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Show WOOD-ALCOHOL. Wayne Wheeler, head pallbearer for j John Barleycorn, says 35,000,000 gallons gal-lons of wood alcohol a year are used In American manufacturing. It is the only deadly poison easll obtained. Wheeler, orating to the Chemical Exposition in New York City, urges the wood alcohol makers to put "poison" labels, with kull-and-cross-bones. on every container of this liquid li-quid death More effective and it will have to come in time would be to make the sale of wood alcohol In beverages pun ishable by imprisonment nt hard labor for at le:ust 20 years. The bootlegger who nerves wood alcohol commits pre-1 meditated murder. |