) PL 10 HAVE it _ down the dry lid to 'mittee management of! This little space and the one opposite will here- after he used by COLLIER'S TOGGERY SHop COUNTRY TIGHT Under the New Law Pass Passed By fhe ie Slates Government. ARMY MORE THAN 300,000 TO TAKE UHARGE OF BATTLE TO : MAKE COUNTRY ALCOHOLIC TIGHT. This "Army" is Backed by Appropria- tion of $2,000,000 by Congress to Enforce First Year of National Prohibition and Will Have $4, 000,000 for the Second Year--How Machine For Enforcement of the | Dry Law is Organized. Washington, Nov. 15.--An army of more than 30,000 officials will spring to attention Monday when John F. Kramer, newly appointed federal prohibition commissioner, takes charge of the battle to make the country alcohol-tight under the enforcement met fol war-time and constitutional prohibition. More than 508 arrests already have been made under/the act, officially estimated to-day, fermal reports have yet been receiv ed by the Internal Revenue Bureau. "To-day officials were in the midst of Jhe last minute rush of perfecting the temporary machinery that was set up Oct. 28th, when the enforece- ment act went into effect over Pre- sident Wilsons' veto. The "army' is backed by $2,000,- 000 appropriated by Congress to en- force the first year of national pro- hibition. Reinforcements will be available July 1st, 1920, according to | officials, | then | internal rBvenue bureau who point out that Congress will make a new appropriation, Of-| ficlals plan fo ask for $4,000,000 for | the second fiscal year, | Prohibition officials understand | that the law now is being opehly vio- | lated in many sections of the country, | + where they are told liquor is being | 80ld in ice-cream parlors. That boot- | leggers are working almost unmol- | ested in many sections, also is ad- mitted. i The machine for enforcement is | organized in this way: Federal forces: Commissioner | ! Kramer and more than 100 federal | - executives; sixty-four internal reve- nue collectors and 300 deputy collec- tors; 300 federal district attorneys end thelr sssistants who will conduct prosecutions. Local officials; 3,000 county sher- iffs, 5.000 state detectives, attorneys and general executive officials, and 25,000 city police and rural con- stables.. All must co-operate in help- ing the federal government screw stay, Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper holds. Deputy "Commissioner H. M. Gay- lord planned to pame nine depart: ment commissioners before to-night. They will be the chief lieutenants of "General" Kramer. The forty-eight state commission- ers will be named from day to day. It also is planned to add to the per- sonnel of the already big force of in- spectors or "dry law detectives" who will be organized into flyipg squad- | rong with headquarters in each of | the nine departments. 1 tactics now mapped out for | the "prohibition army" the flying | squadrons will be held in readiness to swoop down upon any sector. where boot-leggers are operating. THE PREMIER'S AFFER TO RAILWAYMEN Joint Management of Roads With Directors and Gov- ernment Offic ers. london, Friday, Nov 15---Premier Lloyd has offered the Rall waymen's Union Ismlerch ip com- | ') wl railroad directors and Govern- ment officials, according to a state- |. ment by J. H. Thomas. general sec- retary of the National Union of Rail- waymen. : bj ry Thomas sbnounces that the Government has made a definite of- . fer of new machinery to deal with ji and settlement | of rail of disputes. Both offers were made at a conference of the Premier with | delegation from the National Un- fon of Railwaymen Thursday. The plan will be submitted to the execu tive of the union to-day for decision. it was un-+ but few | HE IS ENGAGED IN ANOTHER ADVENTURE KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1919, The spaces, like the store { aie net large but leaders and will always be found at the tep. LAST EDITION. LEAVING FOR AU STRALIAN HOMES. D'Annunzio Has Left Fiume and Is Operating in Dalmatia. (Canadian Pi ress Despatch) Paris, Nov 15.--~The American peace delegation here has received a telegram from Vice-Consul (O'Hara, at Trieste, of the there that D'A jon the torpedo boat Valle and land- {ed on the Dalmatian coast, where he is engaged in another adventure. D'Annunzie was said to have been {followed by an' Italian warship, | which was merely observing his movements, {on the Dalmatian coast is not known. Advices to the peace tellr conference | reports | 1unzie had left Fiunie | His debarkation point | { were from the American vice-consul | at Trieste that D'Annunzie had left Valle and had the Dalm: {importance i in the peace conference 3 to D'Annunzie's movements. because of the fact that | Sunday is election day in Italy with | Fiume as the chief issue. It is Jrith rally thought » Annunzie is seeking to carry ont a spectacular operation to strengthen the Fiume party, which on {siderable ground in Italy. YUDENITOH MADE A SPLENDID CAPTURE | Bolshevik Commissioners En- gaged in Campaign Have Been Executet. (Canadian Press Despatch) Holsinfers, Finland, Nov. 15.----In the course of a recent offensive by | his forces captured | Gen. Yudenitch 12,000 Bolsheviki, port to-day. according to a re- fered by the Bolsheviki forces. It is reported here that all Bolshevik commisioners engaged in the campaign have been executed. {The headquarters' statement ans nounces that the continued successfully around Pskev and Ostrey. Omsk Captured. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Nov. 15.--Omsk, of all the Russian government, been occupied by the Russian Bolshe- | viki, a Moscow communique received | here to-day asserts. THE ADUSTMENT OF COAL DISPUTE { The Secretary of Labor Told | the Conferees What Must Be Done. ; (Canadian Press Despatch) Washington, Nov. 15.--Operators and miners again faced each other! today in an effort to settle the con- troversy which led to the recent na- tionwide strike of the soft coal min-| ers, Secretary of Labor Wilson, by | whom the conference, was called here yesterday, in an address, told both sides just what would have to be done for an adjustment of their disputes. When the conference re- convened at ten o'clock today the suggestions outlined by Mr. Wilson were the first things to be discussed by both factions. The acceptance, without qualifi- cation, by the mine workers of Sec- retary of Labor Wilson's proposal for the negotiation of a nation-wide wage scale agreement, was announc- ed at the conference; today, by John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America. + WANT HIGHER WAGES Advances Sought by the Longshore- men of 'St, John. (Canadian Press Desvateh) St. John, N.B,, Nov. 15.--An ad- vance of twenty cents an hour in wages is demanded by the long- | { Shoremen of the port of St. John for | the coming winter. The present rate, fixed a year ago, is sixty cents an hour and mem now ask for eighty | cents. As a counter offer the steam- | er men suggested sixty-five cents an hour. Coal handlers who now receive | | seventy-five cents an hour are also | asking for higher wages. REV. WALTER COX RESIGNS As Rector of Christ ¢ Church, Ganan- / oque. REV. WALTER COX Gananoque, Nov. 15. The resig- nation of Rev. Walter Cox, rector of Christ church, has been placed in the hands of the bishop, to take effect at the end of the year. Mr. Cox has 'taken this action because he feels the need of & rest from parechial work. He will not Be altogether idle, how- ever, and on the principle that = change is as as a rest," has chased the "Dominion Oddfellow. the editorship of which he will assume as soon as freed from his present duties, i -------- Gerald Jobnson, a negro, Windsor, was lined $300 and costs Jor operat. ing a whiskey still in his home. - The report also declares | that six thousand casualties were suf- | the | defence 1s being | capital ! has | He forwarded the report | the | } THE REJECTION OF THE TREATY is reported in Paris to have lost con- | |18 Assured By te Unt United States Senate Reservation. THIS 15 PRESIDENT'S VIEW REPUBLICANS SAY IT WILL NOT AFFECT LEAGUE PLAN | Wilson May Veto the Senate's Action and Send Senator Lodge to Nego- | tate a New Treaty. Washington, Nov. 156.---Rejection {of the Peace Treaty by the Senpte, or by President Wilson himself, is assured, if the resolution of ratifica- { tion goes to a voté containing the | reservation to Article X already ad- opted by the Senate, sitting in com- | mittee of the whole. This was the opinion in Adminis- tration quarters here yesterday, bas- { ed on the Presidéent's own words; fre- quently reiterated during his recent {tour of the United States. | Whether the President then will | carry out his threat, to send leading | Treaty opponents, including. Sena- | tor Lodge, to Weimar to negotiate a | new Treaty, remains to be seen. Mr. 'Wilson has served notice that { he weuld consider the adoption of i the reservation to Article X the re- Jection of the whole treaty. There is | nothing to indicate that he has changed this attitude. When Senator Hitchcock recently | called at the White House, Wiliam, {told him the treaty would be unac- ceptable if certain of the pending re- { servations were attached to it, and | although Hitchcock never has speci- fied what these "certdin reserva- tions" were, it is generally known bere that the qualification of Arti- cle X is one of them. STATE OF THE MARKET. Shares of the Same Class Moved in Opposite Directions. (Canadian Press Despatch) New. York, Nov. 15.--The mixed price changes at the opening of to- day's stock market indicated the divergent opinion of the traders. In several instances shares of the same class moved in opposite directions. The tendency, in the main, was down- ward, but rails were firm to strong. GO OVER HALF BILLION. This Is the Belief of the Victory Yoan Workers, (Cangdian Presy Daspatch) Toronto, Nov. 15.--Confidence that { the half billion mark will have been | passed in the Victory Loan cam- | pafgn when the subscriptions are | closed, to-night, is expressed at the | headqudtiers here. The latest rd | turns give the total for all Canada as $478.,795.778, but this does not cover any of the provinces to date. ! The pictire shows Australand Sol. diers, one with his English bride, walk- | ing down the gangplank to a steamer In Londen, to embark for their homes | in the Island continent. SEE AMERICA FIRST, PLEA OF HOTEL MEN This Will Help Them Recoup | Losses Due to Dry Laws. New York, Nov. 15---As onp means of recouping financial losses result. | ing from prohibition the hotel men of the country, in session here, were asked today to indorse a "see Amer, | ica first" campagin. As the first step they were ad-| vised to labor with banks and the! American Railway Express Company in an effort to convince them that | they should cease advertising the sale | of travelers' cheques which are good | in other countries. APPALLING CONDITIONS. Viennese Babies Die From Lack of Warmth, Berne, Nov. sion just returned from Vienna, de-| clares that the death rate of new | born infants there is becoming dis- tressing even in the maternity hos- pitals, and that the main cause is the coal shortage. Mothers during confinement shiver and their teeth chatter from cold, and the babies born, die of bronchi catareh, orin- flammation of the ho the much too low temperatures of hospitals and houses. Frequently the mothers die at the same time as the infants, and this again is mainly dug to the Tack of warmth. New born infants cannot be washed ex- cept at the risk of their lives, owing to the low temperature. The Ameri- can commission for saving children Is trying to cope with the disaster, and some coal which Germany should have sent to France is being now diverted to Vienna. Owing to the appalling conditions of life, many Viennese are betoming demented. BAKERS CLOSE STORES. Protest Against Fixed Bread Prices at Havre, Havre, Nov. 15.-~The bakers have decided to close their stores as a protest against the new prices fixed for the sale of bread. authori- | 29 ties maintain that inasmuch as the bakers accepted the new prices in writing, their action constitutes a misdemeanor and proceedings have been instituted against president and other officers of e Master Bakers' Association. Arrangements have been made to supnly the popY-, lation with bread from; he army bakeries. The manner jn which the people of Canada have met the Victory Loan appeal is a good augury for the fu- ture of this country, The original allotment of $300,000,000 was sub- scribed during the second week, and on Thursday of this week the call for | an additional $100,000,000 was is- sued. The exact figures for the whole Dominion last night were $478,800, 000. The position -of the province of Ontario is noteworthy, ss half of the total amount was raised by the good people of this province. As in the last loan, Kingston has gone splen- {duly "over the top" with $2,955. te 100, but Frontena¢ county has fail L ed to fully come up w expectations. I However, a or a tsade good by the | of Frontenac | 2 ras Tare a red place among the. returns to-night are expected to show Kingston and Frontenac $8,200,000. We congratulate the executive committes, the canvassers and all whose energies contriduted to this magnificent result. They are desery- ing of the highest praise. to the Victory Loan appeal shows sire to mest the financial obligations the government is called upon to deal with, thus assuring a continu- prosperity of the country. But it THE VIETORY LOAN districts of the province. Completes The respobse made by the citizens | {| their falib in Cansda, ang their de- |o shows, too, in a striking manger, the | I OVER-S "RIBED. thrift of pur people a their obil- ity to meet a great financial emer: | ance of the business and commercial | veteran 15.--A medical mis-| 2 PARIS DESPAIRS | UFR US. Ton n WPERATIN " AMERICA is REQUIRED BY THE LEAGUE | OF NATIONS In Tearing to Pieces a Treaty Signed | S. Senate Makes | .By Willson U. Uncertain Action of Future Ameri- can Government. Paris, Nov. 15.----A feeling amount- {ing to despair has Deen created i throughout France on, rece pt of the | | news of the United States Senate | {first vote adopting {the Versailles Treaty In the opin- lion of he French people the whole | construction of the League of Na- {tions is threatened. France has never been over-enthu- | siastic about the League of Nations, but has sincerely accepted the idea of a League because she had been | told it was the desire of America. | The whole treaty stands on the Leag- | | ue and the co-operation of America { The problems of Sarre, | hav re cussions by the creation of the Leag- ue at { We are now told Dy the American | Senate that we are wrong to listen | { to an American President and follow | there is to | {an American suggestion; be no League of Natfons, or at least reservations to | Dantzig, the | Near East and the German colonies | been solved after many dis- | the suggestion of America. | | LW.W. THREATENS TO INVADE SPOKANE «Canadian Press Déspateh) Spokane, Wash., Nov. 15 Between two and three thousand ILW.W. men from Montana and other eastern cities intend to invade Spokane. Special depu- ties have been sworn in to keep order Bight members of the American Legion are threatened with death. ROSS RIFLE CLAIM LIMIT $3,000,000 The Exchequer Cc Court to Hear, Factory Expropriation i Case. | | Nov. 454--8ir for compensation Ottawa, Ross' claim for | the expropriation of the Ress rifle | {Quebec by the Gevern- | factory at {ment in 1916 will be heard by the { Exchequer Court Award of the jcourt, however, will be limited to { $3,000,000. Sir Charles filed a] { claim for approximately $18,000,000. {He was refused a fiat, however, to {sue for that amount, inasmuch as the order-in-Council fixed the maximum | value of the plant at $3,000,000. The (case will now go to trial limit of compensation placed at the! | figure stated in the order-in-Couneil. | TWO VESSELS LOST iN TERRIFIC GALE (Canadian Press DNDespatea) Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 16.-- Two vessels, the J. B. Owens and the H, E. Runnells, are known to have been lost and several others are missing in a terrific gale which has been sweeping Lake Superior for the past few days. | the League is to be without American | | co-operation. {is crumbling, and, of course, | the hope of those who are pulling {it down that it will bury the Presi- dent under its ruins; but let them take care that they do not bury some- { thing else in Lhe debris. In tearing to pieces a treaty which | was signed by an American Presi- {dent the Senate is also tearing to | pieces the possibility in the future |, | of any treaty with an American Gov- | | ernment.' You must take the French | las they are, with their defects and malheurites. One of their qualities | is logic--s0, logically, when in 1922 epublican President will | fo with a treaty proposal French will say: "No, thank you, our experience in 1919 is sufficient for us! They will ask: "Who can guarantee that your signature will | not be disavowed by your Senate? | Who can guarantee that a Demo- cratic majority in Washington will not undo engagements of a Repub Ucan delegation? NEL LL dl EX-KAISER'S SISTER "DEAD. Ex-Duchess of Saxe-Meinengen Of- fended Brother. London, Nov. 15.--German news- papers just received in London, re- port the death at Baden, of the ox- Duchess of Saxe-Meinengen, the eld- est sister of the ex-Kaiser. The ex-Duchess was the most accom- plished of Frederick's daughters, and in youth was celebrated for her beauty, . She was at one tite the life and sonl of the German court, but in 1894 she had the misfortune to offend her Imperial brother, and as a consequence her husband was placed in command of the troops at Breslau and Princess Charlotte was virtually bapished from Berlin. HAASE'S ASHES INTERRED. 20,000 Men Yenmped Through Slush Behind Hearse. Berlin, Nov. 15--The ashes of Hugo Haase, leader of the Indepen- dent Socialists, were deposited in the Lichterfelde cemetery yesterday. it is estimated /that 20,000 men tramped through six inches of slush, caused by the heavy snowfall, be- hind the hearse bearing the urn to the cemetery. The cortege was more than an hour in passing a given point. Mammoth red-ribboned wreaths formed a conspicuous fea- ture of the procession, which started from the Reichstag immediately after the conclusion of a memorial ser- vice held there. tm ---- nn. HIS WIFE ENEW IT Hamilton Man Goes for Trial on The whole skyscraper | it is | come | the | DEATH OF CAPT, McMAUGH | For 43 Years Was Well-Known Cap- | i tain on Great Lakes, ° | Toronto, Nov. 15.---Captain James | { McMaugh, a well- known former lake | | captain, { home of his daughter, | Kenzie, 1307 King street west, Thursday evening. He had not en-| joyed the best of health during the past two years. For forty-three years he sailed the | { Great Lakes, and for thirty-five of | these years he commanded large ves- sels, among them the Algonquin, Iroquois and Ontario. Ten years ago he retired. For many years he was a member of the Master and Mates As- sociation, and was president for | three terms. The deceased was born eighty-itwo { years ago. When a boy he went to Bt. Catharines, where he resided until about -years ago. He was an Angliean and a Mason. Interment will take place at St. Catharines on died of heart failure at the! Mrs. D. Me- {| Sunday: MAGRATH TO WASHINGTON Canadian Fuel Controller to Look After Dominion's Jnterdats. Ottawa, Nov. 15.--C, Magrath, who has been hd to the office of fuel controller for the Do- minion, and who has just returned from a survey of the situation in re- gards 10 the production of the mines of Nova Scotia, left last night for Washington to confer with U. 8 Fuel Controller Garfield. The pur- pose of the interview, it Is under- stood, is to 'éndeavoy to have Can- quately as the situation in the Unit- ed' States will permit this coming winter. GERMANS CANNOT PAY Potash Production " Too Low to Ad- mit of Big Deal. Berlin, Nov. 15.--~Owing to inabil- ity to make sufficient deliveries to pay for the amount of textiles and leather goods ~ffered Germany in exchange for potash by Americans, the potash syyndicate has been forced to break off negotiations for the deal. The Syndicate was offered commodi- ties estimated at 1,600,000,008 marks by American officials in the occupied zone. Available potash, however, is far below the volume required to complete the transaction. Damage Celtic Cross. Cork, Nov. 15.--The Celtic Cross, erected in memory of Cork soldiers killed in the Boer War, has been badly damaged by high ekplosive bombs placed by Sinn Feiners. iCharles | with the | ada's fuel requirements filled as ade-| | Canadian V * ANOTHER WE BY REFERENDUM +g PREMIER DRURY - FAVORS GIVING THE PEOPLE A UHANCR TO SAY THIS, | He 1 Opposed to Race Track Betting ~The Title "Premier" Quite Good Enough For Mr. Drury. Toronto, Nov. 15.--Followers of the turf may say good-bye to race track betting in Ontdrio, for Premier | Drury yesterday declared himself as strongly opposed to it. The leader of the Farmers, whila not speaking for the Government as a whole, also sald that he favored submitting another referendum to the people as to whether they want: {ed more fa.-reaching prohibition { than the Ontario Temperance Act { provides. "Will the new Government send to the people a referendum on the | question whether they want a more { far-reaching prohibition than the | Ontario Temperance Act provides?' | he 'was asked. | "1 am only in a position to speak { for myself at this present time, a: {the Cabinet has aot miet, but 1 think, personally, that the Govern | ment will send a referendum to the i people. ed "It has been Suggested that. in | spite of any legality the Dominion | Parliament may give to race track betting, the new Covermament may {find a way to further interfere with racing. Will your Govérnment take any action along these lines?" "That is a matter which must be | taken up by the Cabinet. I am not {at all opposed to horse racing, but | race track betting Is a very different { thing. and I am strongly opposed to that." "It has been stated that your Goyv- | ernment will be more or less oppos led to titles and ceremonials, and that you will not follow the lead of your predecessors in calling your- self 'Prime Minister." " "I am not looking for titles or ceremonials, and 'Premier' is quite good enough for me." DIES OF BURNS. Caught in Buffalo Hotel Fire, Is Overs come by Smoke. Buffalo, N..Y., Noy. 16.----William 1 H. Pawling, Watertown, was over- come by smoke and died later in a hospital and William F. Callahan, of No. 1219 Milton avenue, Syracuse, is i unconscious in a Buffalo hospital as¢ the resuit of injuries suffered in a fire in the Vanderbiit Hotel Thursday morning. Nine men were injured or overcome by smoke and had to be carried from the third story of the building. Mr. Callahan had been worknig in Buffalo sevéral months. bout forty guests were in the ho- tel witen the fire started on the seec- ond floor and swepl up wooden stair- ways to the roof. Most of them escaped unaided by way of fire escapés.' Firemen carried Pawling and others from a' thiyd floor. A lighted cigar or cigarette drop ped on the second floor caused the fire Charles ¥. Pettie, the manager, said. The building is owned by the | Greater Buffalo Real Estate Corpora. tion. The hotel accommodates 150 guests, a 3 a Oliver McAdoo Dies at Waupoos, Oliver McAdoo, Fletan: died quite suddenly at the home of his son, Her- bert McAdoo, Waupoes, on Nov. Tth, in his 72nd year. Mr. McAdoo was born at Kingston, but had lived in Picton for many years. - He was a drover and had bought and' sold = great deal of Prince Edward County stoek. Interment took place in Glen wood cemetery on Monday. His wife | predeaceased him a couple of years. i British Send Goods to to Germany. Loudon, Nov. 15.--During the ant ten and one-hall months after the signing of the armistice the United Kingdom exported {to Germany goods to the value of over $80,000. 000 and recelved from that country imports valued at bans $1,000,000. Details of these and ex. i Democratie members of the senate will hoid a caucus within « few days to pick a minority tioor leader, 1Hi- mg the vacancy Shula by the death' of Senator Martin, Vi 4 Proctor, Samble & Cu, Cincinnati, candle, ete. ha 000,000 to the Loan. One hundred thousand people in manufacturers ol have subscrl 'I aronto have besn vaccinated since the outbreak eof thé smalipox epi demic. 1 There are now grave doubts that the United Stites will