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THE SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 3, . 1920.
U. S. PRY AQEOTSARE
NOT ARMED FOR WAR
Do tfot Sot Forth Procured to
( Battle for lives Against
SUCH HEPOETS"AlIi WItONG
Hopcr Explains Nows Stories
, of ITeavy Purchases of
Military Stores.
pfclal to Tns Sen AtJo Jfiw 'Tobk nnt'u.
TVaruinoton. March 2. Dry enforce
ment agents aro not being armed to an
unusual extent, and are hot going out
on an enforcement campaign with full
military equipment. Commissioner Itoper
to-day set at rest reports that the Trees
ury.was going In .for heavy purchases of
military stores, with an Inference that
the lives of dry law vlolaters were to be
snuffed out by armed squads.
Upon having hi attention called to
a roccntly published statement that the
dry law agents are having turned over
to them huge quantities of guns and
ammunition, for the enforcement of pro
hlbltlon? the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue to-day said the statement was
calculated to mako a wrong Impression
upon tho public. It probably refers to
an order issued 'January 31, directing
Collector of Internal Revenue to
transfer to Supervising Federal Prohlbl.
tlon agents the supplies which they had
on hand and previously were used by
them in enforcing the liquor tax laws.
Such supplies Included arms, am
munition, ammunition belts, scabbards
and holsters, low wine stills, hydrome
ter?, cups and stems, and other gauging
equipment not needed by the collectors,
as this enforcement work had been en
tirely separated from them and trans
ferred to tho prohibition officers. There
tuvo been no recent purchases of arms
and ammunition, as 'would seem to be
Implied by tho newspaper statement.
JERSEY'S GOVERNOR
SIGNS 3.S0 BEER BILL
Edwards Attacks "Fanatics"
Who Oppose Measure.
Trenton,' March 2.. Gov. Edwards
signed at noon to-day-.the bill Author
izing, as soon, ns peace has been of
ficially declared,., the, manufacture and
ealo of beer containing ;3.'50 per cent,
alcohol by volume, or approximately
2.73 per cent, by weight. The measure
was signed lni the presence of State of
ficials, among them Senator Simpson of
Hudson county' and Assemblyman Hugh
Barrett of Essex, .supporters of the bill.
It was announced that the new law
will be made the basis .of. a test case
against tho Eighteenth-Amendment and
tho Volstead act which wilrbe filed In
the Supreme, Court' of the United States
by Thomas 'v. McCran; Attorney-General
of the Stalo. 'The State! legal au
thorities feel that with this Uw on the
statute books of the State their-case will
be a great deal Btronger than It would
havo been otherwise. .They will .contend
that the 3.50 law Is constitutional and
that the Legislature of'.'ew Jersey had
a legal right, to enact L , "
After signing thejblli; pol Edwards
said his action dldtooUmeantijilefence
of the saloon or thVliSbpr trafjte. as he
believed thatthe country wty through
v;lth them. On the cqntfaryi; he said,
he signed the bill after urging Us pas-
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DRYS FAIL TO BLOCK
INQUIRY INTO LEA6DE
Continued from First Page.
assisted Its friends to win elections,
Special Interest attaches to tho league's
sources o: income. It has been reported
that the league has spent great sums;
how much no one outside the secret
councils knowB.
Of tho thirteen 'members of the
Judiciary Committee five are recorded
as opposing the Inquiry and five In favor
of It. Those who opposed the resolution
are Martin, Lovrn, Jenks, Wilson and
Harrington, and those who are for It are
Rowe and Everett, Republicans, and
Cuvllller, Block and Evans, Democrats.
Pellett and Stltt of New York and
Blodgett of Schenectady were absent, but
a'l three represent districts which
naturally aro against absolute prohibi
tion. It Is believed the wets will dom
inate the committee.
It Is recalled that Speaker Sweet re
cently Incurred the displeasure of tho
Anti-Saloon League when he Indicated
he favored, tho Gage bill continuing the
Excise Department In charge of pro
hibition enforcement.
Publicity agents for .the Anti-Saloon
League circulated to-day a statement by
Superintendent Anderson describing the
Investigation as having many (f'comleal
features"; that the; league hns violated
no law and that the Assembly will be
wasting Its tlmo to give tho organization
advertising and a certificate of char
acter. . Tho league Is the agency of tho
churches and moral forces. Anderson
said.
Tho joint cxclso and taxation committees-
of the Assembly and Senate have
set, Tuesday, March 16, for a hearing on
tho prohibition enforcement bill of the
Anti-Saloon League and also on tho
Gage enforcement bill, which Is favored
by tho Republican leaders becauso it
provides for an enforcement bureau.
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ceived: "I still have in daily use several card cabinets that were
purchased from Library Bureau in 1889 ' '. The drapers and
drawer slides Ufork as easily as the day they here made!
Thirty years! Purchased before 'Edison perfected his
'. first wax cylinder phonograph 1 .Before Idaho and Wyoming
were admitted into the Union 1 Before the automobile 1
Before the electric street carl 1
. Long life and continued service are as much a part of
Library Bureau filing equipment as the speed, accuracy
and simplicity of Library Bureau filing systems.
. As one purchasing agent puts it: "I can always pur
chase filing equipment from Library Bureau with confidence
and a clear conscience. I know it will last. I know' I can
. depend on it
Thirty years from today you, too, will be glad you sent
for . the L. B. representative or wrote for the L. B. catalog,,
. , , Send for hood or steel cabinet catalog. .
Library Bureau
VERMONT'S LARGEST
CITIES ALL GO 'WET'
Show Big Bovcrsal l)y 75
Per Cent. Voto for Liquor
Licenses. '
WERE 'DRY' STRONGHOLDS
Etimntcd That 100 of 240
Towns in State Oppose
Prohibition.1
Special to Tns Sen a.nd New Yasx Hihald.
nnnriNdTow. vt.. March Towns
throughout Vermont voted on tho O.UCS- i
tlon of license to-day, and to-night 11
was estimated that ' 75 per cent, had
voted "wet." Burlington, St. Albans,
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Montpeller, Rutland and other largo
places which have been strongholds of
prohibition for yeaers voted themselves
Into tho "wet" column, by substantial
majorities.
In Chittenden county, In which Bur
lington Is situated, only thrco towns re
ported "dry," while ten voted "wet." In
other countries the percentage was about
the same, tho "wet" places voting "wet
ter" than usual and many of tho "dry"
towns going Into ther "wet" column.
Incomplete returns from a majority of
the fourteen Vermont counties Indicated
that more than 100 of the State's 248
towns voted "Yes" on the liquor license
question. Officials predicted that more
towns would favor license than In 1903.
the first year of local option, when 92
voted "Yes." Many of the towns went
"wet" by small majorities.
WISCONSIN WILL
FIGHT 2.S0 BEER
Grand Jury to Decide if It Is
Intoxicating.
Milwaukee, March 2. The Intoxicat
ing qualities of 2.50 per cent beer will
be tested In Wisconsin In tho event that
Federal Judge Gelger's decision legaliz
ing 2.60 per cent, beer In Wisconsin
after termination of war time prohibition
Is upheld by the United States Supreme
Court.
United States District Attorney Saw
yer made this announcement to-day. He
expects word from Washington which
shall grant him permission to carry an
appeal from the court's decision direct to
the Supreme Court.
"Should the Supreme Court be Inclined
to uphold Judge Gelger the first case In
volving sale of liquor containing 2.50
per cent, alcohol will bo taken before
the Grand Jury," said Mr. Sawyer. "This
will mean a test case to determine
whether 2.50 per cent beer Is Intoxicat
ing. .The Supreme Court, In upholding
tho decision, would declare the Volstead
act void, this meaning that each case
brought Into court would compel a test
of tho Intoxicating qualities of the
liquor sold."
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If your eyes are tired and over
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ANDERSON CALLS
FA INQUIRY ILLEGAL
Anti-Saloon League Head,
tSeea Advertising Benefit.
William II. Anderson dictated, a state,
merit to the Anti-Saloon League head'
quarters last night from home In Yon'
leers, whero he Is ill, challenging the
Legislature to go ahead with an Investi
gation that he says Is essentially Illegal.
He said the Inquiry would give the
league half a million dollars' worth of
advertising and a certificate ol character
worth more than that.
"The Republican party will bo In fine
ehapo to appeal to tho moral clement
after tho ridiculous collapse of an at
tempt to discredit the agency of that
clement," ho said. "If to square Itself
It gives tho people what Is wanted It
would bo cheap, at the price of the petty
annoyance Incident to an .Investigation.
vve leavo It to the common sense of the
public, is It likely that we would have
dared what we havo dared if anybody
had anything on us?" i
WET VOTE IN SO OF 67
TOWNS IN BAY STATE
Some Places Turn from Dry
Column for First Time.
BfttM to Tns Sox and New York IIcsud.
Boston, March 2, Almost fifty
Massachusetts towns out of sixty-seven
voted "wet" In their annual town meet
ings yealerday, complete returns shewed
to-day. The majority of these towns re
turned substantial "wet" majorities, de
splte the fact that almost all had voted
consistently "dry" for many years. Tra
ditionally "dry" towns, like Rockport,
Mlddleboro, Lincoln and Mansfield, vot
ed "wet" for tho first time In their his
tory. The few towns that stuck to the
"dry" column did so In most cases by
narrow margins or by substantially re
duced majorities.
Rockport; noted North Shore town, had
long been known as the Bay State's
"rock ribbed" temperance town. In the
early '80s women with hatchets raided
and wrecked the "grog shops." The
Supremo Court decided In favor of the
women.
Brookllno voted In favor of license,
1.449. to 1.093. It was the first time In
thirty-four years that this town, the
largest md wealthiest In the State, had
voted "S.s."
Among the latest towns to mako re
turns and which went "wet" were Ded
ham, Essex. Wilmington. Andover, Hull,
Randolph, Barnstable,) Ilopklnton, Mil
ford, Cohasset, Bedford, Natlck and
North Andover. Among tho "dry" towns
are Wlnthrop, Winchester, Wellesley,
Dartmouth, Reading, Hopedale, South
boro, Mendon, Westwood and Saugus.
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ACCUSED SPY FAILS
TO GET CIVIL TRIAL
Herman. Wosscls, Arrested
Iloro Buringf War, fllust Go
1 Boforo CourtfMartlal.
liEATH POSSIBLE P.ENALTY
lawyer Had Objected Now
YorU Was Not in War Zone
' but Was Overruled.
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'Federal Judge Martin T. Manton de
cided yesterday In Brooklyn that Her
man Wessels, who wao an officer In the
German navy and who Is charged with
having been a German epy hero during
the war, a crlmo for which tho penalty
la death, must stand trial by naval court
martial, Wessels had hoped for a trial
by Jury In the Federal court.
WcBsela was arrested on May-1, 1018,
while posing ns "Carl Itodlger," a citi
zen of the Swiss republic. When Secre
tary Daniels announced recently that
Wessels was to be tried by court-mar
tial his lawyer, Thomas 3. O'Netl, sued
out a writ of habeas corpus. It was
claimed that as Wessels was arrested In
Now York city, not a war zone, he was
not subject to the jurisdiction of a court-
martial, but to the civil courts.
In dismissing tho writ Judge Manton
said:
"Military tribunals should havo power
to try spies wherever found, otherwise
they may not bo subject to trial for
that offence. In this great world war,
tho field of operations brought thp port
of New York within the field of actlvo
operations.'
lie added that "wireless telegraphy.
signaling by light, the successful use of
carrier pigeons were found to be useful
Instruments of warfare by the Germans.
These methods of operation and assist
ance created a great danger, flowing
from the activities of spies. They wero
dangerous agencies of war, and It Is
proper that the .naval authorities deal
with them as tho act or congress pro
vldes the courts-martial might
"Whatever may be the right of the
alien to the protection of the laws In
this country, surrenders this right
to constitutional protection when he
Joins tho armed forces of an alien enemy,
assuming his duties as a spy. Writ dls
missed."
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FIVPWTSAPSETBY
DISGUISED DRY SPIES
Posing asCat,e Men Agents
Say They Got Whiskey.
Lloyd Gltchell and Harry Does, mem
bers of a theatrical costuming Arm, and
Harry Mink, David Englcsberg and
Louis Derg wero held In $E00 bnll each
before Unt?d States Commissioner
Hltohcock rosterday upon complaint of
Federal agents who charged that the
men had been negotiating to sell twfioy
barrels of whiskey to them at 135 a
gallon.
Tho arrests wero made wnen, it is
alleged, one of the men delivered a two
gallon heg of whiskey to the agents in
a taxlcab. All through tho negotiations
tho agent said they wero assured they
need apprehend no Interference by tho
authorities as united states Marshal
McCarthy was "friendly." They were
Introduced to one man who said ho was
Marshal McCarthyTbut when one of tho
agents displayed some acquaintanceship
w th tho real McCarthy the spurious one
excused himself and did ndt reappear.
The whiskey which tho agents pur
chased proved to be a genuine distilla
tion and reacted at so proor wnen
gauged at tho Custom House yesterdays
TO REOPEN CAPE COD CANAL.
Operatliiff Company Will Nat Prej
udice Plant With V. S.
Boston. March' 2' Gov. Coolldge- to
day announced that the 'Boston, Capo
Cod and Now York Canal Company had
offered to reopen tho Cape Cod' Canal,
which has been closed since tho Govern
ment relinquished control at midnight
Sunday. The offer Is conditional upon
agreement by tho Government that this
act will not prejudice 'he company's
case In tho litigation over purchase of
the canal now pending. Tho Governor
wired Secretary of War Baker a request
that he concur In the plan.
A score of vessels, many -f them
loaded colliers, wero anchored at either
end .of the canal to-day seeking pas
sage. Washington, March 2. Secretary
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SALE of SUirS
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GIRL ACCUSED OP POQERY.
Gnniln Iledrlckaon, 22, of Water-
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Two Indictments charging forgery in
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