The Coshocton Tribune from Coshocton, Ohio • Page 1

SHOP A A I I The or.s-rial gift buyer who pets fur his money tUe early shopper who roaus tho als carefully, and hr.ys ct leisure. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEXVS REPORT AND TIMES-AGE CIRCULATION BCOKS OPEN VO ALL VOL. XI, No. 105 MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1919. THE WEATHER I a i tonight and Tuesday except snow flurries near Lake Erie 1 colder tonight.

THREE CENTS PROHIBITION UPHELD BY U. S. SUPREME COURT Of Wcodrow May Be Forced By Lawless Mexican CONGRESS IS RILED Watchful Waiting Policy Of State Department May Be Forsaken WASHINGTON, Dec. Wilson's hand may be forced by Carranza. He is known to be watching the Mexican situation with anxiety and the prediction ia being freely made here that he must soon abandon his policy of "watchful waiting." Congress is watching the border with blood in its eyes.

Senators and congressmen on both sides of the political fence openly express their opinion that Carranza needs to be spanked and are firm in the belief that unless this is done In some form or other and in. drastic fashion, the present outburst of kidnappings and property outrages will go on. Despite the supposed attitude of President Wilson against intervention in Mexico it is known that he fully backed Secretary Lansing hi the latter's firm stand in the case of kidnapping, arrest and imprisonment of Consular Agent William O. Jenkins by the Mexican authorities of Puebla; and at one time in that affair the United States appeared within an ace of armed action. Even the president's critics admit that while he may not have been quick to leap into a fray he makes a thoro job of it when he do.es Significance is attached to the news that the department of justice is sending a number of special agents to the (Continued On Page Six) REPUBLICANS CHOOSE CHICAGO FOR CONVENTION NEXT JUNE ALLIES TO DEMAND BODY OF WILHELM LONDON, Dec.

15. The allies are understood to be draft- ling a Joint note to Hollond demanding the extradition of the ex-kaiser. Sir Gordon Hcwart, the attorney general of England, has now completed all the plans for the trial, it was learned today. The trial of the former German emperor was one of the questions considered at the conference between Premier Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau at London late last week. No Ruling Is Made On 2.75 Per Cent Beer- Highest Court Rules War Is Not Over Until Officially So Declared-Bonded Whiskey Can Not Be Withdrawn From Warehouse.

The Republican national committee snapped at close of session. (1) is Chairman Will Hays of committee; (2) Governor Sproul of-Pennsylvania, one of the Republican presidential possibilities who attended meeting. MUTE CHILD Mrs. Esther Blake In Hospital At Atlantic City A Nervous Wreck While Police Unravel Mystery Of Her Son Buddy's Death DEADLOCK ON TREATY STILL IS UNBROKEN Slight Hope Entertained For Compromise On The Covenant The Coshocton Gas company has leased the corner room in the Bachert building, corner Walnut and Sixth-sts, and will move its office from the present quarters on Sixth-st to the new location as soon as the room, formerly occupied as a grocery and meat market, is ready for occupancy. The new room will give the gas company more space and will afford better facilities for transacting its business.

MOUNTAIN JUDGE DEPLORES LETHARGY CLEVELAND, Dec. 15. -The need of the mountaineers of Kentucky is to be made disatis- fled with conditions there. This was the massage brot to Clevelanders today by William McKinley, 26, a justice of the peace from Pikesville, Kentucky, who today has his first ride in an automobile and talked over a thing for the first time. "We need visions of something higher, nobler and richer," he said.

FIVE TAKE THE CARRIER EXAM. There were five men who took the civil service examination at the Post Office Saturday for city mail carrier and five who took the civil service examination for rural mail carrier. A civil service examination for stenographers will be held the fourth Friday of each month at the post office for positions in Ohio, Indiana and Kentfjokf. HOLINESS MEETING The Holiness prayer and praise meeting will be held at the home of Carl Pangle, 232 north Fifteenth-st, Tuesday evening. WASHINGTON, Dec.

is expected today to announce the members of the commission of three which is to adjust the wages of the coal miners and fix new prices if necessary. The president has been withholding the appointment of the commission until he is advised by Attorney General Palmer that the miners have complied with the other terms of the settlement proposition and have returned to their work. The attorney general was confident that reports would come today which would indicate that the great majority of the miners have returned to their work, and he would so notify "the president. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Dec.

15. -i Mrs. Esther Blake, whoso six year old ame sBlake, known as "Buddy" was found drowned on Ventnor Beach, after having been reported kidnapped by two negroes lies in the City hospital today a nervous wreck with a charge of murder against her. She is accused of throwing her hoy off a pier into the Atlanti cocean. The police believe it was a tragedy of love and jealousy.

Mrs. Blake was living apart from her husband, James M. Blake, a Philadelphia insurance man and the police theory is based partly upon statements she is alleged to have made to Police Chief Spragur-. After tho body was cast ashore by the surf and Mrs. Blake was notified i is said to have declared: "The boy stood between us." Friends of Mrs.

Blake declared that had been wrought up mentally for some time over domestic and when Chief Sprague instructed her of he rarrest she was on the pointof collapse. If Mra. Blake Improves, Chief Sprague said he would question her during the afternoon and attempt to get a detailed, coherent statement an to what happened on the bleak and lonely beach Friday night, when the boy disappeared. When taken to the hospital and informed that she would be questioned later Mrs. Blako ve- i hemently denied her guilt.

I "When you come to me again I will tell the same story I have already i told," she exclaimed and then broke down sobbing. The "same story," was that Mrs. Blake xvas attacked by two negroes. After selling her purse, she said, the men made off taking the boy with them. She explained that the lad i (Continued On Page Six) Shortage Of Fuel Still Serious In Ohio, Says Exchange Official OPERATORS' SCALE COM.

MEETS WED. COLUMBUS, Dec. the miners are returning to their work, strict economy of the present coal supply is urged by W. D. McKinney, secretary of Southern Ohio Coal Exchange here.

In view of the fact that normal coal production will not bo reached i the middle of the week and Uie only coal available is being transported already, McKinney advises fonpuni'TH to be careful lest they hinder the supply which is a sufficient for the cold weather demand. Both operators and miners' officials are confident that approximately all of the miners will be back to work today, but. due to the necessity of re- many of the mines, maximum production of coal will not be obtained for several days. President John Moore, of the Ohio United Miners estimated that, fifty per cent, of the mines were not. in condition for immediate normal production.

i ('oncoming tho reported differences between some of the unions and their President Moore declared: "There was disappointment, but the i of satisfaction is more general now than Thursday and all the men able to work will be at their jobs to, ciay." A I Dec. 15--The treaty situation today was hopeless dead- i Announcement from the white house that the president plans no compromise brot disappointment, to those i of tho treaty who had hoped President Wilson would arrange a common ground for sotl lenient with tlie friends of tho treaty. Senator Lodge nnd Republican ei's were prepared to accept, ohal- lengo of the president i i is "undivided responsibility" for the treaty i a i The pressure of i opinion now seems to be tho only factor which may bring a change in treaty i a i unless sufficient. Democrats follow the lend of Senator Underwood, of Alabama, and declare for a resolution ending t.hu state of war with Germany when they believe no other hope is offered. WASHINGTON, Dec.

15. The United States supreme court today held the wartime prohibition law stitutional. No decision was handed down on 2.75 per cent beer. The supreme court reversed the decision of the district court of Kentucky, permitting the removal of whiskey from bond for beverage purposes. The decision of the New York court declaring the law constitutional was affirmed.

The court ruled that the wartime act was valid in its inception and that its validity has not been changed by any change of national condition. The decision of the court was unanimous. COURT RULES CITY CAN SAY WHERE WIRES CAN BE LAID WASHINGTON, Dec. supreme court today upheld the Ohio statute giving state municipalities the right to control and regulate the placing of telegraph and electric light and power IJnes and wirei in city streets. Martin Kirker And Mrs.

William Kirker West That all samples of so-called "rain bow" sugar so far examined by the Bureau of Chemistry have been found to be colored by harmless dyes Is the statement of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose pure food experts began testing samples of this product soon after it appeared on the market. Repeated inquiries coming to the bureau from many parts of the country seem to indicate that considerable quantities of this sugar have been supplied to grocers. The department states that In accord with the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act It will continue to ex- amlne samples of this tinted product to ascertain whether or not harmful In the Only tke to been used In the tested and under the Food and Drugs Act their use can be continued so long as they do not conceal inferiority. The sugar so far examined is harmless, sound, and not inferior, so that the practice I of the reftcera does not conflict witb the of this law. The method employee In tinting the examined is relatively simple and adds very little to the cost of the product and nothing to its food value.

Renners state that the shortage of sugar has created an opportunity to put on the market coiwiderable reserve of thin colored product which ordinarily ii only for They deny that they have their iftocka of white onfar that Ikiflm-prim Mrs. J. R. Dawson, Coshocton D. 6, received a letter Monday morning announcing the death of her uncle, Martin Kirker, at his home in Greenwood, December 12.

He was a brother of Samuel and Martin Kirker, both deceased, Jackson-tp. Martin Kirker and his fatnlly left Coshocton-co about 50 years ago for Nebraska. He was about 87 years of age. The letter stated that he was sick only 24 hours. His niece, Mrs.

Sarah Underwood, and his nephew, Douglas Kirker, both of Uniontown, Kansas, attended the funeral. Mrs J. R. Daw son also received a letter Monday announcing the death of her aunt, Mrs. William Kirker, at Deep River, Iowa, about the first of December, death resulting from a paralytic stroke.

She was 82 years nf age. Her maiden name was Francos Greer. She WM born and reared in Jackaon-tp, leaving this county about CLEVELAND, Dec. I scale committee of the National Coal Operators Association, will meet in Cleveland Wednesday. Announcement was made today by Secretary D.

F. Hurd of the Pittsburg Vein Operators Association. I The scale committee will take up i a unadjusted points in the new scale, according to Mr. Hurd, He said jthe committee had no other program, altho it was reported that sonic of the operators proposed to bring up the matter of securing increased prices for coal in the event the president's com' mission grants wage increases in excess of the 14 per cent already granted. Secretary Hurd predicted normal production in Ohio by nightfall.

jHe said he had received very encouraging reports of coal production on Saturday and that every indication (pointed to full resumption thruout the state today. CLEVELAND, Dec. 'was in the grip of the first real blizzard of the winter today. Coming from the west driven by a strong wind, the weather bureau predicted the sndw would continue until nightfall. Altho still snowing at.

noon, the rate i of fall had greatly lessened. Zero weather tonight was predicted. The fuel commission was watching closely the distribution today of the I available supply-of coal as it was fear- that the blizzard, should It contln- ue, would interfere materially with the movement, of coal from the mines. SLAYER OF SWEETHEART IS SURE SHE LOVES, STILL Alleged Son of Senator New Hopes To Join Her Spirit In Hereafter BUT WANTS TO LIVE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.

Harry H. New, alleged won of U. S. Henatc.r New, of I i a a and confessed slayer of Ills sweetheart, Freda Lesser, awaits the of his i a for here to ID or row. i urnazliiK i i ami concern.

A shrug of his i shoulders is his I a i a reply to concerning his i i an to tho outcome of the i a a may send him to the or to a "lifer's cell." "I haven't given the outcome very thot," Now declared. "It's not. much to bother me. either way. i i you might, way." Buffeted by a battery of alienists in his cell in the county jail, alienists who pronounced him bo- siegnd by newspaper reporters and (Continued On Page Six) BIRTH NOTES A son was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Rudolph Ehrich, Monday morning at tho Henderson home, Wai- nut-st. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carpenter, Dover, Friday at.

home of Mrs. Carpenter's mother, Mrs. Porter Goce, Pine-st. Justice Brandeis in reading the de- i i of the court dwelt at great length as to the proclamation of peace. i Tho court held in Its decision that de! spite, tho fact that, the president, has stated iu speeches that, the war Is at end and despite veto of the Volstead act and despite i other indications that, the war is In reality over, the law 1 must, remain effective uriili peace is olJicially declared.

The decision in the case was made on court docket 612, affirming lower court, decision in the case known "Alphonse Dryfuss. Eugene KuRono Hasche, of New York vs. i i a If. Edwards, collector Of internal revenue." The case involved rlRht of Dryfuss to withdraw dis- i spirits from bonded i for beverage, purposes. They attempted to withdraw fifty barrels of whiskey by offering cash which was refused by the, internal revenue collector.

The i a a was not i The ruse wns brot in the district court In New York to declare unconst.i- (Continued On Page Six) I. I I A I Dec. .1. Porshing, commander of the American i i a forces is to be Cincinnati's honored guest today. Following his arrival at 4:45 p.

m. a parade will start from the Penna. depot. The school children will sing patriotic airs as tho pjirade passes Government Square rind at (5 p. m.

Gov. Cox will grei-l the general at the Sinton Hotel. Following i at thy Business Men's Club a reception at Music Hall will wind up the ceremony. General Pershing is scheduled to leave at 11 p. m.

tonight. STATES J. C. BAUGHMAN CRITICALLY ILL J. C.

Baughman, 822 Chestnut-st, was taken suddenly ill Sunday afternoon with, appendicitis and was operated upon at the City hospital Sunday evening at o'clock. Mr. Baughman suffered an acute attack and is in a critical condition. So far as James McCormick, miners organizer, was able to learn Monday morning all coal mines in the county were operating at full force. A normal production of coal is expected in the county by the middle of this week.

A meeting will be held tonight of the wagon mine operators and miners to figure the 14 per cent, increase on Utt fradeB of work u4 coal. SAY RAILWAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Coal production will reach 80 percent of normal today, it was announced today by the railroad administration, after early reports had been received.from the coal fields. In Kansas and Ohio alone the production is still considerably below normal and the situation is regarded as serious in those states.

The railroad administration today announced the lifting of restrictions on bunkerage. The bunkering of ships was placed on a permit basis and coal will be issued to ships in the following Inland and coastwise vessels. Overseas vessels. Forelga overseas vessels. This order will permit a number of foreign vessels, which have been tied up for fuel, to Mil.

Tke to appoint SPA'PEll the coal commission today, ft was stated at the white house today. Attorney General Palmer has asked that the appointment of the commission be withheld until he is assured that all of the miners have returned to their work. John Lewis, and William Green were at the white house today and offered assurances that all of miners would return to their work..