Show hOLIDAY OUDA Y liqUOR ur UP New York Has 23 Dead Chicago 7 Scores Are Treated in in Hospitals NEW NEWT YORK Dec 28 AP The AP-The The death toll from liquor I drinking In greater New lew York today I had had risen to twenty three with scores s perhaps l mare more re than of I persons under tre treatment in hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- I als for alcoholism I In Iii Chicago seven deaths have I been reported in Detroit five inDes In InDes inDes Des 1 two in in Milwaukee three and Omaha ciric one Dr Charles G. G Norris New York YOlk City medical examiner declares that extensive chemical al analysis would have to lieS lie be made before it could be determined whether the deaths death's here were due due to poisoned i liquor or excessive drinking I The government declines to accept act ac ac- ac- ac t on any responsibility for any deaths due to drinking alcohol which pas passed ed through its its hands Federal agents In Washington delire declare de de- de- de lire clare that hat although 2 p per r cent W wood od alcohol was placed In most of the industrial alcohol this is not sufficient suf suf- suf- suf to cause Calse death Washington Washing Washing- ash ton ten officials Indicate however that i the prohibition unit will wilt investigate closely the source of supply cf the tile liquor that caused the deaths Lincoln oln C C. Andr Andrews ws head of the dry forces has ha's announced d In i Wash Wash- Continued orr ott page page 6 HOliDAY LIQUOR R UP r Continued from page 1 Ington that the government expects to have ready by January 1 a new formula which will wilI make malte the taste of Its alcohol so unpleasant that drinkers drinkers' cannot swallow It In New York Bellevue hospital alone today had seventy nine persons per per- sons fourteen of f them women In its ward and nd ten alcoholic cases cases were vere reported at Kings county hospital Brooklyn Seventeen Seventeen Seventeen Seven Seven- teen of ot the thc wenty-three wenty died In Manhattan five in Brooklyn and andone andone one ono In Queens co county nty I am not surprised at the number number num num- ber her of deaths from poisoned rum Chester P. P Mills l federal prohibition administrator t for r this district said zaid As we tighten up on withdrawals withdrawals' of ot specially denatured alcohol and prevent diversion from that source the bootleggers turn to completely denatured alcohol for their supply This stuff cannot be made drinkable drink able for the b bootleggers bootleggers' chemists chemists' cannot get all the poisons out The rhe alcoholic death list for the entire hoUd holiday y se season son In New Kew York jast last year ear was only eighteen and the umber number of cases In hospitals much lower than this year l SAN SA-or It FRANCISCO Dec 28 AI AP I Although no deaths from poison polson liquor have been reported thus thus' far far- since the holiday season began Coroner T. T B. B W. W Leland disclosed today that his records showed twenty-eight twenty persons have died here this year from that cause and that 00 OO other deaths in which poison liquor was the chief contributing factor had been reported during the twelve month For every death which Is officially off off- daIly attributed to poison booze here you ou may safely calculate e ten times that man many said Coroner Le- Le land He denounced the methods used by the government In denaturing denaturing ing alcohol and d declared th the gov- gov government government gov gov- was to blame for th the deaths In all but two of the ty-eight ty cases denatured alcohol and not wood alcohol was held beld as the cause of death Di Th C. C B. B l president of ot the San Francisco lunacy commission commission com corn mission Joined Cor Coroner ner L Leland land jand in denouncing denaturing methods And said he lia had observed h hundreds of cases of insanity here in the last two wo years resulting from the use of alcohol denatured with violent poisons |