally diminishing doses^HHn&^^M they are addicted opened last sprii^HBB?H^K98H government, clean-up camj^BflMg^flp^BSH^H of hundreds cmH^hHB99Hd^BrB| part men The coiiflHraHnBI r s tflflMHH9NHHHH| cases v^BUE|^HSH^BHU 'TheWHBHIBMHSMBMM o m m i ; ^Hi^ffiPRS|^^n9E9|HH| the ainHKgQ^BHMflWSn came ndd^BH|IHBHpBByllB^^WB Jl and pati^HHB^BfflBgBBSj^Ml Americans. ^BBBmBSHeHCMR admissions feurs, (]rivc^HHj^^^HnS^HSM& opertors and^BUHHaMj^^BflBBHH in? absol^RflUnjHQHflH^HM ministers ana^R|^^9HHB^^^^M victims. ThatHKENHra^nHH do notKMHHH diets die 7ou^HHBH?^^HS0H tuberculosis COUNT! NEWS AND HAPPENINGS NEWSEY LETTERS BY REGULARCORRESPONDENTS. News Items of Interest to Herald. Redder* Ebb and Flow of the. Human Tide. Sellers. A gloom was cast over the Xmu festivities when it was learned that Mrs. Addie Watson McCutchen had passed away at her home in Latta Saturday afternoon, December lAtftu "Peggy'' as she'was familiarly csllad by relatives and friends was loved bar everyDoay. ir sne naa an enemy wo have never heard of it. She leaves a. father end mother, several brother* find sisters, tw0 boys, now fatherless and motherless. In the midst of Hfo we are in death. Prof. Baker and Jiis assistants gavo the school children a Xmes tree Friday afternoon after which Mr. Summerly's musie pupils gave an excellent recital on the new piano. Miss Nelle Sellers entertained the . younger set Friday evening at bbr beautiful home in Watsonville. Bananas with whippet cream and frnfk cake were served to thd guests.. ' Our college "girls are all home for the holidays. Miss Elizabeth Pago from Winthrop. Misses Lillian Ranrseur, Elizabeth ancLRuth Sellers from. Columbia College. > Another marriage of interest is that of Miss May Oliver of Marietta on December 31st. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Hughe* a son on Thursday, December 18th_ o 4 Fork. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rogers tod baby of Greensbtr0 'visited relatives hem last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fort of NortB^ S. C.( spent Christmas here with Mm W. K. Fort. Mrs. Russell Smoaks of near Spartanburg is visiting her mother. Mr*. Fannie Edwards. Miss Ora Rogers, who is teaching at Leo,, S. C., spent Xmas holiday* at home. . Mrs. Noah Taylor and baby at ? Melrose, Va., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Taylor. Misses Coleen and Lucile Be the* of Greensboro spent the holidays at home. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Carmichael and children of Rowland spent a few d&jru last week with relatives here. Mr. J. W. Atkinson is - spending some time with his children at Cameron. Rev. H. C. Carmichael of Burlington spent last week here with hf? niother( Mrs. Annie Carmichael. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Bethea and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rogers of Latta. The following are home for the holidays from the different colleges.: Misses Willie and Sadie Moore of Coker College, Bertha Moore Tron* Salem College and Eugene Cannicliael and Burt Roberts of Wofford Fitting School. o Latta, It. F. D. No. 2. .Miss Margaret Berry of Marion spent the week end with Misses Mary and Sadie Haves. John David Hayes of Florence la visiting his brother, Rev. Wilson Hayes who is verv ill but we hone for hini a speedy recovery. Tom Meggs visited relatives and' friends at Spring Branch last week. Steven Berry spent several days ^Uuhis brother, J. M. Berry, last Dew of Zion Sunday with the Mi%. J. Rich E9BBH^BMflS|HN^^^?oker Col