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Show Authorities Watch for Resells f Mew Year's Eve Revels CHICAGO. Jan. 1 Authorities througn-out througn-out the country today gravely awattcJ reports from New Year's cvo revels for confirmation or refutation of their pre dictions that the wave of deaths from wood alcohol poisoning which took a toll of approximately 125 lives during the Christmas holidays, would be! repeated. Early today thqrc. was sllgli d-Vldanctj ,S3toTTOhfta"TT6wwiJroiI ttfu by Knowledge gained of the effects of drinking outlaw1! Hc'uor. The more pessimistic official.? pointed out. howovcr, that it probably would require a full day for tho serious consequences generally to become apparent. ap-parent. Chlcopce, Mass., nnd the Connecticut valley with 50 deaths today still led a'l localities that suffered from the Christmas Christ-mas flood of fake whisky. In Chicago 32 doaths attributable to wood alcohol poisoning had occurred since December J. according1 to Peter M. Hoffman, Cook county coroner. Federal Officers Bu6y Fully awakened to the dangers of consuming con-suming tho poisonous beverage, city, state and federal officers from Now York to San Francisco today wero directing thofr efforts toward eliminating sales of the liquid. Several states' attorneys announced an-nounced their intention to ask for death penalties for venders of the poison if murder Indictments wero obtained. In New York, San Francisco, Chicago. Momphis. Tenn.; New Haven. Con.: and a number of other cities alleged sellers of the poisonous liquor wero under arre.-i-. Whisky substitutes Intended for Nov Year's celebrators at San Francisco contained con-tained crude oil, embalming fluid, oil of peppermint and oil of carmine, chemical analysis revealed. Death Toll Seventeen. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 1. Thlr-tyflve Thlr-tyflve mon were under arrest in Connecticut Con-necticut today as a result of tho investigation in-vestigation of federal, stnto and city officials into the wave of fatalities caused by drinking poison whisky, The death toll in the state was seventeen. |