Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              $90,000 WHISKEY THEFT AT MILDRED DISTILLERY
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 27,1923.
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MINERS TO GET A NEW SCALE WITHOUT A FIGHT; ALLIES STOP WAR BETWEEN TURKS AND GREECE
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SCANDAL IN RUM IS REVEALED
Hole Cut In Storage House Of Mildred Distillery Releases Vast Liquor Hoard
GOVERNMENT ACTS
Steal $50,000 In Mail Pouches
Staunton, nis. May 18.—Five bandits tonight stole two mall pouches containing (50,000 after they had kidnapped Postma.ster Kenn.a and his assistant aa they brought the mail sacks to the post offlce here tonight. The bandits, driving a large touring car, crowded a smaller car carrying Kenna and the pouches to the curb. They forced the two postal officials to enter the bandit car and seized the two mail pouches. Roberts and Kenna were carried 15 miles from Staunton and then released. The pouches contained the payroll of Mount Olive and Staunton Coal Company. Posses are pursuing the robbers.
HOSTILITIES CLOSE WHEN POWERS ACT
Check-Up Shows Total Of Fifteen Hundred Gallons Gone From Pure Stock
NO ARRESTS MADE
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Fifteen hundred pUlons of pure whiskey, part of the tremendou.s Ftock housed in the Mildred (ll.stillery of \V. J. Schaad since prohibition, has dele¬ gated that stocks shall be released only on government permit, has mys¬ teriously disappeared from storage, ac¬ cording to reports confirmed last night by officers of the Internal Revenue Servico, and sent under seal to I'ro¬ hibition Commissioner Haynes at Washington, and Chief Knforcement Officer, tho Reverend .Tohn Davis, nf Philadelphia. Philadelphia agents, personally appointed by Rev. Mr. Davis asslled in tlie work of investigation but credit for discovery of the whis¬ key shortage is given E. C. Hartsock, of 7)S West ^^arkct street, Kingston, an officer of tho Scranton Internal Revenue district.
Mr. Hartsock was Informed last night of reporis that liud reached the offlce of the Sunday Independent. He admitted that flftren hundred gallons of whi.skey had failed to show in the governmental check-up, but insisted htnt the Investigation has not yet reached the point where details could 4^ given the public. When informed fhat this newspaper was in po.ssession of knowledge fhat I'hiladelphia head¬ quarters agents ha<l visited the dis¬ tillery, he admltte<i this to be the case.
W. .T. Shaad, owner nf the distillery, could not he reached. Xo arrests have been made, according fo Mr. Hart.sock, an<l none will be ventured until the re¬ port of fhe latest scandal in prohi¬ bition violations ha» gone the rounds of the governmental aufhorities. Kinal orders aro expected fo he issued from either Washington or riiiladolphia, hut when theso can be exi>ected could not be predicteil by Mr. Hartsock at his Kmgston home last night.
' Careful Removal.
An interesting metliod seems to have been used in removing the vast quan¬ tity of liquor from its place of legal storage ..M first, fhe Independent wa.<i Informed that the system u.-^ed at Bal¬ timore, where a tunnel was driven un¬ der a distillery, ^^as useil af Mildi-ed. The tunnel at 15,iltimorc lod fo fhe lower floor of ;i distillery and by a •Iphnning proce.s.^ fhe barrels were flrewn empty nnd the liquor removed through fhe funnel to another struc¬ ture that served as a way-station for bootleggers' agents.
At Mildred a more bold process seems fo have been favored. When the I rhiladelphia agents and Mr. Hart.sock made their investigation fhey found a hole two fert square, cut in the side of tho sfontge buililing. This was suf¬ ficiently largo fo permit the passage of good-sized containers of whiskey. The reports in<iicate that while the whiskey may have been siphoned from the barrels in the Interior, it was run Into other ca.sks and lowered through the two-foot holo.
TWe theft, af the lowest quotations on whiskey, amounts to thii-ty thou¬ sand dollars, but in fhe arifh;netic of fhe bootlegger, who uses good whiskey as merely the basis of the present day hooch, the total worth of the fif¬ teen hundred gallons is between sixty thousand and ninety thou.sand dollars.
Scientists And Religious Heads Join In Defense Of Trend Of New Thought
SIGN STATEMENT
A CURE FOR PARESIS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
Madi.son, Wis., May 26.—Di.scovery of aserum whicli, it is claimed, cures paresis and other forms of neuro- syphillis. was announced today by Dr. W. F. Lorenz and Dr. A. S. Loven- hart, of the Universit.v of Wisconsin, or 42 patients treated for advanced stapes of parosl.s. twenty-one have be*?n discharged as completely cured from hospitals and Insane asylums. The patients have shown marked im¬ provement.
The serum is called Trypar^nad and was developed ny Dr. I.,orenz, head of fhe state psychiatric institute and Dr. bovenhart. of fho University Medical School, with the assistance and co¬ operation of a half dozen other med¬ ical cx;>crts.
Washington, May 26. — Eminent churchmen, scientists, writers and men of affairs tonight Joined In a statement rebuking William Jennings Bryan and others who seek to array science against religion. Though the statement did not name Bryan directly no secret was made of the fact that it was Inspired in part by Bryan's recent fight against the Darwinian theory and his reported attacks on science aa be¬ ing antagonistic to religious teach¬ ings.
The sigirers of the statement assert¬ ed that science, instead of destroying religion, supplements it and "furnishes a sublime conception of God."
"We deeply regret," the statement mad, "that, in recent controversies there has been a tendency to present science and religion as antagonistic and Irreconcilable domains of thought, for. In fact, they meet distince human needs and In the rounding out of hu¬ man life, they supplement rather than displace or oppose each other.
"The purpose of science Is to develop without prejudice or pre-conception of any kind, a knowledge ot the facts, the laws and the processes of nature. The even more Important task of re¬ ligion, on the other hand. Is to develop consciences, tho Ideals and the aspir¬ ations of mankind. E<ich of these two activities represents a deep and vital function of the soul of men and both are necessary for the life, the pro- gross and the happiness of the human race.
"It is a sublime conception of Ood which is furnished by science and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals ot religion, when It represents Him as revealing Himseit through countless ages in the development ot the earth as an abode for man and, in the age long inbreathing of life into its constituent matter, culminating in man with his spiritual nature and his God-like powers."
This statement was drawn by Dr. R. .\. Millikan, physicist and director of the Normal Bridge Laboratory of I'hysicists at 1'a.sadena..
Among those who signed it are the following;
Bishop William Lawrence of the Episcopal Church, Boston; Bishop William Manning. New York City; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton, N. J.; Dr. James I. Vance, Nashville, Tenn.: Ernest D. Burton, President I'niversity Chicago; Bishop John F. McConnell, I'ittsburgh, and Dr. I'eter Alnslie, Baltimore.
The scientists, public men and others whose names were signed to the statement, numbered Charles D. Walcott. president of the National Academy of Science and head of the Smith.sonian Institution: Henry F. O.sborne, president of the American Museum of National History, New- York; President Angell of Vale; Wm. J. Mayo, famous Rochester, Minn,, surgeon; John J. Carty, vice president in charge of research, American Tele¬ phone and Telegraph Company, New- York; William H. Welsh, John Hop¬ kins University. Baltimore: John C. Murriam. president Carnegie Institu¬ tion of Washington, D. C.: William Allen White, noted editor: Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Secretary of La¬ bor Davi.s, former Secretary of the Treasury Houston; Frank O. I.,owden, former Governor of Illinois: John Sharp Williams. Admiral William Sims. Frank \'anderlip, Julius Krutt- schniff, noted railway executive, and u score of others equally prominent.
I     Isausanne,    May    26. — The     Allies '¦ stepped In at the last minute tonight land  forbade  the  threatened  -n-ar be- : tween Greece and Turkey.    Summon¬ ing the  belligerents    info    a    council I chamber   the    Allied    representatives I flatly  told   fhem   they  could  not   in- ! dulge  In   war at    this    time.    Under threats    of    strong    opposition    from Britain,  Franco and    Italy    the    two agreed  to  submit  to  arbitration.
I'p to that vi'ry moment, however, l)oth Greece and Turkey went through all the martial gestures. In Athens officers and troops were hurriedly called in from leave. They were raced to the Thracian frontier. The ultimatum expired at midnight to¬ night, after that.—war.
Turkey hastily concentrated her troops about Adrianople. while women and children fled fhe city fearing the Greek advance. Everywhere there was consternation.
Then the Allied representatives at the peace conference here grouped M. Venizelos and M. Alexandris of fhe Greek delegates and Ismet Pasha ot the Turks Into a conference and talked to them for three hours. At tha end of that time Venizelos bur.st from the room and shouted to the waiting newspapermen: "Peace! PeaceI"
The word was flashed over Europe and every capital heaved an offlcial sigh of relief.
There was no general settlement, Just .an agreement that the opposing nations would submit fo peaceful ne¬ gotiations.     It   Is    unofficially   under¬
stood the Turka -under the temporary agreement are to receive not only tho Karagatch rail lines, but the road on the north. This, it is stated, -nill involve a slight alteration in the Thracian frontier which has wavered for fhe last six years.
The negotiators made no effort to liiscuss details. They will be lett to the experts who will meet soon.
Seriousness with which fhe Allies viewed the situation was shown In the request France sent to Britain and Italy that Greece be warned against resumption ot hostilities. A confer¬ ence of Allied Admirals and Generals al.so was held with the British Am¬ bassador at Constantinople.
Among the concessions made by the Turks and Greeks in reaching their agreement to avoid war late this aft¬ ernoon were the following:
Greek renunciation of Indemnity in the last war with Turkey.
Turkish renunciation of a cash Indemnity against the Greeks.
Mutual restoration of vessels seized after the Mudros confer¬ ence.
Serbia announced she would with¬ draw her objections to a change In the present (treek frontier in order to aid In establishing peace.
The allies promi.sed to aid Turkey financially It tho lafter's renunciation of cash claims against the Greeks se¬ riously affects her flnancial conditions.
SENT TO HOSPITAL HAS NECK BHN
Bottle Cracks Skull Of One i Mrs. Edward Stevenson Of
And    Stove-Lifter   Com¬ pletes Havoc For Other
POLICE END FIGHT
A three-cornered family quarrel in which a bottle and a stove lifter were u.sed as weapons of assault resulted last night In Mrs. Charles Donn, 37 years old, ot 277 Slocum street, Kingston, being carried to Nesbitt West Side Hospital svftTcring from a possible fracture of the skull. Her husband, 42 years old, proprietor of a bakery, also received severe Injuries which placed him in the same hospi¬ tal, after he had been arrested on a charge ot aggrevatcd assault and bat¬ tery.
The flght occurred shortly after 10 o'clock at the Donn residence. Accord¬ ing to Kingston police, Donn quarrel¬ ed with his mother-in-law. Mrs. .\dam Steinberg, who lives a short distance away, and who was visiting the Donns. When the quarrel was at its height Mrs. Donn attempted to inter¬ cede.
The wife's Interference, poiico claim, resulted in her husband breaking a bottle over her head, probably frac¬ turing the skull. To prevent further as.sault, the ' mother-in-law brought down a stove lifter on Donn's head.
Police Officers Morgan and Krauz- lis responded to an emergency call. They found the house in darkness but Donn, with his clothes spattered by blood, opened fhe door for them. A physician treated Mrs. Donn at her home and then sent her to tho hospi¬ tal. Her husband was taken to Kings¬ ton headquarters. He showed lacera¬ tions on the scalp. He w.as also or¬ dered to the hospital by a surgeon who treated him at fhe station house. There was no charge placed against Mrs. Steinberg. Farly today hospital attaches said Mrs. Donn's condition was serious.
Parrish Street Found Dead When Aid Reaches Her
NO INQUEST
Mrs. E. Stevenson, 60 years old, met instant death yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in her home, 312 Parrish street.    She suffered a broken    neck
and was dead when members ot the family tried to aid her. The coroner's office decided that an Inquest will not be neces.sary.
Mrs. Stevenson was descending the stairs when she either tripped or was seized by a dizzy spell. The so'and of her body striking the bottom of the staircase brought other members of the family. Dr. W. J. Doyle of Hazle street was summoned and pronounced her dead.
The victim formerly resided In Phil adelphia and had been a resident of this city for several years. Deputy Coroner Homer Graham w-ho viewed the body said the family plans to have burial In Philadelphia. Her husband sui*vives.
A. T. COLLEY PLACES
.\.   T.   Colley.   representing   Wilkes Barre High school,   won  fourth place in   the   eighth   annual   Interscholastlc oratorical contest held Friday night at Reading.
KIWANIANS POUR IN
AT ATLANTA SESSION
FLIVEKS TO FILL SKIES
Havre. France. May 26.—A vision of American skies filled with aerial fliv- vei-s. built by Heniy Ford, was con¬ jured up by n. Dewotiane. designer of a 15 h. p. airplane, as he sailed for New York today on the French liner Paris. He is going to America to tn- treest Ford in the production of his economical flying machine, he said.
EARLY MORNING FIRE
CALL AT FORTY FORT
Forty Fort flre companies were called out this morning at 2:30 to ex¬ tinguish a slight fire on a switch¬ board in the building of Frank F. Matheson. Dodge automobile dLsfribu- tor, on Welles street. Forty Fort. It is hielieved it starfe