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...... a A a. a JW V UNIC VOL. LY NO. IT. 1ST. PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 11)15. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MONASTIH AT HEART WITH BULGARIANS CANADA TO SHARE ROBBERS FIGHTING GRIPPE EPIDEMIC COSTS MANY LIVES LOGGING TO BEGIN AT GRAYS HARBOR ACUTE SHORTAGE III CHAMPAGNE EXISTS MUNITION ORDERS POSSE TO ROB BANK MADE MORE ACUTE uliu rni:r.ni; to divkut AMf.KICAX COSTItACTH. ATTACK ON' SAfK CONTINTES TIIRKE CAMPS WILL OPEN AND EMPLOY ABOUT 200 MEN. AfTrJl DISCOVERY. ISSUE OVER ANCONA City Only Geographi cally in Serbia. THREATS CAUSE NO PANIC McCutchcon Describes Situa tion in New War Zone. SERBIANS ARE DISLIKED r-i-h w-r-roni i rr-nai- t arUi). and Insll-h I. amber-nan r.al;ir Workman Are io.t nnubie or Ail. iWif .----i--.tei. e tna Oiki T-jw li .t imJMI ua 1 1. r? :.-.. t SroXAiTtR. H-rbl. Not. 11 The Civ ef Manaertr U In Serbia -arapVc-,'!--. but U fr from kalng Kartun In It p4;Ut!on or charac ter. Like pr,-tlr:!y art ef fWbt that .rt aenalra. In th lul Palkan - It Is etrooe'y fij!arlao la It -puttio. Tnr acj cornoarettvety f.-a rb who ttve bare, bit Jut aoar aus-Bor la et-ier!t tnrr.a4 by t"i r.fac-aa who have arrived from th north. tar th rl Jrb llv. It U blMr prebabta that a Pi I aarla firsi)i e Monaatlr aroatd fin,l mo-l of th pora'tto a --am t4 a a r.c.Jtloa commit!., fa r ri-e th m-ad-r. Taaro wotatd b III' to r-rll fer a n.WH. far thr r. f.ar rMo fear aaid from th offlrtal aM military classes. Whe- I cam - r a fr days So a .rb army. sa d lo b : '. a a. old n tta lUSurm deftta. about it northeast ef h.r. aaa'a.t a Pj! ranaa for. Tha fl" al. lo k. 4-al'y. A loll ma that they. Me Serb, kat ki:t-l :'')' DrorUn) aad r.f H.W'i r'lTr. bat thus far y t!r PIfrU prteoaer -hl ViMiiir. T io(f on le bar th N a I liit:y la Ue) anything that fc .art. I xs-t4 tfcat IK rtly would b tr ta Bulgarians and int Ik -eu-tte of Ih rltjr woat V. 1 -I'.m.tr dfamjtU:. T Am.ricaa 4oe lor. fc.ro. ax-U!c4 wtta tka A mr laa an4 ?rblaa r.4 Croa work. ta-k4 a? In pr.parallea fir a ka.lir f. M. Woy of lit w.atthi.r Vr. rf j krrU4 br Irala o la l-iki. on4 l( m.4 eaty a avail. r of kour bfora IS. Pult.r, woalj bo .warrrlB dowa lit moanlala pt4 Into il3Bjt:r. Ti."U. I. Kla4. Tn If tn.ion lckn.4. Tka fiNtin at P5un 41. dl4 away. mn t I row iAt coof.u tln ptorix a. la what nan harc.a.4. Ti errirlal hrb v.riloa l tftjl t"i Pu!ir bar b dru.a bi'k U .Ioa. oa tha rait road. an4 lhl th rr.rirh Iroopa from Iba aoutb fca-a octopl.4 Vlo. Tho ath.r raport. prlni4 IM ornin la S.rb ppr b.r. aav Ibal Ih btia ha ba rvim4 at Caboua w-rna and that Vtloa la aiill la Iba kr4 of Ih Bi'dtl Tim eno I compltt.ty in Ih d.rk at la wbal ta r.ally happoalac. Th o'f.i-ut wilt sat al.ow ma ta (to ea lo Itabaaa d.ril. and ay that porkapa In four iayi I may g-a. la Iba m.antlm ln.ro la no (tea of pnlc or frar ob-r-M la t&o tr.'t. T popto look t'm abd traa'4lU Mch may ba lntrpr.t4 aa maaintr that Ih.y -pct lha I5uliar lo roma and o-apy In city, or that Ih.y ara tranquil b eai Ih daacr of iBTa.loo la at Jit I'mporarlly rmord. ( wM-H to by roalrarloa. T p.opt b.r fcava om tranctly CT-itr44:tirtr cuitoma. For Intuncf. a rr.oa InJicot.a by noddinc kl Jl J "- by ahakina; bla bad. Jn ,-n.ri,-a aod wbrn w . moan "it' anj abjiWa o.r h.l ahrn tn-n "no." Th.rtfor on mlckl ra.oa isl wh.n tha poputa.- apcla a hn-txt levadoa Ih.y look calm and -ha Ih.y d not xpct oa thy l anitoua. Thiol go by coairarloa, It i all cocfu:r h.r la Moaaatlr. fh popuUtioa of th! Ur and lm tortant JrMa city la pro-Butcar. Tb rbiaa eiTlcta: ar di.Uk.d b- th.y ara tmin fc.anlty a p-opl whii h. by btoo-l and la.tinct. ar Bul CarijOL Th Brit!! ttra-conaui br I. aai'l la bo p ro-B j!rlao and antl-ri;-i. altSo-jih. la a brodr (r.i. k anaa.it loo.bly la Ihoroua&ly pro a:ir. Th Arr..rti-r t-hoel b.r la pro liu't tr -n. p.rT brau Ita iir.tor I t. 4 bar to lortt amesc Bulcar Mac doei.at and alao bcaaa k waa born In ,ri. .lira bia lather baa 4 nc Hit. Aa I:h:.j larr bar-nax who op.rataa a -! timb.r coocaaioa in Or. 4 jr-.c.4or.. I. pro-Hutaar la Ih a.e thai h coraittr bla Butfar workman t b ti bt aad moat raliabl of all Ih workman ef G-.k. Albaniaa and r.rhiaa or.ln, II. I Et Butfar la r. .1 niaa. waxkava wayttto Raally lialaar. Tha cur.-Iu.'oa on ra.-h.a bar la tnai th. ao'ith.ra ha.f of lrbta ahoutd l'!u I B'.:ciria. both by r'.ghl ef HH.MI In 1!J aa w.; aa bvcaua at II. Urilif predominating Bulgar ;-.ai in ih population, Th aorth arn b:f ef mo-liri aWrbia la th r.a! a.rhia. tagath.r with) large lactiani of l'-oaaia ml ifr.fo-lr. hifc are iralaLllOtmral of 33 TUala Now i:ra--trt .rgant-rnla Agalnat mUr;o Am Xallirird. T AflltX'STON. t-ac. t pcla1. A cord o lo official iRtormatloo re rai.ad la Waahlngtoit. the af.laa. throaxh Ih d.y.lopro.at of the mini faclur of war munitlona In Canada, win b raady In a month lo duplicate o-dra for moaiiloo Boar Bllad la the I'eltei Mala. One lfialBcan- of thia l that It aolttnaa Iba argumanta of advorataa ef aa embargo acaln.l Oraal Britain and It al i.a. b'caua of eflaged Irada duo rrimlnallona. To tald Uord Corg. Iirltl.b W:n later of Munitlona. credit la glaaa for anticipating any change la Am.rlran poll: I.-a with a Tlew to pinch lag the allla Into aubmlaalon on trade or any ether laaua Ibroucb aa embargo. fome month aco lha Frltl.h Cabinet aant two bualnaaa man. Lionel Mitchena and It Brand, lo Canada lo orgeala lha munition! board, which took; the place -of tba Wmlnloo ihall commllteaa According t oSiclal Information they have aucraedad In eetabilehlng 3:4 mu ni! Ion plant, which ara oieratlng or aearty ready lo c pa rate. Many or the planta he- Am.rlrao capital bahlnd tham and .nlooched reaourcea of raw material hate baa developed to aupply tham. 1 The Canadian faclortea bad It9..- e la contract, on band a few week ago. riaurae for large munition cod lra.-ta ara kept aecret. It la ealimatad that tha total output of th American facterlaa baa at no time exceeded or per ceat of the munition aappllea of lha a. Ilea, ana Ihla la exported to drop to ( par rent or laaa when all the new tanaoian (acton. a are In full awlac. EXTRA POSTMEN ENGAGED Mimale for Chrl.t ma Day frll rria-a I &0.000 rarrrla. To haad'e Chrlaimaa lttr and pack. eie thai are pourlnc In from the l-laat. North and (outh by the hundred thou aaad defy, mere mailcarrl.ra war preeaed Into .rlca at th I'ortland poatofTic jeaterdajr. tin hundred and fifty temporary carrier are bow work lac la addition te ZOl rrgalar poatnian. Tha po.tofflce force wlii ba kapl pretty buay oa Chrialma. Every fort sill be made to diatrlboto alt mall ta band by Ortatma night. Poetma.t.r Mrara eatlmataa that at taaat lO.JO Crlatmaa package will be delivered oa that !. Sinking of Japanese Adds to Tension. Calvin. Ok la., Msht Marshal Shot and Poalnffice Looted by Rand of Dor-radoc. DEFINITE POLICY IS SEEN Yasaka Maru Attacked With out Warning, It Is Said. ONE AMERICAN ON BOARD HENEY IS CITY ATTORNEY Sam I ranrt-a-o Proac-celor Arrrnta Santa fonlca Offlc-p. fAXT VtwNICA. Cat, I-ee. :l Traa- cl J. Il.n.r. who proaacuied the fa a rraaclaco graft caaea aeral yeara ago. baa arc.pted Ih poaltioa of City Attorney of Fanta MonU a. landered him by the o.wly elected Com ml a Ion ra Ilia eatery baa nbt teen decided on. Mr. Ilasey ba mad bia raaldcnce hare for everal tnontha. la taking tha poeltloa Mr. Ileaey agreed te devote five and a half bouraj each day to tha clty'a work. He aald that he accepted the oTcr berau-a be d.alr.d to aee what could be done with the commlaelon form of govrnmeot. Admlnl-tratlon Official Now Aa-x-rt rrrallge of Vnllrd htatca J la Heroine Gracly lo olvcd by Devclopmcnia. RT JOIIV CAUAN O'UIOHLIS. "tVASHINQTON. Dec !J. (SpeclaL) Another raaaon for eompelllnc Auttria llungary lo meet the American de mand lo tha Ancona caae la found by Administration officiate In tha tor padolng of the Japaneae liner Taaaka Mara, reported today. Thla Incident occurred ' after the re ceipt by the Auatro-Itungarlan govern ment of the vlgorou note sent to Vienna by direction of the Trepidant December . Tbua there baa been ample time for that government to notify commander of submarine operating In tha Mediterranean that merchant vee!a muat not bo attacked without warning unlcaa they rcalat or attempt lo eecape. e Maralag Clvea Jaaaaeoe. ReporU la regard to lha Tasaka ar that he waa aunk without warning. If thla ahould be verified there will be Bo queellon aa to the deliberate viola llun cf the principle for which th Treatment baa bcea contending. la regard lo the Ancona. Austria Hungary Inelats that lha veaael tried to eecape. and that therefore ah placed herself oulalde the protection of International law. Tha United tatr. however, base Its demand on lha fact that tha Ancoaa waa ahetled after h stopped, and that aa a re sult paesengere and craw were killed. wounded and drowned. I bera early this morning blew the safe In tha poatoffl'-a at Calvin, to miles southwest of bare, and later attempted lo blow the safe In one of the bank there, according; to a dispatch to the Muskogee pollen. The night marshatl Is reported to have been shot. A poaan was sent from Hold-nvllle. OKLAHOMA CITT. Okla.. Dec !t. That the rob bera were etill attempt ing- to blow tho safe of the Calvin poatoffir and were holding off officers and cltlsens with Runs, was the state ment made by the Rock Island tele graph operator at Holdenvillc, over long distance telephone at IAS o'clock Ihla morning;. . His Information came from the teleerranh operator at Calvin, AMERICAN AIRMEN HOME William Thaw and Otlerr Aiding french Are on Leave. NEW TORK. Dae. J. William Thaw Norman Prince and Elliott C. Cowden. American aviators who have been serving- with the French army since the war be can. arrived here today on the ateamahlp Rotterdam on leave of absence for Chrlatmaa. They said that approximately 47 per rent of the aviators who have hereto fore enlisted have been loat either through death or by capture or by wounds. As fsat aa the men drop out. however, there are many eager to take their place. BALLOON GIVEN TO MILITIA New York Guard I Aided and Four Jersey Airmen to Do Trained. NEW TORK. Dec SI. A large be I loon for ase of the signal corps or the coast artillery ef tha National Guard of New Tork. and counts of Instruc tion In aviation for four members of tho militia of New Jersey, have been contributed to Ih National aeroplane fund. It was announced today by the Aero Club of America. Tba balloon s contributed by Rob. ert Oleadending. a member of the Aero Club, and the otter to train four mem ber of the New Jersey militia comes from John F. fctoane, aa aeroplane man. ufacturer of thla city. I aa w.uaa t CATTLE LOSSES EXPECTED Early TA Inler Worka Hardship In baker Diatrk-t and I'eed Needed. BAKER. Or, Dee. M. 9poclaL) Earty Winter baa worked a bardahlp oa cattle, aad loaaea before Fprlng are ex pected. Paeau-e of the long, dry Sum roar and Kail Ih range did aot contain th usual amount ef nourishment and many cattle started to feed this Winter lo poor condition. Reports from Erwla. la Powder Val lay. show that the graaa waa short and1 that seme ranchers did aot raise enocarh bar lo feed laraa number of stock ail ft later j Taekere Made Sea rale lae. The State Department haa refrained from making any demand on Austria Hungary with regard to th conduct of her submarine toward American tankers, because it desired to make a clear-cut Issue in reference to the Ancona. If a settlement of the prin ciples Involved la the Ancona case ahould be obtained, tha Incidents In whlcir lha taakera figured can be dla- cu.aed. It la now evident from the torpedo In of Yasaka Maru that the Vienna government haa embarked on a def- nite policy of attack cn all merchant vea.els of an enemy character and those suspected of carr Ing contraband. The Interest of the United Etate la the latest Incident lies la the fact that there was an American cltlsen aboard the Japanese liner and it waa only by cCoftcltadad aa Paa Column !. I PRETTY WIFE LOSES WAY Young Woman Vlnltor Forgets Name of Hotel While Hubby Sleeps. aira. Millie Edgar, a pretty matron 0 yeara old. came to Portland with her husbsnd yesterday. Last night she went out for a stroll and forgot the name of her hotel. Arter severs! hours of fruitless search tha woman burst Into tears. John Moloney, city detective, and Pa iroiman Rekdalil. chivalrously in quired the causa of her trouble, and volunteered to find the missing- hus nana. The officers took Mrs. Edgar lo the police station. At Ut they lo cated Mr. Edgar. He waa In bed asleep. MUSIC TO AWAKEN CITY Cornets) to Bo Flayed In Steeple) of Vancouver Church. VANCOUVER, Wash, Dec 2 (gpe net.) following a custom originated centuries ago. rcaidenta of Vancouver on Christmas morning will ba awak ened at o'clock by cornet mn.ie n the steeple of 6t- Paul's English Lutheran Church. This custom wss brought to Vancou ver 10 yeara ago by Rev. Walter L Eck. who was pastor here until last month, when he went to The Dalles, Or. At 7 o clock Christmas morning serv ices will be held In the church by Rev. R. Rudolph, of Portland. SWEDEN HAS 62 BELOW Weather Reported to Bo Coldest in Lat 130 Years. STOCKHOLM, via London. Dec J. Sweden Is experiencing the severeat cold of tho last 150 yeara. The temperature at some points has fallen to C degrees below zero. MOTHER AND BABE STARVE Autliorltles Find Home Without Food Enough for Family. JOUET. Ill, Dec. 23. Mrs. William Hafner and ber new-born baby were found dead in their home on Bluff street here todsy. and the authorities gave starvation aa the cause. Death Rate in Phila delphia Doubled. WHOLE STATE IS AFFECTED Extremes of Youth and Age Are Chief Sufferers. INDUSTRIES ARE CRIPPLED Health Commissioner Wearns People lo Keep Oat of Crowded Places and Says Sacrifices Must Be Made to Safety. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 2S, The death rata from the epidemic of la grippe now sweeping the state haa been so high that Samuel G. Dixon, State Health Commissioner, Issued a state ment at HarrlsDurg tonight calling at tention to the seriousness of the situa tion and cautioning the public that if the disease is to be avoided "sacrifices must be made." 'Keep out. of crowded places," Dr. Dixon eays, "as one person having the grippe may give it to a carload of pas sen gers." Burial Permits Monet la. In this city 30 burial permits were ssued durlnjr the first three days of this week, the majority of the deaths being due directly or Indirectly to la grippe. This Is more than double the ordinary death rate. It Is estimated that nearly 1S.000 persons in Philadel pbla alone are suffering with this dis ease, which haa been particularly fatal to the very old and very young. Attendance at all the public schools hss been greatly reduced, and in sev- ral sections of the state, schoola and colleges have been forced to close ladoatrles Serleaaly Hampered. Factories, department stores and other business houses have also been Tested by the epidemic, and in many instances tha number of employes obliged to remain at home bad been so great aa to curtail operations seri ously. Hundreds of firemen and police men are confined to their homes with th disease, while Philadelphia's rapid transit company reports 400 of Its em ployes on the sick list. Reports from Camden, N". J, tonight were to the effect that there are at least 1000 cases in that city. 60,000 ARE ILL IN CHICAGO Epidemic Serious, b nt True Germ of La Grippe Is Absent. CHICAGO. Dec. 23. Special.) Chi cago doctora are working at high speed, many of them making more than SO calls a day. Chicago business Is battling against the handicap of disablement of many employes and lack of full efficiency of many other tnousands. All thla Is due to la grippe, or to be Loj- Shortage Is Acute and Mills nave Been Hampered by Delays Daring Past Two Months. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 23. (Spe cial.) Three logging camps, after long Idleness, will resume operations in this county about January 3, thus employ ing 200 or more men. Two of these are camps of the Grays Harbor Company, which have not operated for six weeks. The other is the Slade-Wella camp in the east end of the county. The two former camps employ 70 men each, while the latter will use SO or 100, de pendent upon whether one or both sides of this camp 'is opened. The Chehalis County Logging & Timber Company camp in the east end of the county is expected to reopen since many improvements have been made to its railroad recently. Ander-son-Middleton also will open a, camp in the east end of the county to take the place of one in the west end of the county, where logging operations recently were completed. The log shortage on Grays Harbor is very acute at present, and several times mills have been forced to shut down for several hours while waiting! for a boom. During the past two months the local mills have consumed logs faster than the camps could sup ply them. Only 50 Cases Are Left, Dealers Estimate. ALMOST NO BRANDY REMAINS Enormous Demand Denudes Shelves of Liquor Stock. , WOMEN SHARE IN ORDERING Calls for $600 Worth of Wet Goods Common One Order for $2700. With Supply Low, Time Is Too ; Late to Send Out for More. WOMAN GIVES $2,000,000 . - Gift From American Accepted by Italian Queen for Sufferers. ROME. Dec. 23. The Stefani News Agency says that Mrs. Josephine Del Drago. of New York, has offered 12. 000.000 to the Queen of Italy for dis tribution among the families of com Daiants and that the Queen has ac cepted the gift with profound thanks. Mrs. Josephine Del Drago inherited from her husband, the late August Schmid, of New York, a large estate. Mr. Schmid was a prosperous brewer and Mrs. Del Drago is now president of the big brewery company of which her husband was the head when he died in 18S7. BRIDAL PARTY DEFIES MUD Sluggish Roads and Winter Weather Braved by Honeymooners. ALBANY. Or.. Dee. 23. (Special.) Despite muddy roads and Winter weather. James N. Moorehead and Miss Vera Coulter, both of Sweet Home, who were wedded here today, will take their honeymoon in an automobile. They left immediately after the cere mony for Oregon City to pass Christ mas and then will continue their wed ding trip in the bridegroom's automo bile. (Concluded on page 7, Column 2.) DID IT EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? AJ f SArTjALAlls) sj ft f IfiM I d I ' J 1)1 saaw--' OOlVM THAT I T" J ill ..I ; ( CHlMflEV? J if-. "' HOMf TO US AIL rX$vSvCS "XE9 LTCK e C AN IT HAVE tHOn E OP a n-al"?-1" ' " - CSS9 I""- -ac;;! -V. fy J-o.e"o-f-aara: v t I s-i. NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. . TEPTERDaT'S Maximum temperature, degree; minimum temperature, 30. TODAY'S Fair; light easterly winds. Ch rutin a. Panta la vlMtor at all nubile schools. Page 9. Elaborate music prepared ior enure ri aerv ice. Page 0. Plana mad a to bring; cheer to those ill and in need, pap.j h. Smiling; ahoppers are Jo tied In rush to pro- curj gift. Pfcse 6. Mar. Sfnklntr of Japanese steamer heightens ten sion over Ancona affair. Page l. Canada prepared to take large share of war orders now being; received by unuea States. Page 1. Cardinal Mercier thanks Americans for gifts and manner or making them. Page 5. John T. McCutcheon describes Serbian situa- tion. Page 1 Mexico. Villa plans to Invade Sonora. Page S. Foreign. Henry Ford reported to have turned back because of Illness, page 4. National President works part of day and plays golf with bride. Page 3. Daniels may yield and Dublish report of General Board of Navy. Page 2. Domestic. Grippe epidemic coating many Uvea In East. Pass 1. Oklahoma robbers holding: off posse while attacking bank. Page 1. en li-artirg movie mnnuracturerg sued for .f 730.0OO. page o. American woman teaches blinded French sol. diers to "see. Page 2. Billions In American securities coming jack come, page 4. Sports. Sinrlalr hr.s players of three Federal League clubs for sale. Page 14. Player limit rule abrogated for Cubs and Browns. Page 14. Stanford tikely to yield to Coast conference requirements. Page 14. Pacific Nortuvrettt. Three logging camps will resume at Grays Harbor with 100 men. Page 1. Willamette River rises 12 feet In 36 hours at Salom. Page 7. Oreron Tax Commission denies ex-Governor West's allegation. Page 7. Lare County road budget approved at mass meeting, page 9. Party convention delegates are numerous oesplte repeal of law allowing S200 ex pense Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Oregon wool brings firm prices In Eastern markets. Page 19. Wheat bulge at Chicago due to atrength at Liverpool. Page 19. Broader demand for better class of Invest ment stocks. Page 19. Unusually heavy fog causes much delay in shipping on river. Page 18. Need of modern vessels on Pacific pointed out. Page 15. Port In nd and Vicinity. Robber captured after desperate battle with pjlice is ex-convict. Page 8. Charities ned $1000 today. Page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Chamber will award essay prizes to students toaty. page 4. Many hope that wounded robber Is missing brother or son. Page 8. Fire insurance rates are Increased according to dangers. page IS. Dr Ausplund convicted on charge of man slaughter. Page 15. I Acute shortage in champagne and other J liquprs exists Page 1. Mavor purposes te censor motion-picture ad. veriUe.Tjents. I "age 9. Muts to Vlean up" on loose change for char'ty today. Pa?e 15. Central 1 . hnr r-ounrll nam concilia t!in board for meats utters' strike. Page 24a It's a heart-breaking thing to have to write this story, but it rauft be done. The shock will be terrible to many. Still, they might as well bear it now as next week, so here it is: With eight full days to go before prohibition, an acute shortage has de-. veloped in the champagne supply. The stock on hand is hardly ade quate for one day's rush, let alone seven, which is all that are left after subtracting one Sunday. "Not more than 50 cases of cham pagne remain in the Portland supply houses, if that many," estimated Sol Blumauer, of Blumauer & Hoch, yes terday. "When that is snapped up, as it will be almost at once, it will be next to im possible to get another bottle for cash or friendship. There is no more to be had. Some Brands Entirely Gone. "Cliquot is out of the market entirely. Not a bottle is left. A very little Mumm's is still on hand. "Rush orders to California will not help. California is out of champagne, too. Shipments that were to have come through the Panama Canal would have relieved the situation to some extent, but the canal is closed and these ship ments have not arrived. "The same is true of rhenish wines and imported liquors generally. The war stopped exportations, and the sup ply generally Is exhausted. Portland is sold out of rhenish wines." Though some wholesale dealers were inclined to raise very slightly Mr. Blu mauer's estimate that only 50 cases of champagne remain unsold, others did not think there were that many. All agreed the shortage was such that stocks would be gone almost immedi ately. At 12 quarts to the case, 50 cases would be only 600 quarts. Hotels Yet Have Supply. Of course, this does not take into ac count the champagne that has been laid in by hotels and restaurants for the holiday and New Year's eve business. But even at that, there is more than a possibility that some of the New Year's eve celebrations may run out early be cause no more champagne is to be had. The hotel men are not inclined to take chances on stocking up too fully and then having wine left over that they can't dispose of without running into the prohibition law. In the last few weeks there has been a tremendous sale of champagnes to the wealthy family trade by wholesale and family liquor dealers. Some sales have been for amounts hardlyl believable. Dealers are extremely reticent about discussing details, for they complain that purchasers of liquor in any quan tity, even when there can be no ques tion that it is intended for family use only, are trailed and "hounded" by de tectives and busy-bodies. Clubman Gives $700 Order. One actual sale, however, is known to have been for 2i00. The entire order was for one established brand of champagne, and the purchaser is a so ciety and clubman who is well known indeed. Another man bought 50 cases of a particular brand of fine old whisky that retails at $-'.50 a quart. Sales to family trade have run fre quently from $50 to ?600. And several orders for champagnes have been filled that have ranged from $600 up to $2000. In fact. $600 orders have been fairly common. Champagne and imported wines are not the only scarcities on the martlet now. There has been an unprecedented demand for brandies, with the result that brandies are almost out of the market. $30 Worth of Brandy for Cooklrus;, The source of many of thase orders would indicate that the women of the family and not the men folks are be hind them. As, for instance, an order one family liquor aeaier goi me omer day when he took down his telephone receiver: Is it really true that we can't buy brandy for mincemeat and brarofly auce after January 1 without sending away for it? Well. I wish you would send up $30 worth of brandy right y. I don't want to take any chances with my mincemeat." Today this run on brandy has cleaned ut nearly all the domestic braiulMd, f which a large stock had been on and. About all that is left is in the more expensive imported brandy in small quantities. Dealers thought they were doinaj a big business last week, when th3 de mand for family liquors was figured at about three times that of normal times. . But this week has seen last week's rush Just about doubled. "In the last two weeks." said Mr.